We assess the role of ethnic ties in the diffusion of technical knowledge using a database of patents filed by US-resident inventors of foreign origin, identified by name analysis. We consider 10 leading source countries, both Asian and European, of highly skilled migration to the USA and test whether foreign inventors' patents are disproportionately cited by (i) co-ethnic migrants ('diaspora' effect), and (ii) inventors residing in their country of origin ('brain gain' effect). We find evidence of the diaspora effect for the Asian but not the European countries, with the exception of Russia. A diaspora effect does not necessarily translate into a brain gain effect, most notably for India where no such effect is detected. Neither does a brain gain effect occur solely in conjunction with a diaspora effect. Overall, diaspora and brain gain effects carry less weight than other channels of knowledge transmission, most notably co-invention networks and multinational companies.


To construct bentonite engineered barriers in a radioactive waste disposal facility, bentonite has to be highly compacted. Because there are narrow areas in the facility where vibration rollers and other heavy machinery cannot be used, a method to construct bentonite engineered barriers even in such areas is needed. We therefore modified the existing premixed shotcrete method to develop a shotclay system, which allows bentonite engineered barriers to be constructed by spraying. The shotclay system consists of three technical elements: the freeze mixing method, which allows the water content to be adjusted without changing the distribution of bentonite grain size; the shotclay method, which uses a supersonic nozzle, also used for rockets, to spray bentonite at high density; and Archimedes' method using silicone oil to determine quickly the bulk density of bentonite. This study discusses and shows experimentally the effectiveness of the freeze mixing method in adjusting water content and discusses its applicability to the shotclay method.


The 30 cases of essential pulmonary haemo-siderosis hitherto published supply ample data to present not only the classical pattern of this disease but also its latent form. The condition


Introduction: Intramedullary Nailing (IMN) has been the gold standard treatment for femoral shaft fractures. Earlier it was managed by Küntscher nail (K nail) fixation. However, in developing countries K nail may still be used as a low-cost fixation device. Heterotrophic Ossification (HO) is a rare complication following nailing in the treatment of femoral shaft fractures. HO along the K nail presenting with late symptomatology have been discussed rarely. Case report: A 43-year old male presented with a symptomatic callus cap along the proximal end of a left sided femoral K nail. He developed severe pain after a prolonged duration approximating around twenty years of the primary femoral fixation. The hip joint pain intensified with significant limitation affecting daily routine activities. Excision of the smooth contoured callus cap along with the removal of nail was done. The hip function recovered with painless full range of hip motion. There was no evidence of recurrence noted at a twoyear follow-up. Discussion: The smooth contour of the cap correlated to a persisting HO around the protruding end of K nail with no initial symptoms. The compressive and pressure symptoms along with the callus cap encroachment now contributes to the painful symptoms. The late symptomatology may reasonably be attributed to either impingement or abutment of the callus cap along the pelvic wall. Conclusion: K nail is an uncommon fixation device for femoral fracture fixation. HO following K nail being another uncommon infrequent complication. The symptomatic acquired HO should be considered for excision to preserve the hip joint function and maintain the ability to do activities of daily living. Keywords: callus cap; heterotrophic ossification; un-reamed nailing; femur fracture; küntscher nail. Abbreviations: IMN: Intramedullary Nail; HO: Heterotrophic Ossification; K-nail: Küntscher Nail.


impact of women's employment on the family, the flip side of the effect of family roles on labor force participation. Much of this discussion draws on the work of sociologists; economists, however, have a poignant contribution to make. As we know, the gains to trade are greater the more the comparative advantage in producing goods differs between trading partners. As women acquire more market-oriented education and training, their market productivity rises relative to their home productivity, and the traditional specialization of the husband in wage-earning and of the wife in homemaking becomes increasingly less advantageous. The gains to marriage, in short, are reduced. The authors, nonetheless sanguine about the future of human development, are quick to point out the economic benefits to marriage other than specialization. The analytical framework is that of neoclassical economics: the treatment of family utility-maximization follows the innovative work of Gary Becker and Jacob Mincer, pioneered thirty years earlier by Margaret Reid. Marxist and institutionalist interpretations are provided, and the discussion of policy issues, a number of which are currently controversial, is well balanced and explicitly nonjudgmental. Proponents of a given school of thought may feel shortchanged. To my mind, the approach is appropriate in a text designed (correctly) to provide a coherent and comprehensive discussion of research to date on gender and work. The authors suggest that the main obstacle to equality between men and women may be the unequal distribution of labor in the home rather than women's lesser ability to perform other types of work. The book concludes with a restrained optimism that a gradual move toward a more egalitarian division of labor at home may have begun, if for no other reason than to accommodate the two-earner lifestyle.


Face-centered-cubic alloys of gold with 10 atomic % zinc (divalent) and 10 atomic % indium (trivalent), respectively, were measured in the range 0.4 to 3.0 °K. The coefficients of the nuclear speci...


Correspondence to Muneera A Rasheed; muneera. rasheed21@ gmail. com © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Reuse permitted under CC BYNC. No commercial reuse. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. A humancentred mentorship approach to nurture emerging global health leaders has been recommended for diverse and equitable representation. The approach is characterised by 'valuing empathy and relationship building between the mentor and the mentee built on equitable sharing of power and shedding of privilege within hierarchical structures'. In this paper, we delve into the challenges of implementing such an approach and argue that mentees benefitting from the current status quo can be equally resistant to its adoption. Given its nature of being an interpersonal endeavour, the humancentred mentorship process is a complex array of responsibilities that requires continuous symbiotic collaboration between mentor and mentee and a deeper holistic focus on the individual with mentee development (personal and professional) being the outcome. 3 Hence, when viewed as a developmental relationship, the 'reciprocity' of mentee to the mentor's investment becomes instrumental for the success of the relationship. Attributes of the mentee that add to the success of the relationship include openmindedness towards their mentor, institution and new ideas, flexibility or adapting to change when presented with new situation and ideas, willingness to listen to feedback and perseverance. In short, to be 'mentorable', one needs to be willing to be vulnerable to truly change and learn. The choice of being vulnerable can be influenced by individual human experiences; personality traits, for example, motivation; and cultural factors including those of academic institutions, for example, the distribution of power. In this piece, we provide a nuanced perspective of these challenges from working in global health in Pakistan. We believe, though, that it can be applicable to settings where research governance is weak, allowing individuals in power to get away with ineffective and at times detrimental practices. In Pakistan, there are several challenges to humancentred mentoring where respect is driven through authority discouraging vulnerability, a vital element for empathetic relationships. Moreover, to demonstrate empathy, that is, being open to other perspectives, requires the ability to simultaneously hold two perspectives: one's own and that of the others. The ability may come naturally to some mentors, but it is a skill that has to be nurtured and learnt. Additionally, a lack of understanding of these needs is the reason behind the nonexistence of training programmes to address them. Another main challenge which does not receive much attention is the unavailability of skilled mentorable human resource. Lack of skilled research staff is predominantly due to lack of investment in developing local research capacity, leaving us reliant on external funding SUMMARY BOX


The Mission Effectiveness Assessment Program simulation framework (MEAP) is being developed to provide Navy decision makers with a means to quantify the military value of naval combat units and combat unit elements in applications to realistic naval warfare engagements. This paper presents an overview of MEAP from a Naval Analyst (user) viewpoint.


Transition implementation of customary property rights (selling and purchasing) after area expansion of Kabupaten Sarmi, Papua Province. How was the transition implementation of customary property rights (selling and purchasing) after area expansion of Kabupaten Sarmi? And Whether the transition implementation of customary property rights (selling and purchasing) on that Kabupaten has established legal certainty?. The purpose of this research is to observe the transition implementation of customary property rights after area expansion of Kabupaten Sarmi. The transition implementation of customary property rights after area expansion of Kabupaten Sarmi in 2012 was not suitable with UUPA and Government Regulation No. 24 Year 1997 about land registry, as well as KMNA/KBPN No. 3 Year 1997 about the implemeting provision of Government Regulation No. 24 Year 1997 about land registry. There were 20 respondents which obtaining customary property rights due to selling and purchasing of customary property rights transition using letter of customary land deliverance which is written by and written in front of the Head of the Village. The implemetation process of customary land ownership transition in Kabupaten Sarmi use letter of customary land deliverance written in front of the Head of the Willage because there was no chairman of district such as Camat that's served as interim PPAT. In the law-making process of selling and purchasing of land shows that the role of the Head of Village and Camat/Cairman of district can be interpreted as interim PPAT that is determined by Article 7 Verse (2) in Government Regulation No. 24 Year 1997 i.e. for the villages that have no PPAT. The deliverance letter must be transformed into certificate thus can establish the legal certainty to the property rights holder which is obtained because of the law of selling and purchasing. The transition implementation of customary property rights (selling and purchasing) in Kabupaten Sarmi year 2012 was not establishing the legal certainty because 20 respondents did not transformed the letter of deliverance into certificate as mentioned by UUPA provision and Government Regulation No. 24 year 1997.


The effects of relaxation therapy on blood pressure and neural responses to "social stress"-anger instigation were determined in 30 male patients with mild primary hypertension. "Social stress"-anger induced increases in systolic and diastolic blood pressures (both p less than 0.01) and plasma norepinephrine (p less than 0.05) before therapy. Diastolic blood pressure before and during anger challenge were related to simultaneous plasma norepinephrine (r = 0.56, p less than 0.01 and r = 0.39, p less than 0.05). Relaxation reduced resting diastolic blood pressure (p less than 0.01), the reduction of blood pressure was related to baseline plasma norepinephrine (p less than 0.05). The pressor response of systolic blood pressure to anger challenge (p less than 0.02) was blunted by relaxation therapy. These findings suggested that noradrenergic control of blood pressure was amplified during stress and relaxation therapy was effective in lowering blood pressure and neutralizing the response to "social stress" anger instigation.


Salt tolerant mutants of potato (Solanum tuberosum L. 'Sponta') were obtained via gamma irradiation. Bud explants of two strains of potato (Sponta and Lady Rosetta were treated with various dosages of gamma irradiation, and the clonal generations were developed. Selection of salt-tolerant mutants was accomplished by in vitro selection media containing 30, 60, 90 and 120 mM NaCl. Molecular-level differences between the control and mutant plants were elucidated using ISSR technique, and the polymorphism rate according to the selected primers was calculated as 89.66%. Genetic distances between the controls and mutants were also calculated, and related dendrograms were produced. On average the mutants were genetically 27.5% different from the control plants. The greatest difference encountered between the control and mutants was 47%, which was detected in mutant plants produced by 20 or 30 Gy gamma irradiation and regenerated in selection medium containing 100 mM NaCl.


The article shows the process of forming and strengthening foreign policy orientation of the Dagestani rulers of Russia in the period of struggle against the shah's Iran policy Abbas II and Suleiman, whose plan was to capture not only in Dagestan, but the entire North Caucasus. The causes of the Iranian opposition of Russia's plans to conquer Dagestan


Deep generative models have made tremendous advances in image and signal representation learning and generation. These models employ the full Euclidean space or a bounded subset as the latent space, whose flat geometry, however, is often too simplistic to meaningfully reflect the manifold structure of the data. In this work, we advocate the use of a multi-chart latent space for better data representation. Inspired by differential geometry, we propose a \textbf{Chart Auto-Encoder (CAE)} and prove a universal approximation theorem on its representation capability. We show that the training data size and the network size scale exponentially in approximation error with an exponent depending on the intrinsic dimension of the data manifold. CAE admits desirable manifold properties that auto-encoders with a flat latent space fail to obey, predominantly proximity of data. We conduct extensive experimentation with synthetic and real-life examples to demonstrate that CAE provides reconstruction with high fidelity, preserves proximity in the latent space, and generates new data remaining near the manifold. These experiments show that CAE is advantageous over existing auto-encoders and variants by preserving the topology of the data manifold as well as its geometry.


Raman spectroscopy has been used to get some insight into the chemical composition and structure of magnetic fluids based on ferrites. The inner as well as the surface structure of Fe-maghemite and Zn-maghemite have characterized by Raman spectroscopy. It has been shown that different chemical species are present on the maghemite surface by changing the laser excitation energy. Maghemites modified by the adsorption of aspartic and glutamic acids as well as those modified by the adsorption of methylene blue(MB) have also been investigated by Raman spectroscopy. It has been shown that while FTIR (Fourier transform infrared) spectroscopy gives almost no information regarding to the surface species, Raman spectroscopy in and off resonance gives suitable information regarding to the adsorbate structure and bonding. The Raman spectroscopy study of the modified maghemites have shown that the organic acids adsorb on the maghemite surfarce as glutamate and aspartate chemically bounded to Fe(III) ions on the maghemite surface, and that MB, a cation, adsorbs on the maghemite surface as a monomer by ion pair formation with coadsorbed nitrate.


Background: The presence of serum varicella zoster virus (VZV) immunoglobulin M and G (IgM and IgG) aid diagnosis of and confirmation of immunization against varicella and herpes zoster. However, the relationship between serum VZV IgM and IgG and the clinical characteristics of VZV infection remains unclear. Objective: We evaluated quantitative changes in serum VZV IgM and IgG in accordance with the clinical features of varicella, herpes zoster, and disseminated herpes zoster compared with a normal control group. Methods: A total of 922 patients were classified into 3 groups: varicella, herpes zoster, and disseminated herpes zoster. We assessed serum VZV IgM and IgG titers in association with age, severity of skin lesions, duration of skin lesions, immune status, and neurologic complications. Results: In patients with varicella and herpes zoster, serum antibody titer varied significantly depending on age and the duration of skin lesions. A high serum VZV IgM titer was related to varicella or disseminated herpes zoster viremia. In herpes zoster, elevated antibody titers, especially VZV IgM, were associated with severe skin lesions and the presence of neurologic complications. Conclusion: Serologic data for varicella and herpes zoster varied according to clinical features. A high serum VZV IgM titer was associated with an unfavorable clinical course of herpes zoster. (Korean J Dermatol 2015;53(6):441∼ 448)


A feeding trial, using Goat, (Capra prisca) as test animal was designed to evaluate the value of chemically treate d sawdust (an urban solid waste) in a 50% replacement (1:1 ratio) with wheat offal. The aim was to recycle this waste by converting it to animal feeds tuff, thereby preventing environmental pollution which it has constituted. T he results showed a significant effect (P<0.05) of the rations on Avera ge Daily Weight Gains, Feed Intake, Feed Conversion Ratio and Feed Cost. T here was, however, no significant effect on Average Daily Weight Gains be tween the control, wheat offal and 50% replaced urea-treated sawdust. It was concluded that sawdust can be chemically treated to enhance its voluntary acceptability and nutritional parameters in small ruminant nutrition. The economic and health costs associated with its current management in und er-developed nations can thus be transformed with this economically sound, h ealthy and sustainable method.


In this paper we study the (1-block) H∞ optimal sensitivity minimization problem for a class of MIMO distributed plants. The optimal performance, μ, can be computed from a finite set of linear equations. We give an explicit determinantal formula for μ. The results presented here are extensions and simplifications of the previous work on the H∞ control in the skew Toeplitz theory framework, [3], [7], [10], [18], [19], [20], etc. These simplifications reduce the complexity of the algorithms for solving H∞ optimal control problems for distributed plants.


Abstract This research aims is to confirm the influence of a teacher's teaching style and teaching career on instructional analysis. Through this, the differences in the relevant elements' view points on a class and those in teachers' analysis view points on class criticism and instructional analysis at the education field can be investigated. For this study, the teaching styles of 198 elementary school teachers were categorized, their teaching careers were checked as teaching career and set them as covariate, and the differences in the view points on the analysis of the class climates were verified depending on each teaching style. As the research result, meaningful differences were found in four areas of the elements of class climates analysis, that is, creativity, vitality, precision, and gentleness. In the analysis of the class climates, the teachers with a professional style among the teaching styles gave the highest grades to creativity in the same class, those with a facilitating style to vitality, those with a role model style to precision, and those with a facilitating and role model style to gentleness. On the other hand, those with an authoritative and a delegating style were proved to give the lowest grades in general class climates. It means that teachers with different teaching styles have different viewpoints when analyzing a class, and those with a professional, a role model and a facilitating style have a relatively stronger intention to analyze a class through reflective introspection and permissive recognition.


There has been a great revival of interest in the writings of Cicero, one of the most important Latin prose writers; his letters have remained unaccountably neglected, save for basic textual and explanatory work, and for detailed history. This study shows that Cicero's letters should be regarded as artistic works, the artistry no less real for being bound up with personal situations. With close analyses, extensive use of contemporary literature, and a new understanding of the role of rhythm in the letters, Prof Hutchinson reveals the value of approaching the letters as writing. Such an approach will be found of significance for history as well as literature. All Latin in the text is translated. translated.


The ett~cts of interaction of ethanol, 1-butanol or t-butanol peroxyt radicals with oxyhemoglobin (HbO2) were estimated using absorption spectroscopy in the visible range and tryptophan fluorescence. Peroxyl radicals were generated by gamma-radiation. Alcohol peroxyl radicals showed the same effectiveness in oxidizing HbO2 iron as "OH radicals (Gvo 0H) = 1.8 for a dose 0.33 kGy). However, they degraded hemoglobin to hemichromes and cholehemichromes to a lesser degree than OH radicals. In addition 1and t-butanol peroxyl radicals were less eft~ctive than peroxyI ethanol radicals. Alcohol peroxyl radicals caused untblding of protein to a much lesser degree than "OH radicals. Their contribution to the destruction oftryptophan residues was nearly matched by those obtained with the 'OH radicals.


Functional dyspepsia is a very common disease and there are two types of dyspepsia. One is functional dyspepsia in the gastrointestinal tract and the other is pancreatobiliary dyspepsia. Biliary dyspepsia is caused by biliary tract disease and can even cause biliary pain. Acalculous biliary pain (ABP) is biliary colic without gallstones, it is caused by functional biliary disorder or structural disorders such as microlithiasis, sludges or parasitic infestation like Clonorchiasis. The endoscopic ultrasonography is helpful tool for differential diagnosis of ABP. Although sphincter of Oddi manometry (SOM) is performed for the confirmative diagnosis of sphincter of Oddi dysfunction (SOD), several non-invasive tests have been studied because of some practical limitations and invasiveness of SOM itself. In fact, the most clinically used easy test to diagnose functional biliary disorder is quantitative hepatobiliary scintigraphy and it can distinguish gallbladder dyskinesia, SOD, or combined type. Initial treatment of functional biliary disorder is adequate dietary control and medication, but if the symptoms worsened or recurred frequently, laparoscopic cholecystectomy could be performed with gallbladder dyskinesia. If SOD is suspected, additional SOM should be considered and endoscopic sphincterotomy (EST) can be done according to the outcome. If the SOM is not available, the patient could be diagnosed by stimulated ultrasound. Korean J Pancreas Biliary Tract 2018;23(4):150-158


A previously developed procedure for tracking inhomogeneous local plane wave fields with complex phase and amplitude in isotropic media is extended to uniaxially anisotropic media. A Gaussian beam in the anisotropic medium is considered as an example.


Wireless power transfer (WPT), a revolution in energy transmission, commercializes in decade years and whose electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) also becomes an important issue at the same time. We investigated the conducted electromagnetic interference generated by series-series resonant WPT system using resonant magnetic field coupling with two-coil configurations in this paper by building the circuit model and simulating it in Saber. Then we focus on CM interference and find out the relationship with power and efficiency which is relate to coupling coefficient. At last, a two-coil series-series resonant WPT testbed is built to provide an intensively investigation for the CM noise.


No matter landscape poetry,landscape painting,or related poetic theory,theory of painting,all of these had the cannot be ignored effects.Among them,the characteristics of the Buddhism of poem and painting provided basis on creating Zen State in garden.The ideal state of poem constituted the aesthetic realm of garden and method of gardening.


Machinery health monitoring is a key step in the implementation of maintenance in industry. A remarkable property of the wavelet transform is its ability to characterize the local regularity of machines. In mathematics, this local regularity is often measured with Lipschitz exponents (LE). The singularity, by means of a Lipschitz exponent of a function, is measured by taking a slope of a loglog plot of scales and wavelet coefficients along modulus maxima lines of a wavelet transform [1]. In this paper, we applied singularity analysis with wavelet for data processing and a new concept, Lipschitz exponent function, was proposed based on wavelet transform. The results show that objective based LE demonstrates excellent performance.


An ecological paradox relating to optimal foraging theory is discussed: a food type may become less frequent in the optimal diet as a consequence of being more abundant in the environment. Common interpretation of optimal foraging theory does not predict this, since it is assumed (erroneously) that food types are never detected simultaneously. If simultaneous encounters are allowed for, we demonstrate that food types cannot be ranked uniquely on the basis of intrinsic properties only; the ranking of food types does-in the case of simultaneous encounters-depend critically on the relative frequency of available food types in the environment. In this case the paradoxical prediction may easily be deduced.


The first-phase test results of a contemplated two-phase test program are reported. The purpose of the test program is to confirm the spray cooling heat transfer performance of the Exxon Nuclear Company (ENC) 8 x 8 BWR fuel design under conservatively represented loss-of-coolant-accident (LOCA) conditions. The test fuel assembly is a geometric mock-up of the 8 x 8 design with 63 potentially active rods, of which three rods located toward the center can be deactivated to simulate the ENC 8 x 8 design with four centrally located inert rods. The channel and adjacent hardware provide a mockup of the fuel assembly channel/control rod configuration. However, since the thermal boundary conditions as may exist in the reactor during a LOCA are not exactly simulated, the fuel assembly temperature achieved in these tests is not intended to be representative of the expected fuel assembly temperature during a LOCA. The heat transfer coefficients and inert rod wetting front data derived from the tests should be representative of reactor coefficients and wetting because the difference in boundary conditions is taken into account in the models. Wherever possible, conditions expected to exist in the hot assembly during spray cooling have been simulated in the tests.more » The test results confirm the conservative character of the heat transfer coefficients used in the HUXY analysis of 8 x 8 fuel. (auth)« less


Department of Soil and Plant Nutrition, Abu Naama Research Station, Agricultural Research Corporation, P.O. Pox 35, Abu Naama, Sudan Email: email@example.com Tel/Fax: +249-122902248 A field trial was carried out for three consecutive seasons (2004-2005, 20052006 and 2006-2007) to study the increase of faba bean productivity and improve soil properties by using farm yard manure and irrigation regimes on reclaimed high terrace soils (Aridisols). The experiment consists of three irrigation regimes, which are (after 7, 14 and 21 days), and application of 0.0 and 10 ton/ha farmyard manure (FYM). Superphosphate at a rate of {1⁄2 P=20 kg P/Fed) was applied to all treatments at sowing. One faba bean variety was used namely SM-L. The experiment was replicate four times in split-plot design with main plot allotted to FYM treatments and subplot to irrigation regime. Data on grain yield and biomass show that there were significant differences in grain yield between the two FYM levels effects. The irrigation regime also significantly affected grain yield. As expected the addition of FYM to the soils improved grain yield in all irrigated periods compare to without manure (0 FYM), and also in 7 days irrigated were higher than in 14 and 21 irrigated periods. The reduction of faba bean grain yield from 14 to 7 days and from 21 to 7 irrigated days ranges about 5% and 35% for 0 ton/ha FYM treatments, and about 19% and 57% for 10 ton/ha FYM treatments, respectively. However, addition of 10 ton/ha FYM (M1) at irrigation every 7 days interval was significantly higher than in 14 and 21 irrigated days regimes. It can be concluded that the highest faba bean yield was observed in to use 10 ton/ha FYM with irrigation period (every 7 days interval) in the soil reclamation of saline soils and to improved crop productivity.


Objective To investigate the level of follicular fluid NO, VEGF and ET-1 in assessing TVF PT outcome. Methods Totally 131 petients undergoing IVF-ET cycles were recruited. The level of follicular fluid NO was measured by chromatometry. The follicular fluid VEGF and ET-1 were measured by ELISA. Transvaginal ultrasound was performed on human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) injection day to determine ovarian volume and antral follicle count. Results The pregnancy rate was 37.40% (49/131). There were significantly increased level of follicular fluid NO. VEGF and decreased level of follicular fluid ET-1 in the pregnant group than those in the non-pregnant group (P<0. 05). Total ovarian volume and autral follicle count on HCG injection day were significantly higher in the pregnant group than those in the non pregnant group (P<0.05). The levels of follicular fluid NO and VEGF had positive correlations with the total ovarian volume and antral follicle count. However, the level of follicular fluid FT-1 had a negative correlation with the total uvarian volume and antral follicle count. Conclusions The high level of NO, VEGF and low level of ET-1 in follicular fluid are good predictors of ovarian blood flow and ovarian response in IVF-ET.


MIL-STD 461C and 461D specify receiver susceptibility tests to confirm that the EUT is able to reject intermodulation, cross modulation and spurious out-of-band signals up to specified limits. A sophisticated Windows/sup TM/ based program has been developed at the Army Centre For Electromagnetics (ACE), Mhow to fully automate these tests. The software has been developed using state-of-the-art programming tools with special emphasis on techniques like object oriented programming (OOP) and rapid application development (RAD).


A specific type of gaseous core reactor consists of a UF/sub 4//CF/sub 4/ fuel mixture in chemical equilibrium with a graphite reflector wall. Criticality calculations show that such a system requires a relatively small fuel investment. Temperaturedependent fuel redistribution at power is shown to give a minor positive reactivity effect, which does not jeopardize safe reactor operation. Analysis of heat transport demonstrates that very high temperatures in the core center can be realized at moderate gas pressures, which opens a way to improve the efficiency of fission energy conversion processes.


Halal tourism is a sector in the Islamic economy that is experiencing rapid development. Tourism development on Lombok Island still focuses on the development of natural and cultural tourism. The development of sharia tourism on the island of Lombok is not optimal. The tourism industry is of course very closely related to the accommodation business. Therefore, there is a need for a study on the potential management of sharia accommodation on Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara. This research is a descriptive research. According to the NTB MUI, the reason for the lack of sharia accommodation was triggered because many hotels were afraid that their guests would disappear after their hotels obtained the legality of a halal certificate. In fact, sharia accommodation is a very prospective potential in accordance with Lombok's branding as a Halal Tourism Destination. Sharia accommodation management needs to implement facilities and services, both physical and non-physical. Non-physical Islamic service standards, for example: dress etiquette, greeting greetings, congregational prayers for employees, and good and polite behavior when interacting between hotel managers and guests. Physical Islamic services, such as: facilities in guest rooms that provide Qibla direction, ablution facilities, prayer equipment, the Koran, and seats for those who are not muhrim. Apart from preparing several prayer facilities in the room, the room was also set to a size that almost matched the size of the Prophet's room. Other facilities that are of Islamic standard are swimming pool facilities. Swimming pools need to be separated between men's and women's pools. Sharia hotel accommodation restaurant facilities provide halal-standard food that has been certified by the Indonesian Ulema Council.


This report presents findings from Mathematica's study of how Medicare Advantage (MA) has evolved over its first three years. It focuses on plan availability and enrollment, benefits and premiums, quality of care, and firms' perspectives and decisionmaking. The findings provide evidence of an active MA market that has expanded since 2006. A proliferation of choice reflects a larger set of MA contract types that attract a range of beneficiaries.


Aiming at the paving features of tunnel pavement,this paper develops a warm-mixed flame retardant asphalt mixture with low mixing temperature and good flame retardant effect,which is tested in-door,paved and detected on road under test.The result shows that the warm-mixed flame retardant asphalt mixture can completely match up with the property of hot-mixed asphalt mixture.


The invention discloses methods, devices and systems for backing up and restoring data. The method for backing up the data comprises the following steps of: detecting whether electronic equipment which is provided with a handwriting notepad is connected to storage equipment; if the electronic equipment is connected to the storage equipment, reminding a user of necessity or non-necessity of data backup; after a backup instruction of the user is received, detecting whether a notepad identification address of the selected handwriting notepad in the electronic equipment is the same as that of a certain handwriting notepad in the storage equipment; and if the notepad identification addresses are different, copying the handwriting notepad of which the notepad identification address is different from that of the handwriting notepad in the storage equipment into the storage equipment. By the invention, the technical problem of data loss caused by sudden de-energizing or physical damage of a storage area of the electronic equipment can be solved.


The study aims to explore the effects of transformation leadership, organizational culture and job satisfaction on the organizational performance. The research subjects are the administrative employees who work in the social welfare and benevolent foundations of the non-profit organizations in Taiwan. The purposes of the study are to understand the different response of transformation leadership, organization culture and job satisfaction to supervisors, to examine the relationship among transformation leadership, organization culture and performance, and to investigate whether transformation leadership and organization culture will affect performance through job satisfaction of employees. The study found the following results: (1) transformation leadership, organizational culture and job satisfaction had a significant effect on organizational performance; (2) job satisfaction did have a mediating effect on transformation leadership and organization culture; and (3) the job satisfaction did have a mediating effect on transformation leadership and performance.


Monsignor romano guardini, preeminent professor in the University of Munich, has had an enormous influence upon generations of German students and citizens. Now, after the steady and effective translation of his works during the past three decades, he has made a profound impact upon the minds and souls of young American scholars and intellectuals, changing, with the strength of conversion, their ways of dealing with knowledge, with ideas and human realities. In an article written for the twentieth-anniversary issue of The Review of Politics, I pointed out ("The Thinker in the Church: The Spirit of Newman," January, 1959) that Guardini is a Newman type of thinker in the twentieth century. This is quite true. Certainly the range of his concerns is reminiscent of Newman's: literature (for instance, his studies of Dante, of Dostoevski, notably the legend of the Grand Inquisitor, and of Rilke's Duino Elegies): history (particularly revelation as history); subtle reflections upon theological questions as well as the critical problems of the contemporary political and social scene.


Future computing paradigms and technologies will have to be more like the physical processes by which they are realized, and because these processes are primarily continuous, post-Moore's law computing will involve an increased use of analog computation. Traditionally analog computers have computed ordinary differential equations of time, but analog field computation permits massively parallel temporal integration of partial differential equations. In principle many different physical media – not just electronics – can be exploited to implement the basic operations of analog computing, a small number of which are sufficient to approximate a wide variety of analog computations, thus providing a basis for universal analog computation and general-purpose analog computers. The contentious issue of the computational power of analog computers is addressed best on its own terms, rather by asking it within the context of Church-Turing computation, which distorts the relevant questions and their answers.


The process of changing stock prices is described by a Markov chain with three states ("decline", "constancy", "growth" of the price). The parameters of the chain are estimated based on historical data on stock quotes. The problem of calculating the probabilistic characteristics of a random event associated with the transition from one state to another is solved. For the practical implementation of the methods considered, Python tools are used.


The anxiety of pregnant women has increased during the pandemic, especially whenparticipating in the Covid-19 Screening in the third trimester as a condition for childbirth. Sothis study aims to determine the relationship between the results of Covid-19 screening inpregnant women and the level of anxiety of pregnant women at the Tambakboyo HealthCenter in 2021. The type of research used was analytic with a cross-sectional design. Thepopulation was all pregnant women in the third trimester as many as 85 people. The samplesize was 70 people using the Simple Random Sampling technique. The independent variablewas the results of the Covid-19 Screening in pregnant women and the dependent variable isthe level of anxiety of pregnant women. This study used secondary data, namely the results ofthe Rapid test and primary data using an interview guide. The results of the study showedthat the majority (62.9%) of Covid-19 screening results were non-reactive pregnant women.Almost all (77.1%) pregnant women experienced moderate levels of anxiety and almost all(79.5%) pregnant women with moderate levels of anxiety obtained the results of the rapidtest, which was non-reactive. The results of the Chi-Square test obtained a p-value = 0.533,so there was no significant relationship between the results of the Covid-19 Screening inpregnant women and the level of anxiety of pregnant women. It is hoped that furtherresearchers will research other factors that affect the level of anxiety of pregnant womenduring the pandemic.


Based on the introduction of data mining technology and Apriori algorithm,the paper provides a detailed review of the application of Association Rule according to the empirical analysis.Through demonstrations,it is proved that putting Association Rule Mining technology into the 3PL(short for Third-party Logistics Enterprise) information management is not only feasible in terms of technology,but also helpful for these enterprises to conduct a marketing analysis and make a scientific decision in time according to the intrinsic association regulations founded through mining.


Competitive opportunities for handicapped or disabled athletes are burgeoning. Different populations have different capabilities. Moderately (MO-MR) and mildly mentally retarded (MI-MR) athletes have unique abilities, and many physical educators, teachers, and volunteers spend countless hours preparing individuals and teams for tournaments and competitions. Two models are presented to assist in assessing MO-MR and MI-MR athletes' abilities and levels of social functioning. Additionally a hierarchy of motor performance environments is presented. Discussion entails proper placement of athletes in a motor performance environment after ability and social functioning assessments have been completed.


-Immunological differences between human and bovine parathyroid hormones are detected with highly purified preparations of each hormone and several antisera produced against bovine parathyroid hormone. The immunological differences found show the necessity for using a reference preparation of human hormone in assays for parathyroid hormone in human serum. Routine clinical application of an established radioimmunoassayl for bovine parathyroid hormone has been impaired by an apparent lack of sensitivity for human parathyroid hormone. The apparent low sensitivity might reflect diminished immunological cross-reactivity or low concentration of endogenous hormone in human blood; neither possibility could be excluded without testing a sample of pure human hormone. Recently we succeeded in isolating small amounts of human parathyroid hormone in sufficiently pure form to undertake direct tests of its physical, chemical, and immunological properties. The human hormone showed physical and chemical characteristics similar to those of the bovine hormone as evidenced by results of ultracentrifugation,2 gel filtration, and ion-exchange chromatography.3 This report gives an analysis of the immunological properties of the hormone purified from human parathyroid adenomas. Methods.-Preparation of human parathyroid hormone: Two batches of parathyroid adenomas, one 100 gm, the other 320 gm, were dried to a powder with acetone. The first batch was extracted with 8 M urea in 20% acetic acid, and the second was extracted with 88%o phenol. The extracts were fractionated with ether, acetic acid, sodium chloride, and trichloroacetic acid (TCA) to yield an intermediate preparation (TCA-HPTH)§ with procedures developed for the bovine hormone.4 Further purification was achieved by gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 and chromatography on carboxymethyl-cellulose.5 Approximately 100 and 300 /Ag of purified hormone were obtained from the first and second batches, respectively. Tests with disc gel electrophoresis and amino acid analysis indicated that the second preparation represented essentially a homogeneous preparation of human hormone. The first preparation also appeared to be highly purified, but the amino acid analysis was interpreted as showing some contamination with nonhormonal peptides. Radioimmunoassay: Antisera to the bovine hormone were produced by immunizing guinea pigs with a crude bovine preparation (TCA fraction) containing approximately 10% parathyroid hormone by weight. Two guinea pigs (referred to as GP-1 and GP-5) from a series of immunized animals yielded the antisera used in this study. The human hormone was detected by a modification of the radioimmunoassay for the bovine hormone; incubations were carried out for 4-6 days, a period sufficient to allow equilibration of labeled hormone between free and antibody-bound states. Hormones labeled with 'l1l were prepared as previously described' and purified by adsorption to and elution from cellulose or silicates.6 Antibody-bound hormone was separated from free hormone by chromatoelectrophoresis or by adsorbing the free hormone onto charcoal coated with dextran. Results were analyzed graphically by plotting the ratio of bound labeled hormone (B) to free-labeled hormone (F)-B/F-as a function of hormone concentration. If the resulting curves cannot be superimposed, the graphical analysis indicates that immunological differences exist between hormones from distinct species.


tions have shown that, for example, the m.1555A 1 G mutation is one of the dominant factors for the development of deafness [2, 3] . Despite being essential, it is by itself insufficient to produce the phenotype. In fact, the m.1555A 1 G mutation is widely dispersed among ten common East Asian subhaplogroups and the mutation also occurs together with mtDNA haplogroups D, B, R, F, G, Y, M and N, respectively. Strikingly, haplogroup D accounted for 40.6% of the patient's mtDNA samples but only 25.8% of the Chinese control mtDNA samples and 22.2% of a large East Asian population cohort [4, 5] . Generally, mitochondrial haplogroups have been shown to modulate the phenotypic expression of mtDNA mutation(s) associated with other conditions, such as deafness due to other mutations, blindness, ageing, Parkinson's disease, male infertility and diabetes [6] . Concerning the potential pathogenicity of the m.3308T 1 C mutation, Liu et al. [7] reported in 2008 that the mutation was involved in the pathogenesis of arterial hypertension in genetically unrelated pedigrees. In this study the mutation was absent in 242 Chinese controls. The m.3308T 1 C mutation resulted in the replacement of the first amino acid, translation-initiating methionine by a threonine We would like to thank Dr. Salas and Dr. Elson for their valuable comments concerning the study by Zarrouk Mahjoub et al. [1] about the transition m.3308T 1 C in a patient with left ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction. To specify the haplotype in this study, not the entire mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of probands and normal controls were sequenced, but only the genes tRNAIle (rCRS positions 4263–4331), tRNAGln (4329–4400), tRNAMet (4402–4469), tRNALys (8209– 8364) and cytb (14747–15887). These genes represent hot-spot regions for heart disease. The nonsynonymous ND1 mutation m.3308T 1 C, which cosegregated with two synonymous mutations in the COX2 gene (m.8248A 1 G) and ATP8 gene (m.8468C 1 T), respectively, was detected in the mother, a sister with myoclonic epilepsy and a brother of the index patient. The mutation was almost homoplasmic and was absent in 350 controls. The family was from northern Tunisia and controls were from the same region. The three mutations m.3308T 1 C, m.8248A 1 G and m.8468C 1 T belong to the haplogroup L1b. Generally, mitochondrial variants may act synergistically and may exert a cumulative negative effect on the phenotype. Concerning the influence of haplogroups on the phenotype, previous investigaReceived and accepted: April 27, 2012 Published online: July 7, 2012


Bloodstream infection (BSI) caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a worldwide public health problem, and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Our aim was to evaluate antimicrobial resistant genes, to characterize the Staphylococcal cassette chromosome elements (SCCmec) and the genetic diversity of MRSA strains recovered from the BSI of five Hospitals in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Fifty-six MRSA isolates were identified by the Vitek II system, and by the agar dilution method to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed to detect coagulase (coa), methicillin (mecA) aminoglycosides (aaca-aphD), macrolides, lincosamides (ermA/ermB/ermC) and beta-lactams (blaz) genes, as well as chromosomal SCCmec type. The genetic diversity was carried out by ribotyping and intergenic repetitive sequences ERIC/PCR
analysis. The mecA gene was detected in 84% of strains. At least one of the genes was present in the isolates from hospitals studied; the more frequent combinations were ermA/mecA and ermA/ermB/ermC (78.6% of samples). The SCC Studies have shown that such bacteria may be carriers of the ermA, ermB and ermC genes, type III was the most prevalent, followed by subtype IIIa. Ribotyping and ERIC-PCR results showed a variety of MRSA strains and suggest that certain clonal populations are circulating among the hospitals studied for different routes that should 16 be better investigated.


BACKGROUND
There is currently no established standard for maintenance therapy of steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS). We report the long-term clinical course, medication, pharmacokinetic data, and renal function of 23 children with primary, non-familial SRNS with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS).

METHODS
To achieve initial remission, patients were treated with high-dose intravenous (i. v.) methylprednisolone and oral cyclosporin A (CsA). Maintenance therapy included transient alternate day oral prednisolone, CsA and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and/or angiotensin receptor blockers. In 18 patients, mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) (adjusted to achieve blood mycophenolic acid trough concentrations > 2 μg/mL) was sequentially added, and 16 patients were converted to MMF monotherapy.

RESULTS
During a mean follow-up time of 7.0 years (1.7-16.5 years; cumulative observation time 161 patient-years), sustained remission could be achieved in all patients. Five of 23 patients (21%) experienced 10 relapses; all responded to relapse therapy. Maintenance therapy could be permanently discontinued in seven patients (30%). After conversion from CsA to MMF, renal function improved significantly; the eGFR at last follow-up was 137 (range 106-198) mL/min × 1.73 m(2). The mean number of anti-hypertensive drugs decreased from 1.86 per patient after initial remission to 0.57 on MMF monotherapy (P < 0.002).

CONCLUSIONS
The data of this uncontrolled retrospective study indicate that in children with SRNS/FSGS achieving initial remission, a sequential steroid-free therapy consisting of a combination of CsA and MMF followed by MMF alone (with the addition of ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers), can provide sustained long-term remission, preservation of renal function and better control of blood pressure.


Ecological materials have been implemented in different industrial sectors due to their good performance as thermal insulators and the fact that they are 100% natural, recyclable, and biodegradable, contributing to environmental sustainability. The main objective of this article is to compare the thermal conductivity coefficients of three natural insulators with that of expanded polystyrene (a non-biodegradable material). Expanded polystyrene is one of the materials which is most often used to maintain cold temperatures in containers built for this purpose in the fishing industry; it is used for this purpose because of its properties, including a light weight and a high thermal insulation capacity and resistance. Almost all insulators have the ecological disadvantage of being environmentally unfriendly materials because they are made up of oil particles, which are not recyclable and are harmful to ecosystems. The natural insulator materials were evaluated and subjected to a drying process to reduce the humidity coefficient; then, the containers were built with an adequate insulation thickness of 25 mm. Three filling tests were carried out (at 100, 70, and 50%) to evaluate the thermal conductivity, using the Mann–Whitney U statistical analysis process to determine insulator differences. The results show that the expanded polystyrene had the lowest thermal conductivity of 0.032 W/m K, followed by the rice husk, which had a value of 0.036 W/m K. Finally, a comparative study of conservation costs was carried out in the different containers built with the natural insulators; the lowest value found was for the expanded polystyrene (COP 159.57 around USD 0.040). This allowed to conclude that rice husk is the material that comes closest to the insulating characteristics of expanded polystyrene.


Research and extension play vital roles in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the Philippines being two of the four-fold functions of State Universities and Colleges (SUC). Hence, this study aimed to determine the research and extension participation, performance and motivation of the faculty members of Leyte Normal University as input to policy redirection. It utilized the descriptive research design and used purposive sampling to get the majority of the respondents. A survey questionnaire was used to obtain data from the respondents who were available during the conduct of the study. Findings of the study revealed that majority of the respondents got only satisfactory level of participation and performance in research and extension while most of them strongly agree on the statements on intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. Lack of time came out the number one problem encountered by the respondents in conducting research and extension programs, projects and activities. Also, majority of the respondents identified proper time from among the suggested solutions on problems encountered in the conduct of university's research and extension program, projects and activities.


We developed a novel fabrication process for the stacked dense integration of a microring resonator (MRR) buried in a SiO/sub 2/ cladding with vacuum cladding in the lateral direction. Owing to the vertical coupling and the lateral vacuum cladding, the radiation loss can be greatly reduced without affecting the coupling strength between the busline waveguide and the MRR. The reduction of radiation loss by ten orders of magnitude compared with the SiO/sub 2/ buried cladding was theoretically and experimentally demonstrated. Using this technique, an ultracompact vertically coupled MRR with the ring radius of 5 /spl mu/m was realized, and the free spectral range of 29 nm was successfully obtained.


This paper presents the design and characterization of a novel quasioptical subharmonically pumped GaAs Schottky diode mixer at 375 GHz. It features the use of two off-axis twin-slot antennas fed by CPW to receive the RF and LO signals respectively. The mixer circuits together with the antennas are integrated on a silicon extended elliptical lens. Conventional harmonic balance simulations in combination with 3D fullwave simulations in HFSS are carried out to analyze the performance of the mixer. Optimal conversion loss is obtained after impedances of the LO and RF ports are matched.Final simulation results show that the mixer achieves a DSB conversion loss of 10 dB and a noise temperature of 2900 K.


Ahstract- The energy limitation of robotic networks has hindered search and rescue missions. In this paper, we propose a mission planning method that overcomes the energy limitation by deploying static charging stations. Taking the mission objectives and constraints into consideration, the proposed method provides working robot trajectories and charging station locations together to optimize the overall mission performance. The energy efficient trajectories for working robots considers the priority area to facilitate the smart energy cycling. In addition, a geographic limitation is considered when finding the locations of the charging stations. Simulation results demonstrate the developed method by Monte Carlo method and Gazebo simulation environment. The demonstration video is available at https://youtu.be/0JWofUNTe7s.


Several recent numerical schemes for high frequency scattering simulations are based on the extraction of known phase functions from an oscillatory solution. The remaining function is typically no longer oscillatory, and as such it can be approximated numerically with a number of degrees of freedom that does not depend on the frequency of the original problem. Knowledge of the phase of a solution typically comes from asymptotic analysis, for example, from geometrical optics. We consider integral equation formulations of time-harmonic scattering by a smooth and convex obstacle and focus on the so-called shadow boundaries. They are the points where the incoming waves are tangential to the boundary of the scatterer. We devise a numerical method that incorporates advanced results from asymptotic analysis which describe the frequency-dependent transitional behavior of the solution uniformly across these points. We describe and resolve an apparent conflict between two theories that describe the asymptotic behav...


Electrical power systems suffer from unexpected failures due to various random causes. Unpredicted faults that occur in power systems are required to prevent from propagation to other area in the protective system. The functions of the protective systems are to detect, then classify and finally determine the location of the faulty line of voltage and/or current line magnitudes. Then at last, for isolation of the faulty line the protective relay have to send a signal to the circuit breaker. The ability to learn, generalize and parallel processing, pattern classifiers is powerful applications of NN used as an intelligent means for detection. This paper presents neural network NN architecture for fault detection in a transmission line power system. It aims to implement complete scheme for distance protection that subdivided into different neural networks zones. Single phase to ground, double phase and double phase to ground faults are considered. As a result a protection relaying system for the power transmission line systems can be done using the NNBP architecture.


The invention relates to a positioning device (1) for a movable furniture part (4) provided with a guide means (17) is movably guided on a furniture body of a furniture item, wherein the positioning device (1) for positioning of the furniture part (4) at a rear portion of the guide means (17), particularly in a rear rail portion of a pull-out rail (2), is provided. The positioning device (1) is equipped with attachment means (11, 21a, 21b, 26, 28) for attachment of the positioning device (1) at a rear portion (4a) of the movable furniture part (4). It is essential that the positioning device (1), a mounting element (6, 16a-16c, 23, 24, 27) with which the positioning device (1) at a first mounting position on the guide means (17) in such a releasably attachable, that in the course of assembly of the furniture part (4) at least part of the attachment means (11, 21a, 21b, 26, 28) before reaching a predetermined force to the furniture part (4) are connectable, wherein a loosening of the mounting element (6, 16a-16c , 23, 24, 27) is provided from the first mounting position when the furniture part (4) is moved further in the course of assembly or during a subsequent dismounting of the guide means (17) having at least the predetermined force in a predetermined direction.


Tofu industry wastewater have become important issues that arise in line with the increasing in  human population and the development progress. Tofu industry is one of the fast growing industries in Indonesia, this causes an increase in the amount of waste of tofu industry in Indonesia, especially in Ternate (Asadiya & Karnaningroem, 2018). The purpose of this study was to determine Comparison of pollutant levels in tofu industrial wastewater and Domestic Wastewater in Ternate City.  The sample of this research was 1 litre of tofu industrial wastewater and 1 litre domestic wastewater. This type of research is analytic descriptive. This research was conducted at Chemistry laboratory at health polytechnic of ternate and university of unkhair. The test results of tofu wastewater showed that the TSS parameters were 416 mg / L, TDS 1,389 mg / L, DO 4 ppm, pH 7 and BOD 62.8 mg / L. Meanwhile, Tests result of domestic wastewater shows that TDS 839 mg / L, TSS 379 mg / L DO 5.4 ppm, pH 10 and BOD 49.6 mg / L. in conclusion, tofu wastewater has worse quality compared to domestic wastewater. It is recommended that the tofu industry can take the initiative in treating the wastewater produced before disposing it into the environment


To make a research of lightning detection, several monitory approaches on the basis of analyzing lightning are compared. By the combined lightning locating system, the time, the position, the amplitude of lightning current, the parameters of lightning, etc, can be precisely measured.


Background and Purpose: Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is an endogenous inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), inhibiting nitric oxide (NO) production and thus induces vasoconstriction and e ...


Wireless data networks present a more constraint communication environment compared to the wired networks. Because of fundamental limitations of power and available spectrum, wireless data networks tend to have less bandwidth, more latency, less connection stability and less predictable availability. Wireless access to Internet services will become typical, rather than the exception as it is today. Such a vision presents greater demands on mobile networks and so things are changing at a rapid rate in this field towards advancement. The growing needs of users to incorporate multimedia information in hand held devices makes the things more complicated to handle large amounts of data on optimized networks and all the more it makes the environment more prone to external threats in various manners. This paper presents an analysis of the model of Ad Hoc networks design. It also includes a survey of some common security threats to which Ad Hoc networks are exposed to as well as some proposed solutions to deal with such threats. Thus Ad Hoc networks present a situation where not only things have to be made easy for the end user but on the contrary there has to be some tough time for the professional hackers.


The perovskite oxides are known to be susceptible to structural distortions over a long wavelength when compared to their parent cubic structures. From an ab initio simulation perspective, this requires accurate calculations including many thousands of atoms; a task well beyond the remit of traditional plane wave-based density functional theory (DFT). We suggest that this void can be filled using the methodology implemented in the large-scale DFT code, CONQUEST, using a local pseudoatomic orbital (PAO) basis. Whilst this basis has been tested before for some structural and energetic properties, none have treated the most fundamental quantity to the theory, the charge density n(r) itself. An accurate description of n(r) is vital to the perovskite oxides due to the crucial role played by short-range restoring forces (characterised by bond covalency) and long range Coulomb forces as suggested by the soft-mode theory of Cochran and Anderson. We find that modestly sized basis sets of PAOs can reproduce the plane-wave charge density to a total integrated error of better than 0.5% and provide Bader partitioned ionic charges, volumes and average charge densities to similar degree of accuracy. Further, the multi-mode antiferroelectric distortion of PbZrO3 and its associated energetics are reproduced by better than 99% when compared to plane-waves. This work suggests that electronic structure calculations using efficient and compact basis sets of pseudoatomic orbitals can achieve the same accuracy as high cutoff energy plane-wave calculations. When paired with the CONQUEST code, calculations with high electronic and structural accuracy can now be performed on many thousands of atoms, even on systems as delicate as the perovskite oxides.


Performance is a process carried out by a group of people in a company to create a product or service. Employees must receive special attention from the company. The fact that humans are the main assets in an organization or company, must get serious attention and be managed as well as possible. This is intended so that the human resources owned by the company are able to provide optimal contributions in the effort to achieve organizational goals. In the management of human resources, management is needed that is able to manage resources in a systematic, planned, and efficient manner. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of occupational health and safety on the performance of employees at the Pontianak Supadio International Airport. The research method used in this research is associative and quantitative research. population, the population of this research is all employees of Gapura Angkasa International Airport Supadio Pontianak Kalimantan, totaling 36 people. The sampling technique is saturated sampling. The instrument used is a questionnaire. Regression data analysis. There is an effect of work safety (X1) on the performance of Karaywan Gapura Angkasa at Supadio Pontianak International Airport
Results There is an effect of occupational health (X2) on the performance of Gapura Angkasa employees at the Pontianak Supadio International Airport. Based on the results of the analysis with simultaneous significance testing (f test) and partial significance test (t test) it can be concluded that Occupational Safety and Health has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, where employee performance can be explained by Occupational Safety and Health of 46, 3%. While the remaining 53.7% is explained by other factors not examined by the researchers in this study.


Generating a sentence when given an image automatically, which is described as image caption, has attracted more and more attention from relative researchers in computer vision area. In this paper, we present a method to generate Chinese captions for images. We adopt a Chinese dataset called ICC dataset and propose an improved language generating model. In the experiment, we show that using ICC datasets and our model to generate Chinese captions is reasonable and efficient.


This study aims to determine differences in the ability to solve mathematical problems, in the class applied cooperative learning numbered head together and the student team achievement division. The ability to solve mathematical problems in terms of four aspects including understanding, planning, solving, and evaluating. The sample was chosen randomly from 12 classes to 2 classes. The two classes will be given different treatments. The data used for data analysis are pre-test data and post-test data. After testing these data, normality and homogeneity are stated. The results of hypothesis testing with a significance level, dk = n1 + n2 - 2 = 74, and t table = 1.9953 obtained t count = 4.433 so that -1.9953 1.9953. Thus H 0 is rejected, which means that there are differences in the mathematical problem-solving abilities of students taught by using the NHT type cooperative model and by using the STAD type cooperative model in algebra material in class VII of the Pahlawan Nasional Middle School of Medan.


The utility model discloses a high-temperature-resistant and fireproof ceramic silicone rubber cable. A water-stopping mica belt, a polyester belt, a brass-wire knitted total shielding layer, a belt wrapping layer and an external sheath layer are sequentially wrapped outside insulating wire cores of the cable, wherein the insulating wire core consists of a conductor, a mica belt wrapped on the conductor, and an insulating layer; a plurality of insulating wire cores are twisted to form the cable; filling layers are arranged in the clearance of the cable core; and the insulating layer and the external sheath layer are formed by ceramic silicone rubber in an extrusion way. The cable integrates the environment-friendly performances such as low smoke, halogen-free, fireproofing and the like, and the good and stable signal transmission functions.


The present invention is reversed phase lithium inserting process of preparing polycrystal nano LiFePO4 powder material. Mixed surfactant ST of Span-80 and Tween-80 is added slowly into n-heptane, and mixed water solution of FeCl3 and glacial acetic acid and n-butanol are added to reversed phase microemulsion of FeCl3; the mixed solution of NH4H2PO4 and anhydrous glacial acetic acid and the microreactor of the microemulsion is utilized to prepare deposited nano size FePO4 grains; and LiI is inserted to obtain nano LiFePO4 powder finally. The present invention has the advantages of low synthesis temperature, and small size, great specific surface area and high activity of the synthesized material. The LiFePO4 powder material is suitable for use in producing lithium ion cell.


Historical maps are important resources for various kinds of studies, providing insights for natural science and social science studies such as biology, landscape changes, and history [1]. However, text recognition on maps remains a challenging task because map usually has a complex background in which textual content appears in numerous colors, fonts, sizes, and orientations. Even if we were able to acquire perfectly recognized words and characters automatically, it is still difficult to generate useful information because individual words are not meaningful. For example, a typical result from OCR scanning or manual map digitization is that each recognized bounding box only contains a single word (Figure 1).


Objective To investigate the polymorphism of 19 antigens of 8 rare red blood group systems in Shanghai clinical transfusion Han population in order to improve the capability of compatible infusion and reduce the transfusion reactions. Methods The genotypes were performed by polymerase chain reaction using sequence-specific primer(PCR-SSP).Results The gene frequencies of Diego,Dombrock,Duffy rare red blood group systems were Dia=0.035 1,Dib=0.964 9;Doa=0.061 4,Dob=0.938 6;Fya=0.964 9,Fyb=0.035 1,Fy=0;while the Kell,Yt,Scianna,L-W,Colton rare red blood groups allele frequencies distribution is monomorphic. There was a good fit to Hardy-weinberg equilibrium within each group.Conclusion There are great differences among the Diego,Dombrock,Duffy blood group gene frequencies in shanghai Han population.The rate of antigen mismatches in randomized clinical blood transfusion was 0.065 4,0.108 6,0.065 4 respectively.


David Lack proposed that parental feeding ability ultimately limited clutch size in bird species in which the young were dependent upon their parents for food. However, many species can raise broods that are larger than their normal clutch size. Based on nine years of experimental results from an individually marked population of Eastern Kingbirds (Tyrannus tyrannus) breeding in central New York (USA), I test six hypotheses that have been proposed as explanations for why birds fail to lay larger, seemingly more productive clutch sizes. I modified brood sizes by adding or removing 1-2 nestlings when broods were 1-3 d old and then documented the effects of brood size and manipulated brood size on nestling size and survivorship, offspring recruitment, adult survival, and future adult reproduction. Most first clutches of the season held three eggs (62% of 503 clutches), but the proportion of young to fledge did not vary with brood size (1-5 young), and as a result, broods of five were the most productive. Lack's basic food-limitation model was thus rejected. Although nestling mass and ninth-primary length at fledging declined with brood size, offspring survival during the im- mediate 10-12 d period after fledging was unrelated to nestling mass or lengths of the tarsus or ninth primary. The findings that the underweight young in broods of four and five did not suffer disproportionate mortality and that they were just as likely to appear as recruits in future years led to a rejection of the extended version of Lack's food-limitation model. Comparisons of annual variation in the relationship between productivity and brood size showed that productivity increased with brood size in eight of nine years (significant in six years). Thus, high temporal stochastic variation in conditions for rearing young (the "bad-years" hypothesis) is unlikely to explain the relatively small clutch size of kingbirds. Predictions of two other hypotheses that predict asymmetrically low survivorship of young in large broods (the "cliff-edge" and&"brood-parasitism" hypotheses) were also rejected. On the other hand, evidence suggested that females individualize clutch size such that each female lays a clutch that matches her individual feeding ability. Although fledgling production was not adversely affected by experimental increases in brood size, most enlarged broods lost young during the 10-12 d immediately after fledging. Thus, enlarged broods ultimately produced no more independent young than did control broods that began with the same number of eggs. Fledgling deaths were not related to nestling mass or size, and recruitment was independent of manipulations. Survival and fecundity costs of reproduction also existed for females. Male survival (68%) was independent of the number of young that had been raised (0-5 young), and future breeding efforts were not compromised by elevated effort in the past year. However, females that raised broods of five were less likely to return to breed in the following year (42%) than were females that raised 2-4 young (62%). Among the survivors, females that raised enlarged broods in the preceding year also experienced more hatching failure and fledged fewer young than females that raised reduced broods in the preceding year. I suggest that costs of reproduction probably set the ultimate limit to clutch size in Eastern Kingbirds. I did not test the hypothesis that high rates of nest predation favor the evolution of small clutch size, but given that predators destroyed -50% of nests each year, it is also likely that nest predation has contributed to the evolution of the current clutch size of kingbirds. Whether a female produces a clutch of three or four eggs is probably determined by individual differences in parental ability, which may be related to either intrinsic properties of the female or territory quality.


In mobile multimedia communication systems, the channel allocation schemes and computational model are becoming the topic of research interest. The computational model gives the faster processing time based on learning algorithm and neural network models. In wireless network the limited bandwidth is an issue of serious concern. However for the better utilization of available resources in a network, channel allocation scheme plays an important role to manage the available resources in each cell of cellular network. Therefore this issue should be managed to reduce the call blocking or dropping probabilities. This paper gives the new dynamic channel allocation scheme and extends the previous work, which is based on traffic mobility using Hopfield neural network.This neural network method develops the new energy function that allocates channel not only for new call but also for handoff calls on the basis of traffic mobility information. Moreover, we have also examined the performance of traffic mobility to enhance the overall Quality of Services (QoS) in terms of continuous service availability, inter-cell handoff calls and increasing traffic load.The prime objective of this paper is to decrease the handoff call dropping and blocking probability as compared to the other existing systems of static and dynamic channel allocation schemes.


The article deals with the theoretical justification and calculation of key parameters of beater drum of tillage machine used for soil preparation before potatoes and other root crops planting.


We have performed thermal expansion and elastic constant measurements of the heavy electron system URu 2 Si 2 , focusing attention on the Γ 3 ( x 2 - y 2 ) and Γ 4 ( x y ) symmetry of the tetragonal group D 4 h . It is reconfirmed that there is no sizable uniform spontaneous distortion for these two types of symmetry through the puzzling phase transition at T 0 =17.5 K. On the other hand, a weak but significant tendency of softening are found below about 70 K in the transverse ( c 11 - c 12 )/2 mode. The results strongly suggest the presence of a lattice instability in the Γ 3 symmetry. From the results, proposed crystalline-electric-field models are also discussed.


The life-cycle hypothesis (LCHO) is based on the common-sense idea that households do not make saving or dis saving decisions solely on the basis of their current income and wealth, but that they also take into account their expected future circumstances and are affected by their past experience. In particular, because people can anticipate that their incomes will fall sharply when they retire, they save when younger and dissave after retirement so as to maintain, more or less, their previous standards of living. This paper presents new data on income and consumption that are more appropriate for testing the LCHO than the data used in previous studies. Then we examine the average propensities to consume of the elderly and nonelderly and show how they do not accord with the LCHO. The LCHO predicts that the elderly dissave, or at least that they have a significantly higher average propensity to consume, at a given level of income, than the nonelderly. In fact, we found strong evidence to the contrary; i.e., the elderly not only do not dissave to finance their consumption during retirement, they spend less on consumption goods and services (save significantly more) than the nonelderly at all levels of income. Moreover, the oldest of the elderly save the most at given levels of income. After testing some adjustments that attempt to salvage the LCHO, we suggest alternative explanations for the observed higher average propensities to consume of the elderly.


Vocabulary acquisition is one of the hottest research fields in English learning, which has aroused researchers' great attention in recent years. However, their focus is on vocabulary size, vocabulary learning strategies and receptive lexical ability, seldom to productive lexical ability. Writing is an important productive ability for EFL learners, and a myriad of writing researches show that inappropriate vocabulary use leads to inferior writing quality. Therefore, research on learners' vocabulary proficiency, especially their vocabulary in English writing is quite profound. 66 subjects from a comprehensive university participating in this study, finished one composition for analyzing their vocabulary usage, i.e. lexical richness which includes lexical sophistication and lexical variation. All the data and writing papers were analyzed with RANGE and SPSS 17.0. The findings of the present study demonstrated that the subjects relied more on the first 1000 word level to express their meanings in productive tasks and the lexical sophistication and lexical variation are not high. Subjects with different writing ability have differences in vocabulary usage, but the two groups only have significant difference in lexical variation and not in lexical sophistication. The present study enriches the research on vocabulary acquisition in SLA and provides helpful implications for vocabulary teaching and learning to improve learners' vocabulary productive ability.


Language cannot be separated from culture.The close relationship between language and culture determines the close relationship between translation and culture. In English-Chinese translation cultural factors should not be neglected.Effective translation comes from the full consideration of cultural factors and the transfer of cultural information.


We consider the mobile data gathering problem in large-scale wireless sensor networks with static sensor nodes and a mobile patrol node. Based on the assumptions that (a) the sensor positions are unknown and (b) the network may not be entirely connected, we formulate the problem as one of random walks in random geometric graphs and derive analytical bounds for the node coverage, i.e. the number of queried sensor nodes within a given time frame. Based on this metric, we propose an algorithm that improves the data gathering performance by generating constrained random walks, in which the probability mass function at each step reflects the available side information (e.g. the memory of past visited sites).


Cancer disproportionately affects patients in lowand middle-income countries, with 70% of newly diagnosed cancer cases occurring in lowand middleincome countries where the survival rate of cancer is 30% to 50% lower than that of high-income countries. Although Africa only accounts for approximately 6% of the world cancer burden, it is not a rare disease on the continent, as is sometimes supposed. The economic and social burdens it brings upon the population are enormous. To overcome this rapidly rising problem, countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) urgently need rational national cancer control planning.


Green's function for isotropic thermoelastic two-phase infinite body under a point heat source is established in this paper. By virtue of the compact general solution compact which is expressed in harmonic functions, six new suitable harmonic functions with undetermined constants are constructed for the two semi-infinite bodies of two-phase infinite body. The corresponding thermoelastic field can be obtained by substituting these harmonic functions into the general solutions. And the undetermined constants can be obtained by the equilibrium conditions and compatibility conditions for both perfectly bonded interface and smooth contact interface. Numerical results are given graphically by contours.


ABSTRACT Here, we present the draft whole-genome sequence of a clinical isolate of Fusarium fujikuroi cultured from a patient undergoing chemotherapy for refractory acute myeloid leukemia.


Introduction: Shaken baby syndrome is one of the causes of non -accidental injury most difÞ cult to diagnose. Objectives: To characterize the patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit with shaken baby syndrome. Material and Methods: Retrospective study of patients admitted at the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit with shaken baby syndrome from 1 January 1999 to 31 December 2009. Results: There were eight children with shaken baby syndrome. The mean age was 4.1 months and Þ ve patients were male. One patient had a history of trauma. The most frequent NASCER E CRESCER revista de pediatria do centro hospitalar do porto ano 2013, vol XXII, n.o 2 74 artigo original original article cause of admission were epileptic seizures with cardiorespiratory/ respiratory arrest (50%). Bilateral retinal haemorrhages were present in six patients (75%). The CT scan showed subdural haematomas in all patients. Seven patients (87.5%) required mechanical ventilation, and Þ ve (62.5%) required inotropic support. The mean length of hospitalization was 5.25 days (1 -11 days). One patient died. Three patients showed no sequelae. There was a transient hemiparesis in one patient. Three patients presented epilepsy and deÞ cits in visual acuity or hearing and in one case there was loss of prior acquisitions with a moderate to severe retardation of psychomotor development. Conclusion: In our study Shaken Baby Syndrome resulted in high morbidity with long -term sequelae in Þ ve patients (62,5%), consistent with data published in other series. The mortality rate was lower than in previous studies (12.5%). The presence of traumatic history was mentioned only in one case and, although all of them presented subdural haematomas, 25% of cases had no retinal haemorrhages. The clinical presentation was very severe and in most cases a high degree of suspicion is necessary in the diagnosis.


The primary goal of this research paper is to examine the impact of different design parameters on the power-delay product (PDP) in low-power very-large-scale integration (VLSI) circuit design. The focus is on analyzing the relationship between propagation delay (tp) and power consumption in these circuits. The effects of various factors, such as the widths of p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (pMOS) and n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (nMOS) transistors, load capacitance, and the supply voltage of the complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) inverter, are thoroughly investigated. To validate the findings, simulations are conducted using the personal simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis (P-SPICE) software. Additionally, a comparison is made between results obtained from different technologies (20 nm, 16 nm, 14 nm, and 10 nm) using values provided by the predictive technology model (PTM) for recent low-power applications (LSTP). This investigation aims to provide insights into the relationship between delay, power dissipation, and PDP in various technologies, assessing their suitability for low-power applications.


In this paper, we present a novel approach for information integration usable in many difierent web and network environments. The knowledge representation formalism of Description Logic Programs (DLPs) is well known in the Semantic Web community as a qualifled Information Integration language. This is due to its property of being the intersection between the established knowledge representation formalisms of Description Logics and Logic Programming. In this paper, we take the DLPs a step further and extend them with probabilities. Furthermore, we suggest a framework for Information Integration by using these so-called Bayesian Description Logic Programs (Bayesian DLPs). As most ontology mapping tools are inexact, a knowledge representation formalism that considers the uncertainty of mappings enhances the automatism of information integration and overcomes the worst bottleneck in Information Integration, namely the need for human intervention.


AUTHOR Avery, James R.; Marra, James L. TITLE Student-Run Advertising Agency: A Showcase for Student Work. PUB DATE Aug 92 NOTE 49p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (75th, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 5-8, 1992). PUB TYPE Speeches/Conference Papers (150) Viewpoints (Opinion/Position Papers, Essays, etc.) (120) Guides Non-Classroom Use (055)


1. The Red-Haired Man's Wife -- 2. Captain Drury's Daughter -- 3. The Fairy Sweetheart -- 4. Is It A Month -- 5. The Brow of Nephin.


A 54-year-old man who was previously found to be COVID-19 positive received two doses of mRNA-1273 (Moderna) vaccine 4 weeks apart, as recommended by the manufacturer. He was brought to the emergency department 1 day after second dose of the vaccine with altered mental status, headache and high fever. The patient was hospitalised for 2 days and managed with supportive care. He completely recovered with return of mental status to baseline and resolution of fever.


Review(s) of: Criminal Law in Malaysia and Singapore, by StanleyYeo, Neil Morgan and Chan Wing Cheong, [Singapore: LexisNexis, 2007. lxxvi+ 930pp. Softcover: S$ 299]


In our study, we have imaged about 92 cases of knee by magnetic resonance imaging. Spectrum of meniscal tears are studied in these cases and the meniscal tears are classied into vertical (longitudinal), horizontal (longitudinal), ap, radial and bucket handle tears based on the characteristic MRI appearance. Arthroscopy was considered as gold standard. The sensitivity, specicity and accuracy obtained on correlating MRI ndings with arthroscopy were 96.3%, 81.82% and 94.57% respectively. Various congurations of meniscal tears were also correlated with arthroscopy ndings separately. Among the various congurations of meniscal tears, detection of the bucket handle tear and complex tear by MRI has high specicity and accuracy. The sensitivity for the detection of the bucket handle tear is 100%, where as sensitivity for the detection of the complex tear is relatively low


A practical procedure is presented for synthesizing output feedback controllers for uncertain systems based on sliding mode concepts. The class of systems to which the results apply is identified and includes the requirement that the nominal linear system is minimum phase. The procedure proposed for the design of the sliding surface uses established output feedback eigenvalue assignment results. It will be shown that all the assumptions imposed on the system pertain to the design of the sliding surface. The proposed controller, which guarantees attainment of a sliding mode despite the presence of uncertainty requires no additional assumptions.


The World Bank is prime among the organizations formulating and implementing economic policy around the world. In recent years it and others have placed great emphasis in its analysis of poverty and inequality on the concept of social capital. Social capital, inequality, and globalization are three concepts that interrelate, but they are contested as well. In combination, the three may have more than just heuristic value. They point to some important aspects of the process of globalization and the misgivings that some groups of people have about it. In particular, the combination of the three concepts-globalization, social capital, and inequality-point to the fact that how you analyze and judge currents in the economy of today depends crucially on how you understand individual behavior and its relation to different groups or communities. In this contribution we aim to bring out the contested nature of the concepts of globalization, social capital, and inequality. By introducing and developing the concept of "boundary," we better understand the relation between the individual and his or her community, which allows one to analyze globalization and its doings better than was hitherto the case. 'While others (most notably Fine 2001) have criticized the World Bank's use of the concept of social capital, we suggest steps to develop concepts that will also be relevant for policy purposes.


Biotemplating is a powerful approach for manufacturing small-scale devices. Here, the assembly of metal–organic framework (MOF) nanocrystals onto biotemplated magnetic helical structures on the cyanobacterium Spirulina platensis is reported. It is demonstrated that the authors' approach is universal and can be used to equip biotemplated structures with different functional MOF systems. The successful assembly of MOF nanocrystals on magnetically coated helical biotemplates is achieved by decorating the magnetic surface with gelatin, a naturally occurring macromolecule with synthon moieties that allows anchoring of the MOF nanocrystals via electrostatic interactions. Furthermore, as gelatin is a thermally responsive material, it can serve to free the magnetic biotemplates from the MOF nanocrystal cargoes. As such, the systems can be used as highly integrated magnetically driven microrobots with multiple functionalities. To this end, the potential of these composite helical architectures is demonstrated as MOF-based small-scale robots with applications in biomedicine and environmental remediation.


An investigation was initiated to determine the coefficient of static friction between explosives and the surfaces to which the explosive are held during machining and gaging. An attempt was made to duplicate as nearly as possible the conditions found in the fabrication of explosive assemblies, so that the measured coefficients will be useful in calculating safe loads.


The integration of ferroelectrics and organic-inorganic halide perovskites could be a promising way to facilitate the separation of electron-hole pairs and charge extraction for the application of solar cells. To explore the effect of the external ferroelectric layer on the CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI3) side, we perform first-principles calculations to study the charge transfer properties of the MAPbI3/polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) heterostructure. Our calculations demonstrate that the ferroelectric polarization pointing to the PVDF side can clearly facilitate the separation of photo-induced carriers and enhance charge extraction from MAPbI3, while opposite polarization direction hinders the charge extraction and collection. Notably, the carrier behavior at the interface is strongly tuned by the electric field associated with the ferroelectric polarization. In addition, excited state simulation confirms the tunable charge transfer of the MAPbI3/PVDF heterojunction. Therefore, the polarization-driven charge transfe...


This paper introduces a single-stage medium voltage (MV) solid state transformer (SST) based on dual active bridge topology and recently developed high voltage Super-cascode device. A closed loop control system of the output voltage is designed and verified by simulation results. A fully functional SST based on the proposed concept has been developed and tested with an input voltage of 3.6kV and experimental results show unity power factor operation with zero voltage switching of both primary and secondary devices.


This report seeks to determine whether the violation of Savage's sure-thing principle is robust enough to survive in an original payoff domain of the prisoner's dilemma game. It was found that the sure-thing principle was violated in the domain of gains as expected by Shafir and Tversky but obeyed in the domain of losses. It was further found that the sure-thing principle was also obeyed in the original prison sentence payoffs, which fall into the domain of losses. The findings suggest a reexamination of the application of the sure-thing principle in the prisoner's dilemma game.


Data are summarized from a series of studies on the effect of feeding irradiated meats on the growth rate, health, and reproductive performance of dogs over a threeyear period. The meats studied included beef, pork, tuna fish, and chicken stew. (C.H.)


Twenty five patients with bronchogenic carcinoma were studied. The overall accuracy of CT diagnosis for chest wall invasion, mediastnal lymph node metastasis and hilar lymph node metastasis is 73%, 76% and 64% respectively. Rib erosion is believed to be the sole evidence of chest wall invasion. However, protrusion of mass beyond rib cage with fat plane infiltration is a good indicator, without false negative result (specificity 100%), in our cases. CT detection of lymph node metastasis is easier in mediastinum than in hilum, with sensitivity of 80% in the former and of 50% in the latter.


Report describing the results of studies meant to provide "determination of the most functional and economical location for a lock in the vicinity of Buffalo, N. Y., and evaluation of navigation conditions at the entrance to an overland canal joining the American channel of the Niagara River northwest of North Tonawanda, N. Y." (p. ix).


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The cleanliness of the toilet is very important for human beings. Germs and bacteria start spreading on the human body from here. That is why toilets need to be sanitized and cleaned every day. You have noticed a foul smell in a school's/college's/public restroom. It is always a challenge to keep toilets clean because even with frequent, diligent cleaning, odours can persist. It takes special, precise methods and products to prevent school/college toilets from becoming problems. To overcome this, an Arduino-based device to detect bad odors. Device consists of an odour-detecting sensor (humidity sensor, odour sensor, electronic nose) that detects bad odours and informs authorities through SMS (using interface GSM module) and phone call (using PSR module). The device can be mounted on the wall of a toilet. By using this device, students can stay healthy. Additionally, it may reduce some unpleasant diseases. Also, the management is able to reduce the manpoitr and call workers when needed


Summary form only given. Polarization state sensitive effects and their relation to fundamental aspects of the nonlinear light matter interaction are increasingly attracting attention as they are relevant to optical signal processing as well with some far reaching repercussions there. It can be anticipated that certain features of these interactions can be selectively singled out and enhanced in micro-cavities containing semiconductor quantum-wells in particular when operated in the regime of the strong coupling between cavity and excitonic modes. Here, we present an experimental study of the nonlinear Faraday rotation occurring in a /spl lambda//2 long asymmetric Fabry-Perot micro-cavity containing a single CdMnTe/CdMgTe quantum-well.


Lower levels of Sr/sup 90/ were found in human and soybean milk than dairy products. Explanation of the phenomenon and implications relative to the design of infant diet are discussed. (H.M.G.)


Extensive efforts have been undertaken on the photoelectric physics of hybrid organolead halide perovskites to unveil the reason for the attractive photovoltaic performance. Yet, the resulting evidence is far from being fully conclusive. Herein, we provide another direct support for this issue. In addition to the observation on the conventional band edge at 1.58 eV that presents a blueshift toward temperature increase, interestingly, we also observe an unusual optical band edge at 1.48 eV in CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite single crystals for the first time. Contrary to the conventional band edge, this one shows an obvious redshift toward the enhancement in temperature, in agreement with the Varshni relation. More interestingly, the unusual band edge exhibits a series of obvious absorption and photocurrent signals, but the according photoluminescence signals are not observable. This indicates that this band edge is particularly beneficial for the photovoltaic effect due to the inhibited radiative recombination. The...