This invention provides a bank teller safety system and its method, which comprises teller terminal and fingerprint data servo, data download tool to download teller information qualified from the servo and to send the information to eh teller terminal; fingerprint device with fingerprint unit and intelligent card unit to compare the collected fingerprint with ones stored in the intelligent unit, wherein when the two kinds of fingerprints agree, then the teller terminal can operate the banking business.


This document reflects what has been learned about the safety of recombinant human GH since its introduction to the market in 1985. These lessons are the result of an unprecedented level of scrutiny that has lasted more than 15 yr and continues today. The Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease epidemic due to contamination of pituitary-derived GH, the Japanese reports on a potential association between GH and leukemia, and the fact that GH was the second recombinant product brought onto the market were important considerations behind the need for such careful surveillance.


Aim: This study compares the effects of two drug regimens for Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection resistant to the first line drug regimen among patients referred to Ilam clinics, Iran. Background: Single drug regimen is not effective for H. pylori infection and therefore, application of triple or quadruple drug regimens are currently applied. Methods: This study was performed by a before-after comparative method and patients were randomly selected among those consecutively referred to Ilam gastrointestinal clinics. Patients with failure in the first line treatment, were randomly divided into two equal groups and each group was treated by one of the PPI+Amoxicillin+Rifampicin or PPI+Amoxicillin+Levofloxacin drug regimens for 14 days. Six weeks after treatment, patients were tested for H. pylori stool antigen and the results were compared between two groups. Results: In this study, 100 patients including 49 (49%) men and 51 (51%) women were examined. There was no statistical difference between the two groups for gender, age and living location at the start of study (p = 0.068). The mean age of the patients was 44.55 ±15.1 years old ranging from 17 to 85 years. Response to treatment among the levofloxacin group, was 90% and in rifampicin group 72% with a significant difference (p<0.04). Conclusion: The response rate of H. pylori infection to the Levofloxacin based regimen was 90%; however, the application of rifampicin in combination with other drugs against H. pylori infection (72% response rate), should be limited to reduce the possibility of drug resistance in case of tuberculosis infection.


OBJECTIVE
The practice of rural and remote medicine in Australia entails many challenges, including a broad casemix and the remoteness of specialist support. Many rural practitioners employ advanced procedural skills in anaesthetics, surgery, obstetrics and emergency medicine, but the use of these skills has been declining over the last 20 years. This study explored the perceptions of rural general practitioners (GPs) on the current and future situation of procedural medicine.

DESIGN
The qualitative results of data from a mixed-method design are reported. Free-response survey comments and semistructured interview transcripts were analysed by a framework analysis for major themes.

SETTING
General practices in rural and remote Queensland.

PARTICIPANTS
Rural GPs in Rural and Remote Metropolitan Classification 4-7 areas of Queensland.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE
The perceptions of rural GPs on the current and future situation of rural procedural medicine.

RESULTS
Major concerns from the survey focused on closure of facilities and downgrading of services, cost and time to keep up skills, increasing litigation issues and changing attitudes of the public. Interviews designed to draw out solutions to help rectify the perceived circumstances highlighted two major themes: 'synergy' between the support from medical teams and community in ensuring 'sustainability' of services.

CONCLUSIONS
This article presents a model of rural procedural practice where synergy between staff, resources and support networks represents the optimal way to deliver a non-metropolitan procedural service. The findings serve to remind educators and policy-makers that future planning for sustainability of rural procedural services must be broad-based and comprehensive.


By questionnaire approach, document and material approach, and statistics approach, the paper makes investigations, analysis and discussions on college students' disposition, and their longing and search for modern ideal temperament. On the aims of leading college students to establish proper aesthetic standards and improve themselves through the reform of modern P. E., this paper provides some references.


Consumer purchasing decisions is the occurrence of sales fluctuations in the past four years. Product differentiation, promotion, and price are factors that have been pursued by the company but have not been able to provide a maximum contribution to consumer decisions. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of product differentiation, promotion, and price on fashion product purchasing decisions. The sample was determined by purposive random sampling technique, with 105 respondents. The data collection technique used was a questionnaire (questionnaire). The analysis technique used the SPSS version 22. The results showed there was an effect of product differentiation, promotion, and price simultaneously on the decision to purchase fashion products. Based on the partial test results it can be seen that product differentiation, promotions, and prices have a positive and significant effect on purchasing decisions for fashion products. The conclusion from this research is the higher product differentiation, promotion, and price, the decision to buy products fashion will increase. Suggestions for further researchers is to be able to conduct research on different subjects and by developing other independent variables.


Appliances used in everyday life, like smart phones, notebooks; do-it-yourself machineries usually operate with battery instead of power supply. It means comfort to users however; they expose them to different dangers. In the last few years, several fire cases happened in connection with these appliances while charging and usage, which have driven the attention to the dangers of battery technology. Regarding the actuality of the topic, combustion products developing during the burning process of batteries with 1:1 ratio burning experiments were investigated, experiences and results from that are represented in this paper. The aim of the research is to call the attention to the flammability properties of lithium-ion and other batteries, the possible dangers and in case of fire to support the involved personnel.


Biphenylene is one of the key compounds in the discussion of bond localization in aromatic systems, usually addressed as Mills-Nixon-Effect (Mills & Nixon, 1930; Maksic et al., 1999). A pronounced bond localization due to the Mills-Nixon-Effect in the direction of one of the Kekule forms is established. Compared to the previous structure determination by Fawcett and Trotter (1966) the significance of bond length alternation in respect to the s.u.'s in the six membered rings has been dramatically increased.


Nearly 80% of patients that receive bariatric surgery are women, yet mechanistic pre-clinical studies have focused on males. The goal of this study was to determine the metabolic impact of diet- and surgery-induced weight loss in males, females, and ovariectomized females. Male and female mice were fed a 60% high-fat (HFD) diet before undergoing either vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) or sham surgery. Mice either remained on HFD or were switched to a standard chow diet post-surgically. When maintained on HFD, both males and females decreased fat mass and improved oral glucose tolerance after VSG. After dietary intervention, additional adiposity was lost in both surgical groups. Ovariectomized females had a blunted decrease in fat mass on a HFD, but lost significant adiposity after dietary intervention. Energy expenditure was only impacted by dietary but not surgical intervention across all groups. Males decreased hepatic triglyceride levels after VSG, which was further decreased after dietary intervention. Intact and ovariectomized females had a blunted decrease in hepatic triglycerides after surgical intervention but a significant decrease after dietary intervention. The more pronounced effect of surgery on hepatic lipids in males was strongly associated with changes in expression of hepatic microRNAs and genes that have previously been linked to hepatic lipid regulation and systemic energy homeostasis. These data highlight the importance of post-surgical diet on metabolic outcomes across sexes and hormone levels. Furthermore, these data suggest the impact of VSG on hepatic triglycerides is diet-dependent in females and support that hypothesis that males and females achieve a similar metabolic outcome, at least within the liver, via distinct mechanisms.


The vulnerability of VLSI designs to soft errors grows with technology scaling. In order to allow a cost-effective reliability aware design process, it is critical to assess soft error reliability parameters in early design stages. This paper presents a new methodology to estimate digital circuit vulnerability to soft errors of circuits described at Register Transfer Level (RTL). Single Event Upsets (SEUs) propagation through RTL bit-vector operations is modeled and analyzed based on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). For instance, the bit-vector reduction operators and arithmetic operators were modeled using SMT to include their fault propagation properties. In order to illustrate the practical utilization of our work, we have analyzed different RTL combinational circuits. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework is on average about 4 times faster than other comparable contemporary techniques. Moreover, it provides more accurate and detailed results of the circuit vulnerability allowing a more efficient applicability of fault tolerance techniques.


[This abstract is based on the editor's abstract.] Widespread customer satisfaction is an elusive goal, largely because of failure to understand requirements and quality-related issues. A process improvement case study is presented that explores ho..


This study uses an examination of the two largest internet affinity portals serving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) communities - PlanetOut.com and Gay.com - as an entry point into a broader discussion of gay marketing and surveillance in cyberspace. Informing this examination are arguments that the newfound courting of the 'gay community' by mainstream marketers represents a repositioning of gays and lesbians in commercial panoptic formations based on the perceived desirability of these populations as niche markets. This position is supported by the Janus-faced design of these online portals, which present themselves as inclusive communities to gay and lesbian consumers while simultaneously presenting themselves as surveilling entities to corporate clients. The marketing strategies deployed by these portals suggest that corporate actors believe that gays and lesbians can be enticed into self-surveillance by distancing solicitations for personal information from their economic aims and rearticulating them with images of community and romance.


Many mechanical, dynamical and structural properties of materials remain poorly understood for reasons fundamentally independent of system-specific chemistry. Great advances in understanding these properties can be achieved through coarse-grained and multiscale simulations that are computationally efficient enough to access experimentally relevant spatiotemporal scales yet "chemically" realistic enough to capture the essential physics underlying the properties under study. I have and will continue to concentrate on explaining poorly-understood behaviors of polymeric, colloidal, and nanocomposite systems through coarse-grained modeling and concomitant development of analytic theories. The general theme is to do basic research on topics that are of high practical interest.


find its new use in creating low cost such non-reactive vessels affordable by different groups of gentry and households. Thus, vast spread of ocean and marines can be explored for production and harnessing of coral for creating nonreactive vessels and generating employment and business. New innovative use of marine biology will get to benefiting all gentry and save pressure on earth. This research establishes that earth can sustain in creating still large opportunity for application of various innovative technologies.


This paper presents a hierarchy-RBAC decision model with XML aiming at enhancing the capability and flexibility of making dynamic access control decision. Through the description of decision policies with XML, the model can deal with complex logic decisions rather than simple value comparison.


The invention relates to oil-based suspended base liquid of nano diamond powder and a preparation process thereof, and belongs to the technical field of additives of abrasives and lubricating oil. The preparation process is characterized by comprising the following steps of: performing high-temperature treatment on the nano diamond powder; grinding and crushing the nano diamond powder; wetting and wrapping the nano diamond particles by using a nonionic surfactant; and dispersing and isolating the nano diamond particles into base oil by using an amide type oil-soluble dispersing agent, whereinthe used surfactant and the dispersing agent do not comprise elements except carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.


Cloud Computing systems provide access to large amount of data and other resources through a large number of interfaces. Apache Hadoop is a framework that allows distributed processing of large sets of data across cluster of computers. It is a powerful abstraction proposed for making scalable and fault tolerant applications. In this paper we have suggested an enhanced framework for MapReduce which increased the performance of the Private Clouds in distributed environment. In this framework a separate thread is maintained for each and every Mapper and a single buffer is used for retrieving all threads. A single Buffer retrieves all records. At this instance a separate thread can search for all the records with same key in the buffer and pass it on to the Reduce function which can executed. A multimap is used to access partial result while maintain key ordering. Our analysis shows that better performance can be achieved using this enhanced Map Reduce framework than using the traditional MapReduce framework. The results show the reduction in job completion time when compared with existing one.


Requirements validation through feedback with users is of paramount importance in producing a high quality requirements specification document. Use of an executable formal specification offers an effective combination of formalism and pragmatism. This allows not only the systematic development of a concise specification of a system, but it also enables developers to execute the specification to receive feedback at an early stage. Executable formal specification languages have traditionally been used as an effective prototyping tool to facilitate developer validation, that is the developer can, via specification execution either individually or in a peer review format, explore the consequences of the specification. However, their use in requirements validation is often not user orientated, which may in turn reduce the effectiveness of the approach.


Increased stiffness of reactive glial cells may impede neurite growth and contribute to the poor regenerative capabilities of the mammalian central nervous system. We induced reactive gliosis in rodent retina by ischemia‐reperfusion and assessed intermediate filament (IF) expression and the viscoelastic properties of dissociated single glial cells in wild‐type mice, mice lacking glial fibrillary acidic protein and vimentin (GFAP−/−Vim−/−) in which glial cells are consequently devoid of IFs, and normal Long‐Evans rats. In response to ischemia‐reperfusion, glial cells stiffened significantly in wild‐type mice and rats but were unchanged in GFAP−/− Vim−/− mice. Cell stiffness (elastic modulus) correlated with the density of IFs. These results support the hypothesis that rigid glial scars impair nerve regeneration and that IFs are important determinants of cellular viscoelasticity in reactive glia. Thus, therapeutic suppression of IF up‐regulation in reactive glial cells may facilitate neuroregeneration.—Lu, Y.‐B., Iandiev, I., Hollborn, M., Korber, N., Ulbricht, E., Hirrlinger, P. G., Pannicke, T., Wei, E.‐Q., Bringmann, A., Wol‐burg, H., Wilhelmsson, U., Pekny, M., Wiedemann, P., Reichenbach, A., Kas, J. A. Reactive glial cells: increased stiffness correlates with increased intermediate filament expression. FASEB J. 25, 624–631 (2011). www.fasebj.org


Tomographic images are presented from a co-ordinated experimental campaign held in Scandinavia in October 1993. In addition to the five satellite receiving stations, the EISCAT incoherent scatter radar was used in a special mode (SP-UK-BLOB) to provide independent verification of the tomographic images. The radar was used in this interactive mode to follow the meridional development of a very steep field-aligned gradient at the poleward edge of a deep trough. Irregular structuring on a scale of tens of kilometres was observed as the feature was followed during a 7-hour run, under very quiet geomagnetic conditions. Several satellite passes were monitored during the run, with the total electron content measurements being used to reconstruct tomographic images of electron density. Comparison of the images with the EISCAT measurements in the vicinity of the trough wall shows that the field-aligned structure is well replicated by the tomographic method. The auroral E-layer evident in the EISCAT observations has also been imaged by tomographic means for the first time.


Detection of Beta-Barrels from Medium Resolution Cryo-electron Microscopy Density Maps Albert Ng Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Dong Si Computing & Software Systems Cryo-electron microscopy is becoming one of the most popular techniques used to determine protein structures. At medium resolutions, secondary structures can be seen from within cryo-electron microscopy density maps. The automatic isolation and detection of these secondary structures directly from density maps would be helpful to many, such as drug researchers to enable faster and better drug design for targeted proteins. One such secondary structure is the β-barrel, a β-sheet based secondary structure that is commonly found as in cell membranes and transport proteins. This thesis proposes a novel method combining convolutional neural networks, genetic algorithms, and ray casting to perform automatic detection for β-barrels from within medium resolution cryo-electron density maps. This approach was tested using both experimentally produced and simulated cryo-electron microscopy density maps. This method achieved a sensitivity of 0.95 and specificity of 0.90 on simulated maps. However, this method was only able to obtain a sensitivity of 0.72 and specificity of 0.79 on experimentally produced density maps.


The number of distinct sites visited by the correlated random walk of tagged particles in lattice gases is investigated. The lattices are occupied with concentration 0<c<1 and the particles are noninteracting except that double occupancy of lattice sites is forbidden. The distribution of the number of sites visited in one dimension and its mean value in higher dimensions d=2 and d=3 are studied by numerical simulations and analyzed in terms of scaling expressions, partly guided by heuristic models.


In this paper, the general solutions of a sum form functional equation containing four unknown mappings have been obtained without imposing any regularity condition on any of the four mappings. Some of the solutions obtained are related to nonadditive entropies of degree α and of type (α, β).


Recent years have seen the welcome expansion of the Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (Neue Schütz Ausgabe) of Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672) to encompass masterworks previously available only in the venerable edition begun by Philipp Spitta in 1885 (Sämtliche Werke [Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1885–1927; reprint, Wiesbaden: Breit kopf & Härtel, 1968–74]), as well as the re-editing of older volumes of the Neue Schütz Ausgabe to address the needs of modern critical scholarship (see my review of Werner Breig's edition of book 3 of the Symphoniae sacrae (vols. 8–9) and Heide Volckmar-Waschk's edition of the Cantiones sacrae (vol. 21) in Notes 63, no. 3 [March 2007]: 688–90). The latest beneficiary of this activity is Schütz's Geistliche Chormusik, a grand volume of twenty-nine motets for five to seven voices published in 1648 by Johann Klemmens in Dresden and, in that age of stylistic diversity, intended to encourage German composers to "bite this hard nut" (diese harte Nuß . . . auffbeissen) of writing without continuo, the fruit of which is a proper understanding of counterpoint and the prerequisite for good composition in any idiom. Chronologically the Geistliche Chormusik is flanked by Schütz's second and third books of Symphoniae sacrae (1647, 1650) and forms a contrasting pendant to these latter collections of opulent concertato works for mixed vocal and instrumental forces. In his dedication of the volume with the Eyes [Cambridge; New York: Cam bridge University Press, 2000; reprint, 2006]). The music assembled in the motet book of 1549, in short, reminds us of the often complicated pathways that lead from creation to publication, and of the various ways in which theory and practice informed each other in Zarlino's day. And for those keen simply to hear Zarlino's motets, the wait is over: our colleague Michael Noone and the excellent singers of the Ensemble Plus Ultra have recently recorded a selection of works from the motet book of 1549— including all of the Song of Songs motets plus a setting of Veni sante spiritus and the canonic Pater noster/Ave Maria (Canticum canticorum Salomoni, Venezia, 1549, Glossa GCD 921406 [2007], CD; and through iTunes at http://phobos.apple.com/ WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum? id=271892128&s=143441 [accessed 23 May 2008]). Thanks to the recording and this welcome new edition, we can at last begin to put the composer and theorist back together.


The collapse of attractive Bose-Einstein condensates in a box with tunable interatomic interactions was studied experimentally recently. Not only were remarkably stable remnant condensates observed, but furthermore they often seem to involve two stable plateaus. We suggest that these plateaus correspond in fact to two minima of the energy, the attractive atomic interactions being nonlocal. We show in detail that all the experimental data for these remnant condensates can be accounted for by minimising a variational energy involving a nonlocal interatomic potential that is attractive everywhere and that has a range of the order of the magnetic length.


This article aims to investigate the protection regime of access and licensing of knowledge conveyed by Brazilian journals of upper stratum (A1 and A2) related to Exact, Technological and Multidisciplinary Sciences Area in CAPES Qualis Journals system. The research problem could be expressed by the question: how are editorial policies of these journals constituted taking into account the current Brazilian copyright legislation? Stemming from the notions of duty and the aspiration of the law, as well as the techniques of argumentation 'inside' and 'beyond' the machine, it is possible to infer that the editorial policies of these journals reveal a rupture with the traditional copyright system.


An algorithm for estimating the basis vectors used in the Karhunen-Loeve transform (KLT) is described. The algorithm is "blind" in the sense that it utilizes minimal information about the data vector being encoded. It is capable of estimating the KLT basis vectors using only the KLT coefficients and one additional scalar quantity. This eliminates the need to repeatedly encode and transmit the KLT basis vectors.


According to the results of Doppler examination,47 eases of type 2 diabetic patients with peripheral arterial disease(T2DM-PAD),40 cases of type 2 diabetic patients without PAD(T2DM),and 25 subjects without type 2 diabetes mellitus and PAD(control)were involved in this study.The results showed that serum visfatin concentrations in T2DM-PAD and T2DM groups were higher than that in centrel group[(63.85±15.94 and 54.96±12.58 vs 46.29±6.70)ng/ml.both P<0.01].and serum visfatin concentration in T2DM-PAD group was higher than that in T2DM group(P<0.05).Pearson's correlation analysis demonstrated that serum visfatin level was positively correlated with high sensitive C reactive protein.interleukin-6.carotid intima-media thickness,waist to hip ratio,fibrinogen,and fasting plasma glucose(P<0.05 or P<0.01).

Key words:
Visfatin; Diabetes mellitus; type 2; Peripheral arterial diseases; In flammatory fator


............................................................................................................................................ 3 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 4 Methods ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Results ............................................................................................................................................. 14 Discussion ...................................................................................................................................... 23 Acknowledgments .......................................................................................................................... 27 References ....................................................................................................................................... 28 Using Trace Elements in Pacific Walrus Teeth to Track the Impacts of Petroleum Production in the Alaskan Arctic Casey Clark (M17AC00006) ............................................. 33 Abstract ........................................................................................................................................... 35.......................................................................................................................................... 35 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 36 Methods ........................................................................................................................................... 39 Results ............................................................................................................................................. 42 Discussion ....................................................................................................................................... 49 Acknowledgments .......................................................................................................................... 53 References ....................................................................................................................................... 54 Benthic Habitat Mapping in Eastern Cook Inlet Amanda Blackburn (BOEM M17AC00009)...............Discontinuation Note ...................... 59


For querying an image, the most commonly-used method uses low-level features. Of the low-level features, the color feature is the simplest and easiest to understand. Yet, using the color feature alone will not yield a good query result. For example, there may be external factors which cause an alteration in color intensity. To solve these types of problems, in this paper, we propose a multi-feature method composed of saturation, brightness, and frequency to build a three-dimensional space using these features. Then we apply fuzzy theory to color intensity. In this way, our image querying will not fail from an alteration in color intensity. Further experiments have demonstrated that this method is not only effective but is also highly accurate.


One means of obtaining time predicable systems is to build them from predictable components which are themselves built from predictable subcomponents. But this is not the only approach. In this paper we illustrate the benefits that are possible if components are designed to exhibit independent random behaviour. The worst-case execution time of application code can be estimated (with low probability of failure) to be not much greater than what one would expect the average to be. Unfortunately this approach of obtaining predictability as an emergent property of the code's execution cannot be delivered by today's hardware. Means by which hardware can be made more accommodating to this objective are explored.


(54) COMPOSITE INTERPOSER FOR BGA OTHER PUBLICATIONS PACKAGES "Area Tape Automated Bonding Ball Grid Array Technol (75) Inventors: Tongbi Jiang, Boise, ID (US); Edward ogy" by Chin-Ching Huang and Ahmad Hamzehdoost, Ball Schrock, Boise, ID (US) Grid Array Technology, Chapter 14, pp. 443-464 (1995). "Face-down BGA shrinks memory products by 75%", by (73) Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID Spencer Chin, Outlook. (US) "Tessera's Micro-Ball Grid Array (uBGA)", Chapter 16, pp.


The paper presents results concerning the synthesis and characterisation as lubricants with biodegradability potential of some complex tetraesters realised on the basis of adipic acid and different glycols such as (mono) ethylene, 1,3‐propylene, 1,4‐butylene, 1,5‐pentamethylene, 1,6‐hexamethylene, diethylene and triethylene glycol, respectively, along with oleic acid used, considered as an end, final segment or as a capping element. On the basis of a regular alternation or successive distribution principle of the polar and nonpolar chemical functions equally distributed, shared out on the length of a sufficient, satisfactorily long, large molecule, valuable synthetic complex tetraester lubricants considered as eco‐friendly base oils with biodegradability potential were performed. These products showed very good tribological properties, such as high viscosity indices and high flash points, and also very good lubricity features. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The software content of safety-critical avionics systems is increasing rapidly, potentially leading to project delays and cost overruns because of the complexity of verifying the code. By implementing automation techniques such as code generation in concert with a formally defined specification language, it is possible to achieve significant time and cost savings. These savings have been demonstrated at two major European companies on their own avionics projects.


EphrinB2 plays a critical role in tumor growth. In this study, we studied the antitumor activity of imperatorin derivative IMP-1 in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) by regulating EphrinB2 pathway.. Results showed that IMP-1 inhibited the proliferation of 786-O cells in a dose-and time-dependent manner. More importantly, knockdown and transfection of EphrinB2 altered the inhibitory effect of IMP-1 on the activity of 786-O cells. IMP-1 arrested 786-O cell cycle at G0/G1 phase by decreasing the expression of cyclin D1 and cyclin E. Moreover, IMP-1 regulated Bcl-2 family proteins' expression, thus inducing apoptosis of 786-O cells. IMP-1 down-regulated the expression of EphrinB2, Syntenin1 and PICK1. Then, IMP-1 decreased the phosphorylation of Erk1/2 and AKT. In all, IMP-1 could regulate the EphrinB2 pathway in order to inhibit 786-O cell growth by arresting the cell cycle at G0/G1 phase and inducing cell apoptosis. Thus, IMP-1 may present as a potential strategy for RCC treatment.


The research procedure of the heavy-film anti-corrosive concrete coating and its application process on the surface of prestressed concrete cylinder pipe(PCCP) are introduced.


It has been general recognized that the application of localization technology in home environment are beneficial to the development of health monitoring and mobile identification system development. As a kind of highly efficient sensor with obvious advantages such as low cost, the Bluetooth device has been widely used in our daily life. Research is carried out in an integrated environment based on mobile phone network signal measurement and Bluetooth link measurements in developing home localization systems. This paper presented a hybrid classification method, based on the combination of Bayesian network and supported vector machines, to support the development of Bluetooth-based room localization system. The proposed method mainly considers the dependency between features and non-linear overlapping of features between rooms. The results show that the prediction accuracy has been improved greatly in comparison to the traditional Naive Bayes classifier and the hidden Markov model used in previous studies.


Introduction If we consider the toroidal momentum equation in a tokamak, then ICRF heating has the effect of changing the toroidal momentum such that: pφ =−qψ +mv||Bφ |B| with ∆pφ ' RBφ Bω k||∆E (1) Thus, for a trapped particle with bounce tips aligned with the resonant ICRF layer, then the change in momentum directly corresponds to a radial motion across flux surfaces, referred to as a 'pinch' towards or away from the magnetic axis[6]. Therefore, +90 (co-current) antenna phasing (nφ > 0) pinches inwards as k|| ' nφ/R, with nφ the toroidal mode from the Fourier decomposition of the ICRF antenna. The pinch corresponding to this phasing is important to study as future high-performance JET shots will potentially use +90 phasing. The results presented in this paper were carried out using JET plasma profiles determined from shot number 89199 from the M15-27 'ICRH scenarios for DT' experiments. The data implemented in the simulations here was taken using EFIT data. Within this shot 6MW of on-axis (B0 = 3.4T ) ICRF heating was applied using the minority heating scheme on the 3% 3He concentration. Using this data, the SCENIC [1] package was used to study interactions of ICRF heating with fast 3He particles. Within this work the phasing remains at +90 applied to the minority 3He species, with each simulation run for a total of 4.5 times the slowing down time on the electrons for convergence.


Scientific Research supports biological activity of antioxidant Nutraceuticals and Functional foods. The study compared effect of these two antioxidants in healthy albino rats of the Wistar strain. Eighteen (18) albino rats of opposite sexes weighing between 150-300g were randomly assigned to three groups of six animals each. The control groupGroup C were fed with rat chow (vital feed) and clean drinking water, Group A were fed with nutraceutical supplement consisting of caplets of vitamin C 60mg/day and B-carotene mixed with vitamin E vitamin A as β-carotene-12,500IU, vitamin E200IU and clean drinking water was also given. Group B were fed with functional foods (Oranges, carrot and soybean) and clean drinking water. Hematological parameters were positively influenced by the vitamin supplementation (p>0.0 5) and greatest effect was achieved in group B. The result also showed a significant (P>0.05) decrease in TC, TG and LDL-C in the antioxidants treated groups compared to the control and a non-significant (P<0.05) increase in HDL-C.


Case 1: A diagnosis of tracheitis was made in a newborn infant and vancomycin therapy 15 mg/kg every 12 hours was started. The vancomycin was given intravenously over 20 minutes. Immediately following the first dose the baby became flushed and developed a generalized skin rash. He was agitated and his heart rate rose from 117 to 147 beats/minute. His blood pressure fell from 65 to 49 mmHg. He recovered within 5 minutes. The same dose of vancomycin was given 12 hours later, this time administered over 1 hour, without incident. The drug was discontinued when bacterial cultures showed no growth. Case 2: This infant was started on vancomycin for treatment of a Staphylococcus epidermidis infection. Vancomycin 10 mg (15 mg/kg) was administered by intravenous infusion through a peripheral line over 20 minutes. Shortly after the infusion was completed, the infant became pale and lethargic, and had a rash on the head and thighs. The mean arterial blood pressure fell from 65 to 33 mmHg over 25 minutes. The infant was treated conservatively and recovered. Because it


A true bidirectional buck-boost approach for DC pow er backup applications provides utmost efficiency and improves overall system reliability. This approach is also ideal for optimizing battery health as the battery charge and discharge levels can be programmed as needed by the battery chemistry and according to the current health of the battery. With its inherent nature of true peak current sensing and ability to limit the average current, the high-voltage buck-boost family of products from Renesas Electronics provides a comprehensive solution for battery-pow ered and battery backup applications. This paper w ill describe how a fully hardw ired standalone backup system can be designed at a low er cost using the Renesas ISL81601 controller family. This approach reduces the cost by improving battery utilization and avoiding complicated current sensing and charging circuits. The design can also be adapted to a microcontroller or host-based solution by supporting on-the-fly changes w ith parametric settings.


Plasma concentrations of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are strongly, consistently, and independently inversely associated with risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD).1 A series of animal studies in the 1990s, primarily involving overexpression of the major HDL protein apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) with subsequent increases in HDL-C, showed reduced progression or even regression of atherosclerosis, fitting nicely with the "HDL hypothesis" that raising HDL-C is causally associated with benefit. However, the last decade has seen several observations that do not follow this simple script. Some examples include the following: (1) the demonstration that scavenger receptor class BI knockout mice have increased HDL-C but increased atherosclerosis2; (2) the suggestion that some persons with high HDL-C levels have "dysfunctional" HDL that may not be protective3; and (3) the observation that the cholesteryl ester transfer protein inhibitor torcetrapib raised HDL-C levels considerably but did not decrease, and indeed increased, cardiovascular risk.4,5 These developments have brought into major question the simple hypothesis that higher HDL-C directly and causally results in reduced atherosclerosis and challenge the approach of developing therapies that raise HDL-C levels.

Article see p 628

One of the paradoxes in the field of HDL for nearly 3 decades has been the fact that monogenic disorders of extreme low HDL-C are not generally associated with obviously accelerated atherosclerosis. The first report of this phenomenon was the apoA-I Milano mutation, heterozygous carriers of which have HDL-C levels <5th percentile but no increased CVD.6 A number of additional apoA-I point mutations causing very low HDL-C but no increased risk of CVD have since been described, confirming the fundamental observation. Most of these mutant apoA-I proteins are rapidly catabolized rather than secreted in a defective manner, but this is an inadequate explanation for the lack of CVD given that most garden-variety …


N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP) is a capable solvent which could extract more substance from coals than any other solvents. However, the molecular composition of the extract was still unclear. In this study, a lignite was subjected to Soxhlet extraction using pyridine followed by NMP. The NMP extract and its hydrolyzed product were characterized by negative-ion electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. The results showed that the NMP extract and its hydrolyzed product had very high nitrogen contents and NxOy class species with multiple nitrogen and oxygen atoms dominant in the detected species. Relative abundance of 15N isotope and the molecular composition of extracts obtained from different extraction conditions indicated that the NMP involved into the extracts. Both self-polymerization of NMP and chemical reactions between NMP and coals occurred in the thermal extraction.


Several observers have raised the issue of whether the process of real convergence of candidate countries to income levels of EU members is compatible with the adoption of the Euro, as Maastricht criteria impose strict constraints on nominal variables. In particular, inflation should converge to the best performers in the EU, and thus for candidate countries the process of real convergence should proceed simultaneously with that of nominal convergence. We investigate this issue looking at the dynamics of real exchange rates in candidate countries and the implications for inflation dynamics, with special attention to the case of Slovenia.


Motor output from spinal motoneurons is influenced by interneuron networks in the ventral horn of the spinal cord. This thesis presents electrophysiologi- cal investigations of two separate but complementary aspects of the neuronal networks that influence this motor output. The first investigation focuses on inhibition of lumbar motoneurons. The second characterises the excitatory synapse formed by motoneuron axon collaterals onto Renshaw cells, which are interneurons that mediate recurrent inhibition onto motoneurons. Previous studies on neonatal rats have shown that inhibition of motoneu- rons is mediated a mixed GABAergic and glycinergic response. Whole- cell voltage-clamp recordings of spinal motoneurons obtained from juvenile (P 8 − 14) mice demonstrated that motoneuron inhibition is mostly mediated by glycine. GABA currents were not co-detected with glycine during this age range in the mouse. Further experiments, in which the relative content of pre-synaptic GABA and glycine was manipulated, showed that GABA is not co-released with glycine by premotor interneurons. Quantal analysis of paired recordings of pre-synaptic motoneurons and post-synaptic Renshaw cells showed that this excitatory synapse exhibits a large number of release sites and a high probability of release. This is suggestive of highly reliable synaptic transmission between the two cell types. Comparison of the number of release sites estimated from paired recordings with those estimated from responses evoked by ventral root stimulation revealed that on average six motoneurons project onto every Renshaw cell. We conclude that: • In mature animals motoneuron inhibition is mainly glycinergic. • The Renshaw cell to motoneuron synapse has a high efficiency of transmission. • The degree of convergence of motoneurons to Renshaw cells is very high. The last two conclusions suggest that firing in motoneurons pools reliably induces firing in the population of connected Renshaw cells.


Integration of strained Si1−xGex/Si quantum wells (QWs) in a vertical cavity is demonstrated on a Si substrate with a buried‐oxide using gas source Si molecular beam epitaxy. Spontaneous emission from the SiGe QW is found to be spectrally coupled to the longitudinal modes of a vertical cavity with buried oxide/Si and top Si/air interface mirrors, which is in excellent agreement with separate reflectance measurements. In addition, clear oscillations were observed in photoluminescence excitation spectra for photon energies even above the Si band gap, demonstrating cavity modulation of the incident light absorption.


Study of the microscopic structure of bone dates back to the earliest use of the optical microscope. Understanding the complexities of the structure of this material has roughly paralleled advances in microscopic technique. Relatively recently a new powerful microscopic technique, atomic force microscopy (AFM), has been invented. So it should not be surprising to expect a new step in our understanding of bone. There have been several recent publications applying AFM to bone and its constituents. None of these studies have examined the shape of naturally occurring mineralites in bone. The issue we addsgss in this work is the elucidation of the three dimensional structure of the apatite mineralites in bone. Chiefly, two methods have been used previously to ascertain this structure: transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD,). The major difficulty with TEM is that it is a projection technique. Each image only yields information about geometry in a single plane. Landis et al. showed how to circumvent this problem using tomographic TEM. AFM provides a corroborative and perhaps more gentle method of directly measuring the structure of very small bone mineralites. It is possible that the interaction energy of the electron beam with very small mineralites is sufficient to vaporize them. The problem with XRD is that the line broadening used can have contributions from sources not directly related to mineralite size. In particular, if a single mineralite contains more than one crystalline domain, then the line broadening yields a measure of the domain size, not the overall mineralite size.


Current and comprehensive, this book provides an overview of the pathophysiology of the adrenal gland and the basic principles applied to the diagnosis and treatment of its disorders. The Adrenal Gland, part of the Current Endocrinology series, is a handy update for the physician and includes information on the latest research findings in such areas as adrenal leukodystrophies, CAT scanning, and radioisotope imaging of the cortex and medulla. An international group of contributors details the latest developments in the field, covering such important topics as pheochromocytoma, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, diseases of the adrenal cortex, adrenal steroid biosynthesis and metabolism, effect of adrenal hormones on water and electrolyte metabolism, control of adrenal secretions of mineralocorticoids, metabolic actions of glucocorticoids, control mechanisms in the pituitary-adrenal system, diseases of hyper- and hypomineralocorticoid production, receptors for hormones of the adrenal cortex, and selected morphological aspects of human suprarenal glands.


Based on reviewing the study of international mode in service industries,we conclude that the most prominent feature of knowledge-intensive business service(KIBS) in relative to traditional service industries is knowledge.We argue that KIBS firms can utilize different types of knowledge to provide the customers with different types of service,which promotes "supplier-customer" interaction in the process of supplying services and evaluation standardization degree of service quality,and ultimately affects the international mode choice of KIBS firms.


Stephen Pender and Nancy S. Struever, eds. Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe. Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity Series. ix + 299 pp. $119.95. Review by KARIN SUSAN FESTER, INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR. The book, the first of its kind, is a collection of essays that concentrates on the intimate relationship between medicine and rhetoric in early modern Europe. Each of the essays--ten in total--in this volume make a valuable contribution to the field of seventeenth-century studies, medical rhetoric, and scientific cultures, as well as philosophy. Stephen Pender presents an eloquent and in-depth introduction to the history of rhetoric in medicine. In the first chapter of the book, Pender argues for the intersection of medicine and rhetoric, and he invokes the thinking of Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis, Plato, Aristotle, and the English physician John Cotta. He argues that "rhetoric and medicine share forms of inference and reasoning as well as areas of inquiry"; moreover, that "rhetoricised logic" influenced and was clearly linked to medical practice and theory during the early modern period (41). Jean Dietz Moss' essay is concerned with six physicians who published works and promoted hydrotherapy at the curative thermal baths in Bath, England from the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth centuries. The focus is on defining aspects of medical theory and practice as part of the rhetoric of curative hydrotherapy. Moss discusses the rhetoric of cures of William Turner, John Jones, Tobias Venner, Edward Jordan, Thomas Guidott, and Robert Peirce. Particularly noteworthy is Moss' attention to Robert Peirce who apparently wrote detailed case histories about his patients and the treatments they received. The author also highlights Peirce's case studies of women's ailments and diseases, as well as his practical approach to healing rather than relying on medical theory. Richard Sugg concentrates on early modern anatomical rhetoric. The author discusses the work of Baldasar Castiglione, John Lyly, Thomas Nashe, William Harvey, Helkiah Crooke, and Robert Burton who all made use of anatomical terms and metaphors in their works. Sugg starts off7 by presenting a detailed chronology of the historical development of anatomy as a rhetorical source illuminating how it developed concurrently with developments in medicine and studies of human anatomy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Sugg demonstrates how single works of literary anatomy were apparently linked to all subsequent literary anatomies. And finally, he focuses on the rhetorical uses of the word "section" and "dissection." Andrea Carlino's essay is devoted to analyzing Andreas Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica libri septem of 1543. He illuminates the relationship between medicine and speech, which is often overlooked. Carlino's objective is to reinforce Edelstein's arguments: Vesalius was indeed a humanist who embraced the humanist quest for knowledge, not to mention that he was greatly influenced by Cicero. The author examines the cultural environment in which Vesalius worked, highlights commentaries and interpretations from various sixteenth-century writers, and points out the humanists of the period who came to appreciate Vesalius' anatomical method and its heuristic value for the humanist project overall, which was "reforming knowledge" (128). Carlino argues that there was an essential relationship between medicine and speech and he details the relationships that emerged between anatomical method and rhetoric during the sixteenth century. This essay is useful for seventeenth-century scholars because Vesalius' Fabrica is to be viewed as making a significant contribution to humanism overall in its goal of reforming knowledge. Daniel Gross investigates Philipp Melanchthon's physics of persuasion and how to rule the passions; the essay is concentrated on the late sixteenth century and through the German baroque. …


This report provides specification of the system level simulator developed in the Work Package 4.1 "Radio Resource Management for mm-wave Overlay HetNets" for systematic evaluation of mmwave Overlay HetNets. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the developed system architecture, which includes the interfaces with link level simulator. Details on link level simulator of the access link between the base station and mobile terminal are presented in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 describes parameters employed in the system level simulator. Evaluation methods and factors showing the impact of the proposed mm-wave Overlay HetNets are presented in Chapter 4. Preliminary systematic evaluation results are summarized in Chapter 5.


Ferroelectric and magnetoresistance heterostructure Ba,Sr TiO3/ La,Sr MnO3 BST/LSMO heterostructure is deposited epitaxially on SrTiO3 001 substrate by pulse laser deposition. The phase structures of the BST/LSMO heterostructure are characterized by x-ray diffraction. Cross-sectional transmission electron microscope shows a substantial interdiffusision between BST and LSMO layers. The dielectric properties and conductivity of BST/LSMO heterostructure is measured as a function of temperature, frequency, and electric field. The dielectric constant dependence on electric field, vs E, exhibits a strong nonlinear behavior in the temperature from 20 to 300 K, while E=0 vs T relation shows a dielectric relaxor characteristic. Furthermore, the dielectric constant E=0 kV/cm and the dielectric tunability E=200 kV/cm are found to be similar temperature dependencies. Last, in the temperature regime where a semiconduction-type conduction became dominate, the activation thermal energy of BST/LSMO heterostructure is estimated to be 0.67 and 0.73 eV at 1 kHz and 1 MHz, respectively. © 2007 American Institute of Physics. DOI: 10.1063/1.2721393


Seismic migration is one of the important stages in seismic data processing which aims to map seismic events to their actual positions. The migration process used in this study is post-stack time migration in the time domain using the Kirchhoff migration technique and the finite difference method to determine the results of subsurface imaging from the two migration techniques and then compare them to determine the accuracy of selecting the appropriate migration for the L08 basin trajectory research area. Nias basin, North Sumatra. The processing steps are carried out according to the preprocessing to processing stages in the Promax 5000 software. Based on the results of the study, the optimum use of aperture migration in Kirchhoff migration will produce good subsurface cross-sectional imaging. The aperture value used is 3000 ms. In the finite difference migration subsurface imaging is much more focused with a time step variation of 10 ms, whose function is to focus the hyperbolic diffraction energy on the migration data.


Some point out that the influence of YouTube's video recommendation algorithm is causing users to be exposed to only video clips in limited subjects or fields, especially to biased content with opinions that are tilted to one side. However, there is a lack of empirical research on filter bubbles as algorithms in YouTube have not been disclosed. This study indirectly demonstrated the phenomenon of filter bubble on YouTube by extracting comment-based content network between uploaders who posted videos and writers who wrote comments on the video by each subject of the contents. Also, this study analyzed communication patterns between users through social network analysis (SNA). According to the analysis, users' narrow information acquisition and communication phenomenon caused by the filter bubble in YouTube was found.


Working with transportation networks can be tedious and confusing. Most transportation modeling packages available treat components of a transportation network independently and require coding complete networks for all alternatives. This approach has several weaknesses: it is time consuming, requires duplicate information to be stored for each alternative, and misrepresents the interactive nature of the many network attributes. A relational data base structure in conjunction with effective network management software can be used to capture the interrelationship of network characteristics, facilitate network updates, and maintain all the network scenarios in one data file. The approach, benefits, and implementation of such a system are described.


This paper presents a simple computer simulation model that assumes that both the loop and dipole radiation modes can exist simultaneously. The model computes the antenna pattern and directivity for any chosen combination of the two modes. The patterns obtained by varying the parameters defining how the modes are combined (in relative amplitudes, phase and position) and then matched for best fit with the measurements for various loop sizes and shapes. The results in this paper show that both dipole and loop modes do exist simultaneously in most loop configurations. Also it has been found that there are some loop configurations where the modes combine to give antenna patterns that are significantly and usefully unidirectional. Also in practice these unidirectional patterns are retained over a wide band of frequencies for a given loop. This indicates that the loop mode radiation resistance varies similarly with frequency as the dipole mode and not as the fourth power of the frequency according to existing theoretical formulas. Otherwise the directional properties would be expected to exist only over the narrow band of frequencies for which the amplitudes of the two modes are approximately equal.


Materials & Methods This is a case analytical study, in which sequential patients with surgically proved diagnoses were identified via a report text word-search program. Case records, CT and/or MR studies were available in 14 patients (seven males and seven females, age range of 12 to 17 years) from the last 8 years. Imaging features were reviewed in detail with documentation of presence or absence of soft tissue reactive changes.


Based on an organizational need, the use of a technological solution that allows to control the reporting of personal´s news in a more timely manner, it is necessary that efforts that are invested in the implementation of this solution, are not lost. For this is important that is set a strategy of diffusion that facilitates that them users of the solution see them benefits of the same and it make part of their management.


Brown et al. (1986) have cast doubt on the general applicability of sublingual nifedipine capsules for lowering blood pressure in hypertensive crises because Cmax is lower and the absorption rate is slower than when swallowed. We have also observed a lower Cmax after sublingual nifedipine. However, in our experiments, carried out with two different capsule formulations, the reduction seen with the generic capsule was greater than the reference capsule although the two capsules were bioequivalent when given orally. We used a four-treatment randomised crossover application in eight healthy subjects who had fasted for 12 h overnight. Reference (Adalatg, Bayer AG) and generic nifedipine (Corotrendg, Siegfried GmbH), as single 10 mg doses contained in light-protected soft gelatine capsules, were swallowed whole with 150 ml of water or bitten to release the fluid contents, kept under the tongue for 3 min, and then swallowed with 150 ml water. Plasma nifedipine concentrations were determined using g.l.c. (Hamann & McAllister, 1983) with complete resolution of nifedipine and its nitropyridine metabolite. The limit of determination was 1 ng ml-1. Blood collection and analysis were carried out under sodium light to avoid photodegradation. Statistical comparisons were made using the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed rank test. When given orally there were no differences in AUC(o-8 h), Cm. and tm. between the two capsules (Table 1). When given sublingually Cmax was reduced by 43% for the reference capsule (P < 0.05) and 59% for the generic capsule (P < 0.05). The difference between Cmax for sublingual application of the reference (67.9 ng ml-1) and generic capsule (44.8 ng ml-1) was significant (P < 0.05). AUC(o-2 h) for the sublingual generic capsule, reflecting drug absorption during the critical early post-dose period, was 40% lower (P < 0.01) than the reference capsule although AUC(o-8 h) were not significantly different and plasma concentrations 2-8 h post dose were similar (Table 1). Photodecomposition of nifedipine is unlikely to be the cause of poor sublingual absorption of the generic capsule since they were stored in the dark, their contents protected from light by the amber colouration in the soft gelatine and they were bioequivalent with the reference capsule on oral application. The difference may however be due to the use of a double concentrated nifedipine solution in the generic capsule and the correspondingly smaller volume (0.15 ml vs 0.4 ml). According to Rasler (1986) a very low volume of solution was the reason why he had to dilute a sublingual dose of nitroglycerin with 1 ml saline in order to increase absorption and relieve attacks of angina in patients with a dry mouth. McHardy & Hutcheon (1983) have reported results for the sublingual application of diluted nifedipine (1 capsule with 2 ml water) in a single patient with blood pressure 240/145 mm Hg and obtained a satisfactory response within about 15 min. Dilution of sublingual solutions of nifedipine raises a problem however. Nifedipine is only sparingly soluble in most aqueous and non-aqueous solvents. We have observed that mixing the contents of a capsule with 0.5 to 1 ml water causes the immediate precipitation of most of the nifedipine contained and this is probably the reason why dilution of nifedipine solutions with water is not recommended or not mentioned in dosage instructions. Unfortunately nifedipine also comes out of solution when water is exchanged for saliva and the rapidity and extent of precipitation seems to depend on the solvent or concentration of nifedipine in the capsule. According to our own clinical experience a satisfactory lowering of blood pressure cannot always be guaranteed following eublingual nifedipine and this may be related to the rather low plasma concentrations attained when this route is used. It is therefore necessary that manufacturers of nifedipine capsules ensure that their product is well absorbed when taken sublingually since this cannot be assumed from estimates of oral absorption alone.


Research on creative thinking has been handicapped by lack of adequate criteria. The purpose of this study was to develop a set of tests that could be used as dependent measures in evaluating training or in other research on "creativity." Four tests were developed, called Formulating Hypotheses, Evaluating Proposals, Solving Methodological Problems, and Measuring Constructs. They are job-sample tests that present realistic tasks such as a behavioral scientist might have to deal with. A scoring method was developed that requires the scorer to assign responses to categories of responses rather than to make subjective evaluations. The categories are assigned scale values based on independent evaluations by an expert panel. Scores can be assigned by computer. Six scores were studied: (1) average quality of the responses the examinee thinks are best, (2) average quality of all responses, (3) average quality of the best response by category scoring, (4) number of responses, (5) number of unusual responses, and (6) number of responses that are both unusual and of high quality. The tests were administered to about 4,000 applicants for admission to graduate school, using an item-sampling procedure. The tests were found to be appropriate in difficulty for advanced students. Reliabilities of most scores were high enough to be useful. Factoring of score intercorrelations reveals a general number-of-responses factor and two quality factors that are defined by quality scores from different combinations of tests. The number scores are quite independent of conventional aptitude and achievement tests, and quality scores have a substantial amount of true variance not predicted by aptitude and achievement tests. The face validity of the tests seems to appeal to students and teachers, but evidence of construct validity is needed.


Quantitative FRET imaging in living cells is made possible on a simple fluorescence microscope with this new method. The single-step calibration is robust and gives absolute FRET values, independent of the instrument.


Systematization of existing methods of a company cost management has been made, resulting in development of the author's approach to the cost management of enterprise. The practical significance of the author's approach is explained by higher efficiency in management of the process of value creation. The management must determine what measures are to be taken either progressive or radical ones.


Restoring proper lower limb alignment on the coronal plane after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) can decrease stress in the bone cement–implant interface, polyethylene wear, and implant loosening. Weight-bearing long-leg radiographs (LLRs) are used to assess the mechanical axis in the coronal plane, identify anatomic variations in the femur and tibia, and plan the degree of bone resection preoperatively. However, rotation or flexion of the lower limb may affect the accuracy of the measurement of alignment parameters from LLRs. Furthermore, known rotation-dependent linear changes can be used to relate the degree of lower limb rotation to the alignment parameters of the femur and tibia and the hip–knee–ankle (HKA) angle.


There has been growing interest in the sound generating technique based on physics from the motions of 3d graphics objects. In recent work several methods have been proposed to physically simulate these audio events natably using modal synthesis [K. van den Doel et al. 2001] or finite element method [O'Brien et al. 2002]. However, in these mesh-based method, it needs complicated operation to preprocess, for example, to generate the computational mesh for 3d object, and to create the system's matrices, etc...


The feedback number of folded hypercube Qfn,which is an important interconnection network topological structure,is researched.Defining F as a feedback vertex set of Qfn,maximal acyclic subgraph of survived subgraph G[V(Qfn)-F] is construted and a minimal feedback vertex set is achieved.By this approach,the upper bound of feedback number of Qfn is obtained.According to the property of n-dimensional folded hypercube,a new approach to constructing acyclic subgraph is presented and the upper bound of feedback number of Qfn is improved.The conclusion indicates that the connectivity of acyclic subgraph of Qfn+2 constructed by the approach is consistent with the one of acyclic subgraph induced by R∪Qfon provided by related results when n is odd.


The Puerto Rico's Commercial Fisheries Statistics Program (CFSP) collects the landings data by species, weight and price per pound since 1968. Since 1997, the CFSP had been collecting data from ornamental fishery (OF). This activity started in Puerto Rico during the 1960's. The OF was popularized by the young surfers from USA, that visited Rincon surfing beaches, whom obtained some money for their expenses. During the late 1980's and early1990's was observed that many persons were full time workers of OF and develop exporter companies. The OF was practiced without any Puerto Rico's government regulation, except the coral protection, life-rock protection, minimum legal size of lobster, and the three closed areas to all fishery in the west coast of Puerto Rico. The Law 278 of November 28 th , 1998, known as Puerto Rico's Fishing Law, enable the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) to regulate the fisheries. Since March 11 th , 2004, the DNER established Regulation 6768, entitled, Puerto Rico's Fishing Regulations. The mentioned document establishes many management actions to the OF workers. For example, they need a special permit from DNER, limit the number of species to be caught, they should submit all the landings data in monthly reports to this agency. From 1997 - 2005, the CFSP recorded that a total of 285,240 organisms were caught by OF in Puerto Rico. Since 2002-2005, 71,437 organisms were reported collected by OF. A total of 189 species or groups of fish (108), invertebrates (79) and two species of green algae (Caulerpa and Halimeda) were reported. The Puerto Rico Fishing Regulation Regulation 6768 reduced the number of species to be caught from OF to only 20 fish species and eight invertebrate species. This paper will show the most caught species by individuals, the number of fishers with permit by year, the fishing areas, and socioeconomic data.


A unique mechanism responsible for enhancing the autohesive tack strength of ethylene propylene diene rubber (EPDM) was elucidated by studying the interfacial strength of an unvulcanized EPDM elastomer joint in the presence of nanoclay. The tack strength significantly increased with nanoclay concentration up to 4 parts per 100 grams of rubber (phr), beyond which it dropped. For example, the tack strength of 4 phr of the nanoclay-loaded sample was nearly 137% higher than that of neat EPDM rubber. The influence of nanoclay in the bond formation and the bond separation steps of the tack test was understood by analyzing various tack governing factors such as green strength, creep compliance, entanglement molecular weight, relaxation time, the self-diffusion coefficient, and the monomer friction coefficient (ζ0). Furthermore, the ability of EPDM rubber to undergo strain-induced crystallization (SIC) during straining (at the time of bond separation in the peel test experiment) in the presence of nanoclay was al...


Clinical problems owing to drug interactions were first recognized in the early 1960s. Although the pharmacological concepts of antagonism, synergism and potentiation at the receptor site were known to prescribers, it came as a surprise that drugs could also interact by changing each other's absorption, metabolism and renal elimination. One of the first metabolic drug interactions that was reported was not a drug–drug interaction, but a food–drug interaction.


Ames, Iowa-50014 firstname.lastname@example.com Phone: 515-451-2338 Sandeep Krishnan _______________________________________________________________________ Education Master of Science (Department of Computer Science): Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Advisor : Dr. Robyn Lutz Research Work: Enhancing tool named formulaEditor used for model checking Safety Critical Systems and testing functionalities of tool on new models. Subjects Studied: Analysis of Algorithms, Theory of Computation, Software Safety, Formal Methods in Software verification, Distributed Algorithms. Overall GPA: 3.56/4.00


Much of educational research is quantitative; but quantification hardly indexes scientific progress. Although the sophistication and use of quantitative techniques in the areas of sampling, research design, measurement, and analysis are increasing, elegant tools may not make a conceptually cohering, functionally practical edifice if they are unsuitable for educational research even if they are borrowed from master builders in the natural and human sciences. Because fundamental questions about the dependence of learning on variations of schooling and instruction confront us, it may be well to step back from the construction site and examine the appropriateness of quantitative techniques from the vantage points of philosophy, history, and methods of sciences from which educational research derives. Accordingly, this chapter discusses quantification under four pairs of concepts: theory and practice, ends and means, purpose and causality, and design and analysis. THEORY AND PRACTICE For the period 1900 to 1965, Deutsch, Platt, and Senghaas (1971) identified 62 major contributions to the human sciences. The criteria for inclusion were (a) originality in perception, verifiable proposition, or method; and (b) fruitfulness in producing further knowledge. Although their list may be questioned, their contention seems reasonable: A careful compilation by other investigators of the major contributions would substantially overlap their list. To give examples, the first and last five contributions from a chronological ordering may be cited. The first five are theory and measurement of social inequalities; sociology of bureaucracy, culture, and values; theory of one-party organization and revolution; psychoanalysis and depth psychology; and correlation analysis and social theory. The last five are hierarchical, computerized decision models; cost-benefit analysis; computer simulation of social and political systems; conflict theory and variable-sum games; and stochastic models of social processes.


Most of the Quality of Service routing (QoS) routing mechanisms involve periodic exchange of global state information which causes communication overheads. Localized routing is a method to avoid this problem. The network in this technique is inferred by the source nodes using statistics which are collected locally. Three new localized routing algorithms called Highest Minimum Bandwidth routing (HMB), Best Reserved Bandwidth routing (BRB), and Highest Link Average Bandwidth History (HLABH) are introduced in this paper. The new algorithms are compared under different traffic loads and network topologies to the existing localized Credit Based Routing (CBR) and the global WSP routing algorithm, our algorithms show better performance without undue increase in complexity. The selection of disjoint paths and recalculation of the set of candidate paths were used in the presented algorithms. This resulted in a positive effect of dynamic path selection method on the performance of localized


Increasingly, patients without clinical indications are undergoing genomic tests. The purpose of this study was to assess their appreciation and comprehension of their test results and their clinicians' reactions. We conducted 675 surveys with participants from the Vanderbilt Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) cohort. We interviewed 36 participants: 19 had received positive results, and 17 were self-identified racial minorities. Eleven clinicians who had patients who had participated in eMERGE were interviewed. A further 21 of these clinicians completed surveys. Participants spontaneously admitted to understanding little or none of the information returned to them from the eMERGE study. However, they simultaneously said that they generally found testing to be "helpful," even when it did not inform their health care. Primary care physicians expressed discomfort in being asked to interpret the results for their patients and described it as an undue burden. Providing genetic testing to otherwise healthy patients raises a number of ethical issues that warrant serious consideration. Although our participants were enthusiastic about enrolling and receiving their results, they express a limited understanding of what the results mean for their health care. This fact, coupled the clinicians' concern, urges greater caution when educating and enrolling participants in clinically non-indicated testing.


The capacitive voltage divider is now being widely used in laboratories to monitor the high voltage pulses in the fields of Pulsed Power Technology and HPM. It has fast response time and few influence on operating system. This paper presents the theoretical analysis for the different measuring results with different pulse width of the signals. A capacitive voltage divider with self-integral mode is designed. The attenuation ratio is 1370 and the response time is 0.65 ns. The signals with the pulse width of 100 ns and 10 ns are measured by this divider. The experimental result accords with the theoretical analysis.


4204 Background: Among the patients with gastric cancer for whom two consecutive chemotherapy have failed, some still hold good performance status (PS) and organ function and may benefit from furth...


The invention relates to a method for interplanting Mimosa pudica and Moringa oleifera, which includes: respectively using seeds of Mimosa pudica and seeds of Moringa oleifera to grow seedlings simultaneously on March 30th to April 30th of each year, and setting plant and row spacing of Moringa oleifera seedlings to be 300cmX500cm on an interplanting land; digging a planting pond for Moringa oleifera; planting Mimosa pudica among the Moringa oleifera rows; applying farm manure and compound fertilizer as base fertilizer; interplanting Mimosa pudica on June according to the plant and row spacing of 30cmX30cm; topdressing 40-50 days after interplanting; shaping and trimming the Moringa oleifera trees; and performing irrigation, topdressing and disease and pest damage control in the next year. By the two-year Mimosa pudica interplanting method compared with independent planting of Moringa oleifera, average height of Moringa oleifera is increased by 54.2cm, weeding labor cost is reduced by217 yuan per mu, income of the Mimosa pudica seeds is increased by 5290 yuan per mu, economic income is increased, Mimosa pudica flowers are light red and have long flowering phases, the landscape effect of forest lands is improved, and good basis is laid for development of agricultural sightseeing tours.


The epidermis of grasses contains specialized cells which provide characters for the assignment of genera to subfamilies. The epidermis can be easily removed for preparation of slides by heating pieces of fresh or rewetted leaves in 40-80% solutions of HNO3, with addition of KClO3, 1-2%, for very fibrous leaves. After its removal, the epidermis is washed in water, neutralized with KOH, stained in fast green or chlorazol black E, dehydrated, cleared, and mounted in Diaphane or balsam.


Vertical violence is defined as any act of violence including yelling, snide comments, withholding information, ignoring, and humiliating behaviors • Occurs between two or more persons on different levels of a hierarchical system • Prohibits professional performance and satisfaction within the workplace •The purpose of this literature review is to explore the attitudes and biases of staff nurses when working with students Problem Statement •Vertical violence is an ongoing problem in the nursing profession • Affects hospital units where newly graduated nurses are needed the most. • Gap of knowledge of why staff nurses are holding biases against the students, and how communication and teamwork between the two can be improved. Indications For Clinical Practice •.Decrease vertical violence among staff and students •Decrease hospital attrition rates •Promote a safe and positive learning environment for students •Promote continuing education for staff nurses •Promote a stronger generation of new nurses Lisa Cunningham Dominican University , 2015


Objective To investigate the prognosis factors after gastric cancer radical resection,and provide guidance for clinical prognosis judgment and targeted measures.Methods The clinical data of 524 gastrectomy patients were retrospectively analyzed.The survival rate was evaluated by using the Kaplan-Meier method.Univariate analysis was completed by using the Log-rank test,while multivariate analysis was completed by using the Cox proportional hazards model.Results Univariate analysis showed that gender and age have no significant effect on survival rate(P 0.05),and pathological type,Borrmann type,tumor location,infiltration,lymph node metastasis,TNM stage,whether to chemotherapy or adjuvant radiotherapy were related factors affecting prognosis of gastric cancer patients after radical resection(P 0.05).Multivariate analysis showed that pathological type,infiltration,and lymph node metastasis were independent prognostic factors(P 0.05).Conclusion Pathological type,infiltration,lymph node metastasis were independent factors affecting prognosis of patients with gastric cancer after radical resection,which should be the basis of clinical prognosis judgment.And appropriate adjuvant therapy is needed.


Glasgow 17,000 students in various locations. SMILE is one of a range of support services provided by the Library and Learning Development Centres. SMILE (study methods and information literacy exemplars) is a one-stop blended learning package which teaches information literacy (IL) and communication skills. SMILE was originally created as a JISC project by Imperial College, Loughborough University and the University of Worcester. It uses audio, video and web pages. At GCU, we have tailored it using a combination of our own materials and Open Educational Resources (OERs). The OERs were gathered from Jorum, the UK learning resources repository, and by using Creative Commons licensed material searches on Google.


The domestic progress on removing technologies of iorn and manganese from groundwater are (introduced). Research and application present status of microbial filter beds and special filtering (material) artificial synthetically are described in detail. These filter beds are developed in resent years and have good effective to remove manganese. The special filtering material has no need of maturation period when is used to remove iron and manganese from underwater. Some suggestions are put forward on microbial filter beds with natural filtering material. In order to see the mechanism of microbial oxidizing Mn~(2+),microbial amount in microbial filter beds should be measured and microbial catalysis and oxidation active should be investigated, no matter what the effect of removing manganese from underwater is good or bed with them.


Introduction: The risk of abnormal thyroid function after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is well-known especially in pediatric patients. There are few studies about adult patients that showed 3-year cumulative incidence ranges between 8-23%. In this study we studied the incidence of abnormal thyroid function in patients older than 18 years, and reviewed its predicting factors. Patients and Method: This is a retrospective study for all adult patients who underwent HSCT at KHCC from 2004-2010.Our cohort consisted of 108 patients who had normal thyroid function before transplant, and at least one Thyroid Function Test (TFT) done after transplant. From the group 54.8% had autologous transplant, 45.2% had allogenic transplant from which 94.6% had myeloablative transplant. Total Body Irradiation (TBI) was used in the conditioning regimen in 29% of the patients. Results: At a median follow up of 1.1 year (0.1-6.1 years), 34 patients (31%) developed abnormal thyroid function tests, high TSH accounted for 40.7%, low TSH for 38.9%, low T4 for 11.1%, and high TSH with low T4 for 3.7%. The factors that showed significant correlation with Abnormal Thyroid Function (ATF) were: Female gender, allogenic transplant, and TBI-based conditioning. From the 34 patients who developed abnormal test after transplant, 61.7% of them developed thyroid dysfunction in the first year post transplant, and 20.5% in the second year. Conclusion: The incidence of abnormal thyroid function for adult patients after HSCT is around 30%. Most of the abnormalities happened in the first 2 years after transplant. Female gender, allogenic transplant, and TBI-based conditioning were associated with more occurrences of thyroid function abnormalities.


ABSTRACT Using Natural Language Processing tools, the current study explores the evolution of objectivity practice in terms of attitude injection. Adopting the indicator of moral loading under the Moral Foundation Theory framework, it examined the moral judgments embedded in 20,679 culture war news articles published in five major U.S. newspapers from 1980 to 2021. Our findings revealed a distinct mixed journalistic liberal pattern and an apparent paradox in objectivity practice: the less moral judgments, the more liberal tendencies, which could be caused by journalists' watchdog role and the increase of liberal components in U.S. democracy. We then argue that the performance of traditional objectivity has remained robust, especially when accounting for the degree to which moral judgments can be attributed to source quotations. The study contributes to the literature by bridging moral psychology and the enactment of journalistic norms, applying MFT to evaluate degrees of objectivity in news.


Let k be an algebraically closed field of characteristic p\geq 0 , and J( $\alpha$, m) means the Jordan block with eigenvalue $\alpha$\in k and size m . We shall consider the problem of finding out a Jordan canonical form of J( $\alpha$, m)\otimes J($\beta$_{i}n) , where \otimes means \otimes_{k} (m\leq n) . Over an algebraically closed base field of characteristic zero, this problem has been solved by many authors including T. Harima and J. Watanabe [4], and A. Martsinkovsky and A. Vlassov [8] etc. M. Herschend [5] solve it for extended quivers of type \~{A}_{n} , with arbitrary orientation and any n . In this note we solve it for any characteristic p\geq 0 . That is, we obtain two way to determine the Jordan decomposition of the tensored matrix J( $\alpha$, m)\otimes J( $\beta$, n) . In the case of $\alpha \beta$=0 , the tensored matrix J( $\alpha$, m)\otimes J( $\beta$, n) has the same direct sum decomposition as in Theorem 2.1 independently of characteristic of the base field k in Proposition 2.6. In the case of $\alpha \beta$\neq 0 , our problem is reduced to the problem of finding the indecomposable decomposition of R as a k[Z]‐module, where R means the quotient ring k[x, y]/(x^{m}, y^{ $\tau \iota$}) , Z=x+y and k[x, y] be a polynomial ring over k . We regard finding the indecomposable decomposition of R


The power imbalance in favour of the pastoralists slowly diminished as alternatives to cattle station employment began to emerge. Aboriginal people began to exercise agency in new ways, taking advantage of newly available employment options. For Gugu Badhun people, it took them towards engagement with the wider society and economy away from their traditional land, their protective but confining stations and sometimes from the control of the Act. This chapter focuses on these changing circumstances and the choices which emerged in the first half-century since invasion and 'letting in', from the time of the First World War through much of the twentieth century.


....................................................................................................................... I CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 1 1.1. CRYPTOGRAPHY ..................................................................................................... 1 1.2. EXPONENTIATION ................................................................................................... 2 1.3. EXISTING EXPONENTIATION ALGORITHMS ............................................................. 4 Left-to-Right Exponentiation Algorithm ....................................................................... 4 K-ary Window Algorithm ............................................................................................. 5 Sliding Window Algorithm ........................................................................................... 6 1.4. EXISTING MODULAR MULTIPLICATION ALGORITHMS ............................................ 7 Karatsuba Multiplication and Reduction by Division .................................................. 8 Montgomery Multiplication .......................................................................................... 9 1.5. SPECTRAL MATH OVERVIEW ................................................................................ 11 1.6. SPECTRAL MODULAR MULTIPLICATION OVERVIEW ............................................. 12 Evaluation Polynomials ............................................................................................. 13 vi Number Theoretical Transform .................................................................................. 15 Spectral Modular Multiplication ................................................................................ 16 CHAPTER 2: ANALYSIS OF EXISTING WORKS ................................................. 17 2.1. SME ALGORITHM DESCRIPTIONS ......................................................................... 17 Schönhage-Strassen and Kalach ................................................................................ 17 Baktir Spectral Multiplications .................................................................................. 18 Koç and Saldamli SME .............................................................................................. 19 2.2. BUILDING BLOCKS OF EXISTING SME ALGORITHMS ............................................ 20 CHAPTER 3: PARAMETER SELECTION............................................................... 22 3.1. SME PARAMETERS ............................................................................................... 22 3.2. PARAMETER VARIATIONS ..................................................................................... 23 Mersenne Number Transform (MNT) Parameters ..................................................... 23 Fermat Number Transform (FNT) Parameters .......................................................... 24 Pseudo Number Transform Parameters ..................................................................... 24 3.3. PARAMETERS FOR A VALID DFT .......................................................................... 25 3.4. RELIABLE MERSENNE PARAMETER PRODUCTION ................................................. 27 3.5. RELIABLE FERMAT PARAMETER PRODUCTION ..................................................... 28 3.6. PARAMETERS FOR OVERFLOW BOUNDARIES ........................................................ 30 3.7. MERSENNE PARAMETERS ..................................................................................... 32 3.8. MERSENNE NEGATIVE W PARAMETERS ............................................................... 35 vii 3.9. FERMAT PARAMETERS .......................................................................................... 37 CHAPTER 4: ALGORITHM COMPARE AND CRITIQUE .................................. 39 4.1. COMPARISON BETWEEN KOÇ AND BAKTIR SMM ................................................. 39 4.2. CLARIFICATIONS OF SALDAMLI AND KOÇ WORKS ............................................... 42 CHAPTER 5: TESTING AND RESULTS .................................................................. 44 5.1. SAMPLE RESULT AND INTERIM VALUES ............................................................... 44 5.2. FUNCTIONAL TESTS .............................................................................................. 52 Testing Evaluation Polynomials ................................................................................. 53 Testing DFT and IDFT Conversions .......................................................................... 54 Testing Addition of Evaluation Zeros......................................................................... 54 Testing Addition of Spectral Zeros ............................................................................. 55 Testing Left Shift in Spectral Domain ........................................................................ 56 Testing Multiplications in Spectral Domain .............................................................. 57 Testing Additions in Spectral Domain ....................................................................... 58 Testing Spectral Modular Product ............................................................................. 58 5.3. FUNCTIONAL RESULTS ......................................................................................... 59 Functional Issues ........................................................................................................ 59 5.4. PERFORMANCE TESTING ....................................................................................... 61 Overview ..................................................................................................................... 61 Measurement Procedures ........................................................................................... 62 viii CHAPTER 6: PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS AND ENHANCEMENTS . 64 6.1. ALGORITHM PROFILING ANALYSIS ....................................................................... 64 6.2. PERFORMANCE MODIFICATIONS #1 ...................................................................... 64 6.3. PERFORMANCE MODIFICATIONS #2 ...................................................................... 66 6.4. PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT #2 DETAILS ......................................................... 68 Minor Algorithm Adjustments .................................................................................... 68 Loop Operation Adjustments ...................................................................................... 69 Take advantage of Fermat and Mersenne Arithmetic ................................................ 70 6.5. PERFORMANCE OF MNT WITH NEGATIVE W ......................................................... 71 6.6. FINAL REFERENCE TIMING COMPARISONS ........................................................... 72 Reference Algorithms ................................................................................................. 73 Left-to-Right Montgomery vs. Parallel Simulation Reference Timings ..................... 75 CHAPTER 7: PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS..................................................... 77 7.1. COMPLEXITY OF SME IN SOFTWARE .................................................................... 77 CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK .......................................... 81 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................ 82


This system for determining the length of optical fiber (2) unwound / remaining in at least one coil (3) for storing the fiber (2) for supporting transmission of information between a weapon (1) and a device under Marino (10) from which the weapon has been fired, is characterized in that it comprises means (4) for measuring the backscattered light power in the fiber (2), means (5) analyzing said power signal, for detecting a backscattered light power discontinuity corresponding to the location of the fiber where it leaves the coil, means (6) for locating in this along the fiber location, and means (7) for determining from that location and the length of fiber initially wound in the coil (3) of the fiber length unreeled / remaining on the spool.


Pointing to the problem of Chinese data display of inspection and measure system of power network quality, an interface circuit between PIC18F458 SCM and LCD module MGLS-12864, and designed program were introduced in this paper.


British Paralympic visually-impaired athlete, Anna Sharkey, has become Mercy Ships' newest ambassador. Anna, a goalball champion who competed in the London 2012 Paralympic Games alongside her brother Michael, is passionate about supporting the work of Mercy Ships to help the poor.