Construction of a course is carried out in the teaching and teachers,students and course are the basic elements of teaching,constituting the basic structure of teaching. Beginning of the construction of elite courses is a good timing for the building of public pedagogy. Building of elite courses has its own logic of operation and development,and pointing out directly the fundamental problems in the course is both the objective of course building and the representation of course building. The process of building an elite course is one of cross operation,interaction,reorganization,simultaneous development and joint transcendence of course,teachers and students. The calling structure of teaching,expectant effect of students and the dynamic production of courses happen at the same time and are closely related.


What is the purpose of feminist legal histories, and how can we write them, especially in Australia in our own times? In this essay I explore, in the spirit of dialogue, how we might confront the tension between legal history's intellectual traditions, and the political effects of law's legacies in the present. This question of method is an important inference in this collection's conversation about 'who owns the legal past'. My premise is that for many legal history projects, especially in a settler-colonial state like Australia, writing about law historically requires a conscientious identification of law's present paradoxes, discontinuities, and iterations. To this end, this chapter will be in three parts. First, a description of the historiographical problems I have encountered in my current project, which is an account of how feminism and law met in the 1970s. Second, a consideration of what genealogy as a particular theory and method for writing can offer feminist histories of the present in light of those problems;


Based on the current state of practice, this paper examines the issues in measuring disaster preparedness, and the process of constructing indicators and indices. Existing indices are examined, and a proposed framework of creating a Disaster Preparedness Index (DPi), and Resiliency Index (Ri) with a suggested list of measurement indicators is put forward. The framework and indicator list is unweighted, and as with any existing index, the weighting of the components are a subjective process, and are adjusted based on expert panel review or iterative on-ground application and review.


The computational efficiency of Gaussian beam migration depends on the solution of two problems: (1) computation of complex-valued beam times and amplitudes in Cartesian (x,z) coordinates, and (2) limiting computations to only those (x,z) coordinates within a region where beam amplitudes are significant. The first problem can be reduced to a particular instance of a class of closest-point problems in computational geometry, for which efficient solutions, such as the Delaunay triangulation, are well known. Delaunay triangulation of sampled points along a ray enables the efficient location of that point on the raypath that is closest to any point (x,z) at which beam times and amplitudes are required. Although Delaunay triangulation provides an efficient solution to this closest point problem, a simpler solution, also presented in this paper, may be sufficient and more easily extended for use in 3-D Gaussian beam migration. The second problem is easily solved by decomposing the subsurface image into a coarse grid of square cells. Within each cell, simple and efficient loops over (x,z) coordinates may be used. Because the region in which beam amplitudes are significant may be difficult to represent with simple loops over (x,z) coordinates, I use recursion to move from cell tomore » cell, until entire region defined by the beam has been covered. Benchmark tests of a computer program implementing these solutions suggest that the cost of Gaussian hewn migration is comparable to that of migration via explicit depth extrapolation in the frequency-space domain. For the data sizes and computer programs tested here, the explicit method was faster. However, as data size was increased, the computation time for Gaussian beam migration grew more slowly than that for the explicit method.« less


Abstract
 The village of Sauraha in Nepal is a principal entry point to Chitwan National Park and has been influenced by multiple events over the past few years, affecting the local tourism dynamics and specific tourism products like elephant-back safaris. The global debate on animal welfare visibly influences the local market dynamics for elephant safaris. At the same time, there are other local factors at play that may be of stronger influence. The destination has been affected by local political and economic challenges that have increased cost of operations, intensified competition and challenged potential visitors. Furthermore, Sauraha is attracting emerging markets with different values and expectations in comparison with the traditional markets and which are charged lower prices for services. This chapter explores the impact of these recent events facing the destination Sauraha and reveals how understanding this is key to informing a tailor-made strategy to improve welfare for captive elephants. This research was conducted in the context of an ongoing partnership between World Animal Protection and the Elephant Owners' Association of Sauraha, and involved interviews with stakeholders in Sauraha and Kathmandu, as well as a visitor survey. Findings show that there is an increasing interest among private elephant owners to consider alternative management styles, especially to alleviate personal liability.


Reference models are one of the many instruments aspiring to find into a set of different concepts, methods and techniques used in managing the logistics. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to present the results of assessing the suitability of reference models for solving logistical problems. This evaluation indicates that they are universal, support the realization of all the logistics management function in various areas, such as logistics of manufacturing glass products.


Eighteen presented the party's "two hundred years" the ambitious targets, planning to achieve national rejuvenation of the grand blueprint for the people across the country pointed out the direction of struggle, with real passion chasing the dream. The great dream come true, inseparable from the people's support, and personnel training is an important duty of College Counselors. Research based on the country's future development and historical background, focus to achieve "two hundred years" goal, training century talents, cultivating college counselor made five qualities, namely: political literacy, mission accomplishment, age literacy, humanities and law accomplishment.


The purpose — to develop a prognostic model of the type of active retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) based on informative prognostic parameters of optical coherence tomography of the retina in angio-mode (OCT-A) and color duplex scanning (CDS) for a reliable choice of patient management tactics.Patients and methods. 30 premature infants (30 eyes) with favorable and unfavorable types of 1–3 stages of active ROP were performed with optical coherence tomography of the retina in angio-mode. Children were born at a gestational age of 25–34 weeks. The birth weight of children was 680–2030 g. 55 premature infants (55 eyes) with active ROP were performed with CDS in modes of color Doppler mapping and pulsed Doppler sonography. Children were born at a gestational age of 25–32 weeks. The birth weight of children was 680–1760 g. ROC analysis was used to estimate the prognostic information content of the quantitative indicators of OCT-A and CDS in relation to the type of active ROP. The discriminant analysis was used to estimate the contribution of the studied quantitative indicators to the intergroup differences in the type of active ROP. A regression model was built to obtain a prediction of a favorable or unfavorable type of disease. The assessment of the acceptability of the model as a whole was carried out according to the index of determination and the level of significance of the resulting model (p < 0.05).Results. The most informative prognostic indicators of the type of active ROP were determined, according to OCT in angio-mode: the area of the foveal avascular zone — and, according to CDS: maximum systolic and end diastolic blood flow velocity in the ophthalmic artery, maximum systolic blood flow velocity in the posterior short ciliary arteries, minimum velocity blood flow in the central retinal vein. On the basis of informative indicators, a reliable prognostic model of the type of active ROP was built, which has two independent variables: the area of the foveal avascular zone and the end diastolic blood flow velocity in the ophthalmic artery. The dependent variable can take values close to 0, which determine the favorable type of the disease, or close to 1, which determines the unfavorable type of the disease.Conclusion. The introduction of the obtained model into clinical practice will allow to objectively determine the unfavorable course of the pathological process at the earliest stages, as well as to carry out early treatment of active ROP.


In this paper we study smooth solutions to a fractional mean curvature flow equation. We establish a comparison principle and consequences such as uniqueness and finite extinction time for compact solutions. We also establish evolutions equations for fractional geometric quantities that yield preservation of certain quantities (such as positive fractional curvature) and smoothness of graphical evolutions.


Audit Delay is a length of time a company has from their fiscal year‐end of the financial reports to the audit report date. Audit Delay often occurs in companies that sell their shares, and there are several factors that can affect the audit delay. The purpose of this research is to analyze the factors that can influence audit delay such as profitability, solvency, firm size, and audit firm size. The populations are manufacturing companies in the period 2014 to 2016. The sample collection technique has been done by using purposive sampling method and the samples are up to 103 companies. This research is a qualitative research using SPSS version 23 and it is done by using multiple linear regressions analysis. The results of the research shows that only profitability and audit firm size variable that has a significant influence to the audit delay.
Keywords: Audit Delay, Profitability, Solvency, Firm Size, Audit Firm Size


Abstract The 13th Annual British Liquid Crystal Society meeting was hosted by Professor Neville Boden at Leeds University. The conference was held at Bodington Hall, a single site conference venue three miles to the north of the University and city centre. BLCS 98 was attended by 123 delegates from academe and industry, and was kindly sponsored by Linkam Scientific, Taylor & Francis and Novocontrol International.


Simple Summary Mormon crickets (Anabrus simplex) are native to the United States and can become devastating rangeland pests. These insects can form migratory bands numbering in the millions, which can traverse the western U.S., damaging agricultural crops, invading urban areas, and producing hazardous slicks on roadways. Current methods of managing these insects involve targeted applications of non-specific chemical insecticides, which can potentially have negative effects on the environment. In this study, we took the first steps toward developing RNA interference (RNAi) methods, a type of gene silencing technique that has potential for pest management, for Mormon crickets as a potential alternative to traditional broad-spectrum insecticides. We first generated genomic resources to identify several candidate genes and developed double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) for these genes, which could be injected into the insect to induce gene silencing. We performed RNAi experiments to characterize gene knockdown efficiencies and demonstrated that it is possible to elicit RNAi responses in the Mormon cricket by injection, but knockdown efficiencies varied according to the target genes and tissue types. We conclude that RNAi silencing is possible in Mormon cricket, but more work needs to be done before it can be effectively used as a population management method. Abstract Mormon crickets are a major rangeland pest in the western United States and are currently managed by targeted applications of non-specific chemical insecticides, which can potentially have negative effects on the environment. In this study, we took the first steps toward developing RNAi methods for Mormon crickets as a potential alternative to traditional broad-spectrum insecticides. To design an effective RNAi-based insecticide, we first generated a de novo transcriptome for the Mormon cricket and developed dsRNAs that could silence the expression of seven housekeeping genes. We then characterized the RNAi efficiencies and time-course of knockdown using these dsRNAs, and assessed their ability to induce mortality. We have demonstrated that it is possible to elicit RNAi responses in the Mormon cricket by injection, but knockdown efficiencies and the time course of RNAi response varied according to target genes and tissue types. We also show that one of the reasons for the poor knockdown efficiencies could be the presence of dsRNA-degrading enzymes in the hemolymph. RNAi silencing is possible in Mormon cricket, but more work needs to be done before it can be effectively used as a population management method.


LENR studies have shown a wide variety of manifestations of this phenomenon. It manifests itself in metals with hydrogen dissolved in them, in plasma, in gas discharge, in electrolysis, and even in biological systems. In addition to energy release, which far exceeds the capabilities of chemical reactions, LENR is characterized by a huge variety of emerging chemical elements. The report provides examples of the appearance of many initially missing elements in different LENR installations. For example, in the nickel-hydrogen LENR reactor created in our laboratory, which worked for 7 months, Ca, V, Ti, Mn, Fe, Co, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ba, Sr, Yb, Hf were found. Moreover, the appearance of new elements is found not only in the "fuel" but also in the surrounding matter. The huge variety of chemical elements that arise can be explained by the fact that in the processes of LENR, the interaction covers several atoms at once. This can be an interaction initiated by neutrinos (antineutrinos) of very low energies, since such particles have a de Broglie wavelength (the size of the interaction region) much larger than the interatomic distances in condensed matter. Huge fluxes of neutrino-antineutrino pairs are generated in metals and dense plasmas by thermal collisions of electrons with atoms at a sufficiently high temperature. Another possible agent that causes collective nuclear transmutations is probably the light magnetic monopole (the magnetically excited state of neutrinos).


This paper introduces the test-survey process of distinguishing torsional-vibration-damper type in some engine in detail.Mastering basic structural type of torsional-vibration-damper before disassembling damper,can lay the foundation for work in next step.And a new method of test-survey process of distinguishing torsional-vibration-damper type has been obtained.


The relationship between electrical resistivity and temperature of carbon fiber reinforced concrete ( CFRC) road ma-terial are studied, from which the temperature sensibility of carbon fiber reinforced concrete is discovered, the electrical resistivity of CFRC decreases with increasing temperature and increases with decreasing temperature. The function mechanisms of the tem-perature are also analyzed. Using this property , carbonfiber reinforced concrete can be used as a kind of temperature sensor and self-diagnose the temperature of airfield runways or bridge deck.


Interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) is a pleiotropic cytokine with several biological functions such as inflammatory effects, proliferation and differentiation of B lymphocytes, T‐cell activation, and apoptotic function. Angiotensin (Ang) II induce IL‐6 secretion in cultured astrocytes and the effect of Ang III to induce IL‐6 production in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) has not been described yet. In this present study, we investigated in VSMCs of Wistar rats and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs), the effect of Ang III in induction the secretion of IL‐6. Interestingly, in Wistar VSMCs, Ang II and III were significantly induced IL‐6 secretion in the time dependent manner. However, the IL‐6 secretion mediated by Ang II and III was significantly greater in VSMCs of SHRs. In the hypertensive state, they have similar time effect in stimulation of the IL‐6 production. Ang III promoted IL‐6 secretion via the action on AT1 receptors, as losartan (AT1 receptor antagonist) blocked this effect. AG490 (JAK2) completely diminished IL‐6 secretion induced by Ang III, so JAK2 importance could not be overlook in IL‐6 secretion. Overall, the findings elucidate the pro‐inflammatory effect of Ang III in VSMCs through stimulation of IL‐6 secretion and activation of AT1 receptors.


The present study prepared aims to demonstrate the quality evaluation of roasted and germinated composite flours. Composite flour was prepared with wheat flour, maize flour, green gram flour and groundnut flour. Material balance method was followed to get the required proportions of flours. The samples of first batch were raw and considered as control flour. Second and third batch samples were roasted flour and germinated flour respectively. Roasting and germination were done by the standard methods. Proximate composition and functional properties were determined using the standard procedures.Protein content of germinated flour was significantly higher than other flours. Fat and carbohydrate were degraded significantly (p<0.05) during processing. On germination, the water absorption index increased significantly at 5 per cent level indicating the ability of flour to absorb water and an increase in the amount of soluble materials, which can be easily digested. Germination increased water absorption capacity, foaming capacity and solubility whereas roasting significantly affects bulk density, oil absorption capacity, swelling capacity and emulsi- fication capacity.The present study concludes that the composite flours have better qualities that could be harnessed by roasting and germination to meet nutritional requirements and recommended for incorporation in food preparations.


A Patent is an important tool which improves and protects the latest inventions. In addition, the main focus of this book is to answer the question whether morality should be considered in the patent field in general and in the inventions, which consist in human embryonic stem cells in particular. Moreover, the analysis of this book is done by contrasting two controversial systems: the European Patent laws, where morality is omnipresent and the U.S patent laws which are more science orientated rather than morality oriented. In this book the reader can find a detailed analysis of the main cases which are related to human embryonic stem cells patenting.


Here is a comprehensive study of nearly 14,000 cases of births during the week beginning March 3rd, 1946. The enquiry was sponsored by the Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Population Investigation Committee, under the chairmanship of Professor James Young. Antenatal supervision, the places of confinement, and care during confinement, the relief of pain in childbirth, postnatal examinations, infant welfare centres, and the cost of childbearing, are discussed in considerable detail. There are chapters on prematurity, infant feeding, the expectant mother in gainful occupation, help in the house, illegitimacy, and a list of recommendations.


This article discusses the behavior of a reinforced concrete deep beam that has been strengthened with GFRP sheets. The GFRP shows many essential and necessary properties such as low weight to strength ratio, non-corrosive, high fatigue strength, high tensile strength, etc. In this paper, four deep beams were cast, in which one beam is a control beam, and another one is with special confinement reinforcement. The rest of the two beams are strengthened with the GFRP sheets in standard control beam and special confinement reinforcement beam under static or monotonic loading under three points, and the corresponding behavior is determined. The behavior of the RC Deep beams, such as load-carrying capacity, first crack load, load-deflection behavior, crack patterns, and stress vs. strains, are determined. The analysis of the reinforced concrete deep beams was done using the finite element software called ANSYS. Additionally, this article provides preliminary support for proposing a novel shear strengthening technique during the member's design. In the finite element simulations, the proposed deep beams have been modeled and analyzed using the finite element software, ANSYS, and the results are compared with experimental work.


Flavor spices have been applied to every aspect of human life. This report describes preparation of flavor spices and their safety analysis,and put forward the countermeasures to improve the production safety.


This investigation approaches questions related to the human body, human being, and emotional aspects of inner life I have been dealing within my practice. It is a subjective reflection within the ...


Planning's vision of life in the 21st century tends to be more-of-the-same or the adoption, often implicit, of a market-based information society in which telecommunications advances will restructure time and space in ways that are beneficial in the long run. The future of the future, however, deserves more attention in urban planning. Utopian constructs have largely been abandoned and traditional methods of projection and modeling are poor techniques for anticipating qualitative and nonlinear change. An exploration of cyberpunk writings, a genre of science fiction, offers the opportunity to critically examine and assess the hegemonic model of the information society as well as more dystopian pictures of how evolving social, economic, cultural, and technological patterns could combine in the next century. Attending to the urban dimensions of these fictional works and discourses about them can contribute to more realistic and ethical planning scenarios of the future.


The adoption of ICTs mediated co-production to produce services is also becoming common in the public sector. The public sector literature discusses ICTs mediated co-production according to different organizational dimensions without considering that they mutually affect each other's. The analysis of ICTs mediated co-production according to single dimensions has leaded many public organizations to make poor strategic planning focusing just on specific aspects of their strategy. This paper provides a comprehensive framework that combines all the different perspectives simultaneously and help public managers to make better organizational strategies for public organizations. The framework is the result of the combination of the Strategic Triangle of Moore with the concept of assemblage and has been tested on the case of Transport for London (TfL). TfL is a public organization that manages public transportation and has developed an Open Data platform that enables more than 700 applications like City Mapper or Google Maps to co-produce the information service about public transportation.


This paper explores and contrasts the gender value systems of two groups of anti-school boys. It suggests that cultural differences in specifically gender values can lead to (i) polarisation between anti-school boys and (ii) confrontation with school authorities in ways not explained by the traditional theory of culture clash between the working class pupil and the middle class school. It is also noted that the label 'counter-school' used by Willis to convey the culture of some working class boys ('the lads') may need to be refined if the culture is reassessed in a way which acknowledges the commonality between the gender value systems of 'the lads' and those of the school. In fact, the research reported in this paper found that another group of anti-school boys (not working class) was much more counter the gender value system of the school than 'the lads' and did not uphold traditional masculine values.


Gregg Warren says share repurchases and dividends as the only way for Berkshire to meaningfully reduce its cash balances in the near term.


This essay is in the form of a memorandum, sent after Election Day, 2016, to Donald Trump. The memorandum offers suggestions to Mr. Trump on six subjects:1. The title of the winner of the popular vote. The winner on Election Day is not the president-elect. A person is not elected president or vice president until January 6, when the Congress meets, and the Congress counts the votes cast by the electors, and the current vice president announces the results of the election.2. The inauguration ceremony.3. Presidential travel abroad. Travel by foreign leaders to the United States.4. Congressional inertia.5. Illegal aliens. An effective dealing with illegal aliens who entered the United States on or after January 20, 2009. Also, reduction of the numbers and types of visas. There are 83 (!) classes of non-immigrant visas, and 133 (!) classes of immigrant visas.6. Presidential quadrenniums. List the presidents by (a) numbers and names of the presidents, and (b) numbered presidential quadrenniums. The proposal avoids the blockheaded counting of Grover Cleveland, one man, who was the 22nd president, as two men: the 22nd president and the 24th president.On January 20, 2017, which marks the beginning of the 58th presidential quadrennium, the 44th president will be inaugurated.


I n this era, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become as identifiable as the radiologist's primary tool as the x-ray tube was 40 years ago and the CT scanner was 20 years ago. The extracranial head and neckmay have been a little tardy in coming to the party, but we currently are in the period of wide acceptance of MRI as a helpful and often primary modality to evaluate patients with many diseases of the head and neck. The surprising feature of this transition to me has been the blossoming interest in MRI in diagnosing diseases that were previously thought of as solely CT diagnoses, such as disease of the sinuses or temporal bone. Even saying the phrase "temporal bone" seems to at first exclude MRI as a technique of value. Wrong. It was my pleasure to work with an incredibly gifted group of authors and academicians who agreed to contribute to this issue. Individually, they are all both talented educators and skilled clinicians


The article is devoted to the problem of increasing the efficiency of purification of natural and waste waters from heavy metal ions by the method of electrochemical phytoremediation. The results of studies on the management of phytoremediation processes by exposure to higher aquatic plants by external physical fields (constant magnetic field, combined exposure to a constant magnetic field
and geomagnetic field, constant magnetic field and weak electric (j) fields) are presented. The ef-fect of accelerating the sorption of heavy metal ions under the influence of external physical fields on plants of Lemna minor has been experimentally confirmed. Rational conditions for controlling the processes of selectivity and increasing the rate of electrochemical phytoremediation and the completeness of the extraction of heavy metal ions from contaminated waters using higher aquatic plants are determined. A flow chart of the treatment of wastewater from heavy metals by the phytoremediation method using a biopond / settler populated by higher aquatic plants is proposed.


Spatial heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a critical role in gaining insights into tumor development and progression. Conventional metrics typically capture the spatial differential between TME cellular architectures by either exploring the cell distributions in a pairwise fashion or aggregating the heterogeneity across multiple cell distributions without considering for the spatial contribution. As such, none of the existing approaches has fully accounted for the heterogeneity caused by both cellular diversity and spatial configurations of multiple cell categories. In this article, we propose an approach to leverage the spatial entropy measures at multiple distance ranges to account for the spatial heterogeneity across different cellular architectures. Then, functional principal component analysis (FPCA) targeting sparse data is applied to estimate FPC scores which are then predictors in a Cox regression model to investigate the impact of spatial heterogeneity in the TME on survival outcome, holding other clinical variables constant. Using an ovarian cancer dataset (n = 114) as a case study, we found that the spatial heterogeneity in the TME immune compositions of CD19+ B cells, CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, and CD68+ macrophages, had a significant non-zero effect on the overall survival (p = 0.027). In the simulations studies under different spatial configurations, the proposed method demonstrated a high predictive power by accounting for both clinical effect and the impact of spatial heterogeneity.


"Introduction: Place attachment is multi-dimensional and depends on a reciprocal relationship between behavior and experience. It comes from environmental psychology, and it has its roots in the theory of attachment because of an emotional link between an individual and a place. The present paper aims to describe the psychometric characteristics of the Slovak version of The Workplace Attachment Styles Questionnaire (Srima, 2018). Methods: The original questionnaire consists of 15 items with a Likert scale ranging from totally disagree to agree. The research sample consisted of 645 working adults of a convenience sample, aged from 16 to 78 years, consisting of 54.9% women, from various work fields (finance, sales, education). We randomly divided the sample into two halves for separate studies. Results: In the first study with 323 adult participants, we used exploratory factor analysis to examine its construct validity. According to exploratory factor analysis, we reduced the 15-item questionnaire to a 9-item structure with three original factors: secure (AM = 6.23, SD = 2.32), dismissive (AM = 3.64, SD = 2.54), and preoccupied (AM = 3.64, SD = 2.31) workplace attachment styles, with an average internal consistency of 0.75. In the second study with 322 participants, we executed the confirmatory factor analysis, which confirmed the three-factor structure, with an average internal consistency of 0.65. Discussion: The results confirmed the original three-factor structure of The Workplace Attachment Styles Questionnaire with 9 original items instead of 15. This paper contributes to the shorter version of the Workplace Attachment Styles questionnaire adapted to the Slovak population. The study's limitations are the absence of other measurement tools that could verify the construct of workplace attachment itself (Adult Attachment in the Workplace, Experience in Close Relationship Questionnaire). That is also what is worth doing in the next research."


We present a novel method for coupling rapid isotachophoresis (ITP)-based DNA hybridization with post-reaction electrophoretic separation via bidirectional ITP. Our method leverages physicochemical changes associated with the interaction of anionic and cationic ITP shock waves in bidirectional ITP to rapidly and automatically trigger CZE from ITP. We demonstrate the speed and sensitivity of our assay by detecting 5 pM, 39 nt ssDNA target within 3 min, using a molecular beacon probe. We also demonstrate the feasibility of our assay as a rapid alternative to southern-blotting by simultaneously detecting 39 and 90 nt ssDNA targets.


Abstract The scaling relations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxy properties are of fundamental importance in the context black hole-host galaxy co-evolution throughout cosmic time. Beyond the local universe, such relations are based on black hole mass estimates in type I AGN. Unfortunately, for this type of objects the host galaxy properties are more difficult to obtain since the AGN dominates the observed flux in most wavelength ranges. In this poster I will present a new correlation we discovered between the narrow L([OIII])/L(Hβ) line ratio and the FWHM(broad Hα). This scaling relation ties the kinematics of the gas clouds in the broad line region to the ionization state of gas in the narrow line region, connecting the properties of gas clouds kiloparsecs away from the black hole to material gravitationally bound to it on sub-parsec scales. This relation can be used to estimate black hole masses from narrow emission lines only, and thus brings the missing piece required to estimate black hole masses in obscured type II AGN. Using this technique, we estimate the black hole mass of about 10,000 type II AGN, and present, for the first time, M(BH)-sigma and M(BH)-M(stars) scaling relations for this population. These relations are remarkably consistent with those observed for type I AGN, suggesting that this new method may perform as reliably as the classical estimate used in non-obscured type I AGN. These findings open a new window for studies of black hole-host galaxy co-evolution throughout cosmic time.


We aim to gain more insight into the characteristics of divorced families with different types of post-divorce living arrangements, and in particular with co-parenting arrangements in which the child alternates between the parents' residences. Empirical evidence comes from a mixed- method research, based on survey data from The Netherlands Kinship Panel Study and from Divorce in the Netherlands 1998 and on in-depth interviews with divorced parents. We find that the distance between the places of residence of both ex-partners is particularly important to the type of living arrangement. Parents who have dual careers, are highly educated and have high incomes are more likely to be in a co-parenting arrangement than others. Findings on gender differences are in line with the idea that co-parenting is a sign of increased father involvement but decreased mother involvement compared with the most common arrangement: a weekend-father arrangement. For men, time constraints seem to lead to a smaller likelihood of co-parenting, whereas the opposite is true for women.


Catalytic wet oxidation (CWO) of ferulic acid (a model lignin compound) was investigated at low temperature and pressure (100 °C, 172 kPa P O2). Nine homogeneous catalysts were screened at three different catalyst loadings. Homogeneous copper ions were observed to be the most active catalysts; various copper based heterogeneous catalysts were also prepared and tested. The most active catalyst was Cu−Ni−Ce−Al2O3; however, this catalyst also exhibited the highest extent of copper leaching. Cu−Mn−Al2O3 was the most stable catalyst tested and was second only to Cu−Ni−Ce−Al2O3 in terms of activity among nine heterogeneous catalysts studied. Heterogeneous catalytic activity compared with the activity due to leached metal ions was observed to be dominant for both of the above-mentioned catalysts.


Distributed underwater sensor network coverage is divided into two main categories: deterministic coverage and stochastic coverage. A strategy is put forward to deploy determinate area by using a triangular-grid method. When a coverage ratio is known, the distance between nodes can be adjusted to meet the coverage ratio in the monitored area, and the least number of sensor nodes can be calculated. Also a heuristic method is proposed for stochastic area deployment strategy. It is under the premise that the initial node location randomly deployed is given, using Voronoi diagram, the not easiest monitored path is searched, and the network coverage performance is improved by configuring the new nodes in the path. Finally it is proved that network performance is more improved by the simulation experiments, when one to four nodes are configured in the easiest breach path.


Steady laminar mixed convection boundary layer flow past a horizontal circular cylinder with constant wall heat flux, immersed in a viscous and incompressible fluid of temperature-dependent viscosity is considered in this study. The governing partial differential equations were transformed using non-similar transformation and then solved numerically by an implicit finite-difference scheme known as the Keller-box method. The effects of temperature-dependent viscosity parameter θ r on the flow and heat transfer characteristics were examined for various values of Prandtl number, Pr and the mixed convection parameter, λ. It was found that for both assisting and opposing flows, as θ r increases, the local skin friction coefficient increases while the wall temperature decreases for air but for water, the local skin friction coefficient decreases then slightly increases while temperature decreases.


In this
paper, the solutions of three dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamics
(MHD) equations are obtained by using sin method and
Riccati auxiliary equation. This paper obtains the soliton solutions by the aid
of software Mathematica.


The structure of hydrazinium magnesium(II) pyridazine-3,6-dicarboxylate comprises two univalent hydrogen hydrazine cations, a divalent di(aqua-O)bis(pyridazine-3,6-dicarboxylato-N,O) magnesium(II) anion and two solvate water molecules in the triclinic unit cell. The magnesium(II) ion is located on the center of symmetry. The coordination around the magnesium(II) ion is slightly distorted octahedral. The ligand molecules are coplanar. Their N,O bonding moieties coordinated to the metal ion form the equatorial plane of the distorted octahedron (Mg–O 2.062 Å, Mg–N 2.176 Å) with two water ligands in the trans axial sites (Mg–O 2.047 Å).


Notwithstanding its crucial importance for assessing the vulnerability of tropical mountain ecosystems to both local anthropogenic pressure and climate change, knowledge of the relationships between climate, hydrology, and vegetation on Mount Kilimanjaro is highly fragmentary. Unraveling the pathway of water from precipitation to transpiration can also help validate paleoclimate proxies derived from the hydrogen‐ and oxygen‐isotopic signatures of plant compounds, such as leaf waxes. We measured δ2H and δ18O in precipitation, stream, and soil water, and in xylem and leaf water of locally common plants, for four successive seasons along a 3,000‐m altitudinal transect covering lowland savannah, lower and upper montane forest, and the subalpine zone on Mount Kilimanjaro. Across all four bioclimatic zones, δ2H and δ18O in precipitation decreased with monthly precipitation amount at a rate of −8 ± 2‰ and −1.0 ± 0.3‰ per 100 mm, respectively. Our xylem‐water isotope data indicate that plants in general took up topsoil water during the northeasterly monsoon season and short dry season and gradually shifted to deeper soil water during the southeasterly monsoon season and the main dry season. Savannah trees and shrubs tapped from a water pool recharged by source water with a relatively constant isotopic signature. This observation conforms to the "two water worlds" hypothesis and implies a possible seasonal bias in plant‐derived paleohydrological proxies. Finally, our results show strong correlation between xylem‐to‐leaf water‐isotopic enrichment and ambient relative humidity, despite a bias in the savannah that we attribute to a leaf‐cooling mechanism in this warm, semi‐arid environment.


Both remote and in situ x-ray spectrometry plays an important role in the geochemical exploration of solar system bodies. In order to accurately interpret data from x-ray instruments, the effects of shadowing and surface roughness must be taken into account. Detailed modelling and experimental studies are required in order to disentangle the factors which contribute to the observed x-ray signature.


Sunscreens are functional, utilitarian, cosmetic products. The criteria of purchase are different from those for skin care and make-up. Companies are trying to add glamour and value to basic sunscreens by incorporating "active" ingredients (other than UV filters) into these formulas and by communicating about the additional benefits, be they anti-aging, moisturizing, firming, anti-wrinkle, etc. While some of these ideas of additional ingredients make sense as supplementary skin protection, some others do not afford much benefit in view of the infrequent application and short period of usage. The present article reviews some of these ideas and presents a few active ingredients that might be of value in such a context, even if substantiation of such additional claims in sunscreens is often lacking.


Objective:To evaluate the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of a dendritic cell targeted DNA vaccine pCTLA4-FimA.Method:Groups of three BALB/c mice,were immunized with pCTLA4-FimA,pFimA,or pCI by the intranasal route.Specific serum IgG and salivary IgA antibodies were detected by ELISA.Mice were immunized with pCTLA4-FimA,pFimA,or pCI intranasally,and then orally challenged with Porphyromonas gingivalis.Reduction of alveolar bone loss was observed.Result:pCTLA4-FimA induced increased specific serum and salivary antibody responses in mice compared with pFimA.Reduction of alveolar bone loss was observed in both pCTLA4-FimA and pFimA immunized groups,with the magnitude of protection greater in the former group.Conclusion:Intranasal immunization with a dendritic cell targeted fimA DNA vaccine induced enhanced systemic and mucosal immunity and offered strong potential in preventing alveolar bone loss incurred by Porphyromonas gingivalis infection in mice.


in the formation of state policy toward nomadic peoples in the two areas. However, a broader trend, involving the expansion of the world economic system can also be discerned. This pattern held constant under both capitalistic and socialistic governments. In recent times, the settlement of pastoral nomads and their integration into national economies has become a hotly debated issue in a number of developing nations. Disasters such as the Sahel drought and famine in the early 1970s have brought world attention on the economic and ecological consequences of nomad ism and settlement. Similarly, armed uprisings by nomadic peoples against the governments of Morocco, Ethiopia, the Chad, Iran and Afghanistan have brought the political grievances of nomads to world attention. This paper will compare two attempts by modern nation states to transform the traditional economies of nomadic pastoralist Soviet Central Asia and West Africa. In both cases the development policies pursued by the central government sought to change the traditional power relationship within nomad ic society, as well as its economic activities. These policies were a natural outgrowth of attempts by the central governments in volved to integrate nomadic peoples into the larger world econ omy. Two schools of thought have emerged from the debate over the future of nomadic pastoralism. The first holds the present


Phytochelatin synthesis (PCS), the key enzyme involved in heavy metal detoxification and accumulation has been studied extensively for the purpose of Phyto remediation. In this study, we have isolated the AtPCS1 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana, which is considered as a potentially accumulator of heavy metals. The 1458bp CDNA of AtPCS1 was isolated, cloned and sequenced. The deduced amino acid sequence of the C terminal region of the AtPCS1 contained homologous regions of functional domains of metallothionein and thioredoxin. Heterologous expression of AtPCS1 gene in E. coli resulted in an enhanced accumulation and tolerance to heavy metal Cadmium. This enzyme has the potential to develop transgenic plants with enhanced tolerance to heavy metals for phytoremediation.


The present study aimed at identifying the status quo of crisis management implementation in Jordanian public secondary schools in Amman, according to Impact Effort Matrix, from the point of view of its school leaders. The study sample consisted of (250) principals and teachers in Jordanian public secondary schools in Amman. The questionnaire consisted of (3) dimensions and (78) statements. It was found that the status quo of crisis management implementation in Jordanian public secondary schools in Amman, according to Impact Effort Matrix, from the point of view of its school leaders was moderate. It was also found that there were significant differences in the means for the second and third dimensions that can be attributed to sex, they came in favour of males, and it was found that there were significant differences in the means for the first dimension that can be attributed to educational qualifications, they came in favour of higher education.whereas, no significant differences in the status quo of crisis management implementation in Jordanian public secondary schools in Amman, according to Impact Effort Matrix, from the point of view of its school leaders that can be attributed to experience and position were found. Based on the results, several recommendations were presented such as reviewing and revisiting the roles of principals, conducting studies related to crisis management and establishing a specialized department for crisis management in secondary schools.


A new fast intra-prediction mode selection algorithm based on spatio-temporal predicting for H.264 was pre-sented.Using the correlation of spatial and temproal domain in video sequence and constructing the probability histogram of intra prediction mode in the spatial and temporal domain,Pan's algorithm based on edge direction histogram was im-proved.Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce coding time and enhance the per-formance of H.264 while maintaining same image quality and output rate.


We consider the production sources of prompt and thermal photons which include the contribution of gluons in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Considering in our calculation the shadowing and iso-spin effects of the nucleus we can properly estimate the prompt photon production. We develop a new thermal jet-photon conversion mechanism which plays a vital role in the low transverse momentum region. The effect of the non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma enhances the contribution of thermal photons.


PURPOSE
The purposes of this study are to report experience with transjugular liver biopsy (TJLB) in patients with hematologic malignancy and severe thrombocytopenia and to determine the incidence of hemorrhage-related complications in patients with prebiopsy and pretransfusion platelet counts of 30 x 10(9) /L or lower to propose a threshold platelet count above which TJLB can be safely performed without transfusion.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Medical records and laboratory reports of 50 patients with severe thrombocytopenia who had undergone 51 TJLB procedures and prebiopsy platelet transfusions between August 1999 and September 2001 were retrospectively reviewed. Biopsy success and procedural complications were recorded.

RESULTS
TJLB was technically successful in 49 of 51 procedures (96%). The mean prebiopsy, pretransfusion platelet count was 17 x 10(9)/L (range, 3-30 x 10(9)/L) and a mean of 11 U (range, 6-32 U) of platelets per patient were transfused. The overall mean postbiopsy platelet count was 38 x 10(9)/L (range, 5-105 x 10(9)/L), but it remained 30 x 10(9)/L or lower in 24 TJLB procedures. No hemorrhage-related complications were encountered, but ventricular fibrillation occurred in one patient during the procedure.

CONCLUSION
A threshold platelet count for safe TJLB resides below 30 x 10(9)/L. A prospective study is necessary to better define a lower threshold above which TJLB can be performed without platelet transfusion.


Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are some of the most neglected vulnerable populations in the world. They are often neglected because they are an internationally and legally unacknowledged group amongst the Moving and Vulnerable Peoples (MVPs) due to a lack of legislature pertaining to them. This study seeks to critically assess the educational opportunities available to internally displaced children in Zimbabwe who were affected by the farm invasions, illegal settlements and various government operations like "operation murambatsvina." The study also assesses the psycho social support afforded them as well as the economic and social issues arising due to their dilemma in Zimbabwe. In this study, a qualitative phenomenological design was used with focus group discussions, interviews and observations as data collection methods with eleven participants comprising of (4) four children, representing every ward in which they have been resettled, one traditional village leader, one ward councillor, two (2) school teachers, Chipinge district education officer, one YEP centre administrator and the education programme coordinator for the Norwegian Refugee Council. Findings from this study revealed that displaced persons face a high level of discrimination and ostracism from the host community arising from differences in culture and traditional beliefs. Jealousies also arise from the host community due to the somewhat elevated status of the resettled persons due to the assistance they receive from service providers which leads to feelings of inferiority in children and consequently affecting educational performance. The study also revealed that IDP children face a host of challenges from home ranging from economic to protection issues that may lead into them dropping out of school with no hope of ever recovering the lost time. The study highly recommends acknowledgement of the existence of IDPs such that they are afforded quick assistance within a legal framework for sustainability of livelihoods.


Global Positioning System is very critical for many applications. If it is out of service, there may be chaotic situations for the applications. For this reason, there should be other types of sources for location information. In this work, a blockchain is proposed for location information. Blockchain provides a resilient system, and it can also provide reliable location information. Reliability of location information is also supported by short-range communication. Short-range communication eliminates location information errors outside the communication range. Therefore, it helps to minimize location information errors. In the blockchain, there are special devices to provide location information. The proposed blockchain is a market for location trade with its own cryptocurrency, which is used mostly to incentivize the devices to share location information among themselves. Moreover, the proposed blockchain respect location privacy using encryption mechanism. Keywords—blockchain, location information, GPS, internet of things, cryptocurrency, short-range communication, location privacy


Adrenal crisis (AC) is an unexpected and possibly lethal situation of stressful interventions in patients with Addison's disease (AD). Despite being rare in dentistry, it is to be noted that evidence indicates that 5-8% of patients with AD necessitate emergency glucocorticoid administration to treat AC annually. For that, dentists must be aware of this condition and be prepared when the clinical signs and symptoms occur.


THE IDEA OF MICROLOCALIZATION A number of investigators of the mind and its diseases are now pursuing the study of the nervous system along lines roughly summed up in the term microlocalization. But this task must not be conceived narrowly as a task of the histoneurologist or the histoneuropathologist. Microlocalization in the nervous system and especially in the cerebral cortex has threads running to the broadest issues of physiology, embryology and psychology. Yet no one feels that psychologists, embryologists, physiologists, anatomists or even pathologists, in the narrower sense of the term, will solve the problems of microlocalization or even demarcate its problems for solution. When the idea of Flourens that the brain parts were mutually exchangeable in function like so many liver parts, was replaced with the ideas of topographic differentiation which we attach to the work of Hughlings Jackson and of Hitzig, it was as if the naked eye


REACTIONS to the idea of a machine that teaches vary from complete rejection to ecstatic enthusiasm. One purpose of this paper will be to present some information about the ground swell of activity that is currently developing in psychology, engineering, and education. A second purpose will be to summarize some preliminary findings generated by the beginning research studies so as to stimulate further inquiry especially as it might relate to problems in special education. This summary will indicate some specific problems that teaching machines might be employed to investigate in the education of the mentally retarded.


This paper deals with a program currently underway at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) to characterize source term aerosols produced from exposing spent fuel transport systems to extraordinary environments and to produce improved estimates of environmental and health consequences. The extreme environments of interest have been divided into two categories: those related to explosive attack and those related to extra-severe accidents. Efforts in this program to date have concentrated on the development of an experimental data base characterizing the release of radioactive material (i.e. source terms) resulting from explosive attacks on spent fuel casks. This experimental data base is the primary input to an analysis of the human health and economic consequences.


Objective To investigate the clinical effect of Vector system on the clinical treatment of moderate periodontitis.Methods 200 patients with moderate periodontitis were divided into two groups randomly:the experimental group(EG) and the control group(CG).Patients in EG were treated with Vector system and patients in CG were treated by supragingival and subgingival scaling with Gracey scalers.Before and after the treatments (15,45 and 90 d),probing depth (PD) and bleeding index (BI) were recorded.Results All periodontal parameters tested of both groups were improved obviously after treatment.Furthermore,PD of EG (15 d) were improved more significantly than that of CG (P0.05); but there was no significant difference between them,45 or 90 days after the treatment(P0.05).BI of EG (15,45 and 90 days) were improved more significantly than that of CG(P0.05).Conclusions Vector system had good clinical effect on the treatment of moderate periodontitis.


This chapter examines the lectures on international law that formed the core of Simon Vissering's five-course curriculum, building on prior consideration of the lectures on natural and constitutional law. It enables to complete portrayal of the experience of Nishi Amane and Tsuda Mamichi during their years of study in the Netherlands and provides an opportunity for further reflection on the significance of the reception of European international law for the history of political thought in modern Japan. After the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, and especially following the arrival of Perry and his squadron of warships, the situation changed dramatically. The opening of Japan was a political event that shook the very foundations of both traditional diplomacy and domestic rule; it was also a major event in intellectual history, an encounter between two inherently different civilizations. Keywords: European civilization; international law; Japan; Netherlands; Nishi Amane; Simon Vissering; Tsuda Mamichi


We study Doppler effects in curved space–time, i.e. the frequency shifts induced on electromagnetic signals propagating in the gravitational field. In particular, we focus on the frequency shift due to the bending of light rays in weak gravitational fields. We consider, using the PPN formalism, the gravitational field of an axially symmetric distribution of mass. The zeroth order, i.e. the sphere, is studied then passing to the contribution of the quadrupole moment, and finally to the case of a rotating source. We give numerical estimates for situations of physical interest, and by a very preliminary analysis, we argue that analyzing the Doppler effect could lead, in principle, in the foreseeable future, to the measurement of the quadrupole moment of the giant planets of the Solar System.


Summary. ‐ Arrhenius parameters and heat of reaction are determined for reversible SN2 reactions, involving alicyclic bromides: (Formula Presented.) . Lithium iodie and anhydrous acetone (as solvent) are used. The following bromides are studied: (Formula Presented.) . The interpretation of the relative values obtained for the activation energies in these halogen exchange reactions is done in terms of potential energy factors i. e. A for small ring compounds: conjugation effect, electrostatic effect, strain effect (I‐strain), resonance effect. B for common ring compounds: internal steric effect. Copyright © 1952 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim


Fifty enterococcus cultures were exposed to temperatures of 62.8 and 71.1 C for 30 min and 71.7 C for 15 sec in skimmilk containing approximately 10 million cells/mi. Streptococcus durans was most heat resistant, although no culture survived 71.1 C for 30 min. Additional milk solids and fat did not provide protection from destruction by heat. In skimmilk, at population levels of approximately 100/ml, the cultures survived heat treatments of 71.7, 76.7, and 82.2 C for 16 sec by 55.2, 46.4., and 32.5%, respectively. After pasteurization at 62.8 C for 30 min, only 8 of 426 commercial milk samples had detectable enterococci. These 8 samples contained from 1 to 30 enterococci/ml. When 55 of these more heat-resistant cultures were again laboratory pasteurized, 32 remained viable. Only 8 of these 32 cultures showed numerical increase when stored at 5 to 8 C for 7 days after laboratory pasteurization. Before enterococci can be used as indices of bacterial quality in dairy products, their presence or absence must ...


Paper sludge (PS) ash is a waste material collected from the paper industry, which containing calcium compound. In the previous research, several paper sludge ashes have been tried into coal fly ashes in order to suppress the leaching of trace elements such as As, Se, and B into the environment. The result showed that paper sludge ashes has potential effect in inhibit the leaching of these trace elements because of the calcium contains in the paper sludge ashes. Therefore, this research provide information about the amount of calcium in paper sludge ash as suppressing material. Nine kinds of paper sludge ashes tested into coal fly ash C (FA C) in order to know the ability of each paper sludge ash in suppressing the leaching of trace elements. Inductively coupled plasma (ICP-AES) used to determine the leaching concentration of As, Se, and B. Then, the kind of calcium in paper sludge ashes were analysed by X-ray diffraction (XRD). Thermal gravimetric analysis (TG) used to determinate Ca(OH)2 and CaCO3. The percentage of CaO in paper sludge ashes analysed by combination ethylene glycol, ICP-AES and TG. This research found the kind of PS which most influential for controlling leached out of trace elements.


Abstract Results are reported of the effects of different rates of lime and molybdenum on the yield and composition of white clover grown under glass-house conditions on a molybdenum-deficient strongly leached clay soil of low pH. Molybdenum alone at 1 oz/acre caused a rise in yield, which was greatly increased by lime, but amounts of molybdenum above 1 oz/acre produced no additional effect in the presence of lime, and no consistently significant yield increase in its absence. Lime alone at the 1 ton rate gave yield responses of the same order as molybdenum, and each successive increment of lime gave a further increase. At the 1 ton and 2 ton rates of lime molybdenum gave a further increase, but not at the 4 ton rate. Plant manganese levels ranged from 150-286 p.p.m. in the treatments without lime, but progressively decreased with each increment of lime. The level of manganese associated with adverse effects on growth not corrected by molybdenum was in excess of 100 p.p.m., and this was independent of the...


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Millennial men, the headlines tell us, prefer stay-at-home wives. And their female counterparts, to a lesser extent, agree. How can this be?


The authors, according to their preliminary experience with laparoscopic lymphadenectomy and Mini-lap performed for the staging of 15 patients with prostatic carcinoma, have compared the morbidity, the diagnostic accuracy rate and costs of these two techniques, referring critically to international literature and evaluating the real efficacy of a delayed laparoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomy prior to radical prostatectomy. Moreover they have tested the general applicability of the equation by Roach et al., which was empirically derived from a nomogram reported by Partin et al., to predict the risk of lymph node metastasis, applying it to a selected group of patients who underwent radical prostatectomy from 1992 to 1994 in order to maximize the utility of lymphadenectomy for prostatic cancer staging.


'Steroid hormones are essential for the growth, differentiation and function of many tissues in both animaIs and humans. It has been established by animal experimentation that modification of the hormonal environment by surgical removal of endocrine glands, by pregnancy or by exogenous administration of steroids can increase or decrease the spontaneous occurrence of tumours or the induction of tumours by applied carcinogenic agents.... The incidence of tumours in humans could be altered by exposure to various exogenous hormones, singly or in combination. '


This review considers the case for using artificial photosynthesis to make solar fuels. The conceptual framework on which this idea is based is described. Photosynthesis is broken down into four partial reactions. Each one is described and progress in mimicking each of these is discussed. Finally, the current major barriers to achieving working systems based on artificial photosynthesis capable of making solar fuels are highlighted


Text-based person retrieval is a challenging task that aims to search pedestrian images with the same identity according to language descriptions. Current methods usually indiscriminately measure the similarity between text and image by matching global visual-textual features and matched local region-word features. However, these methods underestimate the key cue role of mismatched region-word pairs and ignore the problem of low similarity between matched region-word pairs. To alleviate these issues, we propose a novel Pedestrian-specific Bipartite-aware Similarity Learning (PBSL) framework that efficiently reveals the plausible and credible levels of contribution of pedestrian-specific mismatched and matched region-word pairs towards overall similarity. Specifically, to focus on mismatched region-word pairs, we first develop a new co-interactive attention that utilizes cross-modal information to guide the extraction of pedestrian-specific information in a single modality. We then design a negative similarity regularization mechanism to use the negative similarity score as a bias to correct the overall similarity. Additionally, to enhance the contribution of matched region-word pairs, we introduce graph networks to aggregate and propagate local information of pedestrian-specific, using overall visual-textual similarity to evaluate locally matched region-word pairs for weight refinement. Finally, extensive experiments are conducted on the CUHK-PEDES, ICFG-PEDES, and RSTPReid datasets to demonstrate the competitive performance of the proposed PBSL in the text-based person retrieval task.


We report three children with clinical features of pityriasis lichenoides (scaly red to brown papules and macules) in whom there were histopathological findings of mycosis fungoides (disproportionate epidermotropism, Pautrier's microabscesses, and wiry and coarse collagen bundles). Immunohistochemical staining revealed a prevalence of T lymphocytes in the infiltrate. T‐cell receptor gene rearrangement analysis in lesional skin demonstrated rearrangement of the gamma chain in all cases. Human T‐cell lymphotropic virus type 1 serology was negative in the two patients in whom this test was performed. Thus, lesions resembling pityriasis lichenoides can be an unusual and potentially misleading presentation of mycosis fungoides.


This paper proposes an algorithm to obtain the global walking direction despite magnetic field interferences indoor. This algorithm can be applied to the phone's compass. If the user is walking in the opposite direction of the phone's compass (North). The user's global walking direction would be "South". The phone's compass equipped a magnetometer collects data. This algorithm treats these data as signals and eliminates some high frequency components by passing them through a low pass filter. This algorithm opportunistically selects three consecutive vectors which are not parallel. Then it decomposes the three vectors into two directions. One is the earth's magnetic field vector. The other is the interference vector. It subtracts the earth's magnetic field vector from the compass reading vector and offers the interference vector. Then this algorithm calculates the coordinates of the pairwise intersections of the three interference vectors. Experiments show that the right geomagnetic north vector makes the locus of intersection points forms likes an oval or a closed loop. The accuracy of this algorithm is higher than the traditional compass. The global walking direction can be outputted by comparing the walking direction against this geomagnetic north vector.


In derivational word have meaning adding affixes, there are three kinds of affixes. Includes of suffix, prefix and infix to word in this research the writer want to know the third semester students at FKIP UIR capability in changing the derivational word. This research is descriptive quantitative there are one variable in this research. The location of this research was in English department of FKIP UIR and the writer took the data on November 20011 there are seven clases in third semester that consist of 317 student as population and the sample of this research was 47 students in 3c class. There is one instrument in this research, it is test and this test was given consist of three test. It was used to know students ability in changing the derivational word. From the data analysis, it can be seen for the first test there are 89,36% students feel difficult in changing infix 87,23% students feel difficult in changing suffix and 0% in changing prefix, after that from the second test there are 100% students feel difficult in changing infix, 80,85% students feel difficult in changing suffix and 21,27% students feel difficult in changing prefix and the last test there are 95,74% students feel difficult in changing infix, 87,23% students feel difficult in changing suffix and 68,08% students feel difficult in changing prefix, so it can be concluded the students more difficult in changing derivational word into infix. It can be seen from the explanation above from three times taken the data.


As the Central Bank of Chile completes a quarter of a century of constitutional autonomy, Vittorio Corbo, a former president of this institution, recalls the achievements of the Central Bank and the stability that it has created. He proposes two new independent agencies: a renovated Statistics Bureau and a Productivity Commission.


Indian banking today is witnessing drastic changes. The liberalization of the financial sector and banking sector reforms have exposed the Indian banks to a new economic environment that is characterized by increased competition and new regulatory requirements. As a result, there is a transformation in every sphere of activities of the banks in India, especially in Governance, nature of business, style of functioning and delivery mechanisms. But as we know that banks are the mirror of an economy. So better functioning of banking sector may lead to the overall improvement of the economy. In fact, banks act as a link between those who want to save and those who want to invest. So improvement in the productivity of the banking sector is very much needed. This paper presents the study on productivity by analyzing the various data and banking sector reforms and identifies improvement in productivity in Indian banking sector.


Preparation of Ti doped Nb 2O 5 thin films on Al 2O 3 substrate by ion beam assisted deposition has been reported in this paper. The dependence of the oxygen sensitivity and structure of the film on its composition and annealing temperature has been examined. The resistance oxygen partial pressure measurement shows that the oxygen sensitive characteristic of the pure Nb 2O 5 film is better than that of the pure TiO 2 film. A proper Ti doping in Nb 2O 5 film will improve its oxygen sensitivity and 5mol % Ti is optimal. An excessive Ti doping will degrade the oxygen sensitive characteristic markedly. A trace of Pt (0.3 % 0.5 %) added to 5mol % TiO 2 Nb 2O 5 film will not only increase its oxygen sensitivity but also reduce its response time. X ray diffraction (XRD) spectrum and X ray photoelectron spectrum (XPS) indicate that niobium oxide in TiO 2 Nb 2O 5 film is polycrystalline with monoclinic form while TiO 2 is in amorphous state and no change even for the composition up to 34mol % TiO 2. The pure TiO 2 film exists in the form of rutile structure. No obvious influence of different annealing temperatures (900 1100 0C) on the film oxygen sensitivity and structure can be observed.


Study Objectives. To describe the clinical management of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) in patients receiving intravenous treatment with dobutamine, milrinone, or nesiritide, and to evaluate differences, based on treatment received, in the in‐hospital mortality rate, length of stay (LOS), total health care costs, and 30‐day hospital readmission rate.


A biography of Nelson Mandela, a key figure in world politics today. Told through unique letters and reminiscences from Mandela and his relatives, the author provides a perspective to the man behind the mask.


The authors have reported previously that Pb exposure in rats resulted in reduced levels of Cu in blood and a reduction in the activities of the Cu dependent enzymes ceruloplasmin in serum and superoxide dismutase (CuSOD) in erythrocytes. They have now determined the effect of Pb in rats on levels of Cu in tissue and on the activities of CuSOD and MnSOD (Mn dependent SOD). Groups of 24-26 day old rats were fed a nutritionally adequate purified diet and given lead acetate in the drinking water for five weeks. At the end of the experimental period, blood and excised tissue were wet ashed with concentrated HNO/sub 3/ and subsequently analyzed by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. SOD activity was assayed by the increase in the rate of the riboflavin sensitized photo-oxidation and o-dianisidine in the absence and presence of cyanide (CN/sup -/). Lead exposure resulted in decreased Cu content of tissue with a concomitant reduction in CuSOD (CN/sup -/ sensitive) activity in liver, kidney and heart. Total SOD activity (CuSOD and MnSOD) was reduced in liver, but not in heart and kidney. In heart and kidney, the reduction in CuSOD appears to be compensated by an increase in MnSOD. The induction ofmore » MnSOD activity may be the result of an increase in superoxide anion concentration owing to an increased production or a decreased rate of removal of superoxide radical anions (O/sub 2//sup -/).« less


Bluff-body stabilized turbulent premixed flames represent a challenging canonical configuration for computational simulation and validation. Past simulation results from many research groups on the...


In an attempt to overcome the low efficiency problem of model identification using wavelet transform,a rapid modal identification algorithm using wavelet based on data reduction is introduced.In the case of maintaining data signals the covariance signals are reduced by using singular value decomposition so as to diminish the amount of data which is involved in the analysis.The orders and the corresponding frequency range by singular value decomposition of the postive power spectrum matrix are determined,and then the modal parameters of each mode can be got by the continuous wavelet transform of the reduced signals according to the corresponding frequency range.Compared to the original algorithm,the method not only reduces the amount of data but also avoid some wavelet transform for useless frequency band.A numerical example on the parameter estimation of a linear time-invariant system of 3 degrees of freedom and one experimental example on the parameter estimation of a bridge model are presented to demonstrate that the method dramatically improves the compution efficiency in the case of maintaining identification accuracy.


During the structure development phase of radar,designers or simulation engineers often have to do much simulation work,according to different requirements,such as stress simulation,thermal design,flow field simulation,modal analysis,vibration characteristics,fatigue life prediction,etc.A collaborative simulation environment is proposed to manage the existing simulation softwares,data,flow chart and personnel.The connotations and detailed requirements on functions of the environment are described.According to the simulation technology capabilities at present,the basic functions of collaborative simulation environment to be built are indicated.A feasible implementation concept and a collaborative simulation process of a typical product are suggested.Finally,a method to manage simulation model maturity by the collaborative environment is given.


A drought screening experiment focusing on intrinsic water use efficiency (WUEi) was carried out among 132 clones belonging to a dihaploid potato mapping population. The clones were exposed to progressive soil drying during a five-day period in a greenhouse pot experiment. Analysis of the underlying variables was done based on a multivariate data analysis strategy. The strategy successfully divided the clones into WUEi performance categories. Differences between clonal WUEi responses were traced back to differences in the net photosynthetic rate. Stomatal conductance (gs) did not vary significantly between the clones. Leaf abscisic acid (ABA) concentration and leaf water potential were found to reflect known isohydric behaviour for potato, and a non-linear relationship could be established for gs and leaf ABA concentration across the WUEi groups. Similarly, a common non-linear relationship between leaf ABA concentration and soil water potential was found. The latter findings suggest that the investigated population did not harbour significant genetic variation as to ABA production as function of soil desiccation level or with respect to the sensitivity of stomatal aperture vis-à-vis leaf ABA concentration and soil water potential.


To improve the appreciation of literature's ability to take a long time accumulation.Enable students to master the author's information,articles and articles on the background of the genre;help students enhance the sense of language and sensibility of the article;to encourage students to extracurricular reading,a little more than the accumulation of extra-curricular knowledge,language students and the accumulation of sensibility literary knowledge;in addition,we improve their sensibility and ability to comprehend.


The Eagle Peak pluton is zoned with an equigranular granodiorite margin and porphyritic granitic core; in contrast, the nearby, and coeval Red Lake granodiorite pluton is relatively unzoned. Major element abundance variations in both plutons can be explained by segregation of the early phases, plagioclase and hornblende. However, the preferential decrease of heavy rare-earth elements (HREE) from margin to core in the Eagle Peak pluton cannot be explained by fractional crystallization of a melt composition similar to the marginal rocks. The HREE decrease is best explained by segregation of hornblende from a mixture of melt and minerals equivalent in composition to the marginal rocks. Both plutons contain aplites that crystallized from highly evolved melts formed by segregation of mafic minerals, feldspars, and an accessory phase rich in light REE. Mafic inclusions are related to their host granitoids, and they may be remnants of restite or early accumulates. The small negative Eu anomalies in both plutons are consistent with significant amounts of residual hornblende and plagioclase. Geochemical differences between these plutons mimic those between the sodic and main series plutons in the Boulder batholith; e.g., the Eagle Peak pluton and the adjacent older Mount Givens pluton have lower Na/K, higher Rb, Ta, Th, and U contents but lower Sr and Ba contents than the Red Lake pluton. These differences are not easily explained by models relating these magmas to a common source. However, depletions in K, Rb, Cs, Th and U relative to Sr and Ba are common in high-grade metamorphic rocks. Therefore, these inter-pluton compositional differences may reflect differences in source composition developed in the lower crust during earlier magmatism and metamorphism. The compositional heterogeneity inferred for the source in this localized region is a significant fraction of the source heterogeneity inferred from transects across the Sierra Nevada batholith.


Wang Wei' s poetry Wangchuan Anthology describes natural scenery of hills and streams with skillful and meaningful sketches and bears the feature of being short,pithy and picturesque.This feature has been gradually formed into a literary style called Wangchuan,and then there appear a great amount of poems extolling natural beauty.Unlike other followers of Wangchuan style,Su Shi of Song Dynasty innovates a unique way of poetic writing.He accomplishes a collection of poems Qixia Poetry,which embodies a new deviation from Wangchuan Anthology.The new deviation derives from Wang Wei' s and Su Shi' s different artistic tastes and personal experiences.


Conventional static networks have begun to be replaced with dynamic systems that are programmable. Software-Defined Network (SDN) is one example of the development of dynamic networks that are programmable with a new paradigm to provide convenience to users in designing, building, and managing computer networks. A software-defined network provides a centralized network distribution to facilitate network services to be more efficient. In SDN, the controller holds control of the control plane of the device while the data plane is distributed through the OpenFlow Switch. A centralized control plane on the controller can cause overhead when the number of users increasing in the network. Overhead on the controller results in service interruptions or even the controller fails to provide services on the net. The availability of a controller is essential to guarantee the availability of network services. High availability on the controller is achieved through the cluster controller. This paper discusses the performance of networks that implement high availability solutions on SDN. As a comparison in the experiment comparing the performance of using a cluster-controller with a multi-controller. The results are based on QoS parameters, and the average CPU load performance of the cluster controller is better than using a multi-controller.


BACKGROUND
By introducing telemedicine, we would like to provide support for a new organization ofthe Slovenian transfusion service to ensure a uniform quality of services throughout thecountry. We would like to increase safety and to enable professional consultations by meansof modern technology during periods when no transfusion medicine specialist is present atthe transfusion departments.
METHODS
A system that enables teleconsultations between individual transfusion institutionsrequires a safe and coded network, equipment for the capturing and processing ofmultimedia data, a videoconferencing system, and links to individual professionalenvironments. An apparatus (Gelscope) has been developed to capture and processdigitized images of laboratory data obtained by testing according to the gel method.Teleconsultations are performed as special scenarios which essentially includes questionspassed by the on-duty doctor and qualified replies of the transfusion medicine specialistthat are sent from the consultation center.
RESULTS
An effective transfusion service requires the provision of uninterrupted on-duty coverage(24 hours/7 days) for each transfusion institution. Through the use of a teleconsultationsystem, it is possible to reduce the number of on-duty transfusion specialists from 11 to only2. Furthermore, the system ensures a uniform quality of transfusion services over theentire country. Validation of the pilot system has been completed and its results have shownthat a transfusion's services provided on a remote basis are equivalent in quality.
CONCLUSIONS
The teleconsultation system enables professional consultations via the use of modern technology. The implementation of this system will be continued and expanded from the current 4 system in use to 11 throughout Slovenia. The computer application is modular and itshould also be suitable for use in other areas of medicine, such as emergency medicine, etc


Fracture toughness of Al-Cu-Cr quasicrystalline materials was evaluated by testing the Al-Cu-Cr icosahedral quasicrystalline particles and decagonal quasicrystalline particles in the Al-Cu-Cr qusicrystals/Al composites synthesized by hot-pressing and heat-treated using Vickers microindentation technique.The results show that fracture toughness of Al-Cu-Cr icosahedral quasicrystals in the hot-pressed composites was evaluated to be about 0.82 MPa·m~(1/2) which is little lower than that of Al-Cu-Cr decagonal quasicrystals in the annealed composites,about 1.07 MPa·m~(1/2).No obvious change of fracture toughness of AlCu-Cr decagonal quasicrystals in the quenched and annealed composites was found.


A method of operating a vehicle system (14) for monitoring an only under surveillance having a driving driver in a motor vehicle, taking into account the environment of the motor vehicle described (13) environment data and the operating condition of one's own motor vehicle (13) descriptive Egodaten least one of a reference trajectory (18, 19, 20) associated, current vehicle guidance reference information that is consistent with at least one behavior criterion to be monitored driver, is determined, which is compared with a determined from sensor data and / or operating data related to the driver behavior information for determining a deviation information wherein the error information and / or the time course thereof against at least one of an action associated measures criterion is checked and the measure is performed upon satisfaction of the criterion measures.


An efficient beamline for synchrotron radiation (SR) lithography has been built for the synchrotron radiation facility at NTT's Atsugi R & D Center. The relationship between the reflectivity and the surface roughness of the platinum-coated X-ray mirror, one of the key components of the beamline, is measured. The results confirm that it is necessary for the grazing angle of the mirror to be smaller than 2°. A beamline consisting of two X-ray mirror optics and two X-ray windows is proposed for exposure in an atmospheric environment. The optimum mirror optics for converging and collimating the X-ray beam are investigated using a ray-tracing technique, and their feasibility is experimentally confirmed.


A New qPCR Assay to Detect Geosmin-Producing Cyanobacteria Shane Brian Davis Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, BYU Master of Science Taste-and-odor (T&O) compounds are frequently produced by cyanobacterial blooms in bodies of water. Geosmin, perhaps the most common T&O compound produced by these blooms, is not effectively removed by conventional water treatment processes and frequently causes the tap water to have an off flavor. Although geosmin is not harmful when ingested, it damages the consumers' confidence in the cleanliness of their water. There are treatment options for geosmin removal, but the most common methods are often not implemented until complaints are made by consumers. There has been an increasing amount of research on the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methods that can detect the presence of the geosmin synthase gene which is responsible for the production of geosmin. If the geosmin synthase gene is found to be present in an emerging cyanobacterial bloom, water treatment facilities can prepare in advance to treat for geosmin. In this study, we developed a qPCR (quantitative polymerase chain reaction) assay that can detect the presence of the geosmin synthase gene in several species of cyanobacteria within the Anabaena genus. We tested our assay, as well as PCR assays designed by Giglio et al. (2008) and Suurnäkki et al. (2015) on extracted Anabaena flos-aquae DNA, biosynthesized Anabaena ucrainica DNA and DNA extracted from environmental samples of Deer Creek Reservoir, Strawberry Reservoir, and Utah Lake. It is important to note that the geosmin gene was not confirmed to be present in any of the environmental samples nor in the Anabaena flos-aquae DNA and our assay did not test positive on these samples. Our qPCR assay was very successful when used with the biosynthesized Anabaena ucrainica DNA. We used the results to estimate a DNA standard curve that can be used to estimate the starting concentration of the geosmin synthase gene. Because our assay was not successfully used with any extracted DNA, further testing and calibration may be necessary to produce a DNA standard curve that is representative of DNA that is extracted. Further calibration of the DNA standard curve was not done because there were no geosmin events during the course of the research. Development of PCR-based methods of detecting geosmin-producing cyanobacteria requires genetic sequencing information of the target-organisms. Thus, further development of PCR-based methods requires that the local geosmin-producers be identified and sequenced. Our assay as well as the assay designed by Moore (2019) can assist with the identification of these species by classifying their genus.


In urban areas, it has been long a challenge topic to automatically extract urban objects from images due to the high object density and scene complexity. Applying normal image processing methods could not achieve satisfied performance, especially for high-resolution satellite images. This paper presents a snake-based approach for building extraction from high-resolution IKONOS satellite images by combining height data. Multiple cues derived from both data sources are integrated into our snake model to precisely control the movement of contours so that the boundary of buildings can be located with good accuracy and efficiency. Some experiment results are presented as well in this paper.


Two-photon absorption (TPA) spectra were measured on a dimethyl sulfoxide solution of [M(dpphen)3](ClO4)2 (dpphen: 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline; M = Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Ru). The TPA cross s...


A method and system for inhibiting fouling in hydrocarbon refining processes, the steps of measuring the particle level in the process stream of a hydrocarbon refining process in communication with the hydrocarbon refinery components, in the process stream method comprising the steps of: identifying an additive capable of reducing effective amount of a particulate-induced fouling based at least in part, and a step of introducing an effective amount of the additive to the hydrocarbon refining process in the measured particulate level and systems. .The 1-C


The Permanent Structured Cooperation in Defence (PESCO) and the European Defence Fund (EDF) constitute another attempt to consolidate the European defence market. In this article, we explain the different engagements of Czechia and Portugal in the two initiatives until 2021 through the evolution and reform of the domestic institutions governing their defence industrial policies. We trace how the institutions were established, how they contributed to the national position on PESCO and EDF and how the two countries' defence industries became involved. The article shows how the different institutionalisation of the defence sector allowed Portugal and its companies to participate more than their Czech counterparts. We contribute to historical institutionalist scholarship by evidencing the critical role of ideas in promoting and preventing policy change. We also offer an insight into the practice of European defence co‐operation and identify processes that challenge further integration.


The utility model provides a positive pressure back suction bag-type dust remover, comprising a body, filter bags, a fan with particulates, an air distribution reducer pipe, a dust hopper and a dust conveying pipe. Each filter chamber above the body is internally equipped with a plurality of filter bags, a funnel is arranged above the filter bags, the dust hopper is arranged below the filter chambers, the lower end of the dust hopper is equipped with a dust removing device connected with the dust conveying pipe, the air distribution reducer pipe is communicated with the dust hopper via an air inlet valve, the air distribution reducer pipe is connected with an outlet of the fan with particulates, the air distribution reducer pipe is connected with a reverse air absorbing pipe through a bifurcated pipe and a reverse air absorbing valve, and the reverse air absorbing pipe is directly connected with an inlet of the fan with particulates. A secondary dust hopper which is internally equipped with a material level instrument is arranged between the dust hopper and the dust conveying pipe, and the lower end of the secondary dust hopper is connected with the dust conveying pipe via a gate valve. The bag type dust remover is reasonable in structure, easy in production, complete in removing dust, low in operating cost and fine in air locking effect, avoids secondary absorption and secondary dust blowing, reduces running resistance, and is particularly adaptable to collecting dust which is superfine and has low proportion.


Based on the fluidizing characteristics of cohesive powders, such as the formation of agglomerates with wide size distribution during fluidization, and partial defluidization due to disposition of large agglomerates, a novel design of CFB dipleg, the conical dipleg, was put forward for fluidizing ultrafine and cohesive powders. The conical dipleg consists of a conical dipleg and a V-valve with aeration of gas. Experiments on the conical dipleg showed that it can prevent the fluidized dipleg from disposition and defluidization of large agglomerates at the bottom of the bed and elutriation of smaller agglomerates at the top of the bed by providing variational superficial fluidizing gas velocity. The experiments also showed that the aeration gas is essential for V-valve to feed highly cohesive powders into riser smoothly. With the aid of the conical dipleg, stable circulation of highly cohesive ultrafine CaCO3 powder was achieved. Pictures taken from the inside of riser show that the ultrafine CaCO3 powders in the fluidized riser are in agglomerate form in spite of the high fluidizing gas velocity. The size of agglomerates is much smaller than that in conventional fluidized beds, and it has no significant variation along the riser height. Experiments also showed that the axial solids concentration in the riser is of S-shape distribution; and the lateral solids concentration displays a core-annulus structure. These phenomena are typical features of fast fluidization.


Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), an endogenous vasodilator, is produced by two enzymes; cystathionine γ‐lyase (CSE) and cystathionine β‐synthase (CBS). In this study, the effects of chronic inhibition of CSE by DL‐propargylglycine (37.5 mg/kg/day; ip) and CBS by aminoxyacetic acid (8.8 mg/kg/day; ip) given either alone or in combination for 4 weeks on systemic blood pressure (SBP) and renal function were examined in rats (n=6 in each group). Prior to the start and then every 7th day during treatment period, SBP was measured by tail‐cuff method and 24 hr urine collections were made using metabolic cages. Urinary excretion rate of sulfate (USV; marker for endogenous H2S level) was determined by a colorimetric assay. At the end of treatment period, rats were subjected to acute experiments under anesthesia for determination of renal blood flow (RBF; Transonic flow‐probe) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR; inulin clearance). Compared to vehicle treated group, only the combined therapy group showed a decrease in USV (553±71 vs 248±50 nmol/24hr) and an increase in mean SBP (107±3 vs 130±2 mmHg) with its consequent increase in sodium excretion (4±1 vs 13±3 mmol/24hr). This group with combined therapy also showed a decrease in RBF (7±0.4 vs 4±0.3 mL/min/g) but not appreciably in GFR (1.0±0.1 vs 0.9±0.03 mL/min/g). These data suggest that a decrease in endogenous H2S production exerts direct vascular effect leading to an increase in SBP.


Requirement engineering has become an essential part as it deals with the process of definition,documentation and maintenance of requirements for software product. Requirement Engineeringstandards like IEEE/ISO/IEC has defined a standardized approach for Requirement Engineeringprocess in developing software solutions. In Pakistan a great range of software houses does notfollows any standardized approach to build software solutions. This research is aiming to help thosegraduating students and others who are not clear about the actual implementation of RequirementEngineering process in the industry. Interviews with Project Leads have been carried out to inquireabout the Requirement Engineering standards and process implementation at 'NorthBay Solutions'Lahore. Results deduced from this will help students and researchers to get familiar withimplemented solutions of requirement engineering process.


The narrow sense of cytoskeleton is the cytoplasm cytoskeleton which play an important role in maintaining life activities of cells.It's assembly and depolymerization are affected by pH value,temperature,concentration of calcium ions and so on.In this experiment,coomassie brilliant blue staining was used to preliminarily invest the influence extent of pH value and temperature on cytoskeleton.Results showed that improper pH value and temperature could induce cytoskeleton depolymerization which displayed cloudiness and bubble cavitation to different degree,and that cloudiness mainly existed in group treated with different pH value while bubble cavitation often appeared in group treated with different temperature.


We demonstrate the arbitrary synthesis of THz waveforms based on integrated optical rectification in thin-film lithium niobate. The arrangement of THz antennas in logic circuits enables spectral and temporal control of the generated electric farfield.


System designers face large challenges in the storage hierarchy when putting new optimizations into practice. We consider a recent storage cache optimization, designed to reduce cache requirements and boost I/O performance, which adapts to individual program behavior. This scheme leverages a quantum-based design, and we observe that the choice of time quanta has a significant effect on performance and overheads. Accordingly, intelligent designs must judiciously select re-optimization points. We therefore develop new phase detection schemes that identify valued re-optimization points through interaction models between applications and this caching technique. We evaluate online and offline variants in the context of enterprise I/O workloads and observe hit-rate gains over 20% for a range of cache sizes.


The title compounds are screened for their antimalarial activities against both chloroquine-sensitive (3D7) and chloroquine-resistant (K1) strains of Plasmodium falciparum and for their cytotoxicity against VERO cell lines.