In this paper the detailed soil survey of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Jundiai, State of Sao Paulo, is described. The soil survey was done at the series level for the 142 ha of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Nine soil units were identified, the description and analysis of 5 Inceptisols, 3 Ultisols and 2 Oxisols are given. A soil map at 1:5,000 scale is also presented.


The main directions for improvement of the financial state of the enterprise is considered in terms of rehabilitation of the enterprise and increase profits. That a profitable enterprise, the stability of its income, the more his contribution to development of social sphere of the state, its economic potential.


Aim To study the uncertainty measure method of the third covering based generalized rough fuzzy set model.Methods Through transforming uncertainty,taking standard deviation of the lower and upper approximations as a measure of weight,a new weighted fuzziness for covering based generalized rough fuzzy set is proposed.Results The fuzzy degrees accord with the definition of fuzzy degrees,and can measure the uncertainty degree of the third covering based generalized rough fuzzy set.Conclusion The method of fuzziness for covering rough fuzzy sets by luo were improved,to make it more effective and practical.


Physical education alongside other activities intended to contribute to training and educating students and improving quality of life. Currently systemic approach in the sphere of physical education and sport, structural analysis of both the organizational form and the means used is a necessity. Physical education has a variety of means whose judicious use leads to the objectives and tasks of this activity. The physical education means not simply refer to their systematic hierarchy but envisages that leads to a new quality characteristics and own shares do not meet the taught elements outside the system. There is a dual relationship between the system means of influencing physical education and integrative system bio psycho social that it is man. The physical education means used properly optimizes intrinsic and extrinsic relations of the body, a new quality in the relations manifestations of matter and energy exchange with the external environment. Optimizing the ways of manifestation on all levels of human personality requires constant improvement and diversification of means of physical education enrichment system. At the same time, this relationship caused double plays an important role methodical methods and procedures system. The main means of physical education is to exercise in different forms. In order to achieve a healthy education for school physical education tasks routes utility applied provides the proper driving education and psychological capacity. © 2017 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK


The technological and economic feasibility of producing some selected chemicals by fermentation is discussed: acetone, butanol, acetic acid, citric acid, 2,3-butanediol, and propionic acid. The demand for acetone and butanol has grown considerably. They have not been produced fermentatively for three decades, but instead by the oxo and aldol processes. Improved cost of fermentative production will hinge on improving yields and using cellulosic feedstocks. The market for acetic acid is likely to grow 5% to 7%/yr. A potential process for production is the fermentation of hydrolyzed cellulosic material to ethanol followed by chemical conversion to acetic acid. For about 50 years fermentation has been the chief process for citric acid production. The feedstock cost is 15% to 20% of the overall cost of production. The anticipated 5%/yr growth in demand for citric acid could be enhanced by using it to displace phosphates in detergent manufacture. A number of useful chemicals can be derived from 2,3-butanediol, which has not been produced commercially on a large scale. R and D are needed to establish a viable commercial process. The commercial fermentative production of propionic acid has not yet been developed. Recovery and purification of the product require considerable improvement. Other chemicals suchmore » as lactic acid, isopropanol, maleic anhydride, fumarate, and glycerol merit evaluation for commercial fermentative production in the near future.« less


Riverbanks offer opportunities to lodge several recreation activities and soft mobility paths. This internship report focuses on theme of waterfront public space, presenting a rehabilitation proposal for the Caminho entre Quintas, a stretch of the Douro river left bank located between the Freixo bridge and the old Quinta dos Cubos, in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia, and corresponding accesses. This work included an analysis of the study area, which includes the area of the Caminho entre Quintas and its surroundings. Special attention was paid to the historical pre-existences (the farms and their old docks), to the relationship between the Caminho entre Quintas and the Douro river, to the necessity to establish a continuity solution with bike and pedestrian pathway at west, and to the accesses to the site. The proposal includes a group of strategic solutions to access the Caminho entre Quintas and requalification design for the Caminho entre Quintas. This design preserves the historical pre-existences, integrates the historical relations between the river and its margin, establishes a continuity solution with the waterfront at west, and seeks to meet the current user needs in order to create a dynamic and attractive space.


PurposeFor nanostores, striving to become the community group-buying leader is gaining prominence. This paper aims to construct Hotelling linear models to investigate whether nanostores should be registered as leaders and their decisions in a competitive environment.Design/methodology/approachThis paper constructs three Hotelling linear models: neither nanostore registers as community leader, only one nanostore registers as community leader and both nanostores register as community leader. The competitive operation strategies of two general nanostores under three scenarios are solved.FindingsThe study finds that nanostores without a cost advantage may benefit from being the first leader. The nanostore's preferred decisions depend on the investment cost parameters of its own and competitors which may lead to market share competition. Furthermore, consumers' sensitivity to community group-buying service has a negative effect on nanostores' profit.Originality/valueThe study is one of the few to consider the competition between community leaders. Besides, the study considers that the utilities functions of consumers are concurrently impacted by the service decisions, along with the price in different nanostores. It can provide nanostores useful implications in the dynamic industry.


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * EVERY BUSINESS HAS TO PAY ITS STAFF and its taxes. Many CPAs are addressing those twin needs by offering to help their small-business clients, not just with taxes But also with the many chores that go into payroll processing, from after-the-fact tax filings to benefits administration. * IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY HAS MADE offering payroll services easier in the past five years. It's a good fit with services such as pension work that must be in a prescribed electronic format. * A FIRM CAN HANDLE THE ENTIRE PROCESS for most payroll clients--prepare checks, arrange for the deposits and make sure the clients' payroll taxes are paid on a timely basis and their quarterly and annual returns are correctly prepared and filed. * USING A CPA FIRM OFFERS CLIENTS confidentiality plus the advantage of personalized service. Clients like to deal with only one provider and know the individual who answers the phone. * CPAs NEW TO THE PAYROLL NICHE WILL FIND that there is an abundance of software and Web-based providers to choose from. Start-up costs for software and training start at $1,500 but can go much higher. Firms can control staff costs By hiring $15- to $20-per-hour workers to do basic data entry. * PAYROLL SERVICES CAN BE AN ADJUNCT to other recurring CPA work that can give a firm a high return on investment relative to the amount of time they take. ********* Every business has to pay its staff and its taxes. Many CPAs are addressing those twin needs by offering to help their small business clients not just with taxes but also with the many chores that go into payroll processing, from after-the-fact tax filings to benefits administration. Payroll services is not a huge niche--most of the CPAs with whom we spoke for this article say it accounts for less than 5% of their total billings. But its value is larger than that figure implies. Having it on the menu, they say, positions a firm as an all-service provider and helps cement client relationships. Horovitz, Rudoy & Roteman (HR&R), Pittsburgh, has provided a complete proprietary in-house payroll service (FlexPay) for about 10 years, says Gordon Scherer, CPA and managing principal of the six-partner firm. It represents about 3.5% of the firm's income, and the partners have earmarked that money for funding the cost of their retirement (see "A Payroll Services Retirement Fund," page 31). Here's information to help you decide whether payroll could be a good business for your firm, whether you're a sole practitioner or a managing partner. A GOOD WAY TO GROW? "Payroll services are about 3% of my practice, but offering them is part of being a full-service accounting firm," says Daniel M. Ukestad, CPA, a Carmel, California, sole practitioner who does after-the-fact payroll for about a dozen small business clients. He provides those clients with tax and consulting services, not audits (see "Independence and Service Issues," page 32). He also does domestic-staff payroll for older individuals with household help. At Faulk & Winkler LLC of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, principal Monica Waller is responsible for client accounting services (CAS). "Payroll services is a small part of our business, but it works hand in hand with CAS, including general ledger, financial statements, accounts payable and accounts receivable, tax and pension work," she says. When tax partner Denise Carvalho, CPA, sees a client who might benefit from payroll services, she brings Waller in to discuss how to help. The firm has handled payroll since 1984 but says improved technology has made it easier in the past five years. It's a good fit with services such as pension work that must be in a prescribed electronic format. "It has become a real selling point for pension administration clients to transfer their payroll to us" she says. Principal Joseph Maloney, CPA, of four-partner firm Maloney, Reed, Scarpitti & Co. …


This articles analyses the two works of Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility and Emma, and their three films from the perspective of "the Proper Lady", which is the social decorum demanded to the 18th-century and the 19th-century women.
Austen's ideal vision is "the Proper Lady" for whom Austen puts more emphasis on the sense than sensibility. For instance, Elinor's sense is highly esteemed than sensibility of the impulsive Marianne in Sense and Sensibility, and Emma becomes an intellectual and altruistic "the Proper Lady" through her self-awakening.
However, Austen's unconscious attraction to sensibility is suggested in her two works, and sensibility is put to the foreground more strongly in the three films; the proportion of sensibility in the three films is more heightened than in the original texts.
As a result, it becomes necessary to view Austen's position from Austen's first work, Sense and Sensibility to her final work, Persuasion from the larger perspective. Austen becomes to put on emphasis on sense soaked with sensibility through Anne's choice in Persuasion, though she emphasized more sense than sensibility as a condition of "the Proper Lady" despite her favor to sensibility in her early two works.
This change of "the Proper Lady" can be interpreted as Austen's development in her feminist consciousness. Elinor, Marianne, and Emma, seems to be on the way to the maturer, more open and widened "the Proper Lady" of Anne. Here we can guess the cultural topography in the 19th-century English society, as "the Proper Lady" is a product of the contemporary sexual ideology that oppresses the intense passion and excessive sensibility of women as dangerous ones.


The organization of essential genes in the unc-22(IV) region of Caenorhabditis elegans has been studied. Mutations in the unc-22 region were isolated using the following four strategies: (1) EMS induced lethal mutations on LGIV(right) and LGV(1eft) using the balancer nTI(IV;V); (2) EMS induced lethal mutations closely linked to unc-22; (3) Formaldehyde induced deficiencies in unc-22 region; (4) Lethal mutations isolated in a mut4 background, which is associated with high mobility of the transposable element Tcl. Mutations that map in the unc-22 region and adjacent regions were subjected to genetic analysis. Along with previously isolated EMS induced lethal mutations, there is a total of 84 lethal mutations mapping to 14 zones (defined by deficiency breakpoints) and 36 complementation groups in the 2 map unit unc-22 region. A minimum estimate of essential gene number for the unc-22 region using a truncated Poisson calculation is 49 (70% saturation). I estimate a minimum of 3500 essential genes in the C. elegans genome. E s s e n M genes in the um-22 and adjacent regions have a wide distribution of mutant phenotypes that block development from the embryo to adult sterility. To study essential genes and their mutant alleles a t the molecular level, it is necessary to correlate the genetic map with the physical map. There are approximately 2000 kilobases of cosmids forming three contigs in the unc-22 region. A Tcl tagged allele of dpy-20, 0.2 map units from unc-22, provided the means to clone dpy-20 and anchor another point of the unc-22 contig to the genetic map. The nucleotide sequence of a dpy-20 cDNA did not show any significant matches in the EMBL 20 DNA sequence database. Northern blot analysis showed the dpy-20 transcript was most abundant in mid larval stages. Once the unc-22 contig had been anchored a t two points to the genetic map, a region of about 200 kilobases or 0.2 map units, the identification of sequences coding for the intervening essential genes was possible. Microinjection of cosmid DNA into the germline of individuals carrying a lethal mutation identified the cosmids containing let-56 and let-653. Together with previous work, a picture of the molecular organization of the region immediately to the left of unc-22 is emerging. Questions about coordinate expression and functional relatedness of the genes in this region can now be answered. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my senior supervisor, Dr. David L. Baillie for his enthusiasm, encouragement and guidance in the course of my research and writing. I would also like to thank the members of my supervisory committee, Drs. David G. Holm, Barry M. Honda and Ann M. Rose for their helpful advice, especially during the preparation of this thesis. Many thanks to Bob Johnsen, Kim McKim, Teresa Rogalski, Helen Stewart, Linda Turner, Marcia Wakarchuk, the students of the Rose lab and especially Raja Rosenbluth for worm genetics help and advice. I also especially thank Karen Beckenbach and Shiv Prasad for all of their help and lessons in molecular biology. Thanks also to Dr. John Sulston for his lesson in germ line transformation. I am also grateful for the technical support of Maragaret Rogalski. I would finally like to acknowledge the wonderful support from my friends, especially Stewart, and my family. This work was financially supported in part by an Arthur Minden predoctoral fellowship from the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada. TABLEOFCONTENTS APPROVAL PAGE ......................................................................................................... ii ... ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................... ill ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................... v LIST OF TABLES .......................................................................................................... ix LIST OF FIGURES ......................................................................................................... x GENERAL INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 1 PART I: GENETIC ANALYSIS O F ESSENTIAL GENES IN THE UNC-22(IV) REGION AND ADJACENT REGIONS ............................................................................... 7 ........................................................................................................ Introduction 8 Materials and Methods Nematode strains and culture conditions ................................................. 12 Determining the extent of nT1 (IV; V) recombination suppression ............. 22 Screen for EMS-induced zygotic and maternal effect lethal mutations on LGIV using nT1 .................................................................................... 24 Screens for EMS-induced lethal mutations tightly linked to unc.22(IV) ..... 24 Screens for formaldehyde-induced deficiencies ......................................... 26 Screens for mut-4(IV)-induced lethal mutations ....................................... 27 Complementation tests and mapping ....................................................... 28 Determination of lethal phenotypes ......................................................... 29 Results Extent of nTl(IV;V) recombination suppression ...................................... 35 Screen for EMS-induced lethal mutations on LGIV using nT1 ................. 36 .......... Screens for EMS-induced lethal mutations tightly linked to unc-22 37 Screens for formaldehyde-induced deficiencies ......................................... 37 Screens for mut-4(I)-induced lethal mutations ......................................... 38 Complementation tests and mapping ....................................................... 38 Lethal phenotypes of essential gene EMS-induced alleles and deficiencies 48 Discussion Summary ............................................................................................... 51 Criteria for complementation testing ....................................................... 52 Estimation of essential gene number in the unc-22 region ....................... 54 Estimation of essential gene number in the C . elegans genome ................ 58 Distribution of essential genes on the genetic map ................................... 59 Lethal phenotypes .................................................................................. 60 ..................................... Screens for lethal mutations in a mutator strain 63 PART I1 : CORRELATING THE GENETIC AND MOLECULAR MAPS . CLONING DPY-2O(IV) ....................................................................................................... 65 Introduction ...................................................................................................... -66 Materials and Methods ............................... A mut-6(ZV) induced allele of dpy-20 and revertants 69 ................................................................................ Strain Const. ruction 69 .......................................... dpy-20(e1282) temperature shift experiment 72 .................................................................. Preparation of genomic DNA 73 Restriction enzyme digestions ................................................................. 73 ..................................................................... Agarose gel electrophoresis 73 .................................................................................... Southern blotting 74 Isolation of DNA fragments from agarose gels ........................................ 74 ........................................................................ Labelling of DNA probes 74 Hybridization of probes to DNA filters .................................................... 75 Construction of a partial genomic lambda ZAP library from the mutant ...................................................................................... strain BC3484 75 .............................................................. Screening lambda ZAP libraries 76 ....................................................... Screening Charon 4 genomic library 76


This paper presents a new adaptive control scheme for vehicle planar motion control with fast parameter estimation in moderate maneuvers in real-time. The parameters to be estimated include vehicle mass and yaw moment of inertia, which are important to the control systems for lightweight vehicles (LWVs) whose mass and yaw moment of inertia values change substantially with payload variations. A traditional Lyapunov-type adaptive control design rarely provides the bonus of accurate estimation of the true vehicle parameter values due to insufficient excitation in normal/moderate driving maneuvers. In this paper, to circumvent the obstacle of low adaptation rate, the traditional update law is supplemented with a new adaptive compensator to achieve much faster parameter convergence. The new design preserves the tracking performance and poses no additional requirements on the driving maneuvers. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive scheme is capable of constructing true values of vehicle mass and yaw moment of inertia in just a few seconds once the corresponding persistent excitation is satisfied.


Setting George Herbert's Lyrics, included in this volume of the George Herbert Journal, centers on the compositional process and interpretational nuances as expressed by contemporary English and American composers working with Herbert's texts. Presented in a digital, interactive format, the DVD (for computer use only) offers insights into the composers' selection of lyrics and the challenges they faced in setting the lyrics to music. It also highlights varying interpretations of particular poems. For example, Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Easter" and "The Call" (from "Mystical Songs") are contrasted with compositions by David Ashley White (Selah Music Publishers, 1993) and Barry Ferguson (Another Music: Through the Year with George Herbert, 2007). Additionally, a wide range of composers, including Simon Lole, David Halls, Timothy Krueger, and Jim Scott Orrick, present and discuss their new compositions. These are counterpointed by the inclusion of a digitally reformatted presentation of settings of lyrics from The Temple from the eighteenth through the twentieth century by the Bemerton (England) Choirs in celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Herbert's birth in 1993. The DVD contains settings of the following poems by Herbert:


Excerpt Dr. John F. Murray: We can use the term "opportunistic" to characterize infections that adapt themselves to unique circumstances favoring their development. To this should be added a partic...


The Madurese ethnic is known as one of the diverse ethnic groups in Indonesia for having a high business ethic. The only question is whether their business ethic due to religious factors, environmental values which forced them to work hard or because of both factors as a result of the dialectical process that eventually forms the Madurese ethnic. Therefore, this true of academic question is to be understood in this study. The object of this study is Madurese ethnic who live in Malang, both from santri and non-santri. The research uses a qualitative approach with a phenomenological and descriptive analysis method. Data mining techniques include observation, interviews, and documentation. The results show that the dialect that has occurred gradually in a relatively long time formed the Madurese ethnic in the city of Malang as a hard worker. It indicates that both santri and non-santri are not separated because motivated by religious teachings and moral values that exist locally. However, the santri groups seem more motivated by religious teachings compare with non-santri groups which more motivated by local wisdom value.


This paper studies the statistic relationship between corporate performance and the largest shareholder's expropriation,and checks the other receivable account's impact on corporate performance.Empirical result suggests that the other account receivable has a significant negative effect on corporate performance,and the largest shareholder could have predation of the corporate resources by the other account receivable.


This paper presents the world's first regulatory pilot on Licensed Shared Access (LSA) in the 2.3–2.4 GHz band, enacted in Italy to delve deeper on the role that spectrum sharing has for efficient use of spectrum. This contribution gives a high-level description of the pilot testbed architecture, the sharing framework and the sharing rules currently defined within the LSA pilot to protect the incumbent users in Italy. Sharing conditions are investigated through measurements and simulations in femtocells and microcells environments which are expected to represent the optimal use case for spectrum sharing towards high capacity mobile broadband.


Discloses an optical proximity sensor having an offset compensation. The optical proximity sensor includes a driver, a photodetector and a bias signal generator. Selectively driving the drive source. Photodetector generates an analog signal indicative of the detection light detected by the light intensity detector. Comprising light detected by the light emitted by the light source reflected off an object within a sensing region of the optical sensor, and ambient light interference. Comprising a disturbance light emitted by the light source and the light detector to be detected, but not the light reflected by the object within the sensing region of the optical sensor. Bias signal generator adapted to selectively generate an analog offset signal, the offset signal and the analog detecting signal produced by the photodetector of the simulation are combined to produce an analog compensated detection signal. Analog offset compensating signal comprises a disturbance light detected by the photodetector light in at least a portion.


The application of Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy (ARPES) to crystalline solids and the utilization of such studies to illuminate several questions concerning the detailed electronic structure of such materials, are discussed. Specifically, by construction of a Direct Transition (DT) model and the utilization of energy-dependent angle-resolved normal photoemission in the photon energy range 32 eV < or = h..nu.. < or = 200 eV, the bulk band structure of copper is experimentally mapped out along three different directions in the Brillouin Zone; GAMMA to K, GAMMA to L, and GAMMA to X. In addition, various effects which influence the obtainable resolution in vector k-space, namely, thermal disorder, momentum broadening, and band mixing, are discussed and are shown to place severe limitations on the applicability of the DT model. Finally, a model for Angle-Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (ARXPS) based on the symmetry of the initial-state wavefunctions is presented and compared to experimental results obtained from copper single crystals.


Raman spectroscopy with cw lasers in the visible, near ir and near uv is one of the most precise techniques to investigate low frequency elementary excitations in solids. It is particularly suitable for determining quasiparticle renormalizations due to small perturbations. The technique will be illustrated with examples for conventional semiconductors (effects of isotopic mass changes and fluctuations on phonon frequencies and line widths, effect of doping on same parameters) and high-Tc superconductors (effect of superconducting gaps on phonon frequencies and line widths, effect of crystal field transitions of the rare earth atoms on phonon frequencies and line shapes).


A mechanism involved in high on‐aspirin treatment residual platelet reactivity is platelet multidrug resistance protein 4 (MRP4) overexpression. Aspirin enhances platelet MRP4 expression with a PPARα‐dependent mechanism and reduces miR‐21 expression that, in turn, downregulates PPARα expression.


The thymosinβ(Tβ) gene was cloned from the carp peripheral blood leucocytes by fluorescence differential display reverse transcriptase chain reaction(fluoroDDRT-PCR) .The full-length thymosinβ cDNA was 528 bp with the open reading frame located from 40 bp to 178 bp,encoding 46 amino acid residues.Its 5' untranslated region(UTR) is 39 bp and 3' UTR is 348 bp which contains poly(A) signal(AATAAA) and poly (A) tail.Its GenBank Accession Number is AY457946.The deduced amino acid sequences of the carp Tβ possessed 84% ,84% ,and 84% similarity with the Tβ a of Cyprinus carpio,Tβ a of Danio rerio and beta thymosin-like protein 2 of Danio rerio.The carp Tβ were clustered with Tβ a of Cyprinus carpio,Tβ a of Danio rerio,Tβ a of Esox lucius,Tβ a of Salmo salar and beta thymosin-like protein 2 of Danio rerio.It is essential for a complete understanding of the mechanisms of thymosinβ in immune response of fish.


This paper addresses some shortcomings of current qualitative simulation being compared to human reasoning about dynamics. Some are related to control-theoretical approaches that remain at a low level of abstraction and others to the need of richer knowledge representation and inference on quantity-based information. The components of human algebraic reasoning beyond that of current qualitative models are also discussed. A general quantity base management system that implements those ideas for more practical qualitative modeling is presented with its design rationales.<<ETX>>


Today, indoor localization technology based on WiFi signals has become more and more popular and applicable. It not only facilitates people's lives but also creates enormous economic value. However, during the propagation of the WiFi signal, it is easily interfered by obstacles, and the signal fluctuation is significant, resulting in low accuracy of positioning. To overcome these problems, we reduce the influence of environmental factors firstly. Then the positioning accuracy is improved by using the SVM model to distinguish the NLOS or LOS environment and employing the capsule networks to derive the users' positions with the WiFi 2.4G and 5G signals. As we all know, the WiFi 2.4G signal has excellent penetrability and is less affected by obstacles, while the WiFi 5G signal has excellent stability and small fluctuations. Therefore, we use the advantages of these two kinds of signals to derive the optimal suggestion by the capsule neural network, which is the learning system with minimum data sets needed. The experimental results show that the positioning effect of the two signals simultaneously is better than the positioning effect of a single signal. We also compare with the traditional indoor positioning methods and use the simulation data to carry out the robustness test, and the positioning accuracy reached 0.99 m in the field environment finally.


Data frequently used for a nutritional evaluation, eg, estimated calorie and protein needs, weight, triceps skinfold thickness, midarm-muscle circumference, serum albumin and transferrin levels, skin tests, total lymphocyte count, nitrogen balance, and creatinine height index determinations, are conceptualized herein. It is thought that many of these values lack appropriate validation in burn patients. With the accumulation of new data, many nutritional surveillance techniques will require modification and reinterpretation. Therefore, caution is essential when interpreting these data. In the meantime, currently available data are probably best construed by a team as an assemblage of findings that may classify a burn patient at risk of morbidity and mortality unless additional attention is given to meeting nutritional needs


We assessed humoral and cytokine responses in monthly plasma samples from ALS patients who received glatiramer acetate (GA) immunization every day or every other week, or remained untreated (control) from a six‐month phase II trial. Samples were evaluated by GA‐specific ELISA assays for detection of combined immunoglobulin (Ig) classes (IgM,A,G), IgG alone, and IgG subclasses (IgG1, IgG2, IgG3, and IgG4). T‐helper (Th) type 1 and 2 (Th1 and Th2) cytokine levels were determined by flow cytometric cytokine bead arrays. Fourteen of 21 GA‐immunized patients produced anti‐GA Ig responses. Those treated every day produced anti‐GA responses within one month, while those treated every other week exhibited responses by month two. All anti‐GA IgG subclass concentrations were increased in excess of 4.2‐fold in plasma from treated patients, and anti‐GA IgG1 comprised the majority of the humoral response. Mean plasma cytokine levels were statistically indistinguishable between treatment regimens; however, stratification by patient and time on study showed more prevalent trends in changes of Th1 or Th2 cytokine levels following GA treatment every other week or every day, respectively. These data show significant humoral responses and cytokine trends following GA immunization in ALS patients.


Love can be used as an answer to the question of human existence. So many philosophers from the west and east offer concepts about love, Erich Fromm is one of them who considers that love is an art. The purpose of this study is to classify five objects of love from Erich Fromm's thoughts in poems by W.S Rendra. Poetry was chosen as the object of research because poetry can be used as a means for someone to express love. This research method is a literature study as well as a literature review. The results of this study are five titles of poems that represent the five objects of love. First, object of brotherly love entitled "Aku Mendengar Suara" because this poem contains Rendra who loves his oppressed brothers. The object of maternal love titled "Ibunda" contains a mother's love that is like the earth that provides its fertility for her children to grow and sacrifices everything a mother has for her children, truly loving even though she does not get anything from the child. The object of erotic love with the title "Barangkali Karena Bulan" is about exclusive love to one person, namely the poet's love for a woman. Self-love with the poem titled "Orang Biasa" contains Rendra's love for himself. Last, the object of God's love titled "Tuhan, Aku Cinta Padamu" is about Rendra's desire to return to Him and achieve unification between the servant and his God.


Carbon dioxide angiocardiography is a safe and simple diagnostic procedure to perform. It is more readily and more easily performed with cineroentgenography than with single film technique. One hundred studies were carried out in 90 patients. Cardiac pulsations were of no value in assessing tile presence of pericardial fluid. The presence of a fluid wave in a thickened opaque band correlated well with the presence of pericardial effusion. The absence of a fluid wave in a thickened opaque band was indicative of pericardial thickening with or without the presence of small amounts of fluid. Asymmetry of the opaque band was of no specific diagnostic significance except when associated with flattening; this combination is strongly suggestive of constrictive pericarditis.Compartmentalized gas due to the crista terminalis of the right atrium is clearly depicted and false positive interpretation which is possible in a single film, when all the gas in the right atrium is trapped posterior to the crista, can be avo...


In this study, a novel temperature-sensitive polymer, poly(N-2-methoxyisopropylacrylamide), PNMIPA, in the crosslinked hydrogel form was obtained. The monomer, N-2-methoxyisopropylacrylamide (NMIPA) was synthesized by the nucleophilic substitution reactions of acryloyl chloride with 2-methoxyisopropylamine. Hydrogel matrix of PNMIPA was obtained by the bulk polymerization method. The bulk polymerization experiments were performed at +4°C, by using N,N-methylenebisacrylamide (MBA) as crosslinker, polyethyleneglycol (PEG) 4000 as diluent, and potassium persulfate (KPS) and tetramethylethylenediamine (TEMED) as the initiator and accelerator, respectively. The same polymerization procedures were applied by changing monomer, initiator, crosslinker and diluent concentrations in order to obtain crosslinked gel structures having different temperature–sensitivity properties. The equilibrium swelling ratio of PNIMPA gel matrices at constant temperature increased with increasing initiator concentration and decreasing monomer concentration. The use of PEG 4000 as diluent in the gel synthesis resulted in about two times increase in equilibrium swelling ratios in the low temperature region. A decrease in the equilibrium swelling ratios of gel matrices started at 30°C and the decrease became insignificant at 55°C. Temperature-sensitivities were determined in two different media. Distilled water medium was used in order to observe the temperature-sensitivity of the gel clearly and the phosphate buffer medium was used in order to represent the temperature-sensitive swelling behavior of the gel when it is used in biological media. Step effect was applied on ambient temperature in two opposite directions in order to examine the dynamic swelling and shrinking behaviors of the gels. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2008


presumably higher biomass of more favorable prey type. Faster growth reflected in the otolith microstructures may improve survival during the highly vulnerable larval stages of ABT, with direct implications for recruitment processes.


The design process of an injection mould with angle ejector pin mechanism for a cell phone bottom cover was stated in detail.The improvement of the angle ejector pin makes the product demolded successfully.


Introduction: Recent studies of anti-PCSK9 antibodies have established this new class as highly effective in lowering LDL-C and well tolerated with or without background statins. Because peak LDL-C responses to anti-PCSK9 antibodies are not linearly dose-proportional, understanding the pharmacodynamic profile of the therapy can help select optimal dosing. Consequently, we assessed the peak LDL-C effects of 3 evolocumab doses during ongoing therapy and the persistence of effects after 2 weeks when the next dose would be due. Methods: In the 12 week Phase 2 LAPLACE-TIMI 57 study 107 patients underwent assessments at weeks 9 and 11 in addition to the usual biweekly lipid measurements at weeks 8 and 10. We analyzed data from patients who received evolocumab 70 or 140 mg Q2W or 420 mg QM for PCSK9 suppression and peak LDL-C effectiveness estimated to occur 1 week post dosing. Persistence of the LDL-C lowering effect over the next week was also assessed. Results: The Figure shows PCSK9 and LDL-C over the analyzed interval. Mean baseline LDL-C in these groups was about 130 mg/dL. Week 8 LDL-C representing steady state trough effects were 85.4 mg/dL (35% below baseline), 47.1 mg/dL (62% below baseline) and 52.8 mg/dL (52% below baseline) for 70 and 140 mg Q2W and 420 mg QM, respectively. Week 9 LDL-C for the 70 and 140 mg doses reflected reductions from baseline of 55% and 70%, respectively and an additional -29% and -22% from trough levels. The offset from maximum LDL-C lowering at week 9 to week 10 for Q2W regimens showed mean LDL-C increases of 25.4 mg/dL in the 70 mg group and 6.3 mg/dL in the 140 mg group. No offset was seen in the 420 mg group during weeks 9-10. LDL-C variability was greatest for 70 mg Q2W over the studied dosing interval. Conclusions: During steady state dosing of evolocumab on stable statin therapy, dose escalations affect the duration of the LDL-C lowering response more than the peak effect. Higher doses result in less fluctuation in LDL-C response, which may be a goal of therapy.


10031Background: Older adults (OA) age 65+ make up to 60% of all newly diagnosed cancers. However, only 22-32% of patients accrued in cooperative group studies in the 1990s were age 65+. In 2003, s...


The state of the global environment came in for its periodic review recently by the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development in Paris. There, environmental ministers from the 24 OECD member countries, together with their counterparts from the European Economic Community as a collective body and from Yugoslavia, held a threeday meeting in June, the third such gathering since 1974. Huguette Bouchardeau, France's Minister of the Environment, who chaired the meeting, acknowledges, "We can't impose rules or regulations on one another in the same way that [EEC] can adopt regulations that become law throughout its member countries." On the other hand, through OECD, "We are making decisions as to what kind of [environmental] objectives we wish to attain," she asserts. Inevitably, key issues of international concern like acid rain, hazardous waste shipments, and explosions at chemical plants such as have occurred at Bhopal, India, and Seveso, Italy, were among the topics of discussion. But other ...


Objective
To observe the effect of Shenqifuzheng injection on immune and hematopoietic function in patients with breast cancer during chemotherapy.

Methods
A retrospective study was performed on 98 cases of breast cancer who were admitted from August 2014 to August 2016.Patients who received postoperative CEF chemotherapy(cyclophosphamide, pharmorubicin, fluorouracil)were divided into two the observation group(n=50)and the control group(n=48). Patients in the control group were treated with CEF, patients in the observation group were added with Shenqifuzheng injection on the basis of the control group.The changes of peripheral blood cells and T cell subsets between the two groups before and after chemotherapy were compared.

Results
The white blood cell, hemoglobin and platelet in the observation group before and after chemotherapy were slightly reduced, and the differences were not statistically significant(P>0.05), the white blood cells, hemoglobin and platelet in the control group reduced significantly after chemotherapy, and the differences were statistically significant(P<0.05); CD4, CD8 and CD4/CD8 in the observation group and the control group were obviously changed before and after chemotherapy, data in the observation group was significantly increased, while in the control group was significantly reduced(all P<0.05).

Conclusion
Chemotherapy combined with Shenqifuzheng injection can improve immune function and reduce bone marrow suppression in patients with breast cancer.

Key words:
Shenqifuzheng injection; Breast cancer; Chemotherapy; Immunity


For many years,econometric study on health risk of environmental pollution has been mainly concerned with air pollution,but less research has been done on the damage of water pollution to human health.In this paper,by introducing the health evaluation indicator used in public health study,i.e.years of potential life lost(YPLL),a qualitative and quantitative evaluation method is proposed for a systems analysis of health risk of water pollution to urban residents.Taking Xi'an City as a case study,and adopting such value assessment methods as YPLL,VSL(value of a statistical life),and WTP(willingness to pay),a value assessment is made on the economic loss caused by water pollution to the health of urban residents in Xi'an.


ABSTRACT This article describes the revision of Vespia, Heckman-Stone, and Delworth's (2002) Supervision Utilization Rating Form (SURF) and validation of the resulting Adapted SURF. The Adapted SURF is designed to provide supervisors with a cleaner measure of supervisee behaviors that contribute to effective supervision.


Summary 1. The effect of single doses of arsenate, bilirubin, dinitrophenol and oligomycin on synthesis of mitochondria phospholipids of the liver of rats was studied. 2. A statistically significant decrease occurred in synthesis of phosphatidyl inositol, sphingomyelin, lecithin, phosphatidyl serine and phosphatidyl ethanolamine of liver mitochondria following administration of dinitrophenol. 3. Administration of arsenate, oligomycin and bilirubin inhibited statistically the incorporation of the isotope into all the phospholipid fractions of liver mitochondria except sphingomyelin and phosphatidyl inositol. However, oligomycin inhibited incorporation of the isotope into the sphingomyelin fraction and arsenate inhibited the phosphatidyl inositol fraction.


Objective To explore the best treatment of pulsatile exophthalmos in TCCF patients.Methods To open the cranium and ligate the internal carotid artery in the external cranium and internal cranium respectively;To open the cranium and put the copper wire into the sinus cavernosus to thrombosis the fistulas; Thrombosis the fistulas with microcoil by inter ventional treatment. Results Two patients were treated by trapping of carotid-cavernous fistula, but the rebounds of the eyeballs were very slow after operations. Two patients were treated by copper wire electro-throm bosis,but severe headache lasted for more than one month after treat ment.Twenty patients were treated by embloization of carotid-cavernous fistula by micoreoil, the fistulas disappeared at once or rapidly. Conclu sion Microcil treating pulsatile exorbitism in patients with traumatic carotid-cavernous fistulas is very effective.


Abstract.
 Nine gastropod species are reported from early Bajocian marine deposits at two localities in the Neuquén Basin, supplying the first detailed documentation of six gastropod families from the Middle Jurassic of Argentina at that time. The new gastropod species include Pleurotomaria bajociana sp. nov. (Pleurotomariidae); Cryptaulax weaveri sp. nov. and Rhabdocolpus(Infacerithium) excavatus sp. nov. (Procerithiidae); Anulifera sigmoidea sp. nov. (Protorculidae); Globularia andina sp. nov. (Ampullinidae); Eunerinea? neuqueniana sp. nov. (Eunerineidae) and Promathildia? spinosa sp. nov. (Gordenellidae). Leptomaria? leufuensis (Weaver) and Globularia klingamanni(Weaver) are also recorded from the same localities. Rhabdocolpus (Infacerithium) and Promathildia are mentioned here for the first time in the Argentinean Mesozoic, and Cryptaulax, Anulifera and Eunerinea extend their chronostratigraphical and paleogeographical distribution into the Bajocian of South America.


Since the rise of Islamic extremism, parallel to religious extremism and political violence in Eastern Europe, and the increasingly belligerent rhetoric of fundamentalist Christianity in the United States, "religion" is now a major element of studies in international relations, political science, sociology, and naturally, peace studies. The significance of religion, as has been widely noted, caused American scholars of international relations to appear somewhat flat-footed, as few of them had any interest, much less background, in religion as a significant element of politics. Therefore, an Oxford Handbook seems an obvious need. Although this volume is clearly constructed around the particular approaches and interests of the Joan Kroc International Institute for Peace Studies at Notre Dame, where the editors are based, the work under review is an excellent overview of many different issues in the relationship of Religion and contemporary peace studies. Similar to other Oxford "Handbook" projects, this volume is nearly 700 pages, consisting of 25 essays. This review will necessarily be brief, with an emphasis on clarifying the approach and coverage of issues featured in this fascinating collection.


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Career Development Events are a great form of experiential learning - the participants have opportunities to demonstrate the knowledge and skills they have gained through classroom and lab instruction. At Montana State University, the concept is taken even a step further. College students plan and implement the state-level CDEs for the high school students, thereby meeting the needs of the agricultural education community in Montana. "Agricultural Youth Event Management" or AGED 400 prepares pre-service agricultural educators to plan and implement activities for youth, such as County and State Fairs, 4-H contests, and FFA Career Development Events (CDE). This task gives students experience in learning how to plan the event, obtain resources, organize details, manage volunteers, maintain records, improve time management skills, and evaluate the effectiveness of the actual event. This not only meets the needs of the agricultural community, but provides students with an authentic learning experience in a realistic setting. The leadership skills prove valuable for those who are pursuing careers working with youth and event management, particularly in agricultural and extension education. High school teachers who completed the course as MSU students have noted they feel much better prepared to organize and implement local and district-level events. Course Implementation This pragmatic course builds students' leadership skills through planning, implementation, and evaluation of the annual Montana FFA State Career Development Events. It is intended to provide information and practice for students in any agricultural major, but particularly those whose major is Agricultural Education. The course is offered every spring semester to align with the Montana Career Development Events that are offered at the State FFA Convention. Each fall, nominations and selections for event head chairs, co-chairs, and committee members are made at CFFA meetings. Once decisions are finalized, all students involved in an event must register for the AGED 400 course. The course is coordinated by two student head chairs with oversight provided by three members of the Agricultural Education faculty. An online learning management system is used for delivery of information and updates, as well as group work, email, and discussions. Students work in their committees during class according to their assigned CDE Agricultural Mechanics, Agricultural Sales, Agronomy, Extemporaneous and Prepared Public Speaking, Farm Business Management, Livestock, and Parliamentary Procedure. Additionally, committees are formed for the Agri-Science Event CDE scoring and a convention dance. Instructors provide information and feedback weekly. Class assignments include development of an advisor letter and timeline, materials list and budget, contest written materials (exams, exam keys, practicums, practicum keys, speaking topics, judges' rules, directions, event layout and design), list of personnel and duties, names of volunteers assisting with the event and their roles, an individual final reflection paper, and peer evaluations. Because the event location changes yearly, students are also required to visit the site early in the semester to see the facilities and visualize event layout. Each member of the Agricultural Education faculty serves as an official advisor to specific events based on expertise. Students must consult with faculty each week on event plans, updates, and organization. Faculty serve as the final editors of all written materials to ensure the accuracy and suitability of information for the event. Each CDE also has a consultant committee comprised of three agricultural education teachers who are selected based on previous state and/or national success in the event. Finally, the State FFAAdvisor and FFA Foundation Director serve as liaisons to overall convention details and sponsors. Supervision by an advisory committee of consultants, agricultural education teachers, and faculty helps to provide oversight and integrity to each event as well as the overall CDE experience. …


Relationships between size, wet weight, dry weight, carbon and nitrogen content were determined in Ophiothrix fragilis (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Such relationships appeared very useful when studying dynamic processes such as nutrition, growth, excretion or reproduction, considered as fluxes of carbon and nitrogen in the ecosystem. Relationships between size, wet weight, dry weight, ash free dry weight, carbon and nitrogen content of organisms are of fundamental interest in ecological studies of ecosystems. They allow us to understand and quantify the role of a species as it stores, consumes or produces organic matter during its life cycle. Determination of conversion factors are time-consuming but very useful for estimating flows in the ecosystem (Brey et al., 1988). Some compilations of conversion factors have been published (Båmstedt, 1981; Rumohr et al., 1987). Ophiothrix fragilis (Abildgaard) is the dominant species of the 'pebbles with sessile epifaunal community' (Davoult, 1990), located in the Dover Strait (eastern Channel), where tidal currents are very strong. It is considered as an efficient suspension feeder (Roushdy & Hansen, 1960; Warner, 1971) and lives in dense populations (1000–2000 individuals m-2; Davoult, 1989) which are assumed to have a significant effect on the fluxes of organic matter from the pelagic to the benthic system and on the fluxes of ammonium to the water column (Davoult et al., 1991). Individuals were sampled in May and June 1991 off the Cape Gris-Nez (50°55′N 1°35′E). Two-hundred individuals were measured (diameter ±01 mm, after Guille, 1964), dried at 60°C for 48 h, weighed (±0·1 mg), burnt at 520°C for 6 h (Anonymous, 1986), and the ash weighed (±0·1 mg). Total organic carbon and nitrogen content were determined with a CHN element analyser (Carlo Erba 1106): after a flash combustion in a helium stream temporarily enriched with pure oxygen, quantitative combustion was achieved by passing gases over Cr2O3 after a transfer through a reduction reactor to eliminate the excess of oxygen; components were separated in a chromato-graphic column, eluted, then measured by a thermal conductivity detector. Thirty-eight dried ophiuroids were ground with a micro-grinder, then two sub-samples (except for individuals <2 mm) were weighed at ±1 μg (76 measurements).


We considered hydrologic and chemical factors controlling P export from a 39.5-ha mixed land use watershed in east-central Pennsylvania, focusing our evaluation on watershed vulnerability to P loss. The spatial variations of P source factors, soil P, and P inputs from fertilizer and manure were evaluated. Distribution of Mehlich-3 soil P on a 30-m grid over the watershed showed that soil P varied with land use. Soils in wooded areas had low Mehlich-3 P ( 200 mg kg−1. Phosphorus sources and transport controls on P loss were evaluated by examining in-stream P concentrations during storm hydrographs. Phosphorus concentrations decreased 50% downstream from headwaters to watershed outlet, and were more closely related to near-stream (within 60 m) distribution of high-P soils than to that of the whole watershed. This suggests that near-stream surface runoff and soil P are controlling P export from the watershed. Based on these findings, we modified the Phosphorus Index (PI), a user-oriented tool developed by the NRCS-USDA to identify critical source areas controlling P export from agricultural watersheds. The modification separately evaluates P source and transport factors, and incorporates the hydrologic return period to describe contributing areas. The modified PI was applied to the watershed to illustrate interactions between P source and transport processes controlling P export, and approaches for managing P loss.


Experiments to explore the effect of initial disturbance length-scale on turbulence developed in the presence of a uniform mean shear are the subject of this paper. Flows with nearly the same mean shear (8·6 sec−1) and initially different turbulent scales are generated in a wind tunnel test-section by placing grids just downstream of a honeycomb of uniform cell diameter (¼ in.) and non-uniform cell length. Both round-rod grids of uniform square mesh and parallel-rod construction with roughly equal solidity (0.34) are used. Grid mesh sizes range from $\frac{1}{24}$ in. to 2 in. From the results it is concluded that for a given value of mean shear the imposed length scale fixes the energy level of the resulting turbulence, provided the scale is sufficiently large. When it is reduced below some minimum value the turbulence decays. Also, it is found that two-dimensional flow-generator geometries are more effective than three-dimensional geometries in producing a roughly homogeneous turbulent field with a higher fluctuation level in a shorter distance.


Islam et al(l990) described a patient with multiple myeloma in whom bizarre cellular morphology was associated with a poor prognosis, death occurring within 6 months of diagnosis. Zuckerberg et aJ (1990) had previously described six similar patients, all presenting with advanced disease and dying shortly after diagnosis. We recently observed similar morphological features in a patient with a localized plasmacytoma. A previously fit 61year-old Caucasian man presented with a 5-month history of pain in his sternum and shoulder. On examination he was tender over the sternum but otherwise well. Blood tests showed Hb 14.8 g/dl, WBC 5.8 x 109/1, platelets 185 x 109/l. ESR 4 mm/h; urea and electrolytes and liver function tests normal; no paraprotein demonstrable in serum either by isoelectric focusing or zone electrophoresis: serum immunoglobulins normal; serum beta-2 microglobulin normal. No Bence Jones protein was demonstrable in his urine. An isotope bone scan showed patchily increased uptake over the sternum. A chest X-ray showed osteolysis of the sternum and clavicles. A skeletal survey and computerized tomographic scans of thorax and abdomen failed to reveal any other bony or extra-osseous tumours. A bone marrow aspirate and trephine biopsy from the right iliac crest was normal (plasma cells 3%). Bone marrow aspirated from the sternum showed a dense infiltrate of pleomorphic cells, ranging from identifiable plasma cells with deeply basophilic cytoplasm, to large cells with abundant cytoplasm and cleaved, convoluted or multilobed nuclei. Some of these cells contained PAS negative nuclear and/or cytoplasmic vacuoles. The morphology (Fig 1 ) is similar to that reported by Islam et a1 (1 990) and Zuckerberg et al(l990). Immunophenotypic analysis of cell suspensions and cytospin preparations suggested a B-cell lineage, with strong cytoplasmic kappa light chain expression. This was confirmed by clonal immunoglobulin heavy chain gene rearrangement on Southern blots prepared with several different restriction enzymes using a JH probe. The diagnosis of a plasma cell tumour (Jackson et al, 1988) was supported by the following immunophenotype reactions: BU-11: 96% cells positive: CD-38: 54% cells weakly positive. The cells were non-reactive with antibodies directed against the following markers: (Surface) HLA-DR, CD34, CD13, CD33, CD15, CD14. CDllc. CD10, CD19. CD37, CD22, CD61, CD7. CD2. (Cytoplasmic) CD3, CD22. IgM. IgG. IgA. (Nuclear) TdT. CD45 was expressed on 15% ofcells. The cytogenetic analysis was normal. The immunophenotype and gene rearrangement data, together with the morphological descriptions


This paper deals with the results of an X-ray photo electron spectroscopy of lanthanide ortho-metoxybenzoates Ln(C6H4OCH3COO-)3, where Ln represents lanthanides La through Lu except for Pm and C6H4OCH3COO- - residuum of ortho-metoxybenzoic acid. The core and outer electron X-ray photo electron spectroscopy spectra in the binding energy range of 0-1250 eV were shown to exhibit a complex, fine structure. The said structure was established due to the outer (0-15 eV binding energy) and inner (15-50 eV binding energy) valence molecular orbital from the filled Ln5p and O2s atomic shells multiple splitting, many-body perturbation, dynamic effect, etc. The mechanisms of such a fine structure formation were shown to manifest different probabilities in the spectrum of a certain electronic shell. There fore, the fine X-ray photo electron spectroscopy spectral structure resulting from a certain mechanism can be interpreted and its quantitative parameters related to the physical and chemical properties of the studied com pounds (degree of delocalization and participation of Ln4f electrons in the chemical bond, electronic configuration and oxidation states, density of uncoupled electrons on paramagnetic ions, degree of participation of the low binding energy filled electronic shells of lanthanide and ligands information of the outer and in nervalence molecular orbitals, lanthanide close environment structure in amorphous materials, etc).


There is increasing use of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) in such neuromuscular disorders as chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, myasthenia gravis, and inflammatory myopathy. A major factor in the current interest in the use of IVIG is its relative safety.l We report a case of bilateral cerebral thrombosis in a young adult after IVIG therapy for myasthenia gravis. Case report. A 27-year-old normotensive woman with a 3year history of generalized myasthenia gravis was hospitalized with dysarthria, generalized muscle weakness, and fatigability. Medications at the time of admission included pyridostigmine 90 mg every 4 hours, prednisone 60 mg daily, and azathioprine 125 mg (2.5 mg/kg) daily. Thymectomy had been performed within the first year of diagnosis of myasthenia gravis. The patient also had a history of common migraine headaches. She was not receiving an oral contraceptive. Due to a history of diminishing response to plasmapheresis and previous difficulty with maintaining venous access necessary for plasma exchange, the patient was administered IVIG for treatment of refractory myasthenia gravis. Twenty grams (400 mgkg) of M G (Sandoglobulin) was given daily for 5 days. After the fourth IVIG infusion, the patient developed a severe throbbing headache, nausea, vomiting, and a fever of 101.9 OF. CT of the head was normal. Lumbar puncture was performed and CSF examination revealed 0 RBCs per mm3; 41 WBCs per mm3, with 32% neutrophils, 27% lymphocytes, and 41% monocytes-histiocytes; a protein level of 28 mg/dl (normal, 15 to 45 mg/dl); and glucose of 49 mg/dl (serum, 171 mg/dl). CSF VDRL was nonreactive. CSF bacterial, acid-fast bacilli, fungal, and viral cultures showed no growth. A CSF bacterial antigen detection panel was negative for Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, group B streptococcus, and Neisseria meningitidis. CSF Lyme antibody was negative. Blood and urine cultures showed no growth. The patient developed a post-lumbar puncture headache and required an autologous epidural blood patch. Ten days after the completion of the IVIG treatment, while still experiencing headaches, the patient developed a right homonymous hemianopia, a right hemiparesis, and a hemisensory deficit involving the face, arm, and leg. MRI of the brain (figure) demonstrated ischemic infarctions in both frontal lobes and the left parietal and occipital lobes. Transthoracic echocardiogram was normal. There was no evidence of atrial fibrillation, ischemic heart disease, ventricular thrombi, cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease, bacterial endocarditis, or ventricular septa1 defect. Carotid Doppler studies revealed no evidence of extracranial carotid or vertebral artery occlusive disease. MR angiography performed 1 year before for evaluation of the patient's migraine headaches revealed no evidence of intracranial cerebrovascular disease. ESR was 42 mm/hr. Antinuclear antibodies, anti-double-stranded DNA, complement levels, rheumatoid factor, protein C and protein S assays, antithrombin I11 level, prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody, and anticardiolipin antibody panel were all negative. Serum viscosity was not determined. The patient was anticoagulated with heparin for progressing stroke and she gradually improved. Observation of the patient over the next year revealed an excellent recovery from cerebral thrombosis, and she had no further ischemic events. Discussion. This 27-year-old patient developed bilateral cerebral infarctions 10 days after the completion of a 5-day course of IVIG for refractory myasthenia gravis. Her IVIG treatment was complicated by severe headache and her CSF studies were consistent with aseptic meningitis, a known complication of IVIG She also had a history of migraine headaches, which have also been reported after WIG therapy.* There has been


OBJECTIVE
To compare bladder washing cytology preparations created by the Nucleopore filter and slide centrifuge techniques and to evaluate a marker for carcinoma in situ (CIS).

STUDY DESIGN
Nucleopore filter and slide centrifuge preparations from 27 patients with urothelial carcinoma were compared and used to create two criteria for CIS. To study reproducibility, three observers evaluated 25 filter preparations for these CIS criteria.

RESULTS
The filter technique displayed more better-preserved single cancer cells (P = .02) and a higher percent group count (the number of cancer cell groups divided by the sum of the number of single cancer cells plus the number of cancer cell groups) (P = .005) than did the cytocentrifuge technique. The initial study showed that patients with many single tumor cells and lower percent group counts were more likely to have CIS than patients without this combined condition (P = .001). This CIS marker had moderate reproducibility (kappa = 0.47 +/- 0.12).

CONCLUSION
The filter technique had better cellular recovery and preservation of tumor cells than did the centrifuge technique. Quantitative cytologic criteria proposed in this study may be an indication that CIS may be present; improved sensitivity and specificity may be obtained if they are combined with other criteria.


It was introduced the construction, the protection model, the method of improving the reliability and security for self-healing network of railway district communications.


The rapid growth in demand for edge artificial intelligence increases importance of physical reservoirs that work at low computational cost with low power consumption. A Ag2S island network also works as a physical reservoir, in which various physicochemical phenomena contribute to a reservoir operation. In this study, we investigated its frequency dependence and found that diffusion of Ag+ cations in a Ag2S island, which has a relaxation time of about 100 μs, plays a major role when performance is improved. Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST) classification task using an input pulse width of 100 μs resulted in the accuracy of 91%. Iterative operations up to 10 million cycles revealed a small enough standard deviation of output, suggesting a potential for practical use of a Ag2S island network as a reservoir.


The inherent parallelism of quantum systems determined not only the investigation of innovative applications that can be developed using these high performance computing systems, but also of ways to improve the performances over the classical case. Exploiting this parallelism recently led to the emergence of innovative ideas in the field of computer graphics, sketching the development of quantum rendering and quantum computational geometry. Following these tracks, we propose a new quantum algorithm for the RANdom SAmple Consensus (RANSAC) voting scheme. In this paper we show that by exploiting the unique features of quantum computing, generating uniform superpositions of states in the problem space and applying quantum operators to all states simultaneously, the performance of our quantum algorithm is orders of magnitude faster than the classical variant.


List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Foreword Marjan de Bruin Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations Claudia Padovani and Andrew Calabrese PART I: COMMUNICATION STRUGGLES IN A GLOBALIZING CONTEXT 1. Communication Rights and the History of Ideas Cees Hamelink 2. Communication Rights and Media Justice between Political and Discursive Opportunities: A Historical Perspective Stefania Milan and Claudia Padovani 3. Living the New International Information Order Roberto Savio 4. Continuities and Change in the Nexus of Communication and Development Ingela Svedin 5. Are States still Important? Reflections on the Nexus between National and Global Media and Communication Policy Marc Raboy and Ayesha Mawani PART II: MOBILIZING COMMUNICATIONS: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES 6. The Democratization of Communication: Latin American Perspectives and Initiatives Sally Burch 7. Beyond the Dominant Paradigm of Communication Rights? Observations from South Asia Pradip Thomas 8. Establishing a 'Rights Regime' in Iran: Thinking Communications, Politics and Gender Together Annabelle Sreberny 9. Communication Rights as a Networking Reality: Community Radio in Europe Salvatore Scifo 10. Media Reform and Communication Rights in the United States Andrew Calabrese PART III: ONGOING RESISTANCE, NEW FRAMES AND CHANGING NARRATIVES 11. Media Justice and Communication Rights Seeta Pena Gangadharan 12. Bringing Communication Back In: Social Movements and Media Lorenzo Mosca 13. Reframing Communication Rights: Why Gender Matters Margaret Gallagher 14. Practising Communication Rights: Cases from South Korea and Honduras Dorothy Kidd 15. Communication Rights and Neoliberal Development: Techno-Politics in India Paula Chakravartty 16. Remixing the Spring! Connective Leadership and Read-Write Practices in the 2011 Arab Uprisings Donatella della Ratta and Augusto Valeriani Afterword Andrew Calabrese and Claudia Padovani Bibliography Index


Abstract The breakdown of the aligned states of Neel ferrimagnets in an applied magnetic field is considered. The behaviour of isotropic two-and three-sublattice ferrimagnets is treated in the framework of the mean-field approximation. A phenomenological method also limited by the mean-field approximation is used to analyse the behaviour of the anisotropic ferrimagnet. Particular emphasis is placed on the vicinity of the compensation temperature. Approximate analytical expressions which are valid near the compensation temperature are given for the phase-boundary positions, typical magnetic fields, and temperature ranges of the phase diagrams.


process of teaching a foreign language (English) to future PR specialists of railway transport. One of the paramount skills for a public relations specialist is the ability to identify the hidden motives of the consumer or the so-called culture code of goods and services, which is especially important for promoting domestic goods and services on the world market. The authors put forward a hypothesis that the study of the Russian and English culture codes of travel by rail will enhance the effectiveness of teaching English of the specialty and the success of the professional-cultural competence formation as a component of the foreign language professional competence of future PR specialists.


The large time behavior of non-negative solutions to the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation ∂ t u - Au + |∇u| q = 0 in (0, ∞) x E N is investigated for the critical exponent q = (N +2)/(N + 1). Convergence towards a rescaled self-similar solution to the linear heat equation is shown, the rescaling factor being (1nt) -(N+1) . The proof relies on the construction of a one-dimensional invariant manifold for a suitable truncation of the equation written in self-similar variables.


Most states do not outline or limit the reasons a physician can terminate that relationship, which gives the physician considerable discretion to determine the reasons he or she might do so.


AbstractThis paper presents the design and analysis of a robust neural adaptive backstepping control (RNABC) for an autonomous quadrotor helicopter perturbed by time-varying external disturbances. ...


Abstract:We propose an approximation to the mean of the ratio of cumula tive sums of a sequence of independently distributed nonnegative random va riables. We investigate leading term and higher order approximations. The result is applied to ve ctor ratio approximation, changepoint analysis, and kernel regression, and compared with re sults in the literature. The Canadian Journal of Statistics : 1–19; 2013 c © 2013 Statistical Society of Canada


This paper presents an approach to modernization or rehabilitation of buildings with uninsulated masonry walls that have lead-based paint hazards or deteriorated plaster walls. The approach provides a solution to lead contamination on the walls, increased energy efficiency and comfort improvements associated with better insulated building envelopes. The system sheaths or replaces damaged or contaminated walls with a tight, well-insulated, durable interior surface. The costs of this system are estimated to be less than those of other insulated wall systems. Modeling of the impact of this system shows significant improvement in energy performance. The energy savings over the life of this durable system contribute to significantly offset the often-times sizeable cost of lead hazard remediation.


Decentralization and deregulation policies assume that local educational leaders make better resource decisions than state policy makers do. Conceptual models drawn from organizational theory, however, offer competing predictions about how district central office administrators are likely to leverage their professional expertise in devolved decision making about school funding. To explore deregulation policy in practice, I examine resource decision making in two urban school districts using the case of a 2009 California school funding deregulation policy. I argue that expertise is a key political dynamic in district resource decision making, setting the framework by which decision makers interpret and weigh local school quality, cost, and equity concerns and, as a result, reallocate deregulated dollars.


In the context of the theoretical dimension of teacher burnout, it is seen that a sufficient amount of research and research has been conducted locally and globally. It is seen that the professional burnout dimension of the studies conducted on burnout today stands out. It is possible to note that the increase in interest in education has a significant effect on the increase in studies related to professional burnout, especially in educational institutions. The aim of this study is to examine the factors that cause these burnouts by addressing the theoretical dimension of burnout of teachers working in the education system of our country.. In this context, it is expected that the study will contribute to both the international and national literature. Keywords: Teacher Burnout Is, Occupational Burnout, The Causes of Burnout


The expression of seedlessness derived from 'Mukaku Kishu' ( Citrus kinokuni hort. ex Tanaka) was investigated histologically. Neither perfect nor imperfect seeds found in seedy cultivars/offspring were formed in 'Mukaku Kishu' and its seedless descendants. Among 'Mukaku Kishu' and its seedless descendants, the fertilized seed type (termed "type A seeds") with an immature, soft seed coat was specifically observed. In most seedless cultivars/ offspring, all embryos of type A seeds were arrested at the zygote or proembryo stage, and embryo development was arrested 10 weeks after pollination. These results indicate that the expression of Mukaku Kishu-type seedlessness is characteristic of a forming type A seed with an immature seed coat and an embryo arrested at an early stage. Endosperm abortion in type A seeds was not observed. Therefore, we demonstrated that an arrested embryo development in the type A seed is not caused by endosperm abortion. Because the expression of Mukaku Kishu-type seedlessness is not controlled by the embryo genotype, type A seed production would not be caused by gene expression in embryos but by that in maternal tissues, more likely in the immature seed coat tissue. The results suggest that some factors to


The few reuse and large stockpile of red mud led to a series of social and environmental problems. Preparation of lightweight aggregates (LWA), using red mud as main raw material, and waste glass and bentonite as additives, was investigated in this study, and the crystalline phases and internal structure of the obtained LWA were characterized. The optimum preparation conditions of LWA were as following: the weight ratio of red mud/ waste glass/ bentonite at 70:15:15, heating at 550¿ for 15min, sintering at 1120¿ for 40min, under which the LWA with the bulk density of 1.08 g¿ cm-3, water absorption rate (WAR) of 10.45 % and cylinder compressive strength (CCS) of 8.22 MPa was obtained, and met the requirements of GB/T 17431.1-1998 for LWA. The crystalline phases present in the LWA mainly was gehlenite, andradite and schorlonite, different from calcite, hematite and calcium titan ate in red mud based on XRD, which were observed with the abundant pores in the internal structure of the LWA based on the digital photo.


The generation of four- to five-cycle mid-infrared pulses using a single-stage potassium niobate optical parametric amplifier (OPA) is demonstrated. The OPA is pumped by a gain-switched Ti:Sapphire regenerative amplifier and is seeded with the near-infrared portion of a white light continuum. The OPA is continuously tunable from 2700 to 4700 nm, and maintains sub-65 fs pulses that are fully characterized using cross-correlation frequency-resolved optical gating (XFROG). These are the shortest near-transform-limited pulses reported over this large infrared spectral range. This apparatus is used to measure ultrafast vibrational responses, specifically, pulse profiles modified by the free-induction decay (FID) of O–H oscillators. Both the intensity and instantaneous phase of these pulses are determined after traversing samples of isotopically diluted water (HDO in D2O) using XFROG, representing a new application of the XFROG technique to the study of (dipolar) molecular responses. Pronounced beating of the t...


This research is a qualitative descriptive study that aims to determine the role of the family in shaping the character of broken home children in Wanath Hamlet, Kec. Leihitu Kab. Central Moluccas. This research was conducted in Wanath Hamlet, Leihitu District, Central Maluku Regency. Primary data collection was carried out through interviews with a number of informants who were considered to be directly involved. Based on the results of interviews conducted by researchers, it was revealed that most of the children who were in a broken home family situation had negative characters, one of which was being a child who liked to fight when ordered, did not listen when his parents advised him, but some of them who like to help their parents when their parents are sick. The activities of the children in Wanath Waisane Hamlet are not far from helping their parents at home, both boys and girls. If men help by adding water and for women cooking and cleaning the house. , in this case it becomes a separate task for the family in shaping the character of the child to be even better. Therefore, the family's efforts, in this case the parents of broken home children, by giving advice to their children and also applying rules that can make children their children get better or even limit their children's association. In addition to the efforts that have been made by the family, of course there must be obstacles to lack of communication, cell phones and also environmental factors of friendship, for example, but the rules and advice that are carried out by parents do not rule out the possibility of being a supporting factor for the role of parents of broken home kids.


This research details the design analysis process of a 100 kW Pump as Turbine (PAT) micro hydro system for Sangama Community in the Asari-Toru Local Government of Rivers State, Nigeria. In order to achieve this, governing equations of fluid flow in pumps and pipes were applied to determine suitable design parameters of the system components, and also to select appropriate pump configuration. A design software, PAT+, was built in C# to help perform the design computations involved, although the software can be applied to PAT design for any expected power rating and desired system efficiency. From the results obtained, t was seen that a single stage pump of 28644 rpm operating at a head of 19.23 metres was suitable to generate the expected power. Parameters were varied and plots generated to show the effect of some parameters on the other, and it was deduced that the system head is inversely proportional to the flow rate. Also, for higher power outputs, higher design heads would be needed, although expected design output of a PAT should not exceed 100kW.


Here we report sulphide mineralization in a spinel-bearing orthopyroxene hornblendite from the Halaguru area, Eastern Dharwar Craton (EDC), southern India. The hornblendite contains approximately 3% olivine, 38% orthopyroxene, 56% amphibole and 2% oxide/ sulphide phases. Petrographic and mineral chemistry studies show its formation as a result of the reaction between early formed olivine and hydrous silicate melt without any metamorphic imprint, despite its proximity to amphibolites–granulite isograd in the EDC. The sulphides comprise the disseminated form of pyrrhotite–pentlandite–chalcopyrite assemblage, which is well crystallized and the primary magmatic features are preserved as contact and granular textures. Absence of crustal xenoliths and lower SiO2 (48 wt%), Sr (35 ppm), Pb (<5 ppm), U (<0.1 ppm) and Th (0.10 ppm) content coupled with higher Mg# (~82), Ni (700 ppm), Cr (2500 ppm) concentration in the bulk sample rules out the possibility of sulphide saturation by the addition of crustal-derived sulphur. Based on the combined textural and compositional criteria, the pyrrhotite– pentlandite–chalcopyrite assemblage is a product of the cooling and crystallization of immiscible sulphide globules. The initial high monosulphide solution, upon cooling, exsolves to pyrrhotite and pentlandite and later, at lower temperature, intermediate sulphide solid solution gives rise to chalcopyrite which is dominantly present around the edges of the pyrrhotite–pentlandite assemblage.


The individualized talents training of colleges and universities is an important research topic in the field of modern higher education. At present, there are some problems, the education concept of is relatively obsolete, the teaching mode is rigid, the learning mode is relatively simple, the education resources are not rich enough, and the foreign exchange is limited. But with the advance of the "Internet Plus", the combination of the Internet and higher education makes the cultivation of individualized talents have a breakthrough point. This paper mainly uses the literature research method to research the combination of the "Internet Plus" and individualized talents training approaches of colleges and universities and get that the "Internet Plus" can play an important role for individualized talents training approaches.


A new building material and the corresponding building system - Rapidwallbuilding system, which is recently developed in Australia, is introduced in this paper. Rapidwall itself is a glass-fiber reinforced gypsum hollow walling panel. The combination of Rapidwallwith concrete and/or other building materials forms a new type of structural system. The major advantage of this new building g system is lightweight, fast and effective construction process, and energy effective and eco-friendly. This building system has been successfully applied in Australian building industry, and recently been introduced into China. Its advantages have already attracted a lot of interests from academics and construction industry. The development of the new building system is briefed. The structural design theory and the research works in Australia are introduced. The old seismic design concept and theory is firstly introduced, followed by the recent experimental and theoretical research development which formed the foundation of the new structural design guidelines for Rapidwall building system. Focus was placed on the unique shear failure mode of Rapidwall panels - longitudinal shear failure. The shear strength corresponding to this failure mode and the design methodology is derived and presented in the paper.


Department of Clinical, Surgical, Pediatric and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Pavia School of Medicine, Italy; Division of Cardiac Surgery 2 and Pulmonary Hypertension Center, Foundation I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; Division of Cardiac Surgery 1, Foundation I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; Division of Cardiology, Foundation I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy Correspondence to: Andrea M. D'Armini, MD. Division of Cardiac Surgery 2 and Pulmonary Hypertension Center, Foundation I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Matteo, Viale Golgi 19, 27100 Pavia, Italy. Email: email@example.com; email@example.com.


In this work, two enhancement-mode (E-mode) GaAs-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system, have been fabricated and investigated. We evaporated traditional platinum (Pt) and palladium (Pd) as Schottky contact metals to observe high-temperature performance. Following the 1 mum Pt/Ti/Au gate and Pd/Ti/Au gate metals deposition, the devices were thermally annealed at 200degC. Two devices DC and RF performance from 0degC to 100degC were measured. Because the platinum skins into Schottky Layer, the DC and RF characteristics were affected. Experimentally, the palladium gate device showed better DC, RF, and high-temperature characteristics. These advantages suggest that the palladium device is suitable for high-speed and high-power integrated circuit applications.


with the rapid development of social politics and economy, the times have changed. Changes in concepts and thinking patterns have also caused great changes in people's social life style, which are reflected through language, the most important communication tool for human beings. Catchwords more vividly reflect these changes. . Catchwords are words widely circulated in a certain period of time and within a certain range. They are the most active factors in a language and often reflect changes in social life and social ideological trend in the most sensitive way. This article explores the reflection of language on the development of chinese society after the founding of the people's republic from the perspective of popular words. Tracking buzzwords and studying them in depth is a new perspective to observe the changes in contemporary chinese society, and the establishment of hainan free trade port is considered to be an important means to achieve a deeper integration of china and international trade. The cultural influence of chinese social buzzwords on hainan free trade port further illustrates the economic and cultural complementarity in chinese society. This article aims to propose the relationship between chinese buzzwords and hainan free trade port to improve the culture of chinese buzzwords. Influences.


The employer match of employee contributions is an important characteristic of 401(k) plans. The match was designed to encourage participation and contributions n particularly by lower-paid employees. However, at many companies, the employer match became a casualty of the financial collapse and ensuing recession. While several large companies have restored their match, it is still important to understand what causes such a response. This Issue in Brief attempts to explain why some firms suspended their match while others did not. It proceeds as follows. The first section explains the rationale for, and mechanics behind, employer matching of employee contributions. The second section considers the economic impact of the match. The third section describes the companies that have suspended their match. The fourth section examines how several factors impact the probability of an employer suspending its match. The results suggest that liquidity constraints, rather than profitability issues, are the main reasons for suspending the match. The fifth section speculates about the likely impact of the 401(k) match suspensions on employees. The final section concludes that cash-strapped companies appear to have been forced to cut back, and, if the pattern follows that of the 2001 recession, most companies are likely to restore their match once the economy recovers. To the extent that the match is quickly restored, little harm may have been done n especially compared with the alternative of laying off workers.


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The scale of deep learning models has grown tremendously in recent years. State-of-the-art models have reached billions of parameters and terabyte-scale model sizes. Training of these models demands memory bandwidth and capacity that can only be accommodated distributively over hundreds to thousands of GPUs. However, large-scale distributed training suffers from GPU memory inefficiency, such as memory under-utilization and out-of-memory events (OOMs). There is a lack of understanding of actual GPU memory behavior of distributed training on terabyte-size models, which hinders the development of effective solutions to such inefficiency. In this paper, we present a systematic analysis of GPU memory behavior of large-scale distributed training jobs in production at Meta. Our analysis is based on offline training jobs of multi-terabyte Deep Learning Recommendation Models from one of Meta's largest production clusters. We measure GPU memory inefficiency; characterize GPU memory utilization, and provide fine-grained GPU memory usage analysis. We further show how to build on the understanding to develop a practical GPU provisioning system in production.


Motivated by the debate on gender inequality, we study CEO gender and CEO age. Because women face significantly more obstacles in advancing their careers, it may take them longer to reach the top position, i.e. the chief executive officer (CEO). If this is the case, female CEOs should be older than their male counterparts on average. Our evidence shows that female CEOs are actually younger on average, approximately two full years younger than male CEOs, after controlling for firm and board characteristics. The two-year difference represents as much as 26% of the standard deviation in CEO age.


The final super-heater tube-burst due to the blockage by the peel-off of the oxide skin occurred two times in supercritical boiler No.4 of Jinwan Power Generation Co.,Ltd.during 2009.The mechanism of the growing,the peel-off and the accumulation of the oxide skin for the steel material SA-213 T23 was analyzed.It was pointed out that the poor oxidation resistance of the material is the main reason for the oxide skin dropping,the pipe blockage and the crack.Some technical measures were adopted in operation to prevent the oxide skin peel-off in the final super-heater.The operation and the periodical inspection show that the growing,the dropping and the accumulation of the oxide skin in the final super-heater of the boiler No.3 and No.4 have been controlled effectively,and the obvious result was obtained.


Network cost directly affects the communication performance of MAS,especially when the server is over loading.In order to reduce the communication cost and the server load,the prediction model was introduced.It selects dynamically the remote communication of agent or consulting communication model MRCM based on the transferring type of MA,according to the prediction of network cost and server load.The blackboard model was proposed to realize the sharing of the prediction results in the MAS system,and to improve the success rate and the accuracy of the prediction.The simulation shows that the method predicts the network cost and server load approximately accurately and efficiently reduces the communication cost.


This paper analyzes weak points and problems in practical and innovation teaching of engineering colleges.According to the theoretical and experimental teaching courses,cultivating the innovative ability of engineering undergraduate students is researched.Finally this paper puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions about strengthening students' ability of practice and innovation.


I should be in Paris right now meeting a French colleague and working out the future of serials supply throughout Europe, including the UK. However, a heavy cold and an earlier heavier fall of snow prevented this meeting. Instead I am marooned at home, comforted by the scratchy but incredibly passionate sound of Benjamino Gigli caressing his way around Verdi, Puccini and Donizetti. This has given me time to ponder on some signs and indications filtering in from a wide range of library contacts. Though I am currently totally committed to my company's aims and ambitions I cannot ignore my thirty-eight years as a librarian, most of all my time in the academic sector, and am deeply concerned about the stresses and predicaments which exist across the full range of information operations across Europe. On the one hand I feel invigorated and


Nowadays building projects have been encouraged to adopt green and sustainable construction strategies as the construction sector is responsible for using 42 % of the world's energy, 30 % of its raw materials, and 25 % of its fresh water. The priority purpose is not only to upgrade and enhance projects of existing buildings, the target is also to reevaluate the approach of the whole construction sector [1]. The issue requires complex and modern methods which should include retrofitting as well as reconstruction of existing infrastructure. The housing fund of Ukraine as well as other European countries calls for alterations which will lead to gaining and raising its energy efficiency. To create the optimum alternatives there should be conducted an investigation of the possibilities of changing the real estate's usage. A framework for value engineering and building information modeling, especially appropriate for existing buildings, is required to aid decision-makers in selecting the best options for current building utilization.


A pilot system of the Deammonification (Demon ® ) sequencing batch reactor suspended growth process was operated at the John E. Egan Water Reclamation Plant to treat the centrate from the post-digestion dewatering for five months. In the study, the Demon ® process was tested for the process's ammonia removal capacity and efficiency through monitoring of the influent and effluent. The pilot study has shown the effectiveness of the Demon ® process with average and maximum ammonia-nitrogen removal of 92% and 97% and average and maximum ammonia nitrogen loading rates of 0.434 and 0.580 kg N/m 3 -day, respectively, after the start-up and before the stress-testing periods. The pilot study also demonstrated the robustness of the Demon ® process with respect to short term elevated nitrite nitrogen concentrations up to 161 mg/L, shock loads of NH3, and low mixed liquor suspended solids concentrations. Stresses of low temperatures, low alkalinity, idle operation, and elevated polymer concentrations in the centrate on the pilot system performance were also tested in the study. Special consideration during this study was given to length of start up time; process control including fill, react, and decant cycles and extent of aeration and mixing times; ease of operation; and effect of influent characteristics including but not limited to NH3, temperature, alkalinity, suspended solids, nitrite, and organics.


The present work is devoted to the analysis of the ill-posed inverse ellipsometric problem. Manifestations of the incorrectness of the problem are described for the case of ultrathin films. Special attention is given to the choice of the criteria for the optimal point. It is shown that an obvious and frequently used criterion expressed as a condition on difference functional So less than or equal to (delta) 2, where (delta) is an average error in the measurement polarization angles, is practically useless in our case in the region strong incorrectness. New criteria for the choice of the optimal point are therefore suggested. As a result, the stable solution of the inverse ellipsometric problem is obtained which permits to study successfully the surface films in the thickness range 2 - 10 nm.


This paper presents two algorithms for aircraft geometric-height estimation by two distance and azimuth measurements or three distance measurements from netted radar. The algorithms realize the efficient aircraft-height estimation without height measurements condition in a netted radar system.


We report a method to make crystalline silver nanowires in water, in the absence of a surfactant or polymer to direct nanoparticle growth, and without externally added seed crystallites. The reaction is one in which silver salt is reduced to silver metal, at 100 °C, by sodium citrate, in the presence of NaOH. Hydroxide ion concentration is key to producing nanowires, which are up to 12 microns long, instead of nanospheres.