The practice of substituting one drug for another has arguably become a taken-for-granted feature of contemporary responses to heroin dependency in Britain. Substitute prescribing has, however, recently come under attack from various commentators both inside and outside of the drug treatment system. The general tone of the argument is that problem drug users who are dependent upon heroin are entering the drug treatment system and are simply being "parked on methadone." In order to shed new light on this particular drug treatment intervention, this article will use the genealogical method to map out the historical conditions from which it became rational and necessary for medical experts to govern the heroin-dependent body through the practice of substitute prescribing. The principal thesis of this article is that substitute prescribing can be understood as an outcome of a convergence between the discursive fields of poisoning and addiction during the latter half of the 19th Century. This way of thinking and acting upon the heroin-dependent body as a poisoned object has had a lasting and significant impact upon the way we think about and respond to heroin withdrawal through the practice of substitute prescribing.


Controlling devices was one of the important fields, led by robots to do the dangerous, precise and even boring work, the embedded systems study had the main role and contribution in making such control convenient, as it acquire measures, process readings and control actuator. The suggested solution was to control using three modes as well as approaching the problem without using PC as processing and conditioning unit, also to overcome the limitation of AVR atmega32 peripherals that can control only two servo motors, this limit has been overcome by the SPI network of microcontrollers. Results were good as it is functional but with some findings like rounds up some values led to loose of fraction in the moment of sending degree to the slave micro, and there were proposed solution which was to send the value in two cycles, also putting the three modes in one program were not possible because of the blocking statement in the GSM mode.


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Abstract Mercury (Hg) retention in forest ecosystem plays a key role in global biogeochemical cycling. We present a comprehensive review of the research status of forest Hg in China to characterize the Hg budgets and pools. Averaged total Hg (THg) inputs at remote forests and rural and suburban forests in China are about 2–4-fold and 2.5–5-fold higher than the observed values in Europe and North America, respectively. The highly elevated THg inputs are mainly derived from the elevated atmospheric Hg concentrations and litterfall biomass. THg outputs from the forest ecosystems are much lower than the atmospheric depositions. The annual THg retentions range from 26.1 to 60.4 µg m−2 at subtropical forests and from 12.4 to 26.2 µg m−2 at temperate forests. Given the large areal coverage, THg retention in forest is ∼69 t year−1 in China and is much high than that in global scale estimated by models. The much higher THg retention has elevated the THg pools in Chinese subtropical forests. This study has implication for the role of China forests in the global Hg biogeochemical cycle and the optimization of atmospheric Hg transport and deposition models. Graphical Abstract


This essay is an investigation of the history of books on Jewish identity and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, in terms of their reception in an early modern Anglophone world of trans-Atlantic colonial expansion. It examines three texts, The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (Benjamin of Tudela, 1173/1983), The Hope of Israel (Menasseh ben Israel, 1650/1987), and Jews in America (Thorowgood, 1650). The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (hereafter referred to as The Itinerary) is an account of a medieval European Jew's travels eastward to the border regions of China between 1159 and 1172. In the seventeenth-century trans-Atlantic Anglophone world, The Itinerary began to be read in connection with The Hope of Israel and Jews in America, works that promoted the idea that native Americans were the Lost Tribes, written respectively by a Jewish and a Protestant author. The essay asks why The Itinerary, a twelfth-century Jewish travel account largely unread by and unknown to


The results of a sample survey of 10000 newly married couples in Kiev capital of the Ukraine USSR are presented. These couples originally interviewed in 1970 were followed up after 5- and 10-year intervals and again in 1990. The primary aim of the survey was to identify changing attitudes and reproductive behavior in different phases of the life cycle. Data are included on family composition at the time of each round of the survey. The important effect of living conditions on family size is noted as are womens difficulties in reconciling economic activity and motherhood which in turn have reduced the number of children they have actually had.


In order to identify in the natural medium the first growth sta tes of some trees and ahrubs represented on the inferiorfringe of the andino woods, 45 taxa of Dicotyledons seedlings are described, obtained through germination of seeds under semigreenhouse conditions. Among other characters observed which are used for taxonomic identification are: The germination, structure and organization of the Cotyledons, hypocotyl, andepicotyl coupled with the determination of the filotaxis and leaf diferentiation. The familias of the higher species studied correspond to the orders: Fabales and Myrtales, whith 13 and 6 species respectively.


Summary Nocturnal polysomnography (PSG) is the most important laboratory technique in the management of sleep–wake disturbances and is considered the "gold standard" [1]. New sensor technologies are entering the field, and rapid development in telecommunications and mobile technology has accelerated the introduction of telemedicine as a viable and reliable option [2]. The present broad review is an amalgam of the current knowledge with proposed new sensors and remote control. The reader should note that not all of the techniques discussed here have strong clinical validation, and this should be considered when purchasing equipment.


Abstract New methods of determining the distances to galactic planetary nebulae have been analyzed and various statistical distance scales have been compared.


The dielectric and electrical conductivity properties of xPb(Mn1/3Sb2/3)O3–(1−x)Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 (PMS–PZT) ceramics were studied. X-ray diffraction indicated that all samples exhibit a single-phase perovskite structure. Dielectric study revealed that the dielectric relaxor behavior was induced by co-doping Mn2+ and Sb5+ into Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 ceramics. Electrical conductivity measurements showed that the concentration of carriers are increased with the increase in PMS contents. After annealing in an oxygen atmosphere for 30 h, the direct current conductivity of PMSZ15 was much lower than that of the as-sintered sample. The reason why this phenomenon occurs may be the reduction of oxygen-vacancy concentration.


The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of preferences when small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are confronted with the practical problems associated with implementing frequent and large-scale changes to their working policies and practices. This paper aims to alleviate some of the concerns as claimed in positioning and change agency theory by introducing "preferential role positioning" to organizational change.,This study uses a qualitative case study approach and change agency and positioning theories to find out the extent to which staff and management experienced the practical difficulties and challenges and what resolution actions they took. Eighty-five semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2004/2005 and 2011 with the staff and management of four SMEs in the UK. An interpretative analysis was conducted on the case data in the tradition of Husserl and Schutz. In the first set, participants were asked to elucidate the difficulties faced in their roles and how these were experienced whilst the second focused on impacts and strategies. Three independent researchers reviewed and interpreted the qualitative data and helped with the coding and thematization.,This paper's main results are based on the data's three stages showing how SME members chose to deal with the practical difficulties namely "new structures and procedures" (stage 1); "new ways of communicating" (stage 2) and "new collaborations" (stage 3). The combination of the stages' aspects led to the emergence of "preferential role positioning" as the study's theoretical contribution to the gap on preferences in organizational change research.,The eighty-five interviews from UK-based SMEs constrained the sample size thereby limiting the number of questionnaire categories asked. The findings and their analysis cannot be generalized to non-SMEs that seek to address similar difficulties.,Managers need to be aware of the adverse impacts of using draconian, top-down disciplinary and punishment measures/structures as a way to implement change. Other practical lessons include the fact that managers should contextualize people's anxieties, dissatisfaction, resistance and disengagement as a platform from which social knowledge can be generated with all change agents in order to resolve implementation challenges in the longer term. Staff developed the ability to deal with some practical issues such as navigating through the new departmental structures, new working procedures and new ways of talking with management and with each other to implement change more successfully.,The social value of the findings demonstrates that preferences can be imported from other social science disciplines into Organizational Studies to show the value of what people can contribute and how they choose to do so (i.e. via what discourse, using what types of interactions and capabilities to do so). In addition, the results show that management need to consider employees in their plans as they try to implement change firstly to facilitate greater interaction and success, secondly to minimize implementation difficulties and thirdly as a recognition that there are multiple change agents and multiple role-enacting positions in developing sociological knowledge that can be of value.,This study's three-stage approach has shown that a successful implementation and management of change in SMEs should also include a bottom-up recognition of the difficulties, adversities, conflicts and tensions and a resolution to deal with the structural and communicative constraints via dialogue and "preferential role positioning".


She's the Man. Dir. Andy Fickman. DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount. 2006. Over the course of the so-called "Bard Boom"--which began with Kenneth Branagh's Henry V in 1989 and continues unabated with his recently released As You Like It--cultural manifestations of Shakespeare have become increasingly populist. In 2005, an extract from A Midsummer Night's Dream was used to advertise that most iconic youth-oriented product, Levi's jeans; and in 2007, the playwright himself battled intergalactic demons in an episode of the third series of the hugely successful, revamped BBC television program Doctor Who. I chose to study this popular appropriation of Shakespeare in my doctoral research because, as a teenager, I witnessed how my generation's attitudes towards our exam texts and their author were changed by films like William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann, 1996), Shakespeare in Love (Madden, 1998), and 10 Things I Hate About You (Junger, 1999). For this reason, I was interested to see a new addition to the burgeoning Shakespearean teen film sub-genre, She's the Man (Fickman, 2006), which declares itself "inspired by" Twelfth Night and was written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, the duo behind the 10 Things screenplay. The key element of Twelfth Night reproduced in She's the Man is the central plot involving gender masquerade and romantic complication. Viola Hastings disguises herself as her twin brother Sebastian, taking his place at a new boarding school while he is on an unauthorized jaunt to London with his band, in order to win a place on the boys' soccer team and thereby prove that she is capable of competing with the stronger sex at "the beautiful game." There Viola falls for soccer captain and roommate Duke Orsino, who has a crush on her lab partner, the recently dumped and vulnerable Olivia Lennox, who is in turn attracted to the unusually sensitive new boy in class. Viola-as-Sebastian offers Duke insights into the female mind and receives extra soccer coaching in return. The situation reaches a head when the real Sebastian returns and, unaware of his sister's deception, is astonished to find himself first assailed by Olivia and then ushered onto the soccer pitch. During the course of this crucial match, the truth emerges and Viola establishes her right to play with the boys by scoring the winning penalty kick. Duke recovers from the shock of discovering that his teammate and dorm confidante is also a "hot chick," and he escorts Viola--now in her "woman's weeds"--to the debutante ball, where Sebastian partners with Olivia. In this way, the makers of She's the Man follow Shakespeare's "blueprint" in "homage" to Twelfth Night, as they explain in a DVD featurette. The film's cast of supporting characters and subplots gesture towards the play, but the relationship is fairly loose. Duke has two soccer playing friends named Andrew and Toby, who serve a comic function as idiotic embodiments of the contradictory impulses of today's adolescent masculinity. Olivia, meanwhile, attracts the unwanted attentions of Malcolm Festes, a preppy and obsessive fellow student, who has a pet tarantula named Malvolio and who shows up at the climatic soccer match wearing yellow, diamond-patterned golfing socks. The addition of extra players to the romantic game, in the form of Viola's "dumb jock" ex-boyfriend Justin and Sebastian's high-maintenance girlfriend Monique, seems intended to emphasize the difference between unsatisfactory, transient modern relationships and timeless true love. Other references are made to the film's Shakespearean intertext through diegetic detail: the school is Illyria Preparatory; the debutante season is organized by the Stratford Junior League; there is a billboard advertising the school play What You Will; and the students' favorite eating and meeting place is Cesario's Restaurant. The only lines from Shakespeare's text that are cited in She's the Man are the now proverbial ones concerning greatness, which here feature as a sporting pep-talk, with Duke quoting his coach rather than the original source. …


[E]-6-(2-Acylvinyl)uracils and their corresponding 1-(2-hydroxyethoxy)methyl derivatives were synthesized through palladium-catalyzed reactions which involved an interesting rearrangement. Some of the acylvinyl uracils (3, 4, and 5) and the acyclonucleosides (8 and 10) showed pronounced activity against human T-lymphocyte Molt 4/C8 and CEM cells. However, they were less toxic to murine L1210 and FM3A cells. The compounds did not have any marked antiviral activity. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.


Technetium-99m sulphur colloid (99mTc-SC) scintigraphy is a commonly used method in the assessment of peritoneopleuric leak in cases of liver insufficiency [1-4]. A 40 years old patient with alcoholic cirrhosis liver insufficiency, ascitis and hepatic encephalopathy was severely dyspnoic due to large right sided pleural effusion. A 99mTc-SC peritoneo-pleuric scintigraphy was performed. A 1.5 inch 22 guage needle was inserted into the peritoneal cavity at the site of dullness, as identified by percussion and ascetic fluid was withdrawn. A dose of 185MBq of99mTc-SC was instilled into the peritoneal cavity through the same needle. The thoracic and abdominal planar images in anterior (A) and posterior (B) views were acquired 24h after tracer administration with the help of a SPET/CT-16 slices CT gamma camera (Siemens Symbia T, Germany), which showed diffuse tracer accumulation within the right hemithorax confirming communication between the ascitic fluid and pleural effusion (Fig. 1). A curvilinear track of intense tracer uptake was noted in the middle and left side of the thorax. Single photon emission tomography/CT (SPET/ CT) images of the thorax acquired at 24h demonstrated that this tracer activity was the thoracic duct (Fig. 2). The limited resolution of planar scintigraphy did not allow precise anatomical localization of the tracer activity but drainage to the thoracic duct was obvious on the SPET/CT scan. This case highlights the potential usefulness of SPET/CT in precise anatomical localization of tracer activity when planar imaging is inconclusive [5].


1 Infection and Immunity, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 2 Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 5 Centre for Women's Infectious Diseases Research, The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 6 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom


The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers(ADMM) is an important method for machine learning. A large number of stochastic versions of ADMM continue to emerge. But almost all the algorithm focused on the Steepest Descent, which cause slow convergence rate. In our work, we propose a new stochastic alternative direction method of multipliers with conjugate gradient(SCG-ADMM), and prove its convergence rate in ergodic sense. Conjugate gradient descent has a better performance in traditional cases. Experiments on LASSO and Logistics Regression show that our proposed algorithm can achieve state-of-the-art performance in real applications. And we use the linear search method to replace the manual setting of the step length.


The utility model discloses an oneself improves black jar of printing ink quality, include: the base, cavity base, black jar casing, black jar, heating device, agitating unit and controlling means, the top of base is located to the cavity base, china ink jar casing is located on the cavity base, the inside of black jar casing is located to the china ink jar, heating device locates on the casing wall of black jar, agitating unit locates the bottom of black jar, controlling means locates in the cavity base, a said oneself improves black jar of printing ink quality heats for black jar through heating device, dilutes printing ink to stirring printing ink through agitating unit, deposiing in effectively preventing printing ink, at the in-process of agitating unit stirring, when the printing ink consistency is too high, heating device will improve the temperature of heating, if the consistency of printing ink exceeds the adjustable range, the alarm sends the alarm, and the staff pours the weak solution into and dilutes, guarantees the quality of printing ink, improves the effect of printing


In this article, the construction of valuations in Chinese private equity fund, the process and the steps of the construction and three important problems during the process were discussed. In order to solve the three problems, firstly, the real value of the evaluation before certain point was determined and evaluated; Secondly, the three stage cash flow method or JP model as a benchmark model ware put forward; Finally, the idea that bring down the individual enterprise management risk with a common characteristic of enterprise groups average operating conditions was introduced. Thus the valuation method, which was targeted for the object of China private equity fund companies of two significant characteristics: long investment recovery period and the future big uncertainty, was presented. It is more suitable for Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) or a high and new technology enterprise value for quite a long time, compared to the current valuation method for large enterprises or western. KEYWORD: dynamic valuation method; Investment cycle; Operating risk; Three stages cash flow method; JP model


The translation of overseas brand mainly takes the transliteration method.Transliteration of overseas brand is not only just a simple simulation,furthermore,it should fully consider the characteristics of Chinese characters' pronunciation,expressive features and visual effects,including the flexibility use of homophonic transliteration,half-transliteration,and sound-meaning combination translation and other varies methods.The translation of overseas brand will bring an effect on commerce,culture,psychology,society and other aspects.Therefore,we must deal with the relationship between "naturalization" and "dissimilation".It should not only take the psychological condition of Chinese people upon new things outside into consideration,but also make consumers feel the exotic style that comes from overseas brand.


Lodovico Guicciardini's Descrittione di tutti I Paesi Bassi (1567) is one of the most detailed and best documented contemporary descriptions of the Low Countries. As such its account has become an integrative part of the historical narrative on the history of the Low Countries. It distinguishes itself from other cosmographic sources of the Renaissance through its broadness and analytical approach and the rich and varied sources the author used. Although being a description of the whole of the Low Countries, his focus is clearly on the cities, and more in particular on Antwerp. Staying in Antwerp, one of the major commercial and cultural centres of the sixteenth century, for his business, Guicciardini spent many years collecting information. He used classical historiographic and geographic works, personal testimonies of merchants, intellectuals, travellers, and members of the Antwerp city council, and even archival sources, which he used with a critical sense that was not at all common in the period


A system and a method for controlling a motor are disclosed. In the present invention, the period information and the operation cycle are detected by a sensing module for calculating the variations of the rotating speed of the rotor. The duty cycle of the PWM signal corresponding to each timing segment is determined according to the predetermined power. By using the PWM signal to drive the motor, the waveform of the output current is rather smooth and close to a sinusoidal waveform, and noises of the motor are reduced effectively.


This article presents an interdisciplinary study of text comprehension. It combines insights from literary studies and cognitive science. An effort is made to show how psychological theories, methods of discourse comprehension and second language acquisition can be usefully combined. Preliminary theoretically motivated assumption is that cultural factors influence the comprehension process but the role of textual factors is not denied. The paper examines text comprehension from both theoretical and applied points of view. It focuses on the role of cultural factors that might affect a second-language learner's understanding of foreign texts.


1 Omicron Energy Solutions, Berlin, Germany 2 Vattenfall Europe Generation AG, Cottbus, Germany SUMMARY This paper describes general design considerations, the system layout and practical experiences with online monitoring of electrical apparatus in large thermal power plants. The availability of electrical equipment in power plants is of utmost importance, since outages can easily lead to financial loss of millions of Euros, even per day. Therefore operators of power plants pay large attention to the system health of their apparatus, particularly these in the functional chain of power generation, as e.g. generators and generator step-up transformers. On-line monitoring appears to be an important tool to provide reliable status information, detect failures early and utilize the full life time. For identifying possibly unreliable components, general failure statistics provide first input. For example in the work of Cigré WG A2.37 "Transformer Reliability Survey", most failures have been attributed to the dielectric of power transformers. The same failure mode applies for generators. Experiences with specific grid conditions and particular apparatus designs are another input for selecting appropriate monitoring systems. Finally, economic calculations prescribe the frame of the extent of the applied technology. For large turbo generators, it was decided to monitor the temperature in the slots of the stator and the partial discharges of the stator. The measurement of partial discharges is carried out in a frequency range of several 100 kHz to a few MHz for being more sensitive towards signals coming from the inside of the stator windings. Rotating electrical machines generally have several sources of PD, therefore source separation is essential to discriminate between noise, PD with low failure probability and dangerous PD. In the context of this work, amplitude-based impulse correlations were most effective (3 phase amplitude relationship diagram 3PARD). Alarms are based on levels as well as on rate of change. PD pattern classification is applied for a basic risk assessment. For the large generator step-up transformers it was decided to monitor temperatures, dissolved gases in oil (DGA), bushing capacitance and dissipation factor, partial discharges and transient over-voltages. Transient over-voltages where suspect to be the reason for a number of breakdowns in the last decades, so their monitoring with true waveform recording was of high importance. Actual measurements show the interaction between the transformer and the grid. For monitoring partial discharges, the traditional measurement of electrical PD pulses at the bushing taps is combined with UHF measurements using drain valve sensors. This is necessary for discriminating between internal, potentially dangerous PD and external corona. For determining the state and ageing condition of the bushings, different methods are used in comparison: sum of current vectors from three phases of one transformer, bushing-to-bushing comparison and the voltage transformer (VT) reference method. Highest overall system accuracy was achieved with the VT reference method, where the secondary voltages of VT's are used as reference for calculating capacitance and dissipation factor. The typical over-all system accuracy is ± 2 pF for capacitance and ± 0.5 % for dissipation factor. All measurement functions are illustrated with practical experiences and case studies which help to prove the benefit of monitoring of electrical apparatus in large power plants.


Abstract : The Accident Management Orientation Guide identifies the guidelines needed for mitigating the hazards associated with a hazardous materials (HM) in- service railroad derailment and a HM yard accident. The guide addresses all phases of on-scene emergency response operations from initial notification of emergency response personnel through departure from the accident scene of the cleanup/disposal teams, and resumption of normal operations. Examples of programmed decision-scenarios for handling HM rail derailments and yard accidents are included.


In this paper, the authors introduce a generalized Sakaguchi type spiral-like function class S(\lambda, \beta, s, t)  and obtain  sharp upper bound to the second Hankel determinant |H_{2}(1)| for the function f in the above class. Relevances of the main result are also briefly indicated.


The present review represented the advanced synthetic strategies for chromones annulated at the C(7)-C(8) bond with five-membered, six-membered, and seven-membered oxygen-containing heterocycles with two heteroatoms, such as 6H-[1,3]dioxolo[4,5-h]chromen-6-one, 2,3-dihydro-7H-[1,4]dioxino[2,3-h]chromen-7-one, 3,4-dihydro-2H,8H-[1,4]dioxepino[2,3-h]chromen-8-one, 2,3-dihydro-1H,7H-chromeno[7,8-b][1,4]oxazin-7-one, 4H,12H-pyrano[2,3-a]phenoxazine-4-one and 9,10-dihydro-4H,8H-chromeno[8,7-e][1,3]oxazin-4-one. The biological activity of naturally occurring and modified synthetic fused hetarenochromones has been also highlighted.


AbstractThe adsorption of lead(II) onto xanthated date palm trunk (XDPT) from aqueous solutions was studied in a batch adsorption system. Factors influencing lead(II) adsorption such as initial Pb(II) concentration (25.8–207.0 mg/l), pH (1–6), contact time (5–240 min), and adsorbent dosage (0.625–6.0 g/l) were investigated. The adsorption process was relatively fast and equilibrium was established within 120 min. Maximum adsorption of Pb(II) occurred at pH ∼ 5. A comparison of the kinetic models on the overall adsorption rate showed that the adsorption system can be best described by the pseudo-second-order kinetics. The adsorption equilibrium data obeyed Langmuir isotherm and the monolayer adsorption capacity of Pb(II) was found to be 53.48 mg/g. The adsorption mechanism has been suggested to be due to the complexation of lead(II) ions with sulfur donors present in XDPT.


Under equilibrium conditions, the sample average of the delays encountered by all the calls submitted during a given time interval is an unbiased estimate of the mean of the delay distribution. If some of the delays are not observed, the resulting sample average need no longer be an unbiased estimator of the corresponding population mean. This is the case when, for instance, only a limited number of delays can be timed simultaneously. The purpose of this paper is to investigate these biases for queuing systems when only one clock is available and thus one delay only can be measured at a time. It is shown that, regardless of the order of service, the expected value of the observed average delays is always smaller than the mean waiting time for all calls. Although the average delay on all calls is independent of the order of service, the measurement biases resulting when only one delay can be measured at once depend on the queue discipline. In particular, we shall show that the average delay for all calls is always larger than the average delay of the observed calls even if these calls are always served last (observed-call served-last).


Abstract : This study provides recommendations that are aimed at improving the integration of U.S. military and other U.S. governmental organizations during operations. This study solicited U.S. uniformed military and U.S. other governmental agency representatives responses to multiple questions. The questions focused on identifying skills, knowledge levels, impressions, and perceptions from military and interagency participants. The responses were compared to common U.S. military competencies and characteristics. Finally, recommendations were derived from the responses and comparisons. The thesis, that the skills, knowledge and attributes required by military and interagency leaders to integrate and synchronize United States governmental efforts in complex operations need further development. By identifying these characteristics and providing ways to develop them, our Nation will establish a foundation of trained and ready future leaders that are capable of overcoming any challenge. The Department of Defense can lead this effort with initiatives in doctrinal, organizational, training, leader development, and material areas. These initiatives will build teamwork within our government and set the stage for other nation's integration.


The results of experimental investigations of the influence of distributed suction through a finely perforated section of a symmetric airfoil on the spatial development of disturbances in the boundary layer are presented. It was found that distributed suction reduces by 10 times the intensity of natural disturbances of the boundary layer and by 20 times the intensity of artificial disturbances generated by an external acoustic field. A spectral analysis of disturbances showed that suction reduces the intensity of high-frequency fluctuations for both natural and forced disturbances. It was found that the distributed suction affects the average flow – when the suction is on, the separation of the boundary layer near the trailing edge of the wing is eliminated. It was found that distributed suction significantly affects the mean flow, up to eliminating the boundary-layer separation near the trailing edge of the wing.


Cardiac alternans has been linked to arrhythmias, and certain conditions, such as fibrosis, can change the onset of alternans increasing the vulnerability to electrical instabilities. The study of the underlying mechanisms of beat-to-beat cellular fluctuations and, in particular, when fibroblasts interact with myocytes, could help to reduce the risk of reentrant activity. We investigated the origin of cellular alternans in myocytes coupled to fibroblasts using mathematical models. Differences in alternans development in relation to variability in ion transport pathways between individuals of a population of cells was the key to identify the parameters that can modulate cellular alternation. Repolarization alternans and Ca2+ cycling alternans were concomitant in myocytes, but the latter was a better quantitative indicator due to marked alternating Ca2+ transients. Despite the similar mechanisms inducing Ca2+ alternans, the myocyte-fibroblast population was more prone to alternans than the population without fibroblast. Our findings suggest that Ca2+-related parameters regulate alternans formation because they occur due to an impaired Ca2+ dynamics, a situation that is exacerbated by fibrosis.


In order to execute some tasks, computers read a binary file (program). However, reading a program can differ from a platform to another, making the program incompatible. The emulation is the translation of a program (high level emulation), or the simulation of the compatible machine with the program (low level emulation), to run the program on others types of platforms. In our project, we describe and test differents approaches to emulate a program. We choosed as an example the Nintendo Entertainment System as a machine to emulate, Super Mario Bros. as the program to emulate and a PC as a target machine.


Objective To evaluate the detection of scrotal traumatic lesions by CT. Methods Nine patients with acute scrotal blunt trauma were examined by plain CT. Results Characteristic CT features were: enlargement of scrotum in 7 cases; thickening and blurring of tunica dartos in 9 cases; hydrocele in 4 cases; swollen testis and parenchymal hemorrhage in 8 cases; rupture of albuginea in 5 cases, subalbugineous hematoma in 2 cases and deviation of scrotal diaphragm in 7 cases. Conclusion The plain CT scan could precisely demonstrate acute traumatic lesion of the scrotum.


Collection, storage and processing of personally identifiable information and other sensitive information by enterprises are leading to privacy concerns for individuals, in particular, and society, in general. As privacy has been declared as a fundamental right in many countries, authorities are implementing privacy laws and guidelines to be followed by enterprises. Similarly, enterprises are also designing their own privacy policies to assure their clients about privacy concerns. In this paper, privacy has been considered as a business requirement rather than security requirement, and a methodology for formal representation of privacy policies has been presented. Privacy policies of different types of enterprises have been analysed and common privacy clauses have been identified from those policies. The related vocabularies have been defined and clauses have been expressed using a formal language. Finally, a case study has been presented to illustrate the usefulness of this approach.


The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of ammonium-glufosinate in management programs for weeds in cotton crop FiberMax 966 Liberty Link ® genotype. The experiment was installed in experimental area of Paiaguas Farm, located in municipality of Diamantino, Mato Grosso State. The experiment was conducted in a randomized block design with eight treatments and four replications. For weeds efficient management in FiberMax 966 LL genotype, the application of herbicide treatment in pre-emergence may reduce up to two post-emergence applications with no significant losses in production, but the pre-emergence treatment needs to be effective. If the application of a herbicide treatment in pre-emergence is not possible, the use of three sequential applications of ammonium-glufosinate (0.5, 0.4, 0.6 kg ha -1 ) at 10, 25 and 40 days after crop emergence (DAE) result in similar information. In the conditions that the experiment was conducted, all herbicide treatments were selective to the crop, without significant differences in bolls number and yield.


Onomatopoeia is useful to express an action and a emotion. Onomatopeia in linguistic information, so there is a link between the motion image and the phrase. In this research, we analyzed the relation between motions and onomatopeias when playing doll. We collected onomatopeias and sorted them by motions and doll plays. Usually, onomatopeias with walk motions make us think to the same thing. Nevertheless, onomatopeias with fly or jump motions give different interpretation according to people.


Objective Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is highly related to Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), especially to Nasopharyngeal poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. BamH1-A right frame 1 (BARF1), an early stage gene in lytic cycle of EBV, may have ability to immortalize human or monkey kidney epithelial cells and induce tumors. Hopefully, the study on BARF1 expression of epithelial cell of NPC may ascertain the relationship between EBV and NPC, and identify the possible mechanism of EBV inducing NPC. Methods The study consisted of carcinoma tissues, adjacent tissues, and normal Nasopharyngeal tissues from 47 patients with nasopharyngeal poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma (NPDSCC), carcinoma tissues from 13 head and neck carcinoma (HNC) patients and nasopharyngeal tissues from another 8 healthy subjects. EBV latent infection of all specimens had been confirmed, and then BARF1 expression levels of all specimens were detected by using nested PCR. Results: Expressive rates of BARF1 gene were as below: carcinoma tissues of NPC patients being 91.5% (43/47) with strong expression of 39 specimens and weak expression of 4 specimens; adjacent tissues being 46.8% (22/47) with strong expression of 11 specimens and weak expression of 11 specimens; and normal nasopharyngeal tissues being 6.4% (3/47) with weak expression of 3 specimens. Tissues from other HNC and health subjects can not detect the presence of BARF1 gene expression. Conclusion The expression level of BARF1 gene is increasing from relative normal tissues to adjacent tissues, to carcinoma tissues of NPC patients. This result indicates that EBV is highly related to the development of NPC, suggesting that activating BARF1 gene expression may play an important role in inducing NPC by EBV.


The purpose of this study is to analyze whether the spatial pattern of soils in the lake district has some relationships with the course of change of lakes at the lakes'fluctuation extent in Sihu drainage basin, middle reaches of Yangtze River.Information of lakes'distribution in Sihu drainage basin from 1920s to 2005 was collected from historical topographic maps,lake maps,water resources maps,and remotely sensed images.Afterwards,the time series of lake maps were imported into GIS software and characterized into several stages by decade according to the collected data.Then,overlay analysis were used to detect and test the relationships between the spatial changes of the lakes among different time intervals and the spatial patterns of the soil types.From the spatial analysis of the lakes changes,it turned out that the lakes in the study area changed from spread to shrink and to stabilization.The period from 1920s to 1940s is the lake spread stage.After this stage,lakes in the study area shrunk continuously.Between the middle of 1950s and 1960s,shrink speed of the lakes reached its maximum level.Area of the lakes was steadying after the end of the 1970s,and remained basically unchanged after 2000.The results of overlay analysis showed that the current spatial pattern of soil types was correlative with the course of lakes changes from 1920s to 1970s at the lakes'fluctuation regions. The whole lakes'fluctuation regions concentrated more than 67%gleyed paddy soil and swamp paddy soil of all the Sihu drainage basin.During the lakes'shrunk period since 1940s,the percentage of the gleyed paddy soil and swamp paddy soil in the lake fluctuation regions increased following the time of the lakes'changes, whereas the percentage of submergic paddy soil and hydromorphic paddy soil decreased along with the time of the lakes changes.At the different spatial ranges corresponding with the stages of lakes'changes,the relevance between the proportion of paddy soils and the periods of lake changes reflected the influence of the soil amelioration and utilization to some extent.It also could presume that the topography has distinct effects to the deswamping process according to the spatial differences of the transformation rate of the swamp paddy soil.


The Triassic-Jurassic (TJ) mass extinction (~200 mya) event is one of the most severe in geologic history. It is also one of the most poorly understood. Few geologic sections containing the TJ boundary interval have been identified globally, and most of those are poorly preserved; the paucity of suitable stratigraphic sections has prevented corroborative geochemical studies of this interval. Recently, fullerene molecules (C60 to C200) have been shown to be present in the mass extinction boundary intervals of the Permian-Triassic (PT) event (~251.4 mya), as well as the well-known "dinosaur" extinction event of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) (~65 mya). The presence of fullerenes in both these extinction intervals has been used to invoke an extraterrestrial impact cause for the extinctions. Preliminary results of laser desorption mass spectrometry (LDMS) of selected samples from the Kennecott Point TJ boundary section, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, suggest that fullerenes (C60 to ~C200) are present in the section, stratigraphically above the extinction interval (as defined by paleontological and isotopic data), but not actually within the interval itself. The presence of fullerenes may not be diagnostic of an impact event.


Spoken language is the most natural way used by human to communicate information. Speech signal conveys linguistic information as well as speaker information (e.g. Emotional, regional and physiological characteristics). Such human ability has inspired many researches to understand production for developing the system that automatically process the richness of information in speech, this speech technology has many applications to find out "who is speaking" means speaker recognition system. This paper gives an overview of major techniques developed in each stage of speaker recognition. This paper has a list of techniques along with their results, merits and demerits. This also includes comparative study of different techniques, which are helping us to choose the technique for developing different language speaker recognition system like Marathi, Hindi and English. Time alignment of different utterances is a serious problem for distance measures and small shift would lead to incorrect identification. Dynamic time warping (DTW) is effective method. Vector quantization (VQ) is the classical quantization technique from signal processing. HMM is used for pattern matching. This paper shows the comparative result of PLC, PLPC and MFCC. MFCC have 73.62% is better result for Marathi language and 64.69% for Hindi language than PLC and PLPC techniques . KeywordsMFCC, PLPC, PLC, HMM, GMM, SVM Advances in Computational Research ISSN: 0975-3273 & E-ISSN: 0975-9085, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2012 Introduction Speaker communication medium means communication through speech. It is a most prominent & primary mode of communication therefore this is a popular choice for remote authentication due to the availability of devices for collecting speech samples (e.g. mobile phone, telephone, computer microphone and open space speech etc.) and its ease of integration. Speaker recognition is different from other methods, speech sample captured in a few second. Analysis occurs on a model in which changes over time are monitored, which is similar to other behavioral biometrics as a dynamic signature, keystroke recognition and emotion recognition. Generally the speaker recognition can be divided into three specific tasks: identification, detection/ verification, and segmentation and clustering [1][5][3] speaker identification task is to determine which speaker out of a group of known speakers produces the input voice sample. There are two modes of operation closed-set mode means set of known voices and open-set mode mean unknown voices are referred to as impostors. The closed-set speaker identification can be considered as a multiple-class classification problem. Speaker verification, to determine whether a person (he or she) claims to be according to his/her voice sample. This task is also known as voice verification and speaker detection. Speaker segmentation and clustering techniques are used in multiple-speaker scenarios. In many speech recognition and speaker recognition applications, when the speech from the desired speaker is intermixed with other speakers, it is desired to segregate the speech into segments from the individuals before the recognition process commences. So the goal of this task is to divide the input audio into homogeneous segments and then label Citation: Bansod N.S., Seema Kawathekar and Dabhade S.B. (2012) Review of Different Techniques for Speaker Recognition System. Advances in Computational Research, ISSN: 0975-3273 & E-ISSN: 0975-9085, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp.-57-60. Copyright: Copyright©2012 Bansod N.S., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


The urban drainage has been performed in a non-sustainable way by contamination and runoff regime changing due to site impermeabilization and to litter disposal. Those conditions represent considerable danger to men and ecosystem of the receiving body. Sustainable practices appears as the best ones to be traced, with Low Impact Development (LID) signing as strategies that approximate the most to this goal. LID aims to achieve hydrologic functional landscape, performing close to natural conditions, by controlling not just the peak rate, but also, volume, frequency/duration and quality of the runoff. These developments repair the urban surfaces infiltration rates and encourage the reuse of water, minimizing the negative impacts, presenting economic savings and landscaping earnings when compared to conventional controls or to the use of associated BMPs. These strategies are encouraged, a priori, to new developments or redevelopments, even been acknowledged best results to retrofitting when compared to conventional controls. This research aimed to assess the potential technical-institutional mechanisms, which may be applied in Brazil, especially to Porto Alegre, targeting the urban drainage sustainability, as well as, the results from the numerical emulation of LID


Rwanda is one of the sub-Sahara African countries that have made greater strides in promoting gender equality and empowerment of women across all sectors including agriculture, aquaculture sub-sector in particular. Until recently the country has been more or less self-sufficient as regards to food supplies. Now, however the estimated rate of population increase is greater than the rate of increase of food production. Women make up 53% of the population and participate in Agriculture more than men. With 83.6% of women participating in aquaculture subsector and highly engaged in this as independent fish farmers in cooperatives, wage farmers and unpaid family labor. Overall, study carried out in Rwanda indicated that women in the age group of 1560 years spend one-third of their time in agriculture including aquaculture, while men spend only 19% of their time in agriculture. 54% of their time in diverse leisure activities and on paid work, against 18% of women's time in this last category. Women use about 30% of their time for domestic activities while men spend only 4% of their time on such tasks. It has been proven that women play an important role in aquaculture production activities in Rwanda and their participation is notably something so common that it is taken for granted without always realizing the heavy burdens imposed on women. Increase in number of women and disadvantaged groups actively involved in fish farming organizations and service provision in fisheries sector with more off –fish farming jobs like fish processing, packaging and marketing are hold by women. Women play a vital role in aquaculture subsector development in Rwanda; however, they are still facing many challenges that need to be addressed such as lack of access to credits from financial institutions, less technical skills aquaculture production systems, unaffordable fish feed (pellets) since these are imported, insufficient supply of fingerlings by Rwanda Agriculture Board, that can't satisfy the demand for restocking among others.


In March 2003, The Cincinnati Art Museum will celebrate the opening of the Cincinnati Wing: eighteen thousand square feet of handsomely renovated gallery space devoted to the museum's renowned collections of painting, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and metalwork by Cincinnati artists. The museum is the first in the country to reinterpret its American art collections with a regional emphasis, fostering civic pride and drawing attention to the achievements of the city's artists. In conjunction with the celebration, Ohio University Press is proud to publish The Cincinnati Wing: The Story of Art in the Queen City, showcasing one of America's foremost art centers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The authors of this collection trace the thematic arrangement of the Cincinnati Wing galleries, situating the artwork in the context of the city's history as it progressed from a frontier river town to an industrial powerhouse. The Cincinnati Wing provides a vivid picture of the fertile social and cultural climate that produced such prominent figures in the history of American art as sculptor Hiram Powers and painters Robert S. Duncanson, Frank Duveneck, and John H. Twachtman. Cincinnati's contributions to the decorative arts are exemplified by the stunning ceramics of the celebrated Rookwood Pottery Company, the nation's leading art pottery firm, and by the city's lesser-known yet equally significant Aesthetic Movement furniture. One hundred fifty-one color plates highlight the beauty and diversity of the Cincinnati Art Museum's collections and illuminate the Queen City's great artistic legacy.


The objective of this research is to measure and characterize acoustic energy flow surrounding underwater objects in the near field condition. To accomplish this, we employ prototype acoustic vector sensors which simultaneously measure acoustic pressure and three-dimensional acoustic particle acceleration at a singular point, allowing for precise vector field measurements. In March of 2018, a test at the U.S. Navy's Dodge Pond Test Facility examined the intensity field surrounding hollow spheres at low ka (wavenumber × radius) values. Phase differences between varying acoustic path lengths from reflected, scattered, and creeping waves result in interference patterns around the object. Various intensity processing techniques are used to reconstruct the acoustic field. Instantaneous intensity describes the time-dependent energy flux of the field and can be divided into active (real) and reactive (imaginary) components, which represent physically real elements. Time-averaged intensity shows energy transport and can be visualized in the form of acoustic streamlines.The objective of this research is to measure and characterize acoustic energy flow surrounding underwater objects in the near field condition. To accomplish this, we employ prototype acoustic vector sensors which simultaneously measure acoustic pressure and three-dimensional acoustic particle acceleration at a singular point, allowing for precise vector field measurements. In March of 2018, a test at the U.S. Navy's Dodge Pond Test Facility examined the intensity field surrounding hollow spheres at low ka (wavenumber × radius) values. Phase differences between varying acoustic path lengths from reflected, scattered, and creeping waves result in interference patterns around the object. Various intensity processing techniques are used to reconstruct the acoustic field. Instantaneous intensity describes the time-dependent energy flux of the field and can be divided into active (real) and reactive (imaginary) components, which represent physically real elements. Time-averaged intensity shows energy transport ...


For most films produced by condensation from the vapor phase (physical vapor deposition, PVD) their physical and chemical structure and hence their optical properties deviate from those of the bulk material of nominally the same composition.1 The extent of this deviation depends upon the particular deposition process.2 Reactive Low Voltage Ion Plating (RLVIP) produces high density thin films that exhibit long term stability.3 However, because of the deposition conditions, optical absorption can be a significant problem.4 For many demanding optical applications, such as in laser systems, it is necessary to minimize the absorption of the deposited thin films. In this paper, RLVIP and conditions leading to thin films with some undesirable residual optical absorption are summarized. We will also describe experiments where the addition of small amounts of nitrogen gas to the plasma process environment reduced the optical absorption of tantala films made by RLVIP.


The method developed by Rippstein and Müller allows mathematically exact determination of the femoral neck-shaft angle (CCD) and the angle of torsion (AT); at a deviation of 5 degrees--10 degrees from the prescribed position of the patient considerable errors (up to more than 15 degrees) can occur. For this reason two alternative methods are cited and described in detail: cinematographic determination of the CCD and AT angle according to Schwetlick and the combination of determination of the AT angle in exterior rotation according to Rogers and an anteroposterior roentgenogram of the pelvis and hips in interior rotation of the size of the AT angle. Both methods are also mathematically exact, but, in addition almost independent from minor deviations in the positioning of the patient. It is advisable to apply one of the cited methods in cases of high AT-angle values (much greater than 30 degrees), in cases where the placing of the patient is difficult and where the determination of the angles would require major therapeutic measurement.


Background: The long‐term consequences of parvovirus B19 infection in transfusion recipients are not known, and thus the value of B19 screening of blood donors remains unresolved. Hemophiliacs, at risk for B19 through their chronic exposure to clotting factor concentrates, have frequent, close medical follow‐up and thereby constitute an ideal group in which to study the hematologic sequelae of B19 infection.


This study aims to analyze cultural da'wah in the maantar jujuran tradition in the Banjar tribe in Samuda, Kotawaringin Timur Regency, Central Kalimantan Province. This study used a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach. The data were collected in three ways: observation, interviews, and documentary studies. This study found that the people of the Banjar tribe in Samuda understand that da'wah is not only limited to verbal delivery and the specificity of da'wah activities but also has an understanding that da'wah can be carried out indirectly with a cultural approach so that it is easily accepted by the community. The substance of the da'wah message in the maantar jujuran tradition represents the Banjar tribe in Samuda, who views the importance of a balance between fulfilling the needs of religious spirituality and spirituality with social human needs.


The invention belongs to the technical field of ironing devices, and particularly discloses a positioning assembly of an ironing table. The positioning assembly comprises a fixed frame, a connecting arm and a driving mechanism. The ironing table is connected with the fixed frame. The connecting arm is hinged to the fixed frame and connected with a supporting rod of a garment steamer. The driving mechanism is arranged on the fixed frame, and comprises a locking piece and an elastic reset piece. A joint part is arranged at the upper end of the connecting arm and provided with clamping grooves penetrating through the two side faces of the joint part. The locking piece is provided with positioning protrusions matched with the clamping grooves. The positioning protrusions of the locking piece are clamped in the corresponding clamping grooves under the effect of the elastic reset piece so that the connecting arm can be positioned. The driving end of the locking piece is pushed so that the locking piece can move relative to the clamping grooves. The positioning protrusions are disengaged from the clamping grooves so that the inclination angle of the connecting arm can be adjusted. The positioning assembly is simple in structure, rapid in operation and stable in positioning. The invention further provides the ironing table assembly using the positioning assembly and the garment steamer using the ironing table assembly.


Metastatic tumours to the eyelids are uncommon, according to Riley (I97o) and Aurora and Blodi (I 970), in contrast to those of the uvea, which constitute the second most frequent among malignant intraocular tumours of adults as described by Bloch and Gartner (I97 I), by Ferry (i967), and by Albert, Rubenstein, and Scheie (I967). This paper describes two interesting features of two cases of mammary carcinoma metastatic to the eyelids. In one case the neoplasm exhibited a histiocytoid appearance and was initially misdiagnosed as fibroxanthoma and in the other case the lid lesion appeared before detection of the primary tumour in the breast, which proved to be an infiltrating ductal carcinoma.


According to various international standards, many high-voltage devices must withstand short-circuit tests. Due to the enormous power and current requirements, they have to be tested in very specialized and expensive power laboratories, which are scarce and not affordable for the vast majority of electrical product manufacturers. It is proposed to break the time limit of about one second imposed by the standards by using a lower current to heat for a longer time, requiring more affordable equipment and thus reducing the cost for testing. This work analyzes the limits of the adiabatic assumption in short-circuit tests in order to quantify how the duration of these tests can be extended to reduce the power required and the current applied, while obtaining almost the same results, i.e., the same temperature at the end of the heating phase of the tests. For this purpose, bare cylindrical conductors are analyzed and the temperature dependence of the properties of the conductor material is considered. Experimental and simulation results presented in this paper suggest that by applying this approach, short-circuit tests intended for product design, verification and quality control can be performed in much less demanding and affordable laboratory facilities.


At present,the human resource management of the small and medium-sized enterprises of our country is at the starting stage,having a lot of serious problems,and it has already become a bottleneck restricting continuable development of small and medium-sized enterprises.How to get through the bottleneck is a problem which needs to be solved urgently for small and medium-sized enterprises.In recent years,human resource management outsourcing has been rising and developing rapidly in our country,which offers an effective approach to solve the problems of human resource management to small and medium-sized enterprises.A lot of small and medium-sized enterprises avail themselves of the external resources to make up their weak points,reduce costs,enhance competitiveness and increase the human resource management level.Although enterprises benefit from outsourcing,they are imposed to some risks.The advantages and risks brought out by outsourcing are analyzed in this thesis.The suggestions how to avoid risks were also given here.


From test study on local scour around single and double sheetpile groins due to strong bore and analysis to that around vertical groin at Qiantang River Mouth,it's considered that the length and cross-sectional area of sheet-pile can be reduced greatly by using riprap for protection,and therefore,the cost will be reduced and the groin stability raised.And also,scour patterns of different parts around the groins under the protection of riprap are obtained from the test.In addition,scour depth around the semi circular permeable groin head will decrease by 0.5~1.0 m.


Foreword: Seismic Exploration of the Deep Continental Crust.- Nature of Crustal Reflectivity along the DEKORP Profiles in Germany in Comparison with Reflection Patterns from Different Tectonic Units Worldwide: A Review.- Scales of Heterogeneities in the Continental Crust and Upper Mantle.- Seismic, Structural and Petrological Models of the Subcrustal Lithosphere in Southern Germany: A Quantitative Revaluation.- Seismic Shear Waves in Deep Seismic Reflection Surveys: Some Notes on Problems and Profits.- Seismic Velocities and Anisotropy of the Lower Continental Crust: A Review.- Recovering Shear-wave Anisotropy of the Lower Crust: The Influence of Systematic Errors on Travel-time Inversion.- Realistic Models of Anisotropic Laminated Lower Crust.- 3-D Prestack Kirchhoff Migration of the ISO89-3D Data Set.- 3-D Prestack-migration of Wide-angle Data from a Variscan Transition Zone.- Focusing in Prestack Isochrone Migration Using Instantaneous Slowness Information.- An Attempt to Integrate Reflection Seismics and Balanced Profiles.- Incorporation of the Effects of Absorption into Kirchhoff Migration.- Enhancement of Deep Seismic Reflections in Pre-stack Data by Adaptive Filtering.- Estimation of Seismic Velocities from Deep Reflections in the ?-p Domain.- The Use of Wave-field Directivity for Velocity Estimation: Moving Source Profiling (MSP) Experiments at KTB.- Elimination of Noise Caused by Spikes and Bursts in Vibroseis Data.- How to Remedy Non-optimal Seismic Data by Seismic Processing.


Our work on the automatic detection of English discourse connectives in the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) shows that syntactic information from the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework is a viable alternative to that from the Penn Treebank (PTB) framework. In fact, we found minor increases when comparing between the use of gold standard PTB part-of-speech (POS) tag information and automatically parsed UD information. The former has traditionally been used for the task but there are now much more UD corpora and in many more languages than that available in the PTB framework. As such, this finding is promising for areas in discourse parsing such as in multilingual as well as under production settings, where gold standard PTB information may be scarce.


College English writing is essential for language communication. In terms of students, it indicates students' English language skills and learning ability. This paper aims at discussing some useful teaching methods for college English writing on the basis of an analysis of obstacles to the development of students' writing techniques.


Background: At present, surgical treatment is the only way to cure abdominal incisional hernia. This study aimed to compare the clinical efficacy and safety of laparoscopic hernioplasty and open tension-free hernioplasty for abdominal incisional hernia. Materials and Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on clinical data of 132 patients with abdominal incisional hernia, including 59 patients treated with open tension-free hernioplasty (open group) and 73 patients treated with laparoscopic hernioplasty (laparoscope group). Results: Compared with patients in open group, patients in laparoscope group had shorter operative time, postoperative hospital stays and recovery time of postoperative feeding, less intraoperative blood loss, number of postoperative analgesic usage and total hospitalization expenses, smaller intraoperative abdominal wall defect area, significantly lower incidence of total complications, and lower incidence of abdominal wall pain (all P<0.05). Postoperative recurrence rate of incisional hernia in laparoscope group (2.74%, 2 patients) was lower than that in open group (22.03%, 13 patients) (P<0.05). The results of logistic regression analysis showed that the surgical method, age, body mass index, hernia ring size and postoperative complications were independent risk factors for postoperative recurrence of abdominal incisional hernia (all P<0.05). Conclusion: Compared with open tension-free hernioplasty, laparoscopic hernioplasty has lower recurrence rate and complication incidence, better efficacy and safety, less surgical trauma, rapider recovery and lower treatment expenses, deserving to be used clinically. Surgical method, age, body mass index, hernia ring size and postoperative complications could lead to a large risk of postoperative recurrence.


The field experimentation was carried out at Instructional Farm, BAIF Development Research Foundation, Nanodara of Ahmadabad district during 2014 to 2018 with an objective to evaluate the response of the two ber varieties (Seb and Gola) to number of irrigations on the growth and yield of ber crop. It was also intended to understand effect of saline irrigation water on soil status as irrigation water of the study location is slightly saline in nature. The study was conducted in Split Plot Design with six replications. Treatments consisted of two irrigation schedule; normal irrigation at 15 days interval and life saving irrigation at 30 days interval and two varieties (Seb and Gola). Soil and irrigation water of the study location was analyzed using standard procedures for initial and yearly status, respectively. Two ways ANOVA was carried out using R Studio Statistics Rx 64 software. Significance levels were tested at p≤0.05. The highest plant height (326.87 cm), girth size (60.75 cm), number of secondary branches per plant (7.24), dry leaf biomass per plant (3.96 kg), dry shoot weight per plant (16.65) as well as fruits per plant (337.58), fruit weight (56.96 g), fruit yield per plant (19.43 kg) and fruit yield per ha (5400 kg) were increased significantly with normal Original Research Article Patil et al.; IJPSS, 32(9): 86-92, 2020; Article no.IJPSS.59255 87 irrigation treatment (irrigations at 15 days interval) which was significantly superior over life saving irrigation. In case of varieties, all the parameters of the growth and yield of the crop were maximum for Gola variety compared to Seb. The pH, EC and SAR were comparatively lower in soil under life saving than normal irrigation.


FIELD: feedstuffs for domestic animals. SUBSTANCE: feedstuff for puppies has been elaborated according to their sex and contains lipids, from 0.25 weight% up to 0.83 weight% methionine and from 0.45 weight% up to 1.18 weight% sulfur-containing amino acids. Feedstuff for male puppies contains from 0.31 weight% up to 0.83 weight% methionine, from 0.50 weight% up to 1.18 weight% sulfur-containing amino acids and fat that comprises under 25% of all calories being in the feedstuff mentioned. Feedstuff for female puppies contains from 0.25 weight% up to 0.35 weight% methionine, from 0.45 weight% up to 0.70 weight% sulfur-containing amino acids and fat that comprises above 25% of all calories being the feedstuff mentioned. The innovation refers to the method for increasing body weight and growth in puppies dealing with comprising and introducing the feedstuff for puppies in which the quantity of calories for lipids and the quantity of methionine and total quantity of sulfur-containing should be matched according to the puppies' sex. The innovation enables to obtain maximized increase of body weight and body length in each sex in puppies. EFFECT: higher efficiency. 28 cl, 1 dwg, 2 tbl


In article of the methods for baseline determining of signals from a fluorescent detector of a genetic analyzer are discussed. The simulated for signal which has characteristics identical to the characteristics of a real signal is performed. The comparison of the methods to the criterion of mean square error and calculation speed for model signals is done. A qualitative analysis of the effectiveness of methods on real signals is carried out. The theoretical calculations by these methods and research results are presented.


Objective
To explore the quality of clinical trial articles published in Chinese Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine from 2009 to 2013.

Methods
A total of 279 clinical trial articles published in the past 5 years in this magazine were evaluated by checklist depending on consolidated standards of reporting trials(CONSORT) statement.

Results
The contents of the Introduction part were much more standardized as compared with other parts (Methods, Results, Discussion). The proportion of random control trials(RCT)in Methods part was very low (9%), and only 12 articles used double- or triple-blind method. Application of sample size calculation was poor, and only 2 articles which were published in 2010 applied pre-test calculation method of sample size. Intervention measures were clear in 50%-70% articles, and the proportions of articles setting reasonable controls (>70%) and applying correct statistics methods (>90%) were high. In Results part, descriptions of follow-up and baseline information were more standardized than other items of this part. Main outcome was explicit in 89.6% articles; however, only 22 articles (7.9%) mentioned the lost of follow-up and no article described compliance. 71.0% of the articles did not describe important adverse event and side effect. In Discussion part, 39.4% and 56.3% of the articles discussed limitation and application of the trial results, respectively.

Conclusions
Most contents in Chinese Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine are standardized and clear, however, application of random, double- or triple-blind method, sample calculation, and description of follow-up, lost of follow-up, important adverse event and side effect should be enhanced in clinical research as well as academic writing.

Key words:
Clinical trial; Bibliometrics; Randomized controlled trial


Control of hypercholesteremia and hyperlipemia in a neuropsychiatric hospital apparently is practical during treatment of psychotic patients employing massive amounts of nicotinic acid.


A silent chain capable of driving at two faces is provided to decrease noise caused by contacting teeth of a sprocket with pin of chain by engaging an independent plate between inner plates. A silent chain capable of driving at two faces comprises plural inner plates(14) having teeth, a guide plate fixing the inner plates from the outside, an independent plate(16), and pins connecting the plates each other. The independent plate is assembled between the inner plates and has the teeth. The silent chain capable of driving at two faces transfers or receives power to be slid to a sprocket having the teeth. The independent plate shaped like a disc, which is positioned at the center of the plural inner plates, includes holes wherein the pins are fitted.


Necrotizing pancreatitis is a difficult clinical problem associated with significant mortality and morbidity rates. Indications for surgical intervention, and the timing and type of intervention, remain controversial issues. A 10‐year experience in the management of this condition in a tertiary referral centre is reviewed; treatment policies and early and long‐term results are reported.


his study aimed to evaluate the effect of different protein sources, cotton seed meal (CSM), soybean (SBM) and dried distiller's grains with soluble (DDGS) in diet of growing male lambs on morpho-histological characteristics of the testis and epididymis, characteristics of epididymal spermatozoa and serum testosterone concentration. Total of 20 growing cross breed (Romanov x Rahmani) lambs (about 8 months old and 33 kg LBW) were assigned into four groups. Lambs in all groups were fed diets containing differed sources of 50% of protein in concentrate feed mixture, being sun flower meal in the 1 group (control, G1), CSM in G2, SBM in G3 and DDGS in G4 for 120 days as an experimental period. At the end of the experimental period, lambs were slaughtered and testes were collected for morpho-histological study. Blood was collected for testosterone determination in blood serum and epididymal spermatozoa were recovered by slicing. Results revealed that testicular weight and size in terms of length and width were the highest (P<0.05) in G3, moderate in G1 and G2 and the lowest in G4. Dietary protein source had insignificant effect on weight and measures of epididymis or its segments, in particular length and width of epididymal cauda testes of G3 showed higher (P<0.05) values of the largest and smallest diameters and the widest average diameter of the seminiferous tubules (ST) and the highest (P<0.05) thickness of spermatogenic layer as compared to other groups. The largest, smallest and average diameters of epididymal cauda ductules (ED) was higher (P<0.05) and the lining epithelial layer of epididymal cauda was thicker (P<0.05) in G3 and G4 than in G1 and G2. Percentages of progressive motility and livability of spermatozoa recovered from the epididymal cauda were the highest (P<0.05) in G3, moderate in G1 and G2, and the lowest in G4. Percentages of abnormality and acrosome damage of epididymal spermatozoa were not affected by dietary protein source. Serum testosterone concentration was the highest (P<0.05) in G3 and the lowest in G4. In conclusion, feeding CSM or DDGS should not be supplied to growing male lambs for breeding. Feeding diet containing sun flower meal (Control diet) or soybean meal as sources of dietary protein had save effect on growing male lambs for breeding.


The prediction and forecast of massive destructive earthquakes are not only a problem in earthquake theory,but also that in technique,practice and political policy.There have been in China successful experiences and unavoidable agonizing lessons due to human factors.Academically,the disputes exist on the capability or incapability for earthquake predication,which have become more complicated,subtle and entangled with the involvement of political factors,and which restrict the development of the course of quake-prevention and disaster-reduction.The mainstream viewpoint is currently of incapability to predict earthquakes.The academic differences between the two viewpoints inevitably extend to social practice in quake-prevention and disaster-reduction.During over sixty years,those in favor of prediction have made academic innovation actively and contributed a number of theories and technical achievements on the prediction,producing in a succession the theory of geological mechanics by Li Siguang,the informational prediction theory and natural disaster prediction methods by Weng Wenbo,the drought relative theory by Geng Qing-guo,"Short-Impending Anomaly Precursory Mode with Resonance Tidal Forces" by Qian Fuye et al.,the "Theory of Open Complex Giant System" and "The Qualitative and Quantitative Comprehensive Integration Means" by Qian Xuesen.By breakthrough from the thinking mode of traditional reductionism the predicable theories actively develop the thinking mode of modern system theory,and probe into the elements of Chinese traditional sciences conforming and utilizing the rich data accumulated since ancient times in China on observation of natural disasters.Some progresses have been made in theoretical innovation and earthquake prediction practice,although various existing theoretical criticisms and challenges still cannot be overcome.In spite of these,those in favor of prediction still firmly believe that by better overcome obstacles in thoughts and in system,Chinese earthquake scientists are capable of producing an "experience plus theory" method in system science for earthquake prediction,to make great contribution in this field for the progressive course of human science.


PURPOSE: To provide a method and an apparatus for cooling a semiconductor wafer predictively and uniformly while minimizing the effect on the processing quantity of a multichamber processing system and to solve the problem the wafer has possibility of sliding on the smooth surface a pedestal through a thin gas layer. CONSTITUTION: The wafer cooler 16 comprises a pedestal 18 disposed in a chamber, and a mechanism 20 for lowering a semiconductor wafer 88 onto the upper surface thereof. A groove is made in the upper surface of the pedestal in order to suppress the trend that the wafer slides on the smooth surface the pedestal through a thin layer of gas being released to the periphery of the water from between the water and the surface of the pedestal. Several pins extend through the grooved cooling surface and touch the wafer. The pins are then retracted into the pedestal and the wafer is lowered onto the cooling surface before gas is fed forcibly into the groove of the pedestal.


Why do some groups have so many species, and others so few? This Primer examines a paper by Rabosky et al. that furthers our efforts to understand the Earth's biodiversity at the broadest scales.


This paper investigates the impact of risk aversion in decision analyses under uncertainty with a single evaluation measure and presents a simple procedure for approximately addressing risk aversion in a way that is defensible for many decisions. Specifically, a simulation study is presented that leads to guidelines for determining when an expected utility analysis should be conducted for a decision, rather than simply an expected value analysis, and what form of utility function should be used for this expected utility analysis. The simulation study shows that a sensitivity analysis using an exponential utility function should be conducted for most decision analyses, but that this sensitivity analysis can often establish,without requiring utility information from the decision maker, that no further utility analysis is required. In addition, when further utility analysis is required, the simulation study shows that this can be done in a simple way using an exponential utility function that will be accurate for many decision analyses. However, in situations where there is equal or greater downside risk than upside potential, a more detailed study of the decision maker's utility function may be necessary.


To ensure totipotency of new zygotes, immediately after fertilization, two gametes activate genetic and epigenetic processes that highly interplay and lead to sequential waves of gene expression. Since the first report of fertilization a hundred years ago, a long-standing question to what factors govern the dramatic transcriptional changes remains elusive. Recently, significant advances in biological experiment technology and computational methodology have taken place in understanding of the regulatory dynamics during fertilization. This chapter provides an overview of the recent progress in characterizing mammalian fertilization, and focuses on the computational methods applicable to the inference of regulation for understanding early embryo development. In particular, this chapter introduces the linear regression modeling and log-linear graphical modeling to identify potential key regulators in the higher-order conditional distribution where statistical paradox often occurs. Sung-Joon Park The University of Tokyo, Japan Kenta Nakai The University of Tokyo, Japan Computational Inference of Gene Regulation from Whole-Transcriptome Analysis


This is an excellent book. It tells a story that had not been told before, and indeed one which many would not have appreciated was there to be told. It draws on an impressive array of primary sources, as well as interviews with many of the key players involved. It is very well written, with the exception of the hyperbole of the opening paragraphs. John Vardalas displays a mastery of the technical details involved, as well as the social and political influences at work.


The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) project is coming to an end in 2015 and is being replaced by ambitious and aspirational Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although the MDGs have been nearly achieved, this is not true in Sub-Saharan Africa where there is still unnecessarily high infant and childhood mortality and where there are many challenges to providing modern child health care. To achieve the SDGs in the next fifteen years, in low-income countries, national ministries of health and community health leaders will need to set reasonable goals and quality improvement projects. Attention needs to paid to economical, evidence-based effective health care; to education of children and youth and of health professional; health promotion and prevention of illness; a balance between expensive health care in large urban hospitals and community health projects; and most importantly to the social determinants of health. But the SDGs are achievable with coordinated and sustained national commitments and increased financial commitments from Western countries.


9 sampling sites were set at two main roads of Pingyang Road and Changfeng Street in Taiyuan city.The content of chlorophyll a (ca),chlorophyll b (cb) and total chlorophyll in leaves of road side trees were determined to investigate the effects of road intersection difference on chlorophyll value of roadside tree.The results show that the influence of urban transportation to chlorophyll of different species of trees followed the sequence of hollyChinese scholar treewhite poplar,the influence might be related to the height of these tree.The traffic pollution would increase the ca,cb,ca/cb value in Chinese scholar tree and white poplar,while decrease the ca,cb value in holly,influence of road intersection on different road trees did not presents consistency,chlorophyll value in roadside trees would be affected by street orientation,traffic flow,pollution diffusibility and plant height and so on,among which,pollutant emission and diffusibility hold the key.It was finally concluded that holly and chlorophyll a could be used as biomonitors and indicatior for traffic pollution.Choice of road planting species should maintain a balance between dust absorption,inhabiting bacteria and high diffusibility.


A number of experimental devices has been used to carry out the real flow for gas-stirred ladles, by means of a simulation technique (air-water) with two ladles of 1,6 and 4,1 m 3 . A heat zone which provides an upper area of hot liquid, instead of a material tracer, was used to mark the fluid elements. The temperature fields into the ladles have been measured by 25 K-type thermocouples, in radial and longitudinal distributions. A Helios linked to a PC was used to log the data. The mixing times have been determined for the gas stirred ladles


A multitude of new and improved catalyst materials and concepts for membrane fuel cells were developed over the last decade. The requirements of these catalysts are low cost, high activity and durability. For example, platinum based catalyst concepts such as Pt monolayer catalysts, 2] Pt skin catalysts, Pt multimetallic catalysts, and dealloyed bimetallic Pt core-shell nanoparticle catalysts show promising activities based on Pt mass and Pt surface area for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Furthermore, non-noble metal catalyst concepts could reduce the costs, but they currently still do not meet the activity targets for commercial fuel cell electrocatalysts. To improve the durability of fuel cell catalysts, also the support material is becoming more important. Oxidation resistance of the support material is one point of concern. Alternatives to pure carbon blacks (e.g. Vulcan XC 72R) were evaluated for the oxygen reduction, such as carbon nanotubes, 24] silicon carbide derived carbons, hollow spherical carbons, nitrogen modified carbons, or titanium-based materials. Especially nitrogen doped carbons show interesting properties like high conductivity, mesoporosity and the opportunity to adjust the nitrogen content in the support material. In this communication, we report the synthesis of a mesoporous nitrogen doped carbon supported platinum catalyst (Pt/ meso-BMP) based on an ionic liquid as nitrogen/carbon precursor and the evaluation of the catalytic system for ORR. Further, we analyzed the long-term behavior of this new catalyst and compared it with commercial high surface area carbon (HSAC) supported platinum catalyst. The mesoporous nitrogen doped carbon supported platinum nanoparticle fuel cell electrocatalyst (Pt/meso-BMP) was prepared by a two-step synthesis, as shown in Figure 1. In the first step, the mesoporous nitrogen doped carbon material (meso-BMP) was synthesized corresponding to the reference 35] by using N-butyl-3-methylpyridinedicyanamide (BMPdca) as ionic liquid compound. As evaluated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and elemental analysis (EA) the nitrogen content of 14.2 wt. % (XPS)/17.2 wt. % (EA) is very high. The variation of the values can be explained by the surface specificity of XPS measurements. In the second step, platinum nanoparticles were deposited on the meso-BMP substrate. The deposition of Pt occurred by a wet impregnation–freeze-drying method and followed by thermal annealing in a reductive atmosphere. Shown in Figure 2 are the XRD profiles for meso-BMP and Pt/meso-BMP. The as synthesized meso-BMP support material exhibits broad XRD reflections at 2 q= 26.1 and 42.98 corresponding to the inter (002) and intra (101) lattice planes of graphitized carbon. The reference powder diffraction patterns of (111), (200), and (220) lattice planes for pure face centered Figure 1. Synthesis route for mesoporous nitrogen doped carbon supported platinum nanoparticle catalyst.


Multi-doped LiFePO4/C composites are synthesized from FeC2O4, Li2CO3 and electroless nickel plating wastewater. Scanning electron microscopy in combination with laser particle size analysis, reveals that the material prepared at 700 °C for 10 h consists of narrow-distribution well-dispersed submicron particles. The XRD refinement corroborates that Ni, Co and Mn have been successfully embedded into LiFePO4. The electrochemical measurements show that the sample gives the first discharge specific capacities of 167.5, 152.3 and 116.8 mAh·g, with the capacity retentions of 99.1%, 98.5% and 97.9% after 300 cycles at 25, 0 and -20 °C, respectively.


Research suggests that duration of deafness prior to cochlear implantation affects postoperative speech recognition in adults. Duration of deafness usually is defined as the number of years between the onset of profound deafness and implantation. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of duration of deafness — expressed as percentage of life with deafness — independent of age at implantation on postoperative speech recognition in adult postlingually deafened CLARION® Multi-Strategy™ Cochlear Implant users. Speech recognition tests (CID sentences and NU6 words) were administered to 202 consecutively implanted adults preoperatively and at 3 and 6 months after initial device fitting. Patients implanted at a younger age and those with smaller percentages of their lives with deafness achieved the highest levels of short-term postoperative speech recognition. Patients who had been deaf for ≥60% of their lives demonstrated a slower rate of speech recognition improvement than those with shorter durations of deafness, but still continued to improve with increased implant experience.


IBM-2 calculation is presented for the low-lying states in the even-even 122-128Te core nucleus. We developed the projection by using the F-spin formalism from the operator of IBA-2 model over the operator of IBA-1 model space. With the help of this projection IBA-2 Hamitonian parameters are obtained and we explore the energy levels and the electric quadrupole transition probabilities B (E2;Ii ® If)  and  g-ray E2/M1 mixing ratios for selected transitions. It was found that the calculated positive parity low spin state energy spectra of the even-even 122-128Te isotopes agree quite well with the experimental data.

 Key words: Interacting boson model, the electric quadrupole transition probability, mixing ratios, Low spin states, PACS:   21.60. Fw, 23.20.Lv, 27.70. +q


Clinical application of neural prosthetic technology raises a multitude of questions about neuromuscular anatomy and physiology. Such knowledge can be used to identify efficient and effective sites at which to apply stimulation and to identify stimulation parameters that are likely to produce the desired therapeutic effects. The scientific literature is often surprisingly patchy when it comes to making such decisions, but recently developed methodologies provide many useful tools. These have led us to a number of novel approaches that are now being tested in preclinical and clinical trials.


An exact formula is obtained for the relaxation time of an axial magnetic field in an infinitely long conducting cylinder whose cross section is bounded by two confocal ellipses. Approximate formulas are given for thin‐walled cylinders and for nearly circular cylinders. The discontinuity in the relaxation time at the transition to a solid elliptic cylinder is discussed and calculated. Some numerical values are given.


In the article the main stages of the project on improvement of safety of process simulation of drainage basins management have been observed. Optimal algorithm of drainage basins designing process has been analyzed. The comparison of two types of the image expansion used for the construction of drainage basins and their positive and negative characteristics has been made. A clear diagram of flow direction determining and flow accumulation based on digital elevation model of watershed modeling process has been shown.


Acquiring the skills to plan and conduct different kinds of empirical studies is a mandatory requirement for graduate students working in the field of software engineering. These skills typically can only be developed based on the teaching and experience of the students' supervisor, because of the lack of specific, practical courses providing these skills. To fill this gap, we organized the first Canadian Summer School on Practical Analyses of Software Engineering Data (PASED). The aim of PASED is to provide - using a "learning by doing" model of teaching - a solid foundation to software engineering graduate students on conducting empirical studies. This paper describes our experience in organizing the PASED school, i.e., what challenges we encountered, how we designed the lectures and laboratories, and what could be improved in the future based on the participants' feedback.


To the Editor.— The article by Jecker and Pearlman 1 regarding medical futility left me with a cold empty feeling in the pit of my stomach. If a perceptive gerontologist and ethicist are capable of writing about the "house-staff physicians" concerns about medical futility and the "gastroenterology service" opinions without any mention of an attending physician, we are in deeper trouble than I thought. Nowhere is there any evidence of the involvement of the attending physician in these deliberations. If ever there was an argument for an individual who is mature, compassionate, medically knowledgeable, experienced, willing to accept responsibility, capable of weighing the often nebulous concepts of quality of life and medical futility, it is this situation. This is the essence of caring and of the care of the patient, and it is the primary responsibility of the attending physician—not some anonymous conglomerate of "house-staff physicians" or a "gastroenterology service"


The physical health of students in our country is decreasing year by year, and the decline of college students is particularly prominent. Based on the student's perspective, the campus canteen is taken as the research object, and a canteen window dedicated to the college students' diet needs is opened for the college students. It can not only define the daily calorie intake to achieve the purpose of weight loss or control, but also consider the nutritional requirements. Aiming at the current status of the development of Internet catering, this article combines the traditional campus canteen with weight loss and the Internet to establish a canteen takeaway, combining our traditional takeaway concept with the canteen to create a unique takeout system on campus.


Objective To determine whether the calcium phosphate (CaP) sol-gel coating would have a significant impact on osteoconduction.Methods Porous-surfaced Ti-6Al-4V implants were prepared with or without the addition of a thin surface layer of CaP applied by sol-gel coating,and implanted into the tibiae of 16 rabbits.Implanted sites were allowed to heal for 2 weeks,after which specimens were retrieved for morphometric assessment using backscatter SEM micrographs and a Bioquant Image Analysis System.Results Absolute contact length (ACL) was significantly (P 0.01) higher for CaP-coated implants (1.18 mm) than for the non-coated implants (0.74 mm) as were the contact length fraction (CLF) (40.4% vs 27.0%, P 0.01) and Straight line bone growth (SLBG) (1.19 mm vs 1.04 mm, P 0.01).Conclusion[WT5"BZ] Based on the findings in this study,the addition of a thin layer of CaP to the implant can promotes bone healing around porous-surfaced implants even after only two weeks of initial healing.


Experience has shown that motors retrofitted with inverter-fed drives (IFDs) are seeing an increase in the number of stator winding failures, due to repetitive surge activity. This paper documents quantitative observations of surge nature (i.e. risetime and magnitude) on both medium and low voltage motors.


All 11 children who presented since 1976 in Cardiff, Wales with medulloblastoma and who had survived at least 5 years were reviewed neurologically.


A chiral prosthetic group induced heterogeneous diastereoselective asymmetric hydrogenation of β -dehydroamino esters, catalyzed by Pt/Al 2 O 3 , has been developed. A series of β -dehydroamino esters were successfully hydrogenated in high yields with good diastereoselectivities ( dr up to 5.2:94.8). This method provides a convenient and efficient synthetic way for the preparation of chiral β- amino acid derivatives, which are key intermediates for bioactive compounds and pharmaceuticals.


The natural explanation of our capacity of immediate and authoritative psychological self-ascription is epistemological. On this account, this capacity is based on the execise of a capacity to acquire privileged self-knowledge. It is argued that this account is inadequate. The reasons offered for this view are Wittgenstein's. If he is right, the epistemological explanation of first-person authority in psychological utterance is based on the misconception that the function of psychological self-ascriptions is descriptive or assertoric. Wittgenstein's alternative expressivist view, it is argued, offers the key to a correct understanding of first-person authority


A study was conducted of 300 patients with chronic sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in four age groups, allocated according to the age classification of the World Health Organization (WHO). For patients of the older age group, a high comorbidity index is noted, while among concomitant diseases, chronic non-infectious diseases that are likely to affect hearing (arterial hypertension, cardiovascular disease (CVDs), diabetes mellitus) are more often observed with age. A direct correlation was found between diseases that probably affect the auditory function and quality of life (QoL) of patients. It was noted that the proportion of people with moderate and severe hearing impairment increases with age, while the total QoL indicator correlated with age (inverse correlation in the elderly, direct correlation in senile people and long-livers) and the degree of SNHL (inverse correlation). Self-assessment of QOL level by the physical component in patients of the older age group corresponded to the pre-critical level.


In this paper results of studyng contact endurance of laser transformation hardened teeth of quenched and hardened steel gears are reported. Analytical simulation is used to find safety margins against surface damage depending on distribution of surface hardening. Models for designing tooth root treatment to maximize fatigue life and for controlling surface and delamination damages are considered. Simulations using LS-DYNA FEM virtual models of the microstructural mechanisms give detailed and visual scenarios of the contact damage phenomena and large deformation process involved. The results show that simulations can be advantageously used to predict and optimize contact endurance by surface hardening on micro and macrolevels.


In the evolution of the Human-Computer Interaction discipline, it is interesting to evaluate the users' experience within the interaction between users and a specific category of robots, which are characterized by peculiar features: the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Drones are becoming more and more diffused, being used with different purposes. Hence, the interaction with these devices is getting common and here we aim at investigating how they can be exploited by means of different users' interfaces and with different interaction mechanisms. In this paper, we present a review of the state of the art in the context of the human-drone interaction, so as to study and discuss the main open issues and challenges currently highlighted and reported in research projects and papers available in the current literature.