McCain, Marian Van Eyk (2012). Self-Therapy Made Easy. John Hunt Publishing Marian Van EykMcCain is BSW (Melbourne), MA, East-West Psychology (C.I.I.S. San Francisco) is a transpersonal psychotherapist and health educator and is currently enjoying her time as a freelance writer on a range of subjects, including psychology, women's health, aging, wellness, simplicity, green spirituality, environmental issues, organic growing, downshifting and alternative technology.


Nearly half of all deaths in toddlers are due to malnutrition. The phenomenon found in the field is that many people with less economy do not pay attention to the nutritional intake of their children due to their limitations in providing such nutritious food. This study aims to relate the level of family economics to the nutritional status of children in Jorong Kapuak Koto Panjang. This was Correlation descriptive research method with cross sectional study. The study was conducted in Jorong Kapuak Koto Panjang, the working area of Tanjung Baru Public Health Center, Tanah Datar District in September 2019. The population was all toddlers  in Jorong Kapuak Koto Panjang. 78 tottlers became samples of this study, taken by simple random sampling. Data processing and analysis is computerized. Univariate results found 53.8% had a good economic level and 79.5% had children with normal nutritional status. The results of this study showed that  there was relationship between the family's economic level and the nutritional status of children (p = 0.029), It is expected that the health center staff will provide counseling to all families who have toddlers about food intake for toddlers, so that they can supply the toddlers nutritionals.


We studied the uptake of 20 PAHs and 12 PCBs from 25 field-contaminated soils by Lumbricus terrestris L. and tested the suitability of the equilibrium partitioning theory (EPT) to describe the uptake. The bioavailability of PAHs and PCBs was assessed by exhaustive (hexane-acetone) and nonexhaustive extraction methods (methanol−water 1:1 and 0.5 M NaOH). The latter extracted on average 6−68% and 2−42% of the total PAH concentrations and 7−81% and 9−22% of the total PCB concentrations, respectively. The extractability of an individual compound decreased with increasing octanol−water partitioning coefficient (KOW) and was higher for the PCBs than for the PAHs. The EPT described the uptake of PAHs and PCBs well. After 15 d of exposure, the concentrations in earthworms were near steady-state. We found close correlations between concentrations in all extracts and concentrations in earthworms after 15 d of exposure (total:  r = 0.75−0.94; methanol−water:  r = 0.68−0.94; NaOH:  r = 0.59−0.87). The average biota-t...


The present study reports a sensitive electro-analytical method for the simultaneous determination of trace lead (Pb(II)) and cadmium (Cd(II)) using a non-mercury electrode modified with the electropolymerized thiadiazole film. The electropolymerization of 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole on a glassy carbon electrode is carried out, and differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry for the simultaneous determination of trace Pb(II) and Cd(II) is developed by using this modified electrode as the working electrode. In 0.1 mol L−1 acetate buffer solution at pH 5.5, the stripping peak currents after enrichment at −1.20 V for 300 s showed good linear relationships with Pb(II) and Cd(II) at concentration ranges of 1.00–200 and 0.50–200 μg L−1, and the detection limits are 0.30 and 0.05 μg L−1, respectively. The proposed method is applicable to the simultaneous determination of trace Pb(II) and Cd(II) in real water samples with the relative standard deviations of less than 5.7% and the recovery rates of 97.6–106%. The good response of the prepared electrode to Pb(II) and Cd(II) is attributed to the binding of thiol groups and the electrostatic interaction between the modified electrode with metal ions. The findings indicate that the proposed method is helpful in monitoring toxic elements in environmental waters.


The relationship between urban extent and extreme precipitation over the Pearl River Delta in China is evaluated using the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission 3B42 precipitation product. The spatial pattern of extreme precipitation indices agrees well with that of the urban extent, with significant and positive spatial correlation between the two. The correlation is stronger for extreme indices at shorter temporal scales than for those at longer temporal scales. For example, the coefficient of correlation with the natural logarithm of urban extent is 0.42 for the maximum consecutive 5‐day precipitation amount and reaches 0.74 for the maximum consecutive 3‐h precipitation amount.


. Creating a good public health environment can improve the public ' s environmental health literacy level. Therefore, we propose a street art image retrieval system to address the problems of artists ' single creation method and the exhaustion of creative inspiration in the process of creating street art images in a public health environment. The system can retrieve the relevant image categories and cultural backgrounds, according to the street art images to be drawn, which reduces the artists ' creation burden and helps the public to better appreciate and understand art. In the image classification module, a ResNet34 street art image classification network with a nonlocal attention mechanism is proposed by combining the characteristics of street art images. The experimental results show that the method can achieve accurate classification of art images and can accurately retrieve relevant images based on the input art images, helping artists to better create and improve the public health environment. © 2023 SPIE and IS&T [DOI: 10.1117/1.JEI.32.6.062506]


In this article we discuss a fundamental principle of decision-making under uncertainty; the use of expected values to support decision-making is the fundamental principle of decision-making under uncertainty. This principle is supported by the portfolio theory and is a ruling principle among economists. Also among some safety experts it is seen as a rational framework for decision-making. In this article we discuss the appropriateness of this thinking for the safety area. To what extent is the portfolio theory applicable for decision situations related to safety? The issue is important as it relates to the value of safety. Are investments in safety on the basis of application of principles such as robustness, precautionary, and risk aversion in conflict with the economic theory? Our starting point is the offshore oil and gas industry, but our discussion is to large extent general and could also be applied in other areas.


Despite much scholarly interest, the industrial revolution remains unexamined in several respects, most notably in the relationships between industrialization and urbanization. In his helpful synthesis, Victorian Cities, Asa Briggs developed a framework for understanding urban-industrial growth by comparing several British cities in their social, economic, and political dimensions. In one case he tilled rich soil by drawing sharp distinctions between Birmingham and Manchester.


Farmer producer organizations (FPOs) have been pivotal in empowering Indian agriculture in recent years. The Government of India has taken several steps to help in the growth of FPOs. For example, it has initiated the 'One District One Product' (ODOP) scheme. In each district of the states, major commodities are identified which can be promoted through FPOs. The present study focuses on the experiences in Bihar, where abundant production of cash crops like makhana (about 85% of the world's production) has been achieved by the farmers (about 50,000 t of makhana). Despite the huge demand, makhana has been lagging in exports due to a lack of quality produce, skill, mechanization in harvesting and processing, and a near absence of value addition. In this context, integration of the ODOP scheme with FPOs can be a potential option to combat production constraints, facilitate marketing and export of the produce. This study proposes a strategy using a conceptual model, viz. technology–infrastructure–policy–export orientation (TIPE) model, that specifies the steps to be undertaken for better promotion of products through FPOs. A congenial ecosystem is necessary for the growth of producer organizations to provide a comprehensive solution with required policy backup and triggering factors that can contribute to the sustainable development of FPOs.


Objectives The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of the corticosteroid (CS) injection and shock wave therapy (SWT) in the treatment of greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS). Patients and methods Between 2020 September and 2021 October, a total of 60 patients with GTPS (12 males, 48 females; mean age: 50.8±8.5 years; range, 34 to 65 years) were included. The patients were randomly assigned to two groups as the SWT group (n=32) receiving one session of SWT per week for a total of three weeks and CS injection group (n=28) receiving CS and local anesthetic. Both groups were evaluated using the Short Form-36 (SF-36) at baseline and three months and using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) and Western Ontario and McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) at baseline, three weeks, and three months. Results The mean VAS, greater trochanter tenderness, and WOMAC scores of both groups were similar at baseline, while the third-week and three-month scores were significantly lower in both groups compared to baseline (p<0.05). There was no significant difference in the treatment efficacy between the groups (p>0.05). There was a similar improvement in SF-36 physical function, physical role difficulty, and pain subscales in both groups (p<0.05). Conclusion Our study results show that both CS injection and SWT are effective modalities and none of the treatments is superior to each other.


Broadband electrostatic noise (BEN) is commonly observed in the plasma sheet boundary layer in association with ion beams. Here we investigate the generation of these waves in a plasma consisting of an ion beam and a background of hot ions, hot electrons, and cold electrons. The cold electrons are of ionospheric origin. A complete, systematic study of electrostatic ion beam instabilities, including cold electrons, has been done, and it is shown that for the plasma configuration described, four instabilities can be excited. These are the (1) ion acoustic, (2) Buneman, (3) beam resonant, and (4) electron acoustic instabilities. A low and high beam temperature division is shown to exist that separates when different instabilities can be excited. For typically observed parameters in the plasma sheet boundary layer, the ion beams lie in the high-temperature regime. In this regime, the beam resonant and electron acoustic instabilities are excited, and these instabilities can account for the high-frequency (> 500 Hz), low-power portion of the BEN spectrum. In the absence of cold electrons, no such wave growth occurs.


BACKGROUND/AIM
Overall survival for the high-risk group of neuroblastoma (NB) remains at 40-50%. An integrative genomics study revealed that LIM domain only 1 (LMO1) encoding a transcriptional regulator to be an NB-susceptibility gene with a tumor-promoting activity, that needs to be revealed.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
We conducted chromatin immunoprecipitation and DNA sequencing analyses and cell proliferation assays on two NB cell lines.

RESULTS
We identified three genes regulated by LMO1 in the cells, LIM and senescent cell antigen-like domains 1 (LIMS1), Ras suppressor protein 1 (RSU1) and relaxin 2 (RLN2). LIMS1 and RSU1 encode proteins functioning with integrin-linked kinase (ILK), and inhibition of LIMS1, ILK or RLN2 by shRNA reduced cell proliferation of the NB cells, which was also suppressed with an ILK inhibiting compound Cpd 22.

CONCLUSION
The downstream of LMO1-regulatory cascade includes a tumor-promoting LIMS1/ILK pathway, which has a potential to be a novel therapeutic target.


Sentences are the base of articles.The trend of words is still sentences.Senntences are important in language learning.Sentence teaching should be actived in English teaching.There are some valid ways of teaching sentences such as sentence-making,translation,playing games,etc.Moreover,we should follow the teaching principles to teach students in accordance of their aptitude.


Recent advances in computer communication and networking technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, AI-driven networking, peer-to-peer networking, energy harvesting and wireless charging ha...


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Objective To investigate the effect of octreotide on the expression of collagen、TIMP-1 and MMP-2 in cultured rat hepatic stellate cell(HSC) in vitro.Methods HSC cultured in vitro were randomly divided into 4 groups and different concentrations of octreotide were added to the cell groups.The synthesis of collagen type Ⅰ and type Ⅲ was measured by enzyme-linked immunoaddsordent assay(ELISA),the expression of TIMP-1 and MMP-2 was detected by semi-quantitative RT-PCR.Results Octreotide remarkably reduced the production of collagen type Ⅰ and type Ⅲ.Octreotide down-regulated the expression of TIMP-1 mRNA,while up-regulated the expression of MMP-2 mRNA.(all P0.05).Conclusion Octreotide could significantly reduced the content of collagen type Ⅰ and typeⅢ.Octreotide can promot the expression of TIMP-1 mRNA,while inhibite the expression of MMP-2 mRNA.All of these biological effects of octreotide on HSC were associated with recovery from liver fibrosis.


The invention relates to an electric insulating arrangement which has an insulating body (1). Some portions of the insulating body (1) have a coating made of a coating material (15, 17) which has a higher electric conductivity than an insulating material used for the insulating body (1). The insulating body (1) has at least one flange (2), some portions of which are coated with the coating material (15, 17).


Open-field activity levels of young (2- to 6-month-old) and older (12- to 30-month-old) C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice were assessed in two experiments conducted in separate laboratories. A large decrement in activity level was observed with advancing age in mice of both genotypes. The environment in which the subjects were maintained and tested also appeared to be a major contributor to behavioral variability in the openfield.


Clinical practice instruction is a key link in fostering a qualified medical student. With the development of society and the enhancement of self-protection consciousness among patients, the traditional clinical practice instruction which used patients directly as objects meets a severe test. To solve this problem, it is necessary to introduce medical simulation instruction. Compared with traditional instruction, simulation instruction has many unique advantages and will no doubt become the mainstream of clinical practice instruction in the future.


Asthma is a heterogeneous chronic respiratory disease affecting over 350 million people worldwide, making it the most common chronic respiratory disease.1,2 The focus of most of the research in the field is on patients with severe disease. However, between 45% and 70% of asthmatic patients report a mild severity disease, but present with exacerbations that can require oral corticosteroids, hospital admission and can even be fatal.3 Treatment options for patients with mild asthma include both preventive and reliever medications consisting of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), shortacting betaagonists (SABA), longacting betaagonists (LABA), longacting muscarinicantagonists, leukotriene receptor antagonists and oral corticosteroids.1,4 This Cochrane review focused on evaluating the clinical effectiveness of a combined fixeddose inhaler consisting of an ICS and a fastacting betaagonist (FABA) (which include both SABA and LABA medications) compared to other medication regiments in patients with mild asthma.5 This is an abstract of a Cochrane review published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020, Issue 5. (see www. cochr aneli brary.com for information). Cochrane reviews are regularly updated as new evidence emerges and in response to feedback, and the Cochrane Library should be consulted for the most recent version of the review.


The present invention relates to a transmission degreasing having a pre-pressing member. Specifically, one transmission comprising configured to receive a fuel-air mixture from an external source inlet and an oil filter. Degreasing device comprising: a shaft comprising both formed on an inner portion of the shaft and separated from each other inlet and outlet channels; separator unit, which is coupled to the shaft and surrounding part of the shaft and including an inlet and an outlet; and coupled to the shaft pre-pressing member, which increases the pressure of fuel-air mixture to form a pressurized mixture and the pressurized mixture is provided to the inlet of the separator unit.


With the widespread use of deep neural networks(DNNs) in intelligent systems, DNN accelerators with high performance and energy efficiency are greatly demanded. As one of the feasible processing-in-memory(PIM) architectures, 3D-stacked-DRAM-based PIM(DRAM-PIM) architecture enables large-capacity memory and low-cost memory access, which is a promising solution for DNN accelerators with better performance and energy efficiency. However, the low-cost characteristics of stacked DRAM and the distributed manner of memory access and data storing require us to rebalance the hardware design and DNN mapping. In this paper, we propose NicePIM to efficiently explore the design space of hardware architecture and DNN mapping of DRAM-PIM accelerators, which consists of three key components: PIM-Tuner, PIM-Mapper and Data-Scheduler. PIM-Tuner optimizes the hardware configurations leveraging a DNN model for classifying area-compliant architectures and a deep kernel learning model for identifying better hardware parameters. PIM-Mapper explores a variety of DNN mapping configurations, including parallelism between branches of DNN, DNN layer partitioning, DRAM capacity allocation and data layout pattern in DRAM to generate high-hardware-utilization DNN mapping schemes for various hardware configurations. The Data-Scheduler employs an integer-linear-programming-based data scheduling algorithm to alleviate the inter-PIM-node communication overhead of data-sharing brought by DNN layer partitioning. Experimental results demonstrate that NicePIM can optimize hardware configurations for DRAM-PIM systems effectively and can generate high-quality DNN mapping schemes with latency and energy cost reduced by 37% and 28% on average respectively compared to the baseline method.


The wheel-track robot is a new type of mobile robot combining a wheel and a track in a single component, which can quickly switch between in wheel mode and track mode. We present a small to explain the robot's working principle and operating mode; after that based on statics equation obstacle-climbing abilities are analyzed in different modes-wheel mode, track mode, wheel-tail mode and track-tail mode, from which the maximum theoretical obstacle-climbing heights and necessary torques of motors are obtained; at last, we choose three different heights of steps to wheel-track robot and its mechanical design and control system experiment, and the robot finally succeed crossing obstacles in wheel or track-tail modes. The result shows that theoretical analysis and the robot's design are reasonable. Compared with traditional wheeled robot, the wheel-track robot has a better obstacle-climbing ability.


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Transportation plays a major role of a person's life. A life without transportation is unimaginable. People focus on four major types of transportation i.e. Roadways, Railways, Airways and Waterways. Among these transportation majority of people prefer railways as it helps connect distant locations and the comfort it provides. But the problem in railways is it needs more of monitoring and thereby the person travelling across areas can be at ease. In order to ensure safety in railway transportation, monitoring of tracks is very crucial. Hence, this research article focuses on monitoring the tracks present in railways through a novel image processing technique devised. The name of the technique we devised is known as CRACK TRACKER. Crack Tracker does the role of monitoring the tracks by capturing the images of the tracks and it is sent to the nearby station so that the cracks can be patched in the future. The cracks are clearly detected and intimated instantly to the station master. A reliable solution for continuous and cost efficient tracking is processed and depicted in this research article.


The Public Utilities Commission (PUCO) is a body created by the Ohio State legislature to administer the provisions of the Ohio Public Utilities Act. It is composed of three commissioners appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Once appointed, a commissioner serves for a six-year period. The PUCO is vested with the power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate public utilities and railroads... . The term public utility includes every corporation, company, co-partnership, person or association, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, as defined in the Ohio Code. Among the various services enumerated in the Code under the definition of public utility are an electric light company; a gas company; a pipeline company transporting gas, oil or coal; a waterworks company; a heating or cooling company. The power to regulate public utilities is shared by the PUCO and municipal governments. The municipal regulatory authority is derived from the Ohio Constitution, statutory provisions, and municipal franchising authority. Public utility regulatory statutes, energy facility siting programs, and municipal franchising authority are examined to identify how they may impact on the ability of an organization, whether or not it be a regulated utility, to construct and operate an ICES.


In this study, we discuss the case of plastic parts for the production of fan steering gear shaft parts injection molding, and use POM plastic steel to produce plastic parts from traditional cold runners. Because of the parts have a hole, which need side slide. The runner produce more waste after plastic parts injection make the runner waste account for the cost is relatively high, the cost of stock preparation is relatively increased when the product quantity demanded is great. After the crushing treatment of the waste, the backfill will affect the quality, and in the crushing process, the volume generated will make the operator to withstand up to 130 dB of noise. The actual test results show that the production cycle reduce 6.25%, while the production yield increase by about 5% and material costs reduced by 2% . It can be recovered within a year, not to mention the increase of the quality and reduction the noise on the staff of the benefit is impossible to estimate.


This paper describes experiences with the use of the Globus toolkit and related technologies for development of a secure portal that allows nationally-distributed Australian researchers to share data and application programs. The portal allows researchers to access infrastructure that will be used to enhance understanding of the causes of schizophrenia and advance its treatment, and aims to provide access to a resource that can expand into the world's largest on-line collaborative mental health research facility. Since access to patient data is controlled by local ethics approvals, the portal must transparently both provide and deny access to patient data in accordance with the fine-grained access permissions afforded individual researchers. Interestingly, the access protocols are able to provide researchers with hints about currently inaccessible data that may be of interest to them, providing them the impetus to gain further access permissions.


This paper examines the determinants of price-to-earnings (PE) and price-to-book (PB) multiples with the aim of improving the selection of comparable firms used to estimate firm value. I then demonstrate that systematically selecting a subset of firms from within an industry, based on these determinants, results in a more comparable set of firms than the four digit sic industry grouping often used in practice. In the empirical tests, two set of artificial prices are constructed using a PE/PB valuation method. A benchmark artificial price is based on an industry price median multiple (PE or PB), consistent with results reported in Alford [1992]. The median PE (PB) is capitalized using the target firm's earnings (book value) to obtain an 'industry median price'. A second artificial price (an 'EBO median price') is formed by applying the median PE (PB) obtained from a selected subset of the target firm's industry to the target firm's earnings (book value).The selected subset of firms is composed firms from within the target firm's industry that have PE (PB) determinants most like the target firm. I document a substantial decrease in pricing errors (the difference between the artificial price and the market price) when using the determinants to select the set of comparable firms instead of the entire industry. Over a fifteen year period, in greater than 91% (98%) of the cases the mean (median) EBO pricing error is less than the mean (median) industry pricing error. Over 72% (68%) of the time that difference is statistically significant at less than the .05 level. My results suggest that using a more carefully grounded theoretical approach, even when using unsophisticated methods, yields a substantial improvement in valuation estimates. Implications for accounting research are discussed.


This paper proposes a method which induces a clinical pathway by using sample and attribute clustering of the histories of nursing orders stored in hospital information system. The method consists of the following five steps: first, frequencies of nursing orders are extracted from hospital information system. Second, orders are classified into several groups by using sample clustering. Then, attributes clustering is applied to the data for feature selection. Fourth, the method compares between generated functions for sample and attribute clustering which relate the number of clusters and calculated similarities. Fifth, if attribute clustering gives better performance with respect to the function, the dataset is decomposed into subtables by using the grouping of attribute clustering. Then, the first step will be repeated in a recursive way. After the grouping results are stable, a new pathway will be constructed from all the induced results. The method was applied to datasets of a disease extracted from a hospital information system. The results show that the proposed method is useful for construction of a clinical pathway.


This paper presents a novel design of control system with features of DeviceNet interface and remotely accessible database via Internet for high precision pressure control valve (PCV). This PCV control system is particularly suitable for pressure/flow process control within vacuum chamber in the fully automated manufacturing machines for semiconductor industry ranging from wafer foundry, LCD/LED panel plant to photoelectric plant. In 2015, Taiwan-based Fred Automation Corporation has been successfully implemented this PCV control system for field testing in the evaluation of performance and benefits.


The registration of data sets in the same coordinate system is an essential task in the fusion of data obtained from similar or different sources. The determination of the registration accuracy by commercial firms is often undertaken by comparing points of one surface to heights interpolated between points of the other surface. The last few years have seen research undertaken in the development of surface matching algorithms, which automate the registration. High redundancy is achieved with these algorithms as each point of one surface can potentially participate in the formation of a normal equation for the least squares adjustment. These algorithms may be expected to become an important tool of data fusion, especially with data acquisition techniques such as ALS which lack thematic information. This paper demonstrates that the accuracy of the registration, both in height and plan positioning, as well as the accuracy of the matching (the residuals of the least squares matching) are related to the density of the reference data. A cross-validation method is used to find the accuracy of the registration and the mean of the matching residuals for different densities of the reference surface. The paper presents two experiments: with artificial data and with ALS data. The reference data is similar in the two instances: the data is evenly distributed and is triangulated using a Delaunay triangulation. Furthermore the paper shows that the curves generated by a cross-validation method can be modelled on hyperbolic functions. These functions are used to predict accuracy for densities higher than that used for the validation. The accuracy of the predictions ranged from sub-millimetre values to 4mm for both experiments. The accuracy of the registration of the ALS data where the differences ranged from 9mm to 134mm was the exception. In this case however the accuracy improved with increasing density.


An inverter is an important way of energy conversion.However,the inverter can have severe impacts on the power quality of the power grid during the energy conversion.Given that the smart grid raises more severe requirements for the power quality,in view of various shortcomings of the traditional inverter technology,this paper proposes a new type of inverting device which meets the requirements for the smart grid.The device is a new three-phase low-frequency inverting device with low harmonics,and its switching device operates at the 50 Hz power frequency.This device is characteristic of small loss in the switch,less harmonic content,high reliability,high DC voltage utilization rate,simple control and reduced cost.The experimental results show that the device has very high practical application value and is easy to popularize.


In the past year, the northbound interface application has become a hot topic in the Software-Defined Network technology. It offers an opening method and makes people able to develop own business application upper the SDN. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a visual plane based on android phone application to present an explicit watch of the state and working performance of the Openflow-based underlying network topology in Software-Defined Network. The impacts of the designing architecture are evaluated in the form of software simulation and actual operating effects of the android application that we have designed. Through the interface opened by the floodlight controller to the upper business application, we are aimed at making it able to call the underlying network resources and inquiry its status information conveniently. So this paper wants to achieve the unified dispatching by elaborated methods and transplants the idea to the android application. By the way of the software programming, we could make the android phone to probe the southbound network resources through the northbound interface whose connotation we will expand. Between the northbound interface and the android application, we introduce a data center and select the mysql database to implement its function. Through the technology framework we built, we are able to use an android phone to access the status of the underlying devices and monitor the software defined network better aiming at providing better service. And we judge its function from the perspective of overall feasibility and stability not only through the system performance but also sound experiment effects. Finally, we can use any android phone to view about the topology of the network effectively and simply.


Under the appropriate corrosion environment, weathering steel does not require paint, so it has reduced life cycle costs when compared to conventional steel. The applicability of weathering steel has been systematically investigated in countries like Japan and the United States of America. However, in Vietnam, the influence of environmental factors on corrosion behaviour and the applicability of weathering steel has been evaluated by short-term exposure tests. In this study, we performed long-term exposure tests in Vietnam to clarify the time-dependent changes of corrosion behaviour and to verify the applicability of weathering steel. The time-dependent changes of corrosion loss were dependent on the corrosion environment. The corrosion rate greatly increased in areas with high relative humidity. Weathering steel is applicable in various regions in Vietnam, but it should be applied carefully in areas with high relative humidity.


This paper presents a proposal to express JTAG as an asynchronous packet-based protocol while maintaining full backward compatibility. This allows JTAG to transparently access remote units over high-bandwidth functional connections, a feature of special interest, for instance, in the environment of wireless telecommunication infrastructure and interfaces like CPRI or IP.


Abstract. Piezoelectric thin-walled structures, especially those with a notably higher membrane than bending stiffness, are susceptible to large transverse deflections. In the recent years numerical investigations conducted by different researchers have shown that the deflection amplitude, vibration frequency, output voltage and other values of interest can be significantly influenced by the assumption of large displacements and deformations of the structure. Therefore, the second part of the paper extends the formulation given in the first part into the geometrically nonlinear analysis, adopting the assumption of small strains but large displacements. The co-rotational approach is used. The linearized finite element equations for the geometrically nonlinear analysis of the piezoelectric continuum are developed and applied by means of the 9-node degenerated shell element described in the first part of the paper.


Review(s) of: Managing depression growing older: A guide for professionals and carers, by Kerrie Eyers, Gordon Parker and Henry Brodaty, Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest (2012), 292 pp., A$27.99, ISBN: 97810742378800.


This article is devoted to examination of Sergey Prokofiev's Scythian Suite in a new perspective, in the light of a modernist style. Connection with musical modernism can be traced from the points of view of content, figurative structure of the Suite and musical material. It allows raising a problem of connection between Prokofiev's early works and a modernist style. Keywords: history of music, Russian land music, music by Sergey Prokofiev, ballet suits


Polyester tire cords were prepared from poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) of dif ferent molecular weights. The relation between the microstructure and heat generation in rubber was investigated through the effect of degree of polymerization, which was one of the major factors controlling both the microstructure and the physical properties. The microstructure of PET tire cord was determined using wide angle x-ray diffraction, small angle x-ray scattering, density, and dynamic viscoelasticity. The heat generation and fatigue properties of PET tire cords in rubber were evaluated by means of the Goodyear tube fatigue test and the Goodrich disk fatigue test. The heat generation property of PET tire cord in rubber was highly related to the mobility of molecular chains in the amorphous regions.


The classified information of the training sample is always certain in the classification problem of support vector machine. The indicator function obtained always gives a certain classification information to the new sample .But it is not appropriate to some uncertain problems. This paper obtains the SVM based on posteriori probability by utilizing the Bayes rule to combine posteriori probability with SVM. An experiential manner is proposed to estimate the posteriori probability of the training data.


In the structure of 1,3-dibromoazulene, C10H6Br2, the planar molecule sits on a crystallographic mirror plane. The Br atoms are attached to the five-membered ring adjacent to the ring fusion. Head-to-tail charge–charge interactions due to partial positive charges on ring H atoms and partial negative charges within the aromatic ring system attract adjacent 1,3-dibromoazulene molecules together. This causes them to arrange themselves in a zigzag pattern that allows close packing of the oppositely charged groups.


Conditionals are sentences of the form "If A, then B," and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning. They have been in the philosophical limelight for centuries, and more recently, they have also been receiving attention from psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists. In spite of this, many key questions concerning conditionals remain unanswered. While most of the work on conditionals has addressed semantical questions – questions about the truth conditions of conditionals – this book focusses on the main epistemological questions that conditionals give rise to, such as: What are the probabilities of conditionals? When is a conditional acceptable or assertable? What do we learn when we receive new conditional information? In answering these questions, this book combines the formal tools of logic and probability theory with the experimental approach of cognitive psychology. It will be of interest to students and researchers in logic, epistemology, and the psychology of reasoning.


Provided is an electric window clamp-proof system, which comprises a motor, a transmission shaft, a motor controller, and a position detecting apparatus, wherein, the system also comprises a friction wheel which is fixed on the transmission shaft, the wheel rim of the friction wheel contacts and matches with a motor turbine in the motor, the friction wheel generates torque by the friction force between the friction wheel and the motor turbine contact surface, the torque is set in a mode that the transmission shaft utilized the torque output by the friction wheel to drive the window to rise ordecline when the motor turbine rotates, and the torque will not influence the rotation of the motor turbine when the motor turbine rotates and the transmission shaft stops rotating. Because the torque for driving the window to rise or decline is supplied by the torque generated by friction force between the friction wheel and the motor turbine, the electric window clamp-proof system need not to control locked rotor of the motor when encountering barrier, and protects the motor and the barrier better.


The present invention is made by a cap assembly that is seoljang the cell body with a built-in electrode assembly of a cathode / separator / anode, a protective circuit is a substrate, insert injection molding the safety element and the connection terminal to the cap housing and integral with forming, the lower end face of the formed body during the insert injection molding to be connected electrically to an electrode terminal of the battery cell are to provide a cap assembly formed body which at least a part of the connection terminal is exposed. According to the present invention, by insert injection molding the cap assembly in a state the protective circuit as the battery is not connected, and can be formed generally using a resin to be used, it is electrically stable, the coating process for preventing electrical short not required, such as to avoid the risk of electrical damage to the protection circuit can be obtained various advantages.


Polymers prepared by RAFT polymerisation containing acenaphthyl energy donors and a terminal anthryl energy acceptor have a narrow molecular weight distribution and exhibit excitation energy transfer efficiencies up to 70%.


The goal of this paper is to establish weak and strong convergence theorems of an implicit iteration process with errors to converge to common fixed points for a finite family of uniformly $L$-Lipschitzian total asymptotically pseudo-contractive mappings in the framework of Banach spaces. Our results extend the corresponding result of [220.127.116.11] and many others.


We deduce evidence for the existence of a two-body current contribution to $M1$ transitions and moments in nuclei, based on the application of shell model theory to experimental data. A complete specification of a two-body $M1$ operator, within a shell-model configuration, can be obtained by combining data from particle-particle and particle-hole nuclei. For this purpose, new particle-hole relations are derived for $M1$ transitions. The method of analysis is applied to the particle-hole pair $^{38}\mathrm{Cl}$-$^{40}\mathrm{K}$. The two-body current contributions could be effects of either configuration mixing, or mesonic currents, or both.


The current study aimed at investigating the impact of flipped learning model on university students' procrastination and their attitudes toward flipped learning. The study utilized a quasi-experimental research design, which employed Tuckman's procrastination test, which was administered to all 80 students enrolled in two sections at "computer in education" course offered by the Faculty of education at Hashemite University, Jordan during the first semester of the academic year 2018/2019. The study utilized two research instruments: Tuckman's "Procrastination Test" which consisted of 16 items with five alternatives for each item according to Likert Scale and attitudes questionnaire. Students were divided randomly into two groups: control and experimental groups. The 40 students in the experimental group were taught by flipped learning model while the 40 students in the control group were taught by a traditional model. To answer the research questions, means and standard deviations were calculated for students' responses on the Tuckman's procrastination test. The results of the study showed that procrastination persisted as there were no significant differences at the level of (α = 0.05) for the benefit of flipped learning model despite the positive attitudes students showed toward flipped learning on the attitudes questionnaire. Based on the results obtained, procrastination proved to be a tough issue, which may require further attention and psychological intervention to help students to overcome the issue, capitalizing on the positive attitudes they showed toward flipped learning.


A new generation of oscillators based on integrated optomechanical crystals could lead to high-spectral purity and low phase noise signals directly at the frequency of interest allowing an easy on-chip integration at μm scale (useful for potential on-board applications such as navigation and telecommunication systems, metrology or sensing). In the proposed system, the resonator part is made by a 2D photonic crystal membrane suspended over a silicon waveguide, sustaining optical modes around 1.55 um and mechanical modes around a few GHz. The mechanical excitation and stabilization of such a system will be implemented thanks to Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs) transducers allowing a full mechanical control of the oscillating structure. Moreover, implementation of phononic crystal waveguides will open a novel way to engineer the group velocity of the acoustical waves in order to achieve the desired delay for the stabilization of the oscillations. Simulation, fabrication and experimental work of resonant mechanical excitation in the GHz range will be discussed with particular emphasis on SAWs transducers and phononic crystal waveguides for acoustic delay engineering (Figure 1).


A Large Eddy Simulation of a bluff body flame has been carried out using an unstructured grid. The flame, burning a methane-hydrogen fuel with de- tailed combustion chemistry (based on a mechanism of 18 species) is simulated using STAR-CD. The mix- ture fraction is used as a conserved scalar, and a sub- sequently temperature, density and species mass frac- tion are calculated using a probability density func- tion. A beta function presumed-PDF (PPDF) has been used. The beta function is parameterized by the filtered mixture fraction and mixture fraction vari- ance. The Scalar dissipation is modeled by assum- ing proportionality between the sub grid mixing time scale and turbulent time scale. Due to the large do- main size, the adequate resolution of the reacting part of the flow presents a challenge. To address this dif- ficulty, we have exploited embedded mesh refinement in and around the reaction zone. The velocity pro- files are in good agreement near the jet inlet but are slightly over predicted at the center line, far from the jet inlet. The model has under predicted the tem- perature at the start of the flame. The selection of a correct coefficient for the scalar dissipation is identi- fied as the source of the under prediction.


Purpose: This study aimed to examine the effects of cyclooxgenase-2 inhibitors on patients with nocturia, whose symptoms persisted after the use of first-line drug therapy, such as alpha blockers and/or anticholinergics. Materials and Methods: Thirty-three patients whose symptoms persisted after more than three months of first-line drug therapy were chosen to receive additional COX-2 inhibitors or antidiuretic hormones orally. Seven patients (group 1) were given 80mg of zaltoprofen at night, while 15 (group 2) were given 100mg of nimesulide at night. Desmopressin acetate (0.2mg) was administered at night to 11 patients (group 3) as a control group. Median follow up was 35 days (range, 28∼90 days). Results: In 25 patients (75.8%), the severity of nocturia was reduced. The median decline of nocturia in the COX-2 inhibitor groups (groups 1 and 2) was once, and it was statistically significant (p<0.001), while the median decline in each of these groups was twice (p=0.026) and once (p=0.002), respectively. The reduction of nocturia in the control group was once (p=0.011). The differences in reduction between the COX-2 inhibitor group and the control group were not statistically significant (p=0.418). Conclusions: The effects of the COX-2 inhibitors were not significantly different from those of desmopressin. Combination therapy with COX-2 inhibitors can effectively reduce nocturia in patients with refractory nocturia, following first-line drug therapy. (J Korean Continence Soc 2009;13:67-72)


Till date a primary reverse total shoulderarthroplasty for the post septic sequelae of theshoulder was not reported in the literatureeven though there were a few reports aboutthe revision arthroplasty with reverse shoulderprosthesis. The authors report their experiencewith the use of the reverse shoulder prosthesisas a primary modality of treatment in a postseptic sequelae shoulder.


The globalisation and omnidirectional character of anthropogenic processes has challenged scientists around the world to estimate the harmful effects of these processes on ecosystems and human health. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is one the most infamous group of contaminants, originated both from natural and anthropogenic processes. They could transport to high latitudes and altitudes through atmospheric longdistance transfer and further enter ecosystems of these vulnerable regions by deposition on terrestrial surfaces. An interesting object for tracking transboundary contamination processes in high mountain ecosystems is called cryoconite. Cryoconite, a dark-coloured supraglacial sediment which is abundant in polar and mountain environments, is considered as a storage of various pollutants, including PAHs. Thus, it may pose a risk for local human health and ecosystem through short-distance transfer. Studied cryoconite sediments were collected at the surface of Skhelda and Garabashi glaciers, Central Caucasus high-mountain region, as well as mudflow, moraine material and local soils at the Baksan Gorge in order to examine levels of their contamination. We analysed the content of 15 priority polyaromatic compounds from the US EPA list and used the method ‡ ‡ ‡ § © Abakumov E et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. of calculation of PAHs isomer ratios with the purpose of identifying their source. To estimate their potential toxicity, Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) equivalents were calculated. Maximum concentration was defined for NAP (84 ng×g ), PHE (40 ng×g ) and PYR (47 ng×g ), with the minimum concentration for ANT (about 1 ng×g ). The most polluted material is a cryoconite from Garabashi glacier because of local anthropogenic activities and long-distance transfer. High-molecular weight PAHs are dominated in PAHs composition of almost all samples. The most common sources of PAHs in studied materials are combustion processes and mixed pyrolytic/petrogenic origin. Toxicity levels of separate PAHs did not exceed the maximum permissible threshold concentrations values in most cases. However, the sum of PAHs in BaP equivalents exceed the threshold values in all samples, in some of them more than twice.


A larger angular rotation velocity was measured for microwave LTRs associated with H-alpha filaments than for the not associated ones. This implies that LTRs not associated with H-alpha filaments are located at lower heights above the solar photosphere than LTRs associated with H-alpha filaments. Data from three intervals were analysed (1979-1980, 1981-1982 and 1987-1988) with different percentages of association between LTRs and H-alpha filaments.


A copper vapor laser was constructed with a heater built into the gas-discharge tube. The active substance was heated separately using an additional low-voltage power supply when excitation pulses were applied simultaneously to the gas-discharge tube. This laser emitted at two wavelengths: 510.6 and 578.2 nm. The total output power was up to 2 W. The repetition frequency of the excitation pulses was varied from 0 to 20 kHz. The power consumption from the 220 V-50 Hz line supply was of the order of 1 kW.


Hydrogels have found wide application in tissue engineering and cell mechanobiology research due to their tunable, and often biomimetic, biochemical and biomechanical properties. Although it has been known for more than a decade that hydrogels can be designed to exhibit shape memory functionality—the ability to change from one defined shape to another when triggered by a defined stimulus—shape memory hydrogels have not previously been exploited in tissue engineering or mechanobiology research. Here we report the development of a biodegradable and biocompatible hydrogel with tailored shape memory as well as desirable mechanical property for soft-tissue applications. A shape memory hydrogel was synthesized by photopolymerization of PCL3k diacry-lates together with acrylate-PEG2k-GRGDS in the presence of a crosslinker, tetrathiol, and photoinitiator, DMPA, through thiol-ene chemistry. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) were carried out to examine the thermal, mechanical and shape memory properties of the hydrogel in dry and wet states. Cell culture studies were performed to characterize material cytocompatibility. We found that the PCL phase was crystalline in the hydrogel, providing an excellent, reproducible shape memory effect. The transition temperature (shape memory "trigger") was tuned to fall between room and body temperature. Both cell attachment and proliferation studies revealed that the presentation of GRGDS molecules in the hydrogel facilitated fibroblasts adhesion and spreading on the hydrogel surface. This hydrogel, tailored to exhibit shape memory behavior in the cell culture compatible temperature range, should provide new opportunities for "smart" shape-changing scaffolds and substrates for application in tissue engineering and investigation of cell mechanobiology.


Vitamin D2 is essential for maintaining the proper functioning of a human body, and to prevent and help cure various diseases. Mushrooms are one of the few natural sources of vitamin D. Many experiments aimed to increase the vitamin D level of cultivated mushrooms, by irradiating them with UV light to turn their ergosterol content into vitamin D. The subjects of most of these studies were post-harvest sliced or whole mushrooms. Our goal was to treat pre-harvest oyster mushroom with UV light, while the mushrooms are still growing and biologically active. UV lamps (operating on 254 and 312 nm) and 6 time periods of irradiation (15 to 90 minutes) were used. After three consecutive days of treatments the yield were measured and samples were taken for vitamin D2 analysis. A parallel, in vitro experiment took place in the laboratory as well, where the same treatments (wavelengths and irradiation times) were applied on the tissue cultures of the same oyster mushroom cultivar used in the in vivo experiment. The mycelia growth was measured in case of all treatments. Data showed considerable increase in vitamin D2 levels of the treated oyster mushrooms at every time period. UV irradiation caused no change in yield, but affected the growth of the in vitro tissue cultures significantly.


There are some debates and problems in multiple injury diagnosis and application of AIS-ISS(2005).In this article,the diagnostic model of multiple injury was raised.It's suggested that anatomic site of AIS-ISS(2005) should be classified into six parts and the AIS value be assessed within 24 hours after trauma.Imaging diagnosis should be based on CT scanning.Meanwhile,medical examination and operations research should be recorded according to AIS-ISS(2005).The learning of AIS-ISS needs exercise and long-term repeated discuss.It's believed that the standard application of AIS-ISS(2005) is helpful to elevate the diagnostic level of multiple injury.


Nitrogen‐vacancy (NV) quantum magnetometers offer exceptional sensitivity and long‐term stability. However, their use to date in distributed sensing applications, including remote detection of ferrous metals, geophysics, and biosensing, is limited due to the need to combine optical, microwave (MW), and magnetic excitations into a single system. Existing approaches have yielded localized devices but not distributed capabilities. In this study, a continuous system‐in‐a‐fiber architecture is reported, which enables distributed magnetic sensing over extended lengths. Key to this realization is a thermally drawn fiber that has hundreds of embedded photodiodes connected in parallel and a hollow optical waveguide that contains a fluid with NV diamonds. This fiber is placed in a larger coaxial cable to deliver the required MW excitation. This distributed quantum sensor is realized in a water‐immersible 90‐m‐long cable with 102 detection sites. A sensitivity of 63 ± 5 nT Hz−1/2 per site, limited by laser shot noise, is established along a 90 m test section. This fiber architecture opens new possibilities as a robust and scalable platform for distributed quantum sensing technologies.


Grula, E. A. (Oklahoma State University, Stillwater) and Mary M. Grula. Cell division in a species of Eriwinia. V. Effect of metabolic inhibitors on terminal division and composition of a "division" medium. J. Bacteriol. 84:492–499. 1962.—Terminal division in Erwinia spp. involves a triggering action and subsequent septum synthesis. It is a metabolic process requiring organic nitrogen and carbon and energy. The process, when triggered by pantoic acid or pantoyl lactone, is inhibited strongly by 2,4-dinitrophenol, hydroxylamine, mitomycin C, and Hg ion and to a lesser degree by cyanide, azide, 5-fluorouracil, and diisopropylfluorophosphate. Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid completely inhibits division only when calcium ion is the triggering agent. Heating of the cells at 43 C for 10 to 20 min also completely inhibits division. Hydroxylamine, iodoacetate, and mitomycin C cause extensive lysis of growing cells. No evidence has been obtained to demonstrate the need for protein or normal ribonucleic acid synthesis in terminal division. Requirement for intact deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or DNA synthesis is questionable; —SH groups are not directly involved. Once triggering has occurred, septum formation appears to require synthesis of at least cell-wall mucopeptide. A "division" medium is reported and discussed.


Hydrogen sulfide is a biologically important molecule and developing chemical tools that enable further investigations into the functions of H 2 S is essential. Fluorescent turn-on H 2 S probes have been developed for use in cellulo or in vivo , but the membrane permeability of these probes can lead to probe leakage and signal attenuation over time. Here we report a cell trappable fluorescent probe for H 2 S, CT-MeRhoAz , which is based on a methylrhodolazide scaffold derivatized with an acetoxymethyl ester group. Prior to ester cleavage, the CT-MeRhoAz probe generates a 2500-fold turn-on response to H 2 S, which is enhanced to a 3000-fold response for the carboxylic acid form of the probe. Additionally, the probe is highly selective for H 2 S over other biologically relevant sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen-based analytes. Live cell imaging experiments confirmed the biocompatibility of CT-MeRhoAz and also that it is cell trappable, unlike the parent MeRhoAz scaffold.


Adipic acids and aromatic acid are intercalated into magnesium aluminum layered double hydroxides (Mg/Al-LDHs)by the ion-exchange method.The samples prepared are characterized by XRD,FT-IR,TG and DTA. The results show that the initial interlayer carbonate ions can be completely replaced by the organic acid anion under controlled conditions,and supermolecular structure is formed and the structure models are given out.


To the Editor.— We were interested in the answers given to a reader's question, "Can a physician who suspects that he might have paranoid schizophrenia treat himself without outside help?" (239:57, 1978). One point that was not stressed is that paranoid symptoms resembling those seen in paranoid schizophrenia have been described in other psychiatric, medical, and neurological disorders. 1,2 We recently have studied 105 patients with paranoid symptoms (suspiciousness, ideas of reference, and delusions) who were admitted to the psychiatric unit of a general hospital. We found that only 32, less than one third, had paranoid schizophrenia. Two of our patients, for example, had previously received the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia but had not responded to treatment with a neuroleptic. We found each to have a psychotic depressive reaction, and each recovered with antidepressant treatment. Other patients in our series had paranoid symptoms as part of manic depressive illness, manic


Our research plan is to take advantage of projectimplicit's ability to provide huge sample sizes in a very short time, in order to systematically study the Evaluative Conditioning (EC) effect. The present report describes on obstacle encountered at the very first step of this research: developing an EC procedure for the web. In four studies we documented only one small EC effect, detected only with a measure of automatic attitudes (the AMP). We sought for an EC procedure that can answer two main requirements: (1) Short in duration. The overall duration of a web study must not exceed 15 minutes; (2) Produce a reliable and strong EC effect. Because the project is aimed at studying the effect of methodological variations, we need an effect that is strong enough to allow a reduction in its magnitude that could still be easily detected.


The moving rule of salt and water in cultivated land and saline wasteland during crops growth period in Hetao Irrigation District, Inner Mongolia has been studied. Based on the field measured data, the movement of salt and soil moisture in cultivaed land and saline westeland by using the HYDRUS-2D model has been simulated and analyzed.The results showed that function by strong evaporation, the salt will be accumulated in the soil surface,in the soil layers of 20,40 cmand 70 cm,the salt content will be increased 67.23%,62.37% and 37.2% respectively.Through examined, the simulation of soil moisture and salt content moving by the HYDRUS-2D model in horizontal and vertical direction indicated a high precision, reflected the rule of salt accumulated and soil moisture moving.


With active management, lower network loss, higher reliability, the active distribution network is one of the future trends of the distribution network. This paper establishes multi-objective optimization planning model for the active distribution network. The comprehensive optimal scheme is analyzed in three objects: the investment cost, the network loss, and the system reliability. Based on the Pareto optimization method, the paper proposes the multi-objective optimization planning algorithm, then the final planning scheme is determined. Through the simulation results of the IEEE 33 standard model, the validity and rationality of the model is verified.


Each crop has their own weed problems. Therefore, to understand each problem, agronomists and weed scientists must be able to determine the weed abundance with the most precise method. There are several techniques to scouting, including visual counting for density or estimations for coverage of weeds. However, this technique depends by the evaluator subjectivity, performance, and training, causing errors and bias when estimating weeds abundance. This chapter introduces a methodology to process multispectral images, based on histograms of oriented gradients and support vector machines to detect weeds in lettuce crops. The method was validated by experts on weed science, and the statistical differences were calculated. There were no significant differences between expert analysis and the proposed method. Therefore, this method offers a way to analyze large areas of crops in less time and with greater precision. Weed Estimation on Lettuce Crops Using Histograms of Oriented Gradients and Multispectral Images


Objective: The aim of this study was to enhance the level of knowledge of the 4th year students of Istanbul Faculty of Medicine on Hepatitis B from the public health point of view by a training practice, and to measure their knowledge levels before and after the practice and compare these results. Materials and methods: This is an intervention study. In the 2nd term of the academic year 2003 – 2004 (in Janu-ary 20, March 16, April 27, 2004), 95 students were given interview forms consisting of 30 items which were rela-ted to the ways of infection of Hepatitis B and the means of protection from the disease. At the beginning of the practice, students were asked whether they had been vaccinated before. After 20 minutes of interactive training, the same forms were applied again. The scores of the students were recorded before and after the practice and compa-red using the Wilcoxon Sign Test. Results: The median value of 95 students was 28 (min:25; max:30) before the practice; and median:30 (min:26; max:30) after it. It was found that there were statistically significant increases in the knowledge levels of the students after the practice (z=7.3, p=0.0001). 87.4 % of the students had been vaccinated against Hepatitis B at least once. 4.8 % of the vaccinated students were vaccinated 2 times; 86.7 % 3 times; 7.2 % 4 times; and 1.2 % 5 times. Conclusion: In the field of preventive medicine, people should have sound knowledge about the ways of infection of and means of protection from Hepatitis B. Medical students in Turkey should be well informed of this subject and the vaccination rates should be increased as Turkey is a country having a medium level of endemic rate regarding this disease. Our study has shown that the level of knowledge of our students was high and their lack of knowledge concerning the subject was made up for thoroughly after the interactive training practice. Furthermore, students were also tested for HBsAg and HbsAc and reminded to get vaccinated. istatistik anlaml›l›k verecek derecede art›fl oldu¤u saptanm›flt›r (z=7,3, p=0,0001). Ö¤rencilerin % 87,4 ü daha önce Hepatit B afl›s› olmufltu. Afl› olanlar›n %4,8 i 2 kez, % 86,7 si 3 kez, % 7,2 si 4 kez, % 1,2 si de 5 kez afl› olmufltu. Sonuç: Koruyucu hekimlikte bulafl›c› hastal›klar›n bulaflma yollar›n›n ve hastal›ktan korunma yöntemlerinin bilinmesi önemlidir. Hepatit B aç›s›ndan orta derecede endemik olan Türkiye'de bu konuda t›p ö¤rencilerinin bilgi düzeylerinin yüksek olmas› ve afl›lama oranlar›n›n art›r›lmas› hedeflenmelidir. Çal›flmam›zda ö¤rencilerin bu konudaki bilgi düzeylerinin yüksek oldu¤u ve interaktif e¤itimden sonra eksik bilgilerin tamamland›¤› saptanm›fl, afl›s› olmayan ö¤rencilerin HBsAg ve HbsAc na bakt›rarak afl› olmalar› hat›rlat›lm›flt›r. Anahtar e¤itim


Since reform and opening up ,the economics of India and China are all developing rapidly,they have been become the engine of economic growth in Asian even in the world. Now they develop fastest . Meanwhile,there are many similarities between the two, but also have many differences during the economic development. Therefore, comparison of the two countries in the macroeconomic, it will surely have very important significance. The author believes that China and India should learn from each other,thus can achieve the dream of power in the future.


This article investigates the role of education on environmental crime in Italy using a panel of 110 Italian provinces over the period 2010–2015. We employ a system-GMM (Generalized Method of Moments) dynamic panel data approach to tackle the endogeneity that might arise in the estimations from the environmental crime dynamic path and to consider time-invariant effects on provinces. Our empirical results, even after controlling for socioeconomic and judicial efficiency characteristics, support the existence of a U-inverted relationship between education and environmental crime, which depicts an unconventional finding: At the margin, a higher level of education endowment offsets the propensity to commit environmental crimes, which are confirmed to be white-collar type of crimes. The results are robust to model specifications and endogeneity. Furthermore, to check the robustness of nonmonotonicity in the relationship between environmental crime and education and to control for unobserved provincial heterogeneity, we also exploit a semiparametric fixed effects model. There is wide room for efficiency gains that could arise from policy interventions aiming to put environmental crimes into perspective.


PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discover the contradistinctions between the neoclassical and Keynesian paradigms of economics regarding the Greek Financial Crisis.Design/methodology/approachThe answers to the questions and policies regarding the Greek Financial Crisis cannot be derived by using economic analysis alone; they also depend on the perception of social reality and ethical issues. Based on the assumptions about economic behavior, the answers and policies inevitably reflect the observer's assessment of each economic and non-economic performance dimension, as well as the significance assigned to those performance dimensions. Different views on "social reality" and "what is a good society?" are associated with distinct paradigms and a particular set of social values, which have implications for economic policy formulae. These give rise to alternative answers and policies to the Greek Financial Crisis, based on different assumptions, different methods of analysis and different goals.FindingsOverall, in contradistinction, the two paradigms recommend quite distinct policies tackling the Greek Financial Crisis, and at the end, both paradigms have different perspectives on ethics and moral fundamentals regarding debt.Originality/valueStudents of the global financial crisis will benefit from this unique approach in testing the two alternative paradigms, between the neoclassical and Keynesian, concerning the Greek Financial Crisis.


Sea ice is a two‐phase, two‐component, reactive porous medium: an example of what is known in other contexts as a mushy layer. The fundamental conservation laws underlying the mathematical description of mushy layers provide a robust foundation for the prediction of sea‐ice evolution. Here we show that the general equations describing mushy layers reduce to the model of Maykut and Untersteiner (1971) under the same approximations employed therein.


In the article various communication practices of a library as the center of culture interaction are considered. Special attention is paid to the dialogical communication of readers during which they have an opportunity to cooperate directly with people of "other" cultures, to specify and correct the points of views, to develop the common views, to participate in the formation of a new reality shared with others.


1. An absorbent article comprising: a liquid permeable layer, liquid impermeable layer, an absorbent core positioned between said liquid pervious layer and said liquid impermeable layer; inetkanoe web comprising: at least a first layer of fibers made from a first composition comprising a first polyolefin, a second polyolefin and an additive, enhancing softness, wherein said second polyolefin is a propylene copolymer and wherein said second polyolefin is a polyolefin other than he said a first polyolefin; and at least a second layer of fibers made of a second composition comprising a propylene copolymer in an amount less than 10% by weight of said second kompozitsii.2. The absorbent article of claim. 1, characterized in that said nonwoven web is arranged in said absorbent article so that said second layer of fibers located between said first layer of fibers and said absorbent serdtsevinoy.3. An absorbent article according to claim. 2, characterized in that the fibers of said first and said second layers of fibers are "spunbond" .4. The absorbent article of claim. 1, characterized in that said nonwoven web comprises a plurality of bonding sites formed by calendering, forming in said first nonwoven fabric, a textured surface and a second surface opposed to said first poverhnosti.5. An absorbent article according to claim. 4, characterized in that said first layer of fibers is located at said first textured surface and


are some zoster-shaped bands on the left side of the trunk, the extensive involvement of the left axilla, left side of the neck and left arm, and a stripe passing from the buttock downwards along the middle of the posterior aspect of each thigh. The left half of the body is the one chiefly affected, and, according to the mother, the abnormality of the skin first began to show itself when the child was seven months old. The general distribution of the affection can be well seen by means of the accompanying illustrations. The health of the child is good.


Structure-texture decomposition from an image (a.k.a. structure-preserving image smoothing) is important for a variety of multimedia, computer vision and graphics tasks. Its performance heavily depends on the precision of indicating where are structural edges to maintain and where are textures to remove. An intuitive thought for constructing indication is to directly execute edge detection on the input image, which however would suffer from rich textures. Feeding inaccurate or erroneous indications into the smoother is at high risk of generating unsatisfactory results. It is almost sure that edge detectors can do a better job on inputs with textures removed. The above two components, say the smoother and the indicator, turn out to be in a chicken-egg situation. To address this issue, we propose a method to jointly detect structural edges and remove textures, by iteratively smoothing the input based on the edges detected from the previous smoothed result and refining the edges based on the newly processed image. Experiments on a number of challenging cases are conducted to show that the edge detection task and the smoothing task can benefit from each other, and reveal the superiority of our method over other state-of-the-art alternatives. Our code is publicly available at https://sites.google.com/view/xjguo/sdts.


The medial temporal lobe, including the hippocampus and surrounding areas, is critical for episodic memory, which is the ability to learn, store, and retrieve events of daily life. The hippocampal circuits provide a framework for relating experiences that constitute the individual autobiographic events. Information processed in the hippocampus is conveyed back to the neocortex for consolidation of episodic memories. The medial temporal lobe participates in an anterior circuit for recognition based on familiarity and a posterior circuit involved in visual navigation. These circuits are also components of the default mode network involved in processing of inner thoughts. The medial temporal lobe circuits are susceptible to aging, Alzheimer disease, and other disorders causing episodic memory disturbances.


.- At Kırşehir center, in Kuşdili and Kayabaşı, along NE-SW directed extensional fracture, there is a fissure ridge type-travertine-tufa deposits. Travertine-tufa ridge is appoximately 800 m in length and 10-30 m in width. The hot-water saturated with calcium bicarbonate and minerals are enhensed from fissures and have caused to deposit yellow orange, brown and cream colored travertine in the walls of fissures as well as along the both sides. On the walls of the fissure, parallel to the fissure, compact and hard, laminated and thin bedded travertine crusts were deposited. However, in the both sides of the ridge, consistent with the slopes, the bedded crusts being porous, spongy tufas were deposites as well. Milimeter and Centimeter sized microscopic structures, similar to shrubs, are commonly found in this hot water originated travertine-tufas. These are; 1-Dendritic structures and, 2-Crystal bunches. Dendritic structures own micritic aggregate, shrub bunch, reed bunch and small twig shapes. There are calcite crystallisations among the twigs. But the crystal bunches are knife-shaped, large crystals and fibrous ray crystal structures. Dendritic structures have developed in the laminated crust and microterrace pools, located on both slopes of the fissure. On the other hand, the crystal bunches are common on the parallel-laminated crusts deposited an developed chemically. Super crystals were developed on the prismatic crystals, that were also developed along c-axes of the fibrous crystals. ABSTRACT.- Barite deposits in the region of Şarkikaraağaç and Hüyük which are generally located in the form of veins, lenses and layers along the contacts of these units and the schists showing an extensive distribution within the same formation found within recrystallized Çaltepe limestone and dolomite, Çavuştepe calcschists of the Cambrian-Devonian age Sultandede formation are epigenetic in character. According to the results of chemical analysis of barite mineralization in the region, the presence of trace elements such as Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd, Ni, Co, Ag, Sb are locally identified in low values within barites of the region. Especially, in some trace elements such as Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd, Ag and As show an increase towards from Hüyük region to Çarıksaraylar area. When the results of chemical analysis of barite samples evaluated statistically, the presence of high correlation between Ba-Pb, Ba-Ag. Pb-Ag, and AI 2 O 3 -K 2 O element pairs and mediumgrade correlation between Ba-Sr, Pb-Cu, Zn-Cd, CaO-Fe 2 O 3 , CaO-SiO 2 , SiO 2 -AI 2 O 3 , CO- MgO, Fe 2 O 3 -AI 2 O 3 , Fe 2 O 3 , Fe 2 O 3 -Na 2 O, MgO-K 2 O element pairs of barite ores have been determined. The deposition forms of the barites in the investigated area, paragenesis, wall rock alteration, the high amount of trace elements, high Ba/Sr ratio, SrO values over 1.5 %, 180°-360°C homogenisa-tion temperatures of the two-phase (liquid+gas) fluid inclusions, +30.15 %o and +13.9 %o 34 S isotope ratio in gale-na and barites, and 434°C high formation temperature indicate a hydrothermal origin of barite deposits in the region. ABSTRACT.- Oylat cave is located at 17 km southeast of the İnegöl (Bursa) in the exit of Oylat River canyon. Oylat cave has been developed at the intersection of two fault zones striking along WNW-ESE and NE-SW directions in recrystalized limestone unit of Permian-Triassic age. Clastics and carbonate sediments are in the Oylat cave developet due to karstification. The cave, presenting multi-stage development character can be divided into three sections. In the third section karst breccias, siltstone and mudstone, in the second section the great rimstone pools and flowstones had grown. In the first division at the end of the cave huge rock fragments due to the collapsing of roof, karst breccia, stalactite, stalacmite, soda straws, flowstones and cave pearls (pisolites) had grown. Moreever, in this part, a sedimentary sequence formed by a alteration of conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone crops out. The clastic sediments in the Oylat cave is deposited from the sediments carried by surficial water enter-ing the cave system, and flowstones, rimstones, cave pearls have been formed by the dripping from the cave roof, whereas rimstones pools were formed by the steadly flowing intra cave river. ABSTRACT.- Hydrocarbon accumulations sometimes have effects on seismic data which can be used to indicate suitable worthy accumulations of hydrocarbon areas. The most prominent of these effects in increase in amplitude. Hydrocarbon accumulations may produce sufficent changes in amplitude however changes in acoustic impedance can be caused by various reasons. To get more information possible from the seismic data, impedance comparison and examination of all the properties constitutes the basic idea of seismic attribute analysis. From the analysis of seismic data by the amplitude information which has a primordial importance and other factors to be taken into cosideration are called seicmic attributes which are used to get contribution to interpretation and to make detailed analysis. The most useful attributes are amplitude, phase, frequency, polarity and velocity. Depending on the problem to be solved, seismic attributes can be obtained from instantaneous analysis, lateral continuity relationship and large variety of seismic data. In this work, several post stack seismic attributes is defined and how they can be used to get opportunities for interpretation is examined. After the application of migration, seismic attribute analysis is applied to two dimensional seismic data in Trakya region and provide the opportunity for comparison between seismic subsurface characteristics. With the comparison of conventional sections by the information of seismic attributes, it is observed that attributes can be used to enhance the interpretation. ABSTRACT - Abstract should be brief not exceeding 200 words, should give enough information about the paper without having to consult to the other sections of the text. It should be publishable separately in an abstract bulletin. The abstract should include the purpose, new contributions in the light of the additional data and their interpretations. No references to be made to the other sections of the text, figures and to other publications. Footnotes must be avoided. paper papers text.


With the increasingly modern development of the power system. Along with that is the data source collected from them is huge. Combined with other systems such as GIS, MDMS-AMR (Automatic Meter Reading), weather forecast and socio-economic indicators. We consider performing an effective analysis of the data sources in order to understand the evolution, characteristics, and modeling of the power consumption system. Thereby predict future energy trends and build bases for the system model. To implement the issues raised, we appreciate using Hadoop platform for storage and segmentation data, enabling better handle large amounts of data initially. Then, the data was analyzed using the scalable machine learning algorithms - MLib was supported and developed on the Spark/SPARKNET platform. The Hadoop framework has recently evolved to the standard framework implementing the MapReduce model. In this paper, we evaluate Hadoop with Mlib/Sparknet performance in both the traditional model of collocated data and compute services as well as consider the impact of separating out the services. Energy modeling from multiple data sources such large may help to understand the change of the system according to consumer demand for practical, predictable trends of energy in the future and provide the basis for building energy models for similar systems.


Some 3-alkylthio- derivatives of 7-chloroisothiazolothieno-1,2,3-triazine and of isothiazolothieno-1,2,3-triazin-7(4H)one were prepared. The synthesized compounds were subjected to pharmacological screening for antiallergic, antiinflammatory and analgesic activity as well as to a microbiological test in order to evaluate potential antifungal activity.


The numerical modelling of heat treatment has become an essential tool in understanding distortion potentials for case hardening. When looking at other surface hardening processes such as induction or laser hardening, high heating and cooling rates automatically lead to higher strain rates during the heat treatment cycle. So far, there have been almost no investigations on the strain rate as well as temperature dependency of the mechanical properties of supercooled austenite. In this paper, the typical induction and laser hardening steel AISI 4140 has been used in order to determine the influence of strain rate and temperature on the mechanical behaviour. The experiments are based on tensile tests, using a specifically designed thermo-mechanical simulator. The experimental results show that a positive strain rate sensitivity for strain rates up to 1 s-1 results. Especially in the temperature interval where austenite formation occurs during heating, the strain rate sensitive flow stress might lead to an alteration of the plastic strains in comparison to conventional heat treatments at low heating rates. The material model presented in this paper allows a good reproduction of the experimental data over a wide range of strain rates and temperatures.


Objective To prove the efficacy of along-meridian selected point injection for treating allergic rhinitis.Methods Sixty-six allergic rhinitis were randomly allocated to two groups.The observation group was treated by along-meridian selected point injection and the control group,with oral drugs.Serum lgE was measured in both groups.Results The curative effect was significantly better in the observation group than in the control group.There was a statistically significant difference in curative effect between the two groups(P0.05). Serum lgE was significantly lower in the observation group than in the control group(P0.05).Conclusion Along-meridian selected point injection is one of the effective methods for treating allergic rhinitis.Its therapeutic mechanism is related to immune regulation.


We demonstrated an optical parametric oscillator based on GaAs with a circularly polarized pump. The threshold was lower and conversion efficiency was higher than with a [001]-linearly polarized pump, which is consistent with GaAs symmetry.


In every exposure, the primary goal of radiology is to obtain a high quality image with low radiation dose to patient. The research seeks to evaluate all the other factors that constitute high quality image with low radiation level in order that the ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) principle is maintained. In this work, the effect of safelight, white light, chemicals used for processing of radiology films and the time taken to process X-ray film in radiological units of some Hospitals in Benue State are determined and evaluated. The quality of the image in the darkroom is found to depend on how short the film is exposed to safelight. The processing chemicals and the temperature at which these films are processed and stored are also evaluated. The result obtained, show that the contrast level decreases as the exposure time increases as shown in the blue nature of the films exposed at longer time. Furthermore, the temperature of the processing solutions is seen to be very high when compared with ICRP and NCRP standards which indicates that the processing tanks at the two hospitals are not within the recommended standards and the standard humidity of (40-60%) are also not met.


Most NLP datasets neglect the cultural diversity among language speakers, resulting in a critical shortcoming in hate speech detection and other culturally sensitive tasks. To address this, we introduce CREHate, a CRoss-cultural English Hate speech dataset. To construct CREHate, we follow a two-step procedure: 1) culture-specific post collection and 2) cross-cultural annotation. We sample posts from the SBIC dataset, which predominantly represents North America, and collect posts from four geographically diverse English-speaking countries using culture-specific hate speech keywords that we retrieve from our survey. Annotations are then collected from those four English-speaking countries plus the US to establish representative labels for each country. Our analysis highlights statistically significant disparities in cross-cultural hate speech annotations. Only 56.2% of the posts in CREHate achieve consensus among all five countries, with a peak pairwise disagreement rate of 26%. The annotations show that label disagreements tend to come from the inherent cultural context, subjectivity, and ambiguity of the posts. Lastly, we develop cross-cultural hate speech classifiers that are more accurate at predicting each country's labels than the monocultural classifiers. This confirms the utility of CREHate for constructing culturally sensitive hate speech classifiers.


27. Prolressive Muscular Dystrophy. FR1EDMI\AN (Joe rn. Nerv. andllent. Dis., October, 1321) ecord1s a case of progressive muiiisculardystrophy in whiiclh the kneejerks were absent., the symiptoms representing a cross betwveen the Erb typ6 of dystrophy and the Werclrig-Hoffm'an type of progressive mu'uscular atrophy. The attitude an(i gait. the comi-blinationof atrophy and hypertrophy, the absence of Jibrillation and reaction of degeneration, and the involvemuent of the proximalmuscles, werecharacteristic of muscular dystrophy. A boy, aged 16, had had weakness of botlh legs forlfifteen years, with waddling gait andmnarked lordosis, the chief miiuscles affected beiug the left sternomastoid, the right infraand supra-spinati, the deltoids, the lelt pectoral and biceps, tlle erector spinae, the quaidriceps and the adductors of the thighs, and the extensor longus lhallucis. X-ray examination of the skull was negative, and there was no pitieal slhadow, btut the metacarpal and metatarsal bones were shorter tlhanlI normal. Blood sugar was normnal, and the thymus was not enlarged. There was no response to galvainisnm or faradisin in the quadricepsmuscles. The prognosis in progressive muscular dystrophy is goodunless tlle respiratory muscles become involved. The condlitioil has to be differentiated chiefly from polymyositis, in which there is usually phini and no pseudIo-hypertrophy; from polioimyclitis, which can be excluded on the history and the electrical changes in the muscles; fromi congenital muscle dIefects in which there isno progression; and from mnyotonia coingenita.


It is substantiated that spin is a notion associated with the group of internal symmetry that is tightly connected with the geometrical structure of spacetime. The wave equation for the description of the particles with spin one half is proposed. On this ground it is shown that the spin of electron is exhibited through the quantum number and accordingly the Dirac equation describes properties of particles with the projection of spin equal plus or minus one half. On contrary, we put forward the conjecture that the spin of the quark cannot be considered as a quantum number, but only as an origin of a non-abelian gauge field. It is a deep reason for understanding quark-lepton symmetry and such important phenomena as quark confinement.


We report on our investigations of the influence of different cultivation conditions on lipids, using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Raman spectroscopy techniques. Here, SEM uses electron beam to gain information about morphology of cells which reflects cells response on the applied stress. Consequently, Raman spectroscopy [1] was used for the determination of carotenoids and lipids present in the biomass. Thus, our study targets some factors which could lead to efficient industrial production of carotenoids and lipids in selected biotechnological production.


Version 1.1-10 Title Generalized Pareto Distribution and Peaks Over Threshold Author Mathieu Ribatet [aut], Christophe Dutang [ctb,cre] Maintainer Christophe Dutang <email@example.com> Depends R (>= 3.0.0) Description Some functions useful to perform a Peak Over Threshold analysis in univariate and bivariate cases, see Beirlant et al. (2004) <doi:10.1002/0470012382>. A user guide is available in the vignette.


COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a course in writing skills for persuasive communication for the public relations practitioner. As public relations continues to evolve from traditional, journalism-based practices to a complex profession requiring a broad range of writing and media skills for integrated marketing communication, this course will help to ensure that PR graduate students are well-versed in the differences and similarities within various communication formats and how to write for them.


The (un)restrained share This year Facebook announced that their users have stopped sharing content, which is problematic since this is a way for organisations to effectively and easy target their audience on social media. We argue that previous research mainly has focused on how organisations benefits from users sharing their content, ra-ther than what users generates from it. Therefore, we aim to understand the un-derlying motives and factors that motivates Facebook users to reshare content from organisations. Our analysis shows that the majority of users avoid sharing content from organisations. If they share the marketing content (which was rare) it is because they identify with the message or the sender. Our result shows that sharing occurs if the user feels closeness to the organization and identifies with the sender. We believe this is essential for organizations as they through an un-derstanding of the factors that motivate users to share, can use this approach in the design of the strategic communication and design of marketing on social media. (Less)


Abstract Barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv Doriru) leaf samples were collected from a field comprising three plots, plot F chemical fertilizer treated, plot S receiving sewage sludge and sawdust mixed compost, and plot H receiving sewage sludge and rice husk mixed compost. Relative concentrations of selected elements, potassium (K), calcium (Ca), and chloride (Cl) of young, mature, and old barley leaves were determined by microscopic energy dispersing X‐ray fluorescence (EDXRF). The objective of this investigation was to verify the applicability of EDXRF for rapid nutrient element diagnosis of plants. Typically whole leaves were washed in deionized‐distilled water and dried by ironing for analysis. Intact dried barley leaf sample irradiation was accomplished with X‐rays obtained from an X‐ray tube focused on an area <100 μm of the respective sample specimen surface. The EDXRF provided sufficient sensitivity for relative concentrations of K, Ca, and Cl. Element content data of all the elements investigated, sp...


The article discusses the issues related to quality control of the construction of engineering structures, the approach to the accuracy of performing geodetic measurements at the current pace of construction and installation work, as well as during operation.


Leadership communication skills in any field dominated by a leader will strengthen his/her ability to administer and manage the public organization in Malaysia. This will lead to successful inter relation between manager and subordinate, and vice-versa.


Location-based services are key applications in wireless cellular networks, under both outdoor and indoor environments. Location fingerprinting method is favored by most researchers because of its suitable for indoor scenario and high accuracy. This paper establishes an indoor positioning environment to distinguish floors. As shown in simulation, the proposed algorithm could achieve indoor positioning with an accuracy of about 2 meters and floor distinguish with an accuracy of about 70 percent.


Interactive RFID-enhanced museum exhibits let visitors continue their scientific exploration beyond the museum's walls. But museums must still help them understand the technology and address their data privacy concerns.


In this review I endeavour to draw a picture of vitamin A biology which may be relevant to the way we use it in adults and children with HIV/AIDS. I will attempt to cover some basic science in this field and wish to draw attention to the serious deficiencies in the the literature in our understanding of this biologically highly active vitamin. There is much scope for further research in this area. It is remarkable how a vitamin has been adopted as a central feature of prevention of childhood illness despite such significant gaps in our understanding. There is no question that vitamin A is beneficial for child health (this has been demonstrated in good randomised controlled trials) but how it work (in terms of immunology or epithelial biology) what happens to it after administration (metabolism) and whether the way we do things needs to be adjusted in HIV/AIDS are simply not known. (authors)


Background: Every year, 15 million people
worldwide suffer a stroke (World Heart Federation
2013). Stroke can affect the visual system causing
problems with visual perception, eye movement
disorders, low vision and visual field loss (Rowe et
al 2009). UK guidelines for stroke recommend that
everyone who has a stroke should be screened for
vision problems. However, the guidelines conclude
that there is insufficient quality research to make
recommendations about how best to assess, and
rehabilitate adults who experience visual problems
as a consequence of their stroke.

Aim: This project aimed to develop a best practice
statement for the Identification and management
of visual problems following stroke in the acute
phase (first 30 days).

Method: A Rapid Evidence Assessment method
(Bevan et al 2010.) was used to scope the literature.
Of 9,032 references identified, 234, met the review
inclusion criteria. These were systematically and
critically appraised by a multi-disciplinary team of
clinicians, health professionals and academics with
expertise in stroke and related vision problems.
Data from 118 of the articles reviewed, and contributions from lay representatives, provided the
evidence base for the Best Practice Statement.

Results: Best Practice guidelines for initial
screening, assessment and management of visual
field deficit, eye movement disorders, and visual
neglect/inattention in the first 30 days following
stroke have been published and areas for future
research identified.

Discussion Conclusion: Not all areas of patient
care have the research available to inform a
clinical guideline. Using a Best Practice approach
allows experts in the field to combine their clinical
expertise and develop recommendations for best
practice when traditional methods are unable to
do so.

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are urgently
required to determine the effects of clinically
relevant rehabilitation interventions.

This presentation will describe the method used to
develop the statement and present the results.