The effect of mastoparan on the cation movement in the black lipid membrane was studied to clarify the nature of transmembrane Ca2+ flow induced by mastoparan as a possible mechanism of its mast cell degranulating activity. Mastoparan enhanced membrane conductance to Ca" without forming the lipid-soluble Ca" complex, and also mediated Nai and Kt' flux. Thus, it is probable that this new peptide can enhance the cation permeability in the lipid membrane ofmast cells by some modification of membrane structure or some other mechanism.


To look back upon the history of precast concrete products in China is now of no practical meaning. With the remarkable economic development in the last two decades, China is like a huge construction site, which inevitably stimulates the development of pre-cast concrete products industry. The majority of the products currently have the number one output in the world. What people are most concerned with is the future developing trends of China precast concrete products industry. Will it maintain a high growing speed?


Abstract The problem of numerical estimation of the functionals of the solutions to a Boltzmann type nonlinear equation in the kinetic model of a vehicle traffic flow with separated acceleration is considered. The authors construct a second-kind integral equation for the original probabilistic model of a vehicle traffic flow, which is related to a linear N-particle model of the vehicle system evolution. Weighted Monte Carlo methods are proposed for the estimation of the functionals of the solution to the obtained equation. The practical suitability of this approach to the solution of traffic problems is demonstrated by numerical experiments. It should be noted that, in contrast to the previous papers, the authors do not use an artificial time step not included in the original traffic flow model.


Using a generalization of a rational, partial information framework presented fully in Cukierman and Wachtel (1979), it is shown that there is a positive relationship between the variance of relative price change and the variance of inflationary expectations across markets in the economy. This implication is then tested empirically using data on the variance of relative price change and on the variance of directly measured expectations. The empirical evidence supports the view that there is a positive relationship between the two variances and that more than one-third of this relationship is explainable in terms of the model presented.


Risk assessment is nothing more than a careful examination of what, in our work, could cause harm to people, so that we can weigh up whether we have taken enough precautions or should do more to prevent harm. The aim is to make sure that no one gets hurt or becomes ill. It involves identifying the hazards present in any undertaking (whether arising from work activities or from other factors, e.g. the layout of the premises) and then evaluating the extent of the risks involved, taking into account existing precautions.


The Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) application layer protocol is the de-facto first choice in building Internet of Things (IoT) systems and applications. Being a fundamental component in virtually all IoT projects, a wrong MQTT configuration or usage may lead to critical problems for both system owner and users. Driven by the need for further problem-driven MQTT training involving challenging IoT use cases, we propose Online-MQTT, an online lab course for MQTT. Online-MQTT is designed to be used by a wide range of learners while pinpointing to two crucial research gaps. We build on the unique Open DigiLab4U infrastructure to realize our scalable MQTT online lab. We first elaborate on our educational considerations such as the selection of topics, the target group, our didactic approach and finally technical challenges to accomplish an MQTT experiment with remote access to physical assets. Next, we detail the course content, by illustrating MQTT basic features and drawing the learning path towards demonstrating two current research gaps, i.e., enhancing MQTT with semantics and real-time capabilities. The main achievement is an online MQTT course that is expected to be of high interest for MQTT beginners, experts and researchers.


We explore the interconnections of pupil admission and school choice with the socioeconomic composition of schools in the city of Espoo, Finland. We analyze pupil enrollment from residential areas, and compare the schools' expected and actual socioeconomic profiles using GIS software (MapInfo). Social-diversification mechanisms within urban comprehensive schooling emerged: Distinctive choices of language and selective classes are made predominantly by pupils from residential blocks with higher socioeconomic profiles. The role of urban segregation in school choice seems to be stronger than predicted. As mechanisms of educational distinction accompanied with grouping policies, choice leads to socioeconomic segregation across and within schools.


The present invention, at least a first electrode stack one electrode units are stacked, the second electrode stack in which at least one electrode unit having the first area is smaller than the second area are laminated with a first area When, the first electrode stack and the second electrode stack are stacked in a direction perpendicular to the plane, and the step portion a step is formed by the area difference between the first electrode stack and the second electrode stack It includes, the electrode assembly has a length in the lateral direction to the longitudinal direction is long rectangular separation membrane to the electrode unit is formed by winding, the rectangular separation membrane, at least a portion the electrode assembly of the winding so as to cover the step portion, to provide an electrode assembly step is formed of the step portion and the same shape.


Through introduction to geological characteristics of strata,rocks and structure,geological characteristics of deposit and ore quality of Xiaotun gypsum deposit are analyzed.Xiaotun gypsum deposit is a small scale gypsum deposit firstly found in Ordovician Donghuangshan section in Shandong province with mining industry value after a detailed investigation.Discovery of the deposit exceeded the previous geological knowledge and widened the searching scope of gypsum deposit.It will provide some references for searching gypsum deposits with the same type in the future.


The regency of Gunungkidul is the largest cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) production centers in Special Region of Yogyakarta. However, proper reference about cassava diseases was insuficiently available, thus local farmers were unable to distinguish disease symptoms found in the field. This study was aimed to identify various cassava-infecting diseases found in District of Ponjong, Regency of Gunungkidul. Disease survey was conducted using purposive sampling method at 4 months-aged plant. A survey was performed in three villages (Karangasem, Kenteng and Bedoyo) and each village was represented by three field plots. Disease incidence and severity were evaluated every two weeks. Data were analyzed statistically using a one-way analysis of variance and the difference between survey locations was assessed using DNMRT with a p<0.05. The highest disease incidence was recorded in Bedoyo village. Results showed the presence of six diseases infecting cassava in District of Ponjong in different level of incidence. Of those six diseases, three diseases were found in all locations with a high incidence up to 100%, namely brown leaf spot, diffuse leaf spot and antrachnose. These data were potential to be a reference in developing a proper disease control strategy to minimize the cassava-infecting diseases in District of Ponjong.


This paper focuses on the issues associated with bringing one or more of the IEEE cable accessory standards into the AEIC / IEC combination approach for cable system qualification. It first highlights the similarities and differences associated with the testing methods, test limits, and number of components/lengths of cable required by each standard. NEETRAC's experience with the AEIC / IEC combination approach from 2005 – 2014 is then reviewed with respect to the overall failure rate of each component type. Finally, the risks / benefits of combined qualification programs containing either complex test loops (i.e. number of components) and / or combined standards requirements is presented.


The work in the classroom of solidarity values encourages the construction of socially responsible and committed citizens. This research evaluates the effects of the service-learning methodology applied in the university classroom when it relies on corporate and audiovisual communication. Through a multidisciplinary and multimethod triangulation, which combined the survey, the content analysis and the in-depth interview, the change of attitude and perception in the participants is verified. In addition, the results confirm the validity of collaborative and autonomous work by projects and the audiovisual format as a means to effectively involve and transfer solidarity values.


Buck converter based series stacked active power decoupling (SS-APD) circuit is a preferred choice to increase the power density of single-phase converters. Owing to its distinct design dependencies and associated trade-offs, a comprehensive design methodology is essential to achieve desired performance. This article presents a systematic design methodology for buck converter based SS-APD circuit. It minimises the total energy stored in the passive components of buck-SSAPD circuit to enable compact design. Therefore, this methodology is tailored for using electrolytic capacitors, as their cost and volume is proportional to their energy storage. As design having minimum energy storage simultaneously achieves minimum cost and volume, the proposed methodology is inherently multi-objective. The proposed method-ology is employed to design a buck SS-APD prototype with power density of 404 W/inch3 (by box volume) for a 2 kW, 230 V, 50 Hz single-phase inverter. The satisfactory performance of the fabricated prototype is supported by experimental studies.


This work is related to PHG (Parallel Hierarchical Grid). PHG is a toolbox for developing parallel adaptive finite element programs, which is under active development at the State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing. The main results of this work are as follows.
1) For the tetrahedral meshes used in PHG, under reasonable assumptions, we proved the existence of through-vertex Hamiltonian paths between arbitrary two vertices, as well as the existence of through-vertex Hamiltonian cycles, and designed an efficient algorithm with linear complexity for constructing through-vertex Hamiltonian paths. The resulting algorithm has been implemented in PHG, and is used for ordering elements in the coarsest mesh for the refinement tree mesh partitioning algorithm.
2) We designed encoding and decoding algorithms for high dimensional Hilbert order. Hilbert order has good locality, and it has wide applications in various fields in computer science, such as memory management, database, and dynamic load balancing.
3) We implemented refinement tree and space filling curve based mesh partitioning algorithms in PHG, and designed the dynamic load balancing module of PHG. The refinement tree based partitioning algorithm was originally proposed by Mitchell, the one implemented in PHG was improved in several aspects. The space filling curve based mesh partitioning function in PHG can use either Hilbert or Morton space filling curve.
4) We studied existing hp-adaptive strategies in the literature, and proposed a new strategy. Numerical experiments show that our new strategy achieves exponential convergence, and is superior, in both precision of the solutions and computation time, to the strategy compared. This part of the work also serves to validate the hp-adaptivity module of PHG.


House price prediction is one of the most common supervised learning tasks in the machine learning field, which makes it a perfect criterion for the effectiveness of different learning models. From basic regression models to neural networks, countless methods have been proposed to solve the house price prediction problem. In this paper, the focus is the performance of three regression models, linear, LASSO, and ridge. There will be a selected dataset of sold houses from the open-source website. The data will be explored and visualized for a better understanding and then implement the regression models for further testing. According to the analysis, the LASSO regression model can yield the most accurate prediction with 90.15% accuracy but need a specific λ value. The linear and ridge regression yields similar predictions with close to 90% accuracy. Therefore, the most effective model for the house price prediction problem is the LASSO regression model. Overall, these results shed light on guiding further exploration of the performance of different machine learning models.


Abstract We have previously reported a study on brain activity detection in occipital region using a picotesla-scale Magneto- Impedance (MI) sensor. Based on past studies, the target of the present study was to review the performance of MI sensor on parietal region brain activity detection. Human brain magnetic field is extremely weak, in order to detect the faint magnetic field, we constructed an MI measurement system that can cancel out the background noise (e.g., geomagnetic field) instead of using a magnetic shielding. In this study, we recorded P300 brain waves of subjects, compared our results with our past studies and other EEG and MEG data reported previously. The results confirmed the reliability of our data and indicated that the MI sensor can be applied on brain activity detection.


ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, I wish to thank the Almighty for giving me the endurance to complete my entire course. I want to express my deepest sense of gratitude to Dr. his invaluable guidance, constant encouragement, cooperative attitude, immense patience, useful discussions during the course of research and preparation of the manuscript. He has always been a fountain of inspiration to me. Also, I am honored to express my esteem and profound sense of gratitude to Dr. Pius J. Egbelu, Committee member and Professor of Industrial Engineering, for his constructive and valuable suggestions. He was always quick to extend his help whenever I asked for it, and he never failed to offer cooperative and accommodating services. constant help and collective efforts are undoubtedly reflected in the completion of this venture. Also, nothing could have been possible without the incessant love, affection, sacrifice and inspiration from my parents. I feel blessed to have such supportive parents, who were a central force in guiding me to this day. Finally, I would also like to devote my success to the financial assistance provided by the CMIE Department in the form of assistantship during the tenure. ABSTRACT Since its introduction, the concept of integrated inventory supply chain has received a considerable amount of attention. The majority of studies in the last three decades revealed an increase in holding cost as product moves further down the chain or up the chain. A recent study Hoque (2008) considered vendor's setup cost and inventory holding cost. Some research also considered fixed transportation cost, which is unrealistic. This study focuses on a single-vendor, multi-buyer scenario and presents three models. First, two models illustrate the transferring of equally-sized batches. Then, a third model considers the transferring of unequally-sized batches in a lot. This study relaxes the assumption that vendor's holding cost must be greater than or less than all buyer's holding costs in the system. Also, this research facilitates unequal transportation time and cost for different buyers for greater flexibility. The total system cost is calculated by summing the annual operational cost for all the parties in the system. Optimum values of the decision variables are determined using a direct search method. As presented by the third model, a numerical example demonstrates that the total system cost is less when compared with other two models presented. This study also presents the following: solution procedures to solve each model, …


A unique geographic location, coupled with climate change impacts, has made Bangladesh one of the worst victims of natural disasters. 'Living with disasters' is a cruel reality for the people of Bangladesh, and rural housing is one of the major sectors which is badly affected almost every year. This study focuses on one of the primary problems of traditional vernacular dwellings beside the Padma riverbank areas, which is the overheating of indoor spaces due to changing demand of building materials as well as harsh, barren landscapes. This empirical research was conducted by doing surveys and analyses about the available building materials, housing characteristics, homestead layouts, space- use patterns, and environmental conditions on the northern side of the Padma riverbank areas, at Munshigonj, Dhaka. Again a quantitative method of analysis was carried out for assessing indoor thermal environments of a few randomly selected houses with the help of a pocket weather meter. The surveys reveal that these houses were vulnerable to recurrent natural hazards, and their indoor environment was relatively uncomfortable. But in terms of affordability and availability, they are clearly optimum and sustainable. It may be possible to suggest ways and means of improvement of the physical environment of rural housing in such a way as to improve their indoor thermal performance and reduce vulnerabilities. Key words: rural housing, vernacular dwelling, indoor environment, thermal comfort, natural hazards, riverbank areas, vulnerabilities.


In vector control system of asynchronous motor,control performance is often influenced by accuracy of estimated flux value.On the basis of analysis for flux observer based on low-pass filter,the paper put forward a control scheme of model reference self-adaptive used to estimate resistance of stator and rotor and rotate speed of motor,and designed a novel self-adaptive stator flux observer based on Popov's inequality.The observer can accurately obtain estimated values of stator resistance and rotate speed,and distinctly improve its performance.The simulation result verified advantages of the observer.


Particularly in the automotive industry, there is a persistent problem arising from the need to reliably and permanently bond dissimilar materials such as plastics and metals. To solve this problem, experts at the Fraunhofer ILT in Aachen have come up with a solution that is suitable for industrial applications. Unlike adhesive bonding, the process works without additives or additional intervals for hardening or surface cleaning. Starting from the state-of-the-art process used today, the chain can be optimized for butt connections to a novel process using the thermal energy applied by the microstructuring process of the metal component. A new joining device is introduced, which allows the microstructuring of the metal component with an angle of incidence. After heating the component by the microstructuring process, it is pressed into the plastic component in the same joining device. The liquid plastic flows inside the inclined microstructures, which have a big undercut groove and a barb-like effect in the tensile shear load direction. After curing, the connection is based on a mechanical interlocking between the two components. At first suitable microstructuring parameters are evaluated to achieve a homogeneous melt flow of the plastic inside the cavities, which enables a high structure filling-rate and a good mechanical performance of the joint in tensile shear tests. Furthermore, the resulting temperature distribution is evaluated by thermocouples. Different influencing factors on the strength are evaluated like various penetration depths, different structure distances, or different clamping offsets of the plastic component.Particularly in the automotive industry, there is a persistent problem arising from the need to reliably and permanently bond dissimilar materials such as plastics and metals. To solve this problem, experts at the Fraunhofer ILT in Aachen have come up with a solution that is suitable for industrial applications. Unlike adhesive bonding, the process works without additives or additional intervals for hardening or surface cleaning. Starting from the state-of-the-art process used today, the chain can be optimized for butt connections to a novel process using the thermal energy applied by the microstructuring process of the metal component. A new joining device is introduced, which allows the microstructuring of the metal component with an angle of incidence. After heating the component by the microstructuring process, it is pressed into the plastic component in the same joining device. The liquid plastic flows inside the inclined microstructures, which have a big undercut groove and a barb-like effect in the...


Comparison of travel-time and amplitude data from two Oblique Seismic Experiments located on 110 m.y. old oceanic crust in the western Atlantic and northwestern Pacific Oceans shows that compressional velocities within layer 2 are, within experimental error, identical at the two sites. This result implies that, at least for 110 m.y. old crust, the velocity structure in layer 2, where extrusive lavas grade downward into a sheeted dike complex, is independent of the spreading rate at which the crust was created.


A method employing high performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry has been developed
and validated for the simultaneous determination of clinically significant levels of lamivudine and zidovudine in
human plasma. Emtricitabine & didanosine were used as internal standards for lamivudine and zidovudine
respectively. The method involves sample preparation with solid-phase extraction technique with typical mass
detection. The calibration range was 1.00 - 3507.87 ng/mL for lamivudine and 1.00 – 3502.29 ng/mL for
zidovudine. An aliquot of 100I¼L of plasma was used for solid phase extraction technique. An isocratic mobile phase
consisting of 0.1% formic acid in water and methanol (20:80; v/v) was used in the method. Chromatographic
separation was achieved on Discovery C18 column over a run time of 2.5 minutes. The molecular ion Q1 & product
ion Q3 transitions were found to be 230.0 →112.1, 268.1 →127.1, 248.2 →130.1 and 237.0 →137.0 for
lamivudine, zidovudine, emtricitabine and didanosine respectively. The pharmacokinetic parameters for lamivudine
were Tmax – 1.6 Hours, Cmax – 2031.8 ng/mL, T1/2 – 5.8 Hours, AUC (0-T) – 12371.4 ng.hrs/mL and AUC (0-∞) –
12552.3 ng.hrs/mL & for zidovudine were Tmax – 0.8 Hours, Cmax – 1786.3 ng/mL, T1/2 – 2.2 Hours, AUC (0-T) –
3244.3 ng.hrs/mL and AUC (0-∞) – 3250.9 ng.hrs/mL. The proposed assay method was found to be acceptable to a
pharmacokinetic study in human volunteers.


Within the past few decades, there has been an explosion of articles examining "gay identity." Yet, much of this work continues to center on the experiences of gay White men or fail to adequately examine the process of identity development, even when "identity" is central to the discussion. This review outlines 4 theoretical perspectives used to explore gay men of color and identity development. Taken together, these 4 perspectives can offer a rich opportunity to explore the ways that gay men of color come to develop an identity that simultaneously addresses their racial and sexual identities. I argue that examining identity development among gay men of color can help sociology better understand the identity process and provide new insights into examining intersectionality by demonstrating that identities are not only intersectional but also contextual.


In this study, a biological based solution on Digits classification is explored with a
computational implementation of negative selection (NS) of immune system (IS) with
genetic algorithm. Immune system possesses several properties such as self/nonself
discrimination, immunological memory, positive/negative se lection, immunological
network, clonal selection, and learning which performs complex tasks. In the research, we
use negative selection that has the property of self/nonself distinction to detect the foreign
antigens. NS algorithm attempts to construct a set of distinguish detectors in the following
way : a) define the self data; b) generate a random candidate detector; and c) match each
candidate generated with self data. The uniqueness of this research is on the feature
extraction phase, in which, the digits are extracted using moment invariants. These
invariants are converted using the mathematical formulation of f : 9t ~ Lm into
symbolic representation. In this study, a few samples of handwritten digits are used, in
which, each digit is represented with 8 bits binary string. The matching procedure is done
by searching an equal length of each string and is done by using the XOR operator. The
length of the mismatch in the bits is counted and the matching score is found out using the
equation as stated below:
matching
where
8
score = count + L 2 1
1=1
count is the length of the total number of mismatches in the string.


The sustainable development and continuous industry choice of resource-based cities faced a social system project.It has a very strong practicality,so scholars' views,ideas and suggestions in this aspect should be put into practice,tested in practice,and constantly revised,improved and strengthen.This paper is based on the profound understanding of Gongyi City economic and industrial development,analyze the series issues of its industrial restructuring,introduce their successful experience and provide experience and guidance for the industrial restructuring in other Chinese resource-based cities.


Traditionally, automatic cutting-off machines, of metallic pipes or bars, use a constant cutting velocity mode. This mode of operation, constant cutting velocity combined with different profiles of materials to be cut, exposes the cutting saw to variable cutting forces. Therefore, the cutting off machine is usually set for the worst expected conditions, otherwise excessive wear of the saw and machine will occur. Further, traditional cutting-off machines require the adjustment of the position of a limit switch in order to automatically detect when the cut of a piece has been completed. The aim of this paper is to study the application of control algorithms to the process of cutting-off of metallic pipes or bars, with variable profiles implemented in an industrial cutting-off machine, commercially available. The presented algorithm concern real-time cutting control and automatic detection of the cutting end. The algorithms are implemented in a low cost programmable logic controller (PLC), allowing its use in industrial applications without significant increase on machine cost. All algorithms were developed having in mind safety issues relative to the operation of the cutting machine in order to prevent catastrophic failure. Also, all process related relevant parameters are monitored on a personal computer using OPC (object linking and embedding - for process control).


Combining ipilimumab with neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy results in encouraging major pathologic response rates with no new safety signals in patients with operable NSCLC.


The authors present a case of distal common bile duct injury. Ligation of the bile duct and a bypass cholecystojejunostomy were chosen as treatment. Diagnosis of blunt traumatic injury to the extrahepatic biliary ducts may be difficult due to the benign nature of initial bile peritonitis. Surgical treatment for associated abdominal injuries usually makes the diagnosis possible. One of the challenges in the treatment of these injuries relates to the small diameter of the, usually, normal common bile duct. Primary repair and T tube drainage is the best option for non-complex injuries. End-to-end anastomosis and, preferentially, biliary-enteric anastomosis are the best surgical options for more complex injuries. Severe injuries have high complication rates, especially when the distal portion of the common bile duct is affected. Early leaks and late strictures are likely to develop in these situations. Cholecistojejunostomy and ligation of the injuried common bile duct are good surgical options for complex injuries. They carry a low complication rate and consequently low morbidity.


Our Motoring Correspondent discusses Police Pursuit Driving and considers the possibilities for police use of an exceptional small British car.


There are a variety of forms of ethnography inside and outside HCI each with valid complementary contributions. This paper looks at the practices of digital anthropology and how it contributes to reflexive design in HCI. The paper overviews key aspects its use in HCI, as well as in the anthropological approach. In doing so it relates these practices to participatory design and the socio-technical gap, and the ways ethnography can address them.


Based on the experiment of frictional resistance between concrete short pile and lightly weathered silty mudstone, the frictional resistance of concrete short pile on uplift loading was analyzed and the ultimate friction resistance was obtained. Considering the site geotechnical investigation report and relative standards, the safety factor of side friction of uplift bored piles in soft rock was defined according to the testing of frictional resistance between concrete short pile and lightly weathered silty mudstone. Achievements in this research are already applied into engineering practice.


43 species of Odonata from Jiulianshan Nature Reserve including 8 families and 30 genera were reported in this paper.5 species were new records of insect from Jiangxi province.Fauna analysis indicated that the dominant fauna in this region are Oriental.Of all these components in the fauna,there are 25 species of Oriental,13 species of Palaear-oriental species,and 5 widespread species,which accounts for 58.14%,30.23%,and 11.63% of all species,respectively.A few of them belong to Palaearctic species.


This is an exploration of the changing structure of women's paid work in Britain since World War II. Four case-studies, drawing upon original research material, give accounts of developments across the whole range of women's employment; form the"post-feminist" finance profesional to unskilled workers. This work is set within a context of current theoreticl debates concerning gender, occupationalsegretagion, and class and stratification, and is complemented by a review of the structure of women's employment in other Western countries. The book also provides a summary and crtiques of current developments within a series of sociological debates.


Objective To analysis the clinical effect of dialectical care in children with acute non-bacterial infectious diarrhea. Methods 96 children with acute non-bacterial infectious diarrhea in our hospital from May 2014 to March2015 were selected.They were divided into control group and observation group by proportion of 1 ∶1 matching method,48 cases in each group.The control group was given basic therapy and common nursing,the observation group was given basic therapy combined with dialectical care.Effect,symptom improvement and nursing satisfaction were compared between two groups. Results The effective rate,times of defecation per day,time of checking diarrhea,children of stool forming and nursing satisfaction rate in observation group were respectively 93.7%,(1.69 ±0.43) times,(4.10 ±2.40) d,22.9% and 97.9%,above these compared with the control group [50.0%,(2.50 ±0.78) times,(4.35 ±2.20) d,2.1% and83.3%],the differences were significant(P0.05). Conclusion Dialectical care in treating for children with acute nonbacterial infectious diarrhea can improve patients′ symptoms effectively and improve nursing satisfaction.


Object detection methods are divided into two main branches: In the global approach one extracts low level features and uses machine learning techniques. In the part-based approach one uses deformable templates. We present a Hybrid approach for constructing a deformable template for modeling and detection. Initially one applies Gabor wavelet filters to extract low level features and constructs graphs which resemble shock graphs. A minimum spanning tree (MST) is extracted and is called the pictorial graph. It is used for matching. The pictorial graph is suitable for preserving the visual appearance of the shape of the object and for accommodating shape variances. In this hybrid approach we maintain the generality of the global and the efficiency of part-based approaches. Our algorithm has been applied to a set of test cases and the result shows improved performance as compared to standard object detection methods that do not rely on human intervention.


In this study, the geomagnetic data of 16 stations, near 6 years for most, provided by the National Geomagnetic Center of China, were used to study on the geomagnetic induction vectors. The stations cover the whole North China and part of southwestern China, both of which has a complicate geological and tectonic background. This study will not only advance the understanding of regional tectonic variations, but also provide some suggestions on the construction for geomagnetic observation network of earthquake monitoring.


Abstract : A simple experiment, using explosive sound sources, has been performed at sea to verify the conservation of the average total energy received at an omnidirectional hydrophone after reflection by the rough sea surface. Although the data sample is small, some conclusions can be reached about the extent of conservation versus surface roughness and grazing angle at the surface. (Author)


Background: Sepsis is a serious illness, more complexity, increase mortality rate and hospital expends cost.  The trend of incidence continues to increase. Early detection and rapid specific treatment delay severity and organs failure. Early goal–directed therapy treatment protocol: EGDT is a guideline to resolve blood circulation system to normal condition within 6 hours. EGDT decrease mortality rate, severe sepsis and septic shock. Objective: To study effects of nursing practice guideline in caring patient with sepsis. Study design: Action research, Interrupted time design.  75 patient with sepsis admitted in male medical ward at Phrae hospital between January-December 2013. 37 patients were control group received usual care between January-June 2013.  38 patients were experimental group received nursing practice guideline in caring patient with sepsis between July-December 2013.  Motored 2 domains of nursing outcome: personnel (knowledge) and patients (antibiotics within 1 hour, specimen collection, EGDT within 6 hours and mortality rate between before and after the usability of nursing practice guideline in caring patient with sepsis. Data were analyzed in term of frequencies, percentage, mean, t-test Chi-square and Wilcoxon signed rank test Result: Nurses knowledge in caring patients with sepsis increase (p< .001). Patients' outcome increased in every domain except volume resuscitation. Nursing practices in caring patients with sepsis increased in every domain except antibiotic, vasopressore and Inotropes administration. Mortality rate, length of stay and cost decreased (p< .05 Conclusion: The usability of nursing practice guideline in caring patient with sepsis effective on decreasing of mortality rate, length of stay and cost. It should be use thorough hospital and network to promote better outcome of personnel, patients and hospital. Evidence-based clinical practice guideline on pressure ulcers prevention in elderly patients with hip fracture effect on reduce incidence of pressure ulcers and should be considered to use in clinical practice. Key words: Nursing practice guideline, Sepsis, Severe sepsis, Septic shock


Deep levels, associated with misfit dislocations in "clean" and copper contaminated p-type Si/Si0.98Ge0.02/Si structures, are under consideration. In the as-grown (non-contaminated) samples dislocations were found to exhibit a very low recombination activity, detectable with the electron-beam-induced current technique only at low temperatures. Deep-level-transient spectroscopy revealed a dislocation-related hole trap level at Et = Ev + 0.2 eV which was identified as band-like. The position of the observed level is close to the theoretically predicted hole trap state of the intrinsic stacking fault between a dissociated dislocation. Contamination with a low copper concentration (5 ppb) gave rise to a large increase of the recombination activity of the dislocations and to the appearance of another dislocation-related defect level at Et = Ev + 0.32 eV. Hydrogenation of the copper contaminated sample by a treatment with an acid solution and subsequent reverse-bias anneal at 380 K resulted in the evolution of the levels of substitutional copper and its complexes with hydrogen. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


In order to explore aluminum tolerance of Axonopus compressus cultivars,6 traits(total number of secondary branches,total stem length,leaf firing percentage,turf quality,relative shoot dry weight and relative root dry weight) of 19 different geographical distribution of A.compressus germplasm and one cultivar were measured in the study.The results showed that there were significant(P0.05) or very significant(P0.01) difference among different germplasm on 2.1 mmol·L-1 aluminum treatment.Coefficient of variation of different indicators ranged from 18.73% to 39.63%,of which the relative shoot dry weight(18.73%) was minimum and turf quality(39.63%) maximum.There were significant correlations(maximal correlation coefficient of-0.920)among different indexes of A.compressus germplasm.Based on six traits,SPSS 16.0 was used to divide carpet grass germplasm into three aluminum tolerance types: aluminum tolerance,intermediate and aluminum-sensitive.


The development of Goliat oil field in the Barents Sea may have both negative and positive impacts on Saami communities and Saami livelihoods. The renewable resource-based trades (reindeer herding, fisheries, use of outlying fields) will experience negative impacts through loss of areas along the Finnmark coast as well as increased traffic in important fishery areas around the Goliat oil field. Positive consequences include increased employment and higher economic activity in the area, even though the number of new, oil-related jobs will be limited in Saami areas and vary little in number between the three alternative development concepts. Reindeer herding will experience the least negative impacts from alternative 1, where the oil is processed and offloaded offshore and few coastal areas are affected. Alternative 2 including an oil terminal at Veidnes at Mageroya Island will lead to large negative impacts for the local reindeer herding business. Alternative 3 including oil processing at Slettnes on the Soroya Island may also lead to large negative impacts, but this depends on the development at Sandoybotn and if the activity at Slettnes will generate development of new infrastructure on Soroya with resulting loss of grazing land. The reindeer herding district of Kvaloya will to some degree be negatively impacted through all three alternatives. The area where the Goliat oil field is located is considered to be very important with regards to fisheries activity and as a nursing area for fish and other marine species. Oil development in this area is most likely to be problematic for fisheries. In addition, a development of Veidnes (alternative 2) may have large negative impacts on fisheries in the region due to the broad fisheries activity and ship traffic at or near this site, as well as the close distance to the North Cape bank. A development offshore (alternative 1) seems also to lead to large negative consequences due to the increased traffic of shuttle tankers to the Goliat oil field area and offloading of oil at sea. A processing plant at Slettnes seems to have less negative impacts on fisheries. Agriculture is little affected by the Goliat development. Regarding use of outlying fields, the alternatives 2 and 3 will lead to the removal of several second homes (approximately 18 at Slettnes and 5 at Veidnes). This will end today's use of the outlying fields around these locations. There is little or no commercial use of the uncultivated land in these areas. During the construction phase, the employment effects of the Goliat project will be limited in Finnmark and Northern Troms if alternatives 1 or 2 are chosen, and the effects in areas with strong Saami interests will be minimal. The choice of alternative 3, including a subsea-to-beach solution and processing onshore, will lead to substantial employment effects in the area, estimated to 350 manyears per year during the six-year construction phase, where around 50 manyears will be in municipalities with strong Saami interests. The differences in employment effects between the three alternatives are less pronounced in the production phase, estimated to be between 250 and 350 manyears per year in 11-12 years in Finnmark and Northern Troms. Alternative 1 (offshore) results in the lowest employment effects, while alternative 3 with processing onshore leads to the highest effects. In areas with strong Saami interests, the employment effects are quite similar between the three development alternatives, estimated to range between 40 and 60 manyears per year given the present commuting pattern


In this article we attempt to reflect on the formative role of collaborative projects between university and school, as well as the possibilities and limitations encountered in processes of continuous formation directed to Environmental Education. The conception of environmental education that guides the work values the autonomy of the teacher, as well as interdisciplinary attitude, a more flexible curriculum and horizontality in the production of knowledge. How focus of approach is presented the proposals of actions contextualized, from local studies, such as mechanisms of development of concepts, values and attitudes towards the environment. The analyzes are based on experiences gained in continued education programs for teachers of basic education, and discusses elements inherent to projects that contribute and / or limit processes.


This work is a novel provides an evaluation of hydrogen conversion technologies and proposes the establishment of an integrated solar-hydrogen power plant to provide daily electrical residential requirements in Tripoli. While planning the solar-hydrogen plant there are some factors that should be considered while establishing the project, including the residential electricity demand, the availability of water and sufficient sunlight, and the hydrogen production rate. The data calculation of the project is undertaken using (PVGIS) website to model the radiance and the amount of sunlight, and Excel for modelling the hydrogen demand and production. This paper presents a stand-alone solar hydrogen plant to cover the daily electricity demand of a residential unit consisting of six apartments. Solar power was obtained through International Global Radiation and PV panels, while hydrogen was acquired via water electrolysis. The system fulfilled the specified residence's electricity demand with enough electricity, with zero greenhouse gas emissions. This renewable solar-hydrogen community has demonstrated and clarified that it is possible to be fully reliant on renewable electricity daily. In addition, it is a real example of the efficiency and the effectiveness of hydrogen usage in energy storage, along with its high reliability as a substitute for oil and gas.


In this paper all semigroups are commutative with identity and all systems are unitary. In this paper we shall generalize the concept of dual basis from modules to S-systems and we shall give some characterization of such S-systems where S is a semigroup with identity.


Aims: The purpose of this study was to report on the development of evidence-based practice guidelines. Design: Developmental research for practice guidelines. Methods: The guidelines developmental process was designed according to a procedure provided by Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN). A first step, key clinical questions were selected. Next, 74 studies were selected from studies of 719 according to a search strategy, and then methodological quality of those studies was evaluated using assessment tool of SIGN. After the evaluation of draft guidelines including recommendations and their grades, the contents were modified. Last, definitive guidelines were evaluated using Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) tool. Result: The guidelines consist of three categories and 64 recommendations, i.e. nine recommendations for user before peripheral intravenous catheterization (PIVC), 26 recommendations during PIVC, and 29 recommendations after PIVC. Content validity was revealed to 70-78% by experts' agreement. Conclusion: These guidelines were completed throughout systematic reviews and evaluations by clinical experts. Their contents are also included about overall managements for PIV therapy. Therefore these guidelines could help PIV practitioners to make evidence based decision. Relevance to clinical practice: The method and result of this study are described specifically in figures, tables and appendix, which could give guidance to nurses who develop guidelines regarding other subjects.


How to promote common process fragments reuse, how to accelerate business process customization process for multiple tenants and how to model interactions between different tenants' business processes while protecting their privacy, are the main research focuses of existing cloud workflow modeling approaches. This paper proposes a cloud workflow modeling approach based on an extended proclets framework which has the following advantages: 1) provides a hierarchical management mechanism to isolate the private data of each tenant's business process; 2) adopts two-level-channel transmission protocol to explicitly model interaction between different tenants' business processes. To exactly describe and understand the modeling approach, the formal definition and construction procedure of cloud workflow model based on extended proclets are presented. At last, a case study is carried out to illustrate its modeling capability and feasibility, and to evaluate the applying effect of our modeling approach, the run effect of a cloud workflow system developed by adopting our proposed modeling approach is evaluated through three indexes: communication error rate, data leakage rate and user satisfaction.


We exhibit examples of projective varieties with degenerate Gauss mappings and determine numerical invariants of such varieties. Our examples provide counter-examples to an asserted structure theorem of Griffiths and Harris (Ann. Sci. ENS 1979).


Introduction: It is important to determine the perceived factors of home health nursing professionals which are the drivers of home health nursing as a profession in developing countries. Objectives: To identify the variables driving the growth of the home care nursing profession. Methodology: Responses of 150 home health nursing professionals is processed with factor analysis. Result: Analysis reveals that the three factors together explained 45.6 percent variation in the data. Conclusion: The identified factors are "Comparative benefits over hospital care", "Exclusive benefits of home healthcare", and "Holistic view linking hospital care and home healthcare."


. One of the most striking attributes of planetary nebulae are their complex, yet highly symmetric shapes. The process (es) which shape planetaries are only beginning to be understood. It is proposed that the morphologies of most PNs can be understood within the context of the "interacting winds" wherein a fast but light wind driven by the nucleus rams into an older, slower, and more massive wind, or red giant envelope ("RGE") ejected earlier. In order to explain the shapes of noncircular PNs, it seems necessary to hy-pothesize that the slow wind was originally ejected with an enhanced density along an equatorial plane. The morphologies of nearly all PNs can be understood through two basic parameters: the equatorial density contrast in their RGEs, and the degree of interaction between the fast and slow winds.


Resilience is a complex concept that describes different ways to overcome traumatic situations, failures, or radical changes in life, understood to be an individual capacity to fight adversity. In this paper we propose two hypotheses in the case of adolescents with physical motor deficiency (PMD)1: if positive elements can be identified in adolescent behavior with PMD, considered as components of resilience and if, by the psychological intervention, there was a better resilience. Psychological tests with deep resonance within the personality were applied: WM Personality Inventory, Introversion-Extraversion-Neurosis Test, DE-AN Questionnaire. There have been also used projective methods. Following the quantitative-statistical and qualitative analysis of the results obtained in the group of teenagers with PMD, were identified a series of specific traits and also some compensatory features along with compensatory conducts as elements of resilience. Resilience is interpreted through compensation (features and conducts), through individual and social valorisation, through integrating teenagers with PMD in school and social groups. Other related concepts are discussed: compensation and expectance, idolizing normality, labelling etc.


How to efficiently process queries in an heterogeneous and distributed data integration environment is an interesting and unsolved topic. Our research project proposes an approach for providing a generic cost framework for query optimization in an XML-based mediation system called XLive, which integrates heterogeneous data sources. Our approach relies on cost annotation on an XQuery logical representation called Tree Graph View (TGV). A generic language is used to define an XML-based uniform format for cost communication within the XLive system. This cost framework is suitable for various search strategies to choose the best execution plan for minimizing the execution cost.


Magnesia prices out of China have surged in 2018 following severe environmental restrictions. Carrie Shi, Fastmarkets IM market reporter, looks over the year of shutdowns and the effect on prices.

China's magnesia market has experienced a year of mining restrictions and prohibition on the use of explosives in the name of environmental improvements in Liaoning province, supporting firm prices as a result


follow-ups on requests which were previously presented in the DIAS Rounds. We found them of value both in terms of documenting the effectiveness of our service and in their educational value. Especially because of the latter, we present them here. The first was request # 8 , which involved a 58-year-old woman patient with a diagnosis of sinus bradycardia. Her condition was uncontrolled on atropine and as a result, her physician was considering a trial with isopro terenol sustained action oral tablets prior to implanting a pacemaker. In our consult, we explained that the apparent response rate is about 40-50 percent in this type of patient. Furthermore, to elicit a response, the dosage must usually be increased and/or be given at more frequent intervals than those recommended by the manufacturer. This is probably due to erratic absorption from the gastrointestinal tract or erratic release from the dosage form. We suggested that on initial trial with this agent, continuous E K G monitoring should be provided and if during this trial "multiple ectopic beats or runs of ventricular arrhythmia occur" then the isoproterenol should be abandoned and a pacemaker utilized. The follow-up revealed that the patient was given isoproterenol 20 mg sublingually and in 20 minutes her heart rate increased to 72 beats per minute from 44 beats per minute prior to therapy. Premature beats were noted during the trial. However, on review, the E K G strips showed that they were not ventricular in origin. Follow ing this initial trial, the medical staff concluded that it was worth a trial to attempt to increase her heart rate with isoproterenol. The patient was placed in the coro nary care unit and given 30 mg of sustained action isoproterenol every six hours. Her heart rate increased to 60-80 beats per minute with rare atrial premature con tractions. No anginal symptoms were noted. Five days later the patient was discharged on isoproterenol sus tained action 30 mg every six hours. A follow-up was also obtained on request # 2 2 . This involved a patient currently taking oxazepam and who had cholestatic jaundice. The problem was whether or not the hepatotoxicity was drug-induced. A literature


The effects of passive and active learning classes are investigated in a basic mathematics training for electrical engineering. The characteristics are considered from the viewpoint of the teacher. The level of understanding of all of the students and the degree of difficulty of the problems of coursework can be checked in real time. However, some contrivance is needed to move the students, such as use of the blackboard by students. Also, the setting of coursework problems is important for the active learning style. On the other hand, the opinions from the viewpoint of the students are categorized by using the network visualization. The results indicate that the students believed the active learning style is useful, while they showed the tendency to like the conventional passive learning style. The feelings of accomplishment at the end of the class are varied in the active-learning-recommended students.


We provide a theoretical proof showing that under a proportional noise model, the discrete eight point algorithm behaves similarly to the differential eight point algorithm when the motion is small. This implies that the discrete algorithm can handle arbitrarily small motion for a general scene, as long as the noise decreases proportionally with the amount of image motion and the proportionality constant is small enough. This stability result extends to all normalized variants of the eight point algorithm. Using simulations, we show that given arbitrarily small motions and proportional noise regime, the normalized eight point algorithms outperform their differential counterparts by a large margin. Using real data, we show that in practical small motion problems involving optical flow, these discrete structure from motion (SFM) algorithms also provide better estimates than their differential counterparts, even when the motion magnitudes reach sub-pixel level. The better performance of these normalized discrete variants means that there is much to recommend them as differential SFM algorithms that are linear and normalized. The support of the DSO grant R263-000-400-592 is gratefully acknowledged. W.-Y. Lin ( ) · L.-F. Cheong Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576, Singapore e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com L.-F. Cheong e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com G.-C. Tan Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


The purpose of this study is to identify the index of dental fluorosis and associated factors of children in the Unidad Educativa " ANDOAS DEL SOCORRO" parish Cubijies, Riobamba Canton , Chimborazo Province, for this work it was realized the opening of records in 108 children (58 men - 50 women) with their respective reports endorsed by the parents of each of the children to this we realized a check clinical intraoral evaluating the parts dental, to thus recognize the level of severity of fluorosis present in each child, in which we perform statistical tables to know the percentage of fluorosis existing. Also it was taken samples water of daily consumption to assess the level of fluorine in these, taking 5 samples, the first sample was obtained of the slope of the water which is located in the community of Balcashi which has a percentage of 0.96 ppm, the second sample is located in the reservoir in the community of Porlan where we got a percentage of 0.96 ppm which caters to the community of El Socorro and therefore to the educational unit, the third sample it was obtained of the residence of the president of the community of El Socorro in which there is a percentage of 0.97 ppm, the fourth sample it was obtained educational unit of "ANDOAS DEL SOCORRO" in which was found a percentage equal to the home of 0.97 ppm and the fifth sample was obtained of the slope that exists around the community El Socorro, in which we obtained a rate of 2 ppm, which was consumed like daily water and today it is used as reserve water if the water of the reservoir of Porlan missing them.


Parthenolide (PTL) is a sesquiterpene lactone found as the major active component in Feverfew ( Tanacetum parthenium ). PTL is a strong inhibitor of NF-kB activation and STAT transcriptional activity, resulting in a downregulation of antiapoptotic gene transcription. Recently, PTL was demonstrated to have promising anti-cancer effects through inhibition of DNA synthesis and reactive oxygen species (ROS)-associated intrinsic apoptosis. However, the sensitivity to PTL-induced cell death was different according to leukemia cells. Therefore, it will be important to identify parameters predicting response to PTL-induced cell death. Myeloperoxidase (MPO), a typical lineage marker for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), was also shown to have a prognostic significance in this disorder. Since it was shown that MPO is a potential regulator of oxidative stress, we examined the effect of MPO expression upon the PTL-induced leukemia cell death. First we compared the extent and mechanism of PTL-induced cell death between parental K562 and MPO-overexpressing K562 (K562/MPO) cells. K562/MPO cells were kindly provided by Dr. Sawayama (Nagasaki University, Japan). Annexin V labeling evaluation revealed that PTL induced apoptosis in K562/MPO cells in a dosedependent manner. The fraction of apoptotic cells after 24 hours treatment with 10mM of PTL was significantly higher in K562/MPO cells (52.2 ± 0.4%) compared to parental K562 cells (13.1 ± 4.8%, p p p N -terminal kinase phosphorylation was remarkably increased only in K562/MPO cells. We next evaluated the PTL-induced cell death in primary leukemic blasts obtained from patients with AML. Quantitative measurement of MPO expression was done using flow cytometry analysis. Interestingly, the fraction of apoptotic cells induced by 24 hours treatment of PTL was significantly higher in AML specimens consisting of higher than 50% of MPO-positive cells (MPO hi cases; 44.5 ± 1.6%, n = 6) compared to AML specimens consisting of lower than 20% of MPO-positive cells (MPO lo cases; 1.4 ± 1.1%, n = 4, p


the theory by the projection method and transformations Math. Sci. 193–202. The notion of generalized constant of Eiler are considered and investigated for general terms of series which are determined by concrete function. Conditions of existing this constant. Two criterions of existing of Eiler constant are founded. Method of using constant of Eiler for calculating numerical value of partial series. It was proved existing of this constant for divergent series with bounded increasing of general term of series. ˛.


We have earlier developed a method-the Collocation method for propagating beams or total fields through optical waveguiding structures1,2 which is numerically more efficient and capable of giving better accuracy in comparison to commonly used propagating beam method (PBM). The collocation method, which converts the Helmholtz equation into a matrix total differential equation to facilitate direct numerical solution, suffers, however, from one drawback. For moderately large extrapolation intervals (typically 10 μm) the method becomes unstable and error increases exponentially. This kind of behavior is typical of simultaneous equations. Special methods have to be used to circumvent this problem which may not be very convenient and the advantage of computational efficiency may be lost. We have, therefore, developed an alternative method to solve the matrix differential equation. The new formulation involves only unitary operators, like in PBM, and is unconditionally stable with respect to the values of the extrapolation intervals. The method still has its computational advantage over PBM.


Security designs that presume enacting secure behaviors to be beneficial in all circumstances discount the impact of response cost on users' lives and assume that all data is equally worth protecting. However, this has the effect of reducing user autonomy by diminishing the role personal values and priorities play in the decision-making process. In this study, we demonstrate an alternative approach that emphasizes users' comprehension over compliance, with the goal of helping users to make more informed decisions regarding their own security. To this end, we conducted a three-phase redesign of the warning notifications surrounding the authentication ceremony in Signal. Our results show how improved comprehension can be achieved while still promoting favorable privacy outcomes among users. Our experience reaffirms existing arguments that users should be empowered to make personal trade-offs between perceived risk and response cost. We also find that system trust is a major factor in users' interpretation of system determinations of risk, and that properly communicating risk requires an understanding of user perceptions of the larger security ecosystem in whole.


This report summarizes some of the current activity taking place in the search for suitable replacements for conventional highway aggregates, either through the necessity of diminished aggregate supply or the need to dispose of an unsightly problem. The following materials are discussed: (1) waste glass; (2) bottom ash; (3) synthetic lightweight aggregates; and (4) ground tires. The use of epoxy resin systems in bituminous construction is also reviewed since the high stabilities that can be obtianed suggest the possibility of using weaker aggregates than current specifications now permit.


A series of environmental chamber experiments and computer model calculations were carried out to assess the atmospheric ozone formation potential of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). The experiments consisted of measuring ozone formation, NO oxidation and DMSO consumption rates in irradiations of DMSO-NO x mixtures and determining the effects of DMSO on O 3 formation, NO oxidation and integrated OH radical levels when added to various simulated photochemical smog systems. The results indicated that DMSO is highly reactive towards ozone formation under all conditions examined. High yields of formaldehyde were observed, and approximately half of the sulfur in DMSO reacts to form products that are not detected by a total gas phase sulfur analyzer (i.e., not SO 2). In addition, an upper limit rate constant of 3 x 10-20 cm 3 molec-1 s-1 was determined for the reaction of DMSO with O 3. The information available from previous studies is not sufficient to determine the mechanism for DMSO's atmospheric reactions, and a number of alternative mechanisms were examined for consistency with the data obtained in this study. The best results are obtained using a mechanism where 75% of the reaction of DMSO with OH results in the formation of SO 2 and two formaldehyde molecules after conversions of two molecules of NO to NO 2 ; with the remaining 25% involving the formation of CH 3 S(O) 2 CH 3 (DMSO 2) and HO 2. Although this mechanism underpredicts the effects of DMSO on NO oxidation and O 3 formation in some experiments, it generally gives good simulations of the experiments most closely representing polluted urban atmospheres. This mechanism predicted that DMSO emissions form about twice as much ozone on a mass basis then emissions of the mixture of reactive VOCs representing emissions from all sources. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


Conventional Transceivers are designed using particular wireless technology and thus works in a specified range. This paper presents data transmission over Encrypted Multiband Transceivers which makes use of different wireless communication technologies, Encryption and GPS is used to securely communicate an image or other kinds of digital information with efficiency. It uses dynamic switching which is depending upon the distance, network, receiver sensitivity etc. Transceiver communication protocols are discussed with the help of software implementation and their algorithms.


In recent time, everything is becoming faster and faster as well as increasingly complex. This applies to multiple areas, including healthcare. Health plans must transform their approach to medical cost management in order to make it effective, and deliver sustained high-quality care at an acceptable cost. The key to this transformation is to employ a more thorough and integrated approach to control health care costs: employing traditional medical management competencies within the context of an endto-end wellness management lifecycle that includes disease management. In this work a proposal for a new system that consist RTOS with CAN communication. In order to enhance the communication module of the hospital management, some changes to the system which includes the replacement of I2C bus and operating system with CAN bus and RTOS to reduce power consumption, complexity and data loss. In this paper, we propose a prototype, to prolong the network lifetime, to improve the reliability based on the control area network. To cover all the scenarios, we have considered to provide an integrated health monitoring enabled network. The performance metrics will be evaluated using simulation results and hardware implementation.


The Curie depth map of India compiled from MAGSAT data has been used for preparing the lithosphere thickness and the surface heat flow density maps of the Indian Craton, utilizing the concept of magnetothermometry. The lithosphere thicknesses of the major Indian geological units/provinces, as obtained from the prepared map, are found to be in reasonably good agreement with the previously published values for these regions. Also, the surface heat flow density values obtained from the prepared maps closely follow the previously published results. The maps are useful in providing first order estimates of lithosphere thickness and surface heat flow density of the important geological units/provinces of India.


Abstract Styryl thienyl ketone and Styryl furyl ketone 2a, b reacted with thiocyanoacetamide(1) to give the dihydropyridinethiones 3a, b which used as starting material for the synthesis of several heterocyclic compounds. Reaction with several halogeno-esters, halogeno-ketones and chloroacetamide gave 2-S-alkoyl pyridines 5a-d, 10a-d, 13a, b and 19a, b thieno[2,3-c] pyridines 6a, b, 11a, b 14a, b and 20a-d, pyrido[2′,3′,4:5]thieno[2,3-c]pyndazines 8a, b and pyrido[2′.3′:-4,5]thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidinones 15a, b 16a, b and 17a, b. Structures were established based on elemental analyses and spectral data studies.


Studies on the essential oil of leaves and terminal twigs of Juniperus communis L. var. saxatilis Pall., isolated by steam and hydro distillation using Clevenger type apparatuses showed marked differences in the composition depending on whether the plant material was either comminuted or not prior to the distillation, as well as depending upon the duration of the distillation connected herewith.


The invention relates to a device (100) for testing a coating (101) of a document (103), comprising: an image sensor (105); an illumination device (107) having a test structure (109), wherein the illuminating means (107) is configured to illuminate the test structure (109) to transmit structured light towards the document (103); a in the beam path disposed (111) of structured light holder (113), in which the document (103) is applicable to the structured light by the document (103) in the direction of the image sensor (105) for an image pickup of the test structure (109) to reflect; and to determine a processor (115), which is formed, an image parameter of the image pickup of the test structure (109), and to compare the image parameter with a reference parameter to check the coating (101) of the document (103).


Stability and change in kindergartners' friendships were examined based on a typology of profiles (stable, fluid, loss, gain, friendless). Our purpose was to determine whether children belonging to the five profiles differed in their social functioning. The sample was composed of 2353 kindergartners. Reciprocal friendships and social functioning indices were measured using peer nominations collected in October and May of the same year. A series of repeated measures analysis of variance indicated that children in the friendless profile were less accepted by their peers, more shy, more withdrawn, and more aggressive than other children. Moreover, children in the stable profile were significantly more accepted by their peers, more prosocial, and less shy than children in the fluid profile. Lastly, children in the loss profile became less accepted by their peers and less prosocial over the course of the year whereas children in the gain profile became more accepted and prosocial.


Background Ulcerative colitis is a chronic, idiopathic inflammatory disease that destroys the colon structure. Nevertheless, the exact pathogenesis is not clear and needs to be fully elucidated. Material/Methods Stool and plasma samples were used for 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing and liquid chromatography mass spectrometry, respectively. In addition, we detected the level of trimethylamine N-oxide. Finally, we performed Pearson correlation analysis between the microbiome and the metabolome. Results Twenty-three active ulcerative colitis, 25 inactive ulcerative colitis, and 30 control cases were included. Thirty-four significantly different metabolites were found between the active ulcerative colitis and control groups, 38 were found between the inactive ulcerative colitis and control groups, and only 1 was found between the active ulcerative colitis and inactive ulcerative colitis groups. The plasma trimethylamine N-oxide level of the inactive ulcerative colitis and active ulcerative colitis groups was significantly higher than that of the control group. Moreover, we identified significant changes in 24, 18, and 12 bacterial genera for active ulcerative colitis-control, inactive ulcerative colitis-control, and active ulcerative colitis-inactive ulcerative colitis, respectively. Cross-correlation indicated an association between sphingosine 1-phosphate and Roseburia, Klebsiella, and Escherichia-Shigella. Through the pathway analysis, we found sphingolipid metabolism was one of the most significantly increased pathways. Conclusions Although levels of trimethylamine N-oxide were higher in ulcerative colitis patients, they did not achieve statistical significance in active ulcerative colitis and inactive ulcerative colitis groups. Sphingosine 1-phosphate was increased in ulcerative colitis patients and there were several microbiota associated with it. Although further study is still needed, sphingosine 1-phosphate will probably become a new target for treatment of ulcerative colitis.


Silicon shows no vatiation in its chemical valence in nature and exists mainly in the form of silicon-oxygen tetrahedra,so very small silicon isotope thermodynamic frac-tionation occurs and the resultant silicon isotope variation is limited.Dynamic fraction-ation of Si isotopes during precipitation of SiO2 from a solution is a main factor leading to substantial variations in silicon isotopes in nature. In this experimental study,we determined the dynamic fractionation factor αfor silicon isotopes during precipitation of SiO2 from the solution.And in combination of α, a theoretical explanation is pre-sented of the considerably low &^30Si values of black smokers on modern seafloor ,Archean banded magnetite-quartzite and clay minerals of weathering origin ,and of clearly high &^30Si values of siliceous rocks in shallow -sea carbonate platforms.


Social changes are unavoidable in human development.There is a frequent succession in social groups of certain areas that form their own life styles,economic mode,cultural concept and life in the survival and development.Panyu district has shown as the model of the social changes and quickest urbanization in China during this century,especially since the 30 years of reform and opening up.The cultural accommodation in social changes is a historical and cultural course through national power for the adaptation in political,economical and environmental changes.Through investigations of the social changes in Panyu,this article has put forward the idea that it is through effective interaction in the internal drive of cultural accommodation and government management innovation that we can realize an interactively-balanced harmonious social pattern with multicultural accommodation.


This chapter highlights the difficulties and ambiguities of the Egyptian process, wherein the military-backed government sought to control and direct public attitude and input. Moreover, when participation in constitution-making processes is not recognized and guaranteed as a fundamental right, but rather taken as a 'grant to be awarded pursuant to the pleasure of the authorities', public participation can only be flawed and defective.


Background: There is lack of any evidence based comparative information of lipid profile level between urban and rural population in Bangladesh.

Methodology: Between April and September 2010; applying age stratified (every 5 years interval; 40 to 93 years) randomization technique, 132 individuals aged 40 years and above from the rural Mirzapur were enrolled. On the other hand, 396 (1:3 ratio) urban individuals of Dhaka, the capital city, within same age interval were randomly selected from a total of 3,179 individuals who attended the Clinical Laboratory of icddr, b in Dhaka to investigate their lipid profile, served as control group.

Results: Residents in urban area demonstrated significantly higher level of serum total cholesterol (TC) [rural (4.44 mmol/L) vs. urban (4.84 mmol/L); mean difference (95% CI) p value; -0.40 (-0.61, -0.18) <0.01], LDL cholesterol [2.74 vs. 3.00; -0.24 (-0.45, -0.04) 0.01], triglyceride (TG) [1.56 vs. 2.02; -0.45 (-0.65, -0.23) <0.01], TC:HDL [4.41 vs. 5.10; -0.64 (-0.91, -0.37)], and LDL:HDL [2.78 vs. 3.10; -0.31 (-0.53, -0.09)] compared to the rural population; however, serum HDL level [1.11 vs. 1.00; 0.11 (0.02, 0.21) 0.01], was found higher among rural population.

Conclusion: Findings of the study demonstrated significant higher levels of serum lipoprotein in urban than the rural population of Bangladesh.


Common myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) occurs in (semi-)arid areas of the Palearctic region where climate change, over-exploitation, and habitat destruction imperil its existence. The evergreen shrub is of great economic and ecological importance due to its pharmaceutical value, ornamental use, and its role in urban greening and habitat restoration initiatives. Under greenhouse conditions, we investigated the effect of soil inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on biomass allocation, water relations, and nutritional status of drought-stressed myrtle seedlings. Single and dual AMF (Funneliformis mosseae and Rhizophagus irregularis) and PGPR (Pseudomonas fluorescens and P. putida) soil inoculations were applied to myrtle seedlings growing under different soil water regimes (100, 60, and 30% of field capacity) for 6 months using a full factorial, completely randomized design. AMF and PGPR treatments, especially dual inoculations, alleviated negative drought effects on biomass and morpho-physiological traits, except for water-use efficiency, which peaked under severe drought conditions. Under the greatest soil water deficit, dual inoculations promoted leaf biomass (104%–108%), root biomass (56%–73%), mesophyll conductance (58%), and relative water content (1.4-fold) compared to non-inoculated controls. Particularly, dual AMF and PGPR inoculations stimulated nutrient dynamics in roots (N: 138%–151%, P: 176%–181%, K: 112%–114%, Ca: 124%–136%, and Mg: 130%–140%) and leaves (N: 101%–107%, P: 143%–149%, K: 83%–84%, Ca: 98%–107%, and Mg: 102%–106%). Our findings highlight soil inoculations with beneficial microbes as a cost-effective way to produce highly drought resistant seedling stock which is vital for restoring natural myrtle habitats and for future-proofing myrtle crop systems.


The generalized negative binomial distribution has been found useful in fitting over-dispersed as well as under-dispersed count data. We define and study the generalized binomial regression model which is used to predict a count response variable affected by one or more explanatory variables. The methods of maximum likelihood and moments are given for estimating the model parameters. Approximate tests for the adequacy of the model are considered. The generalized binomial regression model has been applied to two observed data sets to which binomial regression model was applied earlier.


Speckle filtering of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images while preserving the spatial signal variability (texture and fine structures) still remains a challenge. Many algorithms have been proposed for the SAR imagery despeckling. However, simulated annealing (SA) method is one of excellent choices currently. A critical problem in the study on SA is to provide appropriate cooling schedules that ensure fast convergence to near-optimal solutions. This paper gives a new necessary and sufficient condition for the cooling schedule so that the algorithm state converges in all probability to the set of globally minimum cost states. Moreover, it constructs an appropriate objective function for SAR image despeckling. An experimental result of the actual SAR image processing is obtained.


A new record of scale-bearing chrysophyte Maiiomonas pumiiio Harris &Bradley em. Asmund et al. var. pumiiio is reported. M. pumiiio var. pumiiio was found in two eutrophic floodplain pools in the alluvial ecosystem of the Lužnice river nearby Tøeboò, South Bohemia. The structure and morphology of scales are described. Autecology and distribution are discussed.


This paper describes the electricity distribution business regulation in the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden and Finland and the measures taken to comply with the new electricity market directive (2003/54/EC). The different characteristics of the regulation are outlined and compared – especially focusing on the efficiency requirements, power quality regulation and the role of benchmarking. The differences in capital base assessment and allowed profit are also discussed. The purpose is to determine how the measures taken in each country reflect to the obligations and rights assigned in the directive to the networks companies.


Direct sampled-data design techniques which use "lifting" concepts that capture the periodic structure of the sampled data system in order to obtain a tractable optimization problem that accommodates meaningful (weighted Hinfin) closed loop performance specifications as well as sample rate and intersample behavior is proposed. Direct sampled-data design controller has similar complexity as discretized classical designs but operates at a much lower sampling rate. FPGA implementation data is presented for each design. Comparisons demonstrating the benefits of the sampled-data approach in achieving reasonable trade-offs are presented


Pollen dispersal success in entomophilous plants is influenced by the amount of pollen produced per flower, the fraction of pollen that is exported to other flowers during a pollinator visit, visitation frequency, and the complementarity between pollen donor and recipients. For bumble bee-pollinated Polemonium viscosum the first three determinants of male function are correlated with morphometric floral traits. Pollen production is positively related to corolla and style length, whereas pollen removal per visit by bumble bee pollinators is a positive function of corolla flare. Larger-flowered plants receive more bumble bee visits than small-flowered individuals. We found no evidence of tradeoffs between pollen export efficiency and per visit accumulation of outcross pollen; each was influenced by unique aspects of flower morphology. Individual queen bumble bees ofthe principal pollinator species, Bombus kirbyellus, were similar in male, female, and absolute measures of pollination effectiveness. An estimated 2.9% of the pollen that bumble bees removed from flowers during a foraging bout was, on average, deposited on stigmas of compatible recipients. Significant plant-to-plant differences in pollen production, pollen export per visit, and outcross pollen receipt were found for co-occurring individuals of P. viscosum indicating that variation in these fitness related traits can be seen by pollinator-


Let me also thank the organisers of this conference Thompson Reuters and the Capital Markets Authority (CMA). Indeed the issues to be discussed at this conference on regional regulatory trends, corporate governance, anti-money laundering, combatting the financing of terrorism and fraud are close to the hearts of governments across the East African region. It is also very apt that the focus is East Africa. This also coincides with the Regional Review Group for Africa and Middle East of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) doing their OnSite Visit on Kenya.


In this letter, we demonstrate the design, fabrication, and characterization of single-mode distributed feedback (DFB) lasers emitting at 852 nm for atomic clocks and spatial applications. The epitaxial structure comprises an aluminium-free active region with the DFB fabrication technology based on an epitaxial regrowth concept. Initial results carried out on uncoated broad-area devices showed low internal losses (<3 cm-1), a high internal efficiency (95%), and for antireflection/high-reflectivity coated broad-area lasers, an output optical power of 5.5 W was measured at 8.5 A. Ridge waveguide structures were then fabricated with a ridge width of 4 mum showing typical single spatial mode emission with the M2 factor <1.5. Based on these preliminary results, DFB ridge waveguides were then processed and characterized. Single-mode emission was achieved at 852.12 nm corresponding to the D2 cesium transition, with an optical output power of 40 mW at 140 mA. Linewidth measurement was also carried out on these devices with a linewidth of 0.9 MHz measured at 70 mA.


Cloud-based workflow systems is a platform which can be embedded in a cloud computing infrastructure. Virtual machine has the ability to run multi-tasks simultaneously and time-sharing characteristic, but cannot take advantage of VM's benefit, therefore, the makespan of scheduling strategy in datacenter cannot be reduced availably. In this paper, we bring up a new makespan model which take advantage of VM's time-shared characteristic to schedule cloud workflow in task-layer. Furthermore, a novel Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) scheduling strategy is designed to obtain the optimal makespan. This scheduling strategy is implemented in Swinburne Decentralized Workflow for Cloud. The results suggest that by exploiting a time-sharing characteristic of VM, our scheduling strategy offers a significant improvement over the existing approaches including the makespan optimization by scheduling strategy within a datacenter, ACO scheduling strategy can converge fast with different task sets. The makespan is smaller than its counterpart without time-sharing of VMs.


The regular slab is often supported by a beam in modern construction, With a modest slab width and a big beam deep, the weight is transmitted from beam to column. Because of the flat slab, architects may construct partition walls wherever they are required. It is popular since it assists with weight reduction, stimulates quick development, and is did-not expensive. Similarly, since its debut, the classic slab has brought benefits such as greater rigidity. It offers a higher weight bearing capacity while also being good and economical. Grid slabs are required if the span is higher than one span, while grid beams are given if the span is less than one span. Grid slabs are good for longer spans with large loads because they eliminate voids that would otherwise result in dead load. Some slabs are less costly and more resistant to vibration. The study's purpose is to determine which of the three slab varieties, regular slab, flat slab with drop, and grid slab, is the most benefits. a G+5 This study looked at storey displacement, shear force, bending moment, and storey drift in a residential multi-story structure with different slab.


The invention discloses a mechanical in-situ steering gearbox. After power is discharged from a hydraulic motor via the first gear, the neutral gear, the second gear, the neutral gear and the third gear, forward rotation is transmitted to a VIII shaft at the same time, and reverse rotation with the same speed is transmitted to counter gears on the VIII shaft; by poking differential gear shift gears which are arranged on the VIII shaft, the differential gear shift gears can be meshed with a toothpick type clutch of an intermediate drive gear and the counter gears, so that power is transmitted to driving wheels on the left side and the right side; when the two differential gear shift gears are meshed with the intermediate drive gear at the same time, a crawler-type tractor can be driven to move forwards; when the two differential gear shift gears are meshed with the counter gears on the two sides, the crawler-type tractor can be driven to move backwards; when the two differential gear shift gears are meshed with the counter gears and the intermediate gear respectively, the crawler-type tractor can be driven to turn in situ. The mechanical in-situ steering gearbox has the dual function of driving and steering, and can be further extensively applied to the drive system of the crawler-type tractor.


The vitamin A metabolite, retinoic acid (RA) is known to play an important role in the development, patterning and regeneration of nervous tissue, both in the embryo and in the adult. Classically, RA is known to mediate the transcription of target genes through the binding and activation ofits nuclear receptors: the retinoic acid receptors (RARs) and retinoid X receptors (RXRs). Recently, mounting evidence from many animal models has implicated a number of RA-mediated effects operating independently of gene transcription, and thus highlights nove~ nongenornic actions of RA. For example, recent work utilizing cultured neurons from the pond snaa Lymnaea stagnalis, has shown that RA can elicit a regenerative response, growth cone turning, independently of "classical" transcriptional activation While this work illustrates a novel regeneration-inducing effect in culture, it is currently -unknown whether RA also induces regeneration in situ. This study has sought to determine RA's regenerative effucts at the morphological and molecular levels by utilizing an in situ approach focusing on a single identified dopaminergic neuron which possesses a known "mapped" morphology within the CNS. These studies show, for the first time in an invertebrate, that RA can increase neurite outgrowth of dopaminergic cells that have undergone a nerve-crush injury. Utilizing Western blot analysis, it was shown that this effect appears to be independent of any changes in whole CNS expression levels of either the RAR or RXR. Additionally, utilizing immunohistochemistry, to examine protein localization, there does not appear to be any obvious changes in the RXR expression level at the crush site. Changes in cell morphology such as neurity extension are known to be modulated by changes in neuronal firing activity. It has been previously shown that exposure to RA over many days can lead to changes in the electrophysiological properties of cultured Lymnaea neurons; however, no studies have investigated whether short-term exposure to RA can elicit electrophysiological changes and/or changes in firing pattern of neurons in Lymnaea or any other species. The studies performed here show, for the first time in any species, , "


This study has the objective 1). Knowing Practice Improvement Learning
 Outcomes Through Use of Computer Assembling Assembling Module Personal
 Computer Student Class X TKJ 1 and 2 vocational Batik TKJ Perbaik Purworejo
 Academic Year 2011/2012 2).Students know the response to the Use of Learning
 Media Module Personal Computer Assembling TKJ Students in Grades 1 and X 2
 TKJ Batik Perbaik Purworejo SMK School Year 2011/2012.
 This study uses a Class Action Research (PTK) with the implementation
 phase includes the Planning, Implementation Measures, Observation / Evaluation,
 and Reflection. Data collection methods used in this study were participant
 observation and questionnaire (questionnaire). For the instrument in this study is
 the module assembly of personal computers and questionnaires. Data analysis
 methods used are qualitative analysis. Qualitative methods carried out by Data
 Reduction, Data Display and Conclusion.
 Based on the research results can be concluded that 1). Computer
 Assembling Practice Learning Outcomes Students in general have increased in
 cycles I and II, namely it happen increase in the number of students who exceed
 the KMM than 25 students in cycle I to 33 students in Cycle II to class 1 and X
 TKJ students exceed the number of 23 students KKM in Cycle I to 31 students in
 Cycle II, or in other words all class X 1 and X TKJ TKJ 2 KKM has met the
 minimum grades of at least 75. 2). There is a positive response by 90% and a
 negative response by 10% of students TKJ X 1 and X 2 of the application module
 TKJ Practice Personal Computer Assembly on learning basic competencies or
 Installing Computer Peripherals Connecting Physical and peripherals using the
 Software Settings. Negative response arises because there are several factors: the
 lack of preparation of students in learning the material practices that sometimes
 have difficulty in following instructions, the application of constraints in the
 assembly sequence of steps that inhibit the activity a little practice, the lack of
 independence of the student in learning the material and the condition of students
 in participating practical activities for some students. Overall the students are
 better able to understand the material and improve their skills in personal
 computer assembly activity, thereby increasing Student Results


A gasoline engine valve catheter, comprising: an intake valve and an exhaust conduit duct, characterized in that: the intake conduit made of cast iron material and weight percentage of the material composition: C 3.1 ~ 3.4%, Si 1.9 ~ 2.3%, Mn 0.6 ~ 0.9%, S≤0.12%, P≤0.12%, the balance of Fe; the exhaust duct by powder metallurgy material and weight percentage of the material composition: C 0.9 ~ 2.0% , Cu 2 ~ 6%, the balance being Fe, impurities ≤1.0%. According to the present invention can improve the reliability of the engine, reduce engine failure rate.


lnfluxes of 13NH,+ across the root plasmalemma were measured in intact seedlings of Picea glauca (Moench) Voss. Two kinetically distinct uptake systems for NH,+ were identified. In N-deprived plants, a Michaelis-Menten-type high-affinity transport system (HATS) operated in a 2.5 to 350 p~ range of external NH,+ concentration ([NH,+l,). The V,,, of this HATS was 1.9 to 2.4 pmol g-' h-', and the K,,, was 20 to 40 p ~ . At [NH4+], from 500 p~ to 50 mM, a linear low-affinity system (LATS) was apparent. Both HATS and LATS were constitutive. A time-dependence study of NH,+ influx in previously N-deprived seedlings revealed a small transient increase of NH4+ influx after 24 h of exposure to 1 O0 p~ [NH,+],. This was followed by a decline of influx to a steady-state value after 4 d. In seedlings exposed to 100 p~ external NO,-concentration for 3 d, the V,,, for NH4+ uptake by HATS was increased approximately 30% compared to that found in N-de-prived seedlings, whereas LATS was down-regulated. The present study defines the much higher uptake capacity for NH,+ than for NO,- in seedlings of this species.


This study discusses the question of the impact of physical activity on stress and anxiety, in terms of which type of sport is performed. With the bases of previous research which states that social cohesion, mindfulness, and physical activity are important factors for reducing stress and anxiety, a hypothesis was invented, stating that different types of activities affect the individual's well-being, in relation to the level of performed physical activity. The population of this study was not clinical, which was in line with the purpose of this study. The data was acquired through a survey conducted on social media, and was analyzed using multivariate analyzes of variance in SPSS. The results showed that no significant differences were found among the different types of activities performed. This was assumed to be partly due to vague effects of the independent variables, and partly to flaws in the conduct of this study. Further research would be necessary to fully exclude other unverified variables in this study, such as level of mindfulness and traits of character.


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The present invention discloses a method of using a capacitive stylus input analog left and right keys, stylus and a terminal capacitance, the capacitance method is applied to a terminal arranged in the stylus, the terminal is also provided with a capacitive screen, said method comprising: after receiving a user selection command input left or right input, the capacitive stylus modulated signal output of said user selected input mode corresponding to; the terminal screen as judged by the capacitive the capacitive stylus contacts the modulated signal is received, the input operation is performed according to the corresponding input mode corresponding to the modulation signal. With the present invention, so that users can conveniently carry out left and right keys on the stylus input operation, some of the features the phone and tablet PC closer, but also provides users with a flexible and practical platform for about key operations.


This book covers theoretical aspects of design of reconfigurable multipipeline computing structures of various types and of their practical implementation, based on large-scale integration FPGAs. This book consists of the introduction and six chapters. Topics discussed include general design principles of reconfigurable multipipeline computing structure organisation; organisation principles of multimicropipeline computing structures within homogeneous environments; structural-procedural methods of organisation of computations in multimacropipeline computing structures; and problems of practical implementation of reconfigurable multipipeline computing structures, based on large-scale integration FPGAs.


A SAR assisted pipeline ADC with an inter-stage ring amplifier is an energy efficient structure. The ring amplifier is an alternative to an OTA for its low power consumption and large output swing. To improve the accuracy of the common-mode feedback circuit and speed up the settling of the ring amplifier, an improved bias-enhanced ring amplifier is proposed. Additionally, to alleviate the loss of the ring amplifier's DC gain in the nanoscale CMOS process and to migrate the dynamic offset caused by the non-ideal switches, a gain error cancellation method is introduced by adding a feedforward amplification path. Designed in a 1 V 28 nm CMOS process, two cascaded pipeline stages and two time-interleaved SAR sub-ADCs make up the ADC. In the post layout simulation that includes transient noise and other non-ideal factors, this 12-bit ADC achieves 60.9dB SNDR and 72dB SFDR at a Nyquist input and sampled at 800 MS/s without analog cancellation, consuming 16.02mW. With gain error cancellation, SFDR is improved by more than 3dB.


and ideal. This misunderstanding can be clarified by considering an example of his discussion of body in the second section, entitled "Second Series of Paradoxes of Surface Effects," of The Logic of Sense (trans. Mark Lester, with Charles Stivale [New York: Columbia University Press, 1990], 4–7), where he relies on the Stoics, for whom only bodies "(understood in the broadest possible sense, and including all living and non-living things) have depth and real existence, while events float on the surface of bodies and cannot be said to ex-ist but rather sub-sist or per-sist in the relation between bodies" (quoted from Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts, ed. Charles J. Stivale [Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press], 67). Furthermore, Deleuze's collaborative work with Felix Guattari and their favoring of nonhierarchical, rhizomatic thinking also speak to his insistence on the corporeal, which does not have a higher or lesser value then the metaphysical, but is equally important. 12. In his seminal work Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Post-Contemporary Interventions series (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997) Frederic Jameson wonders what kind of forms will "time, temporality, and the syntagmatic" take in "a culture increasingly dominated by space and spatial logic" (25). 13. Manuel Castells, "Grassrooting the Space of Flows," in Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing of Geographies, ed. James O. Wheeler, Yuko Aoyama, and Barney Warf (New York: Routledge, 2000), 18–30, quotation on 19.