This article argues for the thesis that epiphanies are a central means for transformative moral and intellectual growth. Drawing on recent work on this concept in moral education, the article develops a conception of epiphany as a genre of transformative experience with three distinct phenomenological dimensions: a disruption of our everyday activity, a realization of an ethical good or value, and an aspiration to integrate this value more fully into our lives. After presenting this conception of epiphany, the article turns to some of its educational implications. We argue that transformative educational aims are best advanced when an ethos of epiphany is created in the classroom.


The magnetic behavior of Ni(SCN)2 has been studied at low temperatures for the first time. A Curie–Weiss fit, χM=C/(T−θ), to the susceptibility between 100 and 300 K yields g=2.13±0.01 (S=1) and θ=39.8±1.4 K. Systematic curvature in χ−1 vs T is evident, however. Despite the large positive θ Ni(SCN)2 appears to order antiferromagnetically at Tc=52±1 K, slightly below a maximum in χ(T) at T(χmax)=57.2±0.5 K, with χmax=0.0331±0.0003 emu/mol. The ratio Tc/T(χmax)=0.91±0.02 does not suggest lower magnetic dimensionality. Magnetization isotherms are linear to 16 kG; some features suggesting lower temperature transitions occur. Well above Tc the susceptibility is analyzed assuming axial and rhombic crystal field distortions, i.e., D[Sz2−S(S+1)/3] and E[Sx2−Sy2] spin Hamiltonian terms, with exchange incorporated in a mean field approximation. An extraordinarily large ‖D/k‖≊119 K seems to emerge, a result which is very provisional lacking single crystal data. A mean field analysis of Tc and θ yields ferromagnet...


Objective To conclude the experiences on the diagnosis and treatment of the early abdominal postoperative inflammatory intestinal obstruction. Methods The clinical data of 43 cases with the early abdominal postoperative inflammatory intestinal obstruction were analyzed retrospectively. Results The early abdominal postoperative inflammatory intestinal obstruction of the patients mostly occurred 5-14d after abdominal operation; 42 cases of them were cured without operation, and the time from the onset of symptoms to the recovery of bowel function ranged from 3 to 40d. Conclusion Non- operative treatment is an effective method of treatment for patients with EPISBO; combined therapies have good effect in EPISBO。.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify an important area for librarians to positively impact student retention. Design/methodology/approach – This programmatic and conceptual piece describes how embedding librarians into the growing enterprise of undergraduate research experiences (UREs) lays a framework for a context in which libraries and librarians directly contribute to the retention of undergraduate students. Findings – Librarians are capable of directly contributing to the retention of students. While their efforts, it is contended, contribute routinely and to the actual retention of students, it is difficult for their efforts to register in the assessment of retention used by administrators. This discrepancy can be solved if librarians play a more explicit (and quantifiable) role in retaining students. Research limitations/implications – UREs are a growing, but generally untapped trend for librarians; however, because UREs generally correlate with academic success and student retention,...


The literature data on possible optimization of the arterial hypertension management with organoprotective antihypertensive agents are reviewed. Omesartan is one of the most thoroughly investigated agents blocking the receptors to angiotensin-II that shows antihypertensive effect and has cardiovaso- and nephroprotective as well as pleotropic properties. The use of Olmesartan is based on the principles of proof medicine.


Systematic reductions of the porosity of sediments with increasing depth of burial have been attributed--in different degrees by different authors--to increasing effective pressure, increasing temperature, and increasing age. To date, there have been no effective means for determining quantitatively the separate effects of these factors in naturally occurring reductions of porosity. However, limits on the maximum possible effect of each of these factors can be established. This may be done by invoking the logical constraint that in any porosity reduction caused by increasing effective pressure, temperature, and time, the unknown effect of any one factor cannot exceed the known combined effects of all three. Practical applications of this general principle may be illustrated by using it to establish the maximum possible effect of temperature to test interpretations of porosity-depth curves selected from the literature. In some published interpretations of porosity-depth data, impossibly large effects have been ascribed to temperature. In such cases, porosity reductions thought to have been caused by increased temperature must be attributed instead to some other cause. Uplift, with erosion of overburden--a common geologic process, could result in a systematic association of lower porosities with higher temperatures, even if porosity were totally unaffected by temperature. Such associations are not cause-and-effect relations and cannot be interpreted correctly as evidence for the dependence of porosity on temperature.


Most existing methods of reflection components decomposition using a single color image require color segmentation. Few methods that employ local operations are able to avoid the requirement; however, they usually suffer from color discontinuity problems. In this paper, we introduce a decomposition method using a single color image that does not require (global) color segmentation or (local) color discontinuity detection. The method principally utilizes the coefficients of the reflectance basis functions of input image and its specular-free image. Combining those coefficients enables us to find the diffuse coefficients of the specular pixels for every surface color. As a result, the decomposition becomes a well-posed problem and able to be solved in closed-form equations. Our experimental results on real complex textured images show the effectiveness of our proposed method.


OBJECTIVE To synthesize RGD(arginine-glycine-aspartic acid-tryptophan)peptide analog-AoGDW(ω-amino- octanoic acid-glycine-aspartic acid-tryptophan)and investigate its effect on inhibiting platelet aggregation.METHODS AoGDW was synthesized by solid phase method and purified on Sephadex G-10.The synthesized peptide was identified by RP-HPLC(reversed- phase high performance liquid chromatography).The structure of peptide was confirmed by MS(mass spectrograph)and amino acid a- nalysis.The activity and stability of antiplatelet aggregation of AoGDW were studied using aggregometer and expressed as percentage change in light transmittance.RESULTS The purity of purified peptide was 98.3%.Peptide structure verified through MS and ami- no acid analysis was consistent with theory.IC_(50) values of inhibiting platelet aggregation of AoGDW and control group were(4.71±2.51)and(61.82±8.08)μmol·L~(-1).AoGDW was achieved with improved plasma stability(100% activity after 3 h).CONCLU- SION AoGDW was highly active,highly steady inhibitor of platelet aggregation,which suggests the side chains and backbone ele- ments of residues flanking the RGD sequence may play very important effects on its function.


We extend a theorem of Barwise and Nadel describing the relationship between approximations of canonical Scott sentences and admissible sets to the case of orbit equivalence relations induced on an arbitrary Polish space by a Polish group action.


The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has spread to more than 200 countries and territories. As of 13 May 2019, there are >4 million confirmed cases, and about 7% of these patients have died from the infection. Nucleic acid amplification tests are the methods of choice for detecting COVID-19 patients at early disease onset. Several serological tests have been developed for detecting SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies for clinical research (1, 2). Farnsworth and Anderson have recently highlighted the limitations of SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing for routine clinical application due to limited data regarding its utility (3). Here, we report the use of antibody tests to study severe and mild COVID-19 cases. RT-PCR confirmed COVID19 patients admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, China were studied. Patients who had one of the following conditions at the time of, or following admission, were classified as severe cases: 1) respiratory distress ( 30 breaths/min), 2) oxygen saturation at rest 93%, 3) PaO2/FiO2 ratio 300 mmHg, or 4) severe complications (e.g., respiratory failure, requirement of mechanical ventilation, septic shock, and/or nonrespiratory organ failure). Amongst these 192 patients, 83 (43%) were classified as severe cases. Single or serial serum samples (N1⁄4 1019; sampling period: 01/ 29/2020–03/28/2020) collected from these 192 patients were tested for SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor binding domain (RBD)specific IgM or total antibodies (IgA/IgG/IgM) using two commercial microparticle chemiluminescence immunoassays (Wantai). In addition, 144 control sera collected in the same period were tested. All control samples were negative in the IgM assay and 98.6% (142/ 144) were negative in the total antibody assay (Fig. 1, A and B). We first stratified our results according to the date of disease onset and disease severity. The IgM antibody responses of mild and severe cases within the first 6 days of disease onset were not statistically different from each other (Fig. 1A; P> 0.05). Interestingly, the IgM profile of mild cases was found to be statistically different from the severe cases thereafter. Severe cases had significantly higher IgM titers than mild cases after Day 6 postonset (Fig. 1A). The mean IgM titer of severe cases peaked at about Day 21 post-symptom onset, whereas the mild cases did not have such a sharp peak over time. We noted that only 46.9% of all tested mild case samples were IgM positive, whereas 85.7% of all tested severe case samples were IgM positive. From samples taken within Days 7–12 post-onset, the IgM positive rate of severe cases was higher than that of mild cases (P1⁄4 0.013; chi-square test). Additionally, all severe patients were IgM positive from Days 13 to 18 post-symptom onset, whereas only 57% of mild patients were positive in this period. The titers of severe cases for the total antibody test were also statistically higher than those of mild cases from Days 7–42 postsymptom onset (Fig. 1B). Over 99% of severe patients from Day 13 of disease onset or beyond were positive by the total antibody test. The overall positivity rate of severe cases (98.7%) was higher than that of mild cases (83.0%) (P< 0.00001; chi-square test). These results are similar to those seen above for the IgM antibody test, suggesting that COVID-19 patients are more likely to mount robust antibody responses in severe cases. In addition, unlike the IgM profile as described above, the total antibody titers of both severe and mild cases remained at high levels until the end of our study period. We noted that several mild cases were serologically negative in our assays. We further analyzed data from 35 patients with multiple serial samples (N > or 1⁄4 3) in whom there was at least 1 sample collected before Day 19. Strikingly, 34.3% (12/35) and 14.3% (5/35) of studied mild patients were consistently serologically negative for IgM and total antibody (data not shown), respectively. In addition, those who were negative in the total antibody test were also negative in the IgM test. By contrast, all severe patients (N1⁄4 42) with multiple serial samples had at least 1 positive sample in these tests. In this study, we observed that patients with severe COVID-19 are more likely to mount robust antibody responses than those with mild cases. Our results agree with those reported by Zhou and colleagues (4). It is not known whether the enhanced antibody responses are associated with the immunopathology observed in severe COVID-19 cases (5). Owing to the limitation of our assays, the antibody profiles of IgG and IgA in the studied patients could not be determined. Nonetheless, it is interesting to note that there were several mild COVID-19 cases that failed to develop antibodies against the RBDdomain of the spike protein. These results might have implications for clinical diagnosis, serological surveillance and control policies (e.g., immunity passport) for COVID19. It is not known whether these mild cases can develop antibodies against other epitopes of SARSCoV-2. Further characterization of VC American Association for Clinical Chemistry 2020. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: email@example.com.


A silty range site (720 mm average annual precipitation) in the Mixed Prairie of south-central Nebraska dominated by Kentucky bluegrass (Pm pratensis L.), blue grama [Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Lag.], western wheatgrass (Agropyron smit/di Rydb.), and buffalograss [Buchole dactyloides (Nutt.) Englem.] was protected from grazing, disced, seeded and/or treated with glyphosate to increase tall and midgrasses. Discing did not stimulate western wheatgrass yield or cover. After 2 growing seasons, yields and cover were simihtr on untreated and disced areas. However, species composition data indicated a treatment X year interaction between the second and third growing season for proportion of warmseason shortgrass sod to dominant cool-season vegetation. Warmseason shortgrasses increased on the disced area and decreased on the control during that period. Lo-till sod-seeding using glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl glycine)] as a sod suppressant provided rapid establishment of desirable warm-season grasses: big bluestem (A ndropogon gerardii Vitman), indiangrass [Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash], switchgrass (Panicum vh-gatum L.) and sideoats grama [Bouteloua curt&endula (Michx.) Torr.]. Seeding with a rangeland drill into a disced area or an area disced and then sprayed with glyphosate resulted in slower stand establishment compared to sod seeding. All seeding treatments had similar stand frequency during the third growing season and similar yield at the end of the fourth growing season. All seeding methods provided adequate stands. The Loess Hills of south-central Nebraska are dominated by a warm-season shortgrass community consisting of blue grama [Boureloua grucilis (H.B.K.) Lag.] and buffalograss [Buchloe duetyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.]. Cool-season codominants include Kentucky bluegrass (Poapratensis L.) and western wheatgrass (Agropyron smithii Rydb.). This shortgrass community is generally considered a disclimax caused by long-term, excessive grazing pressure; the climax vegetation is Mixed Prairie dominated by big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii Vitman) (Nicholson and Hulett 1969). Remnants of desirable vegetation gain vigor and increase when competition from short grasses is reduced or removed. Disc plowing in eastern Wyoming increased production 100% where remnant midgrasses existed (Thatcher 1966). When disced areas were protected, from grazing, midgrasses became dominant. Similar areas, protected from grazing but not disced, produced no change in relative species composition after 5 years. Western wheatgrass increased on areas either disced or disced and spring tooth harrowed in an ungrazed Montana Mixed Prairie (Heady 1952). However, listing a shortgrass range in Texas removed or covered approximately 90% of the existing sod and production did not Authors are research assistant and professor, Department of Agronomy; associate professor Biometrics and Information Center; and research assistant Department of Agronomy. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln 68583. The authors would like to thank General Agricultural Services, LTD., Scully Estates Office, for the use of their land. The efforts of Alfred Hanson, who donated his time and machinery to make this project possible, were greatly appreciated. The authors also extend their gratitude to Donn Schmidt for his assistance in data collection. This research was funded in part by the Little Blue Natural Resources District, the Lower Republican Natural Resources District, and the Webster County Natural Resources Conservation Foundation. This paper published as Journal # 7161 of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station. Manuscript accepted June 3, 1984. JOURNAL OF RANGE MANAGEMENT 38(2). March 1985 increase during a 5-year period (Dudley and Hudspeth 1964). Natural revegetation following mechanical disturbance occurs quickly on grassland that has well-distributed rhizomatous or stoloniferous species. Western wheatgrass was usually the first midgrass to respond (Barnes 1950; Barnes et al. 1958; Ryerson et al. 1970, Rauzi 1974,1975; Houston 1971; Heady 1952; Rauziet al. 1962). Nichols (1969) reported that rhizomes of western wheatgrass plants spread several meters in I favorable growing season, and recolonized bare areas. Changes in species composition are relatively slow but stimulation of vegetation vigor is much faster. Annuals are common the first and second year after soil disturbance but are quickly replaced by perennial grasses (Rauzi 1974, 1975; Barnes et al. 1958; Dudley and Hudspeth 1964; Brown and Everson 1952). Vegetation responses have been attributed to an increase in available soil moisture (Rauzi et al. 1962, Rauzi and Lang 1956, Barnes 1950, Barnes et al. 1958). However, the increase of available nutrients resulting from the disturbance of the soil and sod is also important in explaining vegetation response (Ryerson et al. 1970, Rauzi 1975). Remnants of desirable climax species may be very sparse or absent from the plant community. Seeding can be an effective way of revegetating depleted rangelands with desirable plants. Powertillage seeders seed into established vegetation with minimal disturbance. Plant competition can be reduced with herbicides (Samson and Moser 1982). The use of selective herbicides maintains adequate species diversity of the existing vegetation without destroying the existing ground cover. The objectives of this study were to determine the inherent capacity of deteriorated Mixed Prairie to increase the relative abundance of (I) existing desirable, native species following a grazing rest and/ or mechanical disturbance and () seeded desirable, native species with grazing rest and mechanical and chemical treatments.


The purpose of the present study was to find out whether the study habits of school students of working differ significantly from those of non-working mothers. The sample of the study consisted of 200 school students (100 school students of working mothers &100 school students of non- working mothers) studying in class Xth of Ranchi town. Study Habit Inventory constructed by Hassan (2003) of P.G. Department of Psychology, Ranchi University, Ranchi was administered to the selected sample to assess their study habits. The data so collected was analyzed statistically by employing mean, SD and t-test. The study revealed there were significant differences between the adolescent students of   working   and   non- working mothers. Adolescents of working mothers had significantly better study habits than adolescents   of non-working mothers. Further the study revealed that female students had significantly better study than male.


Flow field of the whole ship and propeller model,including free surface and propeller rotating motion,is solved in this paper.Ship self-propulsion point is derived by changing propeller rotation speed because both propeller thrust and hull resistance are the function of rotation speed.The self-propulsion point derived from numerical tank agreed well with experimental data.In numerical tank,not only wake fraction and thrust deduction fraction can be solved using integral method,but also the velocity and pressure distribution on inflow plane and blade which can be used to judge cavitation region,unsteady propeller thrust,torque and so on.


Chlamydia trachomatis is the main pathogen of non gonococcal urethritis and one of the pathogens inducing infection in female genitourinary tract.Chlamydia trachomatis insult on one hand can serve as a form of protection,but can cause damage in tissues on the other.Scientific understanding of the immunological mechanism of female genitourinary tract to infection induced by chlamydia trachomatis can certainly help with the prevention and treatment of chlamydia trachomatis infection.


Pneumonia is one of the most common infectious diseases in clinic. X-ray chest is an important basis for early diagnosis of pneumonia. With the development of computer vision technology, using convolutional neural network to train pneumonia image classification model has been gradually applied to the process of medical clinical diagnosis. However, there are many problems in the process of using convolutional neural network to train pneumonia image classification model, such as too long model training time, over fitting and low accuracy due to too small training dataset. To solve these problems, this paper proposes an optimization method of pneumonia image classification model based on transfer learning and feature fusion, which is called Transfer Fusion. The Transfer Fusion optimization method will transplant the trained source model parameters to the target model, and add a specific feature fusion classification layer, so as to significantly shorten the training time of the new model, improve the accuracy and prevent over fitting. In this paper, Transfer Fusion optimization method is applied to three common convolutional neural network models: Google InceptionNetV3, MobileNetV2 and ResNet50. Through a large number of experiments, the performance of the three models has been significantly improved and improved.


A case of nine-year-follow-up of a female patient with Marfan's syndrome complicated by severe morphological changes of the heart and subtotal aortic aneurism has been described.


A Library is an organized collection of resources made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building, or a virtual space, or both. During the last decays, the Libraries had witnessed a continuous revolution and still do. This paper reviews the main milestone of such revolution starting from the classical up to the current Cloud-based era passing by the intermediate digital transformation period. It reviews the library types, services, problems and drive of changes from the classical form. The paper then tackles the transformation of the library to the digital form. It discusses the characteristics of the digital library, the web-based library, and the library 2.0 through their advantages and limitations. The paper finally focuses on the current Cloud-based ear, where most of the library cloud platforms, services management, innovative products and opened environments are addressed through their features, add values, pros and cons. The paper also provides a comparative study on such solutions coming up with opened research issues. Hereby, the paper provides a comprehensive overview on the development of the library till now.


The carrier transport properties for organic light emitting devices are dominated by energetic disorder and trap states. In this work, we will present our recent results on disorder state spectroscopy in Alq3 and NPB using thermally stimulated luminescence. We show that fluorescent dopants and film formation influence the disorder states.


: Background :In the historical process, ornamentation made with aesthetic concerns has emerged in a dimension that is identified with the concepts of being noticed, distinguished, symbolizing, enrichment, and it has been the quality that determines the originality of the building. Will be blessed to receive break down the ornamentation, which is substantially more than a complex engineering component, and to reappear socially, socially and monetarily. The ornamentation is an interpreter and extension that associates the structure with nature and interfaces individuals with history and culture; hence, the adornment is a supportability device for the neighborhood character of the structure, the earth, and the whole urban setting. The purpose of re-ornamentation is to base the design on tradition and to refer to it. Contrary to the traditional understanding, ornamentation in contemporary architecture is loaded with new directions. The current concept of ornamentation can vary from architectural detail to urban texture. Re-ornamentation only looks at how the ornamentation and character of the building can be adapted to modern times, without creating false illusions of reconstruction. Materials and Methods : The method of the study consists of documentations, analyzes and evaluation processes. The development of the ornament is briefly described. Information about the art of ornamentation related to architecture is given. By making a literature review about this innovative ornamentation approach, examining the existing projects, research and made sketches and sketches produced for the new design, by developing the design, the digital designing process has begun. Results : This theory has been inspected as far as the recorded turn of events and change of traditional ornamentation to contemporary engineering and ornamentations utilized on the surfaces of design components of structures. Conclusion: In this examination, instances of creative ornamentation approaches on the planet are given, ornamentation programs in the conventional places of are inspected, another venture configuration is made by making verifiable and contemporary correlations. More work is expected to find how the idea of customary ornamentation can be coordinated with contemporary ornamentation


Poplar trees were found to be capable of taking up trichloroethylene (TCE) and degrading it to several known metabolic products:  trichloroethanol, trichloroacetic acid, and dichloracetic acid. Poplars were also shown to transpire TCE in measurable amounts. To eliminate the possibility that the degradation we observed was produced solely by rhizosphere organisms, axenic poplar tumor cell cultures were tested; the cultures produced the same intermediate metabolic products. When dosed with [14C]TCE, cell cultures also produced low levels of radiolabeled carbon dioxide and a labeled insoluble residue. These results show that significant TCE uptake and biotransformation occurs in poplar, which demonstrates the potential for the use of poplars for in situ remediation of TCE.


The gut microbiota has been implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with Faecalibacterium prausnitizii associated with protection, and certain genera (including Shigella and Escherichia) associated with adverse features. The variability of patient response to medical therapies in IBD is incompletely understood. Given the recognised contribution of the microbiota to treatment efficacy in other conditions, there may be interplay between the gut microbiota, IBD medical therapy and IBD phenotype.


Information derived from animal investigations using labelled thtty acid infusions and measurements of the fatty acid concentrations found in the various fractions i n maternal and foetal umbilical artery and venous blood and tissues have shown that the net flux of fatty acid from mother t o foetus across the placenta varies greatly from species to species. In general, in those species with maternal as well as foetal layers in the placenta, e.g. sheep, pig and cat, fatty acid transfer is small, and the profile of fatty acids in the foetal circulation does not match that in the maternal circulation (Elphick ct al., 1979, 1980: Leat & Harrison. 1980: Elphick & Hull, 1985), whereas in those species with only foetal layers in the placenta, e.g. rabbits, rats and guinea pigs, tlie net flux can be high and the fatty acid mixture entering the foetal circulation from the placenta rcflccts maternal free fatty acid concentrations of tlie various fatty acids (Elphick & Hull, 1977; Hunimel cf al., 1075: Herslifield & Nemeth, 1968; Thomas & Lowy, 1982). Arachidonic acid is a comnion exception. The human placenta like the rabbit placenta does not have maternal layers. The human foetus. i n contrast to other species, lays down sizeable stores of fat in white adipose tissue in the last trimester of pregnancy. In tlie guinea pip and rabbit the fat is mainly found in brown adipose tissue. Fatty acids have been shown to cross from tlie maternal spaces into the foetal vessels of tlie isolated perfused human placenta and the fatty acids appear to cross in an unselected manner (Booth et al., 1981). However, during tlie brief period when this preparation is viable, arachidonic acid leaves the placenta into both the maternal and foetal compartments. So human placental tissue is permeable to fatty acids. Measurement of fatty acid mixtures in the various plasma compartments in umbilical cord artery and vein blood taken easily and simultaneously during elective Caesarean section at term is the closest we have come t o obtaining data which reflect tlie physiological state in man (Hendrickse et al., 1985). Even so the anaesthesia and surgery provoked a rise in maternal circulating free fatty acid concentrations and n o doubt handling the cord affected placental perfusion. Fatty acid concentrations in the human maternal circulation. umbilical vein. umbilical artery and the umbilical venous-arterial difference are shown in Fig. 1. There was a significant flow of fatty acids to tlie foetus. I n o 40 r (dl


Background/Objectives: The study investigates the problem of economic growth from the perspectives of neo-industrial economic paradigm. Methods: The authors associate the content of economic growth with three principal criteria: innovativeness, sustainability and inclusiveness that attach new quality to the category under investigation. Thereat, neo-industrial economic growth is understood as the manifestation of the expanded reproduction of national economy with no detriment to the environment, when not only the final product is improved (in the system of national accounts it corresponds to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and national income), but also when the economic potential of the country is enhanced and intensified (production assets, inventories, labor), when well-being of the population is increased (measured by GDP and national income growth rates per capita), and when social inequality is reduced. Findings: The new quality indicators and factors of economic growth have been suggested. The study justifies the conclusion that the export-oriented resource-based model of economic growth hampers the achievement of the identified criteria and does not ensure any efficient and high-quality social and economic development of the country. The suggested economic model proves the abovementioned conclusion and testifies of the fact that the country's dependency on natural resources does not affect economic growth directly, but it does so through the system of governmental institutions. Thereat, in the states where these institutions are deficient, the latter, affected by the availability of natural resources, deteriorate even more, because the people in power try to formalize in legislation their easy access to these resources, thus, in turn, considerably reducing the potential economic growth. Applications/Improvements: The study presents suggestions to create the preconditions for neo-industrial economic development in the Russian Federation.


Three of the founders of the modem discipline of comparative politics have recently published major works on American immigration and ethnic politics. The books are exemplary in that, although all the authors are American, each views America as Aristide Zolberg did the Ivory Coast and Belgium, as Jerry Hough did Soviet Russia, and as Samuel Huntington did the chaotic third world, that is, with a keen foreigner's eye. These books are bringing America back in to the comparative project, not as a data point for cross-sectional statistical testing, but as a country study, in the best of the area studies tradition. They are reviewed here because issues of immigration and its challenge to national identities are unleashing political conflict throughout the world, and these U.S. case studies not only add an important case to the stock of knowledge of ethnic politics on the national stage, but they also open new vistas for future research that will better explain consequential similarities and differences among countries. What, it might be asked, is the comparativist's comparative advantage? Hough harvests a grain of truth (though he overstates his case) when he writes that native scholars are muffled by informal gag rules especially when dealing with sensitive topics such as ethnic politics. He provides the example of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's choices for military 103


Heart failure is a dysfunction with varied ethology; one of possible causes is anticancer treatment with anthracyclines. Rapid diagnosis is important because the disease is associated with high mortality and morbidity. The only biomarkers fully approved for diagnostics of heart failure are natriuretic peptides. They are secreted by ventricular muscle cells in response to volume and pressure overload. However, their concentration can be influenced by other factors, such as age or gender. A potential marker, not affected by these issues might be galectin-3. Current studies showed that galectin can play particularly significant role in myocardial fibrosis and inflammation. Elevated galectin-3 concentration has been observed in such cardiovascular diseases as heart failure,  atherosclerosis, stroke and myocardial infarction. The review summarizes results of studies which indicate the role of galectin-3 in inducing fibrosis and cardiac remodelling (processes which influence disease progression and prognosis) and showed its potential diagnostic value.


The results of a survey of the research, design and development activity of firms listed on the UK Unlisted Securities Market are reported. The significance of different corporate objectives, types of market structure, forms of rivalry, different groups as project initiators, and techniques of project evaluation, is reported. Technically progressive firms could not be distinguished from less technically progressive firms using univariate tests. Multiple discriminant analyses indicated that technically progressive firms operate in markets where products characteristics and advertising are significant forms of rivalry, the growth rate of profits is more important as a corporate objective and the significance of interdepartmental committees as an initiating group is higher than for less technically progressive firms. The latter firms judged price competition and the objective of achieving a target level of units sold as more significant than the former group.


The transport and phosphorylation of 2‐deoxy‐D‐glucose are separate and sequential events in both normal and virus‐transformed 3T3 cells. The apparent enhancement of 2‐dOG uptake by 3T3 cells accompanying virus transformation is not due to an effect on the transport process but to enhanced phosphorylation by intracellular kinases. Phosphorylation of 3‐O‐methyl‐D‐glucose does not occur in these cells. Both the rate and extent of transport of this glucose analog is the same in normal cells, SV40 virus‐transformed cells and sarcoma virus‐transformed cells. The appropriateness of using 3‐O‐MeG for studies of the glucose transport system of animal cells is examined and discussed.


Objective Primary health care (PHC) is the main entry point and the first level of contact for individuals, families and communities within the Brazilian public health system. Considering that few studies have investigated the use of acupuncture in PHC, this article presents our experience in the city of Florianópolis when integrating acupuncture into PHC using an educational programme developed to teach acupuncture to primary care physicians (PCPs). Methods The course programme was designed using the WHO standards for acupuncture training and discussed at three consensus meetings. Between 2011 and 2014 three iterations of an introductory acupuncture course for PCPs were offered. During this period 53 physicians finished the programme. Results The number of acupuncture sessions in PHC rose from 1349 in 2011 to 6488 in 2015. It was observed in 2015 that 81% of the course participants working in PHC were regularly using acupuncture in their daily practice, with a mean number of sessions of 11.35 sessions per month. Moreover, collaborative work, which started during the course between the PCPs and the acupuncture specialists in secondary and tertiary public health care, helped to increase the quality of acupuncture referrals and facilitate clinical case discussions. Conclusions Our experience in the city of Florianópolis shows that teaching acupuncture to PCPs is a sustainable model that can help introduce acupuncture into PHC. Furthermore it can expand access to acupuncture treatment for the population and increase the communication between PCPs and acupuncture specialists.


Energy storage seems set to play a key role in managing and balancing the future electricity system. Storage can act as a generator and as a load, providing both energy and ancillary services such as fast frequency response and operating reserve. Therefore, it can provide the desired flexibility for the network. Current mechanism designs do not take advantage of the full potential of a given storage facility and the auctions used to buy and sell potential storage products have design flaws. This paper gives an overview of how storage products are bought and sold today and the problems of the current designs. It then presents a new mechanism design to integrate storage in the most efficient way, based on social welfare. Keywords Electricity storage, interconnectors, auctions JEL Classification D44, D85, Q42 Contact email@example.com Publication April 2016 Financial Support EPSRC Business, Economics, Planning and Policy for Energy Storage in Low-Carbon Futures project 1 A
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   how storage
  products
  are
  bought
  and
  sold
  today
  and
  the
  problems
  of
  the
  current
  designs.
  It
  then presents
  a
  new
  mechanism
  design
  to
  integrate
  storage
  in
  the
  most
  efficient
  way,
  based
  on social
  welfare. Keywords:
  electricity
  storage,
  interconnectors,
  auctions I. INTRODUCTION Energy
  storage
  is
  potentially
  of
  great
  importance
  to
  the
  future
  of
  the
  electricity
  system.
  This is
  because
  an
  electricity
  system
  characterised
  by
  a
  greater
  share
  of
  low
  carbon
  intermittent renewable
  generation
  technology
  and/or
  base-‐load
  nuclear
  and
  carbon
  capture
  and
  storage plants
  will
  be
  much
  less
  able
  to
  follow
  demand.
  The
  absence
  of
  flexible
  fossil
  fuel
  plants
  on the
   electricity
   system
   will
   mean
   that
   flexibility
   will
   need
   to
   be
   supplied
   by
   storage technologies.
  A
  recent
  study
  for
  the
  National
  Infrastructure
  Commission
  in
  the
  UK
  suggested that
  a
  flexible
  electricity
  system
  could
  be
  of
  the
  order
  of
  £8bn
  p.a.
  cheaper
  than
  a
  business as
  usual
  system
  by
  2030
  (Strbac
  et
  al.,
  2016).

  Storage
  units
  can
  be
  sources
  of
  load
  at
  times of
   excess
   supply
   and
   sources
   of
   supply
   at
   times
   of
   excess
   demand.
   They
   can
   also
   provide other
  non-‐energy
  electricity
  products
  (such
  as
  fast
  voltage
  support
  or
  reactive
  power).
  The key
  market
   design
   question
   around
   storage
   is
   how
   to
   appropriately
   involve
   storage
   units 1 The
   authors
   acknowledge
   the
   financial
   support
   of
   the
   EPSRC
   Business,
   Economics,
   Planning
   and
   Policy
   for Energy
  Storage
  in
  Low-‐Carbon
  Futures
  (BEPP-‐Store)
  project
  (Grant
  No.
  EP/L014386/1).
  The
  authors
  acknowledge the
   helpful
   comments
   of
   one
   anonymous
   reviewer
   and
   Goran
   Strbac.
   The
   usual
   disclaimer
   applies.
   EPSRC research
  data
  statement:
  there
  is
  no
  additional
  data
  beyond
  that
  reported
  in
  the
  paper.


This paper discusses the problems that arise with autistic students during the learning of Arabic language subjects in high school. The problems focused in this study are from the aspects of attitude, motivation, and interest. A total of three Arabic language teachers in a secondary school in Terengganu were selected as study informants. This study uses a qualitative approach to the case study design that uses structured interviews as the main instrument for obtaining data. The results of the study found that autistic students exhibited a positive attitude during learning Arabic. Similarly, in terms of motivation, autistic students show seriousness while doing Arabic language learning activities. While in terms of interest, autistic students show less interest in Arabic subjects compared to other subjects.


With the development of seismic exploration,seismic attributes playing an enhanced important role in oil explore and exploit,and the relationships between all of the attributes and the physical and geological characteristics of the earth are much accounted of by more and more people.In this paper,we summarized several representative classifications of seismic attributes,analyzed the optimization of attributes,and gave some examples about attributes apply in reservoir prediction,reservoir characterization and hydrocarbon detect.


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