Transparent oxide multilayer films of TiO2/Co/TiO2 were grown on glass substrate by DC magnetron sputtering technique. The optical and electrical properties of these films were analyzed with the aim of substituting ITO substrate in optoelectronic devices. The samples were characterized by UV-visible spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM). The effect of Co interlayer thickness (4, 8, and 12 nm) on the transmittance spectra yielded an optical absorption edge shift. The work function of these films was determined by KPFM technique allowing us to predict the Fermi level shift by extending the model for pure materials to our multilayer system. The Fermi level and optical absorption edge seem to be correlated and shifted toward lower energies when Co interlayer thickness is increased.


Effects of Austenite Grain Size and Cold Rolling Prior to Aging on Tensile Properties of 18 Pct Ni Maraging Steels Ko SOENO, Tetsuro KURODA, Masatoshi TSUCHIYA, and Kazuo TAGUCHI SynopsisThe influence of austenite grain size on the tensile properties of 18 Ni maraging steels has been investigated. The austenite grain size of these steels can be remarkably refined by annealing of the cold worked specimens at relatively low solution temperatures. Improvement in strength, ductility and toughness through austenite grain refinement is observed in aged conditions. The ductility of the 175 and 210 kg/mm2 grade maraging steels is relatively high even in coarse grained matrix. The austenite grain size of the 245 kg/mm2 grade maraging steel should be refined in order to improve the mechanical properties such as tensile strength, reduction in area, notch sensitivity and impact value because of its distinct low ductulity in coarse grained matrix. An appreciable increase in strength is found when solution treated specimens is cold worked and then aged. This strength increase is caused by work hardening of the martensite. Refining the austenite grain size of solution treated specimens increases work hardening. The 210 kg/mm2 grade maraging steel can be strengthened to the strength level of 245 kg/mm2 by a combination of work hardening and precipitation hardening, moreover its notch sensitivity is lower than that of the 245 kg/mm2 grade maraging steel. In the 245 kg/mm2 grade maraging steel, fine grained specimens show higher strength and tend to improve the notch sensitivity compared to those obtained in coarse grained ones when cold worked and then aged.


In ancient China,with blood as a link and filial piety as the core,the patriarchal ideology formed by the structure of family and clan infiltrated into all aspects of social life laterally and continued for thousands of years vertically and became an important part of traditional culture.Noting this feature of rural political culture,the feudal country made full use of the patriarchal consciousness and clan structure,constructed official and public cohabitation village system,penetrated the state power into the rural society by clans' huge cohesion to achieve a tight control of the village community and the people and achieved effective rural governance.


We present and discuss different approaches and technologies for optical interconnects to Silicon chips with a focus on low-cost, chip-compatible, three-dimensional free-space plastic micro-optical interconnect modules.


Background People living with a tic disorder (TD)—such as Tourette syndrome (TS)—experience many negative psychological and social challenges arising from chronic tics, such as stigmatization from peers and poorer quality of life, and these can impact upon their families too. It can be difficult for this population to access face-to-face support for tics, and so online support communities offer one avenue for support from peers facing similar experiences. However, little is known about how online support communities may be used by people with TS and other TDs, and by others (eg, parents, caregivers) supporting a person with TS/TD. Objective This study aimed to explore users' experiences of participation in online support communities for TS and TDs. Methods In total, 90 respondents (aged 13-62 years; 62% [56/90] female) from 13 countries completed an online survey exploring their experiences of using online support communities for TS and TDs. Respondents were people living with TS/TD themselves (n=68) or supportive others of someone with TS/TD (eg, parent, sibling, spouse; n=14), or both (n=8). The online survey contained open-ended questions eliciting their self-reported motivations for using online communities, their benefits and drawbacks of participation, and whether online support communities affected offline management of tics. Responses were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results Seven overarching themes captured experiences of using online support communities for TS/TDs. The overwhelming reason for their use was to find accessible support due to a lack of offline face-to-face support. Online support communities were valued sources of informational and emotional support, and also had a positive impact upon helping users' psychological well-being. Online communities helped provide a space where people with TS/TDs could feel accepted and reduce the social isolation they felt offline. The suggestible nature of tics and being reminded of the challenging nature of TDs were main disadvantages arising from using online support communities, alongside conflict arising within online communities. Conclusions The findings suggest that online support communities appear to offer valuable informational and emotional support to those living with TS/TD and their families too, especially given the lack of locally available support. This facilitates a sense of community online, which can help users in overcoming long-standing social isolation and aid self-reported improvements in psychosocial well-being. Users reported some drawbacks in engaging with online support communities, such as conflict between different types of users and triggering content, which negatively affected experiences of community participation.


In this paper we present a simple and efficient method for detecting the blurriness in the pictures. Recently, many digital cameras are equipped with auto-focusing functions to help the users take well-focused pictures. However, digital images can be degraded by limited contrast, inappropriate exposure, imperfection of auto-focusing or motion compensating devices, limited knowledge of amateur photographers, and so on. In order to detect blurry images for deleting them or making them go through an enhancement process automatically, a reliable measure of image degradation is needed. This paper presents a blurriness/sharpness detection algorithm based on the prediction-error variance, and demonstrates its feasibility by using extensive experiments. This method is fast, easy to implement and accurate. Regardless of the detection accuracy, the proposed method in this paper is not demanding on computation time.


In this paper,we analyse the unbalanced relations of regional higher education and regional economic development in China.We give the measure of unbalanced degree,and obtain that the trends of the unbalanced degree is decreased in the periods of samples.


Objective Under the different age groups in elderly patients with coronary heart disease(CHD) line of radial artery puncture after interventional therapeutic effect were discussed. Methods From 78 hospitalized patients of stent in elderly patients with coronary heart disease(CHD), evenly divided into young elderly group and older elderly group, two groups of radial artery puncture in interventional therapy. Results Two groups of elderly patients with coronary heart disease(CHD) in pathological change situation and situation of stenting and complications had no significant difference(P 0.05). Conclusions Radial artery puncture of interventional treatment for different age groups in elderly patients with coronary heart disease were effective.


In the present study, the adsorption behavior of sulfadiazine (SDZ) on various sediments under different hydrodynamic conditions generated by a rocking shaker was investigated. Based on the dye mixing experiments, three regimes with different hydrodynamic characteristics, i.e., laminar, transition, and turbulent regimes, were identified. The hydrodynamic intensity was found to have a positive effect on the adsorption of SDZ, In general, the adsorption capacity followed the order of turbulent > transition > laminar > static. Compared to quartz sands, montmorillonite exhibited a narrower range of adsorption capacity under different hydrodynamic conditions, which implies it is less sensitive to the hydrodynamic conditions. For adsorption kinetics, sands fit the pseudo-first-order model, while montmorillonite fits the pseudo-second-order model. For adsorption thermodynamics, the Freundlich model showed a better correlation coefficient for all sediments. In addition, it was found that particle size could affect the antibiotic adsorption capacity, and the presence of salts inhibited the adsorption performance.


This research aimed to investigate the performance of local finance of Tarakan government regarding independency and effectiveness of local finance since 2010-2015 and to investigate the trend of independency and effectiveness of local finance of Tarakan government as far as prospective 2020. Moreover, the instruments for analysis comprised ratio of independency and ratio of effectiveness of local finance and the trend of independency and effectiveness of local finance. Furthermore, this research revealed that: 1) the ratio of independency of local finance of Tararkan since 2010-2015 averaged 159% which was categorized high ; 2) Ratio of effectiveness of local finance of Tarakan since 2010-2015 tended to average 92% categorized effective; 3) the trend of independency of local finance exhibited positive trend of which tendency increased started from 2016 to 2020; and 4) the trend of effectiveness of local finance conveyed a positive trend of which tendency increased counted from 2016 to 2020.


A motion capture system with accelerometers that allows for large scalability and a dynamic range of purposes that is affordable to the every day user, is introduced. Using the ability of MEMS accelerometer KXM52's measuring both the Earth's gravitational acceleration, as well as dynamic acceleration of the movement of the sensor within the device, an inexpensive, accurate and scalable - the number of measurable points - system is designed. A system that can model any two-joint portion of human body given a set of initial conditions of the movement of both joints is developed. With the serial port as a communications link, the human body's movements and orientation are reproduced.


Reliance on groundwater resources by differing governing bodies can create transboundary disputes raising questions of ownership and apportionment as the resource becomes strained through overuse or threatened by contamination. Transboundary disputes exist at varying scales, from conflicts between countries to smaller disputes between intrastate jurisdictions. In 2005 within the United States, the State of Mississippi filed a lawsuit against its political neighbor and their utility, the City of Memphis and Memphis Light, Gas, and Water, for groundwater deemed owned by the State of Mississippi to be wrongfully diverted across the state line and into Tennessee by the defendants. The basis of the lawsuit was potentiometric maps of groundwater levels for the Memphis aquifer that showed under suggested pre‐development conditions no flow occurring across the Mississippi‐Tennessee state line, but subsequent historic potentiometric maps show a cone of depression under the City of Memphis with a clear northwesterly gradient from Mississippi into Tennessee. The suggested pre‐development conditions were derived from limited groundwater level observations between 41 and 74 years post‐development. A new pre‐development map is constructed using historic records that range 0‐17 years post‐development that shows the natural flow is northwesterly from Mississippi into Tennessee and transboundary groundwater quantities have actually decreased since pre‐development conditions.


The utility model discloses a rubber mold cold runner structure, which comprises an upper mold plate, a cold runner plate, a heat insulating plate, an upper cavity plate, a lower cavity plate and a bolster. A sprue and a runner are arranged on the cold runner plate which is further provided with a cold runner for a cooling source to pass through, a cold runner penetrated with a heat source is arranged on the upper cavity plate and the bolster, a contact surface between the upper cavity plate and the lower cavity plate is a mold parting surface, and an upper cavity of the upper cavity plate is opposite to a lower cavity of the lower cavity plate so as to form a complete cavity. The cold runner for the cooling source to pass through is arranged approaching the sprue and the runner, and then temperature of the runner is reduced, rubber in the sprue can not be molded by heating, rubber remaining in the runner keeps a melting state and runner sprue condensed materials can not be generated, thereby saving cost greatly and increasing production efficiency.


Using first-principles methods, we investigate the effects of monatomic hydrogen in InN. We find that hydrogen can occupy interstitial and substitutional sites. Interstitial hydrogen is stable in the bond-center configuration and acts exclusively as a shallow donor, with a H–N stretching vibration at 3050cm−1. Hydrogen can also substitute for nitrogen in InN, bonding equally to the four In nearest neighbors in a multicenter-bond configuration. Substitutional hydrogen has low formation energy and, counterintuitively, is a double donor. Our results suggest that monatomic hydrogen is a plausible cause of the unintentional n-type conductivity that is often observed in as-grown InN.


Schlieren photographs can be digitized and stored in a computer's memory. A computer program then interprets and measures the Schlieren curve and calculates molecular properties.


BACKGROUND
Opioids are generally an inappropriate acute pain management strategy in children, particularly because of the risk for diversion and subsequent misuse and abuse.

OBJECTIVES
To examine associations between Medicaid plan type [coordinated care organization (CCO), managed care (MC), fee-for-service (FFS)] and whether a child received an opioid prescription.

RESEARCH DESIGN
Secondary analysis of Oregon Medicaid data (January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2017).

SUBJECTS
Medicaid-enrolled children ages 0-17 (N=200,169).

MEASURES
There were 2 outcomes: whether a child received an opioid prescription from (a) any health provider or (b) from a visit to the dentist. Predictor variables included Medicaid plan type, age, sex, race, and ethnicity.

RESULTS
About 6.7% of children received an opioid from any health provider and 1.2% received an opioid from a dentist visit. Children in a CCO were significantly more likely than children in a MC (P<0.01) or FFS (P=0.02) plan to receive an opioid from any health provider. Children in a CCO were also significantly more likely than children in MC or FFS to receive an opioid from a dentist visit (P<0.01).

CONCLUSIONS
Pediatric opioid prescriptions vary by plan type. Future efforts should identify reasons why Medicaid-enrolled children in a CCO plan are more likely to be prescribed opioids.


According to the actuality of the China Armed Police Force, the article proposes that using the technical means of Information Resource Planning to found the material coding standard of the China Armed Police Force. And proposes the realization method.


Taking zirconium-aluminum ore powder as refractory aggregate, white emulsion as agglomerant, CMC and sodium bentonite as suspending agent, using water as the carrier, adding fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether(JFC) and n-butyl alcohol as auxiliary, a water-based coating for EPC iron castings was developed. The best proportion of EPC cast iron water-based coating was determined by experiment, and the comprehensive performances of the coating were tested.The results show that this coating has the advantages of good performance and low cost, can be used to produce iron castings by EPC casting method.


Quantum computer versus quantum algorithm processor in CMOS are compared to find (in parallel) all Hamiltonian cycles in a graph with m edges and n vertices, each represented by k bits. A quantum computer uses quantum states analogous to CMOS registers. With efficient initialization, number of CMOS registers is proportional to (n-1)! Number of qubits in a quantum computer is approximately proportional to kn+2mn in the approach below. Using CMOS, the bits per register is about proportional to kn, which is less since bits can be irreversibly reset. In either concept, number of gates, or operations to identify Hamiltonian cycles is proportional to kmn. However, a quantum computer needs an additional exponentially large number of operations to accomplish a probabilistic readout. In contrast, CMOS is deterministic and readout is comparable to ordinary memory.


The Tandem NonStop System is a fault-tolerant [1], expandable, and distributed computer system designed expressly for online transaction processing. This paper describes the key primitives of the kernel of the operating system. The first section describes the basic hardware building blocks and introduces their software analogs: processes and messages. Using these primitives, a mechanism that allows fault-tolerant resource access, the process-pair, is described. The paper concludes with some observations on this type of system structure and on actual use of the system.


The cite du 212 housing estate, opposite Le Bourget airport, was designed in 1935 by Germain Dorel, who took his clues from the Karl Marx Hof built in Vienna in 1927. Subsequent to its heritage listing, a rehabilitation programme was implemented to improve living conditions ans the surrounding social atmosphere. The original typology of the flats offered two- and three-room dwellings of respectively 25 and 35 square meters - wholly inadequately today. Surface areas were increased by reducing the number of dwelling from 490 to 265. The scheme also entailed the creation of social security, health and local management services on ground floor levels, and the revitalization of small businesses. The remodelling was done in respect of the original structure (concrete post-and-beam with brick in-fill) and without changing the dimensions of windows. All the old windows were replaced by long-life PVC frames, but the original colour has been kept. Facade materials, wich include coloured Tyrolian renders and faience laid in opus incertum at ground floor level, stoneware tiles on chimney flues and pea gravel on balconies, were also examined to ensure that as much of the original material as possible might be conserved.


We focused onto a very specific kind of data from semiconductor manufacturing called Electrical Wafer Sorting (EWS) maps, that are generated during the wafer testing phase performed in semiconductor device fabrication. Yield detractors are identified by specific and characteristic anomalies signatures. Unfortunately, new anomalies signatures may appear among the huge amount of EWS maps generated per day. Hence, it's unfeasible to define just a finite set of possible signatures, as this will not represent a real use-case scenario. Our goal is anomalies signatures classification. For this purpose, we present a semisupervised approach by combining hierarchical clustering to create the starting Knowledge Base, and a supervised classifier trained leveraging clustering phase. Our dataset is daily increased, and the classifier is dynamically updated considering possible new created clusters. Training a Convolutional Neural Network, we reached performance comparable with other state-of-the-art techniques, even if our method does not rely on any labeled dataset and can be daily updated. Our dataset is skewed and the proposed method was proved to be rotation invariant. The proposed method can grant benefits like reduction of wafer test results review time, or improvement of processes, yield, quality, and reliability of production using the information obtained during clustering process.


Numerous treatments have been developed that have successfully facilitated naming in aphasia (see Laine & Martin, 2006 for a review). However, in most cases, positive treatment effects have been observed primarily with trained items, with limited improvements in untrained items. That is, response generalization remains a challenge in the treatment of anomia.


1. The effect of plasma taken from normotensive humans, while on a low and high sodium diet, on [Na + K]‐ATPase and 3H‐ouabain binding was measured in tubules from guinea‐pig kidneys.


Authorship attribution, i.e., identifying the authorship of a piece of disputed text, is an important problem due to the increased concerns on copyright violations. While various authorship attribution algorithms have been proposed to identify the authorship of articles, they fail in several situations. This paper proposes a new authorship attribution algorithm for Chinese text using the sentence rhythm features of articles. In our algorithm, a rhythm feature matrix is proposed to depict the sentence rhythm of Chinese text. In order to determine the similarity of rhythm feature matrices, we compare two definitions of similarity based on Euclidean distance and improved Kullback-Leibler Divergence, respectively. Experimental results show that our algorithm achieves a success rate of 80%.


Populus deltuides W. Bartram ex Marshall is one of the most important economically (wood production), environmentally (biomass production and carbon sequestration), and fast growing species in plantations. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate DBH, height and carbon sequestration models according to the age using Stem Analysis Method in poplar plantations of Guilan province, Iran. Thirty trees were randomly selected in different diameter classes, fell down and the discs were obtained in order to stem analysis. The annual rings of discs counted, age at different tree heights obtained, and the annual rings diameter were measured to determine annual diameter and volume growth. Biomass was measured and finally, regression analysis performed by the relationship between DBH and height by carbon in age based on the highest coefficient of determination and minimum standard error. The results showed that the model of carbon sequestration was C=3"." 3d^(0"." 29)+0"." 002H^(2"." 42) (R2=99, SE=0.31) in the west, C=1"." 51(d^(0"." 8)+H^(0"." 97) ) (R2=0.98, SE=2.16) in the center and C=1"." 29(d^(0"." 07)+H^(0"." 89) ) (R2=0.82, SE=3.80) in the east poplar plantation of Guilan Province.


An updated edition (from 1972) of technical aspects exhibited by electric systems which transmit power from the generator to the loads. A new area covered is the calculation of short-circuit currents due to symetrical faults and their impact on the ratings of circuit-interrupting devices. Not only have problems been added, but the use of a computer (over a wide-range of sizes) is required to solve them. Contents: The electric power system. Percent and per unit quantities. Power limits-stability. System instrumentation. Electrical insulation. Power distribution. Appendices. Index.


The crossing number of a graph $G$, $\mathrm{cr}(G)$, is the minimum number of edge crossings arising when drawing a graph on a certain surface. Determining $\mathrm{cr}(G)$ is a problem of great importance in Graph Theory. Its maximum variant, i.e. the maximum crossing number, $\mathrm{max-cr}(G)$, is receiving growing attention. Instead of an optimization problem on the number of crossings, here we consider the variance of the number of edge crossings, when embedding the vertices of an arbitrary graph uniformly at random in some space. In his pioneering research, Moon derived this variance on random linear arrangements of complete unipartite and bipartite graphs. Given the need of efficient algorithms to support this sort of research and given also the growing interest of the number of edge crossings in spatial networks, networks where vertices are embedded in some space, here we derive an algorithm to calculate the variance in arbitrary graphs in time $o(nm^2)$ that we transform into one that runs in time $O(nm)$ by reusing computations. We also derive one for forests that runs in time $O(n)$. These algorithms work on a wide range of random layouts (not only on Moon's) and are based on novel arithmetic expressions for the calculation of the variance that we develop from previous theoretical work. This paves the way for many applications that rely on a fast but exact calculation of the variance.


The article presents approaches to the author's understanding of the distinction between the notions of terrorism, terror and war. Author offers a List of differences and similarities of these phenomens.


This study aims to provide basic evidence for establishing prevention programs of school` mental health by identifying the factors of middle and high school student`s depression and suicidal ideation related to stress of peer-relationship. For this purpose, we analyzed the data of 6,924 (who Experienced stress related to peer-relationship) among the 2012 Korean Youth Health Risk Behavior Online Survey(8th). In demographic characteristics, subjective academic achievement affects depression in the case of girls. In health-related characteristics, medical treatment by violence, drinking experience, smoking experience have an effect on depression in the case of boys. Subjective health, drinking experience, smoking experience, drug experience are the factors affecting suicidal ideation both boys and girls. In order to promote mental health of youth, school-based prevention education complementing existing realistic problems needs to be implemented.


This study was designed to investigate organizational culture and emotional intelligence as predictors of job performance among library personnel in Edo state, Nigeria. The survey research design was employed for the study with a population size of 181 library personnel in the 15 academic libraries under study, and due to the manageable population size, total enumeration was adopted as the sampling technique. The questionnaire was used to elicit data from the respondents. Of the 181 copies of the questionnaire administered, 163 copies were retrieved and found valid for analysis constituting a 90% response rate. Four research questions and four null hypotheses (tested at 0.05 level of significance) were formulated to guide the study. The tool used to analyze the research question was descriptive statistics (percentage, mean, and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (correlation and multiple regression) for testing the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that there is a high level of job performance, good organizational culture, and high level of emotional intelligence among the personnel. Organizational culture and emotional intelligence jointly and significantly predict job performance of personnel. There is significant positive correlation between organizational culture and job performance. The linear combination of emotional intelligence and organizational culture predict job performance of library personnel in the academic libraries under study. The research concludes that there is a need for high job performance in libraries which is predicted by the organizational culture of the library and the level of emotional intelligence of the library personnel.


The concept of autonomous farming concerns automatic agricultural machines operating safely and efficiently without human intervention. In order to ensure safe autonomous operation, real-time risk detection and avoidance must be performed. This paper presents a flexible vehicle-mounted sensor platform for recording positional and imaging data with a total of seven sensors. Different imaging modalities are chosen for robust detection performance in a variety of weather and lighting conditions. Different algorithms applied to recordings from a grass-harvesting case study show that it is possible to detect humans, whereas small animals located in front of the vehicle represent a much greater challenge.


In accordance with an underground powerhouse structure of large hydropower station,a three-dimensional finite element method has been used for natural vibration characteristic study from following five aspects:different boundary conditions,model range,material properties,the scope and failure of cushion layers.The result shows that taking certain measures to strengthen the bond strength between surrounding rock and concrete can improve the natural frequency of unit supporting structure effectively;and the low vibration frequency of floor and ventilation barrel can be inhibited.The smaller model range is,the larger natural frequency can be got.Increasing the concrete strength grade will not have significant influence on the natural vibration characteristics of the whole concrete structure.Natural frequency was significantly reduced after cushion layers were completely aging.Increasing the range of aging cushion layers can lead to the reduction of high-frequency,but little change of low frequency.


The paper presents some technical considerations regarding the medical waste transportation and an optimization calculus for minimizing the transportation costs of a company specialized and authorized in collecting, transporting and final disposal of medical waste generated by healthcare facilities. The calculus revealed that it is possible to significantly reduce the transportation costs (up to 65.52%), but there are also other analysis possibilities like considering the in-between points from sources to destinations, alternative paths, limits to the amount of medical waste on each path, time.


Reallocation of replaced water of the Yellow River is regarded as a complicated problem of multi-area and multi-objective decision-making, which has not only quantitative indexes but also qualitative indexes. Based on assigning the index system of water reallocation, in view of the deficiencies of analytical hierarchy process (AHP), unit systematic theory of the fuzzy sets decision-making can solve this problem effectively. A case study shows that this theory fully takes account of the influence of reallocation of replaced water of the Yellow River on every index and people's experience knowledge. The decision is rational and reliable.


The author discusses the development and design of commercial scale bioprocesses. The processes discussed include the production of biomass-based fuel energy, including fermentation ethanol, and the procedure for the separation and purification of the biomolecule uracil-DNA-glycoslase. The article focuses on the separation and purification of bioproducts.


A review of the present status of the W boson mass and width measurements at LEP is presented. The analysis of the data collected in 1998 by the 4 LEP collaborations, corresponding to about 700 pb, allows to reach an experimental uncertainty on the W boson mass measured at LEPII approaching the precision of the indirect results from the high precision electroweak measurements at LEPI. Talk given at the XVth Particles and Nuclei International Conference PANIC99 10-16 june 1999 Uppsala, Sweden


Currently, industrial production of isocyanates, or diisocyanates in particular, has been exclusively based on phosgene processes. Phosgene is extremely toxic and large amounts of corrosive HCl are produced as a side product. In the view of environment protection and society safety, development of non-phosgene processes for isocyanates production will be highly desired, and this should be one of the most important missions for green chemistry and catalysis. In this review, efforts for development of non-phosgene method for syntheses of isocyanates, i.e., catalytic syntheses of N-substituted carbamates from nitro- or amino-compounds with CO, dimethyl carbonate (DMC), urea and even CO2 etc. as carbonyl sources, then thermal cracking of N-substituted carbamates to afford corresponding isocyanates, are summarized, and a brief prospect for non-phosgene syntheses of isocyanates is also addressed.


Maize, an important Kharif crop, is grown as a rainfed crop in Udaipur region. But average yield of 959 kg/ha (Anon., 1968) in the predominantly maize growing area points to some lapses in our technique of manuring, seeding, optimum plant population and water management. While the crop responds remarkably to N, the degree of response is generally governed by plant population and water management practices, particularly in years of inadequate rainfall. Though the average rainfall of this region is about 70 cm, drought is of common occurrence. The experi- mental year coincided with an exceptionally dry year and data reported in this paper provide information on the extent to which the supplemental irrigation (irrigating crop at 50% available soil moisture) may be beneficial under varying plant population and levels of nitrogen under such a dry year. To obtain information on the modifying effect of plant population and supplemental irrigation, particularly late in the life cycle of maize, an experi- ment employing 2 levels of soil moisture, 3 levels of plant populations and 4 levels of N was planned. In the present paper an attempt has been made to highlight the role of supplemental irrigation on the response of maize to N which is a key factor in maize production.


Long wavelength InGaAs/InGaAsP multiple quantum well laser is grown by MOCVD. The characteristics of spontaneous emission, amplified spontaneous emission and modal gain of the MQW is investigated by using single-pass multi-section technique. The amplified spontaneous emission is around a wavelength of 1500nm, dependent on the temperature and the current density. The modal gain spectra show a red shift with increasing temperature. The peak modal gain exhibits a decrease with increasing temperature from 140K to 300K. The loss measurements shows that the main loss mechanism in the structure might be the free carrier absorption in the doped cladding layers and a internal modal loss of about 10cm-1.


We have developed an in-situ electromagnetic velocity (EMV) gauge system for use in multiple-gauge studies of initiating and detonating explosives. We have also investigated the risetime of the gauge and the manner in which it perturbs a reactive flow. We report on the special precautions that are necessary in multiple gauge experiments to reduce lead spreading, simplify target fabrication problems and minimize cross talk through the conducting explosive. Agreement between measured stress records and calculations from multiple velocity gauge data give us confidence that our velocity gauges are recording properly. We have used laser velocity interferometry to measure the gauge risetime in polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). To resolve the difference in the two methods, we have examined hydrodynamic and material rate effects. In addition, we considered the effects of shock tilt, electronic response and magntic diffusion on the gauge's response time.


Background: Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness, after cataract. Growing evidence suggested that the oxidative damag e mi ht be a relevant target for both glaucoma prevention and therapy. Objective: The present study was undertaken to clarify the In traocular pressure (IOP) lowering effect of vitamine C topical application. Materials and methods: A total of 20 male of White New Zealand Rabbits we re enrolled in the study. Ocular hypertension was indu ce (by hyroxymethyl cellulose) in the right eye of all rabbits and the animals random ized into four groups, five rabbits each. The animals then treated with eye drop of D.W (Group 1), timolol 0.5% (Group 2), vitamin C 0.5% (Group 3) and a combination of t imolol 0.5% and vitamin C 0.5% (Group 4) three times daily for 10 days. IOP was measured before and after drug treatment. Results: Compared to group 1, Timolol 0.5% (15.66 ± 0.31 vs. 25.2 ± 0.29 mmHg,) and vitamin C 0.5% (17.57 ± 0.42 vs. 25.2 ± 0.29 mm Hg) caused a significant (p < 0.05) decrease in IOP. Further, a combination of Ti molol 0.5% and vitamin C 0.5% produced highly significant (P < 0.01) fall in IOP. Conclusion: We can concluded that vitamin C has a significant IOP lowering effect, possibly due to antioxidant properties


ABSTRACT Imatran Voima Oy together with Technical Research Centre of Finland has carried out experimental research on fuel drying at high pressure steam atmosphere. The pilot dryer is a pressurized flash dryer. Since its commissioning in 1991, the dryer has been used for drying experiments of peat and wood biomass for about 1000 h. The dryer operates at 23 bar pressure steam atmosphere with capacity of abt. 1000 kg/h of wet feedstock. The developed high pressure steam dryer is planned to be used in a power plant process suitable for wet fuels as peat, biomass, and brown coal. The process is based on the connection of a pressurized fuel dryer, a pressurized gasifier, and a gas turbine. The integration of the high pressure steam dryer to the process increases the power generating efficiency of the process essentially.


Acute renal failure (ARF) is a frequent disorder in the elderly, and this phenomenon is due to the senescence process, reduced metabolization of drugs, increased exposure to polypharmacy and systemic diseases of the aged group. The following are the main characteristics of the ARF in the elderly: mulfactorial, atypical presentation, tubular frailty, intermediate syndrome pattern, low reliable physical examination and urinary indeces. Profilaxis and rehydration are the best treatments for ARF in the old population. Renal biopsy and dialysis have the same role in young and old people.


We revise a method by Kalnins, Kress and Miller (2010) for constructing a canonical form for symmetry operators of arbitrary order for the Schrödinger eigenvalue equation HΨ ≡ (Δ2 + V)Ψ = EΨ on any 2D Riemannian manifold, real or complex, that admits a separation of variables in some orthogonal coordinate system. We apply the method, as an example, to revisit the Tremblay and Winternitz (2010) derivation of the Painlevé VI potential for a 3rd order superintegrable flat space system that separates in polar coordinates and, as new results, we give a listing of the possible potentials on the two-sphere that separate in spherical coordinates and all two-hyperbolic (two-sheet) potentials separating in horocyclic coordinates. In particular, we show that the Painlevé VI potential also appears for a 3rd order superintegrable system on the two-sphere that separates in spherical coordinates, as well as a 3rd order superintegrable system on the two-hyperboloid that separates in spherical coordinates and one that separates in horocyclic coordinates. Our aim is to develop tools for analysis and classification of higher order superintegrable systems on any 2D Riemannian space, not just Euclidean space.


A nitroxide spin label has been covalently linked to the weak polyacid poly(ethylene-alt-maleic acid) (P(E-alt-MA)) to study the rotational mobility of the polyacid backbone in polyelectrolyte complexes (PEC) formed with the oppositely charged strong polycation poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDADMAC) in dependence on the pH of the dispersion and the temperature. The rotational mobility of the polyacid chain segments has been determined by simulation of the line shape of the continuous wave (CW) electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra using the microscopic order/macroscopic disorder (MOMD) model of restricted rotational diffusion. The study has shown that the diffusion coefficient characterizing the rotational motions of the polyacid backbone is significantly smaller at low degree of dissociation at pH 4 than at high degree of dissociation at pH 7 and pH 10.


Growing concern over detrimental noise in densely populated areas has called for improvements in the sound insulation of our building spaces. While laminated safety glass has been optimized for safety and security and offers effective screening of UV-radiation as an additional benefit, its acoustic performance – although superior to monolithic glass – has not been given full consideration in the past. Now, newly developed PVB-films with enhanced vibration damping behavior have become available, providing an alternative to poured resins for glazing systems designed to meet high sound attenuation requirements. Moreover, in addition to the use of acoustic PVB for architectural applications it has become evident that this new type of PVB can also contribute to further reduce noise levels experienced in cars. Using an appropriate interlayer actually present the only way to impart enhanced damping properties to windshield and sidelites since non-transparent damping materials, being very successful in damping body vibrations of a car, can naturally not be applied to glass surfaces.


A distorted spin-dependent spectral function for 3 He is considered for the extraction of the transverse-momentum dependent parton distributions in the neutron from semi-inclusive deep inelastic electron scattering off polarized 3 He at finite momentum transfers, where final state interactions are taken into account. The generalization of the analysis to a Poincare covariant framework within the light-front dynamics is outlined.


The session was attended by individuals with a variety of industry perspectives--airlines, manufacturers, the petroleum industry, government, academia, and aviation consulting. There was also a variety of geographic perspectives--from the United States, Canada and Europe. The subjects covered in this session were a) The impact of changing external forces on fleet planning, b) Fuel prices, c) New market opportunities and societal forces, d) Limits to growth, e) Aviation technology, f) The impact of economic/business cycles, g) The "cost/yield/demand/profit dilemma". Quite naturally, some of the topics covered overlapped with those of other sessions (e.g., Airline Passenger Forecasts and International Environment). Readers are encouraged to refer to the reports of the other sessions for comparative purposes. (Author)


A pot experiment was conducted under greenhouse condition at the Experimental Farm, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Egypt to investigate spraying with different organic extracts, Moringa leaves extract (MLE); Alge extract (AE); Yeast extract (YE) and Cabbage pollen flowers extract (CPFE) on grains and straw yields, photosynthetic pigments and nutrient uptake of wheat grown on a sandy soil taken from El-Khattara county, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt. Results showed that spraying with different organic extracts significantly increased yield, protein content, photosynthetic pigments and nutrient uptake of N,P,K,Fe,Mn,Zn,and Cu as compared to untreated plants. Spraying with MLE was of most positive effect and caused an increase of all parameters i.e., straw and grain yields, biological yield, protein content, NPK, Fe, Zn, Cu an Mn-uptake of wheat plants compared to other extracts.


ABSTRACT Time-kill synergy studies testing in vitro activity of DX-619 alone and with added vancomycin, teicoplanin, or linezolid against 101 Staphylococcus aureus strains showed synergy between DX-619 and teicoplanin at 12 to 24 h in 72 strains and between DX-619 and vancomycin in 28 strains. No synergy was found with linezolid, and no antagonism was observed with any combination.


As grown RF magnetron sputtered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) thin films were subjected to vacuum annealing at optimized elevated temperature of 200° C for varying time duration and corresponding surface morphological changes were recorded. The columnar structures appearing after an annealing duration of 2 hours are interesting for fabrication of rough PTFE surfaces towards possible applications in hydrophobicity along with high transmission. Supported by transmission data, the AFM images show a transformation of smooth PTFE surface with less than 2 nm rms roughness to a very rough surface. The results are interpreted in terms of thermal energy induced modifications only at the surface without any change in the original bonding structure on the surface and inside the sample. Preliminary studies indicate that the optimization of roughness and transmission together on such surfaces may lead to high water contact angles.As grown RF magnetron sputtered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) thin films were subjected to vacuum annealing at optimized elevated temperature of 200° C for varying time duration and corresponding surface morphological changes were recorded. The columnar structures appearing after an annealing duration of 2 hours are interesting for fabrication of rough PTFE surfaces towards possible applications in hydrophobicity along with high transmission. Supported by transmission data, the AFM images show a transformation of smooth PTFE surface with less than 2 nm rms roughness to a very rough surface. The results are interpreted in terms of thermal energy induced modifications only at the surface without any change in the original bonding structure on the surface and inside the sample. Preliminary studies indicate that the optimization of roughness and transmission together on such surfaces may lead to high water contact angles.


The recent technological innovation, Blockchain system is used to store data in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to edit, hack, or steal the data. It is an important part of technology with a decentralized architecture, distributed database, and continuously expanding records. There are many other technologies that are used along in blockchain. After doing critical study on many documents and understanding the technologies used by various studies, its necessities, and the issues encountered by it while building their respective models. The purpose of this study is to examine various tools and technologies that can be used in blockchain. Around 200 research works have been collected and up to 40 research studies are filtered. Research studies are filtered based on various factors. Some research studies were excluded based on title, few were excluded based on abstract and titles. This study is categorized in terms of Blockchain using Ethereum, Electronic Health records, Smart Contracts and Health monitoring.


Objective To summarize the technique of stent combined with Guglielmi detachable coil (GDC) to treat wide necked intracranial aneurysms.Methods A retrospective analysis of 16 aneurysms which underwent 16 endovascular procedures performed by combined using of stent and GDC was reported.Results The ratio of aneurysm neck/body is 0 5~1∶1. 12 of 16 aneurysms were completely occluded and 4 of 16 were incompletely (95%)occluded. 7 patients were followed up from 6 months to 1 year. One case with remnant grouth of the aneurysmal neck was found. Among these cases, only one patient suffered transient cerebral ischemia after operafion. Conclusions Using stent combined with GDC to treat wide necked intracranial aneurysm may prevent the herniation of GDC into the parent artery and improve the outcome.


Vocational High School is a vocational education unit at the secondary education level which aims to prepare students to be able to work, either independently or fill existing job vacancies as middle-level workers in accordance with their competencies. One of what makes Vocational High School independent is the teaching factory in it. Destination this research is to analyze implementation of the teaching factory in the world of vocational education using the literature study method. The results show that the teaching factory able to improve the competence of graduates, the implementation of Teaching Factory in Vocational High School can be measured based on the 7x7 Parameter Assessment for Implementation of Teaching Factory. Teaching Factory is a combination of competency-based learning and -based learning production and applied based on actual work procedures and standards for produce products according to the market.


Mitophagy is an important mechanism in mitochondrial quality control through autophagic clearance of damaged mitochondria and has been considered to assume protective roles against some diseases, especially neurodegeneration, including Parkinson's disease (Haelterman et al., 2014), and Alzheimer's disease (Ye et al., 2015). To understand the role of mitophagy in these diseases, measures to assess mitophagy are of great importance. Among those established methods, engulfment of mitochondria by autophagosome shown by transmission electron microscope (TEM) provides unequivocal evidence of occurrence of mitophagy (Klionsky et al., 2012). However, it demands painstaking effort and is difficult to quantify mitophagy.


This work presents a proposal to assess the abrasive wear of composite resins available in the national market, which are materials largely used in dental clinics for functional and aesthetic tooth restorations. This was achieved by utilizing an experimental set-up on which a dynamic disc covered with proper porcelain (representing hardness close to the human teeth) wears a static disc covered with the resin tested under a constant and pre-determined load. Thus, by means of this set-up and keeping a behavioral status needed to the calculus for all tests, the aggressiveness (referred as to letter k) for all tests was analyzed. Due to the fact that resin characteristic revels how weary the material has become to the abrasion process with other harder material, the strength to wear for such resins was observed. Therefore, a real classification for these materials with their strength to the abrasion wear was made, which is a very important factor in the influence on their lifetime in dental restorations. The classification in descending order for those resins is presented as following: HELIOMOLAR RO, DURAFILL, FILTEK A110, HELIO FILL, POINT 4, FLOW IT; NATURAL FLOW, SUPRAFILL, FILTEK P60, FILTEK Z250, TETRIC FLOW, REVOLUTION, PRODIGY, TETRIC CERAM, HERCULITE, FILLMAGIC, TPH, CHARISMA, Z100.


This article is the third in a series of four papers dealing with the different stages involved in the development of Advanced Transport Telematics (ATT) systems and services. This paper presents two approaches to developing an ATT system and strategy, both of which are based on variable message sign (VMS) technologies. It focuses on design strategies, system design, operational procedures, and off-line evaluation. The two systems used as examples are the Forth Estuary Driver Information and Control System (FEDICS) and the A64/A1 Accident Reduction Scheme.


Human-induced disturbance on water objects was appraised with chemo and biological methods, the results of which are turned out to be comparable


Our study of nutritional elements and peripheral vascular physiology began some years ago with the development of techniques for study of the capillary bed in mammals.' These could be applied to evaluating increased vascular fragility as a result of scurvy and of other food deficiencies in the intact living animal. I t seemed of interest, where histological and cytological studies failed to reveal outstanding changes in the vascular system per se, to study the living functional capillary bed during avitaminosis C.2 Living unanesthetized guinea pigs were trained to lie in a special holder beneath the microscope. Through a procaine fieldblock in the flank the peritoneal cavity was entered and the viscera allowed to extrude into a warm l per cent gelatin saline bath, continually washed by fresh lavage fluids. The mesenteric areas were then searched for a suitable vascular area to be studied under the microscope a t magnifications of 50 to 200 power. The velocity of blood flow through arterioles, capillaries, and venules was estimated; the reactivity of the terminal arterioles and precapillary sphincters to direct application of epinephrine in known concentrations was measured; the diameters of the vessels were measured with an ocular micrometer; and, finally, the reaction of the vessels to direct trauma (brushing with a camel's hair brush) was determined in each instance. These studies were repeated on control animals supplemented with 15 mg. of ascorbic acid daily per 100 grams of body weight, and on animals completely deficient in vitamin C. The period of deficiency was from 18 to 20 days. At the end of this time, the tissue concentration of ascorbic acid had fallen to a level of less than 5 per cent of the normal. On our synthetic diet, the animals routinely succumbed within 26 to 34 days. Just prior to death, they invariably exhibited the classical laboratory symptoms of scurvy. Deficiency in vitamin C was found to be associated with dilatation of all vessels and reduced velocity of blood flow throughout the capillary bed. In addition, there was decreased responsiveness in the muscular arterioles and precapillary sphincters to the direct application of epinephrine.2 As the animals were conscious, the controls frequently reacted rather violently to environmental stimuli. For example, the slamming of a door would cause them to become startled and, subsequently, to develop a profound vasoconstriction in the area observed in the mesentery. While this was most notable in all control animals, the animals deficient in vitamin C were characterized by an almost complete absence of this splanchnic vasomotor response to fright.3 Trauma to the vessels was accompanied by no significant petechiae formation in the control animals. The deficient animals, on the other hand, demonstrated vascular ruptures in almost every instance. Ninety per cent of the hemorrhages


Abstract The macroeconomic implications of firms' lumpy investment behavior are subject to ongoing research. Lumpy investment results from fixed capital adjustment costs which give firms an incentive to reduce the frequency of capital adjustments. However, previous studies have underestimated the lumpiness. Their assumption of constant capital utilization reduces firms' incentives to undertake large investments as it prevents reserve capacity building. This paper shows that if capacity utilization is allowed to vary, firms optimally undertake larger investments and leave parts of the new capital stock idle for some periods, thereby reducing the frequency of investment activities. Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with fixed capital adjustment costs, heterogeneous firms, variable utilization, and aggregate technology shocks, I numerically compute firms' optimal decisions on investment, utilization and labor demand. Compared to the constant utilization model, the findings reveal magnified investment lumpiness: Firms adjust capital less frequently, but invest more when they adjust. However, this appears to be of minor macroeconomic relevance: Moments and impulse responses of macroeconomic quantities change in a similar way when variable utilization is introduced in a lumpy or in a frictionless model. New empirical evidence based on firm-level panel data confirms some of the theoretical findings.


BACKGROUND

Solvent extraction of 2,3-butanediol from dilute fermented systems is a challenging downstream unit operation. Addition of certain kosmotropic salts to the aqueous fermentation broth during the solvent extraction process can have considerable influence on the distribution of 2,3-butanediol. This work evaluates the usefulness of solvent extraction and the salting-out effect on the extraction characteristic of 2,3-butanediol in aqueous synthetic and fermented solutions.

RESULTS

Addition of 10 wt% dipotassium phosphate (K2HPO4) to the fermented 2,3-butanediol broth during solvent extraction results in 1.5–3-fold increase in distribution coefficient (Kd) and 7–14-fold increase in separation factor (α) for 2,3-butanediol using 2-sec butyl phenol and 1-butanol as extractants. Of various solvent–salt combinations studied; 2-sec butyl phenol + 10 wt% K2HPO4 provided Kd and α of 3.04 and 59.17 whereas 1-butanol + 10 wt% K2HPO4 provided Kd and α of 2.41 and 15.68, respectively, in fermented 2,3-butanediol broth solution.

CONCLUSION

This study demonstrated the prospects of repulsive salts addition to the fermented broth during the solvent extraction process. The results showed that this study may be used as a model to choose an appropriate combination of water-immiscible (hydrophobic) organic solvent and inorganic salt type and concentration for the economical recovery of 2,3-butanediol from fermentation broth. © 2014 Society of Chemical Industry


An update of the PRISMA mission is presented, showing both the results obtained from the evaluation of PRISMA bottom-of-atmosphere reflectance and by presenting an overview of environmental applications; the next PRISMA2G mission is introduced as an outlook.


The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) panoramic camera system (Pancam) has provided surface-based multispectral image data with unprecedented spatial and radiometric fidelity. The spectral coverage of the camera system allows for the discrimination of important Fe2+ and Fe3+ bearing minerals expected to occur on the Martian surface . This paper explores the spatially coherent and structurally consistent spectral variability present at both the Spirit and Opportunity landing sites using multidimensional analysis of representative Pancam multispectral scenes.


AMONG the many intriguing findings which have emerged from the study of human chromosomes is the recognition of the occasional female patient with a sex chromosomal constitution indistinguishable from that of a normal man (XU). Such patients present in clinical practice in a number of different ways. Some fall easily into well defined categories like the testicular feminizing syndrome and pure gonadal dysgenesis and their management is well understood. Others are less easy to put into any specific group, their clinical behaviour is less predictable and their management more difficult. Careful consideration of every aspect of a case will, however, in most instances, permit a reasonable prediction of subsequent developments and of the probable state of the internal genitalia and will permit a rational approach to treatment. It is the purpose of this paper to illustrate the different varieties of XY female and to consider particularly which predictions are justifiable from the clinical features and what treatment is indicated. Patients will be described in two groups; in Group I will be included those without clinical signs of masculinization of the external genitalia, i.e. their primary sexual development is normal; in Group I1 will be those with some clinical evidence of masculinization. The reason for this ditision is that whereas in Group I there may or may not be feminization at puberty but there is unlikely to be masculinization, in Group I1 masculinization at puberty is a distinct risk. Armstrong aud Marshall, 1964; Ferguson-Smith, 1965). These patients are of normal height or tall with absent secondary sexual development and primary amenorrhoea (Fig. 1) ; their genitalia consist of a hypoplastic vulva, a vagina, small uterus, Fallopian tubes and bilateral streak gonads (Fig. lb) in the position of the ovaries. The genital infantilism is the result of gonadal failure, as also is the tendency to long arms and legs in association with delayed closure of the epiphyses. Cases of pure gonadal dysgenesis differ from the more common variety of gonadal dysgenesis (Turner's syndrome) with a recognizable chromosomal abnormality who, in addition to genital infantilism and streak gonads, are of short stature with neck webbing and perhaps associated features such as coarctation of the aorta. These features are due to loss of appropriate genetic material carried on the sex chromosome and are therefore absent in XY pure gonadal dysgenesis. Case 1 briefly illustrates the condition.


The interest of the Plains Museum in the subject of bison drives goes back a decade or more. We really have recognized only two types of archaeological sites, generally speak ing, around Browning. They are stone tipi rings and buffalo-drive sites, which are known to some as buffalo jumps. In 1952, we secured Tom Kehoe, a graduate student in archaeolo gy, to survey the archaeological resources on and about the Blackfeet Reservation. He located and mapped most of the drive sites and excavated the Boarding School buffalo drive site. My own immediate interest is in the bison drive practices and rites of the Blackfeet Indians. I was surprised when I started to work among the elderly Blackfeet fullbloods at how fresh and sharp were their memories about drive traditions. My work with these informants started in 1950 and continued for a number of years. The present paper repre sents a simplified and abbreviated summary of the field notes gathered during those years. Interesting points about the Blackfeet drives continue to turn up, as for example, an ethno graphic specimen this past winter. It appears to be the remains of an actual ritual bundle of a bison drive runner. I will have more to say about the drive runners later.


Secure message communication techniques, based on Spread Spectrum modulation (or message encryption scheme), use a spreading code (or an encryption key) for message security. The commonly used spreading codes or encryption keys are based on m-sequences and Gold codes. Gold sequences are preferred for many applications owing to their data hiding capabilities. The conventional techniques used for the generation of Gold codes use fixed feedback tapings and therefore can prove, sometimes, easy for a hacker to decode or jam the original information signal. A novel circuit for the generation of a Gold code sequences, wherein the feedback tapings change pseudorandomly, is presented in this paper. The proposed system has been implemented with reduced hardware by using multiplexing process. The experimental results obtained are found to be in step with the theoretical ones.


OBJECTIVE To know the prevalence status and awareness rate of hypertension among inhabitants in different areas of Qinghai Province(city,rural,farming-pastoral and pastoral area);To find the risk factors that can cause hypertension;To provide scientific bases for intervention measures.METHODS Adopted the method of multi-stage random cluster sampling.36 committees and villages(12 townships)among 4 areas of Qinghai Province were selected as the investigative spots,including Xining(Chengxi district),Haidong(Huzhu county),Hainan(Guinan County),Huangnan(Henan County).In each spot,permanent residents aged above 18 years were investigated on the correlation study of hypertension.RESULTS In this study,2 633 residents aged above 18 years were investigated,of which 1 191 men and 1 442 women were included.The prevalent rate of hypertension was 20.81%,in which the city was 25.27%,the rural was 22.27%,the farming-pastoral area was 19.22%,and the pasturing area only 16.59%,there was a statistical significant difference among the prevalence rates of hypertension(χ2 = 16.999,P = 0.001).The multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed the risk factors for hypertension in this population included age,body mass index(BMI),waist circumference,family history of hypertension,family history of stroke.CONCLUSION There is a high prevalent rate of hypertension in Qinghai Province.So we should take some measures aiming at the present situation and risk factors of hypertension.


Term was notable even relative to the Court's normal standard of prominence, with several key decisions touching a number of deeply contested issues of law and policy. Initial public commentary on the Term has understandably focused on a handful of decisions of immediate impact and notoriety. A group of cases addressing the scope of the President's wartime powers assertively proclaimed that even a dire emergency was no "blank check" for the executive branch to evade judicial review.1 Another key decision on the constitutionality of state sentencing enhancements has already had a calamitous effect on the entrenched and carefully wrought – if highly unpopular – federal sentencing guidelines scheme, and the Court will revisit that issue soon.2 These decisions are undeniably important and merit the close scrutiny they have already received in the legal academy and in broader civic discourse. In the long view, however, it is possible that this Term's leading health law decision, Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila3 (hereinafter "Aetna"), will ultimately impact the American health insurance system, and the federal regulation of that industry, to an extent that matches the influence of any case this year. Aetna's core holding – that a wide swath of coverage decisions made by ERISA-regulated managed care organizations are immune from liability under state tort law – has important ramifications immediately, and these are examined below. But the decision's greatest influence is a latent one, embodied in its signal to Congress and the broader American public that regulation of a central feature of managed care is a matter of exclusively national government concern. The Court's ouster of the states from a key component of managed care regulation will create enhanced pressure on Congress to act more robustly in this area of acute public interest. In this sense the Aetna decision can be viewed as an implicit signal to Congress (made explicit in Justice Ginsburg's concurrence) that the Court expects greater federal legislative attention to the fundamental choices managed care organizations make. To the extent the decision provokes a long-awaited Congressional action in this area, or more substantive federal judicial intervention in managed care decisions, its catalyzing force will be vastly greater than its immediate ruling on ERISA's remedial exclusivity. This essay explores the Aetna decision in some detail and, to a lesser extent, one other decision in the Court's 2003-2004 Term that relates to health law and policy. Particularly due to the Aetna decision, this Term underscores once again the crucial role of the Supreme Court in the field of health law and policy.


The paper by Leadbeatter (July 1992 JRSM, p 428) indicates that clarification on this topic is desirable. The composition of the vitreous humour, related to that of plasma, depends during life on processes that transport substances, that are derived from the plasma, into and out of it. After death these processes cease, the vitreous becomes physiologically isolated, and subsequent changes are unaffected by changes in the plasma. The vitreous potassium rises after death due to leakage of potassium from intraocular cells. The extent ofthis rise has been used to calculate the postmortem interval, using various formulae that give different times, though the precision is controversial'2. Such calculations depend on assuming what was the concentration in the vitreous at death, and this may not be normal depending on antemortem plasma potassium changes. It has been suggested that reverse calculations can be used; if the postmortem interval is known, then the plasma potassium at death might be calculated from the vitreous value. Even if the method of calculation were valid to give precise results for this purpose, which is arguable, there is a more important reason why this is inapplicable in the case of sudden death by potassium injection. The transport processes are not immediate: it has been shown to take several hours for potassium to penetrate the vitreous humour and equilibrate the levels there with those in plasma: detailed studies were done with other mammalian species, and are accepted for humans. When any postulated major increase in plasma potassium occurred within a few moments before death (from intravenous potassium causing acute heart failure), the concentration in the vitreous humour could not be affected. In a case of suicide by injection of potassium chloride3, the vitreous potassium concentration was compatible only with the time since death. D N BARON 47 Holne Chase, London N2 OQG


This study has the purpose to assess, compare and analyze the life cycle CO₂ values of concretes by using the information on the strength and quantity of concretes admitted in the construction fields of condominiums and apartments with stores for the 3 major cities. Construction sites are evaluated by CO₂ emissions and the concrete of CO₂ emissions compared with concrete of CO₂ emissions. CO₂ emissions were less in the order of apartments with stores, efficiency apartments and housing depending on building types, and concretes with 60㎫ strength increased. On this basis, methods to assess and reduce CO₂ emissions depending on building type, local characteristics and concrete used amount in construction field can be proposed later on.


Background/Aim: To assess the association between air pollution (NO2 and PM2.5) and all-cause mortality for participants who resided in the Sydney Metropolitan region of the 45 and Up Study. Method...


The proses, written by Gui you-gaung are rich in genre,theme and width, among which the lyrics about his memeries of daily lives and relatives are the best parts.Historic spirit and writing effect on his writing can be found in his writings. This writing skills are perfectly used, to a great degree, they form his unique style and establish his status in Chinese literature.


Lipids secreted from the meibomian gland (meibum) form the superficial layer of the tear film and prevent water evaporation from the ocular surface and infection. Here, we identified the fatty acid (FA) elongases responsible for the synthesis of very long‐chain FAs (VLCFAs) that constitute the meibum lipids. Elongation of VLCFAs (ELOVL)1 is primarily responsible for the production of saturated VLCFAs, whereas ELOVL1, ELOVL3, and ELOVL4 redundantly participate in the synthesis of monounsaturated VLCFAs. Gene disruption of Elovl1 in mice shortened acyl moieties in the 2 major meibum lipids: cholesteryl esters and wax esters. These changes were associated with dry eye phenotypes, including increases in eye‐blink frequency and water evaporation from the ocular surface at younger ages. Aged Elovl1 mutant mice developed corneal opacity with vascular invasion, accompanied by epidermalization of the cornea. Thus, in addition to the well‐known VLC ceramides (acylceramides) in the epidermis, VLC meibum lipids are barrier‐forming lipids.—Sassa T., Tadaki, M., Kiyonari, H., Kihara A. Very long‐chain tear film lipids produced by fatty acid elongase ELOVL1 prevent dry eye disease in mice. FASEB J. 32, 2966–2978 (2018). www.fasebj.org


The Shui people are distinctive in living pattern and culture.For instance,their totem of fish symbolizes their wish of a big number of offspring.This paper makes a study of the aesthetic culture of Shui people under the perspectives of life aesthetics.


Abstract The Digital transformation of society, industry requires new approaches in education to prepare students to deal with technological change. Digital Social Innovation (DSI) is an emerging field, and little known about digital social innovators, organizations, and activities which support them and the use of digital tools for social change. Education must be at the core of society's response to these powerful forces. Digital social innovations and corresponding skills should be used in all sectors of education and training, because technology skills are essential for global citizenship. Such innovations can be particularly efficient in teaching entrepreneurial skills. In this paper after a presentation of the connection between DSI and entrepreneurship education we give some methods to improve it and examples of projects in this context.


Performance management, a critical business process, is discussed in this chapter as a framework for driving continuous learning at the individual, team, and organizational levels, with an emphasis on the manager–employee relationship. The concepts of learning, continuous learning, and performance management are introduced, defined, and framed, setting the foundation for the subsequent discussion of each key component of the performance management process—goal setting, feedback, development, and appraisal—and its role in driving continuous learning. The discussion emphasizes the importance of goal cascading and alignment, the impact and influence of both performance and development goals on defining directions for continuous learning, understanding the conditions that enable the positive impact of feedback, knowing the factors that can promote employee development and continuous learning, and knowing how to use both informal and formal performance appraisals to identify, define, and plan for continuous learning. The chapter closes with a summary reinforcing the role of performance management as a framework for driving continuous learning in organizations.


made up 6·3% of the total blind school population. A random 10% sample (74 children) of the remaining blind school population, and 60 normally sighted children from representative Birmingham schools, were selected as controls. Children with multiple handicaps were excluded, but only two children blinded from retinoblastoma were found with additional handicaps. Retinoblastoma is in a number of. ways a rather unique tumour. It is one of the few causes of blindness in which there is no other involvement of the central nervous system. It belongs to the small class of hereditable tumours. It may be either unilateral or bilateral, and there is an important distinction here, for unilateral cases are mostly sporadic, and in these as a general rule the disease is not passed on. Fraser Roberts' suggests that this is because they are usually the result of a somatic mutation. On the other hand, bilateral retinoblastoma is nearly always hereditable, and is considered to be due to a dominant gene. In the occasional case in which unilateral retinoblastoma occurs as an hereditable disease, this is explained as an example of incomplete penetrance. However, Miss Williams does not make this distinction, and regards all cases of retinoblastoma as potentially hereditable. Another important fact about retinoblastoma is that for a considerable time it remains confined to the eyeball, and at this stage there is a high rate of cure. Miss Williams quotes J. K. Seward as stating: "In our series there were 152 children in the Manchester region with proven retinoblastoma between 1900 and 1960. Of. these, 101 were cured . . ."


Objective To determine the current resistance of adult Culex pipiens pallens to commonly used pesticides in Jiangsu province, providing the evidence for better mosquito control. Methods The exposure tube method recommended by WHO was applied to measure the median lethal concentration (LC50) for adult mosquitoes. Results The LC50 for field-collected adult mosquitoes in Nanjing, Xuzhou, Lianyungang, Wuxi, Nantong and Huai'an were 0.0173%, 0.0756%, 0.0487%, 0.0070%, 0.0055% and 0.0150% to deltamethrin respectively, and 0.2128%, 0.2711%, 0.1130%, 0.1579%, 0.0504% and 0.0734% to permethrin, respectively. The LC50 to betacypermethrin for field populations in Nanjing, Xuzhou, Lianyungang, Wuxi, Nantong, Huai'an and Suzhou were 0.0224%, 0.0420%, 0.0843%, 0.0023%, 0.0114%, 0.0180% and 0.0108% respectively. The LC50 for Nanjing population to dichlorovos and propoxur were 0.0119% and 0.0129%, while the values for Nantong population to dichlorovos and propoxur were 0.0046% and 0.0077%, respectively. All of tested mosquitoes were intermediately to highly resistant to deltamethrin, with resistance coefficients greater than 100 times in Xuzhou and Lianyungang; lowly to highly resistant to betacypermethrin, with the resistance coefficient up to 94.7 times in Lianyungang in contrast to 2.6 times in Wuxi; and lowly to intermediately resistant to permethrin, with resistance ratios ranging from 11 to 15 times in Nanjing and Xuzhou, and 2.8 times in Nantong. Nanjing population were lowly resistant to propoxur (2.8 times) and sensitive to dichlorovos, while Nantong strains were susceptible to both propoxur and dichlorovos. Conclusion For adult mosquito control in Jiangsu province, the application of deltamethrin and betacypermethrin should be reduced along with increased administration of carbamates, such as propoxur, and organophosphorus pesticides such as dichlorovos. The findings here address consideration and integrated planning to chemical adult mosquito control for delaying or reducing the occurrence and development of pesticid resistance.


Thirty children aged 4 months - 15 years with agenesis of corpus callosum (ACC) treated in clinics of Medical University of Gdansk during the last three years were included in the study. The clinical signs and symptoms in an isolated ACC and in ACC with accompanying other cerebral malformations were analysed. In 13 children (43%) ACC was an isolated CNS malformation, in 17 patients (57%) other CNS abnormalities have been established. In some of children ACC coexisted with the lesions of other organs. In one girl Apert syndrome, in one boy - Toriello-Carey syndrome, in another boy the VATER sequence were diagnosed. In three females clinical signs were typical of Aicardi syndrome. In one case of newborn congenital cytomegalovirus infection has been established. In one male infant the ring chromosome, in another child the microdeletion of chromosome 22 were diagnosed. Estimation of ACC is particulary important for wider diagnostics of the CNS and also for providing examinations of other organs. Estimation of coexisting with ACC brain abnormalities is connected with more severe clinical features.


Purpose
The topic of human skeletal analysis is a sensitive subject in North America. Laws and regulations surrounding research of human skeletal material make it difficult to use these remains to characterize various populations. Recent technology has the potential to solve this dilemma. Three-dimensional (3D) scanning creates virtual models of this material, and stores the information, allowing future studies on the material. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
To assess the potential of this methodology, the authors compared processing time, accuracy and costs of computer tomography (CT) scanner to the Artec Eva portable 3D surface scanner. Using both methodologies the authors scanned and 3D printed one adult individual. The authors hypothesize that the Artec Eva will create digital replicas of <5 percent error based on Buikstra and Ubelaker standard osteometric measurements. Error was tested by comparing the measurements of the skeletal material to the Artec data, CT data and 3D printed data.

Findings
Results show that larger bones recorded by the Artec Eva have <5 percent error of the original specimen while smaller more detailed images have >5 percent error. The CT images are closer to <5 percent accuracy, with few bones still >5 percent error. The Artec Eva scanner is inexpensive in comparison to a CT machine, but takes twice as long to process the Eva's data. The Artec Eva is sufficient in replication of larger elements, but the CT machine is still a preferable means of skeletal replication, particularly for small elements.

Originality/value
This research paper is unique because it compares two common forms of digitization, which has not been done. The authors believe this paper would be of value to natural history curators and various researchers.


Compiled by Jonathan D. Brumberg-Kraus and Jacklyn A. Schmitt Wheaton College, Norton, MA Biblical Perspectives on meals "Exodus 1-15; text and context." Ou-Testamentiese Werkgemeenskap in Suid-Afrika: Old Testament Essays 29 (1987). Alexander, Thomas Desmond, "The Passover Sacrifice." Sacrifice in the Bible (1995)124. Bergant, Dianne. "An Anthropological Approach To Biblical Interpretation; The Passover Supper In Exodus 12:1-20 as a case study." Semeia 67(1994) 43-62. Brenner, Athalya,. "The Food of Love: Gendered Food and Food Imagery in the Song of Songs." In Food and Drink in the Biblical Worlds. Semeia 86 (1999). Brenner, Athalya and Jan Willem van Henten. eds. Food and Drink in the Biblical Worlds. Semeia 86 (1999). Douglas, Mary. "The Abominations of Leviticus," Purity and Danger London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Haran, Menahem. "The Passover Sacrifice." Vetus Testamentum Supplements 23 (1972) 86-116. Jacob, Walter and Irene, eds. The Healing Past: Pharmaceuticals In The Biblical And Rabbinic World Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, (1993). Japhet, Sara. "The Passover Sacrifice In Biblical Religion And History." Israeli Academic Center in Cairo: Bulletin 19 (1995) 5-10. Johnstone, William. "The Two Theological Versions Of The Passover Pericope In Exodus." Text as Pretext (1992) 160-178. McConville, J. Gordon. "Deuteronomy's Unification of Passover and Massôt; a response to Bernard M. Levinson. " Journal of Biblical Literature 119,1 (2000) 47-58. Lehane, Terry John. "Zipporah and the Passover." Jewish Bible Quarterly 24, 1 (1996) 46-50. Levine, Baruch A. "Excursus 2: The meaning of the Dietary Laws." The JPS Torah Commentary: Leviticus Philadelphia/ New York/ Jerusalem: Jewish Publication Society, (1989). Milgrom, Jacob,. Leviticus 1-16 The Anchor Bible; New York, et al.: Doubleday, (1991). Prosic, Tamara. "Origin of Passover." Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 13, 1 (1999) 78-94. Prosic, Tamara. "Passover In Biblical Narratives." Journal of the Study of the Old Testament 82 (1999) 45-55. Rooy, Herculaas (Herrie) Frederick van. "Die Pasga en sy boodskap in die tyd van die Ou Testament [ Passover and its message in Old Testament times]." Koers 55, 1 (1990) 5-16. Soler, Jean, "Biblical Reasons: The Dietary Rules of the Ancient Hebrews." In Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Jean-Louis Flandrin and Massimo Montanari. New York: Columbia University, 1999. Toorn, Karel van der. "Ordeal procedures in the Psalms and the Passover Meal." Vetus Testamentum 38, 4 (1988) 427-445. Veijola, Timo. "The history of the Passover in the light of Deuteronomy 16:1-8." Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 2 (1996) 53-75. Wechsler, Michael G. "The Purim-Passover Connection; A Reflection Of Jewish Exegetical Tradition In The Peshitta Book Of Esther." Journal of Biblical Literature 117, 2 (1998) 321-327.


Introduction Profiling of metabolites is a rapidly expanding area of research for resolving metabolic pathways. Metabolic fingerprinting in medicinally important plant based formulations is critical to establishing the quality of herbal medicines. Metabolic and elemental profiling of selected herbal formulations in Indian system of medicine was carried out using NMR spectroscopy and laser induced break down spectroscopy (LIBS) techniques. The anticancer activity and antioxidant potential of formulations were evaluated on Hep G2 cancer cell line of four herbal formulations using MTT assay and FRAP assay respectively [1,2].


For some time now developers of software systems have recognized the need to capture information about the system and to build a framework for retrieving this information so that it can be easily accessible to end users. Current trends, such as the Information Research Dictionary System (IRDS) standard, IBM's Repository, and a growing interest in Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools in the US and the Integrated Project Support Environment dictionary tools that capture information critical to the development and maintenance of a system throughout its life cycle. This paper describes the development of a menu-driven system dictionary in ORACLE for a design prototype system currently under development at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). It addresses integration of ORACLE's data dictionary tables with the system dictionary, and possible avenues of future research regarding the design and implementation of an IRDS. 3 refs.


It's that time again! Here are Dr Michael Burke's favorite 10 articles he reviewed in Journal Club for Contemporary Pediatrics during the past 12 months that are most likely to change your practice, improve patient care, or illuminate future trends in pediatrics.


The analysis of the differential saturable transformer is carried out together with a general discussion of its operation as this device may be applied as the basic component of large, controlled, high-efficiency power supplies. The advantages of this unit in combining the fundamental functions normally requiring separate elements and thus a greater total cost are explained and justified.


. In this paper, we study the modified Schr¨odinger-Poisson system: where V,K,g are asymptotically periodic functions of x . Based on variational methods and the dual approach, we prove the existence of ground state solution by using the Nehari manifold method, the Mountain Pass theorem and the concentration-compactness principle.


Case-Based Reasoning(CBR) technique is the fore realm of AI and machine learning.As an incremental learning system,case-based reasoning makes the knowledge and rule obtainment bottleneck easy by learning from cases.This paper will describe the fundamental principle of CBR,The representation method of knowledge in a case and two kinds of Retrieve technologies-Tverskey and k-NN;It probes in depth the key problem in the realizing process of CBR-the problem of case revision,it introduces eight methods in case revision.It emphasizes the research and development trend of CBR.


by the author herself, it leaves her proposal vulnerable to the critique that it is more of an appealing idea than a practicable strategy. She does, however, make courageous attempts at charting transgressive responses to COVIC by employing a 'purposefully speculative approach'. Her preface, for instance, opens with an evocative – and not a little entertaining – account of a schoolteacher's failed attempt to captivate her young charges' attention with a slide projection on the British Isles. But vignettes of the type are rare occurrences in the book, which is regrettable seeing as they are so effective. Moser more often speaks from her own perspective as a 'researcher/viewer' who cultivates a disobedient gaze within the archive – a position that is equally productive and valid, but does not have quite the same result of revealing, even speculatively, an overlooked history of reception. Admittedly, Moser's ability to imagine historical responses is no doubt complicated by the fact that no collection of original COVIC lantern slides is known to have survived, meaning that her interpretation of this imagery is based, not on the sequenced transparencies that schoolchildren would have seen, but on paper prints that were pasted into administrative albums based on their date of production. This is not an insignificant distinction and might account for the author's bibliographic blind spot for lantern slide history. Here, the work of Gillian Rose, Emily Hayes and Carla Conrad Freeman – all scholars who have written about the performance of expertise and the significance of slide lectures to the disciplines of geography and education – might have helped shed more light on the embodied experience of early twentieth-century COVIC viewers. These small criticisms aside, there is no question that Projecting Citizenship leaves us with several valuable takeaways with which to navigate our present moment. Indeed, the last few years have seen governmental bodies in the ex-dominion of Canada make a showy bid for 'reconciliation' between settlers and Indigenous peoples, notably by tackling the traumatic legacy of colonial education with varying degrees of success and sentiment. But the international imaginary has perhaps most been affected by Britain's controversial divorce from the European union – a culmination of events that was, in essence, a battle for the right to define what it means to be a British citizen. In this political landscape, studies such as Moser's have the merit of reminding us that the power to represent is far from an innocuous privilege in the hands of nationalist projects.


In the task of distant supervision relation extraction, attention mechanism is introduced to distinguish correct instances from noise. However, the existing attention is often single-headed, and unable to recognize fine-grained word-level features from multiple subspaces. In addition, most current models do not fully utilize the external information of entities, and lack effective use of potential relation between the pre-trained entities. They only encode entities and other components of sentence into the vector, which is mixed with noise also weakens the potential relation. Therefore, we propose a dynamic double multi-head attention to filter out noise, and an entity supervisor to enhance the potential relation, and use capsule network to solve multi-label classification problem. We also propose auxiliary BGRU (Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit) to improve feature extraction performance. Experimental results show that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on the precision-recall curve; Performance in processing of long-tail relations is also quite outstanding.


Wang'anzhen complex is located in the Mesozoic Daxing'anling-Taihangshan magmatic-structural belt.It is rich in metal ore deposits,such as Au,Fe,Mo,Cu,Pb,Zn and Ag ect.The complex resulted from the intermediate-acidic magmatic activities in Yanshan period.And it mainly consists of the mid-Jurassic dioritic porphyrite,late- Jurassic intermediate-acidic magmatite,and early-Cretaceous acidic-alkale magmatite.The relation between the metal ore deposits and the complex is discussed in this paper.The metallogenic regularity is: 1) the structures including the deep fault,regional faults and the decollement faults in the complex are the ore-forming feeder and the ore-bearing place.2) The strata including dolomite in the Gaoyuzhuang Fm.,Changcheng System and Wumishan Fm.,Jixian System,and the carbaonate in the Cambrian and early-Ordovician system are the mainly host rock.3) The magmatite including the lithologic type,rock body scale,occurrence and magma origin have the close relation with the ore formation.


During the first decade of the eighteenth century, the study of court ceremonies and their highly complex symbolism reached its peak as a scholarly discipline in Germany. The noted master of ceremonies Johann von Besser (Fig. 1) was without doubt one of the most important authorities on the subject in Europe. He possessed a celebrated private library containing the most learned ceremonial literature of his time, and he was active as an experienced practitioner in a responsible position at the courts of Berlin (Friedrich III, Elector of Brandenburg 1688-1701, and, as Friedrich I, king of Prussia 1701-1713) and Dresden (August, Elector of Saxony 1694-1733, and, as August II, called "the Strong," king of Poland 1697-1704 and 1709-1733). In contrast to his German contemporaries in the field of ceremonial literature, Johann Christian Lünig, Julius Bernhard von Rohr, and Gottfried Stieve, however, Johann von Besser barely won notice for his own publications on matters of ceremony, aside from his famous description of Friedrich I's coronation. Nevertheless, he was in contrast incomparably more productive as a poet in the Baroque court's lyric style and as an author of numerous "state documents and laudations," "eulogies and consolations," as well as other occasional works, which appeared for the first time in Dresden in 1711 and were held in great esteem in the literary world of the early eighteenth century. In his role as principal master of ceremonies at the court of Friedrich I in Berlin, he was responsible for the conception and staging of royal celebrations, and, at the same time, he composed texts for court musical comedies and ballets. Born the son of a clergyman in 1654 in Frauenburg in the Duchy of Kurland, Johann von Besser completed his studies in philosophy and theology in Königsberg and subsequently accompanied a young compatriot to Leipzig, the Saxon university and trading city, as his Master of Household. There he met Katharina Elisabeth Kühlewein, daughter of the mayor, whom he married in 1681 following his relocation to Berlin. As Legationsrat (legation counselor) to Friedrich I, he served on a


System capability is critical to the economic viability of a personal satellite communication system. Ka band has significant potential to support a high capacity multiple access system because of the availability of bandwidth. System design tradeoffs are performed and multiple access schemes are compared with the design goal of achieving the highest capacity and efficiency. Conclusions regarding the efficiency of the different schemes and the achievable capacities are given.


Epithelial-mesenchymal transition(EMT) is a process that epithelial cells lose polarity,become mesenchymal cells and acquire the ability of migration and invasion.It exists in many physiological and pathological processes.EMT is involved in a number of signal transduction pathways and performs different physiological functions.During the early stages of embryonic development,both EMT and MET(mesenchymal-epithelial transition) contribute to the formation and development of organs.Moreover,EMT can promote tumor metastasis.EMT also occurs in female mammalian reproduction.In the ovary,EMT is beneficial for repairing process following ovulation.During decidualization,MET may be required for successful uterine anchorage of the embryo.Placental development undergoes an EMT in order to facilitate nutrient and gas exchange between mother and fetus.The failure of EMT process may cause related reproductive diseases.


In recent years,interface-based integrated model has been widely used in PDM and Solid Works for integration.How to turn it into reality and which kinds of key technology are needed also have been the hot topic among many people.This paper proposes a way to fulfill this kind of model under the existed visual integrated development environment VC++ based on ADO,FTP,COM and Solid Works API by comparing and analyzing the current database operating technique,the current document transferring technique and the COM technique.At last,an example will be shown to you illustrating the interface extracts the information from Solid Works by the way of COM technique and Solid Works API,realize the process of leading the extracted information into PDM and building up products' BOM structure by means of ADO technology and transfers some related documents by virtue of FTP technique.Then,the effective integration of PDM and Solid Works based on interface can be reached on the whole.


This paper deals with the problem of estimating the quantiles (¿) = 0.01, 0.05(0.05)0.95, 0.99 of the largest extreme-value distribution by using order statistics in small samples. Linear unbiased estimators, with minimum variance, based on ordered observations are constructed for sample sizes 5(5)20 for both complete and right-censored samples.


Objective
To investigate the effects of single balloon for pregnant women with immature cervical conditions and the effects on visual analogue scale (VAS) score.

Methods
A total of 90 cases pregnant women with immature cervical conditions who were admitted to Jiangyin People's Hospital from January 2017 to June 2018 were selected as research subjects, and they were randomly divided into control group and observation group, with 45 cases in each group. Patients in control group were given small doses of oxytocin for planning delivery, and patients in observation group used cervical single balloon dilatation for planning delivery. The effects of cervical ripening and outcomes and mode of delivery were compared between the two groups. The VAS scores of the two groups were compared.

Results
The effective rate of promoting cervical ripening in observation group was higher than that in control group (P 0.05); after treatment, the VAS score of observation group was lower than that of control group (P<0.05).

Conclusions
Single balloon therapy is effective for pregnant women with immature cervical condition. It can also reduce VAS score, which is worthy of clinical promotion and application.

Key words:
Immature cervical conditions; Planned delivery; Single balloon; Effect observation; Visul analogue sacle score


With the continuous practice of the concept of sustainable development by the Chinese Government, the protection of natural resources and the optimization of the ecological environment have received unprecedented attention in China at present. In order to further speed up the construction of ecological civilization and promote the sustainable development of resources, the Chinese government has begun to implement the departure audit of natural resource assets, and has strengthened environmental protection and resource management. This paper analyses the practical problems existing in the practice of the departure audit of natural resource assets at the present stage, systematically dissects its causes, and puts forward its reform path.


The paper was written for nurses and presents some ways to prevent constipation in elderly. The causes, symptoms and complications evoked by constipation are described. Some recommendations on diet and taking laxative medicine for patients suffering from chronic constipation are given.


A computer program automates the process of selecting unbiased peer reviewers of research proposals submitted to NASA. Heretofore, such selection has been performed by manual searching of two large databases subject to a set of assignment rules. One database lists proposals and proposers; the other database lists potential reviewers. The manual search takes an average of several weeks per proposal. In contrast, the present software can perform the selection in seconds. The program begins by selecting one entry from each database, then applying the assignment rules to this pair of entries. If and only if all the assignment rules are satisfied, the chosen reviewer is assigned to the chosen proposal. The assignment rules enforced by the program are (1) a maximum allowable number of proposals assigned to a single reviewer; (2) a maximum allowable number of reviewers assigned to a single proposal; (3) if the proposing team includes a member affiliated with an industry, then the reviewer must not be affiliated with any industry; and (4) the reviewer must not be a member of the proposing team or affiliated with the same institution as that of a member of the proposing team.