We determine activity coefficients of both components of different binary Lennard-Jones mixtures obtained at T* = 2.0 and ρ* = 0.6 by using two different strategies: (i) direct evaluation of the excess chemical potentials of both components applying the potential distribution theorem, and (ii) using the Gibbs-Duhem integration based on the activity coefficients of the counter-component, which was calculated directly from the potential distribution theorem approach. Both methods lead numerically to similar results and therefore offer a route to determine activity coefficients of mixtures with large complex molecules by alternatively calculating chemical potentials of potentially simpler counter-constituents.


Why have so many young men left the U.S. workforce? This paper develops a model in which men earn a marriage market return on past employment. It hypothesizes that this return declined as gender-role-specialized marriage became a less efficient arrangement. It establishes causal evidence for this hypothesis by identifying two shocks that lowered the returns to gender role specialization: growth in female employment opportunities across U.S. commuting zones from 1980-2016, and unilateral divorce regime transitions across U.S. states in the 1970s. These shocks reduce marriage and labor-force participation (LFP) among young men without college and can account for 1/4 of their long-run LFP decline. Policy implications of these results are discussed.


In the higher education system, the introduction of information technologies is part of the modern unit of education. At the present time, when universities commonly use the form of distance and mixed education, this method places the student at the center of the entire educational system and among all other components related to this system. Supporting the development of skills, competencies, critical thinking, communication, and expressing ideas and concepts naturally, in a free form, stimulate the student. The motivation of individuals has a great influence on education and even on learning itself. These information technologies can implicitly greatly enhance motivation and also education through innovative teaching, learning, and assessment technologies. Motivation is increased through interactivity, dynamics, and effects provided by information technology. Virtual reality (VR) is the most interactive of these technologies. The contribution is devoted to the use of virtual reality in the educational process, where the basis of the use of virtual reality is the effort to display spatial models and scenes as faithfully as possible, their manipulation, the creation of the real world, a certain part of it with all its regularities and rules, movement in three-dimensional space and that all in real-time. In doing so, basic procedures from the field of computer graphics are used.


Alkaptonuria is a rare metabolic disease which is not known to cause infertility up to now. Reported manifestations are mainly darkening of urine, ochronotic pigmentation of skin and various musculoskeletal symptoms. We aimed to report a family having many members affected with alkaptonuria and infertility. For the couple first we met from this family, after diagnosis of alkaptonuria, noticed them to have infertility. Infertility test including hysterosalpingography and sperm analysis are performed. After detailed investigation we noticed coexistence of infertility and alkaptonuria in three of eight couples. All three couples have desired to have children and asked medical help in the past. Hereby, presentation of close relation between alkaptonuria and infertility was pointed out.


The Treaty of Lausanne was the most successful and lasting peace settlement of the post-First World War period. Britain and Turkey, the only ex-enemy state to be treated as an equal in any of the peace negotiations, came away with their aspirations largely satisfied. The conference terminated four years of strife and tension in the Near East, a result partially of the reckless decision of the Council of Three at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to authorise the landing of Greek troops in İzmir (Smyrna) on 15 May, largely to thwart Italian claims in the region. This decision was largely responsible for the creation of the Turkish nationalist movement at Ankara, headed by (General) Mustafa Kemâl Pasha (later Atatürk), who had served in the Ottoman army with distinction during the First World War.


This educational research project set out to develop a method of cognitive coaching, through the preparation of a base class that serves as a model for educational practices cognitive learning, corporate training and / or continuing education in general. Therefore, parameters established theoretical and practical content. Keywords: Coaching. Cognitive. Learning. Training. Continuing Education.


In Southern and Southeastern Brazil, the tree fern Dicksonia sellowiana Hook. still is illegally extracted from remnants forests for the use of its fibrous caudex cover, as well as for cultivation as an ornamental plant. In the present study the caudex growth, frond production, expansion and senescence as well as the formation and release of spores have been studied based on the observation of 37 plants. During an observation period of one year, the caudexes grew at an average of 5.65 cm year-1 and the growth rate presented a strong correlation with the height of the plants. Similar frond production rate (10.86 fronds year-1) and senescence (10.54 fronds year-1) evidenced the capacity of maintaining a stable number of fronds throughout the year. Only 14 individuals developed fertile fronds, most of them producing spores during the summer and liberating them during the winter. Production and release of spores were influenced more by temperature and photoperiod rather than by rainfall.


Since the last ECR Workshop,NSCL/MSU has been involved in a vigorous ECR ion source R&D program,which resulted in the construction of an off-line test ECR ion source(ARTEMIS-B)for new beam development and ion optics studies.Also the design and partial completion of a 3rd generation,fully supercon- ducting ECR ion source,SuSI has been accomplished.This paper is an overview of the construction projects and the different R&D activities performed with the existing ion sources.These activities include development of metallic ion beam production methods using evaporation with resistive and inductive ovens and sputtering of very refractory metals.Ion optics developments include testing different focusing elements(magnetic solenoid lens,electrostatic quadrupole triplet lens,Einzel lens,electrostatic double doublet quadrupole combined with an octupole lens),and different beam forming and diagnostics devices.The detailed results will be presented at the workshop in separate talks and posters.


Introduction: Each year nearly 1.3 million people die as a result of a road traffic collision with more than 3000 deaths each day and more than half of these people are not travelling in a car. More than half the people killed in traffic crashes are young adults aged between 15 and 44 years. AIM: To analyse the profile of road traffic accidents that happened in Trichy city during the year 2011. OBJECTIVES: 1. To analyse the burden of road traffic accident cases reported in Trichy city over a period of one year 2. To determine the age and gender profile of fatal and non-fatal accidents. 3. To study the distribution of road traffic accidents by time and season of occurrence. MATERIALS & METHODS: STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective study. STUDY AREA: Trichy city. The traffic police department of Trichy traffic police headquarters was approached. The investigator and guide approached the office of the chief of Trichy city traffic police. After clearly explaining the purpose of this study to the chief stating that the data collected is only for the research purpose and will not be used for any other purpose, the data was collected. All the collected data were then entered in SPSS 17 and analyzed using the same software. Considering that the data were of categorical nature, descriptive statistics was used to describe the data. RESULTS & CONCLUSION: The fatal and nonfatal accidents follow a pattern in their incidence according to the week days and months in a year. However further in depth analysis is needed to analyse these pattern and to validate these findings. Overall the findings of this study will be useful for planning accident prevention programs in the future.


Related studies have been relatively silent on the role of age and gender in the expression of intuitive skills among potential and nascent entrepreneurs. Therefore, this study examined age and gender disparities in entrepreneurial intuition among potential youth entrepreneurs. The study employed a cross-sectional research design. The study made use of data which was obtained from 1,626 youths in selected National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camps in Southwestern Nigeria. Results showed that age [F(1,1622)=5.151; p<.05] had a significant main influence on entrepreneurial intuition with an effect size of 3% while gender [F(1,1622)=.178; p>.05] did not have a significant main influence on entrepreneurial intuition. Furthermore, the interaction of age and gender significantly influenced entrepreneurial intuition [F(1,1622)=6.883; p<.05] with an effect size of 4% among the study participants. The results support theoretical suppositions that age and gender play significant roles in the expression of entrepreneurial intuition among nascent entrepreneurs. GJHSS-A Classification: FOR Code: CultureSpecificPerspectivesofAgeandGenderDisparitiesinEntrepreneurialIntuition Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: A Arts & Humanities Psychology Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Inc. (USA) Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Volume 17 Issue 8 Version 1.0 Year 2017


Objective To evaluate the pathogenic candida species in vulvovaginal candidiasis and analyze antifungal sensitivity in vulvovaginal candidial strains.Methods Analyze candida species and antifungal sensitivity in 390 patients with symptomatic vulvovaginal candidiasis who were culture-positive for fungi in General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University,Tianjin Central Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Tianjin Union Medicine Centre Clinic from December 2003 to December 2005.Result Candida albicans accounted for 94.4%(368/390),and non-albicans accounted for 5.6%(22/390).The antifungal sensitivity in vitro was not diffrent between C.albicans and non-albicans strains.Fluconazole sensitivity in vitro was 100% respectively.The antifungal sensitivity and pathogenic candida species were not different in patients with or without a history of VVC.Conclusion Candida albicans is still the most commonly identified species of pathogenic yeasts in VVC.Increased resistance to antifungal agents has not been observed in non-albicans strains.


The future wireless communication systems demand much more enhanced security and reliability compared to currently deployed systems. In this work, we propose a much simpler yet more efficient physical layer security (PLS) technique for achieving reliable and secure communication in the multiple-input single-output non-orthogonal multiple access (MISO-NOMA) systems. This system is capable of providing enhanced confidential communication as well as inter-user interference cancellation without using the successive interference cancellation (SIC) method. The conventional NOMA was previously adopted under the name of multi-user superposition transmission (MUST) in release 13 of 3GPP but recently excluded from 3GPP-release 17 due to its performance degradation. In this work, we analyze the drawbacks in conventional NOMA and present a new kind of NOMA with more improved performance metrics. The proposed algorithm combines the benefit of pre-coder matrices with simultaneous transmission using antenna diversity to provide simple, reliable, and secure communication without complex processing at the receivers in downlink scenarios. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified and proven by extensive analysis and numerical simulations.


The IMPEL Project (IMpact on People of Electronic Libraries) is now into its second year. The project's focus, succinctly expressed by its title, is on the human implications of increased provision of information by electronic means, all too easily neglected at a time when technology is developing faster than it can easily be assimilated. The project grew out of it's leaders' personal and professional interests, those of a Head of Department of Information and Library Management
and of a practising academic librarian; it is strengthened by such collaboration. A Steering Group of seven, each with acknowledged special expertise, meets regularly and provides guidance and support; the value of their input cannot be underestimated. This initial stage of IMPEL concentrates on qualified librarians in the UK higher education sector, laying the groundwork for possible future study of other groups and related aspects of the phenomenon commonly referred to as the 'electronic library'.


Gas-mask decreased the ability to work by 20-50%. It was caused by decreasing skin and respiratory evaporation. Ventilation of the under mask interspace (90 1/min) was recommended.


The Thorny Sea Star, Poraniopsis inflatus , is rare in the Northeastern Pacific. It lacks pedicellariae or other overt defenses for protection against other predatory sea stars. During an earlier study, a P. inflatus confronted by an asteroid-eating sea star was observed to exhibit a possible defensive reaction: "arm deflation." It was 15 years before another P. inflatus specimen could be obtained and that hypothesis confirmed by testing with individuals of 18 other sea-star species. Contact with individuals of four predatory sea-stars, Asterina miniata , Crossaster papposus , Solaster dawsoni , and Pycnopodia helianthoides , elicited the reaction in the P. inflatus . The specimen collapsed ("deflated") an arm closest to the predatory star, possibly by expelling coelomic fluid, exposing more of its embedded thorns (hence its common name) which may discourage other sea stars from attempting to eat it.


Workplace stress has always been a source of consideration for organization that seeks to foster satisfied and motivated environment. Ergonomics, the science related to man and his work helps to design workstations and tools. The present study has made an attempt to identify the impact of ergonomics on academic library professionals. It has revealed that academic library professionals" perception on ergonomics is low. But they have shown problems associated with ergonomics with regard to IT tools, working posture, etc.


In this paper we discuss some ideas on how to define the concept of quasi-integrability. Our ideas stem from the observation that many field theory models are "almost" integrable; i.e. they possess a large number of "almost" conserved quantities. Most of our discussion will involve a certain class of models which generalize the sine-Gordon model in (1 + 1) dimensions. As will be mentioned many field configurations of these models look like those of the integrable systems and so appear to be close to those in integrable model. We will then attempt to quantify these claims looking in particular, both analytically and numerically, at field configurations with scattering solitons. We will also discuss some preliminary results obtained in other models.


The theme of the Thunderstorm written by Cao Yu is human being's perplexity and struggle under the living circumstances, which is related with the writer's creating motivation and also the product of the writer's depression and frustration. The writer not only illustrates the relationship between the flesh and the soul, but also the conflicts between the self and others and outer situation. Cao Yu depicts human being as a combination of the sublimity and the humbleness as well as the possibility and the necessity, thus makes the drama bear a deep connotation and striking life philosophy. This is the reason why the Thunderstorm ranks as one of the classical works in modern literature.


Abstract During the operation of a rotor, various types of vibrations appear in this mechanical system and often limit the performance and endanger the safety of the operation. Therefore, dynamic analysis is essential because precise knowledge of the vibration behaviour is essential to ensure proper operation. This article presents a set of scientific techniques for the modelling and simulation of rotor vibrations. To work out the equations of the vibratory movement of the rotor, we used the energy approach of Lagrange. To achieve this, a model with one blading wheel carried by a shaft supported by two hydrodynamic bearings is chosen basedon the characteristics of the rotor studied (Fan 280 cement draft fan). It is an arduous task to manually ascertain the analytical resolution of the differential equations that characterise the vibratory behaviour of the rotor. The numerical approach employing the finite element method, programmed on the ANSYS software, made it possible to perform the vibration analysis of the rotor. First, the FAN 280 cement draft fan rotor is modelled using SolidWorks 3D software and reverse design using the coordinate measuring machine (CMM) for the design of the fins. Then, the modal characteristics of the fan rotor model were analysed using the finite element analysis (FEA) software ANSYS Workbench. Also, to study the effect of blade wear on critical speeds, the Campbell diagram was obtained. Finally, harmonic analysis was performed to determine the amplitude of the rotor vortex at critical speeds obtained with and without blade wear.


In this paper, we use the algebraic structures of cyclic codes and algorithmic techniques to find factorizations of abelian groups from cyclic codes. We construct specific subclasses of quasi-cyclic codes and provide the conditions with which we obtain a normalized factorization of certain abelian groups. The factorization, in both cases, is constituted by two sets, one corresponding to the cyclic code and the other corresponding to the words that represent all possible error polynomials of the cyclic code besides the zero vector.


Digital myxoid cysts—more accurately pseudocysts—are common lesions of the nail unit classically presenting as loose collections of gelatinous fluid in the dermis. Herein, we describe a variation in presentation that clinically appears encapsulated can be manipulated without rupture and can be localized anywhere around the distal interphalangeal joint (DIPJ). These lesions are, in fact, pseudocysts (with a pseudocapsule of fibrosis), but appear and behave as an intact cyst emanating from the DIPJ.


Large-area single-layer graphenes with high crystallinity are desired for electronic applications. Here we demonstrate a continued growth method to amplify an existing graphene seed, originally grown by chemical vapor deposition, by preferentially inducing nucleation at seed edges. More specifically, this approach involves a surface oxidation step after the first growth, which leads to the observed formation of oxides at the vicinity of graphene edges, along with the inevitable formation of cracks due to oxidation, and thus limit growth predominantly at those edges, as a consequence of the reduced energy barrier of methane decomposition by oxygen moieties. Consequently, we successfully grow millimeter-size secondary single-crystal graphene structures with the same lattice structure and orientation as the original seeds. Selected area electron diffraction (SAED), Raman spectroscopy characterization, along with electronic transport measurement confirmed the structure coherence after the regrowth, even in th...


Analysis of this research about analyzing service quality to customer satisfaction in forming customer loyalty. The study was conducted at the Rumah Teh Ndoro Donker Kemuning Karanganyar. Samples taken in the study were 99 respondents who had been customers of Tea House Ndoro Donker Kemuning Karanganyar. The analysis method used is multiple hierarki regression analysis, validity test, and reliability test. Based on the results of the analysis found it can be explained that the direct service quality has a positive and significant impact on customer satisfaction and indirectly the quality of service significantly influence customer loyalty through customer satisfaction.


he jacket blurb on William Kunstler's recently reissued book on the Hall-Mills case dubs it "the most fascinating unsolved homicide in the annals of American crime."1 For once, such promotional hype is not hyperbole, although I admit to some prejudice in this view which I will explain in a moment. There was national, even international sensation in September 1922, when the bodies of an Episcopalian rector and of a choir singer from his church in New Brunswick were discovered under a crab apple tree off a well-known lovers' lane just outside town. The pair had been missing for two nights and a day when a young working-class couple stumbled across the grisly tableau which had been staged by the murderer or murderers. Edward Wheeler Hall and Eleanor Reinhardt Mills lay on their backs, side by side, she with a scarf draped over her neck and her head resting on the minister's outstretched arm, he with his glasses resting on his nose and his face partly covered by a Panama hat. Effusive and incriminating love letters from Mrs. Mills to the Reverend M r . Hall were strewn about the bodies; and the minister's calling card with his name printed in gothic letters was carefully propped up against his lifeless foot. The forty-one-year-old minister had been shot once in the head; and the thirty-four-year-old soprano had three bullets in her skull. The woman's throat, moreover, had been slashed with such violence that the head was nearly severed. To this day, local residents still regale newcomers to New Brunswick with rumors that the victims' bodies were also sexually mutilated; there is no credible supporting evidence for such claims.


Terrorist groups are often said to be relatively conservative in their strategic and tactical style. Nevertheless, terrorist actors worldwide have shown to be increasingly innovative and creative. They learn from each other and from their own actions and innovate accordingly. This edited volume examines terrorism learning and innovation, with a focus on al-Qaeda-related plots in the UK, Denmark and Germany. It contains 13 chapters by academics, counterterrorism practitioners and journalists from the UK, the US, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Austria. The first part of the book examines terrorism innovation and learning in practice and theory, while the second part contains four case studies discussing developments and trends in al-Qaeda-related terrorism innovation and learning in the UK, Denmark and Germany in more detail. The authors focus on these three countries since 'there has been a significant volume of planned, failed and executed terrorist plots' in each of them (p. 2). The editors claim the book will be 'of much interest to students of terrorism and counterterrorism, political violence, security studies and IR' (book description). However, the volume is likely to also be useful to practitioners, including journalists and representatives of government, international institutions and non-governmental organisations. Understanding Terrorism Innovation and Learning provides detailed insights into why and how terrorist organisations innovate and learn. The fact that the volume contains both theoretical chapters and chapters focusing on more practice-oriented case studies is particular useful. The book thus succeeds in avoiding one major problem with many publications on terrorism, which often tend to either be overly theoretical or look at particular cases without a comprehensive discussion of the relevant theoretical underpinnings. Another strength of the book is that while the main focus is on al-Qaedarelated plots in the UK, Denmark and Germany, many of the contributors to the volume also discuss other terrorist movements. However, there are also some areas in which the book could have been improved. First, it is not clear why the focus is on the UK, Denmark and Germany. There are other European countries which have been a main target of al-Qaeda-related groups and individuals, such as France. The analysis would have gained by systematically including these in the analysis. Second, one cannot help but notice that all contributors but one are white men based at Western institution. Indeed, gender is completely missing from the analysis, despite the increasing role of female members in the al-Qaeda movement.


Stochastic flows and stochastic differential equations by H. Kunita, Department of Applied Science, Kyushu University, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, November 1990, 346 pp. ISBN 0 521 35050 6


The Wavelet Neural Network (WNN) is widely used in power load forecasting. In view that the traditional WNN easily falls into the local minimum and has unstable forecast results, a new power load forecasting model of combining the AdaBoost algorithm with WNN was put forward to improve the forecasting accuracy and generalization ability. Firstly, the method performed the pre-treatment for the historical power load data and initialized the distribution weights of test data. Secondly, it selected different wavelet basis functions randomly to construct weak predictors of WNN, and trained the sample data repeatedly. At last, it made more weak predictors of WNN to form a new strong predictor by AdaBoost algorithm for regression forecasting. A simulation experiment for the dataset of Individual Household Electric Power Consumption in University of California Irvine (UCI) was carried out. The results show that this method has reduced the average error value by more than 66.5% compared to the traditional WNN, and has improved the forecasting accuracy of neural network. This method provides references for the WNN forecasting.


DIGITAL CITIZENS CREATE A DIGITAL NATION
Citizens will play the lead role as they – in the next phase of the information society – collectively
create a digital nation. Personal adoption of information and communication technology will
create a digital infrastructure that supports individual and collective health, governance and
public safety. This new development will require active support from governments and other
stakeholders because its requirements are currently not available. In fact, in the next decade,
the citizens' digital environment will be a dominant factor determining the quality of life of
nations. And while doing so they, their neighborhoods, towns, regions and society will become
increasingly dependent on its use and the quality of the IT infrastructure, and citizens becomes
a factor of national importance. This publication identifi es that new development and the
challenges it poses for the information society. It outlines 'citizen information management' as
an approach that clarifi es the opportunities and challenges and allows governments, suppliers
and other stakeholders to create optimal circumstances to support citizens in their eff ective use
of information technology.

NEXT STEP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
The new role for citizens is the natural next step in the development of the information society.
In many countries citizens are increasingly online, using PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones and
other digital platforms. In more and more countries more than 80% of the population is online
and regularly uses Internet. There are 40.000 smartphone apps just for health and fi tness on both
Android and iOS and the coming years such possibilities will only increase.

STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Our own decade long experience in projects and conversations with citizens and professionals
from healthcare, government and the safety sector shows that the development of a digital
society is rising to a more strategic level. With all members of the population using IT their
combined use will determine the quality of life on a national scale. Such an integrated digital
society consists of digital citizens in digital households and requires us to rethink technology,
data, information, products and services in the personal environment of citizens. It becomes clear
that a larger infrastructure is needed to support the continued quality and usefulness of citizens'
use of IT. And that suppliers and organizations will have to pay attention beyond individual
solutions catering individual users. This publication proposes 'citizen information management'
as a way to make the coming challenges and opportunities visible in a way that allows them to
be addressed eff ectively.


Graft copolymerization of acrylonitrile(AN) onto carboxymethyl chitin(CMC) was carried out.The effect of reaction temperature and time,amount of initiator,solvent,monomer on graft copolymerization were studied.The optimum condition were as following:CMC 0.4 g,water 40.0 mL,initiator 50.0 mg,monomer 2.5 g,reaction temperature 60 ℃,reaction time 2 h.The test showed that copolymer has water-solubility and the reason of water-solubility was analysis.


We consider a model of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in which feedback maintains a constant ratio of cooling time to free-fall time throughout the halo, so that the entire CGM is marginally unstable to multiphase condensation. This 'precipitation model' is motivated by observations of multiphase gas in the cores of galaxy clusters and the haloes of massive ellipticals. From the model, we derive the density and temperature profiles for the CGM around galaxies with masses similar to the Milky Way. After taking into consideration the geometrical position of our Solar system in the Milky Way, we show that the CGM model is consistent with observed O vi, O vii, O viii column densities and the ratio of O vii and O viii column densities only if temperature fluctuations with a lognormal dispersion σln T ∼ 0.6–1.0 are included. We show that O vi column densities observed around star-forming galaxies require systematically greater values of σln T than around passive galaxies, implying a connection between star formation in the disc and the state of the CGM. Photoionization by an extragalactic ultraviolet background radiation does not significantly change these CGM features for galaxies like the Milky Way but has much greater and significant effects on the CGM of lower mass galaxies.


In this thesis I explore photographic attempts by African American women artists to produce experimental and diverse self-representations of the black female body. It considers the works of two black women photographers, Myra Greene and Renee Cox, and their contribution to a new visual language that focuses on abstractions and multifarious depictions of the black female body to explore the ever shifting identity of African Americans.

The first chapter focuses on photographer Myra Greene and how she embraces abstraction, ambiguity and obfuscation as a form of intellectual and aesthetic empowerment. The artist deliberately complicates readings of her body in order to decentre the black body and shift it out from under the intense scrutiny of the ethnographic gaze. The second chapter examines the work of Renee Cox. It is an interdisciplinary analysis of the artist's multifarious and multilayered self-representations to reflect the impossibility of defining the black female experience as one monolithic construct. By engaging with ideas of recontextulisation, reappropriation and inversion, both photographers are self-aware rather than complicit in the perpetuation of the black woman's body in exhibition. They deliberately embrace notions of hybridity and ambiguity to defy single interpretation and contest ways in which the black female body continues to be read through representation of the past.

This thesis considers the importance of positioning these women in a larger artistic movement of African American women artists who explore similar systems of observing and defining the black female body. In very different ways, Cox and Greene both challenge derogatory cultural and historical representations. I will explore their artistic efforts to reinstate and appropriate self-representations in a black female creative paradigm, for purposes of individual and communal empowerment.


Education in Marxist theory is the main position of ideological and political education in our country.In Yan`an Period,on the basis of courses such as philosophy,the war situation and education of the party's ideological line,the Party's progressiveness and historical materialism,Marxist theory was taught in schools to youth and excellent academic discipline was to be cultivated,together with upholding the Party leadership and Party building,integrating labor.A study of the contents and characteristics of the education of Marxist theory during Yan'an Period is sure to bring about significance and insights about how to carry out education in Marxist theory effectively now.


Starch consolidation casting has been successfully used to produce porous ceramics with complex shapes at a relatively low producing cost. In this work, porous 3Y-ZrO2 ceramics were produced using two types of starch (corn and potato). Concentrated (50-52 vol. (%)) aqueous suspensions of the different 3Y-ZrO2-starch mixtures (i.e. starch to zirconia weight ratios between 0.20 and 0.52) were thermally consolidated and the effect of the type and amount of added starch on properties of resultant dried product was examined. After starch granules burnout, the effect of sintering temperature varying between 1000 and 1500 oC on the porosity evolution, interconnection and morphology of pores and microstructure of final ceramic was followed by water absorption measurements, Hg porosimetry and scanning electron microscopy SEM. Typical microstructure of the ceramic sintered at 1500 oC consisted of large nearly spherical pores (created by starch) uniformly distributed in a dense ZrO2 matrix. As the content of starch in the dried product (expressed as volume fraction) Xst is increased from 0.23 to 0.65, porosity of the ceramic sintered at 1500 oC increased from 38 to 52 vol. (%) for corn starch, while it achieved 50 to 54 vol. (%) for potato starch; thus, lower Xst of potato starch developed a porous zirconia with higher porosity. In this case, the pore structure contained pores having sizes above 50 µm and resulted completely interconnected while for those prepared using corn starch the pore interconnection occurred for Xst above 0.50.


These two papers come to the optimistic conclusions that the farm and nonfarm labor markets have become more integrated and are functioning so as to reduce the excess of labor in agriculture. Huffman expresses the hope that public policy will not shield agriculture from "needed long-term resource adjustments, especially the reduction of labor in agriculture." Martin shares the good news. However, we have to extend his reasoning a little to make explicit the area of agreement. Martin reviews the recent past with respect to labor relations in agriculture. He, like Huffman, finds good news in the evolution of events, We are evolving in agriculture a stable system of labor relations-at least such an outcome is in prospect. This new style of labor relations most fully developed in California, where the enactment of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 facilitates the development of unionization and collective bargaining. The initial period has been a little unstable, but Martin concludes "after the resolution of shortterm initiation problems, agricultural labor relations promise to achieve a degree of stability at least congruent with the stability of agriculture." Martin does not argue directly that a reduction of labor inputs in agriculture is an outcome likely to be associated with an expansion of labor relations carried on under a regimen of collective bargaining. But he expects the labor force mobilized to shrink in size as more employment per worker is achieved under collective bargaining. An effective union will tend to reserve employment for those members who have more seniority. Both authors thus are favorably disposed toward a reduction of labor in agriculture. Although both union rationing of jobs among members and the market mechanism will tend to shift human resources out of agriculture, we should recognize these two systems work in quite different ways. Both are functioning simultaneously in the nonfarm economy currently. Economists could contribute to rational public decision making by discussion and analysis of the efficiency and equity of these two systems for allocating human resources among occupations. The evidence offered to support the optimistic conclusions warrants some comment. The main bits of evidence are a reduction in per capita disposable income differentials, the increased tendency for those who work on the farm to reside elsewhere, and the increasing proportion of farm operators who do nonfarm work. These bits of evidence may be consistent with the proposition that farm and nonfarm labor markets have become more integrated. But had the wage differentials between farm and nonfarm work, say, between farm and factory work, been examined, the evidence supporting integration would not have been so convincing. Several conflicting trends may be operative at the same time. The wage rate differential between farm and factory seems to have remained relatively constant over the past two decades, in California and in the nation as a whole. Yet here in California the main exodus of human resources from agriculture has been in the farm operator and family labor category. Average annual employment of hired workers has remained relatively stable. With regard to the increased number of individuals who do both farm and nonfarm


The emergence of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) has resulted in a major global pandemic posing various challenges to the worldwide health care systems. Clinical course of the infection, known as coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19, ranges from mild subclinical disease to a life-threatening systemic illness. Common symptoms include a flu-like illness with fever and inflammation, and in severe cases pneumonia and systemic inflammation that results in morbidity and mortality. One of the complications of COVID-19 is its disruption of normal hemostasis resulting coagulopathy and thromboembolism. In this following review, we discuss present knowledge; summarize existing published information on the underlying mechanisms of action for COVID-19-associated coagulopathy; and propose algorithms for screening, management, and prevention of COVID-19 patients. Many at-risk COVID-19 patients develop coagulopathies that can broadly be labelled as venous thromboembolism (VTE). These coagulopathies may occur separately or in combination, and include pulmonary embolism (PE), deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and acute large vessel occlusion resulting in stroke, myocardial infarction, ischemic and systemic arterial events. Laboratorybased testing is mandatory in the case of severely infected COVID-19 patients for screening of their coagulation status. Based on recent data, a major elevation in the levels of the D-dimer is used as a predictor of the adverse outcomes of the disease. An imbalance between inflammation and coagulation may lead to a hypercoagulable state resulting in endothelial injury associated with a loss of dysregulation of fibrinolysis, excess thrombin generation, thrombi protective mechanisms, and thrombosis. Other involved mechanisms that may lead to an increased VTE risk, include the following: microvascular thrombosis, endothelial damage, leukocyte recruitment, systemic inflammation – the presence of the virus in endothelial cells, higher vascular permeability, destruction of cell membranes, platelet activation, and occlusion with ACE dysfunction, or even autoimmune mechanism. In all hospitalized COVID-19 patients, prophylaxis against thromboembolism is extremely important, especially in patients with elevated D-dimer levels and other coagulation abnormalities.


ABSTRACT. When adults of the large milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus (Dallas) were starved or fed non‐host seeds, their mating activity during the 30 days following emergence was reduced by c. 50%. Topical applications of a juvenoid to adults fed non‐host seeds usually increased mating activity, sometimes to near the level of milkweed‐fed controls. An optimal juvenoid dose applied to adults reared and fed on sunflower seeds increased mating activity by only 9% to 28% from that of controls reared and fed on milkweed. Rearing and maintenance of the sexes on separate diets before pairing indicated that both the juvenoid‐restored and non‐restored milkweed stimulatory effects on mating probably acted exclusively on the males. Topical application of the anti‐allatotropic agent precocene II to milkweed‐fed males reduced mating activity by 75%. Simultaneous juvenoid treatment prevented most, but not all, of the precocene II effect. Juvenoid treatment completely prevented the depressed mating activity under short days. Rearing and maintenance of the sexes under different photo‐periods before pairing under short days showed that photoperiod acted solely on the males. It is postulated that JH and one or more photosensitive and diet‐sensitive factors in males regulate mating activity, JH being stimulatory but nonessential. A partial dietary control over mating may optimize male activity according to the population density and female reproductive activity.


Shoe pattern interactive design is a core technique in shoe-making CAD system.Based on generating the digitalized model of shoe last surface and its developing graph using reverse engineering method,the interactive design between shoe last surface and its developing graph is researched.The arithmetic of point mapping and its error analysis is given,and the results show that the precision requested for shoe-making can be satisfied completely.The interactive generating and editing of shoe pattern curve between the shoe last surface and its developing graph is realized by curve mapping.An application example is given.The system is realized on the UG software.


The FIRST training (Functional Intuitive Replication Scenario Training) has been developed to increase resilience. This study focusses on whether the FIRST training has an effect on the behavior of people in an unexpected, threatening situation. The main question of this study is: What effect does the FIRST training have on the behavior during an unexpected (ambush) situation? Behaviors which are observed are divided into flight-, freeze- and fight reactions. Almost all behaviors that are included in the schedule were visible in practice. The respondents after the training, the experimental group, showed more behaviors that are subdivided into the category 'fight'. The respondents before the training, the control group, showed the most behaviors that are subdivided into the category 'flight'. There is no sequence in which the behaviors are shown. There are only behaviors that are often shown in groups. The respondents before the training showed virtually no tactical responses. The respondents after the training showed more often a tactical response. A goal of the FIRST training is to reduce the time between the flinch reaction and the first tactical response. It seems that the time between the flinch reaction and the first tactical response decreased after the FIRST training.


Introduction: It has been suggested that arachnoiditis predisposes to post-traumatic syringomyelia formation by obstructing subarachnoid cerebrospinal fluid flow and enhancing perivascular flow into the cord. In an animal model of post-traumatic syringomyelia (PTS), fluid flow in spinal cord perivascular spaces (PVS) is greater at the level of arachnoiditis and syrinx than at other levels and fluid enters the syrinx via the PVS. This study was performed to determine the effects of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diversion from the subarachnoid space on perivascular flow and syrinx formation in PTS. Methods: Twenty six male Sprague-Dawley rats were investigated using the CSF tracer horseradish peroxidase (HRP), the excitotoxic and arachnoiditis model of PTS, and lumboperitoneal shunt insertion. Four experimental groups consisted of syrinx only and shunt only controls, and shunt insertion before or after syrinx formation. CSF flow studies were performed 6 weeks following the final intervention. Grading scales were used to quantify HRP staining. Results: Syrinxes formed in all animals. Perivascular flow was greatest at the level of the syrinx. Cerebral cortex perivascular flow was significantly reduced following shunt insertion in animals with a syrinx (p Discussion: Increasing distal subarachnoid space compliance does not affect local CSF flow into the spinal cord and syrinx. These results suggest that localised alterations in compliance, as opposed to obstruction from traumatic arachnoiditis, act as an important factor in syrinx pathogenesis.


Objective To analysis the 18F-FDG PET/CT features of tuberculous and cancerous diffuse peritoneal lesions and evaluate the value of 18F-FDG PET/CT in diagnosing and differentiating the lesions.Methods The 18F-FDG PET/CT features of 10 tuberculous peritonitis,13 primary serous papillary carcinoma of the peritoneum and 16 peritoneal metastases were retrospectively reviewed,which had been confirmed by clinic and / or histopathology.Four indicators were observed and graded:(1) 18F-FDG PET/CT features of parietal peritoneum,greater omentum and mesentery; (2)features of ascites; (3)enlargement of lymph nodes; (4)accompanying signs of other organs.Two sample t test was used to differentiate the 18F-FDG uptake of peritoneal lesions,the density and 18F-FDG concentration of ascites between tuberculous peritonitis and cancerous peritonitis.Results The typical 18F-FDG PET/CT features of tuberculous peritonitis was uniformity thickening of parietal peritoneum,mesenteric and omental stains like change,widely and even distribution of the peritoneal 18F-FDG,while the cancerous peritonitis was obvious uneven thickening of parietal peritoneum,mesenteric and omental nodules and pie-shape changes,uneven distribution of the peritoneal 18F-FDG.The 18F-FDG uptake was increased in all peritoneal lesions,and there are no significant difference between the tuberculous group (SUVmax=12.74±9.75) and the cancerous group (SUVmax=12.45 ±7.40) (t=0.099,P>0.05).The density of malignant ascites[CTavg=(11.34±3.55) HU] was obvious lower than tuberculous ascites[CTavg=(14.4±2.37)HU] (t=2.5,P<0.05).The 18F-FDG concentration in malignant ascites (SUVmax =2.10 ±0.65,T/NT =0.77 ±0.18) was obvious higher than tuberculous ascites (SUVmax=1.61±0.35,T/NT=0.58±0.12) (t=-2.278,-3.084,both P<0.05).Conclusion The 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging can show the morphology and metabolic changes of peritoneal lesions,and fully display the lesions in the whole body.It is important to analyze 18F-FDG PET/CT features of disuse peritoneal lesions in order to improve the accuracy of diagnosing the diffuse peritoneal lesions.

Key words:
Peritoneum;  Neoplasms;  Tuberculosis;  Positron-emission tomography;  Tomography,X-ray computed;  Fluorodeoxyglucose F18


Standardised loss tranches based on credit default swap (CDS) indices have increased liquidity in the market for credit risk correlations. Although progress is being made, quantitative modelling of these correlations is complex and not yet fully developed.


Research objective. An efficiency estimation preparation phosphogliv by the directed transport in complex therapy sick biliar a pancreatitis with НСV-infection. In total 62 patients with biliar a pancreatitis in combination НСVinfection have been surveyed. These patients have been divided into 2 comparable groups: control (50 persons) and the basic (12 persons). In the first group (50 persons) comparisons traditional basic therapy biliar a pancreatitis is added by preparation introduction phosphogliv in vein. By the patient of the basic group (12 persons) were intravenously entered erythrocyte shade with an average therapeutic dose of a preparation phosphogliv. Inclusion of medical products in autologition erythrocyte a method hypotonic lysis. Effective influence of the directed transport of a preparation phosphogliv on rate of decrease in blood of level of the general bilirubin, activity of AlAt, AsAt at patient in research group. Collateral reaction on preparation introduction phosphogliv not supervision at one patient. More effective influence of a preparation phosphogliv on rate of decrease in blood of level of the general bilirubin, activity of AlAt, AsAt comes to light at patient at therapy the directed transport of a preparation phosphogliv against traditional basic therapy.


Introduction Malignant tumors appear with various signs and symptoms. Sometimes it is difficult to make an accurate diagnosis of malignancy, regardless of tumor type and prognosis. Most neoplasms are first detected as primary tumors, others as metastases, and a small percentage only through paraneoplastic symptoms. Some cancer symptoms support the diagnostic process; however, there can be atypical, misleading, or even constricting symptoms, making a proper diagnosis difficult. In our case report, we present a rare and atypical presentation and course of an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma that could only be diagnosed after the patient died.


In the above-mentioned article, the Affiliations from the authors Sucheewin Krobthong, Sittiruk Roytrakul and Narumon Phaonakrop were published wrong. The correct Affiliations are: "Functional Proteomics Technology Laboratory, Functional Ingredients and Food Innovation Research Group, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Science and Technology for Development Agency, Pathum Thani, Thailand" for the authors Sittiruk Roytrakul and Narumon Phaonakrop and "Proteomics Research Team, National Omics Center, National Science and Technology for Development Agency, Pathum Thani, Thailand" for the author Sucheewin Krobthong.


The adjustment of industrial structure is the focus of national economic structural adjustment in China.The paper explores the realization of and ways for industrial adjustment.Under the guidance of macro control policy of government,there should be reduction of burden and risks in the adjustment of industrial structure,and a new and good mechanism of industrial structural adjustment and re adjustment should be formed.


This article presents the results of studying the variability of some phenotypic characteristics of retro cultivars of Hemerocallis x hybrida hort. under the influence of selective selection. The sample is formed from the collection fund of the laboratory of ornamental plants of the Main Botanical Garden RAS and includes cultivars created in different countries in the period from the middle of the XIX century to the early 1960s of the XX century. In the course of research, it was found that the most variable — in the composition of the studied morphometric signs of generative shoot — is the number of flowers on the peduncle. Its limits of variability are: 7 pc. (cultivar 'Summer Pride') and 23 pc. (cultivar 'Frans Hals'), and the coefficient of variation is 30 %. At the same time, the number of simultaneously opened flowers on the peduncle changes insignificantly. The height of the generative shoot is also characterized by a significant amplitude of variability. The coefficient of variation is 21 %, the minimum and maximum sampling limits are 74,3 cm (cultivar 'Frans Hals') and 150,2 cm (cultivar 'Autumn Red'). A high level of variability was also noted for the distance between the leaf level and the lower flower in the inflorescence: min = 2,7 (cultivar 'Autumn Red'), max = 50,3 (cultivar 'Kwanso'), the coefficient of variation is 63 %. Within the framework of the studied sample of retro cultivars H. x hybrida, the absence of a relationship between the height of the generative shoot and the size of the flowers (r = –0,11 for the length of the flower, (r = 0,03 for its width), as well as the distance between the leaf level and the lower flower in the inflorescence (r = 0,17) was revealed. In the course of studying the variability of the linear dimensions of the pericarp in the diameter of the flower, the presence of multidirectional breeding selection was noted, a tendency to its gradual decrease was revealed in the width of the flower. To realize the potential possibilities of using the studied sample of retro cultivars H. x hybrida for educational and educational purposes, options for their placement on the main territory of the Main Botanical Garden are proposed.


Annotation. This article highlights the need to further improve the system of continuing education in the social sphere, including education and science reform, which is one of the directions of the Action Strategy adopted on February 7, 2017, to increase access to high quality education services, training highly qualified personnel.


Laser Cladding [LC] is been in use nowadays for their high accuracy in metal cutting and deposition, robustness and for their non-contact nature of operation. LC has its applications in manufacturing, medical, electronic, automobile and aerospace sector. The introduction of Laser Cladding for material deposition over conventional processes has led to increase in production rates. The Metal Addition rate [MAR] and Heat Affected Zones [HAZ] are comparatively low.


ABSTRACTION Warung Kamtibmas in response to the limited number of police personnel is considered to be solving the right problem, related to security and public order. But in reality the expectations of the formation Kamtibmas point different from the reality. Warung kamtibmas not working properly. Many cases Kamtibmas disorder that has been completed, but the results of the solution are not optimal and is not finished, giving rise to new problems again, like the case of brawl happened several times. Based on these problems it is necessary to evaluate the implementation of the program point Kamtibmas in Indramayu Police. The purpose of this research was to determine the implementation of the internal security point, the factors that affect the implementation of Warung Kamtibmas, and evaluation of the stalls kamtibmas in Indramayu in 2014. This research was conducted a qualitative approach, to make observations on the location of shops Kamtibmas, conducted interviews to Indramayu Police Bhabinkamtibmas personnel who perform the technical development of society in Warung Kamtibmas and to study the document to the data relating to program management Warung Kamtibmas in Indramayu. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of the stalls kamtibmas conducted through partners / co-operation with the community, perform troubleshooting and perform problem resolution activities in the community which is carried in the shop or in the police kamtibmas. Several factors are influential in the implementation of point Kamtibmas, among others, this constraint is derived minimal number of personnel, lack of socialization Bhabinkamtibmas to the public about kamtibmas stalls and the lack of means of communication. While supporting factors in the management of the shop kamtibmas, that good relations between citizens and Bhabinkamtibmas, resulting in problem solving will be quickly implemented. The results of the evaluation of the implementation of this kamtibmas stall stall kamtibmas known that the implementation of effective, visible from the indicators of success of the program which has fulfilled the function of explanation, compliance, audit and accounting function. Keywords: shop, kamtibmas, bhabinkamtibmas, disorder, society


Our civilization needs to know as much information about itself as possible in order to keep running. One of the important fields is the field of transportation and since we could not measure all the movements happening on planet Earth, we need transport modelling. As of 2018, for the area of a metropolis the four-step model still seems to be a state of practice of modelling transportation. This comes with several disadvantages such as lack of detail (aggregation to zones) or oversimplifying of the travel demand phenomena (trips are not combined into daily schedules). To remedy these disadvantages, the scientific community came up with activity-based models that addressed those issues. The increased level of detail has however increased the demand for data. Nowadays the data is obtained from costly travel surveys that make the methodology less viable option for the practitioners. Therefore, in this thesis the focus are possible new sources of data for the model and using the open datasets to build an activity-based model. First, we examine the existing big data sources and evaluate their usefulness for the model. As a result of this evaluation, we carry on to create synthetic data handling the movements of the studied population, as no big data source related to movement of people was found useful for creating the data suitable for the model. We used the Capital region of Helsinki, Finland as a region for the case study to deal with the real data environment. The data is generated by disaggregation of statistical data aiming at preserving the variability in a maximum achievable way. Where needed, assumptions are used to forward the process. Using the synthetic big data a transport model was created. Despite the fact that the accuracy of the model in terms of error on link volumes does not reach the level of some other previously developed models, it is still surprisingly precise regarding the idea that solely open data and statistics were used. In the discussion possible synergies with other big datasets is described with respect to the experiences from the case study.


For the water-balance across the capillary walls Starling's hypothesis has been widely accepted. Hayase and his coworkers reported that the osmolal arteriovenous difference (referred to hereafter as osmolal A-V difference) in the limbs of patients with congestive heart failure was often negative and that the venous pressure showed a rough negative correlation with osmolal A-V difference. In order to clarify the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, the present author carried out a series of animal experiments where a balloon was inflated at various parts of the systemic or pulmonary venous system in dogs to increase the venous pressure of the up-stream regions. During the systemic venous congestion, the osmolal A-V difference shifted towards the negative side locally; in the case of the pulmonary venous congestion, the systemic osmolal A-V difference tended to shift towards the positive side. The negative shift of osmolal A-V difference caused by the elevation of the systemic venous pressure was inhibited by the pre-treatment with pentolinium or reserpine but it was not influenced by atropine or vagotomy. Therefore, the phenomenon in question appears to be related to the sympathetic nervous system. There are evidences indicating that the substance(s), responsible for the observed shift in osmolal A-V difference was mainly sodium. The results shown in the present paper suggest that the increase in venous pressure is associated with a certain change in the capillary exchange of the peripheral circulation.


We propose to develop a new imaging modality for biology, based on the Pockels effect, providing quantitative physical information of structural and functional nature on cells and tissues. This noninvasive, bio-compatible and low-cost approach is based on nonlinear optical properties that are depending on statistical sub-micrometer organization schemes for an ensemble of molecules or nanoparticles embedded in the sample of interest. This method may allow for instance to study the structure of a cell membrane, at the molecular scale, under the application of an electric field (electropermeation phenomenon) and thus takes on an important biological and clinical interest. Another domain of application that will be addressed is the all-optical detection of neuronal action potentials.


Method of authenticating a video content, a digital signature from a node to transmit at a node receiving in a communication network, unprotected video fingerprints, and receiving a unprotected video content, video finger unprotected to verify the printing, in a node that receives, and determining whether the digital signature is consistent with video fingerprints unprotected, in the form that allows the disappearance of the predetermined limits of video content unprotected to verify the video content that is not protected, the node that receives, and a that unprotected video fingerprints to determine whether consistent with video content that is not protected. If the video content that is not a video fingerprint and protected unprotected is verified, the video unprotected content is authenticated for subsequent use in the receiving node. Node receiving associated with this method includes an input module, a fingerprint verification module, the content verification module, and a controller module.


This study tests whether foreign direct investment (FDI) and migration are substitutes or complements using data on bilateral FDI flows from countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and bilateral immigration to OECD countries over the period 1996 to 2006. Our most conservative estimates, using dynamic panel methods, suggest that a $1 million increase in FDI to another OECD country increases immigration by about 60 migrants, while the same increase to non-OECD locations increases migration by about 1,000. These findings support a core-periphery model of globalization and development.


ABSTRA~: This paper gives a basic and essential idea of our works on the stochastic signal information processing for acoustic environment, that is based not only on the lower order linear correlation but also on various types of the higher order nonlinear correlations. The importance of employing these higher order nonlinear correlations is discussed through the concrete establishment of wide sense digital filters. These digital filters are fundamental y based on the hierarchical expansion expression of Bayes' theorem by using the orthogonal polynomials. The proposed digital filters can estimate any kinds of statistics of arbitrary functional type of a state variable including the lower order statistics connected with the material-side countermeasurements (from a bottom-up way viewpoint) and the higher order statistics connected with the human-side evaluation indices (from a top-down way viewpoint). The validity and the effectiveness of these filters are experimental y confirmed by applying them to the red acoustic environmental problems.


With the development of distributed power sources based on wind power and photovoltaics and the increase of DC loads, DC power grids have attracted more and more attention. Compared with the AC distribution network, the DC distribution network can save a lot of commutation links while absorbing a large amount of renewable energy and DC load, reducing losses and improving economic benefits. This paper combines the probabilistic power flow calculation method based on the three-point estimation method and the Nataf inverse transform used in the AC power grid with the DC power flow model, and proposes a method suitable for the probabilistic power flow calculation of the DC distribution network. Comparing the results and analyzing the in fluence of the load distortion rate and the increase in the capacity of new energy absorbed on the calculation error of the estimation method, it demonstrates the accuracy and effectiveness of the calculation method in this paper.


The current paper investigate the persistence of positive solutions of KPP type evolution equations with random/nonlocal dispersal in locally spatially inhomogeneous habitat. By the constructions of super/sub solutions and comparison principle, we prove that such an equation has a unique globally stable positive stationary solution.


Objective:To explore the safety and efficacy of transradial artery approach for percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI).Methods:We performed a retrospective analysis on 617 cases of PCI through transradial approach from 2005 to 2010.Results:The transradial puncture success rate was 100%.The PCI success rate was 95%.In postoperative complications,the occurrence rate of ecchymosis more than 5cm×5cm was 2%,the occurrence rate of ecchymoma more than 1 cm×1cm was 2%,the occurrence rate of vagal reflex was 0.6% and the occurrence rate of radial artery occlusion was 0.3%.No one died after operation.None had severe complications such as arteriovenous fistula,thromboembolism and hemorrhage.Conclusion:PCI through transradial artery approach is safe and feasible with obvious merits.


ABSTRACT The prevalence of internet users among adolescent in Indonesia is increasing, namaley 64% and the number of teenagers who experience internet addiction is causing interpersonal relationship problem and anxiety in adolescents. This study aims to determine the relationship between internet addiction and interpersonal relationship, and anxiety adolescent. This study is a correlation analysis. There are four instruments used, namely the internet addiction test, network relationship inventory, and the revised children manifest anxiety scale (RCMAS). The analysis used is chi square. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between internet addiction and interpersonal relationships. P value <0.05 and there was no relationship between internet addiction and anxiety. P Value >0.05. The results of this study are expected to show a significant relationship between internet internet addiction and interpersonal relationships and anxiety in adolescent. Keywords: Internet Addiction in Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Anxiety ABSTRAK Prevalensi pengguna internet pada remaja di Indonesia semakin meningkat yaitu 64% dan banyaknya remaja yang mengalami Internet addiction sehingga menimbulkan masalah hubungan interpersonal, dan kecemasan pada remaja. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara internet addiction dengan hubungan interpersonal, dan kecemasan pada remaja.Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian analisis korelasi dengan pendekatan cross sectional. Sampel penelitian ini adalah remaja. Instrument yang digunakan ada tiga yaitu internet addiction test, network relationship inventory, dan the revisied children manifest anxiety scale (RCMAS). Analisis yang digunakan adalah chi square. Hasil penelitian adalah adanya hubungan yang bermakna antara internet addiction dengan hubungan interpersonal P value <0,05 dan dan tidak ada hubungan antara internet addiction dengan kecemasan P Value >0,05. Hasil penelitian ini diharapakan dapat menunjukkan adanya hubungan yang bermakna antara internet addiction dengan hubungan interpersonal dan kecemasan pada remaja. Kata Kunci: Internet Addiction pada remaja, Hubungan Interpersonal, Kecemasan


Rule-based fine-grained IP geolocation methods are hard to generalize in computer networks which do not follow hypothetical rules. Recently, deep learning methods, like multi-layer perceptron (MLP), are tried to increase generalization capabilities. However, MLP is not so suitable for graph-structured data like networks. MLP treats IP addresses as isolated instances and ignores the connection information, which limits geolocation accuracy. In this work, we research how to increase the generalization capability with an emerging graph deep learning method – Graph Neural Network (GNN). First, IP geolocation is re-formulated as an attributed graph node regression problem. Then, we propose a GNN-based IP geolocation framework named GNN-Geo. GNN-Geo consists of a preprocessor, an encoder, messaging passing (MP) layers and a decoder. The preprocessor and encoder transform measurement data into the initial node embeddings. MP layers refine the initial node embeddings by modeling the connection information. The decoder maps the refined embeddings to nodes' locations and relieves the convergence problem by considering prior knowledge. The experiments in 8 real-world IPv4/IPv6 networks in North America, Europe and Asia show the proposed GNN-Geo clearly outperforms the state-of-art rule-based and learning-based baselines. This work verifies the great potential of GNN for fine-grained IP geolocation.


My goal in this project was to explore literature on chronic kidney disease management particularly as it relates to providing care for people within the Indo-Canadian population in British Columbia. I have conducted an integrative literature review of chronic kidney disease self-management sources to examine the effective provision of health care to Indo-Canadians living with chronic kidney disease. Using Whittemore and Knafl's integrative review methodology, nursing literature and literature from other allied health disciplines were selected. Findings from the integrative literature review include two major themes. The first is the impact of language, culture and gender roles for the IndoCanadian population; the second relates to chronic disease self-management programs for people living with chronic kidney disease. There remain significant gaps in the literature regarding how to engage effectively with Indo-Canadians in relation to chronic disease management in chronic kidney disease. Further, based on the research and chronic disease self-management model, I have developed recommendations and guidelines for practical solutions for those who will work with Indo-Canadians living with chronic kidney disease.


An Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian) hermit crab perfectly preserved within an ammonite is described. Palaeontologists have focused too much on the wrong class of molluscs in their attempt to analyse the evolution of the pagurids. The shift of mollusc habitation during the Cretaceous, from ammonites to gastropods, affected the morphology of the aperture–blocking hermit–crab claws.


The paper addresses recent organizational trends, and the opportunities created by these, combined with information technology. For SMEs to exploit this opportunity, however, their traditional management thinking must change. A research program to identify needs and create educational opportunities to facilitate this is proposed. Three major trends are presently merging and seem to lead to a reconfiguration of how business is conducted: 1. Larger corporations are looking for ways to develop their core competencies to gain competitive advantage. On the other hand, they seek to outsource some of their non-core business functions to outside entities. That means new business opportunities for smaller firms. 2. Smaller firms create cooperating networks, where each one contributes a specialized competence. An organization consisting of a number of independent firms working in a network can be envisaged. Each member performs a superior core activity on behalf of the network. The firm may belong to several networks, performing the same task in each one. If the trend catches on, it may be a golden opportunity for smaller firms (which normally are rather specialized) to grow in one or multiple networks. The network acts as one vendor in the marketplace. 3. Information technology, which formerly favored the larger companies, is now within reach of all firms that want to make use of it. Consequently, information technology acts as glue for the network, making all information available to all partners at the same time. The playing field is getting even! The paper finally points out the need for research to assist SMEs to exploit the opportunities that arise from the identified trends.


Objective To let students grasp comprehensive applied knowledge and the new development.Methods A special website was set up based on the traditional teaching.Results The special website could provide students with a quick,convenient and modern technology resource library.Conclusion The website can effectively help students consolidate and deepen the study of basic theory and technology of medical imaging equipment,and broaden their knowledge.


Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI TOF-MS) was applied for the characterization of six N-acetylcysteine conjugates (mercapturic acids) of synthetic origin. The measurement of mercapturic acids can provide important information for the biomonitoring of exposure to electrophilic compounds. Five isomers of dihydroxynaphthalene were evaluated as a MALDI matrix. 1,4-dihydroxynaphthalene was found to be very effective and the most suitable and was therefore used for further measurements. It has efficient absorbance at 337 nm, low background matrix ion signals and low matrix adduction. In the positive-ion mode only very weak signals were detected. In the negative-ion mode, the spectra exhibited deprotonated molecular ions [M – H]− of high abundance and no adduct peaks or fragment ions were observed. This enabled reliable molecular mass determination of all six mercapturic acids. A detection limit of 1 pmol (signal-to-noise ratio = 3) applied to the target was achieved, which is distinctly more sensitive than other detection methods. In addition, the data obtained for intensities of the deprotonated molecular ion [M – H]− enabled the recording of the degradation kinetics of solutions with two distinct pH values during five days. Among six investigated compounds, only one, 1,2-dihydroxy-4-(N-acetylcysteinyl)butane (DIOL), was found not to be stable in aqueous solution.


Introduction. This article deals with the analysis of a ritual text devoted to the Six-Armed Mahakala. Mahakala is one of the most powerful protectors of Tibetan Buddhism. The article gives a description of the Six-Armed Mahakala and his retinue and discusses the structure of the ritual text rendering its content and describing the rules and the sequence of acts in propitiating the deity. It is pointed out that the text is a compilation and some of the original authors are identified whose works were used in the ritual text signed by Khedrup Je. Also, the text is most voluminous and includes the discussions of a great number of other pertinent rituals. The aim of the present paper is the discussion and the interpretation of the image and attributes of the Six-Armed Mahakala based on a fragment of the text, translated and introduced for the academic community. Data and methods. The text "The Ritual of Propitiation ..." is used as the research material; the method employed is descriptive, complemented by methods of structural-semantic, conceptual, and contextual analysis. Results. The iconography of the deity contained in the text presents a description that includes a detailed explanation of some of the deity's elements. This allows to reveal the wrathful character of the fierce Dharmapala and shows that all the elements, such as attributes, gowns, adornments, postures, and gestures have deep symbolic meanings associated with philosophical and religious ideas, as well as with the ethical norms of Buddhism. This preliminary research, including the structuring and the analysis of the text under study, indicates the relevance, as well as the urgency of further examination of the introduced material, granted that ritual texts are seen as helpful additional sources for the study of the Buddhist deities.


Jamia Hamdard, Department of Medical Elementology and Toxicology Page 76 1. Background Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a progressive proliferation of prostatic glandular and stromal tissues. BPH is an age related disease and is present in 20% of 40 yrs and 70% of 60 yr old men (Isaacs 1994). Currently, there is no complete effective treatment for BPH. In some severe cases, mostly transurethral resection of the prostate is the only effective intervention available today (Roehrborn 2005). Thus, new therapies are obviously needed. Despite the enormous burden of BPH on public health, its pathogenesis is incompletely understood. To date, we still have no precise knowledge of the cellular and molecular processes underlying the pathogenesis of BPH (Lee and Peehl 2004).


Background: The polycystic ovary syndrome is a heterogenous condition, the pathophysiology of which is multifactorial. It is considered as a systemic and metabolic disorder like hyperglycemia and insulin resistance with increased risk of type II diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases. Objective: The purpose of the present study was to analyze the clinical, biochemical and hormonal profile of patients PCOS and to find out correlations among them. Methodology: This cross-sectional observational study was done including 100 diagnosed cases of PCOS attending the GOPD, BSMMU Hospital. This study was done to analyze the clinical, biochemical and hormonal characteristics of PCOS patients and to observe the correlations among them. Result: The mean age of study populations was 22.7± 6.9 years and more than half of them were overweight or obese. Menstrual abnormality like oligomenorrhoea and secondary amenorrhoea was found in 95% cases and 5% were eumenorrhic. Prevalence of hirsutism and subfertility was 69% and 50% respectively. More than half (52%) of cases had LH/FSH ratio >2 which is taken to be significant. About one-third (30%) of cases had total testosterone level above the reference range with a mean value of serum testosterone 71.4±27.9 ng/dL. Conclusion: Significant positive correlation was found among increased BMI, increased LH/FSH ratio, serum testosterone and serum TSH level. Further studies are needed to corroborate our findings and to find out the clinical, biochemical and endocrinological characteristics of our women of PCOS. Journal of National Institute of Neurosciences Bangladesh, 2017;3(2): 94-98


The 16 stories in this volume present an introduction to modern Korean fiction. They reveal a variety of voices, settings, styles and concerns and beneath the often gloomy surface lies an anti-colonial subtext. An introduction places the stories in their historical context.


The effect of thickness of specimen on the recrystallization texture of cold-rolledcopper strips under different percentage of reduction and with or without the surfacelayer has been investigated.The recrystallization texture of specimens of 0.84—0.02mmin thickness corresponding to a reduction of 88.7—99.7%,was found to have a nearlyperfect cubic texture.No concentrated cubic texture was observed in the specimens of0.01mm in thickness under a reduction of 99.8%.However,for specimens with cubi-cally aligned grains,cold-rolled to 0.01 mm in thickness(under a reduction of 98.6%),a rather concentrated cubic texture was developed after annealing at 900℃.The effect of strip thickness on the recrystallization texture has been found to bedifferent for different percentage of reduction.Under a smaller reduction of 88.7%,the specimens,less than 0.04mm in thickness,did not give a concentrated cubic texture.Whereas,for specimens under larger reduction(96—99.7%),no significant effect of stripthickness on the development of recrystallization texture was observed.The decreasing in thickness of specimens suppresses the occurrence of second re-crystallization but no pronounced effect on the grain orientation of the second recrystal-lization texture has been noticed.


Citations can be used in evaluative bibliometrics to measure the impact of papers. However, citation analysis can be extended by considering a multidimensional perspective on citation impact which is intended to receive more specific information about the kind of received impact. Bornmann, Wray, and Haunschild (2020) introduced the citation concept analysis (CCA) for capturing the importance and usefulness certain concepts (explained in publications) have in subsequent research. In this paper, we apply the method by investigating the impact various concepts introduced in Robert K. Merton's book Social Theory and Social Structure has had. This book was to lay down a manifesto for sociological analysis in the immediate postwar period, and retains a major impact 70 years later. We found that the most cited concepts are "self-fulfilling" and "role" (about 20% of the citation contexts are related to one of these concepts). The concept "self-fulfilling" seems to be important especially in computer sciences and psychology. For "role," this seems to be additionally the case for political sciences. These and further results of the study could demonstrate the high explanatory power of the CCA method.


Many industries currently use lasers for drilling, cutting, scribing and contouring materials as diverse as silicon, metals and plastics, with features as small as a few tens of microns. Traditionally, this precision micromachining has been powered by DPSS (diode pumped solid state) or excimer lasers with nanosecond pulse durations, but there is a growing need for even higher precision and resolution. While shorter pulsewidths can yield higher resolution, superior edge quality, and eliminate peripheral thermal effects, drawbacks in existing ultrafast laser technology have limited its use to a few specialty applications. In this article we describe a new type of laser that delivers picosecond output, and combines the simplicity of a fiber laser with the high pulse energy characteristics of a freespace laser. We then discuss applications that can benefit from the unique output, including microelectronics and photovoltaic manufacturing.


The five kinds of relationships,that is,blood relationship,region relationship,God relationship,trade relationship and products relationship,are the combination method of Chinese people.Its cultural centre lies in blood relationship,with the others evolved from the blood relationship and being its usage.On the other hand,the theory of the evolvement is extended blood relationship theory in Confucius' theory of goodness.The conversations between Sima Niu's puzzles about goodness with Confucius and Zi Xia in Analects·Yanyuan is a typical example of the evolvement from the formal blood relationship to imitated copy in the theory of goodness.With the deep explanation of the theory of goodness by Confucius and Zi Xia,Sima Niu's worry about "All except me have brothers" has disappeared.This leads to the complete evolvement from the formed blood relationship to imitated copy.That is "extended blood relationship",which accounts for the typical characteristics of the Chinese people's communication methods.


Using the 2004-2013 sales data of a Dutch theatre, I estimate demand for the performing arts. Particularly, I investigate ways to derive Price Elasticity of Demand (PEoD) from revealed preference using panel data and analyze the data on different levels of aggregation (i.e. per month, per performance and per artist). First, I examine the effect of performance characteristics (i.e. nth time performed, premiere, uniqueness, reprise, weekend) on demand. Secondly, in an attempt to find a more detailed explanation for the decline in theatre visits since 2008, the start of the financial crisis, I find that consumer trust does not significantly influence demand. Because during this crisis the government applied a higher VAT on performing arts, I was able to estimate the decrease in theatre visits in the short runas a consequence of the overall higher VAT, ignoring heterogeneity, in determining price of theatre. Finally, I attempt to control for the heterogeneity of the performances (in terms of popularity and artist) and succeed to some extent; by constructing a measure for popularity from search engine data and using a weighted average of PEoD estimates per artist, the quality differences between performances are partially included in the model for estimating demand.


The Aboriginal Provisional Government (APG) believes the entitlements of Aboriginal peoples derive from previous exclusive rights to the country, and that the status of Aboriginal entitlements is to be seen accordingly. The expression of those rights has been disrupted by the invasion and subsequent building of the illegitimate Australian nation. The APG holds that the full extent of Aboriginal rights places Australian Aborigines alongside other nations of the world, not subordinate to any of them. This article discusses how the fundamental values that make up Australia are based on the belief of white supremacy, and how that notion is likely to ensure the Declaration does not become part of domestic law. However, there are other avenues Aboriginal people can use to agitate for change, both within Australia and to international bodies. All it takes is action and ideas, and the knowledge that much can be done.


Map-Reduce is a widely-used model for data parallel applications enabling easy development of scalable programs on clusters of commodity machine. Advancements in disk capacity have greatly surpassed those in disk access time and bandwidth. As a result, disk based systems are finding it increasingly difficult to cater to the demands of a cluster-based system. A cache memory has faster data access rate than normal disk. In this paper, we have implemented a method to improve the performance of map-reduce by using distributed memory cache as middleware between the map and reduce phase with highly secure memcached server. Moreover, it provides partial combining of data along with the Map task itself, so called partial pre-shuffling. The project also provides data assurance of intermediate key-value pairs via a web interface. The results of the overall setup were promising over a Hadoop cluster. Index Terms Distributed File System, Hadoop, Map-Reduce Memcached, High throughput, High speed data access, Cluster-based computing, Middleware. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________


The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, Martinus The Netherlands. E-mail: mairaproietti@gm Department of Bio-Oceanography and Limn 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria Instituto de Oceanograa, Universidade Fed 96203-900, Rio Grande, Brazil Department of Biotechnology, Del Univer 2629 HZ Del, The Netherlands NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Biogeochemistry, Utrecht University, PO Box † Electronic supplementary informa 10.1039/c6ay03119f Cite this: Anal. Methods, 2017, 9, 1521


Guidelines are offered concerning the use of evaluation tools, with emphasis on the simplest and most informative ones amongst those proposed in Parts I-IV of this series. Moreover, the main areas of future research and development, as the authors see them, are pointed out.


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The paper looks at the main challenges to raise potential growth in the EU. It examines recent progress made regarding the structural reform efforts in EU product, labor, and financial markets, and it attempts to assess their impact on overall macroeconomic performance in terms of output and (un-)employment. The paper then proceeds to analyze the likely consequences of population aging for the growth rate of potential output and per capita incomes, emphasizing the fairly dramatic economic and budgetary implications of the decline in the EU's working-age population if governments do not take offsetting policy actions.


The electro-chemical process to produce BaFeO 4 by SPE cation exchange membrane as separator was stud-ied.The dependence of current efficiency on temperature and alkalinity was investigated.XRD and SEM exami-nations were performed to identify the structure of the obtained ferrate salt.The experimental results demonstrate that the super-iron battery using ferrate salt as cathodic material has several energy and environmental advantage.


Transformers are one of the main components of any power system. An accurate estimation of system be-haviour, including load flow studies, protection, and safe control of the system calls for an accurate equiva-lent circuit parameters of all system components such as generators, transformers, etc. This paper presents a methodology to estimate the equivalent circuit parameters of the Three Winding Transformer (TWT) using Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (BFA). The estimation procedure based on load test data at one particular op-erating point namely supply voltage, load currents, input power. The performance characteristics, such as efficiency and voltage regulation are considered along with the name plate data in order to minimize the er-ror between the estimated and measured data. The estimation procedure is demonstrated with a sample three winding transformer and the results are compared against the directly measured performance of TWT and genetic algorithm optimization results. The simulation results show the ability of the proposed technique to capture the true values of the machine parameters and the superiority of the results obtained using the bacte-rial foraging algorithm.


Recent data show that the tyrosine kinase inhibitor Imatinib mesylate (IM) also affects normal hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), T lymphocyte activation and dendritic cell function not relying on the specific inhibition of bcr-abl activity. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have been identified in the bone marrow (BM) as multipotent non-hematopoietic progenitor cells that differentiate into osteoblasts, adipocytes, chondrocytes, tenocytes, skeletal myocytes, and cells of visceral mesoderm. MSC interact with HSC, influencing their homing and differentiation through cell-cell contact and the production of factors including chemokines We evaluated possible effects of IM in vitro on human bone marrow-derived MSC. Screening the activity of fourty-two receptor tyrosine kinases by a phospho-receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK)-array revealed an exclusive inhibition of platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFRβ) by IM which consequently affects downstream targets of PDGFRβ as Akt and Erk1/2 signalling pathways in a concentration and time dependent manner. Furthermore, perinuclear multivesicular bodies harbouring PDGFRβ were found within 18–20 hours culture of MSC in the presence of 5 μM IM. Cell proliferation and clonogenicity (evaluated as the capability to form colony forming units - fibroblasts (CFU-F)) of MSC were significantly inhibited by IM in a concentration dependent fashion. IM inhibits significantly the differentiation process of MSC into osteoblasts as evaluated by decreased alkaline phosphatase activity and reduced calcium phosphate precipitates. In contrary, differentiation of MSC into adipocytes was strongly favoured in presence of IM. All these functional deficits described, probably contribute to an observed 50% reduction in the support of clonogenic hematopoietic stem cells, as evaluated by a long term culture-initiating cells (LTC-IC)-based assay. In summary our experiments show that IM inhibits the capacity of human MSC to proliferate and to differentiate into the osteogenic lineage, favouring adipogenesis. This effect is mainly mediated by an inhibition of PDGFRβ autophosphorylation leading to a more pronounced inhibition of PI3K/Akt compared to Erk1/2 signalling. This work confirms the role of PDGFRβ recently described for the proliferation and differentiation potential of MSC and provides a first possible explanation for the altered bone metabolism found in certain patients treated with IM.


Shape distribution is a simple method in feature extraction for three-dimensional model which has a strong invariance and robustness.But for its sample′s snon-representative,the retrieval precision decreases.To enhance the effectiveness of samples,we improve the sampling strategy: first,determine the number of pre-sampling point according to the model′s file level;then use separable discrete wavelet transform to enhance the effectiveness of samples set and compress the data set;finally shape distribution algorithm is carried out.The simulation results illustrate the modified algorithm′s rightness.


Magnetic properties and microstructure of magnets made by SC technology and SC combined with HD technology were investigated in this paper. The results show that by using the SC technology,α-Fe dendrites are effectively suppressed and the composition of cast alloys does not deviate from nominal composition. However,the special microstructure of SC flake results in the formation of multi-grain powders as traditional mechanical milling method was used, which not only deteriorate the grain orientation but also lead to the appearance of additional Nd-rich phases within the main phase grain,and this microstructure will result in the decrease of the coercivity. By using the SC combined with HD technologies, this can be effectively resolved.


Everett Emerson, ed. American Literature, 1764-1789. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977. 301 + xvi pp. Taylor Littleton, ed. A Time to Hear and Answer: Essays for the Bicentennial Season. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1977. 218 + xii pp. Robin W. Winks, ed. Other Voices, Other Views: An International Collection of Essays from the Bicentennial. Westport, Connecticut, and London, England: Greenwood Press, 1978. Contribution in American Studies, No. 34. 428 + vi pp. One of the questions of the Bicentennial Americanist is, how academically rigorous are the investigations of American "roots?" In establishing the Bicen- tennial Commission to oversee a world-wide celebration, Congress wanted a popular approach to American history, one that would re-assure Americans and the world, despite the present funk of spirit, that the United States was on "the right road." And yet there must have been in Congress a number of historians, political scientists and students of literature who might...


Reports of elevated plasma catecholamine levels and augmented responses to autonomic blockade suggest increased sympathetic tone in borderline hypertension. It is not known if this reflects greater sympathetic neural outflow. We directly recorded muscle sympathetic nerve activity (microneurography) in 15 normotensive and 12 borderline hypertensive age-matched men to determine whether borderline hypertensive individuals have elevated sympathetic nerve activity. Supine heart rate, blood pressure, plasma norepinephrine, and efferent muscle sympathetic nerve activity (peroneal nerve) were measured after 6 days of both low and high dietary sodium intake (10 and 400 meq sodium/24 hr). Sympathetic nerve activity was elevated significantly in borderline hypertensive individuals on both low (37±1 in borderline hypertensive individuals vs. 29±1 bursts/min in normotensive individuals; p < 0.01) and high (25+1 in borderline hypertensive individuals vs. 16±1 bursts/min in normotensive individuals; p < 0.01) sodium diets. The borderline hypertensive group had higher systolic (p < 0.01) and diastolic (p < 0.05) blood pressures independent of sodium intake. Across both groups, high sodium intake reduced muscle sympathetic nerve activity (p < 0.001), plasma norepinephrine (p < 0.001), diastolic blood pressure (p < 0.02), heart rate (p < 0.002), and increased weight (p < 0.005). A significant (p < 0.05) group-by-diet interaction was observed for plasma norepinephrine levels. Specifically, compared with the normotensive group, plasma norepinephrine levels in the borderline hypertensive group tended to be higher on low sodium diet (p = 0.08) and lower on high sodium diet (p = 0.23). High sodium intake increased diastolic pressure by over 5 mm Hg in six of 27 subjects (four borderline hypertensive and two normotensive). Sympathetic activity in sodium-sensitive subjects was not elevated compared with sodium-resistant subjects and also declined during high sodium intake. This study supports the hypothesis of elevated central sympathetic neural outflow in borderline hypertension.


Twitter is one of the popular social network platforms used by both humans and bots to share information, and to distribute misinformation or disinformation. The goal of this research is to explore state-of-the-art Twitter bot detection systems: Botometer, and Tweetbotornot. In doing so, we aim to understand their characteristics, similarities, and differences as well as to identify additional methods to improve their performances. Evaluations performed on 15 datasets show that the proposed methods used as add-ons to Botometer were able to improve the detection of bot/human accounts on Twitter using the simple characteristics of Twitter accounts.


The successive approximation is usually used to lay out the boundary points of the highway in the mountain area. This work has to be done with lot of survey and calculation. Using new method, the boundary points can be laid out directly with the data of cross section survey. The new method has less works than the method of successive approximation and is beneficial to automation of surveying.


The business partnerships between small to medium sized software enterprises (SMSEs) and large IT vendors are prevalent today. In this paper, we empirically identified the factors that improve SMSEs' partnership performance and motivate them to retain their partnership based on interviews with and a survey of C level executives of SMSEs. We found that SMSEs' partnership performance and intention to retain the partnership are influenced by normative, technological, and managerial factors. Based on these results, we provided a set of managerial guidelines that can be useful for executives and entrepreneurs in SMSEs.


Subwavelength resonators have recently emerged as promising sources of spontaneous parametric down-conversion. By modeling them with quasi-normal mode expansion, we reveal a nonlinear multimode interaction and assist the design of efficient metasurfaces for quantum technologies.


Now days the tracking of maximum power point techniques are mostly used for photovoltaic (PV) array systems, to track the peak power output which is greatly depends on environmental condition (mainly irradiance & temperature) and load variation. This paper presents in comparative study of Tracking Power between two most popular algorithms technique which is incremental conductance algorithm and perturb and observe algorithm at variable temperature and variable irradiation using the SEPIC converter with Grid connected. And Simulation results compared with the perturbation and observation (P&O) technique and proposed Increment Conduction technique and show the effectiveness of the Increment conduction controller during steady-state and varying environmental conditions.