This chapter analyzes the seminal Italian representation of the gendering of redemption in "Rome," the third episode of Roberto Rossellini's Paisà (1946). It reads "Rome" in terms of its relationship to the novels All Thy Conquests (1946) and The Girl on the Via Flaminia (1949), by Alfred Hayes, a Rossellini collaborator who wrote the "Rome" episode. All three texts express sympathy for the Italian woman turned prostitute, at once an individual who faces material consequences and an allegory for the nation. They position her fall at the start of a national trajectory that masculinizes redemption: for Rossellini, the northern partisans who fall to their deaths at the end of Paisà; for Hayes, the soldier tourist who returns to postwar Italy in search of pleasure. Furthermore, All Thy Conquests points to the strategic use of melodrama in "Rome." Set during the trial of Pietro Caruso, a fascist involved in the massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine near Rome, All Thy Conquestsexplicitly represents what Rossellini eschews. By focusing on the conventional gendered redemption narrative, Rossellini is able to repress the traumatic events surrounding the trial, when a Roman mob lynches Donato Carretta, a witness for the prosecution, threatening Italy's redemption in the eyes of the world.


The explosive growth of online social networking necessitates a better understanding of privacy in this context to guide system design and policy-making. Drawing on the theory of psychological boundaries and previous literature on information privacy, we extend the extant conceptualization of information privacy by developing a multidimensional privacy construct contextualized to online social networking platforms.
We term this new construct online social networking privacy (OSNP).
The new construct:
(1) contextualizes extant information privacy dimensions to a social networking context;
(2) adds dimensions that tap into privacy control over virtual interactions and over psychological independence, both of which become salient when social interactions (rather than transactions) are the focus of online activities; and
(3) includes privacy concerns with respect to two types of stakeholders (social platform providers and online peers), recognizing online social networks as platforms for mediated social interactions that involve both social platform providers and participating peers.
Further, we develop and empirically validate scales to measure this new construct. The study contributes to the information privacy literature by conceptualizing and developing an privacy scale that reflects the salient privacy concerns of users of online social networking platforms.


This article presents infrared absorption data of amorphous silicon alloys in which the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium have been substituted for hydrogen. Silicon–deuterium and silicon–tritium vibration frequencies are related to silicon–hydrogen vibration frequencies by simple mass relationships. The silicon–deuterium wagging vibration is broadened and blueshifted due to strong coupling to the amorphous silicon network vibrations.


Stereo matching is a fundamental and crucial problem in computer vision. In the last decades, many researchers have been working on it and made great progress. Generally stereo algorithms can be classified into local methods and global methods. In this paper, the challenges of stereo matching are first introduced, and then we focus on local approaches which have simpler structures and higher efficiency than global ones. Local algorithms generally perform four steps: cost computation, cost aggregation, disparity computation and disparity refinement. Every step is deeply investigated, and most work focuses on cost aggregation. We studied most of the classical local methods and divide them into several classes. The classification well illustrates the development history of local stereo correspondence and shows the essence of local matching along with its important and difficult points. At the end we give the future development trend of local methods.


The invention discloses an application of pamoic acid in preparing a BLyS (B lymphocyte stimulator) antagonist. Experiments indicate that the pamoic acid is capable of inhibiting bonding of the BLyS and TACI-Fc; and an inhibitory effect is positively correlated to the concentration of the pamoic acid; the pamoic acid is capable of inhibiting bonding of the BLyS and BCMA-Fc; and an inhibitory effect is positively correlated to the concentration of the benzyloxycarbonyl-L-glutamic acid. The experiments also indicate that the inhibitory effect of the pamoic acid is specific and effective.


Evaluation of assaults on doctors in Canakkale within the last year Objective: Violence against doctors and health professionals in the healthcare environment is thought to have increased in recent years. Although physical and verbal assaults in the health care system have been evaluated in many different aspects, a limited amount of research has been done in this field in our country. For this reason, we aimed to investigate assaults towards doctors working at the Canakkale State Hospital and Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University in Turkey. Method: A questionnaire was prepared by researchers assessing assaults within the last year on doctors working in the state and university hospitals. Data from 130 doctors who agreed to participation in the study were analysed with SPSS version 16. Descriptive statistics, independent sample T-test for normally distributed variables and Mann-Whitney U test for non-normally distributed variables were used to compare the groups. Results: We found that 59.2% (n=77) of the doctors were verbally and/or physically assaulted at least once during the past year. The majority of attackers consisted of relatives of patients (40.8% verbal attack, n=31). The verbal assaults mostly occurred in outpatient clinics (61.5%), with half of the physical assaults occurring in the emergency department. The vast majority of doctors considered that poor health policies were the most important reason for assaults (83.3%, n=65), and nearly all of them thought that violence towards doctors has increased in recent years (97.4%). Conclusion: The fact that most of the doctors exposed to assaults, regardless of gender, institution, or work position, perceived health policies as being responsible for this violent atmosphere, is very striking. We believe that larger sample-size and comprehensive countrywide studies in this area would help to provide solutions for this problem.


The introduction to this Classic Text draws on a new consensus among researchers in the history of eugenics to assess how Kraepelin articulated his eugenic ideas and put them into practice. It analyses his article `On the Question of Degeneration' and finds him not just giving voice to his deep concern for the German Volk, but also espousing neo-Lamarckian views and building a large-scale, clinically oriented, epidemiological research programme. The introduction situates this research programme in the context of Kraepelin's work in Munich before World War I.


Focusing on the problem that the quantity of equipment in the distribution court is huge and the operation status is difficult to reliably control, a method of equipment health status assessment in the distribution court based on big data analysis in the distribution network of things architecture is proposed. Firstly, based on the internet of things for power distribution, the evaluation system of equipment status in the distribution court is designed to ensure the efficient analysis of massive data through the cooperation of cloud center and edge computing. Then, at the edge of the system, the grey correlation analysis algorithm and the Granger hypothesis method are used to obtain the correlation and causality of the failure rate of equipment components and the influencing factors so as to understand the accurate failure rate of equipment components. Finally, the weight of factors affecting the equipment failure rate is identified by using the dynamic variable weight analytic hierarchy process, and it is corrected in the cloud center; and the overall health degree of the equipment in the distribution court is obtained through transformation. Based on the selected station area model, the proposed method is experimentally demonstrated. The results show that it can accurately obtain the real-time health status of the court equipment and the evaluation accuracy is close to 98%, which provides theoretical support for the operation and maintenance of the distribution network.


Different vegetation patterns have difference influenced on the soil nutrients and the soil nutrient contents of different soil layers in the same vegetation patterns are also different in size. In this paper, we analyze the main soil nutrients of different soil layers in different vegetation patterns in Huanghuadianzi small watershed in Ao HanQI of Chifeng in China. The result shows that in different vegetation patterns, the secondary forest of natural bush have an obvious effect on the nutrient and concentration of organic; in the artificial forest, mingled forest has a better improving effect on soil than the pure forest and natural grassland has the smallest effect; in the same vegetation patterns, organic, total nitrogen present an overall reduction trend with the deepening of soil layer accept 40-60cm soil layers. The analysis result of this paper can provide a theoretical basis for further researching the dynamic nutrient change, tree variety optimization arrangement and regional land use planning in forest grass zone.


Introduction: Deliberate self-harm and suicide attempts share common risk factors but are associated with different epidemiological features. While the rate of suicide after deliberate self-harm has been evaluated in meta-analyses, the specific rate of death by suicide after a previous suicide attempt has never been assessed. The aim of our study was to estimate the incidence of death by suicide after a nonfatal suicide attempt. Method: We developed and followed a standard meta-analysis protocol (systematic review registration—PROSPERO 2021: CRD42021221111). Randomized controlled trials and cohort studies published between 1970 and 2020 focusing on the rate of suicide after suicide attempt were identified in PubMed, PsycInfo and Scopus and qualitatively described. The rates of deaths by suicide at 1, 5 and 10 years after a nonfatal suicide attempt were pooled in a meta-analysis using a random-effects model. Subgroup analysis and meta-regressions were also performed. Results: Our meta-analysis is based on 41 studies. The suicide rate after a nonfatal suicide attempt was 2.8% (2.2–3.5) at 1 year, 5.6% (3.9–7.9) at 5 years and 7.4% (5.2–10.4) at 10 years. Estimates of the suicide rate vary widely depending on the psychiatric diagnosis, the method used for the suicide attempt, the type of study and the age group considered. Conclusion: The evidence of a high rate of suicide deaths in the year following nonfatal suicide attempts should prompt prevention systems to be particularly vigilant during this period.


Most texture synthesis algorithms explicitly or implicitly adopt Markov random field or similar distribution as their basic model to guide the synthesis process. However, MRF-like models can 't handle textures well with large scale structure or unstable structure due to their inherent local and stable assumptions. To make improvement in this regard, we propose a new texture analysis/synthesis framework that combines two main ideas. Firstly, in material space we decompose the texture contents into units with "basic shape " and "feature vector". Based on this, the space spanned by a set of sampled textons is constructed to help introduce additional changes upon textons. Secondly, in pattern space, using the idea of "feature texture " acquired from texture swatch for different properties especially for distribution rules of textons, we may capture and manipulate the global structure flexibly. By this formulization, we are able to obtain a satisfactory texture appearance, and also a rich controlability as well.


This article considers the issue of actualization of the taxic semantics of asynchronicity in statements with prepositional deverbatives with taxisforming prepositions seit, vor, nach, bis with the temporal meaning. The corpus for the study comprised statements with prepositional deverbatives obtained by the method of continuous sampling from works of German fiction and the electronic database of the University of Leipzig. As a result of this study, the factors relevant for the actualization of taxis meanings of asynchronicity have been identified (semantics of temporaltaxiс prepositions, temporaltaxiс quantifiers, semantics of prepositional deverbatives, aspectual verb semantics, semantics of quantitativeiterative attributes and adverbials) and describes the taxis meanings of asynchronicity (strict / nonstrict precedence, strict/nonstrict sequence, manyfold asynchronicity). Data analysis enabled to find 6 patterns expressing the taxis meaning. It was discovered that in actualizing taxis values of asynchronicity, the leading role belongs to temporaltaxis prepositions as explicators of taxis meanings of precedence and following. It was also found that temporaltaxis quantifiers, iterative deverbatives and verbs, as well as quantitativeiterative attributes and adverbials are characterized by prototypicality. In the presence of genetically or wordformativeiterative deverbatives, verbs of iterative semantics and also iterative quantifiers, taxis meanings of multiple asynchronicity (iterative, multiplicative, distributive) are actualized in statements of multiple type.


Over the past several years, the focus of the oil industry has shifted towards Integrity Management (IM) of offshore platforms. A typical IM program of an offshore platform covers subsea equipment, riser/flowline, processing facilities and topsides. However, the integrity of the riser system is especially critical due to its complex dynamic response and as failures have potential to cause significant impact on life and environment. As part of Chevron's IM efforts on their deepwater floating systems, Chevron has instrumented one of its deepwater GoM platform SCRs with motion and strain monitoring devices. A key objective of the SCR monitoring program is to ensure that the response of the production riser is within safe operating conditions and pre-emptively identify any potential threats to riser integrity. To maximize the benefits of the SCR IM program, riser monitoring data is processed in conjunction with prevalent environmental, vessel and riser operating conditions. Typically a riser design process contains a standard set of requirements, based on environmental and vessel conditions, that need to be satisfied before the riser is deemed suitable for use. As part of the SCR IM program, additional factors unaccounted during riser design have been identified that have an impact on riser response. Hence the value of a riser monitoring program to account for the limitations of the riser design process and to confirm the overall integrity of the riser system is established. This paper discusses the methodology used and provides a summary of key findings from the processing of field measurements. The importance of monitoring will be highlighted and recommendations to operators for future integrity management programs will be provided. Introduction The list of deepwater production facilities has sky rocketed in the recent past resulting in a large number of highly productive assets. Each of these facilities produce significant amount of hydrocarbons on a daily basis thereby carrying a significant risk to life and environment should a failure occur. The goal of an effective integrity management (IM) program is to provide the operators with assurance that their facilities are operating as intended and to minimize risk of failure, harm to personnel and environment and avert unplanned shut downs. A typical IM program for an offshore platform includes risers, umbilicals, flowlines, hull, moorings, topsides and subsea components such as trees, manifolds and jumpers. For static components such as topsides, trees and manifolds for example, scheduled inspection are typically sufficient to ensure integrity. However, the behavior of dynamic components such as risers and umbilicals is dictated by prevailing environmental conditions and hence a scheduled visual inspection may not suffice to understand the true condition of the component. The following are four of the reasons for the need to monitor riser response to confirm integrity:  The vessel responses used during design stages are not necessarily those experienced by the vessel in the field;  The riser design assumes a pattern of environmental conditions based on historical data which may not be representative of current/future conditions;  The riser response predicted during design includes a number of assumptions including riser properties, hydrodynamic and soil properties. Monitoring the riser response allows these assumptions to be better understood and calibrated; Learn more at www.2hoffshore.com


We report a dissipative soliton seeded, thulium-doped fiber chirped pulse amplification system at 1950 nm. The amplified pulses are compressed to 545 fs and have an energy of 0.85 uJ corresponding peak power of 1.56 MW. © 2019 The Author(s)


We analyze the security notion of information-theoretic secrecy against an adversary who can make l adaptive queries to the decryption oracle, and show that it is equivalent to requiring that the encryption scheme can perfectly encrypt l+1 different messages. This immediately yields a lower bound on the key length and an optimal construction, namely (l+1)-wise independent permutations. This also gives an operational interpretation to the notion of decryption oracles in information-theoretic security.


A series of small-molecule-based hole-transporting materials (HTMs) featuring a 4H-cyclopenta[2,1b:3,4-b']dithiopheneas the central core with triphenylamineand carbazole-based side groups were synthesized and evaluated for efficient perovskite solar cells (PSCs) applications. The effect of the chemical structure of the HTMs and the photovoltaic performance were studied through investigation of the different combinations of the central π-bridge moieties. In this respect, the Photoluminescence, Time-Resolved Photoluminescence, energy level and hole mobility are systematically investigated, revealing the significantly influence of the central core planarity and packing structure on their photovoltaic performance. The optimized device based on CT3 exhibited a PCE (power conversion efficiency) of 16.97% with a device architecture of FTO/TiO2/CH3NH3PbI3/HTM/MoO3/Ag, which was found that cell fabricated based on state-of-the-art spiro-OMeTAD (17.50%) as HTM. Moreover, stability assessment showed a similar stability for CPDT-based HTMs as compared with spiroOMeTAD over 1300 hours, indicating that the devices with CPDT-based HTMs have good long-term stability. 第65回応用物理学会春季学術講演会 講演予稿集 (2018 早稲田大学・西早稲田キャンパス) 18p-P4-13


The increase in survival after childhood radiation therapy for some blood malignancies has led to an increase in the diagnosis of radiation-induced secondary solid malignancies (SSM). We report a young man presenting with invasive breast cancer 19 years after receiving radiation therapy and bone marrow transplant for acute lymphocytic leukaemia in childhood. This latency period is longer than previously reported. Therefore, survivors of radiation-treated primary cancer should be closely monitored for SSM, including breast cancer, for the rest of their lives.


The purpose of this study is to investigate the trends and patterns of various kind of water uses in a household by metering in Korea. Water use components are classified by toilet, washbowl, bathing, laundry, kitchen, miscellaneous. Flow meters are installed in 140 household selected by sampling in all around Korea. The data are gathered by web-based data collection system from the year 2002 to 2006, considering pre-investigated data such as occupation, revenue, family members, housing types, age, floor area, water saving devices, education, miscellaneous. Reliable data are selected by upper fence method for each observed water use component and statistical characteristics are estimated for each residential type to determine liter per capita per day. Estimated domestic per capita day show an indoor water use with the range from 150 lpcd to 169 lpcd for each housing type as the order of high rise apartment, multi-house, and single house. As the order of consuming amount among water use components, it is investigated that toilet (38.5 lpcd) is the first, and the second is laundry water (30.8 lpcd), the third is kitchen (28.4 lpcd), the fourth is bathtub (24.7 lpcd), the next is washbowl (15.4 lpcd). The results are compared with water uses in U.K. and U.S. As life style has been changed into western style, pattern of water use in Korea is tend to be similar with the U.S. water use pattern. Compared with the surveying results by Bradley, on 1985. Thirty liter of total use increased with the advancement of economic level, and a little change of water use pattern can be found. Especially, toilet water take almost half part of total water use and laundry water shows lowest as 11 % in surveying at the year of 1985. But, this study shows that 39 liter, 28% of toilet water, has been decreased by the spread of saving devices and campaign. It is supposed that the spread large sized laundry machine make by-hand laundry has been decreased and water use increased. Unit water amount of each end-use in household can be applied to design factor for water and wastewater facilities, and it playa role as information in establishing water demand forecasting and conservation policy.


Oxidation of various inorganic sulfur compounds by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans was studied, and conditions necessary for maximum respiration rates were established. Optimum oxidation of elemental sul...


. Using the consistency relation in Fourier space, we derive the observed galaxy bispectrum from single-field inflation in the squeezed limit, in which one of the three modes has a wavelength much longer than the other two. This provides a non-trivial check of the full computation of the bispectrum based on second-order cosmological perturbation theory in this limit. We show that gauge modes need to be carefully removed in the second-order cosmological perturbations in order to calculate the observed galaxy bispectrum in the squeezed limit. We then give an estimate of the effective non-Gaussianity due to general-relativistic lightcone effects that could mimic a primordial non-Gaussian signal.


To prepare the workforce for building healthier communities, we need to assure capabilities of a diverse and geographically distributed community of practitioners. Although the Internet is used extensively to disseminate practice information, less is known about the relative impact of various strategies for promoting its use. This empirical case study examines implementation of dissemination strategies and their association with increased user sessions in the online Community Tool Box (CTB), a widely used resource for community building. Dissemination activities included social media efforts, eNewsletters, search engine optimization efforts, partnering with other Web sites, and implementing a global Out of the Box Prize. Results suggest that increased user sessions were associated with search optimization and "mashups" delivering CTB content through partners' Web sites. The report concludes with a discussion of challenges and opportunities in promoting widespread use of capacity-building tools among those working to improve their communities.


On first acquaintance with the title, one might, from the very special nature of the topic, underrate the general significance of this study. This reader was thus particularly impressed by the broad objectives, both pursued and implied, of the book. The gist of the findings is that the rate of growth of capital formation in nonfarm residential real estate has been falling off for a long time. The forces that hampered the growth are listed as: the declining (?) rate of population growth, an increase in conversions of old dwellings, and a 40 per cent decline in real input for each new residential unit. At the same time, however, gross national product advanced drastically. One is struck by the contrast with the well-known Kuznets-inspired discovery of a historical constancy of the average propensity to consume. The authors' routine explanation of this inconsistency, in terms of changes in fields of consumers' preference, though not implausible, has yet to be verified.


In this paper, some types of I-Menger spaces, like almost I-Menger spaces, almost star I-Menger spaces, weakly I-Menger spaces, weakly star I-Menger spaces, star I-Menger spaces, strongly star I-Menger spaces and star K-I-Menger spaces, are introduced. Then properties of such spaces are investigated and finally the inter relationships between them are given.


552 Background: To evaluate adherence to hemoglobin (Hb) values recommended by the updated European (EU) product label for darbepoetin alfa (DA) and describe hematological response in patients (pts) receiving DA for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia in clinical practice. Data of colorectal cancer (CRC) pts are reported.

METHODS
A prospective, multicenter, observational study assessed DA use in CRC, breast, ovarian and lung cancer pts in 11 EU countries. Data (such as Hb levels and need for red blood cell (RBC) transfusions) were extracted from medical records on an electronic case report form.

RESULTS
This interim analysis included 1,290 pts. 192 pts had CRC: 1% had stage I, 6% stage II, 18% stage III and 75% stage IV cancer. The most-used chemotherapy regimens were 5-fluoruracil or capecitabine (33%), ironotecan- (27%) and oxaliplatin-based (24%). Baseline (BL) Hb values were available for 189 pts; the mean (standard deviation, SD) Hb value at BL was 9.8 (0.8) g/dL; 60% of CRC pts had BL Hb values of <10 g/dL and 90% values of <11 g/dL. Of the 119 pts still on study at week (wk) 9, 60% (95% CI: 51, 68) achieved a Hb level of 10-12 g/dL at wk 9 (primary outcome measure). With increasing BL Hb values, more pts achieved Hb ≥10 g/dL (see table). The mean (SD) Hb at the end of treatment period (EOTP) was 11.0 (1.5) g/dL. The Kaplan-Meier (K-M) % of pts with Hb levels ≥10 g/dL at EOTP was 91% (only pts with BL Hb <10 g/dL included). The K-M % of pts with Hb levels >13 g/dL at EOTP was 10% for pts with BL Hb <10 g/dL. Of pts in the study for ≥29 days after start of DA, the K-M % of pts needing RBC transfusions after wk 5 was 21% at EOTP. No treatment-related adverse drug reactions were reported.

CONCLUSIONS
Most CRC pts were treated in accordance with the EU product label. The high K-M % of pts with Hb values ≥10 g/dL suggests DA is effective. Hb levels >13 g/dL were rare for pts with BL Hb <10 g/dL. Sponsored by Amgen (Europe) GmbH. [Table: see text] [Table: see text].


Pyrrolosporin A (1) is a new macrolide antitumor antibiotic possessing an unusual spiro-alpha-acyltetronic acid moiety. The antibiotic was isolated from the fermentation broth of Micromonospora sp. by vacuum liquid chromatography, crystallization and reversed phase HPLC (C18). The structure was determined by a combination of NMR, MS, IR, UV, X-ray analysis and degradation studies.


Objective To explore the molecular mechanism by which promyelocytric leuxemia (PML) suppresses human gallbladder cancer cell line (GBC-SD) growth.Methods GBC-SD cells were infected by green fluorescent protein recombinant adenovirus (Ad-GFP), GFP-positive cells were examined by microscopy.Cultured gallbladder carcinoma cells (GBC-SD) were infected with Ad-PML or Ad-control.Cell death was detected by DNA laddering and TUNNEL analysis.Cell cycle was analyzed by flow cytometer.Results An infection efficiency of 100% can be achieved at a concentration of 100 multiplicity of infection (MOI).The growth rate of the Ad-PML-infected GBC-SD cells was significantly inhibited.DNA laddering was detected at 72 h post-infection.The amount of apoptotic cells significantly increased in the Ad-PML-infected GBC-SD cells without evident alterations in cell cycle distribution.Conclusion PML suppresses growth of human gallbladder cancer cell line GBC-SD by inducing apoptosis.


Besides the characteristics,such as great hardness,wear resistance and chemical stability,what are possessed by the borides in common,the light metal(include Li,Mg,Al,Be,Na)borides have some novel particular performance.The basic characteristics,preparation techniques and applications of these light metal borides are summarized in the paper.


Objective:To observe the protective effect of phosphodiesterase(PDE) inhibitor on interlenkin-1β(IL-1β)-induced destruction of isolated rat pancreatic islet cells and its mechanism.Methods:Isolated pancreatic islet cells from Wistar rats were cultured in vitro.The rat pancreatic islet cells were incubated with IL-1β(30 U/ml) alone or IL-1β(30 U/ml) plus the specific PDE Ⅳ inhibitor,rolipram(ROL),and the nitrite production,cAMP level,insulin secretion,and cell activity were determined.Results:After the induction of IL-1β,the nitrite production significantly increased and the cAMP level,insulin secretion,and cell activity significantly decreased(P 0.01).ROL inhibited the changes mentioned above in a dose-dependent manner(r2 = 0.56,P 0.01).Conclusion:ROL could protect IL-1β-induced damage to islet cells.


The traditional Chinese society moralize politics so as to demands her subjects to cultivate their moral character in order to run the family in unison,manage the nation in order and even bring peace to the world as a whole.The Zhuang minority group,in the long-run development,inherits and carries forward these moralities in its own way.Such political ethnics thoughts advocated by Zhuang ancestors as the notion of fate,the sense of fairness and resistance as well as the view of"people first"and civil rights are widely explored in the two classics:The Epic of Buluotuo and The Folk Songs of the Zhuang which gain popularity in"Na"(那)culture circle.


The academy has traditionally tended to classify the study about money into two approaches that are often considered incompatible: commodity money and debt money. The first one presents money as a commodity that, thanks to its particular characteristics, allows transactions to be carried out in a much more efficient way than the simple barter. The second one considers that money is a type of debt used in a certain institutional context to facilitate transactions, normally issued by one State to distribute the resources produced in the territory over which it exercises its power. In this work, it is argued that these two approaches are not necessarily incompatible and that an analytical tool can be used to detect a common framework and thus better address the nature of money: the "control space" of the State. JEL Classification: E40, E42, E52


A Hybrid model for prediction of field scintillation on transionospheric paths of propagation was developed as the combination of the complex phase method (CPM) and random screen technique. In a recent paper [1] by Gherm et al., the model was described in detail. The initially developed propagation model [2] was solely based on the CPM, or the generalized Rytov's approximation, which is not capable of describing the case of strong scintillation so that, to overcome this restriction, the CPM was combined with the random screen technique. In the contrast with widely employed effective phase screen (e.g. WBMOD, GISM), the random screen introduced in the present method is a physical screen with log-amplitude and phase fluctuations corresponding to a real field on a plane located below the ionosphere. To generate this random screen the relationships for spatial spectra of the phase and log-amplitude correlation functions, as well as their cross-correlation function, are utilized. They are derived in the framework of the CPM. According to the CPM the complex amplitude of the field which has propagated through the ionosphere is represented as follows:


The present invention relates to apparatus and method for selecting the printing material (109) in the substrate handler having at least one control computer (10) (100), wherein, by means of a computer (10) of the substrate handler (100) the data recording operation, and for operating data detected, a memory corresponding tolerance limits (Qgrenz) in a computer (10). Feature of the present invention is that, beyond the tolerance limits (Qgrenz) during a time interval, detecting the time interval produced in the substrate in the control computer (10) (109).


This paper presents a first approximation of the elastic limit displacement of soil resistance to horizontally loaded piles. 37 field test data sets were consistently chosen from a vast database. Both mathematical and graphical approaches were adopted to interpret the elastic limit of soil resistance from the measured load-displacement curve. The data sets indicate that the mean value of the elastic limit displacement is 5% to 6% of the pile diameter, and its coefficient of variation is approximately 40% to 60%. A design horizontal threshold displacement can be also proposed as 2% to 4% of the pile diameter, considering the variation in elastic limit displacement.


The invention provides an electric vehicle charging device which comprises a terminal server (1), a charging unit (2), a card reader (3), a printing machine (4), a power grid (5) and a vehicle battery (6). The electric vehicle charging device is characterized in that the charging unit (2), the card reader (3) and the printing machine (4) are connected to the terminal server (1), the power grid (5) and the vehicle battery (6) are connected to the charging unit (2), and the card reader (3) is connected with the printing machine (4). The electric vehicle charging device has the advantages of being simple in structure, low in manufacturing cost, high in charging speed and convenient to use.


The present work deals with an application of statistics to different choices of investment in advertising. The distribution of market-shares of two telephone guide companies (GA and GB) has been analyzed and in particular the choices of investment made by lots of companies from 1997 to 2001 have been taken into account. Starting from the time series of their investments in GA and GB , we have tried to identify the probability for the companies to join the competitive group. The aim of the research is reached through the use of Markov chains to discover the various types of investing behaviour in the long period. Finally, through a stratification and a separate estimate of the transition probabilities, the main differences of market-orientation for the two advertising channels are discussed.


Three patients with Cronkhite-Canada syndrome are described. This syndrome consists of generalized gastrointestinal polyposis associated with alopecia, onychotrophia, and skin pigmentation. The characteristics which distinguish Cronkhite-Canada syndrome from other cO!lditions associated with polyposis are late onset, lack of family history, and unique ectodermal changes. The patients are usually seriously ill and have abdominal pain associated with severe diarrhea, dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, and (in late stages) anemia and edema.


A study was conducted to evaluate the possibility of implementing copper slag in the manufacture of concrete. For this characterization of the aggregates and copper slag was performed. Conventional copper slag aggregates were combined in order to find the proportion of aggregates, which generate fewer gaps. With these proportions design concrete mixtures with which a given amount of concrete cylinders, to which I will be testing performed compressive strength and pulse velocity was made was made. The obtained manufactured expected specific resistance, and demonstrated that copper slag can replace conventional fine aggregate 20%. Equations are also generated from experimental data, where speed may relate pulse, modulus and compressive strength.


Variations in concentrations of lithophile elements in samples of Apollo 15 soil can be explained in terms of only four chemical components. Three components are represented by extrusive rock types found at the Apollo 15 site: mare basalt, KREEP basalt, and the pyroclastic green glass associated with breccia 15426. The fourth component, the highlands component, can be represented by soil from the Apennine Front, particularly the soil obtained from the 55–57 cm depth interval of station 2 core 15007/8. Among samples of Apennine Front soil, this one appears to be the least contaminated by mare materials and may be our most typical sample of the Apennine Front highlands. Although soil fron the Apennine Front is itself a complex mixture of many types of highlands rocks, it behaves as a single component with respect to mixing with the other three (rock type) components. The various subcomponents of the Apennine Front soil (e.g., melt rock and anorthositic norite) that have been used in some mixing models are not required as discrete components in order to explain the compositional variation among samples of Apollo 15 soil. Most of this compositional variation results from mare-highlands mixing, i.e., Apennine Front soil with mare basalt. KREEP basalt, which probably derives from local (possibly unexposed) sources, is also a variable component of the soil and is most prevalent in the soil from stations LM, 6, and 9.


Source Citation Wu CM, McLaughlin K, Lorenzetti DL, et al. Early risk of stroke after transient ischemic attack: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:2417-22. 18071162


This paper explores ways of how to dwell and move about in a high-tech environment that is collectively and individually meaningful, and environmentally compatible. It examines three principals of street functions: (1) everyday street environments as functioning equipment for moving about; (2) freeways as our (potential) work of art (i.e., a shared cultural paradigm; and (3) streets as public spaces uniquely suited for dwelling in postmodernism's multiple local worlds.


In this paper electrical properties of silicon containing Boron and phosphor (or arsenic) have been measured from 20° to 300°K in the range of carrier concentration 2 × 1012 to 1× 10(20) cm-3 at room-temperature. The weak-field transverse magneto-resistance and impurity activation energy methods were used to determine the degree of impurity compensation for some p-type silicon samples and these methods have been compared.
Analyses of Hall coefficient and electrical conductivity vs temperature curves indicate the ionization energy of Boron (phosphor) acceptor (donor) levels to be 0.045 eV for low impurity concentration; Fermi degeneracy is found to occur in the range of 1018 to 1019 cm-3. Impurity conduction has been observed for carrier concentration 2 × 1017 to 1 × 1018 cm-3 for p-type silicon and 5 × 1017 to 4 × 1018 cm-3 for n-type silicon respectively. Extrinsic Hall mobility is computed from Hall coefficient and conductivity. The temperature dependence of lattice-scattering mobility is found: μL=2.1 × 109T-2.7 for holes; μL = 1.2 × 108T-2.0 for electrons.
Carrier concentration vs. resistivity and Hall mobility vs. resistivity curves had been plotted for our silicon material in the range of carrier concentration 5 × 10(11) to 1 × 10(20) cm-3. It is aimed to give as reference for preparing silicon material.


Relative age effects (RAEs; R. H. Barnsley, A. H. Thompson, & P. E. Barnsley, 1985) convey school attainment (dis)advantages depending on whether one is relatively older or younger within annually age-grouped cohorts. In the present study, the authors examined the pervasiveness of RAEs by examining (a) attainment in 4 secondary school subjects, (b) attainment consistency across subjects, (c) pupils enrolled in gifted and talented programs, (d) pupils referred for learning support or identified as having special educational needs, and (e) whether RAEs were related to pupil attendance. For 2004-2005, attainment, program participation, and attendance data for 657 pupils (aged 11-14) at a secondary school in North England were analyzed. Relatively older pupils (i.e., September-November born) attained significantly higher in subjects (except for English), were more likely to attain consistently high scores across subject areas, and be enrolled in gifted and talented programs. In contrast, relatively younger pupils (i.e., January-August born) were overrepresented in learning support referrals and identified as having special educational needs, and were more likely to be among the lowest 20% of attainment and attendees, attending on average school 6 days less. RAEs are pervasive and systematic across the curriculum, implicating maturational and psychological mechanisms


Acute poisoning is one of the commonest causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. The present study is conducted with an attempt to analyze the pattern of poisoning and the sociodemographic profile of victims of poisoning. A retrospective analysis of poisoning cases admitted at SDM Hospital, Dharwad during June 2010 to May 2011 was done. During this period 136 cases were referred to emergency department. The study revealed that the commonest victims were males in their third decade. The most important agents of acute poisoning were organophosphates (54.41%) followed by Drugs (19.85%) and rodenticide (5.88%). The commonest manner of poisoning was suicidal. The duration of hospitalization ranged from 1 to 60 days. Poisoning followed ingestion of readily available and commonly used agents. Therefore implementation of strict legislative measures regarding the sale and distribution of insecticides can reduce the incidence of poisoning in developing agrarian countries.


This paper describes a contribution to QUEMES project. This is a proposal for education in technology approaching three parts: mobile differential robots construction, event oriented graphic programming environment and educational activities for children. This project was developed by Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Sidre research group in 2010, in agreement with Maloka. QUEMES is a technology education learning proposal using cooperative robots. The main goal is that the children learn to work in a cooperative way through observation of robot interaction to resolve a problem. "Motivation for the creation" was the applied methodology developed by Maloka. The problems to resolve were every day-life situations facilitating the association between technology and daily life. The software uses for programming the robots was developed in a highly intuitive and easy-to-use graphic environment. The students define the interactions and reactions between robots to the events. When compiling the programs the code for the robot standalone control system was generated automatically. QUEMES aside from providing a hardware and software platform, propose a number of technological school activities where the students learn mechanics electronics and basic principles of computer programing, required for understanding of how robots work besides of think over cooperative work. The main contribution presented is the extension of educational activities that the students can do through the design of new cooperation tasks within robots, using the simple geometric objects prehensile system.


Adopting international experience from abroad can speed the process of the development of Chinese non-profit organizations. That will results in the establishment of proper cultural background, legislative system and institutional ability building for non-profit organizations in China.


The shot-noise unit in continuous-variable quantum key distribution plays an important and fundamental role in experimental implementation as it is used as a normalization parameter that contribute to perform security analysis and distill the key information. However, the traditional calibration procedure and detector model can not cover all system noise in practical application, which will result in some loopholes and influence the practical security. What's more, the traditional procedure is also rather complicated and has difficulty in compatible with automatic operating system. In this paper we propose a calibration model based on the proposed trusted detector model, which could naturally close the loopholes in practical application. It can help identify the shot-noise unit in only one step, which can not only effectively simplify the evaluation process but also reduce the statistical fluctuation, while two steps are needed in traditional method. We prove its feasibility and derive the complete version of the corresponding entanglement-based model. Detailed security analysis against arbitrary collective attacks and numerous simulation results in both the asymptotic limit regime and the finite-size regime are provided. A proof-of-principle experiment has been implemented and the results indicate that the one-time-calibration model can be employed as a powerful substitution to calibrate the shot-noise unit. Our method paves the way for the deployment of continuous-variable quantum key distribution with real time calibration and automatic operation.


Performant vision-language (VL) models like CLIP represent captions using a single vector. How much information about language is lost in this bottleneck? We first curate CompPrompts, a set of increasingly compositional image captions that VL models should be able to capture (e.g., single object, to object+property, to multiple interacting objects). Then, we train text-only recovery probes that aim to reconstruct captions from single-vector text representations produced by several VL models. This approach does not require images, allowing us to test on a broader range of scenes compared to prior work. We find that: 1) CLIP's text encoder falls short on more compositional inputs, including object relationships, attribute-object association, counting, and negations; 2) some text encoders work significantly better than others; and 3) text-only recovery performance predicts multi-modal matching performance on ControlledImCaps: a new evaluation benchmark we collect and release consisting of fine-grained compositional images and captions. Specifically, our results suggest text-only recoverability is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for modeling compositional factors in contrastive VL models. We release our datasets and code.


. In the parallel case, when the Zeeman spin splitting can beignored, the magnetic edge states originating from the n = 0 Landau levels of the two domains havedispersionless energy levels, contrary to those from the n 6= 0 levels. Here, n is the graphene Landau-level index. They become dispersive as the Zeeman splitting becomes finite or as an electrostaticstep potential is additionally applied. In the antiparallel case, the n = 0 magnetic edge states splitinto electron-like and hole-like current-carrying states. The energy gap between the electron-likeand hole-like states can be created by the Zeeman splitting or by the step potential. These featuresare attributed to the fact that the pseudo-spin of the magnetic edge states couples to the directionof the magnetic field. We propose an Aharonov-Bohm interferometry setup in a graphene ribbonfor experimental study of the magnetic edge states.


A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSGRADUATE STUDIES
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE (M.Sc.) DEGREE IN HUMAN ANATOMY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN ANATOMY,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA
MARCH 2014


Although motor fluctuation can often be severe in Parkinson's disease (PD), it is rare for an 'off period' to result in coma. The case presented here is of a patient with longstanding PD who was admitted to our hospital with a Glasgow Coma Scale of three after missing just one or two doses of her medication. Investigation for infective, neurovascular and metabolic causes of coma were negative and the patient recovered very rapidly following reinstitution of dopaminergic therapy via nasogastric tube. This case highlights how florid the presentation of motor fluctuations in PD can be and the importance of restarting treatment as quickly as possible. Guidance is provided on how to administer dopaminergic medications in patients who are unable to swallow.


This paper reports on achievements made by implementing industrial case study elements in curriculum delivery related to Sustainable Energy Management subject topics. Students have difficulties in comprehending topics related to Energy Management as lack of industrial exposure thus uninterested with subject matter. Improvement in course delivery and assessment method had been done by including industrial case study and bringing in industrial practitioners into campus. Student performance assessment was recorded and shown an increased percentage of course outcome value within the following semester after project implementation. It was concluded that implementing industrial case study into teaching delivery may increase student comprehension level for Sustainable Energy Management subject topics.


We propose a fast and near-optimal approach to joint channel-estimation, equalization, and decoding of coded single-carrier (SC) transmissions over frequency-selective channels with few-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Our approach leverages parametric bilinear generalized approximate message passing to reduce the implementation complexity of joint channel estimation and (soft) symbol decoding to that of a few fast Fourier transforms. Furthermore, it learns and exploits sparsity in the channel impulse response. This paper is motivated by millimeter-wave systems with bandwidths on the order of Gsamples/sec, where few-bit ADCs, SC transmissions, and fast processing all lead to significant reductions in power consumption and implementation cost. We numerically demonstrate our approach using signals and channels generated according to the IEEE 802.11ad wireless local area network standard, in the case that the receiver uses analog beamforming and a single ADC.


Reconfigurable Antenna is an alternative to multi-band Antenna. Different techniques are used to achieve multiband and wideband operation of antenna. Reconfigurable antenna has a potential to add some functionality to mobile communication. A reconfigurable antenna is another solution to achieve multiple bands by switching ON and OFF some part of the antenna. To allow the operating frequency and the bandwidth to be reconfigurable switching components are normally used. In this paper microstrip patch-slot antenna is capable of frequency switching at different frequency bands from Frequency range. RF p-i-n diode is used for the switching purposes. The main aim of this paper is to provide multiband functionality form a single band frequency just by optimizing the antenna structure.


Objective: To explore the formulation and dissolution of dispersible cinnarizine tablets. Methods : The formulation was optimized based on the orthogonal design L_9 (3~4). The dissolution of cinnarizine was measured using the basket method as well as UV-spectrophotometry. Results:The disintegration of the dispersible cinnarizine tablets occurred within 3 minutes. The disintegrated cinnarizine particle could pass through 710μm sieve. Other dissolution profiles were as follows: T_(50) =0.33min, T_d=0.60min, T_(80) =1.36min. Conclusion: The quality of the dispersible cinnarizine tablets meets China Pharmacopoeia (2000 version) criteria,and the dissolution rate was faster than marketing cinnarizine tablets.


PDLLA /chondroitin sulfate/chitosan multilayers film was prepared by electronic self assembly(ESA) technology.In the process of multilayers assembled,the influence factors such as the time,the temperature,the concentration of solution and pH value were analyzed and studied by UV-vis spectroscopy.Results indicated that the most suitable experimental conditions were that the concentration of CS was 2 mg/mL and that of CHS was 1%(g/mL),the time was 30 min,the temperature was 30 ℃ and the pH value was 3.8.The PDLLA/CS/CHS multilayers film was prepared according to the most suitable experiment condition.Its morphology was observed through scanning electron microscope(SEM))and results showed the multilayers film had an asymmetry structure with porous pore.


Lawrence Livermore`s Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) is one of the leading AMS facilities in the world, performing about 25% of all AMS analyses. It is also at the forefront of the emerging field of AMS as applied to biomedical research. AMS is so sensitive that it can identify just a few molecules of a substance among trillions of molecules. This sensitivity makes possible for the first time the study of toxins, dietary nutrients, drugs, and other substances in dosages that are relevant to humans. Work with volunteer subjects indicates that a chemical that is produced when meat is cooked adversely affects human DNA more than it does the DNA of laboratory animals. This research supports the need to pursue additional human biological risk assessment using AMS. Livermore is also performing studies of the human metabolism of calcium, which are difficult without AMS.


In addition to their visual qualities, Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER and Denis Villeneuve's BLADE RUNNER 2049 present a profound reflection on what it means to be human under the conditions of high-tech, late capitalist information societies. The fictional scenario serves as a thought experiment: it provokes the question of what remains of being human if all traditional and modern concepts are no longer applicable. The book provides comprehensive explanations of the philosophical content and references, an analysis of their visual realization, and their background in the history of thought. It is thus also an answer to the question of whether it is possible to philosophize with films.


: A larger mining height leads to easy caving of the coal wall in the working face. The flexible reinforcement method during the mining period of the working face affects the normal mining of the working face, and the high strength of the traditional bolt/cable material affects the operation of the shearer drum, so it is necessary to seek a reinforcement material which does not affect the production and the drum coal cutting. This paper proposed a technical scheme of coal wall reinforcement by pre-grouting with a cuttable aluminum–plastic composite pipe which is easy to cut during mining in the working face, tested the mechanical properties of the "grouting + flexible pipe" specimen, and obtained the optimal support spacing by numerical simulation and carrying out an industrial test. The results show that the tensile strength of aluminum–plastic composite pipe is much higher than that of coal spalling and the elongation is much higher than that of the anchor rod. When double-row composite grouting holes are arranged 1.5 and 3.0 m away from the roof, the supporting effect is better. Underground grouting shows that pre-grouting before mining according to the advancing speed of the working face 10–14 days in advance can effectively fill the coal cracks and significantly improve the integrity of the coal wall.


MY hypothesis in this essay is also a metaphor. I want to argue that Spain is a self-eater, in the sense of Unamuno's image of the heautontimoroumenos who devours himself spiritually. This destructive turning against the self occurs on both the individual and national levels. Autophagia is the condition of the writer's divided consciousness, and it has its parallel in Spain's self-aggression as a collective entity that consumes itself in civil wars or in ideo-


Several frameworks for the semantic annotation of Web services have been proposed in order to enhance the processes of service discovery and composition. This paper presents SAWS, as a new tool for semantic annotation of web services with data and protocol semantics aiming the enhancement of the WSDL descriptions with semantic concepts provided by domain ontologies. The proposed tool combines string matching algorithms and the Levenshtein distance concept to attain a high degree of correctness in ranking domain ontology concepts relative to an abstract and purely syntactic element. Using a semiautomatic annotation process also contributes to increasing the efficiency in choosing the most appropriate concept matching. The evaluation of SAWS has confirmed the assumptions related to correctness and efficiency and allows us to formulate a method of determining the appropriate annotations for a large spectrum of abstract entities such as input and output elements and operations.


The Clean Air Society is represented on a number of Standards Association of Australia (Standards Australia) committees dealing with air quality measurement:


The Ministry of MSME administers the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) Mart, while the Ministry of Commerce and Industry administers the Government E-Market (GeM). A study was conducted to understand the performance of industrial clusters in India on these portals with the objective of studying the physical and financial performance of MSME Mart and GeM for MSMEs. The methodology of this study consists of the collection of secondary data from the MSME Mart website using input variables like No. of MSMEs, Micro (Mn), Small (Sn), Medium (Dn), Total Uydam Registration (Ut), No. of MSME Clusters in India (Cn), No. of Working Enterprises in India (Un), Employment in India (En), Original Value of P & M in India (INR crores; Pc), Market Value of Fixed Assets in India (INR crores; Mc), Award of Contract in India (Ac) and output variables like Gross Output in India (INR crores; Gc), which were analysed using descriptive analysis. It was found that there is an increase in the CAGR. The Award of Contract given to MSMEs should be increased as Karnataka and West Bengal are performing well in MSME Mart. The input variables collected from GeM like No. of Orders Placed (Op), No. of Unique Products Sold (Up), No. of Total Products Sold (Ps), No. of Organizations Registered (Cumulative) on GeM (Gn), No. of Sellers/Service Providers (Cumulative; Sn), Order Value (INR crores) by State/UT's (Os), Order Value (INR crores) by Central Organizations (Co.) and No. of MSE Sellers (Cumulative; Mn) and output variables like Order Value (INR crores; Ove) were analysed using descriptive analysis; it was found that the CAGR is increasing. A correlation analysis was conducted; the findings reveal a strong relationship between the input and output variables. The trend and regression analyses reveal increases in output and input variables. The Government of India and the concerned state governments implement the MSME Mart and GeM for MSME clusters in India to reduce the costs of production and marketing and increase profits, which allows MSMEs to compete in the domestic and international markets through ecommerce.


The finite element method was applied to analyze the factors influencing the shear modulus test results with the current press-shear test method in order to verify this test method's applicability to sandwich construction with a high shear modulus.The results show that the bending deflection of the loading plate's loading end decreases the accuracy of the test results,especially to those with the high shear modulus.The test errors will exceed 6% when the sandwich construction's modulus is over 100 MPa.Based on the study of the current test system parameters,an improved press-shear method was put forward: reducing the bending deflection of the loading plate's loading end by improving the loading method.This new test method covers the determination of the shear modulus of sandwich construction whose shear modulus is lower than 500 MPa,with a test error less than 3%.The improved test method also reduces the sensitivity of test results to fixture dimension parameters variations,and improves the test reliability.


This thesis consists four independent papers. In each paper the purpose is to analyse firm renewal, with special consideration to regional characteristics. Highlighted here are the knowledge availa ...


Response of circuits with perfectly coupled mutual inductance for arbitrary signal is evaluated by equivalent circuits,equivalent power source thorem,rool integrel and example was givern.


We examine the synchronization phenomena in a set of globally coupled oscillators with particular attention to the interplay between external driving and inertia or noise. From the self-consistency equation for the order parameter, which measures the collective synchronization of the system, it is found that the inertia brings on discontinuous transitions between the coherent and incoherent states and gives rise to hysteresis behavior. It is also shown that the total order parameter decreases monotonically with noise, indicating overall suppression of synchronization. Still there exist optimal noise levels at which the ac components of the order parameter and of the phase velocity reaches their maxima.


Different theoretical approaches to word learning and categorization recognize importance of attentional flexibility, however they assume different mechanisms underlying this flexibility. According to one approach, attentional shifts in the course of word learning and categorization are automatic in nature. According to the alternative approach, these shifts may arise as a result of voluntary processing. The present study evaluated these assumptions in the context of a task routinely used to examine attentional flexibility in young children, a Dimension Change Card Sorting task. Two experiments presented below examined attentional flexibility in 3 year-old children under conditions promoting automatic and voluntary shifts of attention.


UV-LED at fixed wavelength is increasingly employed in UV/chlorine process to destruct contaminants of emerging concern. However, destruction of contaminants and formation of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in post-chlorination would be...


The prevalence of major depression continues to increase, particularly in young women. Depression is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease and cognitive impairment later in life. Peripheral vascular dysfunction, including stiffening of the large elastic arteries, is evident in adults with depression and may mediate the relation between depressive and neurocognitive symptoms by exposing the cerebral vasculature to damaging pulsatile pressure waves. We hypothesized that increased depression symptom severity would be associated with more pulsatile blood flow through the middle cerebral artery (MCA) as assessed by the pulsatility index (PI). Transcranial Doppler ultrasound was used to measure MCA cerebral blood velocity (CBV) in 40 young adults (25 F/15 M, mean age: 24±5 y) having a wide range of depressive symptom severity. MCA PI was calculated as the difference between maximum CBV and minimum CBV normalized to the mean CBV. Self‐reported depressive symptom severity was derived using the Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS; T‐score). The association between PI and depressive symptom severity was quantified using linear regression; sex differences were assessed using multiple linear regression. PI (mean±SE: 0.8±0.02; range: 0.6–1.0) was negatively correlated with depressive symptom severity (mean±SE: 51.3±1.6; range: 37.1–71.9) (r2=0.12, P=0.03). There was no difference in the relation between depressive symptom severity and PI between men and women (R2=0.09, P=0.39). Lower pulsatility of the cerebral arteries in adults with more severe depressive symptoms may indicate a possible compensatory role to protect the brain from damaging pressure waves. Future studies should examine the mechanisms by which depression contributes to decreased pulsatility of cerebral blood vessels and stiffening of large elastic arteries in young individuals, including the possible role of augmented cerebral autoregulation, and whether this mechanism changes with advancing age.


Abstract Restoring and reconstructing the salt-affected degraded ecosystem is receiving more and more attention in many parts of the world, especially semi-arid areas. Unfortunately, knowledge about the potential role of natural arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi was limited. This work examined the regional factors that drove the variations in AM fungal diversity in Songnen Plain, a typical saline-sodic degraded grassland. Soils were sampled in 45 random sites, 150 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) belonging to Glomeromycota were identified. Among these OTUs, 129 and 103 OTUs were classified to Glomerales and Glomus, respectively. The coefficients of variation of total diversity index were 35.61% and the total effects of soil salinity and nutrients collectively accounted for 31.2, 11.8, 47.3, and 64.2% of the variations in Sobs, Chao, Shannon, and Simpson indices, respectively. The climatic variables and geographical location had no significant effects on the variations of AM fungal diversity. Multiple linear regression models showed that soil pH, electrical conductivity (EC), available N and organic C were the most main influencing factors. This research highlighted the wide distribution of AM fungi and thus might promote the development of new techniques that apply natural AM fungi to restore saline-sodic degraded grasslands.


Systemic fungal infections remain a major clinical problem in immunocompromised patients. Presumed systemic fungal infections (PSFI) are treated empirically with an intravenous antifungal agent to reduce the occurrence of documented infections and associated mortality.The objective of this study was to compare the cost—effectiveness of intravenous itraconazole (IVitra) treatment with the current first-line empirical treatment of PSFI with conventional amphotericin B (CAB) in cases of neutropenic cancer and bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Cost—effectiveness was expressed as cost per additional "responder" (defined as a patient without fever or major toxicity).We developed a medical decision analytical tree that included probabilities of toxicity, response and pathogen documentation, and second—line treatments. Clinical data were obtained from randomized clinical trials, and resource use data were obtained from a panel of clinical experts.The total cost of treating PSFI per neutropenic cancer patient was lower for IVitra than for CAB, and this lower cost resulted from a reduced need for second-line antifungals. In a cost—effectiveness analysis, IVitra treatment was superior to CAB treatment. Compared with current treatment with CAB, IVitra therapy was shown to be a cost—effective and cost—saving empirical treatment for PSFI in neutropenic cancer patients and BMT patients.


The dynamics of a three-level atom in a cascade (or ladder) configuration with both transitions coupled to a single structured reservoir of quantized electromagnetic field modes is treated using Laplace transform methods applied to the coupled amplitude equations. In this system two-photon excitation of the reservoir occurs, and both sequences for emitting the two photons are allowed and included in the theory. An integral equation is found to govern the complex amplitudes of interest. It is shown that the dynamics of the atomic system is completely determined in terms of reservoir structure functions, which are products of the mode density with the coupling constant squared. This dependence on reservoir structure functions rather than on the mode density or coupling constants alone, shows that it may be possible to extend pseudomode theory to treat multiphoton excitation of a structured reservoir--pseudomodes being introduced in one-one correspondence with the poles of reservoir structure functions in the complex frequency plane. A general numerical method for solving the integral equations based on discretizing frequency space, and applicable to different structured reservoirs such as high-Q cavities and photonic band-gap systems, is presented. An application to a high-Q-cavity case with identical Lorentzian reservoir structure functions is made,more » and the non-Markovian decay of the excited state shown. A formal solution to the integral equations in terms of right and left eigenfunctions of a non-Hermitian kernel is also given. The dynamics of the cascade atom, with the two transitions coupled to two separate structured reservoirs of quantized electromagnetic field modes, is treated similarly to the single structured reservoir situation. Again the dynamics only depends on reservoir structure functions. As only one sequence of emitting the two photons now occurs, the integral equation for the amplitudes can be solved analytically. The non-Markovian decay of the excited state is shown for the same high-Q-cavity case of identical Lorentzian reservoir structure functions, and differs from that for the single reservoir situation.« less


Acer saccharum and Acer rubrum, two main maple species in North America, will be affected by ongoing global warming. Several studies predict a southern limit contraction but limited northward expansion of maple distribution for the future. We aimed to understand the main drivers of current maple distribution to quantify potential changes to maple habitat in this context. We identified the local conditions of maple stands and assessed the potential changes under warming scenarios. We selected two regions in Quebec, Canada, at the northern distribution of the species and applied probability distribution function and principal component analysis to identify the factors explaining the occurrence of maple compared with other forest species, croplands, and grasslands. Maple habitat was estimated under warming scenarios up to 2°C. We observed a lower density of maple stands in the north (7.76%), compared to the south (33.01%). Warming increased maple stands by 3.54 and 1.45% in the northernmost and southernmost regions, respectively, with the highest increases being estimated at the initial warming (+1.0°C). We conclude that maple of northern regions can benefit from local warming if precipitation does not become limiting. These changes could increase the potential for the regional maple industry and forest management.


Surfacing is the second available novel by Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Steward in 1972. It has been called a companion novel to Atwood's collection of poems, Power Politics, which was written the previous year and deals with balancing issues. The novel, grappling with notions of national and gendered self. Atwood's second work of fiction develops many of the thematic concerns of her poetry in redolent prose. Surfacing presents a woman disabled by the penalty of her "marital" experience, but the protagonist's journey from spiritual and emotional paralysis to combined agency has a powerful mythic length that the previous novel lacks. It is an knowledge that has left her anaesthetized, cut off from her emotions by a form of mind/body split, and her recollections are so caring that she represses them in willful amnesia. The quest in search of her father, however, triggers a quest of self-discovery, as the narrator's history refuses to stay flooded; she is haunted by memories of her parents, a marriage that never was, and her involvement in the abortion of her child. Eventually, she is forced to tackle here specters when a dive below the lake surface becomes a symbolic dive into her own insensible. She ritualistically sheds all remainder of a language and culture that has led her into self-betrayal and carry out. Alone on the island, she undergoes a shamanistic cleansing madness, eventually surfacing with a new-found sense of self. The novel's end resonates with Atwood's of that period thematic guide to Canadian literature, Survival. Poised to return to the world that she has left, the narrator's idea leaves her with a decision that speaks to her familiarity as both a Canadian and as a woman: "This above all, to decline to be a victim."


All trans retinoic acid (atRA) has been shown to inhibit the growth of CAOV3 ovarian carcinoma cells and to elevate the level of p27 cyclin‐dependent kinase inhibitor. We report here that phosphorylation at S10 residue is an important event in mediating p27 role in atRA induced growth arrest. atRA treatment of atRA sensitive CAOV3 cells increases the levels of S10 phospho‐p27 in both nuclear and cytoplasmic cell compartments. This increase is accompanied by a decrease in the levels of skp2 protein. This effect was not observed in SKOV3 cells which are resistant to atRA growth inhibitory effect. An A10‐p27 mutant that cannot be phosphorylated at S10 induces a dominant negative effect on the atRA effect on the levels and activity of endogenous p27. Overexpression of A10‐p27 mutant renders CAOV3 cells more resistant to atRA treatment and reverses the effect that atRA has on p27 binding to CDKs, on CDK activity, and on the expression of S phase genes. J. Cell. Physiol. 217: 558–568, 2008. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Through the analysis of problems arising in the process of integrated practice training,and the investigation into current characteristics of social demands for mechatronics engineering talents,this paper proposes an overall planning of pursueing students' professional core capability,further investigates into the practice on integrated practical training system in the perspectives of features,teaching methods and evaluation,which has laid a good foundation on the professional characteristic construction.


Did you know that buying a credit default swap can be like buying insurance on your neighbor's car—and then getting paid when that neighbor has an accident? Learn the ABCs of CDS, and find out why they are so important to any discussion of the European debt crisis.


Abstract After the Gulf war, new diagnostic entity was claimed: the Gulf War Syndrome (GWS). A wide spectrum of exposures is widely discussed in order to explain the reported symptoms. Investigating tentative culprits we did not find clearly conclusive data about the existence of the GWS. The origin of described symptoms can be associated to the use of pesticides and the PB pill. However, the data about the use of both are influenced by a lack of precise records. Although other agents such as nerve agent exposure could not be definitively ruled out, its link to symptoms seems to be improbable.


In response to the need to leverage private finance and the lack of competition in some parts of the Australian public sector infrastructure market, the Australian Federal government has demonstrated its desire to attract new sources of in-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational contractors. This study aims to update progress towards an investigation into the determinants of multinational FRQWUDFWRUV∂�ZLOOLQJQHVVWRELGIRU�$XVWUDOLDQSXEOLFVHFWRUPD MRUURDGDQGEULGJHV�� 7KLVUHVHDUFKGHSOR\V�'XQQLQJ∂VHFOHFWLFWKHRU\�IRUWKHILUVWW LPHLQWHUPVRILQ -bound FDI by multinational contractors into Australia. Elsewhere, the authors have GHYHORSHG�'XQQLQJ∂VSULQFLSDOK\SRWKHVLVWRVXLWWKHFRQWH(WRI �WKLVUHVHDUFKDQGWR� address a weakness arising in this hypothesis that is based on a nominal (yes or no) approach to the ownership, location and internalisation (OLI) factors in Dunning's eclectic framework and which fails to speak to the relative explanatory power of these factors. The authors have completed a first stage test of this development of Dunning's hypothesis based on publically available secondary data, in which it was concluded tentatively that the location factor appears to have the greatest explanatory power. This paper aims to present, for the first time, a further and novel development of the operation of Dunning's OLI factors within the context of multinational contracting, as well as a preview of the design and planned analysis of the next empirical stage in this research concerning case studies. Finally, and beyond the theoretical contributions expected, other expected contributions are mentioned concerning research method and practical implications.


This research purpose is to exmine the effect of voluntary risk management disclosure towards firm value of manufacturer sector firm that listed on the stock exchange in Indonesia in 2014. In addition, this research also examine the effect of firm value when firm disclose more information to external part can reduce the asymetri information. Based on signalling theory, when firm disclose more then they should have higher firm value.
The population in this research is manufacturing firms which have been listed on the stock exchange in Indonesia in 2014. Resulting in total companies selected are 40 firms from 138 population. The analytical tools that used in this research is multiple regression analysis.
The results show that operational risk, empowerment risk and integrity risk disclosure has no significant effect on firm value. With this result, concluded that investor will choose the firm that have lower risk than the risky one.


The invention discloses an impurity discharging steamer which comprises a machine frame, a steamer body, a material conveying device, a lifting stirring screw, a screw driving device and a plurality of material pulling device sets. The steamer body is fixed on the machine frame. A feeding opening is formed in the upper end of the steamer body. A discharging opening is formed in the bottom of the steamer body. The material conveying device is arranged at the discharging opening. The lifting stirring screw is arranged in the steamer body in a vertical-rotating mode. The screw driving device is fixed at the upper end of the steamer body and is connected with the lifting stirring screw in a transmission mode. The material pulling device sets are fixed at the upper end of the steamer body. The material pulling devices are distributed on a circle of periphery wall of the upper end of the steamer body in a discrete mode. The material pulling devices comprise material pulling rods which are arranged on the steamer body in a rotating mode. The material pulling rods carry out material pulling on impurities floating at the upper end of the steamer body along the inner periphery wall of the steamer body. The material pulling rods are driven by material pulling rod power devices. An impurity discharging opening is formed in the upper end periphery wall of the steamer body. An impurity discharging device is arranged at the impurity discharging opening. According to the steamer, the separating degree of PET bottle flakes and PP or PE impurities can be improved, and finally the impurity-containing rate of PET bottle flakes guided out from the discharging opening is lowered.


Background  While oral psoralen plus ultraviolet A (PUVA) remains the most popular therapeutic modality for vitiligo, recent reports have shown that narrowband ultraviolet B (UVB) also induces significant repigmentation. In this study we evaluated the efficacy of broadband UVB on actively spreading, progressive vitiligo in patients who had been followed for many months (12 or more) in our practice, who continued to depigment despite treatment.


Fram Strait is the only deep-water connection between the Arctic and the world oceans. On the eastern side, the northbound West Spitsbergen Current transports warm Atlantic water into the Arctic, while on the western side the southbound East Greenland Current transports sea ice and polar water from the Arctic to the Nordic Seas and Atlantic Ocean. Significant recirculation and intense small-scale mesoscale variability in the center of the Strait make it difficult to accurately measure ocean transports through the Strait. An acoustic system for tomography, glider navigation, and passive listening was installed in the central, deep-water part of the Strait during 2010–2012. The integral measurements of temperature provided by tomography and the spatial resolution of the glider data are complementary to the data from the long-term array of oceanographic moorings at 780 50'N. The oceanographic conditions and highly variable sea ice in Fram Strait provide an acoustic environment that differs from both the high...


Soft ground improvement gained prominence all over the world in view of ever growing engineering activities for various purposes. In view of serious problems during and after construction in these deposits, vertical drains method using preloading is being frequently applied to improve these soil beds. However, in view of the difficulties associated with this technique, an alternative vacuum preloading technique was developed. But vacuum preloading is also limited to the available atmospheric pressure with inevitable technical difficulties. The present paper discusses an innovative technique of applying radial pneumatic pressure with the help of inflatable balloons/tubes. The drainage is facilitated along the surface of inflatable tubes by providing fabric strips/the traditional strip drains. The laboratory experimentation in test tank indicated that this technique has the potential for practical applications.


We present an information theoretic approach to caching in multicore embedded systems. In contrast to conventional approaches where caches are treated independently, we leverage novel cache placement and coded data delivery algorithms that treat the caches holistically, and provably reduce the communication overhead resulting from main memory accesses. The proposed approach intelligently places data across the processors' caches such that in the event of cache misses, the main memory can opportunistically send coded data blocks that are simultaneously useful to multiple processors. Using architectural simulations, we demonstrate that the coded caching approach significantly reduces the communication overhead, thus reducing the overall memory access energy and latency, while imposing minimal overheads. In a quad-core embedded system, compared to conventional caching schemes, the coded caching approach reduced the access energy and latency by an average of 36% and 16%, respectively.


[Objective] To explore the relationships between postnatal maternal depression, anxiety and early infant temperament. [Methods] 590 mothers were asked to finish the questionnaires of HAD and Edinburgh scale in the 3rd day, the 42nd day and 90th day to evaluate the degree of postnatal depression and anxiety. Infant temperament was evaluated at 3 months by maternal report using Early Infancy Temperament Questionnaire ( EITQ ). [Results] The odds of "difficult"infant temperament were found more in the infants of depressive or anxious mothers. Postnatal maternal depression, anxiety was also related to the scores of phobotaxis, suitability, response intensity and attention dispersity, while no statistical relationship was found between postnatal maternal depression, anxiety and the infant temperament types. And among the infants with "difficult" infant temperament, more mothers were found depression or anxiety. [Conclusions] It seems that there is correlation between postnatal maternal depression, anxiety and early infant temperament.


The geometric conjecture developed by the authors in [1,2,3,4] applies to the smooth dual Irr(G) of any reductive p-adic group G. It predicts a definite geometric structure -- the structure of an extended quotient -- for each component in the Bernstein decomposition of Irr(G).

In this article, we prove the geometric conjecture for the principal series in any split connected reductive p-adic group G. The proof proceeds via Springer parameters and Langlands parameters. As a consequence of this approach, we establish strong links with the local Langlands correspondence.

One important feature of our approach is the emphasis on
two-sided cells in extended affine Weyl groups.


The action of apologizing can be accomplished as the main business of the interaction or incidentally while participants are doing something else. We refer to these apologies as "parasitic apologies," because they are produced en passant (Schegloff, 2007), and focus our analysis on this type of apology occurring at the opening of the call. Such apologies are autonomously produced by the caller or by the call receiver, displaying the urgency to repair potential contact troubles, and find shelter inside the opening of the call, at the expense of some phases that routinely occur. The results of our analysis show interesting associations between the apologizer (the caller or the call receiver), the structure of the parasitic apology, and the impact it has on the structure of the opening sequence.


Chen YC, Ho CH, Liu TH, et al. Long‐term risk of herpes zoster following COVID‐19: A retrospective cohort study of 2 442 686 patients. J Med Virol. 2023;95(4):e28745. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv.28745). We have acknowledged two typos and have made the following corrections. First, in the fifth line of the paragraph in the section of "Demographic Characteristics," we initially reported the study period as "between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2020." This error needs to be corrected to "between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021." Second, in the eighth line of the left paragraph on the sixth page, the term "HS" should be corrected to "HZ." The authors regret these errors.


Winner of more than 30 international awards--including Best Book of the Year by Printing Industries of America--this bestseller takes viewers on a spectacular tour through the beauty and mystery under the sea. This 10th anniversary edition features a new introduction and 12 new images. "One of the most remarkable books ever published".--Publishers Weekly.


ABSTRACT Recently, [Veestraeten D. On the inverse transform of Laplace transforms that contain (products of) the parabolic cylinder function. Integr Transf Spec F 2015;26:859–871] derived inverse Laplace transforms for Laplace transforms that contain products of two parabolic cylinder functions by exploiting the link between the parabolic cylinder function and the transition density and distribution functions of the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. This paper first uses these results to derive new integral representations for (products of two) parabolic cylinder functions. Second, as the Brownian motion process with drift is a limiting case of the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process also limits can be calculated for the product of gamma functions and (products of) parabolic cylinder functions. The central results in both cases contain, in stylized form, and such that the recurrence relation of the parabolic cylinder function straightforwardly allows to obtain integral representations and limits also for countless other combinations in the orders such as and .


Food labeling is of growing importance in the market place due to increases in both food products and in consumer interest in specific product quality characteristics. Food labels can help consumers differentiate highly similar products and can serve as an important information tool for informed decision-making. Credence attributes, like process and product qualities, play an important role in product labeling since they can be a decisive choice criterion. Credence attributes are characterized by the fact that consumers themselves cannot control them. Thus, some elements in food labelling aim to transform credence attributes into search attributes in order to reduce information asymmetry. Consumers can only make well-informed decisions when differences in food products are comprehensible. It is therefore necessary for different product qualities to be highlighted so that the market can function well. Furthermore, emphasizing such differences for consumers can prevent fair competitors from being forced out of the market.
The aim of this dissertation is twofold. First, the aim is to analyse and evaluate different labelling polices that have not yet been targeted by consumer research. The second aim is to make relevant policy recommendations. This is carried out by empirical consumer surveys. The three research questions are:
1. How can underlying process and product characteristics be communicated so that they are differentiated on food packages?
2. How are different labelling elements on product packages, which are signaling cues for consumers, perceived and evaluated by consumers?
3. How can niche products, such as high welfare meat and pasture-raised milk, be optimally marketed and how can target groups be characterised?
The results of the empirical research reveal that the current food labelling practice shows deficits and improvement potential. In addition, the results have shown that multi-level labelling systems have the potential to change consumer behaviour and market shares, when compared to a binary labelling system. However, further research is essential. Recommendations for policy makers and industry decision makers are made. Marketing recommendations for high welfare meat and pasture-raised milk are also set out and target groups for these products are characterized.


Abstract1 This article reports the results of a comparative analysis of the human resources management (HRM) autonomy of government agencies in Germany and Norway. Whereas the academic literature largely focuses on ministry–agency relations in countries where agencies have been only recently established, these two countries have a long tradition of delegation to agencies outside ministerial departments. However, although sharing a broadly similar administrative tradition, each country differs with regard to the management reform trajectory. This allows an empirical test to be carried out of the effects of management reforms on HRM autonomy, drawing on survey data. The article also discusses the literature on how task characteristics and formal agency structure supposedly affect agency autonomy and puts these claims to an empirical test. The empirical analysis reveals cross-country differences, a somewhat limited effect of task characteristics, and a clear effect of formal structure on de facto HRM autonomy, especially in the German context. Points for practitioners The article shows that administrative traditions do not determine trajectories and effects of administrative reforms. Although both countries have a public sector dominated by public law and the principle of legality, the article shows that agency managers in Norway report more extensive autonomy for managing their staff. Thus extensive delegation of management autonomy to agencies is possible even in a 'Rechtsstaat' context. Moreover, the article shows that granting agencies extended formal autonomy and the possibility to generate additional income will also contribute to extended management autonomy. Thus, decision-makers may deliberately influence de facto agency autonomy by using different elements of institutional design.


THIS ARTICLE is the second in a twopart series that examines universal design in the home as a component of stroke rehabilitation. Universal design seeks to shape objects and environments as inclusively as possible so that they are usable by the broadest range of human abilities. Nowhere in the home is this design philosophy more relevant than the kitchen. The kitchen is often the most vital area of the household, serving as the gathering point for family and friends. The preparing and sharing of food is an enriching family/community experience, and many find these activities integral to maintaining their quality of life. Through universal design, safety and usability can be maximized in this central room so that the stroke survivor can exercise greater functional independence. Moreover, because universal design stresses inclusive environments over specialized areas, a kitchen designed for maximum usability potentially allows all household members— children and grandparents alike, for example—to participate in and enjoy familial rituals like meal preparation. Most everyday kitchen tasks can prove difficult, even impossible, for people with limitations of height, mobility, or reach: putting away groceries; cooking and baking; setting the table; washing dishes and putting them away; cleaning food preparation areas; operating appliances; retrieving food from high or low cabinets, the refrigerator, or freezer; and simply maneuvering safely throughout the space. A study examining how mobility impairments affect the performance of household activities noted that modifications to facilitate reaching are of paramount concern in the kitchen, since most


Lateralization of trains of high‐frequency clicks improves with both the number of dicks in a train (n) and interclick interval (ICI). Functions relating log threshold to log n are linear; however, the absolute values of the slopes decrease from the optimal—0.5 toward 0.0 with shorter ICIs (generally 10 ms or less). We have argued that shallower slopes are the result of a form of rate‐dependent saturation which reduces the amount of binaural information derived from successive clicks in the train. The decay of the proposed saturation was measured here by presenting trains with an ICI of 2.5 ms but with each train broken by either one or three pauses. Of interest was the duration of the break needed to fully recover from saturation. A pause of 7.5 ms proved to be sufficient, implying that the saturation responsible for shallow slopes in log‐threshold, log‐n plots is the result of an active process rather than of fatigue. [Supported by NIH.]


Programmed expression of several matrix metaloproteinases is an importantfeature ofcutaneous wound healing. To study whether this also applies to gastrointestinal ulcer healing, we used in situ hybridization with 35S-labeled probes to localize sites of coUagenase, stromelysin-1, and matrilysin expression in 26 samples representingpeptic ulcers, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis. In contrast to skin wounds, coUagenase mRNA was not detected in the surface epithelium bordeting gastrointestinal ulcer areas. However, together with stromelysin-1 mRNA, it was abundantly expressed by the granulation tissue in aU types of ulcers. Signalfor matrilysin mRNA and protein was detected in the mucosal epithelium bordering the ulcerations but never in the ulcer stroma The gut basement membrane was disrupted under the matrilysin-producing epithelial ceUs as assessed by immunostainingfor laminin. Tissue inhibitor of metaUoproteinases (TIMP-1) mRNA never co-localized with matrilysin-positive mucosal epithelial ceUs. These data indicate that matrilysin plays a significant role in epithelial remodeling occurring in gastrointestinal ulcerations whereas coUagenase and stromelysin-1 are involved in the reparative processes in the ulcer bed. (AmJPathol 1996, 148:519-526)


This study aims to detect fraudulent financial reporting using hexagon fraud analysis, including seven factors: financial stability, external pressures, ineffective monitoring, auditor changes, change in director, arrogance, and collusion. The subject of this research is a public company consolidated audit report of state-owned enterprises. The existence of conflicting results, the phenomenon of fraudulent financial reporting, and limited research using the hexagon of fraud theory prompted this research to examine the factors that influence fraudulent financial reporting. The sample was selected using a sampling technique, with the criteria of state-owned enterprises listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2016–2020. The method used is quantitative, and the analytical method used is logistic regression analysis. The sampling technique used was purposeful sampling, so the number of samples was 125. The results of this study indicate that financial stability and external pressures have a positive effect on fraudulent financial reporting. However, ineffective monitoring, auditor changes, change in director, arrogance, and collusion do not affect fraudulent financial reporting.


Effective monitoring of transient overvoltage is the key to field testing, fault analysis and optimal design of power systems. Nowadays, the voltage monitoring and overvoltage monitoring of the power grid mostly use the traditional contact voltage divider system. This measurement method needs to be connected to a device to obtain the signal, which has certain safety hazards and has a narrow measurement frequency band, weak anti-electromagnetic interference ability, and poor installation and maintenance. Therefore, research on the grid overvoltage non-contact sensor with good broadband response characteristics can effectively avoid the cumbersome coaxial cable wiring at the test site, and eliminate the risk of personal electric shock caused by the wired test of high-voltage equipment. It is safe, reliable, and can provide data support for further research. This paper studies a non-contact overvoltage measurement system based on an integrated electro-optic field sensor and applies it to on-site measurement. The on-site testing results of the measurement system are compared with the waveform recorded by the fault recorder to verify the effectiveness of the method.


Abstract Hypotensive periods during surgery lead to an increase in postoperative complications. To further avoid the adverse events associated with the invasive measurement of the blood pressure, a perioperative, continuous, non-invasive blood pressure measurement method was developed. The precision of the method was tested for different mean pressure values and different thicknesses of the tissue model using a specifically designed and validated simulator that has the characteristics of the lower arm. The mean pressure difference between the pressure determined by the proposed method and simulated blood pressure from the simulator was 3.93 mmHg (±4.75 mmHg) for the systole and 4.89 mmHg (±6.10 mmHg) for the diastole. The results showed that the method can be a promising alternative to invasive blood pressure measurement methods.


Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is one of the most severe and prognostically poor systemic connective tissue diseases that affect mainly women of childbearing age. The recent researches have provided a deeper insight into its pathogenesis, the identification and definition of a role of cytokines, cells, and intercellular bonds involved in the development of SLE. These data are borne in mind when designing novel biological agents, the action of which is aimed at inhibiting the targets implicated in the development of the disease. This information also may provide better understanding the mechanism of action of drugs, such as belimumab and rituximab, which have already proven their efficacy.