The biggest challenge in developing digital talent in tertiary institutions is viewing digital reform as a massive entity. Therefore, it is rare to focus on the values of developing digital talent for existing education personnel. Using a growth theory mindset, the research focuses on Working Period, Performance, and Qualification, to see the relationship with Talented education staff. The research uses a sequential explanatory design. The sample consisted of 29 ASNs in one of the faculties of a state university in Indonesia, with random sampling using the online Sample Size Calculator. Questionnaire data were analyzed by SPSS, while interviews with NVivo-12 Pro. The results reveal that both the Working Period, Qualification, and Performance variables correlate with the Talented education of staff. The direction of the relationship also has a positive (+) value. However, qualitative analysis revealed that the activities carried out were more directed at fulfilling the main duties and functions. Behind that, the biggest challenge for them is when dealing with students, who generally come from the digital generation. Therefore, digital reform in higher education also pays attention to developing digital talent for education staff.


(Starting Salary: Rs.43,400/all inclusive) Qualifications: As prescribed by the Higher Education Commission for the post of Lecturer in a university. Experience: At least 4 years post qualification teaching /research experience in a recognized university or a post-graduate institution or professional experience in the relevant field in a national or international organization. Command over English and IT proficiency are required.


This paper reflects a personal conclusions on person-centred care practice, based on my own research in strabismus field. Theoretical and practical considerations of the person-centred approach are discussed. Health services struggle to ensure health care in a "person-centered" way, but the general concept also called personcentered care is an ethical one: patients should be treated as "persons." Person-centred practice needs to be well facilitated in order to flourish the healthcare framework. However, the literature is sometimes unclear about the nature of these person-centred actions and questions remain about how to provide and measure clinical outcomes of personcentred care while being engaged with others in real health practice contexts.


Macrophages release more than one hundred compounds into the extracellular environment. Among these, there are cytokines and intermediate oxygen compounds, such as TNFand H 2 O 2 . We evaluated the effect of the crude essential oil of Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae) by determining hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) and tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF) release in cultures of peritoneal macrophages cells from Swiss mice. Commercial azulene was also tested for comparison with the essential oil. The macrophages viability in the presence of the oil was analyzed and the dilutions of 1:100 and 1:200 showed the best results. A mild production of H 2 O 2 and a moderate liberation of TNFwere observed. It was also noticed that H 2 O 2 and TNFproduction using commercial azulene was higher than that produced by the oil. The essential oil of A. millefolium was able to stimulate peritoneal macrophages to produce H 2 O 2 and TNFwithout causing an overproduction of these compounds. It is suggested that the essential oil can modulate macrophages activation. Uniterms • Achillea millefolium • Macrophages • Hydrogen peroxide • Tumor necrosis factor-α • Essential oil


This research presents an innovative design approach for the development of high efficiency Ventricular assist device that can be used for long-term support a heart failure patient. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques were applied to the development and intensive analysis to improve the performance and reliability of the pump. From the CFD analysis, a prototype pump was created and evaluated on the mock circulation loop that simulate the human circulatory system environment to evaluate its performance in support varying heart conditions.


This paper contributes that existing knowledgeby augmented the model proposed by alameda et al with the variable of cash flow volatility and diversification. The panel data analysis revealed that Pakistani firms are highly dependent on cash and hold more cash out of their operational cash flow. Further cash flow volatility has proven to be insignificant contributor of higher cash flow by Pakistani firms in the presence of diversification. The interactive dummy of diversification exhibits a negative significant coefficient indicating that diversified firms hold less cash out of their cash flow and thus do not need huge cash holding.


In this paper, we propose a model to depict AS characters based on Netflow data collected from a specified router. Our model is designed to depict AS in a way just like astronomy observation: the router as the Earth, the ASes as the stars and the traffic measured by Netflow at the router as the light observed by the Earth from different "stars". Our goal is to infer the visual size and daily behavior of each AS through the intensity and fluctuation of the observed traffic. Based on the assumption that each AS consists of independent hosts with the same traffic emission behavior and follows a mixed activation mechanism, our model is simple enough to be used in traffic engineering and traffic anomalies detection.


G-banded studies of the chromosome complement of the Turkish hamster (Mesocricetus brandti) reveal unique variations in the sex chromosomes and chromosome 16 when compared to previously published karyotypes. Details of the characteristics of the present mitotic karyotypes of male and female are presented.


The effect of constant rate cooling and heating or emulsifiers on the crystallization and melting properties of cocoa butter were studied by DSC. The results showed that crystallization point(Tp)was reduced and intensity of the exothermic peaks was enhanced as the cooling rate increased. When the hearting rate was reduced,it was found that the melting point and intensity of endothermic peaks were decreased. Monoglyceride was able to promote component separation and decrease crystallization point of cocoa butter,and altere the melting characters. In contrary,lecithin was able to raise the crystallization point and have no effect on the melting character. However,both monoglyceride and lecithin were able to promote crystallization.


The customer demand in improved appearance, functionality, and connectivity in fashion has motivated the development of nanotechnology-based textiles. Nanomoieties can induce stain repellence, wrinkle-freeness, static elimination, and electrical conductivity to fibers without compromising their comfort and flexibility. Nanomaterials also offer a wider application potential to create connected garments that can sense and respond to external stimuli via electrical, color, or physiological signals. This article gives an over view of nanoparticles in textile industry and their functions.


OBJECTIVE To study the pharmacokinetic profile of metronidazole-succinate in rabbits.METHODS Metronidazole-succi-nate concentrations were determined by HPLC method. RESULTS The determination of metronidazole-succinate was not interfered by the impurities in plasma.The recovery of metronidazole in plasma was 98.63% .The precisions of intra-day and inter-day were 2.6% and 3.7% respectively. The limit of detection was 0.1 μg·mL-1 .CONCLUSION Metronidazole-succinate was hydrolyzed into metronidazole in rabbits rapidly.The pharmacokinetic profile of metronizole showed no difference.


This paper proposes the synchronous control method of servo motor driving ball-screw for a "U" shape pitching door-frame movement mechanism with low rigidity,big inertia and high synchronization demand.Using PLC positioning function module FM353,digital-frequency cascade master-slave control mode provided by servo driver,and high precision calibration compensation method of artificial interpose for nonsynchronous motion of door-frame mechanism,the movement of door-frame mechanism achieves the synchronous precision requirement of 0.1 degree.


Stingless bees are social bees that live in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. All species produce honey, which has been appreciated by humans since ancient times. Here, the general panorama of meliponiculture is presented. Deforestation and poor management are the main problems faced by this incipient industry. For a profitable meliponiculture, much more biological information is needed, as well as field studies in natural conditions. In the near future, we suggest that the successful use of these pollinators will promote the development of new breeding techniques and commercialization possibilities, which must be designed to be sustainable. meliponiculture / stingless bees / breeding / honey / wax / pollinators / Apidae / Meliponini


Editor's note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build part nerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Con trol and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest au thors from across CDC will highlight a variety of concerns, opportunities, chal lenges, and successes that we all share in environmental public health. EHSB's objective is to strengthen the role of state, local, and national environmental health programs and professionals to anticipate, identify, and respond to adverse environ mental exposures and the consequences of these exposures for human health. The services being developed through EHSB include access to topical, relevant, and scientific information; consultation; and assistance to environmental health spe cialists, sanitarians, and environmental health professionals and practitioners. The conclusions in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily rep resent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. John Sarisky is a senior environmental health officer in the Environmental Health Services Branch. He is also the coordina tor for CDC's Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute. he National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) T works with many partners to strengthen the nation's public health infrastructure and to im prove environmental public health practice. CDC is committed to supporting, adopt ing, and using National Public Health Per formance Standards (NPHPS). In keeping with this commitment and to complement NPHPS, NCEH has developed draft Environ mental Public Health Performance Standards (EnvPHPS). In 2006, NCEH and its partners began work ing on EnvPHPS, available at http://www.cdc. gov/nceh/ehs/EnvPHPS. These standards are a companion module to the National Public Health Performance Standards (NPHPS), avail able at http://www.cdc.gov/od/ocphp/nphpsp/. Nationwide implementation of EnvPHPS at the state, tribal, and local levels will help NCEH build capacity, consistency, and accountability within and across the nation's environmental public health systems. Among other things, the standards are intended to describe more clearly what every program needs to do to perform op timally the 10 essential services of environmen tal public health. CDC developed EnvPHPS nationally, in cooperation with key public health partner groups. Thus, the standards have a level of credibility that makes a strong argument for improving environmental public health prac tice. Others have recognized for their leader ship those departments that have adopted the standards—and many if not all of those de partments have shown measureable environ mental health practice improvements. And because the EnvPHPS were developed from a perspective of broad, systematic environ mental health practice, the standards can be applied to virtually all environmental health and protection programs whether or not those programs reside in health departments.


Background: With the growing trend of ageing, there is an urgent need for effective interventions that enhance positive psychological functions among older adults. Objective: (1) To evaluate the effectiveness of life review and reminiscence therapy in enhancing the quality of life and life satisfaction among older adults. (2) To discover efficacious variables during interventions, such as form of intervention and number of sessions. Methods: Relevant randomized controlled trials in both English and Chinese languages were searched across eight databases. The meta-analysis was conducted by a random effects model using STATA 17. The registration number of this review is CRD42023424085. Results: Thirty-two studies with 2353 participants were included. Experimental groups of older adults significantly improved their quality of life (SMD 1.07; 95% CI 0.48 to 1.66; p < 0.001) and life satisfaction (SMD 1.12; 95% CI 0.63 to 1.60; p < 0.001). Subgroup analyses revealed that individual sessions of life review and reminiscence therapy had a more significant impact on improving quality of life and six to eight intervention sessions could enhance life satisfaction more effectively. Conclusions: Life review and reminiscence therapy hold promise for application in medical and nursing care for older adults, suggesting the potential benefits of implementing intervention designs with effective settings for positive psychological functions.


C14O2 is formed 50 to 75 times as fast in Salmo gairdnerii (steelhead salmon) when UC14 glucose is injected intraperitoneally or intramuscularly as when 6PG is similarly administered. The rate of C...


A novel polypyridine ruthenium(II)/osmium(II) heterobinuclear complex (2) was synthesized. The luminescence properties of 2 were compared with those of its component complex. In 2, the efficient intramolecular energy transfer from excited Ru(II) to Os(II) complex was observed and interpreted by Foerster mechanism.


This work is based on the optimization using modelling techniques through finite element simulation where model has been analyzed and optimized using techniques of basic designing considering mechanical factors. The model under focus in this present work is brake pedal of tractor. The brake pedal being an important part of an automobile is used to stop or slow down the vehicle by act of dragging up the trigger of actuator which thus put into action Corresponding Author 2 Atul Kumar Kaushik, Amit Goyal, Punit Kumar Rohilla & Amandeep the braking mechanism resulting in stoppage or slowing down of the vehicle. CAE techniques used here use CATIA for designing of solid model. The finite element analysis then has been done on the model using ANSYS. Based on the results obtained from the analysis the model is modified to be hollow from inside which results in material and cost saving of the model. This modification is brought in action using CATIA and the modified model is again analyzed in ANSYS and comparison between stress and deflection is made. The target results of the FE analysis approach are stress, deflection and mass of the model. The foresaid results are obtained for different loads under predefined boundary conditions providing realistic situation.


Peak-to-average-power-ratio (PAPR) is an important parameter that affects the cost of end-user devices in next generation wireless networks. When PAPR is high, the end-user power amplifier's dynamic range should also be high, resulting in costly power amplifiers. Single-carrier frequency-division-multiple-access (SC-FDMA) is used as the air-interface in LTE-Advanced, and this paper proposes a novel and efficient technique for PAPR reduction via pulse shaping for interleaved-FDMA (IFDMA) subcarrier mapping in SC-FDMA. By way of simulations, we show that PAPR can be reduced by 2.11 dB for our novel pulse shaping compared to raised cosine (RC) pulse shaping with QPSK modulation.


As a new faculty member, I find it very clear what the senior faculty in my department think I should be doing with my time: the activities necessary to earn tenure. And if something doesn't contribute to earning tenure, I shouldn't be doing it. We have tenure criteria that are much more clear and explicit than many departments seem to have. In many respects, this is very positive. I know exactly what activities I am supposed to spend my time on, and I always have a clear notion of where I stand with respect to the tenure criteria. The limitation is that there may be worthwhile activities that are not covered by any of the criteria or their components, and it becomes difficult to justify engaging in these other activities. We have three required research criteria: a record of original published research, a positive independent assessment by external reviewers, and the demonstrated ability to sustain a high quality research program. There are two required teaching and educational activities: effective formal classroom teaching, and effective involvement in graduate research training. These criteria are further refined in annual review documents that identify specific activities that contribute to meeting the research and teaching criteria, with potential point values for each activity, leading to an annual evaluation score. This is set up so that there are a total of 60 points possible each year for research activities, and 20 points for teaching activities. None of the specified activities involve research ethics, or research ethics training. It is merely assumed that research will be conducted in accordance with normal ethical standards. One might think that there is some provision in the teaching criteria for activities related to research ethics training, but this is neither explicit, nor implicit. The measures by which effective involvement in graduate research training are evaluated


The article investigates scientific approaches to the category of «public sector efficiency» that have been formed in foreign and domestic economic theory. The author substantiates the necessity of functioning of the public sector system of the national economy and evaluating the effectiveness of its activities. The author considers the first points of view in the scientific world of the physiocrat F. Kene, as well as representatives of the school of classical political economy W. Petty and D. Ricardo in determining the performance of government structures. We study the works of the founders of the concepts of effective functioning of activities in the market economy, including state organizations, such as V. Pareto, A. Pigou, J.M. Keynes, P.F. Drucker, and others. Modern concepts of the efficiency of the public sector of the economy in Western economic theory, developed by
P.E. Samuelson, W.D. Nordhouse, R.A. Musgrave, J.E. Stiglitz, N.G. Mankyu, K.R. Mcconnell, and others. Analyzes the scientific approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of the public sector in the national economy domestic scientists-economists such as E.V. Balatsky, O.A. Kokorina,
T.D. Romashchenko, Yu.I. Treschevsky, V.V. Lukyanova, O.V. Rudakova, E.M. Samorodova,
A.V. Revkuts, S.R. Muravyov, etc. On the basis of analysis of scientific works the author has selected a targeted, cost management and production approaches to the evaluation of the effectiveness of the public sector. In the course of the study, it was concluded that evaluating the performance of the public sector of the national economy based on only two aspects is not appropriate, since it does not fully reflect the activities of all structural components of the public sector. The author believes that the structure of the public sector of the economy includes three main, specific and quite independent elements-management structures, state corporations and the «social sector of the state». Therefore, it is advisable to conduct a study of the efficiency of activity of the public sector of the national economy using a three-component indicator that reflects all areas of activity and aspects of its functioning.


This semester project follows a previous project at LENI-EPFL ad aims at finding the best optimization approach in terms of heat pump integration in industrial processes. The multi-objective optimization method chosen seeks the minimum of both operating and investment costs related to heat pump purchase.


ABS>Seven special safety elements of the Mark II design were rebuilt and are ready for resumption of lifetime testing. Precision-cast parts were received for ten Mark IV highpressure chambers; one set was assembled and pressdre tested to 2000 psi. Two special assemblies of the NAA 1093 experiment were completed and are being shipped to Hanford. Conductivity measurements on stainles s steel were continued in an effort to determine the cause of erratic behavior of the variable-cooled trigger. A vacuum chamber was used in am effort to eliminate local heat loss due to convection. A study of corrosion rates of various container materials in liquid-metal poisons was umdertaken. Experiments with the differential-pressure device on the rate of pressure rise thnt can be achieved by electrically heating a closed gas volume were continued. An exponential generator is being constructed to enable simulation of reactor periods from 30 msec to one sec. Three types of research reactor safety device were chosen for further study: the pyrophoric, the double-diaphragm, and the electronic-explosive. Preparations are in process for demonstrating models of the latter two devices in the KEWB facility. (For preceding period see NAA-SR1954.) (M.H.R.)


The transition from sailing ship to steamship is analyzed for European immigrants arriving at New York City. Based on information taken from the U.S. Passenger Lists, new estimates of the timing and length of the transition are provided. Though the accepted model suggests the changeover from sail to steam could occur in only a few years, it actually took about 15 years in the Europe to New York immigrant trade. The slow transition is found to be due to slow construction of new steamships given uncertainty concerning immigrant volume and new steamship technology. The most important change in nineteenth century emigrant transportation was that from sail to steam. Gunter MoltmannMoltmann, "Steamship Transport," p. 311. …the transition from sail to steam in the transatlantic immigrant trade was an event of enormous significance for the history of immigration. Maldwyn Allen JonesJones, American Immigration, p. 157.


This study aims to analyze the financial performance of the Salatiga Current Group Expedition, this study uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The research data are in the form of financial reports of the Current Expedition Group from 2014 to 2018. The research was conducted at the Current Expedition Group for 3 months which took place during August to October 2019. The purpose of this study was to look at the company's financial performance of the Current Expedition Group, reviewed in terms of liquidity, solvency and profitability by using descriptive research methods and data collection techniques in the form of documentation / literature in the form of secondary data, namely the annual report of the Current Expedition Group.


A Dynamic Dial-a-Ride Problem with Money as an Incentive (DARP-M) is a problem of finding optimal route to serve requests demand which uses taxi-sharing system with cost constraint. Taxi-sharing is a system where individual customer share vehicle with other customers, who has the same or similar origin, destination, and travel time. The optimal solution is the solution that can minimize the cost of each trip request. This study discusses DARP-M to optimize the use of taxi-sharing. The search for the DARP-M solution in this research uses the insertion heuristic method for construction of initial solution and the large neighborhood search method for the optimal solution determination. Then, the experiment uses three times periods, from which the experiment result shows the large neighborhood search method can minimize customers travel cost up to 27.40 % less than the cost of private rides.


The need to analyze and execute binaries from legacy ISAs on new or different ISAs has been addressed in a variety of ways over the past few decades. Solutions using complementary static and dynamic binary translation techniques have been deployed in most real-world situations. As new ISAs are designed and legacy ISAs re-examined, the need for binary translation infrastructure re-emerges, and needs to be re- engineered all over again. Work is in progress with a goal to make such re-engineering efforts easier by using some of the software tools that would irrespectively be developed or available for a new or existing ISA. To that end, this paper presents a static binary raiser that translates binaries to LLVM IR. Native binaries for a new ISA are generated from the raised LLVM IR using the LLVM compiler backend. This technique enables development of a single raiser per legacy ISA, irrespective of the new target ISA. The result of such a raiser can then leverage compiler back-ends of new ISAs, thus simplifying the development of binary translator for the new ISA . This work leverages the existing LLVM infrastructure to implement a static raiser that currently supports raising x64 and Arm32 binaries to LLVM IR. The raiser is built as an LLVM tool – similar to llvm-objdump or clang and does not have any dependencies outside of those needed to build LLVM. This paper describes the phases of the raiser and gives the current status and limitations.


Individuals seek health care to improve their health status, so there may be the presumption that the health care workplace is inherently safe and relatively free from possible hazards. But intertwined with the provision of modern medical care are possible exposures to a wide variety of potentially hazardous conditions and agents. Industrial hygienists providing services to this unique work environment must develop a thorough understanding of all the risks present in order to effectively anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control the hazards. The types of hazards possibly present in the typical health care worksetting are discussed along with suggested concurrent prudent control measures, all within the context of providing quality health care for patients, while protecting the workers.

Keywords:

Health care worksetting;
hospitals;
clinics;
clinical labs


The prime purpose of this study is to assess the degree to which preparatory class average score and university entrance exam result predict first year college performance. From a total of 497 regular degree program students who joined Kotobe University College (KUC) in 2011/12 academic year, 484 (171 males and 313 females) participated in the study. University entrance exam results, preparatory class average scores and first year college result, Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of these students were collected from the documents of the Office of the Registrar of KUC. Correlation and regression analyses were conducted. The results indicated that preparatory class average score and university entrance exam result in order appeared to be valid predictors of first year college CGPA and jointly accounted for 33.70 percent of the variation in college performance. On the basis of their predictive ability, preparatory class average score was found to be more important than university entrance exam result in general and for social science and natural science fields of study as well. Based on these findings, the practical implications of the study to the university admission criteria were discussed, and recommendations were forwarded.


The freshmen have a lot of confusion, so this article has aimed at the problem and brought up the points that educators should make note, with the hope that the freshmen can have positive mental attitude for learning.


High-concentration mash fermentation has such characteristics as high cell density,high product concentration and high production rates. So it is the future aim of ethanol industry. High-concentration mash ethanol fermentation techniques have the advantages of saving process water,improving equipment utilization,and reducing energy consumption. So high-concentration mash ethanol fermentation techniques are an important way of improving ethanol production efficiency. Research on high-concentration mash ethanol fermentation techniques is very important in practical application. This paper reviews research progress of high-concentration mash ethanol fermentation techniques. The definition,advantages and influencing factors of high-concentration mash ethanol fermentation are introduced. Lowering the viscosity of fermentation mash,screening high-tolerance ethanol yeast,changing fermentation process model and adding appropriate enzymes and nutrients are important methods of achieving high-concentration mash ethanol fermentation. Among them,screening high-tolerance ethanol yeast is the key to high-concentration mash fermentation.


Objective To master the basic situation of health promotion in integrated demonstration area,and to assess and promote the work of demonstration area scientifically.Methods Multilevel stratified random sampling was applied in selecting residents of Songyang county,and home interviews were taken by using a questionnaire.Results The rate of health knowledge awareness was 70.69%,and the rate of health behavior formation was 69.33%.Of the subjects,41.25% thought they were health-mediocre,13% went to hospital within two weeks,26% often read or listened to health information and 55.75% spent no money on health maintenance or health promotion.Of 177 residents who had spent for health,77.97% bought health products.Conclusion The environment of supporting health promotion was basically formed in community.Popularization of health education in residents still needs to be strengthened in future.


The purpose of this paper is to use some recent work by the author on nonlinear minimax optimization to derive an efficient algorithm for the minimax optimization problem. This is followed by the application of the algorithm to the problem of choosing the coefficients of a recursive digital filter to meet arbitrary design specifications on the magnitude or the group delay characteristics.


Green's functions for the one-speed non-stationary and stationary transport equation in a homogeneous medium are considered. For an anisotropically scattering medium, in which we represent the scattering phase function by a truncated series of Legendre polynomials, Green functions are determined for isotropic and monodirectional plane source emissions. These solutions are represented by contour integrals in the complex plane with a cut on [−1, 1]. Numerical results are given.


One-on-one reading interventions have long been supported in the research literature; however, research on effective use of paraprofessionals to deliver remedial reading tutoring early elementary grades is limited. This best-evidence synthesis of the literature was conducted to identify key components associated with effective use of paraprofessionals as reading tutoring in grades K-3. Empirical studies were reviewed to identify best practices for administrators who are seeking to use paraprofessionals to improve students' reading outcomes. Our findings suggested that effective use of paraprofessionals was associated with: (1) extensive training in the delivery of a research-based reading intervention, (2) close and ongoing supervision of tutors and (3) access to scripted lessons with a strong phonics component.


Objective To analysis the risk factors relative with clinical outcomes of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Methods One hundred and thity-six SAH cases completed with DSA from 2007 to 2008 in our hospital were enrolled.Nature information,previous history,Hunt-Hess classification score and CT Fisher grade,aneurysm position,GCS at early time,complications and discharge MRS were used for single factor and multivariate analysis of the relative risk factors. Results Vasospasm,rehaemorhagia,infection,febris,Hunt-Hess classification score,CT Fisher grade and consequence of DSA had statistical difference (P0.05). Conclusion The aneurysm subarachnoid hemorrhage patiens with high Hunt-Hess classification score and CT Fisher grade,poorly GCS or vasospasm,rehaemorhagia,infection,febris had poor prognosis.


Toward the close of this book Bruce W. Holsinger quotes a story from the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. The lyre, Isidore reports, was discovered by the god Mercury when he came upon the body of a desiccated tortoise. The sinews of the animal still remained stretched across the bottom of the shell, and when the god plucked them, they gave out a sound. "After this pattern," Isidore goes on, "he made the lyre and transmitted it to Orpheus" (344). This little legend stands for Holsinger as both epitome and epitaph for music in medieval culture. It exemplifies the ways in which the body, animal or human, is the site of musical performance. It reveals the link between artistic beauty and death ("These songs are rung upon a corpse," Holsinger summarizes [344]). And it subtly anticipates the horrid death of Orpheus himself, whose mutilated body would remain a sign of music's terrifying power and whose disembodied yet still singing head would float down rivers to move future listeners to tears. Such tortured bodies lie at the heart of this book. In dialogue with the whole range of recent studies of the body in society (undertaken by scholars from Caroline Walker Bynum to Carolyn Dinshaw, from Peter Brown to Miri Rubin), Holsinger's project is to write a history of medieval culture through the metaphorics of the sonant self. To this end, he interweaves three distinct yet related narratives designed to illustrate the centrality of musical and bodily imagery to the intellectual and artistic life of the premodern West. First, Holsinger offers a review of medieval music theory and practice that is centered on an understanding of the body's place in music making and teaching. Medieval music theory, it has long been known, located tones and intervals in a philosophical conception of the music of the cosmos. The inheritance of Pythagorean speculation, coupled with the legacy of Christian Platonism, gave to medieval audiences an understanding of all human music as reflecting universal harmonies. The division of music into celestial, human, and instrumental forms (in writers such as Boethius) became a way not just of organizing the subject into discrete forms of attention but of asserting the unassailable linkage of all three. Yet such speculations did not simply direct their vision to the cosmos. The earthly, human body was, for many theorists and pedagogues, the site of sound. There was, Holsinger educes from their writings, a "musicality of the person" (13). The flesh itself was resonant. In this context, human bodies became "stringed instruments." The body was "most actively and energetically transformed into a musical spectacle itself" (39). 380 MLQ ❙ September 2003


Security is the fundamental concern in information systems and the data they carry that can be in either one of the three states: stationary or in transit or being processed. Institutions usually use computer systems that form part of the Internet/internet to carry their data thus making it vulnerable to attacks. In this paper we look at providing security using encryption to protect data/information. Different types of encryption schemes and cryptographic services are surveyed. Steps to create a cryptographic scheme are illustrated. Merit/demerits of the schemes, challenges and open issues in this area of cryptography are


Eggerthella lenta is an emerging and uncommon human pathogen that has been under recognized due to the limitations of phenotypic identification. Here we describe two cases of bacteremia caused by E. lenta and summarize the results of antimicrobial susceptibility testing according to some previous literatures, which illustrate the importance of identification and treatment of unusual organisms. The most reliable antibiotic treatment options to E. lenta appear to be metronidazole, amoxicillin-clavulanate, carbapenems, vancomycin, cefoxitin, chloramphenicol and clindamycin.


Two isolates of the virus 246/94 and 277/94, acquired from thorn apple (Datura stramonium) and tomato (Lycopersicon lycopersicum (L.) Karst. Ex. Farw., syn. esculentum), respectively, were characterised biologically and serologically and compared with a local isolate of Potato virus Y (PVY) isolated from tomato and other potyviruses and isolates infecting vegetables. Both isolates of TMMV infected only 16 of 28 plant species inoculated mechanically and induced indistinguishable symptoms. The most susceptible hosts were D. metel, D. stramonium and Nicotiana glutinosa L. However, these isolates differed from the PVY isolate by infecting Datura spp. and Solanum demissum L., while the PVY isolate infected Chenopodium quinoa Wild and Capsicum annuum L. Isolate 277/94 was transmitted non-persistently by the aphid, Myzus persicae Sulz. from diseased tomato to virus-free D. stramonium, D. metel L., N. glutinosa and tomato plants and from these back to virus-free test plants of each species. Purified particles of isolate 277/94 contained a single protein species with a molecular weight of 39 kDa. Furthermore, in double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (DAS-ELISA) antiserum to isolate 277/94 reacted strongly with a Yemeni isolate of TMMV (Y90/7), but did not react with any other potyvirus. This clearly shows that the Yemeni and Ethiopian isolates of TMMV are similar serologically. RESUME

Datura stramonium et Nicandra physalodes Gaertn en Ethiopie. Deux formes du virus 246/94 et 277/94, ont ete obtenue respectivement partir du Datura stramonium et de tomates (Lycopersicon lycopersicum (L.) Karst. Ex. Farw., syn. esculentum) infectees. Leurs compositions biologique et serologique ont ete identifiees et comparees avec: d'autres potyvirus, un virus present dans les pommes de terre locales Y (PVY) et isole a partir des tomates, et d'autres formes de virus presents dans des legumes contamines. Les deux formes du virus TMMV ont contamine 16 des 28 plants inocules mecaniquement, provoquant des symptomes similaires. Les plants ou le virus s'est cependant le mieux developpe sont: le D. metel, le D. stramonium et le Nicotiana glutinosa L. Cependant, ces deux formes different du virus PVY dans la mesure ou ils ont contamine le Datura spp. et le Solanum demissum L, alors que le PVY a contamine le Chepodium quinoa Wild et le Capsicum annuum L. Le virus 277/94 a ete transmis de maniere non persistante par l' Aphid, Myzus persicae Sulz. Des tomates contaminees vers du D. stramonium, D. metel L., N. glutinosa et des plants de tomate saints, puis de ces plants infectes vers d'autres plans tests saints de chaque espece. Des particules purifiees du virus (277/94) contiennent une seule espece de proteine avec une molecule pesont 39 kDa. De plus, une enzyme sandwich d'anti-corps immunosorbent assay (DAS-ELISA) antiserum permettant d'isoler le 277/94, a reagi fortement avec la forme Yemenite du virus TMMV (Y90/7). Ceci demontre clairement que les formes Yemenite et ethiopienne du virus TMMV sont tres proches d'un point de vue serologique.
(African Crop Science Journal 2001 9(3): 517-526)


Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.) belongs to Leguminosae family, originated in India and is second most important crop in India. It is also known as Arhar/Red gram. It is consumed exclusively as dal, rich in protein (21%), iron and iodine. It is also rich in amino acids like lysine, tyrosine, cysteine and arginine. In some parts of India, green pods are used as vegetable. The pod husk and seed husk are used as feed for cattle. The dry sticks are used for thatching and fuel purposes. The deep root system improves physical properties of the soil. Pigeonpea being a legume possess valuable property such as enriching nitrogen in soil. The plants shed large amounts of leaves, which add organic matter to soil. Pigeonpea or red gram having a long duration with very slow vegetative growth habit up to 50 to 65 DAS, facilitates the weeds to grow luxuriantly leading to even more than 75% yield loss and also complete crop failure under uncontrolled condition (Channappagoudar and Biradar, 2010).


Introduced with LTE Release 14, Cellular V2X enables device-to-device communication to support road safety and traffic efficiency applications. We present Artery-C, a simulation framework for the performance evaluation of Cellular V2X protocols and V2X applications. Our simulator relies on the simulation framework SimuLTE and substantially extends it by implementing control and user planes, a dedicated sidelink interface with specific focus on dynamic mode switching and some advanced features of 5G mobile networks, such as variable numerologies. Artery-C integrates seamlessly into the simulation framework Artery, which enables the simulation of standardized V2X messages at the facilities layer as well as the coupling to the mobility simulator SUMO. In order to demonstrate the capabilities of Artery-C, we evaluate V2X-based platooning as a representative use case and present results for mode 3, mode 4 and mode switching in a highway scenario.


Objective To study the collection of clinical acute mesenteric lymphadenitis cases,analysis of the characteristics of the disease,in order to lay the foundation for clinical treatment. Methods in our hospital,94 cases of mesenteric inflammatory disease of children,their clinical manifestations,abdominal B ultrasound,blood routine test and CPR results. According to the results of CRP,94 cases of acute mesenteric lymphadenitis in children is divided into CRP positive group( 45 cases) and CRP negative group( 49 cases),after antibiotic treatment 7 ~ 10 days,discharged after January follow- up of B ultrasound,compared two groups of lymph nodes disappeared ratio. Results the CRP positive and CRP negative group in age,gender,and white blood cell values are no significant difference( P 0. 05). Follow up on January,positive lymph node group was significantly higher than that in the negative group. Conclusions CRP positive mesenteric lymphadenitis in children,the relatively good prognosis,lymph nodes disappeared significantly.


The study of the effect of mixture strength on detonation may be divided into two parts, namely: a) the measurement of the effect in engines; and b) the explanation of the effect.


The author distinguishes the ordinary maintenance in corrective, preventive and predictive maintenance and describes the importance of the verifications of the maintenance procedures of the structures and the equipmentes in the food industy. He individualizes criterions to follow for an aware detective check. This approach offers a greater guarantee of food security and a greater responsibility of OSA


One of the most rarely seen causes of ileus is the simple hematoma in the intestinal wall, which must be distinguished from the hemorrhagic infiltration seen in case of circulatory derangements of the blood supply to the intestine. The hematoma is in most cases subserously or submucously situated, and if it is sufficiently large it may, either by filling up the lumen of the bowel or by producing invagination, give rise to intestinal obstruction or even to fully developed ileus. In the literature we find few accounts of this condition, which is most often seen where there is increased tendency to bleeding, as in hemophilia (KHANTZ 1908) or in hemorrhagic purpura (SUTHERLAND 1904, GAMSTED 1933). The condition is, however, not necessarily due to increased tendency to hemorrhage. VOGEL in 1914 reports the finding of a hematoma the size of a fist in the sigmoideum of a patient who had some days previously undergone an operation for inguinal hernia under local anesthesia, and he believes the bleeding from the intestinal wall to have been due to injury by the needle used for injecting the anesthetic. LAMY and FONT-REAULX in 1937 describe a similar case, where the lesion is supposed to have occurred during intraperitoneal infusion of saline solution. The case reported by LARGHERO and hARZ (1936) must be regarded as traumatic, since it arose after reposition of an incarcerated hernia. BRAUN and WORTMANN (1924) found a hematoma about 20 em. long in the ileum of a patient with a mesenteric cyst and they suppose that the hematoma was due to a trauma caused. by compression of the bowel between the spinal column and the cyst, but no such trauma was found to have existed. The cause of the ileus condition the hematoma has been found as a surprising discovery on operation or on post-mortem examination.


This research in the form of a case study with grounded theory approach illustrates the culture building mechanism of the CEO and the management control function of that culture. Previous research has examined the role of organizational culture in management controls (for example, Etzioni,1961;Grugulis et al.,2000; Kunda, 1992; Ogbonna,1992). Aim of this paper is to replicate within Sri Lankan organizational context the findings of the previous research by examining the culture building process of organizational leadership and its influence on the effectiveness in establishing desired management controls. It further highlights acculturation (transfusing one culture to another) effort of the CEO in effecting behavioural controls in employees. The research site is a Board of Investment approved exportoriented Japanese investment that is managed by a Sri Lankan CEO. The case illustrates as to how elements of trust, self-control and voluntary control of employees ensure superior performance. The product is unique, as it requires extra effort of diligence and guilt-edged precision from employees. While maintaining these requirements, the employees are able to achieve performance targets easily. The management structure is also unique; CEO and workers, no managers are found in the hierarchy. This facilitates the CEO's direct involvement in building the culture that regulates behaviour of employees in the desired direction. In summary, the case illustrates the acculturation practice of the CEO in building a unique organizational culture that serves as a management control devise. Keyword: Management Controls, Acculturation, Organizational Culture, Case Study


A new fifth-order central compact scheme for approximating solutions to conservation laws is presented. In the spirit of Godunov-type, this method is based on reconstructing a piecewise-polynomial interpolant from cell-average. In the reconstruction step, a new fifth-order, compact, central weighted essentially nonoscillatory reconstruction is introduced, which is written as a convex combination of interpolants based on different stencils. The core is that one of these interpolants are taken as a suitable fifth polynomial, and the weights of the convex combination are set to obtain fifth-order accuracy in smooth regions. The embedded mechanism in the WENO-like schemes guarantees that in regions with discontinuities or large gradients, there is an automatic switch to a one-sided third-order reconstruction, which prevents the creation of spurious oscillations. The new fifth-order reconstruction is based on an extremely compact five-point stencil. The accuracy, robustness and high-resolution properties of this scheme are demonstrated in a variety of one-dimensional problems.


In the context of medical image processing, denoising is widely considered as one of most fundamental postprocessing tasks. In this field, the non-local means (NLM) filter demonstrated to be a robust and performing approach respect to the previous state-of-art denoising methods. As the filtering strength must be tuned to obtain an optimized and customized restoring process, the estimation of image noise variance is an important issue. Althought in clinical practice noise estimation is performed on background (no signal area) of magnitude MR images, in case of parallel MR imaging (pMRI) techniques noise estimation from the image background produces biased results due to spatially varying noise distribution of the pMRI images. A novel NLM approach based on local noise estimation is introduced (hereafter indicated as SVN-NLM).

As second task, since the susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) suffers from reduced SNR due to the high resolution required to obtain a proper contrast generation, a novel pipeline (Multicomponent-Imaginary-Real-SWI, hereafter MIR-SWI) to obtain susceptibility-weighted images with higher SNR and improved conspicuity is proposed. In this context, the application of a denoising filter is non-trivial as the distributions of magnitude and phase noise may introduce biases during image restoration. Taking advantage of the potential multispectral nature of MR images, the multicomponent approach of the MIR-SWI approach performs better than a component-by-component image restoration method.

Finally, a new strategy to address the computational demand of the NLM filter is investigated. Due to high computational complexity of the NLM denoising filter, in literature several 2D NLM implementations on Graphic Processor Unit (GPU) architectures were proposed. Here a fully 3D NLM implementation on a multi-GPU architecture is presented and its high scalability is suggested.


Using a polyurethane photoelastic material, thick test specimens of several configurations with bonded end tabs are examined for measuring stress intensity factors (SIFs) for cracks within and near to bondlines in bonded photoelastic models. Effects of specimen height, glued end tabs, bondline and crack size and location are studied and analyzed using a two parameter model for extracting the SIFs and results are compared with cracked, homogeneous model results.


OBJECTIVE:To compare the efficacy and safety of the domestic and the imported tropisetron hydrochloride in the treatment of cisplatin-induced nausea and vomiting.METHODS:Multicenter double-blind randomized controlled cliniˉcal study was carried out,in which128malignant tumor cases receiving cisplatin chemotherapy were randomly divided into imported tropisetron hydrochloride group and domestic tropisetron hydrochloride group,which were administered with tropisetron hydrochloride1day before chemotherapy,5mg/time,q.d×6d.The adverse reactions such as decreased food appetite,nausea and vomiting were observed and recorded within one week of medication.RESULTS:The128cases finished their observation according to the requirements.There were no remarkable differences between2groups in respect of nausea and vomiting and the other adverse drug reactions(P0.05).CONCLUSION:The domestic tropisetron hydrochloride is equivalent to the imported one in terms of the efficacy and safety in the treatment of cisplatin-induced nausea and vomiting.


There are two questions in the ERP construction now. One is that ERP system generally uses the C/S structure and its interface combines with business logic so that the maintenance of ERP system is difficulty. Another is that a great number of software is customized by a certain management method of the enterprise so that the software universal quality is bad. This paper gives a method of constructing ERP system on object model and Web structure.


(57) ABSTRACT Correspondence Address: PARKHURST & WENDEL, L.L.P. Tungsten-based alloy material Sintered at a high Sintering 1421 PRINCE STREET power that may contain additive elements Soluble in the SUTE 210 nickel and Selected from the group constituted, for example, ALEXANDRIA, VA 22314-2805 (US) by rhenium, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, Vanadium or 9 a mixture of these, wherein, after Sintering in liquid phase at a temperature of around 1500 C., it has:


After China entered WTO, all the society will pay more attention to the problem of protecting copyrights concerning trade. This paper inquires into the influence of WTO entry on the copyrights' protection in our country and the protection of the digital library's copyrights after entering WTO.


AbstractIn order to assess the bioequivalency of two USA commercially available brands of cephalothin sodium, neutral, USP, a double-blind, single-dose, human crossover study was conducted. Serum and urinary samples were tested by HPLC assay, and pharmacokinetic parameters were determined by computer analysis. The results revealed that both products are bioequivalent, and support a submission to the FDA for a claim of "aqueous bioequivalency" of the new Seffin™ (Glaxo) brand vs. the standard.Hospital cost-containment programs, such as the recent Diagnostic Related Group (DRG) legislation, necessitates that Pharmacy & Therapeutic Committees evaluate competitive brands of identical drugs in order to realize cost savings but without sacrificing quality. Where generic equivalents are concerned, the major basis of comparison rests on clinical pharmacokinetic studies.Cephalothin sodium for injection, USP (Neutral) has been available in the USA since 1975, but only as a single source product (Keflin®/ Lilly). An...


We report a sparse coding-based two-stage image processing technique for noise reduction and contrast enhancement in photoacoustic microscopy (PAM). We have assessed the performance of this denoising technique using multi-parametric PAM images acquired at different optical fluence levels in vivo. Our results show that this technique can significantly improve the contrast-to-noise ratio (~7 times) and visibility of the microvasculature in low-fluence noisy images, enabling us to reduce the optical fluence by a factor of 5 while maintaining a similar image quality. Moreover, this technique improves the accuracy of quantitative measurements of blood oxygenation and flow in low-fluence PAM images.


Additions to the check list of flowering plants of the Mountain Zebra National Park. Thirteen additional flowering plant species are reported from the Mountain Zebra National Park, increasing the total reported to 371 species.


Henri Piatier recounts how, as a captive of the Germans, and with the agreement of Frederic Joliot and Louis Leprince-Ringuet, he worked in German laboratories. Then, in collaboration with his friend Paul Rosbaud, the scientific director of the German publisher Springer-Verlag, he took an active role in the Resistance.


We would like to thank a number of people for their support throughout the various stages of the project leading to this document. Patricia Ray, Jonathan Glennie at Plan UK and Pauline McKeown at Plan's International Headquarters have assisted and encouraged us immeasurably. In each of the countries visited we were welcomed and facilitated by Plan staff in the country and field offices. Lack of space confines us to mention the main contacts alone: Arti Sinha (India), Jeniffer Wassianga (Kenya) and Monica Davila (Ecuador). In India, we benefited greatly from collaboration with two organisations working in partnership with Plan: Community Aid and Sponsorship Programme (CASP Delhi) and MYRADA (Karnataka). Our particular thanks go to the children and parents as well as to the staff of Plan and other agencies who met with us to share their experiences of participatory projects. We also wish to note our debt of gratitude to Jo Boyden and Vicky Johnson, who kindly agreed to serve as mentors to the project as a whole and who have generously shared their insights and literature with us. In addition, the project has been greatly enriched by discussions with a number of individuals who each contributed valuable reflections about children's participation. Their names and institutional affiliations are listed at the end of this document. Of these, shared further thoughts and feedback at the London conference, together with Chernor Bah and Neirisa Palada, young people with first-hand experience of children's participation in development. Our thanks go to them and to all the conference participants for their invaluable feedback and observations. DISCLAIMER The research informing this document was supported and guided by various people, including Plan staff in the United Kingdom and the three case study countries. However, the authors alone take responsibility for the views expressed. Endorsement of these views by Plan or any of its employees should not necessarily be inferred. 2 Plan's vision is of a world in which all children realise their full potential in societies that respect people's rights and dignity. Plan is one of the world's largest child centred community development organisations. Plan staff and volunteers work with children, their families and communities in 45 countries, building the skills, the structures and the resources to give all children an equal voice and an equal chance to develop into healthy, educated and responsible adults. Plan also works through 15 national organisations. Staff in these offices work …


Information diffusion, spreading of infectious diseases, and spreading of rumors are fundamental processes occurring in real-life networks. In many practical cases, one can observe when nodes become infected, but the underlying network, over which a contagion or information propagates, is hidden. Inferring properties of the underlying network is important since these properties can be used for constraining infections, forecasting, viral marketing, and so on. Moreover, for many applications, it is sufficient to recover only coarse high-level properties of this network rather than all its edges. This article conducts a systematic and extensive analysis of the following problem: Given only the infection times, find communities of highly interconnected nodes. This task significantly differs from the well-studied community detection problem since we do not observe a graph to be clustered. We carry out a thorough comparison between existing and new approaches on several large datasets and cover methodological challenges specific to this problem. One of the main conclusions is that the most stable performance and the most significant improvement on the current state-of-the-art are achieved by our proposed simple heuristic approaches agnostic to a particular graph structure and epidemic model. We also show that some well-known community detection algorithms can be enhanced by including edge weights based on the cascade data.


Living cells have spatially localized charged groups such as nucleus, cell walls, and others that can move in an external electric field providing the cell electrophoretic mobility (EPM). We suggest to monitor the EPM of a single living cell during its growth using optical tweezers combined with a position detector. As an example, we studied the EPM during the yeast growth, and we observed a nonmonotonic behavior of the EPM during the cell cycle, such as that the maximal EPM was observed at the initial stage of the growth, strongly reducing when the cell cycle is near its final stage.


This paper presents a method for the design of single Gabor filter for segmenting multi-textured images. The features are extracted by filtering with a linear filter and estimating the local energy of the filter response. Gabor filters have been applied successfully to the segmentation of textured images. Previous investigators have used bank of filters, where the filter parameters were predetermined and not optimized for particular task. A model of feature extraction process is required for the optimization, which is developed and assessed to get a single Gabor filter. The approach is assessed by supervised segmentation experiments and includes the design of Gabor filter, Gaussian filter, classifier and post processing. The classifier uses minimum distance algorithm and post processing uses morphological operators to remove spurious misclassifications. Results are presented that confirm the efficiency of the post processing method and support underlying mathematical models.


With the rapid development of intelligent transportation system in our country,Public transport on-time arrival rate are more stringent.In order to reduce the running time delay and improve the on-time arrival rate,this paper from the point of view that most urban road network is discrete traffic flows,and combined with traffic signal control equipment and traffic flow collection device.We have a research on the public transport incident prediction model and algorithm based on the road traffic delays,and then it can carry out an automatic prediction of the public transport incident delay.It makes our public transportation more intelligent.This model could make a much better prediction and save much more time for dealing with the emergency,then reduce the running delays and better meet the passengers'demand on a shorter travel time.


Observations on damage to concrete structures, due to the 1994 Northridge earthquake, are reported from a Canadian code perspective. Most of the damaged structures were older, nonductile, structures that do not conform to current design and detailing requirements. Concern is expressed about the seismic hazard of older Canadian structures having similar deficiencies. A significant number of parking structures suffered extensive damage and a number of precast concrete parking structures collapsed. Deficiencies in these structures include lack of proper diaphragm connections, a mix of gravity load columns with ductile framing, inappropriate number and distribution of shear walls, torsional effects caused by ramps, and the creation of short columns due to geometric features. This earthquake also demonstrated the deficiencies in connections of pre-1973 tilt-up structures. Key words: seismic design, earthquake, Northridge, structures, codes, concrete, precast concrete.


High speed rail lines suffer from stresses that conventional railways do not. New track maintenance methods are required to handle the damage done to tracks by high speed trains. This article describes the problems caused by those stresses and examines some methods for repairing them. It also introduces three systems (Palas, Basil and Bacara) currently being used to maintain TGV train tracks in France.


Objective To investigate the ultrastructural and the corresponding electrophysiological changes after stretch injury of the optic nerve at different stages. Methods Single eye optic nerve of each guinea pig was stretched 20%~25% longer than its normal length, flash stimulated visual evoked potentials (flash-VEP) and ultrastructural examination under transmission electron microscopy at different stages were performed.Results There were obvious electrophysiological changes within 24 hours after its injury, accompanied by edema of axons, swelling of mitochondria and loosening of myelin sheath. The electrophysiological changes reached the climax 96 hours after the injury. Nine days later, there was a trend of recovery in electrophysiological changes accompanied by atrophy and repair of axons. Two months later, there were slight recovery of electrophysiological index and significant atrophy, even disappearance of some axons, with proliferation of collagen fibers.Conclusion There are significant ultrastructural changes in optic nerve fibers after stretch injury accompanied by corresponding electrophysiological changes.


An increasing amount of social media is being tagged with the location of its creation. However, little investigation of how these tagged media can be used has been undertaken. We seek to exploit their auditory presentation in a system called PULSE. PULSE attempts to provide an understanding of the people, places and activities that are happening in the user's current locale. We outline the design of PULSE and how both message and meta-data can be implicitly and explicitly incorporated into an auditory display. We outline our plans for future evaluations to further consider how social geo-data can be aurally presented to users.


The effect of Ce,La and Y on deposition rate of bath and deposits of eletroless Ni-P-B on the surface of optical fiber were studied.The results showed that fit quality of rare earth can enhance the stability and the rate of deposition.Adding 20mg/L Ce can enhance stability and deposition rate of bath.SEM showed adding 20mg/L Ce can also improve the coating quality.The mechanisms of rare earth of the bath were presented.


Planar device technologies are particularly well suited to fabricating the components required for an all optical network. For example, planar versions of the multiplexer and de-multiplexer are already being deployed commercially. A Corning LOC/sup TM/ phased array demultiplexer fabricated by flame hydrolysis is shown.


Pelvic ureteral injury, such as surgical injury, radiation-induced strictures, and inflammatory or neoplastic obstruction, is a difficult management problem. Eleven such cases were treated by transureteroureterostomy. A good result ws obtained in nine cases. The success rate of this treatment is compared with that of alternative methods, such as nephrectomy, ureteral reimplantation, ureterostomy, ureteral reanastomosis, bladder flap, psoas bladder hitch, ileal interposition, and ligation of the ureter as described in other review series. Transureteroureterostomy is advised as the preferred treatment for a damaged ureter that cannot be reimplanted.


The purpose of this thesis is to understand the ways in which rumors affect the everyday lives of a few young women. The questions are: What kinds of rumors do the young women find are the most com ...


This article examines the relationship between the concept of sovereignty and the process of European integration. It is argued that the nature of this relationship has been both mutually informative and transformative. As a particular understanding of sovereignty has influenced and determined the perception of European integration, i.e., its conceptualization, so the process of European integration has reflected back on sovereignty and entailed its rethinking. This poses a particular challenge for legal theorists: how to pin down the meaning of sovereignty and European integration so as to put both in the best conceptual and normative light. The article begins by looking at the traditional perspective on sovereignty and how this has been challenged by European integration. The focus then shifts from sovereignty to European integration in order to examine how different perspectives on sovereignty, when used as an epistemic lens for understanding the process of European integration, have produced uneven conceptions of this integration. Finally, the article concludes by making a choice between the various conceptions of sovereignty and European integration. It is argued that the best conception of European integration is offered by the constitutional form of a union founded on pluralist sovereignty.


ABCC6 gene and elastofibroma (Correspondence), 755 acidified nitrite and wound healing in diabetic and nondiabetic mice (Abstract), 1098 acitretin compared with liarozole in treatment of ichthyosis, 965 acne infliximab-induced (Correspondence), 402 minocycline therapy, and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody positivity, 1005 resolution involving regulation of CD4+ T-cell responses to Propionibacterium acnes, 460 study of safety and efficacy of picolinic acid gel, 548 temporal changes in sebum excretion and propionibacterial colonization in children with, 22 acne fulminans in SAPHO syndrome (Poster), 1408 actinic keratoses economic evaluation of photodynamic therapy (Correspondence), 1393 guidelines for management, 222 methyl aminolaevulinate–photodynamic therapy (Review), 793 nature of (Correspondence), 408 scalp, treatment with photodynamic therapy using ambient light (Correspondence), 779 actinic prurigo, class I and II MHC genes in Mexican patients (Correspondence), 1074 actinomycetoma due to Nocardia spp., treatment with amoxicillin–clavulanate, 308 acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy in differential diagnosis of nonaccidental injury (Abstract), 1407 acute myeloblastic leukaemia, indeterminate cell histiocytosis associated with later occurrence (Case Report), 1357 adalimumab-triggered Reiter syndrome (Correspondence), 188 adaptive immune response in hidradenitis suppurativa, 51 adenosine receptor single nucleotide polymorphisms, response to methotrexate therapy in psoriasis (Abstract), 1100 adolescence, psychological morbidity of atopic dermatitis, comparison between boys and girls, 283 Africa, validation of UK Working Party diagnostic criteria for atopic dermatitis in Xhosa-speaking population, 111 AIDS see HIV/AIDS AKT signalling epidermal, and regulation of SREBP transcription, epidermal lipogenesis and skin barrier activity (Abstract), 1101 as therapeutic target in melanoma, 1204 aldesleukin, pseudosystemic sclerosis as complication of therapy (Correspondence), 182 alefacept in combination with methotrexate, clinical response in refractory palmar psoriasis (Correspondence), 178 allergens early changes in draining lymph node cell activation following topical exposure to (Abstract), 1098 early exposure and atopic dermatitis, 698 skin sensitization to and regular antihelminthic therapy (Abstract), 1103 allergic contact dermatitis as complication of pustular psoriasis (Correspondence), 788 alpha-interferon in combination with total skin irradiation, effect on outcome in mycosis fungoides, 57 a-melanocyte stimulating hormone analogues, suppression of phytohaemagglutinin-induced lymphocyte proliferation (Poster), 1110 amoxicillin, in treatment of confluent and reticulated papillomatosis (Correspondence), 583 amoxicillin–clavulanate, in treatment of actinomycetoma due to Nocardia spp., 308 amyloidosis, AL amyloidosis and development of amyloid A amyloidosis (Correspondence), 748 androgenetic alopecia, response to finasteride (Correspondence), 754 angio-oedema hereditary type III, presentation with C1-inhibitor cleavage and missense mutation in F12 gene (Correspondence), 1063 induced by bicycling (Correspondence), 1056 angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene polymorphism, and risk of psoriasis in Chinese population, 642 anhidrosis with herpes zoster and congenital insensitivity to pain (Correspondence), 1084 annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma, prodromal stage of elastolysis (Correspondence), 1377 anti-desmoglein antibodies in pemphigus vulgaris, pemphigus foliaceus and paraneoplastic pemphigus, 635 prevalence in Tunisian patients with hydatidosis and leishmaniasis (Correspondence), 591 antigliadin antibodies and palmoplantar pustulosis (Correspondence), 1399 antihelminthic therapy, regular, and allergen skin sensitization (Abstract), 1103 antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies and minocycline treatment of acne, 1005 anti-p200 pemphigoid following treatment with systemic corticosteroid and dapsone (Correspondence), 1075 antiphospholipid antibodies, role in Behçet disease, 32 antisynthetase syndrome and mechanic's hands (Correspondence), 192 anti-TNF-a therapy in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, elevation of triglyceride and cholesterol levels following (Correspondence), 1090 apoeccrine gland absence in human axilla, axillary hyperhidrosis and other disease pathogenetic implications, 1278 arginase upregulation in human epidermis due to ultraviolet B (Abstract), 1101


From the relationship between the property and quality of engine lubricating oil and its manufacturing techniques,environment protection and energy saving, the essay discusses the current situation and tendency of the property and quality of vehicle engines lubricating oill at home and abroad,farthermore puts forward suggestions to improve the property and quality of the lubricating oil in our country.


Steganography is method of data hiding behind multimedia file such as text, image, audio and video. For enhancing the security of data hiding and transmission over network, this paper proposed system which uses genetic algorithm along with Visual Cryptography. Plain text is converted into cipher text by using any cipher then it is hidden in LSB of image. Genetic Algorithm is used to shuffle pixel location of image so that detection of secret information become complex. Pixel locations are shuffled using Scan code algorithm. Visual cryptography is kind of encryption technique which divide secret image into multiple shares to ensure improved security and reliability. General Terms Secure data transmission.


Introduction: Aim of this study is to evaluate the results of the treatment using the technique of dual cortical graft. Material and Methods: Twenty-one patients (13 boys, 8 girls, age 3–8 years) were treated in period 1996–2008 in our institution. In seventeen patients, dual cortical graft harvested from tibia of parents was used for reconstruction of pseudarthrosis. NF type I was the cause of pseudarthrosis in 13 patients. After resection of the hamartomatous fibrous tissue, sclerotic bone ends and periosteum and reduction of angulations, the cortical grafts are placed on lateral and medial side of the tibia and are fixed thru the tibia proximally and distally with conventional screws. Cast immobilization follows for 9–12 weeks. In concomitant fibular pseudarthrosis, intra-medullary fixation and cancelous bone grafting treat the pseudarthrosis. In 11 patients, this technique represented the 1st surgical procedure, whereas in 6 cases (including 2 failed vascularised fibular transfers), 1–15 previous surgical procedures were used in treatment. Further surgical procedures followed for correction of the leg length discrepancy and deformity of the ankle. Results: The fusion of non-union was achieved in 16 patients. 12 patients reached skeletal maturity (59%) whereas 4 patients (24%) did not finished the growth and are still in treatment. 10 patients use the protection brace and intramedullar nail was used in 2 patients to prevent refracture. One patient refused further treatment and amputation followed in another institution. Concerning functional outcome, 14 patients walk unlimited, 2 patients walk more then 1 hour and 1 patient walks less then 1 hour. 13 patients did not use the walking aid, 2 patients use 1 cane a 2 patients the crutches. The complication rate of this method is similar to the other methods, mainly due to the refractures. Only in one patient, the pseudarthrosis primarily fused after single procedure. In 3 patients, second procedure was necessary. In remaining 12 patients, 3–6 further surgical procedures were used for the healing of pseudarthrosis due the delayed-union of grafts or refracture of the tibia. In these cases, cancelous bone grafting and various techniques of fixation were used to achieve the union. Discussion: and conclusion: The results of the dual cortical grafting technique are comparable to other effective methods like Ilizarov method and the method is useful also after previous failed procedures. The complication rate is similar to other methods. The prevention of the refracture by bracing or rodding is recommended in all patients. This surgical procedure should be delayed until 4 years of age. Significance: The method of dual cortical grafting represents still effective method of treatment of CPT.


Perhaps the most pervasive and unsettling problem confronting the community of reading educators, researchers, and theorists is the lack of a commonly held view of the precise nature of reading comprehension. "Comprehension" has developed denotative and connotative characteristics which befuddle even the most serious students of language and language processes. This paper proposes, as a partial solution to this vexing situation, a straightforward theoretical construct as a lexical equivalent of the technical term. The focus here is upon relating reading comprehension to a variety of research and theoretical paradigms which lend themselves to divergent interpretations, but which have a common conceptual base. TOWARD A MORE COGNITIVE DEFINITION OF READING COMPREHENSION


Abstract : In this project, we explored new techniques for detecting the threat of insider attacks in enterprise networks. In particular, we explored the use of high-dimensional search techniques such as Latent Semantic Indexing to mitigate the problem of high dimensionality that is inherent in intrusion detection. This new technique can be used for both labeled and unlabeled detection, and shows promise for detecting attacks and anomalies earlier than previously possible and detecting attacks that are similar to past ones.


The paper discusses two issues that are considered important part of the advanced research and development activities, namely the modeling approaches and simulation tools. It is pointed out that modeling of the dynamic interaction between the power system and various controllers is particularly important and requires the use of real-time approaches. The role of the simulation environment and digital simulators in evaluating various control scenarios and testing physical controllers is elaborated on. Examples of protective relaying studies that illustrate the use of the new modeling approaches and simulation tools are given at the end.


Ray tracing is a frequently used method for acoustic simulations, valued for its calculation speed and ease of use. Although it is fast, there are no fully ray tracing-based real-time simulation methods or engines. Under real-time restrictions, ray tracing simulations lose precision and the variance inherent in the random simulation method has too much impact on the outcome. In this paper, an algorithm called iterative ray tracing is presented that reduces the negative effects of real-time restrictions by iteratively improving the initial calculation and increasing the precision over time. In addition, new estimates of the expected value and variance of ray tracing simulations are presented and used to show the iteration steps in the new algorithm reduce variance, while maintaining the expected value. Simulations using iterative ray tracing are compared to measurements and simulations using the classical ray tracing method, and it is shown that iterative ray tracing can be used to improve precision over time. Although more testing is needed, iterative ray tracing can be used to extend most ray tracing algorithms, in order to decrease the adverse effects of real-time restrictions.


The main reasons for influencing the service life of the valve controled seal lead acid storage batteries are analysed based on the structure characteristics and the real condition of operation and maintenance of this kind of storage battery used in DF 4 and DF 7 locomotives.The reasonable measures are promoted in this article.


In the photosynthetic electron transfer chain in plants, cytochrome f, a subunit of the cytochrome b6f complex, acts as electron donor for plastocyanin. Plastocyanin is a small soluble protein, which shuttles electrons to photosystem 1. The structure of the short-lived and weak complex of the soluble domain of cytochrome f and plastocyanin has been determined using nuclear magnetic resonance. It shows that the heme iron of cytochrome f and the copper ion of plastocyanin are in close proximity, enabling fast electron transfer. The copper ligand His87 is located close to the iron ligand Tyr1, suggesting that electron transfer occurs via the hydrophobic patch of plastocyanin. Electrostatic interactions are also important in the complex. These findings are discussed in the light of studies of the electron transfer kinetics.

3D Structure

Keywords:

electron transfer;
cytochrome f;
plastocyanin;
photosynthesis;
paramagnetic;
NMR


What did Judge Ginsburg promise the assembled multitudes? That she would judge rather than legislate; that her views on all matters pertaining to the meaning of the Constitution would not affect her views concerning the Constitution's meaning; that this paradoxical task was not only possible but indeed a sacred trust best illustrated by the restrained judicial activism manifested in the constitutional jurisprudence of that Nietzchian Christian, or pacific warrior, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and that she was not liberal nor conservative but would be both or neither, as her oath of service to the law required. What reaction did these promises elicit? Universal cries of hallelujah, unto us a judge is given. Is it possible to enumerate the sources of this splendid unanimity? Such sources included, but were not limited to, the judge's gender, which elicited from that mostly male consortium a chivalrous reserve reminiscent of bygone days of errantry; the stillfresh recollection of similar proceedings involving ~hen-Judge now-Justice Clarence Thomas and then-Professor now-Saint Anita Hill, and the concomitant unhappiness which resulted from that less than optimal display of what might charitably be characterized as the tangled passions of a human heart, and the feminine reticence or even revulsion with which that display was


The actions of individuals in organizations and the factors in the emergence of these actions are evaluated in a scientific framework within the concept of organizational behavior. The concepts of workplace friendship and work dedication, which are concepts that try to reveal the ideas that will positively affect the actions of the individuals in the organization, are included in the scope of the study. Workplace friendship is expressed as informal human interactions in the workplace. On the other hand, work engagement is the dedication of employees to fulfilling their job roles, physically, cognitively and emotionally. The aim of the research is to examine the studies on positive organizational behavior in the literature in 2019 and 2020, when the COVID-19 epidemic was intense. For this purpose, bibliometric analysis method was used in the study. In the study, 261 articles in 2019 and 332 articles in 2020 were included in the scope of the Scopus database. The studies included in the research were examined in accordance with the criteria of author, university, country, method, number of pages, keywords and number of references used. It is thought that the findings obtained as a result of the study will be interpreted and it will provide convenience to the researchers in future studies.


With the revamping of equipment for electricity,instrument and computer and the development of production management model,the original slab cutting model of the NO.1 CC can't meet the requirements of the production rhythm and management.New managing idea of CastLot is introduced in the model after reform,which can realize the production integration.The basic theory and implementation method of the model before and after reform is elaborated in this paper.


This paper describes the improvement in combustion efficiency achieved using streamwise vorticity and fuel injections when using hypermixer struts at high Mach numbers. The effects of fuel injection conditions on combustion were investigated using numerical simulations of chemical reactive flows with a detailed reaction mechanism. Hydrogen fuel was injected from the trailing edges of a separation-resistant strut. Fuel injection at sonic speeds led to an enhancement in efficiency with an increased injection angle at Mach number 2.5, but this improvement was not observed at Mach number 3.5. It was found that hydrogen accumulated in the vortex core because of the strong circulation generated from the strut at high Mach numbers. With fuel injection at speeds exceeding the sonic speed, the efficiency increased, and it improved further with an increasing injection angle. From the results, an important indicator for combustion enhancement was derived from the streamwise vortex circulation, fuel injection velocity, and inflow Mach number. To increase the combustion efficiency using the strut, the indicator value should exceed a threshold. This is crucial for ensuring effective fuel consumption during combustion. These findings provide useful insights into a good design of hypermixer struts in supersonic combustion.


Payment of human subjects to participate in research remains an unresolved ethical issue facing Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). Though ethical concerns over this practice have existed for many years, there are few regulatory guidelines to shape institutional and individual IRB policy. As an added complication to the issue of compensation for research participation, occasionally IRBs receive a request to allow the use of a lottery or raffle (of money or goods) as a form of subject compensation, or as a method of encouraging participation in research. Subject participation in the lottery may occur upon enrollment in the study, or may be contingent upon compliance with the protocol and completion of the study. In view of the lack of regulatory guidance, it should come as no surprise that there seems to be little agreement on conditions under which lotteries can be con-


Creativity in research may stem from a single brilliant idea or from a significant body of work that forms a coherent whole. Significant impact on a field of scholarship at the interface of disciplines, or creation of viable new areas of scholarly activity, are evidence of creativity. Eligibility: Nominees must be full professors who have been at USC for a minimum of five years. Two awards of $3,500 each will be presented at the 2016 Academic Honors Convocation in April, 2016. Deadline: The deadline for nominations is Friday, September 4, 2015.


【Objective】In order to get the information about the characteristics of N, P, K nutrition in different yield level apple orchards. 【Method】 The orchards with ten-year-old apple trees (M. domestica Borkh. cv. Red Fuji/M. hupenensis Rhed) were divided into four types, soil and plant samples were collected and determined at certain time from 1997 to 2000, fertilizer treatments were also conducted in different type orchards. 【Result】The results showed that soil alkaline hydrolyzable N, available P and K concentration had an increasing tendency as yield level increased, indicating the important effect of soil fertility on yield. But the three index value changed much and had low correlation index with yield at the same yield level. At high yield level orchards leaf total N and P, fruit total N were relatively high but leaf total K and fruit total P were relatively low, leaf total K was mostly influenced by yield, and decreased with yield increased. The effect of fertilizer on yield was changed with the change of yield level. Application of P did not increase yield at all four yield level orchards, but as K was concerned, and it was contrary. Application of N increased yield at middle and low yield level orchard. 【Conclusion】Fertilizer application amounts to apple trees should base on not only the yield but also the soil available nutrients. The estimation of K level in apple trees should base on not only the leaf K concentration but also the effect of yield on K absorption and distribution.


The exactness of the semiclassical method for three-dimensional problems in quantum mechanics is analyzed. The wave equation appropriate in the quasiclassical region is derived. It is shown that application of the standard leading-order WKB quantization condition to this equation reproduces exact energy eigenvalues for all solvable spherically symmetric potentials.


The present invention relates to a halogenated sulfur compounds such as N - [(1- halo) - thio cyclobutyl] - succinimide its preparation method, and discloses a sulfonyl chloride with an organic amine such compounds in catalysis in the preparation of sulfonamide. Such catalytic reaction of the halogenated sulfonamide sulfur compounds disclosed in the present invention, the desired reaction conditions mild, short reaction time, high yield. The invention does not require use of chlorine has a strong risk, safety, environmental protection, has great application value.


Abstract A Recommendation System (RS) is a method which filters the information and helped users' to choose the corresponding target from the huge amount of information obtainable in online. The system recommends useful and satisfactory products (items) such as books, music, jokes, and movies for targeting users based on their interest. The content-based filtering as well as collaborative are different systems used often while designing the RS that predicts the recommended item(s) based upon the user preferences. However, the collaborative filtering algorithm provides poor performance for data sparsity, and it is complex for tracking the change of user interest. Moreover, the hybrid system has combined both the techniques in multiple ways to overcome the shortcomings and optimize the outcomes. Thereby, this article plans to develop a new hybrid recommender system assisting with the optimization concept for optimal recommendation list based on user preference or interest. At first, the feature extraction process takes place, in which the content features and the collaborative features are extracted based on (a) profile construction, (b) content similarity index, (c) Neighbor finder, (d) Items generator, and (e) Items weight generator and variance generator. Consequently, the optimal recommendation is carried out on the basis of features extracted. Further, the developed work plans to carry out the optimal rating of recommendation using a FireFly with Weighted Crow Search Algorithm (FF-WCSA). At last, the outcomes of the developed model is computed to extant approaches in terms of various metrics like accuracy, FDR, MAE, MARE, MSE, MSRE, RMSE, and RMSRE, respectively.


Treatment of gastro‐oesophageal reflux disease with acid suppressive therapy is based on the principle that effective control of intragastric pH (a marker of acid control) leads to healing of erosive oesophagitis and relief of gastro‐oesophageal reflux disease‐associated symptoms.


The existence of digital boundary data files to accompany area census statistics for small units has now become accepted as the norm in respect of population census output in many countries. However, there has been growing variation in the specification of census geography and widespread inconsistency in the sets of polygons between the constituent countries of the UK. This paper reports on research that has created data sets of consistent areas and estimates of census counts spanning the last four British censuses from 1971 to 2001 to enable the comparison of small spatial units and the analysis of population change. The paper assesses the data sets produced by areal weighting and dasymetric mapping by comparison with a subset of consistent spatial units between 1981 and 1991 and with published statistics for larger areas. The results are also examined in relation to previously published methods of obtaining weights empirically for use in the dasymetric mapping. The paper highlights the potential of the consistent small spatial units that have been created for the analysis of population change over time. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Since the 1990's, the notion of femicide has disseminated in civil society, the media, policy making, and scientific literature and has helped movements to draw attention to violence against women. The notion was coined to reveal the sexual politics of the murder of women and call militants to action. Today, it is increasingly used with the meaning of killing a woman because she is a woman, emphasizing gender and misogyny as the main motives. Femicide as well as the consequences of its application in diverse research areas are explored from a historical, legal, international, and activist point of view. The political thrust of the notion has proven to be useful in raising awareness on the emergency of the problem. However, the notion becomes unclear when it is used as a heuristic tool because (a) there is more than one interpretation about which types of homicide should be included and which fall beyond the definition of femicide and (b) the gender identity of the victim is not the only or the central motive of the homicide—both caveats pose problems to quantitative data collection and comparison. Available literature on homicide, family, and intimate partner violence offers a complex picture on why men kill women: explanations include diverse and interrelated factors pertaining to individual characteristics of perpetrators and victim, their relational history, and the influence of sociocultural environment, including a culture of male superiority and control. In addition, scientific literature has suggested that the importance of gender equality variables as a predicting factor for intimate partner violence should not be taken for granted, but it should be tested at the empirical level. Accurate options are suggested that yield robust and comparable empirical data for the advancement of knowledge and prevention.


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Early clinical results with time-of-flight (TOF) PET systems have demonstrated the advantages of TOF information in PET reconstruction. Reconstruction approaches in TOF-PET systems include list-mode and binned iterative algorithms as well as confidence-weighted analytic methods. List-mode iterative TOF reconstruction retains the full accuracy of the data in the spatial and temporal domains but is computationally intensive. We have developed an approach [DIRECT (direct image reconstruction for TOF)] to speed up TOF reconstruction that takes advantage of the reduced angular sampling requirement of TOF data by grouping list-mode data into a small number of azimuthal views and co-polar tilts and depositing the grouped events into histo-images, arrays with the sampling and geometry of the final image. All physical effects are included in the system model and deposited in the same histo-image structure. Using histo-images allows efficient computation during reconstruction without ray-tracing or interpolation operations. The DIRECT approach was compared with the 3D list-mode TOF ordered subsets expectation maximization (OSEM) reconstruction for phantom and patient data taken on the UPenn prototype LaBr3 TOF-PET scanner. The total reconstruction time with DIRECT for data with 430-ps timing resolution was 1/3 that of list-mode TOF-OSEM to achieve comparable image quality. While the reconstruction time for listmode TOF-OSEM depends on the number of events and sizes of the spatial and TOF kernels, the time for DIRECT is independent of these factors. The DIRECT approach is able to reproduce the image quality of the list-mode iterative TOF reconstruction both qualitatively and quantitatively in measured data with a significantly reduced time.