This study aims to identify the influence of transformational leadership style and compensation on employee performance mediated by job satisfaction at PT. TOR GANDA. The number of samples in this study were 92 respondents who were determined using simple random sampling. The type of data used is associative research. Research connects causation or causation. which analyzes the independent variables, mediating variables and dependent variables that are affected. Data analysis used a simple linear regression equation with the SPSS 2023 tool. The results showed that Transformational Leadership had an effect on Job Satisfaction at PT. TOR GANDA, Compensation affects Job Satisfaction at PT. TOR GANDA, Transformational Leadership influences Employee Performance at PT. TOR GANDA, Compensation affects Employee Performance at PT. TOR GANDA, Job Satisfaction affects Employee Performance at PT. TOR GANDA, Transformational Leadership influences Employee Performance through Job Satisfaction at PT. TOR GANDA and Compensation affect Employee Performance through Job Satisfaction at PT. TOR GANDA.


The environmental global change increases the proliferation of cyanobacteria and the release of very dangerous cyanotoxins in water reservoirs, both for supply and recreation. These cyanotoxins may be very harmful, so it is necessary to increase control, especially in recreational bathing waters, to avoid undesirable events in the population.
Cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins were analyzed in samples from water columns and the surface of the bathing areas which are authorized by the Community of Madrid, as well as in water reservoirs for humanconsumption. Sampling was carried from May to October of 2018. In each site at least 2 samples werecollected at different times.
With the exception of Presillas Beach (Rascafria), in the sampled sites cyanotoxins-producer cyanobacteria were detected, as well as microcystin levels higher than 1μg/L. Microcystin concentration and cyanobacteria peaks occurred within the months of July and August.
The study confirms that there is presence of microcystins in recreational waters within the bathingperiod. It is necessary to establish cyanotoxins controls using a warning system for the appearance of toxic blooms in recreational waters.


Self-tracking is a phenomenon that is increasingly accessible and accepted in today's digitized world. Smartphones and wearable devices allow us to capture quantitative self-representation in tables, graphs and numbers. Along with written and visual digital self-representations, they have come to shape an extension of the self. This research observes from the perspective of Foucault's technologies of the self how both blogging and self-tracking practices are used to construct a digital extension of identity. The main research question answered is "how is self-quantification integrated into digital self-representations of personal bloggers?". To answer this, a sample of 50 personal blog posts, in which bloggers describe their experience with self-tracking, was subjected to a qualitative content analysis using a grounded theory approach. Two primary overarching themes were found in the blog posts. The first is the presentation of the self, which shows that the digital representation of the self in personal blogs is like a bricolage made up of the bloggers' self-disclosure, what is assumed of the reader and the commercial forces in the blogosphere. The second is reflexive self-analysis, which shows us the practice of self-tracking is grounded in a cultural idealization of self-improvement, but can lead to disembodiment. There is a tension between self-tracking devices being experienced as either a controlling structure that represents an alternate version of embodied reality, or as a tool to obtain empowering insights into lived reality. The human tendency to actively work on a construction of self long predates our digital era of blogs, social media and wearable self-tracking devices. However, the integration of these technologies into our everyday lives continue to change the dynamics of how we digitally construct identity. This research connects to the modern perspective of the self as a direct reflection of our moral decision-making, behavior and actions. If it seen as our moral responsibility to perfect the aspects of self that we have any control over, today that responsibility overarches both the physical body and the digital representation of the self. This is further amplified by the data doxa, the cultural belief that the data-driven technological tools such as self-tracking devices available to us are helpful or even necessary in our quest for self-actualization. With an increased cultural, moral, social and economic pressure to optimize the self, Foucault's conceptualization of technologies of the self has become more relevant than ever.


The presence of complex organic molecules such as methanol, ethanol, and acetaldehyde in a molecular cloud suggests that these and simpler ices might be available to planetary systems right from the start.


Aim: To evaluate vitamin D, serum calcium, and serum phosphorus levels in postmenopausal women attending gynecology outpatient department in Lady Goschen and Kasturba Medical College Attavar hospitals. Objective: To study the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among the studied group. To correlate vitamin D levels with diet and environmental factors. Materials and methods: The study was conducted in 100 postmenopausal women attending Lady Goschen hospital and Kasturba Medical College Attavar hospital, Mangaluru. It was a hospital-based, prospective cross-sectional study conducted over the period between August 2014 and June 2016. Levels of vitamin D and serum calcium and phosphorus were assessed in them. Results: A total of 11% were found to have vitamin D deficiency, 38 and 48% had insufficient levels and sufficient levels of vitamin D respectively, 53% had normal levels of serum calcium, and 47% had inadequate levels. About 70% were found to have normal levels of serum phosphorus and 24% had inadequate levels. Dietary intake was found to be inadequate in 61% of the studied population. Serum calcium and phosphorus deficiency had significant corelation with vitamin D deficiency. Also significant corelation was noted with sun exposure and dietary intake in relation to vitamin D. No corelation was established between hypertension, diabetes and vitamin D. Conclusion: This study helped us to assess basal levels of vitamin D, serum calcium, and serum phosphorus among postmenopausal women, giving us an idea regarding prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among South Indian postmenopausal women. We should consider counseling all postmenopausal patients regarding the benefit of vitamin D supplementation, adequate dietary intake, and sun exposure.


After human being coming into the 20th century,alienation problem that always talking about by Marx doesn't be weaken,it assumes intense trend on the other hand,that is the Total Alienation between human and society.How to treat the phenomenon of Total Alienation between human and society in modern society ? Does alienation can be eliminated or discarded? Flom's answer is a representative during many scholars' thinking undoubtedly.Although he has been dead for many years,his thought still has learning value and theoretical and practical significance as we seems today.Thus,this article will induce the clues of Flom's Alienation Theory,propose the alienation problem again.


Since start-up of the Redox Plant, different types of decontamination difficulties have been experienced and corrective measures taken. Current decontamination performance is superior to that ever experienced before. However, with the apparent need for the for elimination of the permanganate Head-End process for the IAF oxidation, several modifications to the plant flowsheet and equipment have been planned in order to obtain satisfactory overall decontamination without permanganate Head-End. The objectives of the memorandum are: to summarize generally and briefly the decontamination experience of the Redox process operating on IAF oxidized by sodium dichromate; to indicate the decontamination which probably can be obtained with the new Phase 2 equipment and its improved performance; and to re-evaluate the timing and feasibility of the current approaches for solving the long-range Redox decontamination problems arising as a result of oxidation of IAF by sodium dichromate (vice potassium permanganate).


I argue that the presence of magnetic fields around evolved stars, e.g. asymptotic giant branch stars, and in planetary nebulae, does not necessarily imply that the magnetic field plays a global dynamical role in shaping the circumstellar envelope. Instead, I favour magnetic fields with small coherence lengths, which result from stellar magnetic spots or from jets blown by an accreting companion. Although the magnetic field does not play a global role in shaping the circumstellar envelope, it may enhance local motion (turbulent) via magnetic tension and reconnection. The locally strong magnetic tension may enforce coherence flow, which may favour the masing process.


Delta ecosystem has always captivated the interests of scientists around the world because of its variety of landforms which are subjected to periodic or abrupt changes. The prime objective of this study is to explore the potential of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) for change detection analysis in Krishna River Delta using C-band Sentinel-1 TOPSAR Interferometric Wide Swath data. The variation in delta dynamics have been analysed on a set of interferometric image pairs acquired from October 2016 to April 2017. An integrated cumulative change map was generated. Profound changes were noticeable in mangrove swamps, vernal pool and agricultural lands. This study has brought out the significance of InSAR for analysing delta dynamics.


Until five years ago, when formal evaluation procedures were introduced, meetings organised by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in New Zealand had never been evaluated formally by the participants. Now, four types of evaluation are used: of learning achievements, of the effectiveness of the whole meeting, of individual sessions within the meeting, and of any extra learning or self assessment opportunities, such as computerised self evaluation or self learning facilities. The instruments of evaluation are being progressively improved. We have four major objectives for wishing to evaluate a meeting: firstly, to ascertain its educational value in whole and in part; secondly, to obtain opinions about aspects of programming in the hope that future meetings may be improved; thirdly, to give the speakers the audience's opinions about their performance, and hence improve their future contributions; fourthly, to improve the quality and accuracy of our computerised and other extracurricular programmes. As a byproduct evaluation also enables people to participate more in any


Nitrate administration in diets for ruminants decreased methanogenesis and reduced methane intensity. However, it is well known the toxic effect of nitrate by nitrite accumulation, but a feeding adaptation strategy can reduce the nitrate poisoning. The purpose this study was to assess the effect of nitrate supplementation in ruminants on its toxicity and extent of methane mitigation. Six rumen cannulated lambs were distributed in a 6× 6 Latin square, 2× 3 factorial arrangement experiment. Factors were type of diet (20:80 and 80:20 concentrate : forage ratio) and inclusion of encapsulated nitrate (PNE; 0, 1.5, 3.0, and 4.5% in dietary DM). Doses of nitrate corresponded to 0; 11.7 and 24.2 g NO3 in dietary DM. Encapsulated nitrate replaced soybean meal to achieve isonitrogenous diets. The animals were acclimated gradually to nitrate stepped up from 0.5 % in the ration every 3 day until it reach 1.5% and 3 % in the finisher ration respectively. We evaluated the toxicity of diets by following blood methemoglobin and measuring methane (CH4) emission by open chamber technique. Treatment means were compared by Tukey test. Dry matter intake (DMI, p = 0.48) and methemoglobin (p = 0.32) were not affected by addition of PNE. Very low blood methemoglobin levels were observed 3 h after feeding, (3.21, 4.1 and 4.4) with increasing of nitrate level in diets. A 29% reduction in estimated daily methane production (p = 0.06) was observed on diets with 80 % of concentrate with nitrate (27.5, 19.6 and 19.3 L CH4 / day respectively for 0, 1.5 and 3 % PNE,) when compared with diets without nitrate. It is suggested that supplementary nitrate can be used to mitigate enteric methane emission with low risk by nitrite poisoning , if animals have a gradual acclimation of nitrate.


Various independent studies suggest that echo-contrast agents can increase the likelihood of ultrasonic bioeffects. To better understand bioeffects involving cavitation, a two-dimensional boundary element model was used to simulate ultrasonically excited bubble behavior near a rigid object, either a plane, sphere, or disk, the approximate size of a red blood cell. As the distance between the object and bubble increases, the bubble collapse becomes more spherically symmetric, producing higher maximum bubble pressures. Pressure and velocity fields around a bubble collapsing near a rigid disk are compared for two distances, demonstrating differences between more spherically symmetric and asymmetric bubble collapses.


In this session, Ralph Weischedel of BBN reported on work advancing the state of the art in multiple underlying systems, i.e., translating an understood query or command into a program to produce an answer from one or more application systems. This work addresses one of the key bottlenecks to making NL (and speech) systems truly applicable. Systematic translation techniques from logical form of an English input to commands to carry out the request have previously been worked out only for relational databases, but is extended here in both number of underlying systems and their type.


Abstract The effect of basicity on the metallic iron whisker growth during wüstite reduction was studied in the present investigation. Compacts of pure and CaO/SiO2 doped wüstite were synthesised. The annealed compacts were isothermally reduced in thermogravimetric apparatus with CO gas at 800–1100°C. The course of reduction was followed by measuring the weight loss as a function of time. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), optical microscope and porosity measurements were used to characterise the annealed and reduced samples. The influence of temperature and basicity (CaO/SiO2) on the reduction behaviour and the morphology of the annealed samples were investigated. The reduction rate increased with temperature but decreased by increasing basicity value. Metallic iron whisker shape structure was detected in the pure wüstite samples after reduction at high temperatures while in basic wüstite samples, whiskers were formed at the surface of the compacts. From the activation energy values, the reduction of pure wüstite is most likely controlled by a combined effect of gaseous diffusion and interfacial chemical reaction mechanisms. The reduction of basic wüstite compacts with 0·2 and 0·5 basicity ratios are most likely controlled by chemical reaction mechanism while for 0·8 basicity ratio, the reduction rate is most likely controlled by solid state reaction mechanism.


Bio-inspired synthesis is a novel and attractive environmentally friendly route to generating inorganic materials. In this work, the preparation of CeO2 NPs using egg white and investigation of their antibacterial properties both in liquid and solid growth medium against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria were reported. The CeO2 nanoparticles were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Field emission transmission electron microscope (FETEM), UV-Vis, Raman, and antibacterial measurements. The results from XRD and TEM analysis showed that the prepared nanoparticles were a single phase in the nano regime (5–7 nm) with spherical shape and uniform size distribution. Optical properties reflected the characteristics peaks of CeO2 in the UV-Vis range with a bandgap ~2.80 eV. The antibacterial activity of the synthesized NPs was achieved under ambient conditions with different bacteria and the results showed that the properties were different for both the bacteria. The highest activity with an inhibition zone of about 22 mm against S. aureus was obtained as compared with the 19 mm zone of inhibition obtained with E.coli. This finding will be of major significance that indicates a possibility to develop CeO2 NPs as antibacterial agents against extensive microorganisms to control and prevent the spread and persistence of bacterial infections.


Abstract: We have studied the postnatal evolution of the glial cells in the rat pineal gland after its chemical pre‐ and perinatal denervation, by the assessment of the immunocytochemical expression of three antigens characteristic of glial cells i.e., vimentin (VIM), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and S‐100 protein. The neurotoxic agents we applied consisted of 6‐hydroxydopamine (6‐OHDA) administered during the first 5 postnatal days, and N‐(2‐chloroethyl)‐N‐ethyl‐2‐bro‐mobenzylamine (DSP‐4) injected to pregnant rats in the 15th gestational day. VIM immunoreactivity was detected in pineal glial cells from the first postnatal day, both in denervated and control groups. However, in denervated glands, the maturation process of the glial cells is considerably accelerated, since they appear completely detached of the connective tissue septa at day 15. From day 30, the number of VIM‐positive structures progressively increases until adulthood, when a large number of immunoreactive cell processes produces a reticular appearance to the denervated pineal gland. The first GFAP and S‐100 protein immunoreactive cells were observed earlier in denervated animals (5th postnatal day for S‐100 protein, and 10th postnatal day for GFAP) compared with controls. In the experimentally denervated groups, the population of positive cells, as well as their size and the number of their cell processes, is considerably higher and progressively increased. They were always characteristically located in the proximal half of the gland. From day 45, this region of the gland shows a notable amount of hypertrophic positive cells with thick processes, showing a gliotic aspect. This increase in the immunoreactive structures to the glial antigens we applied, and the acceleration of their expression in denervated animals, are interpreted as a functional reaction of the glial component of the gland that would enhance the synthesis and liberation of neurotrophic factors (such as nerve growth factor) to adapt to this particular experimental condition of lack of nerve supply.


This chapter deals with several topics pertaining to WFPC2 data analysis. We begin with a practical guide to photometry with WFPC2, in which we discuss how to accurately determine the zeropoint, photometric corrections that should be made to WFPC2 data, and common problems and their solutions. We start with the most important aspects of the photometric calibration that affect all observers, largely independently of the final accuracy desired, and in later sections consider subtle effects that can produce relatively small errors. A relatively simple calibration will produce photometric errors of 5 to 10%. With attention to more subtle effects, photometric accuracy between 2 and 5% can be achieved. We then discuss the analysis of polarization data, the astrometric characteristics of WFPC2 images, and the reconstruction of dithered data via the STSDAS package dither. Sub-pixel dithering is widely recognized—after the success of the Hubble Deep Field observations—as a valuable way to overcome in part the undersampling of WFPC2 images. Finally, we summarize various accuracies to be expected from well-calibrated WFPC2 observations. Additional information on many WFPC2 data analysis topics can be found via the WFPC2 Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse includes references to STScI documentation, publications from the astronomical literature, and user-submitted documentation, organized into more than 50 topics. The Clearinghouse can be found on the following web page:


Gli strumenti di comunicazione e relazione con gli stakeholder nel Trasporto pubblico locale: dalla qualita alla responsabilita sociale (di Giacomo Boesso, Fabio Monteduro) - ABSTRACT: The stakeholder reporting in its original formulation is a managerial tool that helps companies in reviewing its processes and in improving stakeholder relationships rather then a simple reputation tool or even worst a compliance exercise. Object of the paper is to discuss the instruments of institutional stakeholder communication in the local transport industry where innovative voluntary documents, such as the social reports, progressively support the mandatory documents better known as mobility charts. An empirical research is performed in order to compare the annual reports and the mobility charts of the main Italian local transport companies. All documents are investigated through a research table that jointly considers the features of the reporting process (aims, methodologies, stakeholder engagement) and of the document (analytics, measures types and benchmarks).


The kind of themes we have come to take for granted in migration history in recent years, regardless of ethnic origin, notably the search to discover a migrant national identity, attached either to the old country or the new, or an uncertain mix of both are considered in this article through the tales of immigrants. For the postwar British the assisted migration scheme was one of the most flexible it was possible to imagine, offering a ten pound passage to almost any willing applicant.


Fungal dyes are an important alternative dye. In the present study, woolen yarn was dyed with 10 fungal dyes derived from three isolates of Aspergillus, two isolates of Paecilomyces, three isolates of Penicillium, and two other fungal isolates (Monascus purpureus and Trichoderma harzianum) using two different mordants (alum and FeSO4.7H2O) by three different dyeing pH (3, 6, and 9). Aspergillus, Paecilomyces, Penicillium, and T. harzianum isolates were grown on mineral salts glucose medium, while M. purpureus isolate grown on rice. The color of filtrate and range of colors developed on dyed materials were measured by RHS color chart. The results indicated that the pH value of dye and mordant had a great effect on the color that appears. When the pH value was 3, it exhibited a strong color of woolen yarn than the pH value of 6 or 9. Mordant FeSO4.7H2O produced almost all darker colors than mordant alum on woolen yarn. The present study indicates that the selected fungal isolates can serve as novel sources ...


Background An unbiased estimate of the COVID-19 deaths is essential to compare and contrast the public health actions adopted by governments from time to time. It also helps them in their policy-making in the future. But unfortunately, there is gross underreporting of COVID-19 deaths across the world, and also from India, as reported by many researchers, which can be estimated by modelling exercises only. Methods In this article, we estimated the number of COVID-19 deaths among the Indian states using a time series analysis approach with the mortality data published by the civil registration system since 2011. We excluded the trend in non-COVID mortality due to the prevailing causes to prevent it from being counted erroneously as due to COVID-19. Results Accordingly, the number of COVID-19 deaths in India is estimated as 25.8 lakh (95% confidence interval [CI]: 11.1L, 35.4L), with Bihar being the largest under-reporter of COVID-19 mortality (98.4% [95% CI: 98.0, 98.7] deaths not reported). On the contrary, there are states with zero underreporting (Kerala, Goa, Mizoram, Sikkim, and all the union territories). We also found out that the measures of social and economic development, like the multidimensional poverty index, infant mortality, literacy rate, per capita state domestic product, and the NITI Aayog Health Index, are significantly correlated to the proportion of underreporting. Discussion and Conclusion The underreporting of COVID-19 deaths in India is very much linked to its social and economic development. There is intentional nonreporting of the deaths of children, women, and the poor for a much longer period of time. Poor quality of data-grabbing mechanisms, the social stigma associated with the disease, inadequate testing of the population, the inefficiency of the administration, and omission of the socially and economically vulnerable groups had intensified the scenario.


The aim of this study was to investigate the spelling strategies used by EFL students in Oman. In particular, the study focused on finding out the frequency of use of the strategies used by grade four and ten students, and the differences between both grades in the use of these strategies. The study also looked at the effect of both gender and student proficiency level on the type of spelling strategies used such as sounding out, syllabication, visual checking and others. The study sample consisted of 757 students from grades four and ten as they represent the exit level of cycle one and cycle two in Oman. The study utilized a questionnaire, which was divided into different categories representing different spelling strategies. Results revealed statistically significant differences in the use of the strategies with respect to gender and achievement levels. Based on the findings, practical implications and recommendations were provided. Objective: The study aimed at identifying the frequency of spelling learning strategies that grades four and ten learners use to learn English spelling. Also, it explored the difference in the use of spelling strategies according to gender differences and achievement levels. Methods: The study was of a survey design type in which a questionnaire of spelling learning strategies was used to collect the data. The instrument was valid and reliable according to the reliability measures and validity procedures used. The population comprised of students from both grades four and ten. The sample of the study included 757 male and female students from both grades. Results: The strategies used by both grade four and ten differ in the frequency of use. It was found that grade four reported the use of rule use strategies more frequently and grade ten learners reported the use of visual checking strategies. There are statistically significant differences between male and female Omani EFL students in the used spelling learning strategies. Nevertheless, achievement level differences were found only between good students and low-level achievers. Conclusions: Students reported the use of different spelling learning strategies as found per grade levels. There should be more attention given to the strategies introduced to students and curriculum designers should take into their considerations students' level and differences to design textbooks that would help all grades levels in learning to spell.


Virtual worlds are a class of computer game in whic h large numbers of players access a shared environment simultaneously to have fun. What "having fun" means, however, is not obvious. Players talk about immersion, which suggests to some commentators that their fu n may derive from the well-known psychological concepts o f presence and flow. However, although these states of mind are indeed important factors i n immersion, they do not capture what players themselves understand by the term. To describe full y what players are experiencing requires an examination of identity exploration – an exploratio n which strongly echoes the structure of ancient myth.


Frank's introductory essay to this collection of well over 100 international mail-artists' stamps takes the stamp form itself as a topic for discussion, while Higgins gives a brief history of the artist's stamp as a forum for ideas.


THERE are several points of interest in this case which merits its being recorded. Amongst these may be mentioned :-(1) The rarity of complete inertia uteri so early in the first stage of labour in the absence of obstruction; (2) the collapse one hour after delivery, am1 death five and a half hours later; (3) the effect on the child by forceps pressure even in an easy extraction. She was then aged 32, had been six years married, and was the mother of two children. I n July, 1896, I removed the right annexa fo r an unruptured tubal gestation about the fifth week (see Glasgow Obst. and Gyn. SOC. Trans., vol. i., p. 27). Since that operation, I have attended her during three confinements. First, of a female' child, born 7th July, 1898, i.e., eighteen months after removal of the tubal gestation. The labour was easy and required no assistance, yet the child was born dead, having succumbed during the second stage from no evident cause. The placenta was partially adherent, necessitating manual separation. The second stage was prolonged owing to inertia, delivery being effected with forceps. Third, of a female1 child, born 20th September, 1900. It is this last labour which forms the subject of this paper. During the latter half of her last pregnancy, the patient, naturally a neurotic woman, was more nervous than usual, and frequently expressed the dread that she would not survive her approaching confinement. It is a common enough dread with pregnant women, especially primiparae, but in this instance it proved only too true. The first summons came at 6-30 a.m. on 19th September, 1900,


Objective To determine the best extracting process of Zhenyin buccal tablets.Methods RP-HPLC methods were developed for the determination of glycyrrhizic acid in the extracting process.Orthogonal test was employed to determine the optimal water amount,decoction period and times of decoction in the extracting process.Results The various optimal factors were determined.Conclusion This study supplies basic and instructive data for further research and development of the formulation of Zhenyin buccal tablets.


From Summary: "In order to facilitate the application of miscellaneous airfoil data to the problems of the helicopter designer, a discussion of a number of the problems most frequently arising is presented. A reference list of published papers on airfoil section characteristics (or their application) which experience has shown to be useful in connection with these helicopter problems is included."


Integration of artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been an active research topic in recent years, especially when UAVs are required to implement difficult tasks which cannot be done easily with human control. Usually UAVs use multiple sensors such as top-down camera or LiDAR sensor to gather full information of environments, and main processor machine calculates all necessary trajectory for UAVs. However, such environmentspecific methodology is not applicable to real-world problems mostly due to the complexity which incapacitates proper sensor installation around space. This thesis proposes an approach which uses monocular on-board camera and reinforcement learning-based model to follow the detected object. This approach is more cost efficient and environment-adaptive compare to the previous approaches which tend to use multiple sensors and pre-calculated trajectory. Our model extended the previous Deep Double Q-network with dueling architecture (D3QN) model, altered an action table and a reward function, which enables 3-dimensional movements, and combined object detection using MobileNet, which adds bounding box information to image input of training network. In addition, the convergence-based exploration and exploitation is adaptively applied to D3QN network aligned with epsilon-greedy algorithm. The tests are done in different simulation environments with different complexity and difficulty. The Microsoft-supported quadrotor simulating API, 'Airsim' module is used for the testing. Results shows the model tracks the detected object, the human figure, without colliding with obstacle along the path, and trained faster with convergence-based exploration algorithm.


)colonialism and gender with a focus on masculinity in the Philippines. The analysis of a case study, the first indigenous representation of Mary with child, will show how the (post)colonial condition was also negotiated creatively and subversively at the intersection of religion and gender, to wit: masculinity. In particular, it will be argued that, although a relationship between religion, gender, and (post)colonial situations is also possible in which religious traditions reinforce colonial structures and constructions of gender, the reverse is also the case: an indigenous appropriation of traditional colonial religious repertoire— Mary with child—which can be described in terms of mimicry in a context of cultural hybrid-ity, turns out to be an instance of the religious legitimization of both the indigenous culture


In electrical engineering the Earth appears frequently as a media of con- ducting currents. In order to protect humans of electrocuti ng, the utilities chassis are usually grounded, the lightning rods are grounded as well and sometime the Earth is applied as a return conductor. For that reason, it is necessa ry to investigate the Earth's behavior when it is used as a conducting media. The best way to do this investigation is to determine the current distribution within the Earth.


This article examines political ideology, cultural nationalism and the contesting of identity in early twentieth-century Chile. It does so by tracing the emergence of a unique cultural construct – the huaso cowboy – in the literary sphere and by exploring a 'rural idealist' discourse employed by middle-class, reformist intellectuals who hoped for the mitigation of the 'social question' and the displacement of traditional oligarchs from cultural and political centrality. It also seeks to explain how the fiction genre known as criollismo challenged elitist conceptions of 'nation' and 'culture' in the context of dramatic socio-political, economic and demographic change.


The use of solar thermal energy for water desalination processes is increasing rapidly, particularly in areas where these resources are plentiful. However, solar energy plants are highly affected by the intermittency of day –night cycles and by low irradiation seasons. Although biomass fuel can be used as source of energy for thermal desalination processes, these resources are becoming increasingly scarce, expensive and seasonally available. Integration of solar-biomass technologies for water desalination process may provide the solution to these challenges. This work investigates design options of the Humidification-Dehumidification desalination system integration with the solar-biomass energies. The investigation is based on simulation of the process models in gPROMS platform. Results show that the solar-biomass integrated plant with a thermal storage system can save up to 57 % of the daily energy cost compared to conventional biomass plant. The integrated plant also cuts the CO2 emission by 59 %. Moreover, it has higher daily production capacity than conventional solar plants.


We report statewide linear and non-linear trends in density from 1992 to 2001 for six common bird species in the riparian areas of Utah. The six species examined here represent over 24 percent of all observations in the period. Four of the six species showed linear declines (Black-headed Grosbeak [Pheucticus melanocephalus], American Goldfinch [Carduelis tristis], American Robin [Turdus migratorius], and Broad-tailed Hummingbird [Selasphorus platycercus]) over this period, but the decline in only one species—the Broad-tailed Hummingbird—was considered significant here (F = 19.45, P = 0.002). Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia) numbers showed the only other significant linear trend, increasing significantly since 1992 (F = 15.30, P = 0.004); Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) numbers showed a non-significant increase. A parallel analysis, using Generalized Linear Models to identify non-linear patterns in population trends, showed two apparently consistent patterns of population change with synchronous timing of significant trend inflection points. The evaluation of these non-linear patterns, if they persist as additional analyses are competed, will be important to future assessments of Utah's avian conservation needs.


Among 2,500 strains of yeasts tested, one strain producing a large amount of lactic acid together with ethanol was screened, and was determined as Kluyveromyces thermotolerans AN 109. This strain showed strong activity of lactate dehydrogenase, which was considered to be one of the main casuses of producing a large amount of lactic acid, when it was cultured statically. But in the aerobically grown cells, both lactate dehydrogenase activity and lactic acid production decreased vigorously. The yeast grown aerobically in the media containing phenethyl alcohol showed high abilities of production of both ethanol and lactic acid together with strong activities of the relating enzymes such as lactate dehydrogenase, alcohol dehydrogenase and pyruvate dehydrogenase.


Investigation of the petrogenesis and the origin of zircons from the volcanic rocks of the Liujiaping Group of the back‐Longmenshan tectonic belt in the northwest margin of the Yangtze Block is conducted by analysis of U–Pb geochronology and geochemistry. Results show that selected zircons are characterized by internal oscillatory zonings and high Th/U ratios (0.43–1.18), indicating an igneous origin. Geochronological results of LA–ICP–MS U–Pb dating of the Liujiaping Group zircons yield an age of 809 ± 11 Ma (MSWD = 2.2), implying that the volcanic rocks were formed in the Late Neoproterozoic. Geochemical analysis shows that the rocks are calc‐alkaline, supersaturated in Al, and metaluminous to weakly peraluminous. Rare‐earth elements are present at high concentrations (96.04–265.48 ppm) and show a rightward incline and a moderately negative Eu anomaly, similar to that of continental rift rhyolite. Trace element geochemistry is characterized by evident negative anomalies of Nb, Ta, P, Th, Ti, inter alia, and strong negative anomalies of K, Rb, Sr, et al. We conclude that the Liujiaping Group volcanic rocks resulted from typical continental crust source petrogenesis and were formed in a continental margin setting, which had no relation to subduction, and thus, were the products of partial melting of the lower crust due to crustal thickening caused by active continental margin subduction and arc‐continent collision orogeny in the northwestern Yangtze Block and were triggered by the breakup of the Rodinia supercontinent during the Neoproterozoic.


Background: Occupational bronchial asthma in mushroom (champignon) workers is unusual, although reports on it appeared in 1938 and 1951; we have not found any others since those dates. Here we report the case of a 52‐year‐old man who works as a champignon cultivator. He suffered rhinoconjunctivitis and asthma attacks whenever he entered the champignon culture caves. We studied flies as a possible antigen source. We collected these insects from the growing sites in order to identify them, and then prepare an extract; the samples turned out to be of two families of insects of the order Diptera, 98% from the Phoridae family (Brachycera suborder) and 2% from the Sciaridae (Nematocera suborder).


The modulus of elasticity of wood, fiberboard and wood-fiberboard composite was measured by nondestructive test (longitudinal transmission vibration method). The predicting model of the modulus of elasticity of wood-fiberboard composite was discussed. This study has shown that the wood ratio has substantial effect on the modulus of elasticity of wood-fiberboard composite. The modulus of elasticity of wood-fiberboard composite can be predicted from volume fraction of wood by simulation formula. The model Eq.(3) can be used to predict the modulus of elasticity of the wood-fiberboard composite from the modulus of elasticity and volume fraction of wood and fiberboard when M=0.92~0.97. The model Eq.(4) can be used to predict the modulus of elasticity of the wood-fiberboard composite from the modulus of elasticity and volume fraction of wood and fiberboard when M=0.97~0.99.


Objective
To evaluate the efficacy of hydromorphone for postoperative parent-controlled intravenous analgesia in pediatric patients.

Methods
Seventy-five pediatric patients of both sexes, aged 2-5 yr, of American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status ⅠorⅡ, scheduled for elective surgery for treatment of developmental displasia of the hip, were divided into 2 groups using a random number table: sufentanil group(group S, n=38)and hydromorphone group(group H, n=37). Parent-controlled intravenous analgesia was carried out within 48 h after operation.Parent-controlled intravenous analgesia solution contained sufentanil 2 μg/kg(group S)or hydromorphone 200 μg/kg(group H)in 100 ml of normal saline.The analgesia pump was set up with a 0.5 ml bolus dose, a 15-min lockout interval and infusion at a rate of 0.5 ml/h.Ramsay sedation scores were recorded at 0.5, 1, 4, 8, 12, 24 and 48 h after extubation(T1-7). At 1 h before operation(T0), T3 and T6, blood samples were collected from the ulnar vein for determination of the concentration of substance P in serum.The total consumption of analgesics, the number of successfully delivered doses, the number of attempts and drug-related adverse reactions were recorded, and parents′ satisfaction was scored.

Results
Compared with group S, Ramsay sedation scores were significantly decreased at T1-3, the number of attempts was increased(P 0.05).

Conclusion
Hydromorphone can be safely and effectively used for postoperative parent-controlled intravenous analgesia in pediatric patients.

Key words:
Hydromorphone; Analgesia, patient-controlled; Child


In the application of statistics to research in psychiatry, one encounters a number of difficulties. Perhaps the most difficult is the problem of generalizing from sample to population. This paper deals with some fundamental issues concerning this problem from a clinical as well as a statistical point of view.


Introduction:
 BP assessed by ABPM is better related to TOD than office measurement. Evaluate TOD patients presented at a Hypertension Lab for first screening.

 Methods:
 353 hypertensive (188 Female, aged 19-89) by 24h-ABPM (SpaceLabs 90307), lab. tests, LVMIU by Echo (Terason, M3000), Divided in two groups: Controlled [C] by 24h-BP (<130x80 mmHg) and Not controlled [NC] (>130/80 mmHg), albuminuria (ALB).

 Results:
 Table shows no difference detected in lab panel, except Glu, Trygl, ALB and LVMI.

 Discussion:
 Expected Higher, Glu, trygl, ALB levels and LVMI, in NC group, with significant statistical differences comparing C group. Expected because the high blood pressure are the trigger to TOD.

 Conclusion:
 Screening with 24-h ABPM is a valuable tool to hypertensives patients and should be used more frequently to prevent TOD progression.


1 MSc, Family Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 2 MSc, Family Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran 3 MSc, Family Counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University Gorgan Branch, Gorgan, Iran 4 Ph.D. Student, Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran 5 Ph.D. Student, Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran * Corresponding author: Reza Davarniya, Ph.D. Student, Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Received: 25 Apr 2016 Accepted: 11 Jun 2016


Abstract Objectives The natural history of sporadic non‐ampullary duodenal epithelial tumors (SNADETs) is poorly documented. The aim of this study was to evaluate the history of SNADETs in patients where immediate resection could not be performed. Methods This is a single‐center retrospective study of 86 consecutive cases of SNADETs who did not undergo immediate resection and were followed‐up with upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for more than 6 months. Results During a follow‐up period of 36.8 (6.0–613.0) months, macroscopic progression was admitted in eight (9.3%). Of these, the final histology in four was adenocarcinoma, and three cases demonstrated submucosal invasion. Rates of macroscopic progression at 150 months after detection were 11.1%, 16.7%, and 30.0% for SNADETs <5 mm, <10 mm, and ≥10 mm, respectively. Conclusion The overall risk of SNADETs progressing to invasive cancer is low. However, changes in macroscopic size or shape of SNADETs signify a high risk of progression to invasive cancer.


Introduction Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a powerful method for the non-invasive study of a wide range of objects. Among its many characteristics, molecular diffusion can be examined without the need for any chemical or isotopic tracers by applying magnetic field gradients within the NMR sequence. Aim In our study, model cell suspensions were characterized by means of low-field (LF) (0.05 T) 1H NMR relaxometry. The proposed multi-parametric characterization based on independent 2D T1-T2 and D-T2 measurements was implemented to obtain a set of MR parameters as a specific signature for model cells. Material and methods The D-T2 and T1-T2 correlation measurements were conducted on yeast samples with different amounts of added water. Signals from intracellular and extracellular water compartments and free water were identified on D-T2 maps and their diffusion coefficients were extracted. Results Mean D_IC was equal to 8.4 × 10–11 m2/s and mean D_EC ranged from 1.0 × 10–9 m2/s to 1.65 × 10–9 m2/s. T1/T2 ratio was calculated and for IC space values in the range of 4.2–5.3 were observed. Finally, we demonstrated the possibility of detecting signals from cells for the samples with a low concentration of cell suspensions or a small amount of the sample. Conclusions These findings are promising for more complex cell investigations in vitro and in vivo, without any contrast agents, applying solely biomarkers.


for many years, spin traps have been used to decrease the reactivity of free radicals in order for them to be identified and detected by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPr) spectrometry, thereby allowing the acquisition of abundant information on the production of such species in biological, biochemical and chemical systems.1–4 During this technique, a highly reactive free radical typically reacts with a double bond of a diamagnetic compound (the spin trap) to form a more stable radical (the spin adduct) which can be detected by EPr spectrometry.5–9 Nitrones are the most frequently used compounds as spin trapping agents, and the spin adducts being, in this case, a nitroxide. recent accounts10 have demonstrated that phosphorus-containing spin traps give rise to radical adducts that have longer half-lives compared Characterization of free radical spin adducts of 5-diisopropyloxyphosphoryl5-methyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide using mass spectrometry and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance


The potential to grow cells in vitro could drastically expand the horizons of regenerative medicine, as more tissues and potentially organs would be available. The aim of this study is to first produce a porous scaffold with precise pore morphologies via computer aided design (CAD) and 3D printing technology; and to then subject these scaffolds to spreading tests. As well as this the scaffolds will have parameters such as porosity measured, via using a pycnometer, scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) image processing and calculations based on the design parameters. Permeability is measured by KRUSS Drop shape analyser and precise measurements for pore diameters and scaffold thickness are completed with image J. The uniform regularity of the scaffolds produced will accurately allow the effects of scaffold porosity to be investigated and see how it affects interactions with cell culture medium.


The early history of scleroderma is confused with that of leprosy, ichthyosis and keloid. Under the name of ichthyosis corii, Curzio, 1 in 1752, described a case which was probably diffuse scleroderma. Alibert 2 and Addison, 3 under the name of true keloid, distinguished the localized form of scleroderma from false keloid, the latter being what is now called keloid. Henke 4 described the infantile form of the disease clearly and in a footnote gave a typical case of the diffuse type in the adult. He called it Verhaertung des Zellgewebes or induratio telae cellularis. Fagge 5 reported an interesting postmortem examination of the skin and liver in a case of diffuse "scleriasis." T. C. Fox 6 gave an interesting account of the early history of the disease. In 1895, Lewin and Heller 7 reviewed the whole subject up to that date, collecting reports of more than 500 cases from


This paper is based upon a laboratory exercise designed for biology students in secondary schools or those taking introductory biology laboratory courses in colleges and universities. This exercise requires a set of calipers, a calculator and populations of snail shells collected either from the wild or obtained from a biological supply house. The exercise illustrates an inexpensive means by which students can conduct their own measurements and analysis of biological specimens. Snail shells can be measured for their height, width, aperture dimension, and weight. This provides data which can be used to illustrate and apply the concepts of probability, normal distribution, standard deviation, homogeneity of variance, and Student's t-test in a biological context. The students do not use computers in this exercise so that, through the manual completion of worksheets with paper and pencil, they can more effectively learn the application of statistical methodology.


Weight difference of grains at different positions in wheat of various cultivars and populations were analysed. The main results were as follows. The grain weight difference in the spikelet with 2 grains was slight. The second grain in a spikelet with 3 or more grains was heaviest and the highest grain was the lightest and significantly lighter than the lower grains. The filling durations of different position grains were similar. Filling rate differences were in consistent with grain weight's. Higher position florets differentiated later, of which organs and activity were worse than lower position florets, so they could only get less photosynthate. Cultural techniques could change the grain weight, but it was quite difficult to change the grain weight difference.


Senescent cells are considered to be a state of cell cycle arrest after exceeding the ultimate number of cell division, however they still secreting the senescence associated secretory phenotype (SASP) as proinflammatory factors as a sign of metabolically activity. a certain type of senescence that can be induced by oxidative stress, DNA damage and inflammation this can be called Stress-Induced Premature Senescence (SIPS). Several studies proved that cellular senescence has a massive impact in vivo in aging and aging-related pathophysiology. The main reasons of this phenomenon, which can lead to vascular disorders in endothelial cells, include chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, and diminished nitric oxide bioavailability. Oxidative stress is often linked to many diseases through cell deterioration. It refers to a status where the bioavailability of oxidative stress is much more than the available amount of antioxidant. oxidative stress (ROS) produced by ageing can activate NF-kB and enhance vascular inflammation. To investigate the impact of oxidative stress on endothelial ageing and the assessment of the inflammatory response this study was performed to test the intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM-1) and the possible correlation with ROS production over a relatively long period of time. Since oxidative stress and premature senescence are correlated and have a major role in endothelial dysfunction this study was performed to investigate the effects of intermittent exposure of HUVECs to H 2 O 2 (50µM) on the induction of senescence over a longer period of fifteen days.


A computational simulation method for trabecular surface remodeling in cancellous bone was proposed using a digital image-based voxel finite element model. For cancellous bone with complicated trabecular architecture, digital image-based model is useful both for finite element modeling of the structure and for simulating morphological changes in the trabecular architecture due to remodeling. Trabecular surface remodeling was simulated based on a uniform stress hypothesis, that is, to attain uniform stress in the trabeculae, resorption and formation were modeled by removal and addition of the voxel finite elements on the trabecular surface. A remodeling simulation of a cancellous bone cube under compressive loading was conducted with a digital image-based model constructed from μCT data of the cancellous region in a distal canine femur. The results of the simulation demonstrate that the trabeculae change their morphology to functionally adapt to the applied load as a load-bearing structure, and the changes in the structural indices of cancellous bone qualitatively correspond with the experimental results, demonstrating the potential of the proposed method to predict the functional adaptation of cancellous bone.


On 1 January 2016, Hong Kong's listed entities will be regulated by an amended Corporate Governance Code and Corporate Governance Report. The core changes contain the re-situating and revamping of risk management requirements along slide internal control systems from the recommended best practices to code provisions. Whilst the proposed changes seem to be in line with international trends, new risk management obligations should not be treated as another set of procedures and processes for the board. The code provisions oblige the board to manage and monitor the company's risks. This code also expects risk management to be embedded in the issuer's organization. Failure to comply not only attracts sanctions from the exchange, but has legal implications for directors under statutory duty of care. Therefore, any omissions by directors in the managing and monitoring of the company's risk will find themselves exposed to legal risks.


Several ultrasonic detection and analysis systems are currently used to provide information on the echolocation calls of bats, in many cases permitting species-level identification. This note briefly describes these systems and alerts potential users of the inaccuracies of the simplest device, the superheterodyne QMC Mini Bat Detector. Without adequate calibration, the error in this latter detector is such that reliable identification of bats by echolocation call characteristics cannot be achieved.


Behavioral analysis in an urban environment is a complex task that requires material and human resources, due to the difficulty of interpreting the situations. This paper presents a method to improve the detection of dangerous behaviors by assisting surveillance stations. Our objective is to alert when one of these behaviors is captured by a surveillance camera. To do this, we analyze the positions and paths of the persons in a global way, through a group of parameters. These parameters are determined by an automatic image analysis algorithm such as DBSCAN computed on an NVIDIA Jetson TX2. This analysis allows to detect, through the evolution and clustering of points in each cloud, phenomena qualified as abnormal, such as dispersion and rapid clustering, as well as poaching. The data used to feed our algorithm come from simulations that allow testing new and different scenarios. The performance of our proposed method is evaluated on videos representing real case situations.


We examined the physiological effects of impact pile driving on fishes using a specially designed tube that allows replication of the far field acoustic conditions of impulsive stimuli. Studies show that the received signal levels needed to result in onset of effects is a combination of single strike sound exposure level (SELss) and cumulative sound exposure level (SELcum), although not in an equal energy relationship. In contrast to current interim regulations, which indicate that the onset of physiological effects occurs at 187 dB SELcum, our experimental results for six species of fishes showed that the onset of physiological effects, none of which produced mortality, was at about 207 dB SELcum. This onset SELcum had to be at least 7–10 dB higher to result in effects that could potentially be mortal. Additional studies showed that fishes can recover from the effects of pile driving and that a fish species without a swim bladder showed no effects, at least up to an SELcum of 216 dB. Investigations on the effects of pile driving on sensory hair cells of the inner ear, an analog for hearing loss, showed that damage only occurred at SELcum that are substantially higher than onset of other effects.


The objective of this thesis was to figure out the metabolism of Clostridium tyrobutyricum and evaluate the production of hydrogen in a continuous-flow stirred tank reactor (CSTR) as a function of hydraulic retention time (HRT). The influent substrates were 20,000 mg/L glucose and peptone (3:2(w/w)), temperature was at 35℃, and pH was controlled under 6±0.1 by computer. The reactor was operated at different hydraulic retention time (HRT = 18, 12, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1.5, 1 hr), and collected gas production and water quality data under steady state for the nine runs. The concentrations of biomass were around 2700±400 mg/L at HRT = 18-1.5 hrs, but C. tyrobutyricum was washed out at HRT = 1hr. Bacterial flocculation was occurred at HRT = 3, 2, 1.5 hrs. Biomass flocculation increased biomass concentrations and made concentrations of effluent glucose stay under 300 mg/L at lower HRTs. Effluent organic nitrogen concentrations increased but effluent ammonia concentration decreased with decreasing HRT, because microorganism had enough time for degrading peptone when HRT was high. While the reactor was controlled at higher HRTs, peptone was used for biomass synthesis and fermentation. On the other hand, peptone was used for biomass synthesis mainly at lower HRTs. Maximum hydrogen production rate, maximum specific hydrogen production rate and maximum hydrogen yield were 416.61 mmol H2/L/d, 8.92 L H2/g-VSS/d, and 3.47 mmol H2/g-CODapplied occurred at HRT = 4 hr. Moreover, experimental hydrogen production rate of HRT = 4 hr was also closest to theoretical hydrogen production rate among all the nine runs. Maximum carbon dioxide production rate was 292 mmol CO2/L-day occurred at HRT = 6 hr. In addition, hydrogen production rate decreased when HRTs were reduced lower than 4 hr, but biomass concentrations were stable, so decreased hydrogen production rates were attributed to metabolic pathway shifting. The compositions of effluent organic acids were mainly butyrate and acetate at higher HRTs, but metabolic pathway shifted to lactate production at lower HRTs. LDH will be catalyzed by high NADH/NAD+ condition (Garrigues et al., 1997), and inhibited by NAD+ (Fitzgerald et al., 1992). When the reactor was controlled at lower HRTs, specific growth rates of microorganism were increased, and then required energy of microorganism was high, so NADH was produced faster. In addition, effluent butyrate concentrations decreased, maybe because of lower PTB activity. These two reasons caused accumulation of NADH and pyruvate in microorganism, LDH was activated, and then lactate was produced at lower HRTs. Finally, metabolic flux analysis was studied. After using CellNetAnalyzer calculated the rates of metabolic pathways for eight runs, nodal analysis was applied. For nodal analysis of pyruvate, the pathway for producing acetyl-CoA with hydrogen production decreased when HRT decreased. On the other hand, the pathway for lactate production increased when HRT decreased, maybe because of high LDH activity. For nodal analysis of acetyl-CoA, the activities of PTB and PK were higher than PTA and AK, and vice versa.


Citation: Gabriel P. Weisberg, exhibition review of "Jean-Jacque Henner Face à l'Impressionnisme, Le dernier des romantiques," Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 7, no. 1 (Spring 2008), http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring08/98-jean-jacques-henner-ledernier-des-romantiques. Published by: Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art Notes: This PDF is provided for reference purposes only and may not contain all the functionality or features of the original, online publication.


In China, research on intelligent vehicles has been developed by more and more organizations, so the evaluation methods of intelligent driving abilities are of great importance. This article first analyzed information processing of intelligent vehicles based on cognitive science; second, we briefly introduced the basic theory and methods of fuzzy synthetic evaluation; finally, according to the competition "Future Challenge", we focused on four driving behaviors like straight driving, turning, U-Turn and overtaking, which were also considered as the first level factors of the evaluation model, and established this fuzzy synthetic evaluation model of driving abilities for intelligent vehicles. It can be used to assess the intelligent driving behaviors for unmanned ground vehicles, and lay a solid foundation of the evaluation part for the next "Future Challenge" competitions.


the fact that an invasive 'placebo' fascia iliaca block was administered makes it impossible to exclude the invasive control intervention as the cause. He also questions the grading of temporary and permanent. We defined as permanent, any complication that was reported by authors not to have resolved when the study ended. We agree that perhaps better terms would have been 'persistent' or 'unresolved'. He also questioned why we did not report the absence of serious permanent injury as a result of a placebo block in the Results section of the manuscript. Perhaps we should have, but at least one study, as stated above, reported a persistent, unresolved complication in a patient allocated to an invasive 'placebo' block [9]. In conclusion, we appreciate the opportunity to address the concerns Prof. Laffey has raised. We agree with him that careful and balanced debate regarding the use of invasive placebo blocks is long overdue. We hope careful reading of our paper [2] and the accompanying editorial [3] will give this serious issue the attention it deserves.


When the spermatozoon of M glacialis contacts the mature oocyte jelly it adheres to it. Following this, there is a slight tumefaction of the acrosome, which is followed by the disruption of the apical acrosomal vesicle and cytoplasmic membranes. Acrosomal vesicle contents are liberated and spread along the outer surface of the oocyte jelly. Meanwhile, the acrosomal process begins to extend, penetrates all the jelly extension, then the vitelline layer, and finally contacts the cytoplasmic egg membrane. Nevertheless, the sperm cell continues lying at the outer border of the jelly. From the beginning of the acrosome reaction the dense and finely fibrillar subacrosomal material is connected, by some expansions, to the basal acrosomal vesicle membrane. Both nuclear and mitochondrial diameters have diminished.


Objective
To compare the short term clinical efficacy of modified total spinal canal decompression and traditional osteotomy on lumbar spinal stenosis by using bone knife.

Methods
Retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 86 patients with lumbar spinal stenosis, 47 male and 39 female, with an average age of 61.8 years. In the control group, 40 cases of narrow segments were treated by traditional rongeur forceps. In the experimental group, 46 cases of narrow segments were treated with modified osseous knife and improved whole spinal canal expanding decompression. The changes of the operation time, the amount of bleeding and the flow rate of the two groups were compared. All patients were followed up for 7-18 months. The operation effect was evaluated according to the VAS and ODI scoring system before operation and 6 months after operation and at the last follow-up.

Results
Two groups of patients were operated smoothly, there was no intraoperative nerve root injury or cerebrospinal fluid leakage complications. Compared with the control group, the operation time in experimental group was significantly shorter [(2.02±0.25)h vs. (2.99±0.18) h], the amount of bleeding was less [(219.35±26.45) ml vs. (264.75±28.19) ml, P 0.05). The VAS score and ODI score of the two groups were significantly lower than those before operation (P 0.05).

Conclusions
Bone knife has good short-term effect on spinal canal stenosis with improved spinal canal expansion decompression, which can reduce the operative time and intraoperative bleeding, but requires the surgeon to grasp the skills of bone knife and understand the anatomical structure of lumbar vertebrae in detail.

Key words:
Bone knife; Total spinal canal decompression; Spinal stenosis; Curative effect


After the sinus node was destroyed, its rhythmic activity was simulated by an electronic relaxation oscillator coupled to the beating heart. The output of the oscillator was used to stimulate the right atrium, and the ventricular response was returned to the input of the relaxation oscillator. By manually varying the frequency of this artificial pacemaker it was possible to produce changes in the rate of the atrio–ventricular (A–V) node similar to those obtained by perfusion of the intact sinus node with chronotropic agents. Particular attention was paid to the transitions from "oscillator" rhythm to A–V nodal rhythm, and vice versa. The results provide support for the following hypotheses relative to the intact heart: (i) some form of sinus node activity persists during A–V nodal rhythm, and (ii) the principal pacemakers of the heart, the sinus and A–V nodes, behave as a system of coupled relaxation oscillators.


This study presents the importance of promoting interreligious dialogue and ecumenism in teaching peace education. It also discusses the applicability of selected papal documents for implementation in current interreligious education in Catholic and government schools in the Philippines. We explain the importance of interreligious dialogue and ecumenism from the Catholic Church documents Ut Unum Sint and Nostra Aetate. Then, we show the need for interreligious dialogue and ecumenism in achieving peace in this time when religion is misconstrued. Conclusions are given to lay out the need for interreligious dialogue and ecumenism to be integrated in peace education.


For want of other secure evidence, the study of art in prehistoric societies normally amounts to looking at pictures, though there must have also been sound, and surely music. The long lithic tradition of central northern Australia permits a rare insight into another kind of prehistoric art, the meaning and aesthetic order that may lie behind a lithic industry.


In this paper , we study a subclass of functions which are univalent and analytic functions in the unit disk U . We obtain coefficient estimates , distortion bounds and some results.


This essay contends that happiness offers an alternative point of entry into recent debates about the supposed 'hybridity' or 'dialectic' of realism and experimentalism in contemporary literature. Sarah Ahmed's The Promise of Happiness suggests that happiness is a particularly contemporary concern; I will also argue that it has been brought surprisingly to the fore in two recent experimental texts, Eimear McBride's The Lesser Bohemians1 and Nicola Barker's H(A)PPY. At first glance, the marriage of experimentalism and happiness may appear odd; as Sianne Ngai observes, the avant-garde 'is conventionally imagined as sharp and pointy, as hard- or cutting-edge', and Rachel Greenwald Smith has delineated a supposed tension between affect and postmodernism. However, Claire Colebrook's theory of a relationship between literature and non-teleological or desubjectivized happiness helps us to see how Barker and McBride mobilize the destabilizing capacities inhering in literary form to return a greater complexity and ambivalence to the concept of happiness. This suggests one way of placing the novels in terms of literary history and contemporary aesthetics, evoking what Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker call a 'metamodernist oscillation' between postmodern suspicion and modernist hope. However, the erratic behaviour of happiness as narrative telos in the novels also challenges the logic of aesthetic categories by alerting us to the strangeness of literary form, suggesting that qualities normally attributed to experimental writing may be possibilities inhering in literature as such.


The ways of constructing the intrinsic ideas of Chinese modern poetics,from the perspective of origin,are approval and deviation of the ideas of western poetics,and meanwhile are deviation and inheritance of Chinese ancient literary theories.


Abstract Background: Diabetes Mellitus is a factor for the development of micronagiopathies, it is well known at the level of retina, renal and peripheral nervous system. However, it is important to mention that high levels of glucose have deleterious effects on the walls of the vessels, causing microangiopathic damage to the lung, consequently this leads to pulmonary dysfunction. There is local oxidative stress, increased vascular permeability, producing changes in the secretion of the mucus that leads to reduced lung volumes, lung diffusion capacity, decrease bronchodilation. Knowing this complication at the pulmonary level derived from poor control of Diabetes Mellitus, diabetic pulmonary microangiopathy represents a challenge for the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a high prevalence of diabetic patients hospitalized for COVID-19 and the complications derived from this, that is why the idea arose to carry out this review and evaluate the impact that admission glucose levels have on the clinical evolution and prognosis of these patients. Elevated serum glucose levels have deleterious effects on the walls of blood vessels, leading to microangiopathy. Such a destructive process also involves the pulmonary circulation, where it is known as diabetic pulmonary microangiopathy. This hypothesis has been confirmed in histopathological examinations of the lung parenchyma, as well as in lung function tests. However, until now there have been no clinical implications of these findings.1 Histopathological evidence of pulmonary involvement in subjects with diabetes mellitus has included thickened pulmonary capillary basal plates and alveolar epithelial plates, the latter suggesting existing pulmonary microangiopathy. Abnormal lung function has been detected in some diabetic patients. Glycosylation-induced non-enzymatic alteration of lung connective tissue is the most likely pathogenetic mechanism underlying mechanical lung dysfunction in diabetic subjects. while the most sustainable explanation for altered pulmonary microangiopathy.2 Metodos: This short review looks at the main findings, prospective cross-sectional analytical study, in Guatemala Central America that included 319 patients with COVID 19, hospitalized with comorbidities like type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, hypertension and chronic kidney disease as medical history. These patients did not have a history of pulmonary pathology and who required a low- and high-flow oxygen device since admission, presenting moderate and severe COVID-19. These laboratories were carried out in the first chemistry performed after the onset of respiratory symptoms in the arrival at the hospital. Chi square was used for categorical variables and t student for numeric variables for the rest of the variables. Results: The study showed that in the severe group of patients the median age was 52 years old and in the moderate group it was 51. In the severe group of patients, a male gender predominance with 50.7% and 49.3% in moderate; showing the female sex 46% and 53% respectively. Regarding glucose levels at admission, there was a mean of 189mg / dl for severe patients and 156 mg / dl in moderate patients, with a P: 0.021. Conclusion: The primary point in this study is to see how the correlation was measured since they had to be two numerical variables for it to be correlation. In this case, blood glucose and vascular damage, the most severe cases were related to blood glucose levels greater than 125 mg/dl. In our study, we conclude that the presence of glycemic levels below 125 mg/dl is a protective factor with respect to mortality with an OR 0.521 (CL 0.324–0.835, Po.007). That means, that those patients who are admitted with glycemic levels greater than 126 mg/d have twice the risk to die at 28 days of admission than those who do not have levels greater than 125mg/dl. In the same way, those patients who were admitted with less than 95% saturation were compared and there was no significant difference OR 1.174 (0.492–2.806, p0.822). 1. Kuziemski, Krzysztof Specjalski et a. lEndokrynol Pol. 2011; 62 (2): 171–6. Microangiopatía pulmonar diabética: ¿realidad o ficción? Publicated: Ewa Jassem. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31637580/ 2. Krzysztof Kuziemski et al ¿Es el pulmón un "órgano diana" en la diabetes mellitus? Publicated: 2196023 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19722145/


Internet of Things (IoT) is coming into birth as pervasive hand-held devices, Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID), and embedded sensors connect to the Internet. IoT enables objects to interact and cooperate with each other anytime and anywhere. Owing to the new challenges imposed by IoT — search locality and real-time, searching in IoT is challenging. To explore what way is appropriate to satisfy requirements of searching in IoT, we report our undertaking project — IoT Search Engine (ISE), accompanied with our initial experimental results.


A brief introduction has been made on modification effect and mechanism of different macromolecule polymer on performance of asphalt.By studying the colloid rheology and the theory of non-electrolytea new idea has been brought forward which modifies the homogeneous distribution of asphalt and makes it become heterogeneous colloidcongeries of resin and asphaltene and which introduces chemical reaction and coordination chemistry into the modification of asphaltthat may be a way of study modified asphalt in the future.


Worldwide, of the 130 million babies born every year, approximately 4 million are stillborn, more than 98 per cent of these occur in developing countries. Stillbirth remains a widespread unfavorable pregnancy outcome estimated to occur in 2.64 million pre gnancies annually across the globe with majority of this cases occurring in low and middle - income countries. Even though the government of the Republic of Kenya has put in place several measures such as the National Health Insurance Fund, Free Child Delive ry Programs for pregnant women among other measures in order to meet the Sustainable Development Goals on health, the problem of stillbirths continues to prevail in the country at alarming rates. The study sought to determine socio - economic factors associa ted with occurrence of stillbirths among women delivering in selected hospitals of Marsabit County. A cross - sectional descriptive study design was used targeting women who delivered at Marsabit County. The study used both qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques. A total sample size of 387 mothers were selected from Kalacha Sub - County Referral Hospital, Laisamis Sub - County Referral Hospital, Moyale Sub - County Referral Hospital and Marsabit County Referral Hospitals proportionately using syste matic sampling with a predetermined interval of 10 while 8 nurses were selected purposively to provide additional information as the Key Informants. After data collection, Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 24.0 was used to analyze descriptive statistics for quantitative data. Inferential statistics were calculated using Chi Square and Fisher's Exact Tests at 95% confidence interval and p - values of <0.05considered significant. The study results revealed that the rate of stillbirth occurrence wa s 5.9 per cent. Socio - economic factors such age (p=0.006), education (p=0.007), occupation (0.002) and level of income (p=0.047), maternal factors such as antenatal attendance (p=0.031), use of illicit drugs (p=0.041), low maternal weight (p=0.043) and tou gh domestic work (p=0.004). The results further revealed low knowledge levels among respondents with a significant influence (p=0.039) on outcome of delivery. The study concluded that the respondents from Marsabit County experience relative high rates of s tillbirths compared to the national figure. The outcome of delivery was significantly influenced by socio - economic and low knowledge levels which influenced outcome of delivery.


Extensive small cell lung cancer (ESCLC) is an aggressive neuroendocrine malignancy and represents 15% of all lung cancers [1]. Despite high response rate to upfront chemotherapy (CT) with either cisplatin or carboplatin plus etoposide up to 4-6 courses, most patients relapse within six months and median overall survival (OS) is 10 months [2,3].


10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_184_17 screen in two-phase survey estimating the prevalence of dementia in largely illiterate Indian population. Indian J Psychiatry 2016;58:459-61. 2. A Comparison of the Pearson and Spearman Correlation Methods. Available from: http://www.support.minitab.com/./a‐comparison‐of -the-pearson-and-spearman-correlation-meth. [Last accessed on 2017 May 23]. 3. Park SH, Goo JM, Jo CH. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve: Practical review for radiologists. Korean J Radiol 2004;5:11-8. 4. Raina SK, Raina S, Chander V, Grover A, Singh S, Bhardwaj A. Is dementia differentially distributed? A study on the prevalence of dementia in migrant, urban, rural, and tribal elderly population of Himalayan region in Northern India. N Am J Med Sci 2014;6:172‐7.


: The Cu-11.85Al-3.2Mn-0.1Ti(wt.%)alloy is processed by selective laser melting and the parameters are optimized with the relative density result measured by the Archimedes principle. The phase and microstructures are characterized, and the tensile specimens are formed by using the optimized process parameters. The mechanical properties are tested under different temperature. The phase transformation temperatures are carried out by DSC curves, and the shape memory properties are analyzed. The results show that when laser power, scanning speed, layer thickness and scanning space are 270 W, 500 mm/s, 0.025 mm, 0.1 mm, the maximum relative density of samples is close to 100%. The XRD results and microstructure pictures show that martensite and Cu 2 AlMn phase appeared in the samples and most of it is stacking fault structure. Besides, the higher tensile strength and elongation are 825.6 MPa and 20.3% at 200 ℃ , the elongation increases with the temperature rises. Moreover, the austenite transformation temperature As and Af are 506 ℃ , 532.5 ℃ , and deformation recovery rate is over 57%.


This article investigates the nature and influence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within the context of Global Value Chains (GVCs). CSR is approached on the basis of a comparison between two distinct managerial tools – whistleblowing and codes of conduct – adopted by corporations in order to enhance ethical practices at opposite ends of GVCs, either in financial reporting to shareholders (whistleblowing), or in suppliers'labor practices (codes of conduct). Despite highly specific contexts and modes of operation, we observe that these CSR tools share three common characteristics on which we assess their effectiveness on the basis of criteria drawn from an institutional view of CSR.


The purpose of this paper is to record the educational experiences of college women in a part of the world where schools for girls and women are not a priority and can be dangerous. The literature on girl-child education in Pakistan is thin, and few have thought to study girls and women as students or credit their perspectives as legitimate knowledge. At the same time, Ismaili Muslims in the North of Chitral District value education for daughters, who today are almost universally sent to primary school. This essay interprets the oral histories of seven Ismaili women attending college in Chitral, Pakistan. We argue that the students' accounts demonstrate indigenous third space feminism negotiating apparent contradictions and social invisibility in quiet activism that mimics yet changes the social order. The narrators view themselves as dutiful Muslim community daughters educated in Western-style colleges where they learned to be women's rights advocates who wish to pay forward their knowledge. Three themes resulted from analyzing the seven oral histories: (1) Narrators experienced hardship to attend school. (2) Narrators are grateful for their families' sacrifices. (3) Honoring their families and communities, the narrators plan to become educators and advocates to empower girls and women, and when they do return to their villages, the narrators


The hot gases which generate from combustion of fuel passes through the exhaust system of the automobile as they form the passage for the hot gases and released to the atmosphere, Hence they are subjected to very high temperature. Exhaust system of an automobile consist of three parts such as exhaust manifold, catalytic converter and silencer out of those silencer having very short life span as there is lot of restriction provided to the flow of hot gases due to complex geometry in order to reduce the noise level hence gases staying more time in this section as compare to other two part of exhaust system. Hence that area needs to be focused during design phase. The uniform heat distribution over the entire exhaust system is important for ensuing enhanced life of elements in the subsystem. The problem identified for this dissertation work is to assess the uniform heat flow along the passage of hot gases and design the passage or passage surface such has to minimize the harmful effects of hot-spots over the length of the silencer, especially at the outer body of silencer. Keywords— Exhaust system, Local heat transfer coefficient, Effective heat transfer area, dimple pattern.


This research is a two-semester experimental program that uses Freshman's "Finance Career Planning" of the undergraduate program of the finance department of the National Taipei University of Business (NTUB) as the experimental curriculum. This research explores and analyzes two models of "Specialty-oriented career planning course" to see if there is a difference in students' course satisfaction. The features of the second model include specialty-oriented lectures by finance alumni and assignments requiring the interviewing of upperclassmen, in addition to studying career counseling theory and specialty-topic content sharing. This research finds that there is a significant difference in students' course satisfaction within the two models of "specialty-oriented career planning course", wherein the second model is considered better than the first model, and the average scores of the five indicators of students' course satisfaction have all reached a significant level (the richness of course content, the clarity of lecturer's conveyance, the level of personal learning acquirement, the relevancy of course content to the topic, the design of course process and activities). This research proposes the following recommendations, in accordance with the research findings, that institutions of higher education should offer practical and feasible specialty-oriented career planning courses.


Cytoplasmic inclusions of various types of cells have been investigated by macerating or smearing and fixing and staining by different mitochondrial methods of technic. The results obtained as regards granular, rod-like, filamentous and globular forms immediately suggest a relation between these and similar cell inclusions which have in the past been described as mitochondria in certain cases of this material. While mechanical disturbance and drying before fixation apparently do not alter the staining properties of these forms, alcohol produces somewhat variable results depending upon the kind of material being investigated. Results indicate the presence in these smears of numerous intracellular bacteria, readily misinterpreted as mitochondria. In addition, there occur in certain cells, both in smears and sections, inclusions of indeterminate nature.


The present invention relates to an optical depolarizer and a method for depolarizing light beam. The depolarizer comprises monomode fibre-optical cable and monomode fibre coupler, each fibre couplerpossesses paired fibre input end and output end which are connected to form recirculating loop, between input fibre and recirculating loop a polarized light controller is placed to regulate polarity of output light beam. Said invented method for depolarizing light beam is as follows: an incident beam is divided into two splitted beams, one splitted beam is passed through a birefringent medium to make recirculation, and back-gone and recombined with said incident beam to make weighted averaging for different polarized states, and the depolarized state also can be obtained by birefrigence of recirculating beam in recirculating path.


This paper discusses the case study approach to programme evaluation in the human services and its multiple benefits to the evaluator and to the various stakeholders in the programme being evaluated. Of particular importance is the use of a case study to examine programme processes which then inform the design of the outcome study of programme effects. Following a brief overview of the case study approach in research and its applications, the authors delineate its benefits and illustrate these using the evaluation of a model programme designed to reunify families separated by a child's placement in foster care. The results of the case study more clearly defined the programme's processes for both the researchers and the programme staff, and illuminated the desired outcomes which then were delineated in measurable terms. The result was a design for an outcome evaluation that was consistent with programme goals, processes, and intended benefits. The case study also facilitated communication and collaboration between the researchers and the programme's stakeholders, provided important information for agency decision-makers, and contributed greatly to the potential for the success of the overall evaluation.


The entry into the university and the new experiences can facilitate greater consumption of alcohol among students. This study aimed to evaluate the pattern of alcohol consumption among freshmen students, to compare consumption between genders and to identify the groups most exposed to alcohol-related problems. For this, the Economic Classifi cation Criterion Brazil and The Alcohol Use Disorders Identifi cation Test (AUDIT) were used. Four hundred and seven students were evaluated. Data analysis revealed a risk consumption of alcohol in 17.5% of male students and 8.1% of females. In addition, higher risk consumption was found among those who practice physical activity and those who were from chemistry courses. The results suggest the need to develop preventive interventions at the institutional level, especially for male students, more exposed to excessive alcohol consumption and the risk associated to this drinking pattern.


Objective: Happiness is a crucial component of human lives. It is thus logical to assume that considering satisfaction and joy will produce profitable outcomes. The study intended to examine the effectiveness of interaction with children on happiness among the elderly.
Methods: We chose 20 institutionalized elderly and assigned them randomly to experimental and control groups. We used the happiness rating scale to test the happiness levels among the elderly. We chose children for interaction based on their attitudes towards the elderly. Then the experimental group elderly interacted with the children twice a week for four weeks.
Results: The paired 't' test calculated for the experimental (P value= < 0.001) and control group (P value= 0.472) implied that the interaction with children is useful to enhance elderly happiness.
Conclusion: We thus recommend that the educational curriculum include the children's visit to the elderly homes. Also, establishing children's homes and the elderly homes under one roof can benefit either group.
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol. 21 No. 02 April'22 Page : 318-322


Assessment of muscle pathology is a key outcome measure to measure the success of clinical trials studying muscular dystrophies; however, few robust minimally invasive measures exist. Indocyanine green (ICG)-enhanced near-infrared (NIR) optical imaging offers an objective, minimally invasive, and longitudinal modality that can quantify pathology within muscle by imaging uptake of ICG into the damaged muscles. Dystrophic mice lacking dystrophin (mdx) or gamma-sarcoglycan (Sgcg−/−) were compared to control mice by NIR optical imaging and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We determined that optical imaging could be used to differentiate control and dystrophic mice, visualize eccentric muscle induced by downhill treadmill running, and restore the membrane integrity in Sgcg−/− mice following adeno-associated virus (AAV) delivery of recombinant human SGCG (desAAV8hSGCG). We conclude that NIR optical imaging is comparable to MRI and can be used to detect muscle damage in dystrophic muscle as compared to unaffected controls, monitor worsening of muscle pathology in muscular dystrophy, and assess regression of pathology following therapeutic intervention in muscular dystrophies.


This service program aims to assist the government's efforts in increasing public knowledge of the importance of cooperatives in developing business for novice business actors in Jagakarsa sub-district.  The target audience was seventeen novice business actors in the Betawi cultural heritage Setu Babakan Srengseng Sawah Jagakarsa District, South Jakarta.  The activity model was counseling combined with discussion method between the target audience and the team. The service material was directed at the use of own capital from cooperatives and using a revolving capital model. The activities carried out were able to increase the knowledge of the target community. Before the activity, the participants's understanding of the role of cooperatives as a source of shared capital was 49 percent.  Based on post-activity analysis related to the level of understanding of the target community on average increased by 19 percent to 68 percent.    The suggestion for this service activity is that the activity must be carried out continuously.


The purpose of this note is to give new counterexamples to the Extended Courant Property. More precisely, we look at the equilateral rhombus, and at the hypercube, with either the Neumann or the Dirichlet boundary condition.


This study locates itself within the confines of qualitative research and draws on an interpretivist paradigm. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the student teachers? experiences when placed in a rural school to perform their Professional Practicum as part of their professional development. The placement of students at rural schools for their professional practicum was part of the Rural Teacher Education Project (RTEP). This project was a pilot project undertaken by a higher education institution in two schools in the rural district of Vulindlela in the KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. The purpose of the project was to develop a partnership between the higher education institution and the rural schools to assist students in their professional development as teachers. In order to understand their lived experiences, we used drawings, individual interviews and focus group discussions. The data was analysed using Tesch?s open coding to identify themes. The findings indicate that a myriad of lived experiences inform the student teachers? understanding of the role of the teacher; that they draw on these to envisage their role as being a teacher in a rural school; that their experiences of teaching in a rural school. This deepened their understanding of teacher professionalism, the lives of learners, classroom realities, mentoring and the management and organisation of school and classroom; and that they learnt about their professional and personal selves.Conclusions drawn from the themes are used to generate several recommendations to be used to improve the Professional Practicum experience of student teachers.


We study the QCD equation of state and other thermodynamic observables including the isentropic trajectories and the speed of sound. These observables are of eminent importance for the understanding of experimental results in heavy ion collisions and also provide a QCD input for studies of the timeline of heavy-ion-collisions with hydrodynamical simulations. They can be derived from the quark propagator whose gap equation is solved within a minimal approximation to the Dyson-Schwinger equations of QCD at finite temperature and density. This minimal approximation aims at a combination of computational efficiency and simplification of the truncation scheme while maintaining quantitative precision. This minimal DSE scheme is confronted and benchmarked with results for correlation functions and observables from first principles QCD lattice at vanishing density and quantitative functional approaches at finite density.


We consider the functional equation f(z+σ)−f(z) = g(z) where σ is a complex number, f and g are entire functions of a complex variable z, with growth conditions. We prove the existence of certain types of solutions of this equation by an a priori estimate method in certain weighted L2-spaces.


This paper has been presented the taxonomical review on enhancement of power system performances by Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) controllers planning in distribution systems by using different optimization techniques. The FACTS controllers planning in distribution systems are mainly used for enhancement of different system performances such as real (RLP) and reactive power (REP) losses of the system, system oscillations, system stability, system security, system reliability and system power factor in distribution systems. This survey article very much useful for researchers and scientific persons for future work carried out.


With the explosive increase of images and videos, visual analysis has become an essential technique in dealing with the big visual data, which utilizes the visual feature descriptors to search or recognize the images or frames with target objects or events. Subject to the constraints of resources (e.g., memory, bandwidth, storage, etc.), interest point selection is crucial to generate robust compact descriptors for high-efficiency visual analysis by selecting and aggregating the most discriminative local feature descriptors, which has been demonstrated in the state-of-the-art low bit rate visual search works. In this paper, we propose a data-driven lightweight interest point selection approach to significantly improve the performance of visual search, while ameliorating the efficiency of extracting feature descriptors. Comprehensive experimental results over benchmarks have shown that the proposed interest point selection algorithm has significantly improved image matching and retrieval performance in the completed MPEG Compact Descriptors for Visual Search (CDVS) standard as well as the emerging MPEG Compact Descriptors for Video Analytics (CDVA) standard, say 20% mAP gain by data-driven selection against random selection of interest points. In particular, the presented data-driven interest point selection has been adopted by MPEG-CDVS and MPEG-CDVA as a normative technique to improve the aggregation of handcrafted features, which has contributed to the combination of handcrafted features and deep learning (CNN) features as well.


Taking the planning,design and construction of one small-size pseudo-classic architecture in Fenghuangshan coal mine of Jincheng Coal Industry Group as example introduction is made from integrated planning,single design,structural reinforcement,detail treatment and other aspects,which well embody the application of modern design in pseudo-classic architecture from whole to local and external to detail parts.


6080 Background: Whileeffects of specific genetic aberrations on outcome in HNC have been described (Poeta 2007, Gross 2014), the impact of therapies in genetic subgroups remains unknown. We theref...


The so-called Messianic secret in the Gospels is much more complex than the classic theory of Wilhelm Wrede allowed. Insights and models drawn and adapted from Georg Simmel and developed by Tefft et al. demonstrate that secrecy is an integral part of Mediterranean culture required by the demands of the core cultural values, honor and shame. Ideological interpretations of this motif in the Gospels must be modified by these insights.


Six strains of feline herpesvirus were isolated alone or in association withthe feline picornaviruses from eight domestic cats showing the respiratory syndrome. Allof them agglutinated feline erythrocytes. Their hemagglutinating activities were enhancedby treatment with ethyl ether. These strains could not be distinguished from one anotherby the serum-neutralization test.Biological and physicochemical properties of feline herpesvirus were investigated. Thestatus of feline viral respiratory infections in Japan was also discussed.