The population of this research is all students in the eleventh grade of SMK Negeri 1 Meranti consist of 5 classes or 170 students. The samples of this research are the students of the eleventh grade consist of 2 classes. The sampling technique used is cluster random sampling. This research method used quasi-experimental design with factors 2 × 2. The instruments used are IPS result test for 32 valid questions of multiple choice with four options and Multiples intelligence questionnaires for 35 questions with 2 options (choice a and b). The technique of data analysis used is two ways ANOVA in significance level of  α = 0.05. The research result shows that: 1) the students' achievement of IPS  taught by using  NHT learning strategy (average is 81.95) is higher than the students  who are taught by using STAD Learning Strategy (average is  79.10) ; 2) The students achievement who have interpersonal intelligence (average is 84.06) is higher  than the students who have intrapersonal intelligence (average is 77.64); and  3) there is interaction between NHT learning strategy and STAD learning strategy and multiples intelligence (intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence) towards students' IPS achievement. Based on the students' average mark it gives indication that students group who has interpersonal intelligence will be better taught by using NHT learning strategy and the students who have intrapersonal intelligence will be better taught by using STAD learning strategy.


Numerous technics are available for measuring the lipolytic activity of bacteria. Those employed by Collins and Hammer (1934), Mundt and Fabian (1944), Castell and Garrard (1941), Berry (1933), and Peters and Nelson (1948) may be noted. Some of the discrepancies regarding the ability of certain bacteria to hydrolyze fats and triglycerides no doubt arise from variation in evaluation procedures. However, there seems to be reason to suspect that differences in the nutritional levels of the mediums employed also affect the elaboration of bacterial lipase. This point has been studied by selecting three organisms, from a collection of 18, which were found to be most actively lipolytic when screened on 7 natural fats (butterfat, cocoa butter, cottonseed, olive, peanut, soybean, and codliver oils). The bacteria selected were Alcaligenes viscosus,2 Pseudomonas fluorescens, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, strain 1SC2F4.


The present CFD analysis is aimed at studying the performance and flow characteristics in an axial flow fan under uniform and distorted inflow conditions. Inlet flow distortions are flow nonuniformities that cause a reduction in performance and operating flow ranges of axial flow fan. CFD simulations were carried out for the following configurations: (a) Uniform inlet condition, (b) 90° circumferential extent steady total pressure distortion. Total pressure values have been noted down from Ansys CFX post at the exit of the axial fan, both in distorted and uniform regions. The simulation results are analysed to obtain axial fan performance parameters like the pressure rise coefficient, flow coefficient. It is observed that the fan performance deteriorated substantially under static inflow distortion than uniform inflow. The pressure rise is reduced by 13.7% due to static inflow distortion.


Objective:In order to know the germicidal efficacy of chlorine dioxide disinfectant powder on objects,fruits and vegetables,clothes.Methods: Field trial test was carried out.Results: Exposed to the chlorine dioxide powder solution containing chlorine dioxide 30mg/L for 10 min,the average killing log value of the Esherichia coli on the cucumber was ≥3.00.Exposed to the chlorine dioxide powder solution containing chlorine dioxide 100 mg/L for 10 min,the average killing log value of the Staphylococcus aureus and on the clothes was ≥3.00,that of natural bacteria on object surface was ≥1.00.Conclusion: This compound disinfectant is a good disinfectant for object surface,fruits and vegetables,clothes.


In this paper, we extend the concept of block adaptive filters to what we call basis expansion adaptive filters. While in block adaptive filters the system is assumed to be constant within a block, our basis expansion adaptive filters model the time variation of the system within a block by a set of basis functions. This allows us to improve the tracking performance of block adaptive filters considerably. We focus on stochastic gradient type of adaptive filters, although extensions to other types of adaptive filters can be envisioned.


Existing studies have demonstrated that adversarial examples can be directly attributed to the presence of non-robust features, which are highly predictive, but can be easily manipulated by adversaries to fool NLP models. In this study, we explore the feasibility of capturing task-specific robust features, while eliminating the non-robust ones by using the information bottleneck theory. Through extensive experiments, we show that the models trained with our information bottleneck-based method are able to achieve a significant improvement in robust accuracy, exceeding performances of all the previously reported defense methods while suffering almost no performance drop in clean accuracy on SST-2, AGNEWS and IMDB datasets.


Neil Brenner has in the past few years made a major impact on the ways in which we understand the changing political geographies of the modern state. Simultaneously analyzing the restructuring of urban governance and the transformation of national states under globalizing capitalism, 'New State Spaces' is a mature and sophisticated analysis of broad interdisciplinary interest, making this a highly significant contribution to the subject.


780 nm wavelength distributed feedback lasers have been integrated onto a Si3N4 photonic platform on a Si substrate and coupled into waveguides for laser locking to either a ring resonator or rubidium vacuum cell. © 2019 The Author(s)


A pair of skis are provided on their upper surfaces with respective mounting plates each carrying a treadle depressible by the boot of the user, the treadle overlying the bight of a yoke biased into a rising position be a pair of inclined shanks traversing the mounting plate. The extremities of the wire yoke carry blade-shaped brake elements which in the absence of boot pressure project downwardly beyond the runner surface of the ski and have confronting inner edges formed with notches coming to lie at the level of that surface, the width of the notch exceeding the thickness of the blade whereby the outer blade edges of the other ski can be received in these notches to hold the two skis together in back-to-back position with their runner surfaces contacting each other.


As more and more high-throughput protein-protein interactions data are collected, a large fraction of newly discovered proteins have an unknown functional role. A challenge to the scientific community is to assign these newly proteins with a biological function that can be verified by experiment. On the basis of thorough analysis of existing protein function prediction, we take double direction enumeration method combined with the distance constrains to find protein pathway, and propose a new predicting model based on topological structural of protein-protein interaction (PPI) network and protein pathway, which greatly increases the speed of the algorithm. To validate the method, the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein-protein interaction network and corresponding protein pathways are analyzed. Comparing with other methods, our results can substantially improve the accuracy and robustness of functional annotation.


To improve the classification of biological texts into rhetorical discourse segments, we need a taxonomy for biological verbs. After reviewing three existing classifications, we created a merged taxonomy that encompasses both biology-specific and scientific discoursespecific elements. We provide a manual classification of 239 unique verbs from two full-text biology papers to this taxonomy, and investigate correspondences with segment type. This leads us to propose a simple model of scientific communication, that might enable further


We present a user-oriented description of features and characteristics of the High Performance ERLANG (HiPE) native code compiler, which nowadays is part of Erlang/OTP. In particular, we describe components and recent additions to the compiler that improve its performance and extend its functionality. In addition, we attempt to give some recommendations on how users can get the best out of HiPE's performance.


The mode distribution and dispersion property are analysised and simulated with a scalar effective index approach in this paper,lt is found that the mode distribution and dispersion property are different by changing PCF scladding structure.So it is significant for designing PCF which can yield zero dispersion at short wavelength and realizing high-speecd and broad-band dispersion compensation.


Essential oils and plant extracts are rich sources of biologically-active compounds that can be used for manufacturing of antibacterial surfaces. This thesis reports the fabrication of pristine polymers, and zinc oxide/polymer films from geranium essential oil utilizing low power plasmaenhanced chemical vapor deposition technique (PECVD). The topographical, optical, mechanical, chemical, electrical and antibacterial properties of the fabricated films were in-depth studied.

Geranium-derived polymer films were fabricated at various input RF power. The resultant polymer were founded to be optically transparent in the visibly region. The refractive index, extinction coefficient, and optical band gap were found to be not significantly dependent on the RF power. The crosslinking of the material increased with increasing input power. The topographical features appeared to be uniform, smooth, and pinhole free for all samples, and the surface roughness increased with an increase in the input power. Sample fabricated at 10 W demonstrated a remarkable reduction in the number of cells, biovolume, or biofilm thickness, while there was no significant difference in the bacterial growth between samples fabricated at 50 W and control.

Zinc oxide nanoparticles were incorporated in the fabricated polymer films via a single-step approach that combines simultaneous plasma polymerization of geranium oil with thermal decomposition of zinc acetylacetonate Zn(acac)₂. The resultant nanocomposite thin films were systematically investigated. XPS survey proved the presence of ZnO in the matrix of formed polymers at 10 W and 50 W. SEM images demonstrated that the average size of ZnO nanoparticle slightly increased with an increase in the power of deposition from approximately 60 nm at 10 W to approximately 80 nm at 50 W. Confocal scanning laser microscopy images showed that viability of S. aureus and E.coli cells significantly reduced on surfaces of ZnO/composites compare to pristine polymers.

The electrical properties of pristine and ZnO/composites thin films were investigated in metal– insulator–metal (MIM) structures. It was found that the capacitance of the films decreases at low frequencies (C ≈ 10⁻¹¹) and remains at a relatively constant value (C ≈ 10⁻¹⁰) at high frequencies. These films also have a low dielectric constant across a wide range of frequencies that decreases as the input RF power increases. The conductivity of pristine polymers was determined to be around 10⁻¹⁶–10⁻¹⁷ Ω⁻¹ m⁻¹, which is typical for insulating materials. Incorporation of ZnO nanoparticles into the polymer films did not change the nature of charge transport, as the nanocomposite films were found to behave as an insulator. However, the conductivity slightly of nanocomposite materials slightly improved measuring 10⁻¹⁴ Ω⁻¹ m⁻¹.

Increasing the input power, along with introducing hydrogen gas to the plasma tube, produces desired sp2-bonded carbon nanostructures such as graphene materials. PECVD) had been utilized for the fabrication of high-quality vertically erected graphene nano-walls from geranium essential oil. The graphene synthesized using well-controllable system directly on silicon and quartz substrates without use any catalyst. SEM showed that the formed graphene had a length of few hundreds nanometers with thickness of 7 to 25 nm. AFM further confirmed the very sharp edges of the produced graphene. The material revealed relatively high water contact angle value ranging around 123˚. Antibacterial performance of graphene nano-walls was studied against grampositive and gram-negative microorganisms. Confocal scanning laser microscopy images demonstrated that the viability of E.coli and S. aureus cells were 32% and 38% were alive on graphene compare to controls, respectively.


The complex working conditions, high operating pressure and fast fluid velocity of large-diameter long-distance natural gas pipelines pose great challenges to the methods and safety of pipeline detection, and the precise velocity control of the pipeline detector under high fluid velocity has become a core technical issue. This paper introduces the intelligent velocity control system design of the pipeline detector. The system controls the drainage area in real time by driving servo motors, collects the running speed of the pipeline detector with mileage sensors, and adjusts the running speed by changing the size of the drainage area. The control system can reduced operating speed to less than 1/2 of the fluid velocity. The stability, reliability and safety of the system has been tested and verified in several project.


There is a large demand for high speed communication network, due to the fast growth in multimedia services provided by the mobile operators. SC – FDMA (Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access) and OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) are the most common communication standards prevalent in the 4th generation (LTE) mobile communication network, LTE-Advanced and Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB). For mobile communication system high data rate and low BER (Bit Error Rate) is required. Various researches have been carried on to fulfill the demand of high data rates, multiple channel bandwidths and spectral efficiency. LTE (Long Term Evolution) is one of such area research have been carried on to fulfill the above mentioned requirement.


Exploring the great outdoors offers physical and mental health benefits. Hiking is healthy, provides a sense of accomplishment, and offers an opportunity to relax. However, a nature trip is not always possible, and there is a lack of evidence showing how these beneficial experiences can be replicated in Virtual Reality (VR). In response, we recruited (N=24) participants to explore a virtual mountain landscape in a within-subjects study with different levels of exertion: walking, using a chairlift, and teleporting. We found that physical exertion when walking produced significantly more positive emotions and mindfulness than other conditions. Our research shows that physically demanding outdoor activities in VR can be beneficial for the user and that the achievement of hiking up a virtual mountain on a treadmill positively impacts wellbeing. We demonstrate how physical exertion can be used to add mindfulness and positive affect to VR experiences and discuss consequences for VR designers.


The invention discloses a spinning forming new technology of a shell part with inner and outer teeth and relates to a plastic working method. The spinning forming new technology includes the following steps that firstly, flat blank is machined to be preformed blank which is in the shape of a cup, and the thickness of the side wall of the preformed blank is larger than that of the side wall of the shell part with the inner and outer teeth; secondly, a spinning roller and a core die are manufactured, the surface of the side wall of the spinning roller is provided with a plurality of gears used for forming the outer teeth of the shell part with the inner and outer teeth, and the surface of the side wall of the core die is provided with a plurality of gears used for forming the inner teeth of the shell part with the inner and outer teeth; thirdly, the preformed blank is arranged on the core die in a sleeved mode, so that the preformed blank synchronously rotates with the core die, meanwhile, the spinning wheel synchronously and oppositely rotates with the core die, feeding is performed in the axial direction close to the core die, and therefore spinning forming of the shell part with the inner and outer teeth is finished. According to the spinning forming new technology of the shell part with the inner and outer teeth, the technological steps are simple, the production cost is low, the forming precision and the forming efficiency are high, performance is good, and high practicability is achieved.


Recent research highlights the significant contribution that migrant mothers make to UK society. Dr Umut Erel from the Open University looks at how theatre was used as a strategy to co-produce this research. The workshops and resulting research findings demonstrate the value of two-way exchange between participants and researchers. The evidence suggests it is time to reframe the debate about migrant mothers away from questions of integration to engagement with citizenship.


and the other bank regulators have been responsible for evaluating the extent to which banks meet the lending needs of their communities. The Community Reinvestment Act, or CRA, sets this obligation, and regulators can hold up the expansion plans of banks that fail to perform well, so there is strong incentive for them to comply. Since the CRA may push banks into what are perceived to be riskier lending areas, onlookers ranging from thinktank analysts to policymakers have wondered whether it played a large role in fueling the subprime lending boom and bust. Some critics even say the crisis is proof that the CRA should be abolished, while others argue it played at most a small part in the housing boom and bust of the past decade. The CRA was originally designed to attack the urban decay that took off after World War II. Policymakers viewed the deterioration of urban cores as partly the result of constrained credit to resident homeowners and businesses. Sometimes this was the result of explicit discrimination through "redlining," which most CRA historians trace back to a 1930s effort by the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), a New Deal-era organization created to prop the real estate industry. The HOLC was asked to assess real estate lending risks of 239 U.S. cities. Officials drew color-coded maps based on perceived risks and assigned the color red to the riskiest areas, defined in part as having a high concentration of African-Americans. Although the government retreated from explicitly racial policies after a Supreme Court decision in the late 1940s striking down racial deed covenants, banks mimicked the practice and continued to profile neighborhoods into the 1970s. They applied stricter lending terms to the (typically) minority borrowers within those neighborhoods, or refused to lend at all. Discrimination wasn't the only cause of constrained credit; market frictions also existed. Borrower risk was harder to assess in the late 1970s when the Act was created, particularly in unpioneered markets. Relatively fewer home sales in underserved areas made real estate appraisals difficult. By the same token, borrowers in lower-income markets tend to have sparser credit history from which to assess risk. The first bank to enter an underserved market had significant work to do to investigate the risks and prospects of borrowers, but once the inroads were made, information proved difficult to keep proprietary. This led to the "first mover" problem in which no bank had sufficient incentive to extend loans or even establish a branch in underserved areas. FEDERALRESERVE


Due to recent advances in computational techniques, single phase performances of pumps can be easily estimated using CFD. However, when the working fluid is a mixture of liquid and gas (multi-phase flow) computations may struggle to capture the more complex physical phenomena that occurs, and the precision of the prediction worsen as the gas volume fraction at pump inlet is increased. To provide reliable benchmark for the improvement of simulations, in this study we experimentally investigated the internal flow pattern of a multiphase pump using high speed camera and high frequency pressure measurements, so as to obtain the data of pressure distribution inside of impeller, or to obtain blade loading, for several gas concentration conditions. Unsteady phenomena were identified at low flow rate conditions, and an explanation of their nature has been attempted.


The cigarette packaging machine pusher,which has a lot of parts,has high precision requirement in design,manufacture,and installation.It is difficult to analyze the pusher accurately with traditional method for its complex design and contour line.Mechanism splitting method was applied to split components and the mathematical models of bipolar vector function were established for the components.The kinematics equations of package pusher were obtained.The purpose was to provide theoretical basis for further research in cigarette packaging machine with pusher mechanism.


Several authors have investigated the long-term outcome of anorexia nervosa (Hsu, 1980; Touyz & Beumont, 1984; Theander, 1985; Hsu, 1987; Rosenvinge & Mouland, 1990; Ratnasuriya et a!, 1991; Steinhausen eta!, 1991). Whether the patients were considered to have recovered depends largely on the criteria which were used. As Steinhausen et a! (1991) point out, a significant number of current papers still fail to cite weight data or to comment on menstrual functioning. In better studies, the description of patients with supposedly good outcome focuses on only a few dimensions, with weight and menstrual status the most common criteria. Thus, Ratnasuriya et a! (1991), using the Morgan & Russell scales (1975), defined, †̃¿ good utcome' on the basis of the restoration of normal weight and normal menstrual functioning. They found a marked persistence of eating difficulties in their good outcome group with only one-third eating "¿ quite normally― (Ratnasuriya et a!, 1991, p. 496). The aim of our study was to investigate the adequacy of the usual criteria of recovery in anorexic patients. Outcome measures were used which focused on the specific behavioural and attitudinal features of the illness.


Notions of depth in regression have been introduced and studied in the literature. Regression depth (RD) of Rousseeuw and Hubert (1999) (RH99), the most famous one, is a direct extension of Tukey location depth (Tukey (1975)) to regression. RD of RH99 satisfies all the desirable axiomatic properties in Zuo (2018) and therefore could serve as a real depth notion in regression.
Like its location counterpart, the most remarkable advantage of notion of the depth in regression is to introduce directly the maximum (or deepest) regression depth estimator for regression parameters in a multi-dimensional setting. Classical questions for the maximum regression depth estimator include (i) is it a consistent estimator (or rather under what sufficient conditions, it is consistent) and (ii) is there any limiting distribution?
Bai and He (1999) (BH99) intended to answer these questions. Unfortunately, they treated a closely related but different depth notion than the intended one. So the above questions remain open. Answering these questions is the main goal of this article.


The vacuum expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor of a real scalar field in the presence of an arbitrary scalar background field is considered. The problem of renormalization is treated in detail. In the special case of a background field depending on one coordinate only, we give an explicit integral representation for the renormalized vacuum energy. Three explicit examples illustrate the use of this representation as well as some properties of the vacuum energy density. We find that a twice continuously differentiable background potential leads to a continuous energy density.


With the development of Internet technology, Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) simulation system with traditional C/S architecture is more and more inconvenience for its incompatibility with internet and the high cost of maintenance and development. It is more practical to use B/S structure. However, computer interlocking(CI) system with ATC system using UDP protocol is not compatible with remote ATS simulation system using HTML protocol, and needs to use WebSocket-based interface program as a communication interface. It is more feasible and reliable in communication to use ATS simulation system under WebSocket interface program. Besides, the project practice are given to show the effectiveness of it.


In the wireless sensor networks(WSN),security has become an important problem.In the existing wireless sensor network routing protocols,some of them only concern energy cost,not taking security issues into account;and the cost of security routing protocols is too much.In order to solve the problem,the paper introduces a new routing protocol SEEC:Secure and Energy-Efficient Clustered Routing protocol.SEEC has strongpoints of both the SEER and uneven clustering routing protocol.In SEEC the base station does the cluster management as well as route selection,the node only completes charge sensing.This method not only can defend attacks but also is energy saving.In addition,the paper divides all the sensing nodes into clusters,and then it can save more energy.Analysis and simulation results show that this new routing protocol not only can defend usual attacks in wireless sensor network well but also can prolong the network lifetime efficiently.


Secondary ion mass spectrometry, x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, electron energy‐loss spectroscopy, x‐ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and 15N hydrogen profiling have been used to characterize rf sputter‐deposited tin oxide thin films (1500–2500 A) before and after immersion in aqueous solutions to determine the extent of film hydration and ion exchange activity. The results support a model in which the tin oxide film is comprised of microcrystalline, colloidlike particles or grains (200–300 A), the ion exchange sites being located on the hydroxylated grain surfaces. The uptake of Na+ in the bulk film increases sharply at a pH=3–5 corresponding to literature values for the isoelectric point of SnO2.


The results of a Caltrans study to evaluate hot and cold-recycled asphalt concrete (AC) pavement using pavement deflections is presented. Information from three projects is used to determine gravel equivalent factors for hot- and cold-recycled AC as well as existing in-place AC pavement. Results from statistical analysis indicate that hot-recycled AC is equivalent to a new dense graded AC in terms of gravel equivalent factor of 1.9. Hot-recycled AC can, therefore, be used for rehabilitating pavements requiring improved structural adequacy or for control of reflection cracking. Cold-recycled AC was found to have a gravel equivalent factor equal to 1.5. Since minimal strength is added to the existing pavement by cold-recycling, it is recommended that it generally be used for pavements requiring control of reflection cracking and/or minimal structural improvement. The existing AC pavement was assumed to vary in strength depending on the condition of the pavement at the time of rehabilitation. Suggested gravel equivalent factor values for existing AC pavement range from 1.1 to 1.4 depending on condition. An interim design for hot-recycled and cold-recycled pavement structural sections is proposed. It is suggested that further research be done on cold-recycled pavement to verify the conclusions of this study.


The results of several different studies involving the nitrate radical (N03> are reported in this work. The method of Flash Photolysis/Laser Absorption was used to measure directly the quantum yield for N03 production from UV photolysis of N2o5. Several product channels are possible at UV wavelengths. AIthough previous indirect studies indicated that the major products were 2 N02 + O, this work has shown that N03 is a primary product. The quantum yield of N03 obtained for photolysis at 249 nm was 0.90±0.14 f.ndependent of pressure and N2o5 concentration. A fast rise in the concentration of N03 was observed which was dependent on both pressure and N2o5 concentration. The rate constants obtained for the deactivation process N03<v>O) + H-. N03Cv=O> + H were k(N2o5 >=4.0:t1~0 x 1012 cm3sec1 and k(N2> = 1.6 :t 0.3 x 1013 cm3sec1• The -1 appearance of N03 with up to 615 em excess energy was studied. Instantaneous production (~500 ns) of N03cv=1) was followed by a fast initial decay. The rate constant for the deactivation process N03Cv=l) + H_.No3cv=0) + 1'1 was obtained, k(Nz>=


Studies have evaluated the benefits of breakfast consumption (BC) on overall dietary quality. However, further research is warranted to determine which components of the diet, including the amount of processed foods, attribute to those findings. This study examined the associations of BC, Health Eating Index-2015 (HEI-2015) component scores, and consumption of processed foods.

 This analysis used baseline data from TX Sprouts, a large school-based gardening, nutrition, and cooking randomized control trial implemented in 16 elementary schools in Austin, TX, targeting 3rd-5th grade students. Each child completed two 24-hour dietary recalls, from which HEI-2015 scores and NOVA Food Classification System scores were calculated, classifying each food item as unprocessed, processed, or ultra-processed. Breakfast was defined as a meal consumed before 10am and accounting for ≥15% of daily energy. BC groups (BCG) included: breakfast skippers (BS; no breakfast both days), intermittent breakfast consumers (IBC; breakfast one day), and regular breakfast consumers (RBC; breakfast both days). Analysis of covariance was used to examine associations between BCG, HEI-2015 scores, and NOVA scores, controlling for age, sex, race/ethnicity, free/reduced lunch (FRL) status, daily energy, and day of the week.

 The study included 668 children (mean age 9 y; 54% female, 59% Hispanic, 67% FRL) with a BCG composition of 17% BS, 37% IBC, and 46% RBC. RBC had higher total HEI scores compared to both IBC and BS (P = 0.03 and P = 0.02). Specifically, RBC compared to IBC and BS had higher total fruit (P < 0.001 and P < 0.001) and dairy (P < 0.04 and P < 0.001) intake and lower saturated fat intake (P < 0.02 and P < 0.04). RBC consumed a higher percentage of unprocessed foods than IBC and BS (P < 0.02 and P < 0.04).

 Regular BC was associated with higher dietary quality and intake of unprocessed foods; however, studies examining interventional effects of regular BC on processed food intake and diet quality are needed.

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Rappaport's medium was tried out in parallel with, and in combination with, tetrathionate broth, and selenite F medium in 1,000 consecutive stool cultures. Media. Selenite F medium, tetrathionate broth, and desoxycholate-citrate-agar (D.C.A.) were made according to the formulae by Mackie and McCartney (1953). Rappaport's medium was prepared according to the formula given by Rappaport et a[. (1956). In order to make allowance for the effect of inoculating more bottles, and to test the effect of previous dilution of faeces upon the efficacy of each of the selective media, each specimen was inoculated into all three media both with a small inoculum, that is, 5 drops of a 1:1,000 suspension of faeces in saline, and with a large inoculum, a particle of faeces as big


In this chapter the different steps in the operationalization of an activity-based model for Flanders (Belgium) inside the 'Forecasting Evolutionary Activity-Travel of Households and their Environmental RepercussionS' (FEATHERS) framework are worked out. In order to run the activity-based model for the Flemish situation, several data layers inside the FEATHERS database system have to be prepared. To this end, activity-based schedule information, a synthetic population data set and environment information about the study area in terms of zoning system, land use and transportation system have to be processed. In a second part, the chapter discusses the validation of the modelling results. Based on the validation results, it is demonstrated that the presented activity-based model is able to realistically mimic the spatial and temporal dimension of transportation demand in Flanders, as well as the evolution of the state of the road network in both space and time.


Based on a series of 1-D consolidation tests for three types of soft soils,the influence of consolidation pressure p and load ratio Δp/p on behavior of secondary consolidation was investigated.The results of tests show that under the condition of Δp/p=1,along with the increasing consolidation pressure p,the secondary consolidation ratio C increases to a peak value at first and then reduces gradually.The Δp/p has some effect on C.The difference of primary consolidation and secondary consolidation is related to Δp/p.The ratio of C to compression index C_c is affected by Δp/p in a certain degree.A functional relationship between C and p is proposed based on the test data,by which the secondary consolidation C of arbitrary loading step can be calculated.This relationship is verified by the test data of other researchers.


This article describes the concept of creativity, scientific assumptions about the techniques and sources of forming a creative approach in students in teaching technology.


Supernumerary teeth are relatively uncommon occurrences in horses and, when present, usually occur in the permanent incisors or cheek teeth, with supernumerary "wolf" and canine teeth rarely diagnosed. The presence of supernumerary incisors which are usually of normal morphology (ie, termed supplemental supernumerary teeth) can cause displacements of the normal incisors with development of diastemata and periodontal disease. In addition, overgrowths will occur on incisors that are not in occlusal contact. If rostrally (labially) displaced onto the gingiva, supernumerary incisors can be extracted, but when present palatally to the normal incisor arcade, extraction is difficult and should be avoided if possible. Supernumerary cheek teeth may be of normal morphology or may be connated (ie, are large structures composed of a number of vestigial teeth). They most commonly occur at the caudal aspect of the maxillary cheek teeth rows. Their presence may give rise to a variety of clinical problems, such as malocclusion, food pocketing, and deep periodontal disease that may even lead to maxillary sinusitis. Overgrowths can occur on supernumerary cheek teeth and may cause soft tissue trauma to the cheeks and tongue which may render normal mastication difficult and, in some cases, impossible. These teeth may also result in eruption abnormalities from mechanical obstruction. In the presence of periodontal disease, diastemata, or sinusitis, extraction of the supernumerary tooth is indicated. If possible, this is best performed per os. Where significant periodontal disease is not present, reduction of overgrowths on the unopposed supernumerary cheek teeth is indicated.


This work corresponds to a proposal in which practical laboratory work was developed across the resolution of problems, it approached the contents corresponding to the handled ones for the institution and contextualized way to their environment. It developed with students of tenth degree of Colegio Mayor de San Bartolome, sought to wake the interest up towards the learning of the chemistry, where the laboratory works turned a strategy to develop in them a series of scientific skills. It was begun of a basic form up to a more complex form, which allowed to relate in a suitable way, the theory, the practice and the resolution of daily problems. This project began in the second semester of 2014 with a characterization of the strategies of education that the students had in the area of sciences and the strategies of interest on the part of them for the period 2015, already in the year in process the situations applied problem to themselves guided for a question problem that the students had to solve from, the theory and the practice. Levels of scientific expertise acquired students were determined with the proposal.


The invention provides a novel baking oven which is characterized by comprising a hot-air fan, a heat exchanger and a plenum chamber in contact with the heat exchanger, as well as an upper plenum chamber and a lower plenum chamber arranged at the bottom of the baking oven, wherein the hot-air fan is arranged at the top of the baking oven, an air suction port is arranged at the lower part of the hot-air fan, the heat exchanger is arranged on the periphery of the hot-air fan, hot air out of the heat exchanger enters into the plenum chamber, and a plurality of spray nozzles are respectively arranged on the upper plenum chamber and the lower plenum chamber; and a moisture-removing pipeline is further arranged in the plenum chamber. When the baking oven is used, paper can be suspended during the whole drying process, thereby preventing the paper surface from being in contact with any object. The drying effect of the baking oven can be ensured through reasonable structure, good thermal insulation and sealing design.


This report addresses the issue of nonlinear attitude control for quadrocopters. A globally stable attitude controller based on unit quaternions is proposed and its stability and robustness is proven. In addition, a method to prioritize the control of the crucial pitch and roll angles over yaw is introduced. Finally, experiments with the proposed nonlinear controller are conducted which demonstrate its performance.


: This study was aimed to estimate the nutritional value of khalas date seed powder and pita bread, prepared by replacing 5, 10, 15 and 20% of wheat flour by khalas date seed powder. Results indicated that the content of carbohydrate (%), protein (%), crude fibre (%), crude oil (%), ash (%), of khalas date seeds were 64.3, 4.69, 17.12, 4.62, and 1.09%, respectively. The total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoids and radical scavenging activity (%RSA) were 430.43±1.2 mg GAE/100 g, 346. 13 mg RE/100 g and 79.12±1.9%, respectively. The seed oils contained 51.42% saturated fatty acids and 48.58% unsaturated fatty acids. Fiber content of whole wheat pita bread was higher compared to regular pita bread. It remained lower in 5% date seed powder bread, was quite similar in 10% date seed powder bread, and increased to 9.08% in 20% date seed powder bread compared to whole wheat pita bread. The total phenols, total flavonoids and radical scavenging activity content of pita bread fortified with date seeds increased as the amount of date seeds increased. The pita bread with20% date seeds had the highest percent for each of total phenols, total flavonoids and radical scavenging activity which valued 187.11 mg/100g, 235.45 mg RE/100 g and 43.38%, respectively. While control regular pita contained 72.31 mg/100g, 41.42 mg RE/100 g and 3.53%, respectively. Pita bread supplemented with 15% date seeds, showed high score in overall acceptability when compared to control pita bread and other various concentrations of pits. Generally, changes in dough properties were greater using different concentrations of date seeds with differences for overall acceptability and had high acceptability compared to control pita bread .


Cloud computing as been developed by the next generation architecture of IT activity. This is an Internet-based development and use of computer technology. Cloud Computing moves the application software and databases to the large data centers, where the organization of the data and services may not be totally dependable. In this article, we focus on cloud data storage security, which has always been a significant aspect of quality of service. We propose an efficient and flexible distributed storage verification scheme with explicit dynamic data support to ensure the correctness and accessibility of users data in the cloud. By utilizing the homomorphic token with distributed verification of erasure-coded data, our scheme achieves the storage accuracy assurance as well as data error localization. Error localization is a key requirement for eliminating errors in storage systems i.e., the identification of misbehaving server. Considering the cloud data are dynamic in nature, the proposed design additional supports secure and capable dynamic operations on outsourced data, including block adaptation, deletion, and append. Analysis shows the proposed scheme is highly capable and resilient against Byzantine failure, malicious data alteration attack, and even server colluding attacks.


The biological and physicochemical attributes of a river ecosystem usually reveal the status of the consequential species richness index of the biodiversity and subsistent aquatic life. Towards appraisal of water quality, physicochemical parameters (i.e., temperature, pH, DO, transparency alkalinity and hardness), water nutrients (nitrate, phosphate) and concentration of Chlorophyll a were determined. Samples were collected from six hilsa sanctuaries. The pH value was found slightly alkaline (7.6±0.6) and transparency was ranged (44.4±10.6 cm) followed by alkalinity (112.4 ±26.4 mg/L), hardness (304.5±69.5 mg/L), CO2 (10.3±1.2 mg/L), water temperature (25.6±0.8 ºC), nitrate (0.005±0.01 mg/L), phosphate (0.002±0.0004 mg/L) and DO (7.7±1.1 mg/L). Chlorophyll a was estimated (8.21 ± 2.3 µg/L), which represents the biomass of phytoplankton. The largest quantity of plankton (both in number and taxa) was found in the Meghna River basin as a natural food at station 1 (St-1) and Station 4 (St-4) compared to the other stations. Twelve groups (families) of phytoplankton comprising 26 genera and zooplankton having 14 genera were identified at all sampling stations. The density of plankton was found to be maximum (46×102 cells L-1) at Station 5 (St-5) and while minimum (24×102 cells L-1) at Station 6 (St-6) during the investigation. This evaluation of the physical, chemical, and biological profile of the environment in the country's sanctuary zones provides obvious evidence that is crucial for understanding the Hilsa Fisheries Management Action Plan and for the sustainable management of Hilsa Fishery.


In the pyridazine series, the use of tert-butylsulfinyl and tert-butylsulfonyl as ortho directing groups for metalation has been tested. Various functionalized products were obtained in good yields. In the case of 3-tert-butylsulfinyl-6-methoxypyridazine, the metalation was regioselective in ortho to the sulfinyl group. The metalation of 2-tert-butylsulfinyl and 2-tert-butylsulfonylpyrazine gave low to moderate yields. Synthesis of diazinesulfonamides were improved and the metalation of N-tert-butylsulfonamidopyrazine was achieved.


The study of industrialization in the rural environment of Poitou-Charentes is that of regions with few industries and a still decreasing population. Can that situation be accounted for by the way those industries established themselves at a very early stage? A study of the two main categories of industries-the older ones established in the 17th and 18th centuries, and those introduced since the second half of the last century-will make it possible to assess the role their development has played in the countryside and the towns of those regions.


Secularism is often seen as a key component of liberal democracy, yet the concept is deeply rooted in European history and philosophy. Mubashar Hasan discusses how Bangladesh's Prime Minister has invoked the Medina Charter to promote minority rights and religious freedom in a Muslim-majority state.


The ferrite core of a sensing coil enhances its magnetic field, thereby improving its detection sensitivity in eddy current testing (ECT). Due to the hysteresis caused by the ferrite core, the lumped impedance of a coil–target system is essentially nonlinear. In this article, the impedance nonlinearity is used and a dual-parameter oscillation method for ECT is proposed. By utilizing the nonlinear impedance of the coil–target system in the oscillating circuit, a self-oscillation signal can be generated. Subsequently, the dual parameters of oscillation, i.e., the amplitude and the frequency are obtained by the detection circuit. The amplitude reflects the nonlinear resistance of the coil–target system, while the frequency reflects the nonlinear inductance. A negative resistor is used to ensure the oscillation and adjust the amplitude to the appropriate range and a capacitor is used to adjust the frequency. This method is capable of real-time defect detection. The correlation of dual parameters is analyzed and used, and a synthesis parameter is proposed to suppress the lift-off effect and noise, therefore the performance of detection for small defects is enhanced. The proposed dual-parameter maps provide a graphical observation of the location and the depth of defects in real-time scanning. The proposed method is applied to detect the surface and subsurface defects of the metal sample as well as of a ferromagnetic target behind the nonferromagnetic shield.


A single-stage distributed Bragg filter in silicon waveguide has been demonstrated with a rejection bandwidth of 7-nm and ultra-high extinction of ∼ 55-dB; suitable towards silicon quantum photonic chip operating at λ ∼ 1.55 μm for on-chip pump rejection.


Anaesthetic‐induced (APOST) and ischaemic postconditioning (IPOST) against myocardial infarction are mediated via phosphatidylinositol‐3‐kinase/Akt. Pim‐1 kinase is acting downstream of Akt and has recently been demonstrated to enhance cardiomyocyte survival. We tested the hypothesis that both APOST and IPOST are mediated by Pim‐1 kinase.


Separating markets precisely and applying marketing programs proportional to the known sections is one of the most important success tools in competitive markets. Having 24 million young people aged 15-29 (32% of total population), Iran has a young demographic structure. Concerning this demographic structure, exact recognition of CDMS of Iranian young consumers is of great importance for salespeople. Thus, this research seeks to study decision-making styles among students of shahidbeheshti university of Tehran. To validate fundamental features of these styles among Iranian young people, the CSI Model presented by Sproles and Kendal (1986) was examined. Results of the analysis show that there are only two main styles of the mentioned model (Brand Loyalty and Brand Conscious) among Iranian young consumers. Also, analyses revealed the existence of a 12-item model for decision-making style among young people of Iran: Brand Consciousness, Behavioral Perfectionist, Economic, Brand Loyal, Fashion Conscious, Confused, Economic-Hedonism, Attitudinal Perfectionist, Time-Energy Conserving, and Hate from Shopping, Variety Seeking and Undemanding. Further analysis showed that men and women are different only in Fashion Conscious. Finally, this research has studied the effects of age, marital status and income level on decision-making style of young people of Iran.


SOME NOTES OF REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY ON THE SAND-DWELLING TENEBRIONID BEETLE AMMOBIUS RUFUS LUCAS (COLEOPTERA) Data arose by dissecting some 1,300 adults of both sexes. These were collected from March to September in sea-shores of Central and Southern Italy, where they are easy to find in the superficial sand layer at the base of different herbaceous plants. Females do not bear more than 2 eggs at a time and tend to incubate one egg in their large vagina up to a late development stage. A minor rate of these vaginal eggs was found including a fully-developed embryo. Development time of eggs was evaluated in a damp chamber; it lasts 40 days at least. Observations allow to include Ammobius rufus among the ovoviviparous Coleoptera, together with other species that dwell in particular environments, such as some myrmecophilous and termitophilous Staphylinidae-Aleocharinae and some montane and subarctic Chrysomelidae. In author's opinion, ovoviviparity of A. rufus is a further adaptation of this species to its particular environment; possibly, it allows females to oviposit in the depths, after they have incubated eggs in the superficial sand layer. Key words: ovoviviparity, adaptation. Circa 1.300 adulti del tenebrionide sabulicolo Ammobius rufus Lucas sono stati raccolti nei mesi da marzo a settembre in varie localita costiere ed esaminati per dissezione. Le osservazioni hanno riguardato la proporzione numerica fra i sessi nei vari mesi, i periodi di presenza delle femmine ovigere, la condizione di sviluppo delle uova all'interno della vagina, la durata dello sviluppo embrionale. La specie risulta ovovivipara, in quanto le femmine possiedono un'ampia vagina, nella quale un singolo uovo puo restare in incubazione fino a sviluppo embrionale avanzato. In via presunta, l'ovoviviparita di A. rufus viene interpretata come parametro di adattamento all'ambiente sabulicolo; essa consentirebbe alle femmine di maturare e incubare le uova nello strato superficiale delle sabbie. L'ovideposizione avverrebbe successivamente, dopo una migrazione in profondita. Parole chiave: ovoviviparita, adattamento.


-It pisses the hell out of me. I mean, who the hell tells these women they can make their name off of us, set themselves up as "spokeswomen" and "leaders" and shit, and then-What goes through my mind when I hear a story like this is, do you suppose she was really straight all along? -She and what's-her-name had been together for ages. I can't believe she was faking all that time. -You think she's faking now? Which is worse? -Don't forget, she comes from a pretty privileged background. I guess when you've grown up white and middle-class, it's a big temptation to just sort of fade back into that cozy old patriarchy. -White, middle-class, and fem! -Who's knocking fems? -Relax, Isis, nobody's knocking fers. But I do think carrying a purse is going a little far. -She carries a purse now? -I saw her in a dress.


This work considers a network of autonomous agents that exploit the superposition property of the wireless channel for achieving max-consensus under communication constraints. In technical applications, superposition (or interference) is traditionally avoided by physically separating transmissions from different agents, e.g., by employing time-division multiple access or frequency-division multiple access protocols. In contrast, Over-the-Air computation relies on simultaneous transmissions of signals in the same frequency band to boost performance. This article extends the results presented by Molinari et al. 2021 in a significant way: Rather than requiring a new and hardly accessible technology that allows simultaneous receiving and transmission of signals (full-duplex), we present a solution based on cheap and ubiquitous half-duplex technology. However, half-duplex technology only allows agents to either receive or transmit at a given time, hence requiring agents to be grouped into clusters. The proposed method, first, enables each cluster to achieve max-consensus within itself. Then, agents belonging to more than one cluster spread the information across different clusters that are, in general, not synchronized. The proposed max-consensus protocol can deal with asynchronism and allows the network to achieve max-consensus within a finite number of steps. Simulations confirm our theoretical results.


Photocycloadditions of 2′,3′,5′-triacetyluridine to tetramethylethylene, isopropenyl acetate, 1,1-diethoxyethylene, and vinylene carbonate are described. The rearrangement of the vinylene carbonate adduct to 2′,3′,5′-triacetyl-5-formylmethyluridine followed by oxidation to the 5-carboxymethyl or decarbonylation to the 5-methyl (ribothymidine) derivative is also described.


Background: Successful endoscopic management of early colorectal cancer using endoscopic mucosal resection requires the mandatory prediction of invasive depth and lymph node metastasis. Previous data using the Nagata crypt types Vn(B)/(C) as clinical indicators of T2/N+ disease have shown low specificity (50%) with a tendency to over stage lesions. New mini probe ultrasound "through the scope" imaging permits staging of lesions proximal to the rectum using direct endoscopic visualisation. Aim: To compare the staging accuracy of the Nagata crypt type V with mini probe high frequency 20 MHz endoscopic ultrasound. Methods: Sixty two patients with a Paris type II flat cancer were imaged using magnification colonoscopy followed by 20/12.5 MHz ultrasound in a "back to back" design. Crystal violet staining (0.05%) at 100× magnification permitted Nagata crypt criteria to be defined. Submucosal deep invasion (sm3+) was defined at ultrasound by the presence or absence of a disrupted third sonographic layer. Predicted T0/1:N0 lesions were resected using endoscopic mucosal resection with the remaining referred for surgery. Ultrasound and magnification staging were then compared with the resected histopathological specimens. Results: One patient was excluded from the study due to poor bowel preparation. Fifty two lesions from 52 patients therefore met inclusion criteria (12 sm1/13 sm2/27 sm3+). Ultrasound (20 MHz) was significantly more accurate for invasive depth staging compared with Nagata stage (p<0.0001) (overall accuracy 93% and 59%, respectively). The sensitivity for lymph node metastasis detection using ultrasound and magnification was 80% and 31%, respectively (p<0.001). The negative predictive value of ultrasound for invasive depth was better than that observed using magnification (88%/47%, respectively). The prevalence of nodal disease overall was 19% (10/52), with 80% (8/10) node positive lesions occurring in the sm3+ lesion group. Conclusions: High frequency 20 MHz ultrasound is superior to magnification alone when differentiating T1/2 disease with a high positive predictive value for sm3 differentiation. Sm3+ invasion was associated with nodal metastasis.


In order to evaluate the various methods of collecting blood samples,10 goats and 24 rabbits were treated with dense frequency,including from vena jugularis,auruvein and pipette etc.The results show that sampling from the vena jugularis is of the great convenience for goat,while sampling through intubation is suitable for rabbit other than from vein and heart directly.


Introduction: The worldwide prevalence of childhood blindness is estimated to be 1.4 million with India being the largest inhabitant of blind children. The prevalence of childhood blindness in India is estimated to be 320,000, out of which 40-50% belongs to treatable causes. As the knowledge of the prevalence and causes of ocular morbidities among children in backward community plays important role in planning and evaluation of preventive and curative services for children, our study was aimed to evaluate common ocular pathology in children of age group 8–15yrs in rural and backward community of Assam. Material and methods: Total of 1244 children (aged 8-15yrs) belonging to rural and backward community were screened for ocular pathologies including congenital cataract, uncorrected refractive errors, corneal opacity etc. through community outreach camp. Of which 92 children with some form of ocular pathologies were further evaluated. Comprehensive ocular examination including slit lamp, cycloplegic refraction and fundus evaluation were done. IOP measurement and gonioscopic evaluation in cases of suspected glaucoma were performed. Results: Ocular diseases like ocular trauma, allergic conjunctivitis, adnexal infection and refractive errors were commonest conditions in rural group as compared to urban group with uncorrected refractive errors, conjunctivitis, cataract, strabismus being more common. Conclusion: Preventable childhood ocular diseases with potentially blinding effects are more common in rural population. Proper education will further reduce preventable blindness of these groups of rural backward population.


Mechanical strain and stress play a major role in biological processes such as wound healing or morphogenesis. To assess this role quantitatively, fixed or live images of tissues are acquired at a cellular precision in large fields of views. To exploit these data, large number of cells have to be analyzed to extract cell shape anisotropy and cell size. Most frequently, this is performed through detailed individual cell contour determination, using so-called segmentation computer programs, complemented if necessary by manual detection and error corrections. However, a less detailed and faster technique can be recommended in at least three situations. First, when detailed information on individual cell contours is not required, for instance in studies which require only coarse-grained average information on cell anisotropy. Second, as an exploratory step to determine whether full segmentation can be potentially useful. Third, when segmentation is too difficult, for instance due to poor image quality or a too large cell number. We developed a user-friendly, Fourier Transform based image analysis pipeline. It is fast (typically $10^4$ cells per minute with a current laptop computer) and suitable for time, space or ensemble averages. We validate it on one set of artificial images and on two sets of fully segmented images, from Drosophila pupa and chicken embryo; the pipeline results are robust. Perspectives include \it{in vitro} tissues, non-biological cellular patterns such as foams, and 3D images.


For producing a fiber comprising a polymer and at least one of a composite material of vinyl chloride, which comprises an aqueous sol of the polymer fibers is immersed in water so as to obtain fibers coated with the sol, after coating the water on the fibers and dried sol gel. And for forming a composite material for the manufacture of an article or object strengthening purposes. In this composite material reinforced profiles.


For the investigation of small sample volumes, the use of an acoustic levitator was tested as a `sample holder' for hovering droplets in a synchrotron beam. It might be advantageous to use levitated droplets instead of samples confined in solid holders, especially for the study of crystallization processes where the influence of containing walls has to be minimized. In a first experiment, the crystallization of sodium chloride in a small droplet of aqueous solution has been followed with a time resolution of 30 s. The collected diffraction peaks are compared with data in the ICSD database.


It should hardly be necessary to persuade the readers of this professional journal of the importance of problems of the rural schools for the development of education as a whole. Seventy percent of the schools in Russia are rural schools. They function under the specific conditions of the rural socium, which has its unique traditions, its unique way of daily life, and the special character of its labor activity. Among these rural schools there are many that have low enrollments and small school collectives. It is perfectly obvious that youngsters in the countryside do not need the kinds of textbooks and programs that are standardized and intended chiefly for schools in the bustling city; what they need is their own specific kinds, oriented to the needs of students living on the land, close to nature and involved in the concerns of their parents around the house and farm.


This paper, intended to the doctoral consortium of the Simultech 2013 conference, describes the problems, methodologies, objectives and status of doctoral research of the author. The research conforms to the constructive approach of design science within the application domain of industrial automation and control. The focus of the research is on model-driven, simulation-assisted engineering of automation and control applications with consideration of both basic control and safety-related control systems. The general research question to be answered is whether or not automation and control application development can benefit from model-driven engineering and the techniques enabled by it. The answer will be based on answers to smaller research questions related to industrial applicability of the general developed modelling approach, ability to simulate models at design-time and ability to include safety documentation in models.


Sentiment classification is a way to analyze the subjective information in the text and then mine the opinion. Sentiment analysis is the procedure by which information is extracted from the opinions, appraisals and emotions of people in regards to entities, events and their attributes. In decision making, the opinions of others have a significant effect on customers ease, making choices with regards to online shopping, choosing events, products, entities. The approaches of text sentiment analysis typically work at a particular level like phrase, sentence or document level. This paper aims at analyzing a solution for the sentiment classification at a fine-grained level, namely the sentence level in which polarity of the sentence can be given by three categories as positive, negative and neutral.


A Renewable Energy Resource (RER) based power grid should be capable to deliver active power $(\boldsymbol{P}_{{GRID}})$ and reactive power $(\boldsymbol{Q}_{{GRID}})$ to fulfill the customer load demand and maintain stability during a weak grid condition. A Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) can provide the demand $\boldsymbol{P}_{{GRID}}$ and $\boldsymbol{Q}_{{GRID}}$ to the grid to maintain a stable power system. Traditionally adopted PI control-based Indirect Power Control (IPC) scheme controls VSI to inject required grid power but as the control is nonlinear, the time to reach the steady-state is longer than the desired. In this paper, we have discussed and compared Direct Power Control (DPC) and the inverter Flux Power Control (FPC) approach with the IPC approach to control the transients caused by the varying RERs and load throughout the day. Besides, due to the transmission line parameters and operations of power, current oscillations are common in a weak grid. In this comparative study, the concept for improving transient response is validated by MATLAB/Simulink for a 100KW 100KVAR grid-tied VSI system. Finally, the comparative performances of the controllers for a weak grid have been discussed.


We report a rare case of a young woman with cystic craniopharyngioma who developed not only aseptic chemical meningitis as an initial sign but also aseptic localized peritonitis which was confirmed by the presence of ascites.


I am pleased to have this opportunity to present my perspective on the issues and challenges projective psychology faces as we begin the new millennium. Projective psychology was conceived at the beginning of the past century, was developed and refined during the middle of the century, criticized in the latter part of the century, and is in a time of transition as we begin the new millennium. Based on the changes that have occurred in the area of projective psychology since the initial publication of the Rorschach in the 1920's, I see the following issues and challenges.


Prostatitis is one of the common diseases in adult males. At present, the MRI prostate volumetric medical image analysis mainly relies on the radiologist's naked eye localization recognition diagnosis, which is easy to be misdiagnosed due to the fatigue of the doctor. Although the traditional technology uses the Support Vector Machine (SVM) to identify the image, it exists. Manual design features are incomplete and detection accuracy is not high. Recently, with the popularity and breakthrough of convolutional neural networks in the field of computer vision and medical image analysis, the author uses the MRI Prostate MR Image Segmentation 2012 combined with the Vnet method to exploit the depth of open source. Learning framework Pytorch, to achieve 3D image segmentation. The experimental results show that the Dice coefficient of the model on the training set reaches 0.9238 that is, the similarity between the image after cutting and the original image of the original label is 0.9238, and the error value is only 6.42, which is fast and automatic and accurate for intelligent target area painting, thus facilitating the doctor. Diagnosing medical imaging work is conducive to alleviating the imbalance of the proportion of doctors and patients in China.


In this thesis,total nitrogen,amino nitrogen,saline-free soil solution mass,in kinds of soy sauce mash adding kinds of yeast in different phase are examined,and compared with normal soy sauce. The analysis results show that saline-free soil solution mass is increased by 9.7% in soy sauce mash adding T yeast,total nitrogen and amino nitrogen are decreased by adding T,C yeasts in the fermentation end of soy sauce mash. A conclusion provides theoretical reference for the technics of adding yeasts in the production of high quality soy sauce.


?-Al2O3-support Cu-Zn oxide catalysts were prepared by coimpregnation method with CuO-ZnO loadings of 35% (mass fraction) and characterized by XRD,BET and H2-TPR. Effects of different promoters (Co, Ni, Mg, Fe, Mn, Ba, Ce)were investigated. Activity of the catalysts for N2O decomposition were tested in a microreactor. The results showed that the Cu-Zn oxide catalysts had the similar Co3O4 spinel structure as CuxZn1-x A12O4, with increased BET surface area due to addition of metal promoters. Activity of the catalysts for N2O catalytic decomposition had relations not only to reduction temperature of Cu3+ to Cu2+ , but also to the crystal grain size and BET surface area. Catalysts with 3% nickel promoter exhibited the highest N2Odecomposition activity, with complete conversion of N2O at 567 ?. The N2O catalytic decomposition activity was enhancd by adding metal promoters, except barium.


Traditionally, philosophical inquiry into pedagogical issues has occurred far from the classrooms in which pedagogy materialises. However, an organised form of inquiry into issues of a normative nature (about what ought to be done pedagogically) and of an analytic nature (about the meaning of pedagogical concepts), making use of ideas obtained in an empirical way in classroom and classroom-related situations, is both feasible and desirable. About desirability, this form of inquiry depends on the particularities of the local situations, and that helps to take them into account when deciding on how to improve pedagogical practice. That is, it contextualises pedagogical decisions. About feasibility for normative issues, an analysis based on Donald Davidson's philosophy of language shows that there is nothing that compels empirical observations to be descriptive and to not be normative. And normative occasional beliefs acquired empirically can serve as a general confrontation or testing field for ideas about the justification of pedagogical actions or strategies. About feasibility for analytic issues, as a consequence of giving up the analytic- synthetic distinction it is argued that they can also be explored by means of occasional beliefs acquired empirically, when confronted with the implications of the definition of any pedagogical concept.


Diamond-like carbon (DLC) films were synthesized on a p-type silicon wafer using radio-frequency plasma composed of a mixture of Ar and C2H2 (ratio of 7 to 28). NH3 plasma treatment of as-grown DLC substrate was carried out to generate surface-terminal amino groups while oxidation of as-grown DLC was performed in O2 plasma. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was used to characterize the different surface functions formed on DLC surfaces. Water contact angle measurements indicate different wetbility of modified surfaces. The cell (Mouse MC3T3-E1 pre-osteoblasts) morphology and proliferation were monitored to evaluate the biocompatibility of the modified DLC surfaces. A cell count kit-8 (CCK-8 Beyotime) was employed to determine quantitatively the viable pre-osteoblasts. The cell viability assay shows that osteoblast proliferation are improved on NH3 and O2 plasma-treated DLC surface after culturing for 1day, 2days and 3 days. The cell-surface interactions are studied by fluorescence microscopy. There are more osteoblasts as well as better spreading on the aminated and oxidized surfaces after culturing for 3 days. In summary, compared to the as-grown sample, the modified DLC shows better biocompatibility.


The article highlights the questions of pathogenesis and treatment of diabetic neuropathy — one of the most frequent complications of diabetes mellitus. The effects of alpha-lipoic acid — first-line drug in the treatment of diabetic neuropathy — are considered in detail.


To understand the rationale for the establishment of the IOI-Canada Training Program, one must consider and appreciate the early life of Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002), the founder of the International Ocean Institute (ioi). Her 1999 Nexus Institute lecture, "The Years of My Life,"1 provides an autobiographical insight into her privileged upbringing among globally acknowledged intellectuals and the Mann family's escape from Nazi Germany, prior to the Second World War, first to Switzerland and eventually to the United States. Her interests were eclectic, and even at a young age she could be passionately single-minded, for example, her life-long love of the ocean. She met Professor G.A. Borgese in Princeton, New Jersey in 1938 and married him in 1939. In 1946 Chancellor Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago launched a Committee to Frame a World Constitution as a response to the debacle of the Second World War. Elisabeth Mann Borgese became an active participant in the work of the Committee. In 1948 the Chicago Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution was published, and one of its provisions declared that earth, water, air and energy were "the common property of the human race,"2 a foretaste of things to come! Later that decade, the Korean War and McCarthyism contributed to the demise of world federalism and the ideals developed, perhaps naively, by the Chicago team. Consequently the Borgeses moved to Italy where Professor Borgese died in 1952 at age 70. In 1964, Dr. Hutchins established the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (csdi), an antidote to McCarthyism, in Santa Barbara, California. In 1967, he invited Elisabeth Mann Borgese to become a Fellow of the Center and offered her a three-year project to draft a constitution for the oceans. Coincidently that same year, Arvid Pardo, Ambassador of Malta to the United Nations (UN), presented his seminal address to the UN entitled 'The Common


This paper considers the multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problem for a networked (peer-to-peer) system in the presence of Byzantine agents. We build on an existing distributed Q-learning algorithm, and allow certain agents in the network to behave in an arbitrary and adversarial manner (as captured by the Byzantine attack model). Under the proposed algorithm, if the network topology is (2F +1)-robust and up to F Byzantine agents exist in the neighborhood of each regular agent, we establish the almost sure convergence of all regular agents' value functions to the neighborhood of the optimal value function of all regular agents. For each state, if the optimal Q-values of all regular agents corresponding to different actions are sufficiently separated, our approach allows each regular agent to learn the optimal policy for all regular agents.


The influences of EPD accounting on internal control system in enterprises are elaborated as well as its performance ways. At the same time from associated regulation, functional control of operators, storage of EDP accounting data and other aspects corresponding internal control system is presented to perfect EDP accounting.


With the development and progress of modern computer networks, internal accounting information systems in a network environment with a corresponding change of control. Accounting Information System under the network environment is a more complex data processing system for the analysis and processing accounting data information. Internal accounting information system This paper will control the network environment for analysis and research.


OBJECTIVE
To study the effects of electrical stimulation on cortical activation patterns.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Optical imaging of auditory cortex in cats that are acutely and chronically electrically stimulated with cochlear implants.

RESULTS
Chronic electrical stimulation results in expansion of cortical territory and overlap.

CONCLUSION
Effects of chronic electrical stimulation are comparable to use-dependent cortical plastic reorganization.


The feasibility of producing a page composer for optical memory systems using thin, deformable, membrane-mirror elements as light valves was investigated. The electromechanical and optical performances of such elements were determined both analytically and experimentally. It was found that fast switching (approximately 10 microseconds), high-contrast (10 or greater), fatigue-free operation over missions of cycles, and efficient utilization of input light could be obtained with membrane light valves. Several arrays of 64 elements were made on substrates with feedthroughs, allowing access to individual elements from the backside of the substrate. Single light valves on such arrays were successfully operated with the transistors designed and produced for selection and storage at each bit location. This simulated the operation of a prototype page composer with semiconductor chips beam-lead bonded to the back of the substrate.


159 Introduction Diapause in ticks can be c]assified into two basic types; i.e,, behavioral diapause and morphogenetic diapause (Belozerov, 1982). Behavioral diapause is observed in unfed ticks and morphogenetic diapause in engorged ticks. In general, the diapauses in . ticks are controlled by photoperiod, but age also has an effect on the regulation of the diapause (Belozerov, 1982). In the previous paper, Fujimoto (1994) reported that the host-feeding activity of I. nipponensis nymphs


A life-course perspective The changing fortunes of the life-course The first nine months of life Child health and development Childhood accidents Adolescent development and risk-taking Sex and fertility in adulthood Work and stress in adult life Change and crisis in midlife Experiencing later life Disability in later life Dying Society and death Health in transition Abbreviations list References and further sources, including internet sites Index.


(Monostromatic green algae (Ulvales, Chlorophyta) of Sao Paulo and Parana states (Brazil): distribution, growth, and reproduction). Culture studies were used for taxa identification and to understand aspects of the biology and physiology of monostromatic green blades growing in various sites along the coast of Sao Paulo state (23o30'-25ol2'S, 45o10'-48oW) and one site in Parana state (25o35'S, 48o21'W), southeast and south Brazil, respectively. Possible variations of the growth rate, age of reproduction and life history were tested under different conditions of temperature, salinity and day length. Two species were found: Ulvaria oxysperma (Kutzing) Bliding and Monostroma sp. The first one has been previously reported for many temperate and tropical estuaries around the world. Green monostromatic blades with the same life-history and ontogeny as Monostroma sp. have been reported so far only for the tropical coast of Brazil. Species are distinct in their ontogeny of the thallus (constant under different conditions) and limiting temperatures of survival. U. oxysperma grows and reproduces from 10 to 25oC and dies when maintained at 30oC; Monostroma sp. does not reproduce at 15oC and survives at 30oC. The different salinities and day lengths that were tested had no significant effect on either species.


C9H7MgN2O6, monoclinic, C1c1 (no. 9), a = 7.479(2) Å, b = 18.958(4) Å, c = 7.313(2) Å, ) = 99.38(3)°, V = 1023.1 Å, Z = 4, Rgt(F) = 0.034, wRref(F) = 0.126, T = 293 K. Source of material MgCl2 · 6H2O (1.0 mmol), 1H-benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylic acid (H2L, 0.6 mmol), CH3CN (6 ml) and 4 ml water were added to a 20 ml Teflon-lined stainless container, which was heated to 150 °C and held at that temperature for 5 days. After cooling to room temperature, colourless crystals were recovered by filtration. Experimental details Hydrogen atoms bound to carbon and nitrogen atoms were placed at calculated positions and treated as riding on the parent C or N atoms with d(C—H) = 0.93 Å, d(N—H) = 0.86 Å, and Uiso(H) = 1.2 Ueq(C, N). The water H atoms were located in a difference Fourier map, and were refined with a distance restraint of d(O—H) = 0.84 Å and Uiso(H) = 1.5 Ueq(O). Discussion 1H-benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylic acid can function as a multidentate ligand. Several coordination polymers fomed by this ligand have been reported recently, e.g. Pentaaqua(1H-benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylato-"N)copper(II) pentahydrate [1], bis(--1H-benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylato)bis[tetraaquadicobalt(II)] pentahydrate [2]. However, up to now, Mg complexes of the 1H-benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylic acid ligand (H2L) have not been reported. In the title complex, the Mg(II) is six-coordinated by one N and three O atoms from three different 1H-benzimidazole-5,6dicarboxylate ligands, together with two O atoms from two water molecules. The flexible 1H-benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylate ligands link the Mg(II) centre to form an three-dimensional structure. Extensive hydrogen bonding exists between the complex and water molecules, and this makes the crystal structure more stable. The metal atoms are linked by bidentate 1H-benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylate groups into a chain. Inter/intramolecular O–H···O and C–H···O hydrogen bonds between the carboxylate O atoms of 1H-benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylate and the coordinated water molecule interconnect chains to a two-dimensional layer. The layers are further assembled into a three-dimensional supramolecula network through intermolecular N–H···O hydrogen bonds between the imidazole units and carboxylate groups. Z. Kristallogr. NCS 225 (2010) 427-428 / DOI 10.1524/ncrs.2010.0188 427 © by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, München Crystal: colorless block, size 0.21 × 0.25 × 0.30 mm Wavelength: Mo K* radiation (0.71073 Å) -: 1.98 cm−1 Diffractometer, scan mode: Rigaku Mercury CCD, % 2+max: 50.38° N(hkl)measured, N(hkl)unique: 3777, 1599 Criterion for Iobs, N(hkl)gt: Iobs > 2 ((Iobs), 1558 N(param)refined: 163 Programs: ORTEP-III [3], SHELXS-97, SHELXL-97 [4] Table 1. Data collection and handling. H(2) 4a −0.2122 0.4118 0.6251 0.028 H(3) 4a −0.3195 0.5576 0.5867 0.033 H(1) 4a 0.3580 0.5202 0.7530 0.023 H(1W) 4a 0.4577 0.6411 0.9604 0.045 H(2W) 4a 0.5359 0.6913 0.8607 0.045 H(3W) 4a 0.0657 0.7343 0.8633 0.059 H(4W) 4a 0.1173 0.7928 0.7698 0.059 Table 2. Atomic coordinates and displacement parameters (in Å). Atom Site x y z Uiso


The invention relates to an intelligent clothing business system, which comprises an integrated data acquisition module, a purchase preference analysis module, a purchase preference storage module and a customer demand forecasting module. The integrated data acquisition module in communication with a POS (point-of-sale) system, a clothing try-on system and a customer database of a clothing retailer is used for respectively acquiring and storing POS historical purchase record, clothing try-on data and customer data, the purchase preference analysis module is used for analyzing the POS historical purchase record, the clothing try-on data and the customer data and generating customer purchase preference analysis results, the purchase preference storage module is used for building a database for storing the customer purchase preference analysis results, and the customer demand forecasting module is used for forecasting future or current customer demands. The clothing purchase preference of customers is systematically learnt and analyzed by making full use of the POS historical purchase record, the clothing try-on data and the customer data instead of relying on subjective evaluation and experience of the clothing retailer, the analysis results are more accurate, and competiveness of the clothing retailer in the clothing market is improved.


This article is devoted to the problem of the migration crisis of 2015-2016. in Europe and the reflection of this problem in media texts. The current stage of development of society is characterized by the increasing influence of journalism on all spheres of life and human activity. The greatest influence in this context is television, which for many Russian citizens is the most accessible source of information. Analyzing the state of the participants of the modern migration crisis according to reports in the Russian media, we came to the conclusion that it is necessary to turn to the works of European researchers who see the situation from the inside. We studied media stereotypes about migrants and refugees, presented in a report by the international group of researchers from the Department of Media and Communications of the London School of Economics and Political Science and published in 2017 the report "The European migration crisis and the media. A cross-European press content analysis". Migrants and refugees are a vulnerable minority that can easily suffer from the internal problems of the host country


As the rapid development of SNS applications, a uniform topic analysis on different media data is very important for emergency management and decision-making. In this paper, a cross-media topic analysis framework is proposed to solve problems of cross-media data modeling, associated topic reasoning and integrated search. On this basis, a food safety emergency monitoring system is established to meet the needs of food safety emergency management in complex decision-making environment.


Mosshead sculpins, Clinocottus globiceps, of the North American Pacific coast commonly feed upon sea anemones and in doing so make frequent body contact with the anemone tentacles. An attempt was made to determine if some sort of acclimation process, as seen in certain pomacentrid anemone fishes, is necessary for C. globiceps to engage in such repeated contacts. The laboratory experiments with C. globiceps and three species of anemones (Anthopleura xanthogrammica, A. elegantissima, Urticina crassicornis) revealed no obvious and consistent acclimatory behaviours by the fish toward anemones following a period of enforced isolation from anemones. Actions by C. globiceps toward anemones included frequent bites to tentacles, touches to tentacles without biting (whether intentional or not), and bites to the anemone's base or column. Tentacle bites occurred, on average, significantly earlier than tentacle touches in trials with Anthopleura elegantissima. There was no evidence that either tentacle bites or tentacle touches occurred earlier than the other in trials with A xanthogrammica and U. crassicornis. In paired trials where individual C. globiceps were tested first with A. xanthogrammica and then with U. crassicornis, the fish showed no significant difference in response to the two anemone species, either in the frequencies of different types of actions (bites or touches) or in the average order in which tentacle bites or tentacle touches occurred. Experiments were also conducted to compare the degree to which different sculpin species avoided contact with anemone (A. elegantissima) tentacles. Clinocottus globiceps seemed more tolerant of contact with tentacles than were the other sculpins, and only C. globiceps appeared intentionally to touch tentacles, sometimes leaning against or biting them.


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Studies on bioorganic model systems have provided the evidence that dihydroflavin and tetrahydropteridine hydroperoxides can rearrange to other reactive peroxide forms including 4,4a-dioxetanes. Such rearranged peroxides were already proposed as alternative hydroxylating agents in 1976. This original proposal is ignored in recent biochemical papers in which some incorrect claims and statements are made.


Compressive sensing (CS) provides a method to perform sampling and compression simultaneously when a signal is sparse or compressible. The conventional CS is established on the prior knowledge of sparsity and cannot reconstruct the signals if they fail to be represented explicitly in a sparse form. Semantic CS is a new approach for sensing a signal based on its content knowledge, which can reduce the sensing rate and the sparsity constraint. However, the effects of content knowledge on the reconstruction quality is still not clear. In this paper, we provide an approach for designing a sensing matrix for semantic CS and experimentally study how content knowledge affects the reconstruction performance of the proposed CS.


The paper deals with the functional analysis used to classify and to determine the functions and safety requirements of a complex system. In the functional analysis, the solution for the targeted problem is modelled and decomposed into finer granularity in order to identify all functions, interfaces and requirements. The proposed approach is based on the functional decomposition and the safety analysis and proof to allow systems requirements capture, analysis and validation. The consistency of system requirements and their relation are validated by a formal proof technique. The functional analyses based on functional decomposition and requirements proof have been conducted to analyse the European Conventional Railways System specification. The approach is illustrated by a sub-system of conventional rail to analyze the constituents and the essential requirements needed to achieve interoperability within the trans-European rail system.


Timber workers loading a kauri log on to a log catamaran, probably Northland region. Photograph taken circa 1910s by the Northwood brothers.
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People with disabilities need appropriate educational structure. Therefore, obtaining an inclusive vocational disability is a factor in its successful social adaptation. Moreover, the creation of conditions for the most disabled education, must meet their specific needs. As a result of a special approach to the system of rehabilitation of persons with disabilities in the Commercial and Economic Institute of the Siberian Federal University managed to achieve high efficiency in the provision of social inclusion of people with disabilities. For example from the University study option and health of young people with disabilities Health is solely to differential treatment and psycho - educational support for people with disabilities in all areas of work.


This study wants to answer how the juridical strength of the grant deed for adopted children is in the case of the XXX/Pdt.G/2012/MS-Aceh case concerning the Cancellation of Grants. A grant is a gift made by a person to another party that is carried out while still alive and its implementation is carried out while the grantor is still alive. Grants in any law are essentially non-cancellable, unless certain conditions are met the grant can be cancelled. By using the juridical normative method, the research found that grants for adopted children normatively through a grant deed No. 04/V/2007 are valid and have legal force, because they have fulfilled the requirements in the grant agreement both formally and materially. The decision to cancel the grant in case Number XXX/Pdt.G/2012/MS-Aceh is in accordance with applicable law. The judge considers that adopted children in Indonesia have the same status as biological children, so what applies to biological children also applies to adopted children.


The basic principle for the layout of GPR survey line(or grid) was summarized on the three basic operation modes,i.e.,reflection mode,common mid point mode and transillumination mode,and the basic principles for the choice of GPR field operation parameters were introduced,which included the center frequency of antenna,the maximum time window,the spatial and temporal sampling intervals,and the separation 'between' the transmitting and receiving antennas.The relationship between 'discrete' and 'continuous' GPR measurement was described,and the relationship among the antenna moving velocity,the sampling rate of GPR system and the required spatial sampling interval were discussed in detail.


The government of India provides numerous support for the empowerment of Person With Disability. It gives special attention to the people with Intellectual disabilities by way of providing education, employment and so on. The National institute for the empowerment of person with Intellectual disability (NIEPID) is one of the major organization launched by the government of India. This organization is giving a handholding support, rehabilitation services, Educational services, creating employment opportunities, medical services and so on. This paper made an attempt to study about the NIEPID for long and short term courses offered to the PID. The Government has allotted a limited seats for each different course in different affiliated institutes, the seats get admitted by only a few candidates. People might unaware about the courses. This may be a reason for limited admission. This paper highlights the number of beneficiaries get befitted from the existing course reviewed by the existing data. The NIEPID taking the major role in providing special education courses for rehabilitate the mental disability people. Their important responsibilities make them to educate and to learn the psycho social consideration.


Abstract The paper deals with one of modern effective pedagogical technologies in relation to management of the educational process with students of higher educational institutions. The authors discuss the concept of virtual excursion, formulate its advantages over traditional technologies, clarify the principles of modern pedagogical activity through a virtual excursion for the teachers and students. The paper presents one of the lecture plans devoted to a virtual tour using Internet resources. Relying on live resources, the authors argue that a virtual excursion brings students closer to their professional tasks, teach them to associate theoretical material with practice. As for an instructor, the effective use of modern innovative, computer training technology can improve the efficiency of teaching different subjects, streamline learning activities, optimize the processes of understanding and memorizing learning material.


Abstract Background In April 2017, the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) began screening healthcare contacts of confirmed cases of carbapenemase-producing carbapenem-resistant organisms (CP-CROs) to identify potential transmission, per guidance published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The results of MDH's CP-CRO colonization screening surveys (CSSs) conducted as of April 1, 2018, are summarized. Methods Rectal swabs were collected on epidemiologically linked CP-CRO contacts and sent to the MDH Laboratories Administration, where the Cepheid Xpert® Carba-R assay was used to detect five carbapenemases: Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC), New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM), Verona integron encoded metallo-β-lactamase (VIM), imipenemase (IMP), and oxacillinase-48-like carbapenemase (OXA-48). Identification of CP-CROs in contacts sometimes resulted in additional CSSs to ensure complete case detection. Non-KPC cases were combined for analysis. Results During April 1, 2017–April 1, 2018, MDH received reports of 278 incident cases of confirmed CP-CROs. Of these, 16 (6%) expressed non-KPC carbapenemases. The 7 (3%) cases with healthcare contacts prompting CSSs led to screening of 132 first-round contacts, with additional CP-CROs identified in 13 (10%), all of which had KPC. Of these, 12 (92%) resided in ventilator units of skilled nursing facilities (vSNFs). In the first-round CSS at one vSNF, 64% of screened contacts were positive for KPC, which had not been identified in the index case. Weekly follow-up CP-CRO admission screenings and serial follow-up CSSs at the vSNF resulted in screening of a total of 72 unique patients; 38 (53%) were KPC-positive. Of these 38 cases, 32 (89%) were previously unidentified and were placed on contact precautions if not already on them. Staff were re-trained in infection prevention (IP) techniques, and staff and KPC-positive patients were cohorted. Conclusion Detection of CP-CROs that express non-KPC carbapenemases in Maryland is rare, and transmission of these carbapenemases has not been identified. However, CSSs identified previously unknown cases of KPC, most commonly in vSNFs, demonstrating the utility of CSSs to detect CP-CROs, and resulting in important IP interventions. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.


An 83-year-old woman was referred to our department on suspicion of SSc, during admission in the respiratory medicine department. She had had surgery one year previously for breast cancer. Physical examination showed mildly swollen fingers with nail fold bleeding (Fig. 1a). Further examination revealed a solitary bony-hard, mobile subcutaneous nodule, sized 10-mm in diameter located on the edematous forearm (Fig. 1b). A biopsy specimen from the finger showed thickened collagen bundles in the dermis (Fig. 2a), and lipomembranous changes in the subcutaneous tissues (Fig. 2b). Another biopsy from the forearm showed edematous dermis with slightly thickened collagen bundles in the lower dermis, with lipomembranous changes in the subcutis (Figs. 2c and 2d). The nodule of the forearm was simultaneously removed, which histologically revealed a well-circumscribed tumor composed of degenerated fat cells with lipomembranous lesions surrounded by a thin fibrous capsule (Figs. 2e and 2f). Laboratory data showed normal liver and renal function and an increased level of KL-6 (3581 U/ml; normal <500). Antinuclear Letter to the Editor


________________________________________________________________________________________ KIRBAS, A., E. BAYDAR, F. M. KANDEMIR, E. DORMAN, O. KIZIL, B. A. YILDIRIM: Evaluation of serum cardiac troponin I concentration in sheep with acute ruminal lactic acidosis. Vet. arhiv 84, 355-364, 2014. ABSTRACT Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is known to be a sensitive cardio biomarker to determine the myocardial damage in diseases affecting the cardiac muscles. However, there has not been suffi cient research about cTnI concentration, which is the most sensitive indicator of myocardial damage in sheep with acute ruminal lactic acidosis (ARLA). For this reason this study aimed to evaluate the serum cTnI concentration in sheep with ARLA. Those diagnosed with ARLA (n = 20) from the total of 40 Akkaraman (White karaman) sheep, aged between 1-2 years used in this study comprised the affected group and the healthy ones (n = 20) comprised the control group. Ruminal fl uid was obtained from the animals from both groups with the help of a stomach tube, and examined immediately. Blood samples were taken from the jugular vein of the sheep and the serum was separated. Serum cTnI concentration was measured with a commercial immunoassay system, using the one-step sandwich method. Serum enzyme (ALT, AST, CK-MB and LDH) activities were determined via a clinical biochemistry autoanalyzer. The average serum cTnI concentration was at the level of 0.035 ± 0.015 ng/ mL (range; 0.02-0.06 ng/mL) in the control group sheep. It was determined that there was a substantial increase in the group with ARLA and the average concentration reached the level of 0.103 ± 0.080 ng/mL (range; 0.031.7 ng/mL) (P<0.0001). It was observed that another cardio marker, CK-MB, was found in the group with ARLA 454.50 ± 191.88 U/L (range; 214-861 U/L) and increased in comparison with the control group 224.35 ± 83.33 U/L (range; 133-421 U/L) (P<0.0001). An increase in LDH (P<0.001) and AST (P<0.001) from liver enzymes in the group with ARLA and ALT activities compared to the control group was identifi ed (P<0.01). In conclusion, this present study determined that the serum cTnI concentration was high in sheep with ARLA and


This report proposes a new converter for photovoltaic water pumping without the use of chemical storage elements, such as batteries. The converter is designed to drive a PMSM Motor directly from PV energy. The use of PMSM Motor gives a better solution to the commercial dc motor water pumping system. The development is oriented to achieve a more efficient, reliable, maintenance-free, and cheaper solution than the standard ones that use dc motors or low-voltage synchronous motors. The proposed system is based on a current-fed multi resonant converter also known as resonant two-inductor boost converter and a full-bridge three-phase voltage source inverter . The classic topology of the TIBC has features like high voltage gain and low input current ripple. In this report, it is further improved with the use of a nonisolated recovery snubber along with a hysteresis controller and the use of a constant duty cycle control to improve its efficiency. Experimental results show a peak efficiency of 85% at a rated power of 500 W for the dc/dc converter plus the three-phase VSI and a peak efficiency of 89 % just for the dc/dc converter. The system is expected to have a high lifetime due to the inexistence of electrolytic capacitors, and the total cost of the converter is below 60 Rs/Wp. As a result, the system is a promising solution to be used in isolated locations and to deliver water to poor communities.


This investigation of demographic changes between 1990 and 2000 within African American employment concentrations in Chicago finds that the effects of immigration on African American employment differ by gender. Black women increasingly shared their niche industries with immigrant women without being displaced, a pattern of coexistence that indicates the primacy of gender in sorting women into employment. By contrast, similar patterns were absent between African American and immigrant men, and several niche industries reflected competition. Yet economic restructuring more significantly affected African American male and female employment than immigration. Among women, these same trends also affected immigrants. Both groups were adversely affected by the growth of low-wage employment in female-dominated, care-work jobs—their primary industries of overlap. These findings underscore the significance of gender in problematizing ethnic/racial divisions of labor and the need to consider economic consequences that cross these divisions as well as derive from them within urban economies.