Three experiments were conducted on the effect of abscisic acid (S-ABA, the natural form) on bolting of Japanese radish (Raphanus sativus L.).Exp. 1. Dry or pre-imbibed seeds of Japanese radish (cv. Taibyousoubutori) were soaked in water (control), 100 or 1, 000 ppm S-ABA for 24 or 48 hr at 15 °C and sown immediately into small planter (6 x 6 x 6 cm3) filled with soil. The planters were kept at 8 °C for 10 or 20 days and then transferred to a growth chamber kept at 22 °C (day) and 18 °C (night). Treatment with 1, 000 ppm S-ABA significantly inhibited bolting of the seedlings.Exp. 2. Four lots of seeds was soaked in water, 250, 500 or 1, 000 ppm S-ABA at 15°C for 24 hr, allowed to dry completely, stored at 4 °C for 5 months and then sown in planters as above. The inhibitory effect of S-ABA on bolting of seedling persisted throughout the drying and storage periods.Exp. 3. Pre-germinated seeds of eight Japanese radish cultivars were dipped in water or 50 ppm S-ABA at 5 °C for 20 days and then sown. In another test, young seedlings of eight radish cultivars were sprayed with water or 250 ppm S-ABA during vernalization for 14 days at 8 °C. Thereafter, they were grown in the greenhouse. Seed-dipping or foliar spray applications of S-ABA inhibited bolting. The efficiency of S-ABA, however, was cultivar-dependent ; seeds and seedlings of 'Taibyousoubutori' and 'Natsuminowase No. 3' were most sensitive to S-ABA, whereas those of "Wakayama" and 'Kaiwaredaikon' were less sensitive. The treatment with 50 ppm S-ABA on pre-germinated seeds was more inhibitory than was the foliar application at 250 ppm.These results show that S-ABA is useful in preventing bolting of Japanese radish.


This study examines the feelings, learning, and diffusion effects resulting from the Challenger explosion using a two pronged approach both in a cross‐section and an over‐time panel design. The sample consists of Cleveland State undergraduates.


To improve the signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, an approach is developed that combines wavelet‐based methods with the general linear model.


Introduction: Down syndrome (DS) is the most common chromosomal aneuploidy to result in a live birth. Absent nasal bone has been consistently observed in fetuses with DS. Multiple studies have been conducted to measure and compare the nasal bone length (NBL) in different races and ethnicity and is found to vary in size. In countries, such as India where often only the second trimester scan is performed for screening of aneuploidies, NBL could be regarded as a useful marker. Aims and objectives: To estimate the NBL of fetuses at 18 to 22 + 6 weeks gestational age in an Indian population, establish a normogram and compare it with that of the Caucasian population. Materials and methods: Prospective observational study in a tertiary care hospital with 500 antenatal subjects after considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results: The normogram was established and found to be comparable to previously established ones for Indian subjects. The 5th centiles for 18-18.6, 19-19.6, 20-20.6, 21-21.6 and 2222.6 weeks of gestations were 3.4, 3. 5, 4.2, 4.3 and 5.4 mm respectively. The NBL increased with gestational age (GA), and the mean NBL was 5.48 mm. No correlation was noted with maternal age, sex of fetus or religion. The NBLs were significantly shorter than those of the Caucasian population. Conclusion: Mean NBL values of Indian population are less than the mean NBL of Caucasian population. This along with the GA needs to be considered in counseling patients and decisions regarding further invasive and noninvasive tests.


Objective:To study the detection of micrometastasis in peripheral blood of patients with colorectal carcinomas.Methods:Cytokeratin 20(CK20) mRNA in peripheral blood of 30 patients with colorectal carcinomas was detected at various time points before and after operation and 20 normal by using non-isotope RT-PCR technique.Results:The positive rate of CK20 mRNA in peripheral blood was 76.67%.The positive detection was significantly correlated with Dukes stage and lymph node metastasis and liver metastasis.There were more than 2 positive cases in 3 days of postoperation.There was a higher probability of liver metastasis in positive cases after operation.Conclusion:The detection of CK20 in peripheral blood of patients with colorectal carcinomas may improve the accuracy of clinical staging and diagnose liver micrometastasis colorectal carcinomas.


The aim of this paper is to model the one-dimensional behaviour of a soft PZT tested in compression. Thanks to a viscoplastic formulation, the effects of cyclical loading and loading rates are also taken into account. The coupling between remnant strain and polarisation is achieved through a mechanically induced depolarisation function.


1. Introduction 2. Review of Physical Principles 3. Atomic and Nuclear Structure 4. Radiation Sources 5. Interaction of Radiation with Matter 6. Radiation Dosimetry 7. Biological Basis for Radiation Safety 8. Radiation Safety Guides 9. Health Physics Instrumentation 10. External Radiation Safety 11. Internal Radiation Safety 12. Criticality 13. Evaluation of Radiation Safety Measures 14. Nonionizing Radiation Safety Appendix A: Values of Some Useful Constants Appendix B: Table of the Elements Appendix C: The Reference Person Overall Specifications Appendix D: Source in Bladder Contents Appendix E: Total Mass Attenuation Coefficients Appendix F: Mass Energy Absorption Coefficients Answers to Problems Index


Now-a-days image processing techniques are very exigent and broadly used in satellite images. The color based segmentation of remotely sensed image is used to assign corresponding levels with respect to groups with harmonized characteristics, with the aim of discriminating multiple objects from each other within the image. Every level of an image is called class. This will be executed on the basis of spectral or spectrally defined features such as density, texture and many other things in the feature space. In this research, well organized algorithm is proposed for Remote sensing image, edge are detected based on improved sobel edge detection algorithm and nuclei segmentation of Remote sensing image using Fuzzy c means clustering algorithm, the recital patterns of the algorithm are analyzed. Finally, edge detected image will be a binary image, this image is converted into color image using olive color map function. The olive color map function consists of colors that are shades of green and yellow. The olive colormap function takes less computational time than other colormap function.The improved sobel edge detection algorithm takes less computational time and greatest PSNR than edge detection algorithm. Keywordsimage processing, Remote sensing image, Fuzzy c means, improved sobel edge detection algorithm.


In view of the current shortcomings of the risk evaluation of municipal engineering trenchless construction, it puts forward to use fuzzy ontology to improve the comprehensible and sharing. After building the risk evaluation system of municipal engineering trenchless construction, this paper discusses how to achieve the system, including creating fuzzy domain ontology, constructing fuzzy evaluation rules, establishing the fuzzy ontology reasoning rules, the renewing and improving of knowledge base.


Ventriculoperitoneal shunts (VPSs) are commonly used for the management of raised intraventricular pressure, especially in the context of hydrocephalus. Malignant invasion involving a VPS is an exc...


This article focuses on the issues of indoor air quality in mechanically ventilated classrooms. The aim of the study was to determine the reasons for inadequate air quality reported by occupants. Two different ventilation systems were assessed by measuring CO 2 and VOC concentrations in classrooms during operating time. Results showed that in both cases, CO 2 levels in the air, even though mostly acceptable, were exceeded throughout the measuring periods on occasion. Based on obtained data, in both cases probable causes for reported ventilation system malfunctions were proposed.


Likely developments in the bunker market are discussed in this article, which is based on extracts from the author's presentation at the International Bunker Conference held in Oslo in November 1989. Among the points made is one noting that availability forecasts indicate an overall surplus in high sulphur fuel oil through the early 1990s, which will work toward ensuring that prices remain very competitive. Major investments for sulphur removal processes, however, will work against this and push up costs. It has been estimated, for example, that a residue hydroconversion process will require a fuel oil "premium" of up to $20 per m t for each percent of extracted sulphur.


We have studied experimentally and theoretically the spontaneous emission from 1.3- and 1.5-/spl mu/m compressively strained InGaAsP multiple-quantum-well lasers in the temperature range 90-400 K to determine the variation of carrier density n with current I up to threshold. We find that the current contributing to spontaneous emission at threshold I/sub Rad/ is always well behaved and has a characteristic temperature T/sub 0/ (I/sub Rad/)/spl ap/T, as predicted by simple theory. This implies that the carrier density at threshold is also proportional to temperature. Below a breakpoint temperature T/sub B/, we find I /spl alpha/ n/sup Z/, where Z=2. And the total current at threshold I/sub th/ also has a characteristic temperature T/sub 0/ (I/sub th/)/spl ap/T, showing that the current is dominated by radiative transitions right up to threshold. Above T/sub B/, Z increases steadily to Z/spl ap/3 and T/sub 0/ (I/sub th/) decreases to a value less than T/3. This behavior is explained in terms of the onset of Auger recombination above T/sub B/; a conclusion supported by measurements of the pressure dependence of I/sub th/. From our results, we estimate that, at 300 K, Auger recombination accounts for 50% of I/sub th/ in the 1.3-/spl mu/m laser and 80% of I/sub th/ in the 1.5-/spl mu/m laser. Measurements of the spontaneous emission and differential efficiency indicate that a combination of increased optical losses and carrier overflow into the barrier and separate confinement heterostructure regions may further degrade T/sub 0/ (I/sub th/) above room temperature.


Simulation‐based education (SBE) includes a broad spectrum of simulation activities, which are individually well researched. An extensive literature reports on SBE methods, topics and modalities, but there are limited studies investigating how simulation as a holistic phenomenon promotes learning.


Cross-functional integration (CFI) capabilities of veteran managers have always been viewed as important, but organizations now expect new undergraduate business hires to demonstrate these skill se...


This study suggests that osteoporosis per se is not productive of pain. In most cases due to minimal trauma there is a sudden onset of severe back pain caused by compression fracture of the weakened osteoporotic vertebral body. The combined therapy consisting of methyltestosterone an4 cestrogens, high protein diet, a hard bed and a spinal support is useful in the symptomatic treatment of osteoporosis. In this group of cases this form of treatment has been found to have no value in the promotion of recalcification of osteoporotic vertebre during the time the patients were observed (up to two years). We feel, however, that if an elderly patient with back pain is proved to have senile or postmenopausal osteoporosis, the regimen herein outlined is worthy of a trial. We are now investigating the usefulness of strontium lactate as an adjuvant to calcium in the remineralization of the skeleton in man as advocated by Shorr and Carter.'3


This paper describes grammaticalization of the complex prepositions, on account of, because of and by reason of. On account of has undergone gradual development of grammaticalization, i.e. a process of 'reanalysis' which is defined as the reinterpreting or rebracketing of old structure. By cause of is a loan translation of the French par cause de, and by reason of followed [PREP+N+PREP] construction, by cause of through analogy. This paper also shows evolution of particular meanings and semantic changes, based on semantic designations of the causal connectives provided in Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.; 1991). Five major mechanisms are invoked here to explain such semantic changes, i.e. metaphor, metonymy, generalization, subjectification, and anthropocentricity. This investigation shows that semantic change is a complex process in which multifarious factors and mechanisms interplay. Finally this paper describes different aspects of the current usage as well as the distributional characteristics of these complex prepositions by using the 100-million word British National Corpus. This study addresses correlation between high frequency, the age of words, and morphological simplicity. This study also shows that given the distributional characteristics of these complex prepositions, the current usages of the prepositions are still restricted and affected by semantic persistence.


The monthly average radio refractivity of Sokoto, Ikeja, Lokoja, have been determined using the data of temperature, pressure and relative humidity between 1971 and 1980 of Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET). The work employed ITU-R model to determine the various parameters. The result showed that there was variation in the monthly radio refractivity of the study areas but more noticed in Sokoto compared to Ikeja and Lokoja. It was shown that Sokoto with the highest elevation has the lowest average monthly refractivity while Ikeja with the lowest elevation has the highest average monthly refractivity. The analysis from Refractive Gradient and Effective Earth Radius Factor k shows that propagation of radio wave in the three regions (Ikeja, Lokoja and Sokoto) is mostly super-refractive. Rainfall and Water vapour seem to be the major factors that responsible for difference in their refractivity. Although, the relationship between the radio refractivity with respect to the latitudes and longitude of the study areas is not very clear, the radio refractivity was then concluded to be inversely proportional to the elevation of a study area.


This paper proposes a solution that leverages Logistic Regression classification model to predict the possible values of feature matrix to be qualified as a specific class (from response vector). It provides the mechanism to obtain the value of a specific attribute of feature matrix where other attribute values of the feature matrix are known, and the user aims to reach to a specific class. The Logistic Regression model calculates the Logit or score for each class in the response vector. The proposed solution uses the weights of each feature calculated by the Logistic Regression model and calculates the value of the unknown feature that can make the complete set of feature matrix (derived value of the unknown attribute and known values of other attributes) reach the response class.


This paper examines the relationship between the regulatory and supervision framework, and the productivity of banks in 22 countries over the period 1999–2009. We follow a semiparametric two-step approach that combines Malmquist index estimates with bootstrap regressions. The results indicate that regulations and incentives that promote private monitoring (PMON) have a positive impact on productivity. Restrictions on banks' activities relating to their involvement in securities, insurance, real estate, and ownership of nonfinancial firms also have a positive impact. Regulations relating to the first and second pillars of Basel II, namely, capital requirements (CAPR) and official supervisory power (SPR) do not have, in general, a statistically significant impact on productivity over the study period although they appear to gain in importance following the onset of the financial crisis in 2007. The latter finding indicates that stringent capital and supervisory standards have positive productivity effects when financial pressures peak. Our results are robust when controlling for various country-specific features and alternative estimation approaches.


A novel rhodium/copper-cocatalyzed coupling–cyclization reaction of o-alkenyl arylisocyanides with vinyl azides has been developed for the first time. In this transformation, the reactive vinyl carbodiimides generated in situ from the coupling reaction of o-alkenyl arylisocyanides with vinyl azides undergo intramolecular [4 + 2] cycloaddition and provide a new and efficient strategy for the synthesis of polysubstituted α-carbolines by the formation of two C–C bonds, one C–N bond and two aromatic rings in a single step from readily available acyclic starting materials.


We investigated random telegraph signals and 1/f noise in a submicron metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor at low temperatures in the Coulomb-blockade regime. The rich noise characteristics were studied as a function of gate voltage, drain current, and temperature, both in and beyond the Ohmic regime. The results can be understood within a simple model assuming a uniform potential fluctuation of constant magnitude at the location of the dot. Clear signatures of electron heating are found from the noise at higher currents.


Eye tracking is an important technique for realizing safe and efficient human–machine interaction. This study proposes a facial-based eye tracking system that only relies on a non-intrusive, low-cost web camera by leveraging a data-driven approach. To address the challenge of rapid deployment to a new scenario and reduce the workload of the data collection, this study proposes an efficient transfer learning approach that includes a novel affine layer to bridge the gap between the source domain and the target domain to improve the transfer learning performance. Furthermore, a calibration technique is also introduced in this study for model performance optimization. To verify the proposed approach, a series of comparative experiments are conducted on a designed experimental platform to evaluate the effects of various transfer learning strategies, the proposed affine layer module, and the calibration technique. The experiment results showed that the proposed affine layer can improve the model's performance by 7% (without calibration) and 4% (with calibration), and the proposed approach can achieve state-of-the-art performance when compared to the others.


If I hadn't gotten into the academy, my life would be so much different than it is now! It has helped me so much, because I didn't really talk to people that much, and I was very shy. I know it's hard to believe that but I was! I wouldn't be as active in school as I am now, so I just feel as though I'm glad I got into the academy because, you know, all the opportunity I have now, it would never have been possible.(Career academy senior, quoted by Poglinco 1998, p. 15.)


As one of the literary style in ancient time, preface in essay form has made considerable progress in the Tang Dynasty. The preface written when friends parted in the Tang Dynasty was especially remarkable in respect of its literary achievement. The research on preface in essay form has long been a field that is not fully developed. Since the 1980s increasing attention has been diverted to preface in essay form written in the Tang Dynasty among the academic circle and the research is more detailed and comprehensive. Generally speaking,there are the subject research, narrative research, appreciative research and introductory research,etc. Though the research on preface is far from satisfactory and is limited in many ways, in regard to the overall pattern it has entered a new stage.


Abstract:Purpose. Social determinants of health, including food insecurity, housing instability, social isolation, and unemployment are important drivers of health outcomes and utilization. To inform implementation of social needs screening and response protocols, there is a need to identify the associated costs in routine primary care encounters. Methods. We interviewed key stakeholders in four diverse community health centers that had adopted a widely used social needs screening and response protocol. We evaluated costs using an activity-based costing tool across both the initial implementation phase and ongoing maintenance phase. Results. Clinic costs were associated with workforce development, planning, and electronic health record integration. These initial implementation costs varied by site ($6,644–$49,087). On a per-patient basis, ongoing maintenance costs ranged from $9.76 to $47.98. Conclusion. Our findings can aid in designing reimbursement mechanisms tied to social needs screening and response to accelerate translational efforts and promote health equity.


The Eternal system provides transparent fault tolerance for CORBA applications, without requiring the modification of either the application or the ORB. Eternal replicates the application objects, and ensures strong replica consistency by employing reliable totally-ordered multicast messages for conveying the IIOP messages of the application. To maintain replica consistency even as replicas fail and are recovered, Eternal ensures the retrieval, assignment and transfer of the three kinds of state, application-level, ORB/POA-level and infrastructure-level state, that are associated with each replicated object. Eternal's mechanisms for recovery include the synchronization of the the state retrieval and the state assignment messages, as well as the logging and replay of messages and checkpoints.


In this paper, the authors revisit the power thyristor, highlighting the various standard types available. It is shown that for fast turn-on, pulse power applications, the asymmetric design offers the best performance. The preliminary characteristics of a new 3.3 kV high power asymmetric thyristor (ACR) are presented and by comparison with other fast switches, such as GTOs and IGBTs, the ACR is shown to have several performance advantages.


Two easily accessible routes for preparing an array of formylated and acetylated amines under mechanochemical conditions are presented. The two methodologies exhibit complementary features as they enable the derivatization of aliphatic and aromatic amines.


Purpose - Since the last decade of the 20th Century, the relation between entrepreneurship and economic performance have been discussed and empirically examined by various studies. Although the importance of the impact of entrepreneurship on economic performance have been studied empirically exclusively at the firm and industry level, country level contributions are rather short. Taking this deficiency into account, the aim of this study is to examine investigate the impact of entrepreneurial activities on economic growth at country level. Methodology - The empirical analysis of the study is modelled by consolidating entrepreneurship as an intermediate variable to the CobbDouglas growth model beside the basic variables of labour, gross capital formation, and gross domestic product per capita. The data of 35 countries covering 2006-2015 period is used in the study and the data is collected from OECD and Global Entrepreneurship Research Association databases. Findings - The results of the study produce that although the changes in the entrepreneurial variables don't effect economic growth immediately, they present a significant and positive effect in the long run. Conclusion - As the effect of entrepreneurial activities on economic growth come out in the long run, policies for entrepreneurship should be planned on a long-term basis.


Extensive development of the theory of logistics has been reflected in numerous publications on its various directions, including the issues of supply chain evaluation, the increased importance of which is noted by many leading experts. At the same time, evaluation becomes more complex by planning levels, by supplier/consumer levels, etc., as the chain itself expands, both at the design stage and in the process of operation. Ensuring reliability is a major supply chain challenge. Reliability of complex systems including a significant number of elements operating under conditions of uncertainty of the external environment becomes especially important. At the same time failures of modern chains of supply are associated with great technical and economic losses. All this causes necessity of the proved and qualitative design and operation of supply chains, development of the full methodology and sufficient methodical apparatus of management of reliability of supply chains which are absent at present. The development of the Arctic zone presupposes the creation and operation of large-scale both in structure and volume of served flows, especially cargo transportation systems, which increases the problem of forming reliable supply chains.


China's Central Plains region is the cradle of Chinese civilization,whose culture is an important source and core part of Chinese culture.It is a significant move to execute the introduction and teaching of the Central Plains culture to international students and incorporate it into the cultural instruction curriculum for international students,which will cater to both the practical need of the development of international education in Henan and the cultural need of initiating cultural instruction programs for overseas students in Henan.To explore an ideal educational model for the introduction and instruction of the Central Plains culture to international students in Henan,efforts must be made in terms of curriculum construction,teaching staff cultivation,teaching material compilation and creation of favorable cultural learning atmospheres.


Objective To investigate the effects of exogenous hydrogen sulfide (H2S) on the mitochondrial function during focal cerebral ischemia and the relationship with mitochondrial damage in rats.Methods Eighty male Sprague-Dawley rats,weighing 250-300 g,were randomly divided into 5 groups (n =16 each):sham operation group (group S),cerebral ischemia group (group CI),and high,medium and low dose NaHS groups (NaHS1,NaHS2 and NaHS3 groups).The animals were anesthetized with intraperitoneal chloral hydrate.The focal cerebral ischemia was induced by middle cerebral artery occlusion.Normal saline 1 ml/kg was injected intraperitoneally at 3 h after the model was established.NaHS 2.8,1.4 and 0.7 mg/kg were injected intraperitoneally in NaHS1,NaHS2 and NaHS3 groups,respectively.At 24 h after the model was established,the cerebral infarct volume was determined.The changes in the cerebral infarct volume were observed after administration of NaHS.Cerebral specimens on the ischemic side were obtained for determination of the content of H2S and activity of 3-mercaptopyruvate sulphurtransferase (3MST) in brain tissues.The mitochondria were extracted for determination of the activity and swelling of mitochondrial membrane and changes in the total ATPase,superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activities and malondialdehyde (MDA) content.Results Compared with group S,the cerebral infarct volume was significantly enlarged in CI,NaHS1,NaHS2 and NaHS3 groups,the content of H2 S in brain tissues and activity of mitochondrial 3MST were decreased in CI,NaHS2 and NaHS3 groups,the activities of mitochondria,SOD and GSH-Px were significantly decreased,and the swelling of mitochondrial membrane and content of MDA were increased in CI and NaHS3 groups,the total ATPase activity was decreased in CI group,and SOD activity was decreased in NaHS1 and NaHS2 groups.Compared with CI group,the cerebral infarct volume was significantly reduced,the content of H2 S in brain tissues and activity of mitochondrial 3MST were increased,the activities of mitochondria,total ATPase,SOD and GSH-Px were increased,the swelling of mitochondrial membrane was reduced,and the content of MDA was decreased in NaHS1 and NaHS2 groups.Conclusion The mechanism by which exogenous H2 S mitigates focal cerebral ischemia is related to enhanced anti-oxidant activity of mitochondria and reduced mitochondrial damage in rats.

Key words:
Hydrogen sulfide ;  Brain ischemia ;  Mitochondria


Feng Zikais works have special aesthetic features.First of all,his prose is filled with a chatting like atmosphere which draws close the distance between the author and the readers.Second,his works embody a kind of esthetic taste of "refined simplicity",such as plain and simple language,clear and profound art.


There are two main contributions of this paper. One is the description of the architecture of the SplineX Client/Server toolkit for interactive modeling and display of algebraic curves and surface splines over a Bernstein-Bezier(BB) basis. The second is our enhancements and experiments with the implementation of modeling and rendering algorithm dealing with algebraic surface splines. In particular, we describe the implementation of distributing the rendering process of a. spline consisting of several Bezier simplices over a network of workstations. Furthermore, we describe the use of SplineX for the interactive control and surface selection of fitting surfaces.


This paper shows the results of exterior and interior design of a prototype test train(HSR 350X) which was developed in R&D project titled "Development of High Speed Railway Technology". The prototype test train, which has two power cars, two motorized trailers and three trailers, is now being tested on high speed line. The improved conceptual design work of a new commercial train and next generation's train is also performed for future needs.


A mica window Geiger counter tube is described which combines the speed of a metal walled tube with a sensitivity to soft radiations comparable to that of the screen walled tubes. It consists of a NO2 treated metal cylinder covered at one end by a thin sheet of mica (0.02 mm) and at the other end by a glass bell with a central capillary. Through this capillary is sealed a piece of 8‐mil tungsten wire with a drop of glass fused over the end. The tube is operated at a pressure of 10 cm of Hg with a mixture of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent argon.


Educational reforms of Alexander I began the formation and the development of the unified system of education in Russia. In that time there was a considerable increase of number of schools and a great amount of schoolchildren in the country. But there were many problems at the stage of formation of system of education: poor finances of schools, bad training of specialists, how well schools were provided with books, bad school conditions, public misunderstanding of benefit of children's literacy.


The maintenance of live feed in automatic feeders is accompanied by fasting of fodder organisms, resultedin a lose of their nutritional value and even death. The way out of this situation can be the joint maintenance of Artemia nauplii and their fodder objects – microalgae. Accordingly, an influence of three microalgae monocultures (Desmodesmus armatus, Chlorella vulgaris, Dunaliella salina) and the AlgaMac Protein Plus drug on survival of Artemia nauplii was analyzed. It was shown that the lowest mortality rates of brine shrimp were observed when it was co-cultivated with monoculture of Chlorella. The use of the AlgaMac Protein Plus algal drug provided a significant reduction in the mortality rate of Artemia nauplii at 12 hours of cultivation. Cell size of studied algal species is a key point for their using as a fodder object for brine shrimp. Maximum diameter of Chlorella cells reaches 10 μm. Cells of D. armatus are single nucleated autospores with coccoid shape. Their size is 10-20 microns in length; 3.5-8 microns in width. However, exept of single cells, Desmodesmus forms conglomerates in 2-4 cells, which complicates its capture by Artemia. Algae of the genus Dunaliella are the component of the natural feed base for Artemia in salt and hypersaline lakes. Despite the fact that these algae are actively consumed by adult Artemia, for their early stages Dunaliella remains practically inaccessible, as it has large enough cells of a pear shaped form up to 25 microns in length and 4 to 10 microns in width. The initial length of Artemia nauplii after hatching was about 551 μm. In the control sample after 24 hours, this parameter was increased to 625 microns. In the experimental sample, co-cultivated with Dunaliella the size of brine shrimp was 617 μm, while enriching with Chlorella this parameter was 611 μm. The smallest size was observed in nauplii co-cultivated with D. armatus.
 Key words: live feed, Artemia, microalgae, mortality, AlgaMac Protein Plus.


In this paper, newly proposed dual-band microstrip antennas using stacked inverted-L-shaped parasitic elements are presented for GPS and bands. For making dual band which has large interval, ( band) inverted-L-shaped parasitic elements were stacked at both side of radiation apertures on the half-wavelength( band) patch antennas. The resonance in the parasitic elements occurs through coupling to the patch. Next, due to using circular polarization at GPS, ( band) inverted-L-shaped parasitic elements was stacked using sequential rotation technique on the patch and both side of the diagonal corners of the antenna were eliminated to make dual-band circular polarization. The designed circular polarized antenna`s dimensions are ( is the free-space wavelength at 1.227 GHz). Measured -10 dB bandwidths was 120 MHz(7.6%) and 82.5 MHz(6.7%) at GPS and bands. and 3 dB axial ration bandwidths are 172 MHz(10.9%) and 25 MHz(2.03%), respectively. All of these cover the respective required system bandwidths. Within each of the designed bands, broadside radiation patterns were observed.


The dynamics of a PTCDA-Ag(111) molecular junction has been investigated experimentally and theoretically. Switching between two conductance states was observed by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, and was dependent on the tip-substrate distance and the applied bias, but was less sensitive to the bias polarity. Using a minimal model Hamiltonian approach combined with density-functional calculations, the switching was shown to be related to the scattering of electrons tunneling through the junction, which progressively excite the relevant chemical bond. Depending on the direction in which the molecule switches, different molecular orbitals are shown to dominate the transport and thus the vibrational heating process. This in turn can dramatically affect the behavior of the switching rate, demonstrating the importance of modelling the DOS realistically.


Concerning the econometric methods, firstly I am concerned about the lack of attention to structural breaks. The author uses an ADF, but it might provide biased results (Baum +2004) because it does not account for structural breaks. Therefore, it is important to use a unit root test such as Zivot and Andrew (1992) for one structural break, and Lumsdaine and Papell (1997) for two structural breaks. Second, the Indian economy faced some structural changes. There are no dummy variables in the equations, which are important to an equation that produces unit root test results. Third is the lack of attention to an endogeneity problem. The author uses the lagged value of trade openness as an instrument. Instrumental variables are difficult to define. As the data are a time series, I think it is more appropriate to use Granger causality to find the relation between the two variables.


The combination drug dextromethorphan/quinidine is the only FDA-approved treatment of pseudobulbar affect (PBA). Its mechanism of action for PBA seems to be related to its antiglutamatergic and anti-NMDA actions. The recommended dose is 20 mg dextromethorphan/ 10 mg quinidine twice daily. The rationale for combination therapy is that dextromethorphan is rapidly metabolized by an enzyme that is inhibited by quinidine. Tricyclic and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants have shown benefit, but clinical trial data is limited by small numbers of patients and poor standardization of PBA diagnostic and severity criteria.


Aim: The safety of people during meetings and public events requires an analysis of the conditions of evacuation and the proper organisation of escape in times of danger. Modelling the evacuation process is one of the options for analysing and planning the safe evacuation of the buildings, facilities and spaces during events. The aim of the article was to present the practical use of cellular automata for evacuation modelling and comparing the results with the results achieved using commercial software. Additionally, the objective of this work was to compare the cost of computational evacuation modelling of cellular automata with the "Social Force" model.


In this hi-tech world, the "smart coatings" have sparked significant attention among materials scientists because of their versatile applications. Various strategies have been developed to generate smart coatings in the past 2 decades. The layer-by-layer (LbL) technique is the most commonly employed strategy to produce a smart coating for suitable applications. Here, we present a smart coating with healing, antifogging, and fluorescence properties fabricated by the LbL assembly of an anionic amphiphilic block copolymer latex and cationic inorganic POSS (polyhedral-oligomeric-silsesquioxane) nanoparticles. In this case, a new anionic block copolymer (BCP), {poly(sodium styrene sulfonate)-block-poly[2-(acetoacetoxy)ethyl methacrylate]}, (PSS-b-PAAEMA) was synthesized via surfactant-free RAFT-mediated emulsion polymerization using the PISA technique. The PSS-b-PAAEMA was characterized by 1H NMR, dynamic light scattering, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy analyses as well as by UV-vis and photoluminescence spectroscopy. For LbL coating fabrication, an amine-modified glass was successively dipped in the anionic latex and cationic POSS solution. The transparent coating exhibited good fluorescence properties under UV light (blue color). The antifogging performance of the coating was also investigated using both cold-warm and hot-vapor techniques. Additionally, the coating surface showed a significant healing activity with a healing efficiency of >75% through ionic interaction. Thus, this finding provides a simple low volatile organic compound (VOC) water-based LbL coating with multifunctional properties that can be a potential material for versatile applications.


Preface Part 1: Introduction to Purchasing and Supply Management Chapter 1: Purchasing and Supply Management Chapter 2: Purchasing Decisions and Business Strategy Chapter 3: The Legal Aspects of Purchasing Part 2: Materials Management Chapter 4: Materials Management Chapter 5: Inventory Management Chapter 6: Just-In-Time (Lean) Purchasing Chapter 7: Purchasing Procedures, E-Purchasing, and Systems Contracting Part 3: Fundamentals of Purchasing and Supply Management Chapter 8: Supplier Selection and Evaluation Chapter 9: Global Sourcing Chapter 10: Purchasing, Supply Partnerships, and Supply Chain Power Chapter 11: Total Quality Management (TQM) and Purchasing Part 4: Price/Cost Analysis and Negotiation Strategies Chapter 12: Price Determination Chapter 13: Bargaining and Negotiations Part 5: Special Purchasing Application Chapter 14: Purchasing Transportation Services Chapter 15: Equipment Acquisition and Disposal Chapter 16: Healthcare Purchasing and Supply Management Chapter 17: Procuring Professional Services Cases Glossary Index


From the WM point of view, breathing way is classified as costal type, cost-abdominal type, abdominal type. The important tip for good breathing is at first to expire as much as possible. During expiration, inflate the abdomen so that the intra-abdominal pressure increases [3]. When exhaling with somewhat using the abdominal muscles, it is recommended to place both hands on the umbilicus. During elevated intraabdominal pressure, the abdomen is inflated. On contrast, the abdomen will be finally concaved, just only the phase at the end of expiration.


The purpose of this study was to review the existing literature on leadership among nurses and emotional intelligence in order to look at the relationship between the two and define some of the challenges affecting the nursing field. The literature review revealed that there is almost no Japanese research on the relationship between nurses and emotional intelligence. On the other hand, there have been many studies outside of Japan on this topic since the year 2000; these suggest that charge nurses with high emotional intelligence demonstrate superior leadership skills. In the future, methods of applying emotional intelligence assessments to the nursing field in Japan will need to be considered and put into practice at nurse worksites.


Ever since the turn of the century the incidence and severity of acutf rheumatism have been steadily falling. In 1889 Cheadle stated that acutf rheumatism was the commonest cause for admission to hospital and was als? frequently seen in private practice. A similar state of affairs is revealed by ̂ figures for admission to one ward at the Bristol Children's Hospital in charge of Dr. Edgeworth who was not particularly interested in acute rheuma' tism. From June 1890 to July 1893 there were 197 admissions and of thes^ 57 (29%) were for rheumatism or chorea. By 1925 Hutchison could say " tha it was a disease of hospital and not consulting practice and that he could couij1 on one hand the cases of acute rheumatic carditis that he had seen in consul' i


Solid‐state synthesis and an investigation of the crystal/magnetic structure and magnetic properties of the Bi1−xCaxFe0.6Mn0.4O3+δ [x = 0.1, 0.15; δ = 0.02(2)] multiferroics have been conducted to explore an approach to designing ferroelectric materials with the enhanced magnetization attributed to the ferromagnetic superexchange involving the Mn 3d states. It is shown that the (Ca, Mn)‐doped samples maintain the polar R3c structure characteristic of the pure bismuth ferrite. For both these compounds, an antiferromagnetic (AFM) G‐type ordering of the Fe/Mn magnetic moments along the hexagonal c‐axis is revealed at room temperature. The reorientation of the magnetic moments from the c‐ to a‐axis occurs as temperature decreases. Being consistent with the competing character of the superexchange between Mn3+, Mn4+, and Fe3+ ions, the coexistence of AFM long‐range‐ordered and superparamagnetic phases underlying the appearance of a significant magnetization in the low‐temperature range is observed.


We propose in this paper a new video shot boundary classification (SBC) method. First we present a method to extract features, which exploits the spatial-temporal information of video frames in a sliding window centered at the detected shot boundary. Then feature projection and classification methods such as principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) combined with k-nearest neighbor classification, and hierarchical discriminant regression (HDR) are proposed to classify different types of shot boundaries. Experimental results have shown the effectiveness of the proposed SBC method.


Nowadays, bio-mimetic method comes more and more popular as being applied in various fields including image fusion. A number of population-based algorithms are proposed to solve this kind of problem for example the ant colony optimization and the artificial bee colony optimization. In this paper, an original approach with bionic solutions named Pigeon-Inspired Optimization (PIO) is proposed, which possesses high efficiency especially for discrete optimization problem. It is combined with the fuzzy radial basis function neural network to optimize the problem of image fusion. A population-based searching process is provided to the optimization model, which is inspired by the movements of pigeons that can accurately guide a group of pigeons to their final destination. A series of experiments are set up in this paper to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the method.


Isolated root cultures of Datura innoxia Miller to which benzoin anti-oxime (Cupron) was added showed a change in the habit of growth but no change in the weight of the roots nor in the hyoscyamine and scopolamine content, indicating that ascorbic acid oxidase activity was not involved in alkaloid biosynthesis. An improved method for the germination of D. innoxia seeds was developed.


Results: Twenty patients matched inclusion criteria (12 female:8 male). CS subtypes included metopic (7), unilateral coronal (6 right, 3 left), multisutural (2), sagittal (1) and sagittal and metopic (1). Mean age at surgery and time to follow-up scan was 1.4 years and 2.8 years respectively. Average growth of the inter-eurion distance and glab.-opistho. distance was 3.3% and 10.4% respectively. The bandeau AP length increased 18.2%, and height increased by 29.5%. While average bitemporal width increased 4.7%, anterior bandeau width decreased by 4.1%, leading to a transverse deficiency in the anterior temporal region. The average initial zygomatico-frontal (ZF) osteotomy offset was 3.8mm laterally and 7.0mm anteriorly; these remodeled, eliminating the gap. The average initial bandeau orbital width was 3.8mm wider than the midface orbital width and decreased by 2mm while the midface orbital width increased by 2mm over time (~50% loss of overcorrection). Data was significant to p<0.05 by paired t-test.


Operation risk management in computer laboratory; involves the process or identifying, quantifying and analyzing the potential risks or a computer-based system, and it has become a significant consideration towards designing secure software systems. Despite the previous methods adopted for the risk management, there still exists today growing on computer systems. In this work, a fuzzy logic-based operation risk element technique is designed. The design involves the fuzzification of inputs that are based on major categories (VVT-strategy, canonical VVT Model (C'VM), Appraisal Risk Model (ARM), and Impact Risk Model (TRM), rule evaluation, Aggregation of the rule output and defuzzification using Mamdani-style inference system. implementing the design using MATLAB fuzzy logic tools, the result shows a robust system that can be used to evaluate the potential risks to computer-based systems.


High-resolution spectroscopy of molecular ions has been proven to be a difficult endeavor. Generating significant quantities of the desired ions and discriminating ions from neutrals are among some of the many difficulties surrounding the spectroscopic studies of these species. Despite these difficulties, molecular ions and their reactions play important roles as intermediates in organic reactions, reactants in combustion chemistry, species in biological processes such as respiration, as interstellar species, and as species found in terrestrial and extraterrestrial atmospheres. Although extensive research has been devoted to study these species and their reactions, scientists have barely "scratched the surface" in the realm of molecular ions. One of the simplest molecular ions, H3 , has been measured spectroscopically in the laboratory and observed by astronomers in the interstellar medium, the galactic center, and planetary atmospheres. Both H3 and its parent neutral, H2, exist in two nuclear spin configurations, ortho and para, and yield unique spectral signatures that can be measured in the laboratory and in astronomical environments. Most importantly, these species have been found to be useful temperature probes of interstellar clouds. However, a temperature discrepancy arises when comparing the temperatures calculated from each species. Since the chemistry of H2 has been well established, these findings indicate that the regulation of the nuclear spin states of H + 3 is not well understood. The nuclear spin configuration of interstellar H3 is postulated to be governed by the reaction of H + 3 + H2 → H2 + H3 and is one of the topics explored in this work. This reaction is investigated in the laboratory by spectroscopically monitoring the populations of several low-energy levels of orthoand paraH3 in hydrogenic plasmas of varying para-H2 enrichments. Measurements were taken at room temperature and for the first time, at liquid nitrogen temperatures. Steady-state modeling is employed to infer the ratio of the rates of the hop and exchange pathways of the above reaction and aids in the understanding of how the distribution of the nuclear spin states of H3 is regulated in the interstellar medium. This study will aid in understanding of the temperature discrepancy found between H2 and H + 3 in hopes to improve the viability of H3 as a temperature probe in astronomical environments where H2 measurements are impossible or not readily available.


Rome, AD. 285, occupation of Italy by Diocletian; Rome and Trier, AD. 294, first consulate of the Caesars; Trier, beginning of A.D. 297, festivities celebrating the reconquest of Britannia in A.D. 296; Trier, AD. 297, fifth consulate of Maximian; Trier, A.D. 297, second consulate of Galerius; Trier, A.D. 297, quinquennalia of the Caesars; Trier, A.D. 302, decennalia of Constantius and Galerius; Trier, A.D. 303, vicennalia of Diocletian and Maximian; Trier, A.D. 305, fifth consulate of Constantius and Galerius; Trier, A.D. 305-6, Second Tetrarchy; Trier, A.D. 307, promotion of Constantine to status of Augustus; Trier, A.D. 310, Constantine's quinquennalia. The Vemania hoard is far more revealing than the west Mediterranean hoard. It is obviously of lower social status than the Beaurains treasure; but it complements the Beaurains treasure for just that reason, and its historical value for us is as great, revealing as it does not only the postings of the owner and his unit but also part of the history of the camp at which he presumably died. As a hoard of jewellery, dated and with a social and historical context, it is a key group of permanent significance. Military historians, jewellery historians and numismatists owe a debt of gratitude to the authors, to their editor and to the Kommission zur archaologischen Erforschung des spatromischen Raetiens for the publication of this important volume.


This article introduces a new interaction model called Instrumental Interaction that extends and generalizes the principles of direct manipulation. It covers existing interaction styles, including traditional WIMP interfaces, as well as new interaction styles such as two-handed input and augmented reality. It defines a design space for new interaction techniques and a set of properties for comparing them. Instrumental Interaction describes graphical user interfaces in terms of domain objects and interaction instruments. Interaction between users and domain objects is mediated by interaction instruments, similar to the tools and instruments we use in the real world to interact with physical objects. The article presents the model, applies it to describe and compare a number of interaction techniques, and shows how it was used to create a new interface for searching and replacing text.


Putin's "new-Russians thought" is the spiritual source of the development of Russia's sports.The traditional big power consciousness is the internal core power of the development of Russia's sports,na-tion-government always plays important role in the development of Russia's sports.


There are many plug-in components in PCB circuit production. The AOI of these components has always been a difficult problem because of the large deviation of manual installation position of these components. In this paper, an AOI algorithm based on multi-angle classification and recognition is proposed for the plug-in polar capacitors. The algorithm combines traditional image comparison method with feature recognition method, and uses AdaBoost classifier based on Haar-like feature to recognize and classify multi-angle polar capacitors. Experimental results show that the algorithm proposed in this paper can effectively detect three kinds of defects: capacitor missing, capacitor polarity error and capacitor size mismatch.


Specific binding sites for prolactin have been found in membrane preparations from the liver, adrenal, testis, epididymis, prostate and seminal vesicles of male rabbits. In epididymal tissue the binding was time and temperature dependent and was a saturable process with an association constant (Ka) of 1.9 to 2.4 X i0� W1 and a binding capacity of 175-185 femtomoles/mg protein. The binding of [1 25I1-oPRL or [12 5I1-hGH is inhibited by 0PRL, but not by bovine GH, ovine FSH or LH. In the male accessory organs the highest binding was found in membrane preparation from the epididymis and binding did not change significantly with age (3 months-i year). On the other hand, prolactin binding to testis, prostate and seminal vesicles was highest in 3-month-old rabbits.


For Lacan, in 1964, sexuality was by definition traumatic. In 1970, language was traumatic, for it is language that affects the body. A change can be noted here: there is a shift from the unconscious as truth to the unconscious as knowledge. A clinical analysis guided by the real requires work on the change in perspective that the 1970s introduced into Lacanian teaching. Quoting Miller, this can be expressed as follows: "Jouissance, too, relates to the signifier, but where it joins with the living."


ABSTRACT Preparations for the EU's post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework have brought increased interest to the functional approach as a major paradigm of the EU policies towards cross-border areas. This approach aims to focus cross-border programmes on territories where there is a high degree of cross-border interaction. Cross-border functional areas (CBFAs) can be a potential instrument for this, fostering further reduction of cross-border barriers and enhancing flows of people, goods, materials and knowledge. However, certain aspects of this notion are rather vague. This includes both the way how to turn the rather discursive concept of the CBFA into more material-institutional practices, and how CBFAs can be identified in practice to successfully implement the EU's cohesion policy. This paper debates the concept of the CBFA and proposes understanding CBFAs as spatially specific territorial complexes, located on two (or more) sides of a state border(s) that are not defined by administrative borders, but by cross-border functional linkages, a system of cooperative relationships and the existence of governance mechanisms. The paper proposes a novel approach for CBFA's identification based on a four-level model, taking into account the selected criteria. The proposed framework enabled to identify CBFAs and potential CBFAs at the borders of Poland.


Flexible fibreoptic bronchoscopy has largely superseded rigid bronchoscopy. It allows direct visualization of the respiratory mucosa and detailed examination of the upper airways and tracheobronchial tree (Figure 1). By passing instruments through the endoscope local and transbronchi al biopsies and mucus/sputum samples can be taken for histological, cytological and microbiological examination.


The S. caramani species-group is assessed, and the main identification characters of the group are listed and discussed. The lectotype of S. caramani (Staudinger, 1880) is here established, and its genitalia are represented and described for the first time. A new species belonging to the species-group, Scythris marashi Passerin d'Entreves & Roggero, sp. n., is described from Turkey.


The rapid growth in the collection of high-dimensional data has led to the emergence of tensor decomposition, a powerful analysis method for the exploration of multidimensional data. Since tensor decomposition can extract hidden structures and capture underlying relationships between variables, it has been used successfully across a broad range of applications. However, tensor decomposition is a computationally expensive task, and existing methods developed to decompose large sparse tensors of count data are not efficient enough when being performed with limited computing resources. Therefore, we propose AS-CP, a novel algorithm to accelerate convergence of the stochastic gradient descent based CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) decomposition model through an extrapolation method. The proposed framework can be easily parallelized in an asynchronous way. Our empirical results on three real-world datasets demonstrate that AS-CP decreases the total computation time and scales readily to large datasets without necessitating a high-performance computing platform or environment. The advantage of AS-CP over several state-of-the-art methods is also shown through a machine learning task as the computed factors by AS-CP can help identify better clinical characteristics from EHR data.


Colors of 40 hues with 9 levels of value, pictures of three clothes styles, i.e., occupational dress, sports wear and ceremonial dress, were selected as the stimuli. The E-Prime 2.0 was employed to test the perceptual gorgeousness of clothes with different color brightness and clothes styles as well as the subjects' response time. Results show that colors with medium value are perceived to be more gorgeous, and the corresponding response time is relatively less. There exist significant differences between the perceptual gorgeousness of clothes with different color brightness and different clothes styles.


Learning Technology plays a crucial role in the development of education in Indonesia. Teachers should use IT to increase students' learning motivation. Blended learning is one way teachers should facilitate learning interactions that combine conventional learning methods with technology. Google Classroom is one of the most accessible applications to help teachers and students need more time to study online learning. In online learning, several applications can have both positive and negative impacts during the process. This study aims to analyze. Advantages and Disadvantages of Google Classroom for Mixed Learning. This type of research is qualitative. The subjects of this study were 12 students. Data collection was done by observation and interviews. The instrument used to collect data is a questionnaire. The technique used to analyze the data is descriptive qualitative and quantitative analysis. The result of the research is that 85% of students have difficulty communicating in writing in the comments column. In addition, 5% of students stated that it is easy to share and share ideas during online interactions. In contrast, 40% of students stated that Google Classroom was easy to operate and use.


Yang and Ozog compared the utility of epidermal adhesive strips with the utility of interrupted epidermal sutures, when each option was paired with use


IN ORDER TO INCREASE ITS STABILITY TO ACTIVE OXYGEN, sodium percarbonate is coated with one or multiple layers of various substances. Percarbonate particles COATED SODIUM According to the invention consisting of a core of sodium percarbonate GRANULADO SPRAY IN FLUIDIZED BED and sodium sulfate, which may be partially hydrated, as the only constituting a single layer. The particles according to the invention exhibit high stability BOTH ACTIVE OXYGEN AS A VERY GOOD ensilability. The coating layer is applied by spraying a AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF NA 2 SO 4 on the particles to be coated, WHO WERE IN TURN CAUSED BY GRANULADO SPRAY IN FLUIDIZED BED, in a fluidised bed and vaporizing WATER TO A FLUIDIZED BED TEMPERATURE between 35 and 100 (degrees) C


Thermoelectric energy conversion is one of the most important applications of functional materials for energy. To realize practical applications, high conversion efficiency is required over a wide range of temperatures. Furthermore, abundance as well as environmental load of the elements constituting thermoelectric materials are important aspects to be considered. We report high thermoelectric performance over a wide range of temperatures in doped SnTe with multiple elements by exploiting synergistic effects of band convergence, resonance level formation, and carrier density optimization. An averaged ZT value between near room temperature and around 800 K is found to exceed 0.80 for Sn0.92Mn0.10In0.01Bi0.01Cu0.01Te, which shows that the SnTe-based thermoelectrics possess high potential for practical applications.Thermoelectric energy conversion is one of the most important applications of functional materials for energy. To realize practical applications, high conversion efficiency is required over a wide range of temperatures. Furthermore, abundance as well as environmental load of the elements constituting thermoelectric materials are important aspects to be considered. We report high thermoelectric performance over a wide range of temperatures in doped SnTe with multiple elements by exploiting synergistic effects of band convergence, resonance level formation, and carrier density optimization. An averaged ZT value between near room temperature and around 800 K is found to exceed 0.80 for Sn0.92Mn0.10In0.01Bi0.01Cu0.01Te, which shows that the SnTe-based thermoelectrics possess high potential for practical applications.


In a continuation of previously reported work of the effect on cotton cellulose of ethyleneurea crosslinking agents modified with ring substituents of varying hydrogen-bonding capabilities, accessibilities of the cellulosic hydroxylic protons to exchange with deuterium oxide vapor were determined by means of infrared spectroscopy. In analyzing these values with respect to previously reported data on physical properties of the treated fabrics, it was found that accessibility to deuterium oxide did not correlate with moisture regain of the resin-treated samples as has been reported for physically modified celluloses. It appears that the different resins did have some effect on the structure of water adsorbed by the fiber and also that the solvent affected the manner in which the resins attached themselves to the cellulose and eliminated water from the structure. Values of accessibility were not found to correlate well with crease recovery, although a weak trend was indicated. Accessibility was found to decrease as the infrared band for ring stretching decreased.


Objective: To evaluate visualization of sites, degree of invasion, tumor-related veins and collateral venous pathways with three dimensional contrast enhanced magnetic resonance venography(3D-CEMRV) in parasagittal meningiomas invading the dural sinuses. Methods: Ten patients with parasagittal meningiomas were examined preoperatively with 3D-CEMRV and intraarterial digital subtraction angiography(DSA). The visualization of sites, degree, tumor-related veins and collateral venous pathways in meningiomas invading the dural sinuses were recorded in consensus by two radiologists. Compared with DSA and intraoperative findings, all manifestations were assessed on source images, maximum intensity projection images(MIP) and multiplanar reconstruction images(MPR). Results: Of the 10 patients with parasagittal meningiomas, 1 appeared invasion of sinus wall, 2 partial occlusion of sinus lumina, 7 complete occlusion of sinus lumina. The visualization of the sites of 10 parasagittal meningiomas invading the dural sinuses on 3D-CEMRV was in accordance with that of DSA and intraoperative findings. For the visualization of the degree of invasion, 3D-CEMRV images were found to be equivalent to DSA images(u=0.0000, P=1.0000), in the meanwhile, MIP images combined with MPR images and source images were superior to single MIP images(u=-1.8796, P=0.0301). With multiple postprocessing display modalities of 3D-CEMRV and DSA, the rate of the visualization of tumor-related veins and collateral venous pathways was 78.26%(36/46) and 97.83%(45/46) respectively(P=0.0016). Conclusion: With 3D-CEMRV, an exact preoperative evaluation of the sites and degree of invasion in parasagittal meningiomas invading the dural sinuses are feasible. Nevertheless, for the total visualization of tumor-related veins and collateral venous pathways, 3D-CEMRV is still inferior to DSA.


Much like the old saying about buses, the academic world has waited a long time for a good biography about Ellen Wilkinson, and two turn up – almost – at the same time. However, whereas Matt Perry'...


Image fusion is an image processing technique that can combine multiple images of the same scene with complementary or redundant information to generate a new composite image with better quality and more features which can provide a better interpretation of the scene than each of the single sensor image can do. But in Remote Sensing the term "image fusion" covers multiple techniques used to combine the geometric detail of a high-resolution panchromatic image and the color information of a low-resolution multispectral image to produce a final image with the highest possible spatial information content while still preserving good spectral information quality. Here, a panchromatic image from CARTOSAT-I and a multispectral image from LISS-IV (ResourceSat) are fused to produce an image that has both high spatial and high spectral resolution. Various Arithmetic, Color based and Statistical algorithms are used for fusion process. Their performances are evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively by means of various indices including Correlational Coefficient, Entropy, Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Normalized Root Mean Square Error. Keywords— Remote Sensing, Image Fusion, Panchromatic Image, CARTOSAT, Multi-spectral Image, LISS-IV, Performance Evaluation Methods


China has built the world's second largest economy and it has undertaken significant reforms aimed at providing all of its citizens with an opportunity to enjoy greater prosperity. While China's growth has gradually slowed since 2012, signaling what President Xi has called the "new normal," China remains the largest contributor to world growth since the global financial crisis. Over the last couple of years, roughly 30 percent of global growth came from China alone. Growth in China last year was 7.4 percent and we project about 7 percent growth for 2015 – still the envy of the world.


There is an expression that goes, "A man sees his life the way he saw it in his childhood or when he was in love." How will our children of today see their lives in the future? Children's problems are just as acute as before. The percentage of children living in poverty is especially high. Between the ages of seven and fifteen, the percentage of poor children in 2001 was 38.5 percent, whereas among the population at large the figure was 27.6 percent. In the country as a whole, 58.4 percent of families with recipients of welfare benefits for a child up to the age of one and a half years were below the poverty line: more than 40 percent of households in 2001 included recipients of subsidies and benefits— 39 percent among those having one child, 45–47 percent among those having two or three children, and 56 percent among those having four or more [1, p. 7]. Families with a higher number of children are not provided for adequately by state welfare payments. According to the new Federal Law, a monthly welfare payment for children is to be paid to


The invention provides novel complexes of 2, which can be precipitated with a GLP-1 molecule consisting of certain GLP-1 molecules are combined with the metal cation. The method in B- type islet cell using the pharmaceutical compositions and complexes to improve the expression of insulin, and mammalian method for treating diabetes mellitus in a mature start of animals, especially humans are patent claims.


In the spring of 1936 the Expedition cleared a large part of the al Mina site at the mouth of the Orontes and cut trial trenches on the inland tell of Atchana. Having regard to the importance of the results obtained the Trustees of the British Museum made a large grant towards the cost of the Atchana excavation; the Ashmolean Museum continued its support of the previous year, and the generous help given by private supporters in 1936 was again forthcoming; my sincere thanks are due to those who thus made our work possible.


Immigration and the multicultural population that results from it are contentious issues in contemporary Canada. Canada accepts more than twice as many immigrants per capita as does the United States, and a majority of immigrants now comes from nontraditional sources in Asia, the Caribbean, and Central America. Critics of a liberal immigration policy charge that these newcomers threaten Canada's social harmony and challenge its cultural identity and that the country faces unprecedented economic and security problems because of uncontrolled immigration. Historical and contemporary evidence suggests, however, that the situation is neither unprecedented nor a crisis. Canada needs immigrants for the compelling reasons it has always sought them: for economic growth and to replace population lost by emigration to the United States. By any comparative yardstick, the Canadian experiments in immigration and multiculturalism have been a resounding success.


Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases and 7 Clinical Microbiology, Rize, Turkey 8 9 Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, 10 Rize, Turkey 11 12 Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Chest Diseases, Rize, 13 Turkey 14 15 Uşak University, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, 16 Uşak, Turkey 17 18


The algorithm through association rules is used to describe the process of course scheduling.Meanwhile its demand analysis is made associated with the college teaching management system and the intelligent scheduling suitable for college courses is designed,which is easy to use and practical to some degree.


Objective To explore the influence of mediastinal lymph node enlargement(MLNE) on the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-7(MMP-7) and survival time of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis(IPF).Methods This is a prospective cohort study involved 29 IPF patients.All the patients were diagnosed by two pulmonologists and one radiologist in the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University based on the established non-surgical biopsy criteria of 2002 ATS/ERS.All subjects were divided into two groups: MLNE group(the short axe of at least one mediastinal lymph node ≥1 cm on HRCT) and non-MLNE group(the short axes of all mediastinal lymph nodes 1 cm on HRCT).The clinical data of baseline included pulmonary function test,arterial blood gas measurement,analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid(BALF),and chest HRCT.The concentrations of MMP-7 in serum and BALF were detected by ELISA.Median survival time was calculated.Results The enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes were seen in 13 of 29 patients(44.8%)studied.The DLCO% and PaO2 are lower in patients with MLNE than that in those without(P=0.002、0.036).The concentration of MMP-7 in serum is higher in patients with MLNE than that in those without(P=0.010).The median follow up duration in the study was 24.3 months.Median survival time was longer in patients without MLNE than in patients with MLNE(38.0 months Vs.23.0 months,P0.05).Univariate analysis showed that serum MMP-7 level,smoking,and MLNE were negative prognostic factors(P=0.013,0.048,and 0.010) for IPF.MLNE is negative prognostic factor for IPF(HR=4.69,95%CI(1.437,15.307),P=0.01).Conclusion The IPF patients with MLNE have higher level of serum MMP-7 poorer prognosis than the patients without.MLNE is one of the negative prognostic factors for IPF.


This paper aims to investigate the optimal strategies for both centralized and decentralized modes in a two-echelon omni-channel organic agricultural supply chain (OASC) which consists of one farmer cooperative and one online retailer. Furthermore, the contracts of cooperation between the members in OASC are discussed. Based on both theory differential game and bi-level programming, we utilize the Nerlove–Arrow model and Stackelberg model to examine five cases of decision modes for both agents in the OASC. Then, we achieve the optimal strategies where the specified sets of organic growing effort, organic traceability technology effort, propaganda input, and service input can guarantee the maximization of the related profits. As a result, we could obtain the values of the corresponding optimal profits. For the centralized decision mode, the farmer cooperative and the online retailer make decisions with the goal of maximizing the overall profits of the OASC. Meanwhile, for the decentralized decision mode with four different cases, each member will independently make a decision with the goal of maximizing his own profit respectively. In detail, as for the fully decentralized decision mode, no contracts exist in OASC; regarding the decentralized decision mode with an information traceability cost sharing contract, two members pay the information traceability cost together; and for the decentralized decision mode with a revenue sharing contract, two members share the revenue together; as to the decentralized decision mode with a comprehensive contract, there are two cooperative ways that information traceability cost sharing and revenue sharing can be achieved. In addition, we also considered factors such as the consumer preferences of organic products and the cross influence between channels in models. Finally, through sensitivity analysis and comparison of optimal strategies and profits, we found that: (1) high consumer preferences of organic products and high cross influence between channels are profitable; and (2) the choice of contract is influenced by the relative size of the offline marginal income ratio and the online marginal income ratio.


National Institute of Clinical Studies, Melbourne, VIC. Susan M Phillips, DPhil, Program Manager; Janice M Davies, PhD, Executive Officer. Cardiology Department, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW. Geoffrey H Tofler, MB BS, MD, Chair of Preventive Cardiology, University of Sydney, and Chair, Heart Failure Forum Planning Committee. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Correspondence: Dr Susan M Phillips, National Institute of Clinical Studies, Level 5, 499 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC 3004. firstname.lastname@example.com The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 20 September 2004 181 6 297-299 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2004 www.mja.com.au Conference Report Geoffrey Tofler (Chair of the NICS Heart Failure Ad and Professor of Preventive Cardiology, University o the scene by highlighting gaps in the current medica heart failure. These gaps are most notable in the us based drug therapies, such as angiotensin-conve (ACE) inhibitors and β-blockers, that reduce sy hospital admissions and improve survival. Chronic c or gro ies M e than 170 clinicians from diverse healthcare backunds attended the National Institute of Clinical Stud(NICS) "Heart Failure Forum 2004: improving outcomes in chronic care", held in Canberra, 7–8 June 2004. The purpose of the forum was to raise awareness of the growing burden of heart failure, engage with Australian and international experts in heart failure and chronic care management, and explore strategies for improving outcomes in chronic care.


Cloud Motion Vectors were being derived since 1984 from INSAT, using visible imagery for cloud tracking and infrared temperatures for height assignment. The derivation was made at 0600 UTC daily over the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and a limited area of the western and central Indian Ocean. The method used was basically an automated procedure with a manual quality control. INSAT-2A, the first of India's second generation operational satellites, was launched in July 1992. The INSAT-2A VHRR has an improved resolution of 2 km in the visible channel and 8 km in the infra-red channel. Coinciding with the launch of INSAT-2A, the ground data processing system was also upgraded. This has made it possible to derive CMVs at the standard synoptic hours of 0000 and 1200 UTC using infra-red channel data for cloud tracking as well. The system is capable of deriving up to 1000 wind vectors over the entire Indian Ocean from triplet images within about two hours. The CMV information is disseminated on the GTS. This paper describes in detail the computational procedure currently used for extraction of INSAT CMVs, the techniques adopted for quality assurance, typical situations showing the usefulness of the INSAT CMVs, validation exercises and future plans for further improvements in the algorithms.


Permeability of broken rock sampled from strata containing faults is one of important factors involved in seepage disaster in underground engineering.Using a special instrument for compacting broken rock and a rock mechanics servo experimental system MTS 815.02,permeability coefficient of broken limestone,broken sandstone and broken mudstone was tested,respectively.Relation curves among axial stress,grain size,rate of water flow and permeability coefficient were obtained.Results show that 1) permeability coefficient of broken rock is closely related to its compaction state and decreases with axial stress increase for above 3 kinds of broken rocks;2) under the same axial stress,permeability coefficient of broken rock with small grain size is smaller than that of broken rock with large grain size.Small fault has advantage of hydraulic conductivity therefore easily leads to water inrush due to its low compaction and filling;3) permeability coefficient of broken rock decrease with the increasing of water flow rate,but the effect of water flow rate on permeability coefficient is not obvious;4) under the same axial stress and with the same grain size,the permeability coefficient of broken mudstone is lower than that of both broken limestone and sandstone nearly 1~2 orders of magnitude.So the fault surrounded by solid rock has better permeability and hydraulic conductivity.Above results may provide reference for evaluating fault hydraulic conductivity in mining.


Objective
To investigate the calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase(CASK) expression in the hippocampus of epileptic rat models and its mechanism.

Methods
Thirty healthy adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into 6 groups (n=5): control group and experimental groups of 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 d after kindling by lithium chloride-pilocarpine; CASK expressions in the hippocampus tissues were measured by immunohistochemistry, immunoflurescence and Western blotting. Another 21 healthy adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 3 groups (n= 7): transfected group, empty adenoviral group and control group, and after anesthesia with chloral hydrate, the same volume of CASK-RNAi-LV, LV-scrRNAi and normal saline was given, respectively; the behavior changes of rats in the three groups were observed within one h of kindling; the expression of N-methel-D-aspartate receptor subunit 2b (NMDAR2b, the downstream of CASK complex), in the transfected group and control group was further examined by Western blotting.

Results
CASK expressed only in neurons not gliacyte; and the number of CASK positive cells in experimental groups was larger than that in the control group. CASK expression in the hippocampus reduced to minimum level one d after kindling, and maintained at increased levels until 30 days. Both seizure frequency and seizure grade of the epilepsy in the transfected group were significantly decreased as compared with those in the empty adenoviral group and control group (P<0.05). NMDAR2b expression in the hippocampus of control group increased at the first 24 h of kindling and maintained for 3 days, and then, it decreased 10 days after kindling; NMDAR2b expression in the hippocampus of transfected group was significantly reduced as compared with that in the control group at all time points of kindling (P<0.05).

Conclusions
The CASK expression of epilepsy rat models is increased, which influences the occurrence and development of epilepsy. CASK is linked to epilepsy via its action on synaptic NMDAR2b, which may be the potential target of anti-epileptic drugs.

Key words:
Calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase; NMDAR2b; Epilepsy; Synapse; Lentivirus


The development of virtual reality technology has increased in recent years with the characteristics and benefits of virtual reality that can help solve complex problems that exist in the real world. Virtual reality technology has been widely applied as a means of education. The ship bridge simulator is one of the supporting tools for training shipping cadets, but this tool has a relatively high cost. Therefore, this research aims to model the ship bridge simulator. The initial stage in this research is to model the ship bridge simulator belonging to the Surabaya Shipping Polytechnic (Politeknik Pelayaran Surabaya) with a case study of Tanjung Priok Port, referred to as the metaverse area. The process is to convert real objects into 3D assets using Blender software and develop them into a virtual reality application package designed using Unity software. The results obtained at the initial stage of this research are to provide a virtual forward and backward feature of the ship in the metaverse area. This virtual reality application has achieved its goals based on user ratings involving about 30 respondents. It is evidenced by its rating score of 908 out of 1050, which shows that this virtual reality application is included in the excellent category.


The present invention, isomaltulose and trehalose, and at least one high-potency sweetener and or carbohydrate (this carbohydrate is optionally are selected fructose, sucrose, invert sugar, from the group consisting of polyols and / or mixtures thereof that) relates to a composition comprising a. The composition is solid, is used for semi-solid, and liquid food or drink, and to maintain the osmolality of the beverage.


The relationship between itinerant and sedentary communities has become increasingly problematic in modern times.. The many strands from science, myth, religion, official ethnography which went into a definition of a criminal need to be explored in detail and documented.


As corporate management attempts to extract more end user benefit from information systems department expenditures, interest has grown toward the use of information systems auditing to assure software quality. This research shows that information systems departments are motivated by end users to provide lower quality systems than they would if allowed to pursue their own objectives. The research continues by demonstrating that auditing cannot a priori be assumed to raise the quality of corporate information systems. In fact, auditing tends to establish objectives that lower software quality. It demonstrates that audits are most beneficial in managing unsophisticated information systems departments in which end users are currently dissatisfied with their level of support. Augmenting the systems development process via technologies such as computer aided software engineering and prototyping may more consistently and effectively improve quality than does auditing. Recent developments among the large audit firms indicate that they recognize the importance of new software development technology, and are restructuring their businesses accordingly.


This study aims to closely examine the phase-based theory of Chomsky(2005)'s and then evaluate his new theory on wh-subject questions mostly based on Radford's(2009) explanation. We estimate that Chomsky(2005) proposes a radically different theory on the derivation of wh-subject questions from most other preceding ones. We first examine Grimshaw(1993)'s no wh-movement theory, which argues that the wh-subject question is TP, not CP. Next, we examine P&T(2001)'s unitary wh-movement theory, which argues that wh-movement from the spec-TP to the spec-CP is the same as the wh-movement from the nonsubject position to the spec-CP. We assume Chomsky(2005)'s dual wh-movement theory, which argues that there is neither T-to-Cㅡmovement nor do-support in wh-subject questions, because C does not attract T when C attracts a wh-constituent which is itself attracted by T. So, there are one wh-copy in spec-TP and another wh-copy in spec-CP.


Application of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) as delivery tools for self‐healing coatings is limited by spontaneous leakage and specifically responsive release of small molecular inhibitors. In this work, a pH/sulfide ion responsive release system based on MSNs using a Cu‐BTA complex forms at the openings of the mesopores into which BTA (corrosion inhibitor) and benzalkonium chloride (biocide) are loaded. The spontaneous leakage of active species is completely avoided and premature release of the loaded composition was lowered to 0.02. The responsive release begins when the pH is lower than 5 or [S2−] is higher than 0.02 mM (about 0.6 ppm). The hybrid coating containing the responsive release system exhibits feedback self‐healing property sensitive to lowering of pH and sulfide ion concentration and, at the same time, provides a high barrier level for a long time. Due to incorporation of biocide in the release system, the coating is also provided with antifouling properties.


This study aimed to get the criteria for English language teaching materials needed by Padang State Polytechnic Information and Technology students and evaluate English teaching materials that were used to determine the level of compatibility of teaching materials used with criteria obtained in terms of language, content, and methodology. This research was an evaluation research. Questionnaires, interviews, and analysis formats were used to obtain data. The results of data analysis showed that: (1) criteria for English language teaching materials were needed by students majoring in Information and Technology in terms of language indicated that the teaching material used was in accordance with the needs of students, majors, and their level of English; in terms of the content of teaching material used had an emphasis on speaking and listening skills and teaching materials used for writing and reading were still lack; in terms of the methodology of teaching materials used were equipped with activities that train speaking skills so that training and assignments were focused on practicing speaking skills. (2) The level of compatibility of teaching material in terms of language was 58%. (3) The level of compatibility of teaching material in terms of contents, namely 42%. (4) The level of compatibility of teaching materials used in terms of methodology was 42%. Based on the results of the study, it could be concluded that students majoring in Information and Technology needed material that could improve their listening and speaking skills, then the material used in writing and reading was further reproduced.


Background : To evaluate the clinical efficacy of pulmonary resection combined with first-line antituberculous drug therapy in patients with well-localized, cavities-containing pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Method : From February 1998, seventeen patients with well-localized, cavities-containing pulmonary MDR-TB were enrolled and followed prospectively up to December 2004. After radical pulmonary resection, the patients were treated with antituberculous drugs comprising of isoniazid (H), rifampin (R), pyrazinamide (Z), ethambutol (E), and streptomycin (S) (3HERZS/3HERS/6HER). Results : All recovered isolates of M. tuberculosis were resistant to both isoniazid and rifampin, and to a mean of 4.8 antituberculous drugs (range, 2 to 7 drugs). Surgical procedures included lobectomy (13 patients), lobectomy plus segmentectomy (3 patients), and pneumonectomy (1 patient). The median time for postoperative sputum smear and culture conversion was 2 days (range, 1 to 23 days). Fifteen (94%) patients had durable cures (mean follow-up period, 39.0 months). One patient failed to convert her sputum and was successfully switched to second-line therapy; one patient developed active disease again almost 7 years later, likely due to re-infection with a new M. tuberculosis strain. Conclusion : Radical resection combined with administration of first-line antituberculous agents was effective in patients with well-localized, cavities-containing pulmonary MDR-TB.


We use Manifold Learning to classify topological phases of photonic systems, from an arbitrary set of measurements without any prior knowledge or assumptions.


Dark Matter supposedly dominates the extragalactic Universe, yet no totally dark structure of galactic proportions has ever been convincingly identified. Minchin et al. (2005) suggested that VIRGOHI 21, a 21-cm source found in the Virgo Cluster by Davies et al. (2004), was probably such a dark galaxy because of its broad line-width ( ˜ 200 km s-1) unaccompanied by any visible massive object to account for it. We have now imaged VIRGOHI 21 in the neutral hydrogen line, and indeed we find what appears to be a dark, edge-on, spinning disk with the mass and diameter of a typical spiral galaxy. We also find that there is an indubitable interaction with NGC 4254, a luminous spiral with an odd one-armed morphology but lacking the massive interactor normally linked with such a feature. Published numerical models of NGC 4254 call for a close interaction ˜ 10(8) years ago with a perturber of ˜ 10(11) M(sun). This we take as further, independent evidence for the massive nature of VIRGOHI 21.


The Smart City Mission of Guwahati plains to leverage city's unique locational advantages to establish its dominance and serve as the hub for the entire North-Eastern region and become a world-class destination in terms of tourism, business, trade, education and health. To achieve this, the mission plans to use the city's rich cultural heritage and natural beauty as the key anchors not only for attracting tourists, but also to help convert the city's present infrastructure challenges into opportunities. The main objective of the study is to analyse the presence of basic urban infrastructural facilities necessary for sustainable smart city.The stratified random sampling of houses in each 31 wards of the study area was conducted using the questionnaires method. The findings includes that public transport has increased approximately from 10 to 30 per cent. Under Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) Phase-1 funding 200 buses have been acquired, increasing city's bus fleet to nearly 2500. Wholesale markets, Inter State Bus Terminus (ISBT) have been shifted to outskirts to de-congest the city. At present 40 percent have piped water supply for 1 hour a day. City engages NGO's for door to door solid waste collection, which is transported by GPS enabled vehicles. CCTV Cameras are getting installed at 18 identified locations. GMC is upgrading street lighting infrastructure i.e. LED and Solar lights. 2.59 lakhs houses and construction of metro was proposed in Guwahati Master Plan 2025. Bio-Metric attendance machine are operational in almost all government offices. Water pump are used to tackle the flash flood.


As the progeny of the two-line hybridisation of the Wanxi Goose and Sichuan Goose, Wanjiang white goose's fertility is unstable. To improve reproduction and select molecular marker associated with egg performance of Wanjiang white goose, PCR-SSCP was applied to detect SNPs in PRL intron 2. Five genotypes were found: AA, AB, BC, CC and DD genotypes. More than 30 SNPs were found in the PCR products Statistical results show that the polymorphism of the five genotypes is significantly related to the egg productivity. The differences of egg-laying level between BC and AA, AB, CC, DD genotypes are extremely significant (p<0.01). AA and AB genotypic geese yield more eggs than BC and DD genotypes. It could be used as a molecular marker for selecting high-productivity geese.


Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, Auricular Zóster or Herpes Zoster Optic (HZO), is a rare complication of herpes zoster in the geniculate ganglion, witch occurs due to a reactivation of a latent infection by varicella-zoster, progressing to paralysis of the peripheral facial nerve.¹ In general, epidemiology is still not well reported in the medical literature.² Clinical manifestations include vesicular rashes in the external ear, along the affected side of the face, on palatum molle and on the tongue (20%); ipsilateral facial paralysis of the lower motor neuron and otalgia. 12 In addition, hearing loss, nausea, vomiting, tinnitus, vertigo and nystagmus are common symptoms. 13 The anatomical relationships of the cranial nerves and their ramifications increase the clinical heterogeneity of the disease according to the involvement of the viral infection. The authors present the case of a 57-year-old female patient who, after a Burnout, had reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus with involvement of the VII cranial nerve, with facial paralysis ipsilateral and erythematous vesicular lesions in the right ear.


We present a relativistic model for light sails of arbitrary reflectivity undertaking non rectilinear motion. A reduced model for straight motion with arbitrary sail's illumination is also given, including for the case of a perfectly reflecting light sail examined in earlier works. When the sail is partially absorbing incoming radiation, its rest mass increases, an effect discarded in previous works. Is is shown how sailing at relativistic velocities is intricate due to the existence of an unstable fixed point, when the sail is parallel to the incoming radiation beam, surrounded by two attractors corresponding to two different regimes of radial escape. We apply this model to the Starshot project by showing several important points for mission design. First, any misalignement between the driving light beam and the direction of sail's motion is naturally swept away during acceleration toward relativistic speed, yet leading to a deviation of about $80$ AU in the case of an initial misalignement of one arcsec for a sail accelerated up to $0.2\times c$ toward Alpha Centauri. Then, the huge proper acceleration felt by the probes (of order $2500$-g), the tremendous energy cost (of about $13$ kilotons per probe) for poor efficiency (of about $3\%$), the trip duration (between $22$ and $33$ years), the rest mass variation (up to $14\%$) and the time dilation aboard (about $140$ days difference) are all presented and their variation with sail's reflectivity is discussed. We also present an application to single trips within the Solar System using Forward's idea of double-stage lightsails. A spaceship of mass $24$ tons can start from Earth and stop at Mars in about $7$ months with a peak velocity of $30$ km/s but at the price of a huge energy cost of about $5.3\times 10^4$ GWh due to extremely low efficiency of the directed energy system, around $10^{-4}$ in this low-velocity case.


Railroads are turning to sophisticated software and high-speed computer technology when planning track maintenance. Advances in software capabilities are facilitating maintenance planners' analysis of various track-condition data recorded by a variety of instruments. Information from rail-measurement vehicles, gauge-restraint measurement systems and other track-component measuring systems can now be viewed with the push button or a click of the mouse. The article recognizes the main reason for railroads to use the advanced, hi-tech maintenance planning software: to provide cost-savings while continuing to maintain an efficient maintenance program.


Event-based systems have been developed and used to implement networked and adaptive business environments based on loosely coupled systems in order to respond faster to critical business events. In this paper, we introduce a rule management system which is able to sense and evaluate events in order to respond to changes in a business environment or customer needs. It enables users to graphically compose comprehensive event-triggered rules, which can be used to control the processing of services. For the definition of a rule set, users can independently define event conditions, event patterns and correlation-related information which can be combined for modeling complex business situations. We have fully implemented the proposed system with a service-oriented approach and illustrate our approach with an order management business case.


This research aimed to improve learning outcomes biology class XI Science SMA Taruna Pekanbaru through the implementation model of Discovery Learning (DL) using the Concept Map, the research was conducted in SMA Taruna Pekanbaru in April-May 2016. The parameters measured were the result study of cognitive, affective and psychomotor. The methods of this research was classroom action research. It had been done in two cylce. There were planning step, acting step, observation step and reflection step for each cycle. The research instrument used was learning devices and data collection instruments. The data obtained were analyzed descriptively. The results of this study indicate the cognitive aspects of daily tests first cycle that 80.97 (Enough) increased in the second cycle into 84.67 (enough). Students who complete the first cycle of 27 students (89.91%) and the second cycle is 27 students (89.91%). While the average aspect of attitude in the first cycle that 67.40 (Less) and increased in the second cycle into 87.19 (Good). Furthermore, the average in the first cycle that psychomotor aspects 78.90 (Enough) and increased in the second cycle into 91.81 (good). Based on these data we can conclude that the application of the model of Discovery Learning (DL) using Concept Maps can improve learning outcomes biology class XI Science Senior High School Taruna Pekanbaru.


The usual two-reaction theory of synchronous machines yields results that neglect to take saturation into account. Based on a method developed in a companion paper [1], the radial airgap induction is found in synchronous machines when supplying balanced loads. The armature currents are considered to be distributed uniformly in the upper and lower layer of the armature windings. The partial differential equations, the boundary conditions, and the method of solution are reviewed. Numerical results are obtained for a 2750 kVA, 2300 V, 60 c/s, three-phase alternator at seven different internal power-factor angles. Calculated results compare well with tests.