Changes in gene expression in the brain, pituitary, and adrenal have been reported in a number of prenatal stress studies. However, it is not clear whether the high maternal glucocorticoid (GC) level is directly responsible for these perturbations. We exposed rat dams to DEX during gestation days 14–19 and found a significant decrease in birth weight and adult weight of the male offspring. In addition, this treatment elicited a significant increase in serum ACTH and CORT. In contrast, circulating levels of serotonin were significantly lower in the DEX-exposed adult males. Using real time RT-PCR we measured a significant decrease in the hippocampal mineralcorticoid receptor (MR) and serotonin receptor, 5-HT1B. In contrast, the mRNA levels measured for hippocampal 5-HT1A, 5-HT2A, and glucocorticoid receptor (GR) were not significantly different from the control animals. Interestingly, males exposed to DEX in utero exhibited a significant increase in hippocampal 11 beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 (11beta HSDI). Unlike the placental 11beta HSD2 isozyme which inactivates endogenous CORT, hippocampal 11beta HSD1 regenerates active corticosterone from inert 11dehydrocorticosterone. It is becoming increasingly apparent that glucocorticoid actions are not only mediated via intracellular GR and MR, but by the presence of 11beta HSDI and its capacity for regulating intracellular concentration of active GC. HPA axis hyperactivity may result, in part, from a reduced hippocampal tonic inhibition. It is possible that the significant changes in hippocampal corticosteroid receptor and 11beta HSD I gene expression contribute to this loss of inhibition. Moreover, since 5HT receptors in the rat hippocampus are normally under tonic inhibition by corticosteroid, the elevation of both circulating and intracellular CORT would suppress the serotonergic system in this region. These data demonstrate that exposure to DEX in utero has persistent effects on the adult brain thus supporting the prenatal origin of adult dysfunction hypothesis.


Blockchain is a secure, decentralised way to move and store data. Whereas AI is a process which makes use of learning through self and is founded on the examination and identification of patterns in vast volumes of data. It also evaluates and makes judgments based on the study of a lot of data using supervised or unsupervised learning. The foundation of this essay is a conceptual understanding of how blockchain and AI could complement one another or how blockchain might help AI. It indicates that both can eventually be combined for the advantage of both businesses and the people dealing with it.


In order to understand how sexual and romantic relations are established and negotiated in discourse, the field of language and sexuality is dependent upon empirical data from naturally occurring spontaneous interaction. However, detailed discussions of research methods are lacking in the field. In this article, I explore ways of accessing intimate spontaneous data in a heterosexual online dating context. Through interactional analysis of three types of online dating interaction, I examine the multi-faceted context for securing informed consent while at the same time preserving participants' intimacy. I argue that institutionalized informed consent procedures may undercut participant agency and expose symbolic violence towards their carefully built interactional framework. The analysis demonstrates participants' ability to negotiate ethical issues and to turn such issues into a contribution to the ongoing flirtatious interaction. As a result, I suggest a method that integrates participants' interactional expertise in the consent-gaining process.


By probing into the news section of the official websites of nearly 100 universities both home and abroad,this paper compares the difference between Chinese universities and their foreign counterparts in the number of news on leaders and its proportion to academic ones.The paper concludes that the news section of Chinese university websites reflects a relatively high degree of bureaucracy,which can be traced back to China's "officialdom worship" tradition.


Background : The neglected tropical diseases are a group of 13 infections that affect more than one billion people worldwide, especially those who live in extreme poverty. Aim : This study was conducted to determine community knowledge of these neglected tropical diseases (NTD) in Cameroon. Materials and Methods : A random sampling method was used to administer questionnaires to 3345 adults. Results : 2566 (76.7%) of people approached responded to the questionnaire. This comprised 1313 (51.2%) females and 1253 (48.8%) males. There was a significant level of association between the opinion of the respondents and their region of residence (P Conclusion : There was low community knowledge pattern of neglected tropical diseases, mostly among the female populations and people living in rural areas. We advocate mass media health education to be adopted as one of the strategies for the national control policy of NTDs.

 Keywords : Neglected Tropical Diseases, Cameroon, community, knowledge


OBJECTIVE
To compare the effectiveness of oral methotrexate versus systemic corticosteroids in treatment of lichen planus.

STUDY DESIGN
Randomised controlled trial.

PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY
Department of Dermatology, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar from September 2013 to February 2014.

METHODOLOGY
Patients with generalised lichen planus involving at least 20% of total body area diagnosed clinically and were randomly allocated into two equal groups by lottery method. Patients in group A were subjected to oral methotrexate 10 mg once weekly for eight weeks with standard monitoring of full blood count and liver and renal function tests. Patients in group B were subjected to oral corticosteroids 40 mg for eight weeks taken daily than tapered according to the protocol. The results were assessed at baseline and at the eighth week after starting the treatment. The responses were analysed by Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and sorted into four categories: 0-3 = poor response, 4-5 = moderate, 6-7 = good, and >7 excellent response. Chi-square test was applied to compare the efficacy in two groups with significance of less than or equal to 0.05.

RESULTS
Group A (methotrexate) had 47 (60%) male patients and 32 (40%) female patients. Group B (oral corticosteroids) had 51 (64%) male patients and 28 (36%) females. Group A 55 (70%) patients had lichen planus in <50% of the body; whereas in group B 53 (67%) patients had lichen planus in <50% of the body. Methotrexate was effective in 63 (80%) patients; whereas, oral corticosteroid was effective in 57 (72%) patients. No remarkable side effects were observed with either agent.

CONCLUSION
Methotrexate is more efficacious than systemic corticosteroids, but the effect is not statistically significant.


In this paper we address the problem of computing a sparse subgraph of a weighted directed graph such that the exact distances from a designated source vertex to all other vertices are preserved under bounded weight increment. Finding a small sized subgraph that preserves distances between any pair of vertices is a well studied problem. Since in the real world any network is prone to failures, it is natural to study the fault tolerant version of the above problem. Unfortunately, it turns out that there may not always exist such a sparse subgraph even under single edge failure [Demetrescu \emph{et al.} '08]. However in real applications it is not always the case that a link (edge) in a network becomes completely faulty. Instead, it can happen that some links become more congested which can easily be captured by increasing weight on the corresponding edges. Thus it makes sense to try to construct a sparse distance preserving subgraph under the above weight increment model. To the best of our knowledge this problem has not been studied so far. In this paper we show that given any weighted directed graph with $n$ vertices and a source vertex, one can construct a subgraph that contains at most $e \cdot (k-1)!2^kn$ many edges such that it preserves distances between the source and all other vertices as long as the total weight increment is bounded by $k$ and we are allowed to have only integer valued (can be negative) weight on each edge and also weight of an edge can only be increased by some positive integer. Next we show a lower bound of $c\cdot 2^kn$, for some constant $c \ge 5/4$, on the size of the subgraph. We also argue that restriction of integer valued weight and integer valued weight increment are actually essential by showing that if we remove any one of these two restrictions we may need to store $\Omega(n^2)$ edges to preserve distances.


In respect of the form of tort liability,the tort by omission is the counterpart of the tort by act,and compared with the latter,the former not only has its own particular values and theoretical grounds,but also has its own constitutive requirements and liability requirements. The tort by omission is closely related to general civil salvage obligation. As regulated by specific entrenched clauses,its juristic application is also subject to jus publice stabilitum,costum,bona fide doctrine,etc. The tort by omission should be introduced in the future legislation on tort liability,by taking reference of the advanced legal thoughts and mature systems of other countries. In legislative strategies,generalization and enumeration should be combined to the application of this system.


This paper deals with the X-radiation from television receivers and video display terminals. The bremsstrahlung production rate was calculated according to the thick target theory, and the transmitted X-radiation was measured by the spectrometry method. The calculated and the measured results were compared and discussed. In addition, evidences were shown that only the highest energy component of the bremsstrahlung can penetrate the cathode ray tube.


A Training program is an essential requirement in teaching professional development to enrich teachers' skills and academic knowledge, provide modern strategies, and implement global activities. Iraqi EFL secondary school teachers suffer from the lack of training programs based on modern strategies and techniques and from a need of professional development in general. Therefore, this study has been diagnosed the problem in the educational field, and aims at finding out the effect of a designed PostMethod Era-based training program on Iraqi EFL secondary school teachers' performance. It is hypothesized that there is no statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group and that of the control group in: 1. The overall teaching performance. 2. Teaching performance in pre-instruction dimension. 3. Teaching performance in instruction dimension. 4. Teaching performance in post –instruction dimension. A population of (980), from which a sample of (60) EFL secondary school teachers is taken randomly from Al-Rusafa 2 nd General Directorate of Education, and distributed into (experimental and control) groups. Each of them consists of 30 teachers. The two groups have been equalized in seven variables (age, gender, years of teaching experience, teaching stages, training courses, academic qualifications, and pre – performance test). An observation checklist and a designed postmethod training program have been used. The findings reveals that the training program has a positive impact on improving teachers' overall performance and particularly in three dimensions pre-instruction, instruction and post instruction. Some conclusions, recommendations, and suggestions have been exposed.


Residential electrical safety is highly attended,but users usually have unseen troubles in consumption due to the lack of precautions in residential designs.Therefore,an earthen connection is required in residential electrical designing according to TN-C-S system.Strong and weak current lines are separated,and a strong limit enforced over voltage protection at certain areas.


As a biomass tanning agent, epoxy-modified dialdehyde starch can significantly improve the comprehensive properties of finished leather, and is expected to be a novel sustainable chrome-free tanning agent replace traditional tanning agent.


Role image is the preliminary work of animation film production. A vivid character can has a positive impact on the film. The animation not only includes the protagonist and the opposite role to show the main plot, but also has the indispensable supporting role, all of which assist the splendid plot of film with their own ways. By studying the using strategies of role image, this paper expounds the law and significance of imagebuilding in Disney animated films.


Summary form only. Long-wavelength quantum-well (QW) lasers with phase-conjugate feedback (PCF) is one of the best physical system for studying nonlinear dynamics. In this work, we present to the best of our knowledge the first theoretical analysis and modeling of dynamics of long-wavelength QW lasers subjected to a phase-conjugate mirror (PCM) taking into account structure dependent effects of carrier transport. Except for carrier transport such intrinsic features of long-wavelength QW lasers as logarithmiclike gain and nonlinear recombination including Auger effect and amplified luminescence are considered as well.


Objectives : This study was performed to find the relation between prognosis of peripheral facial palsy and blink reflex. Methods : Data was collected from patients who were admitted and treated by East-West Collaborative Treatment of Facial Palsy Center in Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong from January 2012 to June 2013. Patients were screened by inclusion/exclusion criteria and 163 patients' medical records were reviewed including blink reflex performed 14 ± 2 days after onset and House-Brackmann grade. Patients were divided into three groups, normal, delayed and absent group by blink reflex test. Trends of each recovery rate to House-Brackmann grade II and I depending on three group were analyzed at 1 month, 3 months and 6 months after onset using Linear by linear association. Results : At 1 month, 3 months and 6 months after onset, both recovery rate to HouseBrackmann grade II and I had a tendency to be decreased statistically significantly in order of normal, delayed and absent group. Conclusions : We could find feasibility of blink reflex as a prognostic factor of peripheral facial palsy. Further study will be necessary.


- The paper discusses a principle existence of computer models of the chess game concepts by linking them with classes of winning positions in the game tree specified by Zermelo's method. The requirements to simulation environment necessary for concepts representation and formation as well as further research issues are discussed.


This paper describe the development of the neural network models for the noise reduction. These types of the networks used to enhance the performance of multimedia images by reducing the effect of noise. To remove the blurness and noise from multimedia objects, the Recurrent and Multilayer backpropogation networks can be used. With the help of Gradient descent backpropagation (traingd) and Gradient descent with momentum backpropagation (traingdm) the performance of multimedia images can be increased by removing the effect of noise. Keywords— Noise reduction, recurrent neural networks, multi-layer backpropagation, neural networks, robust ASR.


Abstract In this study, a polypropylene (PP) mesh was used to prepare proton- and Li+ conducting composite membranes for fuel cells and lithium rechargeable batteries, respectively. For the preparation of Li+ conducting membrane, polypropylene mesh was first immersed in an electrolyte solution, which was composed of LiBF4 and ethylene carbonate. Then the swollen membrane was immersed in an acetone solution of polyethylene glycol diacrylate (PEGDA), polyvinylidenefluoride-co-hexafluoro-propylene and photoinitiator. Finally, PP fabric was taken out from the solution and exposed to UV irradiation. Furthermore, proton conducting membranes were prepared by immersing the PP mesh into a mixture of vinyl phosphonic acid, PEGDA and photoinitiator. Afterwards, samples were cured under UV light. PP-reinforced membranes designed for fuel cell applications exhibited a room temperature conductivity of 3.3×10-3 mS/cm, while UV-cured electrolyte for Li batteries showed ionic conductivities in the range of 1.61×10-3–5.4×10-3 S/cm with respect to temperature. In addition, for lithium-doped composite polymer electrolyte (CPE), the electrochemical stability window was negligible below 4.75 V vs. Li/Li+. It is concluded that lithium-doped CPE has suitable electrochemical stability to allow the use of high-voltage electrode couples.


The immune system is able to fight against tumors with a process known as cancer immunoediting. In this aspect, natural killer T (NKT) cells have been proved useful to control tumor growth and are therefore being studied for potential new strategies. Two main subsets of NKT cells have been described, type I or iNKT cells and type II or vNKT cells, with opposing roles in mediating tumor immunity. The therapeutic studies focus on iNKT cell activity because they generally enhance tumor immunity, taking advantage of both direct and adjuvant iNKT cell activity. So far the results are preliminary but promising. Introduction


Driver Drowsiness is one of the most factors of road accidents, leading to severe injuries and deaths every year. Drowsiness means difficulty staying awake, which can lead to falling asleep. This paper introduces a literature review of driver drowsiness detection systems based on an analysis of physiological signals, facial features, and driving patterns. The paper also presents and details the recently proposed techniques for each class. We have also provided a comparative study of recently published works regarding the accuracy, reliability, hardware requirement, and intrusiveness. We have summarized and discussed the advantages and limitations of each class. As a result, each class of techniques has advantages and limitations. A hybrid system that combines two and more techniques will be efficient, robust, accurate, and used in real-time to take advantage of each technique.


Thomas von der Dunk looks back upon the main and basic causes of the outright failure of the American military intervention in Iraq, now more than four years ago. Setting aside the false pretexts of weapons of mass destruction and the war against terrorism it is still relevant to assess the causes of the inevitability of the failure of the democratization process as such. Three crucial factors stand out in this respect: (1) the character of Middle East societies in general and of the artificial construct Iraq in particular; (2) the incredibility of the project based on a wrong assessment of Arab attitudes; and (3) the nature and self-image of the United States which may have the practical tools to export and impose programmes of modernization but does not have the right and balanced psychological orientation.


Taking partial split project of current pouring concrete boards in a district in Zhengzhou,it analyzes the causes of split and propounds adoptable measures to avoid split in design combined with designing experience.


Palladium-based alloys with yttrium, copper, ruthenium or indium additions were investigated. Their specific hydrogen permeability, strength, linear thermal expansion in hydrogen and corrosion resistance in a number of gas media were determined. This allowed effective membrane elements to be developed using membranes made from these alloys, which are used for the separation of high purity hydrogen from hydrogencontaining gas mixtures. Membrane elements with 93.5 wt% palladium-6 wt% indium-0.5 wt% ruthenium alloy membranes were developed by the authors' research group, and their technical characteristics are described.


This paper examines the works of two twentieth and twenty-first century Protestant Chinese Christians, Wú Léichuān and Shí Héngtán, probing their hermeneutics for similarities to the way Buddhism entered into Chinese culture that might suggest a possibility of Christianity becoming a "fourth teaching," alongside Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. A theological framework first described by Christian historian Andrew Walls, which he calls the "Ephesians Moment," will be used to evaluate the hermeneutical choices made by Wú and Shí.


Central venous catheterisation (CVC) requires maximal sterile barrier precautions to prevent catheter‐related bloodstream infection, which is associated with preventable morbidity and mortality.[1,2] Disposable surgical drapes are recommended as a standard of care; however, those specifically meant for this purpose are neither freely available nor cost‐effective. We present the use of the commercially available disposable ophthalmic drape for the said purpose.


A hybrid estimate model for transmission distortions is proposed by analyzing characteristics of error propagation in multiview video coding (MVC) in this paper. Based on this model, a joint source-channel RDO mode selection algorithm is proposed, which combines the transmission distortion estimation model with traditional RDO to select out the optimal mode to decrease the distortion of decoded pictures. Both proposed model and algorithm are demonstrated via simulation results for video transmission over packet loss channel. The transmission distortions can be estimated quickly and accurately by proposed model. Compared with RDO in JMVC, joint source-channel RDO mode selection algorithm can improve the quality of decoded pictures 1.38 dB in average when the video streams are transmitted through error-prone channels.


[Objective]To study the hygienic status of central air-conditioning ventilation system in hotels and restaurants of Ji'nan during the 2009 National Games,evsure the air quality and prevent the spread of airborne diseases.[Methods]Central air conditioning system of 26 units,duct system,air supply system and water system were investigated and detected according to Sanitary Criterion of the Central Ventilation Systems in Public Place.[Results]The qualified rate of dust inside surface of vent was 96.15%,the rate of total bacteria inside surface of vent was 69.23%,the rate of total fungi inside surface of vent was 96.15%,the rate of total bacteria in the air of ventilation pipe was 53.85%,the rate of PM10 was 61.54%,the detection rate of Legionella pneumophila in cooling water was 26.92%,the detection rate of Legionella pneumophila in condensate water was 4.00%.[Conclusion]Pollution degree of central air-conditioning ventilation systems is serious in some of the receiving units.


Abstract : To traditional moderate or low resolution satellite data, the data processing or information detecting is only on a per-pixel basis because of the impacts to geometric accuracy of spatial resolution. Thereby only the spectral information is used for the classification. High spatial resolution sensors involves a general increase of spatial information and the accuracy of results may decrease on a per-pixel basis. In order to realize the full potential of the VHR image data, An object-oriented image analysis is implementation with the software cognition. It is based on fuzzy logic, allows the integration of different object features, such as spectral values, shape and texture. In this paper we analysis an object-oriented classification method using QuickBird panchromatic and multispectral data on the test area of the PuDong New district of Shanghai analysis includes two parts: first dividing the image data into segments and then classifying the segments by means of fuzzy approach of nearest neighbor classifier.


The oxidation of Arabian atmospheric gas oil (AGO) with nitric acid to remove sulfur from the oil is similar to the gradual processes involved in the storage instability of petroleum distillates and synfuels, except that in this process the instability process is accelerated by adding a strong oxidizing agent, nitric acid. The elemental composition of these sediments is compared. A mathematical kinetic model is presented to describe the kinetics of sulfur removal in the oxidation of AGO using a CSTR. This model employs lumping of the sulfur compounds in the oil into four groups according to their retention times (hence, boiling points) in the gas chromatograph, and residue (R) containing some of the other three sulfur groups. The first group had a very fast reaction rate. The second group reacts with second-order kinetics with a rate constant of 17 g of oil/(g of S2 {center dot} min) at 25{degrees}C. The third group was not present in the unoxidized oil, and as it was formed, it equilibrated between the oil and the residue phases.


Simulation analysis of System View can renovate experiment contents expediently in the profession of electron and communication. It has the characteristics of the simple and true circuit designs. The article introduces its applications in the frequency synthesize circuit by pratical examples.


The Individual Bunch Measurement System (IBMS) allows the intensity of each bunch in an LHC batch to be the measured both in the PS to SPS transfer lines and in the SPS ring itself. The method is based on measuring the peak and valley of the analogue signal supplied by a Fast Beam Current Transformer at a frequency of 40MHz. A 12 bit acquisition system is required to obtain a 1% resolution for the intensity range of 5x10 9 to 1.7x10 11 protons per bunch, corresponding to the pilot and ultimate LHC bunch intensities. The acquisition selection and external trigger adjustment system is driven by the 200MHz RF, which is distributed using a single-mode fibre-optic link. A local oscilloscope, controlled via a GPIB interface, allows the remote adjustment of the timing signals. The low-level software consists of a real-time task and a communication server run on a VME Power PC, which is accessed using a graphical user interface. This paper describes the system as a whole and presents some recent uses and results from the SPS run in 2000.


The utility model discloses a photosensitive lighting temporary parking board, which comprises a rectangular shell; an inserting opening and an insertion groove are arranged at one side face of the rectangular shell; a plurality of rectangular grooves arrayed in a line are arranged in the insertion groove; rectangular cards made of a transparent material and convexly provided or printed with opaque numbers on the upper end surface are placed in the rectangular grooves; a displaying window for viewing the rectangular cards is arranged on the front face of the rectangular shell; a support seat for erecting the rectangular shell is connected with the lower end face of the rectangular shell; a battery groove is also arranged in the rectangular shell and is internally provided with a battery; at least one LED (light emitting diode) lamp is arranged at the rear end of the rectangular card in the insertion groove; a photosensitive sensor, a controller and a control switch are connected in series between the LED lamp and the battery. The photosensitive lighting temporary parking board is simple in structure and is placed in a vehicle, and the rectangular cards with numbers can be placed in the rectangular groove according to actual phone numbers; when the board is used at night, the LED lamp can be controlled by the photosensitive sensor to light, so a user can clearly watch the content on the rectangular cards.


In order to study the helminth parasites of pigs were necropsied 60 specimens of Paralichthys isosceles Jordan, 1890 and 25 P. patagonicus Jordan, in 1889 the State collected on the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from October 2006 to March 2008. In P. Isosceles 1820 specimens were collected Hysterothylacium sp. third and fourth larval stages, with a prevalence of 100%, mean intensity of infection was 30.3, mean abundance of 32 and range of variation of intensity of infection of 1-596. Macroscopically nodules were observed in the stomach mucosa and serosa of the intestine. The histopathological sections of the nodules were observed in larvae inserted DNA abdominal musculature, in the submucosal layers, muscle and serosa of the stomach and intestine, where associated with granulomas, consisting of fibrous tissues, macrophages and lymphocytes, also centered larvae, material necrotic material and tunnels coated acidophilus. Pathological changes and occurrences of Hysterothylacium sp. were first reported in this host. Four other important zoonotic larvae were identified and reported considering their prevalence (P). The following species of Raphidascaris sp. (P = 36.7%), Terranova sp. (P = 5%), Anisakis simplex (P = 5%) and Contracaecum sp. (P = 3.3%). Paralichthys isosceles is a new host for the larvae of Anisakis simplex and Hysterothylacium sp. In P. isosceles and P. patagonicus were collected 169 larval trematodes belonging to the family dogeneticos Didymozoidae, identified as types and Torticaecum Neotorticaecum with a prevalence of 80% for the first host and 40% for the second, being the first record in South America, Atlantic Ocean, Brazil. In P. isosceles were carried out taxonomic identification of the cestodes found, taking into account the importance of sanitary conditions in fish markets from Brazil and abroad, where in 56 (93.3%) of infected fish collected, met at least one copy of metacestodes, included in three different orders: Diphyllobotriidea, and Trypanorhyncha Tetraphyllidae. The order was represented by Diphyllobotriidea plerocercoids of two kinds: Diphyllobothrium sp. 1 (similar to Diphyllobothrium latum) located in the stomach, the gastric mucosa and the mesenterium and Dyphyllobothrium sp. 2 (similar to D. dendriticum) in the intestine, liver, ovary and abdominal cavity. Both species have a prevalence of 6% and 10% respectively. The order was represented by Trypanorhyncha Grillotia carvajalregorum (Carvajal & Rego, 1993) Menoret & Ivanoc, 2009 (P = 73%), Nybelinia lingualis (Cuvier, 1817) Dollfus, 1927 (P = 57%), Heteronybelinia nipponica (Yamaguti, 1952 ) (P = 35%), Otobothium sp. (P = 15%)


Introduction: The microstructure and chemical composition of tooth dentin reflect the complex processes associated with pathological conditions. Therefore, the study of their features is relevant in understanding the tactics of diagnosis and prevention of cervical lesions. Aim of the research: A comparative analysis of the morphological structure and chemical composition of the dentin of intact teeth, teeth with cervical caries, and a wedge-shaped defect. Material and methods: The study included 29 clinically extracted teeth of both jaws and their longitudinal sections, from patients aged 25–54 years, using a JSM-6490 LV focused-beam electron microscope (scanning) with system of energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis. The chemical composition of 235 dentine areas in the incisal region (tubercle), equator, and cervical area was determined as a percentage of the weights of carbon, oxygen, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, sulphur, chlorine, zinc, potassium, and aluminium. Results: The differences in the content of oxygen, sodium, and zinc in the dentin of all studied anatomical regions were determined, depending on the state of hard dental tissues (p ≤ 0.05). The teeth with cervical caries had less oxygen and more zinc while the teeth with a wedge-shaped defect had less sodium (p ≤ 0.05). An inverse correlation was revealed between carbon and phosphorus, and carbon and calcium in the area of the incisal region (tubercle); direct correlation between phosphorus and calcium (p ≤ 0.05) at the equator and in the cervical region was also revealed. Conclusions: The heterogeneity of mineral dentin content in the studied zones is probably because of the load on various areas and their morphological characteristics.


We report on Chandra ACIS imaging of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) of the young Vela-like PSR B1706−44, which shows the now common pattern of an equatorial wind and polar jets. The structure is particularly rich, showing a relativistically boosted termination shock, jets with strong confinement, a surrounding radio/X-ray PWN and evidence for a quasi-static 'bubble nebula'. The structures trace the pulsar spin geometry and illuminate its possible relation to SNR G343.1−2.3. We also obtain improved estimates of the pulsar flux and nebular spectrum, constraining the system age and energetics. Subject headings: gamma rays: observations, stars: pulsars: individual B1706−44


Abstract We show that ( g 2 , a , b ) is a Gabor frame when a >0, b >0, ab g 2 (t)=( 1 2 πγ) 1/2 (cosh πγt) −1 is a hyperbolic secant with scaling parameter γ>0. This is accomplished by expressing the Zak transform of g 2 in terms of the Zak transform of the Gaussian g 1 ( t )=(2γ) 1/4 exp (−πγ t 2 ), together with an appropriate use of the Ron–Shen criterion for being a Gabor frame. As a side result it follows that the windows, generating tight Gabor frames, that are canonically associated to g 2 and g 1 are the same at critical density a = b =1. Also, we display the "singular" dual function corresponding to the hyperbolic secant at critical density.


Background & Objectives: World Health Organization defines low birth weight as birth weight of less than 2500 grams irrespective of gestational age. Low birth weight is the single most important risk factor of infant mortality in developing countries such as India. As Kerala enjoys a unique position among other state of India because of its distinct demographic and health indicators, it is necessary to identify the risk factors of low birth weight operating in this state. Hence this study was undertaken to identify medical and social risk factors of low birth weight among infants delivered at a tertiary care hospital of Kannur, Kerala. Materials and Methods: It was a case-control study carried out at Kannur Medical College and Hospital, Kannur District, Kerala. The study period was from October 2015 to March 2016. The study involved 110 cases (mothers who delivered a child with birth weight of <2500 grams) and 220 controls (mothers who delivered a child with birth weight of ≥2500 grams). Using medical records, all the deliveries that have taken place in the Hospital in the past 3 years (1st Jan 2013 to 31st Dec 2015) were line listed separately as cases and controls. Simple random sampling method was used to select the required number of cases and controls. Data was collected using a pre-tested, structured questionnaire and data analysis was done on SPSS version 17. Results: The study found that ante-natal visits in a private hospital and complete intake of iron and folic acid tablets were protective against low birth weight. Diseases such as anaemia during pregnancy, gestational hypertension and pre-term delivery were identified as risk factors of low birth weight in the study population. Regarding anthropometric measurements, it was ob-served that lower pre-pregnancy weight (<55 kgs) and height (<155 cm) of the mother resulted in low birth weight of newborn. Interpretation & Conclusion: As anaemia during pregnancy and gestational hypertension are important risk factors of low birth weight, all pregnant women must be screened preferably on a monthly basis for their early detection and treatment. Pregnant women must be educated by the health staff regarding the benefits of completing the course of iron and folic acid tablets. High risk approach should be adopted when dealing with mothers who are of shorter height (<155 cm), so as to closely monitor and treat them, thus pre-venting low birth weight in the newborns. Key Words: Low birth weight; risk factors; Kerala; anaemia; gestational hypertension.


The continually increasing sensitivity required for advancement of far-infrared astronomy dictates that the next generation of space-based observatories must employ cryogenically cooled telescopes and instruments. Cryogenic operation of interferometers such as those proposed for future space missions poses particular challenges, including the need for robust low power dissipation cryogenic position metrology. Instrumentation must be cooled to <4 K to avoid a noise contribution from self-emission and often contain moving components whose position must be measured precisely at cryogenic temperatures. In 2018, we reported on the development of a three-phase fiber-fed laser homodyne interferometer for optical position metrology that achieved a displacement uncertainty of 2.3 nm RMS at 4 K. In that design, one arm of the interferometer had an additional 2 m of optical fiber to carry the probe signal to the 4 K work space. Subsequently, a 2 m, armored, differential fiber pair was developed to balance the lengths of the probe and reference interferometric beams that were subject to thermal gradients. Although this led to an improved dynamic performance in the measurement of an oscillating target, low velocity performance was limited by 1/f noise in the photodetector circuit. Building on that work, we present the design and review the performance of a new frequency-modulated laser interferometer system we have developed that improves upon the three-phase system by eliminating the need for a differential fiber pair in cryogenic applications and achieves 29 nm RMS uncertainty for mechanical displacement velocities from 0 to ~4 mm/s.


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Thermodynamic properties of classical one-dimensional Heisenberg systems with random V (of the "easy axis" type) and regular D (of the "easy plane" type) anisotropies are considered. The expression for the free energy is obtained by the transfer-integral techniques and by the solution of the Fokker-Planck equations. Low-temperature dependences of susceptibility and correlation lengths are found for a random disordered system. The expression for the square of fluctuation of the Sz spin component is obtained in dependence on the parameters V, D and temperature T.

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Based on literature review and basic assumptions,a model of demand structure was constructed.Questionnaire survey was carried out on the knowledge workers of the industry-university-research knowledge alliance enterprises in the national scope,and the empirical research results indicated that the main demand factors of knowledge workers include explicit demands,tacit demands and active demand.Knowledge worker's sensitivity level of explicit demand factors,tacit demand factors and active demand factors had positive correlation with emerging demand desire.Furthermore,it could be concluded that knowledge workers' individual differences,such as sex,age,education and position,would significantly affect their feel degree of any demand factors.


Haats Rikka A. (Writer) (Last Name) (First Name) (Initial) Predictive Validity of kindergarten screeners for young children with (Title) reading difficulties School Psychology Dr. Scott Orme 12/2002 29 (Graduate Major) (Research Advisor) (Mon./Yr.) (# of Pages) American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual (5 ed.) (Name of Style Manual Used in this Study) Research has long shown the importance of reading and the importance of early intervention to ensure all children have the opportunity to develop into competent readers. The most effective method for identifying children early has been researched and is open to debate. One way to identify children early on in their academic career is through kindergarten screening instruments. These tools are widely available and used in a majority of school districts today. Kindergarten screening instruments are not however without criticism. One such criticism is they lack sound psychometric properties such as adequate validity, reliability, and standardization. One way to make screeners more sound is to validate them using current empirically based theories of cognition.


The invention relates to a device (1) dual air conditioner flux motor vehicle, comprising an enclosure (2) containing an evaporator (3) and a radiator (4). A lower air flow admitted through lower inlet (6) successively through a lower portion of the evaporator (3) and radiator (4) before being discharged from a bottom outlet (7). An upper air flow admitted through an upper air inlet (9) successively passes through an upper portion of the evaporator (3) and radiator (4) before being discharged from an upper outlet (12, 13, 14 ). The device of the invention comprises a first distribution flap (17) located between the evaporator (3) and radiator (4) and a second distribution flap (18) located between the radiator (4) and the outputs of air (12, 13, 14). Each flap separates the underflow from the upper stream having an edge along one side of the radiator (4) while being movable between an upper position and a lower position.


Developers of educational computer games often have incomplete knowledge of the cognitive abilities of learners, yet this knowledge can be useful in informing game design. This chapter reviews two important cognitive abilities that underlie learning: working memory and attentional capacity/executive function. From a description of the developmental course of each ability, we derive a set of recommendations for game developers to follow when designing games for learners of different ages. The chapter next reviews the psychology of transfer of training, including two major theories on the issue. The doctrine of identical elements appears to give the better description of how transfer occurs from training environment (the educational computer game) to target environment (real world performance of the learned skill). It is recommended that games embody, as closely as possible, the end behavior they hope to produce, as this will produce maximal transfer. Finally, we review some controversial research demonstrating distant transfer in computer video gaming.


In article investment activity of managing subjects is considered carried out by means of investment resources formed by them. In market economy sources of formation of investment resources are rather diverse. As a rule, all sources of financing of investments subdivide on centralized and off-budget and the basic methods of financing of investment projects are: self-financing, participation financing; credit financing; design financing. Optimum structure of sources of financing of investments is that structure which provides the greatest profitability of own means. Therefore at a choice of this or that source of financing of investments, whether it be external or internal sources, it is necessary to start with necessity of achievement of the greatest economic benefit. The basic criteria of a choice of sources of financing of investments are cost of attraction of a concrete source, availability, life cycle of the enterprise and the concrete investment project, risks, efficiency etc.


Objective To evaluate the curative effect of interventional treatment combined with thermotherapy for late hepatic cancer.Methods Forty-two cases of late hepatic cancer were randomly divided into two groups.Group one (21 cases) was treated with interventional treatment plus thermotherapy.Group two (21 cases) was only performed with interventional treament.Results The two groups had differences in primary results,quality of life improved,and no differences in side effects.Primary results:CR 9.25%,0;PR 71.43%,66.67%;SD 19.05%,28.57%;PD0,4.67%.Quality of life improved:the excellent 14.29%,4.67%;the effective 71.43%,57.14%.Conclusion Interventional treatment combined with thermotherapy could improve primary curative effect more than interventional treatment only,and not increase side effects.It is a new and effective therapy to treat late hepatic cancer.


Low-Reynolds-number airfoils typically lack desirable aerodynamic performance and can benefit from appropriate flow control strategies. This work numerically examines the physical phenomena in volving the interaction between free stream and jet flows issued from two rows of discrete holes over the leading edge of an airfoil surface. A pressure correction algorithm is adopted to solve the Navier-Stokes equations along with the k-epsilon turbulence model. Six different combinations of the Reynolds number, and density and velocity ratios are investigated to assess their effects on the large-scale flow structure such as pressure distribution, jet trajectories, and overall flow characteristics around a low-Re airfoil.


ABSTRACT In high criticality crisis scenarios, such as disaster management, mobile ad hoc wireless networks are quickly assembled in the field to support decision makers through situational awareness using messaging-, voice-, and video-based applications. These applications cannot afford the luxury of stalling or failing due to overwhelming bandwidth demand on these networks as this could contribute to overall mission failure. This paper describes an approach for satisfying application-specific Quality of Service (QoS) expectations operating on mobile ad hoc wireless networks where available bandwidth fluctuates. This paper describes an experiment and the results for this approach, called Adaptive QoS (AQoS), that allow mission critical applications to adapt their bandwidth demands to changing conditions in the network without the need to either know, estimate, or predict available bandwidth at any moment in time. AQoS does this by informing applications using the network that an oversubscription situation is occurring, thereby allowing those applications confronted with a congested network to continue to operate and meet the application's mission needs.


Background: Combining the Need for Trauma Intervention (NFTI) calculation with the Cribari Matrix Method (CMM) more accurately determines appropriate triage, particularly of geriatric trauma patients. These patients (>/= age 65 years) have comorbidities, increased frailty, and decreased overall functional capacity. The CMM alone does not address (ISS) the percent of following the of Results: Application of NFTI criteria to patients classified as under-triaged by CMM + ISS the study time period under-triage from 7.6% activations and 2.5% 3,123 utility of NFTI-adjusted triage determination in under-triaged geriatric trauma patients. Further, these results imply the benefit of applying NFTI earlier in the continuum of care, perhaps even requiring the initiation of formal process


[Objective]To understand infection status and epidemic law of geohelminthes among rural residents in Pixian county,so as to provide scientific basis for its prevention and control.[Methods]The surveillance data of Pixian county during 2005-2010 were analyzed.[Results]A total of 3 017 were examined,the infection rate of roundworm,hookworm,whipworm was 13.16%,10.31% and 3.18%,the average annual total infection rate of 3 nematodes was 26.65%.The average infection rate of geohelminthes was 34.66%,23.46%,28.03%,26.68%,35.26% and 11.78% during 2005-2010.The average annual total infection rate of 3 nematodes during 2005-2010 was 26.19% in men,27.03% in women(P0.05);3-9,10-19,20-29,30-39,40-49,50-59,60-69 years old and 70 years old,15.56%,26.96%,21.90%,27.24%,29.01%,32.30%,25.21% and 22.28%;Farmers,27.58%,students,23.66%,children's child-care,15.08%(P0.01).A total of 245 children aged 3-12 surveyed,the annual average infection rate of pinworms was 0.41%.[Conclusion]The general infection rate of geohelminthes among rural residents in Pixian county is high,especially severe hookworm infection.


Distribution Generation aims at integrating different power plants to increase the reliability and provide additional power quality benefits. Coming to the grid-connected mode, almost all the commercial single-phase inverters for DG systems inject only active power to the grid, i.e., the reference current is computed from the reference active power p* that must be generated. This paper deals with a single-phase inverter acquiring power quality features, i.e., active and reactive power generation along with current harmonics compensation. This is achieved by integrating the functions of shunt Active Power Filter (APF) to the control scheme. The control scheme employs a current reference generator with a dedicated repetitive current controller. Two phase conversion of single phase system is used in this paper for the extraction of harmonic components and also for supplying required reactive power by load. The simulation results are presented for the grid connected inverter that generates active power and compensates the reactive power and current harmonics of local loads, thus achieving complete power quality features.


The crisis of the national project in the early 1990s, caused by a short-lived but disastrous government, led Brazilian art cinema, for the first time, to look at itself as periphery and re-approach the old colonial center, Portugal. Terra estrangeira/Foreign Land (Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, Brazil/Portugal, 1995), a film about Brazilian exiles in Portugal, is the best illustration of this perspective shift which provides a new sense of Brazil's scale and position within a global context. Shot mainly on location in Sao Paulo, Lisbon and Cape Verde, it promotes the encounter of Lusophone peoples who find a common ground in their marginal situation. Rather than as a former empire, Portugal is defined by its situation at the edge of Europe and by beliefs such as Sebastianism, whose origins go back to the time when the country was dominated by Spain. As a result, notions of "core" or "center" are devolved to the realm of myth. The film's carefully crafted dialogue combines Brazilian, Portuguese and Creole linguistic peculiarities into a common dialect of exclusion, while language puns trigger visual rhymes which refer back to the Cinema Novo (the Brazilian New Wave) repertoire and restage the imaginary of the discovery turned into unfulfilled utopia. The main characters also acquire historical resonances, as they are depicted as descendants of Iberian conquistadors turned into smugglers of precious stones in the present. Their activities define a circuit of international exchange which resonates with that of globalized cinema, a realm in which Foreign Land, made up of citations and homage to other cinemas, tries to retrieve a sense of belonging.


The methodology of the modified boundary elements method implementation and developing of the MBEM software package based on the mentioned method (which can be used for calculating and simulating induced magnetic fields of thin-walled structures in three-dimensional space) were proposed. Calculations of the magnetic field of a thin-walled cylindrical shell is performed using the developed method. The results of the calculations obtained with the help of the modified boundary elements method - values of the resultant magnetic tension vector of a thin-walled cylinder, calculated by the MBEM software package are presented. The results were confirmed by the results obtained with the finite element method using ANSYS software; and the values of the magnetic potential calculated using the developed method were confirmed by analytical calculations. References 19, figures 4, table 1.


The Chuxiong Basin in Yunnan on the southwestern margin of the Yangtze landmass is a Mesozoic peripheral foreland basin.Tectonically,three units may be distinguished for the basin:western thrust zone,central depression zone and eastern uplifted zone.In terms of sedimentary facies,sequence stratigraphy and palaeogeographic evolution in combination with tectonic evolution of the Ailaoshan orogenic zone,the basin shows a depositional evolution from the Palaeozoic passive continental margin to the Mesozoic foreland basin.Two phases of the sedimentation have been identified in the Chuxiong foreland basin:the foreland flysch sedimentation during the Late Triassic and the foreland molasse sedimentation during the Jurassic.The following conclusions are generalized on the basis of the tectonic history of the basin.(1)The Late Triassic flysch basin is characterized by high amplitudes of tectonic subsidence.The centres of subsidence and deposition lay in the westernmost part of the basin close to the Ailaoshan orogenic belt.The sedimentary bodies there display the wedge shaped distribution.(2)The forebulges and centres of subsidence and deposition in the molasse basin migrated landwards during the Jurassic.(3)The Mesozoic rapid tectonic subsidence and wedge shaped sedimentary bodies indicate the origin of lithospheric flexure in the Chuxiong Basin.(4)The higher sedimentation rates are controlled by both the tectonic and overcompensational sedimentation.


An NBS calibration service for determining the ratio of high-voltage dc dividers and the resistance of high-voltage resistors is described. Calibrations are performed with a Wheatstone bridge apparatus with a simple guard system. Sources of systematic error are identified and methods for characterizing the NBS standard high-voltage resistors are discussed. Ratio and resistance values can be determined between the voltages of 10 kV and 150 kV with an uncertainty of less than ±0,01%.


This article studies in vitro fertilization of Microtus fortis spe rm otoas in fresh and in post-thawed, using Nakagata's way. The result indicated t hat concentration of fresh sperm is about 106~108·iL-1, the progressive moti lity of fresh sperm is 20%~80%and post-thawed is 1%~50%respectively. The rate of in vitro fertilization in post-thawed is obviously different, 10%~50 %, comparing with the rate of in vitro fertilization in fresh, 80%~95%.


To investigate the effects of Lipo PGE1 on accelerating the recovery and hemodynamic in renal allograft recipients after transplantation,80 cases renal recipients were divided into two groups randomly:the PGE1 group and control group.The PGE1 group received intravenously Lipo PGE1 20ug each day from the operation to the 14th day after operation.Urine、serum creatinine(SCr)、the renal peak systolic velocity(PSV)and blood flow resistant-index(RI)under doppler ultrasound,the incidence of delayed graft function(DGF)were compared between the two groups after kidney transplantation.The urine volume were significantly higher in PGE1 group than in control group(P0.05).On the contrary,SCr,PSV and RI were significantly lower in PGE1 group than in control group(P0.05).The findings suggest that the administration of PGE1 in renal recipients during the early stage of kidney transplantation can accelerate the recovery of the renal function and improve the hemodynamic of renal graft.


A series of novel substituted 3-acetyl-1-(benzylideneamino) quinolin-2(1 H )-one (1-12) have been synthesized by condensing different substituted 3-acetyl-1-amino-quinolin-2-one and aromatic aldehydes in alcohol medium. 3-acetyl-1-amino-quinolin-2-one were synthesized from substituted 3-acetyl coumarin upon refluxing with hydrazine hydrate and ethanol. The structures of the final synthesized compounds were confirmed by IR, 1 H NMR and mass spectra.The synthesized compounds were screened for their antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxicity activities. The test compounds were screened for their antibacterial and antifungal activity against Bacillus subtilis , Staphylococcus aureus , Escherichia coli , Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans , Aspergillus niger respectively by cup plate method. Compounds 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 12 showed good antibacterial activity compared to the standard drug amoxicillin. Compounds 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 12 showed moderate antifungal activity compared to the standard drug fluconazole.The antioxidant activity of the synthesised test compounds was done using DPPH radical scavenging method. Compounds 2 and 6 showed values at 85.78 and 13.41 respectively when compared to that of ascorbic acid at IC 50 value of 3.69µg/ml and showed inhibitory concentration for 50% inhibition below 100 µg/ml. The final synthesized compounds were screened for their in vitro cytotoxicity activity against Ehrlich Ascites Carcinoma cells (EAC) by Trypan blue exclusion method. Compounds 2, 6 and 7 induced the greatest effect on EAC cells with an activity more than 60% at a concentration of 250µg/ml. Hence novel schiff bases synthesized from 2-quinolones are found to be interesting lead molecules as antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxicity agents.


INTRODUCTION Scientific understanding of the nature and essence of legal relations by modern science will contribute to a deeper understanding of the characteristic features of specific legal relations that are inherent to the narrow spheres of law enforcement activities of the state. Namely, the sphere of border security of Ukraine is among them. The study of the process of origin, formation and development of legal relations in the sphere of border security of Ukraine is instructive and currently important, because it enables us to correctly ascertain their content, structure, specific features within our field of study under present circumstances on the basis of the previous achievements as well as objectively determine their future prospects. As the expert on the philosophical problems of legal science D. A. Kerimov rightly points out, knowledge of the essential completeness of the legal phenomena of the present (in our case these are legal relations), as well as all their qualitative sides outside the historical processes of evolution, is impossible, since something always remains in society from the past, the principles of the present and the origin of the future 1 . Logical in this approach is the true essence, and historical is its form, which is defined by the specific content. If the historical component makes it possible to investigate legal relations in their complete entirety, with all the coincidences, deviations, details that not rarely distort the objective logic of their development, then the logical component allows us to abstract from minor facts, irrelevant in total, to determine objective characteristics and features of the researched legal relations of a certain historical period, to trace the nature of internal relationships between structural elements (subject, object, content, etc.),


Testicular torsion (TT) is an emergency complication that leads to oxidative stress and adversely affects spermatogenesis. Although immediate treatment consists of testicular detorsion (TD) to reverse TT‐induced ischemia, mechanisms underlying recovery have yet to be fully understood. The current study aimed to investigate TD effects after a one‐hour experimental TT by evaluating testicular antioxidant status and apoptosis‐related proteins. Forty male Wistar rats were submitted to TT by testicular rotation, for one hour. Following TT, 32 rats were submitted to TD for 1, 2, 4, and 8 h (N = 8/group), the other 8 rats euthanized as TT‐only. For controls, 8 rats were sham‐operated. Testicular tissues were aseptically dissected for biochemical, histopathological, and immunohistochemistry analyses. The TD groups, especially after 4 h of TD, exhibited diminished MDA and increased TAC and GPX levels in testicular tissue. Levels of p53 and Caspase‐3 were down‐regulated in T1D4 and T1D8 groups versus torsion group. Bcl‐2 was increased in T1D4 and T1D8 groups compared to the TT group. Moreover, spermatogenesis was recovered in T1D4 and T1D8 groups compared to the TT group. It can be concluded that after 1 h TT in rats, at least 4 h post‐TD is needed for testicular tissue to initiate recovery.


Majid Khalil Ali Economic & Extension department / Agricultural College/ Tikrit University Abstract A study carried out to give vegetable farmers good information about levels of foliar fertilization on vegetable croups in greenhouse at Balarouze/ Diayla province which related by such independent factors with foliar fertilization recommendation. The study had been 35 farmers chooses randomly by 65% ratio from all of vegetable farmers from total of 54 which examined by personal meeting. The study revealed that those farmers are facing little information about levels of these operations to get ready for applying this technique. Also showed there was positive significantly correlation between levels of information of the fertilization and each of independent factors of: The age, studying stage, number of years of using fertilization, information sources According to the findings intensive extension efforts has to be taken in order to come over problem that aregreenhouse facing every day. The aim of the study was to determined the knowledge level of vegetable farmers in greenhouses at recommendation Foliar Fertilization at baladruze district/Diyala province, and to determine it in each domain, and investigate the relation of its with some independent variables, diagnose the most problem facing vegetable farmers in greenhousesfor using Foliar Fertilization . The research included (35) farmers as a random sample from the population of research. A questionnaire was used as a tool to collect data using interview methods. The result was found that knowledge level of vegetable farmers in greenhouses was medium, and below in number of fertilization domain. Appositive significant correlation with (0.05) between level knowledge and all of independent variable studied included. The most important problem facing the farmers were depend on farmers knowledge for doing the Foliar Fertilization is low of sources of written extension information. The research recommended the interest of greenhouse farmers with provide their with applied Extension agricultural information about Foliar Fertilization, and to remedy the problem causes already mention.


The bond disordered two-dimensional Ising model is studied for a small concentration of randomly substituted defects. The fermion mapping is used and the development is in terms of alloy scattering theory. Three approximations are used. At the lowest level, the ATA reproduces the results of the superlattice model. The CPA is equivalent to the annealed model. An adequate treatment of the quenched model requires the leading contributions from all cross-line diagrams to be included. This is accomplished by parquet theory, and the scattering from three channels is evaluated. Cancellation between two of the channels leaves the third channel as the only contributor. Three conflicting estimates of the specific heat behaviour of the quenched model have appeared in the literature recently. The results of this paper agree with those of Dotsenko and Dotsenko (1982), namely ln(-ln mod T-Tc mod ).


This paper presents a new method of Fuzzy Particle Swarm Optimization (FPSO)-based Congestion Management (CM) by optimal rescheduling of active powers of generators. In the proposed method, generators are selected based on their sensitivity to the congested line for efficient utilization. The task of optimally rescheduling the active powers of the participating generators to reduce congestion in the transmission line is attempted by FPSO, Fitness Distance Ratio PSO (FDR-PSO), and conventional PSO. The FPSO and FDR-PSO algorithms are tested on the IEEE 30-bus and Practical Indian 75-bus systems, after which the results are compared with conventional PSO to determine the effectiveness of CM. Compared with FDR-PSO and PSO, FPSO can better perform the optimal rescheduling of generators to relieve congestion in the transmission line.


Along with the development of graduate education,the quality of it has been gaining more attention.Value orientation is of decisive significance to the quality of graduate education.This paper analyzes the attribute foundation of graduate education,discusses the value orientation of graduate education quality and proposed that the value orientation of graduate education quality has three aspects,which are scientific research ability development orientation,individual development orientation and social development orientation.The conformity of these three value orientations will promote the graduate education quality in China.


By using extreme-ultraviolet time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (XUV-trARPES), we visualized the photoemission signature and ultrafast inter-state transitions for the electron-hole plasma and exciton states in monolayer MoS2 with full visions of energy and momentum.


Abstract The Cognitive Dimensions of Notations are a heuristic framework created by Thomas Green for analysing the usability of notational systems. Microsoft used this framework as a vocabulary for evaluating the usability of their C# and .NET development tools. In this research we used this framework to compare the evaluation of the Constraint Diagrams and the evaluation of the Natural Language by running a usability study. The result of this study will help in determining if users would be able to use constraint diagrams to accomplish a set of tasks. From this study we can predicate difficulties that may be faced when working on these tasks. Two steps were required. The first step is to decide what generic activities a system is desired to support. An Activity is described at a rather abstract level in terms of the structure of information and constraints on the notational environment. Cognitive dimensions constitute method to theoretically evaluate the usability of a system. Its dimensional checklist a...


Oswald de Andrade, in his "Anthropophagic Manifest" of 1928, proclaims that the Brazilian calendar should have been counted from the day in which, accordingly to the legend, anthropophagic natives ate the Sardinha bishop, whose Portuguese vessel was shipwrecked somewhere along the Brazilian coast. Andrade's manifesto, a landmark in Latin American modern literature, expresses poetically what has become a key characteristic of Brazil: cultural and intellectual anthropophagy – the process of appropriation and creative recombination of ideas, theories, products, and processes. Paulo Freire was a remarkable instance of such anthropophagy. Bringing together existentialism, phenomenology, Marxist and Christian thought, critical pedagogy, and his own experience as educator, he generated a unique body of thought for its radicalism, humanism, literary style and depth. Trying to understand Freire without comprehending his personal quest is, to say the least, incomplete. It is crucial to understand why Freire struggled so fervently against oppression and advocated emancipation. A visit to the poorer regions of the Northeast of Brazil, where he spent his youth and early career, would probably suffice: the abysmal life conditions and the extraordinarily unfair social structure of such regions are self-explanatory. Indeed, Freire's autobiographical books and essays (Freire, 2001; Freire & Macedo, 1996) reveal a man deeply traumatized by poverty, dehumanization, oppression, and economic exploitation. Therefore, Freire's language and ideas present so radical a challenge for extant educational systems, that he is more often than not categorized as a utopian. But such an interpretation, by labelling Freirean pedagogy as an impossible dream, only perpetuates the very ills against which Freire was fighting. In fact, from his trenches, Freire was, above all, a man of praxis. His theory was not created in the traditional academic setting as an ivory-tower theoretical exercise, but conceived to change education in real settings. His work with adults at the University of Recife, SESI, Angicos, and numerous other locations and countries resulted in detailed roadmaps for adult educators to implement Freirean learning experiences. Yet, whereas Freire was driven to impact the real-world, he never denied that "it is one thing to write down concepts in books, but it is another to embody them in praxis" (Freire, 1990). His words ring as true today as they did when he


Introduction: Psychosis is a combination of psychological symptoms resulting in a loss of contact with reality, around 1.5 to 3.5% of people will meet diagnostic criteria for a psychotic disorder. Psychosis is a known feature of many psychiatric, neuropsychiatric, neurologic, neurodevelopmental, and medical conditions. Highlight: prevalence of EEG changes was 28.6% while those without EEG changes was 71.4%. only 4.3%had mild EEG changes,4.3 % had moderate abnormalities, 20.0 %of participants had severed abnormalities. There was significant association between residence, marital status, educational level, patient status, duration of disease, No suicidal ideation and psychological trauma and EEG changes. Objectives: 1-To assess the role of EEG in three of the most common psychotic disorders (schizophrenia, bipolar 1 disorder, major depression). 2-To determine if there are any abnormal EEG changes in these disorders. 3To clarify the types of these changes if any. 4-To estimate the prevalence of these changes if any. Method: observational cross sectional study was conducted on 70 patients with psychosis, 46 males and 24 females ,27 schizophrenia ,18 psychotic depression, 25 bipolar1disorder.Their age ranged from(18-50 ) from 1st of September 2019 to 1st of October 2020 in Merjan medical city Neurophysiology department , EEG was done to all patients in quite room with 10/20 system of electrode placements in which a 21 electrodes placed at the scalp . The result: showed that the prevalence of EEG changes was 28.6% while those without EEG changes was 71.4%, only 4.3%had mild EEG changes,4.3 % had moderate abnormalities, 20.0 %of participants had sever abnormalities, There was significant association between residence, marital status , educational level ,patient status, duration of disease, No suicidal ideation and psychological trauma and EEG changes. Also, there was significant association between medication use and EEG changes. (X2=11.557, P=0.003*). Conclusion: This study concluded that the prevalence of abnormal EEG changes in these psychotic disorders was high compared to other studies (28.6%),and the most common EEG abnormality was score 3 (sever) with prevalence of 20.0%,The most common disorder with an abnormal EEG finding was Psychotic depression with a prevalence of 33.3%.


A simple technique for the simultaneous measurement of relative levels of a specific mRNA in numerous small samples of animal cells or tissue is described. The technique involves denaturation of cytoplasmic prepa- rations, followed by dotting of up to 96 samples onto a single sheet of nitrocellulose, hybridization with a 32P- labeled cDNA plasmid, autoradiography, and scanning. By analyzing cytoplasmic preparations instead of pu- rified RNA, manipulations of multiple samples prior to analysis is minimized. Experiments with a clonal line OP rat pituitary tumor (GH3) cells showed that this technique can be employed to follow the induction by Ca2+ of prolactin mRNA sequences, employing cytoplasm prepared from as little as 2.5 x lo4 cells. The specificity of the technique for prolactin mRNA was shown by employing GC cells, a GH3 cell variant lacking detectable prolactin mRNA sequences. Experiments with cultured rat hemipituitaries showed that the prolactin mRNA present in cytoplasm corresponding to as little as %oo of a pituitary could be readily detected. This technique is quite simple, requires very small amounts of cells or tissue, and permits the simultaneous analysis of multiple samples. Hence, it should be quite useful for studies with various experimental sys-tems of the regulation of specific mRNA levels.


Trajectory and technology requirements for the Solar Probe mission, whereby a spacecraft will attain a perihelion of a few solar radii, are discussed. Planetary gravity assist trajectories are considered that use Jupiter and possibly the earth, and that are needed for large payloads to be carried. Hardware technology development includes a lightweight thermal shield, a high energy propulsion module, and new power generation capability. Also discussed are a drag compensation system making the spacecraft drag free to a level of 10 to the -10th g, and a telecommunications system with doppler tracking accuracy of 0.1 mm/sec.


As ultra-precision index of bearings, the value of non-repetitive run-out (NRRO) directly influences the rotation precision of rotating mechanism of complex mechanical system. However, the value of NRRO is very difficult to predict and control due to various causes. This paper develops a mathematical model to study the constrictive relationship between the geometrical errors and the NRRO of an angular contact ball bearing based on Hertzian contact theory and solution method of dimensional chain, so as to reduce the NRRO by optimizing the manufacturing process of bearing components. Firstly, based on the motion relationship of parts in bearings and the dimensional chain theory, a kinematic model is built with taking into account the regularities of variation of contact angle under different axial load. In the model, the geometrical errors of rings raceway and balls are described through superposition of sinusoidal function. Secondly, the nonlinear equations of force balance of balls are built based on Hertzian contact theory. Finally, by solving nonlinear equations, the trajectory of rotation center is calculated to quantitatively analyze the NRRO of bearings caused by the geometrical errors of rings raceway and balls. Findings of this paper provide theoretical supports to reduce the NRRO by optimizing manufacturing process of bearing components.


List of Tables List of Figures Preface 1. Introduction Sucha Singh Gill, Lakhwinder Singh and Reena Marwah Part I. Issues in Sustainability of Indian Agriculture 2. Globalisation and Sustainability Issues in Asian Agriculture: A Case of India Sukhpal Singh 3. Globalisation and its Impact on Agriculture, Food Security and Social Welfare in Pakistan Usman Mustafa, Mirajul-haq and Iftikhar Ahmad 4. Agreement on Agriculture and Food Prices in Bangladesh Munim Kumar Barai 5. Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Application of Agriculture: An Examination of Major Indian States Rajeev Sharma and Inderveer Singh 6. Agricultural Risk, Weather Insurance, Derivatives and Agricultural Insurance Surjit Singh Part II. Ecological Concerns in Theory and Practice 7. Interrogating Marxian, Neoclassical and Green Perspectives on the Contradictory: Implications of Third World/Asian Development and Poverty for Global Sustainability Pritam Singh 8. Research on India and China National Strategy for Climate Change and their Practice in CDM Projects Xu Xiangyang 9. Ecological Implications of Agricultural Development in Punjab Inderjeet Singh and Parmod Kumar Part III. Core Themes in Economic Development 10. Role of Foreign Aid in Achieving Sustainable Development in Sri Lanka Anoma S. P. Abhayaratne 11. Economic Development, Foreign Direct Investment and Policy in India Lakhwinder Singh 12. Framework for Planning and Management of Sustainable Inclusive Cities H. S. Gill and Deepa Krishnan 13. Maintaining High Growth Rate and Future Energy Demand and Supply Scenario in India A. S. Bhullar Part IV. Resource Management and Policy Alternatives 14. Groundwater Markets, Irrigation Efficiency and Sustainability: A Study from North India A. Banerji, Gauri Khanna and J. V. Meenakshi 15. Sustainability of the Existing and Alternative Cropping Systems in the South-west Punjab Ranjit Singh Ghuman and G. S. Romana Part V. Discrimination and Socio-economic Equity in Development 16. Wageworkers Exposure to Discrimination and Work-related Insecurity in Punjab's Urban Unorganised Establishments: A Social Class Analysis Varinder Jain 17. Who Kill Their Daughters More: Insights from Census Data of Punjab Inder Jit Singh Part VI. Peasant Distress and Sustainability of the Cotton Economy 18. Does GM Technology Pay Rich Dividends? Farm Level Responses from BT Cotton Farmers in Maharashtra P. K. Viswanathan and N. Lalitha 19. Cotton Economy, Cotton Producers and BT Cotton Cultivation in Indian Punjab: An Assessment of Economic Impact and Sustainability Issues Sucha Singh Gill, Sukhwinder Singh and Jaswinder Singh Brar Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index


In this study, we propose a microfluidic device with a diffuser type chamber to differentiate the sperm velocity by gradually lowering down the flow speed in diffuser by gradually increasing the width of the channel. When the sperms' moving speed match the flow speed, the sperms tend to have the ability to flow against the stream, thus separating the sperms at different specific positions along the diffuser according to their motility becomes gentle and fast. Most of the motile sperm will stay in the expanding area and the non-motile sperms will drift to outlet. Different from the previous study we proposed in IEEE NEMS, 2012 , here we have three improvements: (1) Sperms can be separated in more detailed quality level. (2) Sperm will be more activated by passing through a dumb bell area than by the traditional methods. (3) The space in the device can accumulate large amount of sperms (~millions).


OBJECTIVE To evaluate the various types of pituitary adenomas according to sex and age group. Few studies have attempted such an analysis, and most have focused on specific age groups, especially children. Recent data suggest that the frequency of different types of pituitary adenomas varies according to age and sex.


Cu–Ce/graphene catalysts show high dispersion of metal particles and excellent activity and stability for catalytic oxidation. In this study, a hydrothermal method was used to synthesize a series of bimetallic Cu–Ce/graphene catalysts, and the effects of the proportions of Cu and Ce on CO oxidation were investigated in detail. Indispensable characterizations such as XPS, XRD, TEM, BET, and H2-TPR were conducted to explore the effect of the Cu/Ce molar ratio and the metal valence on the activity and determine the structure–performance relationship. The results showed that bimetallic supported catalysts, such as 3Cu5Ce/graphene, 1Cu1Ce/graphene, and 5Cu3Ce/graphene, possessed significant catalytic activity. Especially, the 5Cu3Ce/graphene catalyst showed highest catalytic activity for CO oxidation, the T100 value was 132 °C, and the apparent activation energy was 68.03 kJ mol−1. Furthermore, the stability of the 5Cu3Ce/graphene catalyst was outstanding, which could be maintained for at least 12 h. Moreover, the CeO2 particles were well crystalline with the size 5–9 nm in these catalysts, and the CuO nanoparticles were well dispersed on CeO2 and graphene. Notably, the ratio of Cu/Ce in the catalyst was higher, the interaction between the Ce species and the graphene was stronger, and the Cu species were more easily reduced; this was beneficial for the oxidation of CO.


Summary A new anti-allergic drug, BM 113 (1-(benzhydryloxyethyl)piperidino-4-ethylacetate, CAS 115313-90-1; BM 113 maleate: CAS 115313-91-2), with a piperidinic structure, showing antihistaminic properties was studied after administration to healthy human volunteers. The focus was on the pharmacokinetics, the metabolism, the dose dependancy and gender differences of the pharmacokinetic parameters of BM 113 and its main desacetylated metabolite, BM 212. Unchanged BM 113 was not recovered in plasma or in urine. The elimination of the radio-activity was essentially urinary with about 81% recovered within 24 h. The elimination was completed with 97% of the administered dose recovered after 120 h. HPLC dosage of BM 212, using a specific method, showed that BM 212 represented 62% of the urine radioactivity. The plasma profile of radioactivity was characterized by two decreasing phases with respective half-lives of 3.71 ± 0.66 h and 24.67 ± 25.01 h. A dose dependancy study realised with 20, 40, 60 and 80 mg oral doses administered to 8 healthy volunteers has proven the linearity of the pharmacokinetics of BM 212 in the studied range. BM 212 disposition after single and repeated BM 113 oral doses in a 14-day study did not vary and permitted to conclude that no auto-induction or auto-inhibition phenomenon was involved. No significant difference between men and women was observed. The concentration profile was mono or biexponential, depending on the subject but whatever the gender. An inter-individual variability appeared for both sexes and caused some variations in the pharmacokinetic parameters.


This study focused on the implementation of Google Classroom as a part of e-Learning used by FLSP instructors along with the problems and the solutions.The purposes of this study was to uncover the instructors' perspective in using Google Classroom for conducting FLSP classes. In this study, the researcher studied on instructors' experiences on using Google Classroom during the FLSP classes. The researcher described the result through interpretative and narrative description. Therefore, qualitative research design suited this study. The used technique to collect the data was through interview.
 The research findings showed that FLSP instructors using Google Classroom duringFLSP classes.The flexibility, easy usage, accessibility, variety of learning process were the reasons of its usage by FLSP instructors. Furthermore, less of control by the FLSP instructors and uneven network in Indonesia has become the problems in utilizing this app. Yet, improving and making new regulation by FLSP instructors and communication between students and FLSP instructors are the suggestions in order to deal with that obstacles in using Google Classroom.


Sport is essentially cinematic. Its moments are temporally contingent dramatizations of intent and meaning especially opened to vision–that of fans, referees, scorekeepers, managers and owners, certainly, and also that of athletes performing. Unlike much organized activity that is the subject of popular film–legal argument in the courtroom, kissing, surgical or police procedure, corporate management, university lecturing, writing and other creative activity–sport is naturally susceptible to cinematic treatment because it is inherently and densely consequential and inherently visual. At present I am interested in the conventional treatment of sport in Hollywood narrative, especially in the use of the camera to create for the screen a rendition of sports activity that fulfills what Mary Beth Haralovich notes as the "requirements of the entertainment film," notably "dramatic value, narrative clarity, unambiguous morality" (n.d.). This analysis is an attempt to attend both more microcosmically and more discursively to the actual instrumental engagement of viewers' attention and involvement than do typical analyses of filmed sport, which tend to take the diegetic action as given so that it may be considered in light of prevailing cultural considerations. For me, even one of the best of these analyses, the especially sensitive and brilliant sociological treatment of sports cinema to be found in Baker (2003), foregoes a treatment of actual shot construction in relation to narrative logic, taking that logic more or less for granted and proceeding toward an exceptionally astute discussion of numerous sports narratives that stand upon it. In his discussion of Body and Soul (1947), for instance, it is to "the combination of [James Wong] Howe's newsreel style [of cinematography] and the fight announcer's subdued description" (119) that he credits our engaged participation with Charley (John Garfield) as he endures


The axial dispersion of liquid film flow has been measured in vertical flow tubes (iD=70mm, H/D=10-31) with swirl bodies in the inlet part of both phases by an imperfect tracer technique. The two-phase flow was mainly directed cocurrently upwards. Superficial gas velocity was 10 to 25 m/s at specific liquid loads 13 to 70 m 3 /m 2 .h. Values of effective Peclet-numbers of the film were correlated, depending on the Reynolds numbers of the film and gas core parameters, respectively. The mass transfer efficienty of NH 3 , in the system water/air was interpreted in terms of NTU and the mixing behaviour


This study was to investigate the effects of core stability exercises on balance abilities and stroke function in the Female College Tennis Players. The participants were divided into two groups: Exercise group (n=6) and Control group (n=6). The core stability exercises program for 12 weeks. The results of this study were as follows: First, As for the balance abilities, there were significantly increased in UP, Down, Left, Right in the exercise group. And As for the dynamic balance abilities, there were significantly increased in UP, Up/Right, Right, Down/Right, Down, Down/Left, Left, Up/Left, Overall in the exercise group. Second, As for the stroke function, there were significantly increased in speed and Accuracy in the exercise group. As conclusions, this study confirmed that the core stability exercises could improve the Balance abilities and stroke function of Female College Tennis Players. However, there is a need for more specific exercise programs to be developed for the continual improvement of athletic performance in tennis along with further studies to confirm the physiological benefits of those programs.


A simple method of dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction-solidified floating organic drop (DLLME-SFO) prior to flame atomic absorption spectrometry was successfully used for separating and preconcentrating copper in human hair and tea samples. The proposed method was simple, cheap, and has high precision. In this study, optimization of experimental parameters influencing the extraction, such as type and volume of extraction and disperser solvents, pH, the amount of chelating agent and extraction time was normally carried out using a step-by-step approach, in which each factor was varied sequentially. The effect of the interfering ions on the analytes recovery was also investigated. The calibration graph was linear in the range of 5-200 ng mL-1 with limit of detection of 3.4 ng mL-1. The relative standard deviation (RSD) was 0.7% (n = 10, C = 2 ng mL-1) and the enhancement factor was 28.


Objective:To test the a priori hypothesis of HIV-1 transmission from one suspect to six recipients in a criminal case. Methods:Partial pol and/or env sequences were obtained for at least two samples of the suspect and the victims. Appropriate local controls were sampled based on epidemiological and subtype criteria. Phylogenetic testing was performed using different reconstruction methods. Results:Phylogenetic analyses consistently inferred a monophyletic cluster for the suspect and victim samples in both genome regions. This was highly supported by parametric and non-parametric bootstrapping techniques. Moreover, the controls most closely related to the suspect–victim cluster had a similar geographical origin to the suspect. Conclusions:Taking into account the limitations on the conclusions that can be drawn from molecular investigations we could infer that our molecular data is consistent with a scenario of multiple HIV transmission between suspect and victims.


In this paper,the dimensions closure in the engineering graphics is analyzed.The dimensions system is converted into unidirectional draft,and then we take a new algorithm based on the intelligent route search technique by ransack the abut-matrix of the dimension system to inspect if there are dimensions closures or not in the engineering graphics.Through the variety of state of the about-matrix,we can check out the dimensions closure in the engineering graphics.With the new algorithm,we can realize the no-losing searching in a dimensions system with many dimensions closures.


In present time, due to modern life style, anxiety, stress etc. reasons, incidence of Vatavyadhi like Pakshaghata, Ardita etc is increasing. Aggravation of Vata is responsible to cause Ardita. On the basis of its origin and symptoms mentioned in Sushruta Samhita, Ardita can be correlated with facial paralysis or Bell's palsy caused by involvement of VII cranial nerve. According to Acharya Charaka Nasya Karma (Navana Nasya) is the specific treatment of Ardita Roga. Bearing this idea in mind Nasya karma was selected in present study. The present study, patients, were divided into two groups. In one group, Nasya administered with Anu Taila, was taken as control drug and Mashadi Taila (Sha.S.Utt. 8/35-36) was taken as trial drug in second group. Nasya was administered, in a dose of 6 drops in each nostril for 15 days. Cardinal, Associated signs symptoms and also Doshanubandhita Lakshanas were observed before and after the treatment. To assess the voluntary movement present before and after the treatment as per House classification system of facial paralysis was adopted. If necessary and possible, heamatological and biochemical investigations were carried out before and after the treatment. In the result; both the drugs were found equally affective but Anu Taila was little more effective. In both groups, 50% patients were completely cured.


The present invention provides a white photocurable and thermosetting resin composition, a solder resist film which may be formed by a high reflectance is used as the solder resist, when irradiated with light, a pattern can be accurately formed latent image, and to provide the use of a white photocurable and thermosetting resin composition having a solder resist film formed by a high reflectivity of the printed wiring board. A white photocurable and thermosetting resin composition, characterized in that it comprises: (A) a resin containing a carboxyl group having no aromatic ring, (B) contains at least one oxime ester photopolymerization initiator of photopolymerization initiator, (C) an epoxy compound, (D) rutile type titanium oxide, and (E) a diluent. And a printed wiring board, which is obtained by using the white light curable thermosetting resin composition of the solder resist film is formed.


Capital management is an important part of modern financial management,with the advance of financial intensification and financial information gradually,enterprise capital management is facing new challenges,for example,the safety of capital management to be further strengthened,capital management model to be innovated etc. From the perspective of capital management safety,Lu'an Power Supply Company takes the whole process monitoring and early warning for the capital,takes the source early warning for cash flow,forms the real time early warning monitoring of capital by using some methods,such as the early warning of bank accounts,bill management early warning,electronic payment bank early warning and payment process early warning,combined with the self-examination and the inspection for tracking and early warning,through the performance evaluation index to realize the optimization and early warning. In practical application,the capital application benefit of Lu'an Power Supply Company is enhanced,and the enterprise capital risk is effectively prevented.


Abstract. In the paper, the class is established, to which a majorant function belongs when the initial function belongs to the space . Integral representations of functions of the space are found when . The multipliers of inclusion from the space to the spaces H2, H1 and are defined.


Background and objective: The specter of polypharmacy is an ever-increasing problem faced by healthcare professionals. Nurses need to be aware of the several patient related factors that contribute to polypharmacy. Therefore this study evaluated the views of nurses regarding patientrelated factors associated with polypharmacy.


A fault-tolerant cooperative control architecture is proposed for the Earth-observing satellite formation, considering the attitude-orbit coupling characteristics and complete faults. To ensure the mission requirements, a desired configuration and a configuration adjustment scheme are composed in fault-free and faulty cases respectively. A distributed control law based on nonsingular terminal sliding mode control is developed to ensure the finite-time stability of the system. Finally, the simulation results verify the validity of the method.


Abstract: Language is the unit of our whole communication system. As we all know there are many languages in our world depending on their geographical location, so to remove this language differences or language barrier ,here we explain language translator system in this paper. It focuses on the translator system from English to Bengali and vice versa using machine translation. Bangla is widely spoken language and it is the fifth most spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by the overall variety of speaker in the world. But there are only a few researches in Machine Translation (MT) for Bangla have been seen in the literature previously. Therefore this paper represents to explain a MT system for English-Bangla and BanglaEnglish translation. Our focus is to help the students to feel a comfort to understand their lesson in different languages. Machine Translation is a revolutionary technology , and day by day it improves. The newest phase of machine translation is Neural Machine Translation (NMT), which is based on the development of artificial intelligence. In this paper we are proposed a type of English-Bangla language translator which based on the Encoder-Decoder model of NMT.


This paper is on low speed connected and automated driving shuttles in a smart city. Based on examples available in the literature and the past experience of the authors, this paper proposes the use of a unified computing, sensing, communication and actuation architecture for connected and automated driving. It is postulated that this unified architecture will also lead to a scalable and replicable approach. Two vehicles representing a passenger car and a small electric shuttle for smart mobility in a smart city are chosen as the two examples for demonstrating scalability and replicability. For this purpose, the architecture in the passenger car is transferred to the small electric vehicle and used in its automation. The parametric control design approach that we are using to achieve scalable automated driving controllers is presented in the paper along with a discussion of how to evaluate performance and a brief description of the planned proof-of-concept test deployment.


PurposeThis study explores the role of organisational culture in promoting collective coping strategies in construction project teams in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Three collective coping strategies were examined, including problem-focused, relationship-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies.Design/methodology/approachO'Reilly et al.'s (1991) organisational culture profile (OCP) assessed organisational culture values. Data were collected through an online questionnaire from practitioners in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) construction organisations.FindingsThe findings show a high correlation between competitiveness culture values and problem-focused team coping strategy. Relationship-focused team coping strategy was found to have a high correlation with emphasis on rewards and performance orientation values. Conversely, an emotion-focused team coping strategy correlates highly with competitiveness, supportiveness and emphasis on rewards cultural values.Research limitations/implicationsThe cross-sectional design of the survey and the UAE context may present limits to the generalisability of findings.Practical implicationsLimited attempts have been made to study collective coping in construction project teams. The study paves the path for exploring emergent socio-psychological concepts in construction organisations, including the impact of organisational culture on team collective coping with adverse events.Originality/valueUnderstanding the pivotal impact of culture on successful team coping provides managers with valuable insights into managing situational adversity in construction project teams.


Objective: To investigate the diagnostic value of serum CEA, SCC and SF as analyzed with Logistic vegression and ROC curve in patients with lung cancer lymph nodes metastasis. Method: Serum CEA, SCC, and SF were detected in 100 patients with lung cancer, and in those cases, 65 cases were identified as lymph nodes metastasis group and 35 as non-metsatasis group. Result: The positive rate of CEA and SCC of metastais group was evidently higher than that of non-metastasis(P0.01,P0.05), but there was no significant difference for SF between the two groups. According to regression equation Y=1/[1+EXP(1.584X1+0.935X2-0.425)], and the AUC of variable Y was higher than any of the three tumor markers. Conclusion: The combination of CEA and SCC is useful as indicator of lung cancer lymph nodes metastasis. Applications of Logistic regression and ROC curve increase diagnostic accuracy in lung cancer.


With the quickening of the globalization and industrialization of PE in our country,there have appeared more and more PE disputes,which arouse more attention of the society.How to solve these disputes is the common issue of both the legal and PE fields.Foreign countries often resort to replacement methods,which provide services of mediation,intra-society settlement,litigation and arbitration.Compared with litigation,this mechanism is more efficient,faster,less hostile and less expensive.It is of great significance for us to establish our PE disputes solving mechanism in China.


Spectroscopic constants of nine electronic states of PBr 2 and three states of PBr~ have been determined by applying the complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) followed by multi-reference singles and doubles configuration interaction (MRSDCI) methods that included up to 1.2 million configurations. On the basis of our computed properties, we reassign the broad and structu~less emission spectra of PBr 2 to the ,~2B2(I)-X2B t transition. The BrP-Br dissociation energy and the D e of the diatomic PBr have been calculated.