) at 1300nm, the longest absorptionwavelength among many [60]fullerenyl radical anions.Fullerenyl chromophore materials exhibiting photovoltaiccharacteristics to facilitate the transfer of light energy intoelectrical current become current intense interest in materialsresearch. In the presence of electron donors in either mixturesor covalent bonding environments, photoinduced intermolecularor intramolecular electron transfer occur efficiently from thedonor moiety to the C


We examine the intersection of the "Overworked American" and the "Sandwiched Generation." Recent studies indicate that many U.S. workers would prefer to work shorter hours. For workers who are sandwiched between childcare and eldercare or who expect to be in the future, questions remain about work hour preferences. We use a representative sample and distinguish between currently sandwiched workers and those who expect to be in five years. The proportion of workers who are currently sandwiched has increased from 1992 to 2002. Further, workers who expect to be sandwiched are less likely to want to reduce their workweek hours than others.


The utility model relates to the technical field of rectifying electric furnace equipment, in particular to an oil-immersed transformer positioned in a double-layer box wall. The oil-immersed transformer comprises an oil tank, transformer oil which is filled in the oil tank, a transformer body which is arranged in the oil tank, a casing pipe which is arranged on the top of the oil tank and a conservator. The oil-immersed transformer is characterized in that: the oil tank with the double-layer box wall consists of an inner box wall and an outer box wall; the upper part of the oil tank with the double-layer box wall is provided with a water outlet; the lower part of the oil tank with the double-layer box wall is provided with a water inlet; a water cooling cavity is formed between the inner box wall and the outer box wall; and the water inlet and the water outlet are connected with a water circulation system. The oil tank structure with the double-layer box wall is adopted, the water cooling cavity is formed between the inner box wall and the outer box wall of the oil tank, and the heat is taken away and the cooling effect is achieved when the circulating water passes through the water cooling cavity, so that the cooling effect is improved, the overload capacity is increased, and the yield is improved. Moreover, the oil-immersed transformer has a compact structure, is small in floor area and convenient to transport, and can be simply installed and maintained.


Version control has become an essential skill for any competent software engineer. Students working their way into the software engineering industry need to be prepared to make full use of this technology. This paper discussed the use of Git as version control tool in the South African university classroom. South African demographics differ from those of developed countries, particularly where Internet access is concerned. However, this is can be overcome using the distributed nature of Git. This paper gives a brief overview of version control as well as explores the introduction of version control and Git as a tool in solo as well as team project development in the South African context.


A new method of extracting wave parameters from wave height measured from a moving platform is presented. A least square approach is presented to estimate wave parameters using vessel velocity and perceived wave frequency that eliminates Doppler due to vessel motion. Two techniques for estimating wave frequency are presented: a block data method using MUSIC and a real-time method using demodulation. Sea trial results demonstrate that this method is as effective as a WaveRider buoy for estimating wave parameters.


The article analyzes the meta-topic of the novel 'Kotik Letaev' origin of babys self-consciousness (in the language of the author origin of rank out of swarm). Myth-poetical comments have been used and going out into contiguous fields: babys psychology, changed conditions of consciousness.


One of the most serious problems among smallholder farmers in South and Southeast Asia associated with the use of a surface water irrigation pump is low engine performance. The main cause of this low performance is the decrease in the flow field energy conversion mechanism caused by irreversible processes. The energy conversion theory suggests that pump efficiency is maximum when the loss is minimum. Whatever the origin of the losses, the deterioration in engine performance is due to a deterioration in the reversibility of the pump system. In this study, the pump is classified as the propeller impeller (PI), the improved axial or typical impeller (TI), and the conical hollow-shaped impeller (CI). Entropy production is applied to the pump on design improvement and loss sources location and mechanisms. The entropy production consists of viscous dissipation and turbulent dissipation. In this study, the pump design improvement of various designs based on entropy production has been studied in detail to predict energy loss in areas such as the inlet section, impeller, or discharge pipe. With the entropy generation, the optimum efficiency of different pump designs CI, PI, and TI were determined. The results showed that in all designs, more than 63% of the total entropy generation came from turbulent distribution. The flow in the pumps was analyzed in detail in comparison with entropy generation. It was found that the entropy generation rate increased in the secondary flow direction and was consistent with free-stream velocity. The PI design at the inlet pipe should be modified for reducing flow separation and entropy generation. All design impellers showed high energy losses, especially near the hub and tip along the leading edge and trailing edge. Therefore, it is possible to determine which features of the flow and entropy generation are relevant to the pump improvement.


. Inverse problems consist of recovering a signal from a collection of noisy measurements. These are typically cast as optimization problems, with classic approaches using a data fidelity term and an analytic regularizer that stabilizes recovery. Recent Plug-and-Play (PnP) works propose replacing the operator for analytic regularization in optimization methods by a data-driven denoiser. These schemes obtain state of the art results, but at the cost of limited theoretical guarantees. To bridge this gap, we present a new algorithm that takes samples from the manifold of true data as input and outputs an approximation of the projection operator onto this manifold. Under standard assumptions, we prove this algorithm generates a learned operator, called Wasserstein-based projection (WP), that approximates the true projection with high probability. Thus, WPs can be inserted into optimization methods in the same manner as PnP, but now with theoretical guarantees. Provided numerical examples show WPs obtain state of the art results for unsupervised PnP signal recovery. 1


Toxicity of vanadium to rice plants and interaction of vanadium and phosphorus in solution culture were studied.The results indicate that the growth of rice plants was not affected at a low vanadium concentration,but the biomass and root growth of rice plants decreased as the vanadium concentration in the solution increased.The biomasses of shoots and roots decreased 49 9% and 55 1% respectively compared with the control treatment.The higher the vanadium concentration was,the worse the rice roots grew,and the rice plants showed toxic symptom of vanadium.The phosphorus and vanadium concentration both in the shoots and roots were negatively correlated.The vanadium accumulated in the shoots and roots increased but the phosphorus decreased with the increase of the vanadium concentration in the solution.


Software agents - autonomous, mobile and intelligent software programs - provide all the necessary characteristics to innovate and accelerate the development of distributed applications. They represent powerful and robust software technology for implementing distributed collaborative work flows and complex interaction. Applying software agents, the Institute of Computational Engineering, in cooperation with the Ruhrverband (Ruhr River Association) is taking an innovative approach to develop a modern dam monitoring system, which is capable of supporting the collaborative work of experts involved in monitoring. While the conventional computer-based monitoring systems consider the remote monitoring, the presentation and the electronic transfer of measured data, the present agent-based approach is focusing the distributed work flow of data analysis and safety assessment. Consequently, the complete work flow of dam monitoring is mapped onto a multi-agent system: regularly performed tasks (e.g. measuring at the dam) are carried out by task-oriented agents. In addition, the involved human experts are assisted by personal agents, which allow a direct communication with the multiagent system and provide access to specific tasks. Associated with the known advantages of the agent technology, such as robustness and mobility, the introduced concept is a significant enhancement compared to conventional monitoring applications. The present paper gives a short introduction to dam monitoring, outlines the selected design of the agent-based dam monitoring system and provides an insight into the current implementation. It is to be pointed out that the realization is still incomplete and a matter of research.


Prepared for the 20 th Annual Conference on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe What future for the European Union - Stagnation and polarisation or new foundations? Abstract If we look at GDP growth and other measures of productivity in the last 25 years, we notice that they have been flat or declining, particularly for Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy - the GIPSI countries - well before the inception of the Great Recession, at least since the year 2000, the beginning of the Euro era. While in the GIPSI low productivity growth has been blamed on high labour market rigidity, it appears that employment protection measures have been less and less strict, especially in the last few years. And yet, as it turns out, in all of the GIPSI countries labour flexibility and active labour market policies (ALMPs) do not appear to have any visible effect on productivity. On the contrary, the share of flexible occupation - short- term and fixed-term contracts, temporary jobs, self-employed occupations -, which increased everywhere, seems to be inversely related to public expenditure and employment protection measures and is weakly correlated with growth. At the same time, flexible labour appears to be highly correlated with wage and income inequality - low-paid and low-income deciles tend to include most of those in the flexible labour force.


In this letter, we address the moving source localization problem by using time-difference-of-arrival and frequency-difference-of-arrival measurements. The localization problem is first reformulated based on the robust least squares criterion and then perform semidefinite relaxation (SDR) to obtain a convex semidefinite programming problem, which can be solved efficiently via optimization toolbox. Unlike several existing SDR localization methods requiring the initial estimate, the proposed method does not require this priori knowledge. The simulation results also show the superior positioning performance of the proposed method at high noise level than other existing methods.


Summary 1. This is an early evaluation of a new, non-sulfonylurea hypoglycemic agent. 2. In this study of 20 cases, DBI, the hydrochloride of N1beta-phenethylformamidinylimino urea, appears to have definite blood sugar lowering properties. The mechanism of action is not yet known. 3. There are annoying side effects in some cases which are restricted to the gastrointestinal tract and are not related to the blood sugar levels. 4. No other annoying or toxic effects have been observed at this time. 5. The size of the effective blood sugar lowering dose is smaller than that reported for other oral hypoglycemic agents.


Most of the land in Texas is privately owned and is an important as a source for hunting recreation. Profit maximization theory (PMT) and economic behavioral theory (EBT) were used to explain differences in the net incomes of Texas landowners who sold hunting leases during the 1989-90 hunting season. In 1990,4,621 landowners who were licensed to sell hunting leases by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department responded to a mail survey. Findings indicated that the statewide median net lease income was $1,100, few landowners considered their leasing operations as businesses, and few practiced intensive management of their operations. Number of acres leased had the most important effect on net lease income. Findings supported aspects of both PMT and EBT.


Learning languages requires desire and practices from the learners; one of the major things that guide better learning is motivation in learning process to be more skilful. Thus, this study attempts to describe and examine students' motivation of ELT undergraduate students in Tripoli University in Libya. The main purpose of this study is to examine students' intrinsic and extrinsic motivation toward learning English as a foreign language in Libya.The study tries to find out those factors that may affect the students' motivation negatively. In the study, 150 ELT Libyan undergraduate students (121 males & 29 females) participated fill the questionnaire to figure out the students' tendency throughout the extrinsic motivation to investigate what affects their English learning process and how to motivate undergraduate students from the ages between 17 to 25 years in various levels range from 1st to 4th year. Unpredictably, the data discovered that the students have a higher degree of extrinsic rather than intrinsic motivation. The results were not expectable; the study's findings were unusual as Libyan students' integrative orientation was higher than their instrumental motivation.


Computational model, technique and the basic principles of operation program complex for quantum-chemical calculations of material's physico-chemical parameters with rare earth elements are discussed. The calculating system is scalable and includes CPU and GPU computational resources. Control and operation of computational jobs and also Globus Toolkit 5 software provides the possibility to join computer users in a unified system of data processing with peer-to-peer architecture. CUDA software is used to integrate graphic processors into calculation system.


When power load forecasting grows quick,the traditional gray prediction model GM(1,1) becomes worse.According to the shortcoming,a new improved nonlinear regression forecast model based on grey model is proposed,combining the advantage about nonlinear regression with GM(1,1) model,using GM(1,1) model to calculate the initial values about the parameter and then analysis it by nonlinear regression to forecast the power load value.The power load forecast example indicates that the model gives better precision and has wider application field.


Polytypes of AlN in bulk form is systematically investigated using ab initio calculations. The calculated results imply that AlN strongly favors the 2H. However, the energy differences among 3C, 6H, 4H, and 2H structured AlN with Al-vacancy (VAl) and N-vacancy (VN) suggests that 4H becomes competitive with 2H in AlN with VN. Moreover, it is found that Al-rich condition producing VN tends to relatively favor the 4H-AlN, while the 2H-AlN is preferable under N-rich condition suppressing VN formation. This is consistent with experimental results. The stability of graphitic AlN is also discussed in terms of bond order and bond length. These results are compared with those of other III-N compounds such as BN stabilizing graphitic structure, GaN, and InN favoring 2H in terms of ionicity.


The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it examines the romanization of personal names of the teachers who teach English at a university and compares it with the romanization of the general public to see whether there is a unity between the two groups. Second, it explores whether the teachers romanize their personal names consistently and, if they don't, how differently they romanize their names. The data used in this study are the romanized names of the 313 authors who published their articles in The Journal of English Language and Literature from 1991 to 2000. The study shows that the English teachers and the general public differ in the order of the given name and surname as well as formatting. Most of the English teachers prefer to put their surnames last while the majority of the general public put their surnames first. The English teachers opt Gn-Gn and Gngn whereas the general public select Gn Gn for their given names. However, both groups, in general, spell the surname with the same Roman alphabets. The study also shows that the English teachers frequently reverse the order of the given name and surname, and change the formatting of their given names. They, however, spell their names rather consistently. This result indicates that Koreans may be lenient with the order of the given name and surname and formatting of their given names. However, they will unlikely change the spelling of their names even when a new policy on personal names is promulgated.


High toxicity from infection has been a limiting factor in the treatment of children with DS and leukemia (both AML and acute lymphoblastic leukemia). Children with DS and leukemia are particularly susceptible to respiratory viruses, in addition to being particularly susceptible to bacterial infections. Many of these severe infections occurred during HD-AraC courses in the prior Children's Oncology Group AAML0431 protocol. This observation and previous reports of the ultrasensitivity of ML-DS to lower doses of cytarabine led Hitzler et al to eliminate the HD-AraC block from therapy for the majority of patients with ML-DS with an excellent response to induction therapy. This resulted in a reduction of the total dose of cytarabine from 27.8 g/m in the AAML0431 to 3.8 g/m. In addition, because of the rarity of central nervous system (CNS) involvement by ML-DS, intrathecal (IT) cytarabine was reduced from 2 doses to a single dose.


Carbon pricing has gained significant attention as a market-based approach to tackle carbon emissions and mitigate climate change. In the context of China, the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, the implementation of effective carbon pricing policies is of paramount importance. This paper conducts a comparative analysis of China's two primary carbon pricing mechanisms: the carbon tax and the emission trading system (ETS). The analysis delves into the design, implementation, and outcomes of both policies, assessing their effectiveness, challenges, and potential for achieving carbon emission reduction targets. By examining case studies, policy documents, and empirical data, this study aims to provide insights into the strengths and weaknesses of each policy approach, offering recommendations for policymakers and stakeholders to optimize China's carbon pricing strategy and contribute to global climate goals.


Applied forensic engineering in the field of accident reconstruction is often required to determine vehicle speeds in crash and collision cases. One type of automobile crash is that in which a car becomes airborne after being launched from an abrupt change of ground contour. This treatise covers an analysis of speed at launch based on measured distances from a launch surface to the landing point and on the slope of the launch surface. A refinement is introduced accounting for the effect of pitch motion of the vehicle to obtain a more accurate evaluation of speed.


The global distribution of NO production due to lightning has been estimated using the lightning discharge frequency observed from the global distribution of thunderstorm activity obtained from the ISSS-b satellite observations during June 1978 to May 1980 and issued by Radio Research Laboratories, Japan. The seasonal and latitudinal variation has been investigated. The annual production of NO by lightning from the present study is found to be 2 Tg N yr−1.


Cordyceps sinensis , the caterpillar fungus in traditional Chinese medicine, has been intensively collected from nature in recent years. As a result, the establishment of the anamorph of this species has become important for large-scale culture to meet increasing demand for medicinal use and to ease exploitation of natural populations. To establish a reliable connection between the teleomorph and anamorph stages, the ITS nrDNA sequences were sequenced from both the stroma of the telemorph and cultures of the anamorph. Observations of microcyclic conidiation were also made on germinated ascospores and compared with the anamorph in culture. Hirsutella sinensis was confirmed as the anamorph of C. sinensis by both DNA sequences and microcyclic conidiation. Two recently described species, C. multiaxialis and C. nepalensis , were shown to share identical or almost identical ITS sequences with C. sinensis . These minor variations were considered to be within the range of variation exhibited within a species, but representing different populations. Sequences from other Cordyceps species included in this study exhibited considerable differences from each other. Therefore, these three entities are probably conspecific, and the names should be regarded as synonymous. The morphological characters used in the description of the two new species are discussed. It is suggested that ITS sequences provided useful information on establishing the anamorph—telemorph connection and assisting in the delimitation of species within Cordyceps .


The acid inhibitory effect of lansoprazole depends on the S‐mephenytoin 4′‐hydroxylase (CYP2C19) genotype status. The effect of famotidine is independent of this genotype.


Abstract - In this paper we numerically compare several recently investigated iterative regularization schemes for the solution of a parameter estimation problem in a hyperbolic partial differential equation. Moreover, we introduce a framework of monotone iterative regularization techniques for general ill-posed problems. This concept relies on monotone fixed point iteration schemes.


Mineralization was studied withln the upper 2 m of sediments from the Belt Sea, Kattegat, and Skagerrak at 15 to 200 m water depth. Radiotracer measurements of sulfate reduction rates were related to porewater chemistry (SO,'-, HC03, P O ~ ~ , NH4+, H2S, and CH,), to solid-phase chemistry (C, S , N, and Fe), and to bacterial distributions. Sulfate penetrated 0.9 to >3 .5 m into the sediment. Sulfate reduction rates decreased > 100-fold from m a m a of 6 to 74 nmol cm-3 d-' at the surface to between 0.1 and 1 nmol cm-3 d-' at 1 to 2 m depth. Between 8 and 88 O/O of the total, depth-integrated sulfate reduction took place within the uppermost 0 to 15 cm of the sediment. Maxlma of sulfate reduction or bacterial densibes at the sulfate-methane transition indicated a zone of anaerobic methane oxidation 0.8 to > 2.5 m below the surface. The fraction of the iron pool, which was bound in pyrite, was 17 to 42 %, even in the presence of > 1 mM H2S. Only 4 to 32 % of the H2S produced from sulfate reduction was permanently buried as FeS2 while the rest was reoxidized. Sediment accumulation rates determined from 'I0pb age determinations were 0.3 to 6.2 mm yr-'. The total deposition of organlc carbon, determined from the sum of organic C mineralized by aerobic and anaerobic respiration plus net burial of organic C, was 16.7 to 52.3 mm01 m-' d-'. This was equivalent to about 50 % of the primary productivity in the water column. The net burial rates of organic C were 1.5 to 26 mm01 m-' d-' corresponding to 9 to 50 ' % of the deposited organic C. The bunal of pyritic sulfur corresponded to 9 to 37 O/u of the reducing equivalentes buried as organic C.


Objective To discuss the clinical effect of perinatal nursing intervention for preventing of deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity after cesarean section,and it provided the reference for clinical promotion. Methods 184 full-term parturients with cesarean section from August 2011 to August 2012 in our hospital were selected as subjects and they were divided into the two groups according to the control group(n=86) and the nursing group(n=98)according to the methods of postoperative nursing method.The control group was given the general obstetrical nursing while the nursing group was given the perinatal nursing intervention based on the control group. The incidence rate of deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity and satisfaction for nursing were compared between the two groups. Results There was 1 case with deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity in the nursing group and the incidence rate was 1.02%(1/98) while there was 8 cases with deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity in the control group and the incidence rate was 9.30%(8/86),and there was a statistical difference between the two groups(P0.05);the satisfaction degree in the nursing group [97.96%(96/98)] was significantly higher than that in the control group [74.42% 64/86)](P0.05). Conclusion The clinical effect of t perinatal nursing intervention for preventing of deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity after cesarean section is remarkable,and it can significantly decrease the incidence rate of deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity.It is worthy of the clinic widely promoting.


The present Legal Research Project entitled "Failure to respect the constitutional rights of the elderly in the private sphere affects the law of Sumak Kawsay", carries out a study on the situation of the elderly in the effective enjoyment of their rights, Particularly in the private sphere, since the violation of his rights in practice, does not have a criminal law that punishes him. In Ecuador, this vulnerable sector of society enjoys special protection within the constitutional framework, inasmuch as it states that it will receive priority and specialized attention in the public and private spheres, especially in the field of social and economic inclusion and protection against violence. If this were to be achieved, the living conditions of the elderly would be pleasant, since they would not be discriminated against or marginalized from the enjoyment of their rights in public and private services. We know that it is the duty of the State, society and the family to give priority attention to their individual and collective needs, as is prescribed in Article 37 of the Constitution of the Republic; However, despite the fact that the full protection of their rights is legislated in many private institutions that provide public services, they are discriminated against and restricted by age or health and that they impair the exercise of their rights in conditions of equality and justice. Hence the need to carry out this legal investigation.

 Keywords: Elderly, Law, Fundamental Rights, Obligation.


From the Book:
Since the early 1990s, a plethora of electromagnetic problems have been tackled using neural networks, some more successfully than others. Because neural networks and electromagnetics are two different scientific fields, not too many electromagnetic scientists are aware of the capabilities of neural networks. This book's purpose is to bridge these two fields and make it easier for electromagnetic s experts to understand how to use neural networks in their applications of interest. To achieve this goal, this book introduces several neural network architectures and examples of how they have been used to solve a variety of electromagnetic problems. These solutions are then compared to some of the classical solutions to demonstrate the merits of using neural networks.
This book contains 10 chapters. Chapter 1 is an introduction to neural networks. The reader is introduced to the basic building blocks of a neural network and its functions. It is shown how simple processors (neurons) are interconnected massively with each other (as in the human brain). Based on information in this chapter, the engineer will realize how the inherent nature of neural networks to act as distributed or massively parallel computers can be employed to speed up complex optimization problems in electromagnetics.
Chapters 2 through 5 introduce some of the main neural architectures used today in electromagnetics and other applications. These architectures include the single-layer perceptron, the multilayer perceptron, the radial basis function, the Kohonen network, the ART neural networks, and the recurrent neural networks. Chapters 2 through 5 examine the basics of these architectures, their respective strengths and limitations, and the algorithms that allow us to train these architectures to perform their required tasks.
These chapters conclude with an application where one of these architectures has been used with success. Several simple MATLAB examples are included to show the reader how to effectively use MATLAB commands to train and test this architecture on a problem of interest.
Chapters G through 10 discuss applications in electromagnetics that are solved by using neural networks. The emphasis in Chapter 6 is on problems related to antennas. The inherent nonlinearities associated with antenna radiation patterns make antennas suitable candidates for neural networks. Several examples dealing with reflector, microstrip, and other antennas are presented. Chapter 7 deals with applications in remote sensing and target classification. In this chapter, the neural network tasks of association, pattern classification, prediction, and clustering are used primarily to classify radar targets. It is shown how measured data from scaled models can be used to train neural networks for any possible scenarios that may exist in real life. Some of these scenarios may not be possible to model by existing analytical or even numerical techniques. In Chapter 8, the high-speed capability of the neural networks is utilized in problems where real-time performance is required. Examples with adaptive array antennas for beamforming and null steering are presented and discussed in detail. These applications can be incorporated into both military and civilian systems, including GPS, cellular, and mobile communications. Chapter 9 deals primarily with the modeling of microwave devices and circuits. Here, neural networks are used as a distributed computer employed to speed up optimization problems. It is shown how neural networks can be used to achieve a more practical and interactive optimization process. And finally, in Chapter 10 it is demonstrated how neural networks can be used in conjunction with other standard methods used in electromagnetics, such as the finite element method (FEM), the finite difference method, and the method of moments.
This book is intended for students, engineers, and researchers in electromagnetics with minimal background in neural networks. We hope that these readers find in this book the necessary tools and examples that can help to them in applying neural networks to some of their research problems. This book can also serve as a basic reference book for courses such as "Advanced Topics in Electromagnetics," "Applications of Neural Networks in Communications," and others.


In this thesis studies are reported aimed to modulate the function of the GR by targeting GR-coregulator interactions. To achieve this goal, we used two different approaches. Firstly, we manipulated the splicing of SRC-1 with antisense oligonucleotides (AONs) administered in the CeA to change the relative expression of the two SRC-1 splice variants. Secondly, we used two novel GR ligands that allowed certain GR-coregulator interactions while preventing others, thus resulting in a mixed GR-coregulator interaction profile, which exhibited a spectrum of both agonist and antagonist activities


Preoperative diagnosis isnotcommonandusuallytheypresentasoperativeor histological surprises. The recommended treat-ment is surgery in the form of wide local excisionwhich in most cases is in the form of radical highorchiectomyfromasclosetothedeepringasposs-ible. There isno indication for routine lymphnodedissections as the loco-regional lymph nodes arerarely involved. The outcome is fairly good inmost cases if the resection is R0 (microscopicfreedom from cancer). Adjuvant radiotherapy isusually not required except in cases with positivemargins or local recurrence and poor prognosticfactors. There is no definite role of chemotherapyand most of the recommendations are based oncases with recurrences. These cancers are,however, known for local recurrences and long-term follow-up of up to 10 years is mandatory;even recurrences after 20 years have beenreported.


Abstract : Susanna Rowson has been viewed as a minor writer of the Eighteenth Century, while her novel Charlotte Temple has been dismissed as overly sentimental by modern critics. However, the novel can be interpreted as a 'survival manual' for the women of Rowson's time, which was her stated intent in writing the novel. It serves as a guide and key to the social and cultural pitfalls inherent in the gender-based division between monetary and moral values, and the cultural institutions which perpetuated it. Although Rowson emphasizes the female-oriented social rules known as morals, she carefully analyzes the male-dominated economics which underwrite them, thereby giving women a worldly education which their upbringing denied them. Her method targeted women's subordinate position in a medium and manner which enabled her to reach her female readers without overtly challenging society's established structure.


Dynamic properties of low (LDA), high (HDA) and very high (VHDA) density amorphous ices were investigated within the approach based on Lattice Dynamics simulations. In this approach, we assume that the short-range molecular order mainly determines the dynamic and thermodynamic properties of amorphous ices. Simulation cell of 512 water molecules with periodical boundary conditions and disordering allows us to study dynamical properties and dispersion curves in the Brillouin zone of pseudo-crystal. Existence of collective phenomena in amorphous ices which is usual for crystals but anomalous for disordered phase was confirmed in our simulations. Molecule amplitudes of delocalized (collective) as well as localized vibrations have been considered.


memes. Chapter Seven, "Changing the Tradition," examines ways that the singing game tradition is influenced by inter-ethnic transmission, audiovisual and written media, classroom transmission, and sources external to the classroom. Folklorists will find much material here on the updating of references to global cultural icons: Elvis lives on, but has been joined by Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Britney Spears. Marsh also shows how children appropriate and refashion material from popular television shows like Sesame Street or from downloaded sound files. Section IV deals with "Composition in Performance." Once again, the children themselves provide revealing insights on their composition strategies. In response to a question about the source of nonsense syllables "tra la la la la" come from, Charlotte, whose native language is not English, says, "That I found up." This creative blend of the verbs "to find" and "to make up" captures the folk composition process very concisely. Chapter Nine provides a detailed analysis of the music, movement, and text associated with the popular elimination game "Sar Macka Dora," which is defined in terms of movement rather than text. This chapter, which may be more challenging for those without musical training, provides much useful information for ethnomusicologists and music educators on the relationship between text rhythm and movement patterns; tessitura and melodic range; tonal frequency and tonal shift. Chapter Ten, "Style and Cultural Idiosyncrasy in Musical Play," discusses features of children's musical play found in multiple field locations as well as differences related to local play contexts. The common stylistic features include improvisatory skill, disjuncture for humorous or surprise effect, and self-imposed challenge. Marsh also notes that melody is of secondary significance, although children are aware of melodic shape. She sums up her conclusions in Section V and discusses pedagogical implications stemming from the complexity of children's musical play. Stressing the need to be attentive to specific play contexts, she suggests how teachers might adopt a "playful" pedagogy that provides cognitive, performative, creative, and kinaesthetic challenge. Although it directly addresses ethnomusicologists and music educators, The Musical Playground is also an outstanding contribution to childlore studies. The author writes clearly, using technical terminology only when necessary, and the book is well-organised with frequent reader-friendly recaps. In addition to the wealth of data, the extensive review of previous research and in-depth analyses, Marsh shows how much we can learn from children themselves. A tribute to change and creativity, her study challenges and shifts the reader's own perspectives on children's musical play.


Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor is an uncommon benign hamartomatous lesion of odontogenic origin, commonly seen in adolescents with a female predilection. It has distinct features such as constrained size, minimal growth potential and lack of recurrence. It occurs in both intra-osseous and peripheral forms. The rarity of adenomatoid odontogenic tumor may be associated with its asymptomatic presentation and slow growing pattern. Therefore, it should be distinguished from the more common lesions of odontogenic origin in routine dental examinations. Here we report a case of adenomatoid odontogenic tumor in a 14 year old female patient in the anterior maxillary region. The patient was treated surgically and later rehabilitated with fixed prosthesis.


The forthcoming ubiquitous electronics era, which will involve widespread use of flexible electronic devices, IoTs and electric vehicles, is in urgent need of advanced power sources with reliable/sustainable electrochemical performance and mechanical flexibility. Here, we demonstrate a new class of all-nanomat (Si anode/Al 2 O 3 separator/OLO cathode) Li-ion battery (LIB) full cells based on 1D building elements-interweaved heteronanomat skeletons as a simple and versatile cell strategy. The well-tailored heteronanomat cell architecture allows for the formation of 3D-bicontinuous ion/electron transport pathways and the elimination of metallic foil current collectors, leading to exceptional improvements in the energy density and mechanical deformability that lie far beyond those achievable with conventional LIB technologies.


Variations in the climate constitute a significant threat to the productivity of food crops in the Gambia. A good understanding of the influence of climate variability on crop production is vital for climate resilience and improved food security. This study examined the trends, relationships, and the extent to which growing season temperatures and the SPEI (Standardized Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index) impacted sorghum, millet, maize, and rice yields in three agro-ecological regions of the Gambia during 1990–2019. Mean temperatures and the SPEI exhibited increasing trends while observed yields showed a decline across all regions. The SPEI had a significant positive relationship with yields, and temperatures were negatively associated with yields. Though yield response to climate variability differs among regions, 20% to 62% of variations in the four crop yields were due to climate trends. The combined effect of the SPEI and temperatures decreased yields from 3.6 kg ha−1 year−1 to 29.4 kg ha−1 year−1, with the most severe decline observed in rice and maize yields in the Sahelian zone. Although uncertainties might arise from not considering related extreme climate events, this study highlights how past climate trends affect cereal yields in the Gambia; thus, any unfavorable change in the local climate could have severe repercussions on the country's food security. There is a need for concerted efforts to increase investments in adaptation strategies to lessen the effects of the climate for improved crop productivity.


This paper describes the implementation of a high-rejection wideband microstrip bandpass filter. The proposed filter employs open-loop ring resonators which are loaded with triangular shaped patches at both open-ends of the resonator in order to enhance its out-of-band harmonic rejection across an ultra-broadband frequency range. Furthermore, by including L-shaped slots within the patches and open-end stubs in the resonator structure itself an even wider upper band rejection is realized which is in excess of 6ƒo without compromising the filter's insertion-loss and return-loss characteristics. The filter design was fabricated to verify its viability for commercial applications.


ning, Andors tends to fall into the "red vs. expert" trap, although he abjures it elsewhere.) In the 1964-66 period, the Taching model came to prominence, stressing some of the Great Leap themes and the integration of factory (or mine) and farm. At this time, management bonuses were abolished, triple-combination teams were revitalized, and piece-rate systems fell into disfavor. On the other hand, many of the nation's top leaders were singing the praises of specialization as a means of facilitating economic planning. The Cultural Revolution buried the trust and specialization issues. The Great Leap management model, the Taching industrial planning model, decentralization, and "economic despecialization" won out. This last, a catchall concept constructed by Andors, includes rural small-scale industry, product diversity and independent machinery design and manufacture at the enterprise or locality level, pollution control, and decentralization of economic planning. The period after the Cultural Revolution, especially around 1972, was similar to the present. Technical decision-making, factory discipline, rational rules and regulations, financial controls, and profits were all stressed. Then, as now, many of the Great Leap-Cultural Revolution reforms remained: e.g., cadre participation in labor, triple-combination teams, workers' colleges, decentralized economic planning, and the establishment of agricultural bases linked to specific industrial enterprises. Drawing extensively upon official Chinese and secondary Western sources, Andors demonstrates the great diversity of experience among factories. For example, he shows, from a sample of eighty-five plants, that "the establishment of revolutionary committees depended more on political, organizational, and historical factors than on economic, geographical, or technical ones." On balance, however, I do not find that this book provides a very compelling treatment of the subject. The problem is that, while Andors operates within a clear ideological framework, his theoretical framework is anything but clear. For instance, while he continually refers to the interrelationships among the system of economic planning, the role of enterprise functional departments, the Great Leap management system, and incentives to cadres and workers, he never really analyzes these interactions. The lack of a clear theoretical overview, combined with the chronological format, give the narrative a patchwork quality. The debate about trusts, for example, is treated three times in the text, each time from scratch. Many important terms and concepts ("local," "policy," "politics") are never defined, and many that are defined (e.g., "decentralization") are still not clear. In addition, Andors's lack of familiarity with economics is evident. A further serious deficiency in this work, especially given its stated purpose, is the lack of a comparative perspective. The trust and profitincentive systems of the 1960s are presented as though they were the same as the Stalinist model that had been rejected in the 1950s. Actually, they were similar to contemporary proposals in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe aimed at reforming the traditional planning system. The Chinese have made some unique and important efforts to sinify and humanize industrial management and planning. Unfortunately, this book does not show these efforts and their results most effectively.


In drilling deep and ultra-deep wells, such issues like casing worn area, worn depth, remaining collapse strength and burst strength under uniform loading conditions are of widely concern. By theoretical analysis and finite element method, a set of formulas on the calculation of those values are presented. Meanwhile, a formula for casing remaining collapse strength under non-uniform loading conditions is also established by converting a non-uniform loading into an equivalent uniform loading. The study shows theoretical results agree well with published test datum. Casing wear and formation elastic parameters should be considered in the casing strings design and strength assessment in an ultra-deep well drilling. At the same time, more experiments on worn casing strength evaluation are suggested to conduct for different types of casing to verify applications of the developed theoretical formulas.


Background Psychiatric disorders have been a challenge for public health and will bring economic problems to individuals and healthcare systems in the future. One of the important factors that could affect these disorders is diet. Objective In the current study with a cross-sectional design, we investigated the association of Paleolithic and Mediterranean diets with psychological disorders in a sample of adult women. Methods Participants were 435 adult women between 20 and 50 years old that refer to healthcare centers in the south of Tehran, Iran. The diet scores were created by the response to a valid and reliable semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), and the psychological profile was determined by response to the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21). The multivariable-adjusted logistic regression was applied to compute the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). Results After adjusted for potential confounders, it is evident that participants in the highest Paleolithic diet tertile had lower odds of depression (OR = 0.21; 95% CI: 0.12, 0.37: P < 0.001), anxiety (OR = 0.27; 95% CI: 0.16, 0.45: P < 0.001), and stress (OR = 0.19; 95% CI: 0.11, 0.32; P < 0.001) in comparison to the lowest tertile. Furthermore, those in the third tertile of the Mediterranean diet score were at lower risk of depression (OR = 0.20; 95% CI: 0.11, 0.36; P < 0.001), anxiety (OR = 0.22; 95% CI: 0.13, 0.38; P < 0.001), and stress (OR = 0.23; 95% CI: 0.13, 0.39; P < 0.001) compared with those in the first tertile. Conclusion The result of the current study suggests that greater adherence to Paleolithic and Mediterranean dietary patterns may be related with a decreased risk of psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, and stress.


ABSTRACT The mutual fund flow–performance relationship remains the interest of academic researchers all the time. It is widely accepted that the flow performance relationship curve is convex in nature. Unfortunately, we have very limited knowledge about the sources behind this convexity. This study posits a new variable, fund governance, that impacts the convexity of the flow performance relationship. The estimation technique applied in this study is the least square regression model with white robust standard error and covariance matrix. The results exhibit that the convexity in the flow performance relationship is positively related to good fund governance practices.


The article is written considering scientific research methods and actuality. As we know, the teaching approaches have some interesting relationshipswith each other. They sometimes overlap, support, complement and even contradict each other. Do not become strict about how these approaches are used in the classroom; just be aware of what they are andhow they are used best. Of course, no single approach can answer all of every teacher's questions,so it depends on your interest to be open-minded enough to try all of them andbegin to see which one works best in which situations. As you can see, the teaching approaches vary in how specific they are about views on language and language learning and their typical classroom practices.


Ascidia Eudistoma sp. produce bioactive compounds that can inhibit the growth of microorganisms. Ascidians are also known for their potential secondary metabolites in the biomedical world. This study aimed to obtain isolates of the ascidia symbiont Eudistoma sp., determine the antifungal activity against the test fungus Candida albicans, and determine the anti-UV activity of the symbiont Eudistoma sp. The ascidia symbiont fungus was extracted using maceration method with ethyl acetate solvent and tested for antifungal activity using the test fungus Candida albicans. The antifungal activity test results showed that the diameter of the AFBN 5b inhibition zone of 9 mm. The symbiont fungus can be said to have potential as an antifungal drug.  Testing the anti-UV activity of fungi in symbiosis with ascidia Eudistoma sp. using a spectrophotometer showed that the extract sample of the ascida symbiont fungus could produce an absorption at UV-B (λ 290–320 nm) of 3.8 absorbance and when compared to UV-A (λ 370–400 nm) an absorption value of 0.38 was obtained and is still classified as moderate Keywords: Ascidia, Eudistoma sp., symbionts, Antifungal and Anti-UV


A graduate course, APMA 6430 Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, has been offered by the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science since 1985 in both traditional and synchronous distance learning modes. The decision to move to a totally asynchronous delivery mode was made in 2009 and fully implemented in Spring, 2010, based in part on the desire to support student achievement given the many - but different - challenges faced by both on-grounds and off-grounds students. The shift in delivery method brought its own set of challenges along with its inherent flexibility in student engagement with the course. In this paper, we review the lessons learned and how we met various administrative, support, and instructional challenges from the first three offerings of this course in a totally asynchronous on-line mode.


Since the classification methods mentioned in previous studies are currently unable to meet the accuracy requirements for fault diagnosis in large-scale chemical industries, these methods are gradually being eliminated and rarely used. This research offers a probabilistic neural network (PNN) based on feature selection and a bio-heuristic optimizer as a fault diagnostic approach for chemical industries using artificial intelligence. The sample characteristics are initially simplified using heuristic feature selection and support vector machine recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE). Using PNN as the principal classifier of the fault diagnostic model and employing a modified salp swarm algorithm (MSSA) linked with the bio-heuristic optimizer to optimize the hidden smoothing factor (σ) of PNN further improves the classification performance of PNN. The MSSA introduces the Lévy flight method, greatly enhancing exploration capabilities and convergence speed compared to the standard SSA. To validate the engineering application of the suggested method, a PSO-SVM-REF-MSSA-PNN model is created, and TE process data are utilized in tests. The model's performance is evaluated by comparing its accuracy and F1-score to other regularly used classification models. The results indicate that the data samples selected by PSO-SVM-RFE features simplify and eliminate redundant features more effectively than other feature selection techniques. The MSSA algorithm's optimization capabilities surpass those of conventional optimization techniques. The PNN network is more suitable for fault detection and classification in the chemical industry. The three considerations listed above make it evident that the proposed approach might greatly help identify TE process problems.


The decomposition of methyl iodide on Cu(110) surface gives rise to the production of methane, ethane, and ethene over a wide range of its surface coverage. In this work a reaction mechanism based on the adsorption and subsequent surface dissociation(s) of methyl iodide followed by the recombination and desorption of the surface entities are proposed on the basis of the energetic criteria provided by the unity bond index−quadratic exponential potential method. To further amplify the arguments using the calculated activation energies of the surface reactions, desorptions, etc., the Arrhenius factor is obtained by simulation of the temperature-programmed desorption patterns fitted to the experimental findings. A surface species designated as "hot methyl" or energized methyl with specific and determined properties, its heat of adsorption and residence time, have been assumed and accounts for the reported discrepancies between the calculated and experimental carbon balance in the surface reactions.


At present, the framework of the medical security system in rural and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has taken shape, which plays an important role in meeting needs of the farmers and herdsmen on health care and improving the health standard. First, this article elaborates on the operations of the medical security system in rural and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia. And then, the problems that exist in the medical security system would be analyzed. Finally, combining with the real situation in Inner Mongolia, the proposals to improve the medical security system are offered so as to improve the medical service level in rural and pastoral areas and meet the needs of farmers and herdsmen on health care. KEYWORD: NCMS (New Rural Cooperative Medical System); Medical Assistance; Public Health Services Farmers and Herdsmen; Inner Mongolia International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education (SSEMSE 2015) © 2015. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 1681 hospitalization fund, outpatient fund, insurance fund of serious illness and risk fund. 2.1.2 Compensation Standard The compensation standard of NCMS includes hospitalization compensation and outpatient compensation. Taking Erdos City as an example: 184.108.40.206 Hospitalization Compensation The limit line of hospitalization compensation (including special outpatient clinic) per capita every year is up to 200 thousand. And the compensation standard is as follows: Table1 Hospitalization Compensation standard of NCMS 184.108.40.206 Outpatient Compensation The designated medical institutions of outpatient compensation are Sumu health clinics in towns and townships in every country, community health service center and the clinics of Gacha villiage, which implements the integrated management of villages. The ratio of compensation is as follows: Table2 Outpatient Compensation standard of NCMS Medical Institution Pay Line (Yuan) Compensation Ratio Limit Line City's hospital of village and county level 100 65% The limit line is set according to the disease categories and meanwhile, the total cost combining the limit line of hospitalization can not exceed 200 thousand. City's hospital (including hospitals of district and city level) Under Second-class Hospital (including second-class) 300 55% Third-class Hospital 500 45% Hospitals outside the city 700 35% 2.2 Rural and Pastoral Medical Assistance System The fund of rural and pastoral medical assistance system is from government allocations and voluntary contributions of all sectors of society. And the target people are including five guarantees family with serious illness, poor households and entitled groups in rural areas. And the four assistance measures consist of regular medical assistance, medical assistance for serious illness, outpatient assistance for serious illness and temporary medical assistance. 2.3 Basic Public Health Services The meaning of basic public health services covers a lot. And here, the author refers to the narrowly meaning of public health service, of which the content is providing the disease control and prevention and maternal and child protection. The major institution responsible for the public health services is Sumu health clinics in towns and townships. Until 2010, the number of health clinics in towns and townships in Inner Mongolia is 1340, of which the number of beds is 16424.[2]And Sumu health clinics in towns and townships provides various public health services, including building health records of farmers and herdsmen, popularizing the common sense of health care, executing the national immunization plan, vaccinating, registering and reporting the infectious disease and suspected cases within the region and controlling epidemics. 2.4 Medical Insurance of Serious Illness of NCMS Since 2014, Inner Mongolia has already carried out the work of medical insurance of serious illness of NCMS, of which the target people are the farmers and herdsmen who are insured that very year. And the insurance coverage is the annual large amount of fees of certain serious disease. And the specific compensation coverage and standard is consulted to the municipal administrative department of NCMS. And 20 yuan per person from the collective funds of NCMS is taken as the insurance expense and no additional fee should be paid. Besides, the annual ratio of fund surplus for commercial insurance companies cannot be over 5%. The part in excess of 5% should return to the fund of NCMS. If the proportion of capital loss of commercial insurance for serious illness is below 10%, the insurance companies should bear the cost and as for the part in excess of Medical Institution PayLine (Yuan) Compensation Ratio Limt Line Locality The Range of Hospital City, Village and County Level Sumu health clinics in towns and towships 200 90% 200 thousand City's Hospitals Cla-ss I Under Second-class Hospital (including second-class) County Level 400 80% City Level 600 Cla-ss II Third-class Hospital County Level 600 75% City Level 1000 Hospitals outside the city 1500 65%


Financial technology (fintech), or digital innovations in the financial sector, is expected to enhance access to financial services and promote innovations for more inclusive and sustainable futures. To provide an up-to-date discussion on FinTech, the paper aims to map out the main countries, publications, institutions, and topics of the related research based on the Web of Science (WoS) database. The findings based on the 494 articles show that publications have experienced rapid growth since 2015 and that fintech research has involved several disciplines, such as e-commerce, finance, sustainability studies, information management, economics, business, organization law, etc. Also, several U.S., Chinese, U.K., and Australian institutions have been shown to be prominent in hosting such interdisciplinary work. In addition, five main research clusters include (a) digitizationor even ecosystem-based innovations, (b) internet finance and its regulation, (c) cryptocurrencies and blockchains, (d) financial inclusion and trust, and (e) AI and regulation technologies (or regtech). By showing the research fronts of fintech, the scientometric analysis also highlights the research gap at the intersections of green finance and smart finance.


The purpose of this paper is to describe China?s unique historical development that transformed the Celestial Empire into the largest economy in the world in the beginning of the nineteenth century, with a GDP that exceeded that of Western Europe, Japan, the US and Russia combined, and the decline during the ?Century of Humiliation?, and Mao Zedong?s communism that culminated in the ?Three Bitter Years? from 1958 to 1961 that produced the large famine with an estimated death of 20 to 30 million people. After this disaster, aggravated by the ?Cultural Revolution? that followed, came the amazing growth started by Deng Xiaoping?s economic reforms in 1978, that is only comparable to the United States emergence as an economic giant during the nineteenth century. China?s sustained growth, at an astounding 10 percent per year over the last 30 years, is without precedent. Many economists predict this growth rate will continue at 7 to 8 percent per year for several decades. This extraordinary sustained growth was partially fueled by the formation of its rapidly expanding financial market, and the profit and risks that its stock marked provides investors.


By mapping qualitative linguistic words into a fine-changeable cloud drops and translating the uncertain land price factor conditions into quantitative values with the uncertain illation based on cloud model,and integrating multiple linear regression model,setting up a linear model between the land price and its influence factors,a new way of evaluating the parcel price is proposed.The case study shows that the potential of using this model for evaluating the parcel price.


This paper produces the fingerprint by combining both the image feature based on the improved Harris detection and the motion feature based on the differences between the adjacent video frames,and retrieval video segment through similarity match of the video fingerprint.The corner descriptor of the DC image is generated based on the improved Harris method.Moreover,the motion feature is extracted by trimming the image edge of the video.The fusion factor which combines the similarity of image feature and motion feature is constructed to calculate the similarity between the candidate videos and original videos.Compared with existing method,the method proposed in this paper retrieves video segment accuracy and meets the requirements of real-time.


In general, pathologic processes, such as neoplasic cell changes, tend to alter the magnitude of structural organization by destruction or reorganization of membranous elements or by a change in cellularity. These changes will also have an impact on proton mobility, which can be followed up by DWI (diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging). From DWI is obtained the ADC (apparent diffusion coefficient) map, which is a representation of the magnitude of water diffusion at the points of a given region of interest (ROI). The purpose of this study was to assess the variation of ADC values in different brain ROIs of normal subjects, using a computer tool previously developed. The aim of this assessment was to verify whether ADC values could be used to differentiate between normal subjects and patients with multiform glioblastoma (a high-grade glioma) and meningioma. ADC maps were calculated for 10 controls, 10 patients with glioblastoma and 10 with meningioma. For controls, mean ADC values were calculated for 10 different ROIs, located in the same places where the tumors were present in the patients. These values were then averaged over ROIs and over subjects, giving a mean ADC value of (8.65±0.98)x10-4 mm2 /s. The mean ADC values found for brain tumors were (5.03±0.67) x10-4 mm2 /s for meningioma and (2.83±0.45)x10-4 mm2 /s for glioblastoma. We concluded that the ROIs used for computing brain ADC values for controls were not essential for the estimation of normal reference ADC values to be used in the differentiation between these types of tumors and healthy brain tissue


The synthesis of the novel polyfunctional system 2-hydroxy-3,4-diamino-pentane is reported and various acyl derivatives are described. Oxidation of the latter yields α,β-diacylamino ketones, which are readily reduced back to alcohols.


The African rice gall midge, Orseolia oryzivora Harris and Gagne (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), is an im-portant pest of rice, Oryza sativa , in Burkina Faso as well as other countries in West and East Africa. In spite of its importance, little is known regarding the relationship between gall midge populations and grain yield losses. To determine yield losses, the gall midge was reared in cages, and adult midges were placed on caged plants of the rice variety ITA 123 at different population levels. The seven treatments consisted of different numbers of insects infested on the plants: 0 insect pairs (non-infested check), and 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, or 25 midge pairs/cage. The loss in yield in relation to the nonin-fested control was highly positively correlated ( R 2 = 0.81) with the percentage of gall midge damaged tillers. The infestation by the insect on the plants resulted in the compensatory production of tillers which developed in response to the gall midge damage, but the compensation was not sufficient to make up for the loss of yield due to the damaged tillers. Yield loss ranged from 0% in the control to 65.3% in the treatment with 25 pairs of adults. One percent of tillers damaged resulted in 2% grain yield loss.


The malicious actors continuously produce malicious Android applications with a COVID-19 theme in the context of the pandemic. Users frequently grant the necessary permissions to install those phoney apps without paying much attention. Android permissions are essential points of weakness. Major privacy issues often result from this vulnerability. Hackers with malicious intent have viewed the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to conduct malware attacks to profit financially and advance their nefarious goals. Through COVID-19-related content, people are becoming victims of phishing scams. The android malware seen explicitly during the pandemic of Covid-19 is discussed in this study, and we next analyze malware detection methods with a focus on these Covid-19-themed malware mobile applications. This research paper attempts to identify dangerous android permissions and the malware families that erupted during the Covid-19 outbreak.


The decision by a group of Aboriginal political activists to sue Andrew Bolt in the Federal Court for racial vilification is a surprising one that may backfire in ways they hadn't expected. The case itself cannot avoid examining closely what constitutes Aboriginal identity. The minute that question is opened for serious discussion there are awkward political issues that follow. In fact, with a constitutional amendment currently being flagged by the Gillard government, this case may provide an opportunity to bring the vexed question of Aboriginal identity out into the open. Moreover, depending on the outcome of the case, it could provide a green light for the emergence of many more claimants who other Aborigines regard as completely phoney.


This paper presents the control techniques used in a high-power-density electrolytic-free offline LED driver that utilizes a merged energy buffer for twice-line-frequency energy buffering. This LED driver comprises two stages: a four-switch buck-boost PFC stage and an LLC resonant dc-dc stage. The proposed control technique for the PFC stage utilizes a novel mode splitter to ensure a smooth buck-to-boost and vice versa mode transition. A feedforward control strategy is proposed for the dc-dc stage, which in conjunction with feedback control, ensures a well-regulated output voltage by mitigating undesirable spikes in it. A 150-W prototype LED driver utilizing a merged energy buffer is tested with the proposed control techniques. This GaN-based prototype achieves a high power density of 50 W/inch3 while replacing electrolytic capacitors with low-energy-density ceramic capacitors.


The invention discloses an L-shaped installing plate which comprises a top installing plate, a bottom installing plate and a middle connecting plate, wherein the top installing plate, the bottom installing plate and the middle connecting plate are connected integrally. One end of the middle connecting plate extends outwards and vertically to form the bottom installing plate, and the other end of the middle connecting plate is connected with the top installing plate parallelly in a coplanar mode. The bottom installing plate is provided with at least one first installing hole, and the top installing plate is provided with at least two second installing holes. The L-shaped installing plate can install and connect parts which are perpendicular, and is simple in structure and convenient to use.


It has become very attractive to develop office automation systems based on microcomputers. However, currently no single one of the commonly available languages on such machines is suited to the full range of requirements: interactive dialogue; accounting; statistics; word-processing; database management: etc. This paper outlines the key requirements, tabulates the strengths and weaknesses of current languages, and describes a system that is now in use in a number of commercial applications which allows different parts of an application to be written in the most suitable language, yet the whole to be simply and uniformly integrated together.


The case of drilling in frozen rock under the real production conditions of some Russia units, including cooling air drilling, foam mud drilling and normal mud drilling, is introduced. Some proposals are put forward.


A new method is proposed to distinguish the contributions of the low-frequency noise (LFN) from the channel and the source/drain Schottky contacts in MOS devices. The method is applied to back-gated nMOSFETs with MoS2 channel and Al2O3 gate dielectric. To avoid a possible noise signal contamination from the top MoS2 surface by oxygen or water molecules absorption, the nMOSFETs with multilayer MoS2 are fabricated, and the measurements are carried out in the vacuum. The trap density Not at the MoS2/Al2O3 interface is derived for the first time using the proposed method. It is found that the Not responsible to LFN depends strongly on the surface potential, ranging from 4 × 1010 cm-2 in the weak over-drive region to 5 × 1011 cm-2 in the strong over-drive region.


Higher inflation will cause the real consumption rate of society to goods and service from a company become lower, so it will affect the rate of company's profit, which also affect the Stock Price in the company. In this research, the formulation of the problem is whether inflation can affect the price of stock in the Manufacture Company listed in Indonesian Capital Market in 2008-2014 and the purpose of this research is to understand the effect of inflation to the price of stocks in Manufacture Company listedin Indonesian Capital Market in 2008-2014. This research uses secondary data from Indonesian Capital Market with the population is a group of Manufacture Company listed in Indonesian Capital Market in number of 158 companies. The sampling method used in this research is Purpossive Sampling, so the sample will be 73 Manufacture Company listed in Indonesian Capital Market in 2008-2014. The result showed the negative relation between inflation and the price of stock, but statistically, it is not significant because thitung - 0,148 < ttabel 2,015 and α 0,05 sig 0,888. Keyword: Stock Price, Inflationand Manufacture Company.


Confined cultivation of water hyacinth(Eichhornia crassipes) is one of the key technologies to reduce eutrophication in lakes.In order to design the wave protection facilities that can successfully confine the growth of water hyacinth,the anti-wave capability of the facilities was tested in a flume experiment.The forces exerted by water hyacinth on the enclosure and pile height of water hyacinth in front of the enclosure were measured,and the reduction of stormy wave action by water hyacinth colony was analyzed accordingly.The results revealed that the forces exerted by water hyacinth on the enclosure as well as the pile height of water hyacinth in front of the enclosure increased first and then decreased with the increase of cultivation width.Water hyacinth piled mostly underwater.Water hyacinth could reduce storm wave after growing to a larger scale.The results indicated that water hyacinth colony could greatly reduce the effect of stormy wave on the growth of water hyacinth.


Canola,oil-sunflower,safflower and linseed seeds which are equal to 40.0 g additional crude fat were supplemented into dietary respectively to observe the effects to adult ewe carcass main fatty acid profile.The main fatty acid(FA) from longissimus,kidney and tailhead fat obtained from each carcass were measured by gas chromatography technology.The results showed that the composition of FA io muscle tissue were more influenced by dietary than that of adipose tissue.C14∶0 was the most steady fatty acid in all three analyzed parts and not affected by dietary.C16∶1 and C18∶1 from adipose tissue were not influenced by dietary too,but the percentage of C18∶1 in muscle increased remarkably for adding safflower seeds.There was a increasing trend on the proportion of C18∶3 in the adipose tissue when supplementing linseed,while there was a decreasing trend when supplementing other oilseeds,especially oil-sunflower.Except for rich-oleic canola,the rich-PUFA oilseed could reduce the proportion of C16∶0.There were significant differences on the FA composition in different parts of carcass:the proportion of C18∶l in tailhead was remarkably higher(P0.05 or P0.01) than that in any other parts,specially than in kidney fat;the proportion of C16∶1 in these parts was similar to C18∶1;the proportion of C16∶0 and C18∶0 in tailhead fat was the least;the proportion of C18∶2 in muscle was the least(P0.01).The proportion of UFA showed a decreasing trend from tailhead,muscle to kidney fat,on the contrary,the proportion of SFA showed a increasing trend.


The purpose of the research was to study the relationship between the elements of a company's ethical responsibility and the outcomes of the digital transformation of work, considering the dynamic processes of open innovation. Based on the results obtained, the paper proposes a conceptual model to address the following research questions. How does the ethical responsibility of a company impact the digital transformation of work? How does the digitalization of work relate to the ethical responsibility of a company? How does open innovation advance the ethical responsibility of a company? The research follows the logic of the elaboration of a conceptual model. The theoretical novelty of the article is expressed in the fact that 25 criteria, through which the relationships between the studied concepts are manifested, were identified and systematized. To assess the significance of the criteria, a survey of experts was developed and conducted to obtain a diverse opinion. Kendall's coefficient of concordance (W) and Pearson's chi-squared were used to measure the level of agreement of the experts' evaluation. A conceptual model established the relationship pathways as well as inbound and outbound flows, and highlighted the key findings of the research. Namely, the guiding role of open innovation as the external circumstances for corporate ethical responsibility, and the necessity to apply all elements of ethical responsibility to ensure the viable digital transformation of work.


Crosstalk between the sympathetic nervous system and proinflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-18 (IL-18) plays a key role in the pathophysiology of the hypertrophied failing heart. Importantly, IL-18 can directly promote cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. IL-18 binding protein (IL-18BP) is a natural inhibitor of IL-18, and counters its biological effects. While β-AR stimulation induces IL-18, it is not known whether it also regulates IL-18BP. Here we demonstrate that the β-AR agonist isoproterenol (ISO) upregulates IL-18BP mRNA and protein expression in adult mouse cardiomyocytes in β 2 -AR/Gi-dependent manner. We cloned mouse Il18bp 5' cis -regulatory region, and identified several putative transcription factor-binding sites, including CREB, C/EBP, NF- k B, and Sp1. While forced expression of dnp65 or kdIKKβ, or pre-treatment with mithramycin (Sp1 inhibitor) had no significant effect, forced expression of dnCREB or C/EBPβ knockdown markedly attenuated ISO-induced Il18bp transcription. ISO induced Il18bp promoter-reporter activity, and the deletion or mutation of CREB and C/EBP motifs reduced the response. ISO induced CREB and C/EBPβ DNA-binding activity, reporter gene activation, and in vivo binding to Il18bp promoter. ISO induced CREB and C/EBPβ activation via PI3K/Akt and ERK1/2. Importantly, ISO-induced hypertrophy (increased cell surface area and protein and not DNA synthesis) was blunted in cardiomyocytes isolated from IL-18BP Tg mice, by the forced expression of IL-18BP, and IL-18 neutralizing Ab. Further, ISO treatment in vivo was associated with Akt and ERK1/2 phosphorylation, CREB and C/EBPβ activation, and IL-18BP expression. Notably, ISO-induced myocardial hypertrophy was markedly attenuated in IL-18BP Tg mice. These data provide the first evidence that ISO induces mouse IL-18BP expression in cardiomyocytes via β 2 -AR/Gi-mediated Akt and ERK1/2-dependent CREB and C/EBPβ activation. Moreover, IL-18BP inhibits ISO-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy both in vitro and in vivo , likely via prevention of the biologic effects of IL-18. Thus, catecholamine induced expression of IL-18BP may play a protective role in the hypertrophied failing heart, a disease state characterized by sustained β-AR activation and IL-18 signaling.


Introduction. The priority area of sports and health should be aimed at consolidating the nation's efforts in the struggle for a healthy future, steady perception of traditional sports and physical activity, and a healthy lifestyle. Actions aimed at implementing the priority area of sports and health should be accompanied by public awareness of the undeniable need for physical activity as the basis of a healthy lifestyle. The state must provide the necessary conditions (including regulatory, material, and methodological support) for citizens' systematic sports and recreation activities, taking into account their individual needs and interests.
The purpose of the article is to study the national trends of demographic processes regarding sports and health management tasks in Ukraine.
Results. The priority direction of the sports and health sphere has been determined, which should be aimed at consolidating the efforts of the whole nation in the struggle for a healthy future, establishing the perception of traditional sports and physical activity, and promoting a healthy lifestyle. The tasks of sports and health management are revealed: assistance to the state policy in sports and health activities, planning, organization, and control. The main strategic goals of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine are revealed. It is noted that to fulfill the strategic purpose of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, namely, increasing the population's life expectancy, which primarily depends on the development of physical culture and sports, requires using indicators based on demographic statistics. It is emphasized that in the direction of increasing the life expectancy of the population of Ukraine, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine envisages achieving a 5% reduction in the mortality rate and a 5% increase in the life expectancy rate. The survey of households in 2020 in Ukraine showed that 50.5% of the population considered their health to be good, 39.7% - satisfactory, and 9.8% - bad.
Conclusions. The study showed that the permanent population of Ukraine had decreased significantly, while the structure of gender composition for 1991-2021 has not changed. Over the past thirty years, the country's population has shrunk by almost 20 percent due to its significant mortality. It is emphasized that the nation's health directly depends on the efficiency of the sports and health sphere. It is noted that this situation causes the state and trends of demographic processes in Ukraine to be of concern, outlined by several demographic problems. It is determined that the low level of accessibility of sports and health services in Ukraine is evidence of the need to update the issue of increasing the income level of citizens and financial support of this sector of the economy.
Keywords: sports and health-improving activity, demographic processes, demographic problems, management tasks, Ministry of Health of Ukraine.


S it first emerged from within the legal academy some forty years ago, the law and literature movement has enriched the study of both literature and law in many ways: for example, by examining the many similarities (as well as differences) in the ways that readers and critics use and interpret literary and legal texts; by illuminating the literary presentation of legal themes, as well as the real-world legal backdrop against which fictional events take place; and by focusing attention on how the law affects the content and distribution of literary works themselves, most notably through issues relating to intellectual property, defamation, and obscenity. As an intellectualproperty-law scholar with a lifelong interest in the works of James Joyce, I was therefore happy to see how a recent edited volume from the Florida James Joyce Series, Joyce and the Law, illustrates these currents coming together in Joyce's writing, ranging all the way from the little-read Exiles to Finnegans Wake. Authored by fifteen leading Joyce scholars, the essays making up the volume cast light on, among other things, Joyce's (occasional) use of legal subject matter as source material, inspiration, or theme; the manner in which the legal regimes governing early-twentieth-century Ireland would have shaped and constrained his characters' conduct and opportunities; and the way law, especially copyright and obscenity law, has affected the publication and use of Joyce's work over the years. Perhaps more importantly, though, the volume leads me to draw two other, less obvious connections or parallels between law and literature. The first relates to the ways in which both law (and other social norms) and literature (and other arts) are always engaged in a fundamental struggle to find the "right," if only temporary, accommodation between freedom and constraint. The second, perhaps not altogether distinct from the first, is how both literature and law can be understood as experiments or works-in-progress: simultaneously the product of human effort to engage with a specific time, place, and culture, as well as part of the raw materials by which that culture constantly revises itself, in a never-ending cycle of mutuality and response. In the following paragraphs, I will first briefly describe the individual essays, some in more detail than others, before sketching out their relation to these broader points. Following an introductory chapter by editor Jonathan Goldman introducing the collection, the individual contributions are arranged


Abstract. In Romania, local stakeholders' knowledge plays a decisional role in emergencies, supporting rescue officers in natural hazard events, coordinating and assisting, both physically and psychologically, the affected populations. However, despite in Iași Metropolitan area (NE of Romania), the occurrence and severity of natural hazards are increasing there is a lack of knowledge of local stakeholders to address the population toward safety actions. For this reason, 118 local stakeholders were interviewed to determine their risk awareness and preparedness capacities over a set of natural hazards to understand where the lack of knowledge, action, and trust are exacerbated the most. Results reveal substantial distinctions among stakeholders and the different threats based on their cognitive and behavioral roles in the communities. The role of responsibility and trust has been seen as important driving factors shaping their perception and preparedness. Preparedness levels were low, and, not for all, learning and preparatory actions are needed to withstand the negative occurrences of natural hazards. As their role is to refer with direct interventions in affected areas managing communication initiatives with the entire population of the community, there is the need to create stakeholders' networks, empowering local actors that could serve as a bridge between authorities' decisions and local people in order to make effective risk management plans and secure more lives and economies.


Grigori Svirski is a courageous and energetic man who achieved notoriety in the 1960s as a rebellious member of the Moscow Writers Union by relentlessly assaulting the ideological establishment in his fiery speeches and letters of protest. He emigrated to Israel in 1972 and currently resides in Canada. In 1979 his book Na lobnom meste: literatura nravstvennogo soprotivleniia came out in London. The genre of that lengthy volume cannot be easily assessed. It is partially a memoir listing any deviation from whatever canon of "socialist realism" still existed after the war, and partially a continuation of the writer's polemics with Soviet literary officialdom. As a collection of episodes and anecdotes the book can be added to the growing library of ex-Soviet writers' reportages on the loss of a battle with the publishers, or the acquisition of an apartment in the housing cooperative, or an expulsion from the Union of Writers or the restaurant in the Writers Club: such are Solzhenitsyn's The Oak and the Calf, Dovlatov's Invisible Book, Voinovich's Ivankiad, and Khalifs Ts.D.L., to name a few. Different as they are, these stories, including parts of Svirski's book, provide some interesting insights into the complicated machinery of Soviet ideology. The translators and editors, however, have done a great disservice to the author by renaming his book and advertising it as "the first comprehensive inside history of Soviet literature from Stalin on." This book simply does not live up to these promises and is no match for such "outside" histories of the same period as Vera Dunham's In Stalin's Time or Deming Brown's Soviet Russian Literature since Stalin. For one thing, the omissions are too great. Akhmatova, Pasternak, Platonov, and Zoshchenko, who were still very active after 1946, are mentioned in Svirski's book only when he enumerates the victims of various persecution campaigns. It appears that, notwithstanding all his ravings against oppressors, Svirski tacitly supports the effort of official critics to remove these modern classics from contemporary Russian literature. In fact, the moral and creative significance of these great figures for the development of Russian writing in the 1960s was tremendous, but Svirski never even touches that topic. Even Doctor Zhivago did not make it into this history, which spares many a page for effusive praise of individual short stories by Granin, or Nagibin, or the entirely obscure Nikolai Zhdanov.


Starting from a hydrodynamic model to describe the positive column of a glow discharge in oxygen, we investigate the stability of the homogeneous state. Near the critical points of the instability curve the wave dynamics are approximated by an amplitude equation of the Ginzburg‐Landau type with complex coefficients and an additional integral term. The nonlocal coupling term describes the influence of the external circuit on the plasma properties. The complex coefficients are calculated for selected values of the plasma parameters. For sufficiently large values of the external resistor a subcritical Hopf‐bifurcation is found. This is in agreement with the observation that in oxygen discharges a strong hysteresis occurs at the transition from the H ‐mode to the T ‐mode. Moreover, a numerical approach is used to study the hysteresis as a transition phenomenon (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


We obtained self-similar solutions of relativistically expanding magnetic loops taking into account the azimuthal magnetic fields. We neglect stellar rotation and assume axisymmetry and a purely radial flow. As the magnetic loops expand, the initial dipole magnetic field is stretched into the radial direction. When the expansion speed approaches the light speed, the displacement current reduces the toroidal current and modifies the distribution of the plasma lifted up from the central star. Since these self-similar solutions describe the free expansion of the magnetic loops, i.e. dv/dt = 0, the equations of motion are similar to those of the static relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. This allows us to estimate the total energy stored in the magnetic loops by applying the virial theorem. This energy is comparable to that of the giant flares observed in magnetars.


To investigate the effects of public transit information on people's pre-trip mode choice, using uniform design method, a stated preference survey is designed with four kinds of public transit information,including transit travel distance, transit vehicle location, road and traffic condition, and transit transfer information. Survey is conducted in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, China. Data are collected and parameters with multinomial Logit model are estimated. The results show that public transit information affects respondents' pre-trip mode choice significantly and strengthens public transit attraction, although effects of different information exists differences. However, there is little effect of public transit information on people who have already own their personal vehicles. Personal preferences of using public transit are also important in mode choices, and better transit information services may attract more people to use public transit.


We analyze Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and tilt data from the permanent monitoring networks of Etna volcano starting just after the 24 December 2018 eruption to an unusual two‐month period of deflation in February–March, 2021, which coincided with the occurrence of 17 lava fountain episodes. Based on changes in slope in the GNSS displacement time series, we divide the period starting 7 months after the eruption into five phases, spanning the continued inflation of the edifice punctuated by short periods of effusive and strombolian activity (four phases) and a 2‐month phase of intensive deflation. Our model indicates a progressive deepening of the internal pressure sources followed by a fast ascending source starting two‐months before the first 2021 paroxysms. We explain these results in light of a recent volcanological model on the nature and behavior of magma ascending through the Etnean feeding system.


The Kailuan Mining Administration (Kailuan or the KMA) ran one of the two largest colliery combines in pre-Communist China. Because it was a Sino-British company, most previous studies have concentrated on the important role it played in China's political history before 1949, but its equally important role in China's economy has been little studied. This paper contributesto remedying that deficiency.


The aim of the study was to develop pH sensitive nanoparticles of duloxetine hydrochloride for increasing the oral bioavailability. Depression is a mental disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. The conventional drugs available for its treatment have less bioavailability hence such a system is needed which protects the drug in adverse conditions, enhances the oral bioavailability and also provide sustained drug release to reduce frequent dosing. Duloxetine hydrochloride was the drug of choice and was incorporated into nanoparticles by controlled precipitation method. To deliver drugs at predetermined rate for fixed time period, pH sensitive drug delivery system was prepared to deliver the drug orally. The prepared nanoparticulate formulation was made pH sensitive by using Eudragit L100 to increases the stability of drugs in gastric fluids and to release the drug in the intestinal pH by the dissolution of the polymer in a pH and time controlled manner. The formulation was characterized for particle size, shape, entrapment efficiency, in vitro drug release. Prepared nanoparticle formulation showed enhanced bioavailability and pH sensitive drug release in the intestine.


In this article, the authors consider the n-job single-machine scheduling problem in which jobs with stochastic processing time requirements arrive to the system at random times. The performance measure combines both mean and variance of job completion times. In this study, a dispatching rule is designed to minimize the performance measure using a simulation model built using AWESIM. Different variations of the rule are tested to select the best implementing policy of the rule. Extensive experimentation is conducted to determine the best parameter values in terms of problem parameters.


the electrolyte temperature and anodizing voltage effect on the pore structure and their penetration depth of pores in nanoporous alumina (NPA) films were investigated. The pore sizes, the distance between them and the film thickness were changed by varying anodizing voltage and electrolyte temperature. It was found that NPА films have more ordered pores if fabricated at low electrolyte temperature (4 °C). For better control over the pore propagation, anodizing voltage was reduced after getting desired thickness of alumina film. For this technique, optimum parameters of anodizing process (0.4 M oxalic acid (COOH) 2 , voltage U=30-100 V, electrolyte temperature T=4-8 °C) were determined. Proposed method reduces the pore opening time while maintaining the mechanical integrity of the film.


This study is related with the experimental investigation on the heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of the fin-and-tube heat exchangers with three different interrupted fins and a plane fin for air-conditioning application. Experiments were conducted accordingly following the appropriate development process. Geometry similitude experiment was introduced to predict the performance of fins, and prototype experiment was also performed to confirm the validity of geometry similitude experimental results. However, these experimental results were limited to the sensible heat transfer characteristics of the heat exchangers. Hence, additional experiment was performed using refrigerant to investigate the latent heat transfer characteristics. This paper presents an appropriate process for the development of a new type heat exchanger. Sensible and latent heat transfer characteristics for each fin configuration is also provided along with the optimal fin configuration.


The KEY-VOCs project is a EURAMET joint research project focused on key Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in air. One of its activities is the evaluation of sensors-based measurement systems. In Europe, the monitoring of benzene in ambient air is mandatory as set by the European Directive for air quality (AQD) [1]. This Directive states that the reference method of measurement shall consist of active or on-line sampling followed by gas chromatography [2]. These methods are time consuming, expensive to implement and not easily portable prohibiting more local estimation of the population exposure. However, the AQD allows using indicative measurements with higher uncertainty than those of the reference methods. Sensor systems are good candidates for indicative methods with the additional ability of near-to real-time measurements.


This chapter discusses advanced techniques to correctly measure vehicle noise and to understand its root causes. The chapter covers structure-borne and air-borne contribution analysis for low and high frequencies in general and shows how sound intensity probes and laser vibrometers can help to analyse the test object. In addition, psychoacoustic metrics and material tests typically used in the field of vehicle noise and special aspects of tracked analysis are discussed.


Aim was the examination of the spatial distribution of QT interval in patients after Ml with and without VT. Analysis of the QT interval components was undertaken to identify those repolarization patterns that contribute essentially to heterogeneity of recovery times.


Between May 4 and May 7, 1982, two Federation of Labour conferences were held. One conference took place in the nation's mass media; the other took place on the floor of the Wellington Town Hall. The differences between the two conferences were striking and instructive.


Objective—To assess the effects of dietary modifications on oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL). Methods and Results—Thirty-seven healthy women were fed two diets. Both diets contained a reduced amount of total and saturated fat. In addition, one diet was low in vegetables and the other was high in vegetables, berries, and fruit. The dietary intake of total fat was 70 g per day at baseline and decreased to 56 g (low-fat, low-vegetable diet) and to 59 g (low-fat, high-vegetable diet). The saturated fat intake decreased from 28 g to 20 g and to 19 g, and the amount of polyunsaturated fat intake increased from 11 g to 13 g and to 19 g (baseline; low-fat, low-vegetable; low-fat, high-vegetable; respectively). The amount of oxidized LDL in plasma was determined as the content of oxidized phospholipid per ApoB-100 using a monoclonal antibody EO6 (OxLDL-EO6). The median plasma OxLDL-EO6 increased by 27% (P <0.01) in response to the low-fat, low-vegetable diet and 19% (P <0.01) in response to the low-fat, high-vegetable diet. Also, the Lp(a) concentration was increased by 7% (P <0.01) and 9% (P= 0.01), respectively. Conclusion—Alterations in the dietary fat intake resulted in increased plasma concentrations of lipoprotein(a) and OxLDL-EO6.


In this paper a nonlinear internal model control (NIMC) strategy based on neural network model is proposed. The NN model is identified from input output data using three layers feed forward network trained with back propagation algorithm. The NIMC controller consists of a model inverse controller and robustness filter with a single tuning parameter. Also a scheme has been developed using the feedback linearization on technique for indirect adaptive control. In this method online estimation of nonlinear function using neural network has been carried out. In order to overcome the difficulties associated with the optimal selection of the learning rate parameters, a new method for adaptive learning rate has been developed. The proposed strategy has been implemented and its performance is evaluated on simulated process. The robustness of the system has been confirmed for the set point tracking. The performance comparison of these neural controller configurations is also given in terms of ISE and IAE.


The super open-caisson foundation of Taizhou Yangtze River Bridge was used by positioning system of anchor piers. GPS RTK Techniques was used to real-time monitor the open-caisson and by software compute current geometric posture of open-caisson timely. This could provide guarantee for sinking of caisson, and shorten construction period and save cost.