Decarboxylation reactions release the free energy necessary for carbon‐carbon bond formation in the biosynthesis of polyketides and fatty acids. Ketosynthases from fatty acid and polyketide synthases perform a decarboxylative Claisen‐condensation between an acyl‐thioester intermediate and a malonyl‐derived extender unit. However, the molecular details of decarboxylation and C‐C bond formation is not well understood. We are synthesizing and characterizing non‐hydrolyzable and non‐decarboxylatable substrate mimics to capture intermediate catalytic states via X‐ray crystallography. Capturing the substrate mimics in the active site of ketosynthases will yield insight into the mechanism of decarboxylation and polymerization of the two carbon units. Decarboxylation reactions are essentially non‐reversible and have various possible chemical mechanisms, which makes them difficult to study. Ketosynthases are also challenging to study due to their multiple substrates and need for protein‐protein interactions. Therefore, we have begun characterization of our substrate mimics with simpler systems, such as malonyl‐ and methylmalonyl‐CoA decarboxylases (MCD and MMCD), as a proof of principle. We have successfully crystallized E. coli MMCD and the bifunctional acyltransferase/decarboxylase, LnmK, with our substrate mimics. Our substrate mimics preserve the thioester carbonyl as a thioester, ester or amide and have a nitro or sulfonate moiety in place of the carboxylate. Structures of MMCD and LnmK with multiple bound substrate mimics reveals mechanistic insight into decarboxylation. While MMCD and LnmK have no sequence homology to ketosynthases, this study reveals that our substrate mimics indeed inhibit decarboxylation reactions. Therefore, we are beginning to apply this concept to ketosynthases from type III polyketide synthases.


New processing technology is now available to improve refinery operating margins. The cost of this technology is minor if a refiner has a VGO or Resid hydrotreater and an FCCU. The primary requirement is changing the way work is done. Addition of new capital can be an optional step. The New technology is Hydroprocessing-FCC Synergy. Redirecting the work effort to operate, optimize, and budget the FCC pretreater, the FCC and any FCC post-treaters as one unit can optimize margins. Calculating the unit operating margins on the difference of FCC final product value minus the pretreater and FCC operating costs highlights the new technology`s enhanced profitability. The synergy connectiveness is made through the hydrocarbon flow and properties. Selecting the proper conditions and catalyst to complement each other`s performance is the technical key. This paper discusses the techniques for catalyst and operating condition selection. The concept of changing formulations with processing age is discussed. Finally a case study comparing Hydroprocessing-FCC Synergy versus classical non-synergistic approaches is presented, including the effect of new Hydroprocessing and FCC catalysts on the profitability increase.


The present invention provides a sufficient resistance to hard coating and the hard coating cracking. Hard coat film (10) laminated on a substrate having a membrane (11) of the hard coat layer (12) of a surface. Hard coat layer (12) is adjusted to the Martens hardness (HM) of 250N / mm2 or more, the hardness of the plastic (hupL) of 800N / mm2 or more, the indentation modulus of elasticity (EIT) is 5000MPa or less.


For the sake of discussing the new form of Lanchester equation in cooperative engagement,and strengtheing the quantitative analysis for modern engagement,this paper analyses the concept of cooperative engagement,effect-raising theory and the basic factors of cooperative engagement,introduces the cooperation effect gene,quantizes cooperation effect item by adding format,and builds Lanchester equation based on cooperative engagement.Then it gives an example with analysis,which indicates that cooperation can offset battle effectiveness and affect the combat result actively.


Abstract We use boson-vortex duality applied to bosons at integer and half-integer filling to obtain insulating states with Z2 topological order, bulk boson fractionalization, and bulk anyon excitations. Such insulators are called Z2 spin liquids, and because of the conservation of boson number and time-reversal symmetry, they are examples of "symmetry enriched" topological (SET) states. They are not to be confused with the "symmetry protected" Z2 topological (SPT) insulator of free electrons proposed by Kane and Mele, which are trivial in the bulk; we will consider the latter later. For the case of boson at half-integer filling, there is additional SET structure, leading to valence bond solid (VBS) states.


The mechanical principle and mechanical design are two important basic specialized curriculums in training students' innovative abilities.In the course of constructing basic course system,we carry out reform in theoretical teaching contents,experimental teaching contents,course design contents and extracurricular scientific activities to establish all-round and three-dimensional theory,experiment and practical teaching system.


In this article, a compact printed dipole antenna for wideband local area network (WLAN) (2.45/5.5 GHz) applications is presented.The proposed antenna consists of two radiating patches with several slots etched on the patches, which can generate parallel‐winding lines and then produce two bands. By using the unique tapered structure, good impedance matching can be achieved in a wide dual‐band without external matching circuit. For the experimental study, the antenna provides 10.2% bandwidth from 2.325 to 2.575 GHz and 64.9% bandwidth from 3.225 to 6.325 GHz (RL ≤ −10 dB). In addition, the antenna has good omnidirectional radiation patterns in H‐plane and low cross‐polarization levels in both E‐ and H‐planes. The measured results are in good agreement with the simulation ones, and the experiment validates the design concept. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 53:2492–2494, 2011; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26342


This volume explores some of the theoretical, empirical, and practical considerations when supporting educators and learners in promoting language learner autonomy. Through six detailed chapters, we look at different aspects of learner autonomy that support both students and educators as they become more autonomous in their practise. The authors pay special attention to the 'social turn' in researching language learner autonomy development and second language acquisition, and focus on the social, interactive and co-dependent nature of the concept. The breadth of research presented provides a more holistic view of learner autonomy, and how many aspects of teaching and learning are connected to this. The volume concludes with a research agenda which draws on the social factors and agency that are likely to be the subject of further work in the coming years. This research agenda aims to inform and inspire the research field, and revisit certain methods, metaphors and terms we have used within the field for decades.


Perhaps even more than the other Eukarya, Animalia is characterized by a distinct progression of complexity in form and function as one moves from the more primitive to the more derived taxa. Early in animal evolution, major changes in body symmetry, embryonic germ layers, and ontogenetic origins of major anatomical structures diverge in the nascent monophyletic groups. Over the course of this workshop, you will review the major changes that occurred during the evolution of Kingdom Animalia. By the end of the workshop, you should be able to


The local and global dimensions are now in balance within the COVID-19 pandemic in all sectors, education needs to be adapted and disrupted for tomorrow. Local contexts in the stream of global movement concerns curriculum and instruction. The local contexts are significant content to promote English by various kinds of contents. This research purposes to study general education program for integrating local contexts and English contents. Target group consisted of teachers who have been taught basic English courses, general education program. The research tools used questionnaire and interviewing form to study the problems and needs for understanding the general education category by integrating content according to local context. As it finding, the local context is the authentic learning experiences that students can learn, they can make a link between local and global dimensions. Conceptual framework is proposed for rethinking genera; education program for integrating local and global English courses, the study needs more discussion how to help students develop learning abilities through the suitable curriculum and instructional practices.


Objective To explore the feasibility of applying immunohistochemistry(IH)and in situ hybridization(ISH)technique to the undecalcified bone sections of human.Methods Two iliac creast biopsies were embedded with the methylmethacrylate(MMA)low-temperature plastic embedding method reported by Erben and then made into undecalcified sections.These sections were observed in morphology by Goldners Masson Trichrome staining and toluidine blue staining.FGF-2 protein and mRNA in the bone sections were detected by IH and ISH.Results Both Goldners Masson Trichrome staining and toluidine blue staining showed the cells in bone tissue such as osteoblast,osteoclast and osteocyte were clearly seen,and osteoid were easily distinguished from mature bone tissue.The positive signals of FGF-2 protein and mRNA were found in the cytoplasm of some mononuclear cells in the bone marrow and osteoblast,the matrix in the bone marrow was positively stained,too.Conclusions The undecalcified bone sections of human made in the method can satisfy the need of IH and ISH.


In recent years, attention has been given to develop efficient and optimised cooling systems for grinding to reduce the process cost and to limit the health hazards of operators. In ultra-high speed grinding this issue is particularly complex because the thick air barrier rotating with the grinding wheel prevents the fluid from reaching the grinding zone. In this paper, results of experiments conducted to characterise the application of the wrap around nozzle (WRN) to the ultra high speed plunge surface grinding are presented. Experiments were conducted in a peripheral wheel speed ranging from 50 to 380 m/s and the effects of the nozzle position. This efficiency was compared to a cooling system composed of double air scrapper and a conventional jet type system. Experiments showed that the WRN has higher and much stable cooling efficiency in the ultra-high-speed range of the grinding wheel.


Many hospitals and orthopaedic surgery teams across Canada have instituted quality improvement (QI) programs for hip and knee arthroplasty. One of the common goals is to reduce hospital length of stay (LOS) in order to improve operational efficiency, patient flow and, by achieving this, provide improved access for patients to arthroplasty surgery. A common concern among surgeons and care providers is that hospital readmission rates will increase if LOS is significantly reduced. This study assesses the relationship between LOS and readmission rates in Alberta over a six year period during a focused QI initiative targeting LOS. Data from all patients undergoing primary elective total hip or knee arthroplasty in Alberta between 2010 and 2015 was captured through a provincial QI program. Patient characteristics captured included age, gender, joint replaced, and pre-surgical co-morbidities. Patient LOS and all-cause hospital readmissions within thirty days from the initial discharge were captured through provincial data repositories, including the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), operating room information systems, electronic medical records, and comorbidity risk grouper (CRG) data. Three longitudinal analyses were performed: 1) the crude and risk adjusted length of stay and 30-day readmission rates were calculated, 2) the population was grouped into two 3-year subsets and compared using t-test (acute LOS) and chi-square (30-day readmission), and 3) a multivariable regression analyses was performed to determine the rate of change and statistical significance in acute LOS and 30-day readmission between the two time periods. The number of patients undergoing elective lower extremity arthroplasty in the province during the six-year study period (2010–2015) was 48,760 patients. Fifty-nine percent were female and forty-one percent were male. Mean age of the cohort was 66.9 years. Thirty-nine percent of patients had a total hip arthroplasty and 61% had a total knee arthroplasty. Forty-five percent of patients had no pre-surgical risk factors, 27% had one risk factor, and 28% of the patients had 2 or more risk factors. During the quality improvement program risk-adjusted length of stay improved from a mean of 4.82 days (in 2010–2012) to 3.90 days (in 2013–2015) (p Quality improvement programs that target reduced LOS can avoid increasing 30-day hospital readmission rates. This has significant implications for inpatient resource utilisation for lower extremity arthroplasty surgery and for improving patient flow.


Properties of synchrotron radiation optical elements of a diffraction beamline synchrotron data measurement accuracy and the mapping of charge densities with synchrotron radiation anomalous scattering time resolved studies and the response of crystals to external perturbations multi-wavelength methods high resolution powder diffraction and structure determination two-dimensional crystallography.


Scholars have long recognized that terrorist groups have engaged in transnational organized crime activities. But the question that comes up is, "When does a criminal enterprise become a terrorist group or vice versa?" Terrorist groups have used physical violence, participated in weapons and drug trafficking networks, immigrant smuggling, and money laundering. More recently a number of terrorist groups have established what Jonathan White has referred to as "illegal multinational criminal organizations." This article will examine the convergence of terrorism and organized crime through the prism of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK).


IJCRT1892184 International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT) www.ijcrt.org 1238 IMPROVEMENT TO BLIND DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHM BASED ON FILTER AND PSF ESTIMATION Mansi Badiyanee, Dr. A. C. Suthar , PG Student, Director PG Departments, Computer Engineering, L.J. Institute of Engineering and Technology, Gujarat, India. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________


Most research on female entrepreneurs revealed that poor in capital capacity and managerial capability become the most problems for them to move ahead. These female street vendors poor of capability in microfinance management also become other crucial issue to be solved besides some other key issues on business planning, administrating, creating source of business financing, to survive in such competitive world. This study examines the effectiveness of financial management capability of female street vendors in strengthening their business capital and reducing the bankruptcy risk and poverty. This research conducted a survey and examined in-depth problem to get the formulation of the problems of female street vendors in facing and solving problems as alternative strategies to empower them. The Data techniques analysis used in this study is descriptive analysis techniques which were used to examine the specific characteristics and profile formulation of female street vendors in the area. Descriptive analysis techniques supported by statistical analysis techniques using logistic regression to describe the methods of business financial management female street vendors in Surabaya and Sidoarjo. The result of this research shows that the main problems faced by female street vendors in Surabaya and Sidoarjo is lack of capability in making bargaining power in competitive rigidity to larger range similar business and lack of capability in financial management strategic development. The most effective method in strengthening the female street vendors is by making similar range on their business to be one specific group that is accommodated in association supported by the government


The authors discuss the approach and a programme to develop a MACROCELL and a specific transcoder device (CF70106) for voice coding in the CT2 digital cordless telephone application. They describe the development flow, including algorithm testing and refinement, and discuss ASIC design flow, giving flow diagrams and a device block diagram. >


This paper analyses a market in which consumers buy horizontally differentiated products without knowing their exact valuations. By paying return costs, the consumers may return less-preferred items and obtain refunds. The consumers shop sequentially and their shopping strategy is similar to the search strategy of a consumer in a sequential costly search model. Thus, the pricing strategies of firms are identical to those in a price-directed sequential search model. Price competition is more intense, and the symmetric equilibrium price is lower when returns are costlier. As a result, consumer surplus is increasing in the return cost.


The first offshore oil-drilling and extraction platforms were constructed in the 1940s in the Gulf of Mexico and spread widely after the Second World War, also in Europe, especially after the discovery of oil under the North Sea. The problems of design and construction to be solved are considerable, since it is a matter of very large structures, subjected to fatigue stresses by the sea swell, and working in extremely severe environmental conditions.This strongly conditions the selection of materials, and makes the choice very difficult. In the case of offshore platforms for the extraction of hydrocarbons, these problems affect not only the support structure, and result not only from the marine environment, but also from the types of fluids that are extracted and have to be accumulated, stored and processed.


The geographical distribution maps of the subgenus Pogonophace (Fabaceae: Astragalus ) in China were designed and drawn using GIS cartographic technique. The species of the subgenus and county of China were treated as the basic composition units in the GIS cartographic technique. Most of the distribution maps were shown in spots. The distribution pattern of the subgenus illustrates that it is a peculiar group to adapt the cold alpine environment and distribute mainly in Hengduan Mountains and Himalayas. According to the geographical distribution maps and some statistic analyses, Hengduan Mountains region is suggested to be the distribution center, differentiation center and endemic center of the subgenus. Some vicariance traces at levels of the species or sections are very interesting among the distribution patterns of the subgenus and shown clearly in the maps.


The first draft of this account was written from memory, aided by a few maps, in Dunedin, New Zealand, between April and September 1917. It was bald and unchaptered...Author's Note, Gallipoli to the Somme1Survivors of traumatic experience seem compelled in one of two directions: either towards silence or towards an urge to bear witness. Both strategies have their dangers: if silence risks repudiating history, an impulse to testify risks the cold shoulder or the uncomprehending stare. To become assimilable, therefore-as commemoration, as testimony, as liberation-trauma narratives need to be more than 'bald and unchaptered': they need to find a form. Alexander Aitken, a talented amateur violinist as well as a mathematical savant, often turned to music as a way of shaping his overwhelming and inescapable memories of active service. I would like to consider the implications of that choice-specifically, the ways in which Aiken uses music to structure his narrative and the emotional landscape of his experience, and what thinking through music might add to our map of the horror to which his memoir bears witness. Aitken had a violin by his side for all eleven months of his active service. This incongruous piece of contraband accrues all manner of significance in the text, for Aitken himself, and for the many people who help him look after it. What does playing music mean for him? What can those sensitive ears tell us about the experience of trench warfare? If survivors of trauma typically struggle to find a conscious register in which to articulate the memories that haunt them, what might thinking through music enable for someone who, like Aitken, is simply unable to forget?An exceptional memoryAitken's astonishing feats of mental calculation and memory are well-documented.2 As a sixth former at Otago Boys' High School he learned by heart whole books of Paradise Lost and the Aeneid-the latter, in Latin: although mathematics became his professional concern, the schoolboy passions that earned him the nick-name 'Swotty' Aitken were classical languages, literature, music and athletics.3 He was also good at instant recall: he could recite back fifteen-digit numbers after a single hearing, without effort or hesitation.4Aitken was highly attuned to the system of his own mental skills. He was aware that his own memory functioned best when he was gripped by the material he was being asked to assimilate, and could discern rich conceptual patterns within it. For example, he believed that musical memory could be developed to a more remarkable degree than any other, because music offers just such conceptual richness:we have a metre and a rhythm, a tune, or more than one, the harmony, the instrumental colour, a particular emotion or sequence of emotion, a meaning, however difficult to express in other terms, in the executant an auditory, a rhythmic and a muscular and functional memory; and secondarily in my case, a visual image of the page which comes to the rescue when all the rest flag; perhaps also a human interest in the composer, with whom one may identify oneself for the time that the composition is being heard or performed; and an aesthetic interest in the form of the piece.5In the early 1930s, John Sutherland and Boris Semeonoff of the Psychology Department of Edinburgh University designed a series of experimental tasks to assess Aitken's powers of recall and retention.6 Aitken turned to auditory and rhythmic patterns when reflecting on his ability to remember unimaginably long strings of numbers, such as the first ninety-six digits of 1/97th expressed as a recurring decimal. Writing to Sutherland at the time, Aitken 'elucidates' his mnemic process by barring the number into highly-patterned groups as though it were music, and annotating a stress on every second digit as though they were even quavers in 4/4 time. He notates a pause at the end of each sequence, and accents the terminal digit as though it had the rhythmic value of the last crotchet beat in a bar. …


Whereas the phrase "that by which we live and perceive" is ambiguous, 5 as is "that by which we know" (we may mean either "knowledge" or "the soul," because we say we know by either one of these) and similarly we are healthy either by health or by some part or the whole of our body, and of these knowledge or health is the shape, form, definition, or, as it were, the activity of that which is capable, in the one case of knowing, in the 10 other of becoming healthy (for the activity of that which acts is exhibited in that which is acted on or affected), and soul is that primarily by which we live, perceive, and think; therefore it is a sort of definition or form, not a matter or subject.1


e11514 Background: Anthracycline is very effective in treatment of breast cancer, however it can cause cardiac toxicity events. nPLD has greater safety profile and comparable efficacy than conventional anthracyclines. We evaluated safety and efficacy, in neoadjuvant setting, of nPLD in pts with LABC. Methods: 11 pts (median age 57 years). Their clinical stage was: stages IIA and IIB 1 pt respectively, IIIB 7 pts, IIIC 2 pts. 8 pts presented at diagnosis with cT4 disease. All pts were treated with nPLD (50 mg/mq, d1q21) plus Docetaxel (75 mg/mq, d1q21) and Cyclophosphamide (500 mg/mq, d1q21); only 1 pt received Cyclophosphamide, nPLD and Trastuzumab. At beginning of therapy, overall population had left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥55%. Results: After a median of 4 chemotherapy cycles, we observed following clinical response: stable disease 2 pts (18%); partial response 7 pts (64%); complete response 2 pts (18%). 9 pts were evaluable for radiological response: objective response rate and clinical b...


This paper has investigated the trap distribution of alumina ceramics samples prepared under different sintering temperature. Compared with the flashover performance of these samples in vacuum, it was found that the trap distribution could influence the flashover performance. According to the experimental results, there is some relationship between the trap distribution and the surface flashover performance of insulators in vacuum. The role of the trap distribution on the surface flashover in vacuum has been analyzed.


Data Exploration remains an untapped area of research, and as of yet few guidelines exist for how to design a data exploration tool. In this paper we conduct a qualitative study of a data exploration tool that has been created using a series of principles for designing data exploration systems for non-expert audiences. In the course of this study, we both evaluate the tool, dubbed the Data Explorer, and refine the design principles that it was based on.


Long-channel Ge pMOSFETs and nMOSFETs were fabricated with high-kappa CeO2/HfO2/TiN gate stacks. CeO2  was found to provide effective passivation of the Ge surface, with low diode surface leakage currents. The pMOSFETs showed a large I ON/IOFF ratio of 106, a subthreshold slope of 107 mV/dec, and a peak mobility of approximately 90 cm2 /Vmiddots at 0.25 MV/cm. The nMOSFET performance was compromised by poor junction formation and demonstrated a peak mobility of only ~3 cm2/Vmiddots but did show an encouraging ION/I OFF ratio of 105 and a subthreshold slope of 85 mV/dec


Morphologic studies resulting from events that occur during the development of the lesions of atherosclerosis were studied In chronic, diet-induced hypercholesterolemia In a series of nonhuman primates. Within 12 days of hypercholesterolemia In Macaca nemestrina, monocytes became adherent to the surface of the endothelium. These monocytes appeared to migrate subendothelially, accumulate lipid, and become lipld-laden macrophages (foam cells). Within a month, a "seroflbrinous insudate" formed together with variable numbers of subendothellal llpid-laden macrophages. By the second month, foam cells increased In number, often in multilayers, to form a fatty streak. Concomitantly, the luminal surface of the arteries became increasingly Irregular due to the subendothelial accumulation of foam cells. Numerous monocytes continued to attach to the endothelial surface over the fatty streaks, and many of them appeared to enter the Intlma and participate In the growth of the fatty streaks. Lipid-laden smooth muscle cells appeared in small numbers and formed two to four layers between the macrophages and the internal elastic lamella at 2 to 3 months. During the third month of hypercholesterolemla, endothelial cell continuity over the llpid-laden macrophages became Interrupted, exposing the underlying foam cells to circulating blood. Foam cells were then readily observed In whole blood smears, suggesting that many of the lipld-laden macrophages leave the intima and enter the circulation.After 4 months, significant endothelial denudation was found In the lilac artery and many exposed macrophages were covered by adherent platelets in the form of a mural thrombus. Thus, the early components of atherosclerosis induced by chronic hypercholesterolemla centered around the monocyte-macrophage and its interaction with endothelium In the induction of the fatty streak. Subsequent changes that lead to macrophage-smooth muscle Interactions, platelet-macrophage Interactions, and platelet-endothelial interactions appeared to set the stage for the development of more advanced proliferatlve lesions.


An important problem in the public sector, given the lack of output prices and exit decisions to sanction inefficient units, is finding the optimal industry structure. We apply a novel approach to the Italian courts of justice, the typical example of a sector in the public domain with a small size but important effects on economic agents' behavior, firm size, FDI, and on the overall economy. The suggested approach allows to decompose the courts inefficiency into different sources and to investigate the optimal structure of the judicial sector. Results show that technical inefficiency (lack of best practice) is almost 40% of total inefficiency, while size inefficiency (courts that are too big) is about 35%. The remaining is represented by input reallocation (17%) and merger (10%) inefficiencies. Given the relative difficulty of adopting best practices in inefficient courts, we suggest that the single most effective policy intervention would be splitting the biggest courts. We contrast this policy suggestion with the recent Monti's government decision to merge smaller courts to save on building costs, arguing that these implemented mergers might in fact worsen Italian courts efficiency. ∗School of Economics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Qld. 4072, Australia. firstname.lastname@example.com †Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università degli Studi di Verona, Via dell'Artigliere, 19, Verona 37129, Italy. email@example.com


Primary care physicians are the main first-contact providers for patients with both acute and chronic low back pain in the United States. Although most patients presenting with new-onset back pain do well with a brief evaluation, reassurance, and symptomatic treatment, many studies have demonstrated


In this article I consider the place of "Uže napisan Verter" (1980) in Valentin Kataev's fictional writing. I discuss the traits that reveal it as a clear example of Kataev's later writing and also examine those features that distinguish it from that later writing, and thus I account for why it probably was deemed unacceptable for publication in the collection of Kataev's works that appeared between 1983 and 1986. I give especial attention to Kataev's portrayals of how personal time confronts historical time (of how memory and dream confront historical reality), how his experiments in literary form emphasize these portrayals, and how characters' choices about personal time and historical time comment on changes that the Revolution and Civil War brought to Russia. 1 I would like to thank one of Scando-Slavica's anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on a draft of this paper and Tatiana Patera for her support in my early work on Kataev's writing.


Objective
To study the clinical efficacy and safety of aripiprazole versus quetiapine for schizophrenia.

Methods
included 84 patients with schizophrenia treated at our hospital from September, 2013 to April, 2015 were included and were divided into an aripiprazole group and a quetiapine group, 42 for each group. The aripiprazole group were treated with aripiprazole and the quetiapine group quetiapine. The treatment effect, quality of life, and adverse reactions were observed in both groups.

Results
The total effective rate was 69.05% in the aripiprazole group and 64.29% in the quetiapine group, with no statistical difference (P>0.05). There were no statistical differences in the scores of life of quality between these two groups before treatment. After treatment, the physical score, psychological score, environmental score, score of social relation, independent score, and score of quality of life were high in the aripiprazole group than in the quetiapine group (P 0.05).

Conclusion
Aripiprazole in the treatment of schizophrenia is as effective as and causes as few adverse reactions as quetiapine. The drug should be clinically chosen according to the patients' conditions.

Key words:
Aripiprazole; Quetiapine; Schizophrenia; Curative effect; Security


In December 2014, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued for public comment a draft guidance document1 on how federal agencies should evaluate climate change in their analyses under the National Environmental Policy Act .2 The draft guidance does not directly regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs) or climate change, but rather provides agencies with "direction on when and how to consider the effects of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change in their evaluation of all proposed Federal actions . . . ."3 This is the second time CEQ has issued draft guidance on the subject . Its 2010 draft guidance on the analysis of GHGs in NEPA documents, though nonbinding, was widely expected to draw attention from federal agencies and ultimately from the courts .4 However, this expectation did not come to fruition . While federal agencies did begin to incorporate climate change in NEPA analyses more frequently, there was little consistency in how they did so,5 and in the courts, the 2010 draft guidance has had very little influence .6


Abstract - We verified pre-settlement Sphoeroides spengleri (Bandtail Puffer) larvae by genetic sequencing and herein describe their morphology and pigmentation. The lead author collected the specimens on a North Carolina beach among stranded Sargassum, which may represent the first record of this species in the Sargassum community along the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Cleared and stained specimens exhibited a declivitous vertebral column that has been reported in few other members of the Tetraodontiformes.


AIMS To study the effects of different doses of rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae(RAM) on the spontaneous contraction of isolated guinea pig ileum. METHODS 1 cm isolated ileum of guinea pig was put in K-H solution, and then different doses of rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae was added in the solution. The contraction of isolated ileum was recorded by DC-001 organ infulting machine. RESULTS 6.25% RAM 1.0 ml slightly inhibited the spontanceous contraction; 12.5% RAM or higher concentration significantly enhanced the spontanhieous contraction with dose-dependent effects. CONCLUSIONS Small dose of rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae may slightly inhibit the spontaneous contraction. Large dose of it could significantly enhance the spontaneous contraction with dose dependent effects.


An implementation of stable droop voltage response for distributed energy resources (DER) is described. The key point is to use a new "autonomously adjusting reference voltage" as described in IEEE Standard 1547-2018. Examples include battery voltage response, a photovoltaic inverter at the end of a long secondary circuit, and 180 photovoltaic inverters on a distribution lateral. Default inverter settings are proposed for DER that would mitigate voltage fluctuations, with or without communications.


The resistance between any two lattice points in an infinite, centered-triangular lattice of equal resistors is determined using the lattice Green function method. It is shown that the two-point resistance on the centeredtriangular lattice is expressed in terms of the resistance of a triangular lattice. Some exact values for the resistance near the origin of the lattice are presented. For large separation between lattice points the asymptotic forms of the resistance are calculated.


The liver is an important organ in the body. It is located under the rib cage on the right side. The liver performs many important functions, it processes food for nutrients that the body requires and also helps in the detoxification of harmful materials. Like any organ in the body, the liver is susceptible to diseases such as liver cancer. Liver cancer is the growth and spread of unhealthy cells of the liver. There are several risk factor for liver cancer, these are: Cirrhosis (scarring of the liver), long term hepatitis B and hepatitis C infection and diabetes patients with long term drinking problem. Hepatocellular Carcinoma is the most common form of liver cancer in adult population which begins in the main type of liver cell (hepatocyte). Because Hepatocellular carcinoma starts from the primary liver cell itself (hepatocytes), as such it is a primary liver cancer. About 30,000 Americans are diagnosed with primary liver cancer yearly, making it an important disease that plaques our society and therefore needs proper diagnosis. In clinical evaluation of primary liver cancer such as HCC, the use of medical imaging technology has been commonplace. Most medical facilities across the country and globally typically use Computed Tomography (CT) and/or Magnetic Resonance


Compounds of formula (1) (1) wherein A and B are identical or different alkyl, aralkyl or cycloalkyl groups or carbocyclic or heterocyclic aromatic radicals, R1 and R2 are hydrogen atoms or substituents which do not impart solubility in water, are particularly suitable as photoconductive substances.


Assumpció Antón Vallejo – Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA), Barcelona, Spain Maurizio Cellura – University of Palermo, Italy Camillo De Camillis FAO, Roma Vito D'Incognito – Take Care International, Milan, Italy Ulrike Eberle – Private Universität Witten/Herdecke, Zentrum für Nachhaltige Unternehmensführung, Germany Peter Fantke – Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Denmark Chris Foster – EuGeos Limited, United Kingdom Pierre Gerber – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – FAO Monica Lavagna – Politecnico di Milano, Italy Adrian Leip – European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability Catherine Macombe – Irstea UMR ITAP-ELSA, Montpellier, France Paolo Masoni –Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Bologna, Italy Sarah McLaren – Massey University Llorenç Milà i Canals – United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Bruno Notarnicola – University of Bari, Italy Carolyn Opio FAO, Roma Andrea Raggi –University "G. d'Annunzio", Pescara, Italy Serena Righi – University of Bologna, Italy Serenella Sala – European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability Roberta Salomone – University of Messina, Italy Erwan Saouter – European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability Simona Scalbi Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Bologna, Italy Antonio Scipioni – University of Padova, Italy Rita Schenck Institute for Environmental Research and Education (IERE), US Rogier Schulte Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership and Teagasc Ireland Ulf Sonesson – SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden Stefan Storcksdieck genannt Bonsmann -– European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection Hayo van der WerfInstitut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Rennes, France


Abstract: The contemporary operational environment is mainly determined by the dynamics of the phenomena occurring within the connections of the societal fields. Decoding the reality and designing military actions have shifted to new coordinates of the operational art, in terms of the way the factors of influence that change the status of each societal field are jointly approached. The term societal has acquired new meanings in the context of the overconnectivity of the fundamental domains of the society which are the following: political/diplomatic, military, economic, social, medical – pandemic, infrastructural, informational, environmental and geo-strategic. The operational art of military action planning is based on decoding the operational environment and includes analyses with different level of detail depending on the approached societal field. The analyses result in different models of action of the opponent that involve organizing and reorganizing the friendly formations that will be planned to take part in operations. Deciding for or against certain options for resolving a (military) crisis situation takes place following repeated simulations until favorable results are obtained. In this article, we aimed to bring to the attention of the specialists in the field of military action planning the integrative methodology of "design thinking" the main aspects related to the impact of the dynamics of the societal domains network in the perspective of the simulated modeling in military action planning.


Widely used as formalism for the analysis of chemical and biochemical systems, chemical reaction networks (CRNs) have received increasing attention as a fundamental model for molecular computation. This paper demonstrates that, with a new method, CRNs can compute most arithmetic computations (e.g., non-polynomial functions). By applying Taylor's Theorem and a finite-state machine (FSM) topology for arithmetic computations, the synthesis flow of accomplishing arithmetic computations is achieved. Since probability transmitted between designed FSMs can be naturally mapped to the concentration of molecular in solution, the whole computing process can be realized with molecular reactions instead of silicon-based hardware design. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulations have demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed approach.


This project of teaching innovation uses the videos tool to improve the understanding of different aspects of Ecology. This project has been carried out within the framework of Ecology degree in Environmental Sciences (2nd year) at the University of Cordoba during the 2016-17 academic year. The videos have been used in different activities to reinforce the students' learning. Among them are: a) the recording in class of the master classes and their diffusion through the portal of the subject in Moodle; b) the realization of a demonstrative video of an Ecology practice; c) the realization of a practice in which the students have made a video on Ecology subjects and d) the accomplishment of several debates of environmental problems. This project has demonstrated that the use of videos has increased the interest and learning of students, which can serve as a pilot experience for other subjects in the University.


Three homogeneous polysaccharide fractions were isolated from the fruiting body of Agaricus blazei Murill by gradient ethanol precipitation and gel-filtration chromatography(Sepharose 6 Fast Flow,Sephacryl S-300 gel filtration column),designated ABM-Ⅰ,ABM-Ⅱand ABM-Ⅲ respectively.The molecular weight of fractions were more than 2.0×10~6,1.4×10~6 and 3.8×10~5,dalton respectively,optical rotation degree were +62.5,+44.3 and +5.5 respectively.The main chain of ABM-Ⅰwas α-(1-6)-D-pyran glucose,analyzed by complete acidic hydrolyzation and spectral methods.


Discrete event systems such as automated manufacturing systems and engineering systems can be modeled and simulated by Petri nets. Precedence relations between activities or events, concurrent processes, synchronization, resource sharing, mutual exclusion, etc can be well modeled by Petri nets. However, discrete event systems, especially discrete event manufacturing systems, tend to have diverse complex scheduling rules to optimally utilize the resources, meet scheduling requirements and constraints, and optimize the performance measures such as makespan or cycle time. In this paper, we propose ways of modeling such complex scheduling rules by controlling the firing sequences and timing of the associated transitions in the Petri net model. We also present a Petri net model for scheduling a robotized indexer cell for flat panel display manufacturing.


PURPOSE: A semiconductor memory device is provided to perform a two cycle pipeline operation without an error in response to a high and a low frequency. CONSTITUTION: The semiconductor memory device comprises: a sense amplifier unit(20) for amplifying data read from a memory cell array in response to a sense amplification enable signal to generate a sense output signal pair; and a data output buffer(22) for buffering and outputting the sense output signal pair, wherein the data output buffer comprises a level shifter(60) for generating a first data output signal pair, a register(62) for generating a second data output signal pair, a first transfer and latch part(64) for transferring the second data output signal pair to generate a third data output signal pair, a second transfer and latch part(66) for transferring the data output signal pair to generate a fourth data output signal pair, a first inversion part(72) for inverting the third data output signal pair to generate a fifth data output signal pair, a second inversion part(74) for inverting the fourth data output signal pair to generate the fifth data output signal pair, and a logic multiplication part(78) for logically multiplying fifth data output signals of the pair in response to a data output enable signal.


Dear Music Therapy: When I was asked to contribute to your final volume, I experienced an overwhelming rush of emotions and of memories that are vividly etched in my mind. The pending sense of personal and professional loss that I have felt over this past year struck the very core of my Being with renewed force: It's an undeniable reality that soon the American Asso ciation for Music Therapy (AAMT) and you, its literary arm since 1981, will no longer exist. I pondered, "How can I best address these profound feelings in writing? How can I do justice to the acknowledgment of what you and AAMT have meant to me and the impact you have had on the world of music therapy?" Somehow, taking the liberty-the poetic license-to personalize you has provided a fully-human mode of voic ing these emotions and thoughts whirling about in my mind-body-soul. It has helped me bring closure to an extraordinary phase of my jour ney-my Tao--as a music therapist. One of the original members of our association, I realize, with a startling combination of sadness and joyousness, that my journey as a music therapist actually parallels the life ofAAMT and its predecessor, the Urban Federationof Music Therapy.The fact that AAMT is so inextricably woven into the fabric of my life and has so indelibly influenced my evolution, gives me pause to reflect on the very special place it has in my heart. Retracing this historic voyage catapults me back to 1973 when, as a candidate for the Masters Degree in New York University Music Therapy Program, I joined the Urban Federation of Music Therapy A year later, I gave a presentation (my first on music therapy) at the conference in New York City, at which the change of name to American Association for Music Therapy (AAMT) was proposed and voted in enthusiastically and unanimously. A fervent proponent of AAMT's humanistic philosophical and psy chological orientation, my involvement and allegiance over the years has been undeviating. With a staunch commitment to our common ideal and purpose, I have served on the Board of Directors, on the Committee


Bubbles and balloons are two examples of structures that feature a pressure difference across the skin, a thin, tensioned membrane, and a doubly curved interface surface. While mathematical models have been formulated for bubble vibrations, no such model exists for balloon vibrations. This paper reviews a model of bubble vibrations, and compares its predicted natural frequencies and modeshapes to those of a rubber balloon. It is shown that the bubble model consistently underpredicts the balloon's natural frequencies, and it is concluded that the nonlinear elasticity present in the balloon skin accounts for this result.


The major storage protein within seeds of the Euphorbiaceae is the 11S crystalloid, which is only completely soluble in buffer or salt solutions if sodium dodecylsulphate or urea is present. Prior ...


1. Development and Application of a Dual-Purpose Nanoparticle Platform for Delivery and Imaging of siRNA in Tumors Zdravka Medarova, Mohanraja Kumar, Shu-wing Ng, and Anna Moore 2. Targeted Gene Silencing into Solid Tumors with Electrically Mediated siRNA Delivery Muriel Golzio, Laurent Mazzolini, Aurelie Paganin-Gioanni, and Justin Teissie 3. Liposomal siRNA for Ovarian Cancer Lingegowda S. Mangala, Hee Dong Han, Gabriel Lopez-Berestein, and Anil K. Sood 4. Therapeutic Applications of RNAi for Silencing Virus Replication Ralph A. Tripp and Stephen Mark Tompkins 5. RNAi in the Malaria Vector, Anopheles gambiae Flaminia Catteruccia and Elena A. Levashina 6. RNAi Using a Chitosan/siRNA Nanoparticle System: in vitro and in vivo Applications Morten Ostergaard Andersen, Kenneth Alan Howard, and Jorgen Kjems 7. Lentiviral and Adeno-Associated Vector-Based Therapy for Motor Neuron Disease through RNAi Chris Towne and Patrick Aebischer 8. Studying Autoimmunity by in vivo RNA Interference Stephan Kissler 9. Transcriptional Gene Silencing Using Small RNAs Daniel H. Kim and John J. Rossi 10. Alternative Splicing as a Therapeutic Target for Human Diseases Kenneth J. Dery, Veronica Gusti, Shikha Gaur, John E. Shively, Yun Yen, and Rajesh K. Gaur


The research aims to determine whether or not DPK, CAR, ROA, LDR, and NPL on PDK at banking companies in Indonesia and Singapore.

The sample used in this research is conventional commercial banks in Indonesia and Singapore. The data used a secondary data, sample collection techniques there are census methods and multiple linear regression analysis using the F test and t test. This research uses data from 2013-2017.

The result of research in the Indonesian bank companies are DPK, ROA, and LDR have a significant positive effect on PDK. CAR and NPL don't to affect on PDK. While the results of reseach in the Singapore banking companies is NPL has a significant negative effect on PDK. DPK, CAR, ROA, and LDR haven't effect on PDK. On the other hand, the result of research conducted in the two countries combined stated that DPK and ROA had a significant positive effect on PDK. CAR, LDR, and NPL haven't effect on PDK.


As future major naval acquisition programs such as Future Submarine (SEA1000), Patrol Boat, Mine Hunter Coastal and Hydrographic Ship Replacement Project (SEA1180) and Next Generation Combatant (SEA5000) evolve it is perhaps timely to review aspects of Underwater Radiated Noise (URN) and its implications for these programs. Submarine and surface ship operators have always been acutely aware of the impact of underwater radiated noise from their own and other vessels. Historically, naval platforms were designed and developed using empirical knowledge and were then tested over acoustic ranges to understand their performance characteristics. Recent naval acquisitions have had issues in the area of URN and required significant effort to achieve acceptable performance. In parallel, public interest in underwater acoustics and the marine environment has increased considerably in recent years. Growth in offshore exploration and construction and the increase in environmental awareness are driving a need for improved knowledge. In 1995, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea published Cooperative Research Report No. 209 with a proposed underwater radiated noise specification for fisheries research vessels and in 2010, Det Norske Veritas published their SILENT Class notation which specifies requirements for various types of surface vessels and measurements and testing. In addition, the American National Standards Institute and the International Standards Organisation have published standards for measurement of underwater sound from ships in 2009 and 2012 respectively. This paper reviews the recent developments in underwater radiated noise requirements and measurement standards and discusses the implications for development of appropriate specifications and validation requirements for future naval acquisitions in Australia.


Objective To study and analyze the differences among the strains in the genus Burkholderia at gene levels by comparing 16S~23S rRNA gene intergenic spacer region(ISR) sequences of Pseudomonas cocovenenans subsp farinofermentans strains isolated in Chinese foods and Burkholderia gladioli model strains.The phylogenetic relationships of them were expounded.Method Two pairs of specific primers for the genus Burkholderia were designed and 16S~23S rRNA gene ISR sequences were amplified for the strains.16-23S rRNA gene ISR sequences of 3 international reference strains representative of the three different pathogenic strains of Burkholderia gladioli(ATCC10248,NCPPB 947,NCPPB3580),and 1 strain of B.phenazinium(LMG2247)and 8 strains of Pseudomonas cocovenenans subsp farinofermentans isolates(HN2y、Co14、Co8、Co36、Sx8801、90-3、56(2)、 56(2))from the different samples of food-poisoning in China were determined.The total sequences were compared and analyzed with the relative strain sequences in the GenBank by the molecular biological analyzing software.Results Two highly variable ISR regions and the DNA specific sequences associated with isolate strains produced the Bongkrekic acid were found.The results of the DNA sequences were submitted to the GenBank.The phylogenetic tree of the isolates and the Burkholderi gladioli were illustrated.Conclusion New and reliable theory and technology supports were provided for the further study of the identification of Pseudomonas cocovenenans subsp farinofermentans isolates produced Bongkrekic acid,research into their mechanisms in molecular levels and their phylogenetic relationships.


The challenge of Systems of Systems has particular significance in the acquisition, deployment and operation of defence equipment. In the UK, MOD sees that a major part of the solution to the effective creation, use and evolution of defence SoS lies in particular improvements in organisational structure, in project responsibilities and in the definition and application of systems engineering processes. These three areas of change are providing a framework for tackling SoS issues. MOD's Smart Acquisition initiative is leading to management structures and responsibilities, at the executive and project levels, and to technical processes that more effectively meet the SoS challenges.


A multi-wavelength switchable C-band erbium-doped fiber laser based on a hybrid comb filter composed of a Sagnac loop and Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is designed and experimentally demonstrated. In the designed ring cavity fiber laser, the MZI is composed of bi-tapered single-mode fiber fabricated by etching with hydrofluoric acid. In the experiment, the wavelength intervals in the comb spectra of the Sagnac loop and MZI are 3.4 and 18.8 nm, respectively, and by combining the Sagnac loop and MZI, measurements of the hybrid comb spectrum are obtained. When the pump power is 91 mW, lasing occurs at 1529.2 nm. Adjustment of the variable attenuator (VA) can provide 1541.9 and 1558.6 nm single-wavelength switchable lasers, for which the maximum peak power difference is less than 3.59 dB, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) exceeds 19.25 dB, and the peak power fluctuation is less than 0.34 dB over a 30 min scan time at 26 °C. For dual-wavelength switchable laser emission, four different sets of wavelengths can be realized, and the SNR exceeds 15.57 dB with power fluctuations of less than 1.6 dB, under the same monitoring conditions. By further adjusting the VA, stable and tunable triple-wavelength lasing is also realizable; under these conditions, the SNR exceeds 15.02 dB and the power fluctuation is less than 0.91 dB. Furthermore, four- and five-wavelength lasing can also be achieved by adjusting the VA again, with SNRs exceeding 19.05 and 14.98 dB, respectively.


infants is closely connected to the prebiotically active oligosaccharides in breast milk. Over the last few years, a number of research groups have examined possible immunomodulatory effects of prebiotics. Within the framework of the "HiPP Scientific Group on Human Milk Research", a European group of experts was invited and discussed recent findings on the importance of prebiotics in human milk and presented current data on efficacy and safety of prebiotics in infant formula and as a supplement for pregnant women.


Magnetostatic surface wave (MSSW) propagation on one or more co-planar rectangular films of finite width is solved numerically using an integral equation formulation. In the case of uniform in-plane bias, the eigenfrequencies and the associated eigenvectors are obtained by solving the coupled equations which determines the frequency dispersion and the spatial form of MSSW potentials, in addition to modes having the expected localization of energy on the film surfaces, the results confirm the existence of certain modes having primary energy concentration at the film edges. The formulation is also specialized to the case of two uniformly magnetized rectangular parallel strips separated by an air gap and coupled via the fringing fields of magnetostatic Waves. The results should prove useful in modelling directional couplers for MSSW.


Bacterial strains were screened to transform to end-products (carbon monoxide and water) elevated concentrations of acetone, acidic acid, and ethanol in a biocatalyst with an immobilized bacterial association cultivated on solid foam polyvinyl acetate (FPVA). The innocuous association amalgamated Paracoccus denitrificans VKM V-1324, Pseudomonas esterophilus VKM V-1736D and Achromobacter parvulus VKM V-1541D. The biocatalyst was tested with the help of classic methods and equipment for microbes cultivation. Microbial growth was assessed in the optical density units. Comparative evaluation of the biocatalytic activity was performed on gas-chromatographer Pue Unicam-104. Based on test results, specific rates of oxidation of acidic acid, ethanol and acetone per one g of FPVA were 0.75, 0.72, and 0.67 mg/hr, respectively.


Patent for a new and improved lamp shelf for pianos. This design "consists in an arm pivoted to the back of a music-rack and carrying a lamp-shelf, the arm being arranged to swing outward into a horizontal position, and the shelf being connected with the end of the arm by a pivotal connection, which permits of turning it outward and downward into a horizontal position in front of the plane of the music-rack" (lines 22-30).


How much of entrepreneurial performance is sheer luck compared to talent, experience, education, and hard work? We define luck as unexpected performance and look for an answer in a large survey of entrepreneurs. Accordingly, luck ranks last in importance among various success factors and accounts for less than one third of performance variation. This ranking is unaffected by past performance and many personality traits, including self-attribution and illusion of control. Luck matters, however, in activities such as finding the appropriate business idea or choosing the right moment to enter a market. More important, luck perceptions shape decisions. For example, individuals who believe luck is important are reluctant to become entrepreneurs. Consistent with the definition, what entrepreneurs believe is luck correlates with the unexplained variation in a standard econometric model of performance. Estimates of that model also show that hard work does affect performance. So do talent, education, and, especially, experience.


that receives federal funding, must comply with 1990's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. This stipulates a much more specific and extensive set of requirements to be met with respect to Native American "cultural items" than does the AAA code, and does not conceive of native peoples as "research subjects." These are but two examples. Anthropologists who work in the public sector could hardly be said to be groping around in the ethical dark, but our code of ethics does not complement these alternative guidelines so much as it competes with them. The ethical standards of other intercommunicating clusters of which anthropologists form a part, and with whom we also communicate, are at present entirely outside the scope of consideration of our own disciplinary ethics. Our ethics remain insulated from the kinds of dual-identity relationships that anthropologists outside of (and increasingly within) the academy routinely confront. Perhaps our code of ethics needs to be more conversant with the varieties of ethical standards and processes that inform these other communities of practice. And perhaps we would be better served not to insist on its exclusive primacy at the expense of a broader extradisciplinary ethics conversation. AAA's 2009 code views our ethics as "providing a framework, not an ironclad formula," which leaves the door open for us to begin to articulate our own disciplinary norms in ways more consequential for the diverse contexts of anthropological practice that exist today.


A Hadamard matrix Hn is an n by n matrix H = [hij], i, j = 1, …, n in which every entry hij is + 1 or − 1, such that It is well known that possible orders are n = 1, 2 and n = 4m. An automorphism α of H is given by a pair P, Q of monomial ± 1 matrices such that Here P permutes and changes signs of rows, while Q acts similarly on columns.


In the last few years various research and modification has been done to produce concrete which has the desired properties. Concrete is one of the most common materials used in the construction field. The current area of research in the concrete was introducing foundry sand in the ordinary concrete. Generation of waste foundry sand as byproduct of metal casting industries causes environmental problems because of its improper disposal. Thus, its usage in building material, construction and in other fields is essential for reduction of environmental problems. This research was carried out to produce an eco-friendly concrete. This paper demonstrates the possible use of waste foundry sand as a partial replacement by fine aggregate in concrete. Ingredients of concrete are cement, course aggregate, natural sand (fine aggregate). An experimental investigation was carried out on a concrete containing waste foundry sand in the range of 0%, 5% 10%, 15%, and 20% by weight for M-30 grade concrete. Material was produced, tested and compared with conventional concrete in terms of strength. The aim of this research was to know the behavior and mechanical properties of concrete after addition of industrial waste in different proportion by tests like compressive strength by cube specimen, split tensile by cylindrical specimen and flexural strength by beam model. Also the rebound hammer test was carried out on each cube specimen to crosscheck compressive strength of concrete. These tests were carried out at the age of 7 and 28 days of concrete. The research was a resource for exploring the potential use of foundry sand as an alternative to virgin raw material that is natural sand.


This paper develops a model of capacity utilization in an industry where price and entry are regulated. The distinctive feature is that capacity affects waiting time of consumers, and, therefore, influences demand. The result is that capacity utilization, output, and costs are jointly determined as a function of the regulator's policies, the value of time of consumers, and other exogenous variables. The model is estimated with airline data, and estimates of the price elasticity of demand, corrected for induced quality variation, and of the consumer's marginal valuation of capacity are obtained. These are then used to assess the efficiency of airline regulation.


Non-galloylated and galloylated flavan-3-ol composition in seeds from Vitis vinifera L. var. Graciano, Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes harvested in 2000, 2001 and 2002 at the same geographical area were determined using normal-phase HPLC coupled with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS) detection. Non-galloylated and monogalloylated flavan-3-ols up to octamers, and di-, and trigalloylated flavan-3-ols up to heptamers were identified in all grape seeds. Comparisons of the flavan-3-ol composition in three grape varieties harvested in three different years indicate that levels of non-galloylated flavan-3-ols decrease as the degree of polymerization increased, whereas the monogalloylated dimers were present in the highest levels in all varieties and vintages. The levels of other monogalloylated flavan-3-ols varied in different vintages. Tempranillo contained the lowest levels of non-galloylated and monogalloylated flavan-3-ols, whereas Graciano contained the highest levels, with the exception of non-galloylated flavan-3-ols in vintage 2001, and non-galloylated monomers in vintages 2000 and 2002. Grape seeds from vintage 2000 contained the highest levels of both non-galloylated and galloylated structures. Statistical analyses indicate that the distribution of the flavan-3-ols is primarily determined by genetic factors and is also strongly influenced by climate conditions. Copyright © 2006 Society of Chemical Industry


Based on Marxist text and with the analysis of the related points of Marxist world history theory,the paper opens out the basic connotation and the developmental course of Marxist world history.It is thought that Marxist world history consists of three aspects.Lengthwise,it refers to the general history course after human society comes into being.Breadthwise,it refers to human social phylogeny after people begin worldly communication and especially refers to the times of capitalism and communism.It is also thought that the development of productivity is the fundamental drive to push the longitudinal development of world history.World market and world communication that is resulted from the development of productivity is the dynamical mechanism to push the transverse development of world history.Because of the transverse development of world history,the developing country can make a jumping development of productivity and then finally make a jumping development of society.


Independence after stroke depends on the recovery of motor function, but this is difficult to accurately predict for individual patients. We have previously described an algorithm for predicting po...


We propose the body floating and self-bias technique, in which the body of the transistor is connected to its drain through a resistance (13.6 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{k}\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> in this work). A low-power 3–9-GHz CMOS low-noise amplifier (LNA) using the technique for sub-6-GHz 5G systems is reported. An enhancement in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$S_{21}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and noise figure (NF) of the LNA is achieved due to the forward body-to-source bias (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V_{\mathrm {BS}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) (i.e., small threshold voltage <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V_{\mathrm {th}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) and the transistors being free from the substrate leakage. Low power is achieved since low supply voltage (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V_{\mathrm {DD}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) of 1 or 0.8 V is applicable because of small <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V_{\mathrm {th}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. At <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V_{\mathrm {DD}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> of 1 V, the LNA consumes 3.3 mW and achieves prominent <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$S_{11}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$- 10.1\,\,\text {to}\,\,-41.6$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$S_{21}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> of 10.7 dB, and NF of 2.89 dB for 3–9 GHz. At <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V_{\mathrm {DD}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> of 0.8 V, the LNA consumes 1.36 mW and achieves <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$S_{11}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$- 10\,\,\text {to}\,\,-45.8$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$S_{21}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> of 9.4 dB, and NF of 3.46 dB. To the authors' knowledge, both are one of the lowest power values ever reported for CMOS LNAs with bandwidth greater than 6 GHz and NF under 3.5 dB.


I. By the discriminant D of a homogeneous polynomial ø is, in accordance with the general custom, to be understood that function of its coefficients whose vanishing is the necessary and sufficient condition for the locus ø = o to have a node. It is the resultant, or eliminant, of the set of equations obtained by equating all the first partial derivatives of ø simultaneously to zero. If ø contains n variables and is of order p, the degree of D in the coefficients of ø is n(p–I)n−1.


In this study, a microcontroller-based gas mixture classification system is proposed to use real-time analyses of the trichloroethylene and acetone binary mixture. A Feed Forward Neural Network (FFNN) structure is performed for quantitative identification of individual gas concentrations (trichloroethylene and acetone) in their gas mixtures. The phthalocyaninecoated Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) type sensors were used as gas sensors. A calibrated Mass Flow Controller (MFC) was used to control the flow rates of carrier gas and trichloroethylene and acetone gas mixtures streams. The components in the binary mixture were quantified by applying the sensor responses from the QCMs sensor array as inputs to the FFNN. The microcontroller-based gas mixture classification system performs Neural Network (NN)-based estimation, the data acquisition and user interface tasks. This system can estimate the gas concentrations of trichloroethylene and acetone with the average errors of 0.08% and 0.97%, respectively.


ABSTRACT An experimental apparatus and procedures were used to evaluate the organic and inorganic quality of leachate produced from ten different asphalt and concrete pavement specimens under controlled laboratory conditions. Triplicates of both fresh and aged specimens were tested at three controlled laboratory temperatures of 4, 20, and 45 °C. Leachate samples were taken at various times during each experiment for eight hours to examine the metal pollutants concentration variability. Results showed that, in general, the leachate concentrations for most water quality parameters were below or near the method detection limit. However, dissolved chromium and vanadium concentrations were consistently detected from concrete specimens, particularly during the first three hours of the experiment and gradually reduced to below the reporting limit at the conclusion of the experiments. From this study we can conclude that the concentration of chemical constituents solely generated from pavement surfacing materials is negligible and the pollutants in roadway runoff is mostly related to other road use and land use sources.


the 87 with essential RH (35.6%) fulfilled the office systolic BP criteria ( 160 mm Hg or 150 mm Hg for diabetics) for RDN; 5 of these patients had out-of-office BP 135/85 mm Hg, and 2 had an eGFR 45 ml/min/1.73 m. Consequently, only 24 atients were eligible for RDN on both BP and eGFR criteria. enal artery anatomy was appropriate for RDN on a computed omography angiogram reviewed by a senior radiologist in only 15 f these 24 patients (62.5%). Therefore, only 1.5% (15 of 1,034) of ll hypertensive patients or 17.2% (15 of 87) of the patients with ssential RH referred to our tertiary care hypertension department ere fully eligible for RDN (see Fig. 1). These proportions might ven be overestimates, because: 1) spironolactone, which has roved effective for the treatment of RH (7), was prescribed to only of 29 patients (24.1%); and 2) compliance with treatment was ot assessed by systematic plasma or urinary drug determinations. Our findings demonstrate that percutaneous RDN, whether for linical trials or specific patients, is limited to a highly selected raction of patients with RH—even in a specialist hypertension nit—and that a thorough diagnostic work-up is essential for ppropriate patient selection. Moreover, the risk associated with this nvasive procedure also depends on the careful selection of patients ligible for RDN as well as the experience of the radiologist/ ardiologist conducting the intervention. Finally, further evaluation of his technique is still required in large, correctly designed clinical trials, ith ambulatory BP as the primary endpoint.


: The composition of hydroxyapatite (HA) is similar to human bone and teeth. After implantation into human body, its hydroxyl (OH) forms chemical bond with bone cells, and has good biological activity and biocompatibility. It is considered to be the best biomedical material for replacing human hard tissue. Electrophoretic deposition (electrophoretic deposition, EPD) is a new kind of coating preparation method, it can solve the traditional biological ceramic coating preparation technology on the various deficiencies, the paper introduced the domestic and foreign studies of hydroxyapatite coating of electrophoretic deposition. In this paper, the process flow of electrophoretic deposition method and the possible failure reasons are summarized, and various influencing factors are discussed in detail, and the corresponding ideas and prospects are put forward.


Infectious bronchitis (IB) is an extremely contagious viral disease of poultry caused by Corona virus. The disease was first described in 1930 in USA. The disease is prevalent globally with the incidence of infection approaching 100% in most locations. The virus replicates not only in the epithelium of respiratory tract, but also replicates in many other tissues causing respiratory, renal and urogenital disorders. Clinical signs of disease vary based on the age of birds, pathogenecity of the virus strain and existing level of immunity. Economic consequences to the poultry industry comprise growth retardation, decreased egg production, reduced internal and external egg quality, reduced hatchability and infertility. Since the disease continues to emerge with diversity it is much difficult to control infection as no specific treatment is available. Therefore, early diagnosis and concentrated efforts is necessary to reduce the impact of disease. This review gives insight on infectious bronchitis virus effect on poultry.


Objective
To analyze the diagnostic value of exercise plate test combined with dynamic electrocardiogram for coronary heart disease.

Methods
One hundred patients with coronary heart disease were randomly divided into experimental group and control group, 50 cases in each group. The control group was given the exercise plate test method, the experimental group was given the dynamic electrocardiogram examination on the basis of the control group, and the diagnosis effects of the two groups were compared.

Results
The specificity, accuracy, sensitivity and positive predictive value was significantly higher in the experimental group than those in the control group (P<0.05); the diagnosis value for vascular lesions was significantly better in the experimental group than that in the control group (P<0.05). The vascular stenosis sensitivity was significantly better in the experimental group than that in the control group (P<0.05). The correct rate of diagnosis in the experimental group(96%) was significantly higher than that in the control group (80%)(P<0.05).

Conclusions
The effect of plate test combined with dynamic electrocardiogram on diagnosis of coronary heart disease is remarkable, and the rate of misdiagnosis is less. It is worth popularizing and applying widely.

Key words:
Exercise treadmill test; Dynamic electrocardiogram; Coronary heart disease; Diagnostic value


Design of a compact square-cell, dual-direction ESD protection structure for BiCMOS ICs is reported. Detailed design features, such as, improved current uniformity, high-ESD protection level (>14 kV HBM), high-ESDV/Si ratio (/spl sim/1.66 V//spl mu/m/sup 2/), and adjustable trigger voltage are discussed.


Abstract In inorganic chemistry High Pressures can act as thermodynamic parameter and through the compression effect. Such effects can help the synthesis of new materials or induce specific properties. Such High Pressures studies are a great help for a better understanding of the chemical bonding and in field of resarches aimed at applications.


It is an orthodoxy in cognitive science that perception can occur unconsciously. Recently, Hakwan Lau, Megan Peters and Ian Phillips have argued that this orthodoxy may be mistaken. They argue that many purported cases of unconscious perception fail to rule out low degrees of conscious awareness while others fail to establish genuine perception. This paper presents a case of unconscious perception that avoids these problems. It also advances a general principle of 'phenomenal coherence' that can insulate some forms of evidence for unconscious perception from the methodological critiques of Lau, Peters and Phillips.


The Thermage system is a radiofrequency (RF) device designed to treat human skin. The Thermage ThermaCool TC™ is a noninvasive, nonablative, nonlaser system that combines cryogen cooling and radiofrequency (RF) energy to volumetrically heat dermal and subdermal tissue. Thermage treatment causes collagen contraction resulting in immediate skin tightening. It has also been clinically shown to tighten skin over time. This long-term tightening effect is believed to result from the body's wound healing response. We performed studies in a juvenile pig to characterize the wound healing response after ThermaCool treatment in order to elucidate the cellular and molecular events resulting from treatment. Histological markers of the wound healing process were examined over a 1-month period. Collagen gene expression was examined by quantitative PCR.

Macrophages and mast cells are important inflammatory cell types that stimulate fibroblast recruitment, collagen synthesis and blood vessel growth. Three to 5 days following treatment, macrophages and mast cells were present in the dermis. By 28 days, both increased dermal blood vessel density and epidermal thickness was observed. Collagen I and collagen III genes were expressed at elevated levels by 21 days posttreatment.

ThermaCool™ treatment stimulates dermal remodeling by initiating a wound-healing response. This study demonstrates that thermage treatment results in the recruitment of important cellular mediators of wound healing and increased collagen synthesis in an animal model. These events are presumed to be responsible for dermal remodeling and skin tightening over time in human subjects. Because the Thermage device noninvasively delivers heat energy, it may be a unique tool for the examination of aseptic thermally induced wound models.


We assess the application of artificial intelligence techniques to the complex problem of traffic control in ATM networks. The paper deals with the close link between call admission control and usage parameter control and proposes a simulation-based analysis to demonstrate how inefficiency on the part of policing affects bandwidth allocation. To take this into account, the paper proposes a framework for traffic control in which the CAC and policing functions are both based on artificial intelligence techniques, i.e. neural networks and fuzzy logic. In this way it is possible to train the neural network in such a way as to take into account the real behavior of the policer. As the results obtained show this allows us to implement traffic management strategies which can improve the exploitation of network resources.


In this paper the author considers the excretory activity as one of zoocenosis environment-transforming activity types. The paper presents the results of experimental data on the effect of phytophagous animals' excreta on the soil-forming processes through adding organic substances to the soil in the process of decomposing the undigested plant residues. The organic substance (humus) is a source of mineral elements necessary for plant organisms. The value of phytophagous animals' excreta is in their peculiar properties such as high content of humic acids performing a number of important functions in the biosphere. In this paper one of these functions - accumulative - has been considered. Decomposition of the organic substance in the form of the excreta of the elk (Alces alces, L.) as the largest phytophagous animal of the north-west proceeded in the course of the experiment in natural and laboratory conditions. Anthropogenically disturbed areas of the Vologda Region have been chosen as natural conditions. The excreta decomposition took place on medium-loamy and strongly podzolic soils on the cutting site after clear felling in the sorrel spruce forest. In laboratory conditions the experiments on excreta decomposition have been carried out in microlysimeters. Thereby we have chosen the three factor experiment with subsequent developing mathematical models (regression equations). We have used the winter variety of the elk's excreta which differs in composition from the summer variety. Winter excreta appear as a result of digesting the coarse woody feeds. In the paper the results of the research on the group composition of humus and agrochemical NPK-complex have been given. As a result of decomposition it has been revealed that the content of the humus components under study and NPK have been influenced by the size of particles in the soil, microconditions and the time of organic substance decomposition.


The invention discloses a mechanical intelligent self-adaption two-gear automatic speed change driving assembly, which comprises a power device, a speed changer box body, a transmission shaft, a slow-gear transmission mechanism, a ring-body axial outer conical sleeve and a ring-body axial inner conical sleeve. The ring-body axial outer conical sleeve is sleeved on the transmission shaft and transmits through a spiral cam pair, and the transmission shaft can directly outputs power through a differential mechanism. The mechanical intelligent self-adaption two-gear automatic speed change driving assembly has all advantages of an existing cam self-adaption two-gear automatic speed change device. Furthermore, a transmission structure of the spiral cam pair is utilized, thereby reducing radial size of mechanisms, reducing volume and greatly prolonging service life. The spiral structure is stable in transmission, even in force, excellent in stability and smoothness, and further capable of improving work efficiency and good in effects on saving energy and reducing consumption. Vehicle emission is greatly controlled. The mechanical intelligent self-adaption two-gear automatic speed change driving assembly is suitable for pure electric cars and tricycles, and greatly improves power performance, economy, driving safety and comfortableness.


The problem in this study was Teaching Writing Narrative Text through Picture Series were able to improve students skill at X grade of SMA N 5 Lubuklingau in academic year 2017/2018?". The method of study was pre – experimental method. The population of this study was all of the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 5 Lubuklinggau in academic year 2017/2018. The sample was taken through cluster random sampling consisting of 33 students of X.1 class the data were collected through written test. In analyzing the data, writer used four techniques, individual score, conversion of individual score, normality and paired t-test. Based on the result of the data analysis, there was improvement of the average scores or the average ability from the pre-test (40.79) to the post-test (66.42). in the pre-test, there were 2 students (6.06%) who were categorized passed, and in the post-test which was given after teaching writing trough picture series there were 18 students (54.54%) who were categorized passed. The result of the matched t-test calculation found out that was 7.32 and the  with significance level 5% was 1.697. in this case,  was higher than  (7.32>1.697). it could be concluded that it was effective to teach writing through picture series to the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 5 Lubuklinggau in the academic year of 2017/2018.


The paradigm of Chinese-style nationalism,formed in the development of Chinese nationalism,has generated some special phenomena and exerted harmful influences on educational research.The development of Chinese education must depend on its own educational thoughts and break through the limit of the paradigm of Chinese-style nationalism.


Random forest has been widely used to classifying objects recently because of its efficiency and accuracy. On the other hand, nonvolatile memory has been regarded as a promising candidate to be a part of a hybrid memory architecture. For achieving the higher accuracy, random forest tends to construct lots of decision trees, and then conducts some post-pruning methods to fell low contribution trees for increasing the model accuracy and space utilization. However, the cost of writing operations is always very high on non-volatile memory. Therefore, writing the to-be-pruned trees into non-volatile memory will significantly waste both energy and time. This work proposed a framework to ease such hurt of training a random forest model. The main spirit of this work is to evaluate the importance of trees before constructing it, and then adopts different writing modes to write the trees to the non-volatile memory space. The experimental results show the proposed framework can significantly mitigate the waste of energy with high accuracy.


The invention relates, in a general manner, to a component of an internal combustion engine and, more specifically, the present invention is related to a cylinder liner of an internal combustion engine. According to one embodiment of the invention, the cylinder liner comprises a substantially circular internal wall and an external wall, the external wall having at least one planar face (11) and at least one substantially circular face (12) being concentric with the internal wall, wherein the circular face (12) has a rough surface comprising a distance between peaks and troughs (c) from 0.2 to 2.5 mm.


A novel control method for asymptotical stabilization based on singular perturbation theory combined with inverting design was considered for a class of nonaffine nonlinear systems.The resulting control signal was defined as a solution of a "fast" dynamical equation,and the state of the original nonaffine-in-control system was shown to track the reference model with zero tracking error.Moreover,from the proof,the trajectory enters the positively invariant subse of the region of attraction in finite time and achieves asymptotical stabilization ultimately.The control law can be easily constructed and the simulations illustrate the theoretical results.


Certain findings of fundamental research into the classification of difficult-to-screen materials can be drawn upon to promote the further development of techniques, machines and equipment for screen classification. First, a definition of difficult-to-screen materials is provided. The interaction at coarsely dispersed particles and systems is presented on the basis of the adhesive forces caused by low-viscosity wetting liquids. Special focus is given to the interaction between the coarse-dispersed particles and the elements of the screen apertures. In this context, the influences of the particle size and shape, the width and geometry of the screen apertures as well as the forces and movements prevailing between the material being screen and the screen deck on the classification of difficult-to-screen material are examined. Finally, the complex of forces acting on the individual particle and its effect on the probability of the undersize particles passing through the screen apertures is presented as a gauge to the separation efficiency of screen classification processes.


Guest editorial The 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2007, was held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Bank, Brisbane, Australia, from 29th October to 2nd November 2007. Over the last 10 years, MICCAI has become a premier international conference in this domain, featuring in-depth papers on the multidisciplinary f ields of biomedical image computing, computer-assisted intervention and medical robotics. The conference brings together biological scientists, clinicians, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, physicists and other interested researchers, and offers them a forum in which to exchange ideas in these exciting and rapidly growing areas. The impact of the conference increases each year, and this year's record number of 637 submissions, from 35 countries and 6 continents, reflects its growth. The program committee, expanded this year to 71 members to provide a larger body of expertise and wider geographical coverage, had the difficult task of selecting 237 papers out of the globally high-quality pool of submissions, with many good papers remaining among the 400 rejected. After the initial selection process was complete, the Program Chair and Co-Chair selected 38 of the most highly rated papers for podium presentation to create a program with a reasonable number of oral sessions and a representative spread of content. Of the papers accepted for presentation, 13 were selected for possible inclusion in this special MICCAI issue of Computer Aided Surgery. The selection was based on criteria including the suitability of the subject matter for the journal, original review comments, eligibility of the papers for MICCAI awards, and scores from the conference peer-review process, along with the quality of the presentations and posters during the meeting itself. In the end, 8 of the 13 invited papers successfully completed the regular review and revision process for Computer Aided Surgery and were accepted for inclusion in the special issue. One of these papers (by Bachta and colleagues) received a specific award during the conference. The eight articles finally selected reflect the range of high-quality research presented at MICCAI 2007. The first two papers describe the active use of computers in the feedback loop during an intervention, with Bachta et al. outlining the first results using a new active stabilizing device for cardiac surgery to compensate for the residual motion that remains when using standard stabilizers, while Xu et al. maintain 2D trans-rectal ultrasound images in registration with the prostate during a biopsy procedure using a similar feedback strategy. The paper by Dehghan et al. describes a means of modeling the tissue-needle interaction during a biopsy to improve targeting accuracy, and a motion model is also used by Moreno et al. in their paper describing CT-PET registration in the presence of patient respiration. The next two papers deal with tracking issues in laparoscopic procedures. Wengert et al. describe a novel method for tracking the position of a suturing device based on its video appearance in the endoscopic image, while Feuerstein et al. describe a hybrid method for tracking a laparoscopic ultrasound transducer within the body cavity. The following paper by Leff et al. describes a novel means of using near infrared spectroscopy to assess cortical brain function, demonstrating its ability to detect differences in functional activity in surgeons


The present investigation was carried out in order to find different physico-chemical characteristics of four varieties of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) namely Mridula, Ganesh, Bhagwa and Wonderful grown at Centre of Excellence for Fruits, The Indo-Israel Agriculture Project, Mangiana (Haryana). The study reveals that, the morphological characteristics of fruit like colour of fruit varies from yellowish to dark red and the aril colour of Mridula, Ganseh, Bhagwa and Wonderful were found to be dark red, yellowish, dark red and yellowish pink respectively. The average weight of fruit was found to be 159.85 to 320.75 g. The average aril weight, average rind weight, aril % and rind % were found to be in range of 104.45-186.54 g, 49.83-137.54 g, 53.34-65.5 % and 31.17-42.88 %. The chemical parameters of fruit determined were total soluble solid (TSS), acidity, pH and ascorbic acid. The results indicate that the TSS was highest in Ganesh (13.66°Brix) which was at par with Mridula (13°Brix) and low TSS was reported from Wonderful (9.66°Brix) cultivar. pH was lowest in Wonderful (3.43) and acidty was higehst in Wonderful (1.3%) and no difference in pH and acidity of other cultivars. There is no significant variation in the ascorbic acid content of different cultivars.


Objective To explore the curative efficacy of combination of prostat and lomefloxacin hydrochloride dispersible tablets for treatment of chronic prostatitis.Methods 120 cases with chronic prostatitis were treated with combination of prostat and lomefloxacin hydrochloride dispersible tablets for 4 weeks.Results The total effective rate was 85%.The clinical indexes of subjective and objective were significantly improved and no adverse drug reaction happened.Conclusion Prostat combined with lomefloxacin hydrochloride is quite effective and safe therapy for chronic prostatitis.


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Now a day's automation has changed the way of living of the humans. All probable one of us pursue for an eminence in our everyday lives. Therefor this has emanated in large imbue at procure items which have led to extended queues at the check-out because the patron needs to scan all probable article and then go into the billing section. The line in billing point is bit time and effort consuming. It can be called as "Modish Cart with Instant bill" to Ease line at shopping mall. The brief interpretation of its working is, when customer pick an artefact and drop item into the cart, the RFID reader scan the artefact's distinctive code and it is secure. And it gets shown on LCD/LED/OLED screen. After customer has consummate with the procure customer has to go to the billing section to pay the bill and can move out from checkout gate. This will conserve the epoch that was prior being consumed to get desired items.


by the substitution τ = sinα to dωk dτ = fk(ω, τ, φk(τ )) fα(ω, τ, φα(τ )) , where φλ(−τ ) = φλ(τ ), λ = α,1, . . . , n. Let fλ be polynomials in ω, τ . We shall consider the case n = 1. 3. Proposition. The (2n− 1)-parameter family of systems of equations { x• = ax+ by + δ1x2n−1 + δ2x2n−2y + · · ·+ δ2n−2x2y2n−3 + δ2n−1xy2n−2 y• = cx+ dy + δ1x2n−2y + δ2x2n−3y2 + · · ·+ δ2n−2xy2n−2 + δ2n−1y2n−1 on the plane R2{x, y} has a first integral (generally speaking, a transcendental one) which can be expressed in terms of elementary functions.