Objectives: This study sought to provide guidelines in order to decrease the incidence of nerve injury during mandibular ramus bone harvesting, and to improve understanding of the anatomical structure of the inferior alveolar canal (IAC) to include its distance from the exterior buccal cortex. Materials and Methods: In January and February 2009, 20 patients who visited the Wonkwang University Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery reporting various conditions underwent cone beam computed tomography and were included in this study. Patients with missing left or right mandibular first molars or incisors, or who had jaw fracture or bone pathologies, were excluded. The reference point (R point) was defined as the point where the occlusal plane reached the anterior ramus of the mandible. The position of the IAC in relation to the R point, the buccal bone width (BW), the alveolar crest distance (ACD), the distance from the alveolar crest to the occlusal plane (COD), and the distance from the IAC to the sagittal plane (CS) were determined using proprietary image analysis software which produced cross-sectional coronal and axial images. Results: The distance medially from the R point to the IAC along the axial plane was 6.19±1.21 mm. The HD from the R point, posteriorly to IAC, in the lateral view was 13.07±2.45 mm, the VD from the R point was 14.24±2.41 mm, and the ND from the R point was 10.12±1.76 mm. The pathway of the IAC was positioned almost in a straight line along a sagittal plane within 0.56±0.70 mm. The distance from the buccal bone surface to the IAC increased anteriorly from the R point. Conclusion: Marking osteotomy lines in the retromolar area in procedures involving bone harvesting should be discouraged due to the risk of damage to IAC structures. Our measurements indicated that the area from the R point in the ramus of the mandible to 10 mm anterior can be safely harvested for bone grafting purposes.


Objective: To determine the impact of an innovative professional educational approach on clinicians' confidence and ability to make institutional improvements in pediatric palliative care.


The promising approach consisting in both a multimodal synchronous study of the human organism functional state and the use of various functional tests is described. These tests include a local heating of surface tissues, forced occlusion of extremity vessels, forced control of respiration rate using a metronome, breath holding, etc. The original hardware and software measuring complex are worked out. It includes an infrared camera, some other original diagnostic instruments and allows for measurement of the physiological parameters as follows: a) breathing rate, b) temperature of the extremities (both a) and b) are determined using focal plane array-based infrared thermography), c) ECG and heart rate, d) pulse wave velocity in the radial artery, e) core temperature, etc. A diagram illustrating the interconnection of synchronously measured responses of the human's cardiovascular and respiratory systems is presented. The developed methodology is original and highly informative. Its complete analogs do not exist today.


Objective To discuss the diagnostic value of ectopic pregnancy through vaginal ultrasound joint of abdominal ultrasound. Methods Select 127 cases of ectopic pregnancy patients from April 2013 to August 2014, all of them checked by vaginal ultrasound and abdominal ultrasound and compare the two combined diagnostic accuracy of vaginal ultrasound and abdominal ultrasound. Results Abdominal ultrasound in diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy rate was 73.2%; Vaginal ultrasound in diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy rate was 92.1%; joint of the accuracy in diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy was98.4%, vaginal ultrasound diagnostic accuracy rate was higher than abdominal ultrasound, both joint diagnosis accuracy is higher than single diagnosis, differences were statistically significant(P0.05). Conclusion Vaginal ultrasound with abdominal ultrasound used in ectopic pregnancy can further improve the diagnostic accuracy and reduce the occurrence of misdiagnosis and worthy of clinical popularization and application.


Objective To establish an HPLC method for the quantitative determination of baicalin in Jianpi Zhixieling granules.Methods The analysis was carried out on Agilent C18 column(4.6 mm×150 mm,5 μm) with methanol-0.4 % phosphoric acid solution(50:50) as mobile phase,and the detection wavelength was 280 nm.Results Linearity of baicalin was good(r=0.9999) in ranges of 0.02114~0.5285 μg.The average recovery was 100.8 % with RSD of 0.9 %(n=6),respectively.Conclusion The method is simple and accurate,and can be used for the quality control of Jianpi Zhixieling granules.


have postponed World War I. It never hurts to try. But anyone interested in crisis management theory should pay at least as much attention to its severe inherent limitations as to its possibilities. While even intense international competition can be maintained without war so long as the final outcome seems in doubt, once that final outcome, considered intolerable by one side and vital to the other, appears clearly foreshadowed, a resort to violence to reverse that outcome or to maintain and confirm it becomes extremely likely. This was the case in 1914, and most past wars and present threats of war (the Mideast!) are in this respect like 1914. It is therefore not enough to concede as the authors do that techniques of crisis management will work only if all the major parties prefer peace. They will work only if all parties, preferring peace, also somehow handle the problem of unacceptable outcomes. The prospective loser must come to terms with an intolerable loss, and/or the prospective winner must forego a vital gain, and/or someone, somehow, must assure that there is to be no decisive outcome at all.


The basic conclusion to be drawn from this presentation is that the future context of urban transportation policy, planning, and management is replete with uncertainties. The combination of social, political, and economic flux makes any effort at detailed projection something between foolhardy and heroic. However, some general tendencies can be identified. There appears, on balance, to be some prospect that the basic transportation problem may be somewhat moderated, i.e., the rate of growth of demand seems more likely to decline than to rise. However, it seems even more likely that the resources available for solving the problem will be reduced largely as consequence of underlying economic developments. In addition, it appears that what has been referred to as one of the principal transportation problems, the effective use of available resources to solve the basic transportation problem of meeting demand, will be increased. That is, political and policy changes will raise barriers by making it politically more difficult to obtain public funding, by failing to deal effectively with problems of domestic and international monopoly, and perhaps by enacting policies to reduce the internalization of environmental and other social costs. (Author)


This research has a goal to describe the achievement of students' mathematical communication with observation and interview. In this research, the method used is descriptive qualitative with the subject of 30 students SMP N 2 Ngamprah class VII. The instrument consists of 4 test questions. The result of the research is the percentage of indicator of ability to connect the real object and the picture into the form of math idea is 41,67%, construct conjecture, make argument, and generalize the percentage of its ability equal to 49,17%, explain idea, situation mathematical in writing using images that reach 57.78%, declare daily events in language or mathematical symbols, the percentage of ability is 24.67%.


Binaural simulation is an important tool in architectural acoustics auralisation, as well as research. The limits of nonindividualised and non-head-tracked binaural reproduction have been examined in numerous studies, especially with regard to auditory localisation. This study forms part of an investigation of whether simple binaural reproduction effectively conveys an impression of room size. For our first experiment, blindfolded subjects were led into different rooms, for which they estimated the size based on the sound of reproduced speech. For the second experiment, a different set of subjects listened to the same acoustic environments through binaural reproductions via headphones, again assessing the room size based on the sound. Results show a greater influence of reverberation for the headphone assessments. While only moderate correlations are achieved between the two experiments, the results of both have clarity index as the primary acoustical correlate, consistent with previous experiments by the authors.


The paper frames interdisciplinary research as creating complex, distributed cognitive-cultural systems. It introduces and elaborates on the method of cognitive ethnography as a primary means for investigating interdisciplinary cognitive and learning practices in situ. The analysis draws from findings of nearly 20 years of investigating such practices in research laboratories in pioneering bioengineering sciences. It examines goals and challenges of two quite different kinds of integrative problem-solving practices: biomedical engineering (hybridization) and integrative systems biology (collaborative interdependence). Practical lessons for facilitating research and learning in these specific fields are discussed and a preliminary set of interdisciplinary epistemic virtues are proposed as candidates for cultivation in interdisciplinary practices of these kinds more widely.


Purpose: Mycoplasma pneumonia is known to be a major cause of community-acquired pneumonia in children. Macrolide has been the first-line treatment for mycoplasma pneumonia, but recently there has been an increasing tendency of macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MRMP). Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the clinical tendency and the therapeutic responsibility of mycoplasma pneumonia in terms of the fever duration after treatment and its associated factors.
Methods: A total of 346 children admitted with mycoplasma pneumonia during 3 recent periods (2008-2009, 2011-2012, and 2015-2016) were investigated with clinical manifestations, laboratory test results and chest x-ray findings. Patients were grouped according to fever duration and analyzed for differences in clinical features.
Results: There was no statistically significant difference in age or sex between the 3 periods (P=0.284 and P=0.559, respectively). Total fever duration during mycoplasma pneumonia was increased with time (P for trend <0.001). The patients with a longer fever duration (≥3 days) after macrolide treatment presented with a higher CRP (P<0.001) and with lobar-type pneumonia (P=0.020) compared to those with a shorter fever duration. Fever duration after steroid treatment became longer in the longer fever group in 2011 (P=0.015) and 2015 (P<0.001), but not in 2008 (P=0.536).
Conclusion: This study showed that the therapeutic effect of macrolide or steroid for mycoplasma pneumonia is recently attenuating and that high CRP, lobar-type pneumonia and presence of pleural effusion were the associated factors. Therefore, efforts to decrease MRMP and to develop better treatment guidelines for mycoplasma pneumonia are needed in the future. (Allergy Asthma Respir Dis 2018;6:116-121)


This article presents the results of research of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) among 133 children from the age of 3 months to 18 years (9,4 ± 0,5 years) with non-rheumatic diseases of different genesis. The data of research have showed the frequent occurrence of aPL among children with vessels thrombosis of different caliber and location. The patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, skin diseases (livedo reticularis and chronic ulcers of shins) are considered at high risk of developing of initial antiphospholipid antibodies syndrome.


In this paper, the design of Micro-oxidation power control system by ourselves, The hardware part composed of low con-sumption 32-bit microcontroller LPC2119 developed by Philips Company instead of the traditional 51 series single chip machine. The way makes the system more stabilize and more developed; The software part adopts uC /OS-Ⅱ the way of multitask software de-sign instead of the traditional fore-and-back ground embedded software design. The way makes the system modularized,it can im-prove the precision and real-time response of the system. The system we design can work at any parameter the computer set to carry out the function, it can work between large rage voltage, electric current pulse frequency and duty.


A wide tuning band pass filter (BPF) with steep roll-off high rejection and low noise figure is presented. The design feature of steep roll-off high stopband rejection (>20 dB) and low noise figure (<6 dB) provides a wide tuning frequency span (1-2.04GHz) to accept desirable signals and reject close interfering signals. The process variation aware design approach demonstrates robustness of the BPF after calibration from process variations, operating in 1.04GHz tuning frequency span: almost zero deviation on center frequency, an average maximum deviation 1.16 dB on a nominal pass band gain of 55.6 dB, and an average maximum deviation 1.06MHz on a nominal bandwidth of 12.3MHz.


Landmark based statistical object modeling techniques, such as Active Shape Model (ASM), have proven useful in medical image analysis. Identification of the same homologous set of points in a training set of object shapes is the most crucial step in ASM, which has encountered challenges such as (C1) defining and characterizing landmarks; (C2) ensuring homology; (C3) generalizing to n > 2 dimensions; (C4) achieving practical computations. In this paper, we propose a novel global-to-local strategy that attempts to address C3 and C4 directly and works in Rn. The 2D version starts from two initial corresponding points determined in all training shapes via a method α, and subsequently by subdividing the shapes into connected boundary segments by a line determined by these points. A shape analysis method β is applied on each segment to determine a landmark on the segment. This point introduces more pairs of points, the lines defined by which are used to further subdivide the boundary segments. This recursive boundary subdivision (RBS) process continues simultaneously on all training shapes, maintaining synchrony of the level of recursion, and thereby keeping correspondence among generated points automatically by the correspondence of the homologous shape segments in all training shapes. The process terminates when no subdividing lines are left to be considered that indicate (as per method β) that a point can be selected on the associated segment. Examples of α and β are presented based on (a) distance; (b) Principal Component Analysis (PCA); and (c) the novel concept of virtual landmarks.


Commentary on: CM Bleakley, SR O9Connor, MA Tully, et al.. Effect of accelerated rehabilitation on function after ankle sprain: randomised controlled trial. BMJ2010;340:c1964.


New insights in partial nitrification were revealed by using a model based approach to study the synergetic impact of various factors on partial nitrification. The traditional argument for using low DO (dissolved oxygen) in achieving partial nitrification is that AOB (ammonium oxidizing bacteria) has a higher DO affinity than NOB (nitrite oxidizing bacteria). However, the AOB was found to have a lower DO affinity (DO half saturation constant KO,AOB = 1.0 mg L−1) than NOB (KO,NOB = 0.35 mg L−1) in the nitrification process in this study. The rational for using a low DO concentration in this study was to slow down the ammonium removal, therefore increasing the FA (free ammonia) concentration for the inhibition of NOB. The optimal operational strategy for partial nitrification start-up was identified by the model based approach to be at a sludge retention time of 10 days, DO at 1.0 mg L−1 and pH at 8.2. The results indicated that a nitrite accumulation rate above 80% and complete ammonium removal can be achieved within 10 days of the start-up period by applying the model based optimization results.


White light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) are an efficient alternative to conventional lighting sources. Nevertheless, approaches to obtain WOLEDs still require complex processes that lead to high costs. In this sense, the use of a single emitting material that can take two forms of complementary emitting colors has emerged as a new strategy for the fabrication of WOLEDs. In this paper we describe the luminescent behavior upon protonation of a series of D-π-A push–pull molecules based on a methoxyphenyl or methoxynaphthyl donor unit and a diazine acceptor unit with different π-bridges. The effect of protonation on the emission properties depends on the nature of the diazine ring. The addition of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) to pyrazine and quinoxaline derivatives led to quenching of the fluorescence whereas pyrimidine derivatives remained luminescent after protonation, which prompted a color change in the emission due to the appearance of a new red-shifted band in the spectra. These results were rationalized wit...


This article provides a synthesis of cross-race mentoring research and fills some gaps in the literature by exploring the experiences of five African American women at a Christian, predominately white institution (PWI). The grounded theory study uses constant comparative analysis between the women's stories, existing research, and dialogue with African American colleagues. The article concludes with suggestions for Caucasian higher education professionals seeking to mentor African American students and for institutions implementing mentor programs.


This Study shows the effect of thermal treatment of chamomile (Marticaria chamomella) extract with different concentrations (5,10,15,20,25,30) mg / ml, on inhibition of some pathogenic fungi such as Trichophyton rubrum and Aspergillus fumigatus under the different temperature degrees (25,50,75, 100)°C. The aqueous extract of chamomile gave complete inhibition against the fungus Trichophyton rubrum at (20,25,30) mg/ml under temperatures of (25,50,75,100)°C While, the aqueous extract of chamomile gave complete inhibition against the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus at concentrations (25,30) mg/ml under the temperature degree of (75,100) °C.


In order to simulate the dynamic characteristics under complex working condition,AMESim software was used to establish a simulation model for rotating and feeding system of gas drainage drilling rig.According to the rotating and feeding system,through analysis of independent control by pre-compensating load sensing pump and constant-pressure pump,the advantages and disadvantages were concluded.Then another system controlled by one post-compensated load sensing pump was introduced,which is proved to have superiority through simulation.


COAE2009 has five tasks and we take part in Task 3, 4 and 5. Task3 is designed for identification of the opinioned sentence; Task4 is designed for topic identification based on the sentences from Task3 and makes the polarity classification; Task5 is about opinion retrieval plus the sentiment polarity analysis. This paper will present our methods in the three tasks and finally draw our conclusion and present our future work.


In this issue of PACE' MacLean, Plumb and Waldo present preliminary observations on what they call "entrainment" of ventricular tachycardia by rapid ventricular pacing. The concept of entrainment presents both a problem and a challenge for cardiologists. Entrainment as described for ventricular tachycardia and atrial flutter^ involves the following sequence of events in response to rapid pacing. 1) Upon capture of the heart by pacing slightly in excess of the tachycardia rate the paced ECG complex remains similar to that of the tachycardia or appears to be a fusion between the tachycardia complex and a purely paced beat. 2) As the pacing rate is increased the ECC configuration still appears to be a fusion although becoming more paced in appearance. Cessation of pacing at this point does not terminate the tachycardia. 3) The pacing rate is increased until, at a critical cycle length, the ECC complex assumes a fully paced configuration. The transition to a paced configuration marks the end of the period of entrainment and may occur abruptly. If pacing is discontinued at this point, the tachycardia is usually terminated. What is happening during the period of entrainment? The presence of fusion type complexes implies that the tachycardia is in some way accelerated (entrained) to the pacing rate. Since cessation of pacing results in immediate


Diatoms adapt to various aquatic light environments and play major roles in the global carbon cycle using their unique light-harvesting system, i.e., fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c binding proteins (FCPs). Structural analyses of photosystem II (PSII)-FCPII and photosystem I (PSI)-FCPI complexes from the diatom Chaetoceros gracilis have revealed the localization and interactions of many FCPs; however, the entire set of FCPs has not been characterized. Here, we identified 46 FCPs in the newly assembled genome and transcriptome of C. gracilis. Phylogenetic analyses suggested that these FCPs could be classified into five subfamilies: Lhcr, Lhcf, Lhcx, Lhcz, and novel Lhcq, in addition to a distinct type of Lhcr, CgLhcr9. The FCPs in Lhcr, including CgLhcr9 and some Lhcqs, had orthologous proteins in other diatoms, particularly those found in the PSI-FCPI structure. By contrast, the Lhcf subfamily, some of which were found in the PSII-FCPII complex, seemed to be diversified in each diatom species, and the number of Lhcqs differed among species, indicating that their diversification may contribute to species-specific adaptations to light. Further phylogenetic analyses of FCPs/light-harvesting complex (LHC) proteins using genome data and assembled transcriptomes of other diatoms and microalgae in public databases suggest that our proposed classification of FCPs was common among various red-lineage algae derived from secondary endosymbiosis of red algae, including Haptophyta. These results provided insights into the loss and gain of FCP/LHC subfamilies during the evolutionary history of the red algal lineage. One sentence summary Phylogenetic analysis of fucoxanthin-chlorophyll a/c proteins in C. gracilis revealed five major subfamilies and one minor subfamily, providing insights into the diversification of light-harvesting systems in red algae.


This article examines the June 2010 report of the International Labour Organisation Governing Body's Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA) made in response to a complaint by the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU) concerning the extent to which the Australian Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) complies with Australia's obligations concerning freedom of association and the right to strike. The paper outlines the background to the complaint and discusses the key findings of the CFA with respect to: the role of trade unions in agreement making; the right of entry provisions; the requirement to include individual flexibility arrangements in enterprise agreements; restrictions on the level at which collective agreements can be concluded; limitations on the content of collective agreements; various restrictions on the right to strike; and the protected action ballot provisions.


Argumentation is an important means of communication. For describing especially arguments about consequences, the notion of effect relations has been introduced recently. We propose a method to extract effect relations from large text resources and apply it on encyclopedic and argumentative texts. By connecting the extracted relations, we generate a knowledge graph which we call effect graph. For evaluating the effect graph, we perform crowd and expert annotations and create a novel dataset. We demonstrate a possible use case of the effect graph by proposing a method for explaining arguments from consequences.


AbstractThe development and growth of plastic flow in the rail head is investigated on the IIT – GMEMD Wheel Rail Simulation Facility utilizing a 1/4.5 scale Hertzian simulation of several freight cars for both tangent and curved tracks. An approximate analytical basis of the laboratory simulation is discussed. It is observed that much of the plastic flow develops in the early stages, its magnitude depending on the tonnage of cars used. The plastic flow stabilizes at a small constant rate which is expected to continue until the shake down of the track is reached. The flow rate is higher for the higher tonnage cars. For tangent track, it is almost twice as high for the 90.7 ton cars as for the 63.5 ton cars. F or the curved track, the plastic flow is cumulatively in one direction and is expected to be between one and two orders of magnitude more than on tangent track. It was found that the flow of rail is influenced more by an increase in the angle of attack than by an increase in the tonnage of cars. This...


Intercalation of stilbazolium chromophores in a bentonite clay leads to
the formation of dye aggregates exhibiting second harmonic generation
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The purpose to study the doctors working in pathoanatomycal service (PAS) assessment on the project of Regional Pathoanatomycal Center (RPAC) prospects. Materials and methods. According to a specially formulated questionnaire, 53 doctors were interviewed. Statistical processing of the obtained results is carried out using generally accepted statistical methods. Results. The estimation of the perspective implementation of the RPAC project is given, taking into account the current state of the PAS. Conclusions. The study results has shown that the modern PAS needs to be reformed.


The study reported in this article investigated some of the communication discipline's publication conventions to provide information that can shape hiring, promotion, and/or tenure practices, particularly at highly research-oriented universities. The study investigates 349 research articles by 125 authors published in eight International Communication Association (ICA) and National Communication Association (NCA) journals between January 1999 and June 2004. The analyses focus on authors, their gender, academic rank, and university affiliations. Results show that full professors have significantly higher rates of productivity than either associate or assistant professors, even though assistant professors as a group are associated with the most manuscripts. The study reveals a short list (n = 12) of universities whose faculty and/or alumni have published more than their peers and those scholars' preferred publication outlets; recognizes especially productive scholars by academic rank (n = 11); and presents data that indicate a potential trend towards dissolving gender differences.


A study was made on the inheritance of seed weight of tomato, and on the effect of seed weight on growth of tomato plants. Use was made of 15 parental genotypes and 105 F1s produced by diallel crossing (F1-seeds). From combining ability analysis of variance carried out for weight of F1-seeds it appeared that the weight of seeds harvested from tomato plants was mainly determined by the maternal genotype and largely independent of the genotype of the male parent. A combining ability analysis of variance for weight of seeds produced by seilfing F1's (F2-seeds) showed, however, that female and male parents contributed equally to the inheritance of seed weight and that the inheritance of seed weight is determined mainly by chromosomal additiveiy acting factors, but that also non-additive gene action occurred.

Genotypes with large seeds produced heavier seedlings than genotypes with small seeds, In later growth stages, the correlation between seed weight and plant weight became smaller, presumably, due to a lower relative growth rate of the seedlings from large seeds. For this reason, it is doubtful whether breeding of large seeded tomato cultivars opens up prospects of improving growth and yield of tomato plants.


This study will evaluate the performance of the public health sector in cataract surgery services. It will identify the barriers associated with cataract surgery performances in the public sector for KwaZulu-Natal, and make recommendations as to how these can be overcome. Habib et al suggest that the complication rate is lower in those who perform more than 400 operations per year than those who perform fewer [6].This study will therefore focus on factors affecting quantity other than quality of care.


sion of knowledge. Among these educators increasing numbers of language teachers recognize that television presents our profession with one of the most important opportunities and challenges since we began to unite forces to meet common goals. Here is how we are meeting the challenge: Developments since 1947. During the 7year history of FLTV up to December 1954, from 25 to 30 television stations have featured foreign language programs, which represent about five percent of the total number of educational programs in this country.' Thanks to the effective help of the Modern Language Association, the teachers who have pioneered in the new medium are well organized, aware of common problems, and constantly informed about new developments.2 The oldest campus-originated program is "One World-Invitation to Spanish," which began in July 1947 at Creighton University in Omaha. The first part of this closed-circuit telecast was a teaching demonstration with a child as learner (foreign languages are easy: even children can speak them!). The second part was direct teaching with use of realia and blackboard.


Neutrosophic sets are comprehensively used in decision-making environment. The manifestation of neutrosophic sets in concentric hypergraphs is proposed in this research work. The intention of developing a decision-making model using the combination of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and concentric neutrosophic hypergraph is to rank the core factors of decision-making problem and find the inter-relational impacts. This proposed model is validated with the exploration of the causative factors of autoimmune diseases. The proposed model is highly compatible as it assists in determining the core factors and their inter-association. This model will certainly benefit the decision-maker at all managerial levels to design optimal decisions.


INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: COVID-19 led to paradigm shifts in telemedicine due to patient's fear of office visits and travel avoidance. With widespread cancellation of office visits and reduction of diagnostic biopsy procedures in men with elevated PSAs, the need for a non-invasive/non-DRE At Home Collection Kit for assessing risk of aggressive prostate cancer and to prioritize biopsy procedures became apparent. We adapted the existing ExoDx Prostate (EPI) office liquid biomarker kit into an At Home Collection Kit physician/ patient shared decisions for prostate biopsy. METHOD(S): A 2-stage program for an At Home Collection Testing Kit program for the ExoDx Test was initiated in April 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Phase 1 Pilot study (100 patients, 6 sites) was completed in June 2020. Based on the findings in the pilot, the program was streamlined based on feedback from physicians, patients, and office mangers before making it available in Phase 2 to all urologists in the US. The utilization of the At Home Collection Kits have been measured. RESULT(S): Extensive feedback from the pilot program led to improvements and streamlining before the Phase 2 rollout. As of October 31st, 2022, >30% of all the ExoDx Prostate Tests are At Home Collection Kits. EPI Score distributions are identical (mean 28.4 and 29.7), (median 23.0 and 24.7) in home or clinic sample collection respectively (Figure 1). CONCLUSION(S): The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated major shifts to telehealth and increased use of At Home Testing. The ExoDx Prostate (EPI) At Home Collection Kit was successfully developed and employed to help men (>50 years old) with elevated PSAs (2-10 ng/ml) considering initial or repeat diagnostic biopsy but with pandemic-related fears of visiting offices/hospitals or wanting to avoid long distance travel from rural areas. As COVID becomes manageable and clinical practices have opened, some pandemicadopted approaches remain relevant: the ExoDxTM Prostate, (EPI) At Home Collection Kit is one such approach.


Chestnut wood shavings were extracted with hot water to prepare tannin-free wood sample and crude tannin solution, which were cooked by the neutral sulfite method. From the ligninsulfonate and tanninsulfonate spent liquors, barium salts of ligninsulfonic acid (HLS) and tanninsulfonic acid (HTS) were isolated and purified according to the dicyclohexylamine method established by Tachi I. et all. The BaLS and BaTS isolated were separated into some fractions by the fractional precipitation method, and each fraction was examined for the percentage weight and the methoxyl content (results, Table 2). Fractional samples of HLS and HTS were prepared by passing each fraction of BaLS and BaTS through a cation exchange resin column, and were studied for the ultraviolet absorption (results, Fig. 3, Fig. 4, and Table 2), and for the precipitate forming action with glycolchitosan or β-naphthylamine (results, Table 3). HTS behaved itself like HLS in all stages of the isolation, so that it is important to use spent liquor obtained from tannin free wood sample to prepare a pure HLS preparation. Methoxyl content of these BaLS fractions was very little as compared to that of BaLS from the acid sulfite spent liquor reported already by other workers. The methoxyl method for the quantitative determination of HLS seemed to be carried out with a little disturving by HTS, because HTS contained little methoxyl group. The colloid titration method established by Senju R. et all gave an exact result for determination of the higher molecular fractions, however, for the lower molecular fractions, it gave too small values. HTS consumed glycolchitosan as well as HLS did, so that it was clear that HTS disturves the colloid titration method. The ultraviolet absorption method and the β-naphthylamine method seemed to be unsuitable for the quantitative determination of HLS in the neutral sulfite spent liquor.


This article of reflection aims at describing the concept of technology transfer and analyze its main models in order to identify the role that idiosyncrasy plays in them. In order to achieve this, we carried out a bibliographical review which provides from the main meanings of the term, the representative models, the phases and the factors that are involved in the process, to the concept of idiosyncrasy, so that through a descriptive review, discuss the importance and relevance of this concept in technology transfer. It is worth noting that this article does not exhaust the theme, and more than one reader will have the possibility to add new elements that contribute to complement it.


This new volume of Sociology of Crime, Deviance and Law addresses issues of race and ethnicity within the law and law-related phenomena.


The origin of crime and punishment is since the origin of human being. By the lapse of time it has taken many forms. It has been in all the societies at all times. There were punishments before Islam and there are punishments after the advent of Islam. This study has been conducted to see the similarities and dissimilarities in Islamic and non-Islamic punishments, the later are termed as Western, though both may be in any part of the world.


Objective:To explore the diabetes and periodontitis treatment and disease progression in the process of interaction,through the clinical detection of diabetes patients with periodontitis before and after treatment of periodontal pocket probing depth,periodontal attachment loss,periodontal attachment loss,glycated hemoglobin,triglycerides,total cholesterol.Methods:20 diabetic patients with periodontitis were time-based comprehensive treatment,and observate the periodontal probing depth,periodontal attachment loss,periodontal attachment loss,glycated hemoglobin,triglycerides and total cholesterol change before and after the treatment.Results:After treatment,PD,SB and AL indexes had a significant decrease,the difference was significant(P0.05).GSP,TG and TC indices also had a significant decrease,the difference was significant(P 0.05).Conclusion:There is the two-way relationship between periodontitis and diabetes periodontal comprehensive treatment can relieve the local periodontal disease status of periodontitis patients,while making improvements in metabolic,and easing the symptoms of diabetes.


The Youngest marine strata are exposed in the Gamba-Tingri area, southern Tibet.The study of this succession of marine strata may provide good information about the late evolutional history and closing age of the Tibet-Tethys remnant sea.On the basis of detailed fieldwork and laboratory thin-s ection identification,the authors studied the fossil carbonate microfacies of the Eocene Zhepure Formation in the Gamba-Tingri area.Ten types of microfacie s(MF1-MF10)and five types of biofacies are recognized.The genetic mechan ism of conglomeratic limestone of the Zhepure Formation is also discussed in t his paper.It is suggested that the conglomeratic limestone formed completely by contour current sediments on the plat-form-margin marine slope,rather than by redistribution of materials.Based on the above study,a detailed analysis is made on the late phase of the sedimentary evolution of Tibet-Tethys.The a uthors consider that a transgression took place in the Gamba-Tingri basin durin g the Eocene Ypresian-early Lutetian.In the late Lutetian,the Gamba-Tingri a rea was generally in a regressive environment.At that time ,however,the Gamb a area became a restricted deep-water depression as a consequence of continen tal compression due to plate collision.In the early Priabonian seawater complet ely withdrew from this area.


The assessment of sustainable development ability of area project is one of difficulties in SEA(strategic environmental assessment).The feasibility of applying ecological footprint supply model originating from ecological footprint theory to evaluate area development sustainable ability is analyzed,combined with concrete features of area environment impact assessment,and a case study has been carried out for the area development of Chonggu town,Qingpu District of Shanghai.It's concluded that ecological footprint model is an effective approach of evaluating area development sustainable ability,but the selection of model parameters needs doing more basic work combined with local realities.


Introduction: Immunisation is the most effective public health intervention for reducing morbidity and mortality among young children. Even though we have witnessed an increase in immunization status, the lag in vaccinating younger children and the rural-urban gap in immunizing kids is still a matter of concern. Any disruption in the ongoing immunization services might even contribute to the initiation of the secondary outbreak of vaccine-preventable diseases. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the immunization status of children under 2 years of age in Kelambakkam, along with the determinants of missed/delayed immunization using a semi-structured questionnaire to the parents of children below 2 years of age residing in Kelambakkam area of Chengalpattu district. Results: Delay in immunization was recorded in 34.28% of children among the entire study participants. Vaccines like MR1 (Measles, Rubella), and PCV Booster given at 9 months were delayed in 25% of children. Immunization delay and birth order of the baby were found to be significantly associated with each other. Conclusion: The delivery of basic health services like childhood immunization in Chengalpattu was majorly disrupted due to the ongoing pandemic. The findings of our study may be considered a basic reference for implementing any plan of action to improve childhood vaccination coverage during an epidemic or natural disaster or pandemic.


Purpose
This paper aims to assess to which extent the legality of electronic archive management can realize Indonesia E-government. This aspect of legality can have a significant impact on the application ofe-government in a country. The legality focuses on the archival legislation of the Republic of Indonesia in discussion related to the management of electronic archives.

Design/methodology/approach
The method used in this research is content analysis with qualitative research approach. The data for this research was taken from the Undang-Undang Kearsipan Indonesia (Indonesia Archives Constitution) documents that is available on the official website of Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia (ANRI) (National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia). To complete the discussion in this paper also conducted literature study using secondary literature sources.

Findings
From the aspect of legality, the management of electronic archives does not yet support the implementation of Indonesia E-government. From the aspect of legality, the laws governing the management of electronic archives has not yet existed, there is only the Regulation of the Head of the National Archives regarding the guidelines of general policy for electronic records management in 2012.

Research limitations/implications
This research is limited to the identification of comprehensive analysis on all documents of the ANRI on the management of electronic archives in the context of Indonesia E-government. From that, the gap between those aspects can be examined.

Social implications
This paper reveals the importance of legality in the form of regulation of electronic records management in Indonesia E-government. Findings from this research can be useful for the Indonesia E-government program.

Originality/value
Research with content analysis method on management of electronic archive on Law of Archiving in Republik Indonesia has never been done before. This also applies to the research on the relationship between the management of electronic archives with the application of Indonesia E-government.


SUMMARY Seismic wavefields interact with low-velocity fault damage zones. Waveforms of ballistic fault zone head waves, trapped waves, reflected waves and signatures of trapped noise can provide important information on structural and mechanical fault zone properties. Here we extend the class of observable fault zone waves and reconstruct in-fault reverberations or multiples in a strike-slip faulting environment. Manifestations of the reverberations are significant, consistent wave fronts in the coda of cross-correlation functions that are obtained from scattered earthquake waveforms and seismic noise recorded by a linear fault zone array. The physical reconstruction of Green's functions is evident from the high similarity between the signals obtained from the two different scattered wavefields. Modal partitioning of the reverberation wavefield can be tuned using different data normalization techniques. The results imply that fault zones create their own ambiance, and that the here reconstructed reverberations are a key seismic signature of wear zones. Using synthetic waveform modelling we show that reverberations can be used for the imaging of structural units by estimating the location, extend and magnitude of lateral velocity contrasts. The robust reconstruction of the reverberations from noise records suggests the possibility to resolve the response of the damage zone material to various external and internal loading mechanisms.


Credit card holders from different age groups have different usage behaviors, so deeply investigating the credit card usage condition and properly modeling the usage trend of all customers in different age groups from time series data is meaningful for financial institutions as well as banks. Until now, related research in trend analysis of credit card usage has mostly been focused on specific group of people, such as the behavioral tendencies of the elderly or college students, or certain behaviors, such as the increasing number of cards owned and the rise in personal card debt or bankruptcy, in which the only analysis methods employed are simply enumerating or classifying raw data; thus, there is a lack of support in specific mathematical models based on usage behavioral time series data. Considering that few systematic modeling methods have been introduced, in this paper, a novel usage trend analysis method for credit card holders in different age groups based on singular spectrum analysis (SSA) has been proposed, using the time series data from the Survey of Consumer Payment Choice (SCPC). The decomposition and reconstruction process in the method is proposed. The results show that the credit card usage frequency falls down from the age of 26 to the lowest point at around the age of 58 and then begins to increase again. At last, future work is discussed.


Air defense radars using reflector antennas for area surveying were not found suitable for operating new targets. Antennas with great aperture surface and electrical beam moving were required. Antenna complexes of "Dunay-3" and "Dunay-3U" radars are presented in this paper. It operates in the decimeter wave band and consists of two antenna systems located in two sites - the transmitting one and the receiving one. The antenna is also an active array with linear radiators. The "Dunay-3" radar antenna uses 200 radiators while the "Dunay-3U" consists of 100 linear radiators. The main radar element is an antenna made as a phased antenna array on relatable system for the upper semi-sphere observation. The antenna array is divided at sub arrays with an analogue beam forming way and the full antenna pattern is formed with an adaptive digital way. Another antenna complex presented in this paper is the "Volga" radar. The "Volga" radar is the new generation of distant detection stations operating in continuous radiation regimen: the radar illuminates a target and receives reflected signals simultaneously.


To provide a method and apparatus for integrating a plurality of video projectors (100a, 100b) and seamless. Due to residual light gray generated from imperfect projector of the black level, reducing end processing and projection artifacts in dark image areas or black image areas. Overlap region (106) non-overlapping region (104a, 104b) and is defined, then without affecting the bright portion of the video signal, the minimum black level of the video signal in non-overlapping regions (204a, 204b ) was raised, thereby forming a uniform black level. Then, a bright portion of the image in the overlap region, is smoothed by seamless end processing techniques. A projection image obtained as a result, may be processed through a neutral filter (562). The image can also be processed through a physical mask (712a, 712b). .FIELD 4


Aim: To explore the characteristics of RhD gene structure among RhD negative unrelated blood donors in Henan Province. Methods:PCR SSP was used to amplify RhD gene exons 2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10 and intron 4 as well as RhCE gene intron 4 in 80 RhD negative blood donors which were determined by routine serological method. Results:Out of 80 RhD negative blood donors, 53(66.2%) cases were complete RhD gene deletion,7(8.7%) cases were partial RhD gene deletion, of which most were RhD gene exon 3~9 deletion and 21 cases carried the intact RhD gene(25%). Conclusions: The results suggest that there are multiple genetic mechanisms to generate RhD negative trait for people in Henan Province. To identify Rh types by using DNA analysis in white people is not fit for Chinese people.It is necessary to develop clinical testing method suitable for Chinese pelple.


Theestimation oftime-variant parameters in nonlinear models remains asanopenproblem. Inthiswork, we propose a newapproach toaddressing thisproblem by tuningweighting factors in theleast-squares dynamic optimization. Throughanalysis ofthesolution procedure of theresulting optimization problem, itisfoundthat parameter estimation withaweighted least-squares methodisequivalent toamulti-variable closed-loop control system. Theweighting factors intheobjective function areequivalent to the controller parameters. Likeanycontrol systemsynthesis, the tuning canbemadebasedontheoutput-input sensitivity analysis. Theeffectiveness oftheapproach isillustrated by estimating trayefficiencies and feedcomposition ofa heat-integrated distillation columnsystem. I.INTRODUCTION


The book "Vectors and Vector-Borne Zoonotic Diseases" is about the vectors of diseases and the pathogens they can carry and transmit. The topic of vector-borne diseases is of high interest among many researchers around the world. There are more and more pathogens discovered or they are discovered in locations where they were not found before. There are also more and more hosts where the pathogens are discovered in, and there are several reasons for that.


The following thesis deals with the installation of an interlocking photovoltaic system, with power 20KW in a hotel unit geographically located in the County of Dodekanisa, in the region of Carpathos in detail, the thesis includes both the technical study of the project as well as its economic evalua-tion. First, the characteristics of modern technology employed in such projects along with the appli-cable legal framework are presented from a theoretical point of view. In the same vein, a reference is made in photovoltaic technology, its pros and cons and its fields of application. Second, the follow-ing elements are presented: the analysis of the photovoltaic system; its layouts; and the scenario along with the autopsy of the installation area. Finally, a feasibility analysis is performed and the final con-clusions are listed.


THE beginnings of monastic life in Gaul derived from various sources: from a spontaneous response to the evangelical counsels as ancient as the Gallican church itself and equally obscure in its origins, the foundations and influence of Saint Martin of Tours in the latter half of the fourth century, the propagation of the Rules of the East by John Cassian and the monks of Lerins in the opening years of the fifth, and the contemporary— but comparatively isolated—movement to the solitary life inaugurated by the Fathers of the Jura. The Mediterranean group is thoroughly well documented by the Conferences and Institutes of John Cassian and the works of various Patriarchs of Lerins incorporated in the Patrologia Latina. From these a code of monastic life was available ready made for such as were suitably placed and inclined to accept it. Thus in the early fifth century we have three main groups in Gaul, one on or off the Mediterranean shore prepared to influence the Midi, the second, St Martin's, in a central position, both geographically and as regards communications, in the valley of the Loire, and that of the Jura Fathers well up and out of the way in the heights of the south eastern corner, destined to exert little influence, but to form a flourishing, though isolated, group. An antiquity as great is ascribed to other less known centres of monastic influence. A survey of the evidence they present would go some way to correcting the picture we have traced of a Gaul marked by three groups as conspicuous and isolated as coalfields on a school atlas. The


We build upon previous reviews of the police effectiveness literature to categorize strategies and tactics based on what police should and should not be doing. We also provide relevant information on what police agencies should be doing to implement effective strategies. We argue police should be focusing on hot spots policing, problem-oriented policing (POP), focused deterrence approaches, directed patrol to reduce gun crime, and using DNA in property cases. Police should also recognize the importance of efforts to enhance legitimacy. In contrast, police should be avoiding standard policing tactics such as random preventive patrol, second responder programs, and Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.). We discuss how well current policing practices match up with effective approaches, describe general implications for policing, and conclude by noting policing strategies which we know too little about to make informed recommendations.


As advanced semiconductor materials, Ga1-xAlxN alloys are widely used. In order to research the optical properties of Ga1-xAlxN with different Al component, we built models of GaN, Ga0.875Al0.125N, Ga0.750Al0.250N, Ga0.625Al0.375N, and AlN, and calculated the optical properties of the five crystals based on first principle calculations. Results show that the static dielectric constant decreases when the Al component increases, and the absorption peak shifts to higher energy. The threshold wavelength of Ga1-xAlxN is lower and lower when the Al component increases, and the Ga1-xAlxN material owns "solar blind" property when the Al component is higher than 0.25.


We used stable isotopes of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) to investigate the trophic position of six species of larval fish in the pelagic ecosystem of coastal Newfoundland. Isotope profiles from phytoplankton, net plankton and macrozooplankton were consistent with previous studies. All species of larval fish showed a length-dependent shift in δ 13 C that indicates a move to a pelagic diet from the combined pelagic and demersal eating habits of the adult spawners. The trophic position of four larval fish species (American plaice, yellowtail flounder, cunner) radiated shanny) was consistent with them feeding primarily on copepods, as expected from stomach content analysis. The δ 15 N-based trophic position of larval witch flounder and capelin indicates that they feed significantly on phytoplankton and heterotrophic protists from the microbial loop, respectively; this evidence contrasts with stomach content analysis. Although links between larval fish and the microbial loop are not considered as common as is the link with crustacean zooplankton, this and other studies challenge the long-held belief that marine fish larvae feed effectively exclusive on copepods.


Pott's puffy tumour is a surgical emergency and an extremely rare complication of frontal sinusitis (1). It is characterised by osteomyelitis of the frontal bone with an associated subperiosteal abscess(2).A case of a 8 year old girl  with a history of forehead swelling  and frontal sinusitis, which was clinically and radiologically diagnosed as Potts Puffy tumor,a rare complication of frontal sinusitis in the post antibiotic era is being reported here.


Environmental awareness has become a topic of transcendental importance worldwide in the present time. For that reason, the objective of this investigation was to identify the environmental issues occurring in Felton in order to implement an action plan, which will contribute to the protection of the environment in this community through the environmental awareness. The investigation applied the qualitative methodology using the participative action (IAP, acronym in Spanish) as the investigative method and semi-structured interviews, participative observation and analysis of documents. The research it self contributes to elevating the environmental awareness within the locals in order to face the main environmentalassociated problems that affect them as well as how to mitigate them.


An open-loop feedback-less CMOS multiphase generator circuit architecture is presented. The principle generates n 360°/n-spaced outputs from a single-ended input LO or clock at the very same frequency. The phase accuracy of the implemented circuit employing the principle, relies on the matching of delays and weighted linear phase interpolation. The presented circuit is designed in a 28 nm bulk-CMOS technology covering an operating frequency range from 1.5 GHz up to 2.5 GHz. Simulation results of the designed multiphase generator show a worst case phase noise performance of −151 dBc/Hz at 100 MHz offset with a typical power consumption of only 3.5 mW from a 0.95 V supply at 2 GHz, demonstrating the feasibility of the presented circuit architecture.


The standard communication protocal TWAIN between image input device and application is introduced firstly,then a method is designed for developing general image scan program by the standard protocal and VC++6.0.By use of the method it is convenient to add image scan function to application. The method has higher application value and can obtain good effect in practice


Multiplexing data transmission in time and frequency is an alternative to medium contention in wireless networks. The IEEE 802.15.4e standard, and its Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) mode in particular, provides such possibility in the context of constrained devices, for instance wireless sensor networks. We analyze the performance of TSCH leveraging from a real implementation in emulated environment, assessing latency, delivery ratio and time to associate.


The traditional calving season in western Canada is primarily late winter to early spring, or January to March. Historically strong prices and fall demand for calves have encouraged cow-calf producers to calve early in the year and raise a heavier calf to market. Today, however, with changing market conditions and increased costs of production, many cattle producers are evaluating different calving systems. Alternatives must be sought to reduce costs for the cow-calf enterprise. One alternative suggests that the calving season should coincide with peak pasture production and forage quality, to coincide with the nutritional requirement demands of the lactating cow (Adams et al. 1994; Adams et al. 1996; Deutscher et al. 1991; Grings et al. 2008; Kruse et al. 2004; Pang et al. 1998; Reisenauer et al. 2001). No differences (P>0.05) were reported in reproductive efficiency measures, such as pregnancy rate, calving rate, or assistance and weaning rate between beef cows calving in early (March-April) or late (May-June) calving systems, even though preweaning calf growth rate was lower (P>0.05) for late-borne calves (Grings et al. 2008; Kruse et al. 2004). There has been some calving systems research carried out in the United States and Eastern Canada (Grings et al. 2008; Stonehouse et al. 2003), but only limited research in western Canada (Pang et al. 1998).


The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) database contains general soils information, but data available in STATSGO cannot be readily extracted nor parameterized to support regional environmental quality modeling. As such, each user must individually and repeatedly process data in STATSGO to obtain necessary soil properties. The objective of this study was to develop a comprehensive database, the Western States Soil Database (WSSD) (http://www.lar.wsu.edu/nw-airquest/soils_database.html), for use in modeling regional soil and water resources and environmental quality across eight western states (Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Montana, and Wyoming). We aggregated existing soil properties in STATSGO from 19,681 map units of the eight states and estimated soil properties based upon quantitative relationships among existing soil properties. The WSSD comprises 3,910 map units, with each map unit defined by 10 soil layers and each layer characterized by 31 soil properties. The WSSD was gridded to 1 and 12 km (0.62 and 7.44 mi) resolution cells for application to grid-based environmental models. Data from WSSD was tested against USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service field data and indicated satisfactory agreement; for example, the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) for sand and clay content varied between 4% and 7%. The RMSE appeared to be greatest for organic matter and was as large as 106% of the measured value. The WSSD provides information on soil properties useful for regional-scale modeling.


Separation-of-variables method is one of the analytical solution methods to solve unsteady state heat conduction problems. But unsteady state conduction with heat source is an inhomogeneous problem. It can not be solved by separation-of-variables method directly. The combination of variables division method and separation-of-variables method was applied in this paper to deal with heat conduction with heat source in an infinite plate wall. The problem was divided to a steady state and inhomogeneous heat conduction problem, and an unsteady state and homogeneous heat conduction problem by variables division method. The steady state and inhomogeneous problem can be integrated directly. The unsteady state and homogeneous problem can be transformed to the problem that can be solved by separation-of-variables method directly through variable substitution. The unsteady state temperature field in the infinite plate wall was then obtained.


OBJECTIVE
Reflect on the role of advanced practice nursing (APN) in the context of Brazilian primary health care.

METHOD
analysis of the main scientific productions and of the discussion on the implementation of APN.

RESULTS
there are favorable areas for the work of APN in primary health care, especially in the family health strategy. Professional master's degree and nurse residency programs constitute powerful training spaces. As a challenge, standardized definition of the roles of advanced practice nurses and of minimum training for work are necessary.

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
researches that contribute to understanding the perspectives, facilitators, and barriers for APN are necessary, as well as determining the population's health needs and expectations concerning the role of these professionals.


Electrodeposited poly(o-toluidine) (POT) on gold electrodes was investigated in 0.5 M H2SO4 aqueous solutions using alternating current electrogravimetry (simultaneous electrochemical impedance and mass transfer functions). The kinetic aspects of the three different redox transitions proposed for this polymer (leucoemeraldine–polaron transition, polaron–bipolaron transition, and bipolaron–pernigraniline transition) and the species involved, cation (hydrated proton), anion (bisulfate ion), and free solvent (water), are studied by means of the mass impedance technique. An ionic transfer model is proposed with coherent results where anion transfer is the fastest process and hydrated proton transfer is the slowest process (Grotthuss mechanism). The flux and counterflux of water molecules due to the conformational structure changes of the polymer and exclusion effect governed by the anion transfer are also discussed.


By "solving a triangle", one refers to determining the three sidelengths and the three angles, based on given information.Depending on the specific information, one or more triangles may satisfy the requirements of the given information.In the SAS case, two of sidelengths are given, as well as the angle contained by the two sides.According to Euclidean Geometry, such a triangle must be unique. In reference [1], and pretty much in standard trigonometry and precalculus texts,the Law of Cosines is employed in solving a SAS triangle. In this work we use an alternative approach by using the Law of Cosines.In Section 2, we list some basic trigonometric identities and in Section 3 we prove a lemma which is used in Section4. In Section4, we demonstrate the use of the Law of Sines in solving an SAS triangle. In Section 5 we offer three examples in detail; the last one being more general in nature.


The construction of community public service system which is in accordance with the needs of residents is the core of urban reconstruction and development in the process of urban renewal.Using 5-Point Likert Scale and KANO model,taking Street L,Wuhan as the research object,this paper gives empirical analysis of the supply and demand of public service in old urban communities.The study finds that 13 aspects of community service exert a significant impact on resident satisfaction,such as poverty relief,services for the aged,employment assistance,medical services,etc.And part of them could also meet fundamental needs from community residents.Nonetheless,community service supply is still confronted with a series of problems,including security service supply shortage,poor ability on developmental service supply and deficient fiscal allocation system.In order to better meet the resident demand,we should complete the government investment system and focus on solving the community security service supply;expand social participation and improve the developmental community service supply level;promote community division of powers and improve fiscal allocation mechanism;improve community micro-governance and enhance community self-service capabilities.


Introduction: The triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the most aggressive types of breast cancer, corresponding to about 15% to 20% of invasive breast tumors. They are those tumors that in immunohistochemistry do not express homone receptors and epidermal growth factor type 2 (cerbB2). This tumor phenotype does not yield many treatment options, beyond standard chemotherapy, and within this context, the evidence of some markers of this type of tumor may contribute to the discovery of more effective types of treatment. Case report and Objectives: The aim of this study was to define predictive and prognostic factors in TNBC that could be related with a pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy treatment. Methods: A descriptive and retrospective study, a case series type, in women with TNBC who had underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery at the Mastology Service of Maternidade Escola Assis Chateaubriand – Brazil - from May 2015 to June 2020. A statistical analysis was performed considering the 5% significance level. Results: From 108 women, only 47 were included in the study, with median age of 49 years (+14 years); about 30 (42.6%) had a family history of breast cancer in first or seconddegree relatives. About 44 (93.6%) cases were classified as invasive ductal tumor and grade II or III; the value of Ki67 greater than 14% was evidenced in 46 (97.9%) women and 26 (55.3%) had clinical stage III. Pathologic complete response to chemotherapy was evidenced in 16 (34%) cases, partial response in 13 (27.7%) and no response in 18 (38.3%) cases. The latter cases correspondeded to those who had stable or progression of disease. There was recurrence in 13 (27.7%) women, about 8 distant metastases, with the lungs as the most frequent site of metastasis followed by the brain. Eleven patients, about 23.4%, died. In the survival analysis of the studied population, the overall survival was 5.6 months and disease-free survival was 19.4 months. No association was observed in the study between the outcome of pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and anatomopathological characteristics of the tumor. Conclusion: The results of this study did not show statistical significance to determine the possible predictive and prognostic factors for obtaining a complete clinical response to TNBC in a public reference service for the treatment of breast cancer, where there is no genetic signature, PDL1 status or access to differentiated treatment for such a heterogeneous tumor profil. This shows a need for further studies in order to understand this disease and for greater accessibility to high-cost exams and more effective treatments.


This article reviewed the research status of the plantation density control techniques based on domestic literature,and discussed the technical issues on plantation density control in the arid and semi-arid region.Nowadays,more studies focused on modeling study,but with less mechanism;more on the pure plantation with similar ages and site conditions,rather than mixed forests;and more on the fast-growing timber plantation in South,but less on the plantation in arid and semi-arid regions.It was imperative to study the density control techniques which focused on the water factors,such as the techniques of water production function in the arid and semi-arid regions.The traditional density control techniques aimed to attain the highest production by relating the system density and production.The density control techniques based on water production function set the point of entry with the water factors,complied with the principle of water supporting capacity.The timely density control based on the amount of available water in the plantation ecosystem could ensure the best balance among the economic,ecological and social benefits of forests.It would be also beneficial to avoid from or reduce the problems of soil degradation,soil drying and groundwater decreasing caused by improper afforestation,and more suitable for the density management of plantation in the arid and semi-arid region.


Process for the preparation of a layer of fiberglass comprising glass fibers and binder composition resin, said mantle fiberglass 3% to 25% by weight resin binder on a solids basis mantle fiberglass uncured and characterized by an improved storage stability, as evidenced by the resistance of a molded composition fiberglass formed by heating and compressing said blanket after a storage period, said process comprising the steps of forming a binder composition aqueous resin comprising a resole resin and 2 to 10 parts by weight on a solids basis of a catalyst comprising a salt formed from ammonia and an aryl sulfonic acid, and one or more binder modifiers selected from the group consisting of urea, melamine and dicyandiamide resin, coating glass fibers with a cant ity of said resin binder composition, and collecting the coated glass fibers as a non-woven blanket.


Commercially available nitinol is currently manufactured using classic casting methods that produce blocks, the processing of which is difficult and time consuming. By continuous casting, wherein molten metal solidifies directly into a semi-finished product, the casting and processing of ingots can be avoided, which saves time and expense. However, no reports on continuous casting of nitinol could be found in the literature. In this work, Φ 12 mm nitinol strands were continuously cast. Using a graphite crucible, smelting of pure Ni and Ti in a medium frequency induction furnace is difficult, because it is hard to prevent a stormy reaction between Ni and Ti and to reach a homogeneous melt without a prolonged long holding time. Using a clay-graphite crucible, the stormy reaction is easily controlled, while effective stirring assures a homogeneous melt within minutes. Strands of nearly equiatomic chemical compositions were obtained with acceptable surface quality. The microstructure of strands containing over 50 at. % Ni, consisted of Ti2Ni and cubic NiTi, whereas the microstructure of strands containing less than 50 at. % Ni consisted of TiNi3 and cubic NiTi. This is consonant with the results of some other authors, and indicates that the eutectoid decomposition NiTi → Ti2Ni + TiNi3 does not take place.


Two-dimensional soil structure interaction analysis is carried out with nonlinear pushover analysis to discuss the effect of story number and soil class on the performance level of RC structures. Nonlinear incremental single mode pushover analysis method is used in finite element software package, SAP2000 for a three bay frame structure with three, five and eight stories. Soil-structure interaction is modeled by means of foundation impedance functions, which represent static stiffness of surface foundations for elastic soil behavior. These functions are defined by taking shear wave velocity for each soil types given in American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) 41-06 for spread foundation with 2.0 m x 2.0 m in dimension. Comparison criteria are selected as target displacements, story drifts, plastic hinge mechanisms and rotations obtained from pushover analysis of superstructure. All these results from rigid soil behavior are compared with those obtained from three, five and eight story and C, D, E soil classes. The effect of story number is more apparent if soil interaction is ignored. As the soil rigidity softens the displacement demand and the plastic hinge rotations increase. In other words, an elastic deformation in the structure can change into a plastic deformation when impedance functions are employed in the analysis.


Previous analyses of cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements [T. Wibig and A. W. Wolfendale, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 360 (2005) 236, arXiv:astro-ph/0409397; Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 448 (2015) 1030, arXiv:1507.0677.] have revealed contamination by areas of high cosmic ray activity in the Milky Way. Here, we update studies, looking at the most recent Planck release of residual maps. We search for possible effects of foreground contamination in the reconstruction of the ΛCDM cosmological parameters. We focus on the Hubble parameter H0 and the optical depth to reionization τ, both of which exhibit discrepancies between CMB-inferred values and low-redshift measurements ("the delta H0 problem"). Using the publicly available "component separated" Planck temperature maps, we single out three distinct regions: the "loops", "chimneys" and "low CR" regions, which disproportionately contributed to CR contamination of WMAP data. We find that two of the four maps are strongly affected by removal of anomalous...


A look at some of the new technological trends suggest solutions to choosing equipment that can cut excavation costs. Includes, hydraulic shovel technology, bucketwheel, draglines, and spreaders are included.


Background: Measurement of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) [valine (Val), alloisoleucine (allo-Ile), isoleucine (Ile), and leucine (Leu)] in plasma and dry blood spot samples is important for the diagnosis and monitoring of maple syrup urine disease (MSUD), which is a metabolic disorder that affects metabolism of BCAAs. We used a temporally short program on an High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) (Biochrom 30) for the first time in Saudi Arabia to analyze plasma samples for the diagnosis of MSUD.
Methodology: 500 μl of plasma were mixed with 500 μl of 10% sulphosalicylic acid, followed by shaking for 5-10 seconds on a vortexer. The mixture was incubated at 4 C for 10 minutes followed by centrifugation at 10,000 rpm for 5 minutes. Supernatants were transferred into HPLC vials for injection.
Results: For all amino acids, the limit of detection and limit of quantification were 5.0 and 10.0 μmol/l, respectively. The method was linear in the range of 10-2,500 μmol/l. The method was specific and selective for the detection of BCAAs, including alloisoleucine. The correlation coefficient (CV) of method comparison was greater than 0.980 and percent recovery of all amino acids in plasma was 80%-100%, which was evaluated at two amino acid concentrations. Precision was assessed by repeat analysis of spiked plasma samples and percent CV was found to be


The article discusses the evolution of the theoretical views of the Soviet Russia's and the Communist International leadership on the problem of war and peace, the model of political power during the formation of the Versailles-Washington system of international relations. The author not only analyzes the world order established by the beginning of the 1920s. She also considers the theoretical and tactical attitudes of the Comintern on the issue of imperialist, revolutionary, civil and national liberation wars, as well as the problem of relations with European social democracy and pacifist political forces, the national bourgeoisie, disagreements within the communist parties and the search for a model of the world community capable of preventing new wars.


Glass substrates were spin-coated with a perfluoropolyether oligomer based organic-inorganic hybrid material, and prepared by the sol-gel process. Contact angle analysis and atomic force microscopic analysis were carried out to characterize the surface of the prepared coatings. All systems exhibited strong hydrophobic and oleopophobic characteristics. The wettability behavior was found to be almost independent of both molecular weight and functionality of the fluorinated oligomer. The low values obtained for the contact angle and surface tension indicate that surface segregation of perfluoropolyether segments is likely to take place within the network. On the basis of these results and the high quality of the obtained coatings, these materials could be used as functional coatings to impart water and oleo-repellent characteristics to glasses and other similar substrates. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Adv Polym Techn 26:182–190, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/adv.20098


We consider a system modeling the flow of nematic liquid crystals with variable degrees of orientation. Although the set of constitutive equations involves many different parame- ters, the flow behavior is determined mostly by three nondimensional parameters, i.e., the Ericksen number, the Reynolds number, and the interface number. We establish a dissipative relation of the system in general domains. In the case of plane Poiseuille flow, we prove existence and regularity of solutions. Moreover, we discuss the stationary configurations with a large number of defects due to the large Ericksen number of the flow. Introduction. We consider time dependence and stationary flow of nematic liq- uid crystals with variable degrees of orientation. We show that the governing system possesses a dissipative property, regardless of the geometry of the flow. In the case of planar Poiseuille flow, such a property yields existence and regularity of solutions for the initial-boundary value problems. Finally, we discuss the spatial configuration for the stationary flow with large Ericksen numbers. We analyze the model developed by Ericksen (E: 91) and emphasize the role of the order parameter in describing defects and non-Newtonian properties of the flow. The variables to describe such flows include the velocity field v, the pressure p, the director n, and the order parameter s that describes the variable degree of orientation. The presence of n and s in the constitutive equations contributes to the modeling of the anisotropic behavior of the flow. Static configurations of such a model have been


This study aims at investigating the use of textual English pragmatic markers (PMs) as used by Jordanian university students by adopting a functional-pragmatic approach to explore the functions of these PMs. It also examines the  effect of gender on the use of textual PM. Participants were 10 fourth year university students (5 males and 5 females) who study Translation  at Isra Private  University. Online interviews, storytelling activity and a short questionnaire have been used to elicit data from the participants. The data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively in light of the study's research questions.  The study revealed that the functions of textual markers are: marking contrast, elaborating, reformulating and exemplifying, showing temporal sequence, indicating an inferential or conclusive relationships and summaries, signaling shifts or transition of discourse and continuation of discourse, signaling the opening or closing of opening or closing of discourse. In relation to the use of textual PMs, the results showed that there were no significant differences among males and females.


The Hall A Technical Review expressed concerns shown below mainly about PMT rates in the Cherenkov counters and suggested evaluating a possible neutron origin of the observed rates: "3) The performance of the HERMES RICH in the extremely high luminosity is a concern. The collaboration has attempted to address this in section 3.2.1 of the proposal using a Geant3 simulation for the low-energy photons from the target and the secondary electrons subsequently produced. There is no mention in the proposal how carefully neutrons from the target, beam line, and dump were included; those neutrons can produce electrons above Cherenkov threshold in the radiators of the RICH or in the glass of the PMTs. This point should be clarified. More generally, the ability of the Monte Carlo to predict high-rate particle backgrounds that will affect the detectors, is uncertain, given the history of the Gas Cherenkov during the Transversity experiment (comment 4). At a minimum, significant commissioning time should be foreseen for the RICH in Hall A at varying luminosities.


The article analyses the reasons for decreased traffic accidents in the Orel Region during 2017-2019 observed during the annual growth of traffic flow intensity. Dependence of the traffic discipline and culture of road users on existence of photo- and video-fixation systems for identification of speed infringements is checked. The methods for analyzing automobile traffic intensity and speed on areas of the motorway with and without video-fixation are used. The measures for further introduction and improvement of photo- and video-surveillance in the Orel Region and other Russian regions are suggested.


The velocity field of present‐day deformation in Central Asia is modelled using a set of four rotating blocks (Siberia, Tarim, Tibet, India) on a spherical earth. A best‐fit is inverted on the basis of estimated shortening‐rates across the main thrust zones (Himalayas, Tien Shan) and measured slip‐rates along the principal strike‐slip faults (Altyn Tagh and Karakorum) separating those blocks. The fit to the data implies that nearly all the present convergence between India and Asia can be accounted for by slip‐partitioning on these four zones, with as much as 50% absorbed by northeastwards extrusion of Tibet. This suggests that localised deformation governs the present mechanical behaviour of the Central Asian lithosphere.


We have attempted the synthesis of crystalline graphene quantum dots (GQDs) from indoor dust particles; a ubiquitous waste material with no practical applications. A simple and facile hydrothermal approach was...


For example, to provide a system and method for identifying a fouling degree formation in the compressor in the ethylene manufacturing system or other applications. Data associated with the operation of the compressor is collected. Based on the collected data, polytropic efficiency of the compressor is calculated. Estimated polytropic efficiency, estimated values are normalized so that a more appropriate indicator of the order of fouling. .The


Peninsular India is known for its complex intraplate seismicity and the southern part of it is characterized by diffused and distributed seismicity. In such cases the most com- monly adopted seismic source is the area source zone. The formation of seismic area source zone is subjective for regions such as south India and hence zonefree techniques to probabil- istic hazard analysis have been carried out in the past. The zonefree technique specifically the kernel technique is still new and has been applied to specific sites in south India such as Chennai and Kanchipuram. In this study the fixed and adaptive kernel techniques have been applied to the whole of south India to obtain the hazard value. The most influencing parame- ter affecting the kernel technique has been varied in two ways - the bandwidth parameters determined for the whole earthquake catalogue of south India and the other by determining the bandwidth parameters for the earthquakes lying in an influence area of 300 km radius around a particular site. It was observed that the adaptive kernel technique yielded slightly higher hazard values in regions of high seismic activity and lower values in regions of low seismic activity. However both the techniques yielded similar results in regions of spatial uni- form seismicity. A significant difference was observed in the uniform hazard spectra obtained for specific sites in south India when the bandwidth parameters were estimated considering whole of south India (regional) and an influence area of 300 km radius (local).


The level of testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, and prolactin in the blood of patients having prostate gland cancer T3bN0M1b. has been studied. When the standard hormonal therapy was supplemented by docetaxel (6 courses of 75 mg/m2, every three weeks), the distinctive feature of patients was a sharp 8,5 times reduction of the level of estradiol and 3,3 times higher progesterone as compared to the parameters before treatment. Taking into account the possible influence of the therapy used on the links of hypothalamic-pituitary-testicle axis which correlates with the clinic effect, we believe such kind of therapy to be pathogenetically grounded for prostate gland cancer patients.


In many acoustic conditions the recorded speech signals may be severely affected by reverberation, leading to a reduced speech quality and intelligibility. In this paper we focus on a blind speech dereverberation method based on multi-channel linear prediction (MCLP) in the short-time Fourier transform domain, which is typically performed in each frequency bin independently without taking into account the spectral structure of the speech signal. Since it is widely accepted that a speech spectrogram can be well approximated with a low-rank matrix, e.g., using a spectral dictionary, in this paper we propose to incorporate a low-rank matrix approximation of the speech spectrogram into the MCLP-based speech dereverberation. The low-rank approximation is obtained using nonnegative matrix factorization with Itakura-Saito divergence. Experimental results for several measured acoustic systems show that incorporating a low-rank approximation improves the dereverberation performance in terms of instrumental speech quality measures.


The sputtering rate (Q), in glow discharge, was measured as a function of the discharge power (W). An empirical relation could be obtained having the form Q = K**W m , with the constants K** and m. The equation was compared with theoretical derived equation of Takatsu and Toda, which is based on the mechanism of momentum transfer. Takatsu and Toda theoretical relationship had to be rearranged to obtain the same relationship between the sputtering rate (Q) and the discharge (W). The experimental data obtained in the present work as well as by Boumans and Takatsu and Toda were analysed on the bases of the obtained equation. This analysis revealed that the constants appearing in the Q-W equations are pressure dependent. These dependences are described and discussed.


Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers in Brazilian schools are facing several types of difficulties that they had never experienced. Based on this situation, experienced teachers, who act as mentors in a mentoring program based on blended learning, work to reinvent themselves as teachers in the face of social distancing and, at the same time, help beginning teachers (PIs) to deal with the challenges of this period. This paper presents exchanges between three mentors of early childhood education and their PIs in a virtual space, about experiences, pedagogical practices and feelings related to the pandemic period. Among the main difficulties cited by the participants, the following ones stand out: maintaining contact with children and their families; inequality of access to technological resources; development of remote education for young children. The mentors' initiative to hold a virtual meeting with the PIs points out the relevance of spaces for conversations between peers, especially during the pandemic, in which experienced teachers and beginners experience a feeling of isolation and intense learning process about what it means to be a teacher in


This study aims to describe the effectiveness of the problem-based learning model with a scientific approach to improve higher order thinking skills. The type of research used in this study was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test group design. The study was conducted by using one control class and one experimental class. The study was conducted on vocational students with a sample of 64 students consisting of 32 students in experimental class and 32 students in control class. The essay test was used as an instrument for retrieving data. Descriptive analysis and t-test were used to do data analysis. The descriptive test results showed that the average score of HOTS in the control class and experimental class had increased. The results of the t-test showed that there was a significant difference in the score of the pre-test and the post-test in the experimental class, whereas the control class had no significant difference. The conclusion of the results of the study shows that there was a difference between the improvement of higher order thinking skills using conventional models and PBLS models. The PBLS model was able to improve students' Higher Order Thinking Skills.


The processes that structure communities are still largely unknown. Therefore, we tested whether southern African termite communities show signs of environmental filtering and/or competition along a rainfall gradient in Namibia using phylogenetic information. Our results revealed a regional species pool of 11 species and we found no evidence for phylogenetic overdispersion or clustering at the local scale. Rather, our results suggest that the assembly of the studied termite communities has as strong random component on the local scale, but that species composition changes along the climatic gradient.


: This research takes one of the important aspects that expose with cities in general and specially Kufa city, this aspect is the urban growth .Which come as results to the social, economic and political factors that may take place in any city. The variety of these effects made a different in the morphological types and the spatial relations to the city, and so the city will expand and growth randomly or planned .Also the varieties of so many researches and studies lead to give a plurality in the related aspects and characteristics in the field of urban studies .In this way we see the research approach to present a specialized study about the urban growth in general, types, levels and the effective factors, so emerged the research problem in : the Existence of limited knowledge in taking the effect of the mosque in the growth and distribution of the urban land use. to achieve its goal and solve the research problem ,the main hypothesis is: The Kufa mosque effects on the growth and distribution of the urban land use on the level of spatial and formal relations. To improve the hypothesis we select vocabulary from the theoretical frame on by comprised analysis on three temporal samples to find their influence. This research


Seam carving is a method of content aware image resizing. As solutions shortest path algorithms are used to find images seams. Seam is a horizontal or vertical path of an image that has minimum energy. There are two (2) shortest path algorithms that will be discussed in this paper. This paper contains the results of shortest path algorithms comparison between Dijkstra and Directed Acyclic Graph to see which one is better than another in case of efficiency. The precomputed and recomputed methods will be compared to find the more efficient method for executing the seam carving transformation. A web application has been built for this purpose. This web app is capable of transforming image size with seam carving method. The complexity of Dijkstra and Acyclic will be compared to find which one is better. The result is Dijkstra has been won, with the O(4V) with Acyclicis O(5V). The use of precomputed and recomputed is evaluated by the conditions. If the preparation is evaluated then recomputed is more efficient, but if the preparation is not evaluated then the precomputed method is the better one and has faster performance.


The purpose of this study is to describe advertising through social media, word of mouth (WOM) and purchasing decisions on the online store, investigate and analyze the partial effect of social media and Word Of Mouth (WOM) on purchasing decisions, the effect of simultaneously advertising through social media and Word Of Mouth (WOM) on purchasing decisions, and among advertising through social media and Word Of Mouth (WOM), which has the most powerful influence on purchasing decisions. This type of research used in this research is explanatory research. Appropriate sampling technique to be used is judgmental sampling with a sample size of 100 respondents, namely research using data analysis techniques that use multiple linear regression analysis. Based on the results of research and discussion that has been done, it can be concluded as follows: 1) Advertising through social media fit in either category, word of mouth (WOM) in the category of positive and purchasing decisions at the online store Degan Jelly Malang in the high category. 2) Partially advertising through social media and Word Of Mouth (WOM) significant and positive impact on purchase decisions on online stores Degan Jelly Malang 3) Simultaneously advertising through social media and Word Of Mouth (WOM) significant and positive impact on purchasing decisions Degan online store Jelly Malang and 4) Advertising through social media has the most powerful influence on purchase decisions on online stores Degan Jelly Malang. 1) Advertising through social media fit in either category, word of mouth (WOM) in the category of positive and purchasing decisions in Malang Jelly Degan online store in the high category. 2) Partially advertising through social media and Word Of Mouth (WOM) significant and positive impact on purchase decisions on online stores Degan Jelly Malang 3) Simultaneously advertising through social media and Word Of Mouth (WOM) significant and positive impact on purchasing decisions Degan online store Jelly Malang and 4) Advertising through social media has the most powerful influence on purchase decisions on online stores Degan Jelly Malang. 1) Advertising through social media fit in either category, word of mouth (WOM) in the category of positive and purchasing decisions in Malang Jelly Degan online store in the high category.


Differences in wear rate, morphology of the worn surface and debris, and the microstructure in subsurface of the Ti 6Al 4V alloy after wear in air and vacuum were compared. The wear rate of Ti 6Al 4V alloy in air is higher than that in vacuum in all the ranges of sliding velocities and applied loads. The wear of Ti 6Al 4V alloy in air is controlled by a combination of abrasion, oxidation and delamination with micro cracks remaining in subsurface. Under the vacuum condition, the surface layer of Ti 6Al 4V alloy experiences a severe plastic deformation on a great scale, which results in an ultra fine microstructure.


Background. Persistent asthma in adults starts often early in childhood and is associated with alterations in respiratory function that occur early in life. Objectives. The aim of this study was to evaluate the importance of innate and environmental factors associated with occurrence of asthma during childhood in a population of recurrent wheezing infants followed prospectively. Methods. A cohort of infants less than 30 months old with recurrent wheezing was established in order to assess severity of respiratory symptoms and to look for the presence of atopy and environmental risk factors. At the age of 6 years, they were reevaluated with respect to remission or persistence of wheezing over the previous 12-month period. Results. Data were available for 219 subjects aged 15 ± 5 months. In 27% of the infants with recurrent wheeze, wheezing persisted until the age of 6 years. In multivariate analysis, stepwise logit analysis showed that the risk factors for persistent wheezing are eosinophilia ≥470/mm3, allergenic sensitization, and a father with asthma. Environmental factors present during the first year of life that protect from persistence of wheezing are (1) breastfeeding for longer than 3 months, (2) pets at home, and (3) ≥3 siblings. The detection rate for persistent wheezing in this model is 72%. The persistence score showed good specificity 91% but low sensitivity 35%. Conclusion. This study confirms the role of atopic host factors on wheezing persistence during childhood and detected protective environmental factors.


The invention provides a method for controlling the access of a non-SIP service, a system and a service registry. The method for controlling the access of the non-SIP service comprises the following steps: a service terminal sends an SIP request to an international protocol multimedia subsystem IMS to request the IMS to reserve resources for the non-SIP service and the SIP requests to carry a public address of the non-SIP service; the IMS acquires service quality QoS information and a practical access address which are corresponding to the non-SIP service from the service registry; the IMS reserves resources for the non-SIP service according to the acquired QoS information corresponding to the non-SIP service and returns the practical access address of the non-SIP service to a service terminal; and the service terminal accesses the non-SIP service according to the practical access address. By the technical proposal provided by the embodiment of the invention, the QoS control capability of the IMS can be used for accessing the non-SIP service, thus the invention provides a good QoS guarantee for accessing the non-SIP service.