Mulch layer also assists filtration of pollutants mainly larger sediment particles in bioretention. The objective is to evaluate the efficiency of bioretention facilities in removing nitrogen and phosphorus by varying the types of mulch layers through sand column. 200 mm filter media cells consisted of river sand with composited fine and coarse sand. Three types of mulch layer wood chip, tea waste and coconut husk were applied at the top of the sand layer at 50 mm depth. Runoff was monitored and analyzed to measure nutrient concentration within six hours. Woodchip showed the highest capability in removing phosphorus by 60.3% as compared to tea wastes and coconut husk. Lower removal efficiency was seen for nitrogen for all mulch materials. Tea waste provides additional nitrogen in effluent concentration. Coconut husk has a potential to be applied as mulch materials based on its capability even wood chip was seen to be favorably materials.


A 73-year-old female underwent an arteriovenous shunt and received general anesthesia. Desaturation and undetectable blood pressure suddenly developed 10 min after construction of an end-to-side anastomosis of a polytetrafluoroethylene graft between the left subclavian artery and the vein. Physical examinations revealed basal rales in both lungs and jugular venous distension. An iatrogenic left-to-right shunt induced acute pulmonary congestion was highly suspected. Access banding of the anastomosis from the artery to the polytetrafluoroethylene graft was immediately performed. The symptoms improved soon thereafter and postoperative intensive care was advised. The patient was discharged one week later without any other complications.


We describe and illustrate three new species from Central America and northern South America, present descriptions for previously unknown males and queens, and explore the internal phylogeny of Oxytrigona. Oxytrigona chocoana sp. nov., the sister species of O. daemoniaca, is from the Choco biogeographic region; O. huaoranii sp. nov., and O. isthmina sp. nov., from the Eastern Andes of Ecuador and Darien (Panama), are much smaller than their sister species, O. mellicolor. Oxytrigona huaoranii exhibits unusual characters including a short fore femur with carinate inferior margin, and  striated basal propodeum. The male of O. isthmina primarily differs from O. mellicolor in having genitalia with an apically enlarged and strongly bent gonostylus. We also described the males of O. daemoniaca and O. mediorufa, and the male and queen of O. mellicolor. The taxonomic status O. mediorufa is revised; as here understood, this species is distributed only from Mexico to El Salvador. We obtained a single tree for Oxytrigona in a cladistic analysis of 18 morphological and five body coloration characters, which did not support the monophyly of the mulfordi and tataira groups. We also found variation in the gradular and distal margin shapes of the worker sixth sternum, which were useful in the taxonomic analysis. Such characters have not yet been used in the systematics of Meliponini, and we hope to draw more attention to and encourage future phylogenetic studies using these characters. We also present an identification key for the species.


This paper focuses on recognition of prior learning as part of a national policy based on European Union guidelines for lifelong learning, and it explains how recognition of prior learning has been perceived since it was implemented in Portugal in 2000. Data discussed are the result of a mixed method research project that surveyed adult learners, some of whom were interviewed, who successfully completed the recognition of prior learning process from 2007 to 2011 in a new opportunities centre. Adult educators, and workplace representatives from the companies in which these adults in the recognition of prior learning process were working, were also part of the survey. A theme-based content analysis was done on the resulting data. Findings revealed tension between the goals of economic and human resource management and the change experienced by these adult learners in their professional status. Based on these results, the closing remarks to this article highlight the tensions caused by the failure of the goals of the policy to which recognition of prior learning was central, and the personal and social changes referred to by learners. Important educational changes were achieved although they were undermined by the adult education policy and European Union guidelines.


The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication
Standardization Sector (ITU-T) has extended its Recommendations G.709
to edition 5 to support beyond 100G (B100G) features. Corresponding
signaling extensions have been described in this document.


The paper deals with the design, simulation and verification of single input single output (SISO) discrete self-tuning controllers (STC) with respect to their application in the decentralized control of multi input multi output (MIMO) symmetric systems. The proposed controllers can be divided into two parts. The first part covers PID adaptive algorithms based on the traditional Ziegler-Nichols method for setting of the controller parameters; and the second part of the described controllers uses the pole placement design. The controllers are implemented in the Matlab STC Toolbox using Matlab Simulink block library taking advantage of the completely open system based on SIMULINK features. The contribution also includes practical results obtained from the process of adaptive control of two-input two-output linear systems.


Suppose that is a thin conducting plate whose top side is not accessible and
stays in contact with an aggressive environment. In this context, possible damages on the top
side of are produced with no chances of direct fast detection. Anyhow, we are able to
control a periodical heat flux and to collect a sequence of temperature maps working on the
bottom side (accessible). In this paper we test a stable numerical algorithm for detecting and
 evaluating such damages on the inaccessible side of . Our algorithm is based on the
 regularized solution of a family of inverse problems for Helmoltz equation.

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This paper introduces the composition structure and characteristics of the hydraulic excavator, analyzes the different conditions of excavators, conducts stress analysis and detailed calculations of swing arm which is a key component of excavator under various conditions, and carries out modeling and finite element analysis by ABAQUS software to provide a theoretical basis for the design and improvement of excavator swing arm.


THIS bibliography has been prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America: William D. Templeman, chairman, University of Illinois; Charles Frederick Harrold, Michigan State Normal College; Frederic E. Faverty, Northwestern University; Charles W. Thomas, University of Wisconsin. It attempts to list the noteworthy publications of 1936 (including reviews of earlier items) which have a bearing on English literature of the Victorian period. Unless otherwise stated, the date of publication is 1936. Reference to a page in the bibliography for 1935, in Modern philology, May, 1936, is made by the following form: See VB 1935, 407. Some cross-references are given, although not all that are possible.


Native American literature tended to assimilate to mainstream culture at its early stage of development. However, recent Native American literature demonstrates strong ethnic Indian consciousness. This paper explores how to redescover Indian Identity and return to Indianness by maintaining Indian tradition and Indian concept of value.


Patients are more satisfied with their doctors' use of technology when doctors took the time to explain what they were doing with it.


A new universal method of efficient, low temperature, convective drying has been developed, which allows drying seed, ground mass of grain, leguminous, fodder and industrial crops, as well as flax straw, flax and wood sawn to obtain finished products of high quality and reduce energy consumption for moisture removal. Fuller realization of the advantages of the new method required the development of a new dryer. The process of drying material is carried out in a motionless layer. The uniformity of drying on the area of the drying chamber is provided with a wedge form of channels for supply of the drying agent, which expense on the entrance is regulated at louver valves and also at each channel an air distributing grid with adjustable coefficient of equipotential section. The uniformity of drying on the height of a layer of material is provided with reversal of the direction of the movement of the drying agent in the middle of the drying process. Automation of the process of drying is based on constant control of the mass of material in the drying chamber. Tests of the dryer are carried out under production conditions. Drying was conducted in the new way of seed heap of grain crops and chopped grass mass of clover. The results showed that the commercially available drier energy consumption for the drying process is higher than 30 %. The actual heat consumption for removal of one kilogram of moisture from wheat grain with an initial moisture content of 24.7 % to a moisture content of 13.5 % was 3.5 MJ. The seeds of cereal crops, which are dried in the new method after cleaning and sorting, had viability, energy of germination and seedling up to 98 %.


During the past 5 years (1992 - 1997) the Department of Radiology of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center has developed an active teleradiology program. Contracts are in place to provide both routine and emergency image interpretations 24 hours per day, every day of the year. Several rural hospitals are served as well as the Navajo Indian Health Service. Areas of success: include significantly improved radiologic service to the rural sites, specialty consultations to general radiologists, successful teaching of teleradiology practice to radiology residents and staff, good diagnostic quality images, a small but real profit, improved quality assurance for the rural sites, and no significant medical-legal problems. Failures include: significant telecommunications problems, lack of acceptance and utilization by some of the rural sites, poor QA compliance by some sites, a long period of disappointing technical support by equipment vendors, and slow acceptance of DICOM by equipment manufacturers. The successes outweigh the failures. We would do it again -- but somewhat differently. We offer advice to institutions developing a new rural teleradiology operation.


Trapezoidal roadways in large inclination coal seams show asymmetrical tectonic characteristics, while there is still a lack of theoretical results on stress, deformation, and efficient and effective supporting methods on high walls. In this paper, based on the geological characteristics of a large, inclined coal seam roadway, a mechanical model for stress–deformation analysis of trapezoidal section roadway was established. Complex analysis and a comfort map were employed to investigate the stress and deformation distribution on the roadway surface, and a novel yielding prop with high load capacity and constant working resistance was employed to support a high wall side based on analytical results. The results are as follows: (1) The deformation of the high wall is larger than that of the low wall, and the deformation of the roof is larger than that of the floor. The overall deformation of the surrounding rock shows that the rib closure is larger than the roof-to-floor closure. (2) The stress of the surrounding rock shows that both horizontal and vertical stresses are highest in the upper corner, indicating that the broken zone is most likely to occur at this location. (3) A new support employed with a high-yielding prop and a high-strength cable in a large, inclined angle roadway is proposed. On-site experiments were conducted in a large 5-1081 roadway of a coal mine in Shanxi, China. Under the influence of mining disturbance, the deformations at the top corner decreased by 40% compared with before. The test results show that the new support scheme can effectively control the development of roadway deformation and damage during the mining process. The new support also shows friendly environmental support and fast installation.


There remains a tendency to follow the traditional philosophy that physical principles are to be illustrated experimentally rather than applied in problem solving, often with complex apparatus that distracts students from the point of the experiment.


Big data has become a potential research area in apparel industry due to vast amount of data generated in a short period of time. However, the inability to adapt to the challenging and digital environment has pulled out the weaker from the industry while growing the adopters more and more powerful players. As the insights generated out of data becoming core competitive advantages, now it is pertinent to identify which factors would affect the intention to adopt big data analytics in an apparel sector organization. The three contexts of the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework along with Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) were used as foundational frameworks to explore the influence on the attitude towards using of users which would ultimately affect to the intention of adopting big data analytics. The findings generated from the study denotes that factors considered in both TOE framework and TAM model except organizational context having a positive correlation towards the user's attitude of using which would ultimately lead the organization in enhancing its intention to adopt big data analytics. Finally, the research concludes that the variable, attitude towards using plays a positive mediating role between the direct relationship of critical factors affecting the intention to adopt big data analytics. It is hoped that findings of this research would enrich the existing literature while affecting practitioners to involve in adopting big data analytics by prioritizing investments accordingly.


Oksanen, Katja. Special expertise of Bachelors and Masters of Social Services in early childhood education needed special expertise now and in the future. Language: Finnish. Spring 2017, 103 p., 4 appendices. Diaconia University of Applied Sciences. Degree Programme in Social Services. Degree: Bachelor of Social Services. The purpose of this thesis was to research what kind of special expertise in early childhood education do Bachelors and Masters of Social Services need at the time of the surveys and ten years after that in 2025. The thesis was a part of a development project, which the universities of applied sciences in the field of social, health, physical education, beauty and cosmetics implemented in 2016 in purpose to develop their specialized training. The thesis was a qualitative study based on two surveys. The first survey (N=115) was conducted in summer 2015 and it was targeted to Bachelors of social services studying in the special education project. The second survey was conducted in December 2015 as a Webropol-survey and it was targeted to professionals working in the field of early childhood education. The data was analyzed by using qualitative content analysis. The results of the study indicates that Bachelors and Masters of social services, who have needs for special expertise and the required topics now and in the future, are somewhat same, but with different emphasis. Specifically the study indicates that there is need for special expertise of working with children with special needs, special expertise of family work, special expertise working with issues of mental health and special expertise working with multicultural issues. The studied data also revealed some indication of need for special expertise in pedagogic planning, special expertise in information technology, special expertise in leadership and also need to get qualifications to work in preschool education.


This paper is based on the software product for DengFeng city cement plant and DengFeng ZhongLian cement Limited company. This software system consists of server-side software, client-side software and handheld programmer software. Key technologies used in system contain non-contact IC card and car license recognition etc. The paper elaborated system requirements. Software functions and software implement processes of server-side, client-side and handheld programmer are all analyzed too.


We introduce a new approach for the study of weight distributions of cosets of the Reed-Muller code of order . Our ap- proach is based on the method introduced by Kasami in (1), using Pless identities. By interpreting some equations, we obtain a neces- sary condition for a coset to have a "high" minimum weight. Most notably, we are able to distinguish such cosets which have three weights only. We then apply our results to the problem of the non- linearity of Boolean functions. We particularly study the links be- tween this criterion and the propagation characteristics of a func- tion. Index Terms—Boolean function, derivation, nonlinearity, prop- agation criterion, Reed-Muller codes. MAIN NOTATION • is the set of Boolean functions of variables; • , is the codeword of length equal to the ordered list of all values of ; and denote, respectively, the zero codeword and the all-one codeword; • denotes the usual dot product between two vectors and ; • denotes the dual of a subspace , i.e.,


A method for the optical recording medium and a recording material. Chemical formula of this recording material is BixGeyO (1-xy), where x and y represent the number of atoms of bismuth and germanium ratio and satisfy the following equation: 2.8≤ (x / y) ≤25 and 0.55≤ (1-xy ) <0.62.


According to a recent survey of top management in the transit industry, gender resistance is becoming more and more a non-issue in the workplace. There is certaily much more to be done, but most of the women interviewed indicated that the most outstanding characteristic is the attitude of the women themselves, their refusal to accept being a woman in business as a handicap. The second important characteristic is being effective as a manager, since ultimately, one is judged more on the basis of performance than on gender.


The purpose of this study was to identify the dementia knowledge, attitudes and preventive behaviors of hemodialysis patients. The participants were 128 hemodialysis patients at the Artificial Kidney Center in G hospital of P city. Data were collected by self-report questionnaires from September 22 to October 10, 2017. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient and Hierarchical regression analysis with SPSS/WIN 23.0. Dementia knowledge was significantly different by education level (F=4.58, p<.01). The attitude toward dementia was different by age (F=3.08, p<.05) and education level (F=6.64, p<.01). The preventive behaviors were different by gender (t=-2.30, p<.05). Dementia knowledge was positively correlated with attitude toward to dementia (r=.189, p<.05) and attitude toward dementia was positively correlated with preventive behaviors (r=.280, p<.01). The influencing factor for preventive behaviors was attitude toward dementia (β=.319, p<.01). Therefore, in order to promote dementia preventive behaviors in hemodialysis patients, an education program should be developed to improve dementia knowledge and positive attitude toward dementia.


Low-energy protocol processing is a crucial issue in next generation wireless systems. In modern wireless system design, this problem is tightly coupled with the signal processing needs. Fierce market competition and inventive wireless applications are imposing stricter design requirements in energy consumption, cost, size, and flexibility. To deal with these unique constraints, we incorporate the platform-based design methodology to deal with these constraints by advocating reusability. This paper presents this methodology, and its application on PicoRadio, a cutting-edge wireless system. In particular, we describe the design of a reconfigurable architecture optimized for protocol processing.


Network data (also referred to as relational data, social network data, real graph data) has become ubiquitous, and understanding patterns in this data has become an important research problem. We investigate how interactions in social networks are formed and how these interactions facilitate diffusion, model these behaviors, and apply these findings to real-world problems.
We examined graphs of size up to 16 million nodes, across many domains from academic citation networks, to campaign contributions and actor-movie networks. We also performed several case studies in online social networks such as blogs and message board communities.
Our major contributions are the following: (a) We discover several surprising patterns in network topology and interactions, such as Popularity Decay power law (in-links to a blog post decay with a power law with −1.5 exponent) and the oscillating size of connected components; (b) We propose generators such as the Butterfly generator that reproduce both established and new properties found in real networks; (c) several case studies, including a proposed method of detecting misstatements in accounting data, where using network effects gave a significant boost in detection accuracy.


The invention provides an efficient preparation method of a high-quality dried momordica grosvennori swinggle product. The method comprises the following steps: firstly performing husk breaking on a fresh momordica grosvennori swinggle or unfolding the fresh momordica grosvennori swinggle subjected to husk breaking; performing internal energy form manner dehydration and assistant frost processing on the fresh momordica grosvennori swinggle in a microwave manner and others manners when the moisture of the fresh momordica grosvennori swinggle is larger; then performing external energy form manner dehydration on the fresh momordica grosvennori swinggle in a heated air circulation manner and other manners till to obtain the high-quality dried momordica grosvennori swinggle product. According to the invention, the dehydration rate is greater than 1.7% per hour, and is several times higher than that of a traditional method for drying the momordica grosvennori swinggle; the residual moisture of the dried momordica grosvennori swinggle product produced by the method is less than 13%; the dried momordica grosvennori swinggle product is high in quality; product attributes such as inspection, measurement, packaging and storage of the dried momordica grosvennori swinggle product are superior to a traditional dried momordica grosvennori swinggle product.


A method based on genetic algorithm (GA) together with Laplace wavelet correlation filtering (CF) is proposed in this paper to extract impulse response features from vibration signal. In this method, real-format Laplace wavelet instead of complex one is used to reduce data redundancy of CF. Exponent-scaled relative inner product of the wavelet and the same length of signal is designed as the fitness function, GA with adaptive crossover and mutation probability is used to select the wavelet atom with the maximal correlation value. The corresponding parameters of this wavelet atom can be used to identify the features of the impulse response. This algorithm is tested by simulated signal and bearing vibration signal, it can extract features of impulse response exactly, and its efficiency is superior to that of traditional Laplace wavelet CF algorithm.


42:509 The Paley Center for Media, New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA (http://www.paleycenter.org/) Founded in 1976 in New York by the long-time chairman of the CBS network, and now in its third location in mid-town Manhattan, as well as a handsome Los Angeles (Century City) location as of 1996, the Paley (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) allows visitors to listen to or view a vast array of old radio & TV programs. Both locations hold a continuing series of exhibits, talks, and video showings. But otherwise there is little to see here—it's mainly a location for listening and viewing old programs.


Groove or swing are terms employed in popular music genres to designate the efficacy of rhythmic musical structures in motivating us to move in time to their beat (pulse, tactus, for which see Arom, 1991, p. 179 ff). Precise on-the-beat synchronization of bodily movement to such structures is only possible through predictive timing, for which the regular periodicity—isochrony—of the pulse provides essential perceptual support (Fraisse, 1982; Merker et al., 2009). It makes the next beat in the sequence perfectly predictable, enabling bodily entrainment to the isochronous signal, most readily so at tempos centered on two cycles per second (120 beats per minute), which is also the human locomotor tempo (Fraisse, 1982; MacDougall and Moore, 2005). Such entrainment features fluid interplay between two modes of timing control whose neural implementation appears to depend on cerebellum plus sensorimotor cortex and the fronto-parietal attention network respectively (for which see Merker et al., 2009, pp. 11–12; see also Lewis and Miall, 2003).


corrective of feminist studies of anorexia that fail to take race into account. It underscores the importance of fears of size for racialized hierarchies of beauty. If the author sometimes has difficulties keeping all the balls in play, it only shows how complicated it is to actually engage in an intersectional analysis that is grounded in specific historical, social, or geo-political contexts. While I sometimes longed for a more comprehensive mapping of these dimensions and missed an explanation for why scientists were so interested in black women's bodies in one era, while manifestly disinterested in another, when all is said and done, I would not have liked to forgo the entertaining encounters Strings provides with the racialized and gendered history of fat phobia. She has shown how cultural fears about size have radically changed through the ages, while making it abundantly clear that fat phobia cannot be separated from configurations of gendered, racialized and nationalistic power.


Opening direction «Theology» in Russian universities has long been discussed and criticized as representatives of the church and members of the academic community. It was pointed out that the unique theological tradition, developed in the country in the XIX century was forever lost, and the new generation is not ready for this. Shortage of professional staff another significant problem. However, the current social, cultural and political situation in the country talking about the need for change in education and the importance of theology for the formation of philosophical foundations of modern man. Therefore, despite a number of difficulties in the implementation of the project, the issue of opening this area was settled favorably. This article raises the issue of training and retraining of teachers of secular institutions of higher learning, who took up the development of educational programs and directions for the implementation of «Orthodox theology» and the importance of e-learning in the present case.


An expert science panel is calling for the US Department of Energy to overhaul science and technology development for cleaning up the nation's nuclear weapons sites. The huge cleanup program has already taken nearly 40 years and will likely take at least 50 more, says a report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on March 4. Cleanup has cost $170 billion to date and is likely to draw at least another $377 billion, according to panel chair and Columbia University engineering professor Patricia J. Culligan. The DOE is responsible for cleaning up 107 sites used for nuclear weapons development, testing, and production during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. The formal program began in the 1980s and has cleaned up 91 sites so far. The remaining 16 sites present the thorniest radioactive and hazardous waste challenges. To address those challenges, the National Academies report recommends


The demography of the world population is changing. Not only are there more people on the planet, but thanks to improvements in agriculture, public wealth and health, and relative political stability, a greater number of people are surviving to old age, and are remaining fitter as they do so. This is undoubtedly cause for celebration, but the rapidity with which this change has occurred brings with it new challenges for humankind. These are already being felt in more developed countries: who will look after the elderly and who will pay for their care? What should be done about employment and housing? What are the limits of medicine in keeping people alive and healthy? Proportional increases in the incidence of older people presenting for surgery continue to exceed those of the UK population in general. We are anaesthetising many more elderly patients now compared with a decade ago, and this trend is likely to continue into the foreseeable future. However, in many ways, we have failed to make any real improvements in the perioperative care of this vulnerable patient group over the same time period [1, 2], or add to the evidence base that drives the necessary quality improvement. In recognition of this, we would like to welcome you to the 2014 Anaesthesia for the Elderly supplement. Whilst the format is similar to previous years, with worldrenowned experts critically reviewing evidence in controversial subject areas and directing the reader to further literature, this year's supplement also introduces the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland's updated guideline Perioperative Care of the Elderly. The idea is that clinical anaesthetists who care for elderly patients (i.e. pretty much all of us) will be able to read the guideline and refer – in the same issue – to some of the evidence on which it is based. Despite concerns about the demographic 'time bomb', Keays suggests, in his editorial, [3] that these assume a worst-case scenario that may fail to materialise if countered by other demographic changes, or be offset by improvements in the organisation of healthcare services and in attitudes towards the elderly. Peri-operative care, for example, will need to be redesigned as a seamless continuity of the multidisciplinary care older people receive in the community. Comprehensive geriatric pre-assessment is part of this process [4], allowing geriatricians and anaesthetists to plan peri-operative care of the elderly patient towards optimising postoperative recovery, rehabilitation and discharge back into the community. Pre-operative assessment also allows for the identification of those elderly patients at the highest risk of poor peri-operative outcome, whichever 'outcomes' are most appropriate in this age group [5], and directing care accordingly. These include frail patients, who, as Hubbard and Story note, are easy to spot, but less easy to define and optimise [6]. Perhaps the greatest improvements in peri-operative outcome directly attributable to anaesthesia may be achieved through the postoperative avoidance of pain and delirium, both of which delay rehabilitation and hospital discharge [7, 8]. Pain and delirium are interlinked: pain and analgesia can worsen delirium, in turn, making pain management more difficult. Both conditions can be hard to assess and both require multimodal intervention strategies for prevention and treatment, in which the conduct of anaesthesia plays a major role. This is particularly the case in cognitively impaired patients and after emergency surgery, and contributes to the excess morbidity and higher mortality seen in these patient groups [9]. Indeed, pre-existing and postoperative cognitive impairment is increasingly prevalent with age, and renders patients vulnerable to receiv-


This article aims to present reflections on the need for constant improvement and enhancement of teacher professional and didactic imposition of the educational system that is opposed to this search for innovation, reflection and adaptation by the needs of change and constant learning of the profession to oppose the devaluation this professionalization. To achieve this goal, it was used as methodology the literature in which authors and researchers in this area propose conditions and needs of this quest for development. We concluded by means of knowledge and experience transmitted by the authors in the current research, that there is a constant need for improvement and enhancement of the professional educator, assuming that learning must be constant and continuous. Therefore, the imposition of the state and federal government in learning cycle, with mandatory teaching material, should not be an impediment for reflection and innovation.


CARDIOVASCULAR RECOVERY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS (Abstract): Cardiac rehabilitation of elderly patients is becoming a growing necessity because, with aging, the prevalence of cardiovascular disease increases. The most vulnerable population, the elderly, might have greater needs for cardiac rehabilitation because the likelihood of being fragile is very high. After hospitalization for such an event as acute coronary syndrome or cardiac decompensation, all patients, but especially the elderly, are at increased risk for destabilization, being eligible for new cardiovascular events that may have a disabling impact on both physical and mental health. The efficacy and safety of cardiac rehabilitation has been also demonstrated in elderly patients with stable coronary artery disease, in those who underwent coronary intervention or in patients with chronic heart failure. Cardiac rehabilitation programs are designed to enhance recovery after an acute cardiovascular event and improve both quality of life and survival by measuring secondary prevention - controlling risk factors, physical activity, diet and optimizing medical treatment. Over the years, all the evidence has shown comparable benefits in elderly and younger patients. Particular attention should also be paid to frail elderly patients who need a personalized intervention. Frailty is defined as a complex of biological markers and clinical characteristics seen in a dynamic position between a healthy status and extremely severe clinical status. Frailty puts many elderly patients at greater risk of health destabilization and first it is necessary to prevent and to treat not only in an "acute" care setting, but also a "post-acute" recovery through home care.


This study aims to determine the coordination of stakeholders in the supervision of tourist boats in Pariaman City. The background of this research starts from the fact that there are still many deviations that occur that are not in accordance with those contained in the Standard Operating Procedures for Tourist Boats applicable in Pariaman City, as evidenced by the occurrence of tourist boat accidents in Pariaman City which caused the ship to sink and claimed lives. Coordination needs to be done because it involves various parties. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. For the selection of informants, the method was carried out by purposive sampling and followed by snowball sampling technique. In collecting data using interview techniques, observation and documentation. Data analysis is done by collecting data, reducing data, presenting data, and drawing conclusions. Then the validity of this data was tested by triangulation. This study uses coordination theory referring to the opinion of Malayu Hasibuan quoted from the Rahmeina Journal, there are four indicators of coordination, namely cooperation, communication, division of labor and discipline. The results of this study indicate that the coordination of stakeholders in the supervision of tourist boats in Pariaman City has been carried out but has not gone well. This is because of the four coordination indicators, two of which have not been implemented properly, namely communication and discipline indicators. Internal obstacles were also encountered, namely coordination evaluation meetings that were rarely carried out and external obstacles, namely the lack of awareness of the ship's crew to comply with regulations


In the past, debates on the role of national parliaments (NPs) in the European Union have mainly focused on questions of how they can participate in European policy-making, whether we observe a decline of parliaments in EU multi-level governance or whether the challenge of European integration has triggered a revival of parliaments in political systems. In the mid-1990s, Philip Norton pointed out the increasing activities of national parliaments to cope with the two-level politics in the EU and thus criticised the hypothesis of a creeping 'de-parliamentarisation'. Others have discussed whether parliaments are in effect losers or merely latecomers in the emerging political system of the EU. Comparative studies have shown that there is no general answer to these questions given the wide variety of parliaments and parliamentary systems in the Member States. With the recent enlargement of the EU, this variety has increased since the accession countries are still emerging democracies and are confronted by the dual challenge of Europeanisation and constitutional transformation. This debate about the decline or resilience of NPs in the EU seems unpromising. From a normative point of view, the role of NPs in EU legislation is now acknowledged. They are regarded as an important pillar of the democratic polity of the EU. In reality, all NPs are, in one way or another, involved in European policy-making and the scrutiny of national representatives in the Council of Ministers. Therefore, the question should not be whether NPs play a role in the EU but how they do this and with what consequences. What explains their strength or weakness against their government in European politics, what are the incentives and instruments to scrutinise European policies, how do they cope with the complexities of multi-level processes and how do they contribute to making the EU more legitimate? In this volume the focus is on the Europeanisation of national parliaments, that is, their adjustment to the challenges of a multi-level political process and the impact of European politics on their work. We have to consider how parliamentary


Pythagorean fuzzy sets (PFSs) accommodate more uncertainties than Lx the intuitionistic fuzzy sets and hence its applications are more extensive. Under the PFS, the objective of this paper is to develop some new operational laws and their corresponding weighted geometric aggregation operators. For it, we define some new neutral multiplication and power operational laws by including the feature of the probability sum and the interaction coefficient into the analysis to get a neutral or a fair treatment to the membership and nonmembership functions of PFSs. Associated with these operational laws, we define some novel Pythagorean fuzzy weighted, ordered weighted, and hybrid neutral geometric operators for Pythagorean fuzzy information, which can neutrally treat the membership and nonmembership degrees. The desirable relations and the characteristics of the proposed operators are studied in details. Furthermore, a multiple attribute group decision‐making approach based on the proposed operators under the Pythagorean fuzzy environment is developed. Finally, an illustrative example is provided to show the practicality and the feasibility of the developed approach.


IT WAS AN APRIL NIGHT IN 17 3 4 , recalled Maria Manuela de Armijo. It must have been eight o'clock or thereabouts. Outside on the streets of Santa Fe, New Mexico, all was still. Inside Maria's house the day's end had brought a peaceful hush. The evening embers in the hearth had begun to crackle and pop. Already Cayetano Moya, Maria's husband, had retired, and all the children were safely tucked away. Maria bolted shut the windows and door to her house. She blessed herself with the sign of the cross, said her evening prayers, and climbed into bed for a night's rest. But there would be very little rest for Maria that night. Moments before she fell asleep, a witch entered the house. Bellowing like a raging bull, barking like a dog, with yips and yaps and harrowing cries, the witch, whom Maria recognized as the coyota (a person with a particular proportion of mixed Spanish, Indian, and African ancestry) Nicolasa Romero, kept shouting out in an ugly cry: "Puta! Puta! Gran puta!" (Whore! Whore! Gigantic whore!). Maria screamed out in terror, but the cords in her throat were mute. "Praised be the Blessed Sacrament," she mumbled. "Glory be to Saint Anthony," she prayed helplessly as the witch fondled Maria's body, caressed her breasts, and did with her as she pleased. And though Maria's husband, Cayetano, was in bed beside her, he saw and heard absolutely nothing. Then, just as suddenly as Nicolasa Romero had appeared, she disappeared into the night.1 The Indian witches of New Mexico and the suspicions they provoked in the eighteenth century is the topic of this essay. During the eighteenth century three major issues shaped the tone and tenor of life in this remote frontier colony: the activity of witches, constant attacks on established towns by marauding Indians (namely, by Apache, Comanche, Navajo, and Ute), and economic development spurred by the Bourbon Reforms


Objective: Discuss important imaging concepts, patterns, and pitfalls in ALS
Background:Through a collection of interesting patients, we share our growing experience imaging motor neuron disease at the single subject level. We revisit longitudinal follow-up scans for a man with ALS exhibiting left arm weakness, addressing some corrections and improvements in DTI post-processing. We examine DTI and cortical thickness in a patient with dense right arm hemiplegia, looking for clinical correlation. We also examine SWI patterns in two patients.
Methods:All patients with MND had 3D T1MPRAGE and b1000 DTI. Some patients had SWI and some had b3000 DTI dataset treated as a qBall scheme. Freesurfer was used to estimate average thickness of primary motor cortex for all patients. Tailored deterministic tractography of the corticospinal tracts was performed for all patients by a CAQ neuroradiologist. Automated probablistic tractography was also performed with TRACULA for all patients.
Results:While subtle, right versus left differences in CST tract statistics (FA, mean diffusivity, and radial diffusivity) were observed in cases of asymmetric weakness. Crossing fibers may precipitate erroneous streamlines and alter subsequent statistics; b3000 DTI treated as qBall for spherical harmonic delivered a different CST morphology than b1000 DTI. Average primary motor cortical thickness was diminished (<2.5mm) in all cases of symptomatic motor neuron disease.
Conclusions: These cases illustrate pertinent issues concerning DTI processing, more complex diffusion models, automated probabilistic and deterministic tractography, potential role of cortical thickness, and the utility of SWI to investigate iron deposition. Carefully processed CST diffusion data and tract statistics, even at the single subject level, may indicate a more problematic tract and might have potential to predict laterality of symptoms; further study is needed as magnitude of difference is quite small. Recognizing errors in CST tractography that might impact tract values is crucial. Disclosure: Dr. Ajroud-Driss has nothing to disclose. Dr. Gallagher has nothing to disclose. Dr. Siddique has nothing to disclose.


This paper aims to noninvasively estimate the sizes and locations of tumors via the surface temperature in the skin tissue. The famous 2D Pennes bioheat transfer equation is used to describe the he...


This paper describes the integrated services digital network (ISDN) basic rate interface (BRI) two-wire U interface and the transceiver necessary for the digital transmission of 160 kb/s of information over unshielded twisted pair transmission media. Topics discussed include the U interface structure and framing as described in the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) T1.601 specification, and the VLSI implementation of the ISDN U transceiver. Pertinent transceiver design issues addressed include the type of line code used, such as 2B1Q or 4B3T, echo cancellation, near end crosstalk, equalization and sampling rates.


ABSTRACT A recent meta-analysis has shown that media multitasking behavior, or consuming multiple streams of media simultaneously, might not be associated with less efficient cognitive processing, as measured with objective tests. Nevertheless, a growing number of studies have reported that media multitasking is correlated with cognitive functioning in everyday situations, as measured in self-reports. Here, in a series of mini meta-analyses, we show that the self-reported correlates of media multitasking can be categorized in at least four major themes. Heavy media multitasking was associated with increasing problems with attention regulation (e.g., increased mind-wandering and distractibility), behavior regulation (e.g., emotion regulation and self-monitor), inhibition/impulsiveness (e.g., higher level of impulsiveness and lower level of inhibition), and memory. However, the pooled effect sizes were small (z =.16 to z = .22), indicating that a large proportion of variance of media multitasking behavior is still unaccounted for. Additionally, we witnessed a high level of heterogeneity in the attention regulation theme, which might indicate the presence of the risk of study bias.


We consider the time-correlated multiple-antenna interference channel where the transmitters have (i) delayed channel state information (CSI) obtained from a feedback channel as well as (ii) imperfect current CSIT, obtained e.g., from prediction on the basis of these past channel samples. We derive the degrees of freedom region for the two-user MISO interference channel under such conditions. In doing so we propose an optimal scheme relying on a form of space-time alignment combined with interference quantization. Extensions to some MIMO cases are also considered.


In view of the great practical importance that undulating Banga fever now has, it is extremely interesting to study its relationship to undulating Bruce fever (Maltese fever), as well as the existing relationship between Brucella strains found in humans, cattle and pigs.


Carotid angiography was performed in 18 cases of intraorbital vascular malformations. In angioblastic and capillary hemangiomas of infancy and childhood, arteriography may display intravascular lesions far more important than suspected clinically. Cavernous angiomas show a vascular displacement or deformity resulting from a poorly vascularized space-occupying lesion. Selective angiography of both carotid arteries is needed in study of racemose angiomas of the anterior third of the orbit. A particular variety of angiomas of the anterior third of the orbit may be related to trauma to the forehead at an early age and has a tendency to grow. Angiographically, racemose angiomas which are both intra- and retro-orbital resemble carotidocavernous malformations.


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The term «Sustainable Development» was first described by the 1987, by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) and refers to «development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs».
The benefits arising from its integration are multiple atract companies and organizations wordwide. In particular, a great number of private and public companies develop their strategy, emphasizing their environmental, social and corporate impact. Especially in recent years, many companies publish their performance and actions in terms of the environment, society and economy, informimg their stakeholders through their annual sustainability reports.
These specific reports based on international frameworks and guidelines such as GRI (Global Reporting Initiative), SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, the Greek Sustainability Code, AccountAbility's AA1000 Series of Standards, UN Global Compact, ISO 26000:2010 etc.
The content of these reports constitutes, in recent years, core of investors interest and evaluation, who focus on companies and initiatives with a positive environmental, social and financial impact, such as sustainable strategy. Therefore, rating agencies evaluate companies according to ESG issues (Environment, Social, Governance) and their related performance.


The Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto noticed that 20% of the pea pods in his garden contained 80% of the peas. His "Law of the Vital Few"1 seems to describe a wide variety of situations where 80% of the observed effect can be explained by 20% of the causes. The treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was revolutionized in the 1980s and 1990s by a small number of simple but powerful advances. Robust trials demonstrated the value of cheap, readily available drugs such as methotrexate. Simple clinical outcome measures such as the Disease Activity Score (DAS) were validated. Because our goals have since evolved to focus on smaller numbers of patients with resistant disease or poor prognosis or to personalize therapy, more complex and expensive techniques and interventions seem to be required to achieve better outcomes.

The longterm goal of therapy in RA is the preservation of function and prevention of joint damage. Treat-to-target trials such as TICORA demonstrate that both doctors and patients underestimate how much therapy is needed to achieve this2. Not surprisingly, perhaps, more therapy leads to less inflammation and better short-term and longterm outcomes. Current "best practice" in early RA is based on the use of composite scores such as the DAS or its 28-joint version (DAS28) to direct escalation of therapy …

Address correspondence to Dr. E.M. Vital, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds LS7 4SA, UK; E-mail: e.m.j.vital{at}leeds.ac.uk


The friction and wear properties between a smooth oxide-based ceramic sliding and an amorphous carbon surface are greatly influenced by the surface chemistry of the carbon layer. Like most carbon compounds, surface oxides can form if the surface is exposed to oxygen. These surface species can desorb as carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide under the rubbing action of the slider. Such a gradual tribochemical wear mechanism induces a greater area of true contact, and the friction coefficient increases dramatically from 0.2 to 1.2 or higher when repeated sliding contacts are made. In contrast, similar tribological experiments carried out in an inert environment show no friction increase. >


This article analyses the effectiveness and functionality of substantive EU criminal law legislation. With the Lisbon Treaty criminal law has been included as a general branch of EU law. Effective enforcement of EU law is a general principle. As a starting point it is also easy to agree on the fact that EU criminal law should be effective. But what does this really mean? Can criminal law be used just as any other measure, or does criminal law still have a specific nature, where some specific principles apply and restrict the use of criminal law instruments? These are the core questions of this article. Firstly, both effectiveness and functionality in relation to substantive EU criminal law harmonisation are defined. Secondly, the question on how to measure effectiveness in substantive EU criminal law is discussed. Thirdly, the limits for using effectiveness as an argument for new criminal law legislation are analysed. Some concluding remarks are done in the final chapter.


Hyperspectral RS technology organically combines the radiation information and the space information. The spectrum information, which the hyperspectral image enriches, can be better to carry on the ground target classification, compare with panchromatic remote sensing image and multispectral remote sensing image. As support vector machine was applied to many fields successfully recent years, using kernel methods, the classic linear methods can cope with the nonlinear problem, which was called the 3rd revolution of pattern analysis algorithms. This paper introduced two classifying methods for hyperspectral image based on kernel function, Support Vector Machine and Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis, and studied the selection of kernel function and its parameters as well as multi-class decomposition. We use radial basic function kernel, one against one or one against rest decomposition methods to construct multi-class classifier, and optimize parameter selection using cross-validating grid search to build an effective and robust kernel classifier. It is verified that, through the OMIS and AVIRIS image classifying experiments, comparing with common image classifying methods, kernel classifying method can avoid Hughes phenomenon, thus improve the classifying accuracy.


Stack-shaped multi-solar cell (MS) comprising a first sub-cell (SC1a) having a first band gap (Eg1a) and a first thickness (SD1a) and comprising a further first sub-cell (SC1b) to a further first band gap (Eg1b) and another is formed first thickness (SD1b), each of said sub-cells (SC1a, SC1b) has an emitter and a base, and between the sub-cells (SC1a, SC1b) a tunnel diode (TD), wherein the light radiation, the first sub-cell (SC1a) before the penetrates the first further first subcell (SC1b), wherein the first band gap (Eg1a) more than 0.1 eV greater than the further first band gap (Eg1b) or the first band gap (Eg1a) by a maximum of 0.07 eV greater than the further first bandgap (Eg1b) or the first band gap (Eg1a) by a maximum of 0.04 eV greater than the further first band gap (Eg1b) or the first band gap (Eg1a) by a maximum of 0.02 eV greater than the further first band gap (Eg1b) is or first band gap (Eg1a) is equal to gr OSS is like the further first band gap (Eg1b).


DCM Flyback PFC converter is mainly used in medium and low power applications, having such advantages as zero-current turning on of switch, no reverse recovery of diode and high PF. At the time power electronics widely used today, passive components volume limits the improvement of power density. This paper derives the expressions of the switching turn-on time and the input current of DCM Flyback PFC converter, and based on which, a variable duty control is proposed so as to make the energy storage capacitor reduce to the original 65.6% at the same voltage ripple level while PF is not less than 0.9. The simulation results from a 200W universal input prototype are given to verify the effectiveness of the analysis.


The purpose of this study was analyzing and tracking the heredity stability of alpaca through the amplifyication of special fragment from mitochondrion genome. A pair of primer was designed according to those sequences of Camelidae animal submitted in GaneBank and a fragment of 1014 bp was cloned. Being analyzed by blastn program of NCBI, the fragment includes: 30 bp 12srRNA partial sequence, 71 bp tRNA-Val complete sequence and 913 bp 16srRNA partial sequence, and the homolog is more than 95% compared with other Camelidae animals. The secondary structure of tRNA-Val was mapped using RNAstructure 4.2. The results showed that the amino acid arm and anticodon loop of tRNA-Val is conserved among genus.


We propose, with the following text, an interpretive exercise from a possible dialogue between João Cabral de Melo Neto and Clarice Lispector, whose centenaries we celebrated in 2020. We observe, from João Cabral, "Tecendo a manhã" (In: A Educação pela Pedra , 1965) and, from Clarice Lispector, passages from the "Dedication of the author" (In: A hora da estrela , 1977). We also verified Cabral's comment about Clarician writing, recorded in a letter, in order to reflect on a poetic construction common to the poet and writer. entre João Cabral de João Cabral, a manhã" de passagens


Background: Heart disease (HD) remains the leading cause of US deaths. However, knowledge of HD type's role in these trends is lacking. Objective: To examine the relative impact HD types have had on overall HD mortality trends among US adults aged 35 years and older from 2000-2010. Methods: We used the CDC WONDER online database to determine HD mortality rates_based on underlying cause of death. We stratified the results by HD type, age standardized the rates and used SEER's JoinPoint program to develop log-linear regression models to calculate the average annual percent change (AAPC) in rates. We determined the annual proportion of all HD deaths attributable to each HD type by dividing the number of deaths of each HD type by the number of all HD deaths. Results: During 2000-2010, 7,102,788 HD deaths were observed (645,708 average deaths per year). HD and coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality declined from 500.8 and 364.7 in 2000 to 347.3 and 221.6 per 100,000 in 2010, with AAPC of -3.8 and -5.1%, respec...


This case on business culture in Malaysia presents an opportunity for post-graduate and final year undergraduate students the exposure on relationship-marketing, cultural value dimensions, reciprocity as well as ethical issues. The case was about a breach of verbal trust given to a client who resulted in the focal company facing the risk of losing significant amount of time and financial losses. This case has a moderate level of difficulty and may be used to teach marketing, crosscultural management and business ethics.


This paper describes the research concepts and methodological aspects of a joint project of Fraunhofer ISST and BMWAG for an improvement of recording and management of requirements in the series development for the automotive sector. In a project, normally more than one car variant is developed. Using this approach requirement recording can be done on the project level as well as on a lower level, e.g. the level of a single car variant. To support an intensive reuse of requirement models the domain engineering approach is adapted to requirements engineering in that application domain. The methodology supports the recording of requirements on the project level or lower and the reuse of established requirement structures of the domain for a new application and it shows a way of how requirement structures of an application can be made available for further reuse in the domain. In addition, different consistency checks are supported.


In this paper the authors deals with the evolution of the Franco-Serbian relations in European, regional and local contexts during the last two centuries. Two nations are characterized by material disproportion, geographic distance and cultural differences. Hence, the relations have been observed in their complexity and variations of intensity. Special attention is paid to versatile perceptions of the two nations, which have been influenced by the combination of political, ideological, economical and cultural factors in a given time. The author's conclusion is that due to reach tradition of the French-Serbian relations, the Serbs poses spiritual capital in France that is the base for further development of good relations between the two countries and two nations in the context of Serbia's European integrations. .


Over the past two decades, a number of important variables for the induction of oral tolerance have been identified'-' (TABLE 1). The types of antigens that have induced oral tolerance include various protein antigens, contact allergens, heterologous red blood cells, and certain killed viruses. Although eukaryotic proteins commonly induce oral tolerance, there are few reports of oral tolerance induction using purified bacterial protein^.^ A common feature of tolerogenic antigens is that most induce T cell-dependent immune responses when given parenterally; there are few, if any, reports of oral tolerance being induced by feeding T cell-independent antigens. Other important variables in oral tolerance include antigen dose (which usually involves milligram quantities); a mucosal route of delivery; and the age, genetic background, and species of the host. Remarkably, there are very few studies on whether oral tolerance can be enhanced by varying the delivery vehicle or incorporating immunomodulators with the fed antigens. Indeed, there are only two such reports. In one report, the addition of bacterial lipopolysaccharide to a protein antigen enhanced oral tolerance to the protein.6 In another, covalent coupling of various protein antigens to cholera toxin €3 subunit enhanced tolerance induction for delayed-type hypersensitivity responses.' Although the phenomenon of oral tolerance is very reproducible and well established, the site of tolerance induction after feeding and the exact mechanisms underlying oral tolerance remain unclear. There are data that support the lymphoid follicles in the gut or Peyer's patches as being one site of tolerance induction.* However, they may not be the


Ethanolic extract of Bauhinia purpurea (EEBP) leaves was evaluated for its possible ameliorative effect in the regulation of hyperthyroidism in albino wistar rat model. Serum tri iodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) concentrations were considered as the end parameters of thyroid function in the study. Histo pathological study of thyroid gland was also performed. (Levothyroxine) LT4 administration (0.5 mg/kg/d for 12 days) as an inducing agent increased the levels of serum T3, T4 with a concomitant decline in TSH levels. However, simultaneous administration of the EEBP (100 mg/kg, 150 mg/kg 1230th day) to the LT4 induced hyperthyroid animals reversed all these effects indicating their potential in the regulation of hyperthyroidism. Propylthiouracil (PTU) (10mg/kg, 12-30th day) was administered as standard drug. PTU is selected as the standard drug in the light of many antithyroidic studies done [18].When relative efficacy was compared with that of (PTU), a standard antithyroidic drug, experimental B.purpurea extract appeared to be comparable by showing a positive effect towards the amelioration of hyperthyroi9dism in albino wistar rat model. Furthermore histopathological analysis confirmed the result obtained.


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In this work, tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin (TCPP) and two Anderson-type polyoxomolybdates (containing Cu and Zn, respectively; CuPOM, ZnPOM) were synthesized and deposited on TiO2 thin films. The properties of the obtained materials were characterized through UV–vis spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), diffuse reflection spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). The adsorption and photodegradation under the visible light irradiation of methylene blue (MB) were studied for TiO2, TCPP/TiO2, TCPP/CuPOM/TiO2 and TCPP/ZnPOM/TiO2 thin films in aqueous solution. The results of the diffuse reflectance showed two bands in the visible light spectrum for the TCPP/POM/TiO2 systems compared to unmodified TiO2 that does not show any bands in the same region of the spectrum. The TCPP/POM/TiO2 systems showed a higher removal of MB, with an adsorption rate near to 31% for the TCPP/CuPOM/TiO2 film compared to 9% adsorption on the TiO2 film. The kinetic results show that the pseudo-second order model was the best fitting model for the MB adsorption process onto fabricated materials. The photodegradation studies under visible light showed a better performance on TCPP/POM/TiO2 thin films, with an efficiency in the MB photodegradation of near 49% and 44% in aqueous solution for TCPP/CuPOM/TiO2 and TCPP/ZnPOM/TiO2, respectively. The reusability test indicated that the porphyrin films are moderately stable after the performed cycles.


Abstract : This report describes an evaluation of the thermal performance, blast durability, operational durability, and flammability of four insulated containers for bottled water (ICB) recently developed by the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC). This testing was conducted or contracted by NSRDEC from July 2013 through January 2014 in support of PM MRAP efforts to reduce unrestrained stowage in vehicles while providing palatable drinking water for mounted Soldiers. The ICBs are lighter, require less storage space, and have more effective tie-down characteristics than coolers often used to carry bottled water in vehicles. The performance of the ICBs and a commonly used cooler was assessed to determine whether the easier-to-stow ICBs would be as effective and durable as the coolers. The four ICBs provide three options in size and capacity and two choices of insulation r-value and cost. Hot ambient temperature tests were conducted to assess thermal performance. Improvised explosive device (IED) simulations were used to assess blast durability. Drop tests, vibration tests, and abrasion tests were conducted to assess operational durability. Flash oil fire tests were conducted to assess flammability. All the ICBs survived the blasts test and the drop test while the cooler did not survive either one. All the containers survived the vibration tests. Though the cooler maintained bottled water under 72 F much longer than the standard insulation ICB of the same capacity and the smaller ICB, the higher R-value (more costly) ICB of similar size maintained the temperature 8 h longer than the cooler, and the largest standard insulation ICB maintained temperature as long as the cooler when filled with water bottles and 6 h longer with a 5-gal water bag.


To better understand the T‐cell immunodeficiency status in patients with peripheral T‐cell lymphomas (PTCLs) and NK/T‐cell lymphomas (NK/T‐CLs), the T‐cell inhibitory receptors expression pattern was investigated.


Differentiated service, as a key solution to meet the heterogenicity ofWeb clients' QoS requirements, has been widely used to optimize the server utilization without over-providing resources. Based on the relative differentiated service, this paper treats the application of proportional delay as a optimal control problem, and focuses on the cluster-side architecture improvement as well as QoS controller design. A load balancingWeb cluster architecture supported differentiated service is proposed and implemented. By system identification and resource optimal control, the frontend dispatcher could adjust the resource quotas assigned to different classes in every single back-end server, and Multi-class based Maximum Idle First load balancing strategy is designed to ensure a fair resource consumption among back-end nodes. As a result, the end-to-end delay is controlled and proportional delay is guaranteed. The experiments demonstrate that no matter using Round-Robin, Least Connection Scheduling or Maximum Idle First load balancing strategy, the proposed resource optimal controller could hold the relationship among different classes. Compared to Round-Robin and Least Connection First Scheduling, Maximum Idle First strategy increases the cluster throughput by 33% and reduces the average delay by 21%.


This short account of R.J.W. (Dick) Selleck's career and research suggests how he reoriented study of the history of education in Australia. Using a historicist method, he examined educational theories and practices to elucidate the educational purposes they were intended to serve. Through major biographies of leading educationists and biographical studies of teachers he broadened the social and cultural dimension of educational history. More recently he has applied the same rigorous scholarship to higher education.


Non-profit organisations in the aged care sector are currently under pressure from more than just a sheer increase of customers. A need to respond to changing legislative requirements, increased expectations from customers and increasing likelihood of shortage in appropriate experienced staff are also contributing to instability within the sector. This paper will present a longitudinal action research study of a non-profit organisation revisiting its core purpose of providing relevant services and attempting to build a customer-centric method for addressing the current and upcoming change drivers in an Australian aged care context. The study found Design- Led Innovation to be an effective methodology for capturing deep customer insights and conceptualising new business models which address the prevalent change drivers. This paper details a design-led approach to innovation, tailored to a non-profit organisation seeking to better understand its stakeholders and redefine its value offering.


The Li battery is the premiere high energy rechargeable and primary energy storage technology of the present day. Unfortunately, its high performance still falls short of energy density goals in an extremely wide array of applications. Although a number of factors within the battery cell contribute to this performance parameter, the most crucial ones relate to how much energy can be stored in the positive and negative electrode materials of the device. High capacity reversible conversion energy storage mechanisms have been recently identified in metal fluorides [1-3]. Recently our lab has shown that the electrochemical activity of the higher voltage, insulating metal fluorides (Fe (600mAh/g), Ni (>400mAh/g), Cr (>600 mAh/g), Cu (>400 mAh/g)) can be truly be enabled through the use of nanocomposites [2-5]. For example, a specific capacity as high as 600mAh/g (2-3.5V) has been extracted at 70°C from a FeF3/C nanocomposite cycled between 4.5V and 1.5V. We have also demonstrated such reactions can be initiated with nanocomposites of LiF + Me.


Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics,diagnosis,and treatment of gastric stromal tumor.Methods Clinical data of 217 patients with gastric stromal tumor from October 2007 to July 2011 were analyzed.Results The main clinical manifestation were abdominal pain,abdominal distension,bloody stools,abdominal mass,and so on.The tumour located at cardiac part,fundus of stomach,body of stomach,and pylorus part was 24 cases(11.0%),103 cases(47.5%),59 cases(27.2%),and 31 cases(14.3%),respectively.All the 217 patients underwent endoscopic or surgical resection and diagnosed by pathology and immunohistochemistry.The patients of high-low risk,low risk,intermediate risk,and high risk was 56 cases(25.8%),67 cases(30.9%),41 cases(18.9%),and 53 cases(24.4%),respectively.One hundred and forty patients were followed-up for 7-52 months(average 35 months).Thirty-five patients of high risk were investigated about the drug treatment after the first operation: 19 cases were treated by using imatinib(tumor progressed in 2 cases)and 16 patients were not(tumor progressed in 9 patients).The rate of progression of patients treated by imatinib was significantly lower than another group(χ2=8.426,P=0.004).In 11 patients with tumor progressed,tumor recurrnce in 4 cases,tumor recurrence with diffused abdominal cavity metastasis in 1 case,tumor metastasized to humerus in 1 case,metastasized to liver and abdominal cavity in 1 case,and metastasized to liver in 4 cases.Conclusions Gastric stormal tumor is lack of specific clinical manifestations.Complete excision of the tumor is the main therapy method,and imatinib can improve prognosis.


By methods of literature review,expert interviewing and questionnaire investigation,the article discusses the leisure sports teaching of Track and Field curriculum in universities from the content,the organization form and the evaluation of teaching.


The possibility of an in vitro interaction between the bactericidal activity of fresh normal human serum and the antibiotics polymyxin B, ampicillin, and kanamycin was investigated


les rapports Abstract This contribution analyses Un roman d'Allemagne (2016) by Régine Robin in a threefold perspective: first through the (re)construction of the German history of the 20 th century in the historical memory through various media and scars, embracing from historical sources, embracing preserved postcards and correspondences, but also street-names and oral testimonies; secondly in questioning the vision of Germany given in Robin's essay which puts forward the history of the forgotten, the resistant and the persecuted victims of the Nazi regime; and, finally, this the experimental


Who is responsible for protest mobilization? Models of disease and information diffusion suggest that those central to a social network (the core) should have a greater ability to mobilize others than those who are less well-connected. To the contrary, this article argues that those not central to a network (the periphery) can generate collective action, especially in the context of large-scale protests in authoritarian regimes. To show that those in the core of a social network have no effect on levels of protest, this article develops a dataset of daily protests across 16 countries in the Middle East and North Africa over 14 months from 2010 through 2011. It combines that dataset with geocoded, individual-level communication from the same period and measures the number of connections of each person. Those on the periphery are shown to be responsible for changing levels of protest, with some evidence suggesting that the core's mobilization efforts lead to fewer protests. These results have implications for a wide range of social choices that rely on interdependent decision making.


Research has shown that alcohol abuse is a significant problem among American Indians. It has been suggested, however, that American Indians and whites interpret the behavioral pattern differently, which may reflect the distinct symbolic-moral universes of the two groups. Whites are said to stereotypically blame Indians for the alcohol problem, and they favor assimilation to ameliorate it. American Indians purportedly blame the historical incursions of whites for the problem and advocate cultural revitalization to solve it. However, systematic empirical documentation of the competing viewpoints is lacking. Here we compare the perceptions of twelve American Indian and twelve white officials responsible for controlling alcohol abuse and related problems on the Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming. Data were collected using in-depth, semistructured interviews. The findings show that the two groups tend to converge in their assessments of the extent of the alcohol abuse problem but clearly diverge in their attributions concerning both its causes and appropriate approaches to controlling it. The discourse of whites and American Indians thus reflects the existence of separate symbolic-moral universes. This investigation redirects attention from the traditional focus on the incidence and etiology of alcohol abuse among American Indians to the politics surrounding the definition and interpretation of the deviant behavior. It also highlights the significance of cultural competition to race relations theories grounded in political economy, which are commonly used to analyze Indian-white contact.


the present study provides an overview of studies examining hippocampal volumes in nonpsychotic relatives of adult-onset schizophrenia patients. Findings have been inconsistent, with six studies reporting smaller hippocampal volumes in first-degree relatives compared with healthy subjects, suggesting familial/genetic liability (16, 20–24). In contrast, five other studies failed to find any decrease in hippocampal volumes for unaffected siblings of adult patients (25–29) (Table 1). Studies in ultra-high-risk individuals also address the question of whether hippocampal volume reductions could be familial/trait markers and whether the changes could take place before the onset of psychosis. In the present analysis, the studies are also inconsistent, with four showing that volume deficits do not appear until after the onset of psychotic illness (30–33) and three finding ultra-high-risk patients to have decreased hippocampal volume (34–36). It is important to note that many subjects in these studies had various psychotic symptoms and were exposed to typical or atypical antipsychotics at clinical dosages lasting from a few days to approximately 1 month, and thus the effect of antipsychotics on hippocampal volume remains a confounding factor. As a whole, these studies suggest that hippocampal volumes may be differentially affected, depending on the stage and type of psychosis, but fail to provide convincing everal lines of research support the hippocampus playing a role in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. The hippocampus is intricately involved in declarative learning and memory (1–3), novelty detection (4, 5), and estab-lishing semantic associations (6), such that functional deficits can resemble cognitive abnormalities seen in schizophrenia. Anatomic brain imaging studies have consistently shown patients with schizophrenia to have bilateral hippocampal volume reductions and postmortem studies have confirmed these findings along with reduced neuronal in of trait hippocampal in relation to for with schizophrenia, their nonpsychotic siblings, and comparison the within-family dependence). Hypotheses for model building were tested with F statistics to determine the order (cubic, quadratic, or linear) of the developmental growth curves. We graphed fitted regression lines for the middle 80% of the age range in our data set. Group differences in intercept (at the average age) and slope were tested using t tests.


: Market saturation creates a competitive environment among manufacturers, causing constant competition for customers. The offer affects the consumer by many factors, but we consider the selling price of the product to be the main influence factor. In order to achieve a competitive price of the product, it is necessary to know not only the market but mainly the production costs of the company. Since production costs form the largest part of the sales price of the product, it is important for the manufacturing company to monitor and regularly adjust these costs so that the price of the product is competitive in the domestic or foreign market. As the cost of production, which in this particular undertaking is based on internal analysis and accounting documents, accounts for the largest part of the sales price of the product, it is important that the manufacturing company monitors and regularly adjusts it so that the product price is competitive on the domestic or foreign market. The aim of the presented research was to analyse the internal financial statements of a particular manufacturing company, to


After years of using a single Carousel projector, I switched over to two new projectors and a dissolve unit. What happened from there on has been a learning experience I didn't expect. This article is available in Journal of Applied Communications: https://newprairiepress.org/jac/vol61/iss2/4 Dissolve From Dne To Two


Since the 1990s, electricity distribution networks in many countries have been subject to incentive regulation. The sector regulators aim to identify the best performing utilities as "reference or frontier firms" in order to determine their relative efficiency of other firms. This paper develops a nested latent class (NLC) model approach where unobserved differences in performance are modeled using two 'zero inefficiency stochastic frontier' (ZISF) models nested in a 'latent class stochastic frontier' (LCSF) model. This is in order to capture the unobserved differences due to technology or environmental conditions. This model allows researchers and regulators to identify reference networks that are persistently 100% efficient when the underlying technology is heterogeneous. We illustrate the proposed model with an application to the Norwegian distribution network utilities for the period 2004-2011. We find that the efficiency scores in both LCSF and ZISF models are biased, and some firms in the ZISF model are wrongly labelled as inefficient. Conversely, inefficient firms can be wrongly labelled as being fully efficient by the ZISF model.


Introduction: An endonasal approach was attempted by West in 1910. The aim of this technique was to make a communication between the lacrimal sac and nose at a point just above the junction of the sac with the duct. In 1917, West modified Caldwell's technique with a window resection over the lacrimal sac but the results were mediocre. West and Polyak were the first ones to perform this surgery. The aim of the study was to find out the role of endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy in acute dacryocystitis Material and methods: A prospective study was carried out in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology in conjunction with Department of Ophthalmology at Silchar Medical College and Hospital, Silchar for a period of one year on 9 patients. Results: 6 cases showed complete improvement of symptom and rest showed satisfactory improvement. Conclusion: Results are improving with the use of modern endoscopes, microsurgical instruments and lasers with a similar success rate to conventional external DCR.


The content of six kinds of elements(Cu.Zn.Fe.Mn.Ca and Mg) in the serums of 70 healthy old people,30healthy adults and 30 elderly patients wiht hypertension was determined by atomic absorption spectrum method.As a result,comparing the group of the healthy elderly with that of the heal thy adul,ts,the content of Cu.zn.Mn.ca and Mg(except Fe) was strikingly different,and comparing with the group of the elderly patients with hypertension,the content of Cu.Zn.Mn.Fe and Ca (except Mg) was remarkably different.It is considered that a steady ratio of on and Zn and high elevel of Mg in the blood is one ofthe important factors which protect the healthy elderly from getting ill.Yet the high Cu and Ca,and higher ratio of Cu and Zn is one of the important factors causing hypertenSion in the elderly.


Today the most crucial tasks of mentioned organizations is to recognize and attract customers and make  a distinction between different groups of customers and ranking them and trying to keep the customers. To do this, the use of customer relationship management, and measurement of customer value is helpful. The main objective of this paper is segmentation insurance customers based on the factors affecting the value of our customers. In line with this objective, all data from 2311 life insurance customers are extracted from Taavon Insurance Company in a period of one year and according to the specification of insurance policy it was clustered by use of K-Means algorithm. Based on the results, customers were divided into five clusters.  According to the insurance experts view, chosen specifications were weighted. After calculating the CLV, customers were ranked. Each cluster got specific name like, "Golden Customer", "Valuable Customer", "Favorable Customer", "Less Favorable Value Customer" and "Less Valuable Customer". By discovery of association rules based on the features of insured people, golden customers cluster for study of insurer's behavior was analyzed at first step. By use of algorithm, decision tree for life insurance data was classified based on insured feature in order to predict position of every new entrance customer in each cluster. This research can be used to develop marketing plans and develop and offer products and services for each group of customers.


Abstract Pressure-volume (P-V) behavior and radiation-induced polymerization of methyl and n-butyl acrylic esters (MA and BA, respectively) were studied up to 7000 kg/cm2 at 20°C. The P-V isotherms broke at 1900 and 1200 kg/cm2 for MA and BA, respectively. The P-V isotherm for MA was not smooth in the pressure range between 3500 and 4000 kg/cm2. The polymerization behavior varied with change in the P-V behavior; the polymerization rates were maximum at 1800 kg/cm for MA and 1000 kg/cm2 for BA, and then minimum at 1900 kg/cm2 for MA and 1100 kg/cm2 for BA. The polymerization rates increased again above the pressures giving the minimum rates up to about 3000 kg/cm2. Above 3000 kg/cm2 the pressure dependence of the rates decreased up to 4000 and 4500 kg/cm2 for MA and BA, respectively. Above these pressures, the pressure dependence of polymerization rates increased again. The P-V isotherms of as-polymerized polymer-monomer coexistence systems showed characteristic behavior near the polymerization pressure. F...


To provide theoretical basis for increasing yield,quality and optimizing fertilization,high yield Leaf nutritional diagnosis was conducted in high yield trees,and nutritional ranges of Cabernet Sauvignon grape were determined,N was 1.0333%~1.7254%,P was 0.3136%~0.5409%、K was 2.2657%~2.9129%、Ca was 0.6421%~1.1421%、Mg was 0.2802%~0.4108%、Fe was 25.54~51.74 mg/g、Zn was 18.89~46.682 mg/g、Cu was 78.17~206.39 mg/g、Mn was 230.51~452.86 mg/g.


Objective
To study the clinical effect of nutritional weight management and prevention of macrosomia and full-term low birth weight infants during pregnancy.

Methods
From April, 2016 to March, 2018, 600 singleton women who had perinatal health care manuals and had taken ≥5 times of maternity examination at our hospital were selected as study objects, and were divided as a control group (n=400) and an observation group (n=200). The control group 4 were given routine pregnancy examination management to control their weight; and in addition, the observation group were given specific weight management. The weight gain during pregnancy, the number and proportion of macrosomia and low birth weight infants, the delivery mode, the incidences of postpartum hemorrhage, obstruction of labor, pregnancy-induced hypertension and hyperglycemia, neonatal asphyxia and gestational diabetes mellitus were recorded, analyzed, and compared between the two groups.

Results
There were no statistical difference in body mass index before pregnancy between the two groups (P>0.05). After intervention, the weight gain of pregnant women in the observation group was significantly lower than that in the control group [(14.11±2.36) kg vs. (19.25±2.59) kg; P<0.05]. More cases took spontaneous delivery in the observation group than in the control group (88.0% vs. 58.5%, P<0.05), and fewer, cesarean section (10.5% vs. 39.0%, P<0.05). The number of pregnant women with gestational hypertension, gestational hyperglycemia, obstruction of labor and postpartum hemorrhage in the observation group was significantly lower than that in the control group (P<0.05). The number of full-term low birth weight infants, macrosomia and neonatal asphyxia in the observation group were significantly lower than that in the control group (P<0.05).

Conclusion
Nutritional weight management during pregnancy can effectively prevent the incidence of macrosomia and full-term low birth weight infants and reduce postpartum complications, and has good clinical comprehensive treatment effect, so it is worthy of clinical application.

Key words:
Pregnancy nutrition; Pregnancy weight management; Body mass index; Giant infants; Low weight infants; Pregnancy outcomes


laissez-passer or free trade, always a hallmark of Singapore, is not to be confused with laissez-faire or absence of government intervention. The government was able to attract multinationals by tightly controlling the labor market (average wages in manufacturing remain below all other occupational groups) and by providing superb infrastructure, partly financed by a compulsory savings scheme that gives Singapore the world's highest savings rate. After once-surplus Singaporean labor was absorbed into the expanding manufacturing sector, the risk of unemployment could be shifted mainly onto a large foreign work force, which the government controlled through work permits and employment contracts. At the same time, the Singapore government, totally committed to the development effort, did not hesitate to act as the entrepreneur for projects that were considered worthwhile but unlikely to be provided through the market or undesirable for foreigners to own. In early 1987 the Public Sector Divestment Committee identified more than five hundred goyernment-linked companies in Singapore. The economic dominance of foreign multinationals and an interventionist government, the main overall impression one gains from the book, gives rise to its principal policy recommendation: reduce the government's role to allow greater participation by private Singaporean entrepreneurs and enterprise. One place where this might emerge is the service sector through a resurgence of the island's "entrepot function," which Krause, echoing the words of an economic committee more than fifty years ago, considers "the backbone of the Singapore economy" (p. 2). These and other policy recommendations and conclusions do not fundamentally differ from those in the comprehensive February 1986 New Directions report of the Economic Committee. Their implementation, or not, will be one of the more interesting aspects of the post-Lee Kwan Yew government. A suggestion the new government might be excused for ignoring is for more "use of professional economists" (pp. 227, 169), in light of Singapore's past economic growth and the track record of economists elsewhere.


The article analyzes the current HR of the local healthcare organization. There was carried a SWOT-analysis of personnel management has been out, disclosed the main problems of the management system of a medical institution. Development strategies and an algorithm for improving personnel policy are formulated in order to increase the efficiency of management and the quality of medical care to the population.Purpose of the study. Is to analyze the current personnel policy, SWOT-analysis of personnel management, develop a strategies and set of practical recommendations for improving the management system of a public health institution while ensuring high quality medical services to the population.Materials and methods. An analysis of the personnel policy in a phthisiatric institution (Makeevka Municipal TB Dispensary, Donetsk region) was carried out, the heads of the main structural divisions were questioned. The analysis results are structured using the SWOT scale.Results. Based on the results of the sociological survey, the main advantages and disadvantages of personnel policy were identified, a SWOT analysis matrix was drawn up, and strategies for the development of a budgetary healthcare institution were developed. The breakthrough strategy is based on improving the material and technical base, attracting funding and investment, increasing the speed and quality of TB care at the regional level using information technology, while the survival strategy is based on increasing the income of health workers, social protection, improving working conditions and developing personnel motivation systems. The main recommendations include increasing the number of employees, creating a strategy for the formation of qualified personnel, improving the quality of the working environment, creating a favorable psycho-emotional climate, and developing an effective system of incentive payments.Conclusion. The medical industry is in dire need of modernization in order to improve personnel processes, financial, economic and regulatory support. The conducted research and developed recommendations will have a beneficial effect on the achievement of the main strategic goal - improving the health and quality of life of the population of the state.


Chlorinated hydrocarbon residues were identified in the fatty tissue of roe deer from two different populations, inhabiting respectively forest and field, and an attempt made to define carbaryl level in samples taken from the brain, lungs and testes. One of the purpose of the study was to define insecticide residue in roe deer tissues depending on the amount of plant protection preparations introduced into the habitats in which these animals live.


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To allow the hoisting motor drive system of a crane to track a load torque quickly, a linearization method was used to transform a motor nominal dynamics model into two decoupled linear rotor speed and flux linkage subsystems. The method based on the theory of differential geometry was a precise feedback method. Two active disturbance rejection controllers (ADRCs) with identical structures were designed for the rotor speed and flux linkage subsystems. The extended state observer of the ADRC could estimate the unmodeled dynamics of the motor, the variation of motor parameters due to heating, and the unknown disturbances of the motor system to determine the total disturbances of the system. A closed-loop system with ADRC and an open-loop system were compared. The motor's full-load starting time was reduced by about 50%. When the motor operated smoothly at different load rates and the rated load was suddenly applied, the electromagnetic torque fluctuation range did not exceed $20~\text {N}\cdot \text {m}$ . The rotor flux was always stable at the reference value. The motor speed decreased, but the amount of decrease did not exceed 7 rad/s. The closed-loop system had a significant energy-saving effect during the motor's starting process. The power saving rate was about 55%–59% if the motor started with a light load. The power saving rate could reach 71% if the motor started with a heavy load. The ADRC system could accurately estimate the unknown model of the rotor speed and flux linkage subsystems, and adapt to parameter variations of the motor stator and rotor resistance in the range of ±10%.


Exact expressions for the electromagnetic fields of a charged particle through a dispersive and dissipative medium have been used to calculate exact expressions for the energy loss due to distant collisions. These are evaluated using Fermi's one-oscillator approximation to the dielectric constant. For particle velocities with beta epsilon 0-1/2 the present results differ from those of these authors. It is shown that this is due to their incomplete treatment of the conditions imposed by the model for the dielectric constant. The relevance of these results to the detection of magnetic monopoles and of dyons is also discussed.


Pretrained transformers for Chinese show remarkable performances on various natural language processing tasks. However, these models are purely data-driven and fail to incorporate explicit semantic knowledge, like HowNet. In this paper, we propose H-BERT, which enhances the semantic representations of Chinese BERT by incorporating sememe knowledge from HowNet in the pretraining stage via multi-head attention. Our experiments demonstrate that HBERT can significantly outperform the vanilla BERT on the downstream tasks. Ablation study compares different settings of H-BERT and shows that and case study also shows that knowledge injection is required at both the pretraining and fine-tuning stage.


ABSTRACT Purpose: Previous studies have used subjective assessments to implicate darker skin color as a risk factor for glaucoma. This study used objective measurements to determine whether skin melanin is a risk factor for glaucoma. Methods: In a case-control study conducted at a tertiary eye hospital in Nepal, patients aged 40 years or older from the glaucoma clinic were enrolled as cases and age-matched patients without glaucoma from other clinics at the eye hospital were enrolled as controls. A colorimeter was used to capture melanin measurements in triplicate from the inner arm and forehead of each participant. The exposure variable of interest was the median skin melanin value, in arbitrary units. The outcome of interest was the presence of glaucoma. Results: 100 glaucoma cases and 100 matched controls were enrolled. Agreement between the triplicate melanin measurements was high, with an intra-class correlation of 0.99 (95% CI, 0.99–0.99) for inner arm measurements and 0.97 (95% CI 0.96–0.98) for forehead measurements. Mean inner arm melanin values were 604 units (standard deviation [SD] 177) in cases and 602 units (SD 179) in controls; forehead values were 650 (SD 146) in cases and 652 (SD 152) in controls. After adjusting for sex and country of residence, skin melanin was not associated with the presence of glaucoma (odds ratio 1.04, 95%CI 0.78–1.38 for inner arm values and 0.97, 95%CI 0.70–1.35 for forehead values). Conclusion: This study failed to find a significant association between skin pigmentation and glaucoma.


The invention relates to bi-directional optical fiber links: it relates more particularly to an optical coupler between a light emitting idea emission and detection photodiode. The optoelectronic component according to the invention comprises a light emitting diode LED 2 said encapsulated in a housing 19 + 20 transistor casing type, whose cover carries a microlens 21 on the optical axis of the housing. Inside the housing are integrated: a photodiode 5, mounted next to the LED 2 and outside the optical axis, a semi-transparent mirror 27 and a support 32 of mirror 27, this support being machined so as to forming a second mirror 28 which reflects the detection light to the detection diode 5. Application to bidirectional optical links, computer or telephone exchanges. (CF DRAWING IN BOPI)