This study argues that the Iraqi poet ˛Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī (1926-1999) composed a group of poems that belong to metapoetry, that originated in the West, during the second decade of the twentieth century. To achieve its objective, the study falls into two parts. The first one functions as a background for the study's claim that some of al-Bayātī's poems are actually metapoetic because it investigates the poetics, the themes, and the literary devices of Western metapoetry as they manifest themselves in the works of such poets as W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), Wallace Stevens (1879-1957), and Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941). The second part turns to examples from al-Bayātī's work and compares some of his poems to the poems of Yeats and Tsvetaeva, with a special emphasis on the analogies between Stevens' "The Man with the Blue Guitar" and al-Bayātī's "The Nightmare," both of which invoke Pablo Picasso's painting "The Old Blue Guitarist" to explore their metapoetical concerns.


Instead of having natural wealth, Indonesia has large cultural diversities, religions, and ethnic groups. Kethek Ogleng dance is one of those cultural diversities, containing local wisdom values. Descriptive qualitative research design was implemented in this study, by using Kethek Ogleng dance as the research object. Kethek Ogleng dance was created by Sutiman, a man from Tokawi, Nawangan, Pacitan at 1962. The research result showed that the local wisdom values are attached into four elements: the dancer, the accompanist, the staging, and the story. First, the dancer represents simplicity, independence, hardworking, cooperation, gratitude, religiosity, sincerity, and patience. Second, the accompanist represents cooperation, solidarity, discipline, hardworking, and self-confidence. Third, the staging represents cooperation, solidarity, hardworking, discipline, and loving nature. Fourth, the story represents simplicity, compassion, solidarity, and religiosity. Keywords—local wisdom; Kethek Ogleng; dance; social


The present invention, (i) the step of oxidizing the surface of the substrate, (ii) a step of applying a composition comprising one or more ethylenically unsaturated compounds on the oxidation surface of a substrate, and (iii) the composition the cured, comprising the steps of forming a coating layer, to provide a method of imparting reduced by adhesion of biological material to the surface of the substrate.


At the Institute for Propulsion Technology of the German Aerospace Center (DLR),
the parallel simulation system TRACE (Turbo-machinery Research Aerodynamic Computational Environment)
has been developed specifically for the calculation of internal turbo-machinery flows.
The finite volume approach with block-structured grids requires the parallel, iterative solution of large,
sparse systems of linear equations. For convergence acceleration of the iteration, parallel preconditioners
based on multi-level imcomplete factorizations have been investigated.
Numerical and performance results of these methods will be presented for typical TRACE problems on parallel
computer systems, including multi-core architectures.


Microstructure,melting temperatures and wettability of three kinds of typical lead-free Sn-Ag-Cu solders,i.e.Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu recommended by JEIDA(Japan),Sn-3.8Ag-0.7Cu recommended by IDEALS(European Union) and Sn-3.9Ag-0.6Cu recommended by NEMI(USA),and the mechanical strength of solder joints of three kinds of alloys were investigated.Results show that there is no obvious difference among these three kinds of lead-free solders.However,Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu is the best one for the replacement of the traditional Sn-Pb solder for the sake of cost-effective consideration.


It is my great pleasure to introduce to you the fifth issue of 2018 featuring original research on treatment options and efficacy as well as biomarkers in depression. Dodd et al., review recommendations designed to ensure safety for patients with major depression and to aid in monitoring and management of adverse events during antidepressant treatment. Risk factors for pharmacotherapy vary between individual patients thus proper risk assessment prior to pharmacotherapy in addition to safety monitoring during pharmacotherapy is necessary in order to mitigate adverse events and to optimise benefits of treatment. Lima-Ojeda and colleagues review the neurobiology of depression. Depression is a complex disorder that involves structural and functional changes from early development. In those who are at genetic risk for depression, early stress factor can mediate the gene expression in addition to the genetic risk. Furthermore, evidence suggests that early endocrine and immune interactions have an important impact on monoamine function. Colle and associates investigated whether hippocampal volumes predict response to antidepressant treatment in patients with major depressive disorder. They found that non-responders had smaller hippocampal volume at baseline in comparison to those who achieved remission. The authors conclude that smaller hippocampal volumes predict lower response rates in antidepressant treated patients. Chang and associates investigated the heart rate variability (HRV) in unmedicated patients with major depressive disorder and the changes after treatment with agomelatine or combination treatment. They found a significant increase in high frequency (HF) HRV after agomelatine monotherapy, decrease in lowfrequency (LF) HRV and HF-HRV as well as an increase in LF=HF ratio after combination therapy. To conclude, clinicians should consider HRV effects when adding sedativehypnotics to agomelatine therapy. Kranaster et al., assessed the effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment on immune markers in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in patients with depression. It emerged that higher CSF levels indicating increased macrophage=microglia activation at baseline predicted a better treatment response to ECT. Their results that macrophages=microglia are involved in the pathophysiology of depression and that the efficacy of ECT may partly be explained by modulation of the immune system within the brain. Rossetti and colleagues made a genome-wide analysis to assess the immune-regulatory activity of the antidepressant agomelatine in response to an inflammatory challenge. Administration of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced transcription of several genes associated with immune and inflammatory pathways. Agomelatine modulated pathways related to antidepressant activity and was able to prevent the activation of genes induced by LPS. These results bring about the association between depression and inflammation, potentially revealing new targets for pharmacological treatment for depression associated with inflammation. In a brief report, Caldieraro et al., examined the association of a Val66Met polymorphism with serum levels of BDNF and inflammatory markers among patients with depression. Met allele carriers were found to have higher BDNF and lower TNF-a. Low BDNF and high inflammation in major depression may be influenced by the Val66Met polymorphism as the results suggest.


Dynamic mechanical relaxation processes, i.e. main (α) relaxation and secondary (β) relaxation, are important issues to understand mechanical deformation, atomic diffusion as well as glass transition phenomenon of metallic glasses. In current work, La68Ni15Al15Cu2 metallic glass was selected as a protocol glass system. Mechanical relaxation processes were probed by dynamic mechanical analysis. The effects of annealing at different temperatures were analyzed by Kohlrausch–Williams–Watts (KWW)-type equation. The Kohlrausch exponent β_KWW reflects the deviation from a single Debye relaxation, indicating the fact that dynamics in metallic glass are actually heterogeneous originating from the structural heterogeneity. The effects of thermal treatments were also discussed, which provides a potential solution to tune the relaxation behaviors in metallic glasses.


At first, MBO was widely applied in management of enterprises. This paper organically makes some characteristics of MBO and college management together to talk about the feasibility of MBO in college management.


The failure of a generator breaker to open often cannot be detected with traditional overcurrent schemes. Many tripping conditions of a generator breaker do not occur in conjunction with sufficient currents to allow reliable detection. Normal shutdown of a unit may include a sequence of events that makes it critical to detect that the generator breaker has failed to open properly. Potentially damaging motoring conditions may be experienced by the generator tied to the system through a failed breaker when the shutdown sequence is incomplete. Typically, the 52a breaker status is added in parallel with the overcurrent element in the breaker failure scheme to allow tripping based on breaker status in addition to overcurrent. While this may improve the scheme dependability significantly, it leaves a hole in the protection for a specific type of failure and introduces the opportunity of overtripping for other failures of the mechanical auxiliary switch and cabling. To avoid situations that may potentially cause costly damage requiring lengthy repairs or situations where avoidable system disruptions occur because of overtripping, the breaker failure scheme needs to reliably and securely detect the generator remaining tied to the system following a breaker open command without relying on the breaker status indication. This paper examines the design and implementation of a breaker failure scheme using a synchronism-check element in addition to the traditional overcurrent element. In this scheme, a failed generator breaker is detected by sensing the lack of slip between the unit and system that should be present if the unit separated properly. A review of current industry guidelines for breaker failure system design is used as a starting point. The paper then describes the improvements realized by the new scheme.


In order to analyze the antioxidant conversion rate of hydrogen peroxide as oxidant to make oxidation starch, and the change of starch crystallinity when mixing different amount of antioxidant, the determination of carboxyl content and X-ray diffraction analysis map have been analyzed by adding 5ml, 10ml, 15ml, 20ml, 25ml mix amount of oxidation starch respectively to starch and oxidizer. We can get the conclusion that the conversion rate of hydrogen peroxide is 0.062%.We know that crystallinity of 6 different oxidation starches reduced with the increase of oxidant amount. Confirm that the hydrogen peroxide have a weak influence on the crystallinity of starch.


SUMMARY Change is inherent in modern organizations. Various models that managers may follow in order to promote change within the organization were discussed. The change process should involve planning, two-way communication, participation by staff, and constructive feedback.


>HCl, and the order of grafting capabilities of differentmonomers grafted onto starch is MMA>AN>AM>AA. The structure and morphology ofgraft copolymers were studied with infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy.The size, shape and roughness of surface of the grafted starch granules are changed aftergrafting.


Electronic waste (E-waste) is today generated and disposed in large amounts worldwide. This has resulted in a global environmental issue due to E-waste containing various hazardous substances that ...


; Hang & Wang 2012). However, research in this field, and strategy process research stream, is limited, because most SDM studies focus on large organisations (De Castro Krakauer & De Almeida


Lignocellulose waste has great potential to be converted into value added products sustainably as it is readily available at low cost. The aim of this study is to examine the amount of glucose produced from coconut pulp and coconut empty fruit bunch using acid hydrolysis. Sodium hydroxide pretreatment is carried out at 70 o C using different concentrations of sodium hydroxide which are 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% v/v for a duration time of 2 hours. Optimum pretreatment is evaluated using Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) analysis. It is observed that optimum pretreatment is at 20% v/v sodium hydroxide. The optimum samples are then hydrolysed using concentrations of 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% v/v of sulphuric acid at different temperatures of 30, 50, 70 and 90 o C for 2 hours. Glucose concentration is analysed using an ultraviolet (UV) Spectrophotometer. The highest glucose concentrations obtained are 0.895 g/L and 0.550g/L for coconut pulp and coconut empty fruit bunch, respectively at 20% v/v acid concentration and a temperature of 90 o C.


contains two versions of the story of the Dragon of Tagaung (JRAS. October, 1917) apparently by different hands, and one of the authors has indulged largely in the common Burman amusement of inventing Burmese etymologies for placenames, most of which are probably not Burmese at all. There is internal evidence that the main version of the worldwide story of the dragon is at least not more primitive than that recorded in this Journal, for the Queen's seven husbands have grown into thirty-five ! Some of the variations, however, are interesting, especially the ruse resorted to by the prince for killing the dragon. The translator's commentaries on the manuscript might be very interesting. Perhaps they will appear in a future number. Mr. Stewart's next translations of Mon songs make one regret that he has not put on record the originals. The Journal can perform no more useful function than the recording-of valuable literature, which now exists only in the memories of the people and may soon be lost for ever. E. G. B.


Olfaction communication plays a significant role in maternal recognition of terrestrial mammals.Precocial species(ungulates) rapidly and selectively recognize and form bonds with their offspring by olfactory cues during the immediate postpartum period,which may be a sensitive period for establishing maternal recognition.Parturition experience,release of oxytocin and nitric oxide contribute to underlying the selective recognition of offspring within sensitive period.Contrast with precocial species,many studies have confirmed that establishment of maternal recognition is based on the familiarity from cohabitation with pups before weaning in altricial species(e.g.rodents).They can not rapidly develop a specialized maternal recognition and bonding with pups after parturition.Recognition between own and alien pups does not necessarily ensure discriminative maternal care.Experimental technique and standard of assessing recognition are critical for studying maternal recognition in rodents.Shortly after birth,mothers of primates,including humans,are capable of forming an early maternal recognition by the scent of their newborn infants.Processes of pregnancy and parturition induce a high state of plasticity of the olfactory system,which may facilitate maternal olfactory learning in mammals.It is also possible that hard-wired perceptual processes are involved in maternal recognition.


An equation describing the relationship between the research octane number (RON) and the 1H-and 13C-NMR is proposed. This equation relates the RON to the aliphatic, olefinic and aromatic hydrogen and carbon, respectively. To check this relationship 60 samples were investigated with RON values between 65 and 96. The fitting procedure yielded good agreement between the RON measured with the ASTM method and the RON calculated from both the 1H-and the 13C-NMR.


The article is devoted to analysis of some difficult and controversial problems of philosophy definition of the meaning of the terms rational and irrational. This article explores all options for defining evidence these concepts. The author hopes that this study will help in solving the pressing problems of philosophy.


Designing and margining SRAMs in new emerging technologies has become increasingly difficult due to an increase in variation and cache size. In the past, the length of the wordline (WL) pulse width was typically set by the read operation, due to its longer delay. However, in newer technologies it has been shown that in many cases the write operation is more limiting due to the high variability of the minimum sized PMOS device. Measuring the critical WL pulse width (TCRIT) of the write operation requires transient simulation which is more computation intensive, resulting in higher simulation times. In this paper we present a method for measuring write TCRIT which uses sensitivity analysis to provide a ~112X speedup over recursive statistical blockade. In addition, we observe that increasing the WL pulse width allows for a reduction in total cycle time. Using this information, we show that negative BL reduction is more effective at reducing TCRIT compared WL boosting as the cycle time is reduced.


On conventional vertical trees (VXTs) with a tubing hanger (TH) in the wellhead (WH), orientation of the VXT to the TH system is a complicated and expensive process. Leveraging patented technology, the tree to hanger orientation ring (THOR) and tooling were implemented to save CAPEX and OPEX while eliminating risks associated with conventional orientation solutions. An open-water tool installs an external alignment feature onto the wellhead, which is oriented with the tubing hanger already installed in the wellhead. The VXT then orients onto the wellhead with the help of this external alignment feature, resulting in correct orientation with the tubing hanger. This paper discusses the novel technology and its successful development and installation for a subsea project, which revolutionizes the VXT portfolio.
 Rapid development of THOR technology was required along with expedient project execution. Utilizing digital-twin design techniques such as finite element analysis and operator simulations, the operating life of THOR tooling was investigated in parallel with project engineering. The novel nature of the THOR required unconventional testing, which was performed in-house. Project execution plan was implemented for engineering and manufacturing to successfully build the production equipment on schedule. Comprehensive system integration testing was completed upon the first attempt. The system was deployed to staging facilities before being delivered offshore to the customer and installed subsea in stages during April 2020. Involvement of the operators and installation contractors during the development stage made THOR's first deployment attempt a major success with zero recorded nonproductive time, even during COVID-19.
 THOR technology reduces the number of components as well as the weight and size of the equipment. The novel THOR equipment can be run by a light intervention vessel rather than conventional equipment, which requires mobile offshore drilling units. The time spent to deploy the VXT system is also reduced, minimizing indirect supply-chain and field-service-related carbon emissions. This further enables reduced carbon emissions and overall carbon footprint of the entire project.
 The field-proven THOR technology is an evolutionary orientation technology that simplifies the installation operations for the vertical tree and tubing hanger. This technology maintains the robust conventional system configuration post installation and hence does not affect reliability of the VXT system.


For a star-shaped graph, we introduce special characters and study their properties. We decompose special characters into odd and even parts and study their evolution under reflections. We apply the obtained formulas to prove that the corresponding $*$-algebra have irreducible infinite-dimensional $*$-representations, if the graph contains an extended Dynkin graph as a proper subgraph.


Radical pimers are the simplest and most important models for studying charge transfer processes, and they provide deep insights into π-stacked organic materials. Notably, radical pimer systems with magnetic bi- or multistability may have important applications in switchable materials, thermal sensors and information storage media. However, no such systems have been reported. Here, we describe a new pimer consisting of neutral N -(n-propyl) benzene triimide ([BTI-3C]) and its anionic radical ([BTI-3C] -• ), which exhibits rare magnetic multistability. The crystalline pimer was easily synthesized by reduction of BTI-3C with cobaltocene (CoCp 2 ). The transition occurs with a 27 K-width thermal hysteresis loop in the range of 170-220 K, accompanied by a smaller 25 K-width loop at 220-242 K. The magnetic multistabilty was attributed to the slippage of the π-stacked BTI backbones and the entropy-driven conformational isomerization of the side propyl chains in the crystalline state during temperature variation. Our research demonstrated an unprecedented radical pimer showing magnetic multistability. The high diversity of the substituents on BTI provides great possibilities for designing multifunctional materials.


ARMSTRONG D. (1999) Hidden male unemployment in Northern Ireland, Reg. Studies 33 , 499-511. In recent years there has been growing research evidence in the UK to suggest that official unemployment figures do not accurately reflect the true extent of joblessness, mainly because they ignore aspects of economic inactivity such as long term sickness, early retirement and participation on government employment and training schemes. This paper examines the nature and extent of hidden unemployment in Northern Ireland and in different local areas within Northern Ireland. The paper shows that there are large numbers of people who do not appear in official unemployment figures but who, under plausible assumptions, ought to be considered to be part of the stock of unemployed. The results show that if the hidden component of joblessness is accounted for, total male unemployment in Northern Ireland is more than one-third higher than official figures suggest. ARMSTRONG D. (1999) Le chomage masculin deguise en Irlande ...


Abstract The extents of AMP, CMP, and UMP incorporation catalyzed by tRNA nucleotidyltransferase were examined under a variety of experimental conditions. At low levels of enzyme nucleotide incorporation into tRNApCpC, tRNApC, and tRNApX in the presence of both ATP and CTP led to the formation of the normal product, tRNApCpCpA. However, when ATP or UTP were present without CTP, tRNApCpA, tRNApCpU, or tRNApU were also synthesized. At high concentrations of tRNA nucleotidyltransferase, a wide variety of unusual tRNA molecules were made. These included molecules with AMP, CMP, or UMP in each, and sometimes all, of the terminal positions, as well as tRNA chains containing as many as 8 CMP residues. These altered tRNA molecules should prove valuable for elucidating the biological function of the -pCpCpA terminus of tRNA. Evidence is also presented that apparently homogeneous preparations of tRNA nucleotidyltransferase contain a poly(C) polymerase activity which utilized as substrates intact tRNA, rRNA, and tRNAs without complete termini. With rRNA as substrate, molecules containing as many as 40 CMP residues could be made. AMP and UMP were generally not added to rRNA, but in the presence of CTP, AMP residues could be incorporated. The properties of this poly(C) polymerase activity were similar to those of the CMP-incorporating activity of tRNA nucleotidyltransferase and differed from those of mammalian poly(C) polymerase suggesting that contamination of the enzyme preparation was probably not involved. A rapid procedure for the location of nucleotide residues added to RNA chains is also described.


The merger is considered to be the classic form of restructuring, in the opinion of some authors it represents a concentration of capital in order to survive. Unlike other forms of concentration, the result of merger is the creation of a new company with legal personality or assets to the companies in various forms of association.


Testicular measurements and daily sperm output (DSO) are important factors affecting reproductive capacity of stallions. In the present study testicular measurements of 10 Swedish half-blood stallions were determined (height, length, width and volume). Ejaculates were collected from each stallion once daily for 10 days to evaluate some important seminal characteristics: gel-free ejaculate volume, sperm concentration, percent progressively motile spermatozoa and total number of spermatozoa (TSN). The gel-free ejaculate volume was measured with a graduated cylinder, the sperm concentration was counted in a Burker chamber, the sperm motility was estimated in a phase-contrast microscope and TSN was determined by multiplying the gel-free seminal volume by the sperm concentration. Testicular measurements were as follows (left and right testis): height 7,5 cm and 7,8 cm, length 10,6 cm and 10,8 cm, width 6,5 cm and 6,6 cm, volume 278,2 cm3 and 293,8 cm3, scrotal width 12,3 cm and total testicular volume 572,0 cm3 . The gel-free ejaculate volume, sperm concentration and total number of spermatozoa decreased significantly whereas sperm motility slightly improved during the 10 days of sperm collection. TSN of ejaculates collected on days 8-10 were averaged to represent DSO (because the extragonadal sperm reserve was then stabilized). The DSO was calculated to 6,0x10 9. Scrotal width and DSO were correlated (r=0,82 p=0,003) as well as total testicular volume and DSO (r=0,87 p=0,001). These results give us valuable information on Swedish half-blood stallions that can be useful in the future breeding management.


Abstract : A simple method of simulating the variation in the amplitude of microwave signals from rocket-borne transmitters is presented. The technique reproduces signal changes caused by vehicle motion as well as those induced by plasma effects. The simulator uses a voltage controlled attenuator which is programmed to vary the output power of a test transmitter to produce the variations in signal amplitude which would be observed during a flight. An analog system which is suitable for variations of simple cyclical shape and a digital simulator which can reproduce changes of any complexity are presented. Use of the simulator before flight allows the dynamic behavior of a microwave link to be determined, permits optimum receiver and recorder parameters to be selected, increases operator confidence, and enhances flight test reliability. (Author)


BACKGROUND
Iron is an essential element for both plant productivity and nutritional quality. Improving plant iron content was attempted through genetic engineering of plants overexpressing ferritins. However, both the roles of these proteins in plant physiology, and the mechanisms involved in the regulation of their expression are largely unknown. Although the structure of ferritins is highly conserved between plants and animals, their cellular localization differs. Furthermore, regulation of ferritin gene expression in response to iron excess occurs at the transcriptional level in plants, in contrast to animals which regulate ferritin expression at the translational level.

SCOPE
In this review, an overview of our knowledge of bacterial and mammalian ferritin synthesis and functions is presented. Then the following will be reviewed: (a) the specific features of plant ferritins; (b) the regulation of their synthesis during development and in response to various environmental cues; and (c) their function in plant physiology, with special emphasis on the role that both bacterial and plant ferritins play during plant-bacteria interactions. Arabidopsis ferritins are encoded by a small nuclear gene family of four members which are differentially expressed. Recent results obtained by using this model plant enabled progress to be made in our understanding of the regulation of the synthesis and the in planta function of these various ferritins.

CONCLUSIONS
Studies on plant ferritin functions and regulation of their synthesis revealed strong links between these proteins and protection against oxidative stress. In contrast, their putative iron-storage function to furnish iron during various development processes is unlikely to be essential. Ferritins, by buffering iron, exert a fine tuning of the quantity of metal required for metabolic purposes, and help plants to cope with adverse situations, the deleterious effects of which would be amplified if no system had evolved to take care of free reactive iron.


a Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK; b Aalborg Thrombosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark; c Department of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Diseases and Electrotherapy, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland; d Department of Internal Diseases, Diabetology and Nephrology, Medical University of Silesia, Zabrze, Poland; e St. Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals, Whiston, UK Received: February 8, 2020 Accepted: February 17, 2020 Published online: March 20, 2020


We prove that if G is a graph of order at least 5k with k ≥ 2 and the minimum degree of G is at least 3k then G contains k disjoint cycles of length at least 5. This supports the conjecture by Wang [Australas. J. Combin. 54 (2012), 59–84]: if G is a graph of order at least (2d+1)k and the minimum degree of G is at least (d+1)k with k ≥ 2 then G contains k disjoint cycles of length at least 2d+ 1.


Serum rashes.?The most obvious and constant features of the symptom-complex are the skin eruptions, or serum rashes. The frequency of these is variously reported. Hartung,5 in 1896, with 4,358 cases, found a rash in 8*1 per cent, and with 2,601 cases in 11*4 percent. At the hospitals of of the Metropolitan Asylums' Board6 in 1896 there were rashes in 35'2 per cent of cases; while in the six years (1898 to 1903), as stated by Rolleston,10 the percentage of rashes in the hospitals of the same Board wras 45, 34*5, 42*6, 43*6, 47*46, and 44 8. Stanley,13 in 1902, writing on 500 cases, recorded


This paper investigates the secrecy performance of amplified-and-forward (AF) relay wiretap model by using energy harvesting (EH) and signal alignment technique. All nodes equipped with multi antennas play different roles in terms of source, destination, relay, eavesdropper and jamming node. The jamming node designs artificial noise based on signal alignment principle, and then transmits it to the eavesdropper with harvested energy. Due to different power limitations, we propose power allocation schemes called Local Power Constraints scheme (LPCS) and Global Power Constraints scheme (GPCS), which maximize the secrecy rate of the system and obtain better secrecy performance when compared with the non-EH scheme and the partial nodes power allocation EH scheme. Furthermore, we also analyze the effect of the energy harvesting on the secure degrees of freedom (SDOF) in the high signal-to-noise (SNR) region, and simulate the secrecy performance with convex optimization method by proving the convexity of the optimization problem. Results show that the proposed schemes outperform the compared schemes on the secrecy performance, and achieve more secrecy rate when the destination and the relay have more antennas.


To the Editor:— In the excellent and clear article concerning pathologic renal changes by Dr. J. P. Simonds inThe Journal. September 12, are two points concerning which I would appreciate further enlightenment: Dr. Simonds states that because of water loss from the blood in its passage through the glomeruli the osmotic pressure of the plasma proteins in the peritubular capillaries is higher than elsewhere and that the hydrostatic pressure of the blood in these capillaries is lower than the osmotic pressure; he then states that "water and solutes withdrawn by tubular reabsorption from the glomerular filtrate into the surrounding tissue spaces are quickly drawn into the peritubular capillaries by the increased osmotic pressure of the plasma proteins of the blood in these vessels." Admitting the first statement, I believe it requires some explanation for the second statement that solutes as well as water are drawn into capillaries because


A review of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) changes that appear most likely to affect reporting of pediatric services. All changes will be implemented on January 1, 2018.


The idea to synthesize diamond/beta-SiC nanocomposite films is to obtain films that posses a whole range of combined properties of diamond and SiC based on the application specifications. The nanocomposite film system is supposed to serve tribological, thermal barrier and electronics applications. In this paper, a brief review of the film system with regards to its synthesis, characterization and mechanical properties will be reported.


Laughing and crying, as behavioural components of emotional responses, are largely pre-programmed and stereotyped. Commonly, laughing expresses pleasant feelings but exceptionally, fits of laughter may precede stroke [1]. We report the case of a 41-year-old woman, without medical history, hospitalized for a sudden right hemiparesia. During the 20 min preceding the stroke onset, she experienced an involuntary, uncontrollable and improper fit of laughter without any feeling of joy but, on the contrary, an unpleasant feeling of anxiety. Initial neurological examination showed a right hemiparesis with homolateral facial involvement, hypoaesthesia and lateral hemianopsia, associated with hypophonia, reduced speech fluency and anomia ('manque du mot'). Several involuntary laughing episodes recurred during the first days. Cardiovascular and general examination was normal. Cerebral CT was initially normal. Diffusion MRI showed an ischaemic stroke in the left anterior choroidal artery territory (fig. 1). This diagnosis was confirmed by arteriography (fig. 2). Biological, cardiovascular and cervical artery investigations were normal. Clinical outcome showed an improvement of motor, visual and sensory signs and disappearance of involuntary laughing episodes after three days. Hypophonia and reduced speech fluency persisted for about 1 month.


Engineering complex software systems is a very delicate and challenging task, which involves a variety of technical, general non-technical, and context-specific nontechnical challenges. Getting better insight into the nature of these challenges is of paramount importance for aligning intended learning outcomes and didactical setup in software engineering capstone projects that aim at exercising and extending these competences. In order to obtain a fine-grained understanding of perceived challenges in capstone projects, this work presents results of a qualitative analysis of self-reports which students wrote as post-mortem documents after being part of such a capstone project. As a main contribution, the qualitative analysis substantiates results in earlier work that technical issues tend to be less challenging than non-technical ones, e.g., collaboration within the team and beyond, issues of project management and organisation, and methodological issues related to requirements engineering and effort estimation. In addition, the paper reveals challenges that might have been overlooked so far, e.g., project organisation (and not just planning), individual motivation, and individual deficiencies in setting or adhering to deadlines. Keywords-capstone project; software engineering; challenges; qualitative analysis.


Aberrations in epigenetic regulation at various levels, including DNA methylation, chromatin architecture, and regulatory RNAs, are often associated with, and significantly contribute in most carcinogenesis (Jones and Baylin, 2007; Baylin and Jones, 2016). Transcriptional dysregulation is another hallmark of nearly all kinds of cancers (Hanahan, 2022). Gene transcription is a complex process and highly regulated at various stages as well as at the post-transcriptional level (Corbett, 2018; Roeder, 2019). Epigenetic and transcriptional events often influence each other, e.g., DNA methylation and histone modifications regulate gene transcription, and transcriptional processes can modify chromatin architectures (Bonasio et al., 2010; Gibney and Nolan, 2010). Increasing numbers of evidence suggest epigenetic and transcriptional dysregulations play vital roles in carcinogenesis, including metastasis, aggressiveness, and recurrence of malignancies (Bradner et al., 2017; Hanahan, 2022). An in-depth understanding of both epigenetic and transcriptional processes and alterations in their regulations are needed to better understand tumor pathobiology and to improve clinical management (Figure 1). Epigenetic and transcriptional dysregulations also confer therapeutic vulnerabilities and remarkably, offer novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets (Gonda and Ramsay, 2015; Cheng et al., 2019; Lu et al., 2020; Vervoort et al., 2021). Genome-wide transcriptional control is often dysregulated in cancer. In this research topic, Parrello et al. discussed the possibility of targeting factors that control global transcriptional regulation. Li et al. discussed the dual roles of CBX7, a component of polycomb repressive complex, in cancer where it can either help in cancer progression by downregulating tumor suppressor genes or help cancer suppression by modulating cell cycle related proteins. CBX7 interacts with various regulatory RNAs, including micro RNAs, long non-coding RNAs, circular RNAs. Regulatory RNAs play a significant role in carcinogenesis, including chemo-resistance (Lan et al., Gareev et al., and Zhang et al.). Sun et al. showed that plasma-derived exosomal micro RNA, miR-2276-5p in glioma patients could serve as a potential diagnostic and prognostic marker. Transcriptomics based gene signatures are emerging as promising biomarkers in cancer (Jin et al. and Fang et al.). Epigenetic landscape is altered in cancer cells that results in transcriptional dysregulation. Various dietary components have ability to modulate epigenetic aberration (Fatima et al. and Raina et al.). Abbas et al. reported that maternal diet rich in omega-3 fatty acid can reprogram epigenetic and transcriptomic landscapes in F1 generation mice and provide resistance to breast cancer development. Pu et al. reported that methylation profiles of zinc finger genes, specially ESR1 and ZNF132, could be potential biomarkers for the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer patients carrying KRAS mutations. Another study by Gua et al. showed that APOA1 gene is downregulated by DNA methylation in Edited and reviewed by: Michael E. Symonds, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom


The optical properties of mixed crystals CdTe1−x−ySexSy and ZnTe1−x−;ySexSy are investigated by methods of far infrared spectroscopy. Different types of transformation of the vibrational spectra of these solid solutions with composition are found. The longitudinal and transverse optical vibration frequencies are calculated theoretically by means of a unit cell version of the random element isodisplacement model. The calculations are in satisfactory agreement with the experimental results. The reflection spectra peculiarities with mixed crystal disordering are discussed.

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Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) and Exercise (Ex) capacity (EC), chronotropic incompetence, measured by the % heart rate (HR) reserve achieved (%HR-reserve), and abnormal HR-recovery are known predictors of all-cause mortality (ACM). We examined the prognostic relationship of these three Ex variables for predicting ACM in diabetic patients (pts) undergoing Ex myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS). Methods: We studied 11,218 pts with no valvular disease and not on beta-blockers who underwent Ex MPS and were followed up for ACM for 3.2 ± 2.2 yrs. EC ≤ 7 METS was considered low. For %HR-reserve [(peak HR - rest HR) x 100/(220-age-rest HR)], Results: There were 1223 patients with DM. 445 patients died in the entire study. SSS, %HR-reserve, HR-recovery, EC, and DM status were all independent predictors of ACM (p 0.05). DM and non-DM pts had significant increase in annualized ACM with addition of Ex abnormalities in normal and abnormal SSS groups (all p≤ 0.05). Conclusion: In both DM and non-DM pts undergoing MPS, exercise variables of EC, %HR-reserve, and HR-recovery improve risk stratification for ACM. The presence of diabetes increases the risk of ACM for pts with normal MPS, but not for pts with abnormal MPS.


Background: Cardiomyopathy-like phenotype has been recently reported in adult zebrafish stressed by either anemia or doxorubicin. However, it still remains unclear whether gene-based manipulation in this emerging animal model can faithfully recapitulate cardiomyopathy phenotypes in mammals. Here, we aim to address this question by generating the first transgenic model for cardiomyopathy in zebrafish. Results: We generated a panel of three transgenic fish lines, including Tg(cmlc2:Tnnt2) that overexpress wild type Tnnt2 in the whole heart, Tg(cmlc2:Tnnt2c) that drive a C-terminal amino acid truncated Tnnt2 (Tnnt2C) in the whole heart, and Tg(vmhc:Tnnt2c) that drives Tnnt2c expression only in the ventricle. Upon overexpression of the Tnnt2C, but not the full-length control, in the heart caused reduced ventricular size but enlarged atrium. A same morphological phenotype was noted in Tg(vmhc:Tnnt2c). At the cellular level, we found significantly reduced size of cardiomyocyte and increased cell proliferation. The morphological remodeling is accompanied by hallmarks of cardiomyopathy including reduced cardiac function and myofibril disarray. Conclusion: Transgenic overexpression of Tnnt2C in zebrafish faithfully recapitulates unique cardiomyopathy phenotypes noted in both human patients harboring the similar mutation and mice transgenic models, underscoring zebrafish as a conserved vertebrate model for cardiomyopathy. Our study further suggested that the dysfunction of Tnnt2C in ventricle is primarily responsible for cardiac phenotypes, while the enlarged atrium is a consequence of a defective ventricle.


The difficulty of how to test large systems, such as the one on board a NASA robotic remote explorer (RRE) vehicle, is fundamentally a search issue: the global state space representing all possible has yet to be solved, even after many decades of work. Randomized algorithms have been known to outperform their deterministic counterparts for search problems representing a wide range of applications. In the case study presented here, the LURCH randomized algorithm proved to be adequate to the task of testing a NASA RRE vehicle. LURCH found all the errors found by an earlier analysis of a more complete method (SPIN). Our empirical results are that LURCH can scale to much larger models than standard model checkers like SMV and SPIN. Further, the LURCH analysis was simpler than the SPIN analysis. The simplicity and scalability of LURCH are two compelling reasons for experimenting further with this tool.


The photoelectric times of minima, available for the eclipsing binaries KO Aql, V566 Oph, AH Vir, AG Vir, 44i Boo B, RT And , SV Cam, Tv Cas, AT Lac and U Peg have been analysed to study their orbital periods. KO Aq1, V566 Oph, AH Vir, AG Vir and 44i Boo B show increase in their periods while RT And, SV CAm, TV Cas, AR Lac and U Peg exhibit decrease of period. Quadratic ephemeris for the primary times of minima for all the systems have been derived. The cause for the apparent secular change is conjectured to be the light-time effect, as no other mechanism seems appropriate to interpret the observed variations without difficulty. The need for future photoelectric observations of the times of minima and astrometric work for these systems is emphasized.


Cerebrovascular white matter lesion (WML) is a major subtype of cerebral small vessel disease. Clinical drugs are not available for WML. We investigated whether peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor‐γ agonist pioglitazone, with properties of vascular protection and antiinflammation, exerts beneficial effect in hypertensive WML rats.


In this paper, H-infinity controller is designed for doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) based wind energy conversion system (WECS). The controller's detailed design procedure is developed for the rotor side converter (RSC). The controller full order controller as well as reduced order controller are examined. The controller performance and tradeoff between robustness and performance is analyzed using singular value graphs. The controller is validated and tested using Matlab/Simulink® simulations. The controller is able to directly and independently control the stator active and reactive powers precisely. The H-infinity controller is found to be a feasible option for DFIG system, and has good potential to be implemented for other compatible systems.


This study confirmed depletion efficiency of nitrite when incubate lactic acid bacteria was isolated from commercial Chinese cabbage pickles (Baechu kimchi), pickled ponytail radishes (Chongkak kimchi), radish cube kimchi (Kaktugi) and pickled Wakegi (Pa kimchi) at temperatures of 15 o C and 25 o C. At 15 o C, lactic acid bacteria isolated from commercial kimchi depleted nitrite actively except Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides and Leuconostoc paramesenteroides. In particular, Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. dextrinicum and Leuconostoc lactis depleted nitrite by very actively without period adaptation in nitrite. Lactobacillus sake, Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus casei subsp. pseudoplantarum, and Lactobacillus coryniformis subsp. torquens depleted nitrite very actively after 1 day. L. mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides depleted nitrite relatively actively after 2 days pass. In contrast, L. paramesenteroides displayed very low nitrite depletion ratio compared to other species. At 25 o C, all lactic acid bacteria isolated from commercial kimchi did not need adapting period in nitrite, and depleted nitrite very actively except L. paramesenteroides. Also, all lactic acid bacteria except L. mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides and L. paramesenteroides nitrite of more than 90% after 1 day, and L. mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides depleted nitrite of more than 90% after 2 days. However, because L. paramesenteroides was not active even at 25 o


We apply convolutional neural networks to identify between malaria infected and non-infected segmented cells from the thin blood smear slide images. We optimize our model to find over 95% accuracy in malaria cell detection. We also apply Canny image processing to reduce training file size while maintaining comparable accuracy (~ 94%).


The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effects of social contribution activities perception between brand loyalty and marketing strategies. First, this thesis has reviewed that marketing mix 4P's(product, price, promotion, place) still influence on the brand royalty on smart-phone market. Second, this research examined that perception on social contribution activities is an important moderate variable between marketing activities and brand royalty. Also, this research found that moderating effect of social contribution activities perception is more significant at the high-perception group on social contribution activities than low-perception group. Finally, this study verified that product/price/promotion strategy and social contribution activities have effect on brand royalty depend on social contribution activities perception. Recently many businesses are using Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) as a strategic tool and also social interests on the effect of CSR are increasing. Therefore, this study reaffirmed by the CSR that affect customer brand loyalty, are expected to contribute to improve awareness of CSR activities.


This paper presents a microstrip patch antenna for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) applications. Coplanar waveguide feed is used to excite the radiator. The simple and compact geometry of the design is beneficial from the fabrication point of view. The paper further presents an analysis of changing substrates with the same design. The varying thicknesses of substrates also affect the results. The summarized report will help antenna designers for the choice of the substrate. Rigid and commercially available substrates can be applied in economical solutions. Semiflexible and flexible substrates are used in antennas for conformal applications.


A novel planar scissors monopole antenna for ultrawideband (UWB) communication is presented in this paper. Printed on a dielectric substrate and fed by a 50 microstrip line, a planar scissors monopole has been demonstrated to provide an ultra-wide bandwidth with voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) less than 2 with satisfactory radiation properties. Details of the antenna design and measured results are presented and discussed. Good agreement is achieved between the simulation and the experiment.


The conventional method of building frame analysis assumes that columns are resting on unyielding supports. In reality, the supporting soil strata deforms unevenly under the action of loads, which causes redistribution of forces in the frame members and stresses in the supporting soil media. In the past, many researchers investigated and emphasized the need of soil-structure interaction analysis. There may exist a situation where column(s) of a building are located near adjoining property line. In this situation, an eccentric footing is generally provided. This causes angular rotation in such individual footings due to moment developed by eccentric loading. The strap beams may be provided under such circumstances in order to control the rotation within permissible values. However, in India the normal practice is to provide individual column footings without strap beams. In the present work, the interaction analysis of a three-bay three-storey RCC space frame- footing-strap beam-soil system is carried out to investigate the interaction behavior using the finite element method. The frame, foundation and supporting soil mass are considered to be linear elastic and to act as a single compatible structural unit for more realistic analysis. The analyses have been carried out to evaluate the axial force and moment in columns, bending moments and shear force in floor, plinth and strap beams. The comparison is made between the non-interaction and interaction analyses. The emphasis is made on the necessity of interaction analysis using strap beams. The inclusion of strap beams in the foundation will prevent failure/distress of the structure likely to be caused by heavy moments induced when only eccentric isolated footings are used.


Hydrazide and their heterocyclic derivatives exhibi ting wide range of biological activities. Among dif ferent biological activities antimicrobial, antitubercular , antiamoebic and antimalarial are noteworthy. Furt her, presence of different substituents and derivatization to het erocyclic ring of hydrazide derivatives affect biol ogical outcomes to a great extent. Therefore, researchers have synthes ized compounds containing hydrazides and their hete rocyclic derivatives with variable substituents as target mo lecules and evaluated their biological activities. Present review describes the antimicrobial importance of hydrazide derivatives along with their structure activity re lationship. Moreover, we have put a light on targets of antimic robial hydrazide derivatives through which they ind uce biological effects. Present review will be helpful in designing and structure activity relationship st udy of bioactive hydrazide derivatives.


The effect of assistance on dependency has probably been the most persistent problem of social policy since the period of the Reformation. Although the nature of assistance1 and the concept of dependency have changed markedly during the last four centuries, the expectation, or, more accurately, the fear, has persisted that any effort resulting in benefits beyond those obtainable through the normal economic institutions of society will discourage max-


The invention provides an austenite casting ferroalloy used in a piston ring carrier, belong to a casting ferroalloy. According to the weight percentage, the components of the alloy are 2.0 to 3.6 percent of carbon, 1.1 to 3.5 percent of silicon, 2.8 to 9.0 percent of manganese, 1.2 to 13.5 percent of nickel, less than or equal to 0.2 percent of phosphorus, less than or equal to 0.2 percent of sulfur, 1.1 to 8 percent of copper, less than or equal to 2.3 percent of chromium and the rest is iron. The austenite casting ferroalloy used in the piston ring carrier has the advantage of good wear resistance. Through experiments, the wear volume is only about one fifth of present austenite casting material. The nickel content is low, which lowers the production cost.


The practice of Beijing Petroleum Branch to set up triple-stage logistic system,strengthen goods and materials flow management and realize delivery chain optimization,is introduced in the paper from the viewpoint of "creating third source of profit".The practice is taking the best saving of expense as final target,to achieve the petroleum branch's goal of enlarge the terminal sales more efficiently.


The taxonomic status of two taxa described by Carl Gustav Thomson is revisited ajter examination of their respective type-specimens preserved at the Museum of Lund (Sweden). The first taxon, Carabus fairmairei Thomson, 1875, corresponds to the populations distributed in the Alps around the Mont Cenis. Consequently, the taxon cenisius Kraatz, 1878, becomes a new junior synonym of fairmairei Thomson, 1875, and baudii Kraatz, 1878, from the Mont Viso area, is established as a valid subspecies. The second taxon, Carabus putzeysi Thomson, 1875, described from the Alps of Switzerland is a new junior synonym of Carabus castanopterus Villa et Villa, 1833. Consequently, its substitute name, Carabus putzeysianus Gehin, 1876, is also a synonym of castanopterus Villa et Villa, 1833, and the populations of Carabus (Oreocarabus) pedemontanus Ganglbauer, 1892, bona species, from the Haute-Vesubie Valley, in French Southern Alps, require a new subspecific name. A lectotype is designated for Carabus fairmairei Thomson, 1875, and Carabus putzeysi Thomson, 1875. These specimens fit perfectly with the original diagnosis of Thomson. A taxonomic revision is given for the polytypic species Carabus (Oreocarabus) pedemontanus Ganglbauer, 1892, and two new taxa are named: C. (O.) pedemontanus vesubianus nom. n. (for maritimus Schaum, 1860, nec Motschulsky, 1850), and C. (O.) pedemontanus maurinensis subsp. n. The typical series being lost, a neotype is designated for the variable subspecies C. (O.) pedemontanus tendanus Born, 1898. A lectotype is designated for C. (O.) pedemontanus omensis Born, 1901. Following a first observation by Cavazzuti & Meli (1999), it is confirmed that C. (O) pedemontanus Ganglbauer and C. (O.) fairmairei baudii Kraatz, are not really parapatric, neither precisely syntopic in few localities, but are partially sympatric.


The process of formation and development of the theory of economic security is objectively related to the cyclical nature of economic development. Economic security as a phenomenon is of little interest to researchers in prosperous periods of economic activities. On the contrary, during periods of economic crises, scientific analysis of the risks and threats to the national economy in foreign markets and the reasons for the decline in the efficiency of domestic production comes to the fore. The article examines the stages of the formation and development of theoretical research in the field of economic security in the works of Western scientists, starting from the 1930s of the twentieth century, and also Russian researchers and practitioners from the 1990s up to the present. Particular attention is paid to changes in the economic security of the trends in today's pandemic crisis and developing based on its structural and civilizational crisis in the world economy. The article substantiates that today almost all countries perceive the social factor not as a kind of addition to ensuring national economic security, but as its priority component. World political leaders, members of the public, entrepreneurs are clearly aware and widely discussing the existence of a contradiction between social and economic interests within the framework of such a phenomenon as "national economic security." And now there is an active search for opportunities to remove this contradiction. The current situation inevitably requires clarification of the actual and potential threats to economic security for modern Russia, and the adoption of appropriate measures to prevent and neutralize them. The article also discusses the possibility of including the system of state monitoring, assessment and countering threats to socio-economic development for modern Russia in the existing institutions of state regulation at the federal and subfederal levels.


Objective To identify Anaplasma species circulating among livestock and rodents from Xitianmu Mountain area in Zhejiang province , Southeastern China and to analyze variations regarding to their 16S rRNA gene.Methods Samples of spleen, liver and blood were collected to extract DNAs .The 16S rRNA gene fragments of Anaplasma species were amplified by using a nested PCR and then sequenced .Ho-mology analysis was conducted by using BLAST program .The multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analyses comparing with the sequences of other Anaplasma species in GenBank were conducted by using MEGA 5.0 software.Results The 16S rRNA gene fragments of Anaplasma were detected in 1 cattle, 8 goats, 5 Rattus confucianus, 1 Apodemus agrarius, 1 Berylmys bowersi and 1 squirrel out of 129 animals. The natural infection rate of Anaplasma was 13.2% in animals from Xitianmu Mountain area in Zhejiang . The alignment and phylogenetic analyses indicated that there were at least four Anaplasma species prevalent in livestock and rodents from Xitianmu Mountain area , including Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Anaplasma marginale, Anaplasma centrale and Anaplasma bovis.Moreover, there was a variant that obviously differed from Anaplasmma bovis and other Anaplasma sp.in GenBank.Conclusion The Anaplasma infection was detected among livestock and rodents from Xitianmu Mountain area in Zhejiang province .A newly discovered variant in rodents was likely to be a novel species .More close attention should be paid to Anaplasma infec-tion among human in Xitianmu Mountain area .

Key words:
Anaplasma; Animal infection; Gene variation


The real physical things are called u-things if they are attached, embedded or blended with computers, networks, and/or some other devices such as sensors, actors, e-tags and so on. Smart u-things are ones that can sense, compute, communicate and take some responsive or automatic actions/reactions/proactions according to their goals, situated contexts, users' needs, etc. After clarifying the basic features and three categories of smart u-things, i.e., smart object, smart space and smart system, the article is devoted to possible challenges in smart u-things' research in terms of real world complexity. The challenges cover sufficiently and precisely detecting surrounding situations, anticipating users' needs, finding the dynamic relations between things, building common knowledge to u-things, letting u-things self-aware, and making looped decisions for error corrections. These real world complexity oriented issues are more crucial and more challenging as compared with many other well realized technology challenges. Conjectures are of great importance since they suggest useful lines of research. - By A.M. Turing


Today, there are quite a few ways of promoting coming-soon movies to various target audiences. Putting up clips of movie trailers on Youtube channel is one of a kind promotion publicly. A good movie is always equipped with its movie trailer to gain as many movie-goers' interest as possible. However, there is one shortcoming of a movie trailer clip found on Youtube channel. The shortcoming is that almost every single movie trailer has no subtitles of the target audience's. Only closed-captions dialogues in the source language are currently available instead of the written dialogues in the target audience's language. This study discusses three matters on movie trailers. Firstly, it aims at knowing the working process of operating the AEGISUB software by the English department students of Universitas Dian Nuswantoro. Secondly, it discusses the work efficiency of the software dealing with subtitling matters. Thirdly, it describes meaning accuracy in translating idiomatic expressions of the SL with the software. From the data analysis, it is found that all the students made a good understanding by following all the subtitling procedures with the software. The rendering process was found more efficient due to the subtitling rules. Each text line in the TL was made efficient according to the rules in terms of the number of characters, time duration for one line to appear on the screen, and the number of text lines in one subtitle. Each idiomatic expression was accurately rendered in the target audience's language. It was made possible because the software allows the user to identify any idiomatic expression found in one text line.


The authors, in considering hysteria, explore its causes, symptomatology and treatment. In therapy especially the family can and should have a large role.


From the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh (B.D.G.); and the Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (H.J.O.); and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (M.Y.L.) — both in New Orleans. Address reprint requests to Dr. Goldstein at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, 130 DeSoto St., A712, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


Believe it or not, Captain Jack Sparrow says something profound in Pirates of the Caribbean. He tells Will Turner, "Wherever we want to go, we go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and sails; that's what a ship needs. Not what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom."1 I can't think of a better way of illustrating a brand. Brands are the composite experiences that consumers have with a company: "In this way, brands can hold certain values, have specific personalities, possess admirable qualities, stand for something, make promises, and create emotional connections with people."2p6 "Far more than a name and logo, it is an organization's promise to a customer to deliver what the brand stands for not only in terms of functional benefits but also emotional, self-expressive, and social benefits."3p1 "[A brand] promises relevant differentiated benefits."2p5 This knowledge then turns brands into assets that drive strategy.3


One of the aspects of the effective judicial protection is the stability of law and its certainty. This stability is always disturbed when there is a lack of a particular solution or when the law in a particular case is ambiguous. This may be especially burdensome in a legal system based on the precedent, like the English law. In such a situation, it is necessary to ask a question about the possible sources of argumentation and reasoning in an unprecedented case. The article shows one such source, i.e. the reference to the legal tradition of ancient Rome. Such solution is not only a theoretical matter, but it is used in practice. The subject of the analysis are three cases decided by the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords: Keighley, Maxsted & Co. v. Durant (1901), National Bank of Greece and Athens S.A v. Metliss (1957) and DPP v. Jones (1999).


Accurate locations for the individual elements of an acoustic sensor array are required for the application of advanced array processing methods. This paper develops a general method of localizing horizontal line array (HLA) elements which overcomes bandwidth constraints of low-frequency arrays and uncertainty in the experimental configuration. Array elements are localized for two HLA's associated with the Spinnaker Array, a three-dimensional sensor array located in the high Arctic. Recordings were made of imploding glass light bulbs deployed at a series of locations surrounding the array site. Implosion instants were not measured; hence, the data consist of relative travel times. In addition, the source locations were measured only approximately in the field, and are treated as unknown parameters. The inverse problem of determining hydrophone and source locations is nonunique and ill-conditioned. To determine the most physically meaningful solution, an iterative linearized inversion is developed which ap...


The title compound, [Eu(C(9)H(9)O(4))(3)](n) or [Eu(2,3-DMOBA)(3)](n), where 2,3-DMOBA is 2,3-dimethoxybenzoate, is an infinite one-dimensional non-centrosymmetric coordination polymer. The unique Eu(III) atom is bridged by six carboxylate ligands; it is ennea-coordinated and has a distorted tricapped trigonal prism geometry. The Eu-O distances are in the range 2.315 (3)-2.959 (5) A.


ABSTRACT This paper explores the background to Mill's feminist thought by relating his Subjection of Women (1869) to his early piece 'On Marriage' (1832) and three contemporary essays that were written among the radical Unitarian community of South Place Chapel by Harriet Taylor Mill, William Bridges Adams (1797–1872), and William Johnson Fox (1786–1864). It seeks to demonstrate that Mill's Subjection of Women (1869) still has close ties with the earlier feminist thought of the South Place Chapel circle. Specifically, it will show that key arguments like the characterisation of marriage as slavery, the pernicious moral effects of gendered education, and the social benefits of women's liberation feature in the early essays by Mill himself, Harriet Taylor Mill, William Bridges Adams, and William Johnson Fox as well as in Mill's Subjection.


The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released 7.5 GHz of bandwidth for ultra wideband (UWB)-radiation. In this paper a simple method of generating a pulse that matches the spectrum mask is proposed. Without any mixers a pulse shape that covers nearly the whole UWB spectrum is synthesized from a sinusoidal.


This research addresses issues of the messages posted by unknown or anonymous previous customers in P2P (person to person) web-based recommendation systems, and investigates how the potential customers are influenced by the messages. Drawing on the Elaboration Likelihood Model, persuasion theory and previous reference influence theories, we examine how the product category, display format and other peripheral information affect the behaviors of the potential customers. Upon completion of this study, we expect to provide further understanding on social influence process in the cyberspace.


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Our motivation is to build a Question Answering (QA) system that gives answers as specific and as accurate to queries, which is in itself an art but based on the science of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Some efforts have been made to either increase the scale of the dataset (semi-annotation, SQUAD), or to improve the NLP structure (Statistical QA, Neural QA). The main goal of our project is to produce a QA system that works well on SQUAD 2.0 dataset that performs better than the baseline Bidirectional Attention Flow (BiDAF) model. To better capture the context from a more expressive set of answers and understand the interactions between the question and the document, we utilized the coattention mechanism by encoding the two-way attention outputs together through a bidirectional reccurrent neural network (RNN). For our main finding, we aim to implement the mechanisms that would improve upon the baseline method under the Exact Match (EM) and the F1 scores. In the experiment, our best performing single model obtained a F1 score of 63.40 and an EM score of 59.87 which both achieved better results than the baseline. To further improve the performance of our model, we built ensemble model that achieved EM of 60.81 and F1 of 64.21.


Chemical composition of natural waters (surface and subsurface waters) is governed by the carbonate system given by H2CO3+CO2 (aq)+ H2O. The association of 3% of carbonic acid and 97% of carbon dioxide molecularly dissolved can be represented by H2CO3 * and, thus, the carbonate system is defined as H2CO3 +H2O,when water has a very high saline concentration its carbonate system is defined by H2CO3 +H2O+DS where DS represents dissolved salts [1]. The theory of the carbonate system was well defined by Loewenthal and Marais [2] in this system, the total species concentration, CT, is given by the sum of carbon dioxide, bicarbonate and carbonate species. Its definition requires the measurement of pH and of some parameter defined in terms of carbonic species. When CT is not known, it can be used Total Alkalinity or Alkalinity to define the other carbonic species (bicarbonate and carbonate, respectively). Thus, in practice, it is used pH and Alkalinity to define the aqueous phase in natural waters. The solid-aqueous phase requires the determination of calcium or total hardness which is represented by the sum of Carbonate Hardness, CH and Non Carbonate Hardness, NCH, respectively.


Studying relationships between keyword tags on social sharing websites has become a popular topic of research, both to improve tag suggestion systems and to discover connections between the concepts that the tags represent. Existing approaches have largely relied on tag co-occurrences. In this paper, we show how to find connections between tags by comparing their distributions over time and space, discovering tags with similar geographic and temporal patterns of use. Geo-spatial, temporal and geo-temporal distributions of tags are extracted and represented as vectors which can then be compared and clustered. Using a dataset of tens of millions of geo-tagged Flickr photos, we show that we can cluster Flickr photo tags based on their geographic and temporal patterns, and we evaluate the results both qualitatively and quantitatively using a panel of human judges. We also develop visualizations of temporal and geographic tag distributions, and show that they help humans recognize semantic relationships between tags. This approach to finding and visualizing similar tags is potentially useful for exploring any data having geographic and temporal annotations.


Let MT[co] be the Monadic second order Theory of Countable Ordinals. Thus MT[co] has individual variables and set variables, both quantifiable. The only primitive is the symbol < for the order relation. Call this language ℒ. The true sentences of MT[co] are those of ℒ which hold in all countable ordinals. Here "countable ordinal" refers to models of set theory, say Zermelo-Fraenkel, plus the axiom of choice. (For details compare the appendix, Section 7). From MT[co] we get ET[co], the Elementary Theory of Countable Ordinals, by cancelling the set variables. Let ℒ 0 be the language of ET[co]. Occasionally we will consider the Weak monadic second order Theory of Countable Ordinals, WT[co]. which has the same language as MT[co], but the set variables are interpreted as ranging over finite sets only. Both ET[co] and WT[co] are the same as the corresponding theories of all ordinals (see proposition 1.5 below). Finally, let MT[α] be the monadic second order theory of the ordinal α.


Hyperspectral image contains information as a set of contiguous spectral wavelength bands. These images are three dimensional images having up to two hundred bands or more. Although hyperspectral image contain hundreds of bands, a few number of bands can explain the vast majority of the information. Hence, hyperspectral image is transformed into lower dimension by preserving the main features of the original data using dimension reduction techniques, which eliminate data redundancy. In order to reduce the complexity and the time taken for processing of the hyperspectral images, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is used to reduce the dimensionality while retaining all important features of the image. In this paper, PCA and Noise Adjusted Principal Component Analysis (NAPCA) have been simulated in the area of hyperspectral image processing. Experiments were carried out on three different types of aerial hyperspectral images having different spectral and spatial resolutions. An elaborate performance evaluation for these data reduction techniques has been carried out by taking image quality parameters such as Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Mean Square Error (MSE). Image quality parameters are calculated using original hyperspectral image and reconstructed images of PCA and NAPCA.


The authors describe the design and CMOS realisation of a new g/sub m/-C amplitude equaliser for correcting sinc(x) distortion in video D/A converters. Simulated and measured results demonstrate how the equaliser is used to correct distortion in D/A converters with F/sub s/=13.5 MHz to /spl les/0.08 dB ripple over 5 MHz bandwidth. Fabricated using a 0.8 /spl mu/m CMOS process, the equaliser occupies 0.7 mm/sup 2/ and dissipates 20 mW from a 5 V supply.


There is described a control device (100) for a transmission control of a motor vehicle, the electrical components (3, 4) with different high power losses, a rigid printed circuit board (1) on both sides (1a, 1b) (with electrical components 3, 4 ) is fitted, at least one cooling body (21, 22) on the side of the printed circuit board (1) are arranged, are arranged on the power devices, and a molding compound (9), which encloses at least partially the components (3, 4). The control device according to the invention is characterized in that the circuit board (1) directly on the heat sink (21) is fixed fitting.


Objective:To investigate the kindney-tonifying TCM efficacy on bone resorption by cultured osteoclasts of rats in vitro.Method:The culture medium containing the serum from rats fed with the drugs at different dosage(high, moderate, low dosage) were used to treat the osteoclasts from the bone marrow of newborn SD rats,and the tartrate resistant acid phosphatase(TRACP) and the bone resorption pits were observed. TRACP activities in the medium were measured by enzyme kinetics. The bone resorption pits were stained by toludineblue. The area and number of resorption pits were determined with Leica Quantimet 500 system. Result:Kindney-tonifying traditional Chinese drugs at high and moderate dosage significantly inhibited the TRACP activities, decreased the area and the number of bone resorption pits, as compared with the control(P0.01). The effect at the moderate dosages was much better than high dosage, which showed significant difference between them(P0.05).Conclusion:Kindney-tonifying traditional Chinese drugs can inhibited the function of resorption of osteoclasts.


Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the student process behavior differences resulting from divergent lesson planning patterns within an Experimental Teaching Unit (ETU). Two teachers were asked to plan for and implement a 20 minute ETU on three occasions using different groups of fourth grade students (N = 65). The ETU task, a combination hockey/golf novel skill, was explained to the teachers, as were their identical teaching space and equipment allocations. The two teachers planned and implemented contrasting lessons for this same teaching goal. The purpose of this study was to determine the student process behavior differences that resulted from the two divergent planning strategies. The Flow of Teacher Organizational Patterns (FOTOP) system was used to verify that the teachers consistently and faithfully implemented their intended plans. Student process behavior was analyzed with the Academic Learning Time–Physical Education (ALT–PE) observational system. The data indicate that the stude...


The historical background on electrokinetic effects in pumped dielectric fields is first reviewed. Attention in this survey paper is then given to electrification basics, experimental electrification in a transformer context, and the dielectric integrity of moving fluids.<<ETX>>


Background. Although schizophrenia has been considered a distinct disease entity for the past century, its precise definition and etio-pathophysiology remain obscure and its treatment remains unsatisfactory. In this review, we summarize our state of knowledge about the etiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, and treatment of schizophrenia. Methodological Issues. The inadequacy of the major conceptual models of schizophrenia is a major roadblock in providing a coherent explanation for the known facts of this illness, despite these limitations and its changing definitions, the construct of schizophrenia does convey useful information: (i) patients diagnosed as having schizophrenia do have a real disease – they experience both suffering and disability; (ii) a diagnosis of schizophrenia does suggest a distinctive clinical profile – a characteristic long-term course; an admixture of positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms; (iii) a diagnosis of schizophrenia has clear treatment and prognostic implications – likelihood of benefit from antipsychotic treatment and likelihood of incomplete recovery; and (iv) schizophrenia satisfies criteria for a valid diagnostic entity better than almost any other psychiatric diagnosis. Discussion. On the other hand, the concept of schizophrenia has serious shortcomings. First, it is not a single disease entity – it has multiple etiological factors and pathophysiological mechanisms but common phenotypic features. Second, its clinical manifestations are so diverse that its extreme variability has been considered by some to be a core feature. Third, its boundaries remain ill defined and not clearly demarcated from other clinical entities. Conclusions. A necessary next step is to deconstruct schizophrenia as an entity into component dimensions –endophenotypes linked to unique etiological and pathophysiological processes that may yield unique treatment targets. Innovative approaches are needed to elucidate the biological substrates of these entities because such clarity is vital for replicable research. We conclude by identifying the critical gaps in our knowledge, and unmet needs in our approaches to care, and outline steps that can move the field forward.


fectly distinct from Traillii and ninimus, between which Mr. Maynard misconceives it to stand. As an example of the faulty reasoning with which we must charge the author, we may cite the case he presents of E. minimus. Finding a certain amount of variation in the proportions of the quills, he assumes that the wing-formula is entirely unreliable; which is not the case. If, for example, he had said of E. minimum "second, third and fourth quills subequal and longest, fifth little shorter, first and sixth subequal and shortest," hie would have laid down a formula by which the species is always distinguishable from Acadicus * (not from Traillii, however). Reverting to a matter of more consequence, we should note that in the localities visited by Mr. Maynard "' the Alleg'hanian and Canadian faunae meet. . . Starting on the northeastern coast of Maine, near Mt. Desert, the dividing line of these faupae proceeds in a southwesterly direction along the southern miwgin of the mountain range which stretches across the state to the White Mountains. Here it declines to the south, reaching even to Rye Beach. Then once more proceeds northwest along the western borders of the mountain range into Vermont. . . So abruptly is the line defined in many places by the range of mountains, that some birds which occur in abundance on one side are found only as stragglers, or not at all on the other." For the numerous typographical errors which deface the paper we understand that the author cannot be held responsible, since he had no opportunity of revising the proofs. The paper itself is such a forcible commentary upon the inexcusably faulty practice, by far too common, and quite needlessly so, of printing scientific matter without author's revise, that we refrain from the sermon which* nevertheless we are strongly inclined to preach on this oeainn.f -. F n. C...F,


Ubiquitin‐specific protease 19 (USP19) belongs to USP family and is involved in promoting skeletal muscle atrophy. Although USP19 is expressed in the heart, the role of USP19 in the heart disease remains unknown. The present study provides in vivo and in vitro data to reveal the role of USP19 in preventing pathological cardiac hypertrophy. We generated USP19‐knockout mice and isolated neonatal rat cardiomyocytes (NRCMs) that overexpressed or were deficient in USP19 to investigate the effect of USP19 on transverse aortic constriction (TAC) or phenylephrine (PE)‐mediated cardiac hypertrophy. Echocardiography, pathological and molecular analysis were used to determine the extent of cardiac hypertrophy, fibrosis, dysfunction and inflammation. USP19 expression was markedly increased in rodent hypertrophic heart or cardiomyocytes underwent TAC or PE culturing, the increase was mediated by the reduction of Seven In Absentia Homolog‐2. The extent of TAC‐induced cardiac hypertrophy, fibrosis, dysfunction and inflammation in USP19‐knockout mice was exacerbated. Consistently, gain‐of‐function and loss‐of‐function approaches that involved USP19 in cardiomyocytes suggested that the down‐regulation of USP19 promoted the hypertrophic phenotype, while the up‐regulation of USP19 improved the worsened phenotype. Mechanistically, the USP19‐elicited cardiac hypertrophy improvement was attributed to the abrogation of the transforming growth factor beta‐activated kinase 1 (TAK1)‐p38/JNK1/2 transduction. Furthermore, the inhibition of TAK1 abolished the aggravated hypertrophy induced by the loss of USP19. In conclusion, the present study revealed that USP19 and the downstream of TAK1‐p38/JNK1/2 signalling pathway might be a potential target to attenuate pathological cardiac hypertrophy.


Ecological concern on accumulation of neutraceutical industrial waste material and the demands for newer composite materials have promoted extensive research on utilizing industrial wastes materials. Therefore, in the present study finely powdered ginger spent (GS), filled polyurethane (PU) green composites with varying amount viz., 0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, and 10 wt % of GS have been fabricated. The prepared PU/GS green composites have been characterized for their mechanical properties, density and void content. Interaction between filler and matrix has been confirmed from Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy studies. Moisture absorption and desorption studies have been performed at different relative humidity (RH). The moisture absorption and desorption studies, shows that as the hydrophilic GS content increases in the matrix the RH also increases. Water uptake behavior of PU/GS were measured in different chemical environments such as 5% sodium chloride solution, cold water at different temperature and in hydrochloric acid solution. The water uptake values increases as increase in GS concentration. Equilibrium water content, diffusivity and equilibrium time taken for all PU/GS composites have been investigated. Biodegradation studies reveals that as the GS content increases the weight loss also increases. Thermal properties have been performed using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA). From DSC and DMA thermograms it is revealed that increase in Tg with increase in GS content. RH and contact angle measurement have been performed to understand the hydrophilic nature of the prepared composite. The morphological behavior of composites has been studied using scanning electron microscopy. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2015, 132, 41614.


The present invention relates to an injection molding sealing apparatus configured to be installed in a coinjection hot runner having a coinjection nozzle having at least two melt channels which end at the gate. The sealing device is configured to seal (i) the coinjection hot runner and (ⅱ) a hot runner sprue bushing during relative movement between the stationary mold or machine section is coupled to the coinjection hot runner assembly in an injection. The sealing structure is made up of a coinjection molding hot runner sprue bushing during relative movement so as to seal against the coinjection hot runner. Coupling structure is configured to provide relative movement between the injection assembly and the stationary mold or machine section. Coinjection hot runner, the hot runner sprue bushing, the seal structure, platen, an injection assembly spigot nozzle, a shooting pot, shooting pot piston, the injection assembly, relative movement


Abstract We prove that the group algebra of a finite group with a cyclic p -Sylow subgroup over an algebraically closed field is a specialization of a parameter-dependent multiplication structure which gives a semisimple algebra for general values of the parameter. We actually prove the existence of such a specialization for any block of cyclic defect group.


The features of first 10 000 t/h class sea-water circulating cooling system in China,the situation of chemicals used for and operation experience of the said system,have been presented.Practice of more than two years shows that the problems,such as corrosion,dirty,and microbio adhesion etc.occurred in the said cooling system have been comparatively well solved through resonable selection of materials and dosing chemicals for water treatment,the effectiveness of freshwater-saving being remarkable.


Long-distance oil and gas pipelines are inevitably impacted by rockfalls during geologic hazards such as mud-rock flow and landslides, which have a serious effect on the safe operation of pipelines. In view of this, an experimental and numerical study on the strain behavior of buried pipelines under the impact load of rockfall was developed. The impact load exerted on the soil, and the strains of buried pipeline caused by the impact load were theoretically derived. A scale model experiment was conducted using a self-designed soil-box to simulate the complex geological conditions of the buried pipeline. The simulation model of hammer–soil–pipeline was established to investigate the dynamic response of the buried pipeline. Based on the theoretical, experimental, and finite element analysis (FEA) results, the overall strain behavior of the buried pipeline was obtained and the effects of parameters on the strain developments of the pipelines were analyzed. Research results show that the theoretical calculation results of the impact load and the peak strain were in good agreement with the experimental and FEA results, which indicates that the mathematical formula and the finite element models are accurate for the prediction of pipeline response under the impact load. In addition, decreasing the diameter, as well as increasing the wall thickness of the pipeline and the buried depth above the pipeline, could improve the ability of the pipeline to resist the impact load. These results could provide a reference for seismic design of pipelines in engineering.


Abstract This study investigates two cases of the FGGE III-B tropical cyclone genesis study of Tuleya (1988) in more detail. These two cases occurred within a week of one another in the tropical North Atlantic in August 1979. One disturbance developed into Hurricane David, the other did not develop past the depression stage. At one point in their evolution the disturbances had quite similar values of low-level vorticity. In the developing case of Hurricane David, the disturbance propagated along in a low-level wave trough with an accompanying high wind maximum. In the nondeveloping case the initial disturbance was also embedded in a wave trough with an associated wind maximum. This low-level wave propagated westward leaving the depression in its wake. The different environmental flow was responsible for the different behavior. Synoptic and budget analyses revealed significant differences in disturbance structure and vorticity and equivalent potential temperature tendencies at the time of approximate equal...


Correlation Model Risk and Non-Gaussian Factor Models Julio Antonio Hernandez Bellon Doctor of Philosophy Department of Mathematics University of Toronto 2018 Two problems are considered in this thesis. The first is concerned with correlation model risk and the second with non-Gaussian factor modelling of asset returns. A fundamental problem in the application of mathematical finance results in a real world setting, is the dependence of mathematical models on parameters that are hard to observe in markets. The common term for this problem is model risk. The first part of this thesis studies the sensitivity of mathematical objects (prices) to correlation inputs. In high dimensions, computational complexities increase faster than exponentially. A typical way to deal with this problem is to introduce a principal component approach for dimension reduction. We consider the price of portfolios of options and approximations obtained by modifying the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix, then proceed to find analytical upper bounds on the magnitude of the difference between the price and the approximation, under different assumptions. In the second part of this thesis, the assumptions and estimation methods of four different factor models with time-varying parameters are discussed. These models are based on Sharpe's single index model. The first model assumes that residuals follow a Gaussian white noise process, while the other three approaches combine the structure of a single factor model with time-varying parameters, with dynamic volatility (GARCH) assumptions on the model components. The four approaches then are used to estimate the time-varying alphas and betas of three different hedge fund strategies. Results are compared.


B. B., a white man, aged 58, was brought to Butterworth Hospital, Dec. 16, 1933, at 1 p. m. from a railroad right of way, where he had been struck by a train. The right leg was frightfully mangled and, except for a band of skin, was severed at its midpoint. Measures to combat shock were immediately instituted and an amputation about four inches below the knee accomplished as soon as possible. The postoperative course was not remarkable until the third day, when the patient became irrational, with a temperature of 104. At 3 p. m. of this day definite crepitation was elicited along the medial aspect of the amputation stump. The patient was isolated and all sutures were removed from the stump, leaving the wound wide open. A continuous drip of permanganate solution 1: 1,000 was started into the wound. The crepitant area of the leg was infiltrated with


According to random vibration theory and measured wind speed data,fluctuating wind model of transmission tower and numerical simulation are achieved by Kaimail spectrum simulated wind turbulence.Wind spectrum curves of all points are obtained by Fourier transform.Through the dynamic analysis on fluctuating wind of transmission tower,the curve of displacement-time and acceleration-time are achieved,the simulated results are approached to the actual measured results.


Objective To study the diagnosis and surgical treatment of primary sacrum tumor.Methods 24 cases of primary sacrum tumor were treated from December 1999 to December 2004.May Among all the tumors,there were 12 chordomas,7 giant cell tumor,2 neurofiboroma,2 aneurysmal bone cysts,1 osteosacomas.All cases have been operated,combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy after operation,18 cases were followed up from 2 to 5 years.Results None of the patients died intraoperative.20 cases revealed satisfactory functionalresults(83.3%).There were injured rectums and urinary incontinencein 2 cases postoperative,respectively.3 cases had postoperative recurrence(16.7%).Four were died within 5 years(16.7%).Conclusion Actively surgical removal is the effective means of treating primary sacrum tumor.Evaluating hemorrhage intraoperative correctly and persisting treatment postoperative can increase the living ratio.


The article presents a number of dependences for reliable calculation of parameters required when performing supercavitation experiments. They include the equations and dependences for calculation of the shape and basic dimensions of cavities formed behind axisymmetric cavitators, influence of the free surface, cavity buoyancy, and cavitator lift, as well as compensation for certain scale effects.


As a special group,rural workers contribute too much for the development and boom of cities,but they are still on the edge of social security.According to the features of rural workers and the status quo that rural workers have lower endowment insurance ratio,the paper analyses the factors restricting the development,That is,system,institutional absence,difficulty in position,difficulty in continuance of the relationship of insurance.At last,the paper some other reasons of rural workers themselves,and puts forward some suggestions to improve rural workers' endowment insurance.


As the complexity of work tasks rises for maintenance workers in modern production facilities, new technologies will be required to support and integrate the service worker of tomorrow. This paper gives an insight into an ongoing research project examining the potential of smart glasses used as a component of assistant systems for workers performing maintenance tasks in an industry 4.0 context. A human centered design process is used to identify the needs of workers and to specify requirements for the assistant system being developed. Thereby, the maintenance of a CNC lathe is used as an example and assistant functions were developed for one specific maintenance task. The architecture of the assistant system proposed in this paper is based on an analysis of the work system including the tasks of the maintenance worker. Finally, the implementation of a first prototype, using state-of-the-art augmented reality smart glasses, is described.


'The authors have made considerable progress toward a number of project objectives during the first several months of activity on the project. An exhaustive analysis was made of the growth rate and biomass yield (both derived from measurements of cell protein production) of two representative strains of Fe(III)-reducing bacteria (Shewanellaalga strain BrY and Geobactermetallireducens) growing with different forms of Fe(III) as an electron acceptor. These two fundamentally different types of Fe(III)-reducing bacteria (FeRB) showed comparable rates of Fe(III) reduction, cell growth, and biomass yield during reduction of soluble Fe(III)-citrate and solid-phase amorphous hydrous ferric oxide (HFO). Intrinsic growth rates of the two FeRB were strongly influenced by whether a soluble or a solid-phase source of Fe(III) was provided: growth rates on soluble Fe(III) were 10--20 times higher than those on solid-phase Fe(III) oxide. Intrinsic FeRB growth rates were comparable during reduction of HF0 and a synthetic crystalline Fe(III) oxide (goethite). A distinct lag phase for protein production was observed during the first several days of incubation in solid-phase Fe(III) oxide medium, even though Fe(III) reduction proceeded without any lag. No such lag between protein production and Fe(III) reduction was observed during growth with soluble Fe(III). This result suggested that protein synthesis coupled to solid-phase Fe(III) oxide reduction in batch culture requires an initial investment of energy (generated by Fe(III) reduction), which is probably needed for synthesis of materials (e.g. extracellular polysaccharides) required for attachment of the cells to oxide surfaces. This phenomenon may have important implications for modeling the growth of FeRB in subsurface sedimentary environments, where attachment and continued adhesion to solid-phase materials will be required for maintenance of Fe(III) reduction activity. Despite considerable differences in the rate and pattern of FeRB growth with different Fe(III) forms, a roughly consistent long-term biomass yield of 5 to 15 mg protein per mmol Fe(III) reduced was observed during growth on different forms of Fe(III). These results should prove useful for quantitative modeling of FeRB growth and metabolism in various types of experimental and in situ anaerobic sedimentary systems.'


Concerns about maintaining teacher education quality have been sharpened in recent times with the imposition of neoliberal political thought and the effects of free market principles on education and educational institutions. It is proposed that a successful teacher needs desirable personal characteristics, a solid experiential base, considerable subject content knowledge, knowledge of the context domains, and pedagogy. These components ensure the teacher is a life long, learned professional who is adaptive, creative and effective. The impact of political ideology on these components and the weighting of them in different delivery mechanisms is discussed. A number of specific issues that provide challenges to quality are examined including state control, providers, and the redefinition of the curriculum.


Corn variety Luoyu 8 was bred by crossing LZ06-1(female) with ZK02-1(male).Luoyu 8 had the characteristics of high and stable yielding ability,good quality,multi resistance and wide adaptation.Luoyu8 was suited for growth in summer sowing in Huang-Huai Sea Reach.It were introduced the breeding of Luoyu 8,its characteristics and yield performance with its high yielding cultivation and seede production technology.