In the little time after the emergence of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in China, the deceptive gossips and conspiracy concepts about the pandemic, surveillance, death rates, and (removed word-regarding) threats are closely associated with social media and mass media. Since the outbreak started in fall 2019, till now approximately 114291, 102,041,000 (people have died across the globe. The choices on quarantine applying must be based on the authentic accessible resources. Most of the studies reported adverse psychological impacts such as post-traumatic stress, confusions, anger, fear of infections, and frustrations as long-lasting paraphernalia during the largest quarantine period. The striking fastidiousness of such catastrophe is the fluke of virality and virology which are spreading very rapidly than that of the virus itself is the misinformation about the outbreak. Thus, obstructing such fabrication about the outbreak is necessary as it might become the most contagious in the coming times. Multiple social media scrutinizes and discussions regarding the geographically pandemic situation including tweets, messages, posts in the form of real-time maps have been used as an information source in the major communication campaigns. To minimalize such psychological fallouts, it is recommended that administrators must take steps to make quarantines as little as possible by providing clear information and rationale about quarantine etiquettes and ensure people in isolation have access to adequate goods. The majority of the people only experience COVID-19 through social and mass media ever. 24/7 coverage of multiple media resources makes it looks like the pandemic is ubiquitous for the lives. World Health Organization (WHO) coined a term by "Infodemic" that refers to spreading the disinformation on the COVID-19. The disassortative scenarios created by illiteracy and snowballing uncertainty raised the volume of fear in the minds of people. Giving guidance on actual social media usage to find definitive information should provide an update through confident resources particularly from the official institutes and organizations of governments. The suggestions including following WHO and CDC statistics have been recommended to accomplish news authenticity must be brought to control the stress of COVID-19.


Uniform rare earth phosphate (REPO4, RE = La−Tb) nanocrystals were successfully synthesized in a properly designed TBP/[Omim]Cl/H2O (tributylphosphate/1-octyl-3-methyl-imidazolium chloride/water) microemulsion system. The phosphoryl groups anchored the TBP molecules on the surfaces of the nanocrystals, and this made the nanocrystals easily dispersed in some imidazolium-based ILs. LaPO4:Eu3+ and CePO4:Tb3+ nanocrystals capped with TBP showed bright red and green emission under UV excitation, with enhanced emission intensity and lifetimes compared with the uncapped ones. [Omim]Cl and TBP were found to play the key roles in the nucleation and growth of the nanocrystals. The designed strategy provided a facile way for the fabrication of TBP capped REPO4 nanocrystals, which may also be applicable for the synthesis of other inorganic nanocrystals.


Ectopic pregnancy is a well-known complication in early pregnancy .the commonest site is ampullary region of fallopian tube but sometime presentations at rare sites like rudimentary uterine horn can also happen. These rare presentations are difficult to diagnose and needs high index of suspicion on behalf of obstetrician. A 28 years old Saudi female patient with previous cesarean delivery in her second pregnancy at 20 weeks presented to the emergency department of medicine with severe abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, dizziness and breathlessness. She was investigated on lines of pulmonary embolism but it was all inconclusive. Obstetrics & gynaecology department was consulted regarding the status of her pregnancy. On examination she was hypotensive and distended abdomen. Clinical and sonographic examination was going with internal bleeding in pelvis. Uterus was seen as separated from the fetus which was floating in free fluid in pouch of Douglas and measurements were going with 20 weeks of gestation. Initial suspicion was scarred ruptured ectopic pregnancy. The patient was immediately shifted to theatre and laparotomy performed with removal of blood and blood clots in abdomen and pelvis, an accessory horn on right side of uterus with a rent on posterior aspect noted and horn was excised. Patient recovered well and received 8 units of packed RBCs, FFP.


This chapter explores the economic aspects of religious dissidence, such as the confiscation of temples and churches, as well as competing philanthropic practices, civic euergetism, and ecclesiastical charity. In many instances, economic issues carried more weight than the solemn proclamations of emperors and church councils. When the emperor chose a cult or a group as something to support, he recognized that cult or religious group as a receiver of privileges and donations. The emperors' economic support of Christian communities strengthened the position of the churches. The withdrawal of imperial support hit pagan cults that had traditionally been endowed with land, property, and exemptions from duties. Furthermore, late Roman society saw another great transformation in the economics of practices. The philanthropy of the Christian churches gradually replaced the traditional Graeco-Roman form of civic philanthropy in the fourth and fifth centuries.


The excited state thermodynamic Bethe ansatz (TBA) equations for the spinless Fermion model are presented by the quantum transfer matrix (QTM) approach. We introduce a more general family called T -functions and explore functional relations among them ( T -system) and their certain combinations ( Y -system). From their analytical property, we derive a closed set of non linear integral equations which characterize the correlation length of at any finite temperatures. Solving these equations numerically, we explicitly determine the correlation length, which accurately coincides with previous results.


Objective: To determine the clinical significance of persistent versus transient leukocytosis in acute ischemic stroke (AIS). Background Transient but significant elevation in white cell counts have been described after status epilepticus, head trauma, and spinal cord injury, independent of steroid administration or infection.Leukocytosis may be secondary to alpha adrenergic stimuli, endogenous corticosteroid increase, or a combination of the two. Design/Methods: Patients who presented with AIS to our center within 48hrs of symptom onset between 7/2008 and 6/2010 were retrospectively identified by chart review. Patients were included if they had leukocytosis on admission (defined as WBC count >11,000/μl based on laboratory reference range). Demographics, NIHSS scores, leukocyte counts, length of stay (LOS), disposition, and good functional outcome (mRS 0-2) were compared in patients with persistent (still elevated 48hrs after admission) vs. transient (resolved Results: Of the 438 patients screened, 49 had leukocytosis on admission; (mean age 61.5, median admission NIHSS 9, mean LOS 8.5 days, and median discharge mRS 3). 24 (49%) had persistent leukocytosis. When compared to patients with transient leukocytosis, baseline NIHSS was significantly higher in the persistent leukocytosis group (p=0.0476), and the mean LOS was significantly longer (p=0.044). More people with transient leukocytosis had a good functional outcome (44% vs 16%, p=0.006). After adjusting for NIHSS, persistent leukocytosis was not an independent predictor of good functional outcome (OR=2.5, 95%CI 0.562-10.7, p=0.2322). NIHSS correlated significantly with persistence of leukocytosis (r=0.306, p=0.0044). Conclusions: Persistent leukocytosis, present in half of patients with AIS, is associated with higher baseline NIHSS scores, longer LOS, and poorer functional outcomes. Persistent leukocytosis is tightly linked with baseline stroke severity and may serve as a predictor of poor patient outcomes the setting of AIS. Disclosure: Dr. Boehme has nothing to disclose. Dr. Kumar has nothing to disclose. Dr. Gillette has received research support from the Infectious Disease Society of America. Dr. Siegler has nothing to disclose. Dr. Albright has nothing to disclose. Dr. Martin-Schild has nothing to disclose.


In a recent paper, Majumder and Chakravarty (1990) propose a four-parameter model which they find provides a better fit to some income data than the lognormal, gamma, Singh-Maddala, Dagum, and generalized beta of the second kind (GB2) distributions. This note (1) demonstrates that the model proposed by Majumder and Chakravarty is a reparameterization of the GB2 and (2) reconciles the corresponding contradictory empirical findings reported by Majumder and Chakravarty. Copyright 1995 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


This study focused on the meaning of the word moderate in the Qur'an contextually with reference to the QS. [2]: 143 and QS. [5]: 66. The idea of  concept on religious moderation  was still related to the meaning and urgency of moderate attitude by linking this attitude to the behavior of certain religious people. There were three problems in this study, (1) what was the form of the meaning of wasth and muqtashid? (2) what were the factors behind the meaning? (3) how the contextual meaning was generated. To respond the research problem, this study used a qualitative method using content analysis. This study revealed that the mention of moderate party in the Qur'an was not limited to Muslims, but also refers to other people. This was based on the similarity of meaning between the word wasth which was used to refer to Islam and muqtasid which was used to refer to Jews and Christians. Moderate was thus not identical to religion, but it was oriented to the attitude of humanity owned by everyone regardless of religion. Moderation thus did not always indicate the relationship between religion, but the relationship between human being.


Nanoscale Al powder with thin layer of alumina was produced by Wire Electric Explosion (WEE) process. Spark-Plasma Sintering (SPS) was performed for the produced powder to confirm the effectiveness of SPS like so-called `surface-cleaning effect` and so on. Crystallite size and alumina content of produced powder varied with the ratio of input energy to sublimation energy of Al wire (): Increase in () resulted in the decrease of crystallite size and the increase of alumina content. Shrinkage curve during SPS process showed that the oxide surface layer could not be destroyed near the melting point of Al. It implied that there was not enough or no spark-plasma effect during SPS for Al/Alumina powder.


This study supported by the thematic plan of the scientific and research works of the Saint-Petersburg State University, project "Arab-Muslim historiography of the 9th Century about countries and peoples of the Southern Caucasus, Armenian Highland and Azerbaijan", the cipher in information and analytic system 5.38.283.2014


This paper defends a 'fitting attitudes' view of value on which what it is for something to be good is for there to be reasons to favour that thing. The first section of the paper defends a 'linking principle' connecting reasons and value. The second and third sections argue that this principle is better explained by a fitting-attitudes view than by 'value-first' views on which reasons are explained in terms of value.


Abstract Immigrant family caregivers for persons living with dementia (PWD) have constant stress due to the 24/7 responsibility. These family caregivers of PWD often have high morbidity and mortality. We provided a cultural and language specific home-visit intervention for these vulnerable family caregivers. There is a lack of an objective measure of stress for caregivers. We assessed caregivers' stress by measuring heart rate variability (HRV), a physiological measure of stress, using a smartwatch for a one-month intervention. Weekly home visits for a month were provided to dementia family caregivers by trained community health workers with stress reduction techniques: mindful breathing and compassionate listening. Linear mixed-effect models were used to analyze the trends for the daily stress levels as measured by HRV from the smartwatch. We had 22 participants who completed the 4-week intervention (8 Latinos, 8 Koreans, 6 Vietnamese). The models showed a significant decrease in the stress level of all participants for 3 weeks (all Ps<0.01). At 28 days (4 weeks) all three groups showed a decrease in stress: Korean group (Beta= -0.405, P<0.001), Vietnamese group (Beta = -0.150, P=0.028), Latino group (Beta= -0.154, P=0.073) and all caregivers (Beta = -0.235, P< 0.001). The findings demonstrated a reduction of immigrant family caregiver stress with a home-visit weekly intervention for one month using mindful breathing and compassionate listening by culturally/linguistically appropriate community health workers. Large-scale studies to determine long-term outcomes of family dementia caregivers are necessary and should be carried out.


The anatomical studies on leaf and stem of T. formanii Udayan & Pradeep an endemic species to southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India was carried out focusing on its macroscopic, microscopic, maceration along with organoleptic evaluation. Distinguishing characters of the stem revealed the presence of calcium oxalate crystals, simple and compound starch grains and pitted lignified fibers. Leaf anatomy showed the anomocytic and paracytic stomata, pitted lignified fibers, spiral vessels, non-glandular small trichomes, C or half-moon shaped vascular bundle, surrounded with sclerenchymatous tissues and rosette and prism shaped calcium oxalate crystals. Whereas, maceration studies revealed the presence of spiral and scalar form vessel, fibers, calcium oxalate crystals, simple starch grains. These anatomical studies are vital in the present-day trade scenario not only helpful in the proper identification of the genuine materials in use but also to distinguish different species of Tinospora, where the stem and leaf are often admixed with other species of Tinospora in the crude drug markets.


This paper provides a model in which countries over time pollute as well as invest in technologies (renewable energy sources or abatement technologies). Without a climate treaty, the countries pollute too much and invest too little, partly to induce the others to pollute less and invest more in the future. Nevertheless, short-term agreements on emission levels can reduce welfare, since countries invest less when they anticipate future negotiations. The optimal agreement is tougher and more long-term if intellectual property rights are weak. If the climate agreement happens to be short-term or absent, intellectual property rights should be strengthened, tari¤s should decrease, and investments should be subsidized. Thus, subsidizing or liberalizing technological trade is a strategic substitute for tougher climate treaties. Key words: Dynamic common pool problems, dynamic hold-up problems, incomplete contracts, contract-length, climate treaty design, intellectual property rights JEL: Q54, Q55, D86, H87 y I am grateful to the audiences at the University of British Columbia, Caltech, CESifo, the Chicago Area Political Economy conference, Columbia University, the University of Copenhagen, Emory University, Erasmus School of Economics, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the FEEM conference on Coalitions for Climate Cooperation, Helsinki School of Economics, the Marshall School of Business, McGill University, the MSRI conference on climate change, NHH, Northwestern University, University of Oslo, Princeton University, Paris School of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Simon Fraser University, Stanford GSB, Stockholm University, Toulouse School of Economics, and the World Bank. I have bene…tted in particular from the comments of Philippe Aghion, Marco Battaglini, David Besanko, Je¤ Campbell, Yeon-Koo Che, Rolf Golombek, Faruk Gul, Michael Hoel, Ben Jones, Larry Karp, Charles Kolstad, Matti Liski, Jiang Ning, Wolfgang Pesendorfer, and Roberto Veneziani. Judith N. Levi assisted with the editing. z Northwestern University, University of Oslo, and NBER. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.


Introduction The Makings of Ethnography Kinship and Social Life Families, Attachments and Emotions Ritual, Meaning and Therapeutic Efficacy Taboos and Secrets Similarities and Differences Connecting across Culture


A unique curriculum design approach, "the ill-structured problem," used for a gifted foreign language program has implications for many subjects. This approach is based on the premise that school curricula should be designed close to real life situations. Answers become solutions to real problems—problems that are defined and explored by students, not structured by teachers. Chesapeake Public Schools offers a summer FLES (Foreign Language in the Elementary School) Program for its academically gifted fifth and sixth grade students. This curriculum design approach has been very successful in motivating both pupils and teachers. On the first day of class students confront an "undecorated" room. It becomes their task to make the classroom an island of the culture they are studying. This cultural island becomes a place where students exhibit their ongoing exploration of the target language. Students are asked a series of questions designed to guide them toward a structure for their language acquisition. What do you want to learn? How do you want to learn it? With these questions, students begin to build their curriculum. The acquired knowledge of the new language and culture is reinforced daily. The "ill-structured problem" curricula design model is a perfect match for the creative, intelligent student.


Abstract : The 520th Theater Army Medical Laboratory (TAML) is a unique Army asset with worldwide responsibility to deploy on short notice and conduct health surveillance as part of a comprehensive Force Health Protection Program. The TAML is staffed by permanent party enlisted and officers and augmented with Professional Filler System (PROFIS) officers upon deployment. The staff is required to set up, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot sophisticated, delicate, analytical equipment in a hostile environment. Training of TAML soldiers on analytical chemistry techniques is the joint responsibility of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) and the U.S. Array Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM) who, collectively, possess the expertise needed by the TAML soldiers for analysis, data interpretation, troubleshooting, and consultation.- However, implementing a comprehensive training plan has been undermined by routine deployments and the constant turnover of TAML personnel. We have addressed these issues using telemedicine technology to link the TAML to the experts in instrument operations and data analysis residing in these partnership units. The proposal was conducted in three phases; Equipment Procurement and Training, Proof of Concept, and Concept Validation. All tested scenarios met or exceeded established operating standards. By all measures the proposal was determined to be successful and to tremendously enhance the TAML's operational capability.


Traffic state estimation (TSE) is an important task for traffic management, however it can be challenging due to the sparse deployment of traffic sensors in the network. The advancement of new vehicle technologies provides new potentials for TSE using extended floating car data (xFCD). In this work we propose a probabilistic approach that makes use of xFCD, which consists of information such as the position and spacing of individual vehicles, collected by Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) deployed in the traffic network under study. The proposed methodology takes into account spacing information from each CAV and utilises the Bayesian paradigm along with a maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) plug-in estimate to derive the traffic density of a highway. The proposed methodology, referred to as MAP-TSE, is evaluated using a real-life dataset extracted from videos recorded by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Results presented in this work illustrate efficient estimation of the traffic density for low penetration rates and different time-window sizes, yielding lower error compared to the literature approach.


Thank you very much for reading cities and regions in the new learning economy. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search hundreds times for their favorite novels like this cities and regions in the new learning economy, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they cope with some malicious bugs inside their laptop.


Vaturanga itself is the name given to a small district at the extreme north-west end of the island of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands; but, according to Bishop J. M. Steward, who worked as a missionary on that end of the island, the language spoken along a very considerable portion of the north-west coast, as well as of the north-east coast, of the island is very closely allied to the language of Vaturanga. In addition, through the work of the Melanesian Mission, the language of Vaturanga has become the "ecclesiastical" language in the schools and churches of the mission throughout the portion of the island indicated.


The need for energetic focus on workforce development is well documented. However, there is no clear road map on how community colleges and universities should collaborate to support these programs. This paper examines an innovative, new baccalaureate degree that provides a possible model for these efforts. Old Dominion University has developed an extensive distance learning system that includes 32 remote community college sites and a total of fourteen hospital, military, and industrial sites in several states. As an essential element of the program offerings in this system, the Department of Engineering Technology has traditionally offered TAC of ABET accredited options in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Technology. Based on close collaboration with the community college system and industry participants it became clear that there was a large group of technology -oriented students who were not served by these programs. To address this issue, the General Engineering Technology option with a number of specialization areas has been developed. This degree program has been enthusiastically welcomed and appears to have great potential to improve the technology based workforce.


Due to the information explosion, a growing number of applications store, maintain, and retrieve large volumes of data, where the data is required to be available online or near-online. These data repositories are implemented using hierarchical storage structures (HSS). One of the components of HSS is tertiary storage, which provides cost-effective storage for the vast amount of data manipulated by these applications. However it is crucial that the 3-4 orders of magnitude difference in access time between tertiary storage and secondary storage be bridged to allow online or near-online access to the tertiary resident data. This wide access-gap is mainly due to: the sequential nature of the most popular tertiary technologies (i.e., tapes) and the low number of drives per media in tertiary storage jukeboxes. In this paper we propose a novel data placement technique specifically designed for the serpentine tape technology, namely: wrap around data placement (WARP). We focus on tape technology because it provides the most cost-effective storage for very large databases, and more specifically on serpentine tapes because they are increasingly the technology of choice for mid-range and high-end systems. WARP may reduce the access time by 1 order of magnitude, depending on the tape device specifications and object sizes. An important feature of WARP is that it optimizes access-time independently of the retrieval order. This is achieved by exploiting the serpentine tape technology characteristics as opposed to the application characteristics.


Filter feeders such as bivalves are increasingly being shown to control phytoplankton blooms in eutrophic estuaries. The possibility of such a top-down effect on macroalgae, however, has not been considered previously even though most green tide algal species reproduce by pelagic swarmers that are equivalent to phytoplankton. This work presents circumstantial evidence from an oyster-culturing French embayment where, despite eutrophication since the mid-1970s, macroalgae did not proliferate until 1982. This was also the year when tributyltin pollution from antifouling paints dropped substantially following a world-wide prime ban that was implemented to save the shellfish industry. From the recorded evolution of the oyster stock, it is shown how tributyltin reduced the bivalve filter capacity within those years and resulted in Enteromorpha swarmers being much more likely to germinate and bloom. This suggests that the green tides had been successively contained by the biological activity and the chemical pressure. The effects of the latter on the former would thus have cascaded to ecosystem-level changes, and so the functional role of bivalves should be evaluated and preserved wherever relevant.


Purpose – The literature prescribing important determinants of innovation success is grouped into four main areas encompassing strategic leadership, competitive intelligence, management of technology, and specific characteristics of the company's innovation process. Further, industry clockspeed has been considered to be a possible moderator for these determinants of innovation success. While these major areas of study may indeed be important to enhance company innovation and competitiveness, the existing literature on each area is not being shared by researchers in the other areas. That has led until now to the study of models relatively narrow in scope and primarily focused on the particular research area. This study aims to test these constructs as a set of determinants of innovation success and the possible moderating effect of industry clockspeed.Design/methodology/approach – A field test using a mailed questionnaire to collect a relatively large sample has been used to test the proposed model. To eli...


A detailed soil survey was conducted to characterize soil properties and classified the soils along the toposequence Koranahalli subwatershed of Tarikere taluk, Chikkamagaluru district at cadastral scale was carried out by using remote sensing and GIS techniques. One hundred and fifty-six profiles were studied for the morphological, physical and physico-chemical properties. Fourteen soil series were identified, all the pedons were characterized by shallow to very deep in depth. The texture of the soils was sandy clay loam to clay. The consistence of pedons varied from moderately to very sticky and moderately to very plastic. pH and CEC of the soils increases as the depth of the soil increases. The organic carbon content of pedons ranged from 2.20 to 8.70 g kg, low to medium content was observed in most of the soil series. Soils studied were classified up to family level according to revisions in soil taxonomy.


Stereocomplexation between two enantiomeric polymers such as D-PLA and L-PLA have been described in the literature. No reports up till now have been published on the complexation between two non-identical complementary polymers. Stereocomplexes between poly(lactide) enantiomers and a representative peptide, LHRH, was investigated. The complex was shown to be of physical character (NMR, IR, X-ray) without any irriversibility. DSC-scans show an additional signal related to the second (β-) and thermally less stable form of isotactic PLA. A linear correlation was found between the amount of peptide added to D-PLA and the measured enthalpies. An overall decrease in crystallinity was noticed. Less than 5% of the total amount of peptide was found free in solution after complexation with PLA. A controlled release of peptide was measured for about 3 months in-vitro. In-vivo similar results were obtained as earlier reported for a commercial available controlled release device containing LHRH.


FIELD: chemistry. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to technology of obtaining additives for thermoplastic materials, ensuring their controlled decomposition and giving them very light colour, and can be applied in processing thermoplastics by inflation extrusion in order to obtain film, extruding and moulding. Method of obtaining additive includes bringing salt of metal, including iron (III), in reaction with C 8 -C 24 fatty acid or its derivative obtaining fat-soluble metal compound in process, in which appropriate oxidiser ensures preservation of all metal in final product. In addition, invention relates to additive, as such, to method of production of modified thermoplastics, containing said additive, as well as to modified thermoplastic materials. EFFECT: ensuring stability of products from said thermoplastics during period of their usage and obtaining ability to decompose them soon after their utilization. 25 cl, 11 tbl, 6 ex


The aim of this study is to examine the performance of local commercial banks of Bangladesh. Considering the coefficients and their significance level, it can be concluded that Net Interest Margin (NIM), Return on Equity (ROE), Net Profit Margin (NPM) and Earning per Share (EPS) play an important positive role in determining commercial banks' overall profitability. The suggestion of this study for future analysis is to introduce additional bank specific, industry specific and macroeconomic variables in order to get more appropriate results. In order to determine the profitability of the private sector commercial banks of Bangladesh, this report took into consideration ten banks and measured the profitability by the Return on Asset (ROA). From the two regression models, the strongest one was the internal measure of profitability that has been done by taking Return on asset (ROA) as the dependent variable. This study will help the management to look into areas that are relevant and can thus exert potential and strong impact on their banking profitability. Since, this study breaks away from the traditional ratio analysis, which is retrospective and based on accounting rather than economic data; it can be beneficial as a base for other researches.


Achievement motivation is very important to college students' learning and living,as well as one of the key factors for success.However,college students' achievement motivation has emerged some new changes.The achievement motivations of 712 college students from Beijing area are tested by AMS.The major conclusions are as follows:(1) achievement motivation of college students' is rather high,and motivation for success is higher than the motivation to avoid failures overall.(2) in sub-population,there were smart differences on the level of achievement motivation,the factors include gender difference,specialty difference and school type difference.The male students rated motivation for success and the motivation to avoid failures more important than the female students.The science department students rated the motivation to avoid failures less important than the humanities and engineering department students.The students of normal school rated the motivation to avoid failures less important than other types of school.Achievement motivation on four grades was no smart difference.


A research team from Lincoln University used Pinot Gris to produce 'orange' white wines to compare the effects of different levels of skin contact and oxidation on white wine tannins.


In this short note, we prove an optimal inequality of Alexandrov angles for elliptic isometries of finite order on any CAT($\kappa$) space, and the equality case leads to an isometrically embedded circle in the completion of the space of directions, which implies that there is a 2-flat in the tangent cone rotated by the induced action of the isometry.


e20527Background: Single-agent belantamab mafodotin (GSK2857916) is a first-in-class immunoconjugate targeting B-cell maturation antigen that demonstrated deep and durable responses in heavily pret...


The shape-shifting robot AMOEBA-I has a variety of configurations and the turning ability of robot in different configurations is largely restricted by the environmental conditions. The turning performance of evaluation is done by qualitative manner and the result of evaluation is vague in recent years. The turning performance of evaluation by quantitative manner is proposed in this article. Through establishing the mathematical models of the influenced factors, the energy, space, time and angle velocity which influence the efficiency of turning performance are analyzed. The algorithm based on the combination between subjective and objective methods is researched to certain the coefficients of the factors. Finally, the performance of robot turning is curtained by computed and simulation which can satisfy the requirements of turning algorithms in different environment.


Objective To monitor the reactions associated with the vaccines included in the National Immunization Program. Method Monitoring data of vaccination reactions in Yangzhou were studied and analyzed by descriptive epidemiology. Results The vaccines included in the National Immunization Program performed in Yangzhou in 2010 were 11 kinds. 741 552 vaccinations were performed. 363 cases of vaccination reactions were reported, with an incidence rate of 4.90/10 000,and Jiangdu had the highest rate,6.77/10 000, while Kaifa had the lowest rate,3.31/10 000.The incidence rates were significantly different in different districts(χ2=25.17,P0.01).The highest incidence rate was 14.23/10 000 in July, and the lowest incidence rate was 1.32/10 000 in February. The incidence rates in different months had significant difference(χ2=163.99,P0.01). All the 11 kinds vaccines had the vaccination reactions reported,and the DPaT had the highest incidence rate , 13.49/10 000,while the PV had the lowest incidence rate, 0.46/10 000,and there were significantly differences of vaccination reaction incidence among different kinds of vaccines(χ2=365.44,P0.01).Fever was the main symptom of the common vaccination reactions. Among the adverse vaccination reactions, allergic skin rashes was the main symptom. The rate of the suspected vaccination reactions being reported within 24 hours, the investigation rate within 48 hours, the diagnostic classification rate and the standard handling rate were all 100%. Conclusions Yangzhou vaccination reaction monitoring system was perfect, and the vaccination reaction incidence rate was low. There were no statistical differences of abnormal vaccination reaction incidence among different districts, seasons, and genders. It was suggested to strengthen vaccination reaction monitoring, standardize immunization work and training, enhance our sense of responsibility, improve vaccination reaction response ability, and increase funds for handling vaccination reactions.


Although the Hαemission line provides a useful star formation rate(SFR) indicator for nearby galaxies,it is not easily observed for distant galaxies since this line shifts out of the visible band for z0.4.Instead,the[O_Ⅱ]λ3727 line is often used as an alternative indicator of SFR.Unfortunately,the[O_Ⅱ]emission line is subjected to several factors, such as reddening,excitation state and abundance dependence.To investigate the systematic dependence of the[O_Ⅱ]λ3727/Hαflux ratio on these different factors,10~5 emission line galaxies are selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4(SDSS DR4).The effective V-band optical depths(τ_V) of galaxies are calculated based on fluxes of Hαand Hβlines.The dust extinction correction is very important to the[O_Ⅱ]λ3727/Hαflux ratio. The mean observed and extinction-corrected flux ratios are 0.48 and 0.89,respectively. The extinction-corrected[O_Ⅱ]λ3727/Hαflux ratio correlates with the ionization states of the interstellar gas for metal-poor galaxies,but there is no strong dependence for metalrich galaxies.In additional,the[O_Ⅱ]λ3727/Hαratio depends on the oxygen abundance. For 12+lg(O/H)8.5,the emission-line ratio decreases with the increase of metallicity and conversely for metal-poor galaxies.We provide simple formulae to estimate the [O_Ⅱ]λ3727/Hαflux ratio as a function of metallicity and excitation state.These formulae can be used to calculate SFR of galaxies with z0.4,such as galaxies to be observed from the deep field survey of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST).


Consumer behaviour plays an important role in maintaining profit and market reputation of any product and it has been impacted severely due to COVID-19 pandemic. This research is focussed on identifying the factors which have triggered such changes and ranking the factors based upon the degree to which they have influenced the consumer behaviour.An online survey was conducted which had elicited 239 responses, the survey was divided into three sections wherein first and second section drew responses related to factors of change in consumer behaviour and the third section had questions linked to sectorial analysis of industries during COVID-19. As per the survey, five factors were identified, and regression analysis was performed to test their effect on the change in buying patterns of consumers. For sectorial analysis, twelve sectors were identified and t-test was performed on them to check the change in spending limit of individuals.The proportions of survey respondents were well balanced between working male and females, housewives, teenagers and students and were aged between 15 to 66 years. By means of regression analysis we identified that factor of "Quality" plays an important role for shaping consumer decision of buying a product. Also, through sectorial analysis, it was identified that spending limit on all sectors are impacted except education sector. The method of using "independent variables as factors" further helped us in understanding the degree of their impact on consumer behaviour. Through this method, organization can identify and implement the factors, that their product lack and thus, can improve its sales. Sectorial analysis can serve both individuals and organizations to understand the changing conditions of various sector, thus enabling to make a wiser investment decision.In a pandemic situation, the organizations must focus on building their strategy by knowing the reasons behind changes in buying pattern of the consumers which in turn helps organizations to gain better insights on the market. This method will help organizations to boost their current sales and launch new products into the market.


In a recent report published in Cancer Discovery we identified a novel vulnerability of cancer cells that have undergone an epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) and established that the PERK branch of the unfolded protein response is constitutively activated upon EMT. In this commentary, we summarize and provide context for our findings.


Objective: To explore reperfusion arrhythmia effect on prognosis after early thrombolysis in patients with acute myocardial infarction.Method: Data of 30 patients with acute myocardial infarction were analyzed retrospectively.Result: In 30 patients,25 patients with coronary artery reperfusion,the reperfusion rate was 83.33%.The cases that recanalization occurred in both of reperfusion arrhythmias,including 6 cases of supraventricular tachycardia,ventricular premature beats in 7 cases,a short array ventricular tachycardia in 4 cases,ventricular fibrillation in 2 cases.High degree atrioventricular block in 3 cases,sinus bradycardia in 6 cases,6 deaths were sinus bradycardia or high degree atrioventricular block.Conclusion: Early thrombolysis remains the first choice for emergency measures in acute myocardial infarction,after reperfusion arrhythmia the mortality rate was significantly higher than the slow tachyarrhythmia(P 0.05).


Drama is a unique art of language.As a literary art as well as a theatrical art,drama is a literary text with highly culture-bound peculiarity to be performed on stage.So drama translation should embrace dual nature: performability and readability.Since drama performance has to be restricted within the specific time and space,so in order to express the rich connotation and create the vivid characters,drama language should be refined and accessible.In drama translation,when dealing with difference in both language and cultural phenomena,the translator should use compensation flexibly to make the equivalence between the source language and the target language so as to produce the entire pragmatic meaning.Based on an analysis of some typical examples in the English version of Thunderstorm,the paper makes research on culture,syntax,rhetoric and vocabulary usage in order to testify to the application of the compensation techniques in drama translation.


Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles have a great potential in various applications in biomedical research and technology. Iron oxide particles such as magnetite (Fe 3 O 4 ) is by far the most commonly employed magnetic materials for biomedical applications. Bioceramic composites were obtained by combining the magnetite with two biocompatible components (hydroxyapatite and bioglass); Their thermal behaviour has been studied by thermal analysis (DTA and TG). The interaction of iron oxide with the bioceramic matrix has been investigated using IR spectroscopy.


In Francis Bebey's L'Enfant-pluie, the learner Mwana is burning with the desire to grow up. Weaned almost from his parents, he is forced to live in the village with his grandmother Iyo. He bases his daily sapiential quest on a repetitive questioning that he formulates towards his master. But beyond the child's fascination and in the face of the immensity of the training modules, what types of links do they singularize their relationship with Iyo? A didactic support for the teacher or simply a guidance for the learner? By backing our analysis with the phenotext-genotext diptych that underlies Edmond Cros' sociocritical approach, we organize our work into two main parts. First, we examine the thematic components that articulate Mwana's learning by showing each time how the artist-writer stylizes this theme to finally question the vision of the world he posits through his writing.


Avocado flower opens twice: first as functional female, second acting as male. These phases of flower opening and closing control the orderly exposure of mature female and male organs to pollinators. Disorders of this flower behavior, as partial and single flower aperture, have been previously documented. However, little is known about the factors controlling movements of tepals and the consequences of their malfunctioning on the function of pistil and stamens. By selective removal of tepals, stamens, nectaries, staminodes, and pistil, we explored organ-control of the avocado flower cycle. Nectary and staminode removal did not change the flower cycle. Early pistil removal advanced first closing, but no other changes were noticed later. Pistil removal during the male phase did not alter the flower cycle. Removal of tepals during the female phase conspicuously modified the angle of the corresponding stamen beyond horizontal and consequently delayed or made retraction incomplete during first closing. Lesser changes were detected when tepals removal was performed during the male phase. Stamen removal also modified movement of tepals. In a few cases when the stamen was cut in the female phase, the tepals did not open in the male phase. If the stamen was eliminated during the second opening, the tepals closing was advanced. These modifications suggest that female and male reproductive organs control the corresponding flower opening, whereas closure is mostly lead by tepals. Our observations also suggest that endogenous factors related to reproductive organ maturation rather than environmental cues control avocado flower cycle.


A 57‐year‐old previously healthy woman who works in the fish‐processing industry presented with a 1‐year history of a slightly pruritic, hyperkeratotic, brownish, erythematous lesion of the left cheek measuring 5 × 5 mm in diameter. Histopathology revealed granuloma formation in the superficial dermal layer by multinucleated giant cells that contained pale‐brown septate hyphae. Periodic acid‐Schiff stain showed many hyphae and catenate spores within the multinucleated giant cells. Tissue specimens and skin scrapings were obtained and incubated on mycosel agar, yielding black, velvety colonies that were morphologically identified as belonging to Exophiala species. Sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal RNA gene showed 99–100% homology to Exophiala oligosperma sequences. This report describes a rare case of phaeohyphomycosis of the face caused by E. oligosperma.


Adenoid and tonsil hypertrophy in children are closely related to asthma. Their pathogenesis and clinical symptoms are interacted on each other. The unified airway theory believes that the upper and lower respiratory tracts are connected through the release of systemic inflammatory factors. Studies have shown that adenoid and tonsillectomy surgery have a positive effect on the control and development of asthma. The symptoms of postoperative asthma, frequency of attacks, control medication and asthma severity related indicators in children were significantly reduced compared with those before surgery. It has been shown that asthma can increase the incidence of respiratory complications after adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy, so postoperative care after adenotonsillectomy is also important to control asthma. Understanding the relationship between diseases can help clinicians make a more comprehensive diagnosis and treatment.


the use of one pharmacological agent, the specificity of which may be in doubt. Some co-ordinating introductory or summarising chapter would have enhanced the appeal of the book. Many of the contributions are pharmacological and involved with pathway mapping in selected brain regions. The papers dealing specifically with neurotransmitter interactions are in the minority. Among valuable contributions to this are the chapters on interactions between pathways involving acetylcholine and catecholamines, and particularly the emphasis on a nonpassive role for dendrites in neurotransmission. One small irritation is the contribution to jargon: terms such as "GABAergic" and "peptidergic" should be avoided. Many of the chapters will prove of interest to neuropharmacologists rather than biochemists or physiologists, and I doubt if the book has much appeal for the clinician.


Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) caused by mining activities is a serious problem influencing the environment. Often the existence of numerous datasets from a study site makes statistical analysis a helpful and necessary tool for evaluation. In this study, multivariate analyses including multivariate outlier detection and image analysis have been used for 174 groundwater samples taken at the test site Gessenwiese in the former uranium mining area of Ronneburg to define the metal distribution and their effective factors. The gained results will be helpful to interpret the geochemical processes. Even 20 years after stopping the leaching operations, the groundwater is still in acidic range (pH 3.2 5.4) and highly mineralized. The highest metal concentrations were measured for Al, Co, Mn, and Ni. A special focus of this work is laid on rare earth element (REE) distribution in the contaminated groundwater, reaching concentrations of up to 8.15 mg/l. Their distribution in the groundwater is mainly controlled by pH value and geology. Decreasing in pH generally causes higher metals mobility. The relation between Al, Fe and REE is more indirectly coupled with pH. Especially HREE show similar behavior to Al. Furthermore, the result got by multivariate outlier detection shows the different data structure based on geology and emphasizes the geology effect. Samples in the sandy, southern part have lower concentration of metals than the samples in the silty central and northern part of the test site.


This paper was published as Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2008, 113, A07S14. It is also available from http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2007JA012776.shtml. Doi: 10.1029/2007JA012776


Background: Few electron microscopic studies of blister lesions in bullous amyloidosis have been reported, and the mechanism of blister formation remains to be elucidated. This study was designed to examine the nature of bullous amyloidosis ultrastructurally, and clarify the pathogenesis of blister formation.


The main survival structures of P. cinnamomi in the soil are chlamydospores and oospores (1). However, only the A2 mating type is present in the jarrah forest of Western Australia, therefore chlamydospores are considered the common survival structures for P. cinnamomi (2).

Previous studies have shown that Acacia pulchella, a common understorey species in the jarrah forest, A. pulchella can reduce sporangial production of P. cinnamomi in the soil (3). However, no information is available regarding its effects on chlamydospores.

If A. pulchella was to be used as a biological control tool in controlling P. cinnamomi it is important to determine if chlamydospore production and viability are influenced by A. pulchella. We report here on the effect of root exudates of A. pulchella on P. cinnamomi chlamydosporese.


As with available conventional compatible with the broadcast system of the digital broadcasting transmission system that can transmit a separate additional data, after generating the parity bits by encoding the information bit of the additional data by transmitting with the information bits, the ghost signal of the channel and even in a noisy channel it can be more reliably transmit the MPEG video / audio data and additional data. In particular, it is possible to greatly improve the operational performance of the predictor in the slicer, and a trellis decoder, the received system. Additional data, convolutional encoder


Dual‐atom site catalysts (DACs) have emerged as a new frontier in the heterogeneous catalysis field for electrochemical energy conversion systems. In this review, the superiority of DACs over single‐atom site catalysts is fully discussed. The origin of synergistic effects such as optimized d‐band structure, tailored spin state, and tuned charge transfer are pointed out. The merits in geometric and electronic structure render the active moiety versatile binding behavior toward adsorbed intermediate and beneficial synergistic effects to break the scaling relationships. The approaches to engineer the active moiety of DACs through modulating the central atoms, tuning the coordination environment, and engineering the metal‐support interaction are summarized. Finally, the current challenges and future research perspectives of DACs for efficient electrocatalysis are outlined.


Audio-based pornographic detection enables efficient adult content filtering without sacrificing performance by exploiting distinct spectral characteristics. To improve it, we explore pornographic sound modeling based on different neural architectures and acoustic features. We find that CNN trained on log mel spectrogram achieves the best performance on Pornography-800 dataset. Our experiment results also show that log mel spectrogram allows better representations for the models to recognize pornographic sounds. Finally, to classify whole audio waveforms rather than segments, we employ voting segment-to-audio technique that yields the best audio-level detection results.


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Goal setting is an essential part of psychiatric rehabilitation. Clinicians strive to maximize consumers' participate in treatment decisions, including setting goals for treatment. Many psychiatric disabilities include alterations in a typical "open" dialogical self-experience that include cacophonous, monological, or barren self-experiences. Alterations to self-experience may affect the ability to formulate authentic and meaningful goals, and these perturbations may vary depending on the type of self-experience. The authors analyzed interviews regarding goals for treatment to explore themes emerging within self-experience types. Themes indicate people with differing self-experiences differ in how they form goals and the barriers they face in this process.


The target of ensuring that patients have access to a GP within 48 hours, as laid down in the NHS Plan ( BMJ 2000;321: 317), is a blunt instrument that fails to meet the differing needs of patients, says a review paper.

The paper, prepared for the Royal College of General Practitioners and the NHS Alliance, calls for the development of more sophisticated indicators that take account of the complexity of primary care provision.

The paper welcomes the increasing numbers of patients' groups in primary care and says that patients need to be involved in drawing up meaningful targets to meet specific …


1.1 Focus of the game The game is a real-time strategy (similar to SimCity), where the player is a network designer and administrator of a large telecommunications firm. The player's goal is to provide efficient digital communication service to customers in terms of customer satisfaction and profit by building a cost effective and reliable network. The game aims to teach fundamental techniques involved in the design of digital communication networks. It does so by introducing elements normally found in those networks (such as cables, and routers), allowing player to experiment with them. By analyzing customer's needs, and designing the network to meet them, player can develop the critical thinking skills necessary to succeed in network design and support tasks. The game is not meant to replace a computer networking course, but it is meant to provide an interactive learning experience that allows students to apply their knowledge in a secure, challenging, and fun environment.


Abstract This article discusses the religious consequences of the 'Little Ice Age': first, renewed interest in devotional literature; second, witch-hunting; third, speculations about the Second Coming. Special attention is paid to notions such as Memento Mori and Vanitas.


Abstract : A novel phased array system is described where solid-state T/R modules, which include diode phaseshifters, are shared between two apertures. Two such systems are required for hemispherical coverage. Efficient and cost-effective operation is claimed. (Author)


Carnation is severely affected by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. dianthi which considerably affect the yield and quality of the flowers. Use of organic amendments, biological control agents and soil solarization alone and in combination with antagonists was tried in the present investigation. The results revealed that neem cake and pine needles out of nine organic amendments gave 77.49 and 72.49 per cent disease control with minimum disease incidence. Combined application of two antagonists Trichoderma viride and T. harzianum after 60 days of soil solarization practices registered minimum incidence (16.25%) of the disease followed by T. viride and T. harzianum . The growth characteristics stem length, number of flowers and flower size per plant also increased significantly in these treatments.


Analog implementation of fuzzy logic controllers (FLCs) is the most efficient method when speed, power, and area are critical. Inference engine (IE) usually takes a large part of total die area when the FLC has a large number of rules. In this paper, a method is proposed to reduce size of the IE in analog implementations of FLCs. Since only a small number of rules may be fired simultaneously, thus a few inference blocks (IBs) may work at the same time in an IE. In the proposed method, reduction in size of the IE is achieved by sharing a few IBs between a large number of rules. To test the proposed method, a standard FLC is designed using both the regular method and the proposed method. By using the proposed method, total power consumption and active area are reduced by factors of 2.31 and 2.15, respectively. Moreover, inference speed is improved by a factor of 3.8 and output error is reduced by a factor of 2.5. All simulations have been performed in HSPICE using level 49 models for 0.35 um CMOS process with a 3.3 V power supply.


A pattern recognition technique based on Bayes minimum error classifier is developed to detect broken rotor bar faults and static eccentricity in induction motors at the steady state. The proposed algorithm uses stator currents as input without any other sensors. First, rotor speed is estimated from stator currents, then appropriate features are extracted. The produced feature vector is normalized and fed to the trained Bayes minimum error classifier to determine if motor is healthy or has incipient faults (broken bar fault, static eccentricity or both). Only number of poles and rotor slots are needed as pre-knowledge information. Theoretical approach together with experimental results derived from a 3 hp AC induction motor show the strength of this method. In order to cover many different motor load conditions data are derived from 10% to 130% of the rated load for both a healthy induction motor and an induction motor with a rotor having 4 broken bars and/or static eccentricity.


In the central erogenic belt of China, at least two UHP metamorphic belts are identified based on detailed structural analysis of the Kanfenggou and Xiangfanggou metamorphic microlithons exposed in the eastern Qinling orogen, together with previous regional structural, petrological and geochronological data at the scale of orogenic domain. The first is the South Altun—North Qaidam—North Qinling UHP metamorphic belt and the second is the Dabie—Sulu UHP and HP metamorphic belts. These two belts are separated by a series of fault-bounded tectonic slices composed of the Qinling Group, Danfeng Group and Liuling or Fuziling Group, and are different in peak age of UHP metamorphism and geodynamic implications for deep subduction and collision of the continent. Regional field and petrological relationships suggest that the Kanfenggou UHP metamorphic microlithon, which contains a large volume of coesite- and microdiamond- bearing eclogite lenses, is compatible with the rocks and structures recognized in the South Altun and North Qaidam UHP metamorphic microlithons exposed in the western part of China, and formed a large UHP metamorphic belt, up to 1000 km long along the erogenic belt. This UHP metamorphic belt represents an intercontinental deep subduction and collision belt between the Yangtze and Sino-Korean cratons, occurring during the Early Palaeozoic (500~400 Ma). On the other hand, the well-constrained Dabie—Sulu UHP and HP metamorphic belts occurred mainly during the Triassic (250~220), and were probably produced by intracontinental deep subduction and collision within the Yangtze craton. The Kanfenggou UHP metamorphic microlithon, situated in the northern Qinling erogenic belt and extending eastwards, does not appear to link with the Dabie—Sulu UHP and HP metamorphic belts, including the northwestern Dabie Mountains and the southern Dabie Mountains, along the orogen. The common occurrence of rutile and representative mineral assemblages of the Xiangfanggou microlithon exposed in the Xixia area, southern Qinling suggest that the Xiangfanggou microlithon underwent high-pressure amphibolite facies metamorphism at pressures close to those of the eclogite facies, and that the Dabie—Sulu UHP and HP metamorphic belts extend from the Tongbai Mountains across the Nanxiang basin to the eastern Qinling Mountains. Consequently, there is no reason to assume the two UHP metamorphic belts as a single giant deep subduction and collision belt in the central orogenic belt between the Yangtze and Sino-Korean cratons. Moreover, any dynamic model for the orogen must account for the development of the UHP metamorphic rocks belonging to two separate tectonic belts of different ages.


Nowadays the volume of digital data generated and used by enterprises is increasing at an enormous rate. The survey says that more than 80% of data that were generated in the last two years are unstructured in nature. Hence storage space requirement for storing this big volume of unstructured data is very high.  It has gained attention to large-scale storage systems. Deduplication is a space efficient method mainly used to solve storage space optimization problem. This paper focuses on the effect of massive volume of unstructured data and review various storage optimization techniques and survey of various storage types. In addition, it elaborates specific challenges with regard to storage optimization using deduplication and technology that handles a huge amount of unstructured data.


Social justice is a complex and abstract concept that can be difficult to discuss and integrate within group work. To address this concern, this article introduces readers to the Dimensions of Social Justice Model. The model provides group leaders with a conceptual framework for understanding the degree to which social justice is integrated within group approaches. The process of integrating social justice into group work can be understood in five distinct dimensions: naiveté, multicultural integration, liberatory critical consciousness, empowerment, and social justice advocacy. A middle school bullying group will be used to operationalize this model.


This paper has 2 objectives: (1) to offer an in-depth look at the business network of Cantabria, Spain while analyzing the strategies and the principal competitive factors that small and medium business enterprises –SMES– use to compete, and (2) to establish proposals of ways to improve the competitiveness and success of SMES in general. The research methodology utilized entailed surveying the general directors or managers of 250 SMES in Cantabria, selected through a stratified sampling technique based on the sector of activity and on size. The results obtained confirm the existence of a scenario of uncertainty which is necessary to contextualize within the current atmosphere of the financial and economic crisis. Furthermore, evidence has been obtained on some competitive factors that could help the Public Administration to better comprehend the existing needs of SMEs so as to be able to offer them new business opportunities. As small businesses are the most integral part of the business network, support from the Public Administration would enable them to act accordingly in the environment.


: 100 years of relationship among state and churches, 100 years of grievances and feuds How can be the development of the relationship between the Czech state and churches and religious societies characterized in the period since the establishment of the restored Czech statehood in the year 1918 to the present? The author of this article focuses on the historical genesis of the often complicated relationship between Czech society and churches and the Ro- man Catholic Church in particular. The author tries to describe the centennial development of particular approaches of political representation from the formation of the Czechoslovakia up to now which deals with the question of separation and public supervision over the churches and other religious societies including their funding.


In this study the stress intensity factors for a three-dimensional crack perpendicular to and terminating at a bimaterial interface are calculated. It is assumed that the crack is pressurized by a uniform pressure. The method of solution used here is based upon the body-force method and requires the analytical results from the elasticity point-force solution for a bimaterial interface. The solution technique leads to the reduction of the problem to a two-dimensional singular integral equation, which can be solved numerically for the crack opening displacement. Numerical examples of a semi-circular, semi-elliptical crack and growth of circular crack are given.


This paper presents a generating algorithm of curves with unevenly-taken points on the basis of variation of curvature. The algorithm is typical of closer approach to the point,smaller amount of calculation,wider range of application,etc.


Viewgraphs on Space Station Freedom attitude determination and control system overview are presented. Topics covered include: highly dynamic plant; SSF flight attitudes; effectors; inertial attitude sensors; control system performance requirements; control system functional requirements; and controller architecture.


A new species of calanoid copepod, Stephos marsalensis, is described from central Mediter- ranean coastal waters. It differs from congeners mainly in the structure of the fifth legs in both sexes.


Our study reveals temperature dependent optical properties of excitons and trions in monolayer MoS2 using absorption and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The extremely large trion binding energy is directly extracted from our data.


The purpose of this document is to provide general considerations for the selection and evaluation of clinical chemistry kits in laboratories with limited resources. Separate documents have been developed to provide guidance on experimental procedure, the statistical treatment and interpretation of the data and criteria for acceptable performance of diagnostic kits designed to measure specific analytes.


This study aimed to create nano vegetable tanning materials of acacia bark extract. The process started with size reduction of acacia bark (16.7 mm x 4.9 mm x 1.8 mm), followed by counter current extraction of acacia bark with water at 80oC with 1:3 bark to water ratio in order to obtain extracts with density of 9-10oBe. Drying was done with a spray dryer. Particle size of the resulting powders was measured with particle size analyzer. Planetary ball mill was used for 6 hours to obtain average particle size of 72.9 nm. A variety of vegetable tanning materials were applied in the vegetable tanning process with varied concentrations of 15, 20, and 25%. The use of 25% nano vegetable tanning material of acacia bark extract gave the best results compared to liquid extract of acacia bark and mimosa. The properties of the leather obtained were tensile strength of 27.04 kg/cm2, elongation at break of 50%, shrinkage temperature of 84oC, and degree of tannage of 79.65%.


INTRODUCTION .................................................................. 398 HISTORY OF FUSIONS OF THE lac OPERON ................................................................. 399 HISTORY OF lacZ GENE FUSIONS ................................................................. 399 GENERAL TECHNIQUES FOR CONSTRUCTING lac FUSIONS ..................................................400 A Two-Step Method for Constructing lac Fusions using Bacteriophage Mu.....................................400 Mu dlac 1 and 2 .................................................................. 400 The plac Mu Phages ................................................................. 402 Transposon Vectors in Bacillus subtilis and Myxococcus xanthus ..................................................403 Plasmid Vectors .................................................................. 403 Selections with Plasmids ................................................................. 404 Vectors for Constructing Tripartite lacZ Fusions ................................................................. 405 GENERAL REASONS FOR USING lac FUSIONS................................................................. 405 GENETIC MANIPULATIONS WITH FUSIONS ................................................................. 407 USES OF lac FUSIONS TO STUDY THE REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION..........................408 Definition and Study of Regulatory Genes ................................................................. 408 Detection of New Regulatory Genes................................................................. 408 Cloning Regulatory Genes.................................................................. 408 Isolation of New Classes of Regulatory Mutants................................................................. 408 Characterization of the Controlling Elements of Genes or Operons ...............................................408 Distinguishing Transcriptional from Posttranscriptional Control ..................................................409 Demonstration of Translational Coupling ................................................................. 409 Physiological Studies on Regulation................................................................. 410 Studying the Regulation of a Gene in the Absence of Its Product..................................................410 Determining the Direction of Transcription of a Gene ................................................................410 Proving that a Gene is Expressed in Vivo ................................................................. 411 Analysis of Transcription Termination Signals.................................................................. 411 Defining Genes Subject to a Common Regulatory Signal.............................................................411 lac FUSIONS IN EUCARYOTIC CELLS ................................................................. 411 USES OF lac FUSIONS TO ANALYZE PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION ..........................412 Identification, Purification, and Characterization of Target Gene Products.....................................412 Bifunctional Hybrid Proteins ................................................................. 412 Identification of Functional Protein Domains ................................................................. 413 Identification of Intragenic Export Signals ................................................................. 413 Novel Phenotypes Conferred by Gene Fusions ................................................................. 413 USES OF lac FUSIONS TO ANALYZE THE TARGET GENE ......................................................414 Physical Analysis of cis-Acting Regulatory Sites ................................................................. 414 Cloning the Target Gene................................................................. 414 Detection and Cloning of Genes That Code for Known Proteins ...................................................414 CONCLUSION .................................................................. 415 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................. 415 LITERATURE CITED................................................................. 415


The chemical reactivity of safrole, eugenol, piperonal, vanillin and derivates toward ozone, aluminium chloride, brominating agents and butyl lithium was investigated. The synthesis of naturally occuring anthraquinones, furonaphthoquinones, naphthoquinones, lignans and pterocarpans from these easily available staring materials is also discussed.


Vacuum preloading in combination with surcharge fill preloading is an effective technology to consolidate soft soils,through the engineering examples of vacuum preloading combined with surcharge preloading to consolidate the hydraulically reclaimed soft foundation and the testing of construction process and the whole consolidation process,the paper analyzes the consolidation effect.The results show that the water content and pore water pressure are remarkably reduced after using the vacuum combined with surcharge preloading,the foundation bearing capacity is enough to satisfy the primary demand of engineering practice.From the results,the settlement of soft clay foundation is greater than 1.0 m during the vertical drain installation and the average degree of consolidation is more than 85% after consolidation.It is considered the technology of vacuum preloading combined with surcharge preloading is successful,which can be used in similar projects.


Methods for representing aircraft situation information on flight display in a cockpit of an aircraft include the determination of the location of the aircraft (102), displaying, on the screen of theft, a graphical representation of frontal vision of the runway from the determined location of the aircraft (104), displaying information for situational awareness on the graphical representation (106), and updating determining the location of the graphical representation and information awareness of the situation, as the aircraft moves (108).


Due to certain theoretical and legislative reasons,there exists conflicts concerning identification and verification of work injures in practice.The issue concerns whether the injury resulting from the traffic accident constitutes work injury.Specially there are different interpretations of "vehicle and non-vehicle accident","on/off duty" and "en route",and "the injury and death resulted from the violation of public security".In order to coordinate these conflicts,We must go on with the further theoretical study,perfect the related laws and regulations,and integrate the identification and verification standards between work injury and traffic accident,and strengthen the related supervision in order to make correct identification.


Abstract Two pine tree species, distinctive of Calabria's mountain landscape, were studied karyologically. The karyotypes of the two species, 2n = 24, differ both in their morphology and particularly in the number of secondary constrictions occurring: 14 in Pinus laricio Poir. and 6 in P. leucodermis Antoine. Systematic individuality of the latter from P. heldreichii Christ is confirmed. Separation of P. laricio from P. nigra Arnold is proposed. A new taxonomic conspectus is presented for Calabrian P. laricio: Pinus laricio subsp. calabrica (Loud.) Cesca et Peruzzi comb. et stat. nov.


Background: The randomized phase 3 ASPIRE study demonstrated that the addition of the proteasome inhibitor carfilzomib to Rd resulted in significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) compared with Rd alone in patients with RRMM (median 26.3 vs 17.6 months; hazard ratio [HR], 0.69; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.57-0.83; 2-sided P=0.0001; Stewart AK, et al. N Engl J Med . 2015;372:142-52; Table). OS data were immature at the time of the PFS analysis but showed a trend in favor of the KRd group (HR=0.79). Hereby, results from the planned final analysis of OS in ASPIRE are presented. Methods: Adults with RRMM who received 1─3 prior lines of therapy were eligible. Patients were randomized (1:1) to receive KRd or Rd in 28-day cycles until withdrawal of consent, disease progression, or the occurrence of unacceptable toxicity. Randomization was stratified according to β2-microglobulin level ( Results: As of the data cutoff date (April 28, 2017) for the planned final OS analysis, median treatment durations were 72 weeks for carfilzomib (per protocol, carfilzomib was discontinued after cycle 18), 85 weeks (KRd arm) and 57 weeks (Rd arm) for lenalidomide, and 80 weeks (KRd arm) and 49 weeks (Rd arm) for dexamethasone. The median follow up was 67 months for both arms. Median OS (95% CI) was 48.3 (42.4-52.8) months for KRd vs 40.4 (33.6-44.4) months for Rd (HR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.67-0.95; 1-sided P=0.0045; Table and Figure). Median OS was 11.4 months longer for KRd vs Rd in patients receiving 1 prior line (47.3 vs 35.9 months [HR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.62-1.06]) and 6.5 months longer for patients receiving ≥2 prior lines (48.8 vs 42.3 months; [HR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.62-0.99]). Among patients with 1 prior line of therapy, OS was improved with KRd vs Rd regardless of whether patients had received prior bortezomib; in patients with 1 prior line, median OS was improved by 12 months in the prior bortezomib group (45.9 vs 33.9 months [HR, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.56-1.19]) and 7.9 months in the no prior bortezomib group (48.3 vs 40.4 months [HR, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.55-1.17]). With respect to risk, OS by Revised International Staging System (R-ISS) stage was assessed. For R-ISS stage I (KRd, n=42; Rd, n=46), median OS was not reached for KRd and was 58.0 months for Rd (HR, 0.49; 95% CI, 0.26-0.92). For patients with R-ISS stage II (KRd, n=194; Rd, n=195), median OS was 45.4 months for KRd and 41.2 months for Rd (HR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.68-1.10). For the small number of patients with R-ISS stage III (KRd, n=37; Rd, n=47), median OS was 23.3 months for KRd and 18.8 months for Rd (HR, 1.05; 95% CI, 0.66-1.68). For the overall study population, treatment discontinuation due to an adverse event (AE) occurred in 19.9% (KRd) and 21.5% (Rd) of patients. Fatal AEs were reported in 11.5% (KRd) and 10.5% (Rd) of patients. Grade ≥3 AE rates were 87.0% (KRd) and 83.0% (Rd). Selected grade ≥3 AEs of interest (grouped terms; KRd vs Rd) included acute renal failure (3.8% vs 3.3%), cardiac failure (4.3% vs 2.1%), ischemic heart disease (3.8% vs 2.3%), hypertension (6.4% vs 2.3%), and hematopoietic thrombocytopenia (20.2% vs 14.9%). Conclusions: KRd demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful 21% reduction in the risk of death vs Rd. KRd should be considered a standard of care in RRMM. Disclosures Stewart: Celgene: Consultancy; Bristol-Myers Squibb: Consultancy; Janssen: Consultancy; Amgen: Consultancy; Roche: Consultancy. Siegel: Celgene, Takeda, Amgen Inc, Novartis and BMS: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Merck: Consultancy. Ludwig: Bristol-Meyers: Speakers Bureau; Celgene: Speakers Bureau; Janssen-Cilag: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Takeda: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; AMGEN: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Takeda: Research Funding, Speakers Bureau. Facon: Amgen, Celgene: Speakers Bureau. Goldschmidt: Bristol-Myers Squibb: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Amgen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Chugai: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Takeda: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Millenium: Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Morphosys: Research Funding; Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Onyx: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau. Jakubowiak: Amgen Inc., BMS, Celgene, Janssen, Karypharm, Millennium-Takeda, Sanofi, SkylineDX: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; University of Chicago: Employment. San Miguel: Janssen: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; MSD: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Amgen: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Bristol-Myers Squibb: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Sanofi: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Novartis: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Takeda: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Celgene: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Roche: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees. Obreja: Amgen: Employment, Equity Ownership. Blaedel: Amgen: Employment, Equity Ownership. Dimopoulos: Amgen Inc, Celgene Corporation, Janssen Biotech Inc, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, an Amgen subsidiary, Takeda Oncology: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: Advisory Committee: Amgen Inc, Celgene Corporation, Janssen Biotech Inc, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, an Amgen subsidiary, Takeda Oncology; Genesis Pharma: Research Funding; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria.


A review. The modulation response of quantum-dot (QD) lasers has remained limited in the 1300 to 1550 nm wavelength region. However, new applications have taken advantage of the unique features of quantum dots. The temp. dependence of the QD laser threshold current can be much better than quantum-well lasers because the electronic levels in the conduction band are spaced by more than the Boltzmann energy, kT, and thus little change in population distribution occurs at room temp. Another advantage of QD lasers is the possibility of engineering the line-width-enhancement factor or gain-phase coupling. [


Proxy re-encryption (PRE) schemes, which nicely solve the problem of delegating decryption rights, enable a semi-trusted proxy to transform a ciphertext encrypted under one key into a ciphertext of the same message under another arbitrary key. For a long time, the semantic security of PREs is quite similar to that of public key encryption (PKE) schemes. Cohen first pointed out the insufficiency of the security under chosen-plaintext attacks (CPA) of PREs in PKC 2019, and proposed a strictly stronger security notion, named security under honest re-encryption attacks (HRA), of PREs. Surprisingly, a few PREs satisfy the stronger HRA security and almost all of them are paring-based till now. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first detailed construction of HRA secure single-hop PREs based on standard LWE problems with comparably small and polynomially-bounded parameters in this paper. Combing known reductions, the HRA security of our PREs could also be guaranteed by the worst-case basic lattice problems (e.g. SIVPγ). Meanwhile, our single-hop PRE schemes are also key-private, which means that the implicit identities of a re-encryption key will not be revealed even in the case of a proxy colluding with some corrupted users. Some discussions about key-privacy of multi-hop PREs are also proposed, which indicates that several constructions of multi-hop PREs do not satisfy their key-privacy definitions.


Objective To explore the indications and advantages of the laparoscopic appendectomy. Methods 500 consecutive unselected patients underwent laparoscopic appendectomy between February 1995 and December 1999. Appendectomy was achieved in 491 patients (98.2%) by the laparoscopic approach, while 9(1.8%) were converted to open surgery. Results The mean length of postoperative hospital stay was 4 days. All patients were fully recovered without any postoperative complication. Conclusion The laparoscopic appendectomy proved to be safe and efficient with shorter hospital stay, light pain, few complications, and slight scar,it can be widely recomnended.


This article is devoted to the analysis of the nomination of realias belonging to the other cultures in the process of cross cultural communication. We treat cross cultural communication as a special type of interrelation so the nomination in the process of cross cultural communication is different from the traditional types of nomination


The invention relates to a light-emitting diode (LED) chipset capable of being directly connected to alternating current directly. The LED chipset at least comprises two integration resistor light-emitting diode chips which are connected in parallel with alternating current positive and negative electrodes; each integration resistor light-emitting diode chip comprises a first semiconductor resistor and a second semiconductor resistor; a plurality of light-emitting diodes are connected in series between the first semiconductor resistor and the second semiconductor resistor; and the two integration resistor light-emitting diode chips alternately emit light under the action of the alternating current according to the forward conduction principle of the diode. The two integration resistor light-emitting diode chips are connected in parallel and orientations of PN junctions of the plurality of the light-emitting diodes of the two integration resistor light-emitting diode chips are oppositeto each other, one integration resistor light-emitting diode chip works in the positive semi-cycle of the alternating current and the other integration resistor light-emitting diode chip works in thenegative semi-cycle of the alternating current, so that the LED chipset can always work under the alternating current.


Abstract This paper discusses the new five‐year undergraduate medical course at the University of Newcastle in Australia. Extensive examples are included to illustrate the analytical approach which has led from the specification of programme objectives to the design of a course with complete integration of the basic and clinical sciences from the beginning to the end of the course. Lectures are replaced by individual and small group learning centred around a carefully designed sequence of medical problems. Projects in the community are designed to lead to the attainment of specified competences in relation to problems of groups in the population. In addition, educational experiences in interviewing, physical examination, special investigation and therapeutic intervention techniques, as well as competence in design‐measurement‐analysis‐reporting in medical practice and research are integrated with problem‐based learning. Students see patients in hospitals and in the community from the beginning of the cour...


Classifying natural gas hydrate reservoirs effectively and carrying out reservoir classification modelling is crucial, but to date, research on building artificial intelligence-assisted logging curve reservoir classification models is not abundant. As exploration and development have progressed, an increasing number of fine-grained reservoirs are being discovered, and their strong heterogeneity makes correct reservoir classification even more important. Two wells used for detecting hydrates in the Qiongdongnan (QDN) Basin are used to explore the relationship between logging response parameters and reservoir quality, as well as the method of building a logging-based reservoir classification model. Through K-means clustering and Adaboost methods, the K-means method is considered to be able to correspond to the hydrate enrichment degree, while the random forest method can establish an effective reservoir classification model (the recognition accuracy is 95%). In the different categories of reservoirs, the physical properties of the reservoirs are obviously poor, and the corresponding hydrate saturation is also low, which indicates that heterogeneity has indeed affected the enrichment of hydrates in fine-grained reservoirs. This reservoir classification research method can effectively recognize reservoirs.


AbstractThe intriguing nature of rapid cycling in some affective disorder patients raises many differential diagnostic questions. On the basis of a clinical case study, the suggestion is made that rapid cycling affective disorder (RCAD) patients may present manifestations resembling a multiple personality disorder (MPD) because of a premorbid borderline personality. The clinical similarities between RCAD and borderline personality disorder (BPD) are pointed out and emphasis is placed on the role of the boderline's instability, anger, regression, and use of dissociative mechanisms to induce pseudomultiplicity. The existence of MPD as an autonomous clinical entity is examined. The therapeutic relevance of this differential diagnostic approach is also emphasized.


With the development of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, high-spatial resolution ortho image was used widely and widely. Shadow is one of the problems of these images. Shadow processing includes shadow de-tection and shadow removal. In this paper, based on the color theory and shadow characters, the author studied some main methods of shadow detection and shadow removal and introduced each method's advantages and disadvantages. Related with some algorithms in digital image processing, the author gave a method of shadow removal based on improved Wallis filtering.


Background: Acute Myocardial Infarction is the reduction of coronary flow to such an extent that supply of oxygen to the myocardium do not need the oxygen demand of myocardial tissues. The diagnosis of AMI cannot be fulfilled unless the elevated levels of serum cardiac enzymes particularly CK-MB iso-enzyme activity. The rate of release of cardiac enzymes is highly diagnostic. Aims and Objectives: Therefore, the present thesis aim is-in evaluating, whether the elevated levels of cardiac marker enzymes can be compared to the extent of the Myocardial infarction. Material and Methods: Therefore the present study was undertaken on 50 patients of MI and 50 patients of control. They were group according to the age and sex. The activity of different cardiac enzymes were studied. Result: The AMI patients had significantly elevated levels of 90% patients of high LDH values and 86% patients have elevated levels of AST. The significant elevation of serum enzymes as compared to the control. Conclusion: The magnitude of the elevated levels of enzymes can be compared to the extent of the myocardial infarction. Serum GGT can also be useful marker of oxidative stress in myocardial infarction. Asian Journal of Medical Sciences Vol.8(2) 2017 34-37


Purpose – To analyze current and potential servitization strategies, from the perspective of rural producers in the West of the Brazilian state of Parana in relation to its inputs and agricultural equipment. Design/methodology/approach – The study has a qualitative and exploratory approach, based on interviews with rural producers who work in grain production and use products and services related to the supply of inputs for their crops. Findings – Managerially, it was found that producers did not show exclusive loyalty to a certain brand of equipment or agricultural input, but consider the offer of after-sales services and quality technical assistance in the decision. New services demanded by producers were identified and these services may favor purchasing products from the same suppliers. There are gaps that allow exploiting opportunities in terms of servitization, given that not all services that were expected to have been supplied, were supplied by suppliers. Originality/value – This study stands out for its analysis of servitization from the point of view of rural producers in relation to suppliers of agricultural machinery and inputs. It identifies new opportunities in the greater use of technologies, greater transparency and sharing of technical knowledge, improvement of technical assistance and post-sales service at more affordable prices. Keywords – Service; Agribusiness; Production chains; grain production; agricultural inputs.


This article introduces additional fine-grained distinctions to the study of the multinationality-performance relationship, such as territorial coverage and product diversification. It shows that the territorial scope covered by the firm makes a substantial difference to the relationship between multinationality and performance. In addition, the effect of multinationality on performance can sometimes be outweighed by product diversification. The path of international expansion is a much more complex process than is shown by existing studies. The results of this study suggest three generic strategies for international expansion with which an MNE can increase its performance. Copyright © 2012 Strategic Management Society.


Simple Summary The earth's magnetic field, celestial cues, and retention of geographical cues en route provide birds with compass knowledge during migration. The magnetic compass works on the direction of the magnetic field, specifically, the course of the field lines. We tested Red-headed Buntings in orientation cages in the evening during spring migration. Simulated overcast testing resulted in a northerly mean direction, while in clear skies, birds oriented in an NNW (north–northwest) direction. Buntings were exposed to 120° anticlockwise shifted magnetic fields under simulated overcast skies and responded by shifting their orientation accordingly. The results showed that this Palaearctic night migrant possesses a magnetic compass, as well as the fact that magnetic cues act as primary directional messengers. When birds were exposed to different environmental conditions at 22 °C and 38 °C temperatures under simulated overcast conditions, they showed a delay in Zugunruhe (migratory restlessness) at 22 °C, while an advance migratory restlessness was observed under 38 °C conditions. Hot and cold weather clearly influenced the timing of migrations in Red-headed Buntings, but not the direction. Abstract Red-headed Buntings (Emberiza bruniceps) perform long-distance migrations within their southerly overwintering grounds and breeding areas in the northern hemisphere. Long-distance migration demands essential orientation mechanisms. The earth's magnetic field, celestial cues, and memorization of geographical cues en route provide birds with compass knowledge during migration. Birds were tested during spring migration for orientation under natural clear skies, simulated overcast skies at natural day length and temperature, simulated overcast at 22 °C and 38 °C temperatures, and in the deflected (−120°) magnetic field. Under clear skies, the Red-headed Buntings were oriented NNW (north–northwest); simulated overcast testing resulted in a northerly mean direction at local temperatures as well as at 22 °C and 38 °C. The Buntings reacted strongly in favor of the rotated magnetic field under the simulated overcast sky, demonstrating the use of a magnetic compass for migrating in a specific direction.


SDN is an innovative network architecture, which makes network programmable. Control plane and data plane are decoupled by southbound interface, and the network management are centralized to the control plane, which enables dynamic allocation of data plane resources to be achieved. Through the northbound interface of managed systems, operators issue commands to control plane to handle network events, such as failures occurred in data plane. However, in most of the failure recovery methods, there are only delay taken into account in the backup path selection, and there is no classification processing for flows. The losses caused by failure to different types of flows are different, thus different recovery strategies for flows need to be deployed. This paper chose several link parameters, designed formula to derive link performance parameters LPFP, and selected backup path based on it. In addition, this paper also designed algorithms to classify flows and designed different failure recovery strategies for them. Simulations show that when selecting backup path based on LPFP, the network throughput after failure recovery is higher, and the losses caused by failure will be smaller if there is classification processing for flows.


Many information visualization techniques and tools have been created to analyze and understand temporal data. However, it is noticeable that time dimension is underused in most techniques and tools, used only as an aid in the search for patterns and answers. Therefore, this paper proposes an adaptation of the treemap joined with the calendar metaphor, using time as main attribute to hierarchy configuration and drill down navigation. Time granularity is flexible on granularity levels, and a grouping configuration of one level is used to display the calendar visual representation of that same granularity level. Furthermore, user interaction breadcrumbs are applied in order to provide better linear analysis of temporal characteristics of data without losing data overview. It is also possible to compare multiple different views of various time subsets.


Robot is one of the important tools in the industry under certain conditions. The world of education itself has done a lot of research in the field of robotics. The robot arm is one of them, the existence of a robot arm is expected to provide a function or performance in accordance with the work of the human arm and has stronger strength. The robot arm that is built applies a fuzzy logic method that determines the color of the object and will be moved according to the predetermined color, the color consists of three colors, namely red, green and blue. Robots are designed to be flexible and easy to use. It has controllers that have to be reprogrammed at any time to suit their function, like the Arduino Uno, and actuators like servomotors that are low-voltage and easy. This is why the TowerPro SG90 Servo motor was chosen to build the robot arm manipulator.


Taxonomical status of the narrow-clawed crayfish species complex is remained as unclear and it is still the subject of discussion. Despite many ambiguities, uniform data related to morphological diversity are scare. Therefore, the main aim was to compare populations from the same type of waterbody and different drainage (Baltic and Black Sea) from the Polesye region with multivariate statistics in order to morphological diversity verification. The result indicates that variability of studied populations is expressed especially in abdomen and cephalothorax parameters which is comparable to other works on morphometry of the European freshwater crayfish species. Some studies showed differences on morphology have been also confirmed at the genetic level. The information obtained in this study indicates that genetic analyses are necessary for understanding the diversity of this species.


Critical Oxygen Index (COI) values for rods of a nylon-66 based material of various diameters have been determined at 40°C. The existence of two discrete COI values has been identified for many sizes above a critical diameter: the two indexes correspond to clean burning and to burning with melting and dripping. The difference between the two indexes is dependent on rod diameter and can be greater than five units.