Purpose of the study: In the growing pig, we have been able to achieve localized control of vertebral body growth by selective destruction ofhte physis using the thermal effect of a laser probe (first part of the study). The purpose of the second part of the study was to evaluate the mechanical effects in terms of 1) intersomatic disc mobility, and 2) bony resistance of the vertebral body and risk of fracture. Material and methods: Thoracotomy was performed on two Yucatan micropigs (group A); a 510 nm 30W diode laser delivered heat applied to nine vertebral bodies. Four months later, the micropigs were sacrificed. Two normal micropigs (group B) served as controls. The specimens were dissected to the intersomatic disc-ligament complex. Three-level vertebral assemblies were thus obtained for mobility tests (flexion-extension, lateral inclination, right-left rotation). Destruction tests were pursued to fracture. Tests were performed with a Zebris 3D motion analyzer. Computed tomography images and histological findings were also assessed. Results: Motion: In group A, when the discal space appeared normal on the specimen, no difference was noted in motion in comparison with group B. Conversely, when imaging demonstrated discal injury, joint stiffness was noted. The destruction tests showed that in group A specimens the fracture did not occur at the zone of lytic bone destruction caused by the heat delivery. Fractures observed were similar in the two groups, including epiphyseal detachements and sagittal fractures of the vertebral bodies. Discussion: Applying laser-delivered heat to the vertebrae in micropigs enabled partial destruction of the physis without injuring the intervertebral disc. Heat delivery induced a modification in vertebral growth. When imaging showed an intact neighboring intervertebral disc, mechanical tests showed normal mobility and resistance. Bone resistance was not diminished. This result is important to consider for the treatment of vertebral osteoid osteomas with laser. Conclusion: Laser application to vertebral bone is a reproducible method which can stop growth of the minipig vertebral bodies without injuring the intervertebral disc and without reducing bone resistance.


The essays gathered in Joyce in Progress are the fruit of the First Annual Graduate Conference in Joyce Studies held at the Universita Roma Tre in February 2008, and organized by the Italian James Joyce Foundation. They are a testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce's writings and the ongoing liveliness of debate about the writer and his works and contexts. There is a wide array of genuine research on show here, which looks at Joyce from a variety of angles, focusing on his deeply complex autobiographical fiction through genetic studies, post-colonial studies, eco-criticism and intertextual and multi-modal approaches. This volume offers ground-breaking multi-disciplinary readings and usefully connects Joyce's work with that of contemporary writers, rivals, followers, and successors.


The utility model discloses a device for preparing mixed biological feed with pleurotus eryngii fungus chaff. The device for preparing the mixed biological feed with the pleurotus eryngii fungus chaff comprises a pleurotus-eryngii-bag taking-off device, a pleurotus eryngii fungus chaff mincing device, a pleurotus eryngii grass mincing device and a blender, wherein the pleurotus eryngii fungus chaff mincing device and the pleurotus eryngii grass mincing device are arranged in parallel and respectively connected with the blender, the pleurotus-eryngii-bag taking-off device is connected with a pleurotus eryngii fungus chaff feed port and the pleurotus eryngii fungus chaff mincing device, and the blender is provided with a mixed-biological-feed discharge port. The device for preparing the mixed biological feed with the pleurotus eryngii fungus chaff is simple and practical in structure, low in investment and good in benefit.


Pierre bourdieu is French famous sociologist and philosopher in the present age.Due to many resons,the scholars in our country do not regard him as a French famous philosopher,so they know little about philosophy ideas of Bourdieu.Bourdieu relyed on his philosophical capital(Ph.D and diploma of philosophy teacher qualification),and creatively used philosophy ideas of the theory of system,universal relationships and epistemology to enable his social theory protrude philosophy features of constructivist structuralism or structuralist constructivism,relativism and introversion.Bourdieu's philosophical capital played a role as a tool box in creating his social theory.


Creative failure is inherent to the risky and uncertain nature of creative activity. This begs the question of how organizations may create a social environment that enables employees with failure ...


The modern era of the global marketplace has been defined by internet communication, long-distance collaboration, and the virtual office space. In an effort to remain competitive, we have to demand the best resources available for everything. In order to meet these needs, professionals need quality tools to connect them to the best in their field, to aid in collaboration and for the visual presentation of their designs and ideas. The purpose of this text is to define and describe the implementation used to create a collaborative tool for the inspection of three dimensional design using Java and VRML. Explanation will be given for why such a tool is needed and case studies will be presented demonstrating the effectiveness of its use. Ideas for future expansion of the software program are also given. Thesis Supervisor: Prof. John R. Williams Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering


Substantial research demonstrates the negative effects of discrimination on the psychological wellbeing of stigmatised groups. While the ultimate goal should be to reduce occurrences of discrimination, in the interim it is important to identify resiliency factors which may reduce the impact of discrimination. Given that being the victim of discrimination is likely to be experienced as a form of stress, research from the stress and coping literature can be used to inform knowledge in this area. In line with this literature, we examine self-concept structure as a resiliency factor. Self-concept structure refers to how people organise their self-beliefs and incorporates: (a) the number of different identities they subscribe to, (b) the degree to which they see their identities as similar or different, (c) the coherency and stability of selfbeliefs and (d) the degree to which people can recognise and articulate their self-beliefs. In order to explore the role of self-concept structure in the context of discrimination we employ three surveys and two experiments, with a total of 577 participants from multiple stigmatised groups including women, international students and same-sex attracted people. Using regression models we examine two forms of self-structure (self-complexity and self-clarity) and whether they mediate and/or moderate the relationships between discrimination, stress, depression and anxiety symptomology. The findings indicate that having clear, coherent and stable self-beliefs may reduce the negative impact of discrimination on depressive symptomology. Furthermore, using a values based intervention from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy appears to be a means to reduce the impact of reading discriminatory articles on mood (a possible precursor to experiencing depressive symptoms). We conclude by discussing the clinical implications for the assessment of psychopathology in stigmatised populations and treatment targets to address the stigmatised self-concept. SELF-STRUCTURE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING 4


The endorsement of Regulation on the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS is a milestone in the history of AIDS legislation.The Regulation appears some pitfalls and should be perfected,such as the antinomies with the existing laws,the right to marriage in people with HIV/AIDS,and in the section of behavior interventional measures in legislation and in practice.


A series of ruthenium(II) complexes containing pyridine-2-thione (C 5 H 5 NS) and bis(tertiary phosphine/ phosphine chalcogenide) are described. The complexes of stoichiometry, Ru(C 5 H 4 NS) 2 (L-L) (where L-L = Ph 2 P-CH=CH-PPh 2 (dppen-PP) (1) Ph 2 P-CH 2 -P(S)Ph 2 (dppm-PS) (2), Ph 2 P-CH 2 -CH 2 -P(S)Ph 2 (dppe-PS) (3) and Ph 2 P(S)-CH 2 -CH 2 -P(S)Ph 2 (dppe-SS (dppe-SS) (4)) are formed by the replacement of PPh 3 from Ru(C 5 H 4 NS) 2 (PPh 3 ) 2 using a bis(tertiary phosphine) ligand in the presence of Et 3 N base in dry toluene under dry nitrogen. All these compounds have been characterised by analytical data, IR and NMR ( 1 H and 1 3 C) spectroscopy. Octahedral structures are suggested for the complexes in which diphosphines and pyridine-2-thiolate are chelating.


Conception among prostitutes in Yoshiwara area is on the increase. Seventy-one per cent have conceived, and 62.5% have had abortions since becoming prostitutes. Comparing this rate with 45.3%, that is for the whole of Tokyo, it is very high. Thus birth control, of venereal disease has become a great problem in Yoshiwara.As a preventive we have always advise, does not satisfy the male customers and chemical contraceptives are scarcely used. So, since the end of 1954 we have been prescribing Ben and ring, etc., devices which are used by women which are not so troublesome and are useful contraceptives. They have been used only by those who apply for them being not yet permitted by the Minister of Health and Welfare.When people contract Venereal Disease, especially Gonorrhea, a week of antibiotic therapy with mycillin, aureomycin, etc., with the Ben still in situ is ineffective. After removal of the Ben, therapy is effective in three days. It appears that gonococcei remain trapped between the Ben and the cervix.In our view, therefore, pipe-form Ben is not a suitable contraceptive device for prostitutes.


. Switch toggling games such as Lights Out and the σ + -game are widely studied in mathematics and have been applied to model a variety of situations such as genetic networks and cellular automata. This paper introduces a class of toggling games where at each iteration a fixed number of switches is chosen to be toggled where the only switches changed are the switches chosen to be toggled. The switches all operate independently of each other and do not depend on the proximity or the position relative to any other switch. This paper classifies the conditions necessary and the steps taken to transition from all switches in the on state to all switches in the off state. Further results include the conditions required of the parity between the number of switches in the system and the fixed number of switches toggled at each step in order to transition from a given initial state to a specified terminal state.


A Brain Computer Interface (BCI) based assistive technology device offers great reliability and access to individuals who are affected by neurodegenerative motor disabilities. As the disease progresses, individuals lose their physical and voluntary movements and only their brain signals remain active. A BCI system using an individual's electroencephalograph (EEG) signal provides a mechanism for these individuals to communicate with the external world. As most of the communication depends on the use of smartphones or tablets, an EEG based iOS communication device is presented in this study. A tactile feedback mechanism, which evokes P300 event related response is used to obtain EEG signals. This tactile or haptic feedback system comprises of three vibrational coin motors attached at the fingertips of the user. When the user concentrates on these motor vibrations, a P300 response is generated. Three P300 responses can be obtained for each of the three motors as these motors run at different revolutions per minute (rpm). The signals obtained are preprocessed, filtered, feature extracted, and given as the control signals to an Arduino. These signals are mapped to an iPhone device by enabling the Bluetooth and Switch control feature for performing various actions such as "move to previous item", "move to next item", and "tap". Three experiments involving four participants were conducted to test the accuracy and reliability of the system. Our results show that a user can correctly navigate to their desired location 66.67% of the time. The system presented in this study can also be used to navigate from an iPhone's home screen to Google in approximately six minutes. The results obtained are promising for individuals who are completely paralyzed. Lastly, the proposed system can also be used to navigate third party applications, such as Sounding Board which is a commonly used assistive technology application that allows the users to select a phrase that will be heard through the iPhone's speaker.


With the purpose of analyzing and interpreting physics teachers' performance in the classroom, we elaborated an analysis instrument with five dimensions which aim to describe – i) the strategies chosen to conduct learning, ii) the abilities mobilized, iii) the attitudes in the interaction with students, iv) the evaluation the teacher makes of his work and v) the meta-evaluation of his practice. The instrument was constructed from constructivist ideas of teaching and learning and empirical data from teachers' statements about their classes. Through a to and from process we sought coherence of the adopted theory with the nature of data about teachers' performance. The broader purpose is to provide ground for teachers' educators about difficulties teachers may find when trying to modify their practices during a professional development program.


Over the concentration range from 0.005 to 100 mM the uptake of thiamine (vitamin B1) by Hymenolepis diminuta was linear with respect to concentration (product-moment correlation coefficient > 0.99). Radiothiamine uptake was inhibited by thiamine, thiamine monophosphate (TMP), oxythiamine, and neopyrithiamine. At 0.1 mM substrate, maximum inhibition was 57% at 800:1 inhibitor/substrate ratio. Iodoacetate (1 mM) inhibited thiamine uptake only if worms were preincubated in the inhibitor for 5 min. Thiamine uptake was not inhibited by thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP), 2,4-dinitrophenol, alanine, arginine, glutamic acid, histidine, methionine, glucose, galactose, glycerol, uracil, cytosine, thymine, riboflavin, folic acid, or nicotinamide. After a 30-sec incubation in labeled thiamine, 93% of the radioactivity (extractable as thiamine, TMP, and TPP) was present as thiamine; 3% was present as TMP, and 4% at TPP. After 30 min incubation, the relative amounts of labeled thiamine, TMP, and TPP were 61, 7, and 32%, respectively. Thiamine uptake appeared to take place by combination of both mediated and nonmediated mechanisms, and the mediated transport system is relatively specific. Hymenolepis diminuta absorbs numerous compounds when incubated in vitro. These include amino acids (Read, Rothman, and Simmons, 1963), monosaccharides (Laurie, 1957; Phifer, 1960), purines and pyrimidines (MacInnis et al., 1965; MacInnis and Ridley, 1969), and fatty acids (Arme and Read, 1968; Chappell et al., 1969). Although it appears that some vitamins (of either host or exogenous origin) are important in the developmental physiology of cestodes (Hager, 1941; Addis and Chandler, 1944, 1946; Platzer and Roberts, 1969, 1970), and that H. diminuta absorbs thiamine (vitamine B1) from the digestive tract of its host (Chandler et al., 1950), no information is available concerning the mechanism(s) of vitamin absorption in this parasite. This paper reports the results of experiments in which thiamine uptake by H. diminuta was studied. MATERIALS AND METHODS Young, male Sprague-Dawley rats (Holtzman Co.) were infected with 30 H. diminuta cysticercoids and the worms removed 11 days postinfection. After removal, worms were rinsed in 3 changes of Krebs-Ringer solution containing 25 mM Tris-(hydroxymethyl)-aminomethane-maleate buffer (pH 7.4) (KRT of Read et al., 1963), randomized into groups of 5 worms, and preincubated Received for publication 30 September 1971. * This work was supported in part by a grant from the NIH (AI-01384). t U. S. Public Health Service Postdoctoral Fellow, 1-FO2-AI-45108-01. at 37 C for 15 min prior to incubations. Worms were then transferred to an incubation medium (in a shaking water bath at 37 C) consisting of 5 ml of KRT to which "4C-thiamine (thiamine [thiazole-2-14C]) or 5S-thiamine (14 mCi/mM and 65 mCi/mM, respectively; Amersham Serale Corp., Arlington Heights, Illinois) had been added. The concentration of thiamine in the incubation medium was adjusted by the addition of unlabeled thiamine'HC1 (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis). All incubations were of 2-min duration and consisted of 5 replicates, unless otherwise noted. After incubation, worms were removed and rinsed in 2 changes of fresh KRT, blotted on filter paper, and placed in 5 ml of 70% ethanol for 24 hr (ethanol extracted 98%o+ of the absorbed radioactivity). Radioactivity in the ethanol extracts was determined with a Nuclear-Chicago Gas-Flow Counter and the worms dried for 24 hr at 95 C before weighing. Data were converted to ,umoles thiamine absorbed/g alcohol extracted dry wt/hr unless otherwise noted. Inhibitor studies were conducted as described above, except that single inhibitors were added to the incubation media. The following inhibitors were used: Thiamine HCl, thiamine monophosphoric acid chloride HCl (thiamine monophosphate, TMP), thiamine pyrophosphate chloride (TPP, cocarboxylase), oxythiamine (5-[2-hydroxyethyl ] 3[ ( 4-hydroxy -2-methyl5-pyrimidinyl) methyl]-4-methylthiazolium chloride), neopyrithiamine (1-[(4-amino-2-methyl)-5-pyrimidylmethyl]2-methyl-3-[P,-hydroxyethyl] pyridinium bromide hydrobromide), histidine, alanine, methionine, glutamic acid, arginine, glucose, galactose, glycerol, cytosine, uracil, thymine, nicotinamide, riboflavin, folic acid, 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP), and iodoacetate (all obtained from Sigma Chemical or CalBiochem, Los Angeles). The concentration of all inhibitors was 5 mM, with the following exceptions: iodoacetate and DNP were 1 mM, and


The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a widespread machine used by bacteria to control their environment and kill or disable bacterial species or eukaryotes through toxin injection. The T6SS comprises a central tube formed of stacked hexamers of hemolysin co-regulated proteins (Hcp) and terminated by a trimeric valine-glycine repeat protein G (VgrG) component, the cell puncturing device. A contractile tail sheath, formed by the TssB and TssC proteins, surrounds this tube. This syringe-like machine has been compared to an inverted phage, as both Hcp and VgrG share structural homology with tail components of Caudovirales. Here we solved the crystal structure of a tryptophan-substituted double mutant of Hcp1 from enteroaggregative Escherichia coli and compared it to the structures of other Hcps. Interestingly, we observed that the purified Hcp native protein is unable to form tubes in vitro. To better understand the rationale for observation, we measured the affinity of Hcp1 hexamers with themselves by surface plasmon resonance. The intra-hexamer interaction is weak, with a KD value of 7.2 µM. However, by engineering double cysteine mutants at defined positions, tubes of Hcp1 gathering up to 15 stacked hexamers formed in oxidative conditions. These results, together with those available in the literature regarding TssB and TssC, suggest that assembly of the T6SS tube differs significantly from that of Sipho- or Myoviridae.


The enterprises in the country have an increasingly high demand for the general qualities and abilities of college graduates they intend to employ.Despite the confidence of college graduates in their general qualities and abilities,however,our recent survey shows that they are still far from satisfying the enterprises' requirements.The areas in which they lack most include loyalty and devotion,ability to endure hardships,analytical and critical ability,ability of solving problems,efficiency,effectiveness,ability of working independently,ability of working with a team,etc.Therefore,universities and colleges should take active measures to foster and improve students' general qualities and abilities so as to meet the requirements of enterprises and help them contribute their bit to the enterprises and the society.


It is widely understood that moisture can have a detrimental effect on the strength of composite structures. Traditional analysis often focuses on the effects to solid laminates or on the facesheets of composite sandwich structures. However, this focus is often not sufficient to ensure material strength and performance. It has been found that moisture effects on sandwich structures can also have a detrimental effect on secondary failure modes such as shear crimping and facesheet wrinkling, and that these effects can be significant, especially at temperature. A proper assessment of moisture effects on composite sandwich structures involves five key components: development of moisture diffusion constants, prediction of structural moisture levels, development of material allowables at predicted moisture levels, analysis of structure, and modification of the design, when warranted. This paper describes each component of this process, and introduces a simple algorithm to integrate the analysis.Copyright © 2014 by ASME


Background/ Aim: Silymarin is a polyphenolic compound with anti-hepatotoxic activity. It has low oral bioavailability due to its poor aqueous solubility. Thus enhancement of its dissolution may lead to a better bioavailability. The objective of the presented study was to prepare fast dissolving enriched silymarin preparation via the preparation of enriched silymarin as solid dispersion and compare it with Legalon capsules in chronic HCV patients in a clinical study.
Method: Enriched silymarin solid dispersion was prepared in sufficient amount. A clinical study was conducted including 24 patients. The patients were divided into two groups; each group had 12 patients. One group received the solid dispersion. The second group received Legalon capsules. Patients received capsules three times daily for 12 weeks. All these patients had been subjected to full medical history, abdominal ultrasonography, laboratory investigations and quality of life assessment at baseline and after treatment.
Results: Solid dispersion had significantly faster dissolution rate. It is effective in reducing AST, ALT, total bilirubin, improving prothrombin concentration, prothrombin time and quality of life.
Conclusion: Silymarin solid dispersion is a promising preparation. Large scale and longer duration may be required to ascertain its effects.


The recent development of formal explainable AI has disputed the folklore claim that"decision trees are readily interpretable models", showing different interpretability queries that are computationally hard on decision trees, as well as proposing different methods to deal with them in practice. Nonetheless, no single explainability query or score works as a"silver bullet"that is appropriate for every context and end-user. This naturally suggests the possibility of"interpretability languages"in which a wide variety of queries can be expressed, giving control to the end-user to tailor queries to their particular needs. In this context, our work presents ExplainDT, a symbolic language for interpreting decision trees. ExplainDT is rooted in a carefully constructed fragment of first-ordered logic that we call StratiFOILed. StratiFOILed balances expressiveness and complexity of evaluation, allowing for the computation of many post-hoc explanations--both local (e.g., abductive and contrastive explanations) and global ones (e.g., feature relevancy)--while remaining in the Boolean Hierarchy over NP. Furthermore, StratiFOILed queries can be written as a Boolean combination of NP-problems, thus allowing us to evaluate them in practice with a constant number of calls to a SAT solver. On the theoretical side, our main contribution is an in-depth analysis of the expressiveness and complexity of StratiFOILed, while on the practical side, we provide an optimized implementation for encoding StratiFOILed queries as propositional formulas, together with an experimental study on its efficiency.


This chapter explores whether peer-to-peer accommodation networks are rapidly developing into one-stop travel shops. Already, airplane seats and a wide range of tours, called Experiences, can be booked on Airbnb. Will tourists soon be able to book everything from airport transport, plane tickets, accommodation, local transport, tours, and travel insurance online? If so, what are the regulatory challenges associated with this? Who is qualified to offer an Experience of kite surfing?


What is the structure of contemporary melodrama, and how does that structure relate to imaginary media? These questions are the residue from the research that I conducted for my last book, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg (2010),' when I began to consider the frequent appearances of imaginary media in Maddin's other films, and the astonishing range of media techniques deployed in their production. Maddin is one of contemporary cinema's premier melodramatists, so the regular appearance of imaginary media in his work deserves some consideration. Fanciful devices such as the giant scope that the heroine uses to observe the world's beating heart in Heart of the World (2002)2 and the Aerophone in Brand upon the Brain! (2008)3 play supporting roles in Maddin's films, but, in The Night Mayor (2009),4 a fictional device called the Telemelodium takes center stage. Through the fabrication of its history, and the history of its inventor, Nihad Ademi, Maddin depicts Canada as a melodramatic nation sutured together by the broadcasting of its dreams.The Telemelodium presents an apposite allegory for the ideological function of the Office National du Film du Canada/National Film Board of Canada (NFB or ONF/NFB). The Night Mayor was commissioned in 2009 for the NFB's seventieth anniversary (founded 1939) by Cindy Whitten, Director General of the NFB English Program. What Maddin produced, slyly, is a film about the difference between the cultural armature of the Canadian government as it might have been, a kind of technological armature that aids and abets the creation of an Imaginary utopia, and the grim alternative, an instrument of cultural policy weighed down by its own bureaucracy and instrumentalist requirements for official communication. This is where the imaginary media forms that manifest in the thematic content of the film (the Telemelodium itself) and the material effects of the Real (the flickering film, the odd murky sound track) merge, producing a film that celebrates noise over signal as a political as well as aesthetic choice. In the process, it also suggests that one of the differences between the structure of twenty-first-century melodrama and that of early-twentieth-century melodrama is the way that each is articulated with specific media technologies.On 4 March 2009, the NFB issued a press release announcing that, as part of the celebrations for their seventieth anniversary, Guy Maddin had been commissioned to begin work on The Night Mayor.5 The official synopsis of this film reads as follows: "Winnipeg, 1939: Inventor Nihad Ademi harnesses the waves of the Aurora Borealis and uses the power to broadcast images of Canada to its own citizens from coast to coast. The unregulated imagery enrages the government, who send a crack team of federal agents to shut Nihad's project down."6 The entirety of the film, approximately fourteen minutes long, is available for viewing on the NFB's website (http://www.nfb.ca/film/night_mayor).The Night Mayor is a nonlinear barrage of short shots stitched together with a stream-of-consciousness, dreamy first-person narration from Bosnian emigre Nihad Ademi, interspersed with short expository interjections from two of his six adult children: Dado/David and Selma. Maddin s work is anything but plot-driven, but, for those who have not seen the film, here is a brief summary: Obsessed with the night sky, Ademi, a tuba-playing musician, falls in love with the sounds of the Northern Lights. Abandoning his tuba, he invents a new instrument he dubs the Telemelodium, which he constructs and perfects with the help of his children. At first, Ademi only wants to share the music of the Aurora with the rest of Canada, but he soon discovers that the music has optical powers. For Ademi, the images that his invention creates from the light of the "false dawn" epitomize a specific sort of knowledge: "Mine is the peculiar truth which comes from the false," he says. Dado/David describes the Telemelodium as "a kind of natural television, which converted the music made by the Aurora Borealis into moving pictures. …


Background: We aimed to investigate the ability of resveratrol carbon dots (RES C-Dots) to protect SH-SY5Y cells from oxido-inflammatory stress and apoptosis caused by 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA).
Materials and Methods: In vitro PD model was generated in SH-SY5Y cells by administering of 200 µM 6-OHDA for 24 hours. Different concentrations of RES C-Dots (12.5, 25, and 50 µg/mL) were applied to the cells 30 minutes before administration of 6-OHDA.
Results: We observed that application of RES C-Dots prevented cell death induced by 6-OHDA and main-tained cell viability. As expected, RES C-Dots prevented oxidative damage induced by 6-OHDA - by strengthening the total amount of antioxidants and lowering the total amount of oxidants in SH-SY5Y cells. Similarly, RES C-Dots markedly alleviated the secretion of inflammatory factors (TNF-α and IL-1β) promot-ed by 6-OHDA. Furthermore, RES C-Dots prevented apoptosis induced by 6-OHDA by suppressing caspase-3 mRNA expression level.
Conclusions: RES C-Dots rescued SH-SY5Y cells from 6-OHDA- induced damage by modulating the oxido-inflammatory and apoptotic response. This report indicates enounces that RES- synthesised C-Dots may have promising curative potential for PD.


In the Common Room at University House, Australian National University, on 9 December 2014, Vice Chancellor, Professor Ian Young, launched the online Australian Dictionary of Biography entries for those who died in 1991. This is the first time that entries have been published online before being published in hardcopy and signals the ADB's move move from book to online culture.


A case of a midline lumbar extradural ganglion/synovial cyst causing lumbar canal stenosis and mimicking an epidural tumor is presented. The lesion was demonstrated by a magnetic resonance imaging study, and relief of symptoms was achieved with decompressive laminectomy and total removal of the mass. The pathogenesis of lumbar ganglion/synovial cyst is reviewed.


In the years 2017 and 2018 the Hydrogen Group continued to develop the in-house CFD HyCodes, GASFLOW and COM3D, and conducted several experimental programs to deepen the understanding of the transient flame acceleration and deflagration-detonation-transition or to provide model validations data. As cryogenic liquid hydrogen has a high potential for supporting the scaling up of applications of hydrogen as an energy carrier, these fundamental phenomena have to be studied also in the low temperature domain. The Hydrogen Group is coordinating the European pre-normative research project PRESLHY to this end. Besides the group has been active in the educational domain by teaching Hydrogen Technologies and managing a related European project NET-TOOLS.


Purpose: of the presented paper is meant to explain the necessity of implementing the Integrated Quality, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Management System and using the proper methods of estimating the technological processes, which takes into account not only the final products but also the environmental influences and occupational health and safety; in this case in the steel wire production. Design/methodology/approach: applied for the survey has covered the integrated opinion of technological processes based on the quality, environmental and occupational health and safety criterion and using the Integrated Risk Ratio to estimate the risk connected with occurrence of nonconformities, environmental aspects and threats to occupational health and safety in the analyzed processes. Findings: of the carried out researches are as follows: the realization of quality, environmental and occupational health and safety policy by the integrated methods of technological processes estimation and in accordance with the proposed models results in the improvement of analyzed productive processes of steel wire rod, and in consequence to their optimization both in the range of view of products' quality and in the aspect of quality of environmental influence and occupational safety. Practical implications: refers to the application in the steel wire production of the technological model and model of operational control lowering the Integrated Risk Ratio. Originality/value: of the presented paper has been achieved by application of the new methodology concerning the usage of integrated methods of technological processes estimation, including the Integrated Risk Ratio.


. The article presents the results of a study of the phytoplankton production characteristics of the Vygozerskoe reservoir in August 2017 after a 26-year decrease in nutrient load. Photosynthesis is reliably related to water temperature, chlorophyll a , phytoplankton abundance, and the share of green and blue-green algae, Euglenophyta in the community. The values of photosynthesis, the concentration of chlorophyll a and total phosphorus did not exceed the values of 2007–2011, when reoligotrophization was already taking place. These parameters in 2007–2011 and in 2017 corresponded to the natural state of the ecosystem in the early 1970s. Values of chlorophyll a in 2007–2011 and in 2017 remained higher than in the early 1970s. A high share of indicator species of increasing trophic level in phytoplankton. We can say that the reoligotrophization of the ecosystem is completed. The persistence of phytoplankton changes may result from an increase in the degree-days of the biological summer because of climate warming in the region. photosynthesis, chlorophyll, phytoplankton.


Database encryption is the database of documents or date encryption,date encryption,after the manner of storage,even if the theft,copy,confidential data will not be an adversary access. In this paper,base on B/S encrypted database structure of the new program is proposed,and use JAVA platform of JCE technology design and implementation of a WEB environment of research and development encryption system in University.


This paper expounds the connotation of library's soft power, points out that the core of library's soft power is librarian, and discusses three important ways for improving the quality of librarians.


The test facility for confirming performance of a propulsion system is essential infra-structure to develop launch vehicle system. Using the PSTC, cold flow and combustion tests are performed to the propulsion system of individual stage in launcher. Moreover the ground test for the total launching process is conducted. In order to construct the PSTC, we not only have surveyed technology of internal and external countries, but also actively use the case in terms of the system. The test facility consists of feeding system, test stand, control and measurement, and flame deflector.


In the title compound, C13H11N5O, the exocyclic amino group of one purine molecule forms two intermolecular N—H N hydrogen bonds to different ring N atoms of another molecule. The purine system is orientated almost perpendicular [77.96 (6) ] to the phenylethanone substituent. The preparation of the title compound occurred via a regioselective synthesis using the methyl(aqua)cobaloxime complex CH3Co(DH)2OH2 as a temporary auxiliary, and its X-ray crystal structure confirmed the regioselective N-alkylation of this molecule.


MOTIVATION
For the diagnosis of cancer, manually counting nuclei on massive histopathological images is tedious and the counting results might vary due to the subjective nature of the operation.

RESULTS
This paper presents a new segmentation and counting method for nuclei, which can automatically provide nucleus counting results. This method segments nuclei with detected nuclei seed markers through a modified simple one-pass superpixel segmentation method. Rather than using a single pixel as a seed, we created a superseed for each nucleus to involve more information for improved segmentation results. Nucleus pixels are extracted by a newly proposed fusing method to reduce stain variations and preserve nucleus contour information. By evaluating segmentation results, the proposed method was compared to five existing methods on a dataset with 52 immunohistochemically (IHC) stained images. Our proposed method produced the highest mean F1-score of 0.668. By evaluating the counting results, another dataset with more than 30,000 IHC stained nuclei in 88 images were prepared. The correlation between automatically generated nucleus counting results and manual nucleus counting results was up to R2 = 0.901 (p < 0.001). By evaluating segmentation results of proposed method-based tool, we tested on a 2018 Data Science Bowl (DSB) competition dataset, three users obtained DSB score of 0.331 ± 0.006.

AVAILABILITY
The proposed method has been implemented as a plugin tool in ImageJ and the source code can be freely downloaded.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
Supplementary data are available at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e7oz4nhp3gekvk4/AAC-xuqg5DUx0H5JdqPApbWTa?dl=0s online.


An attempt was made to co-deposit nickel and manganese hydroxide films to be used as anodic electrochrome. Cathodic template method with polyvinyl alcohol was used for this. Deposition was conducted in the galvanostatic regime from the solution containing nickel and manganese nitrates in an 8:1 molar ratio. As a result of the work, two films were deposited: one from pure nickel nitrate and one from nickel and manganese nitrate solutions. Analysis of the synthesized films , revealed significant differences in structural, electrochemical and optical properties. The film deposited from the pure nickel nitrate solution was composed of a single α-like form Ni(OH) 2 . On the other hand, the film deposited from the manganese-containing solution was composed of two phases. Morphology comparison revealed that the surface of the undoped film is rather flat, with small bumps up to 160 nm. The Mn-doped film had many ridges of up to 1200 nm. Electrochemical properties of the film deposited in the presence of Mn were inferior to the film deposited from the pure solution. This is manifested in lower current densities and lower specific capacities of oxidation and reduction processes. Electrochromic properties of the film deposited in the presence of manganese were somewhat worse as well. A mechanism explaining the decrease of specific characteristics of the film in the case of using such deposition method was suggested. The mechanism lies in the formation of the second manganese-containing phase. This phase is rather inert and decreases the content of electrochemically active Ni(OH) 2 in the film. The authors also suggested possible uses of the resulting structure


Though less discussed in the literature, slave patrols played a significant role in continuing and sustaining the system of slavery. While few scholars have dedicated attention to exploring the history of slave patrols in the United States (US), there remains a dearth of research analyzing the slave patrol system in Brazil, despite the existence of slavery in this area of the African Diaspora. Using a historical perspective, this article compares and examines the establishment, function, expansion of slave patrols in the US and Brazil between the 18th and 19th centuries. This article adds to the scholarly discourse and historical literature on the experiences and conditions of enslaved people in the African diaspora (i.e., US and Brazil) under the brutal watch of slave patrols. Future research and investigation is needed to gain nuanced understanding of slave patrols not only in these two specific geographical regions, but globally across the African diaspora.


ABSTRACT Under noninflammatory conditions, interleukin-1 and interleukin-6 are located in neurons and glial cells of discrete brain regions;they appear to be expressed at a constant level during pe...


We present the results from two studies aimed at an experimental measurement of the WZ/ZZ diboson production in the leptons + jets final state using data recorded with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Because diboson production is topologically similar to associated Higgs production with a W or Z boson, searches for diboson production in partially hadronic decay channels offer a chance to develop and refine new analysis techniques that may aid in the discovery of the Higgs boson. We show the results of a search for WZ and ZZ production in events where there are at least two jets and a large transverse momentum imbalance. To improve our sensitivity, we employ a new artificial-neural-network (ANN) based b tagger to identify jets likely originating from heavy-flavor quarks. We also show recent progress on a search for diboson production in the charged leptons and jets final state, where we select events by identifying those containing two charged leptons with a reconstructed invariant m...


The process based numerical simulation of extreme storm surge water levels, currents and waves in coastal and shelf seas requires the correct specification of surface boundary conditions like atmospheric pressure and wind fields in space and time. These values are commonly derived from large scale (eg. global) climate models, satellite observations, or re-analysis products. Global meteorological information typically is provided on coarse grids at large time intervals, thus the application to small scale hydrodynamic models of higher spatial and temporal resolution must involve dynamic data downscaling. However, highly resolved regional climate simulations nested into global models are not always feasible. Whereas a direct linear interpolation in space may be possible even in the case of pronounced storms, a linear temporal interpolation can lead to unrealistic results. Thus we propose a simple algebraic algorithm to allow for the direct interpolation of gridded global meteorological data taking into account storm trajectories. The procedure is tested in the North Sea region where comprehensive data sets are available for the direct validation and the determination of the added value for hydrodynamic modelling.


It may be administered by a method comprising the therapeutic substance and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient in a pharmaceutical formulation caused by DRSP infection: for adults or older children patients with a weight ratio 6:1-10:1 administration of amoxicillin and clavulanate 800-1100mg of 100-150mg; children or patients in a weight ratio 6:1-10:1 administered 30-40mg / kg body weight and amoxicillin 3-8mg / kg clavulanate weight; three times a day (tid).


Abstract Several representative studies on China's carbon emission scenarios in 2050 are compared in scenario settings, methodologies, macro parameters, energy consumption and structure, carbon emissions, and carbon emission intensity. Under the baseline scenario of the present policy framework, the future energy structure will be optimized and carbon emission intensity will decrease continually. China's carbon emissions up to 2050 show a significant increase reaching between 11.9 Gt and 16.2 Gt CO2 in 2050. By strengthening a low carbon policy, the optimization of energy structure and the decline in carbon emission intensity will become more obvious within the comparative scenarios, which show a significant decrease in carbon emission until 2050 reaching only between 4.3 Gt and 9.5 Gt CO2 by then. Citation Li, H., and Y. Qi, 2011: Comparison of China's carbon emission scenarios in 2050. Adv. Clim. Change Res., 2(4), doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1248.2011.00193.


I. WHAT IS A "PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATION"? What is meant by a "professional" occupation in the United States? Undoubtedly the phrase (at least in the United States) brings to mind traditional occupations such as physicians, dentists, lawyers, accountants, architects, and the like. However, the issue of definition is more complicated than it first appears. American states have a long tradition of creating licensure boards for persons desiring to go into certain trades or occupations. The licensing authority is typically a board created by state statute that is given authority to require a written examination, a review of background and experience, a period of association and training under the supervision of a licensed person, and often a hands-on demonstration of skill and competence in the particular occupation. If this is the test of whether a person is a "professional," the category is broad indeed. In Texas, for example, the following is a partial list of the occupations that require a license: Architects Attorneys at law Airplane pilots Barbers Certified public accountants Chiropractors Clinical social workers Dentists Dieticians Persons fitting and dispensing hearing aids Land surveyors Licensed marriage counselors Licensed family counselors Life insurance agents Local recording agents Morticians Nurses Nursing home administrators Optometrists Osteopaths Physicians with a wide variety of siecialties Physical therapists Plumbers Podiatrists Polygraph examiners Private investigators Private security agency administrators Professional counselors Professional engineers Psychologists Public accountants Public surveyors Real estate brokers Surgeons Structural pest controllers Tax professionals Veterinarians Vocational nurses This list was assembled from a brief search of the "licenses" listing in the index to Vernon's Texas Statutes and Codes Annotated, and is doubtless incomplete. The issue of whether a specific occupation was a "professional" one first arose in the 1960s, when many partnerships desired to do business in corporate form in order to reduce federal income taxed and minimize exposure to unlimited partnership liability. However, it was generally accepted that public policy demanded that a "professional" organization engaged in certain occupations be conducted in a form that imposed personal liability on its members.2 This meant that such organizations could conduct business only as sole proprietorships or general partnerships. The precise scope of this limitation was uncertain, but it certainly included physicians, dentists, lawyers, accountants, architects, and probably others as well. Unquestionably, many of the "professions" listed in the broader list set forth above have historically conducted their businesses in corporate form without anyone worrying about whether or not that was proper. But the proposition that some professional organizations whose members are engaged in specific occupations could not operate in corporate form suggests an alternative test for what a "professional partnership" is: A narrower plausible definition of "professional" might be one that limits "professional partnerships" to businesses that historically have been prohibited by law from being conducted in corporate form. Unfortunately, it is also not at all clear precisely where this line is. The Texas experience in the 1960s and 1970s was typical: Professional organizations sometimes simply submitted articles of incorporation and hoped for the best.3 When the filing authority was uncertain whether or not the organization was entitled to incorporate, it submitted the issue to the Attorney General of Texas with a request for an opinion. …


Although the most of the functions of the human upper body can be performed by robotic technologies which are already developed, the hand and finger functions cannot be achieved by artificial alternatives, particularly concerning the dexterous manipulation. One of the reasons is the lack of tactile sensors like the ones observed in the human fingertip. The purpose of this paper is to design a vision-based tactile sensor with the size of a fingertip, and valuated it under several conditions of contact. The resolution performance of the developed vision-based sensor for measuring contact force and contact moment is shown based on preliminary experiments. Moreover, the results of these experiments show the potential of the proposed sensor for evaluating adhesive surfaces.


Introduction Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy, contributing not only the largest share to the national income but also giving employment to a large number of people. While working in agricultural fields, farm workers engage in various agricultural operations like pre-sowing, weeding, picking and post picking. All these tasks are time consuming and full of drudgery (Gandhi et al., 2012). Also, many farming and allied activities performed by the farm workers involve a lot of physical strain which adversely affects their work efficiency and leads to several types of occupational health hazards like mechanical hazards, chemical hazards, musculoskeletal disorders, environmental hazards, physical hazards, biological hazards etc. These health hazards create serious health problems for the workers in the long run. Incidences of chronic skeletal International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 10 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com Farm workers are engaged in various agricultural operations like presowing, weeding, picking and post picking. All these tasks are time consuming and become full of drudgery over years. Access to affordable technology reduces drudgery, saves time and increases work efficiency of farm workers. Adoption of such technologies radically changes their life. Vegetable picking is one of the laborious tasks performed by the farm workers at the fields. Efforts have been made to develop user friendly pick bag for vegetable picking which would reduce the drudgery and increase their efficiency. The present study was carried out in pre dominantly vegetable and fruit growing areas namely Sirsa and Fatehabad districts of Haryana with the objective to assess suitability of developed vegetable picking bag for diversified activities on various parameters. Developed bag was found suitable and thus recommended for diversified activities i.e. vegetables (brinjal, okra, guar, chilli), fruits (Kinnow, guava) and flowers (marigold) picking. K e y w o r d s Drudgery, Farm workers, Vegetable picking, suitability, Diversified activities Accepted: 10 September 2020 Available Online: 10 October 2020 Article Info Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2020) 9(10): 1145-1149 1146 muscular and postural health problem such as strain/sprain, neck pain, joint pain, back pain, hand and leg pain, shoulder pain, chest pain, accidents like cut/wounds, scratches, injury and respiratory diseases such as asthma are indicative of work related health disorders (Chaoudhari et al., 2009). The health of farm workers is an important factor which adds to agricultural development. Therefore, drudgery reduction measures need to be initiated to avoid occurrence of health hazards among farm workers. In view of this, it was felt that there was an urgent need to make them aware about latest drudgery reducing technologies and motivate them to adopt the same. If appropriate drudgery reducing technologies are made available to the farm workers, it would definitely contribute in reducing their drudgery, increasing their working capability, increasing farm production, resulting in improved quality of life (Sundhesha, 2018). To overcome the problems faced by the farm workers in the fields, pick bag for vegetable collection was designed and developed for farm workers. Pick bag for vegetable collection was then tested in the fields for diversified activities and was found better than existing method of collection of vegetables, fruits and flowers. It was also found acceptable technology for being user friendly. Adoption of such technologies can significantly change the lives of farm workers as access to affordable technology reduces drudgery, saves time and increases work efficiency of farm workers. Efforts have been made to develop user friendly vegetable picking bag which would reduce the drudgery and increase the efficiency of farm workers. To assess the suitability of developed Pick bag for vegetable collection, field testing of bag was done on various parameters. Technical plan Designing and development of Pick bag for vegetable collection Pick bag for vegetable collection was designed and developed as per the ergonomic assessment to make the pick bag more users friendly. Following are some of the features of Vegetable picking bag:


The current panorama of Learning Technologies is composed of not interoperable technological domains. Thus, there are web-based systems, m-learning systems, and the recent concept of t-learning systems. In this paper we present a proposal of architecture to support the interoperability of e-learning systems, independently of the access technologies used by participants. That architecture enables the collaboration between participants in the same learning process, which is formalized by using the PoEML Educational Modeling Language.


Three new species of Begonia L., Begonia sumbawaensis Girm., Begonia brangbosangensis Girm. and Begonia jaranpusangensis Girm., are described from Sumbawa, Indonesia. All species are illustrated and identification keys and distribution maps are provided.


Theatre Journal 55 (2003) 581–584 © 2003 by The Johns Hopkins University Press Alex Donis specializes in unexpected, even impossible, pairings—an American marine performing a ballet with an Iraqi soldier, a Los Angeles police officer disco dancing with a member of a South Central street gang, the Hindu god Rama kissing Jesus Christ on the lips. Donis places each of his couples against an undifferentiated white background, as though to suspend them in a space outside of historical context and political conflict. His dancers and kissers appear before us like lucid, technicolor fragments from an otherwise indecipherable dream. In pictures such as Abdullah and Sergeant Adams (the cover image to this special issue of Theatre Journal) and Officer Moreno and Joker, Donis takes adversarial relationships marked by hatred and violence and restages them as dances of joy and mutual pleasure. He forces deep-seated animosities to give way, however temporarily or tongue-in-cheek, to affection.


This paper analyzes the emergence of different styles of farming, resulting from an incomplete process of modernization in the rural zone of Cangucu, located in the east of state of Rio Grande do Sul. It also to intend expose the directions and unfolds of the emerging style of green agriculture family from its origins, and key characteristics over time. It was identified that the farmer's decision, whether conventional or traditional, to another system production, based on "green" management, can follow different starting points, but also can show links to different periods of movement expansion, then called "alternative".


The dimerization of thymine by ultraviolet light in frozen aqueous solution' of the monomer and in liquid aqueous solutions of DNA,2-4 polynucleotides,' and dinucleotides5' has been extensively studied.


This paper proposes a design methodology of 8-step fast searching approach for $7\times 7$ median filters, which are used to perform image processing of exploring undersea living creatures. This systematic approach features lower computing complexity in terms of comparison operations required. In system performance, it saves 55.8%, 66.2%, and 66.2% of comparison operations as compared to bubble sorting, shaker/cocktail sorting, and odd-even transposition sorting, respectively.


Purpose – This article aims to analyse the process of introducing the ISO 9000 quality standard with the help of an external consultancy company. The main objectives are to investigate: whether there were any basic differences in the way that companies behaved when implementing a quality system based on ISO 9000; and how the quality of the consultant can be measured.Design/methodology/approach – The methodology involved an empirical study of a sample of companies that obtained their ISO 9000 certifications in the years 1997, 1998, and 1999. All of these companies were based in Catalonia (Spain). The results were subjected to various statistical treatments to determine the segmentation of the market. Subsequent factor analysis determined the main factors that configured the quality of the consultancy services provided.Findings – Three types of company behaviour when faced with the task of obtaining certification are identified. The companies that obtain the greatest benefits from the project are those that...


Taking the ultra-filtration rate as index, UF-middle hollow fiber membrane devic e for ultra-filtration was used to optimized operation conditions of bitter gour d juice. The results showed that the optimized technological parameters were 600 00 of the relative molecular quality of membrane, 40 ℃ of operation temperature , 0.06 MPa of operation pressure and under those conditions the highe st ultra-filtration rate could be obtained. Rheological properties showed that t he bitter gourd juice ultra-filtration liquid was Newtonian fluids. Regression equation of ultra-filtration viscosity value vs temperature and concentratio n were worked out, the confidence level reached 95%.


Collagen was isolated from cod skin by acid-enzyme binding method at 4℃.The extraction technology was optimized by exploring extraction parameters.The isolated protein was confirmed by different phsico-chemical techniques like FTIR,SDS-PAGE and so on.Based on the classic Michaelis-Menten equation theory,the hydrolytic characteristics of cod skin by pepsin were studied.Through the curves of the enzymatic hydrolysis experiments,the kinetics models were established to describe the process of hydrolysis.The results indicated that the optimal extraction conditions were as follows:pepsin addition of 1.0%,solid/liquor ratio of 1:40,extraction time of 24h,citric acid concentration of 0.20mol/L.Under this condition,the yield of the cod skin collagen was 48.67%.The enzymatic dynamics equation:-rs=(2.9004E-3[S])/([S]+0.2156),where the Michaelis constant Km=0.2156.


Simple Summary Bovine interdigital phlegmon (IP) is an infective bacterial disease that originates from a lesion in the interdigital skin that rapidly spreads into the deeper soft tissues of the foot. Intravenous regional limb perfusion (IVRLP) with antimicrobials is a well-known technique that provides high antimicrobial concentrations at the site of infection, including soft tissue, bones, joints and tendon sheaths, without the need for systemic administration. The results of this field study support the clinical impression that antimicrobial IVRLP is an efficacious procedure for treating IP in dairy cows. Abstract The objective of the study was to compare the clinical efficacy of a single antimicrobial intravenous regional limb perfusion (IVRLP) with marbofloxacin versus ceftiofur sodium to treat naturally occurring interdigital phlegmon (IP) in dairy cows. The study had a randomized parallel-group design. Forty lactating Friesian cows clinically diagnosed with acute IP were enrolled, assigned to one of two treatment groups, and received a single IVRLP with the antimicrobial drug selected (M: 0.67 mg/kg of marbofloxacin; C: 500 mg/animal of ceftiofur sodium). Clinical data for the severity of lameness, digital swelling and local lesion appearance were assessed at diagnosis and at 5, 10 and 15 days post-IVRLP. Clinical resolution was defined as digital swelling disappearance, locomotion score reduction of at least 2/5 points, healed or healing local lesion and no relapse at 15 days after IVRLP. The total daily milk yield of each cow on the day before the clinical detection, on the day of diagnosis and on the day of the clinical follow-up post-IVRLP were registered. Lameness, digital swelling and local lesion severity were not significantly different between groups at any time-point. In both groups, on the fifteenth day after treatment, 17/20 (85%) cows showed a positive outcome, with no significant difference (p > 0.05). The daily milk production of all cows was adversely affected by the clinical onset of IP and gradually returned to a normal level after IVRLP in both groups. These preliminary results support the hypothesis that a single antimicrobial IVRLP procedure, irrespective of the antimicrobial selected (ceftiofur vs. marbofloxacin), has a high success rate and restores milk yield in cases of dairy cattle with acute IP lameness.


Factors which may help to create successful links assessing the need for short-term breaks suggestions for practice alternative supports for people who wait useful contacts references and useful reading.


Focused on the increasing frequency and magnitude of floods in the Taihu basin characterized by complicated river networks,a hydro-dynamical system was developed for the purpose of flood simulation,which consisted of a distributed hydrological model VIC for upland runoff simulation and a hydraulic model ISIS for floodplain inundation simulation.The mountain area was divided into 9 sub-catchments splitting into 19 boundary nodes as upland inflows into floodplain,while a conceptualized river network was proposed in this study for the ISIS model in the floodplain,which consisted of 795 reaches and 2394 river cross sections.The coupled system was verified by the observed 1999 flood.Results showed that the relative errors(Er) of the annual average runoff at Hengtangcun hydrological station were 0.77% and 3.43%,respectively and the coefficient of determination and Nash-Suttcliffe efficiency coefficient were both greater than 0.75,implying that the VIC model was suitable for the upland hydrological simulation.The maximum water levels at six stations simulated by the ISIS model were consistent with observed values,with absolute errors ranging from-10 to +10 cm.Simulated peak time at six stations also fitted well with observed values,with an average error up to two days,implying that the coupled system could be used for flood simulation in plain areas with complex river networks.


This research is an attempt to explore the characteristics of the styles of political communication as displayed in the speeches of two incumbent presidential candidates, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Barack Obama. The research seeks to investigate whether the speeches of the two incumbent have things in common or not in the ways both the incumbent communicated the messages to their direct and target audience. Evidently both the incumbent set the tone of the political year in their official speeches. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in his last state speech claimed the success of his first-term Administration and thereby set the tone for his bid for the second term. Meanwhile Obama through his State-of-the-Union address highlighted the message of the accomplished unity of Americans that enabled his first-term Administration to work for the common good of the people. If Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono through his declaration of candidacy made a bid for the second term to continue and further strengthen the previous claimed success, Obama framed his bid for a second term with a blueprint for American economy built to last.


1. A mobile communication device comprising: mobile messaging client for sending and receiving messages coming from the user of said mobile communication device and in the opposite direction; and! for handling messages MTA between said mobile messaging client and an external messaging client installed in a communication device of said user external to said mobile communication device. ! 2. The mobile communication apparatus to claim 1, wherein said message transfer agent comprises a simple mail transfer server protocol. ! 3. The mobile communication apparatus of claim 2, further comprising a "Send-As" server ( "Send as"), responsive to a message from said mobile messaging client for issuing messages to said server message type module to transmit to said server a simple mail transfer protocol for subsequent transmission to an external server is a simple mail transfer protocol. ! 4. The mobile communication apparatus of claim 2, further comprising a message storage device wherein said simple mail transfer server protocol responsive to said messages from said external messaging client for transferring said messages to said message storage device for access thereto from both the external communications client and the client's specified mobile messaging. ! 5. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said message transfer agent further comprises a mail protocol server or server access protocol on the Internet message having


This article focuses on a novel robust adaptive sliding mode control strategy of an electro-hydraulic force loading system with consideration of external disturbances and parameter uncertainties. To obtain the proposed controller, the nonlinear dynamic model of the electro-hydraulic force loading system is firstly provided, where external disturbances and system's uncertain parameters are merged. Then, with consideration of external disturbances and parameter uncertainties, a robust adaptive sliding mode controller for the force control system is proposed and designed according to Lyapunov stability theory. The proposed controller has the merit of suppressing chattering phenomenon in traditional adaptive backstepping controllers when designing sign functions. In order to verify effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed controller, experimental studies are implemented on an electro-hydraulic force loading system by xPC rapid prototyping technology. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed controller exhibits more excellent performance on force tracking control in comparison of a traditional proportional-integral controller and an adaptive backstepping controller.


This paper has the intention to disclose the importance of the treatment of costs in the public sector, making known the necessity to analyze in depth and to...


To the Editor .–Carotid compression tonography 1 and ocular pneumoplethysmography 2 have been described as safe diagnostic procedures. However, carotid compression can rarely cause stroke or death with a combined incidence of 1/500 to 1/1500. 3 We recently examined a patient who developed a fixed neurologic deficit temporally related to carotid compression tonography. Report of a Case .–A 54-year-old right-handed man had been referred to an ophthalmologist complaining of transient blurring of vision in the right eye for two days. The right carotid artery was compressed low in the neck for six seconds during tonography. Seconds later he complained of severe right-sided headache rapidly followed by left-sided hypesthesia and left hemiplegia. One year later the left hemiplegia and left-sided sensory deficits were still evident. Several tests that require carotid compression can be found in the literature. The impetus to develop these procedures stems from the inherent risks of carotid angiography.


Escherichia coli is recognized as an excellent model for biofilm studies and one of the favourite hosts for recombinant protein expression. This work assesses the influence of heterologous protein production on biofilm formation and susceptibility to chemical treatment. Biofilm formation by two E. coli strains was compared using a flow cell system. One strain contained the commercial pET28A plasmid and the other a plasmid derivative with the same backbone but containing the enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) gene. The susceptibility of biofilms to the biocide benzyldimethyldodecylammonium chloride (BDMDAC) was also assessed. It was found that the eGFP-expressing strain formed thicker biofilms with a higher cell density than the non-producing strain. Biofilms of both strains were neither completely inactivated nor removed by biocide treatment. Similar inactivation efficiencies were obtained, although biofilm cohesion was higher for the non-producing strain.


The research was mixed-method research employed both quantitative and qualitative techniques to prove the levels of happiness of the bedridden elderly based on family and society. The target group in this research was 70 bedridden elderlies live in Samut Songkhram District. Data analysis was done by t-test, and the results of this research were: 1) contrast to sex, religious, status and educational level at the significance level .05. 3) Levels of happiness of bedridden elderly base on family and society: (3.1) Base on the role of responsibility in the family, levels of happiness of bedridden elderly were varied from caregiving allocation and handling techniques for the abnormal condition in the elderly. Caregiving allocation and handling techniques were significantly different that affected to varying levels of happiness of bedridden elderly at significance level .05. Conversely, levels of happiness of bedridden elderly were not significantly different for the amount of caregiver and activity for the elderly at significance level .05. (3.2) Base on a relationship in family, the results suggested that the family members who expressed love and care, and family members participated in the family conditions had an effect on levels of happiness of bedridden elderly at significance level .05. In contrast, family members and bedridden elderly satisfied each other did not have an impact on levels of happiness of bedridden elderly at significance level .05. (3.3) Base on social support, welfare and other supports were significantly different that affected to different levels of happiness of bedridden elderly at significance level .05. In contrast to satisfaction on the social support, that the levels of happiness of bedridden elderly were not a significant difference at significance level .05.


In order to solve the defect detection problems of black line and white line of QR Code. According to the linear properties of defect, this paper puts forward a kind of defect detection algorithm based on Hough Transform and vertical projection. Through the experiment testing, the accuracy of algorithm detection reached 98.57%, the average test time is 38.28ms. This algorithm can be transplanted to other types of QR code and industrial on-line detection system.


The utility model discloses an automatic recycling system for waste heat of heat supply, which comprises a circulating heating system. The circulating heating system comprises a heat exchanger, wherein a heating stream inlet of the heat exchanger is communicated with a heating stream pipeline, and a heating return water inlet of the heat exchanger is communicated with a heating return water pipeline which is provided with a water collector. A dirt remover is positioned on the heating return water pipeline between the water collector and the heat exchanger, a circulating pump is arranged on the heating return water pipeline between the dirt remover and the heating return water inlet, a condensate water outlet of the heat exchanger is connected with heating return water inlet through a condensate water feedback system supplying water to the circulating heating system, and the heating return water pipeline is provided with a pipeline water pressure adjusting device. Condensate water in the heat exchanger passes through the condensate water outlet and the condensate water feedback system to enter into the circulating heating system through a heating recycling inlet, accordingly heat in the condensate water is effectively utilized to supply heat for users, and energy is saved.


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Translating paper based clinical assessment forms to computer based forms for a Psychiatric Emergency Room was facilitated by the use of a computer using Windows for Pen® system and a familiar database. Offering a smooth transition from paper to electronic forms was the primary goal for this busy metropolitan Psychiatric Emergency Room.


Mar Chiquita is a small seaside town located in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The everyday life of its residents has been considerably affected since the area was declared a biosphere reserve in 1996. The harmonization of its preservation along with the human activities has become the main challenge for the community. A geo-historical analysis of the different human activities carried through the waterfront of the natural reserve was conducted in order to identify conflict of interests, incompatibilities between the various activities and other issues of preservation. That being said, the main aim was to determine key elements in order to improve the area management. The results obtained allows us to identify the main problems of the waterfront and to establish a set of measures so as to ensure a proper management of the area. Moreover, strategic units were identified in order to ensure land-management policies and to redesign the protected area.


Usually, the steganographic algorithms employ images, audio, video or text files as the medium to ensure hidden exchange of information between multiple contenders and to protect the data from the prying eyes. This paper presents a survey of text steganography method used for hiding secret information inside some cover text. Here the text steganography algorithms based on modification of font format, font style et cetera, has advantages of great capacity, good imperceptibility and wide application range. The nonlinear character positions of different pages are targeted through out the cover with insignificant modification. As compared to other methods, we believe that the approaches proposed convey superior randomness and thus support higher security.


Askal Ayalew Ali1* and Vakaramoko Diaby2 1Department of Economic, Social & Administrative Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida 2Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida *Corresponding Author: Askal Ayalew Ali, Department of Economic, Social & Administrative Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida, Tel: +1(850)599-3082; Fax: +1(850)412-7548; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


An all-plasmonic IQ-modulator with a fiber-to-fiber length of $36\ \mu m$ is demonstrated at line-rates up to 200 Gbit/s. All the components: Grating couplers, polarization rotators, splitters and phase shifters are based on metal.


Architecture is a cryptogram through which intellectual travellers decipher the myth and read the history of countries to/in which they travel. This paper focuses on the significance of Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana (1937) regarding the aspects of power hidden beyond architectural myth, as a leitmotif, in the social strata of Persia. It investigates Byron's reaction to the diverse aspects of power, displayed in Persian architecture and the strategies which demonstrate power relations in a thick description and visualized fragmentary illustrations of Persian architecture before and after Islamic periods. Byron's familiarity with the Persians is through deciphering the narrations narrated in their architectures, as a nation's heritage, which represent the nation's past and present history, codes and conventions, desires and motivations of the people. Having an eye on Clifford Geertz's studies and Homi K. Bhabha's theories, the paper approaches one of Byron's objectives in Persia through discovering the source of Islamic architecture. In dealing with architecture, signs and objects, Byron acts as a cultural critic, whose focus is on the hidden meanings behind each sign and on decoding them based on his own understanding. Byron, indeed, reads different architectural constructions in Persia, traces their palimpsest meanings manifested in their interior and exterior structure, illustrates the significance of such monuments and buildings in constructing and rewriting power, and translates these cultural codes for his specific readers.


Present investigation was undertaken to study the growth rate and instability of area, production and productivity of soybean crop. The study was based on secondary data for the period of 23 years (1984–85 to 2006–07) for the districts viz., Buldana, Yavatmal, Akola, Amravati and Amravati divisionas a whole of western vidarbha of Maharashtra. The growth rates for area and production for soybean was recorded very high during period I. It may be due to introduction of soybean in the year of the period I. The highest increasing trend in area and production for soybean was registered in Buldhana district. During the overall period i.e. 23 year as a whole, Amravati division recorded lowest degree of instability in area, 23.46 per cent Coefficient of variation (CV) and per cent and Amravati recorded lowest degree of Coppock's instability index (CII) 19.09 per cent indicates least consistency in terms of area during overall twenty three years.


The Sciaenidae family belongs to the order of the Perciformes with species distributed in the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and also in continental inland waters. The phylogenetic and taxonomy relationships of several genera and species are still controversial and morphological and molecular studies have been undertaken to identify and classify correctly the sciaenid species and estimate their phylogenetic position. Mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA markers have been employed in molecular studies. Since concern in monitoring scientific production is on the increase, current analysis assessed quantitatively research work that employed molecular markers in studies on the Sciaenidae family by means of a survey on published papers. The 42 papers on the subject showed that the number of publications increase during the last years even though few species have been studied. Most studies employed mitochondrial markers only and aimed at estimating the phylogenetic relationships. Results show that Sciaenidae phylogeny is still to be resolved. Further in-depth studies on scantily-studies species should be undertaken with molecular data coupled to morphological studies


The specificity of the immune deviation was studied by testing delayed, Arthus, and anaphylaxis hypersensitivity with hapten-carrier conjugates. Intravenous injections of high doses of carrier protein lowered delayed hypersensitivity to the carrier as well as antibodymediated hypersensitivity to the hapten, whereas the injection of high doses of homologous hapten-carrier conjugate also lowered delayed hypersensitivity to the carrier but did not affect the humoral reactions to the hapten.


Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) is a broad term that encompasses a spectrum of initial asymptomatic cerebrovascular changes (seen in small vessel disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy) to the profound symptomatic damage following acute stroke(s). Besides aging, metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes complicate our understanding of underlying mechanisms. Cerebrovascular remodeling and angiogenesis may represent early compensatory changes to the reduced blood flow seen in VCID by increasing the proteolytic turnover of the surrounding extracellular matrix. We have demonstrated that one such extracellular matrix protein, perlecan, possesses a C terminal domain V (DV) protein that, upon cleavage from perlecan, greatly enhances brain angiogenesis.


residual volume (inaccessible volume by the plungers) is minimized when selecting a specific direction of filling. This direction is known as the optimal inclination angle for filling of the plunged area. This paper proposes a new algorithm to calculate the optimal inclination angle of filling and to fill the plunged area with multi-plungers sizes. The proposed algorithm uses the geometry of the 2D area of the shape that being cutting to estimate the optimal inclination angle of filling. It is found that, the optimal inclination angle for filling of the plunged area is the same direction as the longer width of the equivalent convex polygon of the boundary contour. The results of the tested examples show that, the residual volume is minimized when comparing the proposed algorithm with the previous method.


In order to improve the synchronization accuracy of IEEE1588 for meeting the requirement of better than 1μs,based on the adjustment of slave clock offset,the frequency and phase of slave clock are adjusted as those of the master clock.The existing synchronization algorithms only use the receiving /transmitting timestamps of two adjacent SYNC messages to calculate the frequency difference between master and slave clocks for synchronization.As the influence of correction field in SYNC message is not considered in the transparent clock mode of IEEE1588 version2.0,the algorithm becomes nonconvergent.An improved algorithm is proposed,which converges quickly by modifying the Correction field of SYNC message and clock offset.Its feasibility and precision are verified by the test system.


(2) Mosaic Comparison. School curriculum objectives did not specify mosaic comparison as a direct objective. However, the abilities necessary to perform well on the Mosaic Comparison tests are learned through exercises in pattern recognition and shape congruency. One must be able to discern differences in the patterns of the mosaics and compare the presence or lack of congruency between shapes within these patterns in order to perform well on these tests. Examples of exercises in pattern recognition and shape congruency are found in elementary math texts (Duncan, 1975, p. 126). The pattern recognition skills needed in these exercises are similar to those needed to make the comparisons required by Page & Keith's Mosaic Comparison Tests. Likewise, the congruency skills required for performance on the Mosaic Comparison Tests are addressed in elementary math texts (Duncan, 1975, p. 153). The CEMREL materials also include exercises in pattern recognition and shape congruency. In Shapes & Patterns, the students are taught that patterns of shapes employ, "shape similarity, repetition, and ordering" (p. 13). The materials offer opportunities for students to recognize and create patterns. In Shape Relationships, one of the key concepts deals with recognition of the same shape (i.e., congruency). Used as a set, these CEMREL materials stress the objectives of pattern recognition and shape congruency. A number of secondary art education sources address these two areas. Pattern recognition in the form of recognizing positive-negative reversal is listed as one of the primary objectives in the Kansas State Department of Education's Art Guide (1980). Clark and Zimmerman (1978) devote an entire unit to pattern recognition in textile designs. And finally, the behavioral objectives for the Wichita Public Schools (Behavioral Objectives in Art, 1974), include specific objectives on pattern recognition and shape congruency. The preceding examples indicate that the nonverbal abilities measured by the Visualization in Three Dimensions Test and the Mosaic Comparison Tests may, indeed, be addressed by school curricular materials and objectives. This being the case, the use of these tests as measures of school-free ability may affect the conclusions drawn by Page & Keith regarding the effects of U.S. private schools. Because these nonverbal abilities are part of the curricular objectives and materials used in some schools, one cannot assume that tests of these abilities measure school-free ability. If these tests are to be reliable measures of school-free ability, then Page & Keith must substantiate that the particular schools which their subjects attended did not include curricular objectives and materials related to these tests. As we have shown, their absence cannot be an automatic assumption.


It has been claimed that external radiation, as a treatment modality for malignant diseases, partly induces apoptosis. It is not known, however, whether therapeutic low‐dose and low‐dose‐rate radiation are able to induce apoptosis.


An experiment with a novel type of a periodic crystalline target for generation of coherent X-rays by relativistic electrons is described. The target has been etched on the surface of a GaAs crystal plate by means of microlithography. The etched microstructure is a system of about 300 stripes 14 /spl mu/m thick, 100 /spl mu/m high and the gaps between the stripes are 29 /spl mu/m. The measured spectra and orientation dependence of the X-rays emitted at an angle of 19/spl deg/ to the 500 MeV electron beam of the Tomsk synchrotron are discussed. The generated 27 keV radiation consists of parametric X-ray radiation (PXR) and diffracted X-ray transition radiation (DTR). It has been shown that the intensity of the DTR component of generated X-rays is much greater than that of the PXR.


Objective:To observe the inhibiting capacity of Xiaozheng Pice containing serum to glioma cells′reproductive activity.Methods:Using serum pharmacologic method,the C6 cells was observed by co-culturing with different dosages of Xiaozheng Pill containing serum.MTT was used to measure the levels of the proliferation of C6 cultured with Xiaozheng Pill containing serum in different dosage and time points.Results:The different dosages of Xiaozheng Pill containing serum coulde significantly inhibit the proliferation of C6 cells,and inhibitory rate revealed a medicated serum dose-time dependent manner.The Xiaozheng Pill containing serum has the inhibiting capacity to C6 cells in some degree.And there was a marked positive cor-relation between drug dosage,time and inhibition ratio.Conclusion:It is suggested that Xiaozheng Pill has the inhibiting capacity of cell proliferation and it can provide the support on how to cure the Glioma of clinic.


Zhu-yi was one kind of Dan-yi in the shape,namely,itis vermilion Dan-yi. In Wei-Jin and Northern-Southern Dynasties,it was usually worn by the scholar-officials,however,the social position fromcommon scholars,junior officials to some royal clans worn Dan-yias fulldress or ordinary clothes. Afterwards,Dan-yi gradually became a symbol ofculture and dignity. The persons who worn Zhu-yi as ceremonial robe were generally the officials in central government,including emperor's attendantofficials and other commonofficials.Asforthepeoplewhowerewearing Ku-xiinthesameperiod meantthatthey were soldiers,servants or ordinary labor. In the culture of Six-Dynasties,wearing Zhu-yi or Dan-yi meantthe difference ofofficials; while dressing Dan-yi or Ku-xi were notonly stood forthedifferencebetweenscholar-officialsand soldiers,butalsothedifferencebetweencultureand vulgar.


This article discusses the workshop "Gender Issues in Wood Energy" jointly organized by Asian Institute of Technology/Gender and Development Studies and Food and Agriculture Organization/Rural Wood Energy Development Program in Thailand. The objectives of the workshop were to: examine the patterns of involvement of women and men in the wood fuel system in the process of production and consumption of resources; and examine the failures in the socioeconomic implications of wood fuel use. Moreover issues were addressed at the workshop and participants presented papers and discussed them in detail. In the discussions the role of women in wood energy production and their lack of access to commerce were stressed. Presentations from Sri Lanka and Cambodia further emphasized the inequality between genders and that women were concentrated in small-scale and scattered businesses. Gender differences are evident in land entitlement over wood fuel energy and decision-making concerning forest management as men are more favored. Thus it is vital to address gender inequity in terms of labor opportunities for women as well as to prioritize their health and well-being.


Methods and Results: From March 2017 to November 2019, 9106 patients (6309 men and 2797 women) with ACS from 13 PCI centers were enrolled in this study (STENOS Registry). Among enrolled patients, men (69%) were younger than women (63y vs. 68y, P = 0.001), with a higher prevalence of previous myocardial infarction (15% vs 9.5% P < 0.001), previous PCI (15.9 vs. 9.7%, P = 0.003), and similar frequency of previous cerebrovascular insult and peripheral artery disease (PAD). The most affected coronary artery was proximal and mid left anterior descending (LAD) in both gender and all ages. PCI on coronary artery bypass (CABG) was performed in 0.3% (0.3% in men vs 0.18% in women). In patients under age 55, 25% of men vs 11% of women (p<0.001) have had ACS. Radial approach has been done in 81%, and in 89% (87.7% in men and 88.9% in women) stent has been implanted. Average stent length was 22.01x2.99 mm in men vs 20.7x3.17 mm in women. Women have had 3% of unsuccessful procedures, in comparison to 2.3% in men. Restenosis rate was 3.9%, and more often in men (4.8% vs 2.7%, p<0.001). The highest restenosis rate was between 55-80 y in men, and between 66-80 y in women. Clopidogrel was the drug of choice in 56.49%. There was no difference in blood complications. In-hospital mortality rate for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction was 5.2%, without gender differences.


Epidemiological studies indicate that nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are neuroprotective, although the mechanisms underlying their beneficial effect remain largely unknown. Given their well‐known adverse effects, which of the NSAIDs is the best for neurodegenerative disease management remains a matter of debate. Paracetamol is a widely used analgesic/antipyretic drug with low peripheral adverse effects, possibly related to its weak activity as inhibitor of peripheral cyclooxygenase (COX), the main target of NSAIDs. As microglia play an important role in CNS inflammation and pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, we investigate the effect of paracetamol on rat microglial cultures. Although less potent than other NSAIDs, (indomethacin ≃ NS‐398 > flurbiprofen ≃ piroxicam > paracetamol ≃ acetylsalicylic acid), paracetamol completely inhibited the synthesis of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) in lipopolysaccharide‐stimulated microglia, when used at concentrations comparable to therapeutic doses. The drug did not affect the expression of the enzymes involved in PGE2 synthesis, i.e., COX‐1, COX‐2, and microsomal PGE synthase, or the release of the precursor arachidonic acid (AA). Paracetamol inhibited the conversion of exogenous AA, but not PGH2, into PGE2 indicating that the target of the drug is COX activity. Consistently, paracetamol inhibited with similar IC50 the synthesis of PGF2α and thromboxane B2, two other COX metabolites. Finally, none of the NSAIDs affected the productions of nitric oxide and tumor necrosis factorα, two inflammatory mediators released by activated microglia. As paracetamol was reported to inhibit PG synthesis in peripheral macrophages with an IC50 at least three orders of magnitude higher than in microglia, we suggest that this drug represents a good tool for treating brain inflammation without compromising peripheral PG synthesis. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the yarn parameters and some finishing process that can affect the abrasion resistance of socks in detail.Design/methodology/approach – The abrasion tests were made on socks produced from the most popular fibers (cotton, wool, PAC, PES, PA, and blends of these) by the Modificated Martindale method. The effects of fiber type, yarn count (for single and ply yarn), combing process, softness process with silicone and mercerization process to the abrasion resistance were investigated.Findings – It was found that the use of coarse yarns, addition of polyester, polyamide fibers or elastane filaments to the structure and application of the mercerization process increase the abrasion resistance of the socks. However, the silicone softeners decrease this value. The resistance of wool socks is higher than acrylics.Originality/value – Socks, which are a necessary item of clothing, need to be comfortable, affordable and retain their quality throughout their life. The m...


The article describes the structure of the electronic simulator " Trainee " for students of specialty 015.21 "Professional education (Food technology). Stu-dents of this specialty, according to the scientific plan, undergo industrial training at the workplaces of food industry enterprises. The relevance and expediency of using such a resource which allows you to realize a close relationship between trainees and managers from the production and educational institution in order to coordi-nate actions in accordance with the educational and professional training program for specialists in the food industry are disclosed. Such communication is carried out by means of the "Coordinator of Actions", where all the actions of partici-pants in industrial training are clearly described. In addition, the technique of using the "Trainee" simu-lator in production conditions is provided. The essence of the sections of the electronic simulator, which is used there is disclosed. The examples of students practicing individual sections of the simulator show the formation of skills that can be acquired by trainees of food industry, which, in turn, helps to shape their read-iness for future professional activities. Thus, the use of an electronic simulator "Trainee" in training in the process of training engineers-educators of food industry provides for subject differentiation and promotes an individual approach to training, taking into account the possibilities of personality. In addition, the introduction of such a simulator into training forms among students: personal statement of the purposes, that means the ability of a person to define the purposes of his activity; learning situation of training, which is based on creation by the teacher of industrial situations (their purpose is a challenge of motivation of the future specialists and a direction of their activities in the knowledge of industrial objects and the decision of problems connected with them) training productivity, consists in creating new previously unknown training products, based on theoretical knowledge disciplines of food industry and the latest achievements of science and technology.


This study aims to see how Islamic boarding schools apply the totality of education by relying on exemplary, environment and habituation through various tasks and activities. So that all what children see, hear, feel and do is education. In the midst of globalization, people are increasingly individualistic and materialist, so education oriented to character values is needed. In this context, the pesantren has succeeded in educating its students with these character values. School is a place where students experience a process of socialization, and influence children to conform (adapt) to prevailing norms. During the first years of children entering school, the school emphasizes the importance of the control function more than other functions. therefore there should be an integration of pesantren into the formal education system in public elementary schools (SDN).


This paper presents new compact analytical expressions for the magnetic field calculation produced by a finite cylindrical sheet. A linearly varying surface current density between the ends of the cylindrical sheet has been assumed as current source. The expressions presented in this work are substantially more compact if compared with the ones currently available in the literature. Since the solutions are given in terms of complete elliptic integrals of the first, second and third kind, and the last two ones diverge at certain arguments, the field expressions also diverge at these critical points, even though the field solution is finite. These singular points are located at the ends of the current sheet cylinder. New analytical expressions are also presented for these critical points avoiding the singularities in an elegant way. The radial component of the magnetic field strength isseparately discussed, and it has been proven that itssolution at singular points diverges. To improve the computational performance on theevaluation ofmagnetic fieldatcriticalpoints,an alternative formulation ispresented, where complete elliptic integrals of the second and third kind are replaced with alternative functions. Numerical algorithms for the computation of these functions are also presented.


Despite advances in underwater technology, human divers are still employed to carry out a wide variety of dangerous underwater tasks. To enable a diver to complete tasks safer and more efficiently, it is proposed that an Underwater Robotic Assistant (UWRA) could act as a robotic dive buddy. For example, the UWRA could ferry tools from the surface, carry scientific samples, and provide illumination in dark environments. However, one of the major hurdles to operating autonomous systems below the water's surface is that high-frequency radio signals are greatly attenuated by water. This severely limits the type of commands a diver can issue to the robot. Thus, one of the contributions of this paper is an analysis of the types of Underwater Human-Robot Communication (UHRC) that are possible between a diver and a UWRA. Following the analysis, we discuss implementation of a few of the proposed methods of UHRC where an underwater robot assists a diver during the installation of an underwater mechanical platform.


Shannon's rate-distortion theory provides an asymptotic analysis, where delays are allowed to grow unbounded. In practice, real-time applications, such as video streaming and network storage, are subject to certain maximum delay. Accordingly, it is imperative to develop a finite-delay framework for analyzing the rate-distortion limit. In this backdrop, we propose an intuitive generalization of Shannon's asymptotic operational framework to finite block codes. In view of the extreme complexity of such framework, we obtain insight by specializing to the symmetric binary hamming problem. Even upon such specialization, the proposed framework is computationally so intensive that accurate evaluation of the finite-delay rate-distortion function is practical only upto a block length of three. In order to obtain further insight, we then propose a lower-complexity lower bound, based on the partition function of natural numbers, whose computation is practical upto a block length of six. Finally, using a simple combinatorial argument, we propose an upper bound to localize the desired rate-distortion function between our lower and upper bounds.