In this study,fresh apples with pathogen infection were immersed in different concentrations(102,104,106,108 PFU/mL) of Bdellovibrio-and-like organism.By detecting the residues of the pathogenic bacteria,the effect of Bdellovibrio-and-like organism on the elimination of the pathogenic bacteria of apples was determined.For the comparison of the effect of different antimicrobial agents on the control of the pathogenic bacteria,fresh apples with pathogen infection were treated with Bdellovibrio-and-like organism and other chemicals respectively,then,the residues of the pathogenic bacteria were also determined.Results showed that Bdellovibrio-and-like organism had a good effect on the elimination of pathogen bacteria,the higher the concentration of Bdellovibrio-and-like organism,the better of the effect was.The highest eliminating rate of Bdellovibrio-and-like organism was 99.1%.Compared with chemical antimicrobials, although Bdellovibrio-and-like organism worked slowly at the onset,it can control the growth of pathogenic bacteria in a long time.


Because acne vulgaris, particularly in its late stage, shows pathologically a granulomatous reaction that resembles tuberculosis, we thought isoniazid might be helpful as a therapeutic agent in this disease. Accordingly, we selected a group of our patients whose acne had been recalcitrant and gave them the drug daily for periods of one to three months. Since some of these patients were helped, a few quite remarkably so, this preliminary report is being made. Procedure The patients who were selected had moderate to severe acne with papulopustular lesions; a few had superficial punctate lesions, and some had large cysts. All patients were continued on CO 2 slush therapy, and all continued to use a lotio alba locally. Some of the patients had completed courses of x-ray therapy. Since these patients had been under our observation for many months, their respective courses were well known to us,


Consider a cyclically ordered collection of $r$ equinumerous agent sets with strict preferences of every agent over the agents from the next agent set. A weakly stable cyclic matching is a partition of the set of agents into disjoint union of $r$-long cycles, one agent from each set per cycle, such that there are no destabilizing $r$-long cycles, i.e. cycles in which every agent strictly prefers its successor to its successor in the matching. Assuming that the preferences are uniformly random and independent, we show that the expected number of stable matchings grows with $n$ (cardinality of each agent set) as $(n\log n)^{r-1}$. We also consider a bipartite stable matching problem where preference list of each agent forms a partially ordered set. Each partial order is an intersection of several, $k_i$ for side $i$, independent, uniformly random, strict orders. For $k_1+k_2>2$, the expected number of stable matchings is analyzed for three, progressively stronger, notions of stability. The expected number of weakly stable matchings is shown to grow super-exponentially fast. In contrast, for $\min(k_1,k_2)>1$, the fraction of instances with at least one strongly stable (super-stable) matching is super-exponentially small.


Abstract Introduction: Development of clinically acceptable orthodontic adhesives with additional anti-microbial and remineralizing features could be undertaken only if their mechanical properties have also been considered. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of incorporating Silver and Hydroxyapatite (HA) nanoparticles on the shear bond strength (SBS) of an orthodontic adhesive. Methods: Silver and HA nanoparticles were prepared and inspected by scanning electron microscopy and EDAX analysis. The nanoparticles were added to the primer of Transbond XT in 1%, 5% and 10% silver concentrations. Each compound (along with a control) was used for bonding stainless steel brackets to 12 human premolars (48 in total) and the SBS of all samples, along with their ARI scores were measured. Results: The SBS of the control, 1%, 5% and 10% nanoparticle groups were 12.06 ± 5.48, 20.66 ± 5.72, 10.77 ± 8.16 and 5.40 ± 2.00 MPa, respectively. A significant difference existed between all study groups (p < 0.05), except for the control–5% and 5%–10% study groups (p = 0.99 and p = 0.35). There was no statistically significant difference in distribution of ARI scores across the study groups (p = 0.44). Conclusions: Incorporation of silver/HA nanoparticles containing 5% and 1% silver maintains and increases the SBS of orthodontic adhesives, respectively, whereas increasing the amount of particles to 10% has an undesirable effect when compared to the control group.


Purpose: Defensive medicine is concerned with decisions made to avoid errors that could result in serious consequences in terms of quality of care and efficient use of scarce health resources. This study aimed to assess the experience and etiology of defensive medicine from the perspective of residents in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with all residents in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in 2016. The questionnaire was designed to collect data. Data were recorded in SPSS software version 20. Using descriptive statistics and the statistical method of inferred, Friedman's test at a significance level of 0.05, was used. Results: Experiencing defensive medicine was reported by 100 of the participants, such that 149 people 38.3 reported high level and 11 people 2.8 reported low level of experience. Defensive medicine was mostly adopted to avoid being sued by patients 87.2 and least due to lack of liability insurance and reduce the risk of loss of financial capital doctor, 43.7 have been reported. Conclusion: The results obtained suggest a high level of defensive medicine among residents in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Accordingly, it is recommended that training be provided to eliminate this phenomenon, and doctors be steered toward its positive aspects. And while that with quite simple measures will reduce this phenomenon.


In this study, an attempt was made to investigate through the available literature, the current situation of biodiesel production in the European Union and Greece also. The conversion of vegetable oils into biodiesel by the process of transesterification is described and also the production of first, second and third biodiesel generation is analyzed. Emphasis was given to the third-generation biodiesel production from microalgae, since it appears from bibliographic and experimental studies, that it is the only sustainable crop that can completely replace conventional diesel. Furthermore, thoroughly developed the benefits arising from the up today assessment of environmental impacts from the production and use of biodiesel.


It's necessary to establish the three-phase model of the three-winding transformer,along with the wide use of the three-winding transformer and the increasing number of asymmetric load.By analyzing the three-winding transformer's electrical relationship among the three windings,a systematic analysis method for multi-winding transformer is presented based on the magnetomotive force balance equations,output-port equations and voltage transfer equations,and the three-phase model of three-winding transformer is deduced.The singular problem of the three-phase admittance matrix of the three-winding transformer is solved by adding additional conditions.The model can be easily applied to the flow calculation,Based on the three-winding transformer model,the penetration of negative sequence and harmonic produced by electrified railway in the power system is analyzed based on the measured data.The results show that the three-winding transformer model combined with other models of power system components can be easily used in electrified railway negative sequence and harmonic penetration calculation,providing basis for the negative sequence and harmonic suppression.


Elderly is synonymous with various declines in health status, especially physical health status. Various theories about the aging process show the same thing. The health status of the elderly which declines with age will affect the quality of life of the elderly. Increasing age will be accompanied by the emergence of various diseases, decreased body function, body balance and the risk of falling. The decline in the health status of the elderly is contrary to the desire of the elderly to remain healthy, independent and able to carry out activities as usual, such as bathing, dressing, moving independently. This activity aims to provide information to the public about the importance of maintaining reproductive health in improving the quality of life. This educational process uses the lecture method with the help of powerpoints and leaflets. The results obtained from this activity are that the youth participating in this service activity become more aware and know more about how to improve the quality of life, especially during this pandemic. The assessment is based on the response and enthusiasm of the participants in receiving the material provided. Including positive responses from participants in answering questions correctly when asked questions by the presenters.


A dynamical scattering theory is developed in a crystal with distortions of second class. The method of movement separation is used to derive the equations determining the wave field in imperfect crystals. For a perfect crystal the obtained equations have an additional solution corresponding to an oscillation process of the overtone type with a frequency two times larger than the pendellosung one.

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An important characteristic of cosmic reionization is the growth of ionized gas bubbles surrounding early luminous objects. Understanding the connections between the formation and coalescence of these bubbles and their originating astrophysical sources is equally critical. We present results from a study of bubble sizes using the state-of-the-art THESAN radiation-hydrodynamics simulation suite, which self-consistently models radiation transport and realistic galaxy formation. We employ the mean-free path method, and track the evolution of the effective ionized bubble size at each point ($R_{\rm eff}$) throughout the Epoch of Reionization. We show there is a slow growth period for regions ionized early, but a rapid flash ionization process for regions ionized later as they immediately enter a large, pre-existing bubble. We also find that bright sources are preferentially in larger bubbles, and find consistency with recent observational constraints at $z \gtrsim 9$, but tension with idealized Lyman-alpha damping-wing models at $z \approx 7$ when the size distribution is complex. We find that high overdensity regions have larger characteristic bubble sizes, but the correlation decreases as reionization progresses, likely due to the runaway formation of large percolated bubbles. Finally, we compare the redshift at which a region transitions from neutral to ionized ($z_{\rm reion}$) with the time it takes to reach a given bubble size and conclude that $z_{\rm reion}$ is a reasonable local probe of small-scale bubble size statistics ($R_\text{eff} \lesssim 1$ cMpc). However, for larger bubbles, the correspondence between $z_{\rm reion}$ and size statistics weakens due to the time delay between the onset of reionization and the expansion of a large bubble, particularly at high redshifts.


i Acknowledgement v Table of Content vi List of Figures and Tables x List of symbols and abbreviations xvii Chapter


The invention discloses an MEMS (Micro Electronic Mechanical System) capacitive microphone without a back polar plate and a manufacture method thereof. The MEMS capacitive microphone comprises a substrate, a back cavity, a first polar plate of a capacitor, a second polar plate of the capacitor, a vibration diaphragm and leads, wherein the back cavity is positioned on the substrate; the vibration diaphragm is arranged on the substrate and is used for detecting acoustical vibration and converting the acoustical vibration into displacement; the first polar plate is arranged on the substrate; the second polar plate is arranged on the vibration diaphragm and is provided with bulges which are used for preventing the first polar plate and the second polar plate from being mutually sucked; and the leads are used for leading out the first polar plate and the second polar plate so as to form electric connection.


Dear Sir, Many urban models, and all variants on the Lowry (1964) model, divide economic activity into two sectors—basic and nonbasic. Various definitions of these are used, for example basic industry is that which brings revenue into the study area, or basic industry is that which is locationally constrained by site characteristics, and so on (see Massey, 1973, for further discussion). It seems to me, however, that the basis for such definitions arises from the use of static equilibrium models and that in dynamic models it would be more useful to replace the dichotomy by a continuum. In static Lowry-model applications basic employment is assumed to be exogenously given, whereas nonbasic activity has an instantaneous response to the population distribution. Both these assumptions are approximations. In a dynamic model we can distinguish the degree of 'basicness' of economic sectors by the response time to stimuli in the form of changes in the accessibility to the supply of labour, potential customers, other industry, and so on. This may be sketched as in figure 1. At one end of the continuum would be market stalls, which can obviously respond very quickly to changing demand, whereas at the other end are industries such as power stations for which site characteristics are very important and therefore movement (in the form of closure at one station and its replacement at another location) in response to population change is very slow. These very slow moves take longer than the forecast period in most model applications but nonetheless we can anticipate some forecasts for long periods (for example Forrester's 1969 model), and in order to deal with these sectors large inertia factors can be built into the model. The response to the relocation of urban activities can be modelled by incorporating accessibility factors for the current and previous points in time. In practice, with a model which includes Wilson (1970) type spatial-interaction submodels, the inverses of the balancing factors can be used. Thus one can also simulate the effects of network changes on the location of industrial activity. In a model developed by the author (Mackett, 1976) the following categorization is used: 1 primary—no response to changes in accessibility to other urban activities during the whole time period being simulated; for example agriculture and mining;


The Pleistocene mammal assemblages from the Geological Museum of PGI-NRI; a stratigraphical, geological and taphonomic approach. A b s t r a c t. The paper presents 15 collections of bones of mammals (15 sites, 357 specimens) from the Geological Museum of the Polish Geological Institute, which were gathered during the firsthalf of the 20th century. This is the first study of these collections. The remains of woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, bison, reindeer, horse and predators, and other bones complement the record of their occurrence in central Europe during the last glaciation. The geological position was established for most sites based on both published sources and own research (Kadzielnia and Sitkowka quarries). The collections were obtained from fluvial (woolly mammoth and rhinoceros), aeolian (mammoth remains) and cave sediments (taxonomic diversity of mammals with predominance of predators). It has been confirmed that typical Pleistocene sediments of the Kadzielnia quarry occur only in the Jaskinia Jeleniowska Cave and Schronisko nad Przepaścią Cave. The analysis of the literature suggests that the majority of bones representing all collections are of Vistulian (Wurm) age, mainly the Grudziądz Interstadial.


Modern photolithography uses wafer steppers to project the image of a given circuit layer from a reticle onto a photoresist-covered wafer. In the sub-wavelength exposure regime (where the imaging wavelength is greater than the feature being imaged) the wafer surface needs to be positioned within a few hundred nanometers of the stepper focal plane to maintain imaging fidelity. Since typical wafer surface flatness variation is far in excess of this, imaging is accomplished by continuously focussing on the wafer surface during the exposure operation. For 'edge shots', where the centre of the stepper field gets close to the wafer edge, the focussing challenge gets very severe due to increasing wafer flatness variation. The focussing position is determined from the top surface of the resist. However at the edge of the wafer the resist thickness is not uniform, due to effects of the wafer edge bead. This leads to errors in the correct focus offset value been picked to place the wafer surface position within a few hundred nanometers of the stepper focus plane. These variations have a direct impact on yield, especially in sub- wavelength processes, and effects a sizeable proportion of the wafer surface area. This paper describes the yield improvement activities under taken on an i-line 0.35um BiCMOS process. This work comprises of three main parts. The first area investigated, was the changing resist thickness profile at the edge of the wafer.


This study aims to identify whether it is the corelationship between festival satisfaction, educational satisfaction and behaviour intention. It is found that festival program, educational factors and overall satisfaction are highly associated with the behaviour intention respectively. In addition, high R squared values were obtained when educational satisfaction variable is employed as an explanatory variable for each correlation analysis. This implies that the culture tourism festival visitors" educational needs are very high and extended educational programs must be developed in order to meet their needs.


Various factors that should be considered in variety breeding of Heyin pomegranate, the hierarchical analysis is carried out through analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and its analytic result can be used to help fruit farmers make scientific decision on the variety breeding of pomegranate. In the six main Heyin pomegranate varieties, the ranking weight value of Tunisian soft-seeded pomegranate is 0.3105, which is No.1 in all pomegranate varieties and is obviously better than other varieties in comprehensive feature. It shows that, in the cultivation of pomegranate in Xingyang, the Tunisian soft-seeded pomegranate is the preferred variety for fruit farmers.


Because of the limitations of the existing algorithms of the electrical impedance tomography(EIT),the MPSO-MNR algorithm is formed by combining the modified particle swarm optimization and the modified Newton-Raphson algorithm.The electrical impedance distribution is reconstructed by the MPSO-MNR algorithm,and the influence of the noise on the reconstruction results is analyzed,where the 2-D circular solution domain is subdivided by finite element method(FEM),the current is injected by trigonometric current driven pattern.The numerical simulation results show that the MPSO-MNR algorithm can reflect the electrical impedance distribution in the solution domain,the noise influences the imaging quality,and the border and the background of the reconstruction objects become vague gradually with the increase of the noise.The MPSO-MNR algorithm avoids the demand of the iterative initial value close to the true value and has the faster convergence speed.It can be used to the EIT within the range of certain noise.


Natural levees fringe subaerial streams of low gradient which periodically experience overbank floods onto wide floodplains. Submarine features, resembling these natural levees, have been found in several places off the West Coast of the United States. A study of occurrences at ten localities at depths of from 600 to 3,600 feet shows (1) that transverse profiles may be symmetrical or asymmetrical, with one "levee" higher in the latter case; (2) that the channel between the "levees" may be U- or V-shaped; (3) that the tops of "levees" may be 24-408 feet above the adjoining channel bottom, and (4) that these tops may be 12-204 feet above the immediately adjacent sea floor. It is believed that these features may be the products of turbidity currents or submarine mudflows.


GC-MS and HPLC analyses of the hydromethanolic extracts of the truffles Tirmania nivea (TN) and Tirmania pinoyi (TP) revealed the presence of 18 metabolites and 11 polyphenols, respectively. In vivo, TP extract protected against subcutaneous pentylenetetrazole (scPTZ) and maximal electric shock (MES)-induced convulsions faster than TN. TP (100 and 300 mg/kg) showed 100% protection and longer duration than TN in the scPTZ test. Similarly, at 300 mg/kg, TP demonstrated a quicker start (75%) and longer duration of action (100%) than TN in MES test. In scPTZ test, ED50 of TP demonstrated greater anticonvulsant efficacy than TN. In mice given TP and TN treatments, the brain GABA levels were noticeably increased. TP (100 and 300mg/kg) produced a notable sedative effect in open field test, whereas TN (100 or 300 mg/kg) and TP (300 mg/kg) reduced sleep latency by 79, 52, and 45%, respectively. In writhing test, TN (100 or 300mg/kg) significantly enhanced analgesic efficacy by 50 and 87%, respectively. Comparatively, in formalin test, TP and TN at a dosage of 300 mg/kg decreased the length of the licking by 34 and 59%, respectively. For the first time, this study explains the anticonvulsant, sedative, central, and peripheral analgesic activities of truffle extracts.


Objective To investigate the toxicity and therapeutic effect of chemical pleurodesis with Bleomycin (BLM). Methods 32 consecutive, unselected patients of malignant pleural effusions were enrolled on the study. Using image guidance, a 14F self-retaining catheter was inserted into the pleural space and connected to continuous wall suction. After drainage, pleurodesis was performed with 45~60 mg of bleomycin. One week later using image reevaluation, the patients who still had pleual effusions received the second pleurodesis. Results Ten patients had a complete response (CR), and 14 patients had a partial response (PR), 8 patients had a non-cure (NC). The total response rate (RR) reached 75%. Conclusion Chemical pleurodesis may be effective with low toxicity and strong tolerance in the treatment of patients with malignant pleural effusions. It deserves further clinical applications.


One Welfare describes the interrelationship between animal welfare, human wellbeing and the physical and social environment. By better understanding and applying these interconnections to their daily work, vets and their clients can benefit from and play a key role in advancing One Welfare


We point out that a light scalaron dynamically emerges if scalar fields have a sizable non-minimal coupling to the Ricci scalar as in the Higgs inflation model. We support this claim in two ways. One is based on the renormalization group equation; the non-minimal coupling inevitably induces a Ricci scalar quadratic term due to the renormalization group running. The other is based on scattering amplitudes; a scalar four-point amplitude develops a pole after summing over a certain class of diagrams, which we identify as the scalaron. Our result implies that the Higgs inflation is actually a two-field inflationary model. Another implication is that the Higgs inflation does not suffer from the unitarity issue since the scalaron pushes up the cut-off scale to the Planck scale.


This paper examines the precise role: whether it is the bribe-taking role, the decision-making or policy making role, in which womenâs presence can have an impact on corruption. It is the first paper in the gender and corruption literature to use an IV approach for addressing endogeneity concerns. We provide robust evidence that womenâs presence in parliament has a causal and negative impact on corruption, while other measures of female participation in economic activities are shown to have no effect. We draw inferences based on Moreiraâs (2003) conditional likelihood ratio approach. We also briefly examine the potential channels through which women as parliamentarians can affect corruption, and whether women are likely to become as corrupt as men as they gain similarity in social status.


Abstract In this paper a new method is proposed for calculating, for any transverse energy, the diffusive nuclear contribution to the rate of increase with depth of the mean transverse energy of positively charged ions subjected to the stochastic effects of the thermal vibrations of the string atoms of a crystal. A thermally averaged single-string potential is used to calculate the average force and the initial transverse energy distribution. The corresponding diffusion equation is solved in the case of axial blocking of ∼2 MeV α-particles in aluminium single crystal, already studied in a previous work. The results here reported are still in satisfactory agreement with Monte Carlo simulations.


[Objective]To investigate the distribution of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in Tengzhou,so as to provide the scientific evidence for the prevention and control strategies.[Methods]Fecal samples of diarrhea patients who were treated at 4 monitoring spots were cultured for Escherichia coli,1995-2010.[Results]A total of 2 756 fecal samples were tested.Pathogenic bacteria were detected in 482 fecal samples,The detection rate was 17.49%.ETEC,EPEC,EIEC were respectively 61.20%,22.20% and 16.60%.1 526 males and 1 230 females were contained,no significant difference was found(P0.05).ST was the main type of ETEC(LTSTST/LT).[Conclusion]Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli plays an important role in diarrheal disease among infants and young children.


Ranging from HR management to a never-before-seen application of technology, this year's Hoyt Lecture offers a short-list of challenges that must be met for industry survival and success.


The intake of trans C18:1 as well as of trans hexadecenoic acids (trans C16:1) is believed to be related with numerous physiological disadvantages, such as the risk of coronary heart disease. Since most of the existing data on trans C16:1 contents in human milk fat have been determined without a pre-separation by thin-layer chromatography (TLC), the gas chromatographically determined contents of trans C16:1 frequently are too high due to overlaps with C17 fatty acids. Using a highly polar column with a length of 100 m after AgNO3-TLC allowed to establish an average content of total trans C16:1 of 0.15 ±0.04% from 39 samples of human milk fat. Moreover, the C16:1 positional isomers trans Δ4, Δ5, Δ6/7, Δ8, Δ9, Δ10, Δ11, Δ12, Δ13 and Δ14 could be quantified from 15 samples exhibiting mean relative contents of 2.6, 3.5, 7.6, 7.2, 24.7, 10.4, 10.1, 14.3, 8.4 and 11.3% related to the total trans C16:1 content, respectively. Also, the C16:1 isomer trans Δ3 could be identified occurring in traces with a mean absolute content of 2 mg/100 g fatty acids. A baseline separation of almost all trans isomers could be achieved for the first time. Further, mass spectrometric analyses of FAME and DMOX derivatives allowed to identify the isomer trans Δ4. Among the C16:1 isomers cis Δ7 to cis Δ14 the isomer cis Δ9 predominated with a relative proportion of 68.3% and an absolute content of 1.88% of all fatty acids. Correspondingly, among the C17:1 isomers cis Δ7 to cis Δ11 the isomer cis Δ9 with 82.6% had the highest relative content.


To provide instruction suited to large numbers of university students of highly diversified interests, capabilities, and training, Penn State offers six courses in elementary geology each year—three in physical geology, two in historical geology, and one in combined physical and historical geology. Four of these are repeated each semester. The resulting load on staff, space, and equipment is heavy.


Main shocks of the earthquake sequences that occurred on the Parkfield section of the San Andreas fault in central California in 1922, 1934, and 1966 are characterized by southeast rupture expansion over the same 20- to 30-km-long section of the fault. Whereas the seismic moments for the 1922 and 1934 events are identical to within a precision of 10%, the seismic moment for 1966 is 20% greater than for the earlier events to within a precision of 20%. The Parkfield area seismicity, in general, seems well described by a recurring moderate size characteristic earthquake, repeating the same epicenter, magnitude, seismic moment, rupture area, and southeast direction of rupture expansion. An unexplained 10 year advance of the 1934 event is the only discrepancy in the hypothesis that the Parkfield earthquakes in 1857, 1881, 1901, 1922, 1934, and 1966 represent a strictly periodic process. Assuming the strictly periodic model and the absence since 1966 of the perturbations hypothesized for the 1922 to 1934 period, the next characteristic Parkfield earthquake should occur between 1983 and 1993.


Infrared spectroscopy was used to study the photooxidation of styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN) samples that were exposed to ultraviolet radiation having a minimum wavelength of 295 nm. It was determined that the photooxidation of SAN occurs exclusively at the styrene repeat units within the copolymer structure. The major infrared spectral changes resulting from the degradation process involve the appearance of new peaks within the hydroxyl and carbonyl regions. Using factor analysis results, it was concluded that there are a minimum of four different types of hydroxyl groups and three different types of carbonyl groups formed during the photooxidation of SAN. Furthermore, it was found that after 200 hours exposure the rate of increase in the concentration of the carbonyl groups within the degraded material is greater than the rate of increase in the concentration of the hydroxyl groups. The infrared spectra for a series of random styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN) copolymers of various compositions were then analyzed to determine the dependence of the individual spectral peaks on the copolymer composition. Correlations were established to relate changes in the peak positions and intensities to changes in the copolymer composition and monomer sequence distribution. A peak was assigned to a given microstructure if there existed a positive linear relationship between the peak intensity and the number fraction of this microstructure. These peak assignments were then applied to the photooxidation studies of SAN to determine the effect of the sequence distribution on the photooxidative process of the copolymer. Peaks at 1952, 1881, 912 and 549 cm{dollar}{bsol}sp{lcub}-1{rcub}{dollar} were found to have negative intensity values in the difference spectrum of photooxidized SAN. While the peaks at 1881 and 912 cm{dollar}{bsol}sp{lcub}-1{rcub}{dollar} had been assigned to the SAS triad structure, the peaks at 1952 and 549 cm{dollar}{bsol}sp{lcub}-1{rcub}{dollar} were assigned to the monad, dyad or triad structures of the styrene repeat unit. It was therefore concluded that the microstructure sequence which participates in the photooxidation of SAN is the triad SAS. More specifically, the styrene repeat units within the SAS triad structure undergo photooxidation when SAN is exposed to ultraviolet radiation.


The
 objective of the present study was to evaluate two minimal invasive
 laparoscopic techniques for catheterization of the infundibulum
 and orthograde flushing of the oviduct in the
 standing sedated mare. Ten physically and gynaecologically healthy mares were used to investigate a trans-vaginal
 laparoscopic approach (experiment I, n = 8) and a laparoscopic flank approach
 (experiment II, n = 12). The oviduct was flushed with sterile methylene blue solution and the passage of fluid through
 the oviduct was assessed by post-operative hysteroscopy.
 Both
 experiments were compared for their feasibility, the success of flushing and
 tolerance of the mares during and after surgery using a self-developed
 scoring system.
 In
 experiment I, the visualisation was limited. An adequate opening of the infundibulum and thereby a visualisation or
 catheterisation of the abdominal ostium was not
 possible on both sides. Using the lateral flank approach, an excellent
 lateral visualisation of the ovary, infundibulum
 and oviduct was possible in all cases. The abdominal ostium
 was seen in 8 of 11 operations (72.7%). Catheterisation of the ampulla was performed successfully in 63.6% (7/11). In
 71.4 % (5/7), the injected fluid was identified in the uterine lumen by
 post-operative hysteroscopy.
 Both
 techniques were well tolerated by the mares. No complication during or after
 surgery or significant post-operative pain could be observed. Besides a rapid
 convalescence and good tissue repair, no influence on cyclic activity was seen.
 The
 trans-vaginal laparoscopic approach to the oviduct is not appropriate for
 diagnostic examination or oviductal flushing in the
 mare. By contrast the laparoscopic lateral flank approach facilitates
 examination and flushing of the oviduct. Laparoscopic flushing could become a
 practical method for diagnosis and therapy of oviductal
 disorders. Furthermore, it could be a minimal invasive technique for
 collection of young embryos and Gamete Intrafallopian
 Transfer (GIFT).


Diesel fuel formulation containing (i) fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) with<=50% w/w saturates, (ii) dialkyl carbonate (DAC) and (iii) an additional diesel fuel component. Also provided is a diesel fuel supplement containing FAME and DAC, for use in a diesel fuel formulation. The invention further provides the use of DAC in a diesel fuel formulation containing FAME, or of FAME in a diesel fuel formulation containing DAC, or of FAME and DAC in a diesel fuel formulation, for the purpose of reducing the cold filter plugging (CFPP) point of the formulation or of reducing the concentration of a cold flow additive in the formulation. The DAC may be a diethyl carbonate (DEC) or a dibutyl carbonate (DBC).


Relevanc. Measles, mumps and rubella, despite many years of vaccination, retain their epidemiological and social significance at the present time. The aim of the work is to study the safety and immunogenicity. Of the vaccine for the prevention of measles, rubella and mumps Vactrivir® in children's immunization. Materials and methods. The safety and immunogenicity of the vaccine was studied in a simple multicenter blind comparative randomized clinical trial involving children aged 12 months and 6 years. Results. The Vactrivir® vaccine is characterized by low reactogenicity, a high safety and immunogenicity profile and is comparable in terms of indicators to the foreign Priorix® vaccine, which has been used in the Russian Federation for specific prevention of measles, rubella and mumps since 2018.


Discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs) are typically used to compute correlations and implementing correlation filters (CFs). Because of the properties of DFTs, resulting correlations are actually circular (also known as periodic) correlations. Using current CF design techniques, it is not possible to design a CF that produces exactly the desired linear correlation output. There are several techniques that may be used to reduce the effects of circular correlation. In this paper, we describe these techniques and provide some experimental results that compare these techniques. This work is sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing offcial policies, either expressed or implied, of AFRL, or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation herein. This document is approved for public released via PA#: 88ABW-2013-1359.


Objective To evaluate the hepatic functional reserve in patients with portal hypertension undergoing pericardial devascularization.Methods The retention rate of indocyanine green at 15 min(ICGR15) and routine hepatic functions were determined preoperatively in 52 cases undergoing pericardial devascularization.Results The values of ICGR15 was (18.24±12.12)% in Child A group,(34.20±10.07)% in Child B group and(48.63±5.09)% in Child C group respectively.The differences in ICGR15 among the 3 groups were very significant.After operation,the incidence of liver dysfunction was 17.6% in ICGR1540% group and 43.2% in ICGR1540% group respectively,with the differences being significant between the two groups.Conclusion The higher the ICGR15,the more the incidence of liver dysfunction.These results demonstrated that ICGR15 is a good indicator to judge hepatic functional reserve.


The paper adopts a functional approach to both Chinese and English diplomatic documents to analyze such language features as nominalization,evaluation,negation and some particular verbs in the documents,pointing out that these language features are determined by the functions of diplomatic documents and meanwhile to some extent constitute the substance of diplomacy. A thorough analysis of these features can lead to a better understanding of the functions of diplomatic documents.


With the aggressive scaling of the CMOS technology parametric variation of the transistor threshold voltage causes significant spread in the circuit delay as well as leakage spectrum. Consequently, speed binning of the high performance VLSI chips is essential and it costs significant amount of test application time. Further, the knowledge of the actual delay in the critical path of the circuit enables efficient use of typical low power methodologies e.g., voltage scaling, adaptive body biasing etc. In this paper, the authors have proposed a novel on-chip, low overhead and process tolerant delay measurement circuit which can estimate the critical path delay in a single clock period. This has the advantage of efficient on-chip speed binning.


Abstract Foil specimens of InSb were heated above 200°C inside electron microscopes and non-congruent melting of InSb, due to the preferential evaporation of Sb, was found to result in the formation of In-rich liquid droplets dispersed in a matrix of solid InSb. The solid-liquid interfaces were observed by the lattice-fringe technique and those parallel to the {111} plane were found to be smooth on an atomic scale. The results are discussed in terms of Jackson's α-parameter.


After a few-decade-long dry period (20-30 years) in the last few years several serious flood events (Autumn, 1998; Spring, 1999, 2000, and 2001) occurred at the watershed of the Ukrainian and Hungarian parts of the river Tisza. The water level at many stations exceeded the previous historical record values during these recent floods. For instance, Fig. 1. presents the annual maximum water level (upper panel) at Vasarosnameny (at river Tisza, Hungary) between 1991 and 2001, as well, as the number of days above 1st order flood warning level in each year (lower panel). The positive decadal tendency in water level change is obvious, and the time series illustrate the considerable increase in frequency of very high water level (exceeding flood warning levels) after 1998.


The study of nonfigurative medieval sculpture is generally based on formal stylistic analysis. This article demonstrates another method of analyzing medieval architectural sculpture, one based on the technique of carving, and its applicability. The process, which consists of identifying the steps followed by a medieval sculptor to turn an unfinished block into a finished capital, allows the researcher to advance beyond superficial stylistic similarities to an understanding of the conceptual and concrete elements of creativity and practice. As a demonstration of the method, which I employed for studying late eleventh and early twelfth-century architectural sculpture in the Aisne and Oise valleys of northern France, I apprenticed with a sculptor and restorer in the summer of 1986. Producing a capital in the eleventh-century manner, we confirmed that a method of analysis based on the actual carving process is consistently applicable and, therefore, provides a new approach for the study of medieval architectural sculpture.


Through this text, it is desired to analyze the participation of upper class women in the process of establishment of health assets and services in Bahia during the first half of the 20th century. It intends to discuss the role played by those women and understand to what extent this action was modeled, or not, by gender roles and norms. These reflections are supported in specialized literature and information collected from primary sources.


OBJECTIVE
A substantial number of people reduce their consumption of alcohol in the absence of formal treatment; however, less is known about the mechanisms of change. The aim of this study is to explore whether constructs derived from behavioral economics and computational decision-modeling characterize the moderation of alcohol consumption that many heavy drinkers experience without treatment.

METHOD
Between-subject, preregistered design. People who reside in the United Kingdom and who drink heavily (n = 60) or used to drink heavily but now consume alcohol in moderation (n = 60) were recruited. Participants completed self-report behavioral economic measures (alcohol demand and alcohol-related and alcohol-free reinforcement) and a two-alternative forced choice task in which they chose between two alcoholic (in one block) or two soft drink images (in a different block). A drift-diffusion model was fitted to responses from this task to yield the underlying parameters of value-based choice.

RESULTS
Compared to heavy drinkers, moderated drinkers had significantly lower alcohol demand, Omax, p = .03, Cohen's d = .36; elasticity, p = .03, rank-biserial correlation (rrb) = .21, and higher proportionate alcohol-free reinforcement (p < .001, Cohen's d = .75). However, contrary to hypotheses, there were no robust between-group differences in value-based decision-making (VBDM) parameters.

CONCLUSIONS
Self-report behavioral economic measures demonstrate that alcohol moderation without treatment is characterized by lowered alcohol demand and greater behavioral allocation to alcohol-free reinforcement, in line with behavioral economic theory. However, a computerized VBDM measure yielded inconclusive findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).


This Diploma Thesis focuses on factors which social workers of responsible town authorities consider during their decision-making process about imposing an upbringing measure according to family law and law about social and legal protection of children in cases of a minor child at risk. The particular chapters deal in detail with institutional upbringing, which is regarded as the most serious upbringing measure imposed by court. The Diploma Thesis describes factors which can negatively affect parental responsibility and how social workers proceed with assessment of a situation of a minor child at risk. The Diploma Thesis specifies other upbringing measures concerning the role of authorities responsible for social and legal protection of children by their placement into an institutional organization and during their stay there. The text gathers facts about influence of institutional care on personality of a child and analyses legislative changes, the target of which is to reduce the number of children in institutional care. Thanks to interviews with social workers is answered a research question according to common theory. This research question focuses on determinants which social workers consider subjectively relevant to their desision-making process about suggesting institutional upbringing or a draft proposal for court.


This paper, by interviewing and visiting and referring to documents, elaborates on the concept and existing problems of the traditional teaching mode of higher institution and on the advantages of modern educational techniques, and puts forward some suggestions on how to combine such techniques with the traditional PE mode, thus to break through the mode, to promote teaching reform, and to help to realize the aim of "lifelong physical education."


In this experiment the cell glass electrode | aqueous solution in 0.01 M NaCl | AgCl; Ag is used for the direct determination of the acidity function.


Abstract
The Thai–Burma refugee program of Australian Catholic University (ACU) brings young Burmese refugees from camps in Thailand to an internet-equipped teaching center to study for a Diploma in Liberal Studies. Some of the learning is carried out online and some in face-to-face mode provided by ACU or partner universities.

The authors detail the methodologies followed, combining sound pedagogy with an integral human development approach. This changed the students' mode of learning from rote to critical thinking which, in turn, improved their self-confidence, gave them a good ethical and culturally acceptable grounding and provided them with fluency in oral and written academic English. In addition, the authors recount the many challenges faced by bringing together students from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds with all the baggage brought from a conflict ridden and divided country emerging out of decades of dictatorship.

The program's results have been remarkable. Many students have found high-quality employment after graduating, especially with non-governmental organizations on the border or in Burma or in some other job serving the needs of their own people. Others have used the Diploma to go on to full degree courses in a number of countries in Asia, North America, and Europe.


London, which met from 1957-1960, familiarly known as the Herbert Commission, and the Royal Commission on Local Government in England, chaired by one of the co-authors of this work, Lord Redcliffe-Maud, from 1966-69. The excellence of this work is no doubt due to Lord Redcliffe-Maud's own immediate involvement in restructuring local government. As the authors substantiate, reforming local government in England was needed simply because the prior antiquated structure was made for inefficient and unresponsive government. Most importantly, reforming local government in England was politically possible, unlike in the United States, due to the unitary nature of the political system and because of the absence of opposition to reform by most of the political elite. In addition, there have been a number of changes within each unit of local government. Administrative power has been centralized in the office of the Chief Executive. New emphasis has been planned on &dquo;corpo-


The book deals with the influence of ethnic factor on such aspects of african countries postcolonial development, as lack of evident socio-economic progress, decorative character of their political system's democratization, implantation of neo-patrimonial mode of governance and prebendal economy, ethnicization of political field, the generating of conflict situations in internal life and in international relations, the stunted process of nation-building. For scientists, lecturers, students, for all, who has interest to problems of political life in foreign countries.


The present invention relates the eyes cosmetic composition, excellent in makeup have, as a mascara, also it is assumed that can be used as an eye liner. The A eyes cosmetic composition for the eyes cosmetic total composition comprises from 10.01 to 30 wt% of a silicone-based coating agent and a volatile oil content 25 to 70 wt%, the volatile oil content volatile silicone oil is not more than 25 wt% with respect to the total weight, hardness is 30 or more 100 or less. .BACKGROUND


Granger causality is a powerful tool to infer the network structure,especially for time series data,which has precise expression both in time domain and in frequency domain,so its application is more and more extensive.But a lot of data in real situation is periodic,and the data is affected by its past.The mixed AR and hidden periodic model to deal with such kinds of data is proposed.This paper extends the conditional Granger causality to mixed AR and hidden periodic model which includes harmonic oscillations term.It introduces the estimation of the parameters in the model and infer the network structure by the method of Granger causality.


The backstreaming of electrons from planetary and interplanetary shocks creates foreshocks of fast particles propagating along the magnetic field. The effect of low frequency magnetic fluctuations is to create both a broadening and a fine structure of the foreshock upstream boundary. This is studied by means of a newly developed 3-D numerical simulation of turbulent magnetic fields. Applications to the Earth and to the termination shock electron foreshocks are done, and some implications on the observations of the spreading and of the bursty structure of the foreshocks are discussed.


Objective:To evaluate the serum level of C-reaction protein(CRP)and CYFRA21-1 in patients with lung cancer before and after cancer themotherapy and research its clinical applications.Methods:Scattering nephelometry and electrochemi luminescence immunosassay were used separately to detect the amounts of CRP and CYFRA21-1 in serum of 46 patients with lung cancer before and after themotherapy.Result:The amounts of CRP and CYFRA21-1 in serum of lung cancer patients were decreased.Conclusion:The test on CRP and CYFRA21-1 in serum of patients with lung cancer after chemotheraphy has same clinical applications in disease evaluation and prognosis judge.


Fishermen on a boat in Island Bay, Wellington. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith, circa 1930s.
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practice as Health Inspectors is not yet a legal requirement The attachment aims at exposing the trainees to the world of the environmental health profession per se, allowing them to have hands-on practise and letting them develop, through modelling effect (Bandura and Adams, 1977), the requisite professional attitudes, values, and ethic. This enables them to acquire courage to supervise health technicians who are called Health Assistants in Malawi. Upon graduation, Health Inspectors are today employed as Assistant Environmental Health Officers (AEHOs) and can be promoted to Environmental Health Officers (EHOs). The career ladder is like this because the grade of AEHO is reserved for diplomates and that of EHO is for graduates. Health Inspectors in Malawi work hand in hand


With cylinder magnetic shield theory,the actual antimagnetic performance of mechanical watch in strong DC magnetic field was comparatively studied.It shows that the main influencing factors of antimagnetic features of mechanical watch are the size and permeability of the shield material.The test result indicates that pure iron and martensitic stainless steel are more suitable for antimagnetic material in strong DC magnetic field;permalloy has high initial permeability,however,it reaches saturated magnetization sooner than two others in strong DC magnetic field,so the antimagnetic stability of it is not as good as pure iron and martensitic stainless steel.


The use of the Surgical Safety Checklist reduces mortality and surgical complication. Nurse obedience in documenting the surgical safety checklist is still low. It is showed that there is a lack of nurses awareness about the importance of surgical safety checklist in an operation. This research aims to know about the relationship between the years of service of the nurse and compliance with filling surgical safety checklist at Central Operating Theatre. Design of this study uses cross-sectional approach. Sampling technique uses total sampling technique, samples taken for study as many as 23 respondents who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The data are described in table form and a Fisher test was conducted with spss 21. The highest work period are they who have light of work ≥ 3 years as many as 15 respondent (65,2%) and respondents who have length of work < 3 years as many as 8 respondent (34,8%), for nurses obedience  18 respondents (78,3%) who did not complete the surgical safety checklist while 5 respondents (21,7%) complete the surgical safety checklist correctly. Fisher statistic test obtained p-value data is 0,586 > 0,05. There is no relationship between the years of service of the nurse and compliance with filling surgical safety checklist at Central Operating Theatre


The rings perceived within and across the partial structures of structurally explicit generics are analyzed to produce ring-screen information that complements the existing fragment screens. This paper presents and discusses the format of these ring screens. The resultant bit vectors for each partial structure are accumulated to retain their logical relationships by means of a «bubble-up» of the vectors. The principles of the bubble-up are outlined and explained by means of several examples


This study examined pre-service mathematics teachers' attitudes towards teaching profession and explored the impact of gender and grade level on their attitudes. Participants consisted of 162 pre-service teachers, enrolled in elementary mathematics education program at a middle sized public university located in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. Data were collected during the fall semester of 2012-2013 academic years, from four different grade levels. As the data collection instrument 'Attitude Scale towards the Profession of Teaching', was administered to the participants. A two-way ANOVA was conducted to explore the impact of gender and grade level on attitude scores. In general, the results revealed that pre-service teachers had positive and high attitudes towards teaching profession. However, their attitudes differed statistically significant with respect to gender and grade level. In particular, female pre-service teachers had higher attitudes than male pre-service teachers. Besides, pre-service teachers' attitudes decreased statistically significant as they moved from beginner to senior level.


In order to obtain RS 232 serial communication data,the design based on AT89C51 SCM is introduced.The system used GM8123 chip expanding SCM′s one serial port to three serial ports and used MAX232 chip realizing the exchange of RS 232 levels and TTL levels.The serial data was intercepted by SCM′s serial port,and then SCM handled those data and sent them to the upper computer.This design has two kinds of work modes.Mode one realized real-time intercepting.Mode two used the store-and-forward principle,the interceptor can work independently.


Background: Ion channels may play a role in carcinogenesis. Human ether-go-go-related gene (HERG) encoding one of the components of delayed rectifier potassium currents has been indicated with involvement in tumor cell growth and death.Our aim is to investigate the effects of cisapride, a specific blocker for HERG channel, on human gastric cancer cells. Methods: The effects of cisapride on the proliferation, clonogenicity, cell cycle andapoptosis of gastric cancer cells were evaluated by MTT assay, clonogenicity assay, flow cytometry and transmission electron microscopy. The expression of HERG mRNA and protein in gastric cancer cells and tissues was measured by RT-PCR, Western blot and immunohistochemistry, respectively. Results: HERG mRNA and protein were exclusively expressed in gastric cancer cells. The HERG protein was localized in the cytoplasm and membrane of the gastric cancer cells. The proliferation of gastric cancer cells expressing HERG protein was inhibited in a time- and dose-dependent manner when treated with cisapride (P


This paper provides a critical review of the policy landscape of contemporary Chinese education, and the essential role of school principals in the national reform for "Quality-Oriented Education". With cultural and historical context in mind, and the impact of political and societal forces taken into consideration, the authors examine the major challenges faced by Chinese schools and the demand for a new generation of school leaders. An assessment of the existing principal evaluation and training system is conducted and a framework of strategic directions for systemic professional development is proposed.


To solve the issue of modeling for loosely coupled inter-organizational workflows (LCIOWF), based on the colored Petri nets, the colored multi-dimension inter-organizational workflow (CMD/IOWF) Nets is proposed through importing color-set, colored function, resource places, waiting places, busy places, begin transitions, end transitions, roles, organizations, time functions, resource functions and transition functions into IOWF. Based on CMD/IOWF, the issue of modeling for multiple workflow instances in LCIOWF (loosely coupled inter-organizational workflow) coupling through resources sharing and activity synchronizing is discussed, as well as the issue of modeling for resources constraint and time relative to simulation. By means of defining inputs/outputs, states, events, time advancing functions and state transferring functions, a simulation model of loosely coupled inter-organizational workflows is presented. Based on the proposed simulation model, the key performance indexes of loosely coupled inter-organizational workflows can be obtained, which are the average execution time, the average execution cost of workflow instances of a respective project, their distributions among organizations and the resource-utilization ratio of a respective project. Finally, to verify validity of the proposed model, a case of loosely coupled inter-organizational workflows simulation is demonstrated.


In this paper we establish the higher-dimensional energy bubbling results for harmonic maps to spheres. We have shown in particular that the energy density of concentrations has to be the sum of energies of harmonic maps from the standard 2dimensional spheres. The result also applies to the structure of tangent maps of stationary harmonic maps at either a singularity or infinity. 0. Introduction Let M , N be smooth, compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary. Suppose u : M → N is a smooth harmonic map such that the homotopy class, [u], of u is not trivial. Then it follows easily from the small energy regularity theorem of R. Schoen and K. Uhlenbeck (cf. [ Sc]) that the total energy of the map u is


The free amino acids content in the Walker tumour and in some organs (liver, lung and skeletal muscle) of the tumour-bearing rats has been chromatograprically determined at different times after the tumour implantation. The contents were very poor in the first stages of the tumour growth but they largely increased with the tumour growth. In the organs of the tumour-bearing rats the aminoacids contents were considerably modified in comparison with the normal animals.


The museum of socialist art opened on the 19 of September 2011 in Sofia. Its establishment followed years of complaint from the side of a host of Bulgarian intellectuals and public figures bemoaning the absence of an adequate national institution dealing with the memory of the socialist period (Vukov 2008, Kazalarska 2011). Until then, this part of Bulgarian history was conspicuously absent from the permanent exhibits of national and regional history museums. Even the sites of former labour camps and prisons for political detainees have managed to escape from the global museumizing impulse of the late 20 and the early 21 centuries. As Nikolai Vukov ironically writes, the most prominent case of a museum of the socialist past was the house of the former communist leader Todor Zhivkov in his birthplace, the town of Pravets, which was maintained by the local people to commemorate Zhivkov's important role in recent Bulgarian history (Vukov 2009). Although the new museum of socialist art had become a source of controversies long before its opening, since its inauguration it has found itself at the epicentre of a virtual war waged not only on its contents, but also on its name, location, management, and legal status. My paper attempts to trace these disputes, analyse the memory wars in which the museum of socialist art got enmeshed, and also place these debates in a larger European perspective. It will attempt to reflect on the questions and problems, which arise when art is used as a means to remember, narrate, and exhibit socialism. The paper is based on four in-depth interviews with the museum's director, the chief curator of the exhibition and her assistant, in December 2011 and June 2012, as well as press coverage of various issues concerning the museum, from 2010 to 2012. I have visited the museum five times, once in November 2011, twice in December 2011, once in March 2012, when a new exhibition was opened in its inner hall, and once during the Long Night of Museums in May 2012.


In this article a description of the software tool for the estimation of information security risk operational value in the cloud computing system on the based of artificial neural network (ANN) is developed. Cloud computing system is the information system of client and vendor interaction. The algorithm block diagram of software tool is proposed, the training sample data set input module for an artificial neural network, the module of training for ANN and the module to obtain an assessment of information risk level are developed. The results of testing software tool are shown. The offered decisions allow to enable the analysis of real identified threats and to obtain an assessment of information security risk level in cloud computing system for the worst case, when all possible threat sources become active simultaneously. An assessment of the operational information security risk level, obtained on the based of software tools, may be used during the information security expert audit on the based of obtaining objective data from events sensors on the current state of cloud computing system security.


An extended investigation of the plasma stream motion across the transverse magnetic field needs to know dynamic characteristics of electronic and ionic components. This problem can be solved within the framework of simultaneous solution of their moving equations. The analysis of the dynamic characteristics and the corresponding microstructure of the plasma stream in the transverse magnetic field was conducted on the basis of the following physical model. The plasma stream does not interact with the transverse magnetic field until its electronic component is not magnetized. On other words, while the Larmor's electron radius is longer than the typical scale of the plasma channel or the electron collision mean free path, this plasma/magnetic field interaction is negligible. When the electron component is magnetized the situation radically alters because all electrons transform their progressive velocity into rotary velocity as if they are tied up with one of the magnetic line. At the same time the un-magnetized ions continue on their progressive motion through the transverse magnetic field. As this takes place, the longitudinal quasi-neutralization of the plasma stream is disturbed causing the complex two-dimensional polarization of the plasma stream and in doing so makes conditions for moving plasma across the magnetic field. The calculation of the electric field energy of the polarization field showed that it is well below the kinetic energy of the plasma stream. By this reason the progressive velocity of the ionic component or the plasma stream is kept constant under conditions of the idle run. However, the momentary values of electron and ion speed differ essentially between them. The solution of the two-dimensional Laplace's equation shows the dynamics of the interrelate electronic and ionic components of the plasma stream. If the ion speed is the constant value the electron speed fluctuates lagging and leading the ions periodically. The parameters of these fluctuations are presented in this paper.


With the development of people's material and spiritual lives, the demand for the quality of lighting environment is higher and higher recently. Meanwhile, the interior lighting design has attracted more and more attention. Reasonable interior lighting design could create an elegant and comfortable living environment, and add an extra spark for the interior design. This thesis gives a general introduction to the interior lighting design as well as its development trend, analyses the applications of lights in restaurants' interior design in the aim of offering some valuable advices for the developments of interior lighting design in the future.


To achieve high-throughput measurement of maize kernel phenotypic traits,a maize kernel traits system was designed based on line-scan technology combined with automatic control technology. The maize kernels were fed successively with vibrating feeder,and the undistorted images of corn kernels were acquired by matching the conveyor speed and line-scan speed via servo drive technology. Through image processing technique,the maize kernel phynotypic traits parameter measurement were realized. The experimental results showed that the measurement accuracy( mean absolute percentage error,MAPE) of total kernel number,long axis,short axis,and length-width ratio were 0. 50%,1. 22%,3. 34%,and 4. 22%,respectively. The measurement efficiency of the system was 12 s per ear. This study is of great significance for promoting the high-throughput identification of maize kernel traits.


Fetuses (57, 85, 110 d gestation) from sows fed experimental diets from day 57 of gestation were examined. Sows ate either a diet with no added fat (2.6% total lipid), or a diet containing added soybean oil (4.7%) or tallow (5.0%). The diet of the sow was shown to have no effect on fetal organ (heart, liver, lung, kidney) size or total fat content. Fetal carcass proximate analysis was likewise unaffected by changes in the maternal diet. Key words: Pig, fetus, diet, development


1. Introduction. 1.1 Scope. 1.2 Principles of Structural Design. 1.3 The Parts of the Steel Structure. 1.4 Types of Steel Structures. 1.5 Design Philosophies. 1.6 Fundamentals of Allowable Strength Design (ASD). 1.7 Fundamentals of Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD). 1.8 Inelastic Design. 1.9 Structural Safety. 1.10 Limit States. 1.11 Building Codes and Design Specifications. 2. Loads, Load Factors, and Load Combinations. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Building Load Sources. 2.3 Building Load Determination. 2.4 Load Combinations for ASD and LRFD. 2.5 Load Calculations. 2.6 Calibration. 2.7 Problems. 3. Steel Building Materials. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Applicability of the AISC Specification. 3.3 Steel for Construction. 3.4 Structural Steel Shapes. 3.5 Chemical Components of Structural Steel. 3.6 Grades of Structural Steel. 3.7 Availability of Structural Steel. 4. Tension Members. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Tension Members in Structures. 4.3 Cross-Sectional Shapes for Tension Members. 4.4 Behavior and Strength of Tension Members. 4.5 Computation of Areas. 4.6 Design of Tension Members. 4.7 Block Shear. 4.8 Pin-Connected Members. 4.9 Eye-bars and Rods. 4.10 Built-up Tension Members. 4.11 Truss Members. 4.12 Bracing Members. 5. Compression Members. 5.1 Compression Members in Structures. 5.2 Cross-Sectional Shapes for Compression Members. 5.3 Compression Member Strength. 5.4 Additional Limits States for Compression. 5.5 Length Effects. 5.6 Slender Elements in Compression. 5.7 Column Design Tables. 5.8 Torsional Buckling and Flexural-Torsional Buckling. 5.9 Single Angle Compression Members. 5.10 Built-Up Members. 6. Bending Members. 6.1 Bending Members in Structures. 6.2 Strength of Beams. 6.3 Design of Compact Laterally Supported Wide Flange Beams. 6.4 Design of Compact Laterally Unsupported Wide Flange Beams. 6.5 Design of Noncompact Beams. 6.6 Design of Beams for Weak Axis Bending. 6.7 Design of Beams for Shear. 6.8 Continuous Beams. 6.9 Plastic Analysis and Design of Continuous Beams. 6.10 Provisions for Double-Angle and Tee Members. 6.11 Single Angle Bending Members. 6.12 Members in Biaxial Bending. 6.13 Serviceability Criteria for Beams. 6.14 Concentrated Forces on Beams. 7. Plate Girders. 7.1 Background. 7.2 Homogeneous Plate Girders in Bending. 7.3 Homogeneous Plate Girders in Shear. 7.4 Stiffeners for Plate Girders. 8. Beam-Columns and Frame Behavior. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Second-Order Effects. 8.3 Interaction Principle. 8.4 Interaction Equations. 8.5 Braced Frames. 8.6 Moment Frames. 8.7 Specification Provisions for Stability Analysis and Design. 8.8 Initial Beam-Column Selection. 8.9 Beam-column Design Using Manual Part 6. 8.10 Combined Simple and Rigid Frames. 8.11 Partially Restrained (PR) Frames. 8.12 Bracing Design. 9. Composite Construction. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of Composite Beam Construction. 9.3 Shored vs. Unshored Construction. 9.4 Effective Flange. 9.5 Strength of Composite Beams and Slab. 9.6 Shear Stud Capacity. 9.7 Composite Beams with Formed Metal Deck. 9.8 Fully Encased Steel Beams. 9.9 Selecting a Section. 9.10 Serviceability Considerations. 9.11 Composite Columns. 9.12 Composite Beam-Columns. 10. Connection Elements. 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 Basic Connections. 10.3 Beam-to-Column Connections. 10.4 Fully Restrained Connections. 10.5 Simple and Partially Restrained Connections. 10.6 Mechanical Fasteners. 10.7 Bolt Limit States. 10.8 Welds. 10.9 Weld Limit States. 10.10 Connecting Elements. 10.11 Problems. 11. Simple Connections. 11.1 Types of Simple Connections. 11.2 Simple Shear Connections. 11.3 Double-Angle Connections: Bolted-Bolted. 11.4 Double-Angle Connections: Welded-Bolted. 11.5 Double-Angle Connections: Bolted-Welded. 11.6 Double-Angle Connections: Welded-Welded. 11.7 Single Angel Connections. 11.8 Single Plate Shear Connections. 11.9 Seated Connections. 11.10 Light Bracing Connections. 12. Moment Connections. 12.1 Types of Moment Connections. 12.2 Limit States. 12.3 Moment Connection Design. 12.4 Column Stiffening. 13. Steel Systems for Seismic Resistance. 13.1 Introduction. 13.2 Expected Behavior. 13.3 Moment-Frame Systems. 13.4 Braced-Frame Systems. 13.5 Other Framing Systems. 13.6 Other General Requirements. 13.7 Conclusions. Index.


Campus card is used to record learning, living and entertainment data of students during school learning period. It contains numerous valuable information of student daily behavior. The effective integration of campus card data is the basis for further mining and analyzing of student behavior. This paper presents the design and implementation of a data integration and analysis system for campus card. This system is analyzed and designed by Unified Modeling Language (UML) and implemented by Java. The main input involves the records of consumption, entrance guard, library and other types of related data. This system can used to integrate common types of source data and provide several kinds of statistical charts and tables to illustrate the analysis results. Moreover, the system supports to add new functions in terms of plugins.


How many times have you come across an infant in your unit who just "didn't look right"? As neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurses, we spend many days caring for the tiny, premature infant with respiratory distress who develops sepsis. These small, premature infants have a deficient immune system and are at-risk for sepsis during their stay in the NICU. Also, many term or near-term infants are admitted daily to the NICUs around the country with a diagnosis of rule-out sepsis. We take care of them, start their intravenous regimens, give them antibiotics, and reassure their parents. Most of these term infants improve and go home within a short period of time. But some of these infants die of overwhelming sepsis. The care of these infants can be frustrating to the nurse, when dealing with the multiple problems that sepsis can cause. All infants in the NICU must be continually assessed for sepsis throughout their often lengthy stays. The nurse is at the bedside and must be able to pick up on the sometimes subtle signs of sepsis. The earlier the nurse realizes that the baby's condition has changed, the earlier the treatment of sepsis can start, and the better the baby's chances of survival. This month's journal is devoted to neonatal sepsis, and we have some great articles on this topic. In the first article of our series, Newnam and McGrath discuss the infant's deficient immune system, the inflammatory response, and the links to later neurodevelopmental outcomes. In the second article on sepsis, meningitis, and pneumonia, I attempt to differentiate the many types of infections that can occur in the infant, as well as provide an explanation of the various definitions used with infections in the neonate. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome and multiple organ dysfunc-


Abstract
The availability of heavy metals in the soil is related to their partitioning between solution and solid phases and expressed by sorption isotherm. Twenty surface soil samples (0-30 cm) belonging to five soil subgroups were taken from agricultural regions of Western Azerbaijan province. The sorption isotherms of Pb were determined by equlibrating the soil with solutions containing 0, 100, 300, 500, 700, 900, 1100 and 1300 mg Pb L-1 from Pb-nitrate source in 0.01 M NaNO3 as background electrolyte. Illite was the dominant clay mineral in Typic Calcixerepts (TC), Typic Haploxerepts (TH) and Typic Endoaquepts (TE) whereas in Vertic Calcixerepts (VC) and Vertic Endoaquepts (VE) the clay mineralogy was dominated by smectite. Active and equivalent calcium carbonate and clay contents ranged from 4.3 to 7.8%, 6.2 to 16% and 31 to 45%, respectively. The linaer, Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm equations were fitted to the experimental data of Pb sorption and desorption. Both the Freundlich (0.98< R2 <0.70) and linear (0.94< R2 <0.51) approaches described the Pb sorption and desorption data well, and the Lagmuir model (0.99< R2 <0.71) was well fitted to some of the soils, mostly, those soils with low CCE content. A significant positive correlation was found between CCE and the Lagmuir adsorption maxima (b) (r = 0.84, P≤ 0.01) and also the Freundlich constant a (r = 0.78, P≤ 0.001). The soil partition coefficient (KSD) showed a positive correlation (r = 0.55, P≤ 0.05) with ACCE. Stepwise regression showed that 62% of variation in lead sorption was accounted for CCE content. However, the relatively high pH (7.0 to 8.0) of the experimental soils and a presence of relatively high values of free and active carbonate in the soils along with the large sorption capacity of these soils suggest the possibility of solid phase precipitation as PbCO3. A strong and irreversible binding of Pb in the soils were recorded. Results showed that the CCE and clay contents were of more importance in controlling the sorption of Pb in the studied soils.

Keywords: Sorption, Clay, Bioavailability, Lead, Calcium carbonate, Desorption


: This study aims to examine the effect of agency problems on cost stickiness on Banking in Indonesia. Furthermore, this study will also examine how the effect of agency problems on cost stickiness on the different effectiveness level of the board of commissioners and audit committees. The samples used are banks listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange 2012-2016 and regularly report their financial reports and annual reports. This study found that cost stickiness on operational costs occurred in the Indonesian banking sector and agency problems have a positive influence on the level of cost stickiness. The study also found that, the positive effect of agency problem on cost stickiness will be lower in banking high level of effectiveness of Board of Commissioners or Audit Committee.


We hydrothermally synthesized anatase films on Ti substrates from transparent aqueous solutions of layered titanate colloids. The morphology and wetting properties of the films were examined. The films consisted of columnar aggregates grown on the Ti substrates, which resulted in high orientation. Randomly oriented films were obtained when alumina was used as a substrate, whereas the sol–gel precoating of a titanium oxide (TiO2) layer on alumina substrates resulted in similar orientation as that of the films on Ti substrates. Thus, the presence of TiO2 on the substrate surface plays an important role in the orientation of columnar aggregates. The columnar aggregates were similar in microstructure to the arms of a type of six-pointed star-like anatase aggregate synthesized hydrothermally from the same reaction solutions. They were composed of twins of tapered anatase nanocrystals, which provided a rough film surface. The film surface was highly hydrophilic and oleophilic due to the nanoscale roughness even when the film was not irradiated with UV light.


This study is part of a larger body of research aimed at understanding man-machine interaction in aviation, and its influence on aviation safety. In part one of this study a group of pilots experienced flight upset profiles in the GYROLAB GL-2000 centrifuge-based simulator and evaluated the simulator to determine if sustained motion simulation is of sufficient fidelity to improve pilot-reaction to unplanned, simulated, aircraft upsets. In part two of this study pilots were monitored with a variety of physiological sensors to determine if there are identifiable psychological and physiological responses that occur in pilots when their exposure to an unplanned upset results in a mishap.


Variability in the physicochemical properties of soils of different land uses form from the same lithology was studied. Soil samples were collected from surface (0 – 20 cm) and subsurface (20 – 40 cm) depths from three land use namely fallow land, continuous cultivated land and mechanic village land. The soils were air dried, sieved with 2 mm sieve and subjected to routine laboratory analysis. Results obtained were subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA) and significant treatment means were separated using Least Significant Difference (LSD) at 0.05 probability level. Relationship between selected soil properties were determined using correlation analysis. Results showed that the textures of the studied soils were not affected by land use practices. Bulk density increased with increase in depth with fallow land recoding the lowest values of 0.86 g/cm3 (0.-20 cm depth) and 1.06 g/cm3 (20 – 40 cm depth). Land use types significantly (P = 0.05) affected soil chemical properties such as soil pH, soil organic carbon, total N, available P and exchangeable cations with the highest values recorded in fallow land, followed by palm plantation and the least was continuous cultivated land. There were slight variations among soil properties in the three land use types studied. Significant positive and negative correlations existed and some soil properties. Good soil management practices such as organic fertilization, zero tillage and mulching is recommended especially in continuous cultivated lands.


Abstract The aim of this research is to explore how online engagement influences positive versus negative consumption-focused self-expression word-of-mouth. Three brands are selected to be the focus of the study (Starbucks, Apple, and McDonald's), and six online brand communities of these brands participated. The online questionnaire was distributed to those communities and filled in by 600 members of the respective love and hate brand communities. Affection (passion/aversion) is the motivational factor that leads community members of both types (love and hate) to be active in commenting and writing reviews about the product/brand. In hate brand communities, connecting negatively influences consumption-focused self-expression word-of-mouth, whilst brand influence has a positive effect on it.


The synthesize technology, production state and stability of reactive fatliquor were discussed. The reason of these question and methods of resolution were put forward.


The short-term insurance industry is a cyclical type of business due to the impact of the continuous market cycle. This cycle has a growth phase, soft market phase, hard market phase and a break-even phase. The objective of the research paper focuses on the improvement of financial decision-making when executives of the short-term insurance industry are managing their business during the various phases of the continuous market cycle. Both a literature study and an empirical survey were necessary to achieve the research objective. The empirical survey included the contributions of the top nine commercial and corporate short-term insurers in South Africa. They represented more than 77% of the total gross written premiums in 2009 and can thus be considered as the leaders of the short-term insurance industry in this country. The conclusions of the study should be valuable to other developing countries with emerging market economies as South Africa is also classified as such. The study focused on the various factors which may cause the continuous market cycle, the problem areas which the executives experience concerning the continuous market cycle, and how often various factors are adjusted by the short-term insurers to account for changes in the continuous market cycle.


Several calculation codes have been developed for the determination of permeation, recycling and inventory of hydrogen isotopes in the first wall of thermonuclear fusion reactors. An analysis of th...


Ab stract: This paper will describe some applications of COMSOL Multiphysics® to the analysis of Frequency Selective surface structures. In particular attention will be focused to the possibility of designing a stealthy antenna using the FSS structure. In fact, since it possesses a dual filter concept of frequency and polarization for electromagnetic wave, the Radar Cross Section (RCS) of the antenna is reduced.


: In this paper, we propose an emotion estimation method for words and its application to construct a word-emotion dictionary. Since the estimation of more delicate emotions in various natural language processing tasks is a crucial issue, we aim to estimate various emotions to a word. In order to realize it, we employ the distributional hypothesis and assume that an emotional word in a sentence influences the surrounding words. First, we collect more than 2,000 words expressing emotions from an emotion expression dictionary. By using these emotional words and a neural model based on Continuous Bag-of- Words (CBOW), we propose an automatic system to estimate the emotions of many ordinary words. As a result, emotion vectors for 20,000 words could be obtained. We carried out experiments to examine the accuracy of the vectors. It is confirmed that the generated emotion vectors reflect the emotion image for words that humans have.


The Cytopathology Readership Survey, conducted in the spring of 1998, had a response rate that was 25% above the anticipated level. The results of the questionnaire can therefore be taken as a good indication of what matters most to readers and contributors and will help to shape the content and format of the journal as it approaches its second decade. It is worth looking at some of the highlights. •The majority of respondents were BSCC members, working as consultants in District General Hospitals, with an almost equal interest in gynaecological and non-gynaecological cytology. Replies were, however, received from 23 countries, somewhat in proportion to the journal circulation in countries outside the UK. •The most valued features of the journal were review articles, editorials, original papers and commentaries. Supplements were also felt to be important. It was gratifying to find that the overall level of the journal was deemed 'about right' by 86% of respondents. •Potential authors choose where to publish mainly according to impact factor, perceived prestige, circulation and speed of publication. Colour reproduction was, surprisingly, to the editor at any rate, of relatively low importance. Speed of publication was specifically mentioned by some as a problem for Cytopathology. Direct comparison with Acta Cytologica and Diagnostic Cytopathology, launched in 1957 and 1985, respectively, indicated a near equivalent ranking for the three options, a promising result for the newcomer. •The future developments proposed reflect the needs of District General Hospital consultants: journal watches, educational case reports with case commentaries, laboratory protocols and guidelines. Such initiatives will make extra demands on contributors, the Editorial Board and journal space, but these are not reasons for not considering the suggestions. •Finally it was dismaying to find that very few respondents had visited the Cytopathology Website or accessed Cytopathology on-line. From 1999 the journal will be available through the Blackwell Science on-line journal publishing service, called Synergy. It is one of the most advanced electronic systems offered by publishers at present, and should open up the contents of the journal to a much wider audience around the world. The Readership Survey has proved to be an extremely worthwhile exercise. Readers will note that the current issue for 1999 does include two review articles and a laboratory protocol as well as a range of interesting original articles. The correspondence columns have changed to a more condensed format to allow more space for publication of manuscripts, and other measures to expedite the publication time are in hand. Thank you, all respondents, for the help you have given. Cytopathology will certainly benefit from your views.


Background: The effect of delays in referral and pre-referral interventions on the outcome of definitive management of bile duct injury (BDI) has not been widely studied. Objective: We looked into the association between pre-referral delays and interventions on the outcome of definitive management of BDI. Methodology: 35 referred patients of post cholecystectomy were prospectively observed for minimum two years follow up after definitive management. Data was analyzed to look for association of outcome with time to referral and pre-referral interventions. Results: The mean age (mean ± s.d.) of the patients was 44.48±14.20 years. The mean (mean± s.d.) time of identification of BDI was 35.40±86.09 days. Twenty cases (57.14%) were referred to our hospital more than 4 weeks after BDI. Ten cases (28.6%) presented within 2 weeks of injury and the remaining between 2 to 4 weeks. Thirteen patients (37.1 %) had pre-referral interventions.  Discussion: A trend towards less favourable outcome in cases with more complex injuries and those cases who had inappropriate pre-referral interventions. However, the results were not statistically significant as the sample size was small .


The success of transpyloric feeding in a group of babies weighing 1500 g or less was evaluated. This method was successful for most well babies but for many of those who required respiratory assistance (usually by face mask) it was not.


The purposes of this study are to: 1) investigate elementary school students' perspectives in speed reading; 2) examine their English reading speed and comprehension by using web-based speed reading program; and 3) suggest a model of speed reading class applicable to teaching and learning speed reading. The subjects of this study consist of 131 students in three elementary schools in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do. Mixed research was conducted using a questionnaire and a case study including classroom observations, student produced reflective journals and interviews. The major findings of the study are as follows. First, students' perspectives in speed reading and speed reading program were positive. Second, based on the case study, speed reading classes were found to be effective in the improvement of their reading speed. As for students' reading speed on average, there was an increase of 109 wpm from 74 to 183 wpm. The classes were found to be useful, helpful and motivating. The students were also interested in and satisfied with speed reading classes. Finally, a model of teaching and learning speed reading for the improvement of English reading speed is presented based on the findings and discussion.


Citrus production is one of the world's largest agricultural industries. It is widely grown in Tripical and Subtripical climates occupying a belt extending around the world at both sides of equator to a latitude of 35deg N and 35deg S.


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Supplemental digital content is available in the text. Background The physical and psychological well-being of patients with breast cancer is an important global issue. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) aims to equip patients with the skills to respond and adapt to difficult circumstances. However, the extent of the physical and psychological outcomes of this therapy in patients with breast cancer remains unclear. Objectives The aim of the study was to summarize available evidence and assess the efficacy of ACT on physiological and psychological outcomes in patients with breast cancer. Methods Published randomized controlled studies were identified in MEDLINE, PsycInfo, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL, and CNKI from inception to December 2019 and Cochrane Library, AMED, and Clinical trials.gov from inception to September 2020. Methodological rigor was assessed by two reviewers using the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Review of Interventions. Sufficient data were statistically pooled with review manager; otherwise, a narrative summary was used. Results Thirteen trials were included in the review. Methodological quality varied across the studies. Meta-analyses demonstrated that ACT had moderate to large effects on reducing anxiety, depression, and stress and improving hope. Sensitivity analyses reached results similar to those of the meta-analyses. However, the effects of ACT on the physiological symptoms, fear of cancer recurrence, and psychological flexibility of patients with breast cancer remain inconclusive. Discussion ACT has beneficial effects on the anxiety, depression, stress, and hope of patients with breast cancer. The evidence of ACT on physiological symptoms, fear of cancer recurrence, and psychological flexibility needs to be treated with caution. Further studies are needed and should consider different delivery forms and also explore the mechanisms of each component of ACT under different cultural contexts.


During the covid-19 many employees work life balance disturbed, particularly for the woman employees. When all the family members staying at home throughout the day full filling their needs required additional time and energy. At the same time special attention should be given to immunity boosting of children and elderly in the family; all these factors along with the self- safety had impact on their job performance. After the covid also many of the IT professional continued working from home and moonlighting has a huge impact on many IT companies' performance in this context there is a need to study the work life balance of the women employees working in the select IT companies.
KEYWORDS: Work Life Balance, Women Employees, Stress, Pandemic, Personal Life, Professional Life.


The soluble form of the transmembrane glycoprotein, FcεRIα which corresponds to the high‐affinity receptor for IgE, is found in serum. Growing evidence suggests the pathogenic role of IgE and FcεRI in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The goal of this study is to develop a sensitive and standardized cytometric assay for quantification of sFcεRIα. A membrane emulsification technique was utilized to incorporate CuInS2/ZnS quantum dots and Fe3O4 nanoparticles into poly (styrene‐co‐maleic anhydride) microbeads. The beads were then carboxylated and coated with capture antibody monoclonal anti‐human FcεRIα. This antibody binds to FcεRIα but does not block the binding of FcεRIα to IgE. After incubation with standards or serum samples, the microbeads were incubated with excessive native human IgE, followed by incubation with Phycoerythrin (PE) conjugated anti‐human IgE. The resulting quantum dot microbeads were gated, and sFcεRIα quantification was analyzed based on PE fluorescence intensity. The method exhibited good linearity (R2 > 0.99), and the limit of detection was established at 0.29 ng/mL with the dynamic range of up to 200 ng/mL. The precision of the assay validated by intra‐ and inter‐assay variability met the acceptance criteria with the mean recovery falling within 80–110% of the theoretical concentration and a corresponding CV < 20%. We tested 149 serum samples which 89 were from SLE patients and 60 were from healthy volunteers. For the first time, we detected an increased sFcεRIα level in the serum of SLE patients, which was confirmed by a commercial ELISA kit. Compared to ELISA, this novel method is more sensitive and efficient. It allows for the simple comparative analysis of sFcεRIα levels in health and disease. © 2017 International Society for Advancement of Cytometry


The Coleopteran stored product pest contribute severe damage to stored product. Therefore, the identification of the insect pest is crucial step in the pest management program. However, the abundant of insect pest's species may cause the difficulty in the identification process specially when using morphological image and molecular techniques. In this paper, the identification of the insect pest species is obtained using statistical analysis which are K-means clustering and Hierarchical Agglomerative Cluster Analysis (HACA). Based on the morphometric analysis of four morphological structure of 38 Coleopteran stored product pest species image, 100 dataset is generated. As a results, from two different clustering techniques, K-Means Clustering and Hierarchical Agglomerative Cluster Analysis (HACA) produce 5 clusters and 11 clusters, respectively. From the clustering evaluation, it is show that the HACA is the best since it produce the higher average Silhouette index.


Hughes, Leonard, Caliban the Savage: Shakespeare's Critique of Colonialist Misappropriation of Indigenous Identities. Master of Arts English. May 2022, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey. This thesis engages with Shakespeare's The Tempest, analyzing the character Caliban as a critique of British colonialism. I argue that Caliban is not intended simply as a begrudged antagonist, but as a figure intended to represent New World natives. Shakespeare's "savage" also acts as an on-stage embodiment of Africans and other victims of British imperial exploits that suffered subjugation and hegemony. With this character, Shakespeare provides a demonstration of the relationship between Europeans and the colonized, while challenging the very institution of colonialism. Such a work provides valuable post-Shakespearean insights as well. Caliban contributes directly to the dialogue surrounding the experience of the indigenous, the costly cultivation of English identity, and the European condemnation of New World cultural practices. Considering Caliban's nature, story and experiences is pivotal when navigating diasporic literature, as these elements have direct implications for later writers who subsequently attempt to navigate such nuanced experiences.


The design formed a position control system which used the DC torque motor as the action element,LMD18200 as the motor device driver,photoelectric incremental rotary encoder disc as the position detector and the TMS320F2811 as the controller. According to the principles and system composition of manipulator position control,the software test procedure was compiled,and from the perspective of the dynamics in the MATLAB environment,the simulation performance analysis was conducted.


Observational studies of a planetary boundary layer (PBL) are difficult. Ground-born measurements usually characterize only a small portion of the PBL immediately above the surface. Air-born measurements cannot be obtained close to the surface and therefore cannot capture any significant portion of the PBL interior. Moreover, observations are limited in choice of instrumentation, time, duration, location of measurements and occasional weather conditions. Although turbulence-resolving simulations with a large-eddy simulation (LES) code do not supplant observational studies, they provide valuable complementary information on different aspect of the PBL dynamics, which otherwise difficult to acquire. These circumstances motivated development of a medium-resolution database (DATABASE64) of turbulence-resolving simulations, which is available on this ftp URL DATABASE64 covers a range of physical parameters typical for the barotropic SBL over a homogeneous rough surface. LES runs in DATABASE64 simulate 16 hours' evolution of the PBL turbulence. They are utilized to study both transition and equilibrium SBL cases as well as to calibrate turbulence parameterizations of meteorological models. The data can be also used to falsify theoretical constructions with regards to the PBL.


A data compression technique is developed for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. The technique is based on an SAR image model and is designed to preserve the local statistics in the image by an adaptive variable rate modification of block truncation coding (BTC). A data rate of approximately 1.6 bit/pixel is achieved with the technique while maintaining the image quality and cultural (pointlike) targets. The algorithm requires no large data storage and is computationally simple.