Both in the theoretical support and in the normative analysis we observe that the norms in civil procedural matters have gone through different stages and changes throughout history. There is no doubt that one of the transcendental changes is precisely the enactment of Law 493 Codigo Procesal Civil (November 19, 2013). The entry into force of the new Code of Civil Procedure on February 6, 2016, has meant a series of changes with respect to the procedure in the different processes (knowledge, monitoring, bankruptcy and voluntary), taking into account the principles established in the new adjective code such as celerity, transparency, orality, publicity, etc. emphasize that the processes in litigation must satisfy the demands of the population.


The invention discloses a kind of floating pendulum wave energy generating set, including fixing pile on the beach and the sliding platform along pile lifting, described floating pendulum wave energy generating set also includes:It is arranged on the swing frame below sliding platform;It is hinged in swing frame and for absorbing the floating pendulum of wave energy;It is located at the more wave plate of the floating side of accommodating, described more wave plate has the curved surface that guiding wave rushes at floating pendulum;And put, with described floating, the wave energy conversion system being connected, for controlling the tidal level adaptive system of sliding platform lifting, for adjusting the wave direction adaptive system of swing frame steering.Present configuration is simple, is easily installed, and can change automatic adjusting position according to tidal level, wave direction;Improve wave energy transformation efficiency using more unrestrained effect and wall effect, powerful wave-activated power generation can be realized by less cost using the unrestrained device of collection.


Education and learning are the right of all Indonesian people to know no age, sex, race or religion. As formulated in the opening of the 1945 constitution, the fourth paragraph states that the national goal is to protect the entire nation and all of Indonesia's bloodshed and to promote public welfare, educate the nation's life, and participate in carrying out world order based on independence, eternal peace and social justice . To realize these national goals, education is a very decisive factor. So good education will produce good individuals too. Education should be enjoyed by anyone anywhere and anytime. The level of success of learning and teaching activities can be seen from the level of satisfaction of the conditions of learning and teaching itself. So it is a big task for the education practitioners to create an atmosphere that is not boring. Saturation of learning and teaching is felt to be lacking in fun and happiness when done monotonously in the classroom. Learning and teaching activities carried out in the classroom give the impression of being narrow, bored, saturated and not impossible to reduce the level of creativity. Although teaching and learning activities remain in one room to facilitate supervision of teaching and learning activities.
One way to make the atmosphere less tedious is that teaching and learning activities are tried outside the classroom. With teaching and learning activities outside the classroom, it is expected to be able to provide a different atmosphere, manipulate the power of creativity, close to nature, impressed broadly. With a not boring impression, it can create an atmosphere of fun and happiness.


The reaction of the
[Pd(H
 2
O)
 2
(L–L)][NO
 3
]
 2

electrophiles (L–L = ethane-1,2-diamine 1,
propane-1,3-diamine 2, or 2,2′-bipyridine 3)
with 4,7-dihydro-5-methyl-7-oxo[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine
(Hmtpo) in 1∶1 molar ratio, in aqueous media (pH 7–8),
yielded palladium(II) binuclear complexes of general formula
[Pd
 2
(µ-mtpo-N
 3
,N
 4

)
 2
(L–L)
 2
][NO
 3
]
 2
. The
compounds have been structurally characterized by one- and
two-dimensional 1
H and 13
C NMR spectroscopy and
single-crystal X-ray diffraction (1 and 3). The
crystal structures of both compounds show that the Pd atoms are located
in nearly square-planar PdN
 4
 environments. Two mtpo ligands
arranged in a head-to-tail orientation bridge the two metal centres,
giving rise to short intermetallic contacts. The
Pd · · · Pd separation
appears to be modulated by the interactions between the auxiliary
ligands L–L in adjacent co-ordination planes. Thus, substitution
of ethane-1,2-diamine by planar 2,2′-bipyridine is responsible for
a shortening of the intermetallic separation from
3.225(1) A in compound 1 to
3.034(1) A in 3. The NMR data suggest that
the structures are preserved in solution.


Abstract Our preliminary findings in the use of 1,3,2-oxazaphospholidin-2-ones (III) as useful synthons in the synthesis of naturally occurring helminthic (worm) phosphodiesters [i.e. Opheline(II, R=Me) and serine ethanolamine phosphate (I, R=NH2(CO2H)CHCH2,R′=H)] and of related compounds are reported. The 1,3,2-oxazaphospholidin-2-ones can be synthesised by routes A and B; once formed these can be ring-opened by acid treatment which causes exclusive N-P bond fission yielding the phosphodiesters (I). Guanidinated phosphodiesters (II) have been made by reacting the corresponding phosphodiesters (I,R′=H) with O-methylisourea.


Sensors have been developed to measure the relevant parameters that are associated with falls of the elderly living in the community; these include mobility, transfer rate, weight and impact history. The sensor outputs are fed into a computer system together with other biomedical factors such as age, sex, eye-sight and medication. A predictive algorithm is described which determines the likelihood of a fall; this predictive system may form the basis of a practical telecare method to enable early intervention and reduce the number of falls.


INTRODUCTION: Facial nerve injury is disabling for patients with skull base brain tumors or head trauma. NAD+ is a key cofactor in metabolism and is an important component in axonal survival. Exogenous NAD+ prolongs axonal survival after axotomy in both in vitro and in vivo studies. Additionally, axonal survival is improved by blocking enzymes that decrease NAD+ levels (ex SARM1). Nicotinamide precursors like nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) have demonstrated neuroprotective benefits in aging and cellular death. METHODS: We developed a model of facial nerve injury by subjecting mice to 200 Hz of vibratory injury to the facial nerve distal to the stylomastoid foramen using SARM1KO and littermate controls, as well as mice implanted with intraventricular pumps containing 400 mM NMN or saline one week before facial nerve injury. EMG was performed using the NIM Nerve Monitoring System. Whisker movements were recorded and scored daily using Vibrissae observation scale. NAD+ metabolite levels were measured using liquid-chromatography/mass-spectrometry. NF200 immunofluorescence of facial nerves was performed. RESULTS: SARM1KO mice demonstrated robust axoprotection to vibratory injury for both 15 and 30 second durations and regained normal whisker movement in significantly less time compared to controls. Post-injury, SARM1 KO facial nerves required a lower stimulus current to elicit electrical responses in vibrissae muscles. We then used intracranial NMN delivery to test if raising NAD+ levels is axoprotective. NMN delivery increased brain NAD+ 1.5-fold. NMN significantly shortened the time to normal whisker movement, required a lower stimulus current for muscle response, and showed increased axonal integrity by NF200 staining. CONCLUSION: Continuous delivery of the NAD+ metabolite, NMN, allows for neuroprotective benefits in the vibratory neuropraxia nerve injury model, likely through sustained elevated NAD+ levels. These benefits are magnified through inhibition of the NADase enzyme, SARM1. This research demonstrates NMN as a neuroprotective pretreatment adjuvant in patients undergoing planned surgical invention where facial nerve injury is a possible outcome.


The structure of N,N′,N″-tris(2-methoxyethyl)benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide consists of aryl rings self-assembled using a novel conjunction of organizational motifs into a π-stack surrounded by a triple helical network of hydrogen bonds, in a manner suggestive of a new mode of organization for some columnar liquid crystals.


According to the charactersitics of the digital watermark,this paper proposed a kind of wavelet domain image digital watermarking technique using two-dimensional chaotic encrypt and human visual model.The meaningful gray watermarking image was encrypted by two-dimensional Logistic chaotic map.The block embedding intensity was calculated being combined with the human visual model so that the embedding and detection steps of encrypted binary watermark can be adaptively fulfilled in the multi-resolution wavelet coefficients of the host image.The experimental results have shown that this watermarking technique,in which the encrypting and embedding algorithms have less computational capacity,can endure regular digital image process and has good performance.


Introduction. In the present article correlations of internal consistency of family and personal, social and environmental, anamnestic and physical data in persons with acute poisonings were determined for the first time. Also the pedagogical and psychological methods of prevention of the above nosology, directed to the prevention of acute poisonings, were reviewed. A corrective program of repeated poisonings prevention, carried out in the project "School of Health" in the form of conversations, lectures, autogenic training, reduced the number of repeated poisonings. Material and methods. The study was carried out on the basis of the archive of the Budget Health Care Institution of the Udmurt Republic, "City Clinical Hospital No. 6" of the Ministry of Health of the Udmurt Republic, by copying data from the medical history. The analysis was carried out in three groups of patients: those with acute alcohol and drug poisoning, as well as those hospitalized due to non-compliance with safety regulations. After discharge from the hospital, they were offered to attend a "Health School," during which topical talks on the prevention of re-poisoning were given. The analysis was carried out according to the developed diagnostic card, the data obtained were processed with the help of statistical programs. Results. The analysis yielded theoretical validity, which indicated correlation of the results of psychodiagnostics, with the categories of the developed scale. It was determined by the correspondence of the results with possible similar related techniques. Based on the conducted statistical analysis, a rating scale of poisoning risk assessment was derived and preventive measures were developed, which proved to be effective in preventing recurrent acute poisonings. Limitations. The analysis of medical records of the patients treated in the medical care institution of the Udmurt Republic, "City Clinical Hospital No. 6", Ministry of Health Care of the Udmurt Republic, assessed 190 medical records, which represents a sufficient reference sample. Conclusion. The developed technique can be introduced in practical public health care for the prevention of repeated acute poisonings.


Anna, a 13-year-old girl, was admitted to the clinic May 28, 1969, because of increasing pallor and weakness during the last few weeks. On admission, the child was very pale, but the lymph nodes, liver and spleen were not enlarged. Examinations revealed: Hb 5.0 g/100 ml, r.b.c. 1 760 OOO/mms, w.b.c. 3 600/mm:' with metamyelocytes 1 %, juvenile neutrophils 8 %, segmented neutrophils 53 %, lymphocytes 36%, monocytes 1% and lymphoplasma cells 1 % . Myelograms, performed on May 28 and June 6 showed diminished numbers of granulocytic and erythroblastic cells, and a predominance of lymphoid reticulum cells; 40-70% of all the cells (Fig. I ) . Prednisone 3 mg/kg body weight was administered daily. Vincristin, rubidomycin and nitrogen mustard were successively instituted. Three months' treatment failed t o bring about a bone marrow remission. Numerous blood transfusions were given to ameliorate the toxic effects of the drugs and the anemia. In the beginning of the fourth month of hospitalization the bone marrow was still dominated by lymphoid reticulum cells (66% ), which also appeared for the first time in the peripheral blood (280/mm3). Then while the prednisone was gradually discontinued, the administration of cytosine arabinoside (CytarabineB') was begun on Sept. 5, 1969 by intravenous injection in a single dose of 3 mg/kg body Supplied by Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, USA. weight daily. After 7 injections in the course of 3 weeks, the reticulum cells dropped to 4.8%. During the remission, cytosine arabinoside was continued in a dose of 3 mg/kg every three weeks, and in addition endoxan (5 mg/kg body weight) was given twice a week. On Jan. 10, 1970, a follow-up examination revealed the first relapse of the disease (47% reticulum cells in the myelogram). Administration of cytosine arabinoside in 5 injections in the course of 2 weeks, in a total dose of 15 mg/kg body weight, was followed by a drop in the bone marrow parablasts t o 4.5 % . During remission, the girl remained at home, but did not take endoxan injections as recommended. The next hospitalization on March 16, 1970 was caused by increasing bone pains and the myelogram showed a relapse with 65% reticulum cells. For two weeks, she was treated with prednisone (about 1 mg! kg body weight) and L-asparaginase (total dose 2 000 u/kg body weight). In spite of this treatment reticulum cells appeared in the peripheral blood (621 i mm"). Cytosine arabinoside was then reinstituted with a total dose of 36 mgikg body weight for 17 days. A follow-up myelogram on April 20, 1970, showed remission (3% reticulum cells). As in previous cotirses of treatment, administration of cytosine arabinoside was accompanied by nausea and vomiting, neutropenia (more pronounced this time) and thromhocytopenia. During remission, the patient was treated with cytosine arabinoside in doses of 1.5 mg!kg body weight every 3 weeks, and in addition with mercaptopurine, methotrexate and endoxan successively. A third relapse occurred on July 30, 1970 again accompanied by osteoarticular pains. After 8 injections of cytosine arabinoside in the couree of 13 days (total dose 36 mg/kg body weight), the number of reticulum cells in the bone marrow dropped from 78.5% to 9 % . Severe neutropenia and thrombocytopenia made it necessary to discontinue the treatment. Pancytopenia associated with the chronic course of the


In this paper,the dynamic analysis software LS_DYNA3D was used in process of numerical simulation.The process of spalling under the attack by conventional explosions was simulated for the tunnel with the same rock condition and span in condition of supporting with and without SFRC respectively.In order to illuminate the resistance performance of SFRC attacked by conventional explosion quantitatively,the velocities of rockfalls from the top of tunnel supported by SFRC were compared with that of the tunnel supported by other materials and that of the tunnel without support.


We have imaged with Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/UVIS the central 2 &farcm; 7 × 2 &farcm; 7 ?> region of the giant elliptical galaxy M87, using the ultraviolet filter F275W. In combination with archival ACS/WFC data taken through the F606W and F814W filters, covering the same field, we have constructed integrated-light UV–optical colors and magnitudes for 1460 objects, most of which are believed to be globular clusters (GCs) belonging to M87. The purpose was to ascertain whether the multiple-populations syndrome, ubiquitous among Galactic GCs, also exists among the M87 family of clusters. To achieve this goal, we sought those GCs with exceptionally blue UV-to-optical colors because helium-enriched sub-populations produce a horizontal-branch morphology that is well populated at high effective temperature. For comparison, integrated, synthetic UV–optical and purely optical colors and magnitudes have been constructed for 45 Galactic GCs, starting from individual-star photometry obtained with the same instruments and the same filters. We identify a small group of M87 clusters exhibiting a radial UV–optical color gradient, representing our best candidate GCs hosting multiple populations with extreme helium content. We also find that the central spatial distribution of the bluer GCs is flattened in a direction parallel to the jet, while the distribution of redder GCs is more spherical. We release to the astronomical community our photometric catalog in F275W, F606W, and F814W bands and the high-quality image stacks in the same bands.


1. Introduction Selecting a job is not merely based on the compensation that people will get, but sometimes there is something beyond it. As for some nurses, the basic reason of being the nurses might be due to the short distance between their home and the work place. It means it is not because they will get more salary. This phenomenon is different from the most common reality that more salary people get, more performance they will show. However, this assumption needs to be examined further by conducting a research to disclose whether the compensation influences the nurse's performance. The results of previous empirical studies show the inconsistency results of the influence of the compensation on the nurse's performance. Some researchers found that the compensation positively influence the nurse's performance, whereas others show that there is no influence of the compensation on the nurse's performance. These inconsistency results lead to a further research which adds the work environment variable and shared leadership as the moderating variable. Work environment and shared leadership are selected as the solution to overcome the inconsistency result of the previous studies. In addition, the work environment and shared leadership are still rarely used as the moderating variable of the compensation and performance. Therefore, this study aims at disclosing whether work environment strengthen the influence of compensation on the performance, and also finding out whether the shared indicator strengthen the employee's performance. 2. Literature, Hypotheses, and Framework 2.1. Compensation and Nurse's Performance There are four keys that make the employee compensation management success which are: (1) providing health quality maintenance; (2) maintaining work productivity by keeping the employees working on-track, (3) giving more priority on employee's satisfaction, (4) controlling the cost (Guzik et al., 1999). According to Gupta and Shaw (2013) that compensation system is important and interesting. Nevertheless, there are some debates on the study concerning employee's compensation including: (1) compensation becomes one of reasons of the crucial effects on human capital's quality and effectiveness; (2) based on psychological point of view, compensation has an effect on the employee's behaviour and attitude; (3) some of compensation's decision are not expensive. The development on the compensation study runs dynamically. The influence of the compensation variable, both non-executive and executive, on the performance has positive effects as stated by Feng et al. (2015). Compensation, both performance-based compensation, compensation based on individual performance, and a strong team identity, positively affects the performance (Blazovich, 2013). Shin-Rong et al. (2012) who state that the compensation made by director economically has a positive effect on the market performance and company support this finding. A study conducted by Vandersteegen et al. (2014) on 34 OECD developed countries, which has become the members of OECD in between 1970-2001 shows that the compensation decrease the maintenance cost by 0.11%. Meanwhile, another research concerning the influence of the compensation on employee's performance states that the quality of the compensation is influenced by: (1) the quality of the people who apply, (2) the quality of those hired, (3) the likelihood of job acceptance, (4) the motivation and performance level of the workforce, and (5) the quality of who stays with the company (Gupta and Shaw, 2014). Brown et al. (2016) state that "We further find that the relation between task difficulty and compensation plan selection is fully mediated by participants' assessments of their relative skill". This research used the web-based software in the computer library by involving 148 undergraduate students from public university. Whereas, based on Onishi's research (2013), he states that the compensation in form of revenue-based compensation plans can increase the patent/copyright numbers. …


This paper addresses itself to the theme of creation in Daniel 7. A thesis was proposed that concurs with what Loren Fisher wrote more than 30 years ago: conflict, kingship, ordering of chaos, and temple building are ail related to an overarching theme that would call "creation". In Daniel 7, God's retinue is mentioned for that very purpose. The divine judgment is re-creation. Now the parallelism between temple-building/cult, and creation is very old; already in Sumero-Akkadian creation material the temple is the site of creation. Let us further note the presence in Daniel 7 of the Ugaritic cosmological pattern, which follows the following sequence: battle/ victory /kingship/judgment/recreation. The author of Daniel 7 has recourse to mythological motifs and to the model of the cosmogonies to describe an eschatological event. Furthermore, this mythological motif has already been used in J's account of the anthropogony. Keywords: cosmological pattern; creation; mythological motifs; Sumero-Akkadian


Dried human blood plasma was previously found (1) to be a protein of very poor nutritive value as measured by its ability to support growth in young rats when it served as the only source of protein. Isoleucine was shown to be the chief amino acid deficiency under these conditions. These results with human plasma and young growing rats may be contrasted with the results obtained by some workers (2) and by others using bovine plasma and hypoproteinemic dogs. They found that bovine serum proteins serve well for the regeneration of serum proteins in such dogs. Whether these differences with respect to the nutritional qualities of the plasma proteins represent (a) differences in the requirement of the 2 species, (b) differences in the requirement of animals of different ages, (c) differences in the requirement for growth as compared to serum regeneration, or (d) a variation in the amino acid composition of the proteins used is as yet unknown. The nutritive value of plasma or of the various plasma proteins may be of importance since certain individuals may receive them as the sole source of protein at a time when protein requirements are especially high. Albumin is the protein most abundant in plasma and the protein which may be used in relatively large amounts in intravenous therapy. It was of interest, therefore, to determine the nutritive value of this protein as well as the other plasma proteins available in sufficient amounts for study and possible therapeutic use. In addition to the rat growth studies, we report observations on the nutritive value of


Background

Routine vaccination uptake in adults remains sub-optimal and poorly understood. In the US, only 66% of adults aged ≥65 years and 47% of younger high-risk adults reported receiving an influenza vaccine in 2012/2013 (the latest available coverage rates), whereas in the past 10 years, 64% of adults aged 19–64 years and 53% of adults aged ≥65 years received tetanus boosters. In …


In this article, a user-oriented software reliability model was proposed to evaluate the reliability of Web services two kinds of Web services were discussed: atomic services without the structural information and the composite services consisting of atomic services. Firstly, the reliability of atomic service was evaluated based on an extended UDDI model. Then, the overall reliability of composite service was evaluated using BPEL structure chart-based model and the reliabilities of all atomic services being used. A case study is designed, implemented, and analyzed to support our model. The experimental results show the significances of the model.


Objective To study how to improve the operative security through intensive perioperative care and operative technique of pancreatoduodenectomy.Methods 71 patients with pancreatoduodenectomy from 1991 to 2002 were reviewed.The complications,mortality,postoperative treatments and operation methods were studied.Results In 71 patients,2 case died (2.8%) and 14 cases had complications(19.7%).Conclusion Appropriate perioperative care and excellent operative technique are the key points to improve the security and reduce complications of pancreatoduodenectomy.


Directions: Read each case and write the name of the psychological disorder that is the best diagnosis for each person. Then, list the symptoms that led you to this diagnosis. A list of the disorders is provided below. ` ANXIETY DISORDERS MOOD DISORDERS SCHIZOPHRENIA generalized anxiety disorder major depression paranoid schizophrenia panic disorder dysthymic disorder catatonic schizophrenia specific phobia seasonal affective disorder disorganized schizophrenia social phobia bipolar disorder undifferentiated schizophrenia agoraphobia obsessive-compulsive disorder post-traumatic stress disorder


To determine the impact of depression and anxiety on well being, disability and use of health care services among nursing patients.


This paper demonstrates that double unit-cell asymmetry in periodic leaky-wave antennas (P-LWAs), i.e., asymmetry with respect to both the longitudinal and transversal axes of the structure—longitudinal asymmetry (LA) and transversal asymmetry (TA)—allows for the simultaneous broadside radiation of two orthogonal modes excited at the two ports of the antenna. This means that the antenna may simultaneously support two orthogonal channels, which represents interesting polarization diversity characteristics for wireless communications. The double asymmetric (DA) unit cell combines a circularly polarized LA unit cell and a coupled mode TA unit cell, where the former provides equal radiation in the series and shunt modes while the latter separates these two modes in terms of their excitation ports. It is also shown that the degree of TA in the DA unit cell controls the cross-polarization discrimination level. The DA P-LWA concept is illustrated by two examples, a series-fed line-connected patch (SF-LCP) P-LWA and a series-fed capacitively coupled patch (SF-CCP) P-LWA, via full-wave simulation and also experiment for the SF-LCP P-LWA case.


In order to study the influence of water content on the mechanical properties of sandstone and evolution of crack propagation, laboratory compression tests and Engineering Discrete Element Method (EDEM) numerical simulation of sandstone under different conditions were carried out by the RMT-150B rock mechanics test system. The sandstone samples were from Nanyang, Henan Province, containing a total of 12 rock samples. Under the confining pressure of 0, 5, 10, and 20 MPa, the rock samples with 0%, 1.81%, and 3.24% water content were tested. The findings demonstrated that as the sample's water content grew, the peak strain increased but the peak strength, elastic modulus, maximum energy rate of individual acoustic emission events, and cumulative acoustic emission energy rate all reduced. While the ratio of tensile cracks to shear cracks inside the rock samples rose with increasing water content, the failure mode of sandstone changes from shear failure to tensile failure with the increase of water content, but the sandstone specimens in the three conditions exhibited shear macroscopic fracture surfaces. Research results will provide reference for the safe construction of underground projects in water rich areas.


since the reform and opening of China,migrant workers is undoubtedly the mainstream to drive a city to change process.Because of the system of two Yuan for a long time our country divided urban and rural migrant workers,in an institutional exclusion atmosphere into the pace said of an aged person,migrant workers and the city 's cultural differences and conflicts and the formation of the cultural barriers,one of the main obstacles in the process of migrant workers into the city is.In order to achieve migrant workers into the city,not only need to migrant workers individual self-improvement efforts,also needs the city residents have a broad mind,friendly,it needs the government from the system and policy level reflect fair and humane care for migrant workers into the city,in order to create the conditions.


The aim of this research is to identify the textural variation in cerebellum of the brain to find the presence of Alzheimer's disease using Haralicks texture features in comparison with GLRLM texture features. For this analysis, MRI image dataset were extracted from OASIS database which consists of normal and Alzheimer's disease MRI images with sample size 50. The image dataset was used for feature extraction of texture images. Novel texture features are produced by the Haralicks and further extracted features are classified by KNN, SVM, Random Forest, Logistic Regression classifiers. From the results, novel texture features obtained from Haralicks provide best feature extraction from texture images such as mean values of normal is (0.62) and (0.54) for Alzheimer's. Loss in textural information is observed in the cerebellum of the brain. Classification using KNN classifiers, SVM classifiers, Random Forest classifier, Logistic Regression classifier for Haralicks features with accuracy (96%), Area Under Curve (AUC) (96%), F1-score (96%), precision (95%), recall (95%). The significance value is p<0.05. The G power is taken as 0.8. In this process we found that novel texture features extracted using Haralicks have performed better than the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLRLM) texture features to identify the presence of Alzheimer's in the cerebellum of the brain MRI image.


Mature coniferous stands are comprised of trees in varying stages of susceptibility to and deterioration by wood destroying fungi. Individual trees of such stands may be segregated into easily recognized classes by their possession or lack of visible abnormalities indicative of decay. The segregation of trees on the presence or absence of suspect abnormalities may provide reliable information on stand defect.


The relation between the temperature and the metamer is very important for the virtual plant growth model. However, it is difficult to predict it just by SVM because there are too many noises in the raw data. In this paper, a new kernel function based on the information geometry is established to overcome the high noise and nonlinear data. The relation between number of metamer and temperature can thus be gotten precisely. The method is applied to the cotton growth model. Compared with the methods of least square and SVM, the improved SVM can predict the number of metamer more precisely.


People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) frequently deliberately injure themselves, to the extent that "the diagnosis [BPD] rightly comes to mind whenever recurrent self-destructive behaviors are encountered" (Gunderson, 2001, 54) quoted by (Potter, 2003, 1). How are we to understand this puzzling and disturbing behavior? Situating her approach to this question within a general framework that sees the body as a "text" that requires "interpretation," Potter deliberately avoids answering this question in the way we might expect. It is doubtful, she argues, that every act of self-injury has a meaning, and a fortiori doubtful that every such act has the same meaning. Her discussion includes a section, informed by medical anthropology, in which she attempts to distinguish pathological self-injury of the sort that occurs with BPD from such culturally acceptable (or at least culturally understood or tolerated) body modifications, such as tattooing, scarification, and body piercing. It also includes a section in which it is suggested that the meaning of some self-injurious behavior may indicate cultural rather than individual pathologies (e.g., the "commodification" and "objectification" of women's bodies in Western culture). The principal issue for her, however, is how a clinician is to work out the meaning of a particular individual's self-injuring behavior when it does indeed have an individual meaning, and the prerequisite for doing so, she argues, is the cultivation of a virtue she terms giving uptake. The general tenor of her argument seems to me to be admirable: the issues are dealt with subtly and with ethical, anthropological, and philosophical sensitivity. There are nonetheless a number of questions I want to raise.


No investigator who has worked extensively with intravitam methylene blue has failed to observe the changes that occur as staining progresses, nor has he failed to attribute this at least in part to differences in the permeability of the various cells that make up the tissue complex. If a portion of the digestive tract of an amphibian is immersed in a dilute solution of methylene blue in physiological saline, the stain enters the tissues and a portion of it promptly becomes reduced to the 'leuco-base.' Upon exposure to the air, the tissue becomes blue. Examination under the low power of the microscope will frequently show faintly stained nerve trunks and fibers. As these are watched the stain in the axis cylinders of medullated nerve fibers will be seen to deepen, but the medullation will remain slightly or not at all colored. At intervals along the fiber there appear points which can soon be identified as nodes of Ranvier. At first they appear as typical constrictions in the gross diameter of the fiber, but as time goes on these regions swell, become irregular in outline and stain intensely. Since these changes are clearly postmortem effects they are frequently useful in determining the degree of reliance that it is safe to place on the accuracy of the methylene-blue picture observed. Some time ago I figured a receptive termination in the circular muscle layer of the frog's cloaca (Cole, '25). The arborization was so extensive and so delicate in construction that there seemed some doubt as to whether


With the level of development of the smart city, there are more and more research sub-areas in which the latest material and technological solutions are used, enabling the proper management and functioning of these cities. On the one hand, the introduced materials and technologies are designed to facilitate the functioning of residents both in the urban space and at home; on the other hand, the implemented solutions strive to be consistent with the principles of sustainable development. As shown in this article, reports on new technical and technological solutions and their positive and negative effects are strongly emphasized in publications on the development of smart cities. The most highlighted materials research in the smart city area concerns smart materials and their characteristics and applications. A research gap in this area is in the presentation of material solutions, particularly materials intended for the load-bearing structures of vehicles (electric vehicles, flying vehicles) or infrastructure elements (buildings, shelters, etc.) designed to increase the durability of the structure while reducing its weight. This paper aims to comprehensively present the most important research areas related to the functioning of smart cities in light of previous research, with particular emphasis on new material solutions used for thin-walled load-bearing structures in smart cities made of AHSS (advanced high-strength steel). These solutions are very essential for smart cities because their use allows for the installation of additional devices, sensors, transmitters, antennas, etc., without increasing the total weight of the structure; they reduce the number of raw materials used for production (lighter and durable thin structures), ensure lower energy consumption (e.g., lighter vehicles), and also increase the passive safety of systems or increase their lifting capacity (e.g., the possibility of transporting more people using transports at the same time; the possibility of designing and arranging, e.g., green gardens on buildings; etc.). AHSS-welded joints are usually characterized by too-low strength in the base material or a tendency to crack. Thus, the research problem is producing a light and durable AHSS structure using welding processes. The research presented in this article concerns the possibility of producing welded joints using the Metal Active Gas (MAG) process. The test methods include the assessment of the quality of joints, such as through visual examination (VT); according to the requirements of PN-EN ISO 17638; magnetic particle testing (MT); according to PN-EN ISO 17638; and the assessment of the selected mechanical properties, such as tensile strength tests, bending tests, and fatigue strength checks. These methods enable the selection of the correct joints, without welding defects. The results have a practical implication; advanced production technology for obtaining AHSS joints can be used in the construction of the load-bearing elements of mobile vehicles or parts of point infrastructure (shelters, bus stops). The obtained joint is characterized by adequate strength for the production of the assumed structures. The originality of the manuscript is the presentation of a new, cheaper, and uncomplicated solution for obtaining an AHSS joint with good mechanical properties. The application of the presented solution also contributes to sustainable development (lower fuel and material consumption use by mobile vehicles) and may contribute to increasing the load capacity of mobile vehicles (the possibility of transporting more people).


Starting from the causes for continuous cropping obstacle,eight reasons were elaborated,including soil nutrient unbalance,soil microbe structure change,soil allelopathy substance enrichment,soil pH variation,soil enzyme activity change,soil salinization,soil physical traits change and soil water shortage;the inhibition effect of AM fungi on continuous cropping obstacle was put forward,and it was proved from two aspects that AM fungi could improve plant self-resistant ability and directly perfect continuous cropping soil environment,which will provide new direction for study on solving continuous cropping obstacle.


This study was performed at Agriculture research farm of Shri Guru Ram Rai University, Dehradun, (U.K), India. In order to investigate the effect of soluble nutrients with varying concentration of liquid manure on growth parameters, various yields and yield attributes of mustard crop, field experiment was carried out during summer season (2019-20) at Research Block of S.G.R.R. University, Dehradun Uttarakhand. The layout of experimental field was laid randomized block design (RBD) with 7 treatments and 3 replications. Consisting of T1 (Control), T2 RDF (NPK 12:32:16), T3 (Vermiwash) @5%, T4 (cow urine) @5%, T5 (vermiwash @5% +cow urine @ 5%), T6 (N: P: K (19:19:19) Soluble @ 2%+cow urine @ 5%)), T7 (N: P: K (19:19:19) Soluble @ 2% +vermiwash @5%). All treatments were applied two times at 20 days interval. The results indicated that among all the treatments, T7 (N: P: K (19:19:19) Soluble @ 3% +vermiwash @5%), overall was found best for farmer point of view with respect to plant height (113.3 cm), number of seeds/siliqua (18.3), test weight (1000 –seed weight) (4.36gm), seed yield (1515.9 kg/ ha), and stover yield (1851.81 kg/ ha) at harvest and net return (51407.5 rs/ha), gross return (70787.5), B:C ratio (2.65). Based on present investigation, it can be concluded that the combination of both soluble fertilizer with liquid manure are applied that improved yield and yield attributes of mustard crop under present agro-climatic conditions.


A planar implantable sensing antenna is designed for intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring by utilizing the capacitive coupling principle with the use of two parallel rings. The overall dimensions of the sensor is 1×1×0.2 mm3. The sensor operates over the medical implant communication service (MICS) band and found to be effective in monitoring variations of pressure differences within the brain. Magnetic compatibility of the implantable ICP sensor is also investigated and found to meet the radiation and thermal safety levels of MRI system standards.


One kind tensioning rod system, which allows the bending machine operator through an upper end portion of the lever rod benders the bending die removably connected to the base of the bending machine, and the rod is locked in the tensioning position. The tensioning system comprises a fixed member and a rod end receiving portion of the rotatable member, each channel having a rod aligned for. The fixing member and the rotatable member includes a respective engagement surface, wherein the rotatable member engaging surface can be fixed to the rotating member between a release position and a tensioning position relative to the engagement surface, the rotatable member is selectively locked in the tensioning position. In the case of a fixed rotation of the engagement surface of the stationary engagement surface, the rotatable member rotatable member relative to the longitudinal displacement of the fixing member.


In this paper synchrotron microtomography on Plasma Sprayed Tungsten (PS-W) is presented and discussed. PS-W is a challenging material for microtomography since it exhibits a random porous network at different length-scales (from nanometers to micrometers) and is hardly penetrable by X-rays. Furthermore, inner porosity causes strong internal scattering. The key challenges were, firstly, to optimize the beam parameters considering the inherent trade-off between photon energy (penetration depth) and spatial resolution and, secondly, to develop effective signal filtering algorithms. Despite the limited signal-to-noise ratio detected, large volumes of PS-W could be reconstructed with good image quality and micrometric resolution (voxel size = 1.4 {\mu}m). As an important result, we report excellent image quality and higher penetration depth by applying the same setup on a ferrous microstructure, namely a 10%W/Steel MMC used as interlayer between PS-W and a ferritic/martensitic steel substrate. The paper reports a detailed 3D morphological analysis of all inclusion types in PS-W and W/Steel, which led to disclosure of a complex connected porous network in both media. The analysis is presented in terms of multiphase volume fraction, ratio of percolation and 3D shape descriptors. 3D percolation patterns are analyzed in detail and sensitivity towards segmentation threshold for the noise-affected PS-W region is discussed. Remarkably, percolation of the porous phase was found throughout the entire coating thickness of PS-W. In W-Steel MMC percolation was found in the perpendicular plane and interpreted as onset of delamination caused by thermomechanical stress.


The different treatments of the selected Tricholoma mongolicum effects the yields of Sowthistle and Lettuce.In the B treatment to the soil,the fresh weight of Sowthistle is 48.40% higher than the CK and the dry weight is 83.62% higher than the CK;the fresh weight of Lettuce is 23.3% higher than the CK and no effects on the dry weight.It is verified that the B,Cand A treatments of Tricholoma mogolicum can increase the absorbing water ability of Lettuce.


In vehicular adhoc networks (VANETs) routing packets through the network is a difficult task because of the limited coverage of Wi-Fi and the high mobility of the nodes make regular topology changes and network fragmentations. For these reasons, and there is no central manager entity. Deployment of VANETs is crucial, therefore offering an efficient routing strategy. This paper deals with the optimal parameter setting of optimized link state routing (OLSR), is a well-known mobile ad hoc network routing protocol, by defining an optimization problem. To find automatically optimal configurations of this protocol, a series of metaheuristic algorithms (particle swarm optimization, differential evolution, genetic algorithm, and simulated annealing) are studied. Keywords—Vehicular adhoc networks(VANET),optimized link state routing (OLSR), metaheuristic, optimization


HISTORY 65-year-old female noted palpable mass in her left retro-auricular region six months prior to consultation. The mass was painless and slow growing. Recurrence of mass was discovered after extirpation. She had no history of thyroid disorder. FINDINGS Thyroid Scintigraphy. This lady has left retro auricular mass suspected of malignancy (papillary carcinoma) with unknown origin. Tc99m pertechnetate thyroid scan (Figure 1) showed increased tracer uptake by the nodule involving the entire left lobe (hot nodule), with faint or nearly no tracer uptake in the entire right lobe (suppression). Her thyroid function is subclinical hyperthyroidism.


The study on the Tunggu Tubang Land Certification in the Semende area aims to examine 3 (three) problems, they are aspects of historical and sociological rechts supporting and inhibiting; synchronization of the legal system, as well as; alternative arrangements for facilitation of Tunggu Tubang land certification. The research used a normative juridical approach. The results of the study state that the study of synchronization of the legal system, there are no obstacles to the certification of Tunggu Tubang land, with the argument that the Tunggu Tubang land comes from private land (land of customary land), or civil rights/private rights/privaatrecht according to the western legal system, and does not include the power of rights. The Ulayat as common property of the community, therefore basically can be certified. Alternative facilitation of Tunggu Tubang land certification can be done by heeding the legal concept of the Tunggu Tubang Institution which stipulates that, Tunggu Tubang which contains the principles: There is land that is jointly owned by the descendants of the female line of the founder of Tunggu Tubang; there is an administrator who is not entitled to sell/transfer the land of Tunggu Tubang, but only manages it for the benefit of the descendants of the founder of Tunggu Tubang.


Objective To investigate the expression and phosporylation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) 1/2 in the foreskin tissue collected from children with hypospadias.Methods Foreskin tissues collected during surgery from the children with hypospadias were divided into 2 groups according to the severity of the deformity:mild hypospadias group and severe hypospadias group.The foreskin collected from the children underwent circumcision was taken as controls.Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and immunochemistry were employed to determine the mRNA expression and phosporylation level of JNK1/2.Results The mRNA of JNK1 in the foreskin tissue of hypospadias patients increased to 1.9 folds of that of normal controls (P<0.05).However,no significant difference of the mRNA of JNK1 was found between mild and severe hypospadias patients.The phosporylation level of JNK1/2 also significantly increased in hypospadias patients compared with that of controls.Conclusions The expression and phosporylation of JNK1/2 in the foreskin tissue collected from children with hypospadias are increased,which may be associated with the development of the hypospadias.

Key words:
Hypospadias;  c-Jun N-terminal kinase;  Mitogen activated protein kinase;  Foreskin


We propose to integrate grating-assisted asymmetric couplers with microring resonators for selective resonance excitation and control of coupling efficiency. A grating-coupled microring add-drop filter is experimentally demonstrated using a silicon-on-insulator technology compatible with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor processing. A dominant longitudinal mode with a side-mode suppression ratio of 8 dB has been obtained across a broad spectral range of over 130 nm. The selected mode shows an out-of-band-rejection ratio of 19 dB and a quality factor (Q) of 25 000. The concept of integrating grating-assisted couplers for mode selectivity can be applied to other microring-based devices for high-Q, single-mode operations.


The high inertness of the C–H bond makes the photocatalytic methane conversion a significant challenge. The platinum nanoparticle is a promising cocatalyst for CH4 activation, while the study of it...


This paper presents a method of evaluation of Wiener-Hopf technique solutions for sound radiation from an unflanged circular duct with infinitely thin duct wall, including mean flows.


Test strategies are usually defined following a point‐design like method. Starting with a set of verification requirements and programmatic constraints, and usually with a generic test sequence, a baseline test approach is defined. Then, the baseline is optimized until an acceptable strategy is found. Academia has consistently shown however the benefits of using tradespace exploration techniques instead of point‐based designs. Some industrial applications seem to corroborate such findings. Yet, both academia and industry have limited the use of tradespace exploration techniques to selecting design concepts. This paper proposes that broadening the use of tradespace exploration techniques and Pareto frontiers to other activities in the field of systems engineering domain yields similar benefits. In particular, this paper presents the actual application of tradespace exploration techniques and Pareto frontiers in an industrial context to select a test strategy for a system. This paper provides thus three main contributions. First, the paper demonstrates that tradespace exploration and Pareto frontiers can be beneficial beyond concept selection. Second, the paper presents a process to use tradespace exploration techniques and Pareto frontiers for selecting test strategies. Finally, the paper showcases the application of the proposed technique and process in a real industrial setup, which yielded a number of lessons learnt.


Myeloma cast nephropathy or myeloma kidney (MK) is a complication observed in up to one third of patients with multiple myeloma (MM). MM patients who recover kidney function have longer remissions and increased overall survival. Previous attempts at light chain reduction with the use of plasma exchange in addition to chemotherapy have not consistently improved patient outcomes and remains an area of research. The inefficiency of plasma exchange is due to the high volume of distribution of light chains in the extravascular space which will repopulate the vascular space once the exchange procedure is complete. Continuous Veno-Venous Hemofiltration (CVVH) is a form of continuous hemodialysis (HD). The use of CVVH in addition to chemotherapy in MK is rational, as continuous filtration allows for ongoing equilibrium between the extravascular and intravascular compartments, thus reducing the total body MM protein load. The Purema 500 (NxStage Medical, Lawrence, MA) filter used for CVVH has an average pore size of 65 kDa, and albumin Sieving co-efficient of 0.05. The myeloma kappa light chain is approximately 25 kDa whereas the lambda light chain (LLC), circulating as a dimer, is approximately 45 kDa and the average IgG complex is approximately 150 kDa. These data suggest that CVVH filtration could reduce the light chain MM protein in patients with MK, but would likely be ineffective for IgG, IgA or IgM MM. This hypothesis was tested in a 60 year-old-man with known normal baseline kidney function and LLC MM, who developed MK in the perioperative period, of a hip stabilization procedure, at the time of MM recurrence. Biopsy showed the kidney failure was due to MK. The LLC concentration at the time of kidney failure was 3,750 mg/L. We employed CVVH, run 24 hours a day for 72 hours, with concurrent high dose intravenous dexamethasone 40mg days 1-4 and IV bortezomib 1.3mg/m2 days 1,4,8, 11. Serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP) obtained prior to CVVH showed a monoclonal spike of 6.7 g/L or 11.5% of the total protein (figure 1A). Protein electrophoresis (PEP) of the first bag of spent dialysate showed a restricted peak 1.1g/L or 2.1% of the total protein with a similar appearance to the monoclonal spike on the SPEP, demonstrating removal of the LLC by CVVH (figure 1B). 72 hours after the initiation of CVVH and chemotherapy, the LLC concentration decreased 77% from 3,750 to 850 mg/L (figure 1D), SPEP showed the monoclonal spike had decreased to 0.5 g/L or 1% of the total protein (figure 1C). The patient became dialysis independent three months following CVVH. Previous series have reported on 11 patients with acute MK, who have been treated with as specialized high cut-off hemodialysis (HCO-HD) filter, which has a pore size of 45 kDa, and concurrent chemotherapy. Seven of these patients (63%) became dialysis independent. These studies showed an overall reduction of serum light chain protein in their patients, but did not report if the light chains were present in the dialysate. The EUropean trial of free LIght chain removal by exTEnded haemodialysis in cast nephropathy (EuLITE) reported an improved rate of renal recovery 33% vs 43% with the use of HCO-HD versus standard HD. By way of comparison, CVVH, which is widely available in the United States, rapidly decreased the LLC myeloma protein. Our data supports the depletion of the LLC stores in the extravascular compartment as we did not see a rebound of LLC after stopping CVVH (figure 1D). As kappa light chains have a lower molecular weight than LLC, we would expect the same result with kappa light chain MM. Patients with IgG MK may also benefit from CVVH, as we saw proteins with a molecular weight higher than 65 kDa in the spent dialysate PEP, including proteins in the IgG range (figure 1C). CVVH filters lead to less protein wasting as compared to the HCO-HD filters which would negate the need for albumin replacement. The observed rapid rate of decline of the light chain concentration in this case supports the addition of CVVH to chemotherapy, as the clearance of the myeloma protein was more rapid than has been described in previous trials using bortezomib and dexamethasone alone. Randomized clinical trials would need to be conducted to know if this approach is superior to chemotherapy alone. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Lake Erie to see Gwinn. Ward's design background has led him to edit for those particular aspects of this scheme that reveals the influence of Lutyens, Schinkel, and Lord Leighton upon Pratt. The deep space of the lake and the limpid light it engenders resonate on the page. Such moments of perception do not come often, even to someone of his ability. One question is inevitable: what if a viewer of such photographs hasn't been to a site that Ward has depicted? What do they really get of the experience of that particular place? Based upon the work presented of sites that I know well, the answer is reassuring. To a large degree he is successful in presenting the principal visual forms and structures of landscape, especially those derived fl'om compositions dependent on views, i.e., framed views, constructed scenes, outdoor sequences with favored places to sit, pause, or survey some prospect or aspect of the land or contrivance. Although the most difficult aspects of architecture and landscape to depict in two dimensions are spatial ordm; extent, and volumetric feeling, i.e., the experience of being in a place that surrounds one in a particular and different way from other places, Ward does capture an idea of this phenomenon (not an easy thing to do). He is also capable of the informative or revealing detail that implies some aspect of a larger composition or situation. Only a few recent works have been included in the selection, and they utilize a familiar spatial order. Most of the work derives from a strongly scenographic tradition that, despite recent criticism, is still very strong, and for which I must confess a fondness. The compositional devices and assumptions central to each of these landscapes enable him to look for their structure, views, tableaux, and scenes, and to present them to us without the confusion of distracting and divergent material. While two dimensional pictures in black and white cannot really present all the sensory phenomena of a landscape-its temperature, sound, humidity, colm; or smell, for example, Ward's attention to detail and quality in the prints alludes to the crunch of gravel as represented by the flecks of shadow on its surface, the warmth of the sun in the halos of light around back-lit leaves, the quiet lapping of water hinted at by the sinuous gradation of tones on its surface and in the mist rising along a shore. All art works best for those familiar with its conventions and devices. For those who are visually acute, Alan Ward's photographs are quite eloquent in their representation of these important American landscapes. Unfortunately, landscapes are evanescent, mutable, subject to be,vildering change and destruction. The work in this book is a record of a group of survivors or in some cases of significant restoration as they are at this moment. While many landscape architects and designers may feel they have captured images of some of these sites that they would stack up against Ward's, I don't know of anyone who has been to all of these sites, or who has succeeded, again and again, in working toward the essence, tone, and pitch of each place. We should be thankful to have Alan Ward's photography as a record of how Paley Park and Prospect Park, the Bloedel Reserve and John Deere, indeed, of how all of these marvelous designs looked and felt in our period. Laurie Olin is a principal with the Olin Partnership in Philadelphia and is Practice Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. NATURE AND IDEOLOGY: NATURAL GARDEN DESIGN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, XVIII, edited by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn. Washington, D. C.: Dmnbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1997. 278 pages, references, index, list of contributors, $50.00 clothbound. ~SBN 0-88402-246-3 (alk. paper)


The history of grappa has its roots in the metaphysical alchemic search for the quintessential classical element along with earth, fire, water, and air. The Greeks called such element aether, or pure, fresh air, and it was believed to be the material of the region of the universe where the gods lived. It was the product of distillation, mostly from wine. When Italian distillers turned their attention to the less valuable pomace, or the skins, seeds, and other residues left after the grapes are crushed for wine, grappa was born. Using data which was collected during fieldwork in northern Italy and from private and public archival documents, published works, and selected secondary data, the paper follows the social, cultural, and economic journey of grappa from its remote and still obscure birth to the long, modest identification as the laborer's alcoholic staple, to the present times, when grappa is experiencing a new and trendy socioeconomic success as national patrimony. Paralleling other typical regional products, the paper reveals how the socioeconomic and geographic evolution of grappa can be linked to the growth of consumerist forms of identity-production of vernacular products in globalizing markets.


Authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their interesting questions and remarks and also for providing a bibliographical complement. Please find enclosed our responses. Reviewer n◦2 General comments The following part was added: Several optimization approaches have been proposed in the literature since the early work of Bras and Rodríguez-Iturbe (1976) and Delhomme (1978) who proposed a methodology of network design based on the minimization of the mean areal kriging error variance. The


In this paper, we introduce the Service-Field Simulator (SFS) for virtually providing us with service fields in which the users can walk and perform relatively simple work repeatedly that is frequently seen in actual service fields, and for realizing pre-evaluation for supporting service-field design based on understanding conscious and unconscious behavior of the subjects. Especially, we realize the information sharing by the conversation between service provider and service receiver, or by the papers and the handheld devices in virtual/augmented reality environments that is also the important task in the service field for health care. We carried out the feasibility study of the SFS by performing two case studies. So, we could confirm that our simulator can offer the sense of immersive, presence, and involvement despite low realism and high task load in the augmented reality (AV) environment. Moreover, we observed that subjects kept their sense of absolute orientation and could share information by papers and by a photo-realistic avatar. Also, we knew the capability of the SFS for the pre-evaluation of the service fields reproduced in AV environments. Keyword Service-Field Simulator, Pre-evaluation, Augmented Virtuality, Omni-directional display, Hands-free, Photorealistic Avatar 1. はじめに サ ー ビ ス は 無 形 性 (Intangibility) 、 同 時 性 (Inseparability) 、 消 滅 性 (Perishability) 、 異 質 性 (Heterogeneity)という 4 つの主特性を持っている [1]. 即ち、サービスを行う際にそのサービスの特徴を知覚 できないし、サービスの提供と受容が同時に発生し、 HCGシンポジウム2010 HUMAN COMMUNICATION GROUP SYMPOSIUM 2010 HCG2010-K2-3 社団法人 電子情報通信学会 THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERS


Teaching analytics can provide a useful framework to conceptualise the visual methods used in previous work on teachers' assessment practices. I describe two examples of visual methods and discuss their assumptions and potential usefulness beyond the original context in which they were designed. Rethinking visual data analysis around the teaching process provide different lenses and ways to use data to inform and improve both the teaching and learning processes.


On the platform of an unmanned aerial vehicle there are electronic devices that emit large amounts of heat due to their power supply. Controlling the temperature of individual components, which the UAV is equipped with, allows to take care of proper operation of the entire propulsion system and control system. This allows, in particular, to maintain the safety of operating such an object. In this paper, key electronic components which can heat up during operation in operational conditions to dangerous temperature values were analyzed. The aim of the study is to verify the correctness of selection of components of the constructed propulsion and control system. As a result of the tests, the temperature distribution on the tested components and the dependence of the (maximum) temperature measured in spot points as a function of time were obtained. The intensity of temperature rise was determined and the time of safe operation at assumed operating conditions was examined.


We have read with interest the article entitled 'Hepatocellular carcinoma in thalassaemia. An update of the Italian registry' (Borgna-Pignatti et al, 2014). The paper witnesses a spread of interest on the issue. The Authors reported 62 new cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) among 5 855 thalassaemic patients (cumulative incidence 1%) in the period between 2002 and December 2012. The paper enlightens on the real weight of the issue, demonstrating that HCC represents a substantial complication in thalassaemia. In fact, the same authors had previously published the results of a survey of data collected from the entire population of Italian patients with thalassaemia, reporting only 22 cases of HCC in that retrospective study 10 years ago (Borgna-Pignatti et al, 2004a). Given that survival in thalassaemia recently has shown a dramatic improvement as a consequence of improved transfusion regimens and regular chelation (Borgna-Pignatti et al, 2004b; Ladis et al, 2011), the magnitude of the neoplastic issue is probably the expression of a real increase in HCC incidence in thalassaemia, rather than only an increased awareness of the problem. The incidence of HCC in thalassaemia was reported in 2% of the patients screened with ultrasound in a 1-year prospective study (Mancuso et al, 2006), as compared with 1–8% per year in the population of non-thalassaemic cirrhotic patients (Ioannou et al, 2007). However, the age at diagnosis of HCC in thalassaemic patients is younger than that reported in patients without thalassaemia, suggesting that the concomitance of different risk factors, namely haemochromatosis and chronic viral hepatitis, could enhance the risk of HCC development. The few data published would suggest the utility of screening for HCC detection in thalassaemia, although there is no evidence of a survival benefit due to the rarity of this haematological condition. The management of HCC in thalassaemia should probably follow the same indications recommended for HCC in non-thalassaemic patients (European Association for the Study of the Liver; European Organisation for Research & Treatment of Cancer, 2012). Published data report encouraging results of surgical and loco-regional treatments (Mancuso et al, 2005; Mancuso, 2010). Only a few thalassaemic patients have undergone liver transplantation. The reason for this is probably partly due to comorbidities, mainly cardiac, and partly to the fact that thalassaemia per se is generally considered a contraindication for liver transplantation. In their recent article, Borgna-Pignatti et al (2014) reported that two of the three transplanted patients died after liver transplantation for reasons unrelated to thalassaemia. In conclusion, HCC is an emerging new issue in thalassaemia. Ultrasound screening should be offered to thalassaemic patients, especially for those with one or more risk factors for HCC (i.e. iron overload, hepatitis C virus infection, hepatitis B virus infection, advanced liver fibrosis or cirrhosis). Multidisciplinary management should be implemented. Finally, liver transplantation could represent a reliable option to cure in highly selected patients.


US press denunciation of the US-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of 1911, however, a few papers are critical, including the New York Hearst, Journal of Commerce and Chicago Tribune. It also details the US administration seeking retalitory measures towards the Japanese regarding its act towards US missionaries in Japenese occupied China.


Building Information Modeling (BIM) is considered as a common language in construction industry projects today. It is rapidly being acknowledged as a driver for change on a global scale. The perceived benefits of BIM by the early adopters and various researches indicate that collaborative BIM approaches help in delivering projects with reduced time, lower cost, higher quality, and greater customer satisfaction. Recent government uptakes and demands for fully collaborative BIM as a requirement in different countries have resulted in a strong interest towards BIM adoption and its uses, creating a huge demand of BIM competent workforce. Thus, there is an accelerated need for upskilling the industry practitioners and educate the future engineers. However, there is a major challenge for academic organizations to embrace BIM in their curricula for educating the future professionals due to lack of skilled BIM educators. Engineering education is still often based on drafting, since most teachers are experts in 2D or 3D modeling, and only few in BIM. The present lack of skilled BIM educators calls for educating the educators and thus becoming acquainted with the BIM processes, concepts and technologies. The present paper presents the current state and strategies of BIM academic integration in the School of Civil Engineering and Building Services (SCEBS) of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland. It describes both an initiation and the results derived from "OpeBIM" (BIM for teachers) implemented to educate the educators. The paper collects the feedback and recommendations provided by the participating educators.


In this paper we examine whether nonlinearities in the aggregate production function can explain parameter heterogeneity in the Solow (1956) growth regressions. Nonlinearities in the production technology are introduced by replacing the linear Cobb-Douglas specification with the more general CES specification. We justify our choice of production function by showing that in the context of cross-country level regressions, we can reject the Cobb-Douglas over the CES aggregate production specification. Then, by using the endogenous threshold methodology of Hansen (2000) we show that the Solow model under CES implies robust nonlinearities in the growth process that are consistent with the presence of multiple regimes. JEL Classification: O40, O47


This study was carried out on 104 dogs between April 2011 and March 2012 to determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal helminths in street dogs in Diyarbakır province. Stool specimens were collected from the rectum of dogs found in Diyarbakır Municipality Animal Care and Rehabilitation Center.Firstly, stool specimens were examined macroscopically and then Fulloborn flotation and Benedek sedimentation methods were used to identify helminth eggs. According to the fecal examination results, it was determined that 34 out of 104 dogs (32.7%) were infected with various gastrointestinal helminth species. The parasites species observed in stray dogs were Toxocara canis (%15.3), Ancylostomacaninum (%8.6), Toxascaris leonina (%4.8), Taenia spp. (%3.8), Dipylidium caninum (%2.8), Alaria spp. (%1.9). The rate of infection determined in female dogs was 32.8% and in males it was 32.5%. When the distribution of gastrointestinal helminth infection by age was examined, the highest infection rate was observed in the age range of 3-6 years (38.6%), followed by 0.5-3 (32.1%) and 7-9 (11.1%) age groups. As a result, stray dogs in the province of Diyarbakir were proved to be infected with helminths which have zoonotic character and it is necessary to take precautions against these infections.


In this work we derive the general conditions for obtaining nonreciprocity in multi-mode parametrically-coupled systems. The results can be applied to a broad variety of optical, microwave, and hybrid systems including recent electro- and opto-mechanical devices. In deriving these results, we use a graph-based methodology to derive the scattering matrix. This approach naturally expresses the terms in the scattering coefficients as separate graphs corresponding to distinct coupling paths between modes such that it is evident that nonreciprocity arises as a consequence of multi-path interference and dissipation in key ancillary modes. These concepts facilitate the construction of new devices in which several other characteristics might also be simultaneously optimized. As an example, we synthesize a novel three-mode unilateral amplifier design by use of graphs. Finally, we analyze the isolation generated in a common parametric multi-mode system, the dc-SQUID.


e20580Background: Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide and its incidence continues to grow. Lung cancer mortality and survival rates vary markedly by race and ethnicity resul...


This dissertation is concerned with oscillations and their stability which occur in a control system containing two nonlinearities, separated by linear elements. Specif ically the nonlinearities are Integral Pulse Frequency Mod ulators and the linear elements are described by ordinary differential equations which are linear. The IPFM can be modelled by a quantizer with hysteresis and many other PFM laws are related to IPFM, thus the study applies to more than just IPFM alone. Boundaries on the system parameters are identified within which free oscillation may be possible. These boundaries give sufficient conditions for stability and necessary conditions for instability. Also since initial conditions play such an important part in the free motion of this class of systems, certain initial condition zones will be identified. These zones give the initial conditions of the unforced system which will ultimately drive the lin ear plants to the origin (asymptotic stability). Three types of motion are specifically identified: Cl) free oscillation, (2) free periodic oscillation and C3) forced periodic oscillation. Free oscillation, not neces sarily periodic, is studied by developing a compound descj;ibing function analysis. This type of analysis will be applicable to all systems of the given configuration and some generalizations may be made beyond the IPFM problem. Free periodic motion is very dependent upon the initial condition of the system with many modes of oscillation possible. The solution of this problem involves the sol ution of a set of transcendental equations and will be carried out using a modified simplex method. The system parameters necessary for forced periodic motion are derived and the possible periods and modes of oscillation identified. The stability of the forced per iodic motion is then investigated. The results of this investigation yields a set of matrices, conditions on which, if satisfied, will indicate stability in the small of the periodic motion. Digital and analog computer techniques are used through out the investigation to verify the theoretical results.


Summary The establishment of the International Standard for factor VIII has introduced a common yardstick, the international unit, which all countries can apply. This standard is a concentrate of intermediate purity, shown to be very stable on long term storage. As with all international standards it is available in limited quantities and is primarily used for the calibration of national standards used to monitor patients and in the control of therapeutic preparations. Since 1969 in Great Britain such a national standard has been made from freeze-dried pooled plasma. This has been available in larger quantities and has been introduced into routine use in coagulation laboratories. As factor VIII in freeze-dried plasma has limited stability even when stored at —20° C, successive new batches are prepared every two years or so. The availability of a common working standard with factor VIII content specified in international units makes it possible to define diagnostic and therapeutic criteria with more precision than hitherto. This system can be applied in other countries and to other clotting factors for which an international yardstick is needed.


With the rapid development of protected agriculture,problems of soil degeneration is more and more serious in China.The relationship of soil water control and soil degeneration in the protected agriculture at present was summarized,and some research achievements were introduced.The emphasis of research on soil water management was proposed based on the achievements in protected agriculture.


I revisit the calculation of infinite-dimensional symmetries that emerge in the vicinity of isolated horizons. I focus the attention on extremal black holes, for which the isometry algebra that preserves a sensible set of asymptotic boundary conditions at the horizon strictly includes the BMS algebra. The conserved charges that correspond to this BMS sector, however, reduce to those of superrotation, generating only two copies of Witt algebra. For more general horizon isometries, in contrast, the charge algebra does include both Witt and supertranslations, being similar to BMS but s.str. differing from it.
This work has been prepared for the proceedings of the XXII Simposio Sofichi 2020, held in Chile in November 2020. The material herein is based on my work in collaboration with Laura Donnay, Hernan Gonzalez and Miguel Pino, and it is included in arXiv:1511.08687 and arXiv:1607.05703.


The present investigation was carried out at Main Experiment Station, Department of Vegetable Science, Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya (U.P.). The characters studied were Days to 50% flowering, Days to maturity, Plant height (cm), Number of branches per plantv, Pod length, Number of pod per plant, Number of seed per pod, Test weight (g), Biological yield (g), Harvest index (%) and Harvest index (%). At phenotypic level seed yield per plant exhibited positively significant correlation with harvest index (0.825), Number of pods per plant (0.921), days to maturity (0.374), Number of branches per plant (0.281), plant height (0.338) and pod length (0.287). Harvest index exhibited positively significant correlation with test weight (0.483), number of pod per plant (0.750), plant height (0.412) and days to maturity (0.339). Harvest index was also showed negatively significant correlation with biological yield per plant (-0.618). Biological yield per plant exhibited positively significant correlation with number of branches per plant (0.403), number of seed per pod (0.341) and showed negatively significant correlation with test weight (-0.501) and plant height (-0.271). Test weight showed negatively significant correlation with days to 50% flowering (0.629) and days to maturity (0.406). Number of seeds per pod (0.698).Number of pod per plant was exhibited positively significant correlation with number of branches per plant (0.295), plant height (0.289) and days to maturity (0.304). exhibited positively significant correlation with days to 50% flowering (0.560). At the genotypic level in general the correlation coefficient were similar in nature but higher in magnitude to that of observed value at phenotypic level. Here also seed yield per plant showed highly significant and positive correlation with harvest index, days to maturity, test weight, plant height, pods length and number of branches per plants. Other combinations of different pair of characters showed association as at phenotypic level during E1, E2 and pooled. However as seed yield per plant showed highly significant and negative correlation with biological yield.


Structural equation modeling and latent variable approach (SEM) is experiencing rapid development with wide application as a result of using big data and modern computing technologies. This essay first gives an introduction of SEM, and then summarizes the foundational research in developing better fit indices and in developing more efficient computing algorithms. Also, we review two most important cutting-edge researches in using SEM for causal analysis and in managing workflows of SEM. For the future SEM research, we have discussed issues of big data, new applications, equivalent models, and hybrid modeling.

Keywords:

structural equation models;
causality;
latent variable;
big data;
measurement;
analytical workflow


The spread of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020 has had a major impact on the world's population. Every day, the media will report on the latest news about COVID-19, both locally and abroad. Therefore, accurate and correct information should be delivered to the public to create understanding and awareness of this pandemic. In the field of public health in Malaysia, the COVID-19 issue is considered as something new. This implied the need to translate the exact medical terms from English to Malay to ensure that the information presented is completely acceptable by the society. The efforts made by the Ministry of Health Malaysia and Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) in forming accurate terms is a proactive step. This study was conducted to describe the methods of translation, absorption, and adaptation of foreign term remuneration or a combination of such methods in forming terms in the field of public health, particularly related to the issue of COVID-19. This qualitative study was conducted by utilizing data observed from the Twitter handle, @DBPMalaysia, which aims to articulate the right terms for the issue of COVID-19. Data were taken from submissions on DBP's official social media from 18 March 2020 to 18 March 2021. A total of 54 public health terms related to the COVID-19 issue were identified and the formation methods of the terms used were analyzed. Discussions matching those terms are based on Pedoman Umum Pembentukan Istilah Bahasa Melayu Edisi Baharu (2004), published by DBP. The findings of the study indicate that the translation method is the most widely used method in the data studied, followed by a combination of translation and absorption.


(1969), Pat Garrett, and Bring Me the Head (1974), have also been at the storm center of heated debate on numerous occasions. In their penetrating analysis and meticulous research, Simons and Merrill integrate their own incisive exploration with the major issues raised by critics, and they also provide a valuable guide to the filming and postproduction of the films. Anyone wishing to learn about the various versions of each film, the cuts made, the material restored, followed by more cuts, and then more restorations (and, of course, the interminable battles Peckinpah had with the Hollywood money men) need go no farther. It's all here: in the discussion and in the many footnotes—a masterly piece of research, rendered in highly readable prose. Paul Seydor is probably the foremost scholar of Peckinpah, the one who has written most extensively, persuasively, and passionately about his Westerns. In their examination of the nature of tragic action and the tragic hero, Simons and Merrill have gone beyond Seydor; their analyses have opened up these five films and have provided new, in some cases stunning, insights. They have helped us see and understand how Peckinpah "transformed" the genre (208n2). In essence, this book has accomplished what the best scholarly criticism always aspires to: producing in the reader an immediate desire to return to the original work, in this case the films themselves, with fresh eyes and awakened senses, ready for a wholly new experience in thought and feeling. In this fine study, the authors have vigorously and eloquently articulated what many people feel when viewing Peckinpah's films: a profoundly visceral experience.


Ito drift-diffusion process (1) can be used to derive the Black Scholes formula (2). [1] dS = σSdX + µdt (1) ∂f ∂t + 1 2 σ 2 S 2 ∂ 2 f ∂S 2 + rS ∂f ∂S − rf = 0 (2) By applying boundaries conditions V (S, T) = max{S − K, 0} and V (S, T) = max{0, S − K} to (2) we can solve the PDE to find its closed form solution for European calls and puts, the Black-Scholes Model. [7] C(s, t) = SN (d 1) − Ke r(T −t) N (d 2) (3) P (s, t) = Ke r(T −t) N (−d 2) − SN (−d 1) d 1 = ln(S K) + (r + σ 2 2)(T − t) σ √ T − t d 2 = d 1 − σ √ T − t The limitation of the above method for derivative valuation is that it makes a variety of assumptions that may or may not be appropriate. These assumptions are as follows: 1. Volatility of the underlying asset class is constant over the entire time period, also known as homoskedasticity. 2. The risk-free interest rate will remain constant over time. 3. Stock behavior follows a normally distributed Brownian motion as described by dX in formula (1). By relaxing the first of these assumptions we demonstrate significant improvement in the ap-propriateness of our options model.


The purpose of this research was to know the correct soaking period of sawdust media and growth of red chili seedling. This research was conducted at the screen house of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jenderal Soedirman, Banyumas, from April-May 2019. The method used was Randomized Completely Block Design. The treatments were consisted of media containing soil, sawdust without soaking, sawdust that has been soaked for 1 day, sawdust that has been soaked for 2 days, sawdust that has been soaked for 3 days, sawdust soaked for 4 days, sawdust that has been soaked for 5 days, sawdust that has been soaked for 6 days, sawdust that has been soaked for 7 days. Observed variables included plant height 14 days, root length, number of leaves, leaf length, leaf width, plant height 42 days. The results showed that germination and growth of seedlings of chili plants on sawdust media that had been soaked for 7 days had better plant height, root length, number and length of leaves than on soil media.


Costs related to mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions (MHNCs) in childhood are experienced by multiple groups, including families, public and private service systems, and society as a whole. This chapter provides a conceptual model of MHNC-related costs, reviews estimates of short-term and long-term costs, and discusses the role of economic evaluation of services. Our conceptual model suggests that it is critical to consider costs from a broad point of view, but current literature on cost of MHNCs is uneven, with significant focus on short-term health system costs and very little emphasis on long-term costs or costs outside the health system, such as costs to families. There is a growing body of literature on MHNC costs, but more emphasis is needed in areas where there is little data to ensure that decision-makers have comprehensive data on the impact of MHNCs in order to manage scarce resources equitably and efficiently.


Used nuclear fuel contains radiotoxic elements with lifetimes in the range of 100 000 years. Although possibilities for recycling of the fuel exist, a final storage for the ultimate high-level waste will be necessary. In Sweden, a deep geologic repository will be constructed, in which the used fuel will be protected from ground water contact by different barriers. However, considering the extensive time scale, scenarios of barrier failures and ground water intrusion are a necessary part of the safety assessment. In such a scenario, the possible release of radiotoxic elements into the environment will be governed by the solubility of the UO2 matrix, which may be altered by oxidative radiolysis products formed in the water.
 In this work, a method has been developed for the study of homogeneous α-radiolysis under final repository conditions, with the intention to determine the effect of dissolved bromide on the radiolytic yield of oxygen. To enable this study, a high activity 238Pu solution was stabilized at neutral pH, and a method for mass spectrometric measurement of oxygen gas at the ppm level was developed.
 Contrary to expectations, a qualitative evaluation of the measurement data indicated a consumption of oxygen in the radiolysis experiment. It was however concluded that the experimental procedure will require further improvements before any radiolytically produced, or consumed, oxygen could be quantified.


A new cover for the pump pit of Tank 241-BY-106 has been designed to allow the rotary core exhauster to be hooked up without requiring pit entry, riser modification, or equipment removal. The new pit cover is necessary to allow installation of two risers for reducing exposure, contamination, and waste. Computer analysis indicates that the safety margin of the pit cover plate with two risers is adequate. The computer stress model and input files are attached. The pit cover plate is a replacement for an existing plate; therefore seismic and wind loads were considered for the plate only.


The stress-strain state of a plastic layer under compression by two rigid parallel rough plates under conditions of plane deformation is investigated. The hypothesis of flat sections is used. Tangential stresses are found in the part of the layer under load, as an approximate solution of the system of equations of the stress-strain state of the compressible layer. The solution is obtained in analytical form. On this basis the velocities of the points of the layer are calculated in the analytic form. The size and shape of the free surface are calculated depending on the thickness of the layer. The coefficients of this dependence are determined by recurrent relations. On this basis, an algorithm for finding the shape of a free surface is found. The computational experiments are provided and the results are compared with results obtained with FEM and ANSYS.


Abstract Climate change is an important topic that needs to be addressed soon. As the consequences of climate change are extremely serious, such as ocean acidification and extreme weather conditions, it is paramount to learn what are the causes behind the phenomenon to battle it effectively. In this work, authors modeled the relationship between global temperatures and atmospheric concentrations of nitrous oxide, methane, and carbon dioxide on a dataset of 65 years using linear regression, decision tree regression, random forest regression, and Artificial Neural Network. Authors have analyzed the performance of these machine learning algorithms on the data and established that ANN outperforms the other algorithms on the basis of mean square error. Further authors have calculated the importance of each feature (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) using the best performing model-ANN and proved that the contribution of carbon dioxide in the increase of global temperatures is the maximum of the given greenhouse gases.


In humans, uric acid is an end-product of purine metabolism. Urate excretion from human kidney is tightly regulated by reabsorption and secretion. At least eleven genes have been identified as human renal urate transporters. However, it remains unclear whether all renal tubular cells express the same set of urate transporters. Here we show that renal tubular cells are divided into three distinct cell populations for urate handling. Analysis of healthy human kidneys at single-cell resolution revealed that not all renal tubular cells expressed the same set of urate transporters. Only 32% of renal tubular cells were related to both reabsorption and secretion, while the remaining renal tubular cells were related to either reabsorption or secretion, at 5% and 63% respectively. These results provide physiological insight into the molecular function of the transporters and renal urate handling on cell-units. Our findings also suggest that three different tubular cell populations cooperate to regulate urate excretion from human kidney. Highlight/Key points We identified three distinct cell populations within the human renal anatomy that predict putative cellular transport mode, and our findings indicate cellular inhomogeneity with distinct roles such as urate secretion and reabsorption. Our model of physiological urate handling demonstrates the excretion dynamics in human kidney in terms of single cell-units. Our cellular urate transport analyses suggest the reversibility of some urate transporters even in certain physiological conditions. The physiological function of SLC2A9 is not limited to urate reabsorption; it is also involved in urate secretion restriction. This methodology can be applied to investigations of transport mechanisms in general, regardless of epithelial cell types, species, and substrates.


The detection of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus at an abundance of $\sim 20$ ppb suggests that this gas is being generated by either indeterminate abiotic pathways or biological processes. We consider the latter possibility, and explore whether the amount of biomass required to produce the observed flux of phosphine may be reasonable. We estimate that the typical biomass densities predicted by our simple model are potentially orders of magnitude lower than the biomass density of Earth's aerial biosphere in the lower atmosphere. We briefly discuss how small spacecraft could sample the Venusian cloud decks and search for biomarkers.


In this paper, we prove a class of nontrivial q-Pochhammer symbol identities with extra parameters by iterated residue method. Then we use these identities to find relations of the quasi-map $K$-theoretical $I$-functions with level structure between Grassmannian and its dual Grassmannian. Here we find an interval of levels within which two $I$-functions are the same, and on the boundary of that interval, two $I$-functions are intertwining with each other. We call this phenomenon level correspondence in Grassmannian duality.


The studies of free-cutting nonleaded brass were reviewed.The effects of alloying elements on the microstructure and properties were summarized,including processing performance,corrosion resistance,cutting performance and so on.Future developments of free-cutting nonleaded brass were discussed.


The purpose of this study was to examine the palatal fistula rate after repair with the two‐flap palatoplasty technique. This is a retrospective review of 119 consecutive cleft‐palate repairs performed over a 5‐year interval by a single surgeon. The two‐flap palatoplasty technique was used to provide tension‐free, multilayer repairs. The age of these children at the time of repair ranged from 7 to 84 months (mode, 9 months). The initial follow‐up visit occurred 2 to 12 weeks after the repair operation (mean, 4 weeks). The postoperative follow‐up duration ranged from 7 to 48 months. This review of 119 cleft‐palate repairs revealed a fistula rate of 3.4 percent (four fistulas in 119 repairs). This experience demonstrates the lowest reported palatal fistula complication rate with use of the two‐flap palatoplasty technique. (Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 107: 315, 2001.)


In order to achieve the educational goal of "Building Morality and cultivating people", the paper analyzes the feasibility of integrating ideological and politi-cal education into differential equation teaching, and holds that the general and special solutions of differential equation have the advantages of integration with scientific socialism and socialism with Chinese characteristics. With the special solution of differential equation and the explanation of mathematical knowledge prototype of general solution, the ideological and political elements of the general solution of differential equation and special solution course are excavated from the ideological perspective, so as to stimulate and improve the political correctness of students and strengthen the confidence of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In the new era, college mathematics teachers should cultivate students' rational thinking, guide students to establish correct values and form excellent humanistic quality by constantly mining the spirit of mathematics.


Bacterial canker caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. viticola (Xcv) is the most important bacterial disease of grapevine in the region of Submedio Sao Francisco. The resistance of 20 grapevine clones, 13 scions and seven rootstocks, was evaluated in greenhouse. Plants were inoculated with suspension of the strain Xcv1 (A570 = 108CFU mL-1), incubated in greenhouse and daily evaluated for epidemiological components of bacterial canker: incubation period, incidence of leaves with symptoms, incidence of leaves with canker, disease severity, progress rate of disease incidence, and area under the disease severity progress curve. All clones were susceptible to the pathogen, although significantly differing among them (P=0.05) for most of all variables. Generally 'Brasil' showed the highest disease levels for all variables tested while 'Isabel' and 'Paulsen 1103' presented the highest values of incubation period and the lowest values of incidence of leaves with symptoms, with canker, disease severity, progress rate of disease incidence, and area under the disease severity progress curve, suggesting that these clones can be used in breeding and integrated management programs. The significant correlations (P=0.05) among variables indicated anyone could be used to analyze the reaction of grapevine clones to bacterial canker. Considering all the epidemiological components, the grouping according to the UPGMA method (unweighted par group method using arithmetic average) allowed the separation of scion and rootstock clones into three similarity groups each.


Humanitarians are no longer simply seen as selfless angels. Their motivations and mastery, their principles and products are questioned from within and from without. Understanding the ongoing transformations in contemporary humanitarianism requires examining the nature and evolution of humanitarian culture away from an agreed culture of cooperation to a contested one of competition. The latter reflects militarization, politicization, and marketization. What is required is a learning culture for practitioners and a consequentialist ethics more oriented to responsible reflection than rapid reaction.


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The Smart Board is an effective tool for learning Chinese. The purpose of this study was to investigate elementary students' perception of using the Smart Board to learn the four fundamental core skills of Chinese: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Participants (N = 172) were second to fourth graders of an elementary school. Results of the ANOVA analyses indicated that there were no significant gender differences in reading, listening, speaking, and writing for the 2nd graders as well as in reading, listening and speaking for the 3rd graders. However, male 3rd graders had a significantly (F = 7.816, p = .007) higher mean score in writing than female students, while female 4th graders showed a significantly (F = 5.597, p = .022) higher mean score in listening Chinese than their male counterparts. It is suggested that Chinese language learning activities should be tailored based on students' genders and grade levels.