Background: Previously, when only typical antipsychotic depot injections were available, some clinicians perceived depots as having an ''image'' problem despite them being associated with reduced rates of rehospitalisation when compared to tablets. This study investigated psychiatrists' attitudes and knowledge concerning depots (typical and atypical) and whether they had changed over time. Method: Cross-sectional postal survey of consultant psychiatrists working in NorthWest England. A pre-existing questionnaire on clinicians' attitudes and knowledge regarding depots was updated. Results were compared with a former sample (SouthEast England, 2001: N1⁄4143). Results: The sample comprised 102 consultant psychiatrists (response rate 71%). Depot use over the past 5 years had: decreased (50%), not changed (27%), increased (23%). Psychiatrists with decreased depot use had significantly lower scores for the side effects knowledge subscale than those who had unchanged or increased rates of depot use (mean 51.5% vs 54.8%, p1⁄40.029). When compared to psychiatrists sampled five years previously, our current participants had more favourable patient-focussed attitudes (63.5% vs 60.4%, p1⁄40.034); other subscales did not differ. Item-by-item analysis revealed specific changes over time including significantly less respondents regarding depots as: (i) compromising patient autonomy (mean 0.99 vs 1.28, p1⁄40.036); being stigmatising (1.88 vs 2.42, p1⁄40.002); being old fashioned (1.49 vs 2.04, p1⁄40.002). Conclusions: During the period that an atypical antipsychotic depot has been available, and depot prescribing rates have reduced, some attitudes have changed. These mainly encompass aspects regarding the patient rather than the depot injection and include reducing concerns about stigma and autonomy although concerns about patient acceptance continue.


The reactions of 3-amino-1-phenyl-and 3-amino-1-(thien-2-yl)-4,4,4-trifluorobut-2-en-1-ones with 1,2-diaminopropane under kinetically controlled conditions afford mixtures ofcis andtrans isomers of 2-aroylmethyl-4-methyl-2-trifluoromethylimidazolidines. Analogous reactions with 1,2-diamino-3,3,3-trifluoropropane yieldcis-2-aroylmethyl-2,4-bis(trifluoro-methyl)imidazolidines.


Some people just seem to be born with the sports car gene/7 This snippet from a current television commercial exemplifies the concept of the gene that dominates mass American culture. The gene is imbued with magical powers. Intelligence, aggression,crime, racial characteristics, gender behavior, and commodity fetishism can all be reduced to quantifiable differences in nucleotide sequences. This philosophy, called genetic essentialism, is powerfully examined in //rThe DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon/' a timely book by Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee. The book grew from the authors' experiences teaching students taking courses on the history of human genetics, biological testing, and the relationship between media images and public policy. Their students, they discovered, frequently drew their images of heredity from comic books, television, and science fiction. These popular media ignore the fact that complex interactions between heredity and environment are responsible for observed traits, pu...


Brown v. Board (1954) catalyzed a nationwide effort by the federal judiciary to desegregate public schools by court order, representing a major achievement for the U.S. civil rights movement. Four decades later, courts began dismissing schools from desegregation decrees in a staggered fashion, causing their racial homogeneity to rise. I leverage this exogenous source of variation in the racial mix of schools released from court orders between 1990 and 2014 to explore two key aspects of how whites react to attending schools with students of color. First, contemporaneous survey data indicate that as schools re-segregated, white students in these schools expressed more favorable attitudes towards black and Latino students. Second, present-day voter records from six Southern states of white students in schools that re-segregated show that they are significantly more likely to identify with the more racially liberal party – the Democrats – today. The findings are consistent with white students experiencing resegregation as a reduction in social threat, and indicate that school desegregation efforts may have caused life-long shifts among white students toward racial and political conservatism. The U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 landmark ruling Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka declared separate schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, catalyzing battles nationwide over integrating schools along racial and ethnic lines. Brown v. Board instigated a series of subsequent decrees ordered by lower courts that integrated schools and subjected them to continuous court monitoring. Current evidence suggests that school desegregation efforts have led to a reduction in high school dropout rates, increases in occupational attainment and adult earnings, and higher test scores for black students (Guryan, 2004; Hanushek, Kain and Rivkin, 2009; Johnson, 2011). Public opinion data also indicate that a majority of parents of all races want their children to attend racially diverse schools (Frankenberg and Jacobsen, 2011). Although the positive long-term consequences of school desegregation among black students are well studied, there are few studies on the long-term consequences of changing the racial makeup of schools among white students. A substantial body of work examines the effects of racial diversity in adulthood on whites, but we know less about how white Americans' exposure to different racial environments in school affects their long-term political behavior, especially their partisanship. Addressing this gap in our knowledge can deepen our understanding of the full consequences of school segregation and desegregation, as well as help us better understand underpinnings of contemporary partisan identification. There are reasons to think the effects of school racial diversity on white partisanship later in life might be significant: evidence suggests that experiences in adolescence shape how whites feel about racial minorities (Bigler, Jones and Lobliner, 1997), and we know that racial attitudes are strongly associated with partisanship (Tesler, 2012a; Kinder and DaleRiddle, 2012). However, the direction of the relationship between exposure to racial diversity


Statins, which were developed for hypolipidemic treatments, are far from the initial purpose own availability and have range of pleiotropic effects. The concept «Pleiotropic»assumes: preparation influence on some targets, starting various biochemical processes in the organism. In addition to their cholesterol-lowering properties, statins exert a number of pleiotropic, vasculoprotective actions that include improvement of endothelial function, increased nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability, inhibition of inflammatory responses by decreasing producing of proinflammatory cytokines and C-reactive protein, anti-ischemic action, antioxidant properties. Statins can stabilizate plaque by increasing the collagen content and inhibiting metalloproteinases. Also, statins can Influence on myocardial hypertrophy, fibrosis and potentiality of their cardioprotective activity, on haemocoagulative and haemorheologic hemostasis Pleiotropic effects of statins therapy include immunosupressive actions and prevention of osteoporosis progression by production of osteoplastic protide growth 2 factor of bone-forming cells proliferation and maturing. The pleiotropic effects of statins offer advantages over other available lipid-lowering agents, as they are effective,well tolerated and can provide additional benefits not only in cardiovascular disorders but in other disease states too.


This paper selects a virtual reading relationship network induced by the e-magazine's Blog Column of ScienceNet as a research object.Based on a newly proposed random network with given degree sequence generation algorithm,a mathematical network model is established and analyzed.This model can reflect the mechanism of such a virtual network and can be used to explain some complex behaviors of those Blogers' selective reading modes.This model seems more reasonable than some existing related studies methods by using physical contact data to model a relationship network,since the constructing way of virtual contacts integrated some statistics information.Numerical simulations further showed that,these negative degree correlation virtual networks are typical complex networks with both small-world and scale-free network characteristics.Methods proposed here can be used to analysis the information communication,the formation of public opinion,etc,and it also makes it easier to identify opinion leader and differ member role from each other in the virtual community on the web.


Idealized numerical simulations are performed in order to get a deeper dynamical understanding of the so‐called shallow föhn. This is a southerly gap flow which sometimes occurs in north–south oriented Alpine valleys under approximately westerly synoptic‐scale flow conditions. Observations indicate that shallow föhn is primarily driven by a hydrostatic pressure difference between relatively cold air to the south of the Alps and warmer air to the north. A recent study suggested that the meridional pressure gradient associated with geostrophically balanced westerly wind also has the potential to induce significant shallow föhn. While this study is restricted to an infinitely long mountain ridge with a gap, various isolated ridges are considered in the present work.


The nature and relative amounts of the lipids in the tear film appear to be critical factors for maintaining its stability.1 Therefore, understanding the mechanisms that control the composition of these lipids provides a basis for manipulating the secretions to produce greater tear stability. The meibomian gland is mainly responsible for the lipids of the tear film, and in some species, the harderian gland may contribute secretions to this layer.2 However, this is not always the case because humans, for example, lack a harderian gland. Analysis of the lipid composition of the harderian and meibomian glands shows they differ.3 Therefore, by comparing changes in their lipid compositions following dietary or pharmacological manipulation, information about factors controlling lipid composition should be obtained. For example, androgens could play a major role in the nature of lipids secreted from the meibomian gland.4–6 The purpose of these experiments was to investigate changes to the lipid composition of the harderian and meibomian glands caused by pharmacological agents or dietary manipulation.


The Raman spectra of the trigonal LiCaAlF6 Crystal were recorded at room temperature and 10 K. Three A1g and eight Eg Raman lines are expected according to group theory. Based on the polarized Raman spectra, symmetry assignments were made for the 11 predicted Raman-active phonon modes. Throughout the temperature range studied, no drastic evolution of the Raman spectra was observed, which suggests that there is no structural phase transition in LiCaAlF6. Analysis of the Raman spectra was made by comparison with previous studies of several crystal fluorides such as Li2ZrF6.


Ice accretion on railway overhead contact wires/conductors can cause various critical operational and safety issues such as overloading, arc formation, mass imbalance, and wire galloping. The focus of this multiphase numerical study is to understand and analyze the ice accretion physics on railway overhead powerline conductors at various operating conditions. In this regard, two different geometric shape conductors of 12 mm diameter, 1) a grooved shape contact wire (like an actual railway conductor); 2) a standard circular shape contact wire are used. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based numerical simulations are carried out for both geometric configurations at different operating parameters such as wind speed, Liquid Water Content (LWC), cloud droplet size distribution, Median Volume Diameter (MVD), and atmospheric temperature. Analysis shows that variation in the operating weather parameters for both geometric configurations considerably affect the ice accretion, both in terms of accreted ice thickness and mass.


The article describes the technological process of chicken egg incubation. The features of domestic hatchery cabinets and processes occurring in them are given. The control problem is formulated, which is to minimize the obtained defective eggs


We revisit and comment on the Harnack type determinantal inequality for contractive matrices obtained by Tung in the nineteen sixties and give an extension of the inequality involving multiple positive semidefinite matrices .


The study aimed to examine the impact of macroeconomic variables of the Saudi economy as in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Government Expenditure (G), Economic Openness (OPE), Inflation Rate (CPI) and the Bank Deposits (DS) on the credit provided by Saudi banks (BF), on annual time series data between 1970-2012. To investigate this relationship, the study used Autoregressive Distributed Lag method (ARDL) to measure the long-run and short-run impact, At that the E-views 8.1 has been used for analyze the cointegration,the diagnostic, the reliability - stability tests, and the forecasting behavior of the model. The study found that (BF) is affected positively by (GDP) growth rate in the long-run. Also the (BF) has been affected negatively in the short and long-run by inflation rates (CPI) and government expenditure (G). Consequently the Contractionary Fiscal Policy in recent period will not lead to reduce the financial performance of Saudi banks, and the growth of (GDP) in the future will have positive impact on the financing capacity of the Saudi banking sector.


: Understanding patterns of sediment transport and deposition in natural landscapes is critical in developing cost-effective mitigation measures to control soil erosion and protect water quality. Many physical based models are capable to assess spatio-temporal patterns in sediment dynamics, but difficult to be applied in wilderness areas with little field data. For the first time, the sediment connectivity index (IC) was applied to examine the sediment and connectivity patterns across a rugged landscape in the lower Snowy River area, Kosciuszko National Park, Australia. A high-resolution (2 m) digital elevation model (DEM) was used to derive a seven-class landform classification based on the fuzzy logic landform model (FLAG). Sediment and erosion models (SedAlp, RUSLE) were used to estimate the IC, erosion and sediment yield in a geographic information system (GIS) environment. Field work was carried out at 12 paired vegetation plot sites to measure fractional vegetation cover and slope parameters and take soil samples for laboratory analysis which were in turn used to validate the model estimation. Results show that IC has moderate to strong positive correlation with SDR which can be used to estimate the overall sediment budget across landscapes. The lower slopes in the landscape appear to have a higher sediment connectivity due to steep slopes and degraded vegetation condition caused by feral animal and human disturbances, while the valley has the lowest sediment connectivity on average due to better ecological restoration. Findings from this study can be used to locate and monitor the areas likely to generate high sediment yield and nutrient transport for developing ecological restoration, feral animal management and other catchment management measures. Compared to the empirical equations developed for specific areas, the IC based SDR estimation is generic thus it's applicable elsewhere.


Dynamic simulators model systems evolving over time. Often, it operates iteratively over fixed number of time-steps. The output of such simulator can be considered as time series or discrete functional outputs. Metamodeling is an e ective method to approximate demanding computer codes. Numerous metamodeling techniques are developed for simulators with a single output. Standard approach to model a dynamic simulator uses the same method also for multi-time series outputs: the metamodel is evaluated independently at every time step. This can be computationally demanding in case of large number of time steps. In some cases, simulator outputs for di erent combinations of input parameters have quite similar behaviour. In this paper, we propose an application of shape invariant model approach to model dynamic simulators. This model assumes a common pattern shape curve and curve-specific di erences in amplitude and timing are modelled with linear transformations. We provide an e cient algorithm of transformation parameters estimation and subsequent prediction algorithm. The method was tested with a CO2 storage reservoir case using an industrial commercial simulator and compared with a standard single step approach. The method provides satisfactory predictivity and it does not depend on the number of involved time steps.


Hypothalamus of Arionmlu indicu (Family Ariommidae) comprises mainly of the nucleus preopticus (NPO), nucleus lateralis tuberis (NLT) and their axonal
tracts. NPO is a paired structured located on either side of the third ventricle slightly above and anterior to the optic chiasma. It is highly vascularized structure
with broad anterior and narrow posterior ends. NPO is divisible into a dorsal pars magnocellularis (PMC) comprising larger neurosecretory cells and ventral
pars like neurosecretory material (NSM) of various sizes are encountered in the NPO and NLT. Neurons of PMC and PPC contribute beaded axons to form the
neurohypophysial tract. A few small Herring bodies (HB) are also seen intbeneurohypophysis (NH).


The teaching of dumping can be improved by identifying oversights in its presentation in undergraduate textbooks in International Economics. These oversights include misstating the relationship between elasticity and slope and also labeling foreign demand as being more elastic than domestic demand without reference to a specific price. A more precise yet intuitive explanation of dumping is suggested as an alternative to those presented in these textbooks.


Objective:To study the effect of Mycobacterium Phlei F.U.36 and Foscarnet in the treatment of recurrent ure-thral condylomata acuminata.Methods:The clinical dates of 58 patients with recurrent urethral condyloma acuminatum were analyzed retrospectively,the patients were treated with conventional therapy and the use of Mycobacterium Phlei FU36 combined Foscarnet.Results:The effective rate was 93.3% in the treatment group while the effective rate in the control group was only 64.3%,the treatment group was superior to the control group(P0.05).Conclusion:Mycobacterium Phlei F.U.36 and Foscarnet in the treatment of recurrent urethral condylomata acuminata has definite therapeutic effect,it is one of ideal methods.


OBJETIVE: Considering that in malnourished patients supplemented with L-glutamine the negativity of the nitrogen balance tends to decrease, the present study aimed to determine whether malnourished Wistar rats supplemented with L-glutamine would show lower urinary nitrogen excretion, a greater deposition of nitrogen content in different tissues, and/or an alteration in the plasma amino acid levels. METHODS: The rats were divided into groups: 1) protein-energy malnutrition, 2) protein malnutrition and 3) normally nourished group. The urinary and tissue nitrogen contents were determined by the Kjeldahl method and plasma amino acids by liquid chromatography. RESULTS: Weight, urinary and tissue nitrogen accumulation were significantly reduced in the group with protein-energy malnutrition, but did not improve with L-glutamine supplementation supplied for a short time. The plasma amino acid concentrations showed no special pattern with L-glutamine supplementation. CONCLUSION: It was concluded that it was not possible to detect any positive effect of L-glutamine supplementation on the tissue and urinary nitrogen metabolism in malnourished rats.


BACKGROUND
Many clinicians recognise the importance of the patient's role in treating and managing lymphoedema and that optimal outcomes depend on patients' compliance to treatment, or a prescribed daily lymphoedema care regimen. Such a widespread belief can be called a 'compliance paradigm'.

AIMS
To ascertain whether breast cancer survivors with lymphoedema have the same concept of compliance as clinicians to characterise their experiences.

METHODS
Using a descriptive phenomenological method, 34 participants were recruited and 102 interviews completed.

RESULTS
The findings of the study reveal that, from the perspective of breast cancer survivors, managing lymphoedema is broader than compliance to treatment. The women actively structured their lives to make lymphoedema management feasible by incorporating it into a daily routine. The study offers an alternative insight into the compliance approach to lymphoedema management and it is important for researchers and clinicians to be aware that breast cancer survivors do not consider compliance to treatment as part of their daily lymphoedema care.

CONCLUSIONS
In research and practice, it may be more appropriate to assess the presence or absence of breast cancer survivors' intentions, effective and ineffective strategies, and barriers to effective strategies.


[Objective]To investigate the prevalence rate of children with asthma in Zaozhuang city in 2004,to explore the determinants coexisting with asthma in children,and to provide the scientific basis for local prevention of asthma in children.[Methods]With cluster sampling,6 sections with 12 030 children under 14 years were the subjects.[Results]The prevalence of asthma in children under 14 years was 2.34%,Male-to-femal ratio was 1.75 to 1.The prevalence rate in urben area was higher than that in rural area(χ2 = 16.17,P﹤0.01).Determinants coexisting with asthma in children were history eczema(19.22%),history with allergic rhinitis(25.98%),and first or second level relatives with asthma or allergic disorder(﹥20%).Causative factors:respiratory tract infection was main inducement,the next was weariness from overwork,after the sport,air pollution,weather changes,and seasons(winter and spring).The rate of treatment with antibiotics and oral corticosteroid was still high(97.51% and 82.21%),but the rate of treatment with corticosteroid inhaler was only 28.11%.[Conclusions]The prevalence rate of asthma in children in Zaozhuang city is higher than that in the whole country.The environment pollution is a main caustive factor for asthma in children.The health education of standardized treatment of children with asthma should be wildly carried out.


objective  The GH/IGF axis is altered in chronic renal failure (CRF). CRF patients usually show normal or high serum concentrations of GH and IGF‐I, whereas all IGF binding proteins (IGFBP‐1 to ‐6), except IGFBP‐5, considerably increase with declining renal function. The aims of the present study were to quantify serum concentrations of GH, IGF‐I, IGFBP‐1 and IGFBP‐3 in a group of patients with CRF, and determine whether there were differences according to the type of dialysis, that is, peritoneal dialysis (PD) and haemodialysis (HD).


The invention relates to the structural design of an inspection robot of a transformer substation and belongs to the technical field of industrial mobile robots. The inspection robot comprises a crawler robot carrying car driven by a motor, a navigation module provided with a global position system (GPS) and an electronic compass, a battery system, a control circuit module, an image acquisition and infrared temperature measuring apparatus and the like, can accomplish the inspection of the transformer substation, and transmit acquired data and the information on the position, action condition and the like of the moving car to a remote control center. The driving wheel and the driven wheel are arranged on a bracket in a triangular shape. A cloud deck for carrying the measuring apparatus can lift and rotate left and right within a maximum rotation angle of 135 DEG. The moving car adopts the GPS and the electronic compass for navigation. When the car travels, an infrared trace seeking sensor arranged on the abdomen part of a vehicle body is used to correct the traveling path of the car.


A primary pulmonary artery sarcoma is a rare malignant tumor derived from the intimal layer of the pulmonary artery. Its clinical presentation can lead to a misdiagnosis of more common diseases such as thromboembolic disease. It is known to have a very poor prognosis. Therefore, the correct diagnosis of a primary pulmonary artery sarcoma is difficult and often delayed. We experienced a case of primary pulmonary artery sarcoma mimicking a pulmonary thromboembolism. The patient was admitted as a result of progressive dyspnea and coughing. The lung perfusion scan showed a large perfusion defect involving almost the entire right lung and suspicious small perfusion defects in the left upper lobe. Magnetic resonance imaging of the chest showed an enhancing nodule within the thrombus in the right pulmonary artery. The mass was removed completely by surgery, but the patient died as a result of shock. (Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2003, 54:00-00)


Let G be a graph of order p ,a nd leta and b and n be nonnegative integers with 1 ≤ a ≤ b ,a nd letg and f be two integer-valued functions defined on V (G) such that a ≤ g(x) ≤ f (x) ≤ b for all x ∈ V (G) .A (g, f)-factor of graph G is defined as a spanning subgraph F of G such that g(x) ≤ dF (x) ≤ f (x) for each x ∈ V (G). Then a graph G is called a (g, f, n)-critical graph if after deleting any n vertices of G the remaining graph of G has a (g, f)-factor. In this paper, we prove that every graph G is a (g, f, n)- critical graph if its minimum degree is greater than p+a+b−2 (a +1 )p − bn +1 . Furthermore, it is showed that the result in this paper is best possible in some sense.


This article aims to present the work entitled "the emergence of the new psychotherapy in the American golden age: a story inspired by the archaeologies of M...


Lentiviral vectors to deliver MSP36 gene that is expressed on cancer therapy, are advantageously used. The present invention provides a method for expressing a polypeptide, the method a DNA construct comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a msp36 polypeptide or a functional variant thereof, is introduced stably into target mammalian cells comprising the step, the DNA construct provides a method included in the lentiviral gene delivery vehicle. Furthermore, the DNA construct, the lentiviral gene delivery vehicle, by injection into the target tissue or organ containing the target mammalian cells, a method that is introduced into said target mammalian cell in vivo.


Myocardial ischemia is usually identified by echocardiography using qualitative analysis of regional left ventricular (LV) endocardial excursion. This is often hampered by sub-optimal endocardial visualization and lack of quantitative standards and measurement techniques Ischemia changes the temporal pattern of LV contraction, and a method for quantifying changes in this temporal sequence would have clinical applicability. The authors developed and tested a computer-assisted technique using Synthetic M-mode (SMM) to measure the temporal variations in regional LV contraction. Using a LV short axis image, 6 SMM images were created through a user-defined LV center. The time to peak (t) contraction in 6 LV segments was then measured using the R-wave as a timing reference point. In the authors' study of 15 closed chest dogs with induced regional ischemia, t was significantly prolonged only in those LV segments subtended by the occluded artery. Temporal SMM is a promising technique for defining temporal contraction patterns indicative of regional ischemia.


The invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of oligomeric and polymeric telechelic substances, the telechelic polymers thus prepared and to their use in plastics, fibers or coatings sector.


This work has two distinct objectives: the development of software for the integration of the Insertable B-Layer (IBL) in the ATLAS offline software framework and the study of the performance of 3D silicon sensors produced by SINTEF for future silicon pixel detectors. The former task consists in the implementation of the IBL byte stream converter. This offline tool performs the decoding of the binary-formatted data coming from the detector into information (e.g. hit position and Time over Threshold) that is stored in a format used in the reconstruction data flow. It also encodes the information extracted from simulations into a simulated IBL byte stream. The tool has been successfully used since the beginning of the LHC Run II data taking. The experimental work on SINTEF 3D sensors was performed in the framework of the development of pixel sensors for the next generation of tracking detectors. Preliminary tests on SINTEF 3D sensors showed that the majority of these devices suffers from high leakage currents, low breakdown voltages and short charge carrier lifetimes. These signs of production issues were identified, during the subsequent prototyping run, as random doping deposition caused by a too-thin masking layer. The sensors underwent proton or neutron irradiation (up to φ = 9 · 10 neq/cm) to allow for fluence-dependent characterisation. Electrical measurements and charge collection measurements under laser or radioactive source exposure have been carried out. Results of the electrical tests highlight a significant and sensor-dependent spread of these parameters. Common traits can however be identified: the leakage current augments as expected with temperature and with fluence. Radiation does not affect the depletion voltage, which remains at Udepl ≤ 20 V. The breakdown voltage is observed to increase with fluence. Laser-induced charge collection measurements, performed using a TCT setup, show that sensors with diode-like electrical properties collect, even when irradiated at higher fluences, a larger and more uniform charge compared to sensors featuring suboptimal electrical characteristics. Radioactive source tests have been performed using an ALiBaVa read-out system. Results show that the SINTEF 3D sensor proton-irradiated to φ = 4.5 · 10 neq/cm maintains a charge collection efficiency of 85% at Ubias = −40 V. Experimental results support the findings observed during the latest SINTEF prototype run. Moreover, the three characterisation methods give consistent results. The electrical characterisation is therefore sufficient to identify suboptimallyperforming sensors.


Houran and Lange (2012) claim that I (Jinks, 2012) criticise past paranormal belief research for not accurately representing the socio-psychological tendencies and traits of strong believers. They outline conceptual, psychometric and methodological issues that limit my main conclusions. In this reply, I clarify Houran and Lange's mistaken assumption that I conflated 'informed' belief with 'justified' belief, and 'quasi' (or uninformed) belief with 'unjustified' belief. I do not classify respondents as justified and unjustified believers. Also, my analysis of relevant paranormal items is not confined to ghosts, but includes relevant items pertaining to anomalous information acquisition. It is important to understand that my original pilot study (Jinks, 2012) was a comparison of responses to primary items (typical of paranormal belief questionnaires) with responses to secondary items that were (potentially) anomalous rationalisations of the topics contained in those items. Finally, I concur with Houran and Lange's (2012) suggestions for future research.


Photocontrollable liquid-crystalline block copolymers have exhibited remarkable light-response properties, due to their unique features elegantly combining mesogenic ordering with microphase-separated nanostructures. Their exceptional optical characteristics make them excellent candidates for...


The Internet of Things (IoT), describing the Machine Type Communications (MTC), is in the center of many new technical studies and industrial projects. It is also a central topic for the future 5G technologies standardization. Pending the new generation of cellular networks, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has already standardized in May 2016, an evolution of the 2G and 4G networks to include IoT features. EC-GSM-IoT, the standard for the 2G technologies including the MTC, uses several technical evolutions to obtain a 20 dB improvement of the legacy Maximum Coupling Loss (MCL) of GPRS. One of them is the use of blind repetitions, and of combination techniques in the receiver. In a previous work [1], the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of several time diversity combining mechanisms in a classical GSM receiver were studied in simulation. The present paper focuses on two of these combination techniques and leads a novel analytical study of their performances under a time variant multipath Rayleigh fading channel. The impact of the time correlation of the channels on the average Signal to Noise and Interference Ratio (SINR) is enlightened. Simulation results are compared to the theoretical curves and confirm the analytical work. This analytical investigation allows us to foresee the consequences on the final BER of the system. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first analytical study of the performance of such time diversity combining mechanisms under time variant multipath Rayleigh fading channels.


Objective To investigate the nonintellective factors of nursing students. Methods By using self-made questionnaires, 372 students of nursing colleges were investigated. Results The survey showed that 11.0% and 60.8% of the students had weak or relatively weaker will power. 7.8% and 68.8% of the students always or often felt confident about their learning ability. 12.4% and 43.8% of them take no or casual intesrest in study. 67.7% and (23.9%) of them never or occasionally used critical thinking. 86.6% of them showed curiosity towards the knowledge of medicine. Students on bachelor degree programs outperformed those on associate degree programs in terms of will power, self-confidence and interest (P0.05 for all).Conclusion The nonintellective factors of students of nursing colleges include curiosity and self-confidence. They, however, had weaker will power, used less critical thinking and lacked interest in the nursing. Measures should be taken to enhance their sense of creativity.


In recent years ball bearings have been applied to telescope mountings and driving clocks to reduce the friction on the various turning shafts and allow the telescope to compensate the diurnal rotation of the Earth with greater precision. Last year a further step was taken and the great 100-inch mirror itself was mounted on ball-bearing supports. The steel cell in which the mirror is mounted bends slightly when the telescope is moved from one position to another. The friction between the mirror itself and the original support system, which was fastened to the cell, was large enough to produce a drag on the mirror and bend it out of shape. The insertion of ballthrust bearings between the large mirror and the support system has practically eliminated this distortion and allows the mirror to "float" on its support system independently of any change in the shape of the steel cell. The support system is in two parts, one the "horizontal" or back support, the other the "edge" support. When the telescope tube stands in a vertical position the whole weight of the mirror rests on the back support. As the telescope is tilted from a vertical to a horizontal position the weight on the back support decreases and that on the edge support increases until the latter carries the whole weight. The original horizontal support system is shown in Plate III, a. It consists of twelve annular plates, 17 inches in diameter, three of which are mounted directly on adjusting screws for collimation and the remaining nine on counterweighted levers. Rings of manila drawing paper about %oo mcn thick were originally placed between the plates and the glass. The friction between the paper and the glass amounted to about % the weight of the glass. The insertion of ball bearings has reduced this ratio to about %00. A diagram of the new bearings is shown in Figure 1. The new annular plate, F, carries, in a groove cut in its face, a steel


CEMAP software is a wide-ranging solution to the many practical and logistical problems that analysts face when performing the basic data processing steps necessary for using analytic software. CEMAP transforms real-world source data into a form that is specifically formatted to the exacting requirements of particular social network analysis software. This report provides the concepts important to CEMAP as well as step-by-step instructions on how an analyst uses CEMAP as either a stand-alone or ORA/Automap-hosted interactive system, or as an automated command-line batch system. Taking the short time to learn how to use CEMAP, which is easy, will save a great deal of time in one's workflow within the analytic process and will put a wealth of popular real-world datasets within easy reach. This report guides the reader through the major aspects of CEMAP from the perspective of the role the operator plays in the work flow from raw-data extract, transformation, and the loading of network data, for subsequent analysis.


Abstract Development, fecundity, and longevity of Colpoclypeusflorus (Walker), a parasitoid of Adoxophyes orana(Fischer von Röslerstamm) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), werestudied under laboratory conditions at different constant temperatures.Developmental time from egg to adult was inversely related totemperature and at 25°C was 12.81 ± 0.19 d. No adultsemerged at 30°C. The thermal units required for development from eggto adult were 232.56 ± 19.5 degree-days. Female C.florus oviposited (mean ± SEM) on average 30.7, 57.4, 46.6,and 34.1 eggs at 15, 17, 20, and 25°C, respectively. Adult longevitywas 11 ± 1.25 d at 17, whereas it decreased to 4.5 ±0.4 at 25°C. Honey significantly increased longevity for both malesand females. The highest net reproductive rate was 30.739 at 17°C,whereas the highest intrinsic rate of increase and the shortestdoubling time occurred at 25°C.


Today, Ukraine suffers from military aggression by the Russian Federation, destroying social, economic, technological, environmental, and political systems. One of the current areas that require scientific substantiation and revision is the validity and efficiency of government decisions, state programs, and public administration in general. Thus, there is an objective need for research aimed at improving the public administration efficiency. The article deals with the scientific and theoretical principles of an effective public administration to achieve long-term national goals, solve key social, economic, political problems, and crisis management. The general criteria to be met by an effective system of public administration is formed, namely: to increase efficiency and reduce costs in the public administration; to promote the achievement of the activity goal with minimal material, resource, labor costs; to satisfy the needs of society by the management results; to be adapted to crisis phenomena; to have economically expedient functioning and positive impact on the activity results of the national level.


The Early Proterozoic Matachewan (2.454 Ga) and Kapuskasing (2.04 Ga) dyke swarms of the central Superior Province have similar petrographic features, including zoned igneous plagioclase and clinopyroxene and interstitial amphibole and quartz. Dyke crystallization conditions can be estimated using equilibria involving amphibole by assuming that igneous mineral rims reached equilibrium with the interstitial phases.TWQ software using 33 amphibole-bearing equilibria yields temperatures ranging from 552 to 811 °C, with an average of 680 °C. The average of two calibrated pressure-sensitive equilibria (2 diopside + 2 quartz + tschermakite = tremolite + 2 anorthite and diopside + 5 quartz + pargasite = tremolite + anorthite + albite) ranges from 0.32 to 0.70 GPa for Matachewan dykes and from 0.30 to 0.57 GPa for Kapuskasing dykes. Because dyke pressures are lower than metamorphic pressures in the amphibolite- and granulite-facies Archean country rocks, the values represent feasible emplacement pressures.The regi...


This study conceptualizes a framework of service recovery based on equity theory by developing constructs measuring the behavioural intentions of complainants and non-complainants during service failure. Measures of justice, severity of service failure and satisfaction with service recovery are used to design a new scale. Primary data is collected in two separate studies surveying 241 and 752 mobile phone users respectively. The scale is tested for reliability and validity using structural equation modelling. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is used to assess its unidimensionality and model fit. The analysis reveals a good model-fit and the new scale reports for convergent and discriminant validity. This reliable and valid service recovery scale helps in comprehending the theory behind service failure and recovery and enables an understanding of perceived justice in a consumer's mind post service failure.


Abstract It is difficult to realize the transformation from traditional economy industrial system to circular economy industrial system. Regarding primary raw materials as the indicators, the industrial system has been specified according to the divergence among the indicators and the circular utilization modes. In comparison with the association among industrial systems, the relationship among industrial sub-systems is named as industrial cross-linking in this paper. The industrial system which could completely utilize and recycle the indicators should be increased and strengthened, and the circular economy industrial system with complete industrial association and industrial cross-linking should also be constructed. Taking the development of circular agricultural system basing on the traditional agricultural system as an example, the traditional agricultural products are regarded as the indicators which have been divided into foodstuff and crop straws which are used to produce food and articles for use, like fertilizer, energy and papers etc. The way to construct the circular agricultural industrial system is to increase the industrial systems that could utilize the products generated from crop straws, feces and other castoffs and transform the wastewater and other trucks into environmental friendly products. It has also been pointed out that the construction of circular economy industrial system is conducive to the foundation of circular industrial economics and the establishment of the construction layout of circular economy and the application schemes. Suggestions to the theoretical and practical work of the next step have also been brought forward in this paper.


This chapter describes a collaborative project between e-scientists and humanists working to create an online repository of linguistic data sets and tools. Corpora, dictionaries, and a thesaurus are brought together to enable a new method of research. It combines our most advanced knowledge in both computing and linguistic research techniques.Keywords: online repository, corpora, dictionaries, thesaurus, Enroller, interoperability, collaborationLanguage scholars make use of a variety of language resources to conduct their research. Such resources include dictionaries, thesauri, corpora, audio and video collections. At present most of these resources are distributed, non-interoperable, and licence-protected. As a result researchers typically conduct their research through direct access to independent data sets using multiple browser windows and multiple authorisations. This approach results in non-scalable and less productive research, and can lead to incomplete or non-verifiable results. The JlSC-funded project, An Enhanced Repository for Language and Literature Researchers (Enroller) addressed these issues through development of a targeted web-based research environment.1 The project ran from 2009 to 2011 and continues to add data sets and enable corpus-based research.Humanities scholars are creating a growing amount of digital data. We are told that Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research projects which produce some kind of digital output account for half their funding budget.2 Digital data relevant to linguistic research are also produced outside Higher Education, for example dictionaries published by commercial companies and individual scholars' collections of texts, often from specific geographical areas. This is also the case for Scots, Scottish, and English materials. The Enroller project hypothesis was that bringing related data sets together in one online resource gateway - aggregating them - brings major benefits to researchers and makes better use of the national funding which helps us to create data sets.ChallengesThere are challenges in using digital data for research. Reports have shown that awareness and use of digital resources in the arts and humanities is low,3 but opinions sought during conferences and workshops show that there is a great interest in learning more about advanced computing technologies and in sharing resources. Our participation in conferences and in meetings such as the SCOTS Symposium and the Enroller Colloquia in Glasgow has enabled us to identify data sets and functional requirements of interest to our linguistic colleagues and the challenges involved for them.4Multiple identitiesResearchers typically conduct their research through direct access to independent data sets using multiple browser windows and multiple authorisations requiring multiple identifiers and passwords to be remembered. At a practical level it is tedious and it can be discouraging to have to remember different passwords and to register to obtain permissions for many resources. We need methods of logging on and being recognised as bona fide researchers with one permanent (or at least long-lasting) identifier and password. The Enroller e-science team members endeavoured to find a solution to this problem.Hidden dataMany data sets are held by individual scholars and are inaccessible to the community. We need to create systems which will allow the easy uploading of data to online platforms by resource creators who do not have the necessary programming skills or computing infrastructure to publish their data themselves. Data can be given to the Oxford Text Archive, but the OTA provides a limited search facility and does not have easily useable online access.5Many data sets are deposited in national archives such as the OTA or local archives but are not known and therefore not used by the community. We need to create resource gateways which contain data sets and functions that scholars in particular fields want and that are easy for them to find. …


Most research on maternal mental health focuses on the perinatal period and does not extend beyond 12 months postpartum. However, emerging evidence suggests that for some women (30%–50%), psychological symptoms may persist beyond the first year postpartum or even emerge later increasing the risk of chronic mood and anxiety symptoms. Despite the high prevalence rates and devastating maternal‐child consequences, studies examining maternal depression, anxiety, and post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) beyond the first year postpartum are rare and our understanding of the underlying biological mechanisms is incomplete. Inflammatory processes are thought to be involved in the pathophysiology of depression, anxiety, & PTSD outside of the postpartum period. Therefore, the purpose of the current investigation was to examine the relationship between depression, anxiety, and PTSD two to three years post‐delivery, and transcriptional control pathways relevant to inflammatory and antiviral processes.


Based on the consignment stock and the condition that demand forecast accuracy can be improved,the model of ordering lot sizes in a supply chain with one-manufacturer and one-retailer is established.The results illustrate that if demand forecast accuracy is certain,the benefit of manufacturer is consistent with the whole supply chain when the manufacturer decides the transfer price of product.When demand forecast accuracy may be improved,the income of the whole supply chain in the supply chain decentralized decision is less than centralized decision because of less investment of the retailer in improving demand forecast accuracy.When the ratio of the inventory capital taking up cost to the warehousing cost of product is higher,it has benefited both parties by sharing the cost of improving demand forecast accuracy,thus make the whole supply chain achieve Pareto optimization,but can not maximize the benefit of the supply chain.Moreover,the larger this ratio is,the more proportion of cost in improving demand forecast accuracy the manufacturer is willing to share with the retailer.However,the higher the ratio or the uncertainty of product demand is,the supply chain centralized decision based on the mechanism of cooperating revenue sharing with between the manufacturer and the retailer has significant advantage over the strategy of cost sharing with both only in improving demand forecast accuracy.


ABSTRACT The article carries out a close, comparative reading of two modern illuminated editions of the Vita nova by an Arts and Crafts artist, namely Phoebe Anna Traquair (1902) and a London-based art professional, Evelyn Paul (1916). After a short reconstruction of the historical and social context fostering the revival of illumination in mid-to-late Victorian Britain, the article unpacks the inner mechanism of pictorial, decorative, and typographical mediation that the two illuminators designed to translate the verbal sign and convey a distinctive visual interpretation of the libello. It considers how their editions introduced the 'elite arts of poetry' and manuscript illumination within the intellectual and economic reach of the middle-class mass public seeking cultural cultivation. It ponders how these popular artefacts mediated Dante's book of poetry for a whole new reading public.


At present, a lot of references use discrete event simulation to evaluate the fitness of evolved rules, but which simulation configuration can achieve better evolutionary rules in a limited time has not been fully studied. This study proposes three types of hyper-heuristic methods for coevolution of the machine assignment rules (MAR) and job sequencing rules (JSR) to solve the DFJSP, including the cooperative coevolution genetic programming with two sub-populations (CCGP), the genetic programming with two sub-trees (TTGP) and the genetic expression programming with two sub-chromosomes (GEP). After careful parameter tuning, a surrogate simulation model is used to evaluate the fitness of evolved scheduling policies (SP). Computational simulations and comparisons demonstrate that the proposed surrogate-assisted CCGP method (CCGP-SM) shows competitive performance with other evolutionary approaches using the same computation time. Furthermore, the learning process of the proposed methods demonstrates that the surrogate-assisted GP methods help accelerating the evolutionary process and improving the quality of the evolved SPs without a significant increase in the length of SP. In addition, the evolved SPs generated by the CCGP-SM show superior performance as compared with existing rules in the literature. These results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method.


MP/PBS composite was fabricated by melt blending method. The weight loss ratio of MP/PBS composite reached 35.43 wt.% after immersion into phosphate buffered saline solution for 12 weeks, and the pH change from 7.40 to 7.72. The relative proliferation rate of cells on the materials increased with time and the proliferation of the cells on the MP/PBS composite was significantly higher than PBS. The results reveal MP/PBS composite has good biocompatibility, which satisfied the relevant criterion on biomaterials.


The organisation of post-war relief is the first step in post-war reconstruction. The needs of the countries ravaged by the war will be immense and can be met only by international cooperative action on a very large scale. After the last war, there was considerable delay in organising relief; the scale on which it could be granted was very inadequate; and the financial conditions on which relief was available hampered the subsequent restoration of world economic relations. It is very desirable that plans should be prepared beforehand to provide relief after this war on an adequate scale and on a basis which will promote international recovery. . . . Voluntary organisations should be coordinated and linked up with these Relief Missions.1


Topicality: Today, laryngeal cancer occupies an important place in the structure of tumors of the head and neck. Malignant tumors of the larynx are most represented by squamous cell carcinoma, the main pathogenetic factors are smoking, alcohol and human papillomavirus.
The key factor is the presence of regional metastases, which significantly affects the survival of patients. Data on the five-year survival of patients with laryngeal cancer vary depending of the presence of metastases to regional lymph nodes from 60% lor patients with negative lymph node status to 18% lor stage N3b.
Aim of the study: To assess the survival of patients with laryngeal cancer, taking into account the presence of metastases and recurrences of the disease, to analyze the relationship between tumor recurrence and the presence of metastases at the beginning of observation.
Object and methods: 70 patients with laryngeal cancer of III-IV stages (T3-4N0-3M0) and II clinical group were understudy. Of these, 39 patients from the main group had regional metastases of laryngeal cancer, in 31 patients of the comparison group regional metastases were not detected. We investigated the frequency and timing of disease recurrence, metastasis, and death.
Results: During the observation period, metastases were detected in 6 patients (8.5%). During 1 year, metastases developed in 4 patients (percentage of patients without metastases – 93.1% (95% CI=86.8-99.9). Percentage of patients without metastases after 5 years – 85.7% (95% CI=74.2-99.1). The median time to metastasis in our study was 9.7 [7.2; 12.7] months.
During the follow-up period, 18 patients (26.4%) died of cancer-related causes. The majority of fatalities in our follow-up developed among patients with recurrence of the disease during the follow-up period. All patients who relapsed died during the follow-up period. One patient died within 1 year (survival – 98.4% (95% CI=95.2-100.0), five-year survival was 63.2% (95% CI=47.6-83.9), and the median time to death in our study was 21.4 [16.6; 26.2] months.
Conclusion: The critical period lor recurrence and metastasis was the first 12 months after treatment. Local recurrence during the first year of follow-up was associated with earlier mortality. The presence of metastases at the beginning of treatment reduced the risk of further metastasis by 7 times. The percentage of patients without metastases after 5 years was 85.7%. The five-year survival rate was 63.2%. The mean time to death in our study was 49.9
(2.7) months.


Abstract The pseudo-two-dimensional hidden Markov model (PHMM), which is an extension of the 1D HMM, has been shown to be an effective approach in recognition of highly degraded and connected text (O. E. Agazzi and S. Kuo, AT&T Tech. J. 72, Sept./Oct. 1993, 60-72). In this paper, the PHMM is extended to directly recognize poorly printed gray-level document images. The performance of the system is further enhanced by the N-best hypotheses search (F. K. Soong and E.-F. Huang, Proceedings DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, June 1990, pp. 12-19), coupled with duration constraint. Experimental results show that the new system has significantly improved the performance when compared to a similar system using thresholded binary images as inputs. The recognition rate improves from 97.7% in the binary system to 99.9% in gray level with modified N-best search, over a testing set with similar blur and noise conditions as the training set. For a much more degraded testing set, it improves from 89.59 to 98.51%. This also demonstrates the robustness of the proposed system.


T cell activation is an anabolic process requiring both large amounts of energy and biomaterials to construct daughter T cells. We examined structural changes to the mitochondria during T cell activation, given its predominant role in generating ATP and harboring key building blocks such as NADH. Upon T cell activation, the mitochondria massively disturb their cristae and swell in a process that peaks after 48 hours. As the T cells begin to rest down, we observed that mitochondria begin to revert back to their pre-activation phenotype. Intriguingly environments that limit T cell activation have less cristae disruption, suggesting that this process is beneficial to the immune response. We saw rapid downregulation of electron transport chain subunits required for complexes 1,2 and 4. Moreover, NADH/NADPH, which is largely housed in the mitochondria of a resting T cell leaves the organelle to the cytoplasm, coincident with mitochondria cristae disruption, suggesting that the mitochondrial cristae disturbance causes a shift in the equilibrium towards of these molecules for energy production so that it can be used as a building block for nucleotides. This data suggest that the mitochondria alter their structure and function to promote optimal T cell activation.


The synthesis and magnetic behavior of four new dinuclear iron(II) complexes Fe22a-d × 4Py with the iron in an octahedral coordination sphere is presented in this paper. The complex c is a high-spin complex over the whole temperature range investigated, while the complexes a,b, and d perform a partial low-spin high-spin spin transition. In case of Fe22b × 4Py, X-ray structure analysis of the HS/LS state was possible, showing that in one molecule both iron centers are either in the low-spin or sin the high-spin state. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 16:391–397, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/hc.20108


The effects of Al5TiB on microstructure of casting magnesium alloys Mg8Zn4Al0.3Mn have been studied. The results show that the microstructure of Mg8Zn4Al0.3Mn casting magnesium alloys mainly contain Mg matrix, eutectic α(Mg), (Al2Mg5Zn2)phase and τ(Mg32(Al,Zn)49) phase. Casting microstructure of Mg8Zn4Al0.3Mn magnesium alloys can be refined by addition of 0.5%wt Al5TiB. The grains size decreases from 120~130μm to 30~40μm. The eutectic α(Mg)quantity and microhardness of Mg8Zn4Al0.3Mn magnesium alloys increase with the increase of Al5TiB addition. 


The invention discloses a direct-current motor controller and method. The direct-current motor controller comprises a single-chip microcomputer PIC16F688 minimum system, a signal receiving module, a 7805 voltage stabilizing module, a relay module and an optical coupler module. By the adoption of a control chip PIC16F688, the problem that an existing motor completely relies on hardware control is solved, and control over a motor is more intelligent and more stable; due to adaptation of a procedure, different requirements of the outside world can be met without changes of a peripheral circuit; the problem that an existing system is too high in pertinence and cannot be changed according to the specific actual situation is solved; when rotor locking of the motor happens, the system has a rapid response, the phenomena, such as the time delay phenomenon, do not happen, a power source of the motor can be immediately disconnected, and the motor is protected from being burnt out; meanwhile, a wireless remote control module is added, and forward rotation, reverse rotation and stop of the motor are controlled in a wireless mode.


ABSTRACT In this study, we examined the factor structure and reliability of the Korean Quality of Life (KQoL) survey and compared the KQoL survey to both the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). We also assessed associations between KQoL scores and physical activity (PA) participation. Participants were 557 (male = 281, female = 276) healthy Korean adults with ages between 18 and 71 years (M = 33.2, SD = 14.2). Results of confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the 7-subscale model and indicated acceptable values supporting convergent validity (χ2 = 1,678.758, df = 443, p < .001, RMSR = .045, RMSEA = .071, TLI = .880, CFI = .892). Correlations of KQoL subscales with similar subscales of WHOQOL-BREF and with SWLS supported concurrent validity. Results confirm that the KQoL survey can assess multidimensional aspects of quality of life (QoL), including spiritual, physical, social, and psychological. KQoL scores were positively related to PA participation, in line with previous research supporting the positive association of PA with QoL.


In urban areas heat-island effect are becoming a serious concern; thus, it is necessary to clarify the heat and mass transport processes in a turbulent field from a fundamental standpoint. The convective and diffusive processes in urban areas are relatively becoming more complex than those over the plains because of the mutual interference of buildings and complex landscape. In order to extract elementary processes hidden in complex fields, the characteristics of the turbulent flow was investigated on a two-dimensional hill model. An experimental and computational investigation has been made on the flow and concentration fields over a two-dimensional hill. By varying the elevation of a point source located upstream of the hill model, the effects of the presence of the hill on the turbulent transport of a passive scalar, ethylene, are discussed. At the upstream and hill crest locations, the maximum concentration point locates away from the wall for elevated case, and the value decreases compared with that for the ground level case. In the separated region, the mean concentration profiles are almost uniform in the vertical direction up to the crest of the hill. The hill causes the concentration distribution to strongly expand in the spanwise direction.  DNSs of turbulent boundary layers with heat transfer over forward-facing step are carried out to investigate in detail the heat transfer phenomena of such flows, in which the effect of thermal stratifications is also considered. The present DNS indicates the fundamental and detailed characteristics of turbulent boundary layers with heat transfer over a forward-facing step under various step, flow and thermal conditions. Therefore, it is concluded that the obvious turbulent boundary layer with heat transfer over the forward-facing step can be investigated in detail by means of DNS.


The CAD teaching in landscape architecture of application-oriented university were researched,good teaching and learning environment,teachers' quality,teaching way and method and the cultivation of the students' ability were discussed combined with situation of Anhui Science and Technology University,meanwhile the methods to solve the questions were proposed.


Government policies in helping dairy farmers in an effort to meet the capital needs of breeding them is through a policy program Kredit Usaha Pembibitan Sapi (KUPS). KUPS is skim credit used to finance the development of cattle breeding and dairy cattle by businesses with subsidized interest rates. The problems that the distribution KUPS seen through the eyes of a banking institution is (a) the availability of information prospective potential borrowers are still minimal (b) the legality of ownership of assets (c) cattle breeding company still slightly. KUPS program has been rolled out since 2010, meaning that until 2014 the program has been running five (5) years. But the realization of its lending until September 2014, reached 15.42% of the amount of the ceiling of Rp 4.00 trillion. The realization can be said to be too small or fails. Of course there is the small achievements of the bank as an institution that is authorized to distribute funds would need to act professionally and carefully. Given the experience of lending a mass program past such cases KUT (Kredit Usaha Tani) end up with less encouraging. Instead the main purpose of the program is awakened, just the opposite of credit are understood as government social assistance by the debtor (the farmer). So it is very natural that the bank hand is always cautious. The study was conducted in West Sumatra in 2014, data analysis used data a simple cross-tabulation using the primary data and secondary data from interviews with respondents either breeders penmanfaat KUPS and banking institutions as channeling KUPS


The basic effective teaching theories should goes with the students' learning levels.Teaching of writing of intermediate grade students in primary schools should focus on studies of literary compositions and exercises,which is constructive to the establishment of the scientific training system and the promotion of teaching quality as a whole.Motivating students to have a close eye with every object,instructing carefully and patiently among observations,accelerating the progress of ability in languages and fostering good habits in observations are the chief strategies.


This diploma thesis focuses on the design of device for tilting crates. The work contains a search for elements of hydraulic circuits and industrial sensors, as well as a market survey of similar machines. In the practical part, the design of the machine is carried out in the form of a 3D model with documented design and control calculations, in the form of an analytical calculation or using the finite element method. The diploma thesis also contains a drawing of the machine assembly, a production drawing of the weldment of the basic frame and a production drawing of the weldment of the rotating frame.


ABSTRACT In this article, a lens is applied to reduce the horn antenna's Side Lobe Level (SLL) based on controlling the phase and amplitude distribution of the electromagnetic fields over the aperture of the horn antenna in the X band (8−12 GHz) for radar applications. By locating the metasurface lens inside the standard X band pyramidal horn, the SLL is decreased by 4–15 dB in E-plane and 0.8–7 dB in H-plane. The measured results with metasurface lenses demonstrate the reduction of SLL over the entire bandwidth. Good agreement between measurement and simulation results shows the tapering of field distribution over the aperture of the horn antenna.


During accelerated life-testing of impregnated polypropylene capacitors, breakdown may occur due to discharges in liquid voids. The authors have determined the experimental conditions for detection of discharges and studied various parameters such as the nature of the liquid, the additives, and temperature. The deterioration of the polypropylene films in capacitor models impregnated with MBT at 150 V/sub rms// mu m 80 degrees C was not due to discharges, but to electrochemical phenomena enhanced by a high liquid conductivity and the presence of impurities such as electrolyte and water. The influence of epoxide additives on the lifetime of capacitor models for 300 V/sub rms// mu m is explained. Without additive, discharges and breakdown occur in a few hours or less.<<ETX>>


The relationship between religion and psychiatry remains controversial amongst British psychiatrists. We looked at the provision of spiritual and pastoral care facilities in a high-security hospital and the role of faith chaplains with particular reference to the Muslim minority group. There was a significantly higher uptake of pastoral care services amongst those of Muslim faith compared to Church of England and Roman Catholic Christians. Possible reasons for this are discussed. Resources allocated for the Muslim faith group were limited and heavily dependent on the availability of the Muslim faith chaplain. Our study highlighted the need for clearly defined standards for the provision of spiritual and pastoral care within high-secure psychiatric hospitals, and by implication other NHS psychiatric settings, a re-examination of the role of the faith chaplain in relation to the clinical team, and raised questions about the equitable allocation of resources between various faith groups within the hospital.


Of the input shaft 7 four or more driven balls 5 arranged on, at one end A follower balls 5 and the other end side constantly cam ridges 10 in the driven ball 5 and each other Yoriau direction B of the input shaft 7 clearance on one side of the engagement surface 10a (10b) without contact. Therefore, it is possible to remove the relative movement is prevented by the backlash between the driven ball 5 and the cam protrusions 10. With the removal of the backlash, time of engagement between the cam protrusions 10 and the driven ball 5, to suppress the occurrence of meshing sound leading to low noise operation. Able reducing friction between the cam protrusions 10 and the driven ball 5 by point contact, the smooth rotation operation to improve the transmission force to the follower wheel 4 can be realized with high accuracy.


This paper presents the development and design of two software tools for computational intelligence. The software tools include a graphical user interface for construction, edition and observation of the intelligent systems. The software tool are for interval type-2 fuzzy logic and modular neural networks. The interval type-2 fuzzy logic system toolbox (IT2FLS), is an environment for interval type-2 fuzzy logic inference system development. Tools that cover the different phases of the fuzzy system design process, from the initial description phase, to the final implementation phase, build the toolbox. The toolboxpsilas best qualities are the capacity to develop complex systems and the flexibility that permits the user to extend the availability of functions for working with the use of type-2 fuzzy operators, linguistic variables, interval type-2 membership functions, defuzzification methods and the evaluation of interval type-2 fuzzy inference systems. The toolbox for modular neural networks has similar advantages.


: Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in men and the second most common cancer in women worldwide. Both genetic and epigenetic alterations are common in CRC and are the driving force of tumorigenesis. Chromosomal instability, microsatellite instability and CpG island methylator phenotype pathways are responsible for genetic instability in colorectal cancer. Chromosomal instability pathway consists of activation of proto-oncogenes and inactivation of tumor suppression genes and Loss of Heterozogosity (LOH). In this review, we discuss genetic and epigenetic phenomena that can be suggested as biomarkers in colorectal cancer


The invention discloses a circuit single-phase earth fault impedance distance protection method based on additional impedance actual measurement correction. Additional impedance caused by transition resistance is calculated by means of protection for measured fault phase electricity amount, correction for a computed result of fault impedance of traditional earth impedance distance protection is carried out through the measured additional impedance, the fault impedance zrelay which reflects a real fault distance is obtained, a protection device judges whether a movement equation /zrelay-0.5*(zset1+zset2) /</0.5*(zset1-zset2) /is right, if the equation is right, the protection device sends out movement trip signals, and the zset1 and the zset 2 are respectively forward setting impedance and reverse setting impedance. According to the method, precise measurement for the additional impedance caused by the transition resistance is achieved, the correction for the computed result of the fault impedance of the traditional earth impedance distance protection is carried out through the measured additional impedance, the fault impedance which reflects the real fault distance is obtained, influences of the additional impedance caused by the transition resistance on impedance distance protection movement performance are eliminated, and the method is suitable for the power transmission circuit single-phase earth fault impedance distance protection.


Pure and Ni doped zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures have been synthesized by co-precipitat ion method. The X-ray diffraction reveals that the polycrystalline nature for pure and Ni doped ZnO with the hexagonal wurtzite phase. The photoluminescence (PL) spectra of all the samples exhibited a broad emission in the visible range. The rod shaped structure was observed for Ni doped ZnO by scanning electron microscopy. The energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopic analysis (EDX) confirmed the compositions of the presented elements in pure and Ni doped ZnO. The room temperature magnetic measurement exhibits well defined weak ferromagnetic behaviour for Ni doped ZnO.


In 2010,China maintained a strong economic trend in general with improving macroeconomic indicators,its monetary policy gradually turned to"prudent"from"appropriately loose"under the influence of increasing inflationary expectations in the second half of the year, and the bond market experienced an inverted V-shape trend in the context of the overall adequacy of liquidity.The issuance size of bonds throughout the year was expanded steadily,market trading was more active and the types of investors became more diversified. Looking forward to 2011,in view of further product innovation in the bond market and enhanced market mechanism and infrastructure development,the bond market will play a greater role in supporting economic development.


Videoconferencing offers new opportunities for language testers to assess speaking ability in low-stakes diagnostic tests. To be considered a trusted testing tool in language testing, a test should be examined employing appropriate validation processes (Chapelle, C.A., Jamieson, J., & Hegelheimer, V. (2003). Validation of a web-based ESL test. Language Testing, 20, 409–439.). While developing a speaking test, language testers need to gather evidence to build a validity argument with theoretical rationales. These rationales should be based on test purpose and validation considerations that affect decision making on test design and validation (Chapelle, C. (2001). Computer applications in second language acquisition: Foundations for teaching, testing, and research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.). To obtain theoretical soundness in validation, spec-driven test development (Davidson, F., & Lynch, B. (2002). Testcraft: A teacher's guide to writing and using language test specifications. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.) was applied to speaking test development. Experimental tests were carried out with 40 test takers using face-to-face and videoconferenced oral interviews. Findings indicated no significant difference in performance between test modes, neither overall nor across analytic scoring features. Findings from qualitative data also evidenced the comparability of the videoconferenced and face-to-face interviews in terms of comfort, computer familiarity, environment, non-verbal linguistic cues, interests, speaking opportunity, and topic/situation effects with little interviewer effect. Data taken from test spec evolution, test scores, post interview, and observations were analyzed to build a validity argument using Bachman and Palmer's (1996. Language testing in practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.) usefulness analysis table. The collected evidence suggests that the videoconferenced interview was comparable to the face-to-face interview with respect to reliability, construct validity, authenticity, interactiveness, impact, and practicality.


The oxygen concentration of sodium in equilibrium with uranium-25% plutonium oxide fuel was measured at temperatures of 650 to 900 deg C for fuels with oxygen-to-metal ratios of 1.90, 1.94, and 1.97. The oxygen concentration in sodium at the three-phase Na -- MO/sub 2-x/ Na/sub 3/MO/sub 4/ (M = uranium plus plutonium) equilibrium has also been measured for the same temperature range. This three-phase equilibrium was established by reacting mixed-oxide fuel with sodium to which Na/sub 2/O had been added. The oxygen concentrations in sodium were determined by the vanadium-wire equilibration method. The oxygen concentration in sodium at the three-phase equilibrium varied from ~ 0.1 to 0.4 ppM in the temperature range investigated. Oxygen concentrations in EBR-II primary sodium, which have been measured by the same method, vary from 0.4 to 0.9 ppM oxygen depending on the cold-trap operation. These values indicate that the sodium--fuel reaction product, i.e., Na/sub 3/MO/sub 4/, is stable in sodium at the temperatures (<1000 deg C) and oxygen levels present in EBR-II. (auth)


Work on Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) as part of road safety by detecting and deterring a range of illegal road users is currently a key research work undertaken by the School of Engineering and Technology in collaboration with the UK Home Office1 and Hertfordshire Constabulary. A key research problem identified is the lack of an objective and independent assessment process for benchmarking ANPR systems in the UK. With this is mind, it is proposed to generate key data sets through a simulation process that will generate car number plate images. As a first step, such plates will show variability in character spacing for assessing ANPR systems which will demonstrate the principles for benchmarking. Such a system will avoid the need for carrying out any resource intensive field trials by the Police Force which is currently the case.


Under the current circumstance that more and more students are being recruited in universities,ways have to be explored to promote the development of our major.The following three points including strength in construction of teaching staff,management of teaching quality and active participation in administration of students are suggested to be attempted,in combination with many other good ideas.


The most research on the power consumption of circuits has been concentrated on the switching power and the power dissipated by the leakage current has been the relatively minor area. However, in the current VLSI process, the sub-threshold current becomes one of the major factors of the power consumption, especially in high-end memory. To reduce the leakage power in the SRAM, the power gating method can be applied and a major technique of the power gating is using sleep transistors to control the sub-threshold current. In this project, dual threshold voltages are adopted; normal SRAM cells have lower threshold voltages and the higher threshold voltages control the sleep transistors. The size of sleep transistors can be chosen by the worst case current and are applied to every block.


Three things are attempted in this paper: to locate (briefly) Gramsci's Marxism in its historical context; to describe Gramsci's Marxism as an attempt at the creation of a theory of advanced capitalist society, especially in his treatment of the central concepts and/or realities of class, state and work; and to evaluate the limitations of his Marxism as a critical theory of society, specifically his discussion of work, sexuality and technology.

The paper develops Gramsci's concepts of the historical bloc, his use of historicism, the importance of organic intellectuals and his concept of hegemony and its relation to the modalities of class rule, and suggests that these are aspects of a stunning and new critical theory of society. His analysis of work, however, was ultimately based on a Taylorist conception of productive technology and of the social relations and organization which necessitated the "regulation" of human (sexual) instincts in the divorce of mind from body, object from subject and, ultimately, theory from practice. This reintroduced through the back door the Hegelian duality between thought and being. I stress the conservative implications of these formulations and conclude that Gramsci's analysis lacked both an holistic discussion of work and a critical analysis of production-as-technique.

The totality is the territory of the dialectic Georg Lukacs


Asian rice is one of the most important crops because it is a staple food for almost half of the world's population. Rice has two subspecies, JAPONICA and INDICA. To have production of rice keep pace with a growing world population, it is anticipated that the use of fertilizers will also need to increase, which may cause environmental damage through runoff impacts. An alternative strategy to increase crop yield is the use of plant growth promoting bacteria. Thousands of microbial species can exist in association with plant roots and shoots, and some are critical to the plant's survival. We isolated 140 bacteria from rice and investigated whether JAPONICA and INDICA rice subspecies were positively influenced by these isolates. The bacterial isolates were screened for their ability to solubilize phosphate, a known plant growth promoting characteristic, and 25 isolates were selected for further analysis. These 25 phosphate solubilizing isolates were also able to produce other potentially growth-promoting factors. Five of the most promising bacterial isolates were chosen for whole genome sequencing. Four of these bacteria, isolates related to Pseudomonas mosselii, Microvirga sp., Paenibacillus rigui and Paenibacillus graminis, improved root and shoot growth, root to shoot ratio, and increased root dry weights of JAPONICA plants but had no effect on growth and development of INDICA plants. This indicates that while bacteria have several known plant growth promoting functions, their effects on growth parameters can be plant subspecies dependent and suggest close relationships between plants and their microbial partners.


Debruyne et al. challenge the findings of our study and imply that we argue that hair shafts are an overall superior source of ancient DNA than bone. However, the authors are misreading and misinterpreting the conclusions of our study; we claim nothing further than that hair shaft represents an excellent source material for the shotgun sequencing of mitochondrial DNA genomes.


a Department of Mathematics, Quaid-I-Azam University 45320, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan b Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics (NAAM) Research Group, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University P. O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia Abstract: Stratified hydromagnetic flow of nanomaterial in the zone of stagnation point is addressed. An exponential base space dependent heat source, temperature dependent thermal conductivity and viscous dissipation are accounted. In addition, first order chemical reaction is present. The obtained nonlinear system is computed by employing homotopic procedure. Convergent solutions are obtained. Plots and tabulated values are arranged for interpretation of sundry variables. Clearly temperature and concentration distributions are decayed in presence of stratification. Moreover skin friction and temperature are reduced via wall thickness parameter.


Palladium(0)-catalyzed reaction of isoprene with water was enhanced by the presence of carbon dioxide and a base to give dimethyloctadienols. The same catalyst was found to dehydrate the dimethyloctadienols to afford the corresponding dimethyloctatrienes. The effect of acidity of water on the isoprene-water reaction was also studied.


The popularity and coverage of various e-learning resources and different types of distance education has been increasing day by day. The capability to successfully monitor online tests has become important for the evolution for the next stage of education. At present, manual proctoring has become the most frequently used form of evaluation, where the student/test-taker is required to go to a specific examination centre, or by proctoring tests using a webcam. Though, such techniques are not cost effective and difficult. In this project, we aim to develop a system that accomplishes the goal of automated online proctoring. The proposed system hardware comprises of a single webcam, and a mic., with the goal of tracking the audio and visual surroundings of the location of test. The model comprises of six components that always measure the behaviour of the user : user authentication, text detection, audio detection, and tab switching detection. By combining the continuous estimation components, and using a temporal sliding window, we design higher-level features to determine whether the test taker is cheating at any time during the test. To test our proposed system, we collect multimedia data (audio and visual) from the test taker performing various types of cheating while taking online tests. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the accuracy, robustness, and efficiency of our online proctoring system.


PURPOSE: To obtain a new compound useful for the therapy of tumor and the like. CONSTITUTION: A compound containing a bifunctional fused glycoprotein or bifunctional glycoprotein complex contains (a) a component having an enzymatic activity, (b) a component specifically binding to the epitope of a tumor-specific antigen, and (c) a carbohydrate complement (comprising at least one exposed carbohydrate residue selected from the group consisting of mannose, galactose, Nacetylglucosamine, lactose and fucose). For example, sFv-Escherichia coli β-gluc fragment. A plasmid clone pKB03 containing human sFv431/26, a linker and perfect Escherichia coli β-glucuronidase is obtained according to the scheme of the formula (the plasmid clone pKBO2 contains sFv431/26 bound to a linker sequence with Escherichia coli β-glucuronidase). COPYRIGHT: (C)1994,JPO


This paper examines the growth and development of the literature of "environmental communication" research. The paper collects citations of all papers matching specified keywords covering environmental communication topics in the social science journal literature from relevant indices. The indices used were: the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science), the ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science), Communication Abstracts, PsycINFO, Anthropological Literature, Sociology Abstracts and Periodical Abstracts (Pro-Quest Direct). The paper analyzes the collected citations for journal of publication, date, and frequency of publication by year, author, and keywords and topics. The paper shows what topics of attention, what fields, and what journals have been interested in publishing environmental communication research, and some of the authors leading the way. In addition, basic topics of interest for environmental communication research are discerned. The literature review shows the need for a more centralized point of publication for environmental communication research.


The magnetic fields at which magnetic-surface-state transitions occur were measured as a function of sample orientation in the three principal planes of zinc. These low-field microwave-frequency transitions dominate the surface impedance from 0 to 100 Oe. Three distinct series are presented and these are assigned to regions on the Fermi surface. The anisotropy of these series is compared with predictions of orthogonalized-plane-wave band models. The Fermi velocities on the third-band lens are extracted and presented.


Background: Many topical products are used in the genital region. Allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) may develop from product use or due to treatment of an underlying dermatosis. Objectives: Our goal was to identify the frequency of ACD and identify top allergens in the genital region. Methods: Data were analyzed for 1,238 patients tested between January 1990 and December 2006. Fifteen allergens caused reactions at rates greater than 1%. Thirteen anatomic regions were assessed. Statistical analyses were by chi‐square test and Fisher exact test. Adjusted level of significance due to multiple testing was a = .002. Results: Of individuals with genital dermatitis (n = 37; aged 24‐77 years, 48.6% female), 41% (15 of 37) had at least one positive patch‐test result although only 30% (11 of 37) had a final diagnosis of relevant ACD. Mean age was 46 years for males and 41 years for females. The top five allergens were balsam of Peru (10.8%), fragrance mix I (8.1%), tolu balsam (8.1%), phenylmercuric acetate (8.1%), and neomycin (5.4%). Females were more often allergic (50%) compared to males (37%); 59.5% of patients had no positive reactions. Conclusion: Genital dermatitis is rare; the minority tested positively for ACD. The top five allergens were present in toiletries and cosmetics used on genital skin. The top three allergens are fragrance related, underscoring the importance of using fragrance‐free products on mucosal skin.


There are many drawbacks about traditional art teaching,such as exerting too much effort and teaching slowly. The widespread application of electrial information technology creates conditions for the change of art teaching. It will greatly improve teaching efficiency, bring the initiative of creativeness of the students into full play, expand communication space between teachers and students and open up a new sphere for art teaching.


In this study, we focus on refractive-index and Abbe-number improvements to optical polyesters. First, we modify polymers by introducing sulfonyl groups and removing phenyl groups in the monomer structure. In this manner, new polymers with Abbe numbers higher than 40 are synthesized. To further increase the refractive index and Abbe number, the polymers are hybridized with well-dispersed alumina nanoparticles (NPs). The prepared polymer/alumina nanocomposites have a high refractive index and Abbe number; (nD = 1.580 and VD = 55) and (nD = 1.631 and VD = 53), which easily exceeds the empirical "limiting line" of conventional optical polymers.


We evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of Horyzons, an online social media platform designed to facilitate relationship development among, and introduce therapeutic content to, first‐episode psychosis (FEP) clients. We also evaluated whether participation in the platform was related to reduced loneliness, improved social integration and increased psychological well‐being.


Orthodontists usually face problems with patients suffering from periodontal disease. The need for instituting periodontal treatment is of greater significance in such patients as chronic destructive periodontal diseases cause significant loss of supporting structures of the periodontium. A multidisciplinary approach should involve both orthodontist and periodontist to treat such patients and treatment progress should be evaluated periodically to implement a comprehensive treatment plan. The aim of this article is to highlight the contributing factors and procedures adjunctive to orthodontic treatment


The present paper addresses a diffusion-reaction equation describing the dynamics of dissolved oxygen in a polluted stream of a river. The diffusion-reaction equation is a mass-balanced partial differential equation which relates the concentration of dissolved oxygen with the effect
 of other natural processes, viz. diffusion, natural aeration and reaction with pollutants. The well-known method of lines is used to solve the one-dimensional non-steady state case with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The study is motivated by the miserable condition of most of the rivers in
 India. Water pollution has now become a global concern and this study furnishes a better apprehension of complex phenomenon of maintaining desired level of oxygen and will aid water resource management.


Purpose COPD diagnosis is mainly based on clinical judgment of physicians. Physicians do not also refer to COPD guidelines in their daily practice. This study aimed to assess attitudes of physicians regarding COPD diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up and to identify the factors influencing physicians' decisions in clinical practice. Patients and methods Fifty physicians were selected from 12 EuroStat NUTS 2 regions and asked to assess seven fictitious case scenarios. The following five scenarios described patients with COPD: Case Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) A-smoker and Case GOLD A-nonsmoker were previously undiagnosed patients presenting with dyspnea, Case GOLD D-smoker and GOLD B-exsmoker were COPD patients presenting with exacerbation, Case GOLD B-smoker was a previously diagnosed COPD patient with dyspnea in stable phase, Case asthma–COPD overlap syndrome, and Case obesity hypoventilation syndrome. Patients' history, physical examination findings, pulmonary function tests, and X-ray images were prepared before the study by an experts' committee and provided to the physicians upon their request, until they reached a final decision. The physicians completed a questionnaire including information about their clinical practices and institutions. Results According to the GOLD 2015 recommendations, of the physicians, 44% performed guideline-concordant diagnosis in the first five scenarios, who were all COPD patients, and 6% performed guideline-concordant diagnosis in all cases. There was a negative correlation between high workload and making a guideline-concordant diagnosis (P=0.038, rho =−0.417). Even when the physicians made a guideline-concordant diagnosis of COPD, only a minority (10%–22%) used the GOLD classification. Logistic regression analysis revealed that working in a tertiary health care center was a significant factor in favor of establishing a guideline-concordant diagnosis of COPD (P=0.029, OR =6.139 [95% CI: 1.20–31.32]). Conclusion Management of COPD patients in Turkey does not generally follow the GOLD criteria but is rather based on physicians' clinical experience. Heavy workload appears to adversely affect the correctness of clinical decisions.


1Student, Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Andhra Pradesh, India 2StudentComputer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Andhra Pradesh, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract -Protection is a situation in which objects, animals or individuals are granted unique identifiers and the ability to transmit data over a network without needing human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. The webcam evolved from the integration of wireless and Internet technologies. The protection system is the communication of something to something else, the communication primarily transmitting accessible data, such as a sensor in a room to track and control the temperature. Describe a security alarm device that uses low-processing power chips using the Internet of Things to track and warn when motion is detected and send photos and videos to the owner. In addition, application based on the Internet of Things can be used remotely to monitor the operation and get updates when motion is detected. Benefits like these also make this program suitable for tracking homes in absence.


The blood film illustrated is from a 31-year-old woman who presented at 26-weeks gestation in her first pregnancy with epigastric pain, diarrhea, and vomiting. She was found to be hypertensive and edematous with a dipstick test of her urine being strongly positive for protein. Initially her blood count and liver function tests were normal, but her hypertension was difficult to control and by 6 days from admission she had developed thrombocytopenia, followed by anemia and abnormal liver function tests. An elective cesarean section was carried out 8 days after admission. Blood tests were at their worst 2 days later: hemoglobin 8.9 g/dl, platelets 25 3 10 9 /l, g -glutamyl transferase 35 IU/l, alanine transaminase 492 IU/l, aspartate transaminase 295 IU/l, alkaline phosphatase 152 IU/l, and bilirubin 92 l mol/l. The blood film (Image) confirmed the severe thrombocytopenia and showed schistocytes including spheroschistocytes. Recovery occurred thereafter and the baby also survived in good condition. The HELPP syndrome is characterized by H emolysis, E levated L iver enzymes, and L ow P latelets. It represents a severe form of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia. The hemolysis is microangiopathic in nature and examination of a blood film is helpful in making the diagnosis.


Assam namely Kamrup and Nalbari. Four blocks, two in Kamrup district Bezera, Rampur and another two in Nalbari district Pub-Nalbari and Barkhetri were chosen. The two districts were chosen considering the performance in terms of SGSY--comparatively better performing district (Kamrup) and lesser performing district (Nalbari district). Status of SHG in the area studied indicates that of the total formed during 2001-02 to 200405, in Kamrup District, group functioning were 97 per cent, 52 per cent crossed Il0d grading and in Nalbari, 99 per cent functioning, 8.78 per cent passed through II grading. Selection of block was done keeping in view the concentration of SHGs promoted by different types of SHPis and easy accessibility of the relevant offices, villages and the respondents.


Recent world-wide statistical data show that tanker spills generally amount to about 160 barrels of oil per million shipped, of which between 40-70 barrels are spilled at the receiving port. This historical data base can be adapted to proposed deepwater ports in order to calculate the spill expectation at those ports. The methodology takes into account conditions existing at the proposed ports that afford benefits not occurring at the data base ports. By taking credit for these conditions, expected tanker spillage at two proposed deepwater ports (SEADOCK and LOOP) is demonstrated to range between 0.2 and 2 ppm of throughput, a much lower rate than that experienced at conventional ports.