Growth differentiation factor-15(GDF-15) which belongs to the GDF family is a member of TGF-β super family.The previous researches indicated that GDF-15 increased its expression in the condition of rheumatoid arthritis,inflammation,tumor,anemia and so on.During recent years,it was found that increased level of GDF-15 was associated with heart failure(HF),acute coronary syndrome(ACS),idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension(IPAH) and other cardiovascular diseases.GDF-15 which provides independent prognostic information in HF and other cardiovascular diseases might be a new promising biomarker.


The Authority was asked to supply copies of all the pages from notebooks pertaining to the inspection of centre 0017 on 2nd December 2005.


The temporal correlation of target can be exploited to improve the radar estimation performance. This paper studies the estimation of target scattering coefficients in an adaptive radar system, and a novel estimation method based on Kalman filter (KF) with waveform optimization is proposed for the temporally correlated target in the scenario with both noise and clutter. Different from the existing indirect methods, a direct optimization method is proposed to design the transmitted waveform and minimize the mean square error of the KF estimation. Additionally, the waveform is optimized subject to the practical constraints including the transmitted energy, the peak-to-average power ratio, and the target detection performance. With clutter and noise, the waveform optimization problem is non-convex. Therefore, a novel two-step method is proposed and converts the original non-convex problem into several semidefinite programming problems, which are convex and can solve efficiently. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed KF-based method with waveform optimization can outperform state-of-art methods and significantly improve the estimation performance.


To investigate the gypsy functional activity, the possibility of conservation of its genetic information in VLP in the extracellular form has been examined. Preparations containing extracellular gypsy VLP from D. melanogaster and D. virilis were obtained. Non degradative full-sized polyA+ RNA and polyA+ RNA-DNA complexes of gypsy were revealed in the both preparations. The polypeptides with some specificity to gypsy nucleic acids were identified in VLP preparations. Some morphological and physical characteristics of the VLP preparations were obtained. The data obtained suggest the presence of non-degradative gypsy VLP in cultured media of D. melanogaster and D. virilis cells.


pneumoperitoneum. Aims: This study was carried out to determine whether significant change in gastric pH occurs during laproscopic surgeries and whether this change is related to patient positioning. Settings and Designs: Prospective observational study in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care in a tertiary care teaching hospital. Materials and Methods: 50 adult ASA class I and II female patients between 25 to 40 years undergoing diagnostic laproscopy for infertility under general anaesthesia were selected in group T(trendelenburg) and another 50 adult female patients of the same ASA status and age group scheduled for laproscopic cholecystectomy under general anaesthesia were selected in group RT(reverse trendelenburg) . Five to eight ml of gastric secretions were aspirated, before the change in patient position and the same amount before reversal of neuromuscular block, for analysis of pH. Statistical analysis: Statistical difference of means between the groups was calculated using the unpaired t-test. Statistical difference of means between the pre and post-positioning pH value in the same group was calculated using the paired t-test. Differences were considered significant when the P value was <0.05. Results: The pre-positioning and post-positioning pH values in the T group was 2.528 and 3.272 respectively (P=0.001) and the pre and post-positioning pH values in the RT group was 2.644 and 3.028 respectively (P=0.001). The pre-positioning pH values of gastric fluid in the T group and RT group was statistically insignificant. Similarly, the post-positioning pH values of gastric fluid in the T group and RT group was statistically insignificant. Conclusion: Significant change in gastric pH occurs during laproscopic surgeries, irrespective of the patient position during the intraoperative period. Therefore patient positioning does not effect the extent of pH change. Gastric pH change during laproscopic surgery


Sums of Kloosterman sums have deep connections with the theory of modular forms, and their estimation has many important consequences. Kuznetsov used his famous trace formula and got a power-saving estimate with respect to $x$ with implied constants depending on $m$ and $n$. Recently, in 2009, Sarnak and Tsimerman obtained a bound uniformly in $x$, $m$ and $n$. The generalized Kloosterman sums are defined with multiplier systems and on congruence subgroups. Goldfeld and Sarnak bounded sums of them with main terms corresponding to exceptional eigenvalues of the hyperbolic Laplacian. Their error term is a power of $x$ with implied constants depending on all the other factors. In this paper, for a wide class of half-integral weight multiplier systems, we get the same bound with the error term uniformly in $x$, $m$ and $n$. Such uniform bounds have great applications. For the eta-multiplier, Ahlgren and Andersen obtained a uniform and power-saving bound with respect to $m$ and $n$, which resulted in a convergent error estimate on the Rademacher exact formula of the partition function $p(n)$. We also establish a Rademacher-type exact formula for the difference of partitions of rank modulo $3$, which allows us to apply our power-saving estimate to the tail of the formula for a convergent error bound.


Reactor gas turbine characterized in that the end portion 1 of the outer shell 4 and the two thrust reverser components are coupled to one another and guided in a relative manner, so that in the first positioning step, the tip segment 1 creates with respect to a fixed nozzle segment 5 of the flow channel device M, an additional nozzle surface for the blower, which communicates with surface sections of arrival flow Z started by the flaps 2 in the circumferential flow channel M. the invention relates to gas turbine engines.


Bespreking van: JORENBY DE, LEISCHOW SJ, NIDES MA, et al. A controlled trial of sustainedrelease bupropion, a nicotine patch or both for smoking cessation. N Engl J Med 1999;340:685-91


This paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA) based method for evaluating reliability worth indices of composite power systems. The GA is used as a state sampling tool for the composite power system network. Two different approaches have been developed. In the first approach, GA samples failure states for each load level separately. Thus reliability worth indices are calculated for each load level and then combined to obtain the annual reliability worth indices. In the second approach, GA samples failure states with load buses assigned the maximum load state. Failures states are then reevaluated with lower load states until a success state is obtained or all load states have been considered. In both approaches GA is able to trace failure states in a more intelligent and faster manner than conventional methods. An optimization model based on linearized load flow is used for the evaluation of sampled states. Two different objectives are used in state evaluation. The first objective is to minimize load curtailment considering load category and load bus relative importance. The second objective is to minimize load interruption cost. Instead of using the raw interruption cost associated with failure state mean duration time, random sampling is used to calculate mean interruption cost associated with each failure state. Case studies on the RBTS test system considering different state evaluation methods and cost calculation methods are introduced. Results obtained from the two different approaches are compared and analyzed.


Cinnamyl chlorides undergo selective SN2' allylic substitution by Grignard reagents using catalytic amount (1 mol%) of CuCN and 1-2 mol% trivalent phosphorus ligand, in dichloromethane. With chiral phosphorus ligands derived from TADDOL ee's up to 73% could be obtained.


First of all,analized the feasibility of an analysis of GIS application in the geography teaching of Middle School.Combined with teaching practices to a large number of teaching examples discussed the function and application of GIS,showing that GIS technology in geography teaching has broad application prospects.


Changes of ecological footprint can reflect the impact of economic development to ecological environment in mining cities.The study set a mining city——Wu'an city as an example,analyzed quantitatively the relevant indicators of ecological footprint,and used the principal component analysis to study the driving force of ecological footprint.The results show that Wu'an city's ecological footprint is far greater than the ecological capacity;the efficiency of resources use and the diversity of ecological footprint are fairly low;the non-sustainable development becomes increasingly serious.The main driving forces of ecological footprint changes are the economic development level and the level of consumption.In order to promote the sustainable development,Wu'an should both change the mode of economic growth and improve the efficiency of resources use.In addition,it is also necessary to change the way of consumption,to encourage people consuming reasonable,to increase input of the ecological environment construction,and to improve the ecological capacity.


A new modified surgical technique is described in five cases of advanced neovascular glaucoma. The procedure included excision of a large trabecular segment, non penetrating cyclodiathermy, destruction of iris new vessels and wide sector iridectomy. The preliminary results are evaluated and are quite encouraging.


A type of angle-dependent uv photoemission measurement has been used to study variations in the intermolecular polarization effect at the surface of thin condensed anthracene films. The top molecular layer exhibits a 1.2-eV relaxation energy in response to the polarization of the hole state created in photoemission event. The second and subsequent layers exhibit a different value of about 1.5 eV. This result corresponds to the observation of a surface electronic molecular-ion state on a molecular solid.


SYNOPSIS. A symbiote-free strain of Parauronema acutum, 110–3, a small marine hymenostome ciliate has been cultured in a synthetic medium consisting of amino acids, purine derivatives, vitamins, lipids and artificial sea water. Populations of ∼ 1.3 × 106 per ml were obtained in 5 to 6 days at 27 C in the dark in medium prepared in sea water, density = 1.015 g/cc at a surface to volume ratio of 5 cm2/ml. The pH optimum was 7.2. The following amino acids were determined to be essential for the growth of this strain: arginine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, proline, serine (or glycine), threonine, tryptophan and valine: guanine, guanosine or guanylic acid, but not adenine, adenosine, adenylic acid, hypoxanthine, inosine, inosinic acid, xanthine, xanthosine, or xanthylic acid, satisfied the need for a purine for growth of this organism. Pyrimidines were not required for growth. Of the vitamins tested, folic acid, nicotinamide, d-pantothenic acid, pyridoxal HCl, riboflavin, thiamine HCl and thioctic acid were essential for growth; biotin was not. Growth in the absence of lipids was transplantable, but amounted to ∼ 3% that obtained in medium containing a mixture of asolectin, animal cephalin and Tween 80. Asolectin alone at high concentrations was almost as effective as the lipid mixture in supporting growth. Purified phospholipids such as phosphatidyl serine, phosphatidyl choline and phosphatidyl inositol were less effective on an individual basis. In minimal medium containing only the "essential" amino acids, growth was less than 5% that obtained in the complete medium, but could be restored to maximal by the addition of either glutamic acid or aspartic acid. A number of substances, including sugars, amino acids and Krebs cycle intermediates, partially restored growth under these conditions. Only glycogen, starch and glucose-1-phosphate, tested individually, were as effective as glutamic acid or aspartic acid in restoring growth to optimal levels.


The appts. has a flexible nozzle support, which slides within a nozzle box and nozzles extending towards a major surface of the glass sheet to form a quench surface which can be adjustably flexed to match the transverse curvature of the sheet. The process comprises shaping the sheet at its softening temp., (partially) tempering the sheet by directing coolant at its opposing major surfaces from a quench surface formed by the ends of nozzles extending from a nozzle assembly, repeating the referred stages for prod. of subsequent identical sheets, flexing the nozzle assembly so that the quenching surface assumes a new transverse configuration.


The carbon nitride thin films have been prepared on Si substrates, using N,/CH. as reactive gases, by microwave chemical vapor deposition method. The effect of substrate temperature on the composition and structure of carbon nitride thin films were studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). As the substrate temperature increased, the N/C atomic ratios increased rapidly first and then decreased a little after a crucial temperature. Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and Raman spectra support the existence of C-N covalent bond.


This chapter reviews important recent papers related to catch-up growth. Catch-up growth is generally defined as body growth that (1) is more rapid than normal for age and (2) follows a period of growth inhibition. As can be seen by the studies reviewed in this chapter, catch-up growth can occur after either pre- or postnatal growth inhibition, can show a variety of temporal patterns, and can be either complete (yielding a normal adult body size) or incomplete. These studies explore the implications of catchup growth not only for adult body size but also for pubertal timing, bone strength, and the risk of metabolic syndrome.


Literature is very poor in articles about anxiety in Dentistry. Since dental treatment may represent a major issue to anxious patients, the purpose of this study was to review the literature in order to find out and evaluate the most up-to-date research on the matter, thus providing dentists with efficient methods to control anxiety in theirpractice.


A comparison has been made of the ultraviolet spectrophotometric and chlorine analysis methods for the composition of copolymers of butadiene and p-chlorostyrene. The results of the two methods are in good agreement.


As one who was formerly a minister but who is no longer in the Cabinet, I shall have to say when I represent what I think is a government view and what is my own view. I am responsible for practically everything that has gone wrong in the various government Departments where I was but at least I am aware of it. What I have to say comes under four broad headings: (1) trends; (2) variety; (3) standards; (4) economic issues; and also (5) with a lot of small points, including teaching methods.


Thanks to recent advances in the cannabinoid field, investigators have begun to relate cannabis's cellular mechanisms to its psychoactive behavioral effects.


Despite the increased availability of biological therapies, postoperative recurrence (POR) after an ileocolonic resection with ileocolonic anastomosis frequently occurs in patients with Crohn's disease.

 Over the last two years, a mixed panel of 24 gastroenterologists and colorectal surgeons collaborated within the 8th Scientific Workshop of ECCO. The available evidence on diagnosis, pathophysiology and risk factors, prevention and treatment of POR was reviewed and unanswered research questions were listed.

 In recent years, surgeons have been utilising innovative surgical techniques to reduce POR. Whilst the side-to-side anastomosis has become more common, the benefits of newer procedures such as Kono-S anastomosis or over-the-valve strictureplasty remain unproven. Consistency in describing and reporting POR is crucial both in routine practice and in clinical research. Ileocolonoscopy six to twelve months after ileocolonic anastomosis remains the gold standard to diagnose POR. However, an effort to adapt the Rutgeerts score to surgical techniques different from end-to-end anastomosis is required. Significance of isolated ulcers of the anastomotic line, specifically in case of stapled anastomoses, is still debated. In the coming years, intestinal ultrasound combined to faecal calprotectin may ultimately decrease the reliance on ileocolonoscopy.
 Research on the microbiome and genetic background of patients with POR is promising although not applicable in daily clinical practice yet. Smoking is the only risk factor clearly identified in POR, whereas previous ileocolonic resection or penetrating disease have not been validated in prospective studies. Stronger emphasis on smoking cessation for all patients should include specific active measures to make it successful.
 The prevailing gap in accurate predictors of POR disempowers clinicians from stratifying between systematic prophylaxis and endoscopy-driven approach. Immediate prophylaxis therapy may lead to overtreatment.Ongoing randomized controlled trials comparing (i) systematic prophylaxis and endoscopy-guided introduction of biological therapy (NCT05169593), and (ii) therapy escalation to status quo in patients with moderate endoscopic POR (NCT05072782) should be informative.

 Despite important progress in the field of POR in the last 30 years, POR management remains a challenge. The IBD community should strive to optimise diagnostic procedures of POR including ileocolonoscopy and non-invasive techniques, define patients at high risk of POR using microbiome and/or genetic profiling and clarify the optimal medical treatment strategy after surgery.


1. Due to the effect of K-ions the matrixes of chromosome swell and the chromonemata uncoil. Accordingly by the use of K-ion solution in adequate duration and concentration the matrixes swell or are destroyed and make the chromonemata observable.2. For this reason, 0.1% aqueous solution of KOH or 1% aqueous solution of KCNS makes the chromonemata clear when the chromosome is pretreated with this solution for two minutes.The expenses of this work were partly defrayed by a grant from the Science Research Fund of the Ministry of Education.


ABSTRACT Teacher education programmes are often tasked with preparing predominantly White, middle class, pre-service teachers to be effective in diverse contexts. Many teacher educators consider practicum experiences critical to forming values and dispositions necessary for the teaching profession. This article focuses on the work of two White, middle-class, pre-service teachers, Charlotte and Seraphina, who volunteered to do their practicum in a remote indigenous community in Australia on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. At the beginning of the practicum, both pre-service teachers' attitudes about the experience were similar; yet, over time they began to develop divergant dispositions or 'positionality towards diversity' relative to their unique backgrounds and APY Lands experiences, highlighting certain sensitivities and biases regarding racial, cultural and linguistic diversity. We focus on how Charlotte and Seraphina interpret their experiences, what this can tell us about their professional development, and the possible implications for teacher educators teaching in post-colonial contexts.


Success in preparing business students for professional careers requires these students to develop a set of well-defined personal skills. The present study examined 145 business students to assess the effectiveness of a personal skills development (PSD) program by measuring the impact of the training on the students' attitudes in skill development and by evaluating their satisfaction of the learning process. We present the planning and implementation processes of a comprehensive semester-long program in an English-speaking university in Asia that aims to develop the personal skills of business undergraduates. Differences between pre- and post-test perceived ability skill levels were highly significant (p < .01). Respondents also agreed that the program has a positive impact on their skill development and reported satisfaction with the learning experience. This study provides suggestions to business educators on developing and evaluating a range of personal skills amongst students. Recommendations and limitations of the study are discussed.


x CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1 Background to the study 1 Statement of problem 4 Purpose of the study 5 Specific objectives of the study 5 Research questions 6 Significance of the study 6 Scope of the study 7 Operational definition of terms 7 CHAPTER TWO Literature review Conceptual review 10 Stress 10 Family stress 11 Coping strategies 12 Coping resources 14 Ineffective/ maladaptive coping --20 Coping and socio demographic variables 21 Physically challenged 23 Mentally challenged 24


Thepaperdescribes methodforcalculation ofstator component ofstray-load losses ina high-speed inducfion motorusing removed rotortest. Specifically designed high-speed induction motorshows excessive losses already inremoved rotor regime. Theobjective ofthe paperistofind theorigin ofsuch losses, calculate themandmakeacomparisonwith experimentally obtained results.


Scan acceleration such as parallel imaging reduces scan time, but shorter scan time may reduce the signal‐to‐noise ratio and affect image quality. The reproducibility of longitudinal changes in the brain structure between non‐accelerated and accelerated imaging by surface‐based analysis is unclear.


This paper introduced the concept of Proportional Hazards Model (PHM), it took advantage of the Weibull PHM to establish the failure rate model of transformer maintenance based on condition monitoring information. The failure rate threshold through the maximum availability method was determined, and then the maintenance decision model for the electric transformer was established. Finally, we used a simple case, i.e. an analysis of gases in transformer oil, to illustrate the maintenance decision-making process based on PHM, and to verify the feasibility of this model for the transformer repair.


The basic theory of fibre optiC non-contact measurement with fibre optic probe isbriefly described in this paper. After analysing some problems encountered by the author in thedevelopment of non-contact vibration measurement instrument,a method for solving these problems is given. As to the measurement of vibration amptitude, a method using two peak holdersand some control curcuits is discussed. For the measuremant of vibration frequncy, a methodbased on software and applicable to both high and low frequency is proposed.


Two series of complexes, believed to be of the forms (R1 = R2 = Me, Et, Pri, Bu and R1 = H, R2 = Me) and (R = Me, Et, C2H4Cl, Pr, Bu, n-C8H17) have been prepared. A large anion X was used to precipitate the green compounds, which are monomeric and 1 : 1 electrolytes in solution. Infrared, electronic and e.s.r. spectra are reported together with magnetic susceptibility measurements. The phosphorus hyperfine coupling observed in the dithiophosphates is discussed in the light of current models.


The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) inherently accepts complex data; yet signals to be processed are usually real. This necessitates special accommodations if efficient computation is to be achieved. Further accommodation is necessary for efficiency when processing bandpass data. Both accommodations can be made by generating analytic signals using Hilbert transforms. The generation of such signals around zero frequency can be accomplished by analytic band translation where the bandpass can afterwards be defined at baseband by a pair of matched filters. After baseband processing, the spectrum can be translated back up to an arbitrary frequency or can enter after Hilbert sampling directly into the complex DFT for the most efficient spectrum analysis. The analytic translation to the zero‐centered baseband frequencies provides the most conveniently normalized spectrum and facilitates the most efficient use of computational resources. The analytic band translator applies to either digital or analog implementa...


Purpose
Due to recent technological developments, many maintenance managers become overwhelmed by the vast amount of data available to support their decision making. The purpose of this paper is to discuss identifying and eliminating waste in information management processes through a value stream mapping (VSM)-based method.

Design/methodology/approach
A theoretical framework is constructed based upon a review of the previous academic literature. The application of the framework is demonstrated with an empirical case example of a maintenance information management process within a food manufacturing company.

Findings
The paper highlights existing examples of applying VSM in information management; however, the knowledge is fragmented and has not been extensively applied in a maintenance context. The case example shows that the suggested process offers a feasible method of mapping and evaluating the inherent waste in information management processes.

Originality/value
The paper summarizes the existing body of knowledge on lean information management in maintenance, and presents a theoretical framework on how VSM can be applied in the context. An empirical example is provided to show the method applied to a real industry case. The results will illustrate how the framework can support companies in identifying the waste and development potential in their maintenance information management.


Conventional wisdom implies that the Nasdaq is more sensitive to interest rates than the Dow is due to the presence of larger firms in the Dow. However, the recent view of an old/new economy dichotomy implies that the Nasdaq is less sensitive to interest rates. To address these mutually exclusive implications, this study estimates the sensitivities of the Nasdaq composite index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average to changes in the federal funds rate. The paper uses seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) analysis for the sample period covering January 1990 through May 2000. Both stock indices are equally sensitive for the entire 1990s as well as for the latter half of the 90s. The Nasdaq is more sensitive in the first half of the decade, possibly indicating the emergence of an old/new economy dichotomy in the mid-90s. However, the recent view that the Nasdaq is relatively immune to interest rate changes appears overstated.


The non-linear order of revelations is often considered by many scholars to signify lack of coherence, disunity, and fragmentariness. It seems that 'coherence' and the related terms have veiled a significant linguistic feature of the Qur'an, namely, the non-linear nature of revelations, which might be used to make a distinction between ordinary and Quranic discourse. We will argue that to unveil the non-linearity, we should consider revelations in relation to God who reveals Himself in language not as an ordinary speaker whose speech is limited to a certain context, with a beginning and an end. We should not expect God to speak like a man. The Qur'an, thus, is seen here as a non-temporal, non-linear text that reflects its divine origin, by systematically destructing the spacio-temporal context and the linear order of language.


Every day, many people use at least one social network (or social media) account. This development has been boosted by the rapid growth of technology, making both smartphones and mobile data much more accessible and inexpensive. Therefore, the number of social networks users is growing rapidly, accounting more than 1 billion active users worldwide. The ease of use, as well as the ability to communicate without spatial and temporal restrictions underpinned the rapid increase of the popularity of social networks, as well as their wide acceptance by the general public. This popularity influences people's opinion on many issues, shapes consumer habits and behaviour, mood, etc. The work of many scientists across multiple disciplines has focused on studying social media from various perspectives, including marketing, journalism and sociology. This paper investigates how trending information from social media can be used to match topics of interest from cultural database indices. Matches identified in this process are then presented to cultural venue curators, who can then review matches, mark them as useful or reject them, and exploit them for various tasks, and most notably for the promotion of the venue and its content. More specifically, we have developed an application, which collects the 10 most popular twitter trends and then matches their content with the contents of a given cultural database. Using the results of this match, items from the database that may be related to current issues may be recommended to the user. As a result, these matches, after being inspected and approved by the administrator, can be used to attract the interest of the target audience, highlighting the correlation of current issues with the database's items.


In the present paper we purpose to consider the 45 patients whose records have been accessioned to our bacteriophage files who presented evidence of an impending or well established septic obstruction of the cavernous sinus : first, the 14 patients who survived ; second, the 23 patients who died within five days after the initiation of bacteriophage therapy, and, third, the 8 patients who succumbed after an interval varying from eight days to five months. We do not include as a survivor any patient known to have succumbed to a sequel to this disease, even though he was discharged from the hospital "improved" or "cured." Such patients have been classed among those who died. We include in this report, however, a few patients who because of lack of positive blood cultures were not accepted for our staphylococcemia series. The case numbers in parentheses refer to that series.1A patient whose case


The value of isazophos (O-(5-chloro- I -methylethyl- IH- I,2, 4, -triazol-3-y!l) O, O-diethyl phosphorothioate) as a preplant soil insecticide and nematicide in pineapple production was assessed at dosages of 2,5 to 15,0 kg/ha, It was concluded that 10 kg/ha is the optimum dosage of both biological efficacy and economics arc considered. Even at 5kg/ha, the residual efficacy against larvae of the beetle Adoretus tessulatus Burm, exceeded that of the current standards, HHDN and dieldrin, for more than 48 weeks according to laboratory bioassays. In field trials in which fruit yield, root mass, nematode root-galling and ratoon sucker development were measured, outstanding results were obtained with isazophos at 10 kg/ha: e.g. plant- and ratoon-crop yields were respectively double and more than quadruple that or the untreated control There were no detectable residues in fruit at time of harvest even after a dosage of 15 kg/ha. Evidence was obtained that isazophos has a high potential as a postplant topical soil treatment for elimination of rhizophagous beetle larvae.


The efficiency of rehabilitation can be improved through early activation of the patients and the beginning of exercise as early as the hospital stage of rehabilitation. The intensity of exercise should be rationed on a strictly individual basis, with regard to the patient's functional status. Hospital exercise in combination with purposeful psychotherapy are major prerequisites for the recovery of working capacity.


This article is a review of the book, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks, Durham, NC and London, Duke University Press, 2011, 287pp., ISBN 9780822351122 E.


The authors present various notions of controllability of any point p in R/sup n/, for linear systems with admissible controls in a compact set U containing the origin. They prove the equivalency of some of these notions and characterize the sets of controllable points for the system. They also prove that a necessary condition for p to be a local constrained controllable point of a linear system is that Ap in U. Thus, it is possible to characterize the set of local controllable points for the system. C, the set of complete constrained controllable points of the system. is shown to be a convex nonvoid and symmetric neighborhood of the origin. C is also a connected set since its interior is the union of closed trajectories through the origin. The set C as the intersection of the reachable and attainable set for any point p in R/sup n/ is completely characterized. Thus, the size and shape of C is invariant of the choice of p. The shape of C is related to the location of the spectrum of the system in the complex plane.<<ETX>>


The tube shell Bayonet shrink size is closely related to many factors,such as its material,bayonet position,stress distribution,fixture etc. In this paper,the influence of pressure( P) and the pressure duration time( T) on the bayonet shrink the size of the tube shell were studied. The double factors( DF) regression analysis and variance analysis method was applied to analyze data,and the PT shrinkage tube shell model was established. The correlation of the tube shell bayonet shrinkage size and stress factors( P) and pressure time( T),and its change rules were explored. Results show that the established PT contraction model can well reflect the relationship between the tube shell shrinkage size and the PT factors.


The 2013 Italian elections were in several respects a 'Europeanised' contest. As a severe institutional crisis unfolded, political parties paid great attention to European issues, broadly defined, and a 'European-level party', the European People's Party (EPP), made an unprecedented attempt to shape the outcome. The election results must therefore be analysed in relation to Europe. Negative aspects appear to have prevailed in both the discourse of parties and the choices of voters. In terms of policy, Italians clearly rejected the fiscal austerity policy advocated by the European Union since the outbreak of the crisis. Regarding EU governance, the predominantly negative character of this Europeanisation process may be a source of instability in the future.


The cutting wedge of disk shaver at gear shaving has not fully satisfactory geometry: clearance The cutting wedge of the disk shaver when gear shaving is not fully geometrically satisfactory. The clearance on cutting edges are practically equal to zero. We would suggest this is the reason that the disk shavers machining of gear-wheels with large allowance is not possible. The construction of a worm-type tool is known also for clean machining of points of involute of gear-wheels made with continuous spiral cutting edges. The difference of this construction from the construction of N. Chemborisov is that a cutting wedge has the structurally made clearance α (Authors: N. Smorkalov, V. Skripin, V. Ptitcin, IU. Belugin). Polishing of side of coil is the most responsible and labor intensive operation when making a worm-type tool with the continuous spiral cutting edges of construction of N.Smorkalov and other.Dependences allowing to define the coordinates of key points of axial section of side of coil of the worm-type tool were obtained. These coordinates will allow to define the parameters of setting of abrasive disc in relation to the worm-type tool.


The flow pattern at low Reynolds number in the neighborhood of a sudden contraction is very sensitive to the mechanical behavior of the flowing fluid. A large extensional viscosity leads to vortex enhancement in the corner region of the flow of a non-Newtonian fluid in such geometry. In the corresponding flow of a Newtonian fluid, these vortices are much weaker and smaller. Moreover, the extension-thickening behavior of most polymeric liquids leads to higher viscous dissipation effects in the predominantly extensional flow, as compared to typical shear flows. The flow and temperature fields for this problem have been obtained from numerical integration of the conservation equations, aiming at applications related to extrusion and capillary rheometry of polymeric liquids. To account for the flow dependence of the stress tensor, a generalized Newtonian model has been employed, including the dependence of the viscosity function on both the second and the third invariants of the rate-of-deformation tensor. The numerical solutions have been obtained via a finite-volume method. The case of a 4:1 circular contraction was investigated, with uniform temperature distribution at the solid boundaries. The fluid inlet temperature is equal to the temperature at the walls, so that thermal gradients in the fluid are due to viscous dissipation effects only. Comparisons between Newtonian and non-Newtonian results showed that the combined effect of viscous dissipation and enhancement of vortex activity significantly affects the temperature field. The practical significance of the results is discussed for extrusion processes and capillary rheometry.


Longitudinal links between childhood family income and adult outcomes are well documented. However, research on childhood income volatility and young adult outcomes is limited. This study utilizes data from the NLSY (N = 6,410) to examine how childhood family income and income volatility relate to socioeconomic outcomes and mental/behavioral health in emerging adulthood. Results show that lower childhood income was associated with young adult socioeconomic and behavioral health outcomes. Higher income volatility was associated with increased depression and teen parenthood during young adulthood. Additional analyses examining trajectories of income volatility illustrated that children in families with unstable income trajectories (i.e., frequent income losses and gains) showed higher depression scores than those with stable trajectories. These findings suggest that income volatility, not just income level or income loss, is important to consider when studying economic disparities in young adult outcomes. Implications for policies and programs for low-income, high-volatility households are discussed.


To summarize the causes and influencing factors which are analyzed domestically and abroad.To comment the clinical researches of auricular-acupressure treating postpartum hypogalactia.The efficiency has been examined and supported by clinical trials.It is with great value in the field of post-natal care.This summary will lay foundation for future clinical research on auricular-acupressure treating postpartum hypogalactia.


Graphene metal oxide composite show applications in many areas according to their excellent electronic properties. Accordingly, graphene was subjected to interaction with NiO as adsorbing and a complex state. Semiempirical quantum mechanical calculations at PM6 was used to study the total energy, the final heat of formation, ionization energy, total dipole moment as well the charge distribution of the surface of graphene metal oxide composite. Calculated data indicated that graphene symmetry is changed into the C1 point group, forming stable composites with NiO that the complex composites were more stable compared with adsorb state composites. The change in the partial charge of graphene is responsible for the change in total dipole moment and hence affecting the increase in the reactivity of graphene/nickel oxide composite.


Two new compounds of the Bi/Ca/Co/O and Bi(Pb)/Ca/Co/O systems have been prepared. Their structure is built up from the intergrowth of four rock-salt-type layers and one [CoO2] hexagonal layer. Both cobaltites exhibit large thermopower values (S-300 K similar to 140 muV K-1), low resistivity values (rho(300) (K) 40-60 mOmega cm) and small thermal conductivities (kappa(300) (K) similar to I W K-1 m(-1)). Furthermore, these compounds exhibit a negative magnetoresistance, (MR = rho(H)-rho(H=0)/rho(H=0)), reaching, at 2.5 K, -85% in 7 T for the Bi/Ca/Co/O misfit cobaltite. A large negative magnetothermopower is also found for these cobaltites in the same temperature range. A qualitative explanation of the observed behaviour is proposed.


This paper closely reads what constitutes the "non-human" vis-à-vis animality in Bram Stoker's often overlooked short stories, namely The Squaw and The Burial of the Rats. The Squaw is a tale about an American who murders a kitten in cold blood, and in turn, the mother grotesquely avenges her kitten. The anxiety of interspecies relationship is evident in this text, and I argue that this anxiety allows what Giorgio Agamben calls the "anthropological machine" (a system which excludes animals from the zone of livable human life) to operate. The same can be said in The Burial of the Rats where the inability to articulate a boundary between animality and humanity becomes the same thing that pervasively haunts the characters in the story. Here, the vermin and the humans become "relationally entangled" as Donna Haraway puts it and I argue that the notion of entanglement here is precisely what makes the "anthropological machine" gothic in the stories. I also suggest that what makes the representations of animals horrific is the possibility that the caesura between man and animal is non-existent.


Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to analyse and understand the contemporary management of electronic identification (e-ID) development to: identify and formulate challenges and reflect upon th ...


This work demonstrates the facilities offered by density functional theory (DFT) to calculate the molecular structural and spectral properties of tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP) and its derivatives, namely, di-n-butyl phosphate (HDBP) and mono-n-butyl phosphate (H2MBP). The computed parameters including frontier molecular orbitals and HOMOLUMO transitions indicated the TBP has the lowermost total energy with a lager HOMOLUMO energy bandgap followed by HDBP and H2MBP. These outcomes in terms of reactivity and stability were reversed counting their dipole moments. The simulated spectra of FTIR and Raman suggested these techniques could be considered as powerful for qualitative analysis of these compounds.


In 2015, the Electronics Engineering degree programme at Aarhus University School of Engineering in Herning decided to offer an online learning option concurrently with providing traditional classroom instruction. Following this initiative, the student intake increased significantly, primarily because the programme appealed to a completely new target audience. With the online opportunity, it was decided to implement the 'flipped classroom' approach into both online and on-campus teaching, meaning that online students were able to join the classroom teaching synchronously and asynchronously. Moreover, Insights Discovery Personal Profiles were introduced, and based on their profiles, the students were divided into online/on-campus teams with all colour energies represented in each team (blue, red, green and yellow). In addition, the students' practical skills were taken into account, making sure that at least one person in the team had vocational training. To enable online students to communicate with each other and the lecturers, an e-learning platform via Adobe Connect was established. At semester start, the online students attended an introductory course, where they were introduced to the learning platform and could meet their fellow students. However, despite these initiatives, a high dropout rate of online students enrolled in the study programme in 2015 was observed. Personal conversations with the programme mentor have shown that one of the factors influencing the online students' decisions to drop out is their full-time job; having a full-time job while studying full time is very time-consuming. Another reason for the student dropout is a feeling of disconnection with their fellow students and the campus environment. Consequently, various strategies to motivate and retain the students were implemented with the 2016 intake. Potential students were invited to a clarifying conversation, where it was specified how many hours a week the student is expected to study. Here, the issue of the work-family balance was also addressed. This 'screening' has certainly made it clear to the students what is expected of them. In addition, we have seen a decrease in students with fulltime jobs who, thus, are able to join the teaching synchronously, engaging them much more directly. This, combined with a new strategy of forming mixed teams of online and on-campus students, has boosted the student life satisfaction significantly and improved the online students' interaction with oncampus students. Today, online students take much more responsibility, as they also want the oncampus students to be successful. Conversely, on-campus students now feel more responsible in that they must ensure that the online students do not feel isolated, e.g. by providing them with information and electronic devices that they need to complete a project at home or via the mobile kit 'Lab-in-abox'. Since September 2015, 11 out of 14 online students have dropped out the study programme, i.e. a dropout rate of 79%. Compared to this, the dropout-rate of the online students enrolled in September 2016 with the implemented new strategy, has been reduced to 43% (10 out of 23).


As THE EAV A INCREASES IN POP ULARITY, we have been working hard towards putting the whole Journ al online, rathe r than just a selection from each issue. We've had to change many of our systems an d we're nearly there keep watching in early 2002 . In the print Journ al we have continued ou r highly successful MJA Practice Esseruiais series with N eurology and begun a new ser ies, Clinical Eth ics. We have also published an exhaustive series on the current S[3ruS of evidence-based medicine in Australia, three supplements (SPHERE: A National Depression Project, Lipid M anagement Guidelin es 2001, and M anaging Arthritis) and th ree special issues devoted to the C entenary of Federation, G eneral Practice, and D eath and D yin g). T he 12 months fro m I Ju ly 2000 to 30 June 200 1 kep t us very busy, with 873 manuscrip ts (85 more than the year before) and 4 19len ers (an increase of 44) . OUf overall acceptance rate for all submissions (including commissioned items) was 59% (accepted after an average of 98 days, which includes th e tim e taken for peer review and revision), bu t, for research art icles, the acceptance rate was only 19% , TI le avera ge time ta ken to reach a decisi on to reject a manu script was 24 days, M ay was the most popular month for submissio ns (148) and D ecember the least (69), The Journ al couldn't func tion without the assistan ce of our ded icated reviewers, listed below, to whom we are extremely grateful. Our Con ten t Review Committee wor ks part icularly hard we extend special thanks to two long-serving members, Chr is D el M ar and Lindsay G rayson, who will be relinquishing the ir posts at the end of th is year. Wishing you all th e best for the festive season. Bronwyn Gailt


With the increasing demand for express delivery and enhancement of sustainable logistics, the collaborative multi-depot delivery based on electric vehicles has gradually attracted the attention of logistics industry. However, most of the existing studies assumed that the products required by different customers could be delivered from any homogeneous depot, ignoring the limitations in facilities and environment of depots in reality. Thus, this study proposed a novel collaborative multi-heterogeneous-depot electric vehicle routing problem with mixed time windows and battery swapping, which not only involves the multi-heterogeneous-depot to meet different customer demands, but also considers the constraints of mixed time windows to ensure timely delivery. Furthermore, a customer-oriented multi-objective optimization model minimizing both travel costs and time window penalty costs is proposed to effectively improve both delivery efficiency and customer satisfaction. To solve this model, an extended non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II is proposed. This combines a new coding scheme, a new initial population generation method, three crossover operators, three mutation operators, and a particular local search strategy to improve the performance of the algorithm. Experiments were conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in solving the proposed model.


The electronic structure of both Ce and U heavy fermions appears to consist of extremely narrow, nearly temperature-independent bands (i


SUBTITLE: THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF JIT HAVE CHANGED DRAMIATICALLY IN THE RECENT PAST. REDUCING INVENTORY FOR ITS OWN SAKE MAY BE COSTING YOU MORE THAN YOU REALIZE.


2002, p.10; Whelan, 2015). Whether at home or abroad, despite much disruption, they adapted to prevailing circumstances particularly when technological disruptors enabled efficient transnational postal systems from the 1880s on. Specifically, they used food parcels to friends and family as a means of support and relief, either from America to post Famine Ireland, or from a new Irish State emerging from civil and economic war to an embattled Britain, both subsisting on rations. Food was a foil for community building and socialising, a means of expressing their Irishness and personal identities, and adding to the quality of life of distant relatives and friends (Mulcahy, 2014, p.161). The food parcel, therefore, came not only with food for tomorrow, but also as nostalgic gastronomy (Slocum, 2011, p.308), fused with hope, renewal and a sense of solidarity.


: Cancer is a complex multistep process involving tremendous changes at molecular and cellular properties of a cancerous cell. One of the main characteristics associated with the tumor cells include preferential use of glycolysis over oxidative phosphorylation to meet the high energy needs. This process is observed even in the presence of ample oxygen to fuel mitochondrial respiration and is considered to be the root cause of tumor growth and a potential hallmark of cancer. It has been found that tumor cells shows increased glycolytic capacity than normal cells and produce lactate rather than pyruvate in the process. During cancers, the expression levels of glycolytic enzymes are increased and different mechanisms like increased transcription or altered post-translational regulation has been proposed. Since hypoxia is a well known model in cancers and therefore role of cap-independent translation cannot be ignored. Furthermore, elucidation of the underlying reasons behind the increased expression of glycolytic enzymes in cancer will help us to better understand and cure cancer. This review focuses on the possible role of cap independent translation in mediating increased expression of glycolytic enzymes in cancers.


In order to increase the efficiency of the entire container terminal,an interger programming and heuristic algorithm(hill-climbing algorithm) is used which makes the yard crane scheduling and storage space allocation an entire system.A case study on a certain container terminal yard in Shanghai is used for system illustration via a simulation approach,and then the effectiveness and usefulness of the model and algorithm are verified.


: The design of piled raft is based on the soil-structure interaction between the constituting elements  , however, the piled raft subsoil interaction problem is highly complicated as it depends on large number of parameters like pile-raft geometry, pile spacing, subsoil type etc. The behavior of piled raft and various aspects of behavior relating to the load settlement and the load sharing response have been studied by various researchers. However it appears that the phenomenon of the interaction between the constituent elements has not been studied in detail. It was noted by some researchers that the main parameter that influences the response of piled raft system is its stiffness. But the stiffness of a piled raft system depends on the elements in the system. The elements of the system are the soil, piles, superstructure and the raft. The stiffness of a piled raft system is governed by individual stiffness of the elements, thus, the parameters that should be studied must be identified accordingly. Moreover, it was observed that the ratio of piles to raft area has important influence on load sharing of piled raft component, therefore, the intended task of this paper is to study the relation between piles-raft area ratio to the load-sharing between the piles and the raft, as most of the researchers failed to understand the relationship between them and then found out the specific relation. The total number of cases solved is (15) using the finite element method in this study and develop a numerical model to predict the load-settlement relationship and load sharing between the piles and the raft of the piled-raft foundations. The result of the analysis using the Plaxis to follow up load sharing of piled raft component through varying the spacing and number of piles for the piled raft of piles length of (30m) and raft width (20 m) at soil of (Cu = 60 kPa) . Again similar analysis is repeated on the same previous case, but now using piles length of (40 m ) and (60 m) to study the relation between piles-raft area ratio to the load-sharing between the piles and the raft as the piles length is increased. It was observed that the ratio of total piles area to raft area has important influence on load sharing of piled raft component. The piles load sharing varies from (15%) at piles-raft ratio of about (1 %) corresponding to pile spacing of (7D) to (42%) at piles/raft ratio equals to (7%) corresponding to a closely pile spacing of (3D) which means that the piles are taking more loading share and there is a tendency to behave as a mere piled system as the spacing between piles is reduced. Moreover , it can be deduced that a wider spacing of piles (5D) to (7D) will be the optimum spacing for the performance of the piled raft system with regards to the load distribution among the components of the piled raft system, but the system total load is lower when compared to that of closely spacing piles (3D), so that , a low ratio of piles tip load sharing and this share is further reduced with increasing piles length which supports the fact that the piles in the weak clayey soils behave as a floating pile which leads to neglect end bearing capacity in calculating the total pile load capacity.


Beginning with Ronald Reagan in 1982, U.S. presidents have typically given a radio address every Saturday morning designed primarily to make news in the Sunday newspapers and on the Sunday news programs. A content analysis of the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1982 to 2005 shows that coverage of the presidents' addresses has diminished over time both in terms of the percentage of radio addresses covered and the number of paragraphs directly citing the president. Positive predictors of coverage include presidential approval ratings and a foreign-policy topic. Negative influences on coverage include the number of addresses given by all presidents since Reagan, indicating a decreasing lack of novelty, and whether the speech occurred in an election year.


Migraine is a chronic neurovascular disorder with a multifactorial aetiology. A strong relationship links migraine with aura (MHA) and patent foramen ovale (PFO), with migraine regression after PFO closure. Increased platelet aggregation and oxidative stress were documented in migraineurs. Current guidelines suggest the use of aspirin or P2Y12-antagonists. To date, however, no clear mechanisms connecting MHA to PFO has been demonstrated.

 To perform a comprehensive analysis of platelet activation, inflammation and oxidative stress status in 78 aspirin-treated MHA-patients before (T0) and 6-months after (T1) PFO closure (LEARNER Study-NCT03521193-clinicaltrials.gov). Primary endpoint was migraine regression rate in relation to these parameters.

 P-selectinpos-, activated-glycoproteinIIbIIIa (aGPIIbIIIa)pos-, Tissue Factor (TF)pos-, reactive oxygen species (ROS)pos-platelets, platelet-leukocyte aggregates (PLA) and microvesicles (MVs) were evaluated by flow cytometry; thrombin generation (TG) by Calibrated Automated Thrombogram (CAT) assay; oxidative stress status by mass spectrometry. Twelve aspirin-treated-healthy subjects (HS) were enrolled for comparison. To test the effect of PFO patients' plasma on platelet activation, blood from HS was plasma-depleted and replaced with a pool of plasma from PFO patients.

 Migraine resolution occurred in 69.7%, significant reduction in 27%, while no effect was observed in 2 patients (3.2%). Only ROSpos-platelets, and TFpos-platelets and -MVs were significantly higher at T0, sustaining a TG capacity that was associated with an altered blood GSSG/GSH (Oxidized/Reduced Glutathione) ratio. This phenotype reverted to HS levels at T1 (Fig. 1). MHA-PFO plasma, added to HS blood, mirrored the in vivo platelet activation and N-acetylcysteine blunted it. In vitro GSSG treatment of HS platelets reproduced the in vivo condition. Aspirin had little effect on the platelet prothrombotic phenotype which was effectively inhibited by a P2Y12-antagonist (Fig.2).

 MHA-PFO patients show a platelet-associated prothrombotic phenotype, characterized by a marked thrombin generation capacity sustained by an elevated number of platelets and MVs expressing a functionally active Tissue Factor and sustained by altered oxidative stress status. This phenotype, not fully controlled by aspirin but by P2Y12-antagonism, reverted after PFO closure together with a complete migraine remission.

 Type of funding sources: Public grant(s) – National budget only. Main funding source(s): Italian Ministry of Health


Cases of domestic violence that occur in Indonesia have increased every year, one of the causes is due to the patriarki culture that is still inherent in society, where men are considered superiority over women. This condition makes women vulnerable to become victims of domestic violence. Other conditions that cause a person to accept violence are caused by economic, educational, socio-cultural, infidelity, and third-party interference. This article aims to provide an overview of non-psychological conditions that affect the acceptance of violence in victims of domestic violence by using the method of literature study as well as the approaches that can be done by counselors discussed further.


The thermal conductivity of n-type nanocrystalline bismuth-telluride-based thin films (Bi2.0Te2.7Se0.3) is investigated by a differential 3ω method at room temperature. The nanocrystalline thin films are grown on a glass substrate by a flash evaporation method, followed by hydrogen annealing at 250 °C. The structure of the thin films is studied by means of atomic force microscopy, x-ray diffraction, and energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy. The thin films exhibit an average grain size of 60 nm and a cross-plane thermal conductivity of 0.8 W∕m K. The in-plane electrical conductivity and in-plane Seebeck coefficient are also investigated. Assuming that the in-plane thermal conductivity of the thin films is identical to that of the cross-plane direction, the in-plane figure of merit of the thin films is estimated to be ZT=0.7. As compared with a sintered bulk sample with average grain size of 30 μm and nearly the same composition as the thin films, the nanocrystalline thin films show approximately a 50% redu...


The throwing athlete's shoulder is unique in many ways. The forces generated in the rotator cuff are extreme and can lead to injury due to either compression or tension. The evaluation of the thrower's shoulder must take into account the abnormalities inherent to these athletes. The information presented here represents our approach to throwers and the rotator cuff problems which are commonly encountered. Of particular importance is the attempt to treat every thrower conservatively. Only after failure of conservative measures will surgical intervention be considered. At the time of surgery, efforts are directed at not only relieving pain but also correcting any underlying pathology as it relates to pathologic laxity.


Motivated by the practical needs of simulation-based optimization, this paper considers a problem for selecting the best feasible design from a finite set of alternatives, subject to stochastic constraints given in several secondary objectives. We propose an efficient ranking and selection procedure that maximizes the accuracy of the selection under a limited simulation budget. The proposed procedure sequentially updates the simulation data of designs with a heuristic policy that allocates further simulation replications according to the evaluation results of data based on a statistical hypothesis test. Compared to recent studies, such as OCBA-CO and SCORE, this procedure can be more efficient when the simulation model involves large stochastic noise because its heuristic policy considers the precision of the sample mean ignored by the previous studies. Several experimental results of benchmarks demonstrate its improved efficiency, and a case study on the design of military network system shows its effectiveness for practical problems.


The production of soybeans in the state of Santa Catarina is quite significant in the national context, since the state is recognized for producing seeds with high standards of physiological quality, due to the use of modern technologies and favorable climatic conditions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the physiological quality of soybean seeds produced by major companies in the state of Santa Catarina, analyzed in three seasons: harvesting (reception at UBS), after processing and at the time of sale. The experiment was conducted in the state of Santa Catarina, in the main regions and companies producing commercial soybean seeds: Xanxere (companies A, B and C), Abelardo Luz (companies D and E), and Campus Novos (companies F and G), in addition to Canoinhas, which was evaluated with a single producer (company H). Data analysis and interpretation of the results showed that the soybean seeds produced in different regions have adequate quality for sowing and germination within the standards required for marketing, except the BRS 295 cultivars and Don Mario 7.0i company "F".


The invention of semiconductor heterostructures and superlattices has enabled the discovery of novel low-dimensional phenomena such as quantum confinement, Bloch oscillations, and the fractional quantum Hall effect, in turn leading to technological breakthroughs in areas as diverse as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), quantum cascade lasers (QCLs), and quantum-well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs) [1]. Remarkably, all of these developments were based on structures having isovalent interfaces, such as IIVI/II-VI (e.g., CdTe/HgTe), III-V/III-V (e.g., GaAs/AlAs), or IV/IV (Si/Ge). However, the wide diversity of substrates that are commonly used makes it challenging to achieve monolithic device integration. Furthermore, lattice parameter mismatch at these interfaces invariably causes structural defects during epitaxial growth. These defects become a serious problem when attempting to optimize materials quality, while electron and hole traps associated with these defects are likely to have negative impact on electronic properties. One possible approach that could alleviate lattice mismatch issues is to combine II-VI and III-V compound semiconductors having the same zincblende-cubic crystal structure and similar lattice parameters. This study describes TEM characterization of several II-VI/III-V heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) with different growth parameters and structural designs. Cross-section samples suitable for TEM observation were prepared using standard mechanical polishing and argon-ion milling techniques, with the samples held at liquid-nitrogen temperature to minimize artefacts. All images were recorded with a Philips-FEI CM200 FEG TEM operated at 200 keV.


This paper measures the efficiency of China' s 14 major commercial banks and compares them with top 100 banks across the world by the model of SFA taking commercial environment differences into account.The result shows that the mean values of efficiency of China' s banks are lower than those top 100 commercial banks during 2001 - 2007,while come close or even outstand them since 2008.The paper further analyzes the factors that lead to efficiency differences between domestic and foreign banks and the turnover.The turnover is mainly due to the improvement of business structure,profitability and assets management quality,as well as stronger economic growth.


Lag redundancy describes the number of times a given spatial lag is measured by an array. For sparse arrays, the reduction of lag redundancies is generally desirable for lowering cost and processing overhead. However, as lag redundancies determine the natural weighting function of an array's spectral estimates, the pattern of redundancies dictates the natural beam pattern of a given array. We consider the impact of array sparsity on sidelobe level and array gain in both weighted and unweighted conventional beamforming. This analysis is then applied to co-prime arrays, for which redundancy patterns can be determined based solely on the choice of array length and co-prime factors. It is also shown that the spatial positions of lag redundancies are semi-regular, a desirable feature for sampling some complex environments.


It has been ascertained that there are stray-load higher harmonic component losses of active power and energy in power transmission lines of 110 kW under conditions of high current distortion. In many cases the stray-load losses form a part of main losses but they are not considered at calculation of power process losses. The authors have made a conclusion that the stray-load current harmonic component losses of active power and energy should be calculated for each concrete line on the basis of tool survey of duty parameters and confirmed as process losses.


A statistical processing method is considered for interference suppression in W-CDMA systems. The major first-order statistic of interference, namely, the pdf function is estimated by use of higher-order statistics (HOS) of the received samples. This estimate, in turn, leads to deriving the best non-linear processor of the samples for enhanced detection performance of the desired user. A mathematical model for the process is presented and the relative asymptotic efficiency of the detector with respect to the conventional linear detector is computed. Some numerical results are also provided to show the achievable enhancement by the proposed nonlinear processing as applied to UMTS-based receivers.


3D technology has significantly been improved during the last few years, especially in OpenGL library which enable programmers to create 3D shapes easily in some applications. This technology can be applied for virtual reality. In order to implement real elements into virtual simulation, some features to be considered are graphic quality, sound quality, user ability to interact with applications, controls, and algorithms to support virtual simulation, such as collision detection. In this work croquet is used to create an interactive virtual museum. In this virtual museum, users can interact with certain objects, such as museum door, manuscript, and lift. Our virtual museum is enhanced with animated object. We also added collision detection mechanism to prevent avatar from penetrating objects. This application was tested by ten users. They appreciated the overall quality of the museum, and satisfied with the interaction of the simulated objects, as well as with the result of the collision detection.


A cursory review of literatures shows a void in regional patterns analysis of rural livelihood in the sub-Himalayan West Bengal, India. Therefore, this study has attempted to examine the regional pattern of multidimensional rural livelihoods (assets, accessibility, health and education) in the study area. The study has attempted to look at the various determinants that make a region different from others in the same geographical space in terms of livelihood practices and household well-being. The study has applied a mixed research method, that is, Principal component analysis (PCA), household well-being indicator approach, multiple regressions, and focus group discussions (FGDs). The community blocks of the study area are found to be differently endowed in terms of different assets. The results show that marginalised castes and non-Hindu households have a relatively lower well-being score than the other households. The results suggest that daily work opportunities and an increase in the number of casual labourers positively impact the generation of decent and sustainable livelihood. It also shows an increase in the household well-being score to occupation groups such as businesses and salaried jobs. However, collection of sandstone and other construction materials from the river bed is emerging as a new source of livelihood.


A 53-year-old Bolivian male, who was otherwise healthy, presented with a 3 week history of night fever up to 38oC and intense lower limb myalgias without other associated symptoms. He had been livi...


Dear Editor, a recent paper by Margina et al. has shown that quercetin and epigallocatechin gallate induced a dose-dependent increase of membrane anisotropy and polarization in U937 monocytes and Jurkat T lymphoblasts, suggesting that anisotropy increase was correlated with the reduction of lipid peroxidation (Margina et al. 2012). This property has been reported also for erythrocytes. In mice, the treatment with the bioflavonoids quercetin and diquertin on the physical work capacity, oxidant and antioxidant status of organism, and hemorheological parameters and deformability of erythrocytes have been studied under conditions of chronic physical overstrain provoked by sequential extraordinary running load. Both bioflavonoids significantly increased the physical work capacity of animals and prevent from the development of physical overstrain syndrome (Tipikin et al. 2011). Phenolic extracts from two monofloral Cuban honeys, rich in lipophilic compounds, were shown to possess the ability to inhibit 2,20-azobis(2-methylpropionamidine) dihydrochloride (AAPH)-induced oxidative damage (hemolysis, lipid peroxidation and cytosolic depletion of reduced glutathione and decrease of superoxide dismutase activity) in erythrocytes (Alvarez-Suarez et al. 2012). Polyphenolic components showed an important total antioxidant capacity measured by trolox-equivalent antioxidant capacity assay (TEAC) and oxygen radical absorbance capacity assay (ORAC) assays, as well as a relevant radical scavenging activity performed by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. In this study, about a dozen of phenolic compounds were identified using HPLC-LC/MS with quercetin as the most abundant flavonoid (Alvarez-Suarez et al. 2012). A possible target in this mechanism might be phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K). Some recently reported evidence has shown that 4hydroxy-2-nonenal (4-HNE) is a major lipid peroxidation product in the retina and the retinal pigment epithelium. When cultured ARPE-19 cells were treated with different concentrations of 4-HNE and a PI3K inhibitor, LY294002, the transcriptional activity of NF-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) and GSH increased in a dose-dependent manner (Chen et al. 2009). The modulatory subunit of GCL was up-regulated by 4-HNE, while antioxidant responses were largely abolished by pretreatment with LY294002; furthermore, the modification of Hsc70 by 4-HNE was increased when PI3K was inhibited (Chen et al. 2009). LY294002 shares many hallmarks with quercetin (Walker et al. 2000), thus rendering this speculative suggestion a possible next issue for research. The activity of quercetin on PI3K may be ruled by hormetic mechanisms and biphasic action, as previously described (Chirumbolo et al. 2010). However, the counteracting action of quercetin on lipid peroxidation is shared by other phenolics, such as catechins (Kalender et al. 2012). In a more general way, lipid peroxidation is the process of oxidative degradation of polyunsaturated fatty acids and its occurrence in biological membranes causes impaired membrane fluidity and inactivation of a several membrane-bound enzymes. Malondialdehyde (MDA) is one of the major oxidation products of peroxidized polyunsaturated fatty acids, and thus increased MDA content might be considered an important indicator of lipid peroxidation (Demir et al. 2011). The effort to comprehend quercetin targets within intracellular signaling represents a main task for researchers who are trying to elucidate the anti-peroxidative effect of the flavonol. Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) catalyzes the rate limiting reaction of heme metabolism and plays critical roles in resistance to oxidative stress and other cellular functions. The enzyme HO-1 is involved also in ROS-mediated peroxidation. HO-1 is induced in response to various stresses but the signaling pathways involved remain incompletely elucidated. The HO1 induction is decreased by phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitors LY294002 and wortmannin (Zhang and Forman 2008). If the anti-peroxidative effect of quercetin is attributed to the inhibition of PI3K, the anti-oxidant action should be related to Nrf2 and GSH. The hypothesis is that PKCδ appears to regulate HO-1 induction via modulating Nrf2 nuclear translocation, while PI3K may work through targeting on downstream signaling molecules other than Nrf2 (Zhang and Forman 2008). This suggestion has been reported also for genistein. This flavonoid alleviated the increase of ROS and nitrotyrosine production induced by β-amyloid peptide 25-35 (Aβ25-35), and maintained bEND.3 cell redox state by increasing GSH level and GSH/GSSG. In addition, the flavonoid could reverse the down-regulation of total protein and mRNA expression of Nrf2, nuclear Nrf2, γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase (γ-GCS), phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) induced by Aβ25-35; while PI3K inhibitor LY294002 could attenuate the activation effects of genistein on Nrf2, especially on nuclear translocation. The potential mechanisms have been associated with the activation of Nrf2 signaling pathway by modulating PI3K activity (Xi et al. 2012). The anti-oxidant effect of quercetin and its ability to reduce lipid Gen. Physiol. Biophys. (2012), 31, 229–232


Celebrity culture has become a pervasive multi-million dollar industry. Our daily lives are saturated with media coverage of celebrities through magazines, newspapers, television news, talk shows, advertisements, and the internet. It is difficult to imagine a time before Hollywood, but by tracing the roots of modern celebrity, we can better understand this global phenomenon. By providing information on the changing status of the British monarchy, the growth of the media and advertising industries, the development of consumerism and by documenting advances in technology, I demonstrate that modem celebrity traces its roots to the reign of Queen Victoria. Show full item record


The Bronx River, located within the Hudson-Raritan watershed in southeastern New York State, is an urban watercourse affected by stormwater pollution and urban development. Four sites along the river were sampled to examine relationships between 15 environmental variables and 26 benthic metrics. Macroinvertebrate assemblages presented low diversity and were dominated by aquatic worms and midge larvae. Variation in environmental factors among sites coincided with significant differences among benthic metrics. Moderate recovery of macroinvertebrate diversity was observed downstream from an intact riparian corridor (The New York Botanical Gardens) which may be functioning as a disturbance buffer, increasing stream habitat quality within an otherwise urbanized and degraded watercourse.


This project aims to design a new portable Brain Computer Interface (BCI) headset that can be used by non-professionals (patients, caregivers) as part of BCI therapeutic applications in the home environment. The suitability of the design of the new headset under its operating conditions was evaluated through use of mechanical testing in Computer Aided Design (CAD) software and physical prototypes. Extensive use of CAD based design was used to create a novel testbed for future prototypes of BCI headsets. We present a solution for optimised hardware design of the BCI headset which incorporates existing electronic components (dry electrodes, portable amplifier, battery etc.)


No-one knows the long-term effects of the invisible waves that now surround and penetrate us every day.
They also appear in clinical therapeutics and diagnostics,however, and a GP, biomedical engineer, magnetic energy specialist,immunologist and consultant discuss the potential risks, benefits and clinical role of electromagnetic fields.


The invention provides a multi-coil wireless charger which comprises a transmitting coil array and a coil selector. The transmitting coil array is used for transmitting electromagnetic waves of specific frequency, and the coil selector is used for enabling a certain transmitting coil in the transmitting coil array. The multi-coil wireless charger has the advantages that the problem of lowering of charging efficiency due to misplacement between the transmitting coils of the wireless charger and receiving coils in a portable electronic product is solved.


The following short afterword is an associative musing around the question of the place of hating and violence in the gendering of the artist and analyst.


Drought (water stress) is one of the most important environmental stresses and occurs for several reasons, including low rainfall, salinity, high and low temperatures, and high intensity of light, among others. Drought stress is a multidimensional stress and causes changes in the physiological, morphological, biochemical, and molecular traits in plants. Water stress is considered as one of the most devastating environmental stresses worldwide as it has rendered large area of agricultural land unproductive around the globe. It is more likely that increasing population and changing climatic conditions will increase water scarcity, which will cause a further decrease in crop productivity in the world. Alterations in rainfall pattern and rising temperature are major causes of drought and have contributed an appreciable decline in maize productivity Current trends of climatic changes will increase water scarcity and will reduce maize productivity by 1530%. Globally maize is the third most important crop in the world. The main maize crop is generally grown as rained. In India, approximately 2.4 mha (~ 32.4%) of total maize growing areas is prone to face water or excess moisture stress. Mechanisms involved in plant tolerance to drought follow a general plan: maintaining cell homeostasis in water-deficit situations, which is possible by increasing the water inlet to the cells. Drought avoidance is other common drought resistance mechanism in annual plants. With this mechanism, escape from stress conditions is the main strategy for plant growth under drought conditions. Different strategic characters are improved by numerous biological approaches which enable the plants to escape, avoid, and tolerate the water stress. Screening of germplasm for assessment of tolerant variants, development of tolerant genotypes through conventional breeding, mutation breeding, molecular breeding, and transgenic approaches are possible options which are working and can further be employed for further improvement.


This paper deals with the development of highly sophisticated teaching environments. We took a look at the requirements that such a system has to fulfill to meet the needs of our modern society and to remain easily adaptable to forthcoming, new technologies. The results of our research show that the cost for design and implementation of a distributed teaching environment can be dramatically reduced by using a middleware system. We thereto present the concepts of the Dinopolis middleware system which is highly modular and extendable and show how it may be used as the basis for the development of teaching environments. Using the Dinopolis middleware system not only eases the process of development but also guarantees that new technologies are becoming available without any further effort.


: This study developed an ergonomic Korean female military winter jacket and (inner and outer) pattern in in order to increase dimension and operational suitability for military missions. First we developed the 1st development pattern and sample jackets with improved dimensions and operational suitability based on a previous investigation of fitness and motion suitability of Korean female military winter jackets (inner and outer) and motion suitability by a wearing test. The evaluation result of fitness for the 1st development pattern were over 4.0 (5.0 Likert scale) for both the inner and outer jacket, a positive result and the result of motion suitability were over 3.5 in both the inner and outer jacket except for the neck front part by collar height. However, we did not modify the collar height because decreases in warmth and military regulations. We also evaluated appearance by experts that showed good results in both the inner and outer jacket. Finally, we developed a final pattern based on evaluation results and military regulations. Existing military uniform research was conducted mainly on male soldiers. Beginning with this study, we expect to expand research on the development of military uniform patterns suitable for a female soldier body type.


We derive a priori interior Hessian estimates for special Lagrangian equations when the potential is convex. When the phase is very large, we show that continuous viscosity solutions are smooth in the interior of the domain. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


We present two siblings from consanguineous marriage, both with congenital glaucoma and seizure disorders with progressive visual impairment and blindness. The pedigree showed that five (one male and four females) of the eleven siblings have varied degrees of visual impairment to blindness with seizure disorders. To the best of our knowledge, familial congenital glaucoma with epilepsy has not been reported, hence the communication to highlight this unusual condition which could be an association or syndromic. Key words : Consanguinity, Familial, Congenital glaucoma, Epilepsy.


SOME MEASURES SUSCEPTIBLE TO IMPROVE THE LEVEL OF SERVICE OF URBAN TRANSPORT ARE PROPOSED: (1) ADAPTION OF WORKING HOURS AND HOLIDAY PERIODS WITH A VIEW TO DECREASING THE TRAFFIC DURING PEAK HOURS; (2) COORDINATION BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR URBAN TRANSPORT AND TRANSPORT IN GENERAL, IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE SIMULTANEOUS DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN ZONES AND TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE; (3) IMPROVEMENT IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; (4) INCREASE IN THE NUMBER AND IMPROVEMENT IN THE QUALITY OF ANCILLARY REQUIPMENT ON THE LINES AND IN STATIONS TO FACILITATE EXCHANGES BETWEEN DIFFERENT LINES AND TRANSPORT MODES; (5) RESTRAINT OF PRIVATE TRANSPORT BY SETTING UP PARKING SPECIFICATIONS AND BY CONTROLLING THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARKING GARAGES.


1,5-arabinan is an abundant structural feature of side chains of pectic rhamnogalacturonan-I which is a matrix constituent of plant cell walls. The study of arabinan in cells and tissues is driven by putative roles for this polysaccharide in the generation of cell wall and organ mechanical properties. The biological function(s) of arabinan is still uncertain and high quality molecular tools are required to detect its occurrence and monitor its dynamics. Here we report a new rat monoclonal antibody, LM6-M, similar in specificity to the published rat monoclonal antibody LM6 (Willats et al. (1998) Carbohydrate Research 308: 149-152). LM6-M is of the IgM immunoglobulin class and has a higher avidity for α-1-5-L-arabinan than LM6. LM6-M displays high sensitivity in its detection of arabinan in in-vitro assays such as ELISA and epitope detection chromatography and in in-situ analyses. Abbreviations Ara Arabinose BSA Bovine Serum Albumin Gal Galactose GalA Galacturonic acid EDC Epitope detection chromatography ELISA Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay mAb Monoclonal antibody PBS Phosphate-buffered saline Rha Rhamnose RG-I Rhamnogalacturonan-I


The article explores the poet Michael S. Harper's use of the darkroom as a metaphor for family history and African American identity. Acknowledging that the changes in photographic technology over the last decade have spelled the end of the darkroom as the actual workspace of the photographer and as valid, contemporary metaphor for the unconscious, the article describes Harper's 1977 selected poems, Images of Kin, as one of the last great invocations of this metaphor, and it further examines how this metaphor and its counterpart (the metaphor of the photographic negative) develop for Harper as ekphrastic models of composition.


In this paper we discuss issues related to speeding up parsing with wide-coverage unification grammars. We demonstrate that state-of-the-art optimisation techniques based on backbone parsing before unification do not provide a general solution, because they depend on specific properties of the grammar formalism that do not hold for all unification based grammars. As an alternative, we describe an optimisation technique that combines ambiguity packing at the constituent structure level with pruning based on local features.


The aim of the study is to see which factors are the most significant for the ability to reproduce the sequence of events during a rescue operation. The study shows that there are indications that the factors of stress, debriefing and operation complexity have an impact on how much of an event a person remembers. The study also shows that the team leader and rescue leader seem to overestimate how much they remember from the rescue operation. If the evaluation is based only on the narration of the team leader and rescue leader, important details might be forgotten. The current methods for evaluating and learning from rescue operations need to be developed in order to receive a correct picture of the operations. Using film cameras to evaluate and learn from a rescue operation is considered to be a good approach.


For the past four years we have collected and analyzed water from four sites each on the L'Anguille and St. Francis rivers from near Jonesboro in the north to near Marianna in the south. In 2002, we included four sites on LaGrue Bayou from just below Peckerwood Lake north of Stuttgart to near the mouth southeast of DeWitt. In 2003, we included four sites on the Cache River from near the level of Jonesboro in the north to just below I-40 in the south. During this period the most frequently detected compounds were molinate (Ordram), quinclorac (Facet), and clomazone (Command). Each year, most (71-87%) of the detections that were over 2 ppb were less than 5 ppb, but until this year there had been between one and three detections of a compound in the 30-50 ppb range. This year the highest detection was 13 ppb. Until this year, most of the detections each year came from the L'Anguille River with most of those coming at the two most upstream sites. This year most of the detections came from the Cache River. There is no trend for the overall frequency of detections over 2 ppb (9.2 % in 2000, 12.0% in 2001, 5.2% in 2002, and 6.2% in 2003).


The paper presents details of an experimental and numerical study of thermal strains and induced stresses in large-scale mass concrete. Three large-scale monoliths were built on a dam construction site in the James Bay Territory (Canada) to monitor the thermal behavior of mass concrete subjected first to heat of hydration development and subsequent freeze and thaw cycles. The monoliths were instrumented with thermocouples and mechanical strain gages.


Alternating copolymerization of ethylene and carbon monoxide was carried out using (dppp)Pd(OAc)2/anion complexes (dppp=1,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)propane) with various anions and solvents. Catalytic activity in a protic solvent (methanol) was found higher than that in an aprotic solvent (acetone). When p-toluenesulfonic acid (p-TSOH) was used as an anion, molecular weight and melting temperature as well as the catalytic activity, increased with an appropriate combination of methanol and acetone instead of each methanol or acetone. The type of anion and solvent seemed important for catalytic activity and polymer properties. Catalytic activity decreased due to steric hindrance of alcohol in the order, methanol>i-butanol>t-butanol. Polymer properties such as molecular weight, melting temperature and crystalline structure as well as catalytic activity were significantly affected by the presence of water.


Observation of SIMAK that in the process of operating the system is still experiencing obstacles such as data leakage which results in impaired agency performance, insufficient security and control to anticipate forms of fraud and illegal actions that result in large losses for information owners and uncontrolled access rights, so that a system the information used must have a guaranteed level of information security, including database security, hardware, software and human resources. Based on observations in SIMAK, the authors conclude to audit SIMAK so that they are documented and obtain audit evidence and evaluate it objectively. From the results of comparisons with other methods, the authors chose the ISO 27001: 2013 SNI standard as a standard for auditing the security of an information system and used as a reference to produce documents (findings and recommendations) which are the results of the SIMAK information system security audit at STMIK Mardira Indonesia. From the results of the study it was identified that the clause used was, Clause 5: Security Policy, the current SIMAK security policy is still not appropriate, Clause 7: Asset Management is still not appropriate to achieve and maintain appropriate protection of organizational assets due to the absence of a policy letter regarding asset management, Clause 9: Access Control so that there is no misuse of access rights and there are procedures for controlling access rights, Clause 15: Compliance has not been adjusted to the applicable academic regulations, and the time has been scheduled on the educational calendar is also the legal aspect of the software used. Keyword : IT services, SNI ISO/IEC 27001: 2013, SIMAK, Audit, Information security DOI : http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3929072


Blackflies are common biting insect pests following flooding in northeastern Australia, yet there have been few attempts to quantify the severity of an outbreak. Two tent‐trap designs and human‐bait collections were used to estimate the numbers of Austrosimulium pestilens Mackerras and Mackerras and A. bancrofti (Taylor) s.l. females seeking a blood meal following flooding of the Fitzroy River near Rockhampton in 1991. A statistical model was constructed to predict changes in the number of trapped, and presumably host‐seeking flies, and to generate an equation relating tent‐trap captures and human‐bait collections. Tent‐traps placed in the open collected five flies in 32 min, the equivalent human biting rate of about 1/min. We suggest this is a threshold level at which control measures should be introduced to reduce the threat to humans.


World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed of a novel coronavirus on the 12th January 2020, as the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, China. Even though the fatality ratio for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is comparatively lower than SARS, the transmission is greater. Therefore, Sri Lankan government requested the general public to practice proper hygiene methods and self-quarantine methods to safeguard from this disease. Quarantine Law in Sri Lanka is governed by the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance No 3 of 1897. Defence Forces of Sri Lanka played many roles in the fight against COVID-19 and this research is an overview of the contribution they have made towards battling the COVID-19 successfully. The purpose of this research is to identify the effectiveness of the measures taken by the Sri Lankan government and the tri forces to stop COVID-19 spreading, which will provide an example for other countries to follow on how to prepare, detect, and respond to similar outbreaks, which in turn will contribute towards Nations Branding. This research is a qualitative study mainly undertaken with content analysis of the information extracted from secondary data such as publications of the local and foreign governments, research reports from Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO), magazines, newspapers, TV programmes and websites. A few face-to-face and telephone conversations were also conducted with key personnel of the defence forces to obtain an in depth understanding and to clarify the accuracy of the results. The key contributions made by Sri Lanka Army (Army), Sri Lanka Navy (Navy) and Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) were identified in terms of its implications for Nations Branding and, recommendations are made which includes methods to adopt when dealing with COVID 19 in the future.


With the itaconic acid as dopant and ammonium persulphate as initiator,polyaniline(PANI)was synthesized under different temperatures by chemical oxidation polymerization.The productivity and conductivity of PANI were calculated and various performance indexes of PANI were measured.The electrical conductivity,chemical structure,UVvis spectra and morphology of PANI were respectively characterized by the resistance test,Fourier transform infrared(FTIR)spectroscopy,UV-vis spectroscopy and scanning electron microprobe measurements.The results showed that the low reaction temperature was in favor of slowing the rate of chain termination to make the polymer chain longer and charge carrier transfer easier so that the conductivity of products were excellent but too high reaction temperature can break the chain of products because of oxidation so that the conductivity of products were low.When the reaction temperature of polymerization is 10℃,the PANI had the highest conductivity of 1.29×10-2(S·cm-1)and the highest productivity of111.2%and the microstructure of PANI was nanorod.


In order to enhance the activity of praziquantel by modificationof its chemical structure,a number of the title compounds were synthesized.None of them was screened to possess pronounced activity against schistosomiasisjaponicum in mice.


TRIUMF — We calculate the energy per particle and pressure in neutron and nuclear matter based on chiral nucleon-nucleon (NN) and three-nucleon (3N) interactions. For this we derive an effective density-dependent NN interaction from the leading order (NNLO) 3N interactions by averaging one particle over occupied states of the Fermi sea. We study saturation properties of nuclear matter, pairing gaps in finite nuclei and infinite nucleonic matter and the impact of 3N forces on properties of neutron stars.


The Swedish Model on the labor market has been celebrated as a way to combine mobility with low unemployment and small wage gaps. As part of the model, relocation allowances were pioneered from the late 1950s. The program expanded thereafter and as much as 1% of the population in the high-unemployment north moved with assistance in the 1960s. Today, migration incentives are discussed to address pressing unemployment problems in Europe and the United States. What can Sweden's experience tell us about the prospects of such programs? This article studies the usage of relocation allowances through a case study of Västernorrland County from 1965 to 1975. The analysis shows that there was a strong selection into the program by younger persons, recent graduates and from sectors with good employment prospects. The experience from Sweden highlights the difficulty of implementing programs to induce migration for those with the highest risk of unemployment.


Abstract : The conference on Air Force Training for the 80s presented information on the impact of the all-volunteer force on changing concepts in Air Force training, on developments in Air Force simulation, and Air Force and industry views on contracting of training. This article is from the perspective of the Chief of the Operations Training Division of the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory at Williams AFB AZ.


Freshwater ecosystems are particularly susceptible to invasions by invasive non-native species (INNS) across a range of taxa, largely as a consequence of anthropogenic influences on these systems, with a number of ecological and socio-economic impacts. This chapter reviews freshwater invasive non-native species across the globe, focusing on fishes, invertebrates, floating macrophytes, and submerged macrophytes emphasising the knowledge gaps in particular that have resulted in biases inherent in assessments of freshwater invasions. These include an ecological bias because the majority of studies focus on terrestrial invasions; a geographical bias as most studies are focused on temperate northern hemisphere systems; and a taxon bias where fish invasions, populate the literature. This chapter highlights some of the approaches needed to survey, monitor, and manage INNS.