Dimethyl 7-[4-(2,4-cyclopentadien1ylidene)cyclohexylidene]bicyclo[ 2.2.1 ]hepta-2,5-diene2,3-dicarboxylate, C22H2204, Mr = 350.4, triclinic, P1, a = 8 . 2 1 5 (1), b = 10.6297 (9), c 11.545 (2)A, = 70.976 (9), f l=75 .48 (1), 7 = 85.245 (8) ° , V = 922.7 (1)A 3, Z = 2, D x = 1 .261Mgm -3, 2(CuKa) = 1.54184 A, /a = 0.658 mm -1, F(000) = 372, T = 296 K, R = 0.044 for 3275 data having Fo z > 3e(Fo2). The strained double bond exo to the bicyclo[2.2.1]hepta-2,5-diene has a normal bond length, 1.330 (1) A. However, this double bond exhibits severe distortion from sp 2 hybridized geometry at the bond angle endocyclic to the bicyclo[2.2.1]hepta-2,5-diene, which is 94.76 (6) °. The cyclopentadienylidene ring is planar, with maximum deviation of 0.004 (2) A. Introduction. The mono Diels-Alder adduct of 1,4bis(2,4-cyclopentadien1-ylidene)cyclohexane and dimethyl butynedioate, shown in Fig. 1, is one of three isomeric products expected from the stoichiometry of this reaction. Other isomers from further intramolecular Diels-Alder cycloadditions of this bifunctional dienophile to the other diene system are not observed. Dimethyl butynedioate is known to act as a bifunctional dienophile for bifunctional Diels-Alder dienes (Paquette, Wyvratt, Berk & Moerck, 1978). * To whom correspondence should be addressed. 0108-2701/89/081184-03503.00 The structure of the title compound is being probed to determine whether there is cooperativity of the two 'isolated' chromophores, the fulvene and the strained double bond. Experimental. The title compound is prepared by refluxing excess 1,4-bis(2,4-cyclopentadien1-ylidene)cyclohexane with dimethyl butynedioate in chloroform for 72 hours. Clear, yellow-orange crystals, m.p. 370K, suitable for single-crystal X-ray structure determination were crystallized from hexane/ether at room temperature. The X-ray structure determination supports all standard spectroscopic measurements. Intensity data were obtained from an irregular fragment of dimensions 0-25 x 0.45 x 0.50 mm mounted in a random orientation on an Enraf-Nonius CAD-4 diffractometer. Cell dimensions were determined at 296 K by a least-squares fit to setting angles of 25 reflections having 25 < 0 < 30 °. A hemisphere~f data having 4 < 20 < 150 °, 0 < h < 10, 1 3 < k < ' ~,~


OBJETIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of teacher who had (or had not) been exposed to the educative program that involved the use of games with educative and playful purposes and the didactic planning for the application of these activities. METHODS: The studied sample comprised 51 teachers (15 exposed and 36 not exposed). The questionnaire contained questions on nutritional concepts and on the role of the teacher and the school as a means of promotion of healthy nutritional habits. RESULTS: The studied variables included knowledge, attitude and nutritional practice of the teachers. Tables of contingency were used for the description of the frequencies of the variables and for the Exact Test of Fisher was used for the comparisons between the exposed and non exposed group, with significance rates of 0,05% or 5%. CONCLUSION: It had been observed that the exposed teachers had presented themselves better conceptually prepared and more sensitized in relation to the teacher's role and the school's while transforming reality, demonstrating that the program of school feeding can become a space of learning, production and knowledge production.


This paper classifies the innovations of financial markets into news-driven and no-news-driven innovations,and proposes a new type of asymmetric GARCH model,sectional mean GARCH(SM-GARCH).In the empirical study of the Chinese stock market,it has been found that the SM-GARCH behaves better than the classical GARCH model in capturing the volatility characteristics as well as forecasting volatility.Moreover,the forecast errors of the conditional mean,which is usually seen as the new innovations to the market,provide little information about the future volatility.The no-news-driven innovations,especially,can be ignored in volatility forecasting.


Co-presenters: Sarah Cole and Anne Eggebert

For this presentation Cole and Eggebert presented extracts from the videos they made for exhibition at Valentine's Mansions.

As visual artists they were commissioned to make work for newly restored Valentines Mansion (LB Redbridge). The work sought out the sites in Venice of the wallpaper vignettes found at Valentine's, which they projected into the 18th century dovecote and in the gallery of the mansion house. Testing contemporary leisure activities in historic space as a comment on the construction of place through visual memory and the perception of physical temporary space. They also discussed how alternative perspectives provided through virtual representations of landscape (e.g. Google Earth) afford freerunner athletes a multiplicity of surfaces to be physically encountered, the absorption of his flow across 'useless extravagant structures' of the historic folly landscape.

The presentation reflected on the performers' place in time, history and geography and how this work has impacted on the community's engagement with this new public arts venue. The audience's visual encounter with their work, presented in the site, has lead to a re-inscribing of the architecture as a space of elsewhere – and its potential as cinematic space. They consider the relationship between the cinema as 'the architectural of an "in-between" – travelling architecture' (Bruno 2002) – and the moving image as contemporary wallpaper providing our access to travel as we enter the age of post-mobility.


Kulning is a Swedish cattle call singing style with an almost mythical status inSwedish folklore. In previous studiestwo of the authors (RE, AM) studied kulning produced by a kulning singer (FP) in ...


AbstractPurpose Malaria is a life-threatening infectious diseasecaused by the Plasmodium parasite. Increased globaltravel has resulted in an escalation in the number ofimported cases seen in developed countries. Patients withmalaria may present for surgery in both endemic and non-endemic countries. This article reviews the perioperativeconsiderations when managing patients with malaria.Source A literature review of anesthesia, perioperativecare, and malaria-related articles was performed using theMEDLINE , EMBASE TM , and Web of Science databases toidentify relevant articles published in English during1945-2014. Of the 303 articles matching the searchcriteria, 265 were excluded based on title and abstract.Eleven of the remaining 38 articles were relevant toanesthesia/perioperative care, and 27 articles wereidentified as having direct relevance to critical caremedicine.Principal findings The majority of imported malariacases are caused by the falciparum species, which isassociated with the greatest degree of morbidity andmortality. Various organ systems may be impacted as aconsequence of changes in the structure and function ofparasitized erythrocytes. Preoperative assessment shouldfocus on establishing the species of malaria, the severity ofdisease, assessing the degree of end-organ impairment, andinitiating treatment of malaria prior to surgery. Intravenousartesunate is the treatment of choice for severe falciparummalaria. Quinine is a second-line agent but has a narrowtherapeutic index and particularly hazardous side effects.Intraoperatively, attention should focus on fluidmanagement, dynamics of cerebral blood flow, andavoidance of hypoglycemia. Postoperative care of severecasesshouldideallytakeplaceinacriticalcareunitastheremay be ongoing requirements for multi-organ support,including renal replacement therapy, ventilation, and/orinotropic support.The safety ofneuraxial anesthesia has notbeen well studied in the setting of malaria.Conclusions Malaria remains one of the mostdevastating infectious diseases worldwide. Multiple organsystems can be impacted as a consequence of changes instructure and function of parasitized erythrocytes. Safeperioperative management requires a sound knowledge ofall these potential system effects.Re´sume´Objectif Le paludisme est une maladie infectieusepossiblement fatale due au parasite Plasmodium. Lamultiplication des voyages a` travers le monde a entraiˆne´un accroissement du nombre de cas importe´s observe´s dansles pays de´veloppe´s. Les patients atteints de paludismepeuvent ne´cessiter une chirurgie, aussi bien dans les paysou` la maladie est ende´mique que dans les autres. Cetarticle passe en revue les conside´rations pe´riope´ratoireslors de la prise en charge de patients atteints de paludisme.Source Une revue de la litte´rature a` la recherched'articles d'anesthe´sie, de soins pe´riope´ratoires et en


The ISSN International Centre, located in Paris, France, is the Registration Authority appointed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to implement ISO 3297, the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) which identifies print and online serials and continuing resources all around the globe. The ISSN International Centre is also the coordinating body of the ISSN network, the organization which brings together 90 ISSN National Centres and that has been thriving for more than 40 years. In 2018, the ISSN International Centre has been involved in two key projects that will have a crucial impact on its activities, i.e. the new ISSN Portal and the revision of the ISSN standard.


Under the condition of rigid culverts and rigid foundation,adding concrete blocks to the culvert at the two sides of the top culvert,using ANSYS finite element software to do impact analysis of the concrete blocks about the earth pressure on the culvert,studies have shown that: adding concrete blocks can effectively improve the force condition of the culvert and can play a good load shedding effect for the culvert.The coefficient of vertical earth pressure on the top of the culvert plummets with the heightening of the concrete blocks.


ISSUES
Consideration of an individual's quality of life (QoL) can benefit assessment and treatment of addictive disorders, however, uncertainty remains over operationalisation of the construct as an outcome and the appropriateness of existing measures for these populations. This systematic review aimed to identify and evaluate QoL and health-related QoL outcome instruments used in addiction-related risk and harm research and map their conceptualised domains.

APPROACH
Three electronic databases and a specialised assessment library were searched on 1 February 2022 for QoL or health-related QoL outcome instruments used with addiction-related risk and harm populations. PRISMA reporting guidance was followed and included outcome instruments were appraised using mixed methods. Psychometric evidence supporting their use was summarised. The COSMIN risk of bias tool was used to assess validation studies.

KEY FINDINGS
A total of 298 articles (330 studies) used 53 outcome instruments and 41 unique domains of QoL. Eleven instruments' psychometric properties were evaluated. No instrument was assessed for any parameter in at least five studies for meta-analytic pooling. Cronbach's alpha (α) internal consistency was the most widely assessed parameter with the AQoLS, WHOQOL-BREF, ALQoL-9, Q-LES-Q-SF, SF-12, DUQoL, QLI and SF-36 displaying promising statistics (α > 0.70).

IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSION
Many instruments have been utilised. However, a significant proportion of studies applied a small number of instruments with minimal high-quality validation evidence supporting their use within addiction-related risk and harm. Promising instruments are recommended, however, the paucity of supporting evidence limits confidence in the reliability and validity of QoL measurement in these populations.


Th is is one of three companion papers taken from a study that assesses the comparative costs of urban redevelopment with the costs of greenfi eld development. Th e fi rst paper, GEN 83: Th e Costs of Urban Sprawl – Infrastructure and Transportation, showed that substantial costs would be saved in infrastructure and transport if urban redevelopment were the focus. Th is paper assesses how these diff erent urban typologies perform with respect to greenhouse gases. Th e fi nal paper GEN 85: Th e Costs of Urban Sprawl – Physical Activity Links to Healthcare Costs and Productivity discusses the health costs and productivity losses that can be linked to human inactivity in suburban living.


In this article, Juliadi Adekusuma puts forward data on abortion from around the world and from Indonesia. This data shows us that not all abortions are done by women without partners, and in fact the majority of abortions in Indonesia involve married women. This article also points out that the number of unsafe abortions is very high, and 13% of these result in the death of the mother.


The present article evaluates the role of culture and intercultural communication in the economic development. It provides views of different researchers on the interdependence of culture, intercultural communi cation and their penetration into many fields of scientific knowledge. It also analyses the role of globalisation in development of culture, intercultural communication and economics.


Abstract : From 2001 through 2011, the United States allocated about $1.2 trillion to the DoD to conduct worldwide military operations that primarily focused on Afghanistan and Iraq. The funding for previous prolonged military operations in Korea and Vietnam was incorporated into the base budget within a few years; however, the U.S. government has continued to use separate budgetary titles to allocate resources for operations since 2001. Through 2009, emergency supplemental appropriations provided most of the funding for operations while a separate title in the annual appropriations bill has been used to allocate most of the wartime funding since then. This dissertation analyzes the outcomes of using separate budgets for military operations. The dissertation begins with an examination of the period when emergency supplemental appropriations were the primary instrument used for allocating funds for military operations. The continued use of supplemental appropriations weakened the normal checks between executive and legislative participants in the budgetary process. Wartime supplemental appropriations were used to introduce defense policy changes, augment annual defense budgets, and provide a convenient way to pass additional legislation that was often unrelated to operations and was politically contentious. The next part of the dissertation examines how recent wartime budgets influenced different portions of the annual defense budget. Changes made to personnel policies in wartime budgets introduced large costs into the annual defense budget. Also, the migration of some costs from the base budget into wartime budgets and the introduction of new programs into wartime budgets will likely lead to additional claims on the base budget as operations end. The dissertation concludes with an analysis of how the Army should manage its fleet of MRAP vehicles after operations in Iraq and Afghanistan cease, and an examination of how U.S. military operations should be funded in the future.


In this climate emergency, every company has a responsibility to drive decarbonization throughout its value chain. In FY21, 66% of Salesforce's value chain (Scope 1, 2, and 3) greenhouse gas emissions (the measure of our negative contribution to climate change) resulted from suppliers, making our upstream emissions especially relevant to our climate action activities. As the world's leader in technology for the customer relationship, we aim to use our customer voice with our suppliers, promoting sustainability throughout our supply chain as part of our efforts to combat the climate crisis.


Background—We addressed the hypothesis that the inotropic drugs dobutamine and levosimendan both induce surplus oxygen consumption (oxygen wasting) relative to their contractile effect in equipotent therapeutic doses, with levosimendan being energetically more efficient. Methods and Results—Postischemically reduced left ventricular function (stunning) was created by repetitive left coronary occlusions in 22 pigs. This contractile dysfunction was reversed by infusion of either levosimendan (24 &mgr;g/kg loading and 0.04 &mgr;g·kg−1·min−1 infusion) or an equipotent dose of dobutamine (1.25 &mgr;g·kg−1·min−1). Contractility and cardiac output were normalized by both drug regimens. The energy cost of drug-induced contractility enhancement was assessed by myocardial oxygen consumption related to the mechanical indexes tension-time index, pressure-volume area, and total mechanical energy. ANCOVA did not reveal any increased oxygen cost of contractility for either drug in these doses. However, both dobutamine and levosimendan at supratherapeutic levels (10 &mgr;g·kg−1·min−1 and 48 &mgr;g/kg loading with 0.2 &mgr;g·kg−1·min−1 infusion, respectively) induced a highly significant increase in oxygen consumption related to mechanical work, compatible with the established oxygen-wasting effect of inotropy (P<0.001 for all mechanical indexes with dobutamine; P=0.007 for levosimendan as assessed by pressure-volume area). Conclusion—Therapeutic levels of neither dobutamine nor levosimendan showed inotropic oxygen wasting in this in vivo pig model. Thus, relevant hemodynamic responses can be achieved with an adrenergic inotrope without surplus oxygen consumption.


V IENNESE compositional ideas and practices began to penetrate into Italy only after the Second World War. There are only two exceptions to this statement: Luigi Dallapiccola, whose interest in Schoenberg began years before the war, and Camillo Togni, who composed the first serial score in Italy in 1941-42. It was, however, primarily the teaching of Bruno Maderna that, directly and indirectly, brought musical Expressionism into the mainstream of Italian music. This Venetian composer, who was among the earliest participants in the celebrated Ferienkurse at Darmstadt, exerted in his roles as composer, performer, and teacher an incomparable influence on young Italian musicians. This influence can be seen above all in the works of Luigi Nono, to whom (as Heinz-Klaus Metzger has pointed out) we owe the first interesting composition of the European post-war years: Polifonia-Monodia-Ritmica. Anybody today who studies the latest of Nono's compositions will find much to reconsider and correct in previous discussions of Nono's music. Since the days of his earliest group of compositions (Variazioni for orchestra on a row by Schoenberg, 1950; the first Composizione for orchestra, 1951; Due espressioni, 1953; as well as the above-mentioned work) Nono has shown himself to be far from a pur Weberien, as Antoine Golia has somewhat too hastily categorized him. It is true that since the early 1950s Nono has been very careful to assimilate some of the structural principles of the Viennese masters. However, the cold fire of his instrumental writing, which harbors an incandescent purity, the torrid violence of certain of his percussive explosions, and the singular outpouring of isolated sounds that push towards an aggressive resolution are quite alien to the introspection and song-like intimacy that characterize the works of Webern.


In the present study, the abundance of Candidatus 'Accumulibacter phosphatis' and the accumulation of polyphosphate were investigated in five enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) activated sludge reactors operated with different carbon sources. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in combination with 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) staining for polyphosphate granules confirmed the accumulation of polyphosphate by Candidatus 'Accumulibacter phosphatis' in all the reactors. The abundance of Candidatus 'Accumulibacter phosphatis' was determined from the FISH images. When EBPR activity was high and phosphorus content made up around 9% or more of mixed liquor volatile suspended solids (MLVSS), Candidatus 'Accumulibacter phosphatis' accounted for over 20% of the eubacteria in the reactors acclimatized with acetate, aspartate, or glucose. Whereas this value was as low as around 10% in the reactors acclimatized mainly with yeast extract, peptone, or glutamate. In these reactors, bacteria affiliated with Actinobacteria were found to accumulate polyphosphate and to contribute to phosphorus removal. Candidatus 'Accumulibacter phosphatis' takes part in the removal of phosphorus by using various carbon sources, but its abundance varies according to the type of carbon source.


: Trichodesmium is proposed to be an important source of nitrogen in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) with implications for nutrient cycling and eutrophication. Effective GBR water quality management requires an understanding of the contribution of Trichodesmium to the total annual nitrogen budget of the GBR. Satellite ocean-colour data and the eReefs models (Bell 2021, Ani et al. 2023), have been used to estimate the annual contribution of Trichodesmium fixed nitrogen to the nitrogen budget of the GBR. Both approaches suggested that the nitrogen fixed by Trichodesmium was greater than riverine nitrogen loads exported to the GBR. To understand the dynamics of Trichodesmium in the GBR ecosystem, reliable model simulations of Tri-chodesmium growth, nitrogen fixation and distribution are required. Although the eReefs models have been used to provide detailed spatial and temporal occurrences of Trichodesmium in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and to quantify its contribution to the total annual nitrogen budget of the GBR, not all important Trichodesmium physiological processes were represented by the Trichodesmium physiological model. Two key processes that were not considered are the variation of Trichodesmium phycobilipigments under varying light conditions and the influence of Trichodesmium colony shape and orientation in seawater on Trichodesmium buoyancy. Trichodesmium possess light-harvesting phycobilipigments, namely phycourobilin (PUB) and phycoerythro-bilin (PEB) and are the major contributors to light harvesting and photosynthesis. Changes in Trichodesmium pigment concentrations occur through the rapid interconversion between PUB and PEB under varying light conditions, which corresponds to the transfer of absorbed energy between photosystems II and I (PSII and PSI) in Trichodesmium . Therefore, to improve the modelling of absorption of light across different wave-lengths by Trichodesmium , the interconversion between PUB and PEB, and photosystem II reaction centre dynamics were parameterised. Trichodesmium cells aggregate and form single trichomes or larger colonies such as tufts and puffs. Tri-chodesmium possess strong intracellular gas vesicles that generate strong positive buoyancy and facilitate the vertical migration of colonies. The sinking rates of Trichodesmium colonies have been reported to be dependent on the shape and size of colonies. Therefore, to better simulate Trichodesmium buoyancy in the GBR, the form resistance factor was applied to the sinking velocities of tuft-shaped Trichodesmium colonies. Our model simulations compare well with observations from the Australian Institute of Marine Science Marine Monitoring Program sensor network sites. Our model results show increased Trichodesmium PUB concentrations and decreased PEB concentrations in surface waters or under high irradiance. Contrarily, in deep waters or dark conditions, simulated Trichodesmium PEB concentrations increased whereas PUB concentrations decreased. Our model results provide improved simulations of Trichodesmium optics and buoyancy, and can help to improve the understanding of Trichodesmium dynamics for effective GBR water quality management.


To determine the quality of anything education, schooling, a ballet, candidates for office, an automobile, an insurance policy one must have established the unique set of characteristics that embody the sense of quality in that par ticular entity. The more complete the listing of these characteristics and the more insightful and significant the specifications of what constitutes excellence or inferiority, the better one is able to judge quality. The failure of all concerned with school ing students, teachers, administrators, legisla tors, judges, and citizens generally to concur on these characteristics and suitable standards for judging the quality of the school's program is the crux of much of our difficulty in providing a high quality of education today. Of course, all of us have some general notions of what schools should seek to accomplish and we check opinion polls and questionnaires with considerable agree ment. But, when we engage in the overt task of judging the quality of schooling that our own children or our new employee, or those freshmen students in our college classroom receive, these views often become fuzzy slogans of a cluttered mind. It is high time that we Americans engage in a thorough, three-tiered project to assist all of us in clarifying the basic functions and purposes of the schools, and, hence, in reaching more readily an agreement about what constitutes excel lence in schooling.


Relevance Based Planning (RBP) is a general method that plans in interaction with a domain simulation and domain specialized procedures. I argue that exploitation of the properties of causality and Euclidean topology which hold in many domains is a critical inductive bias necessary if an AGI (or any intelligent program) is to generalize to new problems and new domains, and is critical to human thought, and that RBP achieves its efficiency by exploiting these properties in a novel and powerful way, faithful to introspection in an example task. RBP is proposed to be implemented as a


ABSTRACT Semi-structured interviews (N = 34) were conducted with employees at a healthcare organization to explore their perspectives on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) inclusion in their workplace. When lacking both comfort and a vocabulary with which to discuss issues relevant to LGBT patients and staff, employees constructed comparisons by using other groups and events as stand-ins for experiences that were unfamiliar. From employees' reflections, three dialectic tensions emerged: (1) desire for change and uncertainty about change; (2) preserving competent appearances and knowledge gap awareness; and (3) direct and indirect appraisals. The interplaying discourses that surfaced within the organization set the stage for impending inclusion initiatives. This study contributes to theorizing on dialectical tensions by examining the interplay of order and disorder activated by indirect appraisals and resistance by omission.


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Using a frustrated total internal reflection or light tunneling structure, where the barrier is composed of multiple layers involving metamaterials, we show that complete tunneling through this composite barrier can be applied to the realization of total transmission filters, whose transmittance curves, dependent on the wavelengths as well as incident directions or polarization states of light, have a flat-top shape.


Sequence dependent setup time scheduling plays a vital role in real manufacturing industries. Setup time depends on the job sequence. Heuristic or dispatching rules are suitable for producing good initial seed sequence. For this reason, heuristic or dispatching rules based artificial bee colony algorithm is used to minimize the makespan and total flowtime in SDST shop problems. Computation result confirms that heuristic based method produced better result when compared to the dispatching based method. The recital of the algorithms is estimated by conducting Statistical test.


Perturbation analysis and chaotic dynamics of the rotating blade with varying angular speed are investigated. Centrifugal force, aerodynamic load and the perturbed angular speed due to the inconstant air velocity are considered. The rotating blade is treated as a pre-twist, presetting, thin-walled rotating cantilever beam. The nonlinear governing partial differential equations of the varying angular rotating blade are established by using Hamilton's principle. Then, the ordinary differential equations of the rotating blade are obtained by employing the Galerkin's approach during which Galerkin's modes satisfy corresponding boundary conditions. The four-dimensional nonlinear averaged equations are obtained by applying the method of multiple scales. In this paper, the resonant case is 1:2 internal resonance-1/2 subharmonic resonance. The numerical simulation is used to investigate chaotic dynamics of the varying angular rotating blade. The results show that the system is sensitive to the rotating speed and there are chaotic motions.© 2011 ASME


Navier-Stokes computations of subsonic to transonic flow past airfoils with augmented lift due to rearward jet blowing over a curved trailing edge are presented. The approach uses a spiral grid topology. Solutions are obtained using a Navier-Stokes code which employs an implicit finite difference method, an algebraic turbulence model, and developments which improve stability, convergence, and accuracy. Results are compared against experiments for no jet blowing and moderate jet pressures and demonstrate the capability to compute these complicated flows.


An experiment was conducted with 30 chickpea genotypes having erect to semi erect growth habit under rainfed and irrigated conditions. The statistical design adopted was Randomized Block Design (RBD) with three replications at Regional Agricultural Research Station, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh during rabi 2016–17. The objective of the investigation was to study genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance for yield and traits related to mechanical harvesting. The study revealed that the genotypes 'NBeG 780', 'NBeG 857', 'NBeG 47', 'NBeG 863' and 'BG 3061' were identified to be high yielders and also suitable for mechanical harvesting under both environments. The marginal differences between the phenotypic and genotypic coefficients of variations indicated lesser environmental influence on the expression of these characters. Seed yield and height of the first pod under both the tested environments and plant height under irrigated condition exhibited high heritability and high expected genetic gain under selection.


Objective To establish a limited sampling strategy for the estimation of mycophenolic acid area under the plasma concentration-time curve in adult renal recipients. Methods Thirty-one renal recipients receiving 1.0 g of mycophenolate mofetil twice daily were included in this study. The MPA AUC for time 0~12 h (MPA AUC_ 0-12 ) was calculated using the linear trapezoidal rule, including 10 timed MPA concentrations. Correlation analysis between MPA AUC_ 0-12 and each timed MPA concentration were performed to identify the predictable time points of MPA AUC_ 0-12 , multiple linear regression analysis was used to determine limited sampling approaches.Results The best correlations between MPA AUC_ 0-12 and concentrations at various time points were found at 0.5 h (C_ 0.5 ,γ=0.6004),1 h (C_1,γ=0.6044), 4 h (C_4,γ= 0.6121 ) and 10 h(C_ 10 ,γ=0.6371)(all P0.001). The regression equation for AUC estimation was established as MPA AUC=12.61+ 0.37 C_ 0.5 + 0.49C_1+ 3.22C_4+8.17C_ 10 . There exists good agreement between predicted AUC and the full MPA AUC_ 0-12 , 26 of 31(84) prediction error were within 10,30 of 31(97) prediction error were within 20.Conclusion This limited sampling strategy provides an effective approach for estimation of full MPA AUC_ 0-12h in renal recipients.


Two wide-swath hyperspectral imaging microsatellites, SPARK-01 and -02, were launched on 22 December 2016. Radiometric calibration coefficients were determined for these two satellites via a calibration experiment performed from the end of February to the beginning of March 2017 at the high-altitude, homogenous Dunhuang calibration site in the Gobi Desert in China. In-situ measurements, including ground reflectance, direct transmittance, diffuse-to-global irradiance ratio, and radiosonde vertical profile, were acquired. A unique relative calibration procedure was developed using actual satellite images. This procedure included dark current computation and non-uniform correction processes. The former was computed by averaging multiple lines of long strip imagery acquired over open oceans during nighttime, while the latter was computed using images acquired after the adjustment of the satellite yaw angle to 90°. This technique was shown to be suitable for large-swath satellite image relative calibration. After relative calibration, reflectance, irradiance, and improved irradiance-based methods were used to conduct absolute radiometric calibrations in order to predict the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiance. The SPARK-01 and -02 satellites passed over the calibration site on 7 March and 28 February 2017, during which time fair and non-ideal weather occurred, respectively. Thus, the SPARK-01 calibration coefficient was derived using reflectance- and irradiance-based methods, while that of SPARK -02 was derived using reflectance- and improved irradiance-based methods. The sources of calibration uncertainty, which include aerosol-type assumptions, transmittance measurements, water vapor content retrieval, spectral wavelength shift and satellite image misregistration, were explored in detail for different calibration methods. Using the reflectance and irradiance-based methods, the total uncertainty for SPARK-01 was estimated to be 4.7% and 4.1%, respectively, in the <1000 nm spectral range. For SPARK-02, total uncertainties of 8.1% and of 5.9% were estimated using the reflectance- and improved irradiance-based methods, respectively. The calibration methods were also verified using MODIS images, which confirmed that the calibration accuracies were within the expected range. These in-situ measurements, analyses, and results provide a basis for in-orbit radiometric calibration of the SPARK-01 and -02 satellites. These experiments strongly support the use of diffuse-to-global ratio measurements in in-situ vicarious calibration experiments and the addition of spectrally continuous measurements for direct transmittance, which is important for hyperspectral satellite sensors.


Dictionaries are works that describe the lexicon in its most varied forms. Therefore, along with grammars, one of its roles is to present information about grammatical words, whose meaning is usually related to their syntactic function. This is the case of conjunctions. Understood as grammatical elements generally used to connect textual elements, they are fundamental for textual cohesion. Based on this context, this paper aims at describing the lexicographic information present in the entries of the subordinating conjunctions that and if in the type 4 school dictionaries of the Brazilian National Plan for the Didactic Books collection (2012 edition). In order to understand the concept of conjunction, we discuss the ideas of researchers such as Cunha and Cintra (2017), Bechara (2001) and Bagno (2012), in addition to the works of Pontes (2009) and Brazil (2012) to understand how school dictionaries are organized. As for the analysis of the data, this research has qualitative and descriptive orientation. Our results indicate that most of the entries analyzed have grammatical orientation in the lexicographic information they present about integral conjunctions, addressing their syntactic function, as commonly occurs in grammars. We could notice that the grammatical approach given to conjunctions in the works we have analyzed is oriented by standard language prescriptions, based on grammar rules and nomenclature, what hinders the comprehension of the entries for readers who do not know syntactic prescriptions, especially those related to compound sentences structure.


This article analyzes the transport of a magnetic field in axisymmetric plasma systems using simple formulas derived for its velocity in collisionless and collisional plasmas. The analysis shows that the magnetic field velocity in both cases is determined by the magnetic field rise rate to plasma density ratio raised to the power of 1/2. As the plasma density increases, the field velocity starts to depend on the plasma aggregation by a magnetic piston. Because the electron flow velocity in any case is limited by the axial drift velocity in crossed magnetic and polarization electric fields, the current channel conductivity is suppressed with respect to the Spitzer value by a factor equal to the magnetization parameter raised to one or another power.


A variety of applications of radiotracers are in vogue in industries with significant economic advantage. Some of the applications in steel, petroleum and maritime industries provide interesting case studies. Different approaches are possible for arriving at the cost to benefit ratio. These include: (1) direct cost comparison with alternative technique, (2) savings due to increased production and reduction in interruption of process, (3) savings due to avoidance of infructuous expenditure. The case studies quoted based on experience in India include: (1) the monitoring of wear condition of refractory lining in blast furnaces. (2) location of leakages in a 140 km long underground crude petroleum pipeline, (3) study of sediment movement in sea bed for selecting the dumping ground for dredged spoils, in connection with harbour maintenance and expansion operations. Cost to benefit ratio is worked out in each case. The ratios range from 1:10 to 1:4500 depending on application and method of calculation of cost ...


This article presents Emirati women's experience of, and transformation through, participation in a postgraduate study program run in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in partnership with an Australian university. The paper presents the professional and personal transformations the women described during interviews about their participation in the master's degree program. The data presented in this paper indicate how deeply the experience affected both the women's professional and personal lives as they became immersed in a culture of learning, reflection, and peer collaboration. The transformations to their personal lives and what appears to be life-changing re-thinking about their futures as women and as women leaders, provide a more complex view of the relationship between educational experiences and re-imagining future possibilities.


Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare, progressive and usually fatal disease of the central nervous system which affects children and young adults. Structures like nucleocapsids of paramyxoviruses (2) and the viral antigens of measles virus (5) have been found in the brains of patients. High titers of antibody against measles virus in patient's serum and cerebrospinal fluid (5) have also been demonstrated. Since Chen et al (3) and Horta-Barbosa et al (8, 9) succeeded in recovering measles-like viruses by co-cultivation of brain cells of the patients with susceptible tissue culture cells, a large number of SSPE virus-carrying cell lines have been established (1, 7). There is considerable variation, however, in their properties, e.g., virion production, synthesis of M protein as well as other virion constituents, and neurovirulence in experimental animals (7), that makes it difficult to relate a particular property of the virus to the etiology of SSPE. All of the four isolates in Japan have been reported to be defective in production of infectious virus (6, 11, 16, 19). We studied three of them and succeeded in recovering a small number of cell-free infectious virus particles from each of the virus-carrying cell lines by treatment of the cells with either EDTA or freezing and thawing though spontaneous release of the infectious virus was still not demonstrable (12, 13). Nevertheless, neurovirulence of these virus-carrying cells for mice was evident (14); thus these viruses differed from the so-called productive SSPE virus such as the Mantooth, Halle and LEC-S strains (18). These results seem to indicate that the property of less production of SSPE virus, like the isolates in Japan, is a requisite for neurovirulence. Accordingly, comparative study of these less-productive strains should provide a better understanding of the neurovirulent factors of this virus. In this paper, we describe preliminarily an additional new isolate, from the brain of an SSPE patient, of an SSPE virus which has characteristics similar to those of the other Japanese strains in terms of growth of the virus but distinct from them in neurovirulence and histopathology of the brain in mice.


To take the organic landscape planning and design of Lintong Terracotta village in Shanxi Province as an example,expounds in detail from the general situation、feature、measure and development efficiency during the organic professional tourist project.For the purpose of increasing peasant is income,Lintong District builds New Socialist Countryside through back-feeding agriculture by travel and makes a proposal of the organic project.


Progress of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) made our society 'smart' and convenient. Already, internet, SNS, smart phones, IoT, and big data analysis are available. In near future full-automatic automobile drive will become possible, and even some people expected that the artificial intelligence will exceed the human brain ability 30 years from now. In anyhow our society will be revolutionarily changed within a few decades by ICT progress. The progress of the ICT has been driven by the development of integrated technologies. It was 1971 when the first microprocessor by Intel realized the ICT with small-size and low power consumption. The performance of the microprocessor at that time was, however, only a millionth of today's one. In order to improve the performance, huge efforts have been made to miniaturize the MOSFETs. Indeed, the miniaturization has been conducted for 19 generations from 10 µm to 14 nm technologies, according to the guide line of Moore's law and the scaling theory. However, the former is just a prediction of the growth rate of the numbers of the components or MOSFETs in a chip, and the latter is a principle of the downscaling scheme of the MOSFETs. They are not to guarantee the actual miniaturization nor to show concrete solutions to make the miniaturization successful. Thus, innovations, such as novel ideas, the improvement of the structures, or the introduction of new process techniques and new materials have been requited for every miniaturized generations.


THE selection of this subject for preseVtation before you is an assumption that some advancement has been made in recent years in our uilderstanding of cholecystic disease. I shall endeavour to attempt an adjudication of the various methods of diagnosing cholecystic disease at our disposal, and to estimate their clinical value. It is useless to argue that, because physiologists are still at variance in their opinions regarding the function of the gall bladder, we should treat this organ when diseased with extreme conservatism. When any dispensable organ ceases to function on account of disease it may become a menace, and its retention may result in serious sequele in organs remote from the original focus of disease. The results of gall bladder surgery are so satisfactory that we may justly claim that the rules governing the surgery of the appendix to-day should be our rules governing the diseased gall bladder. In other words, once the gall bladder is proved to be diseased it should be removed. There are things, after all, that are so obvious that we accept them without statistical proof, but in cholecystic disease we have the advantages of having certain things which are perfectly obvious and which can also be backed up by statistical proof. The patient with cholecystic disease is mostly a chronic sufferer, and we have the advantage of time on our side in making a diagnosis. There is no particular hurry except in the acute suppurative cases, and every possible method of examination necessary to make an exact diagnosis can be utilized. I will now proceed with an analysis of the various methods used in diagnosing cholecystic disease.


Salt-soluble protein contents of green and mature persimmon were 1.5 and 2.0mg/100g-fr. wt., respectively, but that of soft persimmon was 58.9mg/100g-fr. wt.. Protein contents of cell wall increased during maturation but decreased in soft persimmon. The chromatograms of salt-soluble proteins by gel filtration were similar during maturation but those of protein extracted from soft persimmon were different from those of persimmon during maturation. The cell wall protein of persimmon was of two kinds and released during softening.


In this paper, the author analyzes the present moment of human civilization development in light of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) characterized by robotics and digitalization. The speed of technological changes has started to bring several important challenges to humans. Some of these changes might soon change some of the basic paradigms of human lives. Following to an inquiry into possibilities of future relations between Humans and Humanoid Robots, the author suggests that, for the sake of preserving the human civilization, the time has come to start defi ning rules of peaceful co-existence with smart Humanoid Robots in the form of a New Diplomacy for the 21st Century— "Science Diplomacy 4.0".


A recommender system, which might assist in providing clients with new information and a better experience, is becoming increasingly popular in this era of modernization. Recommender systems are often used by various platforms to provide new products to consumers, which may also help in improving product sales. Additionally, the recommender system is essential in academic domains. It is common for users to take a while to find and access the materials they need. The recommender system is now available, which could reduce the time spent looking for materials and improve student achievement. Therefore, it is crucial to explore more on the theory and implementation of the recommender system. This paper aims to study a few types of recommender system techniques and implement it in the research article recommender system. Additionally, related research on each of the three recommender systems will be reviewed, along with a description of the related study, the dataset used, and the evaluation method.


An Investigation of Associations Between Heart Rate Measures of Aerobic Fitness and Executive Functioning in Pre-Adolescent Children Kimberly Anne Barnett Department of Psychology, BYU Master of Science The present study evaluated the associations between direct measures of aerobic fitness and executive functioning in pre-adolescent children aged 8 – 12 years. To evaluate these associations, the study employed a cross-sectional design and a series of three step hierarchical regressions were conducted. Results suggest that after controlling for age, sex, and BMI percentile, heart rate measures of aerobic fitness did not independently predict executive function. These findings provide preliminary evidence that contradicts a growing body of research within the adult literature demonstrating an association between aerobic fitness and executive function.


Pregnancy and expecting a baby is a huge event in our lives and the timing of this event and the situation you are in will have a big bearing on how you are dealing with the news that you are going to be a dad.


Behavioral Systems Theory: A Survey We survey the so-called behavioral approach to systems and control theory, which was founded by J. C. Willems and his school. The central idea of behavioral systems theory is to put the focus on the set of trajectories of a dynamical system rather than on a specific set of equations modelling the underlying phenomenon. Moreover, all signal components are treated on an equal footing at first, and their partition into inputs and outputs is derived from the system law, in a way that admits several valid cause-effect interpretations, in general.


Good fuel economy across the engine running period, including during operations when the non-operation of the working machine can assess the poor, and the evaluation operator notified in real time, providing a display of working machinery can be called a fuel-saving driving do. A display device of the working machine having an operation device for operating the hydraulic pump and the actuator driven by pressure oil which is the hydraulic pump discharge, the actuator driven by the engine and the engine, the operating time of the operating device the split to the fuel consumption of the engine, or, by dividing the fuel consumption of the engine by the operation time of the operating device, the above comprising a first fuel index computation for calculating the fuel consumption indicators, and additional calculating the mileage indicator calculates the 1 mileage indicator is displayed on the display in real time.


Alassane Ba 1 , Ababacar Fall 1 , Papa Babacar Diop Thioune 1,2 and El Hadji Bamba Diaw 1 . 1. Laboratory of Sciences and Technology of Water and Environment (LaSTEE), Polytechnic School of Thies BPA 10 Thies, Senegal. 2. University Alioune DIOP of Bambey, Higher Institute of Agricultural and Rural Training (ISFAR) PO Box 54, Bambey, Senegal. ...................................................................................................................... Manuscript Info Abstract ......................... ........................................................................ Manuscript History Received: 09 July 2019 Final Accepted: 12 August 2019 Published: September 2019


The students' feedback on the Land Administration Systems subjects often includes a desire for experiencing social, environmental, and economic issues related to land in a less theoretical manner. In response to this feedback, a game based 3D Virtual Environment called, Saving Earth, Populating Mars, has been developed for the Land Administration Systems subject at the University of Melbourne. In this 3D VE game, students gain knowledge to collect information about a country and analyse the information for designing and developing policy, workflow, databases, and information systems for land administration in that country.


Recently, air pollution has become a serious problem in thickly populated and industrialized areas in Thailand, especially in Bangkok. The air pollution in Bangkok is abundant, especially in areas where pollution sources and the human population are concentrated. Economic growth and industrialization are proceeding at a rapid pace, accompanied by increasing emissions of air polluting sources. Furthermore, the development of a suitable method for monitoring the pollution causing sources has not followed at the same pace. Recently the main pollutants causing such critical air pollution problem are Ozone (O3) and particulate matter i. e., total suspended particulate (TSP) and particulate matter lesser than 10 µm (PM10) as reported by the Pollution Control Department, Thailand (PCD). To prevent or minimize the damage caused by atmospheric pollution, suitable monitoring systems are urgently needed that can rapidly and reliably detect and quantify polluting sources for monitoring by regulating authorities in order to prevent further deterioration of the current pollution levels. Consequently, it is important that the current air quality monitoring system, controlled by the PCD, should be adapted or extended to aid in alleviating this problem. So as to carry out air pollution monitoring over an extensive area, a combination of ground measurements through inexpensive sensors and Internet GIS are employed for this purpose. This portable device, comprising commercial tungsten oxide (WO3) semiconducting gas sensor integrated to a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) linked through Bluetooth communication tools and Global Positioning System (GPS), will allow rapid dissemination of information on pollution levels at multiple sites simultaneously. To provide air quality report can be then published using Internet GIS in order to contribute a real-time information service for the PCD, for increased public awareness and enhanced public participation. The investigations of this new sensor technology are discussed in detail as well as a summary of the advantages and disadvantages of using this portable device will is concluded in the paper.


In the days when grandma 's (or grandpa 's) story-telling was our TV, magic was a dai ly ingredient of our lives. Writers such as Toni Mon-ison, Gabriel García Márquez or Angela Carter acknowledge this childhood experience as a major influence not only in thc ir work but also in their approach LO reality. There exists. then:fore. a hybrid literary lrad ition that builds on that challenging approach: «marve ll ous real ism» or «magic realism.»1 In magic realism what is usua lly considered incredible and fantastic bccomes acceptable, commonplace ancl normal. In the meamime, the logic-based system of beliefs that governs our «rational world» is totally disrupted. Among Asian American narrative books it was Kingston's Tht! H'rmum i~1rrior ( 1976) the first one to consciously stray from the realistic discursive model and thus open thc way for a more protcan and dialogic conception both of reality and of art. In «White Tigers» and especially in the section ent itled «S haman» Maxine Hong Kingston consciously indulges in the magic reali stic mode. Amy Tan 's third novel, The H1111(/red Secret Se11ses ( 1995 ), consti tutes another example of magic realism. It is my aim here to trace this literary mode in The Hu11dred Secret Se11ses and analyse the implications and rcasons behind its use. The H1111dred Secret Senses depicts Cal ifornian yuppie Olivia's coming to terms wi th her Chinese heritage. embodied in the narrati vc by the intruding presence of her half-sister from China, Kwan. The novel conjures up the magic of Kwan's Yin Eyes as well as a whole array of ghosts who frighten Olivia's childhood and permanently haunt both the Chinese and the American sisters. The Hundred Secret


The oxi do-reductive interaction of Cu(II)-glycylglycine and cysteine was examined with electron spin resonance ( ESR) spectroscopy using a continuous-flow technique. Firstly, Cu(II)-glycylglycine associates with cysteine to form a ternary complex, which is decomposed subsequently (relaxation time = 150 msec) to ESR silent species. When an excess of cysteine is added, the ternary complex is transformed to unidentified Cu(II) species, probably Cu(II)-cysteine complexes, undergoing rapid decomposition to Cu(I) species.


The communicating home concept has been defined by
identifying the dominating communication technologies
to/from and in the homes, the most important customer
behavior and user needs, the dominating products and the
dominating actors of the industry.
The evaluation of the communicating home industry has been
performed with a five forces framework analysis and theories
regarding value migration and value structures of industries. It
has been concluded that actors of communication technologies,
goods and access services will compete fiercely. The barriers
of entry will however be high. When it comes to content
services the situation is completely different. These actors will,
to the largest extent, meet lower competition and low barriers
of entry. As a consequence a value migration from
communication technologies, goods and access services to
content services will occur.
TeliaSonera is suggested to develop a content service portal. It
should, in its first version, contain IPTV, music on demand,
video on demand, data security, online storing and online
gaming in the first place. The TeliaSonera group has the right
prerequisites to implement and capitalize on a content service
portal. In addition to the content service portal some other
business opportunities have also been addressed in the business
model.


Objective:To cultivate a Trichomonas vaginalis cell strain with Trichomonas vaginalis virus(TVV) in vitro culture.Methods: Trichomonas vaginalis collected from clinic was cultured by ox liver medium in vitro.In the different cultured time,the shape of Trichomonas vaginalis.was observed by light microscope and electron microscope.Results: Trichomonas vaginalis with Virus Strain grew very well in ox liver medium(PH=5.54) in vitro.Conclusion: The Trichomonas vaginalis with Virus Strain was succeedly cultured by liver medium in vitro.


Temperature is one of the most sensitive factors outside of sperm.The research on dilution and freezing method are more attained by people and the research on the nuclear technology of frozen semen' unfreezing method is lacking. But practice proved that the cooling effect being good or bad has more relation with temperature.For a long time,people follow in the footsteps of frozen semen of thaw temperature 38° c to 40 ° c in thaw frozen sperm.By this test,found different thaw temperature on cattle frozen sperm resuscitatio,other temperature thawed lower sperm motility.


Aim: The present research was conducted with the purpose of designing and determining some psychometric characteristics of the Sahm-based lifestyle questionnaire, and this study was done with a practical goal. Methods: The statistical population of the research included all people aged 18 to 60 living in Tehran in 2023, of which 389 people were selected through available sampling and answered the questionnaire. In order to check the validity of the questionnaire, the method of exploratory factor analysis was used, and the content validity of the instrument was confirmed by consulting experts. In order to check the reliability of the tool, Cronbach's alpha method was used. All statistical analyzes were performed by SPSS-25 software. Findings: Based on the findings of the research, exploratory factor analysis with principal components showed that the Sahm-based lifestyle questionnaire is a 13-component tool that explains 57.24 percent of the "Sahmgozari" (partake or sharing) variance. Cronbach's alpha of the whole questionnaire is 0.93 and for components such as meaning-based (0.78), responsibility-based (0.74), agency (0.73), security-based (0.71), principle-based (0.73), respect-based (0.71), intention-based (0.73) , personal peace (0.80), the best role-playing (0.72), formative relationships (0.67), bond-making (0.63), harmonization with goals (0.63), and selectiveness (0.65) were reported. Conclusion: According to the findings, it can be concluded that the Sahm-based lifestyle questionnaire has appropriate and acceptable validity and reliability in the sample of participants in the research.


Conventional wisdom maintained that low-cost, metallurgical (MG) silicon lacked the purity needed to create a reliable crystalline-silicon PV technology -- plain and simple. Since 1985, Texas Instruments (TI) -- in cooperation with Southern California Edison Co. -- has been engaged in a research and development effort aimed at purifying this abundant low-cost starting material. This research has resulted in what is proving to be a highly durable solar cell that registers efficiency levels near that of conventional PV. Inventor Jules Levine, TI director of advanced technology and associate project manager, hypothesized that it could be [open quotes]purified[close quotes] through a melt process. Upon reaching its melting point, he found that the silicon naturally retracts into a fairly pure sphere, while most of its impurities move to the outside where they can be removed. These purified spheres -- suggesting the name, Spheral Solar[trademark] technology -- are embedded in a light-weight aluminum screen and bonded through a thermomechanical process. The technique produces a uniform array that can be interconnected either in series or parallel to meet varying user power requirements. The unique characteristics of the technology -- spheres embedded in aluminum -- provide both flexibility and durability. Flexible front coverings take advantagemore » of the technology's ability to conform to multiple surfaces, taking any number of shapes. In addition, TI is currently exploring coloring techniques that will provide greater design freedom. TI is in the early commercialization phases of Spheral Solar[trademark] technology, with efforts currently concentrated on product reliability, efficiency levels, and factory scale-up.« less


Water and sediment are inconsistent in the Yellow River for less water and more sediment.Harmony between water and sediment,obtained by united operation of reservoirs,artificial intervention of sediment and water diversion controli,s beneficial to sedimentation control of the lower Yellow River.The targets of water and sediment regulation can be examined and optimized by prototype observation tests which are able to provide significant data and references for sedimen-tation control of the lower Yellow River and operation of Xiaolangdi reservoir.From 2002 to 2007t,hree tests and four op-eration schedules for water and sediment regulation were conducted by the Yellow River conservancy commission,and huge social and economic benefits were obtained.


The method of forming three-dimensional objects, (a) providing a carrier and the build plate, the build plate comprises a semi-permeable member, and permeable member includes a build surface, the build surface and the carrier build area therebetween the formation and the build surface includes the steps of in fluid communication with a source of a polymerization inhibitor by the semi-permeable member; (B) a step of charging a polymerizable liquid on a build area, the polymerizable liquid is a step of contacting a build surface; (C) irradiating the build area over the build plate On the other hand, solid state polymerization zone and to form or maintain the fluid film separation layer comprising a polymerizable liquid formed between the build surface to produce a solid-state polymerization zone to build area step is a step, wherein the liquid film polymerization inhibited by the polymerization inhibitor; And (d) between the polymerization zone and the building surface is performed by the advancing away from the build surface on the build plate with a polymerization section attached to the carrier there to generate the subsequent build area, (e) a carrier having at least one channel formed therein, the filling phase is over at least one channel to pass the polymerizable liquids in the build area or running by pressing. An apparatus for practicing the above method are also described.


For some languages of the Lowland Mayan area, the Proto-Mayan 1 PL markers shifted from general plural reference to some other number or clusivity: 1 SG , 1 DUAL , 1 PL . INCL , or 1 PL . EXCL . In this paper, the Lowland Mayan first person shift is compared to other instances of person marker referent reanalysis found in a recent comprehensive survey of these processes in Bantu, Dravidian, Mayan, Mongolic, Semitic, and Totonacan. Shifts from 1 PL sources are found to be very common in these language families, putting the Mayan shifts in good company. Further, evidence is presented that the common 1 PL > 1 SG shift is actually a multi-stage change cycle, involving at least two steps: 1. plural form shifts to general number reference destroying paradigmatic number contrast, and 2. the general is forced into singular reference upon the morphological innovation of a new plural for contrast renewal. The two clusive outcomes of the first person shift (1 PL > 1 PL . INCL and 1 PL > 1 PL . EXCL ) share a common pathway with the loss and gain of clusivity in Mongolic and Dravidian, in which the innovation of a new clusive forces the 1 PL into the opposite clusivity. Finally, although the shift from 1 PL > 1 DUAL is not present in any of the other families studied, it answers the question of what happens to a plural marker when both a new inclusive and new exclusive are innovated. These last three shifts appear to be fundamentally different than the 1 PL > 1 shift, corresponding to a general division in the referent reanalyses surveyed between dependent shifts (e.g. 1 PL > 1 DUAL ), occurring as responses to other changes in the person marking paradigm, and independent ones (1 PL > 1 SG ), which are not dependent on any other changes. This division is predicted by models of pronoun structure where some ɸ -features are structurally encoded while others are pragmatically implicated due to paradigm contrast.


Although tea infusions of Artemisia annua L. and Artemisia apiacea have been used > 2000 years in traditional Chinese medicine, there was no apparent resistance development to malaria parasites. Artemisinin was isolated and characterized in 1972 as the major potent antimalarial component of A. annua. This and a number of its derivatives have been promoted in combination therapy (ACTs) with other antimalarials with different mechanisms of action. However, recent reports on artemisinin resistance have posed a major health security risk globally. The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of cyclic exposures of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum to a phytochemical blend of Artemisia annua (extracted with solvents of different polarity)with those of pure artemisinin to see if the natural blend has a built-in resistance-mitigating effect on artemisinin against the parasite.


The corrosion rate and hydrogen absorption of TC4 titanium alloy in HF-HNO3 system were investigated.Meanwhile corrosion behavior was studied in HF-HNO3 system by use of electrochemical method.The results show that the corrosion rate increased with the HF concentration and temperature increasing.However,when the concentration of HNO3 gradually increased,the corrosion rate initially rose and then decreased.Hydrogen absorption capacity of TC4 titanium alloy was lower in HF-HNO3 system.The HNO3 content was higher.The hydrogen absorption capacity was lower.In the solution containing HF single,active characteristics occurred in the polarization curve,after HNO3 was added to HF solution,obvious active-passive transition characteristics could be seen in the polarization curve.When the concentration of HNO3 reached the threshold value,the polarization curve showed the self-passivation trend and the stability of passive film improved.During the corrosion process,HNO3 could promote the surface passivation and inhibit hydrogen formation.


Green projects continue to expand rapidly as a result of growing concerns about environment and energy efficiency. According to the Engineering News Record (ENR), green retrofits and new green building construction will probably represent 20%-30% of the non-residential market by value in the next five years. At the same time, green elements are increasingly incorporated into infrastructure planning, design, construction, and maintenance. Along with the growth of green market, going green in the AEC industry not only demonstrates corporate social responsibility, but also can yield significant economic benefits. However, the actual cost and benefits of going green have not yet been thoroughly measured. The issue is even more pressing under the current economic recession when many companies are forced to cut costs and close unprofitable operations. This paper provides an empirical analysis of the financial performance of green and conventional companies. The companies are selected from the ENR top contractor and design firm list, Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) series, and Newsweek 500 green U.S. companies . The DuPont method and Economic Value Added analysis were used to evaluate the performance of green and conventional companies based on several aspects: profitability, financing, activity, tax, and operation. A comparison analysis of the 12 pairs of conventional and green firms shows a significant difference in return on equity (17.44% vs 8.72%) and economic value added (1.08% vs -0.743%) between green and conventional AEC firms. The results of the analysis also raise an important question of how one can determine a green contractor, and what are the green strategies for construction firms.


Abstract Depression in late life is associated with disability, lower quality of life, increased mortality, and risk of suicide. Research suggests that functional disability, which is often brought about by a medical condition, may precede depressive symptoms and may be a major factor for older adults developing depression. Social support can be beneficial for both emotional and physical health. Numerous studies demonstrate that social networks, perceived and subjective social support, and satisfaction with support received moderate the relation between health problems and depression. Findings are mixed regarding received and objective social support and only one study was found that examined the impact of giving support to others. The current study addressed gaps in the literature by focusing on three facets of social relationships: availability of support, participant giving help, and participant receiving help. Data from the 2011 wave of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study were used (N = 3906; mean age of 71.27; SD = .948). We examined the relationships between medical conditions, functional impairment, depressive symptoms, and social support using regression analyses. Medical conditions and functional impairment each independently predicted depressive symptoms. Availability of support significantly predicted lower levels of depressive symptoms and amount of help received predicted higher levels of depressive symptoms, controlling for medical conditions and functional impairment. These findings suggest that simply having someone available, not necessarily interacting with them for help, could reduce depressive symptoms in older adults.


Based on the description of inspiring meaning, the essay studies the form, development, and the applicable scope of inspiring theory. It analyses the present situation of the causation inspiring mechanism on the basis of the survey on working enthusiasm of the universities' logistics staff in Zhejiang. It also puts forward some inspiring means and methods respectively to establish a certain comparatively scientific and perfect inspiring mechanism of management of universities' logistics staff.


In this poster we propose the first proof-of-concept open-source implementation of a 5G Mobile Gateway based on eBPF/XDP and present benchmarks that compare its performance with alternative technologies. We show how it outperforms other in-kernel solutions (e.g., OvS) and is comparable with DPDK-based platforms.


Governments and bilateral and multilateral development agencies are engaging the private sector to deliver a range of services traditionally delivered by the public sector. Such PPPs involve new arrangements under which governments obtain services through contracts with direct payments or various forms of subsidization. PPPs are also increasingly valued as a means of unleashing the private sector's capacity to generate innovation in the rural sector. This note discusses the opportunities and constraints of PPPs, including their institutional settings, the capacities and skills on both sides, partnership arrangements (especially the need for contracts that clearly define outcomes and ensure accountability), and the need for independent supervision and monitoring of PPPs.


We use a sample of 14 OECD countries to test for the effect of trade on productivity at different levels of aggregation : a sample of 15 manufacturing industries, aggregate manufacturing, services, and the total economy. Endogeneity concerns are accounted for using the geographical component of trade as instrument as suggested by Frankel and Romer (1999). We find that trade increases productivity, even if country -fixed effects such as the quality of institutions are controlled for. Estimates at the aggregate manufacturing level turn out much larger, emphasizing the role of inter - industry spillovers. We cannot identify, however, important spillover effects between manufacturing and services. The aggregate estimates suggest that an increase in openness by 1 percent raises productivity by 0.2 percent.


The genomic region carrying the rat fssue-type piasrnincgen activator (tPA) gene induding its 5'-ffanking sequence has been isolated. A rat tPA cDNA clone isolated earlier in this laboratory was used as the hybridRation probe to isolate the gene from a rat genomic fiiraty doned in the lambda EMDL 3 vector. Three overlapping dones that together cover a 40 kiiobase chromosanal regioncanythetPAgene. lhegene stmcture was elucidated by reskfdion mafqing, Southern blotting, and DNAsequencingofaiithecod~parts,asweliesthe5cRankingregion. TherattPAgenecontains1Sintronsthatdividethegeneintoi4coding regions codrig for struduraf/funotional &mains. The size of the exons and their location in the protein structure is identical to the human counterpart, but the size of the introns varies between the two species. AiitheexonMronboundarfesagreewiththe"GT-AG'ruieandthetotai size of the gene is 25 kilobases. To characterize the prcmoter region, 1400 bp of the 5-flanking region was sequenced and potential binding sites for transacting transcriptional factors induding the CAMP responsive element were localized. Thetranscription initiation site was identified by Si mapplng.


One of the hardest things to do is to admit a mistake. But we can often learn valuable lessons when we analyze why we made our mistakes and when we admit our vulnerability to the unknown. In 1984, the authors published an article that described what they referred to privately as a geologic Moebius loop where a seismic grid appeared to grossly mistie. They though they stayed in the same Paleozoic carbonate formation all the way around the loop. Drilling subsequent to that article has deepened the mystery of the correlations by proving that the target formations were indeed limestones and showing they may not be the Paleozoic limestones they though they started in but are perhaps a new, previously undescribed sequence of thick Tertiary lacustrine limestone. The Yates La Mesa 2 well in Sec. 24, T17N, R8E, has spawned more questions than it has answered, but it has paradoxically also pointed out the potential for new and exciting plays in the Rio Grande rift basins and has given them an opportunity to show how previous misinterpreted work can teach new lessons. Seismic lines in the rift and in the Yates well illustrate how they can both deceive and inspiremore » themselves in the search for hydrocarbons.« less


This paper consists in constructing and modeling Dynamic Mu lti Generative Network Flows in which the flow commodities is dynamically generated at source nodes and dy amically consumed at sink nodes. It is assumed that the source nodes produce the flow commodities according to k time gen rative functions and the sink nodes absorb the flow commodities according to k time consumption functions. The minimum cost dynamic flow problem in such networks that extend the classical optimal flow problems on static net works, for a pre-specified time horizon T is defined and mathematically formulated. Moreover, it is showed that the dynamic problem on these networks can be formulated as a linear program whose special structure permits efficient co mputations of its solution and can be solved by one minimum cost static flow computation on an auxiliary time-commodity expanded network. By using flow decomposition theorem, we elaborate a different model of the problem to reduce its co mplexity. We consider the problem in the general case when the cost and capacity functions depend on time and commo dity.


Abstract Adult females of the wolf spider Pardosa milvina (Hentz 1844) are known to show adaptive antipredator responses in the presence of chemical cues (silk and excreta) from the larger co-occurring wolf spider Hogna helluo (Walckenaer 1837). We tested if the presence of H. helluo cues affected P. milvina spiderling dismounts from their mothers. Immediately after females opened their egg sacs, we counted offspring and placed spiderling-carrying females on one of three experimental substrates: 1) container previously occupied for 24 h by an adult conspecific female, 2) container previously occupied for 24 h by a juvenile H. helluo equal in mass to an adult P. milvina, or 3) a control container devoid of either cue. We then measured the proportion of spiderlings that dismounted from their mothers over a six-day period. Spiderling dismounts peaked by day three, after which spiderlings tended to return to their mother. During day one, significantly fewer spiderlings were dismounted from the mother in containers previously occupied by a juvenile H. helluo compared to other treatments. There was no significant difference in dismounts among treatments during days 2–6. Since spiderlings were maximally dismounted by day three, we suggest that spiderlings may tend to disperse into areas with fewer H. helluo.


The aim of my bachelor's thesis "Watching Reality Shows: Habits and Motives"
was to research people's habits and motives of watching reality shows. More
precisely, I studied how popular are reality shows among Estonian TV viewers, which
are their habits and motives of watching reality shows, which are their attitudes
towards reality shows and the contestants of the shows. If most of the thesis concerns
with reality shows as a TV in general, then more explicitly I analyse people's attitudes
towards two Estonian reality shows, Naistevahetus and Baar. These two shows
deserve more attention, because Naistevahetus is the most popular reality show in
Estonia according to the number of TV viewers and Baar received the most attention
and media publicity when compared to other reality shows in Estonia.
I have based my results and conclusions of this very research on eleven in depth-
interviews with my friends and acquaintances.
According to the results of my bachelor's thesis, reality shows are very popular
among Estonian TV viewers, which are also proven by the number of viewers
according to Emor-research and the answers of the interviewees. The most popular
reality show in Estonia is Naistevahetus which is followed by Baar according to the
preference of the interviewees. The results confirm my hypothesis that home-
produced reality shows are more popular among Estonian TV viewers than foreign
shows. Still, some respondents preferred foreign shows because the producers of these
shows have better material resources and technical means, which enable to make
more exciting shows.
People do not have regular habits of watching reality shows; they usually watch
the shows when they happen to stumble upon them on television. Generally people
prefer to watch the shows together with other people so that they can have a live
discussion about the things happening on the screen. Therefore I conclude that the
hypothesis about people watching the shows together with someone else and
discussing them while watching was true.
The hypothesis that reality shows are an important theme in people's
conversations turned out to be incorrect. Half of the interviewees did not talk about
reality shows with their collocutors and even if some respondents did, the topic was
not considered to be a substantial one. As media declares reality shows to be an important theme in people's talks, it may be alleged that it is mainly a myth created
by media itself.
People give different reasons for watching reality shows. One of the reasons was
that the trend of reality shows has arrived in Estonia and therefore there are no
alternative good programs to reality shows on Estonian TV channels. Reality shows
are also considered to be exciting, emotional programs which present reality. People
in Estonia also get their motivation and inspiration to watch reality shows because of
extensive promotion and advertising
People's attitude towards reality shows and their contestants depends much on the
concrete show and the way the contestant behaves on the screen. The participators are
not considered to be stars; the fact that a celebrity is born out of them is taken as the
speciality of small Estonian society.
The interviewees do not have certain standpoint about the question whether reality
shows present actual or artificial reality. Many respondents believe the shows to
present real life and some people believe the shows to follow a written screenplay.
The surprising outcome of the research was that interviewees, even those who
regularly watch the shows, have negative attitudes towards Naistevahetus and Baar.
The main reason was that the respondents did not understand the message of the
shows. This outcome may be considered as a result of normative answers – people
watch the shows but condemn them at the same time.
It is difficult to study what motivates people to watch reality shows because
people are not induced only by notorious motives but also by subconscious motives.
As people do not know and understand many motives themselves, they cannot give
thorough reasons for watching reality shows. The other problem, which complicated
the research, was the fact that people's answers could not be taken biunique, because
of the possibility of normative answers.
Despite the several problems, which occurred during my study, the topic was
worth to be researched. Reality shows have earned extensive media publicity in
Estonia which makes them to be an object of public interest. I find that the present
was the best time to study the topic because reality shows received the largest
popularity and media publicity in Estonia during the autumn 2004 television season.
The research was considered to be important also by the interviewees. Namely,
they thanked me for the interview because due to that they realised how many reality
shows they actually watch and started to analyse the motives of wathing the shows.


The theoretical model of the position synchronization control system of electro-hydraulic servo valve controlled cylinder based on the PID and the coordinative control strategy of multi-hydraulic cylinder was proposed. The design of the PID parameters of the system was optimized by using the genetic algorithm. The results show that the control method with a high synchronization precision and speed.


I quit smoking cigarettes seven days ago. I've quit before and I understand that this horrible loneliness and depression are just some of the withdrawal symptoms, but I don't know how to lessen the depression. Most of my friends are smokers, so I'm not going out much and I live alone. Is there a treatment for this kind of depression? How long does this last? It lasted over a month the last time I tried to quit smoking.


A wave energy absorption device comprises a buoy (20) adapted to move with movements of water, and a buoy oscillation device (21; 21c) attached to the buoy (20), the buoy oscillation device comprising an elongated means (210) and a rotary means (211) adapted to interact with the elongated means. A hydraulic pump with variable displacement (24) is connected to the rotary means (211) and connectable to a hydraulic circuit (51, 52). When the buoy (20) moves with movements of water, relative movement is created between the elongated means (210) and the rotary means(211), whereby the hydraulic pump (24) transforms kinetic energy into hydraulic energy which is exported to the hydraulic hose (51), and whereby a torque is applied to the rotary means (211) by the hydraulic pump (24) to dampen or amplify the movements of the buoy (20). When a plurality of buoys are connected to a central hub (10), the buoy oscillation device (21; 21c) provides individual control of the force applied to the buoy by change of displacement in the hydraulic pump (24). A complete power take-off assembly and system with high efficiency and extended control capabilities for a wave energy array with multiple buoys attached with a central hub is provided.


The current study focuses on the educational environment which occurred in the period of Abdulhamid II (1876-1909), and pioneered and established the background for the Republican period, the desired type of individuals to be raised, and the knowledge-power relations having an effect there upon. This study is based on document review on the basis of the qualitative research method. The period of Abdulhamid II (1876-1909) is marked with its unique features in the Ottoman Empire, undergoing a progressive weakening particularly following the expansion of nation-state concept invented by the French Revolution and military failures. The study analyzes the reflections of determinant knowledge-power relations of the period in question over education, and examines the social changes. While performing this, the study also discusses ideas, political developments, youth-led movements, and domestic and international political structure of the state, contributing to the mentioned period and the reflections on social life. The findings of the study reveal that the educational paradigms of the Abdulhamid II period and the human training principle were effected and supported by ideas created nationally and internationally as well as political and social movements. The fact that neo-nationalist/nationalist paradigms marking the period, improved and rooted step by step towards the republic as from the period of the late Ottoman Empire and became the driving force to shape the educational understandings is justified.


The Northeast is the area which has been highly urbanized in China.But in the recent years the urbanization and the city system construction of this area confronts many problems,such as prominent drying up of the resources,the short of water resources and serious water pollution,and insufficiency in impetus ability of big or media-sized cities.During the process of the revitalization of the Northeast,speeding up the development of the urbanization and establishing the reasonable city system is the important strategic mission.Therefore,based on enhancing the land use efficiency,strengthening ecological and environmental protection and optimizing economic structure,in accordance with the principle of the first and optimized development of the big or media-sized cities and the moderate development of the small cities,urbanization and the city network construction shall be advanced by speeding up the transformation of the old industrial district of the big or media-sized cities,improving the city's basic infrastructure,water pollution prevention and and strengthening the management and coordination of regional administration.


S CF PAPERS PRESENTFD AT INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS. 1. X Teeting on tre European Tumor Virus Group, October 1976, Grindelwald, Switzerland. Impaired processing of precursor poly peptides of reTperature-sersit I ve Tutants of Rauscher leukemia vi rus. 2. Oncornavirus Workshop, March 1977, Basel, Switzerland. Impaired processing of env-related gene products. 3. Meeting on RNA Tumor viruses, Уау 1977, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA. Impaired expression of the envgene of Rauscher leu kemia virus. 4. VIII Inrernational Symposium on Comparative Research on LeuKemia and Related Diseases, August 1977, Amsterdam, The Ne+herlands. Impaired gene expression of Rauscher murine leukemia virus. 5. Meeting on RNA Tumor Viruses, v a y 1978, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA. Biological assay of in ν i t ro synthesized subgenomlc DNA fragments of murine Іеикетіа virus by marker rescue.


Economic and political globalisation are inevitably accompanied by a kind of ideological globalisation, a transnational ideology which legitimises them. In other words, an ideology to justify, on the one hand, the minimisation of the state's role in the economy —which, in a market economy system implies a corresponding maximisation of the role of the market and private capital— and, on the other, the decrease of national sovereignty, which complements the corresponding decrease of economic sovereignty implied by economic globalisation. The core, therefore, of ideological globalisation consists of two basic "dogmas": the dogma of limited economic sovereignty and the dogma of limited national sovereignty.


The spatio-temporal dispersion patterns of adult leafhoppers (sampled with yellow sticky-boards) in deciduous orchards, apple, Malus silvestris Miller, and nectarine, Persica vulgaris Miller, were studied using spatial autocorrelation statistics. Leafhoppers were absent from the orchards before mid-May. Both, Asymetrasca decedens (Paoli) and Edward-siana rosae L., colonized the orchards following the blooming of trees. The 2 species were abundant in the apple orchard, producing 2 generations within the orchard. A. decedens dominated in the nectarine orchard, developing at least 1 generation within the orchard. Both species showed an aggregated spatial pattern at the edge of the orchards during the colonization wave. The spatial pattern of A. decedens in both orchards changed from aggregated to random with each successive generation, and the population of E. rosae maintained aggregated patterns during the entire season. We suggest that the change in the aggregative pattern of A. decedens resulted from the outward spread of the growing populations. Maintenance of the aggregative pattern by E. rosae was probably related to both the outward spread of the population with each reproductive pulse and the successive colonization waves from the surrounding vegetation.


Advanced lightweight materials such as laminated composites with carbon fibres, cylindrical shells and laminated plates are used in modern civil engineering structures, such as wind power stations, as well as in the defence and automotive industries. This encourages the search for new composite structures characterised by adequately high durability and lightness. This paper determined the strains and displacements of composite specimens reinforced with carbon fibre using an innovative strain measurement method based on the fibre Bragg grating. The results of theoretical analyses were also compared using classical laminating theory and the FEM numerical method with the results of practical tests, which were carried out using the 4-point bending test, characterised by a constant bending moment between the supports and the considerable impact of shearing forces. The actual, highest values of normal stresses that the carbon fibre reinforced sample could transfer were determined. The results obtained may be useful in the design of critically stressed engineering elements, for example, civil structures.


In this paper, we present an event-based Epidemic Intelligence (EI) system framework leveraging social media data, e.g., Twitter messages (or tweets) for providing public health officials the necessary tools to survey and sift through relevant information, namely, disease outbreak events. There exists three main research challenges in gathering epidemic intelligence from social media streams: 1) dynamic classification to enable message filtering, 2) signal generation producing reliable warnings based on observed term frequency changes in the filtered messages, and 3) providing search and recommendation functionalities to domain experts, for better assessment of the potential outbreak threats associated with the generated signals. We outline possible approaches to solve these important challenges as well as discuss areas where further research is required. The aim of this paper is to provide guidance for similar endeavors, and to give prospective event-based Epidemic Intelligence system builders a more realistic view on the benefits and issues of social media stream analysis.


For decision making, it's necessary to predict reservoir's behavior using reliable models. Reservoir characterization is an essential step for integrating available data. EnKF (Ensemble Kalman Filter) is a powerful method. It uses recursive updates and provides uncertainty assessment. EnKF has been rarely applied to characterization of gas reservoirs in spite of its active research for oil reservoirs. Gas reservoirs show typically high recovery and are less sensitive to permeability uncertainty. However, the recovery of gas reservoirs is highly affected by an aquifer and an aquifer has high uncertainty. Therefore, aquifer characterization is crucial to the management of gas reservoirs. Previously, there are studies about characterization of aquifer factors, which required 4D gravimetric data. However, this approach has limitation due to continuous measurement of gravimetric data with time. This paper suggests a method to characterize permeability distribution and aquifer size of gas reservoirs considering its uncertainty. EnKF is used to integrate available production data. By applying the proposed method to gas reservoirs, it shows reliable reservoir characterization and future predictions of gas and water productions. Above all, it assimilated very successfully aquifer factors, although we assigned 4 different aquifers for each side of the reservoir.


Functionality of a square used for ferry boats boarding has repercussions on safety and comfort of users, as well as on the efficiency of maritime transport. Inadequate use of the infrastructure causes driving errors followed by corrective manoeuvres, loss of time and potential accidents with consequences for community and the maritime transport company. The wide diversification of traffic components and payment methods are generally managed through a traditional horizontal and vertical signage system that does not refer to any current legislation. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate driver's behaviour and the interaction that takes place between the latter and the environmental context. In particular, the authors focused on the study of the driver's workload in a simulated environment, considering a users' sample and different driving scenarios inside the boarding area, concerning traffic conditions (isolated vehicle or presence of disturbing vehicles) and signs position. All this, in order to evaluate whether any change in a virtual context could bring real benefits to drivers, before being transferred to the real context. The results obtained, in terms of subjective workload and performance measures, have made it possible to judge the different solutions proposed in a simulated environment through synthetic indices referring to the entire boarding place or at certain parts of it. In this way, the manager can decide to change the circulation of the entire square or only some aspects of detail, such as some signals, in the event that they manifest an evident difficulty in the transfer of information. The use of the simulated environment allows greater speed in identifying the best solution, lower costs (avoiding the creation of a critical configuration for circulation) and greater user safety, since risky manoeuvres are identified and corrected by the simulator. The proposed procedure can be used by managers for a correct arrangement of the signs, for the purpose of correctly directing the flows and maximizing the flow rate disposed of.


Conservation laws for time-domain signals propagating along general multiconductor transmission-line structures are derived. Conservation of voltage-pulse areas and current-pulse areas are obtained from fundamental principles based directly on Maxwell's equations. Underlying assumptions are described and discussed.


197Background: Because childhood cancer survivors (CCS) report a high number of unmet cancer-related information needs, knowing where CCS access information may provide insights into appropriate delivery systems to address information deficits. Active seeking of health information among CCS is associated with positive health behaviors, including adherence to follow-up care. This study examined patterns of cancer-related health information seeking as an indicator of health care engagement. Methods: Participants (N = 193) were young adult CCS diagnosed with any cancer type in Los Angeles County, 54% Hispanic, with a mean age of 19.87, and at least two years from treatment. CCS were asked where they accessed health information related to their cancer with 8 response options which were categorized into four information domains: hospital resources, social media, other survivors, and family members. Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess correlates of each information domain, including sociodemogr...