In this paper, electrochemical tests are applied to investigate the effects of Al(III) and nano-sized tridecameric aluminum polycation (nano- Al13) on aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) activity, by using reduced graphene oxide chemically modified electrodes. The amperometric i-t curves for the oxidation of the enzymatically generated diphosphopyridine nucleotide-reduced disodium salt (NADH) are collected, and the ALDH activity is determined indirectly, depending on the changes of the oxidation current of NADH. The results show that Al(III) and nano-Al13 exhibit effective inhibition on ALDH activity. The proposed mechanism of the effects is explored by means of various analytical techniques, such as fluorescence spectroscopy and circular dichroism. Based on the characterization methods mentioned above, the remarkable activity reduction of ALDH might be ascribed to the conformational changes of coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) induced by different aluminum species.


Big-Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) offers the deepest reliable probe of the early Universe, being based on well-understood Standard Model physics [1–5]. Predictions of the abundances of the light elements, D, 3He, 4He, and 7Li, synthesized at the end of the 'first three minutes', are in good overall agreement with the primordial abundances inferred from observational data, thus validating the standard hot Big-Bang cosmology (see [6] for a review). This is particularly impressive given that these abundances span nine orders of magnitude – from 4He/H ∼ 0.08 down to 7Li/H ∼ 10−10 (ratios by number). Thus BBN provides powerful constraints on possible deviations from the standard cosmology [2], and on new physics beyond the Standard Model [3,4].


The energy principle is used to find the global criteria for stability to axisymmetric perturbations of stationary, magnetized, differentially rotating flows, in particular accretion discs. It is found that the vertical fields usually tend to stabilize while the toroidal fields destabilize, except when the vertical fields are weak. Bounds are placed on the growth rates of the instability. Normal modes are computed for fields in slender annuli which confirm the above results


The present critical study intends to deal with the act of philosophizing as a possibility of retaking the most distant childhood that remains for a lifetime. The creative act is first and foremost a cosmic potential, whereby the child appropriates his inner worlds in all their entirety in the multiplicity of childhoods, so that childhood can and must dwell in each of us. In this sense we will make a critical study approaching the philosophy of Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) with Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). A glimpse of this approach has already been made earlier by Michel Onfray (1959 -) in his book Cosmos, however, from a critical point of view different from Onfray (who considers Steiner's work doubtful), we would like to find possible approximations between the Bachelardian humanism and anthroposophy, trying mainly to reconcile the aspects of transition between childhood and youth, which both undertake and which are based on the relationship of being with the cosmos, nature and its elements. For this, we will start from the text The poetic of Bachelard daydream making an intersection with the conference The moral value of scientific culture, as well as we will use two texts by Steiner, The Philosophy of Freedom and The Education of the Child according to Spiritual Science. In this investigative process, we use a praxeological methodology that goes from a contextual investigation on the philosophical, pedagogical and anthropological aspects that led us to the results of the childhood imaginary as well as their moral implications in the subjective construction of knowledge.


The present article argues that the traditional accounts of Palenquero's article system are fundamentally flawed. Schwegler's revisionist analysis is largely based on data he had collected in situ , but also relies on Monino (in press), who similarly questions the traditional accounts of the Palenquero article system. Mo n ino and Schwegler have reached a consensus as regards two key points: in their view, (1) Palenquero has noun phrases consisting of just a bare noun; and (2) a striking property of these bare nouns is their non-specification for number (they are neither singular nor plural). One of the objectives of this study is to offer a comparison between Schwegler and Mo n ino's analysis of Palenquero ma , and to outline why they – independently so – reject the traditional views on the matter. In so doing, Schwegler shows that the Palenquero lexicon emphasizes the role of context rather than overt morphology or lexical structure. This new approach represents a radical departure from earlier analyses, as it renders all Palenquero nouns "transnumeral." As will become apparent, Mo n ino's and Schwegler's findings coincide on several major points of grammar, but differ on the more theoretical issue concerning the genesis of ma .


The purpose of this paper is to measure and test the relationship between service quality of the academic institutions and student's retention. In addition to, determine the main elements that effect on service quality of the academic institutions. This paper is focused on the student's retention of City University College in Ajman as a case study. The results showed that the students are satisfied with the services at City University College of Ajman, mean, there is the high quality of teaching, effective academic courses, and the library meets the student's needs. The management also supports and cooperate students there. Moreover, the results showed that students are satisfied with university environment and they will transfer a positive image of their friends with / of, which means the reputation of the university is high. The results showed that all hypothesis have been accepted , in addition to , the study showed there is a positive and high relationship between service quality in the academic institutions and student's retention, which mean that if the services in any academic institution do not meet student's perception and satisfaction, this will affect negatively on the student's retention. Moreover, students will transfer a negative image of the others and may be looking to find another university to study. The study recommends developing innovative tools and strategies in order to deliver high quality of services in all academic institutions in order to retain students there.


The ongoing Syrian peace process typifies the extremity of children's invisibility in peacemaking. To date, children — 43% of the population — are mostly unqualified in the successive peace agreements that constitute the process. Yet there is an international legal obligation to qualify children's standing as subject of human rights in and through the staged process. The paper aims to critically probe the ongoing peace process from a juristic, human rights and child-rights perspective and constructively yield legal and political opportunities for ensuring children's human rights in and through the staged process.


This article examines the sociological significance of sociolinguistic research in the area of education. The goal of my examination is to demonstrate that the study of language use in naturally occurring situations (I) contributes to an understanding of the role of language in education, (2) contributes to an understanding of the role of schoolng in social stratification, and (3) contributes to sociological theory by revealing issues not otherwise available for sociological analysis. In the body of the article, sociolinguistic studies of language use in contrasting settings are reviewed, and studies which suggest that language is the medium through which stratification occurs in schools are discussed. Before reviewing selected sociolinguistic studies in educational settings, I will place this line of research in the context of social sirati cation theories and the historical period of the work.


Light sport aircraft generally refers to single-seat or two-seat light aircraft with a take-off weight of less than 600 kg. With the characteristics of simple structure and low price, it has developed rapidly in recent years. One of the key points in the design and manufacture of light sport aircraft is to reduce the cost of structure manufacture. Therefore, composite materials are widely used. It not only reduces the weight of aircraft structure, but also reduces the cost. Combined with the structural characteristics of light sport aircraft, the material manufacturing process is analyzed, and the application of different processes in light sport aircraft is compared to determine the best manufacturing process plan.


Abstract Background The differential impact of depression across different periods in life on mortality remains inconclusive. We aimed to examine the association of depression that occurs at different age with all-cause mortality, and to explore the roles of dementia, as well as genetic and early-life environmental factors, in this association. Methods From the Swedish Twin Registry, 44,919 twin individuals were followed for up to 18 years. Depression was ascertained using the National Patient Registry and categorized as early-life (<45 years), midlife (45–64 years), and late-life (≥65 years) depression according to the age of the first diagnosis. Deaths were identified through the Cause of Death Register. Generalized estimating equation, generalized structural equation, and conditional logistic regression were used for unmatched, mediation, and co-twin matched analyses, respectively. Results In unmatched analyses, the multivariate-adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of mortality were 1.71 (1.46–2.00) for depression at any age, 1.72 (1.36–2.17) for early-life, 1.51 (1.19–1.90) for midlife, and 4.10 (2.02–8.34) for late-life depression. Mortality was significantly higher in individuals with late-life depression than those with earlier-life depression (p < 0.05). The mediation analysis showed that 59.83% of the depression-mortality association was mediated by dementia. No significant difference in ORs between the unmatched and co-twin matched analyses was observed (p = 0.09). Conclusions Depression is associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality, and dementia mediates approximately 60% of the impact of depression on mortality in late life. Genetic and early-life environmental factors may not play a significant role in the depression-mortality association.


In this document, we present a conceptual model for understanding and predicting the effects that ethnic and religious diversity must have on the ability of democratic government to deliver what are widely considered to be its natural fruits: political stability, civil order, and harmonious relationships between different groups in a society. We do not mean to imply by this that democracy is, or is thought of as being, a panacea for all ills in a polity, nor that no such desirable states of affairs can exist at any time in non-democratic polities. We simply make the unremarkable observation that systems that allow the formation of governments strongly reflective of the political desires of the people of a country are often thought, with some justification, to be more likely to produce these fruits than systems that produce governments unreflective of these desires.


Endophytes fungi have been extensively studied in conifer needles involving culture dependent  methods, however little number have been conducted in Pinus radiata and no record have been  reported from Tasmania. This study aimed to identify the major group of endophyte fungi isolated  from P. radiata needles with varied conditions collected from Tasmania, Victoria and New South  Wales plantation and confirmed by phylogenetic analysis of ITS gene. Sixteen endophyte fungi  species as member of Sordariomycetes were isolated and Coniochaeta sp. 1 was the most frequently  isolated species in this study.


A novel quadrature rule is formed combining Lobatto six point transformed rule and Gauss-Legendre five point transformed rule each having precision nine. The mixed rule so formed is of precision eleven. Through asymptotic error estimation the novelty of the quadrature rule is justified. Some test integrals have been evaluated using the mixed rule and its constituents both in non-adaptive and adaptive modes. The results are found to be quite encouraging for the mixed rule which is in conformation with the theoretical prediction.


Purpose of study Tendons are specialised dense tissues that connect muscle to bones and play a critical role in locomotion of the human skeleton. Tendon injury can occur as a result of acute trauma, overuse and/or insidious tissue degeneration due to ageing. At the present time, we know little about how tendon injury is repaired. The purpose of this study is to develop a mouse model of tendon injury relevant to human disease using ESET (ERG-related protein with a SET domain), a histone methyltransferase that has been previously identified to play a role in the regulation of tendon formation during embryonic development. Methods used Conditional knockout (CKO) of ESET in adult mice was achieved through the Cre-LoxP system and intraperitoneal injection of tamoxifen one month prior to starting physical exercise. 10 month-old WT and CKO mice then underwent a 30 min daily treadmill regimen at 10–12 metre/ min and 10° incline to simulate joint overuse. After days 14 and 21, mice were euthanized and patella tendons were isolated for biomechanical characterisation via tensile strength testing (stretched at a rate of 0.5 mm/second until failure). Immunohistochemistry (IHC) characterisation was performed at days 14 and 21 to assess for morphological changes in the patella tendon. RT-PCR was performed using RNA from WT and CKO tenocytes to analyse for changes in tendon-related genes. Summary of results After 14 days of running, the average tensile strength of WT patella tendon was 10.04±2.37 Newton (N) and the average for CKO patella tendon was 8.25±1.52 n (T test, p=0.049). When male mice were analysed separately, the decrease in tensile strength was more profound (11.49 ±0.55 n in WT and 8.46±1.09 n in CKO; T test, p=0.003). ESET mRNA was undetectable in CKO tenocytes. No difference in expression of tenocyte-related genes scleraxis and COL1A1 was detected in CKO vs WT tenocytes. However, the expression of tenomodulin and tenascin C was found to be significantly reduced in CKO tenocytes. Tensile testing at day 21 and IHC characterizations are in-progress. Conclusions Through this pilot study, we found that ESET is critical to the tensile strength of patella tendon in adult mice, likely due to ESET regulation of specific tendon genes tenomodulin and tenascin C. Future studies aim to expand this pilot study and investigate epigenetic mechanisms underlying ESET regulation. Abstract 354 Figure 1 The bottom five scores from the strengths and opportunities categories along with the top five scores from the weaknesses and threats tabs were collated. Abstracts


In this paper we present an overview of techniques and methodologies for processor cores and digital SoC integration showing how process sensors, circuitry and system control cooperate in order to achieve the best power, performance, area and yield trade-off. We cover combinatorial and sequential logic as well as memory cores in the context of retention, power gating and adaptive features. Various techniques are also given as example and illustrated by silicon measurements.


In this third issue of Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism we have the pleasure of bringing to the reader a broader scope of research from this interesting and challenging ® eld. In accordance with the scope of the journal, we present papers both on farm tourism in Sweden as well as on outbound tourism from Norway to the Mediterranean area. Moreover, for the ® rst time we are able to contribute to the discussions on meals and food as experienced by incoming tourists to Norway, and also about the increasingly important issue of competence and the workforce in hotel organisations. A book review presents an interesting new reader for students and scholars interested in the rapidly growing ® eld of `̀ special interest tourism'' . The Scandinavian research in our area is interesting and of good quality, and impulses from other parts of the world contribute to further expansions on theories, topics and methods. Special interest tourism is an area that ® ts well into the Scandinavian context, and research articles related to these issues are especially welcomed in this journal. One would expect that meals would be likely to play an important role for the traveller' s experiences of quality and also contribute to the overall level of satisfaction when away from home. Three or four times a day, the tourist purchases food for nutrition and also for enhancing the pleasure of travelling. The Scandinavian countries should be expected to provide excellent food and beautiful meals, with easy access to several kinds of raw materials that are both of outstanding quality and also partly unique to the area. Interestingly, few researchers have addressed this issue so far and, up until recently, few Scandinavian institutions have directed resources into research in this area. It is timely then to present an interesting article by Jens Kristian Steen Jacobsen and Jan Vidar Haukeland that is concerned with foreign motor tourists' choices and assessments of foodservice in the northern part of Norway. Despite the fact that most of these motorists are self-catering, a substantial number have had at least some of their meals in diVerent types of eating-places. Foreign motor tourists are most satis® ed with the view, and the service and friendliness of the staV, whereas waste of resources, selection of dishes on the menu, and, above all, price level, are identi® ed as weak points of this product. The latter should be especially addressed by both politicians and the industry since high prices probably contribute to more tourists preferring self-catering, which in turn creates vicious circles for the restaurants trying to cater for the tourists. This study also contributes more information which supports improvement eVorts as well as more research in


The nonlinearity of functionalized and nonfunctionlaized graphene as well as gold nanorods were investigated using the Z-scan system with an Ar laser beam tuned at a wavelength of 514 nm in a CW (continuous wave) regime that was in resonance with AuNRs (gold nanorods). Z-scan experimental study indicated that functionalized graphene had a negative nonlinear refraction with self-defocusing performance. The result concluded that gold nanorods (average length was 36 ± 3 nm, and the average diameter was 12 ± 2 nm) enhance the thermal nonlinear properties of graphene oxide materials. Gold nanorods were proved to enhance the nonlinear absorption by 50%, and there was a large enhancement on the thermal nonlinear refraction and the thermo-optical coefficient (dn/dT). It was observed that the AuFG (functionalized graphene film with gold nanorods) presented a large thermal nonlinear refraction. The value of the nonlinear refraction (n1) of FG and AuFG samples was shifted from -0.533 × 10 cm/W to -2.92 × 10 cm/W. There was a large enhancement in thermal refraction value that was about five factors larger than the nonlinear refraction of the host material (FG) and much larger (4 orders of magnitude) than that for AuNRs.


The construction of a gun capable of producing a microfocused (FWHM=5 μm) beam of Ar atoms at 10 keV for use in secondary electron and SIMS imaging of insulating samples is described. The design is based on the principle of neutralizing an ion beam by charge transfer subsequent to rastering and microfocusing, and therefore utilizes a final focusing lens with long working distance (60 mm). Neutral beam intensities of up to 20% of the focused ion beam can be produced. The performance of the gun is illustrated by secondary‐electron and secondary‐ion images of insulators.


In this paper, the authors propose a novel multipath routing protocol, which makes use of neighbor knowledge and uses adaptive HELLO messaging scheme in combination with node disjoint multipath routing. The proposed scheme chooses the parameters such that they all complement each other and enhances the overall routing performance of the network. The neighbor knowledge assigns order of forwarding of control packets and adaptive HELLO messaging scheme dynamically changes the HELLO interval. Combining them with a node disjoint multipath routing scheme based on energy of the nodes, results in a routing protocol which is diverse and universal in its network applications. Index Terms Ad hoc, AODV, node-disjoint, MANET, rebroadcast, RREQ, routing overhead.


The best advantage of Tibetan word segmentation based on word-position is to reduce segmentation errors for unknown words. In this article authors upgrade usual 4-tag set to 6-tag set to fit in with the features of Tibetan characters, using CRF as tagging model to train and test corpus data, then building post processing modules to revise the result data. The experimental result shows that this method achieves a good performance and deserves further study, including expanding the corpus and optimizing the tag set and feature templates.


Existing research on the commercial space focuses on research on the physical behavior of people or on the color of signage or appearance. The results of this study are as follows. First, the external design of the shop is influenced by people 's emotional influence and consumption. It is necessary to study the psychological emotional response of the people when the shops are gathered and the streets are formed. Therefore, this study investigated and analyzed the emotional response according to the distribution of mall through surveys to residents visiting and using Chang-dong Station. As a result, it was found that the type of shopping street affects people 's feeling of negative emotion in Chang-dong street. However, in order to further confirm the relevance of the emotion evaluation to the commercial distribution in the future, it will be necessary to perform the emotion evaluation by comparing the different street distribution to the similar distance form.


A Cooke triplet antenna used for near-field focusing is designed by a quasi-optical method. To design the Cooke triplet, we propose the quasi-optical method to reduce the aberration spot radius in the design step. The ray tracing method, calculating only the coordinates in the image plane rather than the field intensity, is used without considering the diffraction effect. The diffraction effect is taken into consideration only in the verification step. We get a conclusion that the essence of the aberration optimization is to optimize the phase distribution in the diffraction integral formula. In this case, only optimizing the aberrations without considering the diffraction effect is acceptable in the design step. While in the verification step, the diffraction is used to calculate the resolution of the Cooke triplet antenna. The field of view of the Cooke triplet is −18°∼18° in simulation and −14°∼14° in experiment. The feed sources can be positioned vertically to the optical axis in the image plane without the focal surface. The resolution of the off-axis beam is only 17% lower than the resolution of the central beam whose resolution is less than 0.5 cm at the distance 0.37 m. The experiment agrees well with the simulation.


School of Biosciences and Technology, Plant Biotechnology Division, Vellore Institute of Technology University. Vellore, India. Center for Plant Molecular Biology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India. Vellore, India. Center for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India. Centre for Plant Protection Studies (Entomology), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India. Centre for Plant Protection Studies (Plant Pathology), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.


Not included in this definition are the following: 1) research involving already-established human fetal cell lines (e.g. induced pluripotent stem cell lines, immortalized cell lines, differentiated cell lines); 2) research involving derivative products from human fetal cells (e.g. DNA, RNA, protein); 3) research involving already-established animal models containing human fetal cells or tissue; 4) research involving any human extra-embryonic cells and tissue, including, but not limited to, umbilical cord tissue, cord blood, placenta, amniotic fluid, and chorionic villi; and 5) human fetal cells present in maternal blood or other maternal or extra-embryonic sources.


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The article aims at discussing, in the current context of globalization, the relationship between three themes: education, digital technologies and development. From a historicalcritical horizon there is a dialogue with authors of information and communication technologies in connection with others who present the tension between the conventional paradigm and emerging concepts of development. The methodology consisted on the reflection on the sociohistorical movement to identify possible trends and contradictions in the current process of globalization under the decisive influence of digital technologies as a component that enhances educative mediations and new modes of cognition. As a result, the study indicates challenges and paths for a critical education that passes through the demystification of digital technologies in their pseudo neutrality. It is argued that, in education, digital technologies need to be seen as part of the context of ideological disputes regarding the vision of society one wants to build. We highlight the possibilities of a digital emancipation which implies following the path of an emerging paradigm, putting technology at the service of a social development together with environmental sustainability. Key words: digital technologies, education, development, teacher education, digital emancipation.


All reactions that are currently used to detect neutrinos are endothermic (more precisely, endo-energy). They occur at the expense of the energy of neutrino that initiates them. These reactions are characterized by a very small cross-section, which is close in magnitude to the 10−20 barn. Beta decay is an exo-thermal (more precisely, exo-energetic) reaction. Currently, it seems that the entire physical community believes that the beta decay phenomenon occurs completely by accident. However, recent experiments with reactor neutrinos [1, 2] have shown that their flux makes an additional contribution to the beta decay rate. Since beta decay is an exo-energetic reaction, neutrinos catalyze beta-active nuclei without losing own energy (or with a small loss of it). The cross-section of this process is much larger than the cross-section of the endo-energetic interaction of neutrinos with matter. Experimental measurements show that the cross section of reactor neutrinos with 63Ni nuclei is close to 1 barn.


College-enterprise cooperation,college-location cooperation and college-production cooperation are the important approaches for running vocational technical education,training technical professional talents and servicing middle and small micro-enterprises.According to the location and function of vocational technical education in middle and small micro-enterprise service,this paper puts forward its countermeasure,including the innovation of concept on vocational technical education,the construction of management mechanism for enterprises' participation in vocational technical education,the innovation of cultivating talents' mode,the innovation of content for vocational technical education,and the innovation of mode on teaching staff's construction.


Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death worldwide.1 Major CVD risk factors are hypertension, smoking, physical inactivity, abnormal glucose levels/diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia. Among these, dyslipidemia characterized by a low level of HDL-C (high-density lipoprotein cholesterol) is strongly and inversely correlated with CVD risk,2–4 and low HDL-C levels is part of the atherogenic dyslipidemia complex associated with diabetes mellitus.5 These observations triggered intense interest in increasing HDL-C levels for therapeutic intervention of CVD.6,7 However, several recent lines of evidence now suggest that the association between HDL-C levels and CVD status may be indirect or more complicated than previously recognized.7 Thus, human genetic studies demonstrate that genetically altered HDL-C levels do not necessarily translate to an altered risk of CVD.8–12 Phase III clinical trials of drugs that elevate HDL-C, such as niacin and CETP (cholesteryl ester transfer protein) inhibitors, also have largely failed to reduce CVD events in statin-treated subjects with established CVD.13–15 For several CETP inhibitors, improvement in CVD prevention was unsuccessful because of off-target effects (torcetrapib) or lack of efficacy (dalcetrapib and evacetrapib).14,16–18 The exception is the recent REVEAL trial (Randomized Evaluation of the Effects of Anacetrapib Through Lipid-Modification), which included more subjects and was performed for longer than previous CETP inhibitor trials. The REVEAL demonstrated that the CETP inhibitor anacetrapib exhibited beneficial effects on cardiovascular outcomes on top of those of statin therapy, although the risk reduction was moderate19,20 and might have been due, at least in part, to a reduction in non-HDL-C rather than elevated HDL-C.21 Considering these cumulative observations, it remains uncertain whether increased HDL-C directly impacts atherosclerosis and the …


Nanoelectronics based on carbon nanotubes and organic molecules as the conducting material has been receiving increasing attention as an alternative to silicon CMOS based computing technology. These new device technologies require development of novel circuits and architectures to be technically feasible and economically viable. We provide an overview of this subject along with opportunities and challenges.


Applying screening hypothesis theories and screening hypothesis,this paper analyses the recessive risks and the cause of formation in present university recruitment,and puts forward the way to promote university recruitment by selecting proper discernment,screening signal and providing menu to applicants in order to improve the methods of separation of equilibrium.


Arbuscular mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) is a microorganism that biologically affects plant enzymes and plant nutrients. AMF production development techniques need to be improved with the addition of nutritional fortification to produce quality AMF products. The research aimed was to cultivate AMF with complete fertilizer nutrition and different fertigation systems on Sorghum bicolor. The study used a 2 x 3 factorial randomized design with A factor: fertigation system (flat and terraced) and B factor: fertilizer nutrient levels (1000ppm, 2000ppm, 3000ppm). The results showed that the flat fertigation system had a significant different (p<0.05) on plant height, the number of leaves, stem diameter, and fresh biomass. However, in the high-level fertigation system, numbers of leaf, stem diameter, and fresh biomass did not have significant difference. There was no interaction between the fertigation and nutrient fortification systems. Sorghum panicle age started at 75 yields after planting (DAT). The relationship between percent infection and the number of spores showed a low level of correlation with R2 = 0.032. It can be concluded that the best fertigation system was a flat fertigation system for all nutrient fortifications, with the best average yield on 2000ppm nutrient fortification.
Key words:        AMF, fertigation system, nutrition fortification


The traditional vol/var control method, nine area control method, is enhanced by introducing fuzzy control theory and technology. Based on the operating status of substation and the combination of the position variable on nine area chart with the fuzzy input variables, the decoupling or comprehensive control way is decided. Then the control strategy is obtained from the fuzzy control algorithm. On considering the voltage adjustment stability and device controllable margin, the concept of variable inverse time delay is introduced. The short term load forecasting is combined with the real time fuzzy control. By simulation, it shows that the control algorithm results in improving voltage quality and decreasing power loss.


In this paper, I want so show that cotangent bundles play an important role for the study of homogeneous contact transformations of differentiable manifolds. The classical Laguerre's geometry of (n — l)-spheres in E can be regarded as a geometry of T(E)^E X F under a certain group of homogeneous contact transformations and the classical Lie's higher (n — l)-sphere geometry in E can be regarded as a geometry of T(S) under a certain group of homogeneous contact transformations, where S is the n-dimensional sphere. Therefore, it is natural to study T(M) in connection with homogeneous contact transformations of M.


Wuji Baifeng Pills is one of excellent gynecological medicine in Chinese traditional pharmaceutical science,with the efficacy in tonifying QI-blood,regulating menstruation and eliminating leucorrhea.In China it is well-known and widespread used in gynecological medicine owing to its treatment function in QI-blood deficiency,irregular menstruation,metrorrhagia and metrostaxis,night sweating with yin asthenia.In recently years,Wuji Baifeng Pills′ application scope is expanding such as internal medicine,orthopedics,infectious diseases and andriatrics along with research deeply in clinical application and pharmacological effects.Wuji Baifeng Pills should be found much more new application in clinical practice as a splendid flower in traditional Chinese herbal drug.


The dimensional reduction of D-dimensional spacetimes arising in string/M-theory, to the conformal Einstein frame, may give rise to cosmologies with accelerated expansion. Through a complete analysis of the dynamics of doubly warped product spacetimes, in terms of scale invariant variables, it is demonstrated that for D ≥ 10, eternally accelerating four-dimensional κ = −1 Friedmann cosmologies arise from dimensional reduction on an internal space with negative Einstein geometry.


Circular dichroism in photoelectron angular distributions of general biharmonic (i.e., $n\ensuremath{\omega}+m\ensuremath{\omega}$) atomic ionization is analyzed theoretically and given along with ``experimental guidelines'' on how it can be steered towards its maximum. It is shown that such a maximum circular dichroism can always be achieved for the ionization of an arbitrary atom and for any incident fundamental photon energy by fine control of only two experimental parameters: the relative flux and phase difference of the two components of the radiation field. In this Letter, we provide a simple analytical description of the circular dichroism as well as a set of rules which enables full control over its magnitude. Our findings are demonstrated explicitly for the ionization of helium with a two-color field composing a fundamental beam and its second harmonic.


In this paper, we have proposed an efficient cluster based fault detection and recovery in MWSN. If the Cluster head (CH) turns to be a selfish or malicious node, then the system will fail to detect the fault and the subsequent recovery process. Hence identifying selfish or misbehaving CH is essential. At the same time, identifying faulty data from sensors is another important issue in data gathering. Thus in the proposed work, we design a trust based cluster head validation scheme along with false data identification. Our proposed technique is named Trust-based Cluster head Validation and Outlier Detection Technique for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (TCVOD). At first, the cumulative trust of each cluster head is evaluated and the malicious cluster-heads are detected and replaced. For false data identification, the consistency value of each sensor node is evaluated and then the outliers are detected and eliminated.


The article deals with one of the most important aspects of improving the quality of the educational process at the university, namely, the formation of associative structures that provide a high level of educational process on the basis of complementary resources, of approaching the theoretical learning to the real economy.


Technological progress and the introduction of more and more new products to the market have intensified the process of changes in EU and national law within the product safety system. Legislative activities aimed at intensifying consumer protection have been observed in this area for several years. The primary role of instruments and legal mechanisms under this system is currently to guarantee consumer protection (protection of health and life) against the risks generated by various new products introduced to the market. In this respect, public law institutions adopted in this system play the leading role. These include market control and surveillance, product monitoring, and a coordinated system of informing about dangerous products.


Department of Virology, Okayama Prefectural Institute for Environmental Science and Public Health Section of Laboratory, Okayama City Public Health Center Summary In Japan, foodborne outbreak investigations tend to rely on pathogen detection from suspected foods, and rarely depend on epidemiological findings when implementing control measures. This often leads to a delay in outbreak response. In the United States and many countries in Europe, results from epidemiological investigations are more frequently used to control the outbreak in a timely manner. In June 1997, a major enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 foodborne outbreak struck Okayama city causing 125 illnesses. Despite a thorough investigation, health officials could not determine the direct cause of the outbreak due to insufficient epidemiological findings. Recognizing the need for epidemiological training, Okayama City Public Health Center, in collaboration with nearby universities, started hosting "Field Epidemiology Training" courses every year for food sanitation health officials not only of Okayama city, but also of other municipalities. The training course provides two three-day classes, "basic" and "advanced", according to the knowledge level of the trainees. The "basic" class aims at understanding general concepts of epidemiology and mastering basic techniques in a foodborne outbreak investigation. An exercise session is held after each lecture, which helps the trainees to understand the concepts and how to implement them to foodborne outbreak investigations. The course is practical and trainees may use the techniques taught in this course as soon as they get back to their job, which is highly appreciated. In the "advanced" class, trainees are divided into groups to each analyze outbreak investigation data brought from each trainee's health centers. Each group makes a presentation at the end of the course on how they analyzed the data and the reason for their final decision to manage the outbreak. They discuss the methods used and their decisions with the trainers and other groups. We believe that field epidemiology should play a more important role in foodborne outbreak investigation in Japan, and that field epidemiology training is becoming increasingly necessary.


The cultural prototype of Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone is Luo Yue culture,which evolves in a long history and enjoys rich connotation. The rice culture is seen as the essence of Luo Yue culture,forging the personalities of Luo Yue people and their descendants;the ancient medicine culture is believed to be derived from Luo Yue culture,insuring longevity of the people;the drum culture is the carrier of Luo Yue Culture in the arts and religious belief and so on,enriching ideological life of local people. Therefore,to revive Luo Yue culture requires modernization transformation,which relies heavily on education and cultural industry.


The analysis of the value chain in beef cattle of Mexico has focused mainly on production and final consumer; however, slaughter centers represent the main link between producers and consumers. The objective was to analyze the demand for live beef cattle in the slaughter centers of Mexico, 2000-2018. The sample considered 50 slaughterhouses, in 26 of 32 states and the demand models were estimated using the ordinary least squares method. It was possible to estimate the four best demand models by product; the price explained 43.4 % of the variability in the quantity of beef in the slaughter centers; 60.4 % for cull cows, 37.7 % steers, 33.5 % cull bulls and 28.8 % heifers. All products behaved inelastic in price (-0.17), but the demand for steers had the lowest elasticity (-0.06). The beef market presented a low average density of connections between the producers and slaughter centers analyzed (25.2 ± 43.4 %), which indicates its inefficiency. The state of Jalisco represented the main slaughter center in steers and cull cows, while Aguascalientes in heifers and cull bulls.


An electrostatic loudspeaker including a diaphragm having two opposite sides and supported by a frame with rigid walls respectively spaced from the two opposite sides of the diaphragm and provided with perforations to permit air to pass therethrough. Electrodes are respectively mounted on the walls. In the space between the diaphragm and at least one of the walls or another rigid part between the walls there is provided an elastic support for the diaphragm.


Last Modified February 28, 2019 Creator Massey, Alexandra Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science Abstract This content analysis of six fantasy novels for children aged approximately 8 to 12 discusses the archetypal Hero's Journey and its relation to the gender of the protagonist. These novels were read and analyzed for adherence to or departure from the traditional 17 stages of Joseph Campbell's monomyth, described in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The focus of the content analysis is whether female protagonists on quests face modified quests and employ stereotypically feminine techniques to overcome obstacles as opposed to their swashbuckling male counterparts. The modifications found in the six novels suggest that heroines rely on empathy rather than strength to complete quests. Date of publication Heroine's Journey: Gender and the Monomyth in Middle-Grade Fantasy Browse Everything


Immunohistochemical and molecular biological characterization of Ewing's sarcoma family tumors is proposed. It is shown that besides genome defects found in tumours, immunophenotypical heterogeneity is noted.


Speaking as Congress neared final approval of the historic tax bill, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders hailed the culmination of a year of major accomplishments.


The effect of material composition and structure on the magnetic domain nucleation field (Hn) and the domain wall propagation field (Hp) in fine cold‐drawn Permalloy wires is reported. Binary Ni/Fe wires (Fe>20%) were reentrant (Hn>Hp) when cold drawn to less than 250 μm diam. Alloying additions inhibited stress recovery during drawing and annealing and thereby increased and stabilized Hn. Variations in Hn along the wire length correlated with defects in the wire surface. Sputter coating the wire improved the surface condition and reduced variations in Hn. A magnetostrictive model of re‐entrancy is proposed and discussed.


The invention discloses a full automatic power run way which comprises a hanging basket; a running gear is connected on the hanging basket; the running gear comprises a running frame; the two sides of the running frame are both connected with a rocker mechanism; the rocker mechanism is provided with a rotatable rocker rod; one end of the rocker rod is connected with a running wheel capable of running on a high voltage line; the other end of the rocker rod is connected with the running frame in a rotating way; the middle part of the running frame is provided with a middle driving wheel and a clamping wheel; the middle driving wheel is connected with the rocker of the middle drive shaft; the clamping wheel is connected with the rocker of the clamping wheel; the rocker of the clamping wheel and the rocker of the middle drive wheel are both connected with the running frame and are connected with the running frame in a rotating way. Compared with the existing run way, the full automatic power run way can automatically avoid barriers and does not need to be dismounted manually, thereby reducing the working intensity of operation personnel, ensuring the safety of the operation personnel,and improving efficiency of overhauling work.


The thymosinβ_(11) EST sequence was picked out from the cDNA library of Ctenopharyngodon idellus to design the RACE primers.The full length cDNA sequence of thymosinβ_(11)(GenBank accession number:HM120850) from C.idellus intestine was cloned by rapid amplification of cDNA ends(RACE) method.The full langth of this gene's cDNA is 320 bp.It has a 47 bp 5'-untranslated region(UTR) and a 141 bp 3'-UTR.The open reading frame(ORF) of this gene's cDNA is 132 bp which putatively encodes 43 amino acids with the isoelectric point of 5.17 and molecular weight of 4892 Da.Multiple alignments showed that the deduced amino acid sequence ofβ-thymosins from grass crap shares a high degree of identity withβ-thymosins sequences from other species,and the highest homology specie is Danio rerio,(93.0%).Secondary structure prediction analysis indicated that secondary structure of C. idellu's thymosinβ_(11) is highly similar with otherβ-thymosins.


Acknowledgments Munir Akash Introduction Munir Akash and Carolyn Forche FROM Fewer Roses (1986) I Will Slog over This Road Another Road in the Road Were It Up to Me to Begin Again On This Earth I Belong There Addresses for the Soul, outside This Place Earth Presses against Us We Journey towards a Home We Travel Like All People Athens Airport I Talk Too Much We Have the Right to Love Autumn The Last Train Has Stopped On the Slope, Higher Than the Sea, They Slept He Embraces His Murderer Winds Shift against Us Neighing on the Slope Other Barbarians Will Come They Would Love to See Me Dead When the Martyrs Go to Sleep The Night There We Went to Aden Another Damascus in Damascus The Flute Cried In This Hymn FROM I See What I Want to See (1993) The Hoopoe FROM Why Have You Left the Horse Alone? (1995) I See My Ghost Coming from Afar A Cloud in My Hands The Kindhearted Villagers The Owl's Night The Everlasting Indian Fig The Lute of Ismael The Strangers' Picnic The Raven's Ink Like the Letter "N" in the Qur'an Ivory Combs The Death of the Phoenix Poetic Regulations Excerpts from the Byzantine Odes of Abu Firas The Dreamers Pass from One Sky to Another A Rhyme for the Odes (Mu'allaqat) Night That Overflows My Body The Gypsy Woman Has a Tame Sky FROM A Bed for the Stranger (1999) We Were without a Present Sonnet II The Stranger Finds Himself in the Stranger The Land of the Stranger, the Serene Land Inanna's Milk Who Am I, without Exile? Lesson from the Kama Sutra Mural (2000) Mural Three Poems (before 1986) A Soldier Dreams of White Tulips As Fate Would Have It Four Personal Addresses Glossary


THE AUTHORS DESCRIBE THE DEFLECTIONS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAMES SUBJECTED TO LONG-TERM GRADUATED LOADS. THE INFLUENCE OF THE LOADING CONDITIONS ON CUMULATIVE IRREVERSIBLE DEFORMATIONS AND RECOVERY LINKED TO CONCRETE CREEP IS INVESTIGATED. FOR THE COVERING ABSTRACT OF THE CONFERENCE, SEE IRRD ABSTRACT NO. 104872


The rise of Golden Dawn as a political force on the streets of Athens has provided the Greek state the opportunity to adopt a xenophobic agenda and forcefully eliminate threats to government austerity. The detention and torture of migrant groups and political opponents in the city, seriously call into question the future credibility of Greek democracy.

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Traditional vehicle recognition methods have the disadvantages such as low efficiency and time-consuming due to the complex background and overlapping situation. In this paper, we propose a multiscale adptive spatial feature fusion (ASFF) method for vehicle recognition. First, it calculates the difference hash values of images. Then the hash value is used to judge the similarity between the current frame and the previous frame. When the similarity is less than the threshold value, it is input to ResNet18 model for detection. Using ResNet18 as the base network can reduce network parameters. Then, aiming at the problem that the detection effect of ASFF for vehicle recognition is not ideal, the offset loss and width-height loss are replaced by the intersection ratio loss. Meanwhile, multi-scale adaptive spatial feature fusion method is adopted to fuse the multi-level features of the network. The experimental results show that the average accuracy with proposed methed is increased by 2.1%. For BDD100K and Pascal VOC datasets, the average accuracy of predicted borders is increased by 5.5%, when the IoU is greater than 0.5. With the GTX1060Ti, the recognition speed can reach 149 frames per second. The multiscale ASFF in this paper can significantly improve the vehicle recognition accuracy.


objecive To evaluate our experience and diagnosis of cesarean scar pregnancy(CSP) with color doppler ultrasound.Methods From March 2006 to June 2010,3 cases of cesarean scar pregnancy were diagnosed using color doppler sonography and treated conservatively to preserve fertility.Gastational age,sonographic findings,β-human chorionic gonadotropin(β-hCG) levels,flow profiles of transvaginal color Doppler ultrasound,and trasabdominal sonography during treatment were recorded.Results The gastational sac(GS) ages were diagnosed for about 6 weeks.The time interval from the Cesarean section to the diagnosis of Cesarean scar pregnancy was from 9 months to 126 months.Embryonic period diagnosed by color doppler sonography were as follow: the sizes of GS ranged from 0.8cm×0.4cm×0.5cm to 2.2cm×2.1cm×1.0cm,all with cardiac activity,the crown-rump length ranged from 0.3cm to 0.7cm,the anterior myometrial thickness to the csp were measured 0.5cm with rich color flow show.The patients were treated as follow: ultrasound-guided dilation and curettage under hysteroscopy within 24 hours following uterine artery embolization(n=2),the failure of uterine artery embolization and systemic methotrexate(MTX) injection,the vial GS validated by transvaginal ultrasound,then getting out and dilation and curettage of the csp under hysteroscopy by following-up(n=1).Conclusion Transvaginal ultrasound plays an important and useful role in the early diagnosis of the CSP.During operation under the abdominal ultrasound online screening,it is obvious for the shorteness of opareative time,the decrease of operator's blindness and the safeguard of operative security to dilate and currette.


A vegetable testing method using GC-ECD with pretreatments of gel permeation chromatography and solid phase extraction to determine 20 types of organochlorine pesticides and pyrethroid pesticides was studied,involvedα-666,β-666,γ-666,δ-666, chlorothalonil,aldrin,triadimefon,buprofezin,p,p'-DDE,dieldrin,o,p'-DDT,p,p'-DDD,p,p'-DDT,bifenthrin,fenpropathrin,permethrin, cyhalothrin,cypermethrin,fenvalerate,deltaraethrin,etc.The results indicated that the 20 pesticides had well separation.We added pesticides with levels from 0.01 to 1.0 mg·kg~(-1),the recoveries were 69.2%~116.3%,the relative standard deviations were 1.4%~8.9%,and the corresponding detection limits were 0.06~13.0μg·kg~(-1).


The authors consider the two-Riccati-equation solution to a standard H/sup infinity / control problem, which can be used to characterize all possible stabilizing optimal or suboptimal H/sup infinity / controllers if the optimal H/sup infinity / norm (or gamma ), an upper bound of a suboptimal H/sup infinity / norm is given. Some eigen properties of these H/sup infinity / Riccati solutions are revealed. The most prominent one is that the spectral radius of the product of these two Riccati solutions is a continuous, nonincreasing, convex function of gamma on the domain of interest. Based on these properties, a quadratically convergent algorithm is developed to compute the optimal H/sup infinity / norm. >


Abstract Northern peatlands constitute a significant source of atmospheric methane (CH 4). However, management of undisturbed peatlands, as well as the restoration of disturbed peatlands, will alter the exchange of CH 4 with the atmosphere. The aim of this systematic review and meta‐analysis was to collate and analyze published studies to improve our understanding of the factors that control CH 4 emissions and the impacts of management on the gas flux from northern (latitude 40° to 70°N) peatlands. The analysis includes a total of 87 studies reporting measurements of CH 4 emissions taken at 186 sites covering different countries, peatland types, and management systems. Results show that CH 4 emissions from natural northern peatlands are highly variable with a 95% CI of 7.6–15.7 g C m−2 year−1 for the mean and 3.3–6.3 g C m−2 year−1 for the median. The overall annual average (mean ± SD) is 12 ± 21 g C m−2 year−1 with the highest emissions from fen ecosystems. Methane emissions from natural peatlands are mainly controlled by water table (WT) depth, plant community composition, and soil pH. Although mean annual air temperature is not a good predictor of CH 4 emissions by itself, the interaction between temperature, plant community cover, WT depth, and soil pH is important. According to short‐term forecasts of climate change, these complex interactions will be the main determinant of CH 4 emissions from northern peatlands. Drainage significantly (p < .05) reduces CH 4 emissions to the atmosphere, on average by 84%. Restoration of drained peatlands by rewetting or vegetation/rewetting increases CH 4 emissions on average by 46% compared to the original premanagement CH 4 fluxes. However, to fully evaluate the net effect of management practice on the greenhouse gas balance from high latitude peatlands, both net ecosystem exchange (NEE) and carbon exports need to be considered.


Functional magnetic resonance imaging was performed on a 36‐year‐old woman with muscular dystrophy, intractable epilepsy, and bilateral temporo‐occipital lissencephaly. We observed islands of task‐specific activation in lissencephalic cortex homologous to visual association regions activated in normal subjects on the same visual confrontation naming task. This result suggests lissencephalic cortex may develop specific functional connections with other brain regions. Ann Neurol 1999;45:515–518


We believe that the simplicity and usefulness of self tuning control systems are the important factors in control performance evaluation. In this paper some self-tuning control systems are studied from the view point of these factors when applying them to a real multivariable plant.


Rights: © 2010 Society for Neuroscience. This is the accepted version of the following article: Kauramaki, J. & Jaaskelainen, I. P. & Hari, Riitta & Mottonen, R. & Rauschecker, J. P. & Sams, M. 2010. Lipreading and Covert Speech Production Similarly Modulate Human Auditory-Cortex Responses to Pure Tones. Journal of Neuroscience. Volume 30, Issue 4. 1314-1321. ISSN 0270-6474 (printed). DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1950-09.2010, which has been published in final form at http://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/4/1314.short.


Peat commonly known as highly organic soil, is a key issue at tropical and coastal infrastructure building. As a result, understanding the peat's characteristics is critical. To investigate the characteristics of several peats in Sabah is the purpose of this study. For this study, peat samples were taken from two different locations in the Beaufort Sabah, namely Klias and Lumadan, with different land vegetation types. Field work and laboratory testing were aimed to figure out the degree of humification and peat depth, as well as the physical and chemical properties of the peat. In addition, EDX and SEM tests were conducted to study the peat's chemical composition and its microstructural characteristics. The outcome shows that Klias and Lumadan samples are under classification of hemic (pseudo-fibrous) peat, which displays H6 to H7 on the von Post scale, indicating an intermediate degree of breakdown. Both research sites show different peat depths of 4 and 4.5m, respectively. The moisture content, organic content, fibre content, specific gravity, liquid limit, and acidity of peat from Klias to Lumadan sites are found to be different. Chemical composition shows that the peat sample in Klias contains more elements of carbon compared to the Lumadan sample. The SEM result of Klias peat samples is made up of fibres that are woody, porous in nature and shows a little looser fibric arrangement. In contrast, the SEM result for Lumadan samples are lack on organic matter and fibre in soil, shows flaky granular nature and low quantity of void pores than the Klias sample. In this study, the SEM results are used to support the findings of the field and laboratory tests.


The dormancy buds of Acer mandshuricum Maxin was used as explant,to study tissue culture by using different medium and different inoculation technique.The results showed that transferred the dormant bud bulb scale of Acer mandshuricum and exposed 2~4 mm hight of leaf primordium,the budding rate was highest;cultivation effect was best in MS+BA 0.5 mg/L+KT 0.01 mg/L+sucrose 30 g/L+Agar 7.5 g/L,pH 5.6~5.8.


Purpose – To explain a joint effort by the national securities exchanges to implement a Tick Size Pilot program. The pilot program would widen the minimum quoting and trading increments for certain small cap stocks. Design/methodology/approach – The article reviews the Tick Size Pilot plan generally, discusses how the final plan differs from proposed plan, describes securities that will be affected by the plan, and the various test groups under the plan. Findings – Pilot program is designed to provide the SEC with empirical data regarding the impact that tick size may have on the trading of small cap stocks. Practical implications – Exchanges will be required to adopt rules to implement the pilot program. Broker-Dealers will be required to adopt written policies and procedures to comply with the pilot plan when quoting and for trading. Originality/value – Practical guidance from experienced securities lawyers. The article describes the operation of the new pilot program.


Theoretical investigation is carried out for understanding the properties of three-dimensional electron-acoustic waves propagating in magnetized plasma whose constituents are cold magnetized electron fluid, hot electrons obeying nonthermal distribution, and stationary ions. For this purpose, the hydrodynamic equations for the cold magnetized electron fluid, nonthermal electron density distribution, and the Poisson equation are used to derive the corresponding nonlinear evolution equation, Zkharov–Kuznetsov (ZK) equation, in the small- but finite- amplitude regime. The ZK equation is solved analytically and it is found that it supports both solitary and blow-up solutions. It is found that rarefactive electron-acoustic solitary waves strongly depend on the density and temperature ratios of the hot-to-cold electron species as well as the nonthermal electron parameter. Furthermore, there is a critical value for the nonthermal electron parameter, which decides whether the electron-acoustic solitary wave's ampl...


BTEC, the Business and Technology Education Council came into being in late 1983, and is responsible for certificating a number of qualifications, including the so-called 'vocational A-level', the GNVQ. Geoff Smith looks at the history of the organisation and its precursors, and the qualifications relevant to the textile coloration industry.


Neuroglobin (Ngb) is a myoglobin‐like (Mb) heme‐globin, belonging the globin family located only in neuronal tissue of the central nervous system. Ngb has been shown to be upregulated in and to protect neurons from hypoxic and ischemic injury, but the function of Ngb—in particular how Ngb may protect neurons—remains largely elusive. We have previously described the localization of Ngb in the rat brain and found it to be expressed in areas primarily involved in sleep/wake, circadian, and food regulation. The present study was undertaken, using immunohistochemistry, to characterize the localization, colocalization, innervation, and response to light of Ngb‐immunoreactive (IR) cells in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Our results demonstrate that the majority of Ngb‐expressing neurons in the SCN belong to a cell group not previously characterized by neurotransmitter content; only a small portion was found to co‐store GRP in the ventral SCN. Furthermore, some Ngb‐containing neurons were responsive to light stimulation at late night evaluated by the induction of cFOS and only a few cells were found to express the core clock gene PER1 during the 24‐hour light/dark cycle. The Ngb‐containing cells received input from neuropeptide Y (NPY)‐containing nerve fibers of the geniticulo‐hypothalamic tract (GHT), whereas no direct input from the eye or the midbrain raphe system was demonstrated. The results indicate that the Ngb could be involved in both photic and nonphotic entrainment via input from the GHT. J. Comp. Neurol. 518:1556–1569, 2010. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


In this paper, we propose a new analytical model for brushless dc motors that is based on the magnetic circuit. The magnetic circuit is constructed with magnetic reluctances of stator and rotor cores and magnetomotive force of the stator winding currents and permanent magnets. Combining the magnetic circuit, electrical circuit, electronic circuit, and control circuit, we can accurately analyze the dynamic characteristics of the brushless dc motor.


"Tis like the bible," Vinnie had said and Mary had believed her, had expected stories of giants and floods, of storms and bolts of lightning coming out of heaven, yarns with great ringing phrases, rolling words like those that leapt from Ned's mouth when he was happy or excited. Instead Lavinia has written of women clearing gardens, of making fish, or hay, or candles -- mundane things Mary would not have given the time of day to. "Whenever is she goin' to get around to somethin' happenin'?" the old woman would ask peevishly after Rachel has been reading about berry-picking or boat building for an hour (Morgan 1992: 92-93). This excerpt from Bernice Morgan's novel Random Passage (1992), an historical romance that narrates the trials, challenges and intrigues of early Newfoundland settlers on fictional Cape Random, highlights one of the novel's main preoccupations: the domestic, the workaday, and the mundane. Such a narrative might seem an unusual choice in a discussion about festival. Traditionally, the term festival has been defined in opposition to deprivation and fasting, to work, and to the ordinary. "Etymologically the term festival," writes Alessandro Falassi, "derives ultimately from the Latin festum, for `public joy, merriment, revelry,' and feria, meaning `abstinence from work in honor of the gods'" (1987: 2). Clearly, then, one of the crucial components of festival is a rest from work, whether this break be a night of mummering, a daylong birthday celebration, or a week of Christmas festivities. A marked departure from the habitual activities of a society, festival operates, to use Falassi's phrase, in a "time out of time" (1987: 7). In festival time, participants leave behind the rhythms of ordinary life to celebrate, often playing with conspicuous display and excess, symbolic reversals, and the subversion of what are generally regulated activities. Given the exaggeration and celebration inherent in carnival, festival is, ultimately, remarkable. Festival is loud. Festival is joyous. It is, generally, anything but boring. The non-festival, by contrast, is comprised of the unremarkable, the ordered, the ritualistic, the ordinary and the commonsensical. Non-festival dwells in the realm of the mundane, an adjective that comes from the Latin mundus, meaning "world." As the etymology suggests, the mundane involves the banal activities and common material objects of the everyday world. The word smacks of the routine and the boring. Washing the dishes, brushing your teeth, or getting dressed -- all mundane activities -- hardly make for exciting existence. Indeed, we might not consider the mundane to be rivetting or worth celebrating or aestheticizing at all. What then, one might ask, is the relationship between the mundane and the festive in a novel like Random Passage and others that stylistically construct the space of the "everyday" in regional texts? A novel, I contend, can bridge the festive and non-festive; it can, paradoxically, celebrate everyday experience and ultimately serve a therapeutic and community-building function for a region. In some respects, Random Passage enacts a space of a non-festival, stylistically: the syntax, word choices and narrative structure do not indulge in excess, in symbolic reversals, in subversions, or in play, but rather -- as I demonstrate -- emphasize the "ordinary." In narrative content, too, the book follows for the most part the day-to-day activities on the Cape: women learning how to split fish, pick berries, gather eggs and stretch provisions throughout the winter -- "mundane things" we might not "give the time of day to" (Morgan 1992: 92-93). Yet a regional novel, no matter how mundane its style and content -- or perhaps, because it seems mundane and "right" -- can become (for local readers, at least) what Victor Turner calls "a celebratory symbol" (1982: 20) as it is read and celebrated as a means of knowing oneself as a regional subject. …


Interested in Systems Engineering certification? John O. Clark will present a 2‐day tutorial immediately preceding the IS10 Conference. This tutorial provides an overview of the INCOSE SE Handbook to help you prepare for the INCOSE SE Certification exam. The tutorial covers the Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) process as well as the sections and appendices of the SE Handbook, Version 3.1 (the basis for the certification exam), in a study group format. It also provides example exam questions and tips on filling out your CSEP application. The tutorial consists of 16 sections from Saturday, July 10 through Sunday, Sunday July 11, from 8:00 a.m. ‐ 5:00 p.m. each day. The tutorial hardcopies, certificate of completion, and refreshments are included. For more information on the CSEP application process see http://www.incose.org/educationcareers/certification/, and to apply on‐line in advance of the tutorial see the IS10 Registration site, or contact John Clark at (email@example.com). Registrants are encouraged, but not required, to attend the IS10.


ABSTRACT The school inspectorates of the four jurisdictions of the UK are sources of evidence about the quality of humanities teaching, learning and curriculum in primary schools. The term 'humanities' usually refers to the subjects of geography, history and Religious Education, but here they are considered holistically, not separately. Discrete subject and inter-subject humanities inspection reports are used to identify what inspectors report to be high-quality practices in this curriculum area. Six themes are presented, which reveal that: the best humanities curricula are based on subject and cross-subject ideas and connections, with subject learning clearly visible; flexible but rigorous approaches to planning enable progression in children's learning; strong teacher–child and teacher–humanities relationships reflect teachers' evident enthusiasm, commitment and expectations; teachers use a diverse range of approaches and resources; active and enquiry-based learning approaches engage children in developing their studies; and strong humanities leadership and explicit emphasis in school development priorities underpin high-quality primary humanities. These features reflect the skills and qualities of expert primary teachers.


This paper summarizes the major demographic and dynamic risk factors associated with suicide in terms of using this information to determine whether or not the college student needs to be hospitalized. If the decision is made not to hospitalize, an ecological approach to suicide prevention is suggested for both initial stabilization of the student, and as a problem solving strategy to address those issues that precipitated the student's suicidal inclination.


Many applications such as production optimization and reservoir management are computationally demanding due to a large number of forward simulations. Typically, each forward simulation involves multiple scales and is computationally expensive. The main objective of this dissertation is to develop and apply both local and global model-order reduction techniques to facilitate subsurface flow modeling. We develop a POD-DEIM global model reduction method for multi-phase flow simulation. The approach entails the use of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD)Galerkin projection, and Discrete Empirical Interpolation Method (DEIM). POD technique constructs a small POD subspace spanned by a set of global basis that can approximate the solution space. The reduced system is set up by projecting the full-order system onto the POD subspace. Discrete Empirical Interpolation Method (DEIM) is used to reduce the nonlinear terms in the system. DEIM overcomes the shortcomings of POD in the case of nonlinear PDEs by retaining nonlinearities in a lower dimensional space. The POD-DEIM global reduction method enjoys the merit of significant complexity reduction. We also propose an online adaptive global-local POD-DEIM model reduction method. This unique global-local online combination allows (1) developing local indicators that are used for both local and global updates; (2) computing global online modes via local multiscale basis functions. The multiscale basis functions consist of offline and some online local basis functions. The main contribution of the method is that the criteria for adaptivity and the construction of the global online modes are based on local error indicators and local multiscale basis functions which can be cheaply computed. The approach is particularly useful for situations where one needs to solve the reduced system for inputs or


Objective : To characterize the symptoms and urodynamic findings of men with lower urinary tract dysfunction after a transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). Materials and Methods : A total of 123 consecutive men with lower urinary tract dysfunction after surgical treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) were analyzed. Men with prostate cancer, stricture, multiple TURPs, radical prostatectomy or prostate cancer treatment were excluded. Parameters assessed by urodynamics included bladder capacity, detrusor contractibility, pressure flow study, and post void residual. Analysis of the variance was used to compare outcomes of urodynamic parameters between the primary diagnoses. Results : Mean age at TURP was 68 years (range 39 to 88). Symptoms included frequency (68%), nocturia (53%), urgency (44%), and retention requiring catheterization (17%). A total of 72 men (59%) were diagnosed with bladder outlet obstruction (BOO), 30 (24%) with impaired detrusor contractility (DU), and 21 (17%) with detrusor over activity (DO).  Among these groups, there was no difference in duration of recurrent symptoms, AUA symptom score, Quality of Life score, or prostate size. Maximum flow was significantly less and post-void residual significantly greater in both BOO and DU groups. Bladder capacity was significantly higher in DU. Conclusions : In the modern era, bladder outlet obstruction was the most common cause of recurrent lower urinary tract dysfunction after surgical management of BPO.


The invention discloses a ZigBee networking system and a networking method. The ZigBee networking system comprises a coordinator node, a router node and an end device node all of which are sequentially connected. The router node and the end device node are provided with corresponding power source keys and allocation keys, and the defects that the operation specialty is too high, user operation is inconvenient and the using cost of the network is greatly increased due to additional allocation equipment can be effectively overcome through the combination of the networking measuring method.


In recent years, SZ-type tower and other angular-type cross-bearing head plus slings of the cross-stretcher structure of the tower on-line has been widely used. However, there is currently no special card in line with it. Therefore, this paper puts forward the use of aluminum alloy as a material developed that can be stuck in the cross-stretcher head of the 220 kV SZ-type double-back straight tower with live replacement overhang insulator hanging line card. It includes a screw lever, a wire lever with a hook hook in the lower part of the bar, and a screw lever connected to a crossbar card. The cross-stretcher mount has a cavity in the middle and a screw seat on both sides, with each screw lever standing on the screw seat when used. The cross-load mount holder is on the sZ-type double-back straight-line tower cross-mounted plate, which can be used for installation on the SZ-type tower. It provides a screw hanging point when the SZ-type tower is charged to replace the insulator. It has the characteristics of simple structure, reasonable and safe use.


This research aims to produce Edmodo-based e-learning that is feasible and effective to improve science learning outcomes. This research uses a modified Borg & Gall (1983) model. Data collection tools are in the form of questionnaire and test. Data analysis technique used is descriptive analysis. The results showed that the average validation score (1) of the media expert was 4.6 (very valid); (2) peers were 4.5 (very valid); (3) the material expert was 4.5 (very valid); (4) user limited test group is 3.8 (valid); (5) implementation group is 4.1 (valid). To test the effectiveness of e-learning and interactive learning media in improving learning outcomes in Natural Science learning for 7th graders. Based on the pretest results, it obtained an average value of 5.80, then on the posttest results showed an average increase to 75.60. Based on the results of research, it can be concluded that Edmodo-based e-learning developed is feasible and effective to be used in Natural Science learning.


Land planning specialization of land relations and land use system has significantly strengthened the role and place of land planning activities in the development of the country's economy and its territories. However, the theory of land organization and land planning does not keep up with the demands of practice. The functions, subject and objects of land organization and land planning are declared to a limited extent. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to substantiate the current development of land organization and land planning in Ukraine on the basis of the latest institutional and behavioral economic theory. It is substantiated that land planning activity is a socio-economic institution that provides trust, understanding and in the socio-economic area, through professional processing, submission and interpretation for users of land information about the facts and processes of organizations (institutions). In the narrow sense the land planning is the Institution of transformation using specific methods, rules (its formal component) and professional skills and judgments (informal component of the institution) of land managing facts in the language of numbers for understanding and manageability of all subjects of the socio-economic area. In a broad sense, land planning as an institution forms a certain face of land-tenure and land-use, state land institutions, public and other organizations (institutes) who organize and manage the use and protection of land and other natural resources and provide important informational content of local, regional, national and global socio-economic areas. The institution of land planning is primarily characterized by the state of the informal component, its ability to influence the adoption and compliance with the «rules of the game» through «organizations-institutions» (primarily associations of professional land surveyors). Influence the effective representation of management and economic activities related to land in society. This increase in theoretical ideas opens up new ways to develop land planning and, consequently, land reform measures. Its scientific and legal components («rules of the game») are increasingly based on ideas, the influence of the professional environment, which should become more and more organizationally united. On the other hand, the institutional theory of land planning opens the possibility and substantiates the need for the use of state regulatory bodies, scientific schools, professional associations of land surveyors, the ideology of «land planning engineering» and «land planning imperialism» in land policy.


In this paper, design and implement an algorithm for parametric free kernel based fuzzy c means in color image segmentation by introducing a tradeoff weighted fuzzy factor and a kernel metric. The fuzzy factor depends on both the local information and gray level information together. So new algorithm can select the most appropriate cluster after finding the membership values. For finding the performance to noise, one more term is added that is kernel parameter and it is parametric free. An application that is useful for color images is developed and implemented using parametric free kernel based fuzzy C means segmentation algorithm. The results showed that the parametric free kernel based fuzzy C means algorithm segmented in such a way as we obtained in gray scale. But if we use low resolution pixel color images, it is very hard to identify the segmented part. This whole algorithm is depending on one parameter that is segmentation accuracy. Segmentation accuracy and resolution of the images are directly proportional. That means resolution of the image increases, segmentation accuracy also increases. If we look through the proposed algorithm, the loop will execute in 3 times. Because the color image contain 3 components, red, green and blue. So in terms of computation time, the algorithm is less efficient.


THE AVAILABILITY AND DISTRIBUTION of primary care and basic health services are of increasing vorldwide concern. Access to minimal services is a particular problem in the rural areas of the world, where aproximately three-quarters of the population lives. In addition to the local problems posed by scarcity of human services, including health, the "service isolation" of rural communities probably remains a significant factor in the major rural-to-urban migrations that have been taking place in both the affluent and the poorer nations over the past three centuries. With regard to health services, in the past little emphasis was placed on effectively meeting the health care needs of the rural periphery. The consequent imbalances of distribution are familiar to us in the United States; they are even more sharply reflected in most developing countries. Recently, however, in many societies-including ours-interest has heightened in fostering a wider distribution of rural health services to the extent that resources are available to provide them. There are some


The automotive industry is currently working to accommodate the conflicting requirements of both environmental legislation and customer demands for greater performance and more luxury and safety features, by developing a light-weight and therefore essentially, energy-efficient vehicle. To satisfy these demands, various materials are used in car body production. But it is not always possible to join these materials by common joining method such as resistance spot welding; therefore clinching seems to be possible alternative. The paper dealt with the evaluation of properties of joints made by clinching. The sheets made of the high-strength low-alloy steel H220PD (a0 = 0.8 mm), advanced high strength steel RA-K 40/70+Z100MBO (a0 = 0.77 mm) and the drawing grade steel DX51D+Z (a0 = = 0.9 mm) were used for the experiments. The following tests were performed to evaluate the properties of the clinched joints: tensile test and a metallographical analysis.


Abstract 2-tert-Butyl-5-iodoindolizine underwent Sonogashira reaction with acetylenes in the presence of dichlorobis(triphenylphosphine)palladium, copper(I) iodide, and triethylamine in acetonitrile to give to the corresponding 5-ethynylindolizines in high yields; 5-iodo-2-phenylindolizine and 5-bromo-2-tert-butylindolizine did not undergo the reaction. Several structures were characterized by X-ray. The 5-ethynylindolizines did not undergo cyclization to give cycl[3.2.2]azines.


Initial work indicates that a viable aircraft family can be designed for higher subsonic cruise speeds. Studies to date suggest that the propulsion system/nacelle design and the incorporation of noise attenuation into this design will have more influence on the choice of an optimum engine than engine weight and fuel consumption. These studies also suggest the payoff resulting from the incorporation of new technology items such as the internal engine generator and new structural cowl concepts because of the greater sensitivity to drag. These factors, plus the greater interdependency of the transonic aircraft and its propulsion system, point up the importance of a total system approach to propulsion system optimization and design.


Access-list is the first pass that prevents from attacks by permitting or denying packets to pass the router's interface.In this paper,the basic concept and theory of access-list is expounded and a new type access-list with advanced security is detailedly discussed,an example of creating and applicating access-list is given ,Finally,the solution of network security is given.


&NA; Severe influenza virus infection can lead to life‐threatening pathology through immune‐mediated tissue damage. In various experimental models, this damage is dependent on T cells. There is conflicting evidence regarding the role of neutrophils in influenza‐mediated pathology. Neutrophils are often regarded as cells causing tissue damage, but, in recent years, it has become clear that a subset of human neutrophils is capable of suppressing T cells, which is dependent on macrophage‐1 antigen (CD11b/CD18). Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that immune suppression by neutrophils can reduce T cell‐mediated pathology after influenza infection. Wild‐type (WT) and CD11b−/− mice were infected with A/HK/2/68 (H3N2) influenza virus. Disease severity was monitored by weight loss, leukocyte infiltration, and immunohistochemistry. We demonstrated that CD11b−/− mice suffered increased weight loss compared with WT animals upon infection with influenza virus. This was accompanied by increased pulmonary leukocyte infiltration and lung damage. The exaggerated pathology in CD11b−/− mice was dependent on T cells, as it was reduced by T cell depletion. In addition, pathology in CD11b−/− mice was accompanied by higher numbers of T cells in the lungs early during infection compared with WT mice. Importantly, these differences in pathology were not associated with an increased viral load, suggesting that pathology was immune‐mediated rather than caused by virus‐induced damage. In contrast to adoptive transfer of CD11b−/− neutrophils, a single adoptive transfer of WT neutrophils partly restored protection against influenza‐induced pathology, demonstrating the importance of neutrophil CD11b/CD18. Our data show that neutrophil CD11b/CD18 limits pathology in influenza‐induced, T cell‐mediated disease.


Grain is a commodity of strategic significance. The general self-sufficiency of cereal grains is vital to people's livelihood and national security of China, a country with a population approaching 1.4 billion. Northeast China is endowed with the most abundant agricultural resources in China. Its grain industry is growing faster than any other part of China; it has the greatest potentials for development, and makes the maximum contribution to national food security. Northeast China is now an important commodity grain and livestock production base. In this paper, the food security situation in this region is elaborated against the backdrop of internationalization and greenization, the trend of food supply and demand in this region is analyzed, problems concerning food security are classified, and strategic suggestions are proposed, including accelerating the supply-side structural reform for agriculture, promoting the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry, and developing benefit-oriented agriculture. This study is hoped to provide a reference for implementation of decisions involving regional food security and sustainable development.


The teaching of statistics for non-statistics majors in colleges and universities of finance and economics should be reformed and innovated in contents, methods,means and examination systems in order to cultivate high-qualified personnel in the management of finance and economics.


Sir - All forms of discrimination in the social setting affect health. The phenomenon of gender inequality is apparent in a preference for male babies, longer breastfeeding of male infants, more food of better quality for boys and men, and high maternal mortality. This letter considers human rights in Egypt as they affect health, in particular socioeconomic and cultural forms of discrimination, access to health care, and women's empowerment in view of societal restrictions and relations of power. Despite men's cultural obligation to support widowed, divorced or single women in the extended family in Egypt, 22% of households are headed by women. Adult literacy has improved slightly over the last decade, but the literacy rate for women (37%) is not much more than half that of men, which has implications for women's and children's health. Women in towns are more likely to be literate than those in rural areas. In Egypt there are cultural barriers to the use of health services by women. A national survey revealed that 27% of women only visited a health service or a doctor if accompanied by another adult, and that others would not use the services if there was no female physician (1). Despite support from the Social Fund for the establishment of a clinic run by female physicians in deprived rural areas, a study showed that women doctors found the cultural environment too restricting and would only participate if their husbands came from the same region. In Egypt the mean age of women at marriage is 21.9 years; 12% still marry below the legal age of 16 years, with consequent complications of delivery and increased risk of maternal mortality. Female genital mutilation is still widely practised, though clinicians believe it has declined in the last decade; 97% of married females have undergone this procedure, according to a government survey (1). Health personnel are forbidden to practise female genital mutilation, though it is it expected that this tradition will be continued informally. Egypt has one of the best networks of countrywide basic health services available in developing countries, covering 99% of the population (2). There are about 4000 primary health care services all over the country, and about 80% of their clients are women and children. However, only 29% of the health budget is allocated for preventive services, and the quality of the services provided needs to be improved. The health sector in Egypt is in transition: taking into consideration high inflation rates and the structural adjustment programme promoted by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, it is expected that household expenditure on health will be reduced in order to face other basic needs. …


An ID chip or an IC card in which an integrated circuit can be enhanced without inhibiting the mechanical strength of the circuit scale. ID chip or an IC card having an integrated circuit of the present invention, in which a TFT (thin film transistor) made of an insulating thin semiconductor film. Further, ID chip or an IC card of the present invention having a light emitting element and a light receiving element, each light emitting element and a light receiving element are performed using a non-single-crystal film as a photoelectric conversion layer. Such a light emitting element or light receiving element may be continuously (integrally) formed with the integrated circuit, or may be formed separately and attached to the integrated circuit.


The studies were carried out in stands of various degree of devastation: in the city, suburban forests and forests of the green zone. Recreational loads strongly affect the sanitary condition of spruce forests. The number of healthy trees decreases to 30–42 % with increasing recreational digression, while the number of declining and dead trees increases to 15–36 %. The state of tree stands in the forests of the green zone is estimated at 1.2–1.5 points, and 2.1–2.7 points in the suburban forests. No declining and dead trees were found in the forests of the green zone, and in the suburban forests their share was 15 and 36 % of the total number, respectively. Therefore, generally, spruce suburban forests are classified as weakened. Approximately 59 % of the area of suburban forests is in the III stage of recreational digression, and 19 % – in the IV stage. Growth studies of P. abies showed that the features of these processes are determined mainly by the seasonal variability of climatic factors. Studies have shown that the features of growth processes of P. abies are determined mainly by seasonal variation of meteorological factors. It was found that the earliest growth of shoots and needles begins and ends in the urban environment. The year-by-year variability in the timing of these phenophases reaches 1–2 weeks. Soil compaction as a result of recreational loads has a particularly negative effect on the intensity of tree growth and annual growth of vegetative organs. Shoots of P. abies in green forests (undisturbed stands) are longer than in suburban and urban plantations by 2–30 % and 6–17%, respectively. The longest needles (16.6–19.7 mm) are formed in the forests of the green zone. In urban plantations this value is 12.8–15.0 mm. The smallest needle packing was found in the city conditions, characterized by the maximum degree of recreational digression. Here, the annual radial increment of the trunk of P. abies under the influence of recreational loads decreases by 16–20 % compared to the forests of the green zone. The sequence in the growth phenophases does not depend on the degree of environmental disturbance. The shoots are the first to grow (in May), young needles after 1 or 2 weeks, and then the formation of wood in the lower part of the trunk begins. The sequence in stopping the growth processes is as follows: shoots, needles, trunks. For citation: Kishchenko I.T., Olkhina E.S. Growth of Vegetative Organs of Picea abies (L.) Karst. in Anthropogenic Environment. Lesnoy Zhurnal [Russian Forestry Journal], 2021, no. 3, pp. 59–72. DOI: 10.37482/0536-1036-2021-3-59-72


The purpose of this paper is to present a bibliometric analysis in the field of operations management, specifically the issue that relates operational flexibility with business performance during the period 1981-2011. The analysis applies indicators concerning both activity (quantification of authors, journals or Lotka's Law) and relationships (citations by author, journal co-citation between authors and co-word analysis) using the Web of Science's Social Sciences Citation Index as a data source. The results provided by the activity indicators show that it is a relatively recent field of study, which verifies compliance with the Lotka's Law, and where the most productive authors and journals do not necessarily coincide with the most cited ones. The co-citation analysis has identified authors of reference in the field. Finally, the co-word analysis has allowed the identification of the research topics comprising the area of study and classified into widely developed issues, specialized peripheral issues, peripheral underdeveloped issues, and emerging subject matters. These are the most relevant, in that they identify important current issues that are still poorly developed.


This paper deals with a fraction of results covering the heavy metal measurement in ambient air by using moss monitoring with special emphasis on mercury. Mercury and its compounds are very hazardous and even in small amounts have extremely harmful effect on human health and ecosystem. Atmosphere is an important pathway for mercury cycling in the environment while bioindicators species (lichens, moss) proved to be effective and efficient tool for mercury effect-related air quality monitoring. Identification and quantification of mercury as atmospheric pollutant in bioindicating organisms is especially important for spatially and cumulative long term monitoring of mercury concentrations in the air with purpose of reduction and/or prevention of health and ecological risks. During the year 2006 moss samples have been collected on the territory of Croatia to assess deposition and accumulation of air pollutants. The sampling points were located over the entire country and moss samples will serve as indicators of air quality and environmental changes on the area explored. The samples were analyzed with multielemental Instrumental Neutron epithermal activation analysis and cold vapour atomic absorption spectrometry. According to average mercury concentration 0, 064 mg/kg, minimum 0, 007 mg/kg and maximum 0, 067 mg/kg, the mercury distribution map from the Croatian moss campaign was constructed. This research aims to initiate, develop and strengthen multidisciplinary research and cooperation between environmental scientists and epidemiologists on the effective application of the moss biomonitoring for air quality assessment and mercury monitoring as a key for better understanding of the health and environmental risks and consequences of the mercury air pollution.


Objective: To evaluate the results of three-dimension fusion technique in the treatment of scoliosis.Methods:Thiety-one patients of idiopathic scoliosis were treated by anterior brisement,posterior correction and bone grafting to achieve spine three dimensimal fusion.Results:The followed-up period ranged from 1 to 4 years and 8 months,with an average of 2 years and 6 months.Spinal fusion was achieved in all patients,correction rate lost one degree in 4 patients,2 and 3 degrees in 1 patient respectively.Conclusion:Correction rate can be maintained well by spinal three-demensimal fusion technique.It is an effective method for prevention and treatment of idiopathic scoliosis.


Abstract The origin of a system of thought today referred to as Semiotic(s) is typically traced to sixth century BCE Greek philosophy and medicine. It is argued here, however, that semiotics should not be seen as the exclusive product of western thought and that a parallel semiotics – a systematic exploration and organization of signs in a world constructed of signs – developed in early Chinese philosophy and medicine at approximately the same time or earlier. Both ancient traditions were scientific (though not in today's terms), rational, comprehensive, and based on a natural philosophy that saw the body and its functioning in entirely natural terms.


The relationship of the X and Y chromosomes to enzyme variation in f ractionated spermatozoa was investigated in the pigeon. Examination of the lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) electrophoretic patterns from heart and testes of Types 1 2 and 3 pigeons demonstrated that "X4" isoenzyme of Type 3 pigeons cannot be an allele of Type 1-"X4" since heart tissue from Type 3 pigeons contain both forms of the X4 isoenzyme. Therefore there is no conclusive genetic evidence for a new gene locus for the X4 isoenzyme. Also rabbit spermatozoa were fractionated to give a sperm fraction containing predominantly the X4 isoenzyme. Intrauterine inseminations with this fraction produced 27-day rabbit fetuses containing 76 males and 36 females suggesting that the X4 isoenzyme may be characteristic of male-producing sperm. Similar LDH isoenzyme distributions were seen in rhesus monkey and human sperm fractions. These results support the hypothesis that LDH is an octamer and the X subunit is a hybrid subunit characteristic of male-producing spermatozoa.


ABSTRACT Structures used in Arctic regions must comply with ice-induced loading without failure, asset loss, or loss of life. Current structural design regulations, particularly for ships, rely primarily on the experience gained from first-year ice, e.g. in the Baltic Sea. Therefore, this paper presents first, the most relevant design rules for both ships and offshore structures, and second, first principle-based pressure and occurrence determination methods to obtain corresponding scantlings. To demonstrate these first principle-based methods, the design ice load is assessed for a transit operation along the Northern Sea Route. In conclusion, this paper seeks to motivate a more mission-based design methodology, in addition to the present design methods, using the presented first principle-based methods. The paper is based on the ISSC 2015 V.6 Arctic Technology committee report.