Based on Cobb-Douglas' production function, this paper establishes its theoretical model. The employment of the data of 1983-2005 processing trade time sequence shows that rich and cheap labor force is the major reason for China's relatively advantaged processing trade. However, the relatively advantaged labor force is gradually lessening. Intermediate products importation is the immediate reason for the fast growth of processing trade exportation. The immediate investment of the cost driven foreigners produces the effect of trade creation, which is a considerable force that contributes to the fast development of China's processing trade. On the basis of the conclusions of the empirical study, the paper puts forward some suggestions for adjustment of the strategies of China's processing trade.


This project aims to build and validate a regenerative system to perform loading test on loads connected to the grid such as, transformers, UPS, inverters, filters, etc. Therefore, it is presented a methodology to perform tests on loads utilizing a regenerative static converter (back-to-back). The use of this methodology allows the independent control of active and reactive power, on both flux directions, allowing automatic control of the load level and flexibility to the process. This paper presents the equipment utilized for the laboratory tests, the mathematical modeling of the system and the control strategy. The converter is controlled with the SVPWM in the synchronous rotating reference frame d-q, utilizing the dSPACE DS1103 board. This paper utilizes a power transformer as a load. In the end, the results of initial tests are presented.


Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs) are cellular proteins that prevent cell death by apoptosis and are frequently overexpressed in cancer cells resulting in elevated levels leading to tumor survival and progression. SMAC mimetics are a new class of apoptosis-inducing agents that relieve the effects of IAPs including XIAP, cIAP1 and cIAP2 resulting in apoptosis of sensitive tumor cells from a broad range of tumor types. TL32711 is a potent SMAC mimetic currently in Phase 1 clinical trials. To date, a weekly IV infusion schedule has proved to be well tolerated in patients, resulting in sustained cIAP1 suppression throughout the dosing interval. Initial pharmacokinetics modeling of TL32711 in mice bearing the MDA-MB-231 tumor indicated a potential efficacy benefit may be possible with a biweekly dosing schedule. The objectives of the current study were to 1) evaluate the efficacy of TL32711 as a single agent in primary human melanoma tumor xenograft models, 2) assess the efficacy and tolerability of TL32711 in combination with carboplatin and paclitaxel and 3) determine if a biweekly dosing schedule is more effective than weekly administration. Significant tumor growth inhibition was observed in 5 of 6 of the primary melanoma tumor xenografts evaluated following treatment with single agent TL32711 (30 mg/kg, IP). Combining TL32711 with carboplatin and paclitaxel resulted in a further enhancement in anti-tumor efficacy with tumor regressions noted in 4 of the 6 models without any marked changes in tolerability ( Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics; 2011 Nov 12-16; San Francisco, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Mol Cancer Ther 2011;10(11 Suppl):Abstract nr A225.


Objective:The experiment aimed at studying the possibility of transplantation of pig' s cryop-reservated hepatocytes treating acute hepatic failure in Wistar ratx.Methods:Porcine hepatocytes werecryopreserved in liquid nitrogen for 150 days,which were transplanted into the rats in which 80% of liver lobes were resected later.Results:The viability of the cryopreserved cells was 78% of the freshcells.Morphologically intact hepatocytes were observed under light and electron microscopy.Glycogenand glucose-6-phosphatase within the cells were rich.Survival rate of rats in transplant group was 16/17,significantly higher than 3/9 of control group(P=0.0020)But there weren't significant differ-ences in the weights of remaining partx of livers and biochemical values of hepatic function between the 2-day group and 7-day group after liver failure.Conclusions:The transplant of pig's frozen hepatocytescould treat the acute hepatic failure and its mechanixm seemed to be a result of multiple effects.


Feeding the cow herd is costly. However, within grazing systems, identifying differences in efficiencies is difficult since forage intakes are rarely measured. Saturated hydrocarbons (n-alkanes; aLk) and long-chain alcohols are being used to estimate diet composition and intake. The robustness of this method depends on consistently quantifying the plant-wax contents of plants, and using them to delineate the composition of forage communities. The objectives of this study were to test both steps of this process, focusing on its potential to discriminate the dietary composition of cattle grazing rangelands. Three technicians in 2 labs measured C27, C29, C31 and C33 concentrations in pure and 9 mixtures of tall fescue and red clover. Measurement error between labs, and technicians within lab, were quantified. Botanical compositions were estimated with non-negative least squares (nnLs), and reliability assessed by regressing estimated on actual fescue proportions. Three cooland 3 warm-season grasses, and 2 legumes, typical of western rangelands were harvested at 2 phenologies (vegetative; mature). As additions, C35, and the alcohols C24–OH, C26–OH, C28–OH, C30–OH, and C32–OH concentrations were obtained. Marker profiles of the 8 plant species were discriminated with principal component analysis. Cattle diets were simulated and their species composition estimated with NNLS. For the tall fescue and red clover mixtures, labs, and technicians within labs, differed in their quantification of individual ALK (P < 0.001). However, within technician, fescue contents of the mixtures were estimated reliably (P > 0.12), although consistently high for 2 technicians. At both phenologies, legumes were distinct from grasses, reflecting higher C29, C26–OH and C30–OH concentrations. Blue grama was unique in its C33 and C32–OH contents. Still, the 8 plant species could not be clearly discriminated. Matrices of plant-wax marker concentrations had high condition numbers ( > 600), indicating collinearity. Composition of simulated diets were poorly estimated with NNLS, with large normalized mean square errors ( > 422). In conclusion, comprehensive training of technicians analyzing plant-wax contents of plants is vital for reliable use of this methodology. Even with such training, this procedure does not currently provide an accurate method to estimate the species composition of diverse diets common to rangelands. Refinements to the predictive framework are needed for its application in such settings. key words: diet composition; estimation; non-negative least squares; plant-wax markers; principal component analysis © 2016 American Society of Animal Science. All rights reserved. J. Anim. Sci. 2016.94(S6):93–102 doi:10.2527/jas2016-0636 1The authors wish to thank the technical staff at the West Central Research and Extension Center, North Platte, NE, for their assistance in collecting plant samples. We appreciate the laboratory assistance of Amy Tanner, Amy Brandon, Annie Laib and Particia Helsel (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA) and Emily Hilburger, Ashley Buescher and Rhonda Griess (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE). We are thankful to Donald Wirth (Saddle Butte Ag Inc., Shedd, OR, USA) for supplying the tall fescue and red clover hay, and to Phillip and Edgar McCracken (McHay Company, Elgin, OK) for its processing. This material is based on work that was supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (Award Number 1932–21630–003–06), and by the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station with funding from the Hatch Multistate Research capacity funding program (Accession Number 1006754) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture. 2Corresponding author: firstname.lastname@example.com Received May 13, 2016. Accepted June 10, 2016. D ow naded rom http/academ ic.p.com /jas/article-ab4/suppl_6/93/4697605 by gest on 16 M arch 2020


In finite-element, transient dynamics simulations, physical objects are typically modeled as Lagrangian meshes because the meshes can move and deform with the objects as they undergo stress. In many simulations, such as computations of impacts or explosions, portions of the deforming mesh come in contact with each other as the simulation progresses. These contacts must be detected and the forces they impart to the mesh must be computed at each timestep to accurately capture the physics of interest. While the finite-element portion of these computations is readily parallelized, the contact detection problem is difficult to implement efficiently on parallel computers and has been a bottleneck to achieving high performance on large parallel machines. In this paper we describe a new parallel algorithm for detecting contacts. Our approach differs from previous work in that we use two different parallel decompositions, a static one for the finite element analysis and dynamic one for contact detection. We present results for this algorithm in a parallel version of the transient dynamics code PRONTO-3D running on a large Intel Paragon.


The queen conch Strombus gigas is a marine resource of ecological and economical importance in the Caribbean region that suffers a reduction of its populations in most Caribbean countries. An intense and generalized sporozoan infection was detected in Strombus gigas populations from various Caribbean countries. The parasite, apparently a Coccidian, Apicomplexa was observed on histological sections of the digestive gland of every sampled organism throughout the various sites: in the samples from San Andres, Colombia; Guadeloupe and St. Barthelemy, French West Indies; Alacranes reef and Chinchorro bank, Mexico; Parguera, Puerto Rico; Margarita Island, Venezuela. To the present light-microscopy analysis, the parasites from all localities could be the same and apparently, they complete their cycle in the digestive gland tissue. The parasite was abundant in Puerto Rico, Colombia and Mexico samples, coinciding with observed anomalies in reproductive cycle, reduced gametogenesis and maturity in Alacranes, Mexico (20-40%) and no gonad activity was observed in conchs from San Andres. The damage to the digestive diverticula begins in the cryptic cells and attains secretory cells later, giving way to discharge of cysts to the stomach through the digestive gland ducts. Various stages are identified. Five different stages were identified: Apicomplexa-like trophozoites, gametocysts, gamonts, gamets and oocysts. Given the presence of multiple stages at any time a re-infection and the life cycle is asumed to occurred within the same host. These results raise several questions: Given the generalized infection at so distant sites, if the parasite is the same, are S. gigas populations more connected than it has been supposed? What are the environmental factors inducing such an intense and generalized infection? What is the impact on recruitment and therefore on the fishery? It is necessary to identify the geographic distribution of this parasite, to discriminate damages to the digestive gland from the physiological cycle destruction of digestive gland cells; to evaluate its impact on the reproductive activity.


An electric parking brake, housing; And actuator; Gearbox assembly and; And a driven gear; Spindle; Screws and nuts; Equalizer which the spindle penetrates and the screw nut is rotatably inserted, and; Having side fastened to the front end each adapted to connect to both sides of the equalizer, and a brake cable which is the other end is connected to each wheel brake device; And having a cam portion and the operating lever, and is characterized in that it comprises an emergency release apparatus to relax the brake cables in an emergency release so that the parking brake is released. By a simple operation to pull the cable in case of an emergency, such as a discharge or parking brake, failure of the vehicle, and the effect that can release the parking brake, there is no need for the operator to enter the bottom of the vehicle and risk prevention, where the cables cockpit connected If there is an effect that increases convenience, so anywhere you can release the parking brake.


Yongkang Luo1,2,∗ A. Pustogow, P. Guzman, A. P. Dioguardi, S. M. Thomas, F. Ronning, N. Kikugawa, D. A. Sokolov, F. Jerzembeck, A. P. Mackenzie, C. W. Hicks, E. D. Bauer, I. I. Mazin, and S. E. Brown1† Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA; National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0003, Japan; Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden 01187, Germany; Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9SS, UK; and Code 6393, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA. (Dated: June 4, 2019)


The invention concerns the design of an oil containment boom suitable particularly for stowage on a reel. The boom in its inflated condition, is of "T" section having double buoyancy chambers and a central skirt member. The boom utilizes a tension wire in its lower skirt region and an air pressurizing hose in its upper skirt above the buoyancy chambers. The geometry of the panels making up the chambers is arranged, together with the joints, to give a substantially flat deflated form. The air pressurizing hose and the tension wire are of comparable diameter each being of larger diameter than the maximum thickness of the deflated boom whereby undesirable folding and puckering of the boom material when wound up is accommodated in the lateral space between the hose and the wire.


New solutions for large bone defect repair are needed. Here, in situ gelling slow release systems for bone induction are assessed. Collagen‐I based Recombinant Peptide (RCP) microspheres (MSs) are produced and used as a carrier for bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP‐2). The RCP‐MSs are dispersed in three hydrogels: high mannuronate (SLM) alginate, high guluronate (SLG) alginate, and thermoresponsive hyaluronan derivative (HApN). HApN+RCP‐MS forms a gel structure at 32 ºC or above, while SLM+RCP‐MS and SLG+RCP‐MS respond to shear stress displaying thixotropic behavior. Alginate formulations show sustained release of BMP‐2, while there is minimal release from HApN. These formulations are injected subcutaneously in rats. SLM+RCP‐MS and SLG+RCP‐MS loaded with BMP‐2 induce ectopic bone formation as revealed by X‐ray tomography and histology, whereas HApN+RCP‐MS do not. Vascularization occurs within all the formulations studied and is significantly higher in SLG+MS and HApN+RCP‐MS than in SLM+RCP‐MS. Inflammation (based on macrophage subset staining) decreases over time in both alginate groups, but increases in the HApN+RCP‐MS condition. It is shown that a balance between inflammatory cell infiltration, BMP‐2 release, and vascularization, achieved in the SLG+RCP‐MS alginate condition, is optimal for the induction of de novo bone formation.


Using Fefferman's classical result on the boundary singularity of the Bergman kernel, we give an analogous description of the boundary behaviour of various related quantities like the Bergman invariant, the coefficients of the Bergman metric, of the associated Laplace-Beltrami operator, of its curvature tensor, Ricci curvature and scalar curvature. The main point is that even though one would expect a bit stronger singularities than the one for the Bergman kernel, due to the differentiations involved, all these quantities turn out to have — except for a different leading power of the defining function — the same kind of singularity as the solution of the Monge-Ampére equation.


In this work, a three-channel infrared photodetector with three independent related electric signals as a single optoelectronic chip has been introduced. The proposed structure has been implemented by exploiting an array of PbSe/ZnSe quantum dots and the PbSe/ZnS selective energy contacts considering solution-processed nanotechnology. The electron transport system has been designed to allow the transmission of electrons stimulated by three wavelengths simultaneously from different paths to the corresponding output. The high efficiency, simplicity and fabrication ease, cost-effectiveness, and high tunability of the photodetector have been accomplished as a consequence of solution-process technology. Moreover, the dark current has been significantly declined as a consequence of resonance tunneling in the proposed selective energy contacts. Last but not least, our proposed multi-wavelength (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lambda _{1}=2.9\,\,\mu \text {m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lambda _{2}=2.25\,\,\mu \text {m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lambda _{3}=1.75\,\,\mu \text {m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) infrared photodetector has been promising candidates for a wideband spectrum analyzer or multi-wavelength infrared camera.


We define the doubling zeta integral for smooth families of representations of classical groups. Following this we prove a rationality result for these zeta integrals and show that they satisfy a functional equation. Moreover, we show that there exists an apropriate normalizing factor which allows us to construct γ-factors for smooth families out of the functional equation. We prove that under certain hypothesis, specializing this γ-factor at a point of the family yields the γ-factor defined by Piateski-Shapiro and Rallis.


PURPOSE
To estimate the influence of pregnancy on the clinical course of endogenous uveitis.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
Four pregnant women (6 eyes) aged 16-21 yrs with uveitis of unknown etiology were observed. In two cases uveitis was bilateral while other two patients developed unilateral intraocular inflammation. At the time when the pregnancy was diagnosed systemic steroids were discontinued. Ophthalmic examination was performed every 1-2 months and then 3-8 months after delivery.

RESULTS
In all cases, before pregnancy, the active stage of uveitis was observed; vitreous flare and vitreous cells were present in all cases (6 eyes). Iritis was present in one patient (1 eye), inflammatory chorioretinal lesions in 2 cases (3 eyes), while retinal vasculitis was observed in one case (1 eye). During pregnancy as well as within 3-8 months of follow-up after delivery, neither progression nor recurrences of uveitis were observed. In all patients gradual, total regression of intraocular inflammation with the improvement of visual acuity in 3 cases were noted.

CONCLUSIONS
Our observations can suggest positive influence of pregnancy on uveitis activity.


• Page 1 of 4 • Citation: Duran BA, Ayuga MA, Jimenez VH, Falero JS (2018) Recurrent Prosthetic Thrombosis: About a Case. Int J Clin Cardiol 5:120. doi.org/10.23937/2378-2951/1410120 Accepted: June 23, 2018; Published: June 25, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Duran BA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


Introduction: A significant proportion of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) have nutritional impairment, despite adequate treatment with high-calorie diet and pancreatic enzyme replacement. Objective: To identify factors associated with malnutrition in adolescent and adult patients with CF. Methods: A cross-sectional study with prospective data collection on patients seen in the Program for Adults with CF, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. The patients underwent the following procedures: clinical evaluation with systematic registration of clinical data, clinical Shwachman-Kulczycki score evaluation, nutritional assessment, completion of the dietary treatment adherence questionnaire, fecal elastase-1 test, and spirometry. In addition, sputum cultures performed in a previous year were reviewed, and the bacteria identified were recorded. The liver scores were recorded by abdominal ultrasound. For purposes of analysis, patients were divided into three groups according to their nutritional status Milla (2007) for adults and Borowitz et al. (2002) for adolescents: adequate nutrition, nutritional risk, and malnutrition. Results: 73 patients were studied, whose 40 (54.8%) were female; mean age = 25.6±7.3 years; mean FEV1 = 59.7±30.6% predicted and mean BMI = 21±3.0kg/m2. According to nutritional status, 32 (43.8%) patients were classified as adequate nutrition, 23 (31.5%) at nutritional risk, and 18 (24.7%) as malnourished. No differences were observed among groups for sex (p = 0.254), age (p = 0.454), presence of F508del mutation (p = 0.326), and liver score (p = 0.806). The proportion of diabetes mellitus was higher in patients at nutritional risk (7 patients, 30.4%) than in the adequate nutrition group (1 patient, 3.1%), and malnourished (2 patients, 11.1%; p = 0.014). The mean clinical score was significantly lower in the groups at nutritional risk (70.6±10) and malnourished (53.9±17 points) than in the adequate nutrition group (79.5±12, p <0.001). FVC% predicted and FEV1% predicted were significantly lower in the malnourished patients (respectively, 46.7±23.0% and 35.0±18.1%) than in the adequate nutrition group (respectively 83.9±32.3% and 74.2±30.8%) and in the at nutritional risk group (respectively 73.1±25.5% and 58.9±25.9%; p <0.001 and p <0.001). The group of patients at nutritional risk showed values of fecal elastase-1 (70.8±35,4μg/g) significantly lower than the adequate nutrition (94±32.6μg/g) and malnourished patients (119.2±28,9μg/g, p <0.001). Fifty-six patients were taking pancreatic enzymes, and the average amount of enzyme/kg/meal taken by the malnourished patients (1423.9 ± 404.3) was higher than in the adequate nutrition (725.0±476.4, p <0.001) and in the at nutritional risk patients (830.2±456.9, p = 0.001). There were no statistical difference regarding the self-reported calorie diet adherence (p = 0.488), use of pancreatic enzyme (p = 0.334), and vitamin supplementation ADEK (p = 0.816). The logistic regression analysis identified three independents variables associated with malnutrition: age (odds ratio OR = 0.78, p = 0.013), clinical Shwachman-Kulczycki score (OR = 0.90, p = 0.015), and FEV1 (OR = 0.95, p = 0.046). Conclusion: This study observed high prevalence of malnutrition in patients with CF treated in a reference centre in Porto Alegre. The main factors associated with malnutrition were age, clinical severity, and functional severity of lung disease.


Uterine cervical cancer (UCC) is the fourth most common cancer in women, responsible for more than 300 000 deaths worldwide. Its early detection, by cervical cytology, and prevention, by vaccinating against human papilloma virus, greatly contribute to reducing cervical cancer mortality in women. However, penetration of the effective prevention of UCC in Japan remains low. Plasma metabolome analysis is widely used for biomarker discovery and the identification of cancer‐specific metabolic pathways. Here, we aimed to identify predictive biomarkers for the diagnosis and radiation sensitivity of UCC using wide‐targeted plasma metabolomics.


This essay is based on the distinction that Pierre Bayle himself drew in his Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697) between two kinds of philosophers: the 'lawyers', who are biased and represent their case in the best possible light (consequently representing their opponents' in the worst), and the 'reporters', who depict things impartially and respecting all viewpoints. The philosopher-lawyer is embodied in the Dictionnaire by the Greek Chrysippus of Soli, recognised in the past as the second founder of Stoicism. We deduce from Bayle's work that he considers Pierre Jurieu, his former friend and fellow professor at the Ecole "lustre of Rotterdam, as a modem Chrysippus. Bayle motivates his opinion by pointing at Jurieu's intolerant defence of Calvinism against Catholicism and criticizing his partiality in reporting opinions and events. The role of the philosopher-reporter is what Bayle himself tries to achieve through the Dictionnaire, fairly relating all viewpoints, opinions and ideas, even those that are mutually inconsistent. However, his extensive work - and specifically his Dictionnaire - proves that he is not a plain reporter, as he actively takes part in the philosophical debates and in the religious controversies of his time supporting religious tolerance, defending the idea of 'virtuous atheism' and declaring the impossibility of an alliance between reason and faith. His point of view is sceptic, as he presents the weaknesses of each opinion and philosophical system in order to show that reason is better in objecting than finding solutions. In the end, Bayle shows a tendency to take sides in debates and controversies, often supporting unorthodox positions and fighting against common opinions.


LandScan (LANguage Driven SCene ANalysis) is presented as an integrated vision system which covers most levels of both vision and natural language processing. Computations are both data-driven and query-driven. In the report we focus on the design of the vision and control modules. Future work will investigate in more detail the design of the natural language interface. The data-driven system employs active control of stereo cameras for image acquisition, and dynamically constructs a surface model from multiple aerial views of an urban scene. The query-driven system allows the user's natural language queries to focus analysis to pertinent regions of the scene. This is different than many image understanding systems which present a symbolic description of the entire scene regardless of what portions of that picture are actually of interest.


A new method for digital image compression is introduced that combines two non-traditional techniques: adaptive block size image segmentation and artificial neural networks. An algorithm for image compression using these techniques is proposed and some experimental results are presented.


Rotor eccentricity is a common fault in traction motors that directly affects the stability of the locomotive system. A locomotive-track coupled spatial dynamics model with traction power transmissions was established by considering the effect of rotor eccentricity in this study. The time-varying gear mesh forces, nonlinear wheel-rail contact forces, internal interactions between the components of the motor bearing, and dynamic forces induced by the rotor eccentricity, namely centrifugal force of the rotor, rotor-motor rub-impact force, and unbalanced magnetic pull (UMP), were comprehensively considered in the proposed model. The results indicated that rotor eccentricity affects the vibrations of the traction motor significantly. Additionally, the working condition of motor bearings was deteriorated by the rotor eccentricity, which was reflected by the increase in contact forces between the roller and races. The load region of the non-driving end bearing varies with the angular position of the rotor under the effect of rotor eccentricity. The proposed dynamics model will contribute in understanding and controlling the nonlinear dynamic behavior of locomotive traction motors.


In today's world, where we are facing many conflicts due to various factors linked to the social conditions, marital conflict is usually observed in Pakistan. Marriage is a bond of mutual trust, which lays the foundation stone of family. Family play crucial role in Pakistan, where all the decisions are led by its head. Unfortunately, with the changes taking place in the world due to societal pressures, fragmentation among marriage couples is mostly seen rather family unification. It is believed that all the conflicts can be resolved internally within family with mutual resolution; but in marital conflict, the problem of obtaining mutual consent requires longitudinal approach. In Pakistan, marital disagreement often arises due to lack of mutual understanding and trust between partners, which, at most of the cases led to divorce. Marital clash also rises due to family issues, which can easily be resolved through mutual discussions. With the increasing number of separation and divorce each year, it is important to know, how emotional intelligence can contribute in maintaining positive relation, and how it come overcome marital conflicts. This study finds the contribution of emotional intelligence in resolving marital conflict. The population for the study consists of all the married couples. The sample consists of all the couples, married since the past 5 years or over. Total sample of 80 married men/women were selected through random sample method from Karachi. Questionnaire was developed with the help of experts, which was later filled by the respondents. The results show that emotional intelligence and education play important role in resolving marital conflict. The results also share that few of the respondents faced abuse in their lives. Details results and discussion are included at the end of the paper.


ABSTRACT Feeling moved or touched can be accompanied by tears, goosebumps, and sensations of warmth in the centre of the chest. The experience has been described frequently, but psychological science knows little about it. We propose that labelling one's feeling as being moved or touched is a component of a social-relational emotion that we term kama muta (its Sanskrit label). We hypothesise that it is caused by appraising an intensification of communal sharing relations. Here, we test this by investigating people's moment-to-moment reports of feeling moved and touched while watching six short videos. We compare these to six other sets of participants' moment-to-moment responses watching the same videos: respectively, judgements of closeness (indexing communal sharing), reports of weeping, goosebumps, warmth in the centre of the chest, happiness, and sadness. Our eighth time series is expert ratings of communal sharing. Time series analyses show strong and consistent cross-correlations of feeling moved and touched and closeness with each other and with each of the three physiological variables and expert-rated communal sharing – but distinctiveness from happiness and sadness. These results support our model.


We investigated the fabrication of Ca/Al layered double hydroxide (LDHs) via a one-step hydrothermal approach with slow hydrolysis of urea at a low temperature without further annealing required. The as-synthesized Ca/Al LDHs nanostructures obtained were defined using Fourier transforms infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results demonstrated that Ca/Al LDHs exhibit excellent adsorption performance on Congo red anionic dyes in aqueous solution. The adsorption capacity of the Ca/Al LDHs toward Congo red was found to be 59.41 mg/g.


The ventricular-subventricular zone (V-SVZ) is the largest neurogenic region of the postnatal forebrain, containing neural stem cells (NSCs) that emerge from both the embryonic pallium and subpallium. Despite of this dual origin, glutamatergic neurogenesis declines rapidly after birth, while gabaergic neurogenesis persists throughout life. Here, we performed single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-Seq) of the postnatal dorsal V-SVZ for unravelling the mechanisms leading to pallial lineage germinal activity silencing. We identify cell lineage-specific NSCs primed for the generation of neurons or glial cells, as well as a large population of so far uncharacterized quiescent NSCs (qNSC). Pallial qNSCs enter a state of deep quiescence, characterized by persistent TGFbeta/BMP signalling, reduced transcriptional activity and Hopx expression, whilst in contrast, subpallial qNSCs remain transcriptionally primed for activation. Induction of deep pallial quiescence is paralleled by a rapid blockade of glutamatergic neuron production and differentiation. Finally, manipulation of the TGFbeta/BMP receptor Bmpr1a demonstrate its key role in mediating these effects at early postnatal times. Together, our results highlight a central role of TGFbeta/BMP-signalling in synchronizing quiescence induction and blockade of neuronal differentiation to rapidly silence pallial germinal activity after birth.


In this paper we describe one of the browsing strategies for learning object repositories implemented in the Clavy platform, a platform for the management of repositories with reconfigurable structures. Since Clavy makes it possible to dynamically modify the structure of the repositories, it must support a navigation model independent of that structure. For this purpose, the platform adopts a tag-based browsing model, according to which users select descriptive tags to filter learning objects (in Clavy, these descriptive tags correspond to element-value pairs). In our experience using Clavy, we have realized that updating the browsing state when the user changes the set of selected tags can be a costly process. The proposed strategy alleviates this cost by combining inverted indexes with a multilevel cache model that enables the system, on the one hand, to cache filtered objects (i.e., set of objects filtered by sets of selected tags), and, on the other hand, selectable tags (i.e., set of tags able to shrink sets of objects).


The transcendence of psychological factors of the doctor-patient relationship is given by the fact of its influence on results and quality of medical care, improvement in compliance, satisfaction and recall of physician information, and plays a fundamental role in the medical care process: the skills Listening and communication are fundamental parts to make the diagnosis and treatment. Some of these positive consequences arise from the fact that relationships are linked to emotions which have a physiological substrate.


The ability of approach running plays a decisive role in raising jumping record. With comparative analysis of technical parameter and records from long jumpers at home and abroad ,we hold that only by further reducing the speed ratio loss,simultaneously increasing absolute speed can Chinese long jumpers efficiently reach a higher level in field long jump and advance towards the world


Objective:To study the related influencing factors for the blood glucose fluctuation of the elderly patients with type 2 diabetes.Methods:The continuous glucose monitoring system was used to monitor the blood glucose fluctuation of 280 elderly patients with type 2 diabetes.With the retrospective control study,the mean blood glucose level(MBG),the standard deviation of blood glucose(SDBG),the mean amplitude of glycemic excursion(MAGE),the mean of daily differences(MODD),the postprandial glucose fluctuation(PPGE) and other indexes of the male and female and the related influencing factors were compared and analyzed.Results:Except the MBG,the other indexes of the female patients were higher than of the male(P0.05).As the age increasing,except MBG increasing gradually(P0.05),the differences of other indexes for male and female had no statistical significance(P0.05).With the growth of the duration of diabetes and increase of HbAlc,every monitoring index increased gradually(P0.05).The medication compliance could affect the blood glucose fluctuation.Conclusion:There is no relationship between the age and BMI and the blood glucose fluctuation.The sex,diabetic duration,HbAlc,and medication compliance are the major influencing factors for the blood glucose fluctuation of the elderly patients with type 2 diabetes.


While, to date, there has been successful research into brain-computer game interaction (BCGI), the algorithms and techniques developed are limited in scope and may not utilize all available data in the appropriate contexts, e.g., optimizing for genre-specific games. This special issue was, therefore, solicited to gain insights into new biosignal processing algorithms, tested in gaming applications, which exploit BCI and neural signals to enhance gameplay experience and playermotivation, be the players ablebodied or physically impaired. A snapshot of the current trends in BCIcontrolled computer games is presented across 11 manuscripts. Each is briefly summarized in this editorial introduction.


ABSTRACT We report here the genome sequence of Frankia sp. strain CN3, which was isolated from Coriaria nepalensis. This genome sequence is the first from the fourth lineage of Frankia, strains of which are unable to reinfect actinorhizal plants. At 10 Mb, it represents the largest Frankia genome sequenced to date.


The invention is suitable for the technical field of unmanned aerial vehicles, and provides an unmanned aerial vehicle management and control method and an unmanned aerial vehicle management platform. The method comprises the steps that the flight level of an unmanned aerial vehicle is set; and the unmanned aerial vehicle is managed and controlled according to the flight level. Hierarchical management and control of the unmanned aerial vehicle are realized, flight authority of the unmanned aerial vehicle can be opened to the owner of the unmanned aerial vehicle to the largest extent under the condition of guaranteeing flight safety of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and flight safety of the unmanned aerial vehicle is enhanced so that sound development of the unmanned aerial vehicle industry is facilitated.


The sour eggplant plant (Solanum ferox L), a vegetable that is frequently used in cooking and is a member of the Solanaceae family, is also used as an antipyretic and to treat syphilis, body aches, lack of appetite, fever, itching, cuts, and bruising. This is due to the presence of several bioactive chemicals that have toxic, rheumatoid, antiviral, anticancer, antibacterial, and anti-asthma properties. The objective of this work was to separate antioxidant and antibacterial substances from Solanum ferox L. leaves. N-hexane and methanol were used to extract the leaves of Solanum ferox. The characterization of chemicals in the n-hexane extract was done while the antioxidant and antibacterial properties of both extracts were examined. UV-Vis spectra, FTIR, proton and carbon nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR and 13C-NMR), and FTIR were used to characterize the compound). Using vitamin C as a reference and the DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl) technique to measure free radicals, the antioxidant activity of the Solanum ferox plant extract was assessed. E. coli, S. aureus, and S. subtilis bacteria are used in an agar diffusion method test for antimicrobial activity. The solvent used to dissolve the sample served as the negative control while amoxsan served as the positive standard. One pure substance that has been isolated with success is stigmasterol, with the chemical formula C29H48O. The IC50 of Solanum ferox leaf n-hexane extract at 1218.5 ppm, which included not active, indicated that the IC50 of Solanum ferox leaf methanol extract at 268.5 ppm was ineffective. E. coli is inhibited by n-hexane extract in antibacterial tests at an inhibition value of 9.27 mm. Methanol extracts had an inhibitory potency of 7.82 mm against E. coli and 11.29 mm against S. aureus.


The determined one-grocery model of storekeeping of power resources with the periodic control and disproportionate criterion function is considered многопериодная. Formalization of model of storekeeping is executed. The program application is developed, allowing receiving the optimum production program of manufacture of power resources on certain quantity of intervals of time


Received: 19 November 2020 Accepted: 28 January 2021 The effective extraction of deep information from surveillance video lays the basis for smart city safety. However, the surveillance video images contain complex targets, whose expression changes are difficult to capture. The traditional face expression recognition methods or sentiment analysis algorithms have a poor application effect. Based on machine learning (ML), this paper explores the emotional recognition in surveillance video images in the context of smart city safety. Firstly, the potential textures of surveillance video images were extracted under multi-order double cross (MODC) mode, and the optical flow features of facial expressions were detected in these images. Next, a facial expression recognition model was constructed based on the DeepID convolutional neural network (CNN), and an emotional semantic space was established for the face images in surveillance video. The proposed method was proved effective through experiments. The research results provide a reference for emotional recognition in images of other fields.


Was done research about pharmacognostic identification from muscle acid medicinal herbs that circulating at Makassar city., with aim to get pharmacognostic's data from medicinal herbs of muscle acid that circulating at Makassar, for security in consuming. This research covers macroscopic and microscopic. On microscopic test medicinal herbs powder A, B dan C there are endosperm, parenkim with sekresi cell, fiber and calsium oksalat. From both offabove sample,really contains Zingiberis Rhizoma, Phaleria macrocarpa andyy `Piper nigrum Key word : Makroskopic, mikroskopic, muscle acid medicinal herbs


The major coat protein (gVIIIp) of bacteriophage M13 complexed with SDS detergent micelles was used as a model system to study the lipid-bound conformation of the protein. Conditions were found that allowed the recording of good quality of NMR spectra. By making extensive use of three-dimensional heteronuclear (13C, 15N) NMR, we obtained a complete set of resonance assignments for 1HN, 1H alpha, 1H beta, 13C alpha, CO, and 15N and partially assigned the rest of the 1H spectrum. Analysis of NOE and chemical shift data reveals that gVIIIp is composed of two alpha-helical domains, one ranging from Pro-6 to Glu20 and the other ranging from Tyr-24 all the way to the C-terminus Ser-50. In contrast to the results reported by Henry and Sykes [Henry, G.D., & Sykes, B.D. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 5285-5297], at a high SDS to protein ratio the protein appears to be monomeric.


The craze for paintings and calligraphy are unprecedented. In the daily life of Song dynasty,the love for painting collection are an important and ideal ways of relaxation. Regarding this the author probes in this hobbies.


An improved algorithm of estimating the affine transformation aligning a known 2D shape and its distorted observation is proposed in this paper,as existing algorithms have difficulty of finding correspondences and the high computational complexity in solving this kind of registration problem.The concept of corner points and the convex hull of point set are introduced to set up a group of leaner equations in the proposed approach.The corner points of the template image and observation are detected firstly,then the feature point sets are determined and the convex hulls are constructed.It is a principle in computational geometry that the convex hulls are correspondent before and after the affine transformation.An affine transformation includes six unknown parameters,which need six equations to solve the six parameters.When there are interior points inside the convex hull,the points on convex hull,the centroid of the hull and the interior points can be used to construct six equations with the horizontal and vertical coordinates.When there are no interior points inside convex hull,a pair of extra quadratic equations should be built with horizontal and vertical coordinates using the polynomial theory to solve the six parameters.The main advantage of the proposed algorithm is that only the correspondence of point sets instead of the one-to-one correspondence of feature points between the template image and observation are needed to be found.Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is more accurate in parametric estimation,and its computational complexity is much lower than that of the region-based approach.


(Research Institute of Oji Paper Co., Ltd., Tokyo) New pulping methods of hard wood have been studied eagerly in Japan, because soft wood has become scarce by overfelling.Characteristics of hard wood pulp depend on the properties of the fiber, that is, short and slender shape and rich content of pentosan.Blending the hard wood pulp in various papers, the printability of the papers are improved and such properties as formation, smoothness, opacities rise.(1) Bleached kraft pulp of hard wood are used in fine paper, and owing to blending, the printability of the paper is improved considerably. But viscous printing ink sometimes takes away the vessels from paper surface during offset printing.(2) Semichemical pulp and chemi-ground pulp are used in news print and photogravure paper.Properties of chemi-ground pulp are similar to ground wood of soft wood, but lower opacity.(3) Ground wood of hard wood has high opacity, and is used in news print.


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Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a rare example of a hematopoietic malignancy for which identification of the altered pathways of proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis has led to improved survival in and management of patients with the disease. Alteration of the gene coding


The basis and the reference for the design and the selected type from the comparison of the selected type between the sack duster and the electric duster in the process conditions, the capital construction investment and the difficult or easy service have been polinted out.


The previous work (Kishi and Iseki 1973c) elucidated that the prophage attachment site of d5 of Salmonella group E was near met and not far away from his on the bacterial chromosome. On the other hand, the recent reports showed prophage X34 to be attached to or integrated into the host chromosome at a site close to the pro locus (Kishi 1971a, 1971b) or pur E (Matsuyama and Uetake 1972). The present paper deals with the genetic determinants of 0 antigens 1, 3, 19 of group E4 and the prophage attachment site of e34 on the chromosome.


The effects of stress coaxial, transverse, and biaxial relative to applied field on magnetization, susceptibility, and domain wall configurations are derived and confirmed using rod, hollow cylinder, and hollow toroid steel samples. The effective stress σ=σ∥−σ⊥ is linearly proportional to pressure on 90° domain walls below residual stress and to changes in reluctance above residual stress. The equivalent field, Hσ=6.0(5) A/m, per MPa of stress was measured in excellent agreement with 6.2(4) A/m calculated from material parameters. The quantity dχ−1/dσ=9.0(6)×10−6/MPa was measured in good agreement with 8.3(5) calculated. A lower limit of reluctance due to inhomogeneities was observed. Magnetization increases with tension and compression allow measurement of ±90° domain wall fractions, f±=0.30±M/Ms, below the coercive field. Net magnetization changes from both walls generate magnetization hysteresis loops with stress cycling.


The growing need of use of more efficient and less costly thermal power plants, given its proposal for electricity generation in Brazil which increased significantly in recent decades ultimately encourages the development of technologies to monitor its operation. Thus improvements in thermal performance of steam turbines will help gaining competitive advantage in the market by reducing operating costs and increasing the amount of the plants available on producing power more efficiently. This work aims to present the results of the methodology modification and the computer tool development based on the Spencer et al. [7] method to determine the drop of thermal performance of steam turbines operating in a combined cycle with cogeneration. Several adjustments were carried out to the methodology originally chosen as a reference, as it does not count for the use of cogeneration, i.e. without extractions at intermediate stages of the steam turbine. Thus, the method was modified to contemplate the steam extraction, and it was obtained satisfactory results when compered with existed Cogeneration Power Plant Heat flow. It can be noted by checking the results that the largest deviation of the efficient values obtained occurred in the low-pressure section with 2.14% as the biggest one mainly because of the large number of parameters that vary simultaneously and the strong influence of the extraction on this section which does not occur in the high and medium pressure turbines. However, the deviations were rather low once the methodology has a general application addressing machines with very different characteristics. In addition to this study, the adjustments were made to replicate the characteristics of the Heat flow Diagrams in some cases it was difficult to find any trend for all load.


In this paper data on Veneridae composition in the area of Boka Kotorska Bay are given. Sampling was done during autumn 2017 and spring 2018 by SCUBA diving. The main goal was to describe Veneridae community structure in the Bay, especially because several of those species are commercially important and present potential candidates for farming process. Total of 1754 individuals were collected, belonging to 14 different taxons. Venus verrucosa was the most dominant species. Species abundance regarding locations varied from 1.06 to 1.96 ind./m. The smallest Veneridae diversity and species richness was on Njivice location. Based on qualitative results, the highest similarity was between Sv. Stasije and Sv. Nedjelja, and the lowest between Sv. Stasije and Njivice locations. There was no statistically significant differences in Veneridae communities neither among two main sampling zone, neither among seasons.


Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) emulation is poised to become unsurpassed design
 tool for development, testing, and optimization of real-time control
 algorithms for grid connected power electronics converters for distributed
 generation, active filters and smart grid applications. It is strongly
 important to examine and test how grid connected converters perform under
 different operating conditions including grid disturbances and faults. In
 that sense, converter's controller is a key component responsible for
 ensuring safe and high-performance operation. This paper demonstrates an
 example how ultra-low latency and high fidelity HIL emulator is used to
 easily, rapidly and exhaustively test and validate standard control strategy
 for grid connected power electronics converters, without need for expensive
 hardware prototyping and laboratory test equipment. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. III 042004 and by the
 Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development of AP
 Vojvodina under contract No. 114-451-3508/2013-04]


This paper presents an experimental analysis of the depolarization effects that multipath propagation produces on radio-frequency (RF) signals. The analysis is based on the results of a measurement campaign conducted in a suburban scenario in the city of San Luis Potosí, México. Such a campaign collected empirical data of the instantaneous power and Doppler power spectrum (DPS) of an infrastructure-to-vehicle (I2V) channel at 2.45 GHz. The measured data were used to compute three different cross-polarization discriminators (XPD). One of such discriminators has been widely used in the literature to assess the power ratio between co-polarized and cross-polarized signals. The other two discriminators, which are based on the Doppler shift ratio and Doppler spread ratio, are introduced in this paper as new figures of merit to measure the impact of multipath depolarization on the frequency-dispersion characteristics of vehicular RF channels. The results demonstrate that the cross-polarized multipath components of the I2V channel response produce a Doppler frequency dispersion similar to that of the co-polarized components.


We consider the problem of understanding locking behavior in large Java programs using a combination of data collection, data analysis, and visualization. Our technique starts by collecting partial information about all locks used in the program. It then analyzes this information to determine sets of locks with common behaviors and to determine, for each set of locks, how that lock is used, e.g. if it is used as a mutex, semaphore, read-write lock, etc. The result of the analysis is then presented to the user who can select specific locks for full analysis during a subsequent run. Visualizing locking information is particularly difficult since the time scale of a lock can be ten or more orders of magnitude different from the time scale of the overall run and locks can be used millions of times. We provide different visualizations and visualization techniques for this purpose. First, we analyze either the partial or full traces and identify patterns of how each lock is used and display just those patterns along with their frequency. Second, we provide a thread-centric view of locking that supports fish-eye views at the microsecond level as well as time compression. Third, we provide a lock-centric view that is based on the specific type of lock to show its particular behavior.


This paper,using Maddison's historical database,comparatively analyses the development process of 10 largest economies in the world since 1500.It finds that,the 10 economies' influence on the world economy was firstly large and then small.The center of the world economy firstly transferred to the United Kingdom from the Netherlands,and finally to the United States.The gap of the size of 10 largest economies is narrowing,but the gap between rich and poor is widening.The amount of resources is an important factor deciding the size of an economy.The labor productivity and economic freedom,inthose countries with higher income are both higher than low-income countries.Finally,based on the development experience of 10 economies,the paper raises several suggestions on China's sustained economic growth in the future.


Purpose – On 24 July 2019, the European Commission adopted a Communication to the European Parliament and the Council towards better implementation of the European Union ' s (EU) anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the fi nancing of terrorism (CFT) framework. This Communication was accompaniedby four reports. This papers aims to investigate thesereports. Design/methodology/approach – Review of EUdevelopments andreports. Findings – The European Commission continues to work on eliminating the vulnerabilities of the current AML and CFT system. As the reports show, there are still many issues regarding the EU ' s AML and CFT framework. The reports offer useful insights into weaknesses and failures and provide a good basis for further discussions with relevant stakeholders, for certain amendments to the current rulebook and enforcement as well as for stronger mechanisms regarding supervision and supporting cross-border cooperation. Originality/value – Thisarticle discusses importantrelevantEUdevelopments.


"among 602"—among 602 unvaccinated travelers, I presume? Please add. Of the 602 travelers intending to travel, did not a single one receive the vaccine? Or was recent flu vaccination an exclusion criteria. This is very important information, also for the abstract. Under the Dutch National Influenza Prevention Programme, influenza vaccine is recommended for high risk groups only and is not covered under mandatory health insurance for healthy young adults. The influenza vaccination status of travelers pre-travel was not confirmed, but the likelihood that travelers were vaccinated pre-travel in the Dutch healthcare system is minimal. We have included this in the method section and also as a limitation in the discussion, and we have deleted 'unvaccinated' in the text. Line 3 (second sentence in introduction): sentence does not have a verb—incomplete sentence My apologies for this – some text seems to have been lost, in the version originally uploaded. This has been rectified. Line 5: in one sentence, the authors talk about emerging economies, in the next about tropics and subtropics. What is the link between? Is this study about travel to emerging economies or to the tropics and subtropics? Many emerging economies are now in the tropics and subtropics, so it is important to be precise with the definitions. Is the aim: developing countries as a destination, or emerging countries as a destination, or the tropics and subtropics as a certain "climatically defined zone"? The study population was indeed travelers to tropical and subtropical zones as defined climatically. I have amended the text to make to make the distinction clearer. Methods: nicely detailed. But the inclusion criteria do not specify whether those who received flu vaccine as part of their pre-travel work up were include or excluded. Was flu vaccination an exclusion criterium? Flu vaccination was not an exclusion criterion as healthy adults in the Netherlands are not offered influenza vaccination under the Dutch National Influenza Prevention Programme. Vaccinations are paid for through compulsory health insurance in the Netherlands. It is possible that there was some degree of vaccination bought on the private market, but this is very uncommon in the Netherlands and we consider this likelihood minimal. Results: Some details are already in Table 1, and hence not all results need to be listed (eg the proportions of influenza antibody levels to the different constellations can be just referred to Table 1 in the text). It would be very important if the authors could add a map with the Influenza Transmission Zones and the 4 regions: South East Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America and "Asia (Other)"; and then draw in the attack rate per region into the map. Even if there are no statistical significant differences, such a map could in the future be cited for an easier overview of attack rates and would convince readers that even travel to Africa poses the same risk as travel to other parts of the world. The information on whether the attack rate for travelers to Africa is the same as the attack rate to Asia is there, but it is somehow hidden. Please highlight the attack rates per transmission zone better, in the text, or as above definitely also in a map, and presented as person-months. Thank you for this suggestion. We have added a figure with a world map and the attack rates per region, as recommended. The authors set out to examine the differences in the proportion of confirmed influenza infections by sex, age-group, primary influenza transmission zone visited, fever >38.0°C and ILI. Positive predictive value (PPV) for seroconversion was the proportion of symptomatic cases seroconverting for infection. The authors also set out to do logistic regression models. However, the results of all the above are not presented in a table or a version that is more visually palatable than just listing the results in the text. Please add such a table, even if there are no statistical differences. As evidenced in Table 1, only age-group was associated with seroconversion for any of the viruses tested. None of the other variables were significantly associated with the outcome at the univariable level and so multivariable logistic regression analyses of baseline characteristics were not conducted. We have added a second table demonstrating the association between seroconversion for individual viruses and ILI. Regarding seasonality, we looked at the incidence and seasonal variation of confirmed fever >38 degrees (n=209) and the outcome is below (Figure: Incidence of fever>38 degrees per 100 personmonths from Jan to December 2009-2012 by region). In both the total sample and each region, there was no evidence of a seasonal trend in fever onset (numbers for 'Asia, other' are too small to comment and are not significant). Overall, tests for seasonality of fever onset were not very informative (especially as the causes of fever in the tropics are myriad) and for ILI (n=32), numbers by region are too small to derive any conclusion. We respectfully suggest that the publication of this data will not add to this manuscript which focuses on influenza. Discussion: in many ways, this is a repetition of the results, and lacks some further in-depth discussion and comparison with the existing literature. Not even the famous study by Margot Muetsch is mentioned! : Influenza virus infection in travelers to tropical and subtropical countries. Mutsch M, Tavernini M, Marx A, Gregory V, Lin YP, Hay AJ, Tschopp A, Steffen R. Clin Infect Dis. 2005 May 1;40(9):1282-7. They enrolled more than 1400 travelers. Among the 211 febrile participants, 27 (12.8%) had seroconversion, 13 (6.2%) with a > or = 4-fold increase; among the 321 afebrile control subjects, 13 (4.0%) had seroconversion, 5 (1.6%) with a > or = 4-fold increase. Twenty-five seroconverters (62.5%; P = .747) acquired influenza outside of the European epidemic season. Sixteen patients (40.0%) sought medical attention either abroad or at home, and 32 (80.0%) were asymptomatic at the time of completion of the survey. Why does the discussion end with such an unfounded conclusion that only high risk groups should receive the vaccine? This conclusion stands alone, without the context of the previous discussion and needs to be elaborated further. In fact, one could argue that the findings would support recommending flu vaccine for all travelers given the high attack rates? These attack rates are higher than for all over travel-related vaccine preventable diseases including hepatitis A, typhoid fever etc. The rationale for flu vaccination in travelers is not so much preventing severe disease or death (like in flu vaccine programs on a national basis), but more on preventing days of illness on an already very expensive holiday where every single day counts. In response to the comments of both reviewers, we have rewritten and expanded our discussion. We now compare our results in more depth with other prospective studies, and we also have explained our conclusion why, in the Dutch national guidelines, influenza vaccination is not routinely recommended to travelers and explained with an example why this advice may differ in different countries' guidelines. Because there seems to be broad consensus that vaccination is most important for risk groups, we have not changed this conclusion in the abstract. Reviewer: Ivan FN F.N. Hung


We have constructed, analytically and numerically, a new class of self-consistent 6-D phase space stationary distributions. Stationary distributions allow us to study the halo development mechanism without being obscured by beam redistribution and its effect on halo formation. The beam is then mismatched longitudinally and/or transversely, and we explore the formation of longitudinal and transverse halos in 3-D axisymmetric beam bunches. Of particular importance is the result that, due to the coupling between longitudinal and transverse motion, a longitudinal or transverse halo is observed for a mismatch less than 10% if the mismatch in the other plane is large.


Background  Psoriasis is associated with a premature atherosclerosis due to the chronic inflammatory process. To evaluate the effect of disease process on myocardial perfusion, we planned to perform 99mTc‐MIBI myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in patients with psoriasis.


Objective This retrospective study is designed to improve our understanding and diagnosis ability by analyzing the various clinical features and its pathogenesis in children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Methods Seven patients confirmed with 22q11.2 DS who were diagnosed in individuals with a submicroscopic deletion of chromosome 22 detected by molecular cytogenetic analysis were reviewed. We analyzed their clinical characteristics, diagnosis evidences and management. Results There were 2 boys and 5 girls in this group; one of them was prenatal diagnosis, and others were confirmed at the mean age of two months. The clinical findings comprised of one hundred percent of heart malformation and anomaly face, immune deficiency present in 28.6%, hypocalcemia and cleft palate present in 14.3%. All cases were confirmed by FISH test, managed with usual manners depending on the individuals clinical features. Conclusion Heart malformation and anomaly face are the prominent characteristics in this group of 22q11.2 DS. It is mainly caused by gene mutation and can be diagnosed early in life by individuals clinical features and FISH test. The cardiovascular defects involved with outflow tract problems and immunodeficiency secondary to the T-cell production abnormality are the key factors related to the anticipation.


Metadata makes information meaningful. Creation of metadata records is a continuous and sequential task. Assignment of metadata values manually is time consuming as it depends on the skill(s) of the individuals involved. Metadata extraction can be availed with the help of machine enabled methods. Semi-automatic metadata creation is a reliable method that is being used effectively for resource description. Automatic metadata extraction tools correctly retrieve various technical values from objects. This paper discusses about different metadata creation methods available in the literature.


69 INTRODUCTION The success of operating a drive-thru facility depends on queues and waiting times experienced by customers. Drivethru facilities are required to provide queuing areas that can hold the expected maximum queue length. Rates of arrivals and service times affect the required queuing areas for drive-thru facilities. Gattis recommended queuing areas for drive-thru facilities located at businesses such as fast food restaurants, banks, day care facilities, dry cleaners and car washes.1 However, the study did not discuss queue lengths for drive-thru lanes at a pharmacy store. This feature presents a traffic study for drive-thru lanes at a pharmacy store. Traffic counts were collected before and after the addition of a second lane at two drive-thru pharmacy stores in Indiana. Per the pharmacy's decision-makers, the two-lane configuration adopted at both stores included a full-service window lane and a lane for drop-offs only. To further extend the investigation of the benefits of adding a second drive-thru lane, a simulation model was developed to compare three different double-lane configurations against the single lane. Three drive-thru lane configurations were examined and simulated: • The window lane is full service (drop-off and pick-up) and the second lane is for use only to customers intending to drop off a prescription. • Both lanes are full service. • The window lane is for pick-up only and the second lane is for drop-off only.


Polypropylene(PP) was treated by ultraviolet irradiation, the chemical construction of irradiated PP was studied by XPS. The interlaminar shear strengths (ILSS) of glass fiber reinforced PP (GF/PP) with 5% (mass fraction) irradiated PP were measured by short beam shear test and interfacial adhesion of GF/PP was observed by SEM. The results showed that ultraviolet irradiation introduces oxygen functional groups (C O C、C OH、C=O、COOH)to PP molecular chain and irradiated PP, as interfacial compatilizer, can improve interfacial adhesion of GF/PP, increase the interlaminar shear strengths of GF/PP composites.


This note describes a new method of accounting for funding agreement-backed securities (FABS) in the Financial Accounts of the United States.


The present invention relates to a device for performing optical measurements such as fluorescence measurements and absorbance of samples distributed according to measurement sites (2) on a support (1), comprising first and second illumination means (16, 10), optical detection means (7, 8), first and second optical fibers (3, 5) with one end arranged opposite the measuring sites (2) according to respectively a first and a second side the support (1), which device further comprising means for optical configuration (9, 14) configured so as to allow the following configurations: (i) optically coupling the first illumination means (16) with the first optical fibers (3) and optical detection means (7, 8) with second optical fibers (5), (ii) optical coupling of the second illumination means (10) and optical detection means (7, 8) with the second optical fibers (5) And / or (iii) optical coupling of the second illumination means (10) and optical detection means (7, 8) with the first optical fibers (3). The invention also relates to a method implemented in this device.


Objective To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of domestic clopidogrel on elderly patients suffered percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI).Method Of all the over 75 years old patients treated with PCI in our hospital from January 2005 to July 2007,a total of 76 patients were randomly divided into treatment group and control group.Patients in treatment group were administered domestic clopidogrel(n=29) and those in control group were administered Plavix (n=47).All-cause death,major adverse cardiac events(MACE),any haemorrhage and drug adverse reactions were recorded in both groups during one-year following-up period.Results No significant differences were found in age,sex, concomitant diseases,coronary characteristics,stent length and inner diameter.Total mortality and MACE rate were 7.8% and 34.2%respectively.There were no significant differences in all-cause mortality(6.9%vs 8.5%),MACE(34.4% vs 34.1%),restenosis(6.1%vs 6.5%),haemorrhage(10.5%vs 13.7%) and adverse reaction between two groups (P0.05).Conclusion Domestic clopidogrel has same effectiveness and safety in the treatment of elderly patients suffered PCI compared with Plavix.


1. The first coincidence observed was in the field of terrestrial magnetism. "A freely-suspended magnet, although it points in one direction, is nevertheless, within small limits, always in motion. Certain of these motions depend, as is well known, upon the hour of the day ; but the magnet is also liable to irregular, abrupt fluctuations, which cannot be con nected with the diurnal oscillations. While Hofrath Schwabe was engaged in. delineating the sun-spots, Sir Edward Sa bine was conducting a series of observa tions with regard to these spasmodic affections of the needle, and he found that such fluctuations are most frequent in years of high sun-spot activity." Nearly a hnndred years ago, Van Swinden had suggested a periodicity in these irregular magnetic movements. Gauss, Arago, Lamont, and Gautier, pursued the re search, and established the existence of a cycle of magnetic variation having an eleven-year period, the maxima and min ima agreeing with the maxima and mini ma of sun-spot activity. Schiaparelli and Broun have confirmed these results, and the latter observer concludes that, while the sun-spot activity is not an exact meas ure of magnetic action, "each is a distinct result due to the same cause." This dis turbance is so great that, in years of max imum sun-spots, the working of the tel egraph has been powerfully interfered with.—Prof. Youmans, in Popular Sci ence Monthly for January.


The paper presents an excerpt from the extensive research on various museal spaces throughout human history. By re-evaluating the imaginative procedures involved in conceiving those spaces, the research in its broadest scope asks: how do we map, rethink and revive the historically valuable assets of architectural thought without "museumising" them? The excerpt is initially dedicated to the neoclassical museum space based upon the notion of the frame that was already adopted by the painting genre capriccio to induce the spectator's mind into an architectural fantasy of juxtaposed real and fictitious buildings, archaeological ruins, urban and natural landscapes. In the neoclassical museum space, the capriccio "became alive" as an actual-size architectural fantasy that could be stepped into. Based upon multiple conceptual frames, the interconnected yet distinct architectural fragments illustrated the neoclassical worldview founded on inclusivity, synchronicity and bodily experience. This historical episode is further theorised into the capriccio museum, a new theoretical model that critically perceives multiple experience probabilities as distilled from the past and starts a process of conversion of that historical knowledge into transhistorical knowledge relevant for today.


Internet of things (IOT) is emerging as sensing paradigms in many domain-specific monitoring applications in smart cities, such as structural health monitoring (SHM) and smart grid monitoring. Due to the large size of the monitoring objects (e.g., civil structure or the power grid), plenty of sensors need to be deployed and organized to be a large scale of multihop wireless sensor networks (WSNs), which tends to have quite high transmission cost. In-network processing is an efficient way to reduce the transmission cost in WSNs. However, implementing in-network processing for above domain-specific monitoring usually requires to losslessly distribute a dedicate domain-specific algorithm into WSNs, which is much different from most existing in-network processing works. This paper conducts a case study of a classic centralized SHM algorithm, i.e., eigensystem realization algorithm (ERA), and shows how to losslessly and optimally in-network process ERA, especially the typical feature extraction method, i.e., that is singular value decomposition (SVD) therein, in a WSN. Based on whether the intermediate data can be processed together or not by sensor nodes, we respectively implement tree-based in-network processing of SVD and chain-based in-network processing of SVD in WSNs. We prove that using an appropriate shallow light tree as routes for tree-based in-network processing of SVD, can achieve the approximation ratio ${\text{1}}+\sqrt{2}$  (in terms of transmission cost), while for the chain-based in-network processing of SVD, we design two efficient heuristic algorithms for searching the optimal routes. Extensive simulation results validate the efficiency of these proposed schemes that are customized for SVD-based IOT applications.


A method for the determination of matrine in the tablet of Sophoa flavesens by biphase titration was described.Standard acidic solution was added accurately to the biphase solution that was composed of NaCl saturated aqueous solution and CHCl_3 containing matrine,vibrated completely,the surplus acid is dtrated by standard alkaline solution with 0.1% o-chlorophenol red as indicator.The mean recovery of matrine was 99.67%, RSD =1.86%(n=6).


Developmental plasticity plays a prominent role in shaping the brain's structure during ongoing learning in response to dynamically changing environments. However, the existing network compression methods for deep artificial neural networks (ANNs) and spiking neural networks (SNNs) draw little inspiration from the brain's developmental plasticity mechanisms, thus limiting their ability to learn efficiently, rapidly, and accurately. This paper proposed a developmental plasticity-inspired adaptive pruning (DPAP) method, with inspiration from the adaptive developmental pruning of dendritic spines, synapses, and neurons according to the"use it or lose it, gradually decay"principle. The proposed DPAP model considers multiple biologically realistic mechanisms (such as dendritic spine dynamic plasticity, activity-dependent neural spiking trace, and local synaptic plasticity), with the addition of an adaptive pruning strategy, so that the network structure can be dynamically optimized during learning without any pre-training and retraining. We demonstrated that the proposed DPAP method applied to deep ANNs and SNNs could learn efficient network architectures. Extensive comparative experiments show consistent and remarkable performance and speed boost with the extremely compressed networks on a diverse set of benchmark tasks, especially neuromorphic datasets for SNNs. This work explores how developmental plasticity enables the complex deep networks to gradually evolve into brain-like efficient and compact structures, eventually achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance for biologically realistic SNNs.


This review provides exhaustive literature on carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, storage and utilization. CO2 is one of the greenhouse gas, emitted into the atmosphere and has reached an alarming level of well above 400 ppm. The consequences of rising CO2 levels and global warming are visual in day today life such as floods, wildfires, droughts and irregular precipitation cycles. Several reviews, focused on a particular topic, have been published since the 19th century and recently. However, in this review, we have attempted to cover all the CO2 mitigation techniques available for their advantages and disadvantages have been discussed. The blooming technology of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the pros and cons of CO2 capture, transportation and storage techniques are showcased. Interestingly the transportation of captured CO2 to the potential storage sites requires more than 50% of the total energy budget, therefore, this review is dedicated to the onsite CO2 conversion into value-added chemicals. Various technological advancements for CO2 conversion into other products by the solar thermochemical, electrochemical and photochemical processes have been analysed. From the extensive literature, it's demonstrated that NTP (Non-Thermal Plasma) is one of the emerging techniques for the direct conversion of CO2 into value-added products as it is energetically efficient. The mechanisms of CO2 activation by thermal and NTP-catalysis have been discussed. Moreover, the benefits of DBD to obtain oxygenates like methanol, aldehydes, acids, and hydrocarbons from direct one-pot synthesis are discussed. The production of such value-added chemicals from CO2 is of prime importance as it will be our step towards a carbon-neutral economy which is the need of the hour. This review has also attempted to compare the cost-effectiveness of current existing techniques for CO2 capture and utilized solar to fuel efficiency to compare distinct technologies available for the utilization of CO2 to value-added chemicals.


Objective To compare the clinical efficacy of different radical trachelectomy in young patients with early stage cervical carcinoma. Methods 203 young patients with early stage cervical carcinoma were divided into group A and group B according to operational manner. Group A received vaginal radical trachelectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection,and group B were given abdominal radical trachelectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection. Operation effect,operation time,adverse reaction rate and recurrence were compared between the 2 groups. Results The length of vaginal hysterectomy and intraoperative blood loss of group A were much lower than those of group B( P 0. 05),and postoperative anal exhaust time and time needed for intestinal voice restoration in group A was shorter than that of group B( P 0. 05); There were no significant difference in the number of dissected lymph nodes,operation time and the height of the cervical resection between the 2 groups( P 0. 05); Pregnancy rate,recurrence rate and adverse reaction rate in group A were 33. 7%,7. 9% and 13. 9%,and 31. 4%,6. 9% and 16. 7% in group B,respectively,there had no significant difference( P 0. 05). Conclusion Vaginal radical trachelectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection for early stage cervical carcinoma are safe and feasible,and can decrease operative injury and promote recovery of digestive function.


The paper is an introduction of the updated classification/distribution of Zhongyuan Mandarin in Xinjiang Autonomous Region in the new edition of Language Atlas of China. The new revision incorporates Dunhuang sub-duster into Nanjiang cluster under Zhongyuan Mandarin,and cancels the Beijing Mandarin sub-cluster,attributing it to Lanyin or Nanjiang Mandarin cluster.


In this essay, I discuss God, faith, and sacred texts (including the Bible, Quran, and Hadith), and some ways that they constitute foundations for peacemaking between Christians and Muslims. The essay presents my personal, ethnic, and religious background in order to contextualize the ideas which the essay analyzes, and then describes three Christian theological approaches to non-Christian religions. Those approaches are particularist (or exclusivist), inclusivist, and pluralist. The essay discusses the historical background and significance of Vatican II, which took place between 1962 and 1965, and Nostra Aetate, published in 1965. The essay then analyzes three theological principles which undergird Nostra Aetate, and that document's description of Islam. The essay reflects on God, faith, and prayer in Christianity and Islam, concluding with some observations about the possibilities for peace between Christians and Muslims.


A steric effect-controlled, zinc-mediated carboxylation of different 2-alkynyl bromides under an atmospheric pressure of CO2 has been developed by careful tuning of different reaction parameters, including the metal, solvent, temperature, and additive. 2-Substituted 2,3-allenoic acids were afforded from primary 2-alkynyl bromides, whereas the carboxylation of secondary 2-alkynyl bromides yielded 3-alkynoic acids in decent yields. A rationale for the observed regioselectivity has been proposed.


Leg crossing, muscle tensing, squatting, and the crash position are effective against vasovagal reactions solely through increases in cardiac output J Appl Physiol 99: .—Tensing of lower body mus- cles without or with leg crossing (LBMT, LCMT), whole body tensing (WBT), squatting, and sitting with the head bent between the knees ("crash position," HBK) are believed to abort vasovagal reactions. The underlying mechanisms are unknown. To study these interventions in patients with a clinical history of vasovagal syncope and a vasovagal reaction during routine tilt table testing, we measured blood pressure (BP) continuously with Finapres and derived heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output (CO), and total peripheral resis- tance using Modelflow. In series A ( n (cid:1) 12) we compared LBMT to LCMT. In series B ( n (cid:1) 9), WBT was compared with LCMT. In series C ( n (cid:1) 14) and D ( n (cid:1) 9), we tested squatting and HBK. All maneuvers caused an increase in BP, varying from a systolic rise from 77 (cid:2) 8 to 104 (cid:2) 18 mmHg ( P (cid:3) 0.05) in series A during LBMT to a rise from 70 (cid:2) 10 to 123 (cid:2) 9 mmHg ( P (cid:3) 0.05) in series B during LCMT. In each maneuver, the BP increase started within 3–5 s from start of the maneuver. In all maneuvers, there was an increase in CO varying from 54 (cid:2) 12% of baseline to 94 (cid:2) 21% in WBT to a rise from 65 (cid:2) 17% to 110 (cid:2) 22% in LCMT in series A . No maneuver caused significant change in total peripheral resistance. We conclude that the mechanism underlying the effects of these maneuvers is exclusively an increase in CO.


BACKGROUND
Oncology providers frequently underestimate the incidence of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV), and patients often are reluctant to report symptoms. Inadequate patient-provider communication is a significant barrier to optimal management of this debilitating toxicity.

METHODS
The author reviews relevant published data and methods to optimize the clinical care of patients receiving chemotherapy with moderate-to-high emetogenic potential.

RESULTS
Patient reticence plus physician expectations that patients will report symptoms accurately lead to lapses in communication and suboptimal clinical care.

CONCLUSIONS
Communication strategies should serve to encourage patients to share the responsibility for establishing goals of therapy and understanding the risks and benefits of their selected antiemetic regimen, thereby becoming active participants in their own cancer care.


The purpose of this research is toimprove students' motivation and learning result using the model of Cooperative Learning Think-Pair-Share with animation video in biology topics System Human Immune class XI IPA 3 SMA Negeri 1Pakusari Jember. This study is a collaborative action research in a series of think-pair-share. The results obtained from this study there is an increase in motivation and student learning result by implementing Cooperative Learning Model think-pair-share with animation video.


To improve the resistance of Chaetomium cupreum against benzamidazole germicide,the benzamidazole resistance gene Benr is transformed into the protoplast of Chaetomium cupreum with the carrier of plasmid pBT6 by polyethy lene glycol(PEG)method.The transformation rate of Chaetomium cupreum is 1.5×10-5.Through the analysis of the Southern blot,the gotten transformants are proved to be positive.The transformants have inhibitory effect on Aftrnaria alternate and Rhizoctonia solani and can grow on the potato dextrose agar(PDA)medium containing 60 μg/mL carbendazim.The resistance of the transformants to benzamidazole increases about 100 times compared with that of Chaetomium cupreum wild strains,and can stablize inheritance.The Chaetomium cupreum transformants with resistance against benzamidazole germicide are obtained.


The article focuses on the analysis of the current political situation in Cote d'Ivoire in the face of the presidential election campaign with the election due to take place in October 2020. The country might be led to another socio-political crisis. The events might be influenced by ethnic and religious factors and also the problem of president Ouattara's third term of office. Another issue that should not be overlooked is the destabilizing role that might be played in the electoral process by the Ivorian army.