Salbumin seedstorage proteins undergo acomplex series ofposttranslational proteolytic cleavages. Inorder todetermine ifthisprocess iscorrectly carried outintransgenic plants, the geneAT2S1encoding anArabidopsis thaliana 2Salbumin isoform hasbeenexpressed intransgenic tobacco. Initial experiments usinga reporter genedemonstrated thattheAT2S1promoter directs seedspecific expression inbothtransgenic tobacco and Brassica napusplants. Theentire AT2S1genewasthentrans- ferred into tobacco plants, whereitshowedatissue specific and developmentally regulated expression. Arabidopsis 2Salbumin accumulates upto0.1%ofthetotal high-salt extractable seed protein. Protein sequencing demonstrated that theaminotermini ofthetwoArabidopsis 2Salbumin subunits werecorrectly proc- essed, suggesting thattheprotease(s) necessary forposttrans- lational processing of2Salbumin precursors maydisplay com- monspecificities amongdifferent dicot plant species. Immuno- cytochemical studies showedthattheArabidopsis 2Salbumin is localized intheprotein bodymatrix oftobacco endosperm and embryo. Correct processing andtargeting ofthe2Salbumin in transgenic plants suggests thatmodified versions couldbeex- pressed, allowing thestudyof2Salbumin processing andin particular thepossible roles oftheprocessed fragments inprotein stability and/or targeting.


Adaptive loop filtering for video coding is to minimize the mean square error between original samples and decoded samples by using Wiener-based adaptive filter. The proposed ALF is located at the last processing stage for each picture and can be regarded as a tool to catch and fix artifacts from previous stages. The suitable filter coefficients are determined by the encoder and explicitly signaled to the decoder. In order to achieve better coding efficiency, especially for high resolution videos, local adaptation is used for luma signals by applying different filters to different regions or blocks in a picture. In addition to filter adaptation, filter on/off control at coding tree unit (CTU) level is also helpful for improving coding efficiency. Syntax-wise, filter coefficients are sent in a picture level header called adaptation parameter set, and filter on/off flags of CTUs are interleaved at CTU level in the slice data. This syntax design not only supports picture level optimization but also achieves a low encoding latency. Simulation results show that the ALF can achieve on average 7% bit rate reduction for 25 HD sequences. The run time increases are 1% and 10% for encoders and decoders, respectively, without special attention to optimization in C++ code.


Sustainable and energy efficient (SEE) attributes in the housing market have become a focus in Canada. Similarly, understanding the consumer's decision-making process of this high-involvement ethical product has become a burgeoning area for researchers. This study describes the development of the subject, highlighting the nature of the ethical decision-making process and how it relates to this known intention–behaviour gap. An observation, followed by two studies consisting of in-depth interviews with real estate agents and sales representatives (n = 15) and home purchasers/consumers (n = 15), were conducted. Transcriptions were analysed qualitatively with NVivo Pro 12 software (NVivo Pro 12, QSR International Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia). Inductive thematic analysis revealed two main driving themes: information and trust in seller/realtor. Attribute investment return uncertainty was identified as a theme that affects the strength of the relationship between purchase intention and behaviour, whereas the trust in seller/realtor speaks to how and why this effect occurs. The findings present relationships among the driving factors that were identified by realtors and consumers in the SEE housing market, as well as barriers (investment return uncertainty) that prevent consumers from purchasing high-involvement ethical products.


Abstract The tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) and West Nile virus (WNV) are arboviruses of the genus Flavivirus in the family Flaviviridae. Their hosts are vertebratesof which rodents are the reservoirs of TBEV and birds are the reservoirs of WNV. Both viruses are transmitted from reservoirs to mammals by vectors. TBEV is transmitted by ticks (mostly Ixodes spp.) and WNV by mosquitoes (mostly Culex spp.). Both viruses are capable of infecting mammals, including man. TBEV and WNV are neurotropic, however infection is, in most cases, subclinical or accompanied by only moderate general signs. However, in some cases they can cause serious disturbances of the CNS. Our study focused on the detection of the genomes of TBEV and WNV in vectors by means of the reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The flavivirus genome was detected by means of oligonucleotides delineating the sequence in NS5 gene that encodes viral RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase. For the detection of TBEV, we used the oligonucleotide pair detecting the structural envelope protein. The positive samples were subjected to the sequence and phylogenetic analysis. The WNV was not detected in any of the pooled samples prepared from 616 mosquitoes captured in the vicinity of the village Drienovec, district Košice-surroundings. The investigation of 676 ticks demonstrated the presence of one strain of TBEV. One blood-fed I. ricinus female was obtained from a goat grazing in a pasture in the Dúbrava area close to Prešov. The genetic analysis revealed the presence of a strain close to the endemic strainsof TBEV Hypr and Neudörfl. The results of our study can become a motivation for additional studies in model locations oriented on ecology and circulation of these important zoonotic flaviviruses.


We experimentally validate a 10-channel polarization diverse WDM receiver with only one ring based add-drop multiplexer per channel and on-chip optical delay lines balancing the two polarization paths for speeds up to 28 Gb/s.


Objective
To investigate the coping style and social relational quality of patients with thyroid carcinoma, and analyze the relationship between them, so as to provide a new perspective to improve the coping style of patients with thyroid carcinoma.

Methods
311 patients with thyroid carcinoma were surveyed by the Social Relational Quality Scale and the Medical Coping Style Questionnaire (Chinese version). The level of coping style was compared among the patients with different clinical features, and the pearson correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis were used to explore the relationship between coping style and social relational quality of patients with thyroid carcinoma.

Results
The scores of facing, yield and avoidance in the coping style were (18.96±2.54), (13.15±1.48) and (17.76±2.23), respectively. The scores of social relationship of family intimacy, family responsibility and friendship were (20.47±2.61), (15.22±2.22) and (14.75±2.03), respectively. The total score of social relational quality was (50.44±5.51). The score of facing was positively correlated with the total score and the each dimension score of social relational quality (P<0.05). The scores of yield and avoidance were negatively correlated with the total score and the each dimension score of social relational quality (P<0.05). The differences of coping style in the patients with different family income, model of payment, course of disease and lymph node metastasis were significant (P<0.05). Multiple linear regression analysis showed that the family income, payment method, lymph node metastasis and social relational quality were the predictors of coping style of patients with thyroid carcinoma(P<0.05).

Conclusions
The coping style was significantly correlated with social relational quality in patients with thyroid carcinoma. We should improve the coping style by improving the social relational quality.

Key words:
Thyroid carcinoma; Coping style; Social relational quality; Correlation


In order to solve the problems related to the management of students' bedtime in vocational colleges and improve the efficiency of students' bedtime management, an intelligent bed for students' bedtime management is designed, which is composed of bed and sensor unit, signal processing unit, and ZigBee transmission unit. The algorithm of the collected pressure sensor data is improved, and an improved amplitude limiting lag average filtering algorithm is proposed. The management system uses the methods of composite collection of information, intelligent processing, big data analysis, etc. to upload the data to the cloud server, through the mobile phone app and other terminals to timely grasp the sleeping situation of students at night. The experiment shows that the system improves the efficiency of students' bedtime management by 10%.


Electrodialysis and bipolar electrodialysis were used in two case studies with uranium mine waste water: 1. Electrodialysis increases Na2SO4 concentration before evaporator 2. Bipolar electrodialysis produces 1.5 % H2SO4 and 4 % NaOH for local reuse New pilot and industrial units were designed and constructed with 1 m2 and 33.3 m2 of membrane surface, respectively. While the pilot module was operated for 11 months since March 2016, the industrial module has been in operation since March 2017. With the electricity consumption was 2.0 kW per kg of recycled Na2SO4, the operating cost now approximates the value of recycled chemicals.


In this research the design and manufacturing process of a ceramic brick worked as an
aesthetic and constructive solution masonry. The polypropylene fiber in the ceramic composition
is the cohesive element of aggregate that allowed the ladrilllo reach values compressive
strength and flexural brick required by Technical Standards Ecuatorina.
The proposed ceramic brick do not need firing, for stabilizing the clay we used a
physicochemical process (cement stabilization and compaction) that lets keep its volume once
formed the piece.


Examined trends in population demographics, education, technologies and economics for the 1990s, particularly as they relate to clinical child psychology and the mental health service delivery system. These trends indicate that the mental health system will encounter a rapidly changing ethnic mix, a growing proportion of new immigrants, few minority mental health professionals, and increasing poverty for young children in our society. Our current mental health service delivery system faces a shortage of well-trained professionals to work with children and diverse ethnocultural groups; problems in distribution, coordination, and integration of our limited mental health resources; and overdependence on traditional service models that may be ineffective with new, difficult-to-serve populations. Innovative service delivery models that overcome many of these obstacles are discussed in the context of recommendations for the future.


After operating the activated coke flue gas desulfurization system,small amounts of high temperature dilute acid are presented in the regenerated gas export pipeline,and then dilute acid leakage problems occurred at the stainless steel tube to the fixed piece welding and flange connection face,since the high temperature dilute acid corrosion to the regenerated gas outlet pipe stainless steel.While causing the site with poor sanitation,can not meet the requirement of factory issued about the site management.Therefore,the improvement measures of using glass tube after cooling for regenerated gas are proposed,so not only get regenerated gas outlet pipe corrosion problems are to be solved,but also the desulphurization system operation rate is greatly improved,and the environmental sanitation is improved obviously as well.


Simplicius, writing in the sixth century, distinguishes physical science from astronomy on the ground that, whereas it is the function of the physicist to "inquire into the nature of the heavens and the stars, into their potentialities, their quality, their becoming and passing away," astronomy has no competence in questions of this primary character. Its function is "to determine the order of the heavenly bodies, their figures, magnitudes, distances from the earth, sun and moon, their eclipses, conjunctions, the quantitative and qualitative properties of their motions," etc. For this purpose it requires arithmetic and geometry, but cares not how the heavenly motions be described, whether in terms of excentrics or epicycles, so long as the appearances can thus be accounted for.


Four new Mn(II) coordination polymers [Mn(4,4′-bpy)(C6H5COO)2]n (1), [Mn(4,4′-bpy)(o-(NO2)C6H4COO)2]n (2), [Mn(4,4′-bpy)(m-(NO2)C6H4COO)2]n (3), and [Mn(4,4′-bpy)(p-(NO2)C6H4COO)2]n (4) (where 4,4′-bpy = 4,4′-bipyridine) have been synthesized by self-assembly of the primary ligands, benzoate and the o-, m-, and p-isomers of nitrobenzoates, respectively, together with 4,4′-bpy as the secondary spacer. All four complexes were characterized by elemental analyses, IR spectroscopy, single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses, and variable-temperature magnetic measurements. The structural analyses reveal that complexes 1 and 3 are constructed by linear fused chains through double syn-syn (for 1) or syn-anti (for 3) carboxylate-bridged Mn(II), which are further linked to one another by trans coordinated 4,4′-bpy bridges, giving rise to a rectangular grid-like two-dimensional (2D) net. Complex 2 features one-dimensional (1D) molecular ladder formed by both syn-syn and syn-anti carboxylate-bridged dimeric Mn(II) uni...


Multimedia has brought new paradigms to education where users are able to use the technology to create compelling content that truly represents a new archetype in media experience. According to Burger (1995), the synergy of digital media is becoming a way of life where new paradigms for interactive audio-visual experiences of all communicative arts to date are mandatory. It potentially mixes technology and disciplines of architecture and art. Students can learn on their own pace and they can be tested in a non-linear way while interactivity allows the curious to easily explore related topics and concepts. Fundamental assumptions, theories and practices of conventional design paradigm are constantly being challenged by digital technology and this is the current scenario in architecture and art and design schools globally. Thus schools are enhancing the methods and improvising the technology of imparting knowledge to be in consistent with recent findings and knowledge. To be able to cater the use of digital media and information technology on architectural and art design education, four criteria are required, which are; the SPACE and place to accommodate the educational activities, the TOOLS that assist imparting of knowledge, the CONTENT of syllabus and information and the acceptance and culture of the receiving end users and HUMAN PERCEPTION. There is a need for the research of realization and activating the architectural space that has been equipped with multimedia tools and upgraded with recent technology to facilitate and support the community of learners and users. Spaces are now more interactive, multi functional, flexible and intelligent to suit the trend of computing in normal everyday life of the education sector, business and management, art and leisure, corporate and technological area. While the new concept of computing in education is still in the earlier phase, the conventional analogue paradigm still dominates the architectural design discourse which acts as a barrier to the development of digital designs and architectural THE SIGNIFICANT ROLE OF AN ELECTRONIC GALLERY TO THE ... 17 education. A suitable approach is in need to bridge the gap between what theory has been explored and the practice of knowledge. A digital support environment with intelligent design and planning tools is envisioned to bridge the gap and to cater for the current scenario.


This paper presents the development and implementation of a fuzzy inference system for fault prediction in a gas turbine of commercial scale that represents the main equipment of a thermoelectric unit belonging to the industrial park of thee Brazilian Oil Company (Brazil). The FIS is based on a preliminary step that comprised the pattern recognition from data considering the cases with and without failure during the starting the turbine. The patterns were recognized through clustering of Multivariate Time Series obtained from the Plant Information Management System (PIMS). The paper contains the case study and an overview of the whole methodology including the modeling of the FIS. The implementation of the fuzzy system is detailed and and the results are discussed.


Doubled haploid (DH) lines are used in maize breeding to accelerate the breeding cycle and create homogenous inbred lines in as little as two seasons. These pure inbred lines allow breeders to quickly evaluate new cross combinations. There are two important steps in creating DH lines: 1) generation and selection of haploid progeny, and 2) genome doubling to create fertile, diploid inbreds. Colchicine is widely used to artificially double genomes in haploid plants, which is hazardous, expensive, and time consuming. In this study, three public inbred lines A427, A637, and NK778 were found to have substantial haploid male fertility (HMF). A six-parent full diallel between these three HMF lines and three non-HMF lines was created and HMF was scored. Diallel analysis revealed significant GCA estimates of up to 17% for HMF, as well as significant SCA effects of up to 25%. No significant reciprocal effects were found. HMF is promising to be incorporated into elite maize breeding programs to potentially overcome the need of using colchicine treatments for genome doubling. Colchicine aided doubling success rates varying from almost zero to 30%. HMF has an advantage over artificial genome doubling both in terms of increased success rates and decreased costs for DH line production.


Understanding the robustness of topological phases of matter in the presence of interactions poses a difficult challenge in modern condensed matter, showing interesting connections to high energy physics. In this work, we leverage these connections to present a complete analysis of the continuum long-wavelength description of a generic class of correlated topological insulators: Wilson-Hubbard topological matter. We show that a Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) approach, combined with the so-called topological Hamiltonian, provide a quantitative route to understand interaction-induced topological phase transitions that occur in Wilson-Hubbard matter. We benchmark two-loop RG predictions for a quasi-1D Wilson-Hubbard model by means of exhaustive numerical simulations based on matrix product states (MPS). The agreement of the RG predictions with MPS simulations motivates the extension of the RG calculations to higher-dimensional topological insulators.


In many frequency measurement the accuracy of the data obtained is mainly depending on the frequency difference Δf=f-f0.Howerer,when the measurement is made,the original frequency f0 is disappeared.The trick using self-locking technique of PLL is reported and both f and Δf can be measured accurately.


Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partially Observable MDPs (POMDPs) have been proposed as a framework for performability management. However, exact solution of even small POMDPs is very difficult because of their potentially infinite induced state spaces. In this paper, we present new lower bounds on the accumulated reward measure for MDPs and POMDPs. We describe how the bounds can be used in conjunction with heuristic search techniques in order to circumvent the state-space explosion problem in POMDPs. Our techniques can be used to choose actions that attempt to maximize performability during system recovery in self-healing systems.


These photographs were taken by Emilyn Jane Gjertsen during Spring Term of 2014 in New Zealand. The class was GEOL 373 Regional Geology of New Zealand.


Introduction Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer affecting women in Europe. Advanced breast cancer (ABC) poses a significant therapeutic challenge, and therefore, timely access to treatment is crucial. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the treatment patterns and patients' access to new therapies for ABC in Bulgaria. Methods We conducted a retrospective study in the period 2008–2021. Based on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) database, we analyzed a number of medicinal products with marketing authorization for ABC in the last 13 years. Time to market access was evaluated as the degree of availability, which is measured by the number of medicines that are available to patients (availability index, AI), and the average time elapsed between obtaining a marketing authorization and time to inclusion in the Positive Drug List. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics via Microsoft Excel version 10. Results The average time to access was 564 days for targeted therapy. The availability and compliance index for chemotherapy and hormonal therapy in advanced breast cancer was 1, while the average AI for targeted therapy was 0.67. Patient access to targeted oncology therapy of ABC is above average for Europe and takes 1–2 years. Conclusion Faster access is more evident for biosimilars. National regulatory requirements for pricing and reimbursement have a major impact on market access.


Understanding the mobility patterns of commuter train passengers is crucial for developing efficient and sustainable transportation systems in urban areas. Traditional technologies, such as Automated Passenger Counters (APC) can measure the aggregated numbers of passengers entering and exiting trains, however, they do not provide detailed information nor passenger movements beyond the train itself. To overcome this limitation we investigate the potential combination of traditional APC with an emerging source capable of collecting detailed mobility demand data. This new data source derives from the pilot project TravelSense, led by the Helsinki Regional Transport Authority (HSL), which utilizes Bluetooth beacons and HSL's mobile phone ticket application to track anonymous passenger multimodal trajectories from origin to destination. By combining TravelSense data with APC we are able to better understand the structure of train users' journeys by identifying the origin and destination locations, modes of transport used to access commuter train stations, and boarding and alighting numbers at each station. These insights can assist public transport planning decisions and ultimately help to contribute to the goal of sustainable cities and communities by promoting the use of seamless and environmentally friendly transportation options.


In the process of creating powered transfemoral prostheses, one of the most important tasks is the provision of the user safety while walking. Experience shows that security depends not only on the mechanical strength of such devices, but also on the quality of their control systems, which, among other things, must ensure that latency and error rates of recognition are acceptable for each of the possible changes in gait. Incorrect or late recognition of the activity mode at best can lead to suboptimal assistance from the auxiliary device, and at worst - to loss of stability of the user with a subsequent fall. Loss of stability can also occur due to exceeding the critical time or critical errors of the activity phase recognition and the associated incorrect commands generated by the control system. In this paper, a method for quickly recognizing the phase of the user's activity based on the properties of Hu's moment invariants is substantiated. Its use in the intelligent control systems will minimize the critical errors that contribute to the loss of the user's equilibrium with the powered transfemoral prosthesis.


Accumulated studies reported that the natruretic dopamine (DA) and the anti-natruretic angiotensin II (Ang II) represent an important mechanism to regulate renal Na+ and water excretion through intracellular secondary messengers to inhibit or activate renal proximal tubule (PT) Na+, K+-ATPase (NKA). The antagonistic actions were mediated by the phosphorylation of different position of NKA α1-subunit and different Pals-associated tight junction protein (PATJ) PDZ domains, the different protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms (PKC-β, PKC-ζ), the common adenylyl cyclase (AC) pathway, and the crosstalk and balance between DA and Ang II to NKA regulation. Besides, Ang II-mediated NKA modulation has bi-phasic effects.


Maleic anhydride (MAH) was grafted onto polypropylene (PP) film efficiently by means of introducing the electron donor monomer n-butyl vinyl ether (n-BVE), under UV irradiation. The principal factors affecting surface photografting polymerization such as irradiation time, molar ratio of MAH to BVE, monomer concentration, photoinitiators, UV and solvents, were investigated systematically. The results show that the photografting of MAH/BVE is an effective approach to modify the surface property of the polymeric materials, and the photografting process is very efficient. The contact angle of the grafted surface against water could decrease from 87 ° to less than 20 ° within 40 s of the irradiation time. The grafting efficiency would reach the highest when the molar ratio of MAH to BVE was 1:1, which indicated that the formation of charge transfer complex (CTC) between the binary monomers was favorable to the photografting polymerization. Among the photoinitiators benzildimethylketal (BDK), benzophenone (BP) and isopropylthioxanthone (ITX), the sequence of grafting efficiency was BP>ITX>BDK. Far UV (200–300 nm) radiation played a decisive role in the photografting polymerization and high UV intensity could accelerate this process. The solvent with good affinity towards the substrates was favorable to increase the grafting efficiency, because the diffusion of monomer and photoinitiator to the liquid-solid interface could be swimmingly. FT-IR spectra confirmed that both MAH and BVE had been successfully grafted onto PP film.


Sequential implantations of titanium (Ti) and carbon (C) into bearing steels have resulted in reduced coefficients of friction and improved wear resistance. These results, however, are highly dependent on the substrate material, test technique, and implantation parameters. Tribological property improvements have been reported for unimplanted and Ti and C implanted steel mating surfaces under dry sliding conditions, which may not be representative of anticipated bearing applications where both mating surfaces will be processed. Consequently, load‐friction‐wear (LFW) cylinders and rings fabricated from 440C steel were ion implanted with Ti and C to simulate anticipated bearing applications. Subsequent LFW tests showed a reduction in the steady‐state coefficient of friction of about 14%. More significant improvements were found in the reduction of sliding wear damage, i.e., smaller wear scar areas and elimination of stick–slip sliding wear behavior. Surface analysis was performed to correlate the Ti and C ion concentration–depth profiles with the observed tribological improvements. Comparisons with other published research concerning Ti and C implantation of bearing steels for improved tribological properties are also presented.


Global atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) were developed to simulate the current climate and are used to predict climate change. Several Global Climate Models (GCM's) are available for understanding and projecting climate change. GCM requires to be downscale on a basin-scale and combined with applicable hydrological models considering all components of the hydrologic process. The performance of such coupling models, such as groundwater recharge quantification, should help to make correct adaptation strategies. Climate change has the ability to affect both the quality and quantity of available groundwater, mainly through impact on recharge, evapotranspiration, pump-age and abstraction. As a consequence, groundwater is a significant contributor to the streamflow in areas with fairly shallow water resources, knowing how climate change could impact groundwater supplies is crucial for long-term water resource management. The effect of climate change on groundwater systems is very difficult to predict. Part of the uncertainty of climate predictions is embedded of possibilities. Better insights, a more profound knowledge of mechanisms and modeling skills are required to determine this critical resource's potential in the face of predicted climate change. Review Article Ali et al.; IJECC, 10(10): 61-76, 2020; Article no.IJECC.60655 62


With the advent of the era of big data, privacy issues have been becoming a hot topic in public. Local differential privacy (LDP) is a state-of-the-art privacy preservation technique that allows to perform big data analysis (e.g., statistical estimation, statistical learning, and data mining) while guaranteeing each individual participant's privacy. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of LDP. We first give an overview on the fundamental knowledge of LDP and its frameworks. We then introduce the mainstream privatization mechanisms and methods in detail from the perspective of frequency oracle and give insights into recent studied on private basic statistical estimation (e.g., frequency estimation and mean estimation) and complex statistical estimation (e.g., multivariate distribution estimation and private estimation over complex data) under LDP. Furthermore, we present current research circumstances on LDP including the private statistical learning/inferencing, private statistical data analysis, privacy amplification techniques for LDP, and some application fields under LDP. Finally, we identify future research directions and open challenges for LDP. This survey can serve as a good reference source for the research of LDP to deal with various privacy-related scenarios to be encountered in practice.


A lysimeters experiment was designed to study how to manage irrigation scheduling using different empirical equations compared to traditional irrigation method. Design of experiment was random block with three replicates. The experiment was repeated in two successive seasons (2016 and 2017) using maize crop. Four irrigation treatments were used as T1for traditional, T2 by Belany Criddle equation, T3 by Radiation equation and T4 by penman equation. All irrigation treatments were inserted by 70% of soil water depletion. The results showed that T3 had the highest values of water productivity (0.89 kg/m ) and productivity of irrigation (0.63 kg/m) as an overall average of the two seasons. Data revealed also that T1 had the highest overall mean values applied water and water consumptive use (3862.47 m/fed &2826.02 m/fed). The results indicated that the highest values for grain yield was recorded by irrigation treatment T3 with values of 2013.90 and 1925.53 kg/fed as well as 16.33 and 18.37cm for ear length in the first and second season, respectively. Also, 100 grain weight and plant height had the highest values by treatment T3 as compared to treatment T1, T2 and T4. Under the condition of this study recommends that, the farmers under the experimental area who cultivate maize crop should irrigate every 11 days to maximize the productivity for crop and both of water productivity and productivity of irrigation water.


Summary. Solid‐phase red‐cell adherence (SPRCA) techniques in platelet serology are used mainly for crossmatching. A SPRCA method for general diagnostic application was evaluated in parallel with the platelet suspension immunofluorescence test (PIFT). Of 149 patient sera sent for investigation of thrombo‐cytopaenia, 76 were negative and 59 positive when studied by both methods, eight positive by PIFT only and six positive by SPRCA only. The reactivity observed for 24 sera containing HLA antibodies tested with chloroquine‐treated and untreated platelets was similar for both methods. All of 14 sera containing quinine‐associated antibodies reacted strongly to both techniques in the presence of added quinine. In comparison, however, whereas all sera were non‐reactive to SPRCA in the absence of added quinine, and with PIFT, seven of the sera reacted weakly. Titration studies with three examples of anti‐PlA1 and five sera containing HLA antibodies generally showed a one doubling dilution lower titre with the SPRCA procedure. End‐point interpretation, however, was more readily achieved with the SPRCA method. The SPRCA technique displays similar sensitivity and specificity to the PIFT and is recommended for use by routine hospital laboratories to screen platelet antibodies.


We describe several storage ring designs for reducing the 6-dimensional phase space of circulating muon beams. These rings utilize quadrupole and dipole magnets as well as wedge-shaped, liquid-hydrogen, energy-loss absorbers and energy compensating rf cavities. We obtain evaluations of their cooling performance by particle tracking simulation. Such rings are potentially useful for future Neutrino Factories or Muon Colliders as well as for existing facilities in which cooled, intense muon beams could enhance their physics programs.


Abstract The cyclical use of sites and locales over decades, centuries, and even millennia is an important aspect of hunter-gatherer land use that is rarely considered in studies that focus on a single annual cycle. The long-term perspective provided by archaeological data can be used to delineate persistent land use patterns and contribute to an understanding of the complexity of hunter-gatherer behavior. Mid-Holocene Wyoming housepit data document persistent land use over at least a 2000-year period at three spatial scales—the reuse of housepits, reuse of sites containing housepits, and use of different sites within the larger region. Slab-lined cylindrical basins at many sites in southwest Wyoming provide evidence for stable long-term land use during the middle Holocene. The focal point of this pattern was probably a predictable resource, possibly some type of root plant that would have been available during the dry middle Holocene.


Objective: To measure the MRI imaging data of cervicothoracic junction(C7~T4 segments) in order to provide imaging reference for design and research of the anterior internal fixation devices, as well as the preoperative plan. Methods: From August 2012 to April 2013, 100 normal cervical MRI images were randomly selected form PACS to measure the relative data in median sagittal plane MRI photographs,including the upper, middle and lower sagittal diameter of vertebral; anterior, central and posterior height; anterior height and Cobb angle of different segment, and the screw length of every vertebral body. Results: The cervicothoracic junction sagittal diameter increases gradually, and the lower sagittal diameter was longer than the upper one of the same vertebral body. The posterior height was higher than the anterior's, thereby maintaining physiological thoracic kyphosis, and meeting the increasing load of body. The length of head-end screw ranges from 14.22 mm to 23.52 mm, and the tail-end one 15.29~26.13 mm. Conclusion: Preoperative MRI scan can guide us to choose the right size plate and prebend it, during the anterior internal fixation of cervicothoracic junction, and achieve the best fixation effect.


Salisbury: A Biographical Summary Prologue The Anglo-Indian Relationship The Limits of a Liberal Empire A "Mediating Power": Policy Making and the Indian Office Welfare and Material Progress Feeding India: The Crisis in Indian Famine Management The Ryot's Progress Financing Progress: Public Works and Indian Resources Security and Imperial Defense The Princes and the Paramount Power Diplomacy and Arms: Anglo-Afghan Relations and the Defense of India Bibliography Index


The paper deals with an M/M/2 Queueing Model with working vacations and reneging of customers due to impatience. The matrix geometric method is used to find the distribution of the number of customers in the system. A cost function is constructed to obtain the optimal value of the service rate to optimize (minimize) the cost function using the Quadratic Fit Search Method (QFSM). Further, the effects on the system's performance measures using numerical analysis and graphical representation are studied.


Looking to the present social stratum of the Country and a dire need for the balanced growth of the country, there needs a broader vision by moving ahead from the triple bottom line ("People, Planet and Profit") to "Partnership, Progress and Prosperity". CSR is need of an hour so as to contribute to the social innovation and development in India. India is the first and only country across the globe having mandatory enforcement of provisions relating to CSR for certain corporate entities vide Companies Act, 2013. India is ranked 3rd (third) in the list, according to social enterprise CSR Asia's Asian Sustainability Ranking (ASR). Origin of CSR [Corporate Social Responsibility] can be traced from the ancient scriptures and it is not a concept borrowed from the foreign country. Now, it's a right time to ensure that while dealing with CSR, approach should be that of participatory and not a contributory. Let, CSR be part of company strategy and budget and be treated like an actionable business agenda. CSR agenda should carry the stake holder approach by a corporate and not a charity oriented approach. Many expectations are carved out from the corporate sector ensuring best corporate governance practices. So, such ideal and effective corporate governance practices will ensure a means to an end of balanced growth of the country. Sustainable functioning with a philosophy of "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" [entire universe belongs to the same family] is need of an hour. It's a time to revert to our ancient scriptures, Upnishadas, Puranas and Vedic literatures for the holistic living and the same can only be the means to an end of balanced growth.


Objective To observe the curative effect of non tension repair method in the patients with senile direct inguinal hernia. Methods Using Mcvay method we sutured hernial repair material (produced by Bard company) with pubic tubercle and pectineal ligament, meanwhile fixed supplemental piece around hernial repair material in order to close muscle pubis hiatus entirely. Results The follow up observation time lasts 2 years after operation. There were the disease of intra abdominal pressure raise, but the direct inguinal hernia didn't relapse. Rubefaction and tumefaction occurred in the wound of 9 cases and disappeared after operation in 5 days. There was no postoperative infection complication. Conclusion Non tension repair in treatment of senile direct inguinal hernia using Mcvay method could reduce its recurrence and raise curative effect.


The combination of a highly conductivity plastic crystal with a very high concentration of lithium salt results in a promising new "plastic crystal in salt" electrolyte for lithium metal batteries.


Purified human antithromb-III(AT-III) concentrate has been introduced in the treatment of patients with a cute severed is seminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) associated with a bleeding tendency. The effect of AT-III concentrate is further evaluated in 5 patients with liver cirrhosis and stable DIC as revealed by a shortened 125 I-fibrinogen half-life and increased fibrinopetide A (fpA) levels. After an initial dose of AT-III concentrate which rapidly corrected the decreased AT-III piasma level, plasma AT-III was maintained at this corrected level for 48 hours by continuous transfusion. This resulted in an immediate decrease of fpA levels and in an increase of plasma fibrinogen with peak levels two days after the transfusion period, de spite the fact that no significant effect on the 125I-fibrinogen turno ver could be established. The turnover of AT-III, which was established in the days following transfusion, was still increased when compared to the values obtained by Collen in normal volunteers. This study reveals that the decrease. AT-III plasma level in patients with liver cirrhosis and defective AT-III synthesis, is a cause of the low grade DIC in these patients.


Bina Sarana Informatika is one of the public academic in Indonesia that already cooperated with Finnet Indonesia to handle the students Online Billing. So far Finnet have already provided channel transactions to handle its Online Billing. The Development of other channel transaction will have been improving the service of Online Billing transaction for BSI student. At this Final Task, the developement of Banking SMS channel is done by implementing the ISO 8583 for connecting the BSI Online Billing System, with the Delima points channel. Moreover, its Banking SMS channel is also supported by the sender Aplication of SMS based on Android mobile, that developed for helping the user or customer, by no need to remember the format of SMS for BSI Online Billing transaction. The system was developed by using the waterfall model process and Integration Testing method. Its Banking SMS channel that developed can help the customer for doing the transaction of BSIOnline Billing eficientlly in case of time, space, and velocity.


The civil war in Sierra Leone was one of the most brutal and most overlooked wars in recent memory. Of the 4.2 million citizens of Sierra Leone, over one million are internally displaced, 500,000 are refugees, and upwards of 400,000 people have survived the amputation of one or more limbs. Thousands of children were killed, raped, mutilated, or conscripted as soldiers. A peace agreement signed in Lomd, Togo in 1999 by the Government of Sierra Leone (GOSL) and the Rebel United Front (RUF) eventually led to the cessation of hostilities in January 2002. The agreement included a complete amnesty for the RUF and its leader, Corporal Foday Sankoh, and called for the creation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). On January 16, 2002, the United Nations signed an agreement with the GOSL to create a Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), which will be similar to the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda (ICTR) and the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The SCSL is supported by the GOSL as well as by international human rights groups, the United Nations Security Council, the United States, and the European Union. Establishing such a court in Sierra Leone will help the country reach some closure about the war, and bring to justice some of the defendants for their horrific crimes.


In today's construction industry we witness an increase in public private collaboration in the delivery of public goods. By transferring operational responsibility to private contractors, public construction clients have fewer possibilities to directly influence and steer the outcomes of these processes while remaining socio-political responsible. In this paper we aim to explore how public construction clients try to find a balance in public value management activities by rethinking their roles and responsibilities in the client-contractor relationship. This paper results of a set of semi-structured interviews with different actors playing a part in commissioning of organisations with different degrees of publicness are presented. Results indicate that the alignment of the client role and change in responsibilities should be rather flexible in order to deal with the restrictions that procedural values such as lawfulness, reliability and transparency bring along. This requires significant changes in the interpretation of the commissioning profession and the transformation of the collaborative relationship in public private collaboration. Further research should look more closely into the alignment of the shifted roles and responsibilities and organizational- and steering mechanisms that could be applied to enhance this value shift in practice.


ate palm somatic embryogenesis has become an ideal technique for large scale production of distinguish and rare cultivars. Date palm cultivar, culture medium components and culture conditions have been identified as detrimental factors affecting somatic embryo formation process. This research investigated the potential impact of ammonium nitrate (NH 4 NO 3 ), calcium nitrate Ca(NO 3 ) 2 strengths and polyethylene glycol (PEG) concentrations on mature, germinated and vitrified embryos during maturation stage of cv. Medjool callus cultures. Also, the effect of calcium chloride (CaCl 2 .2H 2 O) levels that could improve somatic embryo germination (shoot formation) and secondary embryo numbers during germination stage was examined. Rooting was also determined as affected by phloroglucinol (PG) levels. The ideal amount of potassium sulphate (K 2 SO 4 ) or aluminosilicate (Al4Si 4 O 10 (OH) 8 ) (kaolin) as anti-transpirants that influenced the survival and growth of cv. Medjool plants was also investigated in relation to the ex vitro acclimatization conditions. Modification of Woody Plant Medium (WPM) maturation medium by using NH 4 NO 3 at double strength and Ca(NO 3 ) 2 at fourth strength encouraged the highest significant value of mature embryos formation. NH 4 NO 3 , Ca(NO 3 ) 2 and PEG had a clear impact on mature, germinated and vitrified embryos during maturation stage of cv. Medjool callus cultures. Also, CaCl 2 .2H 2 O levels improved somatic embryo germination (shoot formation) and secondary embryo numbers during germination stage . PG in the rooting medium had a beneficial role in root system. Using Al 4 Si 4 O 10 (OH) 8 at 0.1 mg/l as an anti-transpirant material enhanced survival percentage of plant growth during ex vitro acclimatization stage.


Higher education has a responsibility to prepare the strategy in this era through continuous innovation. We expect the output of the universities's graduates to be individuals who have the establishment of mentality, can build a global mindset and have the proactive and innovative intellectual capacity and have the social character. Meanwhile, to realize this, it was held The 1st Progress in Science and Technology Research Symposium (PSTRS) 2019 will be conducted on November, 07th - 08th 2019, at the Universitas Negeri Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia. The aim of the Symposium is to bring together scholars, students, researcher and administrators from different countries, and to discuss theoretical and practical issues in the fields of Science and Technology. Your prospective, valuable contributions on this field will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee and the ones approved to be presented will also be published in the Proceedings. The number of scientific manuscripts participating in this Symposium is 271 manuscripts and 98 of manuscript are accepted. All accepted manuscript will be published in publisher to be indexed by Scopus. We sincerely express our thanks to all the members PSTRS 2019. Thanks are also given to the committee that has managed this symposium. May become acts of worship. Aamiin. Editors: Rahadian Ifdil Ifdil Yohandri Yohandri Krismadinata Zadrian Ardi Robbi Rahim


In the present invention, it discloses a personal identification system of the medical network using biometric identification that can easily perform the personal authentication of the medical examination system. According to the present invention, the health check system for providing the biometric information extracted from the plurality of measuring devices with an examination result from the biometric measurement module for medical examination; Treatment device for performing a cross-matching to mount a wired or wireless communication network examination results provided by the health check system receives the personal information to the information and the biometric information; It is connected to the wired or wireless communication network biometric authentication server performing the registration and authentication of the personal information and biometric information, and generates the authentication information for the authentication request; And it consists of the examination results to the information based on the authentication information of the biometric authentication server to the healthcare server for performing the storage and administration. Accordingly, the present invention is to be able to register the biometric information of the consultation with the Health Check's examination as a health diagnostic system with a biometric feature, by performing authentication based on the biometric information of a registered medical receive personal health information it can not only be efficiently managed for individual authentication, providing an effect capable of ensuring the stability of the health system. Medical, networking, authentication, biometric, iris, fingerprints, breath, voice,


Abstract Increasing crime rates and global security crises have necessitated the employment of forensic techniques for tackling such situations. Crime scene investigation forms an essential part of forensic science protocol, which involves collection and examination of the physical evidences present in various forms (chemical, biological and physical) and their subsequent examination in the laboratory. Interaction of the crime scene investigating personnel with such materials is expected and may pose occupational health hazards to the individuals involved, e.g., investigation of clandestine drug laboratories, physical contact with harmful biological agents, and exposure to latent fingerprint developing chemicals and materials, etc. Occupational hazards to the personnel involved in the crime scene investigation are of primary importance when keeping in view the health of the individuals involved and the dynamic nature of the cases they come across. In the present paper, the major health considerations associated with the different types of crimes scene scenarios are reviewed.


In this paper we describe a production-ready enterprise service bus (ESB) system for estimation of option prices using stochastic volatility models. We present the motivation for our research, the main building blocks for our system and discuss our approach for calibration of the Heston model. The Heston model is used as a basis for modelling the evolution of asset prices. The Zato framework is used as an integration layer, while the main computations are distributed to HPC resources (GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi cards). The system can use various data sources and scales from both infrastructure and software point of view. The main advantage of the system is that by incorporating general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) and Intel Xeon Phi nodes it allows for the use of more accurate models that are otherwise unfeasible. This system can be useful for distributed processing of a large volume of option pricing tasks.


Objective To investigate the usage of second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs(SLD)in medical institutions at all levels,and provide scientific evidence for policy development in China.Method A stratified purposive sampling method were adopted,and a total of 12 provinces were involved in the cross sectional survey.Questionnaires were performed to all TB prevention and control institutions,tuberculosis specialist hospitals,general hospitals and rural health clinics at each level.Results A total of 4782 institutions were involved in the survey,and 72.6% of them have used SLD.The proportion of institutions using SLD decreased by level,as follows:87.0% for provincial level,prefecture and city level 83.4%,district level 72.0%,township level 70.3%.The proportion of SLD use varied between different type of institutions,with 98.7% of TB institutions which were based in tuberculosis,chest,pulmonary hospital,as well as designated hospitals,100% of TB special hospital,99.4% of general hospital.However,only 22.9% of TB institutions which are based in CDC used SLD.For the usage of different kind of SLD,there were great variations in terms of proportion of institutions using.Among them,Amikacin(49.6%),Ofloxacin(42.3%),Levofloxacin(66.2%),Ciprofloxacin(39.5%)had a higher proportion.Only 92(1.9%)institutions perform drug susceptibility testing(DST)for first-line TB drug.Factors affecting the use of SLD are:region,type of institution,whether there are TB clinics and wards,number of beds for tuberculosis patients,whether perform sputum smear,whether perform sputum culture(P all0.001)and patients smear-positive rate(P0.05)etc.Drug susceptibility testing is not the influencing factors for SLD use(P=0.771).Conclusion SLD is commonly used in China.The use of SLD varied between different level,different kind,and different type of institutions.DST is seldom performed.Therefore China should develop a policy on the rational use of SLD,and promote DST for SLD.


This article relates how the Maryland State Highway Administration adopted a Web-based pavement management tool, HMAView, developed by the University of Washington, to track hot mix paving projects and provide long-term feedback on their performance and real-time project management. It involved merging seven internal databases and customization of HMAView according to Maryland's specifications. Public visitors can access the site, but portions remain open only to state officials and contractors. It provides easily interpreted graphics and real camera views of projects and sites identified as needing future work. The state plans to add features and link it to another project being piloted in the fall enabling wireless handheld computer hookups for engineers in the field. The Web site is located at http://hotmix.ce.Washington.edu/MD.


The number of iterations of (1.1) necessary to achieve a prescribed accuracy will depend on the closeness of the initial approximation used and as the range of A is decreased, increasingly accurate initial approximations become possible. A way of reducing the infinite range (0, oo ) of A to a convenient finite interval consists in expressing A in the form a2e, l S a < 1, and using A"2 = a'122b. Still more accurate initial approximations are possible if the reduced range is itself split up.


Suppose that X1,X2,... are conditionally i.i.d. random variables with distribution Pθ given =θ,where is an unknown parameter. If Pθ is a normal distribution with meanθ and known varianceσ, and if the prior of is chosen from the conjugate family N(μ,v) or proportional to the Lebesgue measure, then it follows that the posterior distributions given X1,...,Xn obey a large deviation principle with a rate function. If Pθ is a normal distribution with known mean and unknown precisionθ, and if as a prior we choose the gamma distribution with parametersα andβ or the improper distribution (1/θ)dθ,the Jeffereys' prior, then the posterior distributions of given X1,...,Xn are shown to satisfy a large deviation principle. The G artner-Ellis theorem plays the key role to prove these large deviation principles for the posterior distributions.


ABSTRACT This article examines 65 amateur waterboarding videos to investigate why ordinary people become involved in waterboarding. There appears to be several explanations for this involvement: thrill-seeking, ideology, and educational reasons. The article highlights waterboarding's dangers, and its potentially transformational effects on individuals. Findings are situated in relation to Michel Foucault's work on torture, and what is known about health professional involvement in experimental torture during the War on Terror.


Abstract The subclinical Cushing′s syndrome (SCS) is found in 20% of incidental adrenal tumors (AI). The overnight 1 mg oral dexamethasone suppression test (DST) with the measurement of circulating cortisol (F) is a sensitive method to rule out SCS. The assessment of salivary cortisol (SAF) as a surrogate of F became a non-invasive methodological advance. There are few data on the functional evaluation of AI through SAF in DST (SAFdex). The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate the utility of SAFdex for the detection of SCS in patients with AI. Subjects and Methods: 20 subjects with AI (7 male and 13 women; 65.0 ± 11.0 y/o; BMI: 26.5 ± 1.4) were studied. Sixteen had unilateral and 4 bilateral tumors (size: 10.0 - 90.0 mm; density (UH) was <10.0 in 17 cases and ≥ 10.0 in 3). They were not on drugs that may affect the HPA axis. Eight patients (1 male and 7 women; 20.0–60.0 y/o; BMI: 27.0 ± 3.0) with overt non ACTH dependent Cushing Syndrome (CS) were included as the reference group of active hypercortisolism. CS had unilateral adrenal tumors in 6 cases and bilateral in 2 (size: 11.0 -200.0 mm; density (UH) <10.0: n= 7 and >10.0: n=1).All subjects collected 24-hour urine for urinary free cortisol (UFC). After the urine collection, they obtained whole saliva samples at 23 h for cortisol (SAF23). Subsequently, they received 1 mg oral dexamethasone. The following day at 8 h, simultaneous blood (Fdex) and saliva (SAFdex) samples were obtained. F, SAF and UFC were determined by RIA and ACTH by IRMA. Reference values from our laboratory (n= 100): UFC ≤90.0 µg / 24hs; ACTH: 10.0–50.0 pg / ml, SAF23: 0.5–3.8 nM / l; SAFdex: 0.5–2.0 nM; Fdex: 13.8–50.0 nM. Statistics were performed by Mann-Whitney and Spearman tests, p <0.05 was considered significant. In AI: ACTH 22.0 ± 11.0 pg /ml; UF:C 47.0 ± 20.0 µg / 24hs; SAF23: 1.5 ± 0.9 nM); SAFdex: 1.0 ± 0.5 nM and Fdex: 35.6 ± 10.0 nM were normal and significantly different from CS: 5.6±1.8 pg /ml; 391.0 ± 406.0 µg / 24hs; 20.0 ± 32.0 nM; 27.0 ± 24.0 nM and 674.0 ± 339.0 nM, respectively; p <0.05 in all cases. A positive and significant correlation was demonstrated between SAFdex and Fdex in AI (r = 0.830) and CS (r = 0.905); p <0.05 in both. Interestingly, a woman with overt CS and moderate signs of hypercortisolism, had normal SAF23 (1.5 nM) and UFC (76.0 µg / 24hs), while SAFdex (3.0 nM) and Fdex (69.0 nM) showed absence of suppression. Surgical resection of the adrenal tumor (an adrenocortical adenoma) and postoperative hypocorticism confirmed the diagnosis of CS. Conclusion: SCS was excluded in all AI. The dexamethasone suppression test using saliva as a diagnostic fluid was a sensitive and practical method to rule out hypercortisolism in these patients.


To achieve new emission standards and enhance the denitrification of the oxidation ditch in the Handan West Sewage Treatment Plant, this research used the ASM Bio-P model based on self-made simulation software to study the optimum operation of the denitrification efficiency. The results indicate that:1) the volume of the aerobic zone was increased and the volume ratio between aerobic and anoxic zones was controlled to approximately 3:1; 2) the concentration of the dissolved oxygen (DO) in the aerobic zone was increased and was controlled at 1 mg/L in summer and 3 mg/L in winter; 3) the proper sludge retention time (SRT) was controlled and was maintained at 15 d in summer and 20 d in winter; and 4) the appropriate reflux ratio was controlled to 100% and 50% for summer and winter, respectively. The COD, TN, NH3-N and TP in the effluent reached the first (B) standard of the Discharge Standard of Pollutants for Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant (GB18918-2002).


For $d\in\{5,6\}$, we classify arrangements of $d + 2$ points in $\mathbf{RP}^{d-1}$ for which the minimum distance is as large as possible. To do so, we leverage ideas from matrix and convex analysis to determine the best possible codes that contain equiangular lines, and we introduce a notion of approximate Positivstellensatz certificates that promotes numerical approximations of Stengle's Positivstellensatz certificates to honest certificates.


We study modular fibers of elliptic differentials, which are roughly spaces of torus-coverings over a fixed base torus. For genus 2 torus covers with fixed degree we show, that the modular fibers F_d(1,1) are itself connected torus covers with Veech group SL_2(Z). Using results of Eskin, Masur and Schmoll we calculate the Euler Characteristic and the parity of the spin structure of the quadratic differential (F_d(1,1)/(-id),q_d). We state and apply formulas for the asymptotic quadratic growth rates of various types of geodesic segments on a surface S "contained" in F_d(1,1). The quadratic growth rates are expressed in terms of the SL_2(Z) orbit closure of S \in F_d(1,1) and the flat geometry of F_d(1,1).


A method for processing buffer storage includes seeking file in Memory Cache as per index when file is required to be obtained, fetching file in cache item if corresponding cache item is sought; or otherwise seeking file in Disk Cache as per index, setting up new item in Memory Cache if corresponding cache item is sought, writing file in cache item into set-up item and fetching said file; or otherwise downloading and obtaining said file from network, setting up mew item in Memory Cache and writing said file into set-up item cache item. The process system used for realizing said method is also disclosed.


The effect of a minor concentration of energetic particles produced by ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) heating on the stability of Geodesic Acoustic Modes (GAM) is studied using fully drift kinetic equation. Assuming the ICR layer position on the high field side of the tokamak magnetic axis, a minority ion distribution is modeled by the energetic ion tail and "triangle"-like pitch angle distribution with the maximum at the trapped-passing ion boundary. The resulting GAM instability is found when the hot ion thermal velocity is larger than the effective parallel GAM phase velocity Rqω and the geodesic frequency has the order of the energetic ion bounce frequency. The standard GAM frequency may be strongly reduced by some small concentration of the energetic ions allowing the mode to be unstable. Respective neoclassical polarization corrections (residual flow) driven by energetic ions are found to be negative and larger than that calculated by Rosenbluth and Hinton [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 724 (1998)]. Qualitati...


Every society recognizes the need for looking after its children. Particularly, orphans, destitutes or abandoned children who are looked after primarily through child care institutions run by governmental and non-governmental organization and in some cases through foster families.


The task of science is to search for objective laws, to discover its law means to discover its truth. The scientific achievements represent that the scientists have discovered its truth, it is merely the relative truth, not the absolute truth. In science and technology development, the absolute difficulty is in direction proportion to the truth value, and the relative difficulty is in reverse proportion to the truth value. As the absolute difficulty increases, and the relative difficulty decreases, the truth value will increase accordingly and will come closer to its logic assumption of absolute truth.


Phantoms provide valuable platforms for testing of medical devices including microwave diagnostic systems. This work describes a 3D printable solid tissue-mimicking material (TMM) for the production of such phantoms. The TMM is fabricated from ABS, SEBS and Carbon Black. The polymers ABS and SEBS produce a material that is 3D printable, robust and mechanically stable. Adjustment of the percentage of Carbon Black in a mixture alters the dielectric properties of the mixture. A variety of such mixtures were fabricated into 3D printable spools and the dielectric properties were measured across the 0.5 – 8.5 GHz band. The dielectric properties of a wide biological range are covered with the ability to emulate tissues within the range. The material hence can be used to print anatomically realistic and dielectrically accurate phantoms that can be multi-layered and as complex as desired depending on the study.


As transportation demand develops, urban rail transit networks become increasingly crowded, making them more linked and harder to manage. Furthermore, system failures and climate change are expected to increase the number of disruptions. Consequently, evaluating system robustness is critical to ensure it's operating safely. Complex network theory is used to investigate the overall topological structure of the urban rail transportation network (URTN). Attack strategies for URTN are designed when the topological and robustness analysis parameters have been calculated. According to the research, malicious attacks have a more significant effect on system robustness than random attacks. The proposed methodology is applied to the Chongqing rail transit in the Jiangbei and Yuzhong districts.


Correlation is found between the relative densities and depth distributions of defect clusters/disorder/damage measured by cross‐section transmission electron microscopy and Rutherford backscattering and silver atom depth distributions measured by secondary ion mass spectrometry for (100) and (111) silicon implanted with silver ions and annealed at 550 °C.


Existing analytical frameworks for the study of Israel's political sociology and political economy tend to view the Israeli society as polarized into a neo-liberal secular and peace-seeking elite and religious ethno-republican social groups. The turn to ethno-republicanism following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, and two neo-liberal economic programs in 2002 and 2003, exposed the limitations of those approaches. We suggest that a Neo-Gramscian approach provides a better theoretical framework for the analysis of the early years of the twenty-first century. We argue that during the years 2001–2006 a hegemonic project was constituted which succeeded in combining neo-liberal and ethno-republican elements. This project was based on a relatively stable socio-political alignment of social groups, primarily drawn from the Jewish middle class. In order to establish our argument, we characterize the project and analyze the position of the main social groups in Israeli society relative to it.


The purpose of this study was to find out the impact of the "teaching of individual obligation in the Family" on the attitudes of SHS students towards the performance of household chores in their homes. The study was conducted at Tema Metropolis. The descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted for this study. The method was chosen because the study did not focus on causal effects in the population. Also, it was chosen because it is based on a representative sample of the population, the results can be generalized to the overall population from which the sample came. A sample size of 240 first year students and 260 second year students were used for the study, with questionnaires being administered to the sample. The researchers had 220 and 245 complete questionnaires from first years and second years respectively. The simple random sampling was adopted for this study. The main data collection tool used was the questionnaire, and Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used for the collation and presentation of the results. The results revealed that the main household chores performed by the respondents are running errands for their parents/guardians, cooking, ironing of clothes, baby-sitting, home repairs and maintenance, and hawking. In addition, the majority of respondents, irrespective of their academic year of study, agreed that it is their responsibility to perform house chores at home. The findings also showed that most of the respondents, especially the second year students, felt they are obliged to perform household chores. It was recommended that a forum should be organised to educate parents/guardians on how to nurture and engage their children in chores in order not to affect their academic performance. Finally, it was recommended that the Government of Ghana and the Ministry of Education should ensure that the topic "Individual obligations in the family" is moved from the second year syllabus to that of the first years so that students will get to know their obligations in the family at a very early age. Keywords: Teaching/Learning, obligation, student, attitudes, house obligations DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-34-06 Publication date: December 31 st 2019


This issue of EMR is devoted to learning by observing our peers - that is, Competitive Intelligence. Such an obvious activity has only recently evolved into a management technology. We all know that imitation is the best form of flattery but do we take advantage of this insight and make an effort to sense our environment to discern what our peers are doing and how are they doing it? If we elevate our own strategic planning to include the lessons learned by our competitors then might our limited thinking be improved?


nonartifactual relation exists between temperature and aggres- sion, the shape of this relation, and the fit of past work to five potentially relevant theories. Bell's (1992) comment addresses only one small portion of the review: the relation of extant evidence to the negative affect escape (NAE) model. We agree on many points. We also welcome the opportunity to clarify misinterpretations and to specify the characteristics necessary


A recently proposed goal programming approach to aggregate planning of production rates and work force levels is reviewed and it is pointed out that there is very little difference between the "new approach" and the earlier Hansemann and Hess linear programming formulation. It is noted that the HMMS model used as a test vehicle in the original article can also be viewed as a goal programming formulation. Some more general opinions on the role of modelling in decision making are also included.


A new technique (Double Sampling) of photomultiplier pulse processing is studied in order to improve the time resolution. Two time references, t1, and t2, are obtained from two different processing systems, into which the fast pulse of the photomultiplier is fed. If the condition: (t1 - t2) -?t < (t1 -t2) < (t1 - t2) + ?t is satisfied, the pulse is accepted for the time analysis. ?t is a predetermined parameter of the proposed system. A theoretical study has been carried out in order to compare this processing method with the ones already used.


From 2-4 April 2014 about 50 researchers attended the workshop "Liquid water in snow – measurements techniques and modeling approaches" that took place at the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) in Davos, Switzerland – the first one since 1982 in Innsbruck, Austria. This is the report thereof.


The objective of this study was to compare the performance of lactating buffaloes under traditional feeding system and feeding of total mixed ration (TMR). Eighteen lactating Murrah buffaloes were divided into three groups in randomize block design (RBD). Roughage and concentrate were fed separately in T1 group. Animals in T2 and T3 were fed TMR of different composition. Diet of animals consisted of paddy straw, green maize fodder and concentrate mixture. The mean dry matter intake (DMI) was similar in three groups (13.71, 13.12 and 13.36 kg/d). Digestibilities of dry matter, organic matter, neutral detergent fiber and acid detergent fiber were increased in both T2 and T3 groups. The average daily milk yield was 6.27, 5.99 and 6.77 kg for T1, T2 and T3 respectively. The milk fat and total solids were higher (p?0.05) in T2, while, and milk protein and solids not fat were higher (p<0.05) in T3 group.


Information on the behavior of the dielectric properties of electrolytic solutions, such as reaction mixtures, during acid-catalyzed transesterification reactions in biodiesel production is essential in the design of processes involving microwave-heating technology. The influence of the acid catalyst on the dielectric parameters during the methanolysis and ethanolysis of crude Brazil nut oil was investigated employing H2SO4, H3PO4, ClSO3H, and CH3SO3H as the catalysts. Refined soybean, refined babassu, and waste Brazil nut oils were used to study the dielectric behavior during the transesterification reaction catalyzed by H2SO4. Measurements were taken using a vector network analyzer with an open-ended coaxial probe (from 300 MHz to 13 GHz). The dielectric properties of the reaction mixtures during the transesterification reaction were frequency dependent and varied markedly with the conversion to biodiesel. The catalyst used significantly affected the dielectric properties, contributing to the high value...


An experimental study was carried out to investigate heat transfer during the coalition of two drops of the same volume. The falling of a water drop to other drop sitting on a heated horizontal foil made of constantan with a thickness of 25 μm from a distance of 10 mm was recorded with a high-speed video camera. An infrared scanner was used to measure the temperature field on the surface of the foil. Measurements taken with the infrared scanner will be used to determine the heat flux density in the region of the dynamic contact wetting line at the coalition of drops.


Advances in telecommunications have flooded us with ever-growing amounts of information, most of which is available to us today in computer-based forms. Current uses of computers in construction include design, planning, scheduling, and cost estimating. Much more could be accomplished on a fully computer-integrated construction site. Building Information Modeling (BIM) constitutes a cornerstone for any technique that claims to address these growing demands for more and better information services and management techniques. This paper will focus on utilizing the BIM created in the architect's office and implementing it in the construction industry. A BIM of the M.E. Rinker Hall will be created as a means of simulating how BIM can be used from a contractor's perspective. The purpose of this thesis is to provide a guide that can be used by contractors to facilitate the implementation of BIM. It will focus on all the benefits BIM has for the contractor as well as guidance on overcoming any barriers of implementation. Advances in telecommunications have flooded us with ever-growing amounts of information, most of which is available to us today in computer-based forms. Current uses of computers in construction include design, planning, scheduling, and cost estimating. Much more could be accomplished on a fully computer-integrated construction site. Building Information Modeling constitutes a cornerstone for any technique that claims to address these growing demands for streamlining information services and management techniques. Building Information Model (BIM) is a tool used by the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry as a digital representation of the building process to facilitate exchange and interoperability information in a digital format. It is a dynamic, shared digital knowledge resource of information about a specific building used to develop and communicate all the information required to analyze, design, detail, procure, and construct a building. It can provide accurate information for sequencing and executing the planned documents. Having the ability to keep information coordinated, up-to-date, and accessible in an integrated digital environment gives architects, engineers, builders, and owners a clear overall vision of their projects. As a result, BIM enhances the ability to make better decisions faster?raising the quality and profitability of every project. In the United States, the AEC industry is beginning to come under pressure to implement BIM technology. The pressure is coming from building owners who want to make the design, construction, and operation of buildings much more streamlined and efficient. This paper will focus on utilizing the BIM created in the architect?s office and implementing it in construction industry. A BIM of the M.E. Rinker, Sr. Hall will be created as a means of simulating how BIM can be used from a contractor?s perspective. The purpose of this thesis is to provide a guide that can be used by contractors to facilitate the implementation of BIM. It will…


Title Comparative morphology and phylogenetic relationships of the family Polynemidae (Pisces: Perciformes) [an abstract of entire text] Author(s) 亢, 世华 Issue Date 2017-12-25 Doc URL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/68116 Type theses (doctoral abstract of entire text) Note この博士論文全文の閲覧方法については、以下のサイトをご参照ください。 Note(URL) https://www.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dissertations/copy-guides/ File Information Shihua_Kang_summary.pdf


Electron microscopy investigation has been carried for an n-ZnO/p-GaN:Mg heterojunction ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diode device, where the n-ZnO layer was grown by atomic layer deposition on the p-type GaN:Mg/undoped GaN structure prepared on c-Al2O3 substrate. Threading dislocations, formed at the interface of the GaN/Al2O3, disappeared at the interface of n-ZnO/p-GaN during post-deposited rapid thermal annealing and accordingly the n-ZnO layer became an almost perfect single crystal including only a few surviving dislocations. An interfacial layer was found along the (0001) interface between the n-ZnO and p-GaN:Mg layers. Scanning transmission microscopy analysis revealed that the interfacial layer was composed of ZnO crystal, which connected coherently with the neighboring n-ZnO and p-GaN:Mg. This interfacial layer contained a few atomic percents of Mg, the atoms of which had been diffused from the p-GaN:Mg. The high quality crystalline n-ZnO and the interfacial layer forming a ZnO/GaN interface states are responsible for the UV electroluminescence from the ZnO.


The recent spate of catastrophic fill barricade failures in underground hydraulic fill mines in Australia and overseas, have resulted in significant economic loss and loss of life. The term 'hydraulic fill' refers to the coarser fraction of a deslimed mine tailings slurry, which is placed in underground voids to improve mine efficiency and operation. A substantial body of research and consulting work has been conducted at the School of Engineering, James Cook University, on studying the drainage characteristics of several different hydraulic fills and barricade bricks
from various Australian mines. A new permeability cell was developed for measuring permeability and drainage
characteristics of barricade bricks in the laboratory, and JCU has developed and modified laboratory test procedures to assess the permeability of the various hydraulic fills under in-situ conditions. This paper describes some simple techniques used to quantify the flow characteristics of hydraulic fill and barricade bricks in simulated underground conditions. Several findings from this testing, pertinent to the current direction of the Australian mining industry are presented in this paper.


In this article, the concept of sequential - metric spaces has been introduced as a generalization of usual metric spaces, - metric spaces, - metric spaces, and mainly - metric spaces. Some topological properties of such spaces have been discussed here. By considering this notion, we prove fixed-point theorems for some classes of contractive mappings over such spaces. Examples have been given in order to examine the validity of the underlying space and in support of our fixed-point theorems. Moreover, our fixed-point theorem is applied to obtain solution of a system of linear algebraic equations.


The article is devoted to the questin: How can socity resond to
the problematic interactions between then Czech majority a Roma
minority? To address this topic, two typologies of aproaches to
the work with minorites are discussed. The first typology pays
attention to different degrees of distance and tolerance as the
two basic characteristic of responding to problematic
relationship between th majority and the minority. The second
typology is based on the asumpotion that the sress social
workeres put either on personal or environmental facotrs
represents a crucial determinatnt of different approarches to
working with minority clientts and managing their living
situations.


[Objective] To discusses the role of preventing and diagnosing sediment samples of urinary calculi with the UF-100i urine sediment analyzer.[Methods] We tested the urine sediment crystallization by 2787 children who ate the milk powder of melamine contamination by the UF-100i urine sediment analyzer,and test its urinary calculi or crystallization with color Doppler ultrasound,and the test results were compared.[Results] The urine crystallization was accounted for 18%,calculi or crystallization of ultrasonic diagnosis was accounted for 4%,and there was significantly difference between them(P﹤ 0.05);the quotiety of calculi or crystallization of ultrasonic diagnosis increased with the crystallization value,in particular,when the crystallization value was bigger than 220/μl,and the coincidence rate reached to 83%.[Conclusion] The urine sediment analyzer will provide the important basis for discovered and prevented the urinary calculi early.


The method developed in this work uses an alternative functional variable method to construct exact travelling solutions to a class of nonlinear wave equations. It is shown that it is possible to obtain by a direct treatment the general solutions to some important nonlinear model equations which arise in a wide variety of physical problems. We have also presented some interesting typical examples to illustrate the application of this method.


Study of the data from the extensively instrumented buildings in the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake suggests that torsional modes probably were excited in buildings that outwardly appear quite symmetric. Accordingly this study involves: (i) investigation of the observed response of two low-rise buildings in both the elastic and moderately inelastic domains, (ii) comparison of such behaviour with the results obtained from modelling studies, and (iii) examination of the possible effects arising from stronger shaking. The study was directed towards attempting to provide a partial answer to the critical question of whether or not the torsional response was important in the gross total response of these low-rise buildings, and to what extent torsional concepts should be considered in design. Also the numerical results were extrapolated to examine the survivability of the same buildings if subjected to a somewhat stronger earthquake. The ultimate goal was to contribute insight to the practical guidelines for design and analysis of low-rise buildings subjected to strong ground motion.


In recent years,the incident of medical dispute has showed the growing trend,especially in the surgery.In this article,the medical disputes were reviewed in a district of Shanghai from July 2009 to March 2010. 69 cases were involved,in which,the defects of service results were 73.9%;the defects of management were 10.15%;the defects of service attitude were 8.7%.So the hospital should enhance the service idea,perfect the regulation and improve the service level to reduce the medical disputes.


Objective To observe the clinical curative effect of diltiazem hydrochloride sustained-release capsule on maintenance hemodialysis patients complicated with refractory hypertension.Methods Total 38 cases of maintenance hemodialysis patients complicated with refractory hypertension were randomly divided into two groups,the control group and the treatment group.The two groups were all given conventional antihypertensive therapy.The treatment group added diltiazem hydrochloride sustained-release capsule every morning.All patients were treated for six months.Blood pressure、heart rate、biochemical parameters and adverse drug reactions were observed during the treatment.Results The blood pressure in the treatment group were decreased obviously.The total effective rate was 78.9%.It was higher than that of the control group.The difference in the adverse drug reactions was not statistically significant between two groups.Conclusion Diltiazem hydrochloride sustained-release capsule is safe and effective for the treatment of refractory hypertension in the maintenance hemodialysis patients.It is well tolerated in these patients and showed few adverse reactions.


This paper investigates the time correlation between successive speech components and presents a novel speech enhancement algorithm taking into account the inter-frame dependence information in the discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain. The algorithm does not rely on any statistic model and can efficiently attain the optimal estimation of clean speech components from successive noisy speech components using minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation. Moreover, it overcomes the disadvantage of independent assumption in conventional method for speech components estimation. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm possesses good performance both in objective and subjective tests with different kinds of noise


The study is connected with preparing of the country report for Bulgaria in the Work Package (WP) IX titled "Development of Scenarios for Health Expenditure in the Accession Economies" within the project "Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure" (AHEAD) under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission. Eighteen research units from thirteen countries in Europe are included in this project; in WPIX are included: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The main objective of the study is to explore the interrelations between the most important indicators related to the health care expenditure in Bulgaria (based on 2003) in a long-term perspective up to 2050 and using an intermediary control (target) year 2025. For this purpose a model of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) is applied. The study presents the basic features of the ILO model, specificity of the data used and the involved assumptions about the future behaviour of the different variables as well as the basic obtained results. Finally concluding remarks and policy implications are given.


Summary.  The main statistical problem in many epidemiological studies which involve repeated measurements of surrogate markers is the frequent occurrence of missing data. Standard likelihood‐based approaches like the linear random‐effects model fail to give unbiased estimates when data are non‐ignorably missing. In human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 infection, two markers which have been widely used to track progression of the disease are CD4 cell counts and HIV–ribonucleic acid (RNA) viral load levels. Repeated measurements of these markers tend to be informatively censored, which is a special case of non‐ignorable missingness. In such cases, we need to apply methods that jointly model the observed data and the missingness process. Despite their high correlation, longitudinal data of these markers have been analysed independently by using mainly random‐effects models. Touloumi and co‐workers have proposed a model termed the joint multivariate random‐effects model which combines a linear random‐effects model for the underlying pattern of the marker with a log‐normal survival model for the drop‐out process. We extend the joint multivariate random‐effects model to model simultaneously the CD4 cell and viral load data while adjusting for informative drop‐outs due to disease progression or death. Estimates of all the model's parameters are obtained by using the restricted iterative generalized least squares method or a modified version of it using the EM algorithm as a nested algorithm in the case of censored survival data taking also into account non‐linearity in the HIV–RNA trend. The method proposed is evaluated and compared with simpler approaches in a simulation study. Finally the method is applied to a subset of the data from the 'Concerted action on seroconversion to AIDS and death in Europe' study.


A series of SAPO-31 molecular sieves were synthesized by hydrothermal method with fumed silica and silica sol as silicon source and aluminium isopropoxide and pseudoboehmite as aluminum source,respectively.The influence of silicon and aluminum species used in synthesis on the structure and acidic properties of synthesized SAPO-31 were investigated by the methods of XRD,XRF,N_2 physical adsorption,SEM,NH_3-TPD and Py-IR.The catalytic performance of the Pd/SAPO-31 bifunctional catalysts in n-decane hydroisomerization was evaluated.The results indicated that with silica sol as silicon source and pseudoboehmite as aluminum source,the synthesized SAPO-31 possessed an essence of larger specific surface area and micropore volume,catalyzed by which the n-decane hydroisomerization was excellent carried out with the selectivity of90.3%for i-decane at n-decane conversion of 90.0%.


Abstract A basin-scale fine-resolution primitive equation reduced-gravity model forced by the climatological monthly wind of Hellerman and Rosenstein is used to study seasonal variability of the wind-driven upper-layer circulation in the Indo–Pacific region. The model domain is limited to the tropical Pacific Ocean and the eastern Indian Ocean. The use of the open boundary conditions allows the model to account for a net transport of mass from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean. An active eddy field is modeled east of Mindanao in the strong shear zone formed between the North Equatorial Current and the North Equatorial Countercurrent. This eddy field gives rise to the energetic shorter time scale variations in the western Pacific and appears to be responsible for considerable variability in surface currents noted previously. A distinct current bifurcation at the southern coast of New Britain in the Solomon Sea is modeled. The western branch of the resulting flow exits through Vitiaz Strait, while the eastern...


Author(s): Bronevetsky, Yelena | Advisor(s): Ansel, Mark | Abstract: Helper T cells play a critical role in orchestrating and maintaining a healthy immune system. During an immune response, antigen-specific CD4+ T cells proliferate and differentiate into effector T cells that act to coordinate the adaptive immune response by selective cytokine production. Thus, naive T cells transition from a state of quiescence in which they express markers required for trafficking between blood and lymphoid organs, to an effector T cell fate, in which they actively divide, secrete effector molecules, and traffic to sites of infection. Major changes in gene expression characterize this transition, and microRNAs (miRNAs) play a critical role in this process. MiRNA expression also changes dramatically during T cell differentiation and in this dissertation, we strove to characterize these expression changes and investigate the underlying mechanism.We used quantitative analyses to determine that T cell activation induces global post-transcriptional miRNA downregulation in vitro and in vivo. Argonaute (Ago) proteins, the core effector proteins of the miRNA-induced silencing complex (miRISC) are post-transcriptionally downregulated during T cell activation. We found that Ago2 is inducibly ubiquitinated in activated T cells, and its downregulation is inhibited by the proteasome inhibitor MG132. We hypothesize that activation-induced miRNA downregulation likely occurs at the level of miRISC turnover. We also identified an additional layer of activation-induced miRNA-specific transcriptional regulation. Thus, transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms cooperate to rapidly reprogram the miRNA repertoire in differentiating T cells. Altering Ago2 expression in T cells revealed that Ago proteins are limiting factors that determine miRNA abundance. Naive T cells with reduced Ago2 and miRNA expression differentiate more readily into cytokine-producing helper T cells, suggesting that activation-induced miRNA downregulation promotes acquisition of helper T cell effector functions by relaxing the repression of genes that direct T cell differentiation.


As with the previous, co-occurrence probabilities between architectural signs on sketch map are evaluated using a simulator which maps their geographical dispositions, considering its application into Human-Environment System design as follows: 1) Propose architectural signs' co-occurrence semiosis model based on C.S. Peirce's semiotics focusing on its semantic polysemy, 2) Evaluate their co-occurrence probabilities in GIS database created in Part 1 and Part 2 via logistic regression analysis, 3) Draw dispositions of the co-occurrence probabilities on simulator created based on step 2, 4) Consider the application of the results into the Human-Environment System design.


The acquisition of production flexibility is a well-documented strategy pursued by many firms to counteract certain operational constraints. However, these flexibilities can increase the complexity of a production system and the difficulties in managing increased complexity may hinder exploiting the full benefit of flexibility. In this paper, we consider one such flexibility paradox at an agribusiness firm for an annual $800 million production decision: The firm produces a number of products (hybrid seeds) using limited inventories of several raw materials (parent seeds) and a production process that is subject to random variations. To handle the raw material availability constraint and to partially mitigate the supply risk, the firm invests in a costly second production in South America that can be used if the yield in the first production in North America is low. We solve this joint problem of raw material allocation and sequential production by reformulating it as a tractable simultaneous optimization ...


Islamic strategies and tactics must be more effective and efficient, meaning pedagogical, sociological, and cultural. Therefore, the Islamic breath in the person of a Muslim is essential to be able to move the behavior reinforced with extensive knowledge so that he can provide appropriate and useful answers to the challenges of the development of science and technology, and in Islamic education will not be separated from Islamic principles sourced from the basic principles of the Koran. Planning for future education must include three main characteristics of a society, namely: the future of socio, the future of techno, and the future of bio. Besides, Islamic education strategies in facing future challenges include: (1) Building an actual Islamic Education paradigm; (2) Carry out Affective Education; and (3) Improving the quality of teaching staff.


Abstract Phoebe cooperiana U.N Kanjilal ex A. Das is an indigenous forest tree species yielding fruits consumed widely across the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India. As part of an initiative to domesticate the species, phenotypic variation in fruit and seed morphology as well as the biochemical properties of the pulp were assessed for 14 populations within the state. Nine fruit and seed characters were measured and 12 biochemical parameters of the fruits were analysed. Five trees were selected from each population and a minimum of 30 fruits were collected from each tree. Analysis of variance indicated significant variation in all fruit and seed morphological parameters. The coefficient of variation for fruit weight was reported to be 5.02%, seed weight 5.60%, pulp weight 5.36% and pulp fruit ratio 4.14%. Among biochemical parameters which are of nutritive value, crude protein, vitamin E and A were higher than that found in most common fruits and vegetables. These traits also showed significant variation among the 14 selected populations with crude protein values ranging between 5.99 and 10.76%, vitamin E between 4.80 and 7.33 mg/100 g and vitamin A between 1.88 and 3.13 mg/100 g. The fruits are also high in phenol with a mean value of 22.19 mg/g and displayed promising 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging properties averaging 56.94% antioxidant activity. However, cyanogen content in the fruits was higher than the permissible amount for human consumption, for which processing is recommended before use. The opportunities for domestication are discussed and some promising traits and populations that can be utilized in the domestication programme are identified.


Although the most advisable thing is automate the Medical Equipment Management in the Hospital, before proceeding to it, it is necessary organize the activity, because if established procedures don't exist that they could be programmed or organized data previous the automation is not possible. We in this work presented a guide summarized of how organize the work for the Medical Equipment Management in the hospital, based on our experience designing systems of maintenance for several institutions of health, continuing the state of the art and the improve experiences of the international practice in this specialty. Our recommendations allow to automate the Maintenance with the software for Medical Equipments of ECRI[ 3], the SMACOR[ 7] or any another similar in the market[ 8].


SCOPE
Perinatal maternal moderately high-fat diet (mHFD) is associated with obesity and fatty liver disease in the offspring, and maternal fish oil (FO: n-3 PUFA source) supplementation may attenuate these disorders. We evaluated the effects of FO given to pregnant rats fed a mHFD on the offspring´s liver at weaning.

METHODS AND RESULTS
Female Wistar rats received isoenergetic, control (CT: 10.9% from fat) or high-fat (HF: 28.7% from fat) diet before mating, and throughout pregnancy and lactation. FO supplementation (HFFO: 2.9% of FO in the HF diet) was given to one subgroup of HF dams during pregnancy. At weaning, male and female mHFD offspring displayed higher body mass, adiposity, and hepatic cellular damage, steatosis, and inflammation, accompanied by increased damaged mitochondria. FO did not protect pups from systemic metabolic alterations and partially mitigated hepatic histological damage induced by mHFD only in females. However, FO reduced mRNA expression of lipogenic genes, and mitochondrial damage, and modified mitochondrial morphology suggestive of early adaptations via mitochondrial dynamics.

CONCLUSIONS
Gestational FO supplementation had limited beneficial effects on the damage caused by perinatal mHFD consumption in offspring´s liver at weaning. However, FO imprinting effect on lipid metabolism and mitochondria may have beneficial long-term outcomes. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.