In this proposed work, YCbCr color space is used for watermarking. Three different watermark logos are used to watermark Y, Cb, and Cr color spaces. The proposed watermarking method uses fundus image, ultrasound DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) image of liver and Lena image as the host images. This work uses the properties of Lifting wavelet transform (LWT), Discrete cosine transform (DCT), Schur decomposition and Singular value decomposition for watermarking. The LWT is used to split the image into different sub-bands (low-low, high-low, low-high, high-high). For watermarking HL, LH, and HH sub-bands are used. The SVD is used to extract the dominant matrix. The proposed scheme is highly robust and imperceptible when compared with other techniques. Speeded up robust features (SURF) are used for feature matching authentication. The presented scheme is resistant to numerous attacks, including Median filter, Salt and Pepper noise, Gaussian noise, Rotation, Average filter, Sharpening, Histogram equalization and Speckle noise. The Structural similarity index measurement (SSIM), Peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), Normalized correlation coefficient (NCC), and mean square error (MSE) are the metrics that are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.


A Ka-band monolithic low-noise Variable Gain Amplifier (VGA) MMIC, a K-band monolithic Medium Power Amplifier (MPA) MMIC, a K-band monolithic HJgh Power Amplifier (HPA) MMIC, and a K-band high power pseudomorphic HEMT (PHEMT) have been developed for Ka band satellite communications. The VGA MMIC has achived the noise figure of less than 2.0 dB with an associated gain of 29 dB and the wide gain control range of more than 50 dB at 28.5 to 35 GHz. The MPA MMIC has achieved an output power of 25.8 dBm at 19GHz and a linear gain of 15.0dB at 17 to 20 GHz. The small size HPA MMIC has delivered the output power of 31.5 dBm at 19GH z and a linear gain of 11.5 dB at 17 to 20 GHz. The high power PHEMT has delivered the output power of 31.0 dBm with a power added efficiency of 55.6 % and an associated gain of 9.2 dB at 18 GHz.


Overall, access to health care implies that some people may have access to health services while others may not. This is relevant in various contexts, including rural and urban settings where there may be transportation or financial difficulties for clients. From the telehealth literature, access is a multidimensional concept representing the ease with which health services are initiated, the ease with which health services are sustained, the length of time (or travel distance) it takes to access those health services and how easily someone (usually the patient) can obtain information regarding health services. Other conceptual domains associated with access include: affordability, acceptability, accommodation, availability, service diversity and competitive aspects. The issues most commonly identified in the literature in relation to access were timeliness, reduced travel time/ distance and ability to gain access to information. One aspect of access not identified was equity of access. This raises the question whether there were differences between urban and rural access to health-care services, or between different age groups, or between families with different financial status, or between aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities? Access to, or accessibility of, a service is certainly an important matter, but equity of access must also be considered.


A novel optical single-sideband modulator consisting of eight-phase modulator waveguides is proposed. It features an ideal output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) when used as a wavelength converter. The calculated results indicate that the wideband wavelength conversion with ideal output SNR can be realized by using this modulator in a fiber loop.


Purpose:To explore the MR feature of protrusion of lumbar intervertebral disk in Chilren.Material and Methods:Clinical findings and MR manifestations of 14 children with protrusion of lumbar intervertebral disk were restrospectively analysed.Results:18 lumbar lntervertebral disk is protrued in all the cases,8 is protrusion of L 4-5 intervertebral disk,6 is protrusion of L 5-S 1,2is protrusion of both L 4-5 and L 5-S 1.Conclusion:MR is important to the diagnosis of protrusion of lumbar lntervertebral disk in children and can clearly display alteration of intervertebral disk and following signs.


Background

Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) involves excessive use of Internet games to the extent that one's everyday life is compromised. It has been suggested that IGD symptoms are dependent on a person's cultural orientation. However, the range of potential cultural orientation effects on IGD presentations remains largely unknown. The current study aims to further understanding of the role of cultural orientation in IGD, allowing us to develop more culturally responsive and gamer centred IGD prevention and intervention strategies.
Methods

One thousand and thirty-two participants with internet gaming experience were measured for IGD symptom's severity using the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale – Short Form (IGDS9-SF) and cultural orientation behaviours via the Individualism & Collectivism Scale (ICS). Latent Class Analysis (LCA) and T-Tests were performed in relation to their responses.
Results

Upon inspection of the LCA output, two cultural profiles of internet gamers were identified. These included the Collectivism Aversive gamers (CA; 11%) and the Collectivism Neutral gamers (CN; 89%). The CA gamers displayed significantly higher IGD behaviours overall, and, were higher in preoccupation, withdrawal symptoms, tolerance, relapse, deception, escapism/mood modification, and functional impairment compared to CN gamers. There were no differences between CA and CN gamers in loss of interest and conflicts with others.
Conclusions

The findings suggest that cultural orientation can influence the presentation of IGD. Specifically, those who are less collectivist or less influenced by social groups display greater IGD symptoms and present a profile that requires a different intervention from gamers who are more collectivistic. Researchers and clinicians should emphasize the value of belonging in a collective and experiencing equality with others in relation to mental health and gaming patterns.


century. This process was interrupted by World War II. After the war, Japan reinstated developmentalism in order to restore its war-torn economy. Before the 1980s, Japan had reached the status of a fully industrialised nation. In terms of economic power Japan became on a par with Western industrialised nations. This success story was dubbed the "Japanese Miracle" (Johnson, 1982). The pursuit of economic development in Japan was often conducted at the ex-pense of other policy agendas, such as the protection of nature and environmental conservation. As a result, the country's rapid economic expansion during the 1950s and 1960s was accompanied by an equally rapid deterioration of environmental con-ditions. Broadbent described the quandary of development versus environment as a "growth-environment dilemma" (Broadbent, 1998). That is, Japan's conscious choice to adopt developmentalism had inevitably led to grave environmental consequences. Nevertheless, in the 1970s, the importance of protection of nature and the need for environmental conservation were increasingly recognised not only by Japan's ruling elite, who had relentlessly pursued developmentalism, but also by the general public (Mori, 2003). During that time, environment-related issues emerged as an important social and policy agenda. This has been widely recognized as a paradigm shift in Ja-pan's development practices and it seemed as if Japanese society was quickly learning from its mistakes. This study uses the concept of the 'social learning' process and looks at what had taken place in Japan during the crucial decades after World War II as well as ear-lier episodes prior to the war. It also examines the negative outcomes that the policy of developmentalism produced during the "Japanese Miracle" period of economic growth. More importantly, this paper analyses Japan's socio-economic transformation from the old paradigm (developmentalism) to new paradigm (tourism-based country). This paper consists of six sections. Following the introduction, section two dis-cusses developmentalism and examines its main features. Section three analyses Ja-pan's policymaking system and explores the reasons behind the serious environmental degradation that occurred in the country. Section four introduces the concept of social learning and seeks to identify the learning process in the course of development and environmental conservation in Japan. Section five examines Japan's new political economy paradigm, the 'Tourism-based country.' The final section is the conclusion. Developmentalism and the 'Japanese Miracle' Developmentalism can be considered as a 'development-first policy' conducted at the expense of other national interests. It has been frequently observed that new states


This article summarizes Ryan Eikenbary-Barber's doctoral dissertation: The Congregational Vitality Pathway and the Health and Missional Identity of House of Bread Covenant Church . House of Bread experienced new life as the congregation learned to cooperate with the Holy Spirit, manage conflict, implement change, and welcome growth.


PC reinforced bar is a new engineering material with high strength. After the stabilization treatment,V can strengthen the PC reinforced bar obviously and lower the relaxation of the PC reinforced bar efectively but almost has no influence on plasticity of the PC reinforced bar.


PAGE The purpose of this project w as to test whether social perceivers implicitly categorize racial stereotypes according to race. Stereotypes are thought to be based on the perception of exaggerated similarities within groups as well as the misperception that specific groups are associated with certain traits. Attention theory experiments demonstrate that majority traits are learned earlier, w hereas minority traits are learned later. Additionally, the traits most commonly associated with the minority are those that most saliently distinguish it from the majority, a phenomenon resulting from attentional asymmetry towards group-trait pairings, facilitating group differentiation. Research by Sherman and colleagues (2009) used AT to show that participants learn to associate group traits more strongly with contrived minority groups relative to contrived majority groups. Stemming from these findings, the current project sought to apply AT to examine the formation of racial stereotypes, by assessing the extent to which people are likely to group together stereotypic traits. Through a series of four studies, participants spontaneously grouped stereotypical traits into novel categories representing different social groups, without explicit instructions for group differentiation and without given feedback for their groupings. Results indicated that majority and minority racial stereotypes were placed in different categories. The tendency to form stereotypic groups was further moderated by explicit m easures related to racial prejudice. These findings have implications for stereotype formation. CATEGORIZATION OF RACIAL STEREOTYPES 1 Spontaneous Categorization: Assessment of Implicit Stereotype Content Awareness After approximately half a century since the Civil Rights Movement, anti-Black prejudice remains a problem in the contemporary United States. The area has captured the attention o f basic and applied researchers in the field of psychology, and has important implications for Blacks and other minority group members, as well as for the society in which we live. Social psychologists have determined that an important predecessor to stereotyping and prejudice is social categorization. Social categorization is a complex process denoting a human tendency to group individuals into social groups in which the members share similar physical characteristics (Macrae & Bodenhausen, 2000; Whitley & Kite, 2006). Theoretically, social categorization allows perceivers to minimize the amount of effort required to negotiate the social world by compartmentalizing social information (Bodenhausen, 1990; Fiske & Taylor, 1991). Research has demonstrated that when social perceivers encounter a target person, they categorize that individual along race, gender, and age dimensions (Brewer, 1988; Fiske & Neuberg, 1987). This categorization generally occurs quickly and without effort (Banaji & Hardin, 1996; Giner-Sorolla, Garcia, & Bargh, 1999; Ito & Urland, 2003). Thus, social categorization can be seen as adaptive — and perhaps necessary — for functioning in a complex world because it helps social perceivers make judgments about and easily respond to those whom they encounter (Fiske & Neuberg, 1987; Macrae et al., 1994). By engaging in social categorization, people are able to function more efficiently, but this process is also likely to result in the division of ingroups and outgroups and the automatic activation of stereotypes (Devine, 1989; Dovidio, Evans, & Tyler, 1986). That CATEGORIZATION OF RACIAL STEREOTYPES 2 is, categorizing a target into a social group activates stereotypes, which influence the way individuals process information in regard to social group members (Hamilton, 1979), leading perceivers to draw inferences about personality, social roles, and other characteristics of a given group (Deaux & Lewis, 1984). Stereotypes contain trait and behavioral characteristics of ingroup and outgroup members (Hilton & von Hippel, 1996; Jones, 1997) learned through family, friends, the media, literature or other sources of information (Stephan & Rosenfield, 1982). They can be positive or negative, and accurate or inaccurate (Ashmore & Del Boca, 1985), but even when there is truth to them, they are not necessarily correct for each individual within the group (Whitley & Kite, 2006). It is important to study the activation of stereotypes because it may have consequences for behavior (Bargh, Chen, & Burrows, 1996; Dovidio, Evans, & Tyler, 1986; Dovidio, Kawakami, Johnson, Johnson, & Howard, 1997; Fazio, Jackson, Dunton, & Williams, 1995; Gaertner & McLaughlin, 1983; Whitley & Kite, 2006). For example, research has demonstrated that individuals are faster to identify words consistent with a Black stereotype (e.g., violent, lazy) when the 'Black' category is activated in memory than when the 'White' category is activated (e.g., Fazio, Jackson, Dunton, & Williams, 1995). Stereotype activation has been found to affect perceivers' behavior in a laboratory setting. Individuals have been found to appear less friendly and engage in less eye contact towards a Black person, when avoiding the mentioning of race (Norton, Sommers, Apfelbaum, Pura, & Ariely, 2006) unless having previously engaged in a value changing procedure (Penner, 1971). Stereotype activation can also be detrimental in real world settings as well. Such cases include employers interviewing a Black job candidate CATEGORIZATION OF RACIAL STEREOTYPES 3 (Jussim, Palumbo, Smith, & Madon, 2000) or police officers deciding whether or not to shoot a Black suspect (Correll, Park, Wittenbrink, & Judd, 2002; Payne, 2001). In addition to behavioral consequences of stereotype activation, social cognitive and learning theorists have suggested that social categorization can lead to biased judgments of ingroup and outgroup members. For example, social categorization leads to outgroup homogeneity, in which outgroup members are perceived as more similar to one another (Hamilton, 1976) and ingroup favoritism, in which ingroup members are evaluated more favorably than outgroup members (Ostrom & Sedikides, 1992). In fact, children as young as three years old demonstrate unequivocal recognition and preference for their own race versus others (Katz, 1983). These evaluations persist and are resistant to change, even in the face of counterstereotypic information, as social perceivers pay more attention to stereotype-consistent information and dismiss stereotype-inconsistent information (Bodenhausen & Lichtenstein, 1987; Dijksterhuis & Knippenberg, 1996; Fiske & Neuberg, 1987; Wigboldus, Dijksterhuis & Van Knippenberg, 2003). Furthermore, when faced with inconsistent stereotypes, individuals place those who deviate from the pre-conceived norms into subcategories, rather than change the existing stereotype about the group (Weber & Crocker, 1983). Individuals also actively seek out information about social outgroups that supports the existing stereotype, in order to justify these stereotypes (Klein & Kunda, 1992). Lastly, social perceivers are also likely to perceive a relationship between certain social group members and specific behaviors, when no such relationship necessarily exists, a process known as illusory correlation (Hamilton & Gifford, 1976). In the basic demonstration of this effect (Hamilton & Gifford, 1976) two contrived groups of CATEGORIZATION OF RACIAL STEREOTYPES 4 individuals (A and B) are presented to participants. Group A is labeled a majority and performs 18 positive and 8 negative behaviors, whereas Group B is the minority and performs 9 positive and 4 negative behaviors. Although the two groups have equal proportions of positive to negative behaviors, participants are more likely to rate Group A more positively, overestimate the number o f negative behaviors members of Group B, and to wrongly attribute Group A's negative behaviors to Group B (see Stroessner & Plaks, 2001, for a review). Hamilton and Gifford (1976) argued that this effect stems from the fact that the combination of Group B and negative behaviors is easily formed in peoples' mind since both are numerically distinct, making their combination especially salient. Automatic and controlled stereotyping Despite reports of sizeable decreases in negative stereotypes about Blacks and anti-Black attitudes during the past several decades (e.g., Campbell, 1971; Devine & Elliot, 1995; Dovidio & Gaertner, 2000; Schuman, Steeh, & Bobo, 1985), there is ample evidence that Whites still hold anti-Black beliefs about and discriminate against Blacks (e.g., Donnerstein, Donnerstein, Simon, & Ditrichs, 1972; Duncan. 1976; Gaertner & Dovidio, 1977; McConahay, 1983; Sigall & Page, 1971; Word, Zanna, & Cooper, 1974, as cited in Wittenbrink, Judd, & Park, 1997). This apparent inconsistency in the literature may be explained by the different measures used to assess stereotype activation and highlights a common distinction in the social psychological literature: that between automatic and controlled processes. Automatic processing refers to the effortless, spontaneous activation of learned information, whereas controlled processing is a result of intentional control and conscious thought (e.g., Bargh, 1997; Wittenbrink et al., 1997). CATEGORIZATION OF RACIAL STEREOTYPES 5 Although social categorization is an automatic, quick process, stereotype activation can be automatic or controlled (Whitley & Kite, 2006). Automatic stereotype activation occurs without effort and often outside the perceiver's awareness (Bargh, 1999), while controlled processes require conscious control and the perceivers' active attention. Controlled processes are intentional and flexible, thus being an integral part of human behavior (Devine, 1989). Research in the area has proposed that automatic and controlled process can work independently (Logan, 1980). For instance, in a semantic priming task, Neely (1977) demonstrated that if an automatic response contradicts a conscious ex


Chemical investigation of the dichloromethane extracts of Hoya buotii Kloppenb. afforded taraxerone (1), taraxerol (2), a mixture of β-sitosterol (3a) and stigmasterol (3b) in about 2:1 ratio, and a mixture of α-amyrin cinnamate (4a) and β-amyrin cinnamate (4b) in about 1:2 ratio from the stems; 1, 2, and 3a from the roots; a mixture of 4a and 4b in about 3:2 ratio from the flowers; and 3a, squalene (5) and saturated hydrocarbons from the leaves. The structures of 1-5 were identified by comparison of their NMR data with those reported in the literature.


Introduction: The prevalence of childhood asthma is increasing globally. Asthma is one of the main causes of hospitalization and frequent emergency department visits of children. The parents having awareness about asthma can comply with the treatment, avoidance from triggers and subsequently, they can control asthma symptoms in their children. Study Design: Cross- sectional analytical study. Setting: The Children's Hospital and the Institute of Child Health, Lahore and Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore in collaboration with University of Health Sciences Lahore. The Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore is a tertiary care and an academic hospital as it is attached with Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Medical and Dental College (Shaikh Zayed Hospital updates). The Children's Hospital and Institute of Child Health, Lahore provides services of tertiary health care as well as allied facilities. Period: 12 months from 01-08-2013 to 01-07-2014. Methods: To assess the knowledge of parents of asthmatic children about the disease and to determine any association between asthma knowledge and the level of asthma control in their children. Subjects were parents with their asthmatic children ages between 4 to 12 years attending two exclusive pediatric hospitals at Lahore. A tool was constructed to assessparent's knowledge about asthma, and a pre-validated asthma control tool was administered to determine asthma symptoms control in children. Data was represented in the form of figures, tables and chi square test was used to determine the association of knowledge about asthma,demographic information, and environmental information with different group of asthma control. Results: One hundred and ninety-six parents with their asthmatic children participated in this study. There was no association between asthma knowledge and the level of asthma control.There were 108 parents who had adequate knowledge about asthma, out of them only 45 (41.7%) children had asthma control. There were 88 parents who had inadequate knowledge about asthma. Out of them 36 (40.9%) children were with asthma control (p=.915). Conclusions:The findings of the study concluded that more than 50% (108/ 196) of the parents/ guardians have adequate knowledge about asthma and there was no association found between asthma knowledge and the level of asthma control. However, we need to empower Pakistani communityvia a national asthma awareness program, smoking cessation campaign and also empower the health care team with up-to-date knowledge about asthma management.


Gas sensor often fails due to the influence of temperature, humidity, lighting, dust and toxic gases, and causes unreliable phenomena. Therefore, the fault diagnosis of gas sensors is considered as a weak link. Feature extraction and classification play an important role in gas sensor fault diagnosis. However, there are many problems in traditional feature extraction methods. For example, 1) requirements for expert experience, 2) sensitivity of changes in mechanical systems, 3) limitations of new feature extraction. Therefore, it is meaningful and attractive to develop a method that can discover and learn fault-sensitive features of gas sensors from the original data and classify them effectively according to the sensitive features. Convolutional neural network(CNN) has been widely applied in image analysis and voice recording, and has achieved great success. However, gas sensor fault diagnosis is rarely applied. This paper focuses on using CNN to learn fault features from data, extract features automatically, and then classify them effectively. Experiments show that the CNN method provides a effective solution for gas sensor fault diagnosis.


The following work develops the main concepts from Jorge Luis Borges, time and personal identity. lt is all about having a path from the starting point of the narrative of Borges, starting by exposing the peculiar form of theorizing the reality that this author holds, so in the first chapter is developed the labyrinth conception in the Reality coming from Borges; mind. In a second moment the temporary character in the conception of the personal identity is explained. As the conception that everyone holds from within created from the tradition in which one is born and in a sense the identity tries to be retold from the sight of others as We are perceived. lf this is the case, it is coherent to propose that the identity can not be something determined and perfectly defined and cannot be understood as a part of an "id" in particular and indepent of the story that is being constructed in the coexistence with others. In or last and third moment it is shown the impermanent character of identity and the way our author emphasizes the transitory character of our own existence or that our "just being"(our own existence) flows like a river that is the existence in general, that's why He is not interested in the personal immortality that ends with death, what it really matters is the contribution We left even if this contribution has no property title.


Crystals of tellurium tetrafluoride are orthorhombic, space group P212121, a= 5·36, b= 6·22, c= 9·64 A. The structure was refined by three-dimensional least-squares methods, the final R being 0·084 for 376 reflections. Each tellurium atom in the structure is surrounded by three terminal and two bridging fluorine atoms arranged at the apices of a distorted square pyramid. The square-pyramidal units are linked by cis bridging atoms into endless chains with a bridge angle of 159°. The geometry of the [TeF5] group is consistent with steric activity of the non-bonding electron pair and the arrangement can be described as a distorted octahedral co-ordination of the tellurium atom by five fluorine ligands and the electron pair.


The results showed that in general the news about the woman in the Fajar newspaper, woman have been positioned balanced between positive and negative positions. On the positive position of woman is described as someone who can do many things like men. Woman can excel in sports such as (formula one racer, takrow players, volleyball players, badminton players, karate), education practitioners, real estate businessman, politicians, economic agents (entrepreneurs) and cultural performers. While in the position that woman are portrayed as negative as the weak, the second position only, not confident, take cover behind the beauty, fun dress up, let go, the teaser, materialistic, whores, and, like glamours life.


PINEX-2 was a dual-objective experiment to continue development of the Pinhole Imaging (PINEX) system for monitoring fuel motion, and to further demonstrate the feasibility of internal fuel motion as a mechanism for mitigating the consequences of hypothetical LMFBR accidents. A special fuel pin with a pre-fabricated central hole in the fuel, insulator, and reflector was pre-irradiated in the General Electric Test Reactor and subjected to a simulated 5$/sec transient overpower excursion in the Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) facility. Approximately 10 grams of molten fuel were ejected upward from the fuel region into the reflector and fission gas plenum.


its anti-Provisional public statements while wary of its pro-Soviet politics and links with the Official IRA, which continued to engage in criminality despite its ceasefire. He further uses US diplomatic correspondence to reveal American attitudes towards both the WP and the Soviet embassy in Dublin; while both British and American officials agreed the latter was not a significant hub of activity, they maintained a vigilant watch upon its activities. Despite the breadth of the source materials he draws upon, there are some lacunae in Mulqueen's archival research. Surprisingly, he omits to draw on the extensive papers of the CPI contained in the Dublin City Library and Archives. His assertion that the Irish communist movement witnessed comparatively little dissent over the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary due to its "cult-like" mentality (41) is caricaturish and simplistic, and an exploration of the party's papers may have nuanced his analysis in this and other respects. Despite his commendable research in Archbishop McQuaid's papers, he fails to note the anti-communist documents that the British embassy in Dublin, following the instructions of the Foreign Office's Information Research Department, sent to McQuaid and other figures in the Irish Catholic Church in the 1950s and early 1960s. The chapters dealing with the late 1960s onwards are more sure-footed, reflecting Mulqueen's thorough research in state archives. Overall, I commend this book as a valuable and original addition to the literature on Ireland and the Cold War, which will appeal to both scholars of recent Irish history and of the Cold War internationally.


Stereochemical detection and separation of the enantiomers of DL-amino acids were performed using a high-performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) equipped with a chiral column and a circular dichroism spectrophotometer as a detector. Various racemic amino acids were separated by the chiral column and all L-amino acids and D-amino acids were detected as positive and negative circular dichroism peaks, respectively. Mixtures of two amino acids, DL-norleucine and DL-norvaline, DL-phenylglycine and DL-dopa, and glycine and DL-leucine were also analyzed.


Introduction Analyzing the interrelationships among the state, power groups, religious institutions and civil society is essential to know the significance of believers and beliefs, religious ones in this case, in any given society.Moreover, such interrelationships can be researched in different ways. They can be considered from the point of view of political divisions, and be thus analyzed at the national, provincial and local levels. Convergent and divergent processes reveal similarities an...


Sixty‐five cases of malignant lymphoma of the nose, paranasal sinuses and hard palate were retrospectively analysed to identify the presence or absence of angiocentric lesions. We observed that the 23 patients with angiocentric lesions had a worse prognosis with a shorter duration of response and also a shorter duration of survival, compared with 42 cases of malignant lymphoma of the same anatomical region but without angiocentric lesions. Patients with angiocentric lymphoma were associated with other bad prognostic factors such as elevated levels of lactic dehydrogenase and beta 2 microglobulin, local bone destruction and lymphopenia. Immunophenotyping studies showed that most patients with angiocentric lesions had T cell lymphomas (18 of 23, 78 per cent).


In this communication we give a result of existence and present a numerical analysis of weak solutions for the following quasi-linear elliptic problem in one and two dimensions: \begin{equation} \;\;\;\;\;\left\{ \begin{array}{l} -{{A} }u(x)+G(x,{{D}} u(x))=F(x,u(x))+f(x)\hbox{\ \ in }\Omega\,, \\ u(x)=0\hbox{\ \ on }\partial \Omega \end{array} \right. \label{eq:1} \end{equation} where $A$ is a second order derivatives operator in one dimension and the Laplace operator in two dimensions, $G,F$ are Caratheodory non negative functions. The function $f$ is given finite and non negative. The domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{N},\,\,N=1,2$ is open and bounded. Such problems arise from biological, chemical and physical systems and various methods have been proposed for study the existence, uniqueness, qualitative properties and numerical simulation of solutions. In the one dimensional we consider the case where $f$ is a non negative measure in $(0,1)$ ($f\in M_{B}^{+}(0,1)$) and where the growth of $G$ with respect to ${{D}}u=u^{\prime }$ and $F$ with respect to $u$ are arbitrary . In that case we prove that if there exists a supersolution then there exists a solution in $ W_{loc}^{1,\infty }(0,1)\bigcap C_{0}[0,1]$. In the two dimensional case we assume $f \in L^1(\Omega)$ and that $G(x,s)$ is sub-quadratic with respect to $s$. Then the problem (\ref{eq:1}) has a solution in $W_{0}^{1,q}(\Omega )$ where $1\leq q<{{N} / {(N-1)}}$, $N \geq 2$, provided that the equation (\ref{eq:1}) has a super-solution in $W_{0}^{1,1}(\Omega ).$ In the last section of this communication we present the numerical iterative method to solve the problem (\ref {eq:1}). Formally the iterative method constructs a sequence of numerical solutions of the Yosida approximation of equation (\ref{eq:1}) with a first guess which is a supersolution of problem (\ref{eq:1}), see \cite{AR} \cite{AR2}. To compute the supersolution we introduce a domain decomposition method. The domain partition should be determined by the behavior of the non linearity $F(x,u)$.


The current research on entrepreneurial failures considers grief to be a negative feeling of unmet expectations, which is part of the learning process. However, grief has not been fully defined from the social perspective. Although the literature acknowledges that grief is a collective phenomenon, studies have traditionally concentrated on an individual's financial and emotional costs, venture failures, and critical reflection and action in recovering from failure. Thus, the definition of social learning (instead of simply venture failure), and particularly its processual elements alongside the positive feeling related to opportunities (passion) that can be created from it, is missing. The purpose of this paper is to generate the detailed definition of grief and passion as a catalyst of social learning from entrepreneurial failures, which can be transformed into opportunities. This paper contributes to the research on entrepreneurial failures by explaining how grief can be transformed into a passionate entrepreneurial opportunity. On this basis, the paper offers a future agenda for researching entrepreneurial failures and opportunities with respect to processual elements, namely, expansiveness, shared objects of learning, and becoming-other. By integrating two streams of literature (on entrepreneurial grief and passion) that consider the potential to create entrepreneurial opportunity, this paper demonstrates that until now, those three research directions have remained underdeveloped as positive factors of coping from an entrepreneurial failure.


In recent years, robots have gradually entered life from the factory. Since robots that can move autonomously can improve the productivity of personnel, mobile robots are even more commonly used. With the advancement of hardware technology, improving the performance of LIDAR and depth cameras and reducing the required cost, robots can be equipped with these devices to make positioning and movement more accurate. This thesis implements an AMR robot on TurtleBot3 Burger by combining 2D LIDAR, RGBD camera and related safety devices. The data of 2D LIDAR is the input of SLAM and path planning, build 2D map and detect whether there are obstacles so that the robot can dodge; RGBD camera is used as the input of VSLAM, build 3D map, landmark database, show trajectory of the robot in 3D space and verify whether the robot has moved to the correct place. In the VSLAM algorithm, object detection and OCR technology are added to extract semantic data from the image. The 3D map and landmark database can provide users with more meaningful information. The landmark database can be used to compare the similarity of SURF features and SSIM with the images obtained when the robot is moving, to verify whether there is movement to the correct place, to improve the accuracy of the robot's movement. The state lights, anti-falling, power detection and warning voice implemented by Arduino and related sensors are used as the safety device of the robot, so that the robot can make higher safety during operation.


A power converter circuit for converting a multi-phase alternating voltage into a high-voltage direct voltage and then into a second multi-phase alternating voltage. The circuit comprises first and second cascades of power converter cells, each cascade having first terminals on a transformer side and second terminals on a direct voltage side. The first cascade is a serial arrangement of first power converter cells, and the second cascade is a serial arrangement of second power converter cells. Each second power converter cell is embodied with a three-phase bridge circuit, connected by first terminals to a transformer, and with an intermediate circuit. A second current valve and, parallel to the three-phase bridge circuit, a first current valve, are disposed in at least one branch of the intermediate circuit. The first power converter cells are identical to the second power converter cells, or are embodied as a three-phase rectifier circuit.


Objective To study the influence of Tongmaidasheng-Tablet(TMDST) on follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH),luteinizing hormone (LH) and TGF-β1 of rats with anovulatory infertility,and to explore the mechanism of TMDST for anovulatory infertility.Methods Anovulatory rat models were induced by androgen,and the rats were randomly divided into blank control group,model group,TMDST high-dose group,TMDST medium-dose group,TMDST low-dose group,and clomiphene group.The medication was started at the 80-days-old,then the blood was taken through femoral artery 5 weeks later.The level of serum FSH,LH and TGF-β1 was detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.Meanwhile,the fresh ovarian tissue was taken out,and morphological examination was observed after HE.Results The level of FSH in TMDST high-dose group is higher than model group,P0.05,the difference is significant.The level of LH in All dose of TMDST is higher than model group,P0.01,the difference is significant.The level of TGF-β1 in TMDST high-dose group is higher than model group,P0.01,the difference was significant.Conclusion TMDST can improve FSH、LH through improving the function of pituitary endocrine.TMDST can increase the level of serum TGF-β1 of rats.The further study needs to be explored about its mechanism.


The virtual retinal display (VRD) is a display technology which scans modulated laser light on the retina of viewer's eye to create an image. The viewer has perception of standing just in front of high resolution screen or projector but in reality image is on the retina of his eye and not on the screen. The VRD is a device that scans an image, one pixel at a time just like ordinary CRT. The VRD takes video signals from a graphics card or video camera as a input , than these signals are used to modulate light according to the intensity of pixel from light source which can be laser diode, gas lasers or Light emitting diodes. The output is an image with excellent quality in means of high resolution with no flickering.


A recent issue of the Wall Street Journal contained a stark statement about the contemporary management of hypertension. "Our current prescribing methods are very primitive," said Dr Michael Alderman, coauthor of a study recently published in the American Journal of Hypertension.


In this paper, a stable adaptive control strategy was proposed to improve the adaptive ability of thrust system of shield machine. The control strategy is composed of internal pressure feedback loop control and external advanced single neuron PID loop control. Its effectiveness was finally demonstrated by the result of AMESim-Matlab/Simulink Co-simulation.


This letter shows that the criteria for a two-port to be a nonideal NIC in terms of its h parameters should be applied to both orientations of the two-port. Alternatively, a different set of conditions should be used if the two-port is to remain in the same orientation.


an illness resembling infectious mononucleosis and who were found to have rising titres to cytomegalovirus.15 The patients had fever for two to five weeks and had abnormal lymphocytes in the blood. Liver function tests were abnormal in all five patients. The Paul-Bunnell test was negative and there was no lymphadenopathy or pharyngitis. Three similar cases in Britain have been described in which hepatitis was the presenting feature.1' 17 Four other cases were subsequently reported from Finland in which infectious mononucleosis developed after transfusion with fresh blood."8 Two of the cases followed open-heart surgery and in all four patients a rise in titre of antibodies to cytomegalovirus was shown. Cytomegalovirus was isolated from the urine of one patient. The suspicion is that the virus was transmitted via the blood used for transfusion. Since the infection was associated with fresh rather than refrigerated blood it is possible that the usual refrigeration process inactivates any cytomegalovirus which may be present in blood stored in the usual way. The development of antibodies to cytomegalovirus at the time of illness is good but not incontrovertible evidence that the virus has caused the disease. Isolation of cytomegalovirus is less easy to evaluate, since these viruses are often excreted over long periods of time and since symptomless infection is common.19 It is therefore difficult to decide whether the virus is the primary cause of the disease or merely present as a coincidental infection. Cytomegaloviruses are also " opportunistic " in that they have a particular tendency to infect patients who are already suffering from some debilitating disease.20 Chronic pulmonary disease due to cytomegalovirus has been described in two adults suffering from hypogammaglobulinaemia and thymoma,' and ulcerative lesions in the gastrointestinal tract have been reported in four adults who had pre-existing alimentary disease.1 Disseminated infection is sometimes seen as a terminal event in severe illness.22 The report of a patient who died of cytomegalovirus pneumonia after renal transplantation illustrates that the virus may occasionally be a hazard in this field also.23 No doubt with increasing availability of laboratory diagnostic techniques infection with cytomegaloviruses will be reported more often. In the meantime cases of hepatitis in both children and adults should be investigated for cytomegalovirus infection-which should also be suspected in cases of infectious mononucleosis in which the Paul-Bunnell reaction is negative.


If an alien observer wrote an anthropological account of the problem addressed by the Native American repatriation movement, it might go something like this: The earth was populated for millennia with people whose lifeways worked, who used the earth's resources as if they were part of nature, and who distributed these resources as if all had an equal right to them. But then a group began to develop an economic system of wealth accumulation by thefew at the expense of the many. Eventually their hierarchical culture of unequal distribution exhausted the resources of their own land and people, so they began to spread out and range the globe, seeking more land, more resources, and more of their brethren to exploit. The peoples indigenous to > each area they arrived at were often decimated by diseases brought by the invaders, representing numerous nation-states but known collectively as Europeans. The indigenous peoples were also murdered, moved off their land onto reservations, and the survivors were forced to assimilate to the Europeans' culture, including language and modes of dress, andforced to provide wealthfor the accumulators' benefit through their 3 7 labor and the theft of their land and resources. According to ships' logs and the diaries of the earliest invaders, the Europeans also dug up graves and took the bodies of the indigenous dead-those who had died recently and those long dead and buried-along with anything buried with them. These made their way into the collections of private individuals in Europe and the colonies, eventually the international trade in these remains and objects, along with any other


The C-phenyl-N-tert-butylnitrone/azobisisobutyronitrile pair is able to impart control to the radical polymerization of n-butyl acrylate as long as a two-step process is implemented, that is, the prereaction of the nitrone and the initiator in toluene at 85 °C for 4 h followed by the addition and polymerization of n-butyl acrylate at 110 °C. The structure of the in situ formed nitroxide has been established from kinetic and electron spin resonance data. The key parameters (the dissociation rate constant, combination rate constant, and equilibrium constant) that govern the process have been evaluated. The equilibrium constant between the dormant and active species is close to 1.6 × 10−12 mol L−1 at 110 °C. The dissociation rate constant and the activation energy for the CON bond homolysis are 1.9 × 10−3 s−1 and 122 ± 15 kJ mol−1, respectively. The rate constant of recombination between the propagating radical and the nitroxide is as high as 1.2 × 109 L mol−1 s−1. Finally, well-defined poly(n-butyl acrylate)-b-polystyrene block copolymers have been successfully prepared. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 6299–6311, 2006


Since October 1992 (winter semester 92/93) graduates are being educated in Public Health at Berlin Technical University in cooperation with the Free University of Berlin as well as with the Humboldt University of Berlin and other institutions of science and practice in Berlin and Brandenburg. For the time being the course of studies is a pilot project for 4 years. The aim of the postgraduate studies is the creation of permanent structures and therefore institutionalisation. It is open to graduates and college graduates of public-health relevant subject areas of specialisation are "Health Promotion in the community and at the workplace" and "Planning and Management in Health Services". The course of studies takes 4 semesters and is divided into basic studies, studies of main points of emphasis and project studies. Social medicine and especially epidemiology are part of the basic disciplines, which are indispensable for finding the way of looking at problems concerning public health. The reason for the peculiarity with regard to establishing public health at other German universities are the main topics representing the interaction between the technical and ecological development of health. The graduate degree is "Magister of Public Health". During the time of the pilot project the course of studies is subjected to external and internal surveillance regarding quality assurance and quality optimisation of teaching and organisation of the studies. On the one hand this is done by an external advisory committee and on the other hand by internal and external evaluation.


Intrahepatic bile duct carcinomas were included with hepatocellular carcinomas in TNM's 6th edition. In the 7th edition they have a separate classification.


Within the anthropology of religion, the study of what have been called magical- religious practices is large and very diverse. It is a prolific and multivalent issue until today; it shows theoretical and methodological complexities that are challenging for anthropologists. This work breaks away from this tradition and proposes the concept of propitiatory practices which from its heuristic definition raises broader scope than the one indicated. The study also seeks to understand from an anthropological perspective the force and the roots of many beliefs and propitiatory practices which takes place in the daily lives of professional middle class Catholics living in the Federal District, Mexico. Palabras clave: practicas propiciatorias, religion popular, sectores medios urbanos, eficacia realizativa.


This paper will cover a 4K bit, static, TTL compatible, 5-V only, MOS RAM with typical dissipation and access of 350 mW and 150 ns, respectively.


In the title benzilidene Schiff base molybdenum(VI) complex, [Mo(C15H12N2O3)O2(CH3OH)], the Mo VI ion is coordinated by two oxide O atoms and by two O atoms and one N atom of the tridentate N0-(3-methoxy-2-oxidobenzylidene)benzohydrazidate (L) Schiff base ligand. The methanol O atom completes the distorted octahedral configuration of the Mo atom. Strong O—H N hydrogen bonds form a C(5) chain around a 21 screw axis. Weak C—H—O hydrogen bonds are also present.


This investigative study targets to inspect the impact of five traits of personality on individual effectiveness in Pakistani healthcare sector. There are five personality traits which comprise of "conscientiousness, neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience and agreeableness". The moderating role of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) between traits of personality and individual effectiveness has been investigated in this study. The healthcare industry is a conglomeration and joining of areas inside the economic framework that gives goods and services for the treatment of patients with healing, protective, amendatory and remedying consideration. Hospitals assume an extremely critical part in the medical services design of a country. The area of therapeutic services is engaging to expand ability, superiority of care and patients' encounters(Butt, Nawab, & Zahid, 2016), so strong commitment and seriousness is needed to do this duty(Wachter, 2010). Due to the mistake and horrendous ABSTRACT This research investigates the impact of five traits of personality on individual effectiveness in Pakistani medical industry. The study also examines the moderating role of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) among personality traits and individual effectiveness. Simple random and stratified techniques of sampling were utilized in the study, 413 respondents (doctors) were engaged as sample size. The different statistical methods like correlation, cronbach alpha, descriptive statistics, regression and moderated regression were employed in the study. The results indicated that personality traits (Agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion and openness to experience) have an influence on individual effectiveness. Neuroticism has no effect on individual effectiveness. The results also supported the moderating relationship among personality traits (eliminating neuroticism) and individual effectiveness. The present study is an excellent contribution in the current literature on individual effectiveness.


The notion of a locally resonant metamaterial—widely applied to light and sound—has recently been introduced to heat, whereby the thermal conductivity is reduced primarily by intrinsic localized atomic vibrations rather than scattering mechanisms. This article reviews and analyzes this new emerging concept, termed nanophononic metamaterial (NPM), and contrasts it with the competing concept of a nanophononic crystal (NPC) in which thermal conductivity reduction is realized primarily via nanoscale Bragg scattering. Both the NPM and NPC core mechanisms require the presence of a sufficient level of wave behavior, which is possible when there is a relatively wide distribution of the phonon mean free path (MFP). Silicon serves as a perfect material to form NPMs and NPCs given its relatively large average phonon MFP. This offers a unique opportunity considering silicon's abundance and mature fabrication technology. It is shown in this comparative study that while both the NPM and NPC nanosystems may be rendered to serve as extreme insulators of heat, an NPM may do so without excessive reduction in the minimum feature size–which is key to keeping the electrical properties intact. This trait makes a silicon‐based NPM poised to serve as a low‐cost thermoelectric material with exceptional performance.


Past empirical studies of earnings functions have used only pecuniary earnings measures. In this article, pecuniary, fringe, and certain nonpecuniary benefits are treated as additive components of a more comprehensive measure of labor market reward. The implications of including these additional benefits for estimates of earnings functions are assessed with two national sample data sets. It is found that the explanatory power of the simple human capital earnings model increases as the nonwage variables are added into the earnings measure. The importance of education clearly increases when fringe and nonpecuniary benefits are added; the change in the association between labor market experience and earnings is small. The increased importance of education is sustained even when measures of cognitive skills, motivation, and family background are taken into account.


Detection of simultaneous bearing faults for condition monitoring (CM) of bearings using time-domain analysis is quite challenging and open area, particularly in noisy environment. This work presents a new scheme for simultaneous bearing fault detection using vibration signal (VS), in cases where single-point localized bearing fault and multiple-point compound fault (MPCF) coexist. Bearings of a 415-V, 3-kW, three-phase squirrel cage induction motor (SCIM) have been used for data collection, while the loading arrangement is done using a 110-V, 4-kW dc generator connected with a load box and coupled to the motor. A cross correlation (CC)-based time-domain feature extraction approach has been introduced. The neighborhood component analysis (NCA) technique has been applied to the CC-based features to reduce the complexity of the proposed model. Furthermore, the selected features have been fed into a multikernel support vector machine (MKSVM) to classify simultaneous bearing faults. This method has also been tested on signals contaminated with white Gaussian noise to verify reliability in the industrial environment. It is found that with only five features, the proposed model yields 100% classification performance metrics for raw signal (RS) and under noisy environments with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 20–50 dB for both full load (FL) and no-load (NL) conditions. In contrast, at 10-dB SNR value, performance decreases slightly, still an overall classification performance metric of more than 99% is achieved by this method. Furthermore, this method has enhanced performance when compared to earlier studies with publicly available databases for localized bearing failure identification.


We present a variational expectation-maximization (VEM) algorithm to estimate a finite mixture of Student-t distributions from noisy data and denoise that same data. As an illustration, we apply the method to single-image patch-based image denoising.


The anestesiological securing of 54 gastroduodenofibroscopy were analyzed in patients in Vinnytsia Regional hospital named after M. I. Pirogov with propofol in settlement recommended dose of 1.5 mg/kg of body weight and self–turn route proposed method based on the determination of the date of consciousness loss. The use of the proposed method is likely to extend the length of the introduction of patient into anesthesia in 2.3 times and extend the frequency additional administration of propofol by 58%. It was established more safety course of anesthesia by reducing the frequency of mechanical ventilation, additional use of antiemetic drugs. Marked the creation of better conditions of the gastroduodenofibroscopy, cost reduction anesthesia and its duration.


Present a design of the Emissive Microwave Power Control used for the UHF RFID Reader.A logarithmic dynamometer is used to complete the automatic amplification control,and provides a high dynamic controllable range;the level detection method of the detection circuit is used to get and calibrate the power value,and provides the direct control mode to increase the reliability;The buffer function of the directional coupler offer the accurate control for the transmitting power and mismatch ratio.


By training and investigating in six countries in Europe such as Netherlands, Germany, et al., the acknowledge of land and resources management and advanced experience are obtained, the developing trend of modernization construction in Europe is known as well, and enlightened a lot. We should recognize the gap, use the experience for reference, set up the idea of overtaking, and try to be one of the strong countries in the world soon.


www.jogh.org • doi: 10.7189/jogh.09.010303 1 June 2019 • Vol. 9 No. 1 • 010303 Locally-led health research is essential for overcoming local health challenges and for providing evidence for policy-maker decision-making, specific to where they live [1]. To adequately conduct such research requires sufficient local research capacity. However, despite greater health needs, usually lower-income settings have the least research capacity. Many barriers, such as underinvestment in universities and research centers and poor career prospects for researchers, prevent these places from achieving sufficient research potential to address their most pressing health problems [1]. Thus, research capacity strengthening is an essential goal for many lowand middle-income settings.


Abstract. The aim of the study was to describe the differences in nitrogen fractions and deepen the knowledge in the amino acid profile of raw milk affected by the breed of cattle, season and type of feeding. The study was conducted from June 2005 to February 2007 on 64 bulk milk samples collected from eight herds consisting of Czech Fleckvieh (four herds) and Holstein (four herds) breed. One half of the herds of each breed was grazed while the other half was not. Samples were collected twice in winter and twice in summer. The effect of the breed resulted in differences in milk yield that was lower in Czech Fleckvieh (5 385.50 kg) than in Holstein (7 015.15 kg, P P P P P P


By crawling online data, I create a new long-term patenting panel dataset for Germany to identify the causal effect of trade integration with Eastern Europe and China on patenting in the period 1993-2012. I exploit the cross-regional variation in the German industry structure and use trade flows to other advanced economies as instruments for regional import and export exposure. I find that an increase in the net trade exposure (defined as import- minus export exposure) causes an increase in regional patenting. This effect is purely driven by a positive link between import exposure and innovation, whereas export exposure does not influence innovation. Interestingly, the effects are heterogeneous across exposure origin. The positive link between import exposure and innovation is fully explained by trade integration with Eastern Europe. Increasing integration with China has no effects on innovation.


Disclosed is a direct adhesion type polyurethane seal gum, which is prepared by mixing isocyanate-containing pre-base stock, solid packing, silicane coupling agent and amines or tin compound catalyst. The seal gum can be used in fields including construction and automobile without the requirement for basecoat to achieve enough adhesion strength.


This paper designs the hardware of image transmission between FPGA and DSP,and introduces the working principle,parameter configuration and transmission process of EDMA.The process is realized on an experiment platform.Finally the correctness and the stability of the process is verified through the restoration of the received image data into images by TI's CCS.


Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) are one of the most common cause of Healthcare associated infections. Cause of CAUTI is the formation of pathogenic microbial biofilm in the indwelling urinary catheters which provides survival benefit to the colonized organism by providing protection from environmental stresses and also causing decreased susceptibility to antibiotics leading to persistent and recurrent infections. The present study was conducted to detect biofilm production by isolates from patients with CAUTI, and their association with antibiotic resistance. This prospective study was done on 484 hospitalized patients in different wards with indwelling urinary catheter of more than 2days. CAUTI was diagnosed based on the CDC guidelines 2017. Uropathogens were identified and their antibiotic susceptibility was performed following standard microbiological methods. Biofilm detection was done by Tissue Culture Plate method. Among 484 patients catheterized, 134 developed CAUTI. The most common organism isolated was E.coli (39%), followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae (28%). Among the isolates 63 (47%) were biofilm producers. Biofilm producing strains showed relatively higher antibiotic resistance than non-producers. Among the 65% of multi drug resistant (MDR) isolates, 62% were biofilm producers, showing significant association between biofilm production and multidrug resistance. Emerging multidrug resistance (MDR) of the uropathogens due to this biofilm formation is a big challenge in the management of catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). Hence early detection and newer management protocols may be deployed.


Recent work by Allison and Klein examining violence and homicide introduced the concept of strained masculinity, a theoretical integration of general strain theory and hegemonic masculinity. Using qualitative data collection ( n = 63), the current study considers strained masculinity themes in the context of mass shootings and the gender gap. Findings demonstrated support for the prevalence of Allison and Klein's themes in mass shootings. The men who committed mass shootings in our sample responded to challenges to their masculinity (62%), pursued hegemonic masculinity through "sport" (33%), and pursued hegemonic masculinity through controlling space (27%). In addition, qualitative analysis revealed overlaps in strained masculinity themes for mass shooting cases, demonstrating the complexity of this type of violence. There were six outlier cases identified that did not display strained masculinity, rather the perpetrators in these cases suffered from psychological or emotional troubles before opening fire. Overall, findings indicate that the integration of traditional criminology theories and gender theories is warranted.


The paper provides details of a methodology for design and performance analysis of the aerostat. The methodology is a systematic collation of various design approaches and concepts, which were examined during the ongoing design and field trial exercises related to remotely controlled airships and aerostats at the LighterThan-Air Systems Laboratory of IIT Bombay. A methodology for arriving at the size of fins from static stability considerations is presented, which includes determination of tether profile. The various design decisions were driven by the availability of local materials for different components.This paper outlines a Multi-disciplinary Optimization approach for identifying the optimum shape of an aerostat envelope that results in the largest payload capacity for a given envelope volume. Apart from aerodynamics, the participating disciplines in this optimization problem are flight mechanics and structures. Some constraints that take into consideration the difficulty in fabrication of certain kinds of shapes have also been included. A shape generation algorithm for parameterization of a general envelope shape in terms of standard geometrical surfaces is then described. The problem is posed in an optimization framework and optimum shapes are obtained using Genetic Algorithms. Results for an aerostat of envelope volume of 2000 m 3 reveal that the payload capacity of the optimum shape of single fabric construction is ~ 2.2 % higher compared to a similar envelope using the standard GNVR shape. However, use of multi-fabric construction was seen to increase the payload capacity by ~ 22% for both the GNVR and optimum shape. Sensitivity analyses revealed that the payload capacity decreases considerably with increase in fabric density, and tether weight per unit length due to increased self weight, and angle of attack. It was also seen that the fin weight and the location of confluence point depend to a great extent, on the location of CG.


The ternary system palladium-nickel-manganese was investigated by metallographic methods, thermal analysis and magnetic, dilatometric, and x-ray measurements. The melting curves, the planes of primary crystallization, and the reactions in solid phase are given. The arrangement of the phase regions was obtained from isothermal sections at 950, 820, 700, 650, 600, and 500 d C and from three temperature concentration-sections. For six ternary alloys with 10% manganese some physical properties have been measured as functions of heat treatment. (auth)


To overcome the drug resistance crisis and shorten the current duration of human tuberculosis (TB) therapy, new anti-TB molecules is required. In an earlier study, we have shown that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of TB, with a fractured de novo histidine biosynthesis fails to mount TB infection in mouse model, emboldening that disrupting the function of this pathway may constitute a novel strategy to curtailing TB infection. In this study, through a target based approach we have designed a number of triazole scaffold molecules specific to imidazole glycerol phosphate dehydratase (IGPD; HisB) of this pathway and have delineated atomic level interactions between the enzyme and inhibitors which pinpointed the specificity and the inhibitory mechanism. Importantly, these molecules exhibited significant potency against free as well as macrophage-internalized wild-type and drug-resistant clinical isolates in culture medium. Notably, a couple of these compounds showed efficacy in reducing the bacterial burden in Mtb-infected mouse model. The chemical inhibition of IGPD induces histidine auxotrophy in Mtb and brings in new prospects to the area of anti-TB drug discovery.


Aim. The study of the phenology and seed productivity of golden root plants in the 2nd‐4th years of life in the Moscow region under the influence of meteorological conditions. Methods. The objects of research were plants of golden root from the biocollection of VILAR in Moscow. The studies included field and laboratory experiments, which conducted in 2016‐2019 according to methods adopted in medicinal plant production. Weather conditions in the Moscow region during the research period were identified on the Internet. Seed productivity was assessed according to generally accepted methods. Determination of seed sowing qualities was carried outaccording to National Standard 34221‐2017.Results. The influence of weather conditions on the passage of phenological phases of young golden root plants in 2016‐2019 in the Non‐chernozem zone of the Russian Federation under experimental field conditions was studied for the first time. The duration of phenological phases depending on conditions in the year of observation was determined. The composition of the population of young golden root plants for the second, third and fourth years of vegetation wasestablished. Adverse factors which reduce seed productivity and affect the quality of seeds were identified.Conclusion. The favourable meteorological characteristics of the growing season contributed to an increase in the mass of 1000 seeds by an average of 43 mg and increased seed germination to 82%. Differences in seed quality and productivity of seeds depending on the conditions of the year of observation may indicate the necessity for measures for adaptation of the plants to harmful environmental factors.


Addressing the concern of many that management is culture-bound and others who believe that management is governed by universal principles, the article discusses cross-cultural research in the area...


Recommender systems have relied on many intelligent technologies (e.g. machine learning) which have procured credibility issues due to several concerns ranging from lack of privacy and accountability, biases and their inherent design complexity. Given this lack of understanding of how recommender systems work, users strategically interact with such systems via accepting any information with a grain of salt. Furthermore, the recommender system evaluates choices based on a different utilitarian framework, which can be fundamentally different from the user's rationality. Therefore, in this paper, we model such an interaction between the recommender system and a human user as a Stackelberg signaling game, where both the agents are modeled as expected-utility maximizers with non-identical prior beliefs about the choice rewards. We compute the equilibrium strategies at both the system and the user, and investigate conditions under which (i) the recommender system reveals manipulated information, and (ii) trust regarding the recommender system deteriorates when the true rewards are realized at the user.


BACKGROUND AND AIM
Endoscopic full thickness resection (EFTR) is emerging as an effective modality for mucosal and submucosal lesions in colorectum. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we aimed to analyze the success and safety of device assisted EFTR in colon and rectum.

METHODS
A literature search was performed in Embase, PubMed, Medline databases for studies evaluating device assisted EFTR between inception to October-2022. The primary outcome of the study was clinical success (R0 resection) with EFTR. Secondary outcomes included technical success, procedure duration and adverse events.

RESULTS
29 studies with 3467 patients [59% males, 3492 lesions] were included in the analysis. The lesions were located in right colon (47.5%), left colon (28.6%) and rectum (24.3%). EFTR was performed for sub-epithelial lesions in 7.2% patients. Pooled mean size of the lesions was 16.6 mm (95% CI 14.9 - 18.2, I 2 98%). Technical success was achieved in 87.1% (95% CI 85.1%-88.9%, I2 39%) procedures. The pooled rate of en bloc resection was 87.9% (95% CI 85.1%-88.9%, I2 50%) and R0 resection was 81.6% (95% CI 78.8% to 84.2%, I2 57%). In sub-epithelial lesions, pooled rate of R0 resection was 94.3% (95% CI 89.7% to 96.9%, I2 0%). Pooled rate of adverse events was 12.1%(95% CI 10.3%-14.1%, I2 44%) and major adverse events requiring surgery was 2.5% (95% CI 2.0%-3.1%, I2 0%).

CONCLUSION
Device assisted EFTR is a safe and effective treatment modality in cases with adenomatous and sub-epithelial colorectal lesions. Comparative studies are required with conventional resection techniques including endoscopic mucosal resection and submucosal dissection.


Transcendent being theory is a significant part of Mou Zongsan's Confucianism thought. In this paper, the author intends to give a comprehensive review of the theory. The basic point is that though Mou's theory has high values, yet taking the Heaven as the subject of creative being has resulted in the theoretical chaos of Mou's transcendent being theory.


Due to flexibility and timely availability of desired resources, cloud computing is getting more and more popular day by day. Easy to use and anywhere access like potential of cloud computing has made it more attractive relative to other technologies. This has resulted in reduction of deployment cost on user side. It has also allowed the big companies to lease their infrastructure to recover the installation cost for the organization. It has inherited some default issues from its parent technologies. Load balancing is one of them. The main question in this context is connected to task scheduling. This paper offered a hybrid task scheduling approach named as ACGSA by combining the ant colony and gravitational search approach. Proposed approach has been tested using cloudsim simulator. The results of this proposed apparatus have compared with Ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO). It has shown better performance relative to basic approach on the relevant parameter.


1000 boars for breeding(9 boars died naturally during transportation) imported from America arrived at Xi'an Port at early morning in 19th April,2009.Due to A/H1N1 breaking out in America, Shanxi Entry-exit Inspetion and Quarantine Bureau took charge of quarantion to 991 boars.Under the leading and attention of General Administration of Quality Supervision,Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China and assistance and help of Beijing Entry and Inspection and Quarantine Bureau,Shanxi Entry-exit Inspetion and Quarantine Bureau successfully completed all boars insulation,nose swab samples collection,lab quarantion and accurate diagnosis of Swine influenza.Till 3rd May it indicated that there were no boars infected A/H1N1 and that virus finally,which not only provided valued experience of great quarantion mission for Shanxi Bureau in future,but also make great progress in preventing A/H1N1 inputing by boars and ensure agriculture safe and people's health.


The Tertiary Piedmont Basin (TPB) is a syn‐tectonic Neoalpine–Apennine basin with an upper Eocene–upper Miocene sedimentary succession. It has an inner position with respect to the arcuate belt of the Western and Ligurian Alps, in northwestern Italy. In the area north of Genova, the Scrivia Valley separates two distinct sectors where the TPB basal conglomerates display a differentiated clast provenance: in the western sector conglomerates are fed by the metamorphic units of central Liguria, whereas in the eastern sector most of the conglomerate clasts come from the Antola flysch Unit. Observations on clast lithology demonstrate that the transition between the two types of conglomerates is abrupt and roughly coincides with the Scrivia River Valley. An explanation of the different clast provenance as due to a progressive deepening of the erosional level appears to be possible in the eastern sector, but it is not feasible in the western sector, where the flysch units appear to have been protected from erosion. We propose that the northwards thrusting of the Ligurian Alps metamorphic units onto the Antola flysch units, made the latter not available to erosion and led the Scrivia Fault and other equivalent tectonic lineaments to act as tear faults.


Description of the aims and results of the international project NIFLAR, (Networked Interaction in Foreign Language Acquisition and Research; www.niflar.eu), granted by the European Union for two years (2009-2010). Coordinated by the University of Utrecht and with the cooperation of universities from different countries, NIFLAR wants to implement foreign language education in Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and Russian through two innovative e-learning environments: video web communication (VWC) and virtual worlds


Abstract The most common controller in wind turbine is the blade pitch angle control in order to get the desired power. Controlling the pitch angle in wind turbines has a direct impact on dynamic performance of the machine and fluctuations in the power systems. The design of a controller that can adapt itself with the system, at any given time, is of crucial importance. To limit the aerodynamic power gained from the wind turbine in the high wind speed areas, different methods are applied on pitch angle. In this paper an extensive literature review on pitch angle control technique in wind turbine has been highlighted. Classical and adaptive controllers, robust control and intelligent control are among the control methods adopted in this study. In comparison of the controllers, although adaptive and robust controllers, with less sensitivity to changes in environmental conditions, outperform the classic controller, the intelligent controller system presents the best performance of the wind turbines through estimating the system variables and appropriate adaptation to changes at the operating point.


In this paper are shown the analytical study as well as experimental result carried out on non-human bones. The analytical studies were focused on the observation of the bone behavior under impact loads, longitudinal as well as transversal. Previous to the present work, modal analysis study was carried out on the model in order to determinate its natural frequencies trough, which the Rayleigh coefficients a and 3 associates to the damping of the dynamic systems, were determinate. The solution was found using finite element method by means of the ANSYS program. The experimental studies consisted of the slow and monotonous application of compression loads on the specimens recording the level of displacements and deformations. Simultaneously a laser beam was applied to the bone surface, recording the speckle pattern on each load cycle. The obtained results are shown graphically plotting the Von Misses stresses and displacements for the analytical case, and (StressStrain), and Ds-P (Fractal dimension-Applied Load) relations for the experimental case.


Quantum normalizer circuits were recently introduced as generalizations of Clifford circuits. A normalizer circuit over a finite Abelian group G is composed of the quantum Fourier transform (QFT) over G together with gates which compute quadratic functions and automorphisms. In [1] it was shown that every normalizer circuit can be simulated efficiently classically. This result provides a nontrivial example of a family of quantum circuits that cannot yield exponential speed-ups in spite of usage of the QFT—the latter being a central quantum algorithmic primitive. Here we extend the aforementioned result in several ways. Most importantly, we show that normalizer circuits supplemented with intermediate measurements can also be simulated efficiently classically, even when the computation proceeds adaptively. This yields a generalization of the GottesmanKnill theorem, valid for qubits, to arbitrary G. Moreover our simulations are twofold i.e. we show how to classically efficiently sample the measurement probability distributions as well as compute the amplitudes of the state vector. Finally we develop a generalization of the stabilizer formalism relative to arbitrary finite Abelian groups. For example we characterize how to update stabilizers under generalized Pauli measurements and provide a normal form of he amplitudes of generalized stabilizer states using quadratic functions and subgroup cosets.


Some special monosyllabic Chinese words which contain rolling tongue consonants are discussed. Based on the spectrum analysis, the special characteristic is found at a frequency higher than 3 kHz. The distinction is not only in the consonant part but also in the vowel part. The people in the north region of China distinguish the rolling tongue consonants from the straight tongue consonants both in utterance and in hearing, but those in the south region of China do not. The results of the hearing investigation using synthesized speech show that the consonant part corresponding to the normal one has more effect than the vowel part on the recognition of the words containing the rolling tongue consonant.


Moxifloxacin is a fourth generation fluoroquinolone has potent activity against Gram-positive bacteria, especially against pneumococcus and anaerobes, and still retain excellent activity against aerobic Gram-negative pathogens. I developed different methods for simultaneous determination of quinolones with different interacting drugs and performed drug-drug and drug-metals interactions by using these methods. We have synthesized derivatives and metal complexes of quinolones and characterized by physicochemical and spectroscopic methods (FT-IR, 1HNMR and mass spectrometry). The in-vitro antibacterial and antifungal activities of resulting complexes and derivatives were also performed and compared with the parent drug. Enzymatic activities of all synthesized compounds were carried out against different enzymes including urease, carbonic anhydrase, and α-chymotrypsin.


A rotating concentric-cylinder thermal conductivity cell for polymer liquids is described. Thermal conductivity can be measured at temperatures approaching 200°C and at strain rates up to 400 s−1, The transient heat flux probe (with inner cylinder as heat source and temperature probe) method is used to permit the separation of the viscous heating effect from the probe heating effect.

A polyethylene melt was studied and showed that at 50 s−1, a 2 percent increase in thermal conductivity occurs, followed by a gradual decrease until a value 10 percent less than the no-shear thermal conductivity was found at 400 s−1. This effect is due to molecular orientation.


The enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act ("BAPCPA") of 2005, amending the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, marks a transformation in bankruptcy law and policy that is representative of larger shifts in dominant economic and political models from "embedded liberalism" to free market "neoliberalism." BAPCPA's provisions are part of the new practices of the emergent neoliberal state as they relate to the American population's middle class segment. In disciplining the middle class, BAPCPA shifts the risk and the responsibility of the lending relationship onto consumer debtors. BAPCPA does this by keeping financially distressed individuals servicing debt obligations both inside and outside the bankruptcy system. Socio-cultural theory provides a broadened frame for understanding the economic shift reflected in this fundamental transformation in legal mandates.


small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and structure from and multi creation of high-definition topographic This study conducted to detect temporal changes of topography around landslides using and photogrammetry. Study areas are the Sensuikyo area (1.2 km ) and the Saishigahana area (0.06 km 2 ) around Aso Volcano, where many shallow landslides occurred because of heavy rainfall in July, 2012. During 2014–2016, field surveys were conducted using small UAVs. After acquiring high-definition DSMs and ortho-rectified photographs, we analyzed the topographic changes of shallow landslides in comparison to LiDAR-based DSMs in 2004. occurrences. be conducted to detect temporal changes of topography and vegetation around shallow landslides based on multi-temporal


In 1982 the Council of Librarians of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) recommended the establishment of a cooperative network of the state's academic libraries. The creation of the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) arose out of the need to correct historical deficiencies in the library collections supporting graduate education as well as to establish a mechanism for resource sharing activities among private and public institutions. NAAL's goal is to provide the state's graduate students access to all of the state's academic library collections. This study will look at the causes that generated the need for the network and will examine some of the obstacles to cooperative efforts and how Alabama is overcoming them.


On the hypothesis that "bound rubber" is a gel of carbon black particles, the bonding agent of which consists of the longer polymer molecules, a statistical theory is developed. The probability is first computed that a rubber molecule of i segments will be attached to j carbon black particles. By means of this probability the number and weight of molecules connecting carbon black particles are calculated. The theory predicts loadings below which bound rubber may not be expected (carbon black runs through into extract), and relates amount of bound rubber to total surface area of the black and the molecular weight of the remaining dissolved rubber to that of the rubber originally present. The theory gives a logical explanation of the often observed preferential adsorption by carbon black of polymer molecules of higher molecular weights.


More electric aircraft (MEA) is expected to optimize aircraft performance, and the switched reluctance starter/generator (SR S/G) system is recommended as a key technique for MEA implementation. In order to improve safety and reduce aircraft maintenance time, it is necessary to quickly identify and locate electrical faults in the electrical system. This article proposes a fault diagnosis method for the power converter of SR S/G for MEA. Through the distortion analysis of cross-leg current, the proposed methods are capable of detecting both open circuit (OC) and short circuit (SC) of power transistors in the asymmetric half-bridge converter (AHBC). Each phase current can be calculated by taking the absolute value of the cross-leg current. Different faults are preliminarily detected through the sudden change of current. After monitoring the fault occurrence, different switching states and digital cross-leg current will be recorded, which determines the fault type and the fault power transistor. The proposed method does not require additional hardware and complex calculations so that the methods have good robustness and reliability. In addition, the proposed methods are suitable for SR S/G operating at various control modes. A three-phase 12/8 structure SR S/G is adopted in this article, and the method is applicable for the SR S/G. Moreover, experiments carried out in different working modes validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed fault diagnosis method.


Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea (Phone: +82-2-880-6648; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com) Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington, D.C. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea Department of Chemical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109


On 15 January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were brutally murdered in Berlin. This article examines the significance of their murders a century ago, and the continuing relevance of their...


Online only - The responses submitted to the open-ended questions for the follow-up survey of IAQ members and recipients of the Feigenbaum Medal were assigned to categories, which have been displayed as Pareto charts in this online supplemental article.


The present invention discloses a catalyst and a preparation method of polyethylene. The two carrier with a titanium compound on a surface having a different structure, using a ball mill pot preparation method to obtain a supported catalyst having a plurality of active center. The catalyst prepared by this method, low cost, small environmental pollution, stable performance of the catalyst, applied to a variety of polymerization processes, and by adjusting the ratio of the two carriers and the polymerization process parameters, can be obtained Mw / Mn of more than 7 the broad molecular weight distribution polyethylene, and a molecular weight distribution adjustable.


We report a detailed investigation on the optical transitions of strained type II GaAs0.7Sb0.3/GaAs (100) multiple quantum wells. For the theoretical calculations, both of the elastic deformational potential of intrinsic compressive biaxial strain, and quantum confinement effects are included. The asymmetric photoluminescence spectra reveal the features of excited state transition and quantum confinement Stark effect at high and low temperatures, respectively. The asymmetry features have also been investigated and confirmed by low-temperature photoluminescence experiments under different excitation power. From polarized photoluminescence excitation and photoconductivity spectra, both of the type I and type II optical transitions can also be clearly identified.


Flashover accidents on high-voltage bushings frequently occur under extreme rainfall, which is generally attributed to the bridging of adjacent sheds by pendant drops, a result of the dynamic deformation of pendant drops. We numerically investigate the effects of the parameters of pendant drops and the electric field on the dynamic deformation of pendant drops on a 500 kV transformer bushing under extreme rainfall and verify the simulation results by artificial rain experiment. The dynamic deformation of pendant drops is described by solving the Navier-Stokes equations and using the level set method. The results show that the maximum length of the pendant drop increases with the increase in the initial diameter and the initial mass flow rate, respectively, but decreases under the electric field. The main influencing factor on the maximum length of the pendant drop alters with the variation of the initial diameter and the initial mass flow rate in the absence of the electric field, whereas the initial mass flow rate is the unique main influencing factor in the presence of the electric field. Furthermore, the variations of the maximum length and breakup time of the pendant drop are elucidated by the instability of the pendant drop.


: We aimed to understand the effect of biological interactions on the distribution of small pelagic fishes. Surveys were conducted during 2003−2019 using sea surface trawl nets in the western and central North Pacific Ocean, covering an area between 143° E and 165° W, to estimate the distributions of 4 small pelagic fishes: Pacific saury Cololabis saira , Japanese sardine Sardinops melanostictus , chub mackerel Scomber japonicus , and Japanese anchovy Engraulis japonicus . These species are potential competitors, as they all occupy a similar niche. Japanese anchovy was abundant during 2003−2012, while Japanese sardine and chub mackerel were abundant during 2013−2019. Only Pacific saury was distributed throughout the survey area, while the others occurred within the area west of 180° longitude (WA). Pacific saury and its potential competitors showed adjacent distributions, with a slight overlap along sea surface temperature gradients in the WA. This distribution pattern remained even when Japanese sardine expanded its distribution to colder waters and increased in abundance after 2013, resulting in a shift in the distribution of Pacific saury to colder waters and a period of high densities of Japanese sardine. Such a distribution shift of Pacific saury was not observed in the area east of 180° longitude, where no Japanese sardine was observed. These results suggest the possibility that biological interactions such as inter-species competition can be an important factor in determining the distribution of small pelagic fishes.


El‐Mitwalli A, Zaher AA, El Menshawi E. Circadian rhythm of stroke onset during the month of Ramadan.
Acta Neurol Scand: 2010: 122: 97–101.
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This paper presents a system for representation and use of inflexlonal knowledge for Polish language. By inflexlonal knowledge we mean information about rules of inflection/deflection for regul~ words together with a llst of exceptions, Such knowledge can be successfully manipulated by a rule-based s y s t e m . The r e s e a r c h i s a p a r t o f b i g u n d e r t a k i n ~ , a imed a t c o n s t r u c t i o n o f a s y s t e m a b l e t o c o n v e r s e i n P o l i s h w i t h casual user.


Abstract : The purpose of this atlas is to establish a global cloud climatology that details seasonal and diurnal variations. The Boehm Sawtooth Wave (BSW) simulation model is used to devise a method for describing the frequency distribution of total sky-cover. Two parameters, scale distance and mean sky-cover, permit the calculation of the sky cover distribution from clear to overcast. This is an efficient means of data storage, since two numbers define the entire frequency distribution. Hence, the frequency distribution of sky cover can be found for locations world-wide using the global analyses of mean sky cover and scale distance given in the atlas. Twenty maps are presented for each of these parameters - one set 4 times daily (0000-0200, 0600--0800, 1200-1400, 1800-2000 LST), for each midseason month (January, April, July, and October), and another set of monthly means for all hours for each midseason month.


This article examines the links between Brazilian Caritas and Popular Solidarity Economy from the work of Caritas Agent. The central issue of the article refers to the social representations that these agents build in his histories about the principles of Liberation Theology that guide the projects in solidarity economy of that religious institution. The basic methodology used was qualitative and ethnographic; It consisted in literature review, consultation to institutional materials, observation in loco and semi-structured interviews with agents who act in the Popular Solidarity Economy in the state of Ceara. The analysis of representations indicates that the very notion of "Kingdom of God" on earth presupposes deep linking between religion and economics, mystic and social movements, religion and state configuring a project of a counter hegemonic society who sees through the radical transformation of the economic and moral base of the social tissue opposing solidarity to individualism.


Dynamic discrete choice models are used to estimate the intertemporal preferences of an agent as described by a reward function based upon observable histories of states and implemented actions. However, in many applications, such as reliability and healthcare, the system state is partially observable or hidden (e.g., the level of deterioration of an engine, the condition of a disease), and the decision maker only has access to information imperfectly correlated with the true value of the hidden state. In this paper, we consider the estimation of a dynamic discrete choice model with state variables and system dynamics that are hidden (or partially observed) to both the agent and the modeler, thus generalizing Rust's model to partially observable cases. We analyze the structural properties of the model and prove that this model is still identifiable if the cardinality of the state space, the discount factor, the distribution of random shocks, and the rewards for a given (reference) action are given. We analyze both theoretically and numerically the potential mis-specification errors that may be incurred when Rust's model is improperly used in partially observable settings. We further apply the developed model to a subset of Rust's dataset for bus engine mileage and replacement decisions. The results show that our model can improve model fit as measured by the $\log$-likelihood function by $17.7\%$ and the $\log$-likelihood ratio test shows that our model statistically outperforms Rust's model. Interestingly, our hidden state model also reveals an economically meaningful route assignment behavior in the dataset which was hitherto ignored, i.e. routes with lower mileage are assigned to buses believed to be in worse condition.


(Ab-stract): The present study analyzed the existence and quantification of inflammatory status and antiplatelet medication associated with intra-stent restenosis (ISR) in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Material and methods : an ob-servational cross-sectional study was conducted in a high-volume PCI centre over a 2-year period. A total of 235 consecutive patients diagnosed with angina or acute coronary syndrome treated by PCI were included in the study. Diagnosis of ISR was documented by coronary angiography and the patients were divided into groups (with and without ISR). All patients underwent clinical and laboratory examination, the administration of antiplatelet medication and the type of drug administered to each patient. Results : The mean time until ISR was 33 ± 34 weeks. The lower use of single or dual antiplatelet therapy was associated with increased risk of ISR. Aspirin alone [risk ratio (RR)=1.13; 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 0.882-1.462], clopidogrel alone (RR = 1.41; 95% CI: 0.879- 0.323), ticagrelor alone (RR = 1.98; 95% CI: 1.746-2.252) or dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) (RR = 0.82; 95% CI: 0.637-1.065) had a significant role in estimating the risk for ISR. Bare-metal stents (BMS) presented an associated risk of ISR higher as compared to drug-eluting stents (DES) (0.88 vs. 0.74). Conclusions : Inflammatory status is associated with ISR; the type of stent used, time to ISR and antiplatelet medication were found to be associated with ISR.


Eight hybrid varieties and two experimental hybrids were studied with their parental lines in the F1, F2 and F3 for seven characters including growth period, yield and yield components. Using the Mahalanobis D2 statistic, the total of 34 forms could be grouped into 12 clusters, of which six accounted for 28 forms. In the F2 and F3, hybrids tended to be grouped in the same cluster as their male parents, but in the F1 there was no pattern connecting hybrids to their parents


A 52-year-old Filipino man had painless parotid swelling bilaterally, present for three years. Examination revealed firm masses in the lower parotid area, larger on the left side. These proved to be papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum (Warthin's tumor). Surgical procedure was carried out in two stages; multiple tumors were found on the left side and a single tumor on the right side. Recovery was uneventful, with no recurrence after one year.


Wedded to the air is the substance of data, the drift of code in atmospheres of the natural. The word on the ground is 'locative' but the mood in the skies diffuse; commentary, memoranda, a trace. This paper contemplates the significance of place in the process of electronic writing, giving thought to particular negotiations of corporeality in the aesthetics of interaction. Considering the proposition of digital social networks, it evokes moments of generativity from the electronic turbulence of the air, asking of the silence its manner of speaking. One voice writes: 'Will reply to your thread in the next hour.' Another, 'I struggle dicing onions.' Contingent practices require provisional processes of recognition, philosophies which wrest surprise. It is with this spirit that the paper makes its theoretical engagements as buoyant as its affective intent—call it inspired, call it heuretic, call it a narrative towards flight. How shall we address the torrents of the air that tempt the entanglements of the earth?


In this paper, we attempt to solve the problem of min-cost multicast routing for multirate multimedia distribution in a capacitated network. More specifically, for (i) a given network topology (ii) a given link capacity (iii) the destinations of a multicast group and (iv) the bandwidth requirement of each destination, we attempt to find a feasible routing solution to minimize the cost of a multicast tree for multirate multimedia distribution. This problem has been proved to be NP-hard. First, we model this problem as an optimization problem, which is a linear programming problem. Then, we propose a simple heuristic algorithm and an optimization based heuristic to solve this problem. Computational experiments have been performed on regular networks, random networks, and scale-free networks.


Photolysis of (o-allylbenzyl)dicarbonyl(η5-cyclopentadienyl)iron (4) at 20° in CH2Cl2 leads to carbon-monoxide loss followed by intramolecular complexation to [η2-(o-allylbenzyl)]carbonyl(η5-cyclopentadienyl)iron (13). At 50° in C6D6, a photochemical rearrangement proceeds forming carbonyl (η5-cyclopentadienyl){η3-[3-(2-methylphenyl)allyl]}iron (17). Depending on the temperature, photolysis of 4 leads to intermolecular reactions at the benzylic or allylic position of the π complexes 13 and 17, respectively.