The data-parallel programming model is now widely recognized as fundamental for high performance computing in massively parallel machines. Amazingly, much eeort has be done on designing data-parallel languages and developing compilers for them, but little attention has been paid to the precise semantic deenition of these languages, and to the formal veriication of data-parallel programs. Existing data-parallel languages, including HPF, C*, or the recently proposed HyperC 7], contain a similar core of parallel control structures. We have shown that it is possible to deene a simple but representative kernel data-parallel language, (the L language), and to give it a formal operational 4] and denotational semantics 3]. We have shown that it is moreover possible to deene a proof system for a restricted class of programs, in the style of the usual Hoare's logic approach 3]. The diiculty lies the description of the data-scope of vector instructions, namely the subset of (currently active) indices at which a vector instruction is to be applied, called the extent of parallelism or (activity) context. In our approach, a state (; c) of a L program is made of two components. Environment gives each (vector) variable a (vector) value, as usual. Context c is a boolean vector with value true at each active processor index, and value false otherwise. Our original contribution is to introduce context expressions as part of the assertion language. They are boolean vector expressions specifying contexts. Their crucial role is to express constraints on contexts, coming from assertions on program variables. Program assertions are thus of the form fP; Cg where P is a predicate on the program (vector) variables, and C is a boolean (vector) expression. Satissability is deened by (; c) j = fP; Cg ii j = P and (C) = c An early approach in this direction had been proposed by Clint and Narayana 5] for the Actus language. Starting from this early attempt, Stewart and Wray 8] proposed a prescriptive approach, which explicitly includes the list of active indices. Gabarrr o and Gavaldd a 6] have described a proof system for data-parallel quite close to ours. But in contrast to our method, they only considered context expressions as assertions modiiers. This let them run into diiculties to cope with the where conditioning construct. In contrast, keeping context expression C explicit in assertion allows us to handle conditioning properly. In a recent work 2], we have shown …


Although symptoms can occur on foliage, they may be subtle or mistaken for another disease. The earliest symptom is water-soaking between the veins on the underside of the seedling cotyledons (seed leaves). These areas eventually dry up and die. On true leaves, the disease can form distinctive, brown, elongated lesions on and next to the veins, which also may appear water-soaked. The bacteria also produce brown, circular spots on the leaves, but similar circular lesions can be caused by a number of other agents.


This paper proposes a model derived from literature reviews linking perceived service quality, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and employee satisfaction whilst implementing Total Quality Management (TQM) amongst Australian and Korean banking industries. The study tested the model developed by using several measures and found significant relationships and path links between perceived service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty as well as between TQM practices and employee satisfaction. These findings suggest that organizations, which are interested in long-term business success, should focus on the satisfaction of customers. A total of 11 banks, five in Seoul, Korea and six in Sydney, Australia, were chosen, which responded positively to questionnaires distributed to both bank customers and employees. Several cultural, conceptual and practical dimensions, along with hypotheses testing were carried out for comparative analysis of TQM implementations in both Korean and Australian banking industries.


Foetal outcome, as reported by many researchers across the globe, is affected by many factors of which maternal anthropometric parameters (maternal weight, height and body mass index) are inclusive. The present study was aimed at establishing the significance of the impact of maternal body mass index on neonatal outcome of neonates in Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. A total of 125 subjects were employed in the study. The informations and specific datas of each subject were obtained using a well structured proforma. The datas were tabulated using simple frequency table and presented graphically using bar chart. The degree of significance was determined using Chi-square test of significance. The result obtained showed that the overall mean neonatal birth weight was 3.7±4.15 kg. The mean neonatal birth weight, as recorded in the present study was within the acceptable range while the maternal body mass index was high as compared to the normal range (20-24.9kg/m2). The neonatal birth weight was significantly dependent on the gender of the neonates (p 0.05) contributes to the birth weight of neonates in the current study. Future researchers are encouraged to consider other effective factors besides maternal BMI such as both parental anthropometry and placental ratio in future studies.


Background: Thoracolumbar burst fractures accounts for 10 to 40 percent of the spinal column fractures caries a significant morbidity and mortality. Vertebral fractures are usually followed by chronic pain, deformity, loss of height and crowding of internal organs. A combination of the above problems can adversely affect the self-esteem and ability to carry on the daily activities . The objective of the study was to find proportion of the conservatively treated thoracolumbar burst fracture and the factors associated with the final outcome of the treatment with the clinical, radiological evidences. Methods: In this study 36 patients with burst fracture of thoracolumbar spine without neurological deficit, treated conservatively from January 2015–August 2016 were included. The overall follow up period was 18 months. Various radiological parameters were taken in to consideration like Cobb angle, canal stenosis, sagittal alignment, and fragment displacement. Treatment outcome was evaluated by short form survey questionnaire (SF-36), Denis score for pain and work and the visual analogue scale (VAS). Results: The overall functional outcome in this study group 30.55% returned to the previous employment. 25% back to their previous job with restrictions.27.7% unable to return to the previous job but works fulltime in a new job. 16.7% unable to return to full time work. No one is completely disabled. The Cobb angle remains same or decreased in 53% and in 47% with minimum -8 maximum 5. The severe pain score was in 5.6% of cases . Conclusions: Proper selection of patients and their prior activities, social and educational background and future plans in addition to a thorough physical, neurological and spinal examination are mandatory to achieve satisfactory result .


The Raman spectrum of polycrystalline methyl iodide has been studied at 77° and 195°K, and the difference between the Raman and infrared spectra has been discussed. All of six frequencies due to lattice vibrations have been found, and their assignments have been given. The heat capacity of crystalline methyl iodide at various temperatures has been calculated from the spectral data obtained and compared with the observed values of crystalline methyl bromide.


Abstract : The DMIC Selected Accessions is a current listing of selected documents and journal articles in an abstracted form on subjects within the technical scope of the Defense Metals Information Center (DMIC). It does not include restricted documents received by DMIC, such as Government classified reports, many of the progress reports issued to Government agencies, or company proprietary reports. It is published to supply current information and to provide an awareness of technical-information sources to Government contractors and subcontractors. (Author)


This thesis expatiates the application of industrial network system to the control of aluminum electrolysis. Compared with the traditional stand-alone direct number control system, the advantages of industrial network system are shown in control strategy and multi-task merged into disposal.


This paper focuses on the image segmentation, which is one of the key problems in medical image processing. A medical image segmentation method is proposed based on the combination of fast marching method and watershed transformation. First, the original image is smoothed by using nonlinear diffusion filter. Then the smoothed image is over-segmented by the watershed algorithm. Finally, the image is segmented automatically by using the modified fast marching method. Moreover, the speed function is defined based on the statistical similarity degree of the regions. Experimental results show that the algorithm can obtain segmentation result of medical image fast and accurately.


Chemical looping combustion is a promising technology for the combustion of fuel with inherent separation of CO2.The experiments on chemical looping combustion of coal were performed in a 1 kWth interconnected fluidized bed reactor using a natural Australian hematite as oxygen carrier.The effects of fuel reactor temperature on the gas compositions from both fuel and air reactors were discussed.A comparison of the effects of several factors on coal gasification efficiency,carbon capture efficiency and gasification products conversion efficiency was carried out and the gaseous sulfur compounds released in the system were analyzed.The results indicated that with increasing fuel reactor temperature from 900℃ to 985℃ there was a gradual increase of CO volumetric fraction but a gradual decrease of CO2 volumetric fraction in the fuel reactor,and CO2 concentration in the air reactor dropped linearly correspondingly.A higher fuel reactor temperature would contribute to significantly increasing coal gasification efficiency and carbon capture efficiency.An increase in the mass of oxygen carrier and coal,the main factors,would cause the gasification conversion increase and decrease respectively.Sulfur was released primarily as SO2 in the fuel reactor,and SO2 concentration increased from 515×10-6 to 562×10-6 due to a change in fuel reactor temperature from 900℃ to 985℃.


Every connection to an Internet service requires a Domain Name System (DNS) lookup. Nevertheless, similar to other protocols used since the early days of the Internet, DNS was not designed with trust and security in mind. From a bird's eye view, the DNS threat model boils down to two types of attackers: off-path ones who can transmit packets but cannot observe the traffic, and on-path who sit either between the client and the recursive resolver, or between the recursive resolver and the DNS servers, and can read or modify packets.


Implicit in the notion of a planned innovation is the concept of a treatment or service program. In fact, most social reforms, particularly those in education, involve a specific program or set of programs such as preschool, career, or vocational training. This service strategy formed the basis of the Johnson administration's attempts to redress the balance of economic resources and achieve equality between the advantaged and disadvantaged members of society (e.g., Head Start and Follow Through). As these and other Great Society programs of the late 1960s came under increasing attack, policy-makers (Friedman, 1962; Moynihan, 1973) offered an alternative class of social action policies based on an "income


Objective To summarize the imaging manifestations of the primary osteosarcoma, and to discuss its relevant clinical features and differential diagnosis. Materials and Methods In this study, 14 cases (6 males and 8 females, mean age 23.5 years) of pathologically proved primary osteosarcoma were collected, which were encountered during 1980~1999. The lesions affected femur (n=9), fibula (n=2), humerus(n=2) or tibia (n=1). Findings on plain films, CT and MRI were retrospectively analyzed, and a comparison with the pathological results was made. Results The imaging findings of the primary osteosarcoma included extensive bone destruction, periosteal reaction, soft tissue mass and, in some cases, neoplastic bone and tumorous calcifications. The extent of the lesion observed on images was not well consistent with the pathologic results. Pain radiographs provided best visualization, while CT and MRI was helpful in differentiations.Conclusion Primary osteosarcoma is a common neoplasm, it usually causes extensive bone destruction. The diagnosis can be easily made for osteogenic osteosarcoma. Osteolytic tumor should be differentiated with Ewing's tumor and malignant giant cell tumor.


It relates to an excellent far-infrared radiation, and the antimicrobial coating composition has a solvent resistance, and a coated steel sheet for such a coating composition is coated electronics. According to the present invention, a thermosetting resin, the thermosetting resin per 100 parts by weight of ceramic powder, 9-60 parts by weight of 0.2 to 4.0 and a phosphate coating composition comprising a weight, and this coating composition is a coating coated steel sheet is provided. In addition to the coating composition and the coating composition is applied to coated steel sheet of the invention is excellent in far-infrared ray radiation, antibacterial, the alkalinity of the ceramic powder by the phosphoric acid is neutralized to an improvement in the storage stability and solvent resistance. By further blended in addition to the silane compound and the curing catalyst is improved gloss and processability do. Thermosetting resin, a ceramic powder, a phosphate, a silane compound, a curing catalyst, the coating composition


A locally conformal finite-difference time-domain (CFDTD) method is presented for the accurate analysis of pin-loaded microstrip patch antennas.This approach can accurately model the feed probe and the shorting pin with variable positions and dimensions and can be used in modeling multi-pin-loaded case.The calculated results are compared with measured ones,showing good agreement.


A typical flexible pavement consists of a subgrade, sub-base, base course and two layers of asphalt concrete mixes. The flexible pavements in India are designed as per the specifications of the Indian Roads Congress (IRC). In IRC: 37-2012, the pavement is modelled as a multi-layer elastic structure. The stresses and strains are evaluated using linearized elastic theory. The thickness of the pavement layers are selected duly considering the allowable stresses and strains in the pavement layers, including the subgrade. The main concern related to pavement design is material characterization. For constructing road with superior quality, the highway material should meet the quality requirements and is helpful in providing good strength and longer life of pavements. The highway consists of soil in subgrade, granular material in sub-base/base, and bituminous mixture in binder/surface layer. In the current study, the tests that are carried out for characterizing the soil, granular and bitumen explained clearly. In addition, the allowable limits for selecting such materials are also mentioned. In India, according to IRC: 37 (2012), pavements are designed to limit rutting and bottom-up fatigue cracking. It provides design templates for six different cross-sections, traffic levels and different subgrade California Bearing Ratio (CBR) values. These templates are designed for an Annual Average Pavement Temperature (AAPT) of 35°C. Traffic is considered in terms of Equivalent Standard Axle Load (ESAL) and here the standard axle is defined as a single axle dual wheel with a load of 80 kN. IRC: 37 (2012) provides two distress prediction models for rutting based on 80 and 90 percent reliabilities. Resilient modulus (MR) is used as the material property in the design of a pavement for rutting according to IRC: 37 (2012). The IRC method of pavement design provides a constant granular layer thickness for different traffic levels. The flexibility in changing the design is normally available for the bituminous layers. Using resilient modulus values and subgrade CBR, one should assume thicknesses for bituminous layers and determine stress-strain.


In this paper, a new design of miniaturized passive UHF RFID tag antenna using double negative metamaterial based on fractal split ring resonator is proposed. This tag antenna is designed on paper substrate having dielectric constant of 3.3, tangent loss of 0.04 and height of 250 micrometers. The effective read range can be obtained when the input impedance of the antenna is conjugate match with the complex impedance of the RFID chip. The dimensions of the metamaterial tag antenna are optimized and simulated by using the electromagnetic solver Momentum integrated in ADS. The obtained result was validated by CST Microwave Studio. The proposed tag antenna is designed to cover the North and South American UHF RFID band (902-928MHz). The input impedance bandwidth of the proposed tag antenna is 28 MHz (from 902MHz to 928MHz), the reflection coefficient is about -35dB and the simulated gain is about 1.73dB.


Nowadays, websites are one of the most important information sources in the world. Websites contain information which is majority in visual presentation. Therefore it is not user-friendly for blind and visually impaired people. Furthermore, the existing web-accessing tools for people with disability require users to be computer literate. Unfortunately not all blind and visually impaired people are computer literate. Based on these facts a new web accessing tool is needed to be developed. This study is done in order to develop this new web-accessing tool that uses Bahasa Indonesia and help blind and visually impaired people in accessing websites even though they have a very low computer literacy. The web-accessing tool should be able to deliver the main information inside the website and can be accessed from public service area without specific additional hardware and software. The web-accessing tool is developed with speech recognition as input, web scraping to get the main content of the website, and text to speech and produce audio as output. The web-accessing tool has been tested using usability evaluation to ensure that the web-accessing tool is usable and easy to use for blind and visually impaired people. The usability testing evaluation showed satisfying results that indicate the tool's usability and easiness to use.


The central processors in the stored program control system AKE 13 use a priority level system to separate jobs of different urgency'. Increased processor load causes a decrease of the e~ecution frequency of programs a~inistrating call processing at priority level PLO. A feedback control system has been designed to keep this execution frequency at or above a spe~ified level by means of restricting acceptance of new calls. The objectives are to guarantee correct handling of accepted calls during heavy overload, and to enable full utilization of the traffic handling cabability at varying load composition. The properties of different control systems have been studied by simulations. It has been demonstrated that the selected control system is able to keep the internal waiting t~es within acceptable values even at processor occupancy above 95~, and that the control system responds quickly to changes in load composition. 436/1


Spain is a country known as a "State of Autonomies" because regionalisms are very strong and with different characteristics. This country is administrative divided in 17 Autonomous Communities and two Autonomous Cities in Africa (Ceuta and Melilla). The administrative division for Autonomies is the same as NUTS 2. The objective of this research is to analyse the inequalities between Spanish regions for the period of 1975-2017, linking some demographic indicators (for migration, fertility and mortality) and economic indicators (as unemployment, production by sectors, economic growth and debt). The methodology is quantitative using descriptive and comparative analysis, with some econometric models of regression to analyse though a panel database. This permits to see through the main determinants for the Spanish demography. For example, one of our models can predict birth growth (explaining almost the 65% of the cases, with an 1% of error), according to the literature related to the socialization hypothesis on the fertility behaviour. The main results point out changes and differences on fertility rate, foreigners' proportion and unemployment rate. Total fertility rate decreased from 2.8 in 1975 to 1.3 in 2017. The foreigners' proportion increased in Spain from 1.6% in 1998 to 9.8% in 2017 over the total population and being the double of foreigners' proportion for all regions (except Madrid, Navarra, Ceuta and Melilla). Finally, Spain still have some huge regional differences between North-South respect to economic indicators, as unemployment rate or economic sectors.


The paper presents the results of research on the assessment of mechanical impact in the form of vibrations on the overall quality of raspberry fruits after harvesting, in the context of conditions of their transport to the consumer and the processing plant. The degree of compaction of the raspberry fruits layer was determined in the course of test carried out in laboratory conditions, and the amount of juice leakage resulting from vibrations, to which raspberries were subject, was measured. It was demonstrated that mechanical impact, in the form of vibrations, on the layer of raspberry fruits has a substantial impact on the quantity (mass) of juice leakage, which is smaller in the case of cooled fruits, and significantly bigger in the case of fruits not subject to cooling immediately after harvesting and stored at ambient conditions.


The antihypertensive effect of carteolol, a new potent nonselective beta‐adrenergic antagonist, was investigated in a double‐blind, parallel study of 35 patients with mild‐to‐moderate, essential hypertension whose blood pressures were not adequately controlled with a diuretic. Patients were randomly assigned to receive placebo, carteolol 5 mg, or carteolol 20 mg once a day in addition to hydrochlorothiazide 50 mg for six weeks. Thirty‐four patients completed the study: 11 patients received placebo (group 1), 12 patients received carteolol 5 mg (group 2), and 11 patients received carteolol 20 mg (group 3). After six weeks of treatment, the two groups that received carteolol had significant reductions in systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure from baseline in both the supine and standing positions. In group 2, mean SBP decreases for supine and standing positions were 11 ± 2.1 and 11 ± 1.9 mm Hg, respectively (P < .01) and 8 ± 1.2 and 9 ± 1.3 mm Hg, respectively, for DBP (P < .01); whereas in group 3, values were 8 ± 2.8 and 12 ± 3.0 mm Hg for SBP, in 5 ± 1.9 and 9 ± 3.1 mm Hg, respectively, for DBP (P < .01). The hypotensive effect was associated with slight but significant decreases in heart rate (P < .01 in group 2 and P < .05 in group 3). Reductions in SBP and DBP with the 20‐mg dose were not significantly different from those with the 5‐mg dose. With both carteolol regimens, the fall in mean blood pressure did not correlate with the initial level; but in the group taking the 5‐mg dose, it did correlate significantly with the decrease in heart rate (r = .72, P < .01). Side effects attributable to carteolol were infrequent and did not persist during continued therapy. It is concluded that carteolol, when combined with hydrochlorothiazide, is effective in reducing blood pressure in patients with mild to moderate hypertension.


Guanrong CHEN, Sergej ČELIKOVSKÝ, Lei GUO, Youmin ZHANG, Tiancheng LI Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Prague 18200, Czech Republic School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada MOE Key Laboratory of Information Fusion Technology, School of Automation,


Atomic-scale compositional ordering in Si x Ge 1-x alloys is directly linked to the formation of coherent islands during Stranski-Krastanow growth. The vicinal surfaces associated with nonequilibrium island shapes induce a bilayer step flow growth mode, and the ordering resulting from Ge segregation at D B kinks


Six fruit nutshells, namely: Thevetia nerrifolia, Hura crepitans, Hyphaene thebaica, Pentachlethra macrophyla, Tetracapidium conophorum and Cocos nucifera were carbonised, oxidized with atmospheric air and activated in CO2 at 840°C for 3 h. The iodine number range of active carbon (AC) was 822-1804 mg/g while BET surface area was within the 551-2738 m 2 /g range. The ranges of micropore and mesopore volumes were 0.100-0.210 and 0.017-0.053 cm 3 /g, respectively. The dependence of burn off, porosity and BET surface area of ACs on NaOH titratable surface functional groups indicated linearity. The phenol/lactone and carbonyl surface functional groups ranged from 6.002 to 8.294 and from 3.970 to 5.908 mmol H + equiv/g carbon, respectively. FT-IR spectra revealed the presence of OH, C=O, and C-O functional groups on surface of the prepared ACs. Their SEM micrographs show pores and crevices all over their surface. These carbons might have potential ability to remove metals and organic compounds from waste water.


The insiders of public company who have more information about the company than other investors should disclose their information to all the investors,and they will disclose their information in the interest of themselves.Different from the early models,we assume the information that the insiders disclosed should be correct and full.In the same time,we assume that the insiders can disclose the information during a certain time period.This paper derived the equilibrium price of risk asset in this setting.


Methods for defatting omentum and processes for preparing an a cellular omentum i.e., devitalized or decellularized omentum, comprising extracellular matrix for implantation into a mammalian system. Also constructs for medical applications comprising decellularized omentum.


Organo-modified fluorohectorite (OFH) clay filled polysulfone (PSf) nanocomposite films were prepared by solution casting method. The morphology of the nanocomposites was investigated using attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The surface properties assessed by contact angle measurements showed significant increase in hydrophobicity of the nanocomposites relative to the virgin polymer. The relationship between contact angle, surface roughness, and surface chemistry was discussed. From the measured contact angle values, various surface parameters such as total surface free energy, interfacial free energy, work of adhesion, spreading coefficient, and Girifalco-Good's interaction parameter were calculated. The mechanical properties like tensile strength and elongation at break were increased considerably upon increasing the organoclay content to 3 wt%. But further increase in the clay content decreased the properties to some extent. The dielectric investigation carried out in room temperature indicated that dielectric constant of PSf/OFH clay nanocomposite films decreases with the increase of the clay content. This work describes the preparation of PSf nanocomposite with desired hydrophobic, dielectric, and mechanical properties for water repellent and electronic applications.


Nearest neighbor search is a fundamental problem in data management and analytics with vast applications. However, a seminal paper by Beyer et al demonstrated the curse of dimensionality, where under certain conditions with high dimensionality, all the data points tend to be equidistant and thus the nearest neighbor problem is meaningless. This influential work has spawned a series of investigations of the concentration phenomenon, which, for the most part, are limited to the vector space. In this paper, we extend this investigation to sequence data, which do not have an inherent notion of dimensions or attributes. For similarity measures we consider the commonly used edit distance and longest common subsequence. We perform theoretical analysis and prove conditions under which sequences will concentrate. We also conduct experiments on synthetic data to verify the theoretical findings. Rather than the curse of dimensionality as previous studies demonstrate, we attempt to demonstrate the curse of length for sequential data.


We show that for any 1≤p≤∞, the family of random vectors uniformly distributed on hyperplane projections of the unit ball of lnp verify the variance conjecture
Var|X|2≤Cmaxξ∈Sn−1E⟨X,ξ⟩2E|X|2,
where C depends on p but not on the dimension n or the hyperplane. We will also show a general result relating the variance conjecture for a random vector uniformly distributed on an isotropic convex body and the variance conjecture for a random vector uniformly distributed on any Steiner symmetrization of it. As a consequence we will have that the class of random vectors uniformly distributed on any Steiner symmetrization of an lnp-ball verify the variance conjecture.


This paper was based upon the personal narrative of the author and her reflection upon her dual role work experiences-as a practitioner at the College Student Counseling Center and as a faculty member in charge with teaching and researching loads. After serving at the Student Counseling Center for five years, I quitted my job. But questions lingered in my mind. "What exactly happens?" "Why am I escaping from my job?" Through this reflective study, I hoped that I can renew my strength for action, while at the same time established a new direction for college counseling work. The methodology applied in this paper was a combination of personal narrative and reflection-on-action of action research. The findings include: 1. It is difficult to balance the duties as a faculty and as a counseling practitioner, especially when the universities gradually add more emphasis upon academic research. 2. The ambiguous administrative status of the Student Counseling Center, the instability of the staff, and the ethical problems ensued from dealing with emergent cases all make it difficult for the Center to function in a way it should. 3. A new framework that transforms the Student Counseling Center, which provides the remedial help to one which offers primary preventive programs, is the directive for the future development. College counseling practitioners should not only be licensed psychologist under the Psychologist Act, but they should also formulate a professional association in order to improve their skills and capacity as professionals. Finally, practitioners, also as researchers, are expected to resolve their own practice difficulties and produce the professional knowledge.


The reputation of "empty" prepositions such as a and de is based most notably on their behaviour, which is related to that of clitics (Vendryes 1921) or affixes (Miller 1992). From a semantic point of view, their empty, random nature is revealed in the fact that they can be interpreted in contradictory ways, for example in syntactical structures that are associated with transfer predicates. However, in the wake of Cadiot (1993) and Bartning (1996), the hypothesis concerning N1 de N2 constructions has been put forward that it is possible to discern "prototypical relations" when a or de is governed by a linguistic element (verb or adjective). The present study shows that the difference between a and de bears meaning and that the way in which they may or must be distributed relies on a semantic link between the linguistic element that governs the preposition and the preposition itself, following the principle of naturality, which indissolubly associates form and meaning. The difference emerges clearly in pairs where a and de are involved.


Introduction. This article considers a complex problem of personal safety in educational relations in course of implementation of pedagogical innovations. The personal safety demanded by science in this century as pedagogical phenomenon was designated to provide training of teaching staff in qualitatively other formats answering to realities of modern vital space. The innovative educational environment needs the optimum indicators of safety corresponding to objective conditions of development of the personality. The general characteristic of teaching staff readiness for personality safety in the innovative educational environment given on the basis of a complex of allocated indicators is especially relevant. The purpose of the article is to determine the readiness degree of teaching staff for personal security in the innovative educational environme nt.
Materials and Methods. The complex of indicators of teaching staff readiness is estimated with the use of theoretical (idealization, abstraction, deductions, induction), and empirical (a pedagogical experiment, testing, selective direct observation, an experimental pedagogical conversation, questionnaire, professional and creative tasks, the statistical analysis of pedagogical information) methods. Materials and methods are demanded in the context of integration of the signs defining safety of the personality and significant parameters of innovation of the educational environment.
Results. The general level of teaching staff readiness for personal safety in the innovative educational environment can't be estimated as sufficient. The special attention is required to the work associated with formation of teaching staff readiness to take risk in the course of implementation of pedagogical innovations; also the low level of self-esteem and self-acceptance, sensitiv ity to themselves cause concern. This research expanded representations about personal safety in the innovative educational environment as to the system of the conditions providing openness of subjects of education to culture, innovations, situations of the uncertain future and also security and optimality of int eraction with the world around.
Discussion and Conclusion. The target reference points of training teaching staff for evidence-based process of ensuring personality safety in the innovative educational environment are designated. The results of the study are of interest to scientific and pedagogical community, the practicing teachers, administrative employees of the educational organizations and future teachers.

Keywords: safety, security, danger, threat, risk, readiness, innovation, educational environment


The present study investigated the influence of principals' professional training on creating professional learning communities in Kenyan secondary schools. The study population comprised of 194 principals, 1526 teachers, 194 BOM Chairpersons, and 6 SCQASOs. The total population was 1920 respondents and informants. The study used both purposive and stratified random sampling procedures to obtain study participants of 20 principals, 153 teachers, 20 BOM Chairpersons and 6 SCQASOs. Questionnaires and interview schedule were used to collect data for the study. Reliability of questionnaires was ensured by Cronbach's methods and alpha value was 0.790. The statistical tool SPSS Version 23 was used to analyze the quantitative data, while thematic analysis used to analyze qualitative data. The study findings indicated that there was statistically significant positive correlation between principals' professional training and creation of professional learning communities (n=135; r= .479; p<.05). It's recommended that Kenya Educational Management Institute (KEMI) should re-structure their training programmes to include creation of professional learning communities.


The physical properties of the synthesized MAX phases M2SeC (M = Hf, Zr) have been investigated for the first time using the DFT method in the pressure range 0–25 GPa. The computed lattice parameters are consistent with the earlier findings at ambient pressure. The electronic band structure and energy dependent density of states reveal the metallic nature of the titled compounds. The metallic behavior of M2SeC (M = Hf, Zr) remains unchanged within the studied pressure range. Possible changes in the mechanical properties between Hf2SeC and Zr2SeC are revealed by analyzing the peaks in the density of states (DOS) for both compounds. Partial DOS is also considered under different pressures. The studied compounds remain mechanically stable up to 25 GPa. Both Hf2SeC and Zr2SeC are elastically anisotropic and brittle, but as the pressure increases up to 25 GPa, the brittleness of the materials decreases. At 5 and 10 GPa, however, both compounds exhibit a ductile behavior. The optical properties of Hf2SeC have been computed for the first time and compared with those of Zr2SeC. The investigated compounds are promising as solar heat reflectors due to their higher reflectivity in the low energy state. Different thermal properties, such as Debye temperature, melting temperature, and minimum thermal conductivity, have been explored within the studied pressure range to recognize their suitability for high-temperature applications. Both Hf2SeC and Zr2SeC have the potential to be used as coating materials for thermal barriers, although Hf2SeC is a better option.


Taboo terms in certain English expressions and constructions are intensifiers, which have spread as a unit over time to various syntactic positions (Hoeksema & Napoli 2008). Here we look at the pragmatic coherence that has allowed such semantically disparate terms to be grammaticalized as a unit. We examine language using taboo terms in English with comparisons to Dutch, Italian, and other languages. The terms studied here regard religion, disease, sex, and bodily excretions. They exhibit common characteristics with cross-linguistic variation.


Some new interpretations on the evolution will be made from discussing about the relation between symmetry and asymmetry in the evolution of complex system. Also the trend and optimization of evolution were discussed.


This paper is concerned with the terminology and fundamental problems of FTC and supervision. Based on the idea that at any level, engineers are concerned with the control (or at least the mastering) of a (healthy or faulty) system, successive extensions of the Standard Control Problem (SCP) are proposed in order to provide a clear definition of Fault tolerance and Supervision problems.


The results of COD concentration on August of 2004 were 6.80 ppm in North Mokpo Inner Bay, 4.42 ppm un front of YongSang Bank and 4.60 ppm in front of ShinAn Beach Hotel which is over III level Marine Environmental Standard. The others researched five stations sea water quality of Mokpo inner bay are reached II-III level. The concentration of total nitrogen range from 1.23 ppm to 3.56 ppm and total phosphorous concentration was range from 0.07 ppm to 0.12 ppm which are to be II-III level. This results show that the Mokpo inner bay is unsuitable for aquaculture and for use of marine resort, it can be only avaliable for industrial and harbour port use. In this study, we researched 12 point source flow into Mokpo Inner bay. The rate from YoungSang river in total inflow of TN was up to 70-93 % and rate of TP was up to 31-91 % respectively. In this results, we have to control the discharge from YoungSang river first of all then control the discharge from North Harbour domestic wastewater treatment, InAm river and NamHae domestic wastewater treatment in order to improve the water quality of Mokpo Inner bay.


Abstract : Since the 2007 summary report, we have made significant progress in elucidating the novel mechanisms by which PR regulates expression of E2F1, a key regulator of cell cycle progression, in T47D breast cancer cells. In addition to a direct regulatory pathway involving recruitment of PR to the E2F1 promoter, we have identified several indirect modes of regulation. First, ligand-bound PR stimulates increased recruitment of E2F1 to its own promoter in a positive feedback loop. Second, treatment with the synthetic progestin R5020 induces expression of KLF15, a member of the Sp/KLF superfamily of transcription factors, which can then bind to GC-rich DNA within the E2F1 promoter and further amplify transcriptional activation. Finally, we have discovered that lower concentrations of the synthetic progestin R5020 are better able to mediate induction of E2F1 than higher concentrations of R5020. This means that the current paradigm of giving low dose progestins in combination with estrogen in HRT and contraceptives may actually be increasing the activation of certain downstream PR target genes, including those involved in cell cycle progression and proliferation.


A photoelectric pyrometer has been developed with which the International Practical Temperature Scale (IPTS) above the gold point, 1063 "C, is realized about 5 times more accurately than with the prevalently used disappearing filament visual pyrometer. Estimated standard deviation uncertainties of realizing the IPTS with the photoelectric instrument are 0.06 deg C at 1063 "C, 0.12 deg C at 1256 "C, 0.27 deg C at 1650 "C, 0.7 deg C at 2330 "C, and 2 deg C at 3525 "C. The design, evaluation, and calibration to realize the IPTS are discussed.


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Researchers of gender differences in computer-reated behaviors have reported a confusing picture. When asked which sex is more positive toward computers, more apt at using computers, and more likely to use a computer, one would be best advised to answer "it depends." It depends on what attitudes you are measuring, what.skills you are assessing, what the computer is being used for, and what age group you are sampling. This review offers two suggestions to reduce this confusion. The first is to clean up the data so that we can be sure that the results reported are "real" differences. The second is to switch from a more traditiona] quantitative, construct-based approach to a qualitative, dynamic approach that looks at processes of human-computer interaction. Several examples of the kind or useful theoretical and practical information that can be gleaned from a more process-oriented style are offered. By addressing process, researchers can address and alter the inequities that exist regarding the use of computers. (79 references) (Author) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research ano Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER IERICI Thai document has been reproduced as received from the neriOn Or OW8(11160011 originating it O Minor changes hr.. been made to improve reproduction quality Points& view or opons staled in thilt dOCu trent do not necessarily represent official OE RI position or policy An Examination 1 An Examination of Gender Differences in Computer Attitudes, Aptitude, and Use Robin H. Kay Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Centre fOr Applied Cognitive Science 252 Bloor St. West (9th Floor) Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V61 CANADA (Email: R_KAY@UTOROISE) BEST COPY AVAILABLE 2 "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Robin H. Kay TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)"


Starting from the metaphors coming from the technology field and applied to the human relationship world, we want to explore the meaning of the relational system and its recent aspects: the psychology and the psychopathology of the connection, which is considered both as joining together and as connect two things. The relationship between man and machine and the consequent schizophrenic- like relationship have been inquired, analyzing the use of the avatar of Second Life and making hypothesis about new analogies between mental disorders and therapeutic strategies. Keywords: men-machine relationship, Second Life, new media psychopathology.


Research has debated the merits of transaction cost and competence-based explanations of make-versus-buy choices. We advance this discussion by arguing that trust not only promotes markets by reducing the hazards of specific investments (as emphasized by previous work), but alternatively triggers vertical integration when parties would like to internalize distinctive competencies and at the same time avoid hierarchical failure. Our experimental results where players choose between markets and hierarchies lend support for this dual role of trust in boundary decisions.


The search for anticataract drugs has been continuing for decades; some treatments no longer exist but antioxidants are still of much interest.


Three patients with bacteremic pneumonia caused by multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae were treated unsuccessfully with azithromycin. One S. pneumoniae isolate carried a mef determinant for an efflux pump; a second isolate had an erm determinant. All 3 patients were successfully treated with levofloxacin, an antipneumococcal fluoroquinolone.


The power semiconductor device already having a wafer 10 comprising the following layers in between the emitter electrode 2 and the collector electrode 25 of the collector side 15 of the emitter side (11) is provided: (n-) arranged between the doped drift layer 3, the drift layer 3 and the collector electrode (25), n-doped first region (81), already in contact with directly electrically and ground electrode (2), drift layer (3 ) and it has already been arranged in the emitter electrode 2, a p-doped base layer arranged between 4 and emitter side (11) embedded in the base layer 4, n-doped, which is already in contact with the emitter electrode 2 a source region (6), and the base layer 4, the electric gate electrode 7 insulated from the source region 6 and the drift layer (3). And the emitter electrode 2 are in contact with the base layer 4 and the source region 6 in the contact region 22. Active semiconductor cell 18 is formed in the wafer 10, which is a source region contact emitter contact region 22 of the electrode, the layer is placed at right angles to the projection direction with respect to the emitter side (11) or such that It includes a portion of the layer portion of said source region 6, the base layer 4 with a conductive channel to be formed of. The device further comprises a base layer 4 and the p-doped-well 5 is arranged in the same plane, but outside the active cell (18). The well 5 is through at least one of a directly or through the base layer (4) is already electrically connected to the emitter electrode (2).


A prediction scheme is proposed, which allows one to exploit residual interblock correlation after vector quantization (VQ), without loss in the quality of reconstructed images.

Such a scheme is based on a Perceptron neural network, whose goal is to produce an estimation of a block, once the neighboring blocks have already been coded. The network is trained on a set of images by means of the classical back-propagation algorithm. The error to be minimized is the Euclidean distance (i.e., the mean square error, MSE) between the block generated by the network (using the four previously-coded neighboring blocks as input) and the current block.

During the encoding phase, for each block vector-quantized, the block produced by the network is used to generate a reduced codebook that, in the case of a correct prediction, allows one to use a smaller number of bits for the transmission of the block.

Experimental results show that the probability of a correct prediction ranges from 60 to 75 %, thus producing an increase in compression by a factor of 1.3 to 1.6. The main advantages of the presented approach lie in the efficiency of the neural predictor (even for images not included in the training set), and in reduced memory requirements in comparison with other methods previously proposed.


A pneumotachograph mask or mouthpiece coupling element may reduce the distortion and muffling of the voice otherwise caused by a mask or mouthpiece when measuring the low-frequency components of a volume-velocity of oral or nasal airflow during speech or singing. This improved performance is accomplished by separating the low-frequency components to be measured from the higher frequency or acoustic components by an acoustic filter. The filter passes much of the acoustic energy through the walls of the mask or mouthpiece at a location or locations close to the face. The lower frequency airflow components are funneled by the mask or mouthpiece coupling element through an airflow-measurement transducer. The acoustic filtering can be implemented by a membrane, or array of membranes, in the wall of a chamber located close to, or formed as part of, the mask or mouthpiece. An optional inertive-impedance-forming constriction may be placed in the flow pathway between the chamber and the airflow transducer to provide additional acoustic filtering. By making the acoustic filtering process sufficiently thorough, the low-frequency components funneled by the mask or mouthpiece to the transducer contain none of the momentary reversals in flow direction that normally occur during egressive voice production. The mask or mouthpiece coupling element may be used with a transducer that only measures unidirectional flow. Additional acoustic filter elements may be added in the flow path to the transducer and may further reduce the acoustic energy reaching the transducer.


This paper will first present a short history of the many issues involved in government documents librarianship over the years. It then will present an ovewiew of the most frequently used and requested sources of government information. It will by no means be an exhaustive list because it is aimed at the general information provider in an academic library. This general information provider may not be very familiar with federal documents and may even be afraid of them. In this world of rapidly advancing technology, documents can no longer be pushed aside or overlooked as a source of information because access has improved so much. In this overview, the many formats, including the electronic format in which many documents are now available, will also be noted. This electronic format has caused many problems to arise because of the lack of a federal information policy that is clearly defined.


Factors That Motivate Millennial Public Servants in the Workplace by Lisa Maria Mallory MBA, George Washington University, 1993 BS, University of Maryland University College, 1987 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Public Policy and Administration


Based on genetic algorithm and Sweden method of slices,this paper puts forward the searching methods of critical failure surface and minimum safety factor in slope.Using reciprocal of safety factors to be objective function,according to the size of slope and experiences of engineer,feasible field has been set up,which could be adjusted upon the value of objective function by dwindling the searching band to improve the search efficiency.It can be used to boost the searching speed and to improve the searching precision to apply the improved genetic operation: operation of the best chromosome clone and younger generation chromosomes prepotency in algorithm programming.


When carbon nanotubes are finely dispersed in a compatible copolymer, the material's conductivity exceeds that of any other elastomer by two orders of magnitude.


The Margaret Burroughs Performing Arts Theatre, the old-fashioned, two-story auditorium filled with the original 1915 black varnished wood seats screwed to the floor, is painted pink, with life-size panels of famous Black performers lining the walls. Principal Sandra Lewis announces, "Our school's band, orchestra, vocal group, and dance troupe perform here." At monthly assemblies in this same space all students posting perfect attendance enter a lottery for a new bicycle.


This study aims to evaluate the oral health care model implemented in Pernambuco state, from the analysis of the structure and functioning of teams and their indicators. For this, questionnaires were applied to a sample of 121 oral health teams, representative for the state of Pernambuco, being addressed aspects relative to both the structure (human resources, equipment, materials and supplies) and the process of work teams. Furthermore, secondary data were used obtained from the Outpatient Information System SIA/SUS, in order to examine the oral health indicators, according to population size, proportion of population registered in the Information Primary Care system SIAB and relation between the family health teams and the oral health teams, using the ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Analysis of the questionnaires showed the association between the actions undertaken by the oral health teams and the population size of municipalities, using the chi-square test. The results showed that some variables of the municipality are related to the performance of oral health indicators: population in large cities, a greater proportion of the enrolled population and the relationship from 1ESF to 1ESB showed higher indicators for the coverage of the first consultation, coverage of supervised tooth brushing collective action and the average of individual basic procedures, while those showed low values for the tooth extractions proportion indicator. As to the practice within the Family Health Strategy, it was observed that the promotion/prevention actions have been incorporated by many ESB, but still requiring adjustments such as increased involvement with community outreach. In the process of organizing teams, the diagnosis of the health situation, as well as the planning of actions are not practices commonly performed by professionals, hampering the establishment of the risk approach to the neediest populations. The relationship with the community also needs to progress, since users only benefit from some talks, not participating in the teams' ultimate decision process. It can be concluded that the state of Pernambuco has the characteristics of different models of care, demonstrating from mutilating actions to the incorporation of promotion actions as well as the prevention to the routine of teams. However, many still find it difficult to enforce the practices related to the Family Health Strategy. Thus, the beginning of the redirection of the oral health care model can be achieved by encouraging continuing education and monitoring and evaluation of the actions taken.


Presented is a novel MEMS probe-card for wafer-level IC testing. In one 4-inch wafer, a total of 17300 cantilever-tip probes are fabricated, with 90 mum pitch for adjacent probes. Combined with the silicon cantilevers formed by advanced bulk micromachining techniques, the electroplated nickel is used to simultaneously form the probing tips and the through-wafer interconnects (TWIs). The TWIs are designed to transfer the testing signals from the dies under test (DUT) at the wafer bottom side to the I/O interface at the front side. The cantilever spring-constant is measured as about 1520 N/m. The contact resistance values on Al, Cu and Au pads on DUT wafers are measured always below 1 Omega, while the current-leakage is about 90 pA under 5 V applied voltage between two adjacent tips.


The strata made up with soil and carbonate rock in covered Karst area can be treated as a system of soil cap\|Karst bed rock,which are connected by the bottom soil of cap and the filling materials in Karst caves and fractures. The system,presenting the characters of system, complexity, opening, self organization and sudden change, can be treated as a complex, opening self\|organized system based on the modern theories of system. Several systemic characters and applications of the system are presented in the prevention and cure of Karst collapse from the macroscopic and systematic point of view. Meanwhile several problems on the formation of Karst collapse are also discussed in the paper.


Focusing on ill-structured multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) problems, including decision hesitancy and attribute prioritization relationships, this paper investigates appropriate approaches for decision making. Firstly, we introduce the probabilistic hybrid linguistic term set (P-HLTS) for capturing probabilistic preferences about possible linguistic labels belonging to a wide range of hesitant linguistic term sets. Entropy and distance measurements for P-HLTS are developed without arbitrary complementing operations. To facilitate decision making with attribute prioritization relationships, we present a probabilistic uncertain balanced linguistic-prioritized weighted average (PUBL-PWA) operator and the probabilistic uncertain balanced linguistic-induced prioritized ordered weighted average (PUBL-IPOWA) operator. In terms of the strength of the above tools, we further construct two multiple attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) approaches under P-HLTS environments, namely, an approach for decision-making situations where attribute prioritization relationships are known in advance and the relative importance of decision makers (DMs) or decision-making units (DMUs) is not required for consideration, and second approach for decision-making situations where both attribute prioritization relationships and the weighted vectors of DMs or DMUs are explicitly unknown. In general, our proposed approaches are more flexible and practical when considering heterogeneous opinions, avoiding information distortion brought about by complementing operation-based distance measures. Furthermore, illustrative application studies are conducted to verify our developed approaches.


Political actors exert enormous influence over our daily lives. Their influence on economic activities cannot be underestimated. Voters determine the distribution of political power, political candidates choose policy platforms that they intend to enact if elected, and legislators bargain to arrive at laws. Understanding political actors' behavior is therefore essential for explaining economic outcomes. This thesis follows the tradition of the political economy literature and considers the effect of institutional rules on the behavior of three types of political actors: voters, candidates, and negotiators. It does so by combining insights from game-theoretic models and controlled laboratory experiments. Specifically, this thesis analyzes voter behavior in mandatory and voluntary voting regimes; investigates how candidate behavior differs between plurality voting and proportional representation as well as what role coalition governments play in this context; and explores bargaining behavior in asymmetric environments.


Using a variational approach, we investigate the existence of solutions for non-autonomous perturbations of the p−Laplacian eigenvalue problem −∆pu = f(x, u) in R . Under the assumptions that the primitive F (x, u) of f(x, u) interacts only with the first eigenvalue, we look for solutions in the space D(R ). Furthermore, we assume a condition that measures how different the behavior of the function F (x, u) is from that of the p−power of u.


This paper reports further development of the so-called 1D Lyapunov equation based approach to the stability analysis of differential linear repetitive processes. In particular, it is shown that this approach leads to stability tests which can be implemented by computations with matrices which have constant entries, and that if the example under consideration is stable then physically meaningful information concerning one key aspect of `transient' performance is available for no extra cost. The computational efficiency of these new stability tests against alternatives is also discussed and some areas for short to medium term further research briefly noted.


Abstract This paper deals with the ability of a vertically pointing, FM–CW Doppler radar to measure quantitatively raindrop size distributions and rainfall intensity. The wavelength of the radar is 12.5 mm (K band). To improve estimates of the rainfall intensity, radar-received noise, Mie scatter, and radar calibration corrections are applied to the radar data. The electronic noise correction rendered the radar particle size retrievals below 0.7-mm drop diameters invalid; exponential extrapolation of the spectrum below drop diameters of 0.7 mm decreased the rain intensity up to 20%. Proper Mie corrections to the particle backscatter cross sections decreased the rain intensity between 5% and 30%. Calibration of the radar against a Joss–Waldvogel disdrometer led to a decrease in rain intensity of 49%. The electronic noise, Mie scatter, and calibration corrections yielded a correlation coefficient of 0.94 in a comparison of the radar and disdrometer data for a case study. The daily rain sums over half a year...


For correct application and interpretation of cerebral autoregulation (CA) measurements in research and in clinical care, it is essential to understand differences and similarities between dynamic and steady‐state CA. The present study found no correlation between dynamic and steady‐state CA indices in healthy older adults. There was variability between individuals in all (steady‐state and dynamic) autoregulatory indices, ranging from low (almost absent) to highly efficient CA in this healthy population. These findings challenge the assumption that assessment of a single CA parameter or a single set of parameters can be generalized to overall CA functioning. Therefore, depending on specific research purposes, the choice for either steady‐state or dynamic measures or both should be weighed carefully.


Objective : Recent evidence indicates that peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor- g (PPAR g ) is expressed at high levels in foam cells of atherosclerotic lesions, that PPAR g agonists may directly modulate vessel wall function and that mutations in the PPAR g -2 gene are associated with a reduced risk of coronary artery disease. Methods : We investigated whether known variants in the PPAR g -2 gene are associated with the occurrence of coronary heart disease (CHD) in 365 patients with type 2 diabetes, prospectively characterised for the presence or absence of CHD. The Pro115Gln, Pro12Ala, Pro467Leu, Val290Met mutations and two polymorphisms C478T and C161T of the PPAR g -2 gene were exam-ined using PCR, denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and direct sequencing. Results : The distribution of the Pro12Ala, Ala12Ala, C161T and T161T variants was not significantly different between patients with and without CHD, independent of the gender. The Pro12Ala (cid:133) P (cid:136) 0 : 011 (cid:134) and the Ala12Ala (cid:133) P (cid:136) 0 : 006 (cid:134) variant were associated with a higher body mass index (BMI) compared with the Pro12Pro genotype. A multiple logistic regression analysis introducing the typical risk factors for CHD (age, sex, hypertension, smoking, BMI . 26 kg/m 2 , elevated low density lipoprotein cholesterol and haemoglobin A 1 c . 7%) identified age . 60, male gender, hyperten- sion and a higher BMI, but not the PPAR g -2 variants, as significant risk factors for CHD in our study groups. Conclusion : The PPAR g -2 genotype was not associated with an increased or reduced risk of the occurrence of CHD and can therefore not be regarded as an independent risk factor for CHD in patients with diabetes mellitus.


The outcome of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is extremely variable, with survival ranging from a few days to cure. A number of clinical and biological features at presentation have been reported as useful for the prediction of final outcome. Age represents the most relevant prognostic factor in AML, in that the prognosis of the disease steadily worsens in elderly patients. Comorbidity related to advanced age, more frequent unfavorable cytogenetic findings at diagnosis, and presence of an antecedent hematologic disorder, result in lower probabilities of complete remission (CR) and long-term survival after conventional intensive chemotherapy (CHT). The actual benefit of CHT is still debated, mainly in patients aged over 70 years. Accordingly, the research with new agents is particularly active, and AML has been recently proposed as a model for shortcomings in the clinical evaluation of new drugs. In patients with high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), the use of the hypomethylating agents (HMA) 5-azacytidine (AZA) and 20-deoxyazacitidine (decitabine: DAC) has been clearly associated with an improved outcome. These agents are now approved for use in this indication. Results in AML are less convincing, even though different studies suggest a potential utility of these agents. In this article, we critically appraise some recent clinical data reported on the use of HMA for the treatment of older patients with AML. In a subanalysis of the AZA-001 trial, an advantage in terms of overall survival (OS) and other patient morbidity measures had been reported for AZA in older patients with low marrow blast count (20% to 30%)World Health Organization (WHO) -defined AML as compared to other conventional care regimens (CCR). At a median follow-up of 20.1 months, the median OS for AZA-treated patients was 24.5 months compared with 16.0 months for CCR treated patients (P 1⁄4 .005); the 2-year OS rates were 50% and 16%, respectively (P 1⁄4 .001). Two-year OS rates were higher with AZA versus CCR in patients considered unfit for intensive CHT (P1⁄4 .0003). In addition, AZA was associated with fewer total days in hospital (P<.0001) than CCR. While these data suggest a potential utility of AZA in AML, they also raise different points of methodological criticisms. First, while the authors refer to elderly patients with AML, they consider patients aged 50 years or older, who certainly are not elderly. Most patients were in the age category of 55 to 64 years, not strictly an elderly population, accordingly to the current AML literature. Second, the trial was based on the comparison of AZA with CCR. which encompassed 3 completely different therapeutic strategies for AML: best supportive care (BSC), low-dose cytosine-arabinoside (LDARA-C), and intensive CHT.While either LDARA-C or CHT aim at CR achievement, BSC only aims at improving the quality of life and, whenever possible, at avoiding hospitalization. Accordingly, comparison of morphological CR rate between AZA and CCR is misleading. The response assessment should exclude patients managed with BSC and limited only to patients ''actively'' treated with LDARA-C and CHT. The CR rate would then be 29% for the control group versus 15% for AZA. Although, as previous studies demonstrated, the improvement in survival in patients with high risk MDS treated with AZA is seen even in those who do not achieve CR, translation of this concept to AML needs more robust demonstration. On the other hand, it should be also considered that many hematologists are today reluctant to


IN his most recent book, Latin Americanism After 9/11, John Beverley provocatively revisits the discussion surrounding the legacy of armed struggle in Latin American political culture; or, more precisely, the question of how the period of revolutionary guerrilla warfare that extends from 1959 to 1990 is remembered today. This periodization corresponds, of course, to the historical cycle that opened with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and came to an end with the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua (Beverley 95-96). Beverley's own way of addressing this question leads to a critique of what he calls the "paradigm of disillusion"--in short, the tendency, prominent among a number of leftist intellectuals active in the period, to remember the armed struggle as a romantic but ultimately mistaken conception about social change in Latin America. (1) It is not my intention to debate in this article Beverley's claims that "there is a correlation between how one thinks about the armed struggle in Latin America and how one thinks about the nature and possibilities of the new governments of the marea rosada" (95), or that one's vision of the armed struggle defines one's position vis-avis the "neoliberal hegemony" in the region (98). As many commentators have pointed out, these are highly problematic assumptions leading to broad generalizations and simplistic Manichean readings of the Latin American political field. (2) However, I do find intriguing his underlying invitation to reflect on the tensions, legacies, and contradictions of this turbulent period. After all, even as tragic attempts to overcome inequality and injustice, the events, ideas, and practices surrounding the revolutionary cycle showed a certain uniqueness in their configuration, while also leaving, for better and worse, permanent traces in the social, political, and cultural fabric of many Latin American societies. One could easily acknowledge that, even if the original conditions that brought together guerrilla warfare and revolutionary politics in the 20th century (poverty, exclusion, discrimination, exploitation) have not disappeared and continue to be as pressing as ever, today the belief in the efficacy of armed struggle has certainly lost its force and become impractical as a form of social and political change in the region. Furthermore, some of the ideological assumptions that framed these projects have often been found questionable and denounced as still hierarchical and authoritarian, a top-down model blind to gender and ethnic diversity, imbued with sacrificial messianism, and, as Beverley himself suggests, responsible for "polarizing society" between "friends and enemies" in addition to being at times reckless regarding the loss of human lives (97). It is in fact difficult to refute accusations that leftist guerrilla groups in Latin American favored "a predominantly masculine ethos" which in some cases could "only be fully realized through death" (Franco 121; 127), or that they promoted a vertical conception of the political in which the masculine revolutionary subject "pretends to speak in the name of the collectivity" (Rodriguez 32). Equally problematic is perhaps what Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo has termed as the "development-revolution convergence," that is, the implicit reproduction of developmentalist models of political subjectivity, human agency, and socio-historical progress within the project of the revolutionary left (4-7). (3) A reflection on the potential legacies of the cycle of armed revolution in Latin America (or elsewhere) should certainly remain critical of, and be careful not to repeat or justify, these ideological components. It should not necessarily translate into an apology of violent guerrilla tactics, or (and here we have to depart from Beverley's perspective) into clear-cut dichotomic subdivisions of contemporary political configurations or knee-jerk loyalties to constituted governments, be they of the so-called marea rosada or any other kind. …


England has long been fertile ground for scholars (usually American) concerned to locate the antecedents of stable and democratic government. More often than not they have stressed a particular configuration of attitudes as a basic support for such government. Evaluation of the consequences for the political system of these attitudes has frequently proceeded along very inferential and impressionistic lines, and has resulted in a benign view of the British political system. James E. Alt ('Some Social and Political Correlates of County Borough Expenditures' in British Journal of Political Science No. I, pp. 49–62) gives as his reasons for choosing to study county boroughs, 'not only because of the fact that they are urban centres, the uniformity of their electoral procedure, the high level of competition (on terms of contested seats), their financial independence from other local authorities, and their service omnicompetence'. This is a standard explanation for the predominance in research on local government of the county borough to the neglect of other authorities. One positive gain of re-organization may be that future research will give a more rounded picture of local government performance and practice.


Abstract A pig BAC library was constructed with genomic DNA from a maleErhualian pig. After partial digestion with Hind III pieces 384-well plates (20 plates per superpool). A two-step 4-dimension PCR screening system was established to screen the positive clones. An average insert size of 128 kb was estimated from 105 randomly isolated clones, which indicates that the library is more than five times of genomic coverage. For the demonstration of the probability to pick out any unique genes or DNA markers from the library, 10 single-copy genes were screened out and the positive clones were yielded between 1 and 8 with an average of 3.6. Positive superpools were obtained for 32 microsatellite markers selected from different regions of pig genome. The number of positive superpools for each marker varies from 1 to 9 with an average of 4.78. This BAC library provides an additional resource for pig physical mapping and gene identification. *Supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Program of Chin...


Using scaling laws, we obtain estimates of the block error probability of polar codes under successive cancellation decoding. For the binary erasure channel we present an upper and a lower bound for the scaling parameter. Numerically these two bounds match. We also present a scaling law for general binary discrete memoryless channels.


Optic discs nlormal. Pupils equal and react to light. Nystagmus usually absent, occasionally very slight on left lateral deviation. Other cranial nerves normal. Arms.-Clawed hands with marked wasting of the intrinsic muscles, and some wasting of the forearms. Strength good at shoulder; poor distally. Marked intention tremor. Tendon-jerks absent. Legs.-Drop-foot-bilateral. Kneeand ankle-jerks absent, plantar no response. Sensory changes.-Slight diminution to light touch at the periphery of the extremities, and some impairment of joint sense and sense of position in the legs, also vibration cause reduced. No sphincter disturbance. Intelligence.-Fair, rather facile; memory rather confused. Di8cusaion.-Dr. WYLLIE: The main points of interest in this case are the association of localized muscular atrophy with generalized ataxy, the almost synchronous onset of the two conditions, and their commencement late in life, i.e. at 49 years of age. I suppose there is no doubt that the condition belongs to the hereditary ataxias or hereditary degenerative conditions of the cord and cerebellum. There is a history of a similar complaint in the father, though the patient does not remember many details. As to the muscular atrophy being so localized to the periphery, I can find no record of similar cases in the literature, though muscular atrophy is mentioned as commencing at a late age. There is a familial or spastic condition with amyotrophy, with onset in childhood, and in which only the hands were affected. At an autopsy on such a case there was found to be degeneration of the pyramidal columns, the anterior horn cells, and the size of the cerebellum was small. In the present case one would expect that the spino-cerebellar tracts were affected, and the dorsal columns, with a local degeneration of anterior horn cells in the cervical and lumbar enlargements.


The SAMPLE (Sandia Agile MEMS prototyping, layout tools, and education) service makes Sandia's state-of-the-art surface- micromachining technology, known as SUMMiT, available to U.S. industry for the first time. The Sandia ultra-planar multi- level MEMS technology (SUMMiT) offered through SAMPLE is the world's most advanced surface-micromachining technology, with three independently patternable ultra-low-stress mechanical polysilicon levels (in addition to the electrical polysilicon layer), one-micron design rules, flanged hubs, and CMP planarization of the third sacrificial oxide to provide planar structures in the third mechanical polysilicon layer (MMPoly3). Participants in the SAMPLE program learn about MEMS and SUMMiT process through the Sandia MEMS short course and then use Sandia's specialized design and layout tools to design their own micromachines to be fabricated in SUMMiT.


Objective To investigate the autologous corneal limbal stem call transplant ation combined with mitomycin C efficacy of the treatment of the pterygium.Methods A 2mg/ml mitomycin C(MMC)cotton patch was placed in operation area between the bulbar conjunctiva and the sclera for 2~3 minutes after excision of the pterygium in 58 cases of patients with pterygium.The superior limbal stem cells and their adjacent bulbar conjunctiva as graft transplantation were repaired the above wound.Results No pterygium recurrence,no serious complications were found in the follow-up period.Conclusion conneal limbal stem cell transplantation combined with mitomycin C for the treatment of the pterygium could significantly reduce the recurrence rate of the pterygium.


Nanwang water- diversion hydro- junction of the Grand Canal was built by Song Li and Bai Ying in order to solve the problem of sending grains from the south to the north in early Ming Dynasty. There were four parts of the hydro-junction which included leading the water of Wenshui river to the diversion intake at Nanwang,gathering the springs to supply the water source of the Grand Canal,setting up water tanks,and setting the sluice gate to control flow. Among these parts,leading the water of Wenshui river to the diversion intake at Nanwang was the key point,which consists of four subsystems such as Daicun dam,the little Wenshui river,Nanwang water- diversion project,and auxiliary projects. These water conservancy facilities constitute a huge and complete systems engineering. Working together,they ensured adequate and stable water supply to this section of the canal so that the Grand Canal had been unimpeded for more than 500 years. Nanwang water- diversion hydro- junction engineering represents the highest science and technology achievements of Chinese ancient canal hydraulic engineering,which is regarded as a great example of world water conservancy history.


Objective: To establish a ratio fluorescent approach to detect the kinetic changes of calcium in vascular smooth muscle cells and study its role in vascular hyporeactivity in severe hemorrhagic shock. Methods: The hemorrhagic shock was made and mesenteric arteriolar smooth muscle cells (ASMC) were isolated. The kinetic changes of calcium were measured with two highly sensitive Ca2+ fluorescent labeling in conjunction with laser scanning confocal microscope (LSCM). The technique of ratio fluorescent approach was evaluated in the application of detecting kinetic changes of calcium. The effect of glibenclamide, a specific inhibitor for ATP sensitive potassium (KATP) channel, on vascular reactivity and the intracellular i were studied. Results: Hemorrhagic shock for 2 h caused an obvious reduction of vascular reactivity and the effect of NE on i were reduced. Glibenclamide could improve the effect of NE on i in ASMC. When ASMC were incubated for 40 min at 37℃ with 5 μmol/L Fluo-3/AM and 5μmol/L FuraRed, the excellent LSCM imaging of intracellular Ca2+ can be obtained. Conclusions: Glibenclamide, a specific inhibitor for ATP sensitive potassium (KATP) channel can increase intracellular i and improve the vascular reactivity in severe hemorrhagic shock. An approach of ratio fluorescent can be qualified and quantified intracellular i more accurately, since it allows calcium quantitative detecting independent of dye concentration, cell volume, the effect of photobleaching and dye leakage. This paper provided an exactly new method to detect intracellular Ca2+ for real time, continuously and kinetic.


Home-Based Management of Malaria (HBMM) is one of the key strategies to reduce the burden of malaria for vulnerable populations in endemic countries. The strategy seeks to allow caregivers to have immediate health care from some selected and trained community members. The study sought to identify the cost drivers of presumptive malaria treatment and cost of seeking care from the community medicine distributors (CMDs). A cross-sectional study was done in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality in the Ashanti Region. The study involved randomly selected 400 caregivers, (10) health staff and (90) community-based medicine distributors (CMDs). Structured questionnaires were employed to collect these data and data was analyzed into descriptive statistics with SPSS version 17 software.Test for associations were done at 95% confidence interval. With the assumption that transport cost and food cost were zero (0) in HBMM. The results reveals that, the cost of treatment of malaria for children between 6-11 months ranged from GH₵P0.01-1.00 (± 0.19 STD), while children between the ages of 12-24 months ranged from GH₵1.00-1.50 (±0.04 STD) and 36-59 months ranged from GH₵2.00-3.00 (±0.30 STD). Generally cost was described as affordable and drivers of treatment cost were level of severity of the illness, distance to the homes, time spent in traveling and in the consumer's homes as well as the number of population within the CMD's catchment area.Cost incurred in accessing HBMM treatment was affordable to caregivers Drivers of treatment cost in HBMM varies from the caregivers and care seekers.


An Emergency Response Guide should be applied to the initial decision-making at the site of the incident or accident involving chemicals that pose a health risk to workers of the company, neighbors or environmental damage.

This guide will not mention all the possible circumstances that may be associated with an incident or accident involving chemicals, nor the physical - chemical products used by the oil company, which will be established is a sequence of steps that must follow to respond in a timely and safe a chemical incident.


Precise measurements of the absorption in oxygen resulting from the small magnetic dipole moment are reported at frequencies near 2, 3, 9, and 23 kMc and at pressures in the range from 3 to 70 atmos. Up to 10 atmospheres the resonant contribution agrees with the Van Vleck‐Weisskopf theory and the line width increases in proportion to the pressure. The line width (relaxation frequency) for the nonresonant contribution also increases in proportion to the pressure, but is only about one‐third as large as the resonant line width. Above 20 atmospheres the resonant absorption shows anomalous behavior resembling that previously noted in the case of the inversion spectra of NH3 and ND3. In particular, the resonant frequency appears to decrease rapidly while the line width changes much less rapidly than the pressure.


This article examines the structure of the Australian Army that developed between 1901-10. This was the period following Federation in 1901, which saw the amalgamation of the military forces of the six Australian colonies into a single national force, and prior to the widespread organisational changes resulting from the introduction of compulsory service in 1911, which significantly altered its size and structure. Although a relatively young organisation, the Australian Army has a complex lineage, having undergone a number of periods of change and reorganisation in response to the nation's shifting strategic circumstances. Examples of this have included the start of universal training in 1911, but also the raising of the AIF in 1914 and the Second AIF in 1939, as well as the formation of the Regular Army in 1947, among many others. While arguably this has demonstrated its flexibility as an institution to adapt when required, it has also complicated the heritage of many of its units, creating a legacy of discontinuity. The short period between the formation of the Australian Army in 1901 and the start of the First World War was one such period of almost constant change. For instance, some of the major developments which effected the organisation of the infantry alone during this period included the formation of the first Australian Infantry Regiments from their colonial antecedents in 1903, the reorganisation of the regiments into separate battalions in 1908, and the formation of new territorially based units in 1911 due to the requirements of conscription.


The risk factors predisposing children to ascariasis transmission in a peri-urban community of Osun state, Nigeria were investigated from November, 2012 to June, 2013. Preschool children aged 24 to 60 months were tested by faecal examination for Ascaris lumbricoides infection using Kato thick smears after information on personal biodata, access to water supply, sanitation, socio-economic status of their parents, hygiene and deworming history was collected using a questionnaire. Out of 416 children examined, 117(28.1%) were infected with an overall mean intensity of 1846.33±235.23 eggs per gram (epg). Infection patterns were gender comparable and age dependent with peak prevalence (33.1%) and mean intensity (2264.14±493.58 epg) occurring in children aged 48 to 59 months. Parental educational background, sanitation, washing hands with soap and water and deworming history were identified as the significant risk factors which correlated with Ascaris infection. These findings suggest that socio-economic risk factors which play a role in disease transmission need to be taken into account when formulating sustainable control strategies for ascariasis and other soil-transmitted helminths in Nigeria.

 Key words: Prevalence, ascariasis, risk factors, preschool aged children, Nigeria.


The management of acute Lisfranc injuries with tarsometatarsal joint instability has evolved over decades of experience. Arthrodesis historically has been reserved for use as a salvage procedure after development of symptomatic midfoot arthritis or failure of open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) with midfoot collapse; however, recent level I evidence has demonstrated that Lisfranc injuries managed with acute arthrodesis have comparable outcomes when compared with ORIF with less repeat procedures. We describe our technique for surgical management of acute Lisfranc injuries, both high-energy and low-energy variants, with primary arthrodesis. Satisfactory outcomes and complications of this treatment have been shown to be equivocal, if not better, than ORIF for the treatment of acute injuries. Level of Evidence: Treatment Benefits. Level V. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.


The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident on March 11, 2011 resulted in the release of immense amounts of radioactive materials into the ocean. However, the dispersion of radioactive materials in the subsurface has not yet been clarified due to the spatiotemporal limitation of observations. Thus, herein, a tracer experiment was implemented using a three-dimensional numerical model to estimate the dispersion path of 137Cs released directly from the FDNPP and its travel time in the subsurface of the North Pacific Ocean from 2011 to 2020. The results show that the subsurface 137Cs spreads by two mode waters, namely, Sub-Tropical Mode Water (STMW) and Central Mode Water (CMW). Subsurface 137Cs primarily spreads clockwise in the sub-tropical region, while a portion driven by STMW is dispersed southward. The clockwise dispersion path of 137Cs released into the ocean by STMW is relatively shallower and inward than that by CMW. The 137Cs that was spread clockwise reached the east of Taiwan and the Philippines via STMW and CMW nine years after the accident, respectively. The model described in this study is applicable for estimating the water path and travel time of tritium water planned to be discharged from Fukushima.


One of indicators in the successful health affair in a country is the number of infant mortality rate. Causes of mortality among others are respiratory disorders 37%, prematurity 34%, sepsis 12%, hypothermia 7%, post mature 3% and congenital defect 1% and blood defect or icterus 6%. Infant mortality due to hypothermia can be prevented by practical method as an alternative to incubator namely Kangaroo Care Method. The implementation of Kangaroo Care Method must be monitored and evaluated by health care provider especially the ners. This research aims to study the relationship between education and parity with kangaroo care method in Tebing Tinggi Hospital Perinatology Space Year in 2017. This research uses descriptive design korelational with the approach of cross sectional study design. The population in this studyall infants born with low birth weight in room Tebing Tinggi Hospital Perinatology In 2017 there were 42 babies using total sampling. Collecting data in this study by looking at the data dukementasi using univariate and bivariate analysis using statistical test Chi-Square Test and Contingency Coefficient (C). The results showed: of the 42 respondents there were 25 people (61.9%) did not do kangaroo care method, 23 people (54.8%) with primary education, 27 people (64.3%) with parity primiparous, there is a significant relationship between education and care in the kangaroo method Tebing Tinggi Hospital Perinatology Space Year in 2017 with a close relationship category, and there is a significant relationship between parity with the treatment method of kangaroos in Space Perinatology General Hospital Tebing Tinggi Year 2017, with the category of close relationship.  Keywords: education, kangaroo care, parity


A new sci-fi novel, The Strange, is set in a counterfactual Mars where an alien mineral increases the intelligence of robots. Description A new sci-fi novel, The Strange, is set in a counterfactual Mars where an alien mineral increases the intelligence of robots.


A series of melt derived sodium borate, sodium silicate and sodium borosilicate glasses (with low silica content) doped with 1 mol% Eu 2 O 3 were investigated by means of absorption, luminescence and excitation spectroscopy The structural changes of the host glasses induced by the addition of the modifier give rise to variations of position, width, crystal field splitting and intensity of selected electronic f-f transitions of Eu 3+ . Additional information on the structural groups in the neighbourhood of the rare earth ions is contained in the vibronic sidebands of the pure electronic transitions. The observed compositional variations in the spectra of the three glass types are interpreted in terms of the oxygen polarisability, Eu-O covalency, crystal field strength and Eu 3+ site symmetry. The results are compared with the Bray model for the ternary glasses.


Developmental delay due to drug exposure as a fetus, chemical exposure, adhesion of the foreskin, laceration of the ear canal, altered mental status, and elevated lead


The paper presents the basic condiƟons, posiƟons and related with them trends in work processes in the informaƟon society. ParƟcular aƩenƟon is given to telework as an innovaƟve form of work, based on modern informaƟon and com‐ municaƟon technologies, and also it consideres the impact of ICT and globalizaƟon on contemporary and future work processes as well as the structure of employment.


Thin interconnection layers entirely consisting of intermetallic phases have been produced by joining planar Cu substrates coated with thin films of Sn. The thin layers of intermetallic phases are produced at low temperatures (


The objective of this article is to illustrate that the model proposed by Vrentas and Vrentas predicts that the shape of the sorption isotherm for a glassy polymer-penetrant system depends on whether the penetrant is a good or poor solvent for the particular polymer. It is also shown that the proposed model provides a reasonably good description of sorption isotherms for the water-glassy PMMA system


Simultaneous separating template polymerizations of copolymers 4a and 4b obtained from 4-methylene-2-phenyl-2-(4-vinylphenyl)-1,3-dioxolanes with styrene were carried out. Polymerizable functional groups on the side chain of d underwent chain reaction with a free radical initiator to afford poly(oxotrimethylene) as a newborn polymer 7N accompanying release of copoly(vinylbenzophenone:styrene) as a template polymer 7T. The postpolymers 7N and 7T were divided by fractional precipitation without postchemical treatment. The efficiency of separation was estimated by the composition of poly(oxotrimethylene) as K % in the fraction


The aim of the paper is to present the characteristics of certain dynamic programming strategies on the decision tree hidden behind the optimizing problems and thus to offer such a clear tool for their study and classification which can help in the comprehension of the essence of this programming technique.


Gurson-Tvergaard(GT) porous material model with optimized adjustment parameters and a practical void nucleation law were adopted to analyze the macroscopic stress-strain response,and according to the character of the metalforming processes,a unified fracture criterion,corresponding to different mechanisms of ductile fracture,tension-type mode and shear-type mode,was proposed.The experimental results confirm the validity and wide applicability of the newly proposed ductile fracture criteria.Moreover,the material constants obtained through uniaxial tension experimental were used to predict the occurrence of the ductile fracture in forward extrusion process.


The conventional cocktail of drugs used in lethal injection executions has been sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride. However, in 2011, the sole manufacturer of sodium thiopental in the United States, Hospira, Inc., restricted the distribution of the drug to prevent it from being used in executions. In response, states are now experimenting with drugs like pentobarbital, midazolam and hydro-morphone in executions. Furthermore, several states have obtained, or intend to obtain, death penalty drugs from compounding pharmacies, entities which have recently come under intense scrutiny for their lack of regulatory oversight and production of sub-standard drugs. The most alarming development, however, is the secrecy that has accompanied lethal injection executions in recent years. For example, some states, like Georgia, have passed statutes that make information about the source of the drugs and the professional qualifications of the lethal injection participants a confidential state secret. Understandably, much discussion about lethal injection drugs and states' lethal injection protocols is focused on the Eighth Amendment and Due Process consequences for the condemned. This Note, however, analyzes a particular injection protocols is focused on the Eighth Amendment and Due Process implications, but this note will argue that the First Amendment provides a qualified right of access to information about lethal injection drugs, lethal injection secrecy statute under the First Amendment and and concludes that the public has a qualified right of access to information about lethal injection drugs under the First Amendment.


This study investigated validity evidences to the Teste de Atencao Dividida (AD) in relation to intelligence. The AD were administered to 369 candidates to licence drive, aged from 18 to 73 years (mean = 27 years old, SD = 11,51) attending at psychological assessment clinics of the state of Minas Gerais. Negative correlations between the Speed and Quality and Concentration measures with age were verified suggesting that the scores diminished while the age of the persons increased. Six groups of age were found; these groups were 18-19 years old, 20-27, 28-36, 37-41, 42-55, 56-73. They were significantly differentiated in both measures by means of ANOVA test.


The purpose of the study is the spatial analysis of the factors of floodplain ecosystems and the calculation of rational use, through the calculation of technical and economic indicators and the calculation of the economic efficiency of haymaking. The assessment of the economic efficiency of the forage base was obtained based on the study of the grass stand and productivity of hayfields in five key areas of the Ob River floodplain, the study of soil properties, their qualitative characteristics necessary for understanding the soil fertility of floodplain ecosystems, on which land productivity depends. The spatial analysis of the rational use of the floodplain ecosystems of the Ob River was made in a semi-automatic way by decoding the Bing satellite image (the SAS Planet mapping and navigation program) in the Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin module in the QGIS geographic information system, the cartographic material was edited in the MapInfo Professional geographic information system.


Abstract : A t-diagnosable system is a system in which if there are no more than t faults, then the faults can be identified from the test results. This notion was introduced by Preparata, Metze and Chien and was characterized by Hakimi and Amin. In this paper, the authors give an algorithm, with some evidence for its validity and efficiency, for identifying the faulty units in a t-diagnosable system.


Based on a correlation analysis on selected indicators of Jiangxi higher education and Jangxi GDP,this article carries on a regression analysis on the indicators by means of stepwise strategy.The result comes out that college enrollment in Jiangxi is the best indicator to reflect Jiangxi Higher Eucation development.According to the input-output model,the article then analyses the impact of college enrollment on Jiangxi GDP from perspective of stock and incremental.


The slogan "Make Love Not War", so identified with the hippie experience and philosophy of the 1960s, has almost seemed quaint and corny for decades. Yet it should never have lost its charmingly simple appeal: the ties that bind, that hold us together, are stronger than those that tear us apart and love must transcend the hatred of the military machine. This journal article is available in Counterculture Studies: https://ro.uow.edu.au/ccs/vol1/iss1/5