This paper proposes a high-step-down dc–dc converter with continuous output current which utilizes coupled-inductors. Another main feature of this converter is applying the same number of switches as the synchronous buck converter. The introduced converter is suitable for non-isolated low-voltage high-current applications, especially voltage regulator modules (VRMs) with 12-V-input. Owing to extension of the duty cycle, the main mosfet current stress and the synchronous rectifier switch voltage stress are significantly reduced. However, the discharge of the leakage inductance energy increases the main mosfet voltage stress. By employing a simple lossless clamp/snubber circuit the leakage inductance energy is recovered, the voltage spike across the main mosfet is clamped, and the turn-off switching losses are reduced. There is at least one inductor in all current paths which creates an intrinsic protection against current shoot-through and provides zero-current-switching (ZCS) turn-on for the main mosfet. High efficiency is attained by the proposed converter due to extended duty cycle, low number of switches, and soft switching operation while the converter driver is just like the conventional buck converter. Due to the single-phase structure of the proposed converter, this converter is a viable alternative to the buck VRM. Similar to the other converters using coupled-inductors, the complexity of coupled-inductors design and the space occupied by coupled-inductors can be considered as drawbacks. A prototype of the proposed converter is implemented to verify the converter operation and the theoretical analysis.


The serum apolipoprotein A (Apo A) and α‐fetoprotein (AFP) were evaluated in histologically verified 30* cases of alcoholic cirrhosis and 18 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The latter were also divided into subgroups depending on the presence or absence of associated cirrhosis. Serum Apo A levels were found to be significantly decreased in cirrhotics (p < 0.001) compared to controls and non‐cirrhotic HCC patients. In 22 cases of alcoholic cirrhosis (AFP < 10 ng/ml) and 12 cases of HCC (AFP > 600 ng/ml), the AFP levels itself* were diagnostic, but in the remaining cases, AFP levels (100‐600 ng/ml) were not able to differentiate between cirrhosis and malignancy. In this later group of patients with low pathological range of AFP, serum Apo A levels found to be significantly decreased in alcoholic cirrhotic patients (p < 0.001) compared to HCC patients. Thus, estimation of Apo A levels may be helpful to interpret the AFP values at lower pathological range due to suspected liver pathology.


Global warming and Climate change are the twin growing concern as far as world nations are concerned. These two phenomenon make a lot of serious implications on living organism across the world. Unless a world wide discussion has been undertaken to tackle this issue, it would become disaster that carve the living things in the globe. Through this paper an attempt has been made to know the implications of global warming and climate change on earth . Various national and international level committees and conventions those shed light on issue of climate change also come under the scope of this study. Even though a lot of movements have been undertaken to tackle the issue at national and international level, the concentration of green house gas in the atmosphere is increasing at an alarming rate day by day.
KEY WORDS: Global warming, Climate change, Kyoto Protocol


There were two important reports of life-supportirig pig-to-primate organ transplantation using hDAF genetically-modified pig donors. Zaidi et al. reported up to 35 day survival after kidney transplantation [ 5 ] and Schmoeckel et al. reported up to 9 day survival when orthotopic cardiac transplantation was performed [6]. Xu et al. achieved about 3 week survival after orthotopic pig-to-baboon cardiac xenotransplantation by using preoperative TLI, depletion of natural antibody by organ perfusion, and vigorous immunosuppression including methotrexate [7]. The same group continued their studies of xenotransplantation in neonatal primate recipients [8]. Delriviere et al. pointed out the importance of physiological differences when selecting animal donors for liver transplantation [9].


Precise diagnosis and treatment of hemolytic anemia is a challenge to veterinarians. Toxins, infectious, and autoimmune diseases can cause hemolytic anemia in dogs and cats. Blood smears provide information that can assist in the diagnosis and help to identify the possible etiology of the condition. In many veterinary clinics, the introduction of automated blood cell count has led to abandoning the routine of evaluating blood smears. This article reviews the citologic characteristics of different types of hemolytic anemias in dogs and cats.


of delayed-type hypersensitivity skin induration, on in fi ltrating CD4 1 T helper 1 (Th1) in fi ltrates Mp -speci fi c T-cell to Mp pulmonary disease. We showed that the measurement of speci fi c IgM antibody-secreting cells (ASCs) in blood discriminated patients with CAP with Mp infection from Mp carriers suffering from CAP caused by other pathogens (4). Using this well-diagnosed cohort, we here investigated the Mp -speci fi c T-cell response and its contribution to pulmonary disease.


The invention discloses a soft measurement method for an automobile mass center slip angle and a tire slip angle. By the soft measurement method, the mass center slip angle and front and rear wheel slip angles of an automobile can be calculated in real time when a direction angle, a roll angle and a pitch angle of the automobile in the driving process and an east speed, a north speed and an up speed in a navigation coordinate system are known, and the problem of lateral acceleration and automobile transverse operation stability can be analyzed. By the soft measurement method, a wheel speed sensor is not required to be arranged in the automobile, or data of an anti-lock brake system (ABS) and an electronic stability program (ESP) in the automobile is not required to be read through a controller area network (CAN) bus, and the method has the characteristics that the method is convenient, quick and reliable.


Abstract Triceratopyga calliphoroides is a blowfly species which is the only member of the genus Triceratopyga. Because of their forensic importance, we sequenced the complete mitogenome of the T. calliphoroides and analyzed phylogenetic relationships. According to data, it has the longest mitogenome in the family with 16,529 bp in length. In the phylogenetic tree, T. calliphoroides were positioned in the subfamily Calliphorinae, and the closest species is Caliphora vomitoria. This is the first complete mitogenome record for the species.


The invention relates to a photovoltaic module and a terminal box with an isolation communication function. A photoelectric coupler or an infrared transmitting tube, an infrared receiving tube, a current sensor, a voltage sensor, a temperature sensor, a microprocessor, a bypass diode and other electronic components are connected with the photovoltaic module through a printed circuit board; an electronic switch and a bypass switch are in parallel connection, and the electronic switch is in series connection with the positive electrode or the negative electrode of the photovoltaic assembly. The photovoltaic module and the terminal box can realize functions of information detection and performance analysis of the photovoltaic module, isolation communication among the photovoltaic modules, isolation communication between the photovoltaic module and an external apparatus, on and off control of the photovoltaic module, arc protection, overcurrent protection and earth leakage protection, as well as can solve the problems of poor heat dissipation of devices and the like; and all or partial of the functions are integrated for the terminal box of the photovoltaic module, so that the cost of a photovoltaic system is reduced, the installation and the maintenance of the photovoltaic system are simplified, the reliability and the controllability of the photovoltaic system are improved.


This study aims to examine the moderating role of board characteristics in the relationship between integrated reporting disclosure (IRD) and company value from the perspectives of agency and signaling theories. The analysis uses WarpPLS version 7.0 with 150 samples of manufacturing companies that are listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and provide IRD. Results indicate that IRD influences company value, meanwhile, board characteristics, which are proxied by board size, board independence, and board gender diversity, enhance the IRD influence on company value. However, board activity does not moderate IRD and company value. These findings imply the importance of the roles of board characteristics in strengthening IRD which can be used as a signal for companies to reduce information asymmetry by companies in influencing investor decision making and reducing agency costs, which, in turn, can increase company value. This research prompts companies about the importance of IRD in increasing company value and regulators regarding the development of policies related to IRD in Indonesia.


The Johnston et al. (2006) demonstration that natal supernovae "kinks" tend to orient a pulsar's rotation axis Ω with its proper‐motion direction Aν potentially provides the important possibility of determining how pulsar radiation is polarized with respect to the projected magnetic field direction. Although orthogonal polarization mode (OPM) emission has been detected in most pulsars, heretofore no means has been available to fix its absolute direction. Were we thus able to distinguish the OPM orientation, one or the other could be associated with the O or X propagation mode and the implications explored physically. Then, if the O‐mode displacements are in the expected direction, magnetospheric refraction provides a very plausible mechanism. Concretely, the outer edges of conal profiles are almost always highly depolarized through the incoherent mixing of roughly equal OPM levels—requiring them to be offset in both magnetic colatitude and longitude. We inquire whether these differential OPM offsets resul...


The construction of a solar dryer is presented in this work. Experimental runs for the drying of tropical fruits were performed and a simplified model of the drying process. A data acquisition system was used and the drying temperature was controlled by means of an air stream heated by a simultaneous process of forced convection and solar radiation. The system also included electric resistances, for emergency situations. Drying experiments were performed with banana slabs, monitoring their weight and water content as a function of time. A simplified mathematical model was developed considering only the mass transfer equation, estimating the water diffusivity on the fruits. The values of these diffusivities are in agreement with other values reported in the literature, so they can be used in a preliminary design of solar dryer. The system studied provides a way of calculating the amount of water to be evaporated in the dryer at a particular mean temperature, the work power to be supplied and the required drying time.


Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) is a substantial enlargement of the aorta that weakens the blood vessel wall leads to atherosclerotic disease. Aneurysms are dangerous because when it rupture causing hemorrhage. This leads to insufficient blood flow from the aorta to the different organs of the human body. Based on the extracted features from the AAA and the demographic data of the patient, the clinical management team will decide the optimal treatment procedure. The screening of AAA is done by ultrasound scan to know the type of the aneurysm present. Diameter with 05.05 cm or more, it should be viewed seriously. The AAA images were segmented using connected components labeling technique. Early detection of aneurysm can be repaired with proper treatment so that it does not rupture. The CT images of AAA were read and denoisedto preserve the edges using image processing software. Based on the histogram of the filtered image the AAA area was identified and threshold the image to view clearly the dilated part. The area, major axis length, minor axis length of the AAA images were calculated to understand the flow dynamics and to predict the rupture of the AAA wall using MATLAB, LabVIEW and python program.


A novel high-throughput fabrication technique to produce polymer embedded functional chalcogenide nanowire arrays is demonstrated. Indefinitely-long selenium nanowire arrays are obtained and their size dependent photoconductivity is investigated. Logarithmic increase in photo-conductance is observed.


The mathematical formulations of orbiting spacecraft sloshing dynamics for a partially filled liquid of cryogenic superfluid helium II in a Dewar container driven by the gravity gradient acceleration associated with slew motion are studied. The Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility-Spectroscopy (AXAF-S) spacecraft is chosen as a practical example in this study. Explicit mathematical expressions for the orbital gravity gradient acceleration associated with the slew motion acting on spacecraft fluid systems are derived


This paper considers the main aspects that characterize the requirements of biological safety in poultry. First of all, the rules of keeping birds in cage batteries are indicated, the design features and rules of work on them are shown. Shows what to do and in what sequence, regarding cleaning in cell batteries using appropriate equipment and disinfectants. The peculiarities of keeping poultry on the litter and neutralization of a large amount of ammonia released with the help of appropriate chemicals are considered. A set of special measures is considered – disinfection, deworming, disinsection, deratization, which business entities should carry out for the prevention and treatment of poultry diseases, protection of people from infectious and invasive diseases common to humans and birds, as well as quarantine. The risks that are possible in case of non-compliance with biosafety requirements are shown, namely the risk of disease transmission and the ways in which it is possible, the first way – vertical (transmission of the pathogen through the egg), the second - horizontally (transmission – contact, aerogenic). The rules concerning workers of poultry farms, conditions under which their work on a poultry farm is possible are considered. The requirements of biological safety to the risks when visiting the farm by outsiders are also highlighted, namely what kind of inspection is required to enter the farm and what documents (questionnaires) need to be filled out, the need for appropriate instruction, and the importance. The paper also points out one of the main requirements for farm staff – hygienic procedures (hand washing, use of antiseptics), as well as the division of the farm into appropriate areas of production – sterile and non-sterile, which will avoid cross-contamination. It is also shown that barriers to footwear in industrial premises are an important factor. In summary, we can say that the above conditions are a guarantee of profitability of poultry.


In this investigation a technique was developed for depositing high reflectors of alternating layers of TiO2 and SiO2 with varying levels of stress. The TiO2 layers were deposited by ion assisted electron beam evaporation, and the SiO2 layers by modulated reactive DC magnetron sputtering. The TiO2 layers were in tensile stress, and the stress depended on the ion beam current density. The SiO2 layers were in compressive stress. The total stress in the high reflector coating was controlled by the ion beam current density applied during deposition of the TiO2 films. The coatings were deposited at a substrate temperature of approximately 50 degrees Celsius. Coating stress levels were unaffected by changes in relative humidity. The stability of the coating over time depended on the density of the TiO2 layers.


Innovation is in limelight not only in the western world, but also in emerging markets. In the backdrop of this fertile environment, facilitating firms with building innovation capability is seen as a necessity. A structured approach to innovation management, then should extend beyond, for creating new business models in the competitive arena. This may be brought to practitioners, and students at business schools alike, in order to emphasize that this relatively new phenomenon is far too important to postpone. A survey conducted with business schools in India has shown that they are far behind not only in taking up innovation management as a major management discipline, but also advancing further to introduce business innovation concept especially in their courses on entrepreneurship.


The results of studies on the effect of temperature on the preservation of Azotobacter chroococcumM-70 and Azotobacter vinelandii M-X cells on the seeds of Cucumis sativus L. are presented. In threemonths, the number of bacterial cells on the seeds, which were kept at + 4°C, was significantly higherthan the parameters of the storage of seeds at +28° С. Azotobacter cysts were preserved better thanvegetative cells. To increase the viability of bacterial cells on the seeds, it is proposed to use a complex ofchemical substances that provides better survival of both vegetative cells and Azotobacter cysts. Theresults of the studies can be used to develop new ways to improve the viability of useful soilmicroorganisms on seeds of agricultural crops


The present invention discloses a power transport ship. Power transport ship according to the invention the power generation unit for producing power using the green energy; A power storage unit in which a plurality of battery packs including at least two secondary batteries are connected in series and / or in parallel to store power generated by the power generation unit; And a controller configured to monitor electrical characteristics of the power storage unit and output a control signal for controlling charging and discharging of the power storage unit. According to the present invention, it is possible to overcome the limitations caused by weather and local conditions that operate when power is produced using green energy. In other words, by using the characteristics of the ship that can move, it is possible to produce power in the desired area.


The Ministry of Finance, through the Directorate General of State Assets Management (DGSAM), strives to increase the contribution of asset management as a source of Non-Tax State Revenue through the Asset Utilization mechanism (in the form of assets rent, etc.). However, empirical data indicates that Asset Utilization activities are not optimal. This study aims to conduct a risk assessment of the government assets rental business process. The study was conducted qualitatively following the risk assessment steps according to ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management. Based on data obtained (by document analysis and interviews) and referring to the organization's risk appetite, the risk assessment shows that eight significant risks need to be anticipated and mitigated by DGSAM related to the assets rental business process. To increase the effectiveness of the assets rental business process in generating Non-Tax State Revenue, we recommend DGSAM as Assets Manager to increase the effectiveness of control in the assets rental business process and implement risk mitigation as an embedded strategy in improving asset management.


The insecticidal activity of essential oils extracted by hydro distillation from Chenopodium ambroisoides (L.)Chenopodiaceae),Thymus vulgaris Spreng. (Rutaceae) were tested by fumigation on cowpea weevil 10; 16.7 and 33.3 µl/l were evaluate d at a t The chemical composition of the essential oils used was established by GC/MS analysis. These oils presented an insecticidal activity and induced, in the females of (C.ambroisoides ), 3.75±0.28 (T.vulgaris) and 1.81±0.53 (M. koeingii) at the lower concentration (6.7 compared to that in the control (51.23±0.32). The essential oils of more effective than that of T.vulgaris


The utility model relates to a self-supporting steel chimney with four pipes of an electric power plant, which comprises four steel chimneys (1) and connecting steel constructional elements (2) which are used for connecting the steel chimneys (1), wherein the steel chimneys (1) and the connecting steel constructional elements (2) are arranged in a square shape, and the four steel chimneys (1) are positioned on the four points of the square arrangement. The chimney overcomes the defects of big occupied area, high investment cost and the like of an existing steel chimney of an electric power plant. The self-supporting steel chimney with four pipes of an electric power plant of the utility model has the advantages of small occupied area, low investment cost and the like.


Objective To investigate the clinical application of perioperation nursing quality index for traumatic and spinal cord injury.Methods A total of 136 patients with cervical spinal cord injury and injury severity score(ISS) above 10 were randomly divided into two group.Usual index of nursing quality and special index of nursing quality were adopt respectively in the two groups.The ISS scores,number of cases whose disease changes were found by nurses in time,number of cases of complications,early exercise time,rescue days,hospitalization days,number of dead cases,and special clinical manifestations were observed.Results Significant differences were found in number of cases whose disease changes were found by nurses in time,number of cases of complications,early exercise time,rescue days and hospitalization days between two groups(P0.05).Conclusion The special index of perioperation nursing quality used for traumatic and spinal cord injury is crutial in early rehabilitation of the patients,can enhance the success rate of rescue,shorten the hospitalization stay,reduce the financial burden of the patients,and raise the level of special nursing.


In this work, the theoretical basis that underpins the research is discussed, in which Vygotsky's work is emphasized. Thus, a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) was developed that provides an Educational Chatterbot. Chatterbots are programmed robots that simulate a conversation. This technological tool presents the new school and focuses on Concepts about Ecology


This article describes a new strategy for objectively quantifying the performance exhibited by each and every team as derived from that year's games. When applied to the last sixteen seasons of division I-A college football, one can readily observe a strong correlation between the final rankings computed using this new strategy and the combined average ranking of the weekly polls administered by the Associated Press (AP) and USA Today (since 1991, and by the United Press International – UPI – before then). The nearly identical ordering of the top teams in these two rankings after all the post season bowl games have concluded, and the similarity of these rankings before the bowl games were played the past eight seasons, i.e. the "BCS years", are submitted here as evidence for the validity of this strategy.


Abstract White rot Basidiomycetes were able to biodegrade styrene (1-phenylethene) or methyl methacrylate (4-methyl-2-oxy-3-oxopent-4-ene) graft copolymers of lignin containing different proportions of lignin and polystyrene [poly(1-phenylethylene)] or polymethyl methacrylate [poly(1-methyl-1-(1-oxo-2-oxypropyl)ethylene)]. The biodegradation tests were run on lignin/styrene copolymerization products which contained 10.3, 32.2, and 50.4 wt% lignin while biodegradation tests were run on lignin/methyl methacrylate copolymerization products which contained 11 to 18 wt% lignin. The styrene polymer samples were incubated with white rot Pleurotus ostreatus, Phanerochaete chrysosporium, Trametes versicolor, and brown rot Gloeophyllum trabeum. The methyl methacrylate polymer samples were incubated with white rot Pleurotus ostreatus, Trametes versicolor, and Phlebia radiata. White rot fungi degraded the plastic samples at a rate which increased with increasing lignin content in the copolymer sample. Both polystyren...


Previous work with polycrystalline isolation was limited in density by enhanced diffusion which precluded walled emitter geometries. Oxide isolation schemes are limited in depth by loss of planarity due to oxide bumps and resultant degradation in photolithographic definitions. A technique has been developed which combines polycrystalline isolation of collectors and shallow oxide isolation of bases. This approach is capable of proriding deep dielectric isolation, surface planarity and the high density of walled emitter geometries, a combination heretofore unobtainable by any other means. This isolation scheme has been used to fabricate ECL gate chains. The transistors were located in 2.5 micron thick n-epi islands surrounded by 5 × 105ohm-cm polysilicon selectively oxidized with silicon nitride masking to a thickness of one micron. The oxide bump at the nitride mask was typically 3000 Å and the epipoly step height was as small as 2600 Å. The circuits have polysilicon resistors and were fabricated using both thermal diffusion and ion implantation. The speed-power product of these circuits was approximately one-half that of junction isolated circuits.


By visiting and investigating, current status of Siemens and its Power Generation(PG) is described, especially the highlight is given for both steam turbine and gas turbine; furthermore, the technical features, core competences, product line and advanced production management are all stated in detail. Therefore, the conclusion emphasizes that innovation is regarded as the key of enterprise success in Siemens .


Purpose - Most of the amendments to the law on the improvement of the distribution structure of mobile communication terminal equipment, the fully...


Congenital anomalies are an under recognized cause of mortality and disability in children under five years of age in the developing countries. Among Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), overwhelming majority of children die of congenital anomalies. The extent of congenital problems in Kenya is not clearly understood and documented. The objective of this study was to examine incidences of neonatal congenital anomalies among newborns at Pumwani Maternity Hospital (PMH) in May 2014 through April 2015. A descriptive cross sectional study was utilized to review and to extract pertinent data. The data was abstracted from Research Electronic data Capture (RED Cap) and analyzed on R for statistical computing.Out of 6633 new-borns at PMH 129 new-borns had congenital anomalies giving an overall incidence rate of 1.94% of the total admissions (95% confidence interval 1.64, 2.31). Musculoskeletal system was the most common, accounting for 0.95% of total births. The central nervous system and the genital organs were equally affected with 0.12% of total admissions each. Congenital talipes equinovarus was the leading congenital anomaly of the musculoskeletal system (53.97%) followed by polydactyl with 17.46%. More males 79 (61.24%) had congenital anomalies than their female counterparts 48 (37.20%). The findings highlight the need to step up efforts to fight congenital anomalies in Kenya. Primarily public health needs to focus on preventive interventions for congenital anomalies. Further research is needed to comprehensively document all risk factors in the Kenyan setting to help in make informed health care decisions.


To train innovative talents is a complicated project with higher demands and difficulites ,but it is the improvement of scientific research ability that is a foothold,a breakthrough point and efficient carrier of the project.To improve scientific research abillity is advantageous in training university student's innovetive senes ,creative thought and power,and spirit of devoting himself to science.


Nanosized ZSM-22 with high crystallinity was synthesized rapidly by a high-temperature hydrothermal synthesis method. The effects of synthesis conditions such as crystallization temperature, crysta...


A continuous solid powder depositing device and a continuous solid powder depositing method are provided to control aerosol spray speed by controlling carrier gas flow rate regardless of kind, size, shape of solid powder and materials. A continuous solid powder depositing device comprises an air supplying part(A), an air processing part(B), a solid powder supplying part(21), a deposition chamber(26) and a convey pipe(22). The continuous solid powder depositing device includes a slit nozzle(25) and a vacuum pump(31). The air processing part filters the air provided from the air supplying part and dries the air and ejects the air. The solid powder supplying part supplies the solid powder to the air ejected through the air processing part. Material(27) is placed inside the deposition chamber. The convey pipe connects the air processing part and the deposition chamber. The convey pipe transfers aerosol to the deposition chamber. The air and the solid powder ejected in the air processing part are mixed and the aerosol is formed. The slit nozzle is equipped at the end of the convey pipe. The slit nozzle sprays aerosol on the material of the deposition chamber. The vacuum pump is connected to the deposition chamber with a vacuum connecting pipe(29). The vacuum pump maintains the deposition chamber in the vacuum condition.


Two years ago, the National Science Foundation sponsored a two-day workshop called Design@2006. The 50 participants came from academia, industry, and government to discuss the impact of emerging technologies on information design and distribution ten years hence. A report was written a year later and published under the title, Design in the Age oflnj~rmation. It addrcsses four topics and makes specific recommendations in each: 1) rising technological opportunities, 2) new design principles, 3) design education, and 4) key research issues.


Chapter 0. Foundations Chapter I. Initial concepts and first results Chapter II. Around the spectrum Chapter III. Basic stock of examples Chapter IV. Commutative and star Banach algebras Chapter V. Polynormed algebras that are near to Banach algebras Chapter VI. Modules, they are also representations Chapter VII. Problems leading to homology and the elements of homology theory Bibliography Index Index of notation


Objectives To study the morbidity of infection and the outcome of patients with liver failure. Methods 234 patients with liver failure were enrolled in this retrospective study. Result The infection incidence in liver failure patients was 89.3%. Gram negative bacteria accounted for 92.59% in all positive culture specimens. Lower infection incidence (72.60%) was observed in patients with good outcome. High incidence of multiple site infection occurred manly in died or liver transplantation patients. Conclusions The infection incidence is higher in recent years. Gram negative bacteria is the main microorganisms responsible for infection.


The present study refers to an application of optical techniques in restoration of icons. These are, technically speaking, paintings on wood panel using pigments mixed with egg yolk. Making a section through the layers that compose an icon, they appear in the following order: a support made of wood panel; a preparation made from a mixture of an organic glue and a substance for volume (most frequently used are CaSO4 or CaCO3 in natural spread forms of crystallization; a layer of paint and gold or silver sheets and the final almost transparent layer which consists in a natural resin also known as varnish. During the classic intervention, the specialist is assisted by modern optoelectronic devices. The cleaning process is based on the laser beam next to conventional methods. Cleaning with solvents or with scalpeds is less accurate than cleaning with laser and the precision of the later method is requested in fine art restoration.


Complexity is often quoted as an independent variable that challenges the utility of traditional project management tools and techniques. A large body of work has been devoted in exposing its numerous aspects, yet means for quantitatively assessing it have been scarce. Part of the challenge lies in the absence of hard evidence supporting the hypothesis that projects can be considered as complex systems, where techniques for measuring such complexity are better established. In response, this study uses empirical activity networks to account for the technological aspect of five projects. By doing so, the contribution of this study is twofold. First, a procedure for the quantitative assessment of an aspect of project complexity is presented; namely, structural complexity. Second, results of the analysis are used to highlight qualitatively similar behavior with a well-known complex system, the Internet. As such, it suggests a transition from the current, metaphorical view of projects being complex systems to a literal one.From a practical point of view, this study uses readily captured and widely used data, enabling practitioners to evaluate the structural complexity of their projects to explore system pathologies and, hence, improve the decision-making process around project bidding, resource allocation, and risk management.


A patient with impaired renal function following aortic valve replacement developed prolonged neuromuscular paralysis during treatment with tubocurarine, gentamicin and lignocaine but recovered after peritoneal dialysis. The potential neuromuscular blocking properties of these three drugs are discussed.


THE capital accumulation problem has been the subject of intense theoretical and empirical scrutiny and of considerable controversy. Much of the controversy has centered around the empirical validation of the role assigned by neoclassical theory to relative prices in the determination of the optimal capital stock. In this paper we derive a capital accumulation model similar to that employed by Bischoff (1969) and report the results of its application to Canadian data. The model is used to explain the time paths of three types of capital assets employed by the Canadian manufacturing sector over the period 1952-1973. These assets are machinery and equipment, buildings, and engineering works (waterworks, sewage systems, electrical systems, etc.). These three asset categories correspond to those employed by Statistics Canada in their capital stock and investment surveys.1 To anticipate our principal conclusion, we find that over the sample period the time paths of two of the three capital assets examined (machinery and equipment, and buildings) were significantly influenced by a variable representing the price of output relative to the implicit rental price of capital. This variable is also known as the real rental rate of capital. The equations estimated are derived under the assumption that the -firms involved choose the growth path -of capital stock which maximizes the present value of their net cash flow (maximizes net worth) and that the relevant production function is CES. If we define


Federal de Pernambuco - Campus Agreste ). Based on the assumption that there is an epistemology of the populations of the Agreste of Pernambuco, the authors aim to understand the conditions of elaboration, organization, languages and production of popular knowledge constructed by men and women of the arts of letters, clay, therapeutic care (healers and raizeiros ) and the cultivation of the land. The present study wants, specifically, to highlight the structuring, the dynamics and the specific processes of the Epistemologies of the Pernambuco Agreste. This study in question is based on the Epistemologies of the South, underlined by Santos (1983; 2010), Fals Borda (1995), Brandão (1994) and Arroyo (2012). The methodology adopted is of an exploratory nature, coined by the Extended Case ( Caso Alargado ) method (Lage, 2013) that provided both the election of the collection tools and the data analysis technique. The results obtained were: a) there is an intimate relationship between the conditions experienced and the elaboration of meanings and knowledge produced by the subjects; b) there is a structural and, at the same time, dynamic and proper framework to produce knowledge of the Agrestinas populations; c) Popular Education is invited to (re)visit itself from the Agrestinas epistemologies that raise other sources, instruments and organizational ways of the popular subjects to pronounce their cosmoperceptions and their contributions to a dialogical and critical-transformative education; d) these epistemologies emerge from the daily life lived and reflected from the cycles of nature, the exchange of knowledge and the (self)narratives of native and/or resident social subjects.


The relationship between talar size and body mass in extant primates is examined to provide the regression equations for estimating the body mass of extinct primate species based on the talar size. The results indicate that, among the linear talar dimensions, the whole talar size and the tibial trochlear size are good body mass estimators for primates. As an example, the regression equations presented here were applied to the body mass estimates of the fossil tali (NMMP-39 and NMMP-82) of the amphipithecid primates from the middle Eocene Pondaung Formation of Myanmar. Based on the estimated body masses determined by this study, NMMP-39 (estimated body mass: ca. 2.7 kg) should likely be assigned to Ganlea megacanina or Myanmarpithecus yarshensis, while NMMP-82 (estimated body mass: ca. 4.9 kg) should likely be assigned to 'Amphipithecus' mogaungensis or Pondaungia cotteri.


Carbonated soft drinks (CSD) remain the world's most valuable soft drink category, exceeded in quantity sales only by bottled water. In spite of stable growth in value and volumes, the market for these beverages is changing at an exceptional pace.


This paper covers algorithms to determine a machine assignment strategy to locations on a single straight track by minimizing the total backtrack distance. Three different algorithms ar presented: an efficient heuristic procedure, the branch-and-bound algorithm, and the nerual network approach. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms have potential power to design an on-line optimizer.


We report spectral line-by-line processing of 64 frequency lines from an optical frequency comb generator. High quality, transform-limited 1.6 ps pulses at 10 GHz repetition rate are obtained. Arbitrary waveform generation with waveforms spanning the full time period are demonstrated.


Objective To study the expression of TGF-α in liver cirrhosis rat liver after partial hepatectomy.Methods 80 adult male Wistar rats were selected and randomly divided into two groups,40 0f the experimental group were made rat liver cirrhosis models.Then,all the rats were removed the left and middle liver lobe.And divided each group into 8 groups,the first group were killed at once,other groups were killed in 12h、24h、2d、4d、8d、14d、 20d after the surgery.Immunohistochemistry was used to detect TGF-α expression in hepatocytes.Results Successful models with the liver cirrhosis.The ratio of liver partial hepatectomy was 75.23±2.4(%).After liver partial hepatectomy,the expression of TGF-α in liver cirrhosis rats was lower than normal rats.Conclusion the After liver damage can secrete TGF-α for regeneration,the expression in liver cirrhosis compared with normal liver delay,also ability to promote regeneration of liver cells was weaker than normal ones.


The theories and the characters of expanded muffler are introduced.A water muffler is brought up and used to reduce the flow-noise.The characters of water muffler are analyzed based on experiment.The result shows that the water muffler has a good effect on flow-noise.


The controversial Amazons' myth has always been a matter of debate as to whether it is real or nothing more than a simple tale. Therefore, many scholars have tried to analyze the myths and their iconographic depictions, in an attempt to discover the truth behind the legend. Amazons have been described in many primary and secondary sources. Famous philosophers and historians of Antiquity have spread their legend and acknowledged them as "equals to men" providing valuable information for their daily life. These untamed females were warriors without hesitation or fear. They battled with the civilized and male-dominated ancient world, which wanted women restrained within the household, doing "women's work" and child-raising. They defied patriarchy, contributing to changing the notion of women's rights through the years, managing out of a feministic perspective to become one of the earliest and brightest examples of early feminism worldwide.


Two sets of chlorine treating process are compared in respects of process flow path,process characteristics and water content index of chlorine.The series process of a fortified foaming tower and a packed tower has the characteristics of small equipment,simple structure,large production capacity,small floor area,low investment and cost of maintenance,but the operating flexibility of the fortified foaming tower is small.The series process of three towers composed of two packed towers and a packed-bubble composited tower is simple and has big operating flexibility,but it needs big equipment,big floor area,big investment,long period of maintenance,and high cost of maintenance.


The paper explores the adaptation experiences of East Asian masters students in the UK in dealing with western academic norms of critical thinking and debate. Through in‐depth interviewing, students' perceptions of their learning experiences were explored, and stages in this adaptation process were identified, with various entry and exit routes. It was found that the majority of the students opt for a 'middle way' which synergizes their own cultural approach to critical thinking with those aspects of western‐style critical thinking and debate that are culturally acceptable to them.


After the erecgtion of Three-Gorge Reservoir,The Water Environment in the reservoir area will be turned into water dobies like laker,and the self-clarification ability of water will also be moch slower than ever,Now,the quality of water in most segments in upper reaches of Yangtze River cannot meet the requiremets of I-II class Environment Quality Standard (GHZB1-1999),In Yangtze River,Jialing River and Wujiang River,the mian indexes such as colon bacillus,nonionic ammonia,chemical oxygen demand(COD),petroleum,phenol,total phosphorus(TP),heavy metal,etc.,have exceeded the standard limits.The water bodies of the reservoir area are facing serious risk of eutrophicatioinm.To solve that problem.A countermeasure of multi-spot diverted treatment and separate discharge is recommended,for doing this,lots of smallscale wastemwate treatment facilities employing updated activated sludge treatment technologies are to be set up.Up to now,a number of sewage treatment technologies to control eutrophication of water have been developed,which include processes of sequencing batch activated sludge(SBR),absorbing bio-degradation (AB),oxidation channel,package intermittent aeration system(PIAS),intermittent cylce extended aeration system(ICEAS),UNITANK and so on ,The Efective one to be applied in the reservoir area should convey the requirements of ecological agriculture,forestry and urban planning ,and be accompanied by legal support for appropriate exploitation of natural resources.


To the best of our knowledge, no previous studies have examined the degree of vertical integration by comparing franchised and company-owned chains. On the basis of recent data from the French distribution networks in retail and services, this paper investigates the determinants of network integration in the French distribution systems. The level of network integration increases from franchised chains to company-owned chains. This paper provides evidence that the level of network integration is positively related to the brand name value and negatively related to the resource constraints and monitoring costs of the upstream firm.


This paper presents a modified design of a sliding mode controller based on fuzzy logic for a dc-dc boost converter. Here a proportional - integral (PI)-type current mode control is employed and a sliding mode controller is designed utilizing fuzzy algorithm. Sliding mode controller ensures robustness against all variations and fuzzy logic helps to reduce chattering phenomenon introduced by sliding controller, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing error, voltage and current ripples. The proposed system is simulated using MATLAB / SIMULINK. This model is tested against variation of input and reference voltages and found to perform better than conventional sliding mode controller.


To give Americans an easier way to make healthy food choices, federal officials unveiled the new MyPlate icon emphasizing the fruit, vegetable, grains, protein and dairy food groups.


ABSTRACT A hybrid phase error analysis for dual-polarized reflectarray antenna using asymmetric split patch element is proposed in this article. The asymmetric split patch consists of a four-leaf patch and two split rings of different size where small one makes the patch asymmeric along y-axis and large one is used for impedance matching. And a complete 360° phase shift is obtained by using variable-size approach and flipping split patch 180° along y-axis. Then, we use hybrid phase error analysis approach to analyze and optimize the influence of phase sensitivity, quasi-periodic influence and phase constant on the reflectarray antenna. The simulated results show that maximum of element phase sensitivity is reduced by 275°/mm and element quasi-periodic phase error is dropped by 38°. Furthermore, dual-polarized reflectarray composed of 676 asymmetric split patch elements is designed, fabricated and measured. The measured gain of the proposed antenna is 29.9 dBi @10.0 GHz with aperture efficiency of 46%. The −1 dB gain bandwidth is 12% @10.0 GHz. The measured results show that the proposed antenna can improve phase accuracy effectively by using hybrid phase error analysis approach with asymmetric split patch.


clinical and biochemical improvement, but since the disease can have an unpredictable clinical course a prospective randomized trial was needed to test them. The results of a controlled prospective trial carried out at the Royal Free Hospital were published in 1971.7 Prednisolone was compared with a placebo. The initial dose of prednisolone was 15 mg daily, but this was reduced when the disease was controlled. After the trial had been in progress for six years 3 of the 22 corticosteroid-treated patients and 15 of the control patients had died, a highly significant difference in mortality. In a controlled trial carried out at King's College Hospital prednisone 15 mg daily wascompared with azathioprine 75 mg daily. At the end of two years' treatment the group on prednisone was found to be superior to the group on azathioprine in three respects.8 The fall of gammaglobulin was greater on prednisone, though the liver function tests improved in both groups. Oesophageal varices had developed in fewer patients on prednisone than on azathioprine, which suggests that only with the former drug was the progress of the disease checked. Finally, the calculated probability of surviving two years was 95% on prednisone and 72% on azathioprine. However, the prednisone caused serious side effects, including crush fracture of vertebrae, diabetes mellitus, and systemic hypertension. This raises the question whether a smaller dose of prednisone alone or combined with azathioprine might be sufficient to control the disease. R. D. Soloway and colleagues,9 of the Mayo Clinic, showed that prednisone 20 mg or a combination of prednisone 10 mg and azathioprine 50 mg was superior to azathioprine alone (100 mg) or placebo in prolonging the life expectation and improving the biochemical and histological abnormalities. Serious side effects occurred in 21% of patients treated for more than 12 months with 20 mg prednisone. These seemed to be less of a problem with the combination therapy. The reasons for the high incidence of serious side effects from corticosteroid treatment have recently been clarified. At pharmacological doses many steroids, including cortisol (hydrocortisone) and prednisolone (the active metabolite of prednisone), are bound to serum albumin, and the lower the serum albumin the higher the percentage of unbound, biologically active steroid. In a survey of 240 medical inpatients receiving prednisone the frequency of side effects from it was found to be doubled when the serum albumin was less than 2-5 g/100 ml.'0 With liver dysfunction the metabolism of prednisolone is impaired,'1 and this could result in high blood levels of the drug for a long time. Toxic effects on the liver of 6-mercaptopurinel3 and azathioprine14 may present a problem. In patients with active chronic hepatitis they may be impossible to distinguish from the deterioration in liver function due to progression of the disease. Azathioprine hepatotoxicity, however, is unlikely if doses are kept to 75 mg a day or less. The aim of treatment is to give the smallest dose of prednisolone that will control the disease. This is usually about 15 mg/day, though some patients are controlled only by maintenance doses of 20-30 mg/day. If side effects become troublesome it may be possible to reduce the dose of prednisolone further by adding a small dose of azathioprine (50-75 mg/day). It seems that most of these patients will require treatment for at least some years. The experience of most centres is that even after two to three years' treatment many patients will relapse sooner or later after corticosteroids are withdrawn. But if liver function tests return to normal, and if a liver biopsy shows no evidence of continuing activity, then it is reasonable to try the effect of withdrawing treatment. Another effective immunosuppressive agent-namely cyclophosphamide-has been used in occasional cases of active chronic hepatitis. It is more toxic than the drugs mentioned above for it may produce haemorrhagic cystitis as well as alopecia. Until a controlled assessment of its value has been made, it should not be used.


SYNOPSIS Part 2 of the series of papers dealing with the regeneration ofPinus radiata in the Southern Cape discusses the effect of the experimental treatments on the distribution of nutrient elements, more particularly to estimate the impact of treatments on changes in the concentration of nutrients, above ground and in different soil strata. The study was furthermore carried out to detect nutrient deficiencies and to measure nutrient ratios in the foliage and finally to estimate nutrient budgets. Prior to the establishment of the experiments, no significant differences between the nutrient concentrations of litter and soil on plots allocated to treatments could be established and no differences amongst soil strata were detected. The observed variability therefore reflects the effect of the experimental treatments.


Drawing on the conservation of resources theory and the recovery step model our research expands on a cognitive (regulatory resources) mechanism that links human–animal interactions and employee performance. This study aimed to explore whether daily human–animal interactions during worktime would be conceived as a daily-recovery process that restores the individual's daily regulatory resources and, as a result, improves daily adaptive and task performance. To test this, a daily diary study during 10 working days, with 105 teleworkers was performed (N = 105 × 10 = 1050). Multilevel results demonstrated that daily interactions between human and their pets served to recover their daily regulatory resources that, in turn, improved daily task-and-adaptive performance. This research not only expands our theoretical understanding of regulatory resources as a cognitive mechanism that links human-animal interactions to employee effectiveness but also offers practical implications by highlighting the recovery role of interacting with pets during the working day, as a way to restore resources needed to be more effective at work.


An ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-triple quadrupole mass spectrometry(UPLC-MS/MS) method for the determination of uric acid and creatinine in serum and urine" was established and applied to screening of anti-gout medicines. The automatic sampler and the pump of an LC apparatus were used to inject sample and mobile phase into a chromatography guard column which was used to remove most interference components and enrich the target compounds. MS/MS analysis was carried out in positive ion mode and in multiple reaction monitoring(MRM) mode for creatinine, linearity of the MS/MS assay without and with matrix were 0.03-400 mu mol/L and 0.2-400 mu mol/L of creatinine, with a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.03 and 0.2 mu mol/L, respectively. The uric acid was analyzed in negative ion mode, linearity of the MS/MS assay without and with matrix were 0.1-350 mu mol/L and 0.5-300 mu mol/L of uric acid, with a LOD of 0.1 and 0.5 mu mol/L, respectively. An analytical recovery of this method was 91.8%-103.7% and the RSDs for intra-day and inter-day were less than 5.9% and 6.8% respectively. The results meet the requirements for a bioanalytical assay. Subsequently, the established method was applied to screening of anti-gout medicines. The results showed that ermiaowan, Phellodendri Chinensis Cortex and Atractylodis Rhizoma were able to reduce blood uric acid levels at some degree compared with the positive control drugs, including allopurinol and benzbromarone. In addition, they can significantly reverse the renal damage and protect the renal function.


The objects that commit the crime of harboring and conniving at the underworld organizations disturb not only the public order but also the operations taken by the government against such organizations. Objectively ,they behave in the form of harboring or conniving at the criminal activities, which only happens after such activities. The subjects refer to the state personnel who is not a member of the the organization he or she harboring or conniving at. He or she, subjectively speaking, can be directly or undirectly intended to do this. In judicial practice, we should make clear whether it is guilty or not, and what crime he or she commits, to properly use the additional punishment, and to comprehend the exact meaning of "seriousness".


Both "The Dream of Red Mansion" and "The Golden Lotus" are classical famous samples in Chinese literature,especially about love and sex.What's the difference between love and sex in two works? This paper aims to distinguish the distinction of love and sex.The author considers that it is the pure emotion in the Dream of Red Mansion and abusive sex in the Golden Lotus after excessive and comparative reading.


This work studies a specific two-tier CDMA system in which a microcell attracts only a small number of users and gives them high-speed access while the umbrella macrocell serves multiple simultaneous low-rate users. The microcell, referred to as a data access point (DAP), operates on the same frequency as the macrocell and uses the same chip rate. The DAP users adapt their spreading factor in accordance with interference conditions, whereas the macrocell users have a fixed data rate. The analysis here presents a scheduling method that maximizes the total DAP throughput. The schedule indicates which DAP users should be given access and at what data rate. We also devise a second access scheme which maximizes throughput while ensuring each user is assigned one slot per frame. Our results show that the DAP can support at most two simultaneous users. Further, throughput gains of optimal access are more evident when the DAP contains multiple potential users.


Titanium nitride (TiN) films are grown on Ti-6Al-4V substrates with a cw CO2 laser and precursor gas mixtures of TiCl4, H2, and N2. In situ diagnostic techniques are applied to study the kinetics of this laser chemical vapor deposition (LCVD) process. Pulsed dye laser induced fluorescence (LIF) spectroscopy is employed to obtain gas phase species concentrations at different instances relative to the processing laser. Multi-wavelength pyrometry is applied simultaneously to measure the substrate surface temperature. Post-processing materials analyses, namely, Stylus Profilometry and Auger Electron Spectroscopy yield growth rates and film compositions that are linked to the diagnostic results. Experiments are carried out for different laser powers and reactant gas pressures. Thus an empirical relationship between the growth rate and reactant partial pressures, the rate-controlling steps, and activation energy are determined.Titanium nitride (TiN) films are grown on Ti-6Al-4V substrates with a cw CO2 laser and precursor gas mixtures of TiCl4, H2, and N2. In situ diagnostic techniques are applied to study the kinetics of this laser chemical vapor deposition (LCVD) process. Pulsed dye laser induced fluorescence (LIF) spectroscopy is employed to obtain gas phase species concentrations at different instances relative to the processing laser. Multi-wavelength pyrometry is applied simultaneously to measure the substrate surface temperature. Post-processing materials analyses, namely, Stylus Profilometry and Auger Electron Spectroscopy yield growth rates and film compositions that are linked to the diagnostic results. Experiments are carried out for different laser powers and reactant gas pressures. Thus an empirical relationship between the growth rate and reactant partial pressures, the rate-controlling steps, and activation energy are determined.


Summary Three-dimensional (3D) woven carbon/carbon (C/C) composites have attracted considerable attention in recent years. In comparison to the laminated composites, the carbon composites show better merit due to their strong through-the-thickness properties, high damage tolerance, and dimensional stability. However, the deformation of these materials is usually non-uniform. The strain field distribution is highly dependent on the heterogeneity of 3D woven structure. Therefore, the traditional techniques such as strain gauge are not suitable for measuring the deformation. In this presentation, a full-field digital image correlation (DIC) technique was developed. The Iosipescu shear test (v-notched beam test) was employed to load the specimen a shear stress field by a material machine MTS 809. Two optical paths with telecentric lens were set up on both sides of the specimen. The speckle images of both sides were continuously recorded during the entire load process. Then their correlations were calculated to obtain the full-field deformation of both sides. After a series of analysis, the shear property of the composite can be obtained. To achieve a good accuracy, some techniques such as pre-rotation algorithm and improved interpolation method were developed during the correlation calculation. The shear test system was evaluated by measuring the property of an aluminum specimen. The measured shear modulus coincided well with the given value (obtained by tensile test). Then this system was used to measure the shear properties of 3D woven C/C composites. One through-the-thickness specimen and seven inplane specimens with different geometry were tested and their shear stress-strain responses were measured. Their shear chord modulus and strength were obtained. The strain distributions in test section with different specimen geometry were also compared. The results showed that the strain field was extremely non-uniform and fluctuated with the unit cell period of the weave architecture. These results can provide a guidance to accurately measure the properties of woven C/C composites.


SAW convolvers using piezoelectric semiconductors are studied theoretically and experimentally with emphasis on the feature that the polarization accompanied by the surface wave plays an important role in the determination of the distribution of the electric fields and the space charge in the piezoelectric semiconductor. The results of the analysis are the following. The operation of these convolvers are different from those of convolvers with a combined structure of a piezoelectric material and a semiconductor. Structures with layered conductivity distributions increase the open voltage by an order of magnitude and reduce the propagation loss. Methods to reduce the propagation loss are also discussed. The characteristics of convolvers using a photoconductive CdS crystal are in agreement with the theoretical results in general.


System performance for data warehouses is crucially dependent on its physical design in which one of the most challenging tasks is the selection of an appropriate set of indexes for a representative workload under storage constraint. The problem becomes even more complex for multi-tables indexes such as bitmap join indexes, since it involves searching a vast space of possible configurations. Queries references to attributes and their frequencies play an important role in determining the efficiency of the selected indexes. In this paper, we consider the index selection as a typical frequent itemsets mining problem. The indexes are built with combinations of attributes, viewed as items. The queries in the workload, viewed as transactions, are described by the attributes they involve. The foundation of our approach is the concept of maximal frequent itemsets. This data mining technique helps to discover strong correlations among attributes such that the presence of some attributes in a query will imply the presence of some other attributes. Moreover, by avoiding the generation of redundent indexes, the proposed approach leads to a solution that expresses the set of relevant indexes in a more succinct way. Consequently, it guarantees the reduction of the storage space requirements. Unlike previous approaches that focus on the configuration leading to the minimum workload cost, we suggest to consider a set of optimized solutions and we propose a metric for measuring profit-effectiveness that helps to pick up the most promising one. Through a set of experiments on the ABP-1 benchmark, we show that our approach achieves better performance compared to similar methods, with significant savings in index storage.


The release of soil phosphorus (P) to solution has been described by extraction of soil with iron (Fe)-oxide coated paper strips. Little information is available, however, on where this P is coming from. The effect of removal of reversibly adsorbed soil P on the distribution of inorganic P forms was investigated for 12 Italian soils. Phosphate was removed from these soils by Fe-oxide strips after incubation with P (0 and 100 mg P kg') for 90 days. With no applied P, 3 to 17% of the total soil active P [saloid-P, aluminum-phosphate (Al-P), iron-phosphate (Fe-P), and calcium-phosphate (Ca-P) was removed by the Fe-oxide strips. The change in strip-P following P addition (100 mg kg-' soil), ranged from 12.9 to 53.5 mg P kg 1 , with P coming almost entirely from the active P fractions. A close relationship between the changes in desorbed


We report the theoretical investigation of the coupling optics involving a laser diode and an elliptic-core single-mode step index fiber with a hyperbolic microlens on the tip of the fiber in the presence of possible transverse and angular mismatches. By employing Gaussian field distributions for both the source and the fiber, and also the prescribed ABCD matrix for refraction by a hyperbolic interface, we formulate analytical expressions for the concerned coupling efficiencies and evaluate them using few computations. The elliptic-core single-mode fiber has already emerged as a candidate in a polarization-conserving fiber optic sensor, in coherent fiber optical communication, etc. Therefore, our analysis, which to our knowledge is this first theoretical investigation in this context, will be extremely useful for the design of optimum launch optics involving an elliptic-core single-mode fiber. In addition, this analysis will be useful in the case of any inherent noncircularity that may arise due to fabrication problems in the circular core fiber.


66 dating and 65 married couples completed measures of their social skills and their relationship satisfaction. Participants' social skills were positively associated with their own relational satisfaction. Males' social skills were also associated with their partners' relationship satisfaction.


Choice of a dissolution medium is an important and critical variant for drug dissolution testing. The reported choices range from a simple solvent (water) to complex solutions, often drug and/or product dependent. However, making a choice is not so simple or straightforward, but confusing and often scientifically or logically not convincing or valid. This article provides a discussion in this regard leading to suggestions for selecting an appropriate dissolution medium.


The instability of the world financial system, starkly revealed in the recent debacle, is not the only problem it poses. Its secularly increasing dominance over the real economy is in itself a phenomenon that needs examining. The article traces the source of this increasing dominance not just to the increasingly leveraged and increasingly incomprehensible forms of intermediation between savers and those in the real economy who need credit and insurance, but also to the increasingly universal doctrine that maximizing "shareholder value" is the sole raison d'etre of the firm and the promotion by governments of an "equity culture." Some of the social consequences of financialization are exacerbating inequalities, greater insecurity, misdirection of talent, and the erosion of trust. Copyright 2008 , Oxford University Press.


The Stirling engine is an external combustion engine that can be utilized in electricity generation. Existing literature indicates that air is less expensive than helium as the working fluid but has the low power and efficiency. Hence, the present updated MATLAB code attempts to use a mixture of air and helium as working fluids or other mixtures of other gases. To this end, this software proposes an experimentally validated nonideal thermodynamic model for a Gama‐type Stirling engine. After validation, a mixing gas of air and helium was used instead of an operating fluid in the thermodynamic model. Finally, three examples were run to demonstrate the software outputs for a hybrid engine.


In this paper, we solve Fekete–Szego problem for a Ma–Minda type class MΣa,b,c(λ,ν,ψ1,ψ2) of bi-univalent functions associated with the Hohlov operator which is a specialized case of the widely-inv...


In this paper, we suggested a vision-based traffic accident detection algorithm and developed a system for automatically detecting, recording, and reporting traffic accidents at intersections. A system with these properties would be beneficial in determining the cause of accidents and the features of an intersection that impact safety. This model first extracts the vehicles from the video image of the charge-couple-device camera, tracks the moving vehicles (MVs), and extracts features such as the variation rate of the velocity, position, area, and direction of MVs. The model then makes decisions on the traffic accident based on the extracted features. In a field test, the suggested model achieved a correct detection rate (CDR) of 50% and a detection rate of 60%. Considering that a sound-based accident detection system showed a CDR of 1% and a DR of 66.1%, our result is a remarkable achievement


Detecting unexpected changes in a system's runtime environment is critical to resilience. A repurposing of System Management Mode (SMM) for runtime security inspections has been proposed, due to SMM's high privilege and protected memory. However, key challenges prevent SMM's adoption for this purpose in production-level environments: the possibility of severe performance impacts, semantic gaps between SMM and host software, high overheads, overly broad access permissions, and lack of flexibility. We introduce a Runtime Integrity Measurement framework, EPA-RIMM, for both native Linux and Xen platforms, that includes several novel features to solve these challenges. EPA-RIMM decomposes large measurements to control perturbation and leverages the SMI Transfer Monitor (STM) to bridge the semantic gap between hypervisors and SMM, as well as restrict the measurement agent's accesses. We present a design and implementation for a concurrent approach that allows EPA-RIMM to utilize all cores in SMM, dramatically increasing measurement throughput and reducing application perturbation. Our Linux and Xen prototype results show that EPA-RIMM meets performance goals while continuously monitoring code and data for signs of attack, and that it is effective at detecting a number of recent exploits.


Censoring occurs when complete follow-up time information is unavailable for patients 9 enrolled in a clinical study. The process is considered to be informative (nonignorable) if the 10 likelihood function for the censoring model cannot be partitioned into a set of response parameters 11 that are independent of the censoring parameters. In such cases, estimated survival time 12 probabilities may be biased, prompting the need for special statistical methods to remedy the 13 situation. The problem is especially salient when censoring is skewed toward the early phase of a 14 study. In this paper, we describe a method to impute censored follow-up times using a counting 15 process method. 16 17


In this paper,the stability of Yonghe Bridge,which is a long-span steel-tube concrete arch bridge,is analyzed by linear elastic theory and geometrical nonlinear theory and material nonlinearity theory.When the nonlinear stability analysis and linear elastic analysis are compared,the conclusion indicates that the influence of the nonlinearity on the stability of the steel-tube concrete arch bridge correlates with the factors,such as the span of the bridge,the load way,and so on.


The purpose of this study was to empirically identify internal factors that determine Chinese TC manufacturers' business performance in the period of the industry transition from the one relying on low cost to the one competing on high value-added activities.


We consider the singularly perturbed Allen-Cahn equation on a strictly convex plane domain. We show that when the perturbation parameter tends to zero there are solutions having a transition layer that tends to a straight line segment. This segment can be characterized as the shortest path intersecting the boundary orthogonally at two points.


Background subtraction is an essential first stage in many vision applications differentiating foreground pixels from the background scene, with Mixture of Gaussians (MoG) being a widely used implementation choice. MoG's high computation demand renders a real-time single threaded realization infeasible. With it's pixel level parallelism, deploying MoG on top of parallel architectures such as a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is promising. However, MoG poses many challenges having a significant control flow (potentially reducing GPU efficiency) as well as a significant memory bandwidth demand. In this paper, we propose a GPU implementation of Mixture of Gaussians (MoG) that surpasses real-time processing for full HD (1080p 60 Hz). This paper describes step-wise optimizations starting from general GPU optimizations (such as memory coalescing, computation & communication overlapping), via algorithm-specific optimizations including control flow reduction and register usage optimization, to windowed optimization utilizing shared memory. For each optimization, this paper evaluates the performance potential and identifies architectural bottlenecks. Our CUDA-based implementation improves performance over sequential implementation by 57×, 97× and 101× through general, algorithm-specific, and windowed optimizations respectively, without impact to the output quality.


The principal disadvantage of the method of numerical averaging is that it provides only the average time history of the orbital elements and yields no information about the high-frequency or short-periodic variations that occur inside the averaging interval. This paper contains a description of a technique for recovering the short-periodic variations by minor modifications to the averaging process so as to permit the construction of a Fourier series for the osculating elements. The availability of this series permits the extension of the averaging technique to higher order and allows us to account for short-periodic coupling of the perturbations. Comparisons of the results with numerically integrated solutions are presented for three distinct orbit prediction problems.


I develop a continuous-time model of reputation in which a privatelyinformed seller, such as a startup, tries to court a forward-looking buyer, such as a venture capitalist (VC). The VC learns gradually about the startup's quality, high or low, through exogenous news and can adopt at any time. The startup can exit or privately upgrade its quality at any time. I discover two novel kinds of reputational dynamics in equilibrium: a resetting barrier, where low types upgrade at low states inducing discrete upward jumps in reputation, and skew Brownian motion, where low types exit continuously at intermediate states, creating a permeable barrier for reputation. Contrary to the classic lemons result, the VC prefers this private information environment to one with symmetric information. The rich strategic interaction between the startup and VC implies, somewhat surprisingly, that players may benefit from increases in their own cost parameters. Other applications of the model include political lobbying, dating, job search and higher education.


3D temperature mapping of passive cooling structures built by additive manufacturing was interrogated by in-fiber Rayleigh backscattering using optical frequency domain reflectometry for therm-mechanic structure optimization for laser and photonic systems.


This study was conducted for the purpose of evaluating pharmacists' interventions from the unit dose distribution (UD) pharmacy at a university hospital. The aim was to analyze the physician-rejected interventions by pharmacists on inpatients' prescription. All UD pharmacists were involved in the routine review of drug profiles; data were collected from Aug. 1 to Oct. 31 of 2004. During the study period, 587 interventions were made to the physicians' prescriptions resulting in 208 rejections; the rejection rate was 25.6%. The class of drugs with the highest non-accepted number of interventions was antimicrobial agents. The results of this study illustrate the different point of view between pharmacists and physicians in regard to such interventions. It is the pharmacist's intention through positive communication to never override the physician's clinical judgment or disrupt a patient-physician relationship. Furthermore, continuing to educate pharmacists and physicians by scheduling combined conferences to discuss drug therapy opinions is an important goal in order to improve communication. Decreasing the gap between these two professional groups, thereby reducing drug usage variation by developing informed, proactive agreement is a desirable outcome. Although the rejection rate was found to be high in this study, pharmacists remained positively involved in appropriate intervention for better pharmaceutical care.


This article is concerned with a particular aspect of the relationship between media and mobility. The author draws attention to what he calls the "doubly digital" quality of contemporary media—pointing to the intimate connection between movements through media settings (such as online environments) and movements of the fingers or digits on keyboards, keypads, touch-screens, and so on. His main interest is in mobile, generative ways of the hand that is at home with communication technologies, and in opening up an investigation of media uses as manual activities. In exploring these mobile, generative ways, he also reflects on a range of other manual activities that are apparently unrelated to media use—venturing into the disciplines of philosophy, sociology, and anthropology to discuss phenomenological perspectives on practices of typing, organ and piano playing, and plank sawing. Out of his exploration emerges a focus on embodied, sensuous, practical knowing, and on matters of orientation and habitation (with the author advocating a distinctive nonrepresentational, non-media-centric approach for future studies of media use in everyday life).


ABSTRACT A thermal desorption modulator is a short length of the analytical column (or a piece of tubing containing an adsorbent) placed at the head of the column in a GC. A carrier gas containing sample may be continuously introduced into a chromatographic column through a modulator. Analytes transfer from the carrier gas onto a stationary phase within the modulator and can be released from the modulator by rapid heating. A concentrated pulse of analytes generated in this fashion serves the same purpose as an injection. Thus, chromatography using modulators does not need any injection device because the equivalent of an injection is generated internally within the flow stream. In addition to serving as an alternative to an injection valve, a modulator also preconcentrates the sample. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the use of a thermal desorption modulator in automated on-line analysis. This had been done by continuously determining the concentration of H2S in the effluent stream from a react...


The invention discloses a high-speed railway highway-over-railway foreign matter invasion monitoring system based on optical fibers, which comprises a control and processing unit and at least one group of detecting system. The detecting system comprises a drive circuit, a laser, an optical fiber, a photoelectric detector and an amplifying circuit; the control and processing unit is sequentially connected with the drive circuit, the laser, the optical fiber, the photoelectric detector and the amplifying circuit in series to form a loop; an alarm device and a communication device are also connected on the control and processing unit; the optical fiber comprises a detecting optical fiber wound on highway-over-railway guardrails; and two terminals of the detecting optical fiber are respectively connected with the laser and the photoelectric detector through transmission optical fiber. The system can send an alarm when a foreign matter breaks the highway-over-railway guardrails, a power supply is not required in a highway-over-railway position, the cost is low, and false alarm is unlikely.


To develop a novel polymeric nano micelle drug delivery system, JAP-based drug-loaded nano micelles (FFC/JAP-HA) were prepared by chemical modification/ultrasound/molecular self-assembly method. The results showed that JAP was connected with hyaluronic acid (HA) by an ester bond, the particle sizes of FFC/JAP-HA were 329.8 ± 2.3 nm, and the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of FFC/JAP-HA was 3.3 × 10−2 mg/mL. The hemolysis results, cytotoxicity test results, and histological results also showed that the FFC/JAP-HA had good biocompatibility. Furthermore, pharmacokinetic results suggested that the retention time (MRTINF_obs) of FFC/JAP-HA could be extended to 918.23 ± 37.25 min, which laid a foundation for the development of a new polymeric nano micelle drug loading system.


This thesis addresses the problem of recovering three-dimensional location and shape information from measurements made with Electric Field Sensors. A single sensor functions as a proximity detector; two can be used as a mouse; three allow tracking of the hand in three dimensions, and each additional sensor allows us to extract additional shape information. The ultimate goal of this work is to understand the entire hierarchy, from a single sensor up to an array of sensors. In this thesis, we take the rst steps toward imaging, moving from simple proximity detection to imaging a single point in three dimensions. At every step along the hierarchy, we are interested in two questions: i) given a xed number of sensors, how should they be arranged in space to enable us to extract the most information, and ii) given an arrangement of sensors, how should we infer \what's out there" from the data they return? We describe a probabilistic framework that can be used to answer these questions for any sensor con guration, from a single sensor to an array. The thesis describes the physics of Electric Field Sensing, uses this discussion to nd an approximate analytical solution to the forward problem of determining the sensor values from a conductivity distribution, shows how to use this analytical model in conjunction with probability theory to design optimal electrode layouts, and presents several methods of inverting the signals to recover information about a conductivity distribution from sensor values. As an example application, we present a non-contact three-dimensional mouse. Thesis Supervisor: Neil Gershenfeld Title: Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences


To test the hypothesis that the linear displacement of the septum primum (SP) is lower in fetuses with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) than in fetuses with appropriate growth for gestational age (AGA).


The aim of this study was to examine Croatian consumers' acceptance of health related innovations in traditional meat products. A face-to-face survey was conducted with a sample of 151 visitors of a specialized fair of traditional food products in Zagreb in 2013. The respondents were asked to indicate their attitudes on a fivepoint scale, where 1 meant rejection or no impact and 5 meant full acceptance or high impact. Results (mean±SD) showed the highest level of acceptance for innovations related to better control of smoking conditions (3.3± 1.14) and reduction of salt content (3.1±1.15), followed by reduced fat content (3.0±1.14) and controlled fermentation (2.9±1.12). The perceived negative impact of innovations on traditional character of meat products was highest for fat (3.4±0.99) and salt (3.4±1.03) reduction and lowest for controlled fermentation (3.2±1.04) and smoking conditions (3.2±1.05). With regards to respondents' socio-demographic features a nonparametric test statistic (Mann-Whitney U) revealed a higher acceptance of fat reduction and higher willingness to increase a consumption of healthier traditional meat products among females, while age, education level and income had no influence on the investigated parameters. In addition, some health related innovations ; e.g. fat reduction and controlled fermentation were generally less acceptable among respondents with a high consumption frequency of traditional meat products. The results of this preliminary study indicated controlled smoking conditions as the best accepted health related innovation by Croatian consumers with the least negative impact on perceived traditional character of product. In general terms, women were more likely to accept some of the investigated innovations and consequently to increase their consumption of innovate products. However, the most regular consumers of traditional meat products were less open towards innovations which may pose a challenge to further improvements in this traditional food sector.


Pulsed, tunable, monochromatic X‐rays hold great potential as a cellular and molecular probe. These beams can be tuned to the binding energy of orbital electrons in atoms, making them extremely useful in diagnostic k‐edge imaging and Auger cascade radiotherapy. Their wide tunability makes them ideal for the performance of various techniques as disparate as protein crystallography and three‐dimensional, compressionless, monochromatic mammography. Since only the frequency best suited to the task at hand is used, radiation exposure to patients or animals is exceedingly low when compared to standard X‐ray techniques. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Commentators commonly assume that Descartes regards it as a function of the passions to inform us or teach us which things are beneficial and which are harmful. As a result, they tend to infer that Descartes regards the passions as an appropriate guide to what is beneficial or harmful. In this paper I argue that this conception of the role of the passions in Descartes is mistaken. First, in spite of a number of texts appearing to show the contrary, I argue that Descartes does not regard it as the role of the passions to inform us about what is beneficial or harmful. Second, although Descartes calls the passions good and useful, I argue that Descartes does not think we should allow ourselves to be guided by them. When we recognize that the function of the passions is largely motivational and not informative, we can more easily understand Descartes's practical advice in The Passions of the Soul that happiness requires us to guide our passions instead of letting our passions guide us.


The treatment of burns contractures in the pædiatric age group is considered. In particular, the treatment of cervical contracture is described in detail and is illustrated.


Medical decision-making capacity in patients with malignant glioma Patients with malignant brain cancer must make ongoing medical treatment decisions for a disease that progressively erodes their cognition. The authors found that treatment consent abilities were already impaired in a newly diagnosed sample of 26 patients with malignant glioma and were primarily associated with patients' short-term verbal memory deficits.


Wireless sensor Network (WSNs) is pervasive and gets a considerable measure of enthusiasm from scientists towards the best applications. Wormhole node are false courses that are shorter than the first course in the system it makes issue in directing component, which depend on the actualities about separation between node. The aggressor node catches the parcels from the true blue nodes. In our proposed scrutinize work we distinguish the wormhole by their powerful transmission of the node in the system furthermore put off the system from the wormhole by accomplishing privacy in our modified AODV.


Summary The biggest impact on the development of Lithuanian terminology was made by Stasys Salkauskis' work Terminologijos teorija ir lietuviskoji filosofijos terminija (Terminological theory and Lithuanian terminology of philosophy) published in parts between 1925 and 1934. In 1979, principles established by Salkauskis were developed in Kazimieras Gaivenis' article Bendrieji lietuvių terminijos kūrimo ir norminimo principai (General principles of creation and normalization of Lithuanian terminology) and his book Lietuvių terminologija: teorijos ir tvarkybos metmenys (Lithuanian terminology: an outline of theory and ordering) (2002). Ten principles of the creation and normalization of Lithuanian terminology suggested by Salkauskis and Gaivenis essentially did not change – they still are applicable. More significant changes are noticeable in the scope and methods of practical terminology work.


Abstract A collection of epiphyllous bryophytes from Bioko Island was investigated. It contained 57 epiphyllous bryophytes, comprising 55 hepatics and two mosses. Three taxa, Cololejeunea eustacei Pócs, Colura calderae Pócs and Lejeunea halei Robinson subsp. africana Pócs, are new to science. Cololejeunea papilliloba Steph. is new to Africa, five species of hepatics are new to West Africa, and an additional 31 species of hepatics are newly reported from Bioko Island. The second part of the paper deals with records of non-epiphyllous collections. Fourteen species are reported for the first time for Bioko Island. Actinodontium dusenii Broth. is made a synonym of Actinodontium streptopogoneum Broth. The following new combination is proposed: Wijkia rigidicaule (Müll.Hal. ex Broth.) Frank Müll., comb. nov. (Basionym: Acanthocladium rigidicaule Müll.Hal. ex Broth.).


The structure of the title compound, C 13 H 24 O 11 , has been determined. The torsion angles of the glycosidic linkage connecting the two sugar residues, φH (H1'-C1'-O2-C2) and ψH (C1'-O2-C2-H2), have values of -62.7 (2)° and -28.6 (2)°, respectively. The conformation in the crystal is similar to that obtained by energy minimization in vacuo using the HSEA (hardsphere exo-anomeric) force field. A chain of seven interresidue hydrogen bonds, involving all possible H-atom donors in the molecule is observed. The chain is terminated by a ring O atom as an acceptor.


The invention provides pearl particle dispersion liquid. The pearl particle dispersion liquid comprises the following components in weight percentage: 10-20% of pearl nanoparticle, 2-5% of polyvinyl alcohol, 1-2% of sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate and the balance of water. The invention further provides pearl fiber prepared from the pearl particle dispersion liquid and bamboo pulp, and a preparation method of the pearl fiber. The pearl particle dispersion liquid has dispersed particles; and the pearl nanoparticles in the prepared pearl fiber are uniformly dispersed and stable in performance.


The problems of electric circuit course practical teaching contents,methods and assessment methods are analyzed: fewer student principle analysises,experimental designs and assessment links.Some specific reform meth-ods are put forward: practical teaching contents,experimental teaching method and grade assessment evaluation.


The related published environmental quality standards for tea garden could not meet the increasingly serious environmental pollution in China at present.This paper reported more scientific standards called Environmental Quality Standard for Ecological Tea Garden,which was established based on the latest worldwide environmental quality standards for agriculture and the actual environment situations of tea gardens in China.This standard limits 12 indicators in the ambient air,54 indicators in the soil and 130 indicators in the irrigation water.It could effectively control the environmental pollution of tea garden from the headstream and well protect the safety of tea product.It is expected to provide a strong technical support for the sustainable development of Chinese tea industry.


The description of the adaptive system of support of process of a finishing of VLSI supporting three linguistic commands is provided in operation «slightly to improve the decision», «to improve the decision», «it is essential to improve the decision». Feature of offered system is the adaptive support of linguistic commands. Adaptivity in this case is understood as adjustment of the numerical characteristics corresponding to linguistic commands, on the basis of the analysis of earlier executed commands. Process control of adjustment is carried out on the basis of the adaptation machine gun. Options of cheky and fuzzy gradation of numerical characteristics appropriate to linguistic variables are considered. The accurate gradation is set by segments and rays, fuzzy accessory functions.


SAR signal processing is based on the evolution of the time delay between the emission of the pulse and the reception of the echo during the illumination time. During processing, it is assumed that the wave travels through an homogeneous medium with constant dielectric characteristics and thus that the optical path corresponds to the straight line between sensor and target. In reality, waves travel through different media, like clouds, forest canopies, walls, which have a different dielectric constant. Refraction through those different media will impact the measured time delay and so lead to an incorrect estimation of the range of the different targets. Ignoring this effect during processing will cause a degradation of the image quality. It is possible to correct this effect when all parameters (thickness and dielectric constant) of the different media are well known. This paper proposes to analyze the possibilities to estimate the value of those parameters from the SAR data.


This paper is concerned with the existence of solutions for the following class of singular fourth order elliptic equations { Δ ( |x|p(x)|Δu|p(x)−2Δu ) = a(x)u−γ(x) + λf(x, u), in Ω, u = Δu = 0, on ∂Ω. where Ω is a smooth bounded domain in R , γ : Ω → (0, 1) be a continuous function, f ∈ C(Ω × R), p : Ω −→ (1,∞) and a is a function that is almost everywhere positive in Ω . Using variational techniques combined with the theory of the generalized Lebesgue-Sobolev spaces, we prove the existence at least one nontrivial weak solution. 2020 Mathematics Subject Classification. 46E35,26A45,28A12.


The invention relates to a device and to methods for speaker-independent spoken name dialing for telecommunications terminals. One of the methods relates to the establishment of an individual name and telephone number directory for spoken name selection whilst the other relates to the carrying out of the spoken name dialing. The device has a memory (6) which is supplied with alphanumerically input user-defined names and associated telephone numbers. A grapheme-phoneme converter (8) produces a corresponding digital word model from an input name and said digital word model is stored together with the ASCII text or a code designated thereto in such a way that it can be accessed by a speech recognition device (7). The automatic spoken name dialing is carried out as follows: an acoustically input name is conveyed to the speech recognition device (7) in the form of a digital voice signal and the speech recognition device (7) compares this signal with the predetermined word models. The ASCII text corresponding to the word model which best matches the voice signal or the designated code is determined. Said ASCII text or code enables the associated telephone number to be called up from the memory (6). A telecommunications connection is then automatically established with this telephone number by the calling device (2) of the terminal.


Traditional network management tools (NMT) are centralised in nature, as a result of which they are not flexible enough when large control network (e.g. SCADA network) design is desired for. In this paper conventional NMTs have been segmented into components with unified and dedicated functions. Each component has been configured as a client with regard to a central database (i.e. server). The components co‐operate with other components. The work includes the design of flexible NMTs in terms of advanced software architecture for the management of control networks. Three software components (Installation, Configuration and Testing) based on CS architecture and object‐oriented philosophy have been developed. The components are realised with LON™ (Local Operating Network) platform; a proprietary fieldbus system from Echelon, Microsoft's Visual Basic‐4 platform and Microsoft's Windows98 operating system. LON Component Architecture Object Server (LCAOS) serves as the network kernel in this design. The configurable components can be used concurrently for the design of control networks.


Background : Different factors affect the health care workers' health and quality of life which lead to reduced performance, quality, and safety of services provided. The present study aimed to evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and its related factors among members of family medicine teams (FMTs). Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in the winter of 2015. Using SF36 questionnaire, HRQoL of all FMTs (physicians, midwives, and health technicians) at Kerman University of Medical Sciences was evaluated. Data were analyzed using Independent T test, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression in IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 22.0. Results: Mean (SD) of total HRQoL score in FMTs was 71.6 (12.3) (out of 100). The Means (SD) of Physical Component Summary (PCS) and Mental Component Summary (MCS) scores were 75.1(14.3) and 68.0 (14.2), respectively. Also, there was a positive correlation (r=0.49) between the PCS and MCS ( P <0.001). Multivariate linear regression analysis showed that work experience was a predictor for total HRQoL ( P <0.001) and PCS ( P <0.001), while marital status was a predictor variable for MCS ( P =0.04). Conclusion: The results of the current study revealed that HRQoL, particularly the MCS, is not at an appropriate level among FMTs. Therefore, it is necessary to design and implement interventions in order to increase their quality of life, especially with focus on mental aspect.


In this paper, an VEISV (vulnerable exposed infectious secured vulnerable) network worm attack model with saturated incidence rate is considered. The basic reproduction number R0 is found. If R0 ≤ 1, the worm-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable; if R0 > 1, worm-epidemic state is globally asymptotically stable and uniformly persistent.


Trends associated with residential development in riparian breeding bird habitat along the Snake River in Jackson Hole, WY, USA: implications for conservation planning. C. M Smith and D. G. Wachob. 2006. Biological Conservation 128:431–446. (Teton Science School, PO Box 8699, Jackson, WY 83002). Neotropical migratory birds declined with increasing residential development, but food generalists, ground gleaners, and avian nest predators all increased with increasing residential development.


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We find time evolution law of negative binomial optical field in diffusion channel. We reveal that by adjusting the diffusion parameter, photon number can controlled. Therefore, the diffusion process can be considered a quantum controlling scheme through photon addition.


(57) Abstract: Clean the root canal endodontic instrument for shaping (10) has an end closer attached to (14C) handle (14), for rotation with the shaft (14) It cooperates with farther end of (14A) having a head (12). Sleeve (218) may surround this substantially accept the shaft (14). Sleeve (218) may be a spring coiled. Process for producing the instrument (10) is revealed.