Ever since the discovery in 1964 of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), scientists have tried to make accurate measurements of its spectrum and anisotropie3. With the successful COBE mission, major advances in our understanding of the very early universe have been achieved. COBE's complement of instruments are the Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS), the Differential Microwave Radiometers (DMR), and the Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE). FIRAS and DIRBE are located inside a 4 He dewar to operate at 1.5 K. DMR receivers are located around the outside of the dewar. The instruments and mission plan have been described by Gulkis et al. (1990). Essential for the cosmological objectives are the all-sky observing strategy, periodic absolute calibrations of the instruments, high sensitivity, and extensive care to minimize potential systematic errors.


A model based on the finite element method using cubic Hermite basis functions and Galerkin weighting was formulated to solve the partial differential equations that govern unsteady one-dimensional flow in meandering open channels having cross sections of arbitrary shape. The numerical solution scheme was found to be accurate and computationally robust. The actual failure of a dam on Laurel Run near Johnstown, Pennsylvania that occurred on July 20, 1977 was simulated using the model. Computed maximum water-surface elevations and peak flow rates caused by the dam-break flood compared favorably with measured values.


BACKGROUND AND AIMS
Effects of direct-acting antiviral (DAA)-treatment of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) cirrhosis on metabolic liver function are unknown but important for prognosis. Ureagenesis is an essential metabolic liver function involved in whole-body nitrogen homeostasis. We aimed to investigate the ureagenesis capacity before and immediatelyafter DAA-therapy and relate the findings to hepatic inflammation and structural changes.

METHODS
In an observational before-and-after intervention study, the ureagenesis capacity was quantified by functional hepatic nitrogen clearance (FHNC) in nine CHC patients with cirrhosis and ten healthy volunteers. Hepatic inflammation was evaluated by ALT and the macrophage activation markers sCD163 and sMR. Structural changes were estimated as liver stiffness and by portal hypertension as the hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG).

RESULTS
Prior to treatment, the FHNC in the patients was half of the controls (16.4 L/hour (8.2-24.5) vs. 33.4 (29.2-37.6), p=0.0004); after successful DAA-treatment, it normalized (28.4 (15.9-40.9), p=0.008 vs. baseline). DAA-treatment normalized ALT (p<0.0001), and decreased the elevated sCD163 from 5.6 mg/L (3.5-7.7) to 3.4 (2-0-4.8) (p<0.001) and sMR from 0.35 mg/L (0.21-0.49) to 0.31 (0.17-0.45) (p<0.01). Liver stiffness fell by 30% (p<0.05) but remained over the cirrhosis threshold. HVPG was not affected (p=0.59).

CONCLUSIONS
DAA-treatment restored the severely reduced ureagenesis capacity, along with amelioration of hepatic inflammation but without normalization of other cirrhosis characteristics. Our findings indicate that the anti-inflammatory effect of virus eradication independent of hepatic structural effects rapidly improves metabolic dysfunction. We suggest this effect to be an important early-onset part of the expected clinical DAA-treatment benefit.


Purpose
Electric cars (EC) adoption represents a strategic action aimed at promoting environmental sustainability. Although Millennials and Gen Z represent the greatest potential market for EC, their adoption remains low; thus, this study focused on examining the role of motive in predicting EC adoption intention within these two generations' population. Built upon the fundamental motive framework, this research explores the motives that lead to EC adoption intention. Subsequently, this study aims to examine the role of performance expectancy as the mediating variable and EC attributes beliefs as the moderating variable that can promote EC adoption intention.

Design/methodology/approach
Both exploratory and confirmatory methods were used in this investigation. Using an exploratory approach, this research explores the fundamental motives and the attributes of EC that influence EC adoption intention. Using a confirmatory approach, this research tests the mediating role of performance expectancy. To collect the data, an online survey was administered to 260 young consumers in Indonesia.

Findings
The results of PLS-SEM analysis from the data revealed that self-protection, kin-care, status and affiliative motives influence EC adoption. Furthermore, performance expectancy mediates the relationship between self-protection, mate acquisition, affiliative motives and EC adoption intention. Among EC attributes, the short-haul performance strengthens the indirect relationship between affiliative motive and EC adoption intention.

Research limitations/implications
The main limitation of this study is that it only focuses on the practical attributes of EC, whereas psychological attributes that were found to be more influential in consumer's purchase decisions were not examined.

Practical implications
Marketers need to explore EC attributes that can strengthen the relationship between consumers' motives and EC adoption intention by increasing consumers' evaluation of performance expectancy. In this study, marketers can promote short-haul performance, as it will lead to EC adoption for consumers with affiliative motives.

Originality/value
This study ties together two lines of research on the adoption of EC, exploring EC attributes and examining consumers' motivation to choose EC, especially Millennials and Gen Z. In this way, EC attributes facilitate the fulfillment of consumers' needs and promote EC adoption intention.


Microstructural mechanisms such as domain switching in ferroelectric ceramics dissipate energy, the nature, and extent of which are of significant interest for two reasons. First, dissipative internal processes lead to hysteretic behavior at the macroscale (e.g., the hysteresis of polarization versus electric field in ferroelectrics). Second, mechanisms of internal friction determine the viscoelastic behavior of the material under small-amplitude vibrations. Although experimental techniques and constitutive models exist for both phenomena, there is a strong disconnect and, in particular, no advantageous strategy to link both for improved physics-based kinetic models for multifunctional rheological materials. Here, we present a theoretical approach that relates inelastic constitutive models to frequency-dependent viscoelastic parameters by linearizing the kinetic relations for the internal variables. This enables us to gain qualitative and quantitative experimental validation of the kinetics of internal processes for both quasistatic microstructure evolution and high-frequency damping. We first present the simple example of the generalized Maxwell model and then proceed to the case of ferroelectric ceramics for which we predict the viscoelastic response during domain switching and compare to experimental data. This strategy identifies the relations between microstructural kinetics and viscoelastic properties. The approach is general in that it can be applied to other rheological materials with microstructure evolution.


Catalburun dog also known as Turkish Pointer is a breed of dog which originated from Tarsus (South- ern Turkey). It is primarily used as a hunting dog in Tarsus and nearby. It is not approved by American and Brit- ish Kennel Club for a pure dog breed. Futher investigation required to determine morphological and physiologi- cal traits of Catalburun dogs.


The first description of this particular ventricular arrhythmia appeared in the French literature in 1966.1 It was given the name &dquo;torsade de pointe&dquo; and was almost always associated with a long QT time. It is a distinct electrocardiographic and clinical entity, distinguished from other ventricular tachyarrhythmias for etiologic, morphologic, and therapeutic reasons.' It also must be distinguished from such familial disorders as the Jervell-Lange-Nielsen or the Romano-Ward syndrome.3-5 In the English literature similar ECG patterns have been described under different names, like ventricular tachycardia flutter, fibrillation, and chaotic or polymorphous ventricular tachycardia. But these patterns were never identified as a distinct electrocardiographic and clinical syndrome.6-1o We propose to call it ven tricularfibrillo-flut ter, in analogy with its atrial counterpart. The following electrocardiographic criteria, described by Slama et al.,


We consider a discrete model that describes a linear chain of particles coupled to two defects. This model can be regarded as a linear generalization of the familiar Fano–Anderson model. The analytical result for the plane wave transmission coefficient is obtained. Comparing the transmission coefficient of Gaussian wave with that of plane wave, we can draw a conclusion that arising perfect reflection due to destructive interference depends on the input waveform of incident particle and a necessary switching condition of Fano resonance is the input plane wave. This interesting feature may play a guiding role in devising various particle switches in theory and experiment.


This article focuses on how Dutch newspapers represented the debate in the Netherlands in the 1970s on comprehensive education and thus influenced the Dutch Middle School experiment. Wiborg's identification of key factors of success in Scandinavia was used as a point of reference. The article shows that these key factors did not exist in the Netherlands because of the polarisation of liberals and social democrats. Furthermore, the article shows how newspapers played different roles, varying from disseminators of new ideas to sparking debate and from communicators of political views to a barometer, consequently influencing the political strategies chosen.


The contact resistance of indium on n-type mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) at 300 K and at 77 K has been measured by Transfer Length Method (TLM) and reported here. A modified process sequence to achieve the minimum contact resistance is also reported.


Atoms can scatter light and they can also amplify it by stimulated emission. From this simple starting point, we examine the possibility of realizing a random laser in a cloud of laser-cooled atoms. The answer is not obvious as both processes (elastic scattering and stimulated emission) seem to exclude one another: pumping atoms to make them behave as an amplifier drastically reduces their scattering cross-section. However, we show that even the simplest atom model allows the efficient combination of gain and scattering. Moreover, the supplementary degrees of freedom that atoms offer allow the use of several gain mechanisms, depending on the pumping scheme. We thus first study these different gain mechanisms and show experimentally that they can induce (standard) lasing. We then present how the constraint of combining scattering and gain can be quantified, which leads to an evaluation of the random laser threshold. The results are promising and we draw some prospects for a practical realization of a random laser with cold atoms.


It is widely accepted that criminal activity negatively impacts visitors? recreation experiences in the nation?s parks and forests (Fletcher 1983). To further understand how law enforcement can effectively manage criminal activity in protected areas, this study was designed to describe law enforcement and non-law enforcement rangers? perceptions of a range of law enforcement issues. The data for this study were collected through a webbased survey of National Park Service full-time rangers and superintendents (n=527). Analysis indicated differing perceptions of crime and law enforcement in the parks among respondents with and without law enforcement experience. Also, results indicated a preference for harder (arrest and citation versus educational) levels of enforcement among rangers employed at parks closer to urban areas. These results seem to agree with literature in both the recreation field and the law enforcement field in terms of the relationship between urban encroachment, crime, and law enforcement on protected areas.


The Author Replies Thank you for your letter regarding our research about the relationship between classical fever of unknown origin (FUO) and inflammatory markers (1). We did not conclude that the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) could exclude the presence of malignancy. Although we agree with your opinion that a "specific diagnosis is the only way to select the correct therapy", our main point in this report is the fact that the ESR remains helpful when diagnosing FUO. The causes of FUO vary depending on the region and time period. Because imaging modalities such as CT, MRI, and positron emission tomography (PET) tend to be performed early after fever onset, the ratio of FUO due to blood cancers has increased in recent years (2, 3). As you mentioned in the letter, the ESR is influenced by age, the hemoglobin level, and potentially many other patient factors. We consider that the utility of our report lies in the evaluation of real data from FUO patients in Japan. We are worried about a potential over-reliance on Creactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin tests in our country. However, we still think that the WBC count and ESR are helpful for making a differential diagnosis in FUO patients, even though they do not offer a strong identifying power. As biopsy is not always feasible in clinical settings, we are therefore committed to increasing our efforts to evaluate helpful blood test markers or imaging modalities to diagnose the causes of FUO. We have recently initiated a large-scale nationwide prospective FUO study. This research may reveal more useful strategies for diagnosing the causes of FUO.


Over the past twelve years a dual revolution in laser technology and laser science has occurred [1, 2]. We have been able to produce very short laser pulses and we learned to amplify these pulses in very compact high power amplifiers. Progress in material and system engineering has transformed lasers, including intense femtosecond lasers, into reliable devices that can be used in many applications. Application of ultra-short-lasers to ophthalmology, in particular to corneal refractive surgery, has been extensively studied in the last years, leading to very interesting results, but with extremely restricted laser parameter windows.


Metabolic syndrome is a major public health concern that increases cardiovascular risk from dysfunctional lipid and glucose metabolism. Many factors, including genetics and environmental factors, such as inorganic arsenic, contribute to increase the risk for the disease. However, the mechanisms for this correlation are not well understood. This study tested the main hypothesis that arsenic alters proper lipid storage, remodeling and metabolic changes in adipose tissue through specific activation of membrane receptors in adipocytes. Mice exposed to arsenic through drinking water demonstrated that circulating levels of insulin and tryacylglycerides were affected. Moreover, arsenic stimulated adipose tissue remodeling and angiogenesis in epididymal fat pads, as well as redistribution of fat in ectopic tissues.
In a model of cultured adipocytes, arsenic induced loss of lipid droplets and expression of lipid-coated protein perilipin (PLIN-1).Lipolytic activity was also stimulated by arsenic within 24 hour of exposure and sustained after 3 days, which was indicative of aberrant lipid storage. The prevention of arsenic effects through pertussis toxin sensitive pathways strongly suggested that a Gi –linked receptors mediates arsenic toxicity. Further investigation revealed that the G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR) endothelin-1 receptor A (EDNRA) and B (EDNRB) were activated by arsenic. The selective blocking of EDNRA with BQ610, but not EDNRB with BQ788, partially prevented the loss of fat droplets. In contrast, both, blocking EDNRA and EDNRB prevented the increase in glycerol release by arsenic. Activation of the receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) EGFR in response to arsenic was not mediated by Src family or oxidant stress. However, arsenic exposure induced a transient association of Gαi protein- EGFR. These results indicated a novel mechanism through which arsenic stimulates cross talk between EDNRA-EGFR.
In conclusion, these studies demonstrated that arsenic impairs proper functionality and metabolism of adipose tissue by stimulation of GPCR-RTK cross communication. The result of this dissertation contributes to better understand the etiology and pathophysiology of metabolic diseases. The advanced understanding of the role of environmental exposure in the etiology of diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis and hypertension, seen the large population exposed to arsenic will aid in developing strategies to greatly reduce the burden of disease.


The estimation method and the function choosing in de-noising of wavelet threshold are introduced,and comparative analysis of threshold function choosing is presented.Based on observed data from Ertan Dam in Sichuan Province,comparison between original and estimated signal after de-noising on evaluate index of SNR and MSE is proposed.According to theoretical analysis and engineering projects,the almost-hard thresholding can be more effective to take the local deformation characteristic information than Garrote thresholding.


—Nectar exploitation by songbirds at Mediterranean stopover sites. The nectar use by songbirds in Europe is reported by many authors but several of them refer to local or occasional events on both introduced and native plants. A study carried out onVentotene Island (Italy) shows that nectar could be an important food resource for migrants which land at stopover sites. In this study we investigated the distribution of nectar feeding behaviour at Mediterranean stopover sites in spring, checking 10 species for the presence of pollen on plumage during ringing activities carried out at 14 stopover sites placed in Spain, Italy and Greece. Moreover we investigated the possible relationship between nectar consumption by migrants and vegetation at three stopover sites, through the time budget analysis of 8 species during no-flight activities. Sylvia and Phylloscopus species were often found to use nectar, the former more frequently than the latter. However, nectar exploitation results usual only at 2 Mediterranean sites out of 14, Ventotene and Antikythira (Greece), while it seems to be common atAfrican stopover sites. The analysis of time budget and the pattern of nectar feeding distribution at stopover sites suggests that in the Mediterranean region nectar consumption is most likely related to the youngest phases of vegetation, these possibly being richer in flowering plants potentially usable by songbirds.


In connection with present situation and the existence question for the domestic agitator of acetic acid installment,the installation、operation and so on maintenance was improved and checked,it having realized agitator of acetic acid mechanical seal system long period safe steady operation,and feasible control to the equipment movement cycle.


The present invention discloses a method of measuring apparatus and measurement-value capacitors, is provided with a gate circuit, the RC circuit, a timer, and two external electrodes for capacity to be measured; the gating circuit is first switched to the first path of the reference voltage and the RC circuit in communication with the first path of the reference voltage and the known measured capacitance charging of the capacitor, the capacitor and after completion of the charging of the capacitor under test is known, the reference voltage is switched to the second path and communicating said RC circuit, said second polarity opposite to the reference voltage and the first passage path of the reference voltage, and controlling the capacitance of the known capacitor discharge test, and starts timer counting, the discharge time is calculated according to the record the capacitance value of the capacitance to be measured. The present invention is by means known in the capacitance value of the quantized time value corresponding to the capacitance, the capacitance value of the anti-Release capacity to be measured, not only the measurement algorithm is simple, high precision, and the Jian Jie circuitry required to build hardware, low cost, ease of integration to ordinary multimeter.


Many image editing applications rely on the analysis of image patches. In this paper, we present a method to analyze patches by embedding them to a vector space, in which the Euclidean distance reflects patch similarity. Inspired by Word2Vec, we term our approach Patch2Vec. However, there is a significant difference between words and patches. Words have a fairly small and well defined dictionary. Image patches, on the other hand, have no such dictionary and the number of different patch types is not well defined. The problem is aggravated by the fact that each patch might contain several objects and textures. Moreover, Patch2Vec should be universal because it must be able to map never‐seen‐before texture to the vector space. The mapping is learned by analyzing the distribution of all natural patches. We use Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to learn Patch2Vec. In particular, we train a CNN on labeled images with a triplet‐loss objective function. The trained network encodes a given patch to a 128D vector. Patch2Vec is evaluated visually, qualitatively, and quantitatively. We then use several variants of an interactive single‐click image segmentation algorithm to demonstrate the power of our method.


We recently achieved targeted disruptions of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS)-associated genes in the mitochondrial genomes of rice and rapeseed by using mitochondria-targeted TALENs (mitoTALENs). It was the first report of stable and heritable targeted gene modification of plant mitochondrial genomes. Here, we attempted to use mitoTALENs to disrupt two mitochondrial genes in the model plant Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) using three different promoters and two types of TALENs. The targets were the two isoforms of the ATP synthase subunit 6 gene, atp6-1 and atp6-2. Each of these genes was successfully deleted and the mitochondrial genomes were recovered in a homoplasmic state. The nuclear genome also has a copy of atp6-1 and we were able to confirm that it was the mitochondrial gene and not the nuclear pseudo-gene that was knocked out. Among the three mitoTALENs promoters tried, the RPS5A promoter was the most effective. Conventional mitoTALENs were more effective than single-molecule mito-compact TALENs. Targeted mitochondrial gene deletion was achieved by crossing as well as by floral-dip transformation to introduce the mitoTALENs constructs into the nucleus. The gene disruptions were caused by large (kb-size) deletions. The ends of the remaining sequences were connected to distant loci, mostly by illegitimate homologous recombinations between repeats. Supporting Information.


Innovation City was Urban Development Method of New Concept and developed leading by Korean Government. It"s main purpose was to solve the overpopulated problems in Korean capital area, to upgrade national competitive power and achieve balanced development between regions in Korea. As Innovation City"s plan and site development made by politic needs was constructed in short time, it has been developing without adequate considering of regional development demand and characteristics, even more harmony and relationship with existing urban spatial structure. Accordingly, it was resulted in serious urban problem like as population emptiness and deterioration in existing downtown. Gyeongnam Innovation City is the biggest urban development project in respect of it"s scale and urban function, residential environment etc. in Jinju, and guess to affect seriously existing downtown as it"s construction proceeds. Therefore, this study aims to analyse effects of existing urban spatial structure in the course of development of Gyeongnam Innovation City, and to classify positive and negative factors affecting existing downtown of it, finally, to be harmony construction between existing downtown and Gyeongnam Innovation City. As a result of this study, development of Gyeongnam Innovation City was affected negatively to existing downtown in Jinju, especially, commercial and residential area. Real estate price has been declining in commercial area and emptiness in residential area was occurred in existing downtown. This is serious problem in considering that Gyeongnam Innovation City is not developed completely.


After receiving his doctorate, Robert Shaw spent 10 years at the University of Minnesota, first as a postdoctoral fellow at the newly formed Center for Research in Human Learning, and then as a faculty member of the Department of Psychology. During that decade, Shaw and the Center profoundly influenced each other's development in many ways. This article briefly describes some events of that period.


The theory of early prosthetic loosening states that loosening is initiated during or shortly after surgery, and that the subsequent progression of loosening is affected by biomechanical factors and periprosthetic fluid pressure fluctuations. Later and secondary to loosening, wear particles may affect the progression of loosening. The loosening may increase subclinically for a long period of time and may, when detected, be misinterpreted as a late occurrence of loosening. This concise overview presents the essential features of this theory as applied to hip replacements. Aspects discussed are insufficient initial fixation, early loss of fixation, biomechanical factors, periprosthetic fluid pressure fluctuations, periprosthetic osteolysis, and wear particles.


Abstract : Models of quarry blasts may serve to develop efficient and robust methods for discriminating quarry blasts from other sources. In this report, we present progress on modeling quarry blasts at the Chemline quarry in central Texas and the Black Thunder mine in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. We observe strong variations in near field ground motions at the Black Thunder mine. Using estimates of site response derived from signal coda, we find that the variations are partly due to local structure. However, variations between nearly co-located shots indicate changes are also due to source mechanism. The data set provided to us at this time does not include all the data taken for these shots and it is anticipated that source and propagation effects can be resolved with the full data set. We have used three dimensional finite difference calculations to interpret near-regional data from the Chemline quarry. The focus here was to examine azimuthal variations and spall and compare them with the effects of local quarry topography. The spall model is the simplest explanation for the Love to Rg ratios and the Love wave radiation pattern. The Rg radiation pattern suggests that a combination of the spall and topographic models may be needed.


This paper takes a marine low-speed engine as the research object and establishes a cylinder liner-piston ring lubrication model based on the time-varying supply characteristics of cylinder lubricating oil. By changing the oil injection position, oil film thickness, oil distribution range, etc., the cylinder oil injection control parameters are controlled and analyzed. Influence on the lubrication performance of cylinder liner-piston ring. The results show that when the cylinder oil feed rate is 1.0 $\mathbf{g}/\mathbf{kW}\cdot \mathbf{h}$, the oil injection point is located 1.5 m above the bottom dead center of the piston, and the renewed oil film thickness is 10.6 $\mu \mathbf{m}$, the frictional power loss(FPL) of one stroke is the lowest.


The effect of ethacrynic acid on bile formation was studied in five species of animals. Ethacrynic acid was injected i.v. in anesthetized sheep, dogs and rabbits and conscious rats, guinea pigs and sheep prepared with fistulas of the common bile duct. In all animals, increases in bile flow were recorded within 10 minutes after injection of ethacrynic acid. After a period of choleresis, the bile flow returned to the control level recorded during constant infusion of bile salts to each animal. The increases in bile flow were associated with increases in the output of sodium, potassium and chloride in bile and there were no changes in bile salt output measured in sheep, dogs, rats and rabbits. These results indicate that ethacrynic acid may increase inorganic salt ouput in bile. Although the exact origin of this fraction of bile is unknown, its production would seem to be independent of bile salt secretion.


(CL) program advanced in its efforts to identify a new treatment for the disease. The phase II combination therapy study, which aims to test the efficacy and safety of thermotherapy (TT) + miltefosine for the treatment of uncomplicated CL in Peru and Colombia, was concluded. Final results are expected by June 2019. Based on these encouraging preliminary results, we are moving to a phase III study which aims to demonstrate the non-inferiority of the combined therapy compared with miltefosine monotherapy and the current recommended treatment of meglumine antimoniate. The study will be conducted in five sites located in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Panama. The enrollment is expected to start in 2020. We have moved up in the Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) and preclinical development of the immunomodulator CpG D35. The first GMP batch of CpG D35 has been successfully manufactured. We presented our strategy regarding the preclinical package and phase I activities to the Health Authorities in the UK (MHRA) during a scientific advice meeting, which took place in London on February 5th. The Agency agreed with the overall Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) control strategy approach. They also agreed with the proposal to start the single ascending dose study in healthy volunteers in UK and continuing with the multiple ascending dose study in subjects infected with L. major. The screening and drug discovery efforts on L. donovani have expanded since 2015 to include some Leishmania strains causing CL. Two compounds showing activity against VL and CL, DNDi 0690 and 6148 have completed their preclinical development and will enter in its clinical development during 2019. If no safety concerns are observed in phase I studies and if there is an indication of its efficacy in VL patients, then these compounds will be tested for CL. The leishmaniasis team team continues to search for opportunities to work in the Old World, given the imminent need to test CpG D35 initially in L. major and subsequently in L. tropica patients. We are also aiming to tackle other unmet needs such as the infections due to L. aethiopica in Ethiopia and the emergent and growing problem of CL in Sri Lanka. • Editorial


PT. Pupuk Kaltim is the largest producer company of fertilizer
urea in Indonesia which is currently doing the addition of the factory.
With the addition of the load then PT Pupuk Kaltim also did the addition
of the power generated. The addition of new plants is done in factory
PKT-5. With the installation of a generator of 2x30MW is expected to
improve the company s performance. The addition of this plant effect on
currents of short circuit (Short Circuit Current) on each bus is mainly on
33kV bus integrated with each other.
The purpose of this final assignment will be done setting rele
like differential protection coordination on any main bus on the system
intergration 33kV and ground fault as a back up when the differential
failed. Analysis on the final project is expected to help in securing or
preventing damage to equipment and electricity networks.


Although recent interest in liver function tests has been productive of much information and has developed many new methods, the hope that a single test would be found that could fulfil all requirements for adequately estimating liver function has thus far failed. No single test up to now can actually measure more than one specific function of the liver, whether metabolic, secretory or retentive. The large amount of work done in this field began with the contribution of Rowntree, Hurwitz and Bloomfield 1 in 1913, when they first called attention to the use of halogenated phthaleins as a means of testing the functions of the liver. Our studies were carried out over a period of four years on almost 300 patients referred to the gastro-enterologic clinic at the Hospital of the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. All the more important tests have been tried out at


migrant workers in cities have become a vital force of urban construction.Through investigating their physical health status and sports participation,we can get knowledge about their physical and mental health levels and the factors relevant to the impact of their sports participation.Based on this knowledge,we can make relevant recommendations on how to improve their physical health and sports participation awareness.


In this article the sacred kingship in Africa will be analyzed. In order to do so eight cases will be described in some detail, and after that by comparison of the data presented conclusions with regard to this phenomenon will be formulated. The descriptions are limited to traditional black Africa. Neither ancient Egypt, nor modern Islamic states are included. Central themes of research will be the assumed influence of the sacred king on fertility, his eventual regicide in case of bad harvests, and the occurrence of transgressions during his inauguration rituals.


The new code of administrative procedure and administrative litigation, developed advances on the right of petition enshrined in the political constitution of Colombia, being a fundamental element for respectful petitions before the administrative authorities by the society hence the assessment of this.
tatutory Law No. 1755 of 2015 regulates the right of petition through the provisions of the Congress of the Republic in compliance with the C-818 of 2011 of the Constitutional Court ruling concerning the Right of Petition, Law of the Republic that it produced some changes. The change in the content of the statutory law that regulates the right of petition does not contain a major modification to the regulations already provided for in Law 1437 of 2011, which is why the content of this article does not present significant or significant variation.


This letter proposes 50:50 TE terahertz power splitters based on digitized metamaterials. The components are optimized using the particle swarm optimization algorithm. The digitized metamaterials are formed as a silicon slab with circular air holes atop a silicon dioxide substrate. The insertion losses of optimized structures containing air holes with a radius of 9 μm and air holes with different radii (9 μm and 7 μm) are less than 3.9 dB and 3.65 dB, respectively, over a frequency range of 0.87–1.09 THz. The footprint of the proposed devices is 400 μm × 350 μm. The devices have excellent characteristics, such as compactness, efficiency, all-dielectric properties, and compatibility with CMOS fabrication technologies, and can become vital components of most terahertz-wave routing circuits.


As small satellites and CubeSats demonstrate their value as science-capable platforms, the community is pushing to improve reliability while expanding performance capabilities. The attitude control...


the best to be obtained. Then, by chance perhaps, he will see something similar, but better, somewhere else, and he has satisfied himself that his best was after all but a second or third best. In other words, he has obtained a new standard. That is the value of comparison. When little less than 12 months ago, by the direction of the Board of Directors of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the writer set out to investigate the methods of management of hospitals in the English-speaking communities of America


FIELD: physics. SUBSTANCE: fibre laser of the "master oscillator-power amplifier" type includes a master oscillator, a power amplifier, a wavelength conversion unit and a wavelength filter. The power amplifier uses as a gain medium, a rare earth-doped optical fibre which is connected to a last stage of the master oscillator. The wavelength conversion unit lies between the master oscillator and the power amplifier. The wavelength filter lies between the wavelength conversion unit and the master oscillator and only allows wavelength components of pulsed light emitted from the master oscillator to pass. EFFECT: preventing damage to a fibre laser by reflected light. 7 cl, 16 dwg


The prevalence of Cryptosporidium parvum in people infected with HIV/AIDS at the Federal Medical Centre, Keffi was an infection in relation to sex and age of the immunocompromised patients. 200 stools were diagnosed and analyzed from patients infected with HIV within 11⁄2 hrs after collection. The pathogenic C. parvum was diagnosed using a modified–acid–fast (Ziehl-Nelson) given that C. parvumhas been known to be difficult to characterized using standard microbiological techniques. Here, 29 (14.5%) cases were positive with C. parvum, 14(7.0%) were found to contain mucous in the stool texture, 20 (10.0%) were however, diarrhoeic and 4 (2.0%) cases both contained mucous and diarrhoeic in texture. Also in the males 4 (11.1%) were positive with C. parvumoocysts, higher in the females 25 (15.3%), cases were found positively significant in relation to sexes (X2 = 0.577<0.05). among the ages of 20 – 39 years as sexually active group were high with C. parvumoocysts with significant difference among the age groups (X2=0.768<0.05). However, C. parvumremains a major clinical problem in patients living with HIV infection and suggests here that, routine stool examination will significantly; benefit immunocompromised patients by reducing high morbidity and mortality rate thereby improving the quality of life.


Evaluating disparities in health care is an important aspect of understanding differences in disease risk. The purpose of this study is to describe the methodology for estimating such disparities, with application to a large multi‐ethnic cohort study.


Reach scale heterogeneity of riverbed hydraulic conductivity has been investigated previously, while few examined the vicinity riverbed hydraulic conductivity response to dam removal projects. In this study, CHIT(Constant Head Injection Test) method was used for in-situ estimation of hydraulic conductivity (K) in a newly created gravel bar after a weir removal project at three depths: top(0-30cm), middle(30-60cm) and deep (over 60cm). Data were used to generate the spatial and temporal variation map of K. Results showed that K has a negative relationship with the measurement depth. Low K areas are mainly distributed in the middle and deep layer at the bar head, especially at the right-bank side. As to the bar tail (line E and F) the K was over 100m/day throughout three layers. After one-month period, the overall K increased due to a small flood, however, specific site with decrease of K were found in all layers which indicates the complexity of K evolution with time. Based on detailed background and local geomorphic settings investigation, we found that the artificial impact to the original riverbed and the strong sediment sorting during bar formation could be the fundamental control of the heterogeneity of K, which implies that during removal work, proper riverbed management strategy is crucially needed for the purposes of hyporheic ecotone restoration.


Nighttime light (NTL) data derived from Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), carried by the Suomi National Polar Orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite has been widely used as an important index of modeling gross domestic product (GDP). Nevertheless, due to the difference of two kinds monthly composite data, which version is better to estimate the multiple-scale GDP distribution needs to be examined. The GDP distribution in China is always accompanied by regional disparity, but previous studies hardly considered the spatial autocorrelation. This research compared the effect of two kinds NPP-VIIRS monthly NTL data based on eigenvector spatial filtering (ESF) regression to enhance the precision of the GDP estimation. The regional NTL values were used with permanent resident population data to estimate 2015 China mainland province, city level GDP and the results were clearly analyzed.


The most extended way of acquiring information for knowledge based systems is to do it manually. However, the high cost of this approach and the availability of alternative Knowledge Sources has lead to an increasing use of automatic acquisition approaches. In this paper we present M-TURBIO, a Text-Based Intelligent System (TBIS) that extracts information contained in restricted-domain documents. The system acquires part of its knowledge about the structure of the documents and the way the information is presented (i.e. syntactic-semantic rules) from a training set of these. Then, a database is created by means of applying these syntactic-semantic rules to extract the information contained in the whole documents.


1 Immunology Unit, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, 30173 Hannover, Germany Clinic for Ruminants, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Genome Biology, 18196 Dummerstorf, Germany Clinic for Cattle, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, 30173 Hannover, Germany 5 Institute for Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany 6 Microbial Proteomics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany Agricultural and Environmental Faculty, University Rostock, 18059 Rostock, Germany email@example.com (Corresponding Author)


Rock dynamic constitutive model plays an important role in understanding dynamic response and addressing rock dynamic problems. Based on elastoplastic mechanics and damage mechanics, a dynamic constitutive model of rock coupled with elastoplastic damage is established. In this model, unified strength theory is taken as the yield criterion; to reflect the different damage evolution law of rocks under tension and pressure conditions, the effective plastic strain and volumetric plastic strain are used to represent the compressive damage variable and the equivalent plastic strain is used to represent the tensile damage variable; the plastic hardening behavior and strain rate effect of rocks are characterized by piecewise function and dynamic increase factor function, respectively; Fortran language and LS-DYNA User-Defined Interface (Umat) are used to numerically implement the constitutive model; the constitutive model is verified by three classical examples of rock uniaxial and triaxial compression tests, rock uniaxial tensile test, and rock ballistic test. The results show that the constitutive model can describe the dynamic and static mechanical behavior of rock comprehensively.


Due to new and important challenges tourism sector must face, human factor is the most important resource. Therefore, professionals must have competencies critical for determining competitivity of enterprises and institutions related. Based on that idea, an empirical analysis was carried out to learn about the learning process followed by tourism students to obtain these competencies. Outcomes show that future professionals are actually acquiring both generic and specific competencies they need for their professional future.


AbstractAn electrochemical biosensor based on a supported polymerized lipid film with incorporated sheep anti-3,3′,4,4′ tetrachlorobiphenyl (PCB congener 77) antibody using flow injection analysis was developed. The polymerized lipid film contained 85% (w/w) dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and 15% (w/w) dipalmitoylphosphatidic acid (DPPA), methacrylic acid, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate, AIBN and sheep anti-congener 77 antiserum. Congener 77 was injected into flowing carrier electrolyte and the flow stopped to detect the antigen. These membranes gave only a single transient proportional to log [congener 77] from 10−8 to 10−5 M, with a detection limit of ca. 10−8 M. A membrane containing 35% (w/w) DPPA was used to examine regeneration. The maximum number of cycles was about 5.


AIM:To compare the therapeutic efficacy between hepatectomy and cholangioscopy in the treatment of intrahepatobiliary tract stones.METHODS:Data of 54 cases with intraheaptobiliary tract stones treated in our hospital from 1990 to 2007 were reviewed and analyzed.RESULTS:The stone clearance rate of both approaches were high,96.2% and 96.4% respectively(P0.05).The 5-year recurrence rate in hepatectomy group was 5.6% and 31.5% in cholangioscopy group(P0.01).The complication rate of hepatectomy group and cholangioscopy group was respectively 26.8% and 18.2%(P0.05).CONCLUSION:Hepatectomy would be a better choice in the treatment of localized intrahepatolithiasis accompanied with bile duct stenosis.


There is strong empirical and theoretical evidence in psychology that human development follows a stage-like progression throughout the lifespan. Development is marked by relative stability, punctuated by periods of rapid and profound conceptual change. However, the driving forces behind these bursts of change are poorly understood. In this paper I examine a growing body of evidence that developmental change can emerge through a process of rational, statistical inference as a learner interacts with his or her environment. I briefly introduce the main idea behind statistical (bayesian) inference over structured hypothesis spaces, and then explore the specific domain of number learning with unique implications on the emergence of stages in human development.


A towering figure in the late Victorian cultural and political landscape of England, William Morris (1834–1896) devoted his incredible literary and theoretical skills to promoting revolutionary socialism from 1883 until his death, a commitment that was expressed in his incisive renderings of a future socialist life‐world that was intimately linked to ecological regeneration and sustainability. In this respect, many contemporary scholars note that he is one of the first ecosocialist thinkers. In this essay, I render the development of his ecosocialist vision, arguing that it arose primarily in the way in which his earlier commitment as an artist to a 'critical notion of beauty' helped in engendering his later socialist position. More important, given this unique genealogy of ideas, Morris was able seamlessly to integrate a 'limits to growth' position within his socialist vision, and clearly explain how socialism itself could create a practice of ecological sustainability unattainable under capitalism.


Active crop canopy sensors make possible in-season fertilizer nitrogen (N) applications by using the crop as a bio-indicator of vigor and N status. However, sensor calibration is difficult early in the growing season when crops are rapidly growing. Studies were conducted in the United States and Mexico to evaluate procedures to determine the vegetation index of adequately fertilized plants in producer fields without establishing a nitrogen-rich reference area. The virtual-reference concept uses a histogram to characterize and display the sensor data from which the vegetation index of adequately fertilized plants can be identified. Corn in Mexico at the five-leaf growth stage was used to evaluate opportunities for variable rate N fertilizer application using conventional tractor-based equipment. A field in Nebraska, USA at the twelve-leaf growth stage was used to compare data interpretation strategies using: (1) the conventional virtual reference concept where the vegetation index of adequately fertilized plants was determined before N application was initiated; and (2) a drive-and-apply approach (no prior canopy sensor information for the field before initiating fertilizer application) where the fertilizer flow-rate control system continuously updates a histogram and automatically calculates the vegetation index of adequately fertilized plants. The 95-percentile value from a vegetation-index histogram was used to determine the vegetation index of adequately fertilized plants. This value was used to calculate a sufficiency index value for other plants in the fields. The vegetation index of reference plants analyzed using an N-rich approach was 3–5 % lower than derived using the virtual-reference concept. fields at the at fields for % field linear-drive


In this paper, a robust and cost-effective model for predicting students' performance in tertiary education programmes of a prototype developing economy was developed. The factors influencing the performance of students in programming related courses were investigated. Statistical approaches such as frequencies, mean, standard deviation, correlation and multiple regression were used for demographic and descriptive analysis. Thorough analysis of the obtained dataset showed that major factors affecting the performance of students in programming courses are erratic power supply, bad university facilities, student health and students' attendance. The developed predictive model will assist University stakeholders, managers and students in cost-effective and robust decision making that could facilitate improved student performance in programming courses in a prototype developing economy.


The pressure decline data after the end of a hydraulic fracture stage is sometimes monitored for an extended period of time (30 minutes to hours). However, this data is not analyzed and often ignored or underappreciated due to a lack of suitable models for closure of propped fractures. In this study, we present a new approach to model and analyze pressure decline data that is available at the end of each plug and perf stage in horizontal wells. The new model, interpretation method and specialized plots presented in this study allow us to quantify closure stress, average pore pressure inside the stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) and normalized fracture stiffness/compliance evolution along the entire horizontal wellbore without additional data acquisition costs. Analysis of field stage-by-stage pressure decline data shows that the interpreted results are consistent with the analysis of DFIT data from an offset well for the same formation. We found that the early-time stage-by-stage pressure decline trend is controlled by progressive hydraulic fracture closure on the proppant pack, while late-time pressure decline reflects linear flow. Thus, the pressure decline rate alone is not a reliable indicator of the productivity or stimulation efficiency of a certain stage. When DFIT data is not available, pressure decline analysis of a main hydraulic fracturing stage can be used even if it can be monitored for a relatively short period of time (1 hour). Most important of all, we show that the slope of pressure derivative on a log-log plot and the normalized fracture stiffness plot can be used to infer the uniformity of proppant distribution.


Combining with field magnified injection technology,the determination of six heavy metal elements(manganese,chromium,lead,copper,nickel and cobalt) in iron ore by on-line dual-enrichment capillary electrophoresis enrichment and separation system based on field magnified injection-electric counter balance purge-trap was established using EDTA as trap carrier.The metal ions were firstly accumulated on the interface between water plug and high-conductivity buffer solution via field magnified injection,and then trapped by oncoming negative charged EDTA.The sample region was further compressed,realizing the dual amplification of signal.By controlling the electro-osmotic flow,the metal-EDTA chelate was under quasi-static condition.Thus,the large volume injection and significant amplification of detection signal were realized.After dual-enrichment at 15 kV for 50 min,the sensitivity increased by 1.2×104-8.5×104 times than that of conventional capillary electrophoresis.The detection limits of six heavy metal ions in iron ore were 0.06-0.32 μg/L.The proposed method was applied to the determination of manganese,chromium,lead,copper,nickel and cobalt in iron ore.The relative error between determination results of proposed method and those of ICP-MS was between 5.3 %-11.5 %.


Dame Cicely Saunders, regarded as the founder of the modern hospice movement and a pioneer in the field of palliative care, died peacefully on July 14, 2005, at St. Christopher's Hospice in London. She was 87. The founder of St. Christopher's Hospice, Dame Cicely dedicated her life and professional work to alleviating the pain and suffering of the dying. St. Christopher's opened its doors in 1967 and provided a model of care that gave birth to one of the most significant grassroots movements of the late 20th century in the United States. Her guiding principle was "to cure sometimes, but to comfort always." Fittingly, Dame Cicely was cared for as a patient at St. Christopher's Hospice for some time before her death. "Dame Cicely's vision and work has transformed the care of the dying and the practice of medicine in the UK and throughout the world," said Barbara Monroe, current Chief Executive of St. Christopher's. "She is an inspiration to us all. Her influence will carry on around the world as we work together in hospice and palliative care to support dying people and those close to them." Working as a nurse during World War II, Dame Cicely later became a social worker and then went on to medical school to become a physician. As a physician, she felt she could make the greatest impact by improving the culture of care for people at the end of life. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1980. In 1987, she was appointed to the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Limited to only 24 persons, this order is the highest honor the monarch can bestow. "Few people can go to their rest having done more to relieve suffering and to advance compassion in the world than Dame Saunders. She was our matriarch and our guiding light, never wavering in her quest to advance care for the dying," said Stephen Connor, Vice President for Research and International Development at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. "According to our colleagues at St. Christopher's, she died today peacefully in the hospice she founded. No one could be more deserving." The Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, along with the NHPCO, the National Hospice Foundation, and the Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa extend their deepest sympathies to Dame Cicely's family, friends, and colleagues the world over and honor her for her special gifts and contributions that improved the way we live and die.


Social and economic transformations, linked to changes in value systems, have led to a relative shift from mass tourism to new forms of holiday-taking, including rural vacations. These trends are illustrated by a case study of Portugal, which experienced a massive growth of tourism, especially in coastal areas, from the 1960s. To some degree, this supplemented an older tourism tradition, based on inland spas. The growth of 'green' tourism in recent decades, facilitated by social and economic changes, has led to the revival of many such spa towns, as well as the emergence of new forms of rural tourism such as farm tourism, turismo da habitacâo and hunting activity holidays. The overall impact of these new forms of tourism on rural development is, however, limited, and it should be considered as one strategy, among many others, for economic diversification.


Assistive knee brace is a species of wearable lower extremity exoskeletons. In this research, an assistive knee brace was developed by integrating a multifunctional actuator with a custom-made knee-ankle-foot orthosis. In the study, the location of the actuator is moved up to the lateral side of the hip, instead of knee joint. Waist belt and shoulder belt are appended on the knee brace. This paper aimed to improve the design of the assistive knee braces through gait analysis. By walking with the knee braces, the spatial and temporal gait parameters, joint kinematics and joint kinetics parameters were evaluated, and the changes from normal walking were compared as well. The experimental results showed that walking with the developed knee brace provided minimal hindrance to the wearer.


Gentry eventually formed during the Ming and Qing Dynasty.Gentry had knowledge and fame,enjoyed all the privileges given by the state,controlled of grass- roots society on behalf of the state.Meanwhile they shouldered a variety of social duties in the local area,dominated people's social life,and were in intermediarive positions between the officials and public.Over the past twenty years,Chinese scholars have made quite comprehensive studies on the gentry,mainly on the connotation,status and role of the gentry etc.


Introduction Nanoparticles (NPs) modified with bio-ligands represent a promising strategy for active targeted drug delivery to tumour. However, many targeted ligands, such as trastuzumab (TMAB), have high molecular weight, limiting their application for targeting. In this study, we prepared Fab' (antigen-binding fragments cut from TMAB)-modified NPs (Fab′-NPs) with curcumin (Cur) as a model drug for more effective targeting of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2/ErbB2/Neu), which is overexpressed on breast cancer cells. Material and methods The release kinetics was conducted by dialysis bags. The ability to kill HER2-overexpressing BT-474 cells of Fab′-Cur-NPs compared with TMAB-Cur-NPs was conducted by cytotoxicity experiments. Qualitative and quantitative cell uptake studies using coumarin-6 (fluorescent probe)-loaded NPs were performed by fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry. Pharmacokinetics and biodistribution experiments in vivo were assessed by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Results The release kinetics showed that both Fab′-Cur-NPs and TMAB-Cur-NPs provided continuous, slow release of curcumin for 72 h, with no significant difference. In vitro cytotoxicity experiments showed that Fab′-Cur-NPs manifested prominent ability to kill HER2-overexpressing BT-474 cells compared with TMAB-Cur-NPs. Qualitative and quantitative cell uptake studies indicated that the accumulation of Fab′-NPs was greater than that of TMAB-NPs in BT-474 (HER2+) cells; However, there was no significant difference in MDA-MB-231 (HER2−) cells. Pharmacokinetics and biodistribution experiments in vivo demonstrated that the half-life (t1/2) and area under the blood concentration-time curve (AUC0-t) of Fab′-Cur-NPs increased 5.30-fold and 1.76-fold relative to those of TMAB-Cur-NPs, respectively. Furthermore, the tumor accumulation of Fab′-Cur-NPs was higher than that of TMAB-Cur-NPs. Conclusion Fab′ fragment has greater capacity than the intact antibody to achieve tumor targeting through NP-based delivery.


responsibility towards the other. Here Folkart uses insights taken from Emmanuel Lévinas's philosophy of infinite responsibility towards the untotalizable other. The final chapter, "Scoring the National Hym(e)n: Sexuality, Immigration, and Liminal Identity in Najat El Hachmi's L'últim patriarca," emphasizes several types of marginality. El Hachmi is a female Moroccan writer born in 1979 who emigrated to Catalonia at the age of eight, facts which shape her own approach to questions of difference and identity as do her choice to write in Catalan, a minority language in Spain. This novel allows Folkart to speak about Spain's historical relations with North Africa as well as recent immigration to Spain from that region, both somewhat contested topics within Spain. Folkart argues that the return of the repressed past is embodied here by the North African immigrant, while Spain is viewed, as in the past, as the female body violated by the other. Folkart posits that El Hachmi's novel presents national identity as liminal, open to multiplicity as with the Derridian hym(e)n. In this sense the text presents a new identity, one which is both Catalan and Moroccan and which breaks with binary oppositions emerging as a new female who subverts patriarchal models of femininity and subjugation to the father. Folkart's book is an excellent contribution to the field of contemporary Peninsular literature as it not only includes detailed, insightful analysis of novels by major contemporary authors but also because it engages incisively with diverse issues in identity theory such as gender, history, nationality, and immigration. Victoria Rivera-Cordero Seton Hall University


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Armed conflict in Syria lead to discomfort, fear, and misery for its citizens, so they decided to seek refuge in neighboring countries or countries which they can guarantee their safety. Hungary became one of the transit countries of the refugees. Issues that were raised in this research is the role of UNHCR in providing protection to refugees who are victims of the Syrian conflict in transit countries Hungary. This study aims to determine the role of UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) in providing protection to refugees who are victims of the Syrian conflict in transit countries Hungary, and as one of the requirements to obtain a law degree at the Faculty of Law of the University of Atma Jaya Yogyakarta. This study uses normative research and literature. The data used is the primary legal materials
consisting of the 1951 Convention and Protocol 1967 Relating to the Status of Refugee, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees Statute, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as well as secondary data which consists of books, journals, theses, Internet-related research topics. UNHCR has generally been performing its role in providing protection for the Syrian refugees who are in transit countries Hungary. UNHCR's role, among others, the fulfillment of basic needs, clothing, food and shelter as well as the supervision of the existing refugees in transit country of Hungary


Objective To investigate the patterns of expression of topoisomerase Ⅱ in patients with urinary bladder cancer undergone cystectomy. Methods 64 formalin fixed cystectomy specimens were stained immunohistochemically for topoisomerase Ⅱ using SWT3D1 monoclonal antibody after pressure cooker heating of tissue sections and correlated the results with tumor grade,stage and recurrence. Results Topoisomerase Ⅱ LI(labelling index )increased with pathological grade.Topoisomerase Ⅱ LI of G 1、G 2、G 3 were (5 6±1 7)%、(13 7±10 2)%、(23 2±15 7)%,repectively ( P 0 05). Topoisomerase Ⅱ LI did not correlate with the recurrence and clinical stages( P 0.05). Conclusions Expression of topoisomeraseⅡ is related to poor prognostic factors.Immunohistochemical assessment of topoisomerase Ⅱ expression in transitional tumor of bladder might be useful for tailoring chemotherapy with topoisomerase Ⅱ inhibitors.


J. O. Brew, Archaeology of Alkali Ridge, southeastern Utah, Peabody Museum (Harvard), Papers XXI, Cambridge, 1946). The undoubted continuity of cultural development in the Southwest (cf. pp. 43-5, E. H. Morris, Archaeological studies in the La Plata district, Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 519, 1939) is thus paralleled and explained by continuity of physical type and population. The idea of the "Basket Makers" becoming Pueblos by starting to use a hard cradle-board, on which the baby is tightly bound, is strengthened, and the mechanics of the process clarified, by the recent findings with reference to "Dinaric" Albanians and "Armenoid" Lebanese. Father Ewing, after a thorough discussion of his Lebanese Maronites and their American-born offspring, as an "experiment," offers the startling further conclusion, based on a rapid survey of available data, that hyperbrachycephaly appears to correlate with cradle-board flattening and deliberate artificial deformation the world over. How well this will go over with physical anthropologists and prehistorians generally may be imagined: minor weaknesses and the inadequacy of the information on the subject will be pointed out kindly (or indignantly), instead of recognition of the importance of the general idea. Like so many bold and sweeping concepts, it probably is essentially or largely true, but not quite so all-inclusive as Dr. Ewing suggests, and the case may be weakened by overstatement. The actual facts of human racial history are tremendously complex, and probably the truth lies in a combination of other hypotheses, or portions thereof (see, e.g., Franz Weidenreich, "The brachycephalization of recent mankind," Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 1:1-54, No. 1, spring 1945), with at least a large portion of this one ably presented by Father Ewing.


Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) of the testis is an uncommon extranodal presentation accounting for 1% of all NHL, 2% of extranodal lymphoma, and 5% of all testicular tumours. There are various subtypes of primary Non-hodgkins lymphoma of testis including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), Burkitt's lymphoma, follicular lymphoma and B-cell lymphoma. Differential diagnosis of testicular lymphoma is made with seminoma of classic or spermatocytic type, embryonal carcinoma, viral and granulomatous orchitis. Orchidectomy with adjunctive chemotherapy or radiotherapy is the treatment. It is important to identify primary testicular DLBCL correctly and distinguish it from other entities because of differences in therapy, management, and prognosis. We hereby present a case of a 76 year old man who presented with bilateral testicular enlargement with dragging pain and abdominal discomfort since 1 month. FNAC was done followed by right sided orchidectomy and was sent for histopathological study. Immunohistochemistry was done which showed LCA and CD 20 positivity and negative for CD 3. A final diagnosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma was made.


A single-step difference scheme for the numerical solution of the nonlocal-boundary
value problem for stochastic parabolic equations is presented. The convergence estimate for the solution
of the difference scheme is established. In application, the convergence estimates for the solution of the
difference scheme are obtained for two nonlocal-boundary value problems. The theoretical statements
for the solution of this difference scheme are supported by numerical examples.


The propinquity rate of marriages performed within a single Catholic parish was considerably less than the rate found in city-wide propinquity studies. Interfaith marriages followed a pattern similar to marriages between Catholics; however, interfaith marriages in which the man was the Catholic showed a higher propinquity rate than those in which the woman was the Catholic. The hypothesis that the parish acts as a cohesive force in the promotion of mate selection was not supported by the study. For those who married Catholics, religion, and for those who married non-Catholics, other factors, seemed more important than propinquity.


What does recent research in the learning sciences have to offer computing education researchers and course designers? Over the past 50 years, course designers have learned a great deal about how to teach computer programming. Programming courses have motivated imaginative instructional innovations including microworlds, case studies, programming patterns, peer critiques, and lab-based courses. Early courses often employed collaborative learning by default--due to limited access to personal computers--and invented solutions to common dilemmas such as imbalances in the contributions to a group product. In addition, many of the innovators in computer programming instruction were themselves self-taught, bringing intriguing insights to the design of new courses.
 Recent work in the learning sciences offers some fresh ideas while also drawing on this promising tradition of innovation. In this talk I will integrate the research of the Technology-Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) center with my experiences in design of computer programming courses to identify some fruitful directions for the field.


To study vowel intelligibility in the absence of the acoustic reflex, ten synthetic vowels whose duration was shorter than the effective latency of the acoustic reflex were presented to normal hearing listeners at levels ranging from 72 to 106 dB SPL. Signal intelligibility varied as a function of both SPL and vowel identity. Vowels with widely spaced formants, i.e., /i/ and /ɪ/, were unaffected by presentation level. Vowels with more proximal formants began to show a decrement in intelligibility at 96 dB and suffered as much as a 40% decrement at 106 dB. Confusion errors were not symmetrical in F1‐F2 space suggesting a systematic distortion in the auditory coding of formant location. These data indicate another source of distortion for many severely hearing‐impaired listeners who commonly listen to speech amplified to greater than 100 dB and who do not have measureable acoustic reflexes. [Research supported by NIH.]


Neuronal differentiation of rat trunk crest cells was studied in vitro using embryo extract and fetal serum prepared from 16-day rat fetuses. To obtain primary cultures of neural crest cells, neural tubes at a trunk level were isolated from 10-day rat embryos and explanted on glass coverslips coated with fibronectin or laminin. We thus established primary culture of rat neural crest cells and demonstrated that rat embryo extract promoted expression of catecholaminergic phenotype in the neural crest cells. We also suggested a possible participation of humoral factor(s) in catecholaminergic differentiation of neural crest cells


The Olympic movement is an outcome of combining sports with culture and education.Its education value lies in three aspects.It can promote people's spiritual and mental development,boost the development and improvement of the society and maintain a harmonious relationship between human and nature.It is necessary to popularize the education of the Olympic ideology and culture among the Chinese students to help them to develop the correct values orientation,i.e.overall development,collectivism and fair competition.The Olympic humanistic educational concept has offered a new approach to the physical education and reform.The Olympic education is in agreement with the quality-oriented education.It is of great help for the improving the comprehensive quality standard among students and all the Chinese people.The idea of green,humanistic and scientific Olympics is of great value for students to cultivate their awareness of environmental protection,advocate humanism and devote to science and technology.


Intimate partner violence during pregnancy might be more prevalent than gestational diabetes, neural tube defects, and preeclampsia, but it is harder to detect. Researchers reexamined data from a previous randomized-controlled trial of nursing case-management intervention in pregnant women at risk for abuse. They sought to distinguish between women who did and did not disclose abuse, and to explain why the prevalence of reported …


We describe an intelligent vision sensor (silicon retina) that can pre-process images in real-time by using a parallel analog circuit that mimics the structure of the neuronal circuits in vertebrate retina. In this study, we have designed and fabricated a wide dynamic range silicon retina on the basis of our previous design. The photosensor of the present chip approximates logarithmic illumination-to-voltage transfer characteristics due to a photodiode capacitance modulation technique being applied. The chip in this study has achieved a dynamic range wide enough to perceive objects in both indoor and outdoor environments. Moreover, combining the logarithmic response of the photosensor with the Laplacian-Gaussian-like spatial filtering by a resistive network makes the response amplitude of the chip independent of the illumination intensity.


The poor charge separation efficiency is mainly responsible for the low photocatalytic hydrogen production performance, and the establishment of heterojunctions between phase interfaces is an important strategy to solve this...


This paper focuses on algorithm innovation of NAND Flash Memory for enhancing cell lifetime. During flash memory read/write/erase, the voltage of a specific cell should be a valid voltage level. If not, we cannot read the data correctly. This type of interference/disturbance tends to be serious when program and erase operation will go on. This is because FN tunneling results in tunnel oxide damage due to increased trap site on repetitive high biased state. In order to resolve this problem, we make the cell degradation by reducing the amount of stress in terms of erase cell, resulting in minimizing the cell disturbance on erase verify.


In the biological sciences, there is much emphasis on elucidating the functions of various biological components and processes. To do so, advances in general microscopy have yielded various imaging modalities to probe such processes under specific visualization and contrast requirements. Examples of modalities that are popularly integrated into conventional biological studies include fluorescent, dark-field, phase-contrast, and polarization-sensitive microscopies, with each modality offering unique insights into the biological function of the sample. Often times, however, a comprehensive understanding of biological phenomena requires the integration of the unique and separate visualizations of various modalities. Unfortunately, conventional microscopes typically support only one modality and rarely allow multiple modalities to be used in conjunction. Though high-end microscopes may support multimodal visualization, they often require either mechanical (and often manual) toggling, which obstruct real-time multimodal imaging, or simultaneous detection via multiple cameras, which dramatically increases the microscope's cost. Here, we present a one-shot technique that allows multiple imaging channels, of potentially different modalities, to be simultaneously detected by a single camera. We experimentally demonstrate this method on transparent cells that have been tagged for F-actin and nuclear fluorescence. Our multimodal system consists of 2-channel fluorescence and 1-channel quantitative-phase (QP) imaging, and clearly demonstrates ability for simultaneous fluorescent and QP visualization. Though we experimentally verify our framework using dual fluorescent/QP imaging, we emphasize that our framework for single-shot, simultaneous single-camera detection is applicable to an arbitrary number of widefield imaging modalities so long as they fulfill criteria for Fourier spectra separation, SNR, and detector dynamic range


Pecan is a North American native tree that produces a stone fruit or kernel, commonly known as pecan nut,which is highly valuable worldwide due to its sensory quality, and health promoting properties derived from the presence of mono- and polyunsaturated fatty acids, tocopherols and monomeric and polymeric polyphenolic compounds. The increase in the demand for pecan nut leads to an increase in by-products such as leaves, cake and principally nutshell, which have high contents of bioactive components, making them interesting raw materials to produce nutraceuticals with health benefits. The phytochemical content of pecan oil and kernel, as well as that of the main pecan by-products is discussed in detail, paying special attention to the presence of individual polyphenols with monomeric and polymeric structures. Finally, studies regarding the biological activity and potential use of pecan oil, kernel and by-products are summarized and discussed.


China's Rise in Asia: Promises and Perils, by Robert G. Suiter. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. xii + 297 pp. US$69.00 (hardcover), US$24.95 (paperback). Robert Sutter, currently a visiting Professor at the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, is without question one of America's most experienced Asia hands. His 30-year long career in the US Government engaged him in work with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the National Intelligence Council. The demanding nature of the subject matter addressed in his latest book, China's Rise in Asia: Promises and Perils, requires Sutter to draw upon all the acumen acquired during this long and distinguished career. Notwithstanding the substantial degree of attention currently being devoted to the threat of terrorism, the management of China's rise (in an international system in which America will almost certainly remain the dominant power) is fast emerging as the most complex and challenging global security issue of the 21st century. Suiter's analysis of this seminal issue is factually rich. Much of the book is devoted to describing and assessing the dynamics of China's relationships with individual countries (the US, Japan, Russia, Taiwan and the two Koreas) and with particular sub-regions (Southeast Asia, South Asia and Central Asia). On a less positive note, much of the ground covered in these chapters will already be familiar to many, and while the assiduous manner in which Sutter approaches these relationships is no doubt a reflection of the 20 years he spent in a variety of posts at the US Library of Congress, at times his penchant for detail affects the accessibility of the analysis. The most original and refreshing aspect of Suiter's work lies in its attempt to shed greater light on the nature of Chinese foreign policy motivation. In recent times, debates over the future direction of Chinese foreign policy have tended to pit those who argue that Beijing's so-called "new diplomacy" reflects a genuine "strategic" change of heart against those who maintain that it is merely a "tactical" shift on the part of China's leaders as they seek to consolidate their own position during a critical transitional period. By attempting an important "unpacking" of PRC foreign policy motivation, Suiter's study promises to advance this debate beyond the tactical/strategic dichotomy. To this end, his research draws upon a significant number of interviews conducted throughout the Asia-Pacific region, including discussions with 50 specialists and officials in China itself. Unfortunately, however, this impressive research effort ultimately does not deliver as much as one might hope in terms of prying open the "black box" of PRC foreign policy decisionmaking. Whether this is simply a product of the ongoing difficulties of conducting research in a tightly controlled political environment is open to speculation. …


A 1,1,2,2,3-PENTAFLUOPROPANO TO PRODUCE HIGH PERFORMANCE INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC PROCESS by reacting 1-chloro-2,2,3,3-TETRAFLUOPROPANO WITH HYDROGEN FLUORIDE IN THE PRESENCE OF A CATALYST fluoridation.


A network of 53 ring-width chronologies has been developed from low-elevation stands of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco, n = 40) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex P. & C. Laws., n = 13) in the southern Canadian Cordillera. Relationships between the chronologies and monthly, seasonal, and annualized climatic parameters (precipitation, temperature, and Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)) were investigated using correlation analyses. The results indicate that tree growth at the sites is most strongly related to water availability dur- ing the growing season months. Although the response of the two species is similar, Douglas-fir show a slightly stron- ger correlation with seasonalized precipitation for the prior year and early summer whereas ponderosa pine correlate most strongly with current year and late (July) summer precipitation. Maximum correlations for both species occur with annual precipitation totals. The precipitation signal is slightly weaker in the more northerly Douglas-fir chronolo- gies in British Columbia and the higher elevation sites in southwestern Alberta. Correlations with available PDSI re- cords are generally comparable with those from precipitation variables, but the limited number of PDSI records and the availability of more proximal and better correlated precipitation records indicated that annual (summer-summer) precip- itation totals provide the best possibilities to develop regional, moisture-related proxy climate records from these data. Analysis of earlywood and latewood chronologies for 28 sites (mainly Douglas-fir) indicates that earlywood width is most consistently and strongly correlated with precipitation in the previous summer (July and August), and latewood width is more strongly related to precipitation in the current summer (June and July). The results of these analyses demonstrate considerable potential for reconstructing annual (and (or) summer) precipitation for sites across the region. Resume : Un reseau de 53 series dendrochronologiques a ete mis en place a partir de peuplements de Douglas (Pseu- dotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco, n = 40) et de pin ponderosa (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex P. & C. Laws., n = 13)


Objectives To evaluate the predictive performance of a newly developed delay alternating with nutation for tailored excitation (DANTE) pulse sequence for detecting lower extremity artery wall morphology and distribution in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) with diabetes. Methods Seventy-four PAD patients diagnosed according to 2011 WHO criteria were enrolled, who has diabetic diagnosis by 1999 WHO diabetes criteria. All patients received sequential DANTE, T2WI, DANTE-enhance, and CE-MRA scans. The images consisted of three parts: the iliac artery (segment 1), femoral artery (segment 2), and popliteal artery (segment 3). Regions of interest (ROIs) were drawn on vessels, muscle, and background, and multiple imaging metrics compared between modalities, including image quality score, image noise, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR). In the images with a score greater than 2, the lumen area (LA), total vessel area (TVA), and vessel thickness (VT) can be identified using semiautomatic image analysis vessel morphology parameters. Results All 222 arterial segments were successfully analyzed from 71 patients, after exclusion of three subjects with poor image quality (IQ < 2) in segment 3. There were 54 diabetic and 17 nondiabetic patients. Quantitative analysis shows that the CNR difference between diabetic patients and nondiabetic patients was statistically significant for the same segment, while there was no significant difference among the three segments of SNR and CNR. There were a total of 54 diabetics with plaque distribution data, which showed that LA of segments 1 and 2 was higher than that of segment 3. The VWI of segments 1 and 2 was lower than segment 3. Diabetic was associated with vascular WT 3 and WA3, which increased by 0.23 and 0.83 units on average compared without diabetic foot, respectively. Diabetic foot was associated with vascular WT 3, which increased by 0.37 units on average compared without diabetic foot. The incidence of segment 3 plaques was higher than that of segment 1. The incidence of the left and right plaques was different. Conclusions MR imaging using the DANTE and multicontrast sequence could evaluate plaque morphology, and distribution of lower extremities and the occurrence of diabetic foot development are closely related; it may predict occurrence of PAD with diabetic foot.


Purpose of the Study. Airway hyper-responsiveness is a consistent observation seen in asthmatic patients. In asthma, inflammatory cellular influx and mediator release results in epithelial damage, vascular leak, and alterations in mucus production and secretion. Studies suggest that C-fibers which innervate airway epithelium may be more densely packed with substance P in asthmatic patients than in normal subjects. Damage to the epithelium may increase stimulation of the C-fibers and subsequent tachykinin release including substance P. Tachykinins are metabolized by neutral endopeptidase (NEP) which are found in airway epithelium and smooth muscle. Airway damage may cause enhanced tachykinin-induced effect. The purpose of this study was to investigate the inter-relationship between tachykinins and reduced NEP on the effects of pulmonary functions as well as bronchoalveolar lavage findings.
 Methods. Guinea pigs were given an aerosolized solution of acrolein, a component of cigarette smoke and smog, which is known to cause epithelial cytotoxicity and increased sensitivity to acetylcholine. Pulmonary functions were measured via body box. Dose response curves were calculated from subject guinea pigs given the acrolein as well as the control group following substance P administration. Subsequently, subject as well as control guinea pigs were exposed to thiorphan to inhibit NEP. They were then given subsequent challenges of either IV or aerosolized substance P and pulmonary testing as well as bronchoalveolar lavage was performed. NEP activity was measured at 1, 7, and 28 days after exposure.
 Results. Pulmonary intonation and epithelial damage were prominent on the day after acrolein exposure showing influx of monocytes, neutrophils, and epithelial damage.


During the last decade, important changes have occurred in public governance, which has evolved in this time from hierarchical bureaucracy to participatory governance, where the role of citizens in public decision-making process is more direct. There were performed reforms in finance, management administration and finances of public sector. Starting from the factors that influenced during the history the accounting, finances, administration and management control, we want to test the factors that affect the changes of these elements in Romanian environment.


Treatment of solid cancers by photodynamic therapy (PDT) triggers a strong acute inflammatory reaction localized to the illuminated malignant tissue. This event is regulated by a massive release of various potent mediators which have a profound effect not only on local host cell populations, but also attract different types of immune cells to the treated tumor. Phagocytosis of PDT-damaged cancerous cells by antigen presenting cells, such as activated tumor associated macrophages, enables the recognition of even poorly immunogenic tumors by specific immune effector cells and the generation of immune memory populations. Because of its inflammatory/immune character, PDT is exceptionally responsive to adjuvant treatments with various types of immunotherapy. Combining PDT with immuneactivators, such as cytokines or other specific or non-specific immune agents, rendered marked improvements in tumor cures with various cancer models. Another clinically attractive strategy is adoptive immunotherapy, and the prospects of its use in conjunction with PDT are outlined.


INTRODUCTION Polymeric blends have been used as alternative materials to improve the processability and develop new applications for polymers.1*2 Atactic polypropylene (PPA) is an important raw material due to its low cost, versatility and compatibility with several polymers. Additional advantages are its ease of use, non-staining characteristics, its flexibility and its capacity to improve the mixing properties of elastomers.3 It is known that PPA increases the plasticity of materials, and raises their resistance to high temperatures.4 EPDM rubbers present typical physical characteristics such as: low density, resistance to oxidation and to ozone and good dielectric properties.5 These characteristics are determined mainly by the ethylene content, molecular weight, molecular weight distribution and crystallinity. The complex nature of most polymeric systems is hard to unravel, due to the spread of molecular weights, additives and structure. It is well known that NMR spectroscopy is one of the best methods to analyse


"by focusing on the parts of the system that are most complex and where the people living it are the most vulnerable we understand the


Abstract Transcriptionally active genes contain acetyl-rich chromatin and are organized in distinct nuclear compartments that are spatially separated from transcriptionally inactive genes. It is not known how this compartmentalized acetylated chromatin is targeted and regulated by chromatin remodelers such as PBAF. Thus, we sought to understand how PBAF targets chromatin and modulates compartmentalization of transcriptionally active genes using live-cell single molecule fluorescence microscopy. Our work reveals chromatin hubs throughout the nucleus where PBAF cycles on and off the genome. Deletion of PBAF's bromodomains impairs recognition of hubs and cycling on chromatin. Interestingly, markers for transcriptionally active and inactive genes can be found in compartments harboring acetylated chromatin at the periphery that is selectively recognized by PBAF via bromodomains. Defects in PBAF's peripheral targeting lead to a select reduction in the size and number of compartments containing transcriptionally active genes. Our data, combined with previous work in Yeast and Drosophila, suggest that PBAF activity serves as a barrier to heterochromatin spreading. Overall, our findings suggest that chromatin compartments are highly structured with unique peripherally associated acetylation marks. PBAF utilizes these marks to help shape nuclear compartments containing transcriptionally active genes, thereby aiding genomic organization.


INTRODUCTION Vitamin B12 is a common name for a group of cobaltcontaining biologically active substances that differ in the structure of the ligand coupled to cobalt atom and called cobalamins. The main cobalamins in humans are hydroxocobalamin, adenosyl cobalamin and methylcobalamin, of which the latter two are active forms of coenzyme. In vitamin B12 preparations, cyanocobalamin is most commonly used as the active substance, which differs from other cobalamins in greater stability in the external environment and higher bioavailability, and therefore, it is cyanocobalamin that is usually referred to as "vitamin B12" in clinical practice. Vitamin B12 is involved in numerous physiologic processes required for normal growth, development, and metabolism of humans, and its deficiency can lead to severe, including life-threatening, disorders of various organs and systems. Studies conducted in recent decades worldwide have shown an increase in the prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency, including its subclinical form, which may be due to both improved diagnosis and ageing of population and associated polymorbidity. This is the reason for the ongoing search for new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of B12-deficient states.


The aim of this work was to evaluate the results of the use of cladribine in the treatment according to the AML-MM-2006 protocol as post-remission therapy in children. This study is supported by the Independent Ethics Committee and approved by the Academic Council of the Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology. The article presents the experience of treating children with AML at the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital, and later at the Dmitry Rogachev National Research Center within the framework of the AML-MM-2006 protocol. For the period from 2006 to 2018, 25 children were included in the study. As a comparison, to assess the effectiveness of therapy, the remaining cohort of patients from the intermediate risk group, which consisted of 83 children, was selected. Ultimately, the addition of cladribine in consolidation therapy did not show a significant therapeutic effect (event-free survival 0.47 ± 0.1 for the cladribine group, 0.52 ± 0.06 for the control group), including the development of relapse (56% patients in the cladribine group had a relapse, in the control group – in 34.5%). Thus, the study proved that further inclusion of cladribine in consolidation therapy for primary AML is inappropriate.


Between 24-25 March 2018 members of CCFT along with Greek and Turkish Cypriot artists, architects, activists and academics engaged in a series of creative interventions and events within the abandoned village of Ayios Sozomenos and the surrounding area.

Ayios Sozomenos lies in the Republic of Cyprus, just a few kilometers south of the UN brokered demilitarized Buffer Zone, and some 30 kilometers east of the City of Nicosia. Initial interests regarding the locality resulted from fieldwork undertaken by CCFT, and related researches made by architecture students (University of Nicosia) in the area in 2016.

Given the historic significance of the area (it has proved a rich source of archaeological remains), the village's more recent political history (its abandonment its in 1964 and present proximity to the UN Buffer Zone (established in late 1974)), and its current status as an environmental resource it provided a powerful, multi-layered and poignant location and focus for creative inter-communal and ecological research.

Two works were made by Susan Brind & Jim Harold for this exhibition which spread across two villages:
- 'Woodlands, Charcoal and Copper', Agios Sozomenos, 2018 (Site specific sculptural installation).
- 'One River – Two Walks: Potamia-Kirklar', Potamia, 2018 (site specific text installation and performed reading).


Topic and aim. A brief review of publications and discussion of some mathematical models are presented, which, in the author's opinion, are well-known only to a few specialists. These models are no ...


Combining the value tendencies of body fitness ,cultivation,defense and aesthetics with the teaching of Taijiquan,this article tends to make reformations of the contents and methods in the teaching of Taijiquan, and suggests for the reformation of teaching methods according to students' choices of the content of courses.


Since it emerged in China in the late 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread throughout the world and caused the newest pandemic. The epidemiological characteristics of the virus and the clinical manifestations of the COVID-19 disease are currently being studied. The new data is emerging continuously but not yet fully understood. So far, we have
learned a lot about the virus and the disease but more research is needed as many issues are still being explored.


As a method of countermeasure to bed degradation and armoring phenomena of bed material in the downstream are of dam reservoirs, sediment augmentation has been carried out in many Japanese rivers.However, the effect of sediment augmentation on the bed elevation, sediment size and habitat in the downstream reach of the sediment augmentation has not been studied well because of the small amount of the replenished sediment. In this study, one dimensional bed deformation analysis is developed to simulate the sediment transport process of the replenished sediment in the Nakagawa, Tokushima. Here, the Japanese largest scale sediment augmentation has been performed in the Nakagawa.The results show that the developed model is able to simulate the sediment transport process from sediment augmentation. Furthermore, sediment deposition areas of each sediment size class are simulated. The coarse sediment is transported only within 3-4km. On the other hand, the fine material is transported to the downstream area from 10km to 20km. As a result, bed material from 4km becomes finer more than that near the replenished sediment area.


We study complex product structures on quadratic vector spaces and on quadratic Lie algebras analyzing the Lagrangian and orthogonal splittings associated with them. We show that a Manin triple equipped with generalized metric G+B such that B is an O-operator with extension G of mass −1 can be turned into another Manin triple that admits also an orthogonal splitting in Lie ideals. Conversely, a quadratic Lie algebra orthogonal direct sum of a pair of anti-isomorphic Lie algebras, following similar steps as in the previous case, can be turned into a Manin triple admitting an orthogonal splitting into Lie ideals.


In this chapter, Atack argues that Xenophon's depiction of the performance of kingship by Cyrus (Cyropaedia), Agesilaus (Hellenica, Agesilaus), and other kings contains an evaluative model that explores alternative techniques a ruler can use to persuade others to be ruled. By deploying frameworks of performativity and spectacle derived from Judith Butler and Guy Debord respectively, this chapter analyses these narratives of kingship and connects them to other Greek political and ethical concerns about the role of the outstanding individual within society, linking Xenophon more closely to both Plato and Aristotle as a political and ethical theorist. Yet Xenophon's orientation toward performativity also pulls him in the direction of analysts of status and structure. In its performative aspects Xenophon's kingship begins to look like gender, equally established through performance and with a troubled relationship to essence.


A conservation culture is an important constituent in the construction of socialist civilization in China.The conservation culture positively advocates that environment is the "lifeline" of economic and social development,the ecology is also a productive force and human beings are complexes playing different roles in nature.Meanwhile,the conservation culture is theoretically based on the idea of ecologic nature,and has surpassed "the traditional human-centered principle".Therefore,the conservation culture has promoted the idea of development in quality,and has achieved the breakthrough and innovation for the traditional idea of development.