The eighties and nineties have been decades of reinvention in China-reinventing the economy, the social system, notions of leisure and, above all, the sign China. At the level of culture and intellectual thought, these changes have been most clearly visible in the field of art and literature, and have received considerable attention in the West. Intellectuals have perhaps needed the greatest reinvention, having been placed as the 'stinking ninth' category during the heyday of revolution. Developments within the field of critical enquiry have been the result of


This paper presents a new information-theoretic method for simultaneously estimating a number of power spectra when a prior estimate of each is available and new information is obtained in the form of values of the autocorrelation function of their sum. One application of this method is the separate estimation of the spectra of a signal and additive noise, based on autocorrelations of the signal plus noise. A derivation of the method from the principle of minimum cross entropy is given, and the method is compared to minimum cross-entropy spectral analysis, of which it is a generalization. Some basic mathematical properties are discussed. Three numerical examples are included, two based oil synthetic spectra, and one based on actual speech data.


The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will provide a unique, world-leading program for the exploration of key questions at the forefront of particle physics and astrophysics. Chief among its potential discoveries is that of matter-antimatter symmetry violation in neutrino flavor mixing. Other exciting physics objectives include possible detection of supernova bursts and search for nucleon decay. DUNE has been conceived around three central components:


The progress made in monitoring of aphid vectors of plant viruses in Europe is reviewed and discussed, with particular reference to the Rothamsted Insect Survey, which was devised in 1959, and subsequent sampling throughout Great Britain; trapping in the Netherlands (initiated in 1968); Denmark (1971), Northern Ireland (1976); France (1977) and Belgium (1980). These were integrated into a voluntary cooperative venture, EURAPHID, in 1980. Other sites are believed to be operative or to have been initiated in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Italy, and similar traps have been operating in Sweden since 1978.


Through the author's teaching practice,this paper introduces the subject to play a set in the design curriculum system teaching should be reflected advantage in the topic of opening,interaction and autonomy;Also we should give attention to the actual situation of beginners,and we are against the subject setting is broad generalizations,and ignoring the logic and content levels.So we should try to arrange students step by step into the research,design study and exercise of the course by the way of small subject nested big topic.That has positive result in cultivating students' design enthusiasm,innovation consciousness and ability.


Abstract Sixteen energy balance trials with lactating Holstein cows were in each of two changeover experiments to test the effect of physical folm of corn grain on its energy value for lactation. In each experiment eight cows were paired on milk production. Pair mates were given equal amounts of diets containing 40% long alfalfa hay as the sole forage. In the first experiment, diets containing 54.5% ground corn and 5.5% soybean meal had higher digestible, metabolizable, and net energy values than did a diet containing a similar amount of whole corn. In a second experiment, diets containing 5.4% wheat bran, 5.4% molasses, 1.2% minerals, and 48% ground corn had higher digestible and metabolizable energy values than did the corresponding diet in which cracked corn was substituted for ground corn. The higher digestible energy value for the ground corn diet in both experiments was due largely to improved digestibility of cell solubles. The metabolizable energy of the ground corn diets was used less efficiently for milk production, however, and this may have been related to the lower fat content in milk produced on those diets. These data suggest caution in the use of energy values for feedstuffs without regard to the physical form of the grain and the nature of the product formed.


Several proposed statistics for testing the significance of the difference in two correlated r's were first reviewed. A simple alternate procedure based on the familiar Fisher z was then suggested. This procedure, unlike its predecessors, is applicable to a wide range of problems involving tests between dependent correlations. It also has documented mathematical support when its power curves are examined. Since the procedure is asymptotic, a large sample size is required. The only other assumption is that the observations associated with the sample are drawn from a joint multivariate normal distribution.


The potential of diacylglycerols as vectors of carboxylic acids, designed to facilitate their passage through the intestinal (Garzon-Aburbeh et a1 1983, 1986) and haematoencephalic barriers (Jacob et a1 1985, 1987, 1990) has received considerable attention in recent years. Although the clinical usefulness of valproic acid as an antiepileptic drug is well-established (Bruni & Wilder 1979; Chapman et a1 1982), this compound suffers two major drawbacks: an early prominent plasma concentration peak (Gugler & von Unruh 1980) and various adverse sideeffects such as nausea, somnolence, tremor, decreased platelet function and hepatotoxicity (Haas & Bourgeois 1989). Some of these adverse effects may be related to this sharp concentration peak. Thus, a perturbation of the mitochondria1 function has been evidenced at similar concentration levels (Draye & Vamecq 1987). This problem may perhaps be overcome by designing prodrugs which would regulate the plasma concentrations and, optimally, would be endowed with a tropism for the central nervous system (CNS). In this connection and in view of the success met with diacylglycerol-GABA adducts (Jacob et a1 1985, 1987, 1990), we have explored the antiepileptic activity of similar prodrugs of valproic acid (1-3) (Fig. 1) with special emphasis on the determination of the time of maximal intensity of anticonvulsant action.


Citizen science is an important way of engaging a broad range of audiences in science inquiry by participating in research that asks novel questions and unearths new knowledge and new questioning. Though citizen science projects are quite diverse in their scientific pursuits, all projects share the common element of involving volunteers directly in some aspect of science inquiry. Thus, it is essential for citizen science projects to determine their participants' capacity to learn and successfully perform science inquiry skills, such as making scientific observations, collecting and analyzing data, and sharing findings. Such skill gains are essential to (a) ensure high quality data that can be used in meaningful scientific research, and (b) achieve broader goals such as developing a participant's identity as a contributor to science. However, we do not yet fully understand how improvement in participants' inquiry skills through citizen science advances our knowledge of public engagement with science. In this essay, we offer embedded assessment as an effective method to capture participant skill gains, and encourage citizen science leaders, evaluators, and researchers to develop authentic methods that address the complexities of measuring skill development within the context of citizen science.


This manuscript presents the low noise amplifier design and performance analysis of receiver RF front-end for narrowband wireless communications. The LNA is a central building block of the wireless receiver. A single-ended cascode CMOS LNA is purposeful for reconfigurable applications such as Wireless LAN. The scope of this manuscript is to design an LNA appropriate for wireless applications with improved performance metrics. The contributions of this paper are noise reduction and high gain using an inductive degeneration common source stage. The proposed LNA espouses the entire simulation results in the frequency band of 2.44GHz. The excellent Noise Figure obtained as 0.95dB; the preferable power gain (S21) is 17dB, also the results of P-1dB of -17.3dBm, IIP3 of -10.7dBm at 2.44GHz, respectively. However, the perfect input and output matching network is achieved with proper reverse shielding and excellent stability.


While digital technologies offer a host of new sonic possibilities, we are no longer dealing with the physical vibrations of strings, tubes and solid bodies as the sound source, but rather with the impalpable numerical streams of digital signal processing (DSP). As a result, when we perform with digital musical instruments (DMIs), we can no longer make use of haptic feedback provided through the body of the instrument itself. Furthermore, many DMIs are derived from interfaces designed for effortlessly smooth human-computer interaction. Here, however, the struggle afforded by the resistance and physical forces of acoustic instruments, which I will argue is integral to musical performance, is all but lost. This paper discusses the musical outcomes of an exploration into the use of a haptic interface as an instrument for the performance of digital music. I will argue that it is the reintroduction of these tangible forces that is crucial for the articulation and effectuation of sonic ideas. In particular, the instrument will be discussed in relation to the work Running Backwards, Uphill (2011) for piano trio and live electronics, where a potentially high level of sophistication of expression was required that would allow the laptop performer to embody the musical intentions of the piece.


This article focusses on the art of encapsulating flavors and fragrances into carrier materials, emphasizing the scientific challenges imposed by the particular nature of these essentially volatile encapsulants. The expected benefits of F&F delivery systems are discussed in terms
 of protection against ageing, enhanced impact during use and sustained release from substrates. Special attention is given to the preparation and use of hydrophilic delivery systems based on carbohydrates. The discussion is illustrated by selected applications of current delivery systems in
 the fields of flavor formulations and perfumed laundry care detergent powders.


Abstract Background: We aimed to examine the feasibility of our newly-developed, integrated, and high-intensity individual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) protocol for treatment-resistant chronic pain. Methods: We conducted an open-labeled prospective single-arm trial for patients aged 18 years and above, suffering from chronic pain, and diagnosed with somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain. We provided 16 weekly sessions of CBT, each lasting for 50 minutes, which included 4 new strategies: attention shift, memory work, mental practice, and video feedback. For comparison, the study had a pre-test post-test design. The primary outcome was the change from baseline (week 1) to 16, as indicated by the Numerical Rating Scale and Pain Catastrophizing Scale. In addition, we evaluated depression, anxiety, disability, and quality of life as secondary outcomes. Results: Sixteen patients with chronic pain underwent our CBT program. Though there was no reduction in pain intensity, catastrophic cognition showed statistically significant improvement with a large effect size. Depression, anxiety, and disability demonstrated statistically significant improvements, with small to moderate effect sizes. No adverse events were reported. Conclusion: Our newly integrated CBT program for chronic pain may improve catastrophic cognition, depression, anxiety, and disability. Large-scale randomized controlled studies are necessary to investigate the program's effectiveness in the future.


Up to now no uniform procedure and no generally accepted values exist for health evaluation of pollutants in soil. Aim of the working group for environmental hygiene (AGU) of the Bavarian Ministry of Labour and Social Order, Family, Women and Health is to propose health-based procedures and values for assessment, in consideration of existing concepts and regulations. Basis for health evaluation is the existence of appropriate soil investigations. This refers to the sampling scheme (sampling depth, sampling site and manner, number and representativity of samples) as well as sample preparation and analysis


The oxide layers developed during the oxidation of aluminium alloys containing 500 and 1000 PPM of magnesium at 850K were examined with the aid of electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis. The magnesium content of the oxide layers was relatively high because of the preferential depletion of the magnesium atoms from the base alloys. Near the outer surfaces of the oxide layers, spinel (MgAl2O4) was the predominant magnesium-bearing compound. At depth, MgO was more dominant. The preferential depletion of magnesium from the alloys injected vacancies into the material. This led to the formation of defect clusters. The presence of these defect clusters explains the experimental observations reported earlier by other researchers.


Approximately one‐third of children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) relapse, requiring re‐treatment and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Although achieving second complete remission (CR2) prior to HSCT is desirable, once CR2 is attained, it is unclear if there is any benefit from further chemotherapy prior to HSCT. Moreover, although pre‐HSCT minimal residual disease (MRD) has prognostic value in acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the benefit of MRD reduction after achieving CR prior to HSCT is less clear for AML.


To study the ultimate shear strength and failure modes of the shear studs for steel-concrete composite beam and steel-steel fiber concrete composite beam,the shear stud specimens of the two kinds of the composite beams were designed with reference to an actual steel-concrete composite bridge structure and the push-out tests for the ultimate shear strength of the specimens were made.In accordance with the results of the tests,the load~slip curves of the specimens were fitted,analyzed and compared to the shear capacity of the shear studs calculated in terms of the formulae in the different codes.The results of the analysis show that the ultimate shear capacity of the shear studs of the steel-steel fiber concrete composite beam is about 16% greater than that of the shear studs of the steel-concrete composite beam.The slipping values corresponding to the ultimate shear capacity of the former are about 2~2.5 times of the values of the latter.The failure characteristic of the steel-steel fiber concrete composite beam is that the shear studs of the beam are all cut off while the characteristic of the steel-concrete composite beam is that the concrete of the beam is cracked under compression.The shear capacity of the specimens obtained by the formulae in the different codes is all a little conservative.


The gelation of gelatin was studied in the presence of a polysaccharide, hyaluronic acid through rheology measurements. The influence of the polysaccharide on the obtaining of two different gel networks was evaluated: a chemical gel due to enzyme-catalyzed covalent bonding and of a physical gel due to triple helix formation induced by a temperature decrease were both formed in presence of hyaluronic acid. At the liquid state, the rheological properties (shear thinning/viscoelasticity) of the protein-polysaccharide mixture are dictated by the polysaccharide while gelatin modifies viscosity only from a quantitative point of view. Hyaluronic acid does not modify the gelation mechanism of gelatin. It is mainly present in the sol phase of the protein gel where it induces an entangled state which influences the overall viscoelasticity of the system. The impact of the polysaccharide enzymatic degradation on the mechanical properties of the mixture has been evaluated. Hyaluronidase allows a controlled modification of the loss modulus without affecting the storage modulus of gelatin gels. These experiments demonstrate that the mechanical properties of a mixed hydrogel can be a controlled through enzymatic remodeling.


The microstructure of ZnO powder, obtained from thermal decomposition of the oxalate and studied previously by electron microscopy and adsorption calorimetry, was investigated by means of X-ray powder diffraction pattern decomposition. A Williamson–Hall plot revealed that some lines were broadened solely due to the effects of crystallite size, whereas other breadths included a contribution due to stacking faults. Spherical and cylindrical models are used to describe the form of the crystallites and procedures are presented for separating 'size' effects from `mistake' broadening. This leads to estimates of the mean dimensions of the crystallites and the stacking-fault probability. The analysis demonstrates that, with good-quality data for a large number of reflections, a considerable amount of detailed information can be obtained about microstructure. On the other hand, it reveals some of the limitations of current procedures for modelling diffraction line profiles.


Global Communication Research should be (1) concerned about the transformation of society (hence: normative), (2) human-centered (hence: not driven by technological determinism), (3) truly global, and (4) focused on content and (human) rights. Therefore, (5) more participatory and qualitative communication research, (6) and monitoring and evaluation from the perspective of social relevance are needed.


A personal perspective and a narration by a patient and her Physician spouse caregiver regarding coping with evolution in therapeutic modalities including ongoing changing insulin formulations and insulin administration devices. Narration also encompasses and establishes the utility of the improving glycemic monitoring tools in assisting in attaining desirable glycemic goals.


By using the methods of the non parametric time series prediction we obtain that in the next ten days we will reach the size of 8000-9000 contagions in Italy.


A convenient methodology has been developed for the synthesis of substituted 2-amino-1,3,4-oxadiazoles from corresponding acylthiosemicarbazides using catalytic amount of iodine/KI in the presence of Oxone® as a bulk oxidant. This offers the advantage of short reaction times and substrate variability which is suitable for the rapid production of analogues required for lead optimisation programmes. The method could also be useful for large-scale synthesis because of the mild reaction conditions and the use commercially inexpensive and safe reagents.


In order to study the effect of poultry fat and soybean oil on growth performance and carcass quality of native chickens and broilers,Arbor Acres(AA) chickens and Beijing fatty (BF) chickens were fed with diet adding poultry fat and soybean oil. Growth performance,carcass quality (breast fat,colour and pH),and the content of free fatty acid and cholesterol in serum were determined. The results showed that there were no significant difference for performance,pH and colour of breast muscle and free fatty acid between BF chickens and AA chickens fed with poultry fat and soybean oil (P0.05). BF chickens had greater breast fat and cholesterol in serum than AA chickens (P0.05),and its cholesterol in serum of chickens fed with poultry fat was significantly higher than that of soybean oil(P0.001). It may be concluded that there was no difference on growth performance of native chickens and growth rapid broilers and carcass quality between poultry fat and soybean oil.


A neural network unit includes a butter, a plurality of neural processing units, and a plurality of start function units. The butter can use a control value to achieve programming. Each neural network processing unit includes an arithmetic logical unit and an accumulator, wherein the arithmetic logical unit performs arithmetic and logical operation on a series of operation numbers and accumulates results generated by operation to the accumulator to be used as an accumulation value. Each start function unit includes a first module, a second module and a multiplexer, wherein the first module performs a first function on the accumulation value to generate a first output, the second module performs a second function on the accumulation value to generate a second output, the first function is different from the second function, and the multiplexer receives the first output and the second output and selects one from the two outputs according to the control value programming the buffer.


Primary liver cancer is a tumor disease with extremely high malignant degree, and patients without distant metastasis should early accept radical operation. Current studies have found that intrahepatic metastases may be left behind in patients with surgical treatment after operation and lead to early postoperative tumor recurrence[1,2]. At present, many scholars have recommended preoperative adjuvant treatment to kill intrahepatic local metastases, reduce the malignant degree of tumor cells and provide favorable conditions for the operation, but the choice of specific auxiliary treatment is controversial. Radiofrequency ablation belongs to physical thermal coagulation, it was mostly used for the conservative treatment of middle-advanced malignant tumors in the past, and it is currently believed that it is also extremely valuable for patients with early and middle malignant tumors who accept surgical treatment, and can create favorable conditions for radical tumor resection[3,4]. In the following study, the effect of radiofrequencyassisted hepatectomy treatment of primary liver cancer on cancer cell apoptosis and normal liver tissue damage was analyzed.


The operation of urban traffic network remains a challenge in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) due to the intrinsic complexity of traffic systems. In this paper, for the sake of improving the network efficiency, we present a Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for urban traffic network based on hybrid systems, which formulates split control as an MPC problem. Theoretical results ensure convergence of iterations to a globally optimal solution. The framework is applied to the signaling split control of traffic network. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed framework, a comparative study on the ZhongGuanCun west region, Beijing was conducted using traffic simulation software. Findings indicate that the proposed control strategy is more efficient to reduce delay time and relieve traffic congestion of the whole traffic network when compared to the conventional fixed time control.


In recent years, with the development of Web2.0, opinion leaders on the Web go up onto the stage and lead the will of the people. Many time, government, private companies and even traditional news media need to understand the opinion leaders' ideas on the Web. Identifying opinion leaders and followers becomes a very important study. To study the characteristics of opinion leaders and the impact of opinion leaders on followers, our research evaluates whether every speaker in social media satisfies characteristics of opinion leader. The characteristics of opinion leader and relationship between opinion leader and follower are studied. By observing relational matrix, the interacting relations between users in social media are analysed and opinion leaders and followers are identified.


The twenty-three miniatures of the Ellesmere Canterbury Tales (San Marino, Huntington Library MS 26 C 9) have been well studied, from Edwin Ford Piper's 1924 descriptive article to several essays in the 1997 The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation, which was published in con junction with the sumptuous new facsimile of the manuscript and Mary C. Olson's chapter in Chaucer Illustrated.1 Among the issues debated over the decades has been the fidelity, or lack thereof, of the illustrations to the text. Piper, Martin Stevens, Malcolm Parkes, and A. I. Doyle have argued that the pictures are, in Stevens's words, "as faithful as possible to the verbal portraits."2 Conversely, Richard K Emmerson's close study of the miniatures denies that the artists attempted to reproduce Chaucer's verbal portraits. Olson concurs with Emmerson.3 Anyone who gives the Ellesmere miniatures more than a cursory glance must acknowledge that Emmerson and Olson are correct in stating that the artists' depictions deviate in varying degrees from Chaucer's descriptions. Such deviations generally do not detract from the pictures' ability to function as rubrics. On the contrary, the additions of the Physician's urinal, the Summoner's summons, the Reeve's keys, and the Clerk's books4 allow a reader to iden tify the characters quickly and so are included, even though (with the pos sible exception of the keys) they are inappropriate accoutrements to be carrying on horseback on a pilgrimage.5 Rendering images more easily recognizable was only one motivation for the artists' innovations, though. Taken together, the changes amount to a program seeking to deflect Chaucer's satire of the upper and upper-middle classes and of most of the religious figures while emphasizing the negative aspects of the lower orders. Whereas the text tends to the ambiguous and the equivocal, the illustrations consistently eliminate these qualities and instruct the reader/viewer in how to regard each pilgrim. The Ellesmere miniatures reveal that, within a decade of Chaucer's death, the Canterbury Tales was being turned into an icon of establishment values.


It was clear that there was little consensus among the panel with regard to the need for an informational chapter in USP on microbial classification of cleanrooms. The articulated positions of the individual panelists remained essentially unchanged throughout the session. What agreement was achieved was in a willingness to continue the dialogue, to await the outcome of the PDA activities cited above with the hope that a mutually acceptable compromise can be realized through that process.


The metabolism of testosterone-4-14C by the skin of Wistar rats was followed in three consecutive hair cycles. The major metabolites were Δ4-androstenedione and 5α-dihydrotestosterone; minor products were 5α-androstanedione, 3α-androstanediol, androsterone, epiandrosterone, and 3β-androstanediol. It was observed that the metabolism of testosterone fluctuated during the hair cycles in the hairy skin, but was without significant variations in glabrous skin. The 5α-reductase activity was examined by summing the 14C in the 5α-metabolites. When this activity was expressed in mg of DNA content of skin, an increase was observed in the resting phase of the hair cycle (telogen). The 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity was examined by summing the 14C in the 17-ketometabolites, and the maximal activity was found in the middle of the growing phase (anagen). (Endocrinology 89: 1506, 1971)


The behaviour of traders in a stock market is influenced by their attitude toward the risk of the security. In this research the internal model of the risk-averse and the risk-loving trader is proposed in the context of the artificial market. This model is based on the ideas of the expected utility hypothesis. It is important to model the difference in subjective value of the same stock because this difference enables market activities. The feature of the proposed model is that this model realizes the dynamic aspect of trader's preference in the risk and the return.


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A contents synchronization method comprises steps for: setting the synchronization policy; monitoring files and directories of a specific server in real time; checking whether there is content modification; performing said monitoring step again if there are no modification, but if there is modification, notifying to the CD Master server in real time that there is modification; confirming whether there is failure among the CD Master server, the CMS server, the CAS servers; selecting a contents routing path if there is modification; selecting a contents routing path if there is no modification; instructing a synchronization command to transmit said modified contents to target servers; transmitting the contents to target servers; notifying the transmission results; confirming whether there is a next contents routing path; performing said step for confirming again whether there is failure if there is a next contents routing path but completing the contents synchronization if there is no path.


—The problems of interval estimation and stabilization are studied for a class of generalized Persidskii systems. For this class of models with nonlinearities satisfying the incremental passivity property, the nonnegativity conditions are proposed and a nonlinear interval observer is synthesized. A nonlinear feedback is designed that uses the interval estimates. The conditions of stability of estimation and regulation errors are formulated using linear matrix inequalities. The efficiency of the proposed interval observer and controller is demonstrated for a recurrent neural network and a mechanical system with cubic nonlinearity.


The porous texture of oceanic manganese nodules was studied by analysis of adsorption-desorption nitrogen isotherms. The influence of calcination temperature on texture under nitrogen and hydrogen flows was determined.

The nodules are characterized by a very high specific area and could be a good catalyst for several reactions as hydrotreatment of heavy residues.


As early as the eleventh century, the Song dynasty of China, one scholar named Zhou Dunyi (1017–1073), had planted the lotus all over the poll in his home and wrote an article named Ode to A Lotus Flower. From then on, in the East Asian countries and regions, especially the ancient China, the lotus flower and its leaves are frequently compared to one's noble spirit and purity because of "live in the silt but not sullied". Zhou Dunyi was thus memorized by this ode and the sentence "live in the silt but not sullied" was also came down to people today from that time.


This guide provides lists of sources and links to online sources on the topic of Mahatma Gandhi, his life and political and social influence.


An attempt has been made to determine the mechanism by which glucagon produces degranulation of the acinar cells of the pancreas. By histologic examination, a progressive decrease in zymogen granules was found in sections of pancreas of rats treated with repeated injections of glucagon suspended in corn oil, reaching 75% degranulation at 12 hours, and 90 % at 18 hours. Fasting neither caused degranulation nor prevented degranulation after glucagon injection. Five hours after sc injection of glucagon in alkaline solution, a 33 % degranulation was found, and there was a 32% decrease in amylase concentration in the homogenates of these pancreases. Adrenalectomy, hypophysectomy or atropinization did not alter the degranulation after glucagon injection. In contrast, there was a 19% increase in the zymogen granules of pancreases of cortisone acetate- treated rats compared with the controls. The pancreatic ducts of rabbits were cannulated and the pancreatic juice was collected. No apparent difference was found b...


Objective: This study ended to detect the prevalence and public health important of Escherichia coli in chicken carcasses in Mansoura City.
Procedures: A total of 100 whole frozen chicken carcasses purchased from supermarkets distributed at Mansoura city were examined to detect Escherichia coli.
Results: Out of the 100 examined carcasses, 98 chicken carcasses were contaminated with Escherichia coli with an incidence rate 98%.
Conclusion and clinical relevance: This study revealed that chicken meat are highly contaminated with E. coli and play an important role in transmission of E. coli to human, therefore special precautions and hygienic measures must be applied in abattoir during evisceration and dressing of carcasses, and in-home during handling and cooking of chickens to protect consumers from E. coli foodborne infection.


The process section equipment layout and electrogalvanizing section main characteristics of continuous electrogalvanizing unit in Wugang were introduced.The capacity and products quality were ensured by advanced gravity groove,efficient 2-grades flash evaporating device and perfect electrogalvanizing circulatory system of the unit.


Precise measurements of physical macroscopic properties such as temperature dependencies of the spontaneous polarization, the tilt angle and the electric permittivity were performed (S)-4-(1-methyloctyloxycarbonyl)phenyl 4-octyloxybiphenyl-4'-carboxylate and their mixtures. Some of these results as well as the results of DSC and X-ray studies were presented by us earlier. On based above and calculations of molecular structure of investigated compounds the aim of this work was to explain the ability for induction an anticlinic SmCA phase in bicomponent mixtures composed of these.


San Francisco has often been understood as the gold standard when it comes to sustainable cities. It has an impressive waste recycling rate (currently exceeding 80 percent in its landfill diversion rate) and has set the ambitious goal of reaching zero waste. It has a long history of supporting solar and renewable energy and has formally adopted the precautionary principle, using it to do such things as shift away from the use of pesticides and herbicides for vegetation management in its parks and natural areas. It has also has been participating in our Biophilic Cities Project as a partner city for several years.


ABS (Anti-lock Brake System), TCS (Traction Control System), ESP (Electronic Stability Program) are the brake system which make vehicles more be safety. In order to fulfill the control of vehicle, those systems use a fluid control system ABS consists of several parts such as HU (Hydraulic Unit), ECU and sensors. Especially, solenoid valves operate the fluid pressure control by magnetic force. Generally, the high pressure is worked on hydraulic unit including solenoid valves. In order to shield between sleeve and housing which play an important part in solenoid valve, Nd:YAG laser welding was performed Welding parnmeter such as power, welding speed, repetition rate, pulse width were varied in this experiment The optimwn welding condition observed 47W power, 3.5 ms pulse width, 12 Hz frequencies. Hot cracks that have an effect on a mechanical performance were not observed in the weld metal. Burst test showed that all welded specimens were satisfied at the specification of solenoid valve.


Because of aging, the chronic disease is increasing. They take medicine on time and need to measure the body condition. For effective treatment, The medication information and measured data are to be send to the server over the network. With a management system, It can easily manage this information. In this paper, I propose a LoRa based chronic disease management system that has a low power consumption and long-range communication.


Substrate clogging in subsurface wastewater infiltration system (SWIS) is a significant problem that affects hydraulic capacity and operational performance. The mechanisms for substrate clogging were reviewed. The factors affecting substrate clogging were discussed as well. The strategy to ease and prevent substrate clogging phenomena was put forward.


Introduction: There are different ways to evaluate the condition of the fetus during pregnancy. Counting fetal movements is the only way that the mother can use to check the health of the fetus without the need for a doctor and equipment. Fetal movements normally vary between 4 and 122 movements per hour. Awareness of fetal movements can aid in preventing stillbirths. Materials and Methods: In this study, the term "reduction of fetal movement" referred to cases where pregnant mothers felt less than 12 fetal movements in two hours while at rest and focused on counting. The sample of this study was collected from pregnant women who reported reduced fetal movements and were referred to Al-Zahra Hospital in Tabriz between December 2022 to December 2023. Results: In this study, 881 pregnant women between the ages of 18 and 42, with a mean age of 26.65, were included. The average age of these women was 26.61 years. In this study, 99.1% of the participants had a normal non-stress test (NST), and 92.8% had a normal biophysical profile (BPP). However, there were eight cases where the BPP results were not reported. Oligohydramnios was present in 10.6% of the patients. 19.7% of the mothers underwent a cesarean delivery. 6.3% of the neonates were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) following birth. Only one case of stillbirth occurred. We have discovered a correlation between a lower amniotic fluid index (AFI) and a lower BPP. There was a correlation between lower BPP scores and lower Apgar scores at the first and fifth minutes after birth. Lower AFI was found to be correlated with a lower pH in the placental artery. Conclusions: According to our results, it can be concluded that a mother's complaint of reduced fetal movement can be a valuable test to determine the health status of the fetus.


Cleavage, or activation, of the silicon-hydrogen bond of a silane by a metal center has been the focus of many recent studies.1-6 Knowledge of this type of reaction is relevant to the central ideas of chemical bonding in general and is essential to the development of catalytic reactions such as hydrosilation. It is commonly accepted that the photochemical reaction for the oxidative addition of Et3SiH (Et ) C2H5) to CpMn(CO)3 (Cp ) C5H5) begins with the loss of a CO ligand as the result of UV irradiation, producing a coordinatively unsaturated dicarbonyl species7,8 which further reacts to activate the Si-H bond to form CpMn(CO)2(H)(SiEt3). Due to the fast reaction rates, however, the detailed reaction mechanism including the initial solvation of the nascent photogenerated chemical species has remained unclear. With the advent of ultrafast spectroscopy, especially in the infrared, it is now possible to identify such events which occur on a time scale shorter than diffusion to reveal the underlying elementary reaction steps.9 In this communication, we report the first ultrafast infrared study on silicon-hydrogen bond cleavage by CpMn(CO)3. As a result of photodissociating one CO ligand,10 the kinetics of the parent molecule recorded at 2028 cm-1 (A, Figure 1) shows an instrument limited bleach, 31% of which recovers in 32 ( 7.4 ps (Figure 2A).12 This rapid recovery of the parent bleach is due to vibrational relaxation in the ground electronic manifold of the parent molecule.9,13,14 The 31% recovery is in good agreement with reported CO loss quantum yields of 0.65 measured at 313-nm excitation.15 Subsequent spectral evolution suggests that photolysis of the parent molecules leads to two transient species including η-CpMn(CO)2 and a previously unreported intermediate. These reactive intermediates are solvated within a few picoseconds.16 The initial solvation of the nascent species through either the ethyl moiety or the Si-H bond of the solvent partitions the reaction into two channels of


Abstract : In order to understand high frequency wave propagation, precise methods of generation of synthetic seismograms are required. This report examines the trapezoidal integration rule used by Bouchon to evaluate Hankel transforms of the Sommerfeld kernel. Numerical problems arise for integrals of some J sub 0 (kr) functions. A modification of the numerical integration technique, using a shifter mid-point rectangular rule rather than a trapezoidal rule alleviates some of the problem. For calibration of numerical integration techniques, the Haskell solution for point sources in a wholespace are extended. Keywords: Synthetic seismograms; and Numerical integration.


MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a crucial role in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression, and have already been associated with 160+ diseases. With the small sizes of miRNAs (19–25 nt) and the increasing number of human miRNAs (>2000) being reported, the accurate detection of a specific miRNA has continued to be a challenging issue. In this report, a new concept for improving the accuracy of direct mass spectrometric (MS) measurements of miRNAs is introduced. The concept aims at creating a unique signature in the mass spectrum of miRNA. To achieve this goal, one way is to capture a specific miRNA by using a complementary DNA probe. The miRNA is then eluted and digested with a specific endonuclease. The digested miRNA fragments are directly measured by using MS. The multiple peaks that correspond to the digested miRNA fragments are collectively defined as a mass signature of the miRNA being analyzed. Since the peak pattern is dependent on the intrinsic property, i.e. RNA sequence, of a specific miRNA, it is referred to as an intrinsic mass signature. Alternatively, a unique mass signature can be created by incorporating one or more extra nucleotides into the 3′ end of miRNA and the extended miRNA is measured by using MS. The molecular mass of the extended miRNA, which is defined as an extended mass signature, is expected to be different from the other miRNAs within the same sample. In comparison to matching the measured molecular mass of an undigested or unextended miRNA molecule to the expected molecular mass, the two different approaches to create a unique mass signature can improve the accuracy on qualitative MS detection of a specific miRNA.


Abstract : On 5 November 2002, an armed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) launched a lethal missile strike, killing Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, a high ranking al-Qaeda member and suspected architect of the USS Cole bombing, in an isolated and sparsely populated region within Yemen. This missile strike appears to have initiated a new and highly controversial phase in the Global War on Terror; moving "the Bush administration away from the law enforcement-based tactics of arrests and detentions of al-Qaeda suspects that it had employed outside Afghanistan in the months since the fighting there had ended." Since the 2002 Yemen strike US officials have acknowledged "at least 19 occasions since September 11th on which Predators have successfully fired Hellfire missiles on terrorist suspects overseas." While it is uncertain how many unacknowledged strikes the US has conducted, "now that al-Qaeda has decentralized its operations around the globe, it's likely that the war against the network will assume an increasingly covert nature, involving intelligence cooperation and targeted strikes against al-Qaeda suspects rather than major conventional military offensives." This monograph examines the prohibition on assassination embodied within Executive Order 12333 and its effect on a U.S. policy of targeted killing of transnational terrorist leadership. Next this monograph will examine the numerous interpretations of applicable international law regarding terrorism and the states response. This examination will contrast the law enforcement model proposed by adherents of international humanitarian law, with international humanitarian law and the law of war model advocated by those who see the current 'war on terror' as an armed conflict between states and trans-national terrorists. Given the level of secrecy and lack of transparency i


The decrease of spin polarization in spintronics devices under the application of a bias voltage is one of a number of currently important problems that should be solved. Here, an unprecedented robustness of the spin polarization in multilayer‐graphene spin valves at room temperature is revealed. Surprisingly, the spin polarization of injected spins is constant up to a bias voltage of +2.7 V and −0.6 V in positive‐ and negative‐bias voltage applications at room temperature, respectively, which is superior to all spintronics devices. This finding is induced by suppression of spin scattering due to an ideal‐interface formation. Furthermore, an important accordance between theory and experiment in molecular spintronics is found by observing the fact that the signal intensity in a local scheme is double that in a nonlocal scheme, as theory predicts, which provides construction of a steadfast physical basis in this field.


The perspectives of Bhagavad Gita Karma yoga and Gandhian Trusteeship Theory are foundation of Corporate Social Responsibility in Indian history. The purpose this paper is to study the driving principles of Gandhian Trusteeship and Bhagavad Gita Karma yoga caused for evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility. The researcher proposes to verify his reverent objectives resulting from his thoughts on Karma yoga, which compelled him to think that one could enjoy ones acquired wealth by surrendering it. Convinced by such ethical temperament, Gandhiji contended that it is the certain process to develop a new demand of life for entire advantage of public in the world as contrast to which all of us live for ourselves without respect to what transpires to our neighbors. As well the researcher investigates the Bajaj Group, one of India's major conglomerates, has historically continuously applied and used Gandhi's principle of trusteeship. We also discuss how the Bajaj Group, a leading Indian corporation, has practiced trusteeship.


To improve the capability of the ISFETs for measuring pNa and pK in living bodies, the ion selectivity of its sensor M2O-Al2O3-SiO2 (MAS, where M is an alkali metal) glass membrane was studied. The MAS membrane has been used as an ion-sensitive membrane of pNa and pK glass electrode and it has been known that its selectivity depends on the composition of the MAS membrane. To obtain the maximum ion selectivity of the pNa and pK ISFET, the relationship between the ion selectivity and the composition of the MAS membrane was investigated by measuring the ion selectivity over various compositions. It was confirmed that the selectivity of the MAS gate ISFET between Na+ ions and K+ ions depends on both the kind of alkaline cation and the ratio of the alkali metal to aluminum in the MAS membrane. As a result, the best composition of ion-sensitive membranes for pNa and pK ISFET was determined. A pNa ISFET was obtained which uses the LAS membrane containing Li as the alkali metal and has a selectivity of about 200 times for Na+ ions against K+ ions with a low output-voltage drift and a long life. A pK ISFET also was obtained which uses a KAS membrane containing K and has a selectivity of about 40 times for K+ ions against Na+ ions.


The parameters relevant for the choice of an appropriate linguistic theory are discussed as well as the required qualities of the individual linguistic approaches, some of which seem to offer effective and economical means even for very complex tasks


Objective: To identify trends in the quality of otology studies published in general otolaryngology journals over a 20-year period. Study Design: Retrospective analysis. Methods: Otologic and neurotologic papers from 1997, 2007, and 2017 were identified in the three general otolaryngology journals with the highest Eigenfactor scores: the Laryngoscope, European Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, and Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. The studies were reviewed and assigned level of evidence (LoE) based on standards set by the Centres for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM). One-way analysis of variance were calculated with a 95% bootstrap sensitivity analysis performed. Results: A total of 786 otology articles were reviewed for level of evidence, of which 557 (70.8%) were original, clinical research, eligible for LoE assignation. Total publications increased for each year in all three journals. Both the absolute number and proportion of high evidence studies (level of evidence 1 and 2) increased with respect to time in all three journals. Lower evidence studies (level of evidence 3, 4, or 5) made up 66.8% of total publications in 2017. There was a reduction in average level of evidence (towards higher quality evidence) by 0.431 units from 1997 to 2017 (Diff = –0.431 between 1997 and 2017, p < 0.001). There was no significant difference in rate of change of level of evidence between 1997 and 2007 and 2007 and 2017 (0.033, p = 0.864). Conclusion: Over a 20-year period the number of total publications increased with time. The majority of otology publications in 2017 were lower evidence studies, though significant increases in the number and proportion of high evidence studies in general otolaryngology journals were observed throughout the study period.


Nitrate in drinking water is a harmful component to human health.Nanoscale zero-valent iron(NZVI) with 20~40 nm size and Brunauer Emmett Teller(BET) surface area of 49.16 m2/g was synthesized in the laboratory for removal of nitrate from water.Batch experiments were conducted to investigate the denitrification kinetics of NZVI and the factors affecting the denitrification of nitrate such as pH,NZVI dosage as well as the initial nitrate concentration.Experimental results suggest that the low pH value is more favorable for nitrate reduction.Additional,the test results also showed that in certain limits the reduction rate of nitrate increased with increase of NZVI dosage and decreased with increase of initial concentration of nitrate.The dynamics equation for the pseudo first order reaction was obeyed.Surface adsorption and redox reaction were the principal removal mechanism during the denitrification of nitrate by NZVI.Possible reaction ways for nitrate reduction by NZVI were also discussed.The products from nitrate reduction depended upon the reaction condition.Under the condition of this study,the final product from nitrate reduction did not N2 but NH+4-N.More studies should be conducted to prevent or solve this problem.


The value of supervision for clinical staff is well recognised. Less attention has been paid to the professional development of senior mental health managers. This article makes recommendations for the development of a strategy to ensure managers are supported in addressing the complex issues they face


Specific leaf area (SLA), the ratio of leaf area to leaf weight, is an important plant characteristic that affects the rate of dry matter production of crop canopies. It is affected by the conditions of growth of both isolated plants and crop communities, but the extent to which various environmental factors impact on SLA under field conditions is not clearly understood. This study was conducted to study the variability in SLA of leaves on the main culm, and in the leaf canopy as an entity, under different conditions of photoperiod, nitrogen and temperature for a number of wheat genotypes grown under field conditions. Five plantings at approximately bimonthly intervals on 12 May, 5 July and 22 September 1993; and on 9 June and 10 August 1994 were made under both natural photoperiod and an extended photoperiod of 20 h. A split plot design with two levels of nitrogen (0 kg N ha−1 and 150 kg N ha−1) as main plots and four genotypes of wheat comprising two spring types (Norseman and Roblin) and two winter typ...


This article introduced the background,the methods and outcomes of the research into the design principles for German citizens' gardens.And a road map of the methodology of "research through design",which is employed in this research,is concluded and reviewed.The differences between the design actions in this research road map and common design projects were identified as conceptualization and contextualization.After the introduction on German design research case,it was argued in this article that the advantages and features based on the practices of landscape architectural design in China could offer further questions and contributions to the development of design research.


The softness of a gel made of crosslinked HA (HA = hyaluronic acid) depends onthree factors. One is the amount of free hyaluronic acid in the gel. Another is thedensity of the crosslinked network, which is the molecular entanglements in the gel.The third is the total concentration of HA. In this project a rheometer is used to measure the rheological properties by runningthe following tests: time sweep, frequency sweep and amplitude sweep. From theobtained data, parameters related to viscous properties (G'') and elastic properties(G') of the gels were observed. 27 different compositions of gels with three differentconcentrations (35 mg HA/g, 25 mg HA/g, 15 mg HA/g), three different gel contents(100%, 90%, 80%) and three different densities of crosslinked network (A, B, C) wereanalyzed. To draw further conclusions an analysis of extrusion force was performedas well. The results from the frequency sweeps show that the loss tangent for a gel increasedas the total concentration of HA was reduced and that the loss tangent for a gelincreased as the gel content was decreased. This indicates that the gels become moreviscous when either the concentration of HA or the gel content was decreased. Anincrease in concentration of HA results in an increase of G' and an increase of gelcontent also results in an increase of G'. The results from the amplitude sweeps showthat xG' (xG' = storage modulus at the crossover point between G' and G'') increasesas either the concentration of HA or the gel content is increased. For xStrain (xStrain= deformation of the gel at the crossover point) and xStress (xStress = the stressapplied to the gel at the crossover point) no clear trend can be seen regarding the gelcontent. But an increase in concentration of HA results in an increase of both xStrainand xStress. The results from the analysis of extrusion force show that an increase intotal concentration HA increases the force.


An outbreak of congenital malformations in swine occurred in Warren County, Missouri, during the late spring and summer of 1968. Sows which farrowed malformed offspring were bred and spent their gestation cycle in one pasture. Sows in an adjacent pasture bred by the same boar during the same period, farrowed only normal offspring. Field observation and epidemiologic studies indicate that the cause of the malformations was environmental in nature rather than hereditary. A comparison of the critical time period of exposure and environmental factors suggest an association between the malformations and consumption of wild black cherries (Prunus serotina) by the pregnant sows. Other environmental factors which might have contributed to the cause of the outbreak are discussed.


We investigate the infrared (IR) emission of high-redshift (z ∼ 6), highly star-forming (SFR > 100 M yr −1) galaxies, with/without Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), using a suite of cosmological simulations featuring dust radiative transfer. Synthetic Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) are used to quantify the relative contribution of stars/AGN to dust heating. In dusty (Md & 3 × 10 M ) galaxies, & 50-90% of the UV radiation is obscured by dust inhomogeneities on scales & 100 pc. In runs with AGN, a clumpy, warm (≈ 250 K) dust component co-exists with a colder (≈ 60 K) and more diffuse one, heated by stars. Warm dust provides up to 50% of the total IR luminosity, but only . 0.1% of the total mass content. The AGN boosts the MIR flux by 10 − 100× with respect to star forming galaxies, without significantly affecting the FIR. Our simulations successfully reproduce the observed SED of bright (MUV ∼ −26) z ∼ 6 quasars, and show that these objects are part of complex, dust-rich merging systems, containing multiple sources (accreting BHs and/or star forming galaxies) in agreement with recent HST and ALMA observations. Our results show that the proposed ORIGINS missions will be able to investigate the MIR properties of dusty star forming galaxies and to obtain good quality spectra of bright quasars at z ∼ 6. Finally, the MIR-to-FIR flux ratio of faint (MUV ∼ −24) AGN is > 10× higher than for normal star forming galaxies. This implies that combined JWST/ORIGINS/ALMA observations will be crucial to identify faint and/or dust-obscured AGN in the distant Universe.


There were two objectives in this study. First was to find out the types of social action performed by Peter Parker both as himself and his other identity as the hero, Spider-Man. In this objective, Weber's types of social action was used to find out Peter Parker's types of social action. Meanwhile, the second was to explore the way Peter Parker behaved in his front-stage as the Spider-Man and in his back-stage as his true self. Goffman's dramaturgy theory was used to explore Peter Parker's behaviours in his front and back stages. The form of this study was a qualitative research for this study used words as its data taken from Spider-Man 1 (2002) film script. The result of this study showed that there were four types of social action performed by Peter Parker and his behaviours during the two stages were based on his two different identites, as the real Peter Parker and as the Spider-Man. Peter Parker performed four types of Weber's social action: (1) rational instrumental social action; (2) rational value social action; (3) affective social action; and (4) traditional social actions. Peter Parker's behaviours were divided according to which stage he was playing at the moment. In his front-stage, Peter Parker behaved according to his role as the hero, Spider-Man. While, in his back-stage, Peter Parker behaved as his real and usual self, the photographer. Terdapat dua tujuan dalam penelitian ini. Pertama untuk mencari tahu mengenai tipe-tipe tindakan sosial yang dilakukan oleh Peter Parker baik sebagai dirinya sendiri maupun sebagai seorang pahlawan bernama Spider-Man. Dalam tujuan yang pertama, teori Weber mengenai tipe-tipe tindakan sosial digunakan untuk mencari tahu tipe-tipe tindakan sosial apa yang dilakukan oleh Peter Parker. Disisi lain, tujuan yang kedua yaitu untuk mengekplorasi bagaimana Peter Parker berperilaku dalam front-stage (panggung depan) sebagai Spider-Man dan back-stage (panggung belakang) sebagai dirinya sendiri. Teori dramaturgi milik Goffman digunakan untuk mengeksplorasi perilaku Peter Parker dalam dua panggung miliknya, panggung depan dan belakang. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif yang menggunakan kata-kata sebagai datanya yang diambil dari skrip film Spider-Man 1 (2002). Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan terdapat empat tipe tindakan sosial yang dilakukan oleh Peter Parker dan bentuk perilakunya berdasarkan dua identitas berbeda yang dimiliki Peter Parker yaitu sebagai Peter Parker yang biasanya dan sebagai si pahlawan Spider-Man. Peter Parker melakukan empat tipe tindakan sosial seperti yang dijelaskan oleh Weber: (1) tindakan sosial instrumental rasional; (2) tindakan sosial nilai rasional; (3) tindakan sosial afektif; dan (4) tindakan sosial tradisional. Perilaku Peter Parker dibagi berdasarkan panggung mana yang akan ia mainkan perannya. Di panggung depannya, Peter Parker berperilaku sesuai dengan perannya sebagai si pahlawan Spider-Man. Sementara itu, di panggung belakangnya, Peter Parker berperilaku sebagai dirinya yang biasanya dam sebagai seorang fotografer.


The utility model belongs to Tea Production equipment technical field, particularly a kind of tea conveyance machine.This tea conveyance machine comprises frame, load-transfer device and motor, and described frame is provided with feeder hopper and discharge bucket, and be provided with tension wheel and lower belt wheel bottom described frame, top is provided with upper belt-wheel; Described upper belt-wheel is connected with described tension wheel and lower belt wheel by load-transfer device, and described motor is arranged on the middle part of frame, and the motor shaft of this motor is fixed with middle belt wheel, and described middle belt wheel is connected with upper belt-wheel by belt; Be provided with blower fan above described load-transfer device, the bottom of described frame is provided with roller.This tea conveyance machine structure design advantages of simple, easy to operate, transport efficiency is high, and screening tealeaves is meticulousr, improves production efficiency.


We study covariant equations in quantum cosmology of an extended minisuperspace obtained by the Eisenhart lift. We find that a Dirac-type equation is naturally introduced in the extended minisuperspace. Explicit forms of the fundamental solutions are yielded for specific models. The possible further development in this direction is also discussed.


To explain formation of large hailstones, which cause serious damages to aircraft, current theories regarding the formation and growth of hailstones are reviewed in the light of observed structure of hailstones and physical conditions inside large convective clouds.  The role played by updraft is discussed in detail.  Following Schumann (1938) an equation is give for the ultimate diameter of a hailstone in terms of updraft velocity, concentration of condensed water at temperatures below 0oC, average density of the hailstone and the depth of fall above the freezing level.  Substitution of mean as well as extreme values of the different parameters involved in the equation seem to show that hailstones of sizes 10-12 cm in diameter would not be infrequent in the tropics although an extreme size of 18 cm in diameter would certainly be a rare occurrence.  Observed damages to aircraft by hailstones suggest impact at low angles of elevation and this is explained by a consideration of relative fall velocity (terminal velocity-updraft velocity) and the speed of aircraft. The meteorological problem of forecasting hailstorms is discussed and it is concluded that in the present state of our knowledge safety considerations would demand a more reliable guide to aviators, viz., an airborne radar which can provide early warning of severe hailstorm cells while in flight.


Considering that a number of studies have demonstrated that satisfaction is not always accompanied by loyalty, the company began to shift the paradigm of its business strategy to focus on consumer loyalty as a foundation for understanding how to maintain its brand equity. Despite high levels of consumer satisfaction, businesses are beginning to observe customer loss. This study sought to investigate the impact of brand equity variables on iPhone customer satisfaction and loyalty in Bandar Lampung. The data utilized in this study are primary data obtained from the responses to a questionnaire administered to respondents. There were 130 participants in this study's sample. The sampling procedure employs purposive sampling, a technique for determining the selection based on the researcher-specified criteria. This study employs the Structural Equation Model (SEM) with the Partial Least Square (PLS) technique and the SmartPls 4.0 application for its analysis. According to the findings of this study, perceived quality, perceived cost value, brand identification, brand trust, and lifestyle alignment have a significant impact on consumer satisfaction variables. The customer satisfaction variable has a significant effect on the customer loyalty variable as well.


In this paper we enhanced poor illuminated low contrast image and sharpen the foreground part using stochastic resonance (SR). Noise generally hinders communication system. But by using SR image, performance is improved by adding noise. At an optimum noise level SNR performance become appreciable. Literally this pixel dynamics concepts adopts particle mechanics following Benzi'sbistable model. Feature is extracted from the foreground content of the image. DSR is a spatial domain approach. DSR is iteratively applied on the modified Value matrix of the transformed HSV image of the original image and the modified value matrix is obtained from the extracted feature of the input image. Optimum output is obtained by computing performance matrices like Relative Perceptual Quality Metric (PQM), Relative Contrast Enhancement Factor (F), Colour enhancement factor (CEF). This technique significant improves contrast, sharpening, colour and perceptual quality.


A lower-cost high-sensitivity high-resolution Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) camera is developed. It consists of two detector modules with the planar detector bank of 12×20 cm2. Each bank has 60 low-cost PMT-Quadrant-Sharing (PQS) blocks arranged in a 10×6 array with two types of geometries. One is the symmetric 19.36×19.36 mm2 block made of 1.5×1.5×10 mm3 LYSO crystals in 12×12 array. The other is the 12×13 asymmetric elongated block made of 1.5×1.9×10 mm3 crystals. One row (10) of the elongated blocks are used along one side of the bank to reclaim the half empty PMT photocathode in the regular PQS design to reduce the dead area at the edge of the module. The bank has a high overall crystal packing fraction of 88%, which results in a very high sensitivity. Mechanical design and electronics have been developed for low-cost, compactness and stability. Each module has four Anger-HYPER decoding electronics that can handle a count-rate of 3 Mcps for singles. A simple two-module coincidence board with a hardware delay window for accidental events has been developed with an adjustable window of 6–15 ns. Some of the performance parameters have been studied by preliminary tests and simulations, including the decoding quality and energy resolution of the detectors, and the point source sensitivities, spatial resolutions and phantom images of the whole system.


Memcapacitor is similar with the memristor, it is the passive electronic component with memory, reserving data even power is off, so it has wide promising applications in different areas. This paper addresses a memcapacitor model, discusses its properties with data reading, data storing, charging and discharging, designs the circuits about data reading and storing, a series of simulation results verify the effectiveness of this circuits, apply in the memcapacitor to the single-phase bridge rectifier circuit, The output wave of memcapacitor-based single-phase bridge rectifier circuit is better than the ecumenical capacitor.


Nature-based systems are efficiently designed and are able to respond to many system requirements such as scalability, adaptability, self-organization, resilience, robustness, durability, reliability, self-monitoring, selfrepair, and many others. Using nature's examples as guidepost, there is a unique platform for developing more environmentally sustainable products and systems. This position paper makes a case for an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable design and development. This paper suggests that the design should not only mimic natural behaviours but should benefit from natural phenomenon (e.g, wind turbines). The paper proposes a conceptual modeling system framework, whereby physical products and systems are designed and modeled with the added benefit of how similar systems work in nature. Developing such a system in nontrivial and requires an interdisciplinary approach. To realize this system will require a merging of analytical and computational models of nature systems and human-made systems into a single information system. In this position paper, we discuss the framework at a birds-eye view.


Aspirin was synthesized with using sodium acetate as the catalyst. The dosage of the catalyst, the reaction time and temperature which had effects on the yield of aspirin was studied. The results showed that sodium acetate had better catalytic activity, when the dosage of sodium acetate in the system was 3%, reaction temperature was 55℃, reaction time was 50min, and the yield of aspirin could reach 81.9%. The synthesis process of benorilate which taken aspirin and acetaminophen as raw materials was improved and the effect of different solvents on the yield of benorilate was in vestigated. The yield of benorilate was up to 90% in the system of toluene-water medium.


We begin this number with a whirlwind tour of contests f r om the four corners of the globe. My thanks go to Richard Nowakowski, Canadian Team Leader at the IMO in Buenos Aires, who collected all four sets for our use. We start the tour in Finland.


One of the features of artificial intelligence/machine learning-based medical devices resides in their ability to learn from real-world data. The performance may change after the market introduction. There are many aspects that contribute to the performance change relative to the real-world training data, such as the number and disease ratio. In actual clinical practice, the ratio of obtained training data varies from country to country, from region to region within each country, and from one hospital to another. Therefore, establishing a pre-change control plan at a premarket stage is essential to achieve safety and effectiveness through total product life cycles. In our previous work, we evaluated the performance change on the binary classification of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and normal with the number of training data using two publicly large available chest X-ray (CXR) images. However, these results were obtained with the same ratio in the training data. Thus, this study aims to evaluate the performance change with a non-uniform ratio of COVID-19 CXR images based on the results of previous studies. We used the AlexNet and ResNet34 with and without the fine-tuning method as convolutional neural network (CNN) models. A total of 500, 1000, and 2000 CXR images were selected as training and validation datasets. These datasets represent states in which the performance change improves rapidly and those in which an equilibrium state is reached. Each dataset was divided into seven datasets, and the area under the curve was employed to evaluate the performance change for each dataset through independent 1000 test datasets with the same ratio. Our result shows that all performances indicate that there is an upward convex relationship to the ratio of COVID-19 CXR images, and the vertex is where the ratio is the same. This trend was remarkable for the rapidly improving state and the CNNs without a fine-tuning method. Moreover, the visual explanations technique called Grad-CAM for interpreting classification results of CNN models support these results.


This is the best practice report of the HIA of the West Cumbria's two neighbourhood management initiative areas (NMIAs). Conducted by Ruth Willis, Director of Public Service Delivery,West Cumbria Strategic Partnership. The HIA was commissioned from the School of Applied Social Science at Durham University in 2007. The aims of the HIA were to: • assess the impact of current programmes in health and other areas • make recommendations to enhance future positive impacts on the health of the population. The report looks at what was learnt from the HIA, what the outcomes were and how it could have been improved.


In addition to defining the concepts of community education and the community school, the author covers the basic tenets as well as many of the misconceptions regarding the subject.


A key objective in the management of modern computer systems consists in minimizing the electrical energy consumed by processing resources while satisfying certain target performance criteria. In this paper, we consider the execution of a single task with unknown size on top of a service system that offers a limited number of processing speeds, say $N$, and investigate the problem of finding a speed profile that minimizes the resulting energy consumption subject to a deadline constraint. Existing works mainly investigated this problem when speed profiles are continuous functions. In contrast, the novelty of our work is to consider discontinuous speed profiles, i.e., a case that arises naturally when the underlying computational platform offers a finite number of speeds. In our main result, we show that the computation of an optimal speed profile boils down to solving a convex optimization problem. Under mild assumptions, for such convex optimization we prove some structural results that yield the formulation of an extremely efficient solution algorithm. Specifically, we show that the optimal speed profile can be computed by solving $O(\log N)$ one-dimensional equations. Our results hold when the task size follows a known probability distribution function and the set of available speeds, if listed in increasing order, forms a sublinear concave sequence.


Culture, language, ethnicity, race, and national origin are related concepts by which individuals are assigned to social groups, but they are not one and the same. For example, persons of African descent living in the Caribbean, Latin America, Nigeria, South Africa, or the United States may be classified as falling within the same racial category, but they belong to different cultural groups. Jamaican or Haitian families living in California may be lumped into the same racial or ethnic category as Black or African American families that have lived in the United States for generations. Although language, ethnicity, and national origin may be associated with culture, none of them alone define a specific cultural group. For example, Spanish speakers in Europe, Mexico, Africa, Central or South America, and the United States share a language with common features, but may have divergent cultures and self-identify with different racial groups.


Background and Significance Suicide is one of three leading causes of death in the US and individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) are at risk. However, suicide prevention can be complicated in ID populations living in group homes. Purpose and Objective The purpose of the project was to identify the group home staff's self-efficacy and educational needs related to suicide prevention in the ID group home population. Theoretical Framework The Social Cognitive theory was used to underscore this study. This theory suggests that training can increase personal self-efficacy in relation to clinical issues. Project Methods and Design Group home staff and on call nurses participated in a focus group designed to determine their self-efficacy and needs for suicide prevention in group homes. A thematic analysis was used to identify these needs for their clinical setting.


The invention discloses an alarm indication circuit which comprises a 555 timer, a triode T, a horn RL, multiple LED lamps, multiple diodes and three fusing branches, wherein the fuse wires BX1, BX2 and BX3 are respectively connected on the three fusing branches, one end of each fusing branch is connected with the positive electrode of a 12V power source, the positive electrode of the 12V power source is connected with the emitter of the triode T, the signal input end of the 555 timer and the horn RL, the horn RL is sequentially connected with the capacitance C2 and the output end Vout of the 555 timer, and the collector of the triode T is sequentially connected with the resistance R5 and the signal triggering end EN of the 555 timer in series. The alarm indication circuit is applied to the power source system of multiple branches power supply, can accurately indicate whether the disconnection occurs on a certain branch, and is more convenient to use since the inspection is conducted under the condition that other branch power supply is ensured.


Offshore platforms are considered among the most significant structures in the world that humans have ever built, having to function in a wide range of extremely challenging environments and have a major impact on the economy and industrial progress of countries. It is extremely important to properly plan, design, construct, transport and install such offshore structures. In the absence of commitment to this, the consequences could be severe in both economic and environmental terms. An overview of offshore structures is presented in this paper, and its purpose is to offer a consistent vision for the various types of offshore structures to be used for the extraction of oil and gas. In addition, the paper focuses on the expected accidents that may occur during and after construction. Accidents do not only cover the difficult environment where these structures are to be built, but they also cover the impact of climate change on these structures. The approach considered in this paper involves a systematic literature review that deals with reviewing different studies done on the similar research topic. The results found in this study determined that the type of offshore structure to be built or fixed at a particular location in water, depends mainly on the water depth and also on the past and present environmental records. Nonetheless, the outcomes of this study are still general; thus, further studies have to be completed in order to acquire more advanced knowledge in this particular field.


This article examines the recent emergence of cookbooks written for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. The cookbooks are health promotion initiatives, developed through a desire to improve the health status of Indigenous Australians. They focus on nutritious, family meals that can be cooked on a low budget. In this article, the authors argue that the cookbooks designed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are developed within a Western paradigm of health and nutrition that subtly reinforces Western approaches to food and disregards traditional diets. While the authors recognize the value of the cookbooks as health promotion tools, they suggest that cookbooks centred around Indigenous foodways – with a focus on traditional ingredients and traditional cooking methods – may be more appropriate for improving the health of Indigenous people and helping Indigenous cultures to thrive. They advocate for a decolonizing approach to food and nutrition, that specifically promotes Indigenous traditions and culture, and incorporates traditional foodways into modern recipes.


Deaths from accidental falls are the second leading cause of mortality from nonfatal injuries. Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion in research into the possibility of using technology to detect human falls on its own. This is an intriguing puzzle, and there are many different ways to solve it. Many various approaches have been presented during the past few years. These resources offer methods for identifying a wide variety of human motions, including walking, running, leaping, jogging, falling, and many others. Since falling is a common and potentially hazardous event for persons of all ages, but has a higher adverse effect on the senior population, prevention and detection of falls is particularly important among all these activities. Many existing fall detection systems cannot reliably reduce false positives due to the computational complexity of the algorithm they utilise. Instead of using wearable sensors, video cameras are the best option for fall detection. This article presents a visual method for recognising activities and detecting falls. The proposed method identifies falls only through the use of video-camera pictures, with no need for additional ambient sensors. Making a GMM (Gaussian Mixture Model) first. Using a fall motion vector, the URFall dataset's fall events are easily detected with minimal training time using a method called Fall Motion Mixture Model (FMMM), which is an implicit extension of GMM.


In recent years, activities such as rapid population growth, industrialization, urbanization and unconscious consumption of natural sources, have many negative effects on natural balance. As a result of these negativities, environmental problems arise. Global warming is one of the environmental problems faced today. Global warming can be defined as, the process of overheating of the Earth more than it should be due to greenhouse gases, such as H 2 O (water vapor), CO 2 (carbon dioxide) and CH 4 (methane), slight prevention of sunlight reflecting from the Earth to the space. It is inevitable that, the rise of CO 2 concentration due to the global warming and the changes in the precipitation regime and amount because of the heat will affect plants as a whole. As a matter of fact, different researchers presented that the climate change and increase in CO 2 concentration cause alteration in plant growth, the rise in carbon dioxide affect the progress of cultivated plants in a positive way whereas, the rise in the heat and ozone affect the progress in a negative way. As a result of global warming, it can be thought that increasing CO 2 amount will increase crop production in general. However, the existence of weeds, which cause serious losses in productivity and quality, refute this opinion. The genetic variability of the weeds, which are constantly competing against cultivated plants in terms of light and place, is quite rich when compared with cultivated plants. Therefore, they can adapt to any changes that occur in the environment. Ultimately, cultivated plants would be affected more by the differences caused by global warming. Moreover, as a result of climate change, the decrease in the event of herbicide activity, an effective weapon against the weeds, will make weeds much bigger matter.


Radio frequency(RF) magnetron sputtering was used to prepare Ti-Al intermetallics film.The film was examined by XRD.The surface morphology of the film was analyzed by SEM with an attached EDS.The tribological properties of the film were tested by UMT-2 friction test apparatus.Generally,the film is composed of TiAl,TiAl3,Al2O3 and TiO2.The crystal grains of the film are uniform and fine.The film with 45at%Al showed the lowest friction coefficient.The friction coefficient reduced with the increase of load,rotation rate and friction time.


This study investigated the effects of upper‐body and aerobic/lower‐body‐only (nonupper‐body) exercise on microsurgical hand tremor. Subjects were given a task of holding a microsurgical needle tip over a small target, with video‐microscopic documentation immediately before and 0, 2, 4, 8, and 24 h after either upper‐body or nonupper‐body (aerobic) exercise. Tremor was quantified by the amount of time the needle was maintained within a 100 × 100‐μm target zone and the number of times the needle extruded from the zone. Both upper‐body and aerobic‐only exercise groups had significant increases in tremor immediately after exercise (P < 0.02), with a return to baseline tremor 2 h after exercise in the aerobic group and only a slightly prolonged return to baseline (by 4 h) in the majority of upper‐body exercise subjects. These findings demonstrate that microsurgical hand tremor increases following exercise, but returns to baseline within 4 h in the majority of individuals, particularly after aerobic‐only workouts. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. MICROSURGERY 23:323–327 2003


In this research, we used dyes from natural source for hair coloring. Due to the toxicity of chemically synthesized dyes, natural dyes have been studied for hair coloring without any side effects. Pomegranate powder, gardenia seed powder, and walnut bark powder have been used as natural dyes and Hen...


In this paper, a rigorous analysis of three stacked circular microstrip patches is performed using a dyadic Green's functions formulation. The circular discs are embedded in a multilayered substrate containing isotropic and/or uniaxial anisotropic materials. A very efficient technique to derive the dyadic Green's functions of the stacked configuration in the vector Hankel transform domain is proposed. The complete orthogonal set of transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE) modes of a cylindrical cavity with magnetic side walls and electric top and bottom walls is used in the approximation of the unknown current densities on the circular discs. Numerical results obtained for the resonant frequencies are found to be in good agreement with the experimental data available in the literature.


The level set/ghost method for weldlines in the filling stage of injection molding is introduced in this article. The algorithm is based on non-isothermal, incompressible, generalized Hele-Shaw flow of a viscous fluid. The physical controlling equation systems are numerically simulated by the general finite difference scheme. Tzhe level set/ghost method accurately and efficiently captures the location and shape of the weldlines, whose controlling equations are discretized by the fifth order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme in space and by the total variation differencing Runge Kutta (TVD-RK) method in time. As a result, the fusion process of weldlines is simulated accurately and the analysis of flow field is given correctly. Examples verify the proposed methodology.


Our institution utilizes an integrated operating room in which both microneurosurgery and endovascular neurosurgery can be performed. We report our early experience of the use of this operating room. Between April 2007 and March 2008, we performed open surgery in 8 cases for cerebrovascular pathologies, 7 of which were aneurysms and 1 of which was an AVM. Two of the aneurysms were paraclinoid large aneurysms. One was a ruptured multiple mycotic aneurysm and the other was an MC bifurcation aneurysm with severe M1 stenosis. Two cases of the aneurysms were coil embolized first, and then converted to open surgery. One AVM case was embolized first and then resected after craniotomy in 1 session. We discuss usefullness of this multifunctional integrated operating room.


Dementia is a slow-progressing chronic syndrome with the subtype of Alzheimer's disease being the most commom (Burlá, 2015). This study verified the experience of care from the perspective of family caregivers of older adults with AD from the qualitative approach. The phenomenological method proposed by Giorgi and Sousa (2010) was adopted. Nine family caregivers (4 wives and 5 daughters) participated during different stages of the disease and after death. From the main question "How is your experience of caring for your relative with Alzheimer's disease?" emerged 13 thematic units associated with each stage of the disease. The findings raise the need of caregivers, which include initial diagnosis and goes through the creation of a space for listening and care, given the gradual loss experienced throughout the caring process. Thus, there must be investments in forming professionals of all fields related to healthcare in order to promote quality of life and well-being for caregivers, as well as the need for interdisciplinary teams for the unique experience of dementia care.


60-80%. Profil lipid resistensi insulin inflamasi yang terjadi pasien obesitas dengan DMT2. E-Selectin adalah molekul adhesi sel endotel yang dihasilkan dari aktivasi sel endotel yang rusak, mencerminkan perubahan struktur fungsional dinding pembuluh darah. Kadar soluble E-Selectin (sE-selectin) juga dapat berperan sebagai petanda disfungsi endotel Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membuktikan adanya perbedaan profil lipid kadar sE-selectin pada pasien DMT2 overweight-obese dan under-normoweight. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan ABSTRACT Type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and obesity increase the risk of coronary artery disease by 60-80%. Lipid profile, one of the atherosclerosis markers, may be disrupted by insulin resistance and inflammation in diabetic obese patients. E-selectin is an adhesion molecule resulting from the activation of damaged endothelial cells and reflects the changes in the blood wall. Soluble E-Selectin (sE-selectin) level is also the marker of endothelial dysfunction. T his study aimed to determine differences in lipid profile and sE-selectin levels between T2DM overweight-obese and under-normoweight patients. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 63 samples since February to June 2020, at the X Community Health Center, Semarang. T2DM subjects were determined from clinicians' diagnoses. BMI was calculated with the formula, the lipid profile was examined using the colorimetric enzymatic method, and sE-selectin was examined using the ELISA method. Data were analyzed by SPSS program version 22. There were statistically significant differences in the levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL, HDL, and sE-selectin (p respectively 0.011; 0.043; 0.000; 0.008; 0.001) in T2DM overweight-obese and under-normoweight patients. In conclusion, higher total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglyceride, E-selectin and lower HDL cholesterol are found in T2DM overweight-obese patients than T2DM under-normoweight patients.


Today's businesses need a robust, Web-enabled, flexible information and communication infrastructure to foster corporate agility and productivity. The Service-Oriented Web Application Framework guides organizations in the development and deployment of platform-, technology-, and location-independent, context-rich Web applications.


Understanding the impacts of tourism on the quality of life of residents is a priority for the sustainable tourism agenda, and is especially relevant to the COVID-19 recovery period. However, the evidence is poor, and it is not clear whether the outcomes vary among sociodemographic groups. This study fills this gap by proposing a pan-European analysis of the effects of tourism stays per 1000 residents (as a measure of tourism pressure) on self-perceived health at a regional level, based on data from Eurostat, the EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey), and the LFS (Labor Force Survey). Multilevel models with random effects were used, including three levels: region, time, and region–time. Results show that tourism pressure may benefit self-reported health but only among residents aged over 50 years old living in rural contexts, or over 65 living in low density urban areas. As for younger groups (under 50) living in high density cities, tourism is longitudinally associated with worsened self-reported health. These results, which are supported by instrumental-variable estimations, suggest that urban residents and younger groups do not benefit from tourism. This might be due to a number of side effects related to increased living costs, precarious labour, and conflicts related to public space. Therefore, our findings challenge the narrative that urban tourism universally improves residents' quality of life. Considering the global urgency of creating healthier and more equitable post-COVID-19 cities and societies, tourism should be considered together with health and equity dimensions.


The gaps in the hinged shield used in many commercial x-ray diffractometers may be covered with a second hinged shield. The design of the second shield is described.


We made Korean IAPS through measuring Korean university students' emotional response(arousal and emotional valence) about the whole 956 IAPS pictures made by Lang et al.(2005). In addition, we examined the emotional difference between American and Korean by comparing the response of original American IAPS and those of Korean IAPS. The results showed that both response of arousal and emotional valence in Korean were highly correlated with those in American respectively. In details, two groups showed differences as well as similarities. Korean showed higher arousal response than American, but in both groups women showed higher arousal response than men. When examining the emotional valence of positive, neutral, and negative stimuli categorized by American IAPS, Korean showed more modest emotional valence than American, and this group difference was the same in both men and women. In particular, Korean women showed more negative emotional valence than Korean men, but American women showed more extreme emotional valence than American men. These results suggest that there are some cultural and sex differences in the emotional response, and that researchers have to consider them when studying with IAPS stimuli.


For enhancing stability of the Nd:GdVO4 linear cavity blue laser,the thermal lens effect of Nd:GdVO4(gadolinium vanadate) crystal was analyzed with diode end-pumped.It focused on the relationship between the output power and thermal lens focal length of 447 nm blue laser.By improving the method of dynamic stable resonators and using MATLAB and the Matrix Laser,the parameters were optimized such as length of the resonant cavity,the radius of curvature of the input/output mirror and location of the various components in the cavity.The result of the imitation and experiment shows that the cavity has a good dynamic thermal stability.


These days, subject to imperatives of continuous improvement, we are not allowed to get out of date. In this context, there is a burgeoning of educational development publications, and here are four examples. Fraser's edited collection delineates the new academic order as one of universities redefining themselves against a backdrop of increased student numbers, quality assurance systems, reduced budgets, and declining BOOK REVIEWS


Purpose The purpose of this study was to elucidate between-hospital variation in the prevalence at the time of diagnosis of patient-related risk factors for adverse outcomes of colorectal cancer (CRC) treatment. Patients and Methods A register-based national cohort of 44,471 patients diagnosed with CRC and registered in the Danish Colorectal Cancer Group database in 2009–2018 was included in the study. Patient-related risk factors present at diagnosis were collected from national Danish registers within the areas of demography, lifestyle factors, comorbidity, participation in screening, disease-related factors and socioeconomic factors. Prediction models of short-term postoperative outcomes and mortality were modelled to examine the potential aggregated impact of patient-related risk factors on outcomes, and variations between hospitals were examined. Results The most conspicuous variations found were for old age (75+ years), ranging from 31% (95% confidence interval (95% CI): 29–33%) to 46% (95% CI: 43–48%), Union for International Cancer Control Stage I ranging from 12% (95% CI: 10–14%) to 21% (95% CI: 19–22%), Stage IV ranging from 23% (95% CI: 21–25%) to 35% (95% CI: 34–37%) and American Society of Anesthesiologists score ≥III ranging from 18% (95% CI: 16–19%) to 40% (95% CI: 37–43%). Clinically significant variations were found in predicted probability of 30-day surgical complications which varied from 17% (95% CI: 16–17%) to 23% (95% CI: 22–23%) and 90-day postoperative mortality which varied between 3.2% (95% CI: 3–3.4%) and 5.5% (95% CI: 4.9–6%). Conclusion Marked variation in the prevalence of patient-related risk factors for adverse outcomes of colorectal cancer treatment exists between hospitals in Denmark. It seems reasonable to take these differences into account when comparing outcomes between hospitals.


Synchronizing ring for an outer cone synchronization of synchronous clutches for speed change transmission, with a radially outer conical ring (12) and a an inner locking teeth carrying disc ring (14), characterized in that the cone ring (12) and the disc ring (14) made of sheet metal in metal forming and are positively connected with each other, and that the cone ring (12) and the disc ring (14) by a clip connection (12b) are joined together, and that for forming the clip connection (12b) on the conical ring (12) integrally formed a plurality of axially projecting projections (12c) are engaged in corresponding recesses (14c) of the disk ring (14) protrude form fit, and that at the projections (12c) locking noses (12b) are formed which in the assembled state the at the end face (12d) of the cone ring (12) adjacent disk ring engage behind (14) klipsartig, wherein the locking lugs (12b) are designed so that they can during assembly can expand elastically and then by corresponding spring-back the disk ring (14) in a reliably no longer separable permanent positive connection comprise.


This article mainly introduces an artificial intelligence home remote control system.This system's purpose is to finish controlling the switch of home and demonstrating the time.Through the public land telephone network finish the communication of the control system of home and it takes the telephone channel as the signal carrier,uses the key of the telephone as the order key to realize controlling the domestic electric appliances.This system mainly by the real-time clock DS12887 partial circuit,the demonstration partial circuit,the voice prompt circuit,the DTMF audio frequency decoding circuit module hardware circuit design and the monolithic integrated circuit periphery electric circuit is composed.


Timeseries sensor data processing is indispensable for system monitoring. Working with autonomous vehicles requires mechanisms that provide insightful information about the status of a mission. In a setting where time and resources are limited, trajectory classification plays a vital role in mission monitoring and failure detection. In this context, we use navigational data to interpret trajectory patterns and classify them. We implement Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based Recursive Neural Networks (RNN) that learn the most commonly used survey trajectory patterns from surveys executed by two types of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV). We compare the performance of our network against baseline machine learning methods.


The three dimensional flowing field of steam in direct air cooling exhaust ducts was simulated via computational fluid dynamics(CFD) software called fluent for Datong 600MW power generating unit.Results show that the pressure drops of the steam flowing through distribution manifolds are not the same,so as the mass flow.The studying results can provide assistance for the system structure's optimal design of direct air cooling exhaust ducts.Figs.3,table 3 and refs.3.