The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not the GARP in selecting the stock portfolios can provide a more stable growth rate of return when compared to the value stock and growth stock as well as to examine the stock return on value stock and growth stock based on the changes in its fundamentals. The population in this study was all companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (known as IDX) in the period of 2015-2019. The samples were selected using a comparative-quantitative approach and consisted of 20 companies: seven companies included in the value stock portfolio category and ten companies included in the portfolio category. Growth stock and three companies were included in the GARP's stock portfolio category. The formation of stock portfolios in the company's fundamentals was based on price to book value ratio, price-earnings ratio, and price-earnings growth ratio. This study used the ANOVA method equipped with SPSS by performing four tests: Homogeneity of Variance, BetweenSubject, Post Hoc, and Homogenous Subset test. The results of this study show that there were differences in the portfolio return of value stocks, growth stocks, and GARP stocks on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period of 2015-2019. Meanwhile, the GARP investment strategy was stable for the growth when compared to the value investment and growth investment in the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period of 2015-2019. The implementation of GARP concept in managing the investment portfolios and criteria for choosing the stocks have the profitable growth, first in forming the GARP because investors in the stock market tend to expect obtaining high investment returns with a limited time horizon. The implementation of GARP concept has prevented the investors from the value trap because the GARP strategy is a hybrid solution for the growth stock and value stock, thus. The GARP investors will experience a combination of returns. Article History Received: 25 August 2020 Revised: 28 February 2021 Accepted: 5 Maret 2021


This work presents as a central theme of study the corporate blog and seeks to problematize how a blog can be used as an advertising tool for a company. The corporate blog arises to help the communication of the companies approaching them of its reader and future consumer. With the accomplishment of this work a case study was developed where the characteristics of the blog Decorar Faz Bem of the online store Carro de Mola were analyzed. The data collection was carried out based on bibliographical research regarding Marketing, Advertising and Advertisement, internet and blogs, as well as gathering information from the blog analyzed. With the detailed analysis it was possible to notice that the decision to own a blog should be planned so that its results are satisfactory. At the end of the case study we verified that this subject is renewed every moment and it is necessary to always be updating to further deepen the study on blogs, mainly within companies. The tool can have its positive result but what will confirm if it helps communication is how it will be used by organizations.


Cancer patients frequently utilize the emergency department (ED) for a variety of diagnoses both related to and unrelated to their cancer, yet ED outcomes for cancer patients are not well documented. This study sought to define risks and identify predictors for inpatient admission and hospital mortality among cancer patients presenting to the ED.


This paper reviews the present situation of the application of wind turbines generator system(WTGS) at home and abroad, describes the strategic significance and the value of sustainable development of the wind power in the country, illustrates the problems, a variety of reasons and responses on large-scale off-grid of WTGS, compares the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, gives full consideration to the actual demand for WTGS works and characteristics and points out the further research.


The present invention relates to a stable amorphous solifenacin pharmaceutical composition containing lactose as a stabilizer, a method for manufacturing the same, and a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating urologic diseases, respiratory diseases, or digestive diseases containing the same. The stable amorphous solifenacin pharmaceutical composition represents excellent thermal stability and can be prepared with uniform quality and high purity. Accordingly, the composition of the present invention can be efficiently used as an agent for preventing or treating the above-mentioned diseases.


The University of California (UC), Merced partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and implement solutions to retrofit two existing buildings to reduce energy consumption by at least 30% as part of DOE's Commercial Buildings Partnerships (CBP) Program.1 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) provided technical expertise in support of this DOE program. This case study reports expected savings from proposed design recommendations for the campus, which are subject to change in final construction. It is estimated that UC Merced will achieve the 30% reduction in the two participating buildings, the central plant and the Science & Engineering (S&E) building. The savings from retrofits of those buildings represent about 17% of whole-campus energy use. In addition, the energy saved by the CBP retrofits supports a broader goal, UC Merced's "Triple Zero" commitment to zero net energy, zero landfill waste, and zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Although the campus has already made progress toward that goal with its efficient building construction and operation, opportunities for deeper savings remain, as the CBP project demonstrates.


Writing an editorial usually goes like this. After receiving a timely warning from our managing editor, I begin an – often – frantic search for something in the not-too-distant-past that upset or stimulated my feminist sensitivities enough to make me want to put pen to paper. In most cases, this takes the form of something aggravating in the media, a recent political event, a shift in feminist theorizing, or a women's studies event. My search began this time in the wake of a conference which left me feeling slightly cranky. It was a fairly routine conference. The presentations had been reasonably interesting, and yet the discussions were unpleasant, with a large proportion of the participants engaging in arrogant displays of theoretical muscle-flexing and antagonistic battles over which position was ideologically correct. I was reminded of an incident at a similar conference which had taken place several years ago, but had never quite vanished from my memory. It was during a presentation which someone had given about the merits of a well-known feminist theorist. At the end of her presentation, someone in the audience raised her hand and remarked that the speaker had given far too much credit to the theorist and not nearly enough to her own ideas. She proceeded to chastise the speaker for being too modest. It was her take on the theorist which was, in fact, the most interesting thing about her talk and had, in actual fact, raised the most exciting issues. While I don't remember the details of what she said, I will never forget how the speaker reacted. She looked completely gobsmacked and, after a moment of silence, exclaimed: 'Why how extraordinarily generous!' It was the speaker's surprise at the generosity of the person in the audience that impressed me at the time. And it is this very same surprise that has come back to me years later, because, indeed, generosity is not something that one often encounters in the academy these days. There are all kinds of reasons for this. Academic competitiveness precludes a readiness to give others credit for their brilliant writing, innovative insights, or charismatic teaching. Many academics are – not to put too fine a point on it – stingy and small-minded when it comes to praising their colleagues. If one finds generosity at all, it has usually been transformed into something


Education in the life of a country plays a very important role to ensure the survival of the state and nation, because education is a vehicle to improve and develop the quality of human resources. This is a big demand for the world of education in Indonesia. Improvements in various components of education continue to be made, starting from facilities and infrastructure, teaching and educational staff, to the learning process. It is undeniable that improving the quality of education is a must in order to produce human resources who are responsive to various changes in all aspects of life. This research uses an experimental study method by applying learning to the Population Dynamics material with scientific learning, the Discovery Learning model. The instrument used is an instrument used to replace the learning process in the form of an observation sheet and also uses an instrument to see student learning outcomes by using a brief description. The results showed that the scientific approach in learning was able to increase students' confidence in dealing with tests (assessment) and make students better able to master learning in high order thinking skills (HOTS).


In article the lacks existing in modern physical formation, leading to that pupils aren´t able to apply physical knowledge to the decision of almost significant problems are revealed. The hypothesis that the reason of the developed position consists in not readiness of the teacher for the organization of such activity of schoolboys is put forward. The ascertaining experiment confirming the put forward assumption is made. It is established that one of priority problems of vocational training of the teacher of physics consists in formation at it readiness to organize activity of pupils under the decision of applied problems. The maintenance of the generalized method of the decision of applied problems is offered. The model of methodical system of preparation of students to training of schoolboys to the generalized method of the decision of the applied problems connected with working out of technical devices which includes following components is developed: target, substantial and remedial. The maintenance of each of the listed components is opened.


Cluster managers play a crucial role in data centers by distributing workloads among infrastructure resources. Declarative Cluster Management (DCM) is a new cluster management architecture that enables users to express placement policies declaratively using SQL-like queries. This paper presents our experiences in scaling this architecture from moderate-sized enterprise clusters (10
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This review summarizes and discusses the recent efforts devoted to the material design and reactor engineering for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia under ambient conditions.


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HE actual harvest of small legume seed is accomT plished by several difTerent methods, or a combination.of methods. The relation between the amount of seed present in the field to that recovered or lost in the harvesting process has been mostly conjecture. Observations have indicated that losses in the various processes of harvesting and threshing may amount to a considerable portion of the total possible yield. Lack of concrete information on seed losses at harvest time for Michigan and the surrounding area prompted the present investigation of the comparative efficiency of various mcthods of harvesting seed from small seeded legumes.


Tarrago's thesis is not new, although he is probably its most vigorous defender. One wonders, nevertheless, whether in so doing he realized that he was walking into a blind alley. For while it is possible to marshal some facts in order to support his affirmations regarding the failure of Cuba's independence, since the autonomous regime established by Spain in 1898 had hardly left the ground when it fell, all he can say in its favor is purely speculative. Moreover, given Cuba's geographical location and economic ties with the United States, it is also likely to speculate that the island was fated to become an American protectorate in any case.


BACKGROUND: Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is a multidisciplinary and frequent disease, also including complications such as pulmonary thromboembolism. Mechanical prophylaxis is one of the best (due to its low cost and proven effectiveness) and simplest means to reduce its incidence; therefore, investigating its use as an attempt to enhance benefits to the patient and hospital service is of great importance. OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of mechanical prophylaxis for DVT at the Emergency Room Dr. Armando Lages in Maceio, Brazil. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study at the emergency room was carried out for an 8-month period. The sample was composed of 282 patients admitted to the nursing wards of various specialties. Data were collected from medical records and by patient interview. Each patient"s medical record was searched for use of mechanical prophylaxis for DVT, in addition to several factors for risk stratification, according to the Brazilian Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software and chi-square test, considering p < 0.05. RESULTS: A total of 282 patients were analyzed, 181 (64%) men and 101 (36%) women, mean age of 54.1 years. Classification of risk was as follows: 210 (74.5%) were classified as high risk, 56 (19.8%) as moderate risk, and 16 (5.7%) as low risk. Of all patients, 234 (83%) did not received prophylaxis and 48 (17%) did. There was no statistical difference between the data obtained in the research and those found in the literature (p = 0.065). CONCLUSIONs: Despite having its efficacy confirmed, mechanical prophylaxis for DVT has not reached satisfactory levels of use.


This paper discusses a method for extracting the frequency dependent characteristic impedance of transmission lines from Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) measurements using an Open, Short, Load, and Shortline calibration. The frequency dependent behavior of transmission lines was successfully captured using this method. Two types of transmission lines were measured using this method namely, thick metal transmission lines in Printed Wiring Board (PWB) and thin transmission lines in MCM-L technology.


An examination of the major motifs of dissident political literature from Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Hungary in the 1970s reveals a certain commonality of understanding and suggests that dissent is itself a complex, multicausal phenomenon likely to pervade the region for some time to come. Criticisms of the existing system are based on a rejection of dictatorship and its concomitant intellectual rigidity, economic inefficiency, and social alienation. The dissidents' vision of a better socialist society, in contrast, is one of decentralized decision making and of plural centers of power operating within the context of respect for human rights. The tactics put forward by the dissidents derive from these ideas: open discussion, mass mobilization within a legal framework that respects the rights of minorities, and pressure on established elites to make the necessary changes.


Infants with unexplained apneic episodes (Near-Miss for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)), are presumably at increased risk of subsequently dying of SIDS. It has been proposed that these infants exhibit prolonged sleep apnea which contributes to the mechanism leading to death. The objective of this study was to document the incidence of apnea during sleep recordings in 16 Near-Miss infants and compare the findings with those obtained from age and sex matched controls. Polygraphic records of 4 sleep and 3 cardiopulmonary variables were obtained during a 12 hour overnight recording. Successive minutes were classified as quiet sleep, active sleep, waking or indeterminate states by trained observers using standard scoring criteria. Respiratory rate and variability were calculated by computer for each minute across the night and related to sleep state. Pauses in breathing ≥3 seconds were identified in both groups. There was a tendency for Near-Miss infants to breathe faster with fewer apnea than controls, but this finding was not statistically significant. Although one half of the Near-Miss infants had recurrent prolonged apneic spells, all survived and were normal at 2 years. The proposed relationship between SIDS and apnea is not confirmed by this study.


FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: pharmaceutical composition of taxan for introduction to a mammal, preferentially to people, contains two compositions combined before introduction to form a no-slump clear solution. First of said compositions represents a solid composition of dried taxan not containing surface-active substances, oils, polymers, solubilising agents, preservatives and excipients. Second of said compositions represents a solubilising composition for said solid composition of dried taxan which contains at least one polymer nonionic surface-active substance and water with the absence of an organic solvent. Said composition does not contain Polysorbate 80 and polyoxyethylated castor oil. A method of producing the solid composition is implemented by freeze-drying of taxan in a drying organic solvent. A kit for said composition of taxan for injections contains a pre-filled syringe. Also, there is offered a pharmaceutical solution of taxan for perfusion not containing the organic solvent. EFFECT: composition of taxan according to the invention provides maintaining shelf-life stability without required storage in the cooling conditions, facilitates preparation for infusion manipulations. 30 cl, 6 tbl, 11 ex


This scientific commentary refers to 'Diverging longitudinal changes in astrocytosis and amyloid PET in autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease', by Rodriguez-Vieitez et al. (doi:10.1093/brain/awv404).

Whilst a definitive diagnosis of sporadic Alzheimer's disease still rests on pathological confirmation, the emergence of biomarkers capable of revealing different aspects of pathology in vivo has led to a paradigm shift in how we conceptualize the disease. PET imaging using ligands that bind fibrillar amyloid-β or CSF measures of amyloid-β1-42 allow for the demonstration of amyloid pathology in life; MRI allows for cerebral and hippocampal atrophy to be visualized and quantified; and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) shows distinctive patterns of glucose hypometabolism. These biomarkers have proven utility in determining whether a patient with dementia has Alzheimer's disease and are now incorporated in new biomarker-supported diagnostic criteria that allow, at least on a research basis, for a diagnosis to be made prior to the onset of symptoms (Sperling et al. , 2011). How these and other aspects of Alzheimer pathology evolve and progress at the very earliest stages of disease is a subject of great interest, not least because of the drive towards earlier therapeutic trials. In this issue of Brain , Rodriguez-Vieitez and co-workers describe how PET measures of amyloid, of glucose metabolism, but also of astrocytosis change over time in very early Alzheimer's disease (Rodriguez-Vieitez et al. , 2016).

A powerful paradigm to explore the presymptomatic stage of Alzheimer's disease has been the longitudinal study of individuals who either are known to carry a disease-causing mutation, or are at 50% risk of doing so by virtue of having an affected first-degree relative. Studies of presymptomatic familial Alzheimer's disease have shown that subtle cognitive changes are detectable prior to symptom onset; and that excess atrophy—particularly in medial temporal lobe structures—and focal brain hypometabolism measured …


Rapidity divergences occur when parton densities in a gauge theory are defined in the most natural way, as expectation values of partonic number operators in light-front quantization. I review these and other related divergences, and show how the definitions of parton densities can be modified to remove the divergences. A modified definition is not only essential for many phenomenological applications of QCD, but also concerns the treatment of parton densities in non-perturbative approaches. The necessity of modifications in the definition of a parton density also entails corrections in the formulation of light-front quantization for gauge theories.


This paper presents findings from a preliminary cross-cultural survey of adult human female aggression. Cases of female-initiated aggres sion, ranging from verbal abuse to murder, are found in all regions of the world. Female aggression is largely directed against other females and generally involves little injury. Co-wives and other rivals in sex and marriage are the most common victims. Husbands are the most common male targets. Female aggression is often a means of competing for men or subsistence products, but it may also be a means of defense.


A large proportion of movement in urban area is constrained to a road network such as pedestrian, bicycle and vehicle. That movement information is commonly collected by Global Positioning System ( ...


This paper presents an overview of international tourism and its role in rural economic development. It briefly describes the current approaches to rural economic development followed by a brief look at international tourism 1n the United States, and the potential for tourism in rural areas is examined. An initial step in assessing the extent to which international tourists visit rural America is determining the factors which currently attract those visitors to rural areas. The purpose of this paper is to profile potential international travelers to rural areas.


The energy diffusion coefficients D_n(E) (n=1,2) for a system of equal mass particles moving self-consistently in an N-body realisation of a King model are computed from the probability per unit time, P(E, Delta E), that a star with initial energy E will undergo an energy change Delta E. In turn, P is computed from the number of times during the simulation that a particle in a state of given energy undergoes a transition to another state. These particle states are defined directly from the time evolution of E by identifying them with the event occuring between two local maxima in the E(t) curve. If one assumes next that energy changes are uncorrelated between different states, one can use diffusion theory to compute D_n(E). The simulations employ N=512, 2048,... , 32768 particles and are performed using an implementation of Aarseth's direct integrator N-body1 on a massively parallel computer. The more than seven million transitions measured in the largest N simulation provide excellent statistics. The numerically determined D(E)'s are compared against their theoretical counterparts which are computed from phase-space averaged rates of energy change due to independent binary encounters. The overall agreement between them is impressive over most of the energy range, notwithstanding the very different type of approximations involved, giving considerable support to the valid usage of these theoretical expressions to simulate dynamical evolution in Fokker-Planck type calculations.


To compute the uncertainty of time‐in‐ranges, such as time in range (TIR), time in tight range (TITR), time below range (TBR) and time above range (TAR), to evaluate glucose control and to determine the minimum duration of a trial to achieve the desired precision.


This chapter focuses on Burma in the 1870s. It traces a twenty-year process through which the British colonial state came to define a crisis of "moral wreckage" caused by opium and introduced an opium monopoly, while enacting an unprecedented ban on Burmese opium consumption in 1894. The chapter argues that the ideas and everyday work of on-site officials guided British Burma's reforms by constructing an official problem of "moral wreckage" that posited opium consumption as causing the ruin of 11 percent of the indigenous Burmese population. This specific narrative and number had a distinctive genealogy within the bureaucracy, which the chapter traces using a diverse range of records that capture the multilevel nature of paperwork that administrators generated across the colony's jail and prisons, as well as departments for excise, customs, public health, and finance relating to opium. It thus shows how these actors haphazardly produced a particular strand of colonial knowledge that claimed privileged authenticity based on direct observation and physical proximity that guided the introduction of the 1894 Burma Amendment to the 1878 All India Opium Act and the creation of opium consumer registries.


Abstract The subunit composition of casein kinase II (CKII) from S. cerevisiae has been difficult to define, particularly with respect to the existence and number of regulatory (β) subunits. A single, integral β subunit, a loosely associated β subunit, two distinct β subunits, and a complete absence of β subunits have all been proposed. Our laboratory reported yeast CKII to be composed of four polypeptides of 42, 41, 35, and 32 kDa (R. Padmanabha and C. V. C. Glover, 1987, J. Biol. Chem. 262, 1829-1835). The 42-35-kDa polypeptides were identified as distinct catalytic subunits, α and α′, on the basis of N-terminal sequencing and subsequent molecular cloning. The 41- and 32-kDa polypeptides were found to undergo autophosphorylation, a characteristic of the β subunit in other species, but antibodies raised against the β subunit of Drosophila CKII crossreacted only with the 41-kDa polypeptide. In order to clarify the subunit composition of yeast CKII, particularly with regard to the 32-kDa polypeptide, we have purified the enzyme to homogeneity using a modified procedure. Based on the results of autophosphorylation studies, Western blotting, peptide mapping of the 41- and 32-kDa polypeptides, and sequencing of subunit-specific peptides, we demonstrate that the 32-kDa polypeptide is an additional β subunit (β′) distinct from the 41-kDa β subunit. This represents the first demonstration of β subunit heterogeneity in purified CKII from any species.


Taylor's book is a study of the possibility (and rationality) of voluntary cooperation among individuals when binding agreements to insure cooperation are not possible. The first several chapters contain an analysis of the prisoners' dilemma supergame (an infinite sequence of ordinary prisoners' dilemma games), and present results showing that cooperation in this game can indeed be rational under certain conditions. A subsequent chapter contains a detailed discussion of the parallels between the prisoners' dilemma supergame and the analysis of behavior in the state of nature offered by Hobbes and Hume. Taylor argues that his results concerning prisoners' dilemma supergames provide an important criticism of the primary justification of the state found in the contractarian literature, namely, that in the absence of the state cooperation among individuals is impossible. The book is noteworthy in two respects. Taylor's analysis of the prisoners' dilemma supergame is an important addition to the game theory literature and deserves the attention of anyone interested in this fascinating game. In addition, the care with which Taylor discusses the relationship between the prisoners' dilemma and the arguments of Hobbes and Hume sets new standards for mathematical theorists who seek to formalize the arguments of classical political philosophers. Chapter 2 discusses the two major models of "free rider" behavior, the prisoners' dilemma and the model derived from the theory of public goods. One important effect of using a binary choice prisoners' dilemma to model behavior in the state of nature is that it removes all ambiguity from the determination of a cooperative individual act and a cooperative collective outcome. In the public goods model, there are infinite sets of individually cooperative acts (given by an individual's demand curve for the public good) and collectively cooperative outcomes (the set of Pareto optimal allocations). To endow these actions and outcomes with the prominence (in Schelling's sense) given them by the binary choice, prisoners' dilemma places major constraints on the ability of the game-theoretic analysis to encompass many of the subtler aspects of behavior in the state of nature which are central to the works of Hobbes and Hume. Chapter 3 contains the heart of the mathematical theory. The two-person prisoners' dilemma supergame is analyzed and the results are then partially extended to the W-person case. A supergame is an infinite sequence of identical ordinary prisoners' dilemma games in which each player must choose between cooperating or defecting. Players are assumed to evaluate sequences of payoffs by discounting them exponentially. A strategy in the supergame is an infinite sequence of choices, each of which may be conditional on outcomes of all previous ordinary games. Taylor's analysis focuses on five important types of strategies: C (always cooperate), D (always defect), A^^ (cooperate in the first game, and continue cooperating as long as at least n others cooperate. If fewer than n others cooperate, defect in the next k games, then return to cooperation and begin again), Bn (cooperate in the first game, and from then on cooperate if at least n others cooperated in the previous game), and B'n (defect in the first game and from then on cooperate if at least n others cooperated in the previous game). The A^ " strategies punish defectors but always give them a chance to redeem themselves by cooperating in a later game. The Bn and B'n strategies have been called "tit-for-tat" strategies in the literature. Taylor demonstrates, for the two-person game, that strategy pairs calling for conditional cooperation can be in equilibrium, and thus that cooperation among individuals in a state of nature (i.e., able to communicate but unable to reach binding agreements) is indeed possible. The conditions which must be met have strong intuitive appeal: the greater the temptation to defect (as measured by the entries of the payoff matrix) and the greater the rate used to discount payoffs, the less the chance of a cooperative outcome. In the iV-person game, an additional (and important) condition must be met: the cooperation of all conditional cooperators must depend upon the cooperation of all players not using strategy D. An important omission in Taylor's analysis of the iV-person game is his failure to establish the Pareto optimality of those equilibria with less than complete cooperation. If these equilibria are not Pareto optimal, Taylor has not countered the contractarian argument to the extent he believes.


Objective Obesity, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and hypertension are leading causes associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In modern times, the combined first line antihypertensive therapy with at least two drugs with a different mechanism of action to achieve a better blood pressure control, is increasing in acceptance worldwide. The aim of the present study was to determine possible beneficial effects of the low-dose combination (LDC) of an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, perindopril (PER), and the diuretic indapamide (IND), regarding myocardial and vessels protection in an animal model of hypertension, obesity and NIDDM, such as the obese Zucker rat (OZR), and control lean Zucker rats (LZR). Design Ten-week-old male OZR (fa/fa) and LZR (Fa/fa) were used in this study. OZR group (G1, n = 8), OZR with LDC group (G2, n = 8); LZR group (G3, n = 8) and LZR with LDC group (G4, n = 8). During 6 months, G2 and G4 received a daily dose of 1 mg/kg combination of 0.76 mg/kg PER + 0.24 mg/kg IND, (ratio of doses 0.32), by gavage, and G1 and G3 received an equal volume of vehicle throughout the experiment. In order to evaluate cardiac dimensions and left ventricular mass (LVM) transthoracic echocardiograms were performed, at baseline and at the end of the experiment. Urine and blood samples for biochemical determination were obtained. After 6 months of treatment all rats were sacrificed, hearts were harvested for light microscopy (LM), high-resolution light microscopy (HRLM), immunohistochemistry including monoclonal antibodies against transforming growth factor β (TGFβ1) and anti-collagen type I (COL I) and type III (COL III) and electron microscopy (EM) studies. Results At the end of the study OZR treated with LDC presented: (1) lower blood pressure (128.9 ± 4 versus 150.3 ± 3.6 mmHg, P < 0.05); (2) smaller cardiac dimensions (P < 0.01); (3) lower LVM/100 g body weight (0.17 ± 0.02 versus 0.30 ± 0.05, P < 0.01); (4) higher fractional shortening (34.5 ± 3.2 versus 23.3 ± 5.9%, P < 0.01) than OZR untreated. Moreover, OZR that received LDC showed higher: (1) myocyte density (48 ± 1.5 versus 20 ± 2.5 myocytes/area, P < 0.01); (2) capillary density (30.5 ± 3.1 versus 9.5 ± 1.6 capillaries/area, P < 0.01); (3) myofilament thickness (12.05 ± 0.27 versus 9.83 ± 0.39 nm, P < 0.01); and lower amounts of: (1) TGFβ1 in myocytes (P < 0.01), interstitium (P < 0.01) and vessel wall (P < 0.05); (2) COL I and COL III (P < 0.01), and COL I /COL III ratio (P < 0.01), compared with untreated OZR. Finally, OZR-treated with LDC showed not only unsubstantial modification in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism when compared with untreated OZR, but also an improvement in insulin/glucose ratio (P < 0.05). Conclusion These results suggest that LDC of PER + IND can control cardiovascular damage in OZR providing an additional help in the metabolic scenario likewise.


Technology is created and developed to help people work more efficiently. One of them is Augmented Reality technology. Augmented Reality is a technology that combines two or three dimensional virtual objects into the real three-dimensional environments, then it is projecting the virtual objects in real time, in this case it was possible to help ease the learning process for displaying props and also to increase students attention. In this study, the learning media based on Augmented Reality applied to the subject of Electrical Network Protection System.


Abstract:Marking the anniversaries of the founding of Latin American Theatre Review and Modern Drama as well as the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, this personal essay looks back on the experience of studying theatre at the University of Kansas in the 1960s and learning the importance of serendipity in research projects in the performing arts. It also looks forward to the immediate future of the field by profiling new and forthcoming books derived from dissertations written by members of the Performance Studies Working Group at Yale. Topics addressed include the archival and oral recovery of past performances, critical genealogies of raced and queered identities, the development of modern notions of celebrity and subject-formation in the eighteenth-century theatre, the reactionary avant-garde, and the importance of surveillance and confession in contemporary mediated performance.


Traumatic injuries represent a major health problem all over the world. In recent years we have witnessed profound changes in the paradigm of severe trauma patient resuscitation; new concepts regarding acute coagulopathy in trauma have been proposed; and there has been an expansion of specific commercial products related to hemostasis, among other aspects. New strategies in severe trauma management include the early identification of those injuries that are life threatening and require surgical hemostasis, tolerance of moderate hypotension, rational intravascular volume replacement, prevention of hypothermia, correction of acidosis, optimization of oxygen carriers, and identification of those factors required by the patient (fresh frozen plasma, platelets, tranexamic acid, fibrinogen, cryoprecipitates and prothrombin complex). However, despite such advances, further evidence is required to improve survival rates in severe trauma patients.


This consultancy report was funded by the Northern Gulf Resource Management Group. It updates and expands upon the existing social resilience benchmarking with the most current and best available data and evidence, providing a current assessment of the social resilience of Gulf Communities against a set of prescribed indicators, with reference to climate change drivers.


By 1060 the Normans of Melfi had greatly expanded their dominions in Apulia and Calabria. The next step in their ambitious plans in the Italian peninsula, the invasion of Sicily, took place in 1061: it was not completed before 1091, mostly owing to a combination of political setbacks in the mainland, along with several inefficiencies in Norman military organization. No comprehensive study of the military aspects of the Norman conquest of Sicily has been written, and this paper intends to cover this specific gap. It deals with the first two stages of the Sicilian conquest, the period between the first invasion of 1061 and the first unsuccessful siege of Palermo in 1064, and the second period, which is marked by the five-month siege and capture of the Muslim capital in 1072. It examines the composition of the Norman and Muslim armies, in terms not only of numbers but also of the ration of cavalry, infantry and auxiliary units. It also considers how far the Normans had been willing to adapt to the Mediterranean reality of warfare, more specifically the construction of siege engines and of a navy capable of imposing a blockade and transporting troops and horses from the Italian mainland to Sicily; the Norman fighting tactics used in the field of battle against the Muslims; and whether those tactics changed during the several stages of the Sicilian conquest.


Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology | Oct-Dec 2016 | Volume 37 | Issue 4 309 The mean age for presentation of HCO is 56 years.[4] Our patient presented at the age of 47 years with pancytopenia due to bone marrow infiltration with malignant cells, and recent surgery had been done for adnexal mass. The diagnosis of HCO was established on the basis of classical histopathological findings, immunohistochemistry, and marked elevation of AFP and CEA. Rarely, HCC may metastasize to the ovary, but the presence of classical immunohistochemistry and tumor markers favoring HCO in the presence of normal liver rules out this possibility.


Preface Background Historical Perspective of the Conflict The Relationship of Music and Society Anti-War Songs Pro-Government and Plight-of-the-Soldier Songs Selected Discography Song Title Index Index


This paper presents an analysis of the DLTS (Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy) spectra of GaAs p+-pin-n+ diodes. It is shown that the background spectrum of the deep levels is reproducible and depends on the liquid-phase epitaxy mode (LPE). The temperature dependence of the capacitance-voltage characteristics showed that the i layer is formed by compensation involving deep levels. The space charge covers the width of the i layer and spreads into the depletion p and n regions of the diode structures. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eee.19.10.5903


Five passive and active modified atmosphere (MA) treatments; i.e., 1Non MA as control (packing in plastic nits as traditional practice), 2Passive MA without additions, 3Passive MA with adding 25g wetted Ca(OH)2 per sealed package, 4Active MA 10% O2 + 3% CO2 and 5Active MA 10% O2 + 6% CO2 were applied prior to cold storage of Balady lime fruits for periods of 30, 60, 90 or 105 days at 12±1 ° C and 90 – 95% relative humidity. Fruits were subjected to active and passive MA in tightly sealed carton boxes. After cold storage, fruits of all treatments were hold for 5 days at 20 ° C and 60 70 % relative humidity as shelf period. The target of such research was to clarify effects of modified atmosphere treatments, cold storage periods and their interactions on fruit storability and its quality after cold storage periods and after shelf life during 2010 and 2011 seasons. Fruit samples taken after the tested cold storage and after 5 day's shelf life period exhibited that advancing storage period caused progressive increments in chilling injury index (CII), fruit decay % (FD%), fruit weight loss percentage (FWL %); peel color index (PCI), juice TSS %, Juice % as well as technological index (TI) and TSS / acid ratio. While, juice contents of vitamin C and acidity % as well as pulp firmness after cold storage and after shelf life period were gradually decreased with prolonging the cold storage period. Generally, all tested modified atmosphere treatments reduced chilling injury index, fruit weight loss percentage, fruit firmness, juice %, juice TSS, juice acidity % and TI. Simultaneously, they increased fruit decay%, peel color index as well as TSS/ acid ratio, but, did no significantly affect vitamin C content in fruit juice. Generally, make possible to recommend storage Balady lime fruits (in tight sealed carton boxes at rate of 190± 10 g fruits/ liter) under passive MA with adding 25g wetted Ca (OH)2 per package treatment for 60 days at 12±1 ° C and 90-95% relative humidity. This


Transcranial alternating current stimulation is a non-invasive electric stimulation therapy and a promising neuromodulation approach to treat brain-related diseases. This article briefly introduces the factors related to treatment efficacy, possible mechanism, clinical application, and future development of transcranial alternating current stimulation.

Key words:
Electric stimulation therapy; Psychotic disorders; Neurological disorders; Transcranial alternating current stimulation; Neuromodulation


Contamination by mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH) affects all types of food and feed due to the ubiquitous presence of these compounds. Technical lubricants used in edible oil supply chains can be a source of contamination. This article describes a new method developed for the quick detection and identification of the presence of lubricants in crude coconut oil that can serve as an extra control step in identifying the source of contamination and preventing MOH migration.


Marketing ROI has been a topic of considerable debate between proponents of brand management and those of marketing accountability. As the brand management discipline works to leverage marketing investments to meet the challenge of an increasingly fragmented media audience, financial stakeholders of corporations demand a greater visibility into these investments. The prolific usage of scanner data based marketing mix modeling methods of marketing ROI measurement has generated additional pressure on brand-managers to demonstrate ROI on their marketing investments. Brand-managers justify their aversity to measuring marketing investments on the same ROI hurdles as other capital outlays on the basis of the long-term nature of marketing effect on sales, whereas financial stakeholders continue to evaluate those using short-term methods like marketing-mix models. This paper proposes leveraging consumer based equity measures to measure the long-term effect of marketing on sales in addition to the short-term effects measured by marketing-mix models utilizing a novel three-stage approach that is parsimonious and yet estimates a more complete measure of marketing ROI. An additional advantage would be to quantify the long-term sales impact of brand health metrics brand-managers track on a regular basis. This would bridge the gap that exists in how brands are measured and valued and the process of marketing budget allocation that eventually drives brand value.


Natasha Barbely began a NASA internship through the Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) in the spring of 2008, in the field of rotorcraft aeromechanics.Today, she is an aerospace engineer who works in the Aeromechanics Office at Ames, where she specializes in aerodynamics and aeroacoustics for rotorcraft, and is currently pursuing a PhD.


Construction of road and railway platforms in areas subject to localized sinkholes requires the use of specific reinforcements, for example, geosynthetics. The current design method for these structures is based on the assumption that there is no displacement of the geosynthetic in the anchorage areas on either side of the cavity. A new analytical method is proposed that takes into account the displacements and deformation of the geosynthetic reinforcement in the anchorage areas and the increase in stress at the edge of the cavity. To validate this new analytical method, a full-scale experiment was carried out; the use of optical fibre sensors integrated into the geosynthetic sheet made it possible to accurately measure the strain of the geosynthetic reinforcement. Comparison of the results obtained by this new analytical method with measurements of a full-scale experiment and the results of a finite element model confirmed the relevance of these new developments.


The packet losses occur repeatedly due to temporal link disconnection during handoff in IPv6 wireless networks. Also during the handoff,due to this bandwidth change,packet drops or wastage of resources and congestion may occur at the new access point. This paper proposed a TCP( transport control protocol) based path loss acknowledgement( TCP-PLACK) mechanism in place of TCP-SACK( selective acknowledgement) mechanism. The proposed TCP-PLACK mechanism sent a special acknowledgment which consisted of packet loss details and available bandwidth at the new access point whenever a TCP receiver was attached to a new access point after a disconnection period or handoff. On receiving this acknowledgment,the sender retransmited the lost packets and adjusted the sending rate according to the bandwidth availability at the new access point. Results of experiments show that the proposed TCP-PLACK mechanism is beneficial for solving problems of packet losses and sending rate adjustment during the switch in wireless networks.


We investigated gonadal development and sex ratio of artificial seedlings of the oblong rockfish Sebastes oblongus, based on samplings for 370 days just after parturition. The primordial germ cells and genital ridge appeared separately under the mesentery in the yolk-sac stage larva (total length: 7.10-7.77 mm) just after parturition. The primordial germ cells and genital ridge integrated to form primordial gonad in 5-day-old larvae (7.12-9.68 mm), and then proliferation of somatic cell and germ cell occurred in the gonad, which was maintained undifferentiated until 45-days after parturition (18.6-20.4 mm). The ovarian differentiation began in the larva of 50-days old (dab) after parturition (dap) (20.0-24.5 mm). The somatic tissues elongated from the both opposite end-sites of undifferentiated gonad were consequently fused and formed a complete ovarian cavity at 60-days old dap (25.5-32.0 mm). In 80-days old dap (37.3-47.2 mm), meiosis of oogonia occurred to be chromatin nucleolus stage oocyte. The perinucleolus stage oocytes appeared at in 130-days old dap (68.0-86.0 mm), and previtellogenic stage oocytes appeared in 370-days old dap (101.0-116.0 mm). Only female was observed in the artificially produced oblong rockfish in the present study. This result revealed the effect of higher temperature on the sex determination of the oblong rockfish..


This paper discusses the outstanding role of the teachers with "double teaching-ability" in training practical personnel,analyzes the current questions about construction of "double teaching-ability" teaching staff and presents some reasonable measures for improvement.


Questions concerning the relationship between the fiscal policy and the current account are of great analytical and empirical interest. This paper empirically investigates the relationship between current account deficits and fiscal deficits with controlling variables such as inflations, exchange rates, interest rates and trade openness for ten developing economies of Asia in the period of 1985 – 2012. Based on the panel differenced GMM Arellano-Bond estimator and the PMG estimation-based error correction model, the study finds out that (1) the speed of adjustment in the short run to reach equilibrium level in the long run is 40.47%/year; (2) a twin divergence between fiscal deficits and current account deficits in 10 Asian countries.


Recent investigations have indicated that co-firing CH3OH with H2 is a promising approach to develop a carbon-neutral energy system. However, accurate measurements of laminar burning velocities over a wide range of equivalence ratios, H2 mole fractions, pressures and temperatures are complicated and may not available. Hence, this research deeply investigates the application of several machine learning models in predicting the laminar burning velocities of CH3OH/H2 blended fuels. Results denoted that Random Forest Regressor is the most persuasive model based on a thorough comparison, as indicated by the correlation coefficient of 0.99707.


Objective To explore the relationship between the mRNA expression of ABCG1 in gallbladder mucosa and the occurrence of cholesterol polyps.Methods Studies were made in 15 patients with cholesterol polyps and 8 patients without cholesterol polyps and gallstone.The biliary cholesterol,total bile acids and phospholipids were measured by kits,and the expression of ABCG1 mRNA detected by real-time PCR,the ABCG1 protein was detected by Western blotting.Results Cholesterol saturation index was increased in patients with cholesterol polyps(P0.05).The ABCG1 mRNA expression in the cholesterol polyps group was higher than in the controls,and the ABCG1 protein level was also elevated in the cholesterol polyps group.Conclusions The expression of ABCG1 mRNA and protein were increased in the cholesterol polyps patients,indicating that ABCG1 may have some effects on the genesis and progression of gallbladder cholesterol polyps.


Between Synesios and Psellos, so for a period of six centuries, Hellenic identity went into abeyance. It had only a hypothetical existence, being a relic of the past that could be glimpsed in ancient texts; or the antithesis of Christianity, something that could both negate and complement but whose power was never actualized; or fragmented markers that signified little, for example the mere fact of language or geography. Not all of its elements even survived the end of antiquity. Having described the storms of late antiquity, it is useful to take stock of Hellenism and see what was jettisoned, what retained, and what washed up on the shores of Byzantium, to be salvaged in later times. The religions of the ancient Greeks, for example, were more or less ended by the end of antiquity. Some of their elements were absorbed into Christianity, but not in a way that threatened or could spark a revival. It was not until the very end of Byzantium, with Georgios Gemistos Plethon, that a revival was even imagined, and it too led nowhere. The end of paganism entailed the obsolescence of certain ancient centers of Greek identity, chiefly Delphi and Olympia. During the early Roman empire, when Hellenism spread throughout the East, those places had served to draw attention to the Greek homeland. Now a de-Hellenized Greece found itself with hardly any Christian credentials and no imperial capital.


Globally, Anxiety and Depression are leading contributors affecting adolescents' mental health. 1 in 4 adolescent goes through mental health issues that require immediate attention. 1 It is also well documented that many mental health disorders emerge in late childhood and early adolescence and they exacerbate to the burden of these disorders in youth and later in life. 2
In severe cases of anxiety and depression sufferer may commit suicide, it is reported that every 40 seconds one person dies of suicide.3 Globally, suicide is the fourth leading cause of mortality among youth between the ages of 15 to 29 after road traffic accidents. Among teens between 15-19 years, suicide is the second leading cause of death among girls (after maternal and reproductive issues) and the third leading cause of death in boys (after road traffic accidents and interpersonal violence). 4
Pakistan is a developing country with an estimated population of 220 million, of which 50% of the population is between 12- 25 years. A recent study conducted in Pakistan, on 400 high school going adolescents (15-18 years), identified the prevalence of anxiety and depression around 53% among the adolescents enrolled in high school going in Pakistan. 5 The rates of anxiety and depression among adolescent population are alarming in the context of Pakistan; where the mental health human resources are scare. There are only few child and adolescents' psychiatrists, and hardly any specialized mental health nurses and formalized mental health services for children and adolescents in Pakistan that can be considered at par with the developed world. However, the encouraging news is that if an early preventive intervention in the forms of cognitive behavior therapy are done, it can help and empower children and adolescents to identify their triggers and manage anxiety and depression effectively. 6
Non-specialist preventive mental health strategies may work as alternate options for reducing anxiety and depression, in resource constrained settings like Pakistan. The effectiveness of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy based intervention are already established by non-specialists (Community Health Workers) to reduce postpartum depression among women. 7 These evidences are encouraging and can be replicated to reduce Anxiety and Depression among children and adolescents at schools.  Schools are vital pillar to promote children' cognitive, social, emotional, behavioral and intellectual attainment. Academic institutions are well positioned to implement preventive mental health strategies.   Thus, school-based mental health prevention programme can be cost effective well positioned interventions for a LMIC country like Pakistan. 8
Mental health issues of young people require immediate attention. Many of these issues are easily manageable.  However, it is challenging to access and provide them mental health services at their convenience.  Therefore, it is important to engage main stream academic institutions, to access children and youth to include them for early interventions to address their mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. There is also a need to establish evidence-based interventions to promote mental health and prevent anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among youth.


A new equipment has been developed for waste paper quality control. The laboratory device described in the paper can perform pulping and subsequent screening of about 1 kg paper samples, namely bore specimens taken from waste paper bales. The equipment automatically delivers two types of washed rejects from hole and slot screening to be inspected visually, and a clean pulp to be used for further analysis such as physical properties and cleanliness measured on handsheets. The weight of coarse rejects from hole screening gives the amount of contraries, or non repulpable material, contained in the sample, while the analysis of the slot screening rejects enables the amount and nature of fine contraries which may affect product quality or cause problems during the recycling process to be assessed.


Glucagon-like polypeptides, GLP-1-(7-36)-amide and GLP-1-(7-37), are important regulators of insulin synthesis and secretion by islet beta-cells. The hypothesis to be tested in this study was that defects in the islet beta-cell GLP-1 receptor gene contribute to the impaired glucose-regulated insulin secretion of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Human islet GLP-1 receptor genomic clones were isolated, and two highly polymorphic simple sequence repeat regions (GLP-1R-CA1 and GLP-1R-CA3) were identified. Polymerase chain reaction assays were developed to define alleles. For GLP-1R-CA1, 14 alleles were observed in African-Americans (heterozygosity [het] = 0.78) and 6 alleles in Caucasians (het = 0.67). For GLP-1R-CA3, 16 alleles were observed in African Americans (het = 0.89) and 8 alleles in Caucasians (het = 0.83). By genotyping all members of the 40 reference Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain pedigrees at GLP-1R-CA3, the human GLP-1 receptor gene was uniquely placed on chromosome 6p between GLO1 and D6S19, 20.4 cM from human leukocyte antigen. To assess the possible role of the GLP-1 receptor gene in determining the genetic susceptibility to NIDDM, allelic frequencies of GLP-1R-CA1 and GLP-1R-CA3 were compared between African-American NIDDM patients (n = 95) and control subjects (n = 93). The frequencies did not differ between the two groups at either GLP-1R-CA1 or GLP-1R-CA3. The GLP-1 receptor gene simple-sequence repeat polymorphisms were used for linkage analysis in Utah Mormon pedigrees (n = 16) with NIDDM. Linkage could be rejected (logarithm of odds scores <–2.0) under both dominant and recessive models to distances in excess of 5 cM. Thus, we concluded that inherited defects in the GLP-1 receptor are not a major risk factor for NIDDM in these two racial groups.


An aqueous liquid laundry detergent composition comprising: (a) from about 5% to about 80%, by weight of the composition, of a detergent surfactant, wherein about 1% to about 80% by weight of the composition is a ester surfactant alkoxylated carboxylic acid of formula (I): ** (See formula) ** in which: R1 is I selected from alkyl or alkylene groups of C6 to C22 linear or branched, R2 is selected from C2H4 or C3H6 groups, R3 is selected from H, CH3, C2H5 or C3H7 groups, n has a value between 1 and 20; (B) a free radical scavenger; (C) wherein the mole ratio of ester to free radical scavenger is from about 500: 1 to about 20: 1; (D) a detergent ingredient selected from the group casting consisting of an enzyme, a contrast agent, a suspending agent dirt, an antiredeposition polymer and mixtures thereof; (E) from about 15% to about 90% water.


Cost models are broadly used in query processing to drive the query optimization process, accurately predict the query execution time, schedule database query tasks, apply admission control and derive resource requirements to name a few applications. The main role of cost models is to produce the time needed to run the query on a specific machine. In a multi-cloud environment, this is insufficient in two aspects: firstly, the machines employed are not defined a-priori, and secondly, time estimates need to be complemented with monetary cost information, because both the economic cost and the performance are of primary importance. This work addresses these two shortcomings and aims to serve as the first proposal for a bi-objective query cost model that is suitable for queries executed over resources provided by potentially multiple cloud providers. Moreover, our approach is applicable to more generic data flow graphs, the execution plans of which do not necessarily comprise relational operators.


The elements of sacral attitude towards waterfowls in the traditional culture of the Komi (Ziryane) are described in the paper. The sacral waterfowls are duck, swan and loon. Folk believes and omens concerning these waterfowls are considered. The attention is paid to the image of the sacral waterfowls in the traditional applied art of the Komi (Ziryane).


Chorioamniotic membrane separation (CMS) is a rare finding in ultrasound examination during pregnancy. It is mostly seen as a complication after invasive prenatal procedures but also can present spontaneously. Extensive CMS is found to be associated with adverse perinatal fetal outcomes.


We derive, we believe for the first time, an expression for the chirp-to-power ratio (CPR), i.e. the ratio of the frequency modulation to the intensity modulation for quantum well lasers which includes effects the carrier transport from separate-confinement-heterostructure (SCH) layers to the quantum wells, spatial hole burning in the lateral dimension of the quantum wells, and intrinsic material gain compression. The model includes the photon lifetime and percentage bias current above threshold as scaling parameters. We compare the model with data obtained from a quantum well GaAs laser and a channel-substrate planar (CSP) structure laser both in external cavities.<<ETX>>


The free energies of formation of the minerals libethenite, Cu2PO4OH, pseudomalachite, Cus(PO4)z(OH)4 , cornetite, CuaPO4(OH)3 , tarbuttite, ZnzPO4OH, spencerite, Zn2PO4OH. 1.5H20, and scholzite, CaZn2(PO4) 2 9 2H20, have been determined at 298.2 K using solution techniques. The values of AfG ~ (298.2 K) for the above minerals are, respectively, -1228.8 _+ 3.0, 2840.3 _+ 4.2, 1600.9 + 5.9, 1632.1 _ 4.0, 1982.4 _ 3.1, and 3556.7_+ 7.6 kJ mol1 These results, together with others from the literature concerning hopeite, Znz(PO4) 2 9 4H20 , h~droxyapatite, Cas(PO4)3(OH), and the synthetic salt Cu3(PO4)2.2H20 have been used to construct a model for the formation of suites of Zn(n) and Cu(II) phosphate minerals found in the oxidation zone of base metal orebodies. The distributions and modes of occurrence of many natural assemblages of these minerals are readily explained by the model. Particular attention has been focused on deposits at Broken Hill, Zambia, and Saginaw Hill, Arizona, USA. K E Y W O R D S: stability constants, phosphate minerals, libethenite, pseudomalachite, cornetite, tarbuttite, spencerite, scholzite. IN the mineral kingdom, species containing the phosphate ion are among the most widespread and, in terms of their stoichiometries, the most elaborate. In a recent comprehensive review, Nriagu and Moore (1984) have highlighted these facts, and collated much of our present knowledge concerning phosphate minerals. It has been pointed out (Nriagu, 1984) that approaches to an understanding of the chemical processes responsible for phosphate mineral formation have been hampered by a lack of pertinent and accurate thermodynamic data. Phosphate minerals occur both in extensive * Author for correspondence. Copyright the Mineralogical Society bedded sedimentary deposits and as primary phases in pegmatites and associated igneous rocks. In addition, a variety of phosphate-containing species are found in the oxidized zones of many base metal orebodies. Cu(n), Zn(Ii), and Pb(It) minerals from this setting have been shown to have a number of different stoichiometries and these metal ions are incorporated into an analogous but more complex suite of arsenates (Hey, 1955). We have begun a series of thermochemical studies aimed at developing a model to explain the formation of, and paragenetic sequences observed in, suites of transition and base metal arsenates and phosphates in oxidized ores. On the basis of estimated thermodynamic parameters (Nriagu and Dell, 1974; Nriagu, 1975; Vieitlard and Tardy, 1984), Nriagu (1984) has examined a number of such phosphate minerals. Our results, which we present below, concerning the experimentally determined free energies of formation of the minerals libethenite, Cu2PO4OH , pseudomalachite, Cus(PO4)2(OH)4, cornetite, Cu3PO4(OH)3, tarbuttite, Zn2PO4OH, spencerite, Zn2PO4OH" l~H20, and scholzite, CaZn2(PO4)2.2H2 O, indicate that previously predicted values are not of sufficient precision to describe known mineralogical and geochemical relationships. We are able to demonstrate that accurate thermodynamic parameters for these minerals lend themselves to incorporat ion into a model which neatly predicts many classical field observations. Reference is made to a number of deposits, especially those at Broken Hill, Zambia, and Saginaw Hill, Arizona, USA. Libethenite from the Mindola open pit, Rokana mine, Kitwe, Zambia, pseudomalachite from the West Bogan mine, Collerina Hall, NSW, Australia, 34 M. C. F. MAGALH~ES E T A L . cornetite from the Mine de L'Etoile, Katanga, Zaire, tarbuttite from Kopje No. 2, Broken Hill, Zambia, spencerite from the HB Zinc mine, Salmo, British Colurhbia, Canada, and scholzite from Reaphook Hill, SA, Australia, were used in the study. The latter three species were kindly supplied by the British Museum (Natural History) and their respective specimen numbers are BM1929,1629, BM1916,377, and BM1970,114. The minerals were freed of contaminating material and clean crystal fragments hand-picked under the microscope. The identities of all species were confirmed using X-ray powder methods employing Cu-K~ radiation and a Debye-Scherrer camera. Water was distilled using an FI Streem 4 automatic glass apparatus and then passed through an Elgastat B104 HR resin column. The conductivity of the water was found to be 0.6 /2S cm~ as determined using a WTW LF530 conductivity meter. Measurements of pH were performed using a WTW 521 meter fitted with a WTW E56 combination electrode. Electronic spectral and AAS measurements were carried out using a Perkin Elmer Hitachi 200 spectrophotometer and a Perkin Elmer 400 spectrometer, respectively. Phosphate determinations were carried out using published methods (Environmental Protection Agency, 1979). IR spectra were recorded in KBr discs using a Perkin Elmer 257 instrument. Finely powdered mineral samples were placed in sealed flasks filled with aqueous perchloric acid (8.736• 10 -4 mol dm -3) and to which a tefloncovered magnetic follower had been added. The flasks were thermostatted at 298.2+0.1 K in a Grant SB3/74GB bath and stirring was effected by positioning magnetic stirrers underneath it. A series of preliminary experiments, during which the pH of the reaction mixtures was monitored, established the time necessary for equilibrium to be achieved. The flasks were allowed to remain in the experimental apparatus for at least double this period at which time they were removed and the mixtures filtered through a 0.45/~ millipore | pad. The volumes of the equilibrating solutions were 100 cm 3, and the flasks were filled to remove any gaseous phase. A large excess of solid powdered mineral was admitted (c.200 mg) in each case. The preliminary experiments showed that equilibrium was achieved in the solutions after two weeks in all cases. Nevertheless, the solutions were equilibrated with the solid phases for at least four weeks, and in the case of cornetite, for up to twelve weeks. The pH of the reaction solution was measured prior to filtration and total metal ion (by AAS) and total phosphate (colorimetrically) concentrations determined in the filtrates. All minerals dissolved congruently, as evidence by IR spectra of the filtered, washed solids, which were identical to those of the authenic minerals involved. The computer programme COMICS (Perrin and Sayce, TABLE I Equilibrium constants used as input for COMICS caleulatlons, a Species b log K Reference H2PO ~ 7.20 Smith and Martell (1976) H3PO4 ~ 9.35 Smith and Martell (1976) CaHPO4~ 2.74 Smith and Martell (1976) CaM2PO ~ 8.60 Smith and Martell (1976) CAP04 -5.89 c Smith and Martell (1976); Truesdell and Jones (1974) CuHP04~ 2.34 Smith and Martell (1976) CuH2PO ~ 8.50 d Smith and Martell (1976) ZnOH + -8.96 Baes and Mesmer (1976) Zn2OH3+ -9.00 Bars and Mesmer (~976) ZnHP04~ 1.56 Smith and Martell (1976) aAt I = 0 and 298.2K except where noted, bgarly COMICS runs including hydrolysed Cu(II) species gave negligible concentrations for them. They were not included in later calculations. CCalculated as for the [Ca(HPO~)(OH)]complex, d310.2K. I = 0.15. STABILITY OF PHOSPHATE MINERALS 35 1967) was used to calculate the species distribution in each solution. Equilibrium constants, which were not corrected due to the low ionic strengths involved in the calculations, are given in Table I. Solubilities of the minerals are given in Table II. TABLE II. Experimentally determined solubilities ef the minerals at 298.2K in 8.756 x I0-4M aqueous IlC~O 4 Mineral 104 Solubility/mol dm -3 pH a'b llbethenite 2.839 3.98 2.610 3.90 2.273 3.88 2.312 3.95 pseudomalachite 0.939 4.00 0.869 4.00 0.856 3.99 0.811 4,07 cornetite 1.515 4,37 1.464 4.35 1.588 4.44 1.625 4.41 1.483 4.54 1.506 4.29 1.547 4,25 tarbuttite 2.656 5,18 2.710 5.23 2.405 5.39 2.602 5.24 2.606 5.12 2.695 5.10 spencerite 2.549 5.46 2.483 5.49 3.259 5,52 2.813 5.50 2.914 5.53 scholzlte 2.0~q 5.54 2. t25 5.67 1.901 5.44 2.167 5.56 2.151 5.51 2.047 5.66


Out of 4300 protein coding genes, 850 still have no attributed function. yebV is one such gene that is highly conserved in bacterial domain and not been characterized yet. It may be due to gene's varying expression levels in different phases or its small size or its non essentiality character. In this paper, we have studied different physiological nature of cell mutated in yebV gene, also tried to model this protein in insilico methods.


Mankind came at this earth with their needs. The basic needs of mankind are food for eating, water for drinking, and for the protection of selves; they need wearing clothes and shelter to safeguard themselves from rain, hot and cold. The responsibility of living is dependent on these essential requirements. Islam teaches mankind to earn lawful food. Many verses and hadiths are related to earning lawful food. Islam is a peaceful religion. Therefore, to earn lawful (Halal) food is appreciated. This is a fact that the economic stability has positive effects on human beings' faith, believe, ethics, character, thinking, thoughts, personality and the system of a family. Whereas the financial instability puts negative effects on people's faith, believe ethics, character, thinking, thoughts, personality and the system of a family. That is why Islam advises mankind for earning lawful (Halal) foodstuff. All those sources are considered unlawful (Haraam) to earn money, which directly affects society or people's wealth, life, and faith. The lawful (Halah) money (food) motivates the people towards good works and unlawful (Haraam) simulates the mankind to do sinful deeds. Food affects the body, like same the unlawful (Haraam) money (food) affects the soul. Lawful foodstuff produces a spiritual power in people for doing good and righteous and to inculcate give values, respect and importance to every relationship and to the society at large. The aim of this draft to elucidate the importance of lawful money (foodstuff) and its role in the stability of the family system.


This chapter argues that the concept of equity plays a crucial role in Calvin's early writings, especially in the Commentary on Seneca and the 1536 edition of the Institutes. Calvin embraces two distinct yet inseparable meanings of the term 'equity'. One sense is as an interpretative principle of natural law, and the goal at which all civil law aims. The other sense is an application of the interpretative sense, in which a ruler or judge amends a civil law that is too strict or too general to take into account all the particularities of a certain case. Calvin's concept of equity displays both his humanist legal training as well as the critical place of natural law in his theology.


Family and school have always been outstanding items in the history of education. The great social changes occurring in today's society are having a large influence not only on the definition of their roles but also on the development of their functions and responsibilities. Both institutions must seek new spaces for interaction and work in order to achieve a quality education. Their current challenge is to reach the integration and participation of parents in their children's educational processes; the following pages are devoted to the way in which this approach must be implemented.


Denmark was an "early adopter" of wind power and generates an unusually high proportion of its electricity from wind – 21% in the country as a whole in 2010, and 24% in the region of West Denmark. Almost all of the rest of the country's electricity is generated in CHP plants, a mix of "primary" stations (58%) and "local" plants (21%). The key difference between these is partly one of scale, and partly that until 2005 electricity distributors had to buy the power produced by the local plants at a fixed price (IEA, 2008). They accordingly tended to run to meet their heat load, with electricity as a by-product. The central stations, on the other hand, faced the market prices set by Nord Pool and it was changes in their output, together with the flows on international interconnectors, which ensured total generation matched demand. Denmark is well-connected to its neighbours, Germany, Norway and Sweden, with a total interconnector capacity of 5.5 GW (importing, or 4.5 GW for exports), compared to a peak demand in 2010 of 6.3 GW. The Nordic countries have a high proportion of hydro generation (95% in Norway and 46% in Sweden). Germany has installed a large absolute amount of wind capacity, but it provided just 6% of the country's overall generation in 2010.


In combination with the practice of heating piping CAD, this paper introduces a solution to the automatic generation of two dimensional drawing from three dimensional model in MDT 3. It depicts the general idea and enlarges on the particular skills, such as the transfer of design information, projection of equipment and valve, overlapped, crossing or turning pipes.


This contribution foregrounds Santi Romano's particular understanding of pluralism as neither a theory nor a state of things but as a technique. By exploring the notion of relevance, put forward by Romano in the second part of The Legal Order, I will make the claim that he regarded legal knowledge as a special technique to handle conflicts of legal orders. He thought that the intercourse between orders should be governed with exclusive recourse to the compositional power of the legal jargon. My conclusion is that this is not so much a view of law as it is a penetrating understanding of variation in social life.


Intangible assets form part of the true value of organisations. These assets are produced from various forms of capital other than financial capital, which are located in the intellectual, structural and customer domains of organisations. This paper reports the findings from 15 cases from an empirical study of large UK service organisations to which we applied the concepts of social, intellectual and cultural capital as analytical tools to interpret the data concerned with intangible assets. We explore these forms of capital through identifying their origins and their functions. The paper identifies links between the value of these forms of capital and reports on how this value may be measured with pragmatic measures. The paper also considers the feasibility of aggregating the full value of organisations into their individual national economies. The research has produced two paradoxes relating to the development of intangible assets to test in future research.


p.Cys282Tyr homozygosity is the prevalent genotype in (HFE)‐related Hereditary Hemochromatosis with low penetrance and variable expression. However, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma remain the main causes of mortality in these patients. Detection of genetic modifiers identifying patients at risk for liver damage would be relevant for their clinical management. We evaluated proprotein convertase 7 (PCSK7) rs236918 as genetic marker of risk of liver fibrosis in an Italian cohort of p.Cys282Tyr homozygotes.


Report presenting a study of rocket-powered models at transonic speeds to determine the effect on the zero-lift drag coefficient of an indented fuselage modification and a thickened wing-root modification of a swept-wing airplane configuration. Results regarding the variation of drag coefficient with Mach number, effect of wing root thickening, and wing-plus-interference drag coefficients for the tested models are provided.


A reconstructive scheme for variational iteration method using the
 Yang-Laplace transform is proposed and developed with the Yang-Laplace
 transform. The identification of fractal Lagrange multiplier is investigated
 by the Yang-Laplace transform. The method is exemplified by a fractal heat
 conduction equation with local fractional derivative. The results developed
 are valid for a compact solution domain with high accuracy.


Due to the above-mentioned functions, the amount and complexity of software in the vehicle continues to increase rapidly. This trend is by no means new. But right now, an extraordinary number of sectors in the automotive industry are undergoing significant changes to meet new market requirements. This is particularly true for automotive electronics. Since the computing power required for the new tasks is high, microprocessors are increasingly being used in electronic control units (ECU) and complement the microcontrollers previously used in the automotive sector. One or more of these microprocessors, often in combination with a microcontroller, form so-called high-performance ECUs. The microprocessors in these ECUs are very similar to those used in smartphones or PCs and require new software architectures. One aspect of such an architecture is the POSIX-compliant operating systems typically used to efficiently utilize the computing resources. These operating systems allow a more dynamic handling of the executed software and abstract more thoroughly from the hardware than previously used real-time operating systems. To seamlessly integrate these microprocessors into the existing vehicle network, the middleware running on top of the operating system is based on the standard AUTOSAR Adaptive.


ObjectiveTo study the positive expression of pre-S1 antigen in five common components in serum of patients with hepatitis B virus infection and appraise its clinical significance.MethodsELISA Kits were used to detect the expressions of pre-S1 antigen,HBsAg,HBsAb,HBeAg,HBeAb and HBcAb in serum from 6,555 samples of patients with hepatitis B.ResultsPre-S1 positive rate was 87.95% in 440 samples with HBsAg,HBeAg,HBcAb;66.61% in 1 237 samples with HBsAg,HBeAb,HBcAb;82.63% in 236 samples with HBsAg,HBcAb;80.88% in 68 samples with HBsAg,HBeAg;and 34.62% in 26 samples with HBsAg.ConclusionHBV pre-S1 antigen can supplement and improve the deficiency in detecting the five components and reflect the duplication and infectivity of hepatitis B virus better than HBeAg.


This experiment was conducted to investigate the thermo physiological traits of Californian, New Zealand white, Havana black and Palomino brown rabbits raised in humid tropics.  A total number of ninety-six rabbits were used. Rectal temperature, respiratory rate, pulse rate and heat stress index were measured in these temperate breeds during rainy and dry season. Data obtained from the thermo physiological parameters was analyzed using SAS 2010. The analysis of variance showed that the breed of rabbit had a significant effect (P< 0.05) on all the thermo physiological parameters studied. Havana black rabbit had the highest mean rectal temperature value (39.32 ± 0.03°C)  followed by Palomino brown (38.97 ± 0.03°C), while the least value was recorded for New Zealand white (38.68 ± 0.02). Respiratory rate values followed the same pattern with that of rectal temperature with higher respiratory rate values recorded for Havana  rabbits. The pulse rate values ranged from 163.23 ± 0.47 to 184.35 ± 0.78 beats/min. The highest pulse rate value was recorded for Havana black. The lowest heat stress index was obtained for New Zealand white followed by California and Palomino Brown while Havana black rabbit had the highest value. The respiratory rate was significantly lower among males as compared to their female counterparts (63.09 ± 0.58 versus 69.54 ± 1.65breaths per minute). The age of the rabbit also significantly affected (P< 0.05) the rectal temperature, respiratory rate, pulse rate and heat stress index. 12 weeks old rabbit had the highest mean values while 4 weeks old rabbit had the least values. The heat stress index value obtained during dry season was higher (P< 0.05) than that obtained for   rainy season (1.93± 0.02versus 1.80 ± 0.01). Havana black rabbits and Palomino brown were more prone to heat stress than California and New Zealand white rabbits in tropical environment. Key words: breed, rabbit, heat tolerance, humid tropics


The studies on road crack detection using machine learning techniques have been conducted and derived significant accuracies. Most of the studies do not consider diverse illumination during daytime or nighttime, and only focus on the detection of category or presence of road crack. In this paper, we propose IlumiCrack, a novel road crack detection framework collaborating Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and object detection CNN models to address these issues. The contributions of this paper are: 1) For the first time, a large- scale road crack dataset with a variety of illumination such as the pictures at nighttime are prepared using a dashcam. 2) On the basis of GMM, experimental evaluations on 2 to 4 levels of brightness classification is conducted for optimal classification. Experimental results show that IlumiCrack outperforms the state-of-the-art R-CNN object detection framework.


The empirical literature shows that gross capital inflows and outflows both decline following a negative global shock. However, to generate a positive co-movement between gross inflows and outflows, the theoretical literature relies on asymmetric shocks across countries. We present a model where there is heterogeneity across investors within countries, but there are no asymmetries across countries. We show that a negative global shock (rise in global risk-aversion) generates an identical drop in gross inflows and outflows. The within-country heterogeneity relates to the willingness of investors to hold risky assets and foreign assets.


For large hydropower development enterprises,this paper presents a study on the owner's ability and its factors,and puts forth a project performance indicators model. This model was verified with the data that were collected through a questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews. The results show a significant correlation of the owner's ability with project performance and they would provide a guide for improvement of owner's ability and project performance.


The motherhood vocation can be included in the definition of feminity, while the womans lack of ability to give birth to a child is experienced as a strong frustration. Motherhood is the prevailing meaning of the feminine existence. This study provides a close examination of the maternal behavior and makes a proper survey on the problems associated with the young mothersidentity contruction deprived in their own early childhood both of motherly caring and chance of development within a family, namely the youth institutionalized in Romania. The truth about the conditions of growth and develoment of Romanian children from orphanages has travelled around the world after the fall of the communist regime, but we think it is properly to know what kind of maternal typology has generated such sad and cruel reality, what kind of welfare is offered to children by these mothers and how they perceive the appearance of risk situations for children. The qualitative methods of research, such as participatory observation, interviews, and case study highlight the existence or absence of communication and maternal sensitivity in childcare. The sample is consisted of young mothers included in a program for preventing child separation from the family, developed within the maternity center in Romania, as well as for mothers who have grown in social institutions and who have experienced the mother separation trauma. Early intervention and investment in early education is the only solution for the physical, mental, social, and emotional child development, which is optimal to prosper in the future. It is the unanimous voice of all international organizations that promote a good start in the life of human beings, which certifies that the intellectual, emotional, spiritual and physical health and the socialization interact and have a tight relationship with the age of the infant child. (OECD)


From the angle of specialized skills of free combat,through thorough and systematic study and analysis,this paper surveys the technical system of free combat and provides both technical basis and theoretic basis of the expertise for the students of this major.


Analytical computation of reliability for complex engineering item is not tractable. The discretization was the main approach for approximating system reliability for intractable cases. But itfails to satisfy the later demand in terms of design parameters. Objective of this work is to offer a different approach where one not only gets a clear idea about the extent of error but also can manipulate in terms of design parameters. Here study of bound based reliability approximation of solid-shaft undertheWeibull frame work is considered. Numerical study, for a selective choice of theWeibull shape parameter, ensures sharpness in the reliability bounds and establishes thereby the usefulness of this bound-based reliability approximation. Since design parameters can be adjusted as per requirements in this method, it can be of practical use during early stages of product design.


We propose in this paper a new voting scheme where the voter, while receiving a receipt for his/her vote allowing further contestations, cannot use it to reveal the vote to other unspecified entities, and therefore cannot be forced to do so. The scheme is based on the concept of strong designated verifier signature scheme, and is very cheap in both computation and data communication, regarding to other works on the subject.


Ground surface characteristics (i.e., topography and landscape patterns) are important factors in geographic dynamics. Thus, the complexity of ground surface is a valuable indicator for designing multiscale modeling concerning the balance between computational costs and the accuracy of simulations regarding the resolution of modeling. This study proposes the concept of comprehensive surface complexity (CSC) to quantity the degree of complexity of ground by integrating the topographic complexity indices and landscape indices representing the land use and land cover (LULC) complexity. Focusing on the meteorological process modeling, this paper computes the CSC by constructing a multiple regression model between the accuracy of meteorological simulation and the surface complexity of topography and LULC. Regarding the five widely studied areas of China, this paper shows the distribution of CSC and analyzes the window size effect. The comparison among the study areas shows that the CSC is highest for the Chuanyu region and lowest for the Wuhan region. To investigate the application of CSC in meteorological modeling, taking the Jingjinji region for instance, we conducted Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) modeling and analyzed the relationship between CSC and the mean absolute error (MAE) of the temperature at 2 meters. The results showed that the MAE is higher over the northern and southern areas and lower over the central part of the study area, which is generally positively related to the value of CSC. Thus, it is feasible to conclude that CSC is helpful to indicate meteorological modeling capacity and identify those areas where finer scale modeling is preferable.


Considering the reality that owners usually reallocate a lot of risks to contractors,this paper defined that the risk allocation on the basis of The Construction Contract(1999) and Standard Model Contract(2007),which can be regarded as the most reasonable risk allocation principles between owners and contractors.On this basis,this paper made identification and evaluation research on the risks reallocated by owners in the following aspects: Firstly,a number of practical contracts was collected and a research was made on the risk allocation in these contracts.The risks usually reallocated by owner are primarily identified.Then through a questionnaire collection and analysis,the frequency and the importance of each risk to contractors were evaluated.And therefore the distribution figure of the risks reallocated by owners was drawn.Through the figure,the importance of each reallocated risk to contractors was clearly proposed.Finally,the relevant measures that contractors should take during the bidding stage and implementing stage were given.Through an empirical analysis,this paper identified the risks that owners would usually reallocate to contractors and the importance of each risk towards contractors with a hope to provide a support for contractors to deal with the relocated risks.


A chromatographic method has been developed for the separation and determination of adipic and sebacic acids in mixtures of phthalic, adipic and sebacic acids. The separation is effected on a silicic acid column buffered to pH 4·30 and the appropriate n-butanol/chloroform eluates are titrated with standard alkali. The behaviour of other dicarboxylic acids under the same conditions is briefly considered.


Purpose: With the increasing prevalence of T2D in youth, it is imperative for primary care providers to identify patients at high risk and implement evidence-based screening protocols promptly. CDSS are tools implemented to provide clinicians with personalized reminders tailored to their patients according to best evidence and guidelines. One example of CDSS is the Child Health Improvement through Computer Automation system (CHICA). We previously showed that primary care providers using CHICA to automate the identification and screening of pediatric patients at high risk for T2D were 4.6 times more likely …


Thesis (M.E.)--American University of Beirut, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2009.;"Advisor : Dr. Sami Karaki, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering--Member of Committee : Dr. Fouad Mrad, Professor , Electrical and Computer Enginee


It was demonstrated in the present paper that cavitation peening which is one of the mechanical surface modification technique can suppress fatigue crack propagation in duralumin. The impacts produced when cavitation bubble collapses can be utilised for the mechanical surface modification technique in the same way as laser peening and shot peening, which is called "cavitation peening". Cavitation peening employing a cavitating jet in water was used to treat the specimen made of duralumin Japanese Industrial Standards JIS A2017-T3. After introducing a notch, fatigue test was conducted by a load-controlled plate bending fatigue tester, which has been originally developed. The fatigue crack propagation behavior was evaluated and the relationship between the fatigue crack propagation rate versus stress intensity factor range was obtained. From the results, the fatigue crack propagation rate was drastically reduced by cavitation peening and the fatigue life of duralumin plate was extended 4.2 times by cavitation peening. In addition, the fatigue crack propagation can be suppressed by 88% in the stable crack propagation stage by cavitation peening.


Mrs. Jordan's business as a fervent flower-arranger in upper-class English houses reflects James's highly coded message about the abysmal ecological failures amidst the humdrum of late-Victorian technological waste. Contrary to the unnamed female telegraphist who turns into a metaphorical embodiment of the technological wasteland where she "dole[s] out stamps and postal orders, weigh[s] letters, answer[s] stupid questions, give[s] difficult change [. . .]" (James 3), Mrs. Jordan uses a certain language of flowers that, not unlike the telegraphist's powerful kingdom of words, "can be used to express ideas and feelings" about the Victorians and the ecological conditions of the time (Otis 175). In fact, Mrs. Jordan's thoughts and feelings can be viewed as James's floral voice which he employs artistically to fence off the industrial cultivations of Western telegraphic civilization. In his apprecia-tion of James's environmental conduct, Joseph Conrad writes that James makes a powerful note on the importance of defying the materialistic illusions of Western urbanization. To Conrad, this responsi-bility is tied with the work of the rebellious artist whose internal language of green energy "casts a dwarfing shadow upon two oceans" (86). The telegraphist starts her journey from the modern dump hole of telegrams at Cocker's which seems to occupy the center of the narrative; however, Mrs. Jordan acts as a green symbolism of the power of nature and the necessity of protecting environmental resources. To put this differently, James encapsulates his ecological message in Mrs. Jordan, who had a manner of her own of sounding this illusion; 'the flowers', on her lips, were, in happy homes, as usual as the coals or the daily papers. She took charge of them, at any rate, in all the rooms, at so much a month, and people were quickly finding out what it was to make over this delicate duty to the widow of a clergyman. (James 6)


Review(s) of: Charlie Burr and the Three Stolen Dollars, by Sally Morgan, Ambelin, Blaze and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, illus by Peter Sheehan, Little Hare Books, $14.95 pb, ISBN 9781921714047, May.


A method for removing a plurality of dielectric films from a supporting substrate by providing a substrate with a second dielectric layer overlying a first dielectric layer, contacting the substrate at a first temperature with a first acid solution exhibiting a positive etch selectivity at the first temperature, and then contacting the substrate at a second temperature with a second acid solution exhibiting a positive etch selectivity at the second temperature. The first and second dielectric layers exhibit different etch rates in the first and second acid solutions. The first and second acid solutions may contain phosphoric acid. The first dielectric layer may be silicon nitride and the second dielectric layer may be silicon oxide. Under these conditions, the first temperature may be about 175° C. and the second temperature may be about 155° C.


This monograph for health care professionals considers the impact that chronic illness and disability have on youth and their families and provides information on adapting principles of family-centered care to promote resilience in adolescents and their families. The monograph stresses the need for community systems of comprehensive services integrated with education, social services, mental health, and family support programs. The eight principles of family-centered care include: (1) recognizing that the family is the constant in an adolescent's life, while service systems and support personnel fluctuate; (2) facilitating adolescent, family, and professional collaboration at all levels of health care; (3) sharing unbiased and complete information among adolescents, families, and professionals in a supportive manner; (4) recognizing strengths and individuality while respecting different methods of coping and honoring cultural diversity; (5) implementing appropriate policies and programs that are comprehensive in therms of providing emotional and financial support to meet the needs of adolescents and their families; (6) understanding and incorporating the developmental needs of adolescents and their families into health care; (7) encouraging and facilitating peer and family-to-family support and networking; and (8) assuring that the design of health care delivery systems is responsive to adolescent and family needs. Family assessment is explained with a sample family genogram illustrated. Strategies that promote the healthy functioning of adolescents with chronic illness and disability and their families are addressed. Collaboration between adolescents, families, and providers during the process of transition is emphasized. (Contains 24 references, and a list of 17 resources whose programs provide direct services to youth and their families, or to individuals, families, and providers. (CR) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Vl'e his document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. o Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy.


The purpose of this study is to identify the differences in the internet banking service encounter's quality between clicks-and-mortar retail banks in Jordan and the different internet banking models of the UK retail banks, and between clicks-and-mortar and dot com. retail banks in the UK, the web sites were evaluated by using the web site quantitative evaluation method (QEM) that developed by Mateos et al. (2001) and Miranda et al. (2006), the evaluation of the banks' web sites was conducted in March 2008 for sixteen clicks-and-mortar retail banks in Jordan, eleven clicks-and-mortar retail banks in the UK, and six dot com. retail banks in the UK, the results indicated that; the internet banking service encounter quality of the clicks-and-mortar in Jordan retail banks is very close to the UK banks, further quality of internet banking service encounter quality of the clicks-and-mortar retail banks in the UK are very close to the dot com. retail banks in the UK.


This article describes the use of the Model of Human Occupation as a framework for guiding the occupational therapy assessment and psychosocial intervention for an adolescent with diabetes mellitus. Psychosocial issues related to having diabetes are discussed and implications for daily life functioning are explored. A case study is used to exemplify the application of the Model of Human Occupation in addressing the psychosocial needs of an adolescent with diabetes mellitus.