This paper proposes a data-driven sliding mode control (SMC) method with tracking error constraint for a shape memory alloy (SMA) actuated system. More specifically, a new SMC method with prescribed performance is investigated by adopting the equivalent dynamic linearization technique and a novel transformed error algorithm to guarantee that the tracking error can converge into a preassigned region. Meanwhile, the proposed control method can effectively ensure the convergence rate and the steady-state error within a prescribed bound, merely depending on the input/output data without implicit or explicit information of the systems, which is more valuable for the practical application. The presented control method has been implemented on an SMA actuated system successfully and experimental results have shown that the proposed control is easily applicable and highly precise. In addition, the tracking error of the SMA actuated system can be constrained in a preassigned domain by the proposed control method.


The discovery of glycerine by Sclieele and by Chevreul had its first therapeutical application made in 1844 by Mr W. De la Rue, who applied it to a burn, and finding its use beneficial, recommended it to Mr Startin, -who has since used it extensively in the treatment of diseases of ,the skin. In 1846, Mr Warrington took out a patent for preserving animal and vegetable substances by means of it. He was also the first to employ glycerine for mounting microscopic objects, for which it has proved so successful. Mr Wakley afterwards used glycerine as a remedy for deafness ; it was afterwards recommended for


Loren Baritz's book, The Servants of Power,1 is a history of the use of social science in American industry, but also an inquiry into the problems of expertise and the place of intellect in our society. I should like to review briefly Mr. Baritz's conclusions about the role of psychology and industrial sociology in the service of American enterprise, and then to take his view of the significance of his findings as the point of departure for a different estimate of the issues. I am more interested (as I believe the author ultimately is) in the situation of intellectuals who, as experts, come into an active relation with power, than I am in the rather special and melancholy case of industrial sociology. The moment seems propitious for a few words on the subject: yesterday intellectuals were being scrutinized by Congressmen and vigilantes for signs of heresy or even treason; today the government swarms with Harvard professors and ex-Rhodes scholars; tomorrow, no doubt, the intellectuals and experts will be held strictly accountable for what they have done, as well as a hundred things they have not done. Giving advice to government and to private industry are, of course, different undertakings, but they both involve coming


Carbon monoxide (CO) is the leading cause of death by poisoning in developed countries. In 2006, 23 deaths and more than 130 hospitalisations related to CO poisoning have been reported in Switzerland. Impairment in oxygen transport through competitive antagonist action on hemoglobin is well known. Other mechanisms, in particular CO induced mitochondrial dysfunction, participate in CO toxicity. CO intoxications carry a high risk of immediate mortality and long-term neuropsychiatric or cardiac sequelae which justify the need of early diagnosis and treatment. Language: fr


Marriages in India even today are arranged by the parents and extended family members one of the most salient challenges that Indian families are experiencing today is that many modern youth want to break away from the custom of having their marriages arranged. The present study examined the significant difference between couples in arranged marriage and love marriage on relationship satisfaction and attachment among a sample of 50 couples in arranged marriage and 50 couples in love marriage from Hubli-Dharwad region. Baseline survey for couples (Butler, 2008) and experience in close relationship developed by Wei (2007) were employed. The findings of the results through t' test analysis revealed the existence of significant difference between the couples in arranged marriage and love marriage on relationship satisfaction and attachment. The implications for further studies on relationship satisfaction and attachment are discussed.


We show that ideal flux collectors in the form of systems of axially symmetric systems which concentrate flux from a given angular extent with no loss in etendue are impossible; on the other hand, systems approaching this limit very closely can be designed.


A scholarly investigation into barebacking behaviors, also known as intentional unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) among men who have sex with men (MSM), is long overdue. As we approach the third decade of the AIDS epidemic, the nine contributions in this edited work, published as a special issue of the Haworth journal, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, represents an essential step to advancing psychosocial and public health services for sexually stigmatized men and their partners. Merging research-, clinical-, and practitioner-oriented perspectives, this mix of quantitative and qualitative research is sophisticated and well-organized, illustrating more fully than preceding literature the complexity of barebacking as a phenomenon within the context of our contemporary environment. The authors throughout this collection give considerable voice to MSM as definers and describers of their own barebacking experiences. In honoring these lived experiences, the divide between the phenomenon of barebacking as a subject of scientific inquiry and barebacking in reality is narrowed. A number of common themes emerge from the research and are among the major strengths of this collection. These include the understanding that barebacking is fostered by a complex array of motivational and situational factors, that barebacking behavior contributes to the resurgence of unsafe sex by MSM, that this resurgence requires much greater attention by health and human service providers, and


Objective
To explore the postoperative complications of neuroendoscopic treatment of suprasellar cysts in children.

Methods
From April 2008 to November 2014, a total of 23 children of suprasellar cysts, including 12 males and 11 females with a mean age of 1.99 years, underwent neuroendoscopy.Intracranial hypertension and suprasella cysts with hydrocephalus were detected on preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Endoscopic ventriculocystocisternostomy was performed.

Results
During a follow-up period of 3 months to 5 years, there was no recurrence.Postoperative convulsion (n=8) occurred at an average of 5(1-19) h (average 5 h) and was cured with sedatives.And there was no epileptic sequelae.Moderate-to-high fever lasted for 2-7 days.Postoperative lumber puncture and cerebrospinal fluid examination showed no central nerve system infection.Two cases of hyponatremia were cured with an intravenous infusion of sodium.Subdural effusion disappeared after 6 months in 2 cases.And another case of subcutaneous infective hydrops was cured after external ventricular drainage and wound debridement.

Conclusions
Neuroendoscopic therapy is a first option for suprasellar cysts in children.Postoperative convulsion and fever are common complications, especially for infants.Correlated with patient age, abrupt changes of intracranial pressure and postoperative fever, convulsion may be reduced by controlling temperature and flow rate of ventricular irrigation during procedure and shortening operative duration for avoiding abrupt changes of intracranial pressure.Postoperative measures include sedation and symptomatic therapy.Fever is transient and non-infective.Hyponatremia is correlated with excessive destruction of cystic wall.It is necessary to minimize the destruction of cystic wall vasculature and avoid the sites of extensive vascular striae.

Key words:
Neuroendoscopes; Ventriculostomy; Cysts; Postoperative complications


We consider characteristics-based finite element methods for solving nonlinear, degenerate, advection-diffusion equations. These equations have applications in the simulation of petroleum reservoirs and groundwater aquifers and in the modeling of free boundary problems. Standard finite element Galerkin methods have been studied for these equations. In this paper, we analyze the characteristics-based finite element methods for them. The main difficulty in the analysis is that the equations are degenerate and the solution lacks regularity. Here we develop a technique that respects the degeneracy and the known minimal regularity. This technique is based on the Green operator for standard elliptic equations and is developed directly for the degenerate advection-diffusion equations. We concentrate our analysis on the modified method of characteristics (MMOC) and one of its variants, the modified method of characteristics with adjusted advection (MMOCAA), which conserves mass. We derive error estimates in various norms. The extension to other variants is discussed. The present technique is also applied to nondegenerate problems; error estimates previously obtained for the MMOC are derived under much weaker regularity assumptions on the solution, and the error estimates for the MMOCAA appear new even in the nondegenerate case. Finally, numerical results are presented to show the sharpness of the error estimates derived.


The article is divided into four chapters: 1. Angel's annunciation, 2. Angel-worship as folk devotion, 3. Poetic re-creation of the angel-worship prayer, 4. Melody in two variants: in double and in triple bar time. The entire melody lies within the sixth of the Phrygian scale from the highest C to the nota finalis E


HAMLET S TERSE EXPRESSION, "THE READINESS IS ALL," uttered as he moves ill at heart toward the swordplay that will prove his death, has not attracted the critical attention accorded Edgar's somewhat similar remark to Gloucester, "Ripeness is all," as the blind old man returns ill at heart to a life he does not care to live. Probably that is because "readiness" is not as semantically fruitful as "ripeness." It has none of nature's richness and cyclicism about it, no sense of plenitude poised for a corruptive fall. Its primary meaning is simply "a condition of preparedness," which is how Shakespeare employs it in at least twelve of its fifteen appearances in his works. 1 In fact, in eleven of these instances the word appears in the phrase "in readiness," as in "Your ships, they are in readiness" (Cymbeline, IV.ii.336) or "Royal commanders, be inreadiness" (3 Henry VI, II.ii.67). Ripeness is a condition at which fruits and flowers arrive by nature, but readiness is an achievement; the one happens, the other is earned. Even the man who is "ripe" in wisdom seems simply by some inward principle of development to have grown wise. But one cannot be "ready" without having readied oneself, and in a significant sense Hamlet spends the entire play readying himself for . . . for what? The verbal context of his "readiness" is not excessively informative. Having accepted the King's invitation to fence with Laertes, Hamlet awaits the match, but with "a kind of gaingiving" that prompts Horatio to say "If your mind dislike anything, obey it. I will forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit." Hamlet replies,


A Dutch architect Cosman Citroen (1881-1935) was one of the most remarkable architects in the Netherlands Indies. He left his position in Amsterdam and then went to Surabaya to be an advisory architect of the Municipality of Surabaya. During his career in the city, he designed many buildings and constructions so that any discussion about Dutch colonial architecture in the city cannot be separated from his works. This article explains from which family he came, how situation of Surabaya when he arrived, and what his activities other than as the Municipal architect.


Phase center of sea-floating antenna is shifted in horizontal plane by longitudinal and transversal displacement as well as by tilt from vertical orientation. If the actual positions of elementary phase centers of floating sparse array are known or signals from ships of opportunity are used, a dynamic adaptive algorithm for a look angle dependant compensation of phase and amplitude errors of each virtual antenna element can be used for array pattern correction. Simulation results show that practical values of horizontal displacements in the order of up to one half of a radar wavelength can easily be compensated in real time. Mainlobe broadening is resolved almost perfectly and sidelobe level is decreased significantly.


The aim of the paper is to identify and assess the risks of
projects in various enterprises in the Czech Republic. Briefly
it presents the theoretical background with emphasis on the
area of project risks and holistic competence of the project
manager. Data collection took place between November 2014 and
January 2015 using a questionnaire survey. Concerning the use
of the scoring method to map risks there were analyzed
significant project risks (technical, managerial and financial
risks). The article concludes with proposed recommendations in
these areas at risk according to the practical experience of
project management methods application respecting the specifics
of the Czech Republic.


Fission product yields have been inferred using γ-ray spectroscopy for several decades. Typically, these efforts have focused on even-Z even-A fission products as their nuclear structure are less complicated. To further simplify the situation, it is often assumed that no side-feeding to the ground-state occurs and multiplicity cuts have a negligible effect on the inferred yields. Using CGMF, a Hauser-Feshbach statistical decay model for the primary fission fragments, we estimate the impact of these assumptions and determine corrections for specific fission product yields. We report on these corrections and investigate their sensitivity to various nuclear parameters, specifically the spin distribution of the fission fragments and the assumed nuclear structure. Our results indicate that even in the simplest of cases, say the 2+ → 0+ transitions in even-Z even-A fragments, average level corrections are on the order of 75%.


Introduction: Increased work of breathing causing inspiratory muscle fatigue can delay extubation. Aim: This study compared the time taken for extubation in patients admitted with acute respiratory failure and ventilated with assist control mode (ACV) of ventilation or synchronised intermittent mandatory ventilation and Pressure Support (SIMV-PS). Patients and Methods: This was an observational study conducted in medical and surgical intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital in South India. Patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation for more than 24 hours were enrolled into the study. Demographic data, ventilator settings, ABG values after initiation of mechanical ventilation and before extubation, change of initial mode were recorded. The primary outcome was to determine the difference in the time taken for extubation (hours). Result: A total of 34 subjects were enrolled, twenty in SIMV-PS and fourteen subjects in ACV. The median age of the subjects was 53 years, 23 (68%) were males and 11 (32%) were females. The median (interquartile range) of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score was 18.5 (14, 29). Majority had a diagnosis of sepsis (23.5%) and pneumonia (17.6%). The median time on mechanical ventilation in SIMV-PS group was 90 h (57, 133) and in ACV group was 131 h (64, 258). There were also no statistical differences in the duration of weaning (p). Conclusion: Mechanical ventilation with assist control mode of ventilation or synchronised intermittent mandatory ventilation and pressure support are comparable in the time to weaning patients off ventilator.


The article discusses smuggler Osama Kubbar. Topics discussed include Arab Spring, smuggling of arms and ammunition and rebels. Other topics such as smuggling in Libya, revolution in the country and coup in Libya in 1969 are also discussed. Intelligence service in the country, social media and rebels taking control of Zawiya, Libya are mentioned. Further, militias in the country, its political facade and liberation of the country are also discussed. National organization High Council of Libyan Revolutionaries is discussed.


Wangshuibai is a Chinese landrace wheat with a high level of resistance to fusarium head blight (FHB) and deoxynivalenol (DON) accumulation. Using an F7 population of recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from the cross between Wangshuibai and Annong 8455 for molecular mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for FHB resistance, the proportion of scabbed spikelets (PSS) and DON content were assessed under field conditions. Composite interval mapping revealed that two and three QTL were significantly associated with low PSS and low DON content, respectively, over 2 years. QTL on chromosomes 3B and 2A explained 17 and 11·5%, respectively, of the phenotypic variance for low PSS, whereas QTL on chromosomes 5A, 2A and 3B explained 12·4, 8·5 and 6·2%, respectively, of the phenotypic variance for low DON content. The 3B QTL appeared to be associated mainly with low PSS, and the 5A QTL primarily with low DON content in Wangshuibai. The 2A QTL had minor effects on both low PSS and DON content. Microsatellite and AFLP markers linked to these QTL should be useful for marker-assisted selection of QTL for low PSS and low DNA content from Wangshuibai.


Will the modernization of an isolated mountain village, generally regarded as a less advanced region, be brought on by mineral exploitation? The intention of this article is to find out a clue of such a ploblem. There will be two questions, first: How influenced the Besshi copper-mine, on which the Sumitomo plutocracy has his foundation, to the economy of Besshiyama-mura since 1691, the opening year of the mine? and second: How the economy of the mountain village adapted to the influences of the mine? 1. Before the industrial revolution in Meiji era the relation between copper-mine and mountain village was that the former needed surrounding forests belonging to the latter in order to get charcoal as the refining fuel. "Ohayashi"-the forests managed directly by feudal government-occupied most of forests in this village, were all transfered in 1702 to Izumiya, the mining manager who was the Sumitomo's ancestor. Since then about 90 percent of the forests of the village have been under his exclusive use up to now. 2. The exclusive use drived away the villagers to such engagements as making or carrying charcoal for the copper-mine till later years in Meiji. After the industrial revolution they lost the jobs of the charcoal for the mine. Their livelihood has come to depend gradually on the mine as miners. Thus their subsistence econmy in a montain village has been weakened. There is in no initiative to the modernization in this village. The initiative of the moderization of mountain village ought to be based on the mountain village itself. In this village the initiative of the modernization is paralysed by the dependance to the mine. Mineral exploitation is not a permanent productive adtivity for mountain villagers. Therefore it is necessary to spread the area being able to utilize forests for them and to intend the modern management, in consideration of the regional character of this mountain village.


In order to perform degradation studies on poly(amido amine)s (PAA)s by using GPC in aqueous media, a calibration curve was derived by following a purposely developed procedure. A set of PAA samples having different molecular weights were synthesized, by means of stepwise polyaddition reactions, carried out with nonstoichiometric ratios of the monomers. A careful characterization of the samples was performed by means of 1 H, 13 C, and bidimensional homo- and heterocorrelated NMR spectrometry. Particular attention was devoted to the quantitative determination of end functionalities, which enabled us to calculate the number-average molecular weight of PAA samples


Forty one patients with various types of focal liver tumors were imaged with a multisection fast low-angle shot (FLASH) gradient echo sequence using a fast gradient MR system. We compared the T1-weighted images of the liver with the multisection FLASH and conventional spin-echo (SE) pulse sequences in order to determine whether FLASH images could replace SE images. The multisection FLASH sequence provided a significantly higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), liver-spleen contrast, liver-spleen contrastto-noise ratio (CNR), liver-nodule CNR (P < 0.01) and liver-tumor contrast ( P < 0.05) than did the T1-weighted SE sequence. The overall image quality of the multisection FLASH sequence was superior to that of the T1-weighted SE sequence ( P < 0.05). The signal intensity features of liver tumors with both sequences were almost the same. There was a statistically mutual correlation in the signal intensity between hepatocellular carcinomas and metastases. The detectability of liver tumors in FLASH sequences was superior to that in SE sequences. These findings suggest that multisection FLASH sequence imaging can replace T1-weighted SE sequence imaging.


Submitted for publication: May 16, 1979 Accepted for publication: May 23, 1979 * Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Henry Ford Hospital Address reprint requests to Dr. Eyler, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 W Grand Blvd, Detroit, Ml 48202 iagnostic radiological support for the urologist and his patient, confronted with a possible renal neoplasm, is still based on the scout radiograph of the abdomen and the excretory urogram including tomography, with the renal angiogram providing the final standard. As the use of tomography associated with excretory urograms increases, nephrotomography as a separate procedure is not used as often. However, the new modalities of ultrasound (US) and computed tomography (CT) dochallenge angiography in all cases and increasingly render angiography unnecessary. When a classical cyst can be demonstrated by CT or US, it can be followed either wfth serial examinations or it can be aspirated under ul t rasound, CT or convent ional f luoroscopic guidance. Fine needle aspiration biopsy of renal and pararenal areas with US or CT guidance is easily and safely performed.


To perform an operation in the classical way, an incision is made in the skin and the underlying tissues. An alternative for this way of operating is minimally invasive surgery. Here only small incisions are made in the skin and operations are performed by using special instruments. Visual feedback is obtained with a camera producing a 2Ddisplay. Another important minimally invasive operating method is based on the use of catheters in arteries and venes. This research project aims at decreasing the negative effects and limitations which accompany minimally invasive surgery and interventional techniques, so that these can be used more widely, thus bringing less damage to the patient and decreasing the costs for society.


In spring 1952, a trial was laid down at Hurley to compare the botanical effects of five grazing treatments upon a low-fertility downland permanent pasture. The treatments were: dose and lenient rotational cattle grazing, close rotational sheep grazing and continuous grazing by cattle and by sheep. The trial was concluded in autumn 1955.

Continuous cattle grazing and close rotational cattle grazing resulted in a sward with a high proportion of forbs. With sheep under the same grazing systems, grasses predominated. An intermediate grass/forb balance was attained under lenient rotational cattle grazing. Legumes contributed more under rotational grazing than under continuous grazing.

The grazing treatments most favourable to the major species were: For creeping bent—both sheep grazing treatments; for ribwort plantain—all cattle grazing treatments; for white clover—all rotational grazing treatments; for cocksfoot—lenient rotational cattle grazing; for ox-eye daisy—close rotational cattle grazing; for red fescue—lenient rotational cattle grazing and continuous sheep grazing. Bulbous buttercup and rough-stalked meadow grass showed no significant response to differential grazing treatments.

The relative degree of consumption by stock of individual species was estimated by comparing the yields from matched pairs of groups of shoots harvested before and after each grazing spell (rotational treatments) or of areas protected from and exposed to grazing (continuous treatments). A close relationship was established between the intensity of grazing experienced by species and their final status in the swards. Accessibility appeared to be as important as palatability in determining the degree to which individual species were grazed.

The resulting swards differed only slightly in agronomic quality. The lack of any clear advantage from rotational grazing was attributed to low levels of plant nutrients, since these probably limited the development of the more valuable grasses and of white clover.


The behavior of deformation of bloom and the distribution of stress in cross section of bloom by quenching is affected by steel grade and size of austenite grain caused by the difference in the distribution of amount of both diffusion and no diffusion transformation ac-companying expansion and heat generation by latent heat in cross section of bloom.


Citation: Rajendraprasad Sanu S (2021) Clinical Features and Outcomes of COVID-19 in People Living with HIV: A SingleCenter, Age-Matched Cohort Study of Hospitalized and Clinic Patients. J HIV AIDS Infect Dis 8: 1-9. *Corresponding authors: Velagapudi Manasa, Division of Infectious Diseases, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, United States, Tel: 347-334-2714, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


The present article analyzes the different interpretive possibilities of Heideggers Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes conference, with the purpose of clarifying the reasons and the sense of the heideggerians boarding of artistic phenomenon in the decade of thirty. In this way, the work exposes an analytical route centred on Plato's rereading that the author takes forward in 1931, trying to establish a correspondence between art, politics and philosophy. To take to end the proposed aims, they turn out to be nodose to dismount and to arrange the different drafts of the conference, as well as his attaches and epilogues.


Herbal bioenhancers do not possess their own inherent pharmacological activity but when coadministered with other drugs enhances their bioavailability and thus the efficacy. The interest for bioenhancers arises because of the chemotherapeutic agents which are poorly bioavailable and administered for prolonged periods which can be toxic and expensive. One of the unique ways to achieve reduction in drug dosage and thereby drug toxicity and cost is to increase the bioavailability of drug. The present pharmaceutical research is more concerned with different aspects of exploring new chemical molecules having new modes of action. New drug development technologies were developed from the economics of treatment. There is a revolutionary shift in the way medicines are administered due to recent developments in enhancing the bioavailability. The present global focus is on methods aimed at reducing drug treatment period leading to decrease in drug treatment cost. The reduction in cost of therapy will make the treatment more affordable for the financially challenged sections of the society.nbspnbsp


Objective
To explore the application value of pressure-strain loop (PSL) in evaluating left ventricular myocardial work (MW) in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).

Methods
Seventy patients with CHF were selected as case group(CHF group) and were divided into 2 groups according to the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in ultrasonic cardiogram: LVEF preserve group (HFpEF group, LVEF≥50%, n=35) and LVEF reduced group (HFrEF group, LVEF<50%, n=35). Thirty-three healthy volunteers were selected as control group at the same period. Two-dimensional dynamic images in apical two chamber, three chamber and four chamber views were collected by two-dimensional speckle-tracking. Using the off-line EchoPAC software, a tracing analysis was conducted and the blood pressure was entered to obtain left ventricular global longitudinal strain (GLS), global MW index (GWI), global constructive work (GCW), global wasted work (GWW) and MW efficiency (GWE). The differences of GLS and MW parameters (GWI, GCW, GWW, GWE) were compared between each groups, and Pearson correlation was used to analyze the correlation between MW parameters and LVEF.

Results
Compared with the control group and HFpEF group, the left atrial dimension(LAD), left ventricular end-diastolic dimension(LVDd), left ventricular end-diastolic volume(LVEDV), left ventricular end-systolic volume(LVESV) in HFrEF group increased, while LVEF decreased significantly(P<0.05). Compared with the control group, LAD in HFpEF group increased, the vaules of GLS, GWI, GCW were obviously lower in HFpEF group and HFrEF group(all P<0.05), GWW was higher and GWE was lower in HFrEF group(all P<0.05). GLS, GWI, GCW, GWE decreased and GWW increased in HFrEF group than those in HFpEF group, and all the differences were statistically significant(all P<0.05). In CHF group, GWW was negatively correlated with LVEF (r=-0.521, P<0.001) while positive correlations between GWI, GCW, GWE and LVEF were discovered (r=0.846, 0.807, 0.788; all P<0.001).

Conclusions
PSL can effectively evaluate the left ventricular MW in CHF patients. It has a certain correlation with LVEF and can reflect left ventricular systolic function. It provides a new reference index for the clinical diagnosis and evaluation of prognosis in CHF patients.

Key words:
Echocardiography; Heart failure; Pressure-strain loop; Ventricle, left; Myocardial work


. We model the roadway of a suspension bridge as a thin rectangular plate and we study in detail its oscillating modes. The plate is assumed to be hinged on its short edges and free on its long edges. Two different kinds of oscillating modes are found: longitudinal modes and torsional modes. Then we analyze a fourth order hyperbolic equation describing the dynamics of the bridge. In order to emphasize the structural behavior we consider an isolated equation with no forcing and damping. Due to the nonlinear behavior of the cables and hangers, a structural instability appears. With a finite dimensional approximation we prove that the system remains stable at low energies while numerical results show that for larger energies the system becomes unstable. We analyze the energy thresholds of instability and we show that the model allows to give answers to several questions left open by the Tacoma collapse in 1940.


Composition of algorithms in view of providing residential customers with a smart means of optimal power source and distribution management is considered in this paper. By data survey and statistical algorithm, load profiles of conventional apartments in a Nigerian setting are modelled. Thereafter, an algorithm for optimal selection of a source, out of three specified for a residential apartment, is composed and presented. The selection is based on availability and quality criteria. Furthermore, a counterpart algorithm for optimal distribution of available power using source capacity and loading restriction criteria is developed. The algorithms are implemented and evaluated in MATLAB for critical scenarios. The simulations demonstrated the effectiveness of the algorithms, if deployed.


The performance of typical quantum key distribution protocol under the condition of quantum measurement noise has been explored in this paper. Additionally, the realization steps for quantum key distribution are presented. Based on the successful probability, the performance of quantum key distribution is studied. The results show that the total probability is not influenced by the phase factors, and this probability is relative with the amplitude parameters. The results about quantum key distribution protocol with measurement noise would be useful in the field of quantum communication.


Purpose The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of BodyBalance® training on balance, functional task performance, fear of falling, and health-related quality of life in adults aged over 55 years. Participants and methods A total of 28 healthy, active adults aged 66±5 years completed the randomized controlled trial. Balance, functional task performance, fear of falling, and self-reported quality of life were assessed at baseline and after 12 weeks. Participants either undertook two sessions of BodyBalance per week for 12 weeks (n=15) or continued with their normal activities (n=13). Results Significant group-by-time interactions were found for the timed up and go (P=0.038), 30-second chair stand (P=0.037), and mediolateral center-of-pressure range in narrow stance with eyes closed (P=0.017). There were no significant effects on fear of falling or self-reported quality of life. Conclusion Twelve weeks of BodyBalance training is effective at improving certain balance and functional based tasks in healthy older adults.


The Regional Growth Theories (RGT) are of fundamental importance not only for the understanding of the economic growth process, but for explaining inequalities or asymmetries on the inter and intraregional level, that is divergent development. The aim of this paper is to propose a general framework of RGT, under the assumption that these theories are complementary, not mutually exclusive. Initially we describe the regional growth theories and justify their relevance in the regional analysis field. Afterward, each theory is presented in a schematic way according with their own assumptions. We focus on every factor and mechanism that stands out as determinants of the regional growth, and also on those that reinforce the divergent development. Finally, we propose an overview of the RGT and a general framework that summarizes their main proposals and highlights the strong degree of complementarity among them.


This study investigates 1,666 citations to Internet resources from 529 freshman English composition papers from two different years, 1999 and 2004. Web citations are examined in relation to traditional print resources, by type and domain, and with special attention to their persistence through time. After 7 months from submission of the papers for the 1999 sample, 38 percent of the links led to the document cited. After 12 months for the 2004 sample, 45 percent of the links accessed the document. A resubmission of the 1999 citations after 7 years reduced the number of successful links to 9 percent. The instability of Web citations in undergraduate student papers is discussed in the larger context of citation structure, with implications for future scholarship.


It was not until after the 1980's that the science of editing was accepted as a relatively separate discipline by the academic world of our country. However, editing work as one of human cultural activities since ancient times has a very long history and its patterns vary invariably in response to the constant growth of productive force. The variation of editing work in our country can be largely divided into four phases, namely, the phase between the Yin and Shang Dynasty and the West Han Dynasty, that between the East Han Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, that between the Yuan Dynasty and the Late Qing Dynasty and that of modern and contemporary China.


It is difficult to underestimate the importance of storytelling. In every community, local or global, physical or virtual, it is one of the fundamental building blocks of meaning. From an outsider's perspective, it may sometimes seem as if members of low-wealth, repressed, exploited, and underdeveloped communities have little besides the social connections and events that make up their own stories. In the context of a proliferating global information economy, however, we find that the story gains a renewed place of power. Today, the digital story is a storable, retrievable and value-creating knowledge asset, a personal icon and a source of qualitative data, a currency for social capital. The authors argue that these disenfranchised communities, often relegated to an underserved economic status in industrial society, may in fact be able to leverage their unique knowledge assets for participation in the mainstream, digitally interconnected, post-industrial economy, through a bottom-up approach to economic development. Digital storytelling allows a community to learn and practice valuable media production skills that in turn provide greater economic mobility and social visibility. Digital storytelling simultaneously offers a potential solution to problems created by technology dissemination initiatives like One Laptop Per Child. Such initiatives may focus on hardware distribution to the exclusion of culturally sensitive integration. Hardware and software can instead be incorporated into existing social structures and articulated through community values when community members use media production technologies to tell their stories, thereby introducing new technologies, developing marketable skills, and dealing with real and local issues.


OBJECTIVE:To overcome time-consuming,laborious,subjective and other shortcomings of the traditional microscopic examination method of micronuclei(MN),we established flow cytometry(FCM) method for automatic analysis of micronuclei in mouse peripheral blood stained with anti-CD71-FITC,anti-CD61-PE and PI. METHOD:Mice received a single oral dose of 0,20,40,80 mg/kg cyclophosphamide and blood was sampled at different times before and after treatment.Additional mice were orally treated with 40 mg/kg cyclophosphamide for 5 consecutive days and blood was collected before and after treatment at 24 h interval.Blood cells were fixed in -80℃methanol and stained with anti-CD71-FITC,anti-CD61-PE,RNase and PI.After instrument was calibrated with malaria-infected erythrocytes as a biological standard,the frequencies of micronucleated CD71-positive reticulocytes were measured by FCM.RESULTS:The highest frequency of MN-RET was observed at 48 h after single treatment,and MN-RET showed dose-dependent accumulation(r=0.9849,P0.01).These data acquired by FCM demonstrated that the steady-state of MN-RET was attained approximately 24 h after the second administration with 5 consecutive days treatment.Parallel analysis of micronucleus induction in peripheral blood by FCM and bone marrow using traditional microscopy-based method showed concordant results(r=0.9212,P0.01).CONCLUSION:The three-color flow cytometric assessment of MN-RET in mouse peripheral blood can be considered as an acceptable substitute to microscopy-based analysis in mouse bone marrow micronucleus test in vivo.


With the rapid development of the internet and intelligent devices, the use of tablets and smartphones in the industrial internet of things (IIoT) has sprung up in recent years. Consequently, not only the raising of system efficiency but also the updating of human-machine interfaces (HMIs) for industrial controllers is needed. This remote monitoring system is based on a web front-end design as a single page application using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the components and a back-end server based on Node.js to implement data transmission with AJAX and WebSocket. The web-based HMI is a cross-platform system because it supports operations on different devices, operating systems, and browsers on the client-side. In addition, the user experience for multi-users is supported. Through the internet, the remote monitoring system allows users to supervise and control industrial processes in real-time so that device costs, labor, and time could be remarkably reduced.


We describe the structure and different features of Lie algebras in the Verlinde category, obtained as semisimplification of contragredient Lie algebras in characteristic $p$ with respect to the adjoint action of a Chevalley generator. In particular, we construct a root system for these algebras that arises as a parabolic restriction of the known root system for the classical Lie algebra. This gives a lattice grading with simple homogeneous components and a triangular decomposition for the semisimplified Lie algebra. We also obtain a non-degenerate invariant form that behaves well with the lattice grading. As an application, we exhibit concrete new examples of Lie algebras in the Verlinde category.


We present a prototypical implementation of an energy-efficient daylight-responsive lighting systems control in buildings that makes use of real-time sensing and lighting simulation. The controller application in this system can control the position of window blinds and the status (on/off, dimming level) of the luminaires. It possesses an internal digital representation involving models of the room, the context (sky), and the occupancy. The room model entails information about room geometry, furniture,


Summary A group of 443 patients with histologically proved bronchiogenic carcinoma, not treated surgically, was studied with respect to several factors which may have a bearing on duration of life. The following were the pertinent findings:
 1) Of the 443 patients, 373 (84.2 per cent) died within two years of the onset of striking symptoms. The remaining 70 (15.8 per cent) lived from two as long as seven-and-a-half years. This group included 18 who lived three to five years and seven who lived five years or longer. The history is cited of one patient (not included in the statistics) who lived more than 17 years from the time the diagnosis of carcinoma was made. 2) Histological study of material of 320 patients examined at autopsy showed that the type of tumor has an important bearing on duration of life. Patients with epidermoid carcinoma lived the longest; those with anaplastic carcinoma, the shortest; those with adenocarcinoma occupied an intermediate position. 3) As a clinical corollary of this study, as well as on the basis of an analysis of the results of surgical treatment reported from 10 large centers of the United States and the Continent, it is concluded that resectional surgery should be restricted to patients in good physical condition in whom the disease is discovered in a relatively early stage. Surgery, we believe, is contraindicated in patients with advanced bronchiogenic carcinoma because of the considerable operative risk and the discouragingly poor results. Certainly, such patients should not be subjected to operation on the principle that nothing is lost by the attempt since death is a matter of a few months in any event. Our study reveals an appreciable number of patients with bronchiogenic carcinoma who lived two years or longer without surgery.


This paper presents an analysis of response of the seismically isolated structure against earthquake excitation to evaluate the performances of fiber reinforced elastomeric isolator. In the analysis of the vibration of building, the building is modeled by lumped mass system. Fundamental equations of motion are derived for the base isolated structure, and hysteretic and nonlinear-elastic characteristics are considered for a numerical calculation. The earthquake wave are excited for the recorded strong earthquake motions in order to examine dynamic stability of the structure. Seismic responses of the building are compared for the each restoring force type. As a result, it is shown that the effect of the motion by the nonlinear response of the building is comparatively not so large from a seismic design standpoint. The responses of the isolated structures reduced sufficiently and controled the motion of the building well in a practical range. By increasing the acceleration of the earthquake, the yielding of the force was occurred in the concrete and steel frame, which shows the necessity of the exact nonlinear dynamic analysis.


The semiconductor memory device comprises a memory cell array, an error correction circuit, an error log register and control circuitry. The memory cell array includes a plurality of banks, each array having a plurality of pages. The memory cell array includes a plurality of banks, each array having a plurality of pages. Said control circuit to a first command from an external memory controller, the at least one first access address response claim p difference (p is a natural number of 1 or more) error check and Scrub (error check and scrub; hereinafter 'ECS') mode the at least one access address some of the pages of each of the error correcting code with respect to the read data specified; and controls the error correction circuit to provide a generated error by performing a decoding (error correction code 'ECC' hereinafter) are sequentially signal . It said control circuit performs error logging operation of writing to each row of said portion of each page to the page error information including an error occurrence frequency, at least an error log for the register.


Humanisitc Thought is one of the major modern management theories which are often applied in practice, yet it is still not used widely and thoroughly in the work of college student management. In this article, it is proposed, on the basis of reflection on the application of the theory in college student management, that the role of college student management staff should be re - orientated, and a brand - new student management concept should be established, as well as a new people-oriented student management mode should be constructed.


The dissociation constant of each step for TB-chlorosulphophenol has been determined by potentiometric method, and the thermodynamic constants, △G°, △H° and △S°, of the dissociation process have been calculated. The protonation constants were measured by the spectrophotometric method. The pH values of various forms of anions of the chromogenic reagent at their concentrations were also calculated.


Objective Discusses Non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs adverse reaction,provides the reference for the clinical reasonable medication.Methods Has the Non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs adverse reaction patient to 50 examples to carry on the review analysis.Results Not only Non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs has the gastro-intestinal tract,the liver,the kidney,cardiovascular system adverse reaction,but also has the central nervous system,systema sanguineum adverse reaction,as well as allergic reaction and so on.Conclusion The Discusses Non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs treatment function and the adverse reaction coexisting,clinician should strictly pay attention in the use process,prevents adverse reaction effectively the occurrence.


The present invention discloses a quick-release device and an electronic device. The quick disassembly means for disassembling or assembling a plurality of fixed frame received in the fan module, comprising: a stationary frame, comprising a first and a second side panel, and arranged in sequence between the first and second side plates, the first a side plate located adjacent a first side of the fan module, and the second side against the second side adjacent to the fan module; a plurality of spacer fixed to the fixed frame, each of the spacer against the corresponding fan module a second side; a plurality of pressing bracket pivotally connected to the fixed frame, each of the pushing holder is located in the corresponding module of the first side of the fan, and comprising a pressing arm; and a fastener, disposed on the first side plate towards or away from the adjacent upper and pushing carriage moves, when pressing the fastener holder pressing against rotation adjacent a first side of the fan against an adjacent module, each of the other holder pushes against the corresponding fan module the first side. The present invention may be tightening or loosening the fan modules all at once.


On the example of contraband considered contradictions encountered in the current legislation on customs offenses. Analyzes the problems that occur when the legal framework of the State in foreign trade activities.


An examination of the esterase isoenzymes reacting with α-naphthyl acetate indicated five types of electrophoretic pattern in 94 strains of 54 species of 15 yeast genera. Groups classified according to esterase patterns agreed with accepted taxonomic groups, but there were no differences of obvious value for routine identification of separate species of yeasts. Strictly aerobic yeasts produced up to four bands of esterase activity; facultative anaerobes produced two lines or only one. Proteins detected by staining with trifalgic acid after electrophoresis formed identical patterns from all yeasts tested.


[Xhas heard this story as a boy working at the finca 'Alwees:] A man with many children was out of work. After saying that he would even go to the mountain underworld to find money for his family he finds himself transported there wearing iron shoes and with a contracted obligation to a ladino patron (underworld god) to remain under service until his iron shoes wear out. He is given the task of collecting firewood which turn out to be bones of the dead placing the load on a mule to bring back to the patron. The patron instructs him to beat the mule if it balks under the load. After gathering a load of bones, the mule refuses to accept its load, the man hits the mule, injuring its eye. The mule cries out and identifies herself as the man's comadre. The woman is dying on earth but her soul has already been transported to the underworld in punishment for having had relations ("spoken") with a priest. In return for being easy on her the comadre instructs him on how he can escape from the mountain underworld and return to his family with money. By putting his iron shoes in the urine of the mule as she instructs him, the shoes rust and wear out rapidly. Then, following her directions further, he goes to the patron to announce that he has completed his contract and wants to be paid. He is given the choice of real gold, or of the gold (souls?) of animals. He rejects both and instead asks for a little bag hanging over the fireplace. This is given to him. Then the patron asks him to choose the animal to transport him out of the underworld. As his comadre told him, he chooses the stork. On arriving home, as instructed, he puts the bag into a pot, doses it up for an hour while he talks with his wife, and then takes it out again. With a shout, a creature flies out of the pot and goes up into the sky. It is a stillborn child, the food of the underworld beings. Inside the pot is left a large quantity of money. In gratitude the man and his wife go to visit the sick comadre and bring her a little rum. Her face is green and her eye is injured. The story ends with the moral that women should not "talk" to priests.


Background: Although herpetic skin infection is very common, herpetic folliculitis is infrequently reported in the literature. It has varied presentations, some of which are clinically atypical requiring histopathological confirmation of follicular involvement. Objective: We describe an otherwise healthy young adult male with extensive herpetic sycosis of the beard area, which is a variant of herpetic folliculitis. The diagnosis was confirmed by typical herpetic cytopathic changes in Tzanck smear and positive viral culture for HSV-1. Method: This article includes a case report and a literature review of herpetic (simplex and varicella/zoster) folliculitis. Conclusions: More cases of herpetic folliculitis should be reported to improve our understanding of this disease entity. Physicians should consider herpetic or other viral etiology in patients with folliculitis even if they were healthy, especially if they show resistance to antibacterial and antifungal therapy.


In this book, José Magone addresses the important yet neglected topic of trade unionism in the European Union. He examines two related dynamics: 1) the role of interest groups, and specifically trade unions, in shaping European integration; and 2) the impact of multilevel governance structures on trade unions, particularly in Portugal and Spain. The first part of the book analyzes the concept and reality of multilevel governance in the EU. The second part analyzes the evolution of national systems of interest intermediation and trade union strategies in Portugal and Spain in light of democratization and European integration. The third part assesses the subnational and transnational polices of the Iberian trade union confederations.


Fish and zooplankton were simultaneously exposed to trace, 1, and 5 μg Hg/L. In fish and zooplankton, pathological effects appeared to coincide with saturation of metallothionein and "spillover" of Hg into the high molecular weight protein (enzyme-containing) pool. Coincidental with increases of Hg in tissue were decreases of Cu and Zn. Pathological effects of Hg are explained in terms of tertiary and quaternary structural changes in metalloenzymes resulting from replacement of Cu and Zn by Hg. Decreases in tissue Cu and Zn with increasing Hg concentration are discussed as an intracellular displacement of Cu and Zn by Hg and as duodenal and cellular exclusion processes. Key words: CEPEX, Oncorhynchus keta, zooplankton, mercury, copper, zinc, metallothionein, enzymes, metal tolerance


Total syntheses of the natural products kelsoene and preussin are comprehensively reviewed. Kelsoene is a sesquiterpene with a unique tricyclo[188.8.131.52 2 , 6 ]decane skeleton. It contains six stereogenic centers the selective construction of which has been addressed differently in the five syntheses known to date. Three syntheses employ an intermolecular [2+2]-photocycloaddition reaction as key step. One synthesis is based on a homo-Favorskii rearrangement and one on an intramolecular [2+2]-photocycloaddition. Preussin is a pyrrolidine alkaloid with three stereogenic centers which are all located within the central heterocyclic core (C-2, C-3, C-5). So far, 18 total syntheses of preussin have been completed. Seven syntheses include the nucleophilic attack on an L-phenylalanine derived electrophile as key step, five use α-amino- or α-hydroxycarboxylic acids as chiral pool building blocks. Two syntheses are based on sugars as chiral starting materials and two are based on the desymmetrization of meso-compounds. In addition, there are two syntheses which use a chiral auxiliary to establish the first stereogenic element en route to preussin.


The landmark decisions of the Supreme Court change the ethos of adjudicating. The substantive due process doctrine allowed the Court to become an actual lawgiver. This doctrine widely extended the understanding of the due process clause of the 5 th and 14 th Amendments. Increased power of statutory construction corresponded with the doctrine of loose constructionism (living constitution). Decisions like Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade created new constitutional rights, emanating from the radical liberal anthropology. Adjudication became a field of an ideological battle in the culture war over anthropology determining the law's content . In the classical and Christian understanding, being free is considered as having one's identity discovered as an ontological constant, thus allowing an individual to develop himself according to the nature's essence . The liberal anthropological revolution defines freedom as a power of self-creation, serving individual's preferences. The liberal elites, employing ideas of social engineering, attempt to enforce rules based on coexistence and relationship of equal rights. Individual rights emanate from the autonomous, personal choice of life values, the key of the constitutional interpretation. The wider this right of self-definition , the wider the scope of the state's intervention. In Griswold v. Connecticut the right to privacy signified deep cultural change rooted in such an anthropology. This "emancipation project" is thus built on an axiology destroying relations, becoming a kind of a religion of secular salvation. The state serves here as a demiurge and is sacralized. This causes an increasing abyss between the elites and the rest of the citizens, with a corresponding social disintegration of it's public life. For instance Obergefell v. Hodges enforces a new anthropological definition of marriage, beginning to delegitimize creeds and actions of religious communities. This reflects a global phenomenon of connecting individual liberal rights with politics of identity and the post-modern culture of right understood as autonomous will without reasoning about its ontological, universal basis. The Supreme Court decisions are not separated from wider culture, but based on the new anthropological understanding of man as a consumer, with his individual will becoming the very basis of rights.


Liang Qichao is an important figure in the research on Qing academic history. He paid great attention to the investigation of the ethos of the times, made an attempt to compare and contrast it with the history of western learning, and made original interpretations of the origin, schools, and methods of the Qing learning. But Liang's research also has many shortcomings, mainly in his simplistic comparison between Chinese and western learning and his cutting off the relationship between Qing learning and the neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties. Also, lack of document preparation leads to emptiness and shallowness in his argumentation.


The inductive behavior of a closed system of superconductors is investigated with the purpose of attaining high magnetic fields. High‐field superconductors do not exhibit the Meissner effect, and the inductive behavior of a system formed of these materials can be predicted fairly accurately from the conservation law of flux linkage which follows from the zero resistivity. Simple flux shielding or trapping is quantitatively analyzed for a tubular geometry. The flux concentration scheme is discussed for several practical configurations. In this scheme, a low field over a large volume (externally applied field) is compressed into a smaller volume to achieve the desired intensification in field strength. The energy of the external magnetic field can be utilized more effectively by flux pumping, but this requires intricate switching sequences.


The WWR-c reactor reactivity margin can be calculated using a precision reactor model. The precision model based on the Monte Carlo method (Kolesov et al. 2011) is not well suited for operational calculations. The article describes the work on creating a software package for preliminary evaluations of the WWR-c reactor reactivity margin.
 The research has confirmed the possibility of using an artificial neural network to approximate the reactivity margin based on the reactor core condition. Computational experiments were conducted on training the artificial neural network using the precision model data and real reactor measured data. According to the results of the computational experiments, the maximum relative approximation error ∆k/k for fuel burnup was 3.13 and 3.56%, respectively. The mean computation time was 100 ms.
 The computational experiments showed it possible to construct the artificial neural network architecture. This architecture became the basis for building a software package for evaluating the WWR-c reactor reactivity margin – REST API based web-application – which has a convenient user interface for entering the core configuration. It is also possible to replenish the training sample with new measurements and train the artificial neuron network once again.
 The reactivity margin evaluation software is ready to be tested by the WWR-c reactor personnel and to be used as a component of the automated reactor refueling system. With minor modifications, the software package can be used for reactors of other types.


Manpower is considered as one of the basic and important resources of organizations. In order to reach their goals, organizations need specialized and committed human force to achieve their goals. Therefore, one of the most important duties of organizations regarding the management of human resources is manpower maintenance. To this end, the present study has aimed to investigate the effect of organizational justice and its dimensions on manpower maintenance in Birjand University of Medical Sciences. The present study is an applied research in terms of its objective and it is a descriptive survey in terms of its data collection method. The statistical population of this research has been composed of the employees of Birjand University of Medical Sciences. 150 of these employees were selected as the research sample using the judgmental sampling method. In order to test the hypotheses, the Pearson correlation coefficient and the multivariate regression analysis were used. The results obtained from the Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between organizational justice and manpower maintenance (r=79.3). Also, the results of multivariate regression analysis have shown that interactive justice, procedural justice and distributive justice variables have been able to separately explain 50.3, 30.5 and 20.6 percent of the scores of the maintenance system, respectively. In other words, among the components of organizational justice, interactive justice has had the most substantial impact on manpower maintenance and distributive justice had the least substantial effect on it in the population under study. Keywords: Organizational justice, Procedural justice, Distributive justice, Interactive justice, Man power management .


This essay is an individual reflection on the analyst's personal history of loss and trauma, as well as part of a theoretical exploration of the unconscious forces always at play in analytic work. Mourning the death of a beloved husband enables a shift from "primary preoccupation" with loss to self-growth.


This paper introduce the improvement of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine's (KVM) network I/O performance resulting from the re-design and the re-implementation of certain aspects of its network virtualization and better support for network intensive application, especially in multiple virtual machine sharing the host's network packets. We research two techniques. First, we define the new virtual network interface architecture, and then demonstrate that the use of such a virtual network interface architecture leads to much better transmitting and receiving performance, particularly in multiple virtual machine sharing the same packets from the host. Second, we optimize the memory operation in which implementation of the network I/O in transmitting and receiving operation. We use fixed memory map technology instead of copying the data in the context switch. We show that, with these optimizations, transmitting and receiving network I/O performance in KVM is obviously improved.


This article aimed to examine multigroup invariance of Mathematics Self-efficacy and Attitude Scales (MSAS) and examine the differences of MSAS in term of gender. 1135 (630 female and 505 male) Year 9 students in Aceh, Indonesia were involved in the study. The invariance analysis was performed to investigate whether the items in the MSAS are behaving identically for Year 9 female and male students in the province of Aceh, Indonesia. The results reported the indication of multigroup equivalence of the MSAS between gender (p-value is not statistically significant or ∆CFI ≤ 0.01). An independent t-test indentified that students' attitude concerning mathematics is significantly different between gender of students. Female students' positive attitude concerning mathematics is higher compared to male students'. This study may be used as one of the evidences as for the needs to enhance male students attitude toward mathematics.


The invention discloses an EpCAM (Epithelial cell adhesion molecule)-specific chimeric antigen receptor. The EpCAM-specific chimeric antigen receptor is obtained by serially connecting a single-chain antibody of a human anti-EpCAM, CH2CH3 of a human antibody IgG1, a transmembrane region and an intracellular signal structure of CD28, an intracellular signal structure of CD137 and an intracellular signal structure of CD3[zeta]. The invention further discloses an amino acid sequence and a nucleic acid sequence of the chimeric antigen receptor. The invention further discloses application of the chimeric antigen receptor to preparation of medicines for treating EpCAM-related tumors, namely modification of T lymphocytes, and the modified lymphocytes can be applied to treatment of the EpCAM-related tumors.


Microsatellites are the lowest price spacecrafts for lunch to their orbit. As a result, recently they are extensively employed in space missions. In these satellites it has been tried to use less heavy and simple hardware with higher reliability and energy efficiency. Magnetorquers are mainly used in Satellite Attitude Control Systems (ASC) as a control actuator. These actuators generate desired controllable torques. The Magnetorquers have the characteristics of a relatively lightweight and they also require no moving parts, expendables, and complex hardware. These minimum requirements have motivated scientific community to employ actuators in spacecrafts extensively. This paper presents Design procedures and manufacturing of a research magnetorquer in Aerospace Research Laboratory of K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Iran. Firstly, a mathematical model for design of a magnetorquer is explained, and the significant parameters for manufacturing of an efficient actuator are extended. Then Strategic Planning for design of a magnetorquer is expanded. At the end driver and demagnetization circuits are presented and the research magnetorquer with its participant circuits are discussed.


Provided a method of logging operations piped embodiment, comprising: providing a pipe string having a conveyor assembly logging, the logging tools and a memory storage module; configuration component into the wellbore; logging tool to implement operation of the memory logging operations, acquires log data from the wellbore; and retrieving data obtained first, before the tubing string withdrawn from the wellbore.


Importance of behavior factors or environmental factors in visual organization and visual function of fish is treated with great care in visual ecology, and there is no study about initial ocular growth and development on the dark banded rockfish, Sebastes inermis. Thus, this study was performed. The total length, head length, head depth, eye diameter and lens diameter of the dark banded rockfish showed positive allometric relationship between parturition stage and 60 days post-parturition (dpp). The increase in total length relative to head length and head depth, head length growth relative to eye diameter and lens diameter, and head depth growth relative to eye and lens diameter were nearly isometric. The eyes were formed completely at parturtion stage. At this age, the eye has an optic nerve fiber layer, a ganglion cell layer, an inner plexiform layer, an inner nuclear layer, an outer plexiform layer, an outer nuclear layer, an outer limiting membrane, a rod and cone layer and an epithelial layer. Thickness of retina at 60 dpp was higher than that of at parturition stage. During this experiment, the proportion of the rod and cone layer, outer nuclear layer, and optic nerve fiber layer of retina were significantly increased, while the proportion of the outer plexiform layer, inner nuclear layer and ganglion cell layer of retina were significantly decreased (P<0.05). The essential demands that must be met by the retina in this species pertain to light sensitivity and spatial resolution.


Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to show how work-based and work-applied learning (WAL) can enhance the intellectual capital of organisations.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper draws organisational learning- and work-based learning literature and case study illustrations.

Findings

To achieve major strategic change in organisations requires working at senior level within the organisation to develop the capability of the organisation to learn and apply that learning strategically. WAL is explicitly geared to bring about change and enhance the learning capability within the organisation.

Research limitations/implications

There is a need for further longitudinal studies of organisations that have used the work-based and WAL approaches.

Practical implications

The conclusions reached have implications for higher education and non-award bearing executive education.

Social implications

The alignment of individual learning with organisational objectives positions learning as a co-operative part of working life rather than just individual preparation for employment.

Originality/value

The paper positions work-based learning and WAL as appropriate responses to the learning needs of organisations as well as individuals.


The invention relates to a production process of a movable arm of a forklift loader/loading machine and a fine processing fixing tooling of the movable arm. The fixing tooling comprises a base, a main support frame and four fixing mechanisms, wherein the main support frame and the four fixing mechanisms are assembled on the base, a rocker arm connecting hole of the movable arm is assembled in the top of the main support frame through a pin haft, and the four fixing mechanisms are respectively used for fixing the four arm ends of the movable arm. According to the production process, the formed movable arm is obtained after the materials are manufactured through the work procedures of numerical control cutting, point welding, full welding, correction, coarse and fine processing and the like. The technical scheme provided by the invention is adopted for preparing the movable arm, the coaxiality of corresponding holes in the movable arm is effectively improved, the form and location tolerance of the movable arm is small, the rejection rate is effectively reduced, the product quality is also perfectly ensured, the problem that the form and location tolerance correction dimension precision cannot be ensured due to the welding deformation quantity of the original process is avoided, the dependence on experienced workers with special skills in the production and service processes is also reduced, the production efficiency is effectively improved, and the production cost is reduced.


MDM2, and (cid:451) 3 -AR, and also harbored some polymorphic nucleotides located in the same set of associatively altered nucleotides. Our results show that multiple nucleotides, including the PTEN nucleotides, are altered in normal Japanese individuals and provide useful information for genotyping studies in individuals and populations.


Parental education is an area that has been considered as difficult one and causes many problems for practitioners. The search for specialist help particularly concerns the group of educated young adults who are people of the world. They are aware of parental rights and can effectively enforce them. They bring up children working intensively, suffering from time deficit, often deprived of family caring agencies. Parents seek help in experienced difficulties in different ways: in literature, in specialists' offices or in support groups. They learn how effectively, at the time they have, can successfully perform their educational function. "New" parenting aims to professionalize the maternal and paternal roles, seeking optimal solutions to problems with children. This expectation is often defined in short-term activities. The article presents the narratives of parents who used the help, as well as their hopes and fears. Illustrates their experiences, difficulties and satisfaction. The collected empirical material made it possible to refer to the process of professionalizing the role of mother/father. The conclusions and reflections were used to formulate the challenges facing the market of specialist assistance to Polish parents. Key words: parent education, new parents, professionalization of parent role.


A. Overall results with regard to therapeutic effect The average decrease in total depression score during the treatment series was 18.2 units for all 100 patients. For unilaterally treated males (20) the decrease was 16.6 Units, for unilaterally treated females (32) 18.5 units (table 2). Bilaterally treated males (19) obtained a decrease of 19.1 units, bilaterally treated females (29) 18.6 units. For all 52 unilaterally treated patients the average decrease was 17.8 units, for 48 bilaterally treated patients 18.8 units. 24 % of all patients had an unsatisfactory effect of the treatment, this being defined as a post-treatment total depression score of more than 14, or a decrease in total score during treatment of less than 8. Of these 24 unsatisfactory cases 7 belong to the group of 20 unilaterally treated males, 6 to the 32 unilaterally treated females, 4 to the 19 bilaterally treated males, and 7 to the 29 bilaterally treated females. As this "resistant" group of patients might represent a special subtype of depressionstheir scores deviating considerably from the average they might affect the results in an artificial way if they happened to be unevenly distributed among the groups-it seemed advisable to anaIyse the results also after exclusion of these cases. After such exclusion 13 unilaterally treated males obtained a total depression score of 22.2, 26 unilaterally treated females obtained 22.2, while the remaining 15 bilaterally treated males obtained a decrease of 21.9, and the 22 bilaterally


European cohesion policy aims to achieve joint development and economic growth of all regions. Endogenous approach based on using internal resources and potential is seen as the best way for attainment of regional growth. At the present time there is a com mon agreement that innovations represent the main driving force for development because they provide significant competitive advantage based on tacit knowledge. Rural areas are generally seen as problem regions with small potential for growth. Although the re are several policies providing special support for rural regions, they are often overlooked in national development strategies. It is also generally believed that rural regions can hardly innovate because they are lacking needed infrastructure – univers ities, research organizations, networks of high - tech enterprises. Is it really truth that rural areas are not capable of creating innovations? The aim of this paper is to discuss various views on rural innovations in current literature. Using several case studies this paper shows that rural regions have potential both for innovations and growth. Rural innovation process however differs from innovation process in urban areas and according to the special form of rural innovations we must shape the supporting policy.


Nowdays, knowledge management in educational organization such university need to be applied. one thing could be help by organization is knowledge identification, where and how to identify the knowledge that useful for organization development. STAIN Bukittinggi as one of the public educational institution should also begin and develop this prosess in several ways based on organization condition its self. its such by implementing some knowledge identification strategies that will be useful for organization to get a knowledge in achieving their vision and mission


A main method of predicting turbulent flows is to solve LES equations, which was called traditional LES method. The traditional LES method solves the motions of large eddies of size larger than filtering scale An while modeling unresolved scales less than Delta_n. Hughes et al argued that many shortcomings of the traditional LES approaches were associated with their inabilities to successfully differentiate between large and small scales. One may guess that a priori scale-separation would be better, because it can predict scale-interaction well compared with posteriori scale-separation. To this end, a multi-scale method was suggested to perform scale-separation computation. The primary contents of the multiscale method are l) A space average is used to differentiate scale. 2) The basic equations include the large scale equations and fluctuation equations. 3) The large-scale equations and fluctuation equations are coupled through turbulent stress terms. We use the multiscale equations of n=2, i.e., the large and small scale (LSS) equations, to simulate 3-D evolutions of a channel flow and a planar mixing layer flow Some interesting results are given.


If a storage tank bottom is corroding quickly, it must either be replaced, or a thick-filmed, fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) lining must be applied to the existing tank bottom. Replacing a tank bottom can be a costly and time-consuming process. Proper selection and application of an FRP lining system with a 60 to 65-mil thickness can save time, money and prevent internal corrosion of the steel tank bottom for 10 to 20 years. Average corrosion rate of carbon steel storage tanks in crude oil service at ambient temperatures is more than 1 mil per year. Corrosion occurs even more quickly when a layer of water containing corrosive compounds such as salt and sediment settles to the bottom of a crude oil tank. Installing a thick fiber glass-reinforced lining system involves applying a primer, putty, catalyzed resin with a glass mat and a sealcoat. After the tank has been pumped dry and the surface properly prepared, the entire process takes substantially less than the downtime and costs associated with replacing the entire tank bottom. The paper describes the application of a FRP lining system, testing and metal repairs, and the use of catalyzed resin and glass mats.


Kaifiat Qulhu is a manuscript from Dayah Tanoh Abee, located in Seulimeum Aceh Besar, Aceh. The text explains the prayer wheel (wirid) of Q. 112 for self-salvation, parent-salvation and ancestors that referred to tariqa alawiya, especially to Abd Allah b. Alawi al-Haddad (1634-1720). This text was written by Muhammad Ali (d. 1969), eighth generation of Dayah Tanoh Abee, in 1328/1910. Kaifiat Qulhu, which illustrated the construction of religiousity in Tanoh Abee, outlines the character of diversity in Islamic practices and sufi order in Aceh that can be seen in two domains. Firstly, in how the text contains the critique of tahlil tradition to bless the death people that according to the text, it has no argument in hadith. Secondly, in evidence of transmission (ijazah) of tariqa alawiya beside Shattariya that was more popular in Aceh previously. This research finds that the manuscript is construct two things: first, dialectical discourse of tariqa in Aceh and second, the openness of Aceh's Ulama to the differences.


The Political Personality of U.S. President Barack Obama Aubrey Immelman Saint John's University Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics http://www.csbsju.edu/uspp College of Saint Benedict St. Joseph, MN 56374, U.S.A. The paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of U.S. President Barack Obama, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Information concerning Obama was collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM–IV. The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed on the basis of interpretive guidelines provided in the MIDC and Millon Index of Personality Styles manuals. Obama's primary personality patterns were found to be Ambitious/confident and Dominant/asserting, with secondary features of the Accommodating/cooperative and Conscientious/respectful patterns. The combination of Ambitious and Accommodating patterns in Obama's profile suggests a confident conciliator personality composite. Leaders matching the confident conciliator personality prototype, though self-assured and assertive, are characteristically gracious, considerate, and benevolent. Confident conciliators are charming and agreeable, with a special talent for settling differences; they favor mediation and compromise over force or coercion as a strategy for resolving conflict and are driven primarily by a need for achievement. Relative to other chief executives in similar positions, they are likely to be less driven by power, with a stronger need for affiliation. The major implication of the study is that it offers an empirically based personological framework for anticipating Obama's leadership style as president. Political Personality of Barack Obama


Enemy Number One tells the story of Soviet propaganda and ideology toward the United States during the early Cold War. From Stalin's anti-American campaign to Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence, this book covers Soviet efforts to control available information about the United States and to influence the development of Soviet-American cultural relations until official cultural exchanges were realized between the two countries. The Soviet and American veterans of the legendary 1945 meeting on the Elbe and their subsequent reunions represent the changes in the superpower relationship: during the late Stalin era, the memory of the wartime alliance was fully silenced, but under Khrushchev it was purposefully revived and celebrated as a part of the propaganda about peaceful coexistence. The author brings to life the propaganda warriors and ideological chiefs of the early Cold War period in the Soviet Union, revealing their confusion and insecurities as they tried to navigate the uncertain world of the late Stalin and early Khrushchev cultural bureaucracy. She also shows how concerned Soviet authorities were with their people's presumed interest in the United States of America, resorting to monitoring and even repression, thereby exposing the inferiority complex of the Soviet project as it related to the outside world.


The present invention is about 2 to copper, 0 to about 8% by weight of at least about 0.6 1 species in mole / kg alkali metal (s), from about 0.08 to about 0.85 mole / of one or more kg of an alkaline earth metal, and from about 0.09 to about of 0.9 mol / kg, Mn, Re and the transition at least one selected from the group consisting of a mixture thereof, and contains a metal, all metals are their chlorides, or other water-soluble salt form having a BET surface area of from about 80 to about 220 m Oxy fluidized bed using a good activity, the catalyst has a good selectivity and a low tendency to stickiness in the chlorination reaction, to an oxy-chlorination of ethylene to a method for preparing 1,2-dichloroethane.


A 78-year-old man presented with dyspnoea and subacute decline in lung function several years after undergoing a left lung transplant for pulmonary fibrosis. He had a history of left anastomotic stenosis that had been treated for some time with a stent. Initially unclear whether his decline was associated with a recurrent anastomotic issue or whether he had developed another problem, such as chronic rejection (bronchiolitis obliterans), a CT scan of the chest was performed and showed a clear left lung on inspiratory …


Glioblastoma is the most common primary brain tumor in adults with a very poor prognosis, for which urgent improvements in treatment are needed. The aim of this thesis was to unravel the contribution of the CK2 inhibitors and the alkylating agent Temozolomide (TMZ) to therapy response in the preclinical glioblastoma (GB) murine model GL261 using in vitro (GL261 cell line) and in vivo (GL261 tumor bearing mice) approaches. The enzyme CK2 is a tetramer composed by two catalytic subunits (α/ α') and two regulatory subunits (β). In this Thesis, a differential content of the CK2 α' subunit was observed in highly and slowly proliferating GL261 cells, which could potentially affect the susceptibility of these cells to the treatment with CK2 inhibitors depending on their proliferative status. Moreover, the effect of the dual CK2 and Pim-1 inhibitor TDB was evaluated in the GL261 cell line and in GL261-tumor bearing mice. While TDB showed a potent effect in vitro, we were not able to detect any inhibitory effect on CK2 in the tumor site after administration to tumor-bearing animals, suggesting that changes in the formulation of this drug would be needed to improve bioavailability and performance. Preliminary results from our group showed an increased survival in GL261-tumor bearing mice when treated in a immune-enhanced metronomic schedule (1 dose every 6 days) with the combination of TMZ and the CK2 inhibitor CX-4945, although other administration schedules did not result in such improvement. In this sense, it has been described that tumor cells treated with certain immunogenic drugs expose and release certain molecules called danger signals, leading to the activation of a potent antitumoral host immune response. We have performed in vitro studies in order to assess danger signals after both treatments alone or in combination. Results showed that TMZ and TMZ+CX-4945 GL261 treated cells expose calreticulin, an early danger signal of the immune cycle cascade. Also, CX-4945 and CX-4945+TMZ has been shown to release ATP, another danger signal that binds to P2 receptors, also contributing to the activation of the immune system. Moreover, the evolution of GL261-tumor bearing mice treated with TMZ in an immune enhanced metronomic schedule was evaluated using multislice magnetic resonance spectroscopic image (MRSI) based nosological images for noninvasive therapy response follow-up. Our group has described imaging-based biomarkers that are able to distinguish responding and non-responding tumor zones, probably sampling local changes which include host immune system action over the tumor. Results are shown as a color-coded image (the aforementioned nosological image) resulting from machine learning analysis of MRSI data. The follow-up of TMZ treated mice showed an oscillatory behavior in the percentage of tumor area identified as "responding" within the tumor mass during the transient response to therapy. This oscillation period (ca. 6 days) is in agreement with the immune system cycle in mice in response to damage produced after TMZ administration. This information would be helpful in the future for prediction of therapy response/effectiveness and in the development of personalized therapeutic strategies. In conclusion, the use of non-mutagenic therapies and immune system respectful cycles for therapy administration combined with an accurate therapy response follow-up using non-invasive strategies could help to improve the poor outcome of glioblastoma.


Banks' assets are opaque, and therefore, we model their true accounting asset values as partially observed variables. We derive a stochastic control model to optimize banks' dividend and recapitalization policies in this situation, and calibrate that to a sample of U.S. banks. By the calibrated model, the noise in reported accounting asset values hides about one-third of the true asset return volatility and raises the banks' market equity value by 7.8% because the noise hides the banks' solvency risk from banking regulators. Particularly, those banks with a high level of loan loss provisions, nonperforming assets, and real estate loans, and with a low volatility of reported total assets have noisy accounting asset values. Because of the substantial shock on the true asset values, the banks' assets were more opaque during the recent financial crisis.


Taking Japan Jin company B0326- II Swiss turning- milling center as an example,introduce the machine processing advantages,because the slender shaft length diameter ratio is large,easy to have bending deformation,research is mainly focused on the slender shaft synchronous processing technology,effectively solved the prlblems of low precision,low efficiency.


We propose an extended jellium model which includes the most important features of the noble metals. The density of states is modeled by the superposition of a d band and an s-like conduction band. The redistribution of some of the d electrons into the conduction band as an effect of the s-d hybridization is taken into account, and the conduction band includes 1.5 electrons per atom. We show that the occupation number ${Z}_{d}$ of the d band is mainly determined by the ratio ${W}_{d}$/(${\ensuremath{\varepsilon}}_{F}$-${\ensuremath{\varepsilon}}_{d}$), where ${W}_{d}$, ${\ensuremath{\varepsilon}}_{d}$, and ${\ensuremath{\varepsilon}}_{F}$ are, respectively, the width and the center of the d band and the energy of the Fermi level. The shift of the d-band center between the bulk metal and the surface plane is related to the narrowing of the d band of the surface plane, and we deduce an estimate of the d-band contribution to the work function. In the present model the position of the Fermi level and of the d-band center are reproduced, and the result for the work function of Cu and Ag is satisfactory.


Hypothesis / aims of study It is clinically known that anticholinergic agents, commonly used for treating overactive bladder, etc., act on the muscarinic receptor in salivary glands, causing dry mouth as an adverse effect. Not only the muscarinic receptor but also the α1-adrenergic receptor are present in human salivary glands, and are thought to accelerate saliva production. The common adverse events associated with α1-adrenergic receptor antagonists include orthostatic hypotension and dizziness. However, clinical research focusing on the association between α1-adrenergic receptor antagonists and oral dryness is very limited. Therefore, we conducted a cross-sectional study on current oral dryness using a questionnaire in patients prescribed an oral α1-adrenergic receptor antagonist for benign prostatic hyperplasia.


Cynthia M. Magro, Obiajulu H. Iwenofu, Mary J. Kearns, Gerard J. Nuovo, Molly E. Dyrsen and Jeremy P. Segal. Fulminant and accelerated presentation of dermatomyositis in two previously healthyyoung adult males: a potential role for endotheliotropic viral infection. J Cutan Pathol 2009; 36: 853–858. In the above article, the name of the third author was published as Mary J. Kearns, whereas, her correct name should be Mary J. Kerns. We apologize for this error and regret any confusion or inconvenience caused. The correct citation should therefore read as follows: Cynthia M. Magro, Obiajulu H. Iwenofu, Mary J. Kerns, Gerard J. Nuovo, Molly E. Dyrsen and Jeremy P. Segal. Fulminant and accelerated presentation of dermatomyositis in two previously healthyyoung adult males: a potential role for endotheliotropic viral infection. J Cutan Pathol 2009; 36: 853–858.


ABSTRACT Supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing can effectively relieve the environmental pressure caused by in-situ production of oil shale. In order to study the process of fracture propagation during supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing, a fracture propagation model of supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing is established in this paper, and an unsteady temperature field model is introduced. Based on the discrete fracture model, the fluid temperature field in one-dimensional fracture is coupled with the temperature field of two-dimensional reservoir rock. The new model also takes into account the real-time variation of carbon dioxide physical parameters, which are calculated by Span-Wagner and Vesovic equations. Based on this model, the influencing factors of fracture propagation in supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing are analyzed. The results show that the leak-off coefficient has an obvious effect on fracture propagation, so an additive needs to be developed to reduce the leak-off. Since carbon dioxide is a compressible fluid, the reservoir temperature and the original in-situ stress also have a significant impact on the fracture propagation. The temperature of carbon dioxide at the bottom of the well has no significant effect on fracture propagation, because carbon dioxide will quickly reach reservoir temperature when it enters the formation. Comprehensive considering the fracture length, width, filtration, and potential effect on proppant transport during supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing, the injection rate should be as high as possible.


The production of pulse crops in India in general and especially green gram in particular is not enough to meet the domestic demand of the ever growing population. The potential yield of green gram is very low because of the fact that the crop is mainly grown in rainfed conditions with poor management practices and also due to various physiological, biochemical as well as inherent factors associated with the crop. Apart from the genetic makeup, the physiological factor viz, insufficient partitioning of assimilates, poor pod setting due to the flower abscission and lack of nutrients during critical stages of crop growth, coupled with a number of diseases and pests were the reasons for the poor yield. Foliar feeding is often the most effective and economical way to improve International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 4 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


OBJECTIVE
To investigate the butanol fraction of the water/acetone extract and isolate of the new flavonoids from Launeae arboescens.

METHODS
The compounds were isolated by liquid chromatographic methods and their structures were identified by using spectroscopic analysis.

RESULTS
THE ISOLATED COMPOUNDS WERE IDENTIFIED AS: 7-O-[α-rhamnopyranosyl 4',5,6-Trihydroxy flavone 1,4',5'-Di-Methoxy 7-(5″-Me Hexan)1-oyl flavanone 2, 3″-isopropyl pyrano [1″:7,4″:6] 3',4',5',5-Tetrahydroxy flavanone 3,5,4',5'-Tri-Hydroxy 7-(3″-Me butan) -yl flavanone 4, 5,7-Dihydroxy-2',4',5' -trimethoxy-isoflavanone 5,5,6,7,4'-tetrahydroxy flavonol 6,7-O-[α-rhamnopyranosyl-(1->6)-β-glucopyranosyl]- 4',5,7-tri-hydroxy-flavanone 7,7-O-[α-rhamnopyranosyl-(1->6)-β-glucopyranosyl] 3',5-Dihydroxy 4'-Methoxy flavanone 8.

CONCLUSIONS
The presence of different types of bioactive flavonoids in Launeae arboescens extract can explain the large ethnopharmacological uses and the potential activity of this medicinal plant.


The invention relates to an implementation method of a vehicle comprising at least one driving device (2) capable of generating a torque; at least one wheel (6a) driven by driving axle (6); at least one transmission device (4) in the torque flux between the drive device and driving axle; at least one transmission device (3) torque, as in the torque flux between the drive device and driving axle; and at least one control device (13) of the fraction of the drive torque that the transmission device may transmit to the axle. According to a first principal aspect, the aim is to avoid, after switching of the box assembly, engine rotational speeds that reduce at least safety of operation and, in a further main aspect in which the vehicle further comprises a device detecting the rotational speed of the wheels, its purpose is to monitor it for detecting errors of the device. The invention further relates to a corresponding vehicle.


The development of science and technology accelerated the step of educational reformation. The traditional pattern of instruction is facing the challenge from new educational view and modern educational technology. In recent years, with the development and popularization of multimedia technology, multi-media computer aided instruction has become a hot spot and trend of instruction reform. The author adopts the multi-media teaching in law course, obtaining the good teaching result.


Ischemic stroke has the characteristics of high morbidity, high mortality and high disability rate, which brings to the society and family burden and pain. Therefore, effective prevention is especially important. Primary prevention of stroke is to prevent maiden stroke, mainly to improve lifestyle, and control all kinds of controllable risk factors positively. Secondary prevention of stroke is to prevent the recurrence of stroke, in addition to the causes, prevention, antiplatelet therapy, and anticoagulant therapy are included.

Key words:
Brain infarction/PC; Review


Flexible loads such as residential air-conditioners (ACs) can be directly controlled to provide demand-side regulation and balance services in electricity grids. Large aggregations of ACs offer a resource akin to that of a distributed energy storage system, which may be used to compensate fluctuations in the power output of local renewable energy generation. This paper formulates distributed and centralized model predictive control (MPC) strategies to balance fluctuations in solar power generation by directly controlling the aggregate demand of clusters of distributed residential ACs. The proposed receding-horizon control strategies rely on a new second-order linear time-varying model for the aggregate demand response of a population of heterogeneous ACs to changes in thermostat setpoints under varying ambient temperature. The performance of the proposed MPC strategies is analyzed in a numerical simulation study implementing AC demand tracking of 1-min fluctuations in actual photovoltaic capacity based on persistence and sky imager short-term solar forecasts. The results show that distributed and centralized MPC strategies achieve comparable performance, with better performance of persistence forecasts in a shorter prediction horizon, and better performance with sky imager forecasts on a longer prediction horizon.


Selection hyper-heuristics are high level search methodologies which control a set of low level heuristics while solving a given problem. Move acceptance is a crucial component of selection hyperheuristics, deciding whether to accept or reject a new solution at each step during the search process. This study investigates group decision making strategies as ensemble methods exploiting the strengths of multiple move acceptance methods for improved performance. The empirical results indicate the success of the proposed methods across six combinatorial optimisation problems from a benchmark as well as an examination timetabling problem.