Growing up in the small River Murray town of Wellington, South Australia as the twentieth century turned, Henrietta (Ruth) Sabina Heathcock (nee Rayney) enjoyed a childhood shaped as much by Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal friends and elders, as by her close-knit Anglo-Irish family. The Rayney family lived on the eastern, Aboriginal, side of town, where Ngarrindjeri had lived for millennia, and where, in the 1880s, a group of Ngarrindjeri families from nearby Point McLeay Mission had been granted hard-won title to farm the land and raise their families (Jenkin 1979, 229-231). Wellington, indeed, was one of a number of pockets across colonial Australia where lived processes of negotiation and exchange between Aboriginal peoples and newcomers blurred social boundaries and mapped dynamic inter-cultural terrains on the frontier (see for example Hughes 2012, Balint 2012, Ryan 2011, Landon and Tonkin 1999, Yu 1994). Reflecting on her childhood friendships forged at Wellington in the first two decades of the 1900s, Ruth Heathcock recalled, 'I went to school with Aboriginal children. Skin colour? It was all the same to me. I didn't even know it existed' (Hughes 1986).In the following article I explore continuities in the nature of cross-cultural intimacy over time by examining the friendships that Ruth Heathcock sustained with Aboriginal people at Wellington, and later across a range of other sites. These played out against a backdrop of restrictive race-based legislation that attempted to foreclose possibilities for such connectivity in early and mid-twentieth century Australia.As a white female child born at the stroke of Australian federation, January 1901, Ruth's destiny was supposed to take a profoundly different turn, prescribed by prevailing ideas around whiteness, race and gender that underpinned the policies of a nascent nation, excluding Aboriginal people from its symbolic borders (Hughes 2012, Grimshaw 2004). In his survey of recent transnational literature on settler colonialism, Scott Morgenson highlights the importance scholars have placed on gender and sexuality as 'intrinsic to the colonisation of indigenous peoples and the promulgation of European modernity by settlers' (Morgenson 2012: 3). Earlier, invoking her cogent phrase 'the white woman's burden', Antoinette Burton identified the expected role for white women in the colonial regime as that of 'civilising' the 'other', pivotal to an oppressive intersection of patriarchal and colonial hierarchies (Burdon 1992: 23-25). This point is echoed by Ann Laura Stoler in her call for scholars to attend more closely to the intimate dimensions of colonialism, and how 'sex, sentiment, domestic arrangements, and child rearing figure in the making of racial categories and in the management of imperial rule' [emphasis mine] (Stoler 2006: 23). Conversely, though, as I aim to show, it is possible to trace how the intimacies of women's friendships forged across the colonial and neo-colonial divide might also give rise to more subversive creolised or hybrid domestic arrangements and enable child rearing practices that destabilise established power relationships, unravel racial categories, and disrupt 'imperial rule'.In doing so, I explore some influences of the interwoven world of Heathcock's childhood and its many afterlives through a fabric of relationships across a range of historical and contemporary 'contact zones' (Pratt cited in Allen 2001: 5). I focus particularly on how the influence of intimate friendships forged with Aboriginal children and their families in the critical years of her early childhood informed an alternative, 'creolised' sense of personhood, and an evolving commitment towards an indigenised framework of relationality. Ruth's long life, covering all but six years of the twentieth century, played out, for the most part, atypically and in remarkable contradistinction to patriarchal assumptions on white girlhood and womanhood at the time of federation referred to above. …


Much of the pre®ailing connectionist machine learning research in chemical engineering assumes a one-way passi®e relationship between the learner and the application domain. This article in®estigates a two-way acti®e relationship between learner and domain. An acti®e relationship is useful and e®en necessary if the pre®ailing research is to be successfully applied to real-world problems in®ol®ing sparse and strongly biased data. A process de®elopment case study is used to illustrate the impact of data quality and quantity and to compare the performance of acti®e learning against con®entional passi®e learning. This study highlights on the need to assess data quality and demonstrates the impro®ements in the rate of acti®e learning.


PurposeTotal quality management is a valuable approach to continuously improve the quality of organizations; however, scholars debate its applicability to services, which require specific best practices that are different from those related to manufacturing. Moreover, digitization is pervading all kinds of services, but little has been written about total quality service practices in digital-based companies. For this purpose, the authors provide a holistic model of total quality service that reflects the peculiarities of such companies, guided by the question: how do total quality service practices change in digital-based service organizations?Design/methodology/approachThe authors conduct an illustrative case study on Healthware Group, a global integrated digital health organization, to evaluate theoretical assumptions about total quality service practices in the digital environment.FindingsThe findings allow to validate the model provided. In addition, the study enables them to observe the changes the authors are witnessing in service provision in the digital era and the consequent transformation of best practices. To be accurate, the authors cannot refer to a full transformation in digital-based companies but rather to the enrichment and extension of TQS practices. The best illustration of these conclusions has been summarized in a set of propositions corresponding to seven of the key levers of a TQS model.Originality/valueThe paper represents the first attempt to discuss the relationship between total quality service and digitalization, offering a set of propositions for academics and insights for practitioners. The model can be used as a tool to visualize the different levers that successful implementation of TQS in digital-based services companies can rely on.


Recent findings showed severe localized corrosion of submerged steel bridge piles in a Florida bridge and was associated with microbial activity in the presence of marine foulers. Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) can cause severe degradation of submerged steel infrastructure with the presence of biofilm associated with microorganisms such as sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB). Coatings have been developed to mitigate MIC and marine fouling. Coating degradation and disbondment can occur as a result of microbial attack due to the production of metabolites that degrade coating chemical and physical properties. In the work described here, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) was conducted to identify microbial activity and degradation of an antifouling coating exposed to SRB-inoculated modified Postgate B solution. The measurements resulted in complicated impedance with multiple loops in the Nyquist diagram associated with the coating material, development of surface layers (biofilm), and the steel interface. Deconvolution of the impedance results and fitting to equivalent circuit analogs were made to identify coating characteristics and surface layer formation. EIS test results revealed coating degradation and subsequent formation of surface layers associated with SRB due to coating self-polishing and depletion of biocide components.


BACKGROUND: The UK has more than 19 million people aged over 50, including about 9.4 million aged over 65. Demographic changes will lead to increases in the over-50 population of 10% and 25% by 2010 and 2020, respectively. There are already 3 million UK residents with osteoporosis, but the prevalence of osteoporosis increases with age, and the public health impact of osteoporosis will increase substantially over the next 20 years. OBJECTIVE: To predict fracture numbers and corresponding costs for men and women aged 50–99 years in the UK for the years 2000 to 2020. METHODS: A Markov model was designed to simulate the natural history of osteoporosis within the UK population. Inputs to the model included age/sex specific fracture incidence rates, published unit costs for different fracture types (hip, vertebral, forearm/wrist, other), age/sex specific mortality rates, and age/sex specific population totals. Total fracture numbers were adjusted using published site-specific attribution figures to identify the number that were a consequence of osteoporosis. Iteration techniques were employed across ages 50–99 in men and women, to generate the distribution of prevalence-based estimates of fractures and costs for the base year 2000. Osteoporosis costs and fracture numbers were then projected into future years by applying growth rates in age/sex specific population totals to these year 2000 estimates. RESULTS: In 2000 there were 190,000 osteoporosis-related fractures at a cost of £1.8 billion. Men accounted for 32,000 fractures and £330 million. By 2020, annual osteoporotic fracture numbers increased by over 21% to 230,000, with costs growing by 20% to over £2.1 billion. Cumulative totals for 2000–2010 were 2.2 million fractures and £20.3 billion. CONCLUSIONS: Osteoporotic fractures will have substantial and increasing impacts on UK health services unless highly effective preventative interventions achieve widespread use.


The Singapore Port Institute (SPI), the training and development arm of the Port of Singapore Authority, offers management development programmes tailored to needs of regional maritime‐industry entities, public and private. This article describes the genesis of the Institute and the development of one such programme, indicative of the management development niche which the SPI seeks to fill.


The invention provides a method and a system for removing noise by controlling a lens iris. Provided is a noise-removing system including: an iris controller configured to control a degree of openness of a lens iris; a noise image analyzer configured to perform an analysis of a noise image that is obtained in a state when the iris controller closes the iris; a normal image analyzer configured to analyze a normal image that is obtained in a state when the iris controller opens the iris; and a noise remover configured to remove noise from an image, based on a result of the analysis performed by the noise image analyzer and the analysis performed by the normal image analyzer.


Recent studies on the geometric inequality for the n-dimensional simplex produce many important geometric inequalities;however,the study on the problem of the geometric inequality for the pedal simplex has been very few.In this paper,by using the analytic method and the theory of the geometric inequality,the problem of the geometric inequality for the pedal simplex of a simplex in En is discussed,and some inequalities for the volumes of a simplex and its pedal simplex are established.As the special case,some known inequalities for the volumes of the simplex and its pedal simplex are improved.At the same time,a class of inequalities for the vertex angle and the dihedral angle of the n-dimensional simplex are got in the proving of main results.


GUNAL, UGUR. The Effectiveness of Global Difference Value Prediction And Memory Bus Priority Schemes for Speculative Prefetch. (Under the direction of Dr. Thomas M. Conte.) Processor clock speeds have drastically increased in the recent years. However, the cycle time improvement in the DRAM semiconductor technology used for memories has been comparatively slow. The expanding processor – memory gap encourages developers to find aggressive techniques to reduce the latency of memory accesses. Value prediction is a powerful approach to break true data dependencies. Prefetching is another technique, which aims to reduce the processor stall time by bringing data into the cache before it is accessed by the processor. Recovery-free value prediction [26] scheme combines these two techniques and uses value prediction only for prefetching so that the need for validation of predictions and a recovery mechanism for mispredictions are eliminated. In this thesis, the effectiveness of using global difference value prediction for recoveryfree speculative execution is studied. A bus model is added for modeling the buses in the memory system. Three bus priority schemes, First Come First Served (FCFS), Real Access First Served (RAFS) and Prefetch Access First Served (PAFS), are proposed and their performance potentials are evaluated when a stride and a hybrid global difference predictor (hgDiff) is used. The results show that the recovery-free speculative execution using value prediction is a promising technique that increases the performance significantly (up to 10%), and this increase depends on the bus priority scheme and the predictor used. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GLOBAL DIFFERENCE VALUE PREDICTION AND MEMORY BUS PRIORITY SCHEMES FOR SPECULATIVE PREFETCH


Social choice theory extends information economics to the context of group or societal decision-making. The underlying assumption is that we do not know the preferences of individuals, but we want to use them to make decisions. The overarching question is whether it is possible to design decision-making rules or systems that will both encourage individuals to reveal their preferences and then use that information to make a reasonable decision. The general approach to the problem is …rst to study decision rules in the case of complete information about preferences and to identify a set of rules that satis…es particular desirable properties. Then, we turn back to the question of incentives for individuals to reveal information about their preferences to determine when it is a Nash equilibrium to reveal information honestly in voting (as an example of a rule for how societies make decisions in practice). An important observation is that the incentives to reveal information are bound up completely with how that information will be used in the societal decision. In general, a societal decision rule that has good properties for the case of complete information will also provide incentives for individuals to reveal their preferences honestly in voting. However, a societal decision rule that does not have good properties for the case of complete information about individual preferences, will provide incentives for people to conceal their preferences, i.e. by voting "dishonestly". Thus it makes sense to start with the decision rule and work backwards to incentives. There is another underlying assumption, which is that the attributes of available alternatives are known to everyone. It is not possible, for example, that one person is an expert whose opinion is more informed than everyone else's. The only uncertainty is how individuals value the alternatives. Throughout this discussion, we will (mostly) sidestep the question of strength of preferences. We 175


[Objective]This study provided reference for rooting in vitro of Pelargonium gravelens. [Method]The regenerated shoots were cultured on MS medium with different concentrations of NAA,IAA,IBA and PP333. [Results]The same rooting rate reached 100 percent based on all of the concentrations from 0. 05 mg/L to 0. 10 mg/L of NAA,IAA,IBA and PP333,but there were many differences in average root length,average root number,water content and seedling height. [Conclusion]The best medium to the root induction of Pelargonium graveolen were 0. 10 mg/L IAA and 0. 10 mg/L PP333.


The internal arc tests of compact substations to prove the safety of personnel in case of internal arcs can be divided in two separate tests if there are maximum permitted values of pressure stress in the different compartments. To ensure that the pressure stress is lower than the pressure withstand capability, pressure relief devices and pressure reducing means are necessary. Under these conditions, the pressure withstand capability of the housing of the compact substation and the incorporated medium voltage switchgear can be tested with simplified, minor expensive tests. However, tests to prove the impact of hot arc gases requires tests under real conditions.


A composite model with hypercolor group being semi-simple gauge group is dis-cussed. A SU(4)×SU(4) composite model with confining weak interactions is propos-ed, which gives three families of light fermions.


In this paper, we study the coverage and performance improvements that can be achieved by using smart antenna systems in the CDMA2000 1X network. We present a simulation model and an evaluation method for the smart antenna systems in the CDMA systems. We propose a method that can show the impact of smart antenna systems on the E/sub C//I/sub 0/ ratio. We consider the data service users as well as the voice service users. We derive the E/sub C//I/sub 0/ and data throughput. The simulation results of the cell coverage area and radius are also presented as a function of the antenna types and beam width. The simulation results show that the performance improvements are remarkable if the smart antenna systems are used for data service users. From the simulation results we discuss the impact of smart antenna systems on the cell coverage area, the average E/sub C//I/sub 0/ ratio, data throughput and so forth.


The population condition of Wuhan city was investigated.Coupled with the related theories on population features,a comprehensive assessment system was established and the weight of each indicator was determined by entropy-weighted technique.Based on the statistical data of year 1995,2000,2005,2008 of Wuhan and the data from the developed county,the population features of Wuhan were analyzed and compared with that of the developed countries.The Wuhan′s disadvantages on population were figured out and suggestions to the population development of Wuhan were presented.


The article is aimed to study the influential factors of the deep mining environment on the outburst of the working range in the deep mine by using the analytical model based on the elastic mechanics. In so doing,we have analyzed the stress distribution in the stressed surface of six micro units and established a balanced equation of stress distributions in x-axial direction.Since the stress distribution of the mining face tends to be extremely complex and complicated for analysis,we have managed to build up a kind of simplified model in hoping to reflect and represent the stress balance in the x-axial direction of the working range in the mine based on the scientific research assumption and reasonable classification of the internal mining-ground stress and gas pressure. Based on our research results,an assumption has been put forward that the coal and gas outburst in the working face in a large coal mine tends to take place in the x-axial direction and the maximum stressed gradient of coal and gas outburst tends to develop in the x-axial direction,whereas it is possible to ignore the stress gradient in the y and z direction. As is well known,since the stress distribution in the relation to the stress gradient in y and z direction had well been discussed and analyzed in the technical literatures and many documents,that is why what we have to do is just to make a research review and establish a simplified model founded on the mutual relation between the influential factors. Thus,it can be seen that the aforementioned simplified model of ours has been built up while taking into account the mining pressure theory and the coal and gas stress distribution theory in relation to the actual mining working face particularities.That is to say,the model has well been laid out on the three axial stresses: the gas pressure,the crucial internal ground stress of the mine,and the condition of the destruction of coal seam and gas-evolution balanced status-in-situ,in addition to the relation between the gas pressure and the coal wall-supporting force. The results have shown that it is the threshold of the gas pressure outburst that is potential to determine the crust stress of the mine,the strength of the supporting force and the mechanical parameters of the outburst probability. Therefore, all the aforementioned comprehensive analysis of all the influential factors have contributed to the formulation,derivation and modification of the key parameters of our prediction and analysis model of the deep mining environment on the outburst of the working range in the deep mine. The given study example shows that the deviation and danger may come about without considering the above said stress impacts on the coal and gas outburst forecast,and the likely error analysis and correction can be realized through building up and modification of certain qualified established models.


One can only know where a rock bridge is once one measures it. In addition, to measure it, you need the rock mass to fail. This critical problem is ignored by many, and engineers continue to refer to rock bridges as geometrical distances between non-persistent fractures. This paper argues that this rather simplistic approach can lead to non-realistic failure mechanisms. We also raise the critical question of whether the inappropriate functioning of strength equations centred on the measurement of rock bridge percentages could result in misinterpreting the risk of failure. We propose a new interpterion, aptly called the Bologna Interpretation, as an analogy to the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics, to highlight the indeterministic nature of rock bridges and to honour the oldest university in Europe (Bologna University). The Bologna Interpretation does not negate the existence of rock bridges. What rock bridges look like, how many there are, and where they are, we do not know; we can assume their existence and account for their contribution to rock mass strength using a potential analogue.


Federated multi-task learning (FMTL) is a promising edge learning framework to fit the data with non-independent and non-identical distribution (non-i.i.d.) by exploiting the correlations of personalized models. In many practical systems, the sensory data distribution in wireless systems is not only heterogeneous but also non-stationary due to the mobility of terminals and the randomness of link connections. The non-stationary heterogeneous data may lead to model divergence and staleness in the training stage and poor accuracy in the inference stage. In this paper, we design an adaptive FMTL framework, which can work in a non-stationary environment. We propose to optimize the model update scheme and cluster splitting scheme in the training stage to accelerate model convergencse when the training data are non-stationary. We further design a low-complexity model selection scheme in both the training and the inference stages to choose the best model for fitting the current data. The proposed framework is validated in two scenarios, linear regression and graph neural network (GNN)-based power control in wireless device-to-device (D2D) networks. Both sets of numerical results demonstrate that the proposed framework can accelerate the model training convergence and reduce the computation complexity while ensuring model accuracy.


The aim of this work is to describe the paleoenvironment and cultural landscape near the archaeological site of "Vasca Inferiore di Noceto" (an artificial basin) in about one century during the Bronze Age (1420-1320 BC). The study of the ecological-floristic characters revealed by pollen analysis (pollen, spore of Monilophytes s.l. and Briophytes s.l. and nonpollen palynomorphs–NPPs) allowed to distinguish the past biodiversity and ecological successions that are typical of natural or human-induced wet environments. This research provides new biological information to an archaeological context, discovered in 2004, through a detailed analysis of plant cover near the site. The low forest cover and signs of human activity (with evidence from Corylus, cereals and synanthropic plants) are at the base of pollen spectra. Data permit to investigate the complex relationships between this basin and human activity, and the human impact on landscape. Keywords—pollen, NPPs, landscape reconstruction, archaeobotany, Po Plain, Bronze Age


The author provides us here with a rare and original testimony about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, from the trips he was able to make there and the many contacts he had there. He focuses the readers' attention more particularly on his interpretation of Juche's thinking, the principles of which contribute to find the development strategy of this country. The emphasis is primarily on the imperative of autonomy for the economy and the society.


The aim in this study was to explore a different approach to examine the influence of culture on accounting practice by adapting Schwartz's (1992) universal structure of individual-level human motivational values to the domain of accounting. A mail survey was conducted on accountants in Malaysia to obtain their attitudes, beliefs and opinions about their motivational goals, and their interpretations and judgments in financial reporting. The results reveal a set of individual-level accounting motivational values that is a more comprehensive and theoretically valid representation of the accounting sub-culture compared to the Hofstede-Gray framework. Significant relationships were found linking the accountants' motivational values with their interpretations and judgments in financial reporting. Empirical evidence of cultural diversity within the accounting sub-culture was also found. Although the low response rate was a problem, the consistency of the respondents' demographic profile with the population and the insignificant non-response bias suggest that the results are generalisable. The discovery of the accounting motivational values has contributed to the understanding of the depth, richness and complexity of the accounting sub-culture and its effects on accounting practice. As an individual-level construct, the motivational values can be applied to explain the influence of culture on judgments and decisions in accounting. The existence of cultural diversity within the accounting sub-culture provides evidence of the importance of intra-country cultural variations. The knowledge of the accounting motivational values and its effects on judgments and decisions have important implications to the global drive for convergence in accounting and auditing practices, as well as the formulation of accounting education and professional development strategies.


Elevated structure structures are both a need and a matter of advancement and pride for auxiliary architects. Powers of nature as quakes and typhoons begins playing merciless games with the structures, higher the structure goes, and higher it pulls in the powers and fury of nature as seismic power. Seismic power, prevalently being an inactivity power relies upon the mass of the structure causing necessity of heavier segments as mass increments. Also, these substantial areas further increment the mass of the structure prompting significantly heavier seismic powers. Basic fashioners are met with gigantic test to adjust these opposing physical wonders to make the structure safe. The structure no more can bear to be inflexible. In late year, it is basic practice to introduce vibration control gadgets on structures to relieve their dynamic reaction brought about by various components, for the most part because of wind and tremor excitations. Among these gadgets, tuned mass dampers (TMD) have been broadly utilized in working to moderate unique reactions of structures. As the auxiliary unpredictability of structures increment, their reaction to such excitations may turn out to be more inclined to torsional movement. Torsional movement actuated by such excitations can be smothered by using TMDs. The exhibition of TMD at various positions are significant for torsionally coupled structures. In this examination, the presentation of bi-directional tuned mass dampers (BTMD) in lessening the torsional reaction of a structure under bi-directional seismic tremor excitations was contemplated and assessed.


Abstract : The 0-0 band of the 2 delta-2II transition of CH has been remeasured from high-dispersion plates and more precise values of the lambda doubling in the 2II state have been determined. From these optical measurements, the transition between the two components of the lowest rotational level can be predicted to lie at 3 400 Mc/sec. The possibility of finding CH and also other molecules in interstellar space by radio-frequency astronomical observations is discussed. (Author)


Driving simulation platform is the first and most advanced platform for traffic research in China.How to use the advanced equipments for the experimental teaching and how to improve the equipment value and student' s ability are vital problems.In this paper,after exploring and practicing in college students' experimental course by the traffic simulator platform,we summarize some available ways and experience for opening experiment teaching.It indicates that equipment and platforms are very important in expanding students' knowledge,applying their theoretical knowledge into practice,especially in improving their innovation ability and comprehensive quality.


The diagnostic Profile which we have set up serves the systematic assessment of childhood disturbances by seeing the picture of any given child against the background of a developmental norm into which the state of his inner agencies, his various functions, conflicts, attitudes, and achievements have to be fitted. In our psychoanalytic theory such developmental sequences are laid down so far as certain circumscribed parts of the child's personality are concerned. With regard to the development of the sexual drive, for example, we possess the sequence of libidinal phases (oral, anal, phallic, latency period, preadolescence, adolescent genitality) which, in spite of considerable overlapping, correspond roughly with specific ages. With regard to the aggressive drive we are already less precise and are usually content to correlate specific aggressive expressions with specific libidinal phases (such as biting, spitting, devouring with orality; sadistic torturing, hitting, kicking, destroying with anality; overbearing, domineering, forceful behavior with the phallic phase;


The users of Guangdong Net Library are divided into three groups: common users, librarians and decision-makers. The functions of Guangdong Net Library are designed in regard to the needs of each group as common users' library portal, librarians' specialized work platform and library decision-makers' electronic government platform. It integrates the three functions into Guangdong Net Library management system.


The impact of additives montmorillonite (MMT) and LiCl on PVDF membrane performance was studied. As it can be seen that the two addition particles caused a strong increase of the viscosity, which is helpful to the taking shape of membrane. The pseudoplastic fluid characteristic has been showed in PVDF/MMT/DMAC. Viscosity of PVDF/LiCl/DMAC fluid agrees with the characteristic of the Expansibility fluid well. At the same time addition have some influence on the membrane formation. It can be seen from the phase diagram that two additions shift the binodal's position and the water tolerance decreased. LiCl can cause the function of congealing more strongly than MMT as the additive. The max retention of PEG20000 and oil/water mixture is amount to 95.2%, 90.56% in Right amount of matching; The DSC curves showed that in the MMT/PVDF composite membrane of the crystal degree was less than that of LiCl/PVDF. The former heat stability of is better that the latter from TG picture's.


Insulin resistance is well established to be related with preeclampsia. The action of insulin in human appears to be potentiated by chromium. The aim of present study was assessment of chromium level in the development of insulin resistance in preeclampsia and hence its pathogenesis . This case control study was achieved on subjects recruited from Babylon Teaching Hospital for Obstetric & Gynecology during the period between September 2013 till October 2015, included 90 pregnant women, 45 of them identified with preeclampsia in the third trimester and other 45 were apparently healthy pregnant women taken as a controls. Chromium concentrations was measured by Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry. Fasting insulin was estimated by Enzyme Linked Flouroscent Immune-Assay (ELFA) technique and fasting plasma glucose concentration by glucose oxidase method. Insulin resistance was calculated by homeostatic model assessment(HOMA)using mathematical equation. The results of present study showed no significant difference in fasting plasma glucose concentrations between patients and controls (P value >0.05),while there were a significant differences in chromium concentration level and insulin resistance between two groups (P value <0.05).However, there was no correlation between insulin resistance in patients with preeclampsia and low chromium level (r= 0.101, p=0.508). The present study concluded that low chromium level has no impact on the development of insulin resistance in preeclampsia.


Stochastic Control and Games Under Arbitrarily Dependent Noises.- Stochastic Games with Risk Sensitive Payoffs for N Players.- An Overall View of Stochastics in Colombeau Related Algebras.- On Metrics for Tangent Processes on the Path Space.- Weak Approximation for Semilinear Stochastic Evolution Equations.- Exponential Type Decrease of the Density for Jump Processes with Singular Levy Measures in Small Time.- Controllability and Observability of Linear Stochastic Systems in Hilbert Spaces.- Exact Computation of Spectral Densities for a Langevin Dynamic Modelling the Relaxation of a Protein near its Equilibrium.- Quasi-invariance for Levy Processes under Anticipating Shifts.- Gaussian Measure of the Intersection of Two Absolutely Convex Sets.


According to the theory, about the increasing utmost point of the regional ecnomic development and comprelensive conditions in Harbin,Harbin may be the new utmost point in Northeast,even in the mid of China in the 21st century.Because of various reasons ,Harbin should develope in the way of "Be utmost point by oneself" by making the development theory in greening the city,by promting the city with the scientific,by creating and making the utmost point.


The new leaching technology, i.e. acid leaching under pressure, that is used on high iron containing sphalerite, is introduced. The test results show the zinc leached rate in first step is more than 95%, and it is more than 98% on the second step, so the two step leaching process can achieve the following targets: zinc and iron leached selectivity and reduce the acidity of the leaching solution.


The internal space-time symmetries of relativistic particles are dic-tated by Wigner's little groups. The O (3)-like little group for a massive particle at rest and the E (2)-like little group of a massless particle are two different manifestations of the same covariant little group. Likewise, the quark model and parton pictures are two different manifestations of the one covariant entity.


A simple amplifier is used for electronic recording of aphid penetration behaviour. Several different patterns of electrical signal are described, some of which can be correlated with different aspects of feeding behaviour.


somewhat wide chronological period. Its effective range is the construction of churches and particularly, the development of domed spaces with their different geometric-constructive variations with relation to precise aesthetical and functional instances. The objective is the definition of a field of investigation around the potentials of the «built form», that is the result of a compositive process through the coding of architectural rules. The substantial predilection by the architects and the master builders for the construction of the dome —seen as the symbol of the divine perfection— sets matters of coherence in the composition among this form and the other spaces of the church. During the 4th and the 5 centuries religious buildings were principally longitudinal spaces covered by barrel vaults and the dome was used only in small cruciform buildings used as funerary chapels or martyria. The 6 and the 7 centuries were characterized by an enormous spreading of domed buildings. The regular celebration of the liturgy needs a longitudinal, east-west oriented plan. The dome introduces another principle: a radial form generated around a vertical central axis. The different compounds among liturgical rules and architectural forms produce different typologies. Armenian architects built both longitudinal churches, introducing the dome in the middle, and central plan churches in which the vertical axis of the dome coincides with the centre of the entire composition. There is not chronological evolution, but they contemporarily experienced different architectural types. The selection of cases-study that symbolize this phenomenon allows the understanding of the geometric and structural principles that lie under the built monument. Each case-study has been «divided» into its architectural elements and re-assembled using geometric rules and designing proportions. Beginning from a constructive technique that entrusts the resistance of the entire building to the performances of a stone and mortar core, Armenian builders develop a particular designing skill.


Leflunomide is a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Cytochromes P450, mainly CYP1A2 and CYP2C19 might be involved in the transformation of leflunomide to leflunomide metabolite (A77 1726). The aim of this study was to investigate if genetic polymorphisms in CYP1A2 and CYP2C19 influence leflunomide pharmacokinetics, treatment response and the occurrence of adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The study included 67 RA patients and 4 patients with polyarthritis resembling RA and psoriasis treated with leflunomide. A77 1726 steady-state plasma concentrations were determined by validated HPLC with UV detection. A population pharmacokinetic model was developed to estimate the oral clearance (CL/F) and volume of distribution (V/F). A genotyping approach was used to determine C-163A, C-729T and T-739G in the CYP1A2 gene as well as SNPs that characterize CYP2C19 *2 , *3 , *4 and *17 alleles. A large inter-individual variability in trough A77 1726 steady-state plasma concentrations was observed (from 1.9 to 156.9 mg/L). A77 1726 CL/F was 71% higher in carriers of CYP2C19*2 allele compared to non-carriers. A77 1726 average steady-state plasma concentration was associated with the treatment response. Patients with greater decrease in C-reactive protein (CRP) had higher average steady-state plasma A77 1726 concentrations, 49.7±39.0 mg/L in patients with Δ CRP of more than 8.5 mg/L compared to 24.8±13.7 mg/L in patients with Δ CRP of less or equal to 8.5 mg/L (p = 0.015). No association of A77 1726 steady-state plasma concentrations with the occurrence of ADRs was observed. Our results suggest that genetic variability in leflunomide-metabolizing enzymes influence leflunomide metabolite concentrations that


SOME apology is demanded from one who would venture yet again to write on this controversial subject, but the problem has interested me for a quarter of a century, and my own attitude towards the question has altered more than once during the years that have elapsed since the last Armageddon. I offer no excuse for changes in outlook that have from time to time controlled my scalpel, for no surgeon worthy of the name remains intransigently and adamantly bound to some particular line of therapeutic conduct which he may have cherished or championed heretofore, nor should his attitude towards any problem be crystallized beyond the power of reasoned persuasion ; greater knowledge, and widened experience laudably modify opinions that formerly held sway. The problem of the surgery of haemorrhage from chronic peptic ulcer was discussed at considerable length by the writer (1937) in a previous number of the BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY, to which the reader is referred. To many of the opinions expressed therein the author still adheres ; a natural repugnance to mere repetition and the restrictions of space imposed by paper shortage suggest reference to previous communications by the writer (1935, 1937, 1939) on the subject, but there are other former views which require modification in the light of the more recent results of competent modern medical therapy. Even before the outbreak of the present war, surgical interest in ulcer-hzmorrhage had fortunately produced certain important repercussions, including a re-awakening of medical enthusiasm over the treatment of this group of patients, greater vigilance and alertness in the medical observation and conduct of such cases, the exploration of new methods of assessment of the amount of bleeding in progress and its effect on the organism, the scientific employment of replacement-fluids of various kinds, including blood, and an earlier recourse to gastric feeding. Therapeutic opinion still varies as to the amount of blood which should be administered by drip transfusion j computations of blood volume are now appraised as of greater accuracy than haemoglobin readings in estimating severity of blood-loss in the early hours of the cataclysmic catastrophe. Especially in recurrent haemorrhage, an estimate of the calibre of the artery bleeding in the base of the ulcer has sometimes been tentatively adumbrated by means of repeated blood-volume analysis, and more than an occasional appeal to surgery from the physician has been thereby evoked. The efforts of medical colleagues, more especially those under whose care in the Courtauld Research Wards of Middlesex Hospital during normal peace-time conditions were segregated many of the severe ulcer


In diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMSs), extended sp-carriers strongly couple with localized d-electrons of transition metal ions. This sp-d exchange interaction causes interesting magneto-optical phenomena of DMSs. Large Faraday effect of Cd1-xMnxTe can be used for an integration of magneto-optical waveguide with semiconductor optical devices. The sp-d exchange interaction can be used for the manipulation of the motion of Mn2+ in Cd1-xMnxTe by ultrafast laser pulses. We also discuss magneto-optical properties of new DMSs.


Factor VIII procoagulant protein (VIII:C) purified from commercial factor VIII concentrate contained multiple polypeptides ranging in mol wt from 79,000 to 188,000, all of which were removed from solution by a monoclonal anti-VIII:C antibody specific for a thrombin-sensitive epitope. In a time-course digest of the purified VIII:C using a trace amount of purified human alpha-thrombin, changes occurred in all VIII:C polypeptides during the activation and inactivation of VIII:C activity. The generation and destruction of a mol wt 92,000 polypeptide paralleled the increase and decrease in VIII:C activity, suggesting that this polypeptide represents an activated form. These results provide the basis for a working hypothesis for the mechanism of thrombin activation of VIII:C.


A modification of the so-called Tulip antenna is presented in order to achieve band-notch characteristics. A parametric study is done on various dimensions of the resonator. A design procedure emerged from this parametric study. Finally the designed antenna is fabricated and measured to approve the design procedure.


The authors would like to make an e-learning application program that can be used as a means of intro- duction of numbers, letters, shapes and colors with images and sounds that help children easily recognize and know the types in the developing child's learning ability. At this writing, the rst step of making the program is to collect el- ements needed to create an e-learning application and then proceed to combine these elements. The author merge to use the software Macromedia Flash Professional 8. This provides an introduction to scienti c writing numbers, let- ters, shapes, and colors through interactive images are in- tended for children. E-learning applications is useful as a means of learning and play are useful in the development of children under 6 years of age so that they are able to develop their intellect and imagination. In addition this ap- plication also useful as an initial means of learning about computers for young children, so hopefully they'll get used to in terms of using computers.


ABSTRACT - It may be noted that the growth of NLP applications in Sanskrit is hindered due to unavailability of online lexical resources. It is very difficult to prepare online lexical resources as it is a time consuming task and needs lot of expertise in both computer science and Sanskrit Grammar.  One such lexical resource is annotated corpus for Sanskrit. Hence building a large annotated corpora which is very much essential for advanced NLP processing tasks and it is  a prime step towards building NLP applications with less time and cost. One goal of this work is to build a data-driven  POS tagger for Sanskrit using existing algorithms which are language and  tag set independent. It is very easy to apply these taggers to new languages, domains, tag sets provided we have correctly annotated training corpus.  They are freely available on the net. One such tagger is Brill's tagger.   The accuracy of the tagger when applied to different European languages is above 95%.  In this paper Brill's Transformation Rule-based Learning (TBL) tagger was tested and adapted for Sanskrit.  It was shown that the present system does not obtain a very high accuracy but results were still promising with an average accuracy of 60%. Key Words : Sanskrit  POS tagging, Annotating Sanskrit texts, Transformation Based Learning


Abstract Alpha-1 antitrypsin (α1AT) deficiency is a common autosomal recessive disorder characterized by a marked reduction in serum α1AT levels, lung and liver disease. α1AT is mainly produced and secreted by hepatocytes, with its primary function to protect the lung against the proteolytic activity of neutrophil elastase. Serum α1AT levels <11 μM are associated with progressive destruction of lung parenchyma and early-onset of panacinar emphysema in the age range 35–45. The current approved treatment for α1AT deficiency is a costly protein augmentation therapy requiring weekly intravenous infusion of purified α1AT from pooled human plasma. Gene therapy offers the advantage of a single vector administration, eliminating the burden of the repeated purified protein infusions, with the consequent reduced overall drug cost and improved compliance. We have developed a novel, highly efficient gene therapy approach for α1AT deficiency based on the administration of AAVrh.10hα1AT, an adeno-associated viral vecto...


Cloud computing is a fast growing technology, so many users rushed to adopt this latest technology. This technology make data holder possible to outsource his/her data on cloud for the public access. But information on cloud may contain sensitive data so there is need to protect it. So the best way is Data holder should encrypt data before uploading his data on cloud. However this will significantly lower the usability of outsourced data as it will be much harder for user to search for query over encrypted data so to solve this problem the idea of research is firstly to find relevant score of keywords, which will enhance actual search of keywords. Secondly, research will present very capable searching scheme which will include multiple-keyword searching i.e. complex queries containing logical operations can be searched. Thirdly, idea is to have sophisticated indexing framework by categorizing subdictionaries skills. Furthermore, research also aims at providing fault tolerance to the system which is achieved by sending notification to the data owner when unauthenticated user try to edit data of data holder from cloud. System can be used for any search engine or manly useful for big companies or organizations where there is need to store large and sensitive data. Thus, system will provide Fault tolerance and an efficient multi-keyword retrieval over encrypted cloud data.


With the current focus on water reuse projects and the role they play in the water cycle, the search for cost competitive advanced wastewater treatment technologies has never before been so important. The membrane bioreactor (MBR) process is an emerging advanced wastewater treatment technology that has been successfully applied at an ever-increasing number of locations around the world. In addition to their steady increase in number, MBR installations are also increasing in terms of scale. This paper describes the treatment of wastewater with membrane technology in view of its reuse for applications, which do not require potable water quality.


Provided is a radiograph display system that carries out control in such a manner that imaging is continuously performed by an electronic cassette, and if a condition is established in which the number of pixels (number of bins), which are read through the synthesis of charges by thin-film transistors contained in a plurality of adjacent pixels in the electronic cassette, has increased, a frame image combined with a still image obtained by performing imaging immediately before said condition is established, in other words, a still image in which there is no disturbance of the display image, is displayed until the frame image of a predetermined number of frames.


The European Science and Technology in Action: Building Links with Industry, School and Home (ESTABLISH) is a four year (2010-2013) project funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme for Science in Society. This project involves promotion and dissemination of inquiry-based teaching methods on a large scale in Europe, by provision of teacher education using materials and resources that include authentic problems informed by industry


Sedimentation on river floodplains is a complex process that involves overbank flooding, crevasse splaying, and river avulsion. The resulting floodplain stratigraphy often exhibits floodplain aggradation cycles with alternating fine-grained overbank flooding deposits that underwent significant petrogenesis, and coarser-grained, avulsion-belt deposits largely devoid of pedogenic impact. These cycles are linked to lateral migration and avulsion of channels driven by internal dynamics, external factors, or a combination of both. To better understand the spatial and vertical variability of such floodplain aggradation cycles, we map these in three dimensions using a photogrammetric model of the lower Eocene Willwood Formation in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA. This allows identifying 44 floodplain aggradation cycles in ∼300 m of strata with an average thickness of 6.8 m and a standard deviation of 2.0 m. All the cycles are traceable over the entire model, pointing to their spatial consistency over the 10 km2 study area. At the same time, rapid lateral thickness changes of the floodplain aggradation cycles occur with changes up to 4 m over a lateral distance of 400 m. Variogram analyses of both field and numerical-model results reveal stronger consistency of floodplain aggradation cycle thicknesses along the paleoflow direction compared to perpendicular to paleoflow. Strong compensational stacking occurs at the vertical scale of 2−3 floodplain aggradation cycles (14−20 m), while full compensational stacking occurs at larger scales of more than six floodplain aggradation cycles (>41 m). The lateral and vertical thickness variability of the floodplain aggradation cycles, as well as their compensational stacking behavior, are interpreted to be dominantly driven by autogenic processes such as crevasse splaying and avulsing that preferentially fill topographic lows. External climate forcing may have interacted with these autogenic processes, producing the laterally persistent and vertically repetitive floodplain aggradation cycles. The spatial variability of floodplain aggradation cycles demonstrated in this study highlights again the need for three-dimensional data collection in alluvial floodplain settings rather than depending on one-dimensional records.


Objective of the study is to design the algorithm for assessment of expression of the structural and regulatory virulence Vibrio cholerae genes by the model of ctxA and toxR genes encoding and controlling biosynthesis of cholera toxin. Materials and methods . Utilized were 10 strains of Vibrio cholerae, classical and El Tor biovars. Cloning of gene fragments was carried out through transformation and ligation. RT-PCR was done in "BIS M112" and "Rotor-GeneQ" amplifiers. Processing of the results was performed by means of the software package in set with Rotor-GeneQ (Software 22.214.171.124). Results and conclusions . Developed has been the algorithm for evaluation of the level of expression of V. cholerae ctxA and toxR genes applying RT-PCR with real-time hybridization-fluorescent registration of results. The stated algorithm allows for rapid and effective statistically significant specification of the expression of structural and regulatory virulence V. cholerae genes and can be used for evaluation of newly discovered cholera vibrio strains.


Publisher Summary The intestinal commensal bacteria can be divided into the indigenous stable and long-term residents and transient, temporary occupants. Mammals exist with their commensal intestinal microbiota in an overall symbiotic relationship. The host provides a thermostable, nutrient rich environment for bacteria and the resident intestinal microbiota has advantageous effects for the host in terms of infection control, metabolism, and even organ development. The presence of the resident bacterial microbiota reduces the risk of successful colonization by pathogens, increases the fitness of the host to fight invading bacteria and contributes to the efficiency of the host's energy resource usage and organ development. The majority of commensal intestinal bacteria have not been characterized in detail, since they are difficult to culture or not cultivable using conventional microbiological techniques. However, using genetic and biochemical methods, it has been possible to estimate the diversity of the microbiota.


Abstract Traditional compression tests are usually carried out by using the Brazilian test, confined uniaxial compression cells, and cubical triaxial tester. The high hydrostatic pressure unit (HHP) may be added as a new and useful tester to the compression test family because of its unique high pressure range and multi-directional forces. The bulk density changes of selected food agglomerates affected by hydrostatic pressure, HHP processing time, agglomerate size, and water activity after compressed by HHP were studied and assessed by a modified Hausner ratio. The microstructures of these agglomerates before and after HHP treatment were observed by SEM. It was found that the higher the pressure, the higher the bulk density for each material. Beyond a certain high pressure, the bulk density remained constant and the SEM observations showed there was little void space within the compressed samples for each material, therefore, the HHP unit could be used to measure the 'ultimate bulk density' for agglomerated powders. The HHP processing time had no effect on the final bulk density at a constant pressure. The compressed bulk densities at the same pressure for powders with different initial particle sizes and water activities were not significantly different. The modified Hausner ratio was higher for larger agglomerate under the same pressure.


The present invention discloses a three-component microseismic monitoring sensor comprises a cylindrical sensor base, a sensor base end to the other are provided in this order to each other and perpendicular to the cylindrical axis sensor core, a first radial sensor a second core and a sensor core radially, the center line of the sensor base of the sensor core axially overlaps, a stainless steel sensor housing disposed within the base, one end of the stainless steel housing is provided with a hexagonal outer mounting fittings, the other end is provided with a bottom cover, the bottom cover defines a threaded hole connection, a connection via the anchor agent container connected to the connecting stud with the bottom cover screw hole adapted. The present invention improves the P-wave and S-wave to the recognition accuracy under high ambient background noise; early fluctuation improved recognition accuracy, thereby improving the recognition accuracy of the type of rock fracture; microseismic source improves the positioning accuracy, the exact energy calculation , respectively, it is microseismic signals outside the sensor array.


DOI: 10.21276/sjpms.2018.5.1.2 Abstract: This study aims at introducing a multi-server queues with vacations according to two system performance metrics (average system waiting time, average vacation time). We examine how such a dynamic impacts common system measures such as stability, expected number of customers in the system, probability of an expected time. We have designed a method to calculate performance metrics for the previous queue system defined as average system uptime and average vacation time. We have changed the different features of access rates, service rates and number of servers to achieve the best results and try to improve and develop the system which makes it easier for servers to perform their service to obtain the appropriate vacations for them without being affected by the customer service and the system interest is disrupted where the results related to average system waiting time, average vacation time were found.


Five hundred and fifty‐four colorectal metaplastic polyps have been studied histologically. Whilst most lesions were small and sessile, 16.1% measured greater than 0.5 cm in diameter and 0.9% were greater than 1 cm. The larger polyps were frequently pedunculated and occasionally showed a tubulo‐villous or villous pattern. A structural similarity between the larger metaplastic polyps and colorectal adenomas is illustrated and the importance of the distinction of metaplastic from dysplastic epithelium in the differentiation of these lesions is stressed. Other unusual features of metaplastic polyps are described. Evidence is given to suggest that males have a greater propensity to develop metaplastic polyps than females. A search for metaplastic‐like areas in other colorectal polyps revealed that they are rare (0.6%) in adenomas, but relatively frequent (20.8%) in juvenile polyps. Finally, seven patients with multiple metaplastic polyps of the colorectum are described, in whom a diagnosis of adenomatous polyposis had been made at some stage in their management. Six of the seven patients were males and the mean age at presentation was 37.4 years. Larger metaplastic polyps were frequent in these cases. The necessity for histological confirmation in all cases of intestinal polyposis is stressed, and the possibility that 'metaplastic polyposis' is a pathological entity is discussed.


This paper describes the system structure and control principle of the 25 Hz static inverting power. The experiment testifies that it has good characteristics. Finally the experimental results and capabilities of the example machine are showed.


A new oil (Biolid) emulsion sprayed every 5 days during the fifty days from transplanting was found to be effective in four field experiments for two years in two environments (two in the North and two in the South of Italy), against aphid borne with imidacloprid at the rates of respectively 5,000 ml ha-1 and 90 ml ha-1 of a. m. and compared with imidacloprid alone and an untreated control. The incidence of viruses was evaluated by means of DAS-ELISA, whereas the severity of symptoms was assessed by visual inspections, using an empiricalscale and the scores transformed according to Mc Kinney. No phytotoxic effects were found on tobacco plants. Compared with both untreated control and imidacloprid alone, oil reduced the incidence of the viruses, in the first stages of plant growth, but the principal findings was that the severity of the symptoms in the oil treated plots was always statistically lower than in the other plots. Oil spraying gave better results with late and slower increase of the infection (northern Italy) than with early and faster increase of the infection (southern Italy). Riassunto


Sorting of materials at different stages of manufacturing processes is very important to ensure the final product quality. In this paper, the machine learning algorithms are used on the magnetic Barkhausen emission (MBE) signals for the classification of martensitic stainless-steel specimens, which are subjected to different heat treatments. The variation in MBE parameters, such as root mean square, peak height, peak position, and full width at half maximum, was found to be marginal for normalized and quenching and partitioned specimens even though their x-ray diffraction analysis showed distinct microstructural conditions. The conventional MBE parameters are used to train the machine learning models. The performance of decision tree and ensemble learning techniques, such as Bagging, Random Subspace, AdaBoost, RUSBoost, Total Boost, and LP Boost classifiers, is compared and found that the AdaBoost classifier provides the maximum accuracy of 98% in the classification of complex materials. The results showed that the machine learning approach using a limited number of features is sufficiently sensitive toward the classification of specimens that are otherwise indistinguishable in their conventional MBE response.


The paper analyze the main problems existed in the requirement analysis and management. A framework including requirement analysis and requirement management is presented which is based on ISO9000?SW-CMM and SA-CMM,which could be used as the guide for software organizations in requirement engineering practice.


With the increased complexity of the provided IT services a more sophisticated monitoring approach is required to guaranty their normal operations and reliability. We need to monitor our services from the perspective of the user experience and not only looking after a specific host or operating system parameters. Our website might be up and running but, if it responds slowly, the users will maybe never try to open it again. This problem could be solved easily by implementing the latest Service Level Objective (SLO) monitoring practices that are inspired by the Service Reliability Engineering (SRE) discipline. This project covers the work required for studying and implementing SLI/SLO dashboard for the need of the IT Monitoring Service at CERN. It describes the main concept and identifies appropriate SLI metrics for monitoring main service parameters. As next steps, it implements a mechanism for gathering the required metrics and calculating SLI and error budget results. All the information is made available on a single dashboard that provides immediate feedback to the service manager about the short and long-term reliability status on the provided service. In addition, a set of alerts is configured to notify in case of a sudden drop in the service reliability, in order to improve the awareness and decrease the reaction time in case of incidents.


Algebraic topology offers powerful mathematical tools for describing structures or shapes. Persistent homology analyzes the dynamics of topological features and summarizes it by numeric values. The dynamics of topological features are recorded as an interval between each feature's birth and death. We present a persistence homology analysis framework of 3D image sets. We demonstrate it over a focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy dataset of the Selma Chalk. We compute and extract structural characteristics of sampling volumes via persistent homology and principal component analysis (PCA). We fit a statistical model using the summarized values to estimate porosity, permeability, anisotropy, and tortuosity. The suggested framework efficiently predicts fluid flow and transport properties based on geometry and connectivity.


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Objective: To investigate an operative management for an chronic rupture of Achilles tendon by using the tendon of the flexor digitorum longus( FDL). Methods: 9 patients were reviewed who had a rupture of the Achilles tendon and were treated with the FDL. All patients were averaged followed up 18 months. The results was evaluated by Arner - lindholm criterion. Results: The curative effect were rated 6 cases with excellent, 2cases with good and 1 case with poor.Conclusion:(1)An chronic rupture of Achilles tendon are more often due to misdiagnosis or failed treatment. (2)Our study indicate the transfer of the flexor digitorum longus is an effective and durable operation for reconstruction of Achilles tendon in patients.


We report on the results of a detailed quantitative experimental evaluation of exciton relaxation pathways as well as direct measurement of singlet oxygen (1O2) generation efficiencies for CdSe/ZnS quantum dot (QD)– porphyrin nanocomposites in toluene at 295 K. QD photoluminescence quenching in nanocomposites is caused by two main factors: electron tunneling in the quantum confined QD (efficiency 0.85–0.90) and Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) QD→porphyrin (quenching efficiency 0.10–0.15). Efficiencies of 1O2 generation γΔ by nanocomposites are essentially higher with respect to those obtained for QDs alone. For nanocomposites, the nonlinear decrease of 1O2 generation efficiency γΔ on the laser pulse energy is caused by nonradiative intraband Auger processes, realized in the QD counterpart. Finally, FRET efficiencies found from the direct sensitization data for porphyrin fluorescence in nanocomposites (ΦFRET = 0.14 ± 0.02) are in good agreement with the corresponding values obtained via the direct...


ABSTRACT Podonomus is one of the richest genera of Podonominae, with 44 species described. With wide distribution in South America, Podonomus species are an important component of aquatic ecosystems such as streams and madicolous habitats. However, its larval stages have been historically overlooked, with only six species described. After visiting Brundin's collection, we were able to recover information on larvae of three species mentioned in his monograph. Here we describe the larvae of P. apolobambae and P. setosus, provide a broad description of the P. albinervis larva and present an identification key to the known larvae of the genus, including the other five species whose larvae are described, P. amarali, P. fastigians, P. pepinellii, P. quito and P. tehuelche.


We consider time series which change their structure repeatedly between a finite number of states, and we discuss algorithms to detect the changepoints for two particular situations. In the first case, the observed time series is a nonparametric autoregression of order p and the autoregression function changes sometimes. Here, we use a system of neural networks to estimate the autoregression functions and to detect the changepoints. In the second case, the time series is a piecewise linear process with stable innovations, where we assume that the various processes represent different dominating local frequencies, and we use wavelet packet coefficients to detect the changepoints.


In 1978, Lubkin proposed a method of approximating the mean von Neumann entropy for a subsystem of a finite-dimensional quantum system in an overall pure state by expanding the entropy as a series in terms of the mean trace of powers of the system's reduced density operator, but the convergence of this series was never established. We find an exact closed form expression for the mean traces, which enables us to prove that the series converges if and only if the system's dimension $m\le2$, in spite of the fact that Lubkin's proposed approximation for the entropy is now known to be correct.


Abstract: Suicide has been seen as one final solution. For some people, suicide has become the one and only way towards a solution of the pressing problems of life. Life ending is an alternation to be free of life troubles. Nowadays, suicide has become a global problem. Each year there are more than 800,000 people who committed suicide and many others who tried to commit suicide. The results showed that the incidence of suicide in Manado was lower thhan the the other regions in Indonesia such as Bali and Mount Kidul. However, comparing to its surrounding areas Manado has a higher incidence. From all suicide cases in Manado, 100% chose hanging oneself as the most preferred method. Most cases were males aged 11-20 years and 31-40 years. Keywords: commit suicide, hanging Abstrak: Bunuh diri telah dipandang sebagai salah satu penyelesaian masalah. Bagi sebagian orang, bunuh diri telah menjadi satu - satunya jalan menuju solusi dari masalah hidup yang menekan. Mengakhiri hidup menjadi alternatif untuk bebas dari masalah hidup. Bunuh diri telah menjadi suatu masalah global. Tiap tahun lebih dari 800.000 orang yang melakukan tindakan bunuh diri dan masih banyak lagi yang mencoba untuk bunuh diri. Hasil penelitian memperlihatkan bahwa angka kejadian bunuh diri di Manado lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan daerah lain di Indonesia seperti Bali dan Gunung Kidul. Namun dibandingkan dengan daerah sekitarnya, Manado memiliki angka kejadian yang lebih tinggi. Dari semua kasus bunuh diri di Manado, 100% melakukan gantung diri. Pelaku bunuh diri terbanyak ialah laki-laki berusia 11-20 tahun dan 31-40 tahun. Kata kunci: bunuh diri, gantung diri


We use the most up-to-date cosmological evolution models of dusty star-forming galaxies and radio sources to compute the extragalactic number counts and the cosmic background from 408 MHz to 12 THz (or 24 μm). The evolution model of star-forming galaxies reproduces the recent constraints obtained by Spitzer, Herschel, and ground-based submm and mm experiments: number counts, redshift distribution of galaxies, cosmic background intensity and anisotropies. The template spectral energy distributions used in this model are extrapolated to the radio domain adding three emission components: synchrotron, free-free, and spinning dust. To fix the synchrotron intensity, we use the well-known IR/radio flux ratio, q70, and a constant spectral index βS = −3, consistent with measurements made in local galaxies taking account the spinning dust emission. For a constant q70, our model added to the active galactic nucleus (AGN) contribution provides a good fit to the extragalactic number counts from 24 μm to 408 MHz, and to the cosmic background intensity in the far- and mid-IR. The spinning dust emission accounts for up to 20% of the cosmic microwave background produced by star-forming galaxies, but for only less than 10% of the total background when AGN are included. The star-forming galaxies account for 77.5% of the number counts at 1.4 GHz for a flux of 100 μJy. However, the model falls short of reproducing the cosmic radio background measured with the ARCADE2 balloon-borne experiment. Considering the case when q70 decreases strongly with redshift, this still does not explain the ARCADE2 measurements. It also yields to an overestimate of the low-flux number counts in the radio. As a result, we rule out a steep variation of q70 with the redshift at least for z 3.5. Then, adding a population of faint ,


This paper presents a case study of the Coorong Wilderness Lodge (CWL) in order to highlight barriers to success that are in part derived from poor policy and planning supports for Indigenous Australian tourism operators. This contributes to filling a research gap identified in Boyle's scoping study (2001) of Indigenous Australian tourism which indicated a need for research case studies to reveal the catalysts to economic success and failure. Using qualitative research methodology, this paper narrates the story of difficulties in developing the infrastructure between 1995 and 2008. This story highlights diverging views of how such enterprises should be supported which is in part explained by cultural differences, diverging expectations and poor communications across such divides. With the founder of the CWL George Trevorrow as a co-researcher in the project, the paper provides an emic perspective that offers fresh insights into this topic.


Higher education in India, recently pitchforked into policy significance, finds a contemporary manual in the book provides an overview of various aspects of India's higher education policy, while delving into the wider contexts of change. In the 'Introduction,' Agarwal regrets that "rather than pragmatism, it is populism, ideology and vested interests that drive policy." Ideology is a bad word, while pragmatism that grants primacy to the immediate-over the long-term vision is the supreme virtue. This is the undertone of the entire book. What is the driving force behind the so-called pragmatic policy making? Is it not, to a great extent, the power of the "vested interests", Agarwal bemoans in the same sentence. I wonder if he would dismiss as 'ideology' a basic premise of the Yashpal Committee report that says "revitalising the idea of university in an entirely new egalitarian context is the need of the hour." Overall, the book is a highly useful compilation of valuable information, but somewhat flawed by a limiting vision.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a purchase price assessment system for quickly and accurately assessing the purchase price of a trading card.SOLUTION: A purchase price assessment system includes: a scanner 3; terminal equipment 9D; and a server 10D. The terminal equipment 9D is configured to, when collation image data matching read image data is not stored in a first image database 4, transmit the read image data to a server 10D, and the server 10D is configured to collate the transmitted read image data with the collation image data, and to specify the attributes of a trading card 2, and to transmit identification data related to the attributes to terminal equipment 9D. A first image data collation part 6 of terminal equipment 9D which has received the identification data is configured to use data related to the image of the trading card 2 as the collation image data of the trading card 2, and to store the data in association with the received identification data in the first image database 4.


This experiment improved the method of extraction,purification and analysis with high-performance liquid chromatography(HPLC)on endogenous hormones auxin(IAA),abscisic acid(ABA),gibberellic acid(GA)and 6-Benzylaminopurine(6-BA)content in peanut kernel.To deal with the existence of large amount of fat and phenolic,the test materials were grinded in liquid nitrogen and lixiviated in 80% methanol,then pigment was eliminated in chloroform,phytohormones were extracted in ethyl acetate,phenolic was compounded in polyving pyrrolidone(PVPP).Detection was made with UV detector at 254 nm.


This dissertation presents the theoretical, methodological, and empirical results of a doctoral research concerning time perception in the experience of cinema.
The first part provides a theoretical introduction to the topic. Chapter 1 carves out the dissertation's precise angle and object. Chapter 2 presents the main models of subjective time perception. Chapter 3 restricts the scope to time perception in the specific context of cinema.
The second part reports about the three experiments conducted during the research. Chapter 4 introduces the first experiment. By using behavioural measures, this study addressed the effects on duration estimation and time passage perception of two cinematographic variables: the type of represented action and the style of editing. Chapter 5 presents the second experiment. By adopting a method called micro-phenomenology, this study explored the processes underlying the performance of the duration estimation and time passage perception tasks. Chapter 6 is devoted to the third experiment. By using a neurostimulation technique (tDCS), this study tested the involvement of a specific brain area (the Supplementary Motor Area) in the same timing tasks.
The third part summarizes the essential findings of the research (Chapter 7) and re-opens it to some of its possible future developments (Chapter 8).


Branched and sac-like Ulva linza is first reported in this paper. Branched U. linza collected from Jiangsu,Shandong and other places,was researched. The results showed that there are two kinds of branches, one is real and the other is false. Life history of branched U. linza was also studied. Its life history is typically an isomorphic alternation of generations,in which the unisexual haploid gametophytes and diploid sporophytes alternate mutually. The thalli of U. linza collected from green tide outbreak in 2008 were branched and had sac-like structure which contributed to floating and growing on the sea. Free floating green tide algae became the substrate which the spores were attached to. A great quantity of spores attached to the sac-like thalli to grow. This could be one of the causes that the free floating seaweeds bloomed in Huanghai Sea area.


High geometry is the extended course of elementary geometry. High geometry provides theoretical basis for some related contents of elementary geometry, while high geometry provides solution to certain problems in elementary geometry ,high geometry can broaden and extend some contents of elementary geometry .


Capsule The Owls were significantly segregated in space with the most important factor being altitude. Aims To establish if the segregation between Ural and Tawny Owl on the level of habitat selection is due to different habitat requirements of the species or a consequence of competitive exclusion. Methods Seven variables were recorded for habitat of Ural Owls, Tawny Owls that live in sympatry with Ural Owls and Tawny Owls that live in allopatry with Ural Owls. Data were gathered in five mountain areas covered with similar continuous montane forest inside and outside known Ural Owl distribution in Slovenia. Owl territories were surveyed in 2001 using playback method. Evidence for segregation was searched for using discriminant function analysis. Results The altitudinal distribution of Tawny Owls sympatric to Ural Owls was restricted to low elevations with Ural Owls at high elevations. Where Ural Owls were absent, Tawny Owls widened the altitudinal part of their ecological niche to the mountaintop. Conclusion Segregation between Tawny and Ural Owls is due to competitive exclusion, with the less competitive Tawny Owl being out-competed by the superior Ural Owl. The forests at foothills are influenced by human presence and therefore avoided by Ural Owls. In areas where both species live in sympatry, these areas act as refugia for Tawny Owls.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish a baseline for the study of offshore outsourcing in Iceland. After an extensive search to identify any paper (English or Icelandic) that dealt with this topic turned up empty, it was decided that a comprehensive work was necessary to provide an opportunity for future comparative research.Design/methodology/approach – Data were secured by interviewing the chief information officers (CIOs) or equivalent officers of the 11 largest corporations (by Icelandic standards). A checklist was used to focus the initial question session, and then the CIOs were permitted, and encouraged, to muse about their information technology (IT) operations. Insights were gathered on a set of problems, and some of those identified problems were quite unexpected.Findings – Ten trends are identified consisting of aspects of: the difficulty of hiring qualified labor in‐country; establishment of strategy resides entirely within the IT management; security remains a serious concern; o...


Objective To determine whether the 7-day sequential therapy is better than the standard triple-drug therapy and the 10-day sequential therapy in treatment of Hp infection for adults with chronic gastritis or peptic ulcer.Methods 300 patients with Hp positive were randomly divided into three groups.100 patients received the 7-day sequential therapy [rabeprazole(10mg,twice daily)plus amoxicillin(1000mg,twice daily)plus clarithromycin(500mg,twice daily)for the first 3 days,followed by rabeprazole(10mg,twice daily)plus amoxicillin(1000mg,twice daily)plus furazolidone(100mg,twice daily)for the remaining 4 days].100 patients received the 7-day triple therapy [rabeprazole(10mg),amoxicillin(1000mg),clarithromycin(500mg),twice daily].100 patients received the 10-day sequential therapy [rabeprazole(10mg,twice daily)plus amoxicillin(1000mg,twice daily)for the first 5 days,followed by rabeprazole(10mg,twice daily)plus clarithromycin(500mg,twice daily)plus furazolidone(100mg,twice daily)for the remaining 5days].Hp eradication was checked four weeks after treatment using 14C-urea breath test.Results The eradication rate of the 7-day sequential therapy was 88.76%,triple therapy was 77.27%,and 10-day sequential therapy was 90.11%.The difference between 7-day sequential therapy and 7-day triple therapy,7-day triple therapy and 10-day sequential therapy were all significant(P0.05),but there was no difference between 7-day sequential therapy and 10-day sequential therapy.7-day sequential therapy did not increase the financial burde and there was no difference in incidence of side effects between the three groups(P0.05).Conclusion The 7-day sequential therapy achieves a higher eradication rate than the standard triple therapy for the first time in adults,and the rate is no difference between 7-day sequential therapy and 10-day sequential therapy.It is an effective,safe and economical option for patients and possesses great potential.


The invention relates to a device for performing in-situ real-time measurement on natural river silt concentration gradation, and belongs to the technical field of in-situ environment monitoring. The device comprises an underwater shell, an encoder and a computer, wherein the underwater shell is closed underwater measuring equipment; the encoder and the computer are arranged on a carrier above a measured water body; a transparent planar viewing window is formed in the wall of the side surface of the underwater shell; the measuring equipment consisting of an annular LED light source, a micro-lens and an industrial camera is fixedly installed at the planar viewing window inside the underwater shell; the micro-lens is coaxially installed on the industrial camera; both the industrial camera and the annular LED light source are aligned with the viewing window; the top end of the underwater shell is connected with the encoder through a cable; the measuring equipment inside the underwater shell is connected with the computer through a data wire. A method performing in-situ real-time measurement on the natural river silt concentration gradation comprises the following specific steps: demarcating the measuring device, and performing in-situ real-time measurement on the natural river silt concentration gradation. The device has the advantages of relatively high precision, convenience in use and relatively low cost.


Developing high‐quality long‐term data sets at uniform space–time resolution is essential for improved climate studies. This article processes the outputs from two global and regional climate models, the Community Climate System Model (CCSM3) and the Regional Climate Model driven by the Hadley Centre Coupled Model (RegCM3). The results are bias‐corrected time series of atmospheric variables corresponding to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC's) historical (20C3M) and future (A2) climate scenarios over the Amazon Basin. We use a series of simple but effective interpolation approaches to produce hourly climate data sets at 1° by 1° grid cells. A quantile‐based mapping approach is used to reduce the biases of temperature and precipitation in CCSM3 and RegCM3. Adjustments are also made on specific humidity and downwelling longwave radiation to avoid inconsistency between those variables and bias‐corrected temperature values. We also interpolated an already bias‐corrected Parallel Climate Model data set (PCM1) from 3‐hourly to the hourly resolution. The final climate data sets can be used as forcing of ecosystem and hydrologic models to study climate changes and impact assessments over the Amazon Basin.


This article deals with Xin's yanci (a kind of pony mainly decribing sense, feeling and love between male scholars and young women of lower social status) for three angles: the historical and cultural background, the evolvement of ci and the aesthetic specialty of ci. Although the three angles cross each other, the aesthetic specialty is the main clue, which includes the feeling of women in spring, the sorrow of men in autumn and the burden of Xin's disappointment. There are several reasons accounting for these phenomena: first, the aesthetic anticipation fourmed by the original lingci ; second, the influence of Xin's official life; third, Xin's own sensitivity; fourth, the regularity of literary development.


The real estate industry is an indispensable pillar in the national economy. With the gradual development of the real estate industry, it is difficult to maintain the demand of the asset-heavy industry by virtue of its own capital accumulation, and most enterprises will choose debt management for better development. In recent years, there have been frequent "thunderstorms" in real estate enterprises in the market, and the trust of financial institutions and the general public in real estate developers has continued to decline. Therefore, it is very important to analyze the causes of "thunderstorm" in the real estate industry, and this paper analyzes the current situation of the real estate enterprise market and the causes of its "thunder storm", so as to propose prevention and control measures for enterprise credit risk, financing risk and business risk.


Two different spin valves with NiFe/Cu/CoFe structure and CoFe/Cu/CoFe/NiO structure respectively were prepared by radio frequency magnetron sputtering method. Specular electron scattering with Ag coverin layers onto NiFe/Cu/CoFe and CoFe/Cu/CoFe/NiO spin valves was found to contribute to giant magnetoresistance (GMR). All of the GMR ratios increased within 2.02.4 nm thickness of Ag specular layer. The GMR ratios reached 3.4% for Ag (t_(Ag) nm)/NiFe (6 nm)/Cu (2.2 nm)/CoFe (4 nm) structure with 2 nm thickn Ag covering layer. For Ag (t_(Ag) nm)/CoFe (4 nm)/Cu (2.2 nm)/CoFe (4 nm)/NiO (70 nm) structure spin valves, the GMR ratios increased from 6.9% to 8.3%. The layer reflection effects of Ag covering can be explained with semi-classical theoretic model.


Accepted 2000 March 6. Received 2000 March 6; in original form 1999 July 5 ABSTRA C T The global structure of a self-excited magnetic field arising from the magnetic shear instability has been simulated in spherical geometry by a 3D fully non-linear approach. In order to model the structure of an accretion disc we prescribe a rotation profile of the Brandt type which is Keplerian in the outer regions but yields rigid rotation at the inner core. We performed a whole series of runs at different dynamo numbers with an increasing number of modes in spectral space, thereby checking the influence of the numerical resolution in our simulations. Starting from arbitrary small perturbations, the magnetic and kinetic energies grow by several orders of magnitude as soon as a certain azimuthal resolution of at least ma 15 was used at a dynamo number of order CVa 10 5 : Several phases of the transition to turbulence are realized and interpretations are given for the respective effects occurring at each stage. The resulting magnetic field is highly non-axisymmetric and possesses a pronounced inhomogeneous vortex structure of twisted flux tubes. The flow is almost axisymmetric but shows a Kolmogorov-like behaviour for small scales. The outer surface of the shell is penetrated by magnetic field lines in spot-like regions, which are located mainly in the equatorial plane. For very high dynamo numbers we find a cyclic behaviour of the averaged magnetic field amplitude. The problem of angular momentum transport is discussed in terms of the Shakura‐Sunyaev viscosity alpha, which depends exponentially on the radial distance and adopts values in the range 10 23 ‐10 25 .


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The physical setting of a sporting venue with its temporal and spatial boundaries, its segregation of spectators and players, combined with the game which is regarded as an activity that is free flowing and ritualized, has created something which can be likened to a theatre. In some senses, sporting events contain a number of identifiable performances, from those on the field by the players to those by the spectators. The 2004 Gaelic Football finals in Perth, Western Australia provided a venue where aspects of 'sport as performance' were clearly evident. In this case it was notions of Irishness that were created, discarded and recreated by players and spectators alike. At St Finbarr's Gaelic football club in Western Australia, the performances, from the coach's highly inflamed pre-game speech to the singing of the song adopted by the club at full-time, reinforce a particular sense of Irishness. The final performances were for the players only and were used in part as a way of reliving their win and as a means of knitting themselves back into the fabric of ordinary life.


The antibacterial effect of 100 Chinese herbal medicines,including Terminalia chebula,Fraxinus rhynchophylla etc.on Aeromonas hydrophila were detected by means of the disc diffusion method.And the minimal inhibitory concentration(MIC) and the minimum bactericidal concentration(MBC) of 48 Chinese herbal medicines which had significantly antibacterial effect against A.hydrophila were determined with the double dilution method.The results showed that two species(T.chebula and F.rhynchophylla) of the detected 100 Chinese herbal medicines had the best antibacterial role against A.hydrophila,and the inhibitory circle of these two medicines exceeded 20 mm.Their MICs were the same with MBCs,and were 3.91 mg/mL for T.chebula and 7.81 mg/mL for F.rhynchophylla,respectively.Except the two species above,other 13 Chinese herbal medicines,such as Sarhentodoxa cuneata,Agrimonia polosa,Rubus chingii and so on,had moderate antibacterial effect.In addition,there were other 33 species of Chinese herbal medicines with just a little resistance against A.hydrophila,and the other 52 species with no effect against the bacteria.


Review on KRAS (Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog), with data on DNA, on the protein encoded, and where the gene is implicated.


This article presents the French author and philosopher, whose heterology has had a decisive influence on the development of French text theory during the last decades. The point of departure is taken in Bataille's analysis of the cave paintings in Lascaux, where the fundamental theme of prohibition and transgression is identified. Bataille's reflections on economy follow thereafter, where economy is not centred on production and the circulation of wealth, but on the destruction, squander and sacrifice of the "accursed part" of economy: the place of religious, aesthetic and erotic activities in the general economy of social life. The "inner experience" which accompanies participation on these socially organized transgressions is treated in more detail in a section on religious sensitivity and its contradictory position at the borderline of prohibition and transgression. The problem is summed up in the conception of the heterogen (sacred) body : an "object" which is simultaneously rejected and incorporated into the social system of meaning. The article concludes with a text-theoretical discussion as an extension of Bataille's parallel etween sacrifice and literary narrative.


Antenna is the backbone of the communication system . With the advent of technology a lot of innovation happens to develop the antennas. Antenna is a smart device, which not only transmit and receive but also works as a transduce r. S/N ratio also Abstract depend upon the efficiency of the antenna .Patch an d slot has become a very important in modern wirele ss communication antennas. Patch and slots are being used for performance impr ovement of antenna in wireless communication. with the pace and speed of the communication theory, antennas also its design also developed in an innovative ways. Keeping the above fact in mind we had tried to present a complete review on patch and slots antenn as .it has been analyzed in detail, In different size and shapes of slots and patch are great interest of obtaining optimum results of antenna design , in order to allow their use in co mmunication application. A variety of the antennas are available in the communication engineering system. Present study represent the var ious details and open wide the slit for more innovations.


This paper studies a network under TCP congestion control, in which the number of flows per user is explicitly taken into account. We present a control law for this variable that, in combination with congestion control, induces as equilibrium the maximization of social welfare measured at the level of users, rather than the level of TCP connections. We use fluid flow models to prove stability theorems on the dynamics of the overall system, combining the dynamics of flows with the dynamic rates and prices of congestion control. We then develop an admission control policy for discrete TCP flows, that emulates the continuous behavior, and is modeled as a Markov chain. We present simulation studies of the overall system, which exhibit its stability and the desired user-level fairness behavior.


An optical low-coherence interferome-try was utilized to characterize the birefringence on 5-µm thick silicon-on-insulator waveguides. The SMF-28 fiber was taken as a baseline to demonstrate 2.6×10<sup>−3</sup> waveguide birefringence with 5-µm width and 2.5-µm etch depth.