In the field of malaria diagnosis much effort is put into the development of faster and easier alternatives to the gold standard, blood smear microscopy. Nucleic acid amplification based techniques pose some of the most promising upcoming diagnostic tools due to their potential for high sensitivity, robustness and user-friendliness. In the current review, we will discuss some of the different DNA-based sensor systems under development for the diagnosis of malaria.


There is no one treatment for cancer, and the search for ways to combat cancer have led to many different treatments, including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. However, these treatments are not always effective, and in such cases new treatments must be developed. Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a treatment that has been proposed to combat glioblastomas of the brain and malignant melanomas, two tumors that are resistant to traditional cancer therapies. BNCT is based on the B(n,α)Li reaction, which can potentially deliver a very high and fatal radiation dose to cancerous cells by concentrating boron in them. It is a promising, though complicated treatment. Neutron beams must be generated with an adequate neutron flux, and moderated to therapeutically useful energy levels. The dose is difficult to calculate in BNCT because of all the types of radiation involved: photons, neutrons, and heavy charged particles. Dose is also highly dependent on boron distributions, which are not uniform and are difficult to measure. This makes accurate treatment plans difficult to develop. However, progress has been made on all these fronts and clinical trials have been conducted and shown that BNCT is a potentially safe and effective treatment for glioblastoma and melanoma. It provides an excellent example of the importance of innovation in the search for a cure to cancer.


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___ The hemodynamic effects of aspiration pneumonia were studied in 8 control dogs, 8 dogs treated with 0.5 mg of atropine per kg, and 8 vagotomized dogs. Cardiac output, central blood volume, arterial blood gases, and pressures in the aorta, right atrium, pulmonary artery, and pulmonary wedge position were measure<;[ before and 30 min, 60 min, and 120 min after endobronchial instil lation of 4 ml of 0.1 N hydrochloric acid per kg of body weight. There was a significant decrease in the mean aortic pressure and cardiac output in the control group and the group treated with atropine but not in the vagotomized animals. Pulmonary arterial pressure, right atrial pressure, and systemic vascular resistance were not different in the three groups. Hypotension resulted from decreased cardiac output due to decreased stroke volume and heart rate. Vagotomy prevented hypotension but atropine did not. Afferent fibers in the vagosympa thetic trunk seemed to be primarily responsible for the hemodynamic changes after experimental acid-induced pneumonia.


The mechanical balance maintained between the cell and its environment forms the basis of tissue formation, cohesion and homeostasis. Cells are able to sense the mechanical characteristics of the extracellular medium and to modulate their function accordingly. Furthermore, cells are able to modulate the mechanical properties of their environment in response to intracellular signals. In this article we review recent papers describing the regulators and signaling pathways involved in these processes. We describe how the adhesion sites of the cell to the Extra Cellular Matrix are of primary importance in sensing force and how the actin network via actomyosin contractility and the associated Rho-family dependent regulatory paths also play a key role in mechanotransduction. We then focus on the different types of cellular responses to forces: modulation of adhesion, shape, migration properties, proliferation rate or regulation of differentiation. Cellular response can also be communicated to neighboring cells and be integrated to modulate processes such as development and can lead to diseases if misregulated.


This research explores the education – employment equation in the management education sector which is continuously evolving and as many consider that a business qualification itself can enhance employability. This paper attempts to identify the prime individual and business related employability skills and competencies required from the graduates by the employers. Employers too have indicated that the students are not well prepared for the contemporary workplace and are expecting the graduates to be work ready. Today, Universities and business schools are revamping their programmes to develop employable and competent graduates. It is also of paramount importance to determine the extent to which graduates themselves feel prepared for work. This paper aims to explore the employability competencies demanded in the management graduates, assess graduates' competence level and identify the existing gap that needs to be addressed. This study will focus on the Coimbatore industry professionals' expectation from the fresh MBA graduates. The data were analysed with the help of SPSS v.19.Purposive sampling was used and to test the internal consistency and reliability, Cronbach alpha was used. This employability model used for this study has 8 generic skills and 42 skill descriptors. The findings indicate that 3 skill sets out of the 8 were ranked lower by the employers than that by the students. The gap in the perceived level of competency between the students and the employers contribute towards lowering the employability chances of the graduates. The findings of the paper have implication for curriculum developers, graduates and also the industrialists. Active involvement of industry in curriculum development, specified level of competence demanded fort each skill descriptions for different levels, getting graduates know about the industry requirement of the level of competence might minimise the gap.


A design of space using L-band T/R module was introduced. GaN amplifier was used to improve the module's performance. The multilayer boards were used to replace LTCC boards to lower the cost of T/R module. And the cavity structures were modified to improve the working reliability. The fabricated T/R module was tested in different working temperatures.


Objective To assess the safety and feasibility of multiple channel minimally invasive percutaneous nephrolithotomy(MPCNL)in treatment of complex renal calculi.Methods The nephropathy was extended to F14 F16 through invasive percutaneous.A small size of ureterscope F8/F9.8 was used to take stones and the crushed stones were pushed out by pulse water pressure.Results Among 23 cases,5 were pretreated by percutaneous nephropancture and treated secondary PCNL The rest 18 cases were treated with first PCNL.One to three tracts were used in all cases There were 18 cases showed stone free after treated with one stage minimally invasive percutaneous nephrolitho tomy Only one case with pyonephrosis suffered from postoperative infect appeared shock while one stage minimally invasive percutaneous nephrolithotomy.No major complications were noted in other patients.Conclusion Minimally invasive percutaneous nephrolithotomy is safe and effective in treating solitary kidney calculi,compared to traditional PCNL It may offer advantages with respect to less invasion and easy recovery.


Effects of radial transport on potential formation in the plug cell of a tandem mirror are studied. The radial transport equation including a mobility for potential-trapped electrons in the plug cell is solved numerically in the steady state. It is shown that radial particle diffusion-losses enhance the confining potential for plug-cell electrons, of which magnitude is obtained as a function of radial diffusion-loss time for different values of the mobility and for different profiles of the potential. It is also found that a hysteresis arises in the relation between the potential and the radial diffusion-loss time, which causes a mode transition.


Following the end of the progressive cycle in Latin America, new social movements and transformative social forces have emerged. This article develops an expanded reading of the work of Bolivian Marxist René Zavaleta Mercardo (1937–1984) through the work of his most significant student, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (1949–), in order to offer a way to search for routes forwards future transformative projects. I argue the concept of 'constitutive moments' gives us pointers as to which historical threads to pick up and trace forwards and backwards through the contours of history to better grasp the current conjuncture and what is at stake. Moreover, Lo abigarrado and ch'ixi, concepts elaborated by Zavaleta and Rivera Cusicanqui to theorise the heterogeneous character of Latin American social formations, create space for thinking through futures drawn from both beyond/outside capitalism and within its contradictions. The feminist tide (not sequential in waves, which respond to a and temporality restricted to Europe) has stirred the geographies and the ways of doing feminisms, of naming the rebellion here and there, and of modifying the criteria that say which are the contempt practices that matter and count as such. In this sense, it has turned everything upside down, including the ways of historicizing and making genealogies, with a radical anti-colonial stamp (Gago, Malo and Cavallero, 2020: 10).


Kenya experienced sharp increase in prices of petroleum products between 2007 and 2011. It was observed oil firms were taking advantage of international prices changes to exploit the public. Due to public outcry and the need to protect consumers, the government introduced price controls on pump prices in December 2010. The objective of this study was to establish whether there exists a relationship that exists between price regulation and financial performance of firms in the Kenyan oil sector. This research study used causal research design. The target population for this study constituted five oil companies which had over five percent market share in the retail network were sampled for the purpose of this study. The study used secondary sources of data from published financial statements, Ministry of Energy statistics and industry reports. Financial data from statements of financial position, income statements and cash flow statements from January 2010 to December 2011 was used. Collected data was analyzed and presented using SPSS and Microsoft office 2007 applications. The study concluded that indeed price regulation on pump have affected financial performance of oil firms in Kenya. The local prices were found to lag behind international price quotations after introduction of price controls in 2011 by an average of 16%. A look at variance between margins allocated to OMCs as compared to Actual realized margins by oil firms reveals that oil firms have been losing part of their allocated margins to stock effects and volatility in exchange rates and financing costs. The study recommends that ERC formula should be revised in consultation with all oil marketers to cushion them from costs not factored in the gazetted formula.


The term health disparities (also called health inequalities) refers to the differences in health outcomes and related events across individuals and social groups. Social determinants of health, meanwhile, refers to certain types of causes of ill health in individuals, including lack of early infant care and stimulation, lack of safe and secure employment, poor housing conditions, discrimination, lack of self-respect, poor personal relationships, low community cohesion, and income inequality. These social determinants stand in contrast to others, such as individual biology, behaviors, and proximate exposures to harmful agents. This chapter presents some of the revolutionary findings of social epidemiology and the science of social determinants of health, and shows how health disparities and social determinants raise profound questions in public health ethics and social/global justice philosophy.


High glucose (HG)-induced endothelial apoptosis serves an important role in the vascular dysfunction associated with diabetes mellitus (DM). It has been reported that isoquercitrin (IQC), a flavonoid glucoside, possesses an anti-DM effect, but the mechanism requires further investigation. The present study investigated the effect of IQC against HG-induced apoptosis in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) and explored its molecular mechanism. HUVECs were treated with 5 or 30 mM glucose for 48 h. Endothelial cell viability was monitored using the Cell Counting Kit-8 assay. Mitochondrial membrane potential was detected by JC-1 staining. Apoptosis was observed by TUNEL staining and flow cytometry. Western blotting was used for the analysis of apoptosis-associated proteins Bax, Bcl-2, cleaved (C)-caspase3, total-caspase3, p53 and phosphorylated p53. Reverse transcription-quantitative PCR was used to analyze the mRNA expression levels of Bax, Bcl-2 and p53. Immunofluorescence staining was utilized to detect the expression levels and distribution of p53 and ubiquitin specific peptidase 10 (USP10) in HUVECs. The results revealed that IQC significantly attenuated HG-induced endothelial apoptosis, as shown by decreased apoptotic cells observed by TUNEL, JC-1 staining and flow cytometry. Moreover, under HG stress, IQC treatment markedly inhibited the increased expression levels of the pro-apoptotic proteins p53, Bax and C-caspase3, and increased the expression levels of the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 in HUVECs. However, the anti-apoptotic effect of IQC against HG was partially blunted by increasing p53 protein levels in vitro. IQC influenced the mRNA expression levels of Bax and Bcl-2 in response to HG, but it did not affect the transcription of p53. Notably, IQC inhibited the HG-induced phosphorylation of p53 at Ser15 and the nuclear transport of USP10, destabilizing p53 and increasing the proteasomal degradation of the p53 protein. The current findings revealed that IQC exerted a protective effect against the HG-induced apoptosis of endothelial cells by regulating the proteasomal degradation of the p53 protein, suggesting that IQC may be used as a novel therapeutic compound to ameliorate DM-induced vascular complications.


Semantic segmentation of surgical instruments provides essential priors for autonomous surgery. This task is however challenging since the fine-structure of surgical instruments requires the accurate segmentation of detailed regions in images. As the visual guidance for autonomous surgery, the algorithm should also be real-time and friendly to embedded systems. In this paper, a discriminative asymmetric learning framework is proposed to balance the efficiency and effectiveness of surgical instrument segmentation. Two convolutional neural networks with specific designs are deployed to extract the detail and semantic features of instruments. To reduce the redundancy of visual representation, the aggregator-discriminator mechanism is proposed to distinguish the features learned from different levels. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method contributes to competitive segmentation accuracy and a higher efficiency compared to existing methods.


Contents: Introduction: general themes, reform, chapter outlines Mental-state defences: insanity and automatism Disease of the mind: individual justice and societal protection Drug-use and the defence of insanity Volitional insanity: involuntariness, injustice, and cognitive impairment Involuntary conduct: defence of impaired consciousness Conclusion: reform proposals, looking forward Bibliography Index.


Online community-based Question and Answer (Q&A) websites is popular in recent
years. The main challenge for Q&A websites is how to motivate participations. Using a
natural experimental dataset collected from a Chinese Q&A site, we apply difference-indifferences
model with propensity score matching to evaluate the effect of emergency of
a paid-for knowledge sharing activity on changes in the free sharing behaviors and
social activities. Our results show that the paid-for activity allows users to share more
knowledge freely and build more social ties in the site. The results suggest that the
financial incentive can increase users' participatory behaviors significantly.


The impact of lasers used in geodetic instruments was often discussed in past. Within a diploma thesis at the Dresden University of Technology the ranging lasers of 11 instruments from Leica Geosystems, Trimble and Zeiss were tested with respect to their danger potential. This article will show the mechanisms of impact inside the human eye, discuss the problem of the eye shut reflex and present the results of instrumental tests.


We randomly assigned male migrant workers in Qatar invitations to a motivational workshop aimed at improving financial habits and encouraging joint decision-making with spouses back home in India. 13-17 months later, we surveyed migrants and wives to estimate intent-to-treat impacts in their transnational households. Wives of treated migrants changed their financial practices, and became more likely to seek out financial education themselves. Treated migrants and their wives became more likely to make joint decisions on money matters. Treatment effects on financial outcomes show potential heterogeneity, with those with lower prior savings saving differentially more than those with higher prior savings.


Anthropogenic activities within and around freshwater ecosystems e.g. rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs are seriously affecting the structural and functional assemblages of aquatic biodiversity (Parienté, 2017; Edegbene et al., 2020). Traditionally, the effects of anthropogenic activities resulting in pollution in freshwater ecosystems are assessed by measuring and analyzing values of physico-chemical variables (Adakole & Anunne, 2003; Palmer et al., 2004). The relationship of physicoARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article History: Received: Nov. 10, 2020 Accepted: Dec. 30, 2020 Online: Jan. 24, 2021 _______________


What may cause a state to adopt an anti-hazing law or have a tougher anti-hazing law than other states? This paper looks at what factors may cause a state to have a tougher antihazing law. Such factors that were examined were political culture, and the number of hazingrelated deaths prior to the law being passed. The results show that the number of hazing-related deaths is significant in determining if a state has a tougher anti-hazing law. In addition, the interaction between moralistic culture and hazing-related deaths was statistically significant. Factors that may cause a university to have a tougher anti-hazing policy were also analyzed. Such factors that were examined were political culture, the number of hazing-related deaths, having an anti-hazing law or not, and state toughness. It was found that having an anti-hazing law contributed to a university's anti-hazing policy being tougher and in some cases the state law toughness was significant in determining if the university policy could be categorized as weak or strong. Pulling this all together it would appear that having more hazing-related deaths leads to tougher anti-hazing laws and have anti-hazing laws or tougher anti-hazing laws then leads to tougher university anti-hazing policies.


Objective To investigate the factors influencing prognosis of nonoperative treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage in basal ganglia.Methods The clinical data and survival status of 109 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage in basal ganglia who were admitted to Neurosurgery of Guiyang Second People's Hospital during the period from April 2005 to June 2012 were reviewed retrospectively.The survival analysis was analyzed with Kaplan-Meier method.The univariate analysis was used to determine the prognositic factors related with survival rate by Log-rank test.Multivariate factors for the survival rates were analyzed using the Cox proportional hazards regression model.Results Univariate analysis revealed that GOS scale,GCS scale,hypertension,hemorrhage volume,intraventricular hemorrhage,pulmonary infection and glucose were the factors influencing prognostic factors of hypertensive brainstem hemorrhage.Multivariate analysis showed that GCS scale,hemorrhage volume and glucose were independent prognostic factors.Conclusions GCS scale,hemorrhage volume and glucose were important prognostic factors of intracerebral hemorrhage in basal ganglia.


With the acceleration of global economic integration and digital economy, cross-border mobile payment has gained growing attention. On the other hand, as COVID-19 keeps on spreading, the popularization of cross-border mobile payment can lower the risk of infection caused by cash payment of tourists. However, though previous researchers already examined mobile payment users' behavioral intention from different perspectives, these research findings tend to concentrate on the non-cross-border section of mobile payment. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to examine factors influencing cross-border mobile payment use intention from the user perspective, and combining three theoretical models, chiefly UTAUT2 (extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology), ITM (initial trust model), and TTF (task technology fit). In this research, 786 Chinese with the experience of using cross-border mobile payment while traveling to South Korea are adopted as respondents, and the structural equation model is used to empirically analyze the data of these research samples. The study found that initial trust, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, facilitating conditions, price value, task technology fit, and initial trust have significant effects on use intention. Research findings of this paper can deepen people's understanding of users' intention to use cross-border mobile payment, and provide theoretical support for the development of cross-border mobile payment. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.


Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a public health burden in Nepal. In patients burdened by this disease epileptic seizures are common. Computerized tomography scan (CT-scan) and Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques are most commonly used investigative tools for the diagnosis of NCC. Radio imaging techniques combined with serological techniques such as Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and/or Enzyme linked immunoelectrotransfer blot (EITB) are commonly used as confirmatory diagnostic tools for this disease. Poor sanitation and hygiene accompanied with free range system of keeping pigs, deliberate use of human feces as pig feeds and social economic status of the society were reviewed the main causes for the persistence of Neurocysticercosis in Nepal. It was found that NCC exists in various development stages in the human brain as vesicular, colloidal, granular nodular and calcified forms. Based on the developmental stage and location of the cyst, a patient may present a focal seizure (FS), focalised Review Article International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health, 4(2): 204-223, 2014 205 seizure secondary generalised (FSSG), generalised toniclonic seizure (GTCS), intractable seizures, headache, vomiting, impaired vision and or cognitive dysfunctions. Radio-imaging (CT scan and MRI) techniques and immunodiagnostic kits (ELISA, EITB, Dot Blots, and Western Blots) were found to be the main tools for diagnosis of NCC/Cysticercosis in Nepal. The chemotherapeutic treatment for NCC associated epilepsy was found to be analgesics, corticosteroids, and/or a combination of both. Albendazole was found the most used and effective anthelminthic drug for the treatment of multiple lesion. NCC is an easily preventable disease of poor and the neglected people. In a resource limited setting like Nepal, effective diagnostic techniques and treatment routines in place is very difficult. It is recommended that provision of education to the public on the epidemiology of the disease, promotion of safe pork production practices, supply of tap water, improvement of personal hygiene and sanitation would play a bigger role in eradicating the disease.


From Scope of Report: "This report summarizes the engineering study conducted during 1952 by engineers of the Federal Bureau of Mines seepage of surface water into mine workings underlying the Western Middle field drainage area."


This paper investigates three-phase two-level VSI hysteresis-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) for permanent magnet synchronous machines with different current error shapes. To limit the motor current harmonics and prevent overheating of the magnets, motor filters (mostly LC filters) are often used. The hysteresis-based MPC is investigated to provide high dynamic performance and limit the size of the filter. To compensate the resonance introduced by the LC filter and to improve system efficiency, a virtual resistor active damping strategy is implemented. To avoid additional sensors, the filter states are determined by a Luenberger Observer. However, up to now these strategies have never been investigated together with MPC and different current error shapes for motor applications. Simulation results for the different strategies prove the performance efficiency and experimental tests verify the results in a laboratory environment.


Occupational prestige is one of the most important indicators of individual socioeconomic status.As the capital city and political,economic,social and cultural center of China,Beijing holds more high-status occupations than any other places in China,and therefore has been attractive for young migrants who aim to pursue a better career.Based on multiple waves of census and mini-census data,this paper examines the changing trend and determinants of occupational status of young migrants in Beijing over the years 1982 ~ 2005.Analytical results suggest that the occupational status of all people has improved over time,but local residents have experienced a fast pace of enhancement than migrants.While a lower status is a shared phenomenon by young people,regardless of locations and types of hukou,young rural-urban migrants have the lowest occupational status,suggesting triple disadvantages as rural-ers,outsiders and youth.Clearly,regardless of time period,the relative socioeconomic status reflected by occupation has never changed in the reform-era China due to institutional segregation.


Objective To develop a scale including the patients' knowledge,attitude and behavior so as to evaluate the health education level in cancer patients with peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC).Methods The item pool was formed on the basis of the literature review,and two rounds of consultation with 16 experts throughout the country were implemented by the method of Delphi.The results of consultation were evaluated by positive coefficient,concentration degree,coordination degree,and authoritative coefficient.The positive coefficient was represented by recovery rate.The concentration degree was expressed by mean,standard deviation and out ratio.The coordination degree (Kendall coefficient) was adopted by non parametric test 2.The authoritative coefficient was expressed by arithmetic mean through calculating the experts' academic level,right judgment basis,and the degree of familiarity.Results The response rate of questionnaires was 100%.The coordination coefficients of first and second round were 0.305 and 0.487,respectively.The authoritative coefficient was 0.90.At last,thirty-six items were formed to evaluate the knowledge,attitude and behavior in cancer patients with PICC,in which the part of knowledge was 19 items,the part of attitude was 9 items,and the part of behavior was 8 items.Conclusions The consulted indicators of the knowledge,attitude,behavior scales based on Delphi method in cancer patients with PICC are representative and credible,but still need to be verified through the reliability and validity.

Key words:
Neoplasms;  Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) ;  Knowledge, attitude and behavior;  Scale development


In this paper, we evaluate the performance of an ad-hoc network architecture, investigating the effect of various design and operational parameters on the blocking and dropping probabilities. In particular, we study the improvement in the network coverage due to the multi-hop routing feature. Furthermore, the effect of limiting the path length on the network performance is studied, showing that there is an optimal value for this parameter.


A study was made of possible hazardous working conditions at Consolidated Freightways, Peru, Illinois. The dock workers were complaining of respiratory tract and eye irritation, the production of black colored mucus or phlegm, other respiratory difficulties, and headaches. The night shift was experiencing the most difficulties; this was the time when operations were heaviest. The function of the terminal was to receive large, long-distance loads, and break them down into smaller, short-distance loads. The workers used forklift trucks to move cargo. Workers were exposed to diesel-engine exhaust emissions, particularly during cold weather as the engines were left running to avoid difficult start-up problems. Airborne exposures were below recommended limits for all materials tested with the possible exception of the benzene extractable fraction of diesel particulate. A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 115 workers concerning their medical status. The report concludes that the irritative effects described were consistent with exposure to diesel exhaust. Efforts should be made to reduce or eliminate emissions from diesel forklifts trucks, improve ventilation, and provide washing and clothes changing facilities.


Students' experiences outside the classroom are important to their overall growth and development. Living learning communities (LLC) play a big role in helping to support these areas of growth. Students residing in an LLC are aware of the benefits of the LLC experience and can articulate how their residential environment can help them develop. Non-LLC members find it difficult to define the LLC experience and are not receiving the same benefits. Institutions and residence life often struggle in evaluating and assessing these communities because of the lack of direction and outcomes not clearly being stated. If institutions work to clearly define and create outcomes for evaluation, students, faculty, and staff have a better understanding for the LLC experience. Clear definitions also help in marketing the LLCs. Special focus needs to be given toward developing clear definitions of the LLC experience to better support and assess the needs perceived by the students.


In Korean most words representing human senses are adjectives. Korean sensory adjectives in many cases have a lot of morphologically related words and share the property that there are quite a number of them representing each of these senses and they are composed of a lot of semantically related pol...


The objective of this research is to understand how trucking companies perceive the benefits of traditional and advanced traveler information sources. There is considerable interest in identifying the appropriate public sector role for investments in real-time traveler information sources. Managers in charge of the California operations of more than 1,100 private and for-hire trucking companies were asked to evaluate the usefulness of various sources of traffic information. These evaluations were collected on ordinal scales, and nonlinear canonical correlations analysis models were computed to simultaneously link company characteristics and perceptions of the value of information sources for dispatchers and for drivers. In addition, perceptions of the benefits of a set of improved sources of accurate, up-to-the- minute traffic information were examined. The results show how segments of the trucking industry value different sources of traffic information


This paper describes the mathematical knowledges of Adonara society in the marriage tradition known as ethnomathematics. Collecting data were conducted using unstructured interviews and documentation. Interviews were conducted with several informants selected based on the consideration of researcher and suggestion by previous informant. Documentation was done using video recordings and photos. The data were analyzed refers to the characteristics of ethnomathematics that include: Counting, Locating, Measuring, Play, Designing and Explaining CLMPDE. Result shows that there are a number of mathematical knowledges in the marriage tradition in Adonara island called as ethnomathematics such as: counting, measuring, estimating, comparing, sorting, and various geometry concepts. These is found in all process from giving dowry until custom party.


Through the strengths analysis(resources,geographical location,industry) and weakness analysis of the resource-tpye inner city,and from the point of regions,the chances and challenges facting in some aspects such as globlization economy and national policy during the period of time for development were discussed in order to seek for a strategy of urban development fitting for Anshan.


Microalgae are unicellular, eukaryotic organisms which possess unique qualities of replication, producing biomass as a precursor for biofuels, nutraceuticals, biofertilizer, and fine chemicals including hydrocarbons. Microalgae access nitrates and phosphates in wastewater from municipalities, industries, and agricultural processes to grow. Wastewater is, therefore, culture media for microalgae, and provides the needed nutrients, micronutrients, inorganic and organic pollutants to produce microalgae biomass. Suitable strains of microalgae cultivated under mesophilic conditions in wastewater with optimized hydrodynamics, hydraulic retention time (HRT), luminous intensity, and other co-factors produce biomass of high specific growth rate, high productivity, and with high density. The hydrodynamics are determined using a range of bioreactors from raceway ponds, photobioreactors to hybrid reactors. Carbon dioxide is used in the photosynthetic process, which offers different growth stimuli in the daytime and the night-time as the microalgae cultivation technique is navigated between autotrophy, heterotrophy, and mixotrophy resulting in microalgal lipids of different compositions.


IT projects are notorious for not performing as planned, costing organizations vast amounts of time, effort, and money. Attempts to find a silver bullet, a methodology that can be used for all projects types, have failed. Some methodologies, for example the waterfall and the agile methodologies, have proven variably successful and have endured in practice despite not necessarily being optimal for a given project. We contend that more extreme methodologies are needed than what is currently practiced, but that these should apply to particular project types alone. Optimizing the methodology to the given project, we suggest, will yield better outcomes. Building on existing methodologies, we develop the notion of Degree of Linearity of the methodology as a continuum along which to rank order the methodologies, with waterfall being the most linear, agile methodologies being of medium linearity, and exploratory methodologies as the least linear. As organizations increasingly rely on innovation to compete, the more extreme project types will become increasingly important. Some of the most valuable projects must rely on methodologies that are more exploratory than IT projects traditionally have dared do. The proposed contingency model helps sort out these promising projects and helps ensure that their development will be as successful as the more traditional projects.


Aiming at the problems of gradually disappear of the city features in the speed develop of city,analyses the reasons of generating the problems,puts forward the advices of solving the problems of the gradually disappear of the city features,to strengthen the power of executing the law,maintain and develop the self features of China city.


Contamination feedstuffs with fungi or their metabolites toxins poses considerable hazard to public health and animal welfare. The information on mycotoxins identified from a variety of feedstuff in 2021 (soyabean, maize, fish meals, and poultry pellets) was retrieved from archive papers documented in the Centre of Standardization and Quality Control/Department of Agriculture. A total of 1325 samples feedstuff were examined by this Centre using the direct ELISA test to detect aflatoxins, ochratoxin, and trichothecene. The aflatoxin was identified in 67 (5.05%) samples followed by ochratoxin in 52 (3.92%) samples and Trichothecene (T2) in 50 (3.77) samples. Additionally, the results were showed the co-infection/co-occurrence of mycotoxins from positive samples of soyabean, fish meals, and poultry pellet, although this contamination within acceptable level. Only two samples of poultry feed were determined to have contamination levels above the acceptable limit, as 21ppb with aflatoxins and 19ppb with ochratoxin contamination. The moisture levels were also measured for these commodities by NIR apparatus. From statistics outputs, the squared correlation coefficient (R2) did not share too much variability between moisture and degree of contamination with three mycotoxins identified. The study concluded that mycotoxins remain to be a concern for global health, and their residues in animal feed are important in terms of health safety standards that propose adhering to food chain regulations in commercial markets.


Until recently the limiting factor in big game range surveys has been the lack of methods that would give reliable quantitative data. This condition has been partially corrected during the past four years by the introduction of the square foot density method for the determination of plant cover and the use of the airplane in scouting animal populations. With these two new tools, and the best of the old methods available for wildlife workers interested in


The purpose of this study is to empirically prove the influence of due professional care on audit quality, to empirically prove the effect of skeptisisme professional on audit quality, to empirically prove the effect of independensi on audit quality, to empirically prove the effect of audit tenure on audit quality at KAP in Denpasar City. The sampling method used in this study was random sampling. The sample used in the study was 42 respondents from a total population of 9 KAP with 56 auditors. Data collection method used is a questionnaire method that uses a 5-point linkert scale. The analysis technique used is multiple linear analysis. due professional care, skeptisisme professional, independensi, and audit tenure has a positive effect on audit quality at KAP in Denpasar City.


The paper presents a new approach to the design of Takagi-Sugeno PI-fuzzy controllers employing Iterative Feedback Tuning (IFT). A Lyapunov-based original stability analysis algorithm guarantees convergent IFT algorithms. One case study focused on servo systems with second-order integral type controlled plants exemplifies the stable design accompanied by real-time experiments.


We present a simulation of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) system to convert the chemical energy stored in hydrogen into electrical power. The PEMFC model was developed using Aspen Plus and then analyzed to find the electricity generated. In the PEMFC system simulated in this study, hydrogen gas enters the heat exchanger prior to entering the anode to increase its temperature up to 80 °C. Around 80% of hydrogen used during electrochemical reactions with the oxygen, which entered from the cathode side. The proton and electron of the hydrogen combine, react with the oxygen provided, and produce water and heat. Based on the analysis, the power generated by the PEMFC system is 0.23 kW with current density of 1 x 10−3 A/m2 and MEA area of 3 x 10−2 m2, and the number of cells in stack is 135 cells.


Whether they realise it or not, consumers of cotton textiles have an influence on the properties of the fibres that spinners request from their cotton fibre suppliers to produce their yarns. That link is not direct, as many operations and stakeholders perform their activities between the shop shelves and the raw fibre stocks of the spinning mills. This presentation explores the evolution of the "quality" criteria used at each operating level, and those used at the interfaces between operating levels. By moving from the criteria used to describe finished products to those used to describe cotton fibres, can the quality criteria used to market the fibres be justified?


■ Americans are significantly more racially and ethnically diverse than Britons, and a greater proportion of them was born in other countries. Nearly one-fourth (24.9 percent) of the U.S. population described themselves as nonwhite in 2000, while only 7.9 percent of the U.K. population described themselves as from an ethnic minority in 2001. Higher proportions of foreign-born residents in the United States reflect higher recent immigration rates.


OBJECTIVES
The aim of this study was to analyse and report the changes in the management of blunt traumatic aortic injuries (BTAIs) in a single centre during the last 2 decades.

METHODS
A retrospective analysis of all patients diagnosed with BTAI from January 1999 to January 2020 was performed. Data were collected from electronic/digitalized medical history records.

RESULTS
Forty-six patients were included [median age 42.4 years (16-84 years), 71.7% males]. The predominant cause of BTAI was car accidents (54.5%, n = 24) and all patients presented with concomitant injuries (93% bone fractures, 77.8% abdominal and 62.2% pelvic injuries). Over 70% presented grade III or IV BTAI. Urgent repair was performed in 73.8% of patients (n = 31), with a median of 2.75 h between admission and repair. Thoracic endovascular repair (TEVAR) was performed in 87% (n = 49), open surgery (OS) in 10.9% (n = 5) and conservative management in 2.1% (n = 1). Technical success was 82.6% (92.1% TEVAR, 79% OS). In-hospital mortality was 19.5% (17.5% TEVAR, 40% OS). Of these, 3 died from aortic-related causes. Seven (15.2%) required an early vascular reintervention. The median follow-up was 34 months (1-220 months), with 19% of early survivors having a follow-up of >10 years. Only 1 vascular reintervention was necessary during follow-up: secondary TEVAR due to acute graft thrombosis. Of the patients who survived the initial event, 6.7% died during follow-up, none from aortic-related causes.

CONCLUSIONS
Even with all the described shortcomings, in our experience TEVAR for BTAI proved to be feasible and effective, with few complications and stable aortic reconstruction at mid-term follow-up. With the current technical expertise and wide availability of a variety of devices, it should be pursued as a first-line therapy in these challenging scenarios.


The present study was done on 186 isolates obtained from both animals (107 isolates) and patients (79 isolates). The study aimed at comparing the antimicrobial patterns of pathogens isolated from animal and human cases (nosocomial infections). The isolates were identified and the antibiograms were reported. The results pointed out that E. coli was the most common isolate followed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in human samples, while in animal samples the most common Gram negative isolates recovered were Pseudomonas aeruginosa followed by Proteus spp. On the other hand, Staphylococcus aureus was the most common Gram positive isolate in animal and human samples. Conclude that, both animal and human isolates were markedly resistant to different types of antibacterial agents. However, animal isolates compared with human isolates showed more resistance to most of the used antibacterial agents. This can be attributed to the fact that in our country, animals are generally exposed to several antibacterial agents either as therapeutic, prophylactic or as growth promoter agents.


In this paper, reduction of peak speciflc absorption rate (SAR) for handsets with monopole type antenna through R-cards is investigated. While the numerical analysis was performed using flnite integration in time domain (FIT), real measurement has been made to validate the simulation results. Both the simulation and measurement results revealed that a minimum SAR Reduction Factor (SRF) of 60% was achieved. The good agreement between the simulation and measurement results has evidenced the efiectiveness of the proposed approach for SAR reduction in human head for handset applications.


The aim of this paper is to analyze generation reliability for three future possible generation scenarios for the Sudan National Grid (2009-2030). The methodology used here is a combined method based on reserve margin and loss of load methods. Additionally, Long Term Marginal Cost (LTMC) is used to analyze Value of Lost Load (VOLL) for these scenarios. The generation long term marginal costs for the proposed new technologies are determined and the VOLLs of peak load units are defined and compared with an estimated value of lost load. Results are presented and show that, for all scenarios investigated, there is no justification for the utilities to invest against avoiding load shedding for the planned systems.


To date, the long term stability of ascorbic acid (AA) under physiological conditions represents a major issue for wound healing and tissue regeneration applications. In this study, ascorbyl phosphate (AP) was loaded into silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) through a simple one step procedure, in which spherical shaped porous SiNPs were obtained via hydrolysis/condensation of tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) in the presence of bicarbonate salt and ammonia. The as‐prepared SiNPs were characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), and Fourier Transformer Infrared Spectrophotometer (FTIR). Incorporation of bicarbonate salt resulted in the formation of spherical SiNPs with an average diameter of 460 ± 89 nm, while further increase of bicarbonate salt led to the formation of silica sheet‐like structures. The AP‐loaded SiNPs exhibited high loading efficiency from 92.3‐ 81.5%, according to AP content and sustained release over 3 days. According to cell viability assay, the obtained AP‐enriched SiNPS showed no toxicity and supportive effect to the proliferation of human skin fibroblast cells (HSF) at a concentration less than 200 µg mL−1. Moreover, it was observed that the wound closure percentage (%) after 24 h was also shown to increase to 74.1 ± 3.1% for 20AP‐loaded SiNPs compared to control samples (50.1 ± 1.8%). The obtained results clearly demonstrated that the developed SiNPs formulation exhibits optimal microstructure features to maintain a sustained release of ascorbic acid AA at wound bed for the healing of skin tissue, including acute and chronic wounds.


I wish that I had had such a book 5 years ago, when I started to switch my career from being a control engineer to a computational biologist. Like many people following the same path, I was eager to prospect the biomedical fields in which my mathematical and computational expertise could be applied. Similarly, other researchers who were educated first as molecular biologists, will be pleased to see how they can apply computational approaches to solve the problems in their field. This book, Computational Genome Analysis: an Introduction, does a fine job in bridging these two fields together, by explaining the basics of a broad range of areas in computational genomics. The book begins with a chapter called Biology in a Nutshell, which outlines key biological principles that are important in computational genomics. This section offers a concise overview of the biological concepts for audiences without biology-related backgrounds. Chapters 2 and 3 review various statistical tools that can be used to characterize biological words, i.e. short strings of letters in the genomic DNA and protein sequences. The topics include various probability distributions, introductions to Markov Chains, modeling the number of restriction sites in DNA and so on. Chapters 4 through 8 surround a central theme of the strategies and techniques used in completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP), from physical mapping of DNA to sequence alignments and assembly. This section clarifies the basic concepts and methodologies in describing the human genome, and elucidates the organization and the generation of the immense amount of information arising from the HGP. Chapter 9 highlights statistical frameworks in characterizing DNA signals, in particular, DNA sites where protein binding occurs. Chapters 10 and 11 summarize the techniques used in measuring and analyzing expression of genomic information. This section is potentially appealing for those who are interested in using DNA and protein microarrays or mass spectrometry. Chapters 12 and 13 review the methods for analyzing and describing genetic variations among (phylogeny) and within (populationbased study) organisms. The book is concluded with a chapter, Comparative Genomics, by introducing how the variety of tools covered in the previous sections can be employed in the context of complete genomes. As a textbook that was based on the authors' lecture notes for a Computational Biology course for seniors and 1st-year graduate students at the University of Southern California, this book is organized in an incredibly friendly fashion. I especially like the section called 'The Biological Problem', at the beginning of each chapter, which helps the student focus on the biological topics while various mathematical formulations are discussed. Readers with only a basic programming background will love the fact that most analytical methods presented in the book are accompanied by implementations in the R language, a statistical environment that is fairly popular among statisticians and bioinformaticians. Overall, this book covers many important concepts and areas in computational biology, and serves as a great guide for the researchers from a variety of backgrounds to start their path into this exciting interdisciplinary field. Yunlong Liu Division of Biostatistics, Department of Medicine, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Center for Medical Genomics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA E-mail: email@example.com BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS. VOL 8. NO 6. 466 doi:10.1093/bib/bbm020 Advance Access publication September 1, 2007


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Based on the definition and the properties of Gauss function,a new result has been proved by such primary methods of the number theory as guessing and induction.


Companies, like human beings, also have five senses: marketing, sales team, service, contact centre and analytical; and doing without one of these would mean possessing a disability. Thus, a study of the satisfaction with a tourist destination is a highly relevant factor for tourist supervisors, since its results make it possible to find out about the right sales strategies and decisions that have to be adopted in order to improve the management and the competitiveness of the destinations. This study aims to check the level of dependency between two fundamental elements of the behaviour of tourism consumers, such as the reason why the trip was undertaken and the tourist's objective satisfaction.


We have employed a PCR approach to determine the nucleotide sequences of the coding region in the last two coding exons of the histo‐blood group ABO genes from one Ax and one B(A) individual. Compared with A1 alleles, the Ax allele has a single nucleotide substitution (T→ A at nucleotide 646) resulting in an amino acid substitution (phenylalanine→isoleucine at amino acid 216). Compared with B alleles, the B(A) allele has two nucleotide substitutions (T→C at nt. 657 and A→G at nt. 703) resulting in an amino acid substitution (serine→glycine at aa. 235). The amino acid substitution resulting from this B(A) allele is located at the second of the four amino acid substitutions which discriminate human A and B transferases, and the amino acid residue (glycine) is identical to that of A transferase suggesting the involvement of this amino acid or its surrounding area for the recognition and/or binding of the donor nucleotide sugars.


The paper analyzes the energy potential of autonomous power supply based on renewable energy sources in a livestock farm. Based on calculations of the amount of farm waste that act as raw materials for a biogas power plant, the amount of electricity that can be produced from biogas has been determined. The value of electricity generation was also determined when a biogas plant and solar panels are used together in order to fully cover the need for electricity. It has been established that the use of renewable energy sources for autonomous power supply has significant potential for growth, in particular, the generation of electricity by a biogas power plant is calculated according to the minimum indicators for a cattle farm, provides 57% of the required electricity, in addition, there is also thermal energy, which is used for heating farms. The combined operation of the biogas plant and solar panels installed on the roof of the farm allows to cover the need for electricity with a reduction factor of 2.6 solar panels generation. The use of biogas obtained from the waste of a cattle farm and together with solar panels makes it possible to cover the need for electricity with a significant reserve. For a typical farm of 100 cattle, this stock is about 80%. The use of which is possible with the use of energy storage devices and the formation of a biogas reserve. It has been established that the electrical power of a biogas plant, which works in conjunction with solar panels, should be at least the average value of the power consumption to provide autonomous power supply to consumers of the livestock farm, especially in the winter months when solar insolation is minimal.


The invention discloses a method for manufacturing a mask plate and the mask plate; the method for manufacturing the mask plate comprises the following steps of: providing a glass substrate with an appointed thickness; manufacturing holes and counterpoint marks needed for evaporation on the glass substrate according to a set mask pattern; and pasting the glass substrate manufactured with the holes and the register counterpoint marks to a mask metal framework which is matched with the glass substrate to obtain the mask plate for evaporation. The method is used for manufacturing the mask plate without complex welding procedures and is simple in the manufacturing process; and the mask plate manufactured by the method can not be corroded in air and is easier to maintain.


D URING the last two years, several publications have mentioned the desirability of mapping the distribution of music in the world. Paul Collaer' indicates that mapping the distribution of individual traits or features of music would yield historical insight in several ways. In another paper," Collaer states that cartography must precede what he calls stratigraphy, the identification of historical layers. Fritz Bose3 goes so far as to postulate specific steps in making distributional studies and setting their esults down on maps. He suggests (1) making individual maps of single elements of music and musical instruments; (2) mapping the use and function of each instrument a d element of music; (3) preparing comparative maps; (4) making maps comparing musical features with other aspects of culture and language. Bose's cheme isobviously predicated on work primarily based on instruments anddoes not go far toward solving the problems inherent inthe preparation of maps for music per se. He is desirous, evidently, of using those aspects of music which correspond most closely in their nature to those elements of culture already treated cartographically, that is, instruments. Theproblems investigated in the paper at hand are primarily those, however, which do not have analogous features inother fields of culture frequently subjected to cartography. Nettl4 discusses the nature of musical reas in the world, and of their existence, possibly, as integral and independently developing units. Certainly statements of distribution in music, that is, statements which indicate the geographic location of musical phenomena, have been made in hundreds of publications. In the field of musical instruments, maps have been made by many students, especially Sachs,5 Roberts,' and Izikowitz.7 Maps of musical styles have been less common, but do 1 Paul Collaer, Cartography and Ethnomusicology (Ethnomusicology, vol. 2, pp. 66-68, 1958). 2 Paul Collaer, in International Musicological Society, Bericht iiber den siebenten i ternational musikwissenschaftlichen Kongress K6iln, 1958 (Kassel: Birenreiter, 1959), pp. 334-336. 3 Fritz Bose, in International Musicological Society, Bericht iiber den siebenten international musikwissenschaftlichen Kongress Koln, 1958 (Kassel: Biirenreiter, 1959), p. 337. 4 Bruno Nettl, Notes on Musical Areas (Acta Musicologica, vol. 30, pp. 170-177, 1958). 5 Curt Sachs, Geist und Werden der Musikinstrumente (Berlin: J. Bard, 1929). 6 Helen H. Roberts, Musical Areas in Aboriginal North America (Yale University Publications in Anthropology, no. 12, 1936). 7 Karl Gustav Izikowitz, Musical and Other Sound Instruments of the South American Indians (Goteborgs Kungl. Vetenskapsoch Vitterhets-Samhilles Handlingar, Femte Foljden, ser. A, vol. 5, no. 1, 1935).


Mitochondria isolated from tobacco leaves incorporated 14C-leucine into the protein and the rate was enhanced by tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) infection as compared with noninfected level. In vitro amino acid incorporation by mitochondria required adenosine triphosphate (ATP), Mg2+, and KC1 and the energy sources from oxidative phosphorylation as well as from ATP-generating system. This incorporation was inhibited by ribonuclease (RNase), deoxyribonuclease (DNase), actinomycin D, mitomycin C, puromycin, and chloramphenicol added in the reaction medium. The pretreatment of the mitochondria with DNase and actinomycin D reduced the rate of incorporation. The mitochondria incorporated 3H-guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and this activity was blocked by actinomycin D. The presence in this system of 15,000 g supernatant cell sap fraction or bacterial contamination was carefully checked obtaining a negative result. The reaction product into which l4C-amino acids incorporated was solubilized by trypsin. The nature of the amino acid incorporating activity of isolated mitochondria obtained from TMV-infected tobacco leaves is discussed.


Moving the greatest challenge of the robot independently is the flexibility of sports,the present robot can finish the complicated task on the level and smooth ground of the laboratory.But become of no use while meeting unpredictable complicated topography.So the goal which the robot studies is to develop one spring type micro-robot that can pass through the building stair now,broken stone,even the forest and desert.Have introduced the current situation of the development of the bouncing type robot both at home and abroad in the article,has looked forward to the development prospect of the bouncing type robot of our country.


The article analyzes dynamics of the population and its growth rates for the cities-regional centers of Ukraine in the post-Soviet period, their features and main trends were revealed. The ranking of the regional centers of the state according to the population in 1991 and 2017 has been carried out, changes have been analyzed. The regional centers of Ukraine have been mapped according to the indicator of population growth (in absolute and relative terms) for the period of 1991-2017. Grouping of regional centers of Ukraine in terms of population in 1991 and 2017 has been conducted and highlighted big, significant cities and cities-millionaires; composition of the selected groups and the changes occurred have been analyzed. The regional centers of Ukraine have been grouped according to the population growth rates, absolute population growth, duration of the period with the negative and positive dynamics of the population, the main trends in the dynamics of population during 1991-2017. A group of the regional centers of the state with predominance of the negative population dynamics has been highlighted, and within it – cities with constant decrease of population and a cities with an unstable decrease in population. Also, a group of the regional centers of Ukraine with predominance of the positive dynamics of the population has been highlighted, and within it – cities with stable increase in the population in the XXI century and cities with negative trends of the population in the last few years. The periods with the lowest and the highest growth rates of population of the regional centers of Ukraine in the post-Soviet period have been revealed. It has been determined which regional centers of Ukraine can be considered as «crisis» or «depressive» ones by the indicator of population losses during the years of independence.


Cities in Australia are experiencing unprecedented levels of urban overheating, which has caused a significant impact on the country's socioeconomic environment. This article provides a comprehensive review on urban overheating, its impact on health, energy, economy, and the heat mitigation potential of a series of strategies in Australia. Existing studies show that the average urban heat island (UHI) intensity ranges from 1.0 °C to 13.0 °C. The magnitude of urban overheating phenomenon in Australia is determined by a combination of UHI effects and dualistic atmospheric circulation systems (cool sea breeze and hot desert winds). The strong relation between multiple characteristics contribute to dramatic fluctuations and high spatiotemporal variabilities in urban overheating. In addition, urban overheating contributes to serious impacts on human health, energy costs, thermal comfort, labour productivity, and social behaviour. Evidence suggest that cool materials, green roofs, vertical gardens, urban greenery, and water-based technologies can significantly alleviate the UHI effect, cool the ambient air, and create thermally balanced cities. Urban greenery, especially trees, has a high potential for mitigation. Trees and hedges can reduce the average maximum UHI by 1.0 °C. The average maximum mitigation performance values of green roofs and green walls are 0.2 °C and 0.1 °C, respectively. Reflective roofs and pavements can reduce the average maximum UHI by 0.3 °C. In dry areas, water has a high cooling potential. The average maximum cooling potential using only one technology is 0.4 °C. When two or more technologies are used at the same time, the average maximum UHI drop is 1.5 °C. The mitigation strategies identified in this article can help the governments and other stakeholders manage urban heating in the natural and built environment, and save health, energy, and economic costs.


http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/40/5/996 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0363546512438761 2012 40: 996 originally published online March 13, 2012 Am J Sports Med Umile Giuseppe Longo, Mattia Loppini, Alessandra Berton, Andrea Marinozzi, Nicola Maffulli and Vincenzo Denaro Randomized Controlled Trial The FIFA 11+ Program Is Effective in Preventing Injuries in Elite Male Basketball Players: A Cluster


In recent years,the impact of diabetes on cognitive function in a cross-disciplinary research is a central point.Recent studies have confirmed that the core of diabetic cognitive impairment are neuronal damage,loss and functional down-regulation.The underlying mechanisms are cerebrovascular disorders,metabolism disorders,the lack of neurotrophic factors,the abnormal expression of the brain rennin-angiotensin system,the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis hyperfunction,etc.

Key words:
Diabetes mellitus;  Cognitive function;  Pathogenesis


AIM To observed the effects of itopride combined with flupentixol and melitracen in patients with functional dyspepsia.METHODS One hundred and eighty patients with functional dyspepsia who met RomeⅢcriteria were randomly alloccated into three groups(n = 60,each group).The patients in group A were administered with itopride(50 mg,po,tid) combined with flupentixol and melitracen(2 tablets,po, qd).The patients in group B were treated with itopride(50 mg,po,tid) and the patients in group C were administered with flupentixol and melitracen(2 tablets,po,qd),with a course of four weeks for each.After one and four weeks treatment,clinic symptoms such as postprandial fullness,early satiation,epigastric pain, burning and so on were observed.RESULTS After one and four weeks' treatment,the effective rate was 79% and 93%in group A,61%and 81%in group B,45%and 64%in group C,respectively.The effective rates in group A were significant higher than those in group B and group C,with significant differences(P0.05). CONCLUSION Itopride combine with flupentixol and melitracen effect markedly and rapidly in treating functional dyspepsia.


A solid phase extraction method was applied to determination of 9 adipates in water sample. A water sample of one liter added with di (2-ethylhexyl) adipate-d8 as a surrogate compound was passed through a SDB-XC disk after filtration with a glass-fiber filter. Adipates on the disk were eluted with 10 ml of acetone and, then 10 ml of ethyl acetate. After dehydration with anhydrous sodium sulfate, the combined eluate is concentrated to 1 ml and then added with fluorene-d10 and crysene-d12 as the internal standards for GC/MS determination. Adipates on suspended substances on the glass-fiber filter were extracted ultrasonically with 20 ml of acetone for 15 min. After centrifugation at 3000 rpm for 10 min, the extracts were concentrated to 1 ml and then added with the internal standards for GC/MS determination. The overall recoveries of the target compounds were 70.9% to 121% from filtrate of river water and 71.2% to 108% from suspended substances.


CCQM key comparison K-130 in the field of nitrogen mass fracton has been performed by the Inorganic Analysis Working Group (IAWG) of the Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance (CCQM). The aim of this key comparison CCQM-K130 is to support National Measurement Institutes (NMIs) and Designated Institutes (DIs) to demonstrate the validity of the procedures the employed for determination of nitrogen mass fraction in glycine. Mass fraction of nitrogen is very important pointer because the results of these measurements are often used for determination of protein mass fraction that is an important indicator of the quality of the vast majority of food products and raw materials, in particular dry milk powder. Proteins-enzymes catalyze chemical reactions, protein along with fats and carbohydrates is one of the indicators characterizing the energy value of food, so its definition is mandatory for all food products. The study material for this key comparison has been selected to be representative as one of the aminoacid - the simplest part of the protein. Glycine is an amino acid, single acid that does not have any isomers (melting point -290 °C; specific heat of evaporation - 528,6 J/kg; specific melting heat - 981,1 J/kg; pKa - 2, 34, molar mass - 75,07 g/mol, density - 1,607 g/cm3). Ural Scientific Research Institute for Metrology (UNIIM) acted as the coordinating laboratory of this comparison. Nine NMIs participated in this key comparison and one NMI participated in Pilot study that was condacted in parallel. Report A contains the results of key comparison and pilot study. The results of Pilot study were excluded from the Report B Main text To reach the main text of this paper, click on Final Report. Note that this text is that which appears in Appendix B of the BIPM key comparison database kcdb.bipm.org/. The final report has been peer-reviewed and approved for publication by the CCQM, according to the provisions of the CIPM Mutual Recognition Arrangement (CIPM MRA).


The Marikana massacre, in which 36 mineworkers were killed in violent confrontations between the South African police forces and the labourers, occurred on August 16, 2012 near Rustenburg, South Africa. The media coverage of the Marikana massacre has been much criticized for its failure to account for the multi-‐faceted origins of the massacre, which include on-‐mine, national as well as international constraints. This paper argues that the complexity has been partly emptied out due to the photographic representations made available through Western media outlets. For this purpose, a visual content analysis has been applied investigating the coverage of "The Guardian" and "The New York Times". It is established, that international actors epistemically located in the Western world have contributed to the outcome and origin of the strike wave as much as national and on-‐mine actors. However, photographers and media outlets engaged in depiction and selection processes of photography, which ultimately veil the impact of actors outside South Africa. This can be seen as a characterization of coloniality, which advocates that colonial structures are present, but work with the element of camouflage. Especially the analysis of the pictorial representation of the mineworker during the strikes reveals, that colonial representations have been reinforced through photography


Since the respiratory tract is in continuous contact with the external environment, it is particularly prone to invading pathogens. Pneumonia is a major cause of morbidity worldwide with substantial mortality. Emerging bacterial resistance and stagnation of mortality rates urge us to expand our knowledge of the host response against bacteria, in the quest to develop alternative treatment strategies. Inflammation and coagulation are two important host defence mechanisms that interact to mount an adequate immune response against infectious agents. This thesis presents experimental studies focused on the role of coagulation induced by the tissue factor pathway in the immune response against bacterial pneumonia.


We present first insights into the far-IR properties for a sample of IRAC and MIPS 24 μm detected Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at z ∼ 3, as derived from observations in the northern field of the Great Observatories Origins Survey (GOODS-N) carried out with the PACS instrument on board the Herschel Space Observatory. Although none of our galaxies are detected by Herschel, we employ a stacking technique to construct, for the first time, the average spectral energy distribution (SED) of infrared luminous LBGs from UV to radio wavelengths. We derive a median IR luminosity of LIR = 1.6 × 1012 L☉, placing the population in the class of ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs). Complementing our study with existing multi-wavelength data, we put constraints on the dust temperature of the population and find that for their LIR, MIPS-LBGs are warmer than submillimeter-luminous galaxies while they fall in the locus of the LIR–Td relation of the local ULIRGs. This, along with estimates based on the average SED, explains the marginal detection of LBGs in current submillimeter surveys and suggests that these latter studies introduce a bias toward the detection of colder ULIRGs in the high-z universe, while missing high-z ULIRGS with warmer dust.


The invention relates to a simple method and device for measuring flatness and belongs to the detection technical field. According to the technical schemes of the invention, the height of pulling rings (6) on three fixed magnetic suction seats (4) is consistent with the height of a pulling ring (6) of a movable magnet suction seat (1); two steel wires are a steel wire A (3) and a steel wire B (7) respectively, wherein the steel wire A (3) and the steel wire B (7) are arranged in an intersecting manner; two ends of the steel wire A are respectively tied to the pulling rings of two fixed magnetic suction seats; tow ends of the steel wire B are respectively tied to the pulling rings of the other fixed magnetic suction seat and the movable magnet suction seat; and the intersection point of the steel wire A (3) and the steel wire B (7) is plugged into a feeler gauge. According to the simple method for measuring flatness, a datum surface is determined, and representative portions are selected to be compared with the datum surface one by one. The method is scientific and accurate. With the method and device adopted, stressed and tensioned steel wires will not be bent and deformed. The device has the advantages of simple structure, portable convenience, reliable measurement data, low cost and convenience in popularization and application.


This paper presents an overview of a new methodology for investigating the grain refinement performance of alloys and master alloys and then uses this methodology to shed new light on the mechanisms occurring during superheating and native grain refinement, and the effect of iron and manganese on grain refinement in magnesium alloys. The methodology also describes changes in grain size upon Zr grain refinement of Mg and has been used to analyse the potential for the use of SiC to grain refine Mg‐Al alloys. With this new methodology, and the knowledge it generates, the potential for the discovery of new or improved refiners is significantly enhanced.


This paper proposed a novel isolated buck-boost dc-dc converter with wide range of voltage regulations. The proposed converter has significant features such as zero voltage switching operation, as well wide input voltage regulation range. This topology can be used in several application including Photovoltaic microconverter, when the voltage varies between 10 to 60 volts, and the output needs to be a constant dc voltage. The Buck, Buck-Boost, as well as Boost capabilities of proposed converter beside their switching states and equations of each switching states are presented. The steady state analysis is used to calculate the voltage gain for each mode. Finally, the simulation using PowerSim software is verifying the theoretical evaluation.


We investigate a firm's product line design and capacity investment problem for vertically differentiated products along design quality levels. Customers arrive according to a Poisson process and are heterogeneous in their marginal valuation of the quality level. Customers make product choices to maximize a linear utility function of price, quality level, and waiting cost. Resulting product demands are met through capacity investments in production processes, which are modeled as queuing systems. We consider two different types of production processes: product-focused, dedicated to the production of a single-product variant; and product-flexible, processing all product variants in the product line. Capacity investment and variable production costs are functions of the processed product's quality. We develop an integrated marketing-operations model that provides insights on the factors determining the right level of product variety to offer, the relative quality positioning of the products in the line, the resulting market coverage and segmentation, and the effects on production costs and congestion levels of the processes. We show that the statistical economies of scale resulting from the congestion phenomena in the production system impose limits on the optimal product variety. For product-focused processes the market size promotes a higher optimal product variety, whereas the per-unit capacity investment and customer waiting costs act as deterrents for higher product variety. For product-flexible processes optimal product variety also depends on the specific type of flexibility and the ratio of capacity investment to variable production costs.


This article discusses the definition, the classification, the use and the effects of visual-material and concludes that because there is not enough study in this field we should attach more importance to it.


The change of the polarized Raman intensities for series of cyclohexanecarboxylate liquid crystals (D302, D405, and D501) were recorded as the function of temperature in the process of the phase transition. The polarized intensity for each vibrational line exhibited the characteristic change in the process of the phase transition. Two-dimensional correlation expression of the polarized intensity brought the irregular re-orientational relaxation process into relief.


How do the personal epistemological beliefs of instruction librarians inform their teaching practices? By learning about their personal beliefs about knowledge acquisition, are librarians better equipped to create an environment more conducive to student learning? These questions informed a mixed-methods research study. Using the Approaches to Teaching Inventory, 283 teaching librarians answered 22 questions about their teaching practices and how they believe students learn. We interviewed 12 of these librarians to learn more about their teaching practices and epistemological beliefs. Seven themes emerged as influences on the instructional practices of librarians that ranged from learning biases to classroom tensions.


When Cooperation Fails : The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods by Mark A. Pollack and Gregory C. Shaffer . . . . . . . . Thomas Cottier Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements edited by Simon Lester and Bryan Mercurio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeffrey L. Dunoff The Politics of Trade: The Role of Research in Trade Policy and Negotiation edited by Diana Tussie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Michael Finger The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law edited by Daniel Bethlehem, Donald McRae, Rodney Neufeld, and Isabelle Van Damme . . . Mary E. Footer The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Douglas Marcouiller Regional Trade Agreements: Law, Policy and Practice by David A. Gantz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bryan Mercurio New Frontiers in Free Trade: Globalization's Future and Asia's Rising Role by Razeen Sally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arvind Panagariya Trade Preference Erosion: Measurement and Policy Response edited by Bernard Hoekman, Will Martin, and Carlos A. Primo Braga . . . . . . . . Dean Spinanger


Guide to virtually every tree likely to be encountered on the island, some 700 in total. Each is described in detail, covering morphology, leaf, flower and fruit, and each also has a line illustration of the leaf. There are notes on endemicity, geographical distribution, habitat, and uses.


The heat transfer characteristic of sludge particles with inner-horizontal tubes in vibration fluidized bed is studied.The influenceing factors on local heat transfer coefficient such as gas velocity,vibration frequency and vibration amplitude are researched.The results show that the local heat transfer coefficient varies in different position of tube circle,it increases firstly and then decreases with the increasing of gas velocity,vibration frequency and vibration amplitude.Local heat transfer coefficient on windward side is much less than that of leeward side.The research can provide theoretical bases for sludge drying in vibration fluidized bed with inner-horizontal tubes.


A system connected to a network is an open choice for network intrusions unless a powerful intrusion detection or prevention system is implemented. Network security has become a serious issue due to increased unauthorized access and manipulation of network resources. Evolutionary approaches play an important role in identifying attacks with high detection rates and low false discovery rates. In this paper, a binary version of multi-objective particle swarm optimization (PSO) approach is used to detect PROBE attacks in a network. A vector evaluated PSO approach is used in the proposed technique with two objectives i.e., intrusion detection rate and false discovery rate, to guide the process of feature selection. The experiments are performed using the well-known KDD99Cup dataset. Multi-objective PSO approach is used for feature selection from a set of 41 features and Random Forests (RF), a highly accurate and fast algorithm, is used for classification. Empirical results show that the proposed technique outperforms well-known classification and regression techniques in most of the cases.


The orientational structure of the friction-transferred poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) film, which consists of highly oriented polymer strands, was evaluated with energy-dispersive total-reflection X-ray diffractometry. In the film, each PTFE molecule is oriented along the friction direction, and PTFE crystallites have a preferred orientation with respect to the substrate surface. The orientational distribution of the chain direction was quantitatively evaluated. The half-width of the distribution was determined to be about 3°. The dependence of the orientational distribution on temperature is discussed. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci B: Polym Phys 39: 432–438, 2001


The paper describes the shifting perspective from the contemplative view to the dynamic-evolutionary view of heritage and the main characteristics of the resulting multi-criterial decision-aid tool for the evaluation of heritage. With the integration of conservation in planning processes and with opening of the procedures to public participation, there is a need for decision-aid tools that can help increase rationality and transparency in decision-making processes related to planning. By understanding the contemporary view of heritage and the landscape, it is possible to create tools capable of accounting for spatial complexity and the extant cultural, social, historic and economic relations. With this in mind, a specific tool was created that can be used for the analysis, diagnosis, evaluation and monitoring of spatial heritage (registered and under consideration for protection), identifying opportunities, defining strategies for heritage management processes, and in the creation and evaluation of development and management scenarios. The paper illustrates a shift in the consideration of heritage in spatial planning and presents an application of the developed model in a case study.


The aim of this study was to reveal the phytochemical constituents, antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of Ajuga orientalis . According to the antimicrobial results, the methanol extract of A. orientalis showed a MIC value of 312.5 µg/mL against the tested pathogenic bacterial strains. Anticandidal activity of extract was found as 156.3 µg/mL both against Candida albicans and C. parapsilosis strains. Whereas the extract was more effective against C. tropicalis with the MIC value of 78.1 µg/mL. The in vitro DPPH radical scavenging activity of the extract was determined as IC 50 =0.4 ± 0.02 mg/mL whereas the standard BHT IC 50 was 0.01 ± 0.00 mg/mL. Trolox Equivalent Antioxidant Capacity (TEAC) of extract was determined 1.3 mM TEAC, while BHT, 1.9 mM TEAC.


A low-power consumption approach for continuous heart rate (HR) and respiration rate (RR) monitoring for wearables is proposed. The approach provides a fusion of algorithms for HR/RR monitoring in calm and active states. For both states the algorithms process only accelerometer data. In calm state HR/RR tracking algorithm is based on a ballistocardiogram (BCG) processing. It shows 6.1 bpm root-mean-square error (RMSE) for HR monitoring and 1.9 breaths per minute RMSE for RR monitoring. In the active state HR and RR trends are calculated by machine-learning (ML) model adding a special post-processing procedure (RMSE = 7.5 bpm). The complete approach allows reducing power consumption up to 70%, compared with the state-of-the-art approach that uses a photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensor. The work results in the background for energy effective continuous monitoring of human physiological parameters by wearable devices.


A series of 200 boreholes drilled over an area of 21 square miles by the Cannock Chase Area of the National Coal Board has provided valuable information on the composition and distribution of the Drift. Apparently the Drift has been deposited upon a surface having a well developed valley system, undamaged by the processes of deposition and essentially the same as the present day pattern. The aspect of the Drilt most important to the Board, its water content, is described and commented on.


Hypercube Qn is a well-known graph structure having three different kinds of equivalent definitions that are: 1. binary n bit sequences with the adjacency condition, 2. Q1=K2, $Q_n=Q_{n-1}\\Box K_2$, where $\\Box$ means the Cartesian product, 3. the Cayley graph on $\\mathbb{Z}_2^n$ with the generator set {10···0,010···0,···,0···01}. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a set of binary sequences to be a generator set for the hypercube. Then, we give relations between some generator sets and relational products. These results show the wide variety of representability of hypercubes which would be used for many applications.


ARC-HABCAP is an unpublished, spatially explicit habitat capability model that runs in a geographic information system. ARC-HABCAP is used by the Black Hills National Forest as a tool for biologists assessing the effects of land management actions for areas 400 2,000 ha in size that predicts the relative effectiveness (0 1.0) of land units to provide forage (FV), cover (CV), forage-cover juxtaposition (HDV), and habitat effectiveness (HE) for elk (Cervus elaphus) based on forest inventory data. HE is calculated as FV x CV x HDV"~. ARC-HABCAP removes areas adjacent to roads as ineffective habitat. The width of ineffective habitat adjacent to roads depends on the amount of vehicle traffic. The model displays FV, CV, HDV, HE, and areas of ineffective habitat adjacent to roads. We tested the predictions of the winter ARC-HABCAP model using radio telemetry locations of elk from November to April and from 1993 to 1997 in Custer State Park (CSP), South Dakota. FV, CV, HDV, and HE were categorized as good, fair, or poor for values of >0.7, 0.3-0.7, and 4 . 3 , respectively. We tested hypotheses that proportional elk use of predicted N, CV, HDV, and HE categories were similar to the proportion of CSP predicted in each category. Elk use in CSP differed (P < 0.01) from the proportion of predicted categories from ARC-HABCAP for FV, CV, HDV, and HE. Selection ratios differed (P 50.05) from 1.0 for each of these components of the model. ARC-HABCAP predicted that most of CSP was fair or poor HE and elk used areas predicted to be good HE less ( P = 0.05) than expected. Poor correspondence between elk use and HE resulted from the geometric mean method used to calculate HE. We propose a new formula for elk HE that emphasized forage 3 times more than cover and resulted in a better fit between elk dispersion patterns and predicted HE in CSP. Coefficients for HDV should be modified to reflect the data from CSP and the models from which ARC-HABCAP was originally derived. We recommend extending the area of negative influence on elk adjacent to primary roads to 300 m with modifications to the coefficients to reflect the negative influence of roads rather than treating these areas as ineffective habitat. Further testing and modification of ARC-HABCAP are also necessary.


Since their re-establishment in the early decades of the nineteenth century the Jesuits have successfully maintained a position at the pinnacle of Catholic elite education. In this article I propose to discuss Irish education in the context of global trends in cosmopolitan and elite forms of education. All across Europe we find the Jesuits competing for regional elites and sub elites in this period, and the Irish Jesuits are part of this transnational pattern. I will then focus on the two most important nineteenth century foundations –Tullabeg (1818-86) and Clongowes (1814-)– as the exemplary «elite» Jesuit boarding schools in Ireland. I will then briefly discuss two less socially ascendant but nevertheless important day schools, Belvedere College (1841-) and Gonzaga (1899-), both in Dublin. The educational product was intentionally politically muted, informed by a desire for Catholic advancement in all aspects of life, including imperial service, religious leadership, gaining a foothold in the prestigious professions, and –where possible– advocating for general Catholic advancement. As with Jesuit education elsewhere in this period it was an explicitly elitist project at the beginning of the nineteenth century, with greater market segmentation evident later in the century with the advent of the prestigious urban day-schools.


The Telebus is a unique service that operates in the outer east suburbs of Melbourne. It offers a combination of fixed route services, and demand responsive services which enable passengers to be picked up or dropped off anywhere in the Telebus zone for a small surcharge. This study was conducted to review the Telebus service and specifically measure the benefits of the service at both the individual and community level. The study area covered seven Telebus service zones, as well as compatible suburbs in the outer east of Melbourne with fixed route bus services and small pockets of areas currently without any bus services. The project consisted of a telephone survey of the residents living in the study area, a face to face survey with Telebus users as well as fixed route bus users, and focus group discussions with bus users and non users. In addition, in-depth interviews with stakeholders were conducted as part of the project to provide insights that may not have been achieved via the telephone and onboard surveys. The Telebus offers many benefits to individuals and the wider community. These benefits, both direct and indirect, were recognised and understood by Telebus users as well as conventional bus users and the community in the study area.


This paper explores the possible links between the preferred management styles and conceptualisations of performance in an organisation. The case of hospital accreditation in the USA, Australia and France is studied. Management styles are described, respectively, in the USA, Australia and France as hybrid, behavioural and traditional styles. Conceptualisations of performance in accreditation manuals of the USA, Australia and France are described, respectively, as multidimensional, focused on processes and normative. We argue that any given management style is not associated with some random conceptualisation of performance; instead, there might be a relational logic between these two aspects. The relationship may be hologrammatic in nature and recursive over time.


Aims: The study focuses the organoleptic trend according to the nutritive composition of cakes processed from wheat flour enriched with the almond flour of T. catappa, a plant growing in some regions of Côte d'Ivoire.
Study Design:  Nine formulations of cakes processed from addition of almond flour of Terminalia catappa to wheat flour and then submitted to nutrients and descriptive sensory analyses.
Place and Duration of Study: Laboratory of Biochemistry and Food Sciences, Biochemistry department of Biosciences Unit, Felix Houphouet-Boigny University, running 2015.
Methodology: The contents in nutriments, namely macronutrients, minerals (macroelements and oligoelements), vitamins, and polyphenol antioxidants of the enriched cakes were determined using standard methods and their sensory description achieved. Then, the influence between both types of characteristics was assessed through the Pearson correlation coefficient (r) at ± 0.5 significance using statistical software SPSS.
Results: The cakes investigated recorded invarious content in total carbohydrates (the major nutritive compound of the flours) whereas the other nutrients increased accordingly to the ratio of the almond flour incorporated for. Oppositely, the full sensory descriptors were responded with statistically similar scores over the cakes formulated. The correlation analysis mainly showed reduction of the cakes aroma during the nutrients increase, with r coefficients of –0.65 to –0.54. Thus, the study shows no rather nutritional influence of the nutritive enrichment of cakes on the sensory profile.
Conclusion: The valorization of the cakes enriched with almonds of T. catappa could be sustained on the basis of their acceptance by consumers.


The focus is on a switching control strategy for the galvanically isolated bidirectional current-fed dc-dc converter. The converter under study employs the current-fed full-bridge stage at the low-voltage side and the voltage-fed half-bridge stage at the high-voltage side. The current-fed side of the converter utilizes four-quadrant switches comprised of two MOSFETs each. The switching sequence proposed enables soft-switching operation of all switches in both directions of energy transfer for a wide range of dc voltage gain and load variations. Moreover, it features natural clamping and thus eliminates voltage overshoot at the turn-off of switches at the current-fed side. Full zero-current switching is achieved in the current-fed side, while full zero-voltage switching is accommodated in the voltage-fed side. Theoretical predictions were verified with simulations in PSIM 9.


"In today's society, gender identity is redefined. This identity is now disconnected from biological sex and redefined as a cultural phenomenon. The implications are diverse not only from an anthropological point of view but also from a moral stand. As gender becomes a fluid concept, the war between the traditional point of view and the revisionist/progressist one is inevitable. This research reviews how in the last centuries society moved from Theism to Post-Theism and from Post-Theism to Post-Humanism. These shifts reflect a tendency of moral change not only in terms of human identity but also of human sexuality.
In this paper, it is argued that a moral dimension is vital for a definition of gender identity. The theological assessment of this topic starts the epistemic endeavor analyzing the biblical foundation of cisgender and sexual dimorphism. In the nature vs. nurture paradigm a thorough analysis of the biblical account of creation and fall of man, attest to the fact that, regardless of how man is born, God's redemption outlines anthropology, hamartiology, and soteriology.
At the practical social level, the struggle for unity in diversity varies from a desideratum to a utopian reality. Nevertheless, the concept of diversity cannot be emptied of its moral dimension. From the Biblical point of view, the solution to this war on sexual identity is redemption, while from the secular point of view the solution to this war is relativism."


IN 1972 this journal published an article by the writer concerning the use of electrical components in Gas Turbine control systems. It is the purpose of this further article to update and amplify the earlier one. It should be mode clear from the start that the writer lays no claim to be an expert in the design of gas turbine control systems but he can speak from a considerable experience of the problems which arise in the design of the electrical components for such systems.


One photochromic coating wool fabrics, textile fabrics technical field belongs. It is composed of wool, characterized in that the wool fabric is coated on said coating has a silica sol; fabric thickness of 0.5 2mm ~, wherein the thickness of the wool fabric is 0.2 ~ 1mm, silica sol coating thickness It is 0.3 ~ 1mm; the structure is one of the silica sol coating is applied to 100% of the surface area of a wool fabric. The beneficial effects of the present invention are: 1. to provide a good elasticity, soft hand, natural fiber fleece can be a excellent hydrophilic properties with light, the environment presents a different color, to compensate for the photochromic wool fabric vacancy. 2. microencapsulated photochromic agents dioxide and silica sol nanoscale binding, wool fabric easily absorbs ultraviolet sunlight, the photochromic agent is a microcapsule more likely to show its color features.


In the recent study, land suitability evaluation for maize has been determined using FAO method in Abyek area, located in Qazvin province of Iran. This study was carried out for maize at Abyek area with 16618 ha. Soil and climate data were collected from 61 soil profiles at research farms and bagh kousar climatological Station, respectively. Maize growth of landscape, soil and climate requirements were determined using Sys et al tables and qualitative suitability classification of this crop was done by parametric square root method. The results showed that the study area climate was highly suitable for maize. Based on parametric square root method, 24.19% of the area S1, 37.28% S2, 29.53% S3, 5.26% N and 3.74% are NS for maize. In addition, soil depth, gravel percentage, lack of organic matter, salinity, alkalinity, and gypsum are important limiting factors in the area.