The agitation of pulp suspensions in various types of tanks is one of the most common unit operations in a pulp and paper mill. Despite this, there is a lack of basic understanding of the flow behaviour of pulp suspensions under these conditions. Thus, the purpose of this work has been to investigate the impact of fibre si~spension rheology on flow behaviour at low velocities in large-scale, agitated vessels. The study is focused on jet nozzle agitation, which is widely used in the pulp and paper industry due to its favourable equipment and maintenance costs.leam more about agitation in tanks and the parameters that control the process. Theoretical CFD-calculations (Computational Fluid Dynamics), describing the pulp suspension as a Bingham fluid with a measured yield stress, were compared with experimental data of the flow field in an industrial-scale pilot tank equipped with a jet nozzle mixer. The velocity was measured with a sonar doppler velocity meter at four positions in the tank. At three of these points, the velocity meter was fixed in two directions and movable in one. Results from CFD-calculations show good agreement with measured velocities close to the inlet source, i.e. the impeller. The calculated flow field deviates increasingly from the measurements as the distance from the impeller increases. This suggests that a Bingham fluid does not fully describe the rheology of the pulp suspension, probably due to a shear-thinning behaviour. Additional calculations substantiate this assumption. The CFDmodel shows that the yield stress affects the flow field in a dramatic way. A small change in consistency, e.g. by 5 %, will result effect the in a large change in the yield stress of about with 20 %. This change will then result in a change of the volume of the agitated zone, i.e. the "cavern", of 20 70.


Background. Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) is characterized by somatic and behavioral stress symptoms that take place soon after ovulation, reaching a peak near the time of menstruation and disappears on average within 4 days after the start of the bleeding. The presence of the corpus luteum formation would be needed for the presence of symptoms, however, these dynamics luteal phase of hormones associated with PMS is not well known. The anti-müllerian hormone (AMH) is one of the best markers of decline in women's reproductive capacity, and AMH has not been correlated with PMS symptoms. The perception of worsening of PMS symptoms in perimenopause is suggested, with the possibility that with less ovarian reserve (reduction of AMH) there is an exacerbation of PMS during this phase of the woman's reproductive life. Objective: To evaluate the pattern of PMS in women aged over 35 years, and correlate its symptoms to the reduction of AMH. Methods: It was an observational, cross-sectional study with a convenience sample composed of women recruited through local media. The 2-months DRSP questionnaire was used for PMS diagnosis. The participants (N=101) were evaluated in their anthropometric (weight, height, body mass index) and social (parity, educational level, use of oral contraception) profiles. After completing the DRSP questionnaire for 2 months, women returned in the pre-menstrual period for serum collection. Among participants using hormonal contraception, a one-month washout period was requested for serum collection and AMH dosage. AMH was analyzed using an ELISA commercial kit, according the manufacturer's instructions. Statistical analysis was carried out in SPSS version 18.0. Significance level adopted for all analyzes was set at 5%. Results: AMH analysis showed a significant reduction after the age of 35 years, and it was not related to PMS symptoms severity. Physical symptoms in luteal stage were greater in women aged over 35 years, emotional symptoms were equal in both ages. Spearman's analysis showed a positive correlation between ≥ 35years group and a negative correlation between the use of oral contraception with PMS physical symptoms worsening. Conclusion: this study showed that there is no worsening of emotional symptoms among women with PMS after 35 years of age, with a greater physical complaint, that needs further investigation. There is no relation between the physical and emotional symptoms with AMH levels in PMS women.


This paper introduces the background and the trend of the development of intelligent grid. Main tasks,goals and key techniques in the construction of intelligent grid are introduced.The paper also discusses especially the tasks and development direction of relay protection technology on the background of the development of intelligent grid.Information given in the paper has practical guiding significance for intelligent grid construction work.


At present employment is a precious value; because the changes we are experiencing in our society, job search, achieving and maintaining this is considered a process that drags us all life and for which we must be trained.
Often being inserted in the labor market is a way to inclusion in society itself, since many of our activities and organizes both personal and social parameters we do on working hours, economic position. Production is globalized part in terms of the importance of multinational corporations and their ancillary production networks throughout the world. But multinational companies do not employ as many people as it seems is why we must work with the sector looking for new opportunity occupation.
In our country where the good you live is in vogue, it becomes unattainable as unemployment, low wages and job instability, and the unfair implementation of social policies are the causes for social problems develop as crime, malnutrition, etc.
Public policies and private initiatives that create work can be seen filling the gaps of labor inequality, but it is not it is becoming more and more difficult to find a formal job to job and family stability, on the understanding that a head of family cannot assume financial commitments because they do not know the future will happen.
In Ecuador, the labor structure have been undergoing major transformations taking that among the factors that have determined this change can mention the global context of trade and financial liberalization, which our country has been immersed and implementation of radical changes and reforms institutional and legal, among which may be mentioned the process of labor flexibility, wage equalization efforts and reduction strategy of the state.
According to the author Ernesto Peralta "unemployment is one of the social problems caused great concern in today's society. The unemployed, those without employment or occupation, must face difficult situations because they have no income with which to support themselves and their families", so that this social problem raises concerns because each one suffers the consequences the same, so it is necessary and urgent to take measures that lead to the solution, we cannot be alien to this social reality.
In this scenario we should note that according to the results of this research are people engaged in masonry, agriculture, electricity, finished and pasted, the most unemployed who work in construction.
As we mentioned respondents work they are given or find is temporary contract giving them, mentioning that people no longer build much, that few building and that does not cater for all the people who are unemployed in this sector "central park of the city of Loja".
Working with this group of people is vital considering that they have responsibilities to fulfill, that is why the presence of the social worker is basic
in this social problem to get out of their condition of need with self-help them because we are all capable to overcome the current situation, for their own development as a person and then insert it to work in their own community.
In this area the Social Work as a mobilizer of knowledge is the great task to actively participate in social everydayness, build proposals for intervention and run involving capacity building, arranging the inclusion of embedded institutions and individuals that illustrate this need, awareness being necessary for active participation, without our actions as social workers will not have the desired success.


BACKGROUND
Myometrial invasion of endometrial carcinoma is an important prognostic factor because the degree of myometrial invasion is correlated with the rate of lymphnode metastases and of recurrences. The aim of the study was a preoperative evaluation of endometrial carcinoma by Magnetic Resonance (MR).

METHODS
The authors present a prospective study performed on 54 cases of endometrial carcinoma collected at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the University of Trieste (Italy). All the patients were considered as Stage I after hysteroscopy and endocervical curettage. Prior to surgery all the patients underwent MR at the Department of Radiology of the University of Trieste (Italy) in order to evaluate the depth of myometrial invasion. The surgical procedure included total abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and pelvic and lomboaortic lymphadenectomy in high risk cases. Statistical evaluation was performed by Fischer's exact test.

RESULTS
Statistically significant positive correlation was found (p<0.001) between MR staging and surgical staging. The sensitivity reported in our series for distinguishing between superficial disease (Stage IA and IB) and deep myometrial invasion (Stage IC) was 92%.

CONCLUSIONS
Preoperative MR is helpful in selecting patients at high risk of nodal involvement and it is suggested that, although MR is considered an expensive examination, its use should be always considered before surgical treatment of patients with high surgical risk.


In order to achieve on-line inspection on PCB holes,this study extracts the parametric elements during a complete process of image inspection,and establishes an auto optical measuring learning model for the PCB holes auto-inspection based on machine learning model.In practices,using traditional measuring method,a minor initial position error may cause unexpected inspection termination.Therefore,three image measuring algorithms have been developed to overcome this effect.In addition,under Boland C++ environment,the TAutomethodinspection and TAutoinspection classes have been designed using learning model.A measuring software has been developed according to machine learning and auto-inspection execution process.This measuring system is used for the PCB on-line measurement to increase measuring efficiency.This study significantly improves the PCB measuring efficiency,and improves manufacturing quality.It also provides a useful reference for other PCB defect detections.


Address for Correspondence: Dr. A Vijaya Lakshmi. MD, Assistant professor in Anatomy, Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Background: The variable course of the nerves may be the cause of many neuralgic pains of the superior extremity. The knowledge of percentage of variations may help the surgeons in treating the cases of trauma & entrapment neuropathies. Materials and Methods: The present study in 70 upper limbs of 35 human cadavers over a period 1year at the department of Anatomy at Siddhartha medical college and surrounding medical colleges around Vijayawada. The detailed examination of the following nerves that is musculocutaneous, median, ulnar, radial and axillary nerves was done in the arm and following variations were observed. Results: Communication between musculocutaneous and median nerves in eleven limbs. Musculocutaneous nerve was absent in our limbs. Median nerve supplied muscles of front of arm where musculocutaneous nerve was absent in one limb. Musculocutaneous nerve did not pierce coracobrachialis muscle in seven limbs. The Communication between radial and ulnar nerve in one limb. Conclusion: Lesions of communicating nerve may give rise to pattern of weakness that may impose difficulty in diagnosis. So it is important to be aware of the variations that are observed and discussed in our study. Knowledge of these variations is important for neurologists, orthopaedicians and traumatologists as these may give rise to variable clinical picture depending upon the variations present.


In order to meet the goal of doubling wheat yield by 2050, breeders must work to improve breeding program efficiency while also implementing new and improved technologies in order to increase genetic gain. Genomic selection (GS) is an expansion of marker assisted selection which uses a statistical model to estimate all marker effects for an individual simultaneously to determine a genome estimated breeding value (GEBV). Breeders are thus able to select for performance based on GEBVs in the absence of phenotypic data. In wheat, genomic selection has been successfully implemented for a number of key traits including grain yield, grain quality and quantitative disease resistance, such as that for Fusarium head blight. For this review, we focused on the ways to modify genomic selection to maximize prediction accuracy, including prediction model selection, marker density, trait heritability, linkage disequilibrium, the relationship between training and validation sets, population structure, and training set optimization methods. Altogether, the effects of these different factors on the accuracy of predictions should be thoroughly considered for the successful implementation of GS strategies in wheat breeding programs.


The following papers, intended for physicians and biologists not necessarily working in the field of carcinogenesis, are presented in Public Health Reports because of their implications for public health praetitioners. The papers were prepared by members of the Field Studies Area, National Cancer Institute, Public Health Service, and they were given at a combined clinical symposium held at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health on June 10, 1965.


Recent breakthroughs in optical wavefront engineering have opened the possibility of controlling light intensity distribution inside highly scattering medium, but their success is limited by the open geometry of the sample and the difficulty of covering all input modes. Here we demonstrate experimentally an efficient control of energy density distribution inside a strong scattering medium. Instead of the open slab geometry, we fabricate a silicon waveguide that contains scatterers and has reflecting sidewalls. The intensity distribution inside the 2D waveguide is probed from the third dimension. With a careful design of the on-chip coupling waveguide, we can access all the input modes. Such unprecedented control of incident wavefront leads to 10 times enhancement of the total transmission or 50 times suppression. A direct probe of light intensity distribution inside the disordered structure reveals that selective excitation of open channels leads to an energy buildup deep inside the scattering medium, while the excitation of closed channels greatly reduces the penetration depth. Compared to the linear decay for random input fields, the optimized wavefront can produce an intensity profile that is either peaked near the center of the waveguide or decay exponentially with depth. The total energy stored inside the waveguide is increased 3.7 times or decreased 2 times. Since the energy density dictates light-matter interactions inside a scattering system, our results demonstrate the possibility of tailoring optical excitations as well as linear and nonlinear optical processes inside the turbid medium in an on-chip platform.


The classic sandwich structure consists of two thin and stiff face sheets and a thick, lightweight and stiff enough material in between. Although this structure seems optimal, in practice the large differences between the structural properties of the materials in contact create many problems. Moreover, the cost of the existing core materials is very high, pushing towards the selection of the cheap cores. Of course, the final selection of the core material is a compromise between the cost, the weight and also other characteristics of the core such as the impact resistance, fatigue, moisture, etc. To improve the efficiency of the sandwich structures, two innovations are proposed: firstly to use metal skins instead of composite ones and to introduce an intermediate layer between the outer skins and the foam core. This layer should be much stiffer than the core material, lightweight enough and preferably thicker than the face sheet. This intermediate layer allows for the use of very thin face sheets, e.g. metals, and very cheap cores, e.g. polystyrene or polyurethane foams. Furthermore, if a common material is used for the intermediate layer, e.g. wood, the cost will also decrease considerably. In this paper the structural behaviour of this new sandwich concept, together with its impact behaviour, has been studied on the basis of tests performed with impactors dropped from 3.6 m producing impact energy up to 36 J.


The invention provides a polytetrahydrofuran membrane material toughened and modified with a crosslinking sliding graft polymer. The polytetrahydrofuran membrane material is characterized by being prepared from, by mass, 10-20 parts of polytetrahydrofuran, 1-10 parts of the sliding graft polymer and 1-2 parts of a cross-linking agent. According to the polytetrahydrofuran membrane material, the polytetrahydrofuran is taken as the matrix, the sliding graft polymer is taken as flexibilizer, side chain molecules of the sliding graft polymer are subjected to crosslinking with the polytetrahydrofuran, the size of generated crosslinking substances is at the nanometer scale, the crosslinking substances are evenly dispersed in the polytetrahydrofuran matrix, compatibility between the polytetrahydrofuran and the sliding graft polymer can be effectively improved, interface binding power is enhanced, and flexibility of the polytetrahydrofuran is effectively improved.


Balkan post-war animosities involved the osmosis of Cold War cleavages with older regional/nationalist disputes. By providing for deterrence and for the integration of Balkan affairs in a global context, NATO played a major role in discouraging territorial claims between Greece and Turkey on the one hand, and Bulgaria on the other. By the 1970s, the Cold War enemies of the Balkans were firmly on the path of détente. Ironically, NATO was less successful in facilitating a definite reconciliation between its two members, Greece and Turkey, although arguably it also contributed in averting a bilateral clash.


We reported a case of Muir-Torre Syndrome. A 67-year-old man revisited our clinic complaining of two small nodules on his nose. Histological examination revealed sebaceomas. He had two keratoacanthomas at his first visit 18 years ago. Altogether, he had 4 keratoacanthomas, 2 squamous cell carcinomas, 4 sebaceous tumors, 2 benign skin tumors and two colorectal carcinomas during his entire course. The histology of the squamous cell carcinomas was deep invasive and prominent keratosis and its prognosis was good. This case suggested that multiple keratoacanthomas was the possibility of the initial sign of Muir-Torre syndrome. We discussed on the prognosis of squamous cell carcinoma of MuirTorre Syndrome. [Skin Cancer (Japan) 2003; 18: 189-192]


This paper proposes an architecture for forming a parallelization network composed of anonymous web clients - those users anonymously browsing a website. This architecture is layered on conventional HTTP-based web applications to organize their clients as computing nodes in a massively distributed computation. The key technology of this architecture is a dynamic installation mechanism for a media analysis module, and a dual-channel communications protocol established between Anonymous Web Clients and servers in order to distribute work, and to retrieve the computing results. The important feature of this architecture is that the clients are kept anonymous to the server, so the server does not have to keep track of clients' status. This stateless communication architecture enables scalable expansion of the parallelization network's computing power without relying upon a centralized data center. In effect, this allows a web-based video sharing service to offload some of its analysis onto users browsing the sie, in the background, without interrupting a user's browsing experience. This paper also demonstrates an important optimization for performing media analysis within the parallelization network, which takes advantage of video inter and intra-frame pixel color homogeneity. This paper shows several experimental results for clarifying the system's feasibility and effectiveness, by using a prototype system implementation.


A one-pot three-component reaction for the direct conversion of certain alkylhydroxylamine hydrochlorides 8 (alkyl = benzyl, p-methoxybenzyl, benzhydryl, tert-butyl), formaldehyde (9) or an alkyl glyoxylate (10) and bicyclopropylidene (2) to furnish 3-spirocyclopropanated 2-azetidinones 7, 11 has been developed. Microwave heating of mixtures of the three components in the presence of sodium acetate in ethanol for 15–120 min furnished the products 7, 11 in 49–78 % yield (7 examples). A new protocol for the oxidative deprotection of the 3-spirocyclopropanated methyl 1-(p-methoxybenzyl)-2-carboxylate 11b-Me provides the β-lactam building block 17-Me in 90 % yield, and the latter can be reprotected and activated with an N-tert-butoxycarbonyl (Boc) group in 82 % yield. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2006)


Abstract The move toward national standards, national curricula, and national assessments, as well as the rush toward restructuring schools to better meet the needs of diverse student populations, clearly signals changes in the national scene and an appreciation of the roles teachers can fill. Of all of these roles, perhaps the one most central to reform efforts and most difficult to institutionalize is teacher as researcher. In fact, in some of the current calls for reform, this role is seen as a centerpiece of the effort—perhaps even a panacea to what ails individual schools, classrooms, and the learning that takes place in them. The thinking seems to be that if only teachers themselves would do more research, they would be better teachers; students would learn more, better, and faster because their teachers would be able to link research and practice more effectively.


The invention discloses a water and oil repellent finishing agent for fabrics and a preparation method of the finishing agent. The active ingredient of the finishing agent refers to perfluoroalkyl silicone acrylate copolymer. The preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing perfluoroalkyl silicone acrylate, butyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate and hydroxyethyl methylacrylate, initiating free radical emulsion copolymerization by virtue of a water-soluble initiator under the emulsification actions of a nonionic surfactant and an anionic surfactant, thereby obtaining the emulsion type perfluoroalkyl silicone acrylate water and oil repellent finishing agent with high stability for fabrics. The finishing agent is applied for finishing cotton fabrics, and the water and oil repellent effects are obviously improved. The water and oil repellent finishing agent provided by the invention is mild in preparation conditions, simple and convenient in preparation process and suitable for industrial production.


Purpose
The purpose of this study is twofold: first to demonstrate the application of an algorithm using contextual data to ascertain consumer personality traits; and second to explore the factors impacting the relationship between personality traits and advertisement persuasiveness.

Design/methodology/approach
A mixed-method approach that comprises two distinct yet complementary studies. The first uses quantitative methods and is based on a sample of 35,264 retail banking customers. Study 2 explores the findings that emerge from Study 1 using qualitative methods.

Findings
This paper finds that matching consumer personality with congruent advertising messages can lead to more effective consumer persuasion for most personality types. For consumers who exhibit neurotic personality traits, ameliorating perceived risks during purchasing and providing cues for social acceptance and goal attainment are important factors for advertising effectiveness. These factors also had a positive impact on the purchasing behaviour of extroverted consumers.

Research limitations/implications
This research focusses on understanding purchasing behaviour based on the most dominant personality trait. However, people are likely to exhibit a combination of most or even all of the Big Five personality traits.

Practical implications
Building on advances in natural language processing, enabling the identification of personality from language, this study demonstrates the possibility of influencing consumer behaviour by matching machine inferred personality to congruent persuasive advertising. It is one of the few studies to use contextual instead of social media data to capture individual personality. Such data serves to capture an authentic rather than contrived persona. Further, the study identifies the factors that may moderate this relationship and thereby provides an explanation of why some personality traits exhibit differences in purchasing behaviour from those that are anticipated by existing theory.

Originality/value
Although the idea that people are more likely to be responsive to advertising messages that are congruent with their personality type has already been successfully applied by advertising practitioners and documented by advertising scholars, this study extends existing research by identifying the factors that may moderate this relationship and thereby provides an explanation why some personality traits may exhibit differences in purchasing behaviour from those that are anticipated by existing theory.


Compact, flexible synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems have proven their utility on a number of manned and unmanned aircraft. These systems can be even more useful when configured with multiple frequency bands, multiple channels, and/or multi-mode operation. This paper presents the design of a compact, modular, multi-frequency, multi-mode, multi-channel SAR. The modular design increases flexibility, allowing for an arbitrary number of transmit and receive channels, facilitating multiple-input, multiple output (MIMO) operation.


In [2], we have discussed relations between three kinds of analytic sheaves on an analytic space, that is, Q, Q' and Q which are, respectively, the sheaf of germs of holomorphic functions, the sheaf of germs of continuous and weakly holomorphic functions, and the sheaf of germs of weakly holomorphic functions. The present paper is a continuation of [2], § 1 is devoted to a result concerning the product of analytic spaces, which will be used for dealing with an example in § 3. In § 2, we discuss a quasi-normality condition in the case of subvarieties which consist of certain submanifolds; § 3 contains some examples. The notations and terminology of [2] will be used without any specific mention.


A patient with lupus had calcified cerebral infarcts, with partial resolution of the calcification over time. Such reductions in the number and size of calcifications may contribute to an underestimation of the frequency of calcium deposition in cerebral infarcts.


The temperature dependence of the Raman spectra in the temperature range between 298 and 673 K was investigated for polycrystalline monolayer graphene films with defects, such as domain boundaries, synthesized by chemical vapor deposition. The Raman frequencies of G and 2D bands monotonically decrease with increasing temperature. The reversible change in the band frequencies is observed during thermal cycling after the first heating. From the reversible change, the temperature coefficients of G and 2D band frequencies are estimated to be −0.024 and −0.043 cm−1/K, respectively. These values are small compared with those for mechanically exfoliated ones without defect reported previously. Furthermore, the magnitude of the temperature coefficient of the G band decreases with increasing defect density. The smaller temperature coefficients can be explained by the suppression of anharmonic phonon interactions due to the defects.


As a precious textile fiber,the cashmere produced by China Cashmere Goats was the best one around the world.And China Cashmere Goats have become the first-class genetic resources protected.In order to effectively protect the genetic resources,it must be done as a kind of basic work to study and evaluate the main feature of cashmere.Therefore,to detect and study the qualitative traits of cashmere was the major task of protecting China Cashmere Goats.According to the results of the research project "the research on genetic diversity of Chinese Cashmere Goats and fiber traits of the cashmere produced by them",this paper described the general characteristic of fiber traits of cashmere produced by the ewes from the 10 different provinces(different breeds) around the country.The digital information in the results indicated that the fiber average diameter of cashmere produced by China Cashmere Goats distributed between 15.0μm and 16.0μm and the convergent phenomena of fiber average diameter among the different breeds were founded.The main reasons of the convergent phenomena were the genetic correlation between fiber diameter and fiber length or down production and pursuing greedily down production or ignoring the selection of fiber diameter.Finally,this paper suggested that the fiber traits of cashmere must be as the major objects protected of China Cashmere Goat and fixing price according to quality of cashmere could ensure fiber diameter not to increase.This was the basic work of establishing the effective mechanism of protecting genetic resources of cashmere goats in China.


We investigate the decidability of a family of logics mixing difference-logic constraints and unary uninterpreted predicates. The focus is set on logics whose domain of interpretation is R , but the language has a recognizer for integer values. We first establish the decidability of the logic allowing unary uninterpreted predicates, order constraints between real and integer variables, and difference-logic constraints between integer variables. Afterwards, we prove the undecidability of the logic where unary uninterpreted predicates and difference-logic constraints between real variables are allowed.


Fingerprint matching is a key technique in fingerprint identification.A matching approach of fingerprint minutiae is proposed in the paper.In this approach,the orientation graph of the fingerprint is used to determine the optimal matching reference point,and the angle of the fingerprint minutiae is adjusted based on polar coordinates.Experiments show that the speed and precision of the fingerprint recognition are improved effectively.


Abstract Stem cells have the potential to launch a new area of medicine, curing deadly diseases with custom-made tissues and organs. But science and technology may have to take note of regulatory developments, which might impact if, how, and where that hope will be realized. Until now, no data have been available on the influence of national human stem cell research legislation on the technological activity in the field of stem cells. In this contribution, we assess whether legislative framework conditions affect technological activity in this field. Stem cell patent activity (US Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO]/European Patent Office [EPO]) and legislative framework conditions with respect to human stem cell research have been identified and characterized for the period 1997–2003 for 23 countries. For these countries, differences in human stem cell legislation coincide with differences in technological productivity. Where obtaining human stem cells from supernumerary embryos is permitted, higher level...


Primary abdominal pregnancy comprises only 1% of all ectopic pregnancies. In abdominal pregnancies, the gestational sac is usually implanted in the pelvis or liver and vascular regions as high as the mesentery. It is the major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. The potential mortality can be reduced seriously with early diagnosis and treatment. The diagnosis is confirmed using the abdominal criteria of Studdiford. In the early weeks of pregnancy in cases suitable for treatment, results in the laparoscopic surgery group were excellent. In the absence of surgery, systemic or local methotrexate treatment gives very good results.


The traditional leader-follower formation algorithm can realize the formation of multiply robotic fishes, but fails to consider the energy consumption during the formation. In this paper, the energy optimized leader-follower formation algorithm has been investigated to solve this problem. Considering that the acceleration of robotic fish is tightly linked to the motion state and energy consumption, we optimize the corresponding control parameters of the acceleration to reduce energy consumption during the formation via particle swarm algorithm. The whole process has been presented as follows: firstly we realize the formation on the base of the kinematic model with leader-follower formation algorithm; then the energy consumption on the base of dynamical model are derived; finally we seek the optimal control parameters based on the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The dynamics simulation of the energy optimization scheme is conducted to verify the functionality of the proposed energy optimized leader-follower formation algorithm via MATLAB. The optimized results demonstrate that the proposed approach, reducing energy consumption during the formation, is superior to the traditional leader-follower formation algorithm and can reduce energy consumption during the formation. The novelty of the work is that we can reduce the energy consumption during the process of formation by considering the energy consumption, which is a gap in the current research field.


According to article 7 of the Sino-Korean commercial treaty in 1882, the regular steamship line opened between China and Korea. This regular steamship line exerted a potent influence on a field of the Sino-Korean trade. To put it concretely, this regular steamship line not only let China solidify the foundation on economic penetration in Korea, but also played an important role to let Chinese merchants enlarge their commercial power in Korean market. In contrast, the regular steamship line had little influence on Korean merchants. As a result, after opening the regular steamship line, China and Korea headed toward an unequal trade period.


Background: Limited data were available for profiling the COVID-19 in pregnant women and their neonates. This study aimed to investigate the clinico-radiological findings and outcomes in pregnant women with COVID-19 compared to age-matched non-pregnant women, and assess the status of the neonates.

Methods: Clinical and CT data of 21 pregnant and 19 age-matched non-pregnant women with COVID-19 from January 23 to March 4, 2020 were retrospectively reviewed. Four stages of CT images in both groups were analyzed and compared based on the time intervals from symptom onset: stage 1 (0-6 days, n=40), stage 2 (7-9 days, n=27), stage 3 (10-16 days, n=22), and stage 4 (>16, n=28). The clinical features and outcomes of the neonates were also assessed.

Findings: Compared with age-matched non-pregnant women, initial normal temperature (13/21, 62%), leukocytosis (11/21, 52%), elevated neutrophil ratio (18 /21, 86%), and normal lymphocyte count (11/21, 52%) were more frequent in pregnant group. Pure consolidation in lungs was more common at presentation in pregnant cases (P<0·001). Pregnant women progressed with a higher consolidation frequency compared with non-pregnant group in stage 2 (95% vs. 82%, P=0·001). Improvement was identified in stages 3 and 4 for both groups, but consolidation was still more frequent for pregnant women in stage 4 (P<0·001). None of patients developed critical COVID-19 pneumonia or died in either group. Preterm delivery occurred in 6 of 16 (38%) patients. The pregnancy complications included intrauterine distress (n=1) and premature rupture of membrane (n=3). No neonatal asphyxia or death was observed. No infant had clinical COVID-19 pneumonia and pharyngeal swab specimens from 11 of 17 infants were negative for the SARS-CoV-2.

Interpretation: Clinical features were not characteristic in pregnant women who developed relatively more severe COVID-19 pneumonia at presentation with a slower recovery course. Perinatal COVID-19 infection could potentially superimpose the risks of complications upon the mothers and their fetuses. Fortunately, the health status of neonates indicated that there was no evidence of the maternal-to-fetal transmission of COVID-19 in women during late pregnancy.

Funding Statement: This study is funded by Joint fund project of Hubei Health Commission (WJ2019H294), National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFC0109003), and Shanghai Sailing Program (19YF1433100).

Declaration of Interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

Ethics Approval Statement: This study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of the two enrolled centers. The informed consent requirement was waived for this retrospective study.


Dual-nu Support Vector Machine (SVM) is an effective method in pattern recognition and target detection. It offers competitive performance in detection and computation with traditional classifiers. In this paper, we show that the Dual-nu SVM is capable of achieving classification performance for binary classification no worse than other types of Support Vector Machines, including C-SVM and nu-SVM. We investigate the use of Dual-nu SVM in multi-class image recognition using the winnertakes-all rejection strategy. Performance of Dual-nu SVM on a 60,000-element training set and 10,000-element test set handwritten digit recognition problem is analysed.


4077 Background: Cancer immunotherapy has expanded the treatment options for advanced HCC (aHCC). Atezolizumab plus bevacizumab is approved as the standard of care for patients (pts) with aHCC. QL1706 is a novel dual immune checkpoint blockade containing a mixture of anti-PD-1 IgG4 and anti-CTLA4 IgG1 antibodies (Abs). QL1604 is a humanized mAb against PD-1. The anti-PD-1 Ab of QL1706 has the same protein sequence and was produced by using the same single clone selection method with QL1604. Here we report the safety and efficacy results from a Ph Ib/II study of QL1706 or QL1604 plus bevacizumab (beva) as first-line treatment in pts with aHCC. Methods: Eligible pts had histologically or clinically confirmed HCC; had BCLC stage B/C disease and Child-Pugh class A and B liver function; were systemic therapy naive; and were not suitable for radical surgery and/or locoregional therapy, or progressed after surgery and/or locoregional therapy. This study included 3 parts. Part 1 included a safety run-in phase and an expansion phase. Patients were enrolled to receive QL1706 5 mg/kg plus beva 15 mg/kg Q3W. In part 2, pts were randomized to receive QL1604 200 mg or QL1706 5 mg/kg plus beva 15 mg/kg Q3W. In part 3, pts were enrolled to receive QL1706 7.5 mg/kg plus beva 15 mg/kg Q3W. Initiation of part 3 was to be determined based on factorial analysis on the results from parts 1 and 2. Each treatment cycle lasted for 21 days. Treatment continued until disease progression or other discontinuation events. The primary endpoint was safety. Secondary endpoints included efficacy etc. Results: As of data cutoff (18 Nov 2022), 76 pts were enrolled in parts 1 and 2 (QL1706: 50; QL1604: 26). The baseline characteristics were balanced between the 2 groups. A total of 43 (86%) pts and 23 (88.5%) pts in QL1706 and QL1604 groups experienced TRAEs. For both groups (QL1706 vs QL1604), the most common TRAEs were platelet count decreased (26% vs 23.1%); followed by AST increased (22% vs 19.2%). A total of 17 (34%) pts and 10 (38.5%) pts in QL1706 and QL1604 groups experienced Gr≥3 TRAEs. A total of 25 (50%) pts and 5 (19.2%) pts in QL1706 and QL1604 groups experienced irAEs. The most common irAE in the QL1706 group was rash (16%) (vs 3.8% for QL1604). A total of 8 (16%) pts and 6 (23.1%) pts in QL1706 and QL1604 groups experienced TRSAEs. In the efficacy evaluable population, the ORR was 38.3% (18/47) and 15.4% (4/26) in QL1706 and QL1604 groups. The DCR was 74.5% and 69.2% in QL1706 and QL1604 groups. The mPFS was 6.7 months (95% CI: 3.0-11.4) and 5.4 months (95% CI:2.4-8.5) in QL1706 and QL1604 groups. The mOS was not reached. Conclusions: QL1706 5 mg/kg showed comparable safety profile and numerically higher ORR and longer mPFS vs QL1604 when combined with beva as first-line treatment in pts with aHCC. Ph III head-to-head clinical trial to compare QL1706 or anti-PD-1/PD-L1 Ab plus beva in this population has been planned. Clinical trial information: NCT05603039 .


ABSTRACT: Prediction of ship"s and underwater body"s" (submarines, torpedoes and missiles) trajectory is a very important job as far as defense and engineering are concerned. From the defense point of view, details of the trajectory would provide necessary information to the commander for the controllability of the vessel and the armaments it houses, in case of an emergency pertaining to the nation"s safety. On the other hand for an engineer, the trajectory of the vessel and the armaments would provide a lot of information about aspects related to its controllability. This information can be very effective in the successful design, launch and navigation of the vessel and the armaments. Present work focuses on the trajectory prediction of a torpedo using numerical methods. A Japanese type 91 torpedo has been considered here. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations have been carried out in order to estimate the forces and moments acting on the torpedo by inducing harmonic motions. Two cases have been considered here viz. pure sway and pure yaw. The forces and moments have been subjected to harmonic analysis using Fourier series and the hydrodynamic derivatives have been calculated. The derivatives have been used in the Equations of motion and the trajectory of the torpedo at any instant of time has been calculated using an in-house developed MATLAB code.


Application Specific Instructions-set Processors (ASIPs) are needed to handle the future demand of flexible and high performance computation in parallel real-time computing domain. Current ASIP design methodologies are mostly based on the accurate understanding of application source codes. Profilers can automatically analyse source codes and get interesting information from them to aid processor architecture design. Dynamic profilers add extra instructions to source codes and execute to generate basic block execution counts. This is often infeasible in the domain of parallel real-time computing, because of excessive execution time and the difficulty to define typical stimuli in the early architecture design phase. Static methods analyse source codes without executing them and are faster and more accurate than dynamic ones. The static analysis method proposed in this paper is based on polyhedral model. It identifies code segments that execute frequently, or named hot codes. It is usually a small part of the whole code base. This information is provided to the architecture designer as design guide. The hot codes may be implemented using custom function unit to optimize the efficiency of the whole system. A running example is used to illustrate the static method, and the results are compared to dynamic profilers. Same results are achieved by the two analysis methods.


THE INVENTION RELATES TO A METHOD FOR PRODUCING A GAS REDUCTION HOT LOW SULFUR CONTACT GAS REDUCTION HOT OR CARBON MATERIAL CONTAINING SOUFRE1 WITH AGENT IS DESULFURATION3 PARTICLE OXIDE CALCIUM GET CURRENT GAS LOW sULFUR SOUFRE5 AND COMPOSITION OF CALCIUM AS DEPUTY Product 6 THEN RECOVERING sULFUR COMPOSITION OF CALCIUM SULFIDE BY CONTACT7 THE SAME WITH WATER AT A TEMPERATURE LIQUID AND CHAUDE8 A CORRESPONDENT PRESSURE SUFFICIENT TO MAINTAIN WATER VAPOR IN THE SYSTEM.


The authors examine internal migratory flows for the Netherlands. Data are presented by province and municipality and also include natural growth and total population increase statistics. The focus is on the 1990s, with some comparisons with 1981 included. (SUMMARY IN ENG)


Two teams of two raters each rated slides of artists' productions according to descriptive variables on which accord was high. However, raters disagreed in evaluation of merit. Difficulties encountered in making these ratings and their implications for research in aesthetics are discussed.


We review recent advances in IM/DD systems and demonstrate how by exploiting low complexity and novel DSP structures, severely band-limited PAM-4 and OOK signals at 100 Gb/s+ may be implemented in DWDM and single-λ networks. Article not available.


Abstract The study investigates the relationship between the green economy and poverty in South Africa from 1990 to 2017. Data on green economy indicators such as share of clean energy, CO2 emissions, human development index, secondary school enrolment, life expectancy at birth and access to electricity are extracted from United Nations Development Programme database, while data on per capita income and percentage of population living below the poverty line, which is used as the dependent variable, are collected from Statistics South Africa. Based on the statistical properties of the data, the Auto-Regressive Distributed Lags approach is used to analyse the short- and long-run influences of the green economy on poverty reduction in South Africa. The results show that the green economy has more of significant long-run impact than short run. It also shows that share of clean energy, CO2 emissions, human development index, secondary school enrolment, life expectancy at birth and access to electricity are the most important green economy indicators that have a significant impact on poverty reduction, while levels of income appear to have a weak impact. As a result, efforts should be more focused on improving the indicators of the green economy and sustainable development in South Africa if the increasing poverty level in the country is to be restrained.


Capability as a Service for the Digital Enterprise (CaaS) is a European research project for developing a novel Enterprise modeling methodology. For supporting the industrial practice of that methodology, a modelling tool named Capability Design Tool (CDT) has been implemented. This paper summarizes the evaluation procedure carried on with industrial stakeholders from two IT companies to validate the tool acceptance and gather feedback for improvement.


This work presents a novel approach for detecting and classifying melanocytic skin lesions on macroscopic images. We oversegment the skin lesions using superpixels, and classify independently each superpixel as a benign or malignant using local and contextual information. The overall superpixel classification results allow to calculate an index of malignancy or benignity for the skin lesion. Using the proposed approach it is possible to discriminate a malignant from a benign skin lesion by recognizing early signs of malignancy in parts of the segmented skin lesion. The experimental results are promising, and show a potential accuracy of 99.34% on a popular data set, outperforming the current state-of-art methods.


Synchrotron radiation photoemission and ferromagnetic resonace(FMR) measurement have been used to study the interface formation of Co/GaAs(100) as well as the magnetic property of ultrathin Co films.The results show strong interface disruption and reaction between overlayer and substrate at low Co coverage(~0.2nm),At the coverage of 1nm,a stable interface forms.The Ga atoms in bulk GaAs may exchange with Co atoms and diffuse into Co overlayer,while a certain amount of As reacts with Co atoms,forming stable Co-As bonding.These reaction products lie in the narrow region near the interface(0.3—0.4nm).The remanent part of As will segregates on the surface of Co overlayer.Based on a theoretical model,the interface structure and concentration profile are discussed in detail.The FMR result demontrates that the ultrathin Co film consists of good-quality crystals and has a chemical homogeneity.


The incidence of haematologic findings in 150 consecutive untreated patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) and the correlation of haematologic disorders with histologic finding and immune origin of the lymphoma tissue was analysed at the Clinic for Internal Diseases KB -Dr. O. Novosel, bivariant method being used for the last. According to Klel classification low-grade malignancy NHL was diagnosed In 96 patients and high-grade malignancy NHL in 54. According to the immune finding of lymph node, 115 patients had NHL of B-cell (B-NHL), and 35 of T-cell origin (T-NLH). A higher erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was found in 69% of the patients with NHL, anaemia in 64% of the patients and reticuloytosis in 74%. 11% of the patients had trombocytopenia and another 11% had trombocythaemia. Leukopenia was found In 36% of the patients, and lymphoytosls ranged from 2.6 to 4.8 X 109/L in 17% of the patients. Greater number of lymphocytes (> 2.5 X 10/l) is significantly more often found in patients with B-NHl than in those with T-NHl (p < 0.01). lymphopenia (lymphocytes < 1.2 X 109/l) Is significantly more often lound in patients with T-NHl (p < 0.01) and in patients with high-grade malignancy NHL (p < 0.05). The analysis of the varinance showed a statistically significant correlation of lymphocytes total in the peripheral blood with coincident histologic and immune finding of the lymph node (p < 0.02). Conclusion is that the most frequent haematologic disorders are higher ESR, anaemia and reticulocytosis. Greater total number of lymphocytes is more frequent in patients with B-NHL, while lymphopenia is more frequent finding in patients with high-grade malignancy NHL and T-NHL.


The anterior two thirds of the tongue lie in the oral cavity (mobile tongue). The posterior third (base of tongue) is in the oropharynx and the junction between the two is at the insertion of the anterior faucial pillar and the line of the circumvallate papillae. Eighty-five per cent of tumours arise on the lateral border of the oral tongue, 10 to 15% on the ventral surface and 5% or less from the dorsal surface. (21)


In this study, we present methodology for the simultaneous linkage and QTL analysis of six F1 populations resulting from crosses between two wild (resistant) and three cultivated genotypes in potato. We present a protocol to (a) generate one integrated marker linkage map for rather incomplete marker data obtained from multiple populations, (b) map QTLs and quantify their effects in multiple populations, and (c) visualize the results in a comprehensive way. Implications for germplasm characterization and utilization in crop improvement are discussed.


Aiming at the problems of interaction interface existed in domestic roving-spinning system, the relevant studies were carrid out. Based on the method of ergonomics and interaction design, a kind of human-machine interface with modern operation procedure,multi functions and good shape was designed,it strengthened using feeling and operation emotion and improved degree of satisfaction. Finally, the eye tracker device was used as main tool for the verificaiton of the interface, and the comparative study was carried out between the original interface and improved interface, which provides references for the study of roving-spinning unit operation system.


The Status Quo of Inter-parliamentary CooperationAt inter-parliamentary conferences, members of national parliaments (MPs) and Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) meet in an organised and recurrent setting to discuss topics of common interest. The functions of these conferences are to examine decisions taken at the EU level, attempt to counter-balance the decline of national parliamentary sovereignty over EU matters, constitute an institutional expression of political support and opposition, and socialise MPs in order to Europeanise the control exercised at national level and within highly national frameworks.Today, there are various inter-parliamentary settings. Most are organised by the European Parliament and its Directorate for Relations with National Parliaments. This may occur jointly with the parliament of the country holding the European Council presidency. In the case of the Speakers' Conference1 and the meetings between the chairs of committees, however, it is the national parliament of the Member State currently holding the rotating presidency of the Council which is the sole organiser.2As inter-parliamentary cooperation has gained in prominence, however, it has fallen into stalemate-most recently because of disagreements over the institutional design of an inter-parliamentary conference to discuss budgetary policies and other issues covered by the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance (TSCG), or Fiscal Compact.3 On 1 January 2013 the TSCG came into force, but diverging preferences among national parliaments and opposition from the European Parliament around the internal organisation of the conference have hampered the smooth implementation of the treaty's provisions.4Such divergences between MPs and MEPs are not new. Disagreements typically oscillate around general questions of legitimacy, basic issues such as the formal weight to be given to the two parliamentary levels, and around the competences and objectives of such a conference. For instance, it was reported that, during discussions on the Inter-parliamentary conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), set up in 2012, European Parliament initially claimed 54 out of 162 seats.5 And yet, the development of the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the EU (COSAC) suggests that parliaments will not always make use of their participation rights.An analysis of participation rates at the last seven COSAC meetings, from 2009 to 2013, shows a considerable variation across EU Member States.6 These national variations illustrate the-at best-ambiguous interest of national parliamentarians in EU matters. Today, then, it is hardly controversial to note that relations between national parliaments "will not develop into a balanced multilateral interplay including parliaments from all member states on the same footing."7 The number of MPs participating in the Interparliamentary conference on Economic and Financial Governance, that took place on 16 and 17 October 2013, also varied greatly, particularly when the earlier Speakers' Conference had explicitly stated that "the composition and size of each delegation rests upon each Parliament."8Three small Member States (Bulgaria, Luxembourg9 and Slovakia) did not send a single MP to the October TSCG Conference, whereas Lithuania had a large delegation (it was holding the rotating presidency). The German delegation was composed of 11 members of the Bundestag and Bundesrat (coalition negotiations were still ongoing at the time, and the Bundestag had yet to be constituted). France, Poland and Portugal were represented by six MPs each, and Italy sent five.10In short, the stalemate and the developments around the establishment of the TSCG conference again show the European Parliament's reluctance towards such inter-parliamentary conferences, and the repeated failure of national parliaments to be collective players at the EU level. …


1. The relationship between ionic currents and contraction has been investigated in uterine strips of pregnant rat by means of a double sucrose gap apparatus combined with an optical method which permits the measurement of the contraction of the small muscular bundle where potential and current are recorded.


cnbreg fits a maximum-likelihood negative binomial regression model, with canonical parameterization, of depvar on indepvars, where depvar is a non-negative count variable. cnbreg acccepts all of the maximize options, the constraint() option, and all survey options and capabilities documented in [SVY]; including multi-level surveys; poststratification; and BRR, jackknife, and linearization VCE estimators.


Three-phase three-wire shunt active power filter (SAPF) with traditional positive-sequence control can only compensate part of the nonlinear load current harmonics if the PCC voltage changes from balanced to unbalanced condition. Changes of both nonlinear load current harmonic components and equivalent circuit for modular multilevel converter based SAPF (MMC-SAPF) are analyzed in the paper. To solve the problems caused by PCC voltage switches between balanced and unbalanced conditions while MMC-SAPF operating, an adaptive control strategy for MMC-SAPF including the voltage unbalance detection and smoothly switching control on enabling/disabling the negative-sequence strategy is proposed. Simulation and experimental tests validate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme on a downscaled 64V/2kVA apparatus.


The purpose of this descriptive study was to analyze the factors of development of social areas of a small county. It is assumed that investing in social areas is synonymous local development, which is not absent of engaging people in decisions of the county studied. As a main result, it was observed that investment in social areas may result in local development, since that the government plan to interact with the community engaged, is to be seen as a primary way to establish concrete foundations for the implementation of other policies, also important for the effective development of a locality. Key-Words: Public Policy, Development, Municipal Administration, Governance SocialPolicy, Local Power.


The paper is concerned with the study of the major reasons causing the nozzle components wear in diesel engines and effecting fuel economy in internal combustion engines.


We review the evidence pertinent to judging the effectiveness of policies to reduce the use of firearms in crime. One goal is to correct popular misconceptions based on such sources as bumper-strip slogans ("Guns don't kill people, people kill people") and Michael Moore's documentary Bowling for Columbine. A second goal is to describe an evidence-based approach to firearms policy. We conclude that a promising strategy for reducing gun violence is to make guns a legal liability to criminals, a goal that can be furthered through a variety of both regulatory and law-enforcement tactics. Furthermore, while existing "supply side" regulations on gun transfers (what most people mean by "gun control") do not appear to have had much effect, several innovative approaches to shrinking the illicit market are worth serious consideration.


Fatigue crack in most rails take place by rolling contact between wheel and rail in railway industry. Therefore, it is critical to understand the rolling contact phenomena, especially for the three-dimensional situation. In this paper the steady-state rolling contact problem of KTX wheel and rail (UIC60) has been studied with three-dimensional finite element analysis. The variation of contact pressure and contact stresses on rolling contact surface were obtained using the finite element method. The three-dimensional distribution of contact stresses on the contact surface are investigated. Results show that the distribution of shear stress and contact stress (von Mises) on the contact surface varies rapidly as a result of the variation of stick-slip region. The contact stress at the leading edge is greater than at the trailing edge because of stick and slip phenomena.


A recombinant bacterium was obtained,which had high level expression of transglutaminase.A 1224bp of transglutaminase gene fragment from streptomyces mobaraensis was obtained by PCR,and then was inserted into multi-cloning site of pGEX-6p-1 vector.The recombinant plasmid was then transformed into E.coli BL221(DE3) producing the recombinant BL21/pGEX-TGase.GST-TGase fusion protein was induced by IPTG,and the induction conditions were optimized.The fusion protein was absorbed on the Glutathione Sepharose.After cutting the fusion protein by thrombin,TGase can be purified.The result of SDS-PAGE revealed the recombinant protein had a high level expression.


Background Proprioceptive impairments reflected by poor joint position sense have been identified in persons with Low Back Pain (LBP) and thus leading to impaired postural control. Aim To evaluate the postural stability during seven different standing tasks in persons with CLBP compared to persons without LBP. Setting Movement Science Lab. Design Cross-sectional study. Methods and Material A force plate was used to measure the Centre of Pressure (COP) excursion in antero-posterior (A-P) and medial-lateral (M-L) directions in persons with CLBP (n = 20) and normal subjects (n = 20) for 7 different standing tasks with eyes opened and closed. Statistical Analysis Independent t test and Mann - Whitney U test were used based on the normality assumption for comparing the COP excursion between CLBP and normal subjects. Results The CLBP group showed statistically significant increase in COP excursion for normal standing with eyes opened (NSEO) [P = 0.000], normal standing with eyes closed (NSEC) [95% CI = 0.39, 0.66; P = 0.000], tandem standing with eyes opened (TSEO) [P = 0.000], tandem standing with eyes closed (TSEC) [P = 0.000], foam standing with eyes opened (FSEO) [P = 0.0001], foam standing with eyes closed (FSEC) [95% CI = 0.56,1.05; P = 0.000], and one leg standing (OLS) [95% CI = 0.07,0.47; P = 0.010] as compared to normal subjects. Conclusion There was an increase in postural sway among the persons with CLBP compared to that of the normal individuals in all the 7 different standing tasks.


In EU Citizenship, Nationality and Migrant Status: An Ongoing Challenge Kristīne Krūma offers an account of the regulation of nationality at international, EU and national level. Growing global migration and fusion of national identities require revisiting of traditional concepts.


The method of novelty detection is applied to diagnose damage in a simple simulated lumped-parameter mechanical system. It is shown that the system transmissibility provides a sensitive feature for the detection of small stiffness changes. A simple yet successful means of establishing warning levels is demonstrated.


Congenital diaphragmatic hernia almost always is due to a posterolateral defect of the diaphragm, which results from the persistence of the pleuroperitonal canal on foramen of Bochdalek. The hernia usually is on the left side. Displacement of abdominal organs, including bowel, liver, and/or spleen, into the chest results in mediastinal shift toward the opposite side and in homolateral or bilateral lung hypoplasia.
 In patients who have congenital diaphragmatic hernia, oxygenation in the neonatal period may be limited by severe lung hypoplasia as well as by pulmonary hypertension, which may result from decreased pulmonary vascular bed, pulmonary arteriolar muscular hypertrophy, and increased thromboxane production.


With the development of analysis method of TCM,The TCM fingerprint is not only a kind of technique for TCM quality control,but also one of the strategic subjects.This paper introduces all kinds of the analysis methods of TCM Fingerprint.


Abstract Nglanggeran ancient volcano is the main tourist attraction in Gunungkidul regency, which the number of the visitor is quite high. Guidance need to organize the manner of the tourist. In order to maintain the ancient volcano preservation on the future. Tourist code of conduct is one of the tourist attraction environment. The purposes of this reseach was to analyze of the strategy, which have done by the eco-tourism administrator area of the nglanggeran ancient volcano, in applying of the tourist codes of conduct towards tourist behavior. This reseach was conducted through qualitative descriptive method, along with participant observation, interview, and documentation as data for instruments collection. The result of this research was the ecotourism administrator area which has already applayed the tourism codes of conduct to the tourist and impact on the changes of the tourist attitude to pay more attention to the environment.


Educational aims To explain the clinically relevant molecular pathways in lung cancer. To understand the basic principles of tests useful for targeted therapies. To present a basis for current treatment approaches.


Abstract : The Zoll PD2000 is a portable cardiac monitor, defibrillator and pacemaker that offers synchronized defibrillation, electrocardiogram monitoring, noninvasive temporary pacing and advisory capability. The Power Charger is designed to allow the PD2000 to be powered from a 120VAC/60 Hz source. Additionally, the PD2000 can receive power via a rechargeable 12 Volt Seal Lead-Acid battery pack. The Zoll PD2OOO is a portable cardiac monitor, defibrillator and pacemaker that offers synchronized defibrillation, electrocardiogram monitoring, noninvasive temporary pacing and advisory capability. The Power Charger is designed to allow the PD2OOO to be powered from a l2OVAC/6O Hz source. Additionally, the PD2OOO can receive power via a rechargeable 12 Volt Seal Lead-Acid battery pack.


While health care professionals are aware of the contributions to quality care made by nuclear medicine, most are more familiar with the role of imaging than with radioimmunoassay (RIA). In 1960, Berson and Yalow introduced an immunologic method of measuring plasma insulin in humans using RIA. This led to a Nobel Prize for both investigators. Many RIA procedures have been developed since then which allow clinicians to quantitatively measure peptide hormones in serum and plasma samples. Today, RIA techniques have greatly advanced and assays are available for drugs, tumor associated antigens, and many other compounds. With the introduction of monoclonal antibodies, the assay of a number of specific tumor markers was possible. The clinical value of any assay, including tumor markers, depends on sensitivity, specificity, and whether progression of disease is reflected. Until recently, tumor markers played a minor role in monitoring the progression of a variety of malignancies. Of tumor markers commonly used, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) was used most widely. CEA is only useful in patients whose tumors produce high levels of antigen ( 1 ). These tumors are most commonly of endodermal origin. Elevated serum levels of CEA are often found even after the completion of radiotherapy. In addition to CEA, new tumor markers PSA (prostatic specific antigen), CA-125, CA 19-9, and CA 15-3 have proven quite helpful if disease persists. One of five deaths in this country is attributable to some form of cancer (2). Common cancers are stomach, lung, breast, colorectal, and cervical (3). Tumor markers specific for these cancel'S have been developed. Success in treatment depends largely on early detection and treatment. The highly specific and sensitive tumor markers for a particular malig-


Polarization analysis for reflection waves from a circularly polarized (CP) reflectarray unit element is studied in detail in this work. Characteristic mode analysis is adopted to analyze the wave excitation and reflection waves. It's found that the polarization of the reflected waves depends on the polarization of the incident waves, and a CP reflection wave or a linearly polarized (LP) reflection wave can be achieved with a properly oriented LP incident wave. Moreover, it is also found that when a CP wave is incident on a CP element, it has LP reflection waves at the CP frequency of the unit element.


Acne scar is formed in teen and early adult life. Several treatment options such as chemical peeling, punch excision, fillers and laser resurfacing. We used fractional LIFTRON RF system which delivers radio frequency energy via needles in the disposable applicator tip in 15 patients with age range of 20-40 years old, the treatment used for 4 sessions with one month interval. Photographic documents before and after sessions were taken and punch biopsy were taken from 5 patients. Improvement occurred 30%-70%, without any complications as erythema, keloid or hyperpigmentation as occurred with other methods of treatment. The important point is that patients returned back to work after 2 days.


Infertility in men is currently increasing and, if this trend continues, may become a major problem in the 21st Century. This review describes the discovery and potential physiological role of a novel peptide, fertilization promoting peptide (FPP). This peptide is structurally similar to thyrotrophin-releasing hormone (TRH) and is found in high concentrations in the prostate gland and semen of mammals. Substantial amounts are also present in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland. Physiological concentrations of FPP cause a marked increase in the fertilising ability of mouse epididymal spermatozoa as assessed by in vitro fertilisation and the chlortetracycline (CTC) fluorescence assay. In the future, FPP may provide a new therapy for some cases of unexplained male infertility.


We present ab initio many-body calculations of the optical absorption in bulk graphite, graphene and bilayer of graphene. Electron-hole interaction is included solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation on top of a GW quasiparticle electronic structure. For all three systems, we observe strong excitonic effects at high energy, well beyond the continuum of $\pi \to \pi^*$ transitions. In graphite, these affect the onset of $\sigma \to \sigma^*$ transitions. In graphene, we predict an excitonic resonance at 9 eV arising from a background continuum of dipole forbidden transitions. In the graphene bilayer, the resonance is slightly shifted to 9.8 eV. Our results for graphite are in good agreement with experiments.


Anoplosyllinae possesses palps basally fused, without central surcus, three antennae, and two pairs of tentacular cirri, pharynx straight, short and unarmed. Antennae, tentaculars cirri, and first dorsal cirri smooth, the rest can be smooth or semiarticulate. Eusyllinae possesses palps fused, partially or free, nuchal organs often large, distinct, one or two pairs of tentacular cirri, dorsal cirri variable in length, usually smooth, ventral cirri present, pharynx usually straight, with teeth or unarmed. The objective of this study was to check type and non-type material of the species recorded from the Grand Caribbean. One hundred and eighty six specimens were examined; 135 collected from the Mexican Caribbean, and 51 deposited in museums; in total 9 genera and 17 species of both subfamilies were examined. Type material included Odontosyllis luminosa San Martin, 1990; Opisthodonta luquei (San Martin, 1990); Perkinsyllis spinisetosa (San Martin, 1990); Syllides caribica Licher, 1996; S. gomezi Sail Martin, 1990, and S. papillosa Hartmann-Schroder, 1960. Non-type specimens included Amblyosyllis algefnae Viguier, 1886; A. dorsigera Claparede, 1864; A. madeirensis Langerhans, 1879; Eusyllis kupfferi Langerhans, 1879; Odontosyllis detecta Augener, 1913; O. fulgurans (Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1883); Sinmerosyllis lamelligera (Saint-Joseph, 1886); Syllides edentulus Claparede, 1868; S. fulvus (Marion y Bobretzky, 1875, and Westheidesyllis gesae (Perkins, 1981).


Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are substances which were proved to be harmful for the human health. People are spending about 90% of their time indoors where these chemicals are present in high concentrations [1]. Among VOCs, formaldehyde is a major pollutant due to multiple indoor pollution sources (furniture, paintings, etc.) and high degree of toxicity being classified internationally as carcinogenic. Starting from the necessity of real time measurement of formaldehyde concentration, a device has already been developed by both ICPEES and In'AirSolutions in Strasbourg [2] which was proved to be sensitive and portable. The analyzer works following three main stages. In the first stage, an annular two-phase flow is established in order to trap gaseous formaldehyde into an aqueous solution containing a chemical reagent. In the second stage, the kinetics of the reaction between formaldehyde and reagent are accelerated inside an oven at a specific temperature. Resulted chemical reaction product is a fluorescent compound and its concentration is measured inside a fluorescent cell, in the third stage of the process. Separation techniques using two-phase flows in micro-and mini-channels turned to be much more interesting since the increasing scientific interest in the fields of microfluidics and microfabrication techniques registered a consistent advancement. Among all applications of microfluidic separation, utilization of this technique for identification of air pollutant concentrations is very important due to its high miniaturization potential. For being capable of promoting merchandisable micro-separation systems, it is necessary to develop microsystems working in stabilized and reproducible conditions. This work is part of a common effort for improving and miniaturizing the capabilities of this existing formaldehyde analyzer to integrate it into a real time miniaturized, ultra-portable, autonomous and reliable formaldehyde measurement system. More precisely, two areas for improvement have been identified. On one hand, a new approach for improving the uptake yield of the gaseous formaldehyde has to be proposed in order to diminish the response time and the liquid reagent consumption. On the other hand, the current fluorescent


The purpose of this study is to identify the factors influencing employee retention among lecturers at Kolej University PolyTech Mara. The factors that been investigated in this study are training and development, compensation and benefit, and leadership. This study involved survey of the lecturers at Kolej PolyTech Mara,
Kuala Lumpur. A total of 120 questionnaires were distributed to the respondents and 114 questionnaires were returned and useable. The data was analysed by "Statistical Package for Social Science" (SPSS Window) Version 22.0. Correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to analyse the data. The findings found that there were relationship between the independent variables (training and development,
compensation and benefit, and leadership) and the dependent variable (employee retention). The regression result indicated there were positive and significant relationships between training and development, compensation and benefit, and
leadership with employee retention. This study also found the most dominant factor that influence the job retention and the factor was compensation and benefits.


The present study sought to highlight the importance of protection against electric discharges to a school in the public school of the city of Manaus-AM, based on the basic recommendations and guidelines for making decisions presented in the elaboration of a ADPS proposal. The methodology of the work was based on the collection of information on the subject from the theoretical-bibliographic research, as well as the accomplishment of the field research in the school through the technical visits for data collection. The results of the research were presented in the technical verification report of the ADPS need at school, so the study carried out a detailed study on the protection risk management, the analysis of the risk components to the atmospheric discharges, general risk assessment, evaluation the design of the protection system. Based on the report, the research presented the appropriate recommendations to assist school management in decision making, considering the importance of protecting the public heritage from the damages caused by the atmospheric discharges.


Purpose : To analyse and compare the clinical effects and safety of capecitabine and tegafur/gimeracil/oteracil (S-1) in the treatment of advanced breast carcinoma. Methods : Eighty-four metastatic breast cancer elderly patients for whom first or second-line treatment had failed, were selected from among those admitted to the oncology ward of Binjiang People's Hospital, China between January 2014 and June 2015. They were randomly divided into S-1 group (n =41) and capecitabine group (n = 41) and received varying doses of those drugs  according to body surface area. Clinical effects, progression-free survival, and incidence of adverse reactions were compared for the two groups following treatment. Results : Disease control rate (CR) in S-1 group was 55.6 %, much higher than 35.1 % observed for capecitabine group (p 0.05). Furthermore, some adverse reactions such as myelosuppression and lack of strength, did not differ significantly between the two groups (p > 0.05), whereas others, including leukopenia, nausea and vomiting and hand-foot syndrome were more serious and frequent in capecitabine group than in S-1 group (p < 0.05). Conclusion : Monotherapy with S-1 is more effective than that with capecitabine. Adverse reactions are minimal for both drugs. Keywords : Breast carcinoma, Capecitabine, S-1, Adverse reactions,  Myelosuppression, Leukopenia, Hand-foot syndrome


The rotating shadowband spectroradiometer (RSS) implements the same automated shadowbanding technique used by the multi-filter rotating shadowband radiometer. Like the multi-filter rotating shadowband radiometer, it provides simultaneous spectrally-resolved, direct-normal, diffuse-horizontal, and total-horizontal irradiance measurements (see Figure 1) and can be calibrated in situ using the Langley regression. Calibrated bi-weekly with external lamp calibrators traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology radiometric scale, the accuracy of irradiance data produced by the RSS is expected to be better than ±5% at all pixels in 360_nm-1050_nm spectral range, including calibration and instrument stability errors. Higher accuracy can be obtained when responsivity is tied to the solar extraterrestrial irradiance via Langley regression. The calibration constant from Langley regression (or Vo's) are available from intensive operational period (IOP) Archives. This approach is recommended when high precision (±0.01) measurements of optical depths are required (see Figure 2).


For helping the internal coaches and skiers understand how to select new type of ski,improving the skiers' result and athletic ability,on the basis of alpine skiing training practice with referring to plentiful overseas information,the paper analyzes the new technique application and some new game rules change of FIS about alpine skiing gear in these years.


Background Metabolic and behavioral adaptations to caloric restriction (CR) in free-living conditions have not yet been objectively measured. Methodology and Principal Findings Forty-eight (36.8±1.0 y), overweight (BMI 27.8±0.7 kg/m2) participants were randomized to four groups for 6-months; Control: energy intake at 100% of energy requirements; CR: 25% calorie restriction; CR+EX: 12.5% CR plus 12.5% increase in energy expenditure by structured exercise; LCD: low calorie diet (890 kcal/d) until 15% weight reduction followed by weight maintenance. Body composition (DXA) and total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) over 14-days by doubly labeled water (DLW) and activity related energy activity (AREE) were measured after 3 (M3) and 6 (M6) months of intervention. Weight changes at M6 were −1.0±1.1% (Control), −10.4±0.9% (CR), −10.0±0.8% (CR+EX) and −13.9±0.8% (LCD). At M3, absolute TDEE was significantly reduced in CR (−454±76 kcal/d) and LCD (−633±66 kcal/d) but not in CR+EX or controls. At M6 the reduction in TDEE remained lower than baseline in CR (−316±118 kcal/d) and LCD (−389±124 kcal/d) but reached significance only when CR and LCD were combined (−351±83 kcal/d). In response to caloric restriction (CR/LCD combined), TDEE adjusted for body composition, was significantly lower by −431±51 and −240±83 kcal/d at M3 and M6, respectively, indicating a metabolic adaptation. Likewise, physical activity (TDEE adjusted for sleeping metabolic rate) was significantly reduced from baseline at both time points. For control and CR+EX, adjusted TDEE (body composition or sleeping metabolic rate) was not changed at either M3 or M6. Conclusions For the first time we show that in free-living conditions, CR results in a metabolic adaptation and a behavioral adaptation with decreased physical activity levels. These data also suggest potential mechanisms by which CR causes large inter-individual variability in the rates of weight loss and how exercise may influence weight loss and weight loss maintenance. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00099151


A Computational Approach to Mental Models Matthew Ventura(firstname.lastname@example.com) Department of Psychology/ Institute for Intelligent Systems, 365 Innovation Drive Memphis, TN 38152-3115 USA Sidney D'Mello (email@example.com) Department of Mathematical Science/ Institute for Intelligent Systems, 365 Innovation Drive Memphis, TN 38152-3115 USA Art Graesser(email@example.com) Department of Psychology/ Institute for Intelligent Systems, 365 Innovation Drive Memphis, TN 38152-3115 USA Barsalou's (1999) perceptual symbol system. This distinction could be seen as a formalization of the "what" and "where" system of Landau and Jackendoff (1993). The "what" system handles object meaning and the "where" system handles the spatial orientations of objects in space. The purpose of this paper is to show how a simple coordinate system can generate inferences about where objects are located on a wide variety of spatial reasoning problems without extensive rules. Abstract This paper outlines the Mental Model Algorithm (MMA), a model of spatial reasoning that uses a coordinate based representation to specify the spatial relations between objects. Based on humans' performance on undetermined spatial reasoning problems, the MMA predicted preferences in the resolutions of undetermined positions of shapes. Additionally, the MMA is proposed to be a simpler and more scalable algorithm than propositional calculus models in that only a small set of rules are required to generate spatial inferences. Mental models and Propositional calculus Introduction Spatial comprehension in discourse can be claimed to require a construction process: John is to the left of Mary, Mary is to the left of Steve, that generates inferences such as John is to the left of Steve (Graesser, Singer, & Trabasso, 1994). In this construction process an important component consists of constructing mental models that arguably are generated from analog-based representations (Johnson- Laird, 1983; Johnson-Laird & Byrne, 1991). This theory has traditionally been contrasted with context-free propositional calculus (PC) models. The PC models stipulate that humans construct mental propositions by context-free formal rules of inference that apply to explicit assertions and that derive conclusions that are not sensitive to an argument's content (Hagert, 1985; Pylyshyn, 1981; Rips, 1986). PC models have formally been applied to the generation of spatial inferences but fail to make predictions of human spatial reasoning that are compatible with mental models (for a review, see McNAmara, Miller, & Bransford, 1996). Nevertheless a formal algorithm for mental models needs to be specified to advance theory development and experimentation on mental models. In creating such an algorithm, it is assumed that mental models are neither proposition lists nor detailed images, but a hybrid of symbolic representations that get instantiated in a formalized coordinate space (Johnson-Laird, 1983), much like Byrne and Johnson-Laird (1989) gave evidence that mental models predict difficulty for certain spatial reasoning problems. Consider problem 1. A is to the left of B. C is to the left of B. D is below B. E is below C. What is the relationship between D and E? In this problem two mental models can be constructed: (a) A C E B D (b) C A E B D Figure 1: Two mental models for problem 1. The mental model theory predicted difficulty with this problem since there is indeterminacy with A and C. Since there then are two alternative models that can be constructed, humans have more difficulty with this type of problem. A PC model does not make this prediction since a conflict with A and C does not affect the inference question (Byrne & Johnson-Laird, 1989).


In order to solve the problem of mechanical vibration monitoring, a mechanical vibration monitoring system based on wireless sensor network was designed.First, the requirements of the hardware of the wireless rotating mechanical vibration monitoring system were analyzed. The monitoring node and base station node were designed.Then, based on the VisualBasic6.0 development tool, a software for monitoring the vibration of rotating machinery was designed. It had the functions of command control, data waveform display, and network topology display.In the mode of wireless mechanical vibration monitoring, the organization mode of the network, the transmission mode of data and the corresponding packet transmission format were improved.Finally, the reliable transmission of the data was verified. Compared with the traditional cable vibration sensor, the performance of the monitoring system was verified.The results showed that the wireless vibration monitoring system designed in this paper met the requirements for the monitoring of the vibration state of the rotating machinery.


Numerical simulation models are increasingly used to estimate greenhouse gas emissions at site to regional / national scale and are outlined as the most advanced methodology (Tier 3) in the framework of UNFCCC reporting. Process-based models incorporate the major processes of the carbon and nitrogen cycle of terrestrial ecosystems and are thus thought to be widely applicable at various spatial scales. Regional inventories require high spatial resolution input data on soil properties, climate drivers and management information. The acceptance of model based inventory calculations depends on the assessment of the inventory's uncertainty (model structure, initial condition data and parameter induced uncertainties).


The amino acid sequence and the folding motif are essential in determining the protein folding mechanism. The interplay between energetic (sequence-dependent) and topological (motif dependent) frustrations is investigated for two model beta-barrel proteins of the same native fold but with different interaction Hamiltonians. The nature of the folding transition state ensemble for both models is probed. The extent of structure in the transition state is determined by performing point mutations and recording their effect on the stability of the transition state through their φ values. The transition state shows more structural heterogeneity for the more frustrated sequence, a reflection of the increased roughness of the funneled energy landscape which restricts the number of pathways to the native state. The validity of the φ-analysis approach was assessed to be critically dependent on the degree of frustration of the model. The interpretation of φ values as a measure of the structure of the transition state...


In this paper, a rasorber with broadband absorption response is presented. The absorption band is located below the transmission window, and a good absorptivity is achieved. Cross-frame and cross-slot FSSs are employed to fulfill the desired rasorber performance. Tri-resonant behavior is obtained by the lossy cross-frame array and used to consume the wide-band incident power. Furthermore, a stable absorption performance is achieved until 50° incident angle. The current distribution and simulated results are given to illustrate the operating mechanism of the presented design.


:Omentin-1 has been identified as an interesting novel adipokine that may modulate the action of insulin. Serum omentin-1 levels were associated with endothelial dysfunc-tion and cardiovascular diseases, which highly contribute to morbidity mm but the CDI and central hypogonadism case illustrates the diagnostic challenge in a patient presenting with CDI, given a pituitary biopsy with histological features mimicking LIH and an inconclusive bone biopsy. However, a diagnosis of LIH would not explain for the unusual bone lesion in a young man, and bone biopsies can be prone to crush artifacts limiting analysis. The importance of actively looking for and biopsying extracranial lesions before biopsying the pituitary cannot be under-stated as the latter entails risks of hypopituitarism and visual defect, as had happened to our patient. When clinical and pathologic findings do not match, communication with the pathologist for histological review had been essential in establishing the diagnosis of LCH.


ABSTRACT Investigating expectant mothers' pregnancy in Taiwan, this paper examines prenatal ultrasound as an ongoing invention of its users in general and pregnant women in particular. Instead of being passive consumers, pregnant women actively invent and reconfigure prenatal ultrasound using flexible interpretation and strategic reinscription. There is an inevitably ambivalent technological experience of prenatal ultrasound across cultures. Whereas pregnant women are pleased and reassured to see their babies 'on the screen,' my analysis shows that, prenatal ultrasound as a passive diagnostic tool that cannot offer active treatment, and the fact that prenatal ultrasound helps to make up morality surrounding pregnancy, constitutes the main source of mothers-to-be's negative technological experiences of prenatal ultrasound. Whereas prenatal ultrasound has been regarded as an indispensable and authoritative method of keeping users informed, adopting a hybrid approach, pregnant women still actively refer to local knowledge to understand their pregnancy.


the psychologist more effective, and avoids having the family puzzled by superficially conflicting views and explanations among the professionals. Perhaps the greatest concern of parents when told of the need for psychologic testing is that they will not appropriately prepare the child, and therefore his test responses may not be truly representative. They fear that if their child &dquo;fails&dquo; the test he will be forever stigmatized by the &dquo;poor&dquo; performance. This is a particularly relevant worry of parents who are facing the prospect that their child is mentally retarded or learning disabled. Parents, therefore, should be made to understand in advance that the testing is not


The invention relates to the utilization of benzazepine-N-acetic acid derivatives which contain an oxogroup in addition to the nitrogen atom in the alpha position and which are substituted in the third position by a 1-(carboxyalkyl)-cyclopentyl-carbonyl-amino radical and to their salts and biolabile esters for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of heart damages caused by cardiotoxic doses of medicaments or chemicals in large mammals and particularly human beings. The invention particularly relates to the prophylaxis and/or treatment of heart damages, especially myocardial damages, which may occur during cytostatic chemotherapy. The invention further relates to the utilization of the above-mentioned benzazepine-N-acetic acid derivatives for adjuvant treatment in therapies in which medicaments with oxidative-toxic side effects are used. The invention additionally relates to the production of medicaments suitable for said prophylaxis and/or treatment or adjuvant treatment.


Durability testing is an important requirement in the assessment of behaviour of structural adhesive joints and in the specification of bonding systems for particular applications. A wide variety of test methods have been developed to measure degradation characteristics and it is shown that different methods exhibit varying degrees of sensitivity and discrimination between joints with different bonding conditions. The effect of stress in the adhesive on the environmental ageing process is considered, and durability test methods in which some form of load is applied to the joint during environmental exposure are reviewed. The analysis and interpretation of durability test data requires a good understanding of the mechanisms involved in the degradation process. This is also particularly important in the derivation of life prediction models, and the uncertainties of simple extrapolation of durability test information by means of acceleration factors are discussed. The use of historical data obtained from an analysis of old bonded structures to provide life prediction is demonstrated by reference to a case study of an aerospace application.


The learning system of Al-Quran being developed to make it an easier learning and understanding process of Al-Quran through online in Islamic Complex, which is in AlQuran & Al-Sunnah department. This system provide an interface of movement graphic and multimedia. Through the development of this multimedia system that provide the benefit of sound system and picture it may decrease the difficulty in the learning process. This system which traditional motive also provide the benefit of audio control which enable student to listen the model voice of Holy Al-Quran from Al-Hafiz. The main objective of this system is to solve problem of current system which being implement manually in Islamic complex. The scope ofthis system is being focused to Al-Quran starting from 1st juzuk until 30th juzuk, but the writer give limitation to the project by choosing a few juzuk from 30 juzuk due to time specifications for this development being limited. This system can be used by everybody especially student including the Islamic complex staff. Methodology which being used in this development process is prototype evolution. Prototype being choose because this system need response and high commitment from user which allows any changes and alteration from user for development purposes.


Plankton nets are the traditional method for sampling planktonic organisms that are sparsely represented in the water column. However, there are situations where nets are impractical. Such is the case for sampling from the intakes and outfalls of electric generating plant cooling water systems (CWS). Recent federal regulations have required power companies to assess the performance of their once-through cooling systems in terms of biological damage. In order to determine the densities and species of ichthyoplankton entrained in the CWS of two power plants in California, we have utilized a commercial bladeless fish pump. The applicability of pumps for sampling plankton was discussed as early as 1948 (Welch 1948). However, up to the present time there have been relatively few applications of pumps to plankton sampling. Plankton pumps have been designed, used, reported in the literature, and commercially built (Aron 1958, 1962; Beers et al. 1967; Lenz 1972; Icanbeny and Richardson 1973), but they all have had a capacity of less than 1.0 m3, which effectively precludes their use for capturing ichthyoplankton, which is usually present in concentrations of less than one individual/m3. Therefore, we have utilized a pump that has a large enough capacity to obtain samples containing adequate numbers of larval fish for statistical analyses. This pump exhibits minimal avoidance by larval fish and Neomysis sp. It delivers 3.0 m3 min-' at a 3-m head, and in excess of 4.3 m3 min-' at lower heads. The pump is a P A C 0 centrifugal, single-port buckettype design and is marketed by Neilsen Metal Industries, Salem, Oregon. As adapted by Neilsen, the pump is sold as a fish pump for hatchery and aquaculture uses. According to the manufacturer, the pump can lift 30-cm trout 3 m (distance from water surface to pump) with 99.5% survival. It is powered by a one-cylinder, 12horsepower Wisconsin engine which is powerful enough to deliver the full capacity of the pump. However, a 24horsepower Onan twin-cylinder engine, which is also available, would delivery the same capacity with less


The article is based on a literature review of studies covering risk-taking and sensation seeking within military contexts over a time span of 3 decades from 1983 to 2015. Literature was gathered through a four-stage search procedure identifying 25 studies of risk-taking and 16 studies of sensation seeking altogether. Because warfare and military conflicts are dangerous and risky pursuits, one could imagine there being a lot of empirical research about risk-taking and sensation seeking in the military. We have found this not to be the case. The research is both small in volume and scattered when it comes to use of theories, methods, and samples of military personnel. In general, there seem to be few clear research paradigms. The results of the empirical studies show that there are adaptive as well as nonadaptive forms of risk-taking in relation to military situations. Similarly, military personnel scoring high on sensation seeking possess certain advantages, for instance, dealing with stress and risk, yet may also cause problems of various kinds. The review ends by pointing out implications for research and practice.