We have studied the dielectric and rheological characteristics of semiconductive polymer based ER fluids. Under static electric field, yield stress of suspension was found to be closely related to the dielectric properties that is in accord with the Maxwell–Wagner interfacial polarization. The dielectric constant showed maximum then decreased with increasing bulk conductivity of particle as the yield stress behaviors did. Particle-medium interaction on ER response was also examined by utilizing appropriate surfactant. These experimental results were consistent with the prediction based on the recent model studies. Over wide range of temperature, our ER fluid maintains its activity so that it can broaden the potential applicability as a smart material.


Abstract Three fungicides, captan, folpet, and Difolatan, were found to be nonteratogenic in two strains of rabbits that were particularly sensitive to the embryotoxic effects of thalidomide. Two metabolic products, phthalimide and tetrahydrophthalimide were also found to be nonteratogenic in the Dutch Belted rabbit. Offspring of albino rats, given the fungicides either during gestation only or over three consecutive generations, were free of abnormalities. Captan administered to the hamster throughout gestation did not produce abnormal young.


Hepatitis delta virus (HDV)RNA subfragments undergo self-cleavage atvarying efficiencies. We have developed aprocedure ofusing repeated cycles ofheatdenaturation andrenaturation ofRNA toachieve ahigh efficiency ofcleavage. Thiseffect canalso beachieved bygradual denaturation ofRNA withheat orformamide. These results suggest that only asubpopulation ofthecatalytic RNA molecules assumestheactive conformation required forself-cleavage. Thisprocedure could beofgeneral usefordetecting catalytic RNA activities.


The results from studying the effects of different mowing intensity on growth characteristic and biomass of Trifolium repens,showed that the different stubble height had the significant effects on branching number,creeping stem length and biomass of Trifolium repens.The first and second branch number of the stubble with 1 cm height was 20.33 and 50.30 branches/plant,and the first and second branch number of the stubble with 3 cm height was 18.40 and 43.17 branches/plant respectively.The third branch number of the stubble with 3 cm was the highest(21.37 branches/plant).The creeping stem length decreased with increase of mowing intensity and the aerial biomass presented the trend of first increase and then decrease with reduction of stubble height,which indicates that the higher and lower stubble height all reduces its yield.The stubble with 3 cm is beneficial to growth and biomass of Trifolium repens.


Inverse synthetic aperture ladar(ISAL)operates at light wavelength and utilizes the synthetic aperture technique, which can obtain very high resolution two-dimensional or three dimensional image of a moving target and thus have many important applications for target detection and recognition. With a very short wavelength, 10000 times smaller compared with that of microwave radar, ISAL can get a high angle resolution with a small telescope in microseconds. However, ISAL is more sensitive to many errors, such as ladar vibration, atmospheric turbulence, moving target jitter, etc., which bring many difficulties to implement an ISAL equipment. In this article, we present an ISAL demonstration and some outdoor experimental results. The ISAL transmits wideband coherent laser which is created by modulating a phase coded signal onto a continuous laser waveform at 1550nm, and detects weak echoes reflected from moving targets by a coherent detection system. A modified phased gradient autofocus algorithm(MPGA)is utilized to suppress errors and improve image quality. The ISAL demonstration acquires high-resolution images of 3-centimeter with a distance about 200m.


This paper sums up the technology of Doppler ultrasound and its use in clinical,and supplies some information and proposal on purchasing these devices.


Abstract The emergence of mobile health applications (MH-Apps) has enhanced the healthcare field's services, particularly in the treatment, diagnosis, and follow-up. AMAN Mobile Health Application (AMAN MH-App) is one of the health-tech solutions used to fight the Coronavirus pandemic. It has a built-in feature to track users' activities to protect users from contacting an infected person. However, the acceptance of AMAN MH-App in Jordan is still in an early stage, and the number of users has reached 15% of the country's population. Therefore, this study aims to assess the use of AMAN MH-App among young people using the quantitative method. A total of (450) valid samples participated in the study after removing 33 invalid samples. Smart-PLS 3.2.7 was used for data analysis. The findings showed that all independent variables (Perceived usefulness, Perceived ease of use value, Subjective norms, Perceived behavioral control, Information Credibility, and Optimism) positively impact on the dependent variable (Behavioural Intention to use AMAN MH-App). We believe that AMAN MH-App's information's credibility (i.e. providing up-to-date, authoritative, accurate, and trustworthy information) will increase the number of the App's users. The results of this research can be applied to similar context and applications in different countries.


A cell culture device capable of co-culture on both sides of the membrane, closing the top end with an opening (1a), the inner surface can be fixed biological material (4a) and an outer surface layer having (4b) (4) was lower and (1b), an outer tubular body (1) having a lower end complementary tubular body to be fitted to the outer diameter of (1b) (2) of the inner diameter outer tubular body (1), the upper end (3a) and the outer diameter of the lower end and hanging elements having (3b) (3), provided with, extending laterally at least one flange (5) from the upper end (3a), and hanging elements (3) There fitted to the inner diameter of the outer tubular body (1), said outer tubular body (1) forms a self-supporting inserts for the first cell culture is connected to a complementary tubular body (2) in a first step , outer tubular body in a second step (1) is a complementary tubular body (2 Cell culture device which is attached to the hanging element (3) for the second cell culture while being disengaged from.


The sustained Muslim presence in Spain between 711 and 1492 provides a fascinating example of intercultural dynamics that has never ceased to engage the imagination of many authors. One episode in particular, the Islamic invasion and conquest of 711, was in its very swiftness so hard to explain that it has puzzled everyone for centuries. Historians nowadays explain it away more as the result of the weakness of the Gothic Christian kingdom than the strength of the invading North Africans. Mostly this weakness appears to have been connected to the ancient elective system of succession, which was challenged by certain parties. (1) Garcia de Cortazar and Gonzalez Vega have described how after the death of King Witiza in 710 his sons did not accept the election of a new king in the person of Roderick, earl of Betica. (2) The "Witizan" faction started negotiations with the North African Muslims for their help against Roderick through a Christian mediator, Julian, governor of the North African town of Ceuta, and in July 711 the Muslim leader Tariq, landing with his troops near Gibraltar, defeated and killed Roderick in Guadalete. (3) Four months later, the North Africans had occupied Toledo, the capital, in central Spain, and then continued to advance northward. By 725 they had reached the French town of Carcasonne. (4) They encountered little organized resistance until close to the end of the century, at Roncesvalles. (5) Thus the history of the Muslim invasion of Spain started with fragmentation, division, and civil war, while the slow recovery of lands from Islam for the tiny Christian pockets of resistance demanded the painful efforts of many generations until at last victory was achieved with Ferdinand and Isabella's conquest of Granada in 1492. Between the mythic separation and loss of the kingdom and the myth-building reunion of the Reconquista stood eight centuries of frontier friction and cultural symbiosis. During the Middle Ages the Iberian Peninsula was a privileged place where three great cultures came together. Muslims, Jews, and Christians shared a cultural continuum torn by sporadic though intense strife. Not surprisingly, this long period has proved to be an endless source of rich inspiration for writers of all backgrounds to the present time. (6) The purpose of this article is to address the politics of the representation of the Islamic irruption on the Iberian Peninsula in the plays of two Stuart playwrights, William Rowley and Mary Pix. Rowley's All's Lost by Lust, first performed in 1622, tells the events of Tariq's invasion and Roderick's defeat in a vague but still recognizable form. His deployment of the Islamic characters in his play is shaped on an anti-Spanish intent because the presence and actions of the Moors help to convey the inadequacy and decadence of the Spanish Christians. In 1705, Mary Pix adapted this play in her own The Conquest of Spain, though her emphasis was on the figure of the ravished woman as the focus of intercultural and patriarchal conflict. Her revisions of Rowley's play de-emphasize the participation of the Moors and introduces a doubling technique that, stressing the commonalities between Moors and Christians in their victimization of women, thus subordinates racial concerns to her preoccupation with patriarchy. I. The Islamic Invasion in the Early Spanish Historical Ballads Notwithstanding the efforts of historians, the events surrounding the Islamic conquest of Spain remain steeped in legend. Pedro Chalmeta has hypothesized that Julian tried to conceal his role in the "loss of Spain to Islam" by circulating the rumor that King Roderick had seduced his beautiful daughter Florinda, who had been sent to the king's capital, Toledo. By virtue of this tale, Julian ceased to be a traitor and became the avenger of his honor, while his North African allies merely assisted in putting to rights the wrong committed by a corrupt king. …


Persistence, Major, Vocational Technical Preparation, and Provisional Acceptance at a Private For-Profit Hospitality College by Joshua L. Seery MS, University of Phoenix, 2009 BA, University at Albany, 2006 Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education Walden University October 2016


The utility model relates to a finger climbing wall ruler, and relates to rehabilitation equipment. The finger climbing wall ruler comprises a front portion vertical plate (5), a rear portion vertical plate (6) and transverse plates (9). The plurality of the transverse plates (9) are parallelly arranged between the front portion vertical plate (5) and the rear portion vertical plate (6) in an equally spaced mode, the transverse plates (9) are arranged parallel to each other, and side holes (2) are formed between every two adjacent transverse plates (9). A patient inserts a hand shank into the side holes of the finger climbing wall ruler from low to high in sequence, the simple, convenient and easy exerciser is provided for the patient, and therefore the compliance rate of functional exercises is improved, and upper limb swelling and shoulder joint dysfunction can be prevented; the result of each exercise can be measured through scale marks arranged on a surface of the ruler, and rehabilitation nursing is enabled to have rules to follow; and the patient holds the hand shank by hand to insert the hand shank into the side holes, and therefore the precision operation function of finger joints can be exercised.


Mr Mayer begins by explaining that he intends to study the history of French penetration in West Africa not for its own sake but in search of a historical model of the origins of underdevelopment; and his conclusion formally sets out a detailed analysis of the various means by which the French administration and French commercial capital transformed West African societies into one of the 'peripheries' of the world capitalist system. Despite the title he concentrates largely on Senegal, which, as Mr Sheldon Gellar has also recently discovered, is a good place in which to make such models work. This reviewer is unqualified to comment on Mayer's contribution to the increasingly complex demonology of underdevelopment theory, but he feels some doubts about the historical foundations on which it rests. Mayer has taken the task of historical research seriously; he has read widely in the microfilmed records of A.O.F. at Aix as well as in printed sources, yet his bibliography has astonishing omissions, and his historical perspectives are sometimes correspondingly distorted. Among the authors whose work he does not appear to know are Brunschwig and Person, Michel and Atger, David Robinson, G. Wesley Johnson and L. C. Barrows. In discussing the pre-colonial period Mayer relies heavily on Sik, and he accepts the legendary Dieppe voyages of the fourteenth century on the authority of Cultru. He quotes freely from the archives and from such secondary works as Schefer's collection of Instructions generates; some of his extracts are interesting but it is difficult to avoid the impression that he is seeking material to illustrate his theories, rather than trying to understand African history wie es eigentlich gewesen. When Mayer writes of the desire of French merchants in the 1870s to bring the whole Sudanese hinterland into their export-sphere or of the role of French banks in the process one feels that theoretical interests are taking precedence over the messy human realities of the Senegalese business world. His analysis of the economic effects of colonial government policies on land tenure, currency, transport, education and so on is well ordered along familiar lines, and will provide his students with some solid historical data to illuminate his model. But it is not really a book for an old-fashioned historian like me.


A simplified model is presented for the attenuation of an acoustic pulse generated in matter by a fission fragment or fast neutron. (AIP)


The world of global health assistance today bears little resemblance to that of the post World War II (WWII) era when international global assistance began. During the decade after WWII, the United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and other international agencies were created, designed to nurse back to health a devastated world. In concert with the Marshall Plan, President Truman's Point 4 program included a Technical Cooperation Administration lodged in the Department of State, designed to help struggling states; health was part of that portfolio.


The family is an integral part of our education system. Starting from the family, a human will get the experience of getting his first information. It is essential for the role of the family in giving one's character. Without intending to discredit the role of women or in this case, homemakers in Indonesia, the figure was considered to be the spearhead of family education. The existence of information technology and social media makes it very easy for homemakers to get information, including establishing relationships with the outside world and finally forming a community. Including in efforts to preserve the environment, we should not underestimate the role of homemakers and trivial. A homemaker who performs activities at home and is identical to the kitchen, cooking and preparing food, is also able to create environmentally conscious movements that start from small things. Through community networks and supported by social media in this digital era, it is not hard to gather participants to engage in a workshop, in this case, to make a simple composter to convert household waste (food waste) into organic fertilizer. The making of the composter, made from a paint bucket and PVC pipe, is guided by a mentor who has made it previously. These housewives then go through the process of making the composter themselves, hoping they can better understand the process and be able to repeat it later. Interaction with the community/group also remains intertwined in the continued process afterwards. From this community, it is creating social relations to provide mutual support and maintain the spirit of environmental


The effect of initial concentration on the explosion behavior of a stoichiometric CH4/O2/N2 mixture under air-combustion conditions was studied. Two mathematical models were used with the aim at simulating the gas explosion in the middle scale explosion vessel, and the associated effects of the temperature for different gas/air concentrations. Peak pressure, maximum rate of pressure rise and laminar burning velocity were measured from pressure time records of explosions occurring in a 1 m3 closed cylindrical vessel. The results of the models were validated considering a set of data (pressure time histories and root mean square velocity). The obtained results are relevant to the practice of gas explosion testing and the interpretation of test results and, they should be taken as the input data for CFD simulation to improve the conditions for standard tests.


Aim: To determine and compare to what extent the intra-canal medicament like calcium hydroxide along with chemo-mechanical preparation reduces the bacterial load in infected root canals.

Methodology: PubMed Cental, Medline, Google Scholar and hand search was carried out using the keywords calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)2) , intra-canal medicament(ICM) and chemo-mechanical preparation.

Selection Criteria: Clinical trials in which bacterial samples were evaluated at 3 intervals (Baseline, after chemo-mechanical preparation, after dressing with intra canal medicament ICM and trials which use Ca(OH)2 with any vehicle as ICM, but not compared with any other ICM were selected for this review. The data collection form was customized. The primary outcome measures were reduction of bacterial populations in infected root canals.

Results: Seven clinical trials that met all inclusion criteria involving 117 participants were reviewed. Included studies showed significant difference in bacterial reduction after chemo-mechanical preparation and placement of Ca(OH)2 dressing for a week. In all included trials, Ca(OH)2 reduced bacterial load further compared with chemo-mechanical preparation.

Conclusion: Ca(OH)2 as an inter-appointment medication promoted further decrease in the bacterial bioburden to levels significantly below those achieved by the chemo-mechanical procedures alone. Intra-canal medicament such as Ca(OH)2 should be considered for bacterial reduction along with chemo-mechanical preparation for long term success.

Key Words: Intra-canal medicament, calcium hydroxide, Root canal treatment, bacterial load, Pulpitis


In this article the aim of the writer is to analyze the main characteristics detected in opening and closing procedures present in Brazilian fiction series, recognized as a highly valued form of contemporary art in our culture. A better understanding of both their structure and function in fictional discourse, frequent in Brazilian television, including in prime time, is to be achieved through the instruments offered both by semiotic theory, mostly French and Russian, as well as poetics of the visual images.


Linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) has been traditional oil crop of Ethiopia and it is the third most important oilseeds in the higher altitudes. It is the leading oil crop in Bale highlands in terms of its area of production and productivity. Regardless of the potential for linseed production; diseases are the major yield limiting factors in Ethiopia. Pasmo (Septoria linicola) and powdery mildew (Odium lini) are among the most important diseases associated with linseed production. This experiment is intended to develop an option for the management of these major diseases. The experiment was conducted for three years in two locations. An improved linseed variety ''Dibene'' and a local cultivar were planted in RCB design with three replications. At Sinana On-station, ANOVA has depicted that for pasmo disease there was statistically significant (P<0.05) variation among treatments. The highest disease severity of 23.46% and the lowest 12.96% were recorded from local cultivar without fungicide spray and 'Dibene' variety sprayed at seven days interval, respectively. Similarly, statistically justifiable variations (P<0.05) were observed for Powdery mildew. The highest and the lowest powdery mildew severities of 46.3% and 22.84 % were recorded from local cultivar without fungicide spray and 'Dibene' variety sprayed at seven days interval, respectively. Similarly, ANOVA have depicted that there are significant difference (P<0.05) between treatments for thousand seed weigh (TSW) and grain yields. The highest and lowest TSW of 6.73g and 6.07g were recorded from 'Dibene' variety sprayed at twenty one days local cultivar without fungicide spray, respectively. Whereas, the highest and lowest grain yield of 2859.30kg/ha and 2316.8kg/ha was obtained from 'Dibene' variety sprayed at fourteen days (14) days and local cultivar without fungicide spray. Similarly, the result follows the same trend at welte'i berisa. ANAVA have shown that there application of a fungicide have made a significant difference (P<0.05) between treatments for TSW and grain yield. The highest and lowest TSW of 5.87gand 5.27g was recorded from 'Dibene' variety sprayed at twenty one days interval and local cultivar without fungicide spray, respectively. In case of grain yield, the largest and smallest grain yield of 1733.6kg/ha and 1045.6kg/ha were obtained from 'Dibene' variety sprayed at fourteen days days interval and the local cultivar without fungicide spray, respectively. Therefore, One to two times spray of a fungicide Odeon (Chlorothalonil) at a rate of 2.5 kg/ha and at an interval of 14 days is recommended for the management of Powdery mildew and Pasmo diseases on linseed.


Retraction: "Silencing of COL1A2, COL6A3, and THBS2 inhibits gastric cancer cell proliferation, migration, and invasion while promoting apoptosis through the PI3k‐Akt signaling pathway," by Ran Ao, Lin Guan, Ying Wang, Jia‐Ni Wang, J Cell Biochem. 2018; 4420‐4434: The above article, published online on 16 November 2017 in Wiley Online Library (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcb.26524) has been retracted by agreement between the journal's Editor in Chief, Prof. Dr. Christian Behl, and Wiley Periodicals LLC.


142 The cold melting effect of complexes DNA with two different ligands using different binding mechanisms Zareh A. Grigoryan and Armen T. Karapetyan* Department of Electronics, Goris State University, Avangard 2, Goris 3201, Armenia; Department of Physics and Electric Engineering, Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction, Yerevan 0009, Armenia *Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, Phone: (3741) 580691


Most of plant pathogenic bacteria are rod shaped; the only exceptions are those belonging to genus Streptomyces which are filamentous. The cell walls of most species are enveloped with slimy substance, which in case of forming the thicker layer is called a capsule. The capsule slimes facilitate surviving of bacteria the unfavorable conditions, e.g. dryness and protecting them against deleterious factors. Most of bacteria produce out of the cell delicate flagella, which are filamentous structures build of proteins. Flagella are significantly longer than bacterial cells; in some species only one flagellum occurs (monotrichous flagellation), in others flagella are located on both ends of cell (lophotrichous), there are also bacteria flagellated at various places on cell International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 6 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


Rationale Schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) is associated with working memory (WM) impairments that are similar to those observed in schizophrenia. Imaging studies have suggested that schizophrenia is associated with alterations in dopamine D1 receptor availability in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) that may be related to the WM impairments that characterize this disorder. Objectives The aim of this study was to characterize prefrontal D1 receptor availability and its relation to WM performance in SPD. Methods We used positron emission tomography (PET) and the radiotracer [ 11 C]NNC112 with 18 unmedicated SPD and 21 healthy control participants; as an index of D1 receptor availability, binding potential (BP) measures (BPF ,B PND ,a nd BPP) were calculated for prefrontal and striatal subregions. To assessWM, SPDparticipantscompleted the2-backand Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT). Results There were no significant group differences in PFC BP. BPF and BPP in the medial PFC were significantly negatively related to PASAT performance (rs=�0.551, p=.022and rs=�0.488,p=.047,respectively),but BPwasnot relatedto2back performance. Conclusions In contrast to what has been found in schizophrenia, SPD was not associated with significant alterations in prefrontal D1 receptor availability. Similar to previous schizophrenia findings, however, higher prefrontal D1 receptor availability was associated with poorer WM performance (as measured by the PASAT) in SPD. These findings suggest that schizophrenia and SPD may share a common pathophysiological feature related to prefrontal dopamine functioning that contributes to WM dysfunction, but that in SPD, alterations in D1 may occur only in a subset of individuals and/or to an extent that is minor relative to what occurs in schizophrenia.


Anomalous origin of the left pulmonary artery from the right pulmonary artery is a rare entity. Its effects are usually noted in infancy and are characterized by obstructive symptoms of the respiratory tract and recurrent pneumonia.The diagnosis of anomalous origin of the left pulmonary artery from the right pulmonary may be suspected upon roentgenologic evidence of obstructive emphysema and/or atelectasis of the right lung. Indentation of the anterior aspect of the barium-filled esophagus just above the carina (best seen in lateral view) is virtually diagnostic of this condition. The exact course pursued by the anomalous left pulmonary artery may be demonstrated in frontal views of selective pulmonary arteriograms. If the course of the left pulmonary artery is obscured by the pulmonary trunk in the frontal view, a selective pulmonary arteriogram in the left anterior oblique view, and with the esophagus filled with barium, may serve well to demonstrate the exact course pursued by the anomalous left pulmon...


To boost clock rate for performance goals, RISC cores are widely adopted in designing embedded systems. However the fixed-length instruction sets of RISC architecture have poor code density thus burden memory bus contention. For an embedded system, it's common to have multiple bus masters connected to system bus and contend for bandwidth. This paper proposes code compression architecture to mitigate such conditions. The scheme we posed can effectively alleviate the stress on bus contention by reducing traffic due to program fetch. Meanwhile, the instruction cache can be virtually expanded to increase performance. Our results show that memory traffic can be significantly reduced without performance degradation. The proposed scheme achieves 47% reduction on memory traffic and provides 8% performance gain over the baseline system.


. Inspired by a classical approximation result of Bagemihl and Seidel on the disc, we provide generalized results on some proper domains in C n about approximation of a continuous function by a holomorphic function in the Mergelyan's style.


The paper is concerned with the experiment of elastic-plastic bending of plates of 0.13% C carbon steel which are simply supported and subjected to annular load. In the experiment, deflection of the plate, distribution of strain components and development of plastic range were examined and they were compared with the results of the calculation which had been formerly reported by the authers. It has been verified that the results of calculation and experiment coincide almost completely not only throughout the purely elastic stage of bending, but even in the elastic-plastic stage up to 75% of the collapse load.


Objective Before the analysis of microarrayed cDNAs can be used to discover differences between virulent and nonvirulent Toxoplasma gondii strains, experimental controls, such as DNA content; positive and negative hybridization; baseline and differential gene expression of microarrayed T. gondii expressed sequence tags (ESTs,cDNAs),for accurate and robust data analysis were defined in this study. Methods RNA extracted from T. gondii RH and ME49 tachzoites were used as probes. ESTs amplified with PCR and hybridization controls were arrayed using MicroGrid TM robot onto microscope slides. After hybridization, the slides were scanned with the AcanArray 3000 TM and the results were analyzed. Results DNA contents varied between 5 ng/μl and 250 ng/μl, but 50 ng/μl was the optimal one; negative controls are necessary to assess the effects of non-specific hybridization; several baseline and differential gene expression controls are required for a robust analysis. Conclusion With the appropriate controls, replication and a full EST set, the information generated by the inclusion of more comparisons will provide a valuable tool.


SINN FÉIN councillor Pearse McAleer has called on the Northern Ireland Electoral Office to ensure that people with learning disabilities do not lose their right to vote.


The invention discloses a low-temperature poly-silicon thin film transistor and a preparation method thereof. The method includes the steps: forming an active layer on a substrate; forming an ohmic contact layer on the active layer through an atomic layer deposition technology, wherein the ohmic contact layer includes multiple conductive ion layers and multiple mono-silicon/poly-silicon layers; and forming a source electrode and a drain electrode on the ohmic contact layer, the source electrode and the drain electrode contacting the active layer through the ohmic contact layer. Through the method, the performance of an LTPS TFT device on a flexible substrate is greatly improved.


In a prospective study we implanted 34 monofocal posterior chamber lenses and 34 diffractive bifocal posterior chamber lenses. The corrected distance acuity of both groups with comparable age showed no significant difference. To compare functional results of both groups under mesopic conditions we examined all patients with the Mesoptometer II. We determined the visual acuity under field luminance of 1.0 cd/m2 and contrast thresholds under field luminance of 0.1 cd/m2. The results-of patients with diffractive bifocal posterior chamber lenses were significantly reduced compared with patients with monofocal posterior chamber lenses.


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The FLAC3D was applied to the study on the 3D numerical simulation experiments on the bumping tendency of the coal and rock combined model.With the change on the height scale(1∶ 1,1∶ 2,2∶ 1),the included angel(0°,30°,45°) and the lithology of the coal and rock combined model,the different combined mode of the coal and rock combined model affected to the bumping tendency was individually simulated and analyzed.The 3D numerical experiment results showed that the changes on the height scale and included angle of the coal and rock would not have high influence to the compressive strength of the coal and rock combined model and the bumping energy index and the elastic energy index would be increased with the thickness of the roof strata increased and would be reduced with the included angle increased.The lithology would have remarkable influence to the compressive strength and with the hardness of the lithology increased,the bumping energy index and the elastic energy index of the coal and rock combined model would be increased.


In this paper, the multivariable servo-tracking (linear, continuous-time) control-design problem for a general class of MIMO linear dynamic systems is considered, and a rather complete, general, algebraic design procedure is developed using the theory of "subspace-stabilization". The results include, as special cases, procedures for multivariable stabilization and set-point regulation control-design for MIMO linear systems.


Low impedance grounding is necessary to anticipate the return flow that can be directly on the ground. Research caruied out by field observations to determine the impedance value which is derived by a single rod electrode: Testing the impedance by the planting depth electrode arrangement and frequency settings. The results obtained were impedance value to a depth of 50 cm for 3.2 to 4.8 Ω, the depth of 100 cm for 3-4 Ω and 150 cm depth of 0.4 to 0.1 Ω. Key words: Impedance grounding, setting depth grounding. Â


Arecent study that questions the effectivenessof supplemental breast cancer screening for women with densebreasts couldbeona collision course with state laws mandating that women be notified if a mammogram shows they have high breast density. Experts say that about 40% to 50%of womenhavedensebreast tissue,whichhas been associated with higher breast cancer risk. Adding ultrasonography to mammography often is suggested because limited data indicate that it can strengthen breast cancer detection rates. Even so, uncertainty has surrounded whether the additional screening improves long-term outcomes and whether it's cost-effective. But data published late last year show that supplemental ultrasonography produces only small health benefits while it substantially increases costs (Sprague BL et al. Ann Intern Med. doi:10.7326/M14-0692 [published online December 9, 2014]). Breast tissue is considered "dense" if it has excess fibrous or glandular tissue, according to the American College of Radiology. Some estimates have suggested that mammographic density accounts for 16% of all breast cancers (Assi V et al. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2012;9[1]:33-40). Consequently, these types of data helped build momentum for laws that require notification of women with dense breasts, largely led by a grassroots movement called "Are You Dense?" Women Need Information Nancy M. Cappello, PhD, has been a key force behind the state-by-state legislation for breast density notification. She has written about her personal experience, which began when her own mammogram was reported as being normal (Cappello NM. J Am Coll Radiol. 2013;10[12]:903908). Only 2 months later, however, she was diagnosed with stage IIIC breast cancer. As she wrote in the article, "My radiologist knew that I had dense breasts. My doctor knew that I had dense breasts. The only person who did not know was me: the woman with the dense breasts." In fact, according to data published on the "Are You Dense?" website, 95% of women do not know their breast density (http:// www.areyoudense.org/). Fewer than 1 in 10 women learn about their dense breast tissue from their own physicians. In2009,Connecticutwas the first state to implement a breast density notification law requiring women to be notified after a mammogram showed they had high breast density. Since then, 19 other states have joined the movement by enacting laws of their own, with Ohio joining the roll in December 2014. Nearly a dozen additional statesareconsideringsimilar legislation,with only minor differences among the laws of participating states. Federal legislation also is on the drawing board in Congress—the so-called Breast Density and Mammography Reporting Act of 2015. The act would require that a mammography report summary be delivered to patients indicating their breast density according to standardized density measurements used throughout the United States.


The study by Mather et al ([2002][1]) is a laudable work but has some important short-comings. The control group had received health education, and the authors have justified this approach. Considering the fact that well-designed studies addressing the usefulness of exercise in depression in old age


This study investigated the effects of sun drying and oven drying at three different temperatures (60 0C, 70 0C and 80 0C) on the physicochemical and sensory properties of waterleaf (Talinum triangulare). About 2000 g of freshly harvested leaves were obtained, sorted, chopped into small pieces and sub-divided into five portions of 400 g each; with one portion used for initial analysis, while the remaining four portions were sundried and oven-dried at 60, 70 and 80 0C respectively. Panelists were assigned to assess the samples as well. The results of the proximate composition of the samples showed that moisture content ranged from 6.14 to 92.53% (49.34); ash content, 1.03-21.9% (11.47); crude fat, 1.13-5.89% (3.51); crude fibre, 3.59-6.21% (4.9) and crude protein, 2.73-32.29% (17.51). The mineral content of the samples showed that phosphorus content ranged from 92.43-265.59 mg/100 g (179.08); iron content, 0.10-4.50 mg/100 g (2.30); calcium content, 9.26-89.76 mg/100 g (49.51); zinc content, 0.06-5.15 mg/100 g (2.61) and potassium content, 65.54-108.11 mg/ 100 g (86.83). Ascorbic acid content ranged from 13.70-24.90 mg/100 g (19.3). The result of the sensory evaluation showed that oven-dried samples at 60 0C was significantly preferred to others. It is therefore concluded that waterleaf could be best dried using oven drying method at 60 0C, in order to retain much of the nutritional and sensory properties.


Votes Not Counted: Of primary concern is that the vote image fle we obtained contains 355 votes in Ward 21 and 772 votes in Bluf precinct that appear not to have been counted in the certifed results. We believe we know the cause for these errors: in Ward 21, there were two PEBs that opened and closed machines and collected votes, but only one of the two had its vote data included in the certifed count. In Bluf, six of the eight iVotronic machines did not get their vote data collected until November 9, 2010, after the certifcation of the count had been made.


We are now developing a system to estimate light energy loss to space using the US DMSP data and obtained many interesting results. The satellites have solar synchronous orbits with altitude around 800 km, and continuously obtain absolute flux of terrestrial surface light. City light ejected to space is mostly energy loss because the light is not sued to illuminate objects to be seen or decorated. The total amount of its energy loss in Japan estimated by us is an order of 20 billion yen. We are now estimating its loss for each cities in Japan and in the world. Further, we found a possibility to estimate energy usage of each country after obtaining a clear relation between light energy loss and electric energy usage within different areas of individual electric companies in Japan. Therefore, we would like to conclude that our continuous estimation of city light form space are and will be creating a global information of energy usage.


Frequently oil is produced while, simultaneously, large amounts of water are produced as well. Under these circumstances it is important to have compact and efficient deoiling equipment at one's disposal. After some remarks on other de-oiling methods, the attention in this paper is focused on three separation techniques: plate separation, centrifugation and the use of hydrocyclones. The working principles are described and subsequently typical data on separation efficiency, geometry of the separator section, separator volume and critical oil-droplet diameter are derived or given. Analysis of these data shows, that the ranking with respect to performance of the three separator types is: centrifuge, hydrocyclone, plate separator. In the last section of the paper attention is given to some recent developments concerning centrifugation and the use of hydrocyclones.


The International Wine and Spirit Competition was founded in 1969 and is the premier competition of its kind in the world. Its aim is to promote the quality and excellence of the world's best wines, spirits and liqueurs.


This special issue (Volume 2) belongs to the special issues on Central China Orogen along the Silk Road. We selected 35 papers to focus on the mineral deposits, hydrocarbons, geohazards, and environments along the Central China Orogen of the Silk Road. We hope that these papers will highlight more research along the Silk Road to promote the construction and development of the Road and Belt.


1. Writing for College and Beyond 2. The Writing Process 3. Critical Thinking and Argument 4. Research 5. Language 6. Sentence Style 7. Sentence Grammar 8. Punctuation/Mechanics 9. MLA Documentation 10. APA, Chicago, and CSE Documentation 11. For Multilingual Writers 12. Writing in the Disciplines


In this study two approaches to the teaching of a social foundations of education course are compared. The first approach incorporates a computer-telephone linkage between two remote sites. The second consists of discussion and lectures in a traditional face-to-face classroom setting. The question the study seeks to answer is: Can the teleconferencing approach compare favorably with more traditional single-site teaching in terms of student satisfaction? The methods used to determine the level of satisfaction were primarily anthropological in nature: questionnaire and field notes. Findings indicate that students preferred the telelearning approach over the traditional face-to-face format. It is concluded that student satisfaction indicators auger well for the future of telelearning technology in continuing education programs.


The problem of the one-electron spectra rebuilding in one-dimensional structures by increasing the electron—phonon binding is investigated. It is shown that the non-localized state is the ground state of the system only in the limit of weak coupling. The quality rebuilding of the one-electron spectra occurs when the coupling constant α reaches the critical value αcr = 1.8371. The rebuilding is caused by appearance of the autolocalized state with the finite radius of localization. Autolocalized state becomes the ground state of the system when the coupling constant α reaches the value 1.8660.

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ABSTRACT: Early efforts to identify mechanisms by which sympathetic stimulation increases myocardial contractility led to studies of effects of β‐adrenergic agonists and cyclic AMP on the cardiac contractile proteins and sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR); initial positive reports, however, could not be confirmed. The discovery that cyclic AMP‐dependent protein kinases (PK‐A) mediated intracellular actions of cyclic AMP led at least four groups to test the hypothesis that phosphorylation of the cardiac SR played a role in the actions of β‐adrenergic agonists. Three of them (Wollenberger, Wray et al., and LaRaia & Morkin) demonstrated that cardiac SR was a substrate for PK‐A phosphorylation; however, the lability of the Ca2+ pump in these membranes made it difficult to demonstrate a functional significance of this finding. Our group, which had extensive experience in measuring SR Ca2+ transport, began by examining the ability of PK‐A to activate the SR Ca2+ pump "poised" at half‐saturating Ca2+ concentrations. Our initial positive result led to the discovery that a 22,000‐dalton protein, named phospholamban by Phyllis B. Katz, mediated effects on Ca2+ transport by the SR that could explain both the inotropic and lusitropic effects of sympathetic stimulation.


The article presents experimental results of studying the graphic activity of older preschool children with mental retardation in comparison with normally developing peers. The article analyzes modern studies of graphic activity in relation to children with disabilities and with normative development. Scientific works devoted to the graphic activity of preschool children with mental retardation are considered. The author presents a diagnostic program for the study of graphic activity in older preschoolers, aimed at identifying the formation of children's subject and plot drawing, drawing by design; determining the level of development of drawing skills (image proportionality, adequacy of color use, graphomotor skills). Experimental results of the study of the drawings of preschool children with mental retardation in comparison with the normally developing peers are described. The author highlights the features of the formation of the idea, the main characteristics of the subject and scene pictures, describes the color rendering, spatial parameters of the image, the specifics of detailing, hatching, stroke, line technique, etc. The authors sets out the general criteria for evaluating drawing as a type of graphic activity in older preschoolers: the content side of the drawing; independence of the image design; the level of formation of drawing skills; color transfer; development of technical and graphomotor skills. The description of the developed levels of development of drawing in the senior preschool age is presented.


Fermat's principle is extended to nonstationary, anisotropic, inhomogeneous media that support a class of waves with frequency-dependent velocity. The approach used to prove the stationarity of travel times with respect to deformation of the actual ray trajectory is based on a comparison of the rays that follow from the variational principle, and from the eikonal equation. The identities that relate phase and group velocities and their derivatives in rather general anisotropic, dispersive, inhomogeneous, nonstationary media are established, it is shown that not only the travel time, but the optical path length as well, is stationary on the actual ray in media with time-dependent parameters if wave frequency is required to be the same function of time on every trial ray as it is on the actual ray


Blends of two grades of polypropylene (PP) with thermotropic copolyester (Rodrun) contents of up to 40% were obtained by direct injection molding at different processing temperatures. In the skin of the molded specimens rather long fibers were seen in blends with low-viscosity PP, whereas sheets were found when the high-viscosity PP was the matrix. In the core, the viscosity of the matrix played a more relevant role than the viscosity ratio on the orientation level of the dispersed Rodrun phase. The better mechanical properties of the blends with the low viscosity PP are attributed to the morphology change of the dispersed phase from sheets to fibers when the viscosity of the matrix decreased.


Instead, beginning with efforts to prepare for operations, the company experienced one setback after another.1 Shell struggled to meet the government's safety requirements for its oil spill response equipment, experiencing multiple technical failures and permit violations.2 Mother Nature weighed in and kept the drilling sites choked with sea ice. Yet despite these setbacks and others, Shell received permits from the federal government in August to begin preparatory drilling, albeit not deep enough to actually strike oil in Alaska's Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.3


Objective To observe the influence of Qiliqiangxin capsule in treating patients with chronic renal failure complicated by chronic heart failure.Methods One hundred patients met the diagnosis criteria were randomly divided into control group and research group using digital table,50 cases in each group.Both groups were used regular treatment including diuretics,cardiotonic drugs and blood dialysis,on basis of routine treatment,research group were added Qiliqiangxin capsule.Before treatment and 8 weeks after treatment,changes of plasma natriuretic peptide(BNP),aldosterone(ALD),left ventricular end-dilation diameter(LVEDD),left ventricular ejection fraction(LVEF),6 min walk distance,and renal function were observed and compared.Results Before treatment,there were no significant difference between the two groups in plasma BNP,ALD,LVEDD,LVEF,6 min walk distance,SCR,BUN and K~+(P 0.05).compared with before treatment,the levels of plasma BNP,ALD,SCr and K~+ were decreased(P 0.05),LVEDD,LVEF and 6 min walk distance were improved(P 0.05),the improvement in research group were more obvious than those of control group(P 0.05).Conclusion Qiliqiangxin capsule can obviously decrease plasma BNP,ALD,SCr,BUN and K~+ in patients with chronic renal failure and chronic heart failure,improve heart and renal function,improve the life quality of the paitens.


This study shows a poetics characteristics of GangWooSig's poetry. His poetics characteristics is composed of 4ways as 'the poetics for solving his sorrow', 'the poetics for devil playing with eros', 'the poetics for critiquing inhuman and immoral society', and 'the poetics for returning to nature'. The poetics for solving his sorrow characterizes his poetry of 사행시초 Four lines's verse , the poetics for devil playing with eros characterizes his poetry of 꽃을 꺾기 시작하면서 Breaking the flowers , the poetics for critiquing inhuman and immoral society characterizes his poetry of 어머니의 물감상사 Mother's colors box , and the poetics for returning to nature characterizes his poetry of 바보 산수 Fool and landscape . The poetics for solving his sorrow and devil playing with eros characterize his poetry in the early of his life, and the poetics for critiquing inhuman and immoral society and returning to nature characterize his poetry in the latter of his life. His poetry in the early of his life are composed of dynamic texture and those in the latter are composed of static texture. GangWooSig's poetry sing eros and his hometown sea, the East sea as the main motives. The motives of eros and sea characterize his poetry dynamic texture. Because, the imagery of eros and sea are based of antinomic image as same as the life and death, or the good and evil. As a result, his poetics characterizes antinomic image by the lyric and anti-lyric.


Objective:To observe the effects of Hydrotalcite,Domperidone and Lansoprazole combined for bile reflux gastritis.Methods:89 patients with bile reflux gastritis were randomly divided into group A(30 cases),group B(30 cases) and group C(29 cases).Group A treated with Lansoprazole(30mg),Domperidone(10mg),and Hydrotalcite(1.0) 3 times per day;group B with Domperidone(10mg) 3 times per day;group C with Hydrotalcite(1.0) 3 times per day.One month later,the clinical symptoms,changes on endoscope and recurred were observed.The follow-up was more than 6 months.Results:The symptoms improved was 90.0%,80.0%,79.8% in group A,B,C;and 6 months recurred 2 cases,10 cases,11 cases respectively.Conclusion:It is effective for patients with bile reflux gastritis with Hydrotalcite,Domperidone and Lansoprazole combined,and with lower recurred rate,and could improve gastric mucous membrane atrophy.


Erik Demeulemeester. Willy Herroelen. Patrick Van Dommelen Department of Applied Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Naamsestraat 69, B-3000 Leuven (Belgium) 1 The deterministic unconstrained max-npv problem involves the scheduling of the activities of a project in order to maximize its net present value. Projects are assumed to be represented by an activity network in activity-on-the-node format. Activities have a known deterministic duration and are subject to zero-lag finish-start precedence constraints. Cash flows are assumed to be known in both their amount and timing. Progress payments and cash outflows are made upon the completion of certain activities. The project is to be scheduled subject to a fixed deadline in the absence of resource constraints. We describe a new optimal procedure which performs a recursive search on partial tree structures based on the fundamental logic that positive cash flows should be scheduled as early as possible while negative cash flows should be scheduled as late as possible within the precedence constraints. The procedure has been coded in Visual C++, version 2.1 for use on a personal computer. Encouraging computational results obtained on two data sets confirm that the search procedure outperforms an adapted version of the procedure which was previously developed by Grinold for projects in activity-on-the-arc format. (Project Scheduling Discounted cash flows; Net Present Value; Optimal search)


Supporting the revival of domestic films in the Japanese market in the 2000s, we find the dynamic emergence of promotional alliances or "production consortia," led by mainly television broadcasters with several media companies. In making local films, they make new conditions that partner organizations may not only share cost, risk and resources but also collaborate for short-term media mix demonstration, which attract Japanese audience again. The aim of this paper is to explore the development of alliance networks of the production consortium in the Japanese film industry and examine the characteristics that facilitate a high rate of performance through knowledge transfer and resources, from the viewpoint of organizational network analysis. Analyzing interfirm promotional alliances in the 2000s, we find that cohesive ties within an animation film consortium contributed to a high rate of performance.