The curing process of furfural acetone resin used for new carbon materials was studied by thermogravimetry-differential scanning calorimetry technology(TG-DSC) and thermogravimetry-mass spectrometric coupling technique(TG-MS).The effects of curing agent content and heating rate on curing reaction were analyzed;the curing mechanism of furfural acetone resin and gaseous products evolved during curing process were investigated.The results show that the curing agent content and heating rate both have great influence on curing reaction.In this experiment,the optimal curing agent content is 7%(mass fraction) of phosphorus acid,and for this system the initial curing temperature and the optimal curing temperature are 102.32 and 159.07 ℃,respectively;the apparent activation energy is 73.33 kJ/mol and the order of curing reaction is 0.9;the main gaseous products during the curing reaction are H2O and small amount of CO,CH4 and CO2.


We demonstrate a single stage 90nm CMOS power amplifier for 2.3−2.7GHz WiMAX (802.16e) band applications. An integrated BALUN is used to match the output to 50ohm load. The PA gain and saturated power are +18dB and +32dBm, respectively, working from a 3.3V supply, with a peak power added efficiency (PAE) of 48%. Digital pre distortion (DPD) technique is used to enhance the PA linearity. The measured EVM for a 64-QAM OFDM signal is improved from −24dB to −30dB at +25dBm output power. Compliance with the FCC 10MHz WiMAX mask is demonstrated at +25dBm of output power with power efficiency of ∼25%. Under these conditions, the measured second harmonic level at the PA output is −31[dBm/MHz].


The effect of pretreatment of lignin with acidic ionic liquid 1-sulfonic acid butyl-3-methylimidazolium trifluoromethanesulfonate ([B(SO3H)mim]OTf) on lignin pyrolysis behavior and the distribution of phenolics in tar were investigated in this paper. It is found that [B(SO3H)mim]OTf pretreatment under mild conditions (such as 50 °C) leads to an increase in lignin pyrolysis tar yield of 11.8% and a simultaneous decrease in the yield of heavy tar. The tar obtained from pyrolysis of [B(SO3H)mim]OTf-treated lignin are mainly phenols and phenol derivatives, accounting for more than 90% of all components. Pretreatment with [B(SO3H)mim]OTf results in significant increase of the yields of phenol, crepsol, guaiacol, 2-ethylphenol, 4-ethyl-2-methoxy-phenol, and 4-methoxyguaiacol in light tar. The yield of light components obtained from pyrolysis of [B(SO3H)mim]OTf-pretreated lignin increased by 1.50 times compared with that of lignin. The results of FTIR analysis indicate that [B(SO3H)mim]OTf pretreatment of lignin...


lungs in a dose-dependent manner, which was not diminished by treatment with dexamethasone. These results collectively indicated the presence of a mutually enhancing autoimmune-EET pathway in steroid-unresponsive severe asthma. In 2011, the infiltration of EETs colocalized with the major basic protein (MBP) in human asthmatic airways was first reported in all 20 participants of the study. 6 EETs colocalized with


Illicit use of performance-enhancing drugs is a major problem in sports. Since 1967, the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)1 have issued continuously updated lists of prohibited substances. In 1989, the first polypeptide hormones, human growth hormone (hGH), human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and adrenocorticotropin, were included in the list (1)(2). Presently, substances increasing the release of hGH and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), which mediates the action of hGH, are also banned (3). WADA has approved test methods for detection of most prohibited substances, but although hGH is widely used for doping, methods for detecting it are not available (3)(4). In this issue of Clinical Chemistry , Bidlingmaier et al. (5) describe an approach that is potentially useful for this purpose. It is based on the use of immunoassays that preferentially recognize pituitary (phGH) and recombinant (rhGH) hGH, the latter being the form most probably used for doping (5). hGH exerts its effects both directly on end organs and by inducing expression of IGF-1 (3). The combined effect of these is reflected by changes in markers of bone and soft tissue metabolism. Methods for detection of GH administration based on increased serum concentrations of procollagen III peptide and IGF-1 have also been developed (6), but standardizing these methods is demanding and they have not yet been applied to doping control (3).

Use of hGH for doping started to increase when rhGH became available around 1990, but …


Summary The effects of different social episodes on interpersonal perception were studied in a well-established academic group consisting of male and female faculty members, research students, and staff. Group members (N = 16) were asked to rate one another on a number of personality dimensions in each of four social episodes commonly occurring in their social milieu. The relevance of the rating scales used for each of the episodes was previously established in a pilot study. Interpersonal judgments were analyzed by (a) a multidimensional scaling technique, and (b) by subsequent discriminant analyses of the group spaces. Results indicated that (a) the traits used were different in the four episodes, (b) the number of dimensions used varied with the episode, (c) the status of group members was differentially relevant in different episodes, and (d) status groups differed in their perceptions of the group structure in each of the four episodes. The importance of situational variables in social perception was...


A series of poly(aryl ether)s were successfully prepared via aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction from various bisphenols and a novel bipolar aryl difluoride monomer containing electron-donor triphenylamine and electron-acceptor 1,2,4-triazole moieties. The poly(aryl ether)s exhibited excellent solubility in organic solvents such as dimethylformamide, chloroform, and tetrahydrofuran at room temperature. The poly(aryl ether)s showed high thermal stability with T d10 higher than 500 °C and glass transition temperatures (Tg) higher than 187 °C. The thin films of the poly(aryl ether)s indicated bistable resistive switching behavior with ON/OFF current ratios as high as 10 3 . The switching on and switching off bias voltages of the poly(aryl ether)s were affected by the bisphenol moiety. The good resistive switching behavior of the poly(aryl ether)s made them promising candidates for future nonvolatile memory applications.


The heterogeneous catalysis for photodegradation of cationic and anionic dyes was carried out by mesoporous magnetite nanoparticles (m-Fe3O4) and series of M containing magnetite nanoparticles where (M = CeO2, TiO2, SiO2 and Au nanoparticles). m-Fe3O4 nanoparticles were synthesized by modified co-precipitation method with BET surface area 60.2 m 2 g -1 . The M substituted nanocomposites were synthesized by hydrothermal method. The octahedral occupancy of M increased the BET surface area. Highest surface area was achieved with SiO2/Fe3O4 was (120.5 m 2 g -1 ). Samples were characterized by XRD, FTIR, SEM, VSM and BET surface area. Methyl orange and methylene blue were chosen as model anionic and cationic dyes respectively for photodegradation studies. Photodegradation of methyl orange (90.4%) with CeO2/Fe3O4 and methylene blue (91.4%) with SiO2/Fe3O4 was achieved and it found to be efficient by using M/Fe3O4 NPs compared to the Fe3O4 alone. The M incorporation has significantly improves the catalytic activity of the magnetite nanoparticles. These new experiences are of high significance for the natural use of M substituted magnetite nanoparticles for the purification of industrial wastewater. Chapter


The attractiveness of Answer Set Programming (ASP) and related paradigms for declarative problem solving is considerably due to the availability of highly efficient yet easy-to-use implementations. A major driving force for the development and improvement of tools are standardized problem representations, for several reasons. First, they relieve developers from the burden of inventing their own input formats. Second, they establish interoperability between separate tools, allowing users to easily compare and exchange them without extensively converting their problem representations. Third, they facilitate the acquisition of problem descriptions from distinct sources, which is useful for benchmarking and assessment purposes. Historically, however, standards for representing logic programs, serving as inputs to ASP systems, were mainly dictated by the few available tools. In fact, there currently are two quasi standards, namely, the formats used by lparse and dlv, incompatible with each other. As a first step towards overcoming this deficiency, this work proposes an intermediate format for ground logic programs, intended for the representation of inputs to ASP solvers. The format is not designed to be a primary input language, given that ASP systems usually deploy a second component, called a grounder, to deal with the inputs provided by users. In view of this, our format is situated intermediate a grounder and a solver, guided by the example of grounder lparse and solver smodels, the latter marking the first among nowadays a variety of solvers processing the output of lparse. However, the output format of lparse has some decisive drawbacks, namely, its restrictive range and limited extensibility. We thus propose a new intermediate language, where our major design goals are flexibility in problem representation and easy extensibility to new language constructs.


The speech of Otxandio: the variation according to age In this work we want to research the variation among people speaking dialect. That is to say, taking into account age as a sociolinguistic variant, which are the linguistic differentiations between young and middle age people. The research has been made in one village, in Otxandio (Biscay), and differenti ating some fields in the language: lexicon, noun morphology, verb morpho-logy and syntax. Special attention has been put in the influence of Unified


Breast cancer is the utmost generally occurring cancer in women and the second most communal cancer. The ground truth standard used in real-time clinical application for the diagnosis is a mammogram. A novel approach is projected in this paper for the automated diagnosis of breast cancer
 from mammogram images composed from the MIAS data set using curvelet/wavelet transform-based features and a convolutional neural network. The following sequences of operations are involved, namely pre-processing, application of curvelet/wavelet transform, statistical and gray level co-occurrence
 matrix-based features extracted from curvelet/wavelet coefficients followed by a selection of highly discriminative features by statistical p-test. Initially, pre-trained models VGG16 and VGG19 are used for classification, and Deep convolutional neural network architecture is constructed for
 which feature matrix is given as input. Pretrained models are used for classification using the concept of transfer learning. The constructed architecture hyperparameters are adjusted, and the highest classification precision of 93% is achieved. The obtained results outperform the state of
 art methods available in the state of art.


Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is the most common form of arthritis in children and adolescents. Methotrexate is the mainstay of juvenile idiopathic arthritis treatment. Methotrexate is well known to cause serum aminotransferase elevations, and longterm therapy has been linked to the development of fatty liver disease, fibrosis and even cirrhosis. The aim of the study was to assess non-invasive liver fibrosis indexes in adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis treated with methotrexate. Materials and methods: A total of 68 children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis were enrolled in the study. A total of 68 children – 25 boys (36.8%) and 43 girls (63.2%) – were examined. The children were divided into four groups based on the methotrexate cumulative dose. The following data were analysed: total bilirubin and its fractions, cholesterol, β-lipoproteins, aspartate transaminase, alanine aminotransferase. Fibrosis indexes, i.e. APRI, FIB-4 score, AAR, AARPRI, were studied. Results: When studying the dynamics of non-invasive indices, their heterogeneous nature and cumulative dose dependence are determined. Statistically significant changes in fibrosis indexes and biochemical parameters were observed when the children reached cumulative methotrexate doses of 1 g and 3 g. Conclusions: It is possible to monitor carefully liver condition during the whole treatment and conduct a more in-depth examination only if it is necessary. Our data shows that the APRI index (AST to platelet ratio index) is most indicative.


For more than 160 years, anatomists and surgeons have been fascinated by the anatomy and function of the knee. In Europe, besides the classical German publications referred to by Iwaki, Pinskerova and Freeman in their article in this issue (pp 1189-95), there are a few in French which are less well known including that of Edouard Bugnion (1845-1939), a Swiss from Lausanne, like myself, who wrote about Le mecanisme du genou. 1 He was an entomologist and anato- mist, a man of an inquisitive mind and a great traveller. He was Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Histology and Embryology, successively in Zurich, Bern and Lausanne, from where he published his article in 1892. In this article Bugnion gave a precise description of the anatomy with a kinematic analysis. He described all the classic concepts of tibial rotation in flexion, the gliding-sliding phenomenon and the role played by meniscii and ligaments. However, in spite of the considerable interest stimulated in the last 30 years by the development of surgery of the knee, and the progress made in understanding this complex joint, some aspects of the kinematics remain uncertain. The relationship in vivo between the kinematics, the three- dimensional shapes of the bones and the surrounding soft structures is not understood clearly. During flexion, the knee is required to resist loading resulting from the ground reaction force or the inertial dynamic force. Load-carrying influences movement of the knee and alters the kinematics, which may modify the contact distribution of joint pres- sure. Abnormal movement of the femoral condyle on the tibial plateau may lead to fibrillation and damage to the cartilage. Various approaches, such as studies in vitro or in vivo and theoretical modelling, have then been utilised to study the kinematics of the knee under different conditions of loading. In vitro, cadaver knees have been used to assess bony movement under external loading, to evaluate the role of muscles, ligaments and the joint surfaces in controlling and limiting the movements and to measure the load transfer across the joint. The location of the axis of rotation of the tibia and its change during passive knee flexion have been determined. 2 Rotation of the tibia of up to 32° has been demonstrated in a normal knee about an axis which remains approximately in the area between the insertions of the cruciate ligament throughout the range of flexion, but changes with the angle of flexion and the tension of the soft tissues. The Oxford rig has been used extensively for these studies but, despite its high sophistication, it fails to repro- duce satisfactorily the conditions of loading in vivo. For instance, the forces simulated in the quadriceps muscle when measured at high angles of flexion on the rig are much larger than the physiological load under the normal stance in flexion. The physiological forces to which liga- ment and muscle are exposed remain difficult to reproduce experimentally in vitro. Theoretical models of the knee have been developed, based on the rigid solid state and on finite-element meth- ods, 3 which attempt to predict the interaction between movement and internal forces. In the sagittal plane, it is now understood that the femoral condyles roll and glide simultaneously on the tibial plateau during flexion. The kinematics of the knee and the shape of the condyles and of the tibial plateau are closely interrelated with the functions of the cruciate ligaments. However, the cross four-bar linkage model remains insufficient for further three-dimen- sional study. Three-dimensional rigid body dynamics have been used to model knee kinematics together with liga- ments and contact forces. 4 The kinematics result from the combined actions of the surface geometry of the joint and of the soft tissues attached to it. In these models it is difficult to reconstruct accurately the shapes of the bones and to locate the insertions of the ligaments and muscles. Movement at the joint surfaces of the tibia, patella and femur has been studied in cadaver knees using stereophoto- grammetry but remains difficult to determine in vivo. How- ever, no rigorous comparison of the kinematics of the knee is available and few conclusions can be drawn from in vitro studies or from theoretical models which can then be applied to an individual. Current research has moved more towards assessment of the kinematics in vivo. The method used most frequently


Objective To study the opinions of experts on influencing factors of behavior problems in elementary school children in China.Methods Investigating forms were distributed to 43 Chinese experts to get their judgments for factors and the weights of the factors determined by analytic hierarchy process(AHP).Results The top 6 risk factors were family atmosphere(10.485%),type of family(7.112%),atmosphere of surrounding environment(6.168%),regular communication between teacher and parents(5.653%),education ideal of teachers(5.313%),and proficiency of teachers in knowledge of children's physical and mental development(5.168%).Factors of family,teachers and atmosphere of surrounding environment were important influential factors for child behavior problems.Factors of mothers showed strong influence on child behavior problems than those of the fathers.Conclusion There are obvious difference in the importance of 33 influential factors for behavioral problems among primary school children and the analytic results can offer rational reference to the implementation of prevention and interference measures.


Abstract: One of the dominant factors influencing teacher performance is principal leadership and school culture. The Aim of this research is to find out The Correlation between the teacher's perception of managerial capabilities principal and organizational culture of school with the teacher's performance in learning process. The researcher uses survey Method by analyzing the correlation and regression that relate the data showing school principal leadership and teacher's motivation to the teacher's performance . The correlation between the teacher's perception to school principal leadership and teacher's performance resulted the correlation coefficient of 2,278. The correlation between teacher's motivation and teacher's performance resulted the correlation coefficient of 2,008. The correlation between school principal leadership and teacher's motivation  with teacher's performance resulted the correlation coefficient of 0,858 ; determination coefficient of 73,67%; and the regression linier ? = 170  + 0,99 X 1 + 1,3 X2. Based on this fact, there is positive and significant correlation between The Teacher's Perception to School Principal Leadership and the teacher's motivation teacher's performance. Keywords: manajerial capabilities, organizational culture, performance teacher


With the intention of delivering an intuitive and simple platform to plan, generate, and track trajectories with a WMR, this paper presents a technological integration of hardware and software. This technological integration consists of a mobile computing device with an app developed by authors for the trajectory planning and a differential drive WMR that possesses an embedded system, in which a trajectory generation algorithm and a trajectory tracking control algorithm –both proposed by authors – are programmed. The mobile computing device wirelessly drives the WMR through the embedded system. The app is developed on the basis of the sketch approach, since it allows drawing sketches of the trajectory intuitively on the mobile device. Also, the app geometrically scales the sketch coordinates to match them with the real WMR workspace. For the trajectory generation, these scaled coordinates are wirelessly sent to the embedded system, where the trajectory generation algorithm joins them by using Bézier polynomials and concatenation of straight-lines. Hence, the tracking task is carried out with the control algorithm, which is proposed departing from the dynamic model of the WMR and whose asymptotic stability proof is performed with the Lyapunov method. Experimental results verify that the technological integration successfully plans, generates, and tracks trajectories, even when the WMR is far from the initial coordinate of the desired trajectory. These results, corroborate the good performance and robustness of the proposed control algorithm. Thus, the introduced technological integration is intuitive and simple since users only have to draw a sketch on the mobile device to carry out the trajectory tracking task.


Abstract.
 To assess the conservation status of endemic species we examined the population trends in three frog species with different life histories. We performed a mark-recapture field experiment in a protected area on the eastern flank of the Cordillera Central in the northern Andes of Colombia. We marked and followed 123 individuals of Pristimantis jaguensis, 178 Colostethus aff. fraterdanieli, and 83 Dendrobates truncatus. The survival probability and the population growth rate of P. jaguensis varied as a function of capture occasion, while the recapture probability was constant. In the two dendrobatids, C. aff. fraterdanieli and D. truncatus, survival and recapture probabilities were constant over time and the population growth rate indicated the populations were stables during monitoring. Long-term monitoring programs are recommended to establish with certainty the conservation status of each species. However, in the perspective of the current biodiversity crisis in which rapid management decisions must be made, it is necessary to draw on the available data even if its limited. Although our demographic dataset is limited in time, we demonstrated how this information constitutes a starting point to understand the conservation status of these frog populations and to establish standard methods to continue long-term monitoring programs.


BACKGROUND Pre-eclampsia is unique to pregnancy and is characterized by multisystem involvement and glomerular endotheliosis. There is increased glomerular basement membrane permeability to proteins leading to significant proteinuria. This study has been done to evaluate the spot urinary protein creatinine ratio in pregnant women from 13 to 20 weeks of gestation and assess its usefulness in predicting their risk of developing pre-eclampsia subsequently. This is a prospective observational study conducted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai from November 2017 to October 2019. The patients were followed up till delivery and in the early postpartum period for the development of pre-eclampsia and any maternal complications. After delivery, new-born babies were followed up till early neonatal period for adverse neonatal outcomes. In this study, 6.1 % of patients (29 cases) had Protein Creatinine Ratio (PCR) more than or equal to 0.3. Among these 29 cases 27 cases (93.1 %) developed preeclampsia. 6 (22.2 %) cases had severe preeclampsia and 21 (77.8 %) cases had mild preeclampsia. Occurrence of headache, blurring of vision and reduced urine output had statistically significant association with elevated PCR. Occurrence of eclampsia, abruptio placenta, HELLP syndrome, PPH, DIC, maternal ICU admission, preterm delivery, delivery by LSCS and NICU admission had significant association with increased PCR. protein / creatinine ratio measured in the second trimester of pregnancy can predict the subsequent development of pre-eclampsia.


A control device exhaust for an engine performs exhaust control of an exhaust system comprising exhaust pipes (117A - 117D) connected to a plurality of cylinders, respectively, and meet in a manifold (139) It is having at least two types of exhaust valves (15, 16) performing the exhaust control in different parts in the exhaust system; and driving the exhaust valves to open and close by a single actuator unit (11) comprising: a plurality of communication pipes (141, 142) communicating tubes specified exhaust (117A and 117D, 117B and 117C); first exhaust valves (15) connected to the conduit means (141, 142) respectively disposed coaxially; and a second valve (16) connected to header pipe (139) and which controls opening / closing of the communication tubes (141, 142) / collection tube (139); in that the first exhaust valves (15) and the second exhaust valve (16) are arranged such that the first exhaust valves (15) are closed and the second valve is open to half open in a range of low rotation of the engine, the first exhaust valves (15) and the second exhaust valve (16) are arranged such that the first exhaust valves (15) are closed and the second valve (16) is open in full opening within a range of half rotation of the motor, and the first exhaust valves (15) and the second exhaust valve (16) are arranged such that the second exhaust valve (16) is operated and the first valves exhaust (15) are fully opened in a range of high engine rotation.


The utility model discloses a novel flat-plate type solar air collector which can be widely applied to heating buildings and drying materials and clothes, has a small occupied space and a regular and attractive appearance and is easy to be combined with buildings. The surface of a heat concentrating plate is coated with a selective absorption coating for spectra and drilled with small holes distributed densely; the back of the heat concentrating plate is connected with a plurality of air intake pipelines; the bottom of the device is connected with an air exhaust pipeline; and the blower is connected with the air exhaust pipeline. Due to the adoption of the special flow channel structure, the heat efficiency of the heat concentrator is improved effectively.


Ball map of chips is the key factor affecting the crosstalk between differential signals and the transmission of signals. However, conventional design relies on experience and it's difficult to deal with multiple parameters interacting. In this paper, Bayesian Optimization(BO) method is applied for ball map design. The optimization results show that BO effectively reduces the number of iterations by 53% compared with Pattern Search algorithm. The simulation results show that the magnitude of S11 is lower than 10 dB and the magnitude of S41 is lower than 56 dB from 0.1 to 30 GHz.


................................................................................................ 3 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 4 Materials and Methods ..................................................................................................... 5 Literature review .............................................................................................................. 5 Methods .............................................................................................. 11 Results ................................................................................................ 15 Creation of the Checklist at Twenytnine Palms .......................................... 15 Feedback and redesign of the checklist ..................................................... 17 Implementation ofthe checklist and communication process ................................ 18 Discussion ..................................................................................................................... 19 References ........................................................................................................................ 22 Figure 1. Patient Flow from Time of Initial Appointment Through Post-Op ............... 30 Figure 2. Pre and Post Implementation Overall staff Scoring ............................... .31 Figure 3. Prior to Changes Staff Communication Scoring ................................... .32 Figure 4. Post Implementation Staff Communication Scoring .............................. .33 Appendix A. Project flow chart ................................................................... 34 Appendix B. The combined World Health Organization, Joint Commission checklist produced by the Association of Peri operative Registered Nurses .................................... 35 Appendix C. New Operating Room Checklist.. ............................................................... 36 Appendix: D. Appointment letter: Strategic communications team ................... .37 Appendix E. Previous Hospital Invasive Procedure Poster ............................................. 38 Appendix F. New Invasive Procedures Poster ................................................................. 39 Appendix G. The Joint Commission Universal Protocol Poster. ........................... .40 Appendix H. Permission to use the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ..................................................................... 41 Patient Safety and Communication in the Operating Room


The process e + e − → γγ ( γ ) is studied using data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP between the years 1997 and 2000. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 672.3 pb − 1 at centre-of-mass energies lying between 181 GeV and 209 GeV. Total and differential cross-sections are determined and found to be in good agreement with the predictions of QED. Fits to the observed angular distributions are used to set limits on parameters from several models of physics beyond the Standard Model such as cut-off parameters, contact interactions of the type e + e − γγ , gravity in extra spatial dimensions and excited electrons. In events with three photons in the final state the mass spectrum of photon pairs is investigated. No narrow resonance X → γγ is found and limits are placed on the product of the X γ production cross-section and branching ratio.


In order to study the soil distribution characteristics of heavy mental in Dali,the pollution status of the 5 kinds of heavy mental in surface soil was sampled and analzed,and the single factor pollution index and comprehensive pollution index were used to evaluate it,ARCGIS9.3 was used to analyze the spatial distribution of heavy metal pollution.The results show Cr and Cu pollution are serious,Pb,Zn and Mn are at lower levels of contamination.From the view of comprehensive pollution index,agricultural soil heavy metal pollutions show moderate level in research area.Thus,appropriate measures should be adopted to strengthen the prevention and control of pollution in the region and avoid the harm to human health.


This paper presents a possible way of emulating PVR trick-modes on a DTV set top box through consecutive jumps. The solution is interesting for set top boxes without hardware decoder trick-mode support. Essential part of trick-mode emulation through consecutive jumps is I-frame analysis that takes place during PVR recording phase. Another important aspect of solution is its adaptive format, where additional analyses are carried out in order to establish time realistic navigation through file, regardless of system workload.


Purpose and Problem • The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of Life Story Personal Narratives (LSPNs) to help people with aphasia work on their personal identity by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) with special interests in adult rehabilitation. • Identity is gaining attention in the aphasia literature. 1,2 Language may be a necessary tool for defining one's identity, as we may learn to think of our own identity through a narrative process.3 Since aphasia alters language, some have argued that it also impacts identity.1,2 • Recent research has identified the important role health professionals may play in supporting people with aphasia in reconstructing their identity through narratives.1,4 • Research has shown that SLPs have awareness of the use of narratives in functional everyday communication; however, they may be less likely to use narratives for the express purpose of reformulating identity;5 no studies to date have measured whether SLPs target identity in therapy or have used narratives as a tool for supporting identity.


A large number of public pension schemes around the world have accumulated significant reserves. Pre-funding might reduce the risk that future governments will not be able to meet pension obligations. The management of these funds therefore, has a direct effect on financial sustainability and potential benefit levels. It also has important indirect effects on the overall economy, especially when the funds are large relative to domestic capital markets. In the past, most public pension funds have not been invested effectively, largely because of political interference. This paper reviews strategies for limiting risks that arise when a public entity is entrusted with managing national pension savings. In particular, an attempt is made to draw lessons from recent reforms in five OECD countries (Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, and Sweden).


Meeting in Conference in 1745, John Wesley introduced a concept to the people called Methodists that has been overlooked ever since: the general means of grace. Far more well-known are the instituted means of grace and prudential means of grace, two categories that Wesley develops in more detail. Yet a close reading of the material Wesley does provide on the general means of grace reveals that they are of great importance to his understanding of the efficacy of the means of grace generally in practical discipleship. Indeed, without the general means of grace, the very notion of a set of practices that mediate the transformative power of God's love is rendered hollow. In other words, the general means of grace are necessary for any of the means of grace to have real significance. This essay seeks to articulate Wesley's understanding of the general means of grace, both in order to illuminate the meaning of the general means of grace per se and to explicate their relationship to the other main categories in Wesley's theology of the means of grace. Following this examination, the essay concludes with reflections on the significance of the general means of grace for a contemplative Wesleyan practice of discipleship.


Reactive magnesia cements have recently emerged as a potentially more sustainable and technically superior alternative to Portland cement as they set by absorbing carbon dioxide and as a result gain significant strength. This two-part publication investigates the application of reactive magnesia alone as the cement component in pressed masonry units and compares it to those containing Portland cement. Laboratory-scale production was performed followed by a scaled-up commercial production at the Forticrete plant in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, UK. A range of aggregates were used in the blocks including natural aggregates, Lytag, an ash mix and a limestone mix. This paper, the first of a two-part publication, details both the laboratory-scale and commercial production processes including scaling-up issues faced and an assessment of the physical integrity of the produced blocks. This paper highlights the feasibility of producing reactive magnesia-aggregates masonry blocks on a commercial scale. It also highligh...


Mining of kaolin deposits are common in Nigeria without considering the background radiation in such environment and the health risks it might pose on the miners. In this study, in-situ measurements of the naturally occurring radionuclides were carried out with the aim of determining the distribution of these radionuclides on the mining field and estimation of the hazard indices exposure risks (γ- and α-radiation risks) to the miners. The study was achieved with the aid of gamma ray detector Super-Spec (RS-125) and global positioning system. The detector used has ability to measure activity concentrations of 238U, 232Th and 40K and gamma doses. For the purpose of this study, only the concentrations of the three radionuclides were considered. For each location, measurements were taken four times, while its mean value was estimated for better accuracy. In all, nineteen locations were occupied in order to cover the study area. Basic kriging method was adopted for the production of spatial distribution of these radionuclides and their corresponding γ- and α-radiation hazard indices. The mean values of 238U, 232Th and 40K are 46.7, 71.8 and 108.7 Bq kg−1, respectively. When compared to the global standard, it was revealed that 238U and 232Th are greater than the global standard, while 40K fall below the permissible limit. The γ- and α-radiation exposure risks estimated revealed that the mean values of Iγ and Iα are 0.6 and 0.2 respectively. Though the estimated γ- and α-radiation indices showed that the kaolin field is safe for the miners, periodic check is required in order to monitor the rate at which these natural primordial radionuclides (238U and 232Th and their progenies) are being enhanced.


In mobile electronic devices an increasing number of functions have to be placed on a limited space. The stacking of ICs and packages becomes more and more common. A rising number of contacts on the same foot print leads to higher current densities and may conduct to electromigration induced reliability problems. Migration processes are strongly temperature depended. Therefore the thermal management within IC packages becomes more important to ensure an appropriate lifetime. The existence of heat sources in a package changes the temperature distribution and the values of the correlated mass flux and mass flux divergences due to electromigration. For this work the electromigration induced mass flux divergences in SAC305 solder joints for stackable packages were investigated by using the finite element software ANSYS® and a user routine. For the finite element simulation a structure of two stacked packages including a top package with two, four, six or eight stacked ICs were modelled. Two different scenarios were considered: firstly the total power loss of 2W was independent of the number of ICs. Secondly every single IC had a power loss of 222mW.


1. IntroductionWhen stage actors in the United States walked off the job in the summer of 1919 in protest at the persistent refusal of the major theatrical producers to recognize their union, most commentators were unwilling to take the strike seriously, preferring instead to exploit the moment for cheap laughs.  "Perhaps we soon shall see . . . [actor] DeWolf Hopper . . . in front of some Broadway theater, banner on shoulder, aided and supported by the dapper but militant [musical-comedy sta...


The results of long-term observations of the temperature regime of soils in the territory of the Yakutsk, as the largest city, built under the conditions of permafrost soils are presented. The process of forming the temperature regime of permafrost soils of bases of buildings and structures is considered. The main factors and regularities of the process are analyzed. The dynamics of temperature changes in permafrost soils at a depth of 10 meters over the entire observation period is presented. The results are compared with the data of other researchers. Measures are proposed to improve the monitoring of thermal regime of the foundations of capital buildings under the conditions of preservation of permafrost soils. The tendencies and regularities of the formation of the temperature regime of the soils of the foundations of buildings and structures in the territory of capital construction under the conditions of the cryolithozone are revealed. Relationship with climatic and technogenic impacts, as well as with problems arising during the operation of buildings and structures, has been established. The research results can be taken into account when designing and constructing buildings and structures in other areas of permafrost with similar geocryological conditions. Recommendations on the technical regulation of temperature regime monitoring of permafrost soils of the cryolithozone have been developed.


Energy-efficient motors, also called premium or high-efficiency motors, are 2 to 8% more efficient than standard motors. Motors qualify as "energy-efficient" if they meet or exceed the efficiency levels listed in the National Electric Manufacturers Association's (NEMA's) MG1-1993 publication. Most general-purpose motors sold after October 1997 must meet the NEMA definition, according to federal law. However, motors that exceed these standards are readily available. Recommendations on efficiency levels that exceed the standards can be obtained for a given motor size from the Consortium for Energy Efficiency. Energy-efficient motors owe their higher performance to key design improvements and more accurate manufacturing tolerances. Lengthening the core and using lower-electrical-loss steel, thinner stator laminations, and more copper in the windings reduce electrical losses. Improved bearings and a smaller, more aerodynamic cooling fan further increase efficiency. Pump and blower motors account for 80 to 90% of the energy costs in water supply and wastewater treatment facilities, and the lifetime energy costs to run a continuous-duty motor are 10 to 20 times higher than the original motor purchase price. Thus, energy-efficient motors can play a major role in reducing facility operating costs. Energy-efficient motors should be considered for all new installations, replacement of failed motors, or as spares. They are frequently a cost-effective alternative to rewinding, and are sometimes an economic substitute for well-functioning motors in high-duty applications. However, in cases where the faster speed of the energy-efficient motor results in higher energy use without adding to the useful work performed, the energy-efficient motor may not be an economic option. A cost comparison will determine if a motor replacement is cost effective, and an analysis of the whole system-including the driven process, drive train, and controls-can reveal if other changes could provide greater benefits. BENEFITS Energy-efficient motors generally have longer insulation and bearing lives, lower heat output, and less vibration. In addition, these motors are often more tolerant of overload conditions and phase imbalance. This results in low failure rates, which has prompted most manufacturers to


The effective sharing of medical data and electronic health records (EHR) is a key enabler in health research advancements and achieving personalised medicine. Due to the inherently sensitive nature of this information, it is vital to securely transmit, store, and process the shared datasets. With that in mind, the main challenge is to dynamically set up a collaborative environment/data sharing application request to ensure undegraded security across different healthcare domains. A data-sharing framework is needed to bring together cooperative efforts of research centres, health institutions, and patients groups. The framework should consider policies, different parties' infrastructural capabilities (network and security functions supported), and the methods to dynamically match requirements to setup actions. Our work is part of the EPI (Enabling Personalised Interventions) 1 project that ultimately aims to empower patients through self/joint management of their personalised treatment and recovery cycle. We propose the EPI Framework (EPIF) [2], a dynamic health data sharing framework that accommodates to different domains' infrastructural capabilities by shipping and managing containerised security services (bridging functions). As a result, the EPIF supports health use cases (e.g. medical data streaming, EHR and backup, machine learning model training) by allowing different collaboration data sharing models (archetypes). Many research efforts have been made to secure computing and communicating medical data. However, some of them address security without considering the environments with multiple domains. Moreover, most of the time the solution offered is a static approach of a one-fits-all function and it doesn't consider the possibility of a dynamic policy (e.g. retracted consent, new security requirement, etc). In [4] [3], the framework utilises cloud computing to store, process, and manage data. The framework addresses security concerns that arise with a third-party cloud service provider using Attributebased encryption cryptography techniques. Other approaches like RoboChain [1] utilises blockchain tools to share data and learning models in a secure and decentralised way. The proposed methods are secure against possible attacks but are limited to a numbered archetypes. The frameworks are also rigid and do not consider different requirements, policy rules, and heterogeneous environments. In our framework, we estimate the setup needed for nodes across multiple health domains to communicate, store, and process data according to the agreed policy, the initial infrastructural capabilities, and the feasibility of patching any security imbalance between domains. New infrastructures and services will be "manufactured by software" by the EPIF, and then hosted in an "infrastructure factory" (Proxy shown in Figure 1) such that network functions are dynamically and flexibly traded and provisioned. Figure 1 shows the EPIF's main components: EPI middleware, proxy, and Middleware Interaction Node (MIN). The middleware acts as a multi-domain orchestrator that manages and fires-up containerised network services according to the nodes registry and policy rules. The proxy is the EPI actor running at the edge of a network and maintaining a pool of bridging container images. The MIN acts as a user-infrastructure point of interaction. The nodes pass the requested collaboration archetype


The underground powerhouse of Goupitan Hydropower Station in Wu River is an oversize powerhouse built in the karst area.The stability problem of wall rock was prominent,and the factors that affect the wall rock stability including karst,disadvantage structure surface,and the block body combined by the two factors.During the process of prophase site choosing,collocation,and construction treatment,a great deal of study on project geology was implemented,and reasonable disposal and treatment scheme were brought forward.At present,the underground powerhouse digging was finished and has enter the phase of set installment.During the whole construction process,the events of water and mud surging,and block body losing stability did not occurred;the distortion of wall rock has been converted after construction treatment,and the effect of wall rock treatment seems good from the monitoring.


Purpose: The aim of this study was to simulate the biofilm formation in contact lens (CL) case under poor hygiene behaviors; antimicrobial efficacies of multipurpose solutions (MPSs) against biofilm on the lens case were evaluated. Methods: Five MPSs (Epica Cold, Complete 10 min, ReNu MultiPlus, SoftOne Mois, and OPTI-FREE Plus) were tested. Lens cases containing ACUVUE2 were inoculated with 1×101, 103, or 106 colony-forming units (CFUs) of Staphylococcus epidermidis (SE). Each lens case was treated with 1 MPS for 4 hrs followed by the estimation of the number of SE by the CFU method. Disinfection efficacies of MPSs against SE biofilm were evaluated by biomicroscopy with safranin staining and scanning electron microscopy. Results: Lens cases, inoculated with 1×101 CFU, were disinfected by all MPSs. Epica Cold, Complete 10 min, ReNu MultiPlus, and OPTI-FREE showed almost a 2-log reduction of the CFU, whereas SoftOne Mois effect was almost a 1 log reduction, significantly lower than other MPSs (P<0.05). No biofilm formations were observed in Epica Cold, Complete 10 min, ReNu MultiPlus, and OPTI-FREE Plus-treated groups unlike significant biofilm formation in the SoftOne Mois-treated group (P<0.01). Conclusions: Greater efforts to educate patients regarding compliant lens care behavior are needed to reduce the incidence of CL-associated microbial keratitis.


The entry of women as IT professionals in the fast growing software services sector is one of the noteworthy transformations observed in the labor markets in India. This change can largely be attributed to the growth of the IT-BPO industry, which is one of the largest recruiters of a qualified workforce in recent times. Information Technology sector has unveiled tremendous employment prospects for women in areas such as tele-communications, banking, shopping, education, health and business amiably befitting their job environment where the salary is attractive and the job is mostly desk type in nature. Women have now become an integral part of the workplace which has brought a drastic change in their position from a mere house keeper or child bearer into women as both bread winner and capable of handling household roles too. But this paradigm shift in the position of women from traditional homemaker to working professional has posed many challenges because these jobs are accompanied with hectic work schedule and target oriented leading to workplace stress. In the light of the increasing number of women in IT industry, there is a need to examine the phenomenon of the quality of life of Indian women IT professional in greater depth.


We report results on the first matched-filtering search for binaries with compact objects having large tidal deformabilities in the LIGO-Virgo gravitational wave (GW) data. The tidal deformability of a body is quantified by the ``Love number"$\Lambda \propto \hskip 1pt (r/m)^5$, where $r/m$ is the body's (inverse) compactness. Due to its strong dependence on compactness, the $\Lambda$ of larger-sized compact objects can easily be many orders of magnitude greater than those of black holes and neutron stars, leaving phase shifts which are sufficiently large for these binaries to be missed by binary black hole (BBH) templated searches. In this paper, we conduct a search using inspiral-only waveforms with zero spins but finite tides, with the search space covering chirp masses $3 M_\odot<\mathcal{M}<15 M_\odot$ and effective tidal deformabilities $10^2 \lesssim \tilde{\Lambda} \lesssim 10^6$. We find no statistically significant GW candidates. This null detection implies an upper limit on the merger rate of such binaries in the range $[1-300] \hskip 2pt \text{Gpc}^{-3} \text{year}^{-1}$, depending on $\mathcal{M}$ and $\tilde{\Lambda}$. While our constraints are model agnostic, we discuss the implications on beyond the Standard Model scenarios that give rise to boson stars and superradiant clouds. Using inspiral-only waveforms we recover many of the BBH signals which were previously identified with full inspiral-merger-ringdown templates. We also constrain the Love number of black holes to $\Lambda \lesssim 10^3$ at the 90\% credible interval. Our work is the first-ever dedicated template-based search for compact objects that are not only black holes and neutron stars. Additionally, our work demonstrates a novel way of finding new physics in GW data, widening the scope of potential discovery to previously unexplored parameter space.


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Since G20 officially announced the concept of Digital Financial Inclusion in 2016, many countries and international organizations released relevant regulatory documents. On October 15th 2020, the People's Bank of China released 2019 China Inclusive Finance Indicator Analysis Report. It started Fintech creation regulation pilot projects and encouraged explorations in digital inclusive finance creation fields. This article reported the current China Internet insurance developments from insurance usage and service quality in the view of digital inclusive finance system. It predicted future Internet insurance business trends in China which would be useful for Internet insurance business strategy making and government regulation.


This paper mainly presents a method that can characterize the damage tolerance capability of composite laminates based on the knee-point feature. Based on the experimental study and numerical result, the Knee-point mechanism has been investigated. A new influence coefficient, δ, was introduced, which is applied to calculating the influence of every piles damage to the residual strength of the whole laminates. Finally, a conclusion can be drawn that the damage of 0° piles can represent the damage of the whole laminates, whilst the damage area of 0° piles can be applied to characterizing the damage tolerance capability of composite laminates.


The aim of the work was the chromatographic separation of salicylic acid and their derivatives, i.e., acetylsalicylic acid, salicylanilide, salicylaldehyde, salicylamide, methyl salicylate, phenyl salicylate, 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid, salicylhydroxamic acid, 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid, 3-aminosalicylic acid, 4-aminosalicylic acid, and 5-aminosalicylic acid by use of adsorption thin-layer chromatography (normal-phase thin-layer chromatography [NPTLC]) and partition thin-layer chromatography (reversed-phase thin-layer chromatography/high-performance thin-layer chromatography [RP-TLC/HPTLC]). Three qualitatively and quantitatively different mobile phases were used for the separation of salicylic acid and its derivatives. Cluster analysis (single linkage method, Euclidean distance) allowed the evaluation of the suitability of the chromatographic conditions used to separate the pairs of tested compounds. The cluster analysis data indicate that the composition of the mobile phase is fundamental in the process of separation of the analyzed compounds by use of NP-TLC. The best separation of the studied substances was observed in the case of mobile phase n-hexane—diethyl ether—acetic acid (80%) in different volume ratios. The similarity analysis of the results obtained by use of RP-TLC/HPTLC revealed that the type of chromatographic plates influences significantly the quality of separation of the tested compounds. The best conditions for the separation by RP-TLC were obtained on silica gel RP-18 F254 plates. The present study indicates that the cluster analysis represents a simple-to-use and powerful chemometric tool in the prediction of TLC separation of medically important salicylic acid derivatives under various chromatographic conditions. It can be helpful in the quality control of multicomponent synthetic preparations containing these compounds or in the chemical standardization of plant products consisting of salicylic acid and related compounds.


We review the concept of the quasi-inverse of qubit channels and of higher dimensional channels. Quasi-inverse is a channel which when concatenaded to the original channel, increases its average fidelity in an optimal way. For qubit channels, we fully characterize the quasi-inverse, while for higher dimensional channels, we prove general theorems and provide bounds for the increased average fidelity. Nevertheless, explicit examples are given when exact quasi-inverses can be found.


Now a days exchange of data over the network is keep on increasing, we using the for data exchange like open networks and internet. In data exchange security of the data is one of the major concern. We can encrypt the data before exchange like we can secure the data. The data can be in the format of text, image, audio and video etc.. Most of the multimedia applications includes images. Earlier AES, DES, RSA etc image encryption techniques were used, it contains low level of security and others can attack easily and hack the data. This problem was overcome by chaos based cryptography. The chaotic systems are knew to be very sensitive to the initial conditions and it controls the parameters which make them to appropriate for the image encryption. Now a days most of the work has been done using the chaos based image encryption. In this survey paper I tried to made a review the aspects and approaches of the design used for image encryption. Keywords— Cryptography, Chaotic Maps, Image Encryption, Image Decryption, security.


To the Editor. —Your interesting report on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by Valenzuela et al1is lacking in two respects: there is no indication of the ultimate outcome of the "survivors," and there is no mention of the cost of treatment. I believe it is necessary to look at every medical report with an eye to the effects of the therapies described. Previous reports have indicated that less than 10% of patients discharged from hospitals who have suffered a cardiac arrest will be alive at 6-month follow-up. In this report, there were only 22 patients available for such study, and follow-up should have been easy. Furthermore, cost analysis should separate prehospital costs, emergency department and/or resuscitation costs, and costs after hospital admission to determine the cost benefit ratio of treating cardiac arrest. A large amount of volunteer time and money is spent on training nonphysicians in resuscitation measures for cardiac


Abstract : Proteins that regulate progression through the G1 phase, including cyclin Dl and the cyclin-dependent kinase (cdk) inhibitors p2l to the cip1 and p27 to the kipl, appear to be particularly important in the pathogenesis of breast cancer. We suggest that aggressive breast cancer will involve both (1)overexpression of cyclin Dl and (2) failure to undergo a compensatory upregulation of cdk inhibitors. The specific aims are designed to test these hypotheses in cell culture models, nude mice, and breast cancer biopsies. We have generated mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) that stably and inducibly overexpress cyclin Dl. In contrast to the data in NIH-3T3 cells, there was no compensatory upregulation of p2l in MEFs in response to cyclin Dl overexpression. An analysis of several established breast cancer cell lines has thus far failed to show a relationship between levels of cyclin Dl and the cdk inhibitors, supporting the MEK data. Expression of cyclin Dl, p27, and p2l have been analyzed in samples of human lobular carcinoma by immunohistochemistry. It appears that, unlike ductal carcinoma, cyclin Dl is preferentially overexpressed in invasive components of lobular carcinoma. In addition, whereas there was no correlation between cyclin Dl or p2l and proliferation markers, p27 levels demonstrated an inverse correlation with markers of proliferation in human lobular carcinoma.


Abstract Frail older adults particularly need transitional care between hospital and home due to physical function decline and psychological instability after discharge. This study aimed to develop a transitional care for frail older adults in Korea who are discharged home following hospitalization. The Returning Home (Rehome©) program was established through the three phases according to the Medical Research Council's 2013 guidelines. 1) Identifying the evidence base phase included a systematic review of literature and needs assessments from interviews with frail older adults. The core intervention components (e.g., geriatric assessment, transitional care planning, home visits, phone follow-up, community service liaison, and family engagement) were determined. 2) At the phase of identifying theory, the transition theory was selected and modified to fit the target population in the context of the Korean healthcare system. 3) Phase three was for the modeling process and outcomes. Based on the result from phases 1 and 2, the Rehome program was developed considering clinically applicable strategies. The final Rehome program consisted of a comprehensive geriatric assessment at admission; structured discharge/transitional care planning (e.g., medication review, education for chronic disease management, emergencies, and geriatric syndromes, and community resource) at discharge; a home visit and six phone follow-up calls up to 12 weeks after discharge; and emotional support and engagement of the family during the entire period. The Rehome program showed good content validity. The Rehome as a frailty-focused transitional care program could improve the transition through implementing a tailored intervention that meets the care needs of these vulnerable populations.


Little is known about the use of nonspeech oral motor exercises (NSOMEs) to treat Speech Sound Disorders (SSDs) in low- and middle-income countries, such as Guatemala, where the field of speech-language pathology is less well established. The purpose of this study is to examine clinical practices for SSDs in Guatemala. The authors then compare these findings with previous literature on the use of NSOMEs in countries with developed fields of speech-language pathology.

 Nonmembers and members of the professional association for speech providers, Asociación de Terapistas del Lenguaje de Guatemala (SomosTLgt;
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 = 65), completed an online survey regarding the use of NSOMEs.

 Although approximately half of the clinicians in Guatemala reported using NSOMEs in therapy, the time spent in therapy sessions using these exercises was limited to 25% of the time. Very few clinicians (19.8%) reported to use NSOMEs almost always or 50%–75% of the time. NSOMEs were not reportedly used by 33.8% of the clinicians when treating SSDs. A significant positive correlation was found between years of experience and use of NSOME in clinical practice. Nearly all respondents specified learning about NSOMEs at university.

 Contrary to previous studies from high-income countries that indicate that NSOMEs are commonly used by speech-language pathologists when targeting SSDs, the use of NSOMEs across speech therapists from Guatemala in this current investigation is less. Future studies should explore the rationale behind the use of NSOME across different countries.


This article diagnoses and evaluates the process of selecting and preparing candidates for military pilots in Poland. The presented changes in the screening training system are to help with understanding the principles of organizing an effective system of recruitment and selection of military pilots at present. It also indicates directions for improvement. The organization of initial flight screening contributes to improving the efficiency of flight training and can serve as a model for use by flight training systems in other countries.
The purpose of the article is to diagnose and evaluate recruitment and selection of candidates for military pilots in Polish Armed Forces.
The  problem  that  the  author addresses is expressed  in  the following  question: in  what  directions should the current solutions in the selection and training of candidates for military pilots, be improved in order to reduce the attrition rate at subsequent stages of flight training in the future?
The research has been conducted at the Military University of Aviation using case study methods. The theoretical research methods, such as analysis and synthesis of information contained in literature and source materials, conclusions and comparison were used to develop the article. In order to confirm the conclusions drawn with the use of theoretical methods, an empirical method was used, which consisted in examining the opinions with the use of expert interviews. Experts were selected from the group of commanders of training units and military pilots involved in selection training, who had an impact on the applicable aviation training and recruitment system in Polish Armed Forces.
The results shows main directions of military pilots initial flight screening improvement.


Fetus in fetu (FIF) is an extremely rare condition in which a malformed fetus is found most commonly in the abdomen of a living twin. We report a case of FIF in a young adult woman, which presented as a twisted ovarian cyst and was successfully managed by laparoscopy. This is the first reported case of FIF with an acute presentation, the first case in an adult ovary and the first to be managed successfully by laparoscopy. The excised ovarian mass was diagnosed as FIF with benign teratoma based on histopathological examination and radiography. J Clin Gynecol Obstet. 2020;9(4):129-133 doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jcgo681


The formation of the seasonal CO2 flux depending on the species of cabbage crops used for short-term summer green manuring of the fallow field in the Baikal forest-steppe zone was studied. In field experiments on gray forest soil during the warm season, CO2 emission rates per day were measured in options with white mustard (Sinapis alba L.) and oil radish (Raphanus sativus var. oleifera Metzg). The black follow served as the control. The total CO2 flux from the soil was calculated by identifying different periods in the fallow treatment technology (before sowing green manure crops, vegetation, and the period after biomass plowing). An increase in the intensity of CO2 release from the soil after the plowing of green mass was revealed. The enhancement of mineralization processes due to the newly received organic matter of mustard biomass was 27-100%, and radish - 48-142% in relation to the black fallow. The CO2 emission data corresponded with the yield and quality indicators of the studied cabbage crops. It has been established that from the position of regulation of carbon dioxide fluxes, the use of white mustard for short-term green manure in the conditions of the region is more expedient than oil radish.


Imagine you had a long series of difficult mathematics problems to solve. You would have to put a lot of effort into solving the tasks and at the end you would be glad when you had done them all. Now you would be told to solve this long, difficult series of tasks plus even a few more math problems. How would you feel after this extended series of tasks: better, worse, or the same as before? The answer that psychologist Cho (2021) gives sounds amazing: You will actually feel better at the end of this extended series if the further mathematics tasks are slightly easier than the previously solved tasks in the long series. This is true whether the easier tasks are added at the beginning or end of the series. Starting or ending on a high note creates a more pleasurable learning experience. This is the core message of his well-thought out study and is intended to get you in the mood for a themed issue on 'Motivation to learn and problem solving' in Educational Psychology. Learning motivation is usually considered to be conducive to problem solving as it influences the initiation, direction, and intensity of cognitive processing (Baars et al., 2017). The motivation to deal with problem-solving tasks can come from the learners themselves or be triggered by task design. In this context, Muenks et al. (2016) differentiated between self-initiated effort, which is due to learners' own motivation and task-elicited effort, which is due to the subjective difficulty of the task. The prolonged series of mathematics tasks in the entry study (Cho, 2021) is a typical example of task-elicited effort. Individuals were willing to invest more learning time by the type of task design. The addition of slightly easier tasks to the beginning or end of a difficult series of tasks even led to less discomfort with the problem-solving activity. In this issue, you will come to know two other research papers that address this task-related side of motivating problem-solving processes (Cruz Neri et al., 2021; Lafay et al., 2021). In contrast, four other papers will focus on the motivation for learning and problem solving that originates from the individuals themselves (Abulela & Bart, 2020; Callan et al., 2021; Heckel et al., 2021; Mammadov & Hertzog, 2021). Lafay et al. (2021) investigated whether manipulatives proved helpful in solving word problems in mathematics. The plastic chips to solve the tasks were designed to make learning less abstract and more meaningful to the children. Indeed, third graders were better able to solve addition and subtraction word problems using manipulatives. Fifth graders, on the other hand, were no more likely to benefit from the use of manipulatives. Apparently, they were already better able to understand the mathematical structure of the word problems at an abstract level. Cruz Neri et al. (2021) addressed the importance of reading components in solving mathematics tasks. Using an adult sample, they examined how four item characteristics affected participants' mathematics comprehension. Complex verb forms, a high number of prepositions, a high lexical density, and the absence of informative pictures caused a significantly lower maths comprehension. Their results show how important it is to design mathematical tasks in such a way that they can be well understood at the textual level.


Australians working at Antarctic bases have recently noticed significant shrinkage in winter sea-ice. This comes after winter sea ice around Antarctica reached a new record high in September 2014 when it exceeded 20 million square kilometres for the first time since satellite measurements began in 1979.


Recent changes in women's studies and literature curricula have encouraged more and more post-colonial feminist scholars like myself to include minority and non-western literary texts in traditionally Anglo-American courses. This article grew out of my experience teaching two short stories from India-Lalithambika Antherjanam's "The Goddess of Revenge," published in the Malayalam language in 1938, and Ismat Chugtai's "Lihaaf," published in the Urdu dialect in 1941 )-to undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, a liberal arts institution located in the upper-midwest region of the United States. I chose both texts because of what appeared to be their overtly "feminist" agendas. "The Goddess of Revenge" tells the story of a historical figure in nineteenth-century Kerala, a Brahmin Namboodiri woman, Kuriyedathu Tatri, who became a prostitute after her husband abandoned her. Tatri took hundreds of lovers, and when she was finally brought to trial, she arraigned sixty-four of her clients, many of whom were eminent men, before she was silenced. The scandal outraged Namboodiri society. Tatri's husband's family destroyed all the documents relating to the trial, and no Namboodiri woman dared


A review of integrative product design strategies is motivated by current trends and challenges faced by the chemical processing industry. The transition in the chemical process industry towards more complex formulated and structured products challenges existing approaches and scientific tools that are well suited for bulk chemical design and properties estimation (Charpentier & McKenna, 2004; Favre et al., 2002). Moreover, the ensuing market challenges, brought on by dominant global trends, demand efficient product design approaches that seek to balance technical specifications and market requirements with the business performance objectives. Integrative approaches to product design are therefore repo-sitioned as useful strategies that simultaneously enhance technical performance and efficiency in design execution. The discussion of the integrative product design strategies is supported by findings of a recent industry benchmark study involving 15 chemical manufacturers.


Attempting to determine the duration of spacing between births needed to make significant changes in the fertility level of a population this study presents a fertility decision-making model using data designed to approximate ideal Indian demographic conditions. Comparing total marital fertility rates (TMFR) or birth rates under different hypothetical cases the study reveals the impact of birth spacing on fertility. For any given value of fecundability TMFR or the birth rate decreases with an increase in birth spacing. All;owing for the high desired family size inherent to most developing countries the ideal spacing goal to reduce population current fertility is at least 3 years. It is thought that couples attitudes may allow spacing of such duration yet family planning program personnel must ready their counseling and service provision efforts for target populations following live births. Were all couples to space births by at least 3 years the present birth rate would be 25/1000 population.


Sensory neuropeptides have been suggested to play a role in the pathogenesis of a number of respiratory diseases including asthma and chronic non‐productive cough.


YcjT is a kojibiose phosphorylase found in Escherichia coli. We found that sucrose was a good acceptor of YcjT in reverse phosphorolysis using β-d-glucose 1-phosphate as a donor. The product was identified as β-d-fructofuranosyl α-d-glucopyranosyl-(1→2)-α-d-glucopyranoside. This sugar was also synthesized from sucrose and maltose using YcjT and maltose phosphorylase and promoted the growth of the probiotic Bifidobacterium breve.


We report a direct flow-based synthesis of amides. The developed approach is prominently simple and various aliphatic and aromatic amides were synthetized with excellent yields. The technology is considerably robust and easy scale-up was carried out.


Abstract The conventional, non-compositional, tubing hydraulics programs are inadequate for accurately predicting the flowing pressure gradient in high rate gas condensate wells. These programs do not directly account for the pressure losses caused by liquid (hydrocarbon and /or water) condensation in the well bore. To improve the accuracy of predicting wellbore pressure gradients, Mobil developed a compositional tubing hydraulics program. The program incorporates an energy balance, together with a mechanistic fluid flow model to determine the pressure gradients, in conjunction with phase equilibrium calculations to chart the pressure and temperature profiles along the tubing string. The new compositional program is being used for gas deliverability studies by Mobil. The conventional (non-compositional) tubing hydraulics programs resulted in overly optimistic gas deliverability predictions, particularly during the later stages of depletion when liquid condensation in the wellbore is prevalent. For high rate gas wells, this inaccuracy can be significant. A comparison of wellbore pressure gradients and gas deliverability predicitons using the two programs is included in the paper.


Purpose: F-18 FDG can be accumulated in the liver, bowel, kidney, urinary tract, and muscles physiologically. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical value of dual time point 18F-FDG PET /8 imaging for the differentiation of the colonic focal uptake lesions. Materials and Methods: One hundred thirty two patients (M:F = 77:55, Age 62.811.6 years) underwent F-FDG PET/CT at two time points, prospectively: early image at 50-60 min and delayed image at 4-4.5 hours after the intravenous injection of F-FDG. Focally increased uptake lesions on early images but disappeared or shifted on delayed images defined a physiological uptake. For the differential evaluation of persistent focal uptake lesions on delayed images, colonoscopy and histopathologic examination were performed. SUVmax changes between early and delayed images were also compared. Results: Among the 132 patients, 153 lesions of focal colonic uptake were detected on early images of F-FDG PET/CT. Of these, 72 (47.1%) lesions were able to judge with physiological uptake because the focal increased uptake disappeared from delayed image. Among 81 lesions which was showed persistent increased uptake in delayed image, 61 (75.3%) lesions were confirmed as the malignant tumor and 14 (17.3%) lesions were confirmed as the benign lesions including adenoma and inflammatory disease. Remaining 6 (7.4%) lesions were confirmed as the physiological uptake because there was no particular lesion in the colonoscopy. In the malignant lesions, the calculated dual time point change for SUVmax (%SUVmax) was 20.818.7%, indicating a significant increase in SUVmax between the two point (p24.2%. For the differentiation of the malignant and non-malignant focal colonic uptake lesions, %SUVmax was the most effective parameter, and the cut-off value using -5% provided the best sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. Conclusion: The dual time point F-FDG PET/CT imaging with SUVmax change evaluation could be an important noninvasive method for the differentiation of malignant and benign focal colonic uptake lesions including physiologic uptake.


The concept of freight transport management (FTM) is perceived as an aspect of traffic management that has a significant influence on freight transport. A review of relevant literature gives descriptions of numerous FTM measures. Multi-dimensional approaches to optimize freight transport, production and logistics processes should be considered when assessing the impacts of FTM measures. The assessment method utilised during the planning process stages for estimating these impacts should be based on the type of measures being reviewed, and on the sector under consideration. In addition, for efficiency reasons, it is not appropriate to carry out impact assessments of all measures or to select only one single method for all circumstances. Therefore, a multi-stage assessment method is necessary for first assessment and classification, and then a detailed quantitative analysis of the selected measures only needs to occur. With this approach, the risk associated with limitations of individual measures is mitigated in initial preselection stages and efficiency is improved, as a thorough and detailed impact assessment of the core effects of measures shortlisted in the classification stage are examined.
The objective of this study is to develop a method to investigate and assess the impacts of FTM measures on production, logistics and traffic. In this study, firstly, a framework for FTM is discussed to provide a theoretical foundation for this study as a whole. It includes freight transport system analysis, an overview of the FTM concept, and a summary of FTM measures identified in various case studies. Secondly, a multi-stage impact assessment method for FTM measures is developed, which enables quick classification of adopted measures, and detailed quantitative impact analysis. Explanation of the development pro-cess starts with a review of the overall transport decision-making process in general and the impact assessment methods for FTM measures in particular. The discussion of pros and cons of existing assessment methods is brought into focus. Subsequently, a multi-stage impact assessment method for FTM measures is developed by which the core effects of the measures can be effectively estimated and captured. The proposed method is composed of two main stages. The first stage serves as a preselection of measures with a focus on defining and classifying the measures based on qualitative or partly-quantitative methods. The second stage investigates the core effects of selected measures using quantitative methods to carry out detailed analysis.
The rice industry in Vietnam was selected to be a case study for this application since data is available to test various kinds of impacts caused by FTM measures. Additionally, there is a high level of freight traffic with a bundle of FTM measures applied in the rice industry. Traffic volume due to rice transport is increasing quickly and contributes up to 21% of the total freight traffic volume on some key transport corridors, for example from the Mekong Delta to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). Vietnam is also currently the second largest rice exporter in the world. The rice industry involves various stakeholders such as farmers, collectors, millers, polishers, food companies, wholesalers, retailers and so forth, and knowledge of the decision-making behaviour of those stakeholders is needed to predict their reactions to FTM measures.
The results of the first assessment stage in the rice industry show that high ratings have been given to two FTM measures: the establishment of a regional rice logistics centre and the improvement of national highway (NH) 1A from the Mekong Delta to HCMC. The second assessment stage is a detailed impact assessment of preselected measures based on a detailed and comprehensive sector analysis. In this stage, quantitative assessment is carried out to determine impacts related to changes in the supply chain, and impacts on transport mode choices in the rice industry. A total logistics cost (TLC) model serves as the core tool for analysis of the rice industry, differentiating a disaggregated population of rice commodity flows and distribution centre locations. Final assessment results show that an establishment of a regional rice logistics centre can result in a modal shift away from trucks and this is contributing to improved traffic safety and the quality of the environment in affected areas. The improvement of NH 1A is expected to increase average speeds and reduce freight transport time from the Mekong Delta to HCMC. Combining the measures of rice logistics centre establishment and NH 1A improvement can maximise economic efficiency through significant reduction in TLC for the rice industry. Safety and environmental benefits can al-so be achieved at the rice industry and transport network level.
In summary, with a multi-stage impact assessment approach it has been demonstrated that it is possible to investigate and assess the impacts of FTM measures on production and logis-tics. Also, the proposed method in this study emphasises the involvement of multiple stakeholders in the assessment process, and allows for capturing and estimating the core effects of these measures. As noted above, the TLC model is utilised to assess the impacts of FTM measures and the application of the TLC model, as in this study, can be seen as one of the key methods in assessing FTM measure impacts that is based on comprehensive sector analysis. The study is expected to be of value for governmental and local transport authorities in providing suitable methods for assessing FTM policies.
Although the study has achieved its goal, there are some inevitable limitations. Firstly, detailed quantitative impact assessment can only take place when extensive data is available, which may hinder the application of the proposed method in practice. Secondly, the application of the method developed in this study focuses on the Vietnamese rice industry and the specific constraints and demands of freight transport management in this context. Therefore, it should be applied to other sectors to determine further the potential generalization of findings in other contexts. Lastly, the study addresses a new and complex field of research in its focus on impact assessment methods for FTM measures. However, this field continues to receive less attention than passenger transport due to the complex characteristics of freight transport systems. This study is expected to contribute to enriching the theoretical and empirical understanding of FTM measures and their effective management.


The challenges of Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization is often seen as to offer high quality education and other services in a competitive manner that would help the universities to benefit from ICT revolution and to become competitive nationally and internationally which will help, India, to become a Knowledge Super Power by the year 2020. It has no doubt broadened the scope of education. But such relationships vary among countries depending upon their level of development. Whereas developed countries derive significant benefit out of LPG, for developing countries it is perceived as a sudden thrust. India is still in a stage of achieving the goals of total literacy and universalization of primary education. There are number of questions which need serious pondering. Some of them are as to what extent our education could be adapted to the demands of LPG in education? Are these challenges really helpful to students to face global challenges? Is it worth leaving education to market forces? The paper throws light on the crass commercialization of Higher Education under the model of reform of LPG through rising of fees, autonomy to institutions with practically no control over managements, relaxation in norms for granting deemed to be university status and funding linked to mandatory assessment and accreditation, which are some of the decisions taken in order to usher in massive commercialization of higher education. There is a need to understand the impact of LPG within the more localized sphere of ground realities in India. The objective should be to promote inclusive higher education by ensuring fair, transparent and non-exploitative administration of educational institutions.


In order to overcome the effects of wellbore storage in the ISA(Inverse Solution Algorithm) well testing,the Laplace deconvolution method is applied to deal with practical well testing data.The paper substitutes changing rate process for wellbore storage effect,and applies the Laplace transform deconvolution method to deal with the rate and pressure data of bottom hole and get real pressure derivative data.If the rate and pressure data cannot be tested both,rate is defined with wellbore storage coefficient that can be obtained with the analysis of initial pressure data.In the same way,the Laplace transform deconvolution method is applied to get real pressure derivative data in Laplace transform.Stehfest numerical inversion algorithm is used to get real pressure derivative data in real spatial.The distribution of permeability based on the resultant pressure derivative and ISA satisfactorily reflects the stratigraphy.The new method is conducive to improving the analysis of well testing with the wellbore-storage effects.


This study analyzes economic effects of provincial government expenditure on small local governments through a case study for the Kyungbuk Province. For this purpose, we build simple dynamic macro model, composed of macro variables such as GRDP, private consumption, fixed capital investment, inventory investment, government spending(consumption, investment), net export and regional exchange. It is estimated that the increased spending of Kyungbuk province by 100.0 billion won in 2010 increases the GRDP of Kyungbuk province by 147.0 billion won in 2010, by 17.0 billion won in 2011, and by - 50.0 billion won in 2012. It is also found that GRDP ratios of small local governments to Kyungbuk province have positive relations with population and land shares of small local governments, but negative relation with agriculture and farm land shares. Estimated GRDP allocation ratios of each small local governments by the increased spending of 100.0 billion won of Kyungbuk province in 2010 are 32.6% for Kumi, 22.3% for Pohang, 8.4% for Kyungju, and 6.0% for Kyungsan, among others.


The purpose of the study is to assess the institutional environment and determine the need for financing small agricultural businesses in Ukraine in order to facilitate access to financial resources in accordance with the need. The information base of the study is the regulatory and legal framework of state support for the agricultural industry, analytical studies of information agencies, data from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine and Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine. The data on the planned and actual indicators of budget expenditures for agricultural development were obtained on the basis of an analysis of the reports posted on the official website of the State Budget of Ukraine. The study determined the market capacity by financing the activities of small agricultural enterprises by sources and state support.


The present article is based on the major premise that the loss of a homeland (in the present case, Mother India) gives rise to such a long complicated mourning process that not only the first-generation diasporic subjects but also their second-generation offspring are afflicted by the infection of the original wound of departure. Synthesizing the trope of departure-as-death (a trope used here to compare the original departure from the motherland to a psychological death of a kind) and the trope of the dead mother (a trope used here to compare the dead-yet-living motherland and its cultural markers to the haunting phantom of a dead-yet-living biological mother), the paper argues that the diasporic subjectivity (in the present case, the Indian diasporic subjectivity) is a site at which a dialectic struggle between the two contending forces of the metaphoric death of the motherland and the constant desire for her is re-enacted. It is this same struggle, the present article claims, that is best illustrated in Ginu Kamani's "Just Between Indians," the penultimate story of her 1995 debut collection of short fiction Junglee Girl. As a story written by a second-generation Indian diasporic woman writer, "Just Between Indians" highlights the haunting quality of the absence/presence of Mother India in the lives of the second-generation diasporic subjects. Exploiting Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's notion of "the exquisite corpse" within a diasporic context, this article then not only throws into sharp relief the representational possibilities that "the virtual space of spectrality" has to offer for the literary signification of the trauma of displacement (or the diasporic trauma), but also brings to the fore the therapeutic and liberating force of the trope of the return of the dead mother. Creating an ethical space which can facilitate embracing the dead-yet-living (m)otherland on its own terms, such a trope helps both in re-constructing the desire for the homeland and in fulfilling a rather belated process of grieving for an apparently irremediable loss.


The semiconductor-metal transition in a vitrifying chalcogenide melt is examined by measuring the electrical conductivity, the thermoelectromotive force, the Hall effect, the electron spin resonance, and the magnetic susceptibility, along with the dissociation properties and viscosity. Phase diagrams are provided.


Effects of temperature on the desulphurization characteristics of wastes and limestone were studied by means of flue gas analyzer and the high temperature tube reactor. Desulphurization product characteristic was investigated respectively by XRD diffraction technology. The results show that sulfur capture ability of wastes higher than limestone's always at 800~900°C. White clay and carbide slag have better sulfur capture ability at 1000~1100°C. But sulfur capture abilities of salt slurry and red mud decrease at 1000~1100°C. Keywords-waste; desulphurization characteristic; temperature; limestone


A classification method was developed for the quality assessment of Panax Quinquefolium.L.The contents of fifteen elements,seven ginsenosides and polysaccharide in twelve Panax Quinquefolium.L samples were determined by ICP-MS,HPLC and anthrone-sulfuric acid spectrophotometry,respectively.The cluster analysis was applied for the classification of 12 Panax Quinquefolium.L samples.The analysis results showed that the classified results were different with different cluster variables and it was found more reasonable to integrate several active components as cluster variables for the classification.The cluster analysis was useful for the classification of Panax Quinquefolium.L.


What have been the prevailing American images of Southeast Asia? A steaming jungle with Vietcong ambushes and booby traps, some Americans might say. Actually, a currently more relevant view might be of a totally empty screen. One has to search, nowadays, to find mention of the region in the major American journals. Those once carrying an article or two about Southeast Asia in nearly every issue, may now go a year or two without a single one. This is not really surprising: one of the well-known traits of American society has long been "pendulum swinging" from deep involvement to utter aloofness, from enthusiastic highs to abysmal lows. But levels of attention do not explain differences in understand ing. Consider these notions: Item: Enmity between the Khmer and Annamese peoples of Indo china is an irrational feud, not a serious concern for modern policy makers. Item: Small states such as Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia will eventually merge into a larger federal union. Item: Religious strife between Muslims and non-Muslims is not a proper subject for political struggle and need not be considered in political and security planning. Item: That Singapore's system of government may be called "socialist" is most significant for foreign policy purposes. That its political and general culture is essentially overseas Chinese and largely committed to capitalism is disregarded. Extreme and wildly misleading as they may be, these propositions may be helpful when considered as caricatures of ideas which do exert great influence on actual foreign policy viewpoints and positions. They are the product of political myths. "Myth lies at the basis of human society . . . because myths are general statements about the world and its parts, and in particular about nations and other human in-groups, that are believed to be true and then acted on whenever circumstances suggest or require common response."1


Wireless sensor networks and artificial immune system are both self-managed distributed systems.A node scheduling scheme for minimizing energy consumption and avoiding collision for wireless sensor network is proposed using the immune clone algorithm with artificial immunity.The proposed scheme first regards one data transmission at a certain moment as an antigen,and potential routes as antibody,and the power consumption by the node sequence as the fitness,respectively,and then eliminates the disabled nodes using the immune stabilization to reconstruct the network topology structure and builds the vaccine bank to complete the secondary reaction of artificial immunity.The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can not only avoid the collision among sensor nodes when forwarding data packets,but also solve the global optimization problem of power consumption with high convergence speed.


This study intends to analyze the impact of technology commercialization activities in the area of basic research on the technology utilization performances and the corporate business performances. The technology commercialization activities are divided into the experiences of promoting technology commercialization, the department dedicated to technology commercialization, and the technology commercialization consulting. Additionally, this study has used the tracked information of the companies that adopted the basic research-related technologies. Therefore, we conducted the analysis on the mediating effects under the assumption that it can be extended to the business performance of companies in addition to technology utilization performance. To do this, we developed the empirical model through previous studies and developed various research models by subdividing the types of technology commercialization. As the result, it was analyzed that all the variables of activities involved in the technology commercialization utilizing basic research results had positive effects on the technology utilization performance and business performances, and there were also mediating effects on the technology-related performance.


Numerous spores of a myxosporidian parasite, tentatively classified as the genus Kudoa, were found in many of the muscle specimens of the yellowfin sole Limanda aspera which were caught in the Bering Sea. The muscle infected heavily with the parasite, displayed a considerably high protease activity. Such muscle was observed to be easily jellified when left standing at room tem perature.Two types of protease occurred in the heavily infected muscle, one designated protease A hydrolyzing hemoglobin optimally at pH 3 and the other designated protease B casein optimally at pH 6.5 under the conditions applied. Protease B activity was not always detected in less infected muscles. The muscle containing both proteases was jellified very rapidly. Both protease activities were strongly inhibited by Hg+2, PCMB or leupeptin, indicating them to be of thiol enzyme. It was concluded from these results that the proteases were produced by the parasite and responsible for the jellification of the muscle.


Method for detecting a movement of a surface in an irradiated eye, comprising the following steps: - irradiating a surface of the eye with a beam of coherent light with a lower therapeutic window energy, thereby causing a movement of the surface by the light beam irradiation, - detecting variations caused by said movement in a speckle pattern produced by reflections of said light beam on said surface, - selecting a single speck of the speckle pattern, and - detecting said variations in the selected speck.


Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Philosophy, History, and Criticism Part I: The Intellectual Context of the New Science 1. Feminist Criticism 2. Descartes' Doubt and Pyrrhonic Skepticism 3. The Via Media and English Empiricism Part II: The New Identities 4. Bachelors in Life 5. Locke's Forensic Self 6. Propriety and Civic Identity 7. Protestant Difference and Toleration 8. The Royal Society 9. Hypotheses non Fingo Part III: The Unidentified 10. Abuses and Uses of Children 11. Wifemen and Feminists 12. Slavery without Race 13. Witches and Magi 14. The Wealth of Nature Afterword: Where Do We Go from There? Notes Select Bibliography Index