Fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, is an invasive insect pest with a diverse host range threatening food security in the African continent by causing severe economic damage to staple maize crop. FAW like all other insects are associated with various microbiota that influence their several characteristics and activities. The microbiota of insects plays important roles in their growth, development and environmental adaptation to their host plants or animals and not much is known about microbiota of FAW in Nigeria. In this study, the microbial community of FAW larvae from maize plants in Nigeria was investigated using Illumina PE250 NovaSeq of 16S rRNA V3‐V4 gene region. A total of 1,160,133 sequence reads that ranged from 83,794 to 145,475 were obtained. They span through 2 kingdoms: bacteria (99.59%) and archaea (0.37%), 37 phyla, 59 classes, 78 orders, 145 families and 285 genera. The dominant taxonomic group of bacteria across the larval samples were Proteobacteria (58.32%), Firmicutes (35.87%) and Bacteroidetes (4.02%). There were no significant differences in bacteria species diversity and richness among the individual fall armyworm larva and samples from different geographical regions. The relative abundance of Bacteria phyla and classes also showed no significant differences among the larval samples. Significant differences were documented in bacteria orders Acidobacteriales and Aeromonadales, family Acidobacteriaceae_ (Subgroup_1) and genera Novosphingobium and Pedobacter. The results indicate that the gut of FAW larvae harbours a diverse set of bacteria and archaea biota. Understanding their ecological and functional relevance would provide novel insight on potential approaches for their exploitation in the integrated management of FAW in the tropics.


Thrombocytopenia is a commonly encountered labora tory abnormality in the intensive care unit setting. Al though moderate degrees of thrombocytopenia may be dismissed as clinically trivial, severe thrombocytopenia can have catastrophic consequences. This review di vides the potential pathogenesis of thrombocytopenia into three pathophysiological categories: (1) produc tive, (2) consumptive, and (3) distributional. The im portant etiologies and appropriate therapies for throm bocytopenia in each of these categories are discussed. We have attempted to emphasize the underlying patho genic mechanisms as well as highlight the diagnostic dilemmas likely to be faced by intensive care unit physi cians. Although this review stresses those thrombocyto penic disorders most likely to be encountered in the intensive care unit, chronic etiologies of thrombocy topenia are also discussed because preexistent throm bocytopenia will further complicate the care of any acutely ill intensive care unit patient.


School operational funding, we called it Bantuan Operasional Sekolah (BOS) in Bahasa, is financial support for education given to every school for the school needed. BOS was started to be implemented in Indonesia since 2005 until now. On the BOS implementation, there were many issues, such as corruption, school could not manage it, it was not be included by local government on annual budget, etc. Considering on the issues and looking at BOS characteristic, accountable and transparent, therefore it should be procedurally monitored.One of the procedural monitoring solutions is by using blockchain technology which is transparent and decentralization. By implementing the blockchain, every entities could monitor each others. This research would elaborate how to plan BOS recording system using blockchain technology and implement the blockchain using hyperledger framework, and also analyze its functional and performance testing process. It would prove that blockchain technology with its beneficial side could support BOS implementation by preventing any fraud acts from any stakeholders.


The purpose of this chapter is to provide a general overview of the use of alcohols, phenols and carboxylic acids in asymmetric organocatalysis. In particular, the idea behind this chapter is to present a detailed analysis of the most important stereoselective organic reactions catalysed by them. Moreover, the methodologies that have been applied in the total synthesis of complex molecules have been highlighted.


Switzerland's act on health care insurance (KVG) allows a compulsory basic insurance contract for each obligatorily insured person. Regardless of the chosen insurance company this contract offers the same services for all persons without previous medical examination. Thereby insurance companies have to accept every obligatorily insured person within their regional operating area. Switzerland's health care insurance system comprises a cost sharing for the insured person that consists of a fixed annual fee (so-called Franchise) and a co-payment of 10% which compounds the costs exceeding the franchise. The insured person can reduce the annual fee through an optional higher franchise. In addition to the franchise rate, age, gender, and place of residence also have an influence on the premium ABSTRACT


I filled three exercise books and half another, then I wrote: "Oh God, I'm only twenty and I'll have to go on living and living and living". I knew then that it was finished and there was no more to say. I put the exercise books at the bottom of my suitcase and piled my under clothes on them. After that whenever I moved I took the exercise books but I never looked at them again for seven years. (Smile Please, p. 105)


Amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) generation has turned out to be just one example of a general physiological mechanism now known as regulated intramembrane proteolyis (RIP). In a principal version of this process, membrane proteins first undergo a regulated shedding of their ectodomains by membrane-anchored proteases referred to as secretases or sheddases, releasing the large luminal domains into extracellular fluids. The membrane-retained stubs can then be cleaved within their transmembrane domains (TMDs) to release small hydrophobic peptides (e.g., Aβ in the case of APP) into the extracellular space and the intracellular domains (ICDs) into the cytoplasm. The free ICDs may have specific functions in the cytosol, including the activation of nuclear signaling pathways, as in the case of the Notch ICD. In the case of APP and certain other RIP substrates, ectodomain shedding can be effected by either of two distinct membraneanchored proteases, α-secretase (believed to be one or more members of the ADAM family of metalloproteases) or βsecretase (also called β-site APP cleaving enzyme or BACE). The membrane associated stub created by BACE cleavage can then undergo an intramembrane scission mediated by a unique protease complex, γ-secretase, that is composed of four proteins. These are presenilin-1 or 2 (PS1/PS2), Nicastrin, APH-1, and PEN-2. All four proteins are both necessary and sufficient to reconstitute γ-secretase activity.


meaning from what is called the Ego, pregnancy may be accepted as a challenge to prove the creative potential of the self, or on the contrary, it may be experienced as a threat. The structure of the Ego itself is not independent from the diabetes experience; it will have been strengthened in cases of prior successful handling of the disease without loss of self esteem, and it will have been weakened in cases of troublesome management, with frequent complications and the inability to overcome the trauma of not being all right. In this psychodynamic scenario the teaching process has to take place. The scenario may not be changed in the short time available, during pregnancy, but it is useful to take it into account for modification of the teaching approach. The stronger the destructive feelings and the weaker the Ego, the more personal support and effort


The mechanical properties of nanofibre networks (NFNs) are size dependent with respect to different fibre diameters. In this paper, a continuum model is developed to reveal the size-dependent mechanical properties of 2D random NFNs. Since such size-dependent behaviours are attributed to different micromechanical mechanisms, the surface effects and the strain gradient (SG) effects are, respectively, introduced into the mechanical analysis of NFNs. Meanwhile, a modified fibre network model is proposed, in which the axial, bending and shearing deformations are incorporated. The closed-form expressions of effective modulus and Poisson's ratio are obtained for NFNs. Different from the results predicted by conventional fibre network model, the present model predicts the size-dependent mechanical properties of NFNs. It is found that both surface effects and SG effects have significant influences on the effective mechanical properties. Moreover, the present results show that the shearing deformation of fibre segment is also crucial to precisely evaluate the effective mechanical properties of NFNs. This work mainly aims to provide an insight into the micromechanical mechanisms of NFNs. Besides, this work is also expected to provide a more accurate theoretical model for 2D fibre networks.


Introduction Stroke is defined according to the World Health Organization criteria (1) as "rapidly developing symptoms and/or signs of focal, and at times global, loss of cerebral function, with symptoms lasting more than 24 hours or leading to death with no apparent cause other than that of vascular origin."


The dead-zone nonlinearity is frequently encountered in many industrial automation equipment and its presence can severely compromise control system performance. Due to the possibility to express human experience in an algorithmic manner, fuzzy logic has been largely employed in the last decades to both control and identification of uncertain dynamical systems. In spite of the simplicity of this heuristic approach, in some situations a more rigorous mathematical treatment of the problem is required. In this work, an adaptive fuzzy controller is proposed for nonlinear systems subject to dead-zone input. The convergence properties of the tracking error will be proven using Lyapunov stability theory and Barbalat's lemma. An application of this adaptive fuzzy scheme to a Van der Pol oscillator is introduced to illustrate the controller design method. Numerical results are also presented in order to demonstrate the control system performance.


This article examines the effects of various individual and organizational variables on two measures of career plateau, an objective measure of job stability and a subjective evaluation of having reached a dead end. The study is based on a sample of 2,183 managers from all organizational ranks, representing 41 business establishments and three Canadian economic sectors. The results show wide differences between the variables explaining the fact of having reached a career plateau and the feeling of being in a dead end. The best predictors of objective plateau are objective factors such as past success, age, and education. For the subjective plateau, personal variables such as desire for advancement and personality (locus of control) play the most important role. In both cases, individual factors come out as better predictors of career plateau than familial and organizational factors.


Psychoanalysis has always been engaged with progressive politics, from Freud's early "Civilized" Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness (Freud 1908), with its argument that neurosis is in large...


To understand the visual behaviors of people searching for information on Web pages, heatmaps and Areas Of Interest (AOI) are generally used. These two techniques bring interesting information on how Web pages are scanned by several users. However, two remarks can be expressed: the first one relates to the fact that heatmaps are usually used to represent fixation areas for a given task after it is completed. Thus, it does not represent fixation areas over time. The second remark relates to the use of AOI, which must be defined by the analyst. We present a method, which address these two points. This bottom-up approach is based on a mean-shift clustering procedure for the identification of areas of interest, which takes into account the temporal aspect. The identification of AOI is thus data driven. This approach allows us to show the evolution of a posteriori AOI both in space and time. The limitations and implications of this new approach are discussed


Bangladesh is an agro-based economy. To achieve self sufficiency of food-grain production in Bangladesh, it is very important to increase the production of rice, particularly Boro rice. Production may be increased, firstly, by introducing modern technology in the long-run or secondly, by improving the efficiency of the farmers in the short-term. In this study, researcher is focusing to achieve the target by improving the efficiency of the farmers. Modern econometric tools, like Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) is used for measuring the efficiencies of the farmers. Empirical results of this study shows that average technical, allocative and economic efficiency of the farmers during Boro period are 86 per cent, 75 per cent and 64 per cent respectively. So, it is possible by making the farmers technically and allocatively efficient, production of Boro rice could be increased by 14 to 36 per cent without any increase in input use, technology is given. In this study, we also find some important inefficiency factors which affect the production of Boro rice in Bangladesh, such as, inadequate extension services, insufficient credit facilities, and land degradation. Importantly, we are trying to quantify them by using Tobit regression model. Study suggests that authority should address these inefficiency factors properly and take necessary action by increasing credit facilities and extension services and reducing land degradation by using more environment friendly fertilizers and pesticides. Therefore, it expected that inefficiency of the farmers decrease and eventually the target of self-sufficiency of food-grain production by 2013 may be achieved.


Spatial Information has special format, diverse storage and large amount of data volume, together with the existing limitation of the network bandwidth, all those above caused some barriers to its transfer application. This paper focuses on a progressive transmission scheme for vector spatial data, it consists of three parts: hierarchical simplification of vector spatial data based on improved genetic algorithm, a multi-level incremental storage model in accordance with the fixed scale progressive transmission, data extraction and data restructuring by traversing the incremental data. At last, the paper tests the algorithm of the hierarchical simplification and the response time in client side, the results prove that the method we proposed are useable.


The effects of large aquatic plants (aquatic macrophytes) have been given limited attention in literature dealing with open channel flow. This is despite a large number of river channels in the U.K. being affected by profuse growths of these plants. This paper contributes to three major areas in relation to aquatic macrophytes and river channels.

First, a literature review examines four areas of vegetated channel research. Early work on vegetated channels concentrated upon grass-lined farm drainage channels in the U.S.A. This was complemented by flume studies of predominantly artificial vegetative roughness elements. The review discusses research into large aquatic plants in stream channels, and the discussion draws together a number of disparate areas of research into vegetated channels including theoretical considerations.

Secondly, the paper discusses results obtained from laboratory flume experiments, using real plants, and field monitoring on the River Ebble, Wiltshire, U.K. The relationship between discharge and Manning's roughness coefficient (n) is examined. Field monitoring results are presented as generalizations in the relationship between Manning's n when the monitoring sites were vegetated and unvegetated. The relationship between plant cover in the channel and Manning's n is also examined. Two measurements of plant cover are employed: the percentage cross-sectional area of channel vegetated, and biomass per unit area. The field data for Manning's n and discharge are then discussed in detail in a case study of one site on the River Ebble.

Finally, the results obtained from field monitoring are compared to previous research. In the light of these comparisons and detailed examination of the field and flume data, a conceptual model of the effects of aquatic plant growth on channel roughness, mean flow depth, and flow stage is represented. Using this model, an estimate can be made of the likely effect of changing plant cover and discharge on flow stage in an open channel.


Letter from Ann Lupkowski to James Miller, on April 30, 1989, proposing that the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth at UNT provide services free of charge. She also asks that she be allowed to hire a student assistant when she comes to UNT.


The article deals with some problems of the Russian justice system development over the middle forty years of the XVIII century. It highlights that those were not only the years of stagnation in the development of the judiciary, but also the time of the latent specialization and stabilization of judicial system. It was during the period considered when increasing complexity of the system of judicial and administrative institutions was in progress hand by hand with the gradual assertion of the idea of the legality in management and judgment. There appears awareness of the need for knowledge of the law as an important employment condition in staff of any government institutions. At the first glance, the system of the supreme and central court underwent the minimum changes during the period considered, although fiskalat and prosecutors activities were relatively fruitful. Strange as it may seem, but even within bodies of political investigation the requirement to follow rules of assessment of legality of accusations and proofs including methods of their obtaining existed formally and sometimes was followed. The extraordinary procedure for political trials was in the end forbidden to use by the Manifesto February 21, 1762. Judicial activities remained an important component of boards competence, and secretaries and judges were to be fined, according to law, for unjust trial. However, in view of a lack of the trained personnel the caught and punished judges were not released from a position, and in case of returning to crime the penalty in the same size was again levied from them. The local judicial administrative system badly coped with its' tasks, therefore it was constantly reformed. All the guidance and supervision of the local courts were transferred to the governors. The exceptions were the church and the military courts. The question of the jurisdiction under the urban population transfer to magistrates was resolved rather accurately in the time of Peter. Then they ceased to submit to voivodes. Only throughout the short period (from 1727 to 1743) the Main Magistrate and magistrates in all cities were replaced with town halls with annually replaced bailiffs.


We have identified the fractal dimension of radar returns from the mesopause region at 2.75MHz. The input dataset was a time series of echo amplitude at a discrete height obtained from a partial reflection radar operating at Ramfjordmoen in northern Norway. Two different algorithms both of which yield approximations to the fractal dimension have been employed and give almost identical results. The radar echo dataset in question exhibits a dimension of between 7 and 8.


Introduction/Background The coincidental simultaneous development of a new in hospital one year general dental residency program and a medical simulation center at St. Joseph's Mercy Oakland Hospital in Pontiac, Michigan provided an opportunity to develop and implement fully integrated and objectively driven simulation based educational experiences to enhance and supplement the larger clinical curriculum of the residency program. Methods A needs assessment interview was conducted with the director of the dental residency. Two themes emerged as gaps in training or areas where the curriculum could be enhanced with simulation based education given the current equipment and capabilities of the developing simulation lab: 1) In Hospital Medical Skills (i.e., Intubation, and I.V. Starts); 2) Management and Identification of Medical Emergencies. Four initial simulation sessions (standardized patients, task training and high fidelity) were developed and planned for quarterly delivery. The initial sessions included training on: intubation and peripheral lines, as well as the management of some medical emergencies such as syncope, airway obstruction, chest pain and cardiac arrest. Immediately after the delivery of the first session, feedback from the residents made it clear that while they had enjoyed participating and found some value in the session, some of the content was beyond the residents scope of practice, lacked the fidelity of the dental clinical environment, was far above or below their skills and abilities, or was poorly timed in the academic year. The curriculum was re-evaluated and modified to more closely match the knowledge base, skills and needs of the dental residents. The timing of task training sessions were moved to coincide with relevant department rotations and scenario based simulations were created for the most common emergencies and then delivered in a simulated hospital setting, as well as a simulated dental office (clinical and administrative settings). Dental residents receive simulation based education on peripheral IV starts, basic airway management, vital sign assessment near the beginning of the academic year; intubation training prior to rotating through the anesthesia department. Throughout the course of the year residents participate in high fidelity simulation cases covering the most common dental office emergences.1 These cases include: 1) Foreign body airway obstruction; 2) Asthma attack; 3) Mild allergic reaction; 4) Angina; 5) Hypoglycemic; 6) Anaphylactic reaction; 7) Syncope or postural hypotension; 8) Cardiac arrest (BLS and supported ACLS); 9) Stroke; 10) Tachycardia; 11) Hyperventilation; 12) Sedation complications. Conclusion Since the redesign of the simulation based curriculum, residents have self-reported increased comfort and performance with the procedural skills and emergency recognition and management, pharmacology and pathophysiology covered in simulation cases. Additionally attending faculty members from the hospital's dental clinic have expressed interest in using the curriculum as an interdisciplinary training exercise for the staff in the hospital's dental clinic and their private practices. Research to evaluate knowledge acquisition and retention are currently under development and the next stage of evaluation for this curriculum. Reference 1. Malamed S: Knowing Your Patients. Journal Of The American Dental Association 2010; 141;3SS-7S. Disclosures Adams, Associate Director - DeVry Center of Excellence in Simulation.


Objective To evaluate the potential utility of temporal temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TTGE) in detecting homoplasmic and heteroplasmic mtDNA mutations in patients with cancers. Methods The entire mtDNA of tumor and corresponding normal tissues from total 117 patients were amplified by PCR, and the somatic mutations were screened by TTGE. DNA fragments showing different band patterns in normal and tumor tissues in TTGE were sequened to identify the exact mutations. Results 160 fragments harbouring mtDNA mutations were found by TTGE in total 3 654 fragments. Compared with the direct squencing results, the sensitivity and specificity of TTGE in mutation detection were 96.27% and 94.05% respectively. Conclusion TTGE is an effective method for screening acquired homoplasmic mitochondrial gene mutation and its different percentage.


We address a problem of identifying high centrality nodes in a large social network based on approximated centrality values derived from a small portion of nodes sampled uniformly at random from the whole set. To this end, we apply our resampling-based framework to estimate the approximation error, and detect gaps between nodes with a given confidence level. Here, a gap means a clear di ffer nce between two nodes in terms of a centrality measure, and gap detection means, given two nodes, determining which node has a greater centrality value than the other with a given confidence level. On two real world social networks, we empirically show that the proposed method can successfully detect more gaps only from several tens of percent of the node, compared to the one adopting a standard error estimation framework, and that the resulting gaps enable us to correctly identify a set of nodes having a high centrality value.


Epidemiology of bat Betacoronavirus, subgenus Sarbecovirus is largely unknown, especially outside China. We detected a sarbecovirus phylogenetically related to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 from Rhinolophus cornutus bats in Japan. The sarbecovirus' spike protein specifically recognizes angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 of R. cornutus, but not humans, as an entry receptor.


Evidence is presented to suggest that the bunchy top, die-back, abnormal inflorescence and blossom blight disease of Mangifera indica are interlinked and can be expressed as a disease cycle in mango malformation. The morphological and biochemical connections among these symptoms, induced by Fusarium moniliforme var. subglutinans Wollenw. and Reink., are appraised. Partial control of the mango malformation has been accomplished by spraying the diseased parts with mangiferin-Zn2+ and mangiferin-Cu2+ chelates. The salutory effect of niangiferin-metal chelates is evidenced by the revival of normal balance of mangiferin and the micronutrients in the diseased parts, dechne in the fungal population and emergence of healthy shoots.


This work discusses about a feasibility study conducted for various Radar waveforms over RF over Fiber links with measurement results. Also brings out experimental & theoretical results of signal delay arises in links due to fiber link length.


This investigation was carried out at the Tissue Culture Lab., Hort. Dept., Fac. Agric., Zagazig Univ., Egypt during the two successive seasons of 2014 and 2015 to produce transplants of two tomato hybrids through tissue culture technique. A protocol was developed for shoot multiplication and rooting in two tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) hybrids i.e., Silla 108 and Farrah. Shoot tips were cultured into Murashige and Skoog media (MS medium) with different concentrations of benzyl adenine (BA) and Kinetin (Kin) 1.5 mg BA/l, 1.5 mg BA/l + 1 mg Kinetin/l, 3 mg Kin/l and 4 mg Kin/l) compared with MS basal medium as a control treatment, the obtained results illustrated that supplementing BA at 1.5 mg/l gave the highest value of number of shoots/explant of Sila 108 hybrid followed by kinetin at 4 mg/l for Farrah hybrid in both seasons. Multiplicated shoots of two tomato hybrids were excised and cultured on MS medium supplemented with different rooting growth regulators including indole acetic acid (IAA) at 0.5 and 1 mg/l, Naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) at 1 mg/l and indole butyric acid (IBA) at 1mg/l compared to the control treatment (without growth regulators). From the foregoing results, it could be concluded that supplementing IAA at 1 mg/l and NAA at 1 mg/l to MS media were the best treatment for rooting stage of Farrah and Sila 108 tomato hybrids. The plantlets were transferred to plastic cups containing peatmoss + sand at 1:1, peatmoos + vermiculite at 1:1 (V/V) or peatmoss alone. It could be concluded that the agriculture media for acclimatization of plantlets of Farrah and Sila 108 tomato hybrids produced from tissue culture technique were peatmoss and peatmoss+ vermiculite at 1:1 (V/V).


The radio-frequency identification (RFID) concept is expanded to millimeter-wave frequencies and millimeter-wave identification (MMID) in this paper. The MMID concept and a comparison with UHF RFID are presented, showing the limitations and benefits of MMID. Three feasible applications are suggested for MMID, which are: (1) wireless mass memory; (2) an automatic identification system with pointing functionality; and (3) transponder communication with automotive radar. To demonstrate the feasibility of the MMID system, experimental results for both downlink and backscattering-based uplink are presented at 60 GHz.


Background—The correlation of null alleles with human phenotypes can provide insight into gene function in humans. In individuals of African ancestry, we set out to identify null and damaging missense variants, and test these variants for association with a range of cardiovascular phenotypes. Methods and Results—We performed whole-exome sequencing in 3223 black individuals from the Jackson Heart Study and found a total of 729 666 variant sites with minor allele frequency <5%, including 17 263 null variants and 49 929 missense variants predicted to be damaging by in silico algorithms. We tested null and damaging missense variants within each gene for association with 36 cardiovascular traits. We found 3 associations that met our prespecified level of significance (&agr;=1.1×10−7). Null and damaging missense variants in PCSK9 were associated with 36 mg/dL lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (P=3×10−21). Three individuals in their 50s with complete PCSK9 deficiency (each compound heterozygote for PCSK9 p.Y142X and p.C679X) were identified, with one having a coronary artery calcification score in the 83rd percentile despite a low-density lipoprotein cholesterol of 32 mg/dL. A damaging missense variant in HBQ1 (p.G52A) was associated with a 2 pg/cell lower mean corpuscular hemoglobin (P=9×10−13) and rare damaging missense variants in VPS13A with higher red blood cell distribution width (P=9.9×10–8). Conclusions—A limited number of null/damaging alleles with a large effect on cardiovascular traits were detectable in ≈3000 black individuals.


Papuloerythroderma of Ofuji (PEO) is a rare and underrecognized skin disease, which was first described by Ofuji in 1984 with four detailed cases. The disease mostly affects elderly men, and is characterized by intensely pruritic papules that later progress to plaques and may evolve into erythroderma. Diagnosis is based on the typical presentation of erythroderma featuring flat-topped papules that spare the cutaneous folds and mucous membranes, known as the 'deck-chair sign'. Other minor characteristics of the disease are: age > 55 years, raised serum IgE, peripheral lymphopenia and peripheral eosinophilia. It is necessary to exclude cutaneous T-cell lymphoma before a diagnosis can be made. In 2010, based on a meta-analysis involving 170 cases, Torchia et al. divided forms of the disease into four categories: (i) primary, (ii) secondary, (ii) papuloerythroderma imitating lymphoma and (vi) other diseases with similar symptoms to papuloerythroderma. Previous studies have shown that PEO can result in patients with pre-existing neoplasm such as lymphomas, hepatocellular carcinoma and gastrointestinal malignancy. Pathogenic infection, or medical agents such as ranitidine, aspirin and furosemide, have been reported to precede the development of PEO. The pathogenesis of PEO is unclear; however, the presence of increased numbers of dermal Langerhans cells and presence of vascular occlusion have been proposed as possible mechanisms. Treatment options include topical corticosteroids and oral antihistamines. Psoralen and ultraviolet A has also been demonstrated to be efficacious. A 90-year-old white man presented with a 2-year history of an evolving pruritic eruption with no associated weight loss, fever or night sweats. Physical examination revealed coalescing, flat-topped, red–brown papules (Fig. 1a). The patient soon became suberythrodermic. The eruption continued to evolve with marked hyperpigmentation and thickened plaques over the trunk and limbs, with sparing noted around the skin folds with the deck-chair sign (Fig. 1b). Laboratory investigations found a raised eosinophil count (2.1 9 10/L; normal range 0–0.5 9 10/L) but an otherwise normal full blood count. Immunoglobulin levels were normal, except for IgE, which was raised (208 kU/L; 0–41 kU/L). Serum electrophoresis was normal and serology for human T-cell lymphotropic virus 1/2. Computed tomography of the chest, abdomen and pelvis revealed visible bilateral axillary and inguinal lymph nodes. Histological examination of skin biopsies showed mild hyperkeratosis and mild psoriasiform epidermal hyperplasia. There was a moderately dense upper dermal lymphohistiocytic infiltrate with prominent numbers of eosinophils. There were no features to suggest mycosis fungoides and T-cell receptor gene rearrangement was not detected. Lymph node biopsy showed dermatopathic lymphadenitis. A diagnosis of PEO was made. The patient was initiated on a course of prednisolone and topical steroids with limited effect. He was subsequently initiated on methotrexate (MTX) once weekly reaching up to 17.5 mg. Within 4 months, there was an improvement in the pruritus with complete resolution of the eruption by 1 year (Fig. 2). MTX was tapered off, but itching recurred at doses below 2.5 mg/week. The patient has continued taking MTX 2.5 mg/week without any adverse effects. There is one other case reported in the literature of the use of MTX to treat PEO. Allegue et al. reported a patient in 2018 with PEO; MTX 15 mg/week was administered, and the rash, eosinophilia and pruritus rapidly cleared after 2 months of treatment. The hypothesized mechanism of action of MTX is through suppression of activated T cells or induction Correspondence: Dr Aaron Hughes, Department of Dermatology, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Galsworthy Road, London, KT2 7QB, UK E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


We show that the rigid C*-tensor categories of finite dimensional type 1 unitary representations of the quantum groups $U_{q}(\mathfrak{g}_{2})$ corresponding to the exceptional Lie group $G_2$ for positive $q\ne 1$ have property (T).


The roof garden is a complex form of roofs landscape. Advanced green roof design played a huge ecological and economic benefits gradually being recognized for the significance of green roofs and classification, this paper study the roof garden design principles and key technologies for preliminary summary and discussion, proposed green roof functioning and performance arts beautiful landscape design methods.


Abstract To identify students' motivation, gaps, and opportunities to design effective teaching strategies, it is necessary to examine nursing students' understanding of their self-efficacy to care for persons 60+ years. A mixed-method approach was employed. In phase 1, 170 second-and third-year nursing students from two public Nursing Colleges in Ghana were recruited. A cross-sectional survey included the General Self-efficacy to Care for Older Adults' scale (GSE-COA), the Kogan's Attitudes towards Old Peoples scale, and the Knowledge about Older Patients Quiz. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics in SPSS IBM 26. The results of phase 1, informed the selection of students for phase 2. In phase 2, 17 students were purposefully selected for in-depth semi-interviews. Qualitative data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Both results were then integrated, interpreted, and presented jointly. Students' mean age was 21yrs (SD=3.73), with 91 (54%) females. Most students 140 (71.0%) had lived with/were currently living with an older adult. The majority 164 (97%), had higher scores for GSE-COA (mean= 107, SD=14.29), indicating high self-efficacy. Qualitative results showed that students' high self-efficacy was due to their familiarity with older adults at home and their perceived competence in routine nursing care. Students who demonstrated a high sense of self-efficacy were confident and perceived caring for older adults as a duty and responsibility, had experience/exposure to and were comfortable working with older adults. The findings demonstrate an opportunity to design effective teaching strategies to develop and sustain students' interest and motivation in the care for older adults in Ghana.


The present invention provides a guard ring structure of the test structure while preventing a short circuit package, comprising: one or more metal pads around the stacked structure disposed ring; wherein said ring comprises a sequentially stacked structure from the underlying metal layer, the through-hole to the bottom of the uppermost layer laminated metal layers are alternately laminated plurality of metal layers and a plurality of through-holes arranged in the uppermost layer via layer; and wherein the uppermost metal layer of said laminate ring and the uppermost layer via layer is formed with one or more openings, and said one or more openings corresponding to the one or more metal pads.


Recently reported logic style comparisons based on full-adder circuits showed complementary pass-transistor logic (CPL) to be much more power efficient than conventional CMOS. New comparisons performed on more efficient CMOS circuit implementations and a wider range of different logic cells and by using realistic circuit arrangements demonstrate CMOS to be superior to CPL in most cases with respect to speed, power dissipation, and power-delay (PT) products.


Several strains of Bacteroides have been screened for plasmids. Two plasmids were purified by ultracentrifugation, labelled with /sup 32/P, and used as hybridization probes against plasmids of 18 strains of Bacteroides. A restriction enzyme analysis of pB8-51 was prepared. The use of DNA hybridization to enable quick identification of Bacteriodes species was also investigated. 8 refs., 2 figs., 2 tabs.


The morphological characteristics of roots of cold-resistant cultivars, 'Sayamakaori' and 'Komakage', were investigated in the 2nd year after planting (December, 1988). 'Yabukita' and 'Okumidori' were used as the standard and the reference cultivars, respectively.The results are summarized as follows.1)'Sayamakaori' was significantly superior in the weight of lignified roots in 0-20 cm depth to the other 3 cultivars.2)'Komakage' was significantly superior in slender-root weight in 60-70 cm depth to the other 3 cultivars. In general, roots of 'Komakage' were long, and the longest root was about 1 m long.3)The root characteristics of the 2 cultivars mentioned above seem to be favorable to cold-resistance.


4C/ID is the method that improves complex cognitive skills.How to go on teaching reform on "Algorithms Design and Analysis" course by 4C/ID is described in this paper.In fact,the method enhances students' capability of algorithms design and analysis effectively and increases the pass ratios.


Cohesive effects between fine-grained sediment particles greatly influence their effective settling rate and erodibility. Many studies have observed a qualitative difference in settling dynamics between clays in freshwater, where particles remain dispersed, and in saltwater, where aggregates form and settle rapidly. The critical coagulation concentration (CCC) of salt that separates the two regimes however remains under-investigated, even though knowledge of the CCC is crucial to understanding aggregation in settings such as estuaries, where large salt concentration gradients occur. Furthermore, no simple criterion exists to predict the CCC for clay suspensions. In this study, systematic experiments are performed to determine the CCC, by measuring transmitted light intensity through clay suspensions. To investigate the effect of ion valence, sodium chloride (NaCl) and calcium chloride (CaCl 2 ) are used. For kaolin clay, the results show a CCC of 0.6 mM NaCl ( ≈ 0 . 04 ppt NaCl = 0.04 PSU), and of 0.04 mM CaCl 2 ( ≈ 0 . 004 ppt CaCl 2 ). Because these salinities are lower than those commonly observed in na-ture, these findings indicate that kaolin clay should flocculate in nearly all natural aquatic environments. Furthermore, due to the fact that tap water often has salinities higher than this threshold, these results imply that great care is needed in experiments, especially in large facilities where using distilled water is not feasible. In addition, a simple criterion to estimate the CCC for a kaolin clay suspension is derived. This criterion predicts that flocculation occurs at extremely low salt concentrations and is approximately independent of clay concentration, in agreement with the experimental observations and consistent with experimental evidence from the literature.


In this paper, we present proofs of the coerciveness of first-order system least-squares methods for general (possibly indefinite) second-order linear elliptic PDEs under a minimal uniqueness assumption. For general linear second-order elliptic PDEs, the uniqueness, existence, and well-posedness are equivalent due to the compactness of the operator and Fredholm alternative. Thus only a minimal uniqueness assumption is assumed: the homogeneous equation has a unique zero solution. The coerciveness of the standard variational problem is not required. The paper's main contribution is our first proof, which is a straightforward and short proof using the inf-sup stability of the standard variational formulation. The proof can potentially be applied to other equations or settings once having the standard formulation's stability. We also present two other proofs for the least-squares methods of general second-order linear elliptic PDEs. The second proof is based on a lemma introduced in the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method, and the third proof is based on various stability analyses of the decomposed problems. As an application, we also discuss least-squares finite element methods for problems with a nonsingular $H^{-1}$ right-hand side.


The arteriovenous glucose tolerance was studied simultaneously in 8 obese and 10 nonobese children between the ages of 4 and 14 years. It was observed that the mean peak of the glycemia was slightly higher in the nonobese group. The concentration of sugar in the blood returned to fasting levels in 3 hours in 80% of the nonobese group. In only 25% of the obese group did the concentrations of sugar return to fasting levels in 3 hours. The difference between the concentrations of sugar in venous blood during fasting and 3 hours after ingestion of glucose was more conspicuous and statistically significant in the obese. The criteria for the interpretation of a normal glucose test for this age group are suggested.


A number of clinical trials have compared tenecteplase (TNK) and alteplase for the management of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and the results are inconsistent. Present systematic review and meta-analysis is undertaken to analyse the efficacy and safety of TNK in AIS compared to alteplase. A thorough literature search was performed through the databases Embase, Cochrane Library, PubMed, and clinicaltrials.gov, for a period from inception to September 2022, with the keywords i.e., "tenecteplase" and "alteplase" and "acute ischemic stroke." Clinical trials published in English that compared the efficacy and safety of TNK to alteplase in AIS were included. The major outcomes of this meta-analysis were proportion of patients free from disability and functional independence at 90 days, early neurological improvement at 24 hours, all-cause mortality at 90 days, patients with intra cranial hemorrhage (ICH), and patients with severe disability at 90 days. A total of nine studies with 3,573 patients were included in the analysis. The proportion of patients with freedom from disability was comparable in both groups (relative risk [RR] = 1.04, 95 per cent CI = 0.92–1.17; p = .53). Similarly, proportion of patients with functional independence was comparable (RR = 1.12, 95 per cent CI = 0.96–1.31; p = .14). TNK group had a higher rate of early neurological recovery (RR = 1.56, 95 per cent CI = 0.96–2.54; p = .07). All-cause mortality at 90 days was comparable in both groups (RR = 0.97; 95 per cent CI = 0.72–1.29; p = .82). The proportion of patients with ICH was higher in TNK group (RR = 1.14, 95 per cent CI = 0.77–1.68; p = .52). The proportion of patients with severe disability was less in TNK group (RR =0.84, 95 per cent CI = 0.53–1.32; p = .44). TNK was similar to alteplase in terms of efficacy and safety. The patients in TNK group showed early neurological improvement but were simultaneously at higher risk of ICH. The TNK can be an alternative to alteplase if the benefits outweigh the risks.


Verbal reduplication has long been known to induce non-truth-conditional effects on how people conceptualize an event (e.g. [1]). Verbal reduplication is frequent in Mandarin Chinese (Ex. 1), and has either been analyzed as a (morpho)syntactic operation inducing a diminishing, 'fast' meaning [2], or as affecting iterativity [3]. However, there is little consensus in the literature whether this semantic effect is dependent on verb class, event type, and/or number of syllables. Further, Mandarin is traditionally thought to be morphologically poor, but reduplication patterns are morphologically complex and can provide insights on the morphology-semantics interface. Using monosyllabic verbs, we test predictions and deliver first empirical data from the theoretical literature about how reduplication affects the way Mandarin speakers conceptualize events in terms of event duration, object number, and iterativity.


Structural estimation of labor adjustment costs suffers from a myriad of specification errors, largely due to data constraints. The literature usually assumes that adjustment decisions are made at the firm level, that adjustment happens at the frequency at which a firm is observed (typically annually or quarterly), and that adjustment costs are incurred on net changes in employment. This paper builds and estimates a dynamic optimization model of labor adjustment of establishments using data that permit 1) specifying any desired adjustment frequency (including daily adjustment), 2) using the micro unit of an establishment, 3) estimating the model based on net and on gross employment flows and 4) allowing for simultaneous hirings and separations. Results for adjustment costs depend crucially on the model specification. Only a monthly adjustment model yields positive cost parameters, while estimates from quarterly and annual adjustment models imply negative adjustment costs (that is adjustment implies a gain rather than a loss). Estimating the model on net employment changes imply hiring and separation costs of more than four annual median salaries, while the model on gross changes implies costs on the order of two annual median salaries. Adjustment costs differ significantly between small and large establishments. However, a static specification of the model performs equally well as the dynamic model with respect to out-of-sample predictions.


Through direct clipping and weighing many sample,the elements of aluminum,iron,calcium are analysed by the common practice methods.Meanwhile,determination conditions are selected in the test and the results of accuracy are guaranteed.


The main objective of educational institutions these days is to refine their student's performance in the overall grind. One way to achieve the zenith for these is to identify factors including curricular and extracurricular activities of students. The basic aim of the proposed work is to predict a learner's performance based on certain parameters such as the number of absences, family background, eating and sleeping habits, etc. This kind of performance prediction can be used by facilitators or faculties to help learners improve their academic conduct. In this paper, the Classification and Regression Tress(CART) algorithm is used for the construction of the initial population of decision trees. The dataset is pursued in two ways for construction of decision tree: 1) It is divided into five different sub-datasets depending on the similarities of attributes and 2) Original one single dataset is considered. To make an optimal prediction, a metaheuristic optimization algorithm that is, a genetic algorithm has been used. According to genetic algorithms, the best chromosome(solution) to the problem survives amongst all possible chromosomes(solutions). However, its performance might get deeply affected by the choice of the genetic operators used in various steps of the genetic algorithm. There are four different classes namely Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4 based on the different attribute values of the instances. The proposed approach yields 91% accuracy for the final prediction of classes, which is quite encouraging as compared to the other existing works in the same domain.


Law enforcement against perpetrators of forest fires in East Kotawaringin District needs to involve the Dayak Tribal Customary Council. This research is empirical legal research, with data obtained through literature studies and interviews with informants and respondents. The results of his research were that there were forest and land fires in the East Kotawaringin district due to the clearing of agricultural land and arson, human negligence due to careless disposal of cigarettes, the presence of flammable/dry fuel, and sparks originating from other people. area and natural factors. Like a hot dry season, causing friction of dry/flammable objects. In conclusion, customary councils have an important role in law enforcement against perpetrators of forest and land burning, especially for those who burn forests and land. The perpetrators will be subject to sanctions in the form of a reprimand from the adat council and compensation money for the losses suffered.


Pure and Zn 1-x Co x O nanoparticles have been synthesized by a simple sol-gel method at low temperature where neither a chelating agent nor subsequent annealing was required. The effect of Cobalt atomic fraction, 'x' ≤ 0.0625, on the structural and magnetic properties of the doped ZnO powders was evaluated. X-ray diffraction and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy analyses evidenced the exclusive formation of the ZnO-wurtzite structure; no isolated Co-phases were detected. The linear dependence of cell parameters a and c with 'x', suggested the actual replacement of Zn by Co ions in the oxide lattice. Micro Raman spectroscopy measurements showed a band centered at 534cm -1 , which can be assigned to a local vibrational mode related to Co species, in addition to the normal modes associated with wurtzite. The intensity and broadening of this band at 534 cm -1 were enhanced by increasing 'x'. In turn, the other bands corresponding to A 1 (E 2 , E 1 ) and E 2 High modes were red shifted at higher Co contents. Room-temperature magnetization measurements revealed the paramagnetic behavior of the Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles.


Objective To investigate the minocycline influences on expression of VEGF,IL-1β and TNF-α for in vascular dementia brain and serum level of VEGF,IL-1β and TNF-α in vascular dementia rats,to study neuroprotection mechanism of minocycline for vascular dementia.Methods Wistar rats were randomly divided into: normal group(N),sham group(S),vascular dementia model group(M) and minocycline treatment group(MT).Serum level,expression of VEGF,IL-1β and TNF-α were measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay.Results The serum level,expression of IL-1β and TNF-α in MT groups were lower than that of in M(P0.05),the serum level and expression of VEGF in MT groups were higher than that of in M(P0.05);the serum level and expression of VEGF,IL-1β and TNF-α in MT and M groups were higher than that of in N,S(P0.01).Conclusion Minocycline can restrain the expression of IL-1β,TNF-α and increase the expression of VEGF in vascular dementia.minocycline can enhance recovery of cerebral vascular to protect neural function by restraining neuroinflammation.


The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of pre-task planning on L2 fluency performance by measuring the temporal variables. Performing a picture description task, two groups of thirty-seven students were given 10 minutes of planning time and no planning time before the performance, respectively. The temporal fluency variables are extracted by means of the PRAAT speech analysis program in order to be automatically measured for evaluation purposes. Fluency is operationalized as speed fluency (i.e. speech rate and articulation rate) and breakdown fluency (i.e. average pause duration and number of pauses). The results indicate that no significant difference is found when comparing the non-planning and planning condition for each temporal variable. Presumably, the chosen task type containing highly frequent lexemes does not seem to impose increased conscious attention on the part of the more proficient speakers, and thus the formulation and articulation can, to a high degree, run in parallel. Based on the observed results, a modified task design is proposed, i.e. guided pre-task planning directed to attend to less frequent formulae as vocabulary or lexical items for everyday contexts, having a clear potential as a pedagogic device, aiming at activating relatively underused vocabulary and promoting ultimate fluency in the temporal sense.


Approximately 2100 metric tonnes of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) are presently stored underwater in two fuel storage basins. These basins are located in the 100 Area at the Hanford Site, located near Richland, Washington. The SNF cladding has been breached in a large percentage of the fuel and the uranium metal is reacting with the basin water. The basin water, particularly in the 100 K East Area, has significant quantities of nuclear isotopes and radioactive fuel corrosion particles that have escaped from the fuel elements. To permit cleanup of the 100 K Basins and condition the SNF for storage, the SNF will be transported from the 100 K Area to a new facility in the 200 East Area. A SNF Path Forward Project has been established to develop engineered methods to expedite the removal process.


The purpose of this study was to determine the serum insulin levels and lipid profiles in experimentally induced diabetes in Wistar rats. Twenty rats were randomly separated into two groups of ten rats each. Group I served as normal control and group II served as diabetic. Experimental diabetes mellitus was induced in groups II rats with single intraperitoneal administration of streptozotocin (STZ) (45mg/kg) dissolved in 0.1M cold citrate buffer (pH 4.5.) The Group I was given citrate buffer alone. The induction of diabetes was confirmed by estimating the blood glucose levels after 72 hours of STZ injection and animals showing the blood glucose level above 300 mg/dL were considered as diabetic. th th th The blood was collected at 15 , 30 and 45 days post STZ injection of the present study. The result revealed a significant (P < 0.001) increase in the serum level of total cholesterol, triglyceride and blood glucose level of diabetic rats when compared with the normal control rats while a significant (P < 0.001) decrease in the serum insulin level(RIA) and body weight was obtained. The present study showed that induction of diabetes using STZ resulted in decreased serum insulin levels, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia in rats. INTRODUCTION Diabetes mellitus (DM) describes a metabolic disorder of multiple etiologies characterized by chronic hyperglycemia with disturbances of carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both (WHO). Statistical projection about India suggests that the number of diabetics will rise from 15 million in 1995 to 79.4 million by 2025, making it the country with the highest number of diabetics in the world (King et al., 1998). Experimental induction of diabetes mellitus in animal models is essential for the advancement o f our knowledge and understanding of the various aspects of its pathogenesis and ultimately finding new therapies and cure. Streptozotocin (STZ) has been extensively used to induce diabetes for various diabetes studies in laboratory animals (Calabresi and Chabner, 1985). Diabetes is generally accompanied with lipid metabolism abnormality known as diabetic dyslipidaemia which increase the risk for coronary heart disease. The aim of this work is to study the progression of STZ induced diabetes on the serum insulin levels and lipid profiles of adult male Albino Wistar rats. RESEARCH ARTICLE J. Ind. Vet. Assoc., Kerala. 10 (2) < < 22 MATERIALS AND METHODS Animals Male Albino Wistar rats weighing 180260g were obtained from Central Animal Facility, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Rats were maintained under standard laboratory conditions. They were fed with commercially available rat feed (Amruth Feeds, Bangalore) and water ad libitum throughout the study. The animals were randomly allocated into two groups, group I as normal control, while group II as diabetic group. The use of animals was approved by the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee of Veterinary College, Bangalore. The experiment was conducted for a period of 45 days. Diabetes Induction Diabetes was induced in group II by intraperitoneal administration of STZ (Sigma Chemicals, USA) at a dose rate of 45 mg/kg of body weight dissolved in citrate buffer (pH 4.5). Control rats were injected with citrate buffer alone. Three days after streptozotocin administration, the glucose levels were determined to confirm diabetes. Rats exhibiting fasting blood glucose levels >300mg/dL were considered for the study. Biochemical analysis The animals were overnight fasted before their blood glucose level was measured. Blood was collected from retro-orbital plexus of the rats under light ether anaesthesia at different time rd th th th intervals from 3 , 15 , 30 to 45 days of experiment. The blood glucose levels and serum lipid levels were measured using commercially available biochemical kits (Span Diagnostics, Bangalore) according to standard procedures (Tietz, 1976). The estimation of serum insulin levels was done by radio-immunoassay (RIA) using iodine labelled insulin assay kit (BARC, Mumbai). Statistical Analysis Statistical analysis was performed using Graph Pad Prism for Windows Version 5.0, 2009. All values are presented as Mean ± Standard Error (SE). The data were analysed using paired sample student t test (p < 0.001; two tailed). RESULTS AND DISCUSSION A significant (p < 0.001) decrease in the body weight was observed in the diabetic group when compared to the control (Table 1). The blood glucose level was significantly increased (p < 0.001) in diabetic group (Table 1). The mean (± SE) values of serum cholesterol and triglycerides rd were found to be progressively increasing from 3 day (P<0.001) to the final day of the experimental study (Table 1). Throughout the experiment, there was a significant reduction (p < 0.001) in the serum insulin level of diabetic group (Table 2). Streptozotocin is a naturally occurring product produced by Streptomyces achromogenes which has been extensively used to induce diabetes for various diabetes studies in laboratory animals. Streptozotocin was observed to cause a massive reduction of the âcells of the islets of Langerhans and induce hyperglycaemia as reported by a number of workers (Babu and Prince, 2004). STZ has been reported to be capable of generating reactive oxygen species resulting in oxidative stress and cell death (Szkudelski, 2001). Vol. 10 Issue 2 August 2012 < < JIVA 23 Table 1: Effects of STZ on the body weight (g), blood glucose (mg/dL), serum cholesterol (mg/dL) and serum triglyceride (mg/dL) Days Parameter Group I Group II a b Body weight (g) 213.16±8.02 241.83±3.34 a b 3rd day Blood glucose(mg/dL) 106.00± 5.18 428.50±6.74 a b Cholesterol(mg/dL) 43.03±1.82 74.98±4.25 a b Triglyceride(mg/dL) 98.85 ± 2.18 211.10±3.41 th a a 15 day Body weight (g) 228.16±6.63 212.66±2.30 a b Blood glucose(mg/dL) 103.83± 3.60 474.66±5.57 a b Cholesterol(mg/dL) 42.71±1.86 91.90±5.53 a b Triglyceride(mg/dL) 98.51±1.20 248.95±3.16 th a b 30 day Body weight(g) 250.33±4.47 189.66±3.16 a b Blood glucose(mg/dL) 106.83±4.24 513.66±7.09 a b Cholesterol(mg/dL) 42.16±1.93 105.60±5.24 a b Triglyceride(mg/dL) 100.86±1.22 285.35±2.46 th a b 45 day Body weight(g) 281.83± 3.38 169.00±2.93 a b Blood glucose(mg/dL) 107.13±3.21 557.83±5.71 a b Cholesterol(mg/dL) 41.48±1.78 119.28±4.19 a b Triglyceride(mg/dL) 99.48±1.29 328.22±4.35 Values are given as Mean (± SE) for ten rats in each group. For each parameter, means bearing the same superscript do not differ significantly at P <0.001. Table 2: Effects of STZ on the serum insulin (μU/mL) level Days Parameter Group I Group II th a b 15 day Serum insulin(μU/mL) 56.86±1.73 16.03±0.39 th a b 30 day Serum insulin(μU/mL) 56.51±1.80 12.29±0.33 th a b 45 day Serum insulin(μU/mL) 56.75±1.78 11.22±0.44 Values are given as Mean (± SE) for ten rats in each group. For each parameter, means bearing the same superscript do not differ significantly at P <0.001. In the present study, diabetes was induced in rats by administration of STZ which was characterized by polyuria, polydipsia, weight loss and decreased physical activities. The present findings appear to be in consonance with the findings of many earlier workers (Shenoy and Ramesh, 2002). The elevation in the serum glucose level and decline in serum insulin level of diabetic control animals may be attributed to the specific destruction of âcells by STZ which produces the hormone insulin for normal glucose homeostasis J. Ind. Vet. Assoc., Kerala. 10 (2) < < 24 (Kumar et al., 1999). Insulin enables the cells to absorb glucose from the blood and also helps in the utilization of the glucose in the cells by glycolysis, tricarboxylic acid cycle, hexose monophosphate shunt, and glycogenesis. In STZ induced diabetes, â cells fail to produce insulin which causes excess glucose accumulation in the blood instead of being utilized or stored. The decline in the mean insulin values observed in the present study has also been reported by many earlier workers (Punitha et al., 2005 and Wadood et al., 2007). Hyperlipidemia is a recognized complication of DM characterized by elevated levels of cholesterol, triglycerides and phospholipids and changes in lipoprotein composition. One of the major pathogenesis of lipid metabolism disturbances in diabetes is the increased mobilization of free fatty acids from adipose tissue and secondary elevation of free fatty acid level in the blood due to insulin deficiency or insulin resistance. The excessive lipolysis in diabetic adipose tissue may lead to increased free fatty acids in circulation which enter the liver and are esterified to form triglycerides. The fatty acid compositions of various tissues are altered in both experimental and human diabetes (Tilvis and Miettinen, 1985). The finding in the present study is in correlation with the findings of Pepato et al. (2005) and Sharma et al. (2008). In conclusion, the present study demonstrated that administration of STZ had both potential hyperglycemic and hyperlipidemic activity in male Wistar rats. REFERENCES Babu, P.S . and Pr ince , P.S .M. 2004. 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Objective To describe the trends of perinatal mortality in Suzhou City, in 1985-2000,and to explore new measures to further reduce perinatal death . Methods Perinatal mortality data of 16 years were reviewed. Results Perinatal mortality was declining steadily , from 14. 17 per thousand in 1985 to 6. 64 per thousand in 2000. Major causes of death were umbilical cord related factors, birth defects, maternal factors, asphyxia, and prematurity. Conclusion To further reduce perinatal mortality, more efforts should focus on the major risk factors.


This work presents a procedure to generate two-diversity correlated time-variant channels impulse response, which guarantees a given crosscorrelation value between the envelope of the received signals. This procedure relates the envelope crosscorrelation coefficient of the diversity branches and the crosscorrelation coefficients for the different multipath contributions that form the time-variant channel impulse response. This procedure can aid researchers in simulating correlated time-variant channels impulse response, which can be used to study the effect of the diversity envelope crosscorrelation on the performance of diversity systems which consider combining schemes at post-detection. Simulation results confirm the accuracy of the procedure.


The report clarifies the terminology relevant for understanding 'reference levels' for the various domains of sustainable development. Terminology on reference levels is very much linked to the environmental domain and much less so to the social and economic domains. Also, absolute and relative levels of 'reference levels' are explored. Relative performance or benchmark has gained interest in the scientific literature. Trade-offs may exist and choices may have to be made in practical cases


THE difficulty of dating the periods of exploitation applies to most of the gold sites throughout the Eastern Desert. It is complicated by the fact that as one moves southward from the Philoteras road hieroglyphic inscriptions of dynastic date become increasingly frequent, often mingled with graffiti and proscynemata of the GraecoRoman period. The main features at ancient gold-mining1 sites are briefly as follows: (a) ancient workings (both open-cast on auriferous dykes and underground to considerable depths vouched for by modern engineers and, possibly, some alluvial workings for placer gold); (b) abundant reciprocatory rubbing-stones everywhere (each pair consisting of a two-lugged upper stone, slightly convex with roughly parallel striations, rubbed against a rectangular, concave nether stone similarly striated); (c) upper and lower rotating hand-mills, like those of fellal;iin today ( com~on in N. Sudan gold areas, but specimens reported so far, in Egypt, only at Gi9ami, 'Eridiyah, Danl,cash, Wadi Merkh and Barramiyah); (d) rubbing stones, usually the two-lugged upper stones, built into walls at Abu Zawal and Semnah (both Roman stations) as well as at 'Eridiyah, Danl,cash, Barramiyah, and probably elsewhere; (e) the later use of rubbing stones as anvils or pounding stones (their old striations partly worn away and pock-marked with small pits); (f) inclined gold-washing tables (a primitive version of those still used in Cornish tin mines), common in the Sudan but so far reported in Egypt only at Danl,cash and Barramiyah; (g) banks of gold-crushing tailings at Abu Zawal (where, as noted above, the Roman station is built partly on them), 'Eridiyah (unconfirmed), Fawakhir (see below), and Barramiyah; (h) the two embankments at Semnah and traces of another at Haimur suggest but are almost certainly not alluvial workings for detrital gold, of which traces have been found elsewhere (in Wadi Allaki near the Sudan border); (i) underground water level (apparently, in places visibly, higher in ancient times than today).


Content: Research and Testing. Structural Parameters. Operational Parameters. Contact Parameters. Friction Parameters. Wear Parameters. Material Parameters and Selection. Appendix: Principles of General System Theory.


Background: Various studies in vitro suggest that low electric and magnetic fields may modify cancer cell growth and recent studies in vivo have revealed anti-tumoral effects. After screening different tumor cell lines, we identified specific sequences of localized magnetic and electric fields (MESQ) that reduce cancer cell survival in vitro. This finding led us to design an experiment to determine the actual efficacy of above sequences in selectively destabilizing tumor cells and their effect on healthy cells. Materials and Methods: We exposed the MCF7 cancer cell line and normal fibroblasts to MESQ for 1, 2, 3 and 6 hours, evaluating cell survival and induction of apoptosis. Results: Exposure to MESQ reduced MCF7 survival, inducing apoptosis in a timedependent way, whereas fibroblasts were completely unaffected. Conclusion: These results have promising implications for the treatment of cancer and warrant further research.


The Produced Water (PW) is the largest produced fluid stream at most of the current offshore oil & gas production in North-sea. It is not uncommon that the water cut can reach 90% in many matured production fields. No matter whether the produced water will be eventually discharged to the ocean or reused for injection purpose in the field, the water quality needs to be strictly limited either due to the hazardous environmental impact or EOR sweeping effectiveness. For example, the current OSPAR limitation on the concentration of dispersed hydrocarbon in the discharged PW is 30 mg/l. This poster sum up the latest activities and main achievements committed at AAU-ET OG research group, and some challenges and potentials in water treatment technologies are also pointed out. AAU Offshore OG Testing-Rig Facility Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre Technology Conference 2019 Grey-Box Modeling of a Deoiling Hydrocyclone Mads Valentin Bram, PhD student, firstname.lastname@example.com Zhenyu Yang, Associate Prof (supervisor), email@example.com Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg Campus, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700 Esbjerg, Denmark, This research belongs to CTR1: Operations and Maintenance Technology Abstract Deoiling hydrocyclones are used offshore to reduce the amount of oil in produced water that is discharged to the surrounding marine environment. Stricter regulations and environmental concerns incentify optimization of the hydrocyclones' deoiling performance. These requirements enforce the pursuit of better models and better controllers. This paper presents suggestions and benchmarking of a modified hydrocyclone grey-box model. The proposed model modifications relax flow conditions, such that the model errors are reduced when the system deviates from normal operation. With the aim of a more realistic model, the cylindrical underflow apex was included in the oil droplet trajectory space. An estimation of the flow that recirculates inside in the hydrocyclone was introduced as this phenomenon has observed in multiple CFD models and research studies. The reduced computational load enabled the proposed model to be executed below 10ms, thus enabling the model to be used for model-based control. The original and the modified model are experimentally validated using a pilot plant. The modified model performs better during all tests and provides a reasonable prediction of deoiling separation efficiency compared with the separation efficiency obtained through real-time oil-in-water measurements. Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre Technology Conference 2019 The Influence of Parameter Variation on a Fluorescence-Based Monitor for RealTime Measurements of Oil-in-Water Concentration Dennis Severin Hansen – PhD student, firstname.lastname@example.com Zhenyu Yang, Associate Prof (supervisor), email@example.com Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg Campus, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700 Esbjerg, Denmark, This research belongs to CTR1: – Operations and Maintenance Technology


The problem of detecting corresponding points is studied in the case in which local deformations exist and a new method named "wavelet correlation" is proposed. There is a difficulty in that a reasonable window width cannot be designed in local correlation, which is one of the methods for a corresponding problem. the wavelet correlation is derived by extending the notion of local correlation and is considered to overcome difficulty. the fundamental concept is derived by the belief that a signal can be decomposed to several (sinusoidal) components and the window width can be varied according to each component. It is claimed that any algorithm using local correlation can be replaced by the one using wavelet correlation. In this paper, the wavelet correlation derived from local correlation is compared with the Laplacian distance and the local correlation itself by experiments. Further, a matching method that uses a narrow-band property of a wavelet correlation function is proposed and the matching error is evaluated through experiments using one-dimensional signals. Finally, an absolute mesure of matching by using normalized wavelet correlation is introduced and applied for detecting discontinuities of local deformations.


A Lagrangian formulation of the Zachariasen model (Phys. Rev., 121: 1851(1961)) is discussed. It contains a field having a continuous mass distribution describing pairs of particles. The significance of this model within the framework of axiomatic field theory is pointed out. (auth)


Using the fractal theory and imaging technology,the different cultivars and viewpoints were indicated,first proposed the new conception of the Contribution Rate of Leaves(CRL),which was used as a parameter for leaves spatial distribution within the tree architecture.The results showed that,by comparing the fractal dimensions of Y-shaped apple trees among five cultivars,the results revealed that the fractal dimension had the positive correlation with the length and quantity of shoots;there was significant difference of fractal dimensions in different apple cultivars;the comprehensive evaluation showed that 'Nagafu 2''Yuhuazaofu''Fuhongzaoga''Yanfu 6''Li Gala';comparing the fractal dimension front-view and side-view images showed that the fractal dimensions of side-view images were larger than front-view ones;the fractal dimension varied from 1.592 to 1.661 and the CRL varied between 15.13% and 19.6% for the five cultivars.For the side-view images,the fractal dimensions varied from 1.627 to 1.728 and the CRL varied between 16.55% and 18.87%.CRL could be characterized as space distribution state in the tree structure.


The commutation relations of the composite fields are studied in the 3, 2 and 1 space dimensions. It is shown that the field of an atom consisting of a nucleus and an electron fields satisfies, in the space-like asymptotic limit, the canonical commutation relations within the sub-Fock-space of the atom. The composite anyon fields are shown to satisfy the proper anyonic commutation relations with the additive phase factors. Then, criteria for the anyon to have the (psuedo)particle picture is proposed. The hierarchy of the fractional quantum Hall effect is rather simply understood by utilizing the (psuedo)particle charactors of the anyons. The commutation relations of the scalar object in the Schwinger(Thirring) model are mentioned briefly. ∗) E-mail address: email@example.com 1 typeset using PTPTEX.sty <ver.0.8> §


. HTTP Parameter Pollution (HPP) vulnerabilities allow at-tackers to exploit web applications by manipulating the query parameters of the requested URLs. In this paper, we present Application Request Cache (ARC), a framework for protecting web applications against HPP exploitation. ARC hosts all benign URL schemas, which act as generators of the complete functional set of URLs that compose the application's logic. For each incoming request, ARC exports the URL, extracts the associated schema, and searches for it in the set of already known benign schemas. In case the schema is not found, the request is rejected, and the event is recorded. ARC can be transparently integrated with existing web applications without any modifications to the server and client code. It is implemented in Google's Go language and uses efficient data structures for storing the URL schemas, imposing negligible computational overhead on the web application server. When running on a 4-core Linux server, ARC can process hundreds of thousands of URL requests per second. A typical URL resolution is in the scale of microseconds.


Software simulation of building energy consumption has become one of the normal means of measuring building energy consumption. This paper uses Openstudio energy simulation software to construct passive residential building models from the perspective of envelope, internal loads and air conditioning systems, and future climate change. Selecting the SRESA2 emissions scenario downscales to generate weather files for the 2050s and 2080s, forecasts future passive residential building energy consumption, and analyzes the influencing factors of passive residential energy consumption. The software simulation results show that the lighting density power and equipment power of the internal load, as well as the COP of the air conditioning system and the interior design temperature, all affect the total energy consumption of the building to varying degrees. The heat transfer coefficient of the exterior walls and the temperature of the COP air conditioning system and the interior design temperature have the greatest influence on passive residential buildings. To provide reference for strategies related to passive residential building design under future climate change.


Bi-layer tablets containing two layers, one the immediate release and one containing the extended release layer. Extended layer were prepared by wet granulation method using different viscosity grade of Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC K100M and HPMC K200M) as polymers and immediate release layer were prepared by wet granulation method using superdisintegrant such as sodium starch glycolate and crosscarmellose sodium. Binder used was polyvinyl pyrollidone (PVP K-30). The tablets were then evaluated for the various physicochemical parameters and for the dissolution profile and then the prepared batches were compared with the Reference product. All the values were found to be within limit. The formulations (G5M8) having immediate release layer produces immediate effect within 45 second followed by extended release (95.47%) at 10 hrs and it comparable with innovator. The present study concluded that Bilayer tablets of Metformin Hydrochloride as an extended release layer and Glimepiride as an alternative to the immediate release conventional dosage form.


Pulse-chase labelling experiments were performed using the mucin-producing colonic carcinoma cell line LS180. Cells were pulsed with [3H]threonine or [3H]glucosamine and chased in complete media without radiolabel for various lengths of time. From cell and media extracts obtained at each time point, mucin proteins were immunoprecipitated with specific anti-mucin antibodies and analysed by SDS/PAGE and fluorography. At short labelling times with [3H]threonine, without chase, a monomeric thiol-reduction-resistant mucin precursor of apparent molecular mass > 670 kDa was identified. The precursor, in contrast to oligomeric species, was not labelled by [3H]glucosamine but exhibited binding to Vicia villosa isolectin B4, suggesting the presence of some core GalNAc residues. Treatment with tunicamycin to inhibit N-glycosylation had no effect on the apparent mass of the precursor. Identity of the mucin antigen with MUC2


AI&r&-This paper presents a rotor position tracking controller for an induction motor driving a robotic load. Using the nonlinear model of the induction motor and a nonlinear observer, local exponential rotor position tracking is obtained. The control only requires measurements of rotor position and stator current, while utilizing exact-model knowledge. Experimental results are included to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.


Introduction. Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) is a congenital narrowing of the aorta at the aortic isthmus. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) plays a major role in the imaging of aortic pathologies in children. As a non-invasive method, CTA combined with echocardiography is increasingly used for precise evaluation of cardiovascular pathologies. The aim of the study was to evaluate the use of CTA in children with ambiguous echocardiographic diagnosis of CoA or in patients before planned surgical repair of an aortic arch defect, and to evaluate the agreement between measurements of the aortic dimensions by CTA and echocardiography. Material and methods. We retrospectively evaluated CTA studies performed in 37 children with suspected CoA and compared aortic diameter measurements by CTA and echocardiography. In all patients, the effective dose was estimated using CTA protocol data. Results. Based on CTA findings, CoA was diagnosed in 26 children, including 5 children with simple CoA, while 21 children had complex CoA with other coexisting anomalies. A number of additional pathologies were identified when evaluating other chest structures. Statistical analysis showed the agreement of aortic diameter measurements by the two imaging methods. The mean effective dose was 7.5 mSv. Conclusions. CTA allows precise imaging of aortic pathology in children and is an important diagnostic tool. Echocardiography remains the primary tool for imaging of CoA but has some limitations, particularly in older patients. Indications for CTA should be carefully considered due to the associated radiation exposure.


Let C be a skew-diagonal constant matrix satisfying C−1 = −C = C∗. We characterize the self-adjoint domains for regular even order C-symmetric differential operators with two-point boundary conditions. The previously known characterizations are a special case of this one.


This paper presents a relative analysis and comparison between the two routing protocols for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) which are AODV and DSDV protocol. The network is designed by defining some particular parameters and then using the network simulator to showcase the working of the protocols. The comparison is made based on throughput (of sender and receiver), jitter on both sides and also end to end delay. A topology is designed having six nodes and the relative analysis is done on the basis of the aforementioned parameters of comparison. We cannot expect the output in the case of wireless networks. Hence, we need to maximize its performance. A topology is designed having six nodes and the relative analyasis done on the basis of the aforementioned parameters of comparison.


Purpose
This study aims to compare the humanitarian supply chains and logistics of two countries in earthquake preparedness by modifying and using a previously established preparedness evaluation framework.

Design/methodology/approach
A European flood emergency management system (FEMS) is a seven-dimensional framework to assess a country's preparedness for flood emergencies. The FEMS framework was modified to apply to earthquakes. Leveraging a multiple explanatory case study approach with data analysis, the authors reconstructed the events of the earthquakes in Pakistan (2005) and Japan (2011) with an applied grading (1–5). Findings were evaluated within the adopted FEMS framework. From a practitioner's perspective, the framework is applicable and can accelerate support in the field.

Findings
Pakistan lacked emergency plans before the 2005 earthquake. In contrast, Japan possessed emergency plans before the disaster, helping minimise casualties. Overall, Japan demonstrated considerably better emergency management effectiveness. However, both countries significantly lacked the distribution of responsibilities among actors.

Originality/value
Practical factors in the humanitarian supply chain are well understood. However, synthesising individual factors into a comprehensive framework is difficult, which the study solves by applying and adopting the FEMS framework to earthquakes. The developed framework allows practitioners a structured baseline for prioritising measures in the field. Furthermore, this study exemplifies the usefulness of cross-hazard research within emergency management and preparedness in a real-world scenario.


When given the digital elevation model(DEM) of relative regions,we modify the false depression produced by measurement error using the elevation of each point,then predict and display the submerged area with region-growing.The result shows the predicted submerged area can be calculated accurately.So this research supplies a reliable scientific basis for disaster evaluation and flood control decision.


【The virus infection rates and disease symptoms of three major citrus viruses, citrus tristeza virus (CTV), satsuma dwarf virus (SDV), and citrus tatter leaf virus (CTLV), were investigated at 35 citrus orchards in Cheju Island from 1995. The infection rates of CTV, SDV, and CTLV were 69.8%, 8.6%, and 9.3%, respectively. However, depending on cultivars there were significant differences in the infection rates. The infection rates of CTV were highest in early satsuma mandarin (Citrusunshiu) with 80.9% and lowest in very early satsuma mandarin with 51.9%. In SDV, the highest was in very early stasuma mandarin with 23.1% and the lowest was in early satsuma mandarin with 6.3%. And the highest infection rate in very early satsuma mandarin with 17.9% and the lowest in tangors with 7.3% in CTLV. The symptoms of virus-infected citrus were very diverse; small and abnormal shape of fruits, abnormal leaves such as narrow boat and small spoon shapes of leaves, stem-pitting on the twig, bud-union crease and swelling of the graft part, reduction of the plant vigor and poor yields.】


The structure and stability of Be6, Be, and Be clusters have been investigated at the B3LYP, B3PW91, and second-order Moller–Plesset (MP2) levels of theory, along with the 6-311G* basis set for neutral and cationic clusters and the 6-311+G* basis set for anion clusters. CCSD(T)/6-311+G* has also been used to calculate some neutral structure to find the most stable structure. Twelve Be6, six Be, and eight Be isomers are identified. The distortion octahedron structure, pentagonal pyramids structure, and trapezoidal bipyramid structure are found to be the most stable structure on the neutral, cationic, and anionic surface, respectively. They are in agreement with the results reported previously. Natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis, molecular orbital (MO) pictures, and the nucleus independent chemical shift (NICS) values suggest aromatic of the neutral and cationic clusters and antiaromatic of the anionic cluster. The multi-center σ bonds and delocalized π bonds play important role in the bonding of the beryllium clusters. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2007


The paper offers a comparative analysis of Franco Berardi Bifo's treatise on modern
terrorism (Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide, 2015) and its (semio)capitalist background
on one side and Montažstroj's theatrical performance, inspired by a half-documentary
fiction novel Jugend Ohne Gott (1937) by Ödön von Horváth, on the other. Employing some
of the contemporary theoretical insights on violence and terror in modern society,
Montažstroj's performance is thus interpreted in the context of recent theories of globalization – and its prevalent communication and circulation of capital paradigms – as
well as in the light of Breivik's Darwinist and anti-Marxist manifesto.


Efficient hydroxylations were effected without addition of metal compounds. In the dihydroalloxazine system HO' radicals were the hydroxylating species according to the stoichiometry and the distribution of the hydroxyphenylalanine isomers. The OH radicals were generated in one-electron reductions of A"-00H or HjOj, in which a dihydroalloxazine or a semiquinone acted as the reducing agent. The yield of hydroxylation varied in dependence on the further oxidation of the hydroxycyclohexadienyl radicals. Quantitative disproportionation occurred in 6N HjSO«, while an attack by O:, HjOj or A'-OOH predominated in the pH region 0-7. The influence of a HOconsuming aliphatic compound e.g. EDTA was studied. Hydroxylating species are also formed in the attack of an alloxazinium cation by HA, depending on the acidity of the medium. INTRODUCTION In parts V' and VI' we discussed the autoxidative quaternization of 1, 3, lO-trimethyl-5, 10-dihydroalloxazine (A"—H-»A*—R). The peroxides produced (A"—OOH and HiO,) could oxidize another reduced alloxazine molecule ("secondary oxidation") or an (in) organic substrate ("competitive secondary oxidation"). This peroxide consumption influences the final Oz-absorption per mole of A"—H (no,) and the amount of HiO, to be found after autoxidation (HHIOJ). The relationship with the oxygen transferred in a competitive process (nioi) could be expressed by Eq (1). = 2n" • nH;o, I . (1) We now wish to report on the nonenzymic hydroxylation of phenylalanine without addition of metal compounds. In screening for the optimal conditions the relationship (1) was applied also in cases of negative nH,oj-values (consumption of H2O2 added to the system). CH, CH, I I CH, CH, I I O H,C I CH I O I 5s,^N


Rather than looking mainly at how the Cold War started or how it ended, this essay considers what happened in between. Taking into account divergences within the 'Third World' of developing nations, the retrospective view leads to the conclusion that the Cold War left most favourable long-term effects in those parts of the world where it had made the greatest impact.


The authors present a technique for the real-time tracking of borescope tip pose. While borescopes are used on a regular basis to inspect machinery for wear or damage, knowing the exact location of a borescope is difficult due to its flexibility. They present a technique for incremental borescope pose determination consisting of off-line feature extraction and on-line pose determination. The feature extraction precomputes from a CAD model of the object the features visible in a selected set of views. The on-line pose determination starts from a current pose estimate, determines the visible model features, projects them into a two-dimensional image coordinate system, matches each to the current borescope video image (without explicitly extracting features from this image), and uses the differences between the predicted and matched feature positions in a gradient descent technique to iteratively refine the pose estimate. The approach supports the mixed use of both matched feature positions and errors along the gradient within the pose determination. The on-line system is designed to execute at video frame rates, providing a continual indication of borescope tip pose.


The Analysis of MTV (Music Television) Indonesia Channel Identity Visual Symbol. Channel identity can create picture, image, character and identity of a television station. MTV has made the best use of this form of corporate promotion program. Through their channel identity, MTV created images and pictures in accordance with their basic concepts. This research analyzed the MTV (Music Television) channel identity and logo. The analysis procedure carried on the MTV logos including MTV Indonesia, MTV China, MTV Russia, MTV United Kingdom, MTV Japan, and MTV India. This study used a multidisciplinary approach namely the historical, aesthetics, and semiotics approach. The method used in this research was qualitative method, with analytic descriptive analysis. The data was collected through literature study and observation. The data then grouped according to the basic concepts of MTV local culture exploration, and studied by looking at the process of visual idiom design concepts, shapes, characters, colors, and work techniques. The result of this research is interpretation of the visual sign and meaning of the MTV logo as a visual communication media and mass communication which contained certain value and meaning to persuate their audiens.


Correspondence Neil H. Katz, Nova Southeastern University, Department of Conflict Resolution Studies, 3301 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com This article shares insights gleaned from interviews with nine experienced, successful conflict resolution practitioners engaged in a variety of interventions from a variety of organizations. The interviews were conducted first with graduate students participating in a class on "Reflective Practice." Subsequently, the authors conducted a second round of interviews to appeal to a wider audience. Questions and topics addressed by the respondents included childhood disposition for this kind of work, critical milestones along the way, helpful characteristics/attributes, satisfaction they derive from their work, greatest challenges, lessons learned, and examples of "reflecting-inaction" utilization.


This article addresses the importance of the couple relationship for survivors of sexual abuse, by arguing that this relationship may be a site in which the negative effects of sexual abuse are enacted and intensified, but also be a site of potential healing and recovery for the survivor. Therapists are encouraged to consider the involvement of the partner and significant family members in the therapeutic process. In doing so, the impact of childhood sexual abuse on the survivor and the partner, and on their couple relationship, can be acknowledged, difficulties can be addressed, and the supportive and healing possibilities of this relationship can be potentiated and strengthened.


In this paper the influences of the material type of the HMA and the anti water damage method of asphalt pavements on water damage are presented The advices on the relative prevention are given through examples analyzing the structure assemble design and drain design of the asphalt pavements


In this study, we performed alignment state estimation simulations and compared the performance of two Computer Aided Alignment (hereafter CAA) algorithms i.e. 'Merit Function Regression (MFR)' and 'Multiple Design Configuration Optimization (MDCO)' for a TMA optical system. The former minimizes the merit function using multi-field wavefront error measurements from single configuration, while the latter minimizes the merit function using single-field measured wavefront error from multiple configurations. The optical system used is an unobscured three-mirror anastigmat (TMA) optical system of 70mm in diameter, and F/5.0. It is designed for an unmanned aerial vehicle for coastal water remote sensing. The TMA consists of two aspherical mirrors, a spherical mirror and a flat folding mirror. Based on the sensitivity analysis, we set the tilt x, y of tertiary mirror as a compensator, and not considered decenter of tertiary mirror because of its spherical characteristic. For the simulation, we introduced Gaussian distribution of initial misalignment to M3. It has the mean value of zero and standard deviation of 0.5 mrad. The initial simulation result of alignment state estimation shows that both algorithms can meet the alignment requirement, λ/10 RMS WFE at 633nm. However, when we includes measurement noise, the simulation result of MFR shows greater standard deviation in RMS WFE than that of MDCO. As for the measurement, the MDCO requires single on-axis field while the MFR requires multiple fields, we concluded that the MDCO is more practical method to align the off-axis TMA optics than MFR.


The utility model discloses a produce the optical element of long distance bessel light, this optical element is the planar lens, and the refracting index of this planar lens changes along radially being the linear gradient. The refracting index changes the line focus effect that makes the planar lens possess similar axle pyramid along radially being the linear gradient, and the incident beam just can produce the bessel light beam after by the line focus. The component surface is that the plane is more stand wear and tear, does not have the problem that becomes calotte axle pyramid after the wearing and tearing, refracting index and the modulating action of thickness will process require to drop to minimum, change material thickness and change the no diffraction distance that the refracting index parameter all can the linear change produces the bessel light beam, make out the bessel light beam of different no diffraction distances. Therefore, the utility model discloses an optical element is one kind, and to produce bessel light simpler, more has the operability, more nimble, optical element that optical quality is higher.


This study examined whether psychosocial assistance in childhood predicted coping strategies, family atmosphere, learning experiences and mental health in adulthood. Participants were 153 Chileans (14–30 years old) who, as children, had lost a family member through political imprisonment, execution, disappearance, or expulsion from the country. SEM-modeling revealed that early timing and substantial duration of psychosocial assistance in childhood predicted good mental health and positive learning experiences in adulthood via effective coping strategies. In addition, a family atmosphere characterized by high cohesion and a low level of conflict associated with good mental health and positive learning experiences. Both the nature of childhood trauma and the timing and duration of assistance turned out to be crucial for later resourcefulness and well-being. Children who had lost a parent as executed or disappeared were the most task-oriented and conscientious students and enjoyed a harmonious family life. Early initiation and substantial duration of assistance predicted lower levels of poor mental health symptoms (posttraumatic, depressive, anxiety, somatic, and aggressive) in adulthood. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.