In Response: We appreciate the letter by Nighoghossian et al to our original article on "Collateral Recruitment Is Impaired by Cerebral Small Vessel Disease (SVD)." The authors discussed several important points that underscore the need for registry data with large generalizable population to enable more robust identification of predictors of poor collaterals in large-vessel occlusive stroke. Previous studies were single-center have demonstrated varied relationships between small vessel disease and collateral.1–3 Despite the adjustment of covariates, differences in demographic and risk factors across single academic samples may have contributed to the varied findings. While we found small vessel disease is associated with poor recruitment of collaterals in large-vessel occlusive stroke, Eker et al3 did not observe this relationship. Our study represents population in Baltimore reported 33.9% black race, 56.3% female sex, 75.0% hypertension, and 24.1% diabetes mellitus. This is in contrast with Nighoghossian et al study, which represents the population in Lyon, France, reported 49.2% female and lower proportion of 52.5 hypertension and diabetes mellitus 16.2%. Interestingly, they found patients with favorable collaterality score were more often female (79%, P=0.002); we did not observe sex difference by collateral (51.9%, P=0.365). We echo with Nighoghossian et al for a need for large registry data pooled from multiple institutions. A concerted effort to use standardized (or even centralized) grading method of collaterals and small vessel disease, and leveraging advances in multimodal magnetic resonance imaging and machine-learning will generate higher quality data to enable more accurate evaluation on the impact of small vessel disease on collateral recruitment.


My dissertation examines how Canadian revisionist plays adapt popular narratives—national histories, Greek myths, Shakespearean plays, and colonial legends—by changing the identities of marginalized characters and cultural groups. While Linda Hutcheon defines adaptation as repetition with difference, I define revisionist drama as repetition with politicized difference. It is this politicized difference that transforms the identifications of the original marginalized characters, and, as a result, changes their roles in the cultural imaginary. Canadian revisionist plays critique cultural figures such as Philomela, Othello, and Pocahontas as reductive emblems of necessarily complex, layered racial, sexual, and gendered identities. Though this dissertation concentrates on Canadian literature, it also considers European sources (Ovid, Homer, Shakespeare) as well as theories of historiography (Filewod, Salter), speech acts (Austin, Butler), audience reception (Bennett), and publics (Habermas, Warner). My project ultimately outlines a set of twelve literary and dramatic strategies that are repeatedly used to challenge popular conceptions of what it means to be Black, Aboriginal, Canadian, queer, and female.


The reactions (d + d) at 675 Mev were used for the verification of D. I. Blokhintsev' (JETP 33, 1295, 1957) explanation of over barrier'' fragments in nuclear spallation by high energy nucleons. The reactions followed the schemes: (1) d + d, (2) d + n + p, (3)2n + 2p, (4) He/sup 3/ + n, (5) He/sup 3/ + p, (6) He/sup 4/ + gamma . The ratio for the three first reactions sigma /sub 1// sigma /sub 3/ approximately 5 x 10/sup -5/, sigma /sub 2/ sigma /sub 3 approximately 1.4 x 10/sup -2/. The other reactions obviously are specified by all indirect interactions. (R.V.J.)


The present invention relates to a handle of a medical instrument with at least one pivotable gripping lever, which is lockable in at least one pivotal position relative to the handle in at least one direction. For this, a latching mechanism is provided, which has a pivotably mounted on and in locking engagement by a spring biased detent. The latching mechanism can be switched on, off and optional temporarily turned off. is a characteristic feature in that the latching mechanism is designed as an assembly in which the spring is mounted on an actuator lever and / or on the latch, whereas an on / off switch lever is mounted on the handle lever. Moreover, the invention relates to a handle, wherein an on / off switch lever can be switched into a defined stop by temporary off position.


A convenient thyristor‐driven triggering circuit for trigatron gaps has been developed. For simplicity, the electric power of the circuit is fed from the high‐voltage terminals of the gap through a voltage divider. This circuit could trigger the trigatron gap successfully over the voltage range from 8 to 30 kV.


Simple Summary Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide with slow progress in the development of effective therapies. The breakthrough IMbrave150 trial established atezolizumab plus bevacizumab as the standard of care first-line therapy for patients with unresectable/advanced HCC, demonstrating improved overall survival. Radiation therapy (RT) is a locoregional treatment that may prevent morbidity from tumor-related vascular compromise and associated liver failure. There is no documented evidence yet describing the safety and outcomes of combination RT and atezolizumab/bevacizumab. In the retrospective review of our experience, we identified 21 patients with advanced HCC who underwent liver-directed RT with atezolizumab/bevacizumab. From our findings, the treatment is well-tolerated, safe, and does not potentiate liver failure. There were uncommon autoimmune or GI bleeding events in some patients, mostly unrelated to RT. Post-RT absolute lymphocyte counts (ALC) improved more quickly with atezolizumab/bevacizumab than they did without, which may be a favorable treatment prognosticator. Abstract Atezolizumab plus bevacizumab has become frontline therapy for unresectable HCC. The compatibility of atezolizumab/bevacizumab with liver-directed RT has not been reported. Methods: HCC patients treated with liver-directed RT and atezolizumab/bevacizumab between 1/2020–11/2021 were included. Toxicity and outcomes were retrospectively recorded. For ALCs, we matched the analysis to a previously cohort of RT-treated HCC patients who did not receive atezolizumab/bevacizumab. Survival and time-to-liver-failure were analyzed using Kaplan–Meier. Results: Of 21 patients, with a median follow-up of 9.5 months, the median OS was 16.1 months. Post-RT, all patients had reduced tumors or treatment response. There were no ≥Grade 3 RT-related toxicities. Autoimmune complications occurred in two patients (9.5%), and GI bleeding in three patients (14.3%). Liver function remained stable post-RT. There was a marked decrease in ALCs immediately post-RT (post-RT/pre-RT ratio 47.3%, p < 0.0001), restored by 1 month to pre-treatment baseline (1-month post-RT/pre-RT ratio 95.1%, n.s.). Compared to HCC patients treated with RT alone, post-RT ALC recovery was faster with atezolizumab/bevacizumab (p = 0.009). Conclusion: In this first reported experience of RT with modern systemic therapy for HCC, combination therapy is safe and well-tolerated. As a favorable prognosticator, there appears to be faster recovery of ALC among patients who received RT with atezolizumab/bevacizumab.


A neutron scattering study on a concentrated spin-glass alloy Fe65(Ni0:78Mn0:22)35 has been performed under magnetic field. The amplitude of the magnetic diffuse scattering pattern arising from short-range ferromagnetic correlations is markedly reduced by increasing magnetic field. On the other hand, the effect of external field on the diffuse scattering pattern arising from antiferromagnetic short-range correlations is small. These results show that the regions of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic shortrange correlations (ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic clusters) coexist separately in this random magnetic material.


Abstract The aim of this article is to indicate economic and financial characteristics of financial technology, or fintech, that contribute to value creation in the financial services industry. This study presents a theory of digital transformations and elements of ecosystems theory and connecting them to fintech issues. Building from the DIPLOM model of corporate diplomacy. Corporate diplomacy. Building reputations and relationships with external stakeholders. Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing Limited, this article proposes the DIPLOMA model with seven elements of fintech best practice, that are, Digital, Innovation, Pricing, Learning, Openness, Modernity, and Agility. This article stresses on practical insights to provide tool to enable stakeholders create value on fintech.


Objective: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder; however, most patients are undiagnosed and untreated because it is difficult for patients themselves to notice OSA in daily living. Polysomnography (PSG), which is the gold standard test for sleep disorder diagnosis, cannot be performed in many hospitals. This fact motivates us to develop a simple system for screening OSA at home. Approach: The autonomic nervous system changes during apnea, and such changes affect heart rate variability (HRV). This work develops a new apnea screening method based on HRV analysis and machine learning technologies. An apnea/normal respiration (A/N) discriminant model is built for respiration condition estimation for every heart rate measurement, and an apnea/sleep ratio is introduced for final diagnosis. A random forest is adopted for the A/N discriminant model construction, which is trained with the PhysioNet apnea-ECG database. Main results: The screening performance of the proposed method was evaluated by applying it to clinical PSG data. Sensitivity and specificity achieved 76% and 92%, respectively, which are comparable to existing portable sleep monitoring devices used in sleep laboratories. Significance: Since the proposed OSA screening method can be used more easily than existing devices, it will contribute to OSA treatment.


The propagation of sound in a shallow water environment is characterized by boundary reflections from the sea surface and sea floor. These reflections result in multiple (indirect) sound propagation paths, which can degrade the performance of passive sound source localization methods. This paper proposes the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the localization of sources of broadband acoustic radiated noise (such as motor vessels) in shallow water multipath environments. It is shown that CNNs operating on cepstrogram and generalized cross-correlogram inputs are able to estimate more reliably the instantaneous range and bearing of transiting motor vessels when the source localization performance of conventional passive ranging methods is degraded. The ensuing improvement in source localization performance is demonstrated using real data collected during an at-sea experiment.


Based on convection heat transfer characteristics of air inside ventilation pipe of ventilation pipeline embankment,discarding the method which takes the influence of ventilation pipe as boundary condition,the numerical model for ventilation pipeline embankment on permafrost region is established.The temperature characteristics of ventilation pipeline embankment with air doors and without air door are simulated,and their cooling effects are analysed to provide the technical support for the construction and safe operation of embankment in permafrost region.It is shown that(1) the underlying permafrost temperature can be obviously reduced and artificial upper table of permafrost can be raised by the ventilation pipeline embankment;(2) compared with the ventilation pipeline embankment without air door,the cooling effect of embankment with air doors is better,its cooling function operates earlier,and the artificial upper table of permafrost rises higher,the underlying permafrost temperature under the center and shoulder of the embankment reduces more quickly with basic uniform distribution,and it costs shorter time to become stable for embankment temperature.


Irises are ornamental and adaptable plants that are of interest to many scientists around the world. The present studies were carried out on the basis of the SUBSI RAS. The success of the introduction of 10 species of the genus Iris in the conditions of the forest-steppe zone of the Bashkir Cis-Urals was assessed, seed productivity, pollen viability and the ability to autogamy were identified. The evaluation results showed that all the studied species are promising and very promising. The very promising group includes I. pseudacorus and I. sibirica, which are representatives of the flora of the Republic of Bashkortostan, as well as I. lactea. Plants have a high vitality, resistant to diseases and pests. Other species are promising for introduction in introduced conditions. The species are highly adapted to the climate of the forest-steppe zone of the Bashkir Cis-Urals and can be successfully grown and widely used in landscaping settlements and in breeding work.


This paper presents some of the methods under subspace-based family to perform closed-loop system identification. Three methods have been observed, those are the ORT method, MOESP method and CCA method. The performance of these models is evaluated by identifying the same experimental systems. Three performance evaluation tests according to mean square errors, variance accounted for and best fit are used to verify the accuracy of the models to identify the given systems. The noise model is also introduced in order to see whether the developed model can improve the overall identification performance or not. Based on the simulation results, some justifications are made as to conclude the efficacy of the observed models to identify a closed-loop data system.


China's mining industry faces severe resource crisis, which is caused by old system during the period of planned economy. With the development of market economy and deepening of reform, China's mining industry must establish and improve equity market of mining industry. Therefore, the paper puts forward the proposals for setting up corresponding institution, policy and statute and professional training, etc.


In electronics, a multiplexer is a device that performs multiplexing; it selects one of many analog or digital input signals and forwards the selected input into a single line. In this paper, we propose a design method for multiplexer design in the environment of single-cycle CPU system based on the MIPS instruction set, and the software Schematic and VHDL is introduced in order to speed up the development cycle. Furthermore, we discuss the consideration and operational principle of design and realization in detail. The simulation results for the part constructed by FPGA are also presented.


The role of the nasal resonances in singing is unclear. Teachers of singing often advise singers to place their voice "in the mask': which may mean that the singers are supposed to project or focus their attention to vibrations of the skull and forehead. Such vibrations are produced in the bony structures of the cranium by the sound pressure in the vocal tract. According to the testimony of many singers sensations in the "mask" provide a useful feedback and even evoke the impression that the sound is emitted from these parts of the head while, in reality, the primary sound radiator is the mouth opening, except for some nasalized sounds. Provided the velar port is slightly open so as to permit some nasal colouring, the nasal cavities may contribute to the colouring of a singer's voice. The behavior of the velum during various vocal exercises is inspectedfiom above by means of ajiberscope introduced into the nose of some professional singers. Also the oral and nasal flow signals are analysed. The results suggest differing velar strategies. An attempt is made to assess their acoustic implications by means of a model of the vocal tract.


3D geometric modelling of urban areas has the potential for further development, not only for 3D urban visualization. 3D point cloud, as 3D data commonly used in 3D urban geometry modelling, is needed to extract objects from point clouds to analyze urban landscapes. An automated method to analyze objects from the 3D point cloud can be achieved by using the semantic segmentation method. Unlike other segmentation tasks in 3D point cloud data, 3D urban point cloud segmentation has the challenge of segmenting different object sizes on various types of landscape contours with imbalanced distribution of the object. Therefore, this study modified 3D U-Net Sparse CNN by adding Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) as one of the modules in this model, called 3D U-Net ASPP Sparse CNN. The use of ASPP aims to get the contextual multi-scale information of the input feature map from the encoder part of U-Net. Furthermore, 3D U-Net ASPP Sparse CNN is implemented by using weighted dice loss as the loss function. The experiment result shows 3D U-Net ASPP Sparse CNN with weighted dice loss has achieved the best evaluation score in our experiment, with OA = 96.53 and mIoU = 63.59.


IP communication service over Internet has become most interesting research topic in recent years, as the next generation Internet applications are requiring the integration of voice, video and data in the single IP infrastructure. In this study, we focus on designing a scalable voice over IP routing architecture from the network control plan consideration, aiming at dealing with issues related to the global deployment of voice over IP service. Particularly, our technologies include: 1) Peer-to-Peer based call routing architecture. Peer-to-Peer approach can fully supports the variable network topology to satisfy the transition period of global voice over IP deployment in the next several years. We study the routing request forwarding protocol and routing update protocol with designing an efficient multipath routing algorithms to achieve better QoS (Quality of Service) performance. 2) Efficient voice gateway allocation schemes. When the call routing fails in the IP overlay, the call setup can automatically reroute to the PSTN (public switched telephone network) and fault tolerant service can be easily extended. We study how to support differentiated service to satisfy different user requirements. We conduct extensive performance evaluations on different architecture and algorithms. The evaluation results show that the load aware routing scheme can achieve much better performance than static selection scheme in terms of average call routing message delay. The experiment results also demonstrate that the weight based gateway allocation scheme can efficiently support call requests with different QoS requirements.


In the revitalization process, the scope of work to be done depends on the technical condition of a particular historical site. Any activities should be preceded by a diagnosis of its technical condition in terms of changes which have taken place so far. The diagnosis of particular buildings will make it possible to determine the scope of needs to be included in the revitalization plan. The paper presents technical issues occurring in residential and commercial buildings and the problem of protection of cultural heritage as exemplified by the historical urban complex in Kożuchów.


The authors document the correlation between the workplace diversity of bureaucracies and public services delivered. The authors do so in the context of the federal civil service in Nigeria, the most important government bureaucracy operating in a highly ethnically fractionalized society in which ethnicity is a salient form of identity. The authors provide novel evidence extending the empirical literature along all three margins: in the context of Nigeria, the authors document the relationship between public service delivery and the ethnic diversity of civil service organizations. The impact of bureaucratic diversity on public service delivery in this context is not obvious. The analysis begins to shed light on whether the positive channels through which diversity operates, as stressed in the management literature (for example, increased skill complementary of workers in the production function), dominate the negative channels through which diversity may operate, as stressed in the macro literature (for example, divisions in preferences, free-riding on other groups' contributions, ineffective social sanctions, etc.). Understanding the role of diversity in government bureaucracies is important because, as the state capacity literature has emphasized the effective functioning of government bureaucracy matters for poverty, inequality, and economic growth. The authors build on that analysis to examine the relevance of a key feature of Nigerian society: that it is highly ethnically fractionalized.


Punam Tripathi, an Indian geographer, has done us a favor by writing an interesting and informative book on a relatively little studied part of South Asia. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a union territory of India located in the Bay of Bengal 1,200 km away from the Indian mainland. The archipelago covers a total of 572 islands, of which 38 are inhabited. The total population according to the 2011 census was 380,581. The Andamans stand for 78 percent of the land territory and 90 percent of the population, with the rest in the Nicobar Islands to the south. As such, the islands are in a geopolitically strategic location in relation to Myanmar (and through it, China) and Southeast Asia, as well as the Malacca Straits, one of the most important international waterways in the world, through which oil and other resources pass on board 65,000 vessels every year on their way to China, Japan, and elsewhere in East Asia.


Organic Electronics (OE), named also FOLAE (Flexible, Organic, (Printed) and Large Area Electronics), is a new branch of electronics, dealing with polymers and plastics, in contrast with traditional electronics, which is based on silicon, copper, oxides, etc. OE acts as a catalyst for the cost effectiveness on the market, being an emerging and fast growing field with high potential in industry. Some OE products (as OLED displays) are already on the market and others (as solar cells, lighting, transistors, etc.) are ready for it, being in the small volume manufacturing stage. Europe has a leading position in OE, mainly due to R and D collaboration, and various European projects try to strengthen this position. On these terms, the paper wants to offer an overview in teaching OE for development of future electronic systems, being destined not only to academia, but also to SMEs, professional associations, and research institutes for exploiting the synergies and complementarities of traditional electronics and OE [6].].


Unnoticed by the wider public and the majority of professional planners, a symbolic event took place on 12 November 2010. Directly following a reorganization of the public sector by the new government taking office that year, the letters of the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment — VROM according to its Dutch acronym — were scraped off the facade of the main building in The Hague. Compared to the United Kingdom, where the name, scope, aim and composition of ministries are changed virtually every election period, ministries in the Netherlands are relatively protected from the caprices and vacillations of party politics and prime ministers. VROM was an institution in more than one sense of the word, and "spatial planning" (the RO in VROM) had been part of its name since 1965 (Siraa et al., 1995: 64). In the title of the new ministry — Infrastructure and the Environment — spatial planning is conspicuously absent.  The removal of the letters represents more than a symbolic act: it reflects the stated intent of the new government to "leave spatial planning more up to provinces and municipalities" (Coalition Agreement, 2010: 38). Within a year of assuming office, the new ministry published its new spatial planning strategy which minimizes planning at the national level (Ministerie van IenM, 2011; final version: Ministerie van IenM, 2012). With this, the tradition of national urbanization policies such as growth centers, new towns, buffer zones, the Green Heart and VINEX had come to a close (Faludi & Van der Valk, 1994; Zonneveld, 2007). To foreign eyes, these changes may seem drastic and sudden, but they are actually part of a gradual systemic change.  Since the early 1990s, the external institutional environment of national spatial planning has transformed fundamentally. National housing policy, once a key partner in helping spatial planning steer urban development, has largely been privatized (Salet, 1999). Agricultural policy, once instrumental in protecting rural areas from urban encroachment, has weakened under increased EU influence and reform. On the other hand, the powerful national transport and infrastructure department, whose relationship to planning was as much one of rivalry as partnership (Siraa et al., 1995; Priemus, 1999) has now merged with planning. The same is true for regional economic policy: this has become the main spatial policy thrust.


Summary- Bunobus subgen. n. is proposed under the genus Pseudacrobeles for four species which were found ra lack cephalic and labial probolae, and which have subdorsal and subventrallips more developed than the larerals. Three of these species, P. pukher, P. 100ft and P. pseudolatus, were previously placed in Heterocephalobus and are now transferred. The fourth is new : P. C1Uzi sp. n., very close to P. pukher and P. 100ft. The male of P. pulcher is described for the fIrst time. The consequences on classifIcation of the revised diagnosis of Pseudacrobeles (given in Part 1 of this revision) are discussed. Heterocephalobus basilogoodeyi, H. bisimilis, H. elongatus, H. eurystoma, H. eximius, H. latus, H. loczyi, H. IOrlfZl'LllIJallls, H. multiânctus and H. nannus are considered species inquirendae and/or incerUle sedis. HeleTocephalobus magnijicus is transfern:J ra Heterocephalobellus. Panagrocephalinae becomes a synonym of Cephalobinae with the rejection of Panagrocephalus. Acrulobinae subfam. n. is proposed for the genera Acrolobus, Panagroteratus and TeralOlobus, being charaeterized by six deeply offset, flap-like lips and a cephalobid sroma. S.E.M. picrures of three Bunobus species are given, as weil as a key for the redefIned genus Pseudacrobeles, which is argued ra represent the least derived group within Cephalobinae. Resume - Revision du genre Pseudacrobeles Steiner, 1938. Partie 2. Sous-genre Bunobus subgen. n., especes proble1natiques, discussion et cM - Bunobus subgen. n. est propose pour rassembler dans le genre Pseudacrobeles, quatre especes depourvues de probolae cephaliques ou labiales et dont les levres subdorsales et subventrales sont plus developpees que les laterales. Trois de ces especes, P. pukher, P. loofi et P. pseudolatus appartenaient primitivement au genre HeleTocephalobus; la quatrieme, P. C1Uzi sp.n., est tres proche de P. pukheret P. loofi. Le mâle de P. pukher est decrit pour la premiere fois. Les consequences de la revision diagnostique de Pseudacrobeles sur la classifIcation sont discutees. Heterocephalobus basilogoodeyi~ H. bisimilis, H. elongatus, H. euryslOma, H. eximius, H. latus, H. loczyi, H. longicaudatus, H. multicinctus et H. nannus sont consideres comme species inquirendae et (ou) incertae sedis. Heterocephalobusmagnificus est transfere au genre Heterocephalobellus. Le genre Panagrocephalusetant rejete, la sous-famille des Panagrocephalinae devient un synonyme mineur des Cephalobinae. La sous-famille des Acrolobinae subfam. n.  caracterisee par des levres foliacees tres en relief et un stoma de type Cephalobide - est proposee pour grouper les genres Acrolobus, Panagroteratus et TeralOlobus. Des photographies au MEB de trois especes de Bunobus sont donnees, de meme qu'une cle du genre Pseudacrobeles ainsi redefIru. TI est considere comme le moins evolue du groupe des Cephalobinae.


In this study, an optional assembling of a Mossbauer spectrometer based on stand-alone instruments (an Agilent 33521A function generator and an Agilent DSO-X 2002A digital oscilloscope) is presented. The main goal is to identify the possible functional limits of selected instruments used as standard and cheap laboratory equipment in comparison to the special and expensive devices. For communication with the instruments and to perform all measurement tasks, an application was created in the LabVIEW{trade mark, serif} 2013 (National Instruments), a graphical programming environment. In addition to the instruments, the standard ORTEC NIM system was used in the gamma-ray detection part of the system. Development of the control application to accumulate Mossbauer spectra with synchronization of the reference signal generation and detectors signal processing is presented. Despite the fact that the setup of the spectrometer was correct and usable for daily research, some disadvantages were found. The sources of ...


Abstract: the aim of this research is to describe students representation ability in applaying Modeling Instruction on Dynamic Electicity at SMAN 5 Pekanbaru. The expected benefits of this research is to train the student in using such representation (verbal, mathematics, graphs and pictorial), in order to increase student representation ability. This research was conducted at SMAN 5 Pekanbaru in X8 class totaling 39 students. The design of the research is Pre-experimental design formone shot case study. Through applying Modeling Instruction, student trained to serve representation to such kind of representation: verbal representation, mathematics representation, graphs representations, pictorial representation. From the research, based of aspect representation ability; formulate information from a representation, forming a new representation, the consistency of representation and solve problems using the representation obtained the ability of student representation by implementing of Modeling Instruction obtained the criteria of representation ability categorized medium level with an average score 76,50. therefore in teaching physics, by using Modeling Instruction could train the first year student representation ability on dynamic electric material at SMAN 5 Pekanbaru. Kata Kunci: Modeling Instruction, representation ability, Dynamic electicity


Free-standing and single-crystalline Cu3Ge nanowires (NWs) were synthesized by a vapor-phase deposition method on the Cu foil. The NWs are grown along the [010] direction via a vapor-solid mechanism. The localized surface plasmon resonance of individual NWs on a Si substrate is investigated using the dark-field scattering spectroscopy. The resonance peak wavelength for NWs with different diameters is observed, which ranges from 500 to 550 nm. This study proves the existence and provides an insight for understanding the LSPR property of free-standing Cu3Ge NWs.


Thus, even as we face national and global challenges, we continue to move forward, traverse uncertainties, and achieve positive results. For this year's celebration, our theme is "Sustained Partnership, Sustained Economic Growth." We want to underscore that mutual commitment to our continuing partnership helps us sustain economic growth; growth that generates jobs and improves the lives of Filipinos.


In water treatment systems for human consumption, unified process of coagulation-flocculation is one of the most important to remove colloids' high loads. The aim of this investigation was to assess the effectiveness of chitosan as a coagulant for the treatment of raw water from the middle basin of river Guatapuri; for this purpose the optimum dose of the organic polymer was determined in water with starting turbidity of 100 to 1500 NTU. The results obtained after processing were: for water with turbidity 1500 NTU and optimal dose 40 mg/l, the removals achieved until 99.9 % turbidity, while for water with initial turbidity of 100 NTU and optimum dosage of 20 mg/l thrown removal it was over 96 %. This research presents the chitosan as an effective process for the purification of raw water in lotic alternative sources


Nanoscale vacuum channel field emissiontransistors (VFETs) with different gate-structures, channel lengths, and emitter tip radii are comprehensively studied using technical computer-aided design simulation. With a multigate configuration, the operating gate voltage decreases and the transfer characteristics improve due to excellent gate controllability. The gate-all-around (GAA) VFET with short channel length and thin channel to gate distance would be most suitable for low power consumption and less sensitivity to device fluctuation. In order to further understand the impact of physical gate length on the on-current (Ion) and the gate leakage current in VFETs, full- and half-gate devices are compared. With shorter channel length and thinner channel to gate distance, the tunneling energy band becomes sensitive to the gate field, resulting in a more severe Ion fluctuation. The half-gate structure can mitigate the gate leakage current without sacrificing the on-current because the leakage current near the collector tip can be reduced in comparison to the full-gate structure. The GAA VFET also shows superior cut-off frequency performance resulting from high transconductance, compared with the single- and double-gate VFETs.


Hexahedral finite element meshes have historically offered some mathematical benefit over tetrahedral finite element meshes in terms of reduced error and smaller element counts, especially with respect to finite element analyses within highly elastic, and plastic, structural domains. However, because hexahedral finite element mesh generation often requires significant geometric decomposition, generating hexahedral meshes can be extremely difficult to perform and automate and the process often takes several orders of magnitude longer in time to complete than current methods for generating tetrahedral meshes. In this dissertation, we focus on delineating known constraints associated with hexahedral meshes and formulating these constraints utilizing the dual of the hexahedral mesh. Utilizing these constraints, we show that hexahedral mesh generation can be viewed as an optimization problem. We review existing hexahedral algorithms and describe how these algorithms operate to satisfy the hexahedral mesh generation constraints. The concept of a fundamental hexahedral mesh will be introduced and it will be shown how the fundamental mesh relates to a minimal hexahedral mesh for a given geometry. We will demonstrate conversion of existing hexahedral meshes to fundamental hexahedral meshes using hexahedral flipping operations to convert boundary sheets to fundamental sheets. Building on existing algorithms for generating hexahedral meshes from volumetric image data, we will show significant improvement in hexahedral mesh quality through the introduction of a single fundamental sheet into hexahedral meshes generated from isosurfacing techniques. We will outline a method for constructing hexahedral meshes where all hexahedra are convex and have positive volume utilizing triangle meshes of manifold surfaces to guide the placement of fundamental sheets into an existing hexahedral mesh. Finally, we demonstrate construction of hexahedral meshes for multi-surface geometric solids by introducing multiple fundamental sheets to satisfy the hexahedral mesh generation constraints for the geometric solid.


- The purpose of the study is to analyse changes in land use and land cover (LULC) from 1990-2018 in the C81 catchment of the Free State, South Africa. It is important to understand the changes of LULC on the catchment and evaluate its impact on environmental aspects. Changes in LULC were examined using remote sensing, and aeronautical reconnaissance coverage geographic information system (ArcGIS). The LULC data was obtained from the South African National Land Cover (SANLC) project. The results of the net change from 1990-2018 with 35 classes of LULC show that the most reduced are forest plantations which decreased from 57.65% to 1.02%, and low shrublands which decreased from 17.08% to 0.16%. However, the most expanded are grasslands which increased from 17.74% to 54.30% and cultivated agriculture which increased from 1.11% to 37.32%. The transition shows that the majority of the LULC changes occurred in grassland with an annual rate of change of 1,31% and forest plantation with an annual rate of change of -2,02%. These changes in LULC may be attributed to population increase, the severity of drought and floods, water scarcity for irrigation, and climate change effects. Grasslands to forest plantations were recorded with the highest changes, which indicated that the area is dominated by agricultural activities. However, plantations or woodlots to wetlands recorded the lowest changes, which indicates low rainfall in the study area for the period under review. Integrated LULC management of this catchment is, therefore, a necessity for the mitigation of environmental degradation.


Silicon is the ideal choice of substrate materials for fabrication of microchips, including biochips and the package materials of biosensors. The surface bioactivity and biocompatibility of silicon are usually poor and the interaction between silicon-based biosensors or microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and the human body may not be desirable. According to work done by others and us, the special function groups (Si-H, Si-OH and Si-O − ) on silicon surface may improve its bioactivity and biocompatibility. Therefore, to obtain the special function groups on a silicon wafer, in this work, the surface of the single crystal silicon wafer was first modified using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), followed by plasma immersion ion implantation to obtain an amorphous layer containing hydrogen to improve the bioactivity and biocompatibility. The structure and composition of the treated silicon wafer were examined using various surface characterization technologies such as AFM, SEM, TEM, Raman, RBS, SIMS and so on. The bioactivity of the treated silicon wafers were investigated using a simulated body fluid soaking test. After PECVD and plasma immersion ion implantation, the silicon wafer was found to possess a surface hydrogenated amorphous silicon layer. Bone-like apatite could precipitate on the surface after soaking in simulated body fluids for two weeks. Our results indicate that the bioactivity of the single-crystal silicon can be improved by a dual process comprising PECVD and plasma immersion ion implantation.


The paper analyzes the mechanism of the negative friction in pile foundation,sums up the calculation ideas for the negative friction, sums up common calculation method,analyzes problems in the calculation,and illustrates the way of how to prevent the project dangers,so as to provide reference.


The objective of our research was to determine the effect of inundation using seawater on the pH and EC of acid sulphate soils This research consisted of 2 stages, an incubation experiment carried out in the greenhouse, Indonesian Swampland Agricultural Research Institute (ISARI), Banjarbaru South Kalimantan and in the field of Handil, Maluka village, Bumi Makmur District, Tanah Laut Regency, South Kalimantan. The incubation experiment used several seawater concentrations of 0, 12.5, 25, 37.5 and 50%, with randomized complete design with 3 replications. The field experiment used a raise bed system with two treatment applications: (i) without brackish water and (ii) with brackish water. The results of the incubation experiment showed that the longer the incubation period and the higher seawater concentration caused a decrease in the soil pH while increasing EC values. Conversely, incubation of potential acid sulphate soils using well water (0% seawater) resulted in increasing soil pH and EC values. Field experiments showed that the application of brackish water on acid sulphate soil gave lower soil pH than that without brackish water. Contrary, EC values of acid sulphate soil applied with brackish water were higher than those without brackish water application.


The quick social development in 21 century has gradually changed people′s recognition of alcoholic beverages and their consumption ideas. Under such circumstances, large amount of liquor products decorated with cultural backgrounds keep pouring in the liquor market. In fact, only those liquor products which possess strong comprehensive capability in the aspects of scientific techniques, cultural backgrounds and enterprise policies can stand the austere tests from the market. Among all liquor products, "National Pits·1573" is just one successful example.(Tran.by YUE Yang)


Several common heat treatment processes of aluminium alloy liquid state squeezing die in nation are studied. The distribution of temperature of 3Cr2W8V die, the relation of service life and hardness after heat treatment are discussed. A way of heat treatment process which may increase the synthetical function of squeesing die is given.


This article provides a critique of two award-winning films—'Slumdog Millionaire' and 'Born into Brothels'—that have won heavy praise for their alleged potential to strengthen the voice of India's poverty-stricken slum-dwellers. It argues that, contrary to such lofty expectations, these films do little more than reproduce shallow, formulaic understandings of slum-spaces that resonate poorly with their multi-faceted realities as sites of work and political action. More ironically, these films reinforce negative stereotypes about slum-dwellers, which are frequently used to frame policies that only deepen their deprivation levels, and justify their persistent exclusion from social, economic and political power.


In recent years there has been a considerable research effort dedicated to turbulent pipe flow. Topics of interest are, amongst others, the scaling of near wall turbulent statistics and the existence of very large scale turbulent structures at higher Reynolds numbers. These structures have been observed experimentally in boundary layers, Hutchins & Marusic (2007) and pipes, Monty et al. (2007). Recently these structures have also been observed in moderate Reynolds number direct numerical simulations of channel and boundary layer flows. In this paper we will report on the simulation of turbulent pipe flow at bulk Reynolds numbers of 24600, 37500, and 75,000. The numerical grid (up to 7.6e9 grid nodes) is comparable to the grid used by Jimenez & Hoyas (2008) and should be sufficiently fine to resolve all scales. At high Reynolds numbers we observe some evidence of the aforementioned long scale structures.


High penetration of renewable resources threatens to increase requirements for power system regulation services even as conventional and controllable resources are displaced. Recent FERC orders for "MW Mile" or "Pay for Performance" may increase the costs for those services. Automatic Generation Control processes and algorithms need to adapt to these changes so as to effectively provide adequate system performance at best cost.


In cattle breeding during breeding season, great importance is attached to the selection of male and female pairs. The purpose of the work is to assess the effect of inbreeding on the milk production of cows of different genotypes. It was found that the main number of animals in the herd was obtained using remote inbreeding, which is 83.8%. The use of related mating led to a decrease in the age of the first calving by 0.3 months, a lactation period by 0.4, and a slight increase in milk yield by 78 kg with a decrease in the mass fraction of fat by 0.01% and protein by 0.02%, relative to outbred cows. A significant change in the productive longevity of animals obtained by outbred breeding and the use of a moderate level of inbreeding (P≤0.05) was noted. The effect of blood on Holstein breed on the productive qualities of cows was also established. An increase in blood level to 75-91% led to an increase in milk yield and qualitative indicators of productivity. Thus, the average milk yield in the group increased by 566 kg or 9.4%, while increasing the mass fraction of fat by 0.04% and protein by 0.04%. The best indicators of productivity within the genotype groups were established with a remote level of inbreeding and a genotype of Holstein breed 91-97% blood. In the future, when developing a breeding plan, it is necessary to take into account the fact that the best quality indicators of productivity, namely the mass fraction of fat and the mass fraction of protein are higher in cows with a genotype from 76 to 91% and a moderate level of inbreeding - 3.97% and 3.08%.


Gamochaeta stagnalis is reported for the first time for the United States (Arizona and New Mexico). In Arizona these plants have previously been identified as Gamochaeta purpurea and Gamochaeta falcata. The species is common in Mexico and apparently is at the northern limit of its distribution in Cochise, Pima, and Santa Cruz cos., Arizona, and Hidalgo Co., New Mexico. Gamochaeta purpurea sensu stricto also occurs in Arizona, disjunct from its main range in the eastern U.S.A. Plants of the southeastern U.S.A. previously identified in some treatments as Gamochaeta falcata are separated into two species: Gamochaeta calviceps and Gamochaeta antillana. A lectotype is chosen for G. antillana. Gamochaeta calviceps is known primarily from the southeastern U.S.A. but is reported from two collections in California. Gamochaeta coarctata is first reported for Arkansas and Virginia and further documented for California. Gamochaeta stachydifolia, a South American native, is reported from two counties in California. For each of the 12 Gamochaeta species recorded for the U.S.A., a hypothesis of nativity is given, with a brief rationale.


Slovakia after 1968). Likewise, the author sees the challenges of economic transformation as the major threats to the new democratic regimes. Even though she is ultimately optimistic about democracy's chances, Batt points out the difficulties of channeling hard economic decisions through new, often fragile, political institutions. The author's economic emphasis, however, does not lead her toward economic determinism and her discussion of the politics of the early transition is both balanced and insightful. Starting with the role of the Brezhnev Doctrine in upholding the untenable positions of east central European communist regimes and moving through a lucid discussion of Gorbachev and the changing nature of that doctrine, Batt arrives at the negotiated transitions to power-sharing in Poland and a multi-party system in Hungary. She resists the temptations of hindsight and reminds us of the real uncertainty that existed about Soviet limits on change in the midto late 1980s. These uncertainties shaped the early stages of the first transitions but, as they quickly fell away in 1989, the later transitions took on a different character. It is Batt's premise that the "path" from communism still affects the nature of transition, particularly the ability of political actors, such as the umbrella social movements, to redefine their roles in the new political contexts. Although "path-dependence" has become a contested issue in the literature on transitions to democracy, at least for the period she covers Batt's observations are on the mark. Perhaps the greatest shortcoming of the book is the lack of a substantial conclusion. Even though these processes are far from conclusive and the book was written at a confusing point in the transitions, a summary of the author's main points or a final discussion of the connections between her interpretation of the disintegration of communist rule and her perceptions about the transitions might have balanced out the book a bit better. As it stands now, the interpretations developed at the beginnings of chapters are often overshadowed by the information that follows. Still, Batt's treatment of the period is perceptive and synthesizing. This is an excellent book to assign students when covering the complicated early period of the transitions. It also brings east central European case material to the general discussion of "transitions from authoritarian rule (to democracy?)" in a useful form. Although the author does not directly engage in the debates developing in that literature, she is cognizant of the issues and her case presentations will be of use to anyone working on these questions in east central Europe or from a comparative perspective.


At the time of weaning, the human being takes over the responsibility for pet nutrition. A couple of weeks later, the puppy is handed over to the new owners, which may be less experienced than the breeder. This period is also the time of intensive turn over and growth. It is therefore obvious, that feeding imbalances in quantity and quality would have major impact on skeletal health in growing dogs.


The paper utilizes the phase variable form of the state equation describing a given linear network. The networks that are considered are those most commonly used, namely, phase advance/phase retard and notch networks, to stabilize a servo system. Practical results are given which illustrate the simplicity of tuning the characteristics and which demonstrate that implementation of these filters is a significant improvement in the 'state of the art'.


We consider the orbit of the bullet cluster 1E 0657−56 in both cold dark matter (CDM) and Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) using accurate mass models appropriate to each case in order to ascertain the maximum plausible collision velocity. Impact velocities consistent with the shock velocity (∼ 4700 km s −1 ) occur naturally in MOND. CDM can generate collision velocities of at most ∼3800 km s −1 , and is only consistent with the data, provided that the shock velocity has been substantially enhanced by hydrodynamical effects.


After 20 years of transition, the culture of Romanian companies is still dominated by some remaining block culture mentalities proper to Eastern and Central European countries. Although, from a technical point of view the transition may be regarded as an ended process, it is certain that there is still a communist inheritance strongly integrated in this culture in series of remaining mentalities. Such mentalities are to be found in the culture of Romanian companies framed into a vicious circle of inertia representing significant change resisting structures. Thus, this paper displays the results of a pilot study meant to establish the diagnosis of the dominant values of Romanian companies' culture. The results reveal the fact that although some reminiscences of the communist period are still integrated in the culture of Romanian companies some of those mentalities have been overcome.


First arrival times from regional distances (200–1200 km) in the western United States extracted from the International Seismological Centre (ISC) data set were inverted in a tomographic study to map the laterally varying Pn velocity structure of the uppermost mantle (i.e., the mantle lid) and to estimate the crustal static delay at each seismograph station. Synthetic data were used to evaluate resolution. Results correlate well with major tectonic features. We find low uppermost mantle velocities (V 7.9 km/s). These low apparent Pn velocities are primarily due to the effects of isostasy, hotspot volcanism, and crustal extension. We interpret the low apparent Pn velocities beneath the Sierra Nevada (7.6–7.7 km/s) to be the result of time delays introduced by ray paths tunneling through the deep crustal root. The Yellowstone hotspot, migrating along the Snake River Plain, has left low velocity (<7.6–7.8 km/s), hot upper mantle in its wake. Lower Pn velocities (∼7.8 km/s) beneath the extensional Basin and Range are also presumably due to hotter uppermost mantle. Based on station static delays for the Basin and Range, we infer that Moho depths there do not vary significantly from 30 km. Normal continental Pn velocities (∼8.0 km/s) as well as thicker crust (40–50 km) underlying the Rocky Mountains, Wyoming Basin Province, Colorado Plateau, and the northern Columbia Plateau indicate the presence of relatively cool uppermost mantle beneath these regions.


A method for driving a plasma display panel (PDP) of different address voltages that comprises a plurality of address electrodes, scan electrodes, and sustain electrodes, a scan and a sustain electrode forming a pair and being parallel with each other and crossing an address electrode, and their crossing point forming a discharge cell, comprises steps of supplying a rising ramp signal for reset discharging and a subsequent falling ramp signal to the scan electrode, and supplying voltage signals differently established according to cell colors to the address electrode during the rising ramp period to reset the respective cells, supplying an address waveform for selecting and writing cells to be turned on and off, after the reset stage,; and supplying a sustain waveform for discharging the cell set to be turned on.


The conversion of bovine manure to oil was studied in a l-liter stainless steel autoclave using a feed ratio of water:manure of 4:1 and an initial CO pressure of 600 psi. The organic matter in bovine manure is almost completely converted by the reaction with carbon monoxide and water at 380/sup 0/C and 4800 psi, and yields 40 weight percent oil; water, water-soluble organic compounds, and gaseous products are also formed. The residue is inorganic, mostly silica. Both conversion and oil yield increase with temperature in the 300 to 380/sup 0/C range. The carbon monoxide consumption correlates well with the oil yield, and is in the range of 0.7 to 0.8 gram/gram manure at the best conversion. Use of hydrogen in place of carbon monoxide decreases the conversion and oil yield. Synthesis gas (approximately equal amounts of hydrogen and carbon monoxide) gives almost complete conversion and slightly lower oil yield than pure carbon monoxide, but a significant improvement can be attained by the use of a shift conversion catalyst. The carbon monoxide consumption is also reduced significantly when synthesis gas is used. In the presence of an alkylnaphthalene-based oil vehicle, good conversion has been achieved with the water:manure ratio ofmore » as low as 1:4.« less


This article illuminates the position from which researchers in East Germany on the history of television have reconstructed the early development of German television [1]. It focuses on the struggle of television's pioneers for a progressive, socially conscious use of this audio-visual broadcast medium, and on their stand for the preservation and restoration of peace. In this portrayal, figures such as Ardenne, Bronnen, Dressler-Andress, Hatschek, Karolus, Kruckow, Loewe and many others, as well as those who worked against them, are seen in a new light. This treatment of the topic is based on primary sources located and preserved in archives of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Among these is photographic material of the Reich's broadcasting companies (Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft and the Reichssender Deutscher Fernseh-Rundfunk), files of the Reich's security agency and of the National Socialist's Supreme Court, as well as series of documents of the Reichspostministerium and the Reichsministerium fur...


The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will execute a nearly magnitude-limited survey of low redshift galaxies (0.05 ≤ z ≤ 0.4, median z ≈ 0.2). Clustering analyses of this Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) will yield the most precise measurements to date of baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift-space distortions at low redshift. DESI BGS will comprise two target classes: (i) BRIGHT (r < 19.5 mag), and (ii) FAINT (19.5 < r < 20 mag). Here we present a summary of the star-galaxy separation, and different photometric and geometrical masks, used in BGS to reduce the number of spurious targets. The selection results in a total density of ∼800 objects deg−2 for the BRIGHT and ∼600 objects deg−2 for the FAINT selections. A full characterization of the BGS selection can be found in Ruiz-Macias et al.


Natural products of botanical, animal or mineral origin have initiated the scientific quest of drugs, since antiquity. Even now more than fifty percent of the current drugs can be traced to natural products use globally. Several ayurvedic plants / drugs were & are being globally used. While doing research on Herbal, Herbo – mineral compounds mentioned in Ayurvedic Texts for various diseases the emphasis should also be given on application of the Basic principles of Ayurveda. Ayurveda designed wide range of pharmaceuticals preparations specific for different disease conditions by giving due consideration to the fundamentals like palatability, adoptability, stability etc. These basic fundamentals can be applied on various herbs used traditionally by Indians in various forms. The siddhantas mentioned in "Ashtang Ayurveda" should be adhered while doing research with the help of modern available techniques of research such as animal experimentations various analytical methods etc. The Ayurvedic pharmaceuticals (Bhaisajya Kalpana) embrace within its fold. The drug of plant, animal & mineral origin; both single drug & compounded formulations. The vital aspects such as manufacturing of drugs / formulations for research purpose; their package, dosage, distribution, standardization & quality control, planning & designing of pre-clinical and clinical studies etc. are detailed in classical literature in basic form, and may be comparable to various contemporary approaches. Bhaisajya Kalpana (Ayurvedic Pharmaceutics) forms a branch of Ayurveda which mainly deals with collection & selection of drugs, purification study of their nature & combination as well as preparation, preservation, besides mode of administration and dosage specification. Dravyagunavigyana includes identification (pharmacognosy – Namarupa vigyana), preparation (pharmacy – kalpa vigyana) and administration (clinical pharmacology – Yoga vigyana). The later deals with the effects of drugs on various systems (pharmacodynamics – Gunakarma vigyana) and their application in different diseases (therapeutic – Prayoga vigyana)


The main aim of the presented experiments is to improve behaviour of sandwich structures under dynamic loading, such as crash or explosion. This paper describes experimental investigation on the response of new advanced materials to low and high velocity load. Blast wave energy absorbers were designed using two types of porous lightweight raw particle materials based on expanded glass and ceramics with dimensions of 0.5-1 mm, combined with polymeric binder. The effect of binder amount on the static and dynamic properties of designed materials was observed. Prism shaped specimens were prepared and loaded to obtain physicomechanical parameters – bulk density, compressive and flexural strength under quasistatic load, the dynamic response was determined using Split Hopkinson Pressure bar apparatus. Numerical investigation of the material behaviour in sandwich structure was performed using implicit/explicit solver LS-Dyna. As the last step, the developed material was used as the interlayer of blast resistant litter bin, and it ́s functionality was verified by real field blast tests. Keywords—Blast energy absorber, SHPB, expanded glass, expanded ceramics.


tint. Slie seemiied of weak in-tellect, though niot formielrly so; had a fatuous expressioln, anid would lnot speak above a wvliisper. She colmiplained of pain in abdomen, principalIly in the right iliac fossa, anid attributed her symiiptomiis to a niiscai-irage wlhicl occuried in. May last. Her healtlh before her miiarriage, tlhree years siniee, was good. Slhe lhad lhad two clhildreni, botlh of wlhomii died ill infancy, aiid two il'iscarriages. At the last in 'May, 1892, slhc lost a good deal of blood, anid siniee that tlimie had beei sufferinig frolm pailns, and lhad lad lno eturnof miienlstruatiol. There were nio abniormiial signis in tllc lungs, heart, or abdomiinial viscera, and no signis of sypllilis. There wv.as paini oni pressure over the hypogastr iumli. The bladder was distelnded. Oni vaginial examiiniation nothing abnlormiiial was fouiid. The rectuni wvas loaded with fTees. The urinie (specific gravity 1015) was of a dark reddislh colour, but contaiiied no blood, albuiimen, bile, or sugar. The limilbs wver c wveak, but she could imiove tleiii all; time deep reflexes absent; senisationl Was unimiipaired. The bowels wvere relieved by eimeinia, and the UiliCe was tllen passed naturally. After reiinaiiiiiig in about the saniie coiidition for a week, she had aii epileptiform conivulsion onI the niiglit of August 8tlh. The toiigUe was bitteim the bladder founid agaiii distended. Oni the miiorninig of August 9th there was coimiplete loss of power in the armis and legs, aiid fteces Nere passed involunitarily. The coiiditioni was thouglt to be due citlher to tuberculous meninigitis ora cerebral tumour. On August lotlh slhc had several iiiore convulsive attacks, was continually crying out, anid rollinig hel lhead from side to side. The paralysis had exteinded to the diaphragm; tllis caused suspicion that her conditioni miiight be due to peripheral neuritis, and inquiry was made fromii the fr-iends ats to the possibility of diplhtheritic poisoning; but no hiistory of sore tlhroat could be elicited. The faradic current was applied to the diaphlagmii, but slhc died at 8.4.5 A.M. Onl August 11th. NVecropsy.-The brain was carefully examiiined, aiid niotling abnormiial could be founid. All the organs of the body were foulnd healtlhy, with the exception of the intestines, whichll were coiitracted anid conitained a yellowishl sticky fluid in considerable quaiitity. The uterus was of normal size, the liniing membrane healtlly. Tlere was nio corpus luteum in either ovary. Thlere was a well-miiarked blue hiiue roulid the guiis, which had beeni inlconlspicuous before death. Death was considered to lhave beeln due to lead poisoning, and an inquest was held. AIn aunt of the deceased gave evidence that sonei weeks before lier deatlh the deceased had pointed out a clhemist's slhop and( said-"lTat's where I get the stuff I take," and in aniswer to a furtlher questioii as to what stuff sle meant, replied, I Diachyloil." Witness said, " I thouglht that was poisoim," aiid deceased answered, " Well, it does not poisoi ime. I get two penilyworth and make it into pills, so I cain swallow tlieii." Slhe also gave witness to understand that slie took it witlh a view of producing abortioil. Under the direction of the coroiler the verdict of felo-de-se, by taking a drug for a feloilious pur'pose, was r'eturnied. It is not my imitentioll to eiilarge oil these cases from a symptomatic poiiit of view. The symptoms in the first case were fairly characteristie of lead poisoiling, and in tlle latter, tliouglh less so, they yet presenit l1o very novel features. The striking poiilt about the two cases is the oceurrence of two deatls in a period of less than two years from the self-administration of a drug not usually employed as an internal remedy. I consider that it is probable that tllese two uiifortunate women are by no means the only ones who have availed themselves of this supposed eebolic, the presumption being that the occurrelnce of two suech cases in one town points to a somewhat widespread superstition as to the powers of tile drug, and from a public point of view chemists ouglht to be exceedingly careful in supplying tllis substance in future. It seems as reasolnable indeed that all poisonous articles for wliatever use iiltended sliould be labelled 1 poisoll," as that aliotlier class of commodities should be marked " made in Germany," and the sooner a regulation to that effect can be enforeed thle better for the public. A more academic, but no less interesting, question raised by these cases is the following, How did diachylon come to have the reputation which led to its internal employment ? For some time this appeared quite unanswerable. I am now, however, able to offer a suggestion on the point. The explanationi does iiot seemii to be entirely adequate, but it suggests a possible origin for tIme custom. Diachiyloil is a plaster as old as Galen's time, and older, but it had not tlhen its present simple constitutioii. It contailled, in addition to litharge, marshmallow, linseed, and feiiugreek, and may htave had this composition till comparatively late times. Hippocrates recommnenids limit-seeds amoiig otler thiings as ali emmenagogue, aiid Pliny anid many others say that fenugreek is an eebolic. Old superstitions die hard. Is it possible that we are dealing withl one dating from the time whlen diachylon contained these drugs, and that it then had a reputation as an eebolic whlicli hlas been transfelred to its successor in the Pharmacopaeia? There is anotlher plaster mentioned by Paulus AEgineta similar to diacilylon, containing marslhmallow, linseed, fenugreek, and in addition rosin, tears of ivy, and turpentine, but no litharge. Is it possible this was also known as diachylon, and, being comparatively lharmless, was used as an emmenagogue ? I only desire tllat the publication of these sad cases sliall lead to the recogniition and exposure of this danglerous practice, and aid in preventing its continiuance. I cannlot believe that the unhlappy victims lhad any idea of tlle extremely poisonous nature of the substance willi wlhiel they were dealing; but I also fear that in this towln, in common witlh other manufacturing places, the briingin-g oni of premature labour is looked uponl as a tolerably safe and easy procedure-a view too often followed by disastrous results.


When spatializing time, individuals can either say that they walk towards the future as though time is a
 stationary landscape (called ego-moving perspective), or that the future time moves towards them (called time-moving perspective).
 A substantial body of experimental research has shown that people's adoption of these two temporal perspectives may be malleable,
 influenced by a broad set of factors. In the current research, we examined the novel possibility that the mere crowdedness of the
 environment can influence people's abstract thinking about time. We contended that exposure to the crowd may be linked to
 increased anxiety, which can in turn lead to a greater preference for the time-moving perspective in the resolution of temporal
 ambiguity. Two experiments found that social crowding, whether induced via a visualization task or through an assignment to a
 crowded workstation, was sufficient to alter participants' perspectives on the movement of events in time. Further, we found that
 anxiety mediated the relationship between crowdedness and temporal reasoning. Taken together, these results offer unique insights
 into the cognitive consequences of social crowding and provide a more complete understanding of how people adduce temporal
 relationship.


Two procedures dealing with distance estimation in space are analyzed. In one, formulae relating angular subtense to target distance are derived for spherical and disk objects. A design for a simple reticle to be used in distance estimation is described. In the other procedure, the utilization of illuminance from spherical and disk-shaped satellites for the purpose of relating it to object distance is examined. Formulae describing the relationships for certain cases are developed. The appearance of spherical satellites when illuminated by sources of both small and large angular subtense is dealt with in some detail.


Abstract During the Terrain-Influenced Monsoon Rainfall Experiment (TiMREX), which coincided with Taiwan's Southwesterly Monsoon Experiment—2008 (SoWMEX-08), the upper-air sounding network over the Taiwan region was enhanced by increasing the radiosonde ("sonde") frequency at its operational sites and by adding several additional sites (three that were land based and two that were ship based) and aircraft dropsondes. During the special observing period of TiMREX (from 15 May to 25 June 2008), 2330 radiosonde observations were successfully taken from the enhanced network. Part of the challenge of processing the data from the 13 upsonde sites is that four different sonde types (Vaisala RS80, Vaisala RS92, Meisei, and Graw) were used. Post–field phase analyses of the sonde data revealed a significant dry bias in many of the sondes—in particular, in the data from the Vaisala RS80 sondes that were used at four sites. In addition, contamination of the sonde data by the ship's structure resulted in poor-quality ...


To characterize mechanically induced surface damage scratch and rotating bending tests were performed on the implant alloy TiAl6Nb7 with different surface conditions (polished, thermally oxidized, anodically oxidized) in Hank's solution and in newborn calf serum at 37°C. The surface processes taking place during repassivation or due to the fatigue loading were identified by measuring the free corrosion current and potential. Light and scanning electron microscopic investigations were used to correlate surface changes with the results of the electrochemical measurements.


Background: Zoonotic parasite species are those parasites of animal origin that can be transferred to human. They possess the threat of high infection rate among both animals and human and should be monitored carefully. Aims: The current study aimed to determine the prevalence of zoonotic parasite species in cats and dogs from a prominent pet market of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Methodology: A total of 60 animals (30 dogs and 30 cats) were selected from different pet shops in Katabon pet market, Nilkhet, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The hosts were dogs of foreign breed; German Spitz, German Shephed (Canis lupus familiaris) and cats of local breed (Felis catus). They were age matched: Puppies/Kittens (≥6 months 1 year), young (>12 years) and adults (>2 3 years) for both dogs and cats. Feces were collected and Formol Ether concentration technique was done prior to identify parasite's egg, ova and larvae by microscopy. Results: We were able to identify 17 different parasite species of zoonotic importance in total 60 animals. 8 species were common in both animals (Taenia spp., Hymenolepis diminuta, H. nana, Original Research Article Barua et al.; ARRB, 35(1): 17-23, 2020; Article no.ARRB.54729 18 Ancylostoma spp., Ascaris lumbricoides, Capillaria spp., Toxascaris leonina and Trichuris vulpis). Apart from 8 common species, 2 more species were exclusively identified in dogs and 7 species in cats. Capillaria spp. had the highest prevalence in both dogs (86.67%) and cats (90%) followed by Trichuris vulpis (83.33% in dogs, 90% in cats). Other highly prevalent parasites in dogs were A. lumbricoides and Toxocara canis (prevalence 76.67% for both); in cats were T. leonina, Toxocara cati, Sarcocystis spp. and Toxoplasma spp. (prevalence 76.67%, 73.33%, 60% and 60%, respectively). According to the age group of hosts, in both dogs and cats, puppies or kittens and young hosts had higher prevalence of parasites compared to adults. Conclusion: Proper training should be given to pet handlers when handling the food/feces of pets to reduce the risk of zoonotic infection and mass people should be aware about the risk of zoonotic parasite species to avoid potential health hazards.


Introduction

Enhancement of Central Metabolism by a Defect in the Activity of F1F0-ATP Synthase

Improvement of Pyruvic Acid Production by Strain TBLA-1, an F1-ATPase-Defective Mutant of E. coli W1485lip2

Enhancement of Glucose Metabolism in Strain TBLA-1

Applicability of a Defect in F1F0-ATP Synthase Activity to Other Industrially Important Organisms

Overexpression of Genes of Enzymes Involved in the Formation of Futile Cycles

Improvement of Production of Useful Compounds by the Expression of Hemoglobin Gene from Vitreoscilla

Conclusions

Bibliography

Keywords:

energy metabolism;
escherichia coli;
F1-ATPase;
futile cycle;
glycolytic pathway;
hemoglobin;
phosphotransferase system;
phosphoglycerate kinase;
pyruvate kinase;
pyruvic acid


The most intuitive way to extract depth information from remote sensing images is stereogrammetry, in which a digital elevation model (DEM) is achieved by computing stereoscopic radar images. When only the amplitude of the radar images is considered, this computation is called radargrammetry. The main idea of which is to match stereopair radar images in order to create a disparity map from one image to the other and, finally, to compute the elevation. Therein, we present our studies on the extraction of 3-D information from radar images. We examine a way to produce a DEM of a challenging area of the French Alps. The central issue of this paper concerns improvements for radargrammetric synthetic aperture radar image processing for high-relief reconstruction, and we focus on the matching step, which is one of the most important points of the radargrammetric processing. Thus, we propose original methods using different correlation windows. On the one hand, we take the advantages of a multiwindow approach to combine relevant information by multiplying the correlation surfaces obtained for each correlation window size during the matching operation. On the other hand, the second improvement is based on the expansion of windows on foreshortened areas, particularly because of the side-looking radar view. These methods allow us to achieve reliable image matching and to improve the accuracy of the DEM.


Objective: Lung can cer is one of the most com mon can cers with high mor ta lity. Only 10-15% of the pa ti ents with lung can cer sur vi ve mo re than five ye ars des pi te ad van ced tre at ment stra te gi es. Fe a tu res of tu mor im mu nity are im por tant in car ci no ge ne sis, and im mu no lo gi cal mec ha nisms must be cla ri fi ed. The ro le of CD14 and CD44s pro te ins in tu mor im mu nity of lung cancer is con tro ver si al, and stu di es on the se pro te ins mostly we re held on can cer cell li nes. In this study, we ai med to in ves ti ga te CD14 and CD44s pro te in ex pres si ons in tu mor and nor mal tis su es in pa ti ents with non-small cell lung can cer. Ma te ri al and Met hods: Thirty pa ti ents (25 ma les and 5 fe ma les) with non-small cell lung can cer we re inc lu ded in this study. Spe ci mens ob ta i ned du ring the sur gery we re frozen in li qu id nit ro gen, and sli ced with a thick ness of 5 μm using a mic ro to me. Stan dard im mu no his toc he mi cal pro ce du res we re used for sta i ning and vi su a li za ti on. Dif fe ren ces in sta i ning pat terns bet we en nor mal and tu mor tis su es we re analy zed sta tis ti cally with Chi-squ a re test.Re sults: CD14 and CD44s pro te in ex pres si ons we re fo und both in tu mor and in the nor mal tissu es. The re was no sta tis ti cally sig ni fi cant dif fe ren ce in sta i ning pat terns bet we en nor mal and tu mor tis su es (p> 0.05).Conc lu si on: The ex pres si on of the two mo le cu les in both tu mo ral and he althy tis su es de mons tra tes that dif fe rent path ways of tumor immunity affect the prognosis of the patients. Ho we ver, further stu di es are needed in dif fe rent types of can cers with lar ger num bers of ca ses and dif fe rent an ti bo di es are ne e ded to cla rify the ro le of CD14 and CD44s.


ment on further reform. Policy proceeded through fitful (and often unconverted) decree law, and short-term emergency provisions. Immigration was therefore a dual challenge for the centre-left majority elected in 1996. It was firstly a test of its ability to combine a policy of social concern for the plight of desperate and vulnerable immigrants, with a policy of firm resistance to clandestine immigration to which Italy was increasingly exposed from the various sources in south-east Europe, the southern Mediterranean, and beyond. But it was also a test of executive cohesion. Immigration is a classic multidimensional, multidepartmental, and multiinstitutional problem. It includes various types of problem, covers the remit of several departments of government, and is a policy


Based on the data of core journals and sources from CSSCI(Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index)in 2000-2014 downloaded from China National Knowledge Internet,this paper adopts the methodologies of literature analysis and content analysis to explore available information of patent-relative research in the field of industrial technological innovation.Revealing the development and distribution of patent analysis on industrial technological innovation in China by trend analysis,situation analysis and comparative analysis,as well as showing industries and topics aroused general interests,this paper offers a reliable reference basis to comprehensively master the technology innovation development and patent data mining method.


This work studies the chance of using a neural network for classifying a set of road lines through a supervised learning process, trying to emulate a classification performed by a human expert. Here we present data segmentation, expert classification, data enrichment, and the neural network design, training and validation. The network selected is a feedforward backpropagation type with one hidden layer. To feed the input layer data enrichment consists of a set of characterizing quantitative measures derived from a principal component analysis. Qualitative information is also included in the form of administrative categories. Results quality is analyzed by means of error matrices after a crossvalidation process. The percentage of agreement is over 81%.


PREVIEW Primary care physicians often have the first opportunity to identify the connection between the workplace and lung disease in affected workers. To enhance the effectiveness of this process, Drs Kuschner and Stark have developed 10 principles for recognizing occupational asthma and diffuse parenchymal lung disease. In part 1 of this two-part article, the authors discuss fundamental issues related to occupational lung disease and present principles 1 through 5. Principles 6 through 10 are discussed in part 2, beginning on page 81.


A diagram which not only considers the transition of the structural type hut also describes the rule of change of Tc in the A-15 compounds is given in this paper. From this diagram it can be seen that compounds with very high TC(25K) are not likely to exist in the A-15 series considered. In the Nb series, Nb3Ge probably has the highest Tc; in V series, the Tc can still be expected to be raised (17.1K), the Tc of V3Ge is likely to be raised to above 12 K. Examining the case of Nb3Si, one can not get the optimistic estimation as that of Geller. It is considered that Nb3Si of A-15 type obtained by present new technology is a non-ideal structure formed at the expense of the normal stoichiometric ratio or by a change of the ordinary atomic volume. On the basis of the relationship between Tc and radii ratio and on consideration of the radii ratio required by the ideal A-15 structure, the point of view presented in this paper does not agree with the various predictions that the Nb3Si might have a high Tc(23 K).


In this paper, the results of radiation sensitive field effect transistors
 (Al-gate p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors)
 sensitivity to gamma and X-ray irradiation are presented. Radiation fields
 were created using 60Co source for three dose ranges (0-1 Gy, 0-5 Gy, and
 0-50 Gy), as well as X-ray unit of 280 kVp spectrum for a single dose range
 from 0 to 5 Gy. The sensitivity was characterized by the threshold voltage
 shift, determined from reader circuit measurements, as a function of absorbed
 radiation dose. It was shown that for the three dose ranges of gamma
 radiation, as well as for the X-ray range from 0 Gy to 5 Gy there is
 approximately a linear dependence between threshold voltage shift DVT and
 radiation dose D. The application of positive bias of +5 V at the RADFET gate
 during irradiation, for these ranges of gamma radiation, also for X-ray dose
 range, leads to the increase in DVT and also, approximately a linear
 dependence between DVT and D, is established. Moreover, it was shown that the
 sensitivity of RADFET is much higher in the case of X-ray irradiation then in
 the case of gamma-ray irradiation for the same dose range. [Projekat
 Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 171007]


This study aims to determine the attitude of landowners against land conversion in the village Kalasey One, Minahasa. This research was conducted by using primary data obtained from interviews on a sample of attitudes concerning land owners who've experienced over the land by using a questionnaire that has been prepared. Secondary data were obtained from the Office of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) and the Office of Manado City Government Kalasey Village One. The results showed that the attitude of landowners against land conversion mostly to take place quickly and the conversion is done by first over land tenure. Land converted generally used to build houses and residential areas. Factors that cause land conversion categorized into internal factors such as the pressing economic needs and the desire to change the fate, as well as external factors such as population growth and government policies. Meanwhile land use also has a positive effect, namely the presence of housing construction resulted in the development of rural economy. The attitude of landowners against land conversion is at an index number of 73.73 percent means included in either category.


Accentuation of the spinal curve eg, hyperlordosis. Abdominal protrusion. Flat feet when standing. Pes cavus when not weight-bearing. Walking on tiptoe, Inability to walk on heels (common). Developmental delay, ie failing to meet gross motor milestones for sitting, standing and walking. ± Muscle contractures (not before the age of 8 years). Joint hyperlaxity. Recurrent episodes of myalgia when using muscles.


Based on L-shaped linear array, this paper presents a fast method for the two-dimensional(2D)Direction-OfArrival(DOA)estimation of Coherently Distributed(CD)source. The presented method obtains two rotational invariance matrixes about the central DOAs of CD sources by one order Taylor approximation to the generalized steering vectors of two pairs of shifted subarrays. The central DOAs of 2D CD sources are estimated using a new propagator method to solve the rotational invariance matrixes. The method avoids spectrum-peak searching and the eigen decomposition of the high-dimensional sample covariance matrix in classical subspace methods. As a result, the computational cost is significantly reduced. Under small angular spread, the proposed method provides a good estimation performance and outperforms Sequential One-dimensional Searching(SOS)algorithm at low SNR. As the new method is a blind estimator, the prior information of the specific angular distribution shapes of distributed sources is not necessary. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.


By means of programs GTMPAC based- on generalized triangle method,analy-sis and synthesis of mechanism design in accordance with absolutely graphicalmethod(absolutely germetrical method) is developed. In this paper we make a specialstudy about Five- Position graphical synthesis.


Objective: to reflect on issues related to human resources training in Nursing, concerning the formation of managerial skills of nurses during graduation. Method: a descriptive study of theoretical reflection regarding the strategic importance of academic training in human resource development policy in Brazil since it boosts citizenship, scientific-technical and cultural knowledge and impacts the labor market. Results: as an analysis it was considered that by teaching skills can help transforming nursing education in which theory and practice dissociation is evidenced due to the egress of traditional education is faced with the world of work. Conclusion: it is necessary, therefore, the inclusion of active methodologies, articulation of teaching/service and the actual implementation of the National Curriculum Guidelines, which have a text with pretensions of forming a critical- reflective professional, active before the demands of the labor market. Descriptors: Health Management; Professional Competence; Training Human Resources; Nursing. RESUMO


Background and purpose:Concurrent chemo-radiotherapy(CCRT) was considered the best treatment plan for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma(NPC),but there was no uniform conclusion as to which category of patients and which chemotherapy associated radiotherapy would have the best therapeutic effect. As the standard treatment plan for advanced NPC, DDP concurrent chemo-radiotherapy was recommended by some scholars. DDP can raise the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase(iNOS) protein and synthesize nitric oxide (NO) with anti-tumor effects, so we considered whether the therapeutic effect could be predicted and the corresponding treatment plan could be selectived to detect the iNOS expression in the pretherapy NPC tissues.The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between the expression of iNOS protein and the nasopharyngeal tumor with complete response or with residue after DDP concurrent chemo-radiotherapy, so that the most appropriate plan of treatment can be adopted and the complete response rate of nasopharyngeal tumor can be raised. Methods:All patients were poorly differentiated NPC.The expression of iNOS protein was examined in 30 patients of nasopharyngeal tumor with complete response and 30 patients with residual tumor after DDP concurrent chemo-radiotherapy by immunohistochemical staining (SP method).None of the patients had received radiotherapy and chemotherapy.Results:Immunohistochemical examination revealed that iNOS expression in the NPC tissues was located in both the nucleus and cytoplasm of the tumorous tissues. The intensity of iNOS expression was stronger in the nucleus than in the cytoplasm of the tumorous tissues.The positive rates of iNOS protein expressions were 71.67%(43/60) in NPC tissues. It was 86.67% and 53.33% in 30 tumors with complete response and with residual tumor, respectively. The difference was statistically significant.The rate of iNOS strong postive expressions in the group of residual tumors was higher than that of the group with complete response. It was statistically different,but weak and moderate postive expressions did not have statistical difference.Conclusions:According to the difference of iNOS expression, it is a valuable method to select the most appropriate plan of treatment and the complete response rate of nasopharyngeal tumor can be raised.


In order to build an assessment standard for surrounding rock mass with the Hoek-Brown criterion,firstly,the relationship between Hoek-Brown criterion and Mohr-Coulomb criterion is theoretically analyzed;the yielding approach index(YAI) described by Hoek-Brown criterion parameters is obtained;secondly,the three dimensional calculation for tunnel is founded by FLAC3D,the program of yielding approach index for Hoek-Brown criterion(YAIhb) is compiled;the impacts of material parameters and stress variation to the YAIhb are analyzed,which show that:(1) the areas of YAIhb=1 calculated by the self-compiled program are the same with the plastic areas calculated by FLAC3D,which validates the correction of the self-compile program,and moreover the YAIhb can reflect the yield degree of each element which is superior to the plastic zone distribution standard;(2) with the increase of geological strength index GSI,YAIhb reduces gradually,and the relationship between GSI and YAIhb can be described precisely by the cubic-polynomial equation;with the increase of rock uniaxial strength σci,YAIhb increases gradually in the exponential form;with the damage of element increase,the YAIhb increases gradually,which shows the failure degree of element increases,the relationship between YAIhb and damage index D is in accordance with the hyperbola principle;(3) the increase of maximum principal stress σ1 will lead to the decrease of YAIhb,and their relationship is in accordance with the linear principle;the increase of intermediate principal stress σ2 will lead to the variation of YAIhb in the form of first increase then decrease;and their relationship in accordance with the cubic-polynomial principle;YAIhb increases linearly with the increase of minimum principal stress σ3.


The title bicyclic δ-lactone, C19H26O3, (I), was formed in the reaction of (\pm)-cis-2,6,6-trimethyl-trans-3-ethyl-4-oxocyclohexanecarboxylic acid with p-methoxyphenylmagnesium bromide, following acidification. The kinetically favored (I) was formed rapidly but reversibly, allowing the thermodynamically favored γ-lactone to be formed and isolated after a longer treatment with acid. The expected corresponding carboxylic acids were not isolable under these conditions. In lactone (I), basically composed of an aromatic ring appended to a [2.2.2] bicyclic system, the O—C(O)—C group is asymmetric, its O—C=O angle being 119.46 (19)° and its O=C—C angle being 127.82 (19)°.


This book deals with a subject that extends synthetic differential geometry [61] to differential topology, in particular to the theory of smooth mappings and their singularities. The setting is that of category theory [86] in general and of topos theory [55] in particular. An excellent introduction to both subjects including applications to several topics (among them synthetic differential geometry) is [79]. The subject of toposes in logic and logic in toposes is illustrated in [21], an article intended for philosophers. Our book is intended as the basis for an advanced course or seminar whose only prerequisite is a reasonable acquaintance with category theory, logic, commutative algebra, infinitesimal calculus, general topology, differential geometry and topology. Motivated by the desire to employ category theory in a non-trivial way in (elementary) Physics, Lawvere [72] in 1967 gave lectures on 'Categorical Dynamics' which would turn out to be the beginning of a new subject, a branch of (applied) category theory which came to be labelled 'synthetic differential geometry' (SDG), as opposed to 'analytic' which relies heavily on the use of coordinates. What Lawvere proposed was to do Dynamics, not in the context of manifolds, but in a category E , different from the category M ∞ of smooth paracompact manifolds in several respects : (1) in E , 'the line' would be represented by an object R which, unlike the classical reals, would not be a field but just a commutative ring in which nilpotent elements could be thought of as infinitesimals, and (2) in E , unlike in M , all finite limits and exponentials would be assumed to exist so that, for the objects of E thought of as 'smooth spaces' and for the morphisms of E thought of as 'smooth maps', one could form all fibred products (not just the transversal ones) and something so basic as the smooth space of all smooth maps between two smooth spaces would exist. The idea of introducing infinitesimals so as to render more intuitive the foundations of analysis was not new. On the one hand, there are non-standard mod-


An arrangement for the generating or producing of sounds and, more particularly, a containment structure incorporating a sound-generating device which will be activated upon opening of the container structure so as to emit a preprogrammed sequence of sounds. In a more specific aspect, the containment structure may be constituted of a sealed beverage can; for instance, of the type which is widely distributed in the so-called soft drink or carbonated beverage industry, wherein the containment structure incorporates at least one compartment containing a sound-generating and emitting device which is activated upon the opening of the containment structure.


XJK-1A Roving measurement and control instrument is a wise apparatus developed for the multlway measuring and controlling. It works during the thermal environment simulation test of the Radiant Cooler uses in the infrared multi-spectrum scanister. The design scheme, composition and performance are given in this paper. The comparison of the instrument with the same kind of the other internal and abroad products and the shortage is also indicated.


With the popularization of visual object tracking (VOT), more and more trajectory data are obtained and have begun to gain widespread attention in the fields of mobile robots, intelligent video surveillance, and the like. How to clean the anomalous trajectories hidden in the massive data has become one of the research hotspots. Anomalous trajectories should be detected and cleaned before the trajectory data can be effectively used. In this article, a Trajectory Evaluator by Sub-tracks (TES) for detecting VOT-based anomalous trajectory is proposed. Feature of Anomalousness is defined and described as the Eigenvector of classifier to filter Track Lets anomalous trajectory and IDentity Switch anomalous trajectory, which includes Feature of Anomalous Pose and Feature of Anomalous Sub-tracks (FAS). In the comparative experiments, TES achieves better results on different scenes than state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, FAS makes better performance than point flow, least square method fitting and Chebyshev Polynomial Fitting. It is verified that TES is more accurate and effective and is conducive to the sub-tracks trajectory data analysis.


A 63-year-old woman suffering from progressive systemic sclerosis for about 20 years disclosed symptoms of liver disease within the last three years. Diagnosis of biliary cirrhosis was established on the basis of clinical picture, pathological examination of the hepatic tissue sample, immunological tests, and x-ray studies. Association of systemic sclerosis with primary biliary cirrhosis is briefly reviewed. M.lfRI, 1101.7, No.2, 133-/35, 1993.


Introduction: Hereditary spherocytosis is the most frequent cause of hemolitic anemia reported in the literature. Part of the treatment, when medical support fails, splenectomy and laparoscopy is the approach chosen. Objective: The aim of this study is to report the case of a patient with a rare variety of hereditary spherositosis accessory spleen and situs inversus and laparoscopic treatment, with basic equipment. Clinical case: We report a case of a 33 year old patient with recurrent hereditary spherocytosis with accessory spleen, situs inversus and secondary thrombocytosis. We describe the laparoscopic surgical treatment and the fi ndings of it. In this case report, the anatomic anomalies, previous abdominal surgery, comorbilities an the unusual location of accessory spleen represented a major surgical challenge that needs to be studied in the preoperative period. Conclusion: Splenectomy by laparoscopic approach in patients with situs inversus represent a surgical challenge for a surgeon due to previous abdominal surgery an anatomic anomalies that need to be taken into account when performing the procedure.


Crowdfunding is helping to drive financial inclusion by expanding the availability of funds to traditionally excluded and underserved groups of individuals, such as ethnic minority and female entrepreneurs. This study verifies how ethnic and gender similarity between investor and entrepreneur can affect the invested amount in an equity crowdfunding campaign. Using an integrated approach with linear regression and Shapley decomposition, we analyze 8600 investments made by 5996 unique personal shareholder investors in 81 equity crowdfunding campaigns. Results show that similarity patterns seem to significantly influence the amount invested in a campaign but their effects change according to investor's gender and ethnic origin. In fact, even if female investors give a higher amount to men-led companies, their preference changes if the company is run by a female founder belonging to the same ethnic minority group. Results emphasize equity crowdfunding's potential as a tool for the financial inclusion of ethnic minority groups of investors and entrepreneurs.


The aim of this paper is to reveal the traces of na tio l identity in two works of fiction written by first or second-generation immigrant aut hors; Tamas Dobozy, a Canadian writer of Hungarian descent and Hiromi Goto, a Japanese-Canad ian writer. In this study, national identity is being comprised of several different co mponents, shared by a certain group of people. The article discusses some elements of nati onal identity, such as language, food, collective history and story-telling, which are imp ortant to the work of the above-mentioned authors.


Prediction, by interval or point, of an unobserved random variable is a fundamental problem in statistics. This paper deals with constructing a prediction interval on a future observation Xr in an ordered sample of size n from an underlying distribution (under parametric uncertainty), where the first k observations X1 < X2 <  < Xk, 1k<rn, have been observed. Prediction intervals for future order statistics are widely used for reliability problems and other related problems. But the optimality property of these intervals has not been fully explored. To compare prediction intervals, we introduce a piecewise-linear loss function. The interval which minimizes a risk, associated with this piecewise-linear loss function, among the class of invariant prediction intervals is obtained. The technique used here for optimisation of prediction intervals based on censored data emphasizes pivotal quantities relevant for obtaining ancillary statistics. It allows one to solve the optimisation problems in a simple way. An illustrative example is given.


The subjects were average patients from general surgical wards. The test was performed by injecting subcutaneously 1 ml. of the test solution into the anatomical snuffbox of patients; this blocked the terminal cutaneous branches of the radial nerve. The response of patients to a pin-prick was then determined, at a point 5 em. distal to that of the injection, at 16-second intervals for the first three minutes, followed by 30-second intervals for a further three minutes, and finally every three to five minutes. It was thus possible to determine the time of onset and the duration of analgesia. This information, together with the code letter of the solution, was recorded. At the conclusion of the trial, the records were analysed quite simply. On completion of the analysis, the contents of each test solution were determined from the code.


This Text Discusses And Analyses The Mistakes Which Students Often Make In Learing The Chapter Of Stress Situation In Mechanics Of Material,And Provides The Methods To Avoid Them.