OBJECTIVE
The objectives of this study were to (1) document and describe all outdoor alcohol advertisements surrounding schools and (2) examine the association between exposure to alcohol advertising in sixth grade and youth alcohol use, intentions, norms, and attitudes in eighth grade.

METHOD
All outdoor alcohol advertisements within 1,500 feet of 63 Chicago school sites were documented and coded for content and theme. Longitudinal mixed-effects regression analysis was used to determine the association between number of alcohol advertisements around a school in sixth grade and student alcohol behaviors, intentions, norms, and attitudes at the end of eighth grade, 2 years later. Participants included 2,586 sixth-grade students in the 2002-2003 school year. The sample was 37% black, 33% Hispanic, and 15% white. Gender was evenly distributed, and the average age was 12.2 at the end of sixth grade.

RESULTS
A total of 931 alcohol advertisements were found within 1,500 feet of the 63 school sites. Exposure to alcohol advertising around schools at the end of sixth grade was found to predict alcohol intentions at the end of eighth grade. This finding held true even for those students who were nonusers of alcohol in sixth grade.

CONCLUSIONS
Exposure to outdoor alcohol advertising around schools is associated with subsequent youth intentions to use alcohol. The association between exposure to alcohol advertising and youth alcohol-use intentions was found even among sixth-grade nonusers of alcohol, suggesting that even those who have not used alcohol are still influenced by alcohol advertising. These findings suggest that restrictions in alcohol advertising near schools may be warranted.


Microgastrines were collected from nine districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. More than 1200 specimens were collected and examined for proper identification.Results show that a total of nine genera occured in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa viz; Apanteles Foerster, Cotesia Cameron, Dolichogenidea Viereck, Diolcogaster Ashmead, Glyptapanteles Ashmead, Snellenius Westwood, Microplitis Foerster, Microgaster Latreille, and Paroplitis Wasmaeli. The genus Paroplitis Wasmaeli had been recorded for the first time as new record from Pakistan. The most speciose and diverse genus was Cotesia Cameron, having eight species and was recorded from different argro-ecological zones of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The other genera Microplitis Foerster and Apanteles Foerster having five species each and Dolichogenidea Viereck, Diolcogaster Ashmead, Glyptapanteles Ashmead, Microgaster Latreille, Snellenius Westwood represented by one species each respectively. Distributional notes and images of key morphological features are provided for each genus and a new key to the microgastrine genera of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is presented.


Superficial soft tissue sarcomas (S‐STS) are generally considered low‐risk tumors and have an excellent prognosis when treated with appropriate surgery and adjuvant therapy. However, they are often misdiagnosed then mistreated, leading to significant morbidity. This study aims to examine the patterns of care and outcomes of patients with S‐STS, comparing those initially managed through sarcoma units versus elsewhere.


India is an emerging economy developing at a pace of 7.5% economic growth rate. Indian real estate sector among others is paving the way for sustainable infrastructural development. The real estate sector growth is linked to developments in retail, hospitality, commercial, housing and SEZs. Indian Real estate sector is transforming into a dynamic and organized sector. Govt. policies have been instrumental in providing required support after recognizing the need for infrastructural development in order to ensure sustainable development of the citizens of India. The present paper is based on secondary data sources and attempts to create understanding of present scenario and future prospects in Indian real estate sector.


Results: Totally 435 pts with mCRC were enrolled. Median age was 66 years old and 248 (57.0%) pts were male. 368 (84.6%) primary and 67 (15.4%) metastatic specimens were used. There were 11 (2.5%) MSI-H cases by the standard method and the sensitivity of the testing method was 100% while the specificity of the testing method was also 100%. Thereby the two methods was completely concordant. Among the five quasimonomorphic markers, 3 and 2 cases were discordant in NR-21 and BAT-25, respectively. In BAT-26, NR-24, and MONO-27, all cases were completely concordant.


Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World. By Christian C. Sahner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi + 335, illus. $39.95, £34 (cloth); $27.95, £22 (paper).


The news media report the pledges of presidential candidates, which have important implications for political communication. This study is to investigate the difference between news coverage on the presidential candidate' s pledge and to discuss its implications. The sampled news from the two newspapers were analyzed for content analysis. Frequency analysis and Chi-square analysis are utilized with SPSS. As results, there was no difference in the tone of the article's headlines, but the difference of the tone between the article content was statistically significant. The results means that the media framing affect on the reader's perception. Follow - up study can be suggested a comparative study of past election candidates 'pledge reports, a network analysis for the news language, and a comparative analysis of newspaper coverage and broadcast coverage.


In 20 years, a complex body of environmental laws, regulations, and decisions has been established in the U.S. Basic knowledge of environmental laws, regulations, and management techniques is now necessary for design, construction, and operation of oil field facilities. Environmental permits are on the critical path and could significantly affect project viability or the cost of doing business. In California and many other states, resource development projects face complex and voluminous environmental regulations. Because of these permitting obstacles and the competition for the available permits, early environmental planning is necessary if a project is to be successful and if costs and future liabilities are to be minimized. This paper reviews eight federal environmental laws, significant events that affect our daily business, and the reasons why environmental management must be integrated in our business as usual work decisions to minimize future (hidden) liabilities.


A definite trend in the course of global industrialisation is the ever-increasing demand for more energy, including electric energy. The approach in seeking various ways of electric energy generation is heavily influenced and motivated by the increasing consciousness in environment protection and the limited resources of energy carriers. The paper describes a special system, based on the application of a principle that makes it possible to generate electric energy by utilising alternative, renewable and waste energies, focusing on the electromechanical energy conversion unit. The basis of the solution is a system that consists of a turbine, coupled to a three-phase synchronous generator, a three-phase AC/AC converter and a microprocessor supervisory control unit. The function of the system is to utilise the energy content of some working medium by a turbine. The turbine is either a standard industrial product or it is specially developed for various working media of low energy content. Generally, the system is producing electric energy, that can be utilised directly to supply loads in stand-alone mode or it can be fed back to existing utility mains. In the latter case the converter, connected in parallel to the mains, can serve also as a source of reactive power and higher harmonic current components.


Paper deals with design of composite timber-concrete beams. Nowadays, timber-concrete beams are designed according to Eurocode 5, Annex B. This computational technique, also called γ-method, uses coefficient γ to consider compliance of shear connection at the material interface. Regarding linear elastic properties and slip between timber and concrete, tensional stress at the bottom surface of the concrete can be obtained in some cases. In respect of almost no tensional strength of concrete it is suitable to reinforce this layer with steel bars. A way how to exclude tensional stress from calculation is mentioned. Alternatively to a standard calculation, finite element method (FEM) as computational tool can be used. Approach how to create FEM model is described.


India is largest producer of chickpea in the world contributing 65.49 per cent in production and 65.25 per cent in area. In India chickpea is grown on 81.17 lakh hectare of land, producing 59.01 lakh tonnes with a productivity of 727 kg ha -1 (Anonymous, 2015). Chickpea wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri (Foc, Padwick) is a serious soil borne disease (Hossain et al., 2013) and was first reported in Indo-Pak subcontinent by Butler in 1918. It is one of the major constraints in chickpea cultivation International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 09 (2018) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com

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. When gravid female mottled sculpins, Cottus bairdi, were courted by males, the likelihood that they would spawn depended on the size of the male that had courted them the day before. Females that had been courted previously by smaller males were more likely to spawn than were females that had been courted by larger males. These results support the conclusion that females use relative, rather than threshold criteria to assess male size.


The intensely brilliant luster present on artifacts that were long subjected to water flow is herein referred to as river patina. This condition is frequently attributed to water flow tumbling of the artifact and abrasion resulting from the movement of water-borne materials. Although abrasion is a contributing factor its contribution to the artifact's remarkable brilliance is indirect. It is suggested that chemical dissolution of the artifact's surface is more directly responsible. Dissolution processes remain active when natural precipitation maintains water silica content below saturation levels. The possible presence of a submicron layer of amorphous silica gel on the dissolving surface may be an additional factor in the brilliance of affected artifacts.


The proposed BIST-based DFT method targets testability problems caused by three constructs. The first construct is reconvergent fanout in a circuit behavior, which causes correlation. The second construct, control statements, also cause correlation, and relational operations degrade observability. The third construct is random-pattern-resistant RTL modules, which cannot be tested effectively with random patterns. Test strategies are presented that overcome the testability problems by modifying the circuit behavior. An analysis and insertion scheme that systematically identifies the problems and applies the strategies is described. Experimental results from seven examples show that this scheme improves fault coverage while minimizing the impact on area and critical delay.


The influence of Gundelia tournefortii puree percentages 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, 15 and 20% were added to the stirred yogurts on the Physicochemical properties include Acidity, pH, syneresis, sensory quality of yoghurt samples were determined during 1, 7, 14, and 21 days of storage. Rheological behavior include flow properties of the final product in order to follow n (flow behavior index) and K (consistency index), and the apparent viscosity (μe in mpa.s) by a means of Brookfield model rheometer and range of 0.136-0.323 1/s in a total time of 18 minutes of yoghurt samples were determined during21 days of storage. There were significantly differences between plain yogurt and Gundelia tournefortii yogurt in the pH and titratable acidity amounts 1 day of storage. The results showed that acid during storage was increased to fourteen days, but 21 days of storage decreased although Again Gundelia tournefortii yogurt samples were more acid than plain yogurt. lowest values for syneresis were belonged to Gundelia tournefortii yogurt with 15 % and 20% and 21 days storage. Plain yogurt and Gundelia tournefortii yogurt samples during21 days no coliform bacteria, E. coli, mold and yeast were not. All samples were treated sudoplastic. Sensory evaluation results showed that there were no significant differences about shelf life among the yoghurt samples but there were significant differences About concentration. The yoghurt containing Ggundelia tournefortii 20% had the highest overall acceptability scores as compare to other Gundelia tournefortii yogurt samples and also plain yogurt. The results of current study demonstrated that the addition of Gundelia tournefortii puree to the yogurt significantly improved the quality of yogurt. Key word: Gundelia tournefortii yogurts, Rheological behavior, Storage time & concentration. Received 12.09.2014 Revised 23.10.2014 Accepted 23.12.2014 INTRODUCTION Food rheology is the study of the deformation and flow of food materials [1]. Yoghurt is a dairy food with complex rheology that depends on temperature, solids concentration and the physical state of fats and proteins present in the milk. An understanding of the rheological properties of yoghurt is important to texture, stability, and process design [2]. Between all milk fermented products, yoghurt is more wellknown than others and has more acceptability in the world [32]. It is easily digested, has high nutritional value and is a rich source of carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins, calcium and phosphorus [3]. The natural and usual yoghurt is produced by adding the certain lactic acid bacteria that increase the lactic acid content of yogurt [5]. Stirred yogurt is made by fermenting milk and stirring the set curd to break the rigid gel structure to obtain a viscous liquid [33]. The product is accepted by consumer for its flavor and aroma, (mainly acetaldehyde) and pleasant texture [3]. Several yogurt-based products are marketed with the addition of either fruit or vegetables rich in bioactive food ingredients or edible fibers claimed to have beneficial effects on human health product [7]. The rationale behind these enrichments is that the ease of consumption of yogurt may improve body health status by maintaining a favorable intestinal microbial profile, possibly lowering cholesterol and blood pressure, and at the same time provide an optimal intake of bioactive components, often with beneficial antioxidant and free radical scavenging capacities. This policy matches the high expectations of consumers and in turn encourages the consumption of fermented dairy products [7]. Lario et al. found that the addition of fiber from oranges caused a slight decrease in the pH of milk; This decrease did not affect the fermentation process of the yogurt; however, the rheological properties of the yogurt were modified by addition of fiber from orange and depended on the dose of this


Borneol is a bicyclic organic compound found in several species of Artemisia, Dipterocarpaceae and etc.   It can easily permeate through the blood brain barrier and acts directly in neurons. Ischemic stroke, an imbalance of the blood supply to the brain because of blood clots, is a severe condition with high mortality and morbidity that represents 87% of all stroke cases. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of borneol in the prevention of stroke. Borneol can be synthesized by reduction of camphor by the Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley reduction. Protection against Oxygen-Glucose Deprivation/Reperfusion Injury in Cortical Neurons by anti-oxidation and anti-inflammation through nuclear transcription factor κappaB signaling pathway is one of suggested mechanisms for borneol. Combination of some compounds and borneol can have a synergistic effect on treating ischemic stroke in a rat model. Also borneol permeating can increased into brain in the pathological state of stroke. This review was made to help better understanding of the borneol evaluation in ischemic stroke prevention.


Ecological rule and ecological pattern of five-law-in-a-whole of water planning have been put forward in this paper. And according to the situation of Maluan Bay in Xiamen City, from the point of view of waterfront landscape, waterfront culture, waterfront economy, waterfront security and waterfront health, the ecological and tridimensional project has been wonderfully designed, which fully exhibits the importance of water ecology in city ecology system, showing the ecological path of city waterfront sustainable development.


In the aging U.S. population, depression is increasingly accompanied by medical comorbidity. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects almost 10% of the


The effects of the addition of neutral salts,the dyeing temperature and the amount of dye on dyeability of male silk dyeing with direct dye were discussed.The differences of dyeability among male silk,normal silk and cotton were compared.The results showed that neutral salts took an accelerating effect;the dyeing rate increased with the uptake of the temperature and decreased with the uptake of dye concentration.The dyeing rate and the dye-uptake of male silk were higher than those of normal silk and cotton distinctly.


This research explores the opportunities of tourism practices to answer fashion ideas and trends by reconsidering urban spaces and creating fashionable content. Moreover, it denotes the fashion input in tourism spaces and redefines spaces that were transformed due to the fashionable scenarios. Special attention will be given to the changes, possibilities and limitations, in both industries due to the pandemic of COVID-19. The case study methodology will be based on the reflection on the Russian tourism industry. By investigating the changes in tourism offers due to fashion trends influence, it will become possible to define key factorsof fashion and tourism collaboration and spaceredefinition. Three ideas unify trends in the fashion and tourism industries today: i) Space redefinition — the ways to explore new tourism destinations and migration flows of tourists and fashion consumers who rede-finespacesforfashionablepractices; ii)collaborativeinstruments—newcontentfortourismpractices complement the fashion industry to receive profits, benefits, followers, and inputs; for tourism industry, the fashionable scenarios bring city and placemarketing and establishnew touristic highlights and fashion capitals; iii) time perspective — the shift from mass tourism and overtourism to slow tourism practices and new experiences.


The complex evolution of the IGN is shown in its archives. This article deals with the brief history of them -from their origins to nowadays- analysing the aims of the archivistics, the beginnings and the different stages in the life of documents. It is also studied the several archives in which the IGN is organised, the instruments of description we work with and their main users. And finally, a project of proceedings is proposed to recover and preserve the cartographic documents to improve the service of the archives. And also, it is suggested a celebration in 2006 of the 15 th anniversary of the "Comision de Estadistica General del Reino", germ of the IGN and the INE (National Institute of Statistics).


Purpose The purpose of the application is to speed the process of registering beekeepers within DriftWatch, since many beekeepers have significant trouble using only web-based tools for registering their hive locations..


1.1. Some time ago, Herbert E. Brekle maintained that *'there is no sharp line between linguistic expressions that are normally considered to fall into the domain of word-formation and those expressions which are treated as simple lexical items". And the fact that "both morphological and syntactic information are often relevant in determining the applicability of a ride" of word-formation leads Paul G. Chapin to the conclusion that "the rules governing the formation of derivatives from stems lie at the crossroads of a grammar". This peculiar position of word-formation is the main reason why it has so far been rather difficult to integrate it into a generative-transformational grammar as forming a genuine part of one of its components. Thus one can always find borderline cases where it is difficult to decide whether the respective item is still sufficiently motivated by its constituents so as to be explained on the basis of a determinant/determinatum relationship characteristic of word-formation syntagmas, or whether by way of


A (non-circular) de Bruijn sequence w of order n is a word such that every word of length n appears exactly once in w as a factor. In this paper, we generalize the concept to a multi-shift setting: a multi-shift de Bruijn sequence tau(m,n) of shift m and order n is a word such that every word of length n appears exactly once in w as a factor that starts at index im+1 for some integer i>=0. We show the number of the multi-shift de Bruijn sequence tau(m,n) is (a^n)!a^{(m-n)(a^n-1)} for 1<=n<=m and is (a^m!)^{a^{n-m}} for 1<=m<=n, where a=|Sigma|. We provide two algorithms for generating a tau(m,n). The multi-shift de Bruijn sequence is important in solving the Frobenius problem in a free monoid.


The rapid growth of the software scale and quantity has brought severe challenges to software security research.It is difficult to perform vulnerability assessment by analyzing the vulnerability manually.This paper analyzed the principle of buffer overflow and proposed an automatic exploit generation method.The method used symbolic execution to detect vulnerabilities.To alleviate the state explosion of symbolic execution, we pruned the states according to the slice of unsafe function calls.For detected vulnerabilities, exploit was automatically generated by constructing constraint expressions and constraint solving.In the case that there was no enough controllable memory block in the process, we segmented shellcode to construct the exploit.The experimental results show that the method can detect vulnerabilities and generate exploit with good applicability automatically.


The popularity of the Internet of Things is increasing and it is being used in many commercial sectors, using customized technologies for specific environments. Applications and protocols, and the unique requirements of each environment, pose a significant challenge for IoT applications, necessitating communication and message exchange support. This paper aims to propose an intelligent SDN-Based multi-protocol selector for IoT-enabled NMT (Non-Motorized Transportation) networks. The main goal of this work is to give the mobile nodes within IoT-enabled NMT networks the flexibility to choose the appropriate wireless communication protocol from several protocols they have to transmit information according to criteria, including battery life, data size and priority of the packet, to pass the most important data first.


The article is devoted to the problem of modern linguistics - gender relations. The problems of language and gender have become relevant in modern linguistics. Linguists consider gender as a phenomenon of culture and language; study the refraction of this category in language. Scientists consider gender to be a sociocultural category; their works touch upon the issues of oral and written communication. They researched general patterns of gender development, gender relations in linguistics, and concepts in the light of gender stereotypes. But the problem of studying gender relations in sports media in a comparative aspect was not touched upon in the works of linguists. Significant contributions to the construction of gender were made by the mass media. The media shape gender attitudes for both men and women and assign them specific gender roles. Sports text is a multilevel communicative constructor. It reflects the communicative intentions of sports actors - athletes, coaches, competition judges, sports administrators, fans, and sports commentators. The phraseological and lexical fund of the German and Russian languages was used to analyze the research data. After analyzing the material we have chosen, that most of the articles are devoted to men's sports - 76.5% and only 23.5% - to women's. We determined that the morphological way of forming words (suffix and addition) prevails in sports publications. So, we have noted that for designation a person's sex in borrowed words, native speakers of the Russian language resort to the syntactic method, that is, the formulation of the predicate in the desired form. In German language, a predicate cannot be an indicator of gender. We can reveal belonging to one or another gender only through introductory nominations (weiblich, männlich, Frauen-, Männer-) or the names of athletes.Over time, the stereotypes that were created in society are changing, because our life does not stand still, and women are increasingly becoming on a par with men.


PHILOSOPHY 'S persistent function of analysis of principles of knowledge and of action finds today rewarding employment in the examination of the ends, the methods, and the circumstances of communication and action within and between groups, associations, parties, and communities in the context of a more and more interdependent world. The reality of such a world is common today only in the sense of what is suffered conjointly, but, as John Dewey pointed out a few decades ago, the political instrumentalities that would convert the new reality into a shared experience belong still to the domain of thought. Yet the social and human consequences of the technological, economic, and spiritual upheavals of recent years have served to awaken both national and international public opinion to a new sense of urgency with respect to the intellectual conditions and requirements of such a political dispensation. Under such circumstances of duress and survival it is not only proper but unavoidable for philosophy, with a view to the exploration of those philosophic and political methods and social arrangements most conducive to the enhancement of the life of man and the relevance of philosophy to it, to investigate the terms in which significant sectors of the world community present their aspirations, claims, and grievances to other sectors of the same community and the ultimate purposes to which they direct themselves. The acceptance by philosophers of such a mundane occupation does not make politicians out of them, though they may become better citizens as well as more competent philosophers, for even if the problems of the times do not determine the truth of philosophic propositions, they do establish the framework of relevance with respect to which a problem ceases to be academic and becomes practically important as well. This, I submit, is the implication for our time and circumstances of Dewey's injunction to contemporary philosophers to convert philosophy from a professional craft dealing with the problems of philosophers into a philosophic method to deal with the "problems of men." But to accept this challenge, as many distinguished philosophers, from Socrates to Dewey have done, is to become interested in a word-and a world -which has had, since its inception during the French Revolution, a bad press, to say the least. During that period philosophers were called "ideo-


Objective: Everolimus (RAD) is an mTOR inhibitor closely related to rapamycin. A potent immunosuppressive agent, it has also shown evidence of antineoplastic properties. SCC VII is a spontaneously arising murine squamous cell carcinoma line. This study examines the effect of everolimus on SCC VII proliferation. The data may provide support for the use of everolimus in transplant recipients with a history of malignancy.


The finite element method has been applied to two acoustic guidedwave problems. One is the propagation problem of two-dimensional piezoelectric waveguides with semi-infinite media, and the second is the discontinuity problem of SH-type modes in a piezoelectric plate of crystal symmetry 6 mm. In these problems, acoustic fields extend infinitely, so that the approach is a combination of the finite element method and the analytical method. The former is used for the interior region, while the latter is utilized for the exterior region.


In the last few decades, reading the literature, we realized that we Astronomers have a strong preference to undertake very ambitious projects, and search for answers to the most fundamental questions in the history of the entire Universe. After running multiple times into such cardinal quest, the curiosity became no more sustainable and we had to find out. To our greater surprise, in the last few decades we had been restlessly participating to this superhuman endevour. Therefore we hereby explore the roots and grounds of this fundamental search, through the past decades, centuries and millennia.


A catalytic conjunctive cross-coupling reaction is developed that allows the construction of chiral organoboronic esters from alkylboron ate complexes and alkyl iodide electrophiles. The process occurs most efficiently with a Ni/Pybox-comprised catalyst and with an acenapthoquinone-derived boron ligand. Because of the broad functional group tolerance of this reaction, it can be a versatile tool for organic synthesis. Applications to the construction of (R)-coniine and (-)-indolizidine 209D are described.


A surface full-coated plastic section bar extruding mould, relates to a device for the plastic section bar. The extruding mould comprises a connector (8), a transition plate (7), a shunting inner core fixing plate (6), a core fixing plate (5), a compression platen(4), a preforming plate B (3), a preforming plate A (2) and a forming plate (1), which are arranged in order from the top to the bottom and fixed together by the bolt penetrating through the screw (11), a interface (17) is connected with a clothes hanger flow channel (12) on the combining surface of the die template, the clothes hanger flow channel (12) is vertical to the base material parison flow channel, a complete coating channel is formed for the parison (13). In the surface full-coated plastic section bar extruding mould, the clothes hanger flow channel is divided into more than two clothes hanger flow channels, the blind angle of the clothes hanger flow channel is eliminated, a flow channel capable of fully coating the base material parison is formed on the die, the ends of all clothes hanger flow channels are integrated, thus achieving the surface fully-coated function.


Triatoma nitida, Triatoma hegneri and Triatoma dimidiata are reported infected with Trypanosoma Cruzi from the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. T. nitida has not been reported previously from Mexico; T. dimidiata is reported from Cozumel Island for the first time.


W read with great interest the study by Fisher et al. advocating the use of ketamine by Special Operations medical personnel during training mishaps.1 We fully agree with the different points of the article highlighting the benefit of the use of ketamine for analgesia in austere settings. Indeed, the optimal management of analgesia is a key point in combat casualty care.2–4 Among the various drugs available for combat analgesia, ketamine appears as a suitable drug on the battlefield, well known by military physicians, reliable and effective in controlling casualties' acute pain, with a large therapeutic window.5 Interestingly, in the study by Fisher et al.,1 a total of eight patients (23.5%) received ketamine using the intranasal (IN) route. Recent studies have shown a growing interest in the IN route for administration of ketamine during analgesia procedures.6,7 The average bioavailability of ketamine delivered via the IN route is 40%.7 Based on the French Military Medical Service experience, recent analgesia procedures proposed to extend the use of IN route for analgesia into combat zones. Military physicians from the First Special Operation Medical Unit (1ère Antenne Médicale Spécialisée), supporting the Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale, a French military tactical unit, use a dedicated analgesia protocol for administering sufentanil and ketamine via the IN route.8 Cazes et al. reported the case of a French soldier wounded in operations who received multimodal analgesic at the point of care, including 50μg/kg IN sufentanil, and the authors also highlighted the interest of the use of IN ketamine on the battlefield.9 Sufentanil is more lipophilic than ketamine and, consequently, is absorbed better by the nasal mucosa. The average bioavailability of sufentanil delivered via the IN route is 78%.10 The current US military and civilian standards of analgesia do not include the use of IN sufentanil. However, this analgesia option is under investigation in Europe although there is with sparse information on efficacy and safety.11–13 Other French military medical teams reported the use of IN ketamine to manage acute pain during deployment in overseas military operations. Dubecq et al. reported a cohort of 73 combat casualties who received 0.5mg/kg IN ketamine, with high efficacy and rare side effects. Indeed, the authors reported only one case of psychodyslepsy, which ended after another dose of 25mg of ketamine IN.14 (R,S)-Ketamine is a phenylcyclohexylamine derivative consisting of its two optical enantiomers, (S)and (R)-ketamine. Racemic mixture is usually used, but (R)-ketamine does not exhibit psychoactive effects.15 Currently, French military physicians have access to only a racemic mixture of ketamine.


A kind of gas-fired rodless cylinder ejection device which is stoke and weight controlled and suitable for mobile launch was designed. The leakage test of the ejection device is carried out based on the principle prototype of rodless cylinder ejection device and the empirical formula between leakage rate and pressure and travel length was fitted. The mathematical model of gas-fired rodless cylinder ejector internal ballistic with considering the leakage rate is established based on the assumption of zero-dimensional internal ballistic. When comparing the results of internal ballistics considering and not considering the leakage rate, it can be seen that the influence of leakage rate on the results of internal ballistics can not be ignored. The internal ballistic model which coupled the leakage rate is optimized, taking the shortest design stroke and smallest ejection stability index as design target and the parameters of the grain are used as design variables. The results show that after the optimization, the mass flow rate of gas at the end of ejection is increased by 19%, the stroke required for piston speed reaching the design target is shortened by 13.1%, and the launch stability index is increased by 10.7%.


The present invention is a holographic digital data system related to a mirror angle measurement and a servo device, in particular a servo device of the present invention, the mirror is provided with a reflection surface on the back as well as the front side for reflecting the reference light, the light in the back reflecting surface of the mirror beam splitter, and an optical detection unit for the other mirror for reflecting the light incident from the back reflecting surface of the mirror back to the mirror, is reflected by the mirror detect a light passing through the beam splitter, the light amount and the set value of the light detector to incident a compare and a servo control section for driving the actuator in accordance with the comparison result. Therefore, the present invention can be measured error angle of the mirror for the reference light during reproduction, and can perform servo control thereof. Holographic digital data system, a mirror angle measurement and a servo device, an optical detector


The influences of 5 kinds of deformation in non-recrystallization region on the microstructure and performance of X120 pipeline steel were studied.The results indicate that grain size of lath is refined with the reduction of austenitic grain boundaries width,so strength and toughness get promoted.When austenitic grain boundaries width is less than 5μm,X120 pipeline steel has great performance.There is a linear relationship between the width of austenitic grain boundaries and non-recrystallization reduction.The width of austenitic grain boundaries reduce along with the increase of deformation amount in non-recrystallization region,and the width of lath reduces.So the orientations of lath are diversified,and the microstructures are refined.The increase of deformation amount in non-recrystallization region has obvious effect to the refinement of the width of lath.


Catalysts based on X-zeolite have been developed by exchanging its Na{sup +} ion with Copper ions and its effectiveness in reducing NO{sub x} in an actual SI engine exhaust has been tested. Unlike noble metals, the doped X-zeolite catalysts, studied here, exhibit significant NO{sub x} reduction for a wide {lambda} range and exhibit a slow rate of decrease with increase in {lambda} ratio. Back pressure developed across the catalyst bed was found to be well-affordable and power loss due to back pressure is only minimal. During 30 hours of testing of the catalyst, no significant deactivation was observed. Additionally a mathematical model has been developed to predict the performance of the catalyst and to validate that against experimental results. Results predicted by the mathematical model agree well with the experimental results and absolute average deviation of experimental conversion efficiency is found to be less than 5% of the predicted value.


1,5‐Pentanediol dibenzoate (PDDB) was evaluated as a potential "green" plasticizer for poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) at concentrations ranging between 20 and 80 parts by weight per hundred parts of resin. The results of glass transition temperature (Tg) and tensile tests of PDDB blends with PVC were compared with those for blends of the commercial plasticizers di(2‐ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), di(ethylene glycol) dibenzoate (DEGDB), and di(propylene glycol) dibenzoate (DPGDB) in PVC. The depression in Tg and the tensile properties were comparable for a PDDB/PVC blend at a fixed composition to those of blends with DEHP, DEGDB, and DPGDB. The PDDB was subjected to biodegradation using co‐metabolism by the common soil bacterium Rhodococcus rhodochrous (ATCC 13808). After 16 days of growth, nearly all of the PDDB was degraded, and only small amounts of transient, unidentified metabolites were observed in the growth medium during the experiment. J. VINYL ADDIT. TECHNOL., 2009. © 2009 Society of Plastics Engineers


The effect of silicon under cadmium stress on growth and some physiological characteristics of seedlings in Oryza sativa L. was studied by hydroponics culture method.Oryza sativa L. seedlings were treated with the concentration of 4.0 mg·L-1 Cd2+ and 0、30、80、130 、180 mg·L-1 SiO2. The results showed that Cd2+ (4.0mg·L-1) inhibited growth of Oryza sativa L. seedlings significantly,silicon (SiO2) alleviated Cd toxicity by raising chlorophyll content, receding the permeability of cell membranes and speeding root length and lateral root growth, and the biological yield was improved. Therefore, the addition of 130 mg·L-1 silicon (SiO2) to cadmium solution was the best concentration to improve seedlings growth.


1. In this paper we consider non-uniform elastic compression between parallel endblocks of a cylindrical test specimen with circular cross-section. It is assumed that there is sufficient friction between the end-blocks and the end faces of the specimen to prevent slippage. Thus, points on the end faces of the cylinder undergo only axial displacements. It is the purpose of this paper to determine the relation between the force F acting on the specimen, the compression 2a, and Young's modulus E of the material, assuming Poisson's ratio v to be known. If lateral expansion were not obstructed by the friction at the end surfaces, these quantities would be connected by the relation E = Fh/Aa, where 2h denotes the height of the specimen, b its radius and A its cross-sectional area. If there is friction at the end surfaces, a correction must be applied to this simple formula; the derivation of this correction will now be sketched. The above problem is solved to a good approximation by finding upper and lower bounds for the strain energy of the specimen, using the method of Prager and Synge.1 It is advantageous to resolve the original problem, which we shall denote by P0 , into two simpler problems Pc and P, where Pc is the problem of simple compression and P is that problem which will yield the initial problem P0 when superimposed on Pc. In the natural cylindrical coordinates, the original problem P0 involves the boundary conditions


Abstract Although digit-sucking habit is common in preschool children, there is multiracial variation of prevalence rates. Hitherto unidentified variables are being reported as possible risk factors. To analyse this habit in preschool children in Enugu, Eastern Nigeria, a prospective crosssectional study was conducted on one hundred (100) children. Their mothers were interviewed with a structured questionnaire. The habit was noted in 23% of the children, with a slight male preponderance. Using the correlation coefficient model, longer total duration of breast-feeding was not well correlated with increase in number of digit-sucking preschool children (correlation coefficient, r = 0.36, P < 0.05). The number of these children exposed to pacifier sucking was significantly greater than the number of their non-sucking counterparts with similar exposure (χ2 = 38.56, P < 0.05). It is concluded that preschool children exposed to pacifier use and shorter duration of breast-feeding were more likely to exhibit the habit. (J Pediatr Neurol 2003; 1(2): 99–101).


Fresh fruits are the most valuable because of their bioactive compounds, high level of vitamins and other bioactive compounds. Those fruits are also very valuable because of their taste and color and because increase the local economies and sustainability of the area. Our region is well known as a good market and a important provider since 1960. Berries because of low cost of production enrich the rural mountain poor area as well. Fruits of Malus domestica, Pyrus communis, Persica vulgaris, Prunus armeniaca and Prunus domestica there are one very valuable among fruits because of the vitamin C content and high level of production. The trees grows very easy are resistant and the market is well established. Present study try to monitories the following quality parameters of Malus domestica, Pyrus communis, Persica vulgaris, Prunus armeniaca and Prunus domestica fruits during storage in the bulk marketing because of very well known issues regarding of storage.


Population and cultivated lands are the key subsystems of artificial oasis system in arid areas. Their levels of development reflect the state of artificial oases. The state of the artificial oasis system in Tarim River Mainstream Area (TRMA) largely influences sustainable development of the entire Tarim region. Percultivated land production, which composes of food, cotton and other economic crops, was used to estimate land production in the region in this paper. Next, the factors that affect total cultivated land production in TRMA were measured. Food population carrying capacity and cultivated land pressure indices were used to assess the level of development of artificial oasis system in TRMA. Studies show that irrational human activities in the lower reaches of Tarim River heavily influence sustainable development of oasis system in TRMA during 1988~2007. Rapid increases in population and cultivated lands, irrational planting structures, unsafe food problems and mounting pressure on cultivated lands are the determinant factors of oasis systems in TRMA. More attention should therefore be given not only to rational cultivated land utility in the upper and middle reaches of TRMA, but also to population growth and rational development of cultivated land in the lower reaches of TRMA. It is essential to control population and cultivated land growth strictly in the lower reaches of TRMA for the sustainable development of TRMA. And the optimizing pattern of sustainable product is to develop cotton plant mainly and give consideration to crop product on the base of crop safety in TRMA.


The fractal image compression is a promising technology.In contrast with other compression methods,frac- tal image compression can obtain good decoding quality with high compression ratio.This paper proposes a combined fractal image compression algorithm based on DCT and variance,and the novel algorithm obtains good quality of the decoded images and need much less time than the baseline fractal algorithm.Experimental results show that the pro- posed algorithm has an excellent performance.


In this paper, a weighted reconstruction method for the prediction-compensated multiple description coding (PC-MDC) with two descriptions is proposed. Different from the original PC-MDC, where the redundant data are simply discarded when both descriptions are received, we use a weighted average of all available data to recover the signal. The closed form solution of the optimal weighting factors and the corresponding bit allocations are derived for M-band perfect reconstruction filter bank based PC-MDC. The asymptotic performance of the method is also studied. Theoretical analysis shows that the proposed method further reduces the expected distortion and the distortion product of the non-weighted PCMDC method.


Objective:To evaluate the feasibility,safety and effect for laparoscopic treatment of the gynecological acute abdomen.Methods:The clinical data of 593 cases with gynecological acute abdomen from Jul.2003 to Oct.2007 treated by laparoscopy were analyzed retrospectively.Results:Five hundred and ninety-three cases were treated by laparoscopic operation.Among them,the operative time of 512 cases with the ectopic pregnancy was 18-75min(mean 32min),47 cases with pelvic inflammation and abscess was 35-90min(mean 49min),34 cases with corpus luteum rupture,ovarian endometrial cyst rupture and ovarian cyst torsion was 35-80min(mean 52min),their blood loss in operation was 10-70ml(mean 25ml),45-130ml(mean 84ml),20-85ml(mean 65ml),after operation the patients were hospitalized for 3-7d(mean 4.5d).During follow-up of 12-36 months,no recurrence occurred.Conclusions:Laparoscopic treatment of the gynecologic acute abdomen is feasible,safe and effective.


The paper from the perspective of energy saving management in enterprise how to carry out the work of energy-saving emission reduction.Pointed out that the energy saving and emission reduction is the" number one" project,is "full" project is a" basic" engineering.Involved in energy management system,energy measurement and statistics,modules and other aspects.With abundant examples of audit of the sources of energy can help the enterprise to tapping the potential of energy saving and emission reduction of space,the use of national energy-saving preferential policies can reduce energy cost,the enterprise energy management work has certain guiding function.


In the paper an estimation of the correlation between power generation from wind and photovoltaic farms distributed over a large area has been presented. The climatic and morphological conditions for the considered area are similar to the Polish conditions. The initial analysis of data provided by distribution system operators indicates that a negative correlation between wind and PV energy generation exists when a longer period of averaging is assumed. Additionally, the maximum value of generated power has never reached the level of installed capacity. Considering the system, where a significant number of wind and photovoltaic farms are installed, an assumption that total generation sources capacity is achievable can lead either to grid curtailments or to grid development overinvestments.


By analysis of pre-race reduction and controlling weight of college athletes,this paper points that the college athletes can so in the race with weight advantage with out entries health and influencing sports level,that a set of methods and good recipes are practical for them.


This paper mainly focuses on the controlling of road accidents due to DRUNKEN DRIVE. This is achieved by the advancement of ASU (Alcohol Sensor Unit). ASU drives the entire vehicle as a primary device/unit. ECU (Engine Control Unit) and (Electronic Control Unit) is a secondary device. FS (Force Sensor) and ASU has been managed by the PIC microcontroller to lead this paper. This technology offers new and exciting opportunities to reduce the road accidents. All these techniques are successfully merged in a single ASU. This system offers a complete, low cost, powerful resultant in road accident control. To demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed system, a new device, ASU have been developed and evaluated with the vehicles like car, trucks etc.


Electron plasma oscillations in the earth's electron foreshock region are observed to shift above and below the local electron plasma frequency. As plasma oscillations shift downward from the plasma frequency, their bandwidth increases and their wavelength decreases. Observations of plasma oscillations well below the plasma frequency are correlated with times when ISEE 1 is far downstream of the electron foreshock boundary. Although wavelengths of plasma oscillations below the plasma frequency satisfy kλDe ≈ 1, the Doppler shift due to the motion of the solar wind is not sufficient to produce the observed frequency shifts. A beam-plasma interaction with beam velocities on the order of the electron thermal velocity is suggested as an explanation for plasma oscillations above and below the plasma frequency. Frequency, bandwidth, and wavelength changes predicted from the beam-plasma interaction are in good agreement with the observed characteristics of plasma oscillations in the foreshock region.


This study was aimed to analyze potato market participation, market surplus, and market outlet choice in Lemo District of southern Ethiopia. To achieve the objective, primary and secondary data sources were employed and 202 potato producers were selected following simple random sampling techniques. The collected data were analyzed by using Heckman second-stage and multivariate probit models to identify factors that determine potato market participation decision and potato farmer market outlet choice, respectively. The Heckman's first-stage (probit) result indicates that education level, sex, membership in the cooperative, distance to the nearest market, remittent from family members, own transportation facilities, seed types, frequency of extension contact, lagged market price, and amount of credit that farm household used for potato production significantly (

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This study aims to determine the influence of cooperative learning model type of talking stick to the results of science learning class vii students in smp n 5 banguntapan, bantul in 2016/2017 academic year in terms of cooperation ability. this study is quasi-experimental. techniques of collecting data using test techniques, questionnaires and documentation. the instrument test contains 30 multiple choice questions, and the questionnaire instrument contains 20 statements. the result, the researcher obtained fcount = 1.082 and p = 0.283, the average learning outcome was 21.75, the average questionnaire was 80.13. based on the average learning outcomes and questionnaires, then there is the influence of talking stick to the results of science learning grade vii students in terms of students' cooperation ability.


An infinite play of empty mirrors - women, surrealism and self-representation, Whitney Chadwick "Vous Pour Moi?" - Marcel Duchamp and transgender coupling, Dickram Tasjian in or out of the picture - Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman, Katy Kline Frida Kahlo - the self as an end, Salomon Grimberg orbits of the savage moon - surrealism and the representation of the female subject in Mexico and postwar Paris, Dawn Ades dialogue and double allegiance - some contemporary women artists and the historical avant-garde, Susan Rubin Suleiman the self and the world - negotiating boundaries in the art of Yayoi Kusama, Ana Medieta, and Francesca Woodman, Helaine Posner.


This study aims to analyzethe performance of the sales force Bank ICB Bumiputera Yogyakarta at each stage role inpersonal selling success factors and to examine the possibility of differences in the performance of the sales forcein Bank ICB Bumiputera Yogyakarta at each stage role inpersonal selling success factors by gender.The sample used in this study were all employees of the Bank ICB Bumiputera Yogyakarta credit totaling 65 people. Based on the analysis, showed that the performance of the sales force in the prospecting stage, Pree-approach, the approach, the sales presentation , closing, follow-up service and sales force performance ICB Bumiputera Bank loans are generally included in the high category. There was no difference in the performance of the sales force on prospecting stage, Pree-approach, the sales presentation, closing, follow-up service and sales force performance of Bank ICB Bumiputera Credit is generally between credit sales force of men and women on the stage of prospecting and there are differences in performance between credit sales force of men and women at this stage of the approach . Credit sales force women (mean 4.2019) has better performance than the credit sales force men (mean 38.718). There are differences in performance between credit sales force on prospecting dimensions, the approach, the sales presentation, closing, general performance differences between credit sales force with sales below target with credit sales force equal to or above the target. There is no performance difference between credit sales force Pree- dimensional approach and Overcoming objections between credit sales force with sales below target with credit sales force equal to or above the target.


The factor structure of Michael D. Berzonsky's Identity Style Inventory. How many styles are measured by ISI3?

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Documentaries about pornography are beginning to constitute an entirely new subgenre of film. Big Hollywood names like James Franco and Rashida Jones are jumping on the bandwagon, using their influence and resources to invest in a type of audiovisual knowledge production far less mainstream than that in which they usually participate. The films that have resulted from this new movement are undoubtedly persuasive, no matter which side of the debate over pornography these directors have respectively chosen to represent. Moreover, regardless of the side(s) that audience members may have taken in the so-called "feminist porn debates," one cannot ignore the rhetorical strength of the arguments presented in a wide variety of documentaries about pornography. However, the ways in which these filmmakers use audiovisual rhetoric to convey their respective arguments are far from simple. My research explores and analyzes the various types of rhetoric that filmmakers use when creating documentaries about pornography. I also investigate precisely how these types of rhetoric are used, and why viewers find them so persuasive. My visual analysis focuses primarily on Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus's Hot Girls Wanted (2015), Bryce Wagoner's After Porn Ends (2012), and Christina A. Voros's Kink (2013) – the first offers a particularly negative view of pornography, the second a nuanced view, and the third a particularly positive view.


Bisphosphonates are commonly used in the management and prevention of osteoporosis (1) and to reduce skeletalrelated events in cancer patients with bone metastases (2). As preclinical (3) and emerging clinical observations suggested that bisphosphonates may inhibit breast cancer (4;5), Newcomb and colleagues (6) evaluated the association between oral bisphosphonate use and invasive breast cancer in a case-control study in a Wisconsin population. Controlling for some potential confounders, current bisphosphonate users were seen to have a lower incidence of breast cancer compared to non-users. This result adds to emerging literature suggesting that oral bisphosphonate use may have inhibitory effects on breast cancer.


Aiming at the characteristic of data transmission in the process of status monitoring,a wireless sensor network node based on digital sensor is developed to measure temperature and acceleration.The process of node construction,the characteristic and appliction design of the selected sensor and the mothod of improving the reliability and transmission rate of wireless comunication were presented.Finally,the reliability and stability of the node is proved by experiment,and the method of improving measurement accuracy has proposed.


Thank you for reading the balancing act mastering the competing demands of leadership. As you may know, people have search hundreds times for their chosen readings like this the balancing act mastering the competing demands of leadership, but end up in harmful downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they cope with some malicious virus inside their desktop computer.


The condition of public health become a basic capital which is very important for the sustainability of Indonesia's human development completely.
The important thing to do is reduce the impact of development against environmental degradation and human health. Wastewater laboratory will have a negative impact on the environment if not done in wastewater treatment. Compounds containing arsenic, a contaminant which include in the hazardous and toxic waste. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of variations in voltage and contact time in the process of electrocoagulation to decreased levels of arsenic in wastewater, evaluate the efficiency of variation of voltage and contacts time in the electrocoagulation process toward decreased levels of asenic in waste from the laboratory.
 The method applied in tn the treatment of liquid arsenic is by electrocoagulation process. Electrocoagulation method is a simple processing technique with materials that are cheap, readily available and easy operation technique, so that people will more easily accept and apply them. The object of this research is the arsenic laboratory wastewater. Electrocoagulation process conducted in a laboratory scale. Thisd process is carried out on variations of voltage (3V, 6V, 9V, and 12 V) and variation of contact time (15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and 60 minutes) to the reduction of arsenic.


This study evaluated a calorie labeling intervention in Kaiser Permanente Hospital cafeterias. Three cafeteria conditions were no labeling; calorie and nutrient labeling on posters only; posters plus point-of-purchase menu board calorie labeling. More respondents noticed calorie information at poster plus menu board sites than at poster-only sites (P < 0.05). Over 80% of patrons supported provision of calorie information. There was a significant increase in purchases of lower calorie side dishes (P < 0.0001) and snacks (P = 0.006) at the menu board site, compared with the no-labeling site. These findings support the premise that menu labeling can be useful in worksite wellness initiatives.


There are many unloaded fissures in elevation more than 1 650 m in the deep left bank of Jinping First Stage Hydropower Station.These fissures occur in the depth from 50 m to 300 m,with large quantity,large scale and long extension,and strike basically parallel with the waterway.The elevation of the dam crest is 1 885 m,and its normal impounded level is 1 880 m.Therefore,these fissures possess adverse impact on safety of the dam after water impound and must be reinforced.The usual grouting or anchor cable technology can not reinforce it better.By the aid of existing geologic exploratory tunnel,anchor tunnel technology and prestressed anchor beam technology maybe have good reinforcement effects.Anchor tunnel technology is a new kind of technology which makes use of existing geologic exploratory tunnels,lays steel and fills concrete in the tunnels to form reinforced concrete columns in order to prevent side slopes from sliding by tensile strength and shear strength of reinforced concrete.Prestressed anchor beam technology is one that is improved from anchor tunnel technology,which divides the anchor tunnel into key reinforcement section and common reinforcement section.The key reinforcement section is often the position where faults or fissures occur while the common reinforcement section is the position where rock mass is good.IV–IV section in the foggy region of left bank is selected for numerical simulation of anchor tunnel and prestressed anchor beam.After comparison of the reinforcement effect of both technologies,it is found that the reinforcement effect of prestressed anchor beam is better than that of anchor tunnel.


nant in 14%). 90% of LTNP and 45% of EC samples were Lactobacillus-dominant vs. 28% of HIVand 30% of HIVþATs. L. crispatus and L. iners in ECs/LTNPs had significantly different gene content and greater gene richness vs. controls. G. vaginalispredominant communities were found in 66% of HIVand 68% of HIVþATs, compared to 46% of EC and 0% of LTNP. The G. vaginalis strains present in EC/LTNP also showed significantly lower gene richness and different gene content vs. controls. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: These results suggest unique VM communities among EC/LTNP, and led us to hypothesize that differential regulation of vaginal immunity drives the observed differences. The similarity between VMs of HIVand HIVþATs warrants further study. Larger longitudinal VM studies are needed to assess associated functional pathways and understand the etiology of VM association with HIV progression. CONFLICT OF INTEREST DESCRIPTION: The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.


Objective To investigate the association of large arterial hardness with diastolic strain of left ventricular myocardium in hypertensive patients. Methods This study consisted of 60 hypertensive patients(hypertension group)and 30 healthy volunteers(normal control group),those in hypertension group were subdivided into left ventricular hypertrophy group(LVH group,n=35)and normal left ventricle group(NLV group,n=25).Taking the number of the ratio of early peak strain rate(SRE)of left ventricular diastole and late peak strain rate of left ventricular diastole(SRA)of1.0as the number of abnormal segment of left ventricle,and the large-artery hardness index(pulse pressure/stroke volume)were measured.The differences of the above parameters were compared between each group. Results The large-artery hardness index in LVH group was different as compared with that in normal control group and NLV group(F=14.97;q=3.27,7.73;P0.05),in LVH group,the number of abnormal segment in left ventricle was more than that in the other two groups(F=71.22;q=4.28,16.31;P0.05).A multivariate analysis showed that,large-artery hardness had the greatest influence on the abnormal segment in left ventricle(β=-0.41,P0.05),and the hardness was positively correlated with the number of abnormal segment in left ventricle(r=0.56,P0.05).Conclusion Large artery hardness is an important influencing factor on diastolic function of left ventricle in patients with hypertension,and it is of value in predicting the diastolic function of patients with essential hypertension.


Purpose – This paper aims to explore the relationship between local women's relief initiatives and international relief workers in Batticaloa, eastern Sri Lanka, during the post‐tsunami emergency.Design/methodology/approach – Interviews with representatives from women's organizations in the tsunami‐affected town of Batticaloa, local and national nongovernment organizations (NGOs) based in Batticaloa, as well as international aid agencies are discussed in relation to theories on resilience, vulnerability, gender and humanitarianism.Findings – Observing that women in a disaster‐affected area often represent important knowledge and resources, this paper documents how international relief workers failed to connect and cooperate with local women's organizations in post‐tsunami Batticaloa. It suggests that the reasons behind the disconnection can be linked to "us and them" undercurrents of international relief work – the lingering remnants of a colonial heritage. The disconnection may have led to a disempowerme...


Abstract In the present work the behavior of different substituted iminic bonds toward the oxidative action of 3-chloroperbenzoic acid is reported. The C=N bond was or was not oxidized to oxaziridines, amides, oximes, nitroso-, nitro-, and azodioxy compounds depending on the substituents at the iminic group and on the imine/MCPBA stoichiometric ratio.


A survey in the 21 cm line of H I of 153 square degrees of sky out in a distance corresponding to 3000 km s/sup -1/ and with a limiting sensitivity of 3 x 10/sup 6/D/sup 2/ M/sub sun/ has failed to turn up any convincing detections that are unassociated with a visible counterpart. These results, combined with previous limits, lead to the conclusion that the mass in intergalactic H I clouds in the interval 10/sup 7/ M/sub circle-solid/ to 10/sup 10/ M/sub sun/ is less than 6% of the mass in galaxies and less than 5 x 10/sup -4/ times the density required for a closed universe (assuming H/sub 0/ = 100 km s/sup -1/ Mpc/sup -1/).


Abstract The verdin-type Chromophore of denatured C-phycocyanin (1) from Spirulina platensis is reduced to the corresponding rubin (2a) by sodium borohydride. The structure assigned is in agreement with the uv-vis spectroscopic properties of the product and was deduced from model studies with free bile pigments. Analogous model studies using sodium dithionite demonstrated a two-fold reactivity for this reagent, leading to products which are both o f the rubin spectral type under the conditions tested. True rubins (10,22-dihydrobilindions) are formed in low yield only if an excess of reagent is used in methanol/water mixtures. It is accompanied by polar addition product(s) of the same spectral type, which are generally formed exclusively. In particular, no bilirubin was formed under the reaction conditions previously applied for the chemical modification of phycobiliproteins and phytochrome. From this finding and from the strikingly different properties of the borohydride and dithionite products, of phycocyanin upon renaturation, the dithionite product is suggested to be a rubinoid addition product (2b) rather than a hydrogenation product. In contrast to the dithionite addition product 2b of phycocyanin, the chromophore of the true phycorubin (2a) remains stable upon renaturation. The uv-vis spectral properties of the chromophore are not markedly different whether the apoprotein is in its native or denatured state. The different electrophoretic mobilities of native (renatured) phycocyanin compared to the renatured borohydride product suggest that these two have different protein conformations. The preparation of these phycorubins renders the extensive techniques of bilirubin chemistry applicable in the study of biliproteins.


The four papers in this section, by Freed, Ebihara, Fraser, and the Barnetts, though covering South and Southeast Asian peasant societies, focus primarily on changes in terms of development, industrialization, urbanization, and modernization. None of the authors raises questions that were of interest two or three decades ago with respect to peasant societies and cultural changes (such as those raised by Redfield, Redfield and Singer, Sjoberg, and Fo~ter)!-~*~What constitutes a peasant society? Is it a part society? Is change a one-way or multiple-way process-i.e. from village to community to city-or what? How do you measure change and what about process? Rather, they have accepted most of the points from the earlier literature on the subject and write as though all rural communities fit into the category of peasant society, primarily because this is the simplest way to handle a complex problem. Each paper is organized along a different axis: Ebihara and Freed both examine a community and use a specific methodology. In Cambodia, Ebihara uses a network analysis of the contacts of the people of West Sobay (a hamlet in a larger village) with a number of communities. Ebihara defines her units of contact, the way in which she counts such contacts and also differentiates between incoming and outgoing contacts or trips from and to the hamlet. Some of these trips are traditional: people move to other villages in marriages and visit other villages for kinship, friendship, and other ties; they also go to temples for worship and to the district town for governmental affairs and for marketing. Now they also travel daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonally for educational and recreational purposes, and in particular they go the capital city of Phnom Penh for work, recreation, and education, and to visit kin. This network analysis brings out major changes. The formal education of boys and girls provides opportunities to change from agriculturists and unskilled workers to a wide range of urban opportunities in the capital city. Changes in modes of transportation enlarge the area in which work is available and extend recreational and kinship ties to many parts of the country. The density of the population on the land contributes to population movements and changes in kinds of employment. The repeated contacts between West Sobay and the capital enlarge the world view of the villagers, as do other communication channels, such as literacy through education, radio, and the cinema. Social mobility and technological knowledge of the outside world may be symbolized in the desire for every teen-age girl of West Sobay to have and get a permanent. In discussing attitudes toward change in Shanti Nagar, a North Indian village near the capital city of Delhi, Freed provides a model for change that adopts most of the features considered diagnostic criteria for change from peasant to urban societies: I . Kinship becomes attenuated. 2. The incidence of the extended family decreases. 3. Some functions of family life are taken over by city, state, or nation.


It is always with trepidation that I approachthe subject of atherosclerosis-firstly,becauseI feel that I can contribute so little to it, and secondly, becauseI feel that in some circles it is regardedas a hardly respectablesubject for a clinician. I take comfort in the fact that knowledge of the nature of atherosclerosis,generally speaking, is primitive anyhow. I also hope that a brief statementof the problem from the clinician's viewpoint may stimulate discussion and investigation, which is preferable to the apathetic acceptanceof atherosclerosisas an inevitable consequenceof aging. This latter view was expressedby Boyd (1943), when he wrote: "Atherosclerosis is a degenerative process usually associatedwith advancing years which in one way seemsas natural as the greying of the hair. It is the end of a song which is sung in the cradle." The other extremeis representedby the over-enthusiasticmedicine man with his superstitionsbasedupon reproduction of the condition with uncertain fidelity' in experimental animalsunder highly abnormalconditions. As a result of this misplacedenthusiasm,unfortunatepatientshave been subjected to iodism, starvation or intolerable diets with little justification. As a basis for discussionI will make a brief statement now on each of thirteen points which most interestedme in relation to this subject.


Long-term, system-level foresight is needed when grand challenges are addressed in the transport sector. This paper explores how socio-technical transitions can be anticipated and taken into account in strategic transport planning. Techniques to integrate long-term foresight and understanding of socio-technical change in the transport system to support long-term transport policy targets are introduced. The proposed approach extends and combines transport system vision building to analysis of system-level changes on a three-level framework. The case is demonstrated with a vision of a safe and secure Finnish transport system in 2100. First, a consistent transport system vision was created with transport experts and authorities using a structured vision building process. Second, key topics involved in the transition from the existing socio-technical system to the envisioned future were analyzed using the three-level framework. The demonstration proved successful, and it has contributed to the understanding of importance of the shared long-term perspective in transport system decision-making and strategic planning. Discussion on transport system visions, desired futures paths and measures and changes required continues.


Abstract: Gut transit times and dispersal distances of seeds ingested by Callicebus coimbrai at two localities were estimated by tracing seeds found in faeces to feeding sites. Feeding events and faecal samples were recorded/collected and mapped by GPS between April and July, 2012. Junco group fed almost exclusively on fruit, whereas Trapsa group fed on fruit and leaves/flowers in similar proportions. A much higher proportion of faecal samples from Junco contained seeds (47.9%, n = 244, vs. 33.6%, n = 177), and contained more seeds, on average (3.0 ± 2.8 vs. 2.1 ± 2.1) than those from Trapsa. However, gut transit times were absolutely longer at Trapsa (mean = 4.87 ± 1.48 h, n = 6, vs. 2.85 ± 0.53 h, n = 13 daytime events), and dispersal distances were significantly longer (200 ± 81.0 m vs. 126 ± 53.4 m). The evidence indicates that, while the more folivorous diet at Trapsa was reflected in a much lower faecal seed count, it was also associated with longer gut transit times, and significantly longer dispersal distances, i.e. while dispersing approximately half the seeds dispersed by Junco group, Trapsa group dispersed these seeds over almost twice the distance.


This article discusses the necessity of helping, with greater assurance, those boys and girls whose problems require specialized professional attention. Many are handicapped by the unsatisfactory ways in which they are obliged to grow and develop. Misdirection is frequent, even in our successful kind of society. What follows deals with a major cause of this sad plight: namely, divisive effort. If a comprehensive study of the situation were made, an impressive number of boys and girls would be found who are denied all or part of that which is essential for keeping them physically, mentally, and emotionally fit. There would be uncovered, also, many who are denied what is required for their recovery after having been allowed to grow socially sick. Our ineptitude creates, individually and corporatively, irreparable losses of both a personal and social kind. Public and voluntary programs of communities, states and nation which are concerned with the physical, mental, and emotional health of children must be better appreciated and extended. Greater civic awareness is needed of how the anticipated results often fall short. All of us are tied closely into this joint undertaking. Here is a responsibility that must be well handled. John Donne, early English poet, focuses up succinctly in his Seventeenth Devotion the insight and outlook that we ought to attain.


Through the key-slot anecdote in China,an American professor felt that the learning way of "ba zhe shou jiao" fostering basic skills was not in agreement to the "self-reliance" principal value of child rearing in middle class America and called for striking a better balance between the poles of creativities and basic skills.Aware of what the American was experiencing,the author views the anecdote as culture shock in the cross-cultural communication.Close reading the text,the author uncovers overt culture involved in the anecdotes.


Chloroplast growth and replication have been studied in spinach leaf discs cultured on sterile nutrient agar under lights of different spectral qualities. Over the intensity range 0-1-5 mW cm"2 both red (632 nm) and blue (488 nm) laser light stimulate chloroplast division to the same extent as white light. By contrast low intensities (0-22-0-65 mWcm-2) of both white or green (525 run) light are ineffective for chloroplast replication but permit normal chlorophyll syn thesis and greater than normal chloroplast growth. The large plastids of discs grown in green light divide when exposed to high-intensity white light.


New acylhydrazone derivatives 1–6 have been synthesized by condensation of tert-butylphenoxyhydrazide and cinnamaldehyde A or β-chloro-α,β-unsaturated aldehydes B–F. They were characterized by IR, (1H, 13C, 19F) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and high-resolution mass spectroscopy. The NMR data show the existence of the cis/trans-amide conformers due to N–C(O) bond rotation in addition to the E/Z isomers around the C=C bond of some of the starting aldehydes. The solvent polarity effects on the ratios of the cis/trans-amide rotamers have also been investigated. Importantly, rotational barriers around the N–C(O) bond for all compounds 1–6 (62.9–68.8 kJ mol–1) were calculated using the coalescence-temperature method according to the Eyring equation. The results are discussed and compared with those previously reported for related acylhydrazones of aryl adehydes and acetone.


As the new media are advancing at an incredible pace all over the world, there is an increasing need for specialists to carry out the transfer of its content into different languages. This thriving activity known as media translation or/and audiovisual translation has attracted the attention of many scholars who dealt with the linguistic, cultural and technical aspects of this practice, and mainly tried to suggest strategies and approaches to guide the translator, as this transfer is sometimes carried out by amateurs and nonprofessional translators. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent discourse analysis can serve as an approach to subtitling an audiovisual text and demonstrate how it may limit the loss resulting from the strategy of omission implied by subtitling that generates a poorly worded, standard and unstructured text in the target language.


Oil reservoir numerical simulation technology is one research approach of stratum geology as well as oil reservoir development by applying mathematical methods, which establishes the simulation model of stratum oil reservoir through the oil reservoir geology model, permeability mathematical equation and numerical model. The oil-water distribution in Daqing oilfield P-1 block reservoir from May 2003 to October 2012 was modeled using STARS software. The P-1 block reservoir was divided into 70 ? 45 ? 62 grids, with the final system made up of 199,157 grids. Fitting the data for the whole oil reservoir revealed no statistical difference between actual values and those predicted by the STARS model. The average difference between forecast and actual production was 0.78 m3/day, and the maximum error was 8.7%. The forecast value for the P1-O5 well had a better fit to the actual value, with a maximum difference of 0.57 m3/day and maximum error of 7.1%.


The signal repeating frequecy(RF) classification algorithm research is an important subject in electronic warfare domain.The traditional algorithms are primarily based on Histogram,and the most typical algorithms include CDIF and SDIF.The wavelet analysis is a new subject,This paper discusses the application of wavelet analysis in PRF classification.


Modern neural network architectures have shown remarkable success in several large-scale classification and prediction tasks. Part of the success of these architectures is their flexibility to transform the data from the raw input representations (e.g. pixels for vision tasks, or text for natural language processing tasks) to one-hot output encoding. While much of the work has focused on studying how the input gets transformed to the one-hot encoding, very little work has examined the effectiveness of these one-hot labels. In this work, we demonstrate that more sophisticated label representations are better for classification than the usual one-hot encoding. We propose Learning with Adaptive Labels (LwAL) algorithm, which simultaneously learns the label representation while training for the classification task. These learned labels can significantly cut down on the training time (usually by more than 50%) while often achieving better test accuracies. Our algorithm introduces negligible additional parameters and has a minimal computational overhead. Along with improved training times, our learned labels are semantically meaningful and can reveal hierarchical relationships that may be present in the data.


As the development of modern medicine, medical measurement is the base and support of medical research and control of medical quality, its effect and position is more and more important. To adapt to the new situation of medical measurement and enforcing supervision and management of medical measurement, we must improve the acknowledgement of medical measurement, strengthen the cultivation of professional talents, carry out the laws and rules, and investigate new condition, solve new problems, improve teaching, medical treatment and research work in accordance with the rules and specialty of medical measurement.


The vomeronasal sensory epithelium contains two distinct populations of vomeronasal sensory neurons. Apical neurons express Gi2α‐linked V1R vomeronasal receptors and project to the anterior portion of the accessory olfactory bulb, while basal neurons express Goα‐linked V2R receptors and project to the posterior portion. Sensory neurons expressing V1R and V2R vomeronasal receptors are sensitive to different stimuli. Neurons in the vomeronasal system undergo continuous cell turnover during adulthood. To analyze over time neurogenesis of the different sensory cell populations, adult mice were injected with bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) and sacrificed at postinjection days 1, 3, 5, 7, and 11. Newborn vomeronasal neurons were revealed by antibodies against BrdU while subclasses of vomeronasal neurons were identified using antibodies against Goα or Gi2α proteins. To ascertain whether G proteins are early expressed during neurogenesis, multiple labeling experiments using PSA‐NCAM and doublecortin were performed. Distribution of BrdU‐labeled cells was analyzed in angular segments from the margin of the sensory epithelium. No sexual differences were found. Within survival groups, BrdU‐Goα labeled cells were found more marginally when compared with BrdU‐Gi2α labeled cells. The number of BrdU‐positive cells decreased from day 1 to day 3 to remain constant afterwards. The relative proportions of BrdU‐Gi2α and BrdU‐Goα labeled cells remained similar and constant from postinjection day 1 onwards. This rate was also comparable with BrdU‐positive cells starting day 3. These results indicate an early, constant, and similar rate of neurogenesis in the two major subclasses of vomeronasal neurons, which suggests that both cell populations maturate independently. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Develop Neurobiol 70: 961–970, 2010


An ultrabroadband, omnidirectional, and polarization-insensitive absorber based on cascaded nanorod arrays (CNAs) is numerically demonstrated, and an average absorptivity of 98.2% with a relative absorption bandwidth (RAB) of 149.8% can be achieved in the 0.38–2.65 μm wavelength range. The proposed CNA-based absorber requires only several pairs of multilayers to achieve excellent absorption performance. More significantly, the physical mechanism for this intriguing ultrabroadband absorption results from the synergistic effect of localized surface plasmon (LSP) and plasmonic resonant cavity (PRC) modes, which is fundamentally different from the tapered metal/dielectric multilayer-based absorbers associated with the slow-light mode. We investigated the absorption properties of the CNA-based metasurface by using the impedance theory, which indicates that the impedance of the structure matches well with the impedance of the free space from the visible to near-infrared wavelength range. In addition, the absorption properties of the CNA-based metasurface are robust to the variation of the structural parameters and the metal/dielectric materials, and ultrabroadband absorption performance can be maintained within 0–60° for both TM and TE modes.


The ratio of law and morality in different theoretical contexts is analyzed in the article. The attention is focused on the understanding of interdependence of moral and legal norms and their impacts in different periods of human development. Contemporary problems of the ratio of morality and law, which are presented in connection with the development of modern communications and the challenges posed by the development of science and technology, are highlighted in the article.


Large‐scale additive manufacturing (LSAM) is an additive manufacturing process based on the principles of fused filament fabrication but with significantly higher material deposition rates. The novel hybrid process shown in this paper combines LSAM with a laser beam heat treatment. The structure and mechanical properties of parts are improved due to significantly decreased void sizes. The following article details investigations into the vertical and lateral remelting of strands as well as the utilization of a mirror system, which enables beam guidance according to the machine's printing path.


It consists of designing and evaluating the performance of a wireless broadband network in the province of Huaytara, for internet connectivity. It is an applied and experimental investigation where the performance parameters of the network were evaluated. The dependent variable is the capacity of the Wlan cell and the QoS parameters; and as independent variables the coverage and density of the Wlan network. It can be said that for radios up to 8 meters, the experimental client's data rate is higher than the control client's data rate, and for radios greater than 15 meters, the experimental and control client's data rates are no different. As for the QoS parameters, they are favorable for multimedia applications. The network implemented with TDM-E1 / Ethernet and IEEE 802.11n technology, has a maximum capacity per cell of 32.5 Mbps in the 2.4G band and 65 Mbps in the 5.8G band, considering minimum operating parameters of the wireless devices. Users have a 15.2 Mbps field data rate for a maximum radius of 8 meters with up to 7 wireless users connected in the cell, at 2.4 Ghz.


A new type thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer for using as binder in solid propellent were prepared with melt prepolymerization method based on ethylene oxide tetrahydrofuran random copolyehter,isophorone diisocyanate and 1,4 butanediol.Quantitative estimate of phase segregation were discussed with quantitative equation established based on DSC and FTIR results.


The theme of the work is corporate information system and its instruments applied in a particular environment as Vertex Litomysl Division II Hradec Kralove. The introductory chapters are characterized by position, structure and development of the whole as gradually focus on the Division II Hradec Kralove. Furthermore, the introduction to the issues of information systems, theoretical elaboration of management and internal accounting company in general. Then, these tools are elaborated in terms of Vertex as progressive focus on calculating internal costs. In the final stage of the thesis is presented a proposal for a change in the structure calculations of internal costs, which are one of the most important tools for enterprise information systems, which together with accounting best capture the structure
internal costs.


This is an anatomic, preclinical study using computed tomography and computerized simulation to describe the morphologic features and ideal screw insertion trajectories for cervical pedicles in the southern Chinese population. The morphologic features of the pedicle of vertebrae (C3-C7) from 20 human cadaver spines were evaluated with computed tomography and with manual measurements. There was no difference between the two data sets. The topography of the cervical pedicles was recreated graphically, calculating the safe range of the insertion angle with and without consideration of the pedicle screw diameter. Neglecting the diameter of the screw, the average safe ranges of the insertion angle at each cervical level (C3-C7) in the transverse plane were 18.7°, 20.4°, 22.4°, 22.5°, and 27.6°, respectively, and in the sagittal plane 27.6°, 30.3°, 27.7°, 29.0°, and 34.9°, respectively. Including the diameter of the 3.0-mm screw, the safe ranges narrowed to 7.3°, 8.6°, 11.0°, 13.1°, and 15.5° in the transverse plane, and 16.4°, 18.7°, 16.4°, 18.3°, and 23.1° in the sagittal plane. We think computed tomography measurements can provide individual quantitative data for transpedicle screw fixation in the cervical spine.


The coupled fluid-structure dynamics of a light water reactor core support barrel can be calculated by the K-FIX(3D,FLX) and SOLA-FLX codes. The fluid dynamics is described by the three-dimensional, two-fluid code K-FIX(3D) or the two-dimensional, drift-flux code SOLA-DF. The structural dynamics is described by the three-dimensional, elastic shell code FLX. FLX, which uses an explicit finite-difference solution algorithm to solve the shell equations, is explicitly coupled to the fluid-dynamics codes. Motion may be induced by blowdown, prescribed displacement, or seismic action. A sample calculation is provided for verification.


In this paper, we propose a new post-processing method to suppress the residual cross-talk of Blind Source Separation (BSS) outputs. This method relies on the existence of the so called Exclusive Inactivity Periods (EIPs) in the source signals during which all sources are active except one. After detecting EIPs, we use the Normalized Least-Mean-Square (NLMS) algorithm to estimate the cross-talk in these regions. Simulation results show the ability of the proposed method in suppressing the residual cross-talk without distorting the target signal and improving the SIR about 3 dB compared to the NLMS post-processing [5].


In view of harmonic current problems existing in the bi-directional energy control of power conversion system (PCS), an hybrid control strategy of current waveform based on bi-directional main circuit topology is presented. In order to decrease the volume and weight of filter inductance in the DC side, a method of multiple carrier phase-shifting is adopted to restrain ripple and reduce switching loss of converter. In order to improve the power quality of the AC side, total harmonic distortion (THD) in grid-connected current of converter is effectively restrained and high dynamic response speed is ensured. On this basis, a 100kW bi-directional energy storage converter has been developed. The effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed control strategy are verified by the experimental results.


A new species of the genus Herrmannella is described under the name of H. hoonsooi from the bivalve host, Saxidomus purpuratus. This species is characteristic in that the cephalothorax is spatulate, and the prosome and some parts of body have a hyaline material. A key to six Far Eastern species of the genus is provided.


This article explores the effect of changes in prices, income, and nontariff barriers on Japanese imports before and during the period of yen appreciation. Empirical findings support the contention that around the mid-1980s there was an apparent change in the responsiveness of manufactured imports to changes in GNP, as well as changes in nontariff barriers.


This article explores the genesis of the apparently disparate fields of colour psychology, chromotherapy, and colour forecasting. They came to the fore during the 20th century, and while ostensibly unrelated, their common ancestry lies in the late 18th and 19th centuries. This period witnessed the discovery of such strange forces as magnetism, electricity, X-rays, and radio waves—in addition to odic forces and the colour aura. These were all invisible, mysterious, and to the public and many prominent scientists, equally plausible. This article traces a major influence back to spiritualism and Theosophy: both privileged colour and attributed powerful influences to it. This legacy remains, though not in the scientific domain. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Col Res Appl, 40, 99–106, 2015


Past and current direct neutrino mass experiments set limits on the so-called effective neutrino mass, which is an incoherent sum of neutrino masses and lepton mixing matrix elements. The electron energy spectrum which neglects the relativistic and nuclear recoil effects is often assumed. Alternative definitions of effective masses exist, and an exact relativistic spectrum is calculable. We quantitatively compare the validity of those different approximations as function of energy resolution and exposure in view of tritium beta decays in the KATRIN, Project 8 and PTOLEMY experiments. Furthermore, adopting the Bayesian approach, we present the posterior distributions of the effective neutrino mass by including current experimental information from neutrino oscillations, beta decay, neutrinoless double-beta decay and cosmological observations. Both linear and logarithmic priors for the smallest neutrino mass are assumed.


A new variable structure adaptive control scheme is proposed for a class of uncertain multi-input and multioutput(MIMO) nonlinear systems with nonlinear input and time-varying delays.The unknown time-varying delay is compensated by using Lyapunov-Krasovskii(L-K) functionals in the design.Furthermore, using the Young inequality and the parameter adaptive estimation, the parameters in the nonlinear dead-zone models and the lumped uncertainty are not necessary to be known.By theoretical analysis, the closed-loop control system is proved to be semi-global uniformly ultimately bounded(UUB), and the output tracking error converges to a neighborhood of zero.


Louise Jilek-Aall was born on April 21, 1931 in Oslo, Norway. She studied philosophy at the University of Oslo and pursued medical studies at the University of Tubingen and University of Saarland in Germany and at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, where she defended her dissertation on epilepsy in East Africa under Professor Manfred Bleuler and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. She holds diplomas in tropical medicine from the Swiss Institute of Tropical Medicine in Basle and in psychiatry from McGill University in Montreal, and a Master of Arts degree in anthropology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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health;
indigenous psychology;
psychotherapies


The activities of opportunistic and involuntary browsing offer the potential for many of a user's latent problems to be resolved serendipitously, with negligible cognitive effort. In this article, we demonstrate how the design of two novel artifacts to support such behavior was based on a set of Design Actions which were derived from a model of browsing behavior in combination with a cognitive model of human visual information processing. We propose the concept of Design Actions as a way of avoiding the need for an interaction designer associated with these and similar artifacts to understand the cognitive theories underlying them.


Single‐center clinical series provide important information on genetic distribution that can guide genetic testing. However, there are few such studies on pediatric populations with inherited peripheral neuropathies (IPNs).


Split-thickness skin graft donor sites tend to bleed, and fibrin sealant has been used to speed time to hemostasis. Use of sealant has been anecdotally reported to reduce donor site pain. In this study, 50 patients who had split skin grafts harvested from the thigh were randomized to receive two forms of postoperative treatment to the donor site: either a self-adhesive fabric dressing or fibrin …


The influences of heat treatment on the microstructure and electrochemical properties of Al-Mg-Sn-Ga-X quinary aluminum alloy anode material in 4 mol/L NaOH alkaline medium were studied.The microstructure and morphology were characterized by metallographic microscope,transmission electron microscope(TEM) and scanning electron microscopy(SEM).The electrochemical properties and corrosion rate were tested by electrochemical workstation and water excluding method.The results show that the return annealing treatment of the cold rolling aluminum alloy can reduce the corrosion rate and make the stable potential negative shift.After recrystallization annealing process,the cube texture in the aluminum alloy plate increases,leading to a high corrosion rate and negative stable potential.


The particle "ba" in Zunyi dialect has the same side with Mandarin in meaning and usage,and also some distinctive features of its own.This paper gives a dialed description of the particle "ba" from three aspects such as the choice of "ba" to the quantifier and numeral,the syntax distribution of "ba",and the grammatical meaning of "x ba'.