This paper analyses the interactions between household wealth, mortgage decisions and savings in a single empirical framework and identifies an important role for a "down-payment channel" in the euro area. Contrary to the traditional housing wealth channel, the "down-payment channel" posits a positive relation between household savings and house prices: a rise in house prices forces credit-constrained households who wish to acquire a house to accumulate more savings in order to cover a higher down-payment (i.e. the share of the housing acquisition value that is not covered by a mortgage). The overall effect of a rise in house prices on private consumption can be seen as the result of two offsetting forces: a rise in house prices tends to push up consumption via the traditional housing wealth channel but it also tends to depress the consumption of credit-constrained households who wish to acquire a house via the down-payment channel. Estimates based on a structural VEC model for the euro area suggest that the down-payment effect tends to dominate in the medium term, translating into an overall negative impact of higher house prices on consumption in the euro area.


Struts+Hibernate renders extensible and dynamically flexible to Web frame. Briefly introduces MVC model and the principle of Structs+Hibernate, and presents an example concerning Web finance management system, which shows how to apply the Web application system of Struts+Hibernate framework based on MVC pattern.


Simple Summary Rhabdomyosarcomas (RMS) are soft tissue sarcomas predominant in the pediatric age range. Current standard multi-modal treatments can result in severe life-long side-effects across all subtypes and dismal outcomes in RMS patients classified as high-risk. There is an urgent need to find novel, more targeted therapies for these children. High expression of a number of histone demethylases is shown to support proliferation of RMS cells and here we direct our attention on KDM4B which has become a recent focus for drug discovery efforts. We show that KDM4B regulates cell cycle genes in the context of RMS cells and demonstrate that long-term silencing of KDM4B is functionally compensated for by another KDM4 family member, KDM4A. Upfront reduction of both KDM4A and KDM4B kills RMS cells demonstrating that therapeutics designed to target both histone demethylase family members is desirable to circumvent functional redundancy. Abstract Histone demethylases are epigenetic modulators that play key roles in regulating gene expression related to many critical cellular functions and are emerging as promising therapeutic targets in a number of tumor types. We previously identified histone demethylase family members as overexpressed in the pediatric sarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma. Here we show high sensitivity of rhabdomyosarcoma cells to a pan-histone demethylase inhibitor, JIB-04 and identify a key role for the histone demethylase KDM4B in rhabdomyosarcoma cell growth through an RNAi-screening approach. Decreasing KDM4B levels affected cell cycle progression and transcription of G1/S and G2/M checkpoint genes including CDK6 and CCNA2, which are bound by KDM4B in their promoter regions. However, after sustained knockdown of KDM4B, rhabdomyosarcoma cell growth recovered. We show that this can be attributed to acquired molecular compensation via recruitment of KDM4A to the promoter regions of CDK6 and CCNA2 that are otherwise bound by KDM4B. Furthermore, upfront silencing of both KDM4B and KDM4A led to RMS cell apoptosis, not seen by reducing either alone. To circumvent compensation and elicit stronger therapeutic responses, our study supports targeting histone demethylase sub-family proteins through selective poly-pharmacology as a therapeutic approach.


Can beauty in architecture nourish the human emotional brain? Semir Zeki, Professor of Neuroaesthetics at University College London argues that it does. He goes further in suggesting it should be a quality in all buildings and that humanity has the ability to recognise this beauty across all cultural divides. The appreciation of beauty, no matter where found, is hardwired into our brains.


MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SCIENCE DANIEL APOSTOL (pg.83-85) Technical University of Iasi, Romania THE INFLUENCE OF THE STATIC CONVERTOR ON THE ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS OF A DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE 060 DA Abstract: Some elements concerning the influence of the tension static converters functioning upon both the equipment and the 2100 HP railway engine power circuit are briefly presented in this piece of work. It aims, in particular, the behavior of a high power static converter used on diesel-electric locomotive electric train heating.


This paper presents an algorithm for transmission line fault diagnosis and classification using K-means clustering. The three-phase current signal is synchronized with the GPS clock and approximate wavelet coefficients are computed over a moving window of one cycle. Two centroids of successive cycles are computed using K-means clustering. The centroidal difference of local and remote bus are added to obtain resultant centroidal difference. The resultant centroidal difference is compared with the threshold to detect the fault. Similarly, the centroidal difference is computed of three-phases to classify the fault. A number of case studies have carried out to validate the proposed algorithm by fault impedance, fault incidence angle and, fault location. The robustness of the algorithm has been established in the presence of noise.


The present invention provides a transparent organic light emitting display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The transparent organic light emitting display device includes a lower substrate including a sub-pixel area having a first area and a second area; a thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a first insulation layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a semiconductor layer formed on the lower substrate; a second insulation layer arranged on the first area and the second area; and an organic light emitting device formed on the second insulation layer. The second insulation layer is form on the first insulation layer in the first area, and is formed on the lower substrate in the second area. According to various embodiments of the present invention, the present invention provides the transparent organic light emitting display device and the manufacturing method thereof, whereby a light transmittance rate of a light transmitting area and of the entire device can be increased, and a decrease in brightness can be minimized.


This paper presents the results of the practical learning experience when combine three different school level students to learn open infrastructure building information modelling (infra BIM) and automation during OuluZone workshop week. Students started to build Speedway track in OuluZone test centre with one-week resources with the help of experts from industry and teachers. In addition, for students, ten different tricks were designed to present the tasks of the responsible person on the construction site. The idea of tricks was to teach students how these experts are using open infra BIM construction automation in their work. Infrakit, which is open infra BIM cloud service, was used to connect automation systems together. Based on the one-week workshop experience including questionnaire study answers and the results of pretest and exam for students, it can be concluded that this type of practical learning is an effective way to teach open infra BIM based automation to students.


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The Coal Bed Methane well X is a field developed by company A where 5 CBM test wells have been drilled. This CBM field development in 2004 by drilling wells to a depth of 3000ft, then in 2006 drilling was carried out for three test wells with an average depth of 3000ft. The research conducted at LEMIGAS aims to calculate coalbed methane reservoir reserves, calculation of reserves per seam, recovery factor, from each coal sample. The volumetric method is used in this research to calculate the methane gas reserves and Langmuir curve analysis is used to calculate the recovery factor. The target of this research is the CBM field in well X, where the well has 3 seams, namely seam-2, seam-3, and seam-4. In addition to calculating the value of methane gas reserves for each well, the methane gas reserves for each seam are also calculated. From the results of the calculation, it can be concluded that the largest value of gas in place is on seam 4 which is 573.2 MMscf and the smallest is on seam 2 which is 176.1 MMscf, then the largest recovery factor value is owned by seam 3 which is 91%.


The caking condition or nonflow limit of spray-dried avocado powder was determined for several environmental conditions of temperature (7°C to 45°C), relative humidity (30% to 76%). besides water content and the use of body substances (lactose, carboxy-methyl-cellulose (CMC) and corn starch). Such condition was greatly affected by the environment temperature and relative humidity, with critical values found for these variables from which their effect on the degree of caking changes drastically. The water content of the samples also plays an important role on the nonflow condition, which becomes significant as temperature increases. While the addition of lactose and corn starch unexpectedly had a negative effect in depressing the degree of caking, CMC presented a nonsignificant effect on that property.


This study records slower weight gain, greater body and liver fat, higher serum triglycerides and free fatty acids in rats fed a high sucrose diet or a mixture of an equivalent amount of glucose and f


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The uses of automobiles are increasing day by day and increased Air pollution. Increasing global concern due to air pollution has generated much interest in the environmental friendly alternative fuels. Alternative fuels for IC engines are also becoming important because of diminishing gasoline reserves and increasing air pollution. Also one of method to use tri-fuels (Petrol and Kerosene) with additives of ignition in combustion chamber improves the rate of combustion and reduce the Air pollution. The Air-fuel mixture gets ignited and the flame travel for complete combustion in the chamber. The emission outcomes phenomena are to be analyzed and also efficiency of the engine checked by constructing the load test method. Ethanol is good candidates as alternative fuel. In this study, the effect of ethanol fuel blends and spark plugs ignition are investigated on 2stroke single cylinder SI engine for analyzing the performance and combustion characteristics. The tests were performed using an electric dynamometer while running the engine and different load conditions. Exhaust gases namely, carbon dioxides (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO2) and unburned hydrocarbons (HC) are measured using multi exhaust gas analyzer. Exhausts emissions of the fuels is founded.


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Broadband entangled photons enable quantum interferometry, a technique for ultra-high resolution measurement of polarization mode dispersion. We present designs and preliminary results from a broadband entangled photon source in periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides.


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The applicability or various morphological methods (radial distribution function, contact distribution function, distribution of nearest neighbours in two modifcations, quadratic counts, covariance and chord length distribution) for the analysis of metal island films, is tested by computer experiment. All these methods are also applied to experimental data on In and Ag films.


Purpose: We have investigated the potential use of cone beam CT(CBCT) for beam range verifications in proton therapy treatment, in addition to its primary role in geometric targeting. Specifically, we studied the intrinsic imaging variability of a CBCT and its effect on the water equivalent path length (WEPL) calculations, in the context of daily beam range verification/correction required for a recently proposed method of treating prostate using anterior fields. The current approach uses only lateral fields due to the lack of precise range control in patient. Materials and Methods: An anthropomorphic pelvic phantom was scanned using CBCT, in eight sessions on eight different days. In each session, the phantom was scanned twice, first at a standard position as determined by the room lasers, and then with a random shift of one centimeter in lateral directions. The Xio treatment planning system was used to perform the analysis. The average Hounsfield unit (HU) numbers for the water column in the rectal balloon was used to perform a linear calibration of the stopping power ratio, independently for each scan, as supported by the planning system. A number of WEPL values vertically from the anterior skin surface to the anterior surface of the water balloon were calculated on slices covering the region of the prostate, in relevance to a prostate treatment using an anterior field. Results: The HU number in the water column varied significantly even within the same CBCT. The average value also varied from day to day for up to 20 units. However, when these average values are used to calibrate the stopping power ratio, the variations in WEPL values along the anterior beam path are mostly within 2 mm. Conclusions: In‐room CBCT can be used in proton therapy to make online verification of protons range in patients with 2mm accuracy.


Introduction

Sodic plagioclase is common in Earth’s crust and in many differentiated and undifferentiated meteorites. Under high temperature (HT) and high pressure (HP) conditions in asteroidal collisions, sodic plagioclase may transform into either hollandite-structured lingunite [1] or the recently discovered albitic jadeite [2]. When stoichiometric jadeite forms by decomposition of albite, the excess silica forms an SiO2 polymorph, often stishovite [3]. Albitic jadeite, by contrast, a Na-rich analogue of tissintite [2], is super-silicic, vacancy-rich pyroxene with excess Si coordinated in the octahedral M1 site. Searching for albitic jadeite alongside other P-sensitive mineral assemblages is therefore potentially important for expanding the list of pressure constraints available for impact events.

We report preliminary results on the occurrence of albitic jadeite within shock veins in the L6 ordinary chondrites Ozerki and Chug-Chug-011 (Fig. 1). Ozerki (fell 21st June 2018 in Russia) is moderately shocked (S4/5) and un-weathered (W0); it was recovered quickly (25th June 2018) after its fall. Chug-Chug-011 is a find, recovered in 2018 in Antofagasta, Chile; it is weakly shocked (S2), with minor weathering (W1).

Materials and Methods

Polished thin sections of Ozerki and Chug-Chug-011 were carefully examined for shock indicators and HP polymorphs, with intensive focus on the melt veins (MVs). We used optical microscopy, a JEOL JSM-IT300LV scanning electron microscope, a JEOL JXA 8900 electron probe micro-analyzer, and a dispersive confocal Renishaw inVia Reflex Raman microscope (514 nm laser).

Petrography & mineral chemistry

The thin section of Ozerki displays two discrete areas (Fig. 1A); light-colored chondritic and dark-colored impact melt-rich area. We focused on a network of shock veins intruding the light-colored area. The MVs are dark, variable width (40-850 μm), and locally disrupted by angular to sub-rounded clasts. Clasts are more abundant in wider MVs; jigsaw-fit breccia textures are widespread. Clasts, mostly silicate, concentrate in the center of each MV, whereas the margins are rich in metallic segregations and sulfides.

In Chug-Chug-011, three different MVs (~100 μm wide) crosscut the meteorite matrix (Fig. 1B). Elongated silicate clasts oriented parallel to the veins are common in their central domains.

In Ozerki, albitic jadeite forms acicular to dendritic crystallites aggregates (≤ 2 μm) associated with feldspathic glass (Fig. 2A). In Chug-Chug-011, albitic jadeite is found within a composite clast: low Ca-pyroxene surrounds sodic plagioclase (Fig. 2B). Crystallites near the core of the plagioclase show brighter backscatter than those near the rim.

Albitic jadeite in Ozerki yields an empirical formula (Na0.70Ca0.15K0.05□0.14)(Al0.82Si0.10Fe0.04)Si2O6 whereas that from Chug-Chug-011 is variable: (Na0.57-0.64Ca0.07-0.07K0.03-0.05Mg0.01-0.07□0.16-0.29)(Al0.78-0.86Si0.10-0.18Fe0-0.05Mg0-0.13)Si2O6, with Ca# [100×Ca/(Ca+Na)] from 10 to 13.

Pyroxene Raman spectroscopy

Raman spectra of the albitic jadeite in Ozerki display five distinct peaks at 376, 526, 698, 986 and 1036 cm-1 (Fig. 3A). In Chug-Chug-011, the predominant peak is at 698 cm-1, but there is a noteworthy 1016 cm-1 peak in addition to the “typical jadeite” 1038 peak. This may be associated either with a diopside-related structure or another high-P clinopyroxene (Fig. 3B).

Discussion and Conclusions

In Ozerki, albitic jadeite was found in the middle of ~70 μm and ~300 μm wide MVs. The presence of equant idiomorphic crystals with 120° triple junctions suggests that these MVs reached peak HT above the liquidus of the matrix. From such conditions, a ~300 μm wide vein surrounded by cold matrix conductively cools and solidifies in ~6.5 ms, which is an upper limit for growth time of minerals in the MV. Albitic jadeite is less dense than lingunite, implying formation from sodic plagioclase at lower pressures. The absence of lingunite suggests maximum pressures below 21 GPa. According to experiments [4] in jadeite-rich compositions (Jd70-80), jadeite + stishovite + garnet is stable at 13.5-21.5 GPa. However, the absence of stishovite and garnet in our MV may only reflect sluggish nucleation of these phases rather than an insufficient peak P<13.5 GPa [5]. The presence of albitic jadeite, by itself, therefore yields only an upper limit and not a fully quantitative P constraint.

In Chug-Chug-011, high-pressure Na-clinopyroxene [(Na0.49Ca0.15K0.03Mg0.24□0.09)(Al0.62Si0.04Fe0.13Mg0.21)Si2O6] is enclosed in a melt pocket included in pyroxene that is in turn entrained in a MV. The bright crystallites near the center of the pocket yield compositions and spectra similar to the HP-sodic clinopyroxene identified by [6]. The backscatter-dark crystallites closer to the pocket margins better match albitic jadeite. Neither phase is yet calibrated for shock pressure. However, the presence of a mixed xieite-chromite spectrum at the rim of another MV in the section suggests higher P conditions, 18-23 GPa (Fig. 3C). The same MV shows minor wadsleyite peaks near its center, requiring gradients over space or time in preserved P and T conditions across the MV.

Acknowledgements

This research received support from European Social Funds and the Greek State (call code EDBM103).

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This document the first chapter in a book that applies a global perspective to womens movements by considering the challenges faced by local "feminisms" presents a snapshot of the Chinese womens movement and sheds light on the development of Chinese feminism. The chapter considers the relationship between women and party/state-mandated womens liberation to reveal how this context challenges the womens movement to combine a top-down and bottom-up strategy while dealing with the complicated legacies of Marxism and the communist party and responding to current reforms. After introducing the topic and listing some general demographic and womens status indicators for China the discussion begins with a historical survey of the womens movement. This survey describes conditions from the turn of the century to 1949 and in the postrevolutionary period of 1949-78 and then considers problems arising from the Cultural Revolution. The second part of the chapter covers the new womens movement with a discussion of 1) the goals of protecting womens rights and serving womens needs 2) the importance of womens studies 3) womens self-perception and consciousness and 4) womens organizations. Part 3 looks at the past route and legacies and future challenges and directions of the Chinese womens movement. The chapter ends by promising that Chinese women will continue their struggle to create a better future for themselves and for their country while contributing to the development of world-wide feminism.


Objective To investigate the violation and bacterial carriage state of cockroaches in wards of a hospital (1-11 storey),and provide scientific basis for earring out comprehensive measures to eliminate the pollution of cockroaches to medical environment.Methods The visual and paper sticky capture method were applied to investigate the harmful invasion of cockroaches.Cockroaches were stickily captured from each floor,and were randomly divided into 11 groups,each had 5.they were sent to the laboratory for bacterial isolation and culture,serological and biochemical testing with routine methods.Results 228 houses in wards of a hospital building were investigated, the traces of cockroaches by visual method in 171 houses were found,the positive rate was 75.00%.There were 191 pieces of sticky cloth for sticking cockroaches,and the positive papers were 80 pieces,243 cockroaches were captured,violation rate of cockroaches was 41.88%,density of cockroaches were 1.27 per paper.Opportunistic pathogens were detected on the surface and the bodies of 11 groups of cockroaches,among which the main pathogens were Proteus spp.(14 strains),Klebsiella pneumoniae(11),Escherichia coli(7),Enterobacter agglomerates (8),Pseudomonas aeruginosa(5),Acinetobacter haumannii(3).Conclusion Cockroach is one of the factors contributing to hospital environmental surface pollution;regular killing of cockroaches and timely monitoring the environmental hygiene are important measures to prevent nosocomial infection.


Five energy scenarios selected for use in the Administrator's Annual Report, reflecting assumptions about economic growth and energy supply, give rise to alternative states of the aggregate economy. Shifts in the level and composition of final demand for the economy imply different structures of industrial output with concomitant effects on the level and composition of employment. The implications which the five energy scenarios have for the structure of employment in the US economy for 1985 are examined. The first section discusses the model and simulation procedures used to derive sector employment levels and discusses the limitations of the approach. The second section presents a discussion of the generic relationship between changes in the level and composition of final demand and the effects of such changes on employment. The third section addresses the employment implications of five energy scenarios reported in the Administrator's Annual Report.


This work is part of the research project "Fiscal policy, immigration and housing" (SEJ2006-13832), directed by Prof. Dr. Antonia Agullo Aguero and financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and the European Social Fund (grant BES-2008-003252).


Pathophysiology is set as a separated subject from others ever since its establishment in the medical schools in China in 1950s.Nowadays the curriculum of pathophysiology usually involves lectures and lab sessions,accounting for about two thirds and one third of the total class hours respectively.For a long time,traditional teaching mode is used predominantly in the instruction of pathophysiology in China.In the past decades,increasing problems of teaching have been gradually realized,among which the lose connection of lectures with clinical practices,the weakness of developing active learning abilities of students,and the insufficient laboratory training are most of note.As a subject investigating the mechanisms underlying the development of disease,pathophysiology helps medical students to develop skills to solve efficiently professional medical problems.How to teach the subject in a way that engages,enlightens and excites medical students to want to learn more?In recent years,great efforts have been made to establish student-centered and self-moti-vated learning mode in pathophysiology course in Nanjing Medical University.Emphasis has been placed on three aspects:the implementation of problem-based learning,the use of E-learning tools,and the increase of integrated or self-designed experiments.Challenges we are facing in continuing the teaching reforms are also presented.


There is a recognition both in the English teaching syllabus and in the ELT circle that ELT is not only teaching language, but teaching culture as well. It is very desirable for the English teachers to channel the cultural knowledge into the process of lauguage teaching so as to gradually foster the students' awareness of cross-culture communication. The article points out the close relationship between language and culture by analyzing from diverse aspects the imbedded cultural knowledge in the English words, idioms and discourse, and puts forward the contents to be channeled, the principles to comply with and the methods to employ.


The purposes of this study were to identify and explore (a) the life skills learning contexts experienced by Canadian junior national team biathletes and (b) the ways in which they learned life skills in these contexts. Nine members of the Canadian junior national biathlon team participated in individual semi-structured interviews. Results of thematic analysis revealed 3 life skills learning contexts: sport, school/work, and family. Participants reported learning life skills by using cognitive processes of observational learning and reflections on experiences. Some athletes reported that life skills learning occurred automatically, which may suggest implicit cognitive learning. Lay Summary: The different contexts in which Canadian junior national team biathletes learned life skills were studied. Nine athletes were interviewed. Athletes learned life skills in sport, school/work, and family contexts. They used cognitive strategies of observational learning and reflecting on experiences. Some athletes thought they learned life skills automatically, which may suggest implicit cognitive learning.


This article is the third article based on material emanating from the Nurnberg war crimes trials. The first, entitled "War Crimes and Their Motivation-The Socio-Psychological Structure of the SS and the Criminalization of a Society" appeared in volume 39, No. 3, September-October, 1948, pp. 298-326 of this JOURNAL. The second, entitled "Destructive and Self-Destructive Trends in Criminalized Society-A Study of Totalitarianism" appeared in volume 39, No. 5, JanuaryFebruary, 1949, pp. 553-564. The author was consultant to the Secretary of War of the United States on duty with the Office of the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes in Nurnberg, 1946-1947. He is at present Director of the Neurobiologic Unit of the Division of Psychiatric Research at the Boston State Hospital, instructor in Psychiatry, Tufts College Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army.-EDIToR.


Silicon dioxide (SiO2) or silica is a metal oxide which comes under fourth group. The properties of SiO2 includes high thermal stability, good abrasion resistance and good electrical insulation. It is the most commonly used dielectrics in semiconductor arena. Hafnium oxide (HfO2) comes under the group of high-k dielectrics. This inorganic compound, which is also known as hafnia acts as a replacement for conventional silicon dioxide dielectric layers. In this paper, we have simulated TFET structures with hafnia and silica as dielectric materials. A considerable increase in capacitance, of around 58%, was obtained when we c h a n g e d the dielectric material from silica to hafnia. The dimensions of dielectric layer was kept constant during the simulations. The gaussian doping distribution is very much similar to real doping profiles and is simple in structure. So we adopted gaussian doping profile for source and drain doping. The simulations results showed that TFET structures with SiO2 dielectric layer exhibited better transfer characteristics than TFET structures with HfO2 dielectric layer.


The advent of microprocessors has resulted in great strides in Power and Industrial Electronics, especially in the areas of ac and dc drives. Microprocessor based systems have proved to be accurate and reliable with inherent flexibility offered through software. Modifications in system operations are easier to implement on software controlled systems. This paper presents the development of a microprocessor based PID controller for the speed control of a DC machines. The algorithm has been implemented on a 8 bit processor and has been evaluated on a fractional HP DC motor. The programs were executed on Intels 8085 based microcomputer system.


There are 2 million United States military–attached children worldwide; however, the US government does not track the data of those who commit suicide. Military children's daily lives are affected by the everyday and slow violence of constantly preparing for war. This article conducts a critical content analysis of family resiliency resources and children's books to highlight the ongoing need for structural change. We conclude with recommendations on how to best address the specific needs of military-attached children.


Social-emotional education plays an important role in helping students develop essential life-skills that go beyond academics. Over the last decade, research literature on social-emotional learning and life-skills in Vietnam has begun to develop. This paper provides an overview of the major trends in studying, solving and evaluating the relationship between social-emotional learning and life-skills education in Vietnam. In addition, the paper also evaluates the challenges of linking this relationship. The researcher also created models that embed each of the five competencies of social and emotional learning into living skills programs for Vietnamese primary students. The results suggested that the teachers were all aware of the challenges when embedding SEL in classrooms


Activity coefficients have been determined for solutions of CH$sub 3$OH, CH$sub 3$OD, CD$sub 3$OH, and CD$sub 3$OD in n-hexane between 35 and 75$sup 0$C from isothermal vapor pressure measurements. Using Wilson's equations for representing the activity coefficients, curves for the partial pressure ratios of the deuterioisomeric methanols do not show oscillating behavior as they do when using the Redlich--Kister type representation. In each case, Wilson's parameters, association constants, association energies, heats of vaporization, and excess Gibbs free energies suggest that the energy of the deuterium bond of the methanols is larger than that of their hydrogen bond. An association energy of about 5 kcal/mole is derived using Wilson's representation, while the value of 6 to 7 kcal/mole derived from the Redlich--Kister representation is too large. The ratios p(CD$sub 3$OH)/p(CH$sub 3$OH) and p(CD$sub 3$OD)/p(CH$sub 3$OD) are inverse (greater than 1) in the whole concentration range, whereas p(CH$sub 3$OD)/ p(CH$sub 3$OH) and p(CD$sub 3$OD)/p(CD$sub 3$OH) changes from normal (less than 1) to inverse as the mole fraction goes to zero. Previous measurements on methylamines showed a similar behavior, except that the inversion point (p/p' = 1) occurs at a higher mole fraction. The pronounced difference is due to the weaker hydrogen bondingmore » of the amino group compared to the hydroxyl group. (auth)« less


Background: Obesity has created a global burden for public health. Adolescents seem to be ignorant of the risk factors and complications associated with obesity. Proper knowledge, perception and practice in terms of behavioural modification, physical activity and nutrition seem lacking amidst these young ones. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and perception of health consequences of obesity of secondary school students of Excel Kings and Queens College, Ile Ife, Nigeria. Methods: It was a cross sectional study that made used of 66 pre-tested, self-administered questionnaires to assess the knowledge and perception of health consequences of obesity. Collated data were analysed with descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The result showed that the most secondary school students' knowledge about obesity is still low and below average and their perception about health consequences of obesity is still poor. Conclusion: We concluded that, there is need to improve on this aspect as to reduce the increase in obesity high prevalence noticed in the world today. This then can reduce the burden of public health as regards the problems associated with obesity.


A ball‐throwing apparatus has been built to be used as an instrument for measuring the local momentum and density of a plasma in a rotating plasma device. Reasons are given for the choice of this technique and the critical design parameters are discussed. The necessary timing equipment and calculation method are given. The time of flight of a launched ball is known with an accuracy of ±0.15%.


: The aim of the present article is to lay bare the socio–communicative functions of viral texts and the political aspects of viral communication. Virality is not exclusively a phenomenon belonging to online culture: we can also talk of virality in genres such as jokes, fairy tales, rumors, etc. It is important to note, however, that the concentration of viral texts has significantly increased in online culture. This paper conceptualizes the nature of viral texts by using ideas from cultural semiotics, specifically the notion of the text. The article demonstrates how viral texts can function as a possible discursive tools for questioning and contesting the boundaries of private and public communication.


By rapid growth of science and technology in various areas accompanying with lack of familiarity of young generation with rich folklore culture, gradual ignorance of this valuable repository is of concern. This culture in form of monograph can help considerably preserve this valuable repository. This research is aimed to review briefly monographic background in Iran, rural, urban and neighboring monographs in Kerman regarding necessity and significance of monograph. The present research was done by a library based methodology derived from Al- Ahmad, Saedi, Shahri's monographs and Kermani monographs. Research results show that monograph dated back to one hundred years ago based on Lorimer's book "Kerman folk culture". After establishment of Kerman studies center in 1989 and conduction of 18 seminars, provincial researches have been specially paid attention and valuable works of monograph have been registered in the province such as Koohbanan folk culture (2005), Shahr-e babak culture and history (2004). But there is no published work about villages and suburbs of Kerman except the book "a trip on Chatroud town". Since it is not possible to write all details of folk culture, because of high expansion of cities, so pay attention to neighboring monographs including the book "history of mosque and neighborhood of Khajeh Khezr is very vital in order to preserve folk culture. (akimeh Daneshvar, Parvin Salari Chineh. Overview of Kerman monographs. N Y Sci J 2013;6(12):102-109). (ISSN: 1554-0200). http://www.sciencepub.net/newyork . 17


We have fabricated and controlled a novel nanometer scale silicon gap in a separation by implantation of oxygen (SIMOX) structure using the thin film stress generated during high temperature annealing and cooling, and then elucidated the formation mechanism and crystal orientation dependency of the gaps. The technique is very simple and controllable in shaping a wedge type nano-structure with a several hundred-nanometer gap. The fabricated structure has a 190 and 250 nm narrow gap with 2 µm and 11 µm side etching of the buried SiO2, respectively.


Due to the growing need for electricity, the effective inspection of the power lines is becoming an important matter. In this paper, the author presents the inspection of power or transmission line with autonomous automatic UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). For the comprehensive inspection of power lines and its different components, such as (cross arms, cracks in poles, rot damage, and insulator burn), It is needed to inspect from every side of the elements and the masts. So, the angle and speed of the drone are much more important to take images while moving around the poles. The simulator used for the experiments, including deep learning models, acts as a vital source of data analysis. At the same time, pictures are used as the primary data source. Through the Deep learning method, a suggestion of action generated for the movement around the masts. The use of a simulator is a quick, accurate, and inexpensive solution, with less real/world factors affecting the inspection process, such as weather, time, and cost of using many different resources. This study presents experiments with lightweight deep learning models through developing the prototype of vision based unmanned aerial vehicle to inspect the power line in a simulated environment. It focuses on the large demand of power companies to inspect the power line autonomously with the influence of deep learning. Finally, several deep learning models are compared when inspection along the power lines. The model shows satisfactory results in the testing path. The model trained by MobileNetV2 performs best among all other models.


Decisions made in the early stages of product development projects are vital to their success. Such decisions include setting target product quality, allocating resources, as well as deciding whether to terminate or continue the project. In this study, we propose a new method that, based on a mathematical programming extension of quality function deployment, uses detailed information about the product and the organizational marketing and engineering competencies. The method outputs detailed information regarding project resource allocation, planned product quality, target market share, and resulting project risk that support the aforementioned decisions. The method is exemplified on the development of a recently patented product concept. While the product has never been developed, it is used to illustrate the proposed approach. The benefits and limitations of the method are discussed.


Robotic-assisted surgery is increasing, especially in cancer surgery. Minimal-invasive esophagectomy (MIE) is commonly the standard operation procedure in high-volume centers. Also, the fully robotic minimally invasive esophagectomy is performed more and more frequent. Over the past 5 years we continuously improved our 4-arm RAMIE procedure.
 At the moment we are comparing the two total minimal-invasive Ivor-Lewis techniques in a RCT (ROBOT-2 trial).
 Since January 2017 we perform RAMIE procedures and we would like to demonstrate the further developed robotic technique of one case as an example how we perform Ivor-Lewis RAMIE after a learning case of over 250 RAMIE cases in our case observation center in Mainz Germany.
 The overall advantages between RAMIE and MIE are under evaluation in our recruiting ROBOT-2 trial, of which we like to report the progress at ISDE 2022.


The history of psychological science in the Philippines is considered as a case of cultural diffusion from the West through the English language and the institutions (educational and legal, business and industry, the media, government and the bureaucracy) which adopted the language. The development of academic and professional psychology and of psychology-related services has been phenomenal, particularly in the last decade. It has however, given rise to problems of (1) standards and validity in testing and research, and (2) applicability of concepts and methods in social psychology the roots of which are from another culture. Current trends and issues, as well the movement for indigenous Philippine social psychology, are briefly described.


This invention relates to a composite work roll for cages tandem or pass of a cold strip mill skin, the outer working area is made of a chrome-vanadium, characterized in that steel chromium-vanadium working outer layer contains from 1, 3-2, 2 carbon by weight, 8 to 16% by weight of chromium, 5 to 7% vanadium weight, the remainder being iron and normally present elements.


This article presents an application of the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) in order to predict the pollution in rainy weather in a combined sewer system catchment in Santander, Spain. Suspended solids (SS), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN) were measured at the exit of the catchment and these parameters were used for the calibration and validation of the model. The process of hydraulic and quality calibration is described and the values of the adjusted parameters are presented, comparing them with those obtained from other studies. The calibrated model simulated accurately the hydrograph's shape and the time of presentation of the peak flows. The accuracy of adjustment of the volume was 96%. As for the quality validation, the accuracy of adjustment among the total simulated loads of SS, COD and TKN, and those measured at the end of the rainfall events were 93, 95 and 78% respectively, confirming the accurate confirming the relative accuracy of the model in the prediction mode. The phenomenon of the first flush was analysed, and it was determined that 65, 57 and 54% of the polluting loads of COD, SS and TKN respectively, were swept along by the first 30% of the volume in the rainfall events used for the calibration of the model.


Tax preferential policy is usually used to encourage the development of some industries.However,tax preference usually will cause the problem of implicit tax,which has the same influence on company's investment activities with explicit tax.Therefore,it is essential to unveil "implictit tax",to learn about the concept and the cause of it,to make clear how to count it and to work out how to respond to it in our economic activities.All of these plays an important role for the new tax system reforming of the government.


Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction: Islamic Approaches to Peace and Conflict Resolution Chapter 3 Power Politics in Islam- Peace through Coercive Power (Siyasat al-Quwwah): Chapter 4 Theory of the State Chapter 5 Foundations and Purposes of Political Authority Chapter 6 The Ottaman Jihad Fatwa of November 11th, 1914 Chapter 7 World Order in Islam- Peace through the Power of Law and Institutions (Islah and Tajdid): Chapter 8 Islamic Jurisprudence and Modern Needs: The Challenge of Renewal Chapter 9 Islam as an Ethical Tradition of International Relations Chapter 10 Islamic Ethics in International Society Chapter 11 Conflict Resolution Approaches- Western and Middle Eastern Lessons and Possibilities: Chapter 12 An Islamic Model for Political Conflict Resolution: Tahkim (Arbitration) Chapter 13 Rituals of Reconciliation: Arab-Islamic Perspectives Chapter 14 Nonviolence in Islam- Peace through the Power of the Human Spirit (La 'unf): Chapter 15 The Nonviolent Crescent: Eight Theses on Muslim Nonviolent Action Chapter 16 Nonviolence, Ethics, and Character Development in Islam Chapter 17 Nonviolence in Islam: The Alternative Community Tradition Chapter 18 Transformation in Islam- Peace Through the Power of Love (Tasawwuf ): Chapter 19 Peace in the Sufi Tradition: An Ecology of the Spirit Chapter 20 The Inner Jihad Chapter 21 Peace and the Feminine in Islam


This chapter considers the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Legal Consequences of the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory , the response of the United Nations to the Opinion, with special reference to the response of the Secretary-General, and the attitude of former Secretary-Generals to advisory opinions. In his approach to the Wall Opinion, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon may take some comfort from the fact that his predecessors have been inconsistent in their efforts to implement advisory opinions. Moreover, he has the Zacklin opinion to back him. There is, however, a difference between the opinions examined and the Wall . Keywords: Advisory Opinion; Ban Ki-Moon; Secretary-General; United Nations


Chaprala Wildlife Sanctuary is home to a variety of wild animals including a few endangered species and is surrounded by Pranhita River. 76 species of avian-fauna recorded in Chaprala Wildlife Sanctuary and of which as many as three bird species are of endangered status. The field survey was made to assess the forest for the avian fauna by conducting daily observations. Total number of 76 birds' species belonging 39 families were recorded. Accipitridae is the dominating family of birds. The study of avian fauna was carried out from December, 2011 to December, 2012 at the interval of ten days. Observations were carried out with the help of binocular and photography was done with Fujifilm finepix camera.


We consider an inventory system in which inventory level fluctuates as a Brownian motion in the absence of control. The inventory continuously accumulates cost at a rate that is a general convex function of the inventory level, which can be negative when there is a backlog. At any time, the inventory level can be adjusted by a positive or negative amount, which incurs a fixed cost and a proportional cost. The challenge is to find an adjustment policy that balances the holding cost and adjustment cost to minimize the long-run average cost. When both upward and downward fixed costs are positive, our problem is an impulse control problem. When both fixed costs are zero, our problem is a singular or instantaneous control problem. For the impulse control problem, we prove that a four-parameter control band policy is optimal among all feasible policies. For the singular control problem, we prove that a two-parameter control band policy is optimal. We use a lower-bound approach, widely known as the "verification...


Aluminum alloy/aramid fiber reinforced plastic(Al/AFRP) laminates consists of high strength metal(A15052) and laminated aramid fiber with structural adhesive bond. The mixture ratio effect of epoxy resin curing agent accelerator on the tensile strength and T-peel strength characteristic in Al AFRP laminates were investigated in this study. The epoxy. diglycidylether of bisphenol A(DCEBA), It`as cured by methylene dianiline(MDA) with or without an accelerator(K-54). Eight different kinds of resin mixture ratios were selected for the test , five kinds of Al/AFRP laminates were named as Al/AFRP(1) and three others of Al/AFRP laminates were named as Al/AFRP(2). The comparison of tensile strength and T-peel strength with variation of resin mixture ratio were studied. Respectively. Al/AFRP(1) and Al/AFRP(2) indicated approximately 6.0 times and 7.0 times more improved maximum tensile strength in comparison with those of monolithic A15052. Al/AFRP(2) indicated approximately 1.5 times more impoved maximum T-peel strengths in comparison with those of Al/AFRP(1). As results. Al/AFRP(2) turned out to have more effective characteristics on the tensile strength and T-peel strength than those of Al/AFRP(1).


The article describes the main provisions of the environmental and conservation policy of the LLC "CentralCaspianOil& Gas" It is proposed provided for the development of the "Central" compensation expense to direct on the implementation of specific environmental projects.


The conformational study of a homogenous series of cyclic analogues of CCK8, selective for central receptors, such as Boc‐ X‐Tyr(SO3H)‐Nle‐D‐Lys‐Trp‐Nle‐Asp‐Phe‐NH2, where X = L‐Glu, D‐Glu, or γ‐D‐Glu, was performed by 400‐MHz 1H‐nmr. The regular increase in affinity for central receptors when going from [L‐Glu] to [γ‐D‐Glu] is correlated to (a) an enhancement in internal flexibility of the cyclic moiety, (b) an external orientation of the tyrosine side chain, and (c) a restructuring of the C‐terminal part of the peptide. All these results could permit a modeling of biologically active conformation of CCK8 for both receptors types to be performed.


The COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on teacher training programs, as the shift to online instruction sent shock waves through the K-12 public education system in the United States. Teacher education programs were found in situations where their current student teachers needed significant additional support to navigate the rapid changes in the means that instruction was provided in their schools. This essay provides some insight on how one university navigated this process and provides suggestions for training future teachers.


This article present about to design solar plant for roof top building in university. Muhammadiyah University of North Sumatra is one of the best private universities nationwide. One effort to continue maintaining campus quality is to improve facilities and infrastructure as campus services. In this paper a planning for installing solar panels on the roof of one of the campus buildings is presented. Solar power plant planning is done by designing and calculating how much power should be provided for new buildings. Starting from calculating the electrical load, power by solar power plants, counting the number of solar panels, battery capacity, inverters and others. The number of suitable solar panels installed in accordance with the building roof area is 2 strings (120 panels) while the number of panels according to the load to be serviced requires 2,256 solar panels. From the results of calculations following the number of solar panels that can be, the energy obtained per day is 144.83 kWh, this means that it is only able to serve about 0.97% of the energy needed by the building.


Definition This condition has been called 'terminal reservoir', 'megarectum' or 'rectal inertia'. The last term is preferred to 'colonic inertia', which has also been used, because the colon seems to work very well in packing fwces into the accommodating rectum. The colon appears remarkably normal even when the rectum reaches up to the ribs. Real tubular dilatation of the colon seems rare although dolichocolon is sometimes seen as a temporary radiological appearance which disappears when the colon is stimulated to contract. Constipation is taken as meaning incomplete evacuation, not merely an infrequent bowel habit.


Notozothecium janauachensis n. sp. is described from the gills of naturally-infected tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum, from the Brazilian Amazon. This new species is characterized by possessing a ventral anchor that has an evenly curved, elongate shaft and a short point; a ventral anchor that is larger than dorsal anchor; a dorsal anchor with a shaft that is strongly bent proximally but distally straight; a copulatory organ that forms nearly a complete ring, the distal extremity of which has a feather-shaped extension and the accessory piece has a hook-shaped subterminal flap originating from the distal rod. Notozothecium janauachensis n. sp. was also found parasitizing C. macropomum from fishculture ponds in Southeast of Brazil.


Optimizing software to become (more) energy efficient is an important concern for the software industry. Although several techniques have been proposed to measure energy consumption within software engineering, little work has specifically addressed Software Product Lines (SPLs). SPLs are a widely used software development approach, where the core concept is to study the systematic development of products that can be deployed in a variable way, e.g., to include different features for different clients. The traditional approach for measuring energy consumption in SPLs is to generate and individually measure all products, which, given their large number, is impractical. We present a technique, implemented in a tool, to statically estimate the worst-case energy consumption for SPLs. The goal is to reason about energy consumption in all products of a SPL, without having to individually analyze each product. Our technique combines static analysis and worst-case prediction with energy consumption analysis, in order to analyze products in a feature-sensitive manner: a feature that is used in several products is analyzed only once, while the energy consumption is estimated once per product. This paper describes not only our previous work on worst-case prediction, for comprehensibility, but also a significant extension of such work. This extension has been realized in two different axis: firstly, we incorporated in our methodology a simulated annealing algorithm to improve our worst-case energy consumption estimation. Secondly, we evaluated our new approach in four real-world SPLs, containing a total of 99 software products. Our new results show that our technique is able to estimate the worst-case energy consumption with a mean error percentage of 17.3% and standard deviation of 11.2%.


This work is part of various experimental and theoretical investigations into the noise and the vibrations caused by trams in Nantes, France. It focuses on the problem of the low frequency vibrations induced in the track and the ground and particularly on the excitation mechanism at the wheel/rail interface. In order to estimate the corresponding dynamic wheel/rail forces, axle‐box vibrations have been measured on a carrying bogie in various vehicle and track configurations. Additionally, a specific instrument has been used to measure the rail unevenness at large wavelengths likely to excite the vehicle/track system in the low frequency range. Finally, the vertical receptance of the different tracks has been measured by using an impact hammer. In the paper, all these experimental results are presented and the validity of a simple vehicle/track interaction model is discussed.


The authors thank the discusser for calling their attention to the exact agreement between the peak tip shear stress predicted by the Timoshenko beam and shear beam models. Incidentally, we now realize that the exact value could have been read from Boley and Chao's Table 4. We cannot offer any rigorous proof that the peak bending moments, at inboard stations, are not seriously influenced by traveling shear waves, but experiments, such as those of Vigness,3 usually indicate that the Euler-Bernoulli theory is adequate at such locations.


Depression is a mental disorder in the mood. Personality can change a person in certain conditions and circumstances, including the elderly who are in social institutions. Therefore, to determine the incidence of depression in the elderly, it is necessary to know the type of personality which is one of the factors causing depression in the elderly. This study aims to determine the relationship between personality types and the incidence of depression in the elderly in Tresna Werdha Gau Mabaji Gowa social institution. The population in this study were the elderly who live at the Tresna Werdha Gau Mabaji Gowa social institution with a total sample of 30 people. Data processing used SPSS 16 with the chi-square test. The results showed that the elderly who had the personality type with the highest percentage was the ambivert personality type as many as 28 people (93.3%), and the lowest personality type was the introvert as many as 2 people (6.7%). Elderly at the Tresna Werdha Gau Mabaji Gowa social institution, most of them did not experience depression, as many as 27 people (90%), and the lowest was depression 3 people (10%). The ambivert personality type with no depression was 27 people (90%), while the ambivert personality type with the incidence of depression was 1 person (3.3%), the introvert personality type with the incidence of depression was 2 people (6.7%). p = 0.07, which means <0.05, the conclusion of this study is that there is no relationship between personality type and the incidence of depression in the elderly


Coronary artery disease (CAD) and myocardial infarction cluster within families. First-degree relatives of affected individuals are at increased risk of developing the disease themselves, with the elevated risk being of a similar magnitude regardless of whether the affected proband is a sibling or a parent.1 Epidemiological data indicate that the estimated heritability of CAD and CAD-related death may be as high as 40% to 50%.2 Yet, common genetic variation (≈45 loci) identified in previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) explains only a 10th of the heritability of CAD.3 The missing heritability may be attributable to rare genetic variants not captured by GWAS, tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are not in complete linkage disequilibrium with the true causal variants, structural variation, alterations in regulatory units, epigenetic influences, gene–gene interactions, post-translational modification of proteins, or environmental and behavioral factors, including gene–environment interactions.4 Another hypothesis is that many causally related SNPs may be discarded from GWAS-based on their failure to achieve a genome-wide statistical significance level. As pointed out by Visscher,5 the agnostic approach epitomized by GWAS may inherently emphasize high specificity at the cost of low sensitivity (ie, it minimizes false-positive associations). A GWAS of 10 000 individuals has only 29% power to detect a SNP that explains 0.2% of the variance in a trait (at a type I error rate of 5×10–7).5 Thus, there may be a low probability (ie, 0.292=0.08) that 2 independent studies of 10 000 individuals each will discover the same genetic variant.5 The analysis of height supports the premise that GWAS may overlook some subthreshold loci (statistically speaking) that influence the trait. Height has an estimated heritability of 80%, with known SNPs (697) explaining only ≈16% of the phenotypic variation.6 However, when all …


Pulmonary function in follow-up of 35 patients with paracoccidioidomycosis (South American Blastomycosis) Pulmonary lesions observed in pbmycosis were denominated: mild, moderate and severe according to the criteria established from radiolgical findings by the authors. Bilateral nodulofibrolinear and cotton interstitials infiltrates were identified respectivelly on 34 and 23 patients. Later radiological analyses showed mild, moderate and severe pulmonary lesions respectivilly in 6; 10 and 19 evolving to improved in 2; worsened in 15 and maintained in 18 patients. Normal spirographic test in 12; obstructive defect in 20; mixed in 3; hyperventilation in 34 and alveolar arterial difference increased in all patients. Residual fibrosis observed in radiological maintained and worsened of 33 themes added to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease recognized by lung function tests both were able to explain the development of Cor pulmonale syndrome in 6 patients.


We report experimental and theoretical results on the increase in output power of resonant tunneling diode (RTD) oscillators in sub-terahertz (THz) range with an offset-fed slot antenna and high current density. Theoretical analysis shows that the oscillation frequency increases with an offset from the center of the slot antenna. Output power also increases with the offset up to the point of the best impedance matching. As the result of calculation, the oscillation at 600 GHz with the output power of 610 μW is expected for a single RTD with high peak current density (18 mA/μm2) and an offset structure. In a preliminary experiment, an output power of 150 μW was obtained at 271 GHz with peak current density of 7 mA/μm2.


In this paper,we study the Laplacian eigenvalue of a connected graph.Using the determinant expression of Laplacian eigenpolynomial of graphs,we get a Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph with the same neighborhood,and give its application.


An isolation type vertical 600V-50A IGBT with reverse blocking capability (RB-IGBT) has been developed for the first time. Ultra-thin wafer technology combined with deep boron diffusion technique results in a great improvement on trade-off performance. RB-IGBT can be used as a bi-directional switch by anti-parallel connection with another RB-IGBT. These bi-directional switches realize a high efficiency matrix converter.


INTRODUCTION Patellofemoral compilcations are among the most frequently observed adverse events after total knee arthroplasty. The posterior location with Femoral component of conventional TKA in AP alignment cause paradoxical movement, but, guide motion TKA (Journey.2.BCS) with anterior post-cam remain a correct AP alignment. The purpose of this study was to investigate patellofemoral (PF) contact stress between Bi-Cruciate Substituting TKA (Journey.2.BCS) and CR TKA (Journey.CR). METHODS We evaluated 22 knees with medial compartment osteoarthritis who underwent. Simultaneous bilateral TKA. The prospective randomized study was to measure intraoperative PF contact stress by a patellofemoral sensor (Kyowa Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) comparing the identical Bi-Cruciate Substituting or CR Journey.2 total knee prostheses implanted bilaterally in the same patient. RESULTS The PF contact stress showed significantly greater at CR TKA than at BCS TKA in 120 and 140 degrees of flextion (p=0.04, p=0.018). and showed no significant correlations with postoperative flextion angles. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION In guide motion TKA, CR prosthesis increases PF contact stress than Bi-Cruciate Substituting prosthesis. The femoral rollback with medial pivot motion at CR TKA decreases more as the BCS TKA. Increased PF contact stress in guided motion TKA is not necessarily decrease postoperative flextion angle.


In equipment design,designers use series parts extensively and frequently.However,there is no model libraries for the series parts.Designers have to create their own library in CAD software to include the series part models.The process,key points and applying method of using iPart feature in Inventor to develop such series parts library in equipments were discussed.Explores the innovative design method of common equipments,it also gives a guideline for designing and creating all series parts.


Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common type of congenital malformation, representing a major public health problem affecting the health of Chinese children.Great progress has been made in many aspects in the treatment of CHD in China.The vast majorities of children with CHD have been treated and they have survived for a long time, but cardiac dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension are still common complications of it before or after surgery.In this paper, the advances in drug treatment of CHD in children in recent years were mainly discussed, focused on the evaluation, treatment and management of CHD with heart failure and pulmonary hypertension in order to further improve the pediatrician′s therapeutic level of managing common complications of CHD.

Key words:
Congenital heart disease; Child; Treatment


The term 'Social TV' has been used to describe a broad range of phenomena generally involving, commentary on televised content through online social networks. It is necessary, however, to characterize and better define this concept due to the different modes of articulation that exist between TV and the Internet and the different manifestations of participatory culture in the environment of convergence. This article proposes to discuss Social TV as an interactional practice founded on conversation via the Internet, and an act based on televised content, through interactive platforms/technologies linked to strategies of the television and/or software development industries, which are able to provide the experience of watching something together from a mode of presence generated by the sharing of these pieces of content at the same time.


This study was conducted with aim to tend out morphology of oesophagus and stomach of the cave swiflets (Collocalia linchi) at macroscopic and microscopic levels.  The data revealed that esophagus was 2.93 cm in length and possessed no crop.  The stomach was small and the isthmus was not clear. Mucosa of the esophagus was lined by stratified squoamus epithelium. Esophageal gland was mucous type. The glands were well developed and distributed along the esophagus. The external muscle layer consisted of inner circular and outer longitudinal layers.  The stomach could be distinguished into proventriculus and ventriculus with no clear isthmus between them. The mucosa of proventriculus was lined by single columnar epithelium. The ventricular gland area was divided into cardiac, fundic  and pyloric gland areas. The surface of ventriculus was lined with cuticula. In general the esophagus and stomach of the cave swiftlets were simple with no crop in the esophagus and isthmus in the stomach. These might be related with the kind of food and feeding behavior of this species.


Objective: To analyze Chinese literatures on application status of orthodontic tooth movement(OTM) animal models.Methods: The database search method and manual search method were combined,and 10 kinds of domestic oral survey journals were selected.The published articles about OTM animal model were chosen,which were published in recent 10 years,and used bibliometric methods on statistical analysis.Results: 86 articles were selected.69 articles were about the mechanisms of OTM in periodontal tissue remodeling(80.25%).5 articles were about the mechanism of OTM pain(5.81%).7 articles were referred to the estrous cycle during OTM(8.13%);5 articles were about the root resorption during OTM(5.81%).Conclusion: So far,the main application of OTM animal model is periodontal tissue remodeling,and orthodontic pain,root resorption and orthodontic aspects menstrual cycles remain to be further studied.


We report a surgical approach using hepatic vein–to–azygos vein connection without cardiopulmonary bypass or deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in a patient with heterotaxy syndrome and interrupted inferior vena cava with persistence of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) after previous Fontan completion. We advocate early performance of hepatic vein–to–azygos vein connection following the Kawashima operation for heterotaxy with functionally univentricular heart and interrupted inferior vena cava. We review the physiology of heterotaxy syndrome with congenital heart disease and justify our approach in the context of a review of previous surgical strategies used in this patient population.


Among the hydrological impacts of global warming one of the most debated is the possible increase in extreme rainfall and floods. In sensitive environment, like the mountains, global warming directly affects the alternance of snow deposition and melting, with highly likely changes foreseen in the runoff regimes. As regards floods, recent results related to the trends in Europe have highlighted non-uniform evidence for an increase of peaks in cold regions, including high-elevation and high-latitude regions. Reasons for possible reduction of peaks against climate change are that anticipated melting can reduce the rain-on-snow phenomena in some areas. In the Alpine region, however, a closer look to the possible trends of flood peak is in order, as current knowledge indicates that the a dominant positive trend exists.
Considering all discharge stations with historical flood peak data in Italy, a group of 140 mountain basins in the whole Alpine chain has been analysed according to the selection criteria of: i) average elevation of at least 1000 m a.s.l.; ii) absence of significant natural or man-made lakes within the basin; iii) at least 10 years of observation available in the last century. Areas of the selected basins range from 10 to about 10000 km2 and the average elevations reaches 3000 m a.s.l. The full range of observations available encompasses one century, as the oldest values dates 1911 and the most recent ones are recorded in the 2013. Half of the series available have less than 25 observations.
Among the possible techniques for trend analysis, the heterogeneous nature of this unprecedent database led us to initially consider only the quantile regression, due to the its robustness against the patchiness and the insufficient length of the time series. The same weaknesses in the data consistency suggest to complementing empirical statistical results with a subsequent attribution framework.
Quantile regression application to all the flood peaks of a given year versus time provide marked indications of positive trends. Results were positive for quantiles 0.5, 0.75 and 0.95 even reducing the analyzed time span to 1951-2007, where at least 60 contemporaneous active stations can be considered. A specific role in the results of the elevation and of the area of the active station group over time was also investigated, by means of a multivariate quantile regression. Indeed, both the elevation and the area demonstrated to be significant covariates in the trend which, nevertheless, remained clearly positive for the same quantiles.
A bundle application of the geomorphoclimatic attribution model of Allamano et al. (2009) on the 140 basins allowed to start the attribution exercise. Reconstruction of the dependence of the first moment of the time series on elevation provided a first confirmation to the empirical findings.


Betting shops are a familiar, if not universally loved, feature in town and cities throughout
the UK. However, in recent years increasing concerns have been expressed about the
presence of betting shops in high streets and about the role of betting shops in encouraging
gambling. At the same time, the widespread adoption of personal mobile communication
technologies and new government regulations on gambling within betting shops are creating
a new business environment for betting shop companies. This case study examines the range
of changes and pressures the betting shop companies are facing and explores some of the
impacts of these changes and pressures.


This research examines the theory of "meaning unity" in the Qur'anic readings. It also investigates the meaning of tawjih al-Qira'ah (adjustment of the Qur'anic reading). The research also explains the meaning of the terms Qur'anic reading, narration and way of reading and their alternatives. The research reaches the conclusion that the alternative term that can be used for the adjustment of the Qur'anic readings is (the meaning of the Qur'anic reading), other alternatives do not mean tawjih but with confinement. The research discusses the foundations of tawjih, its conditions and possibility, scholars' approaches and practical methods towards it. The research applies the theory of meaning unity in the Qur'anic readings on three examples. It is therefore combines theory and practice.


Some features of the Witwatersrand tailings dams emerged, first during the development of methods for their vegetation (largely to prevent erosion by wind), and secondly during the development of bacterial leaching techniques for the recovery of uranium, that assist in understanding how the products of the oxidation of pyrite migrate into the biosphere. The paper by Nengovhela et al. (2006) gives an excellent framework, and I believe that if the additional features that are presented here are added to their framework, the result will be a reasonably complete picture.


As the smart jamming signal toward pulse compression receiver,convolution modulation jamming signal can effectively jam linear frequency modulated(LFM) fuze in pulse deceiving.Firstly,to make the LFM fuze suppress convolution jamming effectively,mathematical model of convolution jamming and the convolution jamming mechanism is analyzed.Then orthogonality relations between the jam signal and the fuze echo signal is established by mathematical theory.The orthogonal projection,which can suppress the convolution jamming,is established.Finally,taking the LFM signal as example,orthogonal projection can effectively suppress the deceiving jamming signal based on convolution modulation,which is analyzed by simulation.The study shows that orthogonal projection achieves the effect of suppressing the multi-false-target in pulse deceiving.


In this paper, we present the analytical theory of attosecond pulse formation via optical modulation of an active medium of the hydrogen-like C5+ plasma-based X-ray laser at 3.4 nm wavelength in the "water window" range, taking into account a variation of the population inversion caused by radiative decay of the upper lasing states. We derive an analytical solution for the X-ray field amplified by an X-ray laser with time-dependent population inversion, which is simultaneously irradiated by a strong optical laser field, and use it to find the optimal conditions for the attosecond pulse formation from a narrowband seeding X-ray field. We show that the shape of pulses can be improved at the cost of reduced pulse peak intensity (i) via external attenuation of the resonant spectral component of the amplified X-ray field or (ii) by using a resonantly absorbing medium (the active medium of the X-ray laser after the change of sign of the population inversion) for the pulse formation. The results of the analytical theory are in a good agreement with the numerical solutions of the Maxwell-Bloch equations which account for the nonlinearity, as well as the amplified spontaneous emission, of the active medium. Both analytically and numerically we show the possibility to produce a train of attosecond pulses with sub-200 as duration and the peak intensity exceeding 10^12 W/cm^2 at the carrier wavelength 3.4 nm in the "water window" range, which makes them attractive for the biological and medical applications.


Recently the Rydberg blockade effect has been utilized to realize quantum spin liquid (QSL) on a kagome lattice. Evidence of QSL has been obtained experimentally by directly measuring non-local string order. In this paper, we report a Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS)-type variational wave function study of the spin liquid state in this model. This wave function is motivated by mapping the Rydberg blockade model to a lattice gauge theory, where the local gauge conservations replace the role of constraints from the Rydberg blockade. We determine the variational parameter from the experimental measurement of the Rydberg atom population. Then we compare the predictions of this deterministic wave function with the experimental measurements of non-local string order. Combining the measurements on both open and closed strings, we extract the fluctuations only associated with the closed-loop as an indicator of the topological order. The prediction from our wave function agrees reasonably well with the experimental data, with only one fitting parameter determined by measurement of Rydberg atom population. Our variational wave function provides a simple and intuitive picture of the QSL in this system that can be generalized to similar spin liquid phases in other lattice geometry.


An improved technique for generation of Digital Elevation Models (DEM), capable of dealing with full scene images (100x100 km) coming from an interferogram obtained with ERS satellite data is presented. Starting from an interferometric processor aimed to the geocoding of smaller areas, now we show the new improvements based on the use of a direct geocoding algorithm and Ground Control Points (GCP), in order to calibrate some imprecisions which appear in the case of very wide swaths. The direct geocoding algorithm is based on the transformation of phases directly into heights over a UTM grid, without an intermediate transformation of phases into heights in slant range. This technique provides more accurate results. A generated DEM of the test zone of Tarragona (Spain) and its error assessment are presented. Introduction A critical step in the interferometric process [3] is the transformation of unwrapped phases into geocoded heights. Several imprecisions in orbit generation, timing knowledge and geocoding can lead to significant height errors when we are working with wide areas. It is easy to observe false height slopes along the image during the process due to this imprecisions [1]. On the other hand, if we work with small areas these errors are more difficult to observe because their propagation is not so critical. Our goal in this paper is to present some techniques developed by our research group to obtain high quality DEM's (Digital Elevation Map) of small or wide images. Direct geocoding for generation of precise wide-area elevation models with ERS SAR data.


Lanthanum phosphate glasses are of interest in optical and nuclear waste disposal technologies. Lanthanum phosphate glasses were synthesized by melt quenching and characterized by electron microprobe analysis (EMA) and solid state NMR spectroscopy. A range of compositions was examined near the metaphosphate composition (75 mol% P2O5). Comparison of 31 P chemical shifts and shielding anisotropies of glasses with those of the crystalline phases of La(PO3)3 and LaP5O14 are consistent with the presence of primarily chain-like Q2 phosphate groups. No significant variation in the chemical shifts were found in the glasses studied.


Salivary α-amylase (sAA), a biomarker of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity, is believed to reflect physiological responsiveness to stressors. Although exposure to stressors often co-occurs with sleep deprivation, little is known about their combined effects. We investigated the sAA response following repeated exposure to acute stressors at well-rested baseline and during total sleep deprivation (TSD).

 As part of a larger study, N=8 healthy subjects (ages 29.0±6.6; 4 females) participated in a 4-day/3-night laboratory-based experiment. Subjects had 38h TSD preceded and followed by 10h sleep opportunities (22:00–08:00). On days 2 (baseline) and 3 (TSD), subjects completed two (A, B) deadly-force decision-making simulations in a high-fidelity shooting simulator with 30min rest between sessions. During each simulation, subjects (who were civilians) acted as police officers while viewing interactive videos depicting stressful law enforcement emergency response scenarios involving deadly-force decision-making. In these scenarios, subjects attempted to de-escalate the situations in the scenarios using verbal commands. If unsuccessful, they were to determine if the use of (simulated) deadly force was necessary and respond accordingly. Saliva samples were collected immediately before the first simulation of the baseline and TSD days, and immediately, 15min, and 30min after each simulation. Samples were assayed in duplicate using a sAA kinetic enzyme assay; results were normalized against the first pre-stressor sample of the baseline day.

 Post-simulation sAA values normalized to reference were analyzed with mixed-effects ANOVA with fixed effects of day and sample and their interaction and a random effect over subjects on the intercept. There was a significant effect of sample (F[5,76]=3.38, p=0.008) indicating that sAA spiked immediately after each deadly-force decision-making simulation. Planned comparisons revealed significantly blunted sAA during TSD compared to baseline immediately after the second simulation of the day (t[76]=2.09, p=0.040).

 In our sample of civilian subjects, the deadly-force decision-making simulations elicited a sAA response, which was blunted after the second simulation on the day subjects were sleep-deprived, suggesting that TSD mediates the biological response to repeated exposure to acute stressors. Whether this result generalizes to police officers and military personnel trained in deadly-force decision-making remains to be determined.

 ONR grant N00014-13-1-0302


When a ship ploughs the high seas,its hull will produce a hogging or sagging bending deformation due to the action of water buoyancy and ship weight etc.,which influences the strength and service life of gears arranged in the hull longitudinal direction.In the light of defects and deficiencies of traditional marine high-speed gears caused by neglecting the inter-tooth friction,centrifugal force and hull deformation during strength calculations,with the driving gear in the involute speed-up gearing unit arranged along the hull longitudinal direction serving as an object of study,derived for the tooth-root bending fatigue was a strength calculation formula with comprehensive consideration of inter-tooth friction,centrifugal force and hull deformation.Calculation cases show that the inter-tooth friction can lead to an increase of the tooth root bending stress by 9.98% with the centrifugal stress accounting for 11.18% of the tooth-root bending permissible stress,while the hull deformation may cause an increase in the tooth-root bending stress by 7.25%.


This study, literature review research, intends to deal with the problem of conceptual ambiguity among research on emotional labor, and to look into the evolutionary trends and changing aspects of defining the concept of emotional labor. In addition, in existing studies, deep acting and surface acting are highly related to a positive outcome variable and a negative outcome variable, respectively. It was confirmed that for employees performing emotional labor, deep acting and surface acting are highly related to OCB and CWB, respectively. While positive emotion that employees come to experience during job performance process can easily trigger a positive non-task behavior such as OCB, negative emotion that employees experience through excessive workload or unfair treatment can easily induce a negative behavior like CWB. The two management behaviors of emotional labor, surface acting and deep acting, can have either a positive or negative effect on non-task behavior of employees, depending on which one they would choose. Thus, the purpose of this review paper is to clarify the relationship between emotional labor and non-task behavior more specifically.


Performance is an open issue in data intensive applications, such as image pattern recognition tasks. To process large-scale datasets with high performance more resources and reliable infrastructures are required for spreading the data and running the applications across multiple machines in parallel. The current use of parallelism in high performance computing and with multicore hardware support is costly and time consuming. To remove the burden of building, operating and maintaining expensive physical resources and infrastructures, Cloud computing is emerging as a cost-effective solution to address the increased demand for distributed data, computing resources and services. In this paper, we explore and evaluate parallel processing performance of an image pattern recognition task in the Life Sciences based on a Cloud computing model: Infrastructure- as-a-Service. Namely, we rent computing infrastructures from cloud providers. We have developed the image pattern recognition task in both sequential and parallel ways, deployed them, and conducted our experiments on cloud infrastructure. The performance has been evaluated using speedup as a measurement. We have calculated the cost of our experiments, which demonstrates that cloud computing could be a cheaper alternative to supercomputers and clusters given this task.


Vehicular Power Line Communication (VPLC) reuses the vehicular power cables as communication medium, which avoids the need of additional vehicular communication line and optimize the in-vehicle space. However, there are some factors to impact VPLC can work reliability without problems. One of the challenges is the VPLC channel noise, which can cause the low reliability of communication. Hence, in this work, we built up three kind typical vehicular noise model and FSK module in Simulink, analysis the channel characteristics under different type noise based on FSK. Our simulation results demonstrate the feasibility of PLC under FSK modulation and demodulation type used in PEVs and could provide guidance to the implementation of VPLC in the practical engineering.


A study will be conducted to estimate the overall proportion of people that are affected with some defined psychopathology. The final determination of the psychiatric and other medical characteristics of a person will be made by a psychiatrist. A plan to use the services of trained interviewers to screen and separate into two classes (with and without apparent psychopathology) a large preliminary sample in order to conserve the time of the psychiatrist, by letting him test mainly cases that are almost surely afflicted with psychopathology, is appealing wherever the cost per case is much lower for the screening than for the psychiatric examination. It is not generally appreciated, however, that the screening-test, to be economical, must be relatively cheap and must admit only a low proportion of false negatives. This principle is not new, but illustrative calculations that show how false negatives affect costs, and why false positives are not so important, are hard to find in the literature (Kish, 1965). Guidance in any problem comes from calculations based on the appropriate theory. The purpose here is to present some theory and a simple illustration encountered in recent practice. The conclusions drawn here will be valid within a moderately wide band of conditions that border on those used here for illustration. Conditions far afield from those studied here might require fresh calculations by use of the appropriate costs and proportions in the equations that follow, or in modifications thereof. The conclusions drawn here are worthy of consideration in the inspection of industrial product, in situations where the final test is relatively very expensive, and where a cheap screening test can be contrived. It is presumed that a demographic screening has already taken place in which a roster is made of each family by age of person. People of age 60 or over can be serialized. These serial numbers constitute the frame. The statistical procedure for screening (sometimes called two-phase sampling) may be described briefly in two steps. Step 1 (1st phase). Screening. Draw from the frame a preliminary sample of N' people. Interview by a cheap test every person in the preliminary sample. Allot each person interviewed to one of two strata: Stratum 1: negative on screening (no psychopathology indicated). Stratum 2: positive on screening (psychopathology indicated). Step 2 (2nd phase). Psychiatric interviews. A psychiatrist interviews samples from both strata. His decisions are final. Some people in Stratum 1, the psychiatrist will find, are pathologic. These are false negatives. Conversely, he will find that some people put into Stratum 2 are in his judgment not pathologic. These are false positives. The final sample for the psychiatrist is drawn partly from Stratum 1 and partly from Stratum 2. The selections from each stratum are made by simple random sampling, one person at a time. Textbooks on statistical procedures describe two main ways to draw for the


The present work studies the redefinition civil assets propriety rights, specifically the ejidos, from a comparative perspective, analyzing the concept and its use. It's explained the Buenos Aires' ejidal legislation and subsequently, the implementation of paying off laws in Spain, Mexico and Buenos Aires is described to observe common problems. Lastly, the legislation objectives are confronted with the way it was applied in Buenos Aires and in a particular case, the Mercedes' ejido. The results of the liberal legislation are explained in the historical process of interaction between the local application of the laws and its interstitial spaces because that's is where the relationship


It has been argued that recycled gas from stellar mass loss in galaxies might serve as an important fuelling source for black holes (BHs) in their centers. Utilizing spectroscopic samples of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) at z = 0–0.35 and the Large Early Galaxy Astrophysics Census (LEGA-C) survey at z = 0.6–1 that have X-ray coverage from XMM-Newton or Chandra, we test this stellar mass loss fuelling scenario by investigating how AGN activity and BH growth vary with the break strength at 4000 Å, $\rm D_{n}4000$ (which is closely related to the age of stellar populations), as younger galaxies are considered to have higher stellar mass loss rates. We found that when controlling for host-galaxy properties, the fraction of log LX/M⋆ >32 (which roughly corresponds to Eddington ratios ≳ 1%) AGN and sample-averaged black hole accretion rate ($\rm \overline{BHAR}$) decrease with $\rm D_{n}4000$ among $\rm D_{n}4000$ ≲ 1.9 galaxies, suggesting a higher level of AGN activity among younger galaxies, which supports the stellar mass loss fuelling scenario. For the oldest and most massive galaxies at z = 0–0.35, this decreasing trend is not present anymore. We found that, among these most massive galaxies at low redshift, the fraction of low specific-accretion-rate (31 < log LX/M⋆ < 32) AGNs increases with $\rm D_{n}4000$, which may be associated with additional fuelling from hot halo gas and/or enhanced accretion capability.


A novel approach for designing a quad-band bandstop filter is proposed by using dual-plane E-shaped defected structures and open-loop resonators coupled to the microstrip line. Through this design, the proposed filter features four conveniently adjusted stopbands, compact size and simple design procedure. The equivalent circuit model of the quad-band bandstop filter is derived before the design procedure is summarized. To facilitate the filter design, an approximate design rule for the resonant frequency of the E-shaped defected structure and the open-loop resonator is presented. As an illustrated example, a quad-band bandstop filter is designed and fabricated. The fabricated filter has four stopbands with center frequency at 2.37/3.52/5.20/5.76 GHz and the rejection levels of the stopbands are all better than 31 dB, verifying our proposed design concept.


Pre-Qin history is the first stage of China's 5000-year civilization, and needs further exploration. Though wider in Scope and more difficult than later stages, pecial contributions can still be made if the Scholar has a definite aim in his vast interest. Pre-Qin history must must pay attention to blood relation, and Companion to Blood Relation points out that blood relation is the schema of human bohaviour, very important for social theory study. It can also test different theories and guide academic research.