The purpose of this study was to find out funding and administrative constraints affecting business education programme at the NCE level in North Central Zone of Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive research design. It was guided by two research questions and two hypotheses. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study consisted of 12 Heads of Departments and 86 Teachers. A structured questionnaire was used to elicit responses. The tools used for data analysis in the study was the mean with standard deviation. The findings among others revealed that the respondents accepted 10 out of 12 items as funding constraints affecting the implementation of business education programme. It was revealed that there was no significant difference in the mean responses of heads of departments and teachers on administrative practices and funding of business education programme. It was recommended that NCCE, Federal and State Governments should ensure strict compliance to the provisions in the Minimum Standards by Provosts of colleges of education on funding to avoid constraints to effective implementation of business education programme.


Social capital is the potential community resources. Social capital can be a useful so effectively in a mutual institutions. Social capital is in some local institutions involved in gambir market. This study to see its function social capital in institutional gambir market. This research uses qualitative research method. The kind of research used the case study. Research locations in the market gambir, Indonesia. Technical collect the data done with data collection method qualitative (observation, in-depth interviews, group discussions and documentation). Data analysis used descriptive qualitative analysis. The results of the study show three aspects social capital that serves on the. gambir market. Three aspects are, cooperation, network norm and sanctions. The aspect of trust serves facilitate cooperation for the sustainability of gambir farming. The aspect of a network serves the transactions, but the network does not function in providing information on the price. The aspect of a norm and sanctions serves in maintaining and set the relationships in the gambir market.


The pharmaceutical industry is a high-technology industry that requires a combination of in-depth knowledge from various fields. It is characterized by high cost, high risk and a long-term perspective due to the high level of regulation. In addition, it is known that research and development (R&D) productivity is deteriorating in the industry. Under these conditions, the importance of open innovation strategies has been emphasized. Under an open innovation system, it is essential for firms to develop several dynamic capabilities to effectively manage their resources both internally and externally. Using a systematic framework of dynamic capabilities suggested by previous studies, this study focuses on the determinants affecting firms' desorptive capacities, which are measured as the number of out-licensing deals, as an indicator for the performance of their outbound innovation. For the analysis, negative binomial regression is employed and inventive capacity and connective capacity are selected as the determinants of the licensors' desorptive capacity. The results of regression analysis reveal that inventive capacity does not have a significant effect on desorptive capacity and that only connective capacity has a significant positive effect on desorptive capacity.


Background: Effective treatment of relapsed/refractory (r/r) DLBCL remains a major unmet need. Checkpoint blockade therapy (CBT) leads to durable responses in a small subset of r/r DLBCL patients, but limited understanding of predictive biomarkers and characteristics of host immune responses have slowed development of DLBCL immunotherapy. We previously described a subset of "T-cell inflamed" DLBCLs marked by PD-L1 gene alterations and increased likelihood of response to CBT. In this study, we aimed to identify and group gene expression patterns associated with immune features in a large number of DLBCL cases available in published datasets. We investigate the immunogenomic features of each group and corroborate findings in primary DLBCLs.
 Methods: Gene sets reflecting a broad array of activation states or subtypes of tumor-infiltrating immune cells were selected from previous studies (n = 143). Expression by case was scored for each set by applying gene set variation analysis (GSVA) to previously published DLBCL bulk RNAseq profiles (n = 1189). The resulting score matrix was reduced with principal component analysis (PCA); the first 10 components were used to hierarchically cluster each case into related groups. Immune cell fractions were estimated from RNAseq counts via deconvolution analysis. Differentially expressed genes (DEG) for each cluster were identified by false discovery rate (FDR) < 0.05 and log2 fold change of > 1.5. The cytolytic gene expression (CYT) score, associated with T-cell immunity against solid tumors, was computed for each case. Protein-coding mutations found in ≥ 5% of cases by whole exome sequencing analysis were filtered for driver mutations (MutSig2CV q-value < 0.1). PD-L1 gene amplification status was determined where copy number array data were available (n = 471). RNAseq (Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform) was performed on 24 fixed and embedded treatment-naive DLBCL tumors from an institutional biorepository. GSVA scores were projected onto the PCA and clusters assigned. CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells per high-power field (HPF) were assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC).
 Results: Four clusters of immune gene set expression were identified in existing DLBCL datasets, termed "inflamed", "intermediate-M", "intermediate-T" and "cold". There is no association of any cluster with a difference in overall survival or enrichment in a cell of origin subtype. The inflamed cluster has the highest mean CYT score (Fig 1A, p < 0.001) and highest deconvolution-estimated fraction of CD8+ T-cells, M1 and M2 macrophages, dendritic cells, T-helper 1, and T-helper 2 cells (Fig 1C-E, p < 0.001). Significantly upregulated DEGs include CXCL9, CXCL10, CCL8, and CXCR6, which have been associated with a T-cell inflamed phenotype in solid tumors. Immune escape mechanisms in the inflamed cluster are suggested by upregulated DEGs of VSIG4 and IDO1, and significant enrichment for PD-L1 gene amplifications compared to the cold cluster (Fig 1B, 8.6% vs 1%, p = 0.01). The cold cluster has the lowest mean CYT score (p < 0.001), and lowest deconvolution scores for CD8+ T-cells, M1 and M2 macrophages, and dendritic cells (p < 0.001). The cold cluster harbors more mutations in MYD88 (27%),TMSB4X (11.6%), and FOXO1 (8%) and fewer SOCS1 (7%) mutations than other clusters (FDR < 0.25). Intermediate-T and intermediate-M clusters share mid-range values of estimated CD8+ T cells and CYT scores, but intermediate-M contained more frequent PD-L1 amplifications (Fig 1B, 9% vs 0.9%, p = 0.02), lower estimated Th1 fraction (p < 0.001), and higher estimated total macrophages (p < 0.001) than intermediate-T. Representatives of each cluster were identified in primary DLBCL tumors (n = 24). Mean CD4+ T-cell count per HPF was higher in inflamed cluster DLBCLs compared to cold (45.1 vs 10.1, p = 0.032). A non-significant increase in CD8+ cells was also seen (21.3 vs 14.2 per HPF).
 Conclusion: In this first comprehensive immunogenomic study of DLBCL, we define differences in host immune response by gene set expression, associate oncogenic mutations with immune exclusion, and discover expression of a number of immune escape genes in inflamed cases. Primary samples analyzed to date support the immune response patterns found by computational analysis. A greater understanding of heterogeneity in host response to DLBCL may help identify subsets of DLBCLs with inherent vulnerability to CBT and other immunotherapies.

 Smith: Portola Pharmaceuticals: Research Funding. Kline:Merck: Honoraria; Merck: Research Funding.


The paper gives an analysis of power system in Vietnam. Data on power resources of the country and forecasts pertaining to production and consumption (oil, gas and solid fuel) up to 2020 are cited in the paper.


1,2,3National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/0019.5138.201922 Dengue Fever (DF) is a rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral illness all over the world. DF has expanded to new countries and from urban to rural areas. DF has emerged as a notable public health problem in recent decades. Rapid urbanization, environmental changes and neglected rural areas result in vector breeding which causes rise in Dengue outbreaks. The objective of this study was to assess the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) regarding DF among residents of Indira Colony, Ghaziabad. Cross-sectional survey was done among residents of Indira Colony using a pre-designed questionnaire. KAP of DF among study population was represented as percentage. Out of 250 individuals interviewed, 93% identified fever as a cardinal symptom of DF. The knowledge about other symptoms of DF was low among residents. Only 17.5% knew that DF is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. The correct timing of biting time was known by only 14%. Despite low knowledge, the residents had good attitude and most of them reported good preventive practices against dengue prevention and control. Awareness campaigns can help to protect the health of people against DF and to limit in future spread of DF.


Objective Exploration feasibility the technique that union execution lowen blepharoplasty and fish tail wrinkles facelift pass the lowen eyelid margin cut.Methods Through the lowen eyelid margin cut,execution lowen blepharoplasty,at the same time,the musculue orbicularis oculi of lateral canthus on eye socket will excised wedge one part,the form fish tail power factor will by eliminated.Results 25 patients are made a follow-up visit the technique after 6 months to one year,blepharodermachalasis,lowen eyelid wrinkle and fish tail wrinkle elimination satisfaction,when expression activity the fish tail grain is not obvious,the face young effect is obvious.Conclusion This methods design is reasonable,novel,the margin hiding.And the wound is small,the operating effect is good,is suitable gets the patients of eyelid periphery ageing.


A (commutative unital) ring R is said to satisfy universal lying-over (ULO) if each injective ring homomorphism R → T satisfies the lying-over property. If R satisfies ULO, then R = tq(R), the total quotient ring of R. If a reduced ring satisfies ULO, it also satisfies Property A. If a ring R = tq(R) satisfies Property A and each nonminimal prime ideal of R is an intersection of maximal ideals, R satisfies ULO. If 0 ≤ n ≤ ∞, there exists a reduced (resp., nonreduced) n-dimensional ring satisfying ULO. The A + B construction is used to show that if 2 ≤ n < ∞, there exists an n-dimensional reduced ring R such that R = tq(R), R satisfies Property A, but R does not satisfy ULO.


The dominant device used in modern VLSI circuits today is the MOS transistor. As technology has advanced several limitations of MOSFETs have become apparent: hot electron effects with their associated threshold voltage shifts, short channel effects, and also the practical technological problems of shrinking junctions and growing high integrity, low defect, thin gate oxides. MESFETs do not require thin gate oxides and hence are not susceptible to the problems of obtaining reliable thin gate oxides or to threshold voltage shifts due to hot carriers. Also, MESFETs are best suited to low voltage operation which is a common feature of most advanced VLSI technologies. In addition, MESFET devices have been shown to be quite radiation hard compared to other technologies. Finally, the MESFET can achieve bulk carrier mobility whereas MOSFETs are often restricted to less than half this value due to their surface conduction. The limited use of MESFETs for VLSI in the past has been due in part to their power requirements and limited variety of circuit configurations. The development of a complementary MESFET process not only reduces their power requirement and increases circuit flexibility, but also results in an improved speed performance thus improving their viability for VLSI applications.


Objectives: To optimize the dimensions of Conventional Rectangular Patch Antenna using ant lion optimization and to design the 2 × 2 patch antenna array with the optimized modified rectangular patch antenna. Methods/Statistical Analysis: Analysis is done in the form of curve fitting equations and objective functions regarding the relations between performance and dimensional parameters of the patch antenna. In this work, length of the patch, width of matching line, height of the substrate and length of the ground plane are analyzed to achieve the desired performance characteristics of the patch antenna. Further, corporate feed method is used to design the different configurations of patch antenna array. Findings: An optimized rectangular patch antenna is designed by using ant lion optimization technique to achieve the required resonant frequency, S11 (dB), bandwidth and gain. Further, optimized design is transformed into modified rectangular patch, 1 × 2 array and 2 × 2 array to enhance the gain and required radiation pattern. The gain and bandwidth of the Modified Rectangular Patch Antenna array is 3.6 dBi and 718 MHz respectively, which shows improvement over the conventional design. Similarly 1 × 2 patch antenna array resonates at two frequencies which are 8.2 GHz and 9.6 GHz with a maximum gain of 8.1 dBi. The final design operates at 8 GHz (X-band) with a bandwidth of 1.65 GHz and a gain of 5.2 dBi. Also, the radiation pattern of the proposed 2 × 2 array consists of two major lobes adjacent to the null on broadside direction. Application/Improvements: The gain as well as bandwidth in the MRPA is improved by 20% and 10% respectively. The fractional bandwidth of the proposed 2 × 2 array is found to be 21.25%. The design covers spectrum of 8.025-8.40 GHz used for earth exploration satellite communication. *Author for correspondence


The project of a « theory of art » is the great challenge open by Max Raphael since his significant publication of Von Monet zu Picasso (1913). Before this year, he contributes in many papers about « impresionnistic decorativism » and « expressionnism », it was the first to formulate in a very crucial moment of the classic modern painting. Here, with the « case Matisse », we try to investigate the leading motive of « absolute Gestaltung », as Raphael introduced it, against the simple optical lecture on the surface of the picture. In this historical sequence, between 1911 and 1917, Matisse obtain for Raphael a greatest objectivity, and find a freedom for the art of painting in contrast with the national request of the german Secession. From this point a view, Raphael appear to give an important testimony of the crisis born with the new « problem of form », due to Hildebrand.


On the view of knowledge-based economy,the research analyzes the knowledge structure of coaches by the method of document,interview and questionnaire.The results show:In knowledge-based economy society,the knowledge that coaches should consist of science related training,special knowledge,training experience and training information.The knowledge structure of coaches is divided to three layer: core layer,medium layer and complement layer.


Bottled water consumption has been steadily growing in the world for the past 30 years, in spite of its excessively high price compared to tap water. The Italian drink more bottled water than anybody else in the world, followed by the French who drink about 130 liters per year per inhabitant. In this country, despite an access to safe public drinking water, 42% of the population regularly drink bottled water. Using scanner data on French consumption combined with raw water quality and other environmental data, we show that raw water bad quality is the most important factor driving the dexision not to drink tap water. The estimated effect is found to be stronger for low-income households. We also confirm the significant direct impact of socioeconomic and demographic households' characteristics, as well as the role of cultural/regional factors. Overall, this study shows that pollution of raw water implies indirect costs for households who instead of drinking water from the tap spend up to 100 times more for bottled water. ...French Abstract : On propose dans cet article de mesurer, par une etude econometrique appropriee, l'impact des facteurs environnementaux, socioeconomiques et culturels sur la decision des menages de boire (ou non) l'eau du robinet. L'originalite de notre approche reside d'une part, dans l'utilisation de donnees de consommation de menages (SECODIP) associees a des informations sur la qualite de l'environnement dans la commune de residence de ces menages, en particulier la qualite des eaux brutes (IFEN-SCEES et DGS), et d'autre part dans l'utilisation du prix de potabilisation de l'eau comme mesure de la "mauvaise qualite" des eaux brutes. L'estimation d'un modele probit sur un echantillon de 4 758 menages montre que la "mauvaise qualite" des eaux brutes est le determinant le plus important de la decision de (ne pas) boire l'eau du robinet. Le role significatif des caracteristiques des menages et les effets regionaux sont egalement confirmes.


Ships' engine rooms are areas with a high fire risk. Engine-room fires have a complex structure. Therefore, investigation and analysis of the impact of the human-factor effect on the occurrence of engine room fires is a challenging task. It is impossible to eliminate the factors that cause accidents. However, by taking precautions in each system, the risk of accidents can be minimised. The most effective way to achieve this goal is to identify the non-conformities that lead to the occurrence of accidents and to reveal the relationships between them. In this study, an analysis of fire-explosion accidents in ship engine rooms was conducted. For analysis, a hybrid method including the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) and fuzzy fault tree analysis (FFTA) was used. Using the HFACS method, the factors in the formation of engine-room fires were classified according to a hierarchical structure. The possible accident scenarios and probabilities were calculated using the FFTA method. In this study, it was observed that fire-explosion accidents were concentrated in ships over 20 years old and that mechanical fatigue affected accident formation. In particular, when the increased hot surfaces due to the operation of a ship's engines while it is in motion are combined with oil/fuel leakage, fire-related accidents become inevitable. Failure to provide proper insulation also triggers the occurrence of accidents. It has been observed that some of such accidents occur because the materials used in maintenance and repair work are not original to the ship. During this study, the causes of accidents were examined to prevent fire-related accidents from occurring in engine rooms, and suggestions were made to prevent similar accidents from happening in the future.


Abstract We have monitored multi-TeV cosmic rays by a small air shower array in Tehran (35°43′ N, 51°20′ E, 1200 m = 890 g cm−2). More than 1.1 × 106 extensive air shower events were recorded. These observations enabled us to analyse sidereal variation of the galactic cosmic ray intensity. The observed sidereal daily variation is compared to the expected variation which includes the Compton–Getting effect due to the motion of the earth in the Galaxy. In addition to the Compton–Getting effect, an anisotropy has been observed which is due to a unidirectional anisotropy of cosmic ray flow along the Galactic arms.


Skin cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer. Melanoma and non-melanoma, also known as keratinocyte carcinoma, skin cancers have frequent occurrence although melanoma skin cancer is known to be more deadly. Still, keratinocyte carcinoma skin cancers are encountered with higher frequency and come with more numerous types than melanoma. In this paper, an automated method is used to detect the frequently occurring keratinocyte carcinoma skin cancer. The method is based on deep learning, where AlexNet, ResNet-18, and ResNet-50 architectures are employed to classify common malignant pigmented skin lesion images as belonging to basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma or keratinocyte carcinoma. A public archive of skin images is used to test and validate the success of the deep learning methods employed. The results show that ResNet-50 architecture gives the best detection results where for keratinocyte carcinoma detection the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve performance of it is 0.80.


The various countries of the British Isles all have respectably old traditions of work in archives, at least as far as the central government institutions are concerned. The Public Record Office dates from 1838, the Scottish Record Office from the middle of the eighteenth century. The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (HMC), whose field of interest is in all other source materials (i.e., materials not held in government repositories), began in 1869. All these institutions continued administrative traditions inherited from long-standing civil service and academic usages. Because they were staffed by men educated in the humanities and law, moreover, they were affected by changes in the prevailing intellectual climate of Europe. As far as archives were concerned, the prevailing climate favoured university studies in administrative and legal history and an interest in the auxiliary sciences of history. All these activities, and the academic institutions where they flourished, were important in this country (as in others) over the century which stretched, broadly, from 1850 to 1950.


Abstract : On the subject of sound absorption by porous materials much work has been done but, unfortunately, before many recent engineering developments and apparatus. There now exists the opportunity to check some of the earlier results and theory derived for sound absorption in porous materials to determine whether the proposed models yield measured properties close enough to the theoretical values to be useful. L. L. Beranek and C. Zwikker both derived theoretical expressions for transmission of a single frequency through a porous media. The aim in this memorandum is to follow Beranek's derivation, and to extend some of his results in the treatment of soft blankets in anticipation of long range needs for their application.


This paper seeks to recommend a democratic model to curriculum development in Algeria that involves teachers by combining top-down government directives with bottom-up teachers-based creativities. More explicitly, the paper aims at exploring and identifying perceptions of secondary school EFL teachers' on their implementation of 2003 curriculum reform. The paper also aims at revealing barriers to their autonomy and involvement in curriculum development in order to pave the way for an understanding and planning towards such involvement. The critical paradigm was the conceptual framework guiding the research with data availed through a questionnaire for teachers and interviews with EFL secondary education inspectors. The findings advocated the existence of imbalanced power relation between the government and teachers with the former controlling and dictating curriculum, and excluding teachers from the whole developmental process. © 2017 IJCI & the Authors. Published by International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction (IJCI). This is an openaccess article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY-NC-ND) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).


This 4-TBPS packet switch uses a combined input- and crosspoint-queued (CICQ) structure with virtual output queuing at the ingress to achieve the scalability of input-buffered switches, the performance of output-buffered switches, and low latency.


Abstract A tri-armed-pyrene-linked molecular receptor, 5 has been designed, synthesised and evaluated for ionic recognition. It has been observed that the synthesised molecular receptor can recognise mercury and cyanide ions through a change in colour, UV–Vis and fluorescence intensity. The binding stoichiometry of the receptor and these ionic species has been found to be 1:1 through Job's plots, Benesi–Hildebrand plots and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC).


The present invention is a method for operating a rapid cycle pressure cycle time T method to feed gas into the exhaust gas and the nonadsorbed swing adsorption (RCPSA). The method comprising the steps of: F% purity of the feed gas at high pressure by selectively adsorbing a first end of the bed tail gas and the product gas F flows from the second end of the bed at the time. Purity of the product gas is P%, and the recovery of R%. The bed is then reduced with circumferentially duration tco, the bed is then countercurrently reduced duration tCN. The bed is then washed duration tP, wherein desorbate (tail gas) is released at a first end of the bed at a pressure of greater than 30psig. The bed is then repressurized the duration of tRP.


The microwire composites consisting of continuous Co-rich amorphous glass-coated ferromagnetic microwires embedded in a E-glass prepreg matrix were fabricated, and the influences of wire periodicity (b), composition and radius on the field-tunable properties have been systematically investigated in a broad microwave frequency range of 0.9–18 GHz. It has been found that the field tunability, effective operational frequency and field of the composites are strongly dependent on these factors. With decreasing b from 15 to 7 mm, the field tunability of effective permittivity (nε) increases from 0.77% to 16% m/A by more than 20 times. The detected cups and resonances of the transmission and reflection spectra are identified. Their changes with wire periodicity have been shown to be due to a combination of the dielectric and magnetic response arising from the interactions between microwave and microwires and microwires by themselves. The best possible field tunability occurs below the plasma frequency. elf-sensing application


In a production-inventory system, the manufacturer produces the items at a rate, dispatches the order quantities to the customers in specific intervals and stores the excess inventory for subsequent deliveries. In real situations often inventory manager have to hold thousand of items in an inventory. But these single item inventory model are developed for stationary and non stationary demand. As in a competitive market, the aim of the vendor and the buyer is to maximize their profit and in general an integrated policy is required by the vendor. In real life, decay and deterioration occur in some of the products, such as fruits, milk products, medicine and vegetables. Various models have been developed in literature for deteriorating item with constant demand. Later on it has been observed that in real life demand of the item depends on either selling price or time. The present work divided into 3 Chapters. Chapter 1, is introductory in nature in which some inventory models have been discussed and literature related to the topic has been also discussed. In Chapter 2, the "Economic ordering policy of deteriorated items for vendor and buyer: an integrated approach" given by Yang and Wee(2000) has been reviewed in details. In Chapter 3, the inventory model and solution methodology given by Yang and Wee(2000) with variable demand rate is considered and numerical results are obtained. Towards the end, references of various publications cited in the present dissertation have been reported.


Introduction: The developments of the Internet and E-commerce have changed many aspects of traditional business. The grocery retail market is also affected as consumers can choose from which channe ...


Abstract The interactions between atmospheric vortex pairs are simulated and studied with a nondivergent barotropic model and a three-dimensional tropical cyclone model. Numerical experiments with nondivergent barotropic vortex pairs show that the relative movements of the vortices are sensitive to the separation distance and the characteristics of the swirling wind of the vortex. No mutual attraction is found in any of the nondivergent barotropic vortex pairs tested. Results from the three-dimensional tropical cyclone model show that on a constant ƒ-plane with no mean wind, the movements of the two interacting tropical cyclones consist of a mutual cyclonic rotation, attraction and eventual merging, in agreement with Fujiwhara's description. The displacement of one interacting storm in the mutual rotation is proportional to the combined strength of the binary system, but inversely proportional to the size of the storm and to the square of the separation distance. The rate of merging is related to the deve...


The logistics industry prove important to Chinese economy.It is the importance sustentation of the national economy,the importance artifice ofadjust the construction,the important path ofIncrease performance,the important ditch.However.The margin problemhas been bottleneck to make the roughly logistics enterprise development.This paper passes to analyzes the developing present condition and requisition to whole logistics profession margin,putting forward the key realm of the logistics profession margin and concrete operation project.


Knowledge of geometric properties of surfaces is crucial for resolution of many manufacturing problems. Developability is an important feature of a surface that allows its manufacture from a flat "strip" of a "flexible" and "non-deformable" material. Digital fabrication technologies and parametric design tools, based on knowledge of geometry, are changing designer way to think. Our research in the field of non-developable surfaces fabrication move from paneling to "kerfing". This technique allows to transform a rigid material in a flexible one. The main problem to solve is how to cut the flat shape to obtain the design surface.


A swarm of creative agents animated the Multispecies Salon, an art exhibit that traveled from San Francisco to New Orleans and then to New York City. Artists, anthropologists, and allied intellectuals explored three interrelated questions at the Salon: Which beings flourish, and which fail, when natural and cultural worlds intermingle and collide? What happens when the bodies of organisms, and even entire ecosystems, are enlisted in the schemes of bio technology and the dreams of bio capitalism? And, finally, in the aftermath of disasters—in blasted landscapes that have been transformed by multiple catastrophes—what are the possibilities of biocultural hope? As we began to answer these questions, the divisions separating anthropologists and infor mants, culture and nature, subject and object began to break down. Collab orative research and writing projects emerged from the Salon that helped spawn a new mode of interdisciplinary inquiry: multispecies ethnography. Ethnography, commonly glossed as "people writing" (ethnography), is the signature method of cultural anthropology. In conventional ethnographies, "all actors are human," to paraphrase Timothy Mitchell. "Human beings are the agents around whose actions and intentions the story is written."2 Lately, ethnographers have begun to expand the purview of anthropology. Experi menting with different modes of storytelling, anthropologists are rediscov ering the Greek root of the word ethnos (έθνος) "a multitude (whether of men or of beasts) associated or living together; a company, troop, or swarm of individuals of the same nature or genus." Ethnographers are now exploring how "the human" has been formed and transformed amid encounters with


The environment of moral education affects the form of sense and emotion of morality,also affects the direction and power of the growth of college students.The paper expounds the relations between the environment of moral education and the growth of college students,fully analyses the present situation of the environment of moral education in the life-region of college students.Through the study of dormitory,the author puts forward own opinion for optimizing the environment of moral education at last.


The extraction of macro-amounts of Yttrium from solutions of nitric and perchloric acids by di-(2-ethylhexyl)phosphoric acid has been studied. The extraction of Yttrium is more effective from the perchloric medium and takes place by two mechanisms: an ion-exchange reaction Y3+/H+ at low concentrations and a solvatation reaction at high concentrations of Yttrium. The stability constant of the mononitratocomplex YNO has been estimated.


Objective: To report the case of a child diagnosed with antiphospholipid syndrome associated with severe thrombocytopenia, and to review the literature on the subject. Case description: Child aged nine years and eight months old with severe thrombocytopenia associated with a positive anticardiolipin antibody. Data were collected by clinical history, physical examination, and laboratorial exams. Diagnosis was confirmed according to criteria established for the antiophospholipid syndrome, associated with the presence of the most common manifestations of the syndrome in children: livedo reticularis and thrombocytopenia. Comments: The antiphospholipid syndrome is an uncommon pediatric disease, and clinical manifestations such as decreased platelet number should be considered.


In the second paper W. A. Howard focuses on the rules of the workplace in isolated mining settlements. He sets out a number of criteria that can be used to evaluate how well the resource communities have managed their industrial relations. These include the degree of acceptance of the rules, the procedures by which rules were developed, the means of resolving disputes and the consistency of the rules with other behavioural constraints. By applying these criteria to six remote mining sites Howard concludes 'the greater the extent to which industrial relations can be internalised or localised the


Introduction: The assumption that critically ill patient is well defined, promptly recognized and immediately transported in to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), leads to wrong estimations and erroneous viewpoints of critically ill patient's epidemiology. The «critically ill» definition neither presupposes his admission in ICU nor precludes his hospitalization in the hospital ward. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the incidence and risk factors of AKI taking into account the totality of critically ill patients of a given time period . Methods: This is a retrospective study conducted in the general ICU of the University hospital "Attikon". Participants were adult patients in which an intensivist's consultation was effectuated by the ICU staff, during a period of 2.5 months. The estimated baseline creatinine was calculated using the MDRD formula, assuming a lower limit of normal baseline glomerular filtration ratio (GFR) of 75ml/min/1.73m2. The presence of AKI was assessed only within the first consultation and was stratified by the three RIFLE categories of severity (Risk, Injury and Failure). The impact on disease's incidence of demographic characteristics, medical history, clinical data and severity scores of the participants was evaluated. Results: A total of 69 critically ill patients were enrolled in the study. The overall incidence of AKI by the time of 1st consultation was 43% with the women being more frequently and more severely affected. The severity score seemed to be the principal independent risk factor for early AKI occurrence. The adjusted risk of AKI, increased by 14% per unit of increase in the APACHE score (OR 1.12CI 95% 1.03-1.21 P=0.008). Conclusion: Severity score is an independent risk factor of AKI in critically ill patients. Identification of high risk patient and early diagnosis is the only available way to prevent the disease and to improve outcomes.


A Chinese herbal medicinal composition for treating cancer mainly comprises the following raw materials in weight parts: 2 to 3 parts of Herba Gelsemii Elegantis, 10 to 30 parts of Rhizoma Paridis, 5 to 15 parts of Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae 7 to 18 parts of Radix Curcumae, 5 to 20 parts of Radix Scrophulariae, 20 to 30 parts of Fructus Gardeniae, 10 to 20 parts of Spica Prunellae, 8 to 15 parts of Herba Houttuyniae, 10 to 20 parts of Herba Bidentis Bipinnatae and 5 to 15 parts of Herba Scutellariae Barbatae, and furthermore it comprises the Chinese herbs for clearing heat and purging intense heat, reducing swelling and detoxicating, clearing blood and cooling blood, invigorating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, softening hard mass and eliminating stagnation, and strengthening body resistance and supporting healthy energy. The said composition can kill various cancer cells.


Objective: To present a case of central nervous system (CNS) demyelination mimicking primary CNS lymphoma (PCNSL) in the setting of immunomodulatory therapy.
Background: Tumor necrosis - alpha (TNFα) inhibitors are becoming more frequently prescribed to treat inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis. Previous studies suggest that TNFα inhibition may result in isolated demyelinating episodes or may unmask latent multiple sclerosis. We describe a case of CNS demyelination associated with use of a TNFα inhibitor that resembled PCNSL on initial presentation.
Methods: Case report.
Results: A 57 year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis treated with adalimumab for four years developed headache, intermittent nausea, alexia, and right hemianopsia over ten days. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed left periventricular parietal-temporal enhancing disease suspicious for PCNSL. Two lumbar punctures revealed mild lymphocytic pleocytosis (18 and 9 cells/high powered field) and intrathecal immunoglobulin (IgG) synthesis. Cerebrospinal fluid was negative for oligoclonal bands, Epstein Barr virus PCR, and lymphoma by flow cytometry. Brain biopsy revealed demyelination in a ring-like pattern with mixed inflammatory infiltrate consisting of T-cell predominance around blood vessels. Symptoms and MRI enhancement resolved over 1-2 months following immunosuppressant discontinuation without corticosteroid administration.
Conclusions: CNS demyelination may be increasingly encountered as a consequence of growing utilization of immunomodulatory therapy. Clinicians should consider this entity as a potential complication of TNFα inhibition as it can mimic malignancy and is potentially reversible with discontinuation of the offending agent.
(Can send images of MRI and pathology slides if requested.) Disclosure: Dr. Nissenbaum has nothing to disclose. Dr. Nasim has nothing to disclose. Dr. Demopoulos has nothing to disclose.


ObjectiveTo evaluate the intraoperative combined application of fibercholedochoscopy and B-type ultrasound for the treatment of intrahepatic biliary duct stones. Methods In our department 65 cases of intrahepatic biliary duct stones treated by fibercholedochoscopy and followed up for ten years were used as control. Results were compared with that of 78 cases undergoing combined management.ResultsFollow-up at first 5 years showed that patients treated with fiberbiliascopy had a much lower stone recurrent rate than that without, though difference became less significant within second 5 years. Intraoperative combined application of fibercholedochoscopy and B-ultrasound futher decreases the stone recurrence rate. ConclusionsCombining fibercholedochoscopy with B-type ultrasound intraoperatively enables the operator to locate intrahepatic biliary duct stones, reduces retained stone rate and stone recurrence.


There are many problems on the first-generation air cushion belt conveyor which influences its operation effect.The innovative improvement of the design theory,design method,construction of air box,section shape,throttle orifice location mode,air source matching and air supply device were accomplished,so the second-generation air cushion belt conveyor was launched.The problems of the first generation product were solved,and a reference for application of air cushion belt conveyor in power plant coal handling system was offered.


Amgen, Inc.: Pettus LH, Sham KKC, Tasker A, Xu S. Triazole fused heteroaryl compounds as P38 kinase inhibitors. Novel pharmaceutical compositions are claimed for the treatment of various disorders, including TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6 and IL-8 mediated diseases, inflammation and pain. The compounds have also been shown to inhibit the LPS-induced release of IL1β, TNF-α, IL-6, EL-6 and IL-8 from monocytes. Thus, the claimed compounds may lower elevated levels of the inflammatory cytokines, TNF-α, IL-I, IL-6, and IL-8 to basal levels or below which would be favourable in controlling, slowing progression, and alleviating many disease states. The IC50 value ranges for 10 examples of lipopolysaccharide-activated THPl Cell TNF production assays are provided. WO2009038784 (2009) 88 pages.


Modelling subsurface flow processes is one of the key factors to describe the water cycle. To this aim, a variably saturated flow model was developed based on the Extended Cellular Automata (XCA) formalism and used to simulate an ensemble of 100 synthetic two-dimensional plots with heterogeneous hydraulic properties. The model was implemented exploiting the functionalities of the OpenCAL library, which allowed high computational efficiency using multi-core (CPU) processors and even higher performances with many-core (GPGPU) architectures.


The canonical correlations and several orher measures of multivariate association between two sets of variables (x and y) are considered when the covariance matrices are singular. A useful inequality for the canonical correlations when new vari- ables are brought into x or y is obtained for both the nonsingular and singular cases. It is also shown that, under a simple condition, measures of multivariate association equal one if and only if there exists a linear relationship between the sets of variables.


In territorial cooperation or partnership context, the participation of the territorial actors and experts in public action can generally only be calculated by observing the geographical, anthropological, historical, economic, sociological and political stakes of territorial action. This research work proposes an improvement of our models of participatory decision-making in an environment of territorial cooperation or territorial partnership [1]. The main improvement of our model and the enhancement of the expertise and experience of actors and territorial experts, given the extreme importance of the latter in the regulation, orientation and negotiation of territorial action, this improvement based on fuzzy set theory, which used to solve complex and uncertain system problems.


Starting in 1993, the General Directorate of State Airports Authority (SAA) has partially privatized the major airport terminals in Turkey by using Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) methods. One of the main reasons for privatization was the necessity of investing in terminals, as passenger numbers increased dramatically in the last decade and terminal facilities were the initial bottleneck. In this way, the state was able to shift the burden of financing and operation to the private sector. The selection of airports, the particular form of privatization with a BOT method for terminals and later on the associated long term leases and their economic effects raise interesting research questions. Furthermore, a comparison of BOT method with other privatization methodologies gives an insight of advantages and drawbacks in the implementation. One question investigates if the SAA makes use of the previous experience on airport privatization in


Monte Carlo methods are often used in simulating physical and mathematical systems. This computer code is a class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to compute their results. Because of their reliance on repeated computation of random or pseudo-random numbers, these methods are most suited to calculation by a computer and tend to be used when it is unfeasible or impossible to compute an exact result with a deterministic algorithm. The Monte Carlo method is used to determine a detector's response curves which are difficult to obtain experimentally. It deals with random numbers for the simulation of the decay conditions and angle of incidence at a given energy value, studying, thus, the random behavior of the radiation, providing response and efficiency curves. The MCNP5 computer code provides means to simulate gamma ray detectors and has been used for this work for the 50keV – 2000 keV energy range. The HPGe well detector was simulated with the MCNP5 computer code and compared with experimental data. The dimensions of both dead layer and the transition layer were determined, and the response curve for a particular geometry was then obtained and compared with the experimental results, in order to verify the detector's simulation. Both results were in very good agreement.


Child sex trafficking (CST) is the exchange of something of value for any sexual act with a minor. Public child welfare agencies are responsible for serving CST victims. In response to the critical need for training child welfare workers on engaging survivors of CST, we describe an innovative game-based training model used to train over 1000 workers in Maryland. The "Case-By-Case" game uses case studies to shape small group discussions, role playing, skill drills for child welfare workers to build their capacity to identify and engage survivors. Initial evaluations indicate a significant increase in knowledge and self-efficacy for training participants. The model may hold promise for social work education in this critical area, as well as for other types of professional training for social workers.


Among more than 200 quasars known at z ≳ 6, only one object, J0100+2802 (z = 6.327), was found hosting a >1010 M⊙ supermassive black hole. In order to investigate the host galaxy properties of J0100+2802, we performed multi-band ALMA observations, aiming at mapping the dust continuum, [C ii] and CO(6–5) emission lines with subkiloparsec scale resolution, as well as detecting high-J CO lines in CO(11–10), CO(10–9), and CO(7–6). The galaxy size is measured to be Rmajor = 3.6 ± 0.2 kpc from the high-resolution continuum observations. No ordered motion on kiloparsec scales was found in either the [C ii] or the CO(6–5) emission. The velocity dispersion is measured to be 161 ± 7 km s−1, which is about three times smaller than that estimated from the local M–σ relation. In addition, we found that the CO emission is more concentrated (a factor of 1.8 ± 0.4) than the [C ii] emission. Together with CO(2–1) detected by the Very Large Array (VLA), we measured the CO spectral line energy distribution, which is best fit by a two-component model that includes a cool component at ∼24 K with a density of cm−3, and a warm component at ∼224 K with a density of cm−3. We also fit the dust continuum with a graybody model. This indicated that the continuum has either a high dust emissivity β ≳ 2 or a hot dust temperature Tdust ≳ 60 K, or a combination of these two factors. The highly excited CO emission and hot dust temperature suggest that the powerful active galactic nucleus in J0100+2802 could contribute to the gas and dust heating, but future observations are needed to confirm this.


This study uses an empirical model, based on actual water quality of total suspended solids (TSS) measurements from the Penang Strait, Malaysia to predict TSS based on optical properties of satellite digital imagery. The study area is Penang Island, Malaysia which is situated within latitudes 5 12' N to 5 30' N and longitudes 100 09' E to 100 26' E. The proposed algorithm is based on the reflectance model that is a function of the inherent optical properties of water, which can be related to its constituent's concentrations. Concentrations of total suspended sediment (TSS) can be estimated by establishing an optical model that correlates the TSS with the radiance. Seawater reflectance in particular is dependent on the coefficient of absorption and backscattering of their inherent optical properties. The digital numbers for each band corresponding to the sea-truth locations were extracted and then converted into radiance values and reflectance values. The reflectance values were used for calibration of the water quality algorithm. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm was investigated based on the observations of correlation coefficient (R) and root-mean-square deviations (RMS) with the sea-truth data. The proposed algorithm is considered superior to other tested algorithms based on the values of the correlation coefficient, R=0.93 and root-meansquare error, RMS=9 mg/l. This algorithm was then used to map the TSS concentration over Penang, Malaysia. The TSS map was color-coded and geometrically corrected for visual interpretation. Introduction Water pollution problem becomes increasingly critical in this present-day, whether in the developed or developing countries. Water management is one of the important issues in this 21st century. Remote sensing is a useful and advanced technique for mapping water quality. Determination of water quality parameters using regression algorithm technique has been adopted by in many workers [Dekker, et al., (2002), Tassan, (1993) and Doxaran, et al., (2002)]. The objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of using spatial digital satellite images for TSS mapping over Penang by using a newly developed algorithm. Map Asia 2008 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ©GIS Development Water quality parameter used in this study is the Total Suspended Solids (TSS). We used high spatial digital camera image, with a pixel size of 1.1 m, for the purpose. Water samples were collected simultaneously with the image taken from an aircraft at an altitude of 8000ft.; the water samples were used in the training analysis. STUDY AREA The study area is Penang Island, Malaysia which is situated within latitudes 5 12' N to 5 30' N and longitudes 100 09' E to 100 26' E (Figure 1). The corresponding TSS measurements were collected at several selected locations. Laboratory analysis for the determination of TSS follows the procedure as suggested by Strickland and Parsons 1972. Figure 1: The location of the study area OPTICAL MODEL OF WATER A physical model relating radiance from the water column and the concentrations of the water constituents provides the most effective way of analyzing remotely sensed data for water quality studies. Reflectance is particularly dependent on inherent optical properties: the absorption coefficient and the backscattering coefficient. Remote sensing reflectance given by Doxaran et al. (2002) as Q R r n R Rrs ) 1 ( ) 1 )( 1 (


1 Ronei Marcos de Moraes, Department of Statistics, Federal University of Paraíba. Cidade Universitária s/n, Castelo Branco, João Pessoa-PB. 58.051-900. Brazil. email@example.com 2 Liliane dos Santos Machado, Department of Informatics, Federal University of Paraíba. Cidade Universitária s/n, Castelo Branco, João Pessoa-PB, Brazil. 58.051-900. email@example.com Abstract  Training systems based on virtual reality are used in several areas of human activities. The user is immersed into a virtual world to have realistic training and realistic interactions with that world. In some kinds of training it is important to know the user's skills. An online assessment system allows to the user improve his learning because it can identify, immediately after the training, where he committed mistakes or presented low efficiency. In this paper, it was used an another approach for Fuzzy Naive Bayes proposed by Störr, for online training assessment based on a for modeling and classification of simulation in N pre-defined classes. Fuzzy Naive Bayes is a generalization of probabilistic networks, specifically Bayesian Networks, which each variable takes linguistic values and they are defined as fuzzy sets. Over them, it is computed a fuzzy partition over continuous variables.


ABSTRACT Objectives: To explore the reasons of Gynaecology/Obstetrics patients visiting OPD's and awareness regarding basic care and risks associated with unnecessary visits to hospital, during COVID-19 Pandemic Study Design: Cross sectional quantitative survey Place and Duration of Study: Pak Emirates Military Hospital, Gynaecology/Obstetrics OPD during month of May Methodology: A questionnaire exploring reasons of OPD visit of Gynaecology/Obstetrics patients during COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown by government Results: Results will be calculated by using SPSS-22 Conclusion: This study showed that despite of awareness of mode of transmission of disease, most of the patients used public transport to reach the hospital for routine checkups This study pointed out the gaps in awareness, specific aspects of knowledge, seriousness of situation, invariably guiding aim of future awareness and educational campaigns This will lead to increased awareness of people regarding the seriousness of the disease and preventing rapid transmission of the disease by taking proper protective measures


A website has to deal with large-scale concurrent accesses.It will be involved all the website's systems.We resolved concurrent accesses by using load balancing.At the same time,issues concerning network,firewall,database and web designs also be pointed out.Methods of monitors and emergency plans should be prepared in time.We table some proposals and implement methods.


9640 Background: We have previously reported significant placebo response in randomized controlled treatment trials for cancer related fatigue (CRF). We conducted a retrospective study to determine the frequency and predictors of response to placebo and nocebo effect in patients with CRF.

METHODS
We reviewed patients that received placebo in two previous randomized clinical trials conducted by our group and determined the proportion of patients who demonstrated clinical response to fatigue using an increase (ΔFACIT-F score) > 7 from baseline to day 8, and those with nocebo response as those who reported side effects. Baseline patient characteristics and symptoms recorded from the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) were analyzed to determine their association with placebo and nocebo effects.

RESULTS
A total of 105 advanced cancer patients received placebo. 59 (56%) patients responded to placebo (median Δ FACIT-F score of 22). Worse baseline anxiety and well-being subscale score (univariate) and well-being (multivariate, MR) were significantly associated with placebo response. Common side effects reported were insomnia (79%), anorexia (53%), nausea (38%) and restlessness (34%). MR analysis showed that worse baseline (ESAS) sleep, appetite, nausea, and restless are associated with increased reporting of these side effects ( Table ).

CONCLUSIONS
Nearly half of advanced cancer patients enrolled in the fatigue trials responded to placebo. Worse physical well-being score was associated with placebo response. Patients experiencing specific symptoms at baseline were more likely to report these as side effects of the medication. These findings should be considered in fatigue clinical trial design. [Table: see text] No significant financial relationships to disclose.


The purpose of the article is to analyse the continuity of traditions in the Ukrainian drama theatre, its signs in the work of outstanding theatre artists and the study of artistic phenomena that reflect the national heritage of theatre culture in Ukraine. With this objective in view, and to justify the need for a combination of skill, innovation and tradition for updating the culture of society, we have used methods of analysis and synthesis, an interdisciplinary approach and the principle of historicism. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the development of the national Theatre is analysed taking into account cultural traditions, their influence on the work of leading theatre figures, and the main principles and traditions of the performing arts. Conclusions. We have found out that Ukrainian artists, despite the Imperial pressure, in the 80-90s of the 19th century got an opportunity to stage performances in the Ukrainian language, although with certain restrictions, and subsequently organise the Coryphée Theatre. Since that period the national tradition had been developed in professional Theatre. We can state that for the support of Maria Zankovetska and the activities of Hnat Khotkevych, the Hutsul theatre of folk art and a combination of cultural traditions with the theatrical art of that time was founded. It is shown that the success of creative searches and experiments of stage figures of the 1920–1930s, which is evident in the activities of Les Kurbas and Hnat Yura and defined as a new chapter in the development of the Ukrainian drama theatre that took place as a result of the synthesis of the tradition of Coryphée Theatre stage school with innovative methods and acting skills. In the future, Serhii Danchenko was able to take the national theatre art to a new level. Particular attention should be paid to Bohdan Stupka's experimental search. He founded a Theatre in the Foyer, and later a Chamber stage at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre, which created new hottest features for communication with the audience, helped to reach the potential of the so-called "small stage". The plot and sense-creative series tend more towards poetic utterance. It is proved that only a combination of skill, innovation and tradition can provide a high-quality result for performances are filled with deep meaning, awaken thought, emotionally unite the


Focused on the important thinking Jiangzeming's "Ability Construction of Human Resources", this article attaches importance to developing and training the human resources to realize the idea that able persons should have proper positions and there should be able persons in proper positions, and to set up the system of choosing able persons and dismissing incompetent ones in order to make the enterprises develop greatly.


Information technology of determination of questions complication is offered in test tasks. Efficiency of its use is investigational in CASS of knowledge diagnostics. The use of such technology allows to shorten the amount of questions in test tasks and more exactly define the student level of knowledges on the different stages of teaching. It is proved that the adaptive testing abbreviates the amount of experimental information unlike other methods of determination of questions complication of test task


Abstract. Following a brief biographical sketch of Louis F. post (1849‐1928), this study focuses on the intellectual development of the man who became the de facto leader of the U.S. Single Tax Movement after the death of Henry George. During the period 1898–1913, Post served as editor of The Public, a Chicago weekly. In its analysis of Post's journalistic writings and of his books, The Ethics of Democracy (1905), Social Service (1909), and The Ethical Principles of Marriage and Divorce (1904), the study documents the broadening of Post's thought and suggests the influence which Progressivisim had on the single tax and vice versa. Single Taxers contributed greatly to the success of progressivism in America. In the process, however, many single taxers moderated their thinking to the point where the Single Tax Movement lost its separate identity. Post also participated in the 1909‐1910 Reform movement in England.


My hole study shulde be vppon the passion of Chryst and myne owne passage owt of thys worlde. THOMAS MORE (1535). (1) Imagine Thomas More's cell in the Tower of London, what he calls his "shop," and his books, what he refers to as his "implements." In such a shop and with these tools, More produces his "goods," among which we count his De Tristitia Christi. (2) On June 12, 1535, the King's Council determines More's books shall be taken away from him. According to More's early biographer, Thomas Stapleton, More keeps his blinds drawn down day and night after that. When his jailer asks why, More replies: "Now that the goods and the implements are taken away, the shop must be closed." (3) Less than a month afterwards, More's trial and execution occurs. (4) What are these "implements" that More values so much? We know he uses both the Catena aurea of Thomas Aquinas and John Gerson's Monotessaron as his "basic tools" for composing De Tristitia. The Catena is a compendium of exegetical comments by Church Fathers, which Aquinas compiles and condenses. His Catena aurea thereby becomes a "golden chain" of linked biblical commentary on specific sections of the gospel. The subtitle of Monotessaron is Unum ex quattuor, or "one from four," which indicates how Gerson integrates four gospels into one "harmony" by combining corresponding verses. More's obvious interest in the passion of Christ and his own imprisoned state leaves him with limited access to books and so he chooses his texts very carefully. Gary Haupt surmises that "nothing could more appropriately express More's intense concern with the unity of Christendom" than his selection of Gerson's harmony and Aquinas's collection of Church Fathers. (5) Unity among evangelists and within the tradition is symbolized in More's selection of texts and in the cause of his imprisonment. Though Stapleton's account of More's reply to his jailer may not be factual, it raises a complex question about how More understands the relationship between his sources and his own composition. Clarence Miller's commentary on De Tristitia acknowledges Aquinas's Catena as a source upon which More "relies heavily" because it provides "the groundwork" of More's biblical exegesis. (6) Yet Miller's subsequent analyses, like others', have not addressed how the Catena influences More's habits of composition. There are two reasons I would highlight for this vast scholarly gap, which, in turn, raises the question of how or if the Catena may be more important than critics have hitherto conceived. The first appears as chance because Miller intended but never wrote a section of his commentary that would address More's biblical exegesis, a subject still in need of further exploration. The second pertains to how scholars assess Erasmus's influence upon More's text and the degree to which More developed original theological insights. (7) To understand better the problematic question of More's originality, I will review what he inherits from both Erasmus and the Catena in arguing how he developed these materials in a unique fashion. Before turning to the evidence, I will state my conclusions. I believe Miller's assessment that More writes with the habit of arguing opposing cases in order to present his own position illustrates how the Catena provides much of the matter that comprises two crucial sections of De Tristitia: namely, More's treatment of Christ's ironic rebuke to his apostles to "sleep on" and his defense of fearful martyrs. Indeed, More's selection and exegesis of commentary from the Catena will reveal how he understands his political situation as a person of Roman Catholic faith caught between Henry VIII's agenda and the papacy of 1535, a subject of recent controversy. On the one side, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (2009) depicts More, even in his last days, as a "self-absorbed villain," following popular revisionist scholarship. On the other, historians like Richard Rex and Eamon Duffy have undermined the dominant Whiggish and Protestant interpretations of More. …


This article deals with relative clauses which modify NPs containing a superlative adjective. This kind of relative clauses are particular in that, although they are restrictive, the NP does not denote the set on which they operate. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the superlative adjective and the relative clause. In the first section it is shown that not only superlative adjectives but also other adjective with a superlative meaning (such as : seul ('only'), premier ('first'), principal ('main'), etc.) can be used with these relative clauses. What matters, is that they presuppose the existence of a hierarchical ordered set. The second section shows that a relative clause is only one of the structures which contribute to the delimitation of the set on which the adjective operates. Section III discusses the hypothesis of Kampers-Mahne (1991), which relates the analysis of these relative clauses to the mood of the verb: when the subjunctive is used the relative clause is analysed as a complement of the adjective; when the verb has the indicative mood, it is analysed as a normal restrictive clause. It is shown however that the use of the mood is too fluctuant to give rise to totally different analyses of these structures. Finally, section 4 focuses on a frequent use of these relative clauses in copular sentences, due to the double predication expressed by the noun phrase, by the adjective on the one hand and the relative clause on the other.


The dissertation "Strategies for Tutoring Multiple Bugs" investigates a problem that has not been effectively addressed before. That problem is how to help students who need help with more than one error, or bug. For example, novice students who write computer programs rarely make a single bug. Rather, they come to their tutors with five, six, seven, or more bugs and they need help with all the bugs.
Empirical observations of experienced human tutors show that they do not just jump in and start tutoring the first bug in the student's program. Instead, tutors formulate a tutorial plan for helping the student. Creating a tutorial plan requires the tutor to answer the following five tutorial planning decisions about each bug: (TPD1) Should the bug be tutored? (TPD2) Which other bugs should the bug be tutored with? (TPD3) What tutorial objectives does the tutor want to achieve? (TPD4) When should the bug be tutored? (TPD5) What intervention strategies should be used to tutor the bug?
Making the five Tutorial Planning Decisions cannot be done by simply generating all the possible tutorial plans and choosing the best: There are literally hundreds of millions of possible plans for the same set of seven bugs.
Previous work on multiple bugs has not considered problem solving situations in which students make more than two or three bugs. The approaches to multiple bugs developed for simple situations cannot work once the student makes more than three or four bugs.
"Strategies for Tutoring Multiple Bugs" explores the problem of tutoring multiple bugs. Starting from empirical observations of experienced human tutors, a model is developed of the knowledge required to answer the five tutorial planning questions. The model is implemented as a computer program, TP, that can develop tutorial plans for multiple bugs.


On May 24, 2008, Dr. Sheldon Wolff died at his home in Mill Valley, California, his wife and children by his side. He was just 79. With his death, the world lost one of its great pioneers in cytogenetics and radiation biology, and the Environmental Mutagen Society lost one of its former presidents. Many of us also lost a valued teacher, colleague, and friend. Sheldon Wolff was born in Peabody, Massachusetts on September 22, 1928. He obtained his B.S. degree (Magna cum Laude) in Biology from Tufts College in 1950, an M.A. (Biology) from Harvard in 1951, and his Ph.D. (Biology) from Harvard in 1953. He then joined the staff of the Biology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he ran a leading research laboratory in radiation biology and cytogenetics (at that time relying heavily on plant cytogenetics). He was recruited to the faculty of the Univeristy of California at San Francisco (UCSF) in 1966 to join Harvey Patt and Robert Painter at the newly established Laboratory of Radiobiology (later renamed as Laboratory of Radiobiology and Environmental Health), an Organized Research Unit of the Department of Energy (DOE). He later served as the Director of the Laboratory of Radiobiology and Environmental Health (LREH) from 1983–1995. Shelly retained his appointment as Professor of Cytogenetics and Radiology at UCSF with a joint appointment in the Department of Anatomy through the end of his career. In 1996, he was appointed as the Vice Chairman and Chief of Research of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) in Hiroshima, Japan, where he remained until his retirement in 2000. Shelly and his laboratory made many key contributions to the field of cytogenetics and radiation biology. He was the first to demonstrate that repair of chromosome damage in cells was a metabolic process requiring the synthesis of chemical bonds. Before this time, chromosome breaks were thought to represent simple physical fusions of breaks. Shelly's work led directly to our understanding of the complex biochemistry associated with the processing and repair of DNA/chromosome breaks. In the early 1970s, Shelly helped pioneer the sister chromatid exchange (SCE) assay, one of the most sensitive assays for detection of potentially mutagenic and carcinogenic agents. While on sabbatical in the laboratory of his friend and colleague H. John Evans in Edinburgh, Shelly worked with Paul Perry to develop a simpler staining method to identify SCEs. Shelly's lab went on to make extensive observations concerning their mechanisms of formation and biological significance. Three of his publications in this area were honored by the Institute for Scientific Information as Citation Classics. The third of Shelly's major scientific contributions was the identification of an adaptive response to ionizing radiation—the observation that low dose radiation exposures can confer cellular resistance to a subsequent challenge with a higher dose. This report sparked a deluge of studies from around the world and an ongoing debate as to the nature of the Sheldon Wolff


The planning and management of port terminals traditio-nally done using management and operating ratios drawn from international experiences ratios not specifically for certain specific port systems, so it is difficult to plan and manage the exploitation of the Spanish containers terminals as very heterogeneous. The purpose of this paper is to show the application of a new methodology, in this case, artificial intelligence, through the use of probabilistic gra-phical models to determine optimal operating parameters and port planning, through the classification of the terminals by adding the inference virtual scenarios.


This research is part of a large 5-year national project "Analyses of needs to build up a cycling infrastructure in the Czech Republic" funded by the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic. The aim of the entire project is to identify barriers of a further development of cycling as means of transport. The whole project is supposed to provide the public and local and national representatives with information about technical issues of transport safety, comfort and cross-connectivity of cycling tracks. One of its main objectives is to build up a database of existing and planned cycling tracks in the Czech Republic as well as the modal split. Another aim of the project is a socioeconomic analysis of demand for various means of passenger transport and social barriers to the further development of a more sustainable structure of mobility. The results provide not only as a discussion point about motivation of people to use various kinds of transport (including a bicycle) and their potential to switch among various means of transport but also a source of data for a subsequent cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of cycling infrastructure. The sociological survey is conducted as a case study in an urban area, the Czech town of Pilsen. For the covering abstract please see ITRD E135207.


Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by excessive anxiety and worry occurring over the course of ≥6 months. GAD has a 5.7% lifetime prevalence in the general adult population, and all 8% lifetime prevalancein the primary care setting. GAD is associated with twice the amount of primary care visits compared with patients without GAD, which leads to significant healthcare costs. This is largely because GAD commonly manifests with musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular physical symptoms. The course of GAD is chronic and disabling, with a low rate of spontaneous remission. Two thirds of patients with GAD have a secondary comorbid psychiatric diagnosis, with major depressive disorder being the most frequently occurring. Aggressive treatment is necessary 10 maximize resolution of symptoms. Fortunately, a variety of effective pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies exist for the acute treatment of GAD. Preliminary work suggests that these benefits are maintained with time and that continued pharmacotherapy may prevent the reoccurrence of GAD.


Objective To observe the influence of rosiglitazone in the expression of adiponectin(APN)and tumor necrosis factor-α(TNF-α)in the liver of high fat diet-induced obese rats.Methods Forty male SD rats were randomly divided into control group on regular diet(n=10),high fat diet group(n=15)and high fat diet goup administrated rosiglitazone(n=15)on high fat diet.After twelve weeks,fasting blood glucose,fasting serum insulin,triglyceride,total cholesterol,and the histomorphological change in liver were observed;insulin sensitivity test were performed;the fatty experimental group are treated with rosiglitazone[5mg/(kg·d),oral gavage],treatment was administered daily for 2 weeks.The control group and fatty control group all received an equal volume of vehicle(saline).The protein expression of APN and TNF-α in the liver of rats were determined with immunohistochemistry.Results Compared with the control group(1)The insulin sensitive index was significantly decreased in the high-fat-diet rats(P0.05).(2)In obese rats,the sensitive of insulin were degraded.(3)The protein levels of APN in the liver of fatty control group was significantly decreased(P0.01),that in the liver of fatty experimental group was significantly increased compared with the fatty control group(P0.01).The protein levels of TNF-α in the liver of fatty control group was significantly increased(P0.01),that in the liver of fatty experimental group was significantly decreased compared with the fatty control group(P0.01).Conclusion The decreased APN level and increased TNF-α in the liver seem to play an important role in the pathogenesis of islet insulin resistance induced by high fat diet.Rosiglitazone could improve the expression of APN and TNF-α,and improve the resistance of insulin.


The treasury department staff at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (Cypress) had just received the final draft of the proposal for the pending $600 million convertible bond issue. This would be the latest in a series of convertible bond issuances by Cypress. But this time the situation was quite different. The last offerings were in 2000 when Cypress's stock price was trading in the $40 to $50 range for the year and had, in fact, hit a high of $57.75 in May 2000. The picture had changed dramatically in the last three years. One day earlier, on May 16, 2003, the closing price was $10.51. Of course, the situation had been the same for almost all high-tech stocks, but that did not make the prospect of issuing an equity-based security any less painful given the current stock price.


The marine environments on the shallow shelf of La Guajira, Colombian Caribbean. A brief description of seven benthic environments found in La Guajira's shallow continental shelf from Boca de Camarones to Cabo de la Vela between 3 to 20 m depth is presented. Cover percentage of main benthic components, organic matter proportion in sediment, and main organisms observed in each environment are listed. The dominant environment was "arenal" (sandy bottom) covering 47% of total area sampled, whereas most species were observed in the environments "fondo mixto" (mixed bottom), "cascajo compuesto" (composed gravel) and "corales y esponjas sobre cascajo" (corals and sponges on gravel).


As a form of literature that engages with the lived realities of farming life, the Georgic offers an insight into the kind of close working relationship that is possible between humans and nature, a relationship that may in turn be described as ecological in its concern with adaptation and sustainability. This essay focuses on three examples of Georgic literature that highlight both the possibilities and pitfalls of making this association: Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), Richard Jefferies's Amaryllis at the Fair (1887), and Hubert Crackanthorpe's short story, "Anthony Garstin's Courtship" (1896). All three were written during the Victorian period, when innovations in "high farming" had made it possible to increase yields without overly exploiting the land. As these narratives illustrate, this form of farming nevertheless involved back-breaking, exploitative and often poorly paid work. Moreover, farmers were already under pressure to mechanize their processes where possible, maximising yield regardless of long-term consequences. Small farms were themselves are threat, because less economically viable. Whatever ecological balance high farming embodied, it could not long survive these wider socio-economic pressures. In their concern with these particularities, these narratives nevertheless offer an insight into what an eco-Georgic might mean, as a form of writing properly attentive to the challenges of reconciling human and nonhuman needs, and accommodating both within a global, capitalist framework. These works are, furthermore, alert to the difficulty of how best to (re)present those challenges; each shifts away from conventional realism and towards new literary modes better able to confront the idealising, pastoral expectations of an urban readership. As such, these works emerge as prototypical forms of a modern, self-reflexive form of (eco-)Georgic mindful of the practical difficulties of sustainable living, and flexible enough to find innovative ways of representing them.


The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first is to show that two meromorphic functions f and g must be linked by a quasiMöbius transformation if they share a pair of small functions regardless of multiplicity and share other three pairs of small functions with multiplicities truncated to level 4. We also show a quasi-Möbius transformation between two meromorphic functions if they share four pairs of small functions with multiplicities truncated by 4, where all zeros with multiplicities at least k > 865 are omitted. Moreover the explicit Möbiustransformation between such f and g is given. Our results are improvement of some recent results.


The damage of concrete subjected to freezing and thawing is normally evaluated with the resonance method, which estimates the elastic properties of concrete. This method is one of several nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques that use elastic-wave methods. The damage is evaluated based on resonant frequencies, which are related to the dynamic properties of concrete. Because resonance is closely associated with wave motions, the ultrasonic test (UT), which measures the velocity of wave propagation, is also available for NDE of damaged concrete. Another NDE technique using elastic-wave methods that can be applied to evaluate the damage of concrete is acoustic emission (AE) measurement.These three techniques are investigated and discussed for NDE of damaged concrete due to freezing and thawing. To theoretically clarify the dynamic behaviors of concrete specimens in the tests, numerical analysis of the three-dimensional boundary element method (BEM) were conducted.No difference between the dynamic modulus of elasticity and the static modulus was found to exist. Compared with UT and AE, the heaviest damage was estimated by the resonance method in the freeze-thaw process. These results have to be carefully taken into account for NDE of damaged concrete.


We continue a previous paper to show that Mel'nikov's first order formula for part of the separatrix splitting of a pendulum under fast quasi periodic forcing holds, in special examples, as an asymptotic formula in the forcing rapidity.


Sifting and sense-making of video collections are important tasks in many professions. In contrast to sense-making of paper documents, where physical structuring of many documents has proven to be key to effective work, interaction with video is still restricted to the traditional "one video at a time" paradigm. This paper investigates how interaction with video can benefit from paper-like displays that allow for working with multiple videos simultaneously in physical space. We present a corresponding approach and system called PaperVideo, including novel interaction concepts for both video and audio. These include spatial techniques for temporal navigation, arranging, grouping and linking of videos, as well as for managing video contents and simultaneous audio playback on multiple displays. An evaluation with users provides insights into how paper-based navigation with videos improves active video work.


From July to October 2001, 215 cases of aseptic meningitis occurred among the inhabitants of the German city of Kassel and neighbouring counties. A matched case-control study identified bathing in a public, nature-like pond during the beginning of the outbreak as a risk factor for disease [matched odds ratio (mOR) 44·8, 95% confidence interval (CI) 3·9–515·6]. Among bathers, patients with meningitis spent more time in the water (mOR 18·8, 95% CI 2·0–174·1) and swallowed water more frequently (mOR=7·3, 95% CI 0·7–81·8). Of 30 cerebrospinal fluid samples tested, echovirus 30 was cultured from 16, and echovirus 13 from seven. An echovirus 30 sequence obtained from one pond water sample showed a 99% nucleotide and 100% amino-acid homology with patient isolates. This outbreak demonstrates the potential of nature-like swimming ponds to cause widespread community infection with substantial public health impact.


To avoid the incapability of existing 3D model segmentation methods in recognition of structural characteristics of buildings,a structural segmentation method for 3D building models based on voxel analysis is proposed.The method firstly constructs distance fields by level in building models through voxelization and inner distance parameter calculation,then extracts midvoxels from each level of distance field constructed for representation of buildings' structure and shape distribution by means of local maximum search,and finds independent structural units of buildings in composition based on midvoxel,inner voxel and outer voxel clustering,finally makes surface segmentation on original building models according to the results of voxel analysis.The experimental results show that our method is capable of efficiently segmenting building models of different styles with great robustness.


THE iron content of the plasma is small but it is probably of great importance as transport iron. In the normal subject the range is narrow and results obtained by various workers within recent years have shown general agreement, the figures ranging from about 0 1 to 0-2 mg. Fe per 100 ml. [Barkan, 1927; Fowweather, 1934; Tompsett, 1934; Moore, 1937]. Barkan [1925] found that plasma Fe was not ultrafiltrable but became so after incubation of the plasma with dilute 1I1 at 37°. Tompsett [1934] found that only a small fraction of the plasma Fe could be recovered in trichloroacetic acid extracts and that added Fe (as iron alum) could not be recovered quantitatively in such extracts. Fowweather [1934] made a similar observation. The writer has found that plasma Fe and added Fe could be recovered quantitatively in trichloroacetic acid extracts if thiolacetic acid, a reducing agent, had previously been added. It has also been found that whereas ferrous Fe could be recovered quantitatively in trichloroacetic acid extracts of materials containing phosphatides or phosphoproteins, ferric Fe could not. Plasma Fe was shown to be in the ferric state.in vitro. In later work, Barkan [1937] noted that the plasma Fe could be recovered quantitatively in trichloroacetic acid extracts provided that the plasma had previously been incubated with dilute 1I1 at 370 for 24 hr. The following experiments were carried out in order to obtain a clearer insight into the nature of the plasma Fe and the Barkan phenomenon. In the first experiments, the influence of plasma on the dialysis of ferrous and ferric salts was studied. To 5 ml. of plasma was added 1 mg. Fe (ferrous sulphate, iron alum, iron ammonium citrate) and the mixtures were dialysed against 15 ml. water for 4 hr. At the end of this period the Fe contents of the dialysates were estimated with thiolacetic acid and NH3 [Tompsett, 1934]. Typical results are shown in Table 1, where it will be seen that whereas ferrous Fe dialysed easily, ferric Fe dialysed hardly at all.


BACKGROUND: The proteases are among the most important groups of enzymes. Therefore, it is important to produce inexpensive and optimized media for large-scale commercial production. In the present work, three different Shewanella species were screened on skim milk agar medium for their ability to produce alkaline protease. The effects of different culture conditions were optimized for alkaline protease production by S. oneidensis MR-1 using a Box–Behnken design combined with response surface methodology (RSM).

RESULTS: Highest yield (112.90 U mL−1) of protease production was obtained at pH 9.0, a temperature of 30 °C, glucose (12.5 g L−1), tryptone (12.5 g L−1) and an incubation period of 36 h. A second-order polynomial regression model was used for analysis of the experiment. The experimental values were in good agreement with predicted values, with correlation coefficient 0.9996.

CONCLUSION: Carbon and nitrogen, pH, temperature and incubation period were chosen as the main factors to be used in an experimental design for optimization to produce low-cost enzymes, potentially for use on an industrial scale. A 60% increase in enzyme activity was achieved in the optimized medium compared with the original medium. Copyright © 2008 Society of Chemical Industry


For modern transistors,the transport delay in CB SCR is comparable to or even larger than the base transit time.The van Vliet model is extended to include base-collector space charge region delay so that it can express the RF noise performance of SiGe HBT more exactly.The transport noise model is extended by using two noise-related delay times,so that noise can be accurately modeled in lack of NQS Y-parameters.Finally,the models are proved valid by depicting the two models' curves of base and collector noise current spectrums as well as their normalized correlation and by comparing them with the analytical result on the condition of JC= 12.2 mA/ m2,AE=0.12×18 m2.


An ultrafast electron microscope (UEM) with a femtosecond temporal resolution is a "dream machine" desired for studies of ultrafast structural dynamics in materials. In this chapter, we present a brief overview of the historical development of current UEMs with nonrelativistic electron pulses to illustrate the need for relativistic-energy electron pulses. We then describe the concept and development of a UEM with relativistic femtosecond electron pulses generated by a radio frequency (RF) acceleration-based photoemission gun. The technique of RF electron gun and physical characteristics of the relativistic electron pulses are described. Demonstrations of UEM images acquired using approximately 100 fs long electron pulses with energies of 3 MeV are presented. Finally, we report a single-shot diffraction imaging methodology in the UEM with a relativistic femtosecond electron pulse for studies of laser-induced ultrafast phenomena in crystalline materials.


Single‐photon sources (SPSs) based on quantum emitters hold promise in quantum radiometry as metrology standard for photon fluxes at the low light level. Ideally this requires control over the photon flux in a wide dynamic range, sub‐Poissonian photon statistics, and narrow‐band emission spectrum. In this work, a monochromatic SPS based on an organic dye molecule is presented, whose photon flux is traceably measured to be adjustable between 144 000 and 1320 000 photons per second at a wavelength of (785.6 ± 0.1) nm, corresponding to an optical radiant flux between 36.5 and 334 fW. The high purity of the single‐photon stream is verified, with a second‐order autocorrelation function at zero time delay below 0.1 throughout the whole range. Such molecule‐based SPS is hence used for the calibration of a single‐photon avalanche detector against a low‐noise analog photodiode traceable to the primary standard for optical radiant flux (i.e., the cryogenic radiometer). Due to the narrow bandwidth of the source, corrections to the detector efficiency arising from the spectral power distribution are negligible. With this major advantage, the developed device may finally realize a low‐photon‐flux standard source for quantum radiometry.


Nano-particles derived from Chaetomium lucknowense proved to be antagonized Pyricularia oryzae causing rice blast disease var. RD57. Result showed that nano-ECL, nanoMCL and nano-HCL expressed antifungal activities against P. oryzae (rice blast disease) at the ED50 values were 82, 114, 181ppm, respectively. In pot experiment, the nano-CL gave significantly better to control rice blast than the chemical fungicide (Tricyclazole) in rice var. RD57. Rice blast disease showed that nano-CL gave the highest reduction of 54 %, when compared to the chemical fungicide that the disease decreased 29.26 %. Application of nanoCL gave the highest plant strands of 87.62 cm when compared to Tricyclazole (74.91 cm). Nano-particles from C. lucknowense is being developed to be nano-elicitors for plant immunity.


Abstract A detailed LM, SEM and TEM study of the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the leaf of the ectohydric moss Zygodon viridissimus var. rupestris (Z. baumgartneri) is described. The presence of papillae on both surfaces is confirmed and a groove, running the length of the nerve, is demonstrated. The presence of waxy particles on both surfaces is also demonstrated. A pattern for water conduction which could represent another interesting example of eco-physiological adaptation in bryophytes, is suggested.


THE PRESENT ARTICLE INTENDS TO PROVIDE A GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE ACTIVE ROLE PLAYED BY CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS IN THE EMERGING DEMOCRACIES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, IN THEIR CAPACITY AS GUARANTORS OF A CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER AND, MORE SPECIFICALLY, AS PROTECTORS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS GRANTED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS. THE ARTICLE BEGINS BY DESCRIBING, IN A BRIEF MANNER, THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS THAT THOSE CONSTITUTIONS TYPICALLY RECOGNIZE. IT PROVIDES NEXT A NOTION OF THE MODE AND MANNER IN WHICH THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS (BELONGING TO SEVENTEEN COUNTRIES) HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED AND REGULATED BY THE CONSTITUTIONS AND THEIR BY-LAWS. THE CENTRAL PART OF THE ARTICLE CONSISTS OF AN ANALYSIS OF THE INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS FOR CARRYING OUT THEIR TASK OF PROTECTING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, PROVIDING ALSO NUMEROUS EXAMPLES OF THE PROBLEMS THEY HAVE FACED AND THE DECISIONS THEY HAVE ADOPTED IN THIS RESPECT.


The demand for ubiquitous telecommunications services forces operators to have a special concern about signal quality and the coverage area they offer to their customers. This was usually checked by using suitable propagation models for Single Input Single Output (SISO) systems, which are no longer the case for new and future mobile generations, such as 5G and beyond. To guarantee good signal quality coverage, operators started to replace these models with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) ones. To achieve the best results, these models are usually calibrated with Drive Test (DT) measures; however, the DTs available for MIMO propagation models are sparse, in contrast to SISO ones. The main contribution presented in this paper is a methodology to extend the propagation models of SISO systems so they can be applied in MIMO sytems with Single-Carrier and Frequency-Domain Equalization (SC-FDE), while still using DTs acquired for SISO systems. This paper presents the impact on Bit Error Rate (BER) performance and its coverage area resulting from the application of our proposed method. We consider a MIMO SC-FDE system with an Iterative Block Decision Feedback Equalization (IB-DFE) receiver and we present the improvement expressions for the BER that we illustrate with some simulations.


A modular tandem synthesis of 2-carboxybenzofurans from 2-gem-dibromovinylphenols has been established, based on a sequence of Cu-catalyzed intramolecular C-O coupling and Mo(CO)6-mediated intermolecu-lar carbonylation reactions. This protocol allowed one-step access to a broad variety of functionalized benzofuran-2-carboxylic acids, esters, and amides in good to excellent yields under Pd- and CO- gas free conditions.


Dear Editor, Atrophic rhinitis (AR) is a debilitating chronic nasalmucosal disease of unknown aetiology. The condition is characterised by progressive nasal mucosal atrophy, atrophy of the underlying bone of the turbinate, abnormal widening of the nasal cavities with paradoxical nasal obstruction and formation of viscid secretions and dried crusts leading to a characteristic fetor (ozaena). Atrophic Rhinitis was first described by Fraenkel in 1876, but the aetiology of the disease is still a matter of dispute. Various methods of treatment, both medical and surgical, have been tried without much success. However, clinical features of the disease can be attributed to the destruction of the normal respiratory epithelium and metaplasia to a nonciliated squamous epithelium and loss of mucociliary clearance. Thus the curative treatment of AR should address the reversal of this basic pathologic alteration in its microanatomy. Promotion of regeneration of normal nasal mucosa must be the aim of any treatment for long-lasting success. The aim of this article is to present a new regenerative approach to reverse atrophy of nasal mucosa by grafting autologous of lipoaspirate.


This thesis examines the relationship between practices of internationalism, patterns of racialisation, and the politics of anti-racism and anti-imperialism in the revolutionary Marxist left in Britain between 1899 and 1933. I focus on two organisations, the Social Democratic Federation and the Communist Party of Great Britain, examining how different racialised subaltern populations were represented in their publications and how this affected the anti-imperial advocacy and activism of these political groups. I am interested in how the writings of colonial nationalists, as well as the intervention of transnational activists, helped to shape this political praxis. The thesis begins with a study of how positive racialisations, developed by colonial activists as a discursive means to argue for the inapplicability of the 'civilising mission' to their respective societies, were drawn on by SDF activists and figureheads such as HM Hyndman to bolster their increasingly oppositional stance towards the British Empire. Further chapters demonstrate how groups of border-crossing racialised outsiders, be they Russian-born Jews in the SDF or Indian activists in the CPGB, utilised a strategic universalism to overcome their marginalisation within the ranks of the revolutionary Marxist left, and to gain support for their respective communal concerns. During the course of the time period covered within the thesis, the October Revolution, the rise of the Bolsheviks, and the foundation of the Comintern helped to reshape analyses of imperialism as well as practices and theories of internationalism on the British far-left. Particular attention is given to how activists either attempted to utilise or bypass this 'official internationalism' to promote their own international antiimperial networks and discourse, and the efficacy of their efforts. It is my hope that this study will be able to shed light on international influences on the British Marxist left beyond the Continental, provide a greater nuance to histories of Marxism and race in Britain, and demonstrate the variety of models and practices of internationalism available to these activists in the early years of the twentieth century.


Objective To observe the efficacy of little dose of Misoprostol by rectal medication with Oxytocin to prevent postpartum hemorrhage.Methods 188 puerperants in danger of postpartum hemorrhage were divided randomly into 3 groups(treatment group,control group 1 and control group 2)to observe.Puerperants in treatment group were medicated in rectum with 0.2mg Misoprostol combined with 20u Oxytocin intramuscular injection as soon as fetus delivery,puerperants in control group 1 were medicated with oral 0.4 mg Misoprostol after fetus delivery,and puerperants in control group 2 were medicated in vein with 20u Oxytocin and 250 ml 5% Glucose after fetus delivery.Results Uterine contraction strengthened after medication 3 to 6 minutes and lasted for 3 hours in treatment group,in which the amount of postpartum hemorrhage in 2 hours and 24 hours was obviously less than the control group.It solve the problem of the danger in 2 hours postpartum hemorrhage,Postpartum henurrhage rate,puerperal morbidity rate,blood transfusion rate and side reaction of oral Misoprostol in the treatment group were obviously less than the control group.Conclusion Little dose of Misoprostol with Oxytocin can prevent postpartum hemorrhage better and was medicated conveniently and safely.It is worth to popularizing in clinical application.


Wind turbine bird mortality is a by-product of large scale wind farms, which are increasingly promoted as an alternative to fossil fuel derived energy production. To adequately assess the extent of impact to avian populations, deeper factors than gross mortality by turbine action must be assessed. In particular, one must examine: (a) impacts to threatened bird species, (b) total impacts due to avian habitat loss as well as direct mechanical kill, (c) ecological impacts due to apex predator bird loss and (d) future siting decisions for windfarms, since much of the prior bird mortality is due to poor siting decisions.