The utility model discloses an integrated synchronous comprehensive observation system of a lightning electromagnetic signal, which comprises an integrated detecting antenna device, a receiver and a data acquisition control device, wherein the integrated detecting antenna device detects changes and time information of an electromagnetic field generated by lightning and spatial information of the detecting position, and transmits a change signal of the electromagnetic field and space-time position information to the receiver; the receiver receives the change signal of the electromagnetic field and the space-time position information transmitted by the integrated detecting antenna device, and transmits the signal and the information to the data acquisition control device after processing the signal and the information; and the data acquisition control device acquires data processed by the receiver on a real-time basis, and displays the data in a wave form as well as stores the data. The integrated synchronous comprehensive observation system of the lightning electromagnetic signal can perform synchronous comprehensive detection on the fast or slow change information of an electric field and the information of a three-dimensional magnetic field of the lightning; simultaneously, the space-time consistency of the detected data is higher due to the application of the integration technology; and the observation system has the advantages of integration and portability.


This paper builds an external cavity length tuning system of ECDL laser based on the double light path atom saturated absorption spectrum method with a 4He cell whose gas purity is over 99.995%. A double path photoelectric detector is designed to get the absorption peak signal by the differential technology. Because of signal's Lorentz linear features, a detection method combined with first and second derivative of signal curve is proposed. A modulation signal is used whose form is dc component with sinusoidal component. It could attain the goal of the experiment by the external cavity length tuning control unit includes photoelectric detector which can get the value of voltage amplitude, frequency and phase. With the system, ECDL laser give a stable output wavelength around 1083.207nm.


In the boisterous, sometimes raucous world of popular entertainment in Gilded Age New York, the comedy team of Edward Green Harrigan and Tony Hart (Anthony J. Cannon) reigned supreme. Joining company in Chicago in 1868, the two itinerent troupers developed an act that ultimately resulted in a major popular culture phenomenon: a series of playswith-music, forebears of modern musical comedy, based on immigrant/ethnic themes and characters that purported to represent the reality of life in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Enormously successful from the onset of their New York career in 1872-73, and appealing to a wide spectrum of local society as well as to professional theatrical pundits, the team achieved a degree of popularity unmatched by any other individual performers or repertory companies of the day. No less a critic than William Dean Howells noted of Harrigan in 1886, "In his province, we think he cannot be surpassed." Another contemporary observer, in a retrospective of Harrigan's career published in 1898, maintained that "Edward Harrigan has occupied the most extraordinary position of any man who has lived in the theatrical world, in any country, at any time, so far as the records of the past and present show."1 And Hart, perhaps the most popular character actor working in New York between his debut and the time of his death in 1 89 1 , was a key element in the success of the company in performing the roles playwright Harrigan created for him. The Harrigan-Hart phenomenon commenced when the "Merry Partners" joined Tony Pastor's variety company in 1872-1873; then, for the next season, Josh Hart's Theatre Comique on lower Broadway. The New York alliance followed four years of itinerant work in which the two specialized in blackface minstrel bits as well as Irish and "Dutch" (German) character sketches.2 Follow-


The essay is an introduction of and analysis to Italian traditional handicraft industry. It points out that it is significant to preserve and develop an old civilization in the modern condition.


The objective of this study was to identify predictive factors of mortality in older adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), including the level of clinical frailty by using the clinical frailty scale (CFS). We analyzed medical records of all patients aged of 75 and older with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID‐19 hospitalized in our Hospital between March 3 and April 25, 2020. Standardized variables were prospectively collected, and standardized care were provided to all patients. One hundred and eighty‐six patients were included (mean 85.3 ± 5.78 year). The all cause 30‐day mortality was 30% (56/186). At admission, dead patients were more dyspneic (57% vs. 38%, p = .014), had more often an oxygen saturation less than 94% (70% vs. 47%, p < .01) and had more often a heart rate faster than 90/min (70% vs. 42%, p < .001). Mortality increased in parallel with CFS score (p = .051) (20 deaths (36%) in 7–9 category). In multivariate analysis, CFS score (odds ratio [OR] = 1.49; confidence interval [CI] 95%, 1.01–2.19; p = .046), age (OR = 1.15; CI 95%, 1.01–1.31; p = .034), and dyspnea (OR = 5.37; CI 95%, 1.33–21.68; p = .018) were associated with all‐cause 30‐day mortality. It is necessary to integrate the assessment of frailty to determine care management plan of older patients with COVID‐19, rather than the only restrictive criterion of age.


* The paper is to appear in Graphicon'2004 conference proceedings. In this paper, we present a new algorithm for the demosaicing of digital images, i.e. for the interpolation of bayer patterns. A review of existing demosaicing algorithms is made, and a new highquality algorithm is proposed featuring significant improvements to interpolation with respect to visual quality and PSNR. The algorithm introduces several improvements upon a well known Kimmel method: more complex interpolation of the green component, adaptive control of the number of iterations, and projection on initial data.


BackgroundThe present review study provides specific evidence to assess the impact of distraction techniques and hypnosis on the pain of bone marrow aspiration in children.Materials and MethodsThis review study aimed to determine the effects of distraction techniques and hypnosis on the controlling pain of bone marrow aspiration in children. Internal databases (SID, Magiran, IranMedex and Irandoc), and international databases (Google-Scholar, Medline, PubMed, Elsevier, ProQuest, Springer and Web of Science), were searched by using the Mesh key words including "cancer", "bone marrow", "aspiration", "distraction", "hypnosis", "pain", "children" and "pediatric", with no time limit since the foundation of these databases until December 2016.ResultsIn overall review of the articles, based on the issues expressed, the effect of most of various distraction interventions and hypnosis on the pain severity of children under the bone marrow aspiration procedure was significant and positive (P<0.05). Of course, pain severity variations in all studies, were different.ConclusionAccording to the results of the mentioned studies, we find that in order to reduce the pain of venipuncture in children most effectively, it is better that these techniques be done according to age and the children's mental and physical conditions.


Intense atmospheric bremsstrahlung X-rays of energies ≳ 120 keV were detected by a balloon borne X-ray experiment on September 30, 1976, flown from Fairbanks, Alaska. The X-ray energy spectra have been obtained and compared to the primary electron energy spectra responsible for the X-rays. Using the Monte Carlo results, which predict the X-ray fluxes at various atmospheric depths, we deduce that the electron energy spectra responsible for the X-rays have e-folding energies around 200 keV (average energy ≳ 300 keV) if it is assumed that the primary electron energy spectra incident on top of the atmosphere is exponential in form. The event reported here falls in the category of relativistic electron precipitation event.


Cardiorespiratory resuscitation (CPR) is a tehnique widely taught in courses of first aid, schools, hospitals, and it has been practiced for 50 years. CPR can be followed by a set of complications: fractured ribs, fractured sternum, aspiration pneumonia, mediastinal hemorrhage, moderate to severe cognitive impairment. The decision of not applying CPR is usually made in the case of patients suffering from a terminal illness, those who are chronically ill, in case of which CPR could potentially prolong life for an indefinite period, but at the cost of worsening the patient's condition due to the accidents arisen during the CPR manoeuvres. If CPR is not recommended, the patient should be informed that this does not mean surrendering fighting against the disease, but simply that CPR wouldn't be in the patient's interest. It is important to inform the patient of all the things which CPR entails or not, so that this latter makes a decision. From a Christian point of view, medicine is seen as a healing art, which implies a close relationship between the doctor and patient and his family, in order to share the suffering; fear of abandonment is an issue of death that can be fought against and defeated.


This paper discusses Dark's evocation of the Australian environment, particularly her representation of the land as a critical component of her agenda of national self-analysis, and argues for her role in the development of a national conservation consciousness, by reference to The Timeless Land .


Abstract: Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas are a rare cause of congestive myelopathy. Symptoms are insidious in onset and may be confused with degenerative spinal disease. MRI characteristically shows edema of the spinal cord with serpiginous flow voids that follow the surface of the spinal cord. Careful evaluation with spinal angiography is required to ensure accurate diagnosis. Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas differ from spinal arteriovenous malformations in that most fistulas have only a single fistulous point without a nidus. Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas may be treated successfully with either surgical resection or endovascular embolization depending on their anatomy. Earlier treatment is associated with better outcomes.


JACKING OF PRECASTED RECTANGULAR REINFORCED CONCRETE PIPES The steered jacking of circular pipes for installation and renewal of sewer systems has reached a high technical level in the past few years thanks to international research and development work and presents a tried-and-tested alternative to open trench methods these days. The jacking of pipes with rectangular cross-sections has been limited to little construction work so far, due to cases of damage [1, 2]. Nevertheless the use of rectangular cross-sections can bring considerable technical and economical advantages, e.g. where there is low coverage [3], the construction of rain water retention pipes or the planning of multifunctional collectors [4].


The new diagnosis method based on multi-regression and partial least square regression about the non-homogeneityon a local climatic series is proposed.The data of summer(from June to August) temperature of 16 stations in Sanxia region around Neijiang are used in this paper for analysis.The results show that the years of the local non-homogeneity occur in early 1970′s and lately 1980′s.


Red pigment was extracted from peony,and application of peony red pigment in jelly was studied. By single factor tests and orthogonal tests,the optimum dosages of material in jerry was determined as follows:the dosage of peony red pigment was 26 mg,jelly powder was 0.6 g,the dosage of sugar was 17 g,the dosage of citric acid was 0.4 g,and the dosage of strawberry flavor was 0.17 mL.


The humus content in the soil is the most important factor affecting the yield of agricultural crops. The research of the impact of the soil cultivation methods upon the humus content is an urgent scientific and practical task of modern agriculture. This paper analyzed long-term (45 years) field experiments on the impact of ploughing, deep and shallow non-moldboard tillage upon the humus content in the chernozem soil of central Ukraine. The research materials reflect a broad picture of influence of the processing methods upon the accumulation of total humus. For example, with respect to ploughing with deep non-mouldboard cultivation, accumulation of the total humus in the 40 th year of research, was +0.0028%; with shallow non-mouldboard cultivation it was +0.0005%.

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entrepreneurship process. The intense use of these facilities in the educational programs aim to modify the self-efficacy perception of the students regarding the entrepreneurial behavior. The aim of this paper is to provide illustrative examples that can be used as a guide to propose alternative paths to activate technology entrepreneurship. The cases of the engineering programs at two European universities are used to identify the common and specific elements that configure a response to the societal demands to the universities.


Countless publications and conferences on post-communist politics of the past raise the question if comparison of "case studies" can be achieved by mere sequence or if this leads to obliterating particularities. This question is examined on the "case study" of Croatia – looking closely at historical particularities and the role of president Tu man fashioning himself as World War II historian during the 1990s. Generally, three phases of approaching the World War II past can be observed: the revisionist Tu man-era (1990–1999), the social democratic intermezzo, in which democratic transformation was followed by avoidance of demonizing concepts of the enemy (2000–2003), and the new HDZ-governance, when allowanced were made for integration into the EU – while "the Serbs" were depicted as the "new Fascists" of the last war by prime minister Ivo Sanader (2003–2009). Germany – the homeland of national socialism – paradoxically being Europe-wide seen as the role model for approaching one's own felonious past in a critical way, it is not surprising that German historians and cultural scientists have been the ones who have advanced also the theoretical basis for reflecting the relationship between history, memory and national identity. Jan and Aleida Assmann have developed the concept of cultural memory, understood as the "body of reusable texts, images, and rituals specific to each society in each epoch, whose 'cultivation' serves to stabilize and convey that society's self-image." Memory theory highlights that individuals and collectives use memory only for present purposes; they remember only those events they can integrate into their picture of themselves or 1 J. Assmann, "Collective Memory and Cultural Identity", in: New German Critique, No. 65, 1995, 125–133, 132. (Translation of the German version: "Kollektives Gedächtnis und kulturelle Identität", in: J. Assmann/T. Hölscher (ed.), Kultur und Gedächtnis (Frankfurt, 1988), 9–19). Ljiljana Radoni Istorija 20. veka, 1/2012 204 their in-group. On the national and state level the term "Vergangenheitspolitik", politics of the past, aims at how democratic societies approach their felonious past on the political, judicial and cultural level. Those theoretical reflections go hand in hand with a vast number of publications dealing with the way the past has been approached in single European countries, often comprised as chapters of edited volumes, thus hoping to achieve a comparative perspective. Moreover, national case studies on memory and remembrance policies have been presented on numerous international conferences – focusing on post-communist countries in Europe after 1989 or in the most cases comparing them with the development in "western" states. This boom brought along the ability to discuss questions of historical revisionism concerning World War II at conferences in the USA, Great Britain or – when it comes to post-communist transformationalso in "western" Europe – almost as down-to-earth and matter-offactly as issues concerning ancient Rome. A completely different situation occurs if the same lectures or articles are received by an audience either in the country the "case study" deals with or in the broader area of closely connected but conflicting memories. Scientists usually teaching nationalism or identity theory suddenly insist that this particular case, "our" experience is different, being either especially understandable or especially brutish due to a specific historical constellation. Of course the different assessment depends on the question if one talks about crimes committed by what is considered one's own collective or by the "constituent Other", the everlasting enemy. This article examines the question of historical particularity vs. general mechanisms of approaching the past when it comes to Croatia's politics of the past from 1990 until 2008 – analyzing first of all Croatian newspapers and schoolbooks. Have there been significant changes in this politics and how can they be explained? Keeping in mind the tension between the allegedly academic nature of such research in the course of a "memory boom", which is conflicted by the still raging "war on memory" between the successor states of former Yugoslavia, the Croatian "case study" is conducted from the standpoint of what Volkhard Knigge has called "negative me2 G. Sandner, "Hegemonie und Erinnerung. Zur Konzeption von Geschichtsund Vergangenheitspolitik", in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 1 (2001), 5–17, 7. 3 See M. Flacke (ed.), Mythen der Nationen. 1945 – Arena der Erinnerung (Mainz, 2004); B. Faulenbach/F.-J. Jelich (ed.), "Transformationen" der Erinnerungskulturen in Europa nach 1989 (Essen, 2006); R. Fritz/C. Sachse/E. Wolfrum (ed.), Postdiktatorische Gesellschaften in Europa (Göttingen, 2008). 4 Lj. Radoni , Krieg um die Erinnerung. Kroatische Vergangenheitspolitik zwischen Revisionismus und europäischen Standards (Frankfurt, 2010). Croatian politics of the past – just one more post-communist case study 205 mory": the remembrance of acts committed rather than suffered by the collective one is understood to belong to – hoping to advance this self-critical approach rather than to confirm simplifying preconceptions. Speaking about historical particularities in former Yugoslavia when it comes to World War II, one must mention the civil war between the Partisans, Ustaša and etnik raging after the partition and occupation of most parts of the country. The Yugoslav antifascist narrative tried to ignore this aspect of the war as well as any ethnically motivated crimes and thus was not able to provide an accurate collective memory for all the marginalized groups. Another aspect little known in Europe when it comes to World War II on the Balkans is who the people were who had been killed and out of what "reasons". In "western" countries after the figure of the not ethnically defined resistance fighter and anti-fascist, the Jews have moved into the focus of World War II memory, but soon the Holocaust was dehistorized by focusing on the individual victim, the memory of the Shoa transformed into an universal imperative to respect human rights in general, a "container" for the memory of different victims. Thus, only few people outside former Yugoslavia – of course beside the experts in the history of the Balkans – are aware of the fact that beside the Jews and the Roma the Serbs had been the by far largest victim group in the "Independent State of Croatia" (NDH) 1941–1945. Another circumstance little known in European history concerns the role of the Ustaša in the NDH, who just like the Slovaks were given some kind of autonomy by Hitler and Mussolini. But unlike other Central East European countries they started running death camps on their own territory already in summer 1941 – of course inspired by the National Socialists, but operated on their own. While the Romanians run such camps in the newly acquired "killing fields" of Transnistria, the Ustaša chose places in Croatia under their civil administration (but under Italian military command), starting with Jadovno, Gospi as well as Slana and Metajna on Pag.


Double electron-electron resonance (DEER) spectroscopy has been used to elucidate the structure of the cytoplasmic domain of band 3 (CDB3) protein dimer at physiological pH and to determine what, if any, structural changes occur as a result of a Proline to Arginine mutation at residue 327. A crystal structure of the CDB3 dimer has been obtained at pH 4.8, however there is evidence of a pH-dependent large structural rearrangement [1]. The P327R mutation has been implicated in a heritable form of hemolytic anemia. The DEER capability of the pulsed X-band EPR spectrometer at the NHMFL makes it ideal for performing the long range distance measurements necessary to address these two issues.


Owing to its geological location, Georgia has considerable resources of middle and low temperature thermal water (33 – 108 oC) that presently are only for heat supply. Most of the geothermal wells are middle depth and non-operating. On the other hand the economic development of the country relies to a great extent to energy production. Geothermal potential of Georgia exhibits a promising resource that might be available for energy production. This requires an extensive study to re-assess the geothermal potential of the country. Several projects were implemented and some others are underway to achieve this purpose. This paper summarizes the geothermal potential of Georgia based on existing data and outlines one of the major projects that have already been implemented to assess the potential of Tbilisi geothermal field using the hydrodynamic digital modeling approach.


Unilateral cryptorchidism was produced in 100 g male rats. Some of the - animals were hypophysectomized 2–3 days before the testicular operation. Half the intact and half the hypophysectomized rats were injected with 100 IU HCG daily from the time of operation. Three weeks later the ability of the cryptorchid testes to convert progesterone to 17α-hydroxyprogesterone, 4- androstenedione and testosterone was compared with that of the scrotal testes of the same animals. In all cases the activities of the scrotal testes were significantly greater. Although hypophysectomy caused a marked reduction in the enzymic activity of the scrotal testes, that of the abdominal testes was reduced even more. The scrotal testes responded to HCG with marked increases in activity in both the normal and hypophysectomized groups. The cryptorchid testes of the hypophysectomized rats showed an increase from their very low levels, but those in the intact rats did not respond. Apparently there is a limit to the response of the crypt...


Objective To study the efficacy of adding Danshen on the basis of conventional therapy for the treatment of patients with chronic heart failure(CHF).Methods A total of 250 CHF patients with clinical manifestations of cardiac insufficiency,left ventricular ejection fraction(LVEF)≤45% and New York Heat Association(NYHA) function class Ⅱ-Ⅲ were enrolled.Patients were divided into two groups: one hundred and twenty-five patients in Danshen group and 125 patients in control group.Patients in Danshen group were given additionally the Danshen tablet(3 tablets tid.) on the basis of conventional therapy.Patients were followed for an average of 1 year.Echocardiographic parameters,levels of pro-brain natriuretic peptide(NT-ProBNP),high sensitive C reactive protein(hs-CRP),tumor necrosis factor-α(TNF-α),interleukin(IL)-6,and IL-10 were measured before and after treatment.Major cardiac events(MCE) including death,heart transplantation,and refractory heart failure were recorded.Results Test items in Danshen group were further improved when compared with the control group.Treatment with additional Danshen increased LVEF(P0.05),decreased left ventricular end-diastolic dimension(LVEDD)(P0.05)and left ventricular end-systolic dimension(LVESD)(P0.05),decreased NT-ProBNP(P0.05)and hs-CRP(P0.05),decreased TNF-α(P0.05)and IL-6(P0.05),and increased IL-10(P0.05);MCE incidence rate was decreased(P0.05).Conclusions Danshen can reduce cardiac load,invigorate circulation and alleviate blood stasis,and reduce the level of inflammatory factor,thereby has the effect of protecting heart.Thus,additional use of Danshen on the basis of conventional therapy is helpful for the treatment of CHF and can improve the prognosis of patients with CHF.


The combination of 1D and 2D NMR techniques, especially the long‐range heteronuclear chemical shift correlation experiment, has permitted the reassignment of some carbons and protons of scopolamine free base in CDCl3 solution and the differentiation of each atom of the piperidine ring. In contrast to literature data, and to the protonated state conformation, these studies showed that the methyl group is equatorially disposed relative to the piperidine ring. NMR and IR spectroscopic results demonstrated that the OH group is connected by a hydrogen bond to the phenyl ring at a low concentration, but an intermolecular hydrogen bond is formed at high concentration.


James Delbourgo's fascinating examination of electricity brings down to earth the history of science in early America. Like the best works in the history of science, Delbourgo's traces the development of eighteenth-century scientific practice and epistemology, including the contributions of expected luminaries such as experimentalists Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Priestly. But Delbourgo breaks new ground by exploring the intellectual currents that connected the high practitioners of electrical experimentation with those for whom electricity offered an opportunity to entertain and amuse, to participate in swirling political debate, and to challenge political authority. In short, Delbourgo offers a social and cultural history of electricity that breaks down the rigid polarities of scientific practice and the Enlightenment: reason versus superstition, educated versus vulgar. In its place Delbourgo writes of an Atlantic world Enlightenment animated and determined by electricity discourse, a vibrant world in which ideas and experiments were fashioned in the workshops and salons of the elite. But these same ideas and practices were transformed by enthusiasts and hucksters who saw that reason and the explicability of nature were not fixed categories but ongoing debates. Such individuals used these controversies to reassert that the mystery of nature was not dead, that religious wonder belonged alongside rational enlightenment, and that profit and the dissemination of knowledge went hand in hand. Readers of this journal will delight in the richly illustrated and wonderful case studies that highlight the material culture of public performance and social experiences of electricity, events that typify Delbourgo's Enlightenment. Notable examples include Ebenezer Kinnersley, an associate of Franklin, and Joseph Hiller, a Boston goldsmith, both of whom conducted public experiments for polite heterosocial audiences in which participants witnessed ''electrical fire'' captured in Leyden jars and held hands to form a human circuit. Such events ''embodied'' electrical knowledge but that knowledge also proved unstable, Delbourgo contends, as electrified bodies in the hands of less genteel demonstrators were sensually titillating and ''seemed like the pursuit of spectacle for its own sake'' (120). Delbourgo writes of Edward Bancroft, a New England physician and author of An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana (1769), describing for an Anglophone audience the electric eel. Not only did Bancroft experiment with the eel, a process that led him ''out of exoticism and into enlightenment'' (183), but so too did Bancroft gather invaluable information and testimonies about the eel from Guiana's Indian and enslaved populations. Delbourgo reveals that the internal organs of the electric eel offered a model for the first artificial battery and with that ushered in the modern


Since the inception of war-on-terror there has been considerable increase in the Taliban insurgence and presence in Pakistan. In this paper we empirically analyze the determinants and effects of the political support for Taliban in Pakistan. We use evidence from two natural disasters: an earthquake in 2005 and a flood in 2010 which received different levels of international help. While the earthquake took place at a time when Pakistan was a close ally of United States in the war-on-terror and it received extensive international response, floods occurred at a time when Pakistan-U.S. relations had deteriorated and consequently it received little response. This had a direct effect on the political support for the Taliban in the affected areas. We show using the outcomes from Pakistan national elections of 2002, 2008 and 2013 that the support for Taliban decreased in the areas affected by the earthquake, while it increased in the areas affected by the flood. The evidence suggests competition between government and non-state actors for gaining support of people. Shortfall in the capacity of the government may lead to crowding out of government support and the non-state actors may fill this void and gain political support.


The goal of this paper is the establishment of the global asymptotic stability of the model SI with two classes of infected stages and with varying total population size. The incidence used is the mass-action incidence ... . Existence and uniqueness of the endemic equilibrium is established when the basic reproduction number is greater than one. A Lyapunov function is used to prove the stability of the disease free equilibrium, and the Poincare-Bendixson theorem allows to prove the stability of the endemic equilibrium when it exists.


Model selection is one of the most central tasks in supervised learning. Validation set methods are the standard way to accomplish this task: models are trained on training data, and the model with the smallest loss on the validation data is selected. However, it is generally not obvious how much validation data is required to make a reliable selection, which is essential when labeled data are scarce or expensive. We propose a bootstrap‐based algorithm, bootstrap validation (BSV), that uses the bootstrap to adjust the validation set size and to find the best‐performing model within a tolerance parameter specified by the user. We find that BSV works well in practice and can be used as a drop‐in replacement for validation set methods or k‐fold cross‐validation. The main advantage of BSV is that less validation data is typically needed, so more data can be used to train the model, resulting in better approximations and efficient use of validation data.


The research showed that the using of Soil improvement compound substance (PSIM)in green-shied can depress the unit weight of soil, enhance agglomerate quantity, postpone the soil's acidification, enrich both it's origanic matter and full nitrogen, harmonize it's quick-result nutrient, improve the microelement content, and the application of this compound can reduce soil's surface-layer salinity capacity efficiently, and also increase the crop production.


OBJECTIVE
To investigate characteristics of forensic clinical identification on traumatic cerebral infarction(TCI).

METHODS
Twenty-five cases of TCI were analyzed retrospectively, including the general situation, location of infarction and clinical feature.

RESULTS
TCI occurred primarily in children and elderly. All the cases had definite cerebral trauma which was located mainly in the regions of basal ganglia-internal capsule, frontal, temporal and parietal cerebral cortex.

CONCLUSION
The consequence of TCI has direct correlation with location of cerebral infarction. More attention should be paid to this issue in forensic practice.


Let us consider the prime field of two elements, $\mathbb F_2.$ One of the open problems in Algebraic topology is the hit problem for a module over the mod 2 Steenrod algebra $\mathscr A$. The problem asks a minimal set of generators for the polynomial algebra $\mathcal P_m:=\mathbb F_2[x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m]$ regarded as a connected unstable $\mathscr A$-module on $m$ variables $x_1, \ldots, x_m,$ each of degree one. The algebra $\mathcal P_m$ is the cohomology with $\mathbb F_2$-coefficients of the product of $m$ copies of the Eilenberg-MacLan complex $K(\mathbb F_2, 1).$ The hit problem has been thoroughly studied for 35 years in a variety of contexts. Furthermore, it is applied in investigating the $m$-th Singer algebraic transfer $Tr^{\mathscr A}_m$ \cite{W.S1}. This transfer is one of the useful tools for describing the Adams $E^{2}$-term, ${\rm Ext}_{\mathscr A}^{m, m+*}(\mathbb F_2, \mathbb F_2) = H^{m, m+*}(\mathscr A, \mathbb F_2).$The aim of this work is to continue our study of the hit problem of five variables. At the same time, this result will be applied to the investigation of the fifth transfer of Singer and the modular representation of the general linear group of rank 5 over $\mathbb F_2.$ More precisely, we extend a result in \cite{D.P3} on the hit problem for $\mathscr A$-module $\mathcal P_5$ in the generic degree $5(2^t-1) + 18.2^t$ with $t\geq 0.$ The result confirms Sum's conjecture \cite{N.S2} for the relation between the minimal sets of $\mathscr A$-generators of the polynomial algebras $\mathcal P_{m-1}$ and $\mathcal P_{m}$ in the case $m=5$ and the above generic degree. As a consequence, we obtain the $\mathscr A$-generators for $\mathcal P_6$ in the generic degree $5(2^{t+5}-1) + 41.2^{t+5}$ for $t \geq 0.$ Moreover, by using our result \cite{D.P3} and a presentation in the $\lambda$-algebra of $Tr_5^{\mathscr A}$, we show that the non-trivial element $h_1e_0 = h_0f_0\in {\rm Ext}_{\mathscr A}^{5, 5+(5(2^0-1) + 18.2^0)}(\mathbb F_2, \mathbb F_2)$ is in the image of the fifth transfer and that $Tr^{\mathscr A}_5$ is an isomorphism in the bidegree $(5, 5+(5(2^0-1) + 18.2^0)).$ In addition, the behavior of $Tr^{\mathscr A}_5$ in the bidegree $(5, 5+(5(2^t-1) + 18.2^t))$ when $t\geq 1$ was also discussed. This method is different from that of Singer in studying the image of the algebraic transfer.


In the present study, the formation of air-water plugs at a merging Y-junction was investigated. The generation rates and lengths of gas and liquid plugs were checked for various gas and liquid superficial velocities. For the present experimental range, the generation rates of plugs were increased with increasing gas or liquid superficial velocity, and the effect of the liquid superficial velocity was predominant compared to the gas superficial velocity. The length of gas plugs became longer either by decreasing liquid superficial velocity or by increasing gas superficial velocity. On the other hand, the length of liquid plugs became slightly longer with increasing liquid superficial velocity in the low gas superficial velocity region, and independent of the liquid superficial velocity in the higher gas superficial velocity region. Through the comparison with the previous results of plug formation, the physical interpretations on the present results were provided.


Location-aware is a key technology to reduce bandwidth waste which is a negative feature of P2P overlay network.The paper proposes a two-phase resolving method to improve the global convergence ability of network coordinates computation.This method first uses PSO on the initial solution set of a global optimization,then runs a local refinement in the vicinity of the global optimum to obtain the accurate network coordinates of each nodes.Through the two-step optimization,the depending on the remote landmarks is reduced and the applicable scope of the algorithm is increased.


The industrial hot rolling mills are equipped with systems for controlled cooling of hot steel products. In the case of strip rolling mills the main cooling system is situated at run-out table to ensure the required strip temperature before coiling. One of the most important system is laminar jets cooling. In this system water is falling down on the upper strip surface. The proper cooling rate affects the final mechanical properties of steel which strongly dependent on microstructure evolution processes. Numerical simulations can be used to determine the water flux which should be applied in order to control strip temperature. The heat transfer boundary condition in case of laminar jets cooling is defined by the heat transfer coefficient, cooling water temperature and strip surface temperature. Due to the complex nature of the cooling process the existing heat transfer models are not accurate enough. The heat transfer coefficient cannot be measured directly and the boundary inverse heat conduction problem should be formulated in order to determine the heat transfer coefficient as a function of cooling parameters and strip surface temperature. In inverse algorithm various heat conduction models and boundary condition models can be implemented. In the present study two three dimensional finite element models based on linear and non-linear shape functions have been tested in the inverse algorithm. Further, two heat transfer boundary condition models have been employed in order to determine the heat transfer coefficient distribution at the hot plate cooled by laminar jets. In the first model heat transfer coefficient distribution over the cooled surface has been approximated by the witch of Agnesi type function with the expansion in time of the approximation parameters. In the second model heat transfer coefficient distribution over the cooled plate surface has been approximated by the surface elements serendipity family with parabolic shape functions. The heat transfer coefficient values at surface element nodes have been expanded in time by the cubic-spline functions. The numerical tests have shown that in the case of heat conduction model based on linear shape functions inverse solution differs significantly from the searched boundary condition. The dedicated finite element heat conduction model based on non-linear shape functions has been developed to ensure inverse determination of heat transfer coefficient distribution over the cooled surface in the time of cooling. The heat transfer coefficient model based on surface elements serendipity family is not limited to a particular form of the heat flux distribution. The solution has been achieved for measured temperatures of the steel plate cooled by 9 laminar jets.


In order to connect the plate member inserted in the board insertion direction, the board connector comprising: a contact member having a first and second beam portions, a housing holding the contacts, and the first beam portion integrally with the actuator. The first and second beam portions each comprising a first and a second clamping portion, said first and second clamping portion for clamping the plate member between said first and second holding portions. The actuator includes a gripping portion for a first action point portion is formed at the front in the insertion direction relative to the plate. When the operator of the plate member is inserted into the connector plate, the plate member pushing action point portion.


The study investigates how consumers rank the factors that enhance the purchase decision of pocket-friendly sized beverages packaging using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Of the total population of 314,797, the selected University students in Southwest, Nigeria, 384 respondents were sampled using the Multistage sampling technique using the Krejcie and Morgan, (1970) formula as a guide. Structured questionnaire was administered to the respondents, with a success response rate of 381 (99.22%). Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). Based on the AHP, the result of the data analysis stipulates that size is the highest-ranked purchase decision when selecting a beverage in this study, followed by dispensing mode and price. In the size sub-criterion, single-serve size was the most preferred pocket-friendly package among the students. In terms of mode of dispensing, it was discovered that students mostly preferred cutting the edge of the sachet of the package. Also, price fairness was the most important price criterion. Reliability and family income were the most ranked factors driving the perceived quality and students' disposable income of the students respectively. The study concluded that single-serve size was the most preferred pocket-friendly package among the students. In terms of mode of dispensing, it was discovered that students mostly preferred cutting the edge of the sachet of the package. Also, in price criterion, price fairness was the most important price criterion, that affects students' purchase decisions. Reliability and family income were the main factors driving the perceived quality and disposable income of the students respectively. It is then recommended that it is believed that pocket-friendly sized packaging will enable manufacturers to grow their market share and meet fast-changing market demands.

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Summary Autoplex® -T is a partially activated prothrombin complex concentrate used primarily for the treatment of patients expressing factor VIII inhibitors. While Autoplex® -T has a demonstrated record of clinical effectiveness, the procoagulant composition of this material has not been reported. This absence of composition data is a reflection of the lack of techniques appropriate for accurately measuring an individual protease such as factor IXa in complex mixtures of similar proteases. The development of Colorimetric Active Site-Specific ImmunoAssay technology (CASSIA) has permitted the accurate analysis of the coagulant enzymes present in Autoplex® -T. Ten lots of Autoplex® -T were reacted with both biotinylated phenylalanylprolylarginine chloromethylketone and biotinylated glutamylglycylarginine chloromethylketone. Only activated forms of the clotting factors present in Autoplex® -T react with the peptide chloromethylketones and were thus separated from the other proteins present in Autoplex® -T by adsorption onto streptavidin. The individual proteins bound to streptavidin were then detected with specific antibodies. Mean results from the analysis of ten lots of Autoplex® -T (mean values) are as follows: factor XIa, 5.9 nM or 0.8 μg/ml; factor Xa, 46.5 nM or 2.1 μg/ml; factor IXa, 177.8 nM or 11.7 μg/ml; factor VIIa, 68.6 nM or 3.3 μg/ml and factor IIa, 5.3 nM or 0.2 μg/ml. These results are discussed with respect to the mechanism of action of Autoplex® -T in the treatment of factor VIII inhibitor patients.


This study aims at determining the effect of cash turnover, receivables turnover, and inventory turnover on the profitability of automotive industry listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the years of 2010-2015. The independent variables of this study are cash turnover, receivables turnover, and inventory turnover. The dependent variable of this study is company's profitability measured using Return On Assets (ROA). This quantitative research is an explanatory research. From a population of 5 automotive industries, all of them were selected as the sample through non-probability sampling technique. This study uses secondary data, which were analyzed using multiple linear regression. The result of this research shows that the influence of cash turnover is insignificantly positive  on company's profitability. Receivables turnover negatively and significantly influence company's profitability, but inventory turnover positively and significantly influence  company's profitability. Cash turnover, receivables turnover, and inventory turnover simultaneously have positif and  significant influence on company's profitability. Receivables turnover is the most dominant variable on company's profitability. Keyword : Cash Turnover, Receivables Turnover, Inventory Turnover, Profitability, Return On Assets.


This paper reports on the state of the physical education profession in Canada. Professional physical educators have long been integral staff members in both the public and private education systems as well as in the teacher education programs within the universities. Despite the absence of a national policy to which provinces and territories are accountable, physical educators in Canada are increasingly better prepared due, in part, to strict requirements for enrolment into pre-service teacher education programs and the presence of comprehensive training programs for in-service teachers. The physical education profession in Canada has undergone a remarkable transformation since the mid-1800s; yet, several issues and challenges in the physical education profession remain and could benefit from innovations and future research.


This paper discusses the economic basis for the existence of business enterprise value in a shopping mall. The existence of business enterprise value in a mall is then tested by examining the rent paid by existing tenants on a lease renewal vs. that paid by new tenants for otherwise identical space. The hypothesis that there is no difference in rents between renewals and new tenants can be rejected. This suggests that with each lease renewal there is a marginal increase in business enterprise value component of the rents. Proposed federal regulations for the appraisal of federally related transactions, the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice, and real property tax law call for separation of the value of intangibles (which include business value) from tangible personal property and from real property. Thus the business value portion of the mall rental should not be capitalized into the value of the real estate. Because income from lease renewals included business value, the leases must be adjusted before they can be used as an indication of market rent.


Diabetes is a major risk factor of heart disease. Decline of NAD, a redox cofactor in cellmetabolism, is a hallmark of cardiometabolic disease. Here, we test if inhibiting NAD consumptionmay be therapeutic in diabetic cardiomyopathy. SARM1 is an intracellular NAD hydrolase thatpromotes neuronal death. However, its role in diabetic hearts has never been reported. Wehypothesized that SARM1 deficiency attenuates diabetic cardiomyopathy and aimed to determineunderlying molecular mechanisms.C57BL/6N wild-type (WT) and SARM1-knockout (KO) male mice were injected with streptozotocin(STZ) induce type 1 diabetes (T1D). 16-week T1D stress caused progressive systolic (fractionalshortening) and diastolic dysfunction (E'/A', e/E') in WT mice. T1D-KO mice had attenuatedsystolic and diastolic dysfunction, despite similar elevation of fasting glucose and no significantdifferences in plasma metabolites (243 aqueous and lipid species) from T1D-WT and T1D-KOmice. T1D-WT hearts had reduced NAD pool compared to non-diabetic (ND-WT), which waselevated by SARM1 deletion. T1D-WT hearts had upregulated cardiomyopathy gene markers(Nppb, Myh7/Myh6 ratio) that were normalized in T1D-KO hearts. Chronic T1D induced cardiacfibrosis and upregulation of profibrotic genes (Ctgf, Inhbb), both of which were attenuated in T1D-KO hearts. RNA-seq analysis identified 1948 differentially expressed genes in T1D-WT hearts,compared to non-diabetic WT hearts. Gene Module Network Analysis identified suppressedmitochondrial processes in T1D-WT hearts. Expressions of a majority of genes from complexes Ito V were lowered in T1D-WT hearts and partially reversed in T1D-KO, suggesting that SARM1promotes mitochondrial dysfunction in diabetic hearts.Mitochondria of T1D-WT hearts had 50% reduction in ADP-driven respiration compared to ND-WT, which was reversed in T1D-KO mitochondria. T1D-WT hearts had elevated expression ofBNIP3 and mitochondrial recruitment of LC3B, which were attenuated in T1D-KO hearts. Insummary, our data suggest that SARM1 regulates mitochondrial metabolism and mitophagy indiabetic hearts. However, underlying pathogenic mechanisms of SARM1 in diabetic heart andtranslational potential of SARM1 inhibition require further investigation.


The BookShelf is a collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly in Entrez or found via keyword links in PubMed abstracts. Books have been added to the BookShelf in collaboration with authors and publishers, and the complete content (including all figures and tables) is free to use for anyone with an Internet connection. The online books are displayed one section at a time, with navigation provided to other parts of the current chapter or to other chapters within the book. Many of the books on the BookShelf can be browsed without any restriction at all; others have less flexibility for navigating the complete content. The publisher (or the owner of the content) defines the rules for access. The books are linked to PubMed through research papers citations within the text. In the future, more links may be established between the BookShelf and other resources at NCBI, such as gene and protein sequences, genomes, and macromolecular structures.


Why and how do crises cause European integration? Going beyond case- and policy area-specific analyses, the present paper develops a general, liberal intergovernmentalist model of the crisis-integration link. The empirical process-tracing test of this model is performed on two diverse cases of crises: the BSE Crisis 1996–2002 and the Euro Crisis 2010–13. The original analysis of primary documents and newspaper articles reveals that, as theoretically expected, crises stir high public attention and thus turn policy change in the affected policy areas into a salient issue for governments. This opens a 'window of opportunity' for domestic actors to approach their governments with change proposals. Governmental cost–benefit calculations, the distribution of bargaining power at the EU level, as well as supranational activism then explain deeper European integration in response to a crisis. With these findings, the present paper contributes to a broader understanding of the mechanisms of European integration in exceptional times.


Domesa, logistics company engaged in commercial paper for several years, has seen the need to change its current application for the product correspondence centers, as the software that currently does not allow integration with other modules, work are mostly manual and processing times are quite long.


Both ovalbumin and s-ovalbumin gave maximum gel strength at both sides of the isoelectric point. Maximum gel forming pHs of s-ovalbumin were almost the same as those of ovalbumin, but maximum gel strength values of s-ovalbumin were much smaller than those of ovalbumin. Although the gel strength of both proteins increased with increased heating temperature, the gel strength of s-ovalbumin was much smaller than that of ovalbumin at every heating temperature. About the results of creep experiments, all heat-induced gels were analyzed as a four-element model and the magnitude of all the parameters of both s-ovalbumin and intermediate was smaller than that of ovalbumin. Scanning electron microscopic studies showed that the structure of ovalbumin gels was very fine comparing those of s-ovalbumin and the intermediate.


This paper seeks to determine whether or not the Information Rx program has been promoted and utilized by Georgia librarians and Georgia American College of Physicians (GACP) members. The participants in this study were members of the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS), the Georgia Health Sciences Library Association (GHSLA), and the GACP. Two electronic surveys were created, one to be completed by GACP members and a separate survey to be completed by GPLS and GHSLA members. There were also face-to-face interviews with academic medical librarians. The data from the surveys as well as the face-to-face interviews suggest that Information Rx needs to be promoted more and perhaps targeted to a different audience. Librarians need to be more involved in the process because they are best able to help physicians and patients navigate and understand MedlinePlus.


theology and ethics and may therefore offer help in the solution of both types of problems. There is, of course, a school, the so-called Eschatological School, which is now half a century old, and which is confident that it has disposed of all its opponents. There are signs, however, that its position is not as secure as it imagines. The pendulum has begun to swing back somewhat. Thus Rudolf Otto asserts that Jesus' gospel of the Kingdom ' presupposed life and time and duration. His preaching did not correspond with the circumstances of a last brief hour in


Significance Long-term memories are dynamic, but the network patterns that enable this behavioral flexibility are not well understood. In the present study, we show that activity in the hippocampus and cortex is differentially coordinated based on the age, strength, and type of memory. Our findings may be useful in identifying markers of different ongoing memory processes and understanding mechanisms that lead to both impaired and overactive information retention.


As a prime target of the quality of privacy in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), trajectory privacy is imperative for VANETs to fully flourish. Although mix-zone based on several pseudonyms provides a promising solution for trajectory privacy in the VANETs, if the vehicles changed pseudonym in an improper mix-zone or frequently changed the pseudonym in each passing mix-zone, such a solution may result in unacceptable situation where the privacy is not improved but the huge cost is incurred. To cope with the issue, in this paper, we present an effective pseudonym changing game G to achieve a tradeoff between cost and privacy. Firstly, pseudonym changing game is established by analyzing the relationship between pseudonym changing, cost, and privacy. Then, according to the game Nash equilibrium, pseudonym changing mechanism that vehicles autonomously determine whether to change pseudonym is designed. Finally, we analyze performance advantages of the pseudonym changing mechanism through simulation experiments.


The purpose of this paper is studying the social brain in the context of neuroscience to unveil their intricate relationship between social environment and neuroscience responses by formulating an effective social neuroscience midlife crisis apparatus to help creating predictability of this phenomenal by preventing it from the earlier stage. The research design was taking a three fundamental levels. The foundational level to collect data from 32 middle aged homogeneous sampling of midlife crisis sufferers through qualitative content analysis design for social and neuroscience thematic by conducting an in depth interview.  The verification level to guarantee the validity of the data collected through the selected tests for reaching the re-tested reliability data. The confirmatory level to administer the data through the quantitative survey methods by using self-portrayed midlife crisis experience and self-reported midlife crisis definition to investigate the causal relationship of social and neuroscience to reach an outcome, thereafter the outcome is compared with verified qualitative social neuroscience midlife crisis. Data were analysed by SPSS/Version 25 for principal components analysis. Results from N=32 focus group shows 3 social construct components with 10 neuro-response delineating to 45 unit of meaning of social neuroscience factors. The literature and focus study of total 79 combined factors under Tucker's congruence coefficient interpretation shows the desirable 44 social neuroscience factors in 3 components emerged as independent identity factors. Six midlife crisis expert of different field respondents' validation by content validity index (CVI=0,906 value) has confirmed that the content is suitable to be used as the measurement for social-neuroscience midlife crisis. Pilot study N=34 analysis by content validity ratio (CVR=0.529 to 1) where 38 social neuroscience factors is retained and tested for internal consistency by communalities=0.5 results that all 38 items are relevant. Data comparison confirmatory by triangle test analysis in which Pearson correlation coefficient (r= > 0.75) shows a positive strong relationship between two sets of variables. The results conclude that there are 3 components, namely biological life faded moment, interior misery intensity and personal hibernating symptom with 38 social neuroscience factors in the predictability apparatus that influence midlife crisis and should be used as predicting and developing therapeutic intervention facility to conquer the midlife crisis. Contribution of Social neuroscience midlife crisis apparatus is an effective scaled system for early prediction and prevention to diminish midlife crisis rate of occurrence, ultimately the details unit of meaning crisis predictability factors scale to assure the accurate intervention devising instrument to social support services.


UV exposure of DNA is known to trigger off photochemical reactions that ultimately may lead to carcinogenic mutations. However, the primary UV-induced processes in DNA preceding such reactivity remain unclear even after several decades of intense studies. With this in mind, we have recently undertaken a program aiming at improving the understanding of DNA photodamage. The ultimate goal is to develop a model for the excited state dynamical processes, and in particular the role of energy transfer, occurring within the DNA molecule after the initial energy deposition. Evidently, the success of this project relies on a precise knowledge of the photophysical properties of the excited states of its monomeric constituents (nucleobases, nucleosides, nucleotides) and how these properties translate into those of the organised system of DNA.


Abstract Helping students to obtain command of important areas of human knowledge is the primary job of the schools. Most of the tests used in education are intended to indicate how well this job has been done, through the joint efforts of students and teachers. In order to do this job educators must determine what areas of knowledge are most worth teaching, and how to manage the process of instruction so that it will be learned. Learning is only part of living, but it is the part for which schools were established. Tests do not test native intelligence, at least not directly. They do not predict future achievement precisely. They continue to be used extensively despite some opposition from humanists, liberals and other critics, and some interference from educational mystics.


The existing augmented reality (AR) dental implant surgery navigation system usually uses markers to complete image guidance. However, markers often affect dentists' operations and make patients uncomfortable.


Cable-in-conduit conductors (CICCs) are composed of a large number of strands (superconducting composites and copper strands) twisted together in several stages with different twist pitches. They are widely used in large fusion tokamaks such as JT-60SA or ITER. However, because of their complex transposed geometry at a strand scale, the knowledge of ac coupling losses in these conductors is limited and still has some improvement margins to capture its complexity while the prediction of their behavior under transient regimes (e.g., central solenoid) is of first importance to assess a safe operation in tokamaks. Consequently, we have carried out an in-depth theoretical generic study of a single stage of a CICC and analytically derived the expression of coupling losses using physical parameters (time constant and partial shielding coefficient) determined from electromagnetic and geometrical properties. Our approach has been inspired by the MPAS model (extensively used on the experimental ITER database) but starts from the analytical description of a single stage and aims at reaching the CICC scale in an iterative way.


AbstractAn assessment of the user issues impeding the uptake and adoption of cardiac marker point-of-care testing (POCT) deployed in chest pain diagnosis within the United Kingdom-Northern Ireland National Health Service (NHS) acute health care system was carried out via a structured Web-based surve


The paper deals with human-computer interaction in which the cooperation leads to solve a difficult issue of discrete optimization. Considered jobs scheduling problem in a robotic cell consisting of two machines and a robotic operator. Only one of two machines can work at a time and there are setup times between successive operations on a machine. The goal is to determine a schedule - permutation of jobs - and an assignment of jobs to machines, which minimize the minimal cycle time. We show that although there is exponential number of assignments of jobs to machines, it is possible to determine optimal assignment in the polynomial time. Next, we propose higher level metaheuristics - tabu search and evolutionary algorithm.


The emerging paradigm of pervasive computing and web services needs a flexible service discovery and composition infrastructure. A composite Web service is essential a process in a loosely-coupled service-oriented architecture. It is usually a black box for service requestors and only its interfaces can be seen externally. In some scenarios, to conduct performance debugging and analysis, a workflow representation of the underlying process is required. This paper describes a method to discover such underlying processes from execution logs. Based on a probabilistic assumption model, the algorithm can discover sequential, parallel, exclusive choice and iterative structures. Some examples are given to illustrate the algorithm.


This paper explores a method to combine the time and space continuity of a large-scale inundation model with discontinuous satellite microwave observations, for high-resolution flood hazard mapping. The assumption behind this approach is that hydraulic variables computed from continuous spatially-distributed hydrodynamic modeling and observed as discrete satellite-derived flood extents are correlated in time, so that probabilities can be transferred from the model series to the observations. A prerequisite is, therefore, the existence of a significant correlation between a modeled variable (i.e., flood extent or volume) and the synchronously-observed flood extent. If this is the case, the availability of model simulations over a long time period allows for a robust estimate of non-exceedance probabilities that can be attributed to corresponding synchronously-available satellite observations. The generated flood hazard map has a spatial resolution equal to that of the satellite images, which is higher than that of currently available large scale inundation models. The method was applied on the Severn River (UK), using the outputs of a global inundation model provided by the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts


Objective: To observe the therapeutic actions of Wenjinghuayu Mixture(Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Rhizoma Cyperi, Herba Leonur, etc.) on dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation. Methods: The uterus and ovary of mice were weighted. The ear edema and writhing and isolated rat uterus were used for experiment models. Results: Wenjinghuayu Mixture could significantly increased the weight of uterus of mice. It had inhibitory effects on mice ear edema and could reduce the writhing of mice and rats. It had biphasic effect on rat's isolated uterine contraction. Conclusion: Wenjinghuayu Mixture has effects of analgesia and anti-inflammation and has biphasic effect on uterine contraction.


Using functionalised nanoparticles in nanobiomedical applications cause to raise questions about unintentional effect of such powerful agents on the human body. In other words, the study of nanoparticle toxicity can be considered as a curtail key for the biological applications. In this study, the core/shell nanoparticles such as Si/Au and SiO2/Au were synthesised and functionalised with some biological elements. For satisfying some medical standards and biomedical critical test conditions, a few in-vitro assays as cytotoxicity and haemolysis should be done. For this reason, cytotoxicity and haemolytic effects of the functionalised nanoparticles such as Si/Au/biotin and SiO2/Au/biotin and their derivatives were evaluated on Hep-G2 cells and humane red blood samples. It is shown that cytotoxicity and haemolysis effects of the all synthesised nanoparticles are concentration-dependent. Also, the results are shown that most cytotoxicity and haemolytic effects are observed for Si/Au and SiO2/Au without biotin groups after 48 hours and 30 minutes, respectively.


The poor productivity record of the construction industry from the mid1960s on made the performance of the industry an issue. This led to a number of inquiries and government policy initiatives across .the OECD. The explanation of the productivity slowdown in the construction industry is typically sought in characteristics of the data collected. This paper summarises endogenous growth theory, which sees economic growth and development driven by technological innovation, learning and the application of knowledge. Some of the implications for analysis of productivity trends in construction of the new growth theories are considered, as is the significance of the issues identified.


ABSTRACT A series of novel N-methyl piperidine (Nmp)-based ionic liquids with 1,2-propanediol group are synthesized and used as catalysts for both hetero-Michael addition of α,β-unsaturated amides and Knoevenagel condensation at room temperature in water; and all the examined substrates could be transformed into corresponding products in good to excellent yields. Meanwhile IL-catalyzed hetero-Michael addition of α,β-unsaturated amides in water has not been reported in the previous literatures. Additionally, the catalyst is recyclable for the two reactions. This finding provides a green catalyst for both hetero-Michael addition of α,β-unsaturated amides and Knoevenagel condensation in water. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


The synthesis and characterization of a cis-dichloro sulfur chelated olefin metathesis catalyst is presented. The catalyst was extremely stable at room temperature in solution under ambient conditions and was shown to exhibit a thermo-switchable behavior for ring-closing olefin metathesis of diethyl diallylmalonate, being active at 80 °C and inactive at room temperature.


This paper introduces several practical methods of utilizing surplus heat energy from a steam kettle in the steam curing process for flyash cement particleboards. Byproducts of the process are surplus steam and condensed water.


The photovoltaic properties of electron-acceptor-doped thin-film sandwich cells of the structure Al|Al2O3|MTPP (meso-tetraphenylporphyrin)|Au, where M = Zn, H2, Cu, Ni or Co, fabricated using optimised doping procedures, and tested under high vacuum, are described. A wide variation in photovoltaic efficiency is observed with variation of the porphyrin central substituent, paralleling trends of device stability and affinity of the porphyrins to the dopant vapour. An exponential relationship is found between the value of peak quantum efficiency and the potential of the porphyrin first ring oxidation. The results indicate that the charge carrier photogeneration mechanism involves the formation of a weak ground-state donor-acceptor complex between the porphyrin and dopant molecules. Enhanced carrier generation is observed at wavelengths above 750 nm, possible resulting from the direct formation of triplet exciton states. Values of Soret band quantum yield of iodine-doped devices are 0.48, 0.083, 0.029, 0.026 and 0.018% for ZnTPP, H2TPP, CuTPP, NiTPP and CoTPP, respectively, and 0.22 and 0.04% for oxygen–water vapour-doped ZnTPP and H2TPP cells, respectively.


Since the advent of regenerative medicine, tissue engineering of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) has been extensively studied in laboratory animals and humans. Various biologic scaffolds and cell sources have been trialed to repair or reconstruct different GIT defects. Achievements in this field have led to novel approaches in curing GIT diseases and circumventing the morbidity-related complications associated with current therapy.This review aims to describe recent advances in GIT tissue engineering, with an emphasis on technologies with potential for clinical use.A literature search was conducted in Ovid MEDLINE® ALL for relevant studies (2000–September 2023) using the keywords "tissue-engineering", "scaffolds", "organoids", "cell-therapy", "esophagus", "stomach", "small intestine", "colon", "rectum", and "anus". Articles were included if they were in vivo animal studies or clinical studies written in English that investigated tissue engineering for treating GIT defects.A total of 836 articles were identified in the initial search. Following duplicate removal, abstract, and full-text screening, 48 articles were included in the final review. Many studies on esophageal defects thus far have described the success of covering partial-thickness defects with autologous cell sheets and closing full-thickness defects with decellularized scaffolds in both animals and humans. A limited number of reports have also demonstrated the de novo organogenesis of the esophagus to repair short-segment circumferential esophageal defects with autologous pluripotent cells and scaffolds. In the stomach, multiple animal studies have reported on the feasibility of gastric epithelium regeneration using multipotent cells and/or scaffolds to correct partial- and full-thickness defects. One study observed the regeneration of whole-layer stomach defects using the organoids-on-polymer approach. Similarly, in the intestine, pluripotent cells and scaffolds were shown to effectively repair both partial- and full-thickness defects. Animal experiments have produced tissue-engineered small intestines (TESI) with the organoids-on-polymer approach. Furthermore, in the rectum and anus, mesenchymal stem cell therapies with or without bioscaffolds have shown promise for treating full-thickness defects, as demonstrated in multiple human trials.Tissue-engineering approaches for repairing various types of GI defects in the esophagus, stomach, intestines, rectum, and anus have been extensively explored in animal models, with promising outcomes. Moreover, successful human trials have demonstrated the feasibility of reconstructing esophageal, rectal, and anal defects using these innovative approaches. Technologies such as mesenchymal stem cells, decellularization, organoids, and cell sheets are the most promising and closer to clinical translation. Collaboration between gastrointestinal surgery and regenerative medicine is expected to bring about novel therapeutic modalities in the future.


INTRODUCTION: Infectious mononucleosis-like syndrome (IMLS) is an acute infection characterized by high fever, sore throat and lymphadenopathy especially in the cervical lymph nods. It is mainly caused by Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), a gamma herpes virus that is believed to infect 90% of the world's population. It's most common presentation is a flue-like illness called Infectious mononucleosis, which usually resolves on it's own, but can also be caused by the Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Herpes simplex viruses (HSV)-1 and 2, Varicellazoster virus (VZV) and Human herpes viruses (HHV) -6, 7 and 8. These viruses are members of one family Herpesviridae, all of them share properties including a genome of double-stranded linear DNA core surrounded by an icosahedra nucleocapsides symmetry, and a viral envelop (1, 2) . They also share the biological properties of latency and reactivation, which cause recurrent infections in The host(2). Toxoplasma gondii, Hepatitis A virus (HAV), Rubella, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Adeno virus, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Betahemolytic streptococci, and other agents are associated with IMLS as well (3) .


383 hexagonal phases, contains within it empty hexagonal tunnels (Magndli, 1949b). It is interesting to note that this has been identified in needles grown from tungsten metal in an electron-diffraction camera, (Hashimoto, Tanaka, Yoda & Araki, 1958) in which the high vacuum could prevent the formation of an A X8 type oxide. A Patterson sunnnation with {IF(hkl)l-IF(~kZ)I} ~ coefficients gives peaks at the end of vectors relating the anomalous scatterers in the structure. Application to two mercury derivatives of horse haemoglobin, using Cu Ka diffraction data, shows that the ends of vectors between mercury atoms can be recognized easily, and the mercury positions determined, without resorting to isomorphous replacement. Interactions between the iron atoms of the haem groups and the mercury atoms are lost in the background, but can nevertheless be located by removing the spurious background peaks with Buerger's Minimum Function.


Palladium (Pd)-loaded poly-hydromethylsiloxane (PHMS) microparticles of tunable size and elasticity are prepared in a capillary-based coaxial flow-focusing microfluidic device constructed using off-the-shelf components. Simultaneous droplet formation and chemical cross-linking processes are performed by tuning the dilution of the cross-linking catalyst in the annular flow of the microreactor, resulting in PHMS microparticles synthesized in a single step. The size of the elastomeric microparticles can be tuned by adjusting the flow rate ratio of the polymer and cross-linker mixture to water, while the elasticity can be tuned by the polymer to cross-linker ratio as well as the flow rate ratio of the polymer mixture to cross-linking catalyst mixture. Microparticle elasticity is characterized by the degree of solvent uptake. Application of the synthesized PHMS microparticles in organic synthesis is demonstrated by producing monodispersed Pd-loaded microparticles and utilizing them as microreaction vessels for continuous Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling in a Pd-loaded microparticle-packed bed reactor. VC 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 00: 000–000, 2018


The V..-->..T, R relaxation rate for NH/sub 3/ (..nu../sub 2/) has been studied from 198 to 398 /sup 0/K by the method of laser-excited vibrational fluorescence. The self-deactivation rate constant decreases from 4.9 x 10/sup -11/ cm/sup 3/ molecule/sup -1/ sec/sup -1/ at 198 /sup 0/K to 2.7 x 10/sup -11/ cm/sup 3/ molecule/sup -1/ sec/sup -1/ at 398 /sup 0/K. The rate constants for deactivation by He, Ar, N/sub 2/, and O/sub 2/ are much smaller and show a weak temperature dependence in the opposite direction. For H/sub 2/ /sup 18/O the vibrational relaxation rates of the coupled ..nu../sub 1/, ..nu../sub 3/ stretching level manifold and of the 2..nu../sub 2/ bending level have been studied from 250 to 400 /sup 0/K. The ..nu../sub 1/, ..nu../sub 3/ self-deactivation rate goes from 3.5 x 10/sup -11/ cm/sup 3/ molecule/sup -1/ sec/sup -1/ at 250 /sup 0/K to 2.0 x 10/sup -11/ cm/sup 3/ molecule/sup -1/ sec/sup -1/ at 400 /sup 0/K. For 2..nu../sub 2/ it goes from 1.2 x 10/sup -10/ to 7.8 x 10/sup -11/ cm/sup 3/ molecule/sup -1/ sec/sup -1/. The temperature depencence of the deactivation of both levels by He and Ar is much weaker and the ratesmore » are several hundred times slower. CO/sub 2/ deactivates ..nu../sub 1/, ..nu../sub 3/ about 50 times faster than He or Ar at 293 /sup 0/K.« less


BACKGROUND
This study aimed to determine the attitude and stress levels of midwives, nurses and physicians working in gynecology and obstetrics clinics towards the COVID-19 pandemic.

SUBJECTS AND METHODS
This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 134 healthcare workers in obstetrics and gynecology clinics. The Personal Information Form, the Attitude form for the COVID-19 pandemic and the Perceived Stress Scale were used for collecting the data.

RESULTS
It was found that the total average score of the healthcare workers' attitude scale was 55.61±5.97. The total score average of healthcare workers on the perceived stress scale was found to be 28.28±7.43.

CONCLUSION
It was determined that the attitudes of healthcare professionals towards the COVID-19 pandemic and the perceived stress for the COVID-19 pandemic were at moderate levels.


Dioctahedral smectites (e.g., nontronite and montmorillionite) are interpreted to occupy the optical surface of Mars at a number of locations on the basis of spectral features derived from interlayer H2O and MOH (M=Fe(3+)2, Fe(3+)Al, Al2, etc.) as observed by orbiting MRO-CRISM and MEx-OMEGA hyperspectral imaging spectrometers. At wavelengths shorter than approximately 2.7 micrometers, the strongest bands from interlayer H2O occur at approximately 1.4 and 1.9 micrometers from 2v1 and v1+v2, respectively, where v1 and v2 are the fundamental stretching and bending vibrations of the H2O molecule. Smectite MOH vibrations occur near 1.4 micrometers (stretching overtone) and in the region between 2.1 and 2.7 micrometers (stretching + bending combination). Because interlayer H2O can exchange with the martian environment, a number of studies have examined the strength of the interlayer H2O spectral features under Mars-like environmental conditions. The relationship between spectral properties and the underlying crystal structure of the smectites was not determined, and the extent of interlayer H2O removal was not established. We report combined visible and near-IR (VNIR), Mossbauer (MB), and powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) data for samples of the Fe-bearing smectite nontronite where the interlayer was collapsed by complete removal of interlayer H2O.


A skutterudite-related antimonide, CoFe3Sb12, was prepared with vacuum melting. XRD analysis showed the material contained Sb, FeSb2, CoSb2 and CoSb3 phases. The electrochemical properties of the ball-milled CoFe3Sb12−10 wt% graphite composite were studied using pure lithium as the reference electrode. A maximal lithium inserting capacity of about 860 mAh/g was obtained in the first cycle. The reversible capacity of the material was about 560 mAh/g in the first cycle and decreased toca. 320 mAh/g and 250 mAh/g after 10 and 20 cycles respectively.Ex-situ XRD analyses showed that the antimonides in the pristine material were decomposed after the first discharge and that antimony was the active element for lithium to insert into the host material.


This report describes the results of thermal hydraulic analysis performed to provide data in support of Project W-030 to startup new 702-AZ Primary Ventilation System. During the startup of W-030 system, the ventilation system will be operating in bypass mode. In bypass made of operation, the system is capable of supplying 1000 cfm total flow for all four AWF doubleshell tanks. The design of the W-030 system is based on the assumption that both the recirculation loop of the primary ventilation system and the secondary ventilation which provides cooling would be operating. However, during the startup neither the recirculation system nor the secondary ventilation system will be operating. A minimum flow of 100 cfm is required to prevent any flammable gas associated risk. The remaining 600 cfm flow can be divided among the four tanks as necessary to keep the peak sludge temperatures below the operating temperature limit. For the purpose of determining the minimum flow required for cooling each tank, the thermal hydraulic analysis is performed to predict the peak sludge temperatures in AY/AZ tanks under different ventilation flows. The heat load for AZ farm tanks is taken from characterization reports and for the AY farm tanks, the heat load was estimated by thermal analysis using the measured waste temperatures and the waste liquid evaporation rates. The tank 241-AZ-101 and the tank 241-AZ-102 have heat loads of 241,600 and 199,500 Btu/hr respectively. The tank 241-AY-101 and tank 241-AY-102 have heat loads of 41,000 and 33,000 Btu/hr respectively. Using the ambient meteorological conditions of temperature and relative humidity for the air and tank, some soil surface and the sludge levels reported in recent documents, the peak sludge and supernatant temperatures were predicted for various primary ventilation flows ranging from 100 to 400 cfm for AZ tanks and 100 and 150 cfm for AY tanks. The results of these thermal hydraulic analyses are presented. Based on the results, it is concluded that with the W-030 operating in bypass mode of operation, the waste peak temperatures can be kept below the operating limit.


This paper looks particularly at the ways in which artists have employed photography in projects and interventions, which act to disrupt the established discourse of authenticity in museum narratives. Using four examples the article considers how photography has been used by artists to problematise museological constructions of ethnographic and historic veracity. In particular it focuses on the ways in which categories, such as "real" and "authentic", which have traditionally been stabilised through photography's "truth effect", can be made permeable and discursive through the same medium. It examines photography performed, manipulated and appropriated and considers its role in (de)stabilising facts and fictions which contribute to a critical and ethical understanding of past events and their role in shaping possible futures.


Proteins are the structural components of living cells and tissues, and thus an important building block in all living organisms. Patterns in proteins sequences are some subsequences which appear frequently. Patterns often denote important functional regions in proteins and can be used to characterize a protein family or discover the function of proteins. Moreover, it provides valuable information about the evolution of species. Grouping protein sequences that share similar structure helps in identifying sequences with similar functionality. Many algorithms have been proposed for clustering proteins according to their similarity. Feature-based clustering algorithms use a near-linear complexity ii-means based clustering algorithm. Although feature-based clustering algorithms are scalable and lead to reasonably good clusters, they consume time on performing the global approach and the local approach separately. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the hybrid algorithm to find and mark features for feature-based clustering algorithms. We observe an interesting result from the relation between the local features and the closed frequent sequential patterns. In our hybrid algorithm (CLoseLG), we first find the closed frequent sequential patterns directly. Next, we find local candidate features efficiently from the closed frequent sequential patterns and then mark the local features. Finally, we find and mark the global features. From our performance study based on the biological data and the synthetic data, we show that our proposed hybrid algorithm is more efficient than the feature-based algorithm.


We derive simple concentration inequalities for bounded random vectors, which generalize Hoeffding's inequalities for bounded scalar random variables. As applications, we apply the general results to multinomial and Dirichlet distributions to obtain multivariate concentration inequalities.


Ternary phase diagrams of linear tri-block and multi-block copolymers consisting of poly(dimethylsiloxane) with a constant segment mass of Mn = 103 and varying poly(oxyethylene) segment masses in the range 100 ≤ Mn ≤ 2000 with water and oil (cyclohexane) are reported. Also binary mixtures of the same copolymers with water and oil are investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Microphase separation of the copolymers and different states of water are detected as a function of composition and structure of the copolymers as well as oil and water content, respectively. The results are discussed in terms of a model having an interphasial zone where intermixing of the dissimilar segments occurs.


Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite which belongs to the apicomplexan pathogens including Plasmodium falciparum, the caustic agent of Malaria. There is a need for research on new drug targets of these parasites because of the resistance to current therapeutics that has been reported recently. The mitochondrial respiratory chain of Toxoplasma and Plasmodium contains a component which is not present in mammalian cells and therefore it is considered to be a promising drug target for anti-parasitic agents: T. gondii and P. falciparum possess an alternative NADH dehydrogenase instead of a conventional complex I. Recently, the compound 1-hydroxy-2-dodecyl-4(1)-quinolone (HDQ) has been identified as a high affinity inhibitor of the alternative NADH dehydrogenase of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica in enzymatic assays. Moreover, HDQ inhibited the growth of P. falciparum and genotype I T. gondii parasites in tissue culture. The aim of this dissertation was to further characterise the mode of action of HDQ in different T. gondii strains and mutants. Two independent types of growth assays based on vacuole size as well as on s-galactosidase activity showed that HDQ effectively inhibits the growth of T. gondii in the nanomolar range in both, genotype I and II parasites. The inhibitor was parasitostatic in short-term experiments up to 24 hours. Unexpectedly, the parasites recovered from inhibition in long-term experiments up to 96 hours, although they were continuously treated with HDQ. A critical feature of a 1-hydroxy-2-alkyl-4(1)-quinolone derivate is the length of the alkyl side chain at position two. HDQ, as a derivate with a long alkyl side chain (C12) showed excellent inhibition of T. gondii replication whereas a derivate with a shorter alkyl side chain (C6) failed to inhibit parasite growth. Most likely, a defined minimal length of the alkyl side chain is necessary to diffuse into the inner mitochondrial membrane or to act as a competitor with ubiquinones. The combined treatment of T. gondii infected cells with HDQ and the anti-malarial drug atovaquone, a complex III inhibitor of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, resulted in a synergism which was present independently of the parasite s genotype. This synergism could be explained by the simultaneous inhibition of the ubiquinone/ubiquinol cycle, by HDQ at the reduction side and by atovaquone at the oxidation side. In contrast, the combined treatment of T. gondii infected cells with HDQ and the complex III inhibitor antimycin A showed rather an additive effect. Another objective of this thesis was the comparison between wild type parasites and UPRT deficient mutants. Wild type parasites are able to generate pyrimidines by the de novo biosynthesis and in addition by the pyrimidine salvage pathway, while UPRT deficient mutants lack the salvage pathway. UPRT deficient mutants displayed a significant higher sensitivity towards HDQ as wild type parasites. This hypersensitivity to HDQ might be explained by a direct or indirect inhibition of de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis, which is linked with the mitochondrial respiratory chain via the enzyme dihydroorotate dehydrogenase that uses ubiquinone as an electron acceptor. This dissertation further strengthens the concept that the T. gondii respiratory chain is an excellent target for the development of specific anti-parasitic drugs and thus is an interesting object for further research.


Even in patients whose anatomic abnormalities are restricted to the heart, it is widely recognized that single ventricle heart disease is physiologically a systemic disease. Pulmonary vascular abnormalities are common and the pulmonary and cardiac systems reciprocally affect each other's status. Long-term neurodevelopmental issues are common and may or may not be related to the need for multiple cardiac surgeries, bypass runs, and long periods of cyanosis. The higher abdominal venous pressure that is inevitable with a Fontan circulation can lead to congestive hepatopathy, gastrointestinal derangements, and renal dysfunction. In this issue of the journal, Kovacikova et al report abnormalities in the immune system that cannot be readily reconciled with known circulatory derangements in single ventricle physiology. There are a number of reasons why single ventricle patients can have immune abnormalities. Thymectomy is routinely performed during the vast majority of pediatric cardiac surgeries. Single ventricle patients often have associated syndromes, such as DiGeorge or Down Syndromes, which can affect immune homeostasis. Heterotaxy and associated polyor asplenia are also known to impact immune status. Prior infections, chylous effusions, and malnutrition can all play an important role. However, to this date, one of the best-recognized etiologies of immune abnormalities in single ventricle patients continues to be protein-losing enteropathy, a late complication of Fontan circulation. Kovacikova et al sought to analyze the immunologic characteristics from neonates to immediate post-Fontan patients, with the goal of identifying early onset immune abnormalities. To this end, they performed a battery of tests on 177 patients who were prospectively enrolled in their study over a six-year period. And, as is usually the case, when carefully evaluated, an impressive array of results unfolds. Immune abnormalities were noted even before Glenn procedure. By the time Fontan circulation is reached, there appears to be a relative reduction in T-lymphocyte levels, spread across both CD4 and CD8 subtypes, with an increase in B-lymphocyte counts. Although no formal correlative analyses were undertaken, the spread of the data would suggest that no specific association with underlying cardiac or noncardiac pathology is discernible. Interestingly, lower lymphocyte counts correlated with increased length of stay and pleural effusions. The most plausible explanation for this association is that low lymphocyte counts served as a surrogate for overall health quality and hence were linked to recovery parameters following major cardiac surgery. As in any well-designed work, this study raises more questions than it answers. Firstly, this report is at best a catalog of a variety of immunologic abnormalities. Despite its prospective design, this study does not include longitudinal data from patients across the various stages of single ventricle palliation. This precludes an understanding of the "natural" history of these immunologic abnormalities. The univariate analyses are oversimplified and do not account for the myriad of confounding variables that can impact the immune system. Although comprehensive and extending over all stages of surgical palliation, these data are purely cross-sectional and represent spot measurements at each respective time point. Whether they would bear the test of repeated measures still remains to be known. Regardless of these limitations, the authors should be commended for drawing our attention with data to the obvious fact that immunologic abnormalities are linked in a complex fashion to single ventricle physiology. It would be naive to imagine that they are exclusively late Fontan events. Future efforts should be aimed at placing these laboratory aberrations in a clinical context to more comprehensively correlate their impact on outcomes. And the bigger question that


This paper presents millimeter wave phased array antenna for short range communication applications at 35 GHz. The antenna array is formed by 1 × 16 microstrip antipodal tapered slot antennas each connected to RF MEMS phase shifters for beam steering. The simulation and measurement results of the single antenna element are presented and the phase shifter structure to be used in the array is described in the paper. RF MEMS phase shifters are fabricated using an in-house surface micromachining process.


This article provides an overview of current research on emotional intelligence. Although it has been defined in many ways, we focus on the four-branch model by Mayer and Salovey (1997), which characterizes emo tional intelligence as a set of four related abilities: per ceiving, using, understanding, and managing emotions. The theory provides a useful framework for studying in dividual differences in abilities related to processing emo tional information. Despite measurement obstacles, the evidence in favor of emotional intelligence is accumulating. Emotional intelligence predicts success in important do mains, among them personal and work relationships. KEYWORDS?emotional intelligence; emotions; social inter


Accounting fraud is an act of fraud committed by an individual or companygroup for profit. Acts of fraud can be bad for investors as well as,even other stakeholders.This study aims to empirically test the effectiveness of the internal control system, empirically the effectiveness of information asymmetry, empirically the effectiveness of conformity compensation, empirically the effectiveness of religiosity, empirically the effectiveness of implementationGood Corporate Governance accounting at the health center in the city of Yogyakarta.
The population in this study were all health centers in the city of Yogyakarta and the sample taken in this study was 36 sample consisted of heads of Administrative Sub-divisions and Financial Staff. The research method uses quantitative methods using primary data obtained from questionnaires that are distributed randomlyoffline. The data analysis technique used is descriptive statistical analysis technique with the programStatistical Program for Social Science (SPSS) Version 26. The results of the study show that the internal control system, information asymmetry, compensation suitability, religiosity and implementation Good Corporate Governance does not affect the tendency of accounting fraud at the health center in the city of Yogyakarta.


The influence factors of gas extraction effect and residual gas content after bedding drainage on working face were uncertain, leading to the judge standard of gas extraction effect was not in conformity with the actual extraction situation. The influence zones of gas extraction were divided, according to the goaf and coal pillar of protective layer, including the tectonic belt of working face. The gas extraction parameters and residual gas content were tested, and the gas extraction effect and residual gas content distribution under different influence factors was studied by using Surfer software. The results showed that the concentrated stress under coal pillar made the gas extraction effect reduced greatly. Both the goaf and structural belt had relieving pressure effect on the C7+8 coal seam, but the gas extraction effect was better in the area dominated by the relieved pressure of goaf, while the gas extraction effect was worse in the area dominated by the relieved pressure of structural belt. From large to small, the residual gas content distribution in Area III was greater than that in Area II, greater than that in Area V, greater than that in Area I, greater than that in Area IV.


The memory and hereditary effects of fractional derivatives as well as integral terms are considered in a diffusion like problem. The Haar wavelet operational matrix technique is employed to solve fractional order diffusion equation with time dependent integral term and time dependent boundary condition. The fractional derivative is described in the Caputo sense. The effect of using inverse fractional operator which combines the memory behaviors of the fractional derivatives to all other terms in the equation is disscused. Different Haar bases functions are used (8, 16, 32, 64) and comparison of the wavelet operational matrix is considered. Error analysis is considered. A general numerical example with four subproblems is considered, graphical representation of the different solutions as well as their errors are given.


It is widely assumed by both philosophers and ordinary folks that we are generally morally obligated to keep our promises. A perennial worry about consequentialist moral theories is that they cannot account for the seemingly strict obligation to keep our promises in a wide range of cases, including those in which better overall consequences would result from promise-breaking than from promise-keeping. Can consequentialism adequately explain and accommodate the moral force of promissory obligation? And what impact does the answer to this question have on the plausibility of consequentialism as a moral theory? Consequentialists (and their critics) will obviously care about the answers to these questions. But other ethicists have at least two reasons to be interested in this debate as well. First, assessing the relationship between consequentialism and promises sheds light on our understanding of promissory obligation more broadly. And second, it informs what approach we should take to moral theorizing from imagined cases. In this essay, I argue that the accommodation of promissory obligation raises serious challenges for consequentialist views of various kinds, but that this is simply one strike against them, which does not by itself entail that the views are implausible. In section 2, I explain straightforward act consequentialist accounts of promising. I discuss three important challenges for these accounts in section 3. I introduce and assess alternative act consequentialist theories in section 4. I outline rule consequentialist theories in section 5 and assess them in section 6, before closing with a brief discussion of the upshots of this debate in section 7.


It is proved that every plane continuum, in which each two subcontinua with nonvoid interiors intersect, is not aposyndetic and semilocally connected at the same point. It is a corollary that any such continuum has a weak cutpoint.


This study aims to identify students' information literacy skills using the Big 6 Skills model in Vocational High Schools' survey subjects. The research method used is descriptive quantitative with survey design. The total sample is 80 vocational students using simple random sampling. The big skills 6 model consists of 6 aspects: Definition; Strategic Information Seeking; Location and Access; Use of Information; Synthesis and Evaluation. This study indicates that the students' information literacy skills in formulating problems and information-seeking strategies are quite good. Meanwhile, the ability to allocate sources, locations, access, and synthesis and evaluation such as utilizing information, organizing information, and evaluating information is still lacking. Thus it can be concluded that the information literacy skills of SMK students are not optimal.