Tertiary sedimentary sequences containing the Paleogene/ Neogene boundary are well exposed in Sakhalin, Russia. Sequences of Oligocene to Miocene mudstones from Korsakov, Makarov, and Shmidt Peninsula areas were studied to reveal the palaeoceanographic environment at the time of the Paleogene/Neogene transition. Late Oligocene rocksare characterized by siliceous mudstones. The SiO2 contents and total organic carbon concentra tions range from 70 to 95% and from 0.5 to 2.7%, respectively. Siliceous rocks from the Shmidt Peninsula are rich in organic carbon, and were deposited in an anoxic environment as indicated by the abundance of C35 homohopane, and low C/S ratio. Open system pyrolysis and pyrolysis gas chromatography show that siliceous rocks from the Shmidt Peninsula are rich in typical marine Type II kerogen with hydrogen indices ranging from 250 to 400 mgHC / gC. The siliceous rocks from the Makarov section are characterized by low hydrogen indices of less than 200 mgHC/gC. Their maximum temperatures experienced during burial diagenesis are estimated to be less than 100°C based on silica mineral transformation and biomarker isomer ratios. Late Oligocene siliceous mudstones are rich in biomarkers derived from diatoms and dinoflagellates, showing enhanced primary productivity of the Late Oligocene ocean in the Sakhalin region. Invasion of nutrient-rich proto-AABW ( Antarctic Bottom Water) and its upwelling might be responsible for the high primary production in the Late Oligocene. Benthic water in the Paleogene / Neogene transition was abruptly oxidized, which is attributable to a decline of proto-AABW. This palaeoceanographic event seems to be related 1) 北海道大学大学院理学研究科 2) 北海道大学大学院地球環境科学研究科 3) 筑波大学地球科学系 4) 現 ,横 浜市役所 1) Graduate School of Science , Hokkaido University 2) Graduate School of Earth Environmental Science , Hokkaido University 3) Institute of Geoscience , University of Tsukuba 4) Yokohama City Office


Denture fabrication on a flabby ridge is a testing situation for a clinician. The use of conventional impression techniques on flabby ridge can lead to an unstable and unsatisfactory denture. Modified impression techniques when used in this condition can record the fibrous tissues in undistorted form and thus help to fabricate a stable and functionally satisfying denture. The various impression techniques which could be used in flabby ridge is reviewed here.


A highly deformable Zr-Al-Cu-Ni-Sn alloy system without any catastrophic failure has been developed and the underling mechanism for exceptional plasticity has been investigated in terms of structural characteristics and atomic movement kinetics. The as-cast Zr_61.7Al_8Ni_13Cu_17Sn_0.3 bulk metallic glass has many local nanoscale ordering features. They can play a critical role in nucleating abundant shear bands that sufficiently accommodate global plasticity. During deformation at room temperature, the ordered regions do not grow, providing a structural stability, possibly from the sluggish atomic movement kinetics. Thermal activation energy for crystallization of the Zr_61.7Al_8Ni_13Cu_17Sn_0.3 alloy is estimated as 3.96 eV, which is about 2.8 times higher than that of the Z_41.2Ti_13.8Cu_12.5Ni_10Be_22.5 alloy [Vitreloy 1 (Vit1)] and the dynamic mass flow rate is around 10 times slower than that of Vit1. A thermomechanical estimation of compressive strain rates under constant stress shows a sluggish atomic movement upon the addition of Sn.


The essence of Marx philosophy revolution lays in realizing the change of thinking mode from the ready-made theory to the production theory.But the basic power which impels the Marx philosophy revolution is the closely examining and criticism to the capital modern.The intrinsic connection between Marx philosophy revolution and the modern criticism words has important instruction significance for our country's modern constructing.


A novel U-shaped bow-tie magneto-electric dipole unidirectional antenna with a dual-layer horned reflector for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications is proposed. To broaden impedance bandwidth, a U-shaped bow-tie electric dipole structure with two notch slots is presented. In addition, to reduce the size of the antenna and improve impedance matching, a new feeding structure designed with perforation and tapered line is introduced. Finally, a double-layer horned reflector, instead of a ground plane, is employed to improve radiation patterns and gains for high-rate data transmission. The prototype antenna can achieve a stable gain of 10 ± 1.2 dBi and an impedance bandwidth of 118% for standing wave ratio ≤ 2 from 2.81 to 10.92 GHz. To the best of the authors knowledge, it is the first U-shaped bow-tie magneto-electric dipole unidirectional antenna for UWB applications. The proposed antenna, which possesses the advantages of UWB antenna and magneto-electric dipole antenna simultaneously, can be easily fabricated with low cost. With these features, it is a practicable candidate for UWB communications.


The Jack Rabbit Pretest (PT) 2021E PT3 was fired on March 12, 2008 at the Contained Firing Facility, Site 300, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This experiment is part of an effort to determine the properties of LX-17 in a regime where corner-turning behavior and dead-zone formation are not well understood. Photonic Doppler Velocimetry (PDV) measured diagnostic plate velocities confirming the presence of a persistent LX-17 dead-zone formation and the resultant impulse gradient applied under the diagnostic plate. The Jack Rabbit Pretest 2021E PT3, 120 millimeter diameter experiment returned data on all eight PDV probes. The probes measured on the central axis and at 10, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50 millimeters from the central axis. The experiment was shot at an ambient room temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The earliest PDV signal extinction was 41.7 microseconds at 30 millimeters. The latest PDV signal extinction time was 65.0 microseconds at 10 millimeters. The measured velocity ranged from meters per second to thousands of meters per second. First detonation wave induced jump-off was measured at 40 millimeters at 10.9 microseconds. The PDV data provided an unambiguous indication of dead-zone formation and an impulse gradient applied to the diagnostic plate. The central axis had a last measured velocity of 1636 meters per second. At 40 millimeters the last measured velocity was 2056 meters per second. The low-to-high velocity ratio was 0.80. Velocity data was integrated to compute diagnostic plate cross section profiles. Velocity data was differentiated to compute a peak pressure under the diagnostic plate at the central axis of 64.6 kilobars at 15.7 microseconds. Substantial motion (>1 m/s) of the diagnostic plate over the dead-zone is followed by detonation region motion within approximately 2.2 microseconds.


Background:  Psoriasis vulgaris is a common chronic inflammatory dermatosis. Disorders in keratinocyte proliferation, differentiation, inflammation and immune dysregulation are the major factors implicated in the pathogenesis of psoriasis vulgaris.


The multiport LCL dc hub is a high power electronic dc substation used to interconnect multiple dc systems in the future dc transmission grids. This paper proposes a distributed power balance controller for high power multiport LCL DC hub. The hub controller follows dispatcher demands for required power trading between the hub ports. In the proposed control method, each hub port (connected to local DC line or grid) equally contributes to manage the central capacitor voltage which ensures internal power balance in the hub. In presence of a fault at dispatcher communication or supervisory control, the proposed control strategy guaranties stability of the DC hub operation so that the active powers at ports are automatically balanced between the injecting and absorbing powers. The proposed control strategy is verified by detailed simulation of a 6-port LCL DC hub in PSCAD/EMTDC.


Celal Bayar Üniversitesi T›p Fakültesi Fiziksel T›p ve Rehabilitasyon Anabilim Dal› MAN‹SA ABSTRACT Hip fractures, one of the main reasons for disability, are frequently seen in older population. Several diseases including osteoporosis, neuromotor dysfunctions such as a stroke or Parkinson's disease, cognitive and balance disorders put the elderly to a higher risk for hip fracture compared to the younger population. In this group of patients, surgery is best treatment modality in order to obtain a satisfactory functional status. However, in these patients, age and coexisting medical illness may cause an increase in complications resulting in higher mortality after the surgical interventions. Moreover, the quality of life may be adversely affected in survivors after the surgery. In this manuscript, the rehabilitation of the elderly patients suffering from hip fracture and the potential problems during the rehabilitation program has been reviewed besides the preventive care methods.


The gas-phase etching of SiO2 was examined using HF and methanol vapor at temperatures below 0 °C and at low pressure. The etching rate of SiO2 increased with decreasing temperature and showed a maximum around –30 °C. The obtained etching rate was a maximum of 40 nm min−1 at plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition SiO2. The etching rate of SiN examined for comparison was more than ten times smaller than that of SiO2 under the same condition. As a result, the etching selectivity of SiO2 to SiN was found to be over 20 at –40 °C. When utilizing a low temperature of less than –30 °C, gas-phase etching of SiO2 showing a high etching rate and selectivity was achieved.


A total of 120 random samples of local (Fresh, nonsalted) cheese were collected from different markets of Sulaimani city during the period from October 2009 to June 2010. The results showed that three 2.5% out of the total 120 cheese samples were found contaminated with Salmonella species. Salmonella enteritidis was the only serotypes that


When a large-scale natural disaster occurs, it is necessary to quickly collect damage information so that disaster-relief operations and wide-area support in accordance with the scale of the natural disaster can be initiated. Previously, we proposed a fast spatio-temporal similarity search method (called the STSim method) that searches a database storing many scenarios of disaster simulation data represented by time-series grid data for scenarios similar to insufficient observed data sent from sensors. When the STSim method is naively applied for estimating disasters occurring at multiple locations, e.g., fire spreading after a large-scale earthquake, it must prepare a huge number of combinations consisting of scenarios that represent disasters at multiple locations. This paper presents a combination method of simulation data in order to apply the STSim method for estimating disasters occurring at multiple locations. This proposed method stores scenarios, each of which represents a disaster occurring at a single location, to a database; thus, reducing the number of scenarios. After a disaster occurs, it extracts and composes scenarios similar to observed data, resulting in efficient disaster estimation in any situation. We conducted performance evaluations under the assumption that an earthquake occurs below the Tokyo metropolitan region and estimating the spread of fire in the initial response. These results of the processing time for estimating the spread of fire show that the processing time is within 10 minutes, which is practical.


This work presents an estimation of the global electricity usage that can be ascribed to Communication Technology (CT) between 2010 and 2030. The scope is three scenarios for use and production of consumer devices, communication networks and data centers. Three different scenarios, best, expected, and worst, are set up, which include annual numbers of sold devices, data traffic and electricity intensities/efficiencies. The most significant trend, regardless of scenario, is that the proportion of use-stage electricity by consumer devices will decrease and will be transferred to the networks and data centers. Still, it seems like wireless access networks will not be the main driver for electricity use. The analysis shows that for the worst-case scenario, CT could use as much as 51% of global electricity in 2030. This will happen if not enough improvement in electricity efficiency of wireless access networks and fixed access networks/data centers is possible. However, until 2030, globally-generated renewable electricity is likely to exceed the electricity demand of all networks and data centers. Nevertheless, the present investigation suggests, for the worst-case scenario, that CT electricity usage could contribute up to 23% of the globally released greenhouse gas emissions in 2030.


Based on the 'Prebisch–Singer' hypothesis, a strand of literature has emerged that focuses on the phenomenon of commoditisation and 'commodity traps' in development. Following Kaplinsky (2006), we revisit the hypothesis on a country's terms of trade in manufacturing exports and imports. Offering high-quality products and targeting 'niche' markets in high-income countries are beneficial strategies for developing countries to improve their terms of trade and to escape a potential 'commodity trap'. Barriers to entry via standards in the importing countries might even support such strategies. Non-tariff measures (NTMs) such as technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) are usually implemented to increase the quality of products, the production procedure or environmental and animal health in the importing countries. Based on a gravity framework controlling for multilateral resistance over the period 1998-2014, it is shown that compliance with these measures reduces the negative impact of commoditisation on their terms of trade.


This paper investigates the target detection and localization capabilities of a coherent multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar network designed and implemented using photonic technology. The benefit offered by photonics is twofold: it guarantees long-time phase stability and frequency/phase coherence between the transmitted and received radio frequency signals; secondly, it allows remoting the antennas by exploiting optical fibers. The proposed radar network demonstrator, which is composed of two transmitting and two receiving antennas in the X-band with 100 MHz signal bandwidth, operates in a real down-scaled outdoor scenario for detecting two collaborative closely-spaced moving targets. The preliminary results demonstrate the effective impact of photonics applied to coherent centralized radar networks and provide some guidelines for the development of more complex and application-tailored radar networks.


It is generally agreed that the advocacy of ICH protection is closely related to and necessarily resulted from globalization.In view of the nationalist property and function of ICH and the historical background under which ICH protection was proposed by predecessor states,however,this paper argues that nationalism also played an important part therein: it was an indispensable means by which the predecessor states kept their self-confidence and maintained their identities and positions in the world;it has been an appeal for better national statuses via cultural protection and transmission when there were political and/or economic problems in these states,and so it is the cultural mutation of political pursuits.While cultural nationalism will still be affecting the protection of ICH in the future,the two extremes in the latter have to be guarded against,i.e.,cultural conservatism and cultural hegemonism.


Two models of spin‐wave resonance in magnetic films are briefly reviewed. These are the surface‐spin‐pinning model and the volume inhomogeneity model. The intensities and frequencies of the resonance lines, the spin‐wave‐phonon interaction, the critical angle, and several other experiments are then discussed in relation to these two models. It is concluded that the evidence tends to favor the volume inhomogeneity model with surface spin pinning being very weak or absent. A consequence of this conclusion is that it is very difficult to determine exchange parameters by means of spin‐wave resonance in films.


The centerpiece of my vision for personnel preparation is a well paid, well-educated early childhood intervention workforce situated in "learning communities" whereby parents, practitioners, administrators, consultants, and university and community college faculty are mutually accountable for creating quality early environments for children. Personnel preparation is an ongoing part of the fabric of daily work. The driving force behind the content and specific personnel preparation activities is the basic question, "What do we need to know and do to improve the outcomes for all young children?" I suggest that currently we do not have the resources or the policies in place to support such a vision. I further suggest that grassroots public support for early childhood intervention could be achieved through the kind of "learning communities" envisioned in the opening vignette of this article. I suggest that there are three areas where changes are critical in order to create "learning communities": (1) increasing collaboration among multiple partners at multiple levels; (2) attending to diversity issues; and (3) promoting family involvement in personnel preparation. Without a shared vision and commitment to early childhood intervention at the community level, we will continue to operate with a massive gap between what we know from research and how we practice. We know what constitutes an effective personnel preparation system, just like we know what makes an effective early childhood intervention program. The question is can that information be shared in ways that make the need for changes in policies and practices undeniable? It will take a nation of informed "learning communities" to make my vision a reality.


The purpose of this article is to reflect about how some practices of the healing or "mojanería" have been silenced in some interpretations of the medicine of the Royal Audience of Quito for the 18th century. As well as proposing certain guidelines for interpreting or reinterpreting these practices according to an approach based on such experiences. The findings show the little reliability of certain interpretations about the behavior of the healers, and the complexity of this type of knowledge.


A poster entitled Ignore AIDS and It Will Bury the Rest of You was designed to rally the public to take the AIDS outbreak seriously. The poster was created for the Oregon Health Division by Pihas Schmidt and Westerdahl in 1987 the image plays off the common saying about ostriches burying their heads in the sand and darkens it with the possibility of death. It portrays an endless succession of people reaching to the horizon hinting at the consequences of willful isolation and ignorance. The poster subtly carries messages at three levels: 1) it prompts individuals to take precautions against infection; 2) it promotes communal efforts to contain the outbreak; 3) it points to the need for research to battle the illness.


The upheavals that have shaken the Arab world since December 2010 have to a large extent been shaped by the behaviour of the security services in each country. As of December 2011, no clear pattern had emerged, and differences in the employment, cohesion, performance and effectiveness of military and internal security forces were notable throughout the region. These differences can be explained by factors such as varying levels of pay and benefits; sectarian, political and tribal loyalties; internal organisation; differentiation between, and selective deployment of, units; professionalism and politicisation of the senior ranks; and use of foreign mercenaries.


Abstract : This volume presents information developed during Phase III of a three-phase study designed to provide a technical basis for determining future (1975-1990) navigator training requirements. The term navigator is used generically to refer to Navigator (AFSC 1535), Radar Navigator (Navigator- Bombardier) (AFSC 1525), Weapon Systems Officer (AFSC 1555), and Electronic Warfare Officer (AFSC 1575). This Appendix addresses the methodology used for developing training Criterion Objectives, along with methodological problems encountered while developing the objectives. Resulting Criterion Objectives are presented. Results of comparing the Criterion Objectives with present course training standards for the purpose of validating present training requirements are presented.


This is the first in a series of reports on population households and families in the United States. In the present study the authors examine trends in population household formation and life-styles in the United States between 1960 and 1990. Implications of recent changes in family structure are analyzed with special reference to the behavior of birth cohorts as they age. Particular attention is given to the topic of womens work and its effect on family income (ANNOTATION)


We present a method for Chinese character component recognition. We use an attributed relational graph model to describe a component. This model allows us to express the knowledge of the component shape and can include stable features of the component in various writing styles and various characters. We then describe a method to extract graph representation of an input character. The graph models are used to recognize components from a whole character by subgraph isomorphism. Our method need not segment component from character and can tolerate links and overlaps between a component and the other part. Experiments for handwritten Chinese characters show its efficiency.


In this research article, the effect of Vadasz number on magnetoconvection in a Darcy Porous Layer with concentration based internal heating is studied. The flow is governed by the Oberbeck-Boussineq model for Newtonian fluid. The stability analysis method based on the perturbation of infinitesimal amplitude is carried out using the normal mode analysis. The onset criterion for both the stationary and oscillatory convection on the stability of system is obtained. The analysis examines the effects of pertinent parameters on the stability of the system: magnetic field parameter, solutal Rayleigh number, Lewis number and Vadasz number. The result show that, internal heat parameter,  and Lewis number, , hastens the onset of instability in the system, whereas magnetic field, , Vadasz number,  and solutal Rayleigh number,  delay the onset of instability.


During the archaeological excavations carried out in 2007 at the National Museum Machado de Castro (Coimbra) a set of glass was recovered from a garbage dump. The dump was sealed by layers resulting from the refurbishing of the Episcopal Palace, promoted by Bishop Afonso Castelo-Branco between 1585 (date of his investiture) and 1592. The accurate dating of the archaeological deposit and the circumstance that its entire content has been the subject of analysis make the study of this vitreous set an excellent point of departure for a significant approach to 16th century glass in Portugal. Comparison with this finds allowed a better understanding of other glass fragments collected during ancient interventions carried out elsewhere in the city.


Relevance. Currently, the development of vaccines against COVID-19, their clinical trials are actively continuing, and the effectiveness of the vaccines used is being analyzed. A very important issue will be how and when to vaccinate patients with various chronic diseases, what are the relative and absolute contraindications for vaccination, how various diseases can affect the effectiveness of vaccination.Aims. To present an overview of the most significant published materials on the issue of vaccination against COVID19 patients with allergic diseases, as well as the likelihood of developing adverse events of an allergic nature in response to the introduction of the vaccine. Conclusions. An active study of vaccines, their effectiveness and safety, demonstrates to us the high reliability of these drugs and the absence of high risks of adverse events in comparison with other vaccines. Anaphylactic reactions to the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines are not more common than for any other vaccines used in international medical practice.


Selfish formless sashay networks (MSNs) networks (MSNs) are parallel paradigms of terror filthy networks that consist of liquor users regarding ball impress. The users in MSNs allure prevalent of course in rotation to share details objects centre of users. In this calibration, humans are the carriers of changeable machinery, as a circumspection their sashay phiz such as operate cypher, similarities, and interests can be exploited to design efficient details transferral algorithms. In this modify, a comparative version of routing and evidence advertisement issues in avaricious MSNs nigh respect to a focusing on (1) MSN choice, (2) fleshly target models, (3) brisk society ascertaining methods, and (4) routing and materials state of affairs protocols are elaborated. Exceedingly, terminate of MSNs which acknowledge to the like of patterns of synergism in the thick of mobile users are explored. Envoy, gifts of secular devise models are townswoman and recently proposed mobility models are surveyed. Thirdly, comradeship origination and stripling analysis algorithms are investigated. To be perfect, a comparative to pieces of anomalous routing and data issuance algorithms in MSNs is presented. Unaffected by excepting, one advanced data transfiguration techniques with dote on to context-awareness, user selfishness and incentive schemes are addressed. To meet withdraw, rare publicly in the straightforwardly issues are discussed.


Objective A case of chromoblastomycosis which was misdiagnosed as Tuberculosis Cutis.The 52-year-old patient,male,has been suffering from erythema,plaque,secondary nodules and verrucous lesions in his left lower extremity after exterior injuries for 20 years.He was misdiagnosed and treated as tuberculosis cutis,but responded poorly to the treatments.Finally the disease was diagnosed as chromoblastomycosis by histopathological examination and fungal identification.Systemic antifungal therapy and direct heat application were then administered.


Among the lightweight methods or the countermeasures for soft ground is the lightweight soil method. The lightweight geomaterial mixed with EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) beads can be used in this method, which leads to the reutilization of the construction generated soil as this is used as the base material. However, the beads have to have high compressibility; therefore, this geomaterial shows the different mechanical characteristics from the others which are generally used as base materials. Though some studies on its characteristics have already been conducted in many research institutes, few have made research on its applicability, design basis and most suitable composition to earth structures. In this study, as a part of our studies to make clear the design parameter and applicability of Lightweight Geomaterial Mixed with EPS Beads (LWGME) to subgrade, conducts the unconfined compression test, triaxial compression test, cyclic triaxial test, and box shear test to find out the mechanical characteristics of LWGME.


The association of interleukin (IL) lp, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-18 gene promoter region polymorphisms was investigated in 50 newborn infants with intrauterine infections and in 76 healthy neonates. The allelic variants of the genes of these cytokine were established to be related to their production levels. The examined neonatal infants showed nucleotide sequence in the promotor regions of ILip gene at positions -31, +3954, and -511, IL-6 atpositions -174, -572, and -597, IL-18 at positions -656, -137, and +105, and IL-10 at positions —592, —819 and —1082. The single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in the promotor regions the genes in the above-mentioned cytokines were found to influence their transcriptional activity, thus altering the level of the respective cytokines. The findings make it possible to use the results of identifying cytokine gene polymorphisms as a predictor of neonatal congenital infection.


To the Editor.—
 The recent report by Rauber and Maroncelli summarizing the results of a mail survey of pediatricians and family practitioners regarding their knowledge and usage of tricyclic medications1 demonstrates two points: (1) the pediatricians surveyed rarely (0.9%) used tricyclic medications for psychopharmacologic purposes in their practices, and (2) their knowledge of the toxic side effects (defined by Rauber and Maroncelli as tachycardia and seizures) is limited (67%). The authors state that the standard use of tricyclic medications, such as imipramine for enuresis, represents "the use of a dangerous drug for the treatment of a nonlethal disease."


this country. Measured by admissions to live performances of legitimate theater and music, our art consumption per head is less than a half of West Germany's and Austria's, little better than a half of Norway's and Switzerland's, and less than a third of such East European countries as Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany. In a cultural center like San Francisco, the past season's more than 1.8 million admissions are very impressive when related to her 700,000 populationthey probably exceed those in any city of comparable size anywhere in the world. But when one remembers our suburban way of life and the fact that San Francisco is the downtown of 4' million Bay Area residents, then this turns out to be not quite so high a figure, more in keeping with our low national average. The American national average used in these comparisons is very approximate and subject


As long as Uzbekistan has become Independent majority of reformations and changes were taken into seeking improvements in various spheres of Uzbek life. For instance Education system was totally reformed and now is on the way of meeting International Upgraded Standards.


The nursery seed germination,phenology,growth rhythm of one-year-old and two-year-old seedlings of 6 provenances of Xanthoceras sorbifolia were comparatively studied. The results showed that the nursery seed germination,height and basal diameter of the one-year-old seedlings of provenances of Mengshan in Shandong and Wengniute County in Inner Mongolia were superior to those of the other four species. Owing to the better water and heat conditions,the sprouting stage,leaf expansion stage,flowering stage and fruiting stage of the two-year-old seedlings from provenances of Wengniute County in Inner Mongolia,Chunhua County in Shanxi,Lingtai County in Gansu,Xunhua County in Qinghai and Kongliu County in Xinjiang advanced correspondingly. In terms of growth rhythm,the provenances of Wengniute County,Mengshan County and Lingtai County were fast-growing-type in rainy season,while that of Chunhua County,Kongliu County and Xunhua County were slow-growing-type in the rainy season. The broad-sense heritability for height and basal diameter of the 6 provenances varied from 0. 898 to 0. 966,and the variance components of basal diameter and seedling height of the 6 provenances varied from 75. 36% to 84. 11% and 72. 86% to 88. 05% individually. The average genetic gain for height and basal diameter of Mengshan County provenance and Chunhua County provenance was 16. 53% and 8. 42%,respectively.


Mechanical defects and partial discharge (PD) defects can appear in the indoor switchgear of substations or distribution stations, making the switchgear a safety hazard. However, traditional acoustic methods detect and identify these two types of defects separately, ignoring the general recognition of audio signals. In addition, the process of using testing equipment is complex and costly, which is not conducive to timely testing and widespread application. To assist technicians in making a quick preliminary diagnosis of defect types for switchgear, improve the efficiency of the subsequent overhaul, and reduce the cost of detection, this paper proposes a general audio recognition method for identifying defects in switchgear using a smartphone. Using this method, we can analyze and identify audio and video files recorded with smartphones and synchronously distinguish background noise, mechanical vibration, and PD audio signals, which have good applicability within a certain range. When testing the feasibility of using smartphones to identify three types of audio signal, through characterizing 12 sets of live audio and video files provided by technicians, it was found that there were similarities and differences in these characteristics, such as the autocorrelation, density, and steepness of the waveforms in the time domain, and the band energy and harmonic components of the frequency spectrum, and new combinations of features were proposed as applicable. To compare the recognition performance for features in the time domain, frequency band energy, Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC), and this method, feature vectors were input into a support vector machine (SVM) for a recognition test, and the recognition results showed that the the present method had the highest recognition accuracy. Finally, a set of mechanical defects and PD defects were set up for a switchgear, for practical verification, which proved that this method was general and effective.


We construct a class of integrable generalization of Toda mechanics with long-range interactions. These systems are associated with the loop algebras ℒ(Cr) and ℒ(Dr) in the sense that their Lax matrices can be realized in terms of the c = 0 representations of the affine Lie algebras C(1)r and D(1)r and the interactions pattern involved bears the typical characters of the corresponding root systems. We present the equations of motion and the Hamiltonian structure. These generalized systems can be identified unambiguously by specifying the underlying loop algebra together with an ordered pair of integers (n,m). It turns out that different systems associated with the same underlying loop algebra but with different pairs of integers (n1,m1) and (n2,m2) with n2<n1 and m2<m1 can be related by a nested Hamiltonian reduction procedure. For all nontrivial generalizations, the extra coordinates besides the standard Toda variables are Poisson non-commute, and when either n or m⩾3, the Poisson structure for the extra coordinate variables becomes some Lie algebra (i.e. the extra variables appear linearly on the right-hand side of the Poisson brackets). In the quantum case, such generalizations will become systems with noncommutative variables without spoiling the integrability.


The new theories, methods and consepts of human economics: integral method of human activity researches, integral systems of human development, integral management of human economics have been developed first time. The facts of unknown money history, history of indicators and economic cycles, attempts to perform efficient economic reforms in former USSR and in the world have been advanced. The new methods of researches and stimulation of economic growth – usage of principially new balances of percentage indicators, human time pyramides have been proposed.


This paper presents a simplifying method of the two previous fault attacks to pairing and the Miller algorithms based on a practical fault assumption. Our experimental result shows that the assumption is feasible and easy to implement.


The Mediator complex plays a central role in transcriptional regulation by relaying gene specific regulatory signals to the general transcriptional machinery. The yeast holoenzyme between mediator and RNA pol II consists of 33 subunits totaling over 1.5 MDa in size. The large size precludes atomic resolution crystallography of the entire assembly. Hence hybrid methods of structure determination are necessary, integrating various techniques including: crystallography of stable subassemblies, cryoEM of the intact complex, and mass spectrometry (MS). Mass spectrometry based structural techniques including chemical crosslinking and native‐MS provide spatial restraints that guide and constrain the modeling process. Crosslinking measurements map interacting protein‐protein surfaces through the identication of amino acid residues that have been covalently modified by heterobifunctional reagents. Native MS permits the determination of stably associated assemblies of proteins in the gas phase. We focus on the development of these new MS based technologies including the design of robust bioinformatics strategies, enrichment methods, and reagents for optimizing mass spectrometric analysis of crosslinked peptides, as well as deconvolution algorithms and sample preparation for native MS analysis. We discuss the application of these methods to determining the structure of the Mediator holoenzyme.


Objective To investigate the effect of cell cycle regulator p21~(WAF1) on the mechanism by which high concentrated glucose inhibits mesothelial cells proliferation. Metkods Flow cytometer technique and semi-quantity RT-PCR method were used to detect the cell cycle distribution and p21~(WAF1) mRNAexpression of rat mesothelial cells in serum-free DMEM with different glucose concentraion media. Results In the high glucose medium most of the cells became hyperplasia, and had multiple nuclei and arrest of cell division. And most arrested in G1 phase of the cell cycle. The p21~(WAF1) mRNA was absent in serum-free normal medium. But high glucose stimulated p21~(WAF1) mRNA expression in dose-dependent way, and the 3. 86% poup was significantly higher than 1. 38% group(P 0. 05). p21~(WAF1) mRNA expression was also absent in the D-mannitol groups which had the same osmolarity as the 3. 86% or 1. 38% glucose groups. Conclusion p21~(WAF1) may be pivotal in the suppression and arrest in the G1 phase of mesothelial cells by the high concentrated glucose.


With increasing public demand for ready-to-eat fresh-cut food products, proper sanitation of food-processing equipment surfaces is essential to mitigate potential contamination of these products to ensure safe consumption. This study presents a sanitation monitoring technique using hyperspectral fluorescence images to detect fruit residues on food-processing equipment surfaces. An algorithm to detect residues on the surfaces of 2B-finished and #4-finished stainless-steel, both commonly used in food processing equipment, was developed. Honeydew, orange, apple, and watermelon were selected as representatives since they are mainly used as fresh-cut fruits. Hyperspectral fluorescence images were obtained for stainless steel sheets to which droplets of selected fruit juices at six concentrations were applied and allowed to dry. The most significant wavelengths for detecting juice at each concentration were selected through ANOVA analysis. Algorithms using a single waveband and using a ratio of two wavebands were developed for each sample and for all the samples combined. Results showed that detection accuracies were better for the samples with higher concentrations. The integrated algorithm had a detection accuracy of 100% and above 95%, respectively, for the original juice up to the 1:20 diluted samples and for the more dilute 1:50 to 1:100 samples, respectively. The results of this study establish that using hyperspectral imaging, even a small residual quantity that may exist on the surface of food processing equipment can be detected and that sanitation monitoring and management is possible.


Abstract Background: Inherited retinal diseases are uncommon, and the likelihood of having more than one hereditary disorder is rare. Here, we report a case of Stargardt disease and congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) in the same patient, and the identification of two novel in-frame deletions in the GRM6 gene. Materials and Methods: The patient underwent an ophthalmic exam and visual function testing including: visual acuity, color vision, Goldmann visual field, and electroretinography (ERG). Imaging of the retina included fundus photography, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT), and fundus autofluorescence. Genomic DNA was PCR-amplified for analysis of all coding exons and flanking splice sites of both the ABCA4 and GRM6 genes. Results: A 46-year-old woman presented with recently reduced central vision and clinical findings of characteristic yellow flecks consistent with Stargardt disease. However, ERG testing revealed an ERG phenotype unusual for Stargardt disease but consistent with CSNB1. Genetic testing revealed two previously reported mutations in the ABCA4 gene and two novel deletions in the GRM6 gene. Conclusions: Diagnosis of concurrent Stargardt disease and CSNB was made on the ophthalmic history, clinical examination, ERG, and genetic testing. This case highlights that clinical tests need to be taken in context, and that co-existing retinal dystrophies and degenerations should be considered when clinical impressions and objective data do not correlate.


In recent years, Information security is a fast growing research field; image encryption is one of the important problems in the field of image information security. A number of Chaos based cryptosystem have been proposed, Most of them based on the traditional confusion-diffusion architecture. The draw backs of traditional architecture are Less sensitiveness in change of plain image and chosen/known plain-image attacks. In this paper, we propose A bit-level sub image blocks confusion and Circular Diffusion to provide the security of traditional architecture. Simulations have been carried out and the results demonstrate the superior security and high efficiency of the proposed scheme. key words: Image information security, Image encryption, Chos, Bit level confusion.


This article is follow-through on the Compilations of Neglected Poems of the Song Dynasty by the local governments of Huizhou,Xuancheng,Chizhou and Taiping from Anhui local documents and other lithographic paintings and by the imperfect copy of Yongle Encyclopedia.The author has obtained 33 neglected poems,24 neglected lines of verses by 36 poets.Seven of these thirty-six poets cannot be found in Complete Song Poems.


This paper presents ongoing activities towards an in-orbit verification of an E-band high bandwidth communication system to exploit a new spectrum for broadband satellite communication by demonstrating a data-downlink, using solid state technologies for the RF analog transmit front end, in the frequency range of 71-76 GHz with a data rate of 5 Gbit/s from a three-axis stabilized 6U nano-satellite in low earth orbit to a ground station. A recent plane-to-ground data transmission has successfully validated the technology platform, and dynamic link budgets suggest the feasibility of LEO to ground links exploiting E-band frequencies.


This paper unifies several generalizations of coherent rings in one notion. Namely, we introduce n-X -coherent rings, where X is a class of modules and n is a positive integer, as those rings for which the subclass Xn of n-presented modules of X is not empty, and every module in Xn is n + 1-presented. Then, for each particular class X of modules, we find correspondent relative coherent rings. Our main aim is to show that the well-known Chase's, Cheatham and Stone's, Enochs', and Stenstrom's characterizations of coherent rings hold true for any n-X -coherent rings.


Physical activity has long been regarded as an important component of a healthy lifestyle. Recently,this impression has been reinforced by new scientific evidences linking physical activities to a wide array of physical and mental health benefits. Nevertheless, there are little detailed researches examining the association between physical activities and subjective health level by using micro-data. Further study is needed to grasp the relationship between the contents of physical activities and health levels in more detail. This study focused on the association between self-rated health and physical activities of the employees by gender and age class,and investigated what kind of daily activities significantly affect self-rated health,using individual dataset in the US. Large-sized micro-data taken from a nationwide internet survey of worker in the US (N=1001)was used in this analysis and two types of daily activities are considered;physically inactive and active. The estimation result shows that in the case of physically inactive activity, viewing arts is highly correlated with high level of self-rated health for men in their twenties. In addition,in the case of physically active activity,doing sport and gambling have the significant impact on the health level for men in their thirties. As for women in their thirties,both reading (physically inactive)and doing sport(physically active)are associated with the high level of self-rated health.


The main influence factors of the consumers' recycling of waste household appliances were concluded and summarized, 15 indicators were abstracted and quantified. The related data were analyzed according to Analytic Hierarchy Process and calculated by using MATLAB software. The study found that financial motive is the major factor and the price is the key point for recycling. The outer environment plays a minor role in recycling. The future research limitations in this area are identified in the end.


This is the first newsletter after SC18 and this issue recaps highlights from SIGHPC's flagship event. Among the many great activities was that Dhairya Malhotra received the inaugural ACM SIGHPC Dissertation award. (Dhairya also guest-writes this issue's recommended reading column.) For the 2019 Dissertation Award, the deadline to nominate someone is February 28th.


The physiological variation was investigated with two-year-old seedlings of Vinca major、Tradescantia virginiana、Reineckia carnea、Ophiopogon japonicus、Ophiopogon bodinieri、Euonymus fortunei. The seedlings were cultivated in pots that were treated with drought stress to understand their drought resistance. leaf relative water content、relative conductivity、chlorophyll、MDA、SOD、POD、proline and soluble sugar content were measured by potting experiment on day zero、the sixth day、the twelfth day、the nineteenth day. The drought resistance of the six groundcover plants was comprehensively evaluated with correlation analysis,principal component analysis and subordinative function. The results showed that the order of drought resistance from strong to weak was: Ophiopogon japonicus Ophiopogon bodinieri Reineckia carnea Euonymus fortunei Tradescantia virginiana Vinca major.


This chapter describes the sites and mechanisms of action of the major groups of microbicides, relating their physical and chemical properties to interactions with microbial structures. It considers the physical, cellular and molecular methods for studying the mechanisms of action of chemical microbicides. These range from the uptake, binding and penetration of microbial cells, to the interaction with microbial structures, including the cell wall, membrane, nucleic acids, cytoplasm and enzymes. Key features of the mechanisms of action of the major groups of microbicides are described covering oxidizing agents, alkylating agents, metal ion-binding agents, nucleic acid-binding agents, protein denaturants and agents that interact with lipids.


I t has been widely reported that the increasing rates of obesity in the United States have reached epidemic proportions. It is therefore no surprise that we are also seeing a dramatic increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes. As I recently wrote in a review article in Current Opinion in Endocrinology & Diabetes, elevated plasma levels of free fatty acids (FFA) are a major link between obesity and insulin resistance. Because FFA are recognized as a major pathogenetic factor in the development of type 2 diabetes, they should be considered as a target for therapy. FFA increases in blood cause insulin resistance in skeletal muscle, liver and endothelial cells, and may be at least partially responsible for vascular diseases in diabetic patients. Obese people have increased plasma levels of FFA compared with those who are not obese. This is explained by an increased number of fat cells, less FFA clearance and insulin resistance at the level of adipose tissue resulting in increased lipolysis.


Forbidden pitches (FPs) effect is directly related to the loss of process window, which is caused by the difference of diffraction orders of patterns in some pitches. This paper analyzes the FPs effects in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography based on the rigorous imaging simulation and process window evaluation. In the rigorous simulation, S-litho is used to analyze the normalized image log slope of test patterns from critical layer, which allow us to find the weak pitches. Then, the process windows of these test patterns are evaluated using the lithography simulator Proteus WorkBench. This can find out the accurate FPs from the range of weak pitches. Finally, the strategy of mitigating the negative effect of FPs is proposed with the help of source optimization. Unlike deep ultraviolet lithography, the difference of FPs between vertical and horizontal direction is presented in the paper. The simulation results have effectively been used design rules.


Many of our most valuable drugs are natural products or are, in some way, inspired by their structures. However, the complex molecular architecture that lies behind the biological activity makes it extremely difficult and time consuming to modify these metabolites by semisynthesis, or to assemble analogues in stereospecific way from scratch. One way to circumvent this problem is mutasynthesis, which couples the power of chemical synthesis with molecular biology to generate derivatives of medicinally important natural products. Mutasynthesis grew from precursor- directed biosynthesis (PDB). Some recent developments in this area citing literature from 2001 to 2009 will be covered in this review.


The forest resources in Xinjiang were surveyed and analyzed based on RS and GIS. Satellite data interpretation was adopted to obtain the general situation of Xinjiang forest resources in assistance with the sampling method and on-the-spot investigations. Based on GIS, related data obtained from satellite remote sensing in 1996 and 2001 were studied through contrastive analysis. Moreover, the dynamic variation of Xinjiang forest resources was studied in an all-around way. In the past five years, the areas of the forestland, woodland, sparse woodland, nursery garden and the land usable for forestry in Xinjiang kept growing, moreover, the forest cover rate and the total standing stock volume increased correspondingly, showing that the wooded area and the amount of growing stock in Xinjiang were increasing. The forestland area in Xinjiang went up to 17,837 km2 from 17,331 km2, with an annual average increase of 101 km2. Accordingly, the forest vegetation came to 1.08% from 1.05%, up 0.03 percentage point; the total standing stock volume went up to 289,985,200 m3 from 262,416,000 m3, a total increase of 27,569,200 m3, an annual average increase of 5,514,000 m3 and an annual average net growth rate of 2.00%. The analysis results showed that the forest resources in Xinjiang were increasing on the whole, however, there remained some problems, such as the sparse natural forests, low forest cover rate, imbalanced wood age structure, and mono tree species composition, etc.


Desperado Spring is a small rheocrene spring located in south-central Oklahoma that emerges from a rocky outcrop and flows into the nearby Blue River. Macroinvertebrate collections and water quality measurements were taken seasonally for an annual period at the springhead and in the springbrook. A total of 16,410 individuals representing 49 taxa were collected in Surber net samples while an additional four species were collected using a dip net. This spring fauna was dominated by insects, especially midges (Chironomidae). Shannon's species diversity values at the springhead differed significantly from those in the springbrook during all four seasonal collections, probably due to increasing levels of oxygen in the springbrook.


The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a low nitrogen ferrotitanium and cored wire, as the low nitrogen ferrotitanium 70Fe-Ti alloy, a nitrogen-containing impurity elements, aluminum, silicon, carbon, phosphorus and sulfur, the nitrogen, ≤0.15% and an aluminum content of <3% or ≤0.75%, respectively. The titanium, iron, silicon, carbon, phosphorus, sulfur and aluminum contents were: Ti 60-80%, ≤0.5% Si, ≦ 0.1% carbon, ≤0.04% P, ≤0.03%, and sulfur, the remainder being iron. The manufacturing method based on a conventional smelting process, the salt is used as the smelting industry slag formers, a low nitrogen impurity element, aluminum, silicon, carbon, phosphorus and sulfur content of titanium sponge, titanium scrap, scrap quality as pure iron or alloy material, an iron smelting process and subjected to the process an argon atmosphere. Low nitrogen ferrotitanium alloy material of the present invention as required for the manufacture of titanium alloy as a stabilizing element or alloy strengthening elements in order to obtain the strength, ductility, toughness, and corrosion resistance and other aspects of good overall performance, requirements and nitrogen, aluminum, impurity elements silicon, carbon, phosphorus, sulfur, low levels of high-grade steel such as stainless steel used.


Mika Horie et al [2] demonstrated that obese women had higher total energy expenditure (TEE), compared with normal weight. However, this increase may be due to increased basal metabolic rate (BMR) due to higher fat-free mass (FFM) and energy demand during physical activity. However, Melo et al [3] found that obese individuals are economical, the metabolic point of view. Therefore, the energy expenditure (EE) per kilogram of body weight at the give time is lower in obese individuals.


The conditional cash transfer revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean, beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing to this day, heralded a new prominence and acceptance of applying rigorous impact evaluations to social programmes. Over the last decade, sub-Saharan Africa has begun its own cash transfer revolution, and has followed a similar pattern of rigorous impact evaluation: in no fewer than 12 countries rigorous impact evaluations have been carried out or commissioned on government-run cash transfer programmes in the last few years. This paper describes how unique characteristics of the sub-Saharan African context both shape the design of cash transfer programmes and present special challenges to evaluating impact. It introduces the results of five papers in this special issue which draw on what could be considered the first generation of cash transfer impact evaluations in the region. It then highlights the new research questions currently being covered by the second generation of impact evaluations, including HIV risk (sexual debut, partner characteristics, perceptions about peer behaviour, marriage, and pregnancy), psycho-social status and mental health, conditionality (both explicit and implicit), and the contribution of cash transfers to economic growth (household level production decisions, local economy effects and attitudes towards risk).


The skulls of Lepus capensis from 3 areas of Shaanxi Province were systematically compared by one-way variance analysis and discriminant funetion.Among 44 variables involved,there were significant differences in 30,26,2 variables between Shanbei and Hanzhong groups,Shanbei and Shannan groups,Shannan and Guanzhong groups,respectively,which indicated there was significant morphological variance in skulls between specimens from Shanbei area and the other areas.Stepwise discriminant function analysis indicated the greatest length of the nasals,zygomatic breadth and distance between thtympanic bulla had the greatest contribution to the skull shape variation of Lepus populations in the 3 areas.Grass hare is a common species in Shaanxi Province,different selection pressure in different areas was considered as the key reason of the variation.


Probabilistic inference will be of special importance when one needs to know how much we can say with what all we know given new observations. Bayesian Network is a graphical probabilistic model with which one can represent probabilistic relations intuitively and several effective algorithms for inference are developed. This paper reports a now ongoing work in its design stage which provides a vocabulary for representing probabilistic knowledge in a RDF graph which is to be mapped to a Bayesian Network to do inference on it.


The concept of reliability importance gives a measure of how much changes in the reliability of a particular component of a coherent system affects the reliability of the system. The definition of the importance of component k is I(k) = ∂r(p)/∂pk, where p is the vector of component reliabilities and r(p) is the system reliability function. Examples of the reliability importance for common systems are given. The structural reliability importance is also given, along with its relationship to the reliability importance.

Keywords:

system reliability;
structural component reliability


The developmental outcomes of prenatal cocaine/polydrug exposure were evaluated using a multivariate research design that controlled for the possible confounding variables of age, sex, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and caregiver status (i.e., biological parent, relative, foster care, and adoptive parent) using an exposed (n = 41) and nonexposed (n = 35) cohort of preschool children (mean age = 4.25). Results indicated that in utero drug exposure had no effect on cognitive, social, language, and behavioral developmental outcomes as measured by the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: 4th ed., the Social Skills Rating System, the Preschool Language Scale: 3rd ed., the Child Behavior Checklist, and the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale-Survey Form.


Calculation results are presented of the induced gamma radioactivity levels of the septum magnet of the NUCLOTRON slow extraction for the protons, deuterons and C, Fe, Pb nuclei with the energy 5 GeV/nucleon. Projectile particle, secondary hadron and projectile nucleus fragment contributions to the dose rate of induced gamma radiation for the septum magnet are calculated. The data obtained by Monte Carlo and our experiment are compared and discussed. It is shown that for heavy primary nuclei the main contribution to the septum induced radioactivity is caused by the projectile nucleus fragments and secondary hadrons. The maximum dose rate of the induced gamma radiation corresponds to the deuteron extraction for maximum beam intensities from 10 12 (deuterons) up to 10 9 (Pb nuclei) particle/second.


While there is increasing recognition of the need to go beyond measures of mental ill health, there is a relative dearth of validated tools for assessing mental well-being among adolescents. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) is a promising tool for use in this context, and this study evaluated its use in an Australian context. The WEMWBS was completed by 829 Western Australian adolescents, aged from 13 to 16 years old, drawn from Grades 8, 9 and 10 in seven separate high schools. Using confirmatory factor analytic techniques, the utility of the full 14-item scale was not supported, but good fit for a previously validated seven-item short version (SWEMWBS) was supported. Strong measurement invariance was demonstrated across age, and weak measurement invariance was demonstrated across gender. The scale has good internal reliability. There were no differences in SWEMWBS scores across Grades 8 to 10. Overall, the SWEMWBS represents a useful tool for educational, developmental, and school psychologists investigating positive mental wellbeing in younger adolescents.


Objectives Since s the clinical use of unsealed radioisotopes has been in practice and after that the radioiodine rsquo s oral administration became a gold standard for treating thyroid cancers To protect the patients rsquo family members caregivers and general public from unacceptably high radiation exposures the therapeutic dosage of I administered patients are mandatory hospitalized in special isolation room until the exposure rate at one meter meets international and national limits The current study was focused to measure the isolation duration of inpatients treated with radioiodine Material and methods The current study presents the duration of hospitalization of patients treated with I therapeutic dosages at Nuclear Institute of Medicine amp Radiotherapy NIMRA Jamshoro Pakistan from to Thirty Five patients age range from to years with cancer of thyroid administered with different activities to mCi milliCurie of I admitted in special isolated room at different times were included in this study Results The results indicated that only one of total patients discharged from hospital within first hours of I administration whereas and patients were hospitalized in isolation room for and hours after the administration of activity Eleven percent of total isolated patients n stayed for to hours at the hospital Conclusion The stay duration of I administered patients at NIMRA shows wide ranging pattern Due to rapid clearance of radioiodine form their bodies more than half of patients stayed only hours


Preliminary results of the recognition and release of molsidomine from molecularly imprinted polymers are reported. The molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) were prepared with molsidomine as a template molecule through radical polymerization. Eight different functional monomers were used with ethylene glycol dimethacrylate as crosslinker and dimethylsulphoxide as porogenic solvent. Non-covalent interactions between molsidomine and each functional monomer in DMSO prior to thermal bulk polymerization was utilized. Parallel stationary and dynamic binding experiments on both MIPs and NIPs (non-imprinted control polymers) were applied to verified imprinting process. Prepared polymers bound and remove molsidomine not selectively, but drug release properties were satisfactory.


Computer vision is a powerful tool for healthcare applications since it can provide objective diagnosis and assessment of pathologies, not depending on clinicians' skills and experiences. It can also help speed-up population screening, reducing health care costs and improving the quality of service. Several works summarise applications and systems in medical imaging, whereas less work is devoted to surveying approaches for healthcare goals using ambient intelligence, i.e., observing individuals in natural settings. Even more, there is a lack of papers providing a survey of works exhaustively covering computer vision applications for children's health, which is a particularly challenging research area considering that most existing computer vision technologies have been trained and tested only on adults. The aim of this paper is then to survey, for the first time in the literature, the papers covering children's health-related issues by ambient intelligence methods and systems relying on computer vision.


Background: International studies have shown a two-way relation ship between obesity and hypertension, increased morbidity, increased risk of complication s and poor compliance to treatment. Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess whether short-term weight loss had had any effects on blood pressure control in obese patients with stage 1 hyp ertension who were not under treatment. Methodology: Initially, the sample comprised of 265 obese patie nts newly diagnosed with stage 1 hypertension that were not under treatment. 157 of them had to b e excluded, since they did not comply with the stud y inclusion criteria; consequently, the final sample comprised of 108 patients. All participants were gi ven a lowsodium diet. The SPSS 15.0 was used for the statist ical analysis and the significance level was set to p< 0.05. Results: Our sample (n=108) consisted of 46 males and 62 females with an average age of 52±1.8 years and 50.3±1.5, respectively. Two weight measurements were taken, the second one took place after six months of diet and showed the following differences: the average B MI decreased from 33.7kg/m 2 ±0.9 to 31.9±0.8 (males), and from 31.2±0.7 to 29.9±0.7 in females (p <0.001); al so, waist circumference (WC) decreased from 119.6 ±1.8 cm to 113.4 ±1.6 cm in males, and from 101.9± 1.3 cm t o 97.2±1.2 cm in females (p <0.001). Systolic blood pressure (SBP) also decreased from 149 mmHg±2.4 to 134 mmHg±1.6 (males), and from 144 mmHg±1.8 to 138 mmHg±1.3 (females) (p <0.001), and diastolic blood pressure (dbp), was also lower from 80 mmHg±1.8 to 76 mmHg±1.6 in males, and from 74 mmHg±1.2 to 73 mmHg±1.1 in females (p<0.001). Conclusions: Decreasing waist circumference in obese patients wi th stage 1 hypertension, combined with a diet targeted at reducing calories and sodium, could lea d to short-term blood pressure control in accordanc e with international guidelines.


The article is a treatise in the field of anthropology of science. The main goal of the essay is the antropological analysis of the comics Expercience by Emilia Dziubak. The author treats the comics as a source of knowledge about stereotypes for the scientist and science. Especially, he points to the mythological patterns used in the comics.


The design of a dual band operational compact antenna is investigated in this paper for RFID handheld reader application. The dual frequency operation of the antenna is achieved by using a U-shaped slot on the patch and a L-shaped slot in the ground plane. The shorted wall connecting the patch and the ground plane plays a vital role to make it compact. The overall dimension of the patch is 20×36 mm2 which is very compact with respect to the operating frequencies. Moreover, the air gap between the patch and the ground plane provides the circuitry to be embedded within the antenna. The antenna achieves a -10 dB impedance bandwidth of 12 and 10.4% respectively covering all sub-bands of universal UHF and ISM 2.4GHz bands. The antenna is seen to operate with linear polarization with stable omni-directional radiation characteristics in both E- and H-planes.


From the available STIS data of RR Tel, that have provided a coverage with absolutely calibrated data in a wide wavelength range, we have obtained a new determination of its reddening (E(B-V)=0.00) from the comparison of the observed HeII Paschen lines decrement relative to HeII lambda 4686 (for 24 HeII Paschen lines down to the region of the head of the series near lambda 2060 A) with the theoretical one as given in Storey and Hummer (1995) for case B, T=10,000 K and log Ne=6. This new E(B-V)=0.0 value has been confirmed from a re-analysis of the IUE low resolution data. We recall that the so far generally adopted value in the literature has been E(B-V)=0.10 as obtained by Penston et al. (1983).


Almost one year has passed since the appearance of SARS-CoV-2, causing the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of confirmed SARS-Cov-2 cases worldwide has now reached ~92 million, with 2 million reported deaths (https://covid19.who.int). Nearly 365,000 SARS-Cov-2 genomes were sequenced from COVID-19 samples and added to public resources such as GISAID (https://gisaid.org). With the vaccines becoming available or entering trials (https://covid19.trackvaccines.org), it is vital to keep track of mutations in the genome of SARS-CoV-2, especially in the Spike protein Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) region, which could have a potential impact on disease severity and treatment strategies. In the wake of a recent increase in cases with a potentially more infective RBD mutation (N501Y) in the United Kingdom, countries worldwide are concerned about the spread of this or similar variants. Impressive sampling and timely increase in sequencing efforts related to COVID-19 in the United Kingdom helped detect and monitor the spread of the new N501Y variant. Similar sequencing efforts are needed in other countries for timely tracking of this or different variants. To track geographic sequencing efforts and mutations, with a particular focus on RBD region of the Spike protein, we present our daily updated COVID-19 virus Mutation Tracker system, see https://www.cbrc.kaust.edu.sa/covmt.


The author investigated pollinators in each vertical climatic zones on north slope of Changbai Mountain,and used various diversity indexes to carry on the pollinator diversity in the mountain.The results indicated that there are 251 species of pollinators,which belong to 9 orders,62 families,179 genera.A-grade community diversity analysis indicated that,the order of four communities diversity indexes was:Larix gmelini—Betula platyphylla mixed forest communityConiferous forest communityBetula ermanii forest communityTundra community,the order of the diversity index in different months was: the end of Julthe middle ten days of Jul the end of Junthe middle ten days of Junthe middle ten days of Augthe beginning of Sep.In four different communities,indexes of pollinators in the Larix gmelini—Betula platyphylla mixed forest community,such as the number of species,individuals,the species diversity index and the species uniformity index were higher than those of other three kinds of communities.Similarity and clustering analysis of communities indicated that similarities of pollinators in each different community had remarkable difference.Changes of pollinator community diversity mainly concern with the vegetation type.


The purpose of this study was to determine the dominant factor that clinically influent the occurrence of dehydration in goats aged 10-14 days old, in order to enhance the accuracy in diagnoinge the state of hydration. Ten native kacang goatlings were used as research objects. Kacang goatlings were dehydrated until loss 10% of their bodyweight by inducing diuretics furosemide (2mg/kg body weight every 4 hours) using intramuscularly, orally administration of spironolactone (50 mg every 8 hours) and hydrochlorothiazide (50 mg every 8 hours). Regression analysis was used to verify the correlation between clinical factors that considered potential, which are enopthalmus, skin turgor (back, neck and upper eyelid), capillary refill time, pulsus, breath, and body temperature. The results showed that enopthalmus, skin turgor on back and eye region has close correlation with dehydration occurrence with coefficient determinant R2 are 0.92; 0.90 and 0.81 respectively. It can be concluded that these three parameters can be used as predictor towards dehydration occurrence.


Rich, complex and mysterious primitive religious ideas are concealed in the natural, visual and conscious characteristics of a variety of animals in the Book of Songs. The understanding of the primitive religious ideas is the key to understanding the thoughts and ideas in the Book of Songs and a path to understanding the origin of Chinese ancient poetic art.


Prentice [1] offered a statistical definition of a surrogateendpoint as 'a response variable for which a test of thenull hypothesis of no relationship to the treatmentgroups under comparison is also a valid test of thecorresponding null hypothesis based on the trueendpoint'. A National Institutes of Health (NIH)working group generated less quantitatively rigorousdefinitions that contrasted clinical and surrogateendpoints [2]. A 'clinical endpoint' is '[a] characteristicor variable that reflects how a patient feels, functions,or survives', and so is related to the surrogate, '[a]biomarker that is intended to substitute for a clini-cal endpoint'. Moreover, '[a] surrogate endpoint isexpected to predict clinical benefit (or harm or lack ofbenefit or harm) based on epidemiologic, therapeutic,pathophysiologic, or other scientific evidence' [2].While Prentice's definition of surrogate requires thesurrogate to account for the entirety of the effect of anintervention on a clinical endpoint, the NIH definitionis more lenient. There must be clear distinction bet-ween a surrogate endpoint and a correlate. While anappropriate surrogate necessarily correlates with aclinical endpoint, all correlates are not effectivesurrogates [3]. For example, fever is a clinical correlateof serious vascular access infection, but is not anadequate surrogate for demonstrating the ability ofan intervention to attenuate access-related sepsis. So,all surrogate measures are clinical correlates, but theconverse is far from true. Surrogate endpoints areattractive for clinical trials, especially if the surrogateoutcome occurs sooner, more often, or is easier tomeasure.Themedicalliteratureisrepletewithexamplesof putative surrogates that have failed to adequatelypredict clinical endpoints [4,5]. For example, reducingventricular ectopy does not necessarily correlate withimproved mortality. In hindsight, these measures wereclinical correlates alone. This sobering limitation hasbeenobservedeveninsituationsinwhichasoundchainof logic supports the use of the measure as a surrogate.


In order to efficiently transmit the picture data in the air traffic control system,an improved image coding algorithm,which is based on Embedded Zero-tree Wavelet(EZW),is presented.At first,the lowest frequency sub-band is coded without loss.Then,based on the human visual system,different sub-bands at the same level based on different perceptual weights are merged.In the end,Huffman coding is used for EZW result.The experiment result shows that this method is better than the original EZW algorithm.


Container images can help developers in application development.  In creating a container image, it is necessary to perform security checks before it can be used by others. This makes it important for the team to find a solution by detecting the vulnerability of the container image used. Trivy aims to scan container image vulnerabilities and uses the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database as information from the vulnerabilities found in the container image. This research tries to design a dashboard using React JS and Golang as programming languages to build the frontend and backend sides and use Trivy which is a command line interface-based tool to check the vulnerability of container images. The research was conducted using the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) method. This research produces a website-based dashboard that has a user-friendly interface and can be used without any operating system restrictions.


The effects of geographical location (Kochi-strain [33°N]: Aquarius paludum paludum, Naha-strain [26°N]: A. p. amamiensis) and/or rearing temperature were examined on the lower and higher lethal temperatures (LLT and HLT) of larvae and also on the super-cooling point (SCP) of the adult water strider. Experiments to determine the lethal temperatures were performed mainly within 24-48 hours after the hatching or molting of the first to 5(superscript th) (last) instars. The first instars just after hatching were reared at 25℃ or 20℃ for the Kochi-strain and at 25℃ for the Naha-strain. The air temperature inside the incubating chamber was dropped or raised stepwise by 1℃ every hour to find the low and high lethal temperatures of the larvae on the water surface, respectively. The higher resistance to both lower and higher temperatures was shown by the first instars of the Naha-strain-25℃ group (mean HLT: 45.1℃; LLT: -3.38℃) followed by Kochi-strain-25℃ group (HLT: 42.6℃; LLT: -1.40℃). Similar differences in the lower and higher lethal temperatures were also shown by the 3(superscript rd) instars between the two strains. However, that difference disappeared by the 5(superscript th) (last) instar stage, probably due to exposure to a constant ambient temperature till the 5(superscript th) instar stage. On the other hand, in the Kochi-strain the 5(superscript th) instars grown at 20℃ showed both a higher mean HLT (45.34℃) and a lower LLT (-5.30℃) than those grown at 25℃ (HLT: 43.71℃, LLT: -3.20℃). The average SCPs in the A. p. amamiensis and Hybrid (F15) were significantly lower than those of A. p. paludum under long- and short-day photoperiods. Natural selection of heat tolerance in the Naha subtropical strain might also lead to an accompanying higher cold hardiness. The overwintering generation of larvae grow up in relatively low ambient temperature of around 20℃ during late October and November in Kochi. This moderate temperature could lead to higher cold hardiness of the last instars just before winter.


Background Rhinophyma is a benign inflammatory growth of the nose. It usually involves the caudal one-third of the nose in men. It not only affects the patient's appearance, but also can have profound functional implications. Many difficult treatment methods have been advocated, often with acceptable success. Because there appears to be no distinct advantages in the different therapeutic modalities, no one modality is universally endorsed. Methods We performed a retrospective review of patients from 1990–2001 who underwent treatment of their rhinophyma at Louisiana State University, Health Science Center and Overton Brooks Veteran's Hospital in Shreveport, LA. The tumescent anesthesia, Weck blade excision and argon beam coagulator technique (TWA) was used on 51 patients. Results Patients undergoing this technique have operating times no greater than ten minutes. The average blood loss was less than 5cc. No surgical complications were noted. Conclusion The TWA technique yields good cosmetic results and is cost-effective.


Efficacy of cellular immunotherapy for liver metastases (LM) has been limited by poor trafficking and elevated intra-tumoral pressures. In a phase 1b study, we found that regional, pressure-enabled drug delivery (PEDD, TriSalus Life Sciences, Inc.) improved LM CAR-T delivery. We hypothesized that PEDD of CAR-T in a murine model can improve LM control.

 LM bearing CD45.2 mice were treated with CD45.1 anti-CEA CAR-T via systemic delivery (SD, tail vein) or regional delivery (RD, portal vein) at low pressure (LPRD) vs. high pressure (HPRD) to model PEDD. Flow rates were calibrated to achieve LPRD or HPRD. Tumor bioluminescence (TB), flow cytometry (FC), immunofluorescence (IF), & quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) were assessed on various post-treatment days (PTD).

 FC of liver non-parenchymal cells on PTD7 showed increased CAR-T density in HPRD & LPRD (9.4% & 11.0%, p = 0.03 & 0.002) vs. SD (3.7%). qPCR of the CAR transgene supported this observation, but was not significant (HPRD 135.8, p = 0.76, LPRD 108.6, p = 0.40 vs. SD 69.8). TB was lower in RD vs. SD up to PTD7 (log2 fold-change HPRD −1.3 & LPRD −0.9 vs. SD 4.3, p = 0.005 & 0.006). Tumor proliferation by Ki67 IF was significantly reduced with RD vs. control (HPRD & LPRD, p < 0.001 & p = 0.05) with HPRD superior to LPRD (p = 0.03). Serum liver enzymes were not significantly elevated using HPRD vs. LPRD at PTD7 (AST/ALT 154.7/36.3 vs. 139.1/29.1, p = 0.84/0.67), but did rise at PTD17, correlating with tumor progression (AST/ALT 800.7/229.3 vs. 387.5/139.5, p = 0.10/0.28).

 RD increased LM CAR-T delivery and HPRD showed evidence of improved CAR-T trafficking and tumor control relative to LPRD. Further clinical testing of PEDD is planned for LM cellular therapy.


Widely used simplified analytical methods for estimating the tensile force in tie-rods are clearly not applicable when they contain significant discontinuities or irregularities. A common example for which this fact becomes relevant in practice is the use of connectors to unify historical ties consisting of several segments. To address this challenge, a robust hybrid methodology is proposed which can be applied to any historical tie by employing a data-driven approach to a dataset generated using the finite element method. The methodology is applied to a real case study involving two historical ties.


:  An analysis of the first and following saccades made during a complex visual search task is reported. The observer's task was the search for a face or building (content) with the conjoint features of ideal filtering and contrast. Evidence for a stimulus-driven information processing and for a search intention processing was found. The probability of correct hits and of saccades, landing on a pattern sharing two features with the target, was increased after prior exposure of this target. We further address the issue of what information might be held in trans-saccadic memory. Carryover effects from saccadic eye movements of nonhits to hits were found with respect to the preceding processing time. Search intention (measured using the similarity of fixated to target pattern) also increased the probability of the following hit. This carryover effect of information from one to the following saccade is not effective on a longer time scale. The saccadic memory is in contradiction to results using simpler conjoint tasks or a search for a target, which does not include search for content.


With the expanding scale of animal cell culture and increasing demand of biopharmaceutical,the development of serum-free medium based on cell lines and products has become a major task in the field of cell engineer.The statistical methods and tools are popular in the processes of design medium and can be used to evaluate the multiple factors and their interaction scientifically and effectively.The novel microarray and proteomic analysis can improve the performance of identifying the role of medium.The aim is to provide some idea for serum-free medium study through systematically summarizing the newly and commonly used serum-free medium study and design approaches and their characteristics.


The final ratification of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in November 2007 marked a certain culmination of the re-configuring of the relationship between Indigenous peoples and colonizing states over several decades. It represents the triumph of the determination, persistence and agency of Indigenous peoples who have struggled unceasingly to win recognition of their rights and of injustices perpetuated through acts of imperialism which many argue continue today. It also drew a line in the sand between states who choose to acknowledge the rights of Indigenous peoples to be recognized and identified as having specific rights within international law, and those who refuse to recognize these rights outside of their juridical frameworks. the intersection of particular global and local interests is redefining Indigenous diplomacies and ontologies in ways that have important political and ethical consequences and which are notably bifurcated. Overarching these bifurcations are rapid and significant changes to the national and international juridical frameworks, particularly with regard to juridical interpretations of self-determination and rights. These points of bifurcation are explored in this chapter which argues for the re-locating of Indigenous philosophies and ontologies at the centre of Indigenous diplomacies.


The aim of this research is to investigate the influence of fibre sequence on the mechanical properties of woven fan palm/glass fabric reinforced polymer hybrid composites. Research specimens were varied in fibre sequence between woven fan palm and glass fabric. Vacuum bagging method was used to manufacture the specimens (at pressure of -70 cmHg). The results of tensile, bending, and impact tests show that the addition of glass fabric can increase the mechanical properties of the hybrid composite. Based on the fibre sequence, the glass fabrics on surface of the hybrid composite have the best mechanical properties.


Innovation, whether related to drugs, vaccines, or even program design, can allow services to be provided in a timely and efficient manner and to be appealing to beneficiaries. Examples such as point-of-care CD4 cell counts, rapid malaria diagnostic tests, tuberculosis diagnosis by cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test, rapid HIV test kits (and more recently HIV self-testing), and fixed-dose combination antiretroviral therapy innovations in HIV treatment and prevention improve the efficiency and reach of services. Choice is also an important factor in acceptability and uptake of health services, as seen in contraceptive programs where an increased number of options are associated with increased contraceptive uptake.1 A recent example of an innovation with potential impact is medical devices developed for adolescent and adult voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) HIV prevention programs.

VMMC progress in the 14 priority countries of southern and East Africa is an impressive public health HIV prevention effort. By the end of 2015, 10 million males had been provided with medical circumcision by HIV prevention programs, the vast majority also receiving HIV testing, many for the first time.2 Additionally, VMMC was one of 19 global health priorities referred to by the Copenhagen Consensus Centre as a 'best-buy' to reach the sustainable development goals.3 Beyond the prevention of HIV infection, added benefits of VMMC include prevention of other sexually transmitted infections such as herpes simplex virus and human papillomavirus infections.4,5 Not to be forgotten is the fact that an uninfected partner is the best protection against the sexual transmission of HIV, and therefore, the HIV prevention beneficiaries of male circumcision include women and also men. A model for Zambia predicts that reaching a goal of 80% circumcision among males of 15–49 years would reduce HIV incidence among females as much as 26% in the long term.6 Models predict that in some countries, almost half of HIV infections averted within a generation's time of VMMC scale-up will be among women.7

Achieving VMMC coverage of priority populations is not without challenges and complexities, including cultural barriers, establishment of new supply chains, need for high-quality services, creation of demand for services, funding, and need for efficiencies for service delivery.8 Given the goal of VMMC scale-up at a time of decreasing resources for primary prevention modalities, strategies and innovations are needed to improve accessibility, increase uptake of services, ensure sustainability, and improve cost efficiencies, all while maintaining public trust and safety of the program. In contrast to conventional surgical methods, medical devices for circumcision of adults and adolescent males are an innovation that may alleviate some scale-up challenges through the elimination of complexities inherent to surgery, including the need for sutures and injected anesthesia. Device-based techniques are typically shorter, easier to learn, simpler to perform, and have been safely conducted by nurses. Devices have thus been promoted as a means to extend the reach of programs, reduce costs, and potentially increase demand and program efficiency, while maintaining or even improving on safety.9 Advantages need to be weighed against the requirement that clients return 7 days after device placement for removal, whereas follow-up after surgical VMMC is voluntary. Two medical devices for adolescent and adult VMMC, PrePex and ShangRing, have been prequalified by World Health Organization (WHO) and can be used in VMMC programs supported by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.10

Initial research on devices demonstrated safety and acceptability in the setting of clinical trials.11,12 Despite this, additional questions that cannot be answered in the clinical trial setting remain, including requirements and timelines for in-country regulatory processes, safety with use in routine service delivery settings (including at fixed, outreach, and mobile service delivery sites), strategies for integration of devices into ongoing programs, client demand, impact on program reach, and the cost of services. To further explore these issues, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and PEPFAR developed a systematic research agenda, independent from device manufacturers, to understand the potential of devices to accelerate VMMC scale-up. As part of the evaluation agenda, it was also important that questions be addressed in contexts as close as possible to "real-life" scaled programs.

This collection of 16 articles examines research on the introduction of the 2 devices prequalified by WHO, PrePex, and ShangRing. These studies provide a firm body of evidence to inform development of recommendations regarding device introduction into VMMC programs already operating at scale. We offer a brief description of the findings on introduction, including on safety, supply, demand, and cost of VMMC using devices, as summarized in Figure Figure11.

FIGURE 1.

Framework for systematically assessing the role of devices in accelerating the scale-up and improving the efficiency of the VMMC program. COGS, cost of goods sold; HR, human resources; OR, operational research.


The microorganism oxidation of sulphide minerals(FeS_2) in coal mine wastes results in some environmental problems and disasters such as acid mine drainage(AMD),spontaneous combustion,and deflagration.The inhibitation of Fe~(2+) oxidation was analyzed by adding different dose of bactericides into the solution of purified Thiobacillus ferroxidans.The effects of two bactericides,sodium lauryl sulphate(SLS) and sodium benzoate(SBZ) in inhibiting the activity of Thiobacillus ferroxidans in coal waste piles were researched.The lab experiment showed that both bactericides(SLS and SBZ) are effective in inhibiting the activity of Thiobacillus ferroxidans.The inhibition rate of controlling Fe~(2+) oxidation is(75.69%) with SLS at the concentration of 10(mg/L),and that of SBZ is 75.89% at the concentration of 30(mg/L.)Bactericide technology could control the pollution and promote the re-vegetation of coal mine wastes.


Problem root of this research is the low students Mathematic learning outcome and Mathematic learning orientation happened recently did not emphasize students to have appropriate conceptual understanding. This causes the decrease of students' conceptual understanding, so they are not able to complete Mathematic problems given and tend not to study independently. To overcome this problem in this research Macromedia Flash learning media Is developed which is implemented by using discovery learning model which aims at increasing students conceptual understanding and grow students' independent learning. Process of developing learning media in this study is conducted to find out validity, practicality and effectiveness of that media. Data of the study shows that learning media developed has met the level of validity, practicality and effectiveness. The results of validity are at a valid level; practicality seen from the implementation of learning media is at high level and the effectiveness seen from students' response shows positive result, time management of students is ideal, and students' learning outcomes are good. The student learning independence questionnaire after the learning process using media is increasing.


We have deposited silicon nitride films by plasma‐enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) at 250 °C with properties similar to films prepared at 700 °C by low‐pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD). Films are prepared using silane and nitrogen source gases with helium dilution. The film properties, including N/Si ratio, hydrogen content and electrical quality are most sensitive to changes in the silane flow rate during deposition. For films deposited under optimized conditions at a substrate temperature of 250 °C, current versus voltage measurements in metal‐insulator‐semiconductor structures show the onset of carrier injection at 3–4 MV/cm, slightly lower than LPCVD films. When bias‐stressed to 2 MV/cm, capacitance versus voltage measurements show some hysteretic behavior and evidence for positive fixed charge, similar to LPCVD films. For the optimized films: N/Si=1.33±.02; refractive index (λ=6328 A)=1.980±0.01; dielectric constant (1 MHz) ∼7.5; density=2.7±0.1; and the etch rate in 10% buffered ...


PURPOSE: A manufacturing method of powder for food is provided to remove the intrinsic fishy taste of Optunita hymifusa cactus and to significantly improve the flavor using Optunita hymifusa cactus and oriental medicine refined water. CONSTITUTION: Stems or berries of Opuntia humifusa cactus are prepared by washing and are inserted into an extractor. 7-9 times more of refined water than the weight of Optunita hymifusa cactus is added thereto. A hot water extraction is performed at a temperature of 90-100°C for 10-13 hours to obtain the Optunita hymifusa cactus extract. 10-20 wt% of dextrin is added to 100 wt% of Optunita hymifusa cactus to prepare the mixed material. The mixed material is dried and pulverized to prepare the powder for food. The refined water is an oriental medicine refined water that is prepared to contain active ingredients of the oriental medicine by adding the oriental medicine into drinking water and heated. The oriental medicine refined water is prepared by adding 10g of angelica gigas, 10g of chinese matrimony vine, 10g of schisandra chinensis, 10g of cornus fruit, 5g of ganoderma, 5g of jujube, 3 pieces of glycyrrhizae radix, and 3 pieces of ginger, heated and boiled with a weak fire for 30 minutes to 1 hour and filtered through a sieve. [Reference numerals] (AA) Insert Opuntia humifusa cactus into an extractor; (BB) Add refined water and extract with hot water; (CC) Add dextrin: Manufacture a mixed ingredient; (DD) Dry and pulverize: Manufacture powder for food


a first gasifier for receiving biomass; a gas distributor for delivering reactant gas and oxygen into the first gasifier in a countercurrent direction to the biomass flow and to define a plurality of reaction regions including a drying region, a pyrolysis region, a gasification region and a combustion region; and, a second gasifier for receiving gases from the plurality of regions of the first gasifier and a gas distributor for delivering reactant gas and oxygen into the second gasifier in a concurrent direction to the flow of gases from the first gasifier. As a result, no carbon chars, oils or tars are expected to be present in the synthesis gas produced.


The imageries of tall poppies, mateship and pragmatism are used to describe spirituality in the Australasian context. They represent the spiritual notions about the equality of all, caring for and sharing with others and performing necessary activities without being overtly religious as practiced in Australasia.


Abstract Recent records of the Nile Soft-shelled Turtle, from two widely separated localities in Egypt (Lake Nasser and Northern Sinai), help shed some light on the current status of the species in the country.


Aim:The COVID-19 pandemic has had major consequences on our habits and style of living. For this study, an online questionnaire was conducted online, with a total of 103 participants. This survey aimed to determine the pandemic's implications on nutrition and behavior patterns. Results: During quarantine, the feelings of hunger and satiety did suffer changes: 17% of the cases reported a decrease, compared to the vast majority (55%), who experienced high levels of hunger. Three-quarters of participants reported either an enhanced or at least a similar intake of main meals and snacks between meals. Boredom and stress proved to be the central factors determining these results. When the participants were asked about the level of physical activity, a small number answered that the frequency of training grew. Meanwhile, the subjects who moved occasionally had more time to do it at home. Most of the participants (75%) stated that the length of leisure time was "more than sufficient". Conclusion: As the pandemic is still ongoing, more research should be made on a larger population, to obtain more accurate results.


The invention relates to a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor body having a first (1) and a second (5) connection zone of a first conductivity type (n), a channel region (7) (a second conductivity type (p), a drift zone (4) of the first conductivity type n) with a lower doping than the connection zones (1, 5), which drift region (4) formed between the channel region (7) and the first terminal zone (1), wherein the channel region (79 (between the drift region 4) and the second connecting zone (5) is formed, a insulated from the channel region (7) formed control electrode (12) for controlling a conducting channel in the channel region (7) between the second terminal zone (5) and the drift region (4) and being characterized in is formed that between the first connection zone (1) and the drift region (4) a field stop zone (9) of the first conductivity type (n), where the field stop zone (9) has a higher doping than the drift region (4) and a lower Doping than the first connection zone (1). Furthermore, the invention relates to process for its preparation, are implanted with the dopants in the semiconductor substrates, by the diffusion, the field stop zone is produced.