PURPOSE: A remote curing system is provided for safety of a woman in childbed and an embryo by rapidly diagnosing and prescribing a woman in childbed at a long distance from a hospital or a woman in childbed who is difficult to transfer to the hospital since supplying the heart rate of an embryo sensed by a portable supersonic sensor and prescription through a communication network. CONSTITUTION: A medical information server(170) analyzes a heart rate of an embryo sensed by a supersonic sensor and delivers the result to a computer using an ID delivered from a wireless frequency processor(120) through a communication network(130) in the state of mutually contacting between the supersonic sensor and the communication network. The computer receives the result of the heart rate from the server to the communication network and diagnoses health of the women with fetus. Then the computer inputs the prescription into a usable computer among computers(161-16n). The stored prescription in the server is supplied by mobile communicating terminals(141-14n), telephones(151-15n) or computers through the communication network.


People have been communicating a lot using media. Printed media such as, newspapers, magazines, journals, books, were the first media to communicate and to share ideas to public. Most of the English written texts are written by English native speakers, but now Indonesian speakers have tried to write English texts too. In this study, the writer uses journals to be analyzed. The writer wants to know whether Indonesian writers can write as well as English native speakers based on noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and clauses. She uses some journals written by English native speakers and Indonesian writers with different fields. There are some fields nowadays, but Economic, Education and Psychology have been selected because they are scientific English written texts that most written by both of the speakers.
The writer's analysis is based on the theory of corpus. A corpus essentially tells us what language is like, and gives information about how a language works. As stated by Hunston (2002:2), a corpus is described as a collection of naturally occurring examples of language, consisting of anything from a few sentences to a set of written text or tape recordings, which have been collected for linguistic study."
There are some key terms used in corpus, the writer is interested to make a study about token. As what Biber in Hunston (2002:17) says, "a token is the figure that
word-count function of a word-processing program gives". In this case, the writer emphasizes her study in analyzing noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and clauses
using content analysis especially parsing technique which divide the sentences into their constituents. She is interested in examining the noun phrases, prepositional
phrases, and clauses of English texts since those parts can make sentences become longer and also occur most frequently in sentences. In doing her thesis, the result shows that Indonesian speakers write more noun phrases than English native speakers. (English native speakers = 5, 58 tokens;
Indonesian writers = 6 tokens). The result also shows English native speakers write more prepositional phrases than Indonesian writers. (English native speakers = 7, 55
tokens; Indonesian speakers = 7, 23 tokens). Finally, the result shows that English native speakers write more clauses than Indonesian writers. (English native speakers =
15, 65 tokens; Indonesian writers = 15, 54 tokens)
The result of this study can prove that Indonesian speakers write more noun phrases whereas English native speakers write more prepositional phrases, and clauses. However, the result in this study shows that Indonesian writers might have the same ability as English native speakers in writing long sentences.


The mechanism of formation of surface roughness and extrusion swelling of the extrudate and the steady-shear viscous flow behavior in the region of high shear rate for branched polymers were investigated using two low-density polyethylenes and their sheared samples. These two polyethylenes varied in their degree of branching, molecular weight, and molecular weight distribution but were similar in their melt flow index. The effect of molecular parameters, especially long-chain branching, on viscoelastic properties in the molten state was also considered. Samples of various degree of shearing level were prepared by passing them repeatedly through an extruder. Results of intrinsic viscometry, gel permeation chromatography, and infrared spectroscopy of the original and the sheared samples indicate that no appreciable variation between them takes place in the molecular parameters during the process of extrusion shearing. Both surface roughness and extrusion swelling of the extrudate diminish with increase in the extent of shear. The extrusion shearing affects the surface roughness and extrusion swelling of the extrudate as well as the capillary entrance effect more markedly for the highly branched polymers with considerably higher molecular weight than for the less branched species with bell-type molecular weight distribution. These results demonstrate that heterogeneity becomes more conspicuous with the degree of long-chain branching level, and therefore the role of long-chain branching in the development of the heterogeneity is particularly important. It is suggested that the secondary heterogeneous structure arises through phase separation or from the heterogeneous formation of strongly entangled network at the branching point of the long-chain branching in the manufacturing process of the low-density polyethylene and that its presence causes the distinctive viscoelastic properties of long-chain branched polymer melts.


The multiplicity and complexity of the disciplines which comprise modern theology pose difficulties which appear to be insurmountable for the individual theologian. m e proposal that what can no longer be accomplished by the individual working alone could be achieved by a 'society' O r Presbytery of theologians has been advanced by Congar, who believes that through reviews, conventions and the like, a theological synthesis could be p r o d u d by the community of theologians.' The suggestion is interesting and one hopes that Congar will develop his ideas on it further. Questions arise as to the possibility of a theological synthesis if different methods are employed by the theologians working in the society or Presbytery. ilfysterim salulb,' to take the most recent example of an attempted comprehensive presentation of the faith, can ScarctlY be called a theological synthesis in the sense intended by Congar. It might, perhaps, be more accurately described as a series of correlated monographs which endeavour to deal with all the areas of theology. There are many related issues involved here, clearly one of them is the problem of method itself, and its meaning and fundon in contemporary theology. In an article entitled 'Functional Specialties in Theology' a Bernard bnergan offers new and challenging ideas on theological method today. As is well known this article will form a central chapter in Lonergan's fonhcoming book hlethod in Theology, and despite the condensed nature Of the article and the difficulties of evaluating (or at times even understanding) its full implications for theology outside the context of the book In which it belongs, it may be worth setting forth its chief tenets which


In this work, authors estimate and identify a set of benefits and costs that Small Distributed Generation (PMG/PMGD) has brought to the National Electric System (SEN). Using Unit-Commitment and Hidrothermal Coordination optimization models, authors ran simulations of an alternate scenario where PMG/PMGD were never installed, and a Base Scenario with SEN capacity as it is in reality. The results indicate that PMG/PMGD allow to diminish coal-based generation, operational costs and GHG emissions. On the other hand, the main costs identified were: increment of both secondary reserve requirement and start-up and shutdown costs. Also, a theoretical maximum for the Stabilized Price Mechanism cost was estimated on 9.5 million US$.


Software quality is a major concern in software engineering, particularly when we are dealing with software services that must be available 24 hours a day, please the customer and be kept permanently. In software engineering, requirements management is one of the most important tasks that can influence the success of a software project. Maintain traceability information is a fundamental aspect in software engineering and can facilitate the process of software development and maintenance. This information can be used to support various activities such as analyzing the impact of changes and software verification and validation. However, traceability techniques are mainly used between requirements and software test cases. This paper presents a prototype of a tool that supports the mapping of functional requirements with the pages and HTML elements of a web site. This tool helps maintaining requirements traceability information updated and, ultimately, increasing the efficiency of requirements change management, which may contribute to the overall quality of the software service.


A strategy is presented for variational orbital optimization in time-independent calculations of excited electronic states. The approach involves minimizing the energy while constraining the degrees of freedom corresponding to negative curvature on the electronic energy surface, followed by fully unconstrained optimization, thereby converging on a saddle point. Both steps of this freeze-and-release strategy are carried out via direct orbital optimization at a similar cost as ground state calculations. The approach is applied in orbital optimized density functional calculations and is shown to converge intramolecular charge transfer excited states where the common maximum overlap method is unable to prevent collapse to unphysical, charge-delocalized solutions. The constrained minimization can also be used to improve the estimate of the saddle point order of the target excited state solution, which is required as input for generalized mode following methods. Calculations with the local density approximation and the generalized gradient approximation functionals PBE and BLYP are carried out for a large set of charge transfer excitations in organic molecules using both direct optimization as well as the linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) method. The time-independent approach is fully variational and provides a relaxed excited state electron density that can be used to quantify the extent of charge transfer. The TD-DFT calculations are found to generally overestimate the charge transfer distance compared to the orbital optimized calculations, even when the TD-DFT relaxed density is used. Furthermore, the orbital optimized calculations yield more accurate excitation energy values relative to the theoretical best estimates for the medium and long-range charge transfer distances, where the errors of TD-DFT are as large as 2 eV.


During the course of an intensive study of many patients with malignant diseases, the writer was impressed by certain personality characteristics of patients with Hodgkin's disease, that appeared to distinguish them from Ss with other forms of cancer. Even on superficial contact, the impression was so strong that it was decided to study the personality and life history of these patients3 apart from Ss with other forms of malignant disease.


This work aimed to establish the importance of maturation and ripeness stages and the use of refrigeration for the conservation of 'Paluma' guavas. Fruit picked at the mature-green and ripe stages were stored at ambient conditions (21°C and 85% RH) and also at 10°C (85% RH). The fruit were evaluated every 2 or 3 days for weight loss, appearance, decay, color, firmness, soluble solids, titratable acidity, ascorbic acid, total polyphenols extractable content and total antioxidant activity. The fruit stored at 21°C had higher weight loss than those stored at 10°C. Mature-green guavas at 21°C remained in good quality for 6 days, but at 10°C, the preservation period increased to 15 days. Ripe fruit were preserved for 4 days at 21°C, which was extended with refrigeration to 6 days. Mature-green fruit at 21°C had decay in 6 days; while at 10°C decay happened in 18 days. The peel color of mature-green fruits, at 21°C, showed increasing values of luminosity, indicating that its color became lighter (change from green to yellow) and at 10°C it showed constant values until the end of storage. Pulp firmness of mature-green fruit declined during storage as a result of ripening. In ripe fruits such reduction occurred more slowly, since they were softer. The color of the pulp became intense red for mature fruits. Soluble solids were lower in ripe fruit at 21°C, while in mature fruits at 10°C, it increased. The titratable acidity increased in fruits stored at 10°C. The fruits kept at 21°C and the mature guavas kept at 10°C showed no changes in ascorbic acid content. The ripe fruit at 10°C maintained their ascorbic acid levels. Mature guavas, stored at 10°C, had the longest shelf life and higher contents of soluble solids and titratable acidity, with no changes in total polyphenols extractable content and total antioxidant activity.


Abstract ON THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER MOVEMENTS FOR THE BENTHIC VEGETATION OF THE WESTERN BALTIC Water movements are ecologically more significant in the western Baltic Sea than on tidal rocky shores of more temperate and colder oceans. In these latter areas this factor is present mainly as surf and tides, and this has led to the definitions of habitats as exposed to surf or protected from it (i.e. sheltered). The western Baltic, on the other hand, can be described as typical of marine, non-tidal, areas which have irregular fluctuations in the water level caused by differing weather conditions, unstable hydrographic conditions, and particular conditions of the substrate (in this case a geologically young sea with a level beach and a gravel substrate). In the western Baltic the water movements are a direct result of the wind and the fluctuations in water level, of oscillations in the whole or a part of the Baltic Sea system caused by weather conditions, and of water-exchange processes. These water movements ...


Responding to a dearth of significant climate policies and the growing risks to coastal communities around the world, Miami artist Xavier Cortada created a socially engaged art project aimed at generating awareness and action around sea level rise ‐ Underwater Homeowners Association
 (UHOA). The initiative utilizes local elevation data to inform the creation of yard signs and painted street intersections, consequently bringing attention to the area's vulnerability to rising seas and convening neighbours for monthly meetings. Beyond science communication, UHOA provides
 a creative approach to developing interdisciplinary partnerships, engaging communities and mobilizing agents of change.


The electronic structure of nitromethane and nitrobenzene has been studied by high‐resolution HeI photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations of the INDO type. The spectra of CH3NO2 and CD3NO2 exhibit six ionization bands below 21 eV. The transitions to the ground and first excited ionic states have extensive vibrational structure which has been identified as the symmetric NO2 bending mode. The spectra of C6H5NO2 and C6D5NO2 contain at least 10 ionization bands below 21 eV with resolved vibrational structure only in the transition to the ground ionic state. The most loosely bound MO of nitromethane has been identified as the 5a1 NO2–σ bonding orbital, and that of nitrobenzene as the b1 ring‐π orbital. The nonbonding a2 π orbital has been assigned to the second and fourth ionization bands in these respective molecules. Using the MO ordering found here, the 198 mμ absorption band of nitromethane is assigned to the π*(2b1)← σ(5a1) transition and the long wavelength bands of nitrobenzene are ...


Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the perceived image of nurses on major and non-major students. Methods: The subjects were 120 nursing school students and 120 other university students in J province. The data was collected by using structured questionnaire. T-test, ANOVA were perform...


There is provided a radiation detector capable of more accurately correct fluorescence pileup. A table (T) in which the peak value h and the time course (Tc) of the intensity of fluorescence are related is previously prepared before radiation detection. The table (T) is based on actually-measured variation with time of the fluorescence intensity, and therefore faithfully represents the variation with time of fluorescence. When the occurrence of pileup is determined, the time course (Tc) corresponding to the peak value (h) immediately before the occurrence of the pileup is read out, and the time course (Tc) is subtracted from variation with time of the intensity data (D) to thereby estimate variation with time of the intensity of fluorescence after the occurrence of the pileup.


The invention provides a magnetite gob physical geography judgment method and device and relates to the field of metal mining and geophysical exploration. The method comprises the steps of determining a high magnetic anomaly region in a to-be-estimated region; delineating a low magnetic response range in the high magnetic anomaly region of the to-be-estimated region; determining an initial gob position in the to-be-estimated region; based on the electric characteristic difference between the magnetite gob and the surrounding rock, differentiating the cross-section diagram characteristics of the transient electromagnetic apparent resistivity of the to-be-estimated region; and determining the location of the magnetite gob. According to the technical scheme of the invention, on the basis of field investigation and regional geological data analysis, the data of two methods are comprehensively analyzed and compared for the research on the distribution characteristics of the magnetite gob.


Abstract Two different views of social hypothesis testing have been put forth. (1) A poorly calibrated process dominated by biases toward hypothesis confirmation. (2) Rational decision making where a diagnosing strategy prevails. By recognizing the similarity between the standard hypothesis-testing situation and the 2 × 2 covariation paradigm, we conclude that neither of these views is necessarily correct. In particular, we demonstrate that use of a diagnosing strategy is moderated by the presentation format such that sequentially presented information is much less likely to induce a diagnosing strategy than is a tabular presentation. In addition, when a diagnosing strategy is separated from a simpler (and often indistinguishable) hypothesis-testing rule, this simpler rule is strongly preferred. Thus, the apparent dominance of a diagnosing strategy in social hypothesis testing may be due, in part, to a favorable presentation format and to the use of a nondiagnosing strategy that is generally indistinguishable from the use of diagnosticity. Results indicate the advantages of a stronger integration between the hypothesis testing and the covariation literatures.


Vibrio alginolyticus and Vibrio splendidus strains are common bacterial pathogens,having a significant negative economic impact on aquaculture. It is necessary to establish a simple,rapid and effective detection method. According to the conserved sequence of gyrB gene of V. alginolyticus and V. splendidus,2 pairs of primers were designed respectively to amplify 9 strains of V. alginolyticus and 6 strains V. splendidus. The results showed that the two pairs of primers could specifically detect V. alginolyticus and V. splendidus,but there is no specific band with bacteria which exist extensively in the culture of the sea cucumber. The minimum detectable amount of template was 0.13 pg/μL DNA or the lysed products of 103 cfu/mL of V. alginolyticus,and 0.34 pg/μL DNA or the lysed products of 103 cfu/mL of V. splendidus. This method had good specificity and high sensitivity. It was able to rapidly detect V. alginolyticus and V. splendidus in sea cucumber and its culturing environment.


An acknowledgement that the legacy of apartheid lives on in the minds of South Africa's born free generation necessitates an exploration of psychologists' interventions for transgenerational trauma. This research aimed to contribute to research on this subject by interviewing South African psychologists with the ultimate objective of assisting professionals who formulate interventions. Firstly, the ways in which psychologists identify transgenerational trauma were explored. This provided a foundation for exploring the psychologists' interventions for transgenerational trauma and contributed to a discussion of how interventions could be enhanced. Thematic analysis of the semistructured interviews revealed that stuckness paired with guilt, grief resulting from silence and certain manifestations of identity and relationship issues are identifiers of transgenerational trauma. The findings also pointed to the utility of certain approaches to individual, group, family and community interventions. Recommendations for enhancing psychologists' interventions for transgenerational trauma in Gauteng's born free generation revealed the imperative for psychologists to actively engage in professional and personal growth, predicated on the complexity of the challenges within.


The sodium complex [{Ph2P(O)NH(2,6-Me2C 6H3)}Na{Ph2P(O)N(2,6-Me2C 6H3)}]2 (2) with the ligand N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)diphenylphosphinic amide was synthesized involving the reaction of the neutral ligand [Ph2P(O)NH(2,6-Me2C 6H3)] (1) and sodium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide in toluene at 60 °C. The calcium complex [{Ph2P(O)NH(2,6-Me 2C6H3)CaI(THF)3}I] (3) was obtained by the reaction between the neutral ligand 1 and anhydrous calcium diiodide in THF at ambient temperature. The solid-state structures of the complexes were established by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. In the solid-state structure of 2, the sodium ion is coordinated through the chelation of oxygen atom attached to the phosphorus atom. Two different P-N and P-O bond lengths are observed, which indicates that one ligand moiety is anionic, whereas the second one is neutral. In the solid-state structure of 3, the calcium atom adopts distorted octahedral arrangement through the ligation of two phosphinic amide ligands, three THF molecules, and one iodide ion. Copyright


Face authentication systems have gained widespread popularity because of their user-friendly usage and increasing recognition accuracy. Unfortunately, the boom in mobile social networks has bought with it media-based facial forgery; a critical threat where an adversary forges or replays the victim's photograph/video to fool the system. In this article, we propose EchoFace, an effective and robust liveness detection system to enhance face authentication in defending against media-based attacks, which works with today's smartphones/smartwatches without any hardware modification. EchoFace uses active acoustic sensing to differentiate the uneven stereostructure of the face and the flat forged media. Our proposed scheme effectively extracts the desired reflection profiles from the target. Moreover, we propose effective similarity measurements of reflection profiles to distinguish live users from forged media, which works robustly under various environmental conditions. EchoFace only requires low cost and universally equipped acoustic sensors without human intervention for liveness detection, which can be easily deployed in a variety of application scenarios. We implement EchoFace on commercial smartphones, and experiment results show that EchoFace achieves an average detection accuracy higher than 96% and false alarm rate lower than 4% across various media attacks and different levels of background noise. This shows its great potential to enhance the security of widely deployed face authentication systems in real scenarios.


This report presents the results of a technical and economic evaluation of the H-Coal process and the coal-to-methanol process for the production of liquid fuels from coal. Evaluations are based on capital cost estimates, in mid-1982 dollars, for commercial size, self-contained plants with a nominal liquid product capacity of 50,000 fuel oil equivalent (FOE) bbl/sd (FOE bbl = 5.85 x 10/sup 6/ Btu). Product selling prices, in dollars per million Btu, are calculated for both nonregulated and regulated (utility) producers. The H-Coal process, developed by Hydrocarbon Research, Inc., is used in this study to produce hydrocarbon liquid from either Illinois No. 6 bituminous or Wyodak subbituminous coal. The primary fuel products include gasoline, turbine fuel, and distillate fuel oil. A substantial amount of LPG is produced only in the Illinois coal case. Hydrogen is produced by gasifying vacuum bottoms using Texaco technology in both cases. However, in the Wyodak case, supplemental hydrogen is required and this is produced by reforming product gas. Electric power is produced from combined-cycle gas turbines fired by process derived fuel gas. Fuel grade methanol is produced from Illinois No. 6 coal using Texaco coal gasification to provide synthesis gas to Lurgi methanol synthesis. Steam derivedmore » from the process is used to generate the electric power requirements. Product selling prices of liquid fuel products in mid-1982 dollars were found to range from 9.06 to 10.94 $/10/sup 6/ Btu for a nonregulated producer and 5.66 to 6.88 $/10/sup 6/ Btu for a regulated (utility) producer. The sensitivity of the product price to various factors, as well as approaches to accomplish early commercialization, are examined and discussed.« less


A simple AC complex circuit analysis for an LCL type series resonant power converter with phase shift control (PWM) method is proposed. Based on this analysis, a set of characteristic curves which allows an optimal design procedure for this power converter are shown, without increasing the voltampere rating of the tank circuit. In particular, inverter output peak current can be minimized in both full load and part load conditions. The presented design considerations can make the control range of output voltage quite wide, under loads varying from heavy to light, achieving turn-on with zero voltage switching (ZVS) operation. The detailed analysis and experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed design algorithms.


The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Electromyography (EMG), thickness of the masseter and temporal muscles, maximal bite force in individuals with head and neck cancer treated with radiotherapy. The patterns of the muscle activity were evaluated by means of the EMG recordings of the masseter and temporal muscles; bilaterally during the following clinical conditions: rest, protrusion, right and left lateral excursions and Maximum Habitual Intercuspation (MHI). Muscle thickness was evaluated using ultrasound at rest and in MHI. Maximal bite force in the right and left molar regions of 10 fully dentate individuals with head and neck cancer was evaluated after radiotherapy and compared with a control group. The EMG means showed that at rest, protrusion, and left lateral excursion, there were statistically significant differences (p < 0.05). On evaluation with ultrasound, the muscle thickness values were higher for individuals with head and neck cancer at rest and in MIH, with statistically significant results found only for the right temporal during the MIH. Participants with head and neck cancer treatment were evaluated in the present study showed higher electromyographic activity when compared with the control group for all clinical situations. The treatment used with patients undergoing head and neck cancer increased the electromyographic activity, the muscle thickness, and the bite force when compared to control subjects. The results suggest a muscle dysfunction of the stomatognathic system in individuals with head and neck cancer treatment evaluated in the present study.


Neurospora crassa colonizes burnt grasslands in the wild and metabolizes both cellulose and hemicellulose from plant cell walls. When switched from a favored carbon source such as sucrose to cellulose, N. crassa dramatically upregulates expression and secretion of a wide variety of genes encoding lignocellulolytic enzymes. However, the means by which N. crassa and other filamentous fungi sense the presence of cellulose in the environment remains unclear. Here, I show that a N. crassa mutant carrying deletions of two genes encoding predicted extracellular b-glucosidase enzymes and one intracellular b-glucosidase enzyme (d3bG) lacks b‐glucosidase activity, but efficiently induces cellulase gene expression and cellulolytic activity in the presence of cellobiose as the sole carbon source. These data indicate that cellobiose, or a modified version of cellobiose, functions as an inducer of lignocellulolytic gene expression and activity in N. crassa . In addition, I have identified two cellodextrin transporters involved in sensing cellulose. A N. crassa mutant carrying deletions for both transporters is unable to induce cellulase gene expression in response to crystalline cellulose. Furthermore, a mutant lacking b- glucosidase enzymes and transporters (d3bGdT) does not induce cellulase gene expression in response to cellobiose.


The purpose of this article is to deconstruct the Constitutional Court's definitions of ubuntu as humanness, group solidarity, umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, personhood and a moral philosophy. It is submitted that the philosophy of ubuntu or ethnophilosophy represents a religious worldview as it is inseparable from African Religion and the African spirit world. It is argued that the advocating of ubuntu's shared beliefs and values by South African courts and the state is to the detriment of other religious philosophies as it violates section 15(1) of the Constitution and constitutes unfair discrimination.


In continuation of our recent work arXiv:2006.07312, we classify the extremal traces on infinite diagram algebras that appear in the context of Schur-Weyl duality for Banica and Speicher's easy groups. We show that the branching graphs of these algebras describe walks on new variations of the Young graph which describe curious ways of growing Young diagrams. As a consequence, we prove that the extremal traces on generic rook-Brauer algebras are always extensions of extremal traces on the group algebra $\mathbb{C}[S_{\infty}]$ of the infinite symmetric group. Moreover, we conjecture that the same is true for generic parameter deformations of the centralizers of the hyperoctahedral group and we reduce this conjecture to a conceptually much simpler numerical statement. Lastly, we address the trace classification problem for the Schur-Weyl dual of the halfliberated orthogonal group $O_N^*$, in which case extremal traces are always extensions of extremal traces on $\mathbb{C}[S_{\infty} \times S_{\infty}]$. Our approach relies on methods developed by Vershik and Nikitin.


For any suspension bridge, the wind-induced vibrations are mostly studied due to some historical failure events. For a proper prediction of the wind-induced vibrations of a suspension bridge, it is necessary to use a representative wind velocity profile at the bridge site. Measurement of wind velocity at the bridge site thus plays an important role in a realistic prediction of the wind-induced response. In an effort to assess the buffeting response of the Vincent Thomas suspension bridge, which connects the city of San Pedro and Terminal Island of Los Angeles Port, recently, three anemometers have been installed at three different strategic locations on this bridge. Two of them are located on the deck level while the third one is located at the top of the east tower. These locations are chosen so that the velocity profiles can be simulated at the deck level as well as along the height of the towers. A new technique of non-Gaussian conditional simulation is proposed to conditionally simulate the wind velocity profiles by utilizing the measured wind velocities. Buffeting responses of the bridge are then evaluated by using the conditionally simulated wind velocity profiles as obtained from the proposed algorithm and a critical comparison is made with the other cases of wind velocity profile simulation.


In this paper we continue our investigation of generalized power series. The main theorem determines rings of generalized power series which are Von Neumann regular rings and semisimple rings. In the final section we give a new proof of Neumann's theorem on skewfields of generalized power series with totally ordered group of exponents. Using a result of w x Erdos and Rado, we deduce a simple proof of a theorem in 1 , which is ` proven here also for skewfields. It is my pleasure to thank C. U. Jensen and K. R. Goodearl for useful comments while this paper was in preparation.


Objective:To improve the recognition of the clinicopathologic charateristics of Natural Killer/T-cell lymphoma.Metheds:A patient with Natural Killer/T-cell lymphoma was diagnosised,treated and the related literatures were reviewed.Result:Natural Killer/T-cell lymphoma is a rare type of malignant lymphoma.Conclusion:The diagnosis of Natural Killer/T-cell lymphoma depends mainly on the clinical manifestation,histological characcteristics and immunohistochemical expression.


The purpose of this study was to evaluate the compensation effect of exposure duration increase to decreased light intensity of visible-light curing unit. The specimen with 2mm thickness was made of Restorative (A2 shade, 3M Dental Products, U.S.A.) and cured with (Demetron Research Co. U.S.A.). The light intensity was controlled to 420 , 540 , 630 and curing time, also, controlled to 40, 60, 80 seconds. Cured specimen was stored in a light-proof container for 24 hours to post-irradation was completed. Microhardness of top and bottom surface of specimen were measured to evaluate the depth of cure. The obtained results were as follows: 1. The microhardness of top and bottom surface of the composite resin specimen was increased significantly as light intensity and exposure time was increased (P0.438) than top microhardness(0.213), and exposure time was more correlated with top microhardness (0.424) than bottom microhardness(0.335). 3. The regressive equation was obtained in this study as follows : (H : Microhardness(KHN), D : Exposure time, I : Light intensity)


The specific focus of this research was to determine how the outcomes on two alternative forms of assessment (multiple-choice and hands-on/manipulative) for science process skills were related when students were grouped on the basis of sex, race/ethnicity, and poverty level. Subjects were 1,381 fourth graders in a culturally diverse city school district in New York state. Also explored was the relationship between the reading scores of students and their scores on the two alternative science assessments and the effect of the presence of an elementary science specialist on the student scores. The reliability of New York's Elementary Science Program Evaluation Test (ESPET) was also considered. All students performed better on the hands-on test, and the traditional gap associated with socioeconomic or racial/ethnic status was reduced by the hands-on test. Economic status appeared to have an effect on science achievement, and reading had a greater effect than poverty on science achievement. Results supported the reliability of the ESPET, but did not support the importance of an elementary science specialist to student achievement. Results show that all students can learn science given appropriate instruction. Thirteen tables and 17 figures present study findings. (Contains 48 references.) (SLD) ******************************************************************:. Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ****************************************************;:****7.c******.% * Alternative Forms of Assessment in Elementary Science: The Interactive Effects of Reading, Race, Economic Level and the Elementary Science Specialist on Hands-On and Multiple-Choice Assessment of Science Process Skills U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 011K e at EduCal.onal Reseerch and Improvement EDUyATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) t.7.4nos document nS been reprOduCed as hscemeo horn the person or 0,pan.ZahOn ohoinahng O 41.nor chnges his..e been mCle 10 .n1CYOue roproduCliOn qua. dy Fonts 01 v.ew or OPmons stted 0 1nm dOr merit Oo not neCeSShly reoreSen, 011.C.a. OE RI boshon or Pol.by by PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY ANE TIE A-I 5./9rt LeA-)E TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Annette Miele Saturnelli Newburgh (NY) Enlarged City School District J. Theodore Repa New York University A Paper Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association April, 1995, San Francisco, California Annette Miele Saturnelli, Ed.D. Director of Science PreK-12 Newburgh Enlarged City School District 124 Grand Street Newburgh, New York 12550 914-563-7462 914-563-7493 (f) J. Theodore Repa, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Administration, Leadership, and Technology New York University, School of Education 239 Greene Street, Suite 300 New York, NY 10003-4721 212-998-5520 212-995-4041 (f) firstname.lastname@example.com


PURPOSE
To investigate the differences between two rat yolk sac tumour cell lines with different radiosensitivities in paclitaxel sensitivity and in the sensitizing effects of paclitaxel in combination with irradiation.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
NMT-1 is a parent radiosensitive cell line and NMT-1R is a variant radioresistant cell line.

RESULTS
Clonogenic assay demonstrated almost the same paclitaxel sensitivity with Do of 5.15 nM in NMT-1 and 5.02 nM in NMT-1R. Many apoptotic cells and DNA ladder formations were observed at 24 h after exposure to paclitaxel in both cell lines. The incidence of DNA fragmentation after 24 h exposure to 20 nM paclitaxel was 12.4 +/- 3.3% for NMT-1, and 13.0 +/- 1.9% for NMT-1R. Paclitaxel showed a supra-additive effect in combination with irradiation in both cell lines at 12 h after paclitaxel treatment only when the accumulation of cells in the G2/M phase reached its peak.

CONCLUSIONS
Paclitaxel had the same cytotoxic effect in two cell lines with different radiosensitivity due to the induction of apoptosis. A supra-additive effect to radiation was observed with 12 h pretreatment in both cell lines. Paclitaxel may be effective for tumours with a component of different radiosensitivity in combination with irradiation.


—Medical Images are most widely done by the various image processing approaches. Image processing is used to analyze the various abnormal tissues based on given input images. Deep learning (DL) is one of the fast-growing field in the computer science and specifically in medical imaging analysis. Tumor is a mass tissue that contains abnormal cells. Normal tumor tissues may not grow in other places but if it contains the cancerous (malignant) cells these tissues may grow rapidly. It is very important to know the cause of brain tumors in humans and these should be detected in the early stages. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images are most widely used to detect the tumors in the brain and these are also used to detect the tumors all over the body. Tumors are of various types such as noncancerous (benign) and cancerous (malignant). Sometimes tumors may convert into cancer cells based on the stage of the tumor. In this paper, a hyper integral segmentation approach (HISA) is introduced to detect cancerous tumors and non-cancerous tumors. Detecting cancerous cells in the tumors may reduce the life threat to the affected persons. The agent based reinforcement classification (ABRC) is used to classify the Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cancerous and non-cancerous cells based on the abnormalities present in the MRI images. Two publically available datasets are selected such as MRI images and AD-affected MRI images. Performance is analyzed by showing the improved metrics such as accuracy, f1-score, sensitivity, dice similarity score, and specificity.


Conclusion Without doubt, SMI is an extremely useful tool providing valuable information about minute vessels which we have previously not been able to evaluate, especially during physiological change and even without contrast agents. In the near future, SMI will be an essential tool for the diagnosis and the assessment of various diseases, regardless of the affected organ. Figure 22. NOMI (non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia) mSMI of normal bowel


This study presents results on the charge transfer between CdSe nanoparticles (NPs) and a gold substrate, when the NPs are attached to the gold via self-assembled monolayers of alkanedithiols (DT) of various lengths. The study examines the dependence of the photoinduced charge transfer on the DT length. Two methods were applied for measuring the charge transfer yield, surface photovoltage (SPV) and temperature dependent photoluminescence. The results demonstrate a net transfer of electrons from the NPs to the gold, under constant illumination. Interestingly, the data reveal that the monolayer composed of 10 carbon methylene chains displays an unusually efficient electron transfer, which is attributed to a high local ligand density resulting in multiple links between the NPs and the substrate.


The spherical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SSK) model and its bipartite analog both exhibit the phenomenon that their free energy fluctuations are asymptotically Gaussian at high temperature but asymptotically Tracy-Widom at low temperature. This was proved in two papers by Baik and Lee, for all non-critical temperatures. The case of critical temperature was recently computed for the SSK model in two separate papers, one by Landon and the other by Johnstone, Klochkov, Onatski, Pavlyshyn. In the current paper, we derive the critical temperature result for the bipartite SSK model. In particular, we find that the free energy fluctuations exhibit a transition when the temperature is in a window of size $n^{-1/3}\sqrt{\log n}$ around the critical temperature, the same window for the SSK model. Within this transitional window, the asymptotic fluctuations of the free energy are the sum of independent Gaussian and Tracy-Widom random variables.


[1] We report on ground magnetic and optical observations performed during an ionospheric heating experiment at the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility in Alaska on 29 October 2008. The experiment was aimed at generation of large-amplitude ULF electromagnetic waves by triggering and facilitating development of the ionospheric feedback instability (IFI) in the region adjacent to a bright auroral arc. In this region the downward/return magnetic field-aligned current decreases plasma density and enhances the electric field in the ionosphere. A combination of these two effects creates favorable conditions for the instability. The experiment occurred during a period of substorm activity, but effects from the HAARP transmitter were not sufficiently intense to be detected against the background of strong natural oscillations occurring farther north from the HAARP site. Thus the experiment did not provide concrete evidence that heating of the ionosphere with powerful HF transmitters can affect IFI development or generate intense ULF electromagnetic waves. However, during the experiment ground-based magnetometers in Alaska and Canada detected large-amplitude ULF waves in regions where the substorm onset auroral arcs interacted with the ionosphere. The frequencies of these waves closely matched frequencies predicted by simulations of IFI for these particular geophysical conditions. These observations support the hypothesis that geomagnetic substorms, the corresponding dynamics of discrete auroral arcs, and the ionospheric feedback instability are closely connected phenomena.


An experimental study of a film type direct contact heat exchanger using immiscible fluids is made. Laboratory experiments were conducted on a R-113-water system using both 2.5 cm Berl saddles and 3.2 cm spheres as packing, in a 14.6 cm diameter column. The configuration was counter flow, with the vapor phase entering at the base of the column, and condensing on the laminar water film that coated the packing surface. Packing height, water temperature and both water and vapor flow rates were varied in obtaining heat transfer data. These and other packed bed heat transfer data published in the literature were reduced and correlated to yield a relationship between the Stanton number and the important vessel operating parameters.


Dear Lord Rothermere, May I sincerely thank you for the letter which you were kind enough to send me through Princess von Hohenlohe. The knowledge that I have found in you, Lord Rothermere, a sincere friend of an Anglo-German understanding, is for me the more happy and significant, inasmuch as it concerns a task for which I stood unswervingly long before my public political activity and before my Chancellorship. The correctness of this idea cannot better be proved than by the course of the World War, by its sacrifices and by its results. I believe that a methodical, scientific examination of the European history of the last 300 years will show that 9/ioths of the bloodsacrifices of the battlefields has been shed entirely in vain. That is to say, in vain measured by the natural interests of the participating nations. I make no exception in the case of Germany. On the contrary, our people have in the course of these 300 years, lost at least 20 to 25 million souls, probably even more, from wars which have been essentially profitless to the nation if one measures the success not in terms of a questionable fame but in those of practical profit. Europe has sometimes senselessly squandered her strength. The only nation that has understood how to keep clear of these events, at least for long periods, and to derive advantage therefrom, is England. Thanks to the shrewdness of the English people and many of their governments, England has built up with a fraction of such sacrifices the greatest empire in history. I do not believe that a cool survey of the English participation in the World War will show the same favourable results for the strengthening of the British Empire as might undoubtedly have been attained by other action, involving an immeasurable smaller stake. Germany has lost everything by this war with its great Germanic neighbour. England has, I venture to state, at least gained nothing but has probably helped in the creation of world conditions which are not in the interests of the British Empire. I do not say this in order to deliver judgement on the question of war guilt. I can hardly believe


Numerous performance models have been proposed for locking algorithms in centralized database systems, but few have been developed for distributed ones. Existing results on distributed locking usually ignore the deadlock problem so as to simplify the analysis. In this thesis, a new performance model for static locking in distributed database systems is developed. A queueing model is used to approximate static locking in distributed database systems without deadlocks. Then a random graph model is proposed to find the deadlock probability and restart probability of each transaction. Finally, the above two models are integrated, so that given the transaction arrival rate, the response time and the effective throughput can be calculated. The results are very general, so they can be applied to other systems with deadlocks. The analytical results are validated by simulation results.
The deadlock problem is intrinsic to locking systems. Efficiently resolving deadlocks is crucial to the performance of locking systems. From the simulation, we verify that most deadlocks are of length two and that the deadlock probability is very small. However, we found that although deadlock does not occur often, once it occurs, the system of performance drops dramatically, unless it is resolved quickly. This is because the resource held by the deadlocked transactions are not released and this further blocks more transactions. Therefore, an efficient abortion-free distributed deadlock detection/resolution algorithm (ABF) is proposed in this thesis. The most important feature of ABF is that when a deadlock cycle is detected, it is resolved by reordering the wait-for relations between pairs of transactions. Therefore, no transaction abortions are necessary to resolve deadlock cycles. This results in less messages, smaller transaction response time and better fairness. The correctness of this abortion-free algorithm is proved. The algorithm ABF is then extended to distinguish Read/Write locks and transaction classes. (Copies available exclusively from Micrographics Department, Doheny Library, USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182.)


Dislocation etch pits and other etch patterns due to plastic deformations are observed by the decoration method at electrically formed area on the crystal surface of a point contact germanium diode. The dislocations and other crystal defects are decorated with a lithium impurity. The lithium vapor is diffused into a germanium surface, and crystal defects are delineated by the selective etching of precipitates. The distributions of dislocation etch pits appear in the area of about 70–100 µ in diameter around a point contact and they show the crystallographic orientation <110> on the (111) surface. The dislocation etch pits and other crystal defects are ascribed to the plastic deformation induced in the contact region by an electrical forming. It is confirmed by means of the thermo-emf that the type of conductivity of the formed region changes from an n-type to a p-type. This suggests that dislocations play an important role in the conductivity conversion.


Promoting College Completion Through Leadership Among Underrepresented Urban College Students: A Theory of Change and Evaluation of College Retention Outcomes for the Act Six Leadership and Scholarship Initiative


The utility model discloses a breathing machine mask which comprises a breathing mask covering the face of a user and a breathing hose and further comprises two expanded portions oppositely arranged and a bent portion connected with the upper portions of the two expanded portions. One of the two expanded portions is connected with the outer edge of a nose pad. The breathing hose comprises a connecting barrel provided with through holes in two ends, one of the two through holes is connected with an air hole, a sleeve is installed in the other through hole, one end of the sleeve is arranged in the connecting barrel, a short air intake tube is rotatably arranged in the sleeve, and an annular groove is formed in the portion of the short air intake tube, arranged in the connecting barrel. The head top is sleeved with the breathing machine mask through a head band, a thickening block can be arranged horizontally and can be also arranged obliquely, the contact area between the nose pad and the face of the user is increased, and oppressing sensation on the face, brought by the breathing mask is eliminated.


OBJECTIVE: To investigate the pharmacokinetic characteristics of asiaticoside in rats. METHODS: HPLC method was used to determine the plasma concentration of asiaticoside in SD rats with single dose of asiaticoside (42 mg·kg-1 or 126 mg·kg-1) via tail vein. Methanol was used to precipitate the plasma protein and water-acetonitrile (24 ∶ 76) was used as mobile phase. Cucurbitacin B was applied as internal standard. 3p97 program was used to calculate pharmacokinetic parameters. RESULTS: The pharmacokinetics of asiaticoside in SD rats conformed to two-compartment open model. The main pharmacokinetic parameters of two groups were as follows:t1/2α:1.89 min vs. 1.73 min;t1/2β:27.08 min vs. 26.81 min;K21: 0.24 min-1 and 0.20 min;K10: 0.039 min and 0.031 min; K12:0.11 min and 0.13 min; AUC: 1 442.1 mg·min·mL-1 vs. 5 749.78 mg·min·mL-1;CL:0.029 mL·g-1·min-1 vs. 0.022 mL·g-1·min-1;MRT:39.08 min vs. 38.70 min, respectively. CONCLUSION: The pharmacokinetics of asiaticoside show a rapid distribution and elimination process in SD rats and is of first-order dynamic characteristics.


Teaching pedagogy and praxis on the integration of research skills with Christianity are introduced with practical classroom strategies. The authors discuss the purpose of Christian integration in statistics and research design courses as a spiritual and scientific endeavor. They discuss how they address students' attitudes towards research with respect for their faith and cultural traditions. The development of research skills and personal virtue character development are a third theme.


In 2002, Congress passed the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) to tackle waterway, vessel, and port security in the United States and on U.S-Flagged merchant ships traveling worldwide. This act had the result of allowing the U.S. Coast Guard the authority to require ports and ships to conduct risk assessments and create security plans to temper that risk. Though the MTSA was initially developed to counter terrorism threats, it did not exclude the addressing of other security threats. The MTSA enables the Coast Guard to disseminate maritime security directives (MARSEC) consisting of sensitive security information, directly to mariners. This is invaluable for counter-piracy security programs. MARSEC directives include, among other provisions, self-protective measures which allow U.S. vessels to include in their crew professional security staff; and the establishment of a safe haven that crew members can use as a safe refuge during a pirate attack. Specific guidance is also issue for mariners that specifies the use of force and weapons, and privately contracted armed security personnel.


Abstract Introduction Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a widespread disease with increasing prevalence in developed countries. The only treatment that tackles the underlying causes is allergen immunotherapy (AIT). This treatment is performed through two application routes, the subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) or the sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT). However, persistence during the long course of treatment over 3 years is key for the efficacy of this treatment option. The impaired adherence significantly impacts public health resources. The aim of this study was to assess the persistence of AIT for both application routes. Methods IQVIATM LRx was used to identify patients starting AIT between 2009 and 2018 with grass pollen (GP), early flowering tree pollen (EFTP) and house dust mite (HDM) allergens. Patients were classified within each allergen category by AIT groups (subcutaneous depigmented polymerised allergen AIT [dSCIT], other subcutaneous AIT [oSCIT] and SLIT) and age (5‐11 years, 12‐17 years, 18+ years). Furthermore, they were followed up for up to 3 years until the cessation of treatment. Patients, who were still on treatment after 3 years were deemed to be censored. Kaplan‐Meier curves of persistence were generated and compared by log‐rank tests. Results The number of patients included in the three allergen categories was 38,717 GP, 23,183 EFTP, and 41,728 HDM AIT. In all allergen categories and for any product group, patient persistence decreased with increasing age class with the difference between 5‐11 years and 12‐17 years greater than between the latter and 18+ years. The percentage of patients completing the first year of AIT was low, particularly for SLIT where 22.2%–27.1% of patients remained persistent after 12 months. The equivalent figures for dSCIT were 52.0%–64.1% and for oSCIT 38.3%–50.3%. Conclusion Persistence in AIT in AR was low in this retrospective prescription‐based database and was clearly linked to patient age and application route.


Along with development of a variety of data mining techniques, numerous feature selection methods have been introduced to reduce dimensionality. This may improve scalability and make interpreting learning models easier. In this dissertation a new optimization based feature selection method using the nested partition (NP) approach is presented, including both basic analysis of the NP framework and numerical results on various experiment problems. The numerical results show how the optimal structure of the NP makes contributions on a feature selection process. Further, it is addressed how the new intelligent partitioning method obtains very high quality partition efficiently. The feature selection method is implemented as both a filter and a wrapper.
In addition, the scalability of the algorithm, which is the most significant issue in mining large databases, is also dealt with according to the instance dimension, the feature dimension, and new features adaptation. However, since the NP naturally handle the feature dimension effectively, the dissertation mostly focuses on scalability with respect to the instance dimension. In this research problem, two systematic approaches to improve scalability of instance dimension are presented, which both utilize random sampling. Through this study, a predicted best solution for the size of instance samples is presented using a two-stage version of the NP that also incorporates statistical selection, and a heuristic solution is as well presented in a new adaptive version of the algorithm. Numerical results report that those two approaches are effective for scalability improvement, and perform better than the generic NP method that uses a static sampling approach.
In order to have the NP feature selection method flexible for handling mixed type of features, feature quality evaluators are introduced to determine the order of partitioning with experiment results reporting which one performs better based on a data domain. Finally as a case study, a recommender system that can be effectively used in B2B (business to business) e-business systems is provided using classification, association rules and the new NP-based feature selection method.


In this work, Lie group theoretic method is used to carry out the similarity reduction and solitary wave solutions of (2 + 1)‐dimensional Date–Jimbo–Kashiwara–Miwa (DJKM) equation. The equation describes the propagation of nonlinear dispersive waves in inhomogeneous media. Under the invariance property of Lie groups, the infinitesimal generators for the governing equation have been obtained. Thereafter, commutator table, adjoint table, invariant functions, and one‐dimensional optimal system of subalgebras are derived by using Lie point symmetries. The symmetry reductions and some group invariant solutions of the DJKM equation are obtained based on some subalgebras. The obtained solutions are new and more general than the rest while known results reported in the literature. In order to show the physical affirmation of the results, the obtained solutions are supplemented through numerical simulation. Thus, the solitary wave, doubly soliton, multi soliton, and dark soliton profiles of the solutions are traced to make this research physically meaningful.


266 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT THAT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN VIETNAM Dinh Thi Hoang Phuong&Tran Thi Ai Van 1, 2 Faculty of Political Theory, Dalat University (DLU) 01 Phu Dong Thien Vuong Street, Ward 08, Dalat City, Lamdong Province, Vietnam. ABSTRACT Humans are both the target and the driving force behind the socio-economic development of each country in all times. Therefore, during the process of leading the revolution, Vietnam always considers people as the most precious capital, the goal and the driving force of the revolution, as the decisive factor for the success or failure of the revolution, especially in the process of international integration with a new comprehensive and profound awareness of both theory and practice in all fields, awareness of the position and role of human is also becoming more complete and profound. Vietnam always puts people at the center of the development process, that is the object, target and driving force of all socio-economic activities. Currently, Vietnam has become a low-middle income country and has reaped many achievements in human development. However, the reality still has many limitations and weaknesses, requiring the Government to have appropriate solutions and policies to promote human development that meet the requirements of sustainable development in Vietnam in the coming time.


This note describes a stainless steel drive screw, lubricated by a solid Teflon insert, which is useful in high vacuum systems.


Intrusions detections systems from position of analysis of security procedure are a second line of defense; they have a decision-making role to observe the activities of our network or hosts to identify attacks in real time. In our days, electronics attacks can reason a very destructive damage for nations which make necessary the use of completed security policy to minimize the prospective threats. IDS it is a very main factor to defend against this exposure, in our works, we use a wired data base Knowledge Discovery Data Mining (KDD) CUP 10Percent and a Data Mining Tools Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA) we check the results by using a several evaluations parameters. The results illustrate that a very high detection rate for certain attacks types


The research presented herein aims at the development of an analytical model for predicting the response of members with old-type detailing, strengthened with R/C jacketing under reversed cyclic loading. The analytical model introduces one degree of freedom between the existing member (core of the retrofitted member) and its outer R/C shell, thus allowing slip to take place at the interface between the existing member and the jacket. Shear resistance mechanisms, such as aggregate interlock, friction, and dowel action, are mobilized in response to slip. Constitutive models from the international literature are adopted to describe the mechanisms that resist sliding under cyclic shear reversals. Dual-section analysis is adopted to calculate the shear flow at the interface between the existing member and the jacket. A calculation algorithm is developed to estimate the flexural response under cyclic loading taking into account slip at the interfaces. The validity of the proposed analytical model is assessed through comparison with experiments from the international literature.


Usability for software implies that it should be easy for the user to understand how to perform the tasks the user intends to do. There are methods and standards available to use for ensuring that ...


urea tests of renal efficiency the include (a) simple estimation of blood urea concentration, (b) determination of urine urea concentration following ingestion of urea, and (c) observations on the relationship between urine urea concentrations.


In addition to proper diet, the use of fluoride is the primary and effective method for the prevention of dental caries in primary and permanent dentition. Knowledge and compliance with the current guidelines for the use of different strategies and agents containing fluoride compounds is crucial for ensuring safety and efficacy of prevention. A panel of experts in paediatric dentistry and paediatrics was established as part of the working group of the Polish Branch of Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future (ACFF) to update the position on individual fluoride prevention in children and adolescents in Poland. We conducted a literature review on the knowledge of fluoride prevention, its use in the paediatric population in Poland, efficacy and safety of fluoride-containing preventive agents, as well as recommendations on fluoride prophylaxis issued by academic organisations and societies in different countries worldwide. The first version of the document was discussed and accepted by the panel of experts on paediatrics and paediatric dentistry on the 4th of April 2019. Update was scheduled for not later than 5 years after publication. This document includes basic data on the knowledge of fluoride prevention in parents, children and adolescents, the anticariogenic mechanism of fluoride, the safety and efficacy of different methods for individual fluoride prophylaxis, and the principles for its use depending on age and the risk of caries.


Peoples of the Aleutian Islands lived under a number of stressful environmental constraints, including extreme isolation, volcanic eruptions, seismic activity (including tsunamis), frequent storms, rough seas, gale-force winds, frequent fog and precipitation, and an exclusive marine diet. Nevertheless, the Aleutian Islands supported a large maritime population during late prehistoric times. Cultural adaptations to these conditions included the use of relatively large coastal settlements, semisubterranean houses, tailored warm and waterproof clothing, sophisticated skin boats for hunting, fishing, and traveling, broad species utilization of food and raw materials, food storage, fuel for heating and cooking, and refuge rocks or islets for protection against raids.


1. A process for preparing alumina, which method comprises the steps of: leaching the aluminum material is performed action HCl to obtain leachate comprising aluminum ions and solid and said solid separated from said leachate, said leachate is introduced into the reaction with HCl to obtain a liquid and a precipitate comprising said aluminum ions in the form of AlCl, and separating said precipitate from said liquid, said precipitate is heated in a, e ffektivnyh for converting AlClv AlOi receipt HCl; reused said thus obtained by introducing gaseous HCl into contact with water to produce a composition having a concentration of from about 25 to about 45% by weight, and said composition is used for leaching said aluminum-materiala.2. The method for producing alumina, said method comprising the steps of: carried leaching the aluminum material that contains iron, HCl action to obtain leachate comprising aluminum ions and solid and separate said solid from said leachate, said product is administered leaching reacted with HCl to obtain a liquid comprising at least one iron chloride and a precipitate comprising said aluminum ions in formeAlCl and separated are indicated precipitate from said liquid, said precipitate is heated under conditions effective to convert AlClv AlOi optionally, regeneration of the thus obtained gaseous HCl; said liquid concentrated


microRNAs (miRNAs/miRs) are very short (20–25 nucleotides) single stranded noncoding RNAs which have the complementary to the 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs) of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and induce the degradation of target RNAs and inhibit the protein translation (1-3). Those tiny RNAs are playing critical roles in physiological, developmental and pathological conditions and in variety of the human diseases and can be useful as biomarkers for human diseases because of their stable existence in body fluids such as blood and urine (4,5).


Magnetron sputtering is an established technology to deposit thin films with high quality. Employing RF power (instead of the conventional DC power) allows to deposit not only electrically conductive materials but also dielectrics like optical coatings or semiconductors. In this work two different approaches are used to study the discharge numerically which is otherwise investigated experimentally. An implicit energy-conserving 2d3v PIC/MCC code in rz-geometry simulates the plasma spatially and temporally resolved. Global parameters like the voltage drop in the bulk region and in the magnetized zone, currents to the surfaces, and the bias voltage are extracted from this simulation. These parameters are used to improve a lumped element model. This model is an extension of a previously published lumped circuit description of unmagnetized RF discharges1. As its predecessor, the discharge is represented by separate bulk, and sheath zones and in addition a new magnetized zone which are linked via Kirchhoff relations. The model is efficient in terms of computation time, it only needs a fraction of the time compared to the PIC simulation. Nevertheless, it can be used to gain a fundamental understanding of the discharge. It was successfully used to identify the origin of the Magnetic Asymmetry Effect in a previous work2. With help of the global parameters extracted from the PIC simulations the length of each zone can be determined. The current voltage behavior in the magnetized zone can be fitted, too, to have a suitable description. Due to the magnetic field structure there are sheath areas at the powered electrode where electrons reach the electrode. This information can be gained from the simulation as well and used for the lumped element model. The results of the improved lumped circuit model pertaining to the electron dynamics, plasma series resonance and power dissipation are verified against the results of the PIC simulations.


Carica papaya L. exhibits monoecious and dioecious plants that usually take six months for phenotypic manifestation. Nursery culling aided by sex-specific DNA markers was envisaged to alleviate the unnecessary cost incurred by farmers for maintaining unproductive male plants that contribute to 40-50% of the population. The mechanism of sex determination in papaya has been described as a tri-allelic single gene system with alleles, M 1 -dominant for maleness, M 2 -dominant for hermaphrodism and m-recessive for femaleness with diploid zygotes; M 1 M 1 , M 2 M 2 and M 1 M 2 being inviable. Bulked DNA samples of male, female and hermaphrodite plants were amplified by Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RAPD-PCR) using 100 random primers. Twenty of most promising of these were analyzed among individual sex types. Two sex-specific fragments, OPC09-1.7 and OPE03-0.4 were associated with maleness and hermaphrodism. The segregation of these two markers was analyzed in the F 1 population obtained by self- pollinating a hermaphrodite plant. A linkage was detected between the RAPD markers, OPC09-1.7 and OPE03-0.4 and the male and hermaphrodite sex of papaya plants. These sex-specific RAPD fragments were cloned and sequenced for converting them to more authentic SCAR markers. The Southern blot hybridization of RAPD-PCR products obtained by amplification of female, male and hermaphrodite papaya DNA amplified by OPC09 primer using radio labeled recombinant plasmid detected a polymorphic fragment in male and hermaphrodite papaya sex types. The nucleotide sequence of OPC09-1.7 fragment showed the possibility of developing more authentic SCAR markers to enhance the accurate sex determination of Carica papaya at the nursery stage.


The globe-like diamond microcrystalline aggregates were grown in the different growing time by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition method on the ceramic substrate with a Ti metal layer.The carbon films were evaluated by Raman scattering spectroscopy,X-ray diffraction spectrum,and scanning electron microscopy.The field emission properties were tested by using a diode structure in a vacuum.The growth mechanism of the carbon films and field emission properties of the globe-like diamond microcrystalline aggregates were discussed.It was found that different carbon films prepared by deposition time greatly changes in morphology,and field emission results also change a lot.The decrease of field enhancement factor and the growth of conductive channel are the main reasons for deterioration of the field emission effect.


Chinese Translation circles have begun to pay attention to the research on the cognition of translation,but present studies are scattered and have not built a systematical research framework.This paper puts forward "Information Processing Paradigm" and "Ecological Paradigm" by which cognitive studies of translation can abide,and it also analyzes the specific approaches under the guidance of the two paradigms.After analyzing the connotation and relationship between information processing paradigm and translation cognition research,it puts forward three research directions: control experiment,self-report and computer simulation and artificial intelligence;After analyzing the connotation and relationship between ecology paradigm and translation cognition research,it poses three research directions: naturalistic observation,multi-factor experiment design and case studies;In the end,the paper points out that cognitive studies of translation should combine "Information Processing Paradigm" with "Ecological Paradigm" and only this can make translation cognition research more scientific and complete.


HW/SW Codesign [4] is a strategy to develop highly optimized systems composed of both electronics hardware and software. Examples are smartphones, consumer electronics or embedded systems. The challenge is to achieve an optimized split by partitioning the system components into hardware and software and to achieve the best project execution time (and cost) by developing both hardware and software concurrently [1]. If such systems contain hundreds of highly interdependent hardware and software components, the R&D project for such a system becomes large and very complex. Since more HW/SW systems are developed and since the complexity is growing, a specialized project management methodology for this kind of projects is emerging. Our contribution is focused on giving a practical overview of the challenges and best practices for the management of such projects. The findings are based on more than 10 years industrial experience with various large smartphone and consumer electronics projects. Currently, these findings are evaluated in a research project. This contribution gives an overview on the scope and future targets of this project.


A zero-one integer linear programming with the Lindo software approach can be used to solve the cyclical scheduler method problem. The cyclical scheduling method is one of the scheduling methods that can be used to schedule work picks from Satuan Polisi Pamong Praja (Satpol PP), where each Satpol PP will work within a specified period of 5 days and will repeat periodically. The decision variable solution to the linear programming model is zero or one which becomes the decision of the Satpol PP in choosing the type of schedule. The preparation of this proposed schedule pays attention to the preferred weight of the Satpol PP holidays in each type of schedule that is formed so that the objective function of the linear programming model is to maximize the preferred holiday weights per Satpol PP against the existing schedule types. The results of the analysis obtained an optimal proposal schedule in maximizing the quality of assignments to each shift while taking into account the workload and constraints that exist. Also, it is known comparison between proposal scheduling and scheduling that has been used so far is seen in the aspect of quality, and fairness of the schedule carried out in the proposed scheduling is superior.


In the first part of our research, the works of the some companions who determined the hadiths in writing during the time of our Prophet (p.b.u.h) are summarized. The stages of hadith texts during the tadwin and classification period (tasnif) are included and the value of al-Kutub al-Tis'a today and the importance of hadiths selected from this work in education of hadith texts are emphasized. It is the examination of the Hadith Texts course of the 4th grade students of the Department of Primary Education Religious Culture and Moral Education at Bartın University Education Faculty which we consider as an example the memorization and writing status of our students who read hadith texts. The writing skills of the 4th grade students who took the Hadith Texts course as an elective and their translation skills from Arabic to Turkish and from Turkish to Arabic were examined. The reasons for choosing this course and the reasons for failure in hadith texts were investigated. It has been determined that the students preferred this course because the hadiths are the main source of the Islamic Religion and the effectiveness of the course increased according to the content of the course, the teacher giving this course and the methods he used. It has been determined that students fail to write hadith texts rather than reading. It was concluded that the reasons for the failure of the students in writing the hadith texts were due to the fact that they did not receive training in writing Arabic hadith texts and writing techniques during their high school education.


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The aim of this work is to advance the fact that human feces and urine need to be utilized as bioresources because they grow with the human population. As the world population flies past the seven billion mark, the need for


Glycogen storage disease (glycogenosis) is a common name for a group of hereditary diseases characterized by excessive accumulation of glycogen with normal or altered structure in various organs and tissues, most often – in liver and muscles. This pathology is still diagnosed late and not completely; this considerably aggravates the disease's prognosis. The modern stage of glycogenoses' study is characterized by many unsolved issues; in particular, there are no clear examination and complex rehabilitation algorithms for such patients. Moreover, the authors have not revealed any literary data on the study of life quality of children with glycogen storage disease. The article presents results of the authors' studies of life quality and its connection with clinical-paraclinic parameters in patients with this pathology.


In this article the term «art world» is represented as a category of art sociology, integral character which allows you to combine in such concepts as «art», «artistic culture» and «artistic life». The main integral factors are social functions of art. The basic building blocks-components of artistic culture as a system of social institutions and processes of artistic life are: artistic perception, artistic production, art criticism, art communication and artistic consumption.


The electrical stability of double-gate (DG) and single-gate (SG) amorphous indium-gallium-zinc oxide (a-IGZO) TFTs is investigated and compared. The SG device shows an abnormal negative shift in Vth accompanying with deterioration in SS under PBS, which is not observed in DG device or SG device stressed in vacuum. Moreover, the SG device exhibits a much larger negative Vth shift than DG device and SG device stressed in vacuum. The improved electrical stability of DG device comes from not only the lowered vertical electric field but also more effective moisture resistance due to the shield of DG electrodes.


What we need from school improvement literature is more empirically based 'solutions' to day to day problems, of the kind often found in the journals of other professions. Any student of school improvement literature will appreciate the value-laden nature of this area. But it ought to be up to every teacher's professional judgement to choose to adapt, adopt or reject such advice according to their own unique situational knowledge.


A 52-year old male patient was initially examined because of short-term bronchopneumonia by the primary healthcare physician who prescribed antibiotic therapy that calmed the cough and lowered the temperature. In the following period, the patient started to complain of periodic febrile and subfebrile episodes. One month after the first symptoms of bronchopneumonia, the patient experienced pain in the neck and numbness in his right hand. After approximately ten days, the patient began to experience weakness in both legs and in the right hand. During the examination at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases, severe spastic paraparesis developed. MRI and MSCT scans showed compression of the medulla at the C5 and C6 level, with signs of destruction of the C5 and C6 corpuses. The progression of the neurological deficit necessitated complete removal of corpuses C5 and C6 and partial removal of corpus C7 which were then replaced by inserting an artificia limplant made of acrylate. Anterior stabilization was performed, followed by the posterior cervicothoracic stabilization. After the intervention, there was an improvement in the neurological deficit. Neurological restitution was achieved one month after surgery. Regular X-ray and MSCT check-ups were performed after 3 and 6 months, as well as after one year. The finding showed good decompression and stabilization. The patient was stable and with no neurological deficits. Acute osteomyelitic processes of the spine, accompanied by the development of neurological deficits, require urgent surgical procedures and spine reconstruction by using allotransplants and 3D fixation, in combination with intensive antibiotic therapy administered during a long period of time. Acta Medica Medianae 2016;55(2):50-56.


Given two random samples of equal size from two normal distributions with common mean but possibly different variances, we examine the sampling performance of the pre-test estimator for the common mean after a preliminary test for equality of variances. It is shown that when the alternative in the pretest is one-sided, the Graybill-Deal estimator is dominated by the pre-test estimator if the critical value is chosen appropriately. It is also shown that all estimators, the grand mean, the Graybill-Deal estimator and the pre-test estimator, are admissible when the alternative in the pre-test is two-sided. The optimal critical values in the two-sided pre-test are sought based on the minimax regret and the minimum average risk criteria, and it is shown that the Graybill-Deal estimator is most preferable under the minimum average risk criterion when the alternative in the pre-test is two-sided.


The significance of intellectual property rights(IPRs)protection in international trade and investment came to be recognized during the past two decades.While efforts have been made to harmonize the system of IPRs protection across countries in multilateral organizations such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the World Trade Organization and the World intellectual Property Organization,some industrial countries have requested specific developing countries to adopt stronger IPRs protection in bilateral negotiations. This paper attempts to provide a game-theoretic analytical framework in which such bilateral IPRs negotiations can be investigated.implications of these trade talks will be evaluated on efficiency grounds.By looking at the issue of extending the IPRs protection coverage from the


This paper deals with the design of short irregular Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. An optimization method for the underlying symbol-node degree-distribution (SNDD) of an irregular LDPC code is introduced, which is based on the Downhill-Simplex (DHS) algorithm. In order to compare our method with the optimization described in (Hu et al., 2005), which is based on a simplified version of the DHS algorithm, we first designed a rate 0 .5 irregular LDPC code of length n= 504 for an Additive White Gaussian Noise Channel (AWGNC). The proposed optimization method was then used to design an irregular LDPC code for a Markov-modulated Gaussian Channel (MMGC). The decoding performance of the resulting LDPC code is then compared to the design based on the Density-Evolution (DE) method.


Essences have well known properties. Transforming a drug to nano sized particles usually adds some additional potency to that drug. In this study we used Artemisia sieberi nano-essence to treat Microsporum canis induced dermatophytosis in guinea pig model. In vivo and In vitro methods were used to investigate the antifungal properties of nano-essence. Minimum inhibitory concentration of nano-essence was 0.3% to 2%. Treatment started 5 days after infection as 12 hours regimen until 45 days post infection. Both Ketoconazole and nano-essence groups had complete cure at day 40. Results show that this nano-essence is effective drug to treat M.canis induced dermatophytosis.


Dedicated to academician dr Mileva Prvanovic on the occasion of her 80 th birthday Abstract. Using the Shamhoke's idea given by (1.3), we consider general- ized Finsler space (GFN). Based on two kinds of covariant derivative of a tensor and non-symmetric connection P ⁄ we have 10 Ricci type identities, 3 curvature tensors and 15 magnitudes which we have called "curvature pseudotensors" inGFN. In the present work, using above mentioned Ricci type identities, we obtain "combined" Ricci type identities and 8 new cur- vature tensors-"derived" curvature tensors.


Dynamic Algebra is an algebra that extends the expressive power of Hoare logic and has been used in formal verification of programs. However, quantum programs (programs executed by a quantum computer) behave differently from classical programs. Therefore, it is natural to extend dynamic algebra based on classical logic (Boolean lattice) to quantum dynamic algebra based on quantum logic (complete orthomodular lattice). Nevertheless, quantum dynamical algebra has not been formulated to date because of the difficulty in dealing with repeated execution of quantum programs, which the Kleene star operator represents. In this paper, we formulate an algebra of quantum programs with the Kleene star operator by using an algebraic specification that directly represents the iteration of quantum programs. In addition, we discuss how to construct the algebra from a transition system representing program execution.


Objective To investigate the clinical effect of vitrectomy for severe vitreous hemorrhage.?Methods To analysis the vitrectomy on 37 cases with severe vitreous hemorrhage in different time.?Results In 37 cases,hemorrhage and retina adhesion was the major complication.13 cases were treated with single vitreous resection.24 cases were treated with vitreous resection combined with other surgery.Postoperative visual acuity of 2 eyes(5.40%) decreased.3 eyes have no change(8.11%).Other cases(86.49%) have improved in visual acuity.?Conclusion Vitreous resection is an effective method for severe traumatic vitreous hemorrhage.


This paper is concerned with the robust stability analysis problem for a partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) model of neutral type. Based on the Lyapunov stability theory and a linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach, some sufficient delay-dependent stability conditions are derived. A numerical example shows that the result using the method in the paper is less conservative than that using some existing methods in the literature.


Today's most important E-commerce apps are those that use the latest AI and machine learning technologies. Unlike humans, computers are unable to comprehend non-digital alternatives. Therefore, it is vital that consumers learn about things like food, clothing, and medicine. Human perceptions have certain limits, but expanding them is no easy feat. Because of the rapid development has quickly become a common way for people to make purchases and get content. Performing an efficient way to increase consumer happiness. Because of shifts in sequence length, textual order, and complex logic, imagining the true polarity of user evaluations remains a formidable challenge. It is recommended that SA work be broken down into four distinct phases: I data gathering (DC), (ii) pre-processing, (iii) features extraction (FE) or term weighting-(TW), (iv) feature-selection-(FS), and (v) polarity or sentiment classifications (SC). To begin, the data collection process begins with the Web Arguing Tool (WST) being used to scrape product reviews from E-commerce sites. The data acquired from the web scrape is then preprocessed. These cleaned data are further processed using Term Frequency-based inverse class frequency by passing them via TW and FS. The purpose of this study is to use two common Naive Bayes approaches—Classification—to determine if a review of a product is positive or negative. The optimal candidate feature subset is chosen by using a recursive feature elimination strategy on the data. The study also seeks to determine which of the two methods is more effective for the provided data. A '2' yardstick dataset is used for comparing the proposed classifier to the current state of the art. Consequences show that, associated to state-of-the-art procedures, the suggested model provides the highest performance in SC


This document describes the Concept of Operations (ConOps) for the Transit Safety Retrofit Package (TRP). The ConOps describes the current state of operations with respect to the integration of Connected Vehicle technology in transit buses, establishes the reasons for change, and describes the TRP in terms of its features and operations. To achieve the objective of the study, the TRP project includes developing, testing, installing, and maintaining retrofit packages on three transit buses drawn from the University of Michigan transit fleets; developing two new transit safety applications (Pedestrian Warning and Vehicle Turning Right in Front of a Transit Vehicle); and collecting and providing data from the equipped buses to the Volpe Center for an independent evaluation. The specific objective of the TRP project is to design and develop safety applications for transit vehicles that can communicate vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) as well as vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) for enhanced transit vehicle and pedestrian safety. Ultimately, it is of interest to determine if Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) technologies can be combined with on-board applications to provide real-time alerting of pedestrians in crosswalks as well as right turning vehicles in front of the transit vehicle.


BackgroundImmunoglobulin-cytokine fusion molecules have been shown to be the new generation of immunomodulating agents in transplantation tolerance induction. In the present study, we tested whether immunoregulatory cytokine fusion proteins of IL-10/Fc, TGF-&bgr;/Fc, or IL-2/Fc would enhance allogeneic bone marrow cell (BMC) engraftment and promote tolerance induction. MethodsB6 (H2b) mice were conditioned with anti-CD154 (MR1) and rapamycin (Rapa) plus 100 cGy total body irradiation (MR1/Rapa/100 cGy) and transplanted with allogeneic B10.D2 (H2d) BMC. Recipients were treated with lytic IL-2/Fc, nonlytic IL-2/Fc, TGF-&bgr;/Fc, or IL-10/Fc fusion proteins to promote chimerism to induce tolerance. ResultsDonor chimerism was achieved in 20% of recipients conditioned with MR1/Rapa/100 cGy. The addition of TGF-&bgr;/Fc (5- or 10-day treatment) or nonlytic IL-2/Fc (10-day treatment) fusion proteins to the conditioning resulted in engraftment in nearly 100% of recipients. In contrast, lytic IL-2/Fc or IL-10/Fc had no effect. The combination of nonlytic IL-2/Fc and TGF-&bgr;/Fc had a synergistic effect to promote engraftment and resulted in significantly higher donor chimerism compared with recipients conditioned with TGF-&bgr;/MR1/Rapa/100 cGy. Engraftment was durable in the majority of chimeras and increased over time. The chimeras accepted donor skin grafts and promptly rejected third-party skin grafts. Moreover, specific T cell receptor-V&bgr;5.½ and TCR-V&bgr;11 clonal deletion was detected in host T cells in chimeras, suggesting central tolerance to donor alloantigens. ConclusionsAllogeneic BMC engraftment is enhanced with TGF-&bgr;/Fc fusion protein treatment. TGF-&bgr;/Fc and nonlytic IL-2/Fc exert a synergistic effect in promotion of alloengraftment and donor-specific transplant tolerance, significantly decreasing the minimum total body irradiation dose required.


Keynote Speaker Abstracts................16 Contributed Seminar Abstracts..........19 Poster Abstracts ................................43 Keynote Abstracts 2008 CSPP-ERM 16 K1. Evolution and molecular development of bird pollinated flowers.


Acne vulgaris is a disorder of the skin characterized by changes in blackheads, papules, pustules, and nodules that often occur on the face, shoulders, and back. Propionibacterium acnes is the main habitat that contributes to acne. One of the plants that have an anti-bacterial effect is takokak fruit. This study aims to study the presence or absence of anti-bacterial effects of takokak fruit extract on the growth of Propionibacterium acne bacteria. The test method used is the Diplo disk diffusion method. The fruit was extracted by maceration method using ethanol as a solvent and then diluted using 96% ethanol at a concentration of 25%, 50%, 75%, 100% while the positive control used a clindamycin suspension and negative control of distilled water. The results showed that takokak fruit extract had an antibacterial effect on Propionibacterium acnes with an average diameter inhibition zone of 16.75 mm; 18.3 mm; 18.85 mm; 21.92 mm. Positive control (clindamycin) 37,45; negative control (distilled water) has no value to prevent bacteria.


Numerical unit cell models of 1-3 periodic composites made of piezoceramic unidirectional cylindrical fibers embedded in a soft non-piezoelectric matrix are developed. The unit cell is used for prediction of the effective coefficients of the periodic transversely isotropic piezoelectric cylindrical fiber composite. Special emphasis is placed on a formulation of the boundary conditions that allows the simulation of all modes of the overall deformation arising from any arbitrary combination of mechanical and electrical loading. The numerical approach is based on the finite element method and it allows extension to composites with arbitrary geometrical inclusion configurations, providing a powerful tool for fast calculation of their effective properties. For verification, the effective coefficients are evaluated for square and hexagonal arrangements of unidirectional piezoelectric cylindrical fiber composites. The results obtained from the numerical technique are compared with those obtained by means of the analytical asymptotic homogenization method for different volume fractions. Furthermore, the results are compared with other analytical and numerical methods reported in the literature.


Based on the research of arch dam,we calculate the arch dam with the application of general-purpose finite element analysis software ansys.The calculation result of the whole dam that three conditions were calculated to arch dam X,Y to,Z to the displacement of cloud,arch dam,the downstream principal tensile stress,principal stress contour,analysis of the most unfavorable position of stress and displacement of the dam,which provides a reliable reference data during the construction and operation period,but also provides a reference value of similar projects.


The features and the variable weights of the environment,strategy and functions change and develop with the development of network in the enterprise's marketing organization.The structure of enterprise marketing organization has the features of flatness,boundlessness and virtual.


Research has shown that timing side channels exist in web applications [1, 3, 5]. An obvious, but problematic, mitigation for timing attacks is to delay the execution time to the worst case execution time, so that all requests have the same response time. On the upside, this prevents timing attacks as there are no differences in the response time any more. On the downside, this approach has a negative effect on performance, which may render the approach useless for many practical systems. In this extended abstract, we propose a new strategy to prevent timing attacks in web applications with little impact on performance. Our approach offers a provable security gain that can be freely traded for a performance decrease. We compare our approach to other strategies using two characteristics: firstly the added cost for an attacker to perform a side channel attack, and secondly the performance impact on the system. The rest of this paper is organised as follows: In section 2, we describe timing side channel attacks on the web and review existing research for timing side channel mitigation. Section 3 provides a formal system model for the timing side channels we aim to mitigate. Section 4 compares existing timing side channel mitigation strategies with our own approach.


The isothermal "cold crystallization" of the thermoplastic polyimide (New TPI) has been studied using the microhardness technique to examine the property-microstructure correlation. By using wide- and small-angle X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry, the influence of the experimental parameters, i.e., treatment temperature Tc and time tc on the micromechanical properties of the "cold crystallized" samples has been examined. It is shown that both macroscopic hardness H and volume crystallinity xc increase with Tc and tc. For the samples prepared in the secondary crystallization range, it is demonstrated that H values strongly depend on the hardness of the crystalline units Hc. In this range, long spacing L, crystal thickness lc and crystallinity (both linear xCL, and derived from density xc) slightly increase with Tc. From the DSC study, it is demonstrated that the proportion of "liquid-like" and "rigid" amorphous fraction present in each sample is directly related with the crystallization conditions. Finally, from the SAXS and DSC combined study, information concerning the secondary crystallization mechanism has been obtained.


2 Abstract: Tea {Camellia sinensis (L.) O' Kuntze} is an economically important major plantation crop of India. Phosphate is an important nutrient for the establishment of young tea plants. The problem of phosphorus nutrition in tea plants is complex because only 15-25 % of added phosphorus is utilized by the plants and remaining of it gets fixed in the soil. There are a variety of microorganisms in soil which can solubilize insoluble phosphates and mineralize organic phosphorus. Among the microorganisms, the fungi are the most efficient phosphate solubilizing microorganisms. Microbial solubilization of fixed mineral phosphates in the soil is an important process in natural ecosystems and in agricultural soils. In the present work, seven most efficient phosphate solubilizing fungi were isolated from tea agroecosystem soil from Barak Valley, Southern Assam. In vitro, potential of the P-solubilizing activity by these PSMs were observed. These fungal strains developed halozones on PVK agar, which is an indicator of phosphate solubilization. The solubilizing efficiency of these fungal strains in liquid culture was also determined spectrophotometrically.