This study aims to determine the role of institutional ownership and public ownership to encourage disclosure of corporate social responsibility in high profile companies in Indonesia, in addition this study also aims to prove the influence of company growth and industry type on the amount of disclosure of corporate social responsibility, especially in high profile companies Indonesia. The analytical method used is using panel data regression analysis. The test results show that institutional ownership does not affect CSR disclosure in High profile companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, while public ownership, company growth and industry type have a positive effect on CSR disclosure in High profile companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange.


Abstract Since 2007, African swine fever (ASF) has posed a serious threat to the European swine industry. In Poland, the numbers of reported outbreaks in pigs and affected areas grow every year. In 2018, the disease was noted in Western Europe, in Belgium specifically, where several hundred infected wild boars have been detected so far. In 2018, the virus unexpectedly emerged in pig holdings in eastern China, northern Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cambodia, causing worldwide concern about its further spread. Since there is still no vaccine available, the only approach to control the disease is biosecurity. Identification of potential sources of the virus is extremely important in light of its phenomenal survivability. The review summarises the current knowledge about ASFV survivability and resistance to environmental conditions, and discusses the role of indirect contact in spreading the disease.


Efficient Ca14Zn6Al10O35: Mn4+, Nd3+/Yb3+ spectral conversion materials have been prepared by a sol–gel method. The Ca14Zn6Al10O35: Mn4+, Nd3+/Yb3+ materials can efficiently shift the short-wavelength sunlight in 250–550 nm spectral regions into near infrared emission which matches the higher sensitivity region of Si-based solar cells. The maximal energy transfer efficiency is 76.0% and 80.4% in Mn4+, Nd3+ and Mn4+, Yb3+ co-doped samples when excited at 460 nm, respectively. A dipole–dipole interaction is responsible for the energy transfer sensitization processes from Mn4+ to Nd3+/Yb3+ ions, which has been confirmed by Dexter's theory and the Yokota–Tanimoto model.


Correct occlusal relationships on complete dentures are part of the success in prosthetic treatment of edentulous patients. As denture base materials and fabrication procedures cannot provide dimensionally accurate complete dentures, it is necessary to check the occlusion. The relation between artificial teeth on complete dentures has a significant impact on even loading of denture foundations and optimum stabilisation of dentures during wearing. A remount procedure begins with fabrication of remount casts, determination and transfer of interarch relationships into the articulator. Deflective contacts on dentures are eliminated by selective grinding carried out in the articulator in the intercuspal position and by excursive tooth guided movements. The purpose is to represent a remount procedure as a constituent part of complete denture fabrication procedures in everyday practice. When selecting a dynamic concept of occlusion, priority is given to unbalanced dentures, i.e. to canine guided occlusion and/or to the concept of unilateral occlusal balance.


The paper incorporates the application of morphometric analysis in ground water extraction of the study area Narwar- Palkhanda located in Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh, India. The area is characterized by the dominance of Deccan Traps (Cretaceous to Lower Eocene). Geomorphic landform features such as hills, mounds, valleys and soils are recognized. Morphometric analysis of study area drainage basin has been conducted on the basis of topographic map on 1:50,000 (Survey of India toposheet no. 46M/16). The determination of the morphometric parameters includes Areal, Linear and Basin Relief aspects such as Bifurcation ration (5.16), Drainage density (0.7), Length of over land flow (0.82), Stream frequency (0.34), circulatory ratio (0.32), Elongation ratio (0.35), Form factor (0.19), Lemniscate ratio (1.31), Basin relief (8), and Ruggedness number (6.64). The morphometric parameters of drainage basin indicate the existence of a dendritic drainage pattern. The morphometric analysis helps in the identification of ground water potential sites in the Narwar-Palkhanda sector of Ujjain area. The conventional technique of morphometric analysis has been adopted in this paper to visualize the characteristics of Narwar-Palkhanda drainage basin and their applications in delineation of ground water potential sites to resolve the problem of regular water supply.


Let H be the homogeneous space associated to the group PGL3(R). Let X = Γ\H where Γ = SL3(Z) and consider the first non-trivial eigenvalue λ1 of the Laplacian on L (X). Using geometric considerations, we prove the inequality λ1 > 3π /10. Since the continuous spectrum is represented by the band [1,∞), our bound on λ1 can be viewed as an analogue of Selberg's eigenvalue conjecture for quotients of the hyperbolic half space. §1. Statement of the main theorem A fundamental question in the spectral theory of automorphic forms is whether small eigenvalues exist. More specifically, let G be a noncompact reductive group with finite center, Γ a nonuniform lattice, K a maximal compact subgroup of G, and set X = Γ\G/K. It is well known from the theory of Eisenstein series that L(X) has continuous spectrum for the ring of invariant differential operators, and in particular for the positive Laplacian, ∆. The continuous spectrum will be, in cases of interest such as PGLn(R), an interval [a,∞) with a > 0. The question we referred to above is: Do non-constant square integrable eigenforms exist with eigenvalue λ 3π /10 > 2.96088. §2. Notation. Let H = G/K and set X = Γ\H. Explicit coordinates for τ ∈ H via the Iwasawa decomposition are given by τ = 


Using a pulmonary arterial catheter, we prospectively stud-ied 14 patients (age 64 ± 8) having had cardiopulmonary bypass.Mean hematocrit was 30 ± 4%. The catheter was calibrated in vitroand in vivo, according to the manufacturer's instructions. Fifty-sixsimultaneous measurements of continuous SvO


Murder Committed by Margaret Osgood on Her Husband Walter Osgood [1680]). Martin organizes his study into an introduction, four substantial chapters, and a brief conclusion. Chapter 2 focuses on the tension between official and extrajudicial viewpoints in two controversial cases of women convicted of petty treason and burned for murdering their abusive husbands. In his third chapter Martin examines the gallows conversion as a social and a represented practice that allowed varying degrees of resistance on the part of the condemned and drew a range of responses from spectators and readers. Chapter 4 is devoted to the fascinating topic of poison, widely considered to be a woman's weapon (see Snow White's apple, Lord Randal's eels), and the first recourse of the adulteress wanting to kill her husband (see Alice Arden). Nevertheless, Martin argues, the increasingly secular and material analyses of evidence in crime reports prompted diverse responses even to female poisoners. In his final chapter Martin considers cases of infanticide and child murder. Like poisoning, infanticide was viewed as a particularly female crime and one that violated a sacred bond. In spite of the demonization of the 'unnatural mother' rampant in the popular printed news, however, juries were frequently unwilling to convict women charged with infanticide. Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England makes melancholy but salutary reading. It illuminates uncomfortably the world of domestic violence in early modern England and reminds us again and again that readers (and jurors) are agents and not simply tabulae rasae. Genuinely interdisciplinary, this book will be of interest to any scholar of seventeenth-century England and especially one engaged by the intersection of crime, gender, and popular culture. (KAREN BAMFORD)


Since the second half of 2020, a group of more than thirty researchers from twenty universities in Brazil, Portugal, Spain and Argentina have carried out an investigation to propose and validate a methodological instrument that will suit the territorial perspective of analysis. The aim is to contribute to the elaboration of territorial diagnoses that favour the prospecting of innovative and sustainable development alternatives, being territorial heritage the reference. It is the research project "Territorial heritage as a reference in the development process of territories or regions" 2 . With complementary purposes and in parallel to that, there are two other ongoing research initiatives, under the coordination of members from the same research group: (i) Territorial heritage as a reference in the development process of territories or regions: epistemic-theoretical assumptions and proposal for a methodological instrument (PPGDTS-UFPR; (ii) Territorial heritage as a reference in the development process of territories or regions: a study in three regions from Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS). The research team was formed throughout 2020, motivated by activities coordinated by the Ibero-American Network of Studies on Territorial Development and Governance (REDETEG), in partnership with the Brazilian Network for Research and Management in Territorial Development (RETE), which included the hosting of thematic seminars, with the participation of experts as speakers through virtual meetings. The first stage in the execution process of the research in reference was dedicated to mapping the epistemic-theoretical-methodological assumptions that would meet the territorial perspective of analysis, in order to guide the preparation of methodological procedures which would be a foundation for the recognition and analysis of socio-economic-cultural and environmental contexts, with a view to prospecting innovative and sustainable alternatives for territorial development. Thus, it was epistemologically understood that the New Systems Theory, the Complexity Theory, the Historical-Dialectical Materialism and the theoretical perspective of Decentralisation and Decoloniality should serve as epistemic fields in the analysis and territorial prospecting 3 . Considering the territorial perspective of analysis, each of the epistemic fields provides implications of theoretical and methodological nature in relation to the object of research the territory -, as summarized in Table 1.


Although the Armistice of Mondros was a truce, the Entente States began to invade different parts of Anatolia within the framework of the Oriental issue. Strategic locations such as cotton production in Çukurova, Mediter-ranean Ports and Taurus Tunnels increased France's interest in the region. England's tendency to economically richer geographies such as Mosul was also effective in this choice.The French deployed military forces to the Cukurova region in December 1918, shortly after the signing of the treaty. The fact that the French ignored the material and spiritual values of the Turkish nation along with the Armenians in the Cukurova region led to a reaction from the people of the region. The how Kaç-Kaç event contributed significantly to the direction and motivation of the resistance in the region. In particular, the people of Adana did not remain silent about the invasions and floods and started a large resistance movement in the region. The executive staff of the National Struggle has decided to establish Kuva-yı Milliye troops in the Çukurova region in order to act more organizati-onally in the face of invasions and people's resistance with the Sivas Congress. Captain Ali Ratip Bey from Edirne, who was referred to as "Tekelioglu Sinan Bey" in this organization, took an important role in both the organization and the action phase. Mersin, Adana assumed military responsibility for the Garbi Cilicia Region, which includes Tarsus and the Seyhan River region. Sinan Bey Tekelioglu, 11. With the support of the Division, he dealt a major blow to the French in the Adana region. Tekelioglu, with his raids in the Pozantı region, deconst-ructed the coordination of the French troops among themselves, giving the Turkish forces a great advantage. The responsibility undertaken by Tekelioğlu Sinan Bey against the French occupation forces in the Çukurova region contributed significantly to the motivation of the resistance movements in the region. The resistance model in the Çukurova region served as a reference to the general course and planning of the National Struggle.


Enterprises are the subject of building innovative country. The technical innovation cannot make without enterprises. And only enterprises could achieve new combination and turn out to be new economic force or production"function". Entrepreneurs, research personnel and scientific research results all play indispensable roles in the stage of technical innovation. It is the common cause of whole society to build an innovative country. The social system at large should create favorable conditions to bring up innovative entrepreneurs, take a path featuring the integration of industrial laboratories, industry, university, and research institution, and thus make enterprises the real subject of technical innovation.


Twin gestations are higher risk pregnancies for fetal mortality especially when associated with genetic disorder and congenital heart defect which significantly increases the complication risk in the co-twin including fetal loss, premature delivery, and organ damage. In this report, we present a case of dichorionic twins in 41 years old woman. A trisomy 21 was diagnosed in one twin associated with uncharacteristic congenital heart defect resulting in single twin demise in mid-gestation . The effect of regular care and proper management was delivery of healthy surviving twin.


Abstract : The paper considers a system described by p algebraic or transcendental equations involving n variables, with n>p. It is assumed that a nominal state, not satisfying all the equations, is given. An iterative procedure is developed leading to a varied state satisfying all the equations. The procedure involves quasilinearization with an added optimality condition, namely, the requirement of least-square change of the coordinates. Several numerical examples are supplied. (Author)


This article is the result of reflections from the creation of the body in a laboratory master's research with a group of eight students between 2008-2010. The process of teaching and learning observed in this lab were central objects, specifically the concepts of transference and countertransference, these crucial concepts at the interface between psychoanalysis, education and flamenco dancing.


Objective: The current study evaluated the demographic, clinical, and social support and service use predictors of alcohol and drug use disorders among a population of consumers of community mental health programs. Methods: The methodology is a secondary analysis of data collected from two randomized controlled trials that were part of the Community Mental Health Evaluation Initiative completed in Ontario, Canada. Participants included an inner-city population of persons with severe and persistent mental illness who had experienced housing instability. Participants were either randomly selected to receive Assertive Community Treatment or Intensive Case Management (Toronto) or Intensive Case Management or Standard Community Care (Ottawa). Data were collected from consumers at three time points (baseline, 9 months, and 18 months), and prospective and cross-sectional predictors of alcohol use disorders and drug use disorders at 9- and 18-month follow-up were examined. There were 232 participants at baseline, 203 at 9 months, and 179 at 18 months. Results: Approximately 32% of consumers had problematic substance use at 9 months and 28% of consumers had problematic substance use at 18 months. A sequential logistic regression analysis uncovered several significant predictors, which differed across the type of substance used and the two time points considered. The most salient and common predictors included nonadherence to medication and a decreased level of community functioning. Conclusions: Implications for treatment planning in community mental health programs to better address concurrent mental illness and substance use disorders are discussed.


In order to make up for the insufficiency of researches on the structural wind-resistant optimization of large span roofs,the quantum-behaved particle swarm algorithm was adopted to optimize a large-span roof under wind loads. Equivalent static wind loads on the structure were obtained from the database of wind tunnel tests,and the search space of discrete variables was formed according to the shape steel table. An improved fitness function was proposed by defining a coordinate factor for constraint violation,and the over-flow dealing technique was constructed to guarantee the feasibility and convergence of the optimization. Ten runs of computation were carried out to determine the optimal design of the portal frame,and the validity of the optimal solution was checked in all wind directions.The research results show that the objective function decreases monotonically with respect to iterations,standard deviation for total mass is only 4% of its mean value,and the mean iteration number for every run is 24. Therefore,the quantum-behaved particle swarm algorithm displays strong robustness and high efficiency in the wind-resistant optimization of portal frames.


In this paper, we advocate explicit symplectic Euler integration and strain limiting in a shape matching simulation framework. The resulting approach resembles not only previous work on shape matching and strain limiting, but also the recently popular position-based dynamics. However, unlike this previous work, our approach reduces to explicit integration under small strains, but remains stable in the presence of non-linearities.


In our recent studies we showed that the trivalent organic arsenical phenyldichloroarsine (PDA; 1) will enter erythrocytes and bind to intracellular ..he recino PAwt LCbie and two detiyglutathione (GSH) via the sulfur atom of thle central atives of rL-cysteine in metha~oI-d4". We found that cystyl residue, the adduct formed is O-As(GS) 2 cysteine (in 'Cont'rast t o(GSli,'inH0)fre a [3-51. In thle rate erythrocyte, a secondary PDA mo nosteine adduct wvhen the L-Cys/PDA ratio binding site was found in hemoglobin which wa 1(2). When cysteine wvas present in two contains additional sult'hydryl groups relative moa eqialents th expected 2:1 adduct was to human hemoglobin. The two sulfhydryl groups formed via chelation of the two sulfur atomns of that bind PDA are thought to be the Cys13 residues cysteine to the arsenic atom (3). Both i.-cysteine 1% of the alpha chains [51. This is puzzling because methyl estcr and ziV-acetyl-L-cysteine reacted like the two Cys-l 3 residucs are spatially not In close L-Cys teinea nd Iformed a 1:1 adduct when the ratio proximity and 1: 1 As:S adducts are not characterwa.~ :-1, istically stable [2,61. When PDA reacts with GSI "'i'-s . ~ i~j' C\tt j S


AIM: The aim of this work was to study the diel stratification parameters temperature, dissolved oxygen and conductivity, providing a more detailed description of a friagem event. METHODS: the mixing behavior of the limnetic water column in Lago Catalao, an Amazon floodplain lake flooded by two of the world's largest rivers (Solimoes and Negro), was studied through diel profiling of temperature, conductivity and dissolved oxygen, between 2006 and 2007. Measurements were made every four hours at 1m depth intervals to the lake bottom. RESULTS: The water column remained stratified during most of the year with the exception of one month with low water level, when nocturnal mixing occurred and one friagem event during high water (May 2007) when an isothermal temperature profile and an atypical orthograde oxygen profile were observed. CONCLUSIONS: The friagem event, a large drop in air temperatures due to the intrusion of a polar air mass in the Amazon, constitutes an important force in the dynamics of the water column, which produces a profound redistribution of dissolved gases and solutes in the system. This is the first time that the effects of the friagem on the mixing patterns in a lowland Amazon lake have been documented in detail. The decline in air temperature, observed during the friagem event destabilized the normally stratified water column, which can be associated with an environmental disturb.


The invention discloses an as-cast finish concrete simulated coating. The coating consists of a bottom coating, a middle coating and a surface coating, wherein the bottom coating is an organic silicon polymer; the middle coating is a composition consisting of self-crosslinked polymer, filler, pigment, other auxiliary agents and water; the surface coating is a fluorine silicon resin polymer; the bottom coating is a closing layer and can play a role in closing pores of a base material; the middle coating is a coloring layer and can play a role in approaching the effect of the required as-cast finish concrete; and the surface coating is a cover surface layer and plays a role in resisting weather and contamination. The coating breaks through the technical bottleneck of as-cast finish concrete at home, and radically reduces the construction cost of the as-cast finish concrete.


1 Introduction Meromictic Shira Lake is a good represfor detail climate modeling due to its locainformation and annually laminated bottomsediment column of 155 cm in length wahammer corer in the deepest(24 m)central in 2009.2 Sample Preparations and Measuring


Rehabilitation in convalescent stage is important to recovery of paralysis. The purpose of this study is to develop a wearable assist device like normal clothes to assist rehabilitation for paralyzed patient. This device called 'Power Assist Wear' is constructed with body and lower limb supporters, McKibben type artificial rubber muscles. This wear has many advantages such as flexible structure, light weight, and so on even though assistance force is not so high. In this paper, the structure and principle of this wear are described, and then control method to swing up a lower limb based on lower limb model is proposed. Proposed method is verified by using lower limb mannequin. Finally, assistance effect is confirmed from experimental results in which subject wears this device actually.


Cancer Research, Statistics, and Treatment / Volume 3 / Issue 1 / January-March 2020 We thank Batra et al. for reading our article[1] and for their comments on the utility of next‐generation sequencing (NGS) and of a molecular tumor board (MTB) in the management of advanced non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).[2] The availability of NGS has necessitated the consideration of genomic sequencing in the clinical decision‐making in the era of personalized medicine.[3] In addition, the discussion of patients in MTB becomes important as a lot of expertise is needed in the interpretation of reports, especially when multiple targets have been identified in the NGS report.


My main feedback is this paper needs to be better organized, which can primarily be achieved with a more robust introduction. Half of the paper is dedicated to VAWTs and secondary rotor design, but this is not mentioned in the introduction. The final paragraph in Section 2, discussing Figure 2, which provides the motivation for secondary rotors, is very out of place. This content could be moved to the introduction and the beginning of Section 4 as a transition from Section 2/3. Discussion of how the results and analysis fit into the existing body of literature is scattered throughout the paper, but a more traditional discussion of the existing literature in the introduction would likely be


forced into, but which they do not actually take. Only an illogical mind can accept Christian Science, and it is not just to charge such a mind with actually advocating all the logical implications of its accepted theories. It must be borne in mind, too, that it is easy to read into a statement of mystical immaterialism a substantial material content and then draw conclusions quite other than what would follow had we remained on the idealistic plane. This our author quite overlooks. He ridicules the idealistic premise and the materialistic conclusion frequently in the same argument. It may readily enough be replied that Christian Science is constantly shifting between these two attitudes, idealistic and materialistic; but that can hardly excuse the same sort of inconsistent shifting on the part of the critic. These works will be useful to any who want to refute Christian Science, but they should be used with discrimination. W. O. CARVER.


A new genus and species of a dendrochirotid holothurian, Pawsonellus africanus, from shallow waters off the east coast of Southern Africa, are described. The new genus is compared with several genera within the family Cucumariidae and it is concluded that it is not closely related to any of them. Although its body wall spicules strongly resemble those of Panningia hyndmani (Thompson), notably the typical form described by Madsen (1942), there are several features which suggest that the two species are not congeneric.


Abstract The dynamic response of a rotating shaft containing a transverse crack is investigated. The local flexibility due to the crack is first evaluated from the theory of fracture mechanics. The energy principle in conjunction with the assumed mode method yields the discretized equations of motion; these are time-varying with periodic coefficients due to the "breathing" effect. The steady state responses and the stability criteria are then obtained, and the effects of crack depth, crack location and rotational speed are discussed. The results show that an increase of crack depth magnifies the response amplitude as expected. It is discovered that the crack affects the dynamic response more significantly when it occurs near a place where the bending moment exhibits a larger value. From the FFT analysis of the displacement responses, it is seen that the 1Ω and 2Ω components are excited prominently due to crack. Hence they provide possibly good indices for an on-line crack monitoring system. The stability of a cracked shaft is examined via the Floquet theory, and the results show that, for an undamped shaft, instability occurs as rotation is close to an integer fraction or an integer multiple of the shaft bending frequency when the crack depth reaches half of the radius. However, a small amount of damping is found to raise effectively the unstable region.


In order to optimise the dynamic traffic routing, the authors applies the non-linear H∞ control method and the simple real-tin algebraic calculation method to make the system possess of robustness under the boundary disturbance, thas avoiding the tediously long off-line or on-line calculation in existing techniques and solving the DTA (dynamic traffic assignment) / DTR(dynamic traffic routing) problems of network system-optimization and user-equilibrium. The non-linear H∞control method is suitable to dealing with things about DTA/DTR in the advanced traffic information management system.


Cachexia is common in patients with chronic heart failure and is associated with poor prognosis. How best to measure body composition is not clear.


The present invention relates to a plastic container comprising a pharmaceutically-containing acid or a derivative thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and meloxicam COX- inhibitor or a pharmaceutical acceptable salt thereof, wherein the container a material selected from one or more of: polypropylene (PP) homopolymer, polypropylene (PP) copolymer, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) homopolymer and poly-p polyethylene terephthalate (PET) copolymer, and optionally one or more non-polymeric components.


The dynamic deployment of sensors in wireless networks significantly affects the performance of the network. However, the efficient application of dynamic deployments which determines the positions of the sensors within the network increases the coverage area of the network. As a result of this, dynamic deployment increases the efficiency of the wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, dynamic deployment was applied to WSNs which consist of mobile sensors by aiming at increasing the coverage area of the network with electromagnetism-like (EM) algorithm which is a population-based optimization algorithm. A new approach has been improved in calculating the coverage rate of the sensors by using binary detection model so as to carry out the dynamic deployments of sensors and it has been thought to reach realistic results efficiently. Simulation results have shown that the EM algorithm can be preferred in the dynamic deployment of mobile sensors within the wireless networks.


The paper deals with optimization of the reaction parameters, graft copolymerization, characterizationand evaluation of the transformations in Roselle stem fiber on graft copolymerization with vinyl monomer, using cericammonium nitrate nitric acid initiator system. Methods: Different reaction parameters such as temperature, time, initiatorconcentration, monomer concentration and pH were optimized to get the maximum graft yield. The graft copolymer thusformed were characterized by advanced techniques. Results: The physico-chemico-thermal resistance, moisture absorbance,swelling behavior of graft copolymers and the dye uptake behavior were studied and found to have improved.
Conclusion:Hence, this first report of novel graft copolymers is to help towards various applications.


In this paper, we propose a novel method of representing the complex surface of a 3D object for a new aerial 3D display which can draw dots of light at an arbitrary position in a space. The aerial 3D display that we use in this research can create a dot of light at 50 kHz and can draw dots of light by vector scanning. The proposed method can generate point sequence data for the aerial 3D display from 3D surface models consisting of polygonal patches. The 3D surface model is polygonal model which are generally used in computer graphics. The proposed method represents the surface with contours consisting of intersections of an object and cross sections by a sequence of points for vector scanning. In this research, some polygonal models, for example face and hand, are examined at experiments. From the experiments of drawing, the polygonal models can successfully be drawn by the proposed method.


The paper analyzes the problems plaguing the effort of some vocational colleges in their construction of logistics practical training platform and proposes,from the perspective of supply chain,a professional proficiency oriented personnel training mode that involves vocational training institutions,employment service agencies and employer companies,etc.It then proceeds to suggest some useful ideas for the development of said mode.


The incidence of diabetes mellitus (DM) continues to rise and has quickly become one among the foremost prevalent and chronic diseases worldwide. A close link exists between DM and disorder (CVD), which is that the most prevalent explanation for morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients. Cardiovascular (CV) risk factors like obesity, hypertension and dyslipidemia are common in patients with DM, placing them at increased risk for cardiac events. In addition, many studies have found biological mechanisms associated with DM that independently increases the risk of CVD in diabetic patients. Therefore, targeting CV risk factors in patients with DM is critical to attenuate the long-term CV complications of the disease. When you have diabetes, you're more in danger of heart condition. This is also called disorder (CVD) or coronary disease, and may cause heart attacks and strokes. Cardiovascular disease affects your circulation too. And poor circulation makes other diabetes complications worse like problems together with your eyes and feet. That's why it's even more important to require excellent care of your heart once you have diabetes. We're here to explain why diabetes increases your risk of heart problems, and how you can reduce this risk. The diabetes mellitus prevalence is still advancing and increasingly becoming one of the globally severe and expensive chronic illnesses. The strong correlation between diabetes also because the most prominent reason for diabetes and death in diabetic patients is cardiovascular disorders. Health conditions like dyslipidaemia, hypertension, obesity, and other factors of risk like the risk of cardiovascular are frequent in diabetic persons and raise the likelihood of heart attacks.


This document is a survey of the four papers [λH], [Sch], [Com], [FandH]. It gives the relevant background and shows how the papers fit together to form a whole. Material from those papers is repeated only when necessary. As it stands the document is not intended for publication. However, if there is sufficient interest then I may rewrite it to include [λH], [Sch], [Com], [FandH] and so form a self contained developement. This material has been around and available in some form for quite a while. This version was slightly modified after attending the Leeds meeting on Proof Theory in July 2009. I have added one or two extra comments in the light of my current knowledge.


Protein mediated fusion of membranes is a crucial biological process. For instance, SNARE (soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor (NSF) attachment protein receptor) proteins are involved in neuronal exocytosis. However, the knowledge about mechanistic details is still incomplete. The herein presented peptide hybrids based on the native linker and transmembrane domains of the SNARE key actors synaptobrevin 2 (Syb) and syntaxin 1A (Sx) as well as artificial recognition units based on peptide nuleic acids (PNA) or coiled-coil forming peptides (E3/K3) constitute a well controllable tool for the investigation of SNARE mediated membrane fusion. The focus is on C-terminally modified transmembrane domains which were mainly tested in FRET (Forster resonance energy transfer) related bulk leaflet mixing experiments. It was revealed that increased C-terminal negative charges hamper the fusion efficiency, whereas the removal of charges amplifies membrane fusion.


High strength, high hardness and very tough engineering material derived from geologically occurring minerals and processed into a tool that rubs or wears off by friction is regarded as an abrasive. Abrasives are produced in different forms and shapes and they afford good opportunities for precision scraping away or machining. In this empirical paper, effort is made in establishing a case for the production of abrasive tools that are formulated with silicon carbide and aluminium oxide as catalytic raw materials. These are locally found in the researchers' locality a place that Original Research Article Okonkwo et al.; AJARR, 11(2): 47-60, 2020; Article no.AJARR.57977 48 has many geological deposits of solid minerals. At each of Ozizza, Ndibe, Kpoghirikpo and Unwana beaches, eleven samples of sand were collected at random locations from the Cross River that is flowing through Ozizza down to Unwana for physical and geochemical investigation to determine its suitability for abrasive making. Sand at the four locations were subjected to physical and geochemical investigation. Generally, the sand was physically characterized by bright colours of white, brown and yellow. Some samples at some locations contained dark specks of organic matter. From the distribution, the sand is generally of medium grade size as shown by the Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Geochemically by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis, the oxide contents are: SiO2 (91.73%), CaO (0.045%), Al2O3 (4.24%), Fe2O3 (1.36%), TiO2 (0.21%), K2O (0.86%). The silica content (91.73%) of the sand is well above the industrial specification of 80% for sanitary ware making and suitable for the silica brick industry, for road dressing mixed with special asphalt. The physical and geochemical property results indicate that the sand is a good material for direct use in abrasive (sand paper and sand blasting).making, glass making and in the building and construction industries.


Summary Haplotype Trend Regression with eXtra flexibility (HTRX) is an R package which uses cross-validation to learn sets of interacting features for a prediction. HTRX identifies haplotypes composed of non-contiguous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with a phenotype. To reduce the space and computational complexity when investigating many features, we constrain the search by growing good feature sets using 'Cumulative HTRX', and limit the maximum complexity of a feature set. Availability HTRX is implemented in R and is available under GPL-3 license from CRAN and Github at: https://github.com/YaolingYang/HTRX. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com


On November 24th, 2011, in Commissioner of Patents v. Amazon.com Inc. (2011 FCA 328), the Federal Court of Appeal held that business methods, when properly construed, could constitute patentable subject matter. The decision, while generally well-reasoned, rational, and consistent with the wording and legislative purpose of the Patent Act, introduced some uncertainties into an area of law that could benefit from greater clarity, especially due to the scarcity of jurisprudence in this area. In this article, I analyse the decision and its practical implications.


The present invention discloses a method of solution processing apparatus nuclear power plant thermal vacuum dry radioactive waste using, characterized in that it comprises a vacuum pyrolysis furnace, vacuum pyrolysis furnace has a gas outlet connected in sequence via line prefilter, U type tank, high efficiency filter, high efficiency filter and the water outlet of the ejector is connected to the suction port, the pump connected to one end of the tank, the other end of the water inlet is connected to the injector, the ejection outlet for the water jet and the water tank is connected; this cryogenic vacuum pyrolysis invention, a method reliable means easy to implement, less secondary waste generated and does not generate dioxin and other toxic gases, the volume reduction effect similar to incineration, cotton clothes can be up to 80: 1 above the volume reduction effect; significantly reduces the volume of the final solid radioactive waste nuclear power plant to ease the pressure of staging a nuclear power plant radioactive solid waste transit storage, greatly reducing the cost of final disposal of solid radioactive waste, with good economic , environmental protection.


An investigation of the Ammon's horn seizure with macro-electrodes has been conducted in our department by Harafuji6) and Oka7>. But in the experiments using macro-electrodes, there is a limit to the analysis of wave pattern and it is impossible to isolate neuronal elements which participate in the development of seizure. Therefore, the present study was designed to use micro-electrodes in order to investigate the activity of neuronal elements at the time of seizure and thus to make clear the arising mechanism of the seizure discharge').


Background: Abdominal pain is one of the most common complaints during pregnancy and is always debated due to its numerous differential diagnoses. Acute appendicitis is the most common complication requiring surgery during pregnancy. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate symptoms, signs, and paraclinical findings in cases of pregnancy appendectomy within 2015 - 2019. Methods: This retrospective study examined the frequency of appendectomy in pregnant women referring to Ali ibn Abi Talib Hospital of Zahedan in Iran. This study assessed 58 pregnant women who referred to Ali Ebne-e Abitaleb hospital and underwent appendectomy from April 2015 to March 2019. Finally, the data were evaluated in terms of age, gravidity, gestational age, body temperature, clinical symptoms, complications of appendectomy, type of surgery, and white blood cells (neutrophil). For data analysis, the information was entered into SPSS software (version 22). Results: In the present study, the most common symptoms and signs of patients were tenderness and right lower quadrant (RLQ) pain (87.93%), nausea (75.9%), leukocytosis (72.4%), migration of pain (65.5%), vomiting (58.6%), and anorexia (53.4%). Additionally, the most common appendicitis trimester for appendicitis in pregnancy was the second thermistor (62.1%). Conclusions: Tenderness in the RLQ area was the most important feature of appendicitis; however, nausea and leukocytosis were also common. Ultrasound was not a powerful imaging method due to the identification of less than half of the patients; nevertheless, the Alvarado score for acute appendicitis was helpful in numerous cases.


The purpose of the thesis is the theoretical estimation of data transmission via electrical installation pipes. In Chapter 1 reference is made to the necessity, the frequently used terms and the historical PLC path. In the second chapter we study the characterization and the modeling of the radio channel. In the third chapter, Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) is an important and non-trivial element for the development and operation of power line communication systems. Then in Chapter 4, we examine the connection of PLCs to and from Low Voltage (LV) power lines. In Chapter 5, reference is made to automation of home and industry, finally in Chapter 6 there is an extensive study on by providing multimedia communication using existing electrical wiring inside the home and in Chapter 7 there is a report of conclusions that emerged from the study.


A catalyst is a substance that alters the rate of a reaction. The process of catalysis is essential to the modern day manufacturing industry, mainly in FCC (Fluid Catalytic Cracking) process units. However, long-term exploitation of oil and gas processing catalysts leads to formation of carbonand sulfur-containing structures of coke and dense products on the catalyst surface. They block reactive catalyst sites and reduce the catalytic activity. The main advantage of radiation processing by EB (electron beam) and gamma rays is chain cracking reaction in crude oil. Otherwise, under exposure to ionize radiation, considerable structure modification of equilibrium silica-alumina catalyst from FCC process may occur, in addition to the removal of impurities. The conditions applied in the irradiation range (20-150 kGy) of gamma rays and EB were not sufficient to alter the structure of the catalyst, whether for removal of the contaminant nickel, a major contaminant of the FCC catalyst, either to rupture of the crystalline structure either for the future reutilization of chemical elements. ATR-FTIR (Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and EDXRFS (Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry) analysis were used to characterize and evaluate effects of radiation processing on equilibrium catalysts purification. To evaluate and comprehend the reactive catalyst sites, SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) and particle size distribution analyses were carried out.


Both X-ray absorption near edge structures (XANES) and electron energy loss near edge structure (ELNES) are important tools in ceramic science offering information on local environment of selected elements not only in crystals but also in amorphous materials. Recent technological progress enables measurements of XANES of ppm-level dopants using modern synchrotron facilities. Combined with transmission electron microscopy, ELNES can be used to analyze the local structures with subnanometer spatial resolution. First principles methods to reproduce and interpret the spectra have been established just recently. When a core-hole is adequately taken into account, most of K-edge spectra can be well reproduced using a modern band-structure method within one-electron approximation. The same is true for 1,2,3-edge spectra of non-transition metal compounds. However, multi-electron calculations are mandatory to reproduce 7-2,3-edge spectra of 3d transition-metal elements because of strong electronic correlations. In this paper, some recent results obtained in our group by the combination of XANES/ELNES experiments and theoretical calculations are reviewed.


NASA Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration in the National Airspace System (NAS) Project, STEFFI VALKOV (NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, 4800 Lilly Ave, Edwards, CA 93523; email@example.com). According to recent economic assessments, the unmanned aircraft system (UAS) market is one of the fastest growing segments in the aerospace industry. There is a potential for creating over 100,000 jobs by 2025, translating to over $82 billion in total economic impact. Unfortunately, the UAS market is not able to achieve this level of growth until the barriers and challenges, currently preventing full integration, are addressed. The FAA's UAS CONOPs and Roadmap establish the vision and define the path forward for safely integrating civilian, commercial, and military UAS operations into the NAS through two documents – the Detect and Avoid (DAA) Foundation Challenge and the Control and Communications (C2) Challenge. This is where NASA comes in – the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) integration in the National Airspace System (NAS) project is currently providing research findings, utilizing simulation and flight tests, to support the development and validation of DAA and C2 technologies necessary for integrating UAS into the NAS. The project is divided into two phases: Phase 1, equipping larger (Group 5) UAS with DAA systems, and Phase 2, low SWaP sensors for DAA system equipage on smaller (Group 3) UAS. The Project has performed numerous successful flight tests with the Ikhana MQ-9 platform, including receiving a Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA) that accepts alternate compliance for see-and-avoid, and is now shifting focus to smaller platforms.


The accuracy of three-dimensional adiabatic and diabatic potential energy surfaces is calculated using ab initio methods and is numerically fitted for the two lowest electronic states 1 and 22A′ of the LiH2 system, which are very important for the Li (2p) + H2 reaction. The finite difference method is performed to generate the mixing angles, which are used to educe the diabatic potential from the adiabatic potential. The accurate conical intersection (CI) is studied in this work with three different basis sets. The energy of the conical intersection is slightly lower (nearly 0.12 eV) than that of the perpendicular intermediate on the first excited state. By analyzing the potential energy surfaces in this work we can suggest that the most possible reaction pathway for the title reaction is Li (2p) + H2 → LiH2 (22A′) (C2v) → CI → LiH2 (12A′) (C2v) → LiH⋯H → LiH (X1∑g+) + H. The conical intersection and (22A′) intermediate may play a vital role in the title reaction.


Positron annihilation techniques have been applied to characterize vacancy-related defects in ferroelectric thin film structures. Variable energy positron beam measurements were carried out on doped and undoped Pb(ZrTi)O{sub 3} (PZT) samples subjected to different post-deposition cool down and anneal conditions. The PZT was deposited by sol-gel with either with platinum or RuO{sub 2} electrodes, or by laser ablation with La{sub 0.5}Sr{sub 0.5}CoO{sub 3} electrodes. The RuO{sub 2} and La{sub 0.5}Sr{sub 0.5}CoO{sub 3} electrode samples showed a smaller S-parameter compared to those deposited with Pt electrodes consistent with an improved PZT layer quality. For laser ablated samples cooled in a reducing ambient an increase in S-parameter for both the PZT and La{sub 0.5}Sr{sub 0.5}CoO{sub 3} layers was observed indicating an increase in neutral or negatively charged open-volume defects.


Purpose – This paper aims to show new ways of overcoming resistance during organizational change by applying insights from New Institutional Economics. Design/methodology/approach – This is a conceptual paper that adapts findings from New Institutional Economics. Findings – The paper highlights the relevance of interactions between managers and employees for value creation processes: interactions can generate either win–win or lose–lose situations. By altering the restrictions on managers' and employees' behavior, change managers can create mutual benefits for the staff and the firm. The paper thus explicitly considers the individual interests of employees and managers and highlights an approach to link individual interests with the collective interests of the firm by means of appropriate interactions. Additionally, the paper elaborates the relevant factors that determine the success of classical change management measures, like communication or participation, to overcome resistance during organizational ...


At doping below 6% the bilayer cuprate YBa2Cu3O{6+y} is a collinear antiferromagnet. Independent of doping the value of the staggered magnetization at zero temperature is about 0.6\mu_B. This is the maximum value of the magnetization allowed by quantum fluctuations of localized spins. In this low doping regime the compound is a normal conductor with a finite resistivity at zero temperature. These experimental observations create a unique opportunity for theory to perform a controlled calculation of the electron spectral function. In the present work we perform this calculation within the framework of the extended t-J model. As one expects the Fermi surface consists of small hole pockets centered at (\pi/2,\pi/2). The electron spectral function is very strongly anisotropic with maximum of intensity located at the inner parts of the pockets and with very small intensity at the outer parts. We also found that the antiferromagnetic correlations act against the bilayer bonding-antibonding splitting destroying it. The bilayer Fermi surface splitting is practically zero.


The essence of the construction of smart grid demonstration project is an integration process of various types of technology, system and device. With the integration of various kinds of adjustable resources including distributed power supply, reactive power compensation devices, and energy storage devices etc, the traditional passive distribution network is evolving into active distribution network, and low carbon power grid comprehensive demonstration project is a composition of distributed generation, energy storage, active load and the associated control equipment. On the basis of establishing unified information platform including various sub modules, it is significantly important to achieve low carbon optimized dispatch through the coordination of the modules. Keywords-modularity; smart grid; low carbon


The subdivision of the municipal administration of Bruges into 'bureaus' in the 1 9th century, goes back to the French Period (1795-1814). A significant administrative reorganisation took place in 1850. At the suggestion of the town secretary Deljoutte, the number of bureaus was reduced from five to four. In doing so, Deljoutte hoped to turn the secretariat into the pivot of the municipality. At the same time, the reorganisation brought about the creation of an archives repository for 'modern records'. The archives from the period 1795-1835 were transferred from the bureaus to a central 'depot'. An employee was charged with the classification and inventarisation, taking into account the basic principles of contemporary archival science. Not until 1870 were those 'modern archives' integrated into the Town Archives.


We hypothesise that cancer stem cells with high aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDHhigh) activity present a new therapeutic target and will be selectively sensitive to 5-nitrofuran pro-drugs. Cancers are heterogeneous and contain subpopulations of ALDHhigh cells with tumour initiating potential. ALDH enzymes metabolize toxic aldehydes, and are highly expressed in somatic and cancer stem cells (CSCs), although their function in stem cells is not fully understood. In a small molecule screen coupled with target ID, we recently discovered that clinically active 5-nitrofurans (5-NFNs) are substrates of ALDH2 (Zhou et al., 2012). 5-NFNs are a class of pro-drug widely used to treat bacterial and parasitic infections where their relative specificity is driven by nitroreductases, but little is known about the enzymes that bio-activate 5-NFNs in humans. Recent clinical cancer research has found that the 5-NFN nifurtimox has anti-cancer properties and it is currently in Phase 2 clinical trials for neuroblastoma and medulloblastoma (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00601003), however the mechanism underlying this anti-cancer activity is unknown. In melanoma and other cancers, ALDH1A1 and ALDH1A3 are highly expressed in CSCs. We find that cancer cell lines are highly sensitive to 5-NFNs in cell viability assays, where we use a logarithmic drug dose range and assess cell viability by PrestoBlue™ (e.g. A375 melanoma cells EC50 = 86nM). To test if ALDH1 isoforms are substrates of 5-NFNs, we preformed in vitroactivity assays by monitoring NADH production (λ = 340nm). We find that the clinically active 5-NFNs nifuroxazide and nifurtimox, in addition to our own newly synthesised 5-NFNs, are competitive substrates for human ALDH1A3 activity in vitro (p 0.05) and apoptosis (DRAQ7™: p Our work demonstrates a novel and biologically relevant 5-NFN-ALDH1 interaction in cancer cells. We propose 5-NFNs have the potential to target ALDHhigh CSCs within a tumour and advance the repurposing of clinical 5-NFN pro-drug antibiotics as anti-cancer therapeutics. Citation Format: Richard Crispin, Nathalie Spockeli, Val Brunton, Neil Carragher, Charlie Gourley, Douglas Houston, Asier Unciti-Broceta, E. Elizabeth Patton. Targeting cancer stem cells using ALDH-dependent 5-nitrofuran pro-drugs. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics; 2015 Nov 5-9; Boston, MA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Mol Cancer Ther 2015;14(12 Suppl 2):Abstract nr C25.


The issues of this article are the basics, the aim, objects and the methodology of the multicultural education with reference to the contemporary period. The article presents the experience with the principle of multiculturalism, practically involved in contents and the methodology of the education at the higher school according to each ethnic region. This all is based on the community, the comparing analysis and the dialogue between different cultures.


The effect of pharmacological doses of pheny‐toin (DPH) administered for a maximum of 28 days was studied in pregnant and nonpregnant rats as well as in 14‐ and 21‐day fetuses. The following parameters were monitored in the adult rats: maximal electroshock seizures, serum DPH and folate, liver microsomal P‐450, and ,4C‐DPH tissue distribution. 14C‐DPH distribution was also evaluated in fetal tissues. Pregnant animals demonstrated an increase in anticonvulsant activity as well as increased serum concentrations of DPH throughout pregnancy and on the 7th post‐partum day. Brain concentrations of DPH increased during pregnancy but had returned to the values in the nonpregnant group at the 7th post‐partum day. Liver microsomal P‐450 was decreased in pregnant animals receiving DPH at days 7 and 14 of pregnancy. Serum folate also decreased at day 14 of pregnancy in animals receiving DPH. Fetal tissue binding of DPH appeared to be related to serum concentrations of the drug at day 14. Teratogenic effects of DPH could be related to the increased serum and tissue concentrations of the drug observed during pregnancy as well as its effect on serum folate at day 14 of gestation.


Nowadays, environmental problem of the whole earth attracts more and more attention from scientists, politicians and general people as well. What we need to know is not only the importance of a health environment, but also how the human activity influences our environment. In this paper, we apply network models to solve this problem. These models help us to know the exact influence of key factors to the earth's health through the data, and can provide reliable predicting of the future health. Also, by the help of other models, in this paper we explored the tipping point of the environment and designed the warning level. To predict the future health, the first model we used is BP neural network model, which is easy to operate, and as an advantage, it is easy to revise the key factors in this model, making it a flexible one when the relationships change among the key factors. However, the model can't show the relationships to us though it may take it into consideration. To improve the situation, we use model two, a more complex model based on system dynamics. This model requires a large amount of historical data. However, in this model, it is difficult to identify the variations which evaluate the health of the environment. To improve this, we combine the two models together, using the state variations in the system dynamic model as the input factors in neural network model, to obtain the output factors, which can be used to evaluate earth's health. Also, in order to find the tipping point, but not only use the coarse information obtained from the output factors to measure the earth's health, we use entropy as a standard instead. Entropy is influenced by radiation from the sun, photosynthesis of plants and human activity. It is a thorough measure of earth's health since it represents the order of whole system, but not only an aspect of it. What's more, the paper also considered the feedback loops in the environment in model 2. And we believe that our models can provide extra assistance for decision makers to choose and use their policy.


We propose a relatively simple optical generation concept for impulse radio ultra wideband (IR-UWB) pulse over fiber transmission using a weighted sum of a modified doublet with its inverted and delayed version. The generated pulses not only fi4ly comply with the FCC spectral mask but also are highly power efficient in the available spectrum. We verified our approach using both simulation and experimental demonstration. The concept has a potential to be integrated with other optical functions on a compact optical chip, making it very suitable for wide UWB deployment for highspeed wireless access at low costfor in-building network applications.


Five physically active young healthy workers, aged 20-24 yrs, were subjected to runs on a treadmili for 8 h at different relative loads (RLs) i.e. the percentage of maximum aerobic power ([Vdot]o2max)viz. 20,30,40,50, 60 and 70%, in comfortable laboratory conditions to determine the acceptable workload (AWL) for sustained physical activity. The findings have indicated that 35% RL could perhaps be reasonably considered as the AWL. The energy expenditure and the corresponding heart rate at this level of work would be around 18 kJ min−1 (gross) and 110 beats min−1 respectively.


Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to describe an innovative information and decision support tool (ToolSHeD™) developed to help construction designers to integrate the management of OHS risk into the design process. The underlying structure of the prototype web‐based system and the process of knowledge acquisition and modelling are described.

Design/methodology/approach

– The ToolSHeD™ research and development project involved the capture of expert reasoning regarding design impacts upon occupational health and safety (OHS) risk. This knowledge was structured using an innovative method well‐suited to modelling knowledge in the context of uncertainty and discretionary decision‐making. Example "argument trees" are presented, representing the reasoning used by a panel of experts to assess the risk of falling from height during roof maintenance work. The advantage of using this method for modelling OHS knowledge, compared to the use of simplistic rules, is discussed

Findings

– The ToolSHeD™ prototype development and testing reveals that argument trees can represent design safety risk knowledge effectively.

Practical implications

– The translation of argument trees into a web‐based decision support tool is described and the potential impact of this tool in providing construction designers (architects and engineers) with easy and inexpensive access to expert OHS knowledge is discussed.

Originality/value

– The paper describes a new computer application, currently undergoing testing in the Australian building and construction industry. Its originality lies in the fact that ToolSHeD™ deploys argument trees to represent expert OHS reasoning, overcoming inherent limitations in rule‐based expert systems.


Many works in the various fields of liturgy and history refer to a Celtic Rite that
was supposedly in use in Ireland prior to the arrival of Normans in the twelfth
century. The existence of this liturgical rite and its supposed suppression at the
hands of the Normans are usually taken for granted in these works. However some
modern liturgical scholarship has begun to question the importance (or even the very
existence) of the Celtic Rite.
This thesis examines the actual evidence for the Eucharist in Pre-Norman
Ireland. Unlike the other Celtic regions (Scotland, Wales, Brittany, etc.) it is possible
to study the Eucharist in Ireland as there still exists enough textual and historical
evidence for such a study.
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The main contribution of this thesis is that it provides the first major analysis
of Eucharistic practice in pre-Norman Ireland in over one hundred years. Great care
has been taken to situate the evidence within both the historical and liturgical
contexts that are sometimes ignored in secondary literature. Both the remaining
ritual texts and other texts of the period that deal with the Eucharist are studied. In
addition archaeological and iconographical elements are analyzed. This provides an
up to date picture of the place of the Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland.
The results of this study seriously cast into doubt the nineteenth and early
twentieth century claims of a separate Celtic Rite in Ireland. This, in turn, has its
repercussions on the fields of the History of Early Christian Ireland and the study of
medieval liturgy. Thus the ground is prepared for further study of medieval liturgy
and the religious dimension of the Pre Norman period of Christianity and society in
Ireland.


We describe new, deep MIPS photometry and new high signal-to-noise optical spectroscopy of the 2.5 Myr old IC 348 Nebula. To probe the properties of the IC 348 disk population, we combine these data with previous optical/infrared photometry and spectroscopy to identify stars with gas accretion, to examine their mid-IR colors, and to model their spectral energy distributions. IC 348 contains many sources in different evolutionary states, including protostars and stars surrounded by primordial disks, two kinds of transitional disks, and debris disks. Most disks surrounding early/intermediate spectral-type stars (>1.4 M☉ at 2.5 Myr) are debris disks; most disks surrounding solar and subsolar-mass stars are primordial disks. At the 1–2 σ level, more massive stars also have a smaller frequency of gas accretion and smaller mid-IR luminosities than lower-mass stars. These trends are suggestive of a stellar mass-dependent evolution of disks, where most disks around high/intermediate-mass stars shed their primordial disks on rapid, 2.5 Myr timescales. The frequency of MIPS-detected transitional disks is ≈15%–35% for stars plausibly more massive than 0.5 M☉. The relative frequency of transitional disks in IC 348 compared to that for 1 Myr old Taurus and 5 Myr old NGC 2362 is consistent with a transition timescale that is a significant fraction of the total primordial disk lifetime.


Rifampicin, a broad‐spectrum antibiotic, has neuroprotective, immunosuppressive, and anti‐inflammatory properties. However, the effect of rifampicin on autoimmune disorders of the nervous system is not clear. In this study, we investigated whether rifampicin was beneficial to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein peptide (MOG33–35)‐induced female C57BL/6 experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) mice, the well‐established animal model of multiple sclerosis. Rifampicin treatment (daily from the first day after EAE immunization) remarkably attenuated clinical signs and loss of body weight, which are associated with suppression of inflammatory infiltration and demyelination in spinal cords of EAE mice. Furthermore, rifampicin dramatically reduced the disruption of blood–brain barrier integrity, down‐regulated serum concentration of IL‐6 and IL‐17A, inhibited pathological Th17 cell differentiation, and modulated the expression of p‐STAT3 and p‐p65. These results suggest that rifampicin is effective for attenuating the clinical severity of EAE mice, which may be related to its inhibitive ability in differentiation of Th17 cell and secretion of its key effector molecule IL‐17A via regulation of excessive activation of the key signaling molecules of JAK/STAT pathway. Our findings may be helpful for developing therapeutic and preventive strategies for multiple sclerosis.


Interleukin‐17A (IL‐17A) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) contribute to the pathogenesis of psoriatic arthritis (PsA). However, their functional relationship in PsA synovitis has not been fully elucidated. Additionally, although CD8+ T cells in PsA have been recognized via flow cytometry as a source of IL‐17A production, it is not clear whether CD8+ T cells secrete IL‐17A under more physiologically relevant conditions in the context from PsA synovitis. This study was undertaken to clarify the roles of IL‐17A and TNF in the synovial fluid (SF) from patients with PsA and investigate the impact of CD8+ T cells on IL‐17A production.


In the 1920s, despite the end of the hostilities of World War I, the international monetary structure was under siege. The basis of international monetary stability, the prewar gold stan dard, had been badly shaken by the war experience. The postwar goal was a return to normalized monetary relations and economic stability. Conditioned as countries were to the security of the gold standard, a return to normalcy via restoration of that stan dard is understandable.


17061 Background: The aim of this study was to explore the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in cancer patients of Korea. This study was performed to identify the prevalence, type...


This impact essay examines the intersection of race, ethnicity, and gender as a first-generation Hmong-American woman in a senior-level K-12 educational leadership role. Dr. Yang Keo shares her story of resistance and resilience as she navigates different educational and workforce systems as the daughter of Hmong refugees.


Only a few years ago, as it seems, we were welcoming new voices, we were thanking our stars we had lived to see deep and genuine emotions break their way out in accents and cadences which belonged to us. Edgar Lee Masters was creating the Spoon River Anthology, with its challenges of mordant truth and poignant vision; Frost was championing the New England soil, the whole American landscape, with a new sensitiveness to man and to nature; Robinson, that quiet but resolute prober of human heart and mind, was compelling us, in a day that would rather have been superficial, to look inward; Sandburg was making articulate the vigor and frankness long expected from the unencumbered West; Vachel Lindsay, the lovable minstrel, was chanting his ballads from city to city; Edna Millay was transmuting into magic the revolt of the younger generation; Elinor Wiley was stirring us with her exotic blend of thought and fancy; and Amy Lowell, brilliant and brave, was dragooning all sluggish jversemakers into a belated consideration of certain principles of their art. Only a few years ago, as it seems, we were warmed by this kindling and we indulged in hopeful guesses about the poets who might next emerge, who would carry far, thanks to these pioneers and the audience they had prepared. But the new voices are not yet heard. Two or three of the pioneers are faithful to their beginnings. Some have stopped singing. Some are dead.


Background. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are two common childhood disorders that exhibit genetic and behavioural overlap and have abnormalities in similar brain systems, in particular in frontal and cerebellar regions. This study compared the two neurodevelopmental disorders to investigate shared and disorder-specific structural brain abnormalities.


We study the multiple time scales structure of linear systems of the form x = A0(¿)x + B0(¿)u y = C0(¿)x with a view to obtaining 'approximate' lower order dynamical models valid at different time scales. Our development includes the classical two time-scale case. We use our results to study the robustness of the positive realness of linear systems systems under singular perturbations.


The article presents to the need to prepare an abbreviated version of the worksheets classification units "Architecture" of "Art" section. The structure of the new unit and disclosed the features of its content.


A scoping study of a commercial D-/sup 3/He tokamak reactor Apollo, is being discussed. The reactor is currently designed for operation in the first stability regime and utilizes rectennas for direct conversion of synchrotron radiation to electricity coupled with synchrotron current drive. Very low neutron wall loading (0.1 MW/m/sup 2/) is obtained by suitable choice of the fuel mixture. Physics tradeoffs leading to the chosen design point and critical issues including the removal of fusion-generated ash, the need for high wall reflectivity for synchrotron radiation, and current drive are discussed.<<ETX>>


The discovery of new asymmetric synthetic methodologies and the asymmetric synthesis of new chiral compounds have been the central work of synthetic organic chemists for decades. Axially chiral compounds have gained considerable attention in recent years because of their unique utility in asymmetric catalysis and synthesis. The asymmetric synthesis of axially chiral cycloalkylidenes, a subset of axial chirality molecules, is sluggish compared to chiral allenes, and chiral biaryl compounds. In this review, different approaches for the synthesis of axially chiral cycloalkylidenes are summarized.


Background: Taxi drivers play a crucial role in the social and economic function of the modern society and significantly contribute to the business world and tourism. Objective: The objective of this study was to find the occupational profile of taxi drivers in the metropolitan cities in India. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional, community-based study used a pretested questionnaire, comprising sociodemographic, working, and personal variables, and was administered by interview technique on the taxi drivers, attending the training program at the Institute of Road Traffic and Education, Faridabad. Results: Majority of the taxi drivers in our study were married (94.01%), staying in joint families (61.31%), were driving >10 years (66.56%), and working full time (96.72%) and in shifts (92.17%) when employed in organized sectors. Majority enjoyed adequate night sleep (94.43%); neither had systemic comorbidity (95.08%) nor problem of vision (84.92) with reported nonaddiction to alcohol (69.84%), smoking (74.75%), or chewing tobacco (85.57%). Formal training was received by three-fourths (77.38%), yet nearly all were consistently using seat belts and pursued front-seat passengers to use seat belts. The participants of our study admitted their avoidable risky behavior on roads during driving, namely used to talk in speaker mode (73.44%), calling (87.21%), and hearing music (49.84%), while minority (4.92%) confessed watching video and using Bluetooth headphone (11.80%); all these risky behaviors culminated in missing road signs by 71.80%. Conclusions: It appears from this study that we need to understand the sociodemographic, work environment, and personality details of the taxi drivers in the metropolitan cities. The following core competencies are addressed in this article: Interpersonal and communication skills, Patient care, Practice-based learning and improvement, and Systems-based practice.


ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of leadershipcommunication skills on the performance of the employees of the South Bengkulu Regency Tourism Office.The method in this study uses a quantitative approach, with explanatory research methods. The results showed that the leadership's communication skills had a positive and significant effect on the performance of the Tourism Office. It can be seen from the results of the regression test that the equation Y = 9.391 + 0.592X, this equation has a meaning, that the regression coefficient value of the leadership communication ability variable is 0.592 which is positive. The conclusion of the study is that improving the leader's communication skills will improve employee performance on work.

Keywords: Employee Performance, Leadership Communication.


Thispaperpresents a technique ofreliability increasing ofabrushless DC motorforspecial applications. Ifthereisneedtocontinue the motion after onephase supply failure andtofinish engineering procedure, thetechnique canbe implemented. Thetechnique canbeusedinthe systems requiring increased reliability, e.g.in drive systems forspace applications andthelike.


the essence of existing programs with something new whose utility is more than the sum of its parts. Jipange KuSave (JKS) seems to be such an initiative. JKS offers: • Both a credit and a savings product under the same rubric • Immediate connectivity to the M-PESA system • Significant flexibility in catering to the idiosyncratic needs of its clients JKS "lends to save." To appreciate this seemingly contradictory notion, we must first appreciate the quite different but complementary properties of credit and savings. As Collins et al. have amply illustrated, the poor often have to make do with an income that is small, irregular, and uncertain. This makes saving up hard to do. The poor can and do save regularly, but this activity tends to be focused on meeting regular expenses that do not coincide with cash inflow, rather than on building savings for the long term or for emergencies. Moreover, even if building long-term savings is the intention, the overwhelming urgency of immediate needs often disrupts the discipline needed to accumulate a significant sum. Credit addresses that problem by providing funds up front and when needed, and imposing a greater degree of the discipline required to pay small amounts frequently over a set period of time. In a way, the client is "saving down," repaying a loan that is essentially an advance against future savings. However, there is an underlying concern that credit often traps the poor into a repayment cycle in which they are constantly repaying loans taken to deal with unforeseen expenses, and never really saving in the true sense of the word. How is it possible to combine the features of the two? At its core, JKS emulates Rutherford's pioneering work with SafeSave's P9 program in Bangladesh. JKS holds in escrow a significant portion of the loan that is taken out, often between a third and half of the notional amount, and earmarks that as "savings" for the client. The client then first pays up the loan amount that was actually disbursed, and then pays up to replace the amount held in escrow with actual savings. In doing so, JKS, like P9, transfers the loan repayment to build up the client's savings.


This article treats a set of subject cross-referencing morphemes in the medieval Nilo-Saharan language Old Nubian, traditionally called "personal endings." Based on an analysis of their syntactic distribution and morphology, I argue that this set can be best described as a set of subject clitics, originally deriving from phonologically reduced pronominals. This set of subject clitics interacts with both topic and focus makers in the clause. Finally, by inspecting the historical development of Old Nubian subject clitics into full-fledged agreement suffixes modern Nile Nubian languages Nobiin and Mattokki (Kenzi) I argue that a purely syntactical approach to this development is impracticable, but that any morpho-phonological approach should be able to account for the diachronic data.


Projectile-nucleus capture by a target nucleus at bombarding energies in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier is treated with the reduced-density-matrix formalism. The effects of dissipation and fluctuations on the capture process are taken self-consistently into account within the quantum model suggested. The excitation functions for the capture in the reactions {sup 16}O, {sup 19}F, {sup 26}Mg, {sup 28}Si, {sup 32,34,36,38}S, {sup 40,48}Ca, {sup 50}Ti, {sup 52}Cr+{sup 208}Pb with spherical nuclei are calculated and compared with the experimental data. At bombarding energies about (15-25) MeV above the Coulomb barrier the maximum of capture cross section is revealed for the {sup 58}Ni+{sup 208}Pb reaction.


According to The Surface Water Envrionmental Quality Standard(GB 3838-2002),the author analyzed monitoring results in some river by fuzzy mathematics and drawed scale diagram to reveal the contribution of each pollutant to source water quality.The risk pollutants were listed,which is helpful to chose the appropriate treatment.


The circuit board has an electronic element mounted on a heat shield portion, and a circuit layer having a base layer, disposed on the base layer and the air gap defined within the circuit layer, is arranged on the air gap, a lower thermal conductivity than the thermal conductivity of the circuit layer It includes.


The correct field equations for several ten-dimensional Lovelock-type Lagrangians including terms up to fourth order in the curvature are given. They were deduced from a program which exploits the facilities of the differential package EXCALC. A first discussion of the obtained equations is presented. The justification of a conjecture made recently by Deruelle is given. Possible extensions of some previously obtained solutions of the field equations restricted to quadratic and cubic contributions are discussed. Finally, some errors in the existing literature are pointed out.


In this paper we investigated the asymptotic behaviour at 0 and infinity of the distributional wavelet transform. Assuming that the wavelet transform 𝒲 g f(b, a) has the ordinary asymptotic behaviour at 0 (resp. at infinity) with respect to both variables (resp. to the variable b), we obtained the result for the quasiasymptotic behaviour (resp. the S-asymptotics) at 0 (resp. at infinity) of the distribution f∈𝒮′(ℝ). Additionally, we proved that the distribution has the S-asymptotics at infinity equal to zero if its wavelet transform 𝒲 g f(b, a) has the S-asymptotics at infinity with respect to the variable b.


The invention discloses a hematuresis color chart. The hematuresis color chart comprises six square color blocks, wherein each color block has the size of 15mm*15mm; color number is labeled at the lower part of each color block, and the color numbers are respectively 0. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; the color changes from light to dark, representing the color of normal urea to full-hematuresis color; the color chart has the size of 110mm*35mm, and is subjected to membrane pressing and plastic packaging treatment. The hematuresis color chart provided by the invention is simple to manufacture, and is convenient to use and carry, and the hematuresis color can be directly compared so as to provide a uniform objective standard for judging the hematuresis color by medical workers, and prevent differences on subjective feeling. Additionally, the color chart after membrane pressing and plastic packaging treatment is convenient to clean and sterilize and can be used repeatedly for multiple times.


IntroductionThe vast majority of economic phenomena can be interpreted in terms of dynamic processes occurring within a specific network. Taking into account that without interactions between economic agents, there would be no complexity, one can state that without networks, economies would not be complex adaptive systems (Beinhocker 2006, p. 141).Undoubtedly, one of the most important networks in the modern globalized economy is constituted by flows of money. Nevertheless, money has been relatively rarely analyzed as an example of a network good, as most of the publications discussing network externalities occurring within economic systems usually refer to privately supplied products on more or less competitive markets (see e.g. Farrell, Saloner 1985; Katz, Shapiro 1992; Katz, Shapiro 1994), while money may be supplied publicly and/or privately and its market tends to be monopolized.The concept of money as a network good may help to overcome some problems associated with defining money in terms of the physical material from which it is made, as well as provide an alternative to the functional definition of money. Network properties of money can be linked with its function of medium of communication which to some extent may be perceived as superior to other functions because it integrates both economic and social aspects of circulation of money (Wlodarczyk 2010, p. 51).A network approach towards money allows for a new interpretation of phenomena on which traditional theories of money are often criticized, namely the origin of money and its evolution, competition and choice between different monetary standards (with an important role of social preferences and selffulfilling expectations), as well as the process of monetary integration (Stenkula 2008, pp. 6-7). In general, it seems that the reason for economists not to analyze network structure and dynamics in detail has been the incompatibility of the network theory with the equilibrium paradigm (Beinhocker, 2006, p. 141).In order to design an appropriate methodological approach towards a research on network properties of money one should notice that on one hand, modern monetary network could not exist without information and communication technologies (ICT), but on the other hand, its essence consists in social interactions. Therefore, the concept of money as a network good can be investigated from different point of views, from sociological to formal analyses of monetary network's structure and function. Integration of various approaches may result in further development of the network theory of money.The aim of this paper is to describe characteristics of money perceived as a network good, summarize empirical investigations on the structure of monetary networks and discuss some links between monetary integration and network externalities. This paper presents results of preliminary research in this field, therefore it is based mostly on critical analysis of topical publications.1. Characteristics of network goodsNetwork goods (e.g. telephones, fax machines, computer software, CD players, ATMs, banking services) are characterized by following features (Shy 2001, pp. 1-6; Januszewski 2013, pp. 30-34):* complementarity - network goods are not used or consumed independently of other goods;* standardization - network goods must operate on the same standard or be compatible with other standards (however, apart from social benefits from standardization, there arise also important social costs such as reduction of variety and retardation of innovation, especially under incomplete information; cf. Farrell, Saloner 1985);* consumption externalities - utility of a network good depends positively not only on the number of its users (which is associated with direct network effects), but also on the variety of their complementary goods which also influences the number of its users (indirect network effects); offering users an access to a larger network is equivalent to offering them a better product (however, a rapid increase in the number of users may lead to congestion or other problems with infrastructure that result in decreased consumer's utility - negative network effects);* switching costs - costs borne by users who decide to change the standard (e. …


In this paper periodic and quasi-periodic behavior of a food chain model with three trophic levels are studied. Michaelis-Menten type ratio-dependent functional response is considered. There are two equilibrium points of the system. It is found out that at most one of these equilibrium points is stable at a time. In the parameter space, there are passages from instability to stability, which are called Hopf bifurcation points. For the first equilibrium point, it is possible to find bifurcation points analytically and to prove that the system has periodic solutions around these points. However for the second equilibrium point the computation is more tedious and bifurcation points can only be found by numerical experiments. It has been found that around these points there are periodic solutions and when this point is unstable, the solution is an enlarging spiral from inside and approaches to a limit cycle.


The production of electrical connectors, or plug connectors, is typically multi-product. The electrical connector assembly
area contains the required number of assembly complexes for plug and socket packages with sets of automatic equipment
for cassetting parts and monitoring the parameters of assembled packages, a warehouse for storing insulators, contacts
and cases in cassettes, and corresponding vehicles. Technological schemes for the assembly of contact packages, a
modular assembly line and equipment for automating the processes of manipulating objects are presented.


A method for reversibly carrying out a configuration change in a control apparatus (1) after receiving a configuration change message (ECN), which is verified by means of at least one credential (C), wherein the above configurations change is canceled when the corresponding credential is revoked (C).


Steel sandwich panels with corrugated or web cores are targeted, and assumed to be subjected to longitudinal or transverse in-plane compression. Elastic buckling eigenvalue and elastoplastic collapse behavior are analyzed by FEM. The elastic buckling, ultimate strength, and buckling/plastic collapse behavior of the steel sandwich panels are clarified. Finally, a simplified method to estimate the ultimate strength of the sandwich panels is proposed. The method is validated comparing the estimated and FEA results.


We studied parents' perceptions of the effects of their nondisabled child's participation in a classroom in which a child with severe disabilities was enrolled full time. Survey responses from 389 parents indicated that they generally perceived their nondisabled child to have benefited from this experience. A minority of parents held negative views of inclusion after their child's participation. Analysis of narrative comments on surveys returned by some of these parents indicated that concerns about behavioral disruption and loss of teacher time allocated to their child were the major source of their dissatisfaction. Survey comments suggested in some cases that parents did not view academic and social learning experiences to be highly related. Implications of this and other viewpoints expressed by these parents are considered in terms of priorities for teacher education and for subsequent research.


Energy storage systems are essential to peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading as they help constitute prosumers. One of the most popular types of energy storage is lithium-ion battery systems which are subject to degradation issues. Their performance naturally degrades over their service lifespan, so frequent and rapid dispatch of batteries for the profit maximization of P2P prosumers can harm their batteries and might lose financially in the long run. This work leverages the latest construction of safe operational regions that guarantee a predetermined expected service lifespan for batteries involved in P2P transactions. Therewith, we develop a convex optimization model for prosumers to participate in P2P energy trading while ensuring the expected service lifespan for their battery energy storage systems. The case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework towards long-term profit guarantees for battery-owned prosumers.


Simple Summary Expected thermal variations as a consequence of climate change represent a challenge for alternative poultry production because animals graze abroad for long periods of time, where slight variations in ambient temperature may cause negative effects on their productive development. Changes in temperature have been described as factors capable of influencing the development of animals. The objective of this study was to evaluate weather conditions and strain affect the development of slow-medium growing chickens raised in an organic system. No differences were shown between both strains studied; this indicates the high similarity between the strains used. This fact would allow the farmer to include one strain or another in his farm indifferently. Better development was observed in chickens that had been raised under cooler conditions (S1) in organic systems. This fact could be justified by the greater difficulty that chickens find to dissipate heat in warmer environments, which impairs their productive development. In this way, whenever possible, it would be recommended to raise the largest number of chickens during the coldest season. Abstract A total of 160 1-day-old medium-growing male chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) were raised for 120 days in a certified organic farming system. A total of two strains were studied (Coloryield, CY; RedBro, RB). Overall, two weather periods were considered based on the outdoor temperature, being S1 colder than S2. In total, 40 chicks per strain were assigned to each period (n = 80). Chickens were fed ad libitum with the same organic feeds. In the first month, chickens were kept indoors and, from day 30, they had access to the pasture. Slaughter live weight (LW), average daily gains, (ADG), the feed conversion ratio (FCR), and mortality rates did not differ between the two strains. LW was (p < 0.05) higher in the S1 and a trend (p = 0.084) was observed for ADG, which was higher in S1. No differences were found for feed intake, FCR, and mortality rates between weather periods. There were no differences for coefficient of variation (CV) between the strains studied, nevertheless, CV for LW in S2 was increased. Differences in the productive performance between these strains raised in organic production systems were slight. However, chickens raised in S1 had a better performance. It would be preferable to raise chickens in these weather conditions whenever possible.


There is a growing trend towards securitization of the maritime commons, which seriously impacts sustainable fisheries governance cooperation. This impact is mainly reflected in the fact that it undermines the effectiveness of the international legal framework for sustainable fisheries governance, which is fragmented and runs based on countries' willingness. It makes the international legal basis for sustainable fisheries governance cooperation more fragile. As a result, countries are more inclined to take the issues of sustainable fisheries governance and its sub-issues as security-related issues or tools for achieving maritime security strategies. Ultimately, it will lead to confrontation rather than cooperation in sustainable fisheries governance. Evidence that can support this theory is from combating IUU fishing, a sub-issue of sustainable fisheries governance, in the Northeast Asia Pacific and the South China Sea. From securitization theory and international law theory perspectives, desecuritization is the core of the solutions, including the desecuritization of the maritime commons and the desecuritization of its sub-issues. In practice, desecuritization includes improving the effectiveness of the international legal framework for sustainable fisheries governance and establishing regional cooperative governance mechanisms. The result will certainly help to promote sustainable fisheries governance cooperation on a regional and global scale.


We consider a discriminative learning (regression) problem, whereby the regression function is a convex combination of k linear classifiers. Existing approaches are based on the EM algorithm, or similar techniques, without provable guarantees. We develop a simple method based on spectral techniques and a 'mirroring' trick, that discovers the subspace spanned by the classifiers' parameter vectors. Under a probabilistic assumption on the feature vector distribution, we prove that this approach has nearly optimal statistical efficiency.


Research about cultural industries has pointed out the importance of paying attention to the way different content producers vie for the scant attention that people pay to cultural products. Based on the analysis of the controversies that arose around the premiere of the Netflix film Roma in Mexico and its win at the Oscars, this article seeks to show some of the disputes around the symbolic definition of a new cultural product. The author argues that the process of sym-bolically defining a new cultural product is a central part of the economic dispute for the scant attention people pay to cultural products. It is fundamental to pay attention to these symbolic disputes in a historic context in which the new technological possibilities seem to favor the emergence of new actors and products in the cultural industries.


This paper mainly discusses the element "learning" in internationalized new ventures (INVs) from several dimensions., focusing on answering the following questions - why/what/how do INVs learn and what are the results of learning. Based on these questions., it comes out the four dimensions discussed in this paper-the motivations of learning., the content of learning., the process of learning., the results of learning. In the end., this paper summaries the intrinsic logic between the dimensions and briefly discusses the future research directions.


Chalcogen ring molecules are known to undergo facile interconversion reactions in organic solvents and in the melts, e.g. polymerization of liquid sulfur or the formation of Se6 and Se7 upon dissolving Se8 in CS2. These interconversion reactions have been suggested to proceed via the homolytic cleavage of the chalcogen-chalcogen bonds or through the formation of hypervalent intermediates. The experimental evidence on the actual mechanism, however, is rather sparse. The energetics of the various suggested interconversion pathways have been studied by ab initio MO techniques using suitable model reactions involving sulfur and selenium hydrides. Full geometry optimization has been performed for hypervalent chalcogen hydrides H2EE and H2E(EH)2 as well as for the radicals HE · and HEE · (E = S or Se in the case of each chalcogen atom) utilizing the MIDI-4∗ basis sets. The energy changes in their formation from appropriate unbranched chalcogen hydrides HEnH(n = 1,2 or 4) and HEnE′mH (m,n = 0–4; n + m = 2,4; E,E...


Aim . A review of the literature on the effect of the antitumor treatment on the dental status of patients with malignant neoplasms of the oropharyngeal region. Materials and methods. A study of Russian and foreign literature of recent years in the databases of RSCI, Scopus, Web of Science, Pubmed. Results. The condition of the organs and tissues of the oropharyngeal region in patients with malignant neoplasms during the antitumor treatment depends on the therapy used and the general state of body. Conclusion. Combined treatment of malignant neoplasms of the oropharyngeal region causes immediate, early, delayed damage and reactions, which is necessary to control at each stage of the antitumor treatment to improve quality of the subsequent prosthetic rehabilitation of patients.


Production of gold nanoparticles with the specific goal of particle size control has been investigated by systematic variation of chamber pressure and substrate temperature. Gold nanoparticles have been synthesized on SiO_2 nanowires by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Determination of particle size and particle size distribution was done using transmission electron microscopy. Average nanoparticle diameters were between 4 and 12 nm, with particle size increasing as substrate temperature increased from 573 to 873 K. A bimodal size distribution was observed at temperatures ≥723 K indicating Ostwald ripening dominated by surface diffusion. The activation energy for surface diffusion of gold on SiO_2 was determined to be 10.4 kJ/mol. Particle sizes were found to go through a maximum with increases in chamber pressure. Competition between diffusion within the vapor and dissociation of the precursor caused the pressure effect.


rus in reservoir host populations and, in turn, to continuing risk of human exposure. Understanding the pathogenetic "weak links"-potential sites in the course of infection where the virus may be especially susceptible to interventive approaches is the key to designing the most effective control programs. Such programs may someday rely on novel immunologic, chemoprophylactic, and ecologic approaches; they also will continue to have as their goal preexposure


Bovine meat and milk play a major role in the diet of humans and they have positive impact on global food security. The aim of this review work was to investigate the impact of bovine sources of meat and milk on food security in the low, medium and high income countries. Bovine source meat and milk could have impact on the nutritional, health, work, income, educational and recreational needs of humans. However, the feeding needs of bovine are mainly met with forage materials which do not compete with human foods. The beef and dairy cattle are raised mainly under the extensive system of production in the low and medium income countries, while the intensive system of production is that which is adopted majorly in the high income developed nations. The production of healthy beef and milk products may be observed to go a long way in preventing disease occurrence in both the cattle and the human consumers. The raising of fewer numbers of more genetically productive breeds of cattle under the intensive, semi-intensive and extensive systems of production could also have positive impact on global food security, sustainability and the mitigation of green house gas (GHG) emissions.