We have succeeded in capturing two-dimensional spatial vector distribution of terahertz electric-field by the spinning electro-optic sensor method combined with a CCD camera, which is useful for terahertz polarization imaging and terahertz vector beam analysis.


A neutron-diffraction study on an A-site-ordered perovskite manganite $R{\mathrm{BaMn}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{6}$ $(R=\mathrm{Tb})$ has revealed that the magnetic structure is characterized by two modulation vectors, (1/2 0 1/4) and (1/4 1/4 1/4), in the primitive cubic setting. The appearance of the magnetic order is accompanied by change in stacking of charge-ordered/orbital-ordered ${\mathrm{MnO}}_{2}$ sheets along the c axis, which has also been confirmed by electron-diffraction and x-ray-diffraction studies on the $R=\mathrm{Tb}$ and Sm compounds. The charge ordering in the antiferromagnetic phase is an unprecedented one, i.e., NaCl type, which is stabilized by the ordering of R and Ba in the A site.


This short note is a continuous one of [1]. We always assume that every ring R is a commutative ring with identity 1 and every ring homomorphism / is unitary, i.e. /(I) is the identity. Let R and R' be rings and/: R->R' a ring homomorphism. Then every Λ'-module may be regarded as an JR-module through/. If f(R) is a small submodule of R as an 2?-module, we say / being small or R being small in R' [1]. In this note, we shall find the smallest small homomorphism of R. We shall make use of the same notations as in [1]. We define the smallest small homomorphism as follows:


The main objective of this paper is to show a state of the art of "cyberbullying". Thus, we have extracted the documents from databases in Web of Science (the search results of "cyberbull*" were 2,227) and they were examined with the bibliographic analysis tool VOSviewer. The analyses carried out on the documents were, on the one hand, descriptive, on the evolution of the number of articles on cyberbullying and the areas of research. On the other hand, the co-occurrences of the keywords and co-authorship, highlighting the nationality and the leading authors in number of citations. The results show a growth in the interest of investigating cyberbullying, specifically between psychology and education. The keywords focus on victimization and adolescence, although youth and gender have recently been highlighted. Despite the most frequent authors come from the United States and Spain which form two clusters, the most cited authors are researchers from Belgium in the area of psychology and communication studies. Cyberbullying affects adolescents and young people in mainly school contexts; this makes education for critical and active digital citizenship to prevent this type of behaviour among peers


Gas-water ratio of the Osakabe wildcat was 5.9 at the production test. This value is Iarger than the gas solubilities in the completed formations. But, IPSs (Surface potential index of gas volume) of the Osakabe wildcat are smaller than the gas solubilities. It means that all of the gas in the new drilled hole did not enter the drilling fluid.So, we investigated flow mechanisms of formation and drilling fluids, when the production well "U-32" was drilled.The salinity concentration of the drilling fluid increases, because the formation water in the Southern Kanto gas field has so high salinity concentration as sea water. We measured the salinity concentration and calculated how much the formation water and gas were mixed into the drilling fluid.


The motion of oil droplet in a separator is studied by numerical simulation.The single-phase flow field is simulated using nonisotropic RSM,while the two-phase gas liguid flow field is simulated using phase coupled DPM.And particles are traced using a randomo rbit model.The physical mechanism of the movement of oil droplet in a separator is revealed by analyzing the locus of oil droplet.The results show that oil droplets'locus is mostly affected by the number of vanes,the rotating speed of impeller and the diameter of oil droplet.The results make a better understanding of the separation mechanism of oil-air separator,and make the basis for the experimental study of oil-air separator.


Based on the theories and methodology of physical exercise and health during the thirty years of reform and opening-up in China,from the point of physical exercise promoting mental benefits,the authors try to sort out and analyze the main characteristics of the developing course of physical exercise promoting mental benefits.In the 1980s in China,the issue of physical exercise promoting mental benefits is not the main stream of research in the area of sports psychology,which is related to the developing direction of international sports psychology,the national sports developing strategy,people's living standard and the needs for physical exercises.In the 1990s,researches on physical exercise promoting mental benefits are mainly descriptive,which only reveal the relationship between physical exercise and mental health to a certain degree.However,the practical ability of synthetic research methods in studying physical exercise promoting mental benefits in China has improved in the past 10 years.Undergraduate students become the main body of research subjects.But the research theory and methodology on physical exercise promoting mental benefits in China still can not meet with people's requirement of sports enhancing their living quality and need to be improved and perfected further.


We continue the rigged configurations analysis of the solutions to the Bethe ansatz equations for the spin-1/2 isotropic Heisenberg model. We analyze the non self-conjugate strings of Deguchi–Giri and the counter example for the string hypothesis discovered by Essler–Korepin–Schoutens. In both cases clear discrete structures appear.


Most age-related changes that appear on the surface of facial skin are caused by changes within the skin. Therefore, analyzing the internal state of the skin could make it possible to provide evidence-based counseling, which could offer benefits to customers. However, it is difficult to perform simple analyses of the inner condition of the skin, and conventional methods of analysis generally require costly laboratory equipment. Therefore, we used multiple regression analysis to create an estimation formula to calculate the skin's inner structure feature values based on skin surface feature values, which can be easily obtained. As objective variables, we used the number of dermal papillary structures and a score for dermal fibrous structure clearness. As explanatory variables, we used the feature values for sulci cutis and crista cutis characteristics, color characteristics, and frequency characteristics, as calculated from data including skin images. The concordance rate between corresponding beforeand after-scores obtained with our novel estimation formula and the actual scores based on measured values for the number of dermal papilla structures was 100% and that for the clearness of dermal fibrous structures was 95%. These results demonstrate that skin surface feature values, which can be obtained using a simple device such as a microscope, can be used to estimate the condition of the inner structures of the skin, including the number of dermal papillary structures and the clearness of dermal fibrous structures.


This report details the design and development of the three-dimensional shallow water hydrodynamics formulation within the Adaptive Hydraulics/Hydrology model (AdH-SW3) for simulation of flow and transport in rivers, estuaries, reservoirs, and other similar hydrologic environments. The report is intended to communicate principles of the model design for the interested and diligent user. The design relies upon several layers of consistency to produce a stable, accurate, and conservative model. The mesh design can handle rapid changes in bathymetry (e.g., steep-sided navigation channels in estuaries) and maintain accuracy in density-driven transport phenomena (e.g., thermal, or saline stratification and intrusion of salinity).


This paper proposes a framework that enables the online generation of virtual point clouds relying only on previous camera and point clouds and current camera measurements. The continuous usage of the pipeline generating virtual LIDAR measurements makes the temporal up-sampling of point clouds possible. The only requirement of the system is a camera with a higher frame rate than the LIDAR equipped to the same vehicle, which is usually provided. The pipeline first utilizes optical flow estimations from the available camera frames. Next, optical expansion is used to upgrade it to 3D scene flow. Following that, ground plane fitting is made on the previous LIDAR point cloud. Finally, the estimated scene flow is applied to the previously measured object points to generate the new point cloud. The framework's efficiency is proved as state-of-the-art performance is achieved on the KITTI dataset.


During the 11th Five Year Plan Period,China makes a great progress in saving energy and reducing emissions.At the same time,the environment is much better than before.This outcome is inseparable with clean production and end treatment which are the main means of pollution controlling.However,there are still some problems in these two measures.At present,the emphasis on end treatment declines and clean production is just in developmental stages.Their perform quality are not ideal.Then the key is how to improve the perform quality.Knowing the source and status of clean production and end treatment can resolve this matter.This paper elaborates the present issue of clean production and end treatment in China.Then it gives the corresponding strategies.


A number of alkyl 6-chloro-3-oxohexanoates were synthesized and their reduction with bakers' yeast studied. The enantioselectivity of these reductions was found to be influenced by the nature of the ester alkoxy substituent. The ethyl ester was reduced to the (3R)-6-chloro-3-hydroxy-hexanoate (49% yield, 30% e.e.) while the octyl ester gave the (3S)-6-chloro-3-hydroxyhexanoate (62% yield, 90% e.e.). The latter product was then converted into (R)-(+)-α-lipoic acid, a cofactor in the biochemical decarboxylation of α-keto acids, via a sequence of seven steps.


DEALING WITH MULTIPLE UNSTABLE PENETRATING ABDOMINAL TRAUMA CASES- ROLE OF TRAUMA TEAM AND CODE BLACK ACTIVATION

Mohd Najmi Abd Salam1, Ranjini Sivaganabalan2, Norafizan Mohd Ali3 Zuriyah Ariffin4

1 Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang, Malaysia

Introduction
Trauma team was introduced in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah (HTAR), Klang since 2012. It comprised of 3 departments (ED, Surgery and Radiology). Once activated, surgeon and medical officer of surgery department will come immediately to manage the patient together with ED team. Radiographer will bring portable x-ray machine to the resuscitation area. Apart from that ED HTAR also has introduced code black activation. Once code black activated additional staff will mobilize to resuscitation area including doctors, assistant medical officer, staff nurse. There are criteria for trauma and code black activation.

Case report
Recently we had encountered 4 cases of unstable penetrating abdominal trauma that came in simultaneously. 2 of the cases were bowel evisceration. Trauma team was activated as they developed hypotension on arrival to ED. At the same time, code black activated as there were 4 cases that required simultaneous active resuscitation. Additional ED staffs from other zones were mobilized to resuscitation area to aid in the patients care. The treatment went smoothly as it involved additional staff from ED and surgical department. Patients were rushed to operating theatre immediately within 1 hour, shorter than the mean time from trauma team HTAR data that is 129 minutes. 3 emergency operation theaters were open simultaneously that day.

Discussion and conclusion
Trauma team and code black activation can shorten the time for surgical intervention. The cornerstone of this activation is early involvement of emergency physician, surgeon and mobilization of additional staff to resuscitation area. In conclusion, the introduction of trauma team & code black are essential in managing multiple trauma cases in emergency department HTAR.


1 examine feeding rate and reproduction of a gencralist arthropod predator Pterostichus cupreus (Coleoptera, Carabidae) at two different densities in two agricultural habitats where this beetle is commonly found; perennial ley and annual barley. I also examine effects of predator densities on arthropod community composition in each crop. The aims are to, in each of these habitats, examine if 1) previously observed food limitation in nature is eaused by compelition for food where prey is depleted by the competitors, or because predators starve because it is inherently difficult for them to find or consume food in a poor habitat where prev abundance is insensitive to the level of predation. and 2) to examine impact, directly or indirectly, of the predator on arthropod community composition. Predator density was manipulated in plots surrounded by barriers (Treatment) in the two habitats (Crop). and the experiment was repeated early and late in the growing season (Time). Large differences in community composition were found between crops and times. Arthropod abundance was always higher in ley, and increased markedly between was always higher in ley, and increased markedly between the first and second experiment in barley. Predator load was high (44%) in barley in the first experiment compared to the second (26%) and compared to ley (22%). Eggload, amount of stered fat and live body weight of P. cupreus were all markedly higher in ley. The lower fat content in recaptured beetles in barley indicated lower feeding rates and a high degree of food limitation compared to ley. Indications that fat storage was reduced by intraspecific competition were found, but the main difference in fat storage was between crops. No significant treatment effects of initial predator density were detected on arthropod community composition in each crop. Food limitation was mainly caused by difficulty to find food in the barley. Adult feeding and reproduction indicates that barley and ley represent widely different habitat qualities to P. cupreus. The composition and spatial arrangement of perennial and annual crops in the agricultural landscape may be important to long-term predator population dynamics.


Peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor gamma (PPAR‐γ) is a member of the nuclear hormone superfamily originally characterized as a regulator of adipocyte differentiation and lipid metabolism. In addition, PPAR‐γ has important immunomodulatory functions. If the effect of PPAR‐γ's activation in T‐cell‐mediated demyelination has been recently demonstrated, nothing is known about the role of PPAR‐γ in antibody‐induced demyelination in the absence of T‐cell interactions and monocyte/macrophage activation. Therefore, we investigated PPAR‐γ's involvement by using an in vitro model of inflammatory demyelination in three‐dimensional aggregating rat brain cell cultures. We found that PPAR‐γ was not constitutively expressed in these cultures but was strongly up‐regulated following demyelination mediated by antibodies directed against myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) in the presence of complement. Pioglitazone, a selective PPAR‐γ agonist, partially protected aggregates from anti‐MOG demyelination. Heat shock responses and the expression of the proinflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor‐α were diminished by pioglitazone treatment. Therefore, pioglitazone protection seems to be linked to an inhibition of glial cell proinflammatory activities following anti‐MOG induced demyelination. We show that PPAR‐γ agonists act not only on T cells but also on antibody‐mediated demyelination. This may represent a significant benefit in treating multiple sclerosis patients. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


New technologies have increased the dynamism of distributed systems; advances such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and cloud computing enable unprecedented service flexibility and scalability. By their nature, they are in a constant state of flux, presenting tough challenges for system security. Here an adaptive -- in real time - risk management system capable of keeping abreast of these developments is considered. This paper presents an on-going work on combining a hierarchical threat ontology, real-time risk analysis, and SDN to an efficient whole. The main contribution of this paper is on finding the suitable architectures, components, necessary requirements, and favorable modifications on the systems and system modelling (including the models involving the security analysis) to reach this goal.


PREFACE 1. Moving the Mirror Aside 2. Metaphysical Pluralism 3. Semantic Minimalism and the Frege Point 4. Two Paths to Pragmatism 5. How to Stand Up for Noncognitivists 6. Naturalism and the fate of the M-Worlds 7. Ramsey On Saying And Whistling: A Discordant Note 8. Truth As Convenient Friction 9. Naturalism Without Representationalism 10. Immodesty Without Mirrors-Making Sense of Wittgenstein's Linguistic Pluralism 11. . Pragmatism, Quasi-realism and the Global Challenge 12. The Semantic Foundations of Metaphysics 13. Metaphysics After Carnap: the Ghost Who Walks? 14. One Cheer for Representationalism? NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY


This study aims to identify differences and similarities among the Indonesian, Banjarnese, and Javanese languages as a basis for designing a model for Indonesian learning for beginners. Field studies were conducted in Yogyakarta Special Territory where Javanese is used and in South Kalimantan where Banjarnese is used. The data were collected through interviews, observations, and listening and were analyzed using the contrastive-synchronic technique. The findings show that similarities among the three language lie in the levels of vocabulary, phrase structure, and clause/ sentence structure. In the level of vocabulary, there are similarities in phonological and morphological aspects. In the level of phrase structure, there is a similarity in the head-modifier structure. In the level of clause or sentence, there are similar structures of S-P, S-P-O/Com, and S-P-Adv, showing that the three languages belonging to the group with the S-V-O or S-P-O pattern.


Materials & Methods: Data of patients (gender, age, kind of admission and isolated bacteria) with bacterial positive urine culture during three months in 2013 at Pars Hospital, Tehran, Iran, were studied and analyzed by SPSS software. Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of isolates to cotrimoxazole, ampicillin, ciprofloxacin, gentamicin, amikacin and nitrofurantoin, were also determined by the standard disk diffusion method according to CLSI recommendation.


Paul Gough brings his trained eye, both as a practising artist and an academic researcher, to the subject of the landscape of the First World War; its traces, depiction and how it functions as a si...


1 Savanna ecosystems are characterized by the codominance of two different life forms: grasses and trees. An operational understanding of how these two different life forms coexist is essential for understanding savanna function and for predicting its response to future environmental change.


Copper(I)–copper(II) mixed-valence complexes of the quadridentate Schiff bases were obtained and characterized. ESR and visible spectra showed no evidence for the delocalization of an unpaired electron between copper(I) and copper(II) ions.


Introduction: Thrombocytopenia is defined as a platelet count of less than 150×109/L, which is also applicable to newborn infants. It may be a result of increased platelet destruction (immune and non immune), decreased platelet production, and a combination of both or unknown. A platelet count of more than 500×109/L is considered thrombocytosis, classified as primary or essential and secondary or reactive. Abnormal platelet count being quite common, is most often neglected and it can lead to devastating complications if untreated. Aim: To study the incidence of abnormal platelet counts and to determine the risk factors associated with abnormal platelet counts in neonates admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Materials and Methods: A retrospective analysis of platelet count of all neonates admitted to a tertiary NICU of RL Jalappa Hospital, Tamaka, Karnataka, India, between July 2020 and June 2021 was done to determine the incidence and risk factors associated with abnormal platelet count (thrombocytopenia and thrombocytosis). Data of all the neonates were collected retrospectively from July 2021 to August 2021 and analysed. A total of 562 neonates were included in the study. Categorical data was taken and expressed in the form of frequencies and percentages. Data were entered as frequencies using Microsoft excel version 2203 and analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 22.0. Chi-square and Fischer's exact test were used to determining the significance of the data. The p-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Out of 629 neonates admitted, 562 neonates were included in the study. Total 209 neonates had thrombocytopenia, with early thrombocytopenia being in 94 (45%) and late being in 115 (55%). Thrombocytosis was seen in only 15 neonates where 7 (46.6%) had early, and 8 (53.3%) had late thrombocytosis. The most common risk factor associated with both cases was sepsis. Placental insufficiency had a statistically significant association with thrombocytopenia (p<0.001**). Term babies had a higher incidence of thrombocytopenia and thrombocytosis, and the association with thrombocytopenia was statistically significant (p=0.043*). Conclusion: Based on the present study, it can be concluded that abnormal platelet count is quite a common finding in sick neonates. Thrombocytopenia is more common than thrombocytosis. The most common risk factor is sepsis, it should not be neglected, and appropriate treatment should be initiated once an abnormal platelet count is detected in neonates.


Johnston R. J. (1979) On the relationships between regional and national unemployment trends, Reg. Studies 13, 453–464. The frequently-used regression model relating local to national unemployment trends is criticised because it fits an equation of the form y = b (x + y), thereby building-in dependence between the two sides of the equation. Simulations indicate the influence of this on the sampling distributions of the regression equation parameters and it is suggested that interpretation of those parameters should employ the relevant empirical sampling distributions.


This article attempts to provide a revisionist perspective of Southeast Asia's historical icon by examining in detail Sir Thomas Raffles' discursive strategies that sought to justify the study and preservation of Hinduism and Buddhism in the Malay World. Foremost within such strategies was by way of portraying Hinduism and Buddhism as practised by the Malays as a binary opposite of Islam, Secondly, Raffles sought to demonstrate the affinities of Hinduism and Buddhism with European Traditions. Last but not least, he argued that the legacies of Hinduism and Buddhism in the Malay World were suffering from a climate of decline, Most importantly, the article demonstrates ways In which Raffles' discourse is revealing of the Influence of dominant methodologies and ideologies amongst Europeans during his milieu. By any standard, SirThomas Stamford Raffles was a remarkable figure. Remembered as one ofthe most dedicated colonial administrator in the history ofSoutheast Asia, his fame has been memorialized through the world's largest flower, the Rafflesia. Academic chairs and professorships have been attributed to his name and, in Singapore, "Raffles" is associated with all tilings prestigious, extravagant, and grand such as the Raffles Hotel, Raffles Country Club, Raffles Institution, Raffles City. Celebrated in our textbooks as the "Founder of Modern Singapore", Raffles is a symbol ofSingapore's secular past, which was guided by the Enlightenment tenets of reason, capitalism, benevolent rule, and free trade. His influence is so pervasive that entire collections ofwritings have been devoted to him. In fact, he has recently been the subject of a comprehensive bibliography (Solomon 1997). Nevertheless, except for


CRL is engaged in the development of document management software and user interfaces to support government analysts in their information analysis tasks. It is also continuing to develop language technologies to support document detection and information extraction in a variety of languages. It has also been responsible for the integration and delivery of both the six and twelve month Tipster demonstration systems and the development of the first Tipster document manager.


Control of insect pests has often been suggested as a promising use of the emerging gene-insertion technology. The most commonly proposed strategies would improve microbial pathogens of insects, incorporate defects into pest populations, and transfer genes that encode for insect-resistance properties into plants. Although some advantages and risks of these strategies have been discussed in general terms, there is little conceptual framework for applying theoretical principles to specific policy decisions (Simonsen and Levin 1988). In this article, I develop an approach to estimating risk by concentrating on one strategy-genetic transfer of resistance properties into otherwise susceptible hosts (Vaeck et al. 1987)-in one commodity frequently cited as a beneficiary of biotechnology-wood products (Dandekar et al. 1987, Farnum et al. 1983, Sederoff and Ledig 1985). Such an approach should improve our ability to evaluate and reduce the potential for inadvertent deleterious alteration of forest ecosystems. It may serve as a model for other transgenic applications. I focus on one potential danger, biotype evolution, which is the selection for insect populations that can tolerate the new resistance property (Gould 1988). I do not consider here In general, the risks are greatest in large forested expanses


The characteristic extraction is in the writing recognition the very important link. In the Tibetan writing recognition the characteristic extraction method has very much, but there are many kinds of characteritics Tibetan writing, explores suits Tibetan recognition the most superior method. This paper compendiums a theory of printed Tibetan writing recoganition and basically discusses a charicteristic extraction way of Tibean character—network lattice graph projection.


We review lattice results related to pion, kaon, Dmeson, B-meson, and nucleon physics with the aim of making them easily accessible to the nuclear and particle physics communities. More specifically, we report on the determinaa e-mail: email@example.com (corresponding author) tion of the light-quark masses, the form factor f+(0) arising in the semileptonic K → π transition at zero momentum transfer, as well as the decay constant ratio fK / fπ and its consequences for the CKM matrix elements Vus and Vud . Furthermore, we describe the results obtained on the lattice for some of the low-energy constants of SU (2)L × SU (2)R and 123 113 Page 26 of 268 Eur. Phys. J. C (2020) 80 :113 Fig. 1 MS mass of the strange quark (at 2 GeV scale) in MeV. The upper two panels show the lattice results listed in Tables 4 and 5, while the bottom panel collects sum rule results [173–177]. Diamonds and squares represent results based on perturbative and nonperturbative renormalization, respectively. The black squares and the grey bands represent our estimates (33) and (35). The significance of the colours is explained in Sect. 2


Abstract We tested the efficacy of using electrofishing to collect juvenile fall chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha to assess their plasma cortisol concentrations. In laboratory experiments, plasma cortisol titers offish sampled immediately (<4 s) after a 1.5-s, 500-V DC electroshock were not different from controls (mean ± SE, 28.8 ± 5.2 ng/mL), but within 15 min they were significantly higher (148.2 ± 19.0 ng/mL) than controls. Plasma cortisol levels of fish released through turbines and of those released through the juvenile-bypass system at Bonneville Dam, Oregon-Washington, and collected by electrofishing did not differ from each other or from prerelease samples (about 70 ± 7 ng/mL). Our results indicate that electrofishing can be used to collect fish for stress assessment in the wild, provided fish are sacrificed immediately after capture, We are concerned, however, that the small number of fish we captured by electrofishing may not be representative of the majority of fish that pass through tu...


The thesis is a modest attempt to contribute to collaborative research practices among art, science and technology. The thesis is generated through the concept of Device Art approaches with added critical thought. Device Art has an enlightening side to it, to make people interested in the nature of technology. Japanese Device Art artists are quite often overcriticized for their positive attitude toward technology, which is also one of the reasons for coining a new term –Critical Device Art. The idMirror installation is one of the first projects in the series of Critical Device Art. We have to admit that being critical is important in art and it does not mean being negative. Artists visualize what technology means and does to us as individuals and to society as a whole. Being engaged in contemporary visual practice brings along also the need for social responsibility, which, at the same time, is also the subject of Critical Device Art. Being critical is also the key point of the idMirror device. Critical Device Art research is characterized by creating a series of device systems for rediscovering human perception of the Self.


Facial expressions and other body language are important for human communication. They complement speech and make the process of communication simple and sustainable. However, the process of communication using existing approaches to human-machine interaction is not intuitive as that of human communication. Specifically, the existing approaches to human machine interaction do not learn from whatever subtle non-verbal cues produced by a user. Many of the existing approaches map body language cues to instructions or rewards and use them to train a machine. These mappings are not learned from ongoing interactions and are assumed to be defined by some external source. As a consequence, the communicative process through these approaches can cause significant cognitive load on the user. This is an important problem that needs to be addressed if we are to amplify our existing cognitive and physical capabilities through intelligent machines. Towards addressing this, we introduce our idea that allows machines to learn from whatever subtle cues people produce during the process of interaction. Particularly, the agent learns a value function that maps the user's non-verbal cues to later rewards. By using this value function, the user can teach their agent to complete a task according to their preferences, and consequently maximize their satisfaction. We demonstrate this by training an agent using facial expressions. Furthermore, we show that these learned value functions can be successfully transferred across tasks. In conclusion, our approach is the first that allows people to teach their machines using whatever subtle cues they produce and could take us far in achieving sustainable forms of human-machine interaction.


The invention discloses a high-efficiency heat radiation power distribution cabinet comprising a cabinet body and a cabinet door which is connected at one side edge of the cabinet body in a hinged way. The high-efficiency heat radiation power distribution cabinet also comprises heat radiation windows, exhaust fans, exhaust hole components and strip-shaped ventilation holes. The heat radiation windows are respectively arranged at the upper and lower ends of one side edge of the cabinet body. The exhaust hole components are arranged at the upper and lower ends of the other side edge of the cabinet body and corresponding to the positions of the heat radiation windows. The exhaust fans are arranged at the middle positions of the heat radiation windows via connecting rods. The strip-shaped ventilation holes are respectively arranged at the top plate and the pedestal of the cabinet body. According to the high-efficiency heat radiation power distribution cabinet, the heat radiation and ventilation structures are arranged at the upper, lower, left and right parts of the cabinet body so that space can be effectively utilized, the heat radiation effect is great, occurrence of danger can be avoided and use is safer through the aforementioned mode. The whole power distribution cabinet is simple in structure, beautiful in appearance, convenient to use, reasonable in design and easy in realization of production and processing.


Rheumatoid arthritis is chronic multisystem disease, failure rate with monotherapy is high. The present study was designed to compare the efficacy and safety of triple combination of Methotrexate + Hydroxychloroquine + Sulfasalazine and double combination of Methotrexate + Hydroxychloroquine in patients suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis. The present study was a prospective, randomized, single blind comparative study of 24 weeks duration. 60 patients were included which were assigned two groups, A and B with 30 patients in each group. Group A was given Methotrexate (MTX) 7.5 mg once a week + Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) 200mg OD + Sulfasalazine (SSZ) 500 mg BD and Group B was given Methotrexate 7.5 mg once a week + Hydroxychloroquine 200 mg OD. The patients were evaluated for clinical efficacy and safety using different clinical and laboratory parameters. There was a significant reduction in various parameters in group A as compared to group B indicating superiority of the triple combination over the double combination. Based on our findings we suggest that the triple combination of MTX, HCQ and SSZ is more efficacious and equally tolerable than the double combination of MTX and SSZ in patients suffering from RA.


The discovery of the decreased toxicity and of the increased therapeutic index of antimony bound to pyrocatechol disulfonates (Uhlenhuth, Kuhn & Schmidt, 1924, 1925) led to many hopes for improvements in the treatment of schistosomiasis and for the development of less toxic antimonial compounds. Yet, we are still faced with the problem of explaining why modem antimonial compounds such as antimony sodium gluconate, stibocaptate, and stibophen, which give a high therapeutic index in experimental work, do not show a definite superiority over antimony potassium tartrate (tartar emetic). The purpose of the present study was to establish the toxicity of trivalent antimony and variations in activity, using different antimonial compounds, and to correlate the findings with clinical results and tolerance studies. This problem held a special interest since, by preparing a chelate of the antimony tartrates with 3-mercaptovaline, the cytotoxicity has been eliminated and general toxicity has been decreased, while activity in animals (Ercoli, 1965, 1967, 1968) and man (Ron Pedrique et al., 1967; Ron Pedrique & Ercoli, 1969; Ron Pedrique, Barbera, Ercoli, 1970) has been maintained. The meaning of the therapeutic index from the standpoint of clinical utility is analysed here in the light of those results.


The course 'Biology of Mankind' was introduced into the University of New South Wales for first-year students from any faculty wishing to take biology. All students, regardless of their previous background in biology or their reasons for taking the course, followed the same syllabus. Biological principles were taught in the context of the evolution of man in relation to his environment; the importance of scientific methods for the study of these interactions was emphasized. At the beginning of their university studies students were introduced to the relevance of biology for an understanding of many related disciplines. The course represented an educational innovation in both content and teaching methods. It sought to develop some independence in student learning as preparation for subsequent years. The development of the course and its evaluation over a three-year period are reviewed.


A method designed to support the in vitro maintenance and proliferation of elasmobranch peripheral blood leucocytes (PBLs) has been developed. This method includes protocols for leucocyte isolation, the preparation of media, and culturing conditions. Leucocytes were isolated from whole blood using a Ficoll-hypaque density gradient followed by nylon wool filtration. Recovered cells were washed and incubated at a density of 0.054 × 106 cells per well of a microtitre plate using a novel medium designed for shark cells. Incubation was carried out at 17 and 37° C. These media represent a modification of RPMI1640 or DMEM to account for isotonic and isoosmotic differences between mammalian and elasmobranch blood via the addition of trimethylamine-N-oxide, urea and sodium chloride to the RPMI or DMEM.


In this paper, we characterize the potential function f of the almost conformal gradient Ricci soliton on a Sasakian manifold in terms of the non-dynamical scalar field p and deduce the necessary condition for the potential function f to be constant. Furthermore, a relation between λ and the potential function f has been established. Finally, we prove a sufficient condition for an almost conformal Ricci soliton to be an almost conformal gradient Ricci soliton and also a characterization of the soliton in terms of shrinking, steady or expanding has been done.


THE INVENTION CONCERNS A DEVICE FOR MEASURING THAT CONTAINS SURFACE TRANSFER FACTOR LAYER PREPARED ON THE SURFACE MEASURING AND THAT MEASURE THE TEMPERATURE AND SURFACE HEAT FLUX DENSITY AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS WHICH ARE LINKED TO ENTRANCE UNIT MEASURING SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND HEAT FLOW dENSITY WHICH THE OUTPUT IS cONNECTED TO ORGANIZING AND eVALUATING THE MEASUREMENT UNIT. INVENTION, THE EXIT UNIT 3 ORGANIZING AND eVALUATING THE MEASURE IS cONNECTED TO THE ENTRANCE UNIT COMMANDER SET 4 CHANGING THE DENSITY OF HEAT FLOW wHILE LEAVING IS cOUPLED IN RETURN, THE REGULATOR ELEMENT 5 INFLUENCE HEAT FLOW dENSITY AREA EXAMINED.


Supported copper nanoparticles are utilized for the first time as a highly efficient and reusable catalyst in the coupling of acyl chlorides and terminal alkynes to prepare various ynones. The reaction is carried out under palladium-, ligand-, and solvent-free conditions. The catalyst can be simply recovered and reused several times without significant loss in catalytic activity.


Micromachining industry successfully uses the advantageous properties of laser-water-jets (LWJ), e.g. high depth of field, cooling and cleaning effect of water as well as high kerf parallelism. Until now short-pulsed laser sources with average powers of few 100 W are the main beam sources used in laser-water-jets applications. In machining, the comparably low average powers limit processing speeds, especially when high material thicknesses are present. The objective of ongoing research at Fraunhofer IPT is to expand the range of possible applications for laser-water-jets to macro laser processing by using a continuous-wave fiber laser source with a maximum average power of 30 kW. Using high laser power within a macro-water-jet enables a significant increase in processing speeds while maintaining the above-mentioned beneficial properties of laser-water-jets. In a previous publication, using up to 2 kW laser power of an infrared fiber laser coupled in a laser-water-jet generated by an industrial micro machining system, the need for a dedicated high-power laser system, capable of dealing with thermo-optical and thermo-mechanical issues, was identified. For the first time a laser head for the generation a laser-water-jet for macro machining has been designed, built and tested in a new high-power laser test rig with active laser safety at Fraunhofer IPT. In order to increase the transmittable laser power the internal water supply was up-scaled to high flow rates and specialized high power optics as well as suitable cooling strategies were developed to ensure increased thermal stability. Using a 30 kW fiber laser the new machining head is tested and its thermal stability is investigated. The effects of system stability on the water-jet properties are studied in order to identify further system improvement. Finally, possible applications for using the new technology are outlined and first processing trials are performed.


Despite the remarkable achievements of modern communication systems based on Shannon's theory, there is still considerable room for exploration in information transmission capacity, and semantic communication technology has emerged as a promising approach in this regard. Nonetheless, the benefits of semantic communication remain elusive, and the absence of a unified system model has hindered practical implementation. In this context, we contend that semantic communication can benefit from data distortion and the incorporation of natural language modeling information, such that source coding with semantic modeling information does not compromise the performance of semantic communication systems. To fortify our stance, a novel Separated Data-Semantic Coding (SDSC) system is proposed, which disentangles the source coding and semantic coding. Furthermore, relevant experiments are conducted to validate the contention and the SDSC system. By illuminating the superiority of semantic communication, the research not only contributes to the advancement of semantic communication technologies but also facilitates the development of more practical communication systems.


. Aproximate solutions for the dispersion equations of the electromagnetic modes in the so called "hot vacuum" for two limit regions: w = O, k i O and w i O, k ~ O are obtained. This is confirmed by comparying with the known exact asymptotic solutions. The propagation of the transversal and longitudinal modes are discussed for the mentioned regioos. The dispersion curve for the transversal mode in the "opaque" region is found to be composed by two branches: the plasmonic branch, corresponding to massive quasi-particles, and the photonic one associated to massless particles. It is shown that the the photonic distribution function has a divergent behavior íor k -+ O in the same way as in a massless gas, the inírared limit being w = O, k -+ o, and in the lalter the number oC quasi-particles is arbitrarly large. The analogy between this limit and the presence of a transversal condensate is shown. The comparison between the dispersion curve oí the transverse mode of the black body at high temperature and the one for a charged boson gas with Bose-Einstein condensation is discussed. The relation between the phase transitions of symmetry restoration and Bose-Einstein condensation for massive vectorial fields with spontaneous symmetry breaking is established.


Today, real business cycles theory, subject reports, articles, letters thesis has many worldwide. It seems since the main point in the theory of business cycles is a true technology shocks, this theory can be considered a theory of economic boom. In other words this theory in describing the capabilities to create greater prosperity to recession and the anatomy of the business cycles is an asymmetric behavior. In this article the authors use an analytical technique to show that they intend to remove the rules and regulations not to date against the growth and technology innovation in financial markets the main reason for the recent economic downturn has created and therefore in contradiction with this idea theorist theory of real business cycles and hence the current financial crisis, including the serious challenges facing them know. Other hand, gains of this article can show aspects of technology shocks main business cycle is created and so this paper can be used emphasis on research that shocks are demand side.


Objective: The present study involves the analysis of mecA gene mediated antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and screening for potential ligands. Methods: Swab samples of patients with foot ulcers were collected from hospitals in and around Chennai. The samples were collected in sterile containers containing Enriched Thioglycollate broth transport media and transported to the laboratory within two hours of collection and processed. Results: The results indicate the interaction capacity of Rosmaric acid with Penicillin binding protein. The 2D interaction results indicate the information about non bonded interactions of ligand and receptor. Best interaction was obtained with Rosmaric acid with a score of 41.16 and 5 h-bond interactions were obtained. The Molecular docking results indicates the interaction of the inhibitors to the antibiotic resistant proteins with a positive fitness. Conclusion: From the current study, molecular docking approach has proved to be an efficient method for the identification of novel lead compounds against β-lactam resistant S. aureus from a broad spectrum of plant compounds and among the studied inhibitors rosmarinic acid was found to be a potent lead molecule.


1. Personal and impersonal: two forms of the neoliberal novel 2. Affect and aesthetics in 9/11 fiction 3. Reading like an entrepreneur: neoliberal agency and textual systems 4. Ecology, feeling, and form in neoliberal literature.


Theoretical power spectra of magnetic fields subject to turbulent fluid motions in the kinematic regime are presented, and previous theories are reviewed, with reference to magnetic fields on the sun. Magnetic field diffusion in turbulence with persistent eddies is predicted to be described by an effective negative magnetic diffusivity. It is found that observations cannot be explained on the basis of turbulent kinematic theories unless the turbulent motions are three-dimensional, and the effective diffusivities are larger than the molecular diffusivities. Lower bounds on the turbulent viscosity are derived, suggesting that dynamical processes controlling the magnetic field spectrum occur at least 15,000 km below the surface. The results, which remain consistent with the assumption that effective diffusivity is uniform, suggest that surface magnetic field observations can be used as a diagnostic for subsurface flows.


1695 he central focus of carotid Doppler sonography studies is the detection and characterization of atherosclerotic disease and stenosis. Doppler sonography samples are used primarily to quantify velocity elevations at sites of stenosis. However, more subtle clues to disease are contained in the shape and contour of the Doppler sonography waveform itself. Aberrations of waveform morphology can signal regional disease in the carotid and vertebral vessels, remote cardiovascular disease, and iatrogenic conditions.


This study critically investigated the influence of disclosure of accounting and financial reporting system on financial performance of sugar factories in western Kenya . The study adopted descriptive survey research design and targeted 130 officers from sugar factories in Western Kenya. Sample size was determined using Taro Yamane's proportional sampling technique formula. Primary data was collected by means of self-administered questionnaires then coded, cleaned and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics using (SPSS) software. Results were presented using tables for easy readability. Descriptive statistics involved use of percentages. Quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive analysis summarized data in form of central tendency. Dispersion and inferential analysis was used to test hypotheses. Descriptive analysis included; frequencies, mean, standard deviation and percentages while inferential analysis involved correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis. The results revealed that disclosure of accounting and financial reporting systems positively and significantly influence the financial performance of sugar factories in Western Kenya. The study concluded that disclosure of accounting and financial reporting systems have significant influence on financial performance of sugar companies in Western Kenya. Therefore, the study recommended that the sugar companies should disclose information efficiently and timely to their stakeholders thereby improve their financial performance. Key Words: Disclosure of Information, Accounting Systems, Financial Reporting System, Financial Performance CITATION: Ijami, A., & Miroga, J. (2020). Influence of disclosure of accounting and financial reporting system on financial performance of sugar factories in Western Kenya. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 7 (4), 1191 – 1205.


Smart-jewelry design has many layers such as comfort, ergonomics, fashionability, interactivity and functionality that create a complex design process, making the form exploration challenging. Various wearable prototyping tools were developed to overcome this challenge; however, they are usually textile-based and do not target smart jewelry design. To bridge this gap, we developed Snowflakes that differentiates from existing tools by 1) allowing designers to explore different jewelry forms, 2) incorporating external materials such as leather, 3) creating form factors that fit body parts with flexible connectors. In this paper, we explain the design process of Snowflakes which is inspired by 7 design parameters (limbs, materials, grip, fastener, decoration, placement, form) extracted through the examination of non-smart jewelry. We also demonstrate three reimplementations and design concepts implemented with Snowflakes. Our exploration with Snowflakes contributes to the wearable community in terms of smart-jewelry visual expressions, interaction modalities, and merger of traditional and computational materials.


Synchrotron x-ray diffraction studies up to pressures of 30 GPa have been performed on both nanostructured γ-Al2O3 and α-Al2O3. The P-V equation of state has been calculated from a fit to the diffraction data to obtain the compressibility for each of the compounds. The bulk modulus B0 of nanostructured γ-Al2O3 having grain-size diameters in the range 4 – 8 nm is B0 =152(8) GPa, appreciably lower than the value B0≈250 GPa of its bulk structural analog. The bulk-modulus of nanophase α-Al2O3 of 25 nm average crystallite diameter, which is difficult to stabilize at smaller dimensions because of thermodynamic considerations, is 252(9) GPa and therefore similar to that of bulk α-Al2O3. These studies suggest that only if the grain-size of alumina is below a critical value of several nanometers can substantial changes be expected in the isothermal bulk modulus compared to that of the isostructural bulk compound.


Amylase (AM), pectinesterase (PE) and polygalacturonase (PG) were extracted from maca roots (Lepidium meyenii Walp). The response surface model was used to determine the optimum conditions of pH and temperature activity of each enzyme on the crude extract. The highest values of AM activity occurred at pH 6.1 and 33.6 °C, very close to the experimental central point. The PE activity had a maximum activity at pH 6.6 and 49.4 and PG activity showed optimum activity at pH 5.4 and 46 °C.


If a low-Z plasma is subjected to ionizing radiation, stationary inversions on hydrogenic ion level populations occur. The plasma conditions and pumping requirements to achieve gain on the Lyman-alpha and Balmer-alpha lines are investigated by means of a collisional-radiative model. The calculations are carried out for two cases: first, for the case in which the electron temperature is determined solely by radiative cooling, and second, for the case in which additional electron cooling is provided. In the first case, measurable gain on the Balmer-alpha line is found, although the Lyman-alpha transition remains uninverted. In the second case, the Balmer-alpha gain is dramatically enhanced, and sizable Lyman-alpha gain is predicted.


SYNOPSIS A large cutting in decomposed granite failed after five days of dry weather following an extremely intense rainstorm in August 1982. The history of the slope and surrounding area is described and three theories that might explain the delayed nature of the failure are proposed.


Introduction ICD therapy has become a proven and well-accepted therapy for the prevention of sudden cardiac death. However, a major part of the present patient population has serious comorbidities,...


The moral culture of teachers plays a major role in Deng Xiaoping's thought on education.Presents that stressing the development of teacher's moral culture not only carries out the national educational policy but also meets the needs of constructing the spirit civilization of socialism and the special requests of the teacher's occupation.Considers that it's necessary for a teacher to strengthen his political culture,improve the teaching capacity,form a good attitude to the job and enhance his view of world through teaching practice.


Deaf adolescent has different characteristics in speech and language (Effendi, 2009). These differences cause difficulties in interacting and dealing with adolescent developmental tasks so that adolescent feels isolated and has low self-esteem (Halimah & Elcamila, 2010). One way to improve self-esteem is by dancing, as a form of self-expression and development of confidence in the self competence (Branden, 2005).  This study aimed to determine the effect of dancing Balih-balihan toward self esteem of deaf adolescent in Bali. The sampling technique used in this study is two stages cluster sampling. Subjects of this research are 40 deaf students of SLB B in Bali, from age 11-24 years old. The research method that used is ex post facto. Data is collected by using scale of self-esteem based on aspects by Coopersmith. The dance variable is divided into two groups named the control and the experimental group, in this case the experimental group has been doing dance activity as a compulsory activity in schools. Data were analyzed by using Independent Sample T-Test. The validity test shows there are 20 valid items with a reliability coefficient of 0.384. The result of data analysis shows data distribution is normal and homogeneous. Independent Sample T-Test results t values 1.542 with a probability value 0.131 (p> 0.05). It means there is no significant effect of dancing Balih-balihan toward self-esteem of deaf adolescent in Bali. Keywords: Dancing Balih-balihan, self-esteem, deaf adolescent


Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is a simple technique with broad applications in diagnostic pathology, and it is being employed by more and more pathologists in community practice. Key elements of a successful IHC laboratory in this setting are discussed with particular emphasis on quality control measures. Technical considerations of the method are detailed as applied to paraffin sections, cryostat sections, blood and bone marrow smears, and cytologic specimens. Finally, cardinal rules of diagnostic IHC are presented.


Because of the growing importance of wireless networks and also because of the kind of randomness involved in the transmission of data in there, researchers are attracted to build Queuing models for studying the same. Some such studies are [1-6], where a Discrete Time Markov Chain (DTMC) model has been used for the analysis. In the above, studies [2-5] adopts a generating function approach for finding the performance measures like the average buffer size; whereas [1] and [6] solves for the steady state distribution of a finite dimensional DTMC. The difficulty with the generating function approach is that, when the complexity of the model increases for example by assuming the case of Automatic Repeat Request, it becomes almost impossible to get an explicit expression for the generating functions involved. Hence, getting an explicit expression for the measures like average number of blocks that have been resent, becomes very difficult if not impossible. Having said this, let us point out that the very recent paper by Darabkh et al. [3], considers a discrete model of data transfer with stop and wait ARQ. Assuming that a packet needs at most one time slot for retransmission, they obtain analytical expression for measures like average buffer occupancy using a generating function approach. However, comparing the analysis in papers [2] and [4] with that in [3], one can see that the analysis in [3] is more demanding with the obvious reason that in [3] one has to deal with more generating functions. From [3], it also follows that the generating function approach becomes more complicated if one considers some variations like random number of slots for the retransmission of a corrupted block or a selective repeat ARQ for retransmission. In the other method (see [1] and [6]), that is to solve for the steady state of a finite dimensional DTMC, one cannot expect explicit expressions for the steady state probabilities and hence would have to go for numerical computation. As far as numerical computation of steady state probabilities, especially in the case of infinite dimensional Markov chains (either discrete or continuous) is concerned, the application of Matrix Analytic Methods (MAM) developed by Neuts and his co-researchers provides a unified algorithmic approach for a wide range of problems (see [7, 8]).


BACKGROUND
Until now, the activity of the lower limb could only be exactly measured with expensive electronic pedometers. The aim of this study was to develop a feasible questionnaire to measure the activity of patients after arthroplasty.

METHODS
The "Daily Activity Questionnaire" (DAQ) was developed in several steps and the evaluation was carried out in three groups of patients with osteoarthritis of the hip (160 patients and 855 investigated days). The psychometric characteristics were verified.

RESULTS
The retest reliability (ICC) of the DAQ is in a range comparable to the electronic pedometer StepWatch. The testing of the criterion validity showed high correlations between the StepWatch and the DAQ (r=0.743).

CONCLUSION
Because of its high correlations to the load changes actually performed, the DAQ is especially suited to answer arthroplasty-related questions. In all patient groups, projected load changes between 1.8 and 2.4 million per year were found, which by far exceed the generally accepted test standards for endoprostheses.


This research is an analysis of the implementation process of the District Public Policy Raizal, during the period of government of the Human Bogota 2012-2015 seeking to
account for the state of implementation of the policy and relations between the actors who participated in the implementation that can shed light on the reasons why this policy has had a low implementation. A qualitative descriptive cohort investigation was carried out, examining the main points in which the policy was implemented and in which management was lacking for its implementation. It is concluded that the policy has made progress in its implementation, but it requires the pressure of the organization of raizal people to achieve a higher level of implementation.


A case‐control study on prostatic cancer was conducted in Kyoto, Japan, from 1981–1984, including 100 patients with prostatic cancer (PC) and age, hospital, and date‐of‐admission matched controls of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) patients and general hospital patients. Analysis of several sexual factors obtained through a self‐administered questionnaire revealed the following observations: (1) cancer patients had fewer sex partners before marriage (relative risk, RR = 0.35; 95% confidence interval: 0.13–0.93 than the hospital controls; (2) they had more vigorous sexual activities in the third (RR = 2.89: 1.01–8.28 and fourth decades of life (RR = 2.26: 1.03–4.95) than hospital controls, but no significantly different sexual activities from controls in other decades; (3) they had less frequent orgasms (RR = 2.55; 1.11–5.83) than BPH controls or (RR = 4.96: 1.78–13.9) hospital controls, and sexual intercourse appeared to be less satisfactory (RR = 2.08: 1.05–4.13) than that of hospital controls; and (4) they had less frequent episodes of sexually transmitted diseases (RR = 0.36: 0.16–0.83) than BPH controls. Marital status, fertility, ejaculation, masturbation, nocturnal emission, contraceptive use, and wife's episodes of sexually transmitted disease were not linked to prostatic cancer risk.


The most common statistic used to analyse large-scale structure surveys is the correlation function, or power spectrum. Here, we show how 'slicing' the correlation function on local density brings sensitivity to interesting non-Gaussian features in the large-scale structure, such as the expansion or contraction of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) according to the local density. The sliced correlation function measures the large-scale flows that smear out the BAO, instead of just correcting them as reconstruction algorithms do. Thus, we expect the sliced correlation function to be useful in constraining the growth factor, and modified gravity theories that involve the local density. Out of the studied cases, we find that the run of the BAO peak location with density is best revealed when slicing on an ∼40 h^−1Mpc filtered density. But slicing on an ∼100 h^−1 Mpc filtered density may be most useful in distinguishing between underdense and overdense regions, whose BAO peaks are separated by a substantial ∼5 h^−1 Mpc at z = 0. We also introduce 'curtain plots' showing how local densities drive particle motions towards or away from each other over the course of an N-body simulation.


The Virtual Observatory (VO) movement is driven by the desire to deliver more powerful tools into the hands of research astronomers. The expectations of the scientists who use observing facilities and online services evolve year-to-year. A decade ago the observatory's data management responsibilities ended when the data were read out of the instrument and written to a disk at the telescope. Observers were satisfied to bring their own tape to the telescope, write the nights data onto the tape, and take it home. There are only a few major telescopes now that follow that procedure. It used to be standard practice for scientists to write major pieces of software to reduce and analyze data. That situation was revolutionized with IRAF (Tody 1986) data reduction software which was produced at an observatory and was tightly integrated with the instruments and observing procedures used at that observatory and at that time. Most observatories today have at least a primitive means of saving and protecting their data in an archive. In summary, science data management has evolved a great deal in the past decade. The VO movement is a reflection of this ongoing evolution.


During its first 500 days in office, the foreign policies of the Carter Administration were characterized by activism, innovation and rhetoric about the best interests of humanityas well as by indecision, inconsistency, and frustration. Policies to promote world economic growth and to regulate the flow of international trade were no exceptions. Good intentions may not quite have led to hell; but the landscape of unresolved dilemmas and discarded policies looked like a vision of purgatory. By the Administration's second summer, it was not yet clear what would emerge from the ordeal, but it was evident that the outcomes would not closely resemble the hopes and ambitions of January 1977. This essay will discuss the Carter Administration's road to purgatory in two areas-global demand management policy ("growth policy") and international trade. Throughout the essay, I assume that foreign and domestic policies, and politics, are closely intertwined. Within countries, a struggle takes place between groups with different interests-for instance, unionized workers in importcompeting industries versus consumers favoring cheap imports, or sometimes bankers versus industrialists. Although these differences are never finally resolved in a pluralistic society, a balance is struck by governments, who define "the national interest" in view of political pressures as well as their -own calculations. At this point, the struggle becomes internationalized: since foreigners are usually not represented in domestic politics, the preferred policies of governments are almost invariably inconsistent with one another. Each state seeks to impose unwanted costs on others rather than inflicting them on its own citizens. The key point is that the politics of foreign economic policy center around the question of which states will bear the major costs of adjusting to change. Foreign economic relationships are highly political. Controversies about economic policies are rarely issues of technique; on the contrary, real interests are at stake. Any analysis of foreign economic policy must deal with issues of motivation. To what extent should one interpret policies as motivated by desires for power, or for wealth? Are these motivations contradictory or complementary, and where do the real choices lie? These issues are discussed in the following section. To understand the results of policy, it is also necessary to analyze constraints. What


The Trump administration has embarked upon two large economic policy initiatives at a time of full employment: increasing the budget deficit by cutting personal and corporate tax rates; and increasing protection, especially against countries with which the United States has bilateral trade deficits. These initiatives are meant to reduce trade deficits and increase employment and incomes in the US manufacturing sector. Economic analysis tells us that the result will be larger trade deficits, and weaker total tradeables, including manufacturing employment. There may or may not be a net gain for employment and incomes in those industries which have been the greatest beneficiaries of protection. Trump's protection policies will damage incomes in the United States and the rest of the world; the damage will be greater if other countries retaliate or emulate. Alternative policies that compensate losers from free trade would give better results.


On the basis of geological exploration and rock structure analysis of the slope,the geological background and engineering conditions were researched especially.By calculating with limit equilibrium method,it is suggested that Mingshenggong Landslide Erosion is on the critical to unstable state.Then discrete element model was set up to analog the supposed sliding process,and the average velocity,average acceleration,composite forces and composite moment in back,middle and forth of the erosion's landslide in each stages of evolution are analyzed and studied as well,which represent that the evolution process of landslide could be recognized into four periods: beginning period,accelerating period,quick-moving period,bumping-deceleration and braking period.


A new aporphine alkaloid, laurodionine (1), was isolated from the stems of Phoebe formosana, along with p-hydroxybenzaldehyde, vanillin, (E)-gadain, helioxanthin, N-formyldehydroannonaine, and N-formylannonaine. The structure of 1 was characterized as N-6/C-7 oxalyl-fused dehydrolaurolitsine by spectral analysis.


A new kind of active mineral admixture was produced by blending proportional desulfurized gypsum and flyash,which are both solid waste byproducts from coal-fired power plants.C30~C55 concretes with desulfurized gypsum-flyash were manufactured and their main technical performances were tested.It is concluded that with 20%~40% desulfurized gypsum-flyash blended,the concrete shows excellent workability,low slump loss,stable strength development,low brittleness,good impermeability,weak cracking tendency,strong wear resistance,great freezing-thawing and corrosion resistance,which can be called high-performance and green material.The cost analysis of the new material shows that there are obvious benefits for society,economy as well as environment protection of high-volume double-utilization of the material in civil engineering for vast consumption and high level usage of wastes.


Information can be found and shared through social media effectively and quickly. One of the most widely used social media is Twitter. Any information shared on social media is not always true. With millions of social media users, the platform cannot be separated from disseminating information whose truth is uncertain. This has a negative impact on society because it can increase people's distrust of information circulating on social media. To overcome this problem, This research propose system that can detect hoax information on social media using deep learning. This research focuses on detecting hoaxes using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) methods using a dataset from Twitter of 25.325 data. To obtain optimum results, this study utilizes Feature Expansion in the form of GloVe (Global Vector) and Feature Extraction with TF-IDF (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency). The uniqueness of this research lies in the combined application of TF-IDF feature extraction with GloVe feature expansion using CNN and RNN deep learning methods. The results of this study prove that the hoax detection system, by applying a combination of extraction feature with expansion features, can increase the accuracy value up to 95.09% in the CNN classification method, and in the RNN classification method, it has an accuracy of 95.12%.


Central difference approximations to the fluid dynamic equations require an artificial viscosity in order to converge to a steady state. This artificial viscosity serves two purposes. One is to suppress high frequency noise which is not ,iamped by the central differences. The second purpose is to introduce an entropy-like con, tition so that shocks can be captured. These viscosities need a coefficient to measure the amount of viscosity to be added. In the standard scheme, a scalar coefficient is used based o a the spectral radius of the Jacobian of the convective flux. However, this can add too mucll viscosity to the slower waves. Hence, we suggest using a matrix viscosity. This gives an appropriate viscosity for each wave component. With this matrix valued coefficient, 1he central difference scheme becomes closer to upwind biased methods.


In this paper I will demonstrate that the South African vision of multiculturalism as it is expressed in the National Curriculum Statement is limited and that it is not preparing young South Africans for the twenty-first century. I will argue that to achieve a broader multiculturalism, the educational system needs to further foreign languages actively. Twelve years ago, education was faced with the challenge of designing a curriculum which affirmed the diversity of South African cultures, religions, ethnic and racial groups while unifying people within this diversity. Policy was thus underpinned very firmly by the principles of multiculturalism. However, South African multiculturalism is inward-looking, it does not prepare learners for the realities of a nation composed not only of a heterogeneous population of South Africans but which also comprises a growing number of non-South Africans. South African multiculturalism must be broadened to go beyond local cultural diversity to include world cultures. Education must open learners to the Other: to South Africans of different cultural groups, as well as people of other nationalities. I will argue that this discovery of the Other and of Otherness can best be made through the learning of foreign languages.


The marked inequality in distribution of wealth and resources in South Africa, notably farm land, support services, and consequently opportunities to compete in agricultural markets, necessitates carrying out of a comprehensive rural restructuring aimed at eradicating the persistent poverty among the almost 16 million residing in rural areas. In the long term, development of these areas should yield a fast-growing and sustainable rural economy characterised by maximum participation of society through entrepreneurship, employment and income generation. Various interest groups which participate in and influence debate and analyses of issues on agricultural and rural development, offer different viewpoints on this aspect. The ANC's Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) has been drafted based largely on the common strategic notions emanating from these debates. This paper highlights and discusses some issues raised within the RDP with respect to agricultural policy. The surprisingly limited reference...


PURPOSE: A method and a system for issuing a paper bankbook through the online, and a recording medium for the same are provided to process are provided to process fake seal by bankbook according to real transaction, thereby a client has no need to visit the financial institute for issuing bankbook. CONSTITUTION: A bankbook seal approval processing server comprises next. A information receiver(815) receives predetermined information about requesting authorization of bankbook seal. A validity confirming unit(820) confirms validity about the received information about requesting authorization of bankbook seal. An information confirming unit(830) confirms whether an bankbook seal image information and fake seal image information matches each other. If the information matches, a seal authorization processor(835) authorizes the fake seal image information.


Through translating Spencer's Principles of Psychology into Chinese as Yi Ye Yao Lan(《肄业要览》) in 1882,Yan Yongjing became the first Chinese scholar introducing western psychology into China,and in order to get this job done,he had to coin some Chinese words.But these newly created expressions were not rigorous enough,so when translating Haven's Mental Psychology into Chinese seven years later,he adjusted some of them and created some others,making these terms more in line with Chinese culture while faithfully conveying their original meanings.The psychological terms coined by Yan Yongjing matched very well Japanese coinages of psychological terms that were rendered in Kanji(i.e.Chinese characters).These new coinages are a major showcase for the initial interaction between western psychology and Chinese culture.Before the introduction of Japanese translation of western psychology into China,the psychological terms created by Yan Yongjing provided Chinese people with an important approach to understanding western psychology in the Chinese cultural context.


The politically influential idea of sustainable development is closely tied to the concept of inter- and intragenerational justice without clarifying these concepts and their relationship. In developing an account of human development, the capability approach conceptualizes parts of intragenerational justice, but not intergenerational justice. After explaining briefly our motivation by establishing the link to sustainable development, this paper aims to close the gap in two steps: first, it clarifies elements of a universal theory of justice. Second, it examines how well the CA can take up these elements before drafting how this would translate back to the political context of sustainable development.


Van de Ree has provided a solution to what must be a fairly common problem in navigation. The problem may be stated as follows. A ship on a rhumb-line course encounters head-winds and heavy seas requiring her to reduce speed. If she alters course, but does not change the rate of fuel consumption, her speed will be given by (a + b sin A), where A is the course change, a is the speed into the head sea and a + b is the speed in a beam sea. How far should the navigator alter course so that, after a given time, the ship will be nearer the destination than on any other course and, in addition, the labouring of the vessel will be reduced? Van de Ree's trial-and-error solution assumed the destination to be initially 63 miles away, a = 12, b = 5, and the optimization period 1 hour. His solution was to alter course by 20(± 2·5)°. It is possible to obtain a general algebraic solution to this problem, but it requires differentiating complicated trigonometric functions and solving a complicated trigonometric equation, and so the algebraic solution is not practically useful. It is also possible to solve the problem graphically. This solution is by far the simplest one and would be recommended in place of either Van de Ree's laborious numerical solution, or the equally difficult algebraic solution. However, one could question whether the chosen tactic is the appropriate one.


https://jkms.org Gastric cancer (GC) incidence rate in Korea is very high (52.7 for men and 21.4 for women per 100,000, age-standardized in 2014). Symptoms in early stage of GC are minimal or nonspecific, therefore, GC is usually diagnosed by screening upper endoscopy.1 In everyday life, prevention of GC is important. The primary prevention of GC consists of Helicobacter pylori treatment and modifications of daily life habits to avoid GC development. The secondary prevention of GC consists of early diagnosis of early gastric cancer (EGC) for appropriate treatment. Knowledge of GC screening and surveillance data by literature are important for planning the secondary prevention of GC.


Port Moresby is the capital city of Papua New Guinea and has a population of 200 000 with a further 130 000 in the surrounding Central Province (1). Surgical audit figures show that 30% of surgical admissions are due to trauma but no formal study of the epidemiology of trauma has been published. In the highlands town of Mendi 11% of hospital and 43% of surgical admissions are due to injury (2) and in Milne Bay Province Barss showed that even in a rural community trauma is a common health problem (3, 4).


Microencapsulation of ceramic powders using metalloorganic stearate soaps was investigated as an economical means to increase solid-state reactivity of multicomponent mixtures. The specific system investigated was lead magnesium niobate (PMN); however, the process may be applicable to a wide range of other compositions. The physical and chemical characteristics of the unfired powder mixtures and reactivity during subsequent calcination were studied as a function of batch composition and mixing method. Batch composition was varied by molar substitution of magnesium stearate for magnesium carbonate. Mixing method was investigated by comparing a dry-mixing technique developed for particle coating (mechanofusion) with conventional wet ball milling. Both mixing processes resulted in surface coating of the ceramic particles by the stearate soap. In addition, the mechanofusion process produced densely packed spherical granules of coated particles (multicored microcapsules) in the 50- to 200-μm range. Solid-state reactivity was measured in terms of perovskite phase yield, increased yields being indicative of a more reactive mixture. The highest perovskite yields (95 to 98 vol%) were achieved at 100 mol% substitution of magnesium stearate for magnesium carbonate, independent of mixing method. However, when magnesium stearate was only partially substituted for magnesium carbonate, the mechanofusion process produced consistently higher perovskite yields than did ball milling. Compared to conventional mixed-oxide processing, the increased reactivity of the microencapsulated mixtures can be attributed to higher chemical activity of the metallo-organic precursor, finer scale of mixing achieved by particle coating, and a further reduction in segregation scale due to the dense intragranule packing of multicore microcapsules.


The continuous and strategic development of the Institution of Higher Education promotes the active participation of the university community, since in this space of growth information is present. The media have a relevant appearance in the daily life of any organization. The management of this in universities is a complex task, since in this area sociologically different groups live together, with demands and expectations of each individual. This research addresses internal communication and the use of media in students of the Universidad Iberoamericana del Ecuador, through the spaces of interaction in digital media that strengthen the university group. The method was based on a Quantitative-Descriptive study in July 2019 with a sample of 67 Men and 106 Women. As part of the results it was obtained that, of the studied individuals, the daily use of traditional media such as Television, Radio and Press is less than digital media that is 100% daily in different social networks or virtual platforms, as is the preference from the social network Facebook. Regarding the conclusions, it can be indicated that students prefer to receive notifications such as events, activities or institutional news through the WhatsApp mobile application, as well as through the social network Facebook.


The purpose of this study was to compare three methods of plyometric training on muscles power among female students. Thirty three participants (age, 16.8 ± 3.7 yrs; weight, 56.26 ± 6.9; height, 155.96 ± 7.2) selected for this study. The subjects were randomize in three groups included over handle jump (N=11), drop jump (N=11) and high jump groups (N=11). All of the groups performed plyometric training in separate protocols for 18 sessions, 3 times per week and at least 30 minutes activity after warm up. The subjects measured in two sessions before and after training sessions. The result of the study revealed that a significantly improvement in pretest and posttest in three methods of groups. The finding of the study provided evidence that no significant difference between three methods of plyometric (OJ, DJ and HJ groups) on muscles power is detected. Therefore, the plyometric training can use to improvement in muscles power in female students.


In India most of construction is work by conventional method (cast in situ). So a country goes to fast, time effective and achieving advance technique type of construction. Precast is one the source which gives the construction time fast, with proper stability, economy, durability etc. Precast staircase is constructed in factory with required quality, quantity, easily mix, and curing achieved with good desired strength. After the precast staircase constructed it should be go for erection in site. Different type of precast staircase should be design in factories. So various literatures as studied and a review of those all has been given in this paper. Also the advantages of precast staircase are also discussed here.


In this study, we aimed to isolate compounds from Stachys lavandulifolia (Lamiaceae) by chromatographic methods and perform tyrosinase, acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase enzyme-inhibition and antimicrobial activity studies of these compounds by in vitro methods. In addition, a molecular docking study was planned for the molecule with the highest effect. Two flavone glycosides, apigenin-7-O-glucoside and luteolin-7-O-glucoside, were isolated from S. lavandulifolia. Both compounds were observed to be effective against Enterococcus faecalis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Staphylococcus aureus. The compounds showed weak tyrosinase and butyrylcholine esterase inhibition, while only luteolin-7-O-glucoside showed a more significant inhibitory effect against acetylcholinesterase (65 ± 2%). Therefore, molecular interactions between acetylcholinesterase and luteolin-7-O-glucoside were evaluated. In the docking study, it was observed that the molecule was bound to the enzyme with a low amount of free binding energy (Glide score: −8.31). As a result, the antibacterial effect of apigenin-7-O-glucoside and both antibacterial and acetylcholinesterase-inhibitory effects of luteolin-7-O-glucoside were determined.


In this paper, we report a systematic investigation of the crystal structure and superconducting properties of iron-based superconductors Eu1−xNaxFe2As2 (x = 0–0.5). X-ray diffraction patterns indicate that the compounds form the ThCr2Si2-type structure with space group I4/mmm. The systematic evolution of the lattice constant demonstrates that the Eu ions are successfully replaced by Na. The use of alkali metal substitution into the Eu site allows us to suppress the magnetic/structural phase transition in the parent compounds and superconductivity reaches as high as 35 K with a doping level of x = 0.5. In addition, single crystals of Eu1−xNaxFe2As2 (x = 0, 0.5) have been successfully synthesized using the self-flux method. The upper critical fields have been determined with the magnetic field along the ab-plane and the c-axis, yielding an anisotropy of 1.7. The high upper critical fields and the low superconducting anisotropy of the Na-doped EuFe2As2 compounds indicate a potential for applications such as the generation of high magnetic fields.


In this paper, real crude oils are dealt with which are modeled with an average of 30 components. On the selected examples, neither the initial tie line, i.e., the tie line that extends through the original oil composition, nor the gas tie line, i.e., the tie line that extends through the injected gas composition, controls the miscibility process. In any case, the miscibility process is controlled by one of the (nc − 3) crossover tie lines, if nc is the number of components in the crude oil. However, it is shown that the miscibility process may be a pure vaporizing gas drive mechanism (VGDM). To be more precise, it is shown that a mixed condensing/vaporizing mechanism may, with increasing pressure, turn into a pure VGDM. This means that the classical definition of a VGDM, i.e., the lowest pressure at which the initial tie line is critical, must be changed. This is the main point of this paper. In the case of a VGDM controlled by a crossover tie line, the MMP (the lowest pressure at which the key crossover...


The effect on microstructure and electrical properties of (Co, Nb)-doped SnO2 varistors upon the addition of Pr2O3 was investigated by scanning electron microscopy and by determining I–V, ɛ–f, and R–f relations. The threshold electric field of the SnO2-based varistors increased significantly from 850 to 2280 V/mm, and the relative dielectric constants of the SnO2-based varistors decreased greatly from 784 to 280 as Pr2O3 concentration was increased up to 0.3 mol%. The significant decrease of the SnO2 grain size, from 4.50 to 1.76 μm with increasing Pr2O3 concentration over the range of 0–0.3 mol%, is the origin for the increase in the threshold voltage and decrease of the dielectric constants. The grain size reduction is attributed to the segregation of Pr2O3 at grain boundaries hindering the SnO2 grains from conglomerating into large particles. Varistors were found to have a superhigh threshold voltage and a comparatively large nonlinear coefficient α. For 0.15 mol% Pr2O3-doped sample, threshold electric field and nonlinear coefficient α were measured to be 1540 V/mm and 61, and for 0.3 mol% Pr2O3-doped sample, V and α were 2150 V/mm and 42, respectively. Superhigh threshold voltage and large nonlinear coefficient α qualify the Pr-doped SnO2 varistor as an excellent candidate for a high voltage protection system.


In order to reduce the cost of polysilicon production and enhance its market competition,the main polysilicon process of improved Siemens approach in domestic and overseas was investigated.Based on the analysis of energy consumption in main plants of polysilicon,such as energy coupling use,comprehensive utilization of energy recovery,and new high efficiency and energy saving technology,so multi-effect distillation,reducing heat energy comprehensive utilization system,and cold hydrogenation process were used to replace the existing polysilicon production process.The results show that these measurements can save energy and reduce polysilicon cost greatly,thus providing guidance for polysilicon plants reconstruction and transformation in the future.


The psychological perspectives and practices of elite athletes sport career transition and lifespan development in various countries are introduced and reviewed in the present paper. The role of sport institute in the athletic career assistance approaches is highlighted. This would be meaningful on the reforming progress of China elite sport system.


A new teaching sequence was developed for an introductory high school chemistry course. In this teaching sequence experiments are designed so as to capture student interest, enhance their motivation, and get them involved in the learning process.


The Hermite-Hadamard inequality and its generalization, the Fejér inequality, have many applications. A simple application is to approximate the definite integral ∫ b a f(x) dx if the function f is convex. In this short note, we show how to relax the convexity property of the function f , and thus we obtain inequalities that involve a larger class of functions. This new study also raises some open questions.


The pattern of rural land transfer is considered to be the key for the rural economic development. Land bank transfer pattern in Yangling is a successful attempt. Although it still has some shorts,for example,being too administrative and not perfect in law,it is worth studying. Its superiority lies in that the large scale circulation becomes true and various resources are attracted to the rural land. Based on the above analysis,we put forward some suggestions on market mechanism.


Royan Institute International Journal of Fertility and Sterility Vol 8, No 3, Oct-Dec 2014, Pages: 225-226 Clinical trials, systematic reviews and guidelines compare beneficial and non-beneficial outcomes following interventions. Often, however, various studies on a particular topic do not address the same outcomes, making it difficult to draw clinically useful conclusions when a group of studies is looked at as a whole (1). This problem was recently thrown into sharp focus by a systematic review of interventions for preterm birth prevention, which found that among 103 randomised trials, no fewer than 72 different outcomes were reported (2). There is a growing recognition among clinical researchers that this variability undermines consistent synthesis of the evidence, and that what is needed is an agreed standardised collection of outcomes-a "core outcomes set"-for all trials in a specific clinical area (1). Recognising that the current inconsistency is a serious hindrance to progress in our specialty, the editors of over 50 journals related to women's health have come together to support The CROWN (CoRe Outcomes in WomeN's health) Initiative (Box 1).


Using inversion recovery steady‐state free precession segmented k‐space imaging for the detection of myocardial infarction, we noticed that some structures appeared in the wrong locations of the image. In this work, the spatial displacement is demonstrated and explained from both theoretical and experimental points of view. The effect is due to a change in phase from segment to segment of the detected magnetization from species with long T1's such as cysts, fluid collections, and cerebrospinal fluid. Depending on the number of k‐space segments and view ordering, structures can be replicated throughout the image or displaced by half of the phase‐encoding field of view. Magn Reson Med 54:481–485, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The paper covers research and development of the container gantry crane simulator,focusing on the research content,and the simulator composition,basic functions and features.It can drive down the cost of the personal training,put an end to training accidents.It is a new way to personal training and has a great practical significance.


This paper proposes a method to estimate relative position of the Sun for Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) in real-time. The video images captured from cameras mounted in vehicles are affected by relative position of the Sun. If an ADAS can calculate the relative position of the Sun, image processing method to reduce the Sun effects can be applied based on the information. The proposed method calculate relative position of the Sun using GPS values, current time and vehicle"s heading angle. Using KITTI dataset, the result shows that the proposed method can be applicable in real ADAS for estimating relative position of the Sun.


Small bussines provide a major economic contribution to society and the state. Thissector have been survived Indonesia from 1998 financial crisis. There are significantcontribution to Indonesia economic. One global issues for government today is combating taxevasion. Related this issue, this research explore Indonesia small bussines community'sperception towards tax compliance.The research aims to establish whether small bussinescompany view the depth understanding of tax compliance and non compliance. It is explorethe reason being compliance and also their intention being non compliance including taxevasion and tax avoidance. It also aims to establish whether a relationship exists betweencitizens' attitudes towards tax evasion and their demographic characteristics. A survey wasundertaken in an owner of small trader in Bangkalan city, East Java Province. Qualitativeresearch is conduct to gain rich data in interpretive paradigm. The survey found that noncompliance tax attitude is considered unacceptable. In case they didn't report their taxobligation, it is related to their lack of accounting knowledge. DOI:  10.15408/akt.v8i2.2765


OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between plasma fatty acids and cognitive status in Parkinson9s Disease.
BACKGROUND: Dietary lipid status has been explored as a risk factor for age-related cognitive decline and dementia in the general population, but relatively few studies have examined lipid status and cognition in Parkinson9s disease patients, who are at high risk of dementia. In addition, few studies in this area apply methods that model the inter-relationships between different lipid types.
DESIGN/METHODS: Plasma fatty acids were quantified with gas chromatography in a population of 286 individuals with Parkinson9s disease who also had a neuropsychologic assessment as part of their participation in the Pacific Northwest Udall Center. Fatty acid patterns were extracted with principal components analysis (PCA). Linear regression models were then fit to assess the association between principal components and cognitive function, and between independent fatty acids and cognitive function.
RESULTS: PCA revealed significant inter-correlations among fatty acids, some expected (eg,the omega 3 fatty acids DHA and EPA) and some unexpected (eg, lignoceric acid (LA), tricosanoic acid (TA), and nervonic acid (NA)). Both the principal components and individual fatty acids were significantly correlated with cognitive outcomes, including relationships between 1) verbal fluency and LA (p<0.001), TA (p<0.001), NA (p<0.01) and DHA (p<0.01); 2) Hopkins Verbal Learning Task and LA (p<0.001), TA (p<0.01), and NA (p<0.01); 3) Trails B and LA (p<0.05) and NA (p<0.05). Many of these relationships remained when demented subjects were excluded from the analysis.
CONCLUSIONS: 1) Lipid status may influence cognitive function in Parkinson9s disease. 2) Principal components analysis may be a useful exploratory analysis for high-dimensional datasets like fatty acid profiles.
Study Supported by:Pacific Northwest Udall Center (P50NS062684), Dept of Veteran9s Affairs Northwest PADRECC, the Huber Family Disclosure: Dr. Murchison has received research support from National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Dr. Quinn has received personal compensation for activities with Novartis as a speaker. Dr. Quinn has received research support from Elan Corp., Baxter Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., and Pfizer Inc. Dr. Cholerton has nothing to disclose. Dr. Leverenz has received personal compensation for activities with Navidea and Piramal. Dr. Montine has nothing to disclose. Dr. Zabetian has nothing to disclose. Dr. Chung has received personal compensation for activities with Med-IQ. Dr. Peterson has nothing to disclose. Dr. Bowman has nothing to disclose.


The critical subject to provide energy consumption graphs from a building is an energy monitoring system. With the rapid Internet of Things (IoT) development, it is possible to develop a better energy monitoring system based on IoT. This system presents the real-time energy consumption data. Hence, this paper proposes the development of an energy monitoring system prototype based on IoT for buildings in Institut Teknologi Sumatera campus area. The current and voltage are measured in real-time for each wiring phase on the building electrical panel. The data is collected in the cloud server and displayed in a web-based system using custom web panel. Finally, the prototype is implemented in the building during 24/7 for one week achieving about 97% of the accuracy.


The structure of the high temperature polymorph of Bi2MoO6 has been determined by Rietveld powder refinement of high-resolution neutron diffraction data from the H1A diffractometer at the Brookhaven HFBR (high flux beam reactor). The cation distribution forms a fluorite-related supercell with infinite channels of bismuth polyhedra surrounded by molybdenum tetrahedra, in agreement with previously proposed models. The structure is refined in the monoclinic space group P 21/c to Rwp = 0.134 and R1 = 0.084 (Rexp = 0.024) from 2559 reflections: a = 17.2627(1) A, b = 22.4296(2) A, c = 5.58489(5) A, β = 90.4974(6)°, Z = 16. Bond valence sums and site potentials have been calculated which reveal evidence for significant charge transfer in this structure. The relationship of this phase to other catalytically-active bismuth molybdates is discussed.


Preface 262 1 Aims of this report 263 2 Telemetry and data logging 263 3 How to use this report 264 4 Harms and beneŽ ts associated with telemetry 264 4.1 Potential harms associated with telemetry 265 4.2 Opportunities for reŽ nement using telemetry 266 4.2.1 ReŽ ning procedures using telemetry 266 4.2.2 Using telemetry to reŽ ne housing and care 267 4.2.3 The potential for reduction 267 4.2.4 Data quality 267 5 Legal issues 268 6 Experimental design 268 6.1 Data and sampling 268 6.2 Physical arrangement of hardware 269 7 Selecting or designing a device 270 7.1 Mass of the device 270 WORKING PARTY REPORT