At present, BIM technology is applied in China to improve the level of project management, and it is an irreversible trend to popularize BIM technology in the construction industry. In the era of big data, project cost management has also become a refined management with the development of technology. Therefore, BIM technology improves the frequency of using big data in project cost management, thereby reducing project management costs and improving project value. BIM technology has been widely used in construction cost management, so we will make an in-depth study on the application of BIM to construction cost based on big data construction projects.


The relationship between speed,cutting force,surface quality and service life of cutter for High Speed Cutting are discussed.In order to get the best result of High Speed Cutting,the process and the skill for High Speed Cutting has been discussed.And the software of MasterCAM and PowerMILL are introduced.


We propose a causal form of the Cannonball-Huray metal roughness frequency-dependent complex correction factor. Compared to widely-used non-causal form, this model considerably increases inductive component of internal metal impedance. Transmission lines simulated with improved roughness model demonstrate larger phase and propagation delay, and higher characteristic impedance.


Concrete has been considered as a semi-permanent structural material in construction industry. However, durability of concrete member is affected by carbonation, chloride attack, and freezing-thawing action, etc. Recently, concrete on road or express way has been deteriorated. This study discusses the cause of deteriorated concrete on road structures.


Background & Aims Multiple mechanisms for the gut microbiome contributing to the pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have been implicated. Here, we aim to investigate the contribution and potential application for altered bile acid (BA) metabolizing microbe in NAFLD using whole metagenome sequencing (WMS) data. Methods 86 well-characterized biopsy-proven NAFLD patients and 38 healthy controls were included in the discovery cohort. Assembly-based analysis was performed to identify BA-metabolizing microbes. Statistical tests, feature selection and microbial interaction analysis were integrated to identify microbial alterations and markers in NAFLD. An independent validation cohort was subjected to similar analyses. Results NAFLD microbiota exhibited decreased diversity and microbial interactions. We established a classifier model with 53 differential species exhibiting a robust diagnostic accuracy (AUC=0.97) for dectecting NAFLD. Next, 8 important differential pathway markers including secondary BA biosynthesis were identified. Specifically, increased abundance of 7α-HSDH, baiA and baiB were detected in NAFLD. Further, 10 of 50 BA-metabolizing metagenome-assembled genomes (MAG)s, from Bacteroides ovatus and Eubacterium biforme, were dominant in NAFLD and interplayed as a synergetic ecological guild. Importantly, two subtypes of NAFLD patients were observed according to secondary BA metabolism potentials. Elevated capability for secondary BA biosynthesis was also observed in the validation cohort. Conclusions We identified novel bacterial BA-metabolizing genes and microbes that may contribute to NAFLD pathogenesis and serve as disease markers. Microbial differences in BA-metabolism and strain-specific differences among patients highlight the potential for precision medicine in NAFLD treatment.


Three hundred and fifty-nine (359) sub-adult tench were allocated to twelve tanks to investigate the effect of stocking density on survival and growth. The experimental population consisted of two weight groups (small = 11.27-11.36 g and large = 15.38-15.44 g) and two initial stocking densities (1.4 kg/m 3 and 2.5 kg/m 3 ). The experiment lasted seven months (217 days). The total lack of deformities in the caudal peduncle in all groups and the low incidence of mortality indicate that sub-adult tench cultured in a water recirculation system perform well when stocked at a relatively high stocking density (2.5 kg/m 3 ) and fed 1.0% of their body weight per day. By the end of the experiment, the weight of the best-performing groups increased 83-90% and confirmed the hypothesis that high densities favor the growth and survival of sub-adult tench reared in artificial tanks in a water recirculation system. The IJA appears exclusively as a peer-reviewed online open-access journal at


The selection of GC B cells that express high affinity B cell receptors (BCRs) is driven by the ability of B cells to both signal through the BCR and to extract antigen and present it to follicular helper T cells (T FH cells). Using anti-kappa antibodies of low (KD=3.9×10 −7 ) versus high (KD=2.4×10 −9 ) affinities attached to membranes as surrogate antigens, we show that LZ GC B cells are able to discriminate between these and responded only to the high affinity antigen. In contrast, naïve B cells responded to both high and low affinity antigens. LZ GC B cells engaged membrane associated surrogate antigens through highly dynamic F-actin and ezrin-rich pod-like structures that concentrated BCRs at their contact points. Using DNA-based mechanical force nano-sensors we observed robust pulling forces localized to the contact sites of the pods with the membrane. In contrast, naïve B cells formed flat stable contacts with the membranes and showed only defuse weak pulling forces. GC B cells optimally express transcription factors that drive plasma cell differentiation, namely IRF-4 and PRDM-1, in response to antigen in combination with T FH help while naïve B cells increased IRF-4 and PRDM-1 transcription in response to T FH alone and less so to antigen alone. Thus, LZ GC B cells appear to be intrinsically capable of antigen affinity discrimination and with the acquisition of T FH help BCR-activated LZ GC B cells differentiate into plasma cells.


Appert, Sue A., M.A., 1977 Zoology A Comparative Study of Lake Outlet Ecosystems Director: Andrew L. Sheldon A comparative study was made of 13 lake outlets in Montana. The objective of the study was to examine correlations between the productivity of the lakes and the species richness and composition of the benthic insects in the outlet streams. Various measures of productivity were used. Benthic insects were collected and the presence and relative abundance of species were determined. The number of species at the outlet sites ranged from 18 to 40. Productivity indices which were based on the amounts of dissolved ions in the lakes (e.g. Ryder's morphoedaphic index) were not good pre dictors of the number of species of benthic insects in the outlet streams. Direct measures of productivity (chlorophyll and particulate carbon measurements made on lake effluent water) were good predictors of species richness. A significant positive correlation (r = .606, p <( .05) was found between chlorophyll measurements and the number of species of insects in the outlet stream. A principal components analysis using the matrix of phi coefficients as the measure of similarity of the lakes showed significant differences in the faunal composi tion of the less versus the more productive lakes. The separation of lakes on the first three components of the principal components analysis was closely corre lated with the division of lakes into productivity categories made on the basis of the chlorophyll and particulate carbon data. No differences were found in the number of species of filter-feeding insects in the less and more productive lake categories. Greater changes in faunal composition between the outlet site and the second study site 100 meters downstream were found in the more oligotrophia lakes than in the more productive lakes.


Development theorists determine the human development as the most important part of development. So the educational and extensional activity is especially important for improving the level of human development. At all times, Iran's agriculture and its fishery and aquatic subsectors had not enough skilled and specialist human forces. Holding extensional courses is a way and method to counter this problem. In spite of such educationscontinuous holding, factors causing the producersparticipation in these courses are not studied well, so this study was aimed to identify factors affecting aqua culturists' participation in extensional education courses. This is applied study and the research methodology is correlation. The main research tool is questionnaire. The statistical population of the study is 65 Fars province's aqua culturists. Statistical analysis was done through SPSS Version 16. Findings showed that the Fars provinces aqua culturists have averagely participated in 11.45 activities of the studied activities. Results of the stepwise regression showed that the variables of economical factors and work experience determined about 9 percent of the variance of the aqua culturists' participation in extensional education courses.


The spin transistor according to the invention, consists of a material having a spin Hall effect, by receiving the e having a spin in a predetermined direction from the input, and the input unit is configured to forward e having a spin in a predetermined direction to the connecting portion, the gate by rotating the electron has a spin in a predetermined direction in accordance with the gate voltage applied to the electrode and a connecting portion that is configured to pass to the output.


Abstract. Sufardin, Sriwulan, Anshary H. 2022. Gyrodactylus (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) on marine ornamental fish Amphiprion percula from a marine aquaculture facility in Indonesia. Biodiversitas 23: 1023-1030. As a popular marine ornamental fish (MOF), clownfishes are widely traded globally due to their beautiful appearance and relative ease of maintenance in the aquarium. There is a large amount of literature on Amphiprion biology and ecology, but globally still lacks data on their parasites, especially about monogenean gyrodactylidae. The first investigation of Gyrodactylus on a marine ornamental fish was conducted during March-August 2019. The study revealed the occurrence of Gyrodactylus infection in clownfish Amphiprion percula from Indonesia. A total of 50 fish samples were collected from a fish farm located in Takalar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Parasitological examination using the smear method was performed on the skin, fins, and gills. Parasites on each individual fish were counted directly under a stereomicroscope. Morphological measurements of the monogeneans were performed using ImageJ 1.46r software. Parasite infestation data were analyzed statistically using the Kruskal-Wallis test and linear regression. Based on morphology, the parasites infecting A. percula were identified as Genus Gyrodactylus and resembled described parasites on fish from the black sea. The prevalence of Gyrodactylus spp. was 100% on the caudal fin and was classified as a very severe infection with a total of 1908 individual parasites, overall. This study shows the Gyrodactylus intensity range is 8-75 parasites/fish and categorized as moderate and severe intensity, which are 6-55 parasite/fish for moderate and 55-100 parasites/fish for severe infection. Parasite infestation was higher on the caudal fin than other organs and was significantly positively correlated with fish size. This first report on the occurrence of Gyrodactylus on Amphiprion percula from Indonesia adds to the knowledge on gyrodactylid host fishes and infestation patterns.


This study analyses the impact of board diversity on financial performance in the Netherlands and United Kingdom for the years 2009, 2010, 2016 and 2017. The sample
consists of 93 Dutch listed firms and 98 listed firms from United Kingdom. The firms from the Netherlands are all the listed firms located in the Netherlands listed on the Euronext Amsterdam. The 98 listed firms from the United Kingdom are the largest firms in terms of market capitalisation from the London Stock Exchange (LSE. Financial performance has been measured by Tobin's q, Return on Assets using net income (ROA NI), and Return on Assets using earnings before interest and taxes (ROA EBIT). Three robustness tests have been presented, which are Return on Equity using net income (ROE NI) and using earnings before interest and taxes (ROE EBIT), and stock return (RET). The diversity characteristics that have
faced attention are gender, age and nationality diversity.
The results show that gender diversity is significantly related to firm performance in United Kingdom, measured by Tobin's q and ROA NI. In the Netherlands, a significant relationship between gender diversity and financial performance, measured by ROA NI and ROE NI, is present. Next to that, gender diversity has a negative impact on RET. Next to that, a negative, significant influence of age diversity on financial performance has been found in the United Kingdom, for Tobin's q and RET. Nationality diversity has shown to be a positive predictor of Tobin's q in the Netherlands. In the United Kingdom, it positively
influences Tobin's q and RET. Nationality diversity has a negative influence on ROA NI, ROA EBIT, ROE NI, and ROE EBIT in the Netherlands.


Given that Stated Preference surveys based on choice experiments typically collect multiple responses from each individual contacted in the survey, it is natural to ask whether it is useful to develop choice models for each respondent. Person-specific models are often used in general marketing studies. These models could be used in the transport context either as final products to understand and predict behaviour or as an intermediate stage in the development of more sophisticated models of population behaviour. There are good theoretical reasons for investigating the contribution of person-specific models. First, from a behavioural point of view, the development of person -specific models may allow the identification of intra personal variation that might otherwise be 'swept up' and interpreted incorrectly. Second, from a statistical point of view, by developing personspecific models we may learn much more about the variation of tastes and other model parameters in the population which would be concealed when the data is pooled. Study of person-specific models has however been inhibited by the results of work by Morikawa (1989), who found that person-specific models performed much less well than models based on pooling the data from all respondents. More recent work by Kroes and Cirillo (2000) suggested that Morikawa's findings may apply to a smaller range of circumstances than had been thought, thus opening the possibility that person-specific models could be useful in some circumstances. This paper reports the results of a study undertaken at ITS Leeds in which simulated data is used to investigate the circumstances in which personspecific models could be useful. By varying the assumptions underlying simulated behaviour, it was possible to represent a range of circumstances and to investigate the success of person-specific models in each case. Some areas for further research are identified. An important step in the investigation is the specification of appropriate ways to measure the success of models in reproducing the simulation assumptions and two separate measures have been defined and applied. The results suggest that in the circumstances investigated person-specific models are not as successful as models based on pooled data, but when inter-personal variation is high, in ways that are described below, personspecific models might become useful. Thus in extreme cases it may be useful to investigate person-specific models as an intermediate step to developing a


The co‐stimulatory interactions of the B7 family molecules CD80 and CD86 on antigen‐presenting cells, together with their T cell counter receptors CD28 and cytotoxic T lymphocyte‐associated antigen‐4 (CTLA‐4), modulate T lymphocyte‐mediated immune responses in a reciprocal manner. To investigate whether there is altered expression and the clinical significance of soluble co‐stimulatory molecules in asthmatic patients, plasma concentrations of sCTLA‐4, sCD28, sCD80 and sCD86 in 51 adult allergic asthmatic adults with or without steroid treatment, and 35 sex‐ and age‐matched control subjects were measured by enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Cell surface expression of CTLA‐4 and CD28 on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were analysed by flow cytometry. Results showed that the plasma sCTLA‐4 concentration was significantly higher in all asthmatic patients while sCD28 and sCD86 concentrations were significantly higher in steroid and non‐steroid treated asthmatic patients, respectively, compared with control subjects (all P < 0·01). Significantly increased cell surface expression of CD28 but not CTLA‐4 on PBMC was found in asthmatic patients compared with controls (P < 0·05). The plasma concentration and cell surface expression of CTLA‐4 were found to exhibit positive and significant correlations with those of CD28 (both P < 0·05). Serum total IgE concentration correlated positively and significantly with sCTLA‐4 and sCD28 concentrations in allergic asthmatic patients (both P < 0·05). The increased expression of these soluble co‐stimulatory molecules may reflect the dysregulation of T cell activation, thereby contributing to the immunopathogenesis of allergic asthma.


Analysis of geological structures and the characteristics of primary faults and folding at the Shihongtan uranium deposits indicate there was block-faulting in Shihongtan area. The area is divided into four block-faulting zones and the structural characteristics in each of the zones and the controlling factors affecting groundwater are discussed. The basin evolution and uranium mineralization are divided into three main stages, as well as several subsidiary stages. The clear controlling role basin structures on uranium ore distribution and morphology is described.


Research in computational cognitive modelling investigates the nature of cognition through developing process-based understanding by specifying computational models of mechanisms (including representations) and processes. In this enterprise, a cognitive architecture is a domain-generic computational cognitive model that may be used for a broad multiple-level multiple-domain analysis of behaviour. It embodies generic descriptions of cognition in computer algorithms and programs. Developing cognitive architectures is a difficult but important task. In this paper, discussions of issues and challenges in developing cognitive architectures will be undertaken, and an example cognitive architecture (CLARION) will be described. †This paper is based on a keynote address at NeSy'05, a keynote address at PRIMA'05, and a plenary talk at KES'05, by the author during the summer and the fall of 2005.


Background: In some neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), conven- tional overhead phototherapy is the only phototherapy available, whereas others use fibreoptic blankets only. Several NICUs use both treatments interchangeably. Aim: To explore how nurses experience the use of conventional versus fibreoptic phototherapy. Method: Six qualitative in-depth interviews involving nurses at three different NI- CUs with experience in both treatments were conducted. Results: Following experiences were revealed: i) Infants displayed discomfort while under phototherapy, whereas blanket use promoted infant satisfaction. ii) Blankets increased parents' satisfaction by facilitating bonding, breastfeeding and kangaroo care. iii) The nurses disagreed as to whether fibreoptic blankets and conventional treatment have similar effects. iv) Nurses were concerned about the possible harm and discomfort to the eyes and skin of infants caused by photo- therapy.


The culture, whose connotation is a kind of economical culture, plays an important part in the state-owned enterprise, and it is significant to the development of a stated-owned enterprise. This paper emp-hasizes on the approaches of constructing the culture,and the new requirements on cultural constru-ction in the mew time.


5,6-Dihydroimidazol[2,1-b]thiazolium betaines were generated in situ from 3,7-disubstituted 5,6-dihydroimidazo[2,1-b]thiazolium bromides and triethylamine. The reaction of these imidazothiazolium betaines with acetylenic dipolarophiles, such as ethyl propiolate,dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, and dibenzoylacetylene, provided geometric cis, trans isomers containing 2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrrolo[1,2-a]imidazole We have proposed a mechanism of this reaction that involves 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition, isomeric rearrangement, and then nucleophilic addition successively


Robert Walter-Jochum reflects on the successes and failures of Milo Rau's stage explorations of hate speech, investigating what Judith Butler terms "restaging and resignifying." Walter-Jochum references two of Rau's performances: Breivik's Statement and Compassion: The History of the Machine Gun. Both pieces highlight the hypocrisy and similarities of rhetoric from right-wing terrorists and liberals with seemingly good intentions. Breivik's Statement restages hate speech with an actor of color inverting the meaning of the speech, while Compassion restages a woman of color refugee reflecting on her childhood, while a white woman contemplates her time volunteering in the Congo. Walter-Jochum dissects each monologue, analyzing deeper meaning in Rau's projects.


A discussion of the fundamental economic principles to consider in evaluating proposals to reform the current system of federal deposit insurance.


Introduction. Pyrrol derivate 5-amyno-4-(1,3-benzothyazol-2-yn)-1-(3-methoxyphenyl)-1,2-dihydro-3H-pyrrol-3-one (D1) has shown antiproliferative activities in vitro, so investigation of the impact of D1 intake on gut organs in rats that experienced colon cancer seems to be necessary. Materials and Methods. D1 at the dose of 2.3 mg/kg was administered per os daily for 27 (from the 1st day of experiment) or 7 (from the 21st week of experiment) weeks to rats that experienced 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH)-induced colon cancer for 20 weeks. 5-Fluorouracil (5FU) was chosen as reference drug and was administered intraperitoneally weekly for 7 weeks (from the 21st week of experiment) at the dose of 45 mg/kg. Results. Antitumor activity of D1 comparable with the 5FU one against DMH-induced colon cancer in rats was observed (decrease of tumor number and tumor total area up to 46%). D1 attenuated the inflammation of colon, gastric and jejunal mucosa, and the liver, caused by DMH, unlike 5FU, aggravating the latter. In addition, D1 partially normalized mucosa morphometric parameters suggesting its functional restore. Conclusions. D1 possesses, comparable with 5-fluorouracil antitumor efficacy, less damaging effects on the tissues beyond cancerous areas and contributes to partial morphological and functional gut organs recovery.


ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to know the role of DPRD in Musrenbang mentoring and involvement process between executive and legislative in order to accommodate the result of musrenbang in subtlety of the development of Denpasar City.The method of this study is descriptive qualitative. To gain the data, the researcher did the field observation and deep interview with the resource who related with the senator in taking aspiration by musrenbang Denpasar City in the 2012-2013. The results of this study are, the role of DPRD in monitoring the musrenbang was started on January in village level. On February was held in sub-district level. On March was held in regency level. The presences of the senator were four times in musrenbang meeting, those are in musrenbang RPJPD, musrenbang RPJMD,  musrenbang RKPD, and musrenbang village level. The involvement process of executive and legislative in accommodate the result of musrenbang assessed not accurate. Oftentimes the DPRD was hard to find the data from SKPD. It caused by the supervision in the planning of the achievement target as the reference of the next planning was not applied yet. From the result of some documents and interview the role of DPRD is as the facilitator between one SKPD to the other SKPD. The functions taken by the DPRD are legislation function and budgeting. The other involvement between executive and legislative in designing programs and activities was overlapping between one SKPD to the other. It was marked by the same program of Disnakertan and SATPOL PP in destruction of vagrant and beggars. That overlapping cause the achievement was not optimal. Keyword: musrenbang, aspiration networking, DPRD's role


Electrical safety management system described in this paper is for the purpose of prevention of electrical disasters through real-time monitering. In domestic, the number of fires caused by electricity is more than 20% in the past 10 years. As the development of information technology and the expansion of IT infrastructure, all most the facilities management and services are provided by real-time monitoring management. In the case of low voltage equipment, although related technologies have been researched and developed there are limited to prevent electrical disasters because these are related to each products such as, circuit breaker. This paper describes electrical safety management system which is able to monitor electrical equipments in real-time and notify a safety manager of events such as over current, leakage current, arc.


Lymphoma is the most common haematopoietic malignancy in dogs, and is the most responsive to chemotherapy. Affected dogs are typically middle-aged. Neither gender nor neutering is a predisposing factor for developing lymphoma. In studies of canine lymphoma epidemiology; boxers, Scottish terriers, German shepherds and poodles were more often affected, and recent evidence suggests a high incidence in golden retrievers. The most common physical fi nding in dogs with lymphoma is peripheral lymphadenopathy, which is usually generalized but may be localized to a single lymph node or a region of the body. Involvement of other organs, such as spleen, liver, or bone marrow is an indication of advanced disease. Involvement of other (extranodal) sites is rare in dogs. Untreated lymphoma progresses rapidly (1–2 months) from presentation to terminal stages. With chemotherapy, however, considerable improvement in the duration and quality of the patient's life can be expected.


background  Family studies have repeatedly shown aggregation of thyroid autoantibodies to thyroid peroxidase (TPOab) and thyroglobulin (Tgab) in first‐degree relatives of patients with autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD). This phenomenon has generally been interpreted as evidence of a genetic component in the development of thyroid autoantibodies. However, family studies cannot determine whether the observed familial aggregation of these antibodies is due to shared genes or shared environment.


Accurate, robust and automatic image registration is critical task in many applications. To perform image registration/alignment, required steps are: Feature detection, Feature matching, derivation of transformation function based on corresponding features in images and reconstruction of images based on derived transformation function. Accuracy of registered image depends on accurate feature detection and matching. So these two intermediate steps are very important in many image applications: image registration, computer vision, image mosaic etc. This paper presents two different methods for scale and rotation invariant interest point/feature detector and descriptor: Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) and Speed Up Robust Features (SURF). It also presents a way to extract distinctive invariant features from images that can be used to perform reliable matching between different views of an object/scene.


The institute of damages for emotional distress as a result of harassment in the workplace is an indispensable and undisputed resource to allow the necessary compensation for moral, physical or mental violation. The present article, however, has a counterpoint: are we aware of the conscious use of indemnity actions in the face of violation of personality rights in employment relationships, or are we trivially using the "moral damage"?   Labor reform opens a new scenario by inserting articles 223-A and following in the CLT to deal with actions whose object is off-balance sheet damage. Not only with regard to moral damage, but in general, the Law no 13.467 / 2017 seems to propose filing lawsuits more consciously, or their consequence: to bear the procedural expenses, such as court fees and forensic experts, an innovation in Labor Justice - a stage in which the gratuity of Justice for workers has always reigned; or even incurring bad faith litigation penalties, given the abuse of the constitutional right of action.


Up to World War I, it is probable that American scientists who gave the matter any thought at all believed the Negro race to be natively less gifted than the white. Thus, the Negro was generally considered to be less intelligent and more indolent than the white, and to be somewhat lacking in the fundamental traits of honesty and reliability. This judgment was concurred in by most white Americans. Social scientists today do not often accept these onetime common-sense judgments. Instead, they hold that racial differences are skin deep: that whereas the black African differs from the white European in the breadth and depth of his civilization, there are no genetic or native factors to account for these differences; that all races are potentially equal in ability and differ only in their opportunity to achieve. Usually the social scientist will include motivation as a cause of racial differences, together with discrimination and prejudice. This view that, except for environmental differences, all races are potentially equal has been called the equalitarian dogma.1 It has spread through many of our colleges and universities and is widely accepted by sincere humanitarians, social reformers, crusaders, sentimentalists, and (ostensibly) politicians. Many ministers of religion, convinced that the concept of the "equality ofman" is in keeping with the ideals of Christian brotherhood and democracy, have joined the social scientists. Last, but by no means least, the Communists vigorously defend the equalitarian dogma. Only the man in the street, uninstructed in social anthropology, remains puzzled and reluctant.


This paper provides a fast method to recognize a variety of Persian banknotes at different scales. In this technique, the PCA, LDA and sparse representation methods are utilized at feature extraction stage and follows with MLP neural networks, LVQ and SOM in classification. Finally, the application of sparse matrix representation method and combination of both SOM and LVQ neural networks would lead to the best efficiency with precision of 91.15% in recognition of Persian banknotes particularly the worn ones.


"Is this a garden or a cemetery? I want a garden. I need a garden. How proud I am to be Cuban! How terrified I am to be Cuban!" declares Yocandra in Zoe Valdes's Yocandra in the Paradise of NADA. In this essay, I interrogate the revolutionary contradictions inscribed on female sexualized bodies showing how women's histories are registered in their scars, each scar representing a historical marker in the body's memory of lived experience. Moreover, I examine how Valdes's narrative fiction reveals how subjugation and exploitation often materialize as sexualized and politicized wounds. The female sexualized and eroticized body works as an allegorical transcript for the toxic masculinization and militarization of the Cuban Revolution.


Objective: To quantify the influence of Glutaraldehyde (GA) treated valve tissue on hemodynamic performance. Methods: Ten German Landrace pigs (weight 35 (32–42) kg) underwent replacement of the pulmonic valve under right heart bypass. Four animals received commercially available GA treated bioprotheses (Group 1) and six decellularized porcine valves (Group 2). Postoperatively stress tests were performed and pressure gradients determined by simultaneous RV and PA pressure recordings. Stress testing was performed with Epinephrine up to 15µg/kg with intervals of 10 bpm from rest to 160+ bpm. Statistical comparisons were performed with the Student t-test. Results: Under resting conditions and with low stress no significant differences were obtained. Under medium to high stress levels, however, differences between GA fixed and decellularized valves became significant (see Table 1). Conclusions: In an in vivo model under stress conditions GA treated valves proved to be inferior to decellularized valves, which may have consequences for further bioprosthetic heart valve development.


The practices and experiences on mining by the light supported fully mechanized caving method and the technical problems encountered in mining in the relatively thinner thick coal seam(i.e about 3.4m in thickness) in the Tao'er Mine and the solutions are described.


In order to eliminate the banded structure defects in hot-rolled SNCM 220 steel plates,the effects of improvement measures such as dynamic soft reduction technology,increasing the plate heating temperature and decreasing the crimping temperature on the microstructure during continuous casting of the plate slab were investigated.The results show that under the existing condition,using the above three measurements could prevent the formation of the pro-eutectoid ferrite and improve the transformation from the austenite to bainite in the plate, and thus could effectively eliminate the banded structure defects.


The female teachers in university is an important part of the university teachers.Because of the own achievement motivation,multi-role conflict and the "glass ceiling" effect,the female teachers facing the bottlenecks in their career development.Depth analysis of the effect factors and proposed countermeasures is the needs for both the female teachers in their own development and university teachers in more scientific and harmonious development.


Fungal protease inhibitor F (FPI-F) from silkworm inhibits subtilisin and fungal proteases. FPI-F mutants P1 residues of which, Thr29, were replaced with Glu, Phe, Gly, Leu, Met, and Arg, were prepared. The inhibitory activities of mutated FPI-F against subtilisin and other mammalian proteases indicated that FPI-F might be a specific inhibitor toward subtilisin-type protease.


The Reykjanes high enthalpy geothermal system is located at the tip of the Reykjanes peninsula were the mid-Atlantic Ridge comes ashore in southwest Iceland. Its geothermal fluid has seawater salinity and originates from the seawater source underneath the peninsula. The first research drillings were made in the sixties and limited (50 kg/s) production was from the system in the eighties for a chemical plant. In 1998 research and preparation for a 100 MW generating power plant started and the plant came on line in May 2006. Now an enlargement of the power plant to 150 MW is underway that could be on line in 2011. The general properties of seawater geothermal systems are addressed with reference to regular water systems. The high production impact (800 kg/s) in the beginning of operation is described and how it has affected the system. As environmental and other regulatory agencies have intermixed "sustainable development" with sustainable production and resource conservation, additional constrains are set on the production. To comply with these constrains the production strategy needs to be reevaluated and possibly changed. First steps in that direction have been taken with drilling into a high pressure steam zone (>55 bar) that is developing in the system. Finally, the future forecasts and goals are discussed.


Micronutrients are as important as macronutrients in crop production. It is therefore imperative to have an idea of their availability in farmlands. To this end 20 soil samples were collected from 10 locations in Abraka (10 topsoil and 10 subsoil) to ascertain the level of total micronutrients. The total cationic micronutrients were determined using atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS). Fe has a range between 2214 - 4820 mgkg-1, Cu ranged between 4.00 - 18.00 mgkg-1, Zn ranged between 12.00 - 44.00 mgkg-1, B ranged between 58.00 - 158.00 mgkg-1, and Mn ranged between 4.00 - 16.00 mgkg-1. Soil properties are as follows: silt between 0.00 - 6.25 gkg-1, clay 0.00 - 15.63 gkg-1, sand 83.33 - 98.86 gkg-1, pH 4.00 - 6.90, CEC (c molkg-1) between 0.69 - 6.94. Percentage organic matter ranged between 0.71 - 2.46% with a mean of 1.218%. There is relatively low correlation between soil properties with total micronutrient.

 Key words: Micronutrients, physico-chemical properties, relationship.


ABSTRACT This article investigates how teenagers in the Pentecostal Church, particularly the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), distinguish between religion and spirituality. In addition to presenting the findings of this study, the article compares the teenage participants' perceptions of these constructs to the findings of previous researchers, including Overstreet ["Spiritual vs. Religious: Perspectives from Today's Undergraduate Catholics." Journal of Catholic Education 14, no. 2 (2010): 238–262], Smith and Denton (Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005) and others. The study was carried out among 27 teenagers, aged between 13 and 15, who attend the RCCG, which is one of the Pentecostal denominations in England. Critical analysis of the interpretation of religion falls into these categories: substantive and functional beliefs and practice, ordinary classification, and legalistic rules of do's and don'ts. Similarly, spirituality falls into the categories of personal belief in and connection with God, the outward expression of religion, and mystical experience. Similar to the extant researchers, the majority of the participants made a clear distinction between religion and spirituality, while the remainder argued that the terms are too closely intertwined to draw a clear distinction between them.


Brain cancer is the world's second leading cause of death for both men and women, and in the next several decades, it is expected to become the leading cause of death. It has been shown that the most effective methods of reducing mortality are early detection and treatment of brain cancer. The automatic MR image classification of meningioma has been widely used in cancer diagnosis and treatment. In order to analyze medical images, Convolutionary Neural Networks (CNNs) have quickly become the method of choice. In many practical applications, such as medical image classification, CNNs, to date, have achieved breakthrough performance. In this work, due to the benefits of DL, a deep Convolutionary Neural Network (DCNN) based architecture is presented to diagnose and classify brain tumours and assign grade to them. CAD systems can provide the diagnosis depending on the specific characteristics present in the medical images. A comprehensive method for diagnosing the cancerous region in the MRI images is proposed in the present study. The overall classification of brain tumour accuracy of the proposed DCNN method is 97.73, ResNet50 is 95.62, DenseNet121 is 96.22 and 95.91. Compared to the models, the suggested model DCNN produced better results based on the simulation results


It describes a method and apparatus for use in traffic air link resources can be, and sometimes are shared wireless communication system. The various methods and apparatus well suited for use in a peer to peer communications system, a decentralized manner in the decision to develop a transmission control system. Exemplary peer to peer communications system in a distributed manner using the connection priority information and interference information to achieve scheduling service interval. Exemplary peer to peer timing structure includes user scheduling time interval and a traffic interval associated. User scheduling interval includes a plurality of transmission request / transmission request response rounds. By using a plurality of transmission request / transmission request response rounds, the decision occurring in the transmission earlier rounds corresponding to a connection may be ignored in subsequent rounds, to achieve a higher overall throughput of the system in service.


[Purpose] A questionnaire survey on e-learning in Japanese physical therapy schools was conducted in order to examine the efficiency and potential of the ICT-supported education by comparing the results with general Japanese higher education institutions. [Subjects and Methods] The questionnaire prepared by NIME in 2006 for higher education institutions was revised, and posted to 228 physical therapy schools in Japan (69 universities and 159 technical schools). [Results] Of all the questionnaires, 53.6% (37/69) and 42.8% (68/159) were returned from the universities and technical schools, respectively. Many items in the questionnaire showed similar tendencies to the results of the NIME's survey. However, the "ascertainment of the learning effect of e-learning" showed a different tendency from general Japanese higher education institutions (p = 0.000). [Conclusion] Physical therapy schools less frequently ascertain the learning effect of e-learning than general Japanese higher education institutions. The fact suggests that e-learning may not have been adapted by physical therapy education due to factors deemed unsuitable for e-learning such as the school capacity issues and technique-centered education.


Nutrition plays a major role in lactating women to strengthen the foundation for long-term health for both mother and infant. From aegis, it is a known fact that, all cultures in India and across the world follow certain beliefs and practices including ethnic special/super foods and food taboos during confinement. Our rich traditional knowledge is losing its significance. As an eye opener, a comprehensive view on the traditions with special prominence of selected health benefitting ethnic/traditional super foods given to lactating women across Karnataka, obtained through Focus Group Discussions and Key informants is emphasized. Understanding our ethnic or traditional super foods aids to do further research on traditional superfoods and in turn can contribute in formulating a balanced diet for the modern-day Lactating women without losing our rich traditions. Key Words: Traditional Knowledge, Lactation, Traditional/Ethnic Super Foods, Postpartum, Confinement


In the general population, the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has stabilized and is expected to decline. What are the trends in HCV


Background
Despite recent investments into reducing errors and adverse events in health care, methods for quality improvement in surgery are outdated and ineffective. Most current efforts in this field are centred around morbidity and mortality
conferences (MMCs), which have remained unchanged for over 100 years. The present study aimed to quantify the recall bias associated with details from surgical cases.

Methods
We gathered immediate postoperative questionnaires from 1 surgeon, 1 fellow and 11 trainees following 25 routine surgical cases. Information elicited included their perceived level of concentration, mental preparedness and assessment
of whether the procedure deviated from its expected course, including any intraoperative adverse events. We readministered the questionnaire 7−9 days later to assess participants' ability to recall important aspects of the procedure.

Results
After 1 week, members of the surgical team were universally inaccurate in their recollection of even major details from the operating room. Although most participants felt mentally prepared and perceived no issues with concentration during the case, all participants misclassified operations as having been performed with or without adverse events in almost every included case.

Conclusion
Our findings show that recall bias regarding surgical safety events is exceedingly common. This likely has a major impact on the integrity of data presented at MMCs.


In his rhetorical exercises that portray boorish critics denouncing educated speakers as sophists and magicians, Libanius hints at the contemporary scene of Christian attacks on Hellenic paideia.


The overall penumbra is usually defined as the distance, p20–80, separating the 20% and 80% of the dose on the beam axis at the depth of interest. This overall penumbra accounts also for the fact that some photons emitted by the distal parts of the source are only partially attenuated by the collimator. Medulloblastoma is the most common type of childhood brain tumor and often spreads to the spine. Current guidelines call for surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible, followed by radiation of the brain and spinal cord, and finally treatment with chemotherapy. The purpose of this paper was to present results on an Uniformity of dose distribution in radiation fields surrounding the spine using film dosimetry and comparison with 3D treatment planning software. Keywords—Absorbed Dose , Spine , Radiotherapy, 3D treatment planning software


This proceedings contains abstracts of 108 papers focusing on the different Tospovirus diseases of various crops and their thysanopteran vectors. The genetics of these pests and pathogens, the different methods used in their control and their geographical distribution are also highlighted.


[1] Ultralow-frequency waves in the magnetosphere have been observed and widely reported in the literature. One important class of such waves includes field-line resonances, having fundamental frequencies as low as ∼1.3 mHz. Fluctuations below this frequency have been reported infrequently, although a few studies note oscillations with periods of approximately 30 min. The nature of these waves is especially interesting because the expected wavelength that would be associated with them should be larger than the scale size of the magnetosphere. In fact, the majority of these observations have been acquired using satellites located in the fairly distant magnetotail. In one of these studies, the only one which finds a discrete spectrum, data was obtained between XGSM = −8 and −18RE. In this paper, we show evidence for the existence of a discrete spectrum of oscillations within the magnetosphere that can persist for up to 2 days and perhaps longer. These observations were acquired at geosynchronous orbit and were observed at all local times simultaneously with a signature that is clearest in energetic electron data but can also be seen in the GOES magnetometer data. These facts suggest that a global-scale magnetic fluctuation, perhaps one that originates in the magnetotail, resonates with energetic electron drift orbits via an E × B force.


The recent Ottawa-Gatineau tornado outbreak of September 2018 caused 23 injuries, damaged over 2000 houses and electrical infrastructure causing a power outage that affected over 200,000 people for days following the storm. Dunrobin was identified as one of the worst hit neighbourhoods in the aftermath of the event. A closer look of the damage pictures from Dunrobin revealed that some houses in the neighborhood performed better than the others. Figure 1 shows the case-study neighbourhood before and after damage. This raises the following questions: was there a certain feature in the structural design of those houses that prevented their collapse? Or was it a mere coincidence that those structures were positioned in a way that they got shielded from the effect of intense winds?


With the advent and booming of cognitive neuroscience,computer science and complexity sciences in the latest years,linguistics has been steered on the scientific track and merged with the relevant disciplines of cognitive science to develop into transdisciplinary research areas. Accordingly,the curricula for the linguistic graduates should,therefore,be adjusted and amended to keep abreast with the times in the following ways: Firstly,linguistics and applied linguistics should be more regarded as a subject of science and technology than as a liberal art one. It should not be categorized as a secondary discipline subordinated to the primary disciplines of"Chinese Language and Literature"and "Foreign Languages and Literature". Secondly,linguists,rather than confining themselves to the study of language proper for the purpose of description,should make joint efforts with the experts from other disciplines concerned to reveal the mystery of language,mind and brain. Thirdly,the future-oriented curricula for graduate students are supposed to exploit wider varieties of educational resources for the cultivation of transdisciplinary talents through cooperation across departments,universities and even national boundaries. Moreover, students' critical mind and skills in applying modern technologies to the study of languages should be fostered. Finally,the curricula should attach more weight to project-centered research practice under the guidance of graduates' supervisors so that the students can combine theoretical knowledge with practical work and learn to find their own questions,solve problems and formulate original theories.


The echolocation beam of toothed whales has been studied ever since it was first discovered in 1960. Recent studies have focused on the frequency distributions across the cross sections of the beams. Other studies have focussed on describing the entire acoustic field around the animal. However, no one has yet described the timing of each frequency component in the main lobe beam in relation to the other frequency components. Even though the echolocation clicks of broadband click species like the beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) are short in time (around 70 μs), previous results have shown indications on a frequency dependence with time, within each click. Little is known about the details of how the signal is generated and transmitted into the water. Investigations of when in time the frequency components occur within each click would give us further knowledge to how the signals are generated. This study takes a closer look at these intra-click time-frequency patterns across the echolocation beam of ...


The fundamental theory for developing ARX application programs with MF C and the concrete method for developing AutoCAD by combination between MFC and Object ARX are introduced in this paper.And an example is given. It is a valid channel for combining MFC and Object ARX.


— Multiple oscillators often co-exist within the same cell. Are there mechanisms and regulatory principles to ensure functional harmony between these oscillators? Here, we show that salicylic acid, a plant immune signaling hormone, uniquely perturbs the cellular circadian redox rhythm to reinforce the expression of core circadian clock genes through the master immune regulator NPR1. Mathematical modeling and subsequent experiments demonstrated that NPR1 targets both morning and evening genes of the circadian clock. This balanced network architecture ensures the maintenance of period and reinforcement of the circadian clock amplitude by simultaneous regulation of differently phased components.


Chinese ancient history as a magnificent cultural treasures,has an important role and value for both Chinese contemporary socialist civilization.Thia paper briefly discusses the role and function of ancient Chinese history.


SUBTITLE: WHAT DOES CORPORATE AMERICA WANT FROM NEW HIRES? -- AN UNDERSTANDING OF LOGISTICS, OF COST TRADE-OFFS ALONG THE SUPPLY CHAIN, AND OF WAYS TO DEPLOY LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS COMPETITIVELY: BUT ARE TODAY'S UNIVERSITIES FULLY PREPARING GRADUATES FOR THE REAL WORLD OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT?


A risk-based integrated production model (RIPM) was used to guide development of an offshore volatile-oil field and a retrograde-condensate-gas field. Strategic decisions regarding facility alternatives and well completion design were analyzed in light of uncertainties in reservoir size and performance by use of a systems approach. Key parameters and business drivers were identified to focus the technical work on important development decisions. The RIPM enabled making decisions and evaluating a large number of options under a fast-track mandate in which relatively little data existed. The RIPM analysis was facilitated with predictions from technical tools for reservoir performance and completion design. Field results to date have validated this decision-making approach.


Conventional RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) provides limited information about the kinetic mechanisms underlying changes in RNA levels. Nucleotide recoding RNA-seq methods (NR-seq; e.g., TimeLapse-seq, SLAM-seq, etc.) are widely used approaches to identify changes in RNA synthesis and degradation kinetics, yet no software exists to rigorously compare the parameters of RNA kinetics between experimental conditions. We developed bakR to address this need. bakR relies on Bayesian hierarchical modeling of NR-seq data to increase statistical power by sharing information across transcripts. Using simulated and real data, we validate bakR and demonstrate how it provides new insights into the kinetics of RNA metabolism.


See: summary In a short historical survey special attention is given to the studies of Einthoven, which are the bases of modern phonocardiographv. In the discussion about human hearing the possibility, of concentration on fixed frequency areas is stressed. "Ear like" or "gehorsahnliche" phonocardiography does not exist. In this investigation we applied "selective phonocardiography". Five so-called "hihi-pass"" filters, found on empirical grounds by Maass and Weber, were used in our apparatus. The frequency characteristics are shown in fig. 3. .... Zie: SUmmary


CD8+ T lymphocytes are important for immunological control of infections and tumors. The key interaction required to initiate the process of T cell activation is the engagement of the T cell receptor (TCR) with a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I/peptide complex on an antigen presenting cell (APC). Depending on the affinity of the interaction between the TCR and MHC class I molecule, different arrays of signaling pathways can be activated in the T cell. Molecular alterations in the peptide bound to the MHC class I can lead to a lower affinity of the MHC:TCR-interaction resulting in incomplete or qualitatively different T-cell responses. Altered peptide ligands (APLs) exhibiting such activity are referred to as partial agonists and often occur naturally through genetic instability, which affects T cell epitopes derived from rapidly mutating viruses or tumor-associated cellular antigens. We studied the molecular basis of partial agonism using MHC class I/peptide tetramer complexes. By using tetramers assembled with a fully agonist peptide or its synthetic variant we could study the relationship between tetramer staining, cytokine production and different pathways of activation induced cell death (AICD). We found that positive tetramer staining correlated with at least two different activation programs in CD8+ T lymphocytes: full scale activation associated with Fas-dependent AICD and an incomplete activation followed by Fas-independent AICD. Further, we used raft-disrupting agents to assess the role of lipid rafts in determining the agonistic potency of different peptide ligands. We showed that overall binding of specific tetramers to CTLs was reduced upon raft disruption, although the half-life of tetramer:TCR complexes formed under these conditions was not affected. These findings suggest that different TCR complexes on the surface of CTLs may have different requirements for cholesterol and CTLs may be heterogeneous in their raft structure. In addition we analyzed programs of negative regulation of CD8+ T lymphocytes and the capacity of APLs to activate and modulate such programs. Upon specific triggering CD8+ T-cells become refractory to a secondary stimulus; a condition referred to Activation induced Non-Responsiveness (AINR). We have shown that TCR-triggering results in a novel degradation pathway of Lck, a kinase which plays a critical role in the initiation of T cell activation. Down-regulation of Lck through degradation correlated with AINR in CTLs. By blocking Lck degradation we could prevent the development of AINR. We further investigated how activation of CTLs with APLs affected Lck expression. The capacity of different peptide variants to induce Lck degradation correlated with their agonistic potency. Inefficient recognition of APLs by specific T lymphocytes is believed to contribute to the failure of the immune system to control certain tumor types and progressive viral diseases. To better understand the regulation of APL activity by immunologic help, we analyzed the capacity of exogenous IL-2 and IL-15 to influence different aspects of activation triggered in CTLs by either fully or partially agonistic peptide ligands. We showed that signals induced by the lymphokines synergize with weak TCR signaling induced by partially agonistic APL, converting many of these peptides from inhibitory to stimulatory ligands. We also demonstrated that IL-2 and IL-15 suppress induction of a death receptor-independent apoptotic program triggered by partially agonistic APL. In conclusion, we have analyzed the molecular basis of partial agonism in CTL recognition of peptide epitopes and characterized molecular changes associated with death and AINR in specific CTLs. We have shown that structural changes in the sequence of CTL peptide epitopes may decrease the affinity of MHC/TCR interactions and generate APLs, which not only trigger incomplete activation programs but also induce and modulate negative regulation programs in CTLs. This APL induced signaling of suppressive nature appears to be more prominent in the absence of immunological help, suggesting that under conditions of immune deregulation APLs may actively suppress CTL responses against infectious agents or tumors. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS This thesis is based on the following papers, which will be referred to by their roman numerals: I. Wei C, Uhlin M, Masucci MG, Levitsky V Tetramer binding and secretion of interferon-gamma in response to antigenic stimulation are compatible with a range of affinities of MHC:TCR interaction and distinct programs of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte activation. Hum Immunol. 2002 Oct;63(10):821. II. Uhlin M, Masucci MG, Levitsky V. Pharmacological disintegration of lipid rafts decreases specific tetramer binding and disrupts the CD3 complex and CD8 heterodimer in human cytotoxic T-lymphocytes. Scand J Immunol. 2003 Feb;57(2):99-106 III. Uhlin M, Masucci MG, Levitsky V Regulation of Lck degradation and refractory state in CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Jun 28;102(26):9264-9. IV. Uhlin M, Sandalova E, Masucci MG, Levitsky V The activity of partially agonistic peptides recognized by cytotoxic T-Lymphocytes is modulated by help signals triggered by exogenous lymphokines. Eur J Immunol. 2005 Oct;35(10):2929-39.


Background: TDP2 is the only known tyrosine 5′-phosphodiesterase. Results: Recombinant human TDP2 preferentially processes single-stranded DNA ends. Its catalytic site is similar to APE-1 and consists of at least four essential residues Asn-120, Glu-152, Asp-262, and His-351 and two divalent metals. Conclusion: We elucidated the catalytic mechanisms of TDP2 and its substrate preference. Significance: TDP2 is critical for the repair of trapped topoisomerase complexes. TDP2 is a multifunctional enzyme previously known for its role in signal transduction as TRAF and TNF receptor-associated protein (TTRAP) and ETS1-associated protein 2 (EAPII). The gene has recently been renamed TDP2 because it plays a critical role for the repair of topoisomerase II cleavage complexes (Top2cc) and encodes an enzyme that hydrolyzes 5′-tyrosine-DNA adducts that mimic abortive Top2cc. Here we further elucidate the DNA-processing activities of human recombinant TDP2 and its biochemical characteristics. The preferred substrate for TDP2 is single-stranded DNA or duplex DNA with a four-base pair overhang, which is consistent with the known structure of Top2cc or Top3cc. The kcat/Km of TDP1 and TDP2 was determined. It was found to be 4 × 105 s−1m−1 for TDP2 using single-stranded 5′-tyrosyl-DNA. The processing of substrates as short as five nucleotides long suggests that TDP2 can directly bind DNA ends. 5′-Phosphodiesterase activity requires a phosphotyrosyl linkage and tolerates an extended group attached to the tyrosine. TDP2 requires Mg2+ or Mn2+ for efficient catalysis but is weakly active with Ca2+ or Zn2+. Titration with Ca2+ demonstrates a two-metal binding site in TDP2. Sequence alignment suggests that TDP2 contains four conserved catalytic motifs shared by Mg2+-dependent endonucleases, such as APE1. Substitutions at each of the four catalytic motifs identified key residues Asn-120, Glu-152, Asp-262, and His-351, whose mutation to alanine significantly reduced or completely abolished enzymatic activity. Our study characterizes the substrate specificity and kinetic parameters of TDP2. In addition, a two-metal catalytic mechanism is proposed.


The laser-beam riding guidance system controls the way a missile flies and hits a target by encoded laser information field. This paper discusses the spatial encoding method of the modulating disk in the laser beam riding guidance system and designs a light field modulation optical system for the transmitter of the laser beam riding guidance system. The reshaped laser beam can be projected into the internal and external code channels of the modulating disk, thus generating an encoded information field which will be used to control the flight of a missile. Besides, this paper designs a distributed photo detector light field collection system to simultaneously test the light field modulation status of the information field. This system is composed of modules including a pinhole aperture array, a PIN array, a signal processing electric circuit and a data collecting and processing module. The result demonstrates the accuracy and feasibility of the modulated light field test carried out with this system.


In Yanyuan County,geology complexity and steep slop development with heavy rainfall caused many geological hazard,including land slides,debris flows and land collapse.Based on investigation data in the county,the authors analyzed,the geological hazards distribution characteristics,and formation condition of all kinds of geological hazards.These analyses will offer scientific foundation for the geological hazards control measures.


Property characteristics of cement concrete as building material are briefly introduced as well as static and dynamic uniaxial compression test of concrete with various strengthens.Based upon analysis of experimental results author finds out that the static compressive strength of concrete significantly influences its dynamic compressive strength.


Many Chinese and foreign thinkers have noted that in the political theory and practice of traditional China, the state and the family are isomorphic. This chapter examines some problems China has encountered in its political modernization. It compares the political thought and institutions of Chinese Confucianism with modern democratic politics. Through this comparison, it first highlights the special characteristics of traditional Chinese political theory and practice; and second, it argues that these two types of politics are two incommensurable models. The chapter conducts this examination on two levels: the institutional level and the broader conceptual level. If we regard Confucianism as a religion, then we can naturally consider the entire state a religious organization, with the emperor as leader, his ministers as priests, and people all as believers. In traditional culture the court was called miaotang, which also means "temple;" this demonstrates the integration of church and state. Keywords: Chinese; conceptual level; Confucianism; democratic politics; family; institutional level; integration of church; isomorphic; political tradition; state


Trade has contributed to economic development and has brought countries or regions of the world closer together, but it has also had a significant impact on the global environment, particularly in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. Does an increase in a country's trade necessarily contribute to an increase in its carbon emissions? This paper examines the impact of changes in the position of major countries in the world trade network on their carbon emission levels. In terms of research methodology, this paper achieves an innovation by adopting a complex network approach to analyze the structural characteristics of the trade relationship networks of major countries or regions in the world, providing a new perspective for the study of the relationship between trade development and carbon emissions. The results of the study show that: trade relations among countries are relatively stable from 2000 to 2020, trade ties among members of regional integration organizations are increasing, the top ten countries in terms of importance are mainly developed countries, and China has very close trade relations with most countries. Based on the analysis of structural characteristics, the impact of changes in the network status of each country on its ocarbon emissions is analyzed, using indicators such as the degree centrality of each node as the independent variable and its domestic carbon emission level as the dependent variable. It is found that developed countries have a significant positive impact on in-going degree centrality, and insignificant impact on out-going degree centrality and betweenness centrality. In contrast, developing countries have a significant positive impact on out-going degree centrality and a negative impact on carbon emissions by betweenness centrality, and this conclusion tells us that not all export growth will contribute to higher levels of carbon emissions in the country. Eigenvector centrality has a negative effect on carbon emissions for both developing and developed countries, and closeness to centrality has no effect on carbon emissions while closeness centrality has no effect on carbon emissions. The results of this study again show that the influence of developed countries is greater than that of developing countries on carbon emissions; therefore, the role of developed countries can be taken into account in subsequent studies on carbon emission reduction.


Guo Moruo is not only a passionate romantic poet, but also a creator who has widely open mind. This means that his understanding of religion and culture is open and creative. In Guo Moruo's literary creation, his thought and complex about religious culture show up a complicated and creative state. However, this area has not yet been deeply involved in the study.


Two brown coals from China were dewatered under hydrothermal dewatering (HTD) conditions at 250–320 °C for 1 h in a 2 L autoclave. The HTD products and brown raw coals were pyrolyzed in a thermogravimetry analyzer at heat rate of 15°C/min from ambient temperature to 800°C. And the gas products were measured by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer. Besides, The Coast-Redfern model was employed to analyze the effects of HTD on kinetics during coal pyrolysis process. The results showed that the initial temperatures of each pyrolysis stage of HTD products were higher than that of raw coals. The temperatures at which methane appears during pyrolysis process increased and the total absorbance intensity of CH4 was weakened as increasing HTD temperature. Moreover, the activity energy also increased as increasing HTD temperature. It meant that thermal stability of brown coals was improved during HTD process.


Mid-ocean (35°N 155°W) observations of the various components of radiative flux were made from the R/P FLIP during the period 2 through 13 February 1974. Cloud cover ranged from clear skies to overcast, and water vapour pressure varied between 9 and 18 mb, with sea surface temperature near 15.0°C.

The net longwave radiative fluxes reported here were obtained: (1) by taking the difference between simultaneous measurements of net all-wave and net solar fluxes; and (2) by direct measurements with a net longwave radiometer designed by G. W. Paltridge. When observations during rain and fog are excluded, the difference between night-time 15-minute averages by the two methods is generally less than lmWcm−2. During day-time, indirect measurements are often larger than direct by about 5mWcm−2; from internal evidence we prefer the direct values.

The albedo of the sea surface was calculated from simultaneous measurements of downward and upward solar fluxes. The observations were analysed to represent albedo as a function of solar altitude and atmospheric transmittance, following the work of R. E. Payne; our results suggest that Payne's smoothed representation is suitable for use over the open ocean. Albedo was observed to decrease with increasing wind speed for clear skies with solar altitude between 15 and 30 degrees but no variation was discernible at higher solar altitudes.

Empirical formulae for calculating both shortwave and net longwave components of the radiative flux were compared with measurements. A formula due to F. E. Lumb for determining the incident solar flux given solar altitude, cloud amount and cloud type, consistently yields good agreement with the measurements, within about lmWcm−2. Daily averages of net longwave flux calculated from several empirical formulae using a linear correction for clouds are within 2mWcm−2 of the observations reported in this paper. Since daily radiation balance values were measured as only 5mWcm−2, the limitations of the best current empirical formulae are evident.


A gateway detection method of a private network and a gateway detection device are provided to more safely using a device accessible to an external network from the private network. It is decided whether it is possible to access at least two Internet environments(S201). If so, a driving action of a gateway for connection between a private network and an external network is detected(S202). When deciding whether it is possible to access the at least two Internet environments, it is decided whether at least two NICs(Network Interface Cards) are activated. The NICs consist of the first NIC for connection with a private network and the second NIC for connection with an external network.


In web transport systems, the main concern is to control independently speed and tension in spite of perturbations such as radius variations and set point changes. In this paper we present multivariable H/sub 2/ controllers applied to winding systems. Two controller structures are considered: a centralized for a three-motor winding system and a semi-decentralized controller without overlapping for a large scale system, materialized here by a nine-motor winding benchmark. These controllers, based on state feedback, are designed with bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) optimization. In order to cancel steady state errors in response to constant reference signals or constant disturbances two solutions are considered: the use of a static gain compensation matrix and of full or partial integral action. Simulation results are given for both of these systems, based on models identified on an experimental bench.


Globular amyloidosis is a very infrequent amyloidosis subtype, characterized by the deposition of rounded bodies of protein, occasionally perivascular instead of the usual linear deposits. The most frequently affected organ is the liver, although other organs can also been involved. To date, only eight cases (1-3) of globular amyloidosis of the gastrointestinal tract have been described. Clinical meaning of this morphologic variation of amyloidosis is unknown.


The banana seedlings were treated with brassinolid(BR) of different concentrations under the cold-stressed condition.Comparing to the control,the treatment with certain concentration may obvious reduce the electrolyte leakage rate,increase SOD activity,enhance the soluble protein content at a certain extent,slow down the MDA content change,distinctly enhance soluble sugar content,slow down the area of wither and mortalityrate as well as delay the chlorophyll degraded speed of the banana seedling leave.These changes of metabolite have played a key role and important function in enhancing cold-stressed period resistance of banana seedlings.The concentration with the best protected effect is 0.9 mg·L~(-1).


Redundant materials in germplasm collections cause hurdles in gene bank management. Present study was conducted to analyze redundancies using Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs) and to evaluate genetic diversity of barley germplasm comprising of 404 Hordeum vulgare landraces belonging to 8 different regions (Pakistan. India, Iran, Nepal, Iraq, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Kazakhstan). In total 50 alleles were detected. Number of alleles observed was highest for Bmag0023 (11) followed by HVLOX (9), HVM54 (8), Bmag0382 (7), Bmag0500 (5), Bmag0490 (5) and HVID (5) locus. Allele size range was largest for HVLOX while it was lowest for Bmag0500. Allele frequencies were found highest for allele HVM54-120 (0.39) followed by HVID-80 (0.38) and Bmag0382-66 (0.35). Core collection for the barley germplasm comprised of 42 patterns including 14 unique and 28 frequent patterns. The number of patterns observed in landraces of different regions was in the order of Pakistan> India> Nepal> Turkmenistan> Iraq> Iran> Uzbekistan> Kazakhstan. These patterns were clearly clustered into two groups using Jaccard's cluster analysis (group A and group B). Principal Component Analysis (PCA) also distributes these patterns into three groups. The overall results revealed that differentiation of patterns using Jaccard's cluster analysis was in accordance with PCA which revealed that these patterns were distributed with respect to their geographic regions. Furthermore, it was concluded that development of core collection is the one strategy besides other strategies to reduce redundancies in gene bank management and make the handling of germplasm easier.


Abstract The influence of microorganisms associated with alfalfa leafcutter bee ( Megachile rotundata ) larvae on chalkbrood caused by Ascosphaera aggregata was determined by comparing disease in agnotobiotic and axenic larvae, with and without an introduced microflora (gnotobiotic). Bacterial and fungal populations in the frass of larvae reared on natural provisions (agnotobiotic) were log 4.24 and log 3.90 cfu/g of frass, respectively. No fungi were recovered from the frass of larvae reared on γ-irradiated provisions, but bacterial populations averaged log 0.89 cfu/g (near-axenic). Following ingestion of ascospores of A. aggregata , the incidence of chalkbrood was significantly higher in agnotobiotic (67.6%) than near-axenic (50.2%) larvae, but the time to death of infected larvae was the same for both. Microorganisms were inoculated onto the surface of γ-irradiated provisions adjacent to leafcutter bee eggs and were ingested by larvae; 11 of 13 bacteria, 9 of 10 filamentous fungi, but 0 of the 7 yeasts were recovered from frass (gnotobiotic). Populations of inoculated bacteria and filamentous fungi recovered in frass ranged from log 5.40 to 7.30 cfu/g and log 5.21 to 6.52 cfu/g of frass, respectively. Of the 20 microorganisms recovered in frass, only Bacillus brevis and a Streptomyces sp. significantly increased the incidence of chalkbrood (74.0 and 74.8%, respectively) when larvae were coinoculated with ascospores of A. aggregata (1:1 ratio); the incidence of chalkbrood in larvae inoculated with the pathogen alone was 52.1%. None of the microorganisms themselves appeared to be deleterious to larvae. There were no significant differences in microbial populations in frass from healthy larvae or chalkbrood cadavers; however, noninoculated bacteria were associated with all nine fungal treatments. The results of this study suggest that microorganisms associated with the alimentary tracts of alfalfa leafcutter bee larvae have a minimal impact if any on chalkbrood.


Ba[SnxZn(1–x)/3Nb2(1–x)/3]O3 (x = 0.0, 0.16, 0.226, 0.32, 0.4) solid solution ceramics were synthesized by the conventional solid-state reaction method. Crystal structures are studied by X-ray diffraction, and vibrational modes are obtained by Raman spectroscopy and Fourier transform far-infrared reflection spectroscopy. The correlation among dielectric properties, lattice vibrational modes, and crystal structures are discussed by analyses of vibrational modes. Spectroscopic and structural data show sensitivity of dielectric properties to structures of samples with Sn4+ concentration, and optimized dielectric properties of Ba[SnxZn(1–x)/3Nb2(1–x)/3]O3 are found where x = 0.32. The changes of unit cell parameters and the bulk densities of the samples with Sn4+ concentration are discussed. The changes of dielectric properties with the Raman modes and their full width at half-maximum are obtained. The frequencies of phonon modes are determined, and the widths of phonon modes are related to ionic radii for th...


This study tests various applications of a new technique for infilling sparse monthly climate data which combines temperature anomalies from gridded observational and reanalysis data sets with baseline climatologies from short‐instrumental records. Out‐of‐sample comparisons between infilled and observed climate data for 53 stations in northeastern Canada suggests that mean absolute errors using the proposed method are ±1 and ±0.5 °C on monthly and annual timescales, respectively. Evaluation of several gridded data sets used to guide infilling suggests that ERA‐Interim (ERAI) and modern‐era retrospective reanalysis (MERRA) reanalyses are the most suitable for this purpose in the Labrador‐Ungava region.


polymers or oligomers have the general formula: (CF DRAWING IN BOPI) X, X, X: ESTERS, AMIDES OR CN; Y, Y and Y: -O- or -NR-, R, R and R: GROUP CONTAINING RADICAL polyalkyl piperidine (R may also be an alkyl); R AND R AND R: ALKYLENE, alkenylene, arylene-dialkylene, cycloalkylene-dialkylene OR SINGLE OR polyoxaalkyl ALKYLENE. CAN OBTAIN BY Polycondensation ESTERS OR ACID AMIDES MALONIC cyanoacetic OR WITH COMPOUNDS DIFUNCTIONAL, ADVANTAGEOUSLY dihalogenated, BASED IN PRESENCE. WITH MOLECULAR WEIGHT 800 A 20000, THESE ARE PRODUCTS AGENTS OF oUTSTANDING PROTECTION ORGANIC POLYMERS TOWARDS THE LIGHT.


PURPOSE: A touch sensitive interface device is provided to vibrate a touch screen unit in direction which is parallel with one side thereof thereby providing operation feeling which changes tactility of touch area of a user. CONSTITUTION: A touch sensing interface device(1000) comprises touch screen unit(110), a driving unit(120) and a control unit(140). In order to change tactility of surface of the touch screen, the driving unit vibrates the touch screen unit in direction which is parallel with one side of the touch screen. A piezoelectric device is used to the driving unit. The piezoelectric device is formed at bar shape. The piezoelectric device is combined in one side of the touch screen unit. The control unit controls operation frequency of the driving unit.


An oft-repeated phrase among African Studies scholars is "African Solutions to African Problems." This roundtable proposes to revisit this idea through the discussion of "Transnational Approaches to Transnational Problems." In today's globalized world, the concept of "security" is no longer restricted to the nation-state. "African Solutions" may be ideal for "African Problems," yet no problem today is exclusively "African." Threats to national security are transnational, with issues such as refugees, ethnic conflict, and terrorism defying borders. In recent years, Africa has experienced a drastic political transition in numerous countries — from the border redrawing in Sudan, to the dictatorships toppled in Tunisia, Egypt, or Libya, and to religious extremist advances in Nigeria and Mali. These political transitions demand a new way to conceptualize African security interests, one that incorporates the undeniable influence of external actors, international organizations, and cross-border African initiatives. In this light, this roundtable hopes to capture the ingenuity of African solutions but to also embrace the opportunities of a transnational approach to increasingly mobilized ideas, people, and policies in Africa. Roundtable participants will draw from a variety of case studies to rethink how transnational problems and transnational approaches have reconfigured diplomatic and human relationships and address the different mechanisms of transnational security strategies. In particular, roundtable participants will discuss the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership, training EU Training Initiative in Mali, the Africa Contingency Operations Training & Assistance Program, the developing relationship between Israel and Sudan, and additional topics related to the ever expanding globalized international system.


The invention defines a method for a bed pet binder type and low density, comprising the following steps: a) comminuting a mineral containing higher attapulgite 50% by weight and variable contents of other clays and / or mineral species, to obtain a granularcon one particle size less than 20 mm, b) Knead crushing step a) with water in a proportion of 20-80% by pesode the mixture, c) extruding the mass of the phase b) to obtain pellets, fritters, test pieces or blocks, of different sizes and shapes, d) drying the extrudate in step c) by mediosnaturales, forced or combination thereof, e) comminuting to obtain a granular, f) Sort This process enables a lightweight granular product with high absorbency and high liquid agglomerating.


This editorial refers to 'Registry on acute cardiovascular events during endurance running races: the prospective RACE Paris registry'†, by B. Gerardin et al .on page 2531.

Long-distance running (LDR) is among the oldest human pastimes. The ability to run at moderate intensity over long distances, primarily to hunt and to procure food, was at the core of our successful evolutionary history. In contemporary society, we no longer need to run, but many of us still do. Organized LDR races are held in every corner of the globe, and participation rates are steadily on the rise. The increasing popularity of LDR is multifactorial, with contributions including an increasing awareness of the health benefits of exercise, reliance on running as a means of socialization and recreation, and perhaps some subconscious countermeasures to combat our increasing tendency to be sedentary. Once an activity confined to elite male athletes, there is now more equal participation by men and women, with runners spanning the full spectra of age, medical complexity, and athletic prowess. However, as more people embrace LDR and participation in organized races soars, so too have concerns about risk. Safety concerns about LDR, based largely on case reports of sudden death during races, are genuine, valid, and an important topic of scientific inquiry that remain plagued by myths, anecdotes, and unanswered questions.

In this issue of the journal, investigators representing the RACE Paris Registry present data characterizing life-threatening and fatal events among a small group of French distance races.1 Over a 7-year period, race participation and clinical data from five …


Currently, the best confidence interval (CI) for RMSEA in covariance structure analysis given nonnormal data is proposed by Brosseau-Liard, Savalei, and Li (BSL). A key assumption for the BSL CI often overlooked is that all the nonzero eigenvalues are equal in a matrix related to the model and data nonnormality. This assumption rarely holds in practice, especially for mean and covariance structure analysis, and violating this assumption can entail serious mistakes when the model's degrees of freedom are small. One important application of moment structure analysis with small degrees of freedom is growth models. In this paper, we propose a new CI method for RMSEA in growth models given nonnormal data, without assuming equal eigenvalues. Although we focus on growth models, our method applies to any other models in moment structure analysis. Simulation results verify the new method is trustworthy and better than all the current methods.


Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the causes of scope creep on project completion in the real estate development industry in Ghana.

Design/methodology/approach

Both simple random sampling and convenience sampling techniques were used in selecting the respondents for the study. The respondents were experts working in the real estate development industry in Ghana.

Findings

Results from the study showed that the most critical factors that cause scope creep in the Ghanaian real estate development industry are client changes, unforeseen risks and unclear scope. Mitigating measures for addressing these factors were proposed.

Research limitations/implications

This paper is limited to causes of scope creep in the real estate development industry in Ghana based on data collected from only real estate development firms in Accra. Due to geographic constraints, the researcher was unable to sample real estate development companies across the entire country. The finding of this study may not be generalised since causes of scope creep can be unique to individual country contexts.

Practical implication

This paper has documented the critical causes of scope creep and its major impacts on project completion in the real estate development industry in Ghana. The results will help project managers in the industry to appreciate the causes of scope creep and its effect on project completion as well as increase the quality of economics on real estate management and reduce the costs and risks of housing of delivery in the country.

Originality/value

The paper examined the causes and mitigation of project scope creep in the Ghanaian context.


Five major challenges experienced while conducting a study regarding the neurobehavioral developmental trajectories of primary school children in Trinidad and Tobago are reviewed. 1. Governing Principles. Institutional review of the scientific rationale for the work and safety of participants is required for research activities in any/all settings. 2. Design/Methodology. Cultural beliefs/values/goals shape the research endeavor from recruitment strategies, informed consent, research design, and data collection to outcome monitoring. 3. Participants. Research studies involving children are closely scrutinized. Children need additional protections because they cannot give informed consent. Who speaks for children and how? Children must be recruited via guardians - who may not be parents but societal institutions functioning as "proxy guardians". The relationships between parents and different "proxy guardians" respond to cultural beliefs/values. 4. Behavioral Measurement-Tests. American psychology has been severely critiqued as focusing on a circumscribed sector of the population while neglecting 95% of the global community. A core concern is the use, in non-United States settings, of behavioral measures developed and normed in the U.S. No measure can be truly culture free: all brains are sculpted by interactions not only with the physical world but also with the psychological world of their own cultural heritage. 5. Behavioral Measurement-Rating Scales. In transferring research across cultures, language/dialect differences are frequently highlighted. Differences in literacy can be even more challenging. Lack of literacy cannot be used to exclude persons from potential research benefits, nor for the failure to conduct effective informed consent processes. Cultural variations in the value/use of the written word have direct impact on research design/methodology, data collection/quality, the training/conduct of research personnel, and on funding. Implications for the mounting research in international settings are discussed.


In this paper we study recent reaction attacks against QC-LDPC and QC-MDPC code-based cryptosystems, which allow an opponent to recover the private parity-check matrix through its distance spectrum by observing a sufficiently high number of decryption failures. We consider a special class of codes, known as monomial codes, to form private keys with the desirable property of having a unique and complete distance spectrum. We verify that for these codes the problem of recovering the secret key from the distance spectrum is equivalent to that of finding cliques in a graph, and use this equivalence to prove that current reaction attacks are not applicable when codes of this type are used in the McEliece cryptosystem.


I. Introduction THE CONCEPT that steroid hormone action is mediated by interaction with specific target tissue receptor proteins has become generally well accepted. Receptors that are not bound to hormone (unoccupied receptors) were initially described as residing in cytosolic/cytoplasmic1 compartments of many systems. Biochemical and autoradiographic procedures led to this conclusion. Additional evidence established that hormone binding induces receptor transformation2 and receptor movement from the cytosolic to the nuclear compartment (translocation), where the biological response is initiated. This review summarizes the evidence for steroid receptor action in the nucleus and discusses the recent controversy that unoccupied receptors themselves may be predominantly associated with nuclear components in vivo. This summary, rather than being an exhaustive review of one or two receptor systems, emphasizes the parallel development of these concepts in multiple steroid hormone receptor systems,3 in part by r...


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Data science is the field of applying advanced techniques and scientific principles to extract valuable information from data. User-generated multi-media content, such as images, text, videos, and speech, has recently become prominent on social media platforms like Twitter during the COVID-19 period. The suggested emotion from the text can be successfully mined for many situations using sentiment analysis. The proposed system is a hybrid framework that combines a lexicon-based technique for analysis of sentiments in tweets and labeling with supervised Machine Learning techniques for tweet classification. The long short-term memory (LSTM) has been identified as the preferred ML technique in the framework because to its high accuracy and recall score. The evaluated and final results indicate that our hybrid framework has the potential to automatically classify large tweet volumes, like the tweets on COVID-19, according to the sentiments in society. This paper consists of lexicon-based automated tweet sentiment analysis and labeling in conjunction with state-of-the-art DL techniques for tweet classification.VADER as a sentiment analysis tool would likely not suffice to process these enormous text volumes. Therefore, in order to advance the scalability of text processing for sentiment analysis, we propose a hybrid of VADER with ML techniques. VADER provides the data labels according to a polarity score, i.e., score for positive, negative, and neutral sentiments and the labeled data form the basis for the training of the ML techniques. To obtain the best performance from the ML techniques, we have used fivefold cross-validation to tune the parameters. keeping in mind an unbalanced dataset scenario, we have also generated other evaluation measures namely, recall, precision, and F1 score. The LSTM technique outperformed all other ML techniques, achieving a high-test accuracy.


Abstract Background: Platelet-rich plasma (PRP), an autologous platelet concentrate (contain a large number of growth factors), has been widely investigated in healing and rebuilding the bone and tendon tissue. The objective of this prospective randomized research is to study and then compare the long-term effectiveness of the repair of arthroscopic rotator cuff without and with the platelet-rich plasma. It is assumed that there is no difference in the clinical results between patients receiving the repair of arthroscopic rotator cuff and the patients who do not receive PRP enhancement. Methods: This current study is a prospective, single-center, controlled, and randomized experiment. This study was reviewed and permitted via the institutional review committee of our hospital. All the patients will receive the written informed consent in order to involve in our clinical experiment. Patients were selected from the patients who received the repair of arthroscopic rotator cuff. Patients who meet the following conditions will be included in this study: ages ranges from 18 to 55; patients with complete tear of rotator cuff confirmed during operation; the patients agreed to wear the abduction stent for 4 weeks after operation; the preoperative count of platelet count is >150,000. All patients were evaluated at follow-up and baseline for the scores of Constant-Murley (CM) and American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES), the numerical rating scale (NRS), and retear rate. The analysis is implemented with the SPSS 16.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL), the significance level remain at P < .05. Conclusions: The results of this study will provide useful new information on whether PRP is effective in the arthroscopic rotator cuff repair patients. Trial registration: This study protocol was registered in Research Registry (researchregistry6108).


The hybrid Rumex tianschanicus A. Los. × Rumex patientia L. created in Ukraine, known as the Sorrel of Uteush or schavnat was cultivated in the experimental land of the Botanical Garden (Institute) ASM. The objective of this research was to evaluate some biological peculiarities, productivity and fodder value, depending on the time of harvest, thermophysical properties of the dry mass of the hybrid Rumex tianschanicus × Rumex patientia in Moldova's conditions. It has been established that the hybrid in the 34 years of vegetation has an accelerated growth and development rate. Branched stalks of this hybrid grow up to 2.5 m tall. In fourth year the hybrid Rumex tianschanicus × Rumex patientia was harvested in stem growth phase and we obtained 2.7 t/ha nutritive units with 600 kg/ha digestible protein; in the budding phase – 7.7 t/ha nutritive units with 1340 kg/ha digestible protein; at the end of flowering phase – 10.6 t/ha nutritive units with 913 kg/ha digestible protein. The fodder of this hybrid is distinguished by a high content of glutamine (235.2%), valine (22.4 %), proline (20.7%) and histidine (19.0 %), but a lower content of methionine (39.0%), lysine (36.0%), phenylalanine (20.0%) asparagine (37.2%), serine (13.5%) and tyrosine (318.0%) in comparison with alfalfa. For the production of solid biofuel, in seed maturation period hybrid Rumex tianschanicus × Rumex patientia can be harvested using equipment for harvesting grassy fodder, laid in swath for air-drying, chopped directly in the field or pressing in bales. The density of the briquettes made from biomass is 870 kg/m, ash content 2.1% The potential of energy production reached 200 GJ/ha. The hybrid Rumex tianschanicus × Rumex patientia can be used as a multipurpose crop in Moldova's conditions.


Work and life stresses can cause spiritual fatigue and emotional tension, threatening the physical and psychological health of young people. Several studies have demonstrated the important role and value of pocket parks in the emotional and spiritual refreshment of people. This study quantitatively evaluated the perceived restorative effects associated with the environmental characteristics of a pocket park, and determined the relationships between the physical-environmental characteristics, psychological-environmental characteristics and the restorative effects. In this study, pocket parks in Chongqing City were chosen as the study areas, and a total of 25 sample pictures of the parks were chosen for analysis. Each picture was quantized into 14 physical-environmental indices and three psychological-environmental indices for measurement of the restorative effect. The results showed that the environmental characteristics of parks with a restorative effect include naturality, sense of distance, charm and privacy. The physical-environmental characteristics related to young people's restoration and their degree of influence were determined through quantitative analysis. Moreover, a prediction model of the environmental restoration effect of pocket parks was established. The research conclusions can provide a reference for the evaluation and comparison of the environmental restoration performance of pocket parks and the design of restorative pocket parks.


Comments published on social media often contain aggressive language that can have damaging effects on users. The severe consequences of this problem, combined with the large amount of data that users daily publish on the Web, require the development of algorithms capable of automatically detecting inappropriate online remarks. In this paper, we present our participation in IberLEF-2019: subtask MEX-A3T: Authorship and aggressiveness analysis in Twitter: case study in Mexican Spanish. Our main contribution is the development of a ensemble learning system to detect aggressiveness in tweets.


Title: Implementing a stepped care approach in primary care. Results of a qualitative study. Authors: Gerdien Franx (firstname.lastname@example.com) Matthijs Oud (email@example.com) Jacomine De Lange (firstname.lastname@example.com)


We report a current-induced four-state magnetization reversal under zero magnetic field in a wedged Ta/MgO/CoFeB/MgO heterostructure with a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Anomalous Hall effect and magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy measurements were performed to demonstrate that the field-free multi-level reversal is jointly determined by the spin–orbit torque effective field that originates from the lack of the lateral inversion symmetry in the wedged stacking structure and the current-induced Oersted field. Moreover, the creation of robust intermediate Hall resistance states in the multi-state switching strongly depends on the current-induced Joule heating. Our results provide a route for the field-free multi-level state reversal, which is significant for fabricating the non-volatile and energy-efficient multi-level memories or artificial neuron devices.