Rural mental health came into prominence as a separate specialty within mental health in the 1970s, this development coinciding with a startling trend toward reverse urban-rural migration, documented in the 1980 census [1]. A growing body of literature [2], national and regional conferences,1 university curricular offerings,2 and visible leadership all bespeak its timeliness and its inherent appeal to a diverse group of professionals. The social instability that the changing demography inflicted on rural America resounded through the boom towns, retirement havens, and traditional small towns across the continent. The sheer numbers of the immigrants, motivated by disparate goals, threatened precisely what they were seeking [3]. In their quest for a rural utopia, however defined, the newcomers were destined for frustration as they found not their idyllic, pastoral sanctuary, but an already complex society burdened with its own historic problems.


A positive electrode, a negative electrode and the electrochemical cell comprising a layer of inorganic material is between the electrodes, the layer is characterized in that one or both surfaces are coated with polyetherimide electrochemical cell.


We describe five cases of extragonadal germ cell tumor (EGCT) diagnosed by the electron microscope (EM) on cytological material. The clinical diagnosis was incorrect in all cases and EGCT was suspected in two cases; cytological diagnosis by light microscopy confirmed the presence of malignant tumor cells, but did not identify the cytotype/s correctly except in one case. Ultrasonography, laparoscopy. and autopsy (in case 3) excluded a primitive germ cell tumor (GCT). Histology confirmed the EM diagnosis in all cases.


Bis(9-fluorenylmethyl)phosphite (BFMP) was found to be an effective reagent for the N-phosphorylation of various amino acid methyl esters. BFMP was prepared from N,N-diisopropyl phosphoramidous dichloride in a one-pot two-step reaction and was obtained as a crystalline solid. N-Phosphorylation of the methyl esters of seven representative amino acids with BFMP was high-yielding and generally resulted in crystalline products. Complete deprotection of both the 9-fluorenylmethylphosphosphate esters and the amino acid methyl esters was accomplished concomitantly with LiOH to give N-phosphoryl amino acids.


A major tenet of Vygotskian Soviet psychology is that higher mental functions represent culturally, historically accumulated knowledge that is transmitted to the child in the course of his/her socialization. This idea of the gradual internalization of initially external (to the individual) modes of thinking is, of course, not unique to Soviet psychology.


We argue that van der Velde's & de Kamps's model does not solve the binding problem but merely shifts the burden of constructing appropriate neural representations of sentence structure to unexplained preprocessing of the linguistic input. As a consequence, their model is not able to explain how various neural representations can be assigned to sentences that are structurally ambiguous.


Boris Johnson's greatest attribute was to sell hope, although Martin McKee argues that Johnson's empty promises, including those on health, leave him well placed in the race to be the UK's worst prime minister (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1707).1 One of those hopes was that the covid pandemic was "over" in February (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10493765/Boris-Johnson-declares-Covid-rules-MONTH.html),2 a political gambit to lift all restrictions that defied hard evidence and cold logic (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1, doi:10.1136/bmj.o1555, doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-069881).345 SARS-CoV-2 never went away, even if its impact was dulled, and it is now most definitely back, sending people to hospital and intensive care (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1702).6 Hospitals are reintroducing masking for staff (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1712),7 although the general public seems blissfully ignorant of the latest omicron variant. By invoking the Dunning-Kerner effect, David Oliver calls on experts to speak up, in plain language and accessible formats, to counter the "false belief systems that are over-confidently asserted by inexpert people" (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1701).8 One answer is to keep going and caring, even when it's hard (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1689).9 Another, and not mutually exclusive, is to seek hope in a new health secretary's desire to cut through commercial determinants, although any hope that he will stop listening to industry, and start "listening to public health experts and GPs" (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1704),10 seems a forlorn one (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1687).11 The many deep rooted problems of population health, as highlighted by the NHS Race and Health Observatory's inaugural conference on racism in health and medicine last week (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1699, doi:10.1136/bmj.o1715, doi:10.1136/bmj.o1710),121314 are beyond the quick fix of a structural reorganisation of the health system (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1682).15 Other than the covid misadventures of rich countries, a major reason why covid is still troubling us is our collective inability to deliver vaccines to poor countries and increase vaccine uptake. The challenge extends beyond vaccine hesitancy and includes supply restrictions and distribution challenges, especially to remote rural populations (doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-069596).16 Canada is destroying 14 million covid vaccine doses, not because it was unwilling to donate them but because of "distribution and absorption" challenges in recipient countries (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1700).17 Another reason why covid still troubles us is that—as with climate change, poverty, and war—it's easy to downplay the effects if you've never experienced it.


The U.S. nail salon industry employs 380,000 workers nationwide, many young Vietnamese women. Numerous solvents are used in nail salons, but no studies have measured personal exposure and biomarker...


Detailed observations were made for slug flow in an upward to downward pipeline configuration with 13 capacitance sensors. The results presented in this study are based on four typical tests, which demonstrate the phenomena encountered in slug dissipation. In downward flow, slug frequency decreases with different extent at different flow rates. There is a reduction of slug length after the turning over from upward to downward flow. However, the slug tends to recover its stable length in further downstream development, except for flow that quickly becomes stratified. Growth of the slug length is accomplished by picking up liquid left by the downstream dissipating slug before being fully absorbed by the liquid film.


It is firmly established that the owner of an intellectual property right (IPR) may be compelled to grant a licence on reasonable terms under European (and generally also domestic) competition law, where a refusal to do so would amount to an abuse of a market-dominant position.1 Relying on this case law, defendants in IP infringement proceedings are increasingly raising the defence that they are entitled to a licence under competition law. The typical delineation of claims in these cases is as follows: the plaintiff files an action against an unlicensed user on the basis of infringement of an IPR, which in turn is incorporated in a technical standard. Therefore, the plaintiff enjoys a dominant position in a given market for which the standard is essential. The defendant pleads that the plaintiff is abusing its dominant position by refusing to conclude a licence contract with the defendant on non-discriminatory and reasonable conditions. The alleged abuse may be that the plaintiff has granted licences to other parties or that the IPR is so essential to competition that it must be licensed across the board. The IP court must then decide whether it will consider this defence within the framework of the IP proceedings even where such a competition law (counter-) claim has not yet been finally determined by a competition authority or a competition law court. In an action for damages, it seems clear that the court may not disregard a counterclaim to the grant of a licence for the disputed IPR on the part of the defendant. While such a counterclaim may not preclude the IP infringement as such, it certainly affects the amount of the resulting damage: a plaintiff may only demand compensation for the use of its IPR in the amount to which the plaintiff would have been entitled if it had not refused (illegally) to grant the


Obstract:Objective :To explore the relationship between CRP,activin A,homocysteine,MPO,PMNelastase andfetal growththrough mea-suringtheir concentrationin maternal blood.Methods :Choosing 69 pregnancy women,of which IUGRgroup 21,control group 48.Their preg-nancy age were 19-24 weeks.CRP,activin A,homocysteine,MPO,PMNelastase levels were measured by ELISA.Results :Contrasted withcontrol group,the levels of activin A,homocysteine increased in IUGR group(P0.05),the levels of CRPincreased significantly(P0.01),andthe levels of MPO,PMNelastase has no difference betweenthe two groups(P0.05).Conclusion: MPO,PMNelastase have nore-lationship withIUGR.activin A,homocysteine,CRPhad close relationship withIUGR.Detectingtheirlevelsin maternal blood duringthe sec-ondtrimester pregnancy could affordimportant theoretical evidence for the earlier diagnoses andtrentment of IUGR.


The inhibitory effect of amitriptyline and imipramine on human sperm motility was measured in vitro with a transmembrane migration method. The EC50 for amitriptyline and imipramine were 170 microM and 160 microM respectively. They were more potent than any other drug that had been tested on this pharmacological model. Transmembrane migration method was less sensitive than turbidimetric method to detect the sperm immobilizing effect of drugs.


This paper is concerned with the numerical simulation of slowly varying drift forces in short crested waves. The new formulae of drift forces in cross waves are derived, based on Newman's far field theory and momentum conservation formulae. Numerical calculations of bidirectional quadratic transfer function of the drift forces due to an arbitrary combination of two waves of the same frequency from different directions have been carried out by using three-dimensional source technique. And the properties of transfer functions of drift forces are investigated. Calculated results indicate the importance of nonlinear interference of wave direction on drift forces. Finally, we discuss the applicability of Newman's assumption with respect to slowly varying drift forces and influence of different numerical models on drift forces in short crested waves.


BACKGROUND
 Electronic cigarettes have become increasingly popular. China has accelerated its legislation on e-cigarettes in recent years by issuing two policies to regulate their use; firstly, on August 26, 2018 and secondly, on November 1, 2019. Social media provides an efficient platform to access information on the public opinion of e-cigarettes.

 OBJECTIVE
 In order to get an insight into how policies have influenced the reaction of the Chinese public to e-cigarettes, this study seeks to understand what the Chinese public say about e-cigarettes, and how the focus of discussion might have changed in the context of policy implementation.

 METHODS
 This study used a combination of text mining and correspondence analysis. From January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2019, Python was used to text mine the most frequently used words/phrases in public e-cigarette discussion on Zhihu, China's largest question-and-answer platform and one of the country's most trustworthy social media sources. Correspondence analysis was used to examine the similarities and differences between high-frequency words across three time periods (i.e., 2017/1/1-2018/8/27, 2018/8/28-2019/10/31, 2019/11/1-2020/1/1).

 RESULTS
 Results showed that the consistent themes across time were comparisons with traditional cigarettes; health concerns; and how to choose e-cigarette products. The issuance of government policies on e-cigarettes led to a change in the focus of public discussion. The discussion of e-cigarettes in period 1 mainly focused on the use and experience of e-cigarettes. In period 2, the public's attention was not only on the substances related to e-cigarettes, but also on the smoking cessation functions of e-cigarettes. In period 3, the public shifted their attention to the e-cigarette industry and government policy on the banning of sales of e-cigarettes to minors.

 CONCLUSIONS
 Social media is an informative source which can help policymakers and public health professionals understand the public's concerns over and understanding of e-cigarettes. When there was little regulation, public discussion was greatly influenced by industry claims about e-cigarettes; however, once e-cigarette policies were issued, these policies, to a large extent, set the agenda for public discussion. In addition, media reporting of these policies might have greatly influenced the way e-cigarette policies were discussed. Therefore, monitoring e-cigarette discussion on social media and responding to it in a timely manner will both help improve the public's e-cigarette literacy and facilitate the implementation of e-cigarette related policies.

 CLINICALTRIAL
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First results obtained with a new type of on-line laser ion source based on resonant photoionization in a buffer gas cell are presented. The main advantages of this new target ion-source system are its high efficiency, its selectivity, its short delay time, and its universality. This is demonstrated with the production of an isotopically and isobarically pure beam of [sup 55]Ni ([ital T][sub 1/2][approx]200 ms).


A prototype receiver developed at NASA Lewis Research center for direct detection and demodulation of quaternary pulse position modulated (QPPM) optical carriers is described. The receiver enables dual-channel communications at 325-Megabits per second (Mbps) per channel. The optical components of the prototype receiver are briefly described. The electronic components, comprising the analog signal conditioning, slot clock recovery, matched filter and maximum likelihood data recovery circuits are described in more detail. A novel digital symbol clock recovery technique is presented as an alternative to conventional analog methods. Simulated link degradations including noise and pointing-error induced amplitude variations are applied. The bit-error-rate performance of the electronic portion of the prototype receiver under varying optical signal-to-noise power ratios is found to be within 1.5-dB of theory. Implementation of the receiver as a hybrid of analog and digital application specific integrated circuits is planned.


The utility model discloses a novel touch panel structure, which comprises a transparent substrate and at least one conducting film, the transparent substrate is a transparent plastic board which is made by an injection-compression molding method, and the conducting film is directly coated on the lower surface of the transparent substrate. The touch panel structure adopts a single plastic substrate to replace the two layers of glass substrates which are commonly used at present, moreover, the conducting film adopts a film coating method to replace a conventional film gluing method, consequently, the structure of the touch panel is simpler, and can be more easily processed, and meanwhile, the safety of processing and use is guaranteed as well.


An experiment was conducted to study the heterosis and combining ability in newly derived inbred lines involving line×tester analysis with ten lines and three testers at All India Co-ordinated Maize Improvement Project, Agricultural Research Station, Arabhavi, UAS, Dharwad. The results revealed that among ten female lines, L2 was the best general combiner for plant height, ear height, ear length, 100-grain weight, grain yield per hectare and fodder yield per hectare. Whereas, among thirty crosses, L8×T3 was the best specific combination for plant height, ear height and grain yield per hectare. Among thirty, three hybrids L2×T1, L1×T2 and L×T3 showed significant positive standard heterosis over both EH434042 and 900M (Commercial checks).


Introduction Numerous studies have reported on clinically significant volumes of material loss and corrosion at the head-stem junction of metal-on-metal (MOM) hips; less is understood about metal-on-polyethylene (MOP) hips. We compared the effect of bearing type (MOM vs MOP) on taper material loss for a hip system of a single design (DePuy Pinnacle). Methods We recruited retrieved MOM (n=30) and MOP (n=22) bearing hips that were consecutively received at our centre. We prospectively collected associated clinical and imaging data. We measured the severity of corrosion and volumes of material loss at each head taper surface and used multivariate statistical analysis to investigate differences between the two bearing types. Results The median rate of material loss for the MOM and MOP groups was 0.81 mm3/year (0.01–3.45) and 0.03 mm3/year (0–1.07) respectively (p<0.001). 29 out of 30 MOM hips were revised for adverse metal reactions, compared with 1 out of 22 MOP hips. Discussion MOP hips lost significantly l...


This chapter will describe the process for writing a script and storyboard as part of the design and development of a simulation experience to be added to an existing, computer-facilitated, emergency management learning curriculum or course primarily in a higher-education setting; however, the information in this chapter relates to FEMA Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) exercise types as well. This chapter will detail steps and considerations to be taken as part of the analysis and design of a simulation, which will ease the development process and avoid unintended complications by first focusing on identifying the instructional needs and objectives of the simulation, scriptwriting and storyboarding scenario decision points that will address the learning needs second, then afterward taking into consideration what level of media representation is appropriate to implement the scenario. Design decisions that affect difficulty to represent in certain media are analyzed.


University of Minnesota M.S. thesis.September 2017. Major: Applied Plant Sciences. Advisor: Aaron Lorenz. 1 computer file (PDF); xvii, 187 pages + 3 supplementary files.


Members of the Orchidaceae are well-known for their complex flowers. A particular type of floral morphology, colour pattern, fragrance or reward, all result in the attraction of a specific pollinator, and thus, the tendency for autogamy (automatic self-pollination) is reduced [1–3]. Nevertheless, in populations living in habitats where the occurrence of potential pollinators is low, autogamy is the preferred method of pollination and, in fact, is a rather common phenomenon within the family [3,4]. Autogamy is estimated to occur in approximately 3% of orchid species [2], or even as much as 5–20% [5]. In pollinator-free environments and under stressful growing conditions, the facultative process of self-pollination occurs at the end of anthesis (with the ability for cross-pollination maintained in flower fitness) [6]. Self-pollination mechanisms have been confirmed for two species of Dendrobium Sw. [5]. In D. chryseum Rolfe and D. mastersianum F. Muell. & Kraenzl, entire pollinia, owing to the close proximity of anther and stigma, were observed to fall or slide down onto the stigma, thus resulting in self-pollination. Owing to different, recently proposed, taxonomic approaches to the genus Dendrobium and the publication of a second, unwarranted, heterotypic description of the species D. biflorum, we present our taxonomic treatment of the genus and describe the specimens studied, so as to avoid future errors in identification. Dendrobium Sw. [nom cons. Nova Acta Regiae Soc Sci Upsal 1799;6:82. Generitype: Dendrobium moniliforme (L.) Sw. typ. cons.] is a large genus containing ca. 600 species, widely distributed in subtropical and tropical regions of Asia and Australia to New Zealand and Oceania. The plants are epiphytic, lithophytic to rarely terrestrial, small to large, forming colonies of various sizes. Their shoots are cane-like or pseudobulbous, fewto multinodal, erect to pendent, whereas leaves are coriaceous or fleshy, conduplicate, sessile or petiolate. The inflorescence may be lateral, axillary to pseudoterminal, racemose to paniculate, with single to many flowers, which are small to medium-sized, often showy, resupinate or not. Lateral sepals are basally adnate to the column foot, forming a distinct mentum. Lip is usually 3-lobed or entire, spurless, mobile or not, attached to the apex of the column foot, embracing the gynostemium, whereas the disc is furnished with calli, ridges, lamellae or other appendages. The column part is prominent, longer than anther, column foot usually very long, sometimes longer than the column part, massive. Stigma is semi-ellipsoid, oblong to semi-ovoid, deeply concave. Rostellum is very short, incumbent, truncate, thickened along the margins. Viscidium is single, narrow, detachable, multilayered or absent. Staminodes have usually massive, wing-like form. Clinandrium is apical, rather voluminous to relatively obscure, entire to 3-lobed. Anther is incumbent, mobile, ellipsoid or ovoid, 2-chambered. Connective is narrow, but very thick, papillate Abstract


Three studies investigated the willingness to seek help from another group in situations where collaborative goals are undermined by task or relational conflicts between the groups. Compared to task conflict, relational conflict was argued to trigger a striving for more autonomy. The results from three experiments (N = 82, N = 65, and N = 62) supported the prediction that relational conflict, compared to task conflict, promotes more help avoidance, in particular avoidance of dependency-oriented help (a full solution). As expected, no difference was found for the willingness to seek autonomy-oriented help (a hint) from the other group.


The invention relates to a washing method for obtaining iron oxide yellow pigment with high pH value. The washing method comprises the steps of: (1) water washing: washing filter cake obtained after dewatering by a pressure filter with water until Fe molar concentration in washing water is lower than 9*10 mol/L; and (2) base liquid washing: washing the filter cake in the pressure filter with a strong base and weak acid salt with OH molar concentration of 1*10 -1*10 mol/L until H molar concentration in the washing liquid is lower than 1*10 . According to the invention, the base liquid washing step is increased, thus the iron oxide yellow product with high pH value is obtained, the consumption of washing water is effectively reduced, the production cost is lowered, the washing time is shortened and the labor production efficiency is improved; and the pH value of the iron oxide yellow product can be conveniently adjusted by controlling the base liquid concentration or base liquid amount, and the washing method has the advantage of convenience for operation.


Aortic aneurysms are rare conditions in black patients and carry a high mortality if detected late. Unfortunately, the rarity of the condition makes detection a difficulty for many physicians as diagnosis in the early stages requires a high index of suspicion. The varied symptoms presented by the patient often mimic other less severe, but more common conditions and may cause a misdiagnosis. We report a 79-year-old male known hypertensive patient who presented a day before demise with a 4 h history of severe epigastric pain. He was managed for acute exacerbation of peptic ulcer disease to rule out pancreatitis. However, all investigations done were within normal limits. His clinical condition deteriorated, and he died 18 h after admission. An autopsy revealed massive left hemothorax and a tear in the descending aortic aneurysm. Microscopic examination confirmed complicated atherosclerosis in the descending thoracic aorta. The misdiagnosis, in this case, leads to wrong management with the patient receiving treatment for severe peptic ulcer. There is a need to consider this disease in patients who present with severe nonspecific abdominal symptoms.


Background: Diabetes mellitus is one of the major causes of illness and disability across the world. Patient knowledge, attitude, practice of the diabetes is an important aspect and it has direct effect on quality of life. Objective: The main objective of the study is to assess the impact of clinical pharmacist provided patient education on Quality of life outcomes. Methodology: A prospective randomized control study was conducted in general medicine department of a tertiary care hospital. Patients were enrolled and randomized in to control and intervention group based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. A total of three follow ups were made from the baseline. At each follow up questionnaires were applied to both the groups and their blood glucose was measured. Educational materials PIL (patient information leaflet) and formal counseling was given to intervention group at each level and to the control group at final follow up. Results and Discussion: A total of one hundred and thirteen patients were enrolled. A significant increase in QOL, KAP, adherence scores (P value< 0.05) was observed in intervention group when compared to control group. A Blood glucose level in intervention group was significantly changed, but was altering in the control group. Conclusion: Hence this study concludes that pharmacist plays an important role in educating the patients to maintain their quality of life.


In this paper, we classify parabolic revolution surfaces in the three-dimensional simply isotropic space [Formula: see text] under the condition [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is the Laplace operator with respect to first and second fundamental form and [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] are some real numbers. Also, as an application, we give some explicit examples for these surfaces.


REPORTS 1 from the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic in 1942 on the effective therapeutic use of antireticular cytotoxic serum have presented it as a new agent for clinical use in many pathologic processes and, in particular, for such otolaryngologic conditions as atrophic rhinitis. Antireticular cytotoxic serum for use in man is produced by intravenous injection into animals of a saline extract of spleen and bone marrow taken after death from persons who had died from injury and who had had no acute or chronic disease. The tissues are obtained within ten hours after death from persons not more than 40 years old. The antiserum developed in animals is used in treating diseases in man in which it seems necessary to stimulate the trophic, plastic or protective functions of the physiologic system of the reticuloendothelial tissue. Mihailovsky, Smirnova and Marchuk 2 reported the effects of antireticular cytotoxic


Objective To investigate influence of phosphatase of regenerating liver-3 (PRL-3)gene silencing with small interference RNA (siRNA) on biological behaviors of human prostate cancer LNCaP cells,including proliferation and invasion.Methods The method of silencing PRL-3 was established by lentivirus-mediated RNAi.The cells were divided into 3 groups.In experimental group,the expression of PRL-3 in LNCaP cells was stably blocked by lentivirus-mediated RNAi.In negative control group,the cells were transfected with lentivirus-mediated control RNAi (without any interference to PRL-3).The normal LNCaP cells served as blank control group.Methyl thiazol tetrazolium (MTT) assay was used to measure the proliferation of LNCaP cells,and Transwell assay was used to observe invasion potency.Results The experimental group showed significantly lower levels of PRL-3 mRNA and protein than those in negative control and blank control groups after transfection (P < 0.05).The invasion potency of LNCaP cells was significantly suppressed after transfection (P < 0.05),but there was no significant difference among the three groups on proliferation.Conclusion Down-regulation of PRL-3 expression can weaken invasion potency of LNCaP cells,but it had no effect on proliferation.

Key words:
Prostate cancer;  Phosphatase of regenerating liver-3 ;  RNA interference


Background: The association of autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) has been well-recognized, yet the best method to screen for thyroid disease is unclear. Since there may be an underlying common immunopathologic link, we sought to determine whether testing for thyroperoxidase antibody (TPOAb) would be a useful screening tool for AITD in PAH. Methods: This retrospective study comprised 101 consecutive PAH patients seen at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville's Pul- monary Hypertension Center from 2001 to 2008 who fulfilled two requirements: they met the WHO criteria for PAH, and they had measurements of TPOAb levels and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). Results: Of the 101 patients in the cohort, 37 met criteria for AITD. Two patients had an elevated level of TPOAb in the setting of a normal TSH and not taking thyroid hormone medication. TPOAb sensitivity was 46% (95% confidence interval (CI), 29 to 63%), specificity 97% (95% CI 89 to 99%), positive predictive value (PPV) was 89% (95% CI 67 to 98%), and negative predictive value (NPV) was 76% (95% CI 65 to 84%). Conclusions: Many patients with PAH have a concomitant thyroid disorder. Screening for TPOAb revealed elevated levels in approximately half of those with AITD and PAH. However, TPOAb was elevated in only 2 patients with both a normal TSH and no prior diagnosis of thyroid disease. The low sensitivity of TPOAb demonstrates limited value as a screening test for thyroid disease compared to a medical history and a measurement of TSH.


The performance gains from dynamic allocation of radio resources across multiple heterogeneous networks is studied. Through virtualization, the physical radio resources of the heterogeneous networks are first abstracted into a centralized pool of virtual radio resources. A dynamic spectrum-level slicing algorithm to share these radio resources across the different networks is then presented. This algorithm is responsive to changing user load and channel conditions. Simulation results show that for representative user arrival statistics, dynamic allocation of radio resources significantly lowers the percentage of dropped packets. In addition, they reveal that the triggers for dynamic allocation of resources across coexisting virtual networks occur every other time interval under the worst case traffic variation in the system (i.e., traffic varies every time interval). Our results suggest that performance benefits can be had even if dynamic spectrum-level slicing does not happen on time scales similar to that of the local resource schedulers residing in each virtual network.


Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L., BBAADD) is a major staple food crop worldwide. The diploid progenitors of the A- and D-subgenomes have been unequivocally identified, that of B however remains ambiguous and controversial but is suspected to be related to species of Aegilops, section Sitopsis. Here, we report the assembly of chromosome-level genome sequences of all five Sitopsis species, namely Ae. bicornis, Ae. longissima, Ae. searsii, Ae. sharonensis, and Ae. speltoides, as well as partial assembly of Ae. mutica genome for phylogenetic analysis. Our results support that the donor of bread wheat B-subgenome is a distinct, probably extinct, diploid species that diverged from an ancestral progenitor of the B-lineage similar to Ae. mutica and Ae. speltoides. The five Sitopsis species have variable genome sizes (4.11-5.89 Gb) with high proportions of repetitive sequences (85.99-89.81%); nonetheless, they retain high collinearity with other wheat genomes. Differences in genome size are primarily due to independent post-speciation amplification of transposons rather than to inter-specific genetic introgression. We also identified a set of Sitopsis genes pertinent to important agronomic traits that can be harnessed for wheat breeding. These resources provide a new roadmap for evolutionary and genetic studies of the wheat group. Significance The origin of the B-subgenome of hexaploid bread wheat remains unknown. Here we report the assembly of chromosome-level genome sequences of all five Sitopsis species of the genus Aegilops, which are previously considered as possible direct progenitors or contributors to the B-subgenome. Our comparative genomic analyses reveal that the B-subgenome originated from an unknown, most likely extinct species phylogenetically distinct from Ae. speltoides, its extant closest relative. We also provide evidence that Ae. speltoides is neither the direct progenitor of the G-subgenome of tetraploid wheat Triticum timopheevii. The high-quality Sitopsis genomes provide novel avenues to identify new important genes for wheat breeding.


Hydrocarbon contamination may happen in various ways such as accidents during fuel transportation by trucks and ships, leakage of oil from underground storage tanks, or during extraction and processing of oil. These contaminations can be treated by several methods including physical, chemical and biological treatment. During biological cleaning up, hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria emulsifying hydrocarbons by producing biosurfactants are used. Therefore, isolation and identification of biosurfactant producing and hydrocarbon degrading bacteria are pivotal for effective bioremediation of hydrocarbon contaminated surface waters. Hence, the aim of this study is to isolate and identify efficient bio surfactant producing and diesel oil degrading bacteria to remove spilled diesel oil from surface waters. The isolates D1 and was identified as Bacillus cereus . Isolates was further characterized for the presence of two novel catabolic genes ( alk B and C23 O), responsible for diesel oil degradation, the key enzymes (alkane monooxygenase and catechol 2,3 dioxygenase), encoded by these novel genes, and emulsifying ability of the biosurfactants produced by isolate through the use of several methods including DNA Extraction, Agarose Gel Electrophoresis And   Polymerase  Chain  Reaction  (PCR).


Digestion trials were conducted with sheep to determine the nutritive values of five tropical forage grass silages. Napier grass silage had a significantly higher (P<0.01) digestibility coefficient for crude protein than the other silages tested. However, the digestibility coefficients for dry matter and crude fiber were similar for napier, pangola and guinea grass silage. There were no significant differences among the silages in relation to TDN on dry matter basis. Napier grass silage had higher values than the other silages for digestible nutrientes, protein and crude fiber and also had the lowest nutritive ratio (1:23.57). Sorghum and guatemala grass silages were the only ones that produced weight gains in the animals during the experiment.


The traveling salesman problem is a classic problem in combinatorial optimization. This problem is to find the shortest path that a salesman should take to traverse through a list of cities and return to the origin city. The list of cities and the distance between each pair are provided. It is an NP-complete problem i.e., a class of computational problem for which no efficient solution algorithm has been found, presently there is no polynomial solution available. In this paper, we try to solve this very hard problem using various heuristics such as Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithm to find a near-optimal solution as fast as possible. We try to escape the local optimum, using these advanced heuristic techniques.


> 1. Loffredo FS, Steinhauser ML, Jay SM, Gannon J, Pancoast JR, Yalamanchi P, Sinha M, Dall'Osso C, Khong D, Shadrach JL, Miller CM, Singer BS, Stewart A, Psychogios N, Gerszten RE, Hartigan AJ, Kim MJ, Serwold T, Wagers AJ, Lee RT. Growth differentiation factor 11 is a circulating factor that reverses age-related cardiac hypertrophy. Cell . 2013;153:828–839.

With improvements in healthcare resulting in the population increasingly skewing toward the elderly, heart failure is becoming an increasingly prevalent pathological condition worldwide.1 Aging of the heart frequently manifests as left ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction, for which there are limited therapies.2 To address whether this condition is reversible, Loffredo et al3 hypothesized that cardiac hypertrophy in the elderly is the result of the loss of factors in the blood that preserve myocardial structure and function, and that replacement of those factors can reverse the hypertrophic condition.

The authors began by performing parabiosis experiments, in which the circulatory systems of 2 animals are surgically joined. They used mice of the strain C57BL/6, which develop a human-like, age-related cardiac hypertrophy as they grow older. They tested a variety of combinations …


As the sun set on April 11, 2018, around 400 people gathered in Indiana University's Luddy Hall, anticipating a sort of birth. There, in the home of the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, all eyes pointed to Amatria , a woven cloud of white Mylar and clear acrylic plastics, wire, glass, laser-cut stainless steel, and electronics hanging from the glass ceiling.

Amatria , a new work of "sentient architecture" by Philip Beesley and others in LAS, is at once art installation, architectural prototype, and test bed for artificial intelligence. Image courtesy of Philip Beesley (photographer).

This new work of "sentient architecture" by multidisciplinary researcher and artist Philip Beesley of the University of Waterloo and colleagues hung still. Then Beesley reached up. Sensing his movement, Amatria shuddered. Vibrations near Beesley's hand rippled outward accompanied by bursts of warm light and sounds ranging from otherworldly clinks and bellows to natural gurgles and hisses.

Amatria is at once art installation, architectural prototype, and test bed for artificial intelligence. Beesley created the sculpture in collaboration with researchers at Indiana University, as well as electrical engineer Rob Gorbet of the University of Waterloo and other members of Beesley's Living Architecture Systems group (LAS), which includes an international team of 90 architects, scientists, engineers, and sound artists.

The goal of the LAS group is to make buildings come alive, revolutionizing built spaces and our relationships with them. The group aspires to create an architectural structure that is more integrated with the natural world, a metabolism that enables self-renewal, and an artificial intelligence capable of curiosity and even empathy.

LAS has exhibited more than 50 installations around the world. But Amatria is unique in that it functions as a permanent test bed in an academic community where it can evolve. As researchers collaborate with the sculpture's …


A pair of baby shorts which facilitates respective separate replacement of urinated shorts and a diaper. The diaper can be fixed, and the trouser-legs can absorb moisture. The baby side-opening diaper-fixing type moisture absorption shorts have openings on two sides, with two rows of nylon buckles and buttons arranged at the openings. The belly and rear buttocks are respectively provided with two buttonholes, the front rise and the seat are respectively provided with two buttonholes, two ends of a piece of diaper which can contain toilet paper or sanitary napkin are respectively sewn with two flat buttons, and four flat buttons sewn at the middle portion of the diaper are respectively buttoned inside eight buttonholes in the shorts body. Bag shape interlayers are arranged front and rear the trouser legs, with toilet paper arranged inside the interlayers. The shorts can avoid the baby from catching hold caused by taking off outer trousers and avoid quilts and outer trousers being wetted, with advantages of low price, elegant appearance and recycle.


Abstract Scratch and mar of coatings is an important aspect of retaining initial performance levels. A number of test methods have been developed to measure coating resistance to damaging conditions. For the coatings industry, it is critical to have accelerated tests that indicate probable long term (i.e., service life) performance, and to have a means to correlate mar performance with chemical substructures of coatings. In this paper the synergism of measurement techniques for monitoring scratch and mar performance is explored. Laboratory mar tests, which have been validated by commercial experience, are used as the basis for comparison of a coating's performance. The combined elements of chemical, physical, mechanical, morphological and appearance properties of coatings have been explored. Chemical changes during cure and subsequent exposure have been followed by infrared techniques which show degree of cure, extent of photo-oxidation and hydrolysis, as well as changes in cross-linking with time and temperature. Physical and mechanical properties measured include T g, hardness, standard stress/strain measurements, as well as "Method of Essential Work". Physical properties can be correlated with visual recovery of plastic flow damage and resistance to mar. Furthermore, microscratch experiments have been utilized to explore forces that are needed to induce surface damage and to determine the transitions between elastic deformation, plastic flow, and brittle fracture type damage. Morphology of scratches was examined by the use of atomic force microscopy before and after exposure. Optical imaging techniques were used to characterize scratch and mar. These studies are useful in understanding mechanisms of coating failure.


Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico "Carlo Besta", Milan, Italy Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy Department of Neurology, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, Netherlands Department of Neurology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA


ON THE HIGH SIDE OF HORROR lie the classics: F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, King Kong, Dracula, Frankenstein, and various works by Alfred Hitchcock, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and a few others-films that by virtue of age, literary ancestry, or fame of director have achieved reputability within the context of disreputability.' Further down the scale fall the productions of Brian De Palma, some of the glossier satanic films (Rosemary's Baby, The Omen, The Exorcist), certain sci-fi hybrids (Alien/Aliens, Blade Runner), some vampire and werewolf films (Wolfen, An American Werewolf in London), and an assortment of other highly produced films, often with stars (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Shining). At the very bottom, down in the cinematic underbrush, lies-horror of horrors-the slasher (or spatter or shocker) film: the immensely generative story of a psychokiller who slashes to death a string of mostly female victims, one by one, until he is himself subdued or killed, usually by the one girl who has survived. Drenched in taboo and encroaching vigorously on the pornographic, the slasher film lies by and large beyond the purview of the respectable (middle-aged, middle-class) audience. It has also lain by and large beyond the purview of respectable criticism. Staples of drive-ins and exploitation houses, where they "rub shoulders with sex pictures and macho action flicks," these are films that are "never even written up."2 Books on horror film mostly concentrate on the classics, touch on the middle categories in passing, and either pass over the slasher in silence or bemoan it as a degenerate aberration.3 The one full book on the category, William Schoell's Stay Out of the Shower, is immaculately unintelligent.4 Film magazine articles on the genre rarely get past technique, special effects, and profits. The Sunday San Francisco Examiner relegates reviews of slashers to the syndicated "Joe Bob Briggs, Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, Texas," whose low-brow, campy tone ("We're talking two breasts, four quarts of blood, five dead bodies.... Joe Bob says check it out") establishes what the paper and others like it deem the necessary distance between their readership and that sort of film.5 There are of course the exceptional cases: critics or social observers who have seen at least some of these films and tried to come to grips with their ethics or aesthetics or both. Just how troubled is their task can be seen from its divergent results. For one critic, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is "the Gone With the Wind of


To resolve the ambiguities caused by occlusion in images,the sensor to measure the scene from several different views is needed.The approach presented in this paper is to compute the observation location and directon for sensor placement,from which the unseen parts of the scene can be observed most by the sensor,when no priori geometrical information about the scene is available.After analyzing the given range image data,some candidate directions are obtained to calculate the number of unseen grid cells of the 3 D model from these candidate directions.The one with the largest number is the next best viewing direction.


Isometries of metric spaces $(X,d)$ preserve all level sets of $d$. We formulate and prove cases of a conjecture asserting if $X$ is a complete Riemannian manifold, then a function $f:X \rightarrow X$ preserving at least one level set $d^{-1}(r)$, with $r>0$ small enough, is an isometry.


The objectives of the researces are to observe : (1) The impact of leadership style upon the employees' productivity; (2). The impact of leadership style and employees' productivity upon the company's financial performance; (3). The correlation between financial performance and satisfaction level of each company's external stakeholder ( the supplier, customers, and activist groupsj.The research is conducted in the companies that operate base metal industries in Sulawesi The methode in use is the census, and the data collection is carried out by using questionares. The collected data is data population, and they are analysed by using statistical methodes, namely : (1) Path Analysis to observe the impact of leadership style upon employees' productivity and the impact of leadership style plus employees' productivity upon the company's financial performance. (2). Product Moment Perason Correlation to observe the correlation between finacial performance and the satisfaction level of of each company's external stakeholder ( the suppliers, customers, and activist groups). After conducting the tests upon the hypotheses, the researcer indicates that (1) The leadership style has positive impact upon the employees' productivity. (2). The leadership style together with the employees' productivity give positive impact upon the company's financial performance, and (3) The company's financial performance has positive correlation with the satisfaction level of each company's external stakeholder (the suppliers, customers, and activist groups )


We consider the problem of computing compact routing tables for a (weighted) planar graph $G:= (V, E,w)$ in the PRAM, CONGEST, and the novel HYBRID communication model. We present algorithms with polylogarithmic work and communication that are almost optimal in all relevant parameters, i.e., computation time, table sizes, and stretch. All algorithms are heavily randomized, and all our bounds hold w.h.p. For a given parameter $\epsilon>0$, our scheme computes labels of size $\widetilde{O}(\epsilon^{-1})$ and is computed in $\widetilde{O}(\epsilon^{-2})$ time and $\widetilde{O}(n)$ work in the PRAM and the HYBRID model and $\widetilde{O}(\epsilon^{-2} \cdot HD)$ (Here, $HD$ denotes the network's hop-diameter) time in CONGEST. The stretch of the resulting routing scheme is $1+\epsilon$. To achieve these results, we extend the divide-and-conquer framework of Li and Parter [STOC '19] and combine it with state-of-the-art distributed distance approximation algorithms [STOC '22]. Furthermore, we provide a distributed decomposition scheme, which may be of independent interest.


The ways of explication of evidentiality in analytical articles of the English-language press are investigated. 30 articles of newspapers "The Washington Post", "The Guardian", "The Independent" for 2021 are analyzed. The classification of evidential values is presented on the basis of two indicators: the source of information and its degree of reliability. Three types of evidentiality have been identified: direct evidentiality (there is a clear indication of the source of information); impersonal evidentiality (lack of an identified source of information); author's evidentiality (based on the author's conclusions). The results of the study showed a significant superiority of direct evidentiality (74 %), realized through the precise indication of the source of information and the use of the author's "we". It was revealed that impersonal evidentiality is not typical for an analytical article (6 %). This is due to its specific characteristics: the desire for objectivity and transparency of the data provided. It is noted that this type of evidentiality is realized through adverbs, indicating an anonymous source and using collective nouns. It is shown that the author's evidentiality is found in 20 % of cases and is realized through filler words, main sentences like that means, adverbs, impersonal sentences using verbs of perception, constructions "to be + adjective with a probability value", modal verbs.


This study was concerned with Javanese Language Maintenance among the Javanese Teenagers in Medan-Helvetia. The objective of this study were to find out the factors affect Javanese language maintenance preserved the Javanese teenagers in Medan-Helvetia, the ways of Javanese teenagers in maintaining Javanese language, and the reasons of Javanese teenagers in maintaining the Javanese language in Medan-Helvetia. The study was conducted by qualitative method. The data were taken from observation and interview. Observation used to find out the factors affect the Javanese teenagers maintain the Javanese language in Medan-Helvetia, while the interview was used to get information from Javanese teenagers about how the Javanese teenagers preserved the Javanese language and the reasons of Javanese teenagers preserved the Javanese language. There are four factors which support Javanese teenagers maintain the Javanese language such as: using languagein family domain, using language in neighborhood domain (environment), using language in religion domain and using language in workplace domain. Language maintenance can be done through five ways; by living near each other and see each other frequently, dealing with intra-marriage with in the same minority group, living together and use the same minority language and visiting homeland. The reason Javanese language maintenance were preserved by Javanese teenagers; keep ethnic identity, they were proud being Javanese people, enablesosial adaptation and keep cultural diversity.


Let D r = {x ∈ R 2 : |x| 0, u(x, 0) = 0, x ∈ R 2 - D γ(t) , u(x, t) = 1, x ∈ D γ(t) , t > 0. If there exist constants 0 0 such that c 1 t -k < γ(t) < c2t -k , for sufficiently large t, then limt→∞ u(x,t) =. The same result is also shown to hold when D γ(t) is replaced by L γ(t) , where L r = { (x 1 , 0) ∈ R 2 : |x 1 | ≤ r}. Also, a discrepancy is noted between the asymptotics for the above forward heat equation and the corresponding backward one. The method used is probabilistic.


Calcium sulfate scale in San Andreas wells in West Texas is one of the most serious production problems faced today. The scale problem in these wells ranges from minor to extremely severe and, in many cases, can mean the difference between a profitable and an unprofitable well. This problem has received the serious attention of a number of operators and chemical suppliers and a great deal has been learned. This paper discusses some of the remedial techniques currently employed with particular emphasis on formation squeeze techniques. Even though the scale problem in the Welch Field has not been eliminated and squeeze treatments in the open hole have not been perfected, significant progress has been made. The information to date indicates that scale inhibition with organic phosphates is practical. The current need is for an effective placement technique for open-hole completions. The success of the treatment is based on actual bottomhole measurement of the scale growth, not production tests.


Many geotechnical problems involve the presence of partially saturated soil zones, the most common case being that of capillary zones above groundwater table. These zones are usually ignored in practice, and the soil is assumed to be either fully saturated or completely dry. This simplification is in many cases conservative since it does not take into account the increase in shear strength due to partial saturation. The object of this paper is to reach a reasonable understanding and explanation of the fundamental behavior of partially saturated soil such as suction and shear strength. This can be achieved by analyzing the micromechanical forces that affect the soil particles from a theoretical point of view.


Hercules X-1 exhibits a 35 day cycle in its X-ray intensity and 1.24 s and 1.7 day periodicities in its pulsar rotation and orbit, respectively. The features of the 35 day clock and the presence of a precessing tilted accretion disk have been discussed by many authors. A ring of matter at a given radius in the accretion disk will precess if it is tilted relative to the orbital plane. Under the assumption of a uniform precession of the disk, the periodic perturbation of the uniform precession has been analyzed by Levine and Jernigan. In this paper a complete expression is presented for both uniform and perturbed precession of the disk. The result is compared with observations, and it is in agreement with the analysis of the observations given in the literature. 27 refs.


With the progress of urbanization in our country,the cities are growing constantly,and conventional method of city management cannot meet the requirement of modern city management.With the proposal of the strategy of "Digital China",the concept of "digital city" appears.Information based city construction marked by "digital city" is being carried out rapidly nationwide,network infrastructure and spatial information infrastructure are the two most important infrastructures of digital city construction,geographic spatial framework information is an important part of spatial information infrastructure and is the basic supporting platform of information-based social economic development.


The invention relates to a safety-related automation system, and to a method for operating such a system. In order to provide a safety-related automation bus system which needs only a low level of hardware redundancy and can be flexibly matched to the respective requirements, the automation system comprises at least one safety analyzer, which is connected by means of an interface to the bus and monitors the data flow via the bus, the analyzer being set up for carrying out safety-related functions. The automation system is distinguished in that the standard control device drives at least one safety-related output, and the safety analyzer is designed for checking and/or for processing safety-related data in the bus datastream.


Type of funding sources: Private company. Main funding source(s): Orphan Drugs

 The use of cardioplegic solutions is indispensable during cardiac arrest in order to reduce myocardial metabolism and oxygen demand. Most commonly, hypothermic hyperkalemic cardioplegic solutions are used for open heart surgery. However, high potassium concentrations have several effects that limit left ventricular recovery, such as intracellular calcium overload resulting in the loss of contractility and increased cell death. Recently, we have shown that polarized cardiac arrest results in similar myocardial protection and improves cardiac functional recovery in a porcine model of cardiopulmonary bypass.

 The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the hemodynamic effects of cold St Thomas' Hospital polarizing cardioplegia (STH-Pol) in contrast to standard St Thomas' Hospital cardioplegia (STH2) in rats with chronic myocardial infarction. We hypothesize that St Thomas' Hospital polarizing cardioplegia shows superior protection on left ventricular hemodynamic recovery as compared to standard STH2 cardioplegia.

 Permanent myocardial infarction was induced by permanent occlusion of the left anterior descending artery LAD on Sprague-Dawley rats (593 ± 65g, day of sacrifice). Six weeks post-MI, after echocardiography assessment, the animals were sacrificed, and hemodynamic parameters were measured in an erythrocyte-perfused isolated heart model (STH2, control group: n=5 or STH-Pol, study group: n=4). Fifteen minutes of Langendorff mode and 30 minutes of Working-heart mode were followed by cardiac arrest with the two types cardioplegia (was applied three times every 20 minutes (t1= 0, t2= 20, t3= 40)). STH-Pol, consisting of esmolol, adenosine and magnesium, was mixed with erythrocyte-buffer shortly prior to administration (1:4). After ischemia, the hearts were started with a hot shot with warm erythrocyte-buffer. Hemodynamic parameters were measured every five minutes in Langendorff mode and Working-heart mode. Finally, pump function was examined and tissue samples were taken for analysis of troponin-T and high-energy phosphates. Results will be given as % of preischemic baseline value.

 The use of STH-Pol instead of STH2 did not yield any significant differences in hemodynamic recovery (%) across the parameters of left atrial flow (LAF: 40.87 ± 13.22 vs. 53.24 ± 11.27), coronary flow (CF: 58 ± 14.36 vs. 76.21 ± 9) and cardiac output (CO: 42.82 ± 13.36 vs. 51.83 ± 11.76). Furthermore, we have not been able to identify superior effects of STH-Pol on stroke volume (SV: 46.55 ± 13.91 vs. 52.66 ± 11.33) recovery. Moreover, heart rate was comparable in both groups (92.07 ± 2.02 vs. 99.35 ± 1.72), which indicates swift reversal of negative chronotropic effects of esmolol.

 Polarizing cardioplegic arrest does not show superior effects on hemodynamic parameters of left ventricular recovery after ischemia in chronically infarcted rat hearts as compared to depolarizing cardioplegic arrest.


A mutant strain B.mucilaginosus K-1-3 induced mutation of Nitrogen ionic beam was screened and its potassium-solubilizing capacity was 720 % higher than that of the initial strain.Intracellular and extracellular soluble potassium concentrations were analyzed after fermentation.The results showed that almost all soluble potassiums existed in vivo.This indicated that solubilizing potassiums were mainly taken in by microbe during the course of growth.


In the present study Polyethylene Glycol 2000(PEG2000)-Barium Titanate(BaTiO3) in five different weight ratios were physically blended to the plasticized PVdF-HFP/LIBETI matrix to study the ionic conductivity thermal, morphology and XRD properties was attempted. The ionic Conductivity observation show that 15:5wt% PEG:BaTiO3 only improved magnitude of conductivity 1.256×10−5 S/cm (Sample-V2) than 20:0(V1), 10:10(V3), 5:15(V4), 0:20(V5). The XRD profile show the suppression of β-phase of PVdF and presence of BaTiO3, irrespective of increase/decrease in the mass gradient of PEG, and not supportive of the conductivity beyond V2 was noted. The TGA on PEG:BaTiO3 20:0(V1), 0:20(V5) and, 15:5(V2) it was observed that V1 underwent three stages of weight losses and V5 with single stage (over the sample V2) suggest that membrane not having more weight losses due to higher aggregation of filler was observed.


Different dilutions (15, 30, 60, and 95% v/v) of ethanol in water were administered to rats by stomach-tube. In well-nourished animals negligible damage to the mucosa of the stomach was observed at...


The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major public health concern worldwide profoundly impacting various aspects of the practice of sleep medicine. Nonetheless, new onset sleep disturbances including insomnia and circadian rhythm disorders have been reported during this period. Severe COVID-19 disease and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may have shared risk factors including advancing age, systemic hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. In light of the unprecedented situation and the lack of definitive evidence on ways to tackle the same, sleep physicians and surgeons from the Indian Sleep Disorders Association have prepared this consensus statement on the practice of sleep medicine in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. This document carries expert recommendations under the following categories: (i) sleep clinics and telemedicine, (ii) home sleep apnea testing (HSAT), (iii) in-laboratory polysomnography (PSG) and positive airway pressure (PAP) titration, and (iv) use of PAP devices in OSA. We hope that it will serve as a reference guide to sleep physicians to restart their practice in a safe manner during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Natural regeneration is crucial to maintaining local adaptative genetic pools of Pinus pinaster Ait. forests and their restoration following disturbance events. After a wildfire, weak-serotinous maritime pine populations may only depend on the viability of seeds exposed to fire to recover. Subsequently, summer drought during the early stages of the pine seedlings may seriously jeopardize the success of natural regeneration and the productivity of natural exploitable forests. The main objectives of this work were 1) to determine and compare the seed germination rates of weak-serotinous maritime pine populations along a geographic gradient within the Coastal Center of Portugal and 2) to investigate the ability of non-selected natural regenerated pine seedlings to survive under water limitation conditions. To accomplish those aims, seeds were collected from 8 populations distributed along a 100 km geographical gradient and left to germinate for 2 months. The seedlings were submitted to a water limitation experiment for 3 weeks.
Overall no relation was found between seed weight and germination rate, but different trends were observed amongst populations. No relation was found between seed traits and seedling growth. Under water limitation, results suggested differences in water use efficiency between populations, possibly justified by adaptation to specific site conditions.


In order to decrease the computational complexity of H.264 encoder,a fast mode decision method was proposed.Based on the statistical analysis of adopted encoding modes finally,the search order of different modes is rearranged.Moreover,combined with the technology to use proper threshold on some modes,many unnecessary prediction modes are skipped.The simulation results show that,compared to the original encoder,this method can reduce the total encoding time by over 47% with similar PSNR and bitrate.


The NSPCC has collated and analysed evidence from serious case reviews over a number of years to identify lessons. This issue we summarise the risk factors and learning for parental mental health and child welfare


Improved accuracy, faster sampling, higher resolution, increased bandwidth; all key words used by instrument designers to describe new products. Custom software, embedded controllers, and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are enabling instrument technologies that rarely get marketed. However, their use in embedded instruments leads to challenges in evaluating measurement accuracy and servicing products. The evolution of instruments from vendor defined functionality through user defined functionality in software is on the verge of another revolution. Continued improvements in embedded controllers and programming environments, coupled with engineers growing up programming, is leading to a new generation of embedded instruments. User defined and customized for specific applications these real time systems are showing in applications that range from medical and commercial to military.


We report on the pT dependence of nuclear modification factors ($R_{CP}$) for Ks, Lambda, Xi and the Anti-Lambda/Ks ratios at mid-rapidity from Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 39, 11.5 and 7.7 GeV. At \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 39 GeV, the $R_{CP}$ data shows a baryon/meson separation at intermediate pT and a suppression for Ks for pT up to 4.5 GeV/$c$; the Anti-Lambda/Ks shows baryon enhancement in the most central collisions. However, at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 11.5 and 7.7 GeV, $R_{CP}$ shows much less baryon/meson separation and Anti-Lambda/Ks shows almost no baryon enhancement. These observations indicate that the matter created in Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 11.5 or 7.7 GeV might be distinct from that created at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 39 GeV.


The organizational performance evaluation is part of the competitive companies' management. A performance evaluation system must be capable to verify if the company reaches its strategical objectives, checking its processes performance and the goals achievement. In this context, this work presents the development and implantation of a Global Evaluation Performance (GEP) model in a laboratory services company, the Rede Metrológica RS. First it presents four performance measurement models that can be found in literature: Balanced Scorecard, Quantum model, Intellectual Capital model and the Hoshin Kanri model. In addition, a multicriterial analysis method, the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) is presented. This method was used to evaluate the company's processes importance and also its influence and its impact in organization's strategy. The literature review is complemented presenting the desirability function, that evaluates the performance pointers and its goals achievement. The GEP model implantation was developed through six different stages: (i) Company strategy evaluation; (ii) Survey of organization's main processes and sub-processes; (iii) Performance pointers development and implementation; (iv) Processes and sub-process importance identification, relating them to the company's strategy, using AHP; (v) Performance pointers evaluation, using the desirability function; (vi) GEP function implementation. The GEP implantation benefits were notable, because it came up with important information for the organization, besides making a global idea of the company's processes. The GEP model also allowed creating a visual management of its activities through a pointers matrix, as well as the implementation of a global performance map, indicating organization's process performance. KEY-WORDS: Performance evaluation, AHP, desirability function, management.


In this article I respond to the important questions raised by Roger Griffin and David D. Roberts by asserting the following points. First, that there is no justification to the position that the historical function of fascism was to establish the political hegemony of finance capital, as Marxist-Leninist scholars have maintained without providing a shred of evidence in support of their position. On the contrary, fascism was an epochal phenomenon which occured on several continents and had features which point to a declaration of war against bourgeois society, its power structures, its values and its way of life. It was a revolt generated by disgust for a world dominated by those whom Hitler called 'the worshippers of Mammon'. Second, that fascism was not at all an alternative modernity, but a violent and radical reaction which rejected all the values and institutions of the modern world, from individual freedom to the rights of man and citizen, from pluralist democracy to secularization. Third, that the history of fascism, like the history of communism, has shown that ideas are no mere fantasmagorical reflexes of the socioeconomic structure, as Marxist sociology claims. This was demonstrated by its political ideology, which was intent on revolutionizing the foundations of society and producing a new man, diametrically opposed to the 'bourgeois'.


Renee Desing is currently a graduate student at the Ohio State University in the Department of Engineering Education. Ms. Desing holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the Pennsylvania State University. Most recently, Ms. Desing worked as a managing consultant for IBM Public Sector Advanced Analytics.


It is an important content of socialism culture to build a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation.We should have a comprehensive understanding of the traditional culture of our motherland,absorb its essence,discard its dross,adapt it to the contemporary society,coordinate it to the modern civilization,and make it maintain the national character and reflect the times in order to build the common spiritual home for the Chinese nation.


The free surface in an open pump sump with backward-facing step flow was measured by the method of Laser Plane Image and the average height distribution of free surface was also obtained in all operation condition.The comparison between the results above and the actual photos of free surface showed they match with each other.The results also showed the height of step,the-velocity of fluid flow and the water depth all can influence the flow condition of free surface.


Pumped-storage power stations have a large number of diversion tunnels, long tunnel lines and frequent changes in the external water level. Based on ansys for simulation calculations, first we simulate the force of the diversion tunnel under different working conditions; then we analyze the stress distribution in the stress cloud diagram; finally we calculate the structural reinforcement of the water inlet/outlet according to the stress cloud diagram, which can meet the requirements of the structure. Therefore, ansys can be used to calculate the diversion tunnels.


This essay probes into how to improve the teaching quality of basketballclass at college in accordance with girl students physical and mental characteristics such as reluctance to exercise, etc. According to experimental researches on girl students basketball class at college, the author cultivates and improves the girl students' interest and study initiative by way of explaining, demonstrating, playing games and flexible competition rules in the basketball class so as to lay a solid foundation for their life long sports.


Current 3D rendering architectures support adaptive tessellation of patches, allowing for increased geometric detail. Patches are specified independently, giving the implementation freedom to exploit parallel execution. However, this independence leads to redundant shading computations at patch corners and along edges. In this paper, we present post-tessellation geometry caches, the edge cache and corner cache, that can reduce redundant shading along patch edges and corners, respectively. We demonstrate the two caches in a software-simulated D3D11 rendering pipeline, and show that for current tessellation workloads our approach saves up to 37% of post-tessellation vertex shading using caches with as few as 8 entries.


Studies are presented on the association between mean annual sunspot numbers (SNs) and the summer monsoon rainfall over India. Sunspots are related directly to solar magnetism, which governs the source of the solar wind. SN is correlated with the 10.7 cm solar flux, a quantity measured by remote sensing techniques. The statistical properties of the time series for SN and summer monsoon rainfall were studied and it was found that, although the SNs exhibit persistence, this is not the case for the mean annual summer monsoon rainfall. The cross-correlations were also studied. After a Box–Cox transformation, a time spectral analysis was conducted and it was found that both of the time series have an important spectrum at the fifth harmonic. A neural network model was developed on the data series averaged continuously over 5 years and this neural network could be used to establish a predictor–predictand relationship between the SNs and the mean yearly summer monsoon rainfall over India.


Background: Studies have demonstrated that chronic kidney disease (CKD), especially its last stage - end-stage renal disease (ESRD) - is not only an independent risk factor for coronary artery dise...


Archives are implemented as an extension of Theorema for representing mathematical repositories in a natural way. An archive can be conceived as one large formula in a language consisting of higher-order predicate logic together with a few constructs for structuring knowledge: attaching labels to subhierarchies, disambiguating symbols by the use of namespaces, importing symbols from other namespaces and specifying the domains of categories and functors as namespaces with variable operations. All these constructs are logic-internal in the sense that they have a natural translation to higher-order logic so that certain aspects of Mathematical Knowledge Management can be realized in the object logic itself. There are a variety of operations on archives, though in this paper we can only sketch a few of them: knowledge retrieval and theory exploration, merging and splitting, insertion and translation to predicate logic. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). Primary 03E99; Secondary 68T15.


PURPOSE: To avoid the escape return of gas pressure to a cavity chamber appreciably during the ignition of propellant charges. CONSTITUTION: A bore 42 interconnecting a cavity chamber and a charge chamber 40 is constructed as a nozzle of an outstandingly smaller cross section than the cavity chamber or a piston disposed therein. The nozzle is closed by a primer wafer 70 of a propellant charge 76 disposed in the charge chamber 40. The primer wafer 70 is thinner in its nozzle-closing zone and thereabout than in its other marginal zone.


Abstract 1. Light scattering in synthetic latexes of varying dilutions was studied as a function of the conditions under which the latexes were prepared. When the polymer concentration is increased, the intensity of light scattering reaches a maximum; this is related to the absorption of scattered light in the latex itself. 2. When the polymer concentration is less than 1×10−2 per cent, the turbidity-concentration relation is linear. Calculation of the radius of polymer particles for this region of concentration by Rayleigh's equation gives results approximating those obtained by ultramicroscopy, but tending to be slightly lower. A similar picture is observed in the application of Debye's equation. 3. When the conversion is increased, the size of the latex particles increases. Accumulation of the polymer in the aqueous phase of the emulsion is largely the result of an increase of volume of the polymer particles, and not of their number.


Design patterns are distilled from many feal systems to catalog common programming practice. \Ve have analyzed several published design patterns and looked for patterns of working around constraints of the implementation language. Some object-oriented design patterns arc distorted or overly complicated because of the lack of supporting language constructs or mechanisms. We lay a groundwork of gcneralpurpose language coustructs and mechanisms that, if provided by a statically typed, object-oriented language, would better support the implementation of design patterns and, thus, benefit the construction of many real systems. In particular, our catalog of language constructs includes subtyping separate frow inheritance, lexically scoped closure objects independent of classes, and multimethod dispatch. The proposed constructs and mechanisms are not radically new, but rather are adopted from a variety of languages and combined in a new, orthogonal manner. We argue that by describing design patterns in terms of the proposed constructs and mechanisms, pattern descriptions become simpler and, therefore, accessible to a larger number of language communities. Constructs and mechanisms lacking in a particular language can be implemented using pamdigmatic idioms.


This paper deals with the characterization and dynamic modeling of the behavior of two types of the Ionic Polymer Metal Composite (IPMC) "artificial muscle" materials. Environmental Robots, Inc. (ERI) was the initial vendor and its IPMC products required hydration for optimal performance. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech, VT) subsequently developed their innovative ionic solvent filled IPMCs that obviated hydration. Static tests were conducted to characterize force, displacement and current as a function of applied voltage. Dynamic tests were conducted to observe the frequency response of the material. Fatigue tests were performed on the ERI IPMCs to observe the change in behavior over time. It was found that the VT IPMCs had a bandwidth that was almost half that of the ERI product. However, the obviation of hydration of the VT's IPMC ensured the repeatability of performance and generated increased force densities. A feasibility study is presented to estimate the amount of IPMC materials and power consumption for a biceps exo-muscular assistance device based on the characteristics of the current IPMC materials and a primitive exo-muscular fiber bundle structure.


Vibration energy harvesters are an attractive option for powering low consumption wireless applications. Piezoelectric inertial devices based on a resonant behaviour are adapted to this type of applications for frequencies of the mechanical input in the range of hundreds of Hertz. However, in the case of human body applications, frequencies of a few Hertz are observed. For this reason, we developed an alternative approach based on the impact of a missile on piezoelectric beams. A model of such a harvester is first presented. Then, a prototype is experimentally characterized: 600µW were obtained for a 10Hz frequency and 10cm amplitude linear motion.


BACKGROUND
Orthopaedic sports medicine practices utilize a variety of healthcare professionals to assist physicians in the clinic. The purpose of this study was to investigate patients' perception of orthopaedic knowledge and clinical care provided by orthopaedic medical residents and athletic trainers (ATs).

HYPOTHESIS
ATs will be perceived similarly to orthopaedic medical residents in overall patient care and perceived education level.

STUDY DESIGN
Randomized, double-blind survey.

LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
2.

METHODS
New patients were randomly selected to receive the survey to complete during an office visit. The survey included 8 questions which rated the patient's perceived level of orthopaedic knowledge and level of patient care provided by the AT and orthopaedic medical residents. A total of 110 surveys were collected during the 2-year study period. The data were analyzed using a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).

RESULTS
The multivariate effect (Pillai's trace) was not significant between clinicians, F(8,111)=0.122, p=0.695, partial η2=0.106. Univariate tests showed a significance between patient perceived level of clinician education, F(1,118)=5.361, p=0.632, partial η2=0.043. Univariate test showed no significant differences on any other dependent variables.

CONCLUSION
There is no evidence that patients' perception is different when comparing ATs and orthopaedic medical residents in orthopaedic knowledge and clinical care. Although a statistically significant difference was found in the perceived highest level of education attained, orthopaedic medical residents and ATs were each perceived to have a master's degree level of education. Physicians should continue to use ATs in their practices.


How do you stop 'Death by PowerPoint'? We encourage faculty to turn off the bullets and rely instead on each other and their best teaching instincts when creating PowerPoint shows. The result? Enthusiastic faculty are turning boring slideshows into classroom activities energized with storytelling, humor, interactivity, and students are engaged! The PowerPoint Crisis in Higher Education The common criticism cited by Tufte (2003), Norvig (2003) and others is that PowerPoint is a linear, passive medium that discourages discourse, inhibits spontaneity, and emphasizes form over content. As PowerPoint transitioned from a business application to a ubiquitous classroom presentation tool, these criticisms have grown louder. Despite this, more and more faculty are adopting it as a presentation medium for teaching. PowerPoint's intuitive interface and convenient bulleted outline format makes it – like Learning Management Systems - a perfect starting point for faculty adoption of instructional technology. However, it also makes it easy to simply copy lecture notes into slides, and thereby miss the opportunity to learn best practices for using PowerPoint to engage learners and improve learning. As a result, college students are now falling victim to the same fate as bored business audiences: Death by PowerPoint. Students, however, are speaking out. Their opinions are surfacing in listservs, instructor evaluations, and websites, and their collective voices question why instructors subject them to this disastrous misuse of technology and/or why they should bother attending classes if everything they need can be read from a PowerPoint handout. Some have even left notes for their professors imploring, "Stop using PowerPoint!" As faculty developers wedded to a 'glass half full' outlook, we appreciate PowerPoint's innate ability to entice faculty to give up chalk and blackboards and try out classroom technology; for this reason we feel that much would be lost and little gained by banishing PowerPoint. Not only is it unlikely that we can convince faculty to give up PowerPoint, but we believe that PowerPoint is well worth saving. Inspired by innovator Cliff Atkinson's book, "PowerPoint Beyond Bullets," and PowerPoint 'virtuoso' Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, we are convinced that PowerPoint is actually one of the most flexible, dynamic, and useful instructional tools available in higher education. The solution lies in finding strategies that convince faculty to give up linear, static presentations in favor of more engaging, dynamic instructional interventions.


By the textual research of historical materials and the text analysis,we can judge the revolution literature character that is forced that Xiao Hong had written and reluctantly followed the others,but we can't say that it is pure occasional for Xiao Hong to appear in the literature world of the left wing.Many necessary factors made her go into the revolution literature which couldn't part from the age and had significance at large.


A pharmaceutical agent containing sap of Betula platyphylla Sukatchev var. japonica Hara as an effective ingredient and its use are provided to promote production of profilaggrin and filaggrin which are natural moisturizing factors, involucrin functioning as a barrier protecting against water loss and cholesterol capable of inhibiting water loss, and to restore the cells. The pharmaceutical agent for promoting production of profilaggrin, filaggrin, involucrin and cholesterol, and restoring the cells contains sap of Betula platyphylla Sukatchev var. japonica Hara which is prepared by collecting sap from the stem of Betula platyphylla Sukatchev var. japonica Hara, heating the sap at 95 deg.C for 10 minutes, cooling and filtering the heated sap, and standing the sap at 5 deg.C for 3 days to remove sediment or precipitates.


Image spam has become a real threat to email communication these days, since most prevalent content based spam filters can not efficiently detect them out, even when the latest OCR techniques are employed, spammers could compromise the system easily through text distortion and other obscuring skills. In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient image modeling approach for spam image classification, this content based statistical model does not rely on the availability of text information embedded in the image files, so that it is robust to obfuscations. Experimental results show that the proposed method can perform with good accuracy in practice.


To examine the factors that govern fine spray production during atomization of coal water slurries, an experimental study of the effect of coal beneficiation and their rheological properties on atomization of clean slurries was proposed. The objective of this study was to understand the effect of low shear, high shear rheology, and viscoelastic behavior on the atomization of beneficiated slurries.


This study aimed to investigate the role of personality factors in predicting risk levels of suffering from postnatal depression. One-hundred and twenty-four female participants with an infant under 12 months of age completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), the Vulnerability Personality Style Questionnaire (VPSQ) and the Self-Compassion Short form (SCS-SF). VPSQ scores showed a significant positive correlation with scores of depressive symptoms. Scores of self-compassion showed a strong negative correlation with depressive symptoms. Regression analysis confirmed the strong predictive value of self-compassion in depressive symptoms. Limitations include reliance on self-report measures and the single point time testing during the postnatal period.


A custom application involving a high percentage of open and close file system calls has provided incentive to design and implement a new file system. The fact that many files are small, and that files are referenced by number instead of by name has allowed several design decisions to be made in an attempt to improve performance. The design of the file system is described, and a comparison is made between the new system and a more traditional system to see if the design has been successful.


Objective To predict the trend of incidence of measles,provide a reference for developing prevention and control strategies. Methods Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Model( ARIMA) was fitted by applying the incidence rate from January 2005 to March 2013 as historical series with SPSS 17. 0 software, which was used predict the incidence of measles in the future,comparing the predictors with the facts. Results ARIMA( 1,2,1)( 0,1,0) 12 model was chosen to the prediction. The incidence of measles was predicted 12. 26 per 100 000 in 2013. Conclusions ARIMA model can simulate the trend of measles fluctuation on time series,and can predict the incidence of measles in the future.


Metal nanoparticles form a metal strands or intermittently features having dimensions and orientation assembly as GE other structures have an enormous effect by changing the dielectric response. Synthesis of the host material and careful selection and modification also results in a low dielectric breakdown voltage. In addition, the high dielectric composite material is applied to a more scalable configured for industrial and consumer applications.


A complete introduction to writing programs in PostScript to manipulate such desktop publishing variables as font, character size and style, and shading. With nearly 100 example programs, the book provides a good start for readers' own toolbox libraries.


The development of Islam, especially in the Nuhuwey Arfak tribe family, has caused a change in the attitude and religious behavior of the Arfak people as a native tribe that inhabits the Arfak Mountains of Manokwari, West Papua. This has a positive impact, especially in terms of religion, as evidenced by some priests and even some Nuhuwey Arfak tribesmen who converted to Islam. This study aims to investigate the tradition of Islamic religious education in the Nuhuwey Arfak family. Data were obtained through observation, interviews, and documentation and analyzed using a phenomenological approach. The observation was carried out in several Muslim family heads of the Nuhuwey Arfak tribe with key informants from the Chief, Pastor, and residents of the Nuhuwey Arfak tribe and Muslim Kosepa. The results showed that there were values of acceptability and diversity towards Islam that motivated the Nuhuwey Arfak tribe, which was proven by a large number of their children who had studied Islam well and mingled with other immigrants.


Various preparation methods of GZO thin films: magnetron sputtering,chemical vapor deposition,sol-gel method,pulsed laser deposition,spray pyrolysis are introduced,the principle of these methods is described,and advantages and disadvantages of these various technologies are compared.Current research situation of the GZO films is discussed in the field of single-layer film,multilayer composite fields,the field of organic substrate coating,and the field of follow-up status of annealing.The problem of industrialization raised should be solved: ① Prepare high density,high stability and excellent conductivity of sputtering targets;② Improve the existing coating process conditions;③Prepare the films that meet different production requirements.


Let $H$ be a locally compact group, $K$ be an LCA group, $\tau:H\to Aut(K)$ be a continuous homomorphism and $G_\tau=H\ltimes_\tau K$ be the semi-direct product of $H$ and $K$ with respect to the continuous homomorphism $\tau$. In this article we introduce the $\tau\times\hat{\tau}$-time frequency group $G_{\tau\times\hat{\tau}}$. We define the $\tau\times\hat{\tau}$-continuous Gabor transform of $f\in L^2(G_\tau)$ with respect to a window function $u\in L^2(K)$ as a function defined on $G_{\tau\times\hat{\tau}}$. It is also shown that the $\tau\times\hat{\tau}$-continuous Gabor transform satisfies the Plancherel Theorem and reconstruction formula. This approach is tailored for choosing elements of $L^2(G_\tau)$ as a window function. Finally, we illustrate application of these methods in the case of some well-known semi-direct product groups.


Motivated by the observation that there exists one-to-one correspondence between column space decompositions and row space decompositions of a matrix, the class of matrices dominated by this matrix under '� ' is characterized in terms of characteristic of column space decompositions, whereis a matrix partial order such as the star partial order, the sharp partial order, and the core partial order. The dominance property of the minus partial order over the other partial orders in the discussion result ed in providing a new definition of shorted matrix of a matrix with respect to column space decomposition. Also, extensions of a few results given in (O.M. Baksalary and G. Trenkler. Core inverse of matrices. Linear Multilinear Algebra, 58:681-697, 2010.) are presented in this paper.


Abstract
This study contributes to the existing literature that corporate governance consist of internal and external governance behavior which refers to the complementarity of the elements of (1) competing values framework and (2) corporate legality framework theories and proper orientation in the provisions of the elements leads to a good corporate power in the modern legal environment. A questionnaire is designed, a survey is conducted based on the constructed corporate governance model in the study, which investigates the evolutionary background of the elements with the view of establishing the right corporate culture and corporate legality behavior. The empirical results revealed that there is a positive linear relationship between the elements of corporate culture provisions with internal governance behavior and a significant positive association between the elements of corporate legality provisions with external governance behavior. The model does not take into account long-term external factors. Therefore, measuring corporate governance may not be an easy task and may not be suitable for specific countries that have strong legal systems and corporate ownership. The elements in the model are practical to implement and facilitates corporate to improve shareholder involvement and governance reporting and hence prevent failure. The constructed model span almost every attribute embedding high quality corporate social responsibility and corporate governance for corporate to identify areas for improvement and contributes to existing corporate governance literature that, connecting corporate culture and corporate legality behavior positively affect financial markets and firm performance.


Exact theoretical expressions for calculating the trinucleon S- and D-wave asymptotic normalization constants, with and without Coulomb effects, are presented. Coordinate-space Faddeev-type equations are used to generate the trinucleon wave functions, and integral relations for the asymptotic norms are derived within this framework. The definition of the asymptotic norms in the presence of the Coulomb interaction is emphasized. Numerical calculations are carried out for the s-wave NN interaction models of Malfliet and Tjon and the tensor force model of Reid. Comparison with previously published results is made. The first estimate of Coulomb effects for the D-wave asymptotic norm is given. All theoretical values are carefully compared with experiment and suggestions are made for improving the experimental situation. We find that Coulomb effects increase the /sup 3/He S-wave asymptotic norm by less than 1% relative to that of /sup 3/H, that Coulomb effects decrease the /sup 3/He D-wave asymptotic norm by approximately 8% relative to that of /sup 3/H, and that the distorted-wave Born approximation D-state parameter, D/sub 2/, is only 1% smaller in magnitude for /sup 3/He than for /sup 3/H due to compensating Coulomb effects.


The objective of this research was to study the functional properties and proximate composition of three different flours prepared from cactus pear cladodes. Immature cactus pear cladodes were dried at 60 °C, 70 °C and 80 °C. The flours were analyzed for chemical composition, amino acid profile, fatty acid composition, functional properties and color. The analyses showed no significant differences in crude protein, total lipid, crude fiber and total ash content in the flours, possibly due to the drying temperature effect. Nevertheless, during the drying at 80 °C, a reduction of the water holding capacity (55%) was observed, along with a reduction of the green color intensity (34%) - characteristic of cactus pear. The heating produced larger concentrations of tyrosine, proline, aspartic acid, and glutamic acid. In the lipids of the flours, the most abundant fatty acids were palmitic acid (C16:0), linoleic acid (C18:2n6), linolenic acid (C18:3n3), and oleic acid (C18:1n9). The cladodes flours prepared at 60 °C presented a higher quality regarding their nutritional and functional properties.


ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to analyse the relationship between a firm's resources, innovation-oriented culture, dynamic capabilities, and cooperation performance – in partnerships between firms and Public Research Institutions (PRIs). Based on the Resource-Based View (RBV) and Dynamic Capabilities Perspective (DCP), a framework for innovation, and business performance in Industry-Public Research Institutions (I-PRIs) cooperation was developed and used. Data from 167 firms with experience in I-PRIs cooperation in Korea – were collected using a questionnaire survey. The results show that – a firm's financial and human resources are important factors to increase dynamic capabilities. In particular, a firm's innovation-oriented culture is a key factor in improving dynamic capabilities. On the other hand, a firm's physical resources did not significantly affect dynamic capabilities. However, a firm's 'dynamic capabilities' are important factors in determining I-PRIs cooperation innovation performance, while I-PRIs cooperation innovation performance is a key factor in determining I-PRIs cooperation business performance.


The existence of planar floorplans, composed of non-overlapping rooms divided from each other by walls, to suit given topological and dimensional constraints cannot always be guaranteed. Only a finite number of arrangements exist for the layout of rooms on a single floor with specified adjacencies between them, regardless of their shape or size. Limits on the geometry of the plan and dimensional constraints reduce this variety of arrangement further. The use of computers for automated floorplan design using either heuristics or exhaustive methods has concentrated on rectangular rooms and perimeters. Graph theoretic approaches have been used over the past twenty years. A recent comprehensive survey is in Steadman (1983). In the case of area constraints the equations to be solved for a particular rectangular floorplan can be found (Earl and March (1979)) but a solution may not always satisfy the adjacency requirements. On the other hand, very few of the toplogically feasible floorplans may yield feasible solutions in the dimensioning step. It seems that, at this point in the investigation, it was unknown whether or not a rectangular floorplan could always be found to satisfy both given adjacency and area requirements. The thesis studies this problem by providing theorems for the existence of floorplans with given area and adjacency constraints. It concentrates on plans in which each room is adjacent to the exterior, and on three types of floorplans rectangular, isometric and convex. The adjacency requirements between rooms are represented in a graph called the weak dual. If each room is external, the graph must be outerplanar (Lynes (1977)), and the allowable graphs range from trees to maximal outerplanar graphs. Proper floorplans have weak duals which are maximal outerplanar. Weal duals of proper rectangular floorplans have at most four vertices of degree 2, but proper isometric and convex floorplans have no such restriction.