The reasons for the rejection of natural law today are many, and I will not try to list them all. Among them, however, are the Reformation's gap between faith and reason, as a result of which we can know God's will for man only through divine revelation. This rupture leaves defenders of traditional morality defenseless against the charge of imposing their religion on others. More recently, we have a theory of knowledge according to which reason cannot know what objective human good is; all concepts of the good are said to be expressions of subjective preference and nothing more. It follows that law, insofar as it is based upon some idea of good, is an act of will, not of reason. And, of course, there is always the refusal of fallen human nature to accept any norm to which the individual has not consented, because accepting it would be allowing others to impose their wills on him. A universe created by a personal God is a vastly different place from an uncreated one, and there are, therefore, significant differences in the conceptions of natural law or natural justice that obtain in these different conceptions of the universe. Nonetheless, in any universe that is not conceived of as sheer chaos or a kaleidoscope, it is difficult (I would say impossible) to reject all ideas of natural human goods, from which flow conclusions about objective rights and obligations. Consider the following pairs of alternatives that are objects of possible human choice:


........................................................................................................ iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................... v TABLE OF CONTENTS ...................................................................................... vi NOMENCLATURE ............................................................................................... x Abbreviations ....................................................................................................... x Definitions ........................................................................................................... xi LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................ xv LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................ xvii PREFACE ........................................................................................................ xvii Chapter


Abstract : This interim report describes the work performed under Contract NAS3-7949 to advance the state-of-the-art of resin matrices required for improved ablative materials for use with high energy fluorine-containing liquid propellant systems during the period 10 January through 1 July 1966. This is being accomplished through experimental studies on consecutive material development tasks initiated during this period involving synthesis and property determinations, resin formulation optimization and composite processing parameter studies. In future work these tasks will be continued and the objective will be attained through synthesis scale-up and fabrication of ablative composites tasks. This program is an extension of initial studies conducted under Contract NAS3-4188. Synthesis and property determinations have been directed to preparation and evaluation of new modified polyimide resins based on new anhydride monomers, bis(5-tetrahydrophthalic anhydride) sulfone and bis(p-3, 4-dicarboxy anhydride phenoxy phenyl) sulione, which offer improved processability. Optimization of resin systems, identified in Contract NAS3-4188 as advanced resin materials is being carried out to improve physical, chemical and processing characteristics. Composite processing studies have been conducted to determine the parameters which affect the fabrication of graphite and silica reinforced polyamide-imide and modified polyimide resins. Preliminary testing of the resistance of neat resins and composites containing state-of-the-art and advanced resins in fluorine/hydrogen and FLOX/methane combustion environments shows that (1) 'stiff' polymers appear to be superior to other types of organic resins, and (2) different reinforcement are preferred in each propellant combination combustion environment- - graphite in fluorine/hydrogen and silica in FLOX/methane.


Light scattering spectra of B2O3 glass were measured in the frequency range 20–7000 GHz at temperatures in the range of 15–300 K and are compared with those previously obtained for Ca0.4K0.6(NO3)1.4 (CKN). The low-frequency contribution of the fast relaxation susceptibility spectrum is found to show a power-law behavior with an exponent α=0.6, the latter being temperature independent in contrast to the finding in other inorganic glasses such as silica and CKN. Possible explanations of the spectral shape in B2O3 are considered.


The first occurrence of platinum-group minerals (PGM) in Abitibi belt volcanic rocks has been discovered in pyroxenite from the Boston Creek Flow basaltic komatiite, Ontario. The PGM observed are bismuthian merenskyite, merenskyite, bismuthian kotulskite, mertieite or stibiopalladinite, an unnamed Pd-Ag sulfide, sperrylite, and an unnamed Rh-Pt sulfarsenide. The grains are submicrometric to 15 pm in diameter, making lr sila analysis difficult. The mineralization was observed in samples of clinopyroxenite and spinel (Fe-Ti oxide) clinopyroxenite collected at the margins of a 7-m-thick zone of altered pyroxenite. The platinum mineralization is characterized by spatial association with Cu-Fe sulfides, native gold, electrum, and a suite of silver minerals, and with secondary silicate alteration of Fe-Ti oxide and groundmass. There is an absence of nickel sulfide. Textural evidence and spatial associations indicate that the mineralization originated by hydrothermal processes. Hydrothermal fluid activity accompanying cooling of the flow or later greenschist-facies metamorphism appears to have mobilized and reconcentrated PGE during alteration of Fe-Ti oxide and brittle deformation.


This thesis was carried out in the company "MOTORCYCLE TAIWAN" city of Chiclayo, sells bikes, wheelers and engines; which involved all company employees. The purpose of this investigation is to measure the impact of the implementation of Coaching to improve the working environment of the company "MOTORCYCLE TAIWAN" in the city of Chiclayo in 2013 It was necessary to apply survey on perceptions of the work environment company "MOTORCYCLE TAIWAN" 2013 in the city of Chiclayo; then apply Coaching program for three months (September, October, November), and to compare the work environment before and after applying the coaching program. This research was justified by the usefulness of applying Coaching program which benefited the company, helping to improve the working environment, thus reflecting the increase in sales, generating a commitment to personal and professional developed capturing and loyalty of more customers. It addresses two types of studies: exploratory and experimental. The population consisted of 10 workers, the technique of data collection was a survey with 28 questions. The research concludes that the impact of the implementation was positive coaching, managing to improve the working environment of the company.


We solve some functional equations (in several variables) in which compositions of unknown functions appear. Our main results concern the iterative Cauchy and Pexider equations, and some of their generalizations (Cauchy and Pexider differences, the Daroczy equation, the translation equation.) Some other (non-iterative) functional equations are occasionally studied. Let K be a groupoid and D{K) be the domain of the binary operation on K. We consider the following generalized Pexider equations:


A theory is developed for axial flow fans which predicts the harmonic and broad‐band acoustic radiation from the stator due to interaction with rotor viscous wakes. Both the harmonic and broad‐band spectrum components are calculated from a unified model using methodology from the theory of random pulse modulation. The stator is modeled as a circular array of pulsed dipoles. The amplitude and arrival time of each pulse are random variables whose means correspond to the values calculated for harmonic rotor‐stator interaction theory. The standard deviations of these random variables are measures of the turbulence level in the blade wakes. For the model proposed, the solution is exact and the results are instructive: when pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) is imposed on a periodic stator source, new broad‐band energy is generated whose spectrum shape is similar to the envelope of harmonics at high frequencies. The harmonic radiation is unchanged. When pulse position modulation (PPM) occurs, new broad‐band energ...


The width of the autocorrelation function (ACF) is characterized by the interval of correlation at the 0.5 level, /spl tau//sub 0.5/. The eddy dissipation rate (/spl epsi/) is a fundamental parameter that describes the intensity of turbulence. We use simulation data and build a model of the relationship between the characteristics of a radar echo-signal and parameters of reflecting objects at sample size n=30. The results of calculation with K as a level of a reference of an interval of correlation (K=0.5, /spl lambda/=3.2cm) are presented. We find rather good agreement between the interval of correlation and the intensity of turbulence. The simulation results suggest that sample size n=15 is insufficient for deriving measuring information by using classical algorithms for ACF calculation.


Introduction Bruton9s Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) plays a critical role in B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling, which mediates B-cell proliferation, migration, and adhesion (Rickert, 2013; Aalipour, 2013; Choe, 2016). The BCR pathway is an established therapeutic target in multiple subtypes of non-Hodgkin9s lymphoma (NHL). BGB-3111 is a potent, highly specific, and irreversible BTK inhibitor, with greater selectivity for BTK vs other TEC- and EGFR-family kinases and demonstrates favorable pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties. We have previously shown complete and sustained BTK occupancy in both peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and lymph nodes (LN) in patients (pts) treated at the 160 mg BID dose in a phase 1 trial (Tam et al. ASH 2016). A recent update of clinical data suggests that complete and sustained BTK occupancy is associated with durable responses in pts with CLL/SLL and Waldenstrom9s macroglobulinemia (Seymour et al. ICML 2017; Trotman et al. ICML 2017). Here, we present early safety and efficacy data in pts with other NHL subtypes: relapsed/refractory (R/R) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), follicular lymphoma (FL), mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), and marginal zone lymphoma (MZL). Methods This is an open-label, multicenter, phase 1b study of BGB-3111 in pts with B-cell malignancies. Dose escalation included pts with R/R B-cell malignancies, while the expansion phase enrolled disease-specific cohorts at the recommended phase 2 dose (320 mg/d, given once daily [QD] or split as 160 mg twice-daily [BID]). Response was assessed per ICML criteria (Cheson 2014). Results As of 18 May 2017, 75 pts with NHL were enrolled, including 23 DLBCL, 31 MCL, 14 FL, and 7 MZL pts. Patient characteristics are shown in the Table. With the exception of 1 pt with treatment-naive MCL, all pts had R/R disease. Safety: Median follow - up was 7 months (range, 0.3-31.9). The most frequent adverse events (AEs) of any cause were contusion (22.7%), upper respiratory tract infection (21.3%), diarrhea (18.7%), constipation (17.3%), thrombocytopenia, cough, fatigue (16%), anemia (14.7%), neutropenia, dyspnea, nausea, pruritus (13.3%), pyrexia (12%), rash (10.7%), and back pain (9.3%). No cases of atrial fibrillation have been reported. The most frequently reported ≥ Grade 3 AEs of any cause were neutropenia (10.7%), anemia (9.3%), thrombocytopenia (8%), and pneumonia (6.7%). One Grade 3 renal hematoma and one Grade 3 GI hemorrhage were reported. Twenty-eight pts experienced at least one serious AE: of those, 4 were considered related to BGB-3111, including (all n=1) pneumonia, urinary tract infection, diarrhea, and pneumonitis. Seven pts discontinued BGB-3111 due to an AE (n=1 each): acute kidney injury, myelodysplastic syndrome, worsening diarrhea, one patient for renal hematoma and cognitive disorder, as well as 3 fatal AEs designated by the investigator as unrelated to BGB-3111 including pneumonia, cardiac failure, and septic shock. Additional unrelated fatal events included (n=1 each) multi-organ failure secondary due to disease progression, abdominal pain secondary due to disease progression, and death of unknown etiology. Activity: Of the 62 NHL pts evaluable for response (> 12 weeks follow-up or discontinuation before 12 weeks), the objective response rate was 58.1% (36/62) overall, 60.9% (28/46) in the aggressive lymphoma (AL) group, and 50.0% (8/16) in the indolent lymphoma group (IL). Most responses were partial responses: 45.2% (28/62) overall, 45.7% (21/46) in AL, and 43.8% (7/16) in IL. Stable disease was seen in 13/62 (21.0%). Nine pts progressed by the first response assessment (all DLBCL pts), and 4 AL discontinued before assessment. Activity is summarized in the Table, with percentage change in lymph nodes shown in the Figure. Reasons for discontinuing BGB-3111 included 32 pts for progression, 7 for AE, 3 for withdrawal of consent, and 3 for other. Conclusions BGB-3111 is well tolerated and active as a monotherapy in multiple NHL subtypes. Evaluation of BGB-3111 in NHL, both as monotherapy as well as in combination with other agents, is continuing in Phase 2 trials. Disclosures Tam: Roche: Honoraria, Research Funding; Abbvie: Honoraria, Research Funding; Janssen Cilag: Honoraria, Research Funding. Simpson: Celgene: Honoraria, Other: travel expenses; Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company: Research Funding; Onyx: Research Funding; Roche: Honoraria; Amgen: Research Funding. Opat: Roche: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Gilead: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Beigene: Research Funding; Mundipharma: Consultancy; Amgen: Research Funding. Kim: Roche: Research Funding; Novartis: Research Funding; Kyowa-Kirin: Research Funding; Donga: Research Funding; Takeda: Research Funding; Celltrion, Inc: Consultancy, Honoraria; Mundipharma: Research Funding; JJ Pharmacyclics: Research Funding; Onyx: Research Funding; Kite Pharma: Research Funding; Juno Therapeutics: Research Funding; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Dava Oncology: Honoraria; Celgene: Honoraria, Research Funding; BeiGene: Research Funding; Asana Biosciences: Research Funding; Acerta Pharma: Consultancy, Research Funding. Cull: Amgen Australia: Other: travel expenses Lugano lymphoma conference 2017; Takeda Australia: Other: travel expenses Highlights of ASH march 2017, Brisbane. Munoz: Kite Pharma: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Bayer: Consultancy; Pharmacyclics: Consultancy; Alexion: Consultancy. Gottlieb: Indee: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Abbvie: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees. Wang: BeiGene: Employment. Huang: BeiGene: Employment. Hilger: BeiGene: Employment. Xue: BeiGene: Employment. Ro: BeiGene: Employment. Trotman: Roche: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: All positions non-remunerated, Speakers Bureau; Celgene: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Funding facilitating research paid to third parties. All positions non-remunerated; Takeda: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Position non-remunerated; Janssen Cilag: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Funding facilitating research paid to third parties. All positions non-remunerated, Speakers Bureau.


This paper deals with the existence and multiplicity of solutions for
a class of nonlocal p−Kirchhoff problem. Using the mountain pass theorem and
fountain theorem, we establish the existence of at least one solution and infinitely
many solutions for a class of locally Lipschitz functional


In this paper, a mathematical model consisting of the prey-predator model, prey is at risk of disease then become as susceptible and infected, while predator with different stage structure: immature and mature predator, the infected prey is at risk recover and harvest. The function of disease is proportionality function. At the beginning, the reasons of studying stage structure and the dynamic of nontrivial subsystems that may be lead to coexistence of these types of spices explain and by using Maple software, Jacobean matrix, Routh-Hurwitz criterion, Bendixson-Dulac criterion and Lyapunov function to prove the existence, periodic solution, local and global stability. We concluded that the survival for two preys are possible through the non-periodic solution due to the Bendixson-Dulac criterion, also the immature predator neither attack preys nor yield offspring's and die when the mature predator extinction, the global stability conditions for the original system be stretch of global stability conditions for subsystems. Finally, Mathematica software employs to describe some results in numerical simulation

http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/tjps.25.2020.040


Prediction is a powerful tool for performance and usability. It can reduce access latency for I/O systems, and can improve usability for mobile computing systems by automating the file hoarding process. We present recent research that has resulted in a file successor predictor that matches the performance of state-of-the-art context-modeling predictors, while requiring a small fraction of their space requirements. Noah is an online algorithm for predicting successor file access events, effectively identifying strong pairings (successor relationships) among files. Noah can accurately predict approximately 80% of all file access events while tracking only two candidate successors, of which only one requires regular dynamic updates.


Facial reconstruction and cosmetic surgery following extensive bone and soft tissue resection for carcinoma of the ear has not been emphasized in the past. Poor long term survival and local recurrence rates previously precluded considering extensive rehabilitative effort. A patient is presented, illustrating the problems resulting from major ablative surgery of the temporal bone. The surgical concepts and techniques used in this patient's facial rehabilitation are enumerated and described from both the functional and cosmetic aspect. The necessity for developing an innovative surgical approach is enhanced by improved long term patient survival. Application of the principles used to other aspects of facial reconstruction are mentioned.


Aims: To evaluate the qualitative and quantitative assessment of vata doshain a case of gridhrasi by nadi tarangini device.
Introduction: Ayurveda has an unique method of patient examination by ashtavidha pareeksha. i.e. nadi, mutra, mala, jivha, shabda, sparsha, drik and akruti. Amongst which examination of nadi becomes prominent examination which helps in better diagnosis of a disease/vyadhi.
Gridhrasi is shoola pradhana vataja nanatmaja vatavyadhi, affecting the back involving lower limb which hampers patient's daily routine activity. Line of Management of gridhrasi includes siravyadha, bastikarma and agnikarma. Siravyadha and agnikarma are considered as instant pain relieving methods. Raktamokshana by siravyadha is considered to be ardha chikitsa according to Sushruta. Siravyadha is specially indicated in case of gridhrasi. It is a simple OPD level procedure affordable/economical to all categories of patients and time saving.
As siravyadha gives instant relief and gridhrasi is vataja nanatmaja vyadhi, it is easy for the assessment and understanding of reduction in symptoms by nadi tarangini device. Hence, in this case study an attempt is made to assess the quantitative and qualitative analysis of vata dosha before and after the procedure of siravyadha.
Case Study: A patient, 45 years old; he showed the main clinical signs and symptoms of gridhrasi came to our OPD, had a history of 2 years, and had worsened in the past two days. He underwent a careful examination and we recorded a detailed medical history. With all purva, pradhana and paschat karma, siravyadha procedure was done and nadi tarangini readings were taken before, after and on 10th day of siravyadha procedure.
Place and Duration of the Study: Study was conducted in 'Sri Jain AGM Ayurved Medical College & Hospital, Varur-Hubballi (Karnatak). Study duration was 10 days.
Results: Patient got marked relief in subjective criteria i.e. stambha, toda, ruk, toda, spandana, gaurava and also in objective parameters i.e. straight leg raise test, lassegue's test and Oswestry low back pain score. It was seen that, there was visible difference in the analysis of nadi tarangini report.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that, siravyadha gives better relief in gridhrasi. And it was found that nadi tarangini can be used to assess the dosha dushti and many other parameters.


Research on rake grinding process for complex shaped cutters with existing grinding methods is carried out. Based on the researching results, a new grinding method by means of torus shaped grinding wheel is proposed, and the grinding process with this grinding method is analyzed through 3-D simulation technology. Grinding with this grinding method, rake angle of the complex shaped cutter can be obtained exactly, and perfect rake can be formed. Furthermore, process of machining path generation is very simple, and torus shaped grinding wheel can be manufactured easily. Therefore, this grinding method can be used wildly in grinding complex shaped surface.


Compaq offers highly optimizing Fortran 95 compilers for the following platforms: Tru64 UNIX Alpha, OpenVMS Alpha, Windows 95/98/NT, and Linux Alpha. The Windows product, Compaq Visual Fortran, includes the Microsoft Developer Studio IDE which can be shared with Microsoft Visual C++. Parallel execution using OpenMP-directed decomposition or HPF is included on the Tru64 UNIX platform. On Windows NT, SMP parallel execution using directed decomposition is available through Visual KAP from Kuck and Associates. Compaq Fortran for Linux Alpha Systems is available as a free download under a Technology Enthusiast license for noncommercial use. All Compaq Fortran 95 products include the Compaq Extended Math Library of optimized scientific subroutines (on OpcnVMS in early 2000.) See: http://www.compaq.com/fortran or mail to email@example.com.


Abstract. To investigate the role of endogenous insulin on the secretion of immunoreactive gastric inhibitory polypeptide (IR‐GIP) the response of IR‐GIP and immunoreactive insulin (IRI) to an oral fat load (100 g triglyceride) alone and during an intravenous glucose infusion (0.7 g/kg/h) was examined in normal weight and obese subjects. In normal weight subjects the fat induced integrated rise of IR‐GIP was 112.7 ± 9.4 ng/ml/120 min. When glucose and fat were given together this IR‐GIP response was lowered to 46.2 ± 2.9 ng/ml/120 min while the serum IRI response to i.v. glucose and the glucose tolerance were enhanced by fat ingestion. In obese subjects with normal glucose tolerance the GIP suppressing effect of i.v. glucose infusion was less marked than in controls. The integrated IR‐GIP response to fat ingestion was 225.6 ± 20.3 ng/ml/120 min and to fat plus glucose 152.6 ± 14.8 ng/ml/120 min. In obese subjects with glucose intolerance i.v. glucose completely failed to lower the exaggerated secretion of IR‐GIP following oral fat. Thus, a graded abnormality of the GIP response to glucose induced insulin release occurs in obesity with normal and pathological glucose tolerance. After reducing the ideal body weight of six obese subjects with glucose intolerance by hypocaloric diet for 3 weeks the exaggerated rise of IR‐GIP after oral fat was reversed and the lowering effect of i.v. glucose on the IR‐GIP response re‐established.


The electrical resistivity of electron beam codeposited gold and zinc oxide (Au-ZnO) films was investigated over the full composition range. The electrical resistivity was shown to increase monotonically with increasing ZnO content, with three characteristic regimes of behavior associated primarily with (1) grain boundary electron scattering due to grain refinement at ZnO volume fractions below 0.3, (2) percolation theory for ZnO volume fractions at and above the percolation threshold (fc = 0.85), and (3) a transition region between these where it was proposed that resistivity was influenced by the formation of Au-Zn complexes due to an oxygen deficiency in the deposited ZnO. The electrical resistivity of the composite films remained below 100 μΩ cm for ZnO volume fractions below 0.5. A model combining the general effective media equation and Mayadas-Shatzkes grain boundary electron scattering model was shown to generally describe the composition dependence of electrical resistivity for the investigated o...


Recent work has highlighted prevalent obstructive not central sleep apnea following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Treatment of comorbid OSA may facilitate neurologic recovery but widespread screening is limited. Mixed support exists for the presence of dysphagia as a biomarker of OSA in the general population and stroke patients. Dysphagia is common following TBI; however, no study has examined the relation between OSA and dysphagia in this cohort. Leveraging data from a recent six-center clinical trial of OSA and TBI during inpatient rehabilitation, this secondary analysis examined the association between OSA severity indices and proxy measures of dysphagia.

 Level 1 polysomnography (PSG) was used to assess OSA (AHI ≥ 5 and ≥ 15) during inpatient rehabilitation for the overall sample (N=248; 203 male; 60.6% severe injury) evaluated at a median of 120.6 days post-TBI and subset ≤ 60 days post-injury. Dysphagia was approximated as the presence of a PEG tube and/or a modified texture diet (MTD) on the day of PSG. Chi square and Fisher's Exact tests were utilized for group comparisons.

 As previously reported, OSA in this cohort was prevalent (68.2% (n=169) at AHI ≥ 5 and 33.5% (n=83) AHI ≥ 15) with predominantly obstructive events. 27.4% (n=68) met criteria for dysphagia combining proxy measures (34 peg; 49 MTD). No significant difference was found for presence of dysphagia across OSA severity cutoffs (AHI ≥ 5 & 15; p=0.1029 & 0.5959). When examining OSA across the individual proxy measures, persons without a peg tube were significantly more likely to have OSA at AHI ≥ 5 (62.5% vs 5.65%; p=0.0003) and AHI ≥ 15 (31.05% vs 2.42%; p=0.0353). When examining participants less than 60 days post-TBI, the group differences remained.

 The incidence of dysphagia in TBI patients, as indexed by a modified diet or presence of a feeding tube, was not elevated in those with OSA. Sample bias (for undergoing Level 1 PSG and improvement facilitating inpatient rehabilitation admission) may have contributed to findings. Finally, future work with more sensitive indices of dysphagia is needed to accurately evaluate this association.

 PCORI (CER-1511–33005), NIIDLRR (90DPTB0004)


In Ad-Hoc network, the cluster structure enables effective use of multiple channels, reduces the number of control messages, and increase the scalability of network, Also, it is employed for reducing the number of broadcast messages in an Ad-Hoc network. With the consideration of these advantages, it is desirable that a cluster structure keeps a few clusters in the network, Generally, the cluster formation scheme based on connectivity yields fewer clusters than the other schemes. However, the connectivity based scheme may yield even more clusters than the other schemes according to the network topology. In this paper, a cluster formation scheme dividing the cluster formation into two phases is proposed. In the first phase, the lowest connectivity host in neighborhood initiates the cluster formation. Then, an adjustment procedure for affiliating a lot of the lowest connectivity hosts is employed. In the second phase, the hosts which were not affiliated to the first phase clusters are grouped into one or more clusters through criterions of connectivity and host ID. As a result, the proposed scheme yields a fewer clusters compared with existing other schemes in fully distributed method. The simulation results proves that our scheme is better than LIDCP(3) and HCCP(3).


Digital mining is an interdisciplinary new field,it is the current international mineral resources development research hotspot.Based on SURPAC established mines 3d model and resources reserve report,for mine production plan provides a scientific and effective guidance.


Isolated systolic hypertension is a well-known risk factor for stroke in the elderly, but treatment is problematic because so many of the commonly used


The BPK regulation as the only state institution authorized to declare state financial losses namely in Article 23 of the 1945 constitution (1) confirms the existence of the 1945 RI constitution. As a free and independent financial audit institution, and (2) to face dualism and / or duplication of audit by BPK and BPKP. However, the ratio legis is not reflected in the formulation of the norms of Law 32/1999 in conjuction with Law 20/2001 specifically the explanation of Article 32 paragraph (1) "the amount of losses that can be calculated based on the findings of the competent agency or the appointed public accountant", thus opening up space to appoint BPK, BPKP, Inspectorate and Public Accountants in calculating and declaring state financial losses or the results of pre-existing calculations can also be used by investigators.


Hemifacial microsomia (HFM) is a congenital deformity characterised by unilateral deficiency in the volume of hard and soft tissue of face. It is a syndrome predominantly affecting first branchial arch featuring poorly developed temporomandibular joint, mandibular ramus, muscles of mastication and ear. People with HFM may present with an underdeveloped ear (microtia) or absent ear (anotia) on the affected side of the face. The incidence of this disorder is 1:3000-26,000, which is usually seen at birth. Here we present a case of hemifacial microsomia in a 12-year-old girl with hearing difficulties on the affected side with review of literature.


History of identification of fish eggs and larvae;
Towards the end of the 19th century Marine Biologists,
Holt and Scott (1898) Mintosh and Masterman (1897).,
Cunningham (1897) and E hrenbaum (1905-1909) succeeded
in describing the eggs and larvae of a large number of
marine teleostean fishes in European waters. The Danish
scientists, Schmidt (1904-1918) and Petersen (1892-1919)
described several postlarval stages of demersal fishes,
These efforts were supplemented by Claric (1920), Ford
(1920-1931) and Lebour (1919-1927) at Plymouth. The
prolific contributions of Japanese workers as well as
those from USSR and Germany have not been freely accessible
to Indian workers either due to language problems or for
other reasons.


This study aims to see the effect of relationships between variables and wants to
produce a model that is better than previous research. Data obtained through a
questionnaire to the general public. The sample used is the general public. The
sampling technique used in this research is using purposive sampling.
Respondents used 85. Hypothesis testing using simple regression analysis with
moderator variables. The results in this study indicate that the attitude towards the
purchase of environmentally friendly products significantly influence the purchase
intention of environmentally friendly products. The effectiveness of perceived
environmental behavior is not significant or does not moderate the relationship
between attitudes towards the purchase of environmentally friendly products and
the intention to purchase environmentally friendly products.
Keywords : intention to buy environmentally friendly products, attitude towards
purchasing environmentally friendly products, effectiveness of perceived
environmental behavior


This research aimed at investigating the effect of the systemic approach on developing the second preparatory grade students at Temai AL-Amdid Preparatory School. The sample (N=45) consisted of second preparatory grade students, who were assigned into two groups; a control group taught traditionally while the other group was exposed to the system approach during the academic year 2020/2021. The instrument used in the research was an EFL reading skills test. Results found statistical significant difference among mean estimates of both groups, indicating effect of the systemic approach on the development of the students' EFL reading skills who were exposed to the systemic approach procedures.


Recently, Leder, Belke, Oeberst, and Augustin (2004) have proposed a model of aesthetic experience in which stylistic processing is central for aesthetic experiences of art. Here we present an empirical study which investigates predictions derived from the model. Using modern and contemporary abstract paintings we investigated how their appreciation is affected by style information generalized onto new exemplars of paintings by the same artists. In accordance with the model's predictions, effects of style processing depend on the affective states of the viewers as well as their ability for cognitive mastery, measured by amount of expertise. The experiment reveals that the examination of style-related cognitive processes is important to psychologically understand the affective, cognitive and presumably selfrewarding aspects of aesthetic experiences.


The shoulder having a long-necked glass or metal bottle integrally formed one-piece construction, having a body (22 or 62), the body having a closed base portion (24) and positioned away from the end of the base portion of the body (26), and a neck (28 or 43 or 48 or 54 or 64), said neck portion (extending from the shoulder along an axis terminating in an end portion of the neck (32 or 66) for attaching closure. the bottle neck includes at least one internal projection for influencing the fluid flow through the body from the neck. in the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the at least one internal projection comprises at least one internal at least one internal rib (50) or at least one inner helical πb (40 or 68) an annular rib (56) or the axis of the neck portion of at least one coplanar or oval internal rib (44).


Laboratory experiment was conducted to study the distribution of available S and to find out influence of different soil characteristics on the predictability of available S status in sixteen different soil series of West Bengal growing rice and pulses. Available (CaCl2 extractable) S content of soils under study showed wide variation ranging from 16.66 to 51.57 with an average of 35.60 mg kg−1 soil and considering the availability index (viz., available S 20 ppm (high), 13% of the soils could be classified under medium and 87% under high available S status. The variation of available S status in soils of different series was due to variation in different soil properties, soil and crop management practice and fertilizer use, etc. Correlation coefficient values among different soil properties revealed significant influence of clay, total P, total S and amorphous Al content of the soils with their respective relative contributions of 58, 13, 6, 5 and 2% in the variation in available S status in soils.


Osteonecrosis of the femoral is a musculoskeletal disorder that has been described as a loss of subchondral bone integrity caused by an irreversible loss of osteocytes. Although there exist several pathogenic mechanisms apparently leading to osteonecrosis, the common pathway involves impaired osteogenesis and angiogenesis throughout the lesion. If the underlying causes are not relieved, osteonecrosis usually progresses until producing a subchondral fracture and hip degenerative changes. In this study, two joint-preserving techniques based on calcium phosphate grafts loaded with growth factors (BMP-2) and bone marrow were assessed in vivo in an experimental sheep model. In order to assess bone regeneration, several quantitative methods based on μ-CT image processing were used to characterize bone morphometry, mineral density and composition. In addition, histological analysis with fluorescence microscopy and compression assays were carried out to analyze both bone mineralization and stiffness against compression. Obtained results provided evidence of light bone regeneration surrounding the area of treatment as early as six weeks. Such osteogenesis was characterized by an increase of bone volume, trabecular thickness and mineral density. Scaffolds loaded with bone marrow provided lower osteoconductive but higher osteogenic properties. As opposed, carriers loaded with BMP-2 were more chemically stable but induced lower bone regeneration in the adjacent cancellous bone.


The function in construction and preventing deflection mechanism of the drilling tools stabilizer of raising drill or oil-drill are introduced.A sort of new maching technique is recommended.The machining manufacturability of the outside surface is especially dis cussed,the surface is welded with tungsten carbide alloy or other abrasion-resistant alloy uhen the steadying equipments of drilling tools is repaired.


Universities periodically undertake a strategic planning process with the goal of improving their effectiveness (Lietzel et al. 2004). Typically, the process takes one of two forms: it can redirect or recast the institution in fundamental ways or  it  can  focus  on  the  things  that  it  is  doing  especially well  and  organize  the  future  around  them. The  integrated planning approach at Monash University is an example of the second type of approach to strategic planning. In  the Australian Universities Quality Agency's  (AUQA's) Report of an audit of Monash University, Monash received a commendation  for the development of  its vision and  for embedding and generating support  for this within the organisation. A second commendation was received for the development and implementation of the university key performance  indicators.  Also,  an  affirmation  was  given  to  the  University  for  recognising  the  need  to  focus  on embedding planning at school and department level and that the Academic Heads Conference was an important mean of achieving this. These commendations and affirmation reflect the integrated approach to planning at Monash; the key aspects of which are considered  in  this paper.  It outlines  the process by which Monash University  reshaped  its vision  statement and strategic directions and consideration  is given  to the mechanisms  that were put  in place to generate support  for and embed these directions within the organisation. Finally, the paper sets out some of the key factors in the success of this approach. Background Monash University is Australiaʹs largest university with nearly 55,000 students and more than 6000 staff. It has  eight  campuses  serving  diverse  geographical  locations:  three  metropolitan,  two  outer  urban,  one regional and  two overseas  (Malaysia and South Africa); and a centre  in Prato,  Italy. Monash  is a research intensive university and belongs to the Group of Eight (Go8). Within Monash there  is great diversity with some parts subscribing to older, more traditional academic values including theoretical research; other parts look to the business world and applied research as their model. It covers a broad range of disciplines and is organised  into  ten  faculties:  Art  and  Design;  Arts;  Business  and  Economics;  Education;  Engineering; Information Technology; Law, Medicine, Nursing and Health Science; Pharmacy; and Science. As such, Monash has complex and diverse operational requirements. A notable feature of the University is its devolved management  structure, which provides  considerable  autonomy  at  both  faculty  and  campus levels. This devolved system of management has meant central institutional planning needs to be embedded into the business processes of faculties, departments and administrative units across the university. The university draws approximately 40% of  its  income directly  from Commonwealth Government grants. However,  a  significant proportion of  income  is drawn  from  student  fees  and,  in particular,  international student fees. Nearly one third of its student body is international full fee‐paying students, which are mainly drawn from Malaysia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and India. As such the university is acting, not just on a state or national stage, but internationally. It competes for students (and staff) with European, North American, New Zealand  as well  as other Australian universities. Global  competition has  seen  the emergence of world university  rankings,  such as  the Academic Ranking of World Universities  (Shanghai Jiao  Tong  index)  and  Times  Higher  Education  Supplement,  which  have  a  demonstrable  impact  on  the university's reputation. As such, Monash finds itself in an increasingly competitive environment. The Commonwealth Government fosters  this  by making  fee  assistance  available  to  all  domestic  students,  no  longer  just  those  attending publicly  funded  institutions,  and  through  its  support  of  international  private  providers. The developing higher education sectors in South East Asia, China and India are improving services available to their own nationals and are seeking a greater share of the international student market. European universities, through the Bologna process, are reorganising their systems to encourage greater student mobility and portability of qualifications, which will ultimately increase their attractiveness to students from all parts of the world. Within Australia, universities are seeking out new approaches  to higher education and are being actively encouraged by the Commonwealth Government to do so. Some universities are looking at new models for delivering coursework, such as the "3+2+3" model being adopted by the University of Melbourne  in 2008. Others are looking at reshaping their profiles in order to maximise their position in relation to the Research Quality Framework exercise. In such a turbulent environment the need for a robust vision for the institution and a clear sense of its values is  more  important  than  ever.  To  underpin  this,  Monash  has  developed  an  integrated  planning  and performance monitoring framework. Developing the Monash Vision Leading up  to  the AUQA  audit, Monash  conducted  an  institutional  self‐review  in  2002. One  of  the  key findings in the report, Still Learning, was that the vision and strategic directions of the university were not well known throughout the organisation. Of those staff familiar with the strategic directions, it was evident that not all necessarily understood or supported some of the key themes. In response, Monash initiated a review of its vision and strategic directions, with a view to a refocussing or re‐emphasis of direction rather than a complete change. In establishing the process, consideration was given to the internal workings of Monash, and, in particular, the diversity inherent in the university and how best to develop commitment to a revised plan among this diverse group. The initial phase consisted of extensive consultation and discussion on the strategic directions: Selected experts  in thematic areas were brought together to discuss contextual  issues and feasibility in the  broad  sense.  The  thematic  groups  included  teaching  and  learning,  research,  internationalisation, development,  campus  coordination  and  facilities  and  services.  Each  group  analysed  the  current contextual  situation of Monash,  the  likely  future of higher  education over  the next  twenty years and what part Monash wanted in this future A steering group was appointed to draw together the results of each group's discussion. A major  environmental  scan was  conducted  to  analyse  the  current  internal  state  of Monash  and  an external  scan,  which  examined  social,  demographic,  higher  education,  economic,  political  and technological trends. Feedback was  received  from  steering  groups who  oversaw  the  university  operations  or  activities  in particular global regions and/or countries. Feedback  was  received  from  industry  bodies  and  professional  associations,  which  was  channelled through academic departments and faculties. During  this  period,  several  concurrent  activities  were  conducted  which  provided  a  rich  source  of information, discussion and wider consultation: In preparation  for  the AUQA audit  (conducted  in 2006), Monash established self‐review panels  in  the areas of  research and  internationalism. Each panel consulted with staff and students on each campus and submissions were sought and received from individuals and groups within the university. Reports and  recommendations  for  improvements  were  made  and  these  informed  thought  on  the  strategic direction. On each Australian campus, campus planning committees were established and tasked with developing campus plans. These  committees  sought  feedback  from  external  stakeholders  such  as  state  and  local government, the local community and industry groups. A campus planning steering group, who co‐ordinated  the results of  the campus planning committees, investigated other models of organisation for multi‐campus universities. Initial  drafts  of  the  revised  plan were  examined  by  the Vice‐Chancellorʹs Group  (VCG)  (comprising  the Vice‐Chancellor, Deputy Vice‐Chancellors and Vice‐Presidents), then by other senior university committees, including  Senior Management  Committee,  Committee  of Deans  and Academic  Board.  Feedback  on  the drafts was also sought from students and staff on all of the university's campuses. Production of the final statement involved an iterative process of drafting and circulation for comment. This was done for the purpose of aligning and realigning the different views and values. The  generation  of discussion  and debate  and  altering  of  text  based  on  feedback  received  should  not  be under‐estimated as a way of developing support for and commitment to strategic directions. Although the VCG had overall responsibility for defining the strategic directions and extensive discussion and consultation within the university community occurred, final approval for the revised plan rested with the University Council. The final document, Monash Directions 2025, a 20‐year strategic directions statement, emphasised Monash's values and established broad directions and aims for the university, which can be best summarised as: By  2025  we  will  be  one  of  the  best  universities  in  the  world,  distinctive  because  our research‐intensive,  international  focus  enables  us  to  address  important  theoretical  and  practical challenges, and develop graduates who will wish to do the same. Embedding the Monash Vision A formal communication strategy was developed to  introduce Monash Directions 2025. At the  introductory stage,  this  included  a  series  of  presentations  at  all  campuses


Environmental service contracts are quite different from the concepts of environmental contract or environmental administration agreement,it is based on the development of environmental service industry.This kind of contracts can be divided into environmental service government contracts and environmental service civil contract.The definition of environmental service government contracts is that the government make contracts with environmental service providers to solve problems like pollution prevention and treatment,ecological reservation and rehabilitation,the models include administrative commission,franchise,government procurement.The definition of environmental service civil contract is that enterprises,environmental infringement victims,and environmental protection volunteers make service or combined contracts with environmental service providers to deal with pollution prevention and treatment,ecological reservation and rehabilitation,the models include commission contracts,technology contracts and contracts for work.


It is imperative to study the economic performance of different
types of fishing units for the guidance of fishermen and fishing
industry and also for formulation of appropriate fishery policies. The
Central Marine Fisheries Research h-istituie has conducted various
case studies on the economics of different types of fishing units in
maritime States of India during the eighties and nineties. The studies
on the economics of trawlers operating along the coast of Gujarat,
Maharastra, Coa. Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh; Cillnets
operated by OBM crafts at Poonthura in Kerala; at Kochra Niuti
(Maharashtra) and DhamleJ (Gujarat); gillnetters (boat with inboard
engine) at Cochin Fisheries Harbour, Satpati and Khardanda and
Tuticorin; 'doV operations along the North West Coast: purse seine in
Karnataka and Kerala and several other gear and crafts operated along
the Indian coast and deep sea trawling are highlighted.


The credit reporting system is helpf ul to solve the problem arising from l ack of personal credit in China.The China' s schedule of special commitments on services has two unfavorable impacts on domestic credit reporting industry in the long run:the economi c rent arising from lack of privacy pr otection.It is vital to make clear th e rights and obligations of the partie s in relevant laws and to promote comp etition in speeding up development o f credit reporting system.Laws and le galation should be adopted to protect the consumer' s right to privacy and pro-mote competition in credit reportin g industry.


This invention includes methods and systems for processing hydrogel lenses using aqueous solutions as leaching aids. ® KIPO & WIPO 2009


Since no work had previously been done on suicide in Ireland, we decided to study suicide in Dublin over a 10-year period. We were especially concerned to establish a reliable suicide rate for the area under consideration and by extension to draw some hypothetical conclusions about suicide in the country as a whole. We were also interested in investigating the social, economic, and medical patterning of our suicide sample both in itself and in relation to such key studies on suicide as those of Cavan (1928) in Chicago, Sainsbury (1955) in London, and Farberow and Shneidman (1961) in Los Angeles.


Although operating on the same general principles as Wi-Fi; sending data from one computer to another via radio signals, WiMAX is much faster (70 megabits per second) and covers more distance (blanket a radius of 50km) than Wi-Fi. As fourth generation wireless mobile communications, WiMAX provides group of users with a connection and a queue of fixed length. Performance of such wireless technology is analyzed using SIMO, MIMO, Markov arrival process (MAP) and so on. In this paper a probability transition matrix is used to evaluate performance of network and two Connection Admission Control (CAC) schemes have been proposed to ensure Quality of Service (QoS). Finally, blocking probability due to proposed CAC has been measured to evaluate proposed scheme. Entire analysis is kept independence of modulation and coding scheme. I. Introduction Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is one of the recent broadband wireless digital communications systems around today. WiMAX systems are expected to deliver broadband access services to residential and enterprise customers in an economical way. The new technology is similar to Wi-Fi in that it allows users to connect to the Internet without wires [1]. But unlike Wi-Fi, which might be able to cover a whole building or city block, WiMAX can provide high-speed Internet access and cover vast distances per base station, which can be up to 30 miles in radius [2]. serve multiple users in a time division fashion in a sort of a round-robin technique, but done extremely quickly so that users have the perception that they are always transmitting/receiving. IEEE 802.16-2005 utilizes OFDMA and can serve multiple users simultaneously by allocating sets of tones to each user [4] [5]. IEEE 802.16 standards are apprehensive with the air interface between a subscriber's transceiver station and a base transceiver station. The fixed WiMAX standard IEEE 802.16-2004 provides fixed, point-to-multi point broadband wireless access service and its product profile utilizes the OFDM 256-FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) system profile. 802.16-2004 standard supports both time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) services. IEEE 802.16-2005(802.16e) adds mobility features to WiMAX in the 2 to 11 GHz licensed bands based on


We consider flow-shop scheduling problems with regular (nondecreasing) objective functions such as the minimization of makespan in the presence of arbitrary precedence constraints, the weighted sum of job completion times in the presence of series-parallel precedence constraints, the discounted total weighted completion time, and the sum of the quadratic job completion times. We present algorithms with tight worst-case performance bounds for all of these problems by utilizing the optimal permutations for the corresponding single-machine problems. We also investigate the asymptotic optimality of our algorithms.


This paper deals with practical aspects of volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient determination. The attention was paid to influence of dissolved oxygen probe dynamics on measurements. A new identification method of volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient was developed. This method involves numerical integral calculation. The new method and three other methods (graphical, logarithmic and regression) of determining volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient value were applied. The comparative simulation research was done using dissolved oxygen concentration model. All four methods were finally aplied to real biotechnological wastewater process with the activated sludge.


A new Ultra-High Frequency Radio Frequency Identification (UHF RFID) reader which baseband module is based on ARM processor and FPGA chip has been designed and implemented to satisfy EPC Class-1 Generation2 protocol. The reader consists of three parts:baseband signal processing board, radio frequency transceiver and interface board. 90 degree phase-shift microstrip line is used in the radio-frequency board to achieve the IQ conversion, saving the power divider component compared to the conventional homodyne scheme. The baseband controller has faster processing speed than the controller using MCU and is more suitable for the study of anti-collision algorithm and encryption algorithm in RFID.


Colloquial Arabic (CA) is the set of spoken variants of modern Arabic that exist in the form of regional dialects and are considered generally to be mother-tongues in those regions. CA has limited textual resource because it exists only as a spoken language and without a standardised written form. Normally the modern standard Arabic (MSA) writing convention is employed that has limitations in phonetically representing CA. Without phonetic dictionaries the pronunciation of CA words is ambiguous, and can only be obtained through word and/or sentence context. Moreover, CA inherits the MSA complex word structure where words can be created from attaching affixes to a word.
In automatic speech recognition (ASR), commonly used approaches to model acoustic, pronunciation and word variability are language independent. However, one can observe significant differences in performance between English and CA, with the latter yielding up to three times higher error rates.
This thesis investigates the main issues for the under-performance of CA ASR systems. The work focuses on two directions: first, the impact of limited lexical coverage, and insufficient training data for written CA on language modelling is investigated; second, obtaining better models for the acoustics and pronunciations by learning to transfer between written and spoken forms. Several original contributions result from each direction. Using data-driven classes from decomposed text are shown to reduce out-of-vocabulary rate. A novel colloquialisation system to import additional data is introduced; automatic diacritisation to restore the missing short vowels was found to yield good performance; and a new acoustic set for describing CA was defined. Using the proposed methods improved the ASR performance in terms of word error rate in a CA conversational telephone speech ASR task.


A new contamination resistant 248nm DUV resist (ESCAP-E) has been developed to alleviate the difficulties encountered with the environmental contamination sensitivity of chemically amplified DUV photoresists. The formulation and processing of ESCAP-I; have been designed to permit thermal annealing of resist films to reduce the free volume and diffusivity of airborne contaminants into the resist film. The resist formulation is robust enough to permit post exposure bake delays of up to four hours without change or reduction of resist lithographic performance. The lithographic performance evaluated on 0.50NA 248nm steppers indicates linearity to 0.25μm, excellent exposure latitude and depth of focus.


Excerpt] In terms of the current discussion of pro-poor economic growth, the Harris-Todaro model and other multi-sector labor market models can help policy-makers avoid two mistakes. One is to assume that development efforts should necessarily be channeled to the sectors where the poor are. The other is to assume that efforts should necessarily be focused on getting the poor out of the sectors in which they now are. Careful cost-benefit analysis based on well-specified labor market models is required to decide among such alternatives.


This paper discusses the concept of 'compensation' and its relationship to the underlying mechanism of utility. It outlines several 'utility' or 'compensation' theories of driver behaviour, and discusses the implications of such patterns of behaviour in terms of road safety policies. There has been much debate about how far drivers will change their behaviour to compensate for changes in their driving environment due to engineering interventions. The degree to which compensatory behaviour affects accident rates is still uncertain. Most compensation theories of behaviour assume that individuals will act consistently with maximising their positive utility. Utility theorists argue that the accident rate may be affected, only when drivers 'want' to act safely by associating safe behaviour with high positive utility, rather than by imposing engineered safety measures on them. Risk Homeostasis Theory (RHT) supposes that each individual has a preferred level of risk, with which the perceived risk at a given time is compared subconsciously; it maintains that engineering interventions will be ineffective in the long term. Three ways of influencing the motivational aspect of driving performance are discussed.


Background & Purpose: While previous studies have implicated localized cortical regions in the recovery of locomotor function in stroke survivors, very little is known about the mechanisms that und...


The phenomenon of product piracy, when examined against different cultural, social and developmental needs, may result in a moderation of traditional moral judgments that have tended to deprecate piracy at every conceivable opportunity. Outlines the magnitude of product piracy, notably in the Asian region, presents a delineation of the relevant terminology, discusses strategies used in preventing product piracy and examines alternative views on the ethics of the practice.


ABSTRACT Seakeeping analysis has progressed from the linear frequency-domain 2D strip method to the nonlinear timedomain 3D panel method. Nevertheless, the violent free surface flows such as slamming and green water on deck are beyond the scope of traditional panel methods based on potential theory. Recently, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an attractive numerical tool that can effectively deal with the violent free surface flows. ABS, as a classification society, is putting forth a significant amount of effort to implement the CFD technology to the advanced strength assessment of modern commercial ships and high-speed naval craft. The main objective of this study is to validate the CFD technology as a seakeeping tool for ship design considering fully nonlinear three-dimensional slamming and green water on deck. The structural loads on a large container carrier were successfully calculated from the CFD analysis and validated with segmented model test measurements.


183 undernourished children at the Protestant Hospital of Dabou underwent clinical examination and serologic tests in a study conducted to assess the role of HIV infection upon malnutrition in African children. Malnutrition was noted in 18% of children admitted to the Pediatric Department. 70.5% of these children had marasmus and 46 of the 183 children tested HIV seropositive. The type of malnutrition was not significantly different in seropositive and seronegative children. However 59% of seropositive children were breastfed compared to only 39% of seronegative children. Follow-up at the nutrition center was of poorer quality and less effective for seropositive children compared to seronegative children. These study results demonstrate the important role of HIV infection as both a cause and an obstacle to the management of malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.


This article has shown that there is now a distinct trend towards the abolition of the death sentence in southern African States and it is hoped that this will encourage retentionist countries to re-examine their own approach to the issue, bearing in mind, in particular, the approach of the Second Optional Protocol that abolishing the death penalty contributes to the enhancement of human dignity and the progressive development of human rights. This article has further demonstrated that retentionist States worldwide can learn important lessons from the southern African region: first, the fact that condemned prisoners have constitutional rights which are enforceable by the courts. With hundreds of people still languishing on death row in many countries, it is vital that judges are prepared to recognise and uphold their constitutional rights and for human rights bodies and activists to be prepared to bring the necessary cases to court. Second, there is a need for States to reassess their current laws, many of which date back to the former colonial period, and to bring them in line with the International Covenant. Third, there is an urgent need for States to make adequate provision for mentally disordered offenders. In this connection, the problem of the scarcity of facilities for diagnosing mental illness must be addressed satisfactorily. This means that in the absence of a psychiatric examination where the mental state of the accused is in question, the "fair trial" guarantees will be breached and the death sentence cannot be carried out. Fourth, it is clear that appellate courts have a crucial role to play. In determining the outcome of an appeal against sentence, they must not be limited to examining factors within the narrow concept of "extenuating circumstances" but be able to consider all relevant matters. In this connection, it is urged that persons charged with capital offences should receive free legal representation throughout the entire criminal justice process. Admittedly these resources are often scarce and expensive. Whilst the State bears the prime responsibility for their provision, it is hoped that the appropriate local professional bodies will actively assist in ensuring that meaningful assistance is given to condemned prisoners. This will also go a long way to preventing the dreadful conditions experienced on death row.


The physical characteristics of uranium dioxide powders depend not only upon how they are prepared, but also upon the treatment of the powders prior to fabrication. Preliminary attempts to produce high-density sintered UO/sub 2/ bodies demonstrated a wide range of sinterability among UO/sub 2/ powders having different physical characteristics. Sintered densities of various UO/sub 2/ powders varied from 80 to 97% of the theoreticar density, even though identical forming and sintering procedures were used. The objectives of this investigation were to determine the effect of powder characteristics on the fabrication of stoichiometric UO/sub 2/, and to devine methods of increasing the density of UO/ sub 2/ powders which are sintered in hydrogen. (auth)


Artificial smart skins capable of interacting with people and sensing environmental stimuli have become a research topic in humanoid robotic applications. However, previously reported architectures suffer difficulties in achieving concurrent multi-dimensional sensing in a simple structure with low system costs. To address this issue, in this paper, an artificial smart skin constructed with polyimide/copper/polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is presented for detecting 2D-position, proximity, dynamic force, and humidity via a smart combination of piezoelectric- and capacitive-effects. Moreover, a follow-up filtering algorithm is proposed to separate and calculate the stimuli associated with capacitance changes (position, proximity, and humidity). The proposed system achieves overall force and capacitive sensitivities of 0.05 N and 7 fF, a humidity responsivity at 0.22%/RH% over a relative humidity range of 10%–90% RH, a spatial resolution of 0.29 mm. This simple-structured device supports multiple functions with low system costs, thus advancing the field of robotics smart skins.


whale bat tree water lily dog orchid car boat airplane tim e The selection time is the number of boosts required whale bat tree water lily dog orchid car boat airplane botanical mammal vehicular terrestrial aquatic aerial The model Cumulative semantic interference: Retrieving a word from meaning becomes increasingly difficult after retrieving semantically related words. Naming a picture of a dog, for instance, tends to be slower and more error-prone when it follows the naming of other mammals, compared to the naming of unrelated items. Cumulative semantic interference: the dark side of repetition priming


Allah is All-Merciful and Oft-Forgiving. When Allah breathed into man His own Spirit, He indeed transferred into his nature essence of some of His attributes, including mercy and forgiveness. Islam teaches its followers to be merciful and forgiving to others. This Islamic teaching forms the basis of social relationship among believers and also non-believers. The social relationship based on, among others, the principle of mercy leads not only to the pleasure of Allah and to the paradise in the hereafter but also brings about a total change in human life on the earth, creating an environment replete with peace, love, trust, and development. This article tries to highlight the role of mercy in human life.


A system has been developed that automatically extracts the iris region from photographs, computes the iris color in CIE u ́v ́ diagram color space, and corrects the color based on a standard calibration target. This system has advantages over previous manual methods in that it (1) is much less time-consuming because it is fully automatic, (2) corrects for the variability inherent in a film-based photographic process, (3) allows for greater objectivity and reproducibility, and (4) uses a mathematical foundation that enables quantification and statistical analysis. Preliminary experimental results show that color correction significantly improves grading accuracy. We would like to thank Dennis Hafford and Jane Armstrong for providing assistance and the iris images. The support of the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Grant No. N01-EY-02130 is gratefully acknowledged. University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences TR# 1495


A new, single-stage precipitation polymerization was proposed for the synthesis of monodisperse cross-linked glycerol dimethacrylate (GDMA)-based microgel particles carrying hydroxyl and carboxyl functionalities, from nanometer to micrometer size range. The synthesis of monodisperse microgel spheres in the size range of 30−1500 nm was possible by the proposed method. In the polymerizations, glycerol dimethacrylate was copolymerized with methacrylic acid (MAA) in the medium containing toluene and acetonitrile without using a stabilizing agent. The effects of polymerization conditions on the final monomer conversion, polymerization kinetics, and MAA distribution in the microgel particles were investigated. The hydrodynamic size, the size distribution characteristics, and the mass charge density of microgel particles were also determined. Highly monodisperse and spherical microgel particles were obtained particularly with low GDMA feed concentrations. A marked increase in the hydrodynamic size was observed w...


Ultrasonic treatment of heavy crude oils has been proven to manage oil viscosity and temperature sensitivity. In continuation of the previously published research results (Energy Safety and Energy Economy, iss. 5, 2019), we found out basic principles to predict dynamics of crude oil viscosity depending on time, power, and frequency of ultrasonic treatment. Viscosity control is essential for crude oil not only after its ultrasonic treatment but also while transporting and storage to keep energy efficiency of the entire process at the desired level.


Moa P Lee Robert J Glynn 1 Sebastian Schneeweiss 1 Kueiyu Joshua Lin Elisabetta Patorno Julie Barberio Raisa Levin Thomas Evers 4 Shirley V Wang 1 Rishi J Desai 1 1Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 2Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; 3Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 4Bayer AG, Wuppertal, Germany Background: The differential impact of various demographic characteristics and comorbid conditions on development of heart failure (HF) with preserved (pEF) and reduced ejection fraction (rEF) is not well studied among the elderly. Methods: Using Medicare claims data linked to electronic health records, we conducted an observational cohort study of individuals ≥65 years of age without HF. A Cox proportional hazards model accounting for competing risk of HFrEF and HFpEF incidence was constructed. A gradient-boosted model (GBM) assessed the relative influence (RI) of each predictor in the development of HFrEF and HFpEF. Results: Among 138,388 included individuals, 9701 developed HF (incidence rate = 20.9 per 1000 person-years). Males were more likely to develop HFrEF than HFpEF (HR = 2.07, 95% CI: 1.81–2.37 vs. 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02–1.20, P for heterogeneity <0.01). Atrial fibrillation and pulmonary hypertension had stronger associations with the risk of HFpEF (HR = 2.02, 95% CI: 1.80–2.26 and 1.66, 95% CI: 1.23–2.22) while cardiomyopathy and myocardial infarction were more strongly associated with HFrEF (HR = 4.37, 95% CI: 3.21–5.97 and 1.94, 95% CI: 1.23–3.07). Age was the strongest predictor across all HF subtypes with RI from GBM >35%. Atrial fibrillation was the most influential comorbidity for the development of HFpEF (RI = 8.4%) while cardiomyopathy was the most influential comorbidity for the development of HFrEF (RI = 20.7%). Conclusion: These findings of heterogeneous relationships between several important risk factors and heart failure types underline the potential differences in the etiology of HFpEF and HFrEF.


Abstract A simple method for classifying juniper-flavoured spirit drinks is proposed based on the ratio of fluorescence intensity values in synchronous fluorescence spectra. Receiver operating curves (ROC) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) were used to compute the performance of the classification. Significant differences in the fluorescence intensity ratios (I316/I287 and I324/I287) observed in the spectra recorded using wavelength difference 10 nm were evaluated by ROC analysis to identify cutoff values that gave ideal AUCs equal to one, thus allowing for 100% correct classification of the samples according to producer criteria. LDA showed that drinks of different producers could be distinguished (100% correct classification) on the basis of their differences in the fluorescence intensity ratios (I323/I287, I324/I287, I316/I287 and I325/I287). These results show that complete synchronous spectra are not required to discriminate between producers. Instead of them, fluorescence intensity could be measured at selected wavelengths.


Access to airports has become increasingly difficult, but the extent of the problem is not known. No method exists to consistently define the performance of landside access that is provided to air passengers. A national survey of U.S. airport authorities was conducted to determine the characteristics of airport access services provided. The results of the survey indicate that landside access to airports is a major concern at airports of all sizes, but there is no significant difference in reported access problems at large, medium, and small airports. An access evaluation methodology was developed to assess landside access service between approaches to the airport and the terminal entrance and is based on performance measures relating to cost, time, reliability, convenience, and quality. It is intended to aid in the assessment of landside access performance and to promote more effective use of limited resources by determining the most needed and beneficial access improvements. This evaluation methodology was demonstrated by investigating landside access facilities at the Richmond International Airport. The methodology is flexible and may accommodate airports with a wide range of assessment needs and resources. Furthermore, the evaluation process corresponds to existing airport planning, requires no special training to complete, and may be undertaken in cooperation with master plan efforts. It is recommended that the evaluation methodology be incorporated into access fund appropriation processes as a consistent means of evaluating performance, identifying access needs, and evaluating potential access improvements.


Human Action Recognition (HAR) is an application-oriented field that utilizes numerous Machine Learning methods to identify diverse human actions or movements to provide an appropriate or suitable response. A HAR method's success largely depends on the performance of the algorithms for data processing and activity prediction working in the background. This article inscribes an easy action recognition method based on a sequential Deep Learning model. Instead of using intricated signal processing, feature extraction, and feature selection techniques, we used a special type of matrix formulated directly from raw data. The described method has been tested on three different HAR datasets — namely UCI HAR, WISDM, and KU-HAR — and the maximum classification accuracies achieved on them were 98.99%, 96.53%, and 96.67%, respectively. Other evaluation metrics yield similar outcomes, which asserts the method's reliability. Detailed descriptions and discussions of each step of the methodology, reported results, and limitations have been provided with necessary illustrations.


The path of beauty leads to God. Many authors have written about it for centuries, and many more have experienced it in their lives. This paper will deal with the Torreciudad shrine (Huesca, Espana), opened in July 1975. The beauty of the landscape, the building or the sculpture, the cleanliness of the facilities and the care given to the liturgy, as well as the organ music, deeply impress visitors and pilgrims. All this contributes to the conversion of many visitors into pilgrims and their eventual personal experience of God.


The theoretical model and numerical simulations are established by the rate equation of thulium ion. Using the coherent population oscillation effect, we realize the controllable light velocity in the thulium doped fiber. We show that coherent population oscillations effect produces a very narrow spectral hole and anti-holes in the spectrum. The hole caused the amplitude modulation beam experience a large change of the group of refractive index, and makes us to achieve fast light propagation. Therefore, the pump intensity can be used as a control parameter to increase the fractional advance. In addition, we can confirm that the larger input intensity can lead to large time advancement, and saturation phenomenon of fast light exists in low frequency.


OBJECTIVE
To investigate the incidence rate of postextubation dysphagia (PED) in patients with COVID-19, as well as relative factors potentially influencing the clinical course of dysphagia.

DATA SOURCES
Six databases including PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, ScienceDirect, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Web of Science were searched with no restriction on the language.

REVIEW METHODS
The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines were followed. Data were extracted and cross-examined among 3 of the authors. The random-effects model was adopted for the statistical synthesis. The percentage and 95% confidence interval (CI) were adopted as the effect measurements of the PED incidence rate. Subgroup analyses, sensitivity analyses, and metaregression were also performed to identify the heterogeneity among the studies.

RESULTS
A total of 594 patients were enrolled and analyzed from the 10 eligible studies. The weighted incidence of PED in patients with COVID-19 was 66.5% (95% CI: 49.7%-79.9%). Age was the potential factor influencing the incidence rate after heterogeneity was adjusted by the metaregression analysis.

CONCLUSION
Compared to the current evidence reporting only 41% of the non-COVID patients experienced PED, our study further disclosed that a higher 66.5% of COVID-19 patients suffered from PED, which deserves global physicians' attention. With the association between COVID-19 and dysphagia having been more clearly understood, future clinicians are suggested to identify intubated patients' risk factors earlier to strengthen PED care programs in the era of COVID-19.


The platoon-based driving pattern, a cooperative driving pattern for a leader and a number of followers, is a good way to deal with some traditional traffic issues and brings many benefits when performing special platoon tasks. However, it's possible for each platoon member to be fully controlled by attackers, especially the leader, which may cause severe damage to the platoon stability. In this paper, we propose a vehicle platoon leader updating scheme in vehicular networks based on blockchain techniques and reputation management mechanism, so as to ensure that the most trusted platoon member acts as leader. In this scheme, according to received warning messages of traffic events, each platoon member evaluates others' reputations in the form of offsets. Using the designed reputation blockchain with Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus scheme, miners generate blocks in turn and wait for others' verification. If a block successfully passes the consensus process, it will be formally added to the blockchain, which can reflect all platoon members' current reputation values. In addition, we also have to guarantee that the miner group is composed of several platoon members with high reputation and the leader serves as a miner. In this way, the scheme both meets the real-time requirement of reputation management and saves communication overhead compared with existing schemes. Finally, we analyze the proper functioning and security of our proposed scheme.


Nowdays, energy production has been a keystone factor in the development of new electrical devices. The consumption of energy is directly proportional with world population growth as well as the characteristics of the modern society, especially in a good quality of life. Therefore, the energy generation with resourses renewable is really important now, in other case it will affect in negative form the entire population of the world qualitatively. In the other words, the international energy scenario allows us to visualize that the use of solar energy has strong growth prospects within the area of alternative energy sources. Recently, the CdTe/CdS solar cells technology reached a high-tech level able to realize devices showing efficiencies close to 22% [1]. The production process of the thin film CdTe/CdS-based solar cells both from a technological and from a physical point of view is not so dificult. For example, in solar cells applications, Cadmium sulphide (CdS) thin films have been wide used, because it is of the most familiar semiconductors having narrow direct band gap (2.4 eV) and widely employed as a visible light photocatalyst. On the other hand, Zinc Oxide (ZnO) has a wide band gap semiconductor that is gaining widespread attention in photocatalytic applications because of its higher exciton binding energy of 60 meV, high electron mobility, break-down strength, its low cost, extraction stability and non-toxic nature. Combining Zinc Oxide (ZnO) and Cadmium sulphide (CdS) to form heterostructure have numerous importance because the subsequent product has the ability of improving their electrical, optical, physical, and chemical properties [1] and that can be shown increasing the efficiency. From the electrical point of view, the ZnO and CdS/ZnO layers can optimize the band alignment of the device. Also, these can build a sufficiently wide depletion width that minimizes tunneling and establishes a higher contact potential that allows higher open circuit voltage. Recently, a particular attention of the researches has been focused on the heterostructures involving ZnO and CdS/ZnO multilayers.The band energy structures of ZnO and CdS are suitable to stimulate the transfer of electron processes where photogenerated electron can drift from CdS to ZnO and the charge transporters become physically detached upon generations [2]. In general, ZnO and CdS/ZnO thin films have been extensively investigated as an n-type buffer layer to form thin film heterojunction solar cells with p-CdTe absorber layers. In this work, we prepared ZnO and CdS/ZnO heterostructures by simple Chemical Bath Deposition (CBD) technique, because this technique is well known to produce solar cells over a large area at a low cost and low temperature. The effect of deposition parameters of ZnO and CdS thin films developed by CBD technique were investigated in [3-5], principally, the influence of pH control of the reaction solution on the structural and optical properties of chemically deposited ZnO and CdS thin films. Different films thicknesses of ZnO and CdS/ZnO thin films were deposited onto a glass substrate. The structural surface morphology of as-deposited ZnO and CdS/ZnO thin films was characterized by SEM. The physical conditions were kept identical while growing of the samples.


*Corresponding author: Marco Valgimigli, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, University of Bern, CH-3010, Bern, Switzerland, Phone: þ41 31 632 96 53; Fax: þ41 31 632 47 71; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Full text document: Marco Valgimigli (Chairperson) (Switzerland), Héctor Bueno (Spain), Robert A. Byrne (Germany), Jean-Philippe Collet (France), Francesco Costa (Italy), Anders Jeppsson (Sweden), Peter Jüni (Canada), Adnan Kastrati (Germany), Philippe Kolh (Belgium), Laura Mauri (USA), Gilles Montalescot (France), Franz-Josef Neumann (Germany), Mate Petricevic (Croatia), Marco Roffi (Switzerland), Philippe Gabriel Steg (France), Stephan Windecker (Switzerland), Jose Luis Zamorano (Spain) 2017 ESC Focused Update on Dual Antiplatelet Therapy in Coronary Artery Disease developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). Eur Heart J. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx419


In this 23 slide PowerPoint presentation, the authors present the findings of a study on HFOs (hydrofluoroolefins) conducted on behalf of the Norwegian Environment Agency. The study had three aims: firstly to identify the HFOs used, their associated emissions, atmospheric dispersion, degradation of HFOs and the deposition of degradation products. Secondly, to assess the environmental and human health impacts associated with HFOs and their degradation products. Finally, a risk assessment was performed to assess how the future use of HFOs and their subsequent emissions would affect the environment globally up to 2100. A systematic review of the literature alongside consultation identified a number of knowledge gaps which need to be addressed to conclude whether HFOs and their degradation products, namely TFA (trifluoroacetic acid), will have negligible effect on the environment and human health. The risk assessment performed indicated the toxicity risk of TFA to organisms and human health appears to be low.


The role of beta-2 adrenergic receptor agonist enhancing alveolar epithelial fluid transporthas attracted much attention,for it has been tested in lots of clinical trials. Over recent years,both short timeand long time pathways of its signal transduction mechanism have achieved further progress, especially forthe parts of the former's HSC membrane insertion by membrane trafficking and the latter's Na+ ,K+ -ATPaseexpression by posttranscriptional regulation, which contribute to develop new pulmonary edema drugs.

Key words:
Beta-2 adrenergic receptor agonist;  Signal transduction;  ENaC;  Na+, K+ -ATPase


The range and procedure of the management of visual resources along highway and the evaluating methods for them are introduced in this paper.And then it is discussed how to protect and utilize visual resources during the planning process.The factor of visual resource must be combined with other factors during the design stage.


Apatite-type La9.33(SiO4)6O2 hollow nanoshells are prepared from an aqueous solution of La(NO3)3, trisodium citrate, and urea (autoclave, 200 °C, 8 h) followed by dispersion of the obtained precipitate in aqueous NH4OH and addition of EtOH and Si(OEt)4 (10 h).


Background Genetic factors have been found to be associated with the efficacy and adverse reactions of antiseizure medications. BCL11A is an important regulator of the development of neuronal networks. However, the role of BCL11A in epilepsy remains unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the genetic association of BCL11A with the susceptibility to develop epileptic seizures and therapeutic response of patients with epilepsy in Han Chinese. Methods We matched 450 epilepsy cases with 550 healthy controls and 131 drug-resistant epilepsy patients with 319 drug-responsive epilepsy patients from two different centers. Genetic association analysis, genetic interaction analysis, expression quantitative trait loci analysis and protein–protein interaction analysis were conducted. Results Our results showed that rs2556375 not only increases susceptibility to develop epileptic seizures (OR = 2.700, 95% = 1.366–5.338, p = 0.004 and OR = 2.984, 95% = 1.401–6.356, p = 0.005, respectively), but also increases the risk of drug resistance(OR = 21.336, 95%CI =2.489–183.402, p = 0.005). The interaction between rs2556375 and rs12477097 results in increased risk for pharma coresistant. In addition, rs2556375 regulated BCL11A expression in human brain tissues (p = 0.0096 and p = 0.033, respectively). Furthermore, the protein encoded by BCL11A interacted with targets of approved antiepileptic drugs. Conclusion BCL11A may be a potential therapeutic target for epilepsy. Rs2556375 may increase the risks of epilepsy and drug resistance by regulating BCL11A expression in human brain tissues. Moreover, the interaction between rs2556375 and rs12477097 results in increased risk for drug resistance.


By combining the experimental data on circular dichroism and light scattering, the helical conformation of poly(Glu) in 0.15 mol dm−3 NaCl solutions was estimated. The axial translation per residue was probably in the range of 1.2–1.3 A for the unaggregated helix, while the persistence length was ca. 120 A for the random-coil.


One simulator reproduces the behavior of real systems in order to facilitate testing new approaches, study the systems under new environmental conditions, and evolve the available platform. In this paper one simulator of an Evolutionary Production System will be described. The simulator reproduces the characteristics of mechatronic agents as interaction, cooperation, and evolution helping the analysis of the time of execution, self-organization, and performance improvement of the real system. Inputs of the simulator are simple descriptions of the mechatronic agents, finite state machines, and production orders. Tests considering one real system were performed and proved the good functioning of the simulator. The analysis of the functioning and efficiency of the proposed system is presented along the paper.


The study enumerates the Pteridophytes widely used by the local people and tribes in the treatment of various diseases in Gondia district of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra State. They grow in terrestrial, epiphytic or lithophytic habitats. The present study deals with the ethnomedicinal uses of available Pteridophytic plants which are prevalent in the study area, along with botanical name, family, habitat, plant part used and mode of uses. The present study focus specifically on the ethnomedicinal importance of 13 species of Pteridophytes, used by Gond, Gowari, Halba, Gawali, Pradhan and other aboriginal tribes occurring in the region. The botanical name, family name, vernacular name, and their ethno medicinal uses are provided. A field survey of the study area was carried out to document the medicinal utility of plants occurring in the area by tribe. Traditional uses of these plant species are described in this paper. Introduction Pteridophytes are the seedless vascular cryptogams which occupy a position between the lower non-seed bearing and higher seed bearing plants, generally much neglected group of plants. About 250 million years ago, they constituted the dominant vegetation on earth surface. However, they are now replaced by seed bearing plants in the modern day flora. Pteridophytes grow luxuriantly in moist tropical and temperate forest and their occurrence in different eco-geographically threatened regions from sea level to the highest mountain are of much interest. About 12, 000 species of Pteridophytes occur in the world floras of which about more than 1,000 species were reported from India. These species are grouped into 191 genera of 70 families (Dixit, 1984). The ferns had an important role in folklore medicine. These plants have been successfully used in the different systems of medicines like Ayurvedic, Unani, Homeopathic and other systems of medicines. In a recent compilation, Singh (1999) reported 160 species of useful Pteridophytes in India on the basis of phytochemical, pharmacological and ethnobotanical studies. International Journal for Environmental Rehabilitation and Conservation Volume I No. 1 2010 [73 77] [ISSN 0975 6272]


The concept of resource slack is central to understanding the dynamics between employment, output, and inflation. But what amount of slack is consistent with price stability? To answer this question, economists define baseline values for unemployment and output known as the natural rate of unemployment and potential output. The concepts of output and employment gaps can be useful to economists in several ways. First, they often guide the inflation forecasts of Federal Reserve staff and other researchers and market participants. Second, some economists argue that employment gaps are a useful guide for policy aimed at achieving maximum sustainable employment and price stability. In "Output Gaps: Uses and Limitation," Roc Armenter briefly discusses two important examples of sophisticated measures of resource slack that are grounded in economic theory: the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment and the output gap measure published quarterly by the Congressional Budget Office.


New media are characterized by interactivity,instantaneousness,mass information,sharing,multimedia.It is because of these technical features of new media that media literacy shows distinctive characteristics of the times.Media literacy refers to man's ability to select,comprehend,evaluate,create,produce,and criticize in front of various new media information,and the ability to use new media for self and social development as well.Contemporary college students adjust quickly to the new media environment in terms of media consumption,media cognition and comprehension,and media application and production.However,when it comes to specific behaviors,students show their weakness in criticizing ability,limited use of media,and lack of moral and legal consciousness of network.These problems are brought about by both objective and subject reasons.Media literacy,as part of citizens' quality,requires proper education which puts forward the interdisciplinary cultivation of a fully developed person of literary and scientific attainments,and coordinates the students' development of morality and knowledge.Therefore,it is necessary to explore the ways and means of cultivating and promoting college students' media literacy.


The invention provides a preparation method for a hole transporting layer of a semiconductor device. The preparation method is characterized in that the preparation method includes following steps: step 1: a main body material is deposited or coated on an ITO transparent conductive substrate via a vacuum thermal vapor deposition method or a spin coating method, wherein the main body material comprises NPB, a-NPD, 2-TNATA, m-MTDATA, TPD or Poly-TPD; and step 2: an object material is deposited or coated on the surface of the main body material obtained by step 1 via the vacuum thermal vapor deposition method or the spin coating method, and the preparation method for the hole transporting layer of the semiconductor device is obtained, wherein the object material is F2-HCNQ or F4-TCNQ. According to the preparation method, the object material in need of co-evaporation doping enters the main body material via drifting, and the doping effect is achieved.


The meaning of work for people involved in solidarit y enterprises is provided through a case study of g eneral services cooperative. Research was developed by semi -structured interviews and field diary, and resultin g i formation analyzed from the perspective of content analysis. Results point towards labor as a means of social ack nowledgement or devaluation and as a means of subsistence assumed wi th other coop people. Meanings of labor are thus re lated to denotations of cooperativism, with large influence on self-manag ement in entrepreneurship. Solidary economy itself, with its possibilities and limitations in the promotion of social emancipa tion and work de-alienation, is discussed.


The final paper deals with software development for a converting Epanet projects to AFT Fathom projects, because of the need for faster, simpler and more finacially viable method for numerical model of the stationary flow in piping and ducting systems. In the final paper have been listed used softwares and their applications. Durin the development it was necessary to coordinate model arguments that are differently defined and located in different places. Developed software was tested and the anilized results have shown satisfactory quality and accuracyof conversion. With the shown analisis the developed software will enable easier and more accessible numerical modeling.


For $c\in \mathbb{R}^{+}\cup \{\infty \}$ and a graph $G$, a function $f:V(G)\rightarrow \{0,1,c\}$ is called a $c$-self dominating function of $G$ if for every vertex $u\in V(G)$, $f(u)\geq c$ or $\max\{f(v):v\in N_{G}(u)\}\geq 1$ where $N_{G}(u)$ is the neighborhood of $u$ in $G$. The minimum weight $w(f)=\sum _{u\in V(G)}f(u)$ of a $c$-self dominating function $f$ of $G$ is called the $c$-self domination number of $G$. The $c$-self domination concept is a common generalization of three domination-type invariants; (original) domination, total domination and Roman domination. In this paper, we study a behavior of the $c$-self domination number in random graphs for small $c$.


Abstract 405 Cripto is a member of the EGF-CFC soluble protein family and has been identified as an important factor for the proliferation/self-renewal of ES and several types of tumor cells. The role for Cripto in the regulation of hematopoietic cells has been unknown. Here we show that Cripto is a potential new candidate factor to increase self-renewal and expand hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in vitro . The expression level of Cripto was analyzed by qRT-PCR in several purified murine hematopoietic cell populations. The findings demonstrated that purified CD34-KSL cells, known as highly concentrated HSC population, had higher expression levels than other hematopoietic progenitor populations including CD34+KSL cells. We asked how Cripto regulates HSCs by using recombinant mouse Cripto (rmCripto) for in vitro and in vivo experiments. First we tested the effects of rmCripto on purified hematopoietic stem cells (CD34-LSK) in vitro . After two weeks culture in serum free media supplemented with 100ng/ml of SCF, TPO and 500ng/ml of rmCripto, 30 of CD34-KSL cells formed over 1,300 of colonies, including over 60 of GEMM colonies, while control cultures without rmCripto generated few colonies and no GEMM colonies (p Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.