Introduction: Nonoperative treatment of fracture of humeral diaphysis generally has provided acceptable results. However, to achieve faster
union and early return to preinjury state along with preserving functionality and motion of adjacent joints, operative management is preferable.
Various choices of internal xation for managing these fractures exist. However, the preferred method of internal xation for these fractures
remains debatable. to compare the clinical, radiological, functional outcome Aim: of plate Osteosynthesis versus intramedullary nailing in
management of diaphyseal humerus fracture in adults. a prospective, randomized study Method: including 49 patients with diaphyseal fracture of
humerus randomized into two groups in which one group (n=29) was treated with internal xation with plate Osteosynthesis while the other group
(n=20) was treated with antegrade intramedullary nailing. Parameters examined included shoulder and elbow range of motion and evidence of
clinical and radiological union along with presence of any complication. Mean a Result: ge of the patients in the Plating group was 44.3 years while
in the Nailing group, it was 42.9 years. Mean time to radiological union in the plating was 17.6 weeks compared to 15.7 weeks in the nailing group.
Non union was seen in 6.8% of patients with plating as compared to 10% in patients treated with nail. Mean ASES score for plating group was 81.6
while for the nailing group it was 76.3.
Conclusion: For diaphyseal fracture of humerus in adults, both the treatment modalities i.e. antegrade intramedullary nailing and internal xation
with plating are almost similar with regard to functional outcome and union rate. Antegrade Intramedullary nailing has better rate of union but is
associated with signicantly increased risk of shoulder complications which may adversely affect outcome. Plating isour treatment modality of
choice for managing these fractures in view of minimal complications with optimal outcome.


This paper presents the analysis of digital single side band (DSSB) modulation technique with pilot symbol assisted modulation (PSAM). As a measure of the difficulty of linearization, the dynamic range, defined as the ratio of maximum to minimum instantaneous powers is commonly used. DSSB modulation is shown to provide the much reduced dynamic range from 5.5 dB to 8.9 dB whereas the dynamic range of QPSK is infinite and the dynamic range of OQPSK is around 11 dB. With DSSB, therefore, we can adopt more efficient amplifier with much simplified linearizer design. Besides, the proposed DSSB system does not need very sharp cutoff filtering and only sloped filtering, such as a raised cosine filtering, can be used.


Recent scientific and technological advances have enabled the detection of gravitational waves, autonomous driving, and the proposal of a communications network on the Moon (Lunar Internet or LunaNet). These efforts are based on the measurement of minute displacements and their corresponding force transduction, which enables acceleration, velocity, and position determination for navigation. State‐of‐the‐art accelerometers use capacitive or piezoresistive techniques and micro‐electromechanical systems (MEMS) via integrated circuit (IC) technologies to drive transducers and convert their output for electric readout. In recent years, laser optomechanical transduction and readout have enabled highly sensitive detection of motional displacement. Here the theoretical framework is further examined for the novel mechanical frequency readout technique of optomechanical transduction when the sensor is driven into oscillation mode. Theoretical and physical agreements are demonstrated, and the most relevant performance parameters are characterized by a device with a 1.5 mg Hz−1 acceleration sensitivity, a 2.5 fm Hz−1/2 displacement resolution corresponding to a 17.02 µg Hz−1/2 force‐equivalent acceleration, and a 5.91 Hz nW−1 power sensitivity, at the thermodynamical limits. In addition, a novel technique is presented for dynamic range extension while maintaining the precision sensing sensitivity. This inertial accelerometer is integrated on‐chip and enabled for packaging, with a laser‐detuning‐enabled approach.


of the caste system by his students. He is embarrassed because he can give no answer other than a reference to theories which he regards as outdated and discredited. The book sets out to provide a new approach to the circumstances of caste's origin and the nature of the process involved. Klass opens by defending his decision to use any theoretical approach which seems useful, and by considering critically, and rejecting, as others have done before him, the classical origin theories based on racial purity (Risley) and occupation (Ibbetson, Nesfield). He then provides three grounds from which he proceeds, making three points derived from historical material, theoretical stance, and contemporary analysis, respectively. First, caste was not a creation of the Aryans but pre-existed them; second, in considering a problem of cultural evolution, one should focus primarily on its economic, ecological and technological dimensions ; and third, the basic unit of the caste system is the marriage-circle, which has as its main features the equality of its members and its operation as a group. His account of caste's origin is as follows. Originally, South Asia was inhabited by hunting and gathering peoples composed of egalitarian clans having few economic and no social exchanges and producing no surplus. By 4000 B.C. at the latest, rice and hard grain cultivation had been introduced in favourable ecological zones. This resulted in a surplus and attracted people from less favoured areas who accepted positions in which they gave agricultural or specialized occupational services. A system of redistribution and stratification grew up between groups within which an egalitarian structure existed—the prototype of the ranked marriage circles now called castes. Such a scenario cannot be ' proved ' of course; nor should it be regarded as ' inevitable ' or the result of uni-directional forces of cultural evolution. But it is a probable result, says Klass, of a particular concatenation of a number of factors. I enjoyed reading this book, as Klass says he enjoyed writing it. Its style is direct, and admirably clear. I think, too, that Klass's starting-point is justified : questions about the origin of caste will continue to be asked and cannot always be evaded. But I also think that Klass's book will not entirely satisfy his questioners. Whilst the scenario it puts forward is a convincing possibility, it covers only the development from ' pre-caste' to the emergent institution. However, questions about the origin of caste are as often directed to the values which underlie the present system. Klass does not, for instance, discuss purity, although, as he says, ' I am fully aware that in the end all aspects of the system are significant for any understanding of the entire system and its origins ' (p. 136). His inclusion of contemporary data on marriage circles indicates part of what his approach might be, as does his approving reference to Dumont for those who seek an analysis of contemporary caste. But it is perhaps a cavil to ask for a connexion to be made between present theories about caste and what is here put forward. For, within its remit, this is a welcome book and there is no doubt that Klass on caste will be required reading.


Blockchain technology promises to perform tasks that have traditionally been assigned to the law and the realm of legal institutions. Smart contracts create agreements that are both automatable by computers and enforceable via the tamper-proof execution of computer codes. Based on such smart contracts, some providers of blockchain technologies offer 'to act as a digital jurisdiction'. The promise seems to be that law of the relevant jurisdiction is entirely substituted by the rules codified in the blockchain. However, even if it has often been argued that the 'Code Is Law', the law is not—and arguably never will be—entirely redundant. Therefore, the challenge is to identify the boundaries of such digital jurisdictions by clarifying the relationship between law and code and to develop new principles for conflicts of laws or rather principles for the conflict of laws and codes.


In this research ten samples of sustained vowels from outstanding singers were chosen, from which the frequency and amplitude variation waves were extracted. Then, mathematical algorithms were developed and implemented in order to measure objectively the wave symmetry. These algorithms were used to generate forty one parameters, from which twelve were selected. A statistical analysis was performed on these twelve 12 parameters in order to find the relationship between the wave symmetry and the sample quality.


Objective To discuss the clinical effect of gamma knife radiosurgery on patients with intracranial chondrosarcoma.Methods Four patients with residual chondrosarcoma (one male and three female),admitted to our hospital from November 2004 to January 2012 and verified by biopsy,were chosen in our study; their clinical data were retrospectively analyzed; the mean age of patients was 31.3 years (ranged from 26-36 years).The mean tumor volume of these patients by gamma knife radiosurgery was 13.8 cm3 (ranged from 0.6-25.4 cm3).The mean dose delivered to the tumor margin was 17.3 Gy (ranged from 15-20 Gy) and the mean tumor maximum dose was 35 Gy (ranged from 30-40 Gy).A mean often isocenters (range 4-19) were used for dose planning.All patients were followed up for 5 to 28 months (mean 14.5 months).Results Two patients had residual chondrosarcoma located in the left mastoid,and jugular foramen area and saddle area were followed up for 19 and 9 months,respectively;their tumors did not increase and the patients were alive and enjoyed good living.Recurrence happened inone patient had the right residual orbit-cranial communicating chondrosarcoma at 28 months of follow-up; she accepted twice operations because of the recurrent tumors,but the outcome was bad; and she was dead at 56 months after gamma knife treatment.One patient had residual chondrosarcoma in the left parasella appeared tumor recurrence with hydrocephalus at 5 months of follow-up,and then,follow up was lost.All the four patients had no complications associated with gamma knife radiosurgery.Conclusion Gamma knife radiosurgery can be an auxiliary therapy for residual chondrosarcoma after craniotomy,enjoying advantages as high accuracy,reliable clinical efficacy,being less damage to the surrounding tissues.

Key words:
Stereotactic radiosurgery;  Gamma knife;  Chondrosarcoma


We compare the absolute visual magnitude of the majority of bright O stars in the sky as predicted from their spectral type with the absolute magnitude calculated from their apparent magnitude and the Hipparcos parallax. We find that many stars appear to be much fainter than expected, up to five magnitudes. We find no evidence for a correlation between magnitude differences and the stellar rotational velocity as suggested for OB stars by Lamers et al. (1997), whose small sample of stars is partly included in ours. Instead, by means of a simulation we show how these differences arise naturally from the large distances at which O stars are located, and the level of precision of the parallax measurements achieved by Hipparcos. Straightforwardly deriving a distance from the Hipparcos parallax yields reliable results for one or two O stars only. We discuss several types of bias reported in the literature in connection with parallax samples (Lutz-Kelker, Malmquist) and investigate how they affect the O star sample. In addition, we test three absolute magnitude calibrations from the literature (Schmidt-Kaler et al. 1982; Howarth & Prinja 1989; Vacca et al. 1996) and find that they are consistent with the Hipparcos measurements. Although O stars conform nicely to the simulation, we notice that some B stars in the sample of Lamers et al. have a magnitude difference larger than expected.


In this paper we consider the 2-D problem of determining the location of a PEC cylinder in an unknown host medium using the Kirchhoff-based shape reconstruction algorithm. Inaccurate estimation of the relative permittivity of the host medium affects the shape reconstruction algorithm performance. By analyzing this effect and knowing the shape of object, its position is determined. For this purpose the multi-monostatic configuration is employed in the algorithm, which is common in the commercial Ground-Penetrating Radars (GPRs). In addition the truncated singular-value decomposition (TSVD) method is used to solve the inverse problem obtained from the Kirchhoff approximation.


We say that an alternative is socially acceptable if the number of individuals who rank it among their most preferred half of the alternatives is at least as large as the number of individuals who rank it among the least preferred half. A Condorcet winner may not necessarily be socially acceptable. However, if preferences are single-peaked, single-dipped, or satisfy the single-crossing property, any Condorcet winner is socially acceptable. We identify maximal families of preferences that guarantee that Condorcet winners are socially acceptable.


Particle swarm optimization (PSO) with the typical characteristic of swarm intelligence is a kind of novel evolution algorithm after ant colony algorithm. First,the basic principles of PSO and improved algorithm were introduced. Then,the research progress on PSO algorithm was summarized in such aspects as organization and evolution of population, hybrid PSO algorithm etc.


Problems that occur from the use of additives in food and the presence of contaminants that stem from their employment can be discussed from several points of view. Earlier papers in this symposium have concentrated primarily on the analytical difficulties of determining small concentrations of complex organic chemicals, on the toxicological hazards arising from the presence of trace concentrations of various compounds in food, and on the assessment of rational limits for permissible levels in diverse commodities and in the diet as a whole. The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of the use of additives and of the inevitable hazards inherent in such use on the nutritional status of the community in which they are used.


Men and women applied language distinct from each other in many ways. The thesis gives an illustration of gender differences in conversation and different interpretive frames within which the discourse between men and women take place. More profoundly,it tries to explain them from perspective of socialization.


The role of ownership heterogeneity in influencing the extent and nature of innovation has been neglected but is an important omission as ownership differences can influence the goals, time horizons, and governance mechanisms relating to innovation. In this article I develop a novel framework that explores the potential impact and future research avenues in firms with a variety of ownership forms based on whether the organizational form in which innovation takes place is either a new venture or an existing business, and whether ownership involves new independent owners or existing independent owners of the organization. With respect to organizational form, new ventures are effectively locked into innovation by definition, while existing businesses may find a balance between investing in innovation and exploiting previous innovations, and engaging in more incremental innovation. Existing independent owners may be expected to take a more sustained view of innovation over time while new owners may be time delimited in their innovation. On the basis of this framework I analyze the following ownership types: academic spin-offs, private equity backed management buyouts, family firms and firms owned by habitual entrepreneurs. I identify the need for research to explore other ownership forms and the interaction between ownership types and different contexts.


quantitative analysis and discuss the ideal copolymerization behaviour of bi-component using mathematical method,and quantitative describe the behaviour curve status and relative position of bi-component ideal copolymerization in differert condition.


A current-mode, second-order, fully-differential, offset-compensated delay-line for Lagucrre adaptive filters, is proposed. The compensation is realized using parametric feedback, in such a way that the bandwidth is not severely degraded. This compensation allows to use transistors of minimum longitude of channel, for what the bandwidth extends to intermediate-frequency without increasing the power consumption. Simulation results are presented using BSIM3 models, for a 0.5 μ MOSIS technology. Overall bandwidth of 125 MHz, THD of 1.2% and offset compensation of 84% are observed.


Thank you for the opportunity to respond to Shankar et al.'s letter to the editor regarding our article titled "Changing the surgical dogma in frontal sinus trauma: transnasal endoscopic repair" (Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2017;7:441–449.). The authors suggest that the study is biased toward the success of the endoscopic approach due to the sample size of 48 patients, average fracture size of 1 cm, and average clinical follow up of 28 months. Current surgical dogma within the plastic surgery,1 oral maxillofacial,2 and otolaryngology3 literature dictates that frontal sinus posterior table fractures must be routinely obliterated or cranialized and anterior table fractures treated with open reduction; however, we clearly show that this is not the case for many of these fractures. We do not propose that transnasal endoscopic repair completely replace open approaches. As noted in our algorithm,4 there are patients that do not fit our criteria for the endoscopic approach (eg, intracranial injury requiring neurosurgical intervention). This approach is also solely under the purview of otolaryngologists—specifically those who are proficient at endoscopic frontal sinus surgery. The authors are also mistaken that larger frontal defects have not been included in the study. Fractures spanning the entire bilateral posterior table are in this series as noted in Figure 1C,F of the article. We have a wide range of clinical follow-up that is mostly attributed to our hospital being the only level 1 trauma center in our state (service to 7 million people). Some patients have limited follow-up due to distance and limitations to care, others have more pressing posttraumatic issues, or they are monitored by an otolaryngologist near their home. However, follow-up after obliteration or cranialization is similarly limited, and most reported literature has a similar range of follow-up—some as short as an average of 9 months.5 One of the reasons for obliterating a sinus is to prevent mucocele formation when, in fact, mucocele rates are suspected to be as high as 25%.6 When using modern techniques and expertise, frontal sinus closure after Draf 2b or Draf 37 is likely to be much lower than the rate of mucocele formation observed when an open approach is employed and the sinus obliterated.


AbstractThe objectives of this research are to investigate effects of sludge properties in terms of particle size composition on performance of physical and chemical cleaning and to understand fouling mechanisms of the specific feed solutions. The sludge was centrifuged at three rotational speeds to differentiate particle size distributions, and the supernatant and residual flocs were used for microfiltration and cleaning processes. The filtration flux with the flocs was greater than those of the three supernatants, which indicates that fouling was greater with supernatants. Taking into account that the solid concentrations of the raw sludge and the residual flocs were 10 times greater than those of the supernatants, the reduction in flux for the supernatants is significant. The flux was recovered to 64% of the clean water flux at the maximum efficiency by two cleaning of membrane fouled with supernatant treated at 1,000 rpm. In addition, increasing removal of coarse particles by applying higher centrifug...


Non-equidistant non-homogenous grey model (abbreviated as NENGM (1,1, k) model) is a grey prediction model suitable for predicting time series with non-equal intervals. It is widely used in various fields of society due to its high prediction accuracy and strong adaptability. In order to further improve the prediction accuracy of the NENGM (1,1, k) model, the NENGM (1,1, k) model is optimized in terms of the cumulative order and background value of the NENGM (1,1, k) model, and a NENGM (1,1, k) model based on double optimization is established (abbreviated as FBNENGM (1,1, k) model), and the whale optimization algorithm is used to solve the best parameters of the model. In order to verify the feasibility and validity of the FBNENGM (1,1, k) model, the FBNENGM (1,1, k) model and other four prediction models are applied to three cases respectively, and three indexes commonly used to evaluate the performance of prediction models are used to distinguish. The results show that the prediction accuracy of the FBNENGM (1,1, k) model based on double optimization is better than other prediction models.


Detecting changes in land cover is a critical task in remote sensing image interpretation, with particular significance placed on accurately determining the boundaries of lakes. Lake boundaries are closely tied to land resources, and any alterations can have substantial implications for the surrounding environment and ecosystem. This paper introduces an innovative end-to-end model that combines U-Net and spatial transformation network (STN) to predict changes in lake boundaries and investigate the evolution of the Lake Urmia boundary. The proposed approach involves pre-processing annual panoramic remote sensing images of Lake Urmia, obtained from 1996 to 2014 through Google Earth Pro Version 7.3 software, using image segmentation and grayscale filling techniques. The results of the experiments demonstrate the model's ability to accurately forecast the evolution of lake boundaries in remote sensing images. Additionally, the model exhibits a high degree of adaptability, effectively learning and adjusting to changing patterns over time. The study also evaluates the influence of varying time series lengths on prediction accuracy and reveals that longer time series provide a larger number of samples, resulting in more precise predictions. The maximum achieved accuracy reaches 89.3%. The findings and methodologies presented in this study offer valuable insights into the utilization of deep learning techniques for investigating and managing lake boundary changes, thereby contributing to the effective management and conservation of this significant ecosystem.


A study is presented of grain-boundary cavitation produced in Nimonic 80A by cold-deformation and stress-free annealing. The cavities were found to originate either from transverse cracking of carbide particles, or from decohesion of the particle-grain boundary interfaces. This decohesion could occur either during deformation, or during annealing. The cavities were invariably located at or close to the point of impingement of a matrix slip band on the grain boundary, but not all slip bands at a particular boundary were associated with cavitation. Quantitative evidence is presented showing that the mean number of dislocations associated with each slip band increases with macroscopic strain, but there is considerable variation between slip bands. This accounts for the differential ability of slip bands to result in cavity nucleation.


In the advanced manufacture industry, high-precision planar motion is in high demand. Planar switched reluctance motors (PSRMs) have become attractive candidate for high-precision planar motion owing to the advantages of direct drive, high precision, quick response, low cost, and simple mechanical structure. Thrust force characteristics measurement is quite important for obtaining precise model and precise motion of PSRMs. Since the indelible friction exists in PSRMs, accurate thrust force characteristics are difficult to measure. This paper presents a systematic indirect thrust force characteristics measurement of a PSRM using flux linkage characteristics. With a dc-excitation method, flux linkage of the PSRM is obtained in terms of the measured phase current and voltage, and thrust force is computed by the flux linkage. Comparative studies of finite element method (FEM), direct and indirect thrust force measurements are discussed. Thrust force of the PSRM is experimentally measured by direct and indirect measurements. Compared with the thrust force by FEM, experimental results show that the indirect measurement is more accurate than the direct measurement, and the validity of the proposed indirect thrust force measurement of the PSRM is verified.


Some new constructions for families of cospectral graphs are derived, and some old ones are considerably generalized. One of our new constructions is sufficiently powerful to produce an estimated 72% of the 51039 graphs on 9 vertices which do not have unique spectrum. In fact, the number of graphs of order n without unique spectrum is believed to be at least an~g,_l for some a >0, where g, is the number of graphs of order n and n >7.


Density (ρ) and viscosity (η and ultrasonic velocity (U) of different concentration of aqueous ascorbic acid (vitamin C) solution have been studied at temperature 298K. The measurement of ultrasonic velocity were carried out by using the ultrasonic pulse eco overlap (PEO) technique at frequency 5 MHz. Measurement of density have been carried out by using hydrostatic plunger method and viscosity by Oswald's viscometer. The temperature 298K have been kept constant using thermostat by circulating water. Experimental data have been used to estimate the thermo-acoustical parameter such as adiabatic compressibility (β), acoustic impedance (z), free length (Lf ), free volume (Vf), relaxation time (T) and Rao's constant (R) Furthermore these studies shows that the nature of parameters have been used to give the interpretations of solute- solvent molecular interaction and complex formation in solution of ascorbic a cid (vitamin C) and it provide important information regarding molecular properties of solute and solvent interaction. velocity of pure solvent and their solutions measurement were carried out with a highly versatile and accurate 'pulse echo overlap technique (PEO) method by using automatic ultrasonic recorder (AUAR-102) and frequency counter. The frequency of the pulses was kept at 5MHz. The density and viscosity were measured using hydrostatic plunger method and Oswald's viscometer respective. Temperature 293K is maintained using thermostatically controlled water circulation system with accuracy of 0.5 0 c. The other thermo- acoustical parameters such as acoustic impedance, adiabatic compressibility, free length, free volume, Relaxation time and Rao's constant ware evaluated using ultrasonic vel ocity, density and viscosity. The experimental data of concentration (M), ultrasonic velocity (U), viscosity (ŋ), density (ρ), acoustic impedance (z), adiabatic compressibility (β), free length (Lf), free volume (Vf), Relaxation time (T) and Rao's constantant (R) for different concentration of ascorbic acid are given in the table 1 and 2.


This paper reports a simple technique based on multispectral image processing that can be used to recover the biomass concentration of an algal biofilm photobioreactor. Monitoring the biomass concentration of a culture is critical in achieving successful algae cultivation for biofuel or food supplement production. In particular, non-invasive and rapid detection techniques that can provide estimates of the biomass concentration can significantly aid in providing delay-free process control feedback in large scale cultivation platforms. In this technique, the digital images of the biofilms of the cyanobacteria Anabaena variabilis were obtained under consistent lighting conditions and analyzed as a function of their biomass content. The image analysis was carried out using a custom Matlab code where the red, green and blue content of the images were correlated with the biomass concentration. The obtained correlation was consistent across biofilms generated from different stock cultures of varying culture age. Challenges facing application of the image processing technique for scaled up outdoor photobioreactors under various lighting conditions and color backgrounds were discussed.Copyright © 2012 by ASME


Aim. The purpose of this article is to analyse risky behaviours undertaken by university students on the Internet.
Theory. The concepts of "risk" and "risky behaviour" are known and often discussed in science. Krzysztof Ostaszewski (2005) defines risky behaviours as actions that contradict social norms and legal order, which at the same time pose a threat to a person's health and development. The catalogue of risky behaviours is very diverse and—more importantly—open. With the development of civilisation, new forms appear. Examples include risky behaviours on the Internet.
Methodology and research results. The study population sample consisted of 241 university students. The research was conducted using an online survey questionnaire. The respondents admitted to taking risks in the virtual world. A large percentage of respondents admit to sharing private information on social networks (almost 70%). Nearly 75% of respondents ignore communications about potential threats to websites, putting themselves at risk of losing sensitive data. Moreover, 65.1% of students admit to downloading content from illegal sources. Other risky behaviours undertaken by students on the Internet include Internet addiction and online activities, aggression on the Internet, sexual and/or erotic behaviour in cyberspace. The paper also presents the answers to open-ended questions, which refer to threats on the Internet as perceived by the students. The answers given most often referred to: addiction to new technologies, loss/theft of private data, vulnerability to false/unverified information available on the Internet.
Cognitive value. Online risk-taking is a global problem. The phenomenon should be further theoretically considered and analysed in a pedagogical practice.


Cylindrical fixing flange structure for a container filled with high-pressure gas high pressure gas container, comprising a provided with a metallic contact seal primary sealing zone on the high pressure side and a provided with an elastomer seal secondary seal zone on the atmosphere side, the primary sealing zone on the high pressure side and the secondary seal zone on the are arranged atmosphere side adjacent to each other in the direction of the cylinder axis of the high-pressure gas container.


The western tobacco industries, with declining tobacco consumption in parts of the west, are now targeting Asian and eastern European markets intensively.1 This part of world is fast approaching a "tobacco holocaust". The following staggering statistics call for an urgent action on this weapon of mass destruction.

(1) Tobacco kills more people than AIDS, alcohol, cocaine, homicide, suicide, motor vehicle crashes, and fires combined. It has already killed 70 million people since 1950. Annual global tobacco related deaths are about 3 million (one third in developing nations) and is expected to rise to more than 10 million by the …


Firstly,based on the seismic performance investigation of multi-story masonry school buildings in the northeast of Anhui province,combining the damage of Wenchuan earthquake,we expound the feature and the seismic capacity of the multi-story masonry of the primary and secondary school buildings.In addition,we predict the earthquake damage of the surveyed school buildings through probabilistic analysis of building earthquake disaster vulnerability,and propose countermeasures of earthquake prevention and disaster reduction in order to provide some reference for the safe program of primary and secondary school buildings in the northeast of Anhui province.


The process of managing student financial administration at ABC Elementary School is currently still manual, that is, it still uses books and is not well computerized. This resulted in problems, namely the administrative process took a long time and all parties could not get financial information quickly and accurately. This study aims to analyze and design a student financial administration information system which is expected to make it easier for all parties in the administrative management process. The method used in this research is prototype. Design tools using UML (Unified Modeling Language) and Adobe XD. This system provides services in the form of a menu login, register, upload transactions, manage transactions and print transactions. It is hoped that the design of this information system can be developed so that it becomes an application that can be used and applied to ABC Elementary School and for further research it can design an overall system that is integrated with other Information Systems that summarizes all business processes in school.


Abstract Recently, the multilayer coil was introduced in type-I CCC system, which showed the excellent peak resolution. Its performance was further improved by intermittently pressed tubing. In the present study, the whole plain tubing was pressed to make the flatten tubing. Then, it was twisted along its axis to form the flat-twisted tubing. The performance of these two tubing geometries was tested in type-I CCC system with three solvent systems of different polarities each with the suitable set of test samples of DNP-amino acids, dipeptides and proteins. The results showed that the retention of stationary phase was increased with the decreased flow rates and the increased polarity of solvent systems. In DNP-amino acid separation, flatten tubing produced the best peak resolution among all tubing geometries, where the resolution of three peaks was 2.17 and 2.30, respectively. In dipeptide separation, the result of flat-twisted tubing was good, but slightly worse than that of intermittently pressed tubing due to the lower retention of stationary phase. In protein separation, the resolution of intermittently pressed tubing was the best. The present study provided more options and ideas for type-I CCC application and development. Graphical Abstract


Abstrak The purpose of this research is to know of the implication of coastal and sea reclamation towards coastal peaple and to know the available efforts of protection as well as protection that should be pel/ormed. By benefiting primary legal materials such as legislation regulations and international conventions as well as secondary legal materials such as text books, court decisions, experts' opinion, research results, journals, internet sources and non-legal materials, it can be concluded that coastal and sea reclamation possessed urgent implication on the coastal people's rights so protection is necessary towards the coastal people through the establishment of special act concerning coastal and sea reclamation, arranging the reclamation comprehensively, comprising the adat law community, local as well as urban community rights, also regulating the requirements, planning, performing, protection and/or compensation of the people as well as ordering conserving the function of the environment.


We find the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric modified according to a model with maximal acceleration and discuss the new conditions in which the wave function of the universe tunnels from the Euclidean regime to the Lorentzian one. We argue that the acceleration induces a nonminimal coupling of the scalar field with the gravitational degrees of freedom and provides a new dynamical possibility of tunneling through the quantum boundary when $|\ddot{x}^\mu \ddot{x}_\mu| \to A_{\max}^2 $.


Cassidy Talmadge, the Marketing Manager for the Alabama State Employees' Insurance Board (ALSEIB), was in charge of the public relations aspects of ALSEIB's wellness program. She was taken aback that some of the media reports had been so critical when her employer thought that it was trying to help employees. The media had sensationalized the program by referring to it as a "fat tax." How can she take the offensive and draw positive attention to the program? She would have to wait a few months for success stories to develop but she wondered what she could do to get the word out regarding such testimonials. Description of the Program ALSEIB wanted to find ways to reduce health insurance costs so it launched a wellness program. Employees received a 25[dollar] discount toward their health insurance premium if they did the following: * Participated in wellness screenings to check four risk factors: blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose, and body mass index * And if found to be at risk for one or more of the four risk factors, they agreed to address their risk in one of four ways: 1) See physician for treatment/instruction on how to address the risk; 2) Participate in the Weight Watchers at Work[R] program offered through the ALSEIB; 3) Join a YMCA facility that participates in the YMCA * Network offered through the ALSEIB; and 4) Address the risk with self- administration; under this scenario the employee would need to show progress in order to continue receiving the discount. * Alternatively, they could have obtained a doctor's excuse if there was a medical reason for non-participation. Employees were also eligible for a 30[dollar]/month discount if they didn't use tobacco products. Coupled with the 25[dollar] discount for the wellness screenings and follow up, if required, the employees could have reduced their health premium to 15[dollar] monthly for a single employee after discounts. When asked about the program in March 2009, Cassidy believed that although there was some misunderstanding early on, members proved happy with the program when it was properly explained. She stated: It's just a matter of explaining that as long as they are addressing their health risk, they will not be charged the premium. And we are spending a lot of time explaining that obesity is not the only risk factor being screened. Someone with a perfectly healthy BMI may be deemed at risk for hypertension, making them subject to the premium. We are doing our best to convey that obesity is not the ONLY health risk focus in this program. Blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose and tobacco use were the other health risks typically covered by wellness programs. Cassidy said that the media had been the biggest problem in the roll out of the program. The wellness program was sensationalized by being called a "fat tax," which was a mistaken interpretation of the discount process. The State Employees' Association, an employees union, had been supportive of the program. Cassidy explained, If the member is found to be at risk for any of the four risk factors, they are provided a referral to visit a physician along with a co-pay waiver form. So, even if they are at risk, they are able to go to their own personal physician, with no co-pay, and address the issue. In addition, we offer the Weight Watchers at Work [R] and YMCA memberships at discounted rates, whether the member is at risk or not. She added, ... in my opinion, the biggest misunderstanding is that if you are at risk for any of the four risk factors, you will not receive the discount. When, in fact, if the member is at risk and they address this issue w/ their physician or through one of the SEIB approved programs (YMCA or Weight Watchers), they will receive the discount. On November 18, 2009 she stated that 93% of 38,000 members had been screened. …


For learning a foreign language,the language environment is very important.We should rely on the school-based research to make the English learning environment with all offorts.


This article compares the work, careers, and social values of French engineers employed in traditional and science-based industries. Based on field research and 129 interviews in a metal-working factory and an electronics firm, it first presents a critique of three influential approaches to technical workers: the theories of professionalization, proletarianization, and a "new working class." It then develops the central argu ment : that market situations—especially markets for technical skills—have greater explanatory power than usually recognized and that the evolving structure of technical careers is a nationally distinctive product of society-specific educational and employment institutions.


The NHS could save millions of pounds a year and improve thousands of people's lives by investing in local communities and more sustainable practices, claims this latest study from the King's Fund.


Digital twin can well solve complex problems, especially in the case of mechanical failures. Digital twin technology can be applied in 3D IoT smart factories, new smart city construction, smart medical care, digital energy, digital archives, warehousing and logistics visualization and other fields. Deep learning covers a wide range of applications and is extremely common. This paper discusses the application of the two in the risk prediction of coal and gas outburst strength. This paper firstly describes the method of predicting coal and gas outburst intensity. For example, the BP neural network algorithm applied to the prediction of coal and gas outburst intensity in deep learning, the air flow control system model of digital twin for coal mines, and the risk assessment algorithm of coal and gas outburst intensity in coal mines based on grey relational analysis, and various ways to predict risk. And the system model is designed in this paper. Combined with the Formula, this paper describes the process of predicting risk in detail, and then conducts experiments based on digital twin and deep learning to predict coal and gas outburst intensity. In this paper, digital twin is used to systematically design coal and gas outburst intensity prediction, and a neural network prediction model based on optimized quantum gate nodes is established. In this paper, the practical application experiment and result analysis of the optimization algorithm in the coal and gas outburst prediction model are carried out, and the conclusion is drawn. After QGNN is optimized by the sdPSO algorithm, the error is extremely small, only 2.0914, and the specific value of the prediction accuracy in practical applications is as high as 95%. The experimental data verifies the feasibility of digital twin and deep learning technology in the prediction of coal and gas outburst intensity.


Abstract Monolithic ZK61 magnesium alloy and carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced ZK61 matrix composites were successfully prepared via spark plasma sintering. The effects of the sintering temperature on the microstructure and mechanical properties of monolithic ZK61 were studied, and the microstructural and mechanical properties of CNT/ZK61 composites were investigated as functions of the CNT content. The grain sizes of the CNT/ZK61 composites are smaller and more homogeneous than those of the monolithic ZK61 powder, and the width of the grain boundary is greater than those present in ZK61. The Vickers hardness and compressive yield strength of the CNT/ZK61 composites are observed to initially increase with increasing CNT content, reaching a maximum at 1.5 wt.% CNT, however, these values begin to decrease as the content increases further. We believe that this is owing to the grain refinement effect and load transfer mechanism of the CNT.


This article reviews eight comprehensive social—emotional curricula for children under 6 years of age and describes two promising curricula currently under investigation. These programs have been successful in the promotion of interpersonal skills and the reduction or prevention of challenging behavior for a wide range of children. Particular attention is paid to the level of evidence or scientific believability associated with criteria that reflect efficacious adoption of curricula. Areas for future research are discussed.


Embedded systems for safety-critical application domains must provide fault-tolerance and hard real-time guarantees to critical applications as well as isolation of different applications from each other. These challenges have lead to a hesitant adoption of multi-core processors in such contexts. To address these issues for communication, we proposed a protection switching scheme for a hybrid TDM and packet-switched Network on Chip (NoC). The approach gives guarantees to critical applications but the remaining bandwidth for Best-Effort (BE) applications heavily depends on the channel and task mapping of the critical applications. In this paper we explore different channel and task mapping strategies for critical applications and evaluate the effect these mappings have on the BE traffic. We do the exploration on an FPGA prototype implementation by mapping different sets of critical task graphs on a tiled 8x8 system and measuring how much uniform random BE traffic can be transported in addition to the critical traffic. Results show that spreading out the critical traffic rather than strictly dividing the system in critical and non-critical applications domains is advantageous or even necessary in many cases and can increase the feasible BE traffic generation rate by up to 13x%.


A comparison of Register Transfer level modelling and V-PMS is quite indicative. While RT-modelling approaches a restricted goal, viz. a hardware structure capable of performing a few hundred algorithms, a V-PMS level model has a complete computer system as its target, i.e. a composite of hardware structures of the RT-level complexity cooperating under the control of an operating system in the execution of a load.
 In order to construct a language suitable for describing the hardware as part of a total PMS-level model for performance evaluation, the original form of PMS was substantially changed by providing an expanded set of building blocks with corresponding definitions. This language, with its clearly defined functions and performance data, its unambiguous communication blocks and rules for interconnections, provides a human reader with a clear understanding of the performance of components and of their internal communication within the computer system, and links the hardware part to a model of an operating system (to be supplied at a later time). For computer readable system specification a syntax for connecting the above symbolic components is proposed. A description of the CDC Cyber 74/CDC 6600 system examplifies the use of the proposed language and its merits for building performance evaluation models.


Landfill or waste final processing site (TPA) is the place which solid waste is brought to from an urban. All types of solid waste, whether bought by collectors or not will flow to the landfill. The situation makes it difficult for waste management in the landfill. The University of Bengkulu Community Partnership Service offers a solution of the buffer system to reduce the volume of solid waste flowing into the landfill in the future or in the long term. This buffer system occurs when a post located in an RT (a community ruler of neighborhoods) operated by a group of residents (Community Partner, CP) to manage solid waste before transfer to TPA. Household waste is separated between organic and non-organic. From the non-organic, plastic waste is kept clean and dry and being packaged as raw materials. It is helpful for CP to eventually sort the wastes as to sale or not. The sustainability of postal activities is determined by the availability of raw materials. To ensure a supply of raw materials swift, CP promotes and disseminate 3R (reduce - reuse - recycle) to residents. This promotional activity indirectly becomes an education process for solid waste management for residents or families. The educational process takes place accordingly side by side with the CP's need for raw materials. The continuing situation of this system makes the waste management post by CP as a model of an effective buffer system in the future for controlling waste streams to landfill and for sustaining 3R awareness to society as well.


Despite increasing use of dental care services and available preventative products, caries continues to be a significant challenge facing youth in the United States and is the leading chronic disease of childhood.1 "Early childhood caries (ECC) is defined as the presence of one or more decayed, missing (due to caries), or filled tooth surfaces in the primary teeth of a child of 71 months of age or under."2 This disease has become even more prevalent for minority youth such as Hispanic and non-Hispanic black populations.3,4 Data collected by Crall et al in 2005 from the 2004 NHANEs study documented approximately 60 percent of children overall will experience caries in their primary teeth by age five.5 A study in 2016 showed improvement in prevalence of dental caries in a certain age group; documenting only 18% of children 2-5 years old experiencing dental caries (Figure 1). In terms of demographics of children most affected, Figure 2 shows prevalence across different ethnicities ages 2-19 years: Hispanic 52.0%, Non-Hispanic Asian 42.6%, Non-Hispanic Black 44.3%, Non-Hispanic White 39.0%.6


Lopesia brasiliensis Rubsaamen, 1908 was described as male, female and larva, based on material from the States of Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina (Brazil). This cecidomyiid induces leaf galls on Ossaea sp. (Melastomataceae). The pupa is described and illustrated for the first time.


A CLPUD application is a way of getting written confirmation that your proposed works do not require formal planning permission and fall within permitted development.


Emotions play one of the most integral roles in human experience, but it is still considered diffi cult to explain scientifi cally. From an evolutionary perspective, emotions greatly contribute to the ability to survive. If until recently we were talking about an epidemic of aff ective disorders and that they occupy a leading position in the structure of brain diseases, now the situation is aggravated by a dramatic increase in the number of aff ective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we discuss the anatomical and biochemical basis of emotion formation and how it relates to cognition and emotional intelligence


This first volume of letters inaugurates a keenly awaited edition of Berlin's letters. Berlin's life was enormously worth living, both for himself and for us; and fortunately he said a great deal to his friends on paper as well as in person. When this volume opens Berlin is eighteen, a pupil at St Paul's School in London. He becomes an undergraduate at Oxford, then a Fellow at All Souls, where he writes his famous biography of Karl Marx. When that is complete he moves to New College to teach philosophy, and after the outbreak of the Second World War sails to America in somewhat mysterious circumstances with Guy Burgess. He stays in the USA, working for the British Government (apart from visits home and his famous trip to the Soviet Union in 1945-6) until July 1946, when he returns to Oxford, and the volume closes.


normal development of the nephric system has been described by Hall (1904) and Field (1891). The pronephric rudiment appears soon after the closure of the neural folds and consists of a collection of cells derived from the mesoderm of the third to seventh body segments, the rudiment lying at the ventro-lateral border of the somites. By vital staining methods (O'Connor, 1938) it has been shown that the portion of the pronephric rudiment derived from the third and fourth segments forms the pronephros. The more caudal portion of the rudiment (derived from segments five to seven) undergoes an independent growth in a caudal direction and unites with the cloaca, thus forming the pronephric duct. At first both the original rudiment and its caudal extension lie at the ventro-lateral border of the somites immediately beneath the ectoderm and so give rise to a swelling visible from the exterior.Hall's investigations on the development of the mesonephros show that it appears some little time after the pronephric duct has united with the cloaca, and its differentiation begins with the demarcation of clumps of cells from the surrounding mesoderm in the ninth to eighteenth body segments. These clumps of cells lie on the medial side of the pronephric duct and are arranged seg-mentally in relation to the posterior quarter of each myotome. In subsequent development the pronephric duct and these clumps of mesonephric cells undergo an inward migration and come to lie close to the mid-line immediately ventral- to the notochord. During this migration, however, the close contact between the mesonephric cells and the pronephric duct is maintained. The mesonephric units differentiate into simple tubules which communicate with the pronephric duct which then becomes the draining duct of both the pronephros and mesonephros. The mesonephric tubules become more and more coiled, eventually giving rise to the These results show that contact between the pronephric and the mesonephric cells for less than forty-eight hours results in a definite developmental stimulus being imparted to the mesonephric cells which are thus enabled to form tubules. In the development of the mesonephros in the species of Amblystoma used two developmental factors can thus be recognized:


Yes, a rollover into a different 529 program may be made an unlimited number of times as long as a new beneficiary is named on the account each time. If a rollover is done without changing the beneficiary, no additional rollovers may be completed in the following 12 months unless the beneficiary is changed. In any case, the rollover must be completed within 60 days and you should look into any restrictive terms and charges that may apply.


The tumour processes that are located in the jawbones with excessive growths can disfigure the face of the patient, these upon benig eliminatedby means of aggressive surgical techniques cause defects on bones and soft tissues, giving a consequence functional, physical and psychological changes. The adenoid cystic carcinoma most frequent is the harmful neoplasia of minor salivary glands, and it´s characterized clinically by bening of slow growth; the most frequent location is the hard palate. The treatment of choice is the surgical escision with extensive margins.


【Objective】To determine the expression of ezrin(a member of ERM family) in hepatocellular carcino-ma(HCC) and investigate the relationship between ezrin expression and invesion of hepatocellular carcinoma.【Methods】 Immunohistochemical staining was used to detect the expression of ezrin in 45 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) and 23 cases of para-cancerous tissue and 12 cases of normal hepatocellular tissue to analyze re-lationship between their expression and various clinic pathologic factors of hepatocellular carcinoma.【Result】None of the normal intestinal tissues and para-cancerous tissue were ezrin positive.In 45 hepatocellular carcinoma speci-mens,the positive expression rate of ezrin was 61.3%(27/45).Ezrin expression correlated with the degree of tomor differentiation and tumor metastasis(P 0.05).But not related to some clinic pathological characteristics such as the age,sex and size.【Conclusions】The expression of ezrin in tumor tissue may be a new marker of the biological be-havior of hepatocellular carcinoma.


There are known various statements on weighted action of one-dimen- sional and multidimensional fractional integration operators in spaces of continuous functions, such as weighted generalized Holder spaces H ! 0 (‰) of functions with a given dominant ! of their continuity modulus. Conditions under which the fractional integration operator maps the space H ! 0 (‰) onto the better space H !fi 0 (‰) with !fi(h) = h fi !(h), were given in terms of cer- tain integral conditions on the weight function ‰ and the characteristic ! (Zygmund type conditions). In this paper all the known results of such kind are reconsidered and obtained in the explicit form of inequalities involving the order fi of fractional integration, certain numerical characteristics of the weight function ‰ and the so called upper and lower indices m! and M! of !(h). We prove a theorem providing the equivalence of the integral Zyg- mund conditions to some direct numerical inequalities for the indices m! and M!. Based on that theorem we prove a series of new theorems on ac- tion of fractional integrals in the generalized Holder spaces H ! 0 (‰) for various


This paper presents a new hand-worn device, called wearable robotic object manipulation aid (W-ROMA), that can help a visually impaired individual locate a target object and guide the hand to take a hold of it. W-ROMA may assist the individual for navigational (e.g., grasping a chair and moving it to make path) or non-navigational purpose (e.g, grasping a mug). The device consists of a sensing unit and a guiding unit. The sensing unit uses a Structure Core sensor, comprising of an RGB-D camera and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), to detect the target object and estimate the device pose. Based on the object and pose information, the guiding unit computes the Desired Hand Movement (DHM) and convey it to the user by an electro-tactile display to guide the hand to approach the object. A speech interface is developed and used as an additional way to convey the DHM and used for human-robot interaction. A new method, called Depth Enhanced Visual-Inertial Odometry (DVIO), is proposed for 6-DOF device pose estimation. It tightly couples the camera's depth and visual data with the IMU data in a graph optimization process to produce more accurate pose estimation than the existing state-of-the-art approach. The estimated poses are used to "stitched" the imaging and point cloud data captured at different points to form a larger view of the scene for object detection. They can also be used to position the individual for wayfinding. Experimental results demonstrate that the DVIO method outperforms the state-of-the-art VIO approach in 6-DOF pose estimation.


Vehicle detection and tracking place a vital role in traffic surveillance system (TSS). In the past, many methods had been introduced and implemented still a challenging issue because of dynamic textures such as rain fall, snow and absence of light. Therefore to overcome these problems introduce a novel tracking algorithm based on background subtraction and morphological operations. Firstly the background method is used to detect the moving objects from the video and then morphological operations are applied to remove the noise regions and obtaining more accurate segmentation results. After vehicle detection, a object-based vehicle tracking method is used for building the correspondence between vehicles detected at different time instants. After vehicle tracking, calculate the vehicle count from video.


This paper focuses on institutional interlinkages between the UN climate regime and the World Trade Organization (WTO). In both arenas, several debates concern similar topics such as trade in climate-friendly goods and services, intellectual property rights, or transfer of low-emission technologies. However, attempts to manage the legal overlaps between both regimes are largely stalled. There has been even some reluctance from both sides to enhance coordination across the negotiation processes in the two regimes. This duplication of debates and the associated lack of legal clarity can have detrimental ramifications for the climate regime. This constellation could, for instance, induce chill effects: parties might refrain from adopting more ambitious post-2012 options on the road to the Copenhagen COP, out of fear of incompatibility with WTO rules. Summarizing research by international relations and international law scholars in the EU-funded ADAM project, the paper proposes that policy-makers should increasingly consider cross-institutional strategies in the form of grand bargains. Such a linkage of debates across arenas can produce additional tradeoffs and thereby break the deadlocks in which these discussions have partly ended up. First steps towards leveraging such package deals could be taken by a third and smaller forum, e.g. the G8+5, but with additional representatives from least-developed countries. The paper names some tentative suggestions for package deals which have been discussed at a joint expert workshop of the ADAM project and UNEP. We argue that potential docking points exist between liberalised trade in climate-friendly products and the ongoing Doha debate on the removal of agricultural subsidies and other trade barriers. Another cross-cutting bargain could link debates on technology transfer and intellectual property rights. On the other hand, the paper attends to the caveats and limits of such package deals, e.g. regarding the clout of the UN climate regime over some contested issues, political feasibility, and the level of ambition of such "joint" post-2012 strategies.


This paper examines the retail rent dynamics of two Chinese cities, Beijing and Shanghai. We use an error correction modelling framework to estimate long-run equilibrium relationships and short-term dynamic corrections. The study period covers 1999–2012. We also run tests to examine the presence of structural breaks. The empirical results suggest that both supply and demand significantly affect retail rents for both cities in the long run. However, in the short term, the change of rent responds to change in income for Shanghai market. Both markets have a rapid speed of adjustment, especially Shanghai market that is more price and income elastic. The results shed some light on the behaviour of retail rent adjustment processes in one of the largest and fast growing emerging markets.


Fault diagnosis by machine learning techniques is especially crucial to maintain the stability of the water processing flow in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). A key factor influencing the accuracy of fault diagnosis lies in the imbalance data distribution between majority classes (i.e., normal situations) and minority classes (i.e., faulty situations), which may cause misjudgments of faults and lead to failure in practical use. This study proposes an ensemble classification method called AdaWELM ensemble algorithm for fault diagnosis in wastewater treatment which builds up individual classifiers by using weighted extreme learning machine (WELM) and combines them with Adaboost ensemble algorithm. The weight matrix in WELM can be updated adaptively along with the iteration of Adaboost learning. The simulations based on 25 benchmark datasets from KEEL repository are arranged at first and the results show the proposed classifier outperforms the other comparative classifiers for most of the evaluated datasets. And then, a practical fault diagnosis model in wastewater treatment plant based on AdaWELM ensemble algorithm is built and the simulations verifies that, comparing with several classifiers, this fault diagnosis model can efficiently improve the performance of WWTP, especially improve the accuracy of faulty class and G-mean value. So we think the proposed AdaWELM ensemble method could be a promising solution for imbalanced data classification in WWTPs.Through experiments, we find that the performance of G-mean value and accuracy of minority class in a case study of WWTPs are improved by comparing with several other related classification algorithms.


A first aid kit should be properly stocked and available at all times in the home, car and at work. Contents should include basic items such as bandages, dressings, tapes, a thermal blanket, gloves, resuscitation masks and other items to meet your needs. A first aid course can help you understand how to use your first aid kit.


The concept of guided inquiry is becoming quite popular with school libraries all across Australia. The Guided Inquiry approach to teaching and learning helps students to construct meaning, think creatively and solve problems.


Marijuana is partially prohibited: though banned federally, it will soon be available to almost 1 in 4 U.S. adults under state statutes. A chief concern among policy makers is marijuana trafficking from states with legal markets elsewhere. We measure trafficking with a natural experiment. Oregon opened recreationally licensed stores on October 1, 2015, next to Washington where stores had been legally selling recreational marijuana since July, 2014. Using administrative data covering the universe of recreational market sales, we find Washington retailers along the Oregon border experienced a 41% decline in sales immediately following Oregon's market opening. In counties that are the closest crossing point for the majority of the neighboring population, the estimated decrease grows to 58%, and is the largest for the biggest transactions. We also test if these inter-state spill-overs led to health externalities by studying traffic accidents in Oregon from 2011-2015.


In the paper three cases are presented and analysed, which show innovations in the use of woody biomass for the production of heat and woody fuel (pellets). In two of the firms analysed woody biomass boilers were installed, and in the third case a technological line for the production of pellets was assembled. The analysis was made based on information acquired during interviews conducted in the companies. Pro-innovative people, who acted as "innovation motors" in the companies contributed greatly to the success of the innovative undertakings. The financing of the innovations was the most important problem in the realization of the undertakings, and a possibility to use public funding played a significant role. The successfully implemented innovations contributed to an increase in competitiveness of the companies, which allowed to use locally available woody biomass resources and to reduce the emissions of pollutants and CO2 to the atmosphere.


Introduction Clinical practice guidelines currently offer minimal guidance for managing antidepressant withdrawal symptoms in patients who are tapering or discontinuing these medications. Although many guidelines recommend antidepressants should be tapered gradually, out of 21 guidelines studied in a recent systematic review, none suggested how doses should be reduced, how to manage symptoms of antidepressant withdrawal or how to differentiate withdrawal symptoms vs relapse. Approximately half of the patients attempting a dose reduction or discontinuation of their antidepressant have withdrawal symptoms, which can be severe and ongoing for some patients. In addition, due to the overlap between anxiety and depression symptoms and those of antidepressant discontinuation, it may be challenging to determine which is occurring. Since pharmacists are a common point of contact for many patients, we have an opportunity to identify and help manage antidepressant discontinuation issues in our patients.


The ability to regulate wound contraction is critical for wound healing as well as for pathological contractures. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) have been demonstrated to be obligatory for normal wound healing. This study examined the effect that the broad‐spectrum MMP inhibitor BB‐94 has when applied topically to full‐thickness skin excisional wounds in rats and its ability to inhibit the promotion of myofibroblast formation and function by the latent transforming‐growth factor‐β1 (TGF‐β1). BB‐94 delayed wound contraction, as well as all other associated aspects of wound healing examined, including myofibroblast formation, stromal cell proliferation, blood vessel formation, and epithelial wound coverage. Interestingly, BB‐94 dramatically increased the level of latent and active MMP‐9. The increased levels of active MMP‐9 may eventually overcome the ability of BB‐94 to inhibit this MMP and may explain why wound contraction and other associated events of wound healing were only delayed and not completely inhibited. BB‐94 was also found to inhibit the ability of latent TGF‐β1 to promote the formation and function of myofibroblasts. These results suggest that BB‐94 could delay wound closure through a twofold mechanism; by blocking keratinocyte migration and thereby blocking the necessary keratinocyte–fibroblast interactions needed for myofibroblast formation and by inhibiting the activation of latent TGF‐β1.


Abstract This paper considers the problem of event driven stabilization of linear controlled switched systems, i.e., the weak stabilization problem of the associated differential inclusion. The main result is that if the system is stabilizable by feedback then it is also stabilizable by applying event driven switchings for a finite set of linear closed–loop systems obtained by applying a suitable set of linear feedback. The applicability of the method is shown by some example.


The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a finder pattern and detecting a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a pattern detection insulating layer is positioned between at least two metal layers, and patterning the metal layer located at any two patterns. The present invention solves the problem of TFT LCD substrate is positioned during processing since the insulating layer covers the pattern is incomplete due to missing, the yield is improved.


Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Tilapias (Oreochromis spp.) are important aquaculture commodities that have been constantly studied in aquaculture genetic research and development (R&D). Specifically, genetic technologies including sex and chromosome-set manipulations, DNA markers, and transgenesis have created practical applications in tilapia culture. Recent advances in computing and sequencing technologies have facilitated the genetic and genomic studies in tilapia, making this commodity one of the most studied aquaculture species with robust available genomic-scale data. After dedicating efforts to the implementation of breeding programs that aim to improve the performance of farmed tilapia stocks, the Philippine tilapia aquaculture industry had rapidly developed and made substantial impacts on the country's total fish production. Success in such endeavors has changed the status of the country's tilapia aquaculture industry into a more productive one, shifting the Philippine perspective of becoming a globally-competitive tilapia producer. Nevertheless, despite the success in producing novel strains of tilapia with improved qualities, the tilapia aquaculture industry of the Philippines still continues to face challenges particularly in the area of genetic R&D. Tilapia Genetic R&D in the Philippines: Challenges and Prospects for Future Development


Chromatophores are the colour changing organelles in the skins of animals including fish and cephalopods. The ability of cephalopods in particular to rapidly change their colouration in response to environmental changes, for example to camouflage against a new background, and in social situations, for example to attract a mate or repel a rival, is extremely attractive for engineering, medical, active clothing and biomimetic robotic applications. The rapid response of these chromatophores is possible by the direct coupling of fast acting muscle and pigmented saccules. In artificial chromatophores we are able to mimic this structure using electroactive polymer artificial muscles. In contrast to prior research which has demonstrated monochromatic artificial chromatophores, here we consider a novel multi-colour, multi-layer, artificial chromatophore structure inspired by the complex dermal chromatophore unit in nature and which exploits dielectric elastomer artificial muscles as the electroactive actuation mechanism. We investigate the optical properties of this chromatophore unit and explore the range of colours and effects that a single unit and a matrix of chromatophores can produce. The colour gamut of the multi-colour chromatophore is analysed and shows its suitability for practical display and camouflage applications. It is demonstrated how, by varying actuator strain and chromatophore base colour, the gamut can be shifted through colour space, thereby tuning the artificial chromatophore to a specific environment or application.


Introduction: Murder, the destruction of an individual is the mos t heinous expression of aggression found in any culture. To curb the menace of rising incidences of homicide is matter of public interest ; else it may become an acceptable option. This study explores rece region to bring in to spotlight this emerging threa t. Material and Methods: Study was conducted by retrospectively reviewing av ail ble data of homicide victims, autopsied in Department of Forens ic Medicine, Government Sir T. General Hospital Bhavnagar during the period of two year, from May 2 013 to April 2015. Results: The incidence of homicidal death was 2.40%. victims with ratio of 2.47:1. Majority of victims b elonged to age group of 21 male preponderance in all ge groups except 0 to 10 years. Majority victims w ere married (62.71%) where also, male d ominance prevailed. Offenders used sharp weapons (3 5.59%) more commo blunt weapons (23.73%) though (25.12%) as well as fatal wounds chest by sharp force (79.51%) was evident. Defence wounds were in 20.34% victims. Multiple injuries were more in male victims and most common cause of death was shock and haemorrhages Recent trends of homicidal deaths in Bhavnagar regio n -54.


The test and analysis of a brand-new system (advanced cell transfer network) are presented. A network performance test on a set of selected parameters including delay, response time, throughout and efficiency is performed under both Windows2000 and Linux operation systems to confirm the feasibility of the proposed network design.


We review the tensor renormalization group (TRG), a real space renormalization technique for coarse-graining 2D classical lattice models. We outline the method briefly in the context of a honeycomb lattice and then show explicitly how tensor renormalization proceeds on a square lattice. An implementation of the TRG on a square lattice Ising model is given in Python, and a comparison between the exact and TRG-obtained free energies of the model is made. Finally, we discuss the limitations of the TRG and an extension of the method that has been introduced to address these limitations.


Watercolour and pencil on grey card sketched by Olive Pink, "Near Farina", 21/8/31. Identified by Olive Pink as Swainsona (Dimensions 18.5x27cm) (File No. p6-14-4)


A locking mechanism comprising: a lock arm that is provided in a cantilever style on an inner wall of a compartment parts of a box body of the electrical junction box; and a locking protrusion which is provided on the lock arm at its surface, which faces a accommodated in the parts shelf section. The locking arm can be divided in a longitudinal direction into: a base end portion which is fixed to the inner wall; an upper end portion located in the free end of which interferes with the part and receives a pushing force for unlocking operation; and a central region, which is located within a predetermined distance range between the base end portion and upper end portion. The flexural rigidity of the base end portion and upper end portion is set larger than that of the central region, by providing ribs on the base end portion and upper end portion and providing no ribs at the central portion.


ABSTRACT The essay addresses some perspectives of analysis, elaborated and established over the past 30 years, highlighting both the cultural complexity and the multidimensionality of violence in contemporary society. In the age of globalization, the focus of the reflections is found within the relationship between violence and identity and its transformation. Concerning the relationship between violence and identity, the essay addresses the nuclear issue of the similarity between logics and practices of identity construction and logics and practices of violent action against diversity and otherness. Particular attention is given to bodily violence and social realities that are still defined as violent today due to the cultural differences between societies, individuals and groups of individuals. The main references are G. Balandier, P. Bourdieu, J. Galtung, P. Former, M. Wieviorka, R. Collins and A. Appadurai. The different conceptual definitions of violence that is direct or cultural violence, institutional or subjective, structural or symbolic, genocidal or civicidarian violence are therefore addressed in an attempt to use them to re-read phenomena and the socio-cultural dimension of violence.


The thermodynamic analyzing method for the pump efficiency monitoring is introduced in the paper. Some precise and reliable formulas for calculating the pump efficiency is presented. The automatic monitoring system with accurate temperature probe is discussed. The automatic monitoring system can accurately measure the small temperature difference of water between the outlet and the inlet of the pump, which affects the precision of the measured pump efficiency.


Avianca Flight 52 from Columbia crashed in January 1990 on the north shore of Long Island 15 miles short of New Yorks Kennedy International Airport. A 46-year-old survivor of the crash excreted a series of cocaine-packed condoms into a bedpan while receiving hospital treatment. An abdominal radiograph followed by a computed tomography (CT) study for evaluation of internal injuries demonstrated the distinctive features of additional intestinal packets. The plain film of the abdomen showed the round and oval densities with the double condom sign of a lucent rim secondary to air trapped between the layers of the condoms. Multiple layers of latex condoms are used by such smugglers to reduce the incidence of condom rupture and subsequent courier death. CT displayed the foreign bodies with high attenuation and the characteristic air trapped between the latex layers and at the sites of the knots around the tips of the condoms. 29 packets each 1.25 inches long were recovered from the patient who had swallowed almost one-half pound of cocaine with an estimated street value of $10000. Such couriers are typically paid $500-1000 plus airfare to smuggle drugs into the US; he was sentenced to six years to life in prison. Another survivor of the crash admitted to another hospital was also found through an abdominal radiograph to be smuggling cocaine. He passed 102 packets while in traction over a 2-3 week period more than 3.5 pounds of cocaine. In each case physicians did not attempt to recover the condoms before they were excreted for fear that any such effort may have caused them to rupture.


Besides accuracy and efficiency, understandability is another key issue of predictive modeling in real-world applications, especially in biomedical and healthcare data analysis. We develop a new integrative framework to enhance the interpretability of data by sparsity-based learning. We proposed several novel sparsity-based learning models, emphasizing different understandable properties of data, such as explicit sparsity, low redundancy, and low rank, and apply to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data analysis. Results indicate that the proposed methods provide more insights from TCGA data while maintaining stable and competitive performances in predictive modeling. To further enhance the interpretability of biological processes and disease mechanisms, we also develop a novel visualization tool by considering heterogeneous relationships among genomics elements. By applying the novel learning models and the visualization tools, pathways of several important cancer diseases are revisited and a series of novel potential bio-markers are discovered which improves our ability to diagnosis, treat and prevent cancer.


The Shunt Active Power Filters (SAPFs) are tools which are powerful for compensating not only of current harmonics created by nonlinear loads likewise of reactive power and unbalance of distorted and fluctuating loads. Voltage compensation is based on capacitor DC link voltage.The synchronous reference frame theory is proposed in this thesis for time domain approach based reference current estimation method. It achieves the operation in steady state or transient state as well as for generic voltage and current waveforms. This chapter deliberates the principle of active power filter and DC link capacitor.


The electronic structure of H2S adsorbed on the goethite (110) surface has been studied by ASED-MO cluster calculations. We have studied both the perpendicular and the parallel H2S molecular adsorption on the FeOOH(110) surface. We have analyzed the adsorption configuration energies including rotation. The parallel species does not rotate during adsorption and corresponds to the most stable configuration. We have also studied the bonding contributions for the minimum energy configuration and the density of states plots.


We report on the study of the quantum interference transport properties of a high density two dimensional electron gas in a AlGaN/GaN heterostructure. We show that the data are qualitatively well described by the theory of quantum correction to conductivity and scattering by phonons.


OBJECTIVE To develop a HPLC method for quantitative determination of tinidazole in blood plasma.METHODS Tinidazole was extracted with ethyl acetate and dichloromethane(4∶1).The residues were analyzed with a reverse phase HPLC system(Diamonsil~(TM)C_(18)column,250mm×4.6mm,5μm);mobile phase was methanol-0.03 mol·L~(-1)NH_4AC(25∶75,V/V);the detection wavelength was at 320 nm.RESULTS The average recoveries for tinidazole were 111.01%,99.00% and 100.74%,respectively.The within-day(n=5) and between-day(n=3) relative standard deviations was 5.87% and 7.82%,respectively.The calibration curve for tinidazole was linear in the range of 0.25 to 75 mg·L~(-1),(r=0.999 9).The limits of quantitation for tinidazole was 0.05 μg·L~(-1).CONCLUSION The method provides a sensitive,accurate,precise and reliable analytical procedure for clinical monitoring of tinidazole blood plasma and its phamacokinetic studies.


We present high resolution Doppler images of the short period (P = 0.362 d) contact binary AE Phe. Using least squares deconvolution, we make use of the information content of the several thousand lines in each echelle spectrum to obtain the necessary S/N and time resolution required to resolve individual starspot features. A single pair of rotationally broadened profiles (free of sidelobes due to blending) with a typical S/N of 3000 - 4000 per spectrum is thus obtained. With 300 sec exposures we achieve a cadence of 350 sec which is equivalent to sampling the rotation phase every 4°. We derive images for four nights of data which reveal starspots at most latitudes on both components of the common envelope system. Individual starspots evolve significantly on very short timescales, of order one day; significantly faster than the week timescales found on active single stars and the Sun. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


This study is an investigation of the effects of short-term conducting gesture instruction on seventh-grade band students' recognition of and performance response to musical conducting emblems (gestures). Subjects were 60 seventh-grade wind instrumentalists. During 5 consecutive days, treatment-group subjects (n − 30) received instruction designed to improve their recognition and response to common conducting gestures. The control group (n = 30) participated in a warm-up routine designed to review concepts of musical expression without the use of conducting gestures. Two dependent measures of conducting-gesture recognition were used in this study: (1) a paper-and-pencil measure and (2) an individual musical performance measure. An independent t-test revealed statistically significant differences in favor of the treatment group for the paper-and-pencil test (p < . 001). Additional analysis by a repeated-measures ANOVA revealed statistically significant differences in favor of the treatment group for the individual musical performance test (p < .0001). Results of this study indicate that short-term conducting-gesture instruction is effective in improving the recognition of and performance response to musical conducting emblems for seventh-grade band students.


Gregory Voth, the Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago, is the recipient of the 2019 S. F. Boys–A. Rahman Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry for his development and application of powerful multiscale theoretical and computational methods in the study of liquids, materials, biomolecules, and quantum mechanical systems. The award honors outstanding innovative research in computational chemistry. Voth also studies charge transport in water and biomolecules and the behavior of room-temperature ionic liquids and other complex materials. Please send announcements of awards to firstname.lastname@example.com.


The differentiation of silver crucian ( Carassius auratus gibelio ) into two dimensional groups is proposed with the purpose of further study of the cutting method. The first dimensional group includes crucian with length 30.0-40.0 cm and a weight 0.8-1.5 kg, the second dimensional group crucian with length 20.0-30.0 cm and a weight 0.25-0 8 kg. It has been established that the crucian from the first dimensional group can be advisably used to produce food, using the accepted methods of cutting in the fishing industry: into the trunk, fillet, slice, etc. The crucian from the second size group should be minced due to its large backbone. To increase the output of the carp mince, autoproteolysis of protein of crucian muscular tissue was carried out using anolyte of electrochemical solution that makes the process of flesh striping easier and makes the mince elastic and easily moldable. The optimal modes of muscle protein autoproteolysis in the preparation of the fermented mince are determined as follows: temperature 50 oC, irrigation module 1.0 : 0.5, pH of the anolyte of ECA-solution 3.75 ± 0.25, duration 2.0 ± 0.5 h, pH of the reaction mixture 5.3 ± 0.2. The organoleptic, physical and chemical, microbiological parameters of the quality of the fermented meat are examined and the comparative analysis of the chemical composition and energy value of non-fermented and fermented minced crucian is carried out.


Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political–economic reforms that promote development.


The effect of atmospheric gases on the ionization energy (I) of titanyl phthalocyanine thin film was investigated by an apparatus of photoemission yield spectroscopy developed for the measurements of I for the same specimen both in vacuum and under gaseous atmosphere. It was found that the value of I is affected by the exposure to various ambient gases (i.e., air, nitrogen, and oxygen of 1 atm, and water vapor corresponding to 27% relative humidity at 300 K), and that the effect strongly depends on the gas. The ionization energies in vacuum could be determined as the onset I0 of the cube-root plot of the photoemission yield as a function of photon energy. When the sample was exposed to gases, the cube-root plot still gives an onset, but often a long tail at the low-energy side with another onset It was also observed. The first exposure to air did not affect both I0 and It much, while the following evacuation-exposure cycles caused mostly reversible decrease and increase of I0 and It by about 0.2 and 0.4 e...


This paper is a follow-up to a work which began with the study of power in traditional India seen through the case of Rajasthan (see Stern 1977). Here I propose to examine the implications of the change from a traditional type of sovereignty (the Hindu kingdoms) to a modern type of State in India. Put briefly, the question is as follows: have the changes brought about by British colonization and, subsequently, by Independence, caused an upheaval right throughout the traditional Indian social structure, or has the latter by and large withstood these events? Can we observe a shift away from the structural universe of caste, in which relations of hierarchy and interdependence encompass the factors of separation and opposition *


Article history: Received 9 December 2019 Received in revised form 18 March 2020 Accepted 21 March 2020 In the world and in Turkey, tourists sensitive to nature are becoming more conscious about healthy life are turning towards alternative tourism products. These changes are increasing the importance of concepts such as ecotourism and sustainable tourism, which envisages the use of the natural, cultural environment in the balance of conservation and use. Application areas of ecotourism, developing in line with sustainable principles in Turkey, are expanding. Farm tourism in ecotourism activities is gaining more attention. Due to the absence of a national and legal ecotourism certification program, the precise characteristics of ecological farms cannot be determined. The settlement subject to the study operates under the name of "Pastoral Valley Organic Agriculture and Ecological Life Farm," located in Yanıklar Village of Fethiye district of Mugla Province. It is the pioneering organization for the adoption and dissemination of "sustainable living" throughout the region. By participating in the «TaTuTa» program organized by the Bugday Association for Supporting Ecological Living and hosting volunteers makes significant contributions to alternative tourism activities in the region. The aim of this study is to examine the ecological and sustainable principles of this farm and to serve as an example for the farms that will be built in an ecological approach. The subject farm was investigated by using a case study, one of the qualitative research methods. The findings were grouped under the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of the concept of sustainability. The farm operator defines the settlement as a holiday farm with the taste of returning to the village towards a sustainable life for those who want to forget the stresses and difficulties of urban life and technology in a natural, calm, and peaceful environment.


This text examines the different stages of women's access to higher education in Chile throughout the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. It inquires into the reflections that emerged on the need to educate women in Latin America, examines the scientific development of women in Chilean universities and It investigates the debates that emerged in the Chilean society regarding to the entry of women in the University. The paper also makes a reflexion about the problems that women had to face they made the decision to enter in the university.


A microcontroller with generic CPU has difficulty in satisfying some special requirements for protection, such as high-speed calculations and wavelet analysis application in protective relay. A new (type WLB-2000) digital protection system for high-voltage transmission line has been built with digital signal processor (DSP). A whole protection device scheme based on DSP chip of TMS320C32 is presented in detail. The scheme provides zero-sequence overcurrent protections, phase-to-phase and phase-to-ground distance protections, especially for in the second zone of the protection line, which can accelerate the protection operation without pilot channels after the receiving-end circuit breaker trips, fault locator, and data communication functions. The prototype shows that the mode can not only reduce hardware design workload, but also reduce the software development period. Especially because the algorithm speed and precision are greatly enhanced, the relay offers greater protection operation precision for short high-voltage transmission lines of one or more than 1 km.


Through researching sulphur index of the major type of soil from Songnen plain and analysing sample from four larger types of soil in six counties and towns of Songnen plain, we confirm that the soil offering sulphur is belonging to middle and low level. All those provide scientific basis for compounding fertilization and analysing soil fertilization as well as for improving crop's output and quality. It also makes fertilizing much more reasonable scientific and standard.


This article presents some brief reviews of instances where a lack of extensive monitoring of rotating machinery has caused major outages with serious financial consequences. A "positive" case illustrating the benefits of a condition monitoring system installed on two gas turbines is then discussed, and the dollar cost of monitoring is estimated.


[1] Ethane (C2H6) and water (H2O) were detected in Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake between UT 1996 March 23.4 (Rh = 1.08 AU preperihelion) and 1996 April 12.2 (Rh = 0.64 AU preperihelion). Our long-slit infrared spectra featured both high spectral dispersion and high spatial resolution about the nucleus, permitting the extraction of rotational temperatures, production rates, and spatial distributions of species along the slit. Production rates were measured for water (on four dates) and ethane (on three dates). Their average relative abundance was C2H6/H2O = (6.2 ± 0.7) × 10−3. The spatial distributions of C2H6 and H2O molecules in the coma were consistent with both species being released directly from the nucleus on all dates, although asymmetries about the nucleus are seen for both gas and dust.


Since 1969, the Internet has grown from four host computer systems to tens of millions. As our society steps into the technology age, a wholly computerized society is beginning to develop. Technology has already revolutionized our lives. The combination of education and technology has brought about unprecedented change in the educational field. With the emergence of new technology that influences every aspect of our lives, it also creates a change in the relationship between a parent and a child. One new technology that alters the relationship between a parent and child is video streaming. This project was aimed to discuss the use of video streaming technology in education and how useful it would be to Kindergartens. At the same time, the project introduced the equipment needed to deploy streaming video, and how to implement. It also discussed the construction and security of streaming websites. To evaluate the efficiency of streaming video within children's education, the project was tested in a kindergarten in Taipei,


The title of this volume is misleading because it has not clearly defined the geographic limits of the continental shelf. However, a glance at the Contents makes it clear that the contributions to this symposium are restricted to some shelf areas of the continental USA and especially to the Beaufort Sea off the north coast of Alaska. These papers were derived from presentations at the 119th annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society held in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1989. An awareness of the geographic scope of this symposium helps to put its contents into better focus. It is apparent that a broad coverage of fisheries, oil development, and its probable consequences from a global or even North American perspective is not provided. With the exception of the first 38 pages covering a broad range of topics, the remaining 134 pages are devoted exclusively to the Beaufort Sea.


In Poland, there is a shortage of statistical data regarding neoplasia of hematopoietic system. There is an unmet demand for epidemiological data concerning such cancers stemming from both scientific and health care management reasons. As all medical services for patients with these disorders are reported to the National Health Fund (NFZ) the aim of this study was to use NFZ data for determining incidence and prevalence of neoplasia of myelopoietic part of hematopoietic system in Poland, as well as defining the overall survival (OS) in affected patients. This work was performed under the project 'Map of healthcare needs — database of systemic and implementation analyses' co-funded by the European Union Social Fund from the Operational Programme for the Development of Knowledge and Education. The incidence rate in 2014 for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) was 4.1/100,000 whilst the registered disease prevalence rate was 10.9/100,000. The median OS during 2009–2015 for AML — reported patients was 6 months and the 3- and 5-year OS was estimated as respectively being 26.5% and 23.4%. For chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) the incidence and disease prevalence rates were 1.0/100,000 and 7.2/100,000 respectively, and those for Philadelphia-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN Ph–) were 8.9/100,000 and 55.9/100,000 respectively, whilst those for myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) were 3.8/100,000 and 11.5/100,000 respectively. In patients reported as having CML, the 3- and 5-year OS was 76.2% and 68.1% respectively. In patients reported as having MPN Ph(–), the 3- and 5-year OS was 86.6% and 78.6% respectively. The median OS for patients reported as having MDS was 30 months and the probability of patients achieving 3- and 5-year OS was 45.8% and 36.1% respectively. Data reported to the NFZ for reimbursement of medical services provided seem to be the most reliable concerning such large patient population. Yet, there are still prone to errors arising from the mis-coding of cancers and to limited compatibility of the ICD-10th Revision (International Classification of Diseases) to current World Health Organization classification, Nevertheless, our data are similar to the European and USA registers regarding AML and MDS. However, in the case of MPNs (CML excluding) they require further verification.


according to the power harmonic environment,for conventional measurements of electrical parameter algorithm has some errors,by using fourier transform,the effects of harmonic components on the sampling results was eliminated,and combined with DSP,an intelligent measurement and control device with TMS320C5402 as the core for AC electric parameters real-time,accurate measurement was developed.