The social networks are based on sensor networks by mobile phones where social applications, such as real-time collaborative video watching applications, work out well, sensing their events collaboratively and socially. Recently, these networks use a contentbased distributed P/S (publish/subscribe) infrastructure that acts as a scalable group communication backbone. P/S based gossip protocols is elastically to scale in and out and provides suitable consistency guarantees for data safety and high availability but, does not deal with end-to-end message delay and message order-based consistency, which are addressed in real-time collaborative applications. Especially in broadcasting in real-time collaboration applications, it is possible for the messages to take different time and arrive at end users in different order. So, these applications should be based on P/S infrastructure including dealing with message timeliness and message ordering consistencies. Gossip communication is becoming one of the promising solutions for addressing P/S scalability problems in providing information propagation functionality by exploiting a mixture of diverse consistency options. In this paper, we present deadline-constraints causal order protocol respecting Δ(lifetime) based on P/S architecture for broadcasting in real-time collaborative applications in social networks to guarantee causally ordered messages delivery from brokers to subscribers. In the proposed protocol, every broker manages a 2dimensional vector, representing its knowledge of the last message sent by each broker at time t. But, every broker disseminates a broadcast message only with one scalar variable, the time-stamped information that represents the maximum gossip round and is the deadline (lifetime) of the immediate message of it, to subscribers because all messages disseminated by brokers have the same lifetime as the maximum number of gossip rounds. Therefore, the proposed protocol implemented for P/S based on gossip protocols results in very low communication overhead from brokers to subscribers in the context of broadcast respecting Δ.


Purpose: The treatment of the breast bed tumour using a simultaneous photon boost is a good alternative to the use of electrons. This technique is widely used and provides similar clinic results than the treatment of the bed tumour in a second phase with electrons. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the robustness of this technique. Methods: The homogenization of the dose distributions of the entire breast is accomplished using segments selected following an IMRT forward approach. The total dose to the breast is 50 Gy and 60 Gy to the tumour bed. The patient is positioned with the two arms elevated using the breast board from MED‐TEC. To evaluate the robustness of the technique a new CT to the patient is done by the end of the second week of treatment. The new CT is fused with the planning CT. The original structures and irradiation plan are associated to the new CT and a new calculation is done using the second CT as base. The dosimetric discrepancies between both plans and the possible movement of structures are then evaluated. Results: The comparison of contours between the planning CT and the verification CT shows good agreement in most cases. In some of them the deviations were significant but they were inside the margins of PTV. The recalculation of the original irradiation plan in the verification CT shows no significant differences with the original planning, the homogeneity in the CTVs continues being good, the covering of the CTVs is similar for both CTs and the OAR do not show significant increases. Conclusions: Results show that this technique is low dependent of small movements of the patient between fractions and that the clinical positioning protocol used allows a good reproducibility of the patient position taking into account the margins considered.


[1] Low-altitude plasma layers are present in 71 of 5600 electron density profiles from the Martian ionosphere obtained by the Mars Global Surveyor Radio Science experiment. These layers are produced by the ablation of meteoroids and subsequent ionization of meteoric atoms. The mean altitude of the meteoric layer is 91.7 ± 4.8 km. The mean peak electron density in the meteoric layer is (1.33 ± 0.25) × 1010 m−3. The mean width of the meteoric layer is 10.3 ± 5.2 km. The occurrence rate of meteoric layers varies with season, solar zenith angle, and latitude. Seasonal variations in occurrence rate are particularly strong, often exceeding an order of magnitude. Meteoric layer altitude, peak electron density, and width are all positively correlated, with correlation coefficients of 0.3–0.4. Other correlation coefficients between the physical characteristics of meteoric layers and atmospheric or observational properties, such as scale height, solar zenith angle, and solar flux, have absolute values that are significantly smaller, indicating lack of correlation. The photochemical lifetime of plasma in meteoric layers is ∼12 days and depends on altitude.


CONTENTS Series Editor's preface Acknowledgements Introduction PROLOGUE Chapter One Perception and the gaze: from phenomenology to psychoanalysis PART ONE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Chapter Two Phenomenology, hermeneutics and psychopathology Chapter Three Space, time and guilt in psychosis Chapter Four Dependency and responsibility in personality disorder Chapter Five Intentionality and causality: the phenomenological case PART TWO PSYCHOANALYSIS Chapter Six Phenomenology and psychoanalysis Chapter Seven Psychoanalysis and truth-finding Chapter Eight A literary work and the reader's subjective position Chapter Nine Image and culture Chapter Ten The symbolic order and the law Chapter Eleven The trauma of the real PART THREE LAW Chapter Twelve Guilt in law and psychopathology Chapter Thirteen Action and freedom of action Chapter Fourteen Responsibility and criminal responsibility Chapter Fifteen Evil and responsibility Bibliography Index


A new imaging technique based on scatter at right angles from tissue has been investigated. Separate transmitting and receiving transducers are employed. The transmitting transducer generates a cylindrical wavefront that converges to a line focus in the object. A receiving transducer, aligned coaxially with the line focus, detects the ultrasound waves scattered at 90° from structures in the object. Because of the high degree of cylindrical focusing, the scatter is treated as if it arises from points on or very near the line focus. This allows the use of a ranging approach similar to that employed in conventional pulse–echo imaging. A tomographic image is generated by translating or rotating the two transducers as a unit while appropriately displaying the scatter information. This approach eliminates the depth‐of‐field problem inherent in pulse–echo imaging without sacrificing the speed or simplicity of the imaging process. The distribution of ultrasound in the field of the cylindrical transducer is treate...


The Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) detection of microwave anisotropies provides the best way of fixing the amplitude of cosmological fluctuations on the largest scales. This normalization is usually given for an n = 1 spectrum, including only the anisotropy caused by the Sachs-Wolfe effect. This is certainly not a good approximation for a model containing any reasonable amount of baryonic matter. In fact, even tilted Sachs-Wolfe spectra are not a good fit to models like cold dark matter (CDM). Here, we normalize standard CDM (sCDM) to the two-year COBE data and quote the best amplitude in terms of the conventionally used measures of power. We also give normalizations for some specific variants of this standard model, and we indicate how the normalization depends on the assumed values on n, Omega(sub B) and H(sub 0). For sCDM we find the mean value of Q = 19.9 +/- 1.5 micro-K, corresponding to sigma(sub 8) = 1.34 +/- 0.10, with the normalization at large scales being B = (8.16 +/- 1.04) x 10(exp 5)(Mpc/h)(exp 4), and other numbers given in the table. The measured rms temperature fluctuation smoothed on 10 deg is a little low relative to this normalization. This is mainly due to the low quadrupole in the data: when the quadrupole is removed, the measured value of sigma(10 deg) is quite consistent with the best-fitting the mean value of Q. The use of the mean value of Q should be preferred over sigma(10 deg), when its value can be determined for a particular theory, since it makes full use of the data.


In this paper we study theorems analogous to the theorem of Ahlfors-Nevanlinna on the structure of the set of deficient values of Nevanlinna and Valiron. These theorems show that the set of positive deviations of meromorphic functions continues to be an exceptional set.


Thermo physiological wear comfort concerns with the heat and moisture transport properties of clothing and the way it helps the clothing to maintain the heat balance of the body during various level of activity. Hence, heat and moisture transfer analysis for clothing and fibrous materials is an important issue for the technological developments and scientific understandings. Continued advances in textile processing technology, the growth of application of nanotechnology have resulted in a wealth of research in order to characterize the behavior of these materials. This paper systematically reviews the recent research on thermo responsive polymers, applications in the field of textiles and development of thermoregulatory breathable garments. The moisture transport properties and various factors affecting it are also discussed. More on that, the limitations of conventional breathable fabrics are overcome by redesigning the textile material surface, operating at a microscopic level using Phase Change Materials (PCMs), Shape Memory Polymers (SMPs), Biomimetics and many more, in the form of smart technology that facilitates active comfort to the wearer are also discussed. The reported testing methods and parameters used for determining heat and moisture are summarized. This article describes the need of heat and moisture transmission in clothing, desired attributes for heat and moisture management and parameters affecting heat and moisture transmission in clothing.


In this paper I argue that, due to the internal demands of medicine, good clinical judgments cannot be only technically correct judgments but must, simultaneously, be morally right judgments. Henceforth, medical education cannot be limited to scientific instruction and technical training, but necessarily requires formation in medical virtues. Virtues provide the physician with the practical competence to perceive spontaneously and accurately the particular good for this particular patient in these specific circumstances.


A b s t r a c t . Selected examples of the application of remote sensing data for geological and geoenvironmental investigations in the cross-border area are presented. These projects have been performed by the Polish Geological Institute in the international co-operation with the neighbouring countries partners, mainly geological surveys. To define the land use and trace its changes in the Polish–Lithuanian cross-border area two Landsat satellite images have been acquired of 1979 and of 1992. It is noteworthy that in the period between 1979 and 1992 cultivated lands in Lithuania decreased by nearly 20%, while in the Polish part, cultivated land area increased by almost about 3%. The Polish Geological Institute and the BGR (Geological Survey of Germany) started common studies in the Odra valley in the beginning of the 1990s. The multitemporal Landsat TM images, satellite radar data and aerial photos were widely used for mapping purposes. By using satellite information (optical and microwave), local authorities, civil defense units and insurance companies received one more tool to monitor flood events in 1997 and to assess the damages. In the regional scale, the satellite images could be also useful for landslide studies. With these images recognition of unstable terrain where slides occur could be possible. Such analysis is enriched when satellite images are applied together with DTM. Satellite images could be also useful for monitoring of land surface changes related to landslides activity. Several test sites for landslide risk monitoring have been established in the Carpathian Mountains in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic TerraFirma is one of the projects being run by the European Space Agency (ESA) under the GMES initiative. The Sosnowiec case study realized within this initiative and examples from other 17 European cities have indicated that the geological application of PSInSAR are evident for monitoring subsidence in relation to mining and tunnelling, climate change-driven shrink-swell ground conditions, landslides, volcanic and tectonic motions, and for assessing localised floods.


The invention relates to a battery having a heat-conducting plate (8) for controlling the temperature of the battery, wherein the battery is a plurality of parallel and / or in series with each other comprises individual cells (1) which surround in each case at least in some regions of a cell case (2) and heat conductively connected to the heat conduction plate (8) are connected. According to the invention, at least one of the housing side walls (3) of the cell housing (2) in sections over the length of the respective individual cell (1) also continuous side wall element (6), which is angled with respect to the housing side wall (3) towards the cell interior, and at least a portion of a forming transverse to the housing side wall arranged (3) housing wall (7).


The sandstone-type uranium ore-bearing strata of Erlian basin is a suit of coarse crumb rocks that are mainly of river and marsh sedimentary faces,age of ore-bearing strata in this area is in dispute.By studying the palynology of ore-bearing strata in Bayanwula area,particularly the distribution of the spore and the pollen in the stratum and the comparison of domestic and the international palynology assemblage,its age of the strata was identified belong to aptian-albian stages of the Later Early Cretaceous(Aptian-Albian)under substropic warm humid climate with the tendency to semihumid and semi-dryhot.The paleo geography was of the low-flat and undulating topography,a few middling and high mountains distributing around the basin.


The influences of the temperature on the effective mass of the weak-coupling polaron in an asymmetry quantum dot are studied by using the Tokuda's improved linear-combination operator and the Lee-Low-Pines (LLP) variational method. The results indicate that the effective mass m<sup>∗</sup> of the weak-coupling polaron is only related to the temperature parameterγ and the electron-phonon coupling strength α, but it is independent of the confinement strengthω<inf>1</inf> (ω<inf>2</inf>) of the quantum dot.


In order to inspect the current situation of the participation in the extra-curriculam physical training after "The Sunshine Sports " started in Fujian universities.A investigation was maded among the students in Fujian universities by means of questionnaire survey.The survey indicated that:(1)the students' attitude towards the physical training is comparatively positive,but the amount of the participators cannot reach the demands of our country's related laws and regulations.(2)Keeping fit and healthy,entertaiment,emontional outlet and social intercourse are the main motivations to paticipate the physical training for our provine university students(3)Playing ballgames,joging and walking are their main choices.(4) The combination of free exercises is their main form.(5)The insufficiency of the sports' facilities,the moontony of the curriculam physical sports' content,and the incompleteness of the organation are the main restaints on the paticipation of the university students.


221 BC,Qin Shihuang unified China and built a large unification of the Qin Dynasty,as a rule of one of the measures is the surrendering the world's weapons,civil-ban.This have had a profound impact on public martial art :one hand,it hampered the development of civil martial arts,on the other hand,it promoted the emergence of new projects.


The principal purpose of this paper is to consider the extent to which a State incurs responsibility under international law for acts of its armed forces which cause environmental damage, and to examine whether State responsibility provides a sufficiently effective means for enforcing the law regarding protection of the environment in armed conflict. The emphasis will be upon international armed conflicts, although there will also be a brief discussion of the position in internal armed conflicts and in certain types of United Nations operations. As a secondary concern, the paper will also consider the possibility of a State, or individuals or agencies acting on behalf of a State, being held liable in domestic law for damage to the environment caused by military operations. Part II of this paper will review the principles of State responsibility for environmental damage in the context of the law of armed conflict. Part III will then examine the application of those principles by the United Nations Compensation Commission in the case of Iraq. The possibility of State responsibility for environmental damage occurring in internal armed conflicts and United Nations operations will be discussed in Part IV. Part V will consider certain issues of civil liability under domestic law. Finally, Part VI will advance certain conclusions regarding the effectiveness of State responsibility and civil liability in protecting the environment.


In temperate climates, soil moisture, in concert with nutrient availability and soil acidity, is the most important environmental filter in determining local plant species composition, as it determines the availability of both oxygen and water to plant roots. These resources are indispensable for meeting the physiological demands of plants. Especially the occurrence of both excessive dry and wet moisture conditions at a particular site has strong implications for the survival of species, because plants need traits that allow them to respond to such counteracting conditions. However, adapting to one stress may go at the cost of the other, i.e. there exists a trade-off in the tolerance for wet conditions and the tolerance for dry conditions.


Practice Problem: Emergency department (ED) crowding hinders the opportunity to deliver safe, quality care to abdominal pain patients and detrimentally affects clinical outcomes. Leadership of a rural community ED recognized a comparable issue by introducing a nurse-driven protocol (NDP) to reduce patient length of stay (LOS) and the rate of patients who leave the department prior to physician evaluation. PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was: For adult patients in an emergency department, how does a nurse-driven protocol for abdominal pain compared to no protocol use affect the LOS and left without being seen (LWBS) rate over 10 weeks? Evidence: Fourteen studies were identified and supported evidence of effective NDP use for reducing the LOS and LWBS rate amongst abdominal pain patients. Improved clinical outcomes, enhanced operational efficiencies, increased patient and staff satisfaction, and NDP utility in multiple disease states were themes recognized in the literature. Intervention: The evidence-based NDP empowered ED nurses to obtain laboratory diagnostic data and implement nursing interventions within a facility-approved protocol designed to improve throughput by decreasing the time from patient presentation to obtaining medical disposition. Outcome: A pre and post-implementation design found a clinically significant mean reduction of 28-minutes in LOS with the use of the NDP. Overall LWBS was reduced from 5.2 to 2.3 percent and found to be statistically significant. Conclusion: Implementation of an ED abdominal pain NDP was effective in decreasing ED LOS and LWBS. Emergency nurses reported a sense of empowerment with the use of the NDP.


Measuring the radiated EM field generated by an antenna mounted on a wireless device can be a time consuming operation with traditional methods. In this paper, we present a real-time measuring technique in the near-field generated by a wireless device antenna, working at 13.56 MHz. The method implies LED Field Sensors placed in arrays, which provide fast real-time visual 3D results. The measurements can be compared, with good results, with the numerical simulations made with Ansoft HFSS.


Most people in developed countries are infected with varicella zoster virus and develop chickenpox during childhood with no more than minor inconvenience. The few who develop infection later in life have a disproportionate share of serious complications. Although only about 2% of reported cases of chickenpox occur in people over 20, these cases account for one quarter of all deaths from the disease and are usually due to varicella pneumonia.' Severe primary varicella often occurs in immunocompromised patients, especially those with cell mediated immune deficiency, in whom there is also an increased risk of reactivation of latent infection, manifested by herpes zoster. The coincidence of chickenpox with pregnancy is uncommon, occurring in an estimated one in 2000 pregnancies in the United States. Contact with an infected person, however, is not infrequent and causes concern for the welfare of the pregnant woman and her fetus. The common perception that chickenpox is generally more severe in pregnant women than in others of the same age may partly reflect a bias towards reporting of more severe cases during pregnancy. Thus in cases reported up to 1963 the mortality was 4l%,' although in three prospective studies only two deaths occurred among nearly 200 patients.35 The mild immunosuppression associated with pregnancy is probably one of several factors that determine the severity of chickenpox in pregnancy. Despite uncertainty about the specific effect of pregnancy severe varicella occurs in pregnant women as in other adults. Rarely this causes fetal death or premature labour, both of which are non-specific effects related to the severity of maternal illness rather than to fetal infection.5 In a few cases, unrelated to the severity of maternal infection, varicella virus crosses the placenta and infects the fetus. There is no overall increase in the incidence of congenital abnormality associated with maternal varicella,6 but fetal infection can cause a characteristic syndrome, first described in 1947.7 The most typical features are hypoplasia of one limb and cicatricial lesions with a dermatomal distribution affecting the same limb. Neurological abnormalities (hydrocephalus and microcephaly) and eye abnormalities (Horner's syndrome, cataracts, chorioretinitis, and microphthalmia), functional or structural defects of the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts, and growth retardation have also been described."'0 Several prospective studies suggest that the risk of the fetal varicella syndrome after maternal varicella in the first trimester is about 30/4 511; there have been only isolated reports of damage after maternal varicella in the second or third trimester or after maternal zoster."2 Varicella virus has not been isolated from affected infants, suggesting that fetal infection is not persistent (in contrast with intrauterine rubella or cytomegalovirus infection). Because of the dermatomal distribution of skin scarring and focal limb hypoplasia it has been postulated that fetal damage, at least in some cases, results from reactivation of latent infection with or without encephalitis (analogous to herpes zoster) and abnormal development of structures supplied by affected nerves.9 Typical herpes zoster occasionally occurs in the first few months of life in otherwise normal infants exposed to intrauterine varicella, reflecting failure of the immature immune system to maintain viral latency; it is usually benign.'3 Presumably any damage caused by reactivation depends on the site and the stage of development of affected tissue. Maternal infection late in pregnancy is associated with perinatal infection in 20-60% of cases.45I"'5 A rash may be present at birth or develop within a few days. Neonatal infection is usually mild, but when the onset of maternal infection occurs between about five days before and two days after delivery it may be more severe, with a relatively short incubation period (mean 1 1 days) and onset at 5 to 1O days of age. A mortality of 20-30% has been recorded but may have been exaggerated by selective reporting.'415 It has been postulated that severe infection is due to exposure of the fetus to a large viral inoculum without the protection of maternal antibody. The severity of infection, however, correlates poorly with antibody concentrations, and other factors, including the immaturity of the cell mediated immune response, probably contribute.15 Although incomplete, these data are the basis for counselling and managing pregnant women exposed to or suffering from varicella. Pregnant women who are believed to be susceptible (on the basis of history and, preferably, assay of serum antibodies) and have had appreciable exposure to chickenpox should be given zoster immune globulin. Although this can prevent or modify clinical varicella if given up to four days after contact, there is no evidence that it prevents fetal infection or damage. As the risk of fetal damage is small and unpredictable, termination of pregnancy because of maternal varicella is not indicated. There is little experience with intrauterine diagnosis, but severe fetal damage should be detectable by ultrasound examination.'0 Zoster immune globulin is also recommended for infants of women who develop chickenpox within a few days of (before or after) delivery. Among 176 infants whose mothers


Objective:To explore the effect of long-term nightshift to attention function of young nurses in neurosurgery ICU.Methods:36 young nurses, who were working in neurosurgery ICU over one year, were divided into two different groups of detection after nightshift and detection for resting for 24 hours after nightshift, mean-while 18 healthy women, similar to experimental groups in age and education, were chosen rigorously for control group.Then, we assessed the effect of long-term nightshift to attention function of young nurses in neurosurgery ICU, by applying some neuropsychology testing on attention function.During the research, we employed audition oddball test to stimulate the subjects, analyzed information of electroencephalon gathered from subjects by P300, and to compare the disparations between P3a(one index of event related potential P300) and P3b(the other index of event related potential P300) to special stimulations(e.g.the warning of breathing machine) and targeting stimulations during the subjects from different groups.Results:After long-term nightshift, the attention function was decreasing in young nurses of neurosurgery ICU by neuropsychology testing, meanwhile it had a contrast to P3b.However, the attenuation of attention function was improved obviously after sufficient resting for 24 hours.Conclusion:The long-term nightshift could cause attenuation of attention function of young nurses in neurosurgery ICU, which was correlated to the diversities of P300, however, the attenuation could be improved by sufficient resting after nightshift.


Abstract : The primary purpose of this paper is to extend a newly published normal incidence state space model to a non-normal incidence case. It also provides a synthetic seismogram for a two-dimensional point source and different offsets. The non-normal incidence state space model is structurally the same as the normal incidence state space model except that it has twice as many state variables. Because of the mode conversion in non-normal incidence, the scalar upgoing and downgoing waves and travel times in each layer as well as reflection and transmission coefficents at each interface are replaced by a vector of upgoing and downgoing waves, a vector of travel time, and matrices of reflection and transmission coefficents respectively. To obtain a two-dimensional point source synthetic generally used to express a three-dimensional point source in terms of a superposition of line sources. (Author)


Environmental noise affects physical and mental health of human being seriously.In order to monitor noise continuously,the graph of sound pressure level based on Delaunay triangulation is drawn.Results show that the magnitude of sound pressure can be estimated directly through the system.


Objective The objective of the study was to determine the impact of maternal education and source of knowledge on breast feeding practices of women in Pakistani setting Study Design This was a cross sectional comparative study Place and duration of study The study was conducted during August to October in residential localities of Rawalpindi city Materials and methods Data included results from mothers conveniently sampled using a preformed questionnaire from various residential localities of Rawalpindi Participants were assured of confidentiality of the data Confidence level was set at with margin of error and power of the study at Data analysis was performed through SPSS version and consisted of both descriptive and inferential statistics Results All participant knew about importance of breast feeding There was a significant impact of education and source of knowledge on breast feeding practices There was significant difference between practices offi rst feed amongst difference educational groups with breast milk as first choice for higher educated group while prelacteal feed Honey and Ghutti by other two groups P lt Mothers with higher levels of education and those who had received guidelines on breastfeeding from a health professional show better knowledge and breast feeding practices


Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a cornerstone in diagnosis of myopathies. The present study sought to elucidate possible associations between electromyography (EMG) findings and histogram parameters derived from clinical MRI in myositis and other myopathies.


This investigation proposes a lean model of production management for a small and micro enterprise (SME) dealing in packaging production in the auto parts sector, with the purpose of increasing efficiency in its production line. To this end, this model integrates study method tools and SMED, seeking to reduce waiting times and unnecessary operations, which have been identified as causing the problem on the basis of an initial diagnosis of the situation. Furthermore, to support and guarantee success in implementing these tools, John Kotter's Change Model is used. After two months of implementation, the results showed a 50% reduction in setup operation time and a 32% decrease in filing operation time, which are bottlenecks in the production process. Thus, with the new indicators, the line efficiency increased by 7% from the initial situation, thus showing improvement.


Pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs), when activated by cytokine such as tumor necrosis factor α (TNF‐α), plays an important role in the development of chronic pancreatitis. Induction of inflammatory cytokines and fibrotic proteins contribute to development of chronic pancreatitis. NF‐κB is known to induce pancreatic and systemic inflammatory response. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), omega 3‐polyunsaturated fatty acid, shows anti‐inflammatory and anti‐fibrotic effects.


Task scheduling is one of the core concerns in the computational grid environment and has been proven NP-complete. In this paper, a Dynamic Task Scheduling (DTS) strategy for computational grid environment has been proposed to minimize makespan of batch of tasks by enhancing Task Level Parallelism (TLP). The strategy works in two phases. In the first phase job is divided into tasks to exploits parallelism. In the second phase, as tasks are available in memory for execution, these tasks are allocated to the most suitable and available resources dynamically as per the strategy. Efficiency of proposed work is evaluated by designing and implementing DTS in grid simulation toolkit (Gridsim) and comparing with other state of art technique in different conditions i.e. varying the number of jobs, the number of resources and the processing capability of resources with taking remaining input parameters fixed. The simulation results revealed that DTS performs better on account of makespan for all conditions under study.


Drawings by Torsten Hojer from Gunnar Bjorkman's botanical expedition to Swedish Lapland in 1924 are presented with some biographical notes on Bjorkman. The paleontologist  Birger Bohlin also parti ...


Currently, the fitness services market in Russia demonstrates one of the highest growth rates among other service markets. Recently, the growth of demand for fitness services has been moving from the capital cities to the regions. A new level of development of the fitness industry is characterized by the transition from the elite service to the mass one. To study the fitness services market in the Primorye Territory, the data of the questionnaire survey of the youth audience consisting of students of higher education institutions in the Primorye Territory were used in the present work. The questionnaire form used to analyze consumer behavior mainly included open-ended questions, which were processed using special computer technology. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the development of an original approach to developing a motivational model for fitness services consumption. The paper presents some results of the study of latent factors affecting the formation of demand for fitness services in the region. Exploring consumer behavior allows judging the effectiveness of a fitness service in general, analyzing current trends in fitness consumption in the region and predicting the demand for fitness products in the future.


In human cognitive developmental studies, use of unrestrained eye-tracking techniques promoted the great amount of advances in this area. This technique has also been introduced in nonhuman primate species who could not be physically restrained such as chimpanzees and infant primates. In this symposium, we intend to overview the recent advances in the study of gaze behavior on the basis of those methodological breakthroughs. We try to integrate findings from the traditional and new methodologies in nonhuman primates, those from human and nonhuman primates, and also those from gaze behavior per se and gaze recording techniques. From the outcome of this symposium, new directions of comparative primate cognition will be clearly proposed.


Background: Reliable reference intervals for serum progastrin-releasing peptide (ProGRP) in healthy Chinese adults with electrochemiluminescence immunoassay (ECLIA) are still lacking in the Chinese population. Objectives: The study aims to establish reference intervals for ProGRP with ECLIA in apparently healthy Chinese adults. Methods: A total of 384 apparently healthy individuals from six representative geographical regions in China were enrolled: 200 males and 184 females with a mean age of 43.4±12.2 years, and an age range from 21 to 85 years. Serum ProGRP levels were analyzed on Cobas e601 automatic immunoassay analyzer with ECLIA. Reference intervals for serum ProGRP with ECLIA were determined following CLSI C28-A3 guidelines using a nonparametric method. Results: In an apparently healthy Chinese population, the reference intervals for serum ProGRP with ECLIA were ⩽53.92 ng/L for adults aged 21–70 years and ⩽75.69 ng/L for adults aged >70 years, respectively. Conclusions: The reference values for serum ProGRP with ECLIA in an apparently healthy Chinese population were established according to the CLSI C28-A3 document, providing a reference for the clinical work.


Orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) is a curative treatment for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). It is widely practiced around the world, but there is no specific set of recommendations to guide physicians. Milan criteria (MC) is a starting point in selecting optimal candidates for OLT, but no consensus exists for patients whose tumors exceed beyond MC. This article will review current literature and discuss controversial topics within HCC and OLT.


This study is aimed at determining the effects of simple and cheap hydrothermal techniques on the antinutrtional components and in vitro multienzymes protein digestibility of Vigna racemosa, an underutilised hard-to-cook legume. Seeds of V. racemosa were subjected to aqueous soaking and four hydrothermal processing methods – atmospheric boiling and steaming; pressure boiling and steaming. The effects of soaking and the hydrothermal techniques on the antinutrtional components (phytic acid, saponin, tannin and trypsin inhibitor activity) and the in vitro protein digestibility were investigated. Increase in hydration level caused more seepage of the antinutrients into the soaking water. With the exception of trypsin inhibitor activity that was totally eliminated, other antinutritonal components experienced significant reduction (p<0.05) when the seeds were subjected to the various hydrothermal processing techniques. The raw sample has protein digestibility of 40.11% while steaming at atmospheric pressure and steaming at elevated pressure caused percentage digestibility of 87.11% and 87.36%, respectively. The boiling treatments resulted in better percentage protein digestibility of 87.91%. Application of these simple and cost effective hydrothermal processing methods resulted in significant decrease in the antinutrtional components and hence improvement of protein digestibility. Increase in utilisation of this legume for foods could strengthen dietary diversity and healthy eating habit and thus alleviate the problems of protein energy malnutrition and food insecurity.


Restrictive covenants are proven means of limiting competition and need to be understood by counselors. The authors consider the American Counseling Association's (ACA) position on noncompetition agreements between employers and employees in light of case law from other service professions and conclude that ACA members are uninformed and available sources of information (i.e., ACA Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice, ACA, 1995) do not provide needed information. The absence of information about this important topic puts members at risk in an increasingly competitive private practice market. The authors propose guidelines for responding to this issue.


Abstract Promotion of the sustainability and inclusiveness of the economy, society, and environment is important. However, China suffers from different overlapping and conflicting plans, which hind...


Recently, there are many researches for lane detection technology, which is the main sensing method for a lane departure warning system, a lateral control system, a collision warning system, and a collision avoidance system. In this paper, a robust and simple lane curve detection system was developed, which has no needs of camera calibration data and correlation data of lane and camera. For this, LCF(Lane Curve Function) was found out by using the relationship between world coordinate lane, approximate parabola model, and image coordinate lane. Also, to detect the lane curve, LEAF(Lane Edge Accumulation Function) was proposed by the edge map data of LROI(Lane Region ofInterest), which surrounded LCF closest to the real lane image. The proposed algorithm was experimented to the real road images, which was composed of various lane curves. The detected lane curve approximated the real road curve. And, the applicability of the proposed lane detection system was proved.


Taeniothrips inconsequens (Uzel) of the subfamily Thripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) collected on flowers from Doha is reported in this paper, which represents the first record of both the genus and the species from Qatar. Morphological characters and geographical distribution of the newly recorded thrips are given.


This paper challenges a central tenet of constructive empiricism, namely that empirical adequacy has a privileged epistemic status. I argue that perceptions of observables are theory-wrought, and theory-wrought in the same ways as the observation sentences we use to describe those perceptions, van Fraassen can draw no privileged or fundamental distinction between what we observe and interpreting those observations through theory. Since empirical adequacy depends upon accurately describing what we observe, and we have no theory-independent reason to believe that what we 'observe' is a reflection of what is true, then empirical adequacy can inherit no special connection to what is real via what we observe. The epistemological significance of empirical adequacy is thereby reduced.


Many stroke survivors with severe impairment can grasp only with a power grip. Yet, little knowledge is available on altered power grip after stroke, other than reduced power grip strength. This study characterized stroke survivors' static power grip during 100% and 50% maximum grip. Each phalanx force's angular deviation from the normal direction and its contribution to total normal force was compared for 11 stroke survivors and 11 age-matched controls. Muscle activities and skin coefficient of friction (COF) were additionally compared for another 20 stroke and 13 age-matched control subjects. The main finding was that stroke survivors gripped with a 34% greater phalanx force angular deviation of 19±2 ̊ compared to controls of 14±1 ̊ (p<.05). Stroke survivors' phalanx force angular deviation was closer to the 23 ̊ threshold of slippage between the phalanx and grip surface (=atan(COF) found not to differ after stroke), which may explain increased likelihood of object dropping in stroke survivors. In addition, this altered phalanx force direction decreases normal grip force by tilting the force vector, indicating a partial role of phalanx force angular deviation in reduced grip strength post stroke. Greater phalanx force angular deviation and reduced grip strength may biomechanically result from more severe intrinsic and extensor muscle weakness compared to extrinsic flexor muscles, as empirically observed in stroke survivors. While stroke survivors' maximum power grip strength was approximately half of the controls', the distribution of their remaining strength over the fingers and phalanges did not differ, indicating evenly distributed grip weakness over the entire hand.


In a previous paper (ibid., vol.8, 1986), the authors presented a cycled inference engine that has been developed for the expert system shell SUPER to manage dynamic processes such as resuscitation protocol monitoring. In this work they present the structure that has been realized to implement this system on the site. The communication toolbox that has been developed to help the physicians to have a dialogue with the system and to connect various instruments is first briefly presented. The multimicroprocessor-based structure that has been realized is then described. A part of the system manages the data coming from the transducers: the other part manages the deduction procedures. The two asynchronous systems communicate using the technique of semaphores each time a transfer of information is needed. The knowledge base and the experimental protocol are then briefly described.<<ETX>>


Part 1. I am an ambassador. Heritage Bible Church is an embassy. Part 2. I am an adopted child of God We are the Family of God. Part 3 I am a _____________ ______________ of GOD What is a devoted follower? 1. A devoted follower is called a "___________ ______________" by Paul. Romans 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Living while you are _________________ Sacrifice all ____ to the bitter _______


The following paper reveals the content of a new form of the modern consumer' s manifestation: the ethical consumerism. This concept growth and developed in the last decade of the 20 century, but we can find its origins in the USA, fifty years ago. The entire society has evolved and so did the context in which a company acts, that' s why the organisations must adapt themselves to maintain and keep their standards to a reasonable level. Nowadays, the consumers are more and more sofisticated and their opinions are stronger than ever; for this reason, the manufacturers must keep in mind all these oppinions, in order to keep their positions on different markets. One of the most important tendencies, concerning the consumers' role in the future development of the markets is ethical consumerism.


Deep learning models extract, before a final classification layer, features or patterns which are key for their unprecedented advantageous performance. However, the process of complex nonlinear feature extraction is not well understood, a major reason why interpretation, adversarial robustness, and generalization of deep neural nets are all open research problems. In this paper, we use wavelet transformation and spectral methods to analyze the contents of image classification datasets, extract specific patterns from the datasets and find the associations between patterns and classes. We show that each image can be written as the summation of a finite number of rank-1 patterns in the wavelet space, providing a low rank approximation that captures the structures and patterns essential for learning. Regarding the studies on memorization vs learning, our results clearly reveal disassociation of patterns from classes, when images are randomly labeled. Our method can be used as a pattern recognition approach to understand and interpret learnability of these datasets. It may also be used for gaining insights about the features and patterns that deep classifiers learn from the datasets.


Gravure printing is a very promising method for printed electronics because it combines high throughput with high resolution. Recently, printed lines with 2μm resolution have been demonstrated at printing speeds on the order of 1m/s. Here we build on these results to study how more complex patterns can be printed that will ultimately lead to printed circuits. We study how the drag-out effect leads to proximity effects in gravure when multiple lines are printed close to each other. Drag-out occurs as the doctor blade passes over the roll surface to remove excess ink from the land areas in between the cells that make up the pattern. In addition to this desirable removal of excess ink, some ink from the cells also wicks up the doctor blade and is removed from the cells. This ink is subsequently deposited on the land area behind the cells leading to characteristic drag-out tails. If multiple lines, oriented perpendicular to the print direction, are printed close to each other, the ink that has wicked up the doctor blade from the first line will affect the drag-out process for subsequent lines. Here we show how this effect can be used to enhance print quality of lines as well as how it can deteriorate print quality. Important variables that will determine the regime for printing optimization are ink viscosity, printing speed, cell size, cell spacing and relative placement of lines. Considering these factors carefully allows one to determine design rules for optimal printing results.


The primary purpose of this study will be to compare the equitableness of utility earnings as a source of municipal revenue when compared to that of property taxes.


We propose a numerical methodto solve the problem of coupling through finite, but otherwise arbitrary apertures in perfectly conducting and vanishingly thin parallel planes. The problem is given a generic formulation using the Methodof Moments andthe Green's function in the region between the two planes is evaluated using Ewald's method. Numerical applications using Glisson's basis functions to solve the problem are demonstratedandcomparedwith previously publishedresults andthe output of FDTD software.


List of contributors Introduction and preface 1. Figures of merit and performance analysis of photonic microwave links Charles Cox and William S. C. Chang 2. RF subcarrier links in local access networks Xiaolin Lu 3. Analog modulation of semiconductor lasers Joachim Piprek and John E. Bowers 4. LiNbO3 external modulators and their use in high performance analog links Gary E. Betts 5. Broadband traveling wave modulators in LiNbO3 Marta M. Howerton and William K. Burns 6. Multiple quantum well electroabsorption modulators for RF photonic links William S. C. Chang 7. Polymer modulators for RF photonics Timothy Van Eck 8. Photodiodes for high performance analog links P. K. L. Yu and Ming C. Wu 9. Opto-electronic oscillators X. Steve Yao 10. Photonic link techniques for microwave frequency conversion Stephen A. Pappert, Roger Helkey and Ronald T. Logan Jr 11. Antenna-coupled millimeter-wave electro-optical modulators William B. Bridges 12. System design and performance of wideband photonic phased array antennas Greg L. Tangonan, Willie Ng, Daniel Yap and Ron Stephens Acknowledgements References Index.


We present design strategies for a keyword spotting (KWS) system that operates in highly degraded channel conditions with very low signal-to-noise ratio levels. We employ a system combination approach by combining the outputs of multiple large vocabulary automatic speech recognition (LVCSR) systems, each of which employs a different system design approach targeting three different levels of information: front-end signal processing features (standard cepstra-based, noise-robust modulation and multi layer perceptron features), statistical acoustic models (gaussian mixtures models (GMM) and subspace GMMs) and keyword search strategies (word-based and phonebased). We also use keyword-aware capabilities in the system at two levels: in the LVCSR language models by assigning higher weights to n-grams with keywords in them and in LVCSR search by using a relaxed pruning threshold for keywords. The LVCSR system outputs are represented as latticebased unigram indices whose scores are fused by a logisticregression based classifier to produce the final system combination output. We present the performance of our system in the phase II evaluations of DARPA's Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech (RATS) program for both Levantine Arabic and Farsi conversational speech corpora. Index Terms: noise-robust keyword detection, automatic speech recognition, system combination, noise robustness


The train uses a special line in the form of railroad tracks that produce vibrations during movement. This study aims to determine the type of soil layer and the peak particle velocity due to the train around the Padang City train line. The acquisition was carried out at 8 points with a recording duration of 65 minutes using three geophone components. Microtremor data was analyzed using horizontal to vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) method. The results show that the research area has a type of surface layer of soil is sediment with a thickness of 30 meters or more. This is indicated by the dominant frequency value ranging from 0.64 Hz – 1.67 Hz. The research area has an amplification value ranging from 0.85 to 1.29. The train vibration has a dominant frequency ranging from 2.20 Hz – 13.54 Hz and an amplification of 1.11 – 1.82. The particle velocity values obtained from the PVS values ranged from 0.1605 mm/s – 0.7592 mm/s. The research area can be categorized as safe from train vibrations because of the low amplification value and the PVS value which is below the safe limit (<3 mm/s) according to SNI 7571:2010.


We report on detailed structural, electronic and magnetic studies of GdMn$_{1-x}$Cr$_x$O$_3$ for Cr doping levels 0 $\le$ $x$ $\le$ 1. In the solid solutions, the Jahn-Teller distortion associated with Mn$^{3+}$ ions gives rise to major changes in the ${bc}$-plane sub-lattice and also the effective orbital ordering in the ${ab}$-plane, which persist up to the compositions $x$ $\sim$ 0.35. These distinct features in the lattice and orbital degrees of freedom are also correlated with $bc$-plane anisotropy of the local Gd environment. A gradual evolution of electronic states with doping is also clearly seen in O $K$-edge x-ray absorption spectra. Evidence of magnetization reversal in field-cooled-cooling mode for $x$ $\ge$ 0.35 coinciding the Jahn-Teller crossover, suggests a close correlation between magnetic interaction and structural distortion. These observations indicate a strong entanglement between lattice, spin, electronic and orbital degrees of freedom. The nonmonotonic variation of remnant magnetization can be explained by doping induced modification of magnetic interactions. Density functional theory calculations are consistent with a layer-by-layer type doping with ferromagnetic (antiferomagnetic) coupling between Mn (Cr) ions for intermediate compound ($x$ = 0.5), which is distinct from that observed for the end members GMnO$_3$ and GdCrO$_3$.


CCD-imagers have been fabricated with a double metallization and with polyimide (PI) as insulating layer between the two metals. The incorporation of PI reduces the complexity of the CCD-technology without changing the electrical and the optical properties of the imaging devices. In addition, the sensor uniformity is strongly improved due to the enhanced surface flatness.


AIMS
To investigates the stability of ATZ along with PIP under different stress conditions and characterization of degradants by LC-QTOF-ESI-MS including in-vitro cellular anticancer activity, in-vivo pharmacokinetics, and biodistribution studies.

BACKGROUND
Anastrozole (ATZ) is being widely used in the treatment of breast cancer and it requires a high dose while long-term medication. ATZ high dose may kill the non-cancerous cells also and leads towards multidrug resistance (MDR) due to efflux of P-Glycoprotein. ATZ is reported for poor water solubility and lesser oral bioavailability. Piperine (PIP) has been reported to enhance the various pharmacokinetic parameters like bioavailability of various active pharmaceutical ingredients and phytoconstituents. PIP is known to inhibit drug transporter P-glycoprotein. PIP stops drug metabolism by inhibiting the action of P450/CYP3A4.

OBJECTIVE
To explore the stability studies of ATZ along with PIP in different stress conditions. it was also proposed to perform the characterization of degradants by LC-QTOF-ESI-MS including in-vitro cellular anticancer activity, in-vivo pharmacokinetics, and biodistribution studies.

METHOD
Degradants were identified for molecular weight using LC-QTOF-ESI-MS and structures of degradants were confirmed by fragmentation pattern along with mass accuracy measurements. Pharmacokinetic and biodistribution were performed using Wistar rat and calculated Pharmacokinetic parameters for ATZ, PIP, and their combination. The validated method was used for stressed studies as well as bioanalytical.

RESULT
A total of fourteen degradants were characterized. ATZ and PIP have shown synergistic anticancer effects in the 4T1 cell line and shown superior Pharmacokinetic and biodistribution with good oral absorption and high bioavailability.

CONCLUSION
Therefore, there is huge scope in the future to conduct pharmacological and formulation studies for this combination.


To understand mysticism as pure desire is to grasp its criteriological character as the suspension of any fulfilment - including "God" - by an object. It is thus desire as immanently living self-desire, whereby not only the tradition of negative theology since the early days of Christianity can be integrated, but also the universality of mystical experimentation in other forms of spirituality such as Buddhism and Sufism, but also in a non-religious mysticism such as that of Bataille and Lacan. In addition to an interpretation of mysticism that is currently mostly characterised by metaphorical contexts, the original "desire of mysticism" is therefore analysed radically phenomenologically in its significance for cognition and practice par excellence. As a principal test for every subjective human being in its affective corporeality, the question ultimately arises as to whether such a pre-religious "mysticism of life" cannot be relevant at all for our cultural future.


We use immobility as an origin and reference for the measurement of locomotor behavior; speed, the direction of walking and the direction of facing as the three degrees of freedom shaping fly locomotor behavior, and cocaine as the parameter inducing a progressive transition in and out of immobility. In this way we expose and quantify the generative rules that shape fruit fly locomotor behavior, which consist of a gradual narrowing down of the fly's locomotor freedom of movement during the transition into immobility and a precisely opposite expansion of freedom during the transition from immobility to normal behavior. The same generative rules of narrowing down and expansion apply to vertebrate behavior in a variety of contexts, Recent claims for deep homology between the vertebrate basal ganglia and the arthropod central complex, and neurochemical processes explaining the expansion of locomotor behavior in vertebrates could guide the search for equivalent neurochemical processes that mediate locomotor narrowing down and expansion in arthropods. We argue that a methodology for isolating relevant measures and quantifying generative rules having a potential for discovering candidate behavioral homologies is already available and we specify some of its essential features.


For a graph G of order n, the general Randi´c matrix GR(G) = [gij ] is a symmetric matrix of order n in which gij = (didj)α, α ∈ R if the vertices vi and vj are adjacent in G and 0, otherwise, where di is the degree of vertex vi. The general Randi´c energy EGR(G) of G is the sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues of GR(G). In this paper, we compute the general Randi´c energy of the line graph of regular graph and the graph obtained by duplication of graph elements for regular graph. We also investigate general Randi´c equienergetic graphs


The effect of gadolinium-diethylene-triamine-penta-acetic acid (Gd-DTPA) on normal, mini-pig myocardium was investigated with magnetic resonance imaging. Results indicate that intravenous administration of Gd-DTPA produces a significant enhancement of mini-pig myocardial signal intensity, which in all cases was maintained in excess of 50 min. No significant enhancement was demonstrated in skeletal muscle.


It is of great significance to have research on the deformation characteristics and stress distribution of aortic wall. Reliable prediction of constitutive parameters requires an inverse process, which possesses challenges. This work proposes an inverse procedure to identify the constitutive parameters of aortic walls, which integrates nonlinear finite element method (FEM), random forest (RF) model and hybrid Random Search (RS) and Grid Search (GS) algorithm. FEM models are first established to simulate nonlinear deformation of aortic walls subjected to uniaxial tension tests. A dataset of nonlinear relationship between the engineering stress and main stretch of aortic walls is created using FEM models and the nonlinear relationship is learned through RF model. The hybrid RS&GS algorithms are used to adjust the major hyperparameters in RF. Then the optimized RF is utilized to predict constitutive parameters of aortic walls with the help of uniaxial tension tests. The prediction results show that the RF optimized by hybrid RS&GS (RF-RS&GS) approach is an effective and accurate approach to identify the constitutive parameters of aortic walls. The present RF-RS&GS model can be further extended for the predictions of constitutive parameters of other types of nonlinear soft materials. Additionally, the relative importance of constitutive parameters of aortic walls in Gasser–Ogden–Holzapfel (GOH) strain energy function is investigated. It is found that the parameters [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]in GOH are most intensive to the engineering stress of aortic walls.


Seeds are the central components of the plant life cycle because the establishment of a new generation of plants depends on them [...]


The requirement for low power and rapid circuits are expanding in present day hardware. The generation of carrier and locking of phase have become significant for transceiver circuits. The frequency divider which is dependent on the phase locked loop (PLL) is a fundamental building block of the transceiver. The frequency divider that produces carrier for the down-conversion/up-conversion functions, it works at high frequency and it expends a massive portion of the whole power of the circuit. The frequency divider dependent on phase locked loop (PLL) comprises of voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), phase detector, loop filter and frequency divider. The voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and frequency divider expends the utmost power. This paper presents a CMOS digital phase locked loop which is proposed with low power utilization voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit and frequency divider circuit using 45nm CMOS technology.


Aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) and zinc oxide (ZnO) are promising materials which have been investigated for photovoltaic and photosensor applications. The applications of ZnO based thin films are due to several unique material properties where it is a II-IV semiconductor with a wide direct bandgap of 3.2 eV at room temperature, which is almost similar to titanium dioxide (TiO2) material. In many researches, ZnO based thin films have been grown by various deposition technique, such as sputtering, chemical bath deposition, pulsed laser deposition, and thermal chemical vapor deposition. In such options, the reactive sputtering technique using Zn metal target represents one of the simplest and most effective techniques which have been proposed by many researchers[1,2].


Designing, establishing and functioning of supply chain networks are key issues of all participants in the supply chain and it must be viewed in the context of strategic, tactical and operational performance of individual part icipants. Development and functioning of all business systems takes place in conditions of increasing cost pressure, growing risks and market volatility, higher service requirements and stronger focus on sustainability. Business systems are therefore under constant pressure of making/changing strategic decisions that always involve setting and correction of strategic objectives and a multitude of analytical procedures that will support the decision. One of the strategic decisions of the growing importance that increasingly turns into a tactical decision-making is the construction of the supply network, or supply chains network. Formulation and implementation of supply chain networks and their optimal functioning depends on a number of internal and external factors that must be identified and measured and / or assessed in order to make sound decisions the area close to the optimum. The paper is based on previous theoretical knowledge and practical experience to explore criteria and optional performance for the design of supply chain network, and to present the context in which they develop. We proposed a contextual framework for SCN design and analsys that could help in revealing benefits and shortages of decisions made in SCN design and functionig. Using case study method, paper especially emphasizes trends of supply chain networks design for two groups of participants in the fast moving consumer goods area and ceramic industry area.


Background: Calcaneal osteotomy has been used to successfully treat both valgus and varus hindfoot deformities. Pain associated with implanted hardware may lead to further surgical intervention for hardware removal. Headless screws have been used to reduce postoperative hardware-associated pain and accompanying hardware removal, but data proving their effectiveness in this regard is lacking. The purpose of this study is to compare the rates of removal of headed and headless screws utilized in calcaneal osteotomy. Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review of 74 patients who underwent calcaneal osteotomy between January 2010 and December 2014. The cohort was divided into 2 groups by fixation method: a headed screw and a headless screw group. Bivariate associations between infection or hardware removal, and screw type, screw head width, gender, smoking status, alcohol, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, age, and body mass index were assessed using t-tests and Fisher's exact/χ2 tests for continuous and discrete variables, respectively. Results: Headed screws were removed more frequently than headless screws (P < .0001): 15 of 30 (50%) feet that received headed screws and 4 of 44 (9%) of feet that received headless screws underwent subsequent revision for screw removal. In all cases, screws were removed because of pain. The calcaneal union rate was 100% in both cohorts. Conclusion: The rate of screw removal in calcaneal osteotomies is significantly lower in patients who receive headless screws than in those receiving headed screws. Levels of Evidence: Level IV


Cargo transportation is the derivative demand of economic and social development and the real logistics of goods. The change of freight structure is directly related to the direction of national infrastructure construction. Chinese freight transportation is mainly based on land transportation, railway and road transportation are parallel and there is a substitution relationship between them. The mode of freight transportation in China has gradually changed from the railway-dominated to the highway-dominated, which also causes the gradual increase of vehicle pollutant emissions. The most notable is that heavy trucks share 68% of the particulate matter, which has seriously affected the air environment. The structure of freight transportation needs to be improved urgently and road transport to rail transport is a must-have road.


Surveys made in the Salt River Valley of Arizona in 1954-57 indicate that cultural practices, such as shortening the period alfalfa IS grown on the same land and rotation with cotton or other cultivated crops, will reduce grasshopper populations in alfalfa. They also suggest that weed control would aid in controlling populations in alfalfa


Renewable energy based Distributed Generators (DGs) play a dominant role in electricity production with increase in the global warming. Wind energy is one of the most available and feasible forms of renewable energy due to their advantages. The integration of Distributed Generation (DG) into the distribution system brings technical and economic benefits to the grid. Yet installation of non optimized sizes of DGs at arbitrary locations can result in degraded voltage profile and increased system losses. Therefore it is expedient that the sizing and location of DG units should be deliberately planned and determined. DG unit sizing and siting are calculated using a sensitivity index that combines the exact loss formula and voltage sensitivity coefficients. In this paper the Squirrel Cage Induction Generator (SCIG) is considered as wind generator. This paper provides the comparison between the economic load dispatch by conventional method and economic load dispatch by non conventional method by using PSO. Gives an analytical technique to determine the optimal siting and size of DGs in a distribution system for power loss reduction. Also the system performance at different penetration levels of wind DG is observed. The proposed model is implemented in MATLAB/SIMULINK.


The aim of this study is to analyse movements of exchange rate and trade balance during 2001-2015 and investigate whether a devaluation would improve the trade balance by a J-curve effect. The study uses quarterly data collected from reliable sources such as World Bank (WB), and General Statistic Office of Vietnam (GSO), and International Financial Statistics (IFS). The first part of the study shows the performance of the trade balance and exchange rate movements during the given period. The second part employs Impulse Response analysis to examine the pattern of the trade balance after a shock of exchange rate or a devaluation. The finding of the study is that following a devaluation, the trade balance deteriorates in the first two-quarters and then starting improving till the sixth quarter. After the six quarter, the trade balance again falls into deficit and followed by rises and declines unexpectedly. With responses illustrated from the analysis, the trade balance has a sign of the J curve in early quarters but this sign is fading in later quarters. The study also discovers that there is a possibility that after a shock of exchange rate, the trade balance will follow an S curve, instead of a J curve. In the end of the study, the author recommends some policy implications to improve trade balance and open further insights for subsequent researchers.


The electric power grid is a complex interconnected system. The state estimation with phasor measurement units (PMU) are powerful technique for system monitoring and control. The results of state estimation are more accurate, when using phasor measurement units in the complex power systems. The state estimation problem in electrical power system consists of many basic operations, one of them, detection and identification of bad measurement. In this paper a proposed technique of state estimation using phasor measurement units is discussed and implemented. Furthermore, it is also shown that bad data in any of the measurements can be detected and identified provided certain redundancy requirements are met. The technique is applied to IEEE 30 nodes system. Test results show the effectiveness of the proposed method to improve the quality of the state estimator solution, and led to reliable and trustable system when feeding the nuclear installations .


The poetry achievement and historical position of the Buddhist monks in South North Dynasty can be analyzed from the following two aspects: first, the poems written by the monks dominated the poetry style of the time which can be described as being rich and gaudy, and the monks were the inventors of the rules governing rhythm of the poems. Secondly, the poetry of the time promoted the development of Chinese poetry, having enriched and developed the manifestation technique.


Background: Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with peptic ulcer diseases and gastric adenocarcinoma. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to assess the efficiency of tetracycline quadruple therapy versus levofloxacin-based regimen (LBR) for the eradication of H. pylori. Methods: To this end, 197 subjects with H. pylori infection were recruited in this randomized clinical study in Kurdistan region, Iraq between October 2018 and May 2019 and randomly divided into 2 groups. The LBR group received levofloxacin 500 mg one time per day, amoxicillin 1000 mg two times per day, and omeprazole 20 mg two times per day for two weeks. In addition, the tetracycline-metronidazole-bismuth (TMB) group received bismuth subcitrate 140 mg, metronidazole 125 mg, and tetracycline 125 mg plus omeprazole 20 mg twice per day for 10 days. Finally, 28 days after the completion of the treatment course, the eradication of H. pylori was evaluated by the 14C urease breath test. Results: The total eradication rate of H. pylori infection was 149/197 (75.6%). Although the success eradication rate in the LBR regimen was 70/112 (62.5%), the eradication success rate was 79/85 (92.9%) in the TMB regimen (P = 0.001, odds ratio = 7.9, confidence interval = 3.17-19.7). Finally, gender and age represented on the effect of the eradication rate. Conclusions: In general, the bismuth-based regimen could eradicate a high rate of H. pylori infection. Therefore, this regimen can be used to overcome treatment failure in areas with a high prevalence of antibiotics resistance.


This technical paper relates to a device that reduces the speed of any overspeeding vehicles travelling on a roadway.It is formed by at least one hollow strip of flexible material, made up of several receptacles located in the shell body. Each receptacle is impregnated with a dilatant shear-thickening fluid. The material is placed under compression during impact when the vehicle strikes it and the fluid itself acts as means for controlling the resistance to deformation of the strip. Thus, if the vehicle travels at a low speed the fluid has a low viscosity and the strip is easily deformed, whereas if the speed of the vehicle is high the viscosity of the fluid is high and as a result has great resistance to deformation, thus forming a rigid obstacle to the passage of the vehicle. Drivers must always slow down when driving over the conventional speed bumps to prevent damage to their vehicle. However, the Variable Density Speed Hump is sensitive to the speed of the vehicle.The vehicle needs to slow down only if it is overspeeding.


Abstract We discuss the diagrammatic theory of knot isotopies in dimension 4. We project a knotted surface to a three-dimensional space and arrange the surface to have generic singularities upon further projection to a plane. We examine the singularities in this plane as an isotopy is performed, and give a finite set of local moves to the singular set that can be used to connect any two isotopic knottings. We show how the notion of projections of isotopies can be used to give a combinatoric description of knotted surfaces that is sufficient for categorical applications. In this description, knotted surfaces are presented as sequences of words in symbols, and there is a complete list of moves among such sequences that relate the symbolic representations of isotopic knotted surfaces.


The CODcr and alkali content in the wastewater discharged from printing and dyeing mills are very high.A new process was tested for the treatment of the wastewater from alkali-decrement in a printing and dyeing mill using industrial spent acid,scrap iron and carbide slag.The pH value range of acid eduction,the iron_carbon reaction time and the results of the treatment using biological membrane SBR(sequencing batch reactor) process and activated sludge SBR process were studied.The results showed that the CODcr removal rate exceeded 72% when the pH value range of acid eduction was 3~4;the CODcr removal rate exceeded 62% when the iron_carbon reaction time was 20~30 min;the treatment result by biological membrane SBR process was better than the result by activated sludge SBR process.


The global use of delivery vehicles with combustion motors is increasingly responsible for air pollution and the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. For this reason, the use of electric vehicles is discussed in order to minimize the emissions of increasing freight traffic. In many publications a significant future role of electric mobility in the logistics sector is discussed. Especially in the field of reverse logistics high logistical and technical requirements do occur if enterprises make use of electric vehicles. This is particularly due to the large quantities of materials that have to be transported in this specific sector. Central restrictions of electric vehicles like the load weight and the range lead to modified delivery processes. These processes have to be examined to ensure the reliability of reverse logistics if electric vehicles are used. Funded by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) the project partners FOM University of Applied Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), and the enterprise Noweda and Zentek investigate the operational change areas by using electric vehicles in their common project E-Route. In the field of reverse logistics this research contribution examines the niche in which electric vehicles can be used efficiently. The value of this paper is to provide guidance for further research and to give information for companies who are interested in gaining information concerning the chances and risks of implementing e-vehicles to their existing transport fleet.


Screenplays contain semantically and structurally rich text as the average movie screenplay is thousands of words (tokens) long and contains long range dependencies of entity relations and contextual plot elements throughout. Large-scale pre-trained language models (like GPT-2) perform very well in open-domain text generation when the generated outputs are only ten to low hundreds of tokens long. This project aims to test how well current large transformer models perform at producing long, coherent texts for the task of movie screenplay generation. We compared the outputs of several different models such as GPT-2, GPT-2 finetuned for 1 epoch, GPT-2 finteuned for 3-epochs, and a recently published non-monotonic, progressive generation approach [ProGeT] to see which model and architecture could best support high quality screenplay generation. We found that non-monotonic generation approach performed best on a set of automated evaluation metrics, including the contextual embedding similarity approach known as BERTScore. Looking at the example model outputs [appendix], we can see that the non-montonic approach, ProGeT, has outputs that read most similarly to human written movie screenplays. Stanford CS224N Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning


The medicinal plants have a therapeutic well definite role, taking into account the toxicity associated to the indiscriminate use of synthetic drugs and antibiotics, the interest for the utilization of medicinal plants and plant based drugs being revived throughout the world. Most of them became rare owing to the intensive exploitation of the natural resources, many people of developing countries depending on the traditional medicine and obtaining incomes from plant harvesting and trade. Gentiana lutea L. is a medicinal plant, considered as vulnerable species at national and European level, for its conservation being necessary besides the natural habitats protection, the use of alternative strategies rely on the modern biotechnologies. Our aim is to perform in vitro tissues cultures for ex situ conservation in Gentiana lutea species. For the initiation of in vitro cultures, capsules with seeds were used and different explants were collected from the aseptic germinated seedlings. By testing different media variants, we were able to induce in Gentiana lutea different developmental ways as callusogenesis, morphogenesis (shooting and rooting) and direct and indirect embryogenesis with high regeneration rate. Murashige-Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with BAP (1mg/l), NAA (0.1 mg/l) and glutamine (0.4 g/l) ensure a good multiplication through direct morphogenesis. The regenerated shoots rooted with difficulty. Embryogenic callus was induced on medium MS added with 2, 4, 5-T. The maturation and the development of embryos occurred on mannitol supplemented medium (30 g/l). The in vitro cultures have been maintained over two years and viable plants were successfully regenerated.


Background: Recent breakthrough in cell therapy is expected to reverse the neurological sequelae of stroke. We investigated the safety and feasibility of intracerebral transplantation of autologous...


This article aims to assess the relationship between digital media and participation in Spain, during a political crisis context that has increased the number of citizens demanding to be part of political process (COLOMBO VILARRASA, 2007). In particular, it investigates e-petitions platform Change.org 's presence in four different digital media: El Pais , El Mundo , El Confidencial and El Diario . In order to ascertain what type of coverage this website receives, it is analyzed a sample of 200 pieces in relation to the following variables: the section and the frequency of publication, the platform as a source of information, the external links from the journal to the petitions page, etc. The results of this analysis allow to check that the Spanish press does not make a critical reflection of the limitations of Change.org , but it encourages participation on the platform.


Abstract: The importance of research in issues that revolve around the nature of value the relationship between religion and political by nature reflectiveness between values and political behavior, and there are attempts by a variety of different aspects of in order to find a compromise between the two phenomena, but the thought exclusionary prevailing between the two currents did not lead to a satisfactory result limit now, even the community in a state of unremitting Ranging internal fragmentation and to wrestle at the level of values. This project is an attempt to find a compromise as a result of the conflict historical prevailing over a century ago, has not decided yet, but there are mounting and the renewal of the conflict from time to time and again. So not a modern relationship between religion and the state a new order, but the project focuses on how and what the exploitation of religion and revealed its position in the political life of the community, this issue is extremely important to the project and directs the student in this way in order to find a compromise solution to get out of that dilemma suffered by communities developing and missed her progress and development, social cohesion, and eventually led to the tireless struggle between the spectra of power and identity. Research Hypothesis also lies in: that each political behavior of the ad valorem system behind it, and cannot grow or develop only through them. Even leading up to the value system of political behavior and not vice versa. A reflexive relationship between values and politics in general, as there reflectivity between religion and politics relationship, but the relationship between religion and state is different from the first embodiment cannot be religion in the state and that the power control and from which its name.


Seeing the importance of accounting information systems today for organizational progress in helping the implementation of accounting bookkeeping, so it requires a fast and accurate recording process. CV. Surya Anugerah Investindo is a developing company in the field of cobroke property, there is still no accounting information system so that making accounting books is still manual. The weaknesses are that the management or the data process is slow, requires a lot of effort or stages, the information generated has a high enough potential for error. The purpose of this study is to try to design and implement an accounting information system based on Microsoft Excel to produce accounting bookkeepers as needed. Data obtained directly from the company through interviews and documentation. Based on the data obtained, states that the accounting information system CV. Surya Anugerah Investindo has not implemented a computer-based accounting information system. From these weaknesses, researchers provide suggestions for the design of accounting books using a Microsoft Excel-based accounting information system


p.3, line 52-54. Mention the uncertainty range of the vapour pressures for n-alkanes between C22H46 and C24H50 based on the vapour pressure datasets displayed in Figure 3. P.4, line 71: Add information on size range. P.4, line 79: Jacobson et al. (2005) and Karl et al. (2016) should be included in this list. P.7, line 168: missing ", respectively" at end of this line. P.10, line 227-232 and Figure 3: the vapour pressure data from Lemmon and Goodwin (2000) should be included in Figure 3 to facilitate comparison with previous studies on the volatility of exhaust particles near roadways (Zhang and Wexler, 2004; Zhang et al., 2004; Karl et al., 2016). P.10, line 237: A-a is mentioned before it is defined in the text. P.11, line 270: Please add the abbreviation (Co) for this vapour pressure dataset here. P.12, line 291: Here the concept of threshold modal composition is introduced for the first time. It would be good to add a paragraph on the reasoning behind this concept. P.15, line 358: Although the model results with the vapour pressure dataset Co are explained in detail in section 3.1, it would help the reader to give a short summary of Co results regarding the REPARTEE-like behaviour before A-a and B-c results are discussed. P.19, lines 472-477. There seems to be something wrong with the logic of the two


 Abstract— Brassinosteroids are important phytohormones that affect many aspects of plant growth and development. We have shown that brassinosteroid biosynthesis inhibitor exhibits potent inhibitory activity on retardation stem elongation of Arabidopsis seedlings. To develop new plant growth regulators for turf management, we use Yucaizol, a potent brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis inhibitor developed in our laboratory, for biological evaluations. Effect of Yucaizol on retardation of pencross growth indicates that it exhibits potent activity. The Yucaizol significantly reduce the penncross growth at 100 g a.i./ha in our assay system. Although plant growth regulators that targeting on gibberellic acid (GA) biosynthesis have been widely used for golf course management, our results demonstrate the potential utility of BR biosynthesis inhibitors as new plant growth regulators.


Interference mask covering the reflective conductive ribbon electrically interconnecting a plurality of photovoltaic cells (300) is disclosed. Such interference can reduce the reflection of incident light from the conductor. In various embodiments, the mask is reduced reflections as a result, the front electrode pattern and the back electrode pattern looks black, or feature and color of the surrounding devices appear similar. In other embodiments, the mask may be electrode patterns to match the color of the visible spectrum, to adjust the reflection of light.


Fault localization, aiming at localizing the root cause of the bug under repair, has been a longstanding research topic. Although many approaches have been proposed in the last decades, most of the existing studies work at coarse-grained statement or method levels with very limited insights about how to repair the bug (granularity problem), but few studies target the finer-grained fault localization. In this paper, we target the granularity problem and propose a novel finer-grained variable-level fault localization technique. Specifically, the basic idea of our approach is that fault-relevant variables may exhibit different values in failed and passed test runs, and variables that have higher discrimination ability have a larger possibility to be the root causes of the failure. Based on this, we propose a program-dependency-enhanced decision tree model to boost the identification of fault-relevant variables via discriminating failed and passed test cases based on the variable values. To evaluate the effectiveness of our approach, we have implemented it in a tool called VarDT and conducted an extensive study over the Defects4J benchmark. The results show that VarDT outperforms the state-of-the-art fault localization approaches with at least 268.4% improvement in terms of bugs located at Top-1, and the average improvement is 351.3%. Besides, to investigate whether our finer-grained fault localization result can further improve the effectiveness of downstream APR techniques, we have adapted VarDT to the application of patch filtering, where we use the variables located by VarDT to filter incorrect patches. The results denote that VarDT outperforms the state-of-the-art PATCH-SIM and BATS by filtering 14.8% and 181.8% more incorrect patches, respectively, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach. It also provides a new way of thinking for improving automatic program repair techniques.


To study national trends, variances, and outcomes in patients admitted with epiglottitis in the United States. We hypothesize that the incidence of epiglottitis has decreased, mortality has decreased, and that there has been a shift toward older patients being admitted with epiglottitis.


Palmprint recognition system has been one promising biometric system used in Presence System. There are some methods to recognize the individual palmprint as well as to extract its feature. In this research, two recognition methods are compared, i.e., backpropagation neural network and similarity measure using Euclidean distance. While, for feature extraction, we implemented Principal Components Analysis (PCA) method. From the research, it can be concluded that from test results, the best recognition using backpropogation neural networks is 93.33% which is reached when parameters used are: 100 principal components, 1 hidden layer, and 75 neurons. While, implementation of similarity measure using Euclidean distance, the best recognition rate is 96.67% which is reached when 75 principal components are used. When considering the time consumed in recognition, the Euclidean distance gives the better result, i.e. 17.09 seconds, while using backpropagation neural network with 75 neurons, time consumed is 425 seconds. Therefore, from this research, recognition implementation combining both PCA and Euclidean distance are more suggested rather than using combination of PCA and backpropagation neural network.


Objective
To study the effect of transgelin-2 expression on biological characteristics of colon cancer cells.

Methods
RT-PCR and Western blot were used to observe mRNA and protein expression of transgelin-2 in five colon cancer cell lines, screen for cell line with lower transgelin-2 expression; Transient transfection was performed to establish over-expression of transgelin-2 colon cancer cell line; The effect of transgelin-2 over-expression on the proliferation, apoptosis and the ability of migration and invasion of colon cancer cell were detected by CCK-8, low cytometric analysis and transwell method respectively.

Results
There was no statistical difference in proliferation and apoptosis in colon cancer cells with transgelin-2 over-expression compared with the controls; Enhanced ability of migration and invasion was found in colon cancer cells with transgelin-2 over-expression.After 15 hours culture in serum free medium, more transgelin-2 over-expressed colon cancer cells went through the transwell chamber bottom membrane than that in control group and empty vector transfected group 207±62 vs.114±29 vs. 120±26, F=7.302, P<0.05). After 24 hours, the differences remained statistically significant (179±32 vs. 95±33 vs. 95±28, F=10.960, P<0.05).

Conclusions
Transgelin-2 enhances migration and invasion ability of colon cancer cells.

Key words:
Colonic neoplasms; Neoplasm invasiveness; Transgelin-2


Title of project: Producing multimedia resources for teaching medical students about the social context of medicine: a partnership approach Type project: Action Research From focus groups with medical students from years 2 and 4 we have learned about the importance of process in resource design and the value of involving students - not only for their creative skills and their experiences but also as it impacts upon motivation, sense of ownership and therefore potentially bolsters engagement. Through a process of group negotiation with students, project collaborators and Sally Holden's eLearning team, a design for an online PBL resource for years one and two has been developed, the interface has been designed, and decisions have been made regarding aspects of the technical side (ie where to host the resource). The template and some content has been created. Frequent discussions are held to ensure continuous evaluation as the resource is developed. Upon completion of the content, formal user evaluation of the resource will take place during AY 2013. It is envisaged that the resource will be implemented in the Medical School and possibly in the Dental school. User statistics will be collected and user surveys will be administered to all students to get an insight into potential value and uptake.


We present a solution for analysing crowds at events such as conferences where people have networking opportunities. Often, potential social relations go unexploited because no business cards were exchanged or we forget about interesting people we met earlier. We created a solution built on top of ubiquitous Wi-Fi signals that is able to create a memory of human trajectories and touch points. In this paper we elaborate on the technological assets we designed to perform crowd anlaytics. We present small wearable Wi-Fi badges that last for the duration of an event (up to 3 days) with a single charge, as well as network equipment that senses the signals radiating from these badges and contemporary mobile devices.


This article is for access to the psychological ills of the "copper doll" in vocational schools,and use case teaching method combined writing teaching with psychology education.


A chirped fibre Bragg grating according to ITU-T suggested L-band (2nd channel λ1 = 1570.83 nm; 80th channel λ2 = 1603.57 nm) with more than 1800 ps/nm single channel dispersion compensation is presented in this paper, of which the cladding mode loss, the delay curve ripple and the power fluctuation of the reflected spectrum are less than 0.5 dB, 50 ps and 0.25 dB, respectively. With this new FBG as dispersion compensation device, a 2 × 10 Gb/s wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) L-band transmission of 600 km based on conventional single mode fibre (G.652 fibre) is performed without forward error correction. The bit error rate (BER) is less than 10−12 and the power penalties of the 2nd and 80th channel of L-band are 1.8 dB and 2.0 dB, respectively.


Marked in gray, pervaded by a vague presence of melancholy, Luis Quintais' verses present us a world framed by fragmented images, opaque and quotidian, whose space and time are interrupted by voids. But what are these voids? These pages, which came from such a question, in their eager to seek answers, encounter another question: after all, why do many of the current poetics, including the poetry of which Luis Quintais is part, attract attention to the word, brushing on their verses a reflection of the poetic language and their (in)utility and power of resistance against the society of their time? Thus, when we read Luis Quintais' poetry, we see that the metalinguistic function is vital to understand the feeling of emptiness in his poems which, in their turn, take us to a reflection on language, memory and history.


Australia is one of the world leaders in water management. The country meets the challenge of water shortage with established integrated water management in which rainwater is taken as a too precious resource to be just drained off. In Australia, rainwater is extensively harvested and polished to provide cheaper supply for potable and non-potable domestic uses, irrigation, landscaping, refilling aquifers and other uses. Implementing dual management over the quantity and quality of storm water and practicing water sensitive urban design (WSUD) in urban areas effectively control non-point-source pollution of waterways by pollutants carried with runoffs, reduce the discharge of rainwater and thus protect properties and lives from damage by floods. These achievements are attributed to constant reinforcement by govenments from federal to local levels in policy, financial, legal and educational aspects, and also to the lasting efforts of professional communities and water industry in developing requisite techniques, demonstrating the benefits and fostering public credence of rainwater reuse. The successful rainwater management practices in Australia suggest rainwater harvesting can be a complimentary means for the South-to-North Water Transfer Scheme to solve the water shortage in China's northern regions, and thus release to a degree the pressure on the Yangtze water resources. Best management practices of rainwater can be an effective controlling strategy for flooding and non-point-source water pollution of waterways. Such in-site source control initiatives have particular significance to protecting slow waterways of weak self- purification ability, like the Three Gorges Reservior.


'There's hope for Broad', said Dr A. A. Luce, philosopher, editor of Berkeley, Senior Fellow and Vice-Provost of Trinity College Dublin. The year was 1950, and the Vice-Provost was catechising the junior Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, visiting under the kindly provisions of the 'amicable concord' that subsists between the two Colleges. The visitor had called on the Vice-Provost to make a formal declaration, before being admitted to the Library, that he would not steal or burn or disfigure any of the books. Dr Luce's official, almost stern demeanour had relaxed when it proved possible for the supplicant to read the declaration in Latin, with every appearance of understanding. To be a classical don at Cambridge was clearly a respectable condition. The brows darkened again when it was revealed that the young classic was also a young philosopher. The Vice-Provost allowed no scruple of hospitality to inhibit the severity of his commination. Wittgenstein, Wisdom, Braithwaite: as the names were submitted one by one, anathema was pronounced. Only Ewing escaped whipping. The fifth Cambridge philosopher of that generation escaped Luce's memory and his inquisitorial attention. When he was reminded of Broad he softened his tone. "Broad—yes, there's hope for Broad. But there's one thing that worries me about Broad. Does he have a sense of humour?' Counsel for the defence, though initially startled by the implausibility of the accusation, began to assemble some of the evidence. What about the Preface to The Mind and its Place in Nature?


The electric power short circuit breakdown may cause low voltage blocking of frequency-converter giving rise to power unit shutdown accident,three typical coal-fired power units are selected to emulate calculations on low voltage ride ability with considering threephase short-circuit earthing fault, threephase short-circuit earthing fault by impedance, single-phase short-circuit earthing fault ,indicating that the short-circuit fault of the lines integrating into power system would result in the voltage of house-service busbar dropping off to 25%-85%,especially threephase short-circuit earthing fault in small operation mode attacks on power unit auxiliary at the most, therefore auxiliary demands complete and dependable low voltage ride through ability. and puts forward to some reform suggestes.