The rapidly increasing number of Type II diabetes mellitus cases among adolescents highlights the need to understand the risk perceptions of adolescents towards this disease. Our study addresses this need by examining students' risk perceptions of acquiring Type II diabetes mellitus. Upon unpacking the conceptualization of students' risk perceptions and reviewing the relevant literature, we develop and test empirically a comprehensive model incorporating personal, public, and environmental risk factors influencing students' risk perceptions of acquiring Type II diabetes mellitus. Our findings support the significant impact of these factors. The addressed 23 classified into five risk absolute accuracy, comparative risk, risk questionnaires, risk risk and diet and exercise regimens. She surveyed a group of high school students and Boy Scout troop members in New York City, excluding those with a family history of T1DM or T2DM. Fischetti's study of 35 male and 45 female students with ages ranging from 13-18 years is one of the few diabetes studies that specifically focused on adolescents' risk perceptions of T2DM. Her study required four main survey instruments: 1) the Godin (2011) Leisure-Time Exercise Questionnaire used to evaluate weekly physical activity; 2) the revised 14 item Risk Perception Survey for Developing Diabetes (Walker et al., 2003); 3) optimistic bias survey developed to measure worry, personal control, dread, and unknown risks; and 4) participants' diary used to jot recollections of two dietary intakes over a 24-hour period.


Neuropathic pain is a difficult state to treat, characterized by alterations in sensory processing that can include allodynia (touch‐evoked pain). Evidence exists for nerve damage‐induced plasticity in both transmission and modulatory systems, including changes in voltage‐dependent calcium channel (VDCC) expression and function; however, the role of Cav2.3 calcium channels has not clearly been defined. Here, the effects of SNX‐482, a selective Cav2.3 antagonist, on sensory transmission at the spinal cord level have been investigated in the rat. The spinal nerve ligation (SNL) model of chronic neuropathic pain [ Kim & Chung, (1992)Pain, 50, 355–363] was used to induce mechanical allodynia, as tested on the ipsilateral hindpaw. In vivo electrophysiological measurements of dorsal horn neuronal responses to innocuous and noxious electrical and natural stimuli were made after SNL and compared to sham‐operated animals. Spinal SNX‐482 (0.5–4 µg/50 µL) exerted dose‐related inhibitions of noxious C‐fibre‐ and Aδ‐fibre‐mediated neuronal responses in conditions of neuropathy, but not in sham‐operated animals. Measures of spinal cord hyperexcitability and nociception were most susceptible to SNX‐482. In contrast, non‐noxious Aβ‐mediated responses were not affected by SNX‐482. Moreover, responses to innocuous mechanical and also thermal stimuli were more sensitive to SNX‐482 in SNL than control animals. This study is the first to demonstrate an antinociceptive role for SNX‐482‐sensitive channels in dorsal horn neurons during neuropathy. These data are consistent with plasticity in CaV2.3 calcium channel expression and suggest a potential selective target to reduce nociceptive transmission during conditions of nerve damage.


The oxidative coupling reaction of 2,6-dimethylphenol and 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol with molecular oxygen was performed by using a series of copper(II) chelate complexes as a catalyst, derived from copper(II), β-diketone, and some Shiff bases. Under the applied reaction conditions, the reaction products of 2,6-dimethylphenol were poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) (CO coupling product) and 3,3′,5-5′-tetramethyl-4,4′-diphenoquinone (CC coupling product), and that of 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol oxidation was only 3,3′,5-5′-tetra-tert-butyl-4,4′-diphenoquinone (CC coupling product). The catalytic activity has been shown to be dependent on the properties of the copper(II) chelates used as catalysts and the mole ratios of amine ligand to copper(II) chelate (ligand ratio). The basicity and the steric bulkiness of the amine used as a ligand for copper(II) β-diketonato catalysts were found to be two of the main factors that govern the oxidative coupling mode (CO and/or CC coupling) of 2,6-dimethylphenol. The oxidative coupling activity of 2,6-dialkylphenol is discussed in terms of both the stabilities of the copper(II) chelates and of the copper(II) chelate-amine adducts. The rate of oxygen absorption for 2,6-dimethylphenol catalyzed by the copper(II) acetylacetonato-piperidine system is first order in oxygen partial pressure and zero order in 2,6-dimethylphenol concentration, respectively. A Cu(II)-oxygen, as an intermediate is suggested on the basis of the results obtained.


Makeup has been shown to increase women's attractiveness, perceived femininity, and self‐confidence and reduce their perceived age. Some of these results were caused by facial contrast and visible skin color. However, they did not investigate makeup benefit by focusing skin color change.


The mining of bat guano for agricultural purposes has occurred throughout Australia, and as a small localized industry has often been subject to considerable conflict. The history of this mining at Naracoorte, South Australia is outlined and demonstrates continuing conflict both within the local community and with the more distant state government. There are insufficient data to understand the impact of mining upon the bat population.


Submarines and underwater automatic vehicles (UAV) are becoming better at concealing themselves by reducing noise. There is strong necessity to detect enemy submarines and UAVs timely in protecting the maritime border. Active sonar has been used to detect enemy submarines and UAV. There are two typical types of such active sonar based on the geometry locations of transmitter and receiver named monostatic sonar and bistatic sonar system. In the monostatic scenario the transmitter and receiver transducers are collocated while it is called bistatic sonar system in the case if they are separate. Both sonar systems can be used in underwater object detection. In this paper, a target strength model is proposed to estimate multi-object in the same time. A model of target strength in [10] is referred which is originally designed to calculate the scattering wave from a single submarine scanning from full-angle. The proposed scheme here is effective in detecting the number of enemy submarines and the moving direction of submarine queue. Monto Carlo simulation has been used to show the performance of the proposed model.


Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC)-induced subcapsular hepatic hematoma is a rare but potentially fatal complication. Right hypochondrial pain is the most common symptom and diagnosis is based on imaging after procedure. Majority can be managed successfully with conservative measures. Angioembolization and surgery may be required in hemodynamically unstable patients. We report a case of ERC-induced subcapsular hepatic hematoma detected laparoscopically following endoscopic stone extraction and managed conservatively.


The significance of the man-computer interface The constituents of the man-computer interface Input/output processes Dialogue structures - question and answer and the menu Dialogue structures - forms, commands and hybrids User support Screen formatting Response time Simple adaptation WIMPs Dialogue specification Intelligent interfaces Appendices.


Determination of the content of PMMA in polarized SBS has been studied by FTIR. Results show that the linear relationship between the corrective area of peak and the content of PMMA is excellent at 1732


The effect of contingent verbal feedback on accuracy of intonation of eight students in a course on string methods was compared. Analysis indicated that performed intonation was significantly better when using finger numbers than when referring to the pitch name.


A 54-year-old man with chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis (CIMF) underwent RIST. His clinical course had been uneventful until day 60, when splenomegaly reappeared. Hepatic dysfunction developed on day 75. Recipient-type hematopoiesis increased to 51% on day 90. After rapid tapering of cyclosporin, serum levels of AST and ALP normalized in parallel with recovery of complete chimerism on day 134. Yet, jaundice progressed. He died of liver failure on day 176. Postmortem examination revealed neither GVHD nor VOD. Graft rejection following RIST for CIMF may lead to fatal hepatic damage through extramedullary hematopoiesis in the liver or cytokine-mediated immune dysregulations.


This research paper represents a numerical approximation to non-linear coupled one dimension reaction diffusion system, which includes the existence and uniqueness of the time dependent solution with upper and lower bounds of the solution. Also numerical approximation is obtained by finite difference schemes to reach at reasonable level of accuracy, which is magnified by L2, L∞ and relative error norms. The accuracy of the approximations is shown by randomly selected grid points along time level and comparison with analytical results. The test example demonstrates the accuracy, efficiency and versatility of the proposed schemes. Moreover, the schemes can be easily applied to a wide class of higher dimension non-linear reaction diffusion equations with a little modifications.


Human action recognition is a very active field in computer vision. Many important applications depend on accurate human action recognition, which is based on accurate representation of the actions. These applications include surveillance, athletic performance analysis, driver assistance, robotics, and human-centered computing. This chapter presents a thorough review of the field, concentrating the recent action representation methods that use spatio-temporal information. In addition, the authors propose a stationary wavelet-based representation of natural human actions in realistic videos. The proposed representation utilizes the 3D Stationary Wavelet Transform to encode the directional multi-scale spatiotemporal characteristics of the motion available in a frame sequence. It was tested using the Weizmann, and KTH datasets, and produced good preliminary results while having reasonable computational complexity when compared to existing state–of–the–art methods.


As a dental nurse, you will be aware that it is your responsibility to ensure you receive adequate training and continuing professional development (CPD) to carry out your role in a professional manner.


The multi-missile confront multi-target is a classic target allocation issue in the combat scenario of multiple missiles intercepting multiple maneuvering targets. Traditional algorithms lack environmental assessment model, train quality, and indicator function in the adversarial environment. To this end, this paper aims to propose an intelligent assignment strategy which contains indicator function and evaluation model. Then, an indicator function and an evaluation model considering the miss distance, threat situation, and the number of specified interception targets are introduced into the reinforcement learning algorithm. The local and global reward functions are introduced to improve the training convergence and efficiency in the multi-missile multi-target confrontation scenario. Finally, simulation results are designed to check on advantage of intelligent allocation strategy.


Urban agriculture has a long history of evolving functions of the practice, but its place in global and national legal aspects is often still unclear. Both the United Nations and the European Union have defined goals and directions of sustainable development, identifying and including the use of resources, the principles of the circular economy, the equal development of regions and other aspects. Urban agriculture has a potential in the most of them. However, the role and legal framework of urban agriculture is largely based on national or municipal initiatives. In Latvia urban agriculture does not have a legally defined status, it is not defined in strategic development plans, nor in the laws and regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyse the legal aspects of urban agriculture in order to determine its potential institutional framework in Latvia. To achieve the goal, tasks of the research are defined: 1) to identify the main legal aspects affecting urban agriculture in Latvia, 2) to determine the potential institutional framework for urban agriculture in Latvia. The study was conducted using systematic review analysis of laws, development strategies and regulations of the Republic of Latvia. As a result of the research, the main groups of legal aspects, influencing urban agriculture, were identified (agriculture and commerce, food chain, local government and environmental development and protection, waste management) and a possible institutional framework was developed.


This paper provides an introduction to various safety requirements for the design, manufacture and use of industrial machinery systems. To be successful, manufacturers must be aware of the different safety requirements that exist in North America and Europe with respect to electrical, mechanical and electromagnetic compatibility. With this knowledge, manufacturers can reduce the overall time to market and curb potential lawsuits. Users will also benefit from the safer equipment with a reduction of work-related accidents, injuries and down-time.Copyright © 2002 by ASME


The emerging Web of Data is going to become a rich body of semantically interlinked, machine-processable information from a virtually unbound set of providers covering a wide range of topics. However, since the openness of the Web enables autonomous data publication, little is known about who created the data and how. In fact a large number of the data on the Web is derived by replication, query processing, modification, or merging. Data of poor quality may propagate quickly and contaminate the whole Web of Data. Therefore, in this article, we present an approach of using provenance information to assess information quality of data on the Web. Our contributions include a provenance model for Web data, tools assisting publication of provenance for data on the Web, and a generic design methodology that can be used to develop provenancebased measurement methods for specific quality assessment scenarios. We demonstrate the validity of this methodology by developing a timeliness measurement method for data retrieved from the Web. Finally, we complete our approach by proposing solutions that deal with missing provenance information.


Background: Canine oral melanoma is highly aggressive, with an infi ltrative and metastatic behavior. The staging scheme for dogs with oral melanoma is primarily based on size, with stage I = < 2 cm diameter tumor, stage II = 2 cm to < 4 cm diameter tumor, stage III = 4 cm or greater tumor and/or lymph node metastasis and stage IV = distant metastasis. Surgery and radiation therapy are commonly used for local treatment of oral melanoma. Surgery must be aggressive and wide excision, such as partial mandibulectomy or maxillectomy, can be declined by owners. Median survival times for dogs with oral melanoma treated with surgery and chemotherapy is approximately seventeen, fi ve and three months with stage I, II and III disease, respectively. Radiation therapy plays a role in the local treatment of canine melanoma when the tumor is not surgically resectable, the tumor has been removed with incomplete margins and/or the melanoma has metastasized to local lymph nodes without further distant metastasis. Case: A dog with stage III oral melanoma was treated with radiation therapy and chemotherapy. The protocol consisted of three 8 gy radiation fractions (days 0, 7 and 21) delivered by an orthovoltage unit. Energy of 120 kV, 15 mA e 2 mm aluminum fi lter were used. Collimator size was 6 x 8 cm and source to skin distance was 30 cm. Dose rate was 187 cgy/ minute delivered at 1 cm tissue depth, with the animal positioned in left recumbency. Treatment fi eld included visible tumor plus a three cm margin. Lead sheets of 2 mm thickness were used to protect normal tissues around tumor. The dog was anesthetized with propofol (5 mg/kg EV) for correct position every radiation fraction. The chemotherapy consisted of four cycles of carboplatin (300 mg/m2 intravenously) administered every 21 days. The radiation therapy was well tolerated, and the only acute reaction observed in the irradiated fi eld was epilation. The tumor had a partial remission of about 90% of the lesion, which was stable for six months. Discussion: The reported dog had a mandibular melanoma greater than 4 cm diameter with no evidence of regional or distant metastasis, and was diagnosed as having stage III disease. The animal was referred for radiation therapy because of non-acceptance of the owner to carry out the hemimandibulectomy, believing that the animal would have decreased quality of life to have a short survival even with surgery and chemotherapy. Radiation therapy was delivered with palliative intention to reduce tumor size and animal discomfort. With radiation therapy and chemotherapy, survival time was six months, exceeding the median survival for patients with stage III treated with wide surgical excision and chemotherapy (that would be three months), without showing side effects that diminish its quality of life. Systemic chemotherapy was used in the reported case with the purposes of acting as a radiopotentiation agent and delaying development of metastasis. Carboplatin has been used as radiopotentiation agent because it interferes with DNA synthesis. In the reported case, chemotherapy was well tolerated. Common radiation side effects include stomatitis, glossitis, skin epilation, erythema and desquamation. In the reported dog, treatment was very well tolerated, and only skin epilation was observed. Radiation therapy can be considered as an alternative option for oral melanoma when wide


Background and Aim: SARS-CoV-2 is the most dangerous virus in the coronavirus family and is a serious warning to all countries in the world Despite the efforts of researchers, there are widespread ambiguities about it The aim of this study was to compare the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of deceased and recovered patients with COVID-19 Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was performed in patients with COVID-19 in Vasei Hospital in Sabzevar, Iran in March and April 2020 The tools used were the researcher-made questionnaire, interview and medical files Results: From the 178 patients, 52 8% were women and the mean age was 57 1±18 years 85 4% have recovered and 14% have died Shortness of breath (72 5%) was the most common symptom, followed by cough (61 8%) and fever (48 9%) 43 8% of all patients and 71 9% of deceased patients had at least one underlying disease There were significant differences in terms of cough in recovered cases and decreased level of consciousness in deceased patients (P 0 05) Increased white blood cell counts, decreased lymphocytes, and increased neutrophils were significantly higher in deceased patients (P 0 05) Conclusion: Due to the high rate of infection and death in older people with underlying diseases, precautionary measures should be taken in this group It is also helpful to pay attention to patients' symptoms in admission to identify the patient's prognosis An increase in white blood cells and neutrophils and a decrease in lymphocytes indicate that the immune system is involved in these patients More research is needed to identify the pathogenesis and underlying factors in these patients © 2020 Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences All rights reserved


Traffic and safety engineers are faced with the on-going challenge of maintaining acceptable levels of safety on the roads and streets under their jurisdictions. Generally, this challenge is major in scope and critical in terms of the societal costs of injuries and deaths on the highway system. Public agency efforts are often constrained by limited monetary, equipment, and manpower resources. Thus, it becomes important for traffic and safety engineers to maximize the effectiveness with which they analyze and remedy hazardous locations. This paper describes the application of a microcomputer as a tool for the evaluation and selection of countermeasures related to alleviating or minimizing accidents involving utility poles.


Health promotion has two meanings, first as a preventive step and second as an effort to recognize and disseminate health information or health knowledge, with the aim transforming people's behavior living into a healthier behavior, and accordance with true health values. The existing form of communication on health promotion is persuasive communication. Each year, each district or city carries out a health promotion with a theme that fits the needs of each region. One of things that can inhibit the health promotion in a region is, people still believe myths about health, especially which related to supernatural or superstition. The aims of this study is to determine factors that may affects the success of health promotion or health campaign in Wonogiri. The methods of this study is descrptive qualitative with data collection through interview and documentation study. In general, the results of this study is there are three factors that influence behavior changes of society that can encourage the success of health promotion in Wonogiri. These three factors are religious maturity, social economic status (SES) and society characteristics.


The Panofsky-Wenzel theorem connects the transverse deflecting force in an rf structure with the existence of a longitudinal electric field component. In this paper it is shown that a transverse deflecting force is accompanied by an additional longitudinal magnetic field component which leads to an emittance growth in the direction perpendicular to the transverse force. The general description of transverse deflecting waves requires a linear combination of basis modes to cope with the boundary conditions and to support the simultaneous existence of electric and magnetic longitudinal field components. The mode description is preferably performed in the hybrid HM – HE basis to avoid convergence problems, which are fundamental for the transverse TM – TE basis.


The construction of harmonious labor relations in private enterprises is an intrinsic requirement to the harmonious development of society,and social capital is an important resource to promote the construction of harmonious labor relations in private enterprises.Based on the case study of Zhejiang,it has been found that the development of current social capital of private enterprises is not mature.Therefore,in the process of promoting the harmonious development of labor relations,it is necessary to enhance the stock of social capital at home and abroad,to enhance the awareness of both labor and capital,to change the governing model of government and enterprises,to optimize the mechanism of development,to encourage social organizations' participation in governing,and to effectively promote the harmonious development of labor relations in the private enterprises.


The Asian monsoon system can be categorized into three relatively independent sub-systems,including South Asian monsoon,East Asian monsoon,and plateau monsoon.This paper summarizes the importance of the Tibetan plateau on the formation and evolution of Asian monsoon,and discusses the impact of Tibetan plateau on the three sub-systems respectively.The conclusion is shown as follow: the Tibetan plateau impacted the time and situation of the Asian monsoon onset.Only the Tibetan plateau reached an enough height,which can keep the modern circumstance of the East Asian monsoon,and the impact on the winter monsoon was more than the one on the summer monsoon.The South Asian monsoon was strengthened along with the uplift of Tibetan plateau.The plateau monsoon gradually developed in the course of the uplift of Tibetan plateau,which its degree of strength impacted the drought and flood of the plateau monsoon area.


Racial discrimination plays a major role in out-of-school suspensions. Research shows that when students are suspended, they are removed from their learning environment, which can lead to poor academic achievement, lower graduation rates, and higher delinquency. The distribution of racial and ethnic minorities that are being suspended or expelled reveal disparities between the groups. Within the United States public school system, racial disparities have been documented over time to show African-American students are suspended from school at higher rates than any other race (Arcia, 2007; Bulter et al, 2012; Rocque, 2010; Skiba et al, 2002; Townsend, 2000). School systems should be more proactive when dealing with student learning outcomes based on research and become more involved in student retention. Schools administrators should provide students with strong mentoring programs, family involvement activities and activities that build strong relationships with the parents and teachers of the students. The findings from the current study look at the impact out-of-school suspension has on African-American males and the outcomes for academic achievement. Since out-of-school suspension is increasing in many school districts across the United States, education leaders need to look at the effectiveness of suspension.


UC Berkeley Law and Economics Workshop Draft: February 10, 2010 Inequality and Local Government: Evidence from U.S. Cities and School Districts, 1970-2000 Leah Boustan, UCLA and NBER Fernando Ferreira, Wharton and NBER Hernan Winkler, UCLA Eric M. Zolt, UCLA School of Law


Nanomaterials possess many special physical and chemical properties based on small size, surface and interface effects. The use of nanomaterials, as additives, will provide a well bonded interface that will enable polymer based nano composites to exhibit higher performance. Higher performance is very much influenced by various techniques of preparation of nanocomposite. Melt mixing technique involving a co‐rotating intermeshing twin screw extruder for preparation of nanocomposite is an effective processing method and can play an important role in preparation of nanocomposite with uniform mircostructure.Currently, there is considerable interest in ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) because of their superior abrasion resistance, reduced coefficient of friction, enhanced work of fracture and improved moisture barrier. The UHMWPE/HDPE blend has drawn much attention as a promising human joint repair material because such a blend has higher wear resistance than neat UHMWPE.Keeping these advantage...


Objective: To explore the clinical diagnosis and treatment of functional insuloma. Methods: Nine cases with functional insuloma confirmed by the postoperative pathological examination were treated with surgical resection,the data were analyzed retrospectively . Results: Seven cases with solitary mass underwent tumor enucleation,2 cases with multiple masses underwent spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy,the blood suger level were recovered to normal after the operation,2 cases with a little higher blood sugar level were controlled to be normal through additional insulin. Conclusion: The operation exairesis is the first choice for confirmed functional insuloma,which would achieve better therapeutic effects.


ABSTRACT Zoos and aquariums are popular visitor destinations, with around 30 million visits made to them annually throughout the UK and Ireland. The role and mission of modern zoos have evolved, with the conservation of world's remaining biodiversity now being their major purpose. They seek to aid biodiversity through a combination of public education, in situ and ex situ conservation programmes, and applied scientific research. Directly relevant to this paper, they are also institutions that actively recruit, attract and utilise volunteers. However, the impacts of volunteering in zoos and aquariums, on the volunteers themselves, are under-researched. Here we show that, in a survey of more than 500 volunteers at 19 different zoological collections in the UK, zoo volunteers report positive impacts, specifically in relation to increases in their human and social capital. We also found that these benefits were more pronounced in younger volunteers, and with those volunteers who received more initial training. We conclude that while volunteering in UK zoos correlates with significant personal benefits to individuals, zoos could aim higher and should seek to do more to maximise the positive effects of connecting volunteers with the wildlife and nature found in zoo settings, as well as tailoring their volunteer training programmes for different age groups.


The article uses data on the yuan (RMB) which is an international currency and currencies of China's neighboring countries in the two periods of 2005 2009, 2009 2014, attempting to quantify the impact of RMB on the exchange rates of neighboring countries and territories. The results show that, since July 1, 2009, RMB has had significant effects on the currencies of 11 neighboring countries and territories. Meanwhile, the strong currency status of RMB has begun to show up, leading to the formation of tripodal position, together with EURO and USD. The paper proposes some methods by the State Bank of Vietnam in response to the RMB internationalization process


A system of 2 × d hard rectangles on a square lattice is known to show four different phases for d ≥ 14. As the covered area fraction ρ is increased from 0 to 1, the system goes from a low-density disordered phase to an orientationally ordered nematic phase, to a columnar phase with orientational order and also broken translational invariance, to a high-density phase in which orientational order is lost. For large d, the threshold density for the first transition tends to 0, and the critical density for the third transition tends to 1. Interestingly, simulations have shown that the critical density for the second transition tends to a non-trivial finite value , as , and for d = 2. We provide a theoretical explanation of this interesting result. We develop an approximation scheme to calculate the surface tension between two differently ordered columnar phases. The density at which the surface tension vanishes gives an estimate , for , and for d = 2. For all values of d, these estimates are in good agreement with Monte Carlo data.


With abundant groundwater resources and obvious spatial distribution characteristics of confined aquifers, the Yuyao River valley is located in Ningbo, a coastal city in eastern China. It is greatly significant for studying the formation, movement and recharge of groundwater and establishing a sustainable groundwater management system to determine the spatial distribution of confined aquifers. In this paper, the spatial distribution of confined aquifers in the Yuyao River valley are studied by combining the symmetrical quadrupole electrical sounding method with hydrogeological data. Through analysis of the existing hydrogeological data, it is corroborated that there are sand gravel and round gravel confined aquifers in the study area. Then, the results of borehole-side electrical sounding measurements show that significant electrical differences are found among each rock-soil layer in the study area, and the resistivity of sand gravel and round gravel confined aquifers varies from 10 to 20 Ω·m. Finally, 77 symmetrical quadrupole electrical soundings on 5 lines were carried out perpendicular to the Yuyao River valley, and the data of electrical sounding were inverted and analyzed by the analysis software of GeoElectro. After calibration with boreholes, the confined aquifers in the study area were determined to be zonally distributed along the middle line of the valley, with buried depth ranging from -65 to -25 m and width exceeding 1000 m.


Predicted range aggregate (PRA) query is an important researching issue in spatio-temporal databases. Recent studies have developed two major classes of PRA query methods: (1) accurate approaches, which search the common moving objects indexes to obtain an accurate result; and (2) estimate methods, which utilize approximate techniques to estimate the result with an acceptable error. In this paper, we present a novel accurate prediction index technique, named PRA-tree, for range aggregation of moving objects. PRA-tree takes into account both the velocity and space distribution of moving objects. First, the velocity domain is partitioned into different velocity buckets, and moving objects are classified into different velocity buckets by their velocities, thus objects in one bucket have similar velocities. Then we use aTPR-tree, which is based on the basic TPR-tree structure and added with aggregate information in intermediate nodes, to index objects in each bucket. PRA-tree is supplemented by a hash index on IDs of moving objects, and exploits bottom-up deletion algorithm, thus having a good dynamic performance and concurrency. Also new PRA query methods with a more precise branch-andbound searching strategy are developed for PRAtree. Extensive experiments confirm that the proposed methods are efficient and practical.


The paper aims at providing an understanding of sustainable architectural design through an ethnographic study of Masdar City. Following how design travels from the practice of an architect in London (Foster and Partners (F+P)) and is translated, implemented and used by embracing the inherent dynamism and unpredictability embedded in the process. Focus is on the designs and technologies of Masdar City as the main case study; a project that is designed by F+P and developed in the United Arab Emirates. This has been followed through a two-part ethnographic study that was conducted through fieldwork taking place from January to September 2014. The first part was carried out in F+P office in London, UK, where the designs and technologies were initiated. The second part was completed in F+P office in Abu Dhabi, UAE, where the designs and technologies were implemented and put to use


This paper provides a literature review from 2004 to the present, summarizing studies evaluating the use of nanomaterials and microporous materials as sorbents for the separation of metal ions from aqueous solutions. Materials such as microporous titanosilicates, mesoporous silicas, metal oxide nanoparticles, and carbon nanotubes exhibit increased loading and removal kinetics for a variety of metal ions compared to conventional sorbent materials. Also, incorporation of functional groups into these materials has shown promise to provide enhanced selectivity for a variety of metal ions.

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adsorption;
selectivity;
affinity;
separations;
hazardous;
surface area;
pores


EXPLANATION AND DIAGNOSIS: PSEUDOMYXOMA OVARII The tumor shows an appearance which has been termed 'pseudomyxoma ovarii', as a direct analogy with its generalised intra-abdominal counterpart 'pseudomyxoma peritonei'. Alternative names have been suggested for the pseudomyxoma peritonei including 'disseminated peritoneal adenomucinosis' for the histologically 'benign' variant and 'peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis' for the histologically 'malignant' variant (Ronnett et al.). Analogous terms have not been proposed for ovarian lesions of similar histology. Pseudomyxoma ovarii is characterised by the focal disruption of the mucinous epithelial lining of cystic spaces and extrusion of mucinous contents out into the stroma of the neoplasm (Figs. 2 and 3). This may incite a mild inflammatory response, which is usually histiocytic in nature (Fig. 3), but more commonly does not. The resultant pattern of tumor growth is thence enlarging and coalescing pools of mucin tracking through tumor stroma, largely unaccompanied by epithelial cells. Epithelial cells are at the lower end of the proliferative spectrum, frequently appearing benign, as in the present case, or somewhat more commonly atypical, but not frankly malignant. It is thought that progression of this process may be one cause of 'pseudomyxoma peritonei'. In our case there was no evidence of pseudomyxoma peritonei at thorough laparotomy examination, and no other intestinal lesion was identified. The appendix in this case was fibrotic due to past inflammation, but otherwise unremarkable (Fig. 4). Pseudomyxoma peritonei is a poorly understood condition which arises due to spread of the contents of mucinous ovarian cysts or of gastrointestinal neoplasm (with or without some cellular component) into the general peritoneal cavity. Theories of genesis have included gross rupture of the ovarian cysts; but pseudomyxoma is almost invariably present at the time of initial surgery (whether or not an obvious rupture can be demonstrated) and does not follow accidental rupture during removal. The associated ovarian neoplasm is quite often bilateral (reported as twothirds of cases) 2'3 and always seems to show the insidious penetration of its stroma by pools and tracts of mucin, as demonstrated in our case. On the one hand, pseudomyxoma peritonei is the sole neoplastic extra-ovarian manifestation of those 15% or so of proliferating mucinous tumors of intestinal type which present with spread beyond the ovaries. On the other hand, Rutgers and Scully 4 have described extra-ovarian 'implants' as analogous to those seen and with serous tumors in association with 15% of proliferating mucinous tumors of 'endocervicaMike' differentiation. These are two entirely separate and distinct processes, the former progressive, the latter not.


This article considers Walter Sickert's Miss Earhart's Arrival (1932) in relation to contemporary discourses on heavier-than-air flight. I look at the negotiation of the future in paint, and through discourse analysis of its reception I conclude that Arrival questions the capacities of new technologies. By examining a cross-medium practice concerned with transcribing found press images of historic events, I situate this work in my larger argument that Sickert's late work offers us perspectives on painting's mediation of changing interwar notions of historical time, Utopia/dystopia, and the capacity of paint to critically engage technologies of memory and transit, both materially and temporally.


Improved ultraviolet, visible, and infrared spectra and Mossbauer studies clearly indicate that [Ge(acac)3][FeCl4], [Ti(acac)3][FeCl4], [Si(acac)3][FeCl4], and [Zr(bzbz)3][FeCl4](where acac = acetylacetone and bzbzH = dibenzoylmethane) contain the tetrachloroferrate(III) species both in solution and in the solid state. The Mossbauer spectra of [Co(NH3)6][FeCl6] and [Co(en)3][FeCl6] are distinguishable from those of compounds containing the [FeCl4–] anion.


In this paper, the new method to improve speaker recognition efficiency has been proposed. In this new method firstly, silence of the sentences has removed and secondly different train and test data with -5, 0, 5 and 10 dB signal to noise ratio has made artificially. Spectral Subband Centroid (SSC) and Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficient (LPCC) features were extracted and then Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) of speakers has built and identification tests with clean and noisy TIMIT database have been used. In the used TIMIT database, train and test samples of the speech at a ratio of 9 to 1 are used. Implementation results with comparison between different characteristics for speaker recognition, shows that SSC feature coefficients versus the other feature in different SNRs, has the better results. Because of some weakness of LPCC method, the new proposed method, with using SSC feature could cover these weaknesses, therefore combination of SSC and LPCC features will increases the efficiency of the speaker recognition 2.9 percent, and speaker recognition efficiency


An alternative view of neural-network-based phoneme recognition using multiresolution ideas and noncausal context is suggested. Some suggestions are made regarding target and error weight functions to improve performance and simplify training. Based on these observations, a simple network with self recurrent links of different delays is proposed and tested on the task of speaker- independent recognition of unvoiced plosives, (p,t,k), with input feature vectors derived from an auditory model.<<ETX>>


BACKGROUND
In industrialized countries where immunization against Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib) is largely used, the incidence of invasive Hib infections has dramatically decreased. The aim of this study was to analyse the impact of immunization against Hib on the incidence of invasive Hib infections in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais area in France.

PATIENTS AND METHODS
This retrospective multicenter study enrolled 11 of the 18 hospitals in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais area, comparing two periods: 1991-1993 (before immunization), and 1994-1996 (during immunization). All children less than 60 months of age and having an invasive Hib infection were included. The Pasteur-Mérieux Company was asked to provide the number of vaccines sold in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais area during the study period.

RESULTS
The number of vaccines sold in 1992 was 56,208; this reached 189,173 in 1996, corresponding to an immunization ratio higher than 90%. One hundred and two children representing 155 invasive Hib infections were studied. The annual incidence was 42 during the first period (meningitis: 18.6; septicemia: 14.6; epiglottitis: 5.6), and nine (meningitis: 5; septicemia: 2.6; epiglottitis: 0.3) during the second period, that is a 78% decrease.

CONCLUSION
These results confirm previous data in the literature by demonstrating that immunization in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais area has dramatically decreased the incidence of invasive Hib infections.


We report on the practical application of a black-box testing methodology for the validation of the knowledge encoded in WordNet, SUMO and their mapping by using automated theorem provers. Our proposal is based on the part-whole information provided by WordNet, out of which we automatically create a large set of tests. Our experimental results confirm that the proposed system enables the validation of some pieces of information and also the detection of missing information or inconsistencies among these resources.


Abstract 1134 Poster Board I-156 The optimal primary endpoint for acute GVHD treatment trials has not been established. In a retrospective analysis, we examined the response of 864 patients who received prednisone 60 mg/m 2 for 14 days, followed by an 8 week taper, as initial therapy for acute GVHD from 1990-2007 at a single institution. Complete response (CR), partial response (PR), very good partial response (VGPR), and no response (NR) were scored at day 14, day 28 and day 56 after initiation of steroids. To determine the best endpoint, an index of concordance, the c-statistic (C), was performed to estimate the probability that patients with the better GVHD response will have lower transplant related mortality (TRM) than patients with a worse response. Median patient age was 32 (range, 0.2-69) years; 35% were These data suggest that responses at day 28 or 56 are equally effective endpoints for acute GVHD trials. Day 14 responses cannot as accurately predict TRM. As patients with NR require further therapy in a timely manner, early progression or response by day 28 is the best endpoint to assess efficacy of initial therapy for acute GVHD. Prospective trials are still required to determine the best therapy for different subgroups of patients with acute GVHD, especially those identified to have predictably poor responses and high TRM. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Two metal–organic framework compounds composed of cerium ions coordinated with tetra(4-carboxyphenyl) porphyrin H2TCPP (3) and its cobalt congener CoTCPP (4), namely H2TCPP/Ce (1) and CoTCPP/Ce (2) were synthesized. Their self-assembly behaviors were systematically investigated using electronic absorption spectra, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). The formation of H2TCPP/Ce (1) nanoparticles with an average diameter of 500 nm depended mainly on the Ce–O coordination bond between the additive cerium ion and the oxygen atom of the carboxy group of the porphyrin 3 molecule. However, additionally formed Co–C coordination bonds between the central cobalt ion of 4 to the carbon atom of the adjacent porphyrinato 4 ring, in combination with Ce–O coordination bond between the additive cerium ion and the oxygen atom of the carboxy group of porphyrinato 4 molecules, induced the formation of CoTCPP/Ce (2) nanoparticles with apparently smaller average diameters (380 nm). After calcining the corresponding H2TCPP/Ce (1) and CoTCPP/Ce (2) metal–organic frameworks, two types of morphology-preserved CeO2 were obtained, both of which showed excellent catalytic properties towards the oxidation of CO to CO2.


Gliadin proteins of twenty five durum wheat varieties of diverse origins have been extracted with 70% ethanol and analysed by both acetic acid polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (AA-PAGE) and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) techniques. Based upon the established unbroken relationship between electrophoretic γ-gliadin bands 45 or 42 with gluten strength or weakness, respectively, the studied varieties have been classified into high (type-45) and low (type-42) quality varieties. Four chromatographic peaks designated P1, P2, P3 and P4, eluted at retention times of 38, 39, 43 and 49 min, respectively, could be used to classify durum varieties into two groups in a way analogous to that in which electrophoresis may be used. This classification depends on the presence or absence of RP-HPLC peaks, namely P3 that corresponds to PAGE 42-γ gliadin band, and peaks P1, P2 and P4 that correspond to 45-γ gliadin band. However, only the relative areas of peaks P1 and P3 were highly correlated with durum quality (r = 0.68 *** and -0.89 *** , respectively), suggesting that they correspond to PAGE γ-gliadin bands 45 and 42, respectively. Therefore, and because of its convenience and rapidity, RP-HPLC can be recommended as an analytical procedure alternative to electrophoresis for predicting quality and screening for durum varieties with unacceptably weak gluten characteristics when large numbers of samples must be analysed, as in early generations of wheat breeding programs.


Wheat new germpasm WT212 with stripe rust resistance was studies by cytogenetics and RAPD techniques. The cytogenetic study result showed that the source of stripe rust resistance of WT212 is one new source from secale chromosome, different from "luolei" source which is base on 1BL/1RS translocation line. And preliminary result concluded that WT212 may be a new wheat-secale translocation line related to one pair of chromosomes. 2 additional DNA fragments were amplified repeatedly and steadily in resistant parent and resistance gene pool by RAPD technique,that is the fragments amplified respectively by the primer S369 and S1397. The additional DNA fragment amplified by the primer S369 was about 770 bp,and the fragment by S1397 was about 1 400 bp. The genetic linkage of the additional DNA fragment by the primer S369 with WT212 was tested on a segregating F2 population derived from a cross between the gene donor parent WT212 and susceptible variety Huixianhong. The result showed that the additional DNA fragment was closely linked to the target gene in WT212.


The workshop on key success factors for horticultural supply chains and the supply chain of the future aimed at synthesising organisational, technological and industry views, adopting the format of a discussion session. After short presentations by four invited speakers each with a different professional background, the audience was actively invited to enter into discussion with the speakers by providing views and experiences from their own professional activities. The main finding about the key factors affecting success of horticultural supply chains was that future competitiveness will rely on a collaboration-based industry striving to achieve scale, backed up by innovation. This indicates the need for an improved "supply chain" knowledge about industry needs, as well as science and technology solutions, between producers, marketers and researchers. The supply chain of the future will be people-centred, more consumer-oriented and quality-driven, more technology-intensive and focusing either on local or export markets, each of which poses their own particular challenges. Evaluation of the workshop by participants revealed high levels of satisfaction regarding format and outcome, suggesting that such discussion sessions may be valuable interaction platforms for future conferences.


reviewer's view, that x and y satisfy a given sentential function is a quinary relation among x, y, a certain language, and two certain variables, but that x and y satisfy a given condition is merely a binary relation between x and y.) The author's account of the nature of definitions (in which he follows Lesniewski) requires clarification. Apparently he rejects the view that definitions are conventions of abbreviation for expository convenience in the presentation of a formal system and thus extraneous to the system. He agrees that definitions are conventions, but conventions ascribing meaning to expressions. The reference to meaning would make definitions semantical rather than syntactical in character, but would require still that definitions be expressed in a meta-language. Actually, Tarski expresses definitions in the object language (cf. page 150). Perhaps the intention is something like the following (which would seem to be not untenable): A definition is a primitive formula of the same character in general as an axiom, but associated with a new notation not previously occurring, and obeying certain rules of definition which so restrict its form as to insure the possibility of a proof of consistency with the axioms and previous definitions by a standard method. In §40, it might have been desirable to supplement the statement on page 126 by saying that a model of a formalized deductive theory must verify the rules of inference as well as the axioms. ALONZO CHURCH


The enterotoxin E. coli STa induced fluid secretion in the rat jejunum, ileum and proximal colon in vivo that was greatly inhibited by the co‐presence of luminal capsaicin, which is a specific neural toxin of afferent C fibres. The same dose of capsaicin had no effect on the fluid secretion activated by carbachol in the jejunum, ileum and proximal colon. Afferent C fibres appear to be involved in the activation by STa of fluid secretion in the rat intestine in vivo.


Over recent years, drone identification and detection has become an increasing concern for public safety and security. In this paper, we explore the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) applied to the continuous and discrete wavelet transform (CWT/DWT) scalogram of reflected radar signals from drones. In particular, we use the Martin-Mulgrew model to simulate the radar signals reflected off of five different types of drones from an X-band and W-band radar. The drones have different blade lengths and blade rotation rates, and these parameters will affect their respective scalograms, allowing for the use of CNNs in this classification problem. Results with real radar data sets collected in the laboratory are also presented.


by John Simons Although chapbooks were printed and sold in enormous quanttiies in Ireland in the nineteenth century, few examples survive. As a consequence, perhaps, they have attracted little scholarly attention.1 These notes describe a group of twenty-six Irish chapbooks in the Huntington Library, originally produced by two provincial printers: Walter Kelly, who flourished in Waterford between 1816 and the mid-1830s; and G. M. Goggin, who worked in Limerick at about the same time.2 The Irish chapbook industry, like its counterparts in England and Scotland, depended chiefly on a large rural audience in search of inexpensive books. These readers could obtain chapbooks from itinerant peddlers, market stalls, and shops, where a few cheap books were stocked alongside other merchandise. Walter Kelly proudly advertised that he was a supplier to country dealers, and chapbooks were plainly a common feature of the Irish rural scene. Describing the sale of chapbooks in the early nineteenth century, a writer to The Irish Book Lover remarked that "in every country town [chapbooks] were exposed on tables in the streets for sale, and the markets resembled a Leipsic [sic] fair."3 In 1843 Thackeray recorded that in Galway a man who sold hunting whips "has a few books on his counter," and he wrote that in Ennis could be found "a decent little library, where I bought for eighteenpence, six volumes of works strictly Irish, that will serve for a half-hour's gossip on the next rainy day."4 The books he describes-and those in the Huntington Library-are just such as would have been sold at fairs and through local general stores for a few pence to poor but literate consumers. The chapbooks at the Huntington, each of them collections of a handful of popular songs, follow a uniform pattern. Each contains a woodcut on the title page; very often a vignette, usually a naturalistic design, appears on page 8. Like most chapbook printers, Kelly apparently relied on a relatively small stock of woodcuts that he used in a number of different texts. In this collection, three are used repeatedly: a woman in eighteenth-century dress at a mirror ("mirror-type"); a man walking alone beside a lake ("solitary-type"); and three men (two seated, one standing) at a table, apparently debating ("debate-type"). Nonetheless, Kelly attempted to match his limited stock to the subject matter of the songs in the chapbooks. The chapbooks containing The Exiled Irishman's 359


Maximizing the operating energy efficiency of any wireless communication link requires a global optimization not only across the entire system block diagram, but also including the signal modulation and aspects of the link operating protocol. Achieving this global optimization is first examined for the transmitter, receiver, and baseband circuitry. Then the important aspects of signal modulation necessary to access these circuit optimizations, with examples from existing systems along with proposed signals for "5G" including Internet of Things (IoT) and massive MIMO, are presented. This is followed by the correspondingly important protocol aspects needed for link efficiency. Operating temperature consequences of signal modulation selection, and its corresponding PA efficiency ceiling, are explored for the envisioned massive-MIMO antenna arrays. A realization of this global energy efficiency optimization in actual circuitry with measurements completes this paper.


Users' social connections have recently shown significant benefits to session-based recommendations, and graph neural networks have demonstrated great success in learning the pattern of information flow among users. However, the current paradigm presumes a given social network, which is not necessarily consistent with the fast-evolving shared interests and is expensive to collect. We propose a novel idea to learn the graph structure among users and make recommendations collectively in a coupled framework. This idea raises two challenges, i.e., scalability and effectiveness. We introduce a novel graph-structure learning framework for session-based recommendations (GSL4Rec) for solving both challenges simultaneously. Our framework has a two-stage strategy, i.e., the coarse neighbor screening and the self-adaptive graph structure learning, to enable the exploration of potential links among all users while maintaining a tractable amount of computation for scalability. We also propose a phased heuristic learning strategy to sequentially and synergistically train the graph learning part and recommendation part of GSL4Rec, thus improving the effectiveness by making the model easier to achieve good local optima. Experiments on five public datasets demonstrate that our proposed model significantly outperforms strong baselines, including state-of-the-art social network-based methods.


Despite being so similar from a biomechanical perspective, the left and the right arms develop with different dexterity and important functional differences. This asymmetry in motor performance, most commonly known as handedness, has been extensively investigated in numerous research. However, whether such a dominance exists in the proprioceptive system remains unclear. To this end, manual asymmetries in proprioceptive sensitivity were examined in fourteen neurologically healthy right-handed individuals, with a unimanual and bimanual robot-aided wrist joint position matching (JPM) task, whereby they are required to replicate a reference wrist angle in the absence of vision. The results did not provide any evidence of manual asymmetries in proprioceptive acuity but some indication of asymmetry was singled out in motor execution, with smoother movement trajectories when the task was performed by the non dominant hand. In contrast, experimental conditions (unimanual vs. bimanual) appeared to influence proprioceptive acuity as well as movement kinematics: in the unimanual condition proprioceptive acuity was higher and more consistent and, despite the fact that movements were found to be faster in the unimanual task, they resulted smoother if performed with two hands at the same time. In sum, our results indicated that while there was a decrement in performance during bimanual tasks, there was no evidence of proprioceptive hand dominance".


A critical element in the sustainability of any public policy is the fair treatment of similar individuals. This paper introduces a new dimension of merit to evaluate public school assignment mechanisms based on this notion of equity. I show that there exists no assignment mechanism that is both constrained-efficient and fair. The findings also reveal that all of the prominent assignment mechanisms discussed in the literature fail to satisfy this fairness criterion.


A theoretical framework is provided for determining the self‐thermophoretic velocity of a light irradiated spheroidal Janus nanoparticle consisting of symmetric dielectric and perfectly conducting semi‐spheroids. The analysis is based on solving the linearized Joule heating problem due to uniform laser irradiance and on explicitly determining the temperature fields inside and outside the particle. We employ the thermoelectric (Peltier‐ Seebeck) methodology to find the surface self ‐ induced temperature gradient and the related slip velocity which determines the autonomous phoretic (self ‐ propulsion) mobility of the Janus particle. Simplified explicit expressions for the self ‐ thermophoretic velocities of spheroidal (prolate and oblate) Janus particles in terms of their aspect ratios are found and few practical limiting cases (i.e., sphere, disk and needle) are also discussed.


In this paper we address the common problem of the detection and identification of compact sources, such as stars or far galaxies, in Astronomical images. The common approach, that consist in applying a matched filter to the data in order to remove noise and to search for intensity peaks above a certain detection threshold, does not work well when the sources to be detected appear in large number over small regions of the sky due to the effect of source overlapping and interferences among the filtered profiles of the sources. A new class of filter that balances noise removal with signal spatial concentration is introduced, then it is applied to simulated astronomical images of the sky at 857 GHz. We show that with the new filter it is possible to improve the ratio between true detections and false alarms with respect to the matched filter. For low detection thresholds, the improvement is ∼ 40%.


A frequently used procedure to examine the relationship between categorical and dimensional descriptions of emotions is to ask subjects to place verbal expressions representing emotions in a continuous multidimensional emotional space. This work chooses a different approach. It aims at creating a system predicting the values of Activation and Valence (AV) directly from the sound of emotional speech utterances without the use of its semantic content or any other additional information. The system uses X-vectors to represent sound characteristics of the utterance and Support Vector Regressor for the estimation the AV values. The system is trained on a pool of three publicly available databases with dimensional annotation of emotions. The quality of regression is evaluated on the test sets of the same databases. Mapping of categorical emotions to the dimensional space is tested on another pool of eight categorically annotated databases. The aim of the work was to test whether in each unseen database the predicted values of Valence and Activation will place emotion-tagged utterances in the AV space in accordance with expectations based on Russell's circumplex model of affective space. Due to the great variability of speech data, clusters of emotions create overlapping clouds. Their average location can be represented by centroids. A hypothesis on the position of these centroids is formulated and evaluated. The system's ability to separate the emotions is evaluated by measuring the distance of the centroids. It can be concluded that the system works as expected and the positions of the clusters follow the hypothesized rules. Although the variance in individual measurements is still very high and the overlap of emotion clusters is large, it can be stated that the AV coordinates predicted by the system lead to an observable separation of the emotions in accordance with the hypothesis. Knowledge from training databases can therefore be used to predict AV coordinates of unseen data of various origins. This could be used to detect high levels of stress or depression. With the appearance of more dimensionally annotated training data, the systems predicting emotional dimensions from speech sound will become more robust and usable in practical applications in call-centers, avatars, robots, information-providing systems, security applications, and the like.


This paper, using T-GARCH models, finds that the United States has been the major source of price and volatility spillovers to stock markets in the Asian region during three different periods in the last decade: the pre-Long Term Capital Management crisis period the tech bubble period, and the stock market correction period. Hong Kong SAR, Japan, and Singapore also were important spillover sources within the Asian region and affected United States to a lesser degree during the stock market correction period. There is also evidence of structural breaks in the stock price and volatility dynamics induced during the tech bubble period.


The level of performance can be assessed through the level of attendance of employees of a company, attendance is one of the parameters in evaluating employee performance. Several companies or government agencies will always maximize facilities in supporting their work activities, including the employee attendance system. Unfortunately, not all agencies or companies can implement the system properly. Some of them still use the traditional way of recording attendance. This of course can cause some problems both in terms of users or data management, especially if the number of users who make attendance is very large. In addition to data management problems, other problems such as an authentication system that is less secure and prone to fraud can occur. The purpose of this study is to design and implement an android application to make it easier for users to carry out the presence process that is installed on registered devices with the support of scanning a QR code that is generated randomly for each session with biometric authentication support to ensure only verified users run the application. Based on the statement, the application of application-based presence can speed up users in carrying out the presence process with just a few steps, and increase security and user validation.


This report briefly summarizes current information from field and laboratory studies on temperature selection by fishes, with a tabulation of final temperature preferenda and upper and lower avoidance temperatures. Key words: temperature, selection, preferendum, avoidance, preference, behavior, orientation


Bullwhip effect is one of enterprises' concerned problems in supply chain management.This paper deeply analyzed causes from its existence and impacts:one is the supply chain members' rational behavior impelled by self-interest;the other is the system structure and organization management of supply chain.And then,some effective strategies of mitigating bullwhip effect are proposed.


The viscosities of the ternary mixture [2-propanol + ethyl acetate + n-hexane] and its binary constituents; [2-propanol + ethyl acetate], [2-propanol + n-hexane] and [ethyl acetate + n-hexane] were measured over the whole concentration range at three temperatures 298.15, 308.15 and 313.15 K. The M 4 cubic equation of state due to Mohsen-Nia et al. (M. Mohsen-Nia, H. Modarress, G.A. Mansoori. Fluid Phase Equilibria, 206, 27 (2003)) was used along with the modified Eyring kinematic viscosity model to correlate the measured viscosity data and the interaction parameters for the binary mixtures are reported. The binary interaction parameters were successfully used for viscosity calculation of the ternary mixture.


by focusing on the author's relentless experimentation with form, seeing in his work a radical discontinuity, a constant 'reconceptualization of his dramatic project', rather than a continuous process of trying out the efficacy of differing types of realism, as some commentators have posited. For the main part of her study, Mattson charts Kroetz's engagement with finding an appropriate form for his ideas, 'his construction of a political aesthetic', against the playwright's political development. His involvement with the West German Communist Party (KPD) in the 1970s resulted in a movement away from the often shocking ultra realism of his early one act plays such as Stallerhof and Heimarbeit towards a search for more typical situations that encapsulated the Duichschnittsmentalitat (norms of thinking behaviour) of modern working people. Resignation from the Party in 1980 has resulted in Kroetz being less interested in typicality and more concerned with individual consciousness; although as Mattson argues this has not been a retreat into the self as after Botho Strauss's disillusionment with political activity, but has involved new ways of looking at the political subject. These have included the 'dramatic fragment', Bauem steiben, that, in the manner of an expressionist station drama, takes us on a journey through the destruction of one peasant family's life through urbanization, and the tantalizing Zeitweh that appears to be an exercise in the author's selfpresentation.


Operating since 2008, HAGAR is the highest altitude gamma-ray experiment using the Cherenkov sampling technique. It is installed in the Himalayas, Nothern India, and constitutes the first phase of the Himalayan Gamma-Ray Observatory (HIGRO). HAGAR is oberving several Galactic and extragalactic sources, and results from Markarian 421 during the flare of February 2010 has been published. Results from Crab nebula are being finalised and upper limits on emission from pulsars have been presented. The second phase of HIGRO is the installation of the 21 m-diameter imaging telescope MACE in the near future, that may be followed by at least one more similar telescope. The Indian gamma-ray collaboration is also part of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project, and is involved in site surveys in the Ladakh region (Northern India) for a possible location of CTA-North. Also, it is planned to participate in Monte Carlo simulations and calibration setup for CTA.


In this paper, the author develops the notion of health logic, which prescribes 'judgemental' and 'cause–effect' logic to the way that smoking, eating, drinking alcohol and exercise as health-related behaviours are approached within the field of health promotion. The problem, which is raised through the concept of health logic, is concerned with the utilization of health-enhancing or damaging classifications for 'everyday' issues (e.g. spending time with peers, eating out) relevant to smoking, eating, drinking alcohol and exercise. While such classifications can be rationalized under the field of health promotion, which aims at the promotion of healthy choices, they can be relatively misguiding. The emphasis on just a binary concept of health promotion conceals the understanding of these behaviours in people's everyday lives. The health logic critique is established first through a discussion of three main health promotion concepts: 'lifestyle', 'choice' and 'empowerment'. Second, the health logic is highlighted through the empirical tendency within the field of health promotion that favours separating aspects of the everyday life of individuals into positive and negative influences. This paper suggests a different viewpoint of health-related behaviours by centring on people's everyday lives and avoiding the binary divisions created by the health logic, such as healthy/unhealthy, or the role of an enhancing or obstructing social context. Such a strongly value-laden approach seems unlikely to tell us very much about how people make sense of health-related behaviours within the context of their everyday lives.


In this paper we consider production and service systems that can be modeled as single or multiple stage queueing networks. We provide a formal definition of strong asymptotic optimality in the context of design and control of such queueing systems. We describe a simple approach to obtain strongly asymptotically optimal design and control policies for these systems. We illustrate our approach through some examples. In particular we obtain a strongly asymptotically optimal workload allocation for a multiple center service system modeled by the open Jackson network. The objective here is to minimize the expected total holding cost. A simple counter example shows that the much celebrated balanced workload allocation is not even asymptotically optimal for minimizing the expected number of jobs in the system. We show that an index policy is strongly asymptotically optimal for the scheduling control problem in a single stage (G/GI/1) service system. We also obtain a strongly asymptotically optimal allocation of classes of customers to a multiple center service system. This allocation agrees with the traditional wisdom of forming service stations to process similar tasks that reduce fluctuations in processing times. Suggestions for further work on this topic are summarized as well.


Extensive integration of power electronics apparatuses complicates the modern power grid and consequently necessitates time-domain transients study for its planning and operation. In this work, a heterogeneous computing architecture utilizing the CPU and graphics processing unit (GPU) is proposed for the efficient study of interactions between a power grid network and massive utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESSs). The device-level electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation aiming at enhanced fidelity of the BESS is conducted simultaneously with electro-mechanical transient stability (TS) simulation which suffices system-level dynamic security assessment. Since the reservation of a large amount of energy storage units is computationally intensive for the CPU, the concurrent multi-streaming, multi-threading capability of GPU is exploited to achieve asynchronous sequential-parallel processing, so that the proposed EMT-TS co-simulation can flexibly harness all available computing resources. The multi-rate scheme is adopted for further computational burden alleviation in addition to achieving timely information exchange. It shows that the heterogeneous computation of an IEEE 118-bus system integrated with a substantial number of distributed batteries becomes feasible following the achievement of a remarkable speedup of over 200, and the device- as well as system-level accuracy are validated by MATLAB/Simulink and DSAToolsTM/TSAT simulation, respectively.


In this article we explore the challenges faced by teacher educators who struggle with the emotional and intellectual distance between their work in the university setting and the K-12 classroom. We consider the benefits of having teacher educators find ways to teach children and youth in K-12 contexts as part of their role as teacher educators--how living and working across both contexts can help revitalize a teacher educator's identity as well as improve the quality of his or her practice with preservice teachers. Finally, we suggest several models that provide teacher educators with the opportunity to work in both contexts.


A method for determining the relative amount of alcohol side reaction which occurs in reactions of epoxy compounds with active hydrogen compounds has been investigated. It involves determining the ratio of rates of the successive reaction, epoxide-active hydrogen compound and epoxide-generated secondary alcohol, in the reaction of epoxide and active hydrogen compound at respectively a 2:1 mole ratio. Rate ratios are reported for the bulk reaction of bisphenol-A and the diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A under different reaction conditions. The data correlated with the properties of high molecular weight polymers. Amines with β-hydroxyl groups were very selective catalysts.


Two species of Sargassum (Fucales, Phaeophyceae), S. peronii (Mertens) C. Agardh (sub genus Phyllotrichia) and S. polyporum Montagne (subgenus Sargassum) were collected and de scribed from Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea. The latter species was reported for the first time.


What is the future of the competition to control the market in commercial aircraft between Boeing and the European Airbus? Does Japan have a role to play in the new generation of aircraft? While Boeing dominated commercial aircraft sales through the 1980s, in the 1990s it has fallen behind Airbus. As Tanaka Sakai shows, the stakes for the U.S., Europe and Japan are high, and the outcomes may deeply affect the ability of Japan and Asia to emerge as a major industrial powerhouse in the decades ahead. Tanaka Sakai, an investigative reporter, publishes the Japanese language weblog http://www.tanakanews.com. His report on Boeing and Japan appeared in the December 31, 2003 issue of Tanakanews. Developments since the publication of this article suggest that Boeing, and the Boeing-Japanese connection are central to a new lease on life for the beleagured company and industry. As the April 18 Asahi Shimbun reported,, Boeing announced the sale of 50 7E7s to Japan's ANA, valuing the sale at $6 billion and giving the airline confidence in moving the plane into production. Of particular interest is the fine print: Three Japanese enterprises, Mitsubishi, Kawasaki and Fuji Heavy Industries will provide 35% of the production of the new plane, centered on the construction of the wings, as well as providing a heavy share of the financing. Is this the way forward for Japan's lagging aircraft industry, or does it seal anew Japanese dependence on American aircraft production, with the U.S. maintaining monopoly control over the engine production? Tanaka suggests another possible scenario: Japanese-Chinese-Korean cooperation at the center of a future Asian regional design. But such a possibility will require major developments within Asian regionalism.


A novel zero current switching (ZCS) dual full bridge do-dc converter and power conditioning system (PCS) for fuel cell system adopts the proposed do-dc converter are presented. An experimental implementation shows the efficiency of the proposed converter higher than 98% at maximum. Prototypes of PCS also obtained high conversion efficiency at low voltage and high current do input operation of fuel cell. キ ー ワー ド: DC-DCコ ンバ ー タ, 燃 料電池, パ ワー コンデ ィシ ョナ


This paper analyzes the factors affecting the delay time of the stab initiated delay primer,the measure for improving the delay time precision is proposed.The attenuation device is designed on the basis of analyzing the product structure and the delay composition.The performance tests demonstrate that the proper delay composition,the proper fire transfer channel and fire transfer area are the key technology for developing the precision of delay time.


Prolonged sitting impairs leg endothelial function and this impairment is thought to be mediated by a sustained reduction in blood flow-induced shear stress. However, whether nutritional strategies can be used to prevent sitting-induced leg endothelial dysfunction remains largely unknown. Herein, we tested the hypothesis that eight weeks of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation, known to exert cardiovascular protection, would prevent endothelial dysfunction associated with sitting. Nineteen healthy men were randomly assigned to a placebo group (n = 9) or EPA+DHA group (n = 10) in a double-blind fashion. The EPA+DHA group was administered EPA-rich fish oil, containing 600 mg EPA and 260 mg DHA per day for 8 weeks. The placebo group received matching capsules for the same duration of time. Popliteal artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) was measured at baseline (prior to the 8-week intervention) and before and after a 3-hour sitting period (after 8-week intervention). Throughout the course of the sitting period, blood pressure, popliteal artery diameter and blood velocity were measured every hour. Over the course of sitting period, popliteal artery blood flow and shear rate were markedly and similarly reduced in both groups (P < 0.05). However, three hours of sitting impaired popliteal artery FMD to the same extent in both groups (P < 0.05). Novelty: • Daily EPA and DHA supplementation is not effective at preventing the detrimental effects of prolonged sitting on leg endothelial function • Low total dose of EPA and DHA for young healthy subjects may cause the results.


Solvents are the mainstay of many chemical reactions and formulations in the chemical industry. In recent years, concern regarding the potential long-term health and environmental risks of many existing solvents has vastly increased, leading to stricter legislation and pressure to discontinue their use. As such, there has been more focus on alternatives, from solvent selection guides informing users about solvent safety rankings, to research into new and existing compounds, usually from bio-available sources, which show potential as replacements.

In this thesis, the development of new bio-based solvents from a pilot-scale production platform molecule is explored. The synthesis and purification of lactones derived from levoglucosenone were studied extensively. Literature syntheses were critiqued and improved upon to scale-up the production of these compounds, previously disregarded as potential solvents. Also, para-cymene was investigated as an alternative solvent for direct amidation, with promising results, and thoroughly compared with its analogue, petrochemically derived toluene. In both approaches, computational modelling was employed to guide the decision-making process, and the limitations of the techniques used as predictive tools were assessed.

para-Cymene was found to be a suitable alternative to toluene for most crystalline amides, with the yield appreciably advantaged by the higher reflux temperature. The Yalkowsky approximation was shown to compare well with experimental solubilities of the amides and a flow system was put into practice. HSP of 5-membered ring lactones were predicted using HSPiP showing promise for some as NMP replacements. Furthermore, gamma-hydroxymethyl-alpha,beta-butyrolactone was made with 98% selectivity in a one-step method using an L-lysine catalyst and subsequently scaled-up to 175 g using a simplified method, then O-methylated. In initial tests, both lactones displayed good resistance to organic bases, faring better than Cyrene.


The usage of plastic materials in our daily life is increasing day by day. These plastic materials are somehow beneficial for us, but the disposal of waste plastic materials has become a serious problem. The use of plastic not only enhances road construction but also helps extend the life of roads and improves the environment. Waste plastics use in roads increases durability and also reduces water retention. This research reviews the use of waste plastics in asphalt pavement. In this study, the properties such as Marshall stability, flow, resilient modulus, fatigue, etc., are studied to boost the usage of waste plastic in asphalt pavements. It is concluded that with the use of waste plastic in asphalt pavement, the quality of roads will be enhanced, and it will also be very beneficial for our environment. The other major advantage is that it will be very cost-effective for underdeveloped countries.


A scheme for the coordinated control of two manipulators carrying a common rigid object using discrete position feedback has been developed and experimentally tested using two PUMA robot arms and a hierarchical multiprocessor architecture. A leader-follower coordination scheme was adopted because of its computational efficiency. The computation of desired follower arm joint positions consumes one sampling interval. Another sampling interval is lost due to the fact that a desired follower arm position has to be computed before it can be assumed. The author emphasizes the design of a class of prediction equations to compensate for these timing delays. These equations are developed using only limited knowledge about the path of the leader arm end-effector. All other trajectory parameters are estimated using only this limited knowledge and current and past leader arm positions.<<ETX>>


Two-dimensional (2D) organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites is promising for next-generation optoelectronic materials due to their enhanced stability, controllable quantum well thickness and excellent photoelectric properties. The growth of large-lateral size, small thickness and high-quality single crystal films are necessary for the practical application of devices. Herein, we report a gas-liquid interface crystalline route to grow BA2PbBr4 (BA =CH3CH2CH2CH2NH3+) single crystal films and achieve wafer size (38 cm2) and the thinness as little as 78 nm (aspect ratio>105). Moreover, an ultraviolet-photodetector of the single crystal thin film presents a dark current of ~10-14 A, detectivity of ~1012 Jones and fast response time (τrise = 9.7 ms and τdecay = 8.8 ms). Our work provides a way to grow large-size perovskite single crystal films with small thickness, which is significant for the development of perovskite-type high-performance optoelectronic devices.


: Objective To investigate the theraprentic effect of the lumber disc hernias by automatic traction and manipulation bed. Methods 269 patients, as the experimentals were treat with the automatic traction and manipulation bed.While 254 patients, as controls, were treated with traction only. Results There were better that the experimentals comparing with controls,R=5.4042,the difference was very significant(P 0.01). Theated days-the experimentals were 24± 11.65, the contrals were 36± 15.12, U=6.615 the difference was very significant(P 0.01). Conclusion It is better therapy treating lumber disc hernias by the automatic traction and manipulation bed. The treatment time is shortand treatmg effect is good.


The invention discloses a high-pressure visible device capable of releasing pressure with the constant velocity. The device comprises a kettle body, wherein a visible window is formed in the side wall of the kettle body; an electromagnetic stirrer is arranged at the bottom of the kettle body; a gas outlet guide tube, a gas inlet guide tube and a temperature control pipeline are arranged on the top of the kettle body; a gas inlet of the gas outlet guide tube is formed in the kettle body; a gas outlet is connected with a gas inlet of a first tee joint; a gas outlet of the first tee joint is connected with a security valve; another gas outlet of the first tee joint is connected with a gas inlet of a second tee joint through a depressurization valve; a gas outlet of the second tee joint is connected with a first pressure gauge; another gas outlet of the second tee joint is connected with a gas outlet connector; a gas outlet of the gas inlet guide tube is formed in the kettle body; one gas inlet of the gas inlet guide tube is connected with a gas outlet of a third tee joint; another gas outlet of the third tee joint is connected with a second pressure gauge; a gas inlet of the third tee joint is connected with a gas inlet connector; a temperature sensor inside the temperature control pipeline stretches into the kettle body and is connected with a temperature control box through a thermometer; the temperature control box is used for controlling a heating rod inside the kettle body to heat the interior of the kettle body.


A Bayesian reference analysis of a typical scenario of high energy physics has recently been performed [Phys. Rev. D 82, 034002 (2010)]. The reference prior with partial information (and hence also the posterior) were found to depend on the sequence of subsets of the parameter space used for a normalization process. A particular choice of the subsets leading to a proper posterior was advocated. Here it is shown that this choice differs from the natural sequence of subsets in the ``original parametrization'' of the problem, which has been generally recommended elsewhere. Although this questions the manner in which the commented result was obtained, the result itself is corroborated because the present derivation based on a different argument yields a reference prior of the same functional form.


PREVIOUS efforts in this laboratory have been directed toward systematic mappings of oxidative enzyme activity in the brain. A comparison of the distribution patterns of enzymes involved in glycolysis, citric acid cycle, and hexose-monophosphate shunt revealed almost monotonous similarity both among enzymes and among species; differences were subtle and observed only upon careful scrutiny (FRIEDE, FLEMING and KNOLLER, 1963). In contrast, the present article reports on an almost bewildering species variability in the distribution of acetylcholinesterase (AChE)? and non-specific cholinesterase (ChE)? in the cerebellum. The discussion of these observations lead to somc basic conclusions regarding central synaptic organization. Also, these findings demonstrate the fundamental importance of complete systematic mappings for a just study of the complex chemical architecture of the brain. MATERIAL AND METHODS The following species were used in this study: human, squirrel monkey, cat, cow, rabbit, rat, squirrel, hamster, mouse, pigeon, canary, and parakeet. At least four brains of each species were studied with the exception of monkey and canary, which two brains were available for each. The human material was from normal brains obtained between 5 and 10 hr after death. The animals were either anaesthesized with sodium pentobarbital, or decapitated, and the brains immediately removed. The procedure was as follows: 1) Blocks 2-3 mm thick were fixed in 10% neutral formalin at 4" for 3-4 hr. 2) 30p frozen sections were placed back into formalin for 30 min. 3) Sections were thoroughly washed in two changes of 0.4 M-tris-HC1 buffer, pH 7.0, at 4" for 6&90 min. Thorough rinsing was important for removing formalin which interferes with the reaction (HOLMSTEDT, 1957). 4) The inhibitor control sections were treated at room temperature for 30 min in M inhibitor solution in 0.4 M-tris-HCI buffer, pH 7-0. M solutions were prepared from lo-' M stock solutions. Eserine and BW stock solutions were aqueous and stored at 4"; DFP stock solution was in anhydrous propylene glycol, stored in a desiccator at room temperature. Inhibitor studies were done only for AChE, and the sections were transferred directly from the inhibitor solution to acetylthiocholine iodide incubation medium containing M of the inhibitor. 5) The composition of the incubation media based on the GEREBTZOFF (1959) method was: 0.2 M-tris-maleate buffer, pH 6.6, 44.0 ml; 3.75% glycine, 1.0 ml; 0.1 M-cupric acetate, 1.0 ml; acetyl or butyryl thiocholine iodide, 4.0 ml. All solutions were made up in glass distilled water; the


1) Cross-ratios and Schwarzian derivatives in Rn.- 2) Remarks on "almost best" approximation in the complex plane.- 3) Conformal mappings onto nonoverlapping regions.- 4) On Wiener conditions for minimally thin and rarefied sets.- 5) The matrix and chordal norms of Mobius transformations.- 6) On meromorphic functions with growth conditions.- 7) A theorem of Wolff-Denjoy type.- 8) Curvature estimates for some minimal surfaces.- 9) On some elementary applications of the reflection principle to Schwarz-Christoffel integrals.- 10) Konforme Verheftung und logarithmisches Potential.- 11) On boundary correspondence for domains on the sphere.- 12) On circulants.- 13) Interpolation by entire functions in ? - another look.- 14) Moglichst konforme Spiegelung an einem Jordanbogen auf der Zahlenkugel.- 15) On BMO and the torsion function.- 16) Subharmonic majorants and some applications.- 17) On weighted extremal length of families of curves.- 18) On approximation by rational functions of class L1.- 19) On fixed points of conformal automorphisms of Riemann surfaces.- 20) The variation of harmonic differentials and their periods.- 21) On the extremality and unique extremality of certain Teichmuller mappings.- 22) Angular distribution of meromorphic functions in the unit disk.


Development of a democratic system and market economy in the Slovak Republic has been going on for less than two decades. The same applies to the development of political marketing. Using the example of the Slovak Parliamentary Elections in 2006, we analyse the situation in the political market, voters' political perceptions, the marketing activities of the political parties and candidates, main topics of election campaign, role of the media and election results. We also offer a short summary of key legislative changes which influenced the 2006 election campaign.


A novel digital watermarking scheme is proposed instead of the traditional watermarking. The binary watermark image is processed by error-correcting coding before it is embedded into the discrete wavelet-transformed host image. It is more effective to improve the security and robustness of the watermarked image by proposed scheme. Amount tests and results indicate that the proposed scheme have security and robustness against noise and commonly image processing methods such as Gaussian's noise, filtering, JPEG compression, and crop procession etc.


Diabetes mellitus type 1 is the most common endocrine metabolic disorder in childhood and adolescence. In this condition there is an absolute insulin deficiency secondary to progressive destruction of pancreatic beta cells, causing severe alterations in the metabolism of all essential elements (carbohydrates, lipids and proteins). The most obvious alteration is chronic hyperglycemia, which is essential to diagnose the disease, and moreover, is the main responsible of many vascular and neurological complications that diabetic patients may develop long-term. In the development of diabetes mellitus type 1 involving both genetic and environmental factors. The traditional concept is that environmental factors may act as triggers of the immune response against ┚ of Langerhans cell phenotype in a genetically predisposed to the development of diabetes mellitus type 1. Autoimmune diseases are syndromes caused by activation of T cells or B or both, without evidence of other causes such as infection or cancer. When dendritic cells expressing selfantigens in the context of HLA molecules stimulate peripheral T cells, they do so that they remain alive but anergic, no response until they contact a dendritic cell with multiple moleculescostimulatory expressing microbial antigens. Although many autoinmumnes diseases characterized by abnormal production of pathogenic autoantibodies, most of it is caused by an overreaction, combined T and B cells. In animal models of type 1 diabetes mellitus have demonstrated the high expression of MAdCAM-1 and GlyCAM-1 on HEV (high endothelial venules) of the inflamed pancreatic islets and the treatment of animals with inhibitors of the L-function selectin and ┙4 integrin, blockeddevelopment of type 1 diabetes mellitus. The American Diabetes Association divides the type 1 diabetes mellitus in two subgroups: 1A is the result of autoimmune destruction of beta cells and the 1B subtype, which do not immunomarkers indicating a destructive autoimmune process of beta cellspancreas. However develop insulin deficiency by unidentified mechanisms and are prone to ketosis. It has been a predominance of African Americans and Asians in the 1B subtype. Genetic studies have shown that it is an inherited disease with polygenic trait. Genome wide studies have indicated the presence of at least 20 chromosomal regions that may contribute to genetic predisposition to type 1 diabetes mellitus. The most important genes that


This study presents immunologic data during a 5-year period of observation in six children infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) via blood transfusions in the neonatal period. Serum IgG concentrations were increased in most patients by 1 year of age, but the levels did not change over time. By contrast, IgA concentrations steadily increased during the study period, so that levels at 5 years of age were significantly higher than levels at 1 year of age (p = 0.028). At 5 years of age, IgG concentrations averaged 4.6 standard deviations above the mean for age, whereas IgA concentrations averaged 9.4 standard deviations above the mean for age (p = 0.02). IgM concentrations generally were normal during the study period. The number of CD4 lymphocytes declined steadily during the study period. There was an inverse correlation between IgA concentrations and the number of CD4 lymphocytes (p = 0.02). The results of this study indicate that HIV infection is associated with a progressive increase in serum ...


The Minho Quotation Resource was originally released in 2012. It provided approximately 500,000 quotes from business leaders, analysts and politicians that spanned the period from 2008 to 2012. The original resource had several failings which include a large number of missing job titles and affiliations as well as unnormalised job titles which produced a large variation in spellings and formats of the same employment position. Also, there were numerous duplicate posts. This update has standardised the job title text as well as the imputation of missing job titles and affiliations. Duplicate quotes have been deleted. This update also provides some metaphor and simile extraction as well as an emotion distribution of the quotes. This update has also replaced an antiquated version of Lucene index with a JSONL format as well as a rudimentary interface that can query the data supplied with the resource. It is hoped that this update will encourage the study of business communication in a time of a financial crisis.


The basic aspects of forming the domestic particular branch informative-managing system of aviation technical service and repair organizations are considered.


The objective of study prepare extract of Casuarina  cunninghamiana leave, fruit and bark  against bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. Methods: collect and prepare sample ,phytochemicals , identifying antibacterial activity. Results: The results  indicated to effect of  bacteria  having  higher value of inhibition zone of leaves  compared with fruit and bark . Methanolic extract proceed both hot  water and ethanolic extract in its effect and increased activity of extracts with increased  concentration (500,250.125,62.5)mg/ml .Conclusion: Methanoic extracts proceed both  hot aqueous and ethanolic extracts in its antibacterial activity against G+ve  than G-ve .


Past ten years, mobbing and similar anti-social behavior of individuals in the workplace are identified as an important issue of work organization. Therefore, it is not surprising that the interest of experts and researchers, in the world and Croatia, is aimed at studying the impact of organizational and individual stress, relationships among employees and etc. Their interest is also in finding effective methods and techniques of mobbing prevention and its consequences for the individual, his family and work organization. There is growing awareness that mobbing is not a single episode and individual problems but a structured, strategic problem that has its roots in the organizational, cultural and broader social framework. Accordingly to that, the main goal of this paper is to point out the possible consequences of mobbing and the importance of a strategic approach to developing, implementing and evaluating prevention programs of mobbing.


In this paper, a novel methodology is proposed to implement the Morlet wavelet transform in an analog circuit. Under the proposed scheme, the impulse response of the linear time-invariant system is used to approximate the Morlet wavelet function. The approximation accuracy is guaranteed by the constrained $L_{2}$ -norm method, which reduces the approximation error by decreasing free parameters in searching routines. Due to the complex wavelet function, a common-pole strategy is presented for filter construction. With the common poles in real and imaginary parts, partial components can be shared during the analog implementation of the wavelet transform. With the reasonably good approximation for Morlet wavelet function, an analog continuous-time filter is designed based on the Gm-C integrator and orthonormal ladder topology. Application examples are introduced to illustrate the superior performance of the proposed filter. It is shown that the designed analog filter approximates the ideal Morlet wavelet function well in both time and frequency.