In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm to solve global shape registration problems. We use gray-scale "images" to represent source shapes, and propose a novel two-component Gaussian Mixtures (GM) distance map representation for target shapes. Based on this flexible asymmetric image-based representation, a new energy function is defined. It proves to be a more robust shape dissimilarity metric that can be computed efficiently. Such high efficiency is essential for global optimization methods. We adopt one of them, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), to effectively estimate the global optimum of the new energy function. Experiments and comparison performed on generalized shape data including continuous shapes, unstructured sparse point sets, and gradient maps, demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of the algorithm.


We recognized the urgency of our shared multispecies inquiry, with the recent death of one of the cats, Amelie. In the intense singularity of death, we became very aware of how we tune and tend together—everyday practices in which humans (themselves animals) and animals live and perceive together—and how these practices shape our everyday lives. These practices are acts of multispecies survival in which we learn how to live and die together. We weave our multispecies living–dying together with the theories of Haraway and Rautio. Writing together as we disrupt the categories between humans and animals, human-centered philosophical concepts, and human-centered narrative inquiry. In so doing, we offer an evocative multispecies narrative that tells a different story, a becoming with multiple species in naturecultures.


This investigation examines how dialect identity and linguistic ideologies are negotiated and performed through
 dar +gerund, a northern Andean Spanish construction used to express an attenuated request or favor.
 Specifically, positive, neutral, and negative sentiments expressed through metalinguistic commentary are analyzed from a corpus of
 450 tweets collected on Twitter between 2008- May 2019. This analysis shows how a higher degree of emotional intensity in negative
 sentiments signals linguistic and cultural discrimination towards this Kichwa-contact induced construction. On the other end,
 positive sentiments celebrate and defend this feature as an intrinsic part of the Andean Ecuadorian dialect and identity. This
 negotiation of the linguistic and cultural significance of dar +gerund serves to destabilize dominant negative
 perceptions and renegotiate the meaning of this NAS feature.


The effects of lysine (Lys), monosodium glutamate (GluNa), glycine (Gly) and alanine (Ala) on the viscosity, turbidity, morphological features, solubility of saccharides and molecular size distribution of the dissolved saccharides in retorted potato starch paste were investigated. Gly and Ala with zero net charge-containing pastes showed a large decrease in the viscosity due to collapse of the swollen starch granules by the retort treatment, whereas GluNa and Lys with a positive or negative net charge could inhibit such viscosity change and collapse of the starch granules. The turbidity of GluNa- and Lys-containing pastes evaluated by the absorbance at 500 nm was higher than that of Gly- and Ala-containing pastes. The dissolved saccharides for each retorted paste mainly consisted of low-molecular-weight molecules below Mr 600. GluNa and Lys could strongly suppress the increased viscosity and turbidity of the retorted paste during storage for 7 days at 5 and 55°C, although Gly and Ala had little effect. The charged amino acids could thus be applied to improving the viscosity and turbidity of the retorted starch paste by maintaining the swollen starch granules.


We report on a chemical-sensing method based on the silica-micelle mesophase wherein both a fluoroionophore and a masking agent are embedded. Using this method, a highly selective detection of metal ions in an aqueous solution has been successfully demonstrated. Furthermore, simultaneous analyses of multisamples using a sensor array composed of functionalized mesoporous thin films were demonstrated for the first time.


In order to ease the process of library management many technologies have been adopted but most of them focus on inventory management. There has hardly been any progress of automation in the field of issuing and returning books to the library on time. In colleges and schools, hostellers often forget to timely return the issued books back to the library. To solve the above issue and to ensure timely submission of the issued books, this work develops a 'Book-Bot' which solves these complexities. The bot can commute from point A to point B, scan and verify QR Codes and Barcodes. The bot will have a certain payload capacity for carrying books. The QR code and Barcode scanning will be enabled by a Pi Camera, OpenCV and Raspberry Pi, thus making the exchange of books safe and secure. The odometry maneuvers of the bot will be controlled manually via a Blynk App. This paper focuses on how human intervention can be reduced and automates the issue part of library management system with the help of a bot.


Experiments on cosmic rays and the elementary particles share a common history that dates back to the 19 th century. Following the discovery of radioactivity in the 1890s, the paths of the two fields intertwined, especially during the decades after the discovery of cosmic rays. Experiments demonstrated that the primary cosmic rays are positively charged particles, while other studies of cosmic rays revealed various new sub-atomic particles, including the first antiparticle. Techniques developed in common led to the birth of neutrino astronomy in 1987 and the first observation of a cosmic γ-ray source by a ground-based cosmic-ray telescope in 1989.


ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 11 (2019) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com The study was conducted during kharif 2014 at College of Agriculture, Indore under All India Coordinated Cotton Improvement Project in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with eight treatments and three replications on Bt cotton hybrid NCS 927, sown on 27 th July with 0.6x0.6 m spacing. All the recommended agronomical practices were adopted. Treatments were planned for alternate use of two insecticides during six sprays. The spraying was done at 10 days interval with 500 litre water per hectare, using knapsack sprayer fitted with a duromist nozzle. These treatments were prepared as T1Imidacloprid (70%WG) @ 24.5 gai/ha & Oxydmeton methyl (25%EC) @ 250 gai/ha, T2Thiaclorprid (21.7%SC) @ 30 gai/ha & Dimethoate (30%EC) @ 250 gai/ha, T3Imidacloprid (17.8%SL) @ 25 gai/ha & Acephate (75%SP) @ 250 gai/ha, T4Imidacloprid (30.5%SC) @ 26.25 gai/ha & Thiamethoxam (25%WG) @ 37.5 gai/ha, T5Spiromesifen (22.9%SC) @ 144 gai/ha & Deltamethrin (2.8%EC) @ 15 gai/ha, T6-Fipronil (5%SC) @ 100 gai/ha & Lambdacyhalothrin (4.9%EC) @ 15 gai/ha, T7Acetamiprid (20%SP) @ 30 gai/ha & Difenthiuran (50%WP) @ 300 gai/ha and T8Untreated check. All the treatments Exhibited a significant reduction in jassid population over untreated check. Treatment T6Fipronil (5%SC) @ 100 gai/ha & Lambdacyhalothrin (4.9%EC) @ 15 gai/ha showed least pest population in each spray and expressed no significant difference with T5Spiromesifen (22.9%SC) @ 144 gai/ha & Deltamethrin (2.8%EC) @ 15 gai/ha. Similarly the overall jassid population reduction was recorded highest in treatment T6 (80.56%) followed by T5 (74.88%) and other treatments in which T1Imidacloprid (70%WG) @ 24.5 gai/ha & Oxydmeton methyl (25%EC) @ 250 gai/ha (61.21%) showed least population reduction. Similar trend of efficacy was observed against aphid where treatment T6 showed least pest population in each spray and expressed no significant difference with T5. Again T6 showed highest aphid population reduction (80.56%) and followed with T5 (74.88%). K e y w o r d s Alternation, Efficacy, Insecticides, Bt cotton, Jassid, Aphid Accepted: 22 October 2019 Available Online: 10 November 2019 Article Info Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2019) 8(11): 2342-2349


The feasibility of applying Beidou satellite navigation system to wide-area synchronous PMUs(Phasor Measurement Units) in China is analyzed from the coverage of satellite signal,timing precision,amount of users,etc.Beidou 1 pps(one pulse per second) signal exists big random error but not accumu-lative error;the high-precision crystal oscillator clock signal has not random error,and its accumulative error is also very small in a short time.According to these,a mathematical model of errors is established,and an online correction method is presented for Beidou 1 pps random errors by high-precision crystal oscillator.The corrected second pulse can provide precise time tags for PMUs.


The utility model relates to an airflow classifying and drying device for coking coal. The device comprises a vibrating fluidized bed main body and a classifying collection device, wherein the vibrating fluidized bed main body comprises a primary air supply device, a main vibrating box body with an air distribution plate, a settling classification section and a drying section with a secondary air inlet, and the primary air supply device, the main vibrating box body with the air distribution plate, the settling classification section and the drying section with the secondary air inlet are respectively connected from down to up. The utility model has the benefits that the airflow classifying and drying device can save the energy, reduce the amount of waste water generated during the coking process, reduce the environmental pollution and improve the production capacity of the coke oven.


Summary form only given. Space and laboratory plasmas can be dramatically affected by neutral depletion. We focus on laboratory low-temperature plasmas in steady-state in which volume ionization is balanced by wall recombination. For collisional plasma that is in pressure balance with the neutral gas we showed that because of the inherent coupling of ionization and transport, an increase of the energy invested in ionization can nonlinearly enhance the transport process. Such an enhancement of the plasma transport due to neutral depletion was shown to result in an unexpected decrease of the plasma density when power is increased; despite the increase of the flux of generated plasma. Unexpected steady-state has also been found for collisionless plasma due to neutral depletion. For collisionless neutral-gas the strong ionization resulted in an expected neutral-gas minimum at the center of the chamber. However, if the neutral-gas is collisional so that its pressure increases with density, strong ionization results in a maximum of the neutral-gas density surprisingly located at the center of the chamber. The effect of neutral gas heating is also analyzed. It is shown that this neutral gas heating can affect the plasma steady-state even if the plasma pressure is much lower than the neutral gas pressure.


Objective To determine whether sleep structures,the waveform components of NREM and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and the relationship between sleep variables and mental status are altered. Methods Totally 16 Alzheimer's disease(AD) patients and 16 age-matched controls were studied for two consecutive nights.All cases were video-monitored during the recordings of electroencephalography,electro-oculography,electrocardiography,electromyography in chin,and nasal airflow. Results (1) Compared with normal controls,duration of total sleep ( F =6.30, P =0.017 9),stage Ⅱ sleep ( F =16.03, P =0.000 4),and REM sleep ( F =9.84, P =0.002 1) were remarkably decreased,but waveform components of slow-wave (stage Ⅲ-IV) sleep ( F =11.50, P =0.004) were increased in AD patients.(2) Sleep spindle duration and density,and its relative and absolute power,and K complex density ( F =13.64~79.11, P 0.000 1) in stage Ⅱ sleep,and fast activities of REM sleep ( F =5.80~20.73, P 0.05) were significantly decreased.In wakeful EEG,α power was decreased ( F =18.05~34.48, P 0.01),but δ power increased ( F = 10.00~21.43, P 0.01).(3) In AD patients,there were significant correlations between sleep structure disorganization and waveform component changes of sleep EEG and the clinical abnormalities ( r =0.51~0.93,or r =-0.93~-0.51, P 0.05).Multiple regression analysis showed that changes of sleep spindle density and amplitude and K complex density were the most significant factors in correlation with clinical findings in the AD patients.Conclusions In AD patients,disorganization of sleep structures and abnormalities of sleep spindle and K complexes and REM sleep were demonstrated in the polysomnography studies.The changes of sleep spindle in stage Ⅱ sleep had closer correlation with clinical changes than those of REM sleep or alpha activities in wakening state.Sleep spindle was shown to be more sensitive to the diagnosis of AD.


A linear polymer which contains a repeating unit structure that has a triazine ring and an aromatic ring and is represented, for example, by formula (25) or (26) can achieve high heat resistance, high transparency, high refractive index and high solubility by itself without having a metal oxide added thereto.


The Bureau of Dairy Industries (BDI) method was used to monitor the free fatty acid levels of liquid and lecithinated dried milk in a commercial whole milk powder plant. Changes in free fatty acid levels were detected at two points in the whole milk powder manufacturing process. The first change concerned a reduction in the free fatty acid level due to the reduced fat content of the milk on fat standardisation, whereas the second change involved an increase in the free fatty acid level due to the addition of a lecithin/milkfat mixture. The results of this study demonstrated the suitability of the BDI method as a troubleshooting tool in this manufacturing process.


The recently developed Williamsburg equation of state (EOS) for detonation products and the new Parsafar-Mason-Vinet EOS for the unreacted explosive phase are used in the one-dimensional ZND model for the reaction zone of a condensed explosive. This is the first time realistic EOSs, capable of describing entropy and temperature changes accurately, have been incorporated into the ZND model. Using an ANFO as an example, results for the two extreme inter-phase assumptions regarding the thermal interaction of the reactant and product phases are described, and the associated entropy changes calculated and discussed.


The Canadian project At Home/Chez soi was carried out in a remarkably wide area covering five cities with several hundred people in situations of homelessness. This project gave rise to many strong and contrasted reactions from the actors involved, either in terms of support for the new model or resistance and denunciation of the fact that existing public policy actions were not taken into account. On the basis of criticism of the efficiency of earlier experiments, advocates of Housing First developed a strategy to transform public policy. Their approach was based a logic of conviction that takes into account evidence from research, loyalty to the model, and coherence of discourse promoting the values inherent in this model. The way in which this model was appropriated is diversified. The paradigm of loyalty to the model is enriched by various strategies of interpretation and reformulation that enable actors to transform it to adapt it to the local context.


Abstract : This paper reports preliminary operational findings on a new non-high school diploma graduate (NHSDG) quality indicator called the Tier Two Attrition Screen (TTAS). TTAS combines several indicators of adaptability from the motivational (Assessment of Individual Motivation (AIM)), cognitive (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)), and physical fitness (Body Mass Index) domains to measure the attrition propensity of NHSDG applicants. The TTAS measure is being used as part of an Army NHSDG recruiting market expansion pilot program that was fully implemented in April 2005. Under this ongoing program, DoD is allowing the Army to access thousands of additional TTAS-qualified NHSDG recruits because these recruits are projected to have attrition rates that are lower and more similar to those of high school diploma graduates (HSDG). Our preliminary results for General Educational Development (GED) credential holders indicate that the operational TTAS measure predicts both 6- and 9-month attrition. Those who passed the current TTAS standard (set at the 50th percentile) had a 6-month attrition rate (6.2%) that was nearly as low as the attrition rate for HSDG (i.e., 5.6%); and considerably lower than the attrition rate of those NHSDG who failed the TTAS standard (i.e., 10.3%). Consistent with previous projections, we also found that those applicants scoring in the top 30% of the TTAS score distribution had 6- and 9-month attrition rates that were nearly identical to those of HSDG. The use of the TTAS measure as an NHSDG quality indicator is projected to save the Army $100 million in recruiting resources over the course of this market-expansion pilot program. Future directions in ARI's TTAS evaluation research are discussed.


Preface Introduction: Identities without Guarantees Part I: Situating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity Chapter 1: Representations of the Other, Robert Miles and Malcolm Brown Chapter 2: The Social Construction of Primordial Identities, Anton Allahar Chapter 3: Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Identity, Carl E. James Chapter 4: Postmodern Race and Gender Essentialism or a Post-Mortem of Scholarship, Radha Jhappan Part II: Identity, Nation, Memory, and Belonging Chapter 5: The Origins of National Consciousness, Benedict Anderson Chapter 6: Re-membering and Forgetting, Ron Eyerman Chapter 7: The Racial State, Michael Omi and Howard Winant Chapter 8: Identity, Belonging, and the Critique of Pure Sameness, Paul Gilroy PART III: The Negotiation of Difference Chapter 9: Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?, Mary C. Waters Chapter 10: Between Black and White: Understanding the Biracial Experience, Kerry Ann Rockquemore Chapter 11: Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and ""Mixed Race,"" Minelle Mahtani Chapter 12: Formation of Ethnic and Racial Identities: Narratives by Young Asian-American Professionals, Pyong Gap Min and Rose Kim Part IV: Multiculturalism, Politics, and Belonging Chapter 13: Immigration, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship: The Development of the Canadian Social Justice Infrastructure, Charles S. Ungerleider Chapter 14: ""Canadian"" as an Ethnic Identity: Implications for Multiculturalism and National Unity, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassman Chapter 15: Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a ""Post-Socialist"" Age, Nancy Fraser Chapter 16: The Future of Identity, Stuart Hall Appendix: Relevant Websites


Using oat bran from China as raw materials,the method of the advanced technology such as extruction and ultra-fine pulverizing are employed to produce oat dietary fiber food material.Oat dietary fiber chewing tablet was made from the concentrated solution of oat dietary fiber food material,maltitol,sorbitol and isomaltooligosaccharide.After the processes of mixing,pilling,drying and tabletting,a kind of oat dietary fiber chewing tablet was prepared which are low calorie and having some biological actions controlling Serum Lipids and Serum Glucose,and improving the environment in bowel and moving of bowel too.


Although Helicobacter pylori is a known risk factor for the development of gastric cancer, cohort studies and randomized, controlled trials have failed


Appearances of an object color in a space are determined by a cortical representation of illuminant for a space or the recognized visual space of illumination (RVSI). The simultaneous color contrast phenomenon on a simple center-surround configuration can be explained by RVSI. It is hypothesized that our visual system constructs an RVSI on the surround and then that RVSI determines color appearance of the center test. If this is correct, the color contrast can be quite strong when the surround is enlarged to be an enclosed space. To support the hypothesis, color appearance of a physical gray test was measured in a green surround of various sizes. Observers were asked to do elementary color naming in the first experiment. The results showed same tendency for all observers: once the surround was extended to walls, a ceiling, and a floor of a box, perceived chromaticness abruptly increased. In other words, three-dimensional surround evoked strong simultaneous color contrast. In the second experiment the matching method was employed with the green and other three surround colors: red, blue, and yellow. The results were consistent with the first experiment. The well-known color contrast is thought to be a weak version of this color change. It suggested that RVSI plays an important role in the well-known color contrast demonstration on two-dimensional planes. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Col Res Appl, 29, 255–260, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/col.20019


Aim To determine the effect of butyphthalide on white matter impairment in the ischemic rats. Methods Thirty male Wistar rat were divided into three groups:control group,ischemic group and treatment group,each group consisted of ten rats. The rats of ischemic group and treatment group received bilateral carotid artery ligation,the rats in control group was treated with artificial operation. The rats in control group and ischemic group were given normal saline through intraperitoneal injection after operational treatment. The changes of neurons,glial fibrillary acidic protein(GFAP) cell and myelin basic protein(MBP)in brain white matter of rats by HE and immunohistochemical staining were determined a month after surgery. Results The number of neurons in the deep white matter in rats of ischemic group was obviously reduced and sparsely distributed compared to the control group. The number of GFAP-positive cells in ischemic group was significantly increased compared with that of the control group and treatment group,showing significant difference (P0.05). The gray value of MBP in the rats of ischemia group was decreased compared to the rats in the control group and treatment group. Conclusion Butylphthalide can improve the condition of white matter injury in rats with chronic cerebral ischemia.


Over the past decade, there has been a significant change in the world trade regime, too. The WTO techniques agreements limit the use of certain trade measures as quantitative restrictions and subsidies. Such development has also implication for a country's strategy in supporting its domestic industry in including SMEs. WTO agreements cover not only the traditional goods sector but also new sectors like services and intellectual property rights. There is a tendency for considering these newly included sectors as constraints to trade prospects of a poor country like Bangladesh. There are certain other areas where improvements provide genuine incentives to SMEs and contribute to their enhanced competitiveness. Improved infrastructure, better law and order situation, and efficient ports and transportation are likely to impact favorably upon the SMEs sector and such things may be no less important than mere policy supported incentives. However, these provisions have now become realities. Bangladesh should continue its efforts to make the world community appreciate the difficult economic situation of the LDCs and to help to attain various trade preferences and concessions. Its long-run economic prosperity critically depends on success or otherwise of its efforts to turn the challenges of globalization opportunities. This will create a strong and potential base for economic development, which will in turn accelerate the process of poverty reduction, and reduction of unemployment, create employment opportunities as well as accelerate the overall economic growth of the country.


Cardiac manifestations of COVID-19 include myocarditis, demand ischemia, myocardial infarction and arrhythmias with prothrombotic state being a major underlying pathogenetic mechanism. In this report we present a case of a 57-year-old, otherwise healthy, woman who presented with chest pain and nausea and was found to have an inferior wall ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in the setting of an active COVID-19 infection. Angiography revealed tortuous coronary arteries with a 100% right coronary artery occlusion with high thrombus burden and normal left coronary system. In light of the available literature regarding the pro-thrombotic effects of this novel corona virus, we continued full dose anticoagulation with Enoxaparin after the cardiac catheterization and transitioned to rivaroxaban and we also continued the patient on dual antiplatelet therapy prior to discharge.


SUMMARYOne hundred consecutive patients considered to be candidates for intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP) are reviewed from a standpoint of complications and difficulties encountered with balloon catheter insertion. A single attempt at positioning the balloon in the descending thoracic aorta proved successful in 73% of these patients, but the standard femoral artery approach proved difficult in 27% and impossible in 21%. Eighty-two patients ultimately underwent counterpulsation using various insertion techniques. The overall complication rate was 23%. The incidence of complications was higher in those who never had IABP than in those who did. Major complications included: iatrogenic dissection (7), free perforation (1), limb ischemia (10) and septicemia (2), and resulted in two deaths. Catheter tip injury of an atherosclerotic arterial wall was common to many of these, particularly in the aorto-iliac-femoral artery segment. Successful treatment of these problems necessitates balloon removal and catheter thrombectomy when hemodynamically feasible or a change in the access site. In addition, repair of arterial injury may be necessary. Thrombocytopenia is universal in these patients, although rarely to a significant degree. Three complications relating to the lymphatic system were encountered which resulted in increased morbidity. The number and magnitude of complications demonstrated in this series must be weighed against the expected advantages of IABP, particularly in that group who might be managed effectively without this procedure.


Small-scale unmanned helicopter is a very complicated nonlinear system.In order to enable the unmanned helicopter to fly autonomously, a mathematical model for the helicopter is of great need.In this paper, Raptor-90 model helicopter is chosen as our research platform.Based-on comprehensive study of the flight characteristics under different flight modes, nonlinear model was build through the blade element theory.The numerical simulation results show that the model can reflect the dynamic response of the helicopter efficiently.Therefore this model is valid and reliable for the flight control system design.


In Houston, the fourth largest city in the USA, automatic vehicle identification (AVI) integrated with traffic condition information is providing real time travel information which will be available to the public in their vehicles, homes and offices. AVI offers fast implementation times and, compared with traditional loop-sensor systems, little or no interruption to traffic flow during installation. The final phase of the project will be completed by mid-1995.


The invention discloses a pantograph of an electric locomotive. The pantograph comprises a pantograph horn (4) which is in contact with a contact net line (5), an air channel assembly (3) which is communicated with a main air channel, a cutoff valve seat (2) which is arranged on the pantograph horn (4), and a cutoff valve rod (1) which is arranged on the cutoff valve seat (2), wherein the cutoff valve rod (1) is communicated with the air channel assembly (3); the cutoff valve rod (1) is higher than the surface of the pantograph horn (4), and is positioned within a fault contact net sliding range (A); when the contact net line (5) slides into the fault contact net sliding range (A), the cutoff valve rod (1) can be broken in a scraping way, so that the air channel assembly (3) of the pantograph leaks air, the pantograph falls down, and the contact net line (5) is prevented from sliding in the fault contact net sliding range (A) and causing damage to the pantograph. By adopting the pantograph, the problem of possible damage to the pantograph in a scraping way when the contact net is in a fault state is effectively solved. The invention further discloses the electric locomotive comprising the pantograph.


Abstract : DETAR Task 0rder 0016 supports the Air Force Research Laboratory's ongoing effort to demonstrate magnetized target fusion in a laboratory environment. The experimental premise involves forming a plasma in a field-reversed configuration (FRC), translating it a short distance from where it was formed into a cylindrical flux-conserving shell (solid liner), and then adiabatically compressing it to fusion-relevant densities and temperatures by imploding the liner around it. The name "FRCHX," for "FRC Compression Heating eXperiment" has been given to this effort. SAIC and its subcontractors perform this work in collaboration with AFRL personnel, as well as with scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Nevada, Reno.


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 Carcass and room temperatures, as well as CO, CO2, O2, and NH3, were continuously monitored.

 NH3 release was approximately half when carcass leachate was removed from the shallow pit.

 Gompertz and logistic models fit data well for daily carcass mass reduction and leachate production.

 Abstract. A catastrophic mortality event for swine would present numerous challenges with the management and disposal of infected carcasses. This study explored a new strategy for biosecure in-barn processing of swine carcasses as an alternative to traditional management and disposal approaches. A small-scale, mobile laboratory with two discovery rooms (DRs), replicating a swine finishing facility, was constructed to execute tests of in-barn disposal methods. Carcasses were desiccated by subjection to heat at a room air temperature of 43°C (110°F) for 16 days. Three carcasses (average = 82 kg, SE=1.27 kg) were elevated over individual leachate collection systems in DRA, thereby removing leachate from the room. Three carcasses in DRB were placed on concrete slats with cumulative leachate collection in the pit below. Environmental data were collected for DR, outdoor, and slat temperatures; and CO2, CO, O2, and NH3 gas concentrations. Carcasses were characterized by rectal and shoulder temperature monitoring and daily weighing of carcasses and leachate in DRA. The air exchange rate for this unventilated system was quantified based on wind and thermal-driven infiltration. Room environments were compared for thermal performance and gas levels. Carcass temperatures were compared, and data suggested no significant impact of flooring material on internal carcass temperature. Gompertz and logistic models were fit to leachate production data and carcass mass reduction data. Ammonia generation rates were found to have a peak production rate of 96.5 g AU-1 day-1 (15.8 g animal-1 day-1) in DRA and 120 g AU-1 day-1 (19.7 g animal-1 day-1) in DRB. Over the study, the generation of NH3 in DRB (360 g) was nearly twice that of DRA (182 g) due to leachate removal. Further quantification and qualification of in-barn management strategies will better define biosecure disposal approaches in the event of a catastrophic mortality event. Keywords: Ammonia, Catastrophic event, Disposal, Foreign animal disease, Mortality management, Pig.


In its autocracy promotion towards Myanmar's and Thailand's military regimes, China especially applied incentives but also blackmailing practices. However, China also supported hybrid regimes. Then, China always selected soft and not hard power; military pressure has been indirect. There were strong emulative processes of both Myanmar and Thailand. Chinese pragmatism promoted both options since, if China opposed hybrid regimes, this could cause the defeat of the military and the possible victory of pro-Western and anti-Chinese political actors. In order to avoid this result, Beijing governments adopted a more flexible autocracy promotion, reflecting a real-politik approach to foreign policy, which allowed to preserve Chinese diplomatic interests.


Large collections of full-text documents are now commonly used in automated information retrieval. When the stored document texts are long, the retrieval of complete documents may not be in the users' best interest. In such circumstance, efficient and effective retrieval results may be obtained by using passage retrieval strategies designed to retrieve text excerpts of varying size in response to statements of user interest.
New approaches are described in this study for implementing selective passage retrieval systems, and identifying text passages responsive to particular user needs. An automated encyclopedia search system is used to evaluate the usefulness of the proposed methods.


This article uses spatial analytical skills to investigate aid effectiveness and aid spillovers at the sub-national level in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1995-2013. The previous literature examines aid-growth relationship and gets mixed results. One reason of the conflicting conclusions is that it suffers from the so-called "aggregation bias". By using geocoded aid dataset and night lights data as proxy for economic activities, I am able to reveal more detailed pictures of aid effectiveness at different aggregate levels. Overcoming the potential simultaneity problem, I find that aid targeted at the local level tends to promote local economic growth, while aid received at more aggregate levels depresses local economic activities; there exist positive aid spillovers of aid across adjacent neighbors at the local level. One possibility is that more specifically targeted aid tends to be less fungible compared to "general" aid, while aid generally given to a more aggregated level is more likely to be misappropriated for other purposes, thus creating rent-seeking opportunities to cause corruption and hurt institutional environment. Aid at the local level promotes total economic flourish and slows down population growth, while aid at more aggregate levels depresses total economic activities but stimulates population growth. Aid directly received at all levels exhibits diminishing returns, which is consistent with the theory that aid directly stimulates investment and adds capital accumulation. While aid spillovers show weak increasing returns, which suggests the spillover effects partly function through technology and knowledge dissemination. As to the conditional aid effectiveness, no systematic story is found that aid is effective conditional on policy or institutions, probably due to data limitations that local policy and institutions data are unavailable in Sub-Saharan Africa. The findings have very profound policy implications that to promote local economic growth, we should focus more on specifically targeted and less-fungible aid projects rather than aid generally given to governments at more aggregate levels; also we should reduce barriers to resource movements and knowledge dissemination within the country to promote positive spillover effects.


Objective To investigate the relationship between the single nucleotide polymorphism in adipokine Apelin gene and type 2 diabetes mellitus in Chinese from Kunming region.Methods A total of 329 unrelated Chinese subjects(216 patients with type 2 diabetes and 113 non-diabetic control individuals without family history of diabetes)from Kunming were screened for the presence of the 7250A→G mutation in the Apelin gene by use of mispairing base-nested polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism.Results There were no significant differences in the frequencies of Apelin gene 7250A→G polymorphism between the type 2 diabetes mellitus and control groups(P=0.421,P0.05).Conclusion The apelin gene 7250A→G polymorphism is not associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Chinese from Kunming.


Transforming mechanical parts and increasing NC system,ordinary lathes are transformed into a simple CNC lathe were introduced.After we use a simple CNC lathe,the processing accuracy and increase productivity were improved.


This text discusses mainly e-commerce counts the deep influence that the practice produces on our Congress . Have analysed mainly that checks and calculates the principle to four accountants in e-commerce, accounting voucher , accounting account book , financial report , account check and calculate procedure , cost calculation , accountant person who organize influence that bring.


In this edition of the Journal, Wang and colleagues 1 describe the number of changes in care setting that elderly Medicare beneficiaries undergo in their last halfyear of life; most move at least three times. Some readers may wonder whether these relocations are harmful—many Americans briefly relocate for business or vacations at least that often—but moving when you are sick, disabled, and elderly is much more challenging. The constant activity in hospitals and the regimentation of nursing facilities challenge elderly adults, who have trouble seeing, hearing, and expressing themselves. Transitions in settings make errors much more likely, including medications missing or wrongly continued, falls, and unwanted resuscitations. A person who finally has acceptable personal care aides and homemakers will often lose them during a hospitalization and have to start over with new personnel. Moving between settings of care while very ill or disabled takes more resilience and capability than this population has at its command. Nevertheless, changing settings has its merits. Not only are many diagnostic tests and treatments available only in hospital settings, but payment often covers costs more completely when done in hospitals or in posthospital skilled nursing facilities. Family caregivers may find that a hospitalization provides the only way to obtain critically important respite for the caregiver. Older adults who are living isolated and lonely lives sometimes find the human contact of hospitalization welcome rather than overwhelming. Many older adults and families are more confident of competent care in a hospital than in a nursing home or a clinic. The aim has to be to build systems that optimally serve these older adults and families while also being prudent about resource use. How is the United States doing in achieving that goal? The Wang and colleagues article shows how the myriad subparts that to make up the "system" are ending up generating a great many transitions. No entity has responsibility for providing continuity and avoiding transfers. No quality measure assesses the older adult's and family's experience of care across settings and time. No coordinating authority focuses on people living with serious illness, and none weighs the merits of current service supply and organization. No one routinely assesses whether moving around is harmful or avoidable, or whether the expenses associated are warranted or wasteful. The authors' concluding claim is that facilitating care transitions consistent with beneficiaries' preferences is warranted, but their data do not directly show that care transitions now are inconsistent with the preferences of Medicare beneficiaries, given the options that they perceive to be available. Providing care to elderly and disabled Medicare beneficiaries who are sick enough to die was once a small part of medical care, because people mostly died fairly abruptly after the onset of serious illness; few people lived into advanced old age; and most ill, elderly people did not seek or receive many medical interventions. The context now is different, with most Americans experiencing many months of self-care disability before dying, during which time they regularly undergo medical treatments and surgical operations and need supportive services such as home-delivered meals and personal care. Small, dispersed families; long periods of disability in old age; and increasingly complicated caregiving needs already limit the availability of family caregivers. The major rise in numbers of frail elderly adults is yet to come, when the Boomer generation encounters their phase of disability and decline in approximately 2 decades. The coming demographically accelerated demands should prompt deliberate redesign of the arrangements for eldercare services that have heretofore arisen mostly without coordination or monitoring. Generating a process to redesign service delivery for persons living with advanced illness faces a number of challenges. The parties that now deliver services are struggling to get by with diminished resources and a rapidly changing policy environment. Federal funding for supportive community services under the Older Americans Act has been stagnant for decades. Fee-for-service medical providers are focused on the challenges of reporting quality measures, learning new payment codes, and preparing for Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 implementation. Recent improvements in supporting transitions at hospital discharge have yielded major gains, but continuity of a reasonably comprehensive care plan is unavailable to most frail or disabled persons. Unlike many other countries, the United States also has never developed a governmental or nongovernmental entity charged with comprehensively assessing the needs of persons living through this newly commonplace part of the life cycle and managing improvements toward reliability and efficiency. Instead, the United States is in the process of implementing ever-more-fragmented service delivery arrangements for Medicare beneficiaries living with progressive, eventually fatal, advanced illnesses and disabilities. Few outpatient physicians manage their hospitalized patients. DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14916


As I read Helene Shugart's new book, Heavy: The Obesity Crisis in Cultural Context, I became aware of just how much public attention is paid to obesity. I don't live in a bubble; I already knew the...


The terahertz (THz) emission properties of GaAs photoconductive antennas with strong electric fields are discussed; the transient transport characteristics of non-equilibrium carriers (hot electrons) within the photoconductive antenna were comparatively analyzed. It is shown that there are significant differences in the average drift velocity variation with strong and weak electric field. In the initial phase, optical wave scattering is mainly caused by small-angle scattering, carriers are accelerated by ballistic transport to reach higher electron energy in a shorter time, and the transient drift-velocity quickly rises, which is a main reason of the stronger THz radiation.


An increased emphasis upon the quality of compliant coatings has placed more stringent demands upon formulators of polyester powder coating resins. The ability of formulators to design higher performance resins is limited by the number of useful monomers that are available. When new monomers are considered for powder coating resins, attention is immediately focused upon the effects they impart to the glass transition temperature, T g , and the melt viscosity, as key indicators of powder coating stability and flow during cure. This paper addresses these important variables for a number of glycols and diacids recently introduced for use in polyester powder coating resins


With the increased scaling down of MOSFET dimensions, delineation of the p-n junction becomes increasingly important. We have studied cross-sectioned 0.15 micron process MOSFETs using a newly developed technique, scanning capacitance microscopy (SCM), and report the first direct measurement of the channel length for these state-of-the-art devices. Using a device simulator we have quantitatively established the connection between the dopant profile and the SCM response while scanning across a p-n junction. This allows us to determine the position of the p-n junction from the SCM measurements.


Although GMOs do not have a strong presence in western European agriculture, the European Union is aiming to promote the coexistence of such GMOs and conventional crops. This policy is based on two principles: It strives to maintain freedom of choice for farmers and consumers while considering environmental and health risks. How is this European policy tending to promote this coexistence and what are the associated spatial scenarios? What are the geographical implications of such coexistence and the possible contribution of the geographer to this debate?


The problem of local stabilization of linear continuous-time descriptor systems subject to saturating controls is addressed. The saturated closed-loop system is locally described as a polytopic model. The method of synthesis via generalized Riccati or Lyapunov equations consists in determining simultaneously a state feedback control law and an associated domain of safe admissible states for which the asymptotic stability and the absence of impulsive behavior for the closed-loop system are guaranteed, when control saturations effectively occur.


Security work in our province's elite athletes go in the forefront in the country and has played a positive role model.But there are some problems,such as retirement and other security issues.Therefore,in order to improve the protection of Jiangsu Province,the work of elite athletes needs to further promote the government security,social security,self-protection measures.


sultation was "to enable the Orthodox churches to fully participate in the preparation, the event. and the follow-up to the world conference that [took] place in San Antonio, Texas (22 May-1 June 1989)" (p. 9). A 20-page "Final Report" is presented in this book along with "Messages and Greetings" from participating patriarchs and a collection of sixteen essays. The latter, which are uneven and occasionally contradictory, are arranged under the categories "Orthodox Mission: Past and Present," "Witnessing to the Gospel Today," "Theological Considerations," and "Orthodox Mission Perspectives." The crowning achievement of the consultation is the "Final Report." so my commentary will evaluate its role in contemporary ecumenical dialogue. The consultation and its report succeeded marvelously in at least three areas. First, the report enabled the two churches to "become more aware of their common ethos and spirituality, but also of the wall that separates them, compromising the authenticity of the message they bear" (p. 14). Thus. the consultation obtained a concrete victory for advancing ecclesial unity among the Orthodox themselves. Second, the consultation strategically integrated the Orthodox within the framework of the modern missiological agenda. thereby positioning them for more fruitful dialogue in the WCC. Third, and most important, the report bears witness to a gospel which possesses a kerygmatic core with a catholic dimension. It affirms an ostensibly historic, evangelical faith while holding firmly to a eucharistic ecclesiology that is open to new methods of contextualization. Conversely, the "Final Report" would have made a more solid contribution to the WCC by increasing the clarity, depth. and precision of its principal theological points. A well-worn gospel vocabulary is used (e.g., faith. redemption. resurrection). but with only the slightest theological qualification as to what those concepts intend to affirm. This deficiency is of supreme importance because the document fails to address a modem theological pluralism which denies classical Orthodox theology, and often makes little or no Pauline distinction between those inside and outside the circle of salvation (even if we bracket the sticky question of the salvation of those who have never heard the good news). Finally, the report's condemnation of "all proselytism by any church," especially by evangelical bodies (p. 51). raises a critical question unanswered by the report: Can the Orthodox claim to preserve the apostolic faith while implicitly (or inadvertently) denouncing the common kerygma which they share with evangelicals. thus surrendering their call to a global mission to convert sinners who have never experienced new life in Christ'? In sum. the message of the "Final Report" needs another round or two of revision. Still, because it is a milestone document for both the Orthodox and the WCC, it is certain to attract international attention from knowledgeable missiologists and Orthodox church leaders.


This study investigated differences in the concepts of the expression of emotion held by Japanese and Australians for themselves and each other, both in terms of degree and kind of expressive behavior and in underlying dimensionality. Through a structured questionnaire, 80 Australian and 80 Japanese male and female students indicated how they thought they expressed eight emotions on 12 behaviors, and how someone of the other nationality would express them. Results show Australians were rated as more expressive by Japanese and that Japanese may conceptualize emotions as less intense. There was considerable agreement between the two groups on the level of expressivity of the Japanese. The dimensions of positive/negative, arousal and "affective focus" were shown to underlie the concepts and to distinguish the two national groups to varying degrees.


Many organizations have chosen to outsource data storage to cloud storage providers. This makes data management a critical challenge for the cloud storage providers. To achieve optimal usage of storage resources, many cloud storage providers perform de-duplication, which exploits data redundancy and avoids storing duplicated data from multiple users. File-level de-duplication is the data redundancy is exploited on the file level and thus only a single copy of each file is stored on the server. Block-level de-duplication, in which each file is divided into blocks, and the sever exploits data redundancy at the block level and hence performs a more fine-grained de-duplication.. In this work, we focus on the block-level de-duplication with fixed block size. Redundancy checking through Source-based deduplication, unlike target-based de-duplication.


Introduction. Serology screening for syphilis infection in pregnancy is an internationally recommended practice. For some time, in the province of Trento (northern Italy), data regarding antenatal serology screening for syphilis have been acquired through the birth assistance certificate, whose completion by the healthcare professionals providing assistance at birth is mandatory in Italy. This study describes the coverage of serology screening and the seroprevalence of syphilis infection amongst pregnant women receiving care in the maternity facilities of the province of Trento between 2008 and 2017. Materials and methods. The results of serological screening are recorded in the electronic birth assistance certificate as: test not performed; negative test, positive test, or results pending. In cases of a positive test or results pending, the Authors consulted the hospital information system (SIO), an electronic repository containing data regarding all services provided to users of the Provincial Health Service. This operation also made it possible to recover full data regarding the serological profile, any treatments administered and the obstetric/neonatal outcomes. The Authors calculated screening coverage, the seroprevalence of the infection and the occurrence of cases of congenital syphilis, by analysing the neonates' health status for the first two years of life. Results. Between 01.01.2008 and 31.12.2017, 46,627 pregnant women received care at maternity units of the province of Trento. Screening coverage was found to be higher than 99%. A total of 95 pregnant women were found to be true positives at serology screening for syphilis (15 Italian nationals and 80 foreign women). Seroprevalence for all pregnant women was 2/1000 (0.4/1000 amongst Italian women and 6.8/1000 amongst foreign women). Amongst the latter, the highest value was observed amongst women originating from Eastern European countries (9.3/1000). 62% of positive cases were identified as prior, already treated syphilis and 38% were identified as an early or late latent infection. Antibiotic therapy with penicillin was prescribed in all cases for which it was indicated. No considerable differences were observed with regard to the obstetric/neonatal outcomes between seropositive ad seronegative women. No cases of congenital syphilis were observed. Conclusions. Screening coverage concerned almost all the pregnant women who received care. The seroprevalence calculated in this study was consistent with the available Italian and European data. Our findings confirmed that there is a higher proportion of cases amongst the foreign population, especially amongst women from Eastern European countries, who nevertheless have an antenatal care profile not unlike that of seronegative women.


Operational excellence is the one improvement lever steel producers control completely. So it's natural that these players are especially cost sensitive and constantly on the lookout for new ways to optimize the cost and performance of their assets. Although many do well on these measures, price and margin pressures are relentless—so achieving a competitive cost position remains high on the agenda, year after year. Yet while steel producers typically know their own production assets very well, there is limited transparency about what is actually achievable across the industry, and how the results might be replicated. What's more, given the many differences among production assets and configurations, it's tough to be sure that a given benchmark is valid for your own operations.


No.4 blast furnace of Baotou Steel was blowing out on April 4,2008.It is the first blast furnace(over 2 000 m3) applying absolutely dry dust pelletizing system at home.This paper mainly illustrates the operational process of reducing stockline of No.4 blast furnace of Baotou Steel,and analyzes how blast volume control and number of casting,etc.in the process of reducing stockline influence the result by comparing with the operation of reducing stockline of No.3 blast furnace of Baotou Steel in April,2007.


Although theories exist that link a distinctive organizational culture to superior performance, our understanding of the different ways in which cultural distinctiveness arises remains limited. I argue that because a culture results from aggregating individuals' cognition and behavior in the organization, it can be distinctive to a firm either in central tendency (content), distributional properties (configuration), or both, on either idiosyncratic or shared dimensions across firms. By applying topic modeling to 42,982 Glassdoor text reviews posted by corporate employees, I illustrate these forms of cultural distinctiveness by comparing Netflix culture, viewed as distinctive in popular discourse, to that of its peers. I find that both Netflix cultural content and configuration are distinctive on idiosyncratic dimensions, compared to its competitors, and discuss implications for competitive advantage.


In this study, the comparison of the accuracy of the homogeneous equilibrium model (HEM) and homogeneous relaxation model (HRM) is presented. Both models were applied to simulate the CO2 expansion inside the two-phase ejectors. Moreover, the mentioned models were implemented in the robust and efficient computational tool ejectorPL. That tool guarantees the fully automated computational process and the repeatable computations for the various ejector shapes and operating conditions. The simulated motive nozzle mass flow rates were compared to the experimentally measured mass flow rates. That comparison was made for both, HEM and HRM. The results showed the unsatisfying fidelity of the HEM for the operating regimes far from the carbon dioxide critical point. On the other hand, the HRM accuracy for such conditions was slightly higher. The approach presented in this paper, showed the limitation of applicability of both two-phase models for the expansion phenomena inside the ejectors.


Mucosal bleeding is a well-known complication of having a ventricular assist device and commonly presents with epistaxis. Although the frequency of epistaxis as a complication in patients with a ventricular assist device has been documented in the literature, to our knowledge the cost of this complication has not been reported. This case report examines the financial burden of ventricular assist device-associated epistaxis in a single patient from September 2018 to December 2019 using ICD 10 diagnostic codes. The patient was found to have accumulated $138,020 in costs over 38 encounters. This case report not only highlights the recurrent nature and potential high cost of epistaxis in this patient population, but also identifies a target to reduce healthcare spending. Further research is needed to assess whether cheap and simple preventative measures such as nasal hygiene regimen can decrease the frequency and/or severity of epistaxis in the patients with a ventricular assist device.


Novel coronavirus widespread has impacted on lots of areas in an around the world. Among that Educational Sector comes under the picture where students are the elements which has been effected with higher rate .In this study the students problems has considered for research to find out the desire solution to reduce the depression of the students during covid-19.model has developed in this study to predict and analysis of students bottom line problems during COVID-19 finding the solution using students dataset of their various difficulties duringCOVID-19 of Bangalore. The random forest(RF), decision tree(DT), support vector machine(SVM), logistic regression(LR), K-nearest neighbor(KNN), and naive Bayes(NB) data set id tested by different Data Mining(DM) algorithms using weka data science tool to develop the models. The result model predicted the Major Problem faced by students during COVID-19 pandemic. Student's data set has been examined with decision tree is more accurate to identify the students problem. The accuracy of this algorithm has been noted 95.85% which can be considered the best developed model among the different models which is being developed by other algorithms including K-nearest neighbor, support vector machine, logistic regression, random forest, and. naive Bayes Keywords—COVID-19; Data Model; Data mining; Data analysis; Clustering, Data Process, Data Science


Nanocellulose surfactants (CSFs) were prepared by grafting sodium allyl sulfonate (C3H5NaO3S) and trifluoroethyl methacrylate (C6H7F3O2) into nanocellulose through free-radical graft copolymerisati...


In 2010,a series of books and conferences in social cultural history have showed that the research on social cultural history in China has developed from the stage of foundation to the stage of maturity. Over the past five years,the maturity of social cultural history research was manifested in three aspects: frequent academic activities,multi-angle research outputs,new theoretical explorations,which have reflected the trends of flourishing and deepening. However,there were some weaknesses: insufficient link between the theoretical research and research practice,scarce important academic centres,lack of materials collection and exemplary research monograph. In a word,the achievements and the problems coexist in the research of social cultural history in the past five years.


We report on the existence of a rich, heavily obscured galaxy cluster (or a set of clusters) in Sagittarius, centered near lu = 359°, bu = 8°. About 30 objects, originally identified by Terzan and his collaborators, were imaged and followed up spectroscopically. We present here redshifts for 21 galaxies found among them. There is a pronounced concentration at cz=8600 km/s (containing 14 out of the 21 galaxies), and another possible concentration near CZ= 11 340 km/s (five out of 21 ). This putative Sagittarius cluster is probably part of a larger system, involving the Ophiuchus cluster at lu = 1°, bu =9°, cz=8400 km/s, previously identified by Johnston et al. and Wakamatsu and Malkan. The heavy extinction on this line of sight (we estimate Av 5m from the observed Balmer decrements) suggests that there is a much larger, as yet undetected number of galaxies in this direction. We propose that the SagittariusOphiuchus concentration may be a massive cluster, or even a supercluster, comparable in richness to the Coma-A 1367 system, and at a comparable distance. The existence of this concentration serves as a reminder that some possibly dynamically important constituents of the local large-scale structure may be absent from the galaxy .catalogs available now, and the dynamical analyses based on them.


The awarding of the 2012 Olympic Games to London is cited as being the catalyst for one of the biggest urban regeneration projects seen in Europe for many years, destined to create a new town the size of Exeter once the Games have finished (ODA, 2006). Whilst the media focus is on the development of the hard infrastructure needed to host the Games, it is the softer legacies and their long term implications that are often overlooked.


Over the last six years, highly active catalysts for the synthesis of cyclic carbonates from epoxides and carbon dioxide have been developed. Initial studies showed that bimetallic aluminium(salen) complexes (Al(salen)) 2O formed active catalysts and kinetic studies allowed the catalytic cycle to be determined. The catalysts could be immobilized on silica, allowing them to be used in a gas phase flow reactor as well as in batch reactors. The compatibility of the catalysts with waste carbon dioxide present in power station flue gas has been investigated and studies to enhance the commercial applicability of the catalysts by reducing the cost of their production carried out.


In 2008-9 Ofsted commissioned the NFER to undertake research to build on the independent evaluation of the new inspection process for maintained schools in England, carried out in 2006-7. The main aims of the research were to provide a longitudinal perspective on the impact of inspection on school improvement and to explore perspectives related to the impact of the new Section 5 inspections upon teachers and support staff. The research methods used were case-study visits to 18 schools (including interviews with senior leadership teams, teachers and teaching assistants) previously visited as part of the original evaluation and a one-paged email survey completed by 126 schools. Key findings The importance of observations – classroom practitioners viewed observation, and feedback, as very significant in terms of satisfaction with the whole inspection process. The importance of dialogue –successful dialogue was regarded by school staff as key to satisfaction with the process and outcome approval. The significance of appropriate recommendations – recommendations that were more specific, provided focus, were regarded as actionable, were not open to misinterpretation, or provided a clear point of reference were generally regarded as more appropriate recommendations that would hold longitudinal value. Maximum positive impact of recommendations –was generally perceived to have been achieved when the recommendations were viewed as appropriate (see above) and therefore actionable. There was substantial evidence that recommendations which were developmental in nature and over time, and were inclusive so that there was whole-school ownership achieved greatest impact.


ABSTRACT Patients diagnosed with multiple myeloma are more susceptible to infections which are the major causes of morbidity and mortality associated to this disease. The main infectious agents involved are Gram-positive bacteria. However, after chemotherapy an increase in the incidence of Gram-negative strains is observed. These bacteria are also responsible for most cases of urinary tract infections. Here is reported a rare case in a 73-year-old man with multiple myeloma who developed endocarditis due to pseudomonas. Keywords: Multiple myeloma; Endocarditis; Pseudomonas; Case reports INTRODUCAO O mieloma multiplo (MM) e definido como uma desor-dem maligna das celulas plasmaticas, na qual ha a secre-cao de imunoglobulina monoclonal no sangue e/ou na urina (proteina M). Pacientes MM sao mais suscetiveis a infeccoes, sendo esta a maior causa de morbidade e mor- 1 Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein – HIAE, Sao Paulo (SP), Brasil.Autor correspondente: Juliana Todaro – Centro de Oncologia do Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein – Avenida Albert Einstein, 627/701 – Morumbi – CEP: 05651-901 – Sao Paulo (SP), Brasil – Tel.: (11) 2151-1233 – E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com de submissao: 25/11/2011 – Data de aceite: 30/10/2012


Current research on CSC W for remote groups focuses on one technology at a time: shared editing on the desktop, video conferencing, glancing at others' offices, email, etc. When a real group sets out to work remotely, however, they need to consider all aspects of work, synchronous, asynchronous, and the transitions to and tkom. This paper explores the planning, implementation, and use of a suite of groupware tools over the course of a year in a real group with remote members. We found that groupware atlkted people's commitments and the nature of the work distribution.


Abstract Diversity in tastes among the public for outdoor recreation has been a consistent finding from more than two decades of research. A number of planning and management systems have been designed to accommodate this diversity. The most recent and highly developed design has been the recreation opportunity spectrum, which suggests, among other things, relatively standard relationships between recreation setting conditions to produce a variety of opportunity classes. This paper suggests that these relationships may, ironically, limit rather than encourage potential diversity in outdoor recreation. More liberal interpretation of these relationships is suggested.


Perianal fistula is a common disorder characterized by an anomalous perianal track connecting two epithelialized surfaces, most commonly the anal canal and the perianal skin. Although each has its limitations, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and endoanal ultrasound are currently two acceptable modalities for assessing perianal fistula. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of MRI and endoanal ultrasonography in diagosing perianal fistula, considering the surgical results as the references.


The paper regards the process of the development of several features of the narrative speech genre in the discourse field of Russian culture while learning Russian as a second language. Referentiality in general linguistic sense is an area concerning naming of objects and characters by language means. In this paper we analyse the problems of the referential choice (what factors influence the speaker's choice of a referential expression) and anaphora resolution (how the listener/reader binds an anaphoric pronoun to a coreferential noun phrase). The main goal of our paper is to study referential features of narratives produced by foreign students acquiring Russian as a second language (RSL), compared with adult Russian speakers and children acquiring Russian as a first language (RFL). Also, we describe referential mistakes made by RSL learners. The analysis of the data demonstrates that the main referential features (abilities to make the right referential choices, form anaphoric chains, etc.) are related to the age-specific cognitive development and do not depend on the native language. Both groups of adults show similar patterns in using nouns and pronouns for the introduction or reintroduction of a referent and for the topic maintenance, and build continuous anaphoric chains. Particular anaphoric mistakes of RSL learners are related to the level of their grammar skills and differ from the mistakes made by RFL children: while children's mistakes base on the cognitive factor, RSL students' mistakes are mostly grammatical.


To address the contradiction between dynamic performance and robustness of the enhanced linear active disturbance rejection control (ELADRC) method, a fuzzy-ELADRC method for a bearingless induction motor (BIM) is proposed. First, based on the air-gap flux oriented control, the first-order and second-order ELADRC are designed for the torque system and the suspension system of the BIM, respectively. Second, a fuzzy controller is introduced to adjust the controller bandwidth and observer bandwidth of ELADRC online. The fuzzy rules are established by analyzing the influence of ELADRC with different bandwidths on the BIM system, and adaptive initial bandwidth is adopted to improve the variable speed performance of the BIM. Finally, the simulation and experimental comparisons of the PID control method, the ELADRC method, and the fuzzy-ELADRC method are carried out. The results show that the proposed method not only realizes the rapid and stable suspension of the rotor, but also effectively improves the starting performance, variable speed performance, and antidisturbance performance of the BIM system.


The mixed-signal conditioning circuits for pressure sensor were designed. The classic three operational amplifiers were applied to achieve the amplification and normalization of analog signal output. The second-order filter circuits were designed to suppress the noise interference. The AVR microcontroller was used to sample,process the analog signal and to control the output of the switch. The digital filtering and the switch amount threshold method were used to guarantee the control accuracy. PC communication software was designed,and the RS232 communication was applied for remote real-time setting. The designed circuit analog output is from 0. 5 V to 4. 8 V,the output ripple is less than 20 mV,the designed circuit can achieve multi-way switch control and20 kPa pressure control threshold.


Occupational health nurses can promote resilience and encourage work–life fit by understanding organizational design and offering mental health and stress management resources.


Validation is critical for quantifying accuracy, errors and limitations of models' results. This study examines the ability of ENVI-met model to simulate thermal conditions in high spatial resolution. Field measurements from 11 central sites (squares and parks) across the greater area of Athens, Greece, incorporating 15 days of campaigns in July and August were used. Air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, grey globe temperature and total solar radiation were monitored at 1.1 m above the ground using a mobile meteorological station. In addition, Mean Radiant Temperature, Physiologically Equivalent Temperature (PET) and Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) were calculated incorporating in-situ measurements. The full force method for ENVI-met initial conditions was applied, using hourly data from the nearest meteorological stations. Validation metrics including Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and the index of agreement (d) were used to measure the model accuracy. The results showed that air temperature is simulated with adequate accuracy (MAE = 1.6 ⁰C and d = 0.8) while PET and UTCI also present a high percentage of agreement (MAE = 5.3 ⁰C and 3.3 ⁰C; d = 0.7 and 0.8, respectively). Overall, the study provides further confidence that the ENVI-met can be utilized as a reliable model for further research analysis.


In urban emergencies and disasters, emergency support systems enabled by ubiquitous computing and mobile communications can prove very beneficial by providing alerts, guidance and other crucial information to civilians and emergency responders. However, the communication infrastructure that such systems depend upon is usually adversely affected in emergencies due to failures or congestion. Thus we consider the problem of providing emergency support when existing communication infrastructure is unavailable. We propose the use of opportunistic communications (Oppcomms) among mobile devices for the dissemination of emergency information. With Oppcomms, devices exchange messages at a close range of a few to tens of meters with limited or no infrastructure and messages are carried over multiple hops in a "store-carry-forward" manner by exploiting human mobility. We present an emergency support system (ESS) based on Oppcomms to provide evacuation guidance to civilians in large-scale urban emergencies in the absence of other means of communication. We evaluate the performance of ESS with simulation experiments of large-scale evacuation of a district of London, UK. Our evaluations show the improvement Oppcomms can offer.


The H&R Group has built a vibrant business on transforming crude oil by-products into appealing solutions for various industries, including personal care and pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceutical & Cosmetic Review reveals how the company maximises every molecule of oil that is processed along with its expansion plans for Africa.


TPS5600 Background: Despite surgery and SOC therapy (paclitaxel and carboplatin ± bevacizumab[bev]), 5-year survival rates remain low for patients (pts) with FIGO stage 3/4 OC. Niraparib (ZEJULA) is the first selective poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor (PARPi) approved in the US and Europe for maintenance treatment in pts with recurrent OC regardless of BRCAmut status. Preclinical data suggest synergy with PARPi + anti-PD-1 blockade. Niraparib + pembrolizumab has shown clinical efficacy in pts with platinum-resistant or secondary refractory OC regardless of biomarker status. Dostarlimab is an anti–PD-1 humanized monoclonal with clinical activity as monotherapy in early phase trials. The primary objective of the currently enrolling FIRST trial is to compare PFS (per RECIST v1.1) in pts treated with SOC + dostarlimab + niraparib to SOC. Methods: Eligible pts (up to 912) are FIGO stage 3 (with residual disease, CC0 high risk, or planned neoadjuvant therapy) or stage 4, non-mucinous epithelial OC and ECOG score < 2. After 1 cycle of SOC, pts are stratified by concurrent bev use, BRCAmut/HRR status, and disease burden then randomized as 1:1:2 to 1 of 3 arms (Table). An innovative feature of ENGOT-OV44/FIRST (NCT03602859; EUDRACT 2018-000413-20) is the pre-planned adaptive study design to adapt the control arm to the evolving SOCs in OC, allowing pts in the control arm to receive up to date SOC. These adaptations will occur when practice-changing data are released. Following publication of SOLO1 results, BRCAmut pts will only be randomized to arm 2 or 3 to ensure they receive niraparib. Further adaptations may be incorporated as new data become available, leading to stop randomization in arm 1 or 2 of pts based on their biomarker status. Clinical trial information: NCT03602859. [Table: see text]


Accurate and fast genotyping of singl e nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is of si g nificant scientific importance for linkage an d association studies. We report here an aut o mated fluorescent method we call multiple x automated primer extension analysi s (MAPA) that can accurately genotype mult i ple known SNPs simultaneously. This i s achieved by substantially improving a com mercially available protocol (SNaPsho t ™) . This protocol relies on the extension of a primer that ends one nucleotide 5 ′of a give n SNP with fluorescent dideoxy-NTPs (minis e quencing), followed by analysis on an AB I P RISM ® 377 Semi-Automated DNA S e quencer. Our modification works by mult i plexing the initial reaction that produces th e DNA template for primer extension and/o r multiplexing several primers (correspondin g to several SNPs) in the same primer exte n sion reaction. Then, we run each multiplexe d reaction on a single gel lane. We demo n strate that MAPA can be used to genotype u p to four SNPs simultaneously, even in com pound heterozygote samples, with complet e accuracy (based on concordance with s e quencing results). We also show that prime r design, unlike the DNA template purificatio n method, can significantly affect genotypin g accuracy, and we suggest useful guideline s for quick optimization .


In this study, a hierarchal web of carbon micro and nanofibers was used as a precursor for the synthesis of a carbon molecular sieve (CMS). CMSs were prepared by thermal treatment of carbon fibers using a microwave heating device. The heating power and treatment time were optimized for the maximum performance of the prepared CMS for the separation of CO2 at low concentrations from the gaseous mixture of CO2 and air under dynamic (flow) conditions. Based on the experimental data, microwave power input of 240 W and treatment time of 15 min were found to be suitable for the maximum uptake of CO2 by CMS. Adsorption breakthrough curves were obtained at different gas flow rates and CO2 concentrations. CMSs prepared from the hierarchal web of carbon micro and nanofibers were found to be superior to those prepared from ACF. The CO2 uptake was determined to be approximately 0.88 mg/g and 10 mg/g at concentrations of 500 ppm and 5000 ppm, respectively, in air. © 2010 The Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


The biosorption of beer saccharomycete biomass by white diatomite from Changbai Mountain Area in Jilin Province was investigated experimentally. The results showed that such a biosorbent has favorable adsorbing effect on beer saccharomycete biomass, and both the adsorbent and adsorbate come in equilibrium within 20minutes. When the pH value is 7.5 the diatomite shows the best biosorbing effect, and when the amount of diatomite used is 20g/L with the concentration of beer saccharomycete biomass up to 40g/L the biosorbing rate is 64% at which the loading amount of the diatomite is 160mg/g. The biosorption is affected not much by temperature, and it is available to perform biosorption at room temperature. According to the test results, the particles of Jilin-Changbai diatomite is fine with large specific surface area and a bit of impurities. The dominant kinds of algae of the diatomite are small ring and straight chain algae, which provide clear and intercommunicating surface porosity with even pore arrangement. So, the diatomite is naturally a good adsorbent.


Attempting to avoid difficulties associated to triple pelvic osteotomy (TPO), the sacroiliac wedge method was experimentally developed to increase the acetabular ventroversion. The goal of this study was to apply the techniques of sacroiliac wedge and TPO to canine cadavers and radiographically evaluate the efficacy of acetabular ventroversion. Ten cadavers of adult dogs weighting 15-25 kg were used. To each right hemipelvis the technique of TPO with 20° and 40° plates was applied. In the left hemipelvis, 20° and 40o wedges in the sacroiliac joint were applied. Radiographic evaluations in standard projections were carried out for measurement of the acetabular covering of the head of the femur in the two techniques. There was no significant differences between TPO and the use of sacroiliac wedge using implants of 20° and 40°, however a significant difference (p<0,05) could be observed before and after application of the 20° and 40° implants, as well as between those that received 20° and of 40° implants. The application of sacroiliac wedge produced similar results of those observed in TPO, and it is more feasible.


Many patients still need or desire mastectomy as treatment for (or prophylaxis against) breast cancer, and subsequent breast reconstruction can improve


1mV/cm (10-100Hz) weak electric field (EF) has no significant effect on proliferation and activity of succinate dehydrogenase of 6B1 cells. However, 1mV/cm (50Hz) EF significantly promotes the HBs-Ab (Hepatitis B surface antibody) secretion of 6B1 cells, pointing out that EF has some distinctive effect on the outerface of 6B1 cell membrane under this condition. 0.8mT (30Hz) weak magnetic field (MF) significantly inhibits the proliferation of 6B1 cells (about-40%), but this effect is small at other frequencies.


This paper addresses the problem of reducing power excursions in amplified WDM communication networks with Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers (ROADM). We consider a basic WDM network topology, namely, a ROADM-based optically amplified chain network, where each ROADM node is equipped with Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) for channel power adjustment. In dynamic network loading scenarios or at sudden failures, conventional WSS control strategies lead to transient power excursions across the chain. We propose a new WSS coordination control strategy that effectively decouples nodes in the chain network and reduces WSS transient power excursions across the chain in the event of failures or reconfigurations.We provide analytical bounds on these reductions as well as experimental results implemented on a Transparent Optical Mesh Simulator (ATOM) for two realistic scenarios.


Due to the characteristic of the intuitivism of image, Ultrasonic tomography technology in non-destructive testing of concrete structure is attached importance. The combination of Wavelet and Neural Networks will constructs a kind of wavelet neural network, which can be used to study the segmentation method of Ultrasonic CT color image. Instead of the traditional Sigmoid function, Wavelet basis function can organically fuse the good time-frequency domain feature and the adaptive advantage of neural network, and overcome the limitations of the slow convergence rate and easily felling into the local minimum of BP neural network.


For a finite state machine M to realize a machine $M'$, we usually precede M by a memory-less input encoder to translate inputs intended for $M'$ into the input alphabet of M. In this paper we introduce a modification to this paradigm by introducing feedback from the state of the realizing machine to the input encoder. The resulting form of realization depends in a very strong way on (graph) structural properties of the two machines. The characterization theorem, giving necessary and sufficient conditions for one machine to realize another in this way, involves a new class of mappings between digraphs. We also investigate a corresponding algebraic structure theory.


In the realistic world, numerous and complicated thing are all developing or changing in the law of causation. But in common logic accumulate relation is not the law of causation, this induces the logic paradox. Only the law of causation is the key to solve the problem of logic paradox.


Jodhpur crude is the first heavy crude struck in India. The composition of heavy oils from this crude has been investigated by using a combination of separation and spectrometric techniques. The compositional and structural data is compared with the similar data on corresponding high boiling fractions from Bombay High crude. The term heavy refers to crude oil density and crudes having specific gravity 10-20° API have conventionally been designated as heavy'. Heavy oils are generally defined as crude oil components boiling above 480°C and include vacuum gas oils and residue fractions having molecules with carbon numbers over 20 and containing relatively large proportions of naphthenes, aromatics and heteroatomic constituents" The effectiveness of converting heavy oils into more valuable products and selection of proper processing technique requires a knowledge of their composition. A number of separation techniques based on solvent treatment and adsorption have been developed for isolating fractions amenable to the analysis by various spectrometric techniques 3. Mass spectrometry is the key element in determining hydrocarbon type distribution'>. NMR spectrometry is being used more increasingly for determining various structural parameters of petroleum fractions with or without prior separations"!", The analytical data on the high boiling distillates and residues from various indigenous crudes have been reported 11- 13. None of these crudes could be categorised as a heavy crude. The Jodhpur crude having specific gravity 13.9° API marks the beginning of the discovery of heavy crudes in India. This communication presents properties and compositional data on Jodhpur vacuum gas oil (NGO) and short residue (JSR). A comparison has been made with the similar data on corresponding fractions-vacuum gas oil (BHVGO) and short residue (BHSR) from Bombay High crude in order to bring about the distinctive features of the composition of heavy oils from Jodhpur crude.


The task of structural identification of biomedical signals (BS) with the locally concentrated signs (LCS) by means of nonlinear filter is examined in the work. The models of useful signal with LCS and transformation methods of BS with LCS on the basis of models of useful signal are considered. The generalized method of nonlinear filtration of BS with LCS is offered. Figs.: 3. Refs.: 8 titles.


A graph G is 1-planar if it can be embedded in the plane in such a way that each edge crosses at most one other edge. Borodin showed that 1-planar graphs are 6-colorable, but his proof does not lead to a linear-time algorithm. This paper presents a linear-time algorithm for 7-coloring 1-plane graphs (which are 1-planar graphs already embedded in the plane). The main difficulty in the design of our algorithm comes from the fact that the class of 1-planar graphs is not closed under the operation of edge contraction. This difficulty is overcome by a structural lemma that may be useful in other problems on 1-planar graphs. This paper also shows that it is NP-complete to decide whether a given 1-planar graph is 4-colorable. The complexity of the problem of deciding whether a given 1-planar graph is 5-colorable is still unknown.


This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of feeding rye silage on growth performance, blood and carcass characteristics in finishing pigs. The total of eighteen() pigs() were used for 49-day assay. Dietary treatments included 1) CON(basal diet), 2) S1(1.66% rye silage) and 3) S2(3.32% rye silage). In growth performance, from 4 to 7 weeks, average daily feed intake(ADFI) in pigs fed CON diet was higher than pigs fed S1 and S2 diets. Through the entire experimental period( weeks), a ADFI in CON and S2 treatments was higher than S1 treatment (p(lightness) value of loin in the pigs fed S2 diet was higher than that of loin in the pigs fed CON diet(p(yellowness) value of loin in the pigs fed S1 and S2 diets were higher than CON treatment(p(lightness) value and (yellowness), fatty acid contents, and nutrient digestibility. However, there should be more study on the relationship between feeding rye silagr and finishing pigs.


Patent for improvements in automatic track sweeping and oiling attachments to street cars by having a transverse shaft carries a hub which has a series of brushes. When "the street car moves forward, the brushes on the transverse shaft are revolved, which sweep the rails and keep them clean." (Lines 90-93) Illustration is included.


ADA, Inpulse and the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation have joined forces to closely monitor and analyze the effects of the COVID-19 crisis among their partners around the world. This monitoring will be carried out periodically throughout the year 2020 with the purpose of evaluating the evolution of the crisis. Through this regular and close analysis, we hope to contribute, in our own way, to the structuring of strategies and solutions tailored to the needs of our partners, as well as the dissemination and exchange of information among the different actors in the sector.


Abstract Due to the property of low propagation delay, LEO (Leo Earth Orbit) satellite network is an indispensable solution for providing a global coverage and multimedia communication. However, since the LEO satellites move very fast in orbits, to offer a smooth handover is regarded as the most significant service feature. In this paper, an effective handover management is proposed. The proposed scheme is based on fuzzy logic decision to efficiently determine handover and considers three important parameters, including blocking rate, dropping rate, and bandwidth utilization. From the simulation results, this scheme can achieve the higher bandwidth utilization, the lower new call blocking rate, and the lower handover call dropping rate.


We have tried to prepare
the porous silicone resin sheet with the phase inversion method in parallel
with the non solvent induced phase separation method. In the experiment, ethyl
acetate and water were adopted as a good solvent and a poor solvent for
silicone resin, respectively and ethyl alcohol as an amphiphilic solvent was
used to increase the solubility of ethyl acetate in water and decrease the
interfacial tension by mass transfer from water to ethyl acetate. The
concentration of silicone resin in ethyl acetate and the oil soluble surfactant
species were changed. Increasing the concentration
of silicone resin could depress coalescence between the water droplets in the
(W/O) dispersion and increase the porosity and pore number density of
silicone resin sheet. Span 80 among the oil soluble surfactant species made the
porosity and pore number density larger. The effect of physical proparties of
liquids concerned on the porosity and pore number density was discussed on the
basis of dispersing behavior of liquid droplets in the liquid-liquid
dispersion. The hollow silicone resin particles could be prepared by applying
the preparation method presented here.


Provided is an apparatus for detection timeout of each channel, which is a socket connection, in a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Offload Engine (TOE) using TCP accelerating hardware, and a method thereof. The timer managing apparatus of the TOE using the TCP accelerating hardware, including: a command register for receiving a command for a retransmission timer or a delayed ACK timer from an embedded processor of the TOE; a finite state machine (FSM) for storing information of a timer in operation by analyzing the command for the retransmission timer or the delayed ACK timer stored in the command register and controlling an entire operation of the timer managing apparatus; and a timeout checker for checking timeout of a timer in operation by using the stored timer information and notifying the timeout to the FSM.


A new stage of education in Indonesia began when President Joko Widodo appointed NadiemMakarim as Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia. He issued the policy called Merdeka BelajarKampus Merdeka (MBKM) meaning "Freedom to learn, Independent Campus or the Independent Learning- Independent Campus". This research analyzed the successful implementation of an MBKM Program in the Communication Study Program at UniversitasMuhammadiyah Sidoarjo. It used the approach of two policy implementation theories from Michael Hill & Peter L Hupe and Hudson, Hunter & Peckham. They have eight aspects of excellence in their analysis. The research method approach in this analysis used descriptive qualitative data collection using several data collection techniques such as interviews, observation, and documentation studies. The results of this researchshowed that the Communication Studies Program at Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo has implemented the success from an administrative and practical perspective. From the eight aspects of the analysis of the successful implementation of the policy, several aspects that supported this success consisted of the policy environment, implementation preparation, and implementation support.


In this paper, the situation of economic operation of China′s dyeing and printing industry in 2006 was analyzed in details. The economic operation of China′s dyeing and printing industry in 2006 was primarily reached the expect goal, and stable growth was maintained. The bright spot in economic operation was presented. In addition, the existed problems and measures of China′s dyeing and printing industry were presented, and situation in 2007 are forecasted.


A novel power assisted steering system based on differential drive torque of the right and left steerable driving wheel was proposed, owing to the driving characteristics of four-wheel-independent-driving electric vehicle. the basic theory and structure of Driving Force Power Steering(DFPS) is explained in detail. Subsequently, electric vehicle with motorized wheels dynamics model based on AMESim was built, and the Driving Force Power steering control system model was built using MATLAB/Simulink. The control strategy of torque distribution between right and left front steerable wheels was presented, to reduce the steering efforts and improve the returnability of the steering wheel. By the co-simulation results, it is proved that the proposed DFPS control system improves the steering maneuverability, steering feel and returnability of the steering wheel, including yaw compensation.


The paper briefly recaps some of the most obvious examples of insanity, phobias, mental illnesses and other out of the ordinary mental states from James Joyce's Ulysses with the intention of showing the results of a literary text analysed through a medical prism. The medical history of the Joyce family is exposed in this paper with the intention of drawing parallels between reality and fiction, proving that the reality may have given inspiration for fiction. Joyce depicts a single day, 16 June 1904, in Dublin throughout 18 chapters and 732 pages. The list of diseases, phobias, mental states, addictions and other bodily troubles and misfortunes is infinite in Ulyss es. The main characters Molly Bloom, Mr. Bloom, Stephen Dedalus and Gerty MacDowell as well as many others suffer from a series of medical issues. Many Joyceans suggest that Joyce found inspiration for the topics he explored in his personal life as his family members battled with phobias, sexual deviations, Language Centre, University of Valencia, Spain


Based on the theory of modularization, this paper analyzes principles of modular curricular system, and puts forward the design and operation process of engineering education modular curriculum.


This paper proposed and discussed a set of scheduling algorithms which were able to deal with mix multi-applications in distributed computing platform.It was to deal the problem of scheduling a set of competing parallel applications that were submitted for execution on a distributed computing platform by a community of potentially distinct users.These policies followed a knowledge-free approach that was no information concerning the resources or the applications was available to the scheduler.By means of a large set of operational scenarios obtained by combining four different volunteer computing configurations with various application workloads and intensity,evaluated and discussed the performance of these algorithms.The results show that,although there is no a clear winner among the proposed solutions,all the scheduling policies can be a feasible approach for evaluating parallel applications in large scale distributed computing platform.


The author uses the vocabulary testing to draw the conclusion: in the non-English major students in Grade Two, incidental learning is the main vocabulary learning method, intentional learning is more suitable for them than incidental learning, and the vocabulary through intentional learning can retain longer. Meanwhile, the author also gives some advice on how to use the intentional learning method.


Abstract Music education or education through music, a means of emancipation of new generations. To what extent can the education of future teachers be directly responsible for the ideals of tomorrow's multicultural society ? This article aims to open up a vision of education, a solution among solutions, based on the development of a curriculum centered around the values of equality and equity, around the principles of freedom and secularism. The intellectual preparation and training of future education professionals is a process of continuous transformation, adaptation and multidisciplinary transversal training, in which the Common Core is the common stem of knowledge and skills needed to educate teachers and students at the same time.


By taking the school assignments of the fire-fighting and rescuing techniques and tactics as a breakthrough point,this paper analyzes the main problems of school assignments,puts forward the content optimizing schemes,analyzes the satisfaction degree combining questionnaire,and puts forward some feasible methods.


Who should attend: intermediate. Maximum number of participants: 10 AV Equipment: Simulation manikin, control and projector. Sunga1 first described the Live Die Repeat (LDR) simulation format in 2016. LDR uses levels and repetition in a gameplay format to enhance learning. The learner completes a simulation level, either 'passing' or 'failing' based on their performance against specific level criteria. The group then de-briefs before the learner re-enters the same level to repeat the scenario and implement specific targeted improvements following the debrief. Having completed the level for the second time, the clinical narrative continues onto the next level and learning cycle. Educationally, the format draws upon deliberate practice to re-enforce learning. The original paper was based on the experiences of middle grade emergency medicine physicians in North America. Our seminar will discuss our institutional experience of LDR simulation for UK foundation doctors. Intended learning outcomes Our institution has greatly enjoyed incorporating the LDR format into the simulation programme. By the end of the seminar we would like: participants to be able to describe the LDR format. participants to discuss potential challenges to writing LDR scenarios. participants to discuss potential challenges to managing LDR scenarios. Participants to compare different LDR debriefing strategies. participants to evaluate the comparative benefits and pit–falls of the LDR format. Structure of workshop and educational methods used The one-hour session will take the following format: 10 min: Introduction and background to LDR. (Power Point and Roleplay) 30 min: LDR simulation showcase with workshop observers as active learners with–in the session. (LDR simulation) 10 min: Our experiences of LDR different debrief options. (Roleplay and PowerPoint discussion) 10 min: Questions and discussion. (Discussion). Reference Sunga K, Sandefur B, Asirvatham U, et al.LIVE. DIE. REPEAT: A novel instructional method incorporating recursive objective-based gameplay in an emergency medicine simulation curriculum. BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning 2016;2:124–126.