In a liquid crystal light-valve experiment, we report solitary localized structures appearing outside the bistability range and displaying a behavior of single independent cells. The transition from an extended pattern to solitary states is characterized both experimentally and numerically.


Embodiment of the present invention there is provided an information processing method and apparatus, a terminal apparatus and a mode switching method. An information processing method according to embodiments of the present invention is applied to a server, wherein the server provides the at least one application. Said method comprising: a terminal device receiving a selection instruction from the application; determining at least one application to be run according to the application for trial application selection instruction; initialize and run the application for trial, trial and generating a first output data application; first transmission to the terminal device an output data; receiving a first input from the terminal device, wherein the terminal device generates a first user based on the input data according to the operation performed by the first output data; second output data generated according to the input data by a first application for trial; transmitting to the terminal device a second output data.


The article discusses the role and importance of volunteering (for example, the 2018 FIFA world Cup in Russia) as an incentive for intellectual and motor activity of young people, which opens up prospects for professional development in the future. Knowledge of foreign languages is also associated with volunteering as one of the conditions for successful adaptation in the social space. Volunteering contributes to the ability to analyze different situations and find ways to solve problems, take initiative and take responsibility, the ability to process the necessary information. This type of activity contributes to the improvement of team work skills, forms the basis of management and communication.


The promotion of large capacity lithium-ion batteries is limited by thermal security. The understanding of heating mechanism and the factors that affect the heating mechanism of lithium-ion power batteries are the key to solve this problem.The efforts of discharge rate and ambient temperature on the thermal characteristics of lithium-ion power batteries were investigated in this paper.The battery resistance and the entropy change" under different discharge rate were measured.It was found that battery therinal characteristics are affected by resistance and entropy change under various charge and discharge rates and ambient temperature.


An American who has spent more than 20 years trying to promote development in Latin America says that development work is rather like shoveling smoke.' No precise boundaries can be drawn; no projects are ever concluded; no results are definitive; and no assessments are entirely reliable. There are those who would say that nonrevolutionary development programs - that is, programs designed to induce changes gradually, from the bottom up, to improve the standard of living of the poorest without immediately and obviously threatening the perquisites of the affluent - are at best foredoomed to failure, at worst sheer hypocrisy, intended to fail. On my more pessimistic days I am one of them. Nevertheless, it must also be recognized that most revolutionary movements also fail and that, whether they succeed or fail, they are almost certain to be very costly in lives and in human suffering. Furthermore, no social arrangements are permanent, not even the redistributive benefits of successful revolution. Thus, for those of us who for reasons of realism, pacifism, or cowardice are not likely to engage in direct instigation of revolution, there must be some alternative to acceptance of the status quo. While the Roman Catholic church in much of Latin America, under the influence of "liberation theology," has come to the conclusion that it must minister to bodies as well as to souls, many secular liberationists have concluded that they must minister to bodies as well as to minds. Dignity, for all its immeasurable worth, does not fill empty stomachs, and for the poor and oppressed in most countries "liberation," like "eternal salvation," seems very far away. For many Latin American countries in the early 1980's, it was too soon or


Achieving productivity improvement in engineering organizations involved in product development can be a daunting and complex task, commensurate with the complexity of the products being designed. The goal of this paper is to expand on the notions involved in the lean engineering body of knowledge as currently implemented in a major aerospace firm. Relying on key notions developed in a novel lean engineering financial performance model, the authors integrate lean manufacturing theories, inventory management, production planning and scheduling, improved value stream mapping, project portfolio management, and linear optimization to offer a coherent global logistics approach supporting lean promises of a more efficient engineering organization with reduced lead time and waste and improved customer and shareholder value.


It is well-known that finding paths with minimum hop count leads to poor performance in wireless mesh networks (WMN) because the assumption of the same transmission failure probability in all links may not be true. A routing metric can assist traditional routing protocol in selecting better paths by explicitly taking the interference, delay etc. into account. This paper presents a thorough review and a comparison of 10 kinds of routing metrics designed for diverse QoS requirements in WMN. Meanwhile, this paper classifies these routing metrics into three basic types, ETX-based metrics, mETX, and some other metrics less attractive to WMN routing layer, for better understanding and future applications. To the best of our knowledge, no paper except this one has such a comprehensive review of routing metrics utilized in WMN.


Blasting vibration field tests are performed on the tunnel roof under daily production blasting by Blastmate III to investigate the effect of middle-deep hole explosion on the roofing stability. The result indicates that blasting amplitude and frequency gradually decrease with increasing distance between test point and explosion source. Dynamic stress ratio is applied to analyze the roofing stability based on analyzing the testing results.(DSR ≤0.125). The results indicate that there is no roofing damage or breakdown under the same explosive conditions.


Monte Carlo (MC) simulations provide the most accurate estimate of radiotherapy dose, promising agreement with measurement to within 1%, even at tissue/bone interfaces. EGSnrc is one of the most widely-used general purpose MC codes in radiotherapy research. Crucial to the ongoing utility of EGSnrc are the many computation time saving and variance reduction techniques available to the user for increasing simulation efficiency. The published research in this thesis covers the development and implementation in EGSnrc of several key algorithms for improving the efficiency of photon beam simulations and MC beam commissioning along with two applications of efficient photon beam simulations to answer critical questions regarding dose to sensitive skeletal tissue during radiotherapy. Chapter 1, the Introduction, establishes the desirability of using MC in clinical treatment planning as ongoing motivation for improving the efficiency of simulation codes. Variance reduction techniques (VRTs) increase the efficiency of MC simulations by increasing the sampling of certain events while preserving the overall physics in the system, resulting in a decrease in the uncertainty of scored quantities (e.g., dose) that more than offsets any increase in CPU time. Interaction splitting, in which many low-weight ("split") particles are generated per event, is introduced as a VRT commonly employed in MC simulations. In particular, splitting bremsstrahlung events, the primary source of photons in treatment beams, can increase photon beam simulation efficiency. Any estimate of accuracy or efficiency requires a robust method of estimating uncertainty. Chapter 2 in the thesis covers the implementation in EGSnrc of the history-by-history method for uncertainty estimates. History-by-history statistics account for correlations between scored quantities by grouping them according to primary, statistically independent event. This method is shown to be stable and accurate and, moreover, can be propagated through simulations using secondary sources (i.e., phase space sources). Chapter 3 describes the development and implementation of a method for reducing the CPU time required for MC commissioning calculations in a homogeneous phantom by eliminating the restriction of voxel boundaries during simulated charged particle transport. The technique, called ``HOWFARLESS,'' has been implemented in DOSXYZnrc, an EGSnrc application for dose calculations in rectilinear phantoms, where it increases the efficiency of photon beam dose calculations by factors of 1.5-5, depending on the boundary crossing algorithm used. Chapter 4 in this thesis describes the development and implementation of the directional bremsstrahlung splitting (DBS) algorithm in BEAMnrc, an EGSnrc application for simulating treatment heads. DBS differs from the previous uniform bremsstrahlung splitting (UBS) algorithm primarily in that it simulates only those split photons directed into a user-defined treatment field. With judicious setting of splitting parameters, DBS can increase the efficiency of photon beam dose calculations by a factor of 160 compared to no splitting and a factor of 20 compared to UBS. DBS is now considered a necessary option for efficient MV and kV photon beam simulations. An analogous splitting algorithm for increasing the efficiency of cobalt-60 treatment head simulations, called directional source biasing (DSB), is described in Chapter 5. DSB increases the efficiency of cobalt-60 treatment head simulations by a factor of up to 400. It, too, has been implemented in BEAMnrc and is expected to make routine MC commissioning of these treatment heads feasible. MC simulations are also capable of providing realistic dose estimates in tissue microstructures. Chapter 6 presents a study in which EGSnrc is used to simulate cone beam CT (CBCT) imaging beams incident on voxellized human phantoms in which bone spongiosa is resolved into trabecular bone and the radiosensitive components, red bone marrow and bone surface cells. The results of these simulations show significant dose to bone surface cells, thus motivating guidelines for the routine use of CBCT during image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT). Another advantage of MC simulations is their ability to calculate both dose to medium (Dm) and dose to water-in-medium (Dw) at the same time. The latter is the historical basis for prescribed dose and is provided by treatment planning systems, while the former may provide a more realistic representation of radiobiological effect. In Chapter 7, simulations of MV treatments in voxellized human phantoms show that Dw is an overall better representation of dose to red bone marrow and bone surface cells, although the difference between Dm and Dw is only clinically significant (5%) at sites with a high fraction of trabecular bone. Chapter 8, the thesis Discussion, considers the ongoing Dm vs Dw debate in the context of photon beam treatments in the kV range (e.g., brachytherapy, preclinical small animal irradiators) where the conversion from Dm to Dw is highly dependent on the size of the effective dose volume (cavity) considered. The chapter presents simulations of small animal irradiations, using DOSXYZnrc, showing that the Dw for bone evaluated assuming nmscale cavities, where Bragg-Gray conditions exist, is 80% higher than that assuming mm-scale cavities, where charged particle equilibrium prevails. References to author publications that relate specifically to the dissertation: 1. B.R.B. Walters, I. Kawrakow, D.W.O. Rogers, "History by history statistical estimators in the BEAM code system", Medical Physics 29(12), 2745-2752 (2002). 2. Kawrakow, D.W.O. Rogers, B.R.B. Walters, "Large efficiency improvements in BEAMnrc using directional bremsstrahlung splitting", Medical Physics, 31(10), 2883-2898 (2004). 3. B.R.B. Walters, I. Kawrakow, "A ``HOWFARLESS'' option to increase efficiency of homogeneous phantom calculations with DOSXYZnrc", Medical Physics, 34(10), 37943807 (2007). 4. B.R.B. Walters, G.X. Ding, R. Kramer, I. Kawrakow, "Skeletal dosimetry in cone beam computed tomography", Medical Physics, 36(7), 2915-2922 (2009). 5. B.R.B. Walters, R. Kramer, I. Kawrakow, "Dose to medium versus dose to water as an estimator of dose to sensitive skeletal tissue", Phys. Med. Biol., 55(16), 4535-4546 (2010). 6. B.R.B. Walters, "Increasing efficiency of BEAMnrc-simulated Co-60 beams using directional source biasing", Medical Physics, 42(10), 5817-5827 (2015).


The automobile is a recurring motif among modern and contemporary Native American artists that has gone severely understudied. By examining the use of the automobile motif by Native American artists from Plains tribes as well as the methods by which Native American artists have coopted automobile culture to expand their audiences, I will demonstrate that the automobile motif in Native American art functions as a "trickster" figure. In this "trickster shift," the automobile captures the attention of an audience through appeal to stereotype and absurdity only to reverse expectations and promote greater consideration of the other. In the creation of such work, Native artists claim the automobile as a Native American space and elevate the automobile beyond its mundanity by transforming an everyday object into a sign of cultural continuity and an embodiment of Native American historicity.


Today's level of cyclists' road safety is primarily estimated using accident reports and self-reported measures. However, the former is focused on post-accident situations and the latter relies on subjective input. In our work, we aim to extend the landscape of cyclists' safety assessment methods via a two-dimensional taxonomy, which covers data source (internal/external) and type of measurement (objective/subjective). Based on this taxonomy, we classify existing methods and present a mobile sensing concept for quantified cycling safety that fills the identified methodological gap by collecting data about body movements and physiological data. Finally, we outline a list of use cases and future research directions within the scope of the proposed taxonomy and sensing concept.


Previously, we reported a silicon torsional resonant mirror driven by a PZT plate through link beam leverage effects and confirmed the device operation. Our device is mechanically reliable and stable since there are no metal leads on the vibrating silicon torsional beams and the mirror is supported by 6 beams. We present an improved device having much higher performance through both design and process optimization based on detailed FEM simulations and refinement of the fabrication process.


Background: Preterm birth is defined as birth before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy. It is the most important predictor of adverse health and development infant outcomes that extend into the early childhood and beyond. It is also the leading cause of childhood mortality under 5 years of age worldwide and responsible for approximately one million neonatal deaths. It is also a significant contributor to childhood morbidities, with many survivors are facing an increased risk of lifelong disability and poor quality of life. Purpose: In this article, we aimed to describe features of preterm infants, what makes them different from term infants, and what to consider in nutritional management of preterm infants through a traditional narrative literature review. Discussion: Preterm infants are predisposed to more health complications than term infants with higher morbidity and mortality. This morbidity and mortality can be reduced through timely interventions for the mother and the preterm infant. Maternal interventions, such as health education and administration of micronutrient supplementation, are given before or during pregnancy and at delivery, whereas appropriate care for the preterm infants should be initiated immediately after birth, which include early breastfeeding and optimalization of weight gain. Conclusion: Essential care of the preterm infants and early aggressive nutrition should be provided to support rapid growth that is associated with improved neurodevelopmental outcomes. The goal is not only about survival but making sure that these preterm infants grow and develop without any residual morbidity.


The rotation of m/n  =  2/1 tearing modes can be slowed and stopped (i.e. locked) by eddy currents induced in resistive walls in conjunction with residual error fields that provide a final 'notch' point. This is a particular issue in ITER with large inertia and low applied torque (m and n are poloidal and toroidal mode numbers respectively). Previous estimates of tolerable 2/1 island widths in ITER found that the ITER electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD) system could catch and subdue such islands before they persisted long enough and grew large enough to lock. These estimates were based on a forecast of initial island rotation using the n  =  1 resistive penetration time of the inner vacuum vessel wall and benchmarked to DIII-D high-rotation plasmas, However, rotating tearing modes in ITER will also induce eddy currents in the blanket as the effective first wall that can shield the inner vessel. The closer fitting blanket wall has a much shorter time constant and should allow several times smaller islands to lock several times faster in ITER than previously considered; this challenges the ECCD stabilization. Recent DIII-D ITER baseline scenario (IBS) plasmas with low rotation through small applied torque allow better modeling and scaling to ITER with the blanket as the first resistive wall.


The present study aimed at identifying the impact of the internal work environment on retaining the health competencies at Tarif General Hospital in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, this study aimed to identify post-work conditions, after compensation, after relationship with co-workers, after professional growth and retention of health competencies in the study sample. Based on the literature review conducted by the researcher, the competencies in the health institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are facing a number of challenges that have a significant impact on their continued work, which are affected by the internal dimensions of the work affected by the ability of the institution to retain health competencies, Which called for researcher to study the dimensions of internal work conditions in the hospital Tarif general and impact on the retention of competencies. In order to measure this, the researcher formulated four hypotheses that aimed at measuring the statistical relationship between the variables of the study. It was assumed that there is a statistically significant relationship between working conditions and retention of health competencies at Tarif General Hospital. There is a statistically significant relation between compensation and retention of health competencies in Tarif General Hospital. There is a statistically significant relation between the relationship with colleagues and management and retention of health competencies at Tarif General Hospital and the existence of a statistically significant relationship between the professional growth and retention of health competencies at Tarif General Hospital. The importance of this study stems from the fact that it deals with a very important subject, which is the internal work environment of Tarif General Hospital. In addition, the importance of this study stems from the fact that it aims to improve the health work and its quality.  In order to achieve the study goals, the researcher used the descriptive analytical approach. The researcher used the questionnaire as the study tool. The study population comprised all the medical staff at Turaif General Hospital. Questionnaires were distributed to the entire study sample that consisted of (220) individuals. The number of questionnaires valid for study was (183) questionnaires. The research findings were as follows: the participants' estimate of the work circumstances dimension was high (3.64), the participants' estimate of the compensation dimension was moderate (3.32), the participants' estimate of the relationship with colleagues dimension was high (3.62), the participants' estimate of the professional growth dimension was weak (2.39), and the participants' estimate of medical competencies retenion level was intermediate (2.75). Accordingly, the researcher's major recommendations are: the need to create the right atmosphere for personnel in hospitals, the interest of the hospital to provide the appropriate conditions for the staff in terms of the physical and moral aspects for building the work adjustment in the staff, and conducting training courses and educational lectures for personnel in hospitals on how to cope with the work pressures.


With the rapid development of the information technology,network teaching has risen to be an indispensable teaching mode. However, due to the deep-rooted old teaching ideas,the inadequate capability of computer operation on the part of the teachers,the lack of high quality network courseware and the constraint of multi-media network technology,there is a fairly big difference between the ideal and the reality of the network teaching. The ideas of education should be transformed,the teaching should innovatively designed and the training of teachers should be strengthened.


Background: Although percutaneous epicardial catheter ablation (PECA) has been used for the management of epicardial ventricular tachycardia, the use of PECA for atrial fibrillation (AF) has not yet been reported.


Kenneth Severens. Charleston: Antebellum Architecture and Civic Destiny. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988. xiii + 315 pp. Illus. Margaret Ripley Wolfe. Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. xii + 259 pp. Illus., maps. Michael H. Ebner. Creating Chicago's North Shore: A Suburban History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xxx + 338 pp. Illus., maps. Eric H. Monkkonen. America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities & Towns, 1780-1980. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. xvi + 332 pp. Illus. Although it can be dated at least as far back as 1933 and the publication of Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.'s The Rise of the City: 1878-1898, urban history as a specialty in American historiography clearly came into its own in the 1960s, at the same time that politicians, public figures and the media in the United States publicized the idea of an "urban crisis." Amidst signs of hope and despair, urban renewal and ghetto riots, sch...


Polycrystal elasticity of the unquenchable MgSiO3 high‐pressure clinoenstatite has been measured using ultrasonic interferometry in conjunction with in‐situ X‐ray diffraction and imaging techniques within its stability field in a large volume multi‐anvil apparatus for the first time. At 6.5 GPa, we obtained ∂KS/∂P = 5.6(3), ∂G/∂P = 1.5(1), ∂KS/∂T = −0.017(1) GPa K−1 and (∂G/∂T) = −0.015(1) GPa K−1. Our results show that the elastic velocities of HP‐CEN are not only higher than those of OEN but also higher than olivine at upper mantle conditions. According to these new data, the elastic velocities for the "depleted" mantle composition, with ∼20 vol% of HP‐CEN, would result in ∼0.8% and ∼1.6% in difference for P and S waves, respectively, when OEN data were used in previous calculations. Newly measured results also suggest that it is possible to distinguish "undepleted" and "depleted" composition models in the upper mantle.


The dynamics of a Baltic perch (Perca fluviatilis) population were studied in a bleached pulp mill effluent area on the Swedish coast. Recruitment was seriously affected, as larval and fry abundanc...


We have developed a 1.3 μm superluminescent diode using revolutionary structure. A light diffusion surface is placed diagonally on the active layer within the device to suppress the lasing action. Superluminescent diode characteristics were achieved in the range 0–50°C, and the coupled power into a single-mode fibre reached 1 mW.


Glutathione participates in various metabolic activities of plants and animals,and plays an important role in living body. The determination of glutathione is very important,and there are a lot of detection methods,such as iodimetry,paper chromatography,high performance liquid chromatography,etc.,but so far there is not a quick,simple,accurate and economical method. This article gives a brief overview about determination of glutathione.


The standard Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is the classical Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) while Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (MTSP) is an extension of TSP when more than one salesman is involved. The objective of MTSP is to find the least costly route that the traveling salesman problem can take if he wishes to visit exactly once each of a list of n cities and then return back to the home city. There are a few methods that can be used to solve MTSP. The objective of this research is to implement an exact method called Branch-and-Bound (B&B) algorithm. Briefly, the idea of B&B algorithm is to start with the associated Assignment Problem (AP). A branching strategy will be applied to the TSP and MTSP which is Breadth-first-Search (BFS). 11 nodes of cities are implemented for both problem and the solutions to the problem are presented.


Ceramic foams with porosity 95% or above could be prepared by controlling slurry rheology through additives in direct casting route. The additives used to control slurry rheology included sucrose and two different dispersants, Darvan 821 A (ammonium polyacrylate) and DBAC (dibasic ammonium citrate). In addition, slurry rheology could also be varied through variation in ceramic loading. Slurry rheology had a significant influence on the foaming behaviour resulting in sintered foams with varying microstructure and total porosity. Lower viscosity slurries foamed to a greater extent, leading to higher porosity in foams. DBAC based slurries foamed to greater extent, resulting in thinner cell walls and increased number of interconnections between the cells. Use of sucrose helped in strengthening of green ceramic foams enabling ease in handling and machining.


When within the inner solar system, comets possess gaseous atmospheres. The gases therein are ionized, and eventually join the solar wind. This thesis describes an investigation of the interaction of comets with the solar wind. The work begins with an overview of the processes involved in the comet solar wind interaction region, and the domains and boundaries that exist in the region. A review of remote observations of cometary ions is given. The characteristics of visible plasma features are summarized, together with the theories proposed to explain them. An overview of the Giotto spacecraft and its instruments, and a description of its mission to two comets are presented. Ground-based observations were obtained of the ion features present in Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake. The morphologies and motions of the comet's plasma features are described. The formation of tail rays was captured during a high temporal resolution image sequence. A gas production rate estimate is derived from the observations, and a model of ray morphologies is proposed, based partly upon observational evidence. 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova and C/1996 Q1 Tabur were also observed; however, no strong ion features were detected. An analysis of the plasma features of 26P/ Grigg-Skjellerup then follows. A description of the solar wind conditions at that comet during the Giotto encounter is given, and an estimate of its production rate is made. Ground-based observations of Grigg-Skjellerup are compared to in-situ Giotto data. Morphological features were detected in ground-based images; it is pro posed that they could have been linked to certain solar wind discontinuities. A qualitative description of a model of ion ray formation then follows. The thesis concludes with a summary of the main results.


Various Anticancer Agents (Nitrogen-Mustard N-Oxide (N. M. O.), Carzinophilin, 8-Azaguanin, Actinomycin and Thio-TEPA) were administered intraperitoneally on rabbits, and the changes in the wall of intestinal canal were studied. Those agents were managed to act only on walls of the appendix and the stomach. Changes in the walls were as follows; Intraperitoneal adminstration of the agents did notresulted breakdown and hemorrhage from local blood vessels even in use of high units. N. M. O.; capillary bleeding and destruction of lymphatic tissue, Carzinophilin; significant capillary bleeding and adhesion due to proliferation of tissue, Actinomycin; necrosis of tissue, 8-Azaguanin or Thio TEPA; no remakable changes. As results described above, it is concluded that the changes in intestinal wall after intraperitoneal administration of the Anticancer Agents are not to be neglected.


Suicide attempts are multifaceted actions originating from a wide variety of socio-demographic and clinical factors. This study aimed to characterize suicide cases presented to the emergency service of a University Hospital in Turkey. This retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted by evaluating patients admitted to the emergency service. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square, and the Student's t-test were used to compare groups. A total of 507 patients were admitted to the emergency department with a suicide attempt. Among the applicants, 383 (75.5%) were due to drug poisoning, 79 (15.6%) due to self-laceration, and 45 (8.9%) due to other reasons. Among the patients with drug self-poisoning, the most frequent intoxication was with multiple medications. Most of the patients were females, aged 26-44 years, single, unemployed, living with their family, attempted at home in weekdays, and accompanied by a family member in the emergency unit. Of the patients, 74 (14.6%) had a history of at least one previous suicide attempt. The total number of discharged patients was 438 (86.3%), while the remaining 69 (13.7%) were hospitalized, of whom 39 (56.5%) were males (p=0.004). The majority of hospitalized patients were in the 17-44-age interval. There was a significant difference between hospitalized and discharged patients concerning age groups (p=0.007). Also, a positive family history of a psychiatric disease was associated with the proportions of hospitalization (positive history: 14 (28.0%) hospitalizations vs. negative history: 55 (12.0%) hospitalizations) (p=0.002). Logistic regression analysis demonstrated that suicide attempts with drugs was significantly associated with gender and accompanying alcohol use (p


The phenomenon of sharing economy as a model of productivity growth and transaction costs' decline considers distributed use of underutilized assets containing excess capacity which is available for other economic agents and demanded by them. Several researchers and mass media foster fears that sharing propagation will facilitate inequality growth and unfair property distribution thus causing property transformations in different territories. Those transformations will obviously follow different patterns and result into a specific structure of a region's economy resulting from structural shifts between the private and public sectors. Suh an ownership transformation will presumably have specific impact on regional performance, measured traditionally by gross regional product. Yet, GRP is not flexible enough to catch low-scale shifts of regional property complex employment practices as sharing. That is why an alternative approach to regional performance assessment is suggested and implemented. The private sector's capital expenditure in fixed assets is proved to be subject to change under the novel phenomena like sharing economy which is potentially changing patterns of capital consumption. This would lead to gross regional product changes in short-term and long-term perspective.


Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) is a systemic disorder characterized by elevated antiphospholipid antibodies and multiple-organ involvement. Reported cutaneous manifestations of APS include various skin lesions but not multiple sterile abscesses. We report a case of secondary APS with multiple sterile abscesses as a novel cutaneous manifestation. We believe these abscesses should be included among the cutaneous symptoms of APS.


The aim of this paper is to offer several anthropological reflections on the presence of religions in the current world, focusing on taboo — an element that is present in religions such as Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. Taboos are prohibitions enforced in most cases by supernatural sanctions. For instance, food taboos, sexual taboos, space taboos, or clothing taboos can be found in all major historical religions as part of the basic indications that affect the believers' specific, practical behaviour, informing them on how they should shape their lives and their worlds. On the other hand, these instructions or prohibitions are often related to gender, since certain taboos apply only to women. For instance, this is the case of sexual taboos, such as menstruation taboos or postpartum taboos, all establishing prohibitions that may foster the already extended inequality of treatment between men and women. PALABRAS CLAVE | KEYWORDS religion | genero | tabues | androcentrismo | etnocentrismo | gender | taboos | androcentrism | ethnocentrism


Using MIMO-OFDM technology a simple wireless communication system is modeled and simulated based on the principles of technical analysis. MIMO-OFDM system performs better when the diversity of antennas is increased especially at receiver side. However, this comes at the cost of sub-carrier interference which increases with the increase in the carrier number in the system. Using the powerful tool of MATLAB, the system is simulated for different antenna diversity and carrier configurations and results are analyzed.


The accumulation of inbreeding can lead to an unfavorable change in the phenotypic value of individuals for traits related to fitness, also known as inbreeding depression. However, inbreeding accumulated at a more distant past (ancient inbreeding) is expected to have a smaller depressive effect than that accumulated more recently due to the loss of detrimental alleles caused by purifying selection. Therefore, the aim of this study was to quantify the inbreeding depression caused by recent and ancient inbreeding for birth weight, weaning weight, and post-weaning gain. Pedigree and genomic information were obtained from Angus Genetics, Inc. (St. Joseph, MO) for 569,364 individuals from the American Angus breed. Pedigree inbreeding and genomic inbreeding based on runs of homozygosity (ROH) were estimated using the SNP1101 software. Model-based genomic inbreeding based on the probability a marker is part of a homozygous-by-descent segment (HBD) was estimated using the RZooROH in R. The generational cutoffs for designating inbreeding as recent was that acquired 5 generations ago or sooner for pedigree, 6.25 generations ago or sooner for ROH, and 8 generations ago or sooner for HBD inbreeding. The effect of a 1% increase in inbreeding was modeled in males and females using a linear mixed model approach. Recent pedigree inbreeding was found to decrease birth weight by 0.04 and 0.03 kg, decrease weaning weight by 0.50 and 0.48 kg, and decrease post-weaning gain by 0.62 and 0.32 kg, in males and females respectively. Ancient pedigree inbreeding was generally found to have no effect on growth. For genomic inbreeding, when both recent and ancient inbreeding had a detrimental effect on growth, recent inbreeding generally had a larger effect. The results of this study demonstrate that inbreeding accumulated recently should be quantified and managed in beef cattle populations to avoid economic losses.


Book Citations: Authors, Title, HemaSphere, 2023;7(S3):pages. The individual abstract DOIs can be found at https://journals.lww.com/hemasphere/pages/default.aspx. Disclaimer: Articles published in the journal HemaSphere exclusively reflect the opinions of the authors. The authors are responsible for all content in their abstracts including accuracy of the facts, statements, citing resources, etc. 4356 2 year overall survival was 83%. The influencing factors in the univariate analysis were sex, PS, early evaluation response and end of treatment response. Only sex was retained in the multivariate analysis. 2 year EFS was 61%. Age, LDH level, IPI, extranodal lesions, early response and end of treatment response were significant in the univariate analysis .Whereas only Age, LDH level, extranodal lesions, early response and end of treatment response remained significant in multivariate analysis. Summary/Conclusion: Because of the heterogeneity of this pathology, there is currently no consensus in the management of indolent lymphomas. For this reason, more studies especially multcentric ones are needed in order to analyze each histological subtype separately and set national protocols for indolent lymphomas. HemaSphere | 2023;7(S3) EHA2023 Hybrid Congress Copyright Information: (Online) ISSN: 2572-9241 © 2023 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the European Hematology Association. This is an open access Abstract Book distributed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) which allows third parties to download the articles and share them with others as long as they credit the author and the Abstract Book, but they cannot change the content in any way or use them commercially. Abstract Book Citations: Authors, Title, HemaSphere, 2023;7(S3):pages. The individual abstract DOIs can be found at https://journals.lww.com/hemasphere/pages/default.aspx.Book Citations: Authors, Title, HemaSphere, 2023;7(S3):pages. The individual abstract DOIs can be found at https://journals.lww.com/hemasphere/pages/default.aspx. Disclaimer: Articles published in the journal HemaSphere exclusively reflect the opinions of the authors. The authors are responsible for all content in their abstracts including accuracy of the facts, statements, citing resources, etc. 4357


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of two moderators of the relationships between affective conflict and cognitive conflict and team performance: the cultural context and the level of team‐oriented behaviors.Design/methodology/approach – Survey questionnaires were administered to a sample of 143 Mexico‐ and US‐based learning teams. Regression analysis was used to test hypotheses.Findings – In both cultural contexts, cognitive conflict more positively affected performance when team‐oriented behaviors were high. This effect was stronger for Mexican teams. Affective conflict more negatively affected performance in Mexican teams than US teams, particularly when team‐oriented behaviors were high.Practical implications – The results have implications for managing conflict to improve team effectiveness in the USA and in Mexico and for training managers who work across these cultural contexts.Originality/value – The paper demonstrates the joint role of the cultural context and team behavio...


The ability to predict energy efficient lifetimes for ceramic heat exchanger components is necessary for their design, manufacture, and sale. The ability to inspect components for critical defects and adherence to specifications is also vital. In this second phase of a three phase program new instrumentation was added to the existing NDE capabilities, mechanical testing was carried out to determine material properties, and a fracture mechanics model was developed. The new instrumentation is a TOFAM system and a CT scanner. The TOFAM was developed at Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. It is an ultrasonic scanning system, with the capability of producing a magnified image of the part being scanned, and a color coded image showing the depth of any defects located. The CT scanner is based on a microfocus X-ray system, and reconstructions use code supplied by Sandia National Laboratory. Both these systems are capable of working with full size heat exchanger tubes. The mechanical testing program was carried out on C-rings at both room temperature and at 1230 degrees C, and on pressurized tube segments at room temperature. Acoustic Emission monitoring was used to detect slow crack growth in all test conditions. 47 refs., 60 figs., 9 tabs.


An oral extended release dosage comprising: (1) a plurality of granules comprising (a) a pharmaceutically active compound; (B) at least one amino acid; and (c) an intragranular polymer; and, (2) a hydrophilic extragranular polymer in which said granules are dispersed, said extragranular polymer which more rapidly hydrates to intragranular said polymer.


Abstract : The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) was deployed following the signing of the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement in July of 1999. A core pillar of the mission -- disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programs -- have attempted to address the issue of multiple armed nonstate actors operating primarily in the country's eastern districts of Ituri and North and South Kivu. MONUC's DDR initiatives can be subdivided into the national DDR program for Congolese combatants and the disarmament, demobilization, repatriation, reintegration and resettlement (DDRRR) of foreign armed groups. Although there has been some success in the DDR(RR) programs over the past 12 years of UN deployment, rampant insecurity attributed to the presence of armed groups in the DRC continues to plague the east. An examination of the DDR process in the east reveals that although the UN has assisted in the implementation of large, multidimensional DDR and DDRRR programs in the east, the situational context, voluntary approach, and links to Security Sector Reform (SSR) have all proven inadequate to achieving stability though DDR.


Aureobasidium pullulans, popularly known as black yeast, is one of the most widespread saprophytic fungi associated with wide range of terrestrial and aquatic habitats. The fungus has widely been employed in production of an economically important polysaccharide Pullulan. Pullulan is a linear glucan made mainly of maltotriose repeating units. This gives the polysaccharide structural flexibility and enhances solubility. This polysaccharide is of great economic importance with increase applications in food, pharmaceutical, agriculture, blood plasma substitute and chemical industry. Production of pullulan was observed in a novel media consisting of Sugar Cane Molasses (SCM) and distilled water. It was found that high amount of pullulan (2.5g /100ml) was obtained at 30°C, pH 5 at a concentration of 2.5% media in 96h. No synthetic minerals were used in the media for the growth of polysaccharide making it very economical.

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I outline different beliefs about assimilation, and show that these beliefs can influence attitudes toward immigration. Using data from a new national sample survey in Japan, I test whether and how beliefs about assimilation influence attitudes toward immigration. The results show two important conclusions. First, there is a large anti-immigrant sentiment in Japan. Second, after controlling for other known determinants of attitudes toward immigration, I find that those who are in favor of immigrant assimilation support higher levels of immigration, more immigrant equal rights, and have more accurate views about immigrant crime in Japan. This suggests that those favoring assimilation are not necessarily xenophobic in all cultures.


A general phenomenological model is developed to describe rate-dependent behavior in multi-dimensional strain. It is applied to the specific problem of two-dimensional viscoelasticity. Results are compared to one-dimensional calculations and to two-dimensional experiments. Calculations are also done for the problems of applied pressures at the surfaces of cylindrical and spherical cavities in viscoelastic media.


This article contains a critical revisit of the current "Portuguese Syllabus for Basic Education", approved in 2009 and coordinated by Carlos Reis. Examining the challenges faced by Portuguese language students and teachers in a changing society where knowledge becomes rapidly outdated, our proposal argues in favour of upholding both Portuguese literature and Portuguese-language literatures in the curriculum lists. Bringing to light the character of literary reading, this article highlights the role of literature in the education of children and adolescents.


In 2007, the Middle East situation was still in turbulence. The turmoil in Iraq had no fundamental improvements. The Palestine-Israeli peace negotiation was restarted, but the peace opportunity was still fragile. The confrontation between U.S. and Iran intensified. The situation in Lebanon was unstable and PKK attacked Turkey. Bush Administration was compelled to adjust its Middle East policy but still didn't admit its defeat. Arab countries spared no effort to defend themselves while world powers were also actively getting involved in the Middle East.


He developed methodology for predicting of deposits accumulation on the water-water reactors fuel rods is presented. The results of methods substantiation are exhibited in experiments. The experiments were performed at various stages of fuel rods operation in the boiling water reactor. The experiments were performed at various stages of fuel rods operation in the boiling water reactor. The effect of deposits formation of the small iron particles is theoretically predicted and experimentally observed. The recommendations have worked out for reducing the iron corrosion products in BWRs transient modes. The results of the experimental data showed that the fuel rods deposits on the boiling water reactor are mainly composed of copper and iron. The copper is located in dissolved form and it is deposited in the pores between the particles of the iron compounds. The thickness of deposits is determined by iron corrosion products. The effect of deposits formation of the small iron particles is theoretically predicted and experimentally observed. The relatively large particle is not able to penetrate into the laminar sublayer due to the action of the Magnus forces. The recommendations have worked out for reducing the iron corrosion products in BWRs transient modes. These recommendations based on the results of theoretical and experimental studies. The method of sharp collapse of pressure at the VK-50 of low power levels allows cleaning coolant from large particles of corrosion products without their deposition on the fuel rods. This rule's of procedure can decide the problems of radiation safety and stability of the BWR fuel assemblies more effectively.


An x-ray diffraction investigation of trans-tris(trifluoroacetylacetonato)iron(III) has been carried out (diffractometer, Mo K..cap alpha.., least squares method in the anisotropic-isotropic approximation, R = 0.081). The main crystallographic parameters are: ..cap alpha.. = 13.690(3), b = 14.668(6), c = 20.464(6) A, space group Pcab, Z = 8. The structure is molecular, and the intermolecular contacts are of the van der Waals type. The mean distances in the chelate ring are Fe...O = 1.995, C...O = 1.24, and C-C = 1.39 A.


Learning style and cognitive style are both related to and distinctive from each other.In teaching practice,we should attach importance to the differences of individual learning styles and cognitive styles,try to create learning environment for each student,and satisfy different student's learning demands.


1Department of General Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui, PR China, 233004 2University of Mississippi Cancer Institute, Jackson, MS, USA, 39216 3Department of Pathology and Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA, 48201 4Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bengbu Medical College, Anhui, PR China, 233030 5Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA, 02215


This paper presents our reflections on organising and running an asylum seeker wellbeing group, within the context of an NHS mental health Trust.


Objectives. Emergency departments (EDs) and elective hospitalizations compete for beds. Our aim was to reduce hospital transfers using a queuing-model study. Methods. Macros were created to simulate four priority groups of patients according to hospitalization mode (elective, ED) and age (≥75 and <75 years), with randomization of number of admissions and length of stay (LOS). Those priorities were assigned regarding usual situations (ED admission with less priority than scheduled admission) not regarding clinical contexts. Simulations were based on actual data from an academic hospital. Models simulated ED boarder queue according to different scenarios based on number of hospital beds, LOS, and preventable hospitalizations. Results. Observed hospital-LOS was longer for patients ≥75 years (12.2 ± 3.6 days versus 11.4 ± 3.8 days; ) and for ED admissions (12.2 ± 0.6 versus 9.7 ± 0.6 days; ). In simulation models, two scenarios stabilized the beds demand after admissions: limitation of LOS to 30 days or 20% decrease in elective admissions among older patients. With these scenarios, the queue would be 25.2 patients for 361 beds (


Experimental results of single cutter indentation into compacted snow on a highway have been presented. The dependence of the indentation force on cutter parameters, indentation depth, snow temperature and density has been found.


Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a network of small light weight wireless nodes which are highly distributed and deployed in large numbers. There are Some issues in wsn like scalability, deployment, energy consumption and many more. There are also many energy efficient techniques in wireless sensor network like LEACH, HEAP etc. Divide and conquer is also one of the efficient technique which is based upon manually deployment. In this paper , Divide and conquer scheme is explained in detail.


An object of the present invention is to provide a high electronic device at the same time, the reliability provided by the liquid cooling structure suitable for miniaturization and reduction in thickness that is sufficient circulating fluid flow rate that is required for increasing the heating value of the heating device caused by the treatment improved the performance of the electronic device will be. A heat-receiving jacket (7) at the same time to thermally connected to the heat generating element, is attached to the pump 6 to the radiator (1a). In addition, it provided with a tank unit (2) to the radiator (1a). The refrigerant between the heat-receiving jacket (7) and the radiator (1a) by means of a pump (8) is circulated.


(57) Abstract: fine particles having a thicker wall is formed from a natural or synthetic polymers, as compared to microparticles with thinner walls, were found to have echogenic was significantly improved. The effect of wall thickness, experimented, and was determined by substituting the equation used when predicting the optimum conditions. In a preferred embodiment, the polymer is a biodegradable polymer, the wall thickness is about 100~660Nm, it is possible to use a wall thickness of 500nm greater than about 20 nm. 0.5~5mm diameter suitable for target organ being imaged, for example 0.5-8 microns in diameter for intravascular administration, and a gastrointestinal tract or other tubular organs for oral administration for imaging microparticles are produced having a diameter. Preferred polymers are polyhydroxy acids such as polylactic - co - glycolic acid, polylactic acid or polyglycolide, most preferably, the polymer is conjugated to polyethylene glycol or other materials inhibiting uptake by the reticuloendothelial system (RES) it is. Microspheres can be used in a variety of acoustic imaging applications including cardiology applications, imaging of blood perfusion applications as well as organ and peripheral vein.


The disagreement between Matteo Ricci and Diego de Pantoja has been considered to be a mirror of the ethnic contradiction between Italy and Spain.Nevertheless,the difference in ideology is a more potential factor in the relations between them,as far as the extant documents are concerned.Ricci wasn't a narrow minded nationalist,and he was incompatible with Pantoja mainly because of his humanistic attitude toward his work as against the medieval mode of missionary of Pantoja.Contrary to expectation,Ricci never pardoned Pantoja throughout his life and Pantoja's dissatisfaction with Ricci was long standing.


For a linear system, steady‐state response to sinusoidal stress cannot have a unique dynamic modulus and phase shift, but these quantities must be related to rate of creep; particularly they cannot be independent of external frequency. A proof is given that such linear system is always equivalent to a viscoelasticsystem. Finally the discrepancy between the relations deduced and experimental results of various authors is pointed out and discussed.


AcknowledgementsiIntroduction11.Canadian-American Relations: An Intellectual History202.American Politics and Philosophy703.Religion and Culture in the United States1154.Race and Gender in the United States1435.The Perils of Prosperity and the Search for Order1706.Canadian Identity and America1887.Twin Perils: Annexation and Americanization2158.Canadian-American Relations and American Foreign Policy2409.Canadian-American Trade, Unionism, and Migration273Conclusion308Corpus324Serials Examined384Secondary Sources390


Reaction of Mo(NAr)(CHCMe2Ph)(OTf)2(DME) (Ar = 2,6-i-Pr2C6H3) with the lithium salt of various β-diketonates and β-diketiminates leads to complexes of the type Mo(NAr)(CHCMe2Ph)(L)(OTf) (L = β-diketonate or β-diketiminate). Treatment of these compounds with NaB[3,5-(CF3)2C6H3]4 in dichloromethane affords rare examples of cationic imido alkylidene complexes. The solid-state structures of two of these compounds, {Mo(NAr)(CHCMe2Ph)(TMHD)(THF)}{B[3,5-(CF3)2C6H3]4} and {Mo(NAr)(CHCMe2Ph)(ArCl-Nacnac)}{B[3,5-(CF3)2C6H3]4} (TMHD = tetramethylheptanedionato, ArCl-Nacnac = [2,6-Cl2C6H3NC(Me)]2CH), have been determined by X-ray diffraction, and their reactivity with ethylene and other simple olefins has been explored.


Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative genetic disease caused by a homozygous deletion of the Survival Motor Neuron 1 gene (SMN1). It is characterized by the degeneration of α lower motor neurons in the anterior horn of the spinal cord, which leads to muscular atrophy. There is currently no effective therapy. Nevertheless, studies targeting ubiquitin‐like modifier‐activating enzyme 1 (UBA1) pathways on animal models have shown improvements in neuromuscular phenotype. Experiments have shown that there is a reduction of UBA1 in SMA and that mutations in UBA1 can cause X‐linked SMA. However, the mechanism by which UBA1 mediates degeneration in SMA is unclear.


In this paper,chemical methods were used to study the humic acids in purple paddy soil applied with rice straw residue,in order to enrich the characteristics of soil humic substances,changing of composition,properties and structure.The content of soil organic carbon and humus were increased about 31.71% and 51.93%,which were the largest during straw decomposition in the 90th day.In the 45th of decomposition of rice straw residue,the PQ was significantly lower,and at the time of the 90th and 135th,the PQ had changed little.After using straw residue,the ΔlogK of the humic acid extracted from purple paddy soil decreased,the RF increased rapidly.In the elemental composition of humic acids,the carbon was the main contents(about 52%),the oxygen followed.H/C decreased,O/C increased continuously.Carboxyl and phenolic-hydroxyl groups were the main acidic groups.The content of carboxyl group was reduced firstly,with the decomposition of paddy straw,which was going up;the content of phenolic-hydroxyl group changed contrarily with carboxyl group,carbonyl group increased.Chemical compositions and structure of humic acids extracted from purple paddy soil with straw residue were changing.


submission for the DORSDL workshop at ECDL 2006 The Fedora Service Framework takes a service-oriented architecture approach to building new functionality around a Fedora repository as stand-alone web applications that run independently of the Fedora repository. There are two main benefits to the service framework approach: (1) it allows new functionality to be added as atomic, modular services that can interact with Fedora repositories, yet not be part of the repository, (2) it makes co-development of new services for Fedora easier since each service can be independently developed and plugged into the framework. The Fedora Generic Search Service is an ongoing development at the Technical University of Denmark, aimed at inclusion in the Service Framework in version 2.2 of Fedora. It contains a generic interface that allows plugin of your favorite search engine. Initially, plugin modules for Lucene and Zebra are developed. The generic interface has operations for index updating, for searching, for index browsing, and for getting engine specific information. The set of index fields is tailorable, and they may have contents both from the FOXML records with their inline XML datastreams and from the datastreams, whether managed, referenced or external. The query language for searching is determined by the search engine, and correct queries are generated either by the engine specific plugin module or by the user interface. Xslt stylesheets for index document creation and for result page generation, extensive use of configuration properties, and mimetype specific transformers to text all contribute to the flexibility of the service. A number of concerns are considered, including how to deal with security, how to deal with different document types, and how to deal with multilingual content. Prototypes have been available at http://defxws2006.cvt.dk/fedoragsearch since February 2006, and members of the Fedora community have contributed to the development in various ways. Another service development under consideration is a Peer-to-Peer service. The Technical University of Denmark is a partner in the EU project "ALVIS Superpeer Semantic Search Engine". Superpeers are nodes in the ALVIS peer-to-peer network with a protocol that allows them to exchange information about their repository contents and to distribute queries and assemble hit lists from responding other superpeers. Currently, it is under consideration, how Fedora could be wrapped up as a superpeer. Seen from the standpoint of the Fedora Service Framework, it would look like adding a Peer-to-Peer Service. This would facilitate cooperation not only among Fedora repositories, but also between a Fedora repository and a large number of superpeers that are based on other types of repository or database systems, if these are wrapped up as well. The difference from simple web service-based cooperation between two systems is that the peer-to-peer network maintains a global index and directs queries to relevant superpeers. The talk will explain and illustrate functionalities and possibilities of such a service.


This paper theoretically analyzes the bilateral mechanism of ESG responsibility fulfillment on green innovation of industrial enterprises and decomposes the promotion effect, inhibition effect and the net effect of mutual influence of ESG responsibility fulfillment on green innovation of Chinese industrial enterprises based on the data of 615 industrial enterprises in China from 2012 to 2021, and it analyzes the regular characteristics of them using bilateral stochastic frontier model. The study shows that (1) ESG responsibility fulfillment can drive green innovation in industrial enterprises. The interaction between the facilitation effect (24.49%) and the inhibiting effect (20.71%) of ESG responsibility fulfillment in industrial enterprises eventually leads to the actual green innovation level being higher than the frontier green innovation level by 3.78%. (2) The driving effect of ESG responsibility on green innovation of industrial enterprises has room for growth; the driving effect of ESG on green innovation gradually increases and turns from negative to positive with the improvement of ESG performance; and the net effect of ESG responsibility on the level of green innovation of industrial enterprises from 2012 to 2020 shows a continuous growth. (3) The driving effect of industrial enterprises' ESG responsibility fulfillment on green innovation is the highest in the western region, followed by the eastern region, and it is the lowest in the central region. (4) Compared with industrial enterprises in regions with high managerial short-sightedness, non-heavy pollution and low marketization, the driving effect of ESG responsibility fulfillment on green innovation of industrial enterprises in regions with low managerial short-sightedness, heavy pollution and high marketization is stronger.


Among the topics discussed are the question of methodo logy in the reading of Heraclitus; what sense can be made of the poem of Parmenides; an account of the myth of Plato's Statesman in terms of its contribution to cosmological speculation; an outline of the defi ning features of mind-body dualism in the writings of Plato; and a revaluation of Platonic and Aristotelian functionalism in light of recent biological theory.


Background: The Elecsys hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) II quantitative assay is a newly introduced electrochemiluminescence immunoassay incorporating an initial 1:400 onboard dilution and a simple algorithm to determine HBsAg levels in serum. We evaluated the performance of the Elecsys HBsAg II assay and determined the impact of its initial onboard dilution on laboratory efficiency. Methods: HBsAg levels were determined using both Roche Elecsys and Abbott Architect HBsAg assays. Linearity and precision of the Elecsys HBsAg II assay and its correlation with the Architect HBsAg assay were evaluated. In particular, precision was verified at Samsung Medical Center, Severance Hospital, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital in Seoul, using the same pooled serum controls. The efficiency of the dilution algorithm for both methods was verified using data from 1,848 clinical samples. Results: The Elecsys HBsAg II assay showed a good linearity from 0.1 to 48,000.0 IU/mL and a good correlation (r=0.9998) between expected and measured values. Precision analyses performed at Samsung Medical Center, Severance Hospital, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital showed excellent performance with coefficients of variation between 1.28% and 6.82%. The values of the Elecsys HBsAg II and Architect HBsAg assays were well correlated (n=506, r=0.987, P < 0.001) and also reliably determined in hepatitis C virus- and hepatitis B virus-co-infected patient sera (n=27). In terms of efficiency, 64.0% of samples provided a final HBsAg result on the first run without the need for further dilution, when using the 1:400 onboard pre-dilution protocol of the Elecsys HBsAg II assay. Conclusions: Given the excellent precision and correlation with the Architect assay, the Elecsys HBsAg II assay showed a potential advantage for laboratory efficiency by significantly reducing the need for retesting samples with high HBsAg levels.


We provide some considerations on the excitation of black ho le quasinormal modes (QNMs) in different physical scenarios. Considering a simp le model in which a stream of particles accretes onto a black hole, we show that resonant QNM excitat ion by hyperaccretion requires a significant amount of fine-tuning, and is quite unlikely to oc cur in nature. Then we summarize and discuss present estimates of black hole QNM excitation from gravitational collapse, distorted black holes and head-on black hole collisions. We emphasize the ar eas that, in our opinion, are in urgent need of further investigation from the point of view of gravi t t onal wave source modeling. A leading candidate source of detectable waves for Earth-ba sed interferometers such as LIGO, Virgo, GEO600 and TAMA, as well as for the space-base d interferometer LISA, is the inspiral and merger of binary black holes. The wa veform should comprise three parts, usually referred to as inspiral, merger and rin gdown. The inspiral waveform, originating from that part of the decaying orbit leading up t o the innermost stable orbit, can be analyzed using post-Newtonian theory. Extensive stu dies of the detectability of this phase of the signal have been carried out, both for Earth -based [1] and for spacebased interferometers [2]. The nature of the merger wavefor m is largely unknown at present, and is the subject of work in numerical relativity. The ringdown waveform originates from the distorted final bl ck hole, and consists of a superposition of quasi-normal modes (QNMs). Each mode has an o cillation frequency and a damping time that are uniquely determined by the mass M and specific angular momentumj ≡ J/M2 of the black hole [3]. The amplitudes and phases of the variou s modes are determined by the specific process that formed the fi nal hole. The uniqueness of the modes' frequencies and damping times i s directly related to the "no hair" theorem of general relativistic black holes. Ther efore a reliable detection and accurate identification of QNMs could provide the "smoking g un" for black holes and an important test of general relativity in the strong-field r egime [4]. The detectability of ringdown waves, and the accuracy with w hich we can measure their frequencies and damping times to test the no-hair theo rem, depend mainly on the energy carried by each mode [5]. In turn, the energy distribu tion depends on the details of the merger process. Given our poor understanding of the me rger phase, we have at best sketchy information concerning the energy distributi on between different modes. In the first part of this paper we show by a simple toy model that QNM excitation by infalling matter requires a significant amount of fine-tun ing, and is quite unlikely in astrophysically realistic scenarios. In the second part we briefly review present estimates of QNM excitation in various physical situations, includin g gravitational collapse, simulations of single distorted black holes and head-on collis i ns of two black holes. This second part is an extended version of Sec. VB in [5]. Most of ou r c nsiderations can be applied to the solar-mass black holes detectable by Earth-b sed interferometers, but the main motivation for this short review comes from our study of the massive black holes detectable by LISA [5]. Throughout this paper we use geometr ical units (G = c = 1). EXCITATION BY INFALLING MATTER Various authors [6, 7] suggested that quasinormal ringing c ould be resonantly excited by clumps of matter falling into the black hole at some approp riate rate. This rate should be such that the spatial separation of the clumps equals a mul tiple of the typical QNM wavelength. Here we show by a simple model that, in principle , th modes of a black hole can indeed be excited in this way. We also show that a simp le addition of damped sinusoids provides a good fit of the resulting gravitational w veforms: in other words, we can interpret the resonant excitation of the modes in term s of interference between gravitational waves. For simplicity we consider clumps of m assμ much smaller than the black hole mass, μ ≪ M, so that we can apply a perturbative analysis. Consider first one single clump falling from infinity. This pr ocess was first analyzed in a classical paper by Davis, Ruffini, Press and Price [8] (here after DRPP). They found that the total radiated energy is ≃ 0.0104μ2/M, most of it (0.0091μ2/M) being emitted as quadrupolar ( l = 2) waves, and that the total energy spectrum is peaked at ω ∼ 0.32/M, very close to the fundamental l = 2 QNM frequencyω ≃ 0.3737/M. We can now superpose the waveform and its Fourier transform f the one-particle case to represent two or more particles falling into a black h ole and to study interference phenomena (we are assuming that the clumps are non-interact ing, so that there is no extra contribution to the total energy-momentum tensor). A simil ar sum-over-point-particles approach has been used many times in the past [9], but the part icul process we consider here has not been studied before. Let us first suppose that we drop two particles with a temporal separation of T (which, bearing in mind that the retarded time is the measured quanti ty, also means a spatial separation ofT between the two bodies). If Ψ1(t,r) represents the waveform for the first body (normalized byμ, whereμ is the mass of the infalling body), then the total waveform will be Ψ(t,r) = μΨ1(t,r)+ μΨ1(t −T,r) . (1) Likewise the Fourier transform̃Ψ(ω,r) will be Ψ̃ = μΨ̃1 + μeiωT Ψ̃1 . (2) ForN bodies dropped regularly, such that the temporal differenc e between the dropping of the first and of the last is T , we have Ψ(t,r) = N−1 ∑ j=0 μΨ1 (


Book details / The ethics of influence. Government in the age of behavioral science. Cass Sunstein. Cambridge University Press, 2016 - ISBN: 9781107140707 (hard cover) - ISBN-13: 9781316792773 (eBook)


Chironomus paulfreemani n.nom. is proposed as a replacement name for Chironomus brunneus Freeman, 1954 which is preoccupied by Chironomus brunneus Walker, 1848.


In many foreign countries where cocooning is developed, new effective scientific-based innovative technologies are being developed for the cultivation of high-quality cocoon raw materials, their preliminary processing and increase of cocoon productivity. It is pivotal to obtain high quality, thin and strong silk fiber from cultivated cocoons. This research was aimed at researching differential incubation periods of mulberry silkworm (Bombyx mori.L.) seeds in the continental climate of Central Asia, particularly in Uzbekistan. During the experiments, the methods of morphological, biological, technological, production and statistical analysis of mulberry silkworms, and the methods of "Agrotechnology for the care of industrial hybrids of mulberry silkworms" were used. According to the results, in comparison with the farm 5, this indicator was 15.2%, and it was found that the amount of non-grade cocoons increased by 14.4-15%, it was increased by 4.3-4.9% on average, compared to the experimental options. Therefore, the period of cocoon maturation depends on the time and method of placing the seeds in the hatchery for revival, agrotechnics of worm feeding and climatic weather conditions.


In order to solve the problem of insufficient defective images of photovoltaic (PV) modules, more advanced image augmentation technique is required to augment the available dataset. This paper proposed a mixed model consisting of Wasserstein generative adversarial network (WGAN) and a method judging convergence, which based on the PV module defective images obtained by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The performance of the adopted WGAN is validated in comparison with two existing models through extensive experiments. In addition, the generated images are evaluated by the convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier as a supplementary dataset for the model training process. The numerical result demonstrates the feasibility of the generated images in data augmentation.


The requirements of the operators of European EFC systems and the requirements of the users will vary to a large extent. Hence, the EFC systems will imply different levels of functionality according to the different requirements. As an On-Board Unit (OBU) from one EFC system enters another EFC system there will be problems in case the functionality of the OBU does not align/comply with the functionality of the 'foreign' EFC system. In this paper, the author proposes a possible solution to the problems described above, which would be to introduce a minimum level of 'European' functionality for the OBU and the Roadside Equipment/Central system. Any OBU used in a European EFC system should cover the minimum level of functionality and any Roadside Equipment and Central system should provide the corresponding minimum level of functionality. Of course, any system should also be able to implement enhanced functionality according to the specific operator and user requirements. For the covering abstract, see IRRD 490001.


The lithium salt of trimethylsilyldiazomethane (TMSC(Li)N2) smoothly reacts with alkyl aryl ketones and aldehydes to give the corresponding homologous alkynes via alkylidene carbene intermediates. In the case of aliphatic ketones, the resulting alkylidene carbenes can be trapped by an amine to afford enamines which are efficiently converted to the homologous aldehydes. TMSC(Li)N2 can also be effectively used for the preparation of heterocycles such as 2,3-dihydrofurans, cyclohepta[b]pyrrol-2-ones, and 3-pyrrolines from the corresponding ƒÀ-siloxyketones, N-methylanilides of oc-keto acids, N,N-dialkylamides of a-keto acids, and N,N-disubstituted a-amino ketones, respectively.


Quantitative fluorescence spectroscopy requires corresponding reflectance measurements to correct tissue absorption and scattering. However, it is unclear whether fluorescence adds value beyond the diffuse reflectance measurements necessary for correction. The goal of this study was to compare the accuracy of fluorescence and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy in recovering the concentration of a high-extinction fluorophore, methylene blue (MB), using a compact fibre-optic probe. Fluorescence and diffuse reflectance measurements of tissue simulating phantoms were made using a fibre-optic probe with source-detector separations of 288–1300 µm. The average error in recovered fluorophore concentration was 20.4% for fluorescence and 15.0% for reflectance, though this difference was not significant (p = 0.77). Both methods returned concentrations that were similar to known MB concentrations (p ≥ 0.79 in both cases). Fluorescence quantification of the concentration of a high-extinction fluorophore did not significantly improve accuracy relative to diffuse reflectance. Investigators should consider whether fluorescence measurements are necessary for a given application. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02240498.


Background: PKQuest, a new physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) program, is applied to human ethanol data. The classical definition of first pass metabolism (FPM) based on the differences in the area under the curve (AUC) for identical intravenous and oral doses is invalid if the metabolism is non-linear (e.g. ethanol). Uncertainties in the measurement of FPM have led to controversy about the magnitude of gastric alcohol metabolism. PKQuest implements a new, rigorous definition of FPM based on finding the equivalent intravenous input function that would produce a blood time course identical to that observed for the oral intake. This input function equals the peripheral availability (PA) and the FPM is defined by: FPM = Total oral dose – PA. PKQuest also provides a quantitative measurement of the time course of intestinal absorption.


Both the Fermi breakup (FBM) and the Statistical Multifragmentation (SMM) models provide prescriptions for calculating mass and charge distributions and multiplicities of the fragments emitted in the breakup of an excited nuclear system. Although they are usually formulated in different terms and applied in very different regions of mass and excitation energy, they are essentially one and the same model. We make this close relationship explicit and compare results of calculations using the FBM in use today and the one proposed here. We then show how the FBM/SMM is related to the usual compound nucleus evaporation model and how the two might be unified and extended to provide a comprehensive description of statistical nuclear decay.


orders and Musculoskeletal Pain study has reported moderate attenuation of arthritis pain following the clinical use of antidepressants, especially in patients with low back pain (3). A similar marked decrease in the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index was noted after as little as 3 weeks of therapeutic use of the antidepressants such as duloxetine in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee (4). Another recent addition to this list of highly effective antidepressants is milnacipran. Patients with fibromyalgia demonstrated sustained pain relief following therapy with milnacipran (5). The above examples clearly illustrate the effectiveness of antidepressants in the treatment of arthritis pain. There is a clear and urgent need for more studies to further elaborate the usefulness of antidepressants in other rheumatic disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis.


IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, authorities in hospital administration, surgeons, physicians and bacteriologists have been increalsingly unanimous on the subject of the groNwing menace of antibiotic-resistant organisms creating endemic conditions in hospitals, and various facets of the problem have been examined in detail. The current studies in hospitals of the Department of Veterans Affairs have been aimed mostly at staphylococcal infections. Because of the type of patient dealt with in these hospitals, the particular problems connected with obstetrical and poediatric practice have not been explored except by analogy. The references appended have been selected because of their particular relevance to the problem of staphylococcal infections in hospital services devoted to the care of adults, but naturally most of the observations and recommendations apply to all types of hospital practice. Conveyance of infection from patient to patient, from patient to attendants and vice versa, with the complications of transmission by dust in the air, depots in bedclothes and other inanimate carriers, are recognized as dangers as old as hospitals. To combat these problems, a multitude of aseptic, antiseptic and sterilization techniques have been built up over the years, techniques which should be constantly modified and improved to meet changing circumstances. While it has always been recognized that part of the basic training of everyone involved in hospital work must include training in methods for combating spread of infection, it has also been recognized that human frailties will always give rise to errors of omission or commission


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Levi-Strauss's scientism positions structuralism midway between information theory and semiotics, a limitation that appears most clearly in his treatment of ritual. At specific junctures Levi-Strauss could have taken his research more towards semiotics, but opted to hew closely to the information paradigm. Phenomena of ritual repetition, redundancy and the extreme case of sacrificial destruction can only be treated as instances of inefficiency and unrecuperated waste from the perspective of information theory. After exploring the factors that led Levi-Strauss to dismiss ritual as a legitimate topic of structuralist analysis, this essay retools analytical resources developed from Mauss to Bataille that Levi-Strauss ignored. As binary oppositions and conceptual exclusions give way to immanent networks of relational structures, the paradigmatically excluded topics of ritual and sacrifice help to bridge the gap between the structuralist approaches that Levi-Strauss developed and other resources in semiotic theory.


We study state formation as an institutional adaptation to environmental change in a new archeological panel dataset covering geography, settlement, states, and public good provision in southern Iraq between 5000BCE and today. We estimate the effect of a series of river shifts which increase the demand for irrigation. We show three main results. First, a river shift affects settlement density, and therefore the incentives to adapt. Second, a river shifts leads to state formation, centralization of existing states, and the construction of administrative buildings. Third, these states build canals to replace river irrigation. Our results are stronger where collectively organizing irrigation is more difficult. Taken together, our findings show that Iraqis built institutions to offset the negative effect of environmental change. They also support a social contract theory of state formation: citizens faced with a collective action problem give up resources and autonomy in exchange for public good provision.


A recent detailed study of the Q ¯ Q flux tube and its DAHM analysis is reported. In Abelian projected (AP) SU (2) lattice gluodynamics we have mea-sured the profile of Q ¯ Q flux tubes for various lattice spacings and different Q ¯ Q distances R . We have fitted the results by the classical flux-tube solu-tion of the 3 D lattice U (1) dual Abelian Higgs model (DAHM) with external electric charges, taking the finiteness of R into account. 1 On the lattice, the flux-tube profile is characterized by the correlator of electric field strength and monopole current with the (Abelian) Wilson loop. In the course of work, we have explored and minimized systematic effects which could spoil the observed flux-tube profile: a bad ground state overlap and the Gribov problem encountered in maximal-Abelian gauge fixing. The superposition of a Coulomb field and a solenoidal field (as known from DAHM with external sources) has been confirmed on the lattice by considering correlators with Wilson loops expressed in terms of regular and singular parts of the AP gauge field, respectively, obtained by Hodge decomposition. The fits give a dual gauge boson mass m B =1091(7) MeV and a Higgs mass m χ =953(20) MeV independently of the flux-tube length. The Ginzburg-Landau param-eter of the gluodynamic vacuum κ = m χ /m B = 0 . 87(2) < 1 indicates a weak type-I superconductor. In contrast


We study partial information, possibly non-Markovian, singular stochastic control of Itô–Lévy processes and obtain general maximum principles. The results are used to find connections between singular stochastic control, reflected BSDEs and optimal stopping in the partial information case. As an application we give an explicit solution to a class of optimal stopping problems with finite horizon and partial information. Key-words: Singular stochastic control, maximum principles, reflected BSDEs, optimal stopping, partial information, Itô–Lévy processes, jump diffusions. ∗ Center of Mathematics for Applications (CMA), Dept. of Mathematics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1053 Blindern, N–0316 Oslo, email: email@example.com and Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), Helleveien 30, N–5045 Bergen, Norway; partially supported by Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Singapore. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement no [228087]. † INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt, BP 105, Le Chesnay Cedex, 78153, France, email: firstname.lastname@example.com in ria -0 06 14 27 9, v er si on 1 10 A ug 2 01 1 Contrôle stochastique singulier de processus d'Itô–Lévy et problème d'arrêt optimal en observation partielle Résumé : On démontre des principes du maximum stochastiques pour des problèmes de contrôle stochastique singulier de processus d'Itô–Lévy dans le cas non Markovien et en observation partielle. Ces résultats sont utilisés pour établir des relations avec des équations différentielles stochastiques rétrogrades réfléchies et des problèmes d'arrêt optimal. Des résultats explicites sont obtenus sur des exemples. Mots-clés : Contrôle stochastique singulier, principes du maximum, équations différentielles stochastiques rétrogrades réfléchies, arrêt optimal, information partielle, processus d'Itô–Lévy, diffusion avec saut. in ria -0 06 14 27 9, v er si on 1 10 A ug 2 01 1 Singular stochastic control and optimal stopping with partial information of Itô–Lévy processes3


The purposes of this paper is to prove some convergence theorems for fixed point iterative methods defined by means of the new concept of admissible function, introduced by Rus in 2012. Moreover, we find some sufficient conditions for weak and strong convergence of a general iterative methods for nonexpansive mappings and their generalizations. The results obtained in this thesis extend and generalize many known results in the studied area.


Modern organization administrator and motivated to achieve the goals of the members, exert leadership in order to increase business efficiency. This kind of leadership is there are many, praise of them are dancing whales ("Praise breeds willingness"). Therefore, the boss of praise and praise the leadership by integrating the leadership should evaluate the impact on job commitment of the employees. Praise the boss"s leadership was set to unity and individually consider two factors, the two factors represent both the positive correlation between job involvement in the employees. As a result of these factors boss praised the leadership shown a very close relationship with job involvement of the employees and should navigate through an intensive planning future strategies.


The goal of this research to determine differences in learning motivation between classroom using Game-Based Learning with classrooms using the conventional method at high school students. Quasi-experiment used in this research design with a pre-test post-test control group. The samples divide into an experimental group, which uses Game-Based Learning and control group using conventional methods. Using learning design instruments and test questions. Based on field data, the mean value of the pre-test experimental group 51.87and the control group 51.57. Once treated, the average value of the experimental group 83.80 and the control group 74.33. The results of the significance of the t-test 0.000 < 0.05.


The key findings of the study indicated the commitment of top management, reduction in costs and a competitive edge over other companies as drivers for the implementation of sustainable practices. Some of the key areas were identified where the focus of the company was needed. Knowledge gap and human negligence/ reluctance were identified as the key inhibitors in achieving the desired results for the company


The purpose of this study was to determine the sources of acculturative stress among international students in University Utara Malaysia (UUM) from the international student perspective. These studies explore how the sources of acculturative stressors and acculturative stress related. In additional the study examined the significant and relationship sources of acculturative stressors and acculturative stress. These study variables such as acculturative stress, language barriers, academic barriers, perceive racial discrimination, and financial concerns are the factors that play an important role in the acculturative stress of international students at the UUM. For this study 169 international students from Middle Eastern at UUM used as a sample and completed a questionnaire which is sources of acculturative stress. Thus, descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentage used measured the percentage of returned questionnaire and also used to describe the respondents' profile and inferential statistics used for measure the significant between the independent and dependent variables in addition to achieving the objective of this study. The results indicated that language barriers, academic barriers and racial discrimination are the main sources, and also found that this sources has a significantly positively influence to the acculturative stress, meanwhile non significance of sources was found in the financial concerns. These studies conclude that racial discrimination among international much more contribute to the acculturative stress among international students in UUM.


The adsorption of chloride was studied in solutions of hydrochloric acid tagged with /sup 36/C1 (soft beta emitter). The authors investigated the acid corrosion inhibitor GMU, developed at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, and also thiourea (TU). In conditions with tensile stresses, TU increases the inhomogeneity, promotes localization of the corrosion processes, and stimulates stress corrosion cracking. In presence of TU on the surface many pits are formed, and from them numerous cracks begin to grow, covering the whole surface of the steel with a network. In HCI solutions the number of pits is less, and only one branching crack grows from each pit. In solutions with GMU a crack grows from one pit and branches during growth.


This note introduces the Augmented Mean Group (AMG) estimator for the analysis of macro panel data in the presence of slope heterogeneity, variable nonstationarity and cross-section dependence. Building on extensive Monte Carlo simulations we show that its performance matches that of the popular Pesaran (2006) Common Correlated Effects (CCE) estimators in a wide range of setups. An empirical application highlights the merits of the AMG approach for cross-country productivity analysis.


Indium is transferred by the tartaric acid in the strong complex in aqueous medium. Then the selenizing solution (solution of selenium in borane) is added. The voluminous sediment of yellow color is formed. This FeIn2Se4 compound was prepared from FeSO4.7H2O and In2Se3. Composition of the determined differential thermal analysis and by chemical analysis. Phase analysis of FeIn2Se4 is studied using the X-ray and chemical analysis. The compound FeIn2Se4 crystallized in hexagonal symmetry, α = 4.012 Å, c = 39.21 Å. Morphological investigations have been performed using scanning electron microscopy. Optical absorption is measured using a spectrophotometer, the value of band gap on the basis of the spectrum, which has been read from the dispersed solution of FeIn2Se4 is calculated. Two endothermic effects were observed in the differential thermal analysis of FeIn2Se4. In the system Tg = 1158 endothermic effect corresponding to the melting point of the compound. The qualitative analysis of this sediment has shown the presence of indium and selenium. In various experiments are produced sediments of different colors when medium pH changes. The set of experiments has been carried out to specify color change and hydrogen ions concentration impact. In this iron indium selenide, the efficiency is 92.2 %.


The present invention discloses a molding device for injection compression molding and an injection compression molding method with the device, wherein the molding device for injection compression molding can be used for producing injection compression molding products. The device comprises the following components: a first pressurizing part; a first mold which is equipped on the first pressurizing part; a second pressurizing part which is equipped at a position that is opposite to the first pressurizing part, and moves to the first pressurizing part under function of a driving device; a second mold which is equipped on the second pressurizing part at a position that opposes the first mold; a spacing member which is equipped at one side of the second mold, is provided on the second pressurizing part and abuts against one surface of the first mold; a supporting member which pushes the spacing member to the first mold; and a resin inlet which is equipped on the first mold and is provided with a pouring gate that fills resin into a chamber that is formed through combining the first mold and the second mold. According to the invention, in a process of jointing the first mold and the second mold with each other and compressing the resin which is filled in the chamber, molding article at the pouring gate is cut off through the first mold and the second mold.


In this paper, the reinforcement learning algorithm applied to temperature control of the internet of things (IoT), which aims to develop a multi-purpose intelligent micro-power control switch to achieve advanced temperature control research. This paper is based on the fuzzy Q-learning PID control algorithm based on reinforcement learning, with LinkIt Smart 7688 Duo platform. The error value between the set temperature and the actual sensed temperature is exposed to the reinforcement learning PID control operation. Specifically, a temperature sensor will provide temperature feedback to the LinkIt Smart 7688 Duo in order to achieve the stated temperature control. Finally, the suggested control approach will be compared to PID control to illustrate its efficacy and performance.


The experiments and their results contained herein will form the basis for the development of a portable non-destructive testing device for composite structures. This device is to be capable of detecting any of a variety of defects and assessing their severity within a short time


The purpose for this paper is to describe the central Embedded Controller development done for Mass Flow Controllers (MFCs) M100B system. Work caters to control M100B MFCs being used for one of the systems at National Chemical Laboratory. M100B MFC accurately measures and controls the mass flow rates of gases. The central controller for this system is non functional and technology is outdated and hence new central embedded controller is developed for the system. Development is done using ARM7 32-bit RISC microcontroller Philips LPC2148, as low power and high frequency design. Serial ADCs are interfaced to ARM microcontroller. LCD display 20×4 is used for display of run status, diagnostic and error messages. Touch keypad is designed and interfaced for setting of mass flow rate for different MFCs against MFC number selected by keypad. The software development is done using Keil micro vision 4. This ARM based controller is a real time system with display of diagnostic and error messages.


Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been regarded as one of the promising key technologies for future 5G systems. In the uplink grant-free NOMA schemes, dynamic scheduling is not required, which can significantly reduce the signaling overhead and transmission latency. However, user activity has to be detected in grant-free NOMA systems, which is challenging in practice. In this letter, by exploiting the inherent structured sparsity of user activity naturally existing in NOMA systems, we propose a low-complexity multi-user detector based on structured compressive sensing to realize joint user activity and data detection. In particular, we propose a structured iterative support detection algorithm by exploiting such structured sparsity, which is able to jointly detect user activity and transmitted data in several continuous time slots. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can achieve better performance than conventional solutions.


In this paper we prove complete p-adic analogues of Kleinbock's theorems on inheritance of Diophantine exponents for affine subspaces as well as 0-1 Diophantine dichotomies. In particular, we answer in the affirmative (and in a stronger form), a conjecture of Kleinbock and Tomanov, as well as a question of Kleinbock. Our main innovation is the introduction of a new p-adic Diophantine exponent which is better suited to homogeneous dynamics, and which we show to be closely related to the exponent considered by Kleinbock and Tomanov.


In this study, the concrete damage induced by compression is evaluated quantitatively using spherical smart aggregate sensor based on electro-mechanical impedance method. The sensitivity of the spherical smart aggregate sensor embedded in concrete cubes is investigated by comparing the electrical signals recorded during the compressive process with those of the smart aggregate sensor embedded in concrete cubes. Furthermore, the finite element model of concrete cube with an embedded spherical smart aggregate sensor is developed to simulate the concrete compressive tests. The concrete damaged plasticity constitutive model is utilized to simulate the concrete damage process. The numerical model is verified with the experimentally measured compressive test results. Finally, the damage volume ratio is presented to quantify the damage level of concrete based on the numerical model. The relationship between the root mean square deviation index of the conductance signatures obtained from experiments and the damage volume ratio computed by numerical simulation is established to quantify the concrete damage level. The results show that the spherical smart aggregate sensor is more sensitive than the smart aggregate sensor in monitoring the three-dimensional concrete structures. The proposed empirical fitting curve can effectively evaluate the concrete damage level quantitatively.


Abstract Intraoperative hypotension is commonly encountered under anesthesia. Varied causation of intraoperative hypotension can often delay the recognition of its cause. Vancomycin, a bactericidal antibiotic and often used in neurosurgical setting, is known to cause "red man syndrome." Prompt recognition of the etiology for intraoperative hypotension could be challenging in intraoperative setting. We present a case of intraoperative hypotension in a patient undergoing endoscopic skull base surgery, which was caused by a delayed red man syndrome. Delayed red man syndrome is a rare clinical entity and must be borne in mind while evaluating a case of intraoperative hypotension in patients who are on vancomycin therapy.


Abstract Tertiary phosphines are quantitatively oxidised by ⅓ of an equivalent of triphosgene to the corresponding P(V)dihalides. This reaction provides an excellent preparation of Ph3PC12.