As outlined in Malaysia Economic Transformation Program (ETP), business sector is expected to play crucial role to harness the potential of globalization and to escalate national economic growth. Considering its domination over 98% of total established businesses, SME sector become essential to drive the government's agenda. Apart from human resource, financing, innovativeness, and legal environment, availability of timely and relevant information in support of business's decision making is highly crucial for ensuring its competitiveness. Accessibility to the relevant information helps firms to lower their operating cost, to effectively manage available resources and ultimately to improve overall productivity. Information Technology/Information Systems (IT/IS) has been recognized as one of the potential means to supply information for timely business decision making. Despite growing importance of IT/IS for firm's competitiveness, SMEs embrace constant challenges to deploy IT/IS effectively and thus hardly to optimize its strategic values. Consequently, IS planning is getting paramount to promote effective management of IT/IS within SME sector. Thus, this study proposes a study that investigates the current state of IS planning practices and the factors affecting the IS Planning success among Malaysian SMEs. Adapting IS planning framework of large organizations, this study proposes IS planning framework that is applicable for SMEs environment. The developed framework could facilitate SMEs to effectively manage IS planning as to ensure greater strategic benefits of IT/IS deployment.


Hemphillian localities south of the Columbia River in northern Oregon have produced thousands of small mammalian fossils. Castorids, geomyids, cricetids, and a murid described herein were derived from the Arlington, Ordnance, and McKay Reservoir localities. Large sample sizes allow a greater understanding of the range of variation and ontogenetic changes, as well as paleoecology and biostratigraphic distribution. Two new taxa are described, Parapliosaccomys wittei sp. nov., a geomyine, and Paronychomys woodburnei, a hypsodont cricetid. Castor, Dipoides, and Parapliosaccomys indicate the assemblages are late Hemphillian in age, although certain taxa indicate temporal differences among the localities. The lower Arlington and Ordnance localities are the oldest, Arlington 15 is medial, and McKay Reservoir is the youngest of the assemblages. A CastorParapliosaccomys Concurrent Range Biozone is named for the interval represented by the assemblages from northern Oregon and is correlated to Christmas Valley, OR, possibly Churchhill Butte and Hoye Canyon, NV, as well as with assemblages from the Great Plains at Pliohippus Draw, ZX Bar, Mailbox, and Honey Creek, NE. The appearances of Prosomys and Spermophilus (Spermophilus) at the McKay Reservoir Locality provide another important datum indicating latest Hemphillian time.


Orosius was a Spanish priest, attested in the years 414–419. He is best known as the author of the Histories against the pagans (416–417), a world history that was conceived as a companion piece to the first ten books of Augustine's City of God. The Histories would become the most-read history of the Middle Ages and be translated in Old English and Arabic in the 9th to the 10th centuries. Orosius also plays a secondary role in other controversies of the period. He wrote a tract against Priscillianism, and an Apology to defend himself from accusations of heresy coming from partisans of Pelagius. Finally, bringing relics of St Stephen to Spain, he landed in Minorca, sparking one of the most-discussed episodes of conversion of the Jews. If Orosius is, all in all, a minor figure in late antique history, his Histories have been treated as proof of some strongly held opinions about late antique historiography and early Christianity. The Histories, relying mainly on earlier sources, have been seen to exemplify the essentially derivative nature of late antique historiography, while its apologetic tendency has been taken as proof that Christians were not interested in historical events and subordinated everything to theological views on the course of history. Scholarship also tends to stress the gulf between Augustine's apparent rejection of the alliance between empire and Church and Orosius's apparent espousal of it. More recent scholarship has shed doubt on these long-held views, which are, in fact, shaped by modern theological responses to enthusiasm for dictatorial regimes found in some Christian circles in the 1930s. Scholarship on Orosius is very international, with numerous publications in Spanish, Italian, French, and German. Only starting in the early 21st century has scholarship in English picked up.


Abstract This work is part of an investigation to determine activity coefficients at infinite dilution γ 1.3 ∞ of hydrocarbons in the industrially important polar solvent tetrahydrothiophene-1,1-dioxide (sulpholane), by medium pressure gas liquid chromatography (g.l.c.). In this work the activity coefficients at infinite dilution for a series of 1-alkenes (C 6 to C 8 ), 1-alkynes (C 6 to C 8 ), and cycloalkanes (C 7 and C 8 ) have been measured in the polar solvent sulpholane at T =303.15 K and T =313.15 K. The activity coefficients of some of the solutes discussed in this work would be difficult to determine by any other method because of their low solubility in sulpholane. The mixed second virial coefficients used in this work were determined by assuming the principle of corresponding states, the Hudson and McCoubrey combining rules for T c,12 , the Lorentz rule for V c,12 , and the McGlashan-Potter equation.


The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of mothers' coaching competence on children's effortful control and to find out whether...


The problems with using Cpk indices for components to control the capability of an assembly process are well known. Suppliers of components may, for example, actually decrease the yield of conforming product at assembly by raising their own Cpk's. We pr..


Digitalmap represents an important symbol of Modern Cartography, and with it being the disciplinary core, there appeared several kinds of map products such as map databases, printed maps, electronic maps, mobile maps, and internet maps, etc., as well as variety of map application models. This paper discusses the system of digitalmap theory, method and technology, to introduce our research achievement on the one hand, and to sincerely invite cooperation with those cartographers scientists interested in it, on the other hand. For the theoretic system, the authors expounded the concept, system structure, theoretic bases, and new cartographical ideals brought with digitalmap. For the methodological system, the paper related such items as geoproblems digitalmap suitable to dissolve, and analytical methods with digitalmap, as well as digitalmap datamodel. For the technological system, the paper discussed digitalmap mapping system, mobile digitalmap technologies, etc. Finally, the authors showed some application examples of digitalmap, including the database, electronic version, and Internet version of National Physical Atlas of China, as well as the Electronic Atlas from the Resources Environment Database in CAS.


This letter proposes a dual-vector model predictive control method to minimize the current total harmonic distortion (THD). The definition of current THD shows that it is proportional to the area enclosed by the actual current and the current fundamental wave. The lowest current THD is achieved by minimizing the area enclosed by the actual current and the reference current in the control period. This method is implemented on a single-phase neutral-point clamped three-level pulsewidth modulation rectifier, and the advantages of the proposed control method are verified through experiments.


The present invention relates to a physical uplink shared channel outgoing power control method, a physical uplink is only outbound only uplink control information over a shared channel, the uplink shared, channel quality verification that indicator signal and this response when the channel data is not the originating the number of bits and the width deviation by the value contained in total are included to set a physical uplink shared channel outgoing power. The present invention also provides a physical uplink shared channel outgoing power control system. The method and system according to the invention it is possible to ensure the overall performance of the system.


In many areas agriculture is exposed to weather-related risks. Weather derivatives that get more and more in the focus of interest can reduce these risks. In this study we develop a temperature based weather derivative and analyse how it can reduce the weather-related energy cost risk in greenhouse production. We base this study on a temperature index whose stochastic characteristics are analysed. Finally we simulate the heating energy demand of a horticultural firm.


Urbanisation is a major change that is taking place globally. The urban global tipping point was reached in 2007 when for the first time in history over half of the world's population was living in urban areas; around 3.3 billion people. It is estimated that a further 500 million people will be urbanised in the next five years and projections indicate that the percentage of the world's population urbanised by 2030 will be 60%.


$gamma$-$gamma$ angular correlations have been measured for the 349-149- , 575-149-, 393-263-, 414-263-, 350-326-, and 316-469-keV cascades in $sup 105$Rh following the decay of 4.4-h 3/2$sup +$ $sup 105$Ru. A 3/2$sup +$ spin and parity assignment is established for the 806-keV level and 1/2$sup +$ or 5/2$sup - $ values found consistent for the 786-keV level with 1/2$sup +$ favored. For the 149-keV transition, a delta value of 0.4 +- 0.1 is deduced. Possible configurations for the 786-keV level are discussed. (AIP)


The stratigraphical organisation of the Cranial and
 the Caudal Vocal Fold (CraF, CauF) of the porcine glottis was examined with
 regard to the criteria of the phoniatrical body-cover model. The aim of this
 examination was the elaboration of histological features of tissue maturation
 and aging, in order to elucidate the potentials of the pig as an animal model
 in human phoniatry. With regard to the procedure of Object Definition, the
 potentials and limitations of histomorphometry of non-corpuscular structures
 (i.e. fibres) are emphasised.
 For this purpose, the collagenous and elastic fibre
 apparatus of CraF and CauF was examined in 'young' (2-3 months, n = 6),
 'adult' (11-27 months, n = 11), and 'old' (54-84 months, n = 6) female
 minipigs. Cross sections of the glottis were selectively stained by Masson's
 trichrome for collagen structures, or resorcin-fuchsin for elastic fibres.
 The amounts of these fibres were examined by semi-automated histomorphometry
 in Adobe Photoshop, in which Object Definition was based on colour selection
 of collagen and elastic fibres. Technical problems related to differences in
 staining intensities were solved by visual control and manual adjustment of
 the system. A different – presumably biological – problem of Object
 Definition occurred when collagen fibres the CraF of the 'old' specimens were
 unexpectedly stained reddish (instead of green). These two kinds of problems
 are discussed with special emphasis on the limitations of histomorphometrical
 procedures. In addition to the analysis of fibre amounts, the diameters of
 the collagen structures were analysed with the aid of a semiquantitative
 scoring system. The distinction of layers and the determination of their
 boundaries required extensive statistical data analysis. A key element of
 this procedure was the assignment of proportional subunits and hypothetical
 zones. The study revealed the presence of a four-layered
 stratigraphy in both CraF and CauF, comprising subepithelial, superficial,
 intermediate, and deep layers (SEL, SL, IL, DL).
 The subepithelial layer (SEL) was thin, but
 characterised by dense accumulations of fibres located directly underneath
 the epithelium in both folds of all age groups. This fibro-elastic membrane
 resembled the so-called basement membrane zone of humans described in the
 literature. It was assumed to limit the range of movement of the underlying
 tissue during vocal fold oscillation in pigs.
 Underneath the SEL, a superficial layer (SL) was
 present in CraF and CauF. It was histologically similar to the loose and
 flexible superficial layer of humans (Reinke's space), which is supposed to act
 as a phoniatrically relevant part of the 'cover'. In the 'old' minipigs, the
 loose composition of the SL was lost due to a strong increase in fibre
 amounts. In the CauF, this increase was encountered in the entire lamina
 propria, as has been reported to occasionally occur in geriatric humans.
 In the CauF, the tissue underneath the SL (i.e. IL
 and DL) displayed no clearly demarcated accumulations of thick fibre bundles
 which could be interpreted as a 'vocal ligament'. Elastic fibres – known to
 be superimposed on collagen fibres in the human vocal ligament – were rather
 homogeneously mixed with the collagen fibres. Consequently, the application
 of the term 'vocal ligament' to the intermediate and deep layers (IL, DL) of
 the CauF did not appear appropriate.
 Only in the CraF of the 'young' minipigs, peak
 values of elastic fibre amounts were detected in the intermediate layer (IL),
 i.e. spread over the collagen fibres of the deep layer (DL). This similarity
 between porcine CraF and human vocal fold was presumed to reflect the CraF's
 role as the main oscillator. With increasing age, however, this similarity
 between pigs and humans vanished due to a strong increase in elastic fibre
 amounts throughout all layers, but with a certain concentration in the
 superficial regions of the porcine vocal folds.
 Large amounts of thick collagen fibre bundles were
 present in the depth of the CraF, i.e. in a location equivalent to that of
 the vocal muscle in the CauF and in the human vocal fold. This fibre
 arrangement in the CraF was discussed to adopt a functional role (similar to
 that of the vocal muscle) as part of the phoniatrical 'body' during vocal
 fold oscillation. This assumption was supported by the fact that these
 bundles developed as a result of histological maturation rather than of
 ageing.
 In conclusion, the histological data support the
 assumption (from the literature) that the CraF is suited to act as the main
 oscillator of the porcine glottis. Considering Reinke's space, however, it is
 the CauF which deserves major attention, because its superficial layer was
 twice as thick as that of the CraF.


Cultural strengths require a creative education of universities.Likewise,university teachers should combine their teaching with researches,and participate in the creative student-centered education reforms.


It is common for a number of potentially effective treatments to be available for clinical evaluation. Limitations on resources mean that this inevitably leads to a decision as to how many, and which, treatments should be considered for inclusion in a clinical trial. This paper considers the problem of selection of possible treatments for inclusion in a phase III clinical trial. We assume that treatments will be compared using a standard frequentist hypothesis test, and propose a Bayesian decision‐theoretic approach that leads to minimization of the total sample size of the trial subject to controlling the familywise type I error rate and the expected probability of rejecting at least one null hypothesis. The method is illustrated in the simplest situation, in which two experimental treatments could be included in the clinical trial, exploring the levels of evidence that are required to lead to an optimal trial that includes one or both of these treatments. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


There is an emerging concept of the "infant/family" field and an understanding of the core knowledge, principles, and practices that are shared by a broad range of professionals who work with young children and their families. In particular, there is an awareness of the critical importance of early social and emotional development as an organizer of overall development, and a focus on the tremendous impact that caregiver-child relationships have on child development. There is also an appreciation of the ways in which the caregiver-professional relationships can either support or interfere with effective service delivery and the ways in which that relationship actually is a form of intervention. For many practitioners, these trends represent a change in their scope of practice, and in the way they do their work. This article is an account of an organizational approach to the ongoing professional development of infant-family professionals, as implemented in a large, nonprofit, human services agency. Core training content is outlined, along with the organization's staff development plan. Primary emphasis is placed on supervision as the vehicle for staff development, along with the role of leadership and the use of in-service training and consultative support.


The implementation proposed in the collection of assignments and tests will allow cadets and students to master the basic techniques, equipment, accounting, learn to identify errors and irregularities in the registration work of the organization, to acquire skills of accounting.
Comply with Federal state educational standard of higher education of the latest generation specialty 38.05.01 "Economic security".
Designed for the students studying in higher educational institutions, including the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia.


Androgenetic alopecia is common not only among males but is also a common form of non-scarring hair loss in adult women. It can alter the physical appearance of the affected individual and can result in depression and anxiety. There are numerous treatment options available for treating alopecia. Conventional therapies for alopecia require lifelong compliance and still may not be effective in reducing hair loss. They are sometimes associated with sexual dysfunction as well. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) originally was developed to treat chronic non-healing wounds. Over the next few years, PRP has been used extensively in the fields of reconstructive surgery, dentistry, ophthalmology, and dermatology. Now, evidence is emerging about the use of PRP for treating numerous dermatological conditions like leprosy, melasma, and hair loss. Though the mechanism by which PRP stimulates folliculogenesis is not completely understood, previous investigators have shown that by injecting PRP in the micro-environment of the hair follicle through multiple intradermal injections, it can prove to be a an efficacious option for mesotherapy for hair loss. Despite several reports and many randomized trials of small populations assessing the use of PRP for hair loss treatment, the results have not been consistent and thus ABSTRACT


To assess the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in men presenting with erectile dysfunction (ED) at a single centre.


Accurate prediction of the future energy needs is crucial for energy management. This work presents a novel grey forecasting model that integrates the principle of new information priority into accumulated generation. This grey model can better reflect the priority of the new information theoretically. The results of two practical examples demonstrate that this grey model provides very remarkable short-term predication performance compared with traditional grey forecasting model for limited data set forecasting. It is applied to Chinese gas consumption forecasting to show its superiority and applicability.


dialogue with himself, revising the Essais as he lived and changed, with Burton's habit of continually adding to, rather than rewriting, the text of the multiplying editions of his book: "augmenting the fixed but changeable printed page without changing it is the skeptic's way of maintaining a coherence in a philosophy that denies coherence" (p. 222). One could wish that Elsky's fruitful attention to conditions of patronage in the case of Bacon had been applied more consistently to Jonson, and that even though he makes clear his differences from those "critics who regard Herbert's poems as simply the product of the subjectivity that speaks them" (p. 162), he had taken into deeper consideration the sense of mimetic process in both his triumphs and failures in the attempt to pronounce "God's writing" in his own speech. But such reservations do nothing to diminish my admiration for the achievement of Authorizing Words. It manages an immense body of material whose complex intertextual relevances it both reveals and elucidates; it generates new and compelling readings of central texts. These tasks are accomplished in a prose that mirrors the intellectual design of the whole work, a prose both modest and magisterial. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Donald M. Friedman


Attribute based encryption scheme is widely used to share sensitive data in cloud storage environment because it can realize fine-grained access control. Aiming at the problem of user revocation and high cost of decryption in cloud storage environment, a multi-authority attribute based encryption scheme with efficient user revocation and outsourcing decryption was proposed. It supports large universe. Each authority manages a specific set of attributes and distributes attribute keys to users with corresponding attributes, avoiding the problem that a single authority may easily become a system bottleneck. The user revocation algorithm of the scheme can realize the efficient revocation of the authorized users, ensuring the forward security of ciphertext. It's proved to be statically-secure under random oracle and the efficiency analysis shows that it reduces user decryption cost greatly


A hospital materials manager reports that when he took over the job, he found several supply contracts with no price included in the terms. He wonders if these contracts are valid. In this dialogue, Dr. Decker discusses the issues raised by "open term" contracts.


Disclosed is a wireless network access method. The method comprises: receiving a sent from a terminal connection request sent carrying a media access control (MAC) address of the terminal; if the terminal is determined to have an access permission according to the MAC address, randomly generating a one-time pre-shared key (PSK) password, and sending the one-time PSK password to the terminal, wherein the one-time PSK password is configured to enable the terminal to complete a one-time wireless network access. Also disclosed are a wireless network access device and computer storage medium.


During cyclic voltammetry studies of the surface electrochemistry of the oxidation of azide ions to N2 at a Pt anode, a large reduction current peak is observed during the cathodic sweep; this is shown to be due to electrolytic reduction of N3– to N2 gas and aqueous NH3.


The aim of the work is to analyze targets on the transition to 100% renewable energy sources (RES) existing in different countries of the world as well as strategies for their achievement. The task of the work is to identify the most promising directions and develop appropriate recommendations for Ukraine. The global trend is setting targets for the transition to 100% RES, at least in some energy sectors, developing appropriate strategies and their implementation. Over the last decade, the cost of renewable energy has been steadily declining, making RES more competitive with fossil fuels in many parts of the world. Today, more than 50 countries, hundreds of cities and regions in one form or another have committed to switching to 100% RES. Most often it is about achieving 100% of renewable electricity. So far, at least 52 cities and regions have achieved their targets for the transition to 100% RES. Of these, 41 are located in Europe and 9 are located in the United States. About 2/3 of these targets relate only to renewable electricity. In Ukraine, the official targets for the development of RES are set out in the National Renewable Energy Action Plan until 2020 and in the Energy Strategy of Ukraine until 2035. Recently, a draft Concept of the "green" energy transition of Ukraine until 2050 was developed, which sets the goal of achieving a climate-neutral economy by 2070. One of the main directions of decarbonization of the economy is the development of RES in combination with increasing energy efficiency and energy saving. It is necessary to resume completing the document with the inclusion of reasonable long-term goals to achieve 100% RES in certain energy sectors and in the whole energy balance of Ukraine.


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since whenever V1, V. F, V1 V is then associated with V V. The prime marks will be dropped for notational convenience; this causes no cousion. For V F, let x (V) denote the trace of V. If x (V) is real, V is said to be elliptic, parabolic, or hyperbolic depending upon whether x(V) < 2, 2, or > 2 respectively. It is well known that if V is elliptic, and has finite fixed points a, a, then V (z) z' where


Prevalence rates of malnutrition are higher in female children than in male children. The factors explaining the variations were parents' literacy, per capita resource possession, per capita income, family size and maternal occupation. The gender differentials are decreased significantly with better grades of maternal literacy and occupation followed by paternal literacy and per capita income


Biodiesel is a leading biofuel due to its ability to partially or totally replace diesel, with the advantage of being a renewable fuel. However, it is subject to oxidative degradation. Therefore, the study of the oxidative stability of biodiesel is very important for its technological development. Oxidative degradation occurs due to the action of the air, light, temperature and humidity. This action is accelerated when biodiesel is exposed to high temperatures or catalysts. The goal of this work was to study the stability of biodiesel produced from soybean vegetable oil. For the analysis of the stability of the biodiesel, the samples were subjected to thermal stress in an oven, at 130oC. The acidity index coupled with UV-Vis and infrared spectroscopic techniques was used to monitor the level of oxidation of biodiesel. The catalytic effect of metals in the oxidation reaction of soybean biodiesel was also addressed, comparing the effects of the presence and the absence of metals. The acidity index of soybean biodiesel increased with the thermal stress exposure time. There was also an increase of 32.1% and 60.7% in the acidification speed in the presence of iron and copper, respectively. Analyzes from the UV-Vis and infrared spectra indicated the generation of oxidation products. Changes in the UV-Vis and infrared spectra of soybean biodiesel were smaller compared to soybean biodiesel contaminated with metals, thus indicating the catalytic effect of these metals.


The present invention discloses a method for detecting a high-frequency transmission system and intelligent Ammonia Ammonia situ. The ammonia smart transmission system comprising: ammonia gas probe, an ammonium ion sensitive probe, pH probe, temperature probe, signal conditioning modules, a memory, a microcontroller, a power module and a bus interface module. The present invention consists of a microcontroller according to standard TEDS TEDS memory storage and fusion through multi-sensor data can be calculated ammonia content of the water body, and NH3-N content, NH4 + -N content, pH, temperature and other parameters, the realization of ammonia nitrogen detecting the content of a long line, to meet the testing requirements of automatic monitoring technology, and has high accuracy, good stability and high reliability.


A series of metallacyclodisiladiazanes has been prepared. Lithiated (SiMe2NHtBu)2 (1) reacts with TiCl4 · 2 THF to give (SiMe2NtBu)2TiCl (4). Methylation or fluorination of 4 leads to (SiMe2NtBu)2TiMe2 (8) and (SiMe2MtBu)2TiF2 (9), respectively. The reaction of ZrCl4 · 2 THF with lithiated 1 or [SiMe2NH(4-FC6J4)]2 (2) yields (SiMe2NtBu)2ZrCl2 (5) and [SiMe2N(4-FC6H4)]ZrCl2 · THF (7), respectively. The lithiated ligand [SiMe2NH(2,6-iPr2C6H3)]2 (3) reacts with noncoordinated ZrCl4 to give [SiMe2N(2,6-iPr2C6H3)]2ZrCl2 (6). X-ray structural analysis of 9 showed it to be a fluorine-bridged dimer in the solid state. Compounds 4, 6, 8 and 9 were found to be catalysts for the polymerization of ethylene.


The association of spectral components with individual external sources that involved a short term grouping process and a streaming of the grouped elements overtime to make spatial unmasking was investigated. Unmasking was due to initial separation that allows the listener to more easily create and identify the target streams and thus detect voice characteristics of the target talker. The spatial cues disappear as the streams become co-located and can be used to continue to attend to the target or to filter out masker talkers. The results shows that the differences in unmasking between the separated and unseparated conditions indicate the proportion of spatial unmasking which relates to streaming due to local cues.


Thc karyotype of a blue whalc was studied in a fibroblast culturc established from a akin hiopsy obtained from a free swimming animal. The chromosome number was 2n=44. Chromosomal analysis showcd that thc hiopsy originated from a female specimen. The karyotype conformed with the general 2;=44 cetacean karyotypes. The C-band pattern had the characteristics observed in other cetacean karyotypes. i.e.. interstitial and terminal C-bands heing more conspicuous than centromeric C-hands.


Abstract Introduction/Objective Sarcoidosis is a syndrome of unknown cause that may manifest with clinical, radiographic and pathological findings similar to those seen with histoplasmosis. We present a case of disseminated histoplasmosis in an immunocompetent patient previously diagnosed with sarcoidosis. Methods/Case Report A 69-year-old obese male with a history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus and long-standing sarcoidosis was admitted to the hospital for several months of intermittent fevers and pancytopenia. His sarcoidosis was diagnosed 21 years prior, initially involving the lungs and eventually showing cardiac involvement, requiring a pacemaker. He had been treated with methotrexate and prednisone. His recent medical history was also significant for COVID-19 infection, diagnosed 3 months before admission. His fevers were initially attributed to sarcoidosis and his pancytopenia to methotrexate. However, his symptoms continued despite discontinuation of his medications, and further workup was initiated. Computed tomography showed hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, and lymphadenopathy, concerning for a lymphoproliferative disorder. The patient underwent a bone marrow biopsy that showed noncaseating granulomas and microorganisms consistent with histoplasmosis on fungal stain. Bone marrow cultures were not possible as the marrow was inaspirable. The patient subsequently underwent a lymph node biopsy with both morphology and culture identifying histoplasmosis. Urine and serum histoplasma antigen also returned positive. The patient's overall clinical picture was consistent with disseminated histoplasmosis and he was administered intravenous Amphotericin B for 3 weeks followed by oral itraconazole for 1 year. One month follow-up after discharge showed significant improvement in the patient's condition. Results (if a Case Study enter NA) N/A Conclusion Sarcoidosis reduces T-cell activity, and treatment with steroids causes further immunosuppression and vulnerability for development of a disseminated infection. COVID-19 also presumably increases the predisposition to acquire bacterial or fungal co-infections. Clinicians and pathologists should be aware of the overlap in clinical, radiologic and pathological presentations of sarcoidosis and histoplasmosis to make the correct diagnosis and administer the appropriate treatment.


Single blind image deblurring caused by a combination of multiple factors has been one of the most challenging visual tasks. Recently, many essential methods of this task are based on deep learning networks and have achieved high performance. However, most of them only apply norm pixel-wise L1-loss function as the guide of training, which is not suitable or effective enough. In this paper, we propose Multiple Auxiliary Networks (MANet) for single blind image deblurring to assist norm L1-loss function and enhance the quality of the deblurring image. The main branch of our MANet is an encoder-decoder structure made up of residual blocks, and the three auxiliary branches are the edge prediction branch, the multi-scale refinement branch, and the perceptual loss branch. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed MANet can obtain better deblurring performance with more details than state-of-the-art methods. The code is released at github.com/ZERO2ER0/MANet.


The intercept of the odderon trajectory is derived by finding the spectrum of the second integral of motion of the three Reggeon system in high energy QCD. When combined with an earlier solution of the appropriate Baxter equation, this leads to the determination of the low lying states of that system. In particular, the energy of the lowest state gives the intercept of the odderon ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{O}(0)\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}1\ensuremath{-}0.2472{\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}{N}_{c}/\ensuremath{\pi}$.


Abstract : Construction on the Long Beach Naval Shipyard was started in November 1940 and the first major ship was drydocked in September 1942. Construction of facilities continued and by 1943 it went into full production for the repair, overhaul and conversion of the ships of the Pacific Fleet. Today the Shipyard has three graving docks, four industrial piers, two wharfs and extensive shop and office complexes and is one of the Navy's most modern shipyards. Recent construction of the Electrical/Electronic/Weapons Facility, Engineering/Management Building, Service Group Building and the Pipe and Copper Shop are a continuing part of the Shipyard Modernization Program. Among the Shipyard's landmark features are the giant Moreell Drydock and the YD-171 crane.


Automobile driving recorder is an a equipment to record and store the driving data such as speed,driving time,mileage etc.The use of automobile driving recorder is helpful to prevent irregularity such as long-time tired driving,excessive speed and so on.The use of automobile driving recorder is also helpful in driving safety and analysis of traffic accident.The automobile driving recorder is designed in this article based on C8051F022 according to GB/T19056-2003.The main interface circuits and design of software are provided in this article.


: I have started a research on Applied Linguistics about students' motivation on learning English. My paper is oriented to all those people that want to know how to motivate students, especially if they are (or want to be) teachers of a second or foreign language (L2/FL) As my research is focused on motivation in learning English at the end of primary and secondary school (comparing 6th year of Primary School and 4th of Secondary School), my paper will be more relevant for people that work with children or young students, although some ideas may be useful for all kinds of language teachers and teachers in general. Nevertheless, they are just motivational strategies. And since a group of students (and each student) is a world, not all these strategies will necessarily be helpful for all students. My paper starts with a small introduction to the subject of motivation (particularly motivation on L2/FL acquisition), followed by a summary of the ways of motivating.


Ortho‐phthalaldehyde (OPA) was tested against a range of organisms including glutaraldehyde‐resistant mycobacteria, Bacillus subtilis spores and coat‐defective spores. Glutaraldehyde (GTA) and peracetic acid (PAA) were tested for comparative purposes. Both suspension and carrier tests were performed using a range of concentrations and exposure times. All three biocides were very effective (≥ 5 log reduction) against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in suspension tests. OPA and GTA (PAA was not tested) were also very effective against Staph. aureus and Ps. aeruginosa in carrier tests. OPA showed good activity against the mycobacteria tested including the two GTA‐resistant strains, but 0·5% w/v OPA was found not to be sporicidal. However, limited activity was found with higher concentrations and pH values. Coat‐defective spores were more susceptible to OPA, suggesting that the coat may be responsible for this resistance. The findings of this study suggest that OPA is effective against GTA‐resistant mycobacteria and that it is a viable alternative to GTA for high level disinfection.


3579Background: Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) indicate a host immune response that may influence survival. Immunoscore was developed using CD3+ and CD8+density and location in primary CC pts with pooled stages, varying treatment and follow-up. We determined if individual immune markers and/or Immunoscore are prognostic in resected stage III CC pts (N=600). Methods: CD3+ and CD8+ T-cell or CD20+ B lymphocyte density in central tumor (CT) and invasive margin (IM) was evaluated by immunostaining and quantified by image analysis. Immunoscore was calculated on a scale of I0 to I4 with high densities of CD3+ and CD8+in both CT and IM scored as I4; low densities scored as I0. Associations with disease-free survival (DFS) were evaluated by multivariable Cox regression adjusting for covariates. Results: Data for CD3+, CD8+ and CD20+ were generated (N=595). Higher density of CD3+ CT, CD3+ IM and CD8+ IM were associated with longer DFS adjusting for covariates (Table). CD3+ IM had the strongest association wi...


Of the 4 Rhodotorula spp. tested for their oleagenicity, R. gracilis CFR-1 was found to be a potential lipid producer. Using Enebo's medium as a reference, a selective medium (glucose: 40, NH4NO3: 0.285, yeast extract: 1.5, MgSO4.7H2O: 0.4, CaCl2.2H2O: 0.4, KH2PO4: 0.75 g/l, pH 5.0) was developed and it increased the oleagenicity of R. gracilis CFR-1 to greater than 65%.


In the past few years, considerable effort has been made to improve the power efficiency of electrohydraulic systems; many energy saving strategies have been successfully developed and used. However, most of them can only be useful in specific applications. For instance, displacement control and secondary control only focus on those systems in which the efficiency concerns are more important. Although these systems have very high efficiency, they are not designed for applications in which the flow rate is varied during the duty cycle. Compared with pump controlled systems and other energy efficient systems, the valve controlled system demonstrates good dynamic performance and controllability especially for inertia dominated loads but at the expense of power efficiency. For electrohydraulic circuits which employ load-sensing systems for example, the design objective has been made to combine the advantages of high dynamic performance with better energy utilization. However, this high efficiency can only be obtained under particular operating conditions, such as single-load or multi-loads with similar load pressure requirements. No one approach is available for general system design where both good dynamic performance and high-power efficiency are important. The objective of the present paper is to highlight the different technological processes used for improving the performance of efficient electro-hydraulic circuit in energy saving.


Background: Cyanoacrylate injection is highly effective and is regarded as the treatment of choice in bleeding gastric varices in Europe, but intravenous injection of cyanoacrylate is not allowed in the USA and Japan because it may cause embolisms in other organs. Accordingly, we developed a new endoscopic combined treatment of endoscopic management of gastric varices using a detachable snare (EVLs) and simultaneous endoscopic sclerotherapy and O‐ring ligation (EISL) (i.e. EVLs + EISL), and we prospectively evaluated its efficacy and safety.


Although philosophy has bemm seen for a long time as a privileged field of the spirit, today it is considered useful only for the formation of the humanist general culture, which, given that society is mainly oriented towards the practical side, is no longer a priority. However, beyond the speculative dimension, philosophy also has a practical, applied side, derived from the first, which society is not aware of. Starting from these general premises, the article highlights some of the current functions of philosophy, able to configure its specific mission in contemporary society, without which this cannot find its balance. Finally, the author launches to the philosophical community and to all decision-makers in Romania a series of concrete proposals, the implementation of which would transform the philosophical education in our country into one of the most powerful tools for consolidating democracy and development economic and social.


Annual Report of the Rockefeller Foundation, I931 New York: Rockefeller Foundation. Pp. 420. Bossard, James H. S., and Sellin, Thorsten (eds.). Prohibition-A National Experiment. Vol. CLXIII, September, I932, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Philadelphia, I932. Pp. 269. A Census of Social Work Positions in Massachusetts, I932. Conducted by the Boston Chapter, American Association of Social Workers, under the Direction of Maurice Taylor. Boston, I932. Pp. 3I$0.25. Charters, W. W., and Hindcian, Darwin A. The Duties of Ohio Public-Health Commissioners. Ohio State University Studies, Bureau of Educational Research Monographs, No. I7. Columbus, I933. Pp. xi+70. Chase, Stuart. A New Deal. New York: Macmillan Co., I932. Pp. vii+257.


The galactic anticenter region contains several streams of highvelocity clouds of HI. The principal stream is associated with a local ized HI feature at forbidden negative velocities near I, b = 197°, 2° (Weaver 1970, 1974). Here we show that the forbidden-velocity feature, in addition to being the culmination of three streams of high-velocity clouds, is correlated with a disturbance in the permitted-velocity gas. Evidence suggests that this disturbance is located within the Galaxy, implying by association that the anticenter high-velocity clouds and the culmination feature are at distances interior to the Galaxy.


-The grand ensemble Monte Carlo method has been used to simulate the adsorption of 12-6 argon on a graphite substrate with periodically varying adsorbate-adsorbent potential at 80 K. The grand ensemble method enables stable and metastable states to be distinguished although these may be ergodically separate. The results of these calculations and those carried out earlier for a continuum model, represented by a 9-3 potential, have been compared with experimental data. Experimental isotherms appear to be in better agreement with the continuum results than with those for the periodic potential. Isosteric heat curves on the other hand were in satisfactory agreement with experimental data for coverages of up to a monolayer but showed marked deviations beyond this point. Tests of theoretical models were restricted to an appraisal of the zero coverage region and of the Hill-de Boer isotherm in its original and modified forms. The latter was in poor agreement with MC data.


As interest in Tony Blair's legacy persists, this article investigates his impact on UK strategic culture. The first section revisits theoretical questions about the processes whereby elites can alter collectively held strategic beliefs in the face of changing security environments. The second section then shows how Blair articulated new strategic beliefs that differed from pre-existing ones. These include embracing a broader understanding of security that recognises the impact of globalisation, and proposing that a proactive military posture was a more appropriate response than inactivity. To evaluate his impact, the third section demonstrates how these propositions were shared within collective elite circles and now shape the strategic thought of successive governments in written form through key policy documents, as well as in spoken form by cabinet ministers.


The article is devoted to the problem of analysis of factors substantiating reasonableness of providing tax benefits for business activities of taxpayers in order to enable transition and application of special tax regimes that give taxpayers significant advantages reducing the size of the tax burden and exempting from payment of basic taxes within the framework of the general taxation system. The study of the issues of unreasonableness of giving tax benefits in the transition and application of special regimes by taxpayers shows that forms of business organization and tax planning should be chosen by the taxpayer in terms of his or her real economic participation in civil transactions with the most favorable tax implications for taxpayers.


A retrospective study was made of 30 stress fractures in elderly patients engaged in noncompetitive sporting activities, mostly marching and running. Fractures were located exclusively in the lower limbs. In many cases the diagnosis was delayed and in several cases was incorrect because the stress fracture was mis taken for other conditions. Given that the number of senior citizens engaged in active life and sporting ac tivities is constantly growing, physicians should be aware of this type of fracture to ensure early diagnosis and appropriate treatment.


This study analyzed Beijing surface atmospheric variations in wind and temperature structures,especially on the long-term changes and comparison of different urbanization stage(the first stage:1991—1995;the second stage:2004—2008),by using wind and temperature observations from Beijing 325 m meteorology tower(two period:1991—1995,2004—2008) and Beijing climate stations(from 1971—2008,20 stations),and the economics and social development index form yearbook in Beijing region(from 1978—2008).The study reveals obvious changes in the surface atmosphere associated with the fast urbanization in Beijing: the surface air temperature and urban heat island intensity increased;the wind strength decreased;the wind direction becomes disordered at lower levels which are below 63 m;the vertical decreasing rate of temperature increased;the variation of wind and temperature structure of surface layer reveals that the observations below 63 m reflect the characteristics of urban canopy layer,and the height of the urban canopy layer may reach 63 m in 2004—2008.


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This study was conducted to determine the health-seeking behavior and quality of life of patients with diabetes mellitus. The respondents of the study were the 45 patients with diabetes mellitus who came in for consultation in a Diabetic Resource Clinic of a Government Hospital in Iloilo, Philippines. The respondents' health-seeking behavior was good and their quality of life was satisfactory. The results indicate statistically significant relationship between the preventive and the curative health-seeking behaviors and quality of life of patients with diabetes mellitus. Appropriate health-seeking behaviors in terms of preventive and curative aspects are important factors that could improve the quality of life of patients with diabetes mellitus. Results from this study suggest strategies to enhance health-seeking behavior in the promotive and rehabilitative aspects.


Passive location system,which uses electromagnetic wave emitted by target,has proved its merits of sell-hiding and far distance detecting in modern war and is now the hotspot A passive location algorithm for airborne observer based on UKF is proposed.Since the problem of non-linearity of observation model is solved by UKF,the effect of linearization error in EKF is eliminated in the algorithm.Simulation shows the superiority of the algorithm.


The invention brings forward a method for constructing triaxial cement-soil mixing piles in an ultra-hard soil layer. The method is characterized in that: a single-shaft drill with a high-power power head is adopted to drill guide holes to crush decomposed rocks or the gravel soil layer; triaxial cement-soil mixing pile construction is then carried out, i.e., cement paste is poured in, and the cement paste and decomposed rock or gravel soil layer rubbles are tightly bonded to form the triaxial cement-soil mixing piles. The high-efficiency, high-quality construction of a triaxial mixing wall in the ultra-hard soil layer is realized. The construction speed is increased, the construction cost is reduced, reinforced concrete is saved, and the triaxial mixing wall can substitute for the function of an underground continuous reinforced concrete wall.


The 1975 Algiers Agreement is a political and legal agreement signed between Iraq and Iran to end the chronic border problems between them after the abolition of the Saadabad Agreement of 1937 from the Iranian side unilaterally on 19/4/1969 and the demarcation of the border between the two neighboring countries. In the waters of the Shatt al-Arab in favor of Iran in return for non-support of the Tehran government of the Kurdish liberation movement in Iraq, has already collapsed this movement as a result of a mysterious international and regional deal, Moreover, this agreement has met the historical demands of Shahnashah Iran to extend its sovereignty over the Gulf And the region, in addition to strengthening the American influence of this region to counter the influence of the Soviet Union, as the signing of this agreement as a result of manipulation of the paper by the American and Iranian interests and joint scheme in the Gulf, the Algiers agreement is a mysterious political and legal deal at the expense of Iraqi territory and at the expense of Kurdish liberation movement in Iraq to end The long-standing problems between Iraq and Iran, and therefore be replaced by this illegal agreement is not in place and the Iraqi and Iranian borders have become clear and final. The United States and Iran Israel has used the movement Kurdish liberation as a bargaining policy against the Soviet Union for the Gulf region, and vice versa Kurdish liberation movement has benefited these financial aid and internal and international Tazizmkantha.


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This first chapter is intended to define the field of 'language training in inser-tion/integration contexts', in which the language training concerns adults in the process of social/professional insertion/integration, and often with difficulties in this respect. In this context, the training involves literacy tuition, the teaching of French as a second language, or the relearning of basic linguistic skills (for those with literacy problems), but, crosswise, involves to review thoroughly educational objectives: beyond language learning, education contributes to the activation of social mobility pathways for which the «language of integration» is a social key and a symbolic resource. We'll firstly split it into two orientations: as a search field in humanistic social sciences, as well as a field of social intervention, structured by a political and institutional context. It is also to question what characterizes learners concerned in this field. Finally, this article is opening some tracks in terms of professional trainer's skills.


This paper presents the policy and technology case for decentralizing the architecture for dynamic spectrum management. A specific system concept called SMAP (distributed spectrum management architecture and protocol) is intended to enable wireless devices and networks to coordinate their spectrum use through an Internet-based common spectrum control plane. The SMAP architecture supports peer exchange of radio usage and control parameters between multiple wireless network domains operating in the same geographic region so that they can run distributed algorithms for optimization of transmission parameters to achieve efficiency and fairness while adhering to global and local policies. The architecture also provides interfaces to higher level cloud services including spectrum aggregators which facilitate broader cooperation and business relationships between wireless domains in the same area, or to regional spectrum databases such as the SAS (spectrum access system) being used for the 3.5 GHz innovation band. Design requirements for the proposed distributed spectrum control plane are discussed, including efficiency, scalability, decentralized decision making, support for local policy, service-level agreements and market mechanisms. This is followed by a technology outline of the architecture, explaining the high-level organization of the spectrum control plane, the participating entities, their protocol syntax and types of spectrum algorithms supported. Support for local policy and spectrum markets is also discussed. Proof-of-concept simulation and/or experimental results which demonstrate the technical feasibility of the proposed techniques are given for the following scenarios: (1) logically centralized spectrum coordination via regional spectrum brokers; (2) distributed coordination between colocated wireless domains using either single or multiple radio technologies (such as Wi-Fi and LTE); and (3) distributed coordination with additional local policy constraints. Future work is discussed in conclusion.


Significance
 Amid one of the steepest economic contractions in Europe, with GDP expected to shrink by 11% this year, the relaunch programme aims to reduce the tax burden on business and to incentivise industry to shift to greener, more sustainable activities and forms of production. It also containes short-term measures to save jobs ahead of the 2022 presidential election.

 Impacts
 In electoral terms, the relaunch plan targets centre-right voters and those espousing green causes.
 The risk of social protests will rise, because the plan has far less emphasis on redistribution than many on the left demand.
 The effort to reshore some forms of production will be opposed by industrial leaders worried it will increase costs.


Introduction : As a consequence of the social isolation associated with COVID-19, depression and anxiety are two of the most frequent affective disorders in the elderly. Objective: To determine the relationship between depression and anxiety with social isolation in older adults in a first level care clinic. Material and methods : An observational descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in patients 65 years and older, of both sexes, in social isolation due to confinement. A validated questionnaire was applied for the diagnosis of anxiety and depression, as well as another with questions about social isolation and sociodemographic variables. The Mann-Whitney and Kruskall Wallis U statistical tests were used, with a significance level of 0.05. SPSS program. Version 26. Results : 286 older adults were included, with an average age of 70.6 years,54.2 % belonged to the female sex. Regarding the social isolation, 73.4% reported a lack of relationship with their friends. The average score of the questionnaire was 45.06 (95% CI: 43.4% - 46.6%). Only 25.3% did not present neither anxiety nor depression, and in 51.1% some type of depression was identified. Regarding social isolation and its relationship with anxiety and depression; statistical significance was obtained in all questions. Conclusion : the social isolation of the elderly due to confinement by SARS-CoV2, was related with statistical significance to both anxiety and depression, while noting that in 75% of the patients one of the two conditions was presented.


In this paper, the inclusion complex was prepared by a solution-mix round method and characterized by infrared absorption spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetric analysis.And as a result of the different organic solvent, reaction time, reaction temperature, the reaction rate and yield of inclusion complex were diverse.


The standard approach to management of high imperforate anus is colostomy in the newborn period followed by posterior saggital anorectoplasty (PSARP) at 6 to 12 months of age. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a one-stage repair by primary PSARP in the newborn period could be performed without clear determent to the patient's functional result. Totally 30 newborns with high imperforate anus who underwent primary PSARP without colostomy were studied retrospectively. All cases were studied by sonography, echocardiography, lower vertebra X-ray and finally routine blood and urine laboratory tests. Incontinence was defined as fecal soiling at least twice a day, and patients requiring more than office dilatation were described to have stricture formation. All patients recovered well and were followed for periods ranging from 1.5 to 10 years. There were 3 cases of postoperative wound infection, but no anastomotic dehiscence, stricture formation and fistula recurrence were seen. In cases of constipation and fecal incontinence there were associated anomalies such as sacral dysplasia, kidney dysplasia, ventricular septal defect and vesicoureteral reflux. There were no complications in other cases. The most important factor is patient selection, and one-stage PSARP spares the patient the morbidity of additional surgeries in the standard multistage approach for high imperforate anus. These preliminary results suggest that one-stage PSARP is a safe and viable approach to the management of high imperforate anus without clear determent to future bowel function.


Cleats are natural fractures within coal seams. This paper presents the results of regional cleat mapping and characterization in relation to coalbed methane (CBM) exploration and development in the Barito Basin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia involving two major coal layers, namely the Late Eocene Tanjung Formation and Early to Middle Miocene Warukin Formation with thicknesses ranging from 2 to 50 m. The coal is classified as lignite to subbituminous with calorific values ranging from 6000-8000 Cal/gr with ash content 0.68-17.42%. We applied two methods of cleat measurement, i.e. scanline and window sampling using a 100 x 100 cm grid. More than 20,000 cleats were measured from 65 scanline and 37 window sampling locations. The results revealed that face and butt cleats are predominantly oriented in the WNW-ESE and NNE-SSW directions, respectively. The results showed that cleat density increases related to structural position such as fold hinge and fault zone. The formation of the cleats may be influenced by several geological processes, where the cleats, which form during coalification, are superimposed by later processes such as fluid pressure and tectonic stresses and are seemingly also affected by the composition of the coal.


This technology provides a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof including the through-silicon vias, the semiconductor device of the present technology, the through electrode and the semiconductor substrate of the through-hole bottom is formed in the semiconductor substrate containing an impurity of a first type It formed in and may be provided with a first doped region containing a dopant of a second type electrically connected to the through electrode.


Platelets isolated from patients with Glanzmann's Thrombasthenia release in the presence of thrombin and other stimuli but fail to respond to ADP. Since the iutia.l interaction, between the platelet and ADP is at the membrane surface, it would appear that this surface lacks the necessary receptor for ADP. The surface structure of normal and thrombasthenia platelets was compared using the lactoperoxidase iodination technique. Iodination of normal platelets results in the labelling of four glycoproteins, I, IIa IIb and III, with relative ratios of 1 : 1 : 1 : 3 plus other non-characterised polypeptides. Thrombasthenic platelets similarly treated revealed a drastically altered expression of the glycoproteins on the membrane. The relative ratios (1.5: 1:0.4:0.5) revealed the decrease of glycoprotein IIb and the marked reduction of glycoprotein III. Arguments and data will be presented which point to the possibility that glycoprotein IIb is involved in ADP-induced aggregation.


Regular periodic structures with large refractive index contrast are often called photonic crystals and may exhibit photonic bandgap behaviour. Planar waveguide 2D and 1D periodic microstructures exhibiting photonic bandgap behaviour are likely to be useful in realising the devices and connecting structures required for compact forms of integrated optical circuit.


The hyperbolic fitting method for vertical consolidation is discussed and extended to combined vertical and horizontal consolidation of soft soil treated with vertical drains. It is shown that the slope of the straight portion of the hyperbolic plot for vertical consolidation is constant within the range 60% ≤ U v ≤ 90%, where, U v is the average degree of consolidation. But the slope of the straight portion in the case of combined horizontal and vertical consolidation is dependent on three parameters; 1) drain ratio n 2) ratio of the length of vertical drainage path H to the drain diameter D e and 3) ratio of horizontal to vertical coefficient of consolidations C h /C v . These three parameters determine the preferential direction for the dissipation of excess pore water pressure underneath the foundation of an embankment. Accordingly, a parametric study was conducted to determine the relationship between these parameters and an empirical formula has been proposed to represent the relationship. The proposed empirical formula was applied to carefully recorded field data of Zhanxu expressway in Guandong Province, P.R. China as well as to various case studies from literature and a satisfactory result was found. A comparison between results calculated using Asaoka's method and the proposed method show nearly the same results.


Serosurveillance is an important epidemiologic tool for SARS-CoV-2, used to estimate burden of disease and degree of population immunity. Which antibody biomarker, and the optimal number of biomarkers, has not been well-established, especially with the emerging rollout of vaccines globally. Here, we used random forest models to demonstrate that a single spike or receptor-28 binding domain (RBD) antibody was adequate for classifying prior infection, while a combination of two antibody biomarkers performed better than any single marker for estimating 30 time-since-infection. Nucleocapsid antibodies performed worse than spike or RBD antibodies for 31 classification, but is of utility for estimating time-since-infection, and in distinguishing infection-32 induced from vaccine-induced responses. Our analysis has the potential to inform the design of 33 serosurveys for SARS-CoV-2, including decisions regarding number of antibody biomarkers measured.


In this paper, we discuss the use of the Border Gateway Protocol, version 4 (BGP4), to exchange Quality of Service (QoS) information between domains. The propagation of this information across autonomous systems should contribute to the dynamic computation and the selection of routes that will participate in the enforcement of end-to-end QoS policies. This paper proposes the use of an additional BGP4 attribute, named the QOS_NLRI attribute, which will explicitly convey the QoS information related to the reachability of (a set of) destination IP prefixes, so that it may influence the BGP route selection process accordingly. We also present the preliminary results of a simulation work that aims at not only validating the technical feasibility of the approach, but also the scalability and the stability of an IP network, where the BGP route flapping conditions could easily be affected by the processing of such information.


This bachelor thesis presents two novel algorithms that can be used in combination to determine the similarity of two photographs. The one algorithm analyses and compares the tags of two reproductions. These tags were assigned in advance, mainly by laypersons on the ARTigo platform. More precisely, the algorithm calculates the cosine similarity of the tags that have been assigned to the images. The information provided by the first algorithm can then be used to verify how much the tags annotated by the crowd differ between two reproductions that are already known to represent the same original. The ARTigo platform is part of an interdisciplinary project within the field of digital art studies, in which computer scientists and art history scholars conduct joint research. This bachelor thesis is part of that research project. The second algorithm is a computer vision algorithm that first calculates the feature vectors of the images. These are then matched so as to estimate how similar the two images are. Then, in a second step, the second algorithm calculates the general colour difference of the images in the Lab colour space. The results of the second algorithm can then be used to draw conclusions about the actual difference between the images. These results can also be used to classify whether, in the case of a high degree of similarity between the tags, two digital reproductions of the same original are involved, or whether both reproductions merely show the same or a similar motif. Finally, the thesis reports how the similarity of the assigned tags and the results of computer vision can be used to draw conclusions regarding whether two images represent the same original. This thesis is concluded with reflections on further possible application of the approach described in this thesis as well as how the work reported about in this thesis could be deepened.


The device is for electric machines or apparatus filled with insulating liquid or gas, esp. for transformers, tap changers and load selectors. When existing overpressure exceeds a specified limit, it is released by lifting the cover, and the process is signalled by an electric switching device, or the plant is switched off. A large area cover (4) has a number of concentrically arranged pins (3) and is pressed to the liquid or gas filled tank by springs (6) on pins (3). It is sealed by a seal (7) and is lifted when pressure exceeds a limit. When pressure is reduced to normal, springs (6) automatically reclose the cover (4) and seal it.


Traditionally education in China has been subjected to rigorous central regulation by the Chinese government. During the last two decades it has undergone processes of decentralization to reduce centrally directed activity. This article is devoted to exploring the educational effects of higher education policy from the establishment of new China in 1953 to 2013. It uses multiple policy documents to critically examine the special features of Chinese higher education administrative system, which is represented as a strong sense of "state instrumentism", and analyzes the relationship between the central and provincial governments and higher educational institutions. With an analysis of policy texts, this study discusses the challenges that Chinese government confronts with while renovating its higher education and proposes strategies to address this challenging situation. Taking Guangdong government's policy as an example, this paper examines the role of the Guangdong provincial government in the process of renovating and developing local higher education.


•Acanthocephalan parasites require multiple hosts to complete a life cycle. •Burrowing time has been shown to increase when the crabs are infected with parasites1, allowing for easier predation. •Surf Scoters (Melanitta perspicillata) are a definitive host. •California sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are a dead-end host. • 13-16% of sea otter deaths are caused by this parasite2. •Consuming parasite-infected crabs are fatal for these predators because the parasites cause peritonitis.


Abstract Serial repitching of beer brewer's yeast plays an important role in the beer industry as an ineluctable economic factor. In this study, the viability and vitality changes, as well as strains' anti-autolytic abilities during serial beer fermentation with typical ale and lager yeast strains, were investigated. While measuring the survival rate of yeast cells is not sufficient for evaluating and predicting the yeast fermentation capacity, physiological status determination of brewer's yeast reflects the vitality and quality of yeast in serial beer fermentations. Accumulation of reactive oxygen species in yeast causes cell damage, leading to a decline in cell vitality and viability. Aged yeast cells, after several repitchings, can result in leakage of intracellular compounds into the fermented liquor. The lager yeast (Pilsner) examined, which harbors the partial genome from S. eubayanus, showed better robustness and higher activity than the ale yeast strain M79 examined, during serial fermentation. A holistic approach, including more indicators, should be applied in evaluating the fermentation performance of brewer's yeast.


1. Materialities of Conflict: The Great War, 1914-2003 2. Art, Material Life and Disaster: Civilian and Military Prisoners of War 3. 'Sacred Relics': Objects in the Imperial War Museum 1917-1939 4. Prostheses and Propaganda: Materiality and the Human Body in the Great War 5. 'Nagelfiguren': Nailing Patriotism in Germany 1914-18 6. Shattered Experiences - Recycled Relics: Strategies of Representation and the Legacy of the Great War 7. The Great War Re-remembered: The Fragmentation of the World's Largest Painting 8. Death and Material Culture: The Case of Pictures during the First World War 9. A Material Link Between War and Peace: World War One Silk Postcards 10. Thanks for the Memory: War Memorials, Spectatorship and the Trajectories of Commemoration 1919-2001 11. The Lion, the Angel and the War Memorial: Some French sites re-visited 12. The Internet and the Great War: The impact on the making and meaning of Great War history 13. The Ocean Villas Project: Archaeology in the Service of European Remembrance 14. Aftermath: Materiality on the Home Front, 1914-2001


The automated analysis of the EEG pattern of the preterm newborn would be a valuable tool in the neonatal intensive care units for the prognosis of neurological development. The analysis of the (a)symmetry between the two hemispheres can provide useful information about neuronal dysfunction in early stages. Consecutive and subgroup analyses of different brain regions will allow to detect physiologic asymmetry versus pathologic asymmetry. This can improve the assessment of the long-term neurodevelopmental outcome. We show that pathological asymmetry can be measured and detected using the channel symmetry index, which comprises the difference in power spectral density of contralateral EEG signals. To distinguish pathological from physiological normal EEG patterns, we make use of one-class SVM classifiers. Future work will focus on adding relevant features for classification and augmenting the sample size, thus reducing the overall classification error.


Because of the recent emphasis on rhetorical context in business and technical writing (BTW) instruction, the problem-solving case has become a staple in BTW classrooms. However, a number of critics have voiced concerns about the use of the rhetorical case. These concerns recall an ancient debate among Roman rhetoricians over an early case-study method called declamation. For contemporary theorists, the debate over case study revolves around its value as a stimulant to problem-solving skills, its ability to imitate the realistic circumstances of professional BTW, and its emphasis on persona and audience along with its deemphasis of the teacher. A full spectrum of arguments on these and other issues in the case-study debate indicates that the discipline is entering a new phase in its deliberations over the role of problem-solving and pragmatics in the BTW classroom.


In a herd of cattle in which several cows are infected with Brucella abortus, it has been observed for many years that seldom, if ever, do all adult cows become infected. Very often a considerable percentage of animals in such a herd even fail to show by diagnostic tests indications of having been exposed to infection. It has been assumed that they were resistant to infection, this resistance being attributed to a hypothesized natural immunity or an immunity acquired through exposure to the causative microorganism. In this connection there are available considerable data from experimental infection studies that have a direct bearing on the occurrence of resistance to infection under experimental conditions. Rettger et al. (1926) exposed 26 bred and unbred heifers to Brucella abortus organisms by the oral, subcutaneous, and vaginal routes. Twelve (46 per cent) withstood the exposure, and a large percentage failed even to develop specific serum agglutinins. It is hardly conceivable that the failure of these animals to become infected was due to the size of the exposure doses of organisms. It is logical to assume that a high degree of resistance was already in operation before exposure, or was acquired immediately thereafter. In an experiment conducted to determine the influence of an adequate and a low mineral intake in cattle on their susceptibility to brucellosis by artificial exposure, Hadley and Welsh (1931) obtained data indicating that many of the animals used in the experiment were resistant to infection. Of a total of 33 used in the experiment, 13 failed to become infected. Many of the 13 developed specific serum agglutinins in low titer for only a short time. The animals were kept under observation for two years, and during this time 29 (88 per cent) ceased to show any evidence of being infected, as indicated by the absence of specific serum agglutinins and by negative bacteriological findings. Five years later Beach and Humphrey (1935) used 14 of these animals in an experiment to determine their resistance to experimental infection. Only one of the group became infected. The results of their experiment are adequate proof that immunity against brucellosis can be acquired through exposure to infection. The mechanism of the immunity in the adult cow still lacks adequate explanation. It is also known that calves up to 6 months of age are highly resistant to Brucella abortus infection (Huddleson, 1916; Quinlan, 1923). Calves not only resist infection, but often fail to develop specific serum agglutinins after repeated ex-


Donor livers are offered to patients with the highest risk of death. How ascites could inform risk models to reduce liver transplant wait‐list mortality is unclear. All adult candidates for primary liver transplantation for cirrhosis without exception points who were registered with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network from 2005 to 2007 composed our study cohort. Using Cox models and advanced discriminative metrics and paying attention to geographic disparities, we evaluated the additional risk discrimination of moderate ascites over that of the Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease (MELD) or the Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease plus serum sodium (MELD‐Na) alone for the prediction of 90‐day wait‐list mortality. Additional analyses examined lower mortality risk candidates and those listed in high‐demand, low‐supply United Network for Organ Sharing regions in which accounting for ascites may most significantly affect wait‐list mortality. Between 2005 and 2007, 18,124 subjects were listed for liver transplantation. Mortality was higher in patients with moderate ascites (15.4% versus 6.0%, P < 0.0001), and this risk persisted despite adjustments for MELD (hazard ratio = 1.58, 95% confidence interval = 1.42‐1.76) and MELD‐Na (hazard ratio = 1.42, 95% confidence interval = 1.28‐1.58). The effect of moderate ascites was more prominent with a MELD score <21 (equal to 4.7 MELD units) or with a MELD‐Na score <21 (equal to 3.5 MELD‐Na units). Wait‐list mortality was higher in patients with moderate ascites who were listed in high‐demand, limited‐supply regions (25.8% versus 17.5% at 1 year, P < 0.01). With the addition of moderate ascites, there was improvement in the overall risk model, particularly with a MELD score <21, as measured by the C index and integrated discrimination improvement. Moderate ascites informed risk prediction, particularly with a MELD score <21 and in high‐demand, limited‐supply regions. Under the MELD system, the presence of moderate ascites should prompt clinicians to consider strategies to expand access to transplantation, such as the use of extended donor liver grafts. Liver Transpl 17:129–136, 2011. © 2011 AASLD.


The situation around the COVID-19 pandemic is very serious worldwide. In addition to health problems, it also has many social and economic impacts. In our article, we have looked at the economic impact on the accommodation services sector. Despite repeated restrictions imposed by the government of the Czech Republic on this activity, there is speculation about violations of government measures. Our article aimed at identifying possible weaknesses in government measures and potential space for the emergence of a "grey economy" segment in accommodation services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic. Our results show that there may be a tax evasion of 35.6% relating to entrepreneurs' income. In addition, such a businessman receives a subsidy per unoccupied room and does not pay any occupational tax for accommodated guests. For natural persons who do not hire their premises on an ongoing basis, the tax evasion rate may be 10.5%, while still no charge on stay (tourist tax) is paid.


Ultrasound image segmentation is a fundamental but undoubtedly challenging problem in many medical applications due to various unpleasant artifacts, e.g., noise, low contrast and intensity inhomogeneity. This paper presents a coarse-to-fine framework for ultrasound image segmentation based on a preprocessing step via speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion (SRAD) and a modified version of Chan-Vese model by proposing novel evolution functional involving the Sobolev gradient. SRAD is a diffusion method tailored for ultrasound image denoising, and is adopted here to construct a despeckled image which allows us to obtain a coarse segmentation of the input image by carrying out our proposed CV model. This coarse segmentation will be further used by our level set model as a constraint to guide the fine segmentation. We compare the proposed model with some famous region-based level set methods. Experimental results in both synthetic and clinical ultrasound images validate the high accuracy and robustness of our approach, indicating its potential for practical applications in ultrasound imaging.


The aim was to evaluate potential predictive factors of smell recovery in a clinical series of 288 patients presenting olfactory dysfunction (OD) related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19). Potential correlations were sought between epidemiological, clinical and immunological characteristics of patients and the persistence of OD at 60 days.


The role of project manager is significant to project success shown by various studies in literature. Leadership is an effective tool to be used by the project manager which moderately influence project outcome, otherwise, lack of leadership skills are directly associated with project failure.


A new method for orbit and attitude determination of satellite simultaneously based on three-axis-magnetometer (TAM) and gyro data is presented, which is a breakthrough in traditional pattern of treating orbit and attitude of satellite separately. Considering of the nonlinear system, a modified unscented Kalman filter is developed. The magnetic field components are used to update as measurement and the gyro data are used to propagate the state vector. Because of the constraint of the quaternion, an error vector update approach is proposed. Numerical simulations are given at last, and the algorithm is confirmed to be feasible and effective.


Two different designs of dual-delay line shearhorizontal surface acoustic wave (SH-SAW) devices have been fabricated and characterised in order to inprove the discrimination capabilities of SAW liquid sensors. Both designs possess a dual delay line configuration where one delay line is metallized and shielded while the other is left electrically active. In addition to this, one design has metal array reflectors; these should concentrate the signal on the sensing area of the substrate and thus achieve better discrimination between the samples under test. The piezoelectric devices were fabricated on 36° rotated Y-cut X-propagating LiTaO3 substrates. Experiments to characterise the devices were conducted using different taste samples; aqueous solutions with different tastants representing the four classical basic tastes – saltiness, sweetness, sourness, and bitterness as well as umami taste. Encouraging results were obtained and are presented in this paper. Introduction Our sensors consist of two adjacent delay lines, with a region of metal between the two IDTs on one delay line, representing an electrical short and the other delay line with a free non metallised area. The basic operating principle utilised in this design of sensing devices is that perturbations that affect SH-SAW propagation on a metallised and electrically shorted surface are associated with the mechanical properties of the adjacent liquid, while SH-SAW propagating on a free surface are associated with both the mechanical and electrical properties of the adjacent liquid [1-3]. In addition, one type of device includes metal array reflectors outside the sensing area with a 45° tilt-angle in order to achieve 90° reflection of the incident waves otside the sensing area. The main idea behind this design is that by measuring only the signal that propagates on the surface of the sensing area (i.e. on the area affected by the sample under test) better classification of the samples will be achieved. Figure 1a) shows a photograph of a typical dual-delay line SH-SAW device, while the photograph of the device with reflectors is shown in Figure 1b). The devices were designed to operate at a frequency of 25 MHz and were fabricated on 36° rotated Y-cut X-propagating LiTaO3 substrates using a simple lift-off process at the Institute of Microtechnology. a)


The invention relates to an improved waterproof board which comprises a board body, wherein the board body comprises a bottom board; a fiber board is arranged on the bottom board; a first waterproof layer is arranged on the fiber board; a second waterproof layer is arranged on the first waterproof layer; a water filtering channel is arranged between the first waterproof layer and the second waterproof layer; a thermal insulation layer is arranged on the second waterproof layer; a wear-resistant layer is arranged on the thermal insulation layer; a surface plastic layer is arranged on the wear-resistant layer. The invention has the advantages that the first waterproof layer and the second waterproof layer are arranged in the board body, so that the waterproof effect of the board is enhanced; moreover, the water filtering channel is additionally arranged between the first waterproof layer and the second waterproof layer, so that water entering the board can be timely filtered and discharged completely, and the condition that the board is corroded due to long-term water retention is avoided.


With the objective to estimate genetic and phenotypic parameters of swine reproductive traits, litter weight at birth (PLN), litter weight at 21 days (PL21), litter size at birth (TLN), litter size at weaning (TLD) and mortality rate (TM) data of three swine breeds, Duroc, Landrace and Large White were used. The genetic and phenotypic (co)variances were estimated by Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML) method. These components were used to estimate the direct (), maternal () and total () heritabilities, the common litter effect (c2), and the genetic and phenotypic correlations. The direct, maternal and total heritability estimates were small to medium, 0.00 to 0.17, 0.00 to 0.14 and 0.00 to 0.15, respectively, indicating the necessity to include information on relatives in selection programs to improve these traits. The correlations among the additive direct and maternal genetic effects were, in general, high and negative, evidencing antagonism among these effects. The estimates of c2 were, in general, low, for all traits and breeds. The genetic correlations among PLN, PL21, TLN and TLD tended to be high and positive, and the correlations between these traits and TM were positive in some cases, and negative in others.


Let D be a digraph and X ~ V(D). By pushing X we mean reversing the orientation of each arc of D with exactly one end in X. Klostermeyer proved that it is NP-complete to decide if a given digraph can be made acyclic using the push operation. By contrast, Huang, MacGillivray, and Wood showed that the problem of deciding if a given multipartite tournament can be made acyclic using the push operation is solvable in polynomial time. We define a digraph to be nearly-acyclic if it is obtained from an acyclic digraph by substituting a (directed) triangle or a single vertex for each vertex of the acyclic digraph. It is shown that it is NP complete to decide if a given digraph can be made nearly-acyclic using the push operation. In this paper, we characterize, in terms of forbidden subtournaments, the tournaments which can be made nearly-acyclic by pushing. This implies that the problem of deciding if a given tourna ment can be made nearly-acyclic using the push operation is solvable in polynomial time.


The present paper provides a review of the phycological studies on aero-terrestrial cyanoprokaryotes and algae in Bulgaria, following the different aero-terrestrial habitats, which have been examined in the country so far. In total, 81 publications with records of more than 500 taxa are analysed. The complete checklist is provided in the second part of the paper. Nonetheless, it could be said that the knowledge of aero-terrestrial phycoflora in Bulgaria is far away form being complete.


Seasonal abundance, life history, and biochemical composition of Mesopodopsis orientalis Tattersall were investigated based on samples collected over a period of one year in tropical estuary, i.e., Cochin backwater. M. orientalis was recorded throughout the year and its peak abundance was observed during the monsoon period. The species produced more than one generation per year. The number of embryos carried by a single female ranged from 7 to12, and was correlated with female length (P<0.05), tending to increase with the size of the female. Egg size varied between 0.39 and 0.47 mm, with no correlation with length of the female, and size difference was observed in the same brood. Males and females attain sexual maturity after reaching the total length of 5 mm and 4.5 mm respectively. With the exception of chlorophyll a, the environmental parameters, dissolved oxygen, salinity, pH and water temperature do not have much influence on population density. The biochemical composition of the species reveals its high nutritional quality. Matured males and females showed higher protein contents than other stages, while carbohydrate content was high in immature stages, and lipid content was high in brooding females.


Continuous intravenous infusion (CII) anaesthesia was studied in six male adult buffaloes used twice for P1 and P2 groups. In P1 medetomidine (2.5 μg/kg) + butorphanol (0.05 mg/kg) and in P2 midazolam (0.25 mg/kg) + butorphanol (0.05 mg/kg) i.v. were used as preanaesthetics. Induction by 5% thiopentone sodium and maintenance by 1% propofol as continuous infusion was done. Electrocardiographic and haematobiochemical parameters were recorded. ECG showed sinus bradycardia and a slight decrease in atrial depolarization area in group P1 after premedication; whereas, sinus tachycardia and increase in atrial depolarization area was observed in P2 after preanaesthetic administration. In group P2 ventricular depolarization time and area increased significantly after preanaesthetic administration and remained so throughout the maintenance period. PR interval, however, did not show a definite pattern but it decreased in group P2 after preanaesthetic administration. Increased QT interval was observed in P1, whereas, P2 showed decreased QT interval. The T wave amplitude remained non-significantly (P>0.05) different from the baseline throughout the observation period in group P1 whereas, in P2 a significant (P<0.05) decrease in the T wave amplitude was recorded. Slight neutrophilia, lymphocytopenia and an increase in plasma glucose level was observed in both groups. Plasma cortisol increased after the preanaesthetic administration but showed decreasing trend towards the end of observation period in both groups. Plasma creatinine, urea nitrogen and transaminases (AST and ALT) showed significant increase in both groups. It was concluded that neither of the combination induced serious electrocardiographic or haematobiochemical changes and are safe.


The 'White Australia' policy is associated with the Immigration Restriction Act in 1901 and the exclusion of 'coloured' labour from Australia. After 1901, however, union lobbying turned against the...


Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) function in the innate immune system to alert the host to pathogenic components. Double‐stranded RNA (dsRNA), viral genomic material or a viral replication intermediate, trigger the PRRs toll‐like receptor 3 (TLR3), retinoic acid‐inducible gene I (RIG‐I), melanoma differentiation‐associated gene 5 (MDA5), and dsRNA‐dependent protein kinase receptor (PKR). Previous studies have reported that dsRNA stimulation induced TLR3‐dependent apoptosis.


Two kinds of American fiction flourished during the decade pre ceding the publication of Owen Wister's The Virginian and Andy Adams' The Log of a Cowboy in 1902 and 1903 respectively, but the peak of one had already passed, and the heyday of the other was yet to come. The Virginian — with its idealized cowboy hero and schoolmarm heroine, its unredeemable villain, its lynching and its gunplay — had its American origin in the work of James Fenimore Cooper and Bret Harte, but it was nevertheless the first novel to include such an array of the actions and characters that ultimately would become the stock of myriads of "Western" writers from Zane Grey to those of our own day. Although the work was influenced by Howells and James, its pervasive romantic elements constituted a far more im portant contribution to the develop ment of "Western" fiction than did its evident marks of authenticity in language and graphic description. The novel stands as a choice example of the neo-romantic fiction being published at the end of the nineteenth century with its implicit longing for an ideal past in a period of rapid social and economic transformation. The Log of a Cowboy, on the other hand, represents a culminating work in local color realism with a Western setting. Although romanticizing seems apparent in parts of the narrative, the extraordinary characters and adventures associated with a long cattle drive make it difficult to determine precisely where the tru th ends and the exaggeration — if any — begins. The episodes described by Adams' narrator are such as could and often did occur along the trails, and the romantic moments of the life itself — despite the dangers, the hardships, and the usual boredom — illustrate the attrac tions that drew young men into the nomadic existence of the cowboy.


Artificial intelligence (AI) can be incorporated into a decision-sciences (DS) curriculum using a variety of AI/DS education materials now available.


This paper is a continuation of the previous research. The refrigerator‐truck system is treated as a two‐substructure multi‐coordinate coupled system, which is composed of a refrigerator substructure and a truck substructure coupled by numerous packaging units. Applying the two‐substructure multi‐coordinate coupled inverse substructure method to a product‐transport system, the paper makes an analysis of the dynamic characteristics for the refrigerator‐truck system. In order to validate the method in the refrigerator‐truck system, the measured system‐level frequency response functions (FRFs) were used to predict the substructure‐level FRFs that were compared with those directly measured and found to be in agreement in trend. To evaluate the vibration transmissibility of packaging units, the concepts of the vibration contribution, vibration contribution ratio, overall vibration contribution and overall vibration contribution ratio to product response through each packaging unit are introduced. The vibration contributions to the refrigerator through four coupling points almost coincide with each other in the whole frequency domain. However, the vibration contribution ratios are different at each frequency. The overall vibration contributions to the refrigerator through the frequency domain 10 to 50 Hz through four coupling points are respectively 9.4, 7.5, 9.8 and 11.2 mm/N, and the overall vibration contribution ratios are respectively 0.25, 0.20, 0.26 and 0.29. The vibration transmissibilities of four coupling points are similar. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


A 76-year-old man with hypertension presented with a sudden, painless, and profound loss of vision in the right eye. Visual acuity was light perception only in the affected eye, with a positive relative afferent pupillary defect. Ophthalmoscopic examination revealed diffuse retinal whitening, constriction of the arteriole and venule with segmentation (Panel A, arrowhead), and a cherry-red spot in the macula (Panel A, arrow) — all signs compatible with the diagnosis of central retinal artery occlusion. A horizontally oriented optical coherence tomograph of the macula (Panel B, arrowhead) demonstrated increased thickness and reflectivity of the inner bands, indicating ischemic damage to . . .


The invention relates to a method and control apparatus cleaning process MEDICAL DEVICE. The apparatus comprises a soil detector IS ABLE TO DETECT DIRT ORGANIC AND / OR INORGANIC IN A MEDICAL DEVICE or a liquid used in a cleaning process OR CONTROL OF CLEANING OR A PATRON covered in dirt that can serve as a proxy CLEANING FOR MEDICAL DEVICE. THE method of the invention to control the process of cleaning a medical device comprising the step MEASURING DEVICE REMOVED DIRT WITH MEDICAL DEVICE the invention comprising a soil detector. Preferably, the method further comprises the determining step of when the device is clean enough to be able to be sterilized.


The main purpose of the article is to assess the risk of international projects on the Low Carbon Logistics example. In accomplishing the goal, an analysis of the risks could have an impact on the project implementation. The risks were selected by a group of experts chosen from participants of the project. People opinion directly related to the project, oriented in the realities of its implementation largely validates the results of the analysis. In the next step identified risk groups were developed for the next assessment,. Thanks to that authors select those of them which, have a large impact on the success of the project and a high probability of occurrence. These activities enabled the creation of a risk matrix for the internal assessment of the Low Car-bon Logistics project..


The canonical trace and the Wodzicki residue on classical pseudodifferential operators on a closed manifold are characterised by their locality and shown to be preserved under lifting to the universal covering as a result of their local feature. As a consequence, we lift a class of spectral $\zeta$-invariants using lifted defect formulae which express discrepancies of $\zeta$-regularised traces in terms of Wodzicki residues. We derive Atiyah's $L^2$-index theorem as an instance of the $\mathbb Z_2$-graded generalisation of the canonical lift of spectral $\zeta$-invariants and we show that certain lifted spectral $\zeta$-invariants for geometric operators are integrals of Pontryagin and Chern forms.


Abstract This paper presents a model of dynamic monitoring and forecasting of key financial indices of U.S. insurers. The key financial indices are assumed to be cyclically time-varying correlated and are selected according to their impact on the soundness of the insurers. It also presents a new kind of control chart, μr {\mu _r} chart, based on the weighted average of standardized financial indices. Three kinds of objective functions are applied to determine the optimal weights: (1) minimizing the probability of a missed alarm; (2) minimizing the volatility of the weighted average of standardized financial indices; and (3) minimizing the expected shortfall of the weighted average of standardized financial indices. We note that the optimal weights are equal weights no matter which objective function is selected. The control technique presented in this paper can be extended to monitor the soundness of other insurance firms in a cyclical environment.


Conducting your love life or expressing your innermost feelings through an architectural medium, one that seemingly replaces the traditional village green where people met up and shared experiences, is a pretty far-reaching social proposition. But D-Tower, a collaboration between architect Lars Spuybroek of NOX in Rotterdam, and QS Serafijn, a Rotterdam-based artist, aims to do just that, writes Lucy Bullivant, in a way that transcends any notion of a pure prosthetic device with an architectural system of communication.

Lars Spuybroek of NOX has also recently made public artwork for Industrieschap Ekkersrijt, in collaboration with composer Edwin van der Heide. Here, Lucy Bullivant describes a project that builds a 'memoryscape' of sounds in and near the space visitors participate in making. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.