. The Pancasila and Citizenship Education Subjects (PPKn) as subjects that have a mission of value education, become one of the strategic vehicles to overcome the shift in values that have implications for moral decadence. This research shows that packaging the values of Prince Antasari's struggle character into a PPKn learning model will make the learning process targeted and can be used as signs as well as guidelines in teaching and nail in teaching and learning values. This research uses the Borg and Gall version of educational research and development design because this research aims to develop a learning innovation product, namely the PPKn learning model based on the character values of Prince Antasari's struggle.


Let us denote by EndAl A the Banach algebra of all bounded A homomorphisms of Hilbert A module l A and by End Al A the C algebra of operators admitting adjoint Let GL A and GL A denote the correspondent groups of invertible operators In the present paper we give a simple proof of the theorem of Cuntz and Higson on the contractibility of GL A for A with strictly positive element We prove the contractibility GL A in some special cases in par ticular for A being a subalgebra of algebra of compact operators in separable Hilbert space and for A C M where M is a nite dimensional manifold We prove some generalizations of the theorem of Dixmier and Douady to the cases of GL A and GL A for unital A Introduction Let us denote by EndAl A the Banach algebra of all bounded A homomorphisms of Hilbert A module l A and by End Al A the C algebra of operators admitting ad joint Let GL A and GL A denote the correspondent groups of invertible operators The question about the contractibility of general linear groups is very important for K theory to construct classifying spaces in terms of Fredholm operators To this problem a series of papers is devoted The author used these results to construct the classifying spaces of K theory K q X A which arises in analytical approach to the Novikov Conjecture on higher signatures In paper J Cuntz and N Higson proved the contractibility of GL A for A with strictly positive element or equivalent with countable approximate unit unital In the present paper we give a simple proof of the theorem of Cuntz and Higson dis tinguished from original and based on generalization of a construction of homotopy from We also show that the similar reasonings are aplicable to prove the contractibility The work is partially supported by the RFBR grant N a and INTAS grant N GL A in some special cases in particular for A being a subalgebra of algebra of compact operators in separable Hilbert space and for A C M whereM is a nite dimensional manifold In the classical paper of Dixmier and Douady it is proved the contractibility of the group of unitary operators in Hilbert space with the respect to strong topology We prove some generalizations of this theorem to the cases of GL A and GL A for unital A Instead of strong topology we use here the strict topology Acknowledgment The author is grateful to L Brown J Cuntz M Frank V M Manuilov and A S Mishchenko for helpful discussions Preliminary notes It is known that the set of invertible operators in a Banach space is open with the respect to the topology of a norm while the set of bounded A homomorphisms is closed in the set of all endomorphisms Thus GL is an open set in a Banach space The similar argument is valid for GL According to the Milnor theorem such sets have the homotopy type of CW compexes and therefore by the theorem of Whitehead strong and weak homotopy triviality are equivalent for them We have proved the following statement Lemma To prove the contractibility GL resp GL it is su cient to verify the following Let f S GL be a continuous map of a sphere of arbitrary dimension Then f is homotopic to the map to the single point Id GL The similar statement holds for GL Let us produce one more reduction To consider simultaneously case GL and case GL we shall enter a common notation G GL resp GL E M EndA M resp End A M Lemma a variant of the Atiyah theorem about small balls Let f S G be a continuous map of a sphere of arbitrary nite dimension Then f is homotopic to a map f such that f S is a nite polyhedron in E l A laying in G together with the homotopy Proof Let be such that neighborhood of the compact set f S lays in G Let us choose a ne simplicial subdivision of the sphere S such that diam f for any simplex of this subdivision It is possible to do this since S is compact Let f be a piecewise linear map being the extension of the restriction f to the dimensional sceleton Thus diam f diam f for any s For any point s S there exists a vertex si S such that kf s f si k kf s f si k and kf s f si k hence the segment f s f s G for any point s S Therefore the linear homotopy ft s tf s t f s is in G Passing to a subdivision of f S we obtain a structure of simplicial complex Remark Let us remark that this argument is not valid for other topologies which we shall consider For example with the respect to the strong topology on oper ators in a Hilbert space the sequence Id n converges to Id where Id n has the matrix diag unit up to n th place So that with the respect to this topology the general linear group is not an open set One more step from the original work of Kuiper is universal Let us denote orthog onal A Hilbert sum by and Banach one by e Lemma Subset V G de ned as V fg G j gjH IdH g H H g where l A H H H H l A is contractible in G to G Proof Let us represent H as H H H Hi l A so that l A H H H The matrix of g with the respect to this decomposition has the form m u gjH m i i E Hi i m i j i j g diag u diag u u u u u We want so to de ne a homotopy gt G t in such a way that g g g diag u u u u u g diag Id G For this purpose let us put for t mt u for i mt i i mt i i mt i i mt i i cos t sin t sin t cos t u cos t sin t sin t cos t u mt r s for remaining r s Let us put for t mt i i mt i i mt i i mt i i cos t sin t sin t cos t u cos t sin t sin t cos t u mt r s for remaining r s Lemma Subset W G de ned as W fg G j gjH IdH g where l A H H H H l A is contractible inside G to V fg G j gjH IdH g H H g Proof With the respect to the decomposition l A H H we de ne a homotopy by the formula ft s s t s


The reaction of Allium cepa (L.) genetic material to the presence of potential cytotoxic and genotoxic substances in water environment was used to screen the water toxicity presence and degree of Shkodra lake, Buna and Drini rivers, by measuring onion bulbs root length (MRL), Mitotic Index (MI), Phase Index (PI) and chromosome abnormalities (CA), grown in water samples from Shiroka, Zogaj, Shegan, Kamicë, Stërbeq, Buna bridge, Bahçellek, Zues and Dajç. All parameters were compared with filtered tap water control, using χ 2 test. Rating of samples for MRL and MI values was decreasingly: tap water, Stërbeq, Kamicë, Shiroka, Buna bridge, Zogaj, Bahçellek, Dajç, Zues, Shegan. Only the MRL and MI values of Dajç, Zues and Shegan were significant (p<0.05), compared to tap water. Most frequent CA types were: stickiness, bridges and fragments. Rating of samples for CA was increasingly: tap water, Kamicë, Stërbeq, Buna Bridge, Shiroka, Dajç, Bahçellek, Zogaj, Shegan, Zues. The number of abnormal dividing cells was significant (p<0.05) in: Dajç, Bahçellek, Zogaj, Shegan, Zues. It was noticed high level of CA rate (genotoxity) in water sample of Zogaj, which could not be screened by cytotoxic examinations (MRL and MI). The results indicated a slight water pollution in Dajç, Shegan, Bahçellek, Zogaj and Zues samples, serving as a first alert of chemical pollution environmental impact, even in low concentrations. Deeper and larger scaled monitoring network, using bioassays, has to be done in Shkodra region to protect ecosystems, biota and humans.


The London Mechanics' Institute (LMI), founded in 1823 was not the first such institution, but by general consent it was the most important. The institutional history of the LMI (and of the subsequent growth of mechanics institutions and associated bodies) is relatively well known, in outline at least. However the LMI's origins were controversial and contested at the time and subsequent accounts have tended to ignore the fundamental issues of principle - focused on constituency, curriculum, and control - that surrounded them. This paper revisits the events surrounding the formation of the LMI in 1823-4. It concludes that whilst the question of precedence may be resolved by provisionally describing J C Robertson and Thomas Hodgskin as 'founders' of the Institute which George Birkbeck 'inaugurated' the more important issues of collective vs. individual models of 'self-help', of 'useful' versus 'really useful' knowledge, of what working-class education might be and whether it can ever be 'independent' are still with us, two centuries on.


Fertilizer dosage can influence nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in rice (Oryza sativa L.) fields. An experiment was conducted to find out the temporal and seasonal variations in N2O emissions under different doses of fertilizers and to identify the best fertilizer combination for lower N2O emission and adequate yield potential. Two rice varieties Phorma (local cultivar) and Luit (high yielding variety) were grown, with nine different fertilizer treatments. N2O fluxes were measured by a closed chamber technique. Temporal fluxes coincide with fertilizer application. Higher seasonal N2O emission (Esif) of 224.05 mg N2O-N/m2 (in Phorma) and 182.16 mg N2O-N/m2 (in Luit) was observed in treatment T9 (45:22:22 N-P2O5-K2O kg/ha as urea, single super phosphate and muriate of potash + farm yard manure). Whereas, lowest emission was recorded in T2 (35:18:18 N-P2O5-K2O kg/ha as urea, single super phosphate and muriate of potash). N2O emission also showed significant positive correlations with soil nitrate-N and soil organic carbon. The fertilizer dose N, P2O5, K2O @ 40: 20: 20 kg/ha as urea, single super phosphate and muriate of potash (T1) without farm yard manure was found to be suitable for sustaining productivity and lower N2O emission in this zone.


I read Stanley Cavell's This New Yet Unapproachable America for the first time over a two-day bus ride from Montreal to Chicago. This happened a little bit more than a year ago, in March 2018, when I came back to the US, where I grew up undocumented.The following essay tries to respond to that reading from both a deep attachment to Cavell's writing and a wish to learn how to think after his picture of American thinking. Alternatively, I can also say that this essay is an attempt at sitting with an irresolvable pull between the unapproachability of things, and the need of confronting the world with itself along the lines in which it meets in a series of topics and a place.


(for dissemination) Describes the general dissemination, awareness raising and exploitation support plans and activities of the e-Government use case and the strategy underlying them.


Today, road agencies face the problem of traffic management. As urban populations expand and roads become increasingly congested, road agencies need efficient traffic management systems. They constantly need real time information to take the right decisions and act quickly to solve problems. Geoloc Systems has developed the PRISM solution to help road agencies manage their road network efficiently. This system is an embarked android application permitting the management of road maintenance, road incidents and weather conditions.


In this paper, we describe an approach for extracting named entities from Arabic texts. Arabic language is hard to process since its characteristics that influence, even, the NE extraction. For our case, we consider that the named entities extraction can be assimilated to a typical classification problem. Indeed, this extraction consists of searching for text portions that can be classified in a NE class (Person, Locality or Organization). Thus, we choose to use a supervised learning approach and employ the BIO tagging format that can solve the twin problems of segmentation and categorization. In addition, singular classifier cannot give good results for all types of contexts. Thus, we adopt a set of weighted classifiers which we combined through a voting procedure. In order to appreciate properly the performance of our system, we perform two types of tests: with and without morphological attributes. We consider that the results are highly satisfactory especially with a accuracy that exceeds 89% for both Person and Locality classes.


ABSTRACT We studied the molecular dynamics of chiral and achiral smectic liquid crystals by solid-state 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (13C-NMR) spectroscopy with a Larmor frequency of 100 MHz. The chiral and achiral smectic liquid crystals used were S-4-(1-methylhexyloxycarbonyl)phenyl 4′-octyloxybiphenyl-4-carboxylate and 4-(hexyloxycarbonyl)phenyl 4′-octyloxybiphenyl-4-carboxylate, respectively. The peak width and the spin-lattice relaxation time were measured to investigate the effect of chirality on the molecular dynamics. The 13C-NMR study revealed that introducing chirality, namely, the introduction of a (-CH3) group to the C23 carbon, affects the intramolecular correlation between the mobility of the carbon and the rotational motion of the aromatic core.


The author describes the capabilities of the Systems Analysis Laboratory in Brisbane and its applicability to emergency services. (non-author abstract)


Objectives: To investigate the accrual proportion and patients' reasons for not participating in the PREOPANC trial on neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus immediate surgery in resectable and borderline resectable pancreatic cancer, and to compare these patients' outcomes with those of patients who had been randomized in the trial. Summary of Background Data: The external validity of multicenter randomized trials in cancer treatment has been criticized for suboptimal non-representative inclusion. In trials, it is unclear how outcomes compare between randomized and nonrandomized patients. Methods: At 8 of 16 participant centers, this multicenter observational study identified validation patients, who had been eligible but not randomized during recruitment for the PREOPANC trial. We assessed the accrual proportion, investigated their most common reasons for not participating in the trial, and compared resection rates, radical (R0) resection rates, and overall survival between the validation patients and PREOPANC patients, who had been randomized in the trial to immediate surgery. Results: In total,455patientshad been eligible duringtherecruitmentperiod, 151 of whom (33%) had been randomized. Fifty-five percent of the 304 validation patients had refused to participate. Median overall survival in the validation group was 15.2months, against 15.5months in the PREOPANC group (P ¼ 1.00). The respective resection rates (76% vs 73%) and R0 resection rates (51% vs 46%) did not differ between the groups. Conclusions: ThePREOPANCtrialincludedareasonablepercentageof 33% of eligible patients. In terms of the outcomes survival, resection rate, and R0 resection rate, this appeared to be a representative group.


With the advent of 3-dimensional computed axial tomography simulators (CT sim), more sophisticated conformal radiation treatment planning is possible. In order to estimate the accuracy of prostate volumes calculated by CT sim, the volumes obtained by CT sim and ultrasound (US) and diagnostic CT were compared. From April 1989 to December 1992, 212 prostate cancer patients were treated with conformal techniques guided by diagnostic CT. Fifty of them had their prostate volume determined by transrectal ultrasound (US). The prostate volumes calculated using diagnostic CT and US were compared. From April 1993 to May 1994, 186 patients were treated with conformal technique guided by CT sim. Eighty-three of them had their prostate volumes determined by ultrasound. The prostate volumes were determined using the ellipsoid model for each of the imaging methods (ultrasound, diagnostic CT, CT simulator). An additional integral method was available for determining volume with the CT simulator. The median ellipsoid model volume of the prostate gland was 40.3 cc by US and 54.4 cc by diagnostic CT. Correlation coefficient (r2) was 0.608 (P < 0.001). CT sim: The corresponding median ellipsoid model volumes were 37 cc by US, and 49.8 cc using the ellipsoid model by CT sim. The CT sim volume was 38.1 cc using the integral method. The r2 of the prostate volumes by US and CT sim (integral method) was 0.803 (P < 0.001). The prostate volume calculated using the integral method by CT sim was similar to the volume obtained using the ellipsoid model with US. The ellipsoid model method of calculation was significantly different from the ultrasound volume for both the diagnostic and CT sim method. The ellipsoid model calculation for US and the integral volume calculation for CT sim most closely approximates true gland size. Radiat Oncol Invest 1996;4:74–79. © 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.


Optimized conditions for the selective synthesis of [Li 2 (P n Ph n )(tmeda) x ] (n = 2, 3, 4) have been developed. X-ray diffraction with single crystals show [Li 2 (P 2 Ph 2 )(tmeda) 2 ] and [Li 2 (P 4 Ph 4 )(tmeda) 2 ] to be ion triples, while for n = 3 the ion pair [Li(tmeda) 2 ] + [Li(P 3 Ph 3 )(tmeda)] - is observed. NMR experiments support the assumption that these structures are retained in solution. Structural differences between the lithium and the corresponding sodium compounds, [Na 2 (P n Ph n )-(tmeda) x ], can be partially rationalized using the electrostatic stabilization parameters, ESP = Σ(1/r M +, M +) + Σ(1/r P -, P -) - Σ(1/ r M +, P -); M = Li, Na.


This thesis takes as its starting point the observation that the authorship of the creative product of orchestral performances has been, and continues to be, over-attributed to the conductor. This is reflected both in popular perceptions and in the scholarly attention given to the conductor's leadership role, as well as in orchestral practices which privilege the conductor's artistically superior position within the orchestra through rehearsal and performance rituals and in remuneration and marketing. Although existing research has challenged the perception that the authority of the conductor is absolute, none has offered alternative explanations for how best to attribute the authorship of orchestral performances. Through a three-phased mixed-methods empirical study including an online questionnaire, in-depth interviews, and a newly developed method of data collection utilising an online variation of video-stimulated recall to capture musician experiences in real-life rehearsal and performance settings, this research contributes to an understanding of the social psychology of orchestral performance by identifying what prompts musicians' decision-making regarding how and when to play their parts. The analysis of the data has resulted in the development of a theoretical Framework of Influence and Action in Orchestral Performance that offers a new way of conceptualising authorship in performance through a 'theory of influence'. It concludes with an exploration of the implications of this revised view of authorship for existing orchestral practices, group creativity research, and our understanding of how the relationships enacted in the micro-socialities of orchestral performance reflect larger social formations.


This paper investigates the use of human-computer interaction in the user experience design of cultural and creative products. Based on human-computer interaction, a human-computer system model of user experience design is constructed, and human-computer interaction is used to clarify the relationship between "user-cultural product-cultural environment". In addition, the cultural contact points of users are identified from the cultural experience layer, and finally, the feasibility of the method is verified through design cases. With the purpose of strengthening users' cultural experience, it analyzes users' cultural experience process using human-computer interaction, defines experience points from it and then completes the design. Starting from the source of users' initial contact with culture experience, the process of cultural experience of users before contacting physical products is deeply explored, and the design points of user experience are sorted out and optimized by taking Tujia brocade cultural and creative products as an example (products include Internet products and physical products). Ultimately, the Tujia brocade cultural service website is used as a carrier to deliver the user experience design of cultural and creative products for the purpose of optimizing cultural experience.


SUMMARY 1 Populations of Babesia rodhaini were isolated which were 'putative' variants of a reference population. 2. They were shown to have some antigenic dissimilarity to the reference population by comparing the response of rats immunized with irradiated parasites of the reference population, to challenge with either the reference population or with the variant populations. To the homologous challenge the immunized rats were strongly resistant. After a heterologous challenge, however, for the first 3 or 4 days the immunized rats showed no resistance but thereafter rapidly controlled the infection. 3. Five 'variation' populations were tested and all were shown to have some antigenic dissimilarity to the reference population. Two variant populations were compared and were not found to be identical with each other. There appeared, however, to be less dissimilarity between them and any one variant and the reference population. Mrs J. Page and her successor Miss D. Leader, gave technical assistance. I thank my colleagues for helpful criticism of the manuscript.


A detailed observation of the coseismic ionospheric disturbances (CIDs) after the Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake has been carried out using total electron content (TEC) data from 333 GPS stations. This inland earthquake occurred on 25 April 2015, at a depth of ~15 km. Following the quake at 6:11 UT, groups of CIDs were observed from 06:18 to 07:00 UT. The CIDs we observed could be classified into three groups: CIDs related to gravity waves (GWs), CIDs related to acoustic waves (AWs), and CIDs related to seismic Rayleigh surface waves. The GW‐related CIDs traveled at a velocity of ~500 m/s. They were mainly observed to the south and north of the epicenter, within 600 km of the event, with a maximum amplitude of 0.18 total electron content unit (TECU; 1 TECU = 1016 el m−2). The AW‐related CIDs traveled at a velocity of ~700–1400 m/s. They could be observed for 1000 km in all directions from the epicenter, with an amplitude of ~0.3 TECU. The CIDs related to Rayleigh waves could be observed only to the east of the epicenter, at a maximum distance of 1800 km. They had an apparent velocity of ~2.0–2.3 km/s. Through comparing the seismogram data from Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology to the TEC data, we found that the azimuthal characteristics of the ground vibrations agree with the directivity of the CIDs related to Rayleigh surface waves.


Robert A. Shaw is an associate professor of education at the University of Connecticut. Richard A. Dempsey, chairman of the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Connecticut, is coordinator of this regular feature. 1 orces and combinations of forces act upon and influence the roles of mathematics in society today. They include: societal forces which are often referred to as needs and expectations of society; psychological forces which involve the needs of youth in


Introduction: Ca-Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) consist of high temperature minerals that represent the oldest known solid objects in the solar system. The CAIs are known to have contained the short-lived ra-dionuclide 26 Al, which decays to 26 Mg, and has a half-life of 0.72 Myr. The 26 Al-26 Mg decay system provides a high-resolution relative chronometer for the CAIs [e.g., 1]. However, the chronometer could have been partly disturbed by Mg diffusion in the minerals in CAIs during parent body and/or nebular processes [e.g., 1-3]. It has also been suggested that the non-zero initial δ 26 Mg* of 0.7 ‰ in Efremovka (E44) melilite is a consequence of diffusive exchange of Mg isotopes between melilite and anorthite during a period of 10


Individuals with a spinal cord injury (SCI) are frequently taught to ambulate with long leg braces and upper extremity support during their post-acute rehabilitation. In many cases this training 6ils to carry over once these individuals return to their homes after their rehabilitation course has ended. Subsequently, these individuals rely on their viieelchair as their primary mode of ambulation. Is ambulation training an expropriate intervention for patients in these cases? The purpose of this study was to investigate whether utilization of the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) may serve as a predictor of long term functional ambulation with long leg braces by individuals with a complete SCI at the level of T12-L3. Based on the data collected, we were unable to determine that there is a relationship between total discharge FIM scores and long term functional ambulation in individuals with a SCI between the level of T12 and L3.


John Paul Riquelme is Professor of english at Boston university. His work on the long twentieth century includes editions of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dracula, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles and books and essays on Joyce, eliot, Hardy, Beckett, the modern Gothic, and literary theory. He is currently writing a book on Wilde and early modernism. The Negativity of Modernist Authenticity / The Authenticity of Modernist Negativity: "No Direction Home" in Yeats, Dylan, and Wilde


Abstract In the present research, two types of drug carriers based on mesoporous silica-coated magnetic graphene oxide, Fe3O4@GO@mSiO2, were synthesised and the pH-responsive behaviour for doxorubicin release was investigated. One type of the carrier was dendrimer-like multi ethylene amine grafted on Fe3O4@GO@mSiO2 and the other was dendrimer-like supramolecular polypseudorotaxane. Herein, α-cyclodextrin was used in the structure of supramolecular nanoparticles as a gatekeeper to inhibit the drug from escaping at neutral pH (the pH of healthy tissue). The drug release profile showed that the supramolecular nanocarrier was more sensitive to the pH changes. The content of drug release was about 100% at pH 5.5 (endosomal pH) during 48 h; but it was zero at pH 7.4. Also, the dendrimer structure facilitated the triggered release of doxorubicin.


The mechanical properties of SiC films grown via C 60 precursors were determined using atomic force microscopy (AFM). Conventional silicon nitride and diamond-tipped steel AFM cantilevers were employed to determine the film hardness, friction coefficient, and elastic modulus. The hardness is found to be 26 GPa by nanoindentation of the film with a Berkovich diamond tip. The friction coefficient for the silicon nitride tip on the SiC film is about one half to one third that for silicon nitride sliding on a silicon substrate. By combining nanoindentation and AFM measurements an elastic modulus of ∼300 GPa is estimated for these SiC films.


Resent years, high-frequence cycle charged by Milankovitch cycle as an important manner for stratigraphic classification, conforming age, and discussing basin evolution, is tried to used to continental rift-subsidence basin. But continental rift-subsidence basin is structure basin, fault structure theory, a lot of sedimentation and structure phenomenon which are on or under the surface show us that there is probably influence which short-period episodic rifting control the sedimentation of high-frequence cycle. The influence is need to eliminate before using Milankovitch cycle in continental rift-subsidence basin. In recent period, the primary research maybe be limited some sides. The first is to find out sedimentary response of short-period episodic settlement within deposit of high-frequence cycle; the second is to research sedimentary feature, lateral change and contrast of tectonic high-frequence cycle with different sedimentary location and source distance; the third is to study accurate index and contrast of paleoclimate and paleowater depth in lacustrine high-frequence cycle. These sides are very important before to pick-up Milankovitch sedimentary cycle accurately.


School restructuring efforts in the USA have failed in the past because no clear conceptual model or delivery system existed which allowed for unified implementation of restructuring. However, lessons from successful corporations using total quality management (TQM) are now providing educators with a proven process to attain quality education through a structured, systematic delivery system designed to promote continuous improvement. Georgia has become one of the states turning TQM as a conceptual model for reform. Describes the TQM initiative in Georgia′s public schools, including how the need for reform was identified, who is driving the reform efforts, and how these efforts are progressing.


SMEs play an important role in Chinese economy, and along with the launch of China GEM, the pressure of SMEs financing will be reduced. This research established simultaneous equations of capital structure and corporation performance, applicant INN to estimate the equation and then find out the interactive relationship between capital structure and corporation performance. The results show that capital structure and corporation performance exist interactive relationship and capital structure, growth ability, equity concentration, board and corporation scale will significantly influence corporation performance. Profitability, growth ability, debt paying ability, collateral value of assets and enterprise scale will significantly influence capital structure.


Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is widely performed for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma [1-6]. Recent meta-analysis of previous randomized controlled trial data of TACE for hepatocellular carcinoma reported that TACE could improve the survival rate [3, 4]. Selective TACE should be performed if possible, in order to avoid toxicity to the surrounding non-cancerous hepatic parenchyma. Matsui et al. [5] and Takayasu et al. [6] reported that subsegmental TACE could improve local control as well as the survival rate.


For a vertically polarized line source, in the context of HF (3–30 MHz) ground wave propagation over a curved rough sea surface in the presence of islands, this paper adapts the FB-SA (Forward–Backward Spectral Acceleration) method to compute the attenuation function over sea–land (island)–sea mixed paths for different shapes and heights of the islands. The rigorous FB-SA numerical method is based on the method of moments and was originally developed for scattering from rough surfaces and is especially efficient in solving a huge problem, which is required to predict the ground wave propagation over a long surface. In addition, for zero island height, this method is compared with an analytical approach expressed from a (residue) series, in which the roots of a differential equation, depending on the Airy function, must be calculated. In addition, from an intuitive approach and from the work of Barrick and Ishimaru, this analytical approach is extended to include the sea roughness and then validated from the FB-SA.


Objectives The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the lexical density of expository and narratives text in middle school Korean textbooks for all grades of 9 publishers of the 2015 curriculum, and to obtain educational implications for Korean textbook development and teaching and learning guidance in middle school. Methods For this, the expository and narratives texts in middle school Korean textbooks in the 1st to 3rd grades were composed of corpus, and lexical density was measured using Python 3.8, a computer programming language after preprocessing. After comparing and analyzing this by sentence type and grade, 20 high-frequency vocabulary lists of expository and narratives texts were extracted. Results As a result of the study, the average lexical density of the expository texts for grades 1 to 3 is 48.350, The narrative texts is 48.337, which is somewhat high in expository texts. Analysis of this by grade showed that lexical density increased as the grade went up in the case of expository texts, and in the case of narrative texts, it was in the order of 2 > 3 > 1st grade. The expository text with the highest lexical density was  included in chapter 3 of the first semester of the third grade of Changbi Publishing, and the narrative was  included in chapter 4 of the second semester of the second year of the Bisang publishing. The most commonly used nouns in the expository were 'person', 'book', and 'time', while the narrative was 'language', 'person', and 'house'. Conclusions In the conclusion, based on the research results, it was judged whether the text selection of the expository and narrative texts in middle school Korean textbooks was appropriate, and suggestions were made on how to use them.


Systems like TESS require specialized components that challenge all involved. These systems consist of many sub-components, but we are focused on the refractive and reflective optical components. One purpose of this talk is to introduce optical system designers to application specific manufacturing processes. We, as manufacturers, need to tailor our processes for the optic's specific operational environment. In addition, we want to introduce some of our more unique manufacturing capabilities to allow system designers to widen their design space. It is now feasible to manufacture a wide range of sizes, shapes, and materials for many different applications.


what sublimity of mind was his who dreamed of finding means to communicate his deepest thoughts to any other person, though distant by mighty intervals of place and time! Of talking with those who are in India; of speaking to those who are not yet born and will not be born for a thousand or ten thousand years; and with what facility, by the different arrangements of twenty characters upon a page!2


It has been proposed that autistic people experience a temporal distortion whereby the temporal binding window of multisensory integration is extended. Research to date has focused on autistic children so whether these differences persist into adulthood remains unknown. Additionally, the possibility that the previous observations have arisen from between group differences in response bias, rather than perceptual differences, has not been addressed.Participants completed simultaneity judgements of audiovisual speech stimuli at a range of stimulus onset asynchronies. Response times and accuracy data were fitted to a drift diffusion model so that the drift rate (a measure of processing efficiency) and starting point (response bias) could be estimated. In Experiment 1, we tested a sample of non-autistic adults who completed the Autism Quotient questionnaire. Autism Quotient score was not correlated with either drift rate or response bias, nor were there between group differences when splitting based on the 1st and 3rd quantiles of scores. In Experiment 2, we compared the performance of autistic with a group of non-autistic adults. There were no between group differences in either drift rate or starting point.The results of the present study do not support the previous suggestion that autistic people have an extended temporal binding window for audiovisual speech. Additionally, exploratory analysis revealed that operationalising the temporal binding window in different ways influenced whether a group difference was observed, which is an important consideration for future work .


In this paper, a one-tier on-wafer device de-embedding methodology up to millimeter wave regions is presented by using the line-series-shunt calibration technique. All the calibration and de-embedding processes are accomplished without the needs of impedance-standard-substrate (ISS), which defines the reference impedance in the conventional on-wafer measurements. Three on-chip standards, namely a section of transmission line (TL), a series resistor, and a shunt resistor, are utilized to perform the calibration where the characteristics of the standards need not to be known in advance and can be evaluated through the self-calibration procedure. The proposed method is examined by the GaAs 0.15 μm pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (pHEMT) device in the measured frequencies from 2 GHz to 90 GHz.


The detection of fraudulent images and the attribution of image sources has become a hot topic of debate in both the news industry and social media. Anyone may quickly create or edit digital content in the age of digitalization, and they can then simply broadcast it on social media networks. The use of these social networking sites has created new difficulties for practical application, such as the viral transmission of incorrect or misleading material with harmful intentions. On the one hand, they greatly facilitate modern communication. A currently very emerging technology for data sharing and application is block chain. By using data encryption, timestamps, and distributed consensus, it is possible to exchange decentralised information in distributed systems without relying on one another, which increases the effectiveness of data sharing and application. The massive data remote sensing image system can fully exploit this technology, and the multi-system shared node storage system can be controlled effectively and uniformly to increase the system's economic efficiency. This study suggests important research technologies, builds the shared architecture based on block chain technology, and offers a theoretical framework for non-engineering practise.


Bristol: Institute of Physics 1973 pp x + 338 price £15 (libraries) £7.50 (members) In its early days scanning electron microscopy was generally regarded by transmission electron microscopists and materials scientists as a possibly useful extension of qualitative optical microscopy. Recent technological advances, such as the introduction of field emitting cathodes and the subsequent imaging of single atoms by Crewe and his coworkers, have changed all this.


Simple Summary The clinical relevance of vascular calcifications has increased in recent years, given the aging of the population and increased exposure to risk factors. Tissue calcification is often a point of no return that leaves no room for any medical therapy and limits the possibility of surgical and interventional treatments—a real insurmountable barrier. The diffusion of cardiac imaging methods has made the recognition of cardiac calcifications, at various levels and of variable extent, more and more frequent. The pathogenesis of calcifications is not unique but includes different mechanisms, depending on the specific site and disease, which, in turn, results in different phenotypes. Unfortunately, however, clinicians are not always aware of these different mechanisms and phenotypes. This concise, but in-depth, review explores the different molecular processes and their links with the specific clinical condition, and current therapeutic approaches to counteract calcifications. Abstract There is a growing interest in arterial and heart valve calcifications, as these contribute to cardiovascular outcome, and are leading predictors of cardiovascular and kidney diseases. Cardiovascular calcifications are often considered as one disease, but, in effect, they represent multifaced disorders, occurring in different milieus and biological phenotypes, following different pathways. Herein, we explore each different molecular process, its relative link with the specific clinical condition, and the current therapeutic approaches to counteract calcifications. Thus, first, we explore the peculiarities between vascular and valvular calcium deposition, as this occurs in different tissues, responds differently to shear stress, has specific etiology and time courses to calcification. Then, we differentiate the mechanisms and pathways leading to hyperphosphatemic calcification, typical of the media layer of the vessel and mainly related to chronic kidney diseases, to those of inflammation, typical of the intima vascular calcification, which predominantly occur in atherosclerotic vascular diseases. Finally, we examine calcifications secondary to rheumatic valve disease or other bacterial lesions and those occurring in autoimmune diseases. The underlying clinical conditions of each of the biological calcification phenotypes and the specific opportunities of therapeutic intervention are also considered and discussed.


The article approaches the Black Religious Monuments and Sites Mapping Project (MAMNBA) as an important indicator of two converging movements that take shape in the 1980s in Brazil. The first one is the emergence of the "national heritage" as a field of political struggle appropriated by black social movements that seek the affirmation of their cultural rights and the breaking of the Portuguese-Brazilian monopoly of the representations of the history of the country.The second one is the extension of the old concept of historical and artistic heritage until its gradualreplacement by the notion of cultural heritage. It also addresses the way in which the Federal Constitution of 1988 welcomed these movements and how their guidelines regarding Afro-Brazilianheritage were absorbed in the policy of cultural heritage preservation, especially at the federallevel. Taking this sphere of public power as a focus, the article also deals with the conceptual, methodological and practical developments that the protection and safeguarding of this particularcultural heritage has produced within the scope of the Institute of National Historic and Artistic Heritage (Iphan), since the listing of several Terreiros de Candomble in Bahia and in other statesof the country as cultural heritage. Finally, the article addresses the conflicts and contradictions that emerged from the day-to-day management and preservation of these cultural properties between the conceptions of Iphan's technical staff on the conservation of these religious spaces and what the cult communities consider their cultural heritage and how it should be preserved in these sites.


A method of measuring at least one operating parameter of a plurality of electric motors (1, 7) of an automatic parking brake. The measurement is made using sensors (2, 3, 8, 9). The signals generated by the sensors are processed by a processing unit (6). It minimizes the influence of spurious signals if one does not measure the operating parameter or one does not treat as long as no electric motors (1, 7) is controlled.


Abstract A tree dies when it is unable to mobilize sufficient resources internally, or obtain additional resources through leaves and roots to sustain life or heal injuries. Although stress of any kind affects the availability of water, nutrients, and photosynthate, we can judge a tree's probability of dying by assessing: (1) reduction in photosynthesis, (2) adjustments in maintenance costs, and (3) diversions of photosynthate away from expected growth patterns. Examples are provided for trees subjected to drought, mechanical abrasion, and nutrient stress.


Conclusions and Summary 1) Tyrosine and potassium iodide do not have any effect on serum lipoprotein and total serum cholesterol concentrations. 2) These findings indicate that in clinically euthyroid patients neither substance appears to be a limiting factor in thyroidal synthesis of thyroid hormones from tyrosine and iodide.


The purpose of this study is to examine lower characters in Measure for Measure, emphasizing on Pompey and Barnardine. The one is a tapster and pimp working for Mistress Overdone, and the other is a dissolute murderer in prison. In the constable Elbow's trial scene in Act II, scene i, Pompey shows himself up using his nimble word-play in front of the deputy Angelo and Escalus, and develops a full-scale burlesque of legal procedure by building on a parody of Elbow's malapropism. Under the deputy Angelo's regime, however, Pompey is imprisoned for his illegal business along with a number of his old customers of the bawd house. And there, he continues his job not as a bawd but as an assistant of the Executioner, Abhorson. He bridges the theme of fornication into the theme of the heavy crime, murder. Pompey is indeed a representative figure for the ancient profession, prostitute where the line between legal and illegal remains notoriously uncertain. Barnardine, a dissolute prisoner is drunken all day long in his prison cell. When he first appears in the prison scene, Act IV, scene iii, his drunkenness dominates the stage ignoring the warrant. Pompey and Abhorson give up to take a next step, and even the disguised Duke can't help doing anything against him. His refusal to die exposes the gap between the Duke's bizzare plotting and the actual world. As a murderer, Barnardine is the representative antithesis of the world of comedy that emphasizes preserving and continuing human life. Sparing him from death sentence, therefore, means that he is free to kill people again. On his second appearance in the final act, he keeps silence when the Duke saved his life. Therefore, the meaning and effect of his silence is wide open to the audience and readers as well as the director. In particular, since the quantity of his dialogue is no less than 17 lines, and his appearance is limited, he used to be omitted during the last scene by some directors. If we remind the Angelo's justice, which put the same weight on the fornication and the murder, Barnardine is the one of the most important figures who takes one opposite of the measure of this play. The lower characters in Measure for Measure, are critical mirror in which inverted the structure and assumptions central to the play's serious action. If their roles were reduced or omitted, therefore, the whole theme of this play would be deformed and its message would be distorted. Even they are indeed minor characters, the function and the effect of their portions are as significant as major characters.


Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the gold standard in the diagnosis of adult spondyloarthritis [1]. MRI sensitivity and specificity seem to be less studied in juvenile spondyloarthritis, especially in Enthsitis-related Arthritis (ERA).We aimed to determine the sensitivity and specificity of MRI in the diagnosis of ERA.We conducted a retrospective study including 44 patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) meeting the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) 2001 criteria. For each patient, we collected the following data: age, age at the onset of JIA, JIA subtype, disease duration, C-reactive protein (CRP), HLA-B27 typing, and Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ERS) levels. Each patient had a sacroiliac joint MRI. Sacroiliitis was defined using the OMERACT JAMARIS scoring system [1]. Disease activity was assessed using the JSpADA score for ERA and JADAS-CRP-10 for the rest of the JIA subtypes. We divided patients into two groups: Group 1 (G1) patients with ERA and Group 2 (G2) patients with non-ERA subtype.Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software.We included 28 boys and 16 girls. The mean age was 13.65 ± 4.62 years. The mean age at the onset of the disease 9.57 was ± 3.97 years. The mean disease duration was 4.34 ± 3.09 years. There was enthesitis-related arthritis in 61% of the cases (n=27), oligoarticular JIA in 14% of the cases (n=6), polyarticular JIA in 11% of the cases (n=5), and psoriatic arthritis in 7% of the cases (n=3). JIA was undifferentiated in 7% of the cases (n=3). Sacroiliac joints were painful in 15 patients (34%). The mean CRP and ESR were 14.42 ± 19.67mg/L and 26.56 ± 20.87mm, respectively. The mean JADAS and JSpADA were 6.6 ± 4.7 and 3.09 ± 1.55, respectively. HLA-B27 was performed in 22 patients and was positive only in five patients.IRM was normal in 25 patients (57%) (G1: 11 versus G2:14) and showed bone marrow in the sacroiliac joints in 19 patients (34%) (G1=16 versus G2=3, p=0.005).The sensitivity and specificity of the sacroiliac joints MRI in the diagnosis of ERA were 61.54% and 82.35%, respectively. Positive predictive value and negative predictive value were 84.21% and 58.33%, respectively. Furthermore, sacroiliac joint pain in the clinical examination was able to predict sacroiliac bone edema in MRI with an odds ratio of 6.8 (95% confidence interval 1.68 to 28.09; p=0.006).According to other studies, ours showed that MRI inflammatory lesions could be observed in JIA regardless of JIA sub-types [2]. Interestingly, we found that MRI abnormalities were not sensitive but had a good specificity in the diagnosis of ERA. Thus, MRI could guide the diagnosis of ERA but could not be the gold standard in this disease.[1] Herregods N, Maksymowych WP, Jans L, et al. Atlas of MRI findings of sacroiliitis in pediatric sacroiliac joints to accompany the updated preliminary OMERACT pediatric JAMRIS (Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis MRI Score) scoring system: Part II: Structural damage lesions.Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2021;51(5):1099-1107.[2] Demir S, Ergen FB, Taydaş O, et al. Spinal involvement in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: what do we miss without imaging?.Rheumatol Int. 2022;42(3):519-527.NIL.None Declared.


The Leader/Follower formation control of mobile robots with uncertain dynamical models is investigated,and adaptive shape tracking controllers are developed for the follower.Firstly,a kinematic shape tracking controller is presented for the follower based on the formation equation.Then the shape tracking error equation is derived with backstepping technology and an indirect adaptive dynamical shape tracking controller is constructed by using fuzzy systems to approximate the uncertainties.It is proved that the tracking error of the follower is uniformly ultimately bounded.Numerical simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed control strategies.


Artists working in the field of animation, games and films are expected to have in-depth knowledge of three-dimensional (3D) software as well as traditional art principles. However, when it comes to creating conventional paintings, many artists have yet to use 3D computer imaging. 3D software expands beyond what is possible in other computer programmes such as Photoshop, InDesign or Illustrator by giving the creator access to unlimited potential in three dimensions. My work embraces these modern technologies, crossing the boundaries between new and old media, to inform the paintings I create with oil on canvas. I utilize 3D software to push the surreal yet realistic quality of a setting. In this article, I explore my work in the context of historical precedents and contemporary examples that combine conventional media and 3D computer imaging. Keeping up and creatively employing these technologies within conventional modes of painting presents an opportunity to push the boundaries of my art.


Cancer is a priority public health problem in the world. In Cuba, it is the second cause of death in most age groups and mainly in the population aged over 60 years. To evaluate the impact of immunotherapy as a therapeutic alternative that improves survival functions in elder patients with non-small cell lung cancer. An experimental analytical study was carried out; the universe was composed by 123 elder people diagnosed with lung cancer who were treated with immunotherapy in Matanzas. Control variables were used to which the corresponding summary measures were applied using chi-square hypothesis tests and likelihood ratios for their analysis and statistics; survival functions were evaluated using Kaplan Meier curves. The efficacy and safety of immunotherapy in the treatment of the studied patients was demonstrated. Therefore, the authors believe that the sequential impact of the combination of surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and biological therapies tends to extend the survival of patients suffering from non-small cell lung cancer with an ethically acceptable life quality. The new immunological therapy, consisting in returning to the patients´ immunologic system the capacity of recognizing a tumor as foreign, and therefore, fighting against it, have yielded very important answers and benefits.


The objective of the present study was to detect the occurrence of  Cryptosporidium spp. oocysts in intestinal mucosa scraping and feces samples from bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus Shaw, 1802) confined at the school farm of Federal University of Uberlândia, MG, Brazil. The modified Ziehl Neelsen staining technique was used. Out of 28 fecal samples, 14.28% (4/28) were positive for Cryptosporidium spp., with 7.14% positive samples in feces of frogs under 3 months of age and 7.14% in feces of frogs over 3 months of age. Form the 16 intestinal scraping samples, 75% (10/16) were positive, 50% in tadpoles and 25% in adult frogs. This research allows the situation identification and the recommendation of measures to control this parasite, aiming at preventing or delaying the appearance of this parasitism in other animals, since it an important zoonosis to public health. KEYWORDS: Cryptosporidium spp, protozoan, bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus


Oral cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer related deaths in the world. The global incidence of oro-pharyngeal cancer accounts for 3, 63, 000 annual new cases worldwide and almost 2, 00, 000 deaths. Most oral cancers are squamous cell carcinomas because most of the risk factors affect the superficial layers of the mucosa and gingiva. In patients with proven head and neck carcinomas, the presence of a unilateral metastatic neck node reduces the 5-year survival rate by 50%, whereas the presence of bilateral metastatic nodes reduces the 5-year survival rate by 25%2. Further the incidence of clinically occult metastases in the neck can be as high as 30 – 50% depending on the sub-site and stage of the primary tumor. Different modalities for the assessment of cervical lymph nodes include clinical palpation and imaging techniques such as Ultrasonography (USG), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), and Radionuclide Scintigraphy. USG is the only available imaging technique that can be used for routine follow-up. Unlike CT and MRI that depend only on the size of the node for diagnosing the metastasis, USG can evaluate various parameters like site, size, shape, boundary, internal structure, vascularization and extracapsular spread. This article reviews the effectiveness of the ultrasonography in detecting malignant neck lymphnodes in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma. KEYWORDSUltrasonography, Oral Cancer, Metastasis, Neck lymphnodes. INTRODUCTION Oral cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer related deaths in the world. The global incidence of oropharyngeal cancer accounts for 3, 63, 000 annual new cases worldwide and almost 2, 00, 000 deaths1. Most oral cancers are squamous cell carcinomas because most of the risk factors affect the superficial layers of the mucosa and gingiva. It might be expected that early diagnosis would be the norm, but unfortunately majority of the patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma present with advanced disease and lymph node metastasis. Assessment of the nodal status is essential in patients with head and neck carcinomas since it predicts prognosis and helps in selection of treatment options. In patients with proven head and neck carcinomas, the presence of a unilateral metastatic neck node reduces the 5-year survival rate by 50%, whereas the presence of bilateral metastatic nodes reduces the 5-year survival rate by 25%2. Further the incidence of clinically occult metastases in the neck can be as high as 30 – 50% depending on the sub-site and stage of the primary tumor3. Different modalities for the assessment of cervical lymph nodes include clinical palpation and imaging techniques such as Ultrasonography (USG), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), and Radionuclide Scintigraphy. Clinical examination of patients though easy and inexpensive has an estimated false negative result of 27 – 38% and low sensitivity and specificity4. USG is the only available imaging technique that can be used for routine follow-up. Unlike CT and MRI that depend only on the size of the node for diagnosing the metastasis, USG can evaluate various parameters like site, size, shape, boundary, internal structure, vascularization and extracapsular spread. This article reviews the effectiveness of the ultrasonography in detecting malignant neck lymphnodes in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma. Basic Principles of ultrasonography "Sonography" means imaging with ultrasound; "ultra" means beyond or in excess; "sound" means audible sound energy. The term "ultrasound" means the form of sound energy beyond audible range. Ultrasound used for diagnostic purposes has a frequency of 2 MHz to 20 MHz5. Ultrasound wave is a form of longitudinal mechanical wave that needs a medium to be transmitted from one place to another. Ultrasound is produced by vibrating piezoelectric crystals using a high frequency electrical pulse that causes mechanical oscillation and produces ultrasound waves. Thus, electrical energy is converted into mechanical energy. Diagnostic ultrasound utilizes a transducer which generates a narrow focus beam. This beam is reflected from the tissue and sent back to the same transducer, which assembles these echoes into an image that can be visualized and recorded5. Though the principles and application of ultrasound was discovered by curie brothers in 1880, the Dussik brothers in Austria (1937) were the first to describe the use of ultrasound imaging for medical diagnosis6. Later in 1972, Ultrasonography in the detection of metastatic lymphnodes 438 Kossoff in Australia and others introduced grey scale USG. Vincent in 1988 found that sonography is widely applicable in the diagnosis of a variety of soft tissue abnormalities. Though the major application of USG is in cardiology, gastroenterology, obstetrics and gynaecology, it is recently gaining importance in the diagnosis of oral and maxillofacial lesions. ADVANTAGES OF ULTRASONOGRAPHY OVER OTHER IMAGING MODALITIES  Widely available and easy-to-use  Inexpensive  Harmless since it uses no ionizing radiation and non invasive.  Unaffected by metal artefacts such as dental restorations  Can be performed without sedation  Can be repeated as often as necessary  On-screen nodal measurement is possible  Possible to differentiate cystic from solid lesions and benign from malignant masses  Minimally invasive procedures like FNAC and needle biopsies are possible with USG LIMITATIONS OF ULTRASONOGRAPHY  USG can visualize only superficial tissues to a depth of 4-6 cms.  Lymphnodes with borderline size cannot be reliably diagnosed with USG and in those instances US guided FNAC should be performed.  Few submandibular nodes are hidden by the body of the mandible and hence cannot be adequately evaluated by USG.  USG cannot assess the retropharyngeal lymph nodes, which lie behind the air filled pharynx. These nodes are common sites of metastases in some head and neck cancers such as nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and these lymph nodes are evaluated with CT or MRI.  USG cannot detect micrometastases in lymphnodes and may lead to false negative findings.  On grey scale USG, both coagulation necrosis and the hilus appear echogenic within the lymphnode. The two can be distinguished by noting that the hilus is a linear echogenic structure continous with the surrounding fat, whereas coagulation necrosis appears as an echogenic focus and is not continous with the surrounding fat.  Submandibular nodes are usually large and round and hence differentiating between benign and malignant nodes at this site based on the size and shape is not reliable.  There is no specific cut-off value for the nodal size to be pathologic. An increase in the cut-off value in the nodal size results in a decrease in the sensitivity and an increase in the specificity and vice versa.  Ultrasonography, being an user friendly, cost effective and applicable tool of diagnosis to detect cervical lymphadenopathy, many studies have been carriedout to compare USG with other imaging modalities. Ultrasonography in the detection of metastatic lymphnodes Shozushima M. et al (1990) conducted a prospective study in 57 patients treated by radical neck dissection for carcinoma of the oral cavity, maxillary sinus or oropharynx. The pre-operative USG and post-operative histopathological findings were compared in 181 lymphnodes of 5mm or more in diameter. Lymph nodes were evaluated by USG with reference to the size, shape, boundary and internal echoes. 96% of lymph nodes of 15mm or more in size were histologically positive. 95% of the oval lymph nodes were negative. The positive rate was higher for well delineated than poorly delineated lymph nodes. With respect to internal echoes the rate was similar in both homogenous and heterogenous nodes. No lymph nodes were detected by USG in 6 of the 57 patients of which 4 were true negative and 2 were false negative. They have concluded that USG is indispensable for diagnosing cervical lymph node metastasis in patients with malignant head and neck tumors7. Susumumu Shingaki, Ichiro Suzuki (1996) conducted a study to assess distant metastases in 103 patients with histologically proven HNSCC. They compared the primary site, tumor stage, clinical growth pattern, histological differentiation, regional lymph node status and extranodal spread with distant metastasis. They found the incidence of distant metastases was significantly higher in patients with neck metastases (40%) than those without neck metastases (4%). There was no correlation between the incidence of distant metastases and the sex, location, stage of the disease and clinical growth pattern. Their study found that the most common site for distant metastases was the lungs (56%), followed by the bone and skin (16% each). They concluded that the presence of regional lymph node metastasis is the most critical factor for the eventual development of distant metastases8. Atula TS, Varpula MJ, Kurki TJ, Klemi PJ, Grenman R (1997) conducted a prospective study in 105 patients with primary cancer of the head and neck. Palpation, low field MRI and CT were compared with US guided FNAC. In the subgroup of 86 patients with palpable normal necks, CT showed lymph nodes fulfilling the radiologic criteria for malignancy in 27%, MRI in 17% and USG in 14% of the patients. In the other subgroup of 19 patients with palpable metastatic necks, metastases were detected by all imaging methods. They have concluded that irrespective of the use of MRI or CT, US guided FNAC should be recommended since it provides additional information about enlarged lymph nodes and can detect malignancy in small lymph nodes not detected by other methods9. Michiel, W.M. Van den Brekel, Jonas A. Castelijns and Gordon B. Snow (1998) conducted a study to define a cutoff point for nodal size to determine whether cervical lymph nodes are metastatic or not with USG in 117 patients with and 131 pat


To observe fat tissue and the expression of adipokines in rheumatic heart valves and explore the possible role of fat tissue and adipokines in the pathology of rheumatic heart disease (RHD).


AIM: To investigate the effect of monascus purpureus fermented rice (MR) on alcohol fatty liver model in quails. METHODS: A fatty liver model was established in quails, then the lipid levels of the models were tested in both plasma and liver, and the examination in the pathological histology of liver was conducted. RESULTS: 1.6 g·kg -1 ·d -1 of MR given orally for 20 d significantly decreased TC, TG and LDL (P 0.01 ) in serum, and TC, TG in liver of quails. 0.8 g·kg -1 ·d -1 of MPFR also decreased TC and LDL in serum (P 0.05 ) and TC in liver (P 0.01 ). MR lowered the rate of liver fatty degeneration with a dose dependent manner and reduced the degree of liver fatty degeneration. CONCLUTION: MR shows a therapeutic efficacy on alcoholic fatty liver model in quails, suggesting that it may be used as a kind drug or a kind of health food in prevention or treatment of patients with fatty liver.


The subjects of Passenger-Dedicated Lines(PDL) train operation adjustment become more complicated.The PDL transport organization of China is analyzed,constructed a operations research model,proposed adjustment model based on chaos-improved GA,and design chaotic mutation operator.Lastly,an experimental example about Zhengxi PDL is constructed.The simulation results demonstrate the feasibility of the optimization model,and the improved algorithm is better than the standard one.


Here we report an unusual case of T‐cell lymphoma presenting as ascites. A 49‐yr‐old woman was admitted to the hospital for abdominal discomfort associated with increasing abdominal girth over the course of 3 mo. She also complained of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. On physical examination, a tense and distended abdomen and edema of the lower extremities were noted. Neither hepatosplenomegaly nor lymphadenopathy was found. A CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis showed a large abdominal/pelvic mass surrounding the small bowel and omentum and small nodes in the para‐aortic and mesenteric regions. The cytospin prepared from the peritoneal fluid was hypercellular and composed of a population of monotonous, noncohesive cells with a high nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio and a single prominent central nucleolus. The cells were positive for leukocyte common antigen and Leu‐22 (CD43) but negative for keratin, L26, UCHL‐1, kappa, lambda, CD3, Ki‐1 (CD30), S‐100, and carcinoembryonic antigen. Morphologic and immunologic findings were suggestive of T‐cell immunoblastic lymphoma. Peripheral T‐cell lymphomas rarely present as ascites; this case demonstrates the value of effusion cytology in making this diagnosis. Diagn. Cytopathol. 1999;20:382–384. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The crystal structure of the title compound, (1,4,7,10,13,16-hexaoxacyclooctadecane-κ6O)potassium chlorochromate(VI), [K(C12H24O6)][CrClO3], contains a K+ cation, complexed with one crown ether molecule, and a chlorochromate anion. The cation is located within the mean plane of the ether O atoms, approximately in the centre of the macrocyclic cavity, and bonded to them with K—O distances in the range 2.785 (5)–2.836 (5) A. In the crystal structure, polymeric chains of the type K+–CrO{}_{3}^{\,- }–K+ are formed.


Soils in arid and semi-arid regions are strongly affected by the accumulation of carbonates, gypsum and other, more soluble, salts. Carbonates and gypsum both have a considerable influence on soil properties, especially the chemical properties of the soil solution. The development of reliable, fast and inexpensive methods to quantify the amounts of carbonates and gypsum in soil is therefore important. Visible and near infrared (vis-NIR) spectroscopy is a non-destructive, rapid and cheap method for measuring several soil properties simultaneously. However, research on vis-NIR spectroscopy in quantifying carbonates and gypsum is limited. Therefore, this study evaluated the efficiency of vis-NIR spectroscopy in quantifying carbonates and gypsum in surface soils using partial least-squares regression (PLSR) compared with standard laboratory methods and compared PLSR with a feature-specific method using continuum removal (CR). Carbonates and gypsum in a total of 251 sieved and air-dried topsoil samples from Isfahan Province in central Iran were measured by standard laboratory methods and vis-NIR spectroscopy (350–2500 nm wavelength range). In parallel, PLSR and the feature- specific method based on CR spectra were used to predict carbonates and gypsum. The PLSR model efficiency (E) for carbonates and gypsum in the validation set was 0.52 and 0.80, respectively. The PLSR model resulted in better predictions than the feature-specific method for both soil properties. Because of the unique absorption features of gypsum, which did not overlap with other soil properties, predictions of gypsum resulted in higher E values and lower errors than predictions of carbonates.


Tritium is a naturally occurring radionuclides and the amount in the environment is estimated to be about 3 kg at equilibrium conditions. Because the ITER is planed to use a few kg of tritium, quite large amounts of tritium would be concentrated in a fusion reactor installation in a future. Then environmental behavior of tritium should be investigated before starting the experiments. We have studied tritium levels in various environmental materials those were collected at Toki, Gife prefecture where the LHD is under construction by NIPS. The analysis of variation of radionuclides including tritium is necessary around any nuclear facilities, of course in NIPS in Toki. We have collected organic samples from two sampling points form the pine forest at Toki area and analyzed tritium concentrations. The two sampling points are called as east and west. We have measured tritium concentrations in litter and humus and the tritium levels vary with meteorological factors as observed on samples from other locations in Japan. The environmental conditions in Toki area, thus is considered to be general as far as tritium measured. To confirm the generality in environmental conditions in Toki, we analyzed gamma spectra of samples and compared radionuclide concentrations in samples from other locations. The organic samples were packed in a 500 ml volume of plastic bottle after drying and measured for 24 h with aGe detector coupled with 4096 channel pulse height analyzer. The gamma spectra were analyzed by computer and efficiency correction was also carried out. The radionuclide concentrations in litter and humus samples with sampling time are shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2. Natural and artificial radionuclides were detected and higher concentrations were observed on humus that was located under the litter. The litter was composed of mostly dead pine needles and the needle shape still remained, while the humus was composed of decomposed pine needles.


For wave predictions, Wavewatch III is run on nested global and regional grids. A 144-hour forecast is run daily on the global domain, providing boundary conditions for twice-daily 48-hour forecasts on a New Zealand regional domain at a resolution of approximately 12 km. The regional wave forecasts have been validated against data from six wave buoy deployments. For global forecasts, these are supplemented with data from NDBC buoys in the North Pacific.


The contribution describes a method how to enumerate essential graphs. The method is based on two concepts, boundary vertices and symmetric vertices. Boundary vertices generalize the concept of terminal vertices to graphs with directed and undirected edges. Symmetric vertices are defined recursively as vertices that have symmetric neighbors. Classes of symmetric vertices allow to count labeled essential graphs. Layers of boundary vertices together with symmetry allow to find maximal essential graphs which are canonical representatives and can be used for counting unlabeled essential graph structures. Possible applications of the work are discussed. One goal is to enable the introduction of appropriate prior distributions in the model space for learning conditional independence structures.


This present study was intended to identify the impact of the implementation of government accountancy standard, internal control system, human resource competency, and accounting staff competency, on the financial statements quality in Surakarta government. The population in this study is a accounting staff at the Departments of the Regency Government Surakarta. The sample was determined using Sampling Purposive Method and the respondents totaled 72. The data used were the primary data. The data were collected through questionnaire. The data were analyzed using the multiple linear regression analysis assisted with the SPSS version 20.00 program. This study showed that the government accountancy standard and human resource competency has no effect the financial statements quality while the internal control system and accounting staff competency affect the financial statements quality.


Based on the concept of extended virtual enterprise,collaborative commerce model achieve integration of internal resources and business process collaboration by Internet.From the perspective of technical integration architecture,SOA has become a core technology of the collaborative commerce software development and the preferred mode of the software structure.The Web service is the most suitable technologies collection to realize SOA.Collaborative business model based on SOA framework reflects some characteristic such as loose coupling,location transparency,protocol independence.It is a good solution of the enterprise application systems integration between inside and outside by supporting the dynamic needs of business.


Electronic portfolios, or e-portfolios for short, are powerful tools that can be used to fulfill many objectives of higher education. The first and most important objective is student learning. When continuously compiling materials for e-portfolio, and reflecting on these materials, students learn to connect the dots between their classes and the skills they are developing while assessing their personal growth. Personal assessment is a skill that allows these future professionals to maximize their career potential. A second objective for e-portfolios is for faculty to readily access students' progress in programs to improve their learning. Depending on their contents, e-portfolios provide both dynamic and static views of student learning. They allow faculty to pinpoint deficiencies before they hamper student success. In essence, e-portfolios serve as a mechanism for a feedback loop to improve the education of the students . Finally, e-portfolios can be refined to serve as a rich website for students as they prepare to join the workforce. This paper presents the process for implementing e-portfolios in the College of Applied Science, University of Cincinnati. It describes the faculty's effort to learn about, devise a plan for, and implement e-portfolios in the College. This effort is in its second year.


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Selective Anisotropic Growth of Zeolite Crystals. (April 2003) Tasha Desai Department of Chemical Engineering Texas A&M University Fellows Advisor: Dr Daniel F. Shantz Department of Chemical Engineering Prectse control over particle size and morphology is emerging as a critical issue in the design of nanostructured materials. The explosive growS of nanoparticle synthesis is a good example of this. As material chemists have developed the ability to synthesize discretely sized and shaped semiconducting and metal/metal oxide nanoparticles, new applications for these materials have emerged including catalysis, sensing, tags for biomolecules such as DNA, and components of colloidal arrays. While numerous advances have been made in nanoparticle synthesis, these have been generally restricted to matenals possessing relatively simple structures (fcc, bcc, hcp) with small unit cells. To date, the ability to modulate particle size and shape of more complex oxides such as zeolites has not been demonstrated. That is the goal of this work, to develop the ability to synthesize oneand two-dimensional particles of complex materials, which could be integrated into micro devices such as sensors and electronics. To achieve this end we are attempting to grow zeolite particles in the confined water spaces formed in water/surfactant systems, using these "nanoreactors** to modulate zeolite growth. Our work to date has focused on the synthesis of two dimensional (5x100x100 nm') particles of ZSM-5 in the presence of sodium-AOT, an anionic surfactant that has a high propensiny for forming lamellar bilayer (L ) phases in solution. Our results from this system indicate that while we are forming high aspect ratio particles, they are in fact a sodium silicate phase, not the target phase ZSM-5. Current work is elucidating whether replacing the sodium with other cations such as tetrapropylammonium will give the desired ZSM-5 phase. Also, we are exploring the use of cationic surfactants that seem more promising for this application. If this approach is successful it opens new avenues to crystallizing complex solids with specific shape, size, or morphological properties, opening new applications for zeolite materials. Dedicated to my parents for their support as I fmd my path through life ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Daniel Shantz for allowing me the opportunity to be an undergraduate researcher and for having the patience to help me in this journey. I would like to thank two of his graduate students, Charles S. Carr and Henry Cheng, for their assistance with experimental equipment and characterization methods.


The author presents a theoretico-clinical reflection centered on the psychotherapy of a young diabetic adult presenting serious eating disorder troubles. His thoughts deal both with the process and the singularity of these pathologies which affect both the body and the psyche. A certain number of considerations are proposed giving special emphasis to masochism and dependance, compulsive behavior and recourse to acting out, when caught up in a transferential repetition.


Using 1.7 fb{sup {minus}1} of integrated luminosity at the {Upsilon}(4S) energy and in the nearby continuum, taken with the CLEOII detector at CESR, the authors report on a search for the annihilation decay of the D{sub s} meson into a muon and a neutrino. The rate for this decay measures the form factor f{sub D}{sub s}.


ABSTRACT Materials: NA Methods: The guideline is based upon the best available evidence as it relates to socket design, interface, and suspension of definitive transtibial prostheses. Where possible, recommendations are drawn from systematic review and meta-analysis. Where this standard is unavailable, alternate academic literature has been used to support individual recommendations. Results: Recommendation 1: The static and dynamic pressure distribution of the residual limb within the socket are essential considerations in patient comfort, function and well-being. ecommendation 2: Total Surface Bearing sockets are indicated to decrease fitting times and enable higher activity levels. Recommendation 3: Compared to traditional foam-based interfaces, viscoelastic interface liners are indicated to decrease dependence on walking aides, improve suspension, improve load distribution, decrease pain and increase comfort. Recommendation 4: Amongmodern suspension options, vacuum assisted suspension (VAS) sockets permits the least amount of pistoning within the socket, followed by suction suspension and then pin lock suspension. The traditional suspension options of supracondylar, cuff and sleeve suspension provide comparatively compromised suspension. Recommendation 5: VAS sockets are indicated to decrease daily limb volume changes of the limb in the socket while facilitating more favorable pressure distribution during gait. Recommendation 6: VAS sockets require both awareness and compliance on the part of the end user and are not universally indicated. Conclusions: These clinical practice guidelines summarize the available evidence related to the socket design, interface, and suspension of definitive transitibial prostheses. The noted clinical practice guidelines are meant to serve on as "guides." They may not apply to all patients and clinical situations. (J Prosthet Orthot. 2018;00:00–00)


The expression for the pressure in lattice Boltzmann realizations of the Navier–Stokes equations involves compressibility effects. The pressure in two‐dimensional steady and unsteady cylinder flow is obtained numerically in a lattice Boltzmann scheme for the first time and compared with experimental and finite‐difference results.


This study focused on examining the spatial characteristics and the patronage pattern of attractions and eco-tourism products in Enugu State. Primary and secondary sources of data collection were used to elicit information for the study. The primary sources involved the use of questionnaire survey, interview sessions guided by participatory rural appraisal technique, telephone survey, direct field observation and the use of Geographic Information System techniques. The secondary sources involved the use of documented information in textbooks, journals and registry of eco-tourism attraction across the study area. Findings from the study indicate that forty-one (41) operational ecotourism attractions exist across the study location with the result of the nearest neighbor analysis of 0.93 revealing that ecotourism attractions were randomly distributed across the study area. The study also observed that a total of 6,360 visitors visited and patronized the attractions between 2013 and 2017 with domestic eco-tourists having 56% of the entire visits to the attractions while visits by international eco-tourists recorded 44% of the entire visits. Based on the findings, the study recommended that major stakeholders in the tourism industry (government, non-governmental organizations and host communities) should collaborate and corporate to create an enabling environment for more investment opportunities and organize more ecotourism activities in the area. The study also recommended that managers of ecotourism attractions should employ modern marketing strategies to help create more awareness about the ecotourism attractions and its facilities to the entire world.


Abstract This is a report of major depression with possible delusional thinking in a 5-year-old boy. Data from clinical interviews, behavioral observations, and psychological testing are briefly discussed.


Introduction: Insulin resistance is a risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD) and is associated with a characteristic pro-atherogenic dyslipidemia. The triglyceride/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (TG:HDLC) ratio has been shown to be a good surrogate marker of insulin resistance, which develops before Type II Diabetes Mellitus is diagnosed. Given this, it may be clinically useful to have a means to identify non-diabetics with coronary disease. Hypothesis: We assessed the hypothesis that a high TG:HDLC ratio predicts coronary artery disease in high-risk cardiovascular patients without Type II Diabetes Mellitus. Methods: We analyzed 614 non-diabetic individuals from the larger BRAVEHEART Cohort Study presenting for coronary angiography. Cardiac risk factors were assessed, and fasting insulin, fasting blood glucose, glycated hemoglobin and a full lipid panel were collected. A TG:HDLC ratio was measured in 594 patients. Patients were categorized according to 1) the presence or absence of CAD, and 2) 0 vessel (CAD absent), 1&2 vessel, or 3 vessel disease. Results: The mean TG:HDLC ratio was greater in those with CAD than those without (1.61±0.06 [standard error], 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.49-1.73 vs. 1.20±0.05, 95% CI 1.10-1.30; p =0.0001). Compared to 0-vessel disease, both 1&2 and 3-vessel groups had a higher mean TG:HDLC (1.20±0.05 vs. 1.60±0.1 95% CI 1.40-1.80 & 1.62±0.06, 95% CI 1.49-1.79 respectively; p p =0.1596). Logistic regression analysis showed that the TG:HDLC ratio was a statistically significant predictor of the presence of any CAD (Odds Ratio [OR]=1.83±0.33; 95% CI 1.28-2.59, p =0.001) adjusted for statin use, lipids, glycemic markers, insulin and cardiac risk factors. Conclusion: In conclusion, these results suggest that the TG:HDLC ratio positively predicts CAD in non-diabetic individuals presenting for angiography independent of statin use, lipids, glucose and insulin levels, and cardiac risk factors. Although these results show potential for clinical application, further studies are warranted to investigate whether the TG: HDL ratio will be useful to screen high-risk patients.


A new statistical pattern recognition method has been developed for detection, recognition or measurement of patterns which are (much) smaller than the measure of the elementary pixel windows in the image screen. In this measurement the gray-level histogram of the objects examined is compared with the simulated histograms of different (in type or size) possible objects, and the recognition (of shape or measure) is taken on the basis of the comparison. This method does not need ultra-precise movement of the scanning sensors or any additional hardwares. Moreover, the examined pattern should be randomly distributed on the screen, or a random movement of camera (or target or both) is needed. Effect of noises are analyzed, and filtering processes are suggested in the histogram domain. Several examples of different shapes are presented through simulations and experiments.<<ETX>>


Mafic metavolcanics of the Huckleberry Formation in northeastern Washington occur near the base of the Windermere Supergroup, a sequence of immature clastic rocks thought to have been deposited dur...


Abstract- In Indonesia, the use of microalgae is still lacking, therefore, the antibacterial and antioxidant activity of the extract fatty acids from microalgae Nannochloropsis sp. Nannochloropsis sp biomass. extracted by soxhletasi with petroleum ether and ethanol, whereas the fatty acid extraction method by Indonesian National Standard. Antibacterial activity by disc diffusion method and antioxidant activity using the method of reduction of free radicals (DPPH). The results showed that the petroleum ether extract showed antibacterial and antioxidant activity better than the ethanol extract. The results of the identification of fatty acids in petroleum ether extract was dodecanoic acid (18.88%), while the ethanol extract was hexadecanoic acid (14.02%). Keywords : antioxidant, antibacterial, fatty acid, Nannochloropsis sp


We consider the height process of a L\'{e}vy process with no negative jumps, and its associated continuous tree representation. Using tools developed by Duquesne and Le Gall, we construct a fragmentation process at height, which generalizes the fragmentation at height of stable trees given by Miermont. In this more general framework, we recover that the dislocation measures are the same as the dislocation measures of the fragmentation at node introduced by Abraham and Delmas, up to a factor equal to the fragment size. We also compute the asymptotic for the number of small fragments.


In this study, individual performance in reading aloud was manipulated experimentally, and the associated effects of these manipulations on comprehension measures were examined for individual cases. Results revealed that large but not small increases in reading aloud from text are indicative of improved performance on traditional comprehension tasks. Additional analyses revealed that criterion levels of oral reading performance are related to accuracy in answering comprehension questions.


A method to calculate second-generation (2G) high temperature superconducting (HTS) coils' critical current is presented. Critical current and n value of HTS tapes measured under different magnet field are used for the calculation of the coil. The distribution of HTS coils' magnetic field intensity, current density, and electric field intensity is calculated with COMSOL 2-D based on H formulation. A partial differential equation (PDE) model and the magnetic field formulation (mfh) model of HTS tape are constructed. The modeling method and key points are also introduced and discussed. AC loss of the HTS tape is calculated with the above-mentioned two models, respectively. The calculation results of the two modeling approaches are coincident. The cross sections of the straight segment and bending segment of a HTS racetrack double-pancake coil are modeled, respectively, with a 2-D and 2-D-axisymmetric model in COMSOL, and the critical current is calculated. E–I properties of each turn of the coil and the critical current are calculated. HTS coils with seven pairs of voltage lead are wound. Voltages at different parts of the coils and the critical current are measured. The measurement results of the magnetic field, electric field, and critical current agree with the calculation results. The method presented in this paper can also be referred to when designing an HTS machine with HTS tapes or coils.


Comprehensively utilization of the marginal land for energy crops and properly develop-ing high-yield energy crops could be an effective way for developing the alternative energy sources and for solving the problems stemmed from the fossil energy exhausting.Based on the nationwide investigation, this paper analyses the quantity and its regional distribution of different levels of wasteland which are suitable for energy exploitation, and also discusses the important exploitation areas.According to the grade and quantity of wasteland for energy exploitation,these exploitation areas were divided into eight different parts such as Wu-Ling Mountain Area, Southwest China Karst Area and Qin-Ba Mountain Area and etc.At last, proposed suggestions for the comprehensive exploitation and for the utilization of the was telands.


Four substrates with different volume proportions(maize straw∶ peat∶ vermiculite =1∶1∶1, 1∶2∶2, 1∶3∶3 and 2∶1∶2, respectively) were used for studying the influences of compound substrate on growth of pelargonium and petunia, and the soil was taken as a contrast. The results showed that the chlorophyll content, the chlorophyll fluorescence parameters, the root activity and the content of leaf carbon and nitrogen metabolites and its related enzyme activity in petunia in treatment 1(maize straw∶ peat∶ vermiculite =1∶3∶3) and in pelargonium in treatment 3(maize straw∶ peat∶ vermiculite =1∶1∶1) were better than those in other treatments. Hence, the compound substrate in treatment 1 and treatment 3 could be selected as the ideal substrate for petunia and pelargonium, respectively.


This scientific commentary refers to 'Critical brain regions for tool-related and imitative actions: a componential analysis', by Buxbaum et al. , (doi:10.1093/brain/awu111).

Apraxia is a symptom on the border between cognition and motor control. It is predominantly caused by left brain damage and frequently accompanied by aphasia. Theories of apraxia have been dominated by a model of the conversion of mental images into motor commands proposed more than 100 years ago by the German psychiatrist Hugo Liepmann and revived for modern cognitive neurology by Norman Geschwind and his colleagues in Boston (Fig. 1). There are several variants of this model but they agree that deliberate control of gestures involves the conversion of a concept of the intended gesture into motor commands, that this conversion is implemented in the brain as a posterior to anterior stream of neuronal processing, and that the parietal lobe occupies a crucial position in this stream (Goldenberg, 2009, 2013). However, in this issue of Brain , Buxbaum and colleagues present data from voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping experiments that suggest that revisions to the model may be required (Buxbaum et al. , 2014).

Figure 1
Alternative versions of the posterior to anterior stream of motor control and of the central role of parietal lesions in apraxia. ( A ) Hugo Liepman (1920) proposed that mental visual images of intended actions were created in occipital regions and transferred to the precentral motor region for motor execution. Interruption of this stream leads to 'ideo-kinetic' (later renamed 'ideomotor') apraxia. Parietal lesions are likely to …


A dentist's role often involves screening, diagnosing, preventing, and treating a variety of oral diseases. However, it is equally important in both the medical and the judicial field through the identification of unidentified deceased individuals. For this reason, the science of Forensic Dentistry has been developed, the contribution of which is valuable, especially in cases of criminal acts or mass disasters, where the number of victims is high. Its work is characterized as demanding, in which case the immediate and effective action of specially trained and experienced professionals is necessary. The methods of identification used work with outline   the collection, careful examination, radiographic and photographic imaging and recording of post-mortem evidence of teeth and their impressions on the skin alongside the jaws, the lips and the palatal rugae of mucosa in order to be compared with existing ante-mortem and to draw conclusions regarding the racial and age identification of the deceased as well as finding other useful information about him/her. The forensic dentist's contribution to the administration of justice is essential through keeping detailed records of patients and excellent cooperation with local authorities towards a valid and reliable identification process.


Introduction . The neuropsychological impairment such as different severity of executive deficit and mnestic disturbance among chronic alcoholics is frequent, but usually not explored. Case report . Two clinical vignettes of alcoholics who were not simultane-ously treated in day hospital are presented, and they illustrated similar visuospatial impairments in free association drawings of a house made by. In this paper, the focus was on drawing not only as diagnostic tool, but also as a means of a confrontation within the group. Qualitative analysis of drawings and protocols from the group analysis were applied in the integrative day program. After confrontation, one alcoholic increased the insight into his cognitive impairment and strengthened motivation for early abstinence and treatment maintenance. He continued drawing houses as a theme of the following sessions till his obvious visuospatial impairments were repaired. Thus, he spontaneously trained his executive abilities and got group support for their improvement. Conclusion . Drawing could be a simple means of illustration cognitive impairments and the group analysis of drawings may serve as useful adjuvant method of strengthening insight and motivation for abstinence and treatment maintenance with documented cognitive recovery during abstinence.


Internet usage today is not a new thing anymore. Nearly all the world knew him. The Internet also represents the culmination of a teknolagi information on its use in a computer. The Internet can introduce things in a clear, such as introducing themselves, businesses, and others. This can be done with a container, which was known as the Website. DEPOK_Keramik, a dealer shop a variety of ceramic floor and wall is currently attracting considerable attention, especially for people who want to build or renovate the house floor to make it look more beautiful. Writing Scientific aims to create a Website DEPOK_Keramik that can be used as a means of information about various kinds of ceramics. In scientific writing will be discussed how to create a simple Web site DEPOK_Keramik also interesting. This Website Creation using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX application program in 2004.


Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), a self-polymerizing resin for removable orthodontic devices, has been used as a dental orthodontic device for many years because of its advantages such as color stability, volume stability, and tissue compatibility. However, such a removable orthodontic device has a disadvantage that the longer the use in the oral cavity due to the low strength of the PMMA fracture of the orthodontic device resin in use. In this study, zinc nanoparticles (ZNP) were mixed with orthodontic PMMA to introduce strength effect. Rectangular samples (1.4×3.0×19.0 mm) of orthodontic PMMA (0, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 and 4.0%) containing ZNP were prepared. The finished specimen was tested for three-point bending strength at a speed of 1 mm / min, and the Vickers hardness was measured three times using a hardness tester. The surface roughness was measured with a surface roughness. As a result, the 3-point bending strength did not change significantly (p> 0.05). Surface energy increased significantly. As a result, we successfully synthesized ZNP in this study and prepared the dispersed resin specimen for calibration. It will be possible to develop high-density dental orthodontic resins.


In this paper we discuss the linear combination of derivations in prime rings which was initiated by Niu Fengwen.Our aim is to improve Niu's result.For the proof of the main theorem we generalize a result of Bresar and obtain a lemma that is of independent interest.


Two fluorogenic peptide amides have been synthesized, i.e. BOC-L-valyl-glycyl-L-arginine 2-naphthylamide (I) and L-valyl-glycyl-L-arginine 2-naphthylamide (II). The kinetic parameters of plasmin, urokinase and human uterine tissue plasminogen activator on substrates I and II have been determined. Quite unexpectedly, the tissue activator appeared to require for its activity a blocked amino terminus on the substrate. This was further corroborated with other synthetic substrates. Plasmin and urokinase did not show this requirement.


Electroplated Ni and Ni-W micro-molds using LIGA-like process for replication of micro-components such as microfluidic parts and micro optical parts have been investigated. In general, it is hard to produce micro-parts using conventional mechanical processes. Micro-mold formed by LIGA-like process could fabricate micro-parts with high aspect ratio. In this paper, fabrication and properties of electroplated Ni molds with varying applied current types as well as those of Ni-W molds were investigated. Ni molds fabricated under pulse-reverse current showed the highest hardness value of about 160 Hv. Ni-W molds showed the hardness of about 500 Hv which was much harder than that of Ni electroplated molds. The above results suggested that high quality micro-molds could be fabricated by using Ni electroplating of pulse-reverse type for core molds and sequential Ni-W alloys coating.


The article is devoted to the hierarchical approach to the categorization of fiction and scientific texts in the text space. It suggests one of the possible classifications of scientific texts.