The barite oolites from the Saratoga oil field have been described several times, most lately by Suman, who quotes an earlier description by E. S. Moore. E. G. Woodruff is quoted by Moore as stating that some of the pisolites were of much larger size than the mesh of the screen in the well from which they were produced and, therefore, must undoubtedly have formed in the wells after the screen was set. In looking over a sample of the pisolites which were said to have been obtained in cleaning out a well in the Batson oil field, the writers noticed a number of flat disk-like pisolites among the usual spheroidal ones. The flat pisolites were about 5 to 8 mm. in diameter, and some 2 to 3 mm. thick. When broken, they were seen to consist of a thin, flat dark plate surrounded by the normal radiating tubes and cortical layers of barite, characteristic of the spheroidal pisolites. The platy core was about the size and shape and thickness of many pieces of pipe scale, and, as it was strongly magnetic, the writers believe it to be a piece of pipe scale. This presence of pipe scale as the tore of pisolites corroborates Woodruff's belief that some of the pisolites arc formed in the well after its completion. In discussion of the origin of the pisolites Moore concludes that "It would be practically impossible for bacteria or other low types of life, which are believed to play an important part in the origin of oolites, to exist in a liquid with such strong antiseptic qualities as those of warm petroleum containing considerable sulphuric acid. The work of Baldwin, however, shows that although petroleum greatly retards the activity of most types of bacteria, it greatly increases the activity of a few types. The more detailed work of Soehngen and others shows that certain bacteria live on and break down the paraffin hydrocarbons. The concentration of the sulphuric acid, if it is present,


Greek is a language that has given a considerable amount of words and terms to other languages. Lexicon enrichment is more pronounced in the terminologies of the various fields of science and technology, which operate in the general terminology lexicon as organized, connected and co-conditioned systems in accordance with the systems concepts of the fields of responsibility. From this point of view the terminological lexicon is distinguished for its more organized character than the non-terminological lexicon. Studying the terminology lexicon of different areas of knowledge has taken the form of a study method to discover the real nature of the terminology of the respective language, as well as to systematize and refine it further. For the purpose of this purpose, terminology has been developed for various languages, which are based on certain scientific criteria. But the rapid development of science and technology requires the repeated reassessment of the terms created. Based on current publications, dictionaries and studies on terminology as well as the close lexical links between neighboring languages, the desire and motivation for a specific work on Greek-sourced terminology in Albanian arose.


Television network and video producers have been attacked for failing to develop programming that instills racial and intercultural awareness and acceptance, particularly for children. In response, a number of direct‐to‐television videos have been created for young audiences whose purpose is to foster racial and intercultural acceptance. "Sillyville,"; one such "kid‐vid"; is examined employing a conjunctural method of critical rhetoric and social drama theory. We examine a sudden conflict in the fictional world of Sillyville, where color communities reject the communal code of harmonious play. The central character, Sillywhim, attempts to bring the colors together. We interpret competing themes of subversion and affirmation of dominant prescriptions about race and discuss their significance for child‐oriented programs.


Exclusive role of sulfur in a nature, its surprising features not peculiar to the majority of other chemical elements, cause interest to chemistry and technology of sulfur. One of ways of the decision of this problem is the development of effective processes final treatment of the biologically cleared waste water (BIOD), for example, filtering with use of cheap, accessible and similar materials. By firm «Ecobios» (Orenburg) for the first time in the world is scientifically proved and the opportunity of nonconventional application of gas sulfur for the decision of ecological problems proved, that opens, in our opinion new way to the world market of sales of sulfur in volume about $2 000 000 000 USA.


A combined scheme of smart antenna and PIC with low complexity is proposed for the uplink receiving of WCDMA system.At first we develop the LS DRMTA algorithm proposed by Z.Rong into a new algorithm named pilot bit assisted LMS DRMTA in accordance with the uplink frame structure of WCDMA system.The proposed algorithm cuts down lots of computation complexity of LS DRMTA algorithm,which simplifies its application in WCDMA system.Further more,the simulation experiments indicate that the new algorithm can perform at much lower BER than LS DRMTA.After the array processing of the received signal by the proposed algorithm,we go further to cancel the CCI by adaptive PIC which is a useful method for MUD.The overall scheme proposed is characterized by low computation complexity?little delay and easy real time implemetation.


PURPOSE: To reduce copper loss, to enhance an efficiency, to reduce a height, to facilitate a winding operation and to improve productivity. CONSTITUTION: The high frequency booster transformer comprises a a lower bobbin 10 having a base in which terminals 20 are implanted to opposed two sides and a cylindrical winding shaft 12 protruding upward from a center of the base 11, an upper bobbin 30 having a cylindrical second winding shaft 32, and a pair of magnetic cores 60, 70 butted vertically to form a closed magnetic path. A columnar central leg 73 provided at least at one core 70 is inserted into the shaft 12, the shaft 12 is inserted into the shaft 32 to engage the bobbin 30 with the bobbin 10 from above to be fixed. An inner winding is wound on the shaft 12, an outer winding is wound on the shaft 32, and leads of the inner and outer windings are connected to the terminals 20 on the opposite side of the bobbin 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO&Japio


Type of study: descriptive study with qualitative approach. Objective: To identify the meaning of work assigned by nurses working at night, connecting it to the professional satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Methodology: The sample consisted of 42 nurses at a teaching hospital of high complexity located in Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil. The of data collection technique used was semi-structured interview. The thematic analysis which allowed the construction of categories called work is: a central element of life, satisfaction and pleasure; economic performance, and work means dissatisfaction. Results: One can say that by the prevalence of positive expressions toward work, the majority of nurses assign positive meaning to the accomplished task, it being understood that these nurses are professionally satisfied. Conclusion: Understanding the meaning of work enables managers to create and implement strategies to expand activities related to workers' health from the perspective of improving services and professional satisfaction.


Abstract Teaching-learning approaches are routinely used by occupational therapists in the process of enabling clients to master the tasks and activities that comprise occupational performance, leading to goal attainment. Although it has been recognised that occupational therapists draw frequently on these approaches, little has been done to establish how such an approach is congruent with overarching principles of the profession. An understanding of how teaching-learning can contribute to a client's attainment of occupational performance goals would therefore contribute to the efficacy of occupational therapy practice when task mastery as a focus of intervention. Moreover, although it is apparent that occupational therapists draw on teaching-learning strategies as part of their practice, it is unclear how they develop the skills and accompanying decision-making processes to effectively do so. In consequence, little is known about the ways occupational therapists establish the skill set and reasoning process used to engage teaching-learning approaches as part of their practice. The research undertaken in this thesis is best described as adopting an overarching action research approach in which a variety of research methods were used to answer four research questions across five stages of research. These questions related to the effects of an organisational framework, the Four-Quadrant Model of Facilitated Learning (4QM), on the decision-making of occupational therapists when using teaching-learning as an approach to intervention. The research encapsulated in this thesis comprised five stages, each representing different cycles of an action research process and together addressing the four nominated research questions. These five stages developed, refined, investigated and evaluated the 4QM as a model that informed and organised decision-making as it pertained to teaching-learning approaches within a broader clinical reasoning process. Stage 1 involved speculation regarding the development of a conceptual model able to represent the teaching-learning process within the context of occupational therapy. Stage 1 included three cycles of action research that together identified the issues, proposed and tested various actions and developed a way of conceptualising teaching-learning in an organised way. The result was a model - the Four-Quadrant Model of Facilitated Learning - considered useful in guiding therapists in selecting and organising teaching-learning strategies used in enabling task mastery in an occupationally-focused way. This model formed the basis of subsequent stages of inquiry. During Stage 2, the structure and content of the 4QM was refined following an extensive review of occupational therapy and pedagogy literature. This resulted in modifications to the model, making the structure more conceptually sound and the content more reflective of contemporary pedagogic theories. The manner in which teaching-learning could validly be used as a part of occupational therapy practice was proposed. Through further reviews of literature, an advanced theoretical framework was developed in Stage 3 that described more completely the assumptions, theoretical postulates and practical steps engaged when using the 4QM to guide practice. Stage 3 involved the expansion of theories underpinning the 4QM, advancing it as a new frame of reference in occupational therapy. This was an important step in further validating the model prior to evaluating its clinical utility. Potential applications of the 4QM were investigated during Stage 4. A greater understanding of the experiences and perspectives of experienced occupational therapists regarding teaching-learning was gathered through the combined use of questionnaire and focus group methods. Fifteen experienced occupational therapists participated in focus group discussions that aimed to understand their engagement in teaching-learning and solicit their perspectives on the potential clinical utility of the 4QM. Questionnaires were used as an adjunct to focus group discussion in gathering individual data on the use of teaching-learning. Results indicated that participants engaged in teaching-learning routinely, despite not being able to describe a clear process that drove their clinical reasoning. Proficiency in facilitating learning was described as arising mostly from trial and error. Participants embraced the potential for the 4QM to frame decision-making in clinical situations, noting that it might be particularly useful for novice clinicians. Evaluation of the influence of training in the 4QM on aspects of therapist reasoning formed Stage 5 of the research. Five case studies involving novice occupational therapists were used to explore and describe changes in reasoning about teaching-learning following exposure to formal training in the 4QM. Repertory Grid Technique, a technique arising from Personal Construct Theory, provided qualitative and quantitative data that together reflected how and what participants considered when designing interventions based on teaching-learning. Results from Stage 5 provided initial evidence that more structured reasoning could occur following the introduction of the 4QM as a framework for contemplating the learning process. The overarching action research methodology used to structure the research described in this thesis is proposed as a useful way of continuing the research agenda. As the precursor to further investigations into the 4QM, a description of the reflection and planning aspects of an emerging Stage 6 of action research is proposed. Potential future research into the influence of the 4QM on the practice of therapists, and on the outcomes of therapy, is identified.


Objective Aggressive angiomyxoma (AA) is found mainly in the pelvis and perineum, with a female-to-male ratio of approximately 6:1. Although it is a slow growing tumor, AA has a marked tendency to local recurrence with a low metastasis capacity. The study aimed to describe a case of vulvar angiomyxoma recurred almost 20 years after its initial surgery. Materials and Methods We report the case of a 57-year-old gravida 5 para 4 woman with vulvar AA arising from the left labium majus, which recurred 20 years after initial surgery. There was a nontender, solid, mobile mass on the left vulva, which was 25 x 30 cm on physical examination. A pelvic computed tomographic scan showed a mass measuring 26 x 10 x 14 cm originating from left vulvar region, which has a fatty tissue density. Result Under general anesthesia, total excision of the tumor was performed. Macroscopically, the tumor weighed 723 g and measured 33 x 20 x 10 cm. The histopathological examination of the specimen revealed a myxoid tumor with sparse infiltrates of spindle-shaped to stellate cells and vessels of varying sizes. The final histopathological diagnosis was AA. Conclusions Aggressive angiomyxoma may form extremely large tumors, and recurrence is not rare even many years after primary surgery.


Background. Body weight gain and growth retardation are common side effects of prolonged glucocorticosteroid  therapy in children. Time for the appearance  and elimination of glucocorticosteroid  obesity  as well as growth disorders  require further investigations. Objective .  Our aim was to study the relationship between glucocorticosteroid  therapy and changes in physical development indices of children with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome (SSNS). Methods. We carried out a retrospective study of case records of patients with SSNS hospitalized in 2011–2014.  Treatment of children was carried out in accordance with the Federal Clinical Guidelines. The Z-score (ANTHRO Plus) was determined for body length (height), body weight, body mass index and correlation of physical development indices with a cumulative dose and duration of glucocorticosteroid  therapy. Results. We analyzed data on the treatment of 31 children, 18 of them received glucocorticosteroids  for 6 months (Group 1), 13 of them did not receive glucocorticosteroids       6 months (Group 2). The Z-score  of body weight in children in these groups was 1.64 ± 1.54 and 0.05 ± 1.19 (p = 0.004), Z-score  of body mass index was 1.85 ± 1.64 and -0.54 ± 1.14, respectively (p < 0.001). Excess body weight and obesity were only observed in children of Group 1 (in 6 and 9, respectively).  The Z-score  of the body length of patients in groups 1 and 2 were comparable and did not differ from normal values (0.34 ± 1.08 and 0.52 ± 1.12, respectively, p = 0.655). Correlation of Z-score values of the body length and cumulative doses of glucocorticosteroids was noted (r = -0.87, p < 0.001). Conclusion. Long-term (at least 6 months) glucocorticosteroid intake is associated with the development of overweight and obesity in most children with SSNS. In patients who did not use hormonal drugs for 6 months, normal body weight values were recorded. The height of children with SSNS was within the range of normal values.


Abstarct—Accident report severity classification is a hot topic in the field of water transportation. Accident reports have the characteristics of strong professionalism and large amount of text data, which leads to the poor classification effect of traditional text classification models in this field. To address the above problems, Prompt-Bert is proposed in this paper.First, BERT is used to vectorize words, and then the probability of accident severity is predicted using the accident type as the prompt word, and the maximum probability of accident severity is selected as the output, and compared with three baseline models, Word2Vec-CNN, Word2Vec-LSTM, and BERT The accuracy is improved by 2.50%, 5.00%, and 11.00%, respectively, when compared on the same data set. This experiment demonstrates the feasibility of the model proposed in this paper.


Computerization as an alternative to meet the smoothness and timeliness in the handling of a system of educational administration Indonesian Institute for Management Development. With the computer that exists as data processing devices, the increased capacity of education administrative services IPMI can be realized, and to help search and control of service activities, because the computer is an effective tools to process data in large quantities and are repeated so as to obtain efficiency employment, though the ability of large amounts of data and data storage is organized.


We study coupling between surface plasmons in metal-hole arrays. We observe avoided crossings in the measured transmission spectra for metal-hole arrays with a dielectric pillar in each hole and for arrays in index matching liquid.


The utility model relates to a dry-type waste and old wire recycling production line. The line comprises a number one conveyer, a number one crusher, a number two conveyer, a number two crusher, a number three conveyer, an air-flow separator, a number four conveyer, a vibration separator, a returned material air blower, a dust absorption pipe and a dust collection device. The number one conveyer, the number one crusher, the number two conveyer, the number two crusher, the number three conveyer, the air-flow separator, the number four conveyer and the vibration separator are successively connected. The dust absorption pipe is connected with the number one crusher, the number two crusher, the air-flow separator and the dust collection device respectively. The returned material air blower is connected with the air-flow separator and the number two crusher respectively. A structure design of the line is reasonable. Automatic operation is achieved. The waste and old wire is not burnt and chemical agent processing is not performed on the waste and old wire. A whole process adopts dry type processing. A pollution problem generated through using a method of burning the wire for taking copper is solved and a grade of copper recovery is increased. A plastic rubber can be recycled and used so that an environment pollution problem can be solved simultaneously.


The present study was undertaken to examine the effect of heat wave on the behavior and population count of Indian Flying Fox Pteropus giganteus from a roosting colony occupying a Tamarind tree Tamarindus indica at Simla Village of Purulia District of West Bengal, India during the period from March 2010 to July 2010.  A total population comprising 250 individuals, recorded in March 2010, came down to 80 by June 2010.  Information obtained from local villagers affirmed that the roosting bat colony from the present study location was a century old and had no apparent conflicts with villagers; moreover, it was protected with reverence.  However, soaring day temperatures (with a maximum of up to 48 0 C, recorded during May and June 2010) alongside drought were the major threats that the population faced and mass die-offs caused the population to decline during the hotter months.  Continuous fanning and belly-soaking were common behavioural features recorded during the summer months.  However, death rate due to hyperthermia and dehydration was uncommonly high.


Patients' non‐disclosure of suicidal ideation and intent concealment represent a major obstacle to the effective assessment of suicide risk and to the delivery of suicide prevention treatments. The present study aimed to investigate this phenomenon and to assess (1) if outpatient psychiatric patients are more or less likely to disclose intent to mental health clinicians in the context of psychiatric/psychological treatment than they are to in the context of research interviews with non‐clinicians; and (2) if certain demographic, trait‐like, and state‐like characteristics may predict such disclosure differences.


The article deals with the problem of combining the past and the modern in town space. In what way and to what extent these elements are connected to each other – those are the issues requiring mutual effort of scientists in different fields.
The authors accentuate the importance of studying symbolic urban contexts. On the one hand, symbolism is something that must be clear to everyone, on the other hand, problems in reading symbolic codes arise due to constant changes that take place in society. The article considers town as a text that is dynamic and constantly changing. It is proved that town has always been a reflection of social life. So the dynamics of urban changes as well as the means of recording and interpreting them have to be the focus of modern urbanistic studies.


Abstract: Nowadays, the region of Middle East and North Africa has become a "testing ground" where the competition between the great powers takes place . The importance of this region is determined by its geopolitical position, concentration of large natural resources, as well as the fact that it represents the greatest threat to the international security - the bases of terrorist organizations, the strengthening role of the group "Islamic State", drug trafficking and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya was one of the most developed and richest countries on the African continent: the crisis events of 2011, which resulted in the overthrow of the government, the murder of Muammar Gaddafi and the crisis in the country. From the viewpoint of the neoclassical realism the Libyan crisis is explored in the article. The causes of the crisis (both internal and external) as as well as the interests of the great powers - the United States of America, France and Britain are analyzed.


The association of independent loops, special irradiation facilities, purification and analysis circuits, are adapted to HTGCR or LMFBR fuel elements studies to improve their performances and safety. A large range of irradiation facilities allows testing several fuel types under severe irradiation conditions up to their destruction. A description of these tests is given. (FR)


This paper designs a ground motion compensation servo system based on two-dimensional pointing mirror. The servo system is mainly composed of digital control unit, analog driving unit and driving motor. Besides, the control algorithm and strategy of driving motor would be given, and based on the control strategy, a closed-loop controller which consists of current loop, velocity loop and position loop is designed and simulated. Especially, the speed loop adopts pseudo differential feed-forward (PDFF) controller to avoid extensive overshoot. Finally, the experiment results show that the designed servo system has fast response and small overshoot.


In this paper, an exact solution of steady heat conduction from a hot donut (a torus) placed in an infinite medium of constant temperature is obtained. The governing energy equation is recast in a naturally-fit coordinates system and then solved using toroidal basis functions.


One of the problems of high performance concrete is that the mixing time of this concrete is normally longer than that of conventional concrete, because the amount of powder used is much larger. It is necessary to develop a high performance mixer in order to reduce the mixing time. This research aims to evaluate the mixing efficiency on the vessel shape of a bi-axial forced mixing type mixer. The authors have developed and proposed a visualization technique that makes it possible to measure the degree of mixing with lapse time. The technique involves a visual model of concrete mixing in a container, and how to count the number of particles of model aggregates. The results showed that the mixer having a shallow container shape and many blades excels in terms of pattern flow with both globally circulating flow and locally crossing flow as compared with the mixer having a deep vessel shape.


An overall design of the jaw crusher has successfully been achieved by the application of the layout function module of top-down design in the Pro/E software, which is based on the mapping data of a jaw crusher used in the laboratory and a three dimensional model created by the solid modeling functions in the Pro/E software. This kind of design may be of a comprehensive survey of the general designing situation in an overall layout, by which the dimensions of parts may be driven by the dimensions in the layout.


This paper employs five alternative methods for estimating Hurst exponent (1951), fractal dimension, and Mandelbrot-Levy characteristic exponent (Levy 1925) to examine the fractal character of three information technology equities, Satyam, Tata Consultancy Services, and Infosys. Fractal structure or long memory in equity prices indicate that traditional statistical and econometric methods are inadequate for analyzing security markets. Findings support the weak form of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH), and the more general multi-fractal model of asset returns (MMAR) of Mandelbrot, Fisher, and Calvet (1997).


Abstract Power quality issues are becoming a serious concern for electrical power users considering the negative influence that these phenomena can have on the electrical equipment and the utility bill. That is why more solutions are required for measuring the power quality parameters. This paper presents a low-cost approach based on an inexpensive RISC microprocessor and frequency analysis for constant measuring and monitoring of specific parameters.


. Levels in 115 Pd and 117 Pd nuclei, populated in the spontaneous (cid:12)ssion of 248 Cm were studied by means of prompt gamma spectroscopy using the EUROGAM2 array of Anti-Compton spectrometers. Negative-parity, I=9/2 excitations were identi(cid:12)ed, which are associated with the long-lived isomers in these nuclei, reported previously as 11/2 (cid:0) excitations. The new data indicate spin and parity 3/2 + for ground states in 115 Pd and 117 Pd instead of 5/2 + proposed in previous works. This result implicates changes of spin assignments to other levels in both nuclei.


This paper investigates the impact of common channel signalling (CCS) link overload and signalling connection control part (SCCP) overload control for links supporting intelligent network (IN) services, one of the major users of the SCCP signalling layer. In particular, it examines a number of network congestion scenarios involving IN services and the impact of CCS overload for those links supporting a mixture of IN traffic and PSTN (ISUP) traffic.


There is an extensive literature on methods for meta-analysis of diagnostic studies, but it mainly focuses on a single test. However, the better understanding of a particular disease has led to the development of multiple tests. A multinomial generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) is recently proposed for the joint meta-analysis of studies comparing multiple tests. We propose a novel model for the joint meta-analysis of multiple tests, which assumes independent multinomial distributions for the counts of each combination of test results in diseased and non-diseased patients, conditional on the latent vector of probabilities of each combination of test results in diseased and non-diseased patients. For the random effects distribution of the latent proportions, we employ a truncated drawable vine copula that can cover flexible dependence structures. The proposed model includes the multinomial GLMM as a special case, but can also operate on the original scale of the latent proportions. Our methodology is demonstrated with a simulation study and using a meta-analysis of screening for Down syndrome with two tests: shortened humerus and shortened femur. The comparison of our method with the multinomial GLMM yields findings in the real data meta-analysis that change the current conclusions.


Finding the Longest Common Subsequence in Weighted Sequences (WLCS) is an important problem in computational biology and bioinformatics. In this paper, we model this problem as a multiobjective optimization problem. As a result, we propose a novel and efficient algorithm that not only finds a WLCS but alsothe set of all possible solutions. The time complexity of the algorithm depends primarily on the number of length-1 common subsequences between the two input weighted sequences.


Twelve chemical constituents were isolated from Polygonum chinense Linn. On the bases of spectral data, they were identified as syringic acid (1), apigenin (2), 3,3'-di-O-methylellagic acid (3), gallic acid (4), protocatechuic acid (5), isorhamnetin (6), caffeic acid (7), quercetin (8), luteolin (9), gallicin (10), avicularin (quercetin-3-O-α-L-arabinofuranoside)(11) and 3,4,8,9,10-pentahydroxy-dibenzo [b,d]pyran-6-one (12). All these compounds except 4 and 8 were reported from the species for the first time.


The article deals with the development trends of federative relations and local selfgovernment in modern Russia and studies the reasons of subsidization of the majority of the Russian regions and municipalities.


Common question answering (QA) systems are based on the extraction of answers from large document collections. The task of the IR component in QA is to retrieve relevant segments in order to reduce the search space. The performance (especially in terms of recall) of this component is crucial for such QA systems. We compared seven off-theshelf IR engines using the test set from the CLEF 2003 competition on Dutch question answering. Open source IR engines Amberfish: http://www.etymon.com/tr.html GPL, C/C++, plain text, semi-structured/XML (with nested fields), wild-card search, phrase search, boolean queries, relevance ranking Lucene: http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/index.html Apache License, Java, plain/semi-structured documents, snowball stemmers, phrase search, boolean queries, relevance ranking Managing Gigabytes (MG): http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/ GPL, C, plain text, images, boolean or ranked queries Swish-e: http://swish-e.org/ GPL, C, plain/semi-structured documents, snowball stemmers, wild card search, phrase search, fuzzy search (soundex, metaphone), flexible configuration (input/output, tokenisation etc), boolean queries, relevance ranking, Perl bindings Xapian: http://www.xapian.org/ GPL, C++, plain text, snowball stemmers, phrase search, proximity search, relevance feedback, wide range of boolean operators, relevance ranking, Perl/SWIG bindings Zebra: http://www.indexdata.dk/zebra/ GPL, C, structured (XML), phrase search, boolean queries, relevance ranking, wild-card search, Z39.50 protocoll, client-server implementaton Zettair: http://www.seg.rmit.edu.au/zettair/ BSD-style license, C, plain, semi-structured (TREC), phrase search, boolean queries, relevance ranking, summary function Joost QA with dependency relations IR results (CLEF 2003 data, 200 retrieved documents) documents paragraphs sentences MRR (in %) doc answer doc answer doc answer Swish-e 26.02 54.01 28.62 43.52 23.85 32.87 Zettair 32.10 52.69 29.90 42.09 28.32 31.04 Xapian 28.25 50.49 30.11 41.41 25.14 28.90 Zebra 26.50 45.06 27.79 37.53 25.47 30.67 Lucene 29.74 47.87 30.14 36.48 27.82 29.61 Amberfish 21.05 44.31 20.67 28.05 21.15 23.06 MG 20.86 39.98 20.98 22.53 21.18 15.44 ... number of paragraphs required to obtain >= x% recall 30 40 50 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 Zettair: 1 2 4 8 13 20 34 87 Swish-e: 1 2 4 7 12 19 35 112 Lucene: 2 3 5 10 15 24 43 114 Xapian: 1 2 4 11 17 37 71 MG: 5 8 14 25 36 57 99 Amberfish: 3 6 11 23 32 57 128 Zebra: 2 3 6 18 36 79 191 Evaluation methodology Performance is measured in terms of mean reciprocal ranks (MRR).


The Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian of spin-2 cold bosons with repulsive interaction in an optical lattice is proposed. After neglecting the hopping term, the site-independent Hamiltonian and its energy eigenvalues and eigenstates are obtained. We consider the hopping term as a perturbation to do the calculations in second order and draw the phase diagrams for different cases. The phase diagrams show that there is a phase transition from Mott insulator with integer number bosons to superfluid when the ratio c{sub 0}/t (c{sub 0} is the spin-independent on-site interaction and t is the hopping matrix element between adjacent lattice sites) is decreased to a critical value and that there is a different phase boundary between superfluid and Mott-insulator phase for different Zeeman level component in some ground states. We find that the position of phase boundary for different Zeeman level component is related to its average population in the Mott ground state.


Chief Scientists: Arnold Bouma, Monty Hampton. Data (meters) of field activity S-1-76-WG in Western Gulf of Alaska from 01/01/1976 to 01/01/1976, http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/s/s176wg/html/s-1-76-wg.meta.html.


Read more and get great! That's what the book enPDFd social problems in cancer control will give for every reader to read this book. This is an on-line book provided in this website. Even this book becomes a choice of someone to read, many in the world also loves it so much. As what we talk, when you read more every page of this social problems in cancer control, what you will obtain is something great.


The study discusses the possibility of utilizing digital image processing techniques for the purpose of initial, semi-automated spatial object diagnostics on thee example of electrical power line latticework. The study involved an analysis of literature related to diagnostics, which encompassed the subject matter associated with the identification of objects and detection methods of specific properties of the studied object on digital images. It describes the principles of conducting electrical power line diagnostics and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. The study presents methods most frequently described in literature and their modifications and implementations utilized for the purpose of the author's developed proprietary method. Further, it presents the author's developed method of virtual photographs as a tool to support the work of technicians in the process of analyzing the photographic material collected during annual areal inspections of the lines. Additionally, the study discusses individual stages of the developed method and their software implementations. The primary objective of the virtual photograph method is to limit the number of analyzed photographs by qualified personnel to only those photographs which indicate the potential risk of inconsistencies with the model lack of an element or deformation. This method incorporates mechanisms drawn from screening analysis. In order to achieve a correctly working method, the study describes the adopted principles of photograph evaluation, incorporates a series of analyses regarding the correct determination of irregularities in the latticework structure. During tests photographs of a column printed in a 3D printer were used these photographs have been taken in strictly specified laboratory conditions, in addition to photographs of the actual object. The resulting principles of evaluating the object's condition, developed based on an analysis conducted in laboratory conditions, also apply to the photographic material taken in the field. The study also presents an analysis of the developed method's results for different types of photographs, when modifying the values of specific variables which affected the achieved results. The final section of the study presents proposed values of variables which should be used in the method calibration process for different photograph sets. The conclusion of the study consists of a summary, containing the author's conclusions regarding the possibilities and limitations associated with utilizing the developed method. It also presents the directions of further research in terms of functional development of the method and potential new applications.


In this paper, a spiking convolutional neural network (SCNN) model for voice keyword recognition is presented. The model consists of an input pre-processing layer, a spiking neural network (SNN) layer with build-in filter bank and the convolutional neural network (CNN) layers. A 16-channel infinite impulse response (IIR) filter bank with energy detector extracts power from the voice signal band and converts it to spikes via the SNN layer. The spiking rate in a defined time window is used as the inputs to the following CNN layers for classification. The network is trained using a voice digit dataset, while the weights of the convolutional layers are adjusted through the training of spike-integration results obtained from the spiking layer. This model has been implemented for voice keyword recognition and achieved 96.0 % accuracy. The combination of SNN and CNN reduces the overall number of layer and neuron in the system without compromise in classification accuracy. It is suitable for low-power hardware implementation in edge devices for human machine interface (HMI) applications.


Introduction: Majuli is one of the largest inhabited mid river deltaic Island. It is located in upper reaches of the river Brahmaputra and within the latitude of26°45'N-27°12'N and longitude of 93°39'E- 94°35'E. Majuli is situated in the Northern part of Jorhat District separated from the main land by the river Brahmaputra. A.J. Moffat Mill record in Report on Province of Assam land of Majuli was 2,82,165 acres in 1853, B. C. Allen in his Provincial Gazetteer of India ,published in 1901,mentioned that Majuli's total land area was around 185 sq. Miles. As per government survey of 1891 the total area of the island to be 1,256 sq.kms, the record of the Revenue department of the Government of Assam which recorded the total area of the island to be 1246 sq.kms in 1950,924 sq.kms in 1971,875 sq.kms in 1997,480 sq.kms in 2001,502.21 sq.kms in 2004,506.37 sq.kms in 2008,520.26 sq.kms in 2011 and 523.88sq.kms in 2014. Habung was the ancient name of Majuli. Habung is a Bodo word means low-lying flood affected extensive landmass. It is difficult to say that when the name Majuli came into used. . In an old Assamese chronicle the compound word-Luitar Majuli ,Assam Buranji Puthi by Kashinath Tamuli Phukan used the Majali,Harakanta Barua in his book used as Majoli,Vivek Ratna by Maniram Dewan used as Majali,Ahomar Din by HIteswar Barbaruah used the word Majali. Further from other source this word Majuli came from the word Majali, derived from two words Maj+Ali, ie, 'a centrally located road or a lane lying in between'. Majuli is the land of diversity. According to Census Report 1991, it has a population of 135378 souls consisting of 70410 males and 64,968 female, 2001Census Report, total population was 153,400 souls consisting of 79,481 males and 73919 female and in 2011, total population of Majuli was 167,245 of which male 85797 and female 81,448. Total schedule Tribe (ST) population is 68,141(2001 Census) of which Mishing numbers 63,572, Deouris 3,498 and Sonowal Kacharis 1071. Literacy rate in the island is 72.2% in 2001, 84.74% in 2011, which male literacy stands at 93.76% while female rate was 75.37%.


For the accurate calculation of three-dimensional system reliability of overall structure for jack-up platform,two models based on space frame structure and thin-walled space structure are established.Space frame structure model is established by three-dimension beam,and thin-walled space structure model is established by adopting hybrid girder element and SP element.Formulae of reduced member stiffness matrix and opposite sign of equivalent nodal force are educed,to make up accuracy of calculation of opposite sign of equivalent nodal force.The significant failure modes are identified by using advanced branch-and-bound method and the structural system reliability is evaluated by PNET method. Take the calculation of system reliability under different conditions as the example,engineering design proposals are proposed by compared the results between two models.


We develop a multichannel quantum defect formulation to describe the collision of a Rydberg or continuum electron with a vibrating and rotating polyatomic ion. We formulate a full rovibronic frame transformation which accounts simultaneously for vibrationally and rotationally inelastic collisions (preionization) and [ital l] uncoupling. Interactions among degenerate Rydberg series, arising from Jahn-Teller disortions of molecular geometry, play an important role in the formulation. An application to the 1[ital s][sup 2]3[ital sA][sub 1][sup [prime]][r arrow]1[ital s][sup 2][epsilon][ital pA][sub 2][sup [prime][prime]],[epsilon][ital pE][prime] Rydberg photoabsorption spectrum of H[sub 3] accounts for many of its observed features.


In this article, a new technique for reducing second‐order and third‐order intermodulation (IM2 and IM3) for an output current of the subharmonic mixer is presented. First, to reduce second‐order and third‐order of the Volterra's kernel, IM2 current injection technique has been used. By the auxiliary path, the IM2 current which has been generated in the doubler with the phase difference of 180° relative to inherent IM2 of the output is injected into the output node. Also, this produced IM2 in the frequency doubler has been injected into the circuit by another auxiliary path, so that, in the output, an IM3 with opposite phase of inherent IM3 of the output mixer's current is presented. Besides, to easier design, the Volterra series expansion is used and equations related to Volterra kernels of the output current are extracted. Furthermore, the noise of the auxiliary path transistors connected to the output can be neglected because of the small gm of their transistors compared to the main path. The results of simulations by ADS simulator in 0.18‐μm TSMC technology show that the proposed technique has simultaneously improved the values of IIP3 and IIP2 up to 21 and 92 dBm, compared to conventional subharmonic mixers.


Low temperature behaviour in quantum and classical systems (R.J. Baxter et al) many-body theory (P.W. Anderson et al) variational problems (E.A. Carlen et al) analysis of multifractal functions (I. Daubechies & J.C. Lagarias) quantum entropy (H. Narnhofer & B. Ruskai) randomness and localization of Eigenfunctions (M. Aizenman & B. Simon) aspects of quantum and classical time evolution (M. Flato et al).


Low-molecular-weight therapeutics are almost invariably manufactured by chemical synthesis. The manufacturing process is very well controlled, predictable and the final product is readily amenable to be characterized using mass spectroscopy. Therefore a generic version of the therapeutic can be directly compared with the innovator drug, demonstrating unequivocally; its identity and purity prior to administration. For generic therapeutics to gain US FDA approval [101], it must:


The 2014 West Africa Ebola crisis highlights the pressing need for effective laws and procedures governing the handling and disposition of infectious human remains. Existing frameworks, both domestically and internationally, are inconsistent and underdeveloped in ways that jeopardize public health and disregard decedents' wishes concerning post-mortem disposition, trample on survivors' quasi-property rights, and conflict with religious beliefs regarding care of the body. These issues become critically important when death results from a highly contagious deadly disease. For example, persons who die of Ebola have very high levels of the Ebola virus on their skin and on any leaked bodily fluids. Thus, when family members come in contact with the body, they can contaminate themselves and others. The World Health Organization noted that certain religious rites in the post-mortem handling of Ebola patients, such as washing, shrouding, and praying over the deceased, directly contributed to a significant number of new Ebola infections in the 2014 outbreak. In addition to its preparation and handling, the final disposition of the body also presents significant concerns. Although cremation may be viewed as an ideal scientific solution for final disposition of Ebola victims, it may violate moral values, cultural practices, and many religious beliefs, and meet significant resistance. When Liberian President Sirleaf decreed that Ebola victims had to be cremated, many in the community viewed the mandate as contrary to religious tenets and, instead, performed secret burials that led to even more infections.
Without thoughtful and culturally sensitive laws and procedures in place, governments may, in times of crises, dictate particular methods of handling and disposing of highly contagious human remains that may not be as effective as needed and may unnecessarily infringe upon deeply held religious beliefs. The lack of an effective legal framework should be of serious concern to policymakers in all countries, including the United States. We propose the need for such a framework and provide guidance for decision makers confronting these issues. We suggest that any legal framework educate communities to understand the public health issues and empower them to address these issues in ways that respect religious beliefs. Moreover, in order to be truly effective, we also recommend that any solutions be inherently interdisciplinary and combine legal, medical, moral, humanitarian, and religious elements.


Until the past decade, landfill gas (LFG) was viewed as a nuisance at best and a hazard at worst. Today, municipalities and private-sector solid waste management companies are findings ways to put landfill gas to productive use. Landfill gas energy recovery eliminates detrimental air emissions; prevents landfill methane from contributing to global climate change; stops methane from migrating off-site and becoming a safety hazard or odor problem; and provides local utilities, industry, and consumers with a competitive, local source of power. In other words, LFG-to-energy facilities provide a unique form of recycling--solid waste is hauled to the landfill as refuse and returned to the consumer in the form of energy. US EPA`s Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) and new EPA regulations for control of landfill gas emissions work together to encourage greater use of LFT at many facilities across the US.


The research included study the adsorption of Clomid drug on the
surface of activated carbon and zinc oxide. Many of parameters were
studied which affect the adsorption process such as temperature, weight of
adsorbent, equilibrium time, initial concentration and effect of pH.
Activated carbon and zinc oxide were used as a model adsorbent in the
experiments. We found that increased of temperature (30-50) °C followed
by increased in adsorption capacity experiments were done at 30 °C and
showed that the optimum weight of activated carbon was (0.15 g) while for
zinc oxide was (0.1g), equilibrium time was (150 min) for the two
adsorbents. The adsorption capacity of the two adsorbents increased with
increasing initial concentration of drug, In addition, the experiments
showed that the (3-7) pH was the best medium of the adsorption process.


The fluorescence blinking of single CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals under different experimental conditions is investigated. We show that the blinking process is very sensitive to the particle environment even if the nanocrystals are covered with a few monolayers of ZnS. Especially the presence of oxygen leads to a shortening of the on-times but leaves the off-times almost unaffected. Therefore, oxygen which is adsorbed to the surface might act as a scavenger for photo generated electrons and leaves the particle in its (positively charged) dark state.


ABSTRACT Wheat flour aging process is considered very important to impart desirable changes in order to get good quality bakery products. It was extensively studied through analytical and rheological variations during storage using conventional methods. In this study, the potential of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) was determined to monitor the process of wheat aging. FTIR spectroscopy along with chemometrics tools like principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least square regression (PLSR) were used to monitor the aging process of wheat flour during the storage period of two months at room temperature. PCA subjected to spectral, analytical and rheological parameters during storages showed the clear demarcation of wheat flour stored at various intervals using first 2 PCs. PLSR showed the best prediction models for crude protein (R2 CV = 0.97 and 0.11 RMSECV) and wet gluten contents (R2 CV = 0.88 and 0.41 RMSECV), whereas the other analytical parameters were not accurately predicted from FTIR spectral data. However, it can be concluded that FTIR spectroscopy can be used as an alternative tool to predict the changes in wheat flour during the aging process.


PURPOSE
To assess the presence of upper extremity pain after stroke over time and the course of its intensity in patients with persistent pain.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Patients with stroke completed a question on the presence of upper extremity pain (yes/no) and rated its intensity with a visual analogue scale (0-10) at 3, 18, and 30 months after starting multidisciplinary rehabilitation. The presence of upper extremity pain and its intensity over time were analysed with Generalized Estimating Equations models and Linear Mixed Models, respectively.

RESULTS
678 patients were included. The proportions of patients reporting upper extremity pain were 41.8, 36.0, and 32.7% at 3, 18, and 30 months, respectively, with the decline in proportions reaching statistical significance (odds ratio 0.82, 95% confidence interval 0.74-0.92, p < 0.001). At all time points, in those reporting pain the median intensity was 5.0 (interquartile ranges (IQR) 4.0-7.0 at 3 and 3.0-6.0 at 18 and 30 months). In the 73 patients with persistent pain, there was no significant change in intensity over time.

CONCLUSIONS
The proportion of patients reporting upper extremity pain after stroke was considerable, despite a significant decrease in 2.5 years. In patients reporting persistent pain, the intensity did not change over time.


A field biologist interested in analyzing data on the nest success of birds faces a bewildering array of literature on the topic. Methods proposed to treat these data range from the simple and easily calculated, to the complex and computationally challenging. Many methods have received little use, so it is difficult to assess how well they perform in the real world. The apparent estimator, the fraction of nests found that ultimately succeed, is seldom applicable. The Mayfield estimator, despite its extremely restrictive assumption that the daily survival rate is the same for all nests and all days, has fared surprisingly well in many applications. A few methods are too demanding to warrant routine use; for example, they might require daily visits to nests, which are rarely practical and may markedly influence the outcome of a nesting attempt. Many methods require that the age of each nest be known; other methods need this information only if age-related variation in daily survival rate is a concern, or is marked enough to require age-specific estimates to generate a satisfactory overall estimate. The use of survival-time methods is questionable because of their limited ability to handle left truncation and interval censoring.


While three dimensional collaborative environments have been used for industrial design or interactive games, workgroup collaboration has largely remained in the two-dimensional realm. In this paper, we examine the collaborative capabilities of the Collaborative Virtual Workspace, and how it is used. We then describe our effort to augment this system with an immersive display. By developing an immersive interface to an existing collaboration tool rather than adding collaboration to an immersive world, we hope to discover the advantages and pitfalls that immersive collaboration environments might offer. The first step in this process is to design the immersive environment to provide natural interactions for the activities users normally perform while working within the collaborative environment.


Pirin is a novel highly conserved nuclear protein, but very little is known about its cellular function. Human pirin has been cloned, expressed, purified and crystallized using PEG as precipitant. The crystal belongs to the orthorhombic space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), with unit-cell parameters a = 42.3, b = 67.0, c = 107.3 A, alpha = beta = gamma = 90 A. It contains one molecule per asymmetric unit and diffracts to 2.0 A under cryoconditions (100 K) using an in-house Cu rotating-anode X-ray generator.


High organic pollutant in tofu wastewater (TWW) raises a negative impact on environmental sustainability and health. Therefore, the TWW must be treated before it is discharged into the environment. Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) is one of the green technologies that can be used to treat wastewater and generate hydrogen as well. This work tries to investigate the performance of MEC based on the decrement of organic pollutants in TWW. Some important parameters of organic pollutants in TWW such as chemical oxygen demand (COD), biological oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS), total dissolved solids (TDS), total solid (TS), and pH were evaluated before and after MEC operation. The results showed that the COD and BOD levels decreased around 56% and 35% while pH increased from 7.90 to 7.16. Additionally, the TSS, TDS, and TS decreased by around 35.0%, 45.5%, and 33.2%. In addition, the optimum hydrogen yield (YH2) and hydrogen production rate (QH2) were obtained at 114 ± 0.1 mL H2/g COD 360 ± 20 mL H2/L/d. Overall, the MEC system could be used to reduce the level of organic pollutants in TWW and generated H2 at the same time.


A face‐needs model of emotional expressiveness is used to explain and predict the degree to which an emotion will be expressed or understated. This model proposes a three‐part hierarchy for emotional disclosures: non‐face‐threatening, mixed‐face‐value, and face‐threatening. The hierarchy was confirmed for both males and females and generally was supported across two relationship types: best friends and acquaintances. The possibility that relationship level may influence the face‐value of some emotional disclosures is explored. Females reported greater disclosure than males, and emotions are disclosed more fully to best friends than to acquaintances.


In this paper we give an overview of the fabrication and assembly induced performance degradation of an intra-multi-chip-module free-space optical interconnect, integrating micro-lenses and a deflection prism above a dense opto-electronic chip. The proposed component is used to demonstrate the capabilities of an accurate micro-optical rapid prototype technique, namely the Deep Proton Writing (DPW). To evaluate the accuracy of DPW and to assess whether our assembly scheme will provide us with a reasonable process yield, we have built a simulation framework combining mechanical Monte Carlo analysis with optical simulations. Both the technological requirements to ensure a high process yield, and the specifications of our in-house DPW technology are discussed. Therefore, we first conduct a sensitivity analysis and we subsequently simulate the effect of combined errors using a Monte Carlo simulation. We are able to investigate the effect of a technology accuracy enhancement on the fabrication and assembly yield by scaling the standard deviation of the errors proportionally to each sensitivity interval. We estimate that 40% of the systems fabricated with DPW will show an optical transmission efficiency above -4.32 dB, which is -3 dB below the theoretical obtainable value. We also discuss our efforts to implement an opto-mechanical Monte Carlo simulator. It enables us to address specific issues not directly related with the micro-optical or DPW components, such as the influence of glueing layers and structures that allow for self-alignment, by combining mechanical tolerancing algorithms with optical simulation software. More in particular we determined that DPW provides ample accuracy to meet the requirements to obtain a high manufacturing yield. Finally, we shortly highlight the basic layout of a completed demonstrator. The adhesive bonding of opto-electronic devices in their package is subject to further improvement to enhance the tilt accuracy of the devices with respect to the optical interconnect modules.


Regardless of the approach employed, treatment of patients with histories of sexual or other abuse is a formidable challenge. One reason for this is the vulnerability to "enactment" inherent in therapeutic work with such patients. Enactment is a recently elaborated psychoanalytic notion, defined as a pattern of nonverbal interactional behavior between the two parties in a therapeutic situation, with unconscious meaning for both. It involves mutual projective identification between therapist and patient. This paper clarifies the nature of enactment (conceptualized here as involving either refusal or actualization of the transference by the therapist) and its treatment implications. Transference-countertransference enactment paradigms encountered in work with survivors of abuse are presented. The therapeutic consequences of failing to recognize and respond to such enactments in work with these patients are explored. Unrecognized enactments may lead therapists unwittingly to abdicate the therapeutic role by ...


It has been demonstrated that brief periods of nocturnal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) reduce airway reactivity in animal models and in patients with asthma. The effects of nCPAP in severe uncontrolled non‐apneic asthmatic patients are not well known.


Cloud computing and the Internet of Things IoT are currently the two dominant Internet technologies, but cloud computing embodies the maturity of the computing field with its clear path to software...


It introduces the rules and requirements of non-destructive test in "criteria for spatial grid structural engineering quality detection evaluation" JGJ 78-91,illustrates the shortcomings of non-destructive test in spatial grid structure,and proposes countermeasures,in order to make non-destructive test technology better serve building industry and promote healthy development of steel spatial grid.


Abstract The objective of this work was to define the optimal plot size and number of replicates for the evaluation of the fresh weight of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) hybrids. Thirty-two uniformity trials were carried out with two hybrids, in two sowing dates and four evaluation periods. Each trial was divided into 48 basic experimental units (BEUs) of 0.5 m2, and fresh weight was determined for each BEU. The mean, variance, coefficient of variation, first-order spatial autocorrelation coefficient, optimal plot size, and coefficient of variation of the optimal plot size were calculated. The number of replicates was determined on the basis of the largest calculated plot size, through an iterative process, for the combinations of number of treatments and differences among means to be detected as significant by Tukey's test, at 5% probability. The optimal plot size ranged from 1.79 to 2.58 m2, and the number of replicates from 2.6 (~3) to 49.2 (~50). The optimal plot size is 2.58 m2, and five replicates are sufficient to identify as significant the differences between treatment means of 35%.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relation between the values of solidarity economy and the organizational commitment and entrenchment ties.

Design/methodology/approach
A quantitative, descriptive and exploratory research was carried out through survey, using the Solidarity Economy Values Scale, Organizational Commitment Questionnaire and Organizational Entrenchment Questionnaire, with statistical data analysis.

Findings
The results showed that the self-management, quality of life and identification values positively influenced the workers' behavior, mainly concerning personal fulfillment with performance and autonomy at work. On the other hand, the citizenship and solidarity values revealed an inverse association with the alternatives limitation dimension of entrenchment: the permanence in solidarity economy organizations motivated solely by the lack of employment can impact negatively on social and political involvement.

Research limitations/implications
Theoretically, organizational commitment and entrenchment ties are not limited to individual behaviors but also have a collective dimension to be investigated.

Practical implications
The workers' organizational commitment implies in a commitment from the organization with human development through work.

Originality/value
In solidarity economy organizations, the bond based on lack of alternatives on the job market does not affect self-management or fulfillment with the work but the participation on the community politics.


Objective: Forecasting epileptic seizures can reduce uncertainty for patients and allow preventative actions. While many models can predict the occurrence of seizures from features of the EEG, few models incorporate changes in features over time. Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks are a machine learning architecture that can display temporal dynamics due to the recurrent connections. In this paper, we used LSTMs to monitor changes in EEG features over time to improve the accuracy of seizure forecasts and to alter the time window of the forecast. Methods: Long-term intracranial EEG recordings from eight patients from the NeuroVista dataset were used. A Fourier transform of 1-minute segments of EEG was fed into a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The outputs from the CNN were input to three different LSTM models at different time intervals: 1 minute, 1 hour and 1 day. The LSTM model outputs were used to predict seizure onset within a time window. The prediction and start of the time window were separated by the same length of time as the window. Window sizes tested included 2, 4, 10, 20 and 40 minutes. Results and Conclusion: Our model forecast seizure onsets well above a random predictor. Compared to other models using the same dataset, our model performed better for some patients and worse for others. Monitoring the change in EEG features over time allowed our model to produce good results over a range of different window sizes, which is an improvement on previous models and raises the possibility of altering the forecast to meet individual patient needs. Furthermore, a window size of 40 minutes provides a potential intervention time of 40 minutes, which is the first time an intervention time of more than 5 minutes have been forecast using long-term EEG recordings.


Recently, intelligent diagnosis of rotating machinery has received more attention due to the advancement of industry. Generally, training and test sets are presumed independent and identically distributed in most researches. Nevertheless, the change of working conditions in actual production will lead to the shift of distribution to deteriorate the model adaptability. At the same time, the commonly used deep convolutional neural network focuses on the local relevance from vibration signals while disregarding their global features in the realm of fault diagnosis. This paper proposes a domain adaptive sparse transformer network (DASTN) for the above problems, which employs Wasserstein distance to measure the distribution differences among data sets of multiple working conditions. The feature extractor used in this method is sparse transformer network (STN), which can capture global features via specific network structure with time embedding. Experiment results conducted on datasets of aeroengine bevel gears with multiple rotational speeds prove the superiority of our proposed method in unsupervised domain adaptive fault diagnosis.


Rocking aseismic technology is a newly developed base isolation technology,which allows the separation between the superstructure and the base and isolates the energy input of ground motion by means of rocking of the superstructure.The difference from the traditional base-isolated technology is that the relaxation constraint of rocking aseismic technology is rotating rather than translation.Up to now,very little research and application of this technology have been done in the extent of building structures.One of the important problems of rocking structure is the control of residual deformation on which the gravity has important influence.A rocking design with a gravity column and a buckling restrained columns(BRC)in parallel i.e.rocking aseismic mechanism with BRC,was proposed for concentrically braced frames.Time history analysis by software SAP was performed on a 6 story sample structure to compare the gravitational influence on the residual deformation of rocking structure and the P-Δ effect of gravity.It is concluded that the gravity has important influence on the residual deformation of rocking structure.When the uplift of the structure is small,the residual deformation will recover under the gravity,when the uplift of the structure is large,the gravity will make the residual deformation even larger rather than recover.


An in vitro model using healthy human erythrocyte suspensions was used to compare the antioxidant effect of standardized Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb 761) with those of water-soluble (ascorbic acid, glutathione and uric acid) and lipid-soluble (α-tocopherol and retinol acetate) antioxidants. Lipid peroxidation was induced by hydrogen peroxide in the absence (control) and presence of antioxidants at low (25 μg/ml) and high (250 μg/ml) concentrations. Malondialdehyde production was determined as the indicator of lipid peroxidation during the incubation period. The results suggest that all of the antioxidants, except ascorbic acid, have antioxidant potential in this system in a concentration-dependent manner. When the antioxidants were compared, EGb 761 was found to be more effective than water-soluble antioxidants, and as effective as lipid-soluble antioxidants. Among the lipid-soluble antioxidants there was no significant difference in potency between α-tocopherol and retinol acetate, but uric acid was the most potent of the water-soluble antioxidants. The antioxidant potency of EGb 761 appears to be comparable with that of the well-known antioxidants α-tocopherol and retinol acetate.


When the Bible presents us with a thing for the very first time, it has a tendency to convey important principles that will pertain throughout the book concerning such things. Bible students will sometimes speak of a "rule of first use" in reference to this tendency. In the fourth chapter of Genesis, we have some very important first occurrences. In the wicked man Cain, we have the first man born into this world that we can prove to be an unregenerate, unsaved man. John plainly tells us that Cain was "of that wicked one," (1Jn 3:12). In Abel we have the first man born into this world that we can prove to be a regenerate, saved man. Paul said, "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous," (Heb 11:4). Jesus Christ also referred to him as "righteous Abel" (Mt 23:35). In presenting the story of Cain and Abel, the Bible will establish several principles that will prove important throughout the book. Indeed, the Bible strongly intimates this fact because Paul said of Abel that "he being dead yet speaketh," (Heb 11:4). It is obviously important to understand exactly what is spoken by the story of Abel today.


Here we report recent advances in precise engineering to incorporate advanced electrophoretic drug delivery system into implantable devices for treating neurological disorders including both depth probes and cortical arrays with recording capabilities. The efficacy of the platform is demonstrated by stopping epileptic seizures in vivo. This is the first in vivo demonstration of an electrophoretic implant treating a neurological disorder and offers a glimpse of what can be achieved by tailored engineering of electrophoretic devices. We anticipate this work to be the starting point for new stimulation, recording and drug delivery paradigms in chronic neural implantation.


Sharandeep Kaur. The present study is aimed to find out the effectiveness of Inductive and Deductive Methods in teaching English Grammar at Elementary Level. The study involves an experiment in which two sections of class VI containing 35 students each were selected for the study. Section A was taught through Inductive Method and Section B through Deductive Method. When Pre-test and Post-test scores of Inductive method were analysed, it was found out that teaching through Inductive method had a significant impact upon student achievement. Similar results were seen when the Pre-test and Post-test scores of Deductive Method were compared.


Editor We thank Jones and Baraza for their interest in our paper1 and for highlighting the omission of the work of Hughes et al.2 from the meta-analysis. This was a large piece of work, with more participants than any other paper in the literature. As the educational assessment data were held in a supplementary file, the information was missed and the data were not included in error. We apologize for this. Here, we present an addendum to Table S2 (supporting information) in our article. The authors describe delivery of a sophisticated programme of cadaveric training courses using centralized funding for a large number of trainees, which is an outstanding achievement.


Past and contemporary Lingnan culture contains tons of contents that matches developing age,also blends some blemishes and irregularity,such as the shortage of reasonableness and humanistic spirits in cultural composition of intensive business-oriented and practicality-oriented simplicity,the floaty characteristics at the back of explorative and enterprising features,and the weak consciousnesses under the background of open and compatibility, etc.Recognizing cultural deficiency of selves can help us with choosing correct and effective approaches to the breakthrough to construct cultural province power.


ABSTRACT Detection of herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a medical emergency and requires rapid, sensitive testing. However, the volume of CSF received for microbiological studies may be limited, especially from young children. In this study, we compared three testing protocols to our routine real-time PCR method to determine the most sensitive approach for detecting HSV-1 and HSV-2 in low-volume (≤100 μl) CSF.


Supported Au–Pd nanoparticles are shown to be effective catalysts for the transformation of glycerol into glycerol carbonate. The reaction of glycerol with urea to form glycerol carbonate is a very attractive reaction that utilises two inexpensive and readily available raw materials in a chemical cycle that, overall, results in the chemical fixation of carbon dioxide. Previous reports are largely based on the utilisation of high concentrations of metal sulphates or oxides, which suffer from low intrinsic activity and selectivity and limited recoverability due to the dissolution of the catalyst in the reaction media. We now report that magnesium oxide is an excellent support for gold and bimetallic gold–palladium nanoparticles for this reaction. The preparation method and pre-treatment affect the catalytic performance and a colloidal preparation route produces the most active catalysts.


In 2002, construction of the Three Gorges project is characterized by its too high workload in installa-tion of metal structures and units following the concrete placement, especially in erection and test and regulation of metal structures, and installation of main components of units. Just before the rush time for operation of the units with construction of the project simultaneously, the preparatory work for the phased acceptance and management must be developed widely. The incidents and defaults in construction quality must be inspected, analyzed and treated in earnest prior to acceptance and impoundment of the reservoir. The removal of the up and downstream cofferdams are being ex-ecuted smoothly, but more attention shall be paid on the cleaning of the construction pits where there are still a great number of rocks to be excavated. The processing control and factory inspection shall be supervised. The field erectionand test and regulation shall be arranged elaborately. This year most of the metal structures incorporated with update technology will be in the test and regulation stage. The project acceptance is not only an essential procedure legally, butalso an overall inspection of the works.


The aim of this paper is to highlight a hitherto unknown computational aspect of Nonstandard Analysis pertaining to Reverse Mathematics (RM). In particular, we shall establish RM-equivalences between theorems from Nonstandard Analysis in a fragment of Nelson's internal set theory. We then extract primitive recursive terms from Goedel's system T (not involving Nonstandard Analysis) from the proofs of the aforementioned nonstandard equivalences. The resulting terms turn out to be witnesses for effective1 equivalences in Kohlenbach's higher-order RM. In other words, from an RM-equivalence in Nonstandard Analysis, we can extract the associated effective higher-order RM-equivalence which does not involve Nonstandard Analysis anymore. Finally, we show that certain effective equivalences in turn give rise to the original nonstandard theorems from which they were derived.


Automatically extracting quantities and generating final answers for numerical attributes is very useful in many occasions, including question answering, image processing, human-computer interaction, etc. A common approach is to learn linguistics templates or wrappers and employ some algorithm or model to generate a final answer. However, building linguistics templates or wrappers is a tough task for builders. In addition, linguistics templates or wrappers are domain-dependent. To make the builder escape from building linguistics templates or wrappers, we propose a new approach to final answer generation based on Predicates-Units Table (PUT), a mini domain-independent knowledge base. It is deserved to point out that, in the following cases, quantities are not represented well. Quantities are absent of units. Quantities are perhaps wrong for a given question. Even if all of them are represented well, their units are perhaps inconsistent. These cases have a strong impact on final answer solving. One thousand nine hundred twenty-six real queries are employed to test the proposed method, and the experimental results show that the average correctness ratio of our approach is 87.1%.


This paper assesses the capability of Compact Polarized (CP) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to explore ocean surface backscattering by reconstructing the pseudo quad-pol data. Besides using Souyris or Nord algorithms, 8 scenes of Radarsat-2 quad-polarized images are used to develop an empirical model for estimating the initial value of N in Collins's algorithm. The robustness the three published algorithms are discussed together with the reconstruction error of polarization scattering matrix [S]. The comparisons show that Collins's algorithm is superior to the other two algorithms in terms of reconstruction errors for the HH, VV, especially, the HV channels. In addition, the influence of each algorithm on polarimetric parameters is investigated. Based on the retrieval of the polarimetric parameters, it is concluded that Souyris, Nord and Collins algorithms all have similar (high) accuracies for copolarization backscattering coefficient σ0HH, σ0vv, co-polarization correlation coefficient $p$ and first eigenvalue l1, while for cross-polarization backscattering coefficient σ0vv and scattering angle α, the accuracy of Collins's algorithm performs better than that of Souyris or Nord. Although all three algorithms produced low accuracies for second eigenvalue $l$2, third eigenvalue l3, scattering entropy $H$ and scattering anisotropy A, the results obtained using Collins algorithm were better than those produced by the other two algorithms.


The paper is aimed at storing heat with gravel. During testing, we used various kinds of recycled aggregates, were studied their characteristics and suitability for ground heat storage. The most important feature is the specific heat capacity which was measured through own construction of the calorimeter. The construction of the calorimeter and measured results are summarized in this paper.


This paper investigates the problem of event-triggered dual-mode distributed predictive control (DPC) for constrained large-scale linear systems subject to bounded disturbances. Based on input-to-state stability (ISS) theory, the event-triggering condition involving information of the subsystem itself is derived. A dual-mode predictive control scheme is designed to reduce information exchanges with neighboring subsystems. The upper bound of disturbances for ensuring the recursive feasibility and closed-loop stability are developed. Finally, a simulation example is given to show that the presented method is able to save computation resources and communication resources while guaranteeing the desired control performance.


This paper uses Hannah Arendt's theoretical distinction between labour, work and action to provide ways of characterising different moments within artistic production. Using this model, "creativity", sometimes thought to be radically inexplicable, can be straightforwardly be aligned with the "actional".


We present a multichannel optical chemical sensor based on molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) in a D-shaped plastic optical fiber (POF), for simultaneous determination of two important analytes, dibenzyl disulfide, and furfural, whose presence in the transformer oil is an indication of underway corrosive or ageing processes, respectively, in power transformers. Furthermore, an investigation on the dependence of performances of this optical platform on the gold film thickness is reported. The low cost, highly selective, and sensitive performance of the SPR-POF-MIP platforms and the simple and modular scheme of the optical interrogation layout make this system a potentially suitable on-line diagnostic tool for power transformers.


According to calculations, single-cycle attosecond pulses can be generate with few nJ energy by Thomson scattering of terahertz pulse on ultrathin electron layer, produced by a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator and some suitable magnetic devices.


This paper discusses examples for an 'explicit education' of different modes of creativity and different methodologies for initiating creative processes. The awareness of creative methodology is not only important for professionals in the creative arts (composers, performing artists and art practitioners) but also for developers of tools that support creative processes. This article considers the background and context of the more general issues of creativity in higher education and then moves on to how a hands-on workshop was developed specifically for computer music / music technology related degrees enabling experiential learning of a wide variety of creative methodology. It explores the pedagogical methodologies behind the workshop, the running of the workshop itself, providing examples of specific exercises.


Solutions have been proposed to support awareness in groupware. Frequently, this requirement is fulfilled by similar functionalities that are implemented in different modules within these collaborative applications. These solutions usually represent crosscut concerns related to awareness by the use of object-oriented programming. As a result, tightly coupled components are generated as well as code redundancy and scattering. Flexibility and agility, related to awareness maintenance and evolution can be considered a challenge. This paper presents an awareness service named Aw2SOA, which was developed to support awareness functionalities in a Web-based Groupware Service-Oriented Architecture (WGWSOA) environment. The WGWSOA infrastructure is based on middleware services for collaborative applications. Aw2SOA is a middleware specific service which was implemented according to service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles and aspect-oriented programming (AOP) concepts. Case studies were carried out focusing on service integration activities as well as using groupware application development in order to evaluate this solution.


Background: Although it is widely accepted overproduction of uric acid and hyperuricemia (especially in acutely treated myeloproliferative disease) can cause acute renal failure, it is less clear whether chronic hyperuricemia independently could result in chronic interstitial nephritis and progressive renal failure. This is an important issue because mossy patients with chronic renal failure have serum uric acid levels greater than 10 mg/dl due to diminished glomerular filtration and the effects of diuretics. Although moderate hyperuricemia is often clinically assumed not to be harmful to the kidney, it may not he true. To answer this question, we examined the effect of uric acid on cultures of renal epithelial cell lines. Methods: We used DNA condensation assay and flow cytometry to examine else apoptotic effect of uric acid ass MDCK cells and LLCPK cells. Results: We found uric acid lacks a direct apoptotic effect on renal epithelial cells, cress its high concentrations (4 mM) and for a long exposure time (49 hours). Conclusion: We concluded uric acid lacks a direct apoptotic effect ass MDCK and LLCPK cells. However: she combined influences of uric acid on vascular endothelial cells, blood cells and renal tubular cells need further research.


To solve the problem that relocating feature points take for quite a long running time,the dynamic for facial action units is studied and a method on relocating feature points through a modified characteristic value is presented.Eigenvalues are operated from a mathematical point of view.After automatic positioning of the AAM,according to the entire change trend of the eigenvalue of an action unit,isolated frames are removed and the sequence is smoothed.The experiment shows that the method not only reduces the complexity of directly adjusting the feature point,but also achieves the purpose in a certain extent to improve the positioning accuracy of the feature point.


This article examines some central features of the South African civil service during the apartheid era. It sketches the context and nature of the massive expansion of the state administration ushered in by the National Party after 1948. In explaining the labour shortages afflicting the bureaucratic behemoth that emerged, the article analyzes a key paradox: despite the massive expansion in the size and power of the bureaucracy, its effectiveness was seriously eroded by emerging structural inefficiencies and skills shortages that arose, in part, from the determination to keep vast categories of the workforce white and, if possible, Afrikaner. This article also overturns the common assumption that the white civil service enjoyed a 'comfortable alliance' with the National Party government. Despite the placing of Afrikaners in 'sheltered employment' on a large scale in the civil service after 1948, the government that made the appointments lorded it over these employees, often treating them with contempt. The...


Synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) has become a needful field of used science. Biological production silver nanoparticles have been more benefit in the formulation of new pharmaceutical products. In this study we report extracellular of silver nanoparticles by Fusarium graminaerum. The fungal aqueous mycelial extract when added aqueous silver nitrate solution (1Mm) leads to the manufacture of silver nanoparticles extracellular. The silver nanoparticles were characterized by Atomic force microscopy. In visual analysis color change of silver nitrate solution into brown signifies the development of silver nanoparticles. and the antibacterial activity of Ag NPs produced was evaluated against some local pathogenic microorganism isolates, Staphylococcus aureus , Pseudomonas aeruginosa , Streptococcus spp ,  Klebsiella spp , E. Coli and Candida albicans, using the well diffusion method. Our results showed that the Ag NPs were produced by Fusarium graminaerum and their sizes 94 nm. Moreover Ag NPs proved excellent antimicrobial activity with zone of inhibition ranged between 15 to 35 mm. Keywords: Silver nanoparticles, Fusarium graminaerum, Antimicrobial activity , Atomic Force Microscopy .


Local agrominerals and fertilizers, including marsh plants, which are the waste from and have definite prospects in preventing soil erosion and restoring fertility alongside with the traditional anti-erosion technologies. Given this, we studied local fertilizers (ma- nure, zeolite, sodium humate) and plant residues (marsh plants, straw) with the addition of (NP) 60 and suspensions of microscopic fungus Trichoderma koningii strain IB G-51 ( T. koningii ) when used at no-till (NT) and conventional tillage (CV) of the weakly eroded Chernozem (Mollisol). The effects were estimated based on the key agrochemical properties (humus content, mobile phosphorus, potassium, and alkaline hydrolyzed nitrogen), assay of activity of soil hydrolases and oxidoreductases and the yield of agricultural crops (spring wheat, barley and sugar beet). A three-year investigation was conducted


Executive Summary A large portion (23%) of the Redwood Coast Energy Authority's (RCEA) electricity portfolio for Humboldt County is sourced from two local biomass incineration plants, using local logging and mill waste as feedstock. Because the biomass that is sourced for incineration meets California's sustainable forestry requirements, the biomass plants are considered GHG neutral, renewable power sources to the state. Despite this, the community has mixed opinions on the local air quality impact and actual climate change contribution resulting from the biomass plants. As a result, RCEA has commissioned the authors to provide a technical, economic, and environmental assessment of alternative uses of biomass feedstock in Humboldt County. The team developed four alternative use cases for the biomass feedstock, subject to the following constraints: 1. The alternative must meet or exceed all federal, state, and local water and air pollutant standards concerning criteria pollutants and CO2. 2. The alternative must not create a demand for imported biomass or use a non-waste source of biomass. Alternative One proposed the creation of a composting facility to convert the woody biomass into a valuable organic soil amendment. Alternative Two used the woody biomass as raw material for the production of particleboard. Alternative Three consisted of a gasification and refining facility that would produce a substitute natural gas for local residential gas customers. Alternative Four proposed the construction of a 500 thousand ton per year wood pellet facility, creating a valuable export product from the waste biomass. The four proposed alternatives were evaluated against nine different criteria, themselves separated into four categories: Economic, Environmental, Technical, and Social. Each criterion was given a weight from 1-10, based on recommendations from RCEA. The sole Economic criteria was the payback period of the project, in years. The Environmental criteria included the net GHG emission difference between implementation of the alternative and the current baseline. The Technical criteria examined included system robustness, technological maturity, and overall operator skill level required. The Social criteria considered consisted of the amount of new criteria air and water pollutants, and number of jobs provided by the alternative proposal. The preferred alternative was determined using the Delphi matrix method, and a Wood Pellet manufacturing facility was chosen. This alternative would use all of the available biomass currently being used by the two biomass power plants in Humboldt. The facility is proposed to be sited at the Redwood Marine Terminal 2, the site of a former pulp mill, with access to a dock for loading finished pellets onto cargo ships,


Mitsubishi Electric, the prime contractor of Advanced Optical Satellite (ALOS-3), is developing wide swath and high resolution optical imager for the satellite. The telescope consists of off-axis four mirrors anastigmat, whose entrance pupil diameter is around φ0.55m. It realizes > 6.0 degrees field of view. The focal plane array for the imager has 12 image sensors for each band. It will provide wide swath images. The sensors are line type CCD image sensors with TDI. Panchromatic sensors have micro lens optimized for the telescope. All of them are manufactured as one optical system in domestic with optimization for ALOS-3 mission. Therefore the imager will provide state-of-the-art pushbroom images and contribute disaster monitoring, short-time mapping and various purposes.


Since January 1974 Dutch law has provided that rehabilitation (probation and parole) agencies can provide early assistance for certain suspects held at police stations. This means that the agency intervenes at an early stage in the proceedings and contacts such suspects to see whether they are in need of help. In the remainder of this article, the term "early intervention" will be used to denote the work of the agencies in this respect.


We report on the use of Gaussian beam mode analysis (GBMA) to study the focusing properties of binary counterparts of lenses, axicons and Gabor zone plates. Optical components at millimetre wavelengths with short focal ratios are inevitably rather thick. It is therefore advantageous to devise a method that can maximize space in a linear imaging system. This can be achieved by using a binary form of refractive and diffractive focusing elements to localize power from beams subject to a large degree of diffraction as is common in quasi-optics at these wavelengths. In this paper, we present numerical analysis of the aforementioned elements using GBMA as a computationally efficient alternative to Fresnel-Kirchoff diffraction integrals.


Shift work and Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) have been associated with excessive daytime sleepiness and increased risk of road traffic accidents. There is evidence that daytime sleepiness does not provide as satisfactory explanation for accidents, and occupational and social failures associated with sleep disorders. The possibility arises that intermittent hypoxemia and sleep deprivation due to sleep fragmentation in OSA and sleep deprivation secondary to sleep cycle disruption in shift work may underlie neuropsychological deficits, which in turn meditate these functional impairments. The current study uses a control-referenced and norm-referenced design to explore in detail the subcomponents of attention/executive functions and motor coordination of patients with OSA and shift workers with an aim to outline and compare the profiles of any cognitive impairment between these groups.


We analyze the tendencies in choosing cut-edit points in personal video content edited by users on the Internet, and develop a method to automatically estimate cut-edit points based on the results. When we investigated the relationship among cut-edit points in personal videos using a space-time patch feature(ST-patch feature), we realized that cut-edits were done in frames with a low Continuous Rank-Increase Measure (CRIM) value and a high Motion Correlation (MC) value calculated from the ST-patch feature. Therefore, we propose a method for estimating cut-edit points based on CRIM and MC values. Experimental results indicate that we obtained a recall ratio of 61.3% and a precision ratio of 50.4%.


In the plasma flash x-ray generator, a 200-nF condenser is charged up to 50 kV by a power supply, and flash x-rays are produced by the discharging. The x-ray tube is a demountable triode with a trigger electrode, and the turbomolecular pump evacuates air from the tube with a pressure of approximately 1 mPa. Target evaporation leads to the for- mation of weakly ionized linear plasma, consisting of copper ions and electrons, around the fine target, and intense Ka rays are produced us- ing a 10-mm-thick nickel filter. At a charging voltage of 50 kV, the maxi- mum tube voltage is almost equal to the charging voltage of the main condenser, and the peak current is about 15 kA. When the charging voltage is increased, the linear plasma forms, and the copper Ka inten- sities substantially increase. The Ka lines are quite clean and intense, and hardly any bremsstrahlung rays are detected at all. The x-ray pulse widths are approximately 700 ns, and the time-integrated x-ray intensity has a value of approximately 20 mC/kg at 1.0 m from the x-ray source with a charging voltage of 50 kV. © 2005 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation


Objective To observe the effects of the Chinese baicalin on LPS which lead to the decreases of activities and ultrastructural impairments of human periodontal ligament fibroblasts (HPLFs), and try to study the mechanism of the effects.Methods The cell culture technique in vitro, thiazolyl blue tetrazolium bromide (MTT) staining and spectrophotometric assay and transmission electron microscope (TEM) method were used to observe the effects of baicalin on LPS.Results At the concentration of 100μg/mL, LPS of E. Coli could inhibit the proliferation of activities of HPLFs remarkably and proliferation of activities of HPLFs improved greatly after adding baicalin. Furthermore, LPS had significant impairmental effect on ultrastrutures of HPLFs in 100μg/ml, especially on the mitochondria. After adding baicalin, the impairment of ultrastructures of HPLFs was decreased.Conclusion The Chinese baicalin has the protective effects on the fibroblasts of human periodontal ligament induced by LPS. The mechanism of the effects may be related to the decomposition of LPS and the protection of the Chinese baicalin which prevents LPS from going into HPLFs.


The solution of the K.S.S.H.-like model shown to be exactly solvable in any number of dimensions, for a particular choice of the coupling constant describing the hopping process amplitude, both for finite size and in the thermodynamic limit, is discussed in detail. The analysis of the zero-temperature phase space in d = 2 shows that the model exhibits a transition in the number of doubly occupied sites order parameter, which at half-filling coincides with the Mott transition found for the Hubbard model in the Gutzwiller approximation.


Performances of double-emulsion techniques (W/O/W and W/O/O) and ionotropic gelation process were compared to achieve encapsulation of gadolinium MRI contrast agents (GdCAs) into biocompatible polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) with high Gd-loadings. The better approach proved to be ionotropic gelation with H[Gd(DOTA)] as GdCA. Relaxometry evaluation of H[Gd(DOTA)] NPs efficiency demonstrated that incorporation of H[Gd(DOTA)] inside an hydrogel matrix highly improved H[Gd(DOTA)] relaxivity. Particle efficacy as MR contrast agents was further demonstrated on a 3 T clinical imager: a significant improvement of T1and T2MR signals was obtained at doses much lower than the currently used. 2012 Académie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.


In our work, we acquaint a novel methodology to classify information in different datasets. Our strategy depends on K-nearest neighbor (KNN) classification and utilizes Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as information decrease approach, conquering the constraints of conventional KNN characterization on huge information. PCA is utilized to perform information dimensionality decrease while the KNN lazy learner is utilized to perform classification. The execution of the KNN technique, as far as accuracy and classification time, is resolved as a component of the pressure rate accomplished in the PCA preprocessing stage. KNN classifier gives a tremendous change in this specific case, subsequent to as no preparation is required, new items can be included at whatever time. However, KNN lazy learner has high calculation cost depending on number of instances. In order to make KNN lazy learner work possible for any size of dataset, it is important to preprocess the dataset to decrease the number of instances. Here, PCA is applied to reduce the number of transactions which decreases the computation cost and execution time additionally accomplishes close exactness result than without PCA.


Scalar Holographic Artificial Impedance Surface (HAIS) is a modulated slow leaky-wave antenna whose surface impedance profile is obtained using holographic principle. The surface impedance modulation functions aid in the formation of the desired radiation pattern, polarization, aperture efficiency and bandwidth of the radiating structure. This paper compares the bandwidth of phase crossover and non-phase crossover frequency operations of scalar HAIS. It is shown that the non-phase crossover frequency operation provides an additional degree of freedom of structural modification to achieve desired polarization along with larger operational bandwidth.