are not, however, always equally convincing. Particularly problematic is the first chapter presenting an overview of the genre, an admittedly difficult but necessary task. By glossing over the rebirth of dietary texts and their rapidly developing popularity in the two centuries preceding the period chosen for this book, the author creates the erroneous impression of a genre that appears after 1470 and owes little or nothing to its medieval precursors. In conclusion, some words of caution as to the use of dietary literature as a source. The rich and complex world these texts open up risks making historians forget the difference between these theoretical works and the reality of actuaNiiets. Although dietary literature is without a doubt an important source that permits us to better understand the norms propagandized by doctors (and the society in which they lived), we also need to compare this prescriptive literature with what we can piece together concerning what foods people actually consumed on a daily basis. Last but not least, we need to do more work on the readership of this fascinating literature and its impact radius, notably by looking for echoes (and literal citations) that surface in such disparate places as in literary works, letters, cookbooks, and a variety of other texts. ALLEN J. GRIECO Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies


PURPOSE: A contents transmitting system in a multi meta-verse environment is provided to use a transmission standard even if a meta-verse is changed by endowing an identifier to a game contents and integratedly managing the game contents. CONSTITUTION: A multi-verse management platform(300) comprises an integrated user DB(320), a multi-verse user managing unit(310), and an integrated contents DB(340). The integrated user DB(320) stores the login information of user. The multi-verse user managing unit(310) checks the validity of the login information of user. The integrated contents DB(340) stores contents addresses of a first and a second meta servers.


Using dyadic representations elaborated from vectors of Jones, and calculating relations of anti-commutation of these tensorial forms, we obtain in shape explicit the Pauli spin matrices.


The essence of Chinese national melody's progressing principle is not to form a new scale,but to have laws for national-melodicprogress.Among them,non-penta notes and its resolving,、tri-note series and the distribution of melodies,are all necessarily considered.


Introduction In the present report the behavior of a third-order new autonomous oscillator circuit has been studied. This circuit consists of two active elements, one linear negative conductance and smooth cubic nonlinearity exhibiting symmetrical piecewise-linear v-i characteristics, two linear capacitances (C1 and C2) and one linear inductor (L) is also included in the circuit, serves as the control parameters [1-5]. Most chaotic and bifurcation effect cited in the literature have been observed in electrical circuits. They include the period-doubling route to chaos [6], the intermittency route to chaos [7], and the quasi-periodicity route to chaos and of course the crisis [8-10]. This popularity is attributed to the advantages which electric circuits offer to experimental chaos studies, such as robustness and convenient implementation. In this work we introduce a new autonomous third-order oscillator circuit that realizes period-doubling route to chaos followed by periodic window and then to lower dimensions of strong chaos through boundary crisis etc. We consider that such complicated chaotic time waveforms are expected to be utilized for realization of several chaotic applications such as chaos communication system with robustness against various interferences including multi user access. Experimental realization of the new autonomous oscillator circuit The experimental realization of the simple-3D new autonomous oscillator is shown in Fig.1. The negative conductance (-G1) and the symmetrical cubic nonlinearity is designed by the help of two signal diodes is used to introduce symmetrical cubic nonlinearities [11]-[12]. The characteristics of the negative conductance are mathematically represented by i = –G1V1. The v-i characteristics of the global nonlinearity which can therefore be approximated by a cubic function of the form with a < 0 and b > 0. Fig. 1 Simple third-order new autonomous oscillator circuit.


An intelligent insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) suitable to be used in remote-controlled on-load tap changers and traction applications is analysed in this study. An anode voltage sensor monolithically integrated in the active area of a 3.3 kV–50 A PT-IGBT is introduced to enhance the robustness of the IGBT against short-circuit events. The operation mode of the anode voltage sensor is described and TCAD simulations are performed to describe the static and dynamic performance together with the interaction between the sensor and the IGBT core cells. The study of the anode voltage performance under inductive turn-off conditions is also included, comparing the behaviour of IGBTs with and without anode voltage sensor.


Fig.2: MR images (a, c) and corresponding DOSI water concentration maps (b, d) at baseline and after NAC, respectively in the contralateral normal breast of a premenopausal patient. The DOSI maps depict water concentration as a function of position (each tick mark represents 1 cm). The illustrated maps are taken from a 8 x 6 cm area from the upper-inner region of the left breast. The areolar region is the red-color zone, marked by the semi-circle. This region has a high water concentration, and it is excluded from the calculation of mean water concentration. The decreased density after NAC is clearly visible. MRI shows 30.4% reduction in fibroglandular tissue volume and DOSI shows 24.4% reduction in tissue water.


Multicore accelerators have emerged to efficiently execute recent applications with complex computational dimensions. Compared to a single-core accelerator, a multicore accelerator handles a larger amount of communication and computation simultaneously. Since the conventional performance estimation algorithm tailored to single-core accelerators cannot estimate the performance of multicore accelerators accurately, we propose a novel performance estimation algorithm for a multicore accelerator. The proposed algorithm predicts a dynamic communication bandwidth of each direct memory access controller (DMAC) based on the runtime state of DMACs, making it possible to estimate the communication amounts handled by DMACs accurately by taking into account the temporal intervals. The proposed algorithm is evaluated for convolutional neural networks and wireless communications. The experimental results using a pre-register transfer level (RTL) simulator shows that the proposed algorithm can estimate the performance of a multicore accelerator with the estimation error of up to 2.8%, regardless of the system communication bandwidth. These results were also verified by the hardware implementations on Xilinx ZYNQ. In addition, the proposed algorithm is used to explore a design space of accelerator core dimensions, and the resulting optimal core dimension provides performance gains of 10.8% and 31.2%, compared to the conventional multicore accelerator and single-core accelerator, respectively. The source code is available on the GitHub repository: https://github.com/SDL-KU/OptAccTile.


We establish a bound on the convergence time of the value iteration algorithm on stochastic shortest-path problems. The bound, which applies for admissible initial vectors as, for example, J\equiv 0 , implies a polynomial-time convergence of value iteration for all problems with polynomially bounded \Vert{J^*}\Vert/\underline{g} . This result gives a partial answer to the open problem of bounding the convergence time of value iteration on arbitrary initial vectors. The proof is obtained by analyzing a stochastic process associated with the shortest-path problem.


Three lysozymes (SSTL A, SSTL B and ASTL) were purified from soft shelled turtle egg white (SSTL A and SSTL B from Trionyx sinensis, ASTL from Amyda cartilaginea) by column chromatography. Three lysozymes were reduced and carboxymethylated to fragment them with trypsin. The peptides yielded were purified by RP-HPLC and sequenced. The complete amino acid sequence of SSTL B was the same as soft-shelled turtle from Trionyx sinensis japonicus. The established amino acid sequence of SSTL A and SSTL B have an extra Gly residue at the Nterminus of 131 amino acid residues. For SSTL A, one substituted was found at position 126 (Gly to Asp) when compared to SSTL B. For ASTL, ten substituted positions were newly found at Leu8, Phe12, His15, Met17, His21, Ala41, Leu56, Lys71, Asn93 and Ile98 which were replaced by Ala, Met, Leu, Leu, Asn, Gly, Phe, Asn, Ile, and Val, respectively when compared to SSTL B. The substituted Asn to Ile at position 93 of ASTL is the first report in all Ctype lysozyme. The amino acids difference between these lysozymes might contribute to enzymatic activity of each enzyme.


Symptoms negatively impact the quality of life and long‐term prognosis of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Little is known about the relationship linking airway inflammation and symptoms in stable COPD. In this study, we evaluated whether respiratory symptoms in COPD are related to sputum inflammatory cellular profile and whether symptom changes are associated with changes in airway inflammation.


Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) is one of the important life-threatening presentations in children with a case fatality rate of 12.6%. The most common etiology in India is viral encephalitis. However, one of the emerging yet treatable causes is scrub typhus, which is endemic in many parts of India including Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. It is a vector borne disease which has myriad presentations, one among those being AES. This is a case series of four such cases noted over the first 6 months of 2022. All the patients presented with symptoms of fever and alteration of sensorium without any seizures. Examination revealed generalized lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, and abnormal central nervous system findings. A thorough examination revealed the classical eschar in all the cases. Based on the examination findings, oral doxycycline was started in all the patients along with supportive treatment while awaiting results, which later revealed to be scrub ELISA positive. After 48 h, due to inadequate defervescence and improvement in sensorium, IV azithromycin was added in two patients and oral doxycycline was changed to injectable in other two patients. All of them recovered without any complications or sequelae. Early identification and initiation of appropriate antibiotics are essential for a positive outcome. In endemic areas, children with AES should be thoroughly examined for signs of scrub typhus including eschar. In our patients, parenteral doxycycline or azithromycin was found to be more effective than oral doxycycline in resolution of fever and neurological abnormalities. If AES is suspected to be due to scrub typhus, parenteral therapy may be preferred over oral.


Albemarle will build a lithium carbonate plant in Chile, where it already operates two lithium chemical plants. The plan follows an agreement with the Chilean government that the company can increase production to 70,000 metric tons of battery-grade lithium carbonate and 6,000 metric tons of lithium chloride annually over 27 years. Additionally, Albemarle has an option to produce lithium hydroxide directly from brine. Last year the firm opened a $200 million lithium carbonate facility in La Negra, Chile, and disclosed plans to build lithium carbonate and hydroxide plants either in the U.S. or Asia.


The application of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) into wireless powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) systems is investigated, where both time division multiple access (TDMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) schemes are considered for uplink (UL) offloading. We propose three different dynamic IRS beamforming (DIBF) schemes based on the flexibility for the IRS in adjusting its beamforming (BF) vector in each transmission frame. Under the DIBF framework, computation rate maximization problems are formulated for both the TDMA and NOMA schemes, respectively, by jointly optimizing the IRS BF and the resource allocation. An analytical comparison for the computation rate of TDMA and NOMA-based UL offloading schemes is provided. Finally, we propose computationally efficient algorithms to solve the corresponding computation rate maximization problems under the proposed DIBF framework. Numerical results unveil that the optimal time allocated to DL WPT can be effectively reduced with the aid of IRSs, which is beneficial for both the system's spectral efficiency and energy efficiency.


Much of the literature in the Knowledge Engineering subfield of Automated Planning has focussed on domain engineering: for example, how to assist non-experts to construct useful PDDL domain files. In addition to domain engineering, non-experts also have to be able to construct planning problems that are correct with respect to this domain, and also interpret plans in a way that makes sense in the particular application domain of study. This work provides a collection of methods for constructing planning problems, and interpreting plans, based on Jinja2 templating. The focus of the problem construction templating is connecting to data sources and building problems based on these sources. Template functions range from allowing time units and ISO times to set timed initial literals and durations to methods for constructing initial state conditions based on database queries. We provide a unified data structure that combines the information in the domain, problem and plan. Combined with helper functions, we demonstrate how this can ease the process of creating plan reports of various kinds.


Cointegration test and Granger Causal test are adopted in this paper to estimate the relationship between RMB exchange rate futures of CME and RMB spot exchange rate. We find that there exist a long-term equilibrium relationship between the two series and RMB spot exchange rate can granger cause RMB exchange rate futures.


Huang's data-driven technique of empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is applied to the versatile, broadband, model of fractional Gaussian noise (fGn). The spectral analysis and statistical characterization of the obtained modes reveal an equivalent filter bank structure together with gamma distributed variances, both sharing some properties with wavelet decompositions. These common features are then used to mimic wavelet based techniques aimed at estimating the Hurst exponent.


In recent research outlier mining is used in wide areas such as telecommunication, health care, finance and network intrusion detection. Applying outlier mining in network anomaly detection, rare occurring attacks can be identified. In this paper we propose an outlier mining algorithm based on symmetric neighborhood relationships. We evaluate the method with UCI ML Repository datasets, benchmark dataset KDD Cup 1999 and real time intrusion datasets. The experimental results are compared with existing approaches and performances are excellent.


Observations from two freeway bottlenecks in and near Toronto, Canada indicate that the average rate vehicles discharge from a queue can be 10% lower than the  ̄ow measured prior to the queue's formation. Absent any in ̄uences from downstream, the queue discharge  ̄ows exhibited nearly stationary patterns that alternated between higher and lower rates. These alternating  ̄ow patterns were especially evident at one of the two sites, although the feature occurred at both sites during periods that immediately followed the onset of upstream queueing; i.e. a queue's formation was always accompanied by a relatively low discharge rate followed later by a temporary surge in the discharge  ̄ow. When plotted cumulatively over time, however, the counts of discharging vehicles generally did not deviate by more than about 50 vehicles from a trend line of constant slope. Thus, the discharge  ̄ows are described as being `nearly' constant; i.e. they varied (slightly) about a ®xed rate. At each site, this average discharge rate exhibited little deviation from day to day. The present ®ndings came by visually comparing transformed curves of cumulative vehicle arrival number vs time and cumulative occupancy vs time measured at neighboring loop detectors. This treatment of the data provided clear presentations of some important trac features and this facilitated a detailed study of bottleneck  ̄ows. # 1998 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.


A brief overview of the notions of classical and quantum integrability in 1+1 space-time dimensions is given with an emphasis on the existence of infinite number of conserved quantities in (1+1)D field theories. Some methods for building such conserved quantities are outlined and are then applied to study the integrability of the Bukhvostov-Lipatov model, a 2-field generalization of the sine-Gordon/massive Thirring model. The integrability properties of both the classical/quantum and the bosonic/fermionic versions of the model are discussed. It is shown that the classical fermionic model possesses a conserved current of Lorentz spin 3. It is then established that the conservation law is spoiled at the quantum level—a fact that indicates that the quantum Bukhvostov-Lipatov model is not integrable.


In this paper we present two algorithms for information extraction from Single Look Complex (SLC) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The first algorithm is based on Tikhonov regularization with Total Variation (TV) and a Point-Based Feature (PBF) term. Based on the equivalence of Tikhonov and the Bayesian estimate, the second algorithm is a Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimation with a complex-valued Gauss-Markov Random Field (GMRF) in addition to the TV prior. The first algorithm produces a despeckled image preserving fine details and texture. The second algorithm gives a denoised image and in addition the estimated feature parameter vector thetas.


The developing world's stance toward the question of the environment has often been equated with the pugnacious stance of former Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir, who famously said at the…


Reviewed by Dr. Davis Brooks Dr. Davis Brooks is associate professor of violin and viola at Baylor University. He is a member of the New York Chamber Symphony and was a member of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center. clearly written and cover the basics. The entry under "Buzzes," for example, includes several diagnostic tests (Is the buzz on only one string? If it is on only onestring, is it on onlyone note?) as well as several areas to check for the buzzpurfling, cracks, seams, and so on. At its suggested price of $7.95, this little bookis quiteexpensive ifit is aimed at the student market, yet it is money wellspent for the knowledgeit contains.


The problem with which this study is concerned is that of the influence of local- and state-level external forces on the actions of the Texas legislature with respect to financing public higher education at senior institutions in Texas during the period from 1965 through 1983 as perceived by high ranking academic administrators. The specially designed survey instrument elicited respondents' perceptions of the degree of influence of specified local— and state-level external forces on institutional funding and the amount and usefulness of contacts made by respondents with such forces in an effort to exert influence for the purpose of increasing state funding for their institutions.


[Objective]Species,distribution and larval density of sugarcane nematode were investigated in major sugarcane producing areas of Guangxi in order to provide scientific basis for their effective control and prevention.[Method]Soil samples containing sugarcane nematode were collected from 11 major sugarcane areas of Guangxi.Nematodes were separated using Baermann funnel method and the species was identified in the optical microscope.[Result]It was observed that there were total 16 genus of sugarcane parasitic nematode occupying 70.3% population,while saprophytic nematodes accounted for 29.7%.Helicotylenchus,Tylenchorhynchus and Pratylenchus were the main species being occuping 54.0,26.9 and 12.1%.Higher number of nematodes was observed in paddy field soil compared to soils from dry slopes,and soils from ratoon sugarcane fields contained higher number compared to planting cane soil.This trend was especially observed for Tylenchorhynchus and Pratylenchus species,however contrary results were observed for Helicotylenchus species.[Conclusion]Total 16 genus of sugarcane parasitic nematode in sugarcane areas of Guangxi were preliminarily identified,Helicotylenchus,Tylenchorhynchus and Pratylenchus were the main species.These results will help in developing efficient control and prevention strategies for nematode in sugarcane planting.


In patients with refractory pleural effusion or pneumothorax, fever and elevated level of white blood cell count (WBC) are frequently observed after chemical pleurodesis with intrapleural injection of OK‐432, which make it difficult to differentiate whether it was from the side effects of OK‐432 or concurrent bacterial infection.


In the ultraviolet communication system, ACO-OFDM technology can effectively suppress inter-symbol interference on the system performance, and further improve the transmission rate of the system. However, ACO-OFDM has a high peak to average power ratio (PAPR), and high PAPR not only reduces the power efficiency of the optical modulator, but also bring damage to the human eye or skin. In order to solve the above problem, according to ACO-OFDM signal characteristics, two clipping and filtering algorithms are used, and its performance is simulated, the simulations show that the two algorithms are able to inhibit well the PAPR of ACO-OFDM system.


CASE PRESENTATION An 80-year-old man presents for evaluation of an asymptomatic cutaneous eruption involving the mons pubis of unknown duration. He was admitted to the hospital with fatigue, weakness, and decreased urinary output. On physical examination, an erythematous papulonodular plaque on the mons pubis was seen. Areas of focal ulceration, hemorrhagic crust, and dry scale were appreciated (Fig. 1). A punch biopsy specimen for hematoxylin and eosin–stained sections (H&E) revealed sheets of pleomorphic, oval clear cells filling the papillary and reticular dermis (Figs. 2 and 3). Areas of necrosis were also appreciated in the deeper dermis. Special stains for infectious organisms: Periodic acid–Schiff, Grocott's methenamine silver stain, and acid-fast bacilli stain did not highlight foreign organisms; Melan-A, cytokeratin 7, and cytokeratin 20 immunohistochemical stains were negative. Tissue culture was not performed.


While consumption of food gives material pleasure and a healthy life, contaminated food can be dangerous to health. Therefore, quality of food is very important. Even from the producers point of view, selling high quality food can be viewed as a competitive strategy to overcome competition. With the recent agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures, World Trade Organization (WTO) has made it mandatory for all member states to follow international food standards guidelines in the sphere of foreign trade. An important element of these guidelines is the compliance with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), a management system for food safety. Indian firms will have to adopt these guidelines, else they will have to face non-trade-barriers in the export market. In this paper, I try to give a comprehensive treatment to HACCP and related food safety issues. I present the historical development of the system, give a theoretical background, and describe the actual procedure for implementing HACCP. It is hoped that food processing industry takes a lead in developing HACCP plans for the diverse range of domestic food products. This has a potential not only to improve food quality but also to give Indian firms a competitive advantage over others both in the domestic and export market.


According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the second leading cause of death in American teenagers, and is a growing public health concern. This study uses multivariable logistic regression to investigate the independent relationship between suicide ideation and sleep duration in teenagers using the 2015 Youth Behavior Risk Surveillance Study, controlling for demographic, behavioral, and other factors found to be associated. Sleep durations of 4–5 hours and 6–7 hours per night were associated with approximately 75–80% and 20–40% increased adjusted odds of suicide ideation, as compared to teens sleeping the recommended 8 hours or more, and should be considered as a potential important indicator for adolescent suicidal ideation in primary-care screens.


Results of the research of standard and legal regulation of legal status of the children born out of the marriage in the Russian Empire the XIX-XX centuries, which is carried out by the author within the cathedral scientific subject are presented in the article. The main features of legal status of this category of children are designated, the social and economic conditions and Russian cultural traditions which affected special legal status of illegitimate are noted, the attitude of Orthodox Church towards parents of the illegitimate during the considered period is revealed.


When applying the adjoint sensitivity analysis to an electromagentic (EM) field solver, the derivatives of the system matrix elements with respect to the design parameters have to be computed. In this paper the partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) method is utilized in the magneto-quasi-static regime where the system matrix elements represent partial resistances and inductances. Closed-form solutions for the derivatives of these elements with respect to the shape parameters under consideration are found for arbitrary positioned parallel conductors with rectangular cross sections. Results are presented for the AC impedance of a sole conductor and are compared with finite-difference approximations.


The main parameters of the ionospheric response to the propagation of shock acoustic waves initiated by launches of Soyuz and Proton rockets from the Baikonur spaceport are studied. A method is proposed for measuring the horizontal component of the phase velocity of the ionospheric disturbance wave and determining the direction of its arrival. The method is based on spatial-temporal processing of the total electron content distribution obtained by transionospheric sounding of the ionosphere by the satellite GPS system. The spatial-temporal characteristics of the ionospheric disturbance caused by shock acoustic waves initiated by rocket launches in 1999 and 2000 are studied.


This paper describes research into a driver impairment monitoring (DIM) system under development in the DETER project. The aim of this research is to demonstrate the feasibility of a system which detects a decline of psychological capability, purely on the basis of in-vehicle measurement. Three areas of research are described: the first describes how in-vehicle data is quantified and correlated with psychophysiological activity during an experimental study, the second deals with the use of neural net algorithms to model driving behaviour, the final piece of research provides some preliminary data on user acceptability issues. (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD 868006.


Multimedia teaching methods is widely used in the process of the numerical control technology learning.According to different teaching objects and target,all kinds of the Multi-media teaching models,which were divided into "primary classroom learning,intermediate simulation exercises,senior practical processing" three levels,were studied as an application system.In order to seek the optimal effect of multimedia teaching method application,the emphasis of the three levels in different teaching levels were studied,and some questions which related with Multi-media application system were discussed too.


A small tablet fragment acquired by the Iraq Museum raises interesting questions, although at first it appeared to be a simple duplicate manuscript from the large bilingual incantation series Udug-hul. Publishing this fragment has drawn attention to an interesting feature of Mesopotamian incantations, in which the āšipu-exorcist protects himself first, before addressing the patient. Although this practice has been known from Tablet 3 of Udug-hul incantations, it turns out that Assur exorcists occasionally inserted their own names into otherwise anonymous incantations and prayers, in order to ensure their own protection, which is a practice not known from other sites.


Decomposition results of treating eucalyptus-bark with different nitrogen sources and microbial agents were deliberated.A comprehensive evaluation of the decomposition effect of each treatment was conducted by using fuzzy function method.The result indicated that,physical and chemical properties had been greatly improved by composting treatment of eucalyptus-bark.Nine kinds of treatments with the order of the merits of the decomposition effect as,chicken manure +enzyme bacteria,pig manure + enzyme bacteria,pig manure +VT-1000 bacteria,pig manure+EM bacteria,chicken manure +VT-1000 bacteria,chicken manure+EM bacteria,urea+EM bacteria,urea +enzyme bacteria,urea +VT-1000 bacteria.The treatment of chicken manure +enzyme bacteria was the best for decompostion effect of Eucalyptus-bark.The treatment of urea and VT-1000 bacteria was the worst effect of decomposition.


We report on two brothers and one sister with achalasia and alacrimia born to consanguineous unaffected parents. The combination of achalasia and alacrimia may represent an entity different from the triple-A syndrome in showing normal adrenal function.


In the present work, we developed a facile post-treatment approach, namely one-step hot-water soaking, to the fabrication of double-layer and hierarchical TiO2 nanotube arrays (H-TNTAs) comprising a nanoparticle/nanotube hybrid layer and a TiO2 nanowire cap layer for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The nanoparticle/nanotube hybrid structure of the H-TNTA provides enormous specific surface area for sufficient dye attachment and the TiO2 nanowire cap layer serves as a light-scattering layer with increased dye-absorption for superior light harvesting efficiency. This engineered integration makes it possible to control the dye-anchoring, charge transport, charge collection, and light scattering within a photoanode simultaneously. The DSSC based on the well tailored architecture yields an exciting power conversion efficiency of 8.21% under 100 mW cm−2, corresponding to 51% improvement as compared with the cell built on the pristine TNTA (P-TNTA, 5.43%). The efficiency can be further improved to 8.82% when the H-TNTA photoanodes are subjected to an additional TiCl4 treatment.


We develop the rst nontrivial lower bounds on the complexity of online hyperplane and halfspace emptiness queries. Our lower bounds apply to a general class of geometric range query data structures called partition graphs. Informally, a partition graph is a directed acyclic graph that describes a recursive decomposition of space. We show that any partition graph that supports hyperplane emptiness queries implicitly deenes a half-space range query data structure in the Fredman/Yao semigroup arithmetic model, with the same asymptotic space and time bounds. Thus, results of Brr onnimann, Chazelle, and Pach imply that any partition graph of size s that supports hyperplane emptiness queries in time t must satisfy the inequality st d = ((n= log n) d-(d-1)=(d+1)). Using diierent techniques, we improve previous lower bounds for Hopcroft's problem|Given a set of points and hyperplanes, does any hyperplane contain a point?|in dimensions four and higher. Using this ooine result, we show that for online hyperplane emptiness queries, (n d = polylog n) space is required to achieve polylogarithmic query time, and (n (d-1)=d = polylog n) query time is required if only O(n polylog n) space is available. These two lower bounds are optimal up to polylogarithmic factors. For two-dimensional queries, we obtain an optimal continuous tradeoo st 2 = (n 2) between these two extremes. Finally, using a lifting argument, we show that the same lower bounds hold for both ooine and online halfspace emptiness queries in IR d(d+3)=2. 1 Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. Emptiness does not diier from form, and form does not diier from emptiness.


Let G be a plane graph with C the boundary of the outer face and let (L(v) : v ∈ V (G)) be a family of non-empty sets. By an L-coloring of a subgraph J of G we mean a (proper) coloring φ of J such that φ(v) ∈ L(v) for every vertex v of J . Thomassen proved that if v1, v2 ∈ V (C) are adjacent, L(v1) 6= L(v2), |L(v)| ≥ 3 for every v ∈ V (C) \ {v1, v2} and |L(v)| ≥ 5 for every v ∈ V (G) \ V (C), then G has an L-coloring. As one final application in this last part of our series on 5-list-coloring, we derive from all of our theory a far-reaching generalization of Thomassen's theorem, namely the generalization of Thomassen's theorem to arbitrarily many such faces provided that the faces are pairwise distance D apart for some universal constant D > 0. 29 August 2021. email@example.com. Partially supported by NSERC under Discovery Grant No. 2019-04304 and the Canada Research Chairs program. email@example.com. Partially supported by NSF under Grant No. DMS-1202640.


Maintenance of ship hull involves routine tasks during dry-docking that includes inspection, paint stripping, and re-painting. Among those, paint stripping is always seen as harmful for human operators and a time-consuming task. To reduce human risk, cost, and environmental cleanliness, the shipping maintenance industries started using robotic solutions. However, most of such robotic systems cannot operate fully autonomous since it requires human in the loop to monitor the cleaning efficiency. To this end, a novel autonomous self-evaluating hull cleaning robot called Hornbill is presented in this paper. The proposed robot is capable of navigating autonomously on the hull surface and perform water jet blasting to strip off the paint coating. The robot is also enabled with a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) based self-evaluating scheme that benchmarks cleaning efficiency. We evaluated the proposed robot's performance by conducting experimental trials on a metal plate under three different paint coatings. While performing the paint stripping task in every experimental trial, the self-evaluating scheme would generate the heat map that depicts the plate's cleanliness. The results indicate that the proposed self-evaluating system could successfully generate high accurate cleanliness heat maps in all considered scenarios, which simplifies the checkup process for paint inspectors.


The connotation of subjective intent in the crime of financial fraud, together with its standard of proof and the degree of proof, is the key issue in determining whether or not an act of financial fraud has constituted the crime of financial fraud. Varied opinions long existing in the theoretical circle have made the proof work in this regard more difficult, resulting in great discretion with respect to the determination of the crime in judicial practice. This author holds that, for the purposes of handling the crime of financial fraud justly and fairly and getting the proof work out of current predicament, it is therefore necessary to standardize the constitution of the crime in question in the criminal law as well as the judicial application of presumption.


The winding temperature rise of high-speed permanent magnet synchronization motor (HSPMSM) will lead to serious problems such as insulation failure, therefore it is extremely meaningful for real-time perception of winding temperature. According to the idea of model and data dual drive, this paper proposes a kind of improved recursive least square (IRLS) method based on the coordination of recursive least square (RLS) and artificial neural network (ANN). In the case of no additional signal injection, this method can effectively solve the failure problem of RLS under the condition of constant load torque. The winding temperature perception of a 20kW, 100krpm 2 pole 6 slot HSPMSM is simulated, and the simulation results demonstrate that the IRLS can correctly converge and track the temperature change of motor stator winding, and the absolute value of relative error is controlled within 1% after stability.


Cisplatin‐based (CDDP‐based) adjuvant chemotherapy of non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was reported to yield 5–15% improvement in 5‐year survival compared to complete resection alone. The importance of information concerning preselection of good responders has become increasingly evident. The purpose of our study is the establishment of a preselection of good responders for CDDP‐based adjuvant chemotherapy. We investigated protein expressions comparing intensity between parent strains (H69 and PC14 lung cancer cultured cells) and resistant strains against CDDP using 2‐dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2‐DE). Immunohistochemically, we evaluated the relationship between protein expression associated with CDDP‐resistance and the clinical effects of platinum‐based postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy using 126 surgically‐resected NCLC materials. We detected 2 kinds of polypeptides that changed expression levels on 2‐DE gels. The analyses of the amino acid sequence showed that these polypeptides were reticulocalbin (RCN) and glutathione‐S‐transferase‐π (GST‐π). The 2‐DE analysis showed decreased expression in RCN and overexpression in GST‐π with the acquisition of CDDP‐drug resistance. RCN‐transfectant of H69 CDDP‐resistant strain showed intermediate sensitivity between the parent strain and the CDDP‐resistant strain. RCN‐positive cases showed a statistically significant better disease‐free survival only in the cases receiving postoperative platinum‐based adjuvant chemotherapy after curative resection (p = 0.007). In addition, cases that were both RCN‐positive and GST‐π‐negative showed a statistically significantly better outcome (p = 0.0150). In the cases without postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy no relationship between the outcome and these expressions was seen. The evaluation of RCN and GST‐π might provide valuable information concerning postoperatively therapeutic strategy from the standpoint of individualized postoperative therapy. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Abstract In 1968 the streets around the world saw a rise of a mass political movements. Nowadays, 46 years later, a nostalgic revolutionary aura surrounds that time; as since, such is the impression, the street is yet to emerge as a strong political actor or an effective practice of resistance is yet to take form. It seems as if the old ways of resistance have met their end, and new ways have not quite come in place. However, the most recent protests, as this paper aims to show, might have started a new path of resistance at the centre of which is a particular political subjectivity gaining its power from a space of resistance and appearing in a form of a 'crowd'. By looking at the power of the crowd as a particular embodiment or a cross between a political subject and a multitude this paper explores the constituent power of political gatherings by rejecting race, ethnicity, religion, class or gender as their mobilizing force and instead focusing on the power of coming-together (common) in a particular space. The political capacity of such 'common' mobilising force was fully exposed in the recent protests across Europe and the Arab world (the two examples on which this paper draws). The paper opens with a discussion of the distinct relationship between the sovereign (or state) and political subjectivity. The constitutive moment of subjectivity (the self-other relation) is placed in a political context and by drawing on the examples of sans papiers and Bouazizi's act of self-immolation the difficulties of the act of resistance and their inherent and unavoidable violence are highlighted. These two recent acts of resistance expose the need to think political subjectivity otherwise, and point to vistas (the crowd), which can facilitate such a different thinking. By drawing on the constitutive idea of the common as logic of subjectivation the intricate relationship between the body and the political space as manifested in the most recent against austerity and oppressive political regimes protests is interrogated. In the hope of placing the political subject closer to the driving seat of politics a case is made for a rather distinct relationship between political subjectivity of the crowd and the emerging space of resistance. This is a relationship that amounts to a new 'resisting political subjectivity' and that can bring about a new way of engaging with the politics of oppression and begins to think political contestations otherwise.


Abstract Based on learning theory, this study introduces a distinction into three orders (zero, first, second) of path dependence. Applying econometric time series analysis (VAR models), we explore the order of path dependence in firm investment, divestment, and cooperation decisions. An extension to prior research, we not only investigate the order of path dependence for each type of portfolio decision but also investigate the order of path dependence in firms' collective portfolio decision making. Results show differences in the order of path dependence for the three types of portfolio decisions between firms. Moreover, the collective portfolio activities display a different order of path dependence from the analysis of each portfolio activity separately, which indicates substantial interactions among them. In sum, our empirical analyses indicate the need to distinguish between different orders of path dependence and to demonstrate that an organizational activity is not only dependent on its general conditions, as contingency theory argues, nor is it solely dependent on its own history, as classical path dependence theory argues. Instead, an organizational activity is also dependent on the history of related activities.


Product quality is often a principal consideration in consumer decisions, yet there is no systematic treatment of such considerations in the undergraduate microeconomics core. Several recently published articles/ teaching notes address this matter by exploring the logic underlying quality considerations in consumer choice and the efficacy of markets in responding to those choices. This paper provides a brief overview and summary of the main themes of these earlier publications along with issues raised in the review process.


Objective To investigate the expression of MMP-2, MMP-9 and TIMP-1. TIMP-2 during the course of traumatie pro- liferative vitreoretinopathy (tPVR) in rat retina treated with GM6001 and without GM6001 and evaluate the interventiunal effect uf GM6001 on tPVR. Design Experimental study. Participants 108 SD rats. Methods Rats were divided randomly into three groups: the Ns control group, the tPVR group, the tPVR treated with GM6001 group. The expression of MMP-2. MMP-9 and TIMP-1. TIMP-2 in retina was analyzed by Western Blot on day 1, 3. 7, 14, 21 and 28. Main Outcome Measures The expression of MMP-2, MMP-9, TIMP-2, TIMP-1 in the SD rats' retina of every group. Results The results of Western Blot showed that the expression of MMP-2 in the SD rats' retina of the tPVR group was stronger than the one in other groups at day 3, 7, 14, 21 and 28: the tPVR treated with GM6001 group was weaker than the one in the tPVR group at day 14, 21 and 28d. The expression of MMP-9 in the tPVR group was stronger than the one in other groups at all time; the cireumstance of tPVR treated with GM6001 group was weaker than the one in the tPVR group at day 1, 3, 7, 14 and 21. The rate of MMP-2/TIMP-2 of the SD rats" retina in the tPVR group increased at day 14, 21 and 28, and it was lower in the tPVR treated with GM6001 group compared with the tPVR group. The rate of MMP-9/TIMP-1 in the tPVR group increased at all time, and it degraded in the tPVR treated with GM6001 group as compared with the tPVR group. Conclusions The dishalance of MMP-2 and TIMP-2, MMP-9 and TIMP-1 involves with the course of tPVR. GM6001 playes an important role in in- terfering the course of tPVR by regulating the balance of these cell faetors.


Abstract This article examines commonalities and differences between the literary and artistic avant-gardes in Mexico and Peru during the 1920s, as well as instances of direct exchange between Mexican writers and artists and Peruvian exiles in Mexico. It traces the ways in which works of literature and art conceptualized the avant-garde in relation to modernity and/or social justice. Debates around contemporary aesthetics, especially the perspectives of José Carlos Mariátegui and Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, are addressed, as are the Mexican avant-garde movements Estridentismo and ꜟ30-30!.


A new sensitive heat flow calorimeter combined with a hydrogen reactor was developed. Metal-hydrogen reactions can be investigated in the temperature and pressure ranges 243<or=T<or=353K and 1<or=pH2<or=20 MPa, respectively. The calorimeter permits detection of heats of 10 mJ and is suitable for precise measurements of 50 mJ and more in periods of a few seconds up to some 103 s. In its first application the apparatus has been used to determine differential heats of solution of hydrogen in FeTi at 298K.


We introduce a design concept of an optical notch filter (NF) utilizing two perfectly reflecting mirrors and a beam splitter. Based on the new design concept, a photonic crystal (PC)-NF based on the self-collimation phenomenon in a two-dimensional PC is proposed and studied through finite-difference time-domain simulations and experimental measurements in a microwave region. The transmission properties of the self-collimation-based PC-NF were demonstrated to be controlled by adjusting the values of parameters such as the radius of rods in the line-defect beam splitter, distance between the two perfectly reflecting mirrors, and radius of rods on the outermost surface of the perfectly reflecting mirrors. Our results indicate that the proposed design concept could provide a new approach to manipulate light propagation, and the PC-NF could increase the applicability of the self-collimation phenomenon in a PC.


Freezing-resistant plants can survive subzero temperatures by withstanding extracellular ice formation. During cold acclimation, their leaves accumulate antifreeze proteins (AFPs) that are secreted into the apoplast and have the ability to modify the normal growth of ice crystals. Three barley, two wheat and two rye cultivars were grown under two different temperature regimes (20/16 and 5/2, day/night). Apoplastic proteins from winter cereals were separated by SDS-PAGE and detected with antisera to AFPs from winter rye. Apoplastic proteins accumulated to much higher levels in cold-acclimated (CA) leaves compared with nonacclimated (NA) ones in winter cereals. After cold acclimation, the protein concentration of apoplastic extracts increased significantly from 0.088 to 0.448 , with about 5-fold increment. Also, the apoplastic protein content per gram leaf fresh weight in CA leaves ranged from 31 to 120 with an averaged value of 77 , and coefficients of variation of 54.9%. The CA leaves in Musketeer (a Canadian winter rye cultivar) showed the greatest AFPs and antifreeze activity followed by 'Geurumil' (a Korean winter wheat cultivar), and 'Dongbori l' (Korean facultative barley cultivar). The proteins secreted into the wheat leaf apoplast at CA condition were more numerous than those observed in winter rye, where two -1,3-glucanase-like proteins (GLPs), two chitinase-like proteins (CLPs) and two thaumatin-like proteins (TLPs) accumulated during cold acclimation. The proteins in barley leaf apoplast at CA conditions were a little different from those in wheat leaves. The AFPs were various among and within species. More freezing-resistant cultivars had more clear and numerous bands than less freezing-resistant ones. The high determination coefficient ( =91 %) between freezing resistance and AFPs per gram leaf fresh weight indicated that the amount of AFPs was highly related to freezing resistance in winter cereal crops.


An intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) can be helpful in decision-making as a concept to describe uncertainty. This study proposes the application of IFS in determining research topics for students of the mathematics education study program using the normalized Euclidean distance method. This study also shows the differences in the analysis results using the max-min composition method revised by De et al. (2001) with the normalized Hamming distance method and the normalized Euclidean distance method. The results show that the normalized Euclidean distance method can determine student research topics more accurately than other methods because they are careful in looking at distance differences. The normalized Euclidean distance method provides the best distance measure with a high confidence level in terms of accuracy.


This paper is main to analyse the present condition and existent problem of unharmful aquatic farming in our country, and puts forward main measures before production, in production, after production in process of unharmful aquatic farming so as to push the development of the unharmful aquatic farming industry.


A three-dimensional compressible fluid field in the new-style static mixer with two distribute plates was simulated by the CFD software.Adopting the standard equation of turbulent flow model,the change of flow field and pressure drop is obtained.According to pressure drop value of different velocity,the curve of velocity and pressure drop had been drawn.The numerical simulation was in an agreement with the experiment,which showed up the especial law of the fluid and also provided the theory for the engineering experiment.


The application of multi-rate processing to target location is considered in this paper. This technique is shown to refocus the corresponding ambiguity function, giving rise to the possibility of enabling diversity to be used for the benefits of enhancing both accuracy and resolution of a target. Attention is paid to the geolocation of radio frequency (RF) emitters; however, this technique can be applied to either passive or active target location, and in a range of different environments including satellite, airborne and terrestrial intercept. This work extends a former study which had presented the notion of the generalised correlation function (GCF), a technique which readily enables a smeared ambiguity function to be re-focused. An example is provided to illustrate the impact of motion between sensors upon the ambiguity function and the corresponding refocusing, through the use of multi-rate sampling, is presented.


A method for operating a lamp (2) is disclosed. The lamp (2) is provided to provide an emergency lighting with a predetermined emergency starch is available in an emergency operating. In the case of the occurrence of an emergency, the method comprises activating the Notbetriebszustands. Activating the Notbetriebszustands comprises a step of causing the light (2) to emit light with an increased compared to the predetermined emergency starch beginning illuminance. The predetermined emergency lighting intensity through the lamp (2) is taken at a later date.


Aim: To isolate and identify the bacteria and fungi associated with the deterioration of Cocoyam with their respective percentage occurrences. Method: Cocoyam Colocasia esculenta (Taro) corms were obtained from a local barn in Umuahia, Abia State Nigeria and transported aseptically to the laboratory for further microbiological analysis. Sterile knife and forceps were used to obtain spoilt tissues from the cocoyam corms. A portion of the spoilt part of the cocoyam was cut out using the sterile knife and was inoculated into Nutrient agar and MacConkey agar plate for growth of bacteria. Another piece of the cocoyam was placed on potato dextrose agar for growth of fungi. Results: Bacterial isolates such as to Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus, Serratia marcescen and Bacillus subtilis were isolated from the samples. While fungi such as Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, Rhizopus stolonifer and Rhodotorula spp were equally isolated. Staphylococcus aureus had highest number of microbial isolate with total number of 8 (19.0%), follow by Klebsiella pneumonia with microbial isolate of 7 (16.7%), Escherichia coli and Aspergillus niger had 6 microbial isolate with frequency of (14.3%) each respectively, while Serratia marcescens, Rhodotorula spp while Aspergillus flavus had the least microbial isolate of 1 (2.4%). The presence of these organisms are responsible for the deterioration of cocoyam. Conclusion: Microbiological changes takes place during the storage of Cocoyam Colocasia esculenta (Taro). Therefore, there is need for better processing, handling techniques, good hygiene practices, safety and storage of the finished product. Findings obtained may be useful in the handling and storage of Cocoyam flour.


SUMMARY • In • • • A semi-parametric method, Estimated Partial Likelihood(EPL) method, is proposed for the estimation of the relative risk parameters when auxiliary covariates are present. The asymptotic distribution theory is derived for the proposed estimator for the case in which the surrogate or mismeasured covariates are categorical. The asymptotic relative efficiency of the EPL estimator with respect to the fully paramet-ric maximum likelihood analysis and a partial likelihood analysis based on those with true covariates only are examined under the exponential model. The EPL analysis is found to compare favorably with more model-dependent analysis and more efficient than the partial likelihood analysis in most cases of practical importance. Small sam-pIe properties are investigated by simulation studies and a real data example is used to illustrate the EPL method. Doctoral dissertation by Haibo Zhou. The authors thank Ed Davis for the helpful discussion about SOLVD data and comments.


Dynamic behaviors of coupled ring and linear arrays system with nonidentical and autonomous chaotic oscillators are studied numerically. It is found that nonidentical oscillators in bidirectionally coupled ring are successfully synchronized when adaptive update laws are introduced into the coupling terms. Using these as foundation, an elaborate coupled ring and linear arrays system with the adaptive update laws is proposed. Numerically it is shown that the synchronization states are asympotic stable. To compare synchronization velocity for the different oscillators of an identical array and the corresponding oscillators of the different arrays at a given coupling strength, the average distance is calculated. These results show the corresponding oscillators of the different arrays synchronize faster than the different oscillators of an identical array.


An investigation into the regiochemistry of radical functionalization of indoles using cycloalkanes through di-tert-butyl peroxide (DTBP)-promoted C(sp3)–H activation was conducted. A wide range of indoles bearing substituents at different positions was functionalized directly with simple cycloalkanes in moderate to high regioselectivity. 2-, 4- and 7-positions were mainly functionalized.


The aim of this paper is to analyse both in theory and in practice fiscal policy effects on the employment rate. For example, even if taxation is one of the main instruments of fiscal policy of the government in reducing unemployment, high taxes reduce disposable incomes of consumers, which automatically leads to lower consumption and when consumers buy less, increases the odds that the unemployment increase. To highlight this we used the comparison of a dynamic influence of fiscal policy on macroeconomic variables with the empirical results from an identified multidimensional model. Data shows a positive conditional correlation between government expenditures increase and labour force supply.


Ultrasonic treatment of suspensions containing nanoparticles agglomerates can result in both fragmentation and consolidation of the agglomerates. It has been established with experiment that during prolonged ultrasonic impact (intensity of 4-8W/cm2) on oil suspensions of carbon of detonation synthesis there are variations in particle size (consolidation, fragmentation, again significant enlargement). The paper proposes possible mechanisms and provides a mathematical model to describe these processes.


. Dysphagia is a common disability after a stroke. This paper presents the diagnosing, training and surgical treatment of a patient with dysphagia of pharyngeal–oesophageal type after a brain stem infarction. Before the training started the patient had not been able to swallow for 18 months. He was nourished through a Witzel fistula. During his first stay in hospital training was concerned with the physical phase of swallowing. A myotomy of the cricopharyngeal muscle was performed during his second stay in hospital, and after this surgery the patient trained to eat normal food. The third and fourth times he stayed in hospital the psychological and social aspects of eating were focused upon. The patient became able to eat normal food together with others and the Witzel fistula was removed.


The primary purpose of the electromagnetic (EM) design of a dielectric radome is to minimize the degradation of the antenna EM performance caused by the radome. In the EM design phase, a small EM performance deviation from the ideal design value is allowed because the manufacturing tolerance is unavoidable. This letter proposes, based on interval arithmetic (IA), a novel design method for the possible thickness tolerance interval of the radome from the allowable power pattern interval of the antenna-radome system. The design process consists of two steps: The first is to obtain the radome transmission coefficient interval from the allowable power pattern interval; and the second is to obtain the thickness tolerance interval from the transmission coefficient. A 12.5 GHz patch antenna array with a dielectric radome is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the novel IA-based design method.


Processes such as fast pyrolysis of whole biomass or base-catalyzed depolymerization of lignin produce complex mixtures of oxygenated compounds that must be upgraded to be suitable for blending with petroleum and processing in a refinery. Complete removal of these oxygenated compounds is exceedingly energy intensive, and it is likely that upgraded pyrolysis oils will contain up to 2% oxygen content to be economically viable. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the presence of oxygenated chemical components representative of those present in upgraded pyrolysis oil on diesel engine performance and emissions. Engine testing was performed by blending seven different oxygenated components and one multicomponent blend with certification ultralow sulfur diesel fuel and quantifying the performance and emissions from the combustion of these fuels in a four-cylinder, turbocharged, 4.5 L John Deere PowerTech Plus common rail, direct injection diesel engine that meets Tier 3 off-highway emissions ...


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Based on 311 structured interview case data,the study finds that there are 4.63 people about the average of social network size of the aged.And the four factors significantly affect the elderly social network size,including age,living situation,care for children and recreational activities.It indicates that in social network there is no obvious similarity between the elderly and the most intimate persons,who are the elderly's spouse,children and other relatives.They are a strong relationship providing the elderly with more social support.There are new dilemmas for the aged in the one-child family because social network structure changes owing to family scale's reduction.It is urgent to structure social support network of multi-body participation.


Important progress has been made in the assessment of ERFaci for liquid clouds, partly due to advances in the joint use of satellite and modelling data to tackle this problem. More particularly, the retrieval of the droplet number concentration from satellite remote sensing a property closely related to droplet nucleation processes has been extremely helpful to better quantify ERFaci. However, similar estimations for ice clouds have for long suffered from a lack of observational constraint on the ice crystal number concentration (N i ), a challenging task due to the high complexity of the physical processes associated with the nucleation and growth of ice crystals. However, a novel long-term global dataset of N i from active satellite measurements has recently (DARDAR-Nice) opened the door to new observation-based estimates of RFaci for ice clouds.


AIM: To investigate the clinical value of epalrestat combined with compound anisodine in treatment of nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) . • METHODS: According to the random remainder methodꎬ they were divided into Aꎬ B and C three groups. Group A was treated with calcium dobesilateꎬ group B was treated with epalrestatꎬ and group C was treated with epalrestat combined with compound anisodine. All groups were treated for 6mo. The BCVA and fundus color photosꎬ fundus fluorescein angiography ( FFA )ꎬ oscillatory potentials of electroretinogram (ERG Ops) and optical coherence tomography ( OCT ) were performed before and after 1moꎬ 3mo and 6mo of treatment. The therapeutic effect was evaluated. •RESULTS: Before treatmentꎬ there was no statistical difference among the three groups in BCVAꎬ Ops wave amplitude or central macular thickness ( P > 0. 05) . The BCVA was improvedꎬ Ops wave amplitude was increased and the central macular thickness was decreased in the three groups after 1moꎬ 3mo and 6mo of treatment. Compared with the same group before treatmentꎬ there were statistically significant differences ( P < 0. 05) . The improvement of visual acuity at different time and the increase of Ops wave amplitude were better in group B than group Aꎬ better in group C than group Bꎬ while the decrease of central macular thickness was greater in group B than group Aꎬ greater in group C than group B (all P < 0. 05) . The total effective rate among the three groups were significant difference (P<0.05)ꎬ and the total effective rate of group C was better than that of group B and group A (P<0.0167) . • CONCLUSION: Epalrestat combined with compound anisodine is effective in treatment of DR. The combined treatment can significantly improve the visual acuityꎬ relieve macular edema and promote the recovery of retinal function. •


Objective: To evaluate recent publications on efficacy of single-dose azithromycin and 7-day doxycycline when treating Chlamydia trachomatis. Data Sources: A literature search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed, and Cochrane library was conducted (1990 to June 13, 2021) using the terms: Chlamydia trachomatis, genital chlamydia, rectal chlamydia, extragenital chlamydia, azithromycin, doxycycline, and treatment guidelines. ClinicalTrials.gov was searched to identify ongoing trials. Study Selection and Data Extraction: English language studies, including controlled studies, retrospective analyses, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and case reports, reporting microbiological or clinical outcomes in adolescents and adults were considered. Data Synthesis: Systemic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized trials reported azithromycin efficacy of 96% to 97% in genital chlamydia. However, reports of treatment failure have emerged, especially among symptomatic males, with an increased risk of microbiological failure after azithromycin than doxycycline (relative risk = 2.45; 95% CI = 1.36-4.41). Retrospective analyses and prospective observational cohort studies reported lower efficacy range following azithromycin than doxycycline (74%-87% vs 92%-100%, respectively) in rectal chlamydia. First randomized controlled trial comparing azithromycin and doxycycline reported significantly higher microbiological cure following doxycycline, with absolute difference of 26% (95% CI = 16%-36%; P < 0.001). The proposed 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention treatment guidelines designate doxycycline as the preferred agent for treatment at any site. Relevance to Patient Care and Clinical Practice: A growing body of evidence for treatment failure following azithromycin, especially in rectal chlamydia supports updating current practice. Conclusions: Doxycycline continues to achieve high efficacy in genital and rectal chlamydia. Clinicians should consider efficacy with convenience of dosing regimen, medication compliance, and sexual behavior risks when treating chlamydia infections.


The integration of distributed generations at distribution level makes the traditional fault location schemes inappropriate, owing to bidirectional power flows and other challenges. It therefore becomes imperative to develop new and reliable fault identification methods in Active Distribution Network (ADN) in order to automatically isolate and restore the end-user services in a short space of time. To this end, this paper presents a synchrophasor-assisted Tellegen's theorem based fault identification method in ADNs. At first, the two adjoints of the original network are created and their phasor information is stored offline. Next, it is assumed that the distribution-level Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) aka $\mu$PMUs are located at the extreme buses of the actual network that provides the real-time data, and finally, both the off-line and real-time information is utilized to detect the open or short circuit fault in the network. The proposed fault identification method is demonstrated in detail on a simple system, keeping in view the typical ADN characteristics.


Recently, the authors combined the hitherto cascade-of-integrators and cascade-of-resonators /spl Sigma/-/spl Delta/ converter configurations into a single cascade-of-resonators bandpass /spl Sigma/-/spl Delta/ converter. The salient features of the resulting bandpass /spl Sigma/-/spl Delta/ converter configuration is that it leads to the realization of complementary signal and noise transfer functions while permitting the automatic placement of the noise transfer function zeros at real frequencies (i.e. on the unit-circle in the discrete-time z domain). This /spl Sigma/-/spl Delta/ converter configuration consists of one single-bit quantizer and N second-order resonators (N second-order resonators and 1 integrator, respectively), leading to the realization of an even 2N-th (an odd (2N+1)-th, respectively) order bandpass /spl Sigma/-/spl Delta/ converter. This paper is concerned with an investigation and Monte-Carlo simulation of the proposed cascade-of-resonators bandpass /spl Sigma/-/spl Delta/ converter configuration satisfying a practical set of design specifications for a corresponding hardware implementation using the switched-capacitor technology.


Under the economy globalizing and entering WTO of our country, the economic development model has been changed since the end of 20 centuries. The original industry type formed during 40 years before 1990' s of 20 centuries has changed largely, especially at the current time. The effects of the traditional industry such as mineral industry, which were the main factors of industrinization of most countries, are dropping under the introduction of foreign capital at large scale and the use of resources of outdoor and home. For the contribution rate of economic growth, the decline of resource industry has appeared. The characteristic bio-resources exploitation of Panxi is necessary required for the sustained development of the region. It is a way to avoid the trap of traditional mineral resource development. As a ecologic protective screen of Changjiang Basin, the bio-resource industrialized development is a very impotant component part to coordinate regional development and constructing regional creative system. This paper discussed the way and development strategy of characteristic bio-resource industrialized development in Panxi Area.


In case you happen to hear an unpleasant squeak from your shower, then don't assume that you're dealing with a mouse. Most probably it's the shower ...


During the past decade, development of catheter-based techniques for treatment of thoracic aortic and aortic valve pathologies has required that interventionalists focus on the anatomic suitability of vascular access to allow safe introduction of large size devices. Both thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) and transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedures require 20 French and larger sheaths and most of major complications during these procedures have been access related. This chapter reviews transcaval aortic access techniques for delivering large devices during TEVAR and TAVI. Alternative arterial access or adjunctive femoral access techniques that increase the safety of access and reduce the overall procedural risk for patients with challenging access are critically important for the success of TEVAR or TAVI. The procedure involves transcatheter puncture of the abdominal aorta from the inferior vena cava, with delivery of a large vascular sheath and tract closure post device delivery using a nitinol occlusion device.


Estimating the effort behind a software project is the approximation time and resources an engineer need to create a software application. The estimation is one of the most important phase in the developing process to set the cost of project and ultimately to attract the client. In the preliminary stage of a project, the accuracy of estimation is to be extremely precise and dependable, which may not be easy to achieve. Therefore, use of machine learning algorithms is a possible solution for the estimation process on which the decision can be made. In this study, we have analyzed various studies and machine learning trends conducted in this field. Doing this effective reductions in the cost and parameter for the project to be accomplished. Accuracy, root mean and relative absolute errors are used to compute the effort estimation accuracy.


Objective To investigate the breast mucinous carcinoma of the clinical and pathological features,for the treatment of breast mucinous carcinoma of the reference.Methods All patients with mucinous carcinoma of the breast from the clinical manifestations,treatment,histopathological changes,clinical stage,prognosis,etc.were analyzed retrospectively.Results The prevalence of age to 50 years,mainly 40 to 50 years of age,accounting for 48.39%(15 cases),45.16%(14 cases);from the discovery of mass treatment or discharge to the average(32.5±2.8) months;clinical breast mass to account for 64.52%),breast pain(18 cases,accounting for 58.06%),nipple discharge(2 cases,accounting for 6.37%) as the main performance of the upper outer quadrant of the predilection sites;31 cases patients with X-ray shows the performance impact of block;Average tumor diameter(5.5±2.8) cm;Occur axillary lymph node metastasis in 4 cases(12.90%);31 patients were treated by surgery combined with chemotherapy;31 patients mucinous carcinoma in the case of a simple type in 22 cases(70.97%),mixed type in 9 cases(29.03%);Ⅰ a period of 2 cases(6.45%),Ⅰb period of 2 cases(6.45%),a period of 22 cases(accounting for 70.97%),Ⅱb 2 cases(6.45%),Ⅲa period of 1(accounting for 3.23%),Ⅲb 1 case(accounting for 3.23%),Ⅳ 1 case(accounting for 3.23%).Conclusions Breast mucinous carcinoma in the elderly as a risk,slow growth,the transfer rate is low,the upper outer quadrant of a good site,without typical clinical symptoms,pathological type to simple type-based,clinical stage dominated byⅠ a period.


This paper explores some of the ways in which social structures and fantasies organized around race and social class emerge in the intersubjective space created by a patient and a therapist who emigrated from the same country. Incorporating some of his own experiences of identity and otherness, the author discusses, through the lens of his countertransference, how communicating with the patient in their native language allowed for access to early internal object-relations, unconscious threats to his sense of belonging, racialized self-states, and feelings of shame associated to some of these dissociated self-states rooted in historical oppression and trauma. The author suggests that the "country of two" populated by patient and therapist is a dynamic co-created space, that emerges from the dialectic interplay of sameness and difference along the lines of race, social class, and culture.


The main goal of this work is to describe possibilities of the Singular Value Decomposition in the task of arrhythmia recognition. Many approaches try to recognize pathological beats in the time domain, our approach transforms an ECG signal from time to frequency domain, where it is reduced by Singular Value Decomposition. The new feature subspace was classified by three basic algorithms: Support Vector Machine, Linear Discriminant Analysis and Classification tree. The results were compared. Our approach increases the quality of classification and the obtained results are comparable with the results available in literature. The main aim of the proposed solution is to differentiate between physiological and pathological beats such as Premature Ventricular Contraction, Right Bundle Branch Block and Left Bundle Branch Block beats.


We report on the successful creation of nonthermal plasma-synthesized phorphorus and boron co-doped Si nanocrystals (PB:Si NCs) with diameters (DNC) ranging from 2.9 to 7.3 nm. Peak photoluminescence (PL) emission energies for all PB:Si NC diameters are ca. 400–500 meV lower than the excitonic emission values in intrinsic Si NCs, which can be attributed to prevalent donor–acceptor (D–A) transitions within the co-doped system. This D–A transition model is further evidenced by PL lifetimes within the range of 40–80 μs, faster than what is observed for intrinsic Si NCs. By reducing the level of confinement within PB:Si NCs (i.e., DNC > 4 nm), we are able to red-shift the near-infrared (NIR)-emitting D–A transitions to below the band gap of bulk Si (1.12 eV). We quantify the PL quantum yield (PLQY) for a range of DNC and show that the plasma method can achieve reasonably high PLQY values (12% for DNC = 2.9 nm), even without any optimization of the synthesis or surface chemistry. We posit that perfect charge c...


Enabled by advances in data assimilation and the digitization of historical observations, atmospheric reanalysis products that span the entire twentieth century provide valuable gridded data over the sparsely observed high‐latitude Southern Hemisphere. Here austral summer and winter surface pressure trends in three reanalyses are compared to trends in a statistically based pressure reconstruction, trends in atmospheric models without data assimilation, and estimates of uncertainty from the reanalyses. In austral summer during the early twentieth century, the reanalyses underestimate the depth of the circumpolar trough, leading to erroneously high pressure values over the region. Around 1950, a rapid increase in the number of assimilated pressure observations leads to a dramatic reduction in the reanalyses standard error and a spurious drop in the surface pressure. A more likely history of the surface pressure over this region is provided by the reconstruction, which is consistent with the model simulations without data assimilation.


The
assessment of the quality of groundwater in Rapur area of Nellore District has
been carried out with an objective to determine the hydrogeochemical validity.
A total of 30 samples of groundwater were collected from wells occurring in the
study area. The analyzed physicochemical parameters such as pH, electrical
conductivity, total dissolved solids, silica, calcium, magnesium, sodium,
potassium, bicarbonate, carbonate, sulfate, and chloride are used to
characterize the ground-water quality and its suitability for drinking and
irrigational uses. Based on the analytical results, chemical indices like
sodium absorption ratio (SAR), adjusted SAR, percent sodium (Na %), potential
salinity, residual sodium carbonate (RSC), permeability index (PI), chloroalkaline
indices, Kelly's ratio, magnesium ratio and Gibbs ratios have been calculated. Chadha
rectangular and diagram for geochemical classification and hydrochemical
processes of groundwater indicated that most of the waters are Na-Cl and
Ca-Mg-Cl types. The Gibb's plot indicates that the groundwater chemistry of the
study area is mainly controlled by rock-water interaction.


Background and Objectives: Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) are more prone to diabetic
complications and oxygen free radicals are known to contribute to the development of complications of DM.
However, there are conflicting reports regarding antioxidant status in type 2 diabetic patients. The present
cross sectional study was designed to evaluate the serum total antioxidant status (TAS) in type 2 diabetic
patients and age matched control subjects in ABUTH Shika, Zaria.
Subjects and Methods: A total of 281 subjects were recruited for the study. These comprised of 181 type 2
diabetic patients and 100 controls. Fasting blood glucose (FBG) was measured using glucose oxidase method,
glycatedhaemoglobin (GHbA1c) using micro column method and TAS using Mosmann method.
Results: The reference range of TAS is 15.7 – 63.1 mmol/L. The mean value of TAS (33.3 ± 0.5 mmol/L) was
significantly lower (p < 0.05) in diabetic patients than in control subjects (39.4 ± 0.8 mmol/L).On the other
hand the mean values of FBG and GHbA1c in diabetic patients (7.0 ± 0.3 and 8.2 ± 0.2) were significantly
higher (p< 0.05) than corresponding values in controls (4.1 ± 0.8 and 5.0 ±0.1) respectively. The mean values
of TAS were however similar (p > 0.05) among diabetic patients with good and poor glucose control (33.3 ± 0.7
mmol/L versus 32.2 ± 0.7 mmol/L). Also the mean values of TAS were similar (p > 0.05) among diabetic
patients with good and poor GHbA1c control (33.4 ± 0.6 mmol/L versus 33.1 ± 0.6 mmol/L). Similarly, the
mean values of TAS in diabetic patients with complications and those without complications (32.8 ± 0.6 mmol/L
versus 34.4 ± 1.1 mmol/L) were not significantly different (p > 0.05).
Conclusion: These results suggest that type 2 diabetic patients of the study area have low serum level of TAS.


The use of camera systems for traffic monitoring is obvious and already in use for about 20 years. However, most of the cameras are operated locally (similar to an induction loop). It has been shown that the two-dimensional areal data analysis offers new possibilities for the determination of traffic parameters.
These presentations discuss a trajectory based recognition algorithm for atypical event detection in multi object traffic scenes and to obtain area based types of information (e.g. maps of speed patterns, trajectory curvatures or erratic movements). Different views of the same area by more than one camera are necessary, because of the typical limitations of single camera systems, resulting from occlusions by other cars, trees and traffic signs. Furthermore, distributed cooperative multi-camera system (MCS) enables a significant enlargement of the observation area. The fusion of object data from different cameras is done by a multi-target tracking approach. This approach opens up opportunities to identify and specify traffic objects, their location, speed and other characteristic object information. The use of wide baseline stereo methods can improve object detection and the tracking accuracy. An approach, which describes the interaction of traffic objects, will also be presented.


This thesis takes up the problem of syntactic comprehension, or parsing—how an agent (human or machine) with knowledge of a specific language goes about inferring the hierarchical structural relationships underlying a surface string in the language. I take the position that probabilistic models of combining evidential information are cognitively plausible and practically useful for syntactic comprehension. In particular, the thesis applies probabilistic methods in investigating the relationship between word order and psycholinguistic models of comprehension; and in the practical problems of accuracy and efficiency in parsing sentences with syntactic discontinuity.
On the psychological side, the thesis proposes a theory of expectation-based processing difficulty as a consequence of probabilistic syntactic disambiguation: the ease of processing a word during comprehension is determined primarily by the degree to which that word is expected. I identify a class of syntactic phenomena, associated primarily with verb-final clause order, where the predictions of expectation-based processing diverge most sharply from more established locality-based theories of processing difficulty. Using existing probabilistic parsing algorithms and syntactically annotated data sources, I show that the expectation-based theory matches a range of established experimental psycholinguistic results better than locality-based theories. The comparison of probabilistic- and locality-driven processing theories is a crucial area of psycholinguistic research due to its implications for the relationship between linguistic production and comprehension, and more generally for theories of modularity in cognitive science.
The thesis also takes up the problem of probabilistic models for discontinuous constituency, when phrases do not consist of continuous substrings of a sentence. Discontinuity poses a computational challenge in parsing, because it expands the set of possible substructures in a sentence beyond the bound, quadratic in sentence length, on the set of possible continuous constituents. For discontinuous constituency, I investigate the problem of accuracy employing discriminative classifiers organized on principles of syntactic theory and used to introduce discontinuous relationships into otherwise strictly context-free phrase structure trees; and the problem of efficiency in joint inference over both continuous and discontinuous structures, using probabilistic instantiations of mildly context-sensitive grammatical formalisms and factorizing grammatical generalizations into probabilistic components of dominance and linear order.


Fashion is recognized by transience, resulting in its short life cycle, since the constant changes make what was previously considered "fashionable" obsolete (Emidio & Sabione, 2010). In this market, innovate and act before competitors, accelerate the launch of products, reduce design time and the placement of new items on the market is a survival condition (Lipovetsky, 2007). A central factor in the fashion spread is imitation, as this promotes both innovation and obsolescence, forcing producers to set up periodically (Caulkins et al., 2007, Pesendorfer, 1995). The research object is the "modinha", women's clothing that follows media trends, is the copying, with or without changes, to the mass market (Avelar, 2009; Victor, 2007), in this study, "Jose Avelino Street Fair". This fair meets weekly hundreds of manufacturers in a metropolis of northeastern Brazil that has been established as a fashion hub. Thus, it was proposed to identify the process of innovation in companies that make "modinha" in this Fair. The research was conducted through a survey and data were obtained from a questionnaire administered with 78 stallholders. One descriptive and exploratory data analysis was performed. It was found that, contrary to expectation, a considerable formality, with 49 of the 78 respondents with CNPJ; its customers are small retailers ; and their competitors are the stallholders. Regarding the creation of clothes models, the stallholders research in various sources and said imitating models from these sources , but they try to make changes.


Abstract : Thirty two channels of flight data were recorded to validate a mathematical model of an R.A.N. Sea King Mk. 50 helicopter. Described is the calibration procedure used for each channel.


Catechol 1,2-dioxygenase was purified from cells of R. rhodochrous N75 grown at the expense of benzoate and p-toluate as the sole sources of carbon. A single catechol 1,2-dioxygenase was found to be induced with either growth substrate. The enzyme has an estimated M r of 71,000 consisting of two identical subunits. Catechol 1,2-dioxygenase from R. rhodochrous N75 exhibits some unusual properties including: broad substrate specificity, extradiol cleavage activity with 4-methylcatechol and low K m values for halocatechols, suggesting that this enzyme is distinct from other known catechol and chlorocatechol 1,2-dioxygenases.


Significant erosion hazards are associated with the clearing of native forests and the establishment of radiata pine plantations on the granite soils of the bombala district in southern New South Wales. Modified practices involving reserves, minimum disturbance zones, roads, tracks and firebreaks, together with contour windrowing, blade ploughing and contour planting, were evolved to minimise erosion problems.


: This article is a fragment of the experiences developed in master's research with the objective of reflection and on visual arts teaching experiences with adolescents in conflict with the law at the Centro de Internação Feminina (CIF), in Florianópolis, Brasil. This study aims to share knowledge about art in tolhidos spaces of freedom, such as artist, researcher and educator, with the objective of remeaning memories and unique and aesthetic experiences of reclusive adolescents. The connections between the verbal and oral narrative of his experiences, with the development of micropractice with monotypia, cynotipia, photography, painting and drawing are considered as forms of artistic expression and perception of oneself and the context of its reminiscences. In this sense, concepts are sought in the theoretical studies of Almeida (2009), Barbosa (1991), Bergson (2010), Irwin (2013), Baudrillard (2004), Foucault (2014), Eisner (2011), Benjamin (1995), Freire (1996) and Dewey (2012), which address issues related to present research. A/r/tography is used as a hybridization methodology between contextualized narrative and visual language. Two movements are demonstrated: one about the artistic and narrative works on memories and experiences elaborated by adolescents, and the other, in the encounter of experiences, critical reflections, observations and perceptions as an artist-researcher-teacher. In this context, the field research sought to find answers and questions, providing intersections in the construction of new subjectivities and resignifications through visual arts teaching in these non-academic spaces. It was found that the adolescents observed their experiences resignified by artistic processes, providing reconstruction identities, creative expressions, self-esteem and reflect and interpret the works produced and the world itself.


Parallel to the increasingly common use of second generation
antipsychotics, some metabolic side effects started to draw attention,
one of which is weight gain. Weight gain is an important problem
both for general health and psychiatric morbidity. Some patients
appear particularly vulnerable to weight gain with antipsychotic
drugs. Genetic factors are thought to play a role in this vulnerability.
This article aimed to review data obtained in studies about the
association of weight gain and genetic mechanisms.
In this review, literature was retrieved with the use of the
computerized database PubMed up to February 2007. In addition,
?Cukurova Psikiyatri Dizini (Cukurova University Psychiatry Database)
website was also searched for Turkish journals. Keywords used in the
search were ?antipsychotic, genetic, weight? and ?antipsychotic,
polymorphism, weight?.
Data were presented under the main headings of 1) genes involved in
molecular pathways associated with obesity and body weight, 2)
genes that code for receptors modulated by antipsychotic drugs and
for proteins involved in synaptic transmission, 3) genes involved in the
metabolism and bioavailability of antipsychotic medications. Genes
investigated in reviewed studies for the association with weight gain
were as follows: leptin, melanin concentrating hormone, tumor
necrosis factor alpha, brain derived neurotrophic factor, dopamine D1,
D2, D3 and D4 receptors, serotonin 1A, 2A and 2C receptors, serotonin
transporter protein, histamine H1 and H2 receptors, adrenergic
α1a, α2a and s3 receptors, synaptosomal-associated protein-25,
G-protein s3 subunit, and CYP1A2 and CYP2D6 enzymes.
Genetic prediction of antipsychotic drug induced weight gain would
be very valuable for clinicians in order to identify subjects who are at
high risk. Interesting gene variants and chromosomal regions have
emerged from studies conducted thus far. In spite of many limitations
of these studies, some genes with stronger effects can be detected.
To date, the most prominent candidate genes in studies are 5HT2C receptor gene, α2a-adrenergic receptor gene, leptin gene, G-protein s3 subunit gene and SNAP-25 gene.


keyword: ENGLISH-INDONESIAN, TRANSLATION STUDY,  LEAVING HOME ABSTRACT : Some of people say that translation is a complicated subject, but in fact it is not like people think. We must know what should we do first is transferring meaning from  one language into another with equivalent meaning.  The writer chooses a short story entitled Leaving Home by Briony Kiddi?½s and it contains about a woman named Olivia who leaves her country and goes to Indonesia.  The purpose of this translation is to enable people to socialize themselves with  others, this short story is interesting and the story is easy to understand. The method used  in writing this paper is free translation, to face the problem in translating the short story.  After translating a short story, the writer found many problems such as idioms and  situational.


Background: The aim of study was to find out the frequency and clinical outcome in hypertensive disorder of pregnancy (HDP) in a rural tertiary care centre. Hypertensive disorder of pregnancy is a commonest medical disorder which constitutes about 12-22% of all pregnancies and it is a major cause of maternal morbidity as well as mortality world wide.Methods: It is a retrospective hospital-based study to find out the clinical outcome in different hypertensive disorder of pregnancy in a rural tertiary care centre of western Uttar Pradesh.Results: Present study showed the prevalence of HDP was 4.01% among the study population. Most of the patients were primipara ,unbooked and less than 25 years of age. The most common HDP was mild preeclampsia  and HELLP was its commonest  complication.Conclusions: Hypertensive disorder of pregnancy (HDP) is still a major cause of maternal mortality and morbidity. Authors intend to aware the pregnant women regarding high risk factors of pregnancy and motivate them for regular antenatal care so that  complications of  hypertensive disorders can be  managed timely.


Concrete overlays of asphalt pavements (whitetopping) have been successfully used to rehabilitate deteriorated asphalt pavements for roads throughout the United States. Generally, whitetopping has been at least 4-in. thick. A thin overlay is normally considered to be less than 4-in. thick. Concrete whitetopping projects with thickness less than 4 inches have only limited use at this time, and a thickness of 2 inches has never been tried. The key was to find a location for an experimental project where accelerated evaluation was possible. Jim Deters of the Kentucky Ready Mixed Concrete Association fostered a couple of whitetopping projects in Kentucky on city streets with 3.5-in. thickness. Paving began September 21, 1991 and as of June 1992, the project was exposed to continual pounding of truck loads for 38 weeks. The current pavement condition remains excellent.


Abstract Globally, individuals with psychiatric disorders experience an increased risk for homelessness and frequent migration. The present qualitative study used intersectionality and thematic analysis to examine how male and female psychiatric survivors experienced the phenomenon of frequent migration in Canada. The study findings underscored aspects of frequent migration, including negative experiences associated with poverty, as well as increased risks for homelessness and mental health, stigma, and discrimination. The present findings call for bespoken services and programs to address male and female psychiatric survivors' specific needs; thereby alleviating pathways to frequent migrations among psychiatric survivors.


Total Quality Management (TQM) is an approach that seeks to improve quality and performance which will meet or exceed customer expectations. This can be achieved by integrating all quality-related functions and processes throughout the company. TQM looks at the overall quality measures used by a company including managing quality design and development, quality control and maintenance, quality improvement, and quality assurance. TQM takes into account all quality measures taken at all levels and involving all company employees. TQM can be defined as the management of initiatives and procedures that are aimed at achieving the delivery of quality products and services. Prevention costs are associated with the design, implementation and maintenance of the TQM system. They are planned and incurred before actual operation.


We present results from the use of a networked ring buffer in the field of earthquake engineering and collaborative research. The system is used to buffer data, provide an abstraction layer, and act as a central server for live data. It handles and manipulates numeric data, video, audio and text, with a flexible method for handling timestamps and the correlation of disparate data sources. Its addition to the NEES system has significantly increased flexibility, modularity and robustness, with the subsequent authoring of applications that would previously have been impossible.


email@example.com ABSTRACT In this paper we reviewed the importance of the pattern classification and its application. The paper describes the process of character recognition using the Multi Class SVM classifier. The problem of recognition of English handwritten characters is still an active area of research. The support vector machine(SVM) is new learning machine with very good generalization ability. Recent results in pattern recognition have shown SVM (Support vector classifier) often have superior recognition rates in comparison to the other classification methods. The input data is English handwritten characters. The approach works in two steps.


Abstract. The achievement of the political Unification of Italy is related to the emergence of a prolonged conflict between Church and State that was not limited to the confrontation between Pope Pius IX and the Italian government. It was also quite noticeable at the local level. In 1859—1861 Bishops and Archbishops of the Papal States faced the seizure of the papal possessions by the Piedmontese troops and its consequences. The attitude of the Archpastors to these events was caused by various considerations of both general and particular nature. The article is an attempt to systematize and explain the reaction of the Bishops and Archbishops of the Papal States to the change of authority and the policy of the Piedmontese administration regarding these territories in 1859—1861.