Structure, electrical resistivity, wettability, melting point, internal friction and elastic moduli of the Sn50In50, Sn77.2In20Ag2.8, Sn72.5In25Ag2.5 and Sn95Ag5 rapidly solidified lead-free solder alloys have been investigated. The Sn50In50 alloy has better properties such as low strength, melting point, electrical resistivity and adequate wetting for low-temperature solder applications (precious metals) and bearing solder when soldering to gold substrate. In addition, it has better rework/repair characteristics. The electrical resistivity, internal friction and wetting values decrease by adding silver to tin-indium alloys but the melting temperature and elastic modulus values are increased. The Sn95Ag5 lead-free solder alloy has better properties, such as higher values of melting point and elastic modulus as compared with lead-tin eutectic solder alloy, for high-temperature solder applications.


Research that uses a combination of two plants is still very rarely done here, researchers are interested in conducting tests to see how the inhibitory ability of the ointment combination of Kalanchoe pinnata leaf extract (Kalanchoe pinnata) and aloe vera leaf extract (Aloe vera) is grown and cultivated in the yard of the Department of Pharmacy, Poltekkes, Ministry of Health. Jambi. The research design used is Quasy Experimental research, that is, this design has control, but cannot function fully to control external variables that affect the experiment. This study uses the Disc Diffusion method. Where it is known that the combination of Kalanchoe pinnata leaf extract ointment and Aloe Vera (Aloe Vera .L.) leaf extract obtained an average measurement of the clear zone of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria with a percentage of F1 is 29.6 mm, F2 is 30.2 mm, F3 is 30.8 , F4 is 31.6 and F5 is 33.8 mm. The different methods can affect the optimization of the withdrawal of the active substance in the leaves of Kalanchoe pinnata and Aloe Vera leaf obtained. So it can be concluded that the combination of Kalanchoe pinnata leaf extract and Aloe Vera leaf extract has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus Aureus bacteria. The best formula for the formula is F5 with an inhibition zone of 33.8 mm, which is categorized as very strong.


Based on theoretical model of solar radiation and relevant parameters,the annual and monthly solar radiation grid model in Qinghai plateau was established,by using Qinghai DEM model and angstrom climatology model.The model showed good simulated effect with 7.40% relative error.Spatial distribution of monthly and annual mean solar radiation in last 30 years(1970-2000)in Qinghai province was calculated by this model.The results showed that the spatial distribution of solar radiation was uneven with 6771.95 MJ/m2 of mean value.There were 3 high-value regions and 1 low-value region for annual solar radiation in Qinghai province.The high-value regions included Kekexili,the south of Chaidamu basin and the west of Dachaidan,and the low-value region located in Hehuang valley.Spatial distribution of monthly solar radiation was different in regions and seasons.The high-value was in May and July,the low-value was in December,and their mean value was 717.24,701.96 and 352.63 MJ/m2 respectively.


Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a difference in the importance of selected smoking cessation information to current smokers, former smokers, and nurses in the Appalachian population. There were no instruments found in the literature to assess the perceptions of educational content for smoking cessation, therefore, a Smoking Cessation Education (SCE) survey was developed to measure the perceptions. The conceptual framework for this study was based on the Health Belief Model developed by psychologists Drs. Godfrey M. Hochbaum, S. Stephen Kegeles, Howard Leventhal, and Irwin M. Rosenstock.. Design: The SCE is a ten question survey scored using a five point Likert type scale. Data for the survey was collected within the month of March 2004. Method: Data was collected from twenty three current smokers, twenty former smokers, and twenty nurses from a major medical center in southern West Virginia. Each subject received the Smoking Cessation Education survey, as well as written instructions on how to complete the instrument, a demographic form, and a consent form. Findings: The results of this study found the topic of health risks to children with the highest percentage of very important responses among all three groups (91%, n=57). Ninety percent of nurses (n=18) rated risks of smoking and health risks to children of smokers as very important. Ninety five percent of former smokers (n=19) and eighty seven percent of current smokers (n=20) also rated health risks to children of smokers as very important. Conclusion: This study indicated the topic of health risks to children of smokers as a very important educational topic for nurses and other health care providers to influence smoking cessation. Continuing research is needed to discover and assess other methods for smoking cessation. Smoking Cessation Education iv Table of


We present a new experimental equipment for field strength measurements in low Q cavity resonators by means of the perturbation method. The main part of this equipment is an admittance meter which enables us to perform both amplitude and direction measurements by an extremum method.


A comparative study and results analysis performed for evaluating the entropy generationthrough corrugated plate heat exchanger by using Nano particles of MWCNT dispersed in DIwater, using three different concentrations of MWCNT of 0.25 g/liter, 0.5 g/liter and 1 g/liter.Besides, the variation of the hot Nano-DI water inlet temperature at Th,i= 500C, 600C, 700Cand 800C; by varying the volume flow rate of the hot Nano-DI water side at Ѷh = 1 LPM, 2LPM, 3 LPM, 4LPM and 5 LPM, and varying volume flow rate of the cold water side at Ѷc =1 LPM, 2 LPM, 3 LPM, 4LPM and 5 LPM. The total entropy generation "Sgen" increases withthe increase of the volume flow rate of the hot fluid side. Moreover, the total entropygeneration increases by increasing the inlet temperature of the hot fluid side. Moreover, thetotal entropy generation decreases with decreasing the volume flow rates of the cold fluidside. Also, the total entropy generation increases by increasing the Nano particlesconcentration in the DI water, except for the 0.5 g/liter, it shows lower values for the totalentropy generation. However, the 1 g/liter Nano-DI water reaches 155% increase over the DIwater, at 800C.


The mission of literature in ELT has undergone a change for the last century. Once both a vehicle and an aim for teaching foreign language, literature now seems to remain out of center. Although it has various benefits for language learners, it reaches language classes only when the teacher is willing to make use of it, which is suggested by the studies conducted on teaching literature (Ross, 1991; Timucin, 2001; Wang, 2009). Following the language teacher, coursebooks are the second primary input source in a classroom. In other words, if a teacher is reluctant to use literary texts in the lesson, the coursebook is the only provider for literature to be benefited. Therefore, this study aims at exploring to what extent literary texts and literary elements are used in ELT coursebooks. ELT coursebooks used in the preparatory schools of state universities in Ankara were analyzed for literary texts and elements. In addition, two ELT coursebook series which were published in the last 20 years and are not used anymore were analyzed in order to see whether ELT coursebooks differ with regard to the quantity of literary texts and elements in the last 20 years. In total, 22 coursebooks from different levels were analyzed. The finding reveals that ELT coursebooks contain bits and pieces of literature and there has been decrease in the number of literary texts in the currently used coursebooks.


A significant challenge in creating machines with artificial vision is designing systems which can process visual information as efficiently as the brain. To address this challenge, we identify key algorithms which model the process of attention and recognition in the visual cortex of mammals. This paper presents Cover - an FPGA framework for generating systems which can potentially emulate the visual cortex. We have designed accelerators for models of attention and recognition in the cortex and integrated them to realize an end-to-end attention-recognition system. Evaluation of our system on a Dinigroup multi-FPGA platform shows high performance and accuracy for attention and recognition systems and speedups over existing CPU, GPU and FPGA implementations. Results show that our end-to-end system which emulates the cortex can achieve near real-time speeds for high resolution images. This system can be applied to many artificial vision applications such as augmented virtual reality and autonomous vehicle navigation.


We have developed a design method to produce laterally graded multilayer x-ray mirrors based on sputter deposition techniques. The optimization of all relevant parameters yields an ab initio estimation of any layer gradient suitable to achieve precise x-ray focusing devices. The performance and the accuracy of this method are demonstrated. A graded W/B4C multilayer was deposited on a flat substrate that was bent to a parabola. The obtained nonlinear lateral gradient differed from the theoretical calculations by less than 1%. Focusing experiments performed at an x-ray energy of 8 keV on the ESRF optics beamline revealed an excellent performance with a focal spot size of about 7 μm.


we evaluate th e drop-water co nte nt as w grams per square cm = 0.20.3 g/c m2 ; in th e case of clouds with a water conte nt of up to 1 g pe r m:! thi s corresponds to a layer 3 km thick. The expec ted correction to thi s water-content es timate due to cloud la ye rs of crys talline structure is not higher than 20 to 30 percent. Of course the data given he re are not sufficient for a unique conclu s ion on the nature of the cloud layer of Venus. The features of the radiation spectrum mu st be in vestiga ted in greater detail; especially, the pattern of phase variation must be studied all over the superhigh frequency range_


rocopius has traditionally been of interest to Scandinavians above all for his remarks (Wars 6.14– 15) on the tribe of the Heruli (or Eruli) that moved into the region of Thoulē, identified with Scandinavia, and his descriptions of the various nations, the 'wondrous' (θαυμάσιον) midnight sun and the religious habits there.1 This information was systematically exploited within a nationalistic framework, for example by Ericus Olai in his history of the 'Gothic kingdom', Chronica regni Gothorum, written towards the end of the fifteenth century. As part of a gradually emerging ancient Nordic historiography going back to Biblical times, the Gothic theme was to reach its peak in writings such as Olaus Magnus' Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555) and in Rudbeck's Atlantica (printed between 1677 and 1702). This version of the history of the Goths is a blend of Biblical mythology (the idea that Noah's grandson Magog migrated to Scandinavia) and various late antique sources among which Procopius is one.2 Even more


nterventional cardiologists have firmly established their ole in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary atheroscleosis. Assessment of hemodynamics has also been a longtanding role for the catheterization laboratory. However, he invasive cardiologist is now becoming involved in the reatment of structural heart disease. Various and increasngly complex procedures are being performed through a atheter-based approach, such as septal ablation for hyperrophic cardiomyopathy, balloon valvotomy, prosthetic leak epair, and percutaneous valve replacement. The past decade lso has witnessed the emergence of percutaneous closure of atent foramen ovale (PFO) for secondary prevention of troke. This procedure has been rapidly adopted into clinical ractice with conservative estimates of 11,000 patients aving received the Amplatzer PFO Occluder (AGA Medcal Corporation, Golden Valley, Minnesota) since its inroduction worldwide in May 2000 (1).


SUMMARY: In this paper I present Life History approaches, from three viewpoints: research methodology, educational tool, and testimonio, within the context of economic globalisation and epistemological reshaping during the last few decades. Firstly I comment the research dimension of biographical perspectives. Secondly I point out the educational and testimonial dimensions of Life Histories in different settings such as teacher training and development, lifelong learning, genealogical and family work, educational auto/biography in a university context, historic remembering and popular education. In the third section I discuss some trends on educational theory and I sketch out some contributions of Life History approach for an educational theory based on critique and resistance.This paper basically offers a european perspective, that stems from the relevant literature in English, French, Italian, and Spanish.


Abstract : Collective solidarity develops among actors who occupy similar positions on dimensions of risk, status, and authority, and influences combat role performance according to the degree of risk entailed in the combat situation. The element of risk is a principal determinant of the normative standards of military organization. Combat events increase the significance of collectivities of risk, induce a minimal compliance with the role requirements of the external system, and provide functional consistency to the structure of the organization.


Objective
To analyze the clinical effect of left thyroid hormone on diffuse goiter with hyperthyroidism.

Methods
Using the lottery method, 121 cases of diffuse goiter with hyperthyroidism were divided into two groups according to the different treatment methods. Sixty cases in control group were given methimazole treatment, and 61 cases in the observation group were given levothyroxine and menthimazole treatment. The thyroid volume and thyroid function before and after treatment of the two groups were observed and compared.

Results
After 6 months of treatment, the thyroid volume [(12.01±8.02) ml] in the observation group was lower than that in the control group [(15.59±9.72) ml, P<0.05]; the reduced amplitude of FT3, FT4 and increased amplitude of TSH in the observation group were better than those in the control group (P<0.05).

Conclusions
The application of levothyroxine in basis of methimazole, can inhibit the production of TSH, T cell function recovery, reduce the thyroid volume in patients with diffuse goiter and hyperthyroidism, and improve the thyroid function and is worthy of clinical application and promotion.

Key words:
Left thyroid hormone; Diffuse goiter; Hyperthyroidism; Clinical curative effect


Recent developments on InP- and GaSb-based high-speed and tunable singlemode VCSELs in the 1.3 – 2.6 µm wavelength range are presented. The relevant laser parameters are discussed and several applications in communications and trace-gas-sensing are illustrated.


Inishbofin and Inishshark are two adjacent islands off the north-western coast of Co. Galway, Ireland, separated from each other by a strait i of a mile wide, and from the mainland by 3! miles of open sea. Inishbofin has an area of just over 3! square miles; Inishshark of rather less than a square mile. There are a few other islets in the group, all less than 100 acres in area, but only one of them (Inishgort, to the S.E. of Inishshark) was visited for the purposes of this survey. The islands are composed almost entirely of Silurian slates and shales, and rise to a height of 292 feet (Bofin) and 326 feet (Shark). Some patches of glacial drift are, or have been farmed, but the greater part of the islands has the rock covered only by a thin layer of peaty soil, which is continually being cut for fuel. There are a very few small bogs, where the peat is deeper, and these, too, have been extensively cut. Most of the coast is rocky, rising in places to form impressive cliffs, but there is a good beach on the E. coast of Bofin. Bofin retains a population of small farmers and lobsterfishers, augmented in summer by day-trippers and visitors to the small hotel. Shark was evacuated in 1961. The first attempt at a systematic survey of the flora of these islands was made by More and Barrington in mid-August, 1875; they spent four days on Bofin and one on Shark and noted 303 species (More, 1876). No species was seen on Shark which was not also seen on Bofin, but their list does not indicate which species were found on Shark. In 1911 Praeger, rightly suspecting that More's list was incomplete, spent three days on Bofin in late July. He added 82 species (Praeger, 19l1b) and failed to find only 12 from More's list. In 1965 D.A.W., feeling that records more than 50 years old were not adequate for the projected Flora of Connemara and the Burren, spent 3 days on Bofin in early June, with a party of students. Independently, and without knowledge of this visit, J.H., as a member of an expedition from University College, Bangor, spent a month on Inishshark in July-August of the same year and also paid hasty visits to Bofin and Inishgort. Collation of our lists during 1966 revealed some discrepancies, and in order to resolve these and to look for some species for which his 1965 visit had been too early, D.A.W. returned to Bofin for 3 days in late July, 1967. Miss M. Scannell and Miss A. Folan visited Bofin in May, 1967, primarily to collect algae and bryophytes, but noted also some vascular plants; a few of their records are incorporated in


Abstract In this paper, we study the sampling and average sampling problem in a quasi shift-invariant space where X is a discrete subset of and is a continuously differentiable positive definite function satisfying certain decay conditions. We show that any f belonging to can be uniquely and stably reconstructed from its samples as well as from its average samples provided sampling points are close enough. Further, iterative reconstruction algorithms for reconstruction of a function f belonging to from its samples as well as from its average samples are also provided.


Reading is an important activity for students who learn English. Inaddition, reading is very important because generally the students are just introduced how to learn more about reading than read it as it was found at SMP Laboratorium Percontohan UPI Cibiru. There are several strategies that can be used to solve the problem. One of them is Guided Reading Strategy (GRS).
 The purposes of this research are to find out 1) The students' ability in reading comprehension before using GRS; 2) The students' ability in reading comprehension after using GRS; 3) How significant is the improvement of the students' ability in reading comprehension.
 This research is a quantitative research with a quasi-experimental design. The instruments used in this research were reading narrative pre-test and post-test by guided reading strategy (GRS) and they were analyzed by using statistical analysis.
 It confirms there is a significant difference between the students' ability in reading comprehension after being taught by using guided reading strategy. It can be seen in the t-test data that ttable is 3.38 while tcount is 24.11. the calculation shows that tcount > ttable, and can be concludee from the investigation that the students' ability in reading comprehension using guided reading strategy (GRS) is more than those who learn without using guided reading strategy (GRS) in the eight grade of SMP Laboratorium Percontohan UPI Cibiru.
 In conclusion, it is clearly found that the use of guided reading strategy (GRS) in reading narrative text increases students' ability in reading comprehension. Based on the result in this research, the thing must be concerned about the teaching using guided reading strategy (GRS) to improve students' ability in reading comprehension is that alternative activity for the students must be prepared while a pair or group of their friends performance in front of the class to present new words they found. It can make the students keep focusing themselves on activities.


A growing body of risk research shows that risk is content specific. Accordingly, various studies have highlighted some factors that could explain why people's risk propensity may arise in certain domains of risk (e.g. the financial domain) but not in other domains (e.g. the recreational domain). Until now, no research has examined motivation as a possible correlate of domain-specific risk propensity. On the basis of self-determination theory (SDT), we examined the role of both extrinsic life goals (i.e. superficial goal striving, including fame, money, and physical attraction) and control-orientated personality style (i.e. feeling that one's behaviors are governed by external contingencies) in the propensity to take risks in various domains (social, ethical, recreational, financial, and health/safety). A community sample of 197 participants completed measures scaled to assess extrinsic life goals, controlled orientation, and domain-specific propensity (DOSPERT). The results showed that pursuing extrinsic goals and being control oriented increased the propensity to take ethical, recreational, financial, and health/safety risks but decreased the propensity to take social risks. In addition, to corroborate that risk propensity is domain specific, these results indicate that superficial life aspiration and sensitivity to social pressures are highly predictive of instrumental risks (e.g. ethical and financial), moderately predictive of health risks, and negatively predictive of ego-threatening risks (e.g. social risk). The results are discussed in light of the domain-specific risk literature and in the perspective of interventions based on SDT.


This paper studies about Makgan'. Makgan is the intermission shows performed on the stage between scene and scene, or between work and work. Many spectators liked to see the Makgan than the main play on Korea in 1920's to 1940's. Wyoeweonjwa is well known as Makgan, and is a theatrical troupe that led Korean theatrical circles in the second half of 1930s. As yet, the study of Wyoeweonjwa and Makgan aren't progressed. So Makgan remains obscurity. This paper intend to examine Makgan's feature and Makgan as the theater type of popular drama and the beginning of physical theater. This study will be a groundwork of the restoration of Korean Play's history


Introduction. This paper describes case reports where coronal growth of soft tissue on implant threads was observed after surgery for soft tissue graft. This phenomenon is known as "creeping attachment." Methods. Two patients were submitted to gingival graft procedure including subepithelial connective tissue graft and masticatory mucosal graft. A two-year follow-up appointment was performed. Results. After a two-year follow-up gingival growth over titanium surfaces characterizing the "creeping attachment" phenomenon was observed. This gingival growth happened over abutment and threads surfaces. Conclusion. The creeping attachment phenomenon is possible over titanium surfaces and has not yet been reported in the relevant literature over this kind of structure.


The purpose of this little book is to expound, very briefly, a new chronological scheme of Spanish prehistory, here set forth in a series of charts which integrate the Spanish with the general European and North African development. The author's expressed intention is to remove illusions created by inflated chronologies and a past tendency to overrate African influences; a further, unavowed intention is the suppression of those regional groupings which Bosch Gimpera and his school made so familiar. Such concepts as the Central Cave, Portuguese Megalithic, and Pyrenean cultures have been abandoned, while in spite of the explicit change of orientation the successive phases of the 'Bronce Mediterraneo' and 'Bronce Atlantico' are conceived as extending over the whole peninsula. In fact the only concession to regionalism is made in the Early Iron Age, when a distinction between Celtic and Iberian zones serves to emphasize the importance of Trans-Pyrenean influences in that period.


Sitting and standing heights have been recorded for Bantu and Whites, males and females. It !Vas found that Bantu males and females have relatively longer lower extremities than White South African males and females. Anthropometric differences account for only about 15% of the actual observed difference in spirometrically determined lung volumes of Bantu and Whites in the groups observed


A macroscopic dynamical model of deep-inelastic nucleus-nucleus collisions is presented. We solve Rayleigh-Lagrange equations of motion assuming the mechanism of one-body dissipation. Sensitivity of the model to the assumed strength of the dissipative Rayleigh force (relative to the one-body dissipation) is discussed.


Magnetite stability in ultramafic systems undergoing subduction plays a major role in controlling redox states of the fluids liberated upon dehydration reactions, as well as of residual rocks. Despite their relevance for the evaluation of the redox conditions, the systematics and geochemistry of oxide minerals have remained poorly constrained in subducted ultramafic rocks.
 We present a detailed petrological and geochemical study of magnetite in hydrous ultramafic rocks from Cerro del Almirez (Spain). Our results indicate that prograde to peak magnetite, ilmenite-hematite solid solution minerals, and sulfides coexist in both antigorite-serpentinite and chlorite-harzburgite at ca. 670 °C / 1.6 GPa, displaying successive crystallization stages. Each stage is characterized by specific mineral compositions. In antigorite-serpentinite, magnetite inherited from seafloor hydration and recrystallized during subduction has moderate Cr (Cr2O3 < 10 wt.%) and low Al and V concentrations. In chlorite-harzburgite, polygonal magnetite is in textural equilibrium with olivine, orthopyroxene, chlorite, pentlandite, and ilmenite-hematite solid solution minerals. The Cr2O3 contents of this magnetite are up to 19 wt.%, higher than any magnetite data obtained for antigorite-serpentinite, along with higher Al, and V, derived from antigorite breakdown, and lower Mn concentrations. This polygonal magnetite displays conspicuous core to rim zoning as recognized on elemental maps. Cr-V-Al-Fe3+ mass balance calculations, assuming conservative behavior of total Fe3+ and Al, were employed to model magnetite compositions and modes in the partially dehydrated product chlorite-harzburgite starting from antigorite-serpentinite, as well as in the serpentinite protolith starting from the chlorite-harzburgite. The model results disagree with measured Cr and V compositions in magnetite from antigorite-serpentinites and chlorite-harzburgites. This indicates that these two rock types had different initial bulk compositions and thus cannot be directly compared. Our mass balance analysis also reveals that in order to account for the mass conservation of fluid-immobile elements such as Cr-V-Al-Fe3+, new magnetite formation is required across the antigorite-breakdown reaction.
 Complete recrystallization and formation of new magnetite in equilibrium with peak olivine (Mg# 89-91), chlorite (Mg# ∼95), orthopyroxene (Mg# 90-91), and pentlandite buffer the released fluid to redox conditions of ∼1 log unit above the quartz-fayalite-magnetite (QFM) buffer. This is consistent with the observation that the Fe-Ti solid solution minerals (hemo-ilmenite and ilmeno-hematite) crystallized as homogeneous phases and exsolved upon exhumation and cooling. We conclude that antigorite-dehydration reaction fluids carry only a moderate redox budget and therefore may not be the only reason why arc magmas are comparatively oxidized.


The Einstein-Vlasov-Maxwell (EVM) system can be viewed as a relativistic generalization of the Vlasov-Poisson (VP) system. As it is proved below, one of nice property obeys by the first system is that the strong energy condition holds and this allows to conclude that the above system is physically viable. We show in this paper that in the context of spherical symmetry, solutions of the perturbed (EVM) system by $\gamma := 1/c^{2}$, $c$ being the speed of light, exist and converge uniformly in $L^{\infty}$-norm, as $c$ goes to infinity on compact time intervals to solutions of the non-relativistic (VP) system.


In this paper, a new multivariable self-tuning PID controller design scheme is proposed. The proposed control scheme has a static matrix pre-compensator in order to reduce the interaction terms of the process transfer function matrix. The static matrix pre-compensator is adjusted by an online estimator. The p/spl times/p pre-compensated multivariate system is then controlled via 'p' univariate self-tuning PID controllers, whose parameters are adjusted by a second identifier placed around the pre-compensated plant. The PID parameters are calculated online based on the relationship between the PID and generalized minimum variance control laws. The proposed scheme is experimentally evaluated on a 2/spl times/2 level plus temperature control system. Experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of this new scheme.


Mathematics is an important tool to dealing with a complex problem, but it might be too abstract and elusive to be directly applied by engineers. This paper shows mathematics should be simple but effective for thermodynamic problems, the simpler is the better. The two-scale fractal is used as an example to show the importance of application of mathematics to practical problems, and a fast-slow law is suggested to deal with many discontinuous problems by fractal calculus.


The article considers the concept of sustainable development and its components: economic, social and environmental in terms of a systematic approach. Sustainable development is a system-driven development and its manageability is based on a systematic approach and modern information technology. It is proposed to apply the "Cybernetic concept of management of marginal resources and states of the object of development (CURSOR +)" to model the state of sustainable development. The integrated model of the concept of sustainable development and system-situational model of development allowed to describe the components of the system-situational model of development, determine the current, target and forecast states of sustainable development and explore the stages of achieving one of the goals of sustainable development. It is presented in the form of six tasks:: to ensure sustainable GDP growth through modernization of production, development of innovations, increase of export potential, introduction to foreign markets of products with a high share of added value; increasing the efficiency of production on the basis of sustainable development and the development of high-tech competitive production; increasing the level of employment; reducing the share of young people who do not work, study or acquire professional skills; ensuring reliable and safe working conditions for all workers, in particular through the use of innovative technologies in the field of labor protection and industrial safety; creation of institutional and financial opportunities for self-realization of the potential of the economically active part of the population and development of the creative economy. The method of exponential smoothing was used to predict the quantitative indicators of the goal of sustainable development "Decent Work and Economic Growth". This method uses weighted flow averaging of all past observational data. The purpose of this approach is to assess the current situation, the results of which determine all subsequent forecasts. The social component of sustainable development, focused on people and aimed at maintaining the stability of social and cultural systems.


2,3-Disubstituted pteridin-4(3H)-one derivatives have been synthesized by the intermolecular aza-Wittig reaction–heterocyclization methodology. The structures of 3-allyl-2-anilinopteridin-4(3H)-one and 2-anilino-3-isopropylpteridin-4(3H)-one were determined by X-ray crystallographic analysis. Furthermore, imidazo[2,1-b]pteridine derivatives were synthesized by heterocyclization including iodoamination.


PURPOSE: A water purifying device using a hollow yarn separation membrane is provided to prevent secondary contamination of the hollow yarn separation membrane in backwashing, and to improve a backwashing effect with a plurality of filter parts. CONSTITUTION: A water purifying device includes the following: a first and a second tubular parts(11,21) in which a plurality of hollow yarn separation membranes(50) is built; a first and a second upper caps(TC1,TC2); a first and a second filter parts(10,20) including a first and a second lower caps; a first and a second drain lines(13,23); a water purifying line(W) with a filtering water chamber(105) and a water purifying valve; and an air pressure line(107) connecting a pneumatic source and the filtering water chamber with a check valve(108).


Purpose

Co-marketing strategies play an important role in enabling firms to improve their competitive position. However, despite its increasing implementation, it remains a topic that is largely not researched. The purpose of this paper is to analyze existing contributions to the field of co-marketing research and the different perspectives scholars have adopted in analyzing the topic.

Design/methodology/approach

A literature review has been developed, as its lack seems to be a major hindrance to the development of related studies. A specific focus has been made on the adopted approaches. Five approaches have been identified, and multidimensional scaling (MDS) has been used to analyze the differences among them.

Findings

First, the analysis of the typologies of studies on co-marketing alliances is made. Also, the identified approaches are strategic-based, consumer-based, relational-based, specificity-based and evaluation-based. What emerges from the MDS is that there are two perspectives of analysis of the alliance that characterize them: the inside–outside and the wide–narrow points of view.

Research limitations/implications

Limitations are mostly referred to the methodologies and the level of subjectivity they imply. For example, they are not only the choices made concerning keywords to be used and, consequently, the articles included in the analysis, but also the MDS that offers broad autonomy to the researchers in interpreting the data.

Originality/value

The originality of this research is that it fills an emerged gap concerning a literature review on co-marketing alliances, supporting future research in this field of study. The identification of the approaches underlines what may be lacking, providing interesting insights on possible avenues for future research.


A transitively normal subgroup of a group G is one that is normal in every subgroup in which it is subnormal. This concept is obviously related to the transitivity of normality because the latter holds in every subgroup of a group G if and only if every subgroup of G is transitively normal. In this paper we describe the structure of a group whose cyclic subgroups (or a part of them) are transitively normal.


Because of the developement and technology, learners and teachers shift from the traditional way of education to the modern one.This later involves studying from home without going or being at school or university.The modern style of education has advantages and disadvantages.In case of disadvantages we have to suggest solutions for enhancing distance learning.


The design and realization of the emulator for the radar signal of simulated surroundings are introduced . Emphasis is laid on the design of the emulator for simulating the radar signal. Also the paper will give attention to converting the radar index into real-time character-word data current by using TMS320C50, turning the electric signals to frequency radar signal and the complexity of the emulated radar system.


Recently, faculty at Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, have made efforts to improve the depth of radiological anatomy knowledge that students have, but no insights exist as to student and resident opinions of how clinically helpful deep anatomical understanding is. A single‐institution survey of second‐ and fourth‐year medical students and postgraduate year 1–4 residents from 11 specialties, composed of five‐point Likert questions, sample examination questions, and narrative response questions, was distributed in 2015. One hundred seventy‐seven of the 466 potential respondents replied (71 residents and 106 students), response rate 38.0%. No nonresponse bias was present in two separate analyses. Respondents generally favored a superficial "identification" question as more relevant to clinical practice, which was positively associated with increasing clinical experience ρ = 0.357, P < 0.001 by point‐biserial correlation. Students and residents most commonly used self‐directed methods to learn medical imaging during their medical anatomy courses (72.6 and 57.7%, respectively). Small group education was least commonly used by students and residents (45.3 and 39.4%, respectively), but most commonly recommended (62.3 and 69%, respectively). A total of 56.6 and 64.8% of students and residents, respectively, reported that having multiple learning methods was "quite" or "extremely" important. Respondents with more clinical experience were more likely to report that a superficial identification question was more clinically relevant than a question testing deeper radiological anatomy knowledge. Small group learning was preferred among students and residents but was the least commonly employed method of instruction. Both findings contrast starkly with current radiological anatomy instructional understanding and practices. Anat Sci Educ 11: 25–31. © 2017 American Association of Anatomists.


Howe et al. (2009) conclude that aggregate recommendation changes are positively related to aggregate future returns because investors underreact to future earnings growth information in recommendation changes. We extend Howe et al. (2009) and find that the relation between aggregate analyst recommendation changes and aggregate future returns depends on how completely investors anticipate future earnings growth. When investors' expectations of future earnings growth are less complete, recommendation changes fail to predict future earnings growth after controlling for autocorrelation in recommendations and growth. When investors' expectations are more complete, recommendation changes relate negatively to future returns. Both results are inconsistent with Howe et al.'s (2009) conclusion. Further, we identify a significant error in analysts' recommendation changes. While investors and analysts incorporate higher expected future earnings growth in stock price and recommendation changes, respectively, analysts fail to adjust for a corresponding decrease in expected returns as investors demand a lower risk premium. JEL codes: A10, E10, E44, E52, G11, G14, M40, M41


Just In Time (JIT) represent the concept focussed at effort execution of production
process without there is extravagance. Principal of JIT is lessen the extravagance of
all operation area which do not assign value to add to final product. In company
applying JIT also there are practice of common infrastructure. Measurement of
company performance executed the visible JIT from indicator : on time delivery,
inventory turnover, lead time and cycle time.
Key Words : Just In Time, Common Infrastructure, Company Performance


Background: Oral Candida and diaper dermatitis are among the most prevalent child diseases that are cured using antifungus drugs like Azole and Poly-N. Excessive use leads to some kinds of candida which are resistant to drugs. The aim of this study was to assess the sensitivity of candida isolates separated from oral thrush and diaper dermatitis in children against some of prevalent anti-fungus drugs. Materials and Methods: In this study, 248 samples of oral thrush and diaper dermatitis of the children referring to private clinics and state centers of Ilam city were collected and depending on standard implanting methods, the types of candida were diagnosed. The amount of resistance and sensitivity to Nystatin, fluconazole, ketoconazole and Itraconazole was measured using diffusion disk method according to CLSI M44-A standard. Results: Among the 248 collected samples, the implantations of 149 samples was positive and the most type was that of Candida albicans type. The resistance of candida types to Nystatin, Fluconazole, Ketoconazole and Itraconazole was %6, %37, 37/5, and %47 respectively. Conclusion: the result showed relatively much resistance to Itraconazole and little resistance to Nystatin. Therefore, Nystatin, the best drug to cure diaper dermatitis and oral candida empirically.


A special journal issue on women's sexuality in perimenopause and postmenopause is welcome, given the prevalence of sexual difficulties that create moderate or severe distress to women. The sexuality issue is timely because of the current changes in our conceptualization of women's sexual response and research into its biologic as well as psychologic underpinnings. An appreciation of how matters of the mind can influence the physical responses of the body in many other areas of medicine allows us to discard the former concept that sexual difficulties are either biologic and organic or psychologic. Thus, an understanding of both areas is necessary in the assessment and management of our patients' sexual health. Although studies suggest that some 30% of women experience little sexual desire, it is important to note that when items regarding women's unmet sexual needs (be they physical, emotional, contextual) are included, rather similar percentages are reported. That the two are connected is highly possible. The reasons underlying women's lack of sexual enjoyment and satisfaction, leading to sexual distress, are currently being evaluated. A recent study of a national probability sample of 987 American women concluded that the best predictors of sexual distress were a woman's general emotional well-being and her feelings of emotional closeness to her partner during their sexual experience. How well or reliably her body responded had far less predictive value. Further empirical data supporting this concept in older women is given by Hartmann et al in this journal issue. Increasing data confirm that women instigate or agree to sexual activity with their partners for several reasons. Awareness of sexual desire at the outset of any given experience is infrequent. However, the traditional human sex response cycle of Masters, Johnson, and Kaplan indicates that women necessarily begin a sexual experience with an awareness of sexual desire, which is followed by arousal and by orgasm and resolution. This is now recognized as a limited and often inaccurate portrayal of women's experience. A different model has been described to aid the assessment and management of women's sexual difficulties. Alongside this new conceptualization, there are ongoing revisions of the definitions of women's sexual dysfunction. Unfortunately, neither the committee responsible for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders within the American Psychiatric Association, nor the International Statistical Classification of Disease and Related Health Problems Committee, has plans in the near future to address the urgent need to revise their official definitions of women's sexual dysfunction. Both the alternative conceptualization of women's sexual response and the revised definitions of dysfunction are outlined in the first article. Women's sexual arousal is something much larger and more complex than the one component usually focused on in medical settings: the increase in interstitial fluid from vaginal capillaries moving across the vaginal epithelium onto its lumen, ie, the phenomenon of increased lubrication with sexual stimulation. That this can occur in a satisfactory manner despite estrogen depletion, provided there is sufficient stimulation and subjective sexual arousal, is outlined in the review by Van Lunsen and Laan in this issue. The importance of the subjective experience of arousal has been documented in the psychophysiologic studies of the past 25 years. The frequent lack of correlation between subjecReceived April 23, 2004; accepted June 17, 2004.


Background:
 Early human heart and brain development simultaneously occur during embryogenesis. Notably, in human newborns, congenital heart defects strongly associate with neurodevelopmental abnormalities, suggesting a common gene/complex underlying both cardiogenesis and neurogenesis. However, due to lack of
 in vivo
 studies, the molecular mechanisms that govern both early human heart and brain development remain elusive. The evolutionarily conserved ATP-dependent SWI/SNF complex is one of the largest chromatin remodeling complexes, consisting of ~15 subunits, including SMARCA2 (also known as BRM) or SMARCA4 (also known as BRG1) as the ATPase catalytic subunit. Several BRG1-associated factors (BAFs), such as ARID1A (Baf250a), have DNA binding capacity and assemble with either BRM or BRG1 to form a functional chromatin-remodeling complex. A single amino acid mutation (Arid1aV
 1068G/V1068G
 ), impaired Arid1a-DNA interactions and resulted in both cardiac neural defects. Mutations in 4 different SWI/SNF subunits including ARID1A/B were identified in human congenital syndromes that include both neural and cardiac defects.

 Results:
 Here, we report ARID1A, which is a DNA-binding-subunit of the SWI/SNF epigenetic complex, controls both neurogenesis and cardiogenesis from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) via employing distinct mechanisms. CRISPR/Cas-9 knockout of ARID1A (ARID1A
 -/-
 ) led to spontaneous differentiation of neural cells together with globally enhanced expression of neurogenic genes in undifferentiated hESCs. Additionally, when compared with WT hESCs, cardiac differentiation from ARID1A
 -/-
 hESCs was prominently suppressed, whereas neural differentiation was significantly promoted. Whole genome-wide ChIP-seq and ATAC-seq analyses revealed that ARID1A was required to open chromatin accessibility on promoters of essential cardiogenic genes, and temporally associated with key cardiogenic transcriptional factors T and MEF2C during early cardiac development. However, during neural development, transcription of most essential neurogenic genes was dependent on ARID1A and ARID1A could interact with REST, which is a known transcriptional repressor.

 Conclusions:
 We uncovered the key and opposite roles by ARID1A to govern both early human cardiac and neural development and characterized the mechanisms. We found global chromatin accessibility on cardiogenic genes was dependent on ARID1A, whereas transcriptional activity of neurogenic genes was regulated by ARID1A, possibly through ARID1A-REST interaction.


Premature labor in human pregnancy may be associated with fetal adrenal hyperplasia and prolonged labor related to fetal adrenal hypoplasia. Whether fetal pituitary-adrenal activity is a direct mechanism in the onset of labor or is mediated through other fetal organs through the placenta or by a direct effect on the myometrium is the underlying consideration of the experiment. The article reports on the biosynthesis of steroids by the fetus and placenta in sheep in late gestation both in vitro and in vivo. Results are shown in 2 tables: 1) metabolities formed during the incubation of sheep placenta and the adrenals and liver of fetal sheep after administration of 7alpha-tritiated pregnenolone; 2) the metabolism of 7alpha-tritiated pre gnenolone and 4-carbon 14 progesterone by adrenal tissue from fetal sheep. When premature parturition was induced at 116 days by infusion in utero of synthetic corticotropin cortisol and corticosterone were the major corticosteroids formed following the incubation in vitro of the fetal adrenal glands with pregnenolone and progesterone. The results are fully discussed and further experimentation is in process.


Starting with a complex Hilbert space, using inductive limits, we build Lie algebras, and find families of representations. They include those often studied in mathematical physics in order to model quantum statistical mechanics or quantum fields. We explore natural actions on infinite tensor algebras T(H) built with a functorial construction, starting with a fixed Hilbert space H. While our construction applies also when H is infinite-dimensional, the case with N ≔ dim H finite is of special interest as the symmetry group we consider is then a copy of the non-compact Lie group U(N, 1). We give the tensor algebra T(H) the structure of a Hilbert space, i.e. the unrestricted infinite tensor product Fock space . The tensor algebra T(H) is naturally represented as acting by bounded operators on , and U(N, 1) as acting as a unitary representation. From this we built a covariant system, and we explore how the fermion, the boson, and the q on Hilbert spaces are reduced by the representations. In particular we display the decomposition into irreducible representations of the naturally defined U(N, 1) representation.


Musculoskeletal immune-related adverse events (irAEs), including immune-related myositis (irMyositis), are increasingly being recognized following immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy. This is a case of irMyositis overlap with immunerelated myasthenia gravis (irMG) following pembrolizumab administration for non-small cell lung cancer. A 73-year-old woman presented to the rheumatologist with dyspnea, fatigue, proximal muscle weakness, diplopia, and eyelid weakness. Creatine kinase (CK) and aldolase were elevated, and electrodiagnostic studies revealed muscle inflammation and necrosis, with decremental response on repetitive nerve stimulation and evidence of postsynaptic neuromuscular junction dysfunction. Improvement of symptoms and normalization of CK occurred after initiation of prednisone and pyridostigmine, but ultimately cancer progressed and the patient died. Prompt initiation of corticosteroids with or without pyridostigmine for irMyositis-irMG overlap can produce clinical improvement in many patients, but further studies are needed to corroborate previous case series showing successful re-challenge with ICI in such cases.


Intuition is surely a theme of singular importance to phenomenology, and Henry writes sometimes as if intuition should receive extensive attention from phenomenologists. However, he devotes relatively little attention to the problem of intuition himself. Instead he offers a complex critique of intuition and the central place it enjoys in phenomenological speculation. This article reconstructs Henry's critique and raises some questions for his counterintuitive theory of intuition. While Henry cannot make a place for the traditional sort of intuition given his commitment to the primacy of life as the natural and spontaneous habitation of consciousness, an abode entirely outside the world, there nevertheless with some modification to Henry's thinking could be a role for intuition to play in discerning the traces of life in the world.


The unicellular plants more readily take up iron in the presence of salp feces than in krill feces, an experiment in Antarctica reveals.


The invention relates to an acaricide compound containing biphenyl hydrazine ester. The weight precentage ratio of the first active ingredient: biphenyl hydrazine ester and the second active ingredient: abamectin, pyridaben or propargite of the compound is (5 to 40): 1, (0.5 to 8):1, (0.125 to 0.5):1. The acaricide compound can be prepared into water dispersed particle agent, suspending agent, wettable powder, missible oil or aqueous emulsion. The compound can be applied to the citrus red mite, European red mite and mite on cotton plants. The component is reasonable, the mite killing effect is obvious and the manufacturing cost is low. With quick acting property and long lasting effect, the activity and the disinfectant effect of compound are obviously beneficiated, can slow down the generation of resistance, are safe to plant and meet the safety demand of agricultural chemical preparation.


Disclosed is an indium oxide target comprising an oxide sintered body which contains yttrium in addition to indium oxide and tin. This indium oxide target is characterized in that the contents of tin and yttrium are within such a range that the molar ratio y of tin relative to 1 mole of indium is not less than (-2.5 x 10Ln(x)-5.8 x 10) but not more than (-1.0 x 10Ln(x)-5.0 x 10), which values are expressed by using the molar ratio x of yttrium relative to 1 mole of indium.


The FFT power spectrum of time deflection data from a pendulum bob shows a broad structure in the micro-Hz regime is consistent with non-resonant response due to forced acceleration. Harmonic analyses of pass Butterworth filtered data and the horizontal components of the theoretical tidal forces were compared. We conclude that the observed diurnal and semi-diurnal oscillations with about 10 micro-gal amplitude are due to solar and lunar tides. Our results presented here clearly indicate that under the appropriate conditions the horizontal forces are also present and have to be accounted for and provide useful information. To the best of our knowledge this is the first reported detection of the horizontal tides with a pendulum.


Nondeterministic extensions are needed in logic-based languages, such as first-order relational languages and Datalog, to enhance their expressive power and support the efficient formulation of low-complexity problems and database queries. In this paper, we study the semantics and expressive power of the various nondeterministic constructs proposed in the past, including various versions of the choice operator and the witness operator. The paper develops a model-theoretic semantics, a fixpoint semantics, and an operational semantics for these constructs, and characterizes their power of expressing deterministic and nondeterministic queries. The paper presents various soundness and completeness results and establishes an expressiveness hierarchy that correlates the various operators with each other and with other constructs such as negation and fixpoint.


We study the effect of adsorption of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in Enceladus' geysers, both onto the ice grains ejected in the plumes, and onto the ice walls of the cracks connecting Enceladus' internal ocean to its surface. We use a model of adsorption/desorption based on the Polanyi–Wiegner equation and experimental values of binding energies (energy of desorption Edes) of the adsorbed compounds to water ice. We find that under conditions expected at Enceladus, the process of adsorption tends to ensure that the VOCs with the highest binding energy are over-represented on the ice surface, even if their abundance is comparatively lower than those of other compounds. We find that VOCs with Edes ≤ 0.5 eV are insignificantly affected by adsorption while compounds with Edes ≥ 0.7 eV are readily retained on the surface and compete to occupy most of the adsorption sites. We also deduce that ice grains falling back onto the surface are likely to retain most of the molecules adsorbed on their surface. The implication is that remote observation or sampling of the ice in the cracks or of the surface around it would show a mixture of VOCs that would not be representative of the gas phase of the plumes, with the high Edes VOCs dominating the adsorbed phase.


In order to promote the application and development of the steel-concrete composite beams in bridge, the fatigue performance of the corroded stud was studied. Based on the fatigue crack propagation...


Citation: Dong H, Chen J, Hastings AK, Guo L and Zheng B (2017) Complete Genome Sequence and Comparative Analysis of Staphylococcus condimenti DSM 11674, a Potential Starter Culture Isolated from Soy Sauce Mash. Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. 5:56. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2017.00056 Complete Genome Sequence and Comparative analysis of Staphylococcus condimenti DSM 11674, a potential Starter Culture Isolated from Soy Sauce Mash


We are approaching a future where social robots will progressively become widespread in many aspects of our daily lives, including education, healthcare, work, and personal use. All of such practical applications require that humans and robots collaborate in human environments, where social interaction is unavoidable. Along with verbal communication, successful social interaction is closely coupled with the interplay between nonverbal perception and action mechanisms, such as observation of gaze behaviour and following their attention, coordinating the form and function of hand gestures. Humans perform nonverbal communication in an instinctive and adaptive manner, with no effort. For robots to be successful in our social landscape, they should therefore engage in social interactions in a humanlike way, with increasing levels of autonomy. In particular, nonverbal gestures are expected to endow social robots with the capability of emphasizing their speech, or showing their intentions. Motivated by this, our research sheds a light on modeling human behaviors in social interactions, specifically, forecasting human nonverbal social signals during dyadic interactions, with an overarching goal of developing robotic interfaces that can learn to imitate human dyadic interactions. Such an approach will ensure the messages encoded in the robot gestures could be perceived by interacting partners in a facile and transparent manner, which could help improve the interacting partner perception and makes the social interaction outcomes enhanced.


Although scores of papers have been published showing how to translate application problems for solution on D-Wave systems, relatively few have discussed performance. This is primarily because previousgeneration processors have been too small to hold problems of interesting size: when problems are small, classical and quantum solvers are uniformly fast, and unequivocal performance distinctions cannot be made.


The paper describes the principle of a bus terminal situation program that has been developed using a virtual reality programming tool. The basic terminal operations in the model are bus arrival, unloading, waiting and parking, loading, and departure. Calibration of these operations is based on field measurements from a central bus station in Helsinki, Finland, with 1400 buses and 40,000 passengers daily. The experiences from the development and use of the terminal simulation system with advanced visualization capabilities have been encouraging, and further development of the system is going on. By using the simulation system, the operational benefits of a dynamic bus bay allocation have been demonstrated.


Partially shaded conditions (PSCs) often occur in large photovoltaic generation systems (PGSs). Since PSCs will result in losses in output power, hot spot effects, and incurring system safety and reliability problems, developing a new maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique is crucial. In this study, three MPPT methods suitable for PSC are investigated. These methods are firstly implemented and validated using MATLAB. Then, these methods are compared in terms of several factors including tracking speed, tracking accuracy and successful rate of tracking global maximum power point (GMPP). Finally, the pros and cons of these compared methods will be discussed and summarized.


kind of informal consent to the Soviet reparation claim of 10 billion dollars at Yalta, as there was to the dismantling of some German industries at the Potsdam conferences. Immediate implementation of this policy was unsuccessful because of the drastic decline of German production after the military occupation, necessitating American food subsidies to defeated Germany. Long-term agreement failed because dismantling hindered continuous payments of reparations out of current production, and because of disagreement on whether commercial exports or reparations should be given priority (p. 93). In the latter case, American subsidies would have contributed to reparation for the Soviets. Not so much the plans of Yalta as the actual occupation by four different armies determined the partition of Germany.-"While the unifying term 'democratic' was used at the conference table . . . the Kremlin . . . wanted an anti-bourgeois and the United States an anti-Communist Germany" (p. 136). The.Soviets nationalized the largest enterprises and granted the Communist party dictatorial power in its zone; nationalization was outlawed by the American military governor. The conflicts between economic systems undermined the provision of the Potsdam agreement that Germany should be treated as one economic unit. It was the Soviet blockade of West Berlin—not mentioned in the book—and the subsequent airlift that made the partition final. It is the author's main contention that partition could have been avoided by building up a neutral Germany, as was done in Japan. He puts the major blame on the United States. Whereas "Soviet expansionist policies had blocked any inclination toward further concessions" (p. 165), the Moscow conference was mainly a reflection of failure of American policy. The negotiators lacked the necessary patience and persistence, while the long-range policy towards defeated Germany was one of disjointed incrementalism. This theory seems untenable because it takes no account of the prevailing power constellation, basic to'which was the Soviet occupation of East Germany, including Berlin. Only a complete military occupation of all of Germany by the Western Allies would have laid the foundation for a neutral Germany. Stalin's new policy that the Red Army was the carrier of revolutions abroad (p. 151) would have assured a paralysis, not a functioning government, of a neutral Germany.


The La0.9Sr0.1Ga0.8Mg0.2O2.85 was used to make the amperometric oxygen sensor with a thin hole,which is solid oxygen ionic conductor in the intermediate temperate area.The diffused barrier and the oxygen pump layer were all made by using the thin film of this material.After that,the oxygen sensitive performance of the manufactured oxygen sensor was tested at 600 ℃ and 650 ℃.At these two temperature points,the tested data shown that there were good limiting current platforms when the oxygen concentration ranged from 0.1% to 3%,and the limiting currents exhibited a linear dependence on oxygen concentration.In addition,the response time was tested in 650 ℃ when the oxygen concentration changed between 0.5% and 3% back and forth.From the response time curves,it can be found that the up and down response times were all about 15 s


Longidorusjuglandicola is reported for the first time from Serbia. The morphometric variability of females, males and of the four juvenile stages is discussed.


Fluorescence of Ce (Ⅲ) was greatly enhanced when Ce (Ⅲ) forming 1:1 complex with ethylenediaminetetrakis (methylphosphonic acid) (EDTP) in solution of pH 7-8. The use of EDTP in the spectrofluorometric determination of trace amounts of cerium(Ⅲ) ions is described. The apparent excitation and fluorescence wavelength are 313 and 397 nm, respectively. The fluorescence varies linearly with the concentration of cerium(Ⅲ) in the range of 1×10^(-8)-1×10^(-4)mol•L^(-1), which is closed to the known best method. The quenching effects of some inorganic ions and other lanthanides are also investigated, which indicated that the method is superior to others in eliminatng the interfere of other ions, especially for Pr(superscript 3+) and PO4(superscript 3-) ions.


Eighty patients(American Society of AnesthesiologistsⅠ-Ⅱ)scheduled for elective unilateral inguinal hernia surgery with spinal anesthesia between January and June 2016 were randomized into two groups with 40 in each group. Patients were intravenously injected with normal saline (5 ml) in control group or hydromorphone 5 μg/kg (diluted to 5 ml) in intervention group after spinal anesthesia. Tympanic temperature and the incidence of shrivering were measured before and after spinal anesthesia at predetermined intervals. Side effects during surgery and the first 48 h after surgery were recorded. Rescue drug tramadol 0.5 mg/kg was given intravenously to patients with grade ≥2 shivering for more than 5 min duration. Tympanic temperature decreased significantly compared to the baseline from 20 min in control group and from 10 min in intervention group after spinal blocking(P 0.05). The incidence of shivering was significantly lower in intervention group [17.5%(7/40) ] than that in control group [47.5%(19/40), χ2=8.205, P=0.004]. The incidence of nausea and vomiting was 5.0%(2/40)in intervention group and 0.0% (0/40) in control group (χ2=2.051, P=0.494). The incidence of sedation was not significantly different between control group [0.0%(0/40)] and intervention group[10.0%(4/10) , χ2=4.211, P=0.116]. The use of rescue tramadol was more frequently in control group [32.5%(13/40)] than that in intervention group [7.5%(3/40), χ2=7.812, P=0.01]. The results indicate that intravenous hydromorphone can significantly attenuate the incidence of shivering after spinal anesthesia for inguinal herniorrhaphy repair surgery with minimum side effects.

Key words:
Hydromorphone; Shivering; Anesthesia, spinal; Hernia, inguinal


The present study investigated the drug-carrier capacity of green activated carbon derived from fruit stones by steam-gas activation (ACSTA) towards the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) ibuprofen (IBU), and assessed the host-guest interactions and mass transfer mechanism/s of the drug microencapsulation and in vitro release processes. The mass transfer studies outlined that the process of IBU encapsulation on ACSTA microparticles was predominantly controlled by intraparticle solid phase diffusion.


The method of constructing of mathematical model of dynamics of operated mechanical sys- tem is offered. The algorithm of updating of the equations of dynamics which allows to solve a problem of stabilization of communications is under construction and to provide demanded accuracy of the numerical decision of corresponding system of the differential–algebraic equations describing imposed on communication system, its kinematics and dynamics. The offered method can be used for research of dynamics of systems of the various physical nature.


Colloidal CdSe Nanocrystals (NCs) or quantum dots (QDs) have been developed using a yielding solution technique utilizing chemical reactions in chloroform and oleic acid in different organic solvents. This assembly is an improvement of the systematic thermal decomposition of high temperature organic solvent compounds. CdSe NCs of specific sizes can be produced easily by adjusting the solvent. This technique is reproducible and clear, so industrial development can be easily scaled up. Characterization at room temperature of the UV-Vis absorption and Photoluminescence (PL) spectra. Results reveal that the CdSe prepared with the creation of defects was nanocrystalline. The energy difference (Eg) measured in PL was 2.3 and 2.69 eV respectively for CdSe NCs in chloroform and oleic acid. The structures of the CdSe quantum dots were determined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The phase-transfer of chloroform and oleic acid stabilized CdSe nanocrystals solutions was studied for their potentials in white light generation applications.


The Arabic Language is the broadest and most used Language in the Arab World, with more than 423 million people. There are various representations in the Arabic Number system like Hindu-Arabic, Mashriqi Arabic, Eastern Arabic, and Western Arabic, which are look-a-like. Handwritten Character Recognition or Optical Character Recognition has gained popularity in recent days. This paper focuses on the importance of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and different CNN-Based frameworks such as Lenet-5, ResNet-101, and ResNet-152 available today for OCR. This research study has created a dataset with more than 50,000 training and 7000 testing images of Arabic numbers ranging from 1 to 100 numbers written by various age groups and named it LBREADB. After that, various CNN-Based frameworks were trained with LBREADB and tested on the random inputs. A comparison has been made among the results based on the measurement criteria such as accuracy and prediction rate, which were shown at the ending.


This article appreciatively reviews Joanna Leidenhag's work Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation while also responding critically to some aspects of Leidenhag's approach and content. The authors acknowledge several strengths of Leidenhag's work, then turn to how a panpsychic framework comports with Christa L. McKirland's recent work in theological anthropology. Finally, Eugene Fuimaono proposes areas of expansion for Leidenhag to consider – specifically as this relates to the value of engaging indigenous perspectives.


It has been well known that glycine stimulates the gastric G-cells directly and/or indirectly to secrete gastrin into the blood in normal subjects and in those suffering from diseases such as stomach or duodenal ulcers, stomach cancer, pernicious anemia, liver disease, Zollinger-Ellison's syndrome etc. However, it is little known how thyroid hormones might influence the activity of gastric G-cells to secrete gastrin into the blood stream. In the present study, therefore, the response-pattern of serum gastrin to glycine administration in subjects with both hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism was compared with that in normal subjects. We also measured the concentration of serum growth hormone (HGH) and then found that the glycine was absorbed in the gastro-intestinal canals and would reach the


Tchaikovsky is one of the greatest Russian Composer in 19th century.The divertimento Four Seasons is his masterpiece in which each piece reveals a colourful scenery painting.Among them,The Song of Boat in June is such popular piano music that the listeners tend to associate its charming melody of Russian style with the quiet and beautiful summer night and the sound of waving of white birch as well as the beautiful sight of a boat swinging under the bright moonlight.


The fat-soluble pigment curcumin is the most abundant and bioactive component of
the plant Curcuma longa L. Turmeric is commonly used in the food, textile and
cosmetics industry as a natural dye and has a wide variety of pharmacological
properties. The objective of this study was to evaluate microscopically the effect of
turmeric oleoresin containing 5.5% of curcumin in mouth ulcers repair process. For
this end, wounds were made in the tongue dorsum surface of 30 male Wistar rats.
These were topically treated with turmeric oleoresin (experimental group, n = 15) and
0.9% saline solution (control group, n = 15). After 6 hours, 1, 3, 7 and 14 days of
surgical procedure, the animals were euthanized. Histological preparations obtained
were submitted to the technique of staining with hematoxylin-eosin (H.E.) for
inflammatory cells and fibroblasts count and picrosirius-red for evaluation of total
collagen fibers. Images of those histological slides were captured by digital camera
connected to an optical microscope, under fixed focus and clear field, 10 fields per
slide were captured with a final magnification of 400X. Photomicrographs were
analyzed using the ImageJ software. The results were submitted to Student's t-test
and the p <0.05 values were considered as significant. Topical treatment with
turmeric oleoresin significantly decreased the inflammatory infiltrate in the 6 hours,
1st, 7th and 14th postoperative days. The treated group showed a higher amount of
fibroblasts compared to the control from the 3rd postoperative day and in this group,
collagen deposition was higher in early (6 hours) and late (14 days) tissue healing
process. It was concluded that turmeric oleoresin containing 5.5% curcumin has antiinflammatory effects, increases the density of fibroblasts and collagen deposition
during tissue repair in rat mouth ulcers, thereby facilitating the physiological process
of healing.


Objective To explore the diagnosis,treatment and prognosis of cesarean scar pregnancy(CSP).Methods The pregnancy of 19 cases were confirmed by Human chorionic gonadotropin(HCG) level,and CSP by transvaginal color Doppler imaging(TVCDI).All patients received oral mifepristone 75 mg,bid for 5 days.50 mg / m2 methotrexate(MTX) was used by intramuscular injection or gestational sac injection guided by B ultrasound.When β-HCG decreased more than 50% after the administration(3 days to 7 days),complete curettage surgery was performed ender B ultrasound.Results There were 15 cases received mifepristone and MTX intramuscular injection,13 of them underwent complete curettage surgery one week late,2 of them underwent uterine arterial embolization(UAE) because of vaginal bleeding,in which 1 case underwent complete curettage surgery after hemostasis,another case underwent Removal of scar pregnancy because of the failure of hemostasis.There were 4 cases received mifepristone and MTX gestational sac injection,all of them underwent complete curettage surgery one week late.All patients were cured and discharged from hospital.No complication was found during the 3 months of follow up.Conclusion TVCDI had a high value for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of CSP.Curettage after mifepristone combined with methotrexate(MTX) is an effective method for the scar pregnancy.UAE was an effective means while haemorrhage ocurred.


The present research effort sought to determine the validity of subjective workload estimates for Aircrew Training Manual (ATM) tasks for the UH-60 helicopter generated via a modified Delphi technique. Delphi weights were found to predict performance ratings on the ATM tasks; ATM tasks associated with accidents also had higher Delphi weights than did those not so associated.


Attention bias and working memory in social anxiety: Evaluating the potential of attention modification as a treatment for social anxiety


A new neural network model of a commercial SCD elevator is proposed. The main goal of the research project is to improve elevator ride comfort via speed profile design. The main objective in modeling is to obtain a good and reliable tool for process analysis and control system development. The work consists of measurement and filter planning as well as actual model identification. Much emphasis is put on designing and preprocessing measurements without forgetting practical engineering aspects. The model combines nonlinear and linear networks into a gray-box model instead of the common black-box model. Also physical knowledge is embedded into network construction. The results show that the empirical model implemented within neural network framework is able to represent the real process up to small details.


Vehicle recognition generally aims to classify vehicles based on make, model and year of manufacture. It is a particularly hard problem due to the large number of classes and small inter-class variations. To handle this problem recent state of the art methods use Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). These methods have however several limitations since they extract unstructured vehicle features used for the recognition task. In this paper, we propose more structured feature extraction method by leveraging robust multi-stream deep networks architecture. We employ a novel dynamic combination technique to aggregate different vehicle part features with the entire image. This allows combining global representation with local features. Our system which has been evaluated on publicly available datasets is able to learn highly discriminant representation and achieves state-of-the-art result.


This investigation was performed to evaluate the effect of ketamine anesthesia on non‐pregnant uterine activity. Seven healthy non‐pregnant women took part in the study. Anesthesia was induced with an i.v. bolus injection of ketamine 2 mg/kg and maintained with a continuous i.v. ketamine infusion, mean dosage 39 μg/kg/min. Before induction of anesthesia, each patient was placed in the lithotomy position, and a catheter fitted with two microtransducers for monitoring of intra‐uterine pressures was fed through the cervix into the uterine cavity. For determination of plasma concentrations of ketamine and norketamine, venous blood samples were collected. The assay was based on a gas‐liquid chromatographic technique. It was found that ketamine induced an increased uterine activity, both in basal tone and intensity of contractions. Only minor effects on the frequency were observed. This stimulatory effect was simultaneous with a hemodynamic stimulation with increases in heart rate and arterial blood pressure, and with the peak plasma concentration of ketamine.


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Across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), biomass burning for land clearance, grazing management, and eradication of invasive plant species emit various pollutants into the atmosphere and thus affect air quality, human health, and microclimates. The seasonality of fire events generally follows that of rainfall. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Africa in February 2020, several countries have implemented lockdown regulations that restrict mobility, trade, and other socio-economic activities. It is not clear how the lockdown restrictions would affect wildfire spread, density, and emissions. This study sought to address this gap by analysing changes in Black Carbon (BC), smoke+polluted dust AOD, and Carbon monoxide (CO), as well as the burned area (BA) and fire density using multi-source data at periods consistent with lockdown restrictions. Generally, the results indicated an increase in emissions (CO, BC, smoke+polluted dust AOD) due to COVID-19 lockdown. Specifically, increases of 0.008 mol/m2 in CO and 20% in smoke+polluted dust AOD were observed in the SSA region during COVID-19 lockdown. The majority of emissions resulted from the burning of forest cover (FC), cultivated lands (CL), and shrublands (SL) due to escaped fires and agricultural activities. The BA and fire density were also higher in the COVID-19 year (2020) than the previous year (2019), which was suspected to be caused by the closure of or not fully operated fire authorities due to the COVID-19 lockdown. The increasing biomass burning emissions, as shown here, have important implications for air quality and public health.


Almost every national historiography has at one time or another emphasized a certain era dominated by the alleged extraordinary feats of particular individuals. Modern nationalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries often sought support for their founding myths in their histories, exploiting imagery of heroic eras and their heroes for the needs of the present. The work of historians played an integral part of this mythmaking process. The German word Heldenzeitalter [Age of Heroes] is a concept with exactly such strong historiographical dimension. The term is not precise. It has variously been used to denote the mythic era of German sagas, the time of the Völkerwanderungen [migrations of peoples], and the Ostrogoth king Theodoric (sixth century). The same concept of an "age of heroes" is also fundamental to understanding Austrian historiography. This age constitutes a basic element of the Austrian national idea, and as with the other applications of the term "Age of Heroes," the Austrian version, which was largely a nineteenth-century historiographical construct, was also fed by epics and poetry and myth making. The ruling Habsburg dynasty also actively supported the design of an Austrian Age of Heroes, at whose center could be found the figure of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736).


Silica which is synthesized from natural materials such as Bancar Tuban's sand composited with Polyaniline (PANi), where the silica used are silica has an amorphous phase and cristobalite phase. In this research, the composite method used is in- situ polymerization, which is silica entered during the fabrication of PANi, then automatically silica will be substitute into the chain bonding of PANi. The aim of this research is to find out the results of a composite process using in-situ methods as well as differences in the morphology of PANi/a- SiO2 and PANi/c-SiO2. For the characterization of samples tested in the form of FTIR to determine the functional groups of the composite and SEM to determine the morphology of the sample. From the test results of FTIR are known composite possibility has occurred because there are several functional groups belonging to silica also functional groups belonging polyaniline, functional group that's happened in wave numbers were almost identical between PANi/a-SiO2 and PANi/c-SiO2, but there are little differences were seen in the form of a graph generated from the peak and intensity that occurred charts for PANi/c-SiO2 has peak more pointed or sharp compared to PANi/a-SiO2 because that bond of crystal is strong, stiff and has a larger particle size than the amorphous composite. Then from the data of SEM seen clearly their morphological differences between PANi/a-SiO2 and PANi/c-SiO2 where polyaniline is composited with amorphous silica will have a fault that is not uniform or irregular different from PANi/c -SiO2 has a regular fault and this is corresponding with the nature of the typical structure of amorphous and crystalline.


The "war against terrorism" has provided all executive branches of the leading Western governments with a perfect opportunity to make some deep adjustments to society. These changes are so far-reaching that they approach a shedding of the old political regime. We in the West are witnessing a reversal of the role of criminal procedure right across the board. Its usual function-to guarantee fundamental freedoms and cap the powers of police and government-is morphing into the opposite, a suspension of constitutional order. By extending exceptional proceedings to all stages of the criminal process-from inquiry to trial-private life is being invaded and the expression of public freedoms chilled. The antiterrorist legislation is explicitly political, and the subjectivity of its approach leaves significant room for interpretation. The arbitrary nature of the antiterrorist measures comes out particularly clearly in the lists of individuals and organizations officially labeled as "terrorists." Being listed means that one can legally be subjected to measures such as close-up surveillance, violation of the privacy of all means of communication from mail to electronic, and having bank accounts frozen. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.


The effects of relative motion of magnetic field on unsteady magnetohydrodynamic free convection flow with ramped motion and temperature‐dependent heat source/sink have been analyzed. The motion of the inner cylinder is ramped while the motion of the outer cylinder is fixed. The momentum and energy equations are solved using the well‐known Laplace transform. The time‐domain solution is obtained using the Riemann‐sum approximation method. The influence of the governing parameters on fluid velocity, fluid temperature, volume flow rate, and rate of heat transfer are discussed with the help of line graphs. It is found that Hartmann number has a retarding effect on fluid velocity, skin friction at the outer surface of the inner cylinder, and mass flow rate when the magnetic field is fixed with the fluid and when the velocity of the magnetic field is less than the velocity of the moving cylinder. Whereas, the reverse effect is noticed when the magnetic field is fixed with the moving cylinder.


Objective: To determine the relative frequency of specific disorders that present with hypotonia in Iran. Methodology: It is a retrospective, cross–sectional study in which 107 children with hypotonia, aged one month to three years, were evaluated in Baqyiatallah Hospital between June 2003 and June 2006. Children were categorized into groups of central and peripheral hypotonia, and specific diagnosis of each of the two groups was made by clinical findings, neuro imaging, metabolic and genetic tests, muscular enzymes, EMG-NCV (Electromyography-Nerve conduction velocity) and thyroid function tests. Results: Of the 107 infants, one hundred four (94.4%) children had central hypotonia, four (3.7%) had peripheral hypotonia and in two (1.9%) the hypotonia had other causes. The most common cause of central hypotonia was idiopathic central hypotonia thirty four (31.8%), followed by cerebral palsy in twenty two (20.6%), brain structural abnormality in nineteen (17.8%), inborn errors of metabolism fourteen (13.1%), genetic disorders seven (6.5%) and the TORCH(Toxoplasma, Rubella, Cytomegalovirus, Herpes simplex) syndrome three (2.9%). Conclusion: In our study "central hypotonia" was most prevalent etiology of hypotonia. The most common cause of central hypotonia was idiopathic central hypotonia followed by cerebral palsy, brain structural abnormality, inborn errors of metabolism, genetic disorders and the TORCH syndrome.


Abstract We analyze the performance of a comprehensive set of equity premium forecasting strategies. All strategies were found to outperform the mean in previous academic publications. However, using a multiple testing framework to account for data snooping, our findings support Welch and Goyal (2008) in that almost all equity premium forecasts fail to beat the mean out-of-sample. Only few forecasting strategies that are based on Ferreira and Santa-Clara's (2011) sum-of-the-parts approach generate robust and statistically significant economic gains relative to the historical mean even after controlling for data snooping and accounting for transaction costs.


Indirect subsidization of domestic industries can occur where, for example, a financial contribution is provided to one entity but the associated benefit goes to another. This may materialize where (1) a financial contribution to an upstream producer results in a benefit to a downstream producer, or (2) privatization of a subsidized state-owned enterprise leads to the transmission of the subsidy to a post-privatization enterprise. A number of dispute cases initiated in the World Trade Organization have addressed both situations and resulted in substantial jurisprudence that cast light on some controversial issues on indirect subsidies. This paper examines the main findings made in case law, discusses subject-related Doha Round proposals and their possible implications for Korea.


Railway freight traffic has important promotion role on economy and social development.This paper establishes the logistic model according to the data of railway traffic volume and GDP data from 1995 to 2009,and makes regression analysis on the relationship of them by using SPSS software.The result shows the model has high fitting degree and good distinctiveness.The paper makes marginal effect analysis and elastic analysis on the relationship between railway traffic volume and GDP.The result shows railway freight traffic has powerful promotion role on the increase of economic society.


ABSTRACT The articles in this issue explore a whole range of issues around economic performance – from the problem of corruption, and the link this may have with gender, through to the need for environmental sustainability and a circular economy. Hence why the title for this introductory essay refers to 'economic success' rather than 'economic growth', since success should not be measured by 'growth', but rather by human welfare and wellbeing, broadly defined.


The objective of this research is to develop a methodology that predicts the safety
performance of various elements considered in the planning, design, and operation of nonlimited-
access rural multilane highways.


Increased road network connectivity has been linked to more positive outcomes among all health outcomes. Road network connectivity has yet to be tested in association with specifically criminal lethality. The current study looks to incorporate road network connectivity as an explanatory variable for criminal lethality. Data on Road Network Connectivity and Criminal Lethality are gathered for 190 cities. Data sources include the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), 2010 Census, 2010 American Community Survey, Google Earth, and Census Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) files. The data demonstrate that a city's road network connectivity is related to decreases in the rates of lethality among assaults. Implications of this finding are discussed.


Gp120, one of the molecules that execute HIV viral entry in CD4+ cells has a number of allosteric disulfide bridges. In this study we explore the dynamics of these potential disulfide (disulphide) bridges in the 3-D configuration (based on crystallography) and UNSW DBA analyses of various gp120 crystals. The data reveal the existence of a tetrasulfide (tetrasulphide) bridge (TTSB) which, together with a disulfide bridge, keeps two perpendicular beta sheets (namely V3 and V4) approximated in the architecture of the gp120 while allowing safe transfer of energy between the allosteric bonds. Analyses of multiple gp120 crystals reveal the existence of the TTSB to be more as an intermediate as opposed to a constant landmark, which implies more complex functions than just structural attributes. This TTSB, which is observed in various crystals of gp120, in various strains and clades of HIV-1, is demonstrated by various rendering software and some are also detected, reported and characterized by the UNSW Disulfide Bond Analysis (DBA) engine. This tetrasulfide bridge connects the allosteric bond Cys296–Cys331 to Cys385-Cys418, sometimes as CYS331:SG – CYS385:SG, and sometimes as CYS331:SG – CYS418:SG. Moreover in crystals 3TIH, 4LSR and 4R4N, we also observed an intermediate state of the TTSB where it presents a triangular formation in which the sulfur atom CYS331:SG binds to both CYS385:SG and CYS418:SG simultaneously, which represents an important intermediate in the functional dynamics of the gp120 molecule. The presence of this extraordinary structure (TTSB) does point to some intriguing insights in the multifunctional design and mechanics as well as some complex fragilities of the gp120 molecule, exposing a new target for antiviral therapy.


The development techniques of large composite overwrapped pressure vessel(COPV) with metal liner for aerospace vehicle are summarized based on present design and flight heritage, including technique development, material selection, structure design, reliability design, manufacturing process, qualification test and tank standard. The development technique characteristic analysis is finished. The material development trend and characteristic of both liner and carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) material are introduced. Three typical structure design methods are introduced, including conventional grid theory (CGT), optimized grid theory (OGT) and finite element analysis (FEA). The reliability design method are studied, which included stress rupture life analysis, low fatigue life analysis and reliability design calculation theory. The main trend of large COPV is summarized. This paper integrates material selection and characterization, design methods analyses of composite layers and structural design and fabrication of composite tanks. COPVs require the CFRP layers to carry most static internal pressure, dynamic loads and environmental loads. The paper presents results of work of (Lanzhou Institute of Physics)LIP to develop high performance COPV. Preliminary design analysis of COPV have been accomplished. For the safe of reliability of COPV, it is important to study the failure mode of CFRP stress rupture. This paper addresses a method for analyzing COPV using the CFRP grid theory and FEA software.


The status of two economically important tree species, Huberodendron patinoi and Hymenaea oblongifolia , in Choco, Colombia, was unknown. We used 50x50m plots to survey seedlings and trees. We found 19 adult H. oblongifolia ; and 19 adults and 66 seedlings of H. patinoi (i.e. 4 Ind/ha and 33 Ind/ha, respectively). Management action is needed to increase the density of both species.


In order to make the humanoid robot have a wealth of realistic facial expression, based on the analysis of facial anatomical structure, it utilizes facial action coding system (FACS) and partition the control area which it can use to realize six basic facial expressions in this article. then it builds the flexible model of facial skin which is analyzed and simulated with finite element analysis method. at the end it simulates six basic facial expressions of the humanoid robot (happiness, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust and anger). the research provides important basic data and design reference for the choice of facial skin material and the control of facial expression action of the humanoid robot.


BACKGROUND Majority of the people undergoing tympanoplasty done by using postauricular incision face the cosmetic problem of ear prominence. The auricularis posterior muscle acts as a vector while placing sutures between the conchal cartilage and mastoid fascia and helps to reduce ear prominence post tympanoplasty. We wanted to study the difference in prominence of ear with and without conchomastoid suture placement post tympanoplasty done using post auricular incision. Evaluate the importance of the posterior auricular muscle as an anatomical landmark by placing conchomastoid suture during anatomical reduction of ear prominence post tympanoplasty and evaluate the usefulness of conchomastoid suture during anatomical reduction of ear prominence post tympanoplasty. and in 33 % (11 cases) without conchomastoid suture i.e. group ii after tympanoplasty. P value is 0.01461 which is significant. From this study it can be concluded that with conchomastoid suture placement we have better results of healing with less ear prominence post tympanoplasty rather than without conchomastoid sutures.


This paper provides an analysis of the performance of an automatic method for extraction of useful information content from time-frequency distributions of nonstationary signals in dependence on the selected time-frequency method. The tested algorithm for the extraction of the signal components (useful information) from the noisy mixture is based on an initial segmentation of the time-frequency distribution which provides a fixed number of data classes. The normalized energies of the different classes are used as input to a statistical test which produces two outputs: "useful information" classes and "noise" classes, respectively. The quantity used as indicator of the class type, being the normalized energy of one class, is highly dependent on the time-frequency kernel filter. This paper reports the results of the proposed method applied to three well performing time-frequency methods, the Smoothed-Pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution, the Choi-Williams distribution, and the Modified-B distribution. The performance comparison attests the method's robustness for the different kernel filters, in various SNRs.


Compared with the traditional network,Active Network is characterized by better advantages,it leads to the developing direction of the network in future.However the security is a fatal factor restricting the rapid development of Active Network.This paper introduces the basic conceptions and security technologies of Active Network.Based on the capsule,a secure model is presented for Active Network and provides some secure measures for the capsule,such as authentication and authorization.The secure model can improve the secure performance for Active Network to some extent.


In the Broadcast Scheduling Problem (BSP), a finite set of wireless stations are to be scheduled in a time division multiple access frame. The objective is to provide a collision free broadcast schedule which minimizes the total frame length and maximizes the slot utilization within the frame. We present a Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP) for the BSP. GRASP is a two-phase metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization. In the first phase, a greedy randomized initial feasible solution is created. The initial solution is then improved by the application of a local search procedure. Numerical examples are given and results of the GRASP are compared with those of other scheduling algorithms.


In order to increase the production of coal mine production,the enterprise use of mechanical equipment is more and more,in these equipment of hydraulic support use is more and more attention,it can improve and promote coal production and transportation equipment efficiency,but also reduced the labor intensity of the workers. This paper introduces the coal mining hydraulic support controller control principle,has discussed based on the platform of the hydraulic support management system design.


A general approach to the theory of light scattering by surface acoustic waves on reflection from and transmission through a surface is described. The appropriate polarization‐driven‐wave equation is solved exactly, and total solutions are found which also satisfy all the electromagnetic boundary conditions across the acoustically corrugated interface. This formalism is vectorial in character and is valid for all scattering angles. The scattering of both ''s''‐ and ''p''‐polarized incident light is treated analytically and numerically for Rayleigh waves on an isotropic medium (fused quartz) and Y‐Z lithium niobate and for Bleustein‐Gulyaev waves on Y‐X cadmium sulphide. The results deviate significantly from the predictions of previous scalar theories for scattering angles greater than a few degrees.


1State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Carol Yu Centre for Infection, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Pokfulam, China 2Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China