Left atrial (LA) function predicts clinical outcome in a variety of cardiovascular diseases. However, limited data is available in the setting of mitral regurgitation (MR).

 The aim of the present study was to assess potential changes in LA ejection fraction (LA-EF) and its prognostic value in patients following transcatheter mitral valve repair using the mitraclip.

 A total of 88 consecutive patients undergoing mitraclip implantation with complete echocardiography at baseline and follow-up between 3 and 6 months post-procedure were enrolled.

 LA-EF improved in 58% of the population. Change in LA-EF was associated with residual MR, residual transmitral gradient and left ventricular ejection fraction (LV-EF) changes. Compared to their counterparts, patients with residual MR ≥ grade 2 (−6% [−9 to 1%] vs. 4% [−5 to 15%]; p=0.05) and with residual transmitral gradient ≥5 mmHg (−2% [−9 to 9%] vs. 5% [−4 to 16%]; p=0.03) showed a decline in LA-EF, respectively. Furthermore, LA-EF significantly correlated with changes in LV-EF (r=0.40; p=0.001). With regards to clinical outcome, heart failure symptoms as assessed by NYHA class were more severe in patients with worsened LA-EF at follow-up. Finally, LA-EF change was identified as independent predictor of all-cause mortality (HR 0.94 [0.90–0.98]; p=0.008).
 Kaplan-Meier estimates for survival

 The present analysis showed changes in LA function in patients undergoing mitraclip implantation to be associated with important measures including residual MR, elevated transmitral gradient and LV function. Importantly, LA function alterations represent a strong predictor for all-cause mortality.


available housing, on job openings, on local government, on school systems, on personal security, and on economic independence indicate almost conclusively that poverty and Negro are identical and that affluent and white are also synonomous. All the problems of the city of Washington have been well publicized to the nation, but the predicament of the public schools is perhaps best known, for no effort has been spared by the lay press to see that these difficulties are reported and


In a recent JSSR article, Tamney, Johnson, and Burton (1992) reported on a valuable set of data regarding attitudes toward abortion and other issues and demographic characteristics of residents in the Muncie SMSA. They applied LISREL to the responses and presented their conclusions in the form of two path diagrams. LISREL is a complex type of regression analysis involving a priori hypotheses. However, the more complex types of statistical analysis involve more assumptions, and the results might be adversely affected to a greater extent than usual if these assumptions are invalid. In fact, path analysis has been criticized; the entire Summer 1987 issue of the Journal of Educational Statistics was devoted to critique and rebuttal by path analysts. Let us assume that one is in the position of a lecturer trying to explain the Tamney et al. results as conveyed by their two path diagrams to an audience of college graduates with no training in statistical analysis. The two diagrams seem to give different answers to the question of which factors influence attitude toward abortion. In Diagram 2B only two paths enter Abortion (AB), from AGE and Education (EDU). However, in Diagram 2A arrows enter AB from Church Influence (CI), New Life (NLI), Social Traditionalism (ST), Protect Animals (PCT), and PRI (called "Privacy Organization" on the diagrams but "Privacy Orientation" elsewhere). All four of these attitudinal variables appear in Diagram 2B but without arrows emanating from them. After examining the intercorrelations in Table 1 of the article in question, I detected a cluster of rather closely related attitudinal variables: NLI, CI, PC (Political Conservatism), and ST in one direction; and AB and PRI in the opposite direction. I wondered how a unit-weighted composite of the z scores on these six attitudinal variables would relate to the demographic variables. Formula 16.20 in Guilford's and Fruchter's (1978:394) textbook seemed appropriate. In applying this formula, the direction of AB and PRI was reflected by changing the algebraic signs of all correlations involving these two variables (except the correlation with each other). The resulting composite score


Unsteady transonic flow calculations are presented for wing/fuselage configurations. Calculations are performed by extending the XTRAN3S (version 1.5) unsteady transonic small-disturbance code to allow the treatment of a fuselage. The research was conducted as part of a larger effort directed toward developing the capability to treat a complete flight vehicle. Details of the XTRAN3S fuselage modeling are discussed in the context of the small-disturbance equation. Transonic calculations are presented for two wing/fuselage configurations with leading-edge sweep angles of 0 and 36.65 deg, the results of which compare well with available experimental steady-pressure data. Unsteady calculations are performed for simple bending and torsion modal oscillations of the wing. Comparisons of sectional lift and moment coefficients for the wing-alone and wing/fuselage cases reveal effects of fuselage aerodynamic interference on the unsteady wing loading. Tabulated generalized aerodynamic forces, typically used in flutter analyses, indicate small changes in the real (in-phase) component and as much as a 30% change in the imaginary (out-of-phase) component when the fuselage is included in the calculation. These changes result in a 2-5% increase in total magnitude and a several degree increase in phase.


. A time-inhomogeneous discrete Markov chain and a family of substochas-tic matrices ( Q s ) subordinated to (bounded from above by) the one-step transition probabilities ( P s ) of the chain are considered. The Markov moment τ , the killing moment for the chain with transition matrices ( Q s ), is connected to the family ( Q s ). We assume that P s and Q s are close in some sense, so that the moment τ tends to infinity in the scheme of series, τ → ∞ . The asymptotic behavior of the ruin (killing) probabilities P ( τ < ∞ ) → 0 is found. To prove this result, we assume that a condition like the transiency of the chain holds (as in the well-known Cram´er–Lundberg theorem). Some applications are also discussed.


The study deals with recent changes in the motivation for pursuing non-formal adult education (NFE) in the Czech Republic and the factors behind this. Although the number of people pursuing NFE has been increasing dynamically in recent years, we do not yet have enough knowledge about the reasons adults pursue NFE and the factors that influence it. In this regard, the study aims to identify (1) the main trends in work/non-work, intrinsic, and extrinsic motivations for NFE and (2) the microand meso-social determinants that shape these trends. The study is based on a secondary analysis of data from the Adult Education Survey 2011 (N = 2715) and 2016 (N = 4034). The conclusion shows a significant shift from a non-work-oriented to a workoriented motivation for participating in NFE and fluctuations between intrinsic to extrinsic motivations. The key factors influencing the 'reorientation' of this motivation among working adults are educational attainment, high occupational status, and to some degree also gender and the size of the company


In the automated departmental teaching there is a problem of receipt of strict functional dependences between entry and output parameters due to poor formalization of the object of management. In this work it is suggested to utillize a «roundabout» variant, based on the method of conclusion on precedents. The chart of the adaptive teaching, being combination of classic approach in a management and foregoing method, is offered in particular.


Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is a small gram-negative bacterium, and distributes over soil, freshwater, seawater and sewage. With regard to its great ability to lyse other gram-negative bacteria, the application of this microecological preparation to aquaculture is well expected. No identification, however, it has been given by other scholars previously. In the present study, we isolated the B. bacteriovorus and tried to confirm its identity.Double layer plant was used to isolate B. bacteriovorus from sewage water. The sewage water was collected from six different pools of the sewage disposal pi ant of Wuhan, which were intake sump, anaerobic tank, anoxic pond, aeration tank, outlet sump and primary settling tank orderly. We did the identification of the bacterium for H2O5 activity and parasitical activity, and took the photo of the bacterium of SEM and the stain of gram after the isolation of the B. bacteriovorus.In the isolation experiment, Aeromonas hudrophila, Pseudomonas fluorescent and Vibrio anguillarum were used as the host bacteria, and the six kinds of sewage water were filtered through 3.0 mu m, 1.2 mu m, 0.8 mu m pore-size filters to collect the B. bacteriovorus individually. Then 100 mu L host bacteria were added to 200 mu L filtered water which mixed with 4mL molten top-layer culture medium, and were plated on bottom layer and incubated at 30 degrees C. After the filtration through 0.8 mu m filter, some portion of the left water passed through 0.22 mu m filter. The filter membrane was mixed with 100 mu,L host bacteria and the molten top layer culture medium plated on bottom layer and incubated at 30 degrees C. The Bdellovobrio appeared as plaques, and then chosed one transparent and round plaque to purify for obtaining the pure Bdellovobrio after 2-4 clays. We could obtain the pure B. bacteriovorus after 4 times purification. We isolated one strain of B. bacteriovorus from aeration tank with Pseudomonas fluorescent as host bacterium using the tap water plant of two layers. And the sewage water was not filtrated with any filter membrane.Then we did the elementary identification of H2O2 activity and parasitical activity. Three percents H2O2 solution was dropped on the microscope slide and one plaque was cut out from top layer and immerged in the solution with the invertion side. If bladder appeared, the bacterium should be masculine of H2O2; if not, the bacterium should be feminine of H2O2. On the other hand, the isolated bacterium with no host bacteria was incubated at 30 degrees C to test its parasitical characteristic. If there was no bacterium grown on the plant, the isolated bacterium was obligate parasitical bacterium. If not, the isolated bacterium was not the obligate parasitical bacterium. The two identification results showed that this bacterium was masculine of H2O2 activity and parasitical activity.Some plaques were cut out from the one plant to a 1.5mL EP cannulation and dipped in 1mL water for 30min to dissociate the B. bacteriovorus from the plaque. After that, one blob of the dissociated bacterium was dropped on the microscope slide and air-dried the blob, then fixed. The bacterium on the microscope slide was stained as the following step: firstly, stained the bacterium with crystal purple for 1 min and wash; secondly, stained with iodine solution for 1 min and wash; thirdly, decolored with 95% ethanol for 30s; fourthly, stained with safranine solution for 2-3min, washed and air-dried. Finally, it was observed by oil lens. The result of this identification proved the isolated bacterium was negative of Gram.Besides, the SEM photo of this B. bacteriovorus had been taken. The photo showed that the bacterium was rod shaped and had one flagellum on one side. The size of the bacterium was 2.0 mu m.It was substantiated that the isolated bacterium was Bdellovobrio bacteriovorus.


Thank you, Nigel Hawkes, for your article on revalidation.1 The press has claimed that revalidation will safeguard the public from poorly performing doctors by using five yearly checks. As a GP with an interest in education and assessment I share your concern that the public has been misled.

The revalidation process will centre on self analysis by appraisees, and …


This is a brief and practical introduction to ENG. Rubin and Norris were early on the American scene to develop ENG as a practical clinical tool in the evaluation of dizzy patients. Likewise, they were early to teach others through their own course at Tulane, other courses around this country, and at the American Academy of Otolaryngology. I would, therefore, judge them eminently qualified to write this book. This is a short, easily read, how-to-do-it volume written for the novice on a purely practical level. The meat can be found in the first 66 pages, covering such topics as: How ENG's are recorded; ENG tests; test responses; ENG's contribution to the diagnosis; and clinical peripheral pathologies and vestibular suppressant drugs. Of extreme value to the clinician in the market for equipment and for the technician that will use the equipment are appendices including: AC versus DC amplifiers, performance, characteristics of


CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2019-Magenta Therapeutics (NASDAQ:MGTA), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel medicines to bring the curative power of stem cell transplant to more patients, today announced that the Company highlighted preclinical research on its targeted conditioning programs in four presentations and posters at the Transplant and Cellular Therapy (TCT) annual meeting.


Lithographically Patterned NW Electrodeposition (LPNE) is a new technique for preparing NWs that was developed by Prof. Erik Menke while he was doing his research in Penner group in 2006. Here, we discuss some of the common problems in state of the art solar cell technology and how we can effectively use LPNE to make next generation Core/Shell NW based solar cells and NIR photodetectors. The first step in the process is the synthesis of Au/PbSe and Au/copper indium diselenide (CIS) core/shell NWs using LPNE. The NWs were synthesized by the aqueous electrodeposition of either PbSe or CIS onto gold NWs prepared by LPNE. The resulting NWs are nanocrystalline, exhibit a sharp boundary between the gold core and the semiconducting coating, and are photoconductive, with enhanced light absorption in smaller NWs which could be due to the cavity effect of the semiconductor shell NWs. The second step is the synthesis of Au/CIS/CdS core/shell/shell based p-n heterojunction NW based solar cells by electrodepositing CdS on top of Au/CIS core/shell NWs. Core/Shell NW based devices prepared by above method are cheap and can be fabricated on cheap substrates like plastics or glass. This technique also gives us the control over size, shape and orientation of the NWs. The beauty of this method is that it gives us a platform to understand some of the basic device physics problems by characterizing each single NW electrically or optically.


Normal human and XP^ fibroblasts were treated with UV plus UV-mimetic chemicals. The UV dose used was sufficient to saturate the UV excision repair system. Excision repair after combined treatments was estimated by unscheduled DNA synthesis, BrdUrd photolysis, and the loss of sites sensitive to a UV specific endonuclease. Since the repair of damage from UV and its mimetics is coordinately controlled we expected that there would be similar rate-limiting steps .in the repair of UV and chemical damage' and that after a combined treatment the total amount of repair would be the same as from UV or the chemicals separately. The expectation was not fulfilled. In normal cells repair after a combined treatment was additive whereas in XP cells repair after a combined treatment was usually less than after either agent separately. The chemicals tested were AAAF, DMBA-epoxide, 4NQO, and ICR-170.


The off-axis injection scheme is also considered at HEPS. A large beta insertion section is need in the case, which breaks the symmetry of the machine. We introduce two designs of the injection section. There exist clear difference for the dynamic aperture between the two designs. The low-order nonlinear resonance driving terms is calculated and compared. The results show a correlation between momentum acceptance and the off-momentum driving terms. We enlarge the dynamic aperture by tuning the on-momentum and off-momentum non-linear driving terms with a multi-objective optimization code.


Research shows that group support systems (GSS) have dramatically increased group productivity. However, researchers in the field discovered that users sometimes find themselves feeling emotionally unfulfilled despite exceptionally good results; users report a loss of the affective reward often associated with a challenging meeting where they struggle and succeed. This lack of engagement has been shown to be a cause of user resistance to adopting GSS technology. Team effectiveness may be reduced over time as users seek less-effective but more-gratifying alternatives. This paper frames affective reward as a function of excitation transfer. It describes the development and validation of an instrument to measure affective reward, and presents the results of the first laboratory investigation of the construct.


This special issue of the American Mineralogist is dedicated to Michael J. Holdaway in honor of his nearly 40 years of contributions to the geosciences community. Metamorphic petrology has grown from a discipline based on field observation and interpretation to a quantitative discipline where experimental determinations on mineral stabilities provide a framework for quantitative petrogenetic grids and derivative tectonic interpretations, and theoretical activity modeling of detailed crystal chemistry establishes the link back to the real rocks.

Michael J. Holdaway has made fundamental contributions to each of these areas over his academic career. Mike was born down under in Canberra, Australia. He moved to the U.S. where he later undertook his university education. After receiving a bachelor's degree from Yale in 1958, he moved to the University of California at Berkeley. There he studied with Francis Turner, as an NSF fellow, and received his Ph.D. four years later. He was trained in the classical traditions of metamorphic petrology; with a solid background in thermodynamics, a penchant for careful observation of field relations and a facility for detailed analysis of mineral chemistry, all of which he continued to apply throughout his career.

His Ph.D. studies, focused on mafic metamorphic rocks in the Klamath Mountains of California, lead to one of his first publications …


Carrier aggregation (CA) is a major technological advancement and a key enabler for the 3GPP in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) Advanced systems for the achievement of the IMTAdvanced requirements. Multiple component carrier with varying bandwidth, dispersed within inter bands and intra bands can be utilized through carrier aggregation in a simultaneous manner to achieve better coverage, high data rates and lower latency, and great user throughput. Despite the aspect of backward compatibility of CA, the introduction of the technology has required some changes from the LTE release 8 baseline as well as modification in functionality to the network radio resource function. This paper offers a review of the carrier aggregation technique with the functionality of Radio Resource Management (RRM) and requirements for the CA support. Current ongoing and recent research on scheduling algorithms and the aspects of RRM for LTE advanced in support of CA are reviewed. The paper also outlines the technical challenges presented in the packet scheduler design and for future research.


Tanizaki finds white from a physical function-like female body by writing, and he's making peculiar sensuous "woman" = a chart as "white" be formed. But, it's being different in the white aspect depending on the times. Aesthetic is accomplished together with the color of "white" and 〈tattoo〉 in the "tattoo" in the Meiji period. Aesthetic is expressed by "white" after all, and the color of "white" is changing to a symbol of a devil-like woman elephant. The white world is asked from a physical function-like body of "Western woman" from the Taisyo period. "White" in the Taisyo period was a Western woman in a word for Tanizaki. But, summing "idiot's love" in in the Taisyo period "white" accomplishes male lust and unity from the second half. A work in Tanizaki's early stage is white as light, but then "Shunkinsho" is the physical function-like world of "white" which blocked light off. An Oriental white outcome is developed by respect to Western female white during a Showa period "Shunkinsho". The world is "shadow beauty". If beauty in the woman's surface where he found the color in the darkness through Sasuke and was made in "shadow" is "the best female beauty", Tanizaki is expressing. Pursuit to Tanizaki's "white" in the Meiji Taisyo period was the world of "white" with the "Western countries"-like extreme color, but the world of "white" which is a Showa period after Kansai move described Tanizaki's Japanese regression, white of "shadow beauty" in other words the Japanese world of "white". But, it's said that they was making the woman who has a white body as the woman image from three works and worshiped, a common point is seen.


Background and Objectives: The field of Science known as an Anthropology deals with the study of humans from their earliest beginners on earth up to the present time. Inter-acromial length is the distance between two bony landmarks, i.e;acromial process of scapula on each side. [1] In this study, an effort has been done to establish the relationship between statures of different persons in Western Uttar Pradesh region of India and their interacromial lengths and to develop regression equation formulae from these two variables by simple regression analysis and so many Ethical issues involved in the study are minimal and there is no anymore invasive methods are to be used. Methods : This study been carried out over a period of one year from 2014 to march 2015. During this period , 400 subjects i;e200 males and 200 females ,born and brought up in Western U.P. region ,aged 20 years and above upto 25 years old persons, have been chosen for the reason that by this age, there is completion of skeletal growth by ossification of long bones. After statistical analysis of the results, three regression equation formulae were obtained from the relationship between statures and inter-acromial lengths of females, males and males & females combined. The study sample comprised of randomly selected four hundred (400) students of Teerthankar Mahaveer University. The participants are explained about the purpose and procedure of the study and informed consent was obtained. The data for the present study are stature and inter-acromial length. Result: We have used computer based programs for our calculated a linear equation of the form equation;("Y = a + b(X)"). The linear regression equation derived from Inter-acromial distance for estimating height showed statically non-significant relationship [P < 0.005] in both genders. The formulae have been obtained by using the statistical equations in both males and females separately;The Regression formulae is;{Y = a + b(x)} Where;Y= Value of stature ( cm ), X=Variable mean ( cm ), a = Intercept, b= Regression coefficient. Name of the Author: Nidhi Sharma 1 , Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Jain 2 , Mohd.


In Bi2Te3‐based materials charge‐carrier densities are determined by antisite defects and controlling these defects is a key issue for thermoelectric and topological insulator materials. Bi‐Te thin films with high‐quality thermoelectric properties are deposited using a nano‐alloying approach by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and sputtering. The in‐plane transport properties are measured at room temperature as a function of charge‐carrier density. High‐accuracy chemical analysis by wavelength‐dispersive X‐ray spectrometry (WDX) is applied for the first time to these Bi2Te3‐based thin films. The acquisition conditions for WDX spectrometry are established using Monte Carlo simulations for the electron trajectories, which guarantees a high lateral resolution and rules out stray radiation generated in the substrate of the films. In contrast to energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectrometry (EDX), which is usually applied, WDX offers unprecedented accuracy for measuring antisite defect concentrations and thus has a high impact on improving the quality of thin films. The charge‐carrier densities are calculated from the WDX results according to the point‐defect model of Miller and Li and the thermopower and electrical conductivity are calculated for different charge‐carrier densities by solving the linearized Boltzmann transport equation. A good quantitative agreement is found for the dependence of the thermopower on stoichiometry, whereas the electrical conductivity is sensitively affected by contaminants.


Abstract The determination of plotting positions on probability graph paper so that the associated weighted least squares estimators of the scale parameter and the percentiles of a continuous distribution have certain properties is discussed. Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for an invariant optimal plot for percentile estimation. Also discussed is the derivation of ordered plotting positions.


The protein quality (PER) of weaning foods, based on flour, hydrogenated groundnut oil and sugar, was unaffected by roller-drying, but when malt extract replaced the sugar there was a marked reduction in the PER of the dried product (1.98 vs. 2.35 in the raw blend). Marked reductions in available lysine occurred in both types of roller-dried weaning foods. Lysine was shown to be the limiting amino acid in a commercial sample of malted milk powder. In rat tests, plasma threonine levels were found to give a better indication of lysine damage in the weaning foods than available lysine or plasma lysine levels.


Magnetic nanoparticles have received considerable attention because of their crucial applications in the fields of high-density magnetic storage devices, magnetic fluids, magnetic refrigeration systems, contrast enhancement in magnetic resonance imaging, and magnetic carriers for drug targeting and catalysis. [1


The traditional GMP validation of a process is done by showing that, with appropriately fixed settings, a stable quality is obtained. This unfortunately implies that any later change has go be documented. Modifying the process or actually establishing process improvements generates considerable effort. Since the new PAT initiative, more flexibility is possible: when detailed process knowledge can be proven, this will be acknowledged by the FDA. Required is information on how formulation and production process factors impact the product quality and performance. Moreover, process control strategies must be available, which promise to avoid or at least to reduce bad quality in advance.


Transport policy in Britain is in a mess. Prime minister Tony Blair has admitted that transport is the major area of concern in need of improvement [Local Transport Today, 2002]. Transport affects everyone and everything. It is the glue that binds society and the oil that lubricates the development of the economy. But years of poor planning and under-investment coupled with a dramatic increase in the demand for travel have instead created a system that needs a radical overhaul. From an economic, social, environmental and a common sense perspective, doing nothing is not an option. The demand for transport has increased dramatically (due to the car in particular), yet investment in transport has failed to keep pace. The transport mess needs cleaning up. But from a political perspective, doing nothing is the only option for a number of reasons. Firstly, the lack of investment in the transport system over the last 25 years or so, combined with the dramatic increase in the demand for transport (particularly from the car), has resulted in a huge backlog. The Confederation of British Industry, for example, estimates that £200 billion needs to be spent if the UK's transport infrastructure is to be upgraded a lot of money which amounts to more than £3,000 per person in the UK (the amount doubles once non-tax payers are removed from the equation). Related to this underinvestment is a severe skill shortage, which means that there are very few people qualified or able to implement the necessary measures even though the money is now becoming available to redress the situation.


This paper shows a random and distinct shape of each pixel improves the performance of super-resolution using multiple input images. Since the spatial light sensitivity distribution in each pixel of an image sensor is rectangular and identical, the process of imaging is equivalent to the point sampling of blurred image which is a result of convolution of a rectangle with the original image. The convolution results in a loss of the high spatial frequency component of the original image, which limits the performance of super-resolution. Thus, we sprayed a fine-grained black powder on an image sensor to give a random code to the spatial light sensitivity distribution in each pixel. This approach was combined with a reconstruction technique based on sparse regularization, which is commonly used in compressed sensing, in an experiment with an actual setup. A high-resolution image was reconstructed from a limited number of input images and the performance of super-resolution was significantly improved.


Telomerase has been found to be reactivated in a majority of cancers but is inactive in most somatic cells. Our principal goal was to determine the potential use of the telomeric repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) assay as marker for malignancy in cytological effusions. The simple selection criterion was the cytological diagnosis, and routine samples were classified into malignant (58 samples) and nonmalignant (233 samples). Of the malignant samples, 44/58 (76%) were positive by TRAP assay. Of the 14 telomerase‐negative cytology‐positive samples, RNA integrity was poor in 9, indicating suboptimal sample conservation for molecular analysis. In 3 of the remaining 5 samples with a negative TRAP assay, a high number of malignant cells was observed, and these cells might have been telomerase‐negative. Thus, the sensitivity of TRAP assay for the presence of malignant cells was about 76%. In the cytologically nonmalignant effusions, the presence of telomerase activity was observed in 24% (55/233). Of these, 6% were highly suspicious for malignancy, 9% were doubtful, and 9% were cytologically nonmalignant effusions confirmed by a follow‐up of 12 mo or more. According to these data, the specificity of the TRAP assay to detect tumor cells in effusions ranged only between 82–91%. Our results indicate that, although the TRAP assay is positive in 6–15% of putative malignant effusions, the relatively high number of TRAP false‐negative and false‐positive cases renders this test unsuitable for routine diagnostic purposes. Diagn. Cytopathol. 25:225–230, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The advent of the electronic medical record (EMR) combined with an expansion of information required by medicolegal and billing departments has transformed the progress note from a succinct note into an often unwieldy data-dump unable to concisely convey the physician's medical reasoning. We describe a new note format— CAPS, which stands for concern, assessment, plan, and supporting data—to streamline the communication of the patient's problem, the practitioner's assessment and plan, and the medical reasoning to support the plan. CAPS–concern, assessment, plan, and supporting data–improves on the SOAP format.


Regioselective ring expansion of the 2H-azaphosphirene tungsten complex 1 in CH2Cl2 is performed using sub-stoichiometric amounts of ferrocenium hexafluorophosphate and benzalaldehyde or cyclohexanone, thus yielding Δ3-1,4,2-oxazaphospholene complexes 2a,c; the molecular structure of complex 2c was established by a single crystal X-ray diffraction study.


We address a broad class of optimization problems of finding quantum measurements, which includes the problems of finding an optimal measurement in the Bayes criterion and a measurement maximizing the average success probability with a fixed rate of inconclusive results. Our approach can deal with any problem in which each of the objective and constraint functions is formulated by the sum of the traces of the multiplication of a Hermitian operator and a detection operator. We first derive dual problems and necessary and sufficient conditions for an optimal measurement. We also consider the minimax version of these problems and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a minimax solution. Finally, for optimization problem having a certain symmetry, there exists an optimal solution with the same symmetry. Examples are shown to illustrate how our results can be used.


Poor power quality — characterized by fluctuations and/or persistently low or high voltages — has far-reaching consequences and should receive much more attention. Like lack of access, poor power quality holds back economic growth. But it is much harder to track and its prevalence is unknown because systems to measure it are not in place. We installed sensors across Nigeria to assess power quality and its impacts on people and economic activity.


Concurrent demur is a usual defense claimed by parties in bilateral concurrent contracts. It is designed to prompt parties to such a full fulfillment of contract to protect them from detriment caused by frustration. Contract Law in our country has defined this institution. This paper is aimed to explore this institution through combination of foreign legislation,and arguments with our legislation.


It is an open question why the drag coefficient on golf ball remains nearly constant with increasing Reynolds number after its sharp decrease. In order to investigate this interesting phenomenon, we measure the drag, separation angle, wall pressure and streamwise velocity inside/outside dimples before main separation. When drag reduction occurs, the separation angle measured is nearly constant and the wall pressure distributions outside dimples are nearly the same even with increasing Reynolds number. From the streamwise velocity measurement, it is found that dimples located at the angles of 65˚~90˚ make an important role in changing flow characteristics. Inside one or two rows of dimples located at those angles, a small separation bubble exists and flow becomes quickly transitional and turbulent with reattachment. The main separation occurs further downstream at 110˚ even with increasing Reynolds number, because downstream dimples do not make an important role in changing flow characteristics any more.


When serum is incubated in the presence of 1-α-dimyristoyl lecithin, the expected disappearance of free cholesterol is greatly enhanced. This effect is not seen in replicate experiments employing two other crystalline lecithins.


It is a long challenge to develop nanomedicines that simultaneously possess tumor cell selectivity and penetration functions. Here, it is reported that selective cell penetrating peptide (RLWMRWYSPRTRAYGC)‐functionalized polymersomes (SCPP‐PS) mediate efficient and targeted delivery of methotrexate disodium (MTX) to human lung cancer in vivo. SCPP‐PS with an SCPP density of 18.7% is self‐crosslinked, has a small size (63–65 nm), and high MTX loading (up to 19.4 wt%), shows selective uptake and fast penetration into A549 lung cancer cells, and efficiently releases MTX intracellularly. Interestingly, MTX‐loaded SCPP‐PS (MTX‐SCPP‐PS) displays much lower IC50 than those of MTX‐PS and free MTX. Installing SCPP to polymersomes has no detrimental effect to their long blood circulation time but significantly increases drug accumulation in A549 tumor (5.3% injected dose per gram at 8 h post injection). Remarkably, SCPP‐PS exhibits deep penetration in to A549 tumors. MTX‐SCPP‐PS completely inhibits tumor progression and significantly improves survival rates in mice bearing A549 lung tumor xenografts as compared to MTX‐PS and free MTX groups (median survival time: 75 vs 45 and 38 d, respectively), without causing noticeable adverse effects. These results highlight that functionalization of nanomedicines with SCPP is a feasible strategy to achieve efficient and targeted tumor therapy.


Fever in children is one disorders healthy and often make the parent felt anxiety. The Parents with rationally action for treatment fever when they are at home would be very helpful of processing fever treatment. Groping assessed when a child fever foreheads-lowering drug fever, according the rules of use, can be influenced by the mother's knowledge about fever so that children are not getting high fever. Objective aim to know the relationship of knowledge of fever with handling of children under five years fever in Bedoro Village of Sambungmacan Puskesmas of Sragen. method was descriptive correlative and uses approach cross sectional. Samples research are 57 mother who have children under five year. Taking sample was using proportional random sampling. Instrument research is using a knowledge and behavior questionnaire after validity and reliability test. Analysis data is using Rank Spearman. Result, there were17 respondents (29,8%) have a good knowledge, 22 respondents (38,6%) with enough knowledge, 18 respondents (31,6%) with poor knowledge. There are 28 respondents (50,9%) with good handling in fevers treatment, 28 respondents (49,1%) was worse. The statistical Rank Spearman test with  = 0.415 with p = 0,001
Conclusion: there is a relationship of knowledge of fever with handling of children under five years fever in Bedoro Village of Sambungmacan Puskesmas of Sragen.


With the changes in the international situation, more stringent requirements have been put forward for counter-terrorism and stability maintenance tasks. Under invisible conditions such as night and shelter, the recognition of gestures becomes very important. The radar has the characteristics of all-weather and has a certain penetration ability. Therefore, radar has an irreplaceable role in solving this problem. Since wideband radar has higher range resolution than narrow-band radar, it can extract finer features of gestures, which has become the main sensing apparatus for gesture recognition. However, gestures are often in a complex background. Furthermore, gestures weak compared to the main body. Therefore, the classification and recognition of human micro-motion based on wideband radar is still a difficult problem. Inspired by the successful application of residual neural network in computer vision, this paper proposes a wideband radar gestures recognition method based on Pyramid Split Attention(PSA) dual-channel residual neural network, which takes the Range-Doppler (RD) map and High Resolution Range Profiles (HRRPs) of human micro-motion as inputs. The effectiveness of this method is verified by experimental data, after the information is convolved, the features are fused, and finally the purpose of classification is achieved. The target recognition rate of this method is 97.83%, which is higher than 95.83% without pyramid split attention, and much higher than 92.33% of the high-resolution range profile based recognition method and 90% of the range Doppler based recognition method, showing the superiority of the proposed method.


Huayang Palace is the greatest ancient building group in Jinan,with more than 300m2 murals preserved. Sanhuang Temple is one of the main buildings of Huayang Palace,inside of it,there are many exquisite murals of Qing Dynasty,however,because of the Cultural Revolution and later vandalism,the vast majority of murals are covered by white mortar and kept unknown to the world for long. On the basis of the investigation and analysis of the murals diseases,a study on the restoration and protection methods of the murals is conducted.


Gymnastics is one of the methods to strengthen student's fitness and promote their physical and mental development.However,in gymnastics teaching,particular in the instrument gymnastics teaching and the extra-curricular training,it is very easy to have the damage phenomenon for students,even serious injury accident occurs.Student's health and the studies can come under the enormous influence.This paper,according to the teaching practice and the investigation,mainly from factor analyses and student's physical fitness,psychological factor,teaching method and method as well as location equipment,obtains affects the student to be injured the reason in the physical training,and appears the damage accident for the reduced teaching,proposes the effective preventive measure on its occur.


Silicon carbide (SiC) is an engaging semiconductor for high-power and high-frequency devices. In this paper the study of design, steady-state and small signal analysis of Si and SiC based boost converter interfaced between SPV module and resistive load is discussed. Comparative performance is presented in the paper, regarding the steady sate and transient response of Si and SiC based converter interfaced between SPV module and load.


The bachelor thesis is focused on the topic of processed cheese, especially on their production technology and terms of nutritional recommendations of the basic components for the human. Processed cheeses are foodstuff of high nutritional value that provide energy and proteins to our body and they are an importatnt source of mineral substances and vitamins as well. Processed cheeses belong to the most popular kind of goods produced worldwide. In the experimental section I tried to determine the content of the basic ingredients in samples of processed cheeses.


The undergraduate thesis "Theories on Social Life in Public Places - Applied to Selma Lagerlof's Torg" consists of two parts: the first part presents theories concerning social life in public places; the second part presents a program for developing Selma Lagerlof's Torg (a center in a suburb to Gothenburg) into a well-functioning social environment, i.e. a place where the social life has positive consequences on its participants and on society.


. Joint lensing and dynamical mass profile determinations of galaxy clusters are an excellent tool to constrain modification of gravity at cosmological scales. However, search for tiny departures from General Relativity (GR) calls for an accurate control of the systematics affecting the method. In this analysis we concentrate on the systematics in the reconstruction of mass profiles from the dynamics of cluster member galaxies, while assuming that lensing provides unbiased mass profile reconstructions. In particular, in the case study of linear f ( R ) gravity, we aim at verifying whether in realistic simulations of cluster formation a spurious detection of departure from GR can be detected due to violation of the main assumptions (e.g. dynamical equilibrium and spherical symmetry) on which the method is based. We aim at agreement with GR predictions P GR mainly depends on the properties of the halo's projected phase-space and on shape orientation of the cluster along the line-of-sight projection. We further define two observational criteria which correlate with P GR and which can be used to select, among a generic population of galaxy clusters in the local Universe, those objects that are more suitable for the application of the proposed method. In particular, we find that according to these criteria the percentage of spurious detection can be lowered down to ∼ 20% in the best case. We discuss how P GR changes when a simplified treatment of the chameleon screening mechanism is considered. Our results are relevant in view of the availability of precise measurements of lensing mass profiles from imaging data and dynamics mass profiles from spectroscopic data that will be available with the next generation surveys.


Background: In 2003, large-scale environmental remediation projects were started to remediate heavy metal polluted rice paddies in central Taiwan. Objectives: To explore the historical and social context of the event, we investigated how rice paddies were polluted by wastewater from nearby electric plating factories, and traced the discovery of and the responses to environmental health problems by local residents, legislators, the mass media, the government, and the scientific community. Methods: We used an ethnographic approach to study the case. Our methods included participant observations, in-depth interviews, policy analyses, media analyses, and content analyses of documents. Results: Our study revealed how environmental engineers defined the risks and the "borders" of pollution and why local residents were skeptical of the effectiveness of the remediation and reacted in silence to the illegal wastewater discharge. Conclusions: Our case study demonstrated how complicated environmental pollution problems can be in a developing country. There exists the new challenge of risk management in light of rapid industrial development in conjunction with ancient agricultural technologies.


Depending upon the high-resolution satellite imagery of recent years, distinction of the one-meter-length object of terrestrial has become possible. Advanced usage of satellite imagery is getting popular in civil engineering field. However, in maritime transportation field, it is not utilized yet sufficiently. At East Asian region, the marine traffic density has increased attendant upon recent economic development, but the actual condition and the behavior of that traffic style is still grasped only roughly. In this research, at the area whose such traffic control system is insufficient, we aim toward the development of the observation system on maritime traffic with the satellite imagery. In order to examine the ship type identification method from the imagery, the ship images in this paper are drawn up from Multispectral data making use of the picture of the ship at Kobe, Tokyo and Yokohama port using IKONOS satellite.


Abstract. Technical OPC normally contains mixed sulphate carriers in varying amounts. Gypsum (calcium sulphate dihydrate, CaSO4 ·2 H2O) is added to the clinker before the milling process and dehydrates partially to bassanite (calcium sulphate hemihydrate, CaSO4 ·0.5 H2O) and anhydrite (CaSO4). The dehydration temperature and humidity affects the resulting calcium sulphates. Anhydrite exists in different polymorphs (anhydrite I-III) of which anhydrite III shows the highest reactivity in contact with H2O. Due to different kinetics of the calcium sulphate phases, which strongly influence hydration, it is very important to be able to characterize the sulphate carrier composition in the cement and in applications with high sulphate content. This study could prove that it is possible to quantify bassanite and anhydrite III in samples of dehydrated gypsum by Rietveld refinement of XRD data especially in mixtures consisting of more than one calcium sulphate modification.


As a result of articles 6, 7 and 1375 of the Civil Code of Quebec, a person's duty
to conduct himself in good faith has become a fundamental rule of Quebec civil law. The warranty of quality is an obligation of general application by which all sellers (including the manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, builder, and real estate developer)
are obliged to ensure the quality of the property being sold.
This article highlights the current legal applications and the practical
consequences of the seller's duty to act in good faith principally with regard
to the warranty. In particular, the following points are examined: the right to exclude the warranty, the duty to disclose defects, the requirement for notice within a reasonable time and the liability of the seller for damages. The duty of the seller to disclose known latent defects is one of the foundations of the warranty . The recognition of good faith as a rule of Quebec civil law consolidates the duty to disclose known facts that seriously affect the state of the property to be sold.


Media has a very specific role in forming agenda of mental health policy. In their reports, journalists directly question systemic issues, trajectories of the mental health policy and respective legislation. Media also acts as a mediator between citizens and politicians rendering understanding to the latter that their electorate is scared and supports increasing means of guardianship and control. Finally, media can ignore important outcomes of mental health policy. This strategy gives an account that mental health issues are of low importance and public scrutiny is not needed. The data for the context and content analysis derived from two main sources: online news webpage (time frame covers year 2000–2011, 1353 cases) and Parliament records of official proceedings (year 1990–2010, 567 cases). Media discourse proved to have a significant influence on political agenda, since in most cases political discussions on the topic of mental health were referred to media sources. Research data suggests that media coverage as well as the political debates on mental health are characterised by general stagnation, superficial understanding and stereotypical attitudes. This overall pattern was breached during the period of 2004–2006 which was marked by significant international events, namely the EU entrance and adoption of the Mental Health Declaration for Europe. During this period the policy of mental health received considerable attention in the media, decreased media articles related to criminalisation of mental health. The research identified major players that were able to break the vicious circle in the media and political discourse around the marginalised and stigmatised subject.


In this work, we investigate a novel covert communication system, where the legitimate transmitter attempts to communicate with a covert user in the presence of a warden and the public user covertly. Specifically, the legitimate transmitter employs non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and rate-splitting (RS) to communicate with users aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). In this context, we investigate key performance indicators of covert communication, namely the detection error probability and the covert communication rate. Meanwhile, we consider the physical layer security (PLS) of the proposed system in the presence of an eavesdropper, and derive the approximate secrecy outage probability (SOP) expression. Also, an asymptotic analysis of the SOP is also carried out. Various numerical results are presented that demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed analysis, which are complemented by simulated ones, verifying the correctness of the theoretical framework. From these results, it becomes evident that the use of RS, NOMA, and RIS can improve the performance of covert communication. Finally, it is also depicted that under the condition of high signal-to-noise ratio, the SOP of the system tends to be a constant value.


Abstract : For this report, a review of the organizational literature was conducted to compile current research and applied knowledge relevant to personnel or work force reductions. The review was performed to develop a reference resource for managing U.S. Army force reductions. More than 300 case, research, conceptual, and prescriptive sources were examined and a conceptual framework was developed. Major topics include (1) environmental constraints, organizational retrenchment, and targets of downsizing; (2) downsizing strategies; and (3) transition management, and intervention processes. Following the review, researchers identified issues encountered during previous U.S. Army demobilizations. Finally, recommendations were developed that considered important themes from the organizational literature, tempered by the unique requirements pertinent to U.S. Army force reductions.


This paper compares two different methods to combine feature streams to improve the performance of offline handwritten text line recognition systems. In both methods a pixel-based and a geometric feature stream are combined. The first method integrates the feature streams at an early stage whereas in the second method a combination step at the decision level is applied. In the experiments, the early integration approach outperforms the decision level combination as well as recognisers built from the individual feature streams


Abstract: To investigate the regulation of phorbol ester‐stimulated synthesis of phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho), myristoylated alanine‐rich protein kinase C substrate (MARCKS) and the α‐isoform of protein kinase C (PKC‐α) were overexpressed in a human neuroblastoma (SK‐N‐MC) cell line that does not increase PtdCho synthesis in response to 4β‐12‐O‐tetradecanoylphorbol 13‐acetate (TPA). In five clones with a less than fivefold increase in MARCKS protein level, the synthesis of PtdCho from [methyl‐3H]choline was stimulated 1.88–2.34‐fold in the presence of 100–200 nM TPA. In clones overexpressing PKC‐α (30–40‐fold increased level of protein) or in mock‐transfected vector controls, TPA had much less of a stimulatory effect (1.04–1.43‐fold) on PtdCho synthesis. TPA caused translocation of PKC‐α and increased phosphorylation of MARCKS, indicating that both overexpressed proteins responded to stimulation. Thus, in SK‐N‐MC cells, MARCKS is required for TPA‐stimulated synthesis of PtdCho, and PKC‐α alone is insufficient for supporting enhanced synthesis.


We consider old results on 2-D computerized tomography methods and their relevance to new fully 3-D problems. We examine the 2-D filtered back-projection (FBP) method from several perspectives to better understand how it works. Based on that understanding, we question whether highly stable, reliable reconstruction algorithms can be found for wide-detector cone-beam 3-D machines with their resulting large-slant beams. We use a numerical method of 'point response function fitting' to compute convolution kernels H(u, v) (for use with back-projection) for a model slant-beam problem. These kernels exhibit disturbing, growing and spreading oscillations which would greatly amplify errors in the projection data.


This paper reports on the validation of the assumption of quasi steady behaviour of pulsating cooling injection in the near hole flow region. The respective experimental data are taken in a flat plate wind tunnel at ETH Zurich. The facility simulates the film cooling row flow field on the pressure side of a turbine blade. Engine representative non-dimensionals are achieved, providing a faithful model at larger scale. Heating the free stream air and strongly cooling the coolant gives the required density ratio between coolant and free-stream. The coolant is injected with different frequency and amplitude. The three dimensional velocities are recorded using non-intrusive PIV, seeding is provided for both air streams. Two different cylindrical hole geometries are studied, with different angles. Blowing ratio is varied over a range to simulate pressure side film cooling. The general flow field, the jet trajectory and the streamwise circulation are utilized in the validation of the quasi steady assumption.Copyright © 2006 by ASME


For codes over fields, the MacWilliams equivalence theorem give us a complete characterization when two codes are equivalent. Considering the important role of the Lee weight in coding theory, one would like to have a similar results for codes over integer residue rings equipped with the Lee weight. We would like to prove that the linear isomorphisms between two codes in Z n that is preserving the Lee weight are exactly the maps of the form 1 2 1 (1) 2 (2) ( ) ( , , ) ( , , , ) , m m m f x x u x u x x u x       where 1, , { 1,1} m u u    and n S   . The problem is still largely open. Wood proved the result for codes over Z n where n is a power of 2 or 3. In this paper we prove the result for prime n of the form 4 1 p  where p is prime. (


Abstract The paper reveals how Zimbabwean soldiers who fought in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1998–2002) were challenged by the terrain of war. While soldiers are trained to live and fight in dreadful wars, I argue that immersing oneself in the war terrain is neither mathematical nor calculative; rather, war tactics to be employed are defined by the context in which soldiers operate in. When soldiers reflect on and about the war, they unconsciously produce accounts that are often not completely heroic, but a life lived in fear as well an issue that they had never anticipated when they set out to war. A main finding of this study is that while these soldiers were deployed to fight against the rebels, they find difficulties in locating physical features from map reading to the ground, distinguishing the enemy from civilian people and deployed for days without eating a proper meal as well as seeing their fellow soldiers dying in the context of war. The paper provides a vantage point in which we can also understand that trained soldiers do not exert total power over war terrains, they are sometimes challenged by the war situation itself.


Thispaperdelves intothehando, different wireless networks (i.e. WI WWAN)withconspicuous amalgama linewiththeMIPv6.Thisanaly latency studycompares thehando, different individual andcombined apr theframework ofMIPv6.Uponexplc facts fromthestudy, wehavepictori thelatency delay-time attheabove di networks through simulation results. TheUniversity ofAsiaPacific


Written from England, Africa and Italy during Steinbeck's time as a war correspondent during the closing years of World War II, these dispatches focus on the excitement, horror and drama of war, and reveal the novelist's deep concern for the fate of humanity.


As mentioned in Section 1 of the main text, RGB images have consistent representations across stereo views, and traditional stereo matching methods generalize well across different domains. To further validate the importance of stereo representation consistency to generalization, we design a network that concatenates the RGB image pair directly to construct the cost volume, which is served as the input to the network. Compared to the PSMNet [4] baseline, we simply replace the concatenated feature-based cost volume with RGB based cost volume, as shown in Figure 5. To match the input size requirement of the cost aggregation network (D × 64 × H4 × W 4 ), a 3D convolution layer is applied to the RGB based cost volume (D × 6×H ×W ) that generates the cost volume as in PSMNet. We eliminate as many learnable parameters from the feature extractor as possible and demonstrate that once the stereo feature consistency is highly satisfied, the training of the cost aggregation network doesn't affect the generalization performance of the whole stereo network. We present the generalization performance on different datasets in Figure 6. The error rate above a given threshold is used as the error metric. Constructing the cost volume directly on RGB image pairs provides a significant performance improvement over the cost volume with inconsistent stereo features (given by the feature extractor of PSMNet) on all datasets. This verifies our motivation to encourage stereo feature consistency for better generalization ability.


The invention relates to a Chinese medicine composition for treating diabetes, consisting of the following raw materials by weight proportion: 13-17 of radices trichosanthis, 18-22 of dried rhizome of rehmannia, 13-17 of scrophularia ningpoensis, 13-17 of rhizoma anemarrhenae, 13-17 of dogwood, 28-32 of radix astragali, 18-22 of Chinese yam, 13-17 of rhizoma atractylodis, 18-22 of coix seed, 10-14 of ophiopogon root, 28-32 of gypsum and 18-22 of root of kudzu vine. The composition has good effect on diabetes treatment and low price.


The turmoil in today's service industries may prove to be the dawn of a renaissance for bold companies with strategic vision.


Summary. In this study we present a non-overlapping Schwarz waveform relaxation method applied to the one dimensional unsteady diffusion equation. We derive efficient interface conditions using an optimal control approach once the problem is discretized. Those conditions are compared to the usual optimized conditions derived at the PDE level by solving a min-max problem . The performance of the proposed methodology is illustrated by numerical experiments.


Increasing the construction capacity, while at the same time significantly reducing harmful emissions and consumption of nonrenewable resources, and still providing a liveable and affordable built environment, provides a great challenge for future construction. In order to achieve this, both the productivity of construction processes and the energy and resource efficiency of construction systems have to be improved in a reciprocal process. Digital technologies make it possible to address these challenges in novel ways. The vision of this Cluster of Excellence IntCDC at the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is to harness the full potential of digital technologies to rethink design and construction based on integration and interdisciplinarity, with the goal of laying the methodological foundations to profoundly modernize the design and construction process and related building systems by adopting a systematic, holistic and integrative computational approach. One key objective is to develop an overarching methodology of " co-designing " methods, processes and systems based on interdisciplinary research encompassing architecture, structural engineering, building physics, engineering geodesy, manufacturing and systems engineering, computer science and robotics, and humanities and social sciences. In this way, the Cluster aims to address the ecological, economic and social challenges and to provide the prerequisites for a high-quality and sustainable built environment and a digital building culture. for building in the future is to build more, while emitting fewer pollutants and using fewer nonrenewable resources, and still create a high-quality and liveable built environment. In a mutually influencing process, both the productivity of the building process and the energy and resource efficiency of the building systems must be improved. Digital technologies offer new approaches to solving these challenges. The and


The invention relates to a system and method for positioning wafers on trays as well as a MOCVD system. When the trays rotate, optical signals corresponding to at least two loops of wafers on the trays are measured, and at least two groups of measured optical signal sequences are obtained; at least two groups of measured optical signal sequences are regarded as a whole, which is matched with a position information template comprising tray position information and wafer placing information; positions in respective sequence of optical signals corresponding to each loop of wafers are found when the matching degree is highest, furthermore number of each wafer in each loop of wafers on the tray is determined. In a condition that a hardware cannot provide its effective positioning signals, characteristics of groove positions on the tray are used for carrying out processing and analysis of acquired optical signals, in order to realize absolute positioning of each piece of wafer on the tray, and furthermore data corresponding to each wafer is obtained by partitioning acquired data.


Semantic is the branches of linguistics. This researh is about linguistics which analyse about lexical meaning and contextual meaning. By reading of the news article, we can get knowledge about appreciates literature and the background of the language. Therefore, the researcher interested in analyzing the lexical and contextual meaning used in sport article. The researcher dedicated to give the title of this research "An Analysis of Lexical and Contextual meaning on Sport News in Jawa Pos Newspaper". The problem of this study are: (1) How is lexical meaning used on sport news in Jawa Pos newspaper? (2) How is contextual meaning on sport news in Jawa Pos newspaper? The researcher takes some newspaper edition in of February 2018. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method because the researcher would analysze and interpret the object research of sport article. The step to obtain the data is by collecting sources of the data from sport article in Jawa Pos newspaper. After that selects the sport article and understand the content of the article, the researcher conducts and analyzes the data the last is make conclusion. The result of this research is as follows: (1) every word of lexical meaning used in sports articles aims to attract news readers or newspapers, while (2) every word of lexical meaning can be analyzed using contextual meaning so that the reader can understand the content of the news. The researcher expects this research will be useful for the other researchers who are eager to know more about semantics. Moreover, semantic is an important branch of linguistics that is interesting to be studied, especially when it is applied to literary works, such us news, novel or poem etc.


High myopia is an ocular disease characterized by abnormal visual functions, caused by excessive axial elongation. Retinal detachment, myopic maculopathy, glaucoma, and cataract are four major complications can cause blindness. Peripheral retinal degeneration (lattice degeneration) and vitreal traction are factors involving in the production of retinal detachment. Higher retinal detachment rate was found of the axial length between 26.0 and 27.0 mm. Early myopic maculopathy was defined as fundus change with lacquer cracks, which are seen as yellow white lines of irregular caliber whose course across the posterior pole. Refractive error more than -15.OD,, axial length over 29.0mm, and age more than 45 years old are risk factors for the development of early myopic maculopathy. Variable degrees of optic disc changes are found during myopic progression such as tilting, which made the diagnosis of glaucoma become more difficulty. Periodic visual field and three dimensional disc examination are important for high myopic patients. Nuclear type of cataract is frequent found in middle age. of high myopic patient, which may make the fast progression of, myopia.


Objective To apply competence-based nursing teaching to improve the clinical competence of the undergraduate nursing students.Methods The undergraduate nursing students were divided into the control and study groups,and in the former,conventional apprentice teaching was applied and the students in the study group had competence-based nursing teaching.A questionnaire for assessing the clinical competence and comprehensive clinical examinations were adopted for evaluating the clinical competence of the undergraduate students at the end of the training.Results Compared to the control group,the study group had significantly higher scores for their clinical competence(P0.05).Conclusion Competence-based nursing teaching is effective for application in the undergraduate nursing students for practice in the internal medicine department,and this teaching strategy may help improve the clinical competence of the students.


The study aimed to analyze the effect of gender roles and micro environment maintenance on subjective well-being of farmer families in Sindangjaya Village, Cipanas Sub-District, Cianjur District, West Java Province. Samples as much as 100 farmer families were selected purposively. Data was collected by interview and observation the home environment. The data collected include family characteristics, characteristics of the home environment, family problems (economic, home environment, and agriculture), micro environment maintenance (hygiene and health, pesticide management, children protection, and homeyard management), the division of gender roles (public, domestic, and social community), and family well-being (physical, economic, social, psychological, homeyard conditions, and garden conditions). Multiple linear regression analysis showed that family income (β=0,222, p<0,05), family problems (β=-0,294, p<0,01), and micro environment maintenance (β=0,250, p<0,01) significantly affects the subjective family well-being. Increasing the family income and better of micro environment maintenance can increase the family subjective well-being. Increasing the family problem will reduce the family subjective well-being. Meanwhile, gender roles no significantly effect on subjective family wellbeing.


This paper reports a filtered velocity feedback(FVF) controller, which is an alternative to direct velocity feedback(DVFB) controller. The instability problems due to high frequency response under DVFB can be alleviated by the suggested FVF controller. The FVF controller is designed to filter out the unstable high frequency response. The FVF controller and the dynamics of clamped beams under forces and moments are first formulated. The effects of the design parameters(cut-off frequency, gain, and damping ratio) on the stability and the performance are then investigated. The cut-off frequency should be selected not to affect the system stability. The magnitude of the open loop transfer function(OLTF) at the cut-off frequency should be small. As increasing the gain of the FVF controller, the magnitude of the OLTF is increased, so that the closed loop response can be reduced more. The enhancement of the OLTF at the cut-off frequency is reduced but the phase behavior around the cut-off frequency is distorted, as the damping ratio is increased. The control performance is finally estimated for the clamped beam. More than 10 dB reductions in velocity response can be achieved at the modal frequencies from the first to eighth modes.


To evaluate the fuel efficiency of road traffic, an approach that captures the characteristics of road traffic on the basis of floating car data (FCD) is proposed. In existing studies of fuel consumption, parameters such as speed, acceleration, and power demand have been adopted to represent the characteristics of traffic flows and vehicle activities. However, they are not suitable for use in the evaluation of fuel efficiency in a dynamic traffic network with various advanced traffic management alternatives. On the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the data collected by portable emission measurement systems and FCD collected in Beijing, it was found that the time distribution in vehicle-specific power (VSP) bins, that is, the VSP bin distribution, can well represent fuel consumption per unit of time. Furthermore, the combination of the VSP bin distribution and the average travel speed in a network can represent fuel consumption per unit of distance. According to these findings, the paper develops a method for evaluating the fuel efficiency for road traffic on the basis of defined indicators of fuel consumption and fuel consumption at the most efficient speed. A comparison of the estimated indicators and the real values indicates that the proposed approach performs well in evaluating the fuel efficiency of road traffic. This approach was applied to develop the temporal distribution of fuel efficiency for the West 2nd Ring Road in Beijing. Finally, the paper provides recommendations for expansion of this study by including more vehicle types and different rates of penetration of FCD.


The operator difference equations that arise in the finite-element treatment of a quantum theory are implicit and therefore difficult to solve. By introducing a matrix formulation it is possible to circumvent the implicit character of these equations and obtain explicit closed-form solutions for arbitrary matrix elements of any operator.


Sleeping with a dummy (pacifier) is linked with a reduced risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), according to US researchers. In a case-control study, they examined the use of a dummy the night before death in 185 SIDS cases and 312 non-SIDS infant deaths. Not only was there a 90% reduction in risk for SIDS in infants who had used a dummy during their last sleep — use of a dummy also seemed to reduce the influence of other known risk factors in the sleep environment, such as sleep position and co-sleeping with a mother who smoked. The researchers say that promoting the use of a dummy when an infant is sleeping may be an effective public health measure in further reducing the incidence of SIDS.


Where do Asian Americans stand when it comes to public policy? In what ways are they most likely to participate in politics in order to exert their influence in public policy making? More often than not, the answer to these questions is mired in assumptions, anecdotes, and selective evidence because until only very recently, little systematic, nationally representative data on this emerging group has been available to the public. In this brief, we introduce the 2008 National Asian American Survey (NAAS), the first multilingual, multiethnic national survey of Asian American political attitudes and behavior, and suggest that these data shed light on: (1) critical questions about Asian Americans' public policy attitudes and (2) the types of political action Asian Americans are most likely to take to pursue their policy interests.


Recently discovered room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs)
show tremendous promise to replace volatile organic compounds (VOC).
Investigation of these RTILs as solvents is in very early stages. Before
the full potential of these RTILs are realized, much more information about
them as solvent systems must be obtained. The dipolarity of one such RTIL,
1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (bmimPF6) is
investigated using both absorbance (Reichardt's betaine dye) and
fluorescence (pyrene, dansylamide, Nile Red, and 1-pyrenecarbaldehyde)
solvatochromic probes. Results indicate that, in the case of pyrene and
1-pyrenecarbaldehyde the bmimPF6 microenvironment immediately
surrounding the probe is similar to the microenvironment sensed in
acetonitrile and dimethyl sulfoxide. Dansylamide in bmimPF6
sensed a microenvironment similar to that in acetonitrile. However,
calculated ET(30) values indicate the polarity of
bmimPF6 sensed by Reichardt's betaine dye to be similar to
ethanol. Nile Red showed that the polarity of the solvent in the immediate
vicinity of the probe is similar to neat water and 90 wt% glycerol in water
(a solvent with viscosity similar to bmimPF6). The
microenvironment sensed by a probe is dependent upon several factors
besides polarity such as viscosity, polarizability, the ability to form
hydrogen-bonds, etc. In light of this, the apparent discrepancies
in the polarity of bmimPF6 indicated in this study do not seem
so vast.


e23082Background: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide; early diagnosis represents the main approach to reduce disease mortality. Molecular biom...


A rule-based topology software system providing a highly flexible and fast procedure to enforce integrity in spatial relationships among datasets is presented. This improved topology rule system is built over the spatial extension Jaspa. Both projects are open source, freely available software developed by the corresponding author of this paper


In the racemic title compound, C14H17NO6, the plane of the ester group of the methyl hexanoate side chain makes a dihedral angle of 80.0 (2)° with the benzene ring, while the nitro group is approximately coplanar with the benzene ring [dihedral angle = 10.3 (2)°]. In the crystal, molecules form weak aromatic C—H⋯Onitro hydrogen-bonding interactions, giving inversion dimers [graph set R 2 2(8)].


Background: Primary infertility is a health issue among women over the world. Thyroid hormones have profound effects on reproduction and pregnancy. Thyroid dysfunction is a condition known to reduce the likelihood of pregnancy and to adversely affect pregnancy outcome. Aim: To assess the incidence and prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in primary infertile women. Materials and methods: A total 100 subjects comprising of 50 primary infertile females as cases and 50 healthy age matched fertile females as controls were included in the study. Serum T3, T4 and TSH levels were estimated in both population. Results : Mean serum T3 and T4 levels were significantly decreased (p<0.05) while serum TSH levels were significantly increased (p <0.05) in primary infertile females when compared to controls.38% of infertile women were having thyroid dysfunction, out of which 32% were having hypothyroidism while 6% were having hyperthyroidism. Conclusion: The results of present study indicates association of thyroid dysfunction with infertility. Hypothyroidism is the most common thyroid dysfunction found in primary infertile females. Hence assessment of thyroid function should be considered as an important component in infertility work up of women.


We investigated the influence of pharmacokinetics on the dilution of isosorbide (ISOBIDE®) in three healthy male volunteers. They received both undiluted ISOBIDE® and 5-times-diluted ISOBIDE®. Gas chromatodraphy was used to measure the serum concentration and excretion rate of isosorbides in urine.The results showed thet the pharmacokinetic parameters did not significantly differ between to undiluted ISOBIDE® and 5-times-diluted ISOBIDE® (elimination rate constant of 0.101 hr-1 and 0.106 hr-1, distribution volume of 0.660 1/kg and 0.660 1/kg, half-life of 6.84 hr and 6.57 hr, and excretion amount in urine of 79% and 80%). Therefore, these results indicate that the effect of pharmacokinetics on 5-times-diluted isosorbide remains unchanged.


Abstract This article argues that the Impersonal Contruction (IC) of French, which displays unaccusative syntax but allows unergative verbs, refutes the Unaccusative Hypothesis (UH) and the principles of lexically driven mapping. It is demonstrated that three types of argument intended to explain unaccusative mismatches are untenable while maintaining the UH. An account of the verbs appearing in the IC is proposed, based on the principles of free linking of arguments and postsyntactic compositional interpretation, taking into account meaning contributed by diverse sources, including lexical, syntactic, constructional, and morphological meaning, which must be compatible. It is argued that the shape of IC sentences requires that a state of affairs be predicated of a locative; various consequences for verb and argument selection and tense arise from this requirement. By removing certain semantico-syntactic functions from the lexicon, economy is achieved in both the lexicon and the syntactic component.


The purpose of the research is to analyze the information market as a sphere of fundraising activities of libraries.
Research methodology. Both general scientific (analysis, synthesis, deduction, and induction) and specialized methods (for example, abstraction – for researching general theoretical approaches and determining recommendations for the use of fundraising in the modern library space of Ukraine) were used to study this issue.
The scientific novelty of the study is the actualization of foreign experience of libraries' work with non-budgetary charitable organizations and private benefactors in Ukrainian realities.
Conclusions. The current challenges faced by libraries require additional funding from extrabudgetary sources, which is extremely difficult to implement in the context of a global pandemic or military aggression. In particular, based on the processing of the information received, it was found that modern libraries need to turn more often to the practice of using paid services and fundraising opportunities. Usually, the management of Ukrainian libraries resorts to the practice of introducing paid services to obtain additional funding. We believe that the experience of the world's leading libraries in Ukrainian realities will not always work accordingly. Therefore, it is important to combine the attraction of additional funding with the introduction of new technologies that can bring sustainable income to library institutions in the information market in the future. To obtain fundraising funds, a long work is needed to find possible benefactors, study their activities, and promote their services in the information space, which will create a good reputation for the library institution. It is also relevant to use the experience of scientists – grant applications in their specificity can become models for submitting fundraising projects.


We report the development and initial evaluation of a serious game that, in conjunction with appropriately designed matching laboratory exercises, can be used to teach secure coding and Information Assurance (IA) concepts across a range of introductory computing courses. The IA Game is a role-playing serious game (RPG) in which the student travels through seven computer techno-inspired environments (IA concept rooms); in each environment he/she learns a different IA concept. After playing each level, the student completes a related CS educational module comprised of a theory lesson and a lab assignment. The game is being created with a user-centered iterative approach that includes two forms of evaluation: formative and summative. In this article we describe the design and development of the first four levels of the game, and report the findings of an initial formative evaluation of two game levels with a group of undergraduate students.


As the Importance of Applications, Such as Ocean Sampling, Environmental Monitoring, Disaster Prevention, and Distributed Tactical Surveillance, Has Recently Grown, the Need for Underwater Communication Has Become More Pronounced. unlike Terrestrial Sensor Networks, Underwater Sensor Networks (Uwsns) Have Different Characteristics Such as a Long Propagation Delay, a Narrow Bandwidth and High Packet Loss.Considering the Various Challenges Posed by the Underwater Environment, a Routing Algorithm Has Been Proposed in This Paper. the Algorithm Consists of Special Features, including Three Different Types of Nodes in the Architecture Proposed, a Mathematical Formula in Order to Select the next Node to Be Used for Transmission. the Major Aim of the Algorithm Is to Select the next Node to Be Used for Successful Data Delivery, and Ensure Minimum Energy Consumption. the next Node Is Chosen With Utmost Care in Order to Increase the Probability of Successful Data Delivery. the Packet Is Transferred from the Source to the Sub-Destination by Exploiting Minimum Energy of the Nodes. the Simulation Studies for the Protocol Were Conducted using AQUA-GLOMO Network Simulator. the Protocol Was Benchmarked With DSR Routing Protocol. the Matrices That Were Considered for the Simulation Study Were Throughput, PDR, Energy Consumption and Delay and It Was Observed That Our Proposed Model Performed Better in the Underwater Environment.


DIPHTHERIA has for a long time maintained itself in Enfield, and since 1873 scarcely a year has passed without deaths from that disease being registered in one or another portion of the district. During the ifast thrce years thle number of such deaths has increased, and this increase has been coincident with a general prevalence of diphtheria over a wide area of country north of London. During 1886, in the Enfield district twenty-four deaths from diphtheria and four others from "croup" were registered, and during the first three quarters of 1887 cases continued to occur in various parts of the district. Towards the end of September last diphtheria began to be epidemic, especially in central Enfield, and between that time and the end of Januatry of the present year 213 cases, of which forty-eight were fatal, were reported in the district. At this stage, in consequence partly of the local panic, an inquiry was undertaken by the Local Government Board, and was entrusted to Dr. Bruce Low. But owing to the circumstance that, antecedent to its extension last autumn, diphtheria had persisted for several years in Enfield, and to the lapse of time since the commencement of epidemicity of the disease, Dr. Low's report, just published, does little more than review the chief conditions, so far as they could be learned, under which epidemic diffusion of the disease has occurred. A "sewer-gas" theory had locally most acceptance as the probable cause of the diffusion; but it is discarded by Dr. Low, who points out that, as a matter of fact, objectionable sewer emanations were complained of over a very wide area, whereas epidemic diphtheria was restricted to certain definable limits. Moreover, the first outbreak of the disease in September and October last was not in localities whlence the chief complaint of foul emanations from sewers has come,but in another part of the district which hlas not been specially troubled in this fashion. The water-supply was also accused, but Dr. Low easily shows that accusation to be unfounded. On the other hand, the medical officer of healthl's suspicions as to contaminated milk were ridiculed in some quarters, and few appear to have agreed with him in suspecting elementary schools as having had large concern in the spread of the diphtheria. In reality school attendance was the strongest influence in the spread of the disease. In one school, having an average attendance of 110 scholars, 28 had diphtheria in the course of a few weeks, and 11 of these died of the disease. Another school, situated at some distance from that already referred to, and still further from the locality of chief epidemicity of diphtheria in December last, supplied evidence of the same sort. Among several hundred houses having like conditions of population and sanitary and other circumstances, diphtheria tended to pick out (so far as fatal diphtheria was concerned, it did so without exception) families which sent children to the schools in question. Thus, of 20 families in Central Enfleld invaded during the first three weeks of this year, at least 14 got their diphtheria in the persons of children attending those schools. Tlhe milk-theory of the medical officer of health is also borne out by some very convincing figures, but cannot be positively proved at this distance of time. Many other influences tended to foster diphltheria in Enfleld. Not a few instances came to light in which parents, accompanied often by children, had visited at houses where diphtheria existed for the purpose of condolence, of gossip, or of idle curiosity; and very commonly children, regarded by their parents as practically well after diphtheria, were sent to school without trouble on the part of anyone to obtain certification as to freedom from infection. So, too, as regards what appear to have been mild cases of diphtheria, people have been content to take advice from "chemists," who in turn have given medicine for "colds," " teething," and the like, with the result that, in several instances, children having decided diphtheria have mingled freely with their fellows. Again, there is a custom among the working class in Enfleld, as, indeed, elsewhere also, of asseimbling children of the family in the sickroom to take their last leave of the relative dead or dying from infectious disease, anld Dr. Low gives some instances in which children have even been brought from other districts to take part in such formal leave-taking. Domestic animals have also fallen under suspicion in the Entield epidemic, cats being observed to suffer in considerable numbers from illness. Thllough there were no known causes of diphtheria occurring in the practice of the veterinary surgeons of the locality, vet they saw many cases of "influenza" at this time among animals. Several curious illustrations are detailed by Dr. Low. Diphtheria is a disease around which a great deal of obscurity still hovers, and every fresh link in the chain of evidence is welcome. Much has been elucidated from time to time by the medical staff of the Local Government Board, but it is unfortunate that such opportunities of studying a sustained epidemlic as has recently been afforded at Enfield should so often be lost. This is mainly owing to the smallness of the staff of inspectors, but is none the less unfortunate.


A simple method is outlined for evaluating the residues in a partial fraction expansion when multiple roots are present. Its application along with Frame's algorithm leads to an efficient scheme for the generation of the constituent matrices when multiple eigenvalues are present.


Damage thresholds of Si and SiO2 during reactive ion etching (RIE) were measured in an electron cyclotron resonance plasma reactor equipped with an energy‐analyzed mass spectrometer, Faraday cup, and in situ ellipsometer. Si damage was monitored by the minority‐carrier lifetime measured by the noncontact microwave reflection technique. The threshold ion energy of displacement damage is very low near 20 eV but the RIE damage threshold for Si devices is found to be about 100 eV. This means that a RIE process with the bias voltage lower than 100 Vdc can fabricate Si devices with no serious damage effect as long as surface contamination by reactive radicals is carefully avoided. In a SF6 plasma, the threshold energy of SiO2 RIE is 15 (±2) eV, independent of a substrate temperature, while the physical sputtering threshold is roughly 40 eV in Ar plasmas.


Objective:To investigate the effect of nerve growth factor(NGF) on the proliferation and osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells(BMSC) of rats. Methods:The rat BMSC were cultured in vitro and the marker protein on the surface were identified by flow cytometry.The second generations of BMSC were cultured in osteogenetic medium.The third generation of BMSC were randomly divided into control group(no adding NGF) and experimental group(adding 100ng/ml NGF).The proliferation of the third generation of BMSC were detected by MTT assay,the activities of alkaline phosphatase(ALP) were observed and the osteogenic differatiation of the two groups were compared by von Kossa staining at days 1,3 and 5. Results:The postive CD90 and CD105 and negative CD34 and CD45 expression in cultured BMSC were detected by flow cytometry.Compared with the control group,the mean absorbance values of the experimental group at days 1 and 5 were not statistical different(P0.05),but higher at day 3(P0.05),the activities of ALP was significantly higher(P0.01) and the number and area of the calcium nodules detected by von Kossa staining were larger. Conclusions:NGF can not promote the proliferation of BMSC,but can clearly promote the osteoblast differentiation


Data mining is the process of automatically extracting new and useful knowledge hidden in large data sets. This emerging discipline is becoming increasingly important as advances in data collection lead to the explosive growth in the amount of available data. Data mining techniques primarily help analyze commercial data sets and play a critical role in analyzing and understanding purchasing behaviors for effective consumer relations management, process optimization, personalized marketing, and customer segmentation.


Urban Maglev is transport system that runs while floating on the rail by an electromagnetic force instead of wheel. The control technology is maintaining levitation with sensor over the tracks under any external condition. We want to develop equipment for verifying rail-state of urban maglev system with control system. The equipment confirms rail-state for rail maintenance.


Background: Mutations in RAS (KRAS, NRAS) and BRAF genes are the main biomarker predicting response to anti-EGFR monoclonal antibodies in targeted therapy in colorectal cancer (CRC). Objective: Our study aims to evaluate the frequencies of KRAS, NRAS and BRAF mutations and their possible associations with clinico-pathological features in CRC patients from Morocco. Methods: DNA was extracted from 80 FFPE samples using the QIAamp DNA FFPE-kit. RAS and BRAF mutations were assessed by pyrosequencing assays using Qiagen, KRAS Pyro®kit 24.V1, Ras-Extension Pyro®kit 24.V1 and BRAF Pyro®Kit 24.V1, respectively, and carried out in the PyroMark-Q24. Results: RAS mutations were identified in 57.5% (56.2% in KRAS, 8.8% in NRAS). In KRAS gene, exon 2 mutations accounted for 93.3% (68.9% in codon 12, 24.4% in codon 13). Within codon 12, G12D was the most prevalent mutation (37.7%), followed by G12C (13.4%), G12S (8.9%) and G12V (6.6%). Within codon 13, the most frequently observed mutation was G13D (22.3%). The mutation rates of exon 3 and 4 were 15.6% and 13.3%, respectively. In exon 3 codon 61, 2.3% patients were detected with two concurrent mutations (Q61R, Q61H), and 4.4% with three concurrent mutations (Q61R, Q61H, Q61L). In NRAS gene, the mutation rates of exon 2, 3 and 4 were 57.1%, 28.6%, and 14.3%, respectively. G13A and Q61H were the most common mutations, accounting for 42.9% and 28.5%, respectively. There were 13% patients with concurrent KRAS/NRAS mutation and 4.3% wt KRAS with NRAS mutations. No mutations were identified in BRAF gene. In both sexes, KRAS codon 12 mutations were associated with higher stage III/IV tumors. Moreover, Patients whose tumor is in the proximal colon (56.3%) are more likely to harbor KRAS mutations than those tumor located in rectum (25%). Conclusion: RAS mutations could be useful in future target anti-EGFR therapy and molecular CRC screening strategy in Morocco.


On the problems of determining the content of the concept of "right to education" from the perspective of the criminal-legal policy. Emphasizes the need to identify the main criteria that should guide the domestic criminal policy in combating crimes that infringe on the right to education at all levels, from pre-school to post-graduate education. Proofs are given the low efficiency of the current penal policy in this area and justified approaches to enhance interpretation of the right to education at all levels and the development of appropriate strategic and tactical measures to improve this efficiency.


The conventional Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is composed of mobile nodes without any infrastructure. But, emergent traffic such as disaster positioning by using wireless infrastructure is indeed required. Therefore, network deployment for ad-hoc would associate WiMax with WiFi which is called 802.16e MANET Environment in this paper. Based on the 802.16e MANET environment, we propose a novel Hierarchical Multicast Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing protocol (H-MAODV) for supporting multicast traffic rather than multiple unicast. The proposed H-MAODV scheme can avoid significant number of route discovery cost by using various bounded wireless coverage areas. On the other hand, Two-Points Positioning (TPP) for a paradigm of 802.16e MANET Environment is also proposed to solve the drawback of conventional triangulation method. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed TPP outperforms conventional triangulation method. Moreover, by using proposed multicast service for H-MAODV applying in our deployed 802.16e MANET environment, emergent traffic for disaster positioning information would be delivered out immediately.


A type of piston rod mechanical-lead through transmission has been designed and implemented inside the two first wave energy converter (WEC) prototypes at the Lysekil wave energy research site on t ...


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Blow-out failure of shallow tunnels may occur during shield construction process. To study failure rules, based on the upper bound limit analysis of rigid blocks, three-dimensional expressions for the critical blow-out face pressures are derived using the existing failure modes, and the results are optimized by means of the nonlinear programming model. The relations between the critical blow-out face pressures and influence factors such as formation parameters and buried depth are studied. Meanwhile, the failure modes under different conditions are also explored by use of the program. The results show that both the buried depth and the internal friction angle have great effects on the critical pressures and failure modes. The failure regions mainly range from the surroundings to the surface above the face within blow-out failure. Finally, face stability of a shallow tunnel of Changsha Metro Line 2(from Changsha Road to Sports Park) is discussed by using the upper bound method and the finite difference method. The results obtained by the two methods are in agreement, but the upper bound method is actually more convenient.


Both the Asian and American Lotusspectacular water lilies-are widely raised as ornamentals for their very showy flowers and huge floating leaves, but many in the Western World do not realize that they are also of major importance spiritually and as sources of food. Increased use of these remarkable plants requires careful planning because they can degrade biodiversity-rich wetland communities when introduced outside their native ranges.


Much more studies and researches are conducted on the family and family life. Muslim family is counted as a safe heaven in the life, especially in modern society which is facing many cultural mal-practices and increasing illicit relationships. The researcher approaches the topic of concepts of family life from Islamic Perspective and its basic theories. According to Islamic Principles and ideas family is the small part of Society which can build a best community by its genuine teachings and special guidance for formation Muslim family. Family will be safe and comfortable for both this world and hereafter by accepting the way, which Islam does present to its community. This research is mainly divided into four chapters, Islamic family, Marriage of a Muslim, Rights and obligations of family members and Inheritance in Islam. It is a common misunderstanding that Islam is not putting forward absolute family concepts. Through this study the researcher proves that, this argument is the sharp variance with the reality and tries to present the goodness and beauty of Muslim family.


The main result is the following stability theorem: Let T = (T(t))tzo be a bounded Co-semigroup on a reflexive space X. Denote by A the generator of T and by a(A) the spectrum of A. If a(A) n iR is countable and no eigenvalue of A lies on the imaginary axis, then limt BOO T(t)x = O for all x E X.