Background: The annual religious ritual of Arba'een is the global largest mass gathering of pilgrims from different countries participating in a mass movement on an 80-km pathway to visit the Shrine of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. The provision of health care for such a mass movement has always been an important vital issue for the health care system.
Objectives: The current study investigated the common illnesses in addition to the quantity of health care services offered by temporary clinics and health stations located on the way to the shrine to such a mass gathering of on-feet pilgrims in Iraq in Arba'een 2019.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at temporary clinics and health stations where pilgrims in need of nursing, midwifery, and pharmaceutical care were provided with services by general and expert physicians on the way from Najaf to Karbala in Iraq during a week in October 2019.
Results: Imam Reza Temporary Clinic offered services to a total of 26,875 patients, including 9,934 females (36.96%) and 16,941 males (63.04%), on all days of the week. The most common chief complaint reported by the patients were musculoskeletal problems (n=11,945; 21.99%), foot blisters (n=11,372; 20.94%), and skin lesions (n=10,662; 19.62%).
Conclusions: The present study highlighted the need for providing more organized services, especially in emergency health care, and necessity of paying further and closer attention to the significance of the health history of those pilgrims attending such religious mass gatherings in previous years.


Raw material of slag compounds RPC;And the steel fiber,the glass fiber,polypropylene fiber by the way of alone incorporation and mutual miscellaneous which combines the sample,in the mechanical properties test of compressive strength and bending strength.Then collect the data of tests,do analysis and comparison between each other and compare the conclusion of study given by the other literatures,and study the enhanced function of the steel fiber,the glass fiber and the polypropylene fiber to the plain RPC.


Composite slabs consisting of cold-formed light-gage steel sheets and normal or lightweight concrete have been used extensively under static loading conditions but are generally not used under heavy moving loads. Preliminary tests indicated a favorable response when these composite slabs were subjected to repreated loadings. Additional fatigue information is presented for composite slabs using steel sheets with different embossments, and 12-in., 18-in., and 24-in (305-mm, 460-mm and 610-mm) shear spans. A total of 19 slabs (seven static and 12 repeated loading) were tested. Despite the fact that first slip had occurred when the repeated loading was applied, only four of 12 specimens subjected to repeated loading failed in less than 2,000,000 cycles. Three of four failures were due to a fatigue failure of the steel sheet. The response of composite slabs when subjected to repeated loading was good. Special attention has to be paid to cases in which the tensile stresses in the steel sheets are relatively high as this may lead to a fatigue failure of the steel sheet.


It could be time, in France, to re-open the debate on drug legalization. Criminalization of drug use and distribution has shown its limits, and (...)


Effects of sliding velocity and clamp load on the coefficient of friction in the study of self-exited vibrations (judder) in automotive clutches [abstract]


This is a basic tutorial of Iber, aimed at new users who want to acquire a basic knowledge of the software. It is not intended to cover all the software's capabilities, but rather to give a flavour of the typical applications of Iber and its main elements, so that new users can evaluate whether the software is appropriate for their needs.


benefitwith retainedgraft-versus-tumor effects. In vivo expansionof alloreactiveTcells was diminished while displaying a T helper cell 2-biased phenotype. Notably, CD4 iNKT cells from third-party mice were as protective as CD4 iNKT cells from donor mice although third-party CD4 iNKT cells were rejected early after allogeneic HCT. Adoptive transfer of third-partyCD4 iNKT cells resulted in a robust expansionof donor CD4CD25FoxP3 regulatoryTcells (Tregs) thatwere required forprotection from lethal


Microbial complexes were identified in the volcanic glasses from the ancient (2.4-Ga-old basaltic pillowlavas of Karelia) and modern (pillow lavas of Mid-Atlantic ridge) volcanic rocks. It was shown that that their microbial colonization is likely to occur by the same mechanism. Thus, well preserved pillow lavas, which occupy a spacious fields in the Archean and Early Paleoproterozoic greenstone belts, are promising object for search of the earliest traces of life on Earth.


Telehealth has the potential to significantly change the specialty of emergency medicine (EM) and has rapidly expanded in EM during the COVID pandemic; however, it is unclear how EM should intersect with telehealth. The field lacks a unified research agenda with priorities for scientific questions on telehealth in EM.


To solve the problem of low conversion efficiency in the solar photovoltaic system,the automatic sunray-tracking is proposed in this paper.After analyzing and contrasting the principle of three kinds of automatic sunray-tracking,the light intensity comparison method is adopted to trace the sunray automatically,which can meet the demand of intelligentization and high efficiency nowadays.Therefore,the double-axis automatic sunray-tracking system,with high tracing accuracy,simple structure and reliable controllability is proposed,which helps to make full use of the solar energy.


The Knowledge in Pieces theoretical perspective posits p-prims as an important knowledge element in intuitive reasoning. Because p-prims are a class of knowledge elements developed and abstracted from everyday physical experiences, it seems plausible that immediate physical experiences, both in terms of sensations and actual observations of motion, would cue knowledge in different ways than when those experiences are just discussed as hypotheticals. This paper presents two cases to show that immediate embodied experiences with everyday objects does change which p-prims are cued and how they are deployed by students to explain situations involving motion. These cases come from a corpus of videorecorded interviews with high school students who were asked to explain predicted and enacted motions that involved deliberate sensory engagement with their bodies. Findings suggest that a connection is indeed present, and learners' embodied experiences should be leveraged in future work to support conceptual change in science.


The electronic structure of CaB6 has recently attracted great interest because of the discovery that this compound is unexpectedly ferromagnetic and exhibits a surprisingly large thermoelectric effect. We have concentrated on studying the unoccupied electronic states by investigating the boron 1s core-level spectroscopy. Comparison of our data from electron energy-loss spectroscopy with that from x-ray absorption spectroscopy using the total electron yield mode reveals evidence for sample inhomogeneity. The ab initio band structural method has been successfully applied to simulate the overall features found in the boron 1s absorption spectrum. Correlation with the results of a ground state energy-band calculation allows the interpretation of the spectral features in terms of the density of states of the unoccupied conduction band, in particular the identification of a feature associated with hybridization of Ca d orbitals with B p orbitals. This interpretation is confirmed by comparison with similar calculations for related boride systems. However, simulation spectral data cannot be reconciled with high-resolution experimental data at the absorption threshold. The possibility of either the failure of the theoretical method employed to account for many-body effects and/or the need for improved experimental measurements is discussed.


In an interconnected power system, small disturbance occurs in load at each area that causes fluctuate the frequency from its nominal value and also tie-line power flow between different areas are fluctuate. Therefore the main role of load frequency control is to maintain the frequency at nominal value and to keep the net interchange power between pool members at the predetermined values. This can be done by conventional controllers. In this paper, the conventional PI controller is used as a controller in the multi-area interconnected power system. Comparisons between with PI controller and without the PI controller is presented using Matlab/Simulink.


The randomised clinical trial (RCT) is the best-accepted means to assess the effectiveness of a treatment for a given disease because treatment allocation is not influenced by non-random factors such as patient or physician preference. Conversely, observational trials, in which treatment allocations are not randomised, can be, and often are, subject to patient or physician preference. For this reason, the results of observational trials of various interventions are not considered to carry as much weight as those of RCTs, and results of such trials are often considered to be only suggestive or hypothesis generating, rather than definitive. Indeed, in several instances, the positive treatment results of observational trials have not been borne out by RCTs. For example, in the field of sleep apnoea and cardiovascular diseases, several non-randomised observational studies reported reduced fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events rates among obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) patients who elected to be treated by, and to continue on, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) compared to those who elected not to be treated by, or who discontinued, such treatment [1–3]. In contrast, several large-scale RCTs of treatment of OSA by CPAP demonstrated no beneficial effect of CPAP on fatal or non-fatal cardiovascular events [4–6]. Nevertheless, the reliability of the results of an RCT depends on the degree of adherence to the treatment allocation: the greater the adherence, the more reliable the results, and vice versa. For these reasons, there are various means by which RCTs can be analysed that take into account treatment adherence. Minute-ventilation triggered ASV increases mortality in heart failure patients with central sleep apnoea http://ow.ly/wIcr30dXlu7


This paper deals with the attitude estimation of a quadrotor in the presence of measurement losses. This situation may appear when the quadrotor is controlled through a network. The attitude estimation is a prerequisite to the implementation of any kind of control law. Moreover, the attitude cannot be directly measured and different sensor modalities must be used. The observer implemented is an Extended Kalman Filter derived from the Kalman Filter previously proposed by Sinopoli et al. [8]. The loss of data is modeled with a random process. The lost measurement is replaced with zero, the corresponding variance being set to an arbitrarily large value. All the scenarios that have been tested show the capability of the filter to properly estimate the quadrotor attitude even in the presence of a high rate of data loss. Experiments have been performed with a Matlab/Simulink simulator of the quadrotor developed at the GIPSA-Lab laboratory.


This research attempt to identify the strategies that are used in order to retrieve scientific and technical information via the internet; on the one hand, and the methods adopted in exploiting this information in teaching and scientific research on the other hand. The aim of the study is to clarify the concept of information retrieval on the network, and to know how to formulate strategy to search information on the internet, in addition to the most important tools that should be controlled in order to have access to the required information. Teacher-researchers are the representatives of our population. The descriptive approach is adopted to describe, analyze and interpret the collected information. The questionnaire, used as a tool for collecting data, has helped us to gather valuable information that has been analyzed in the light of the stated hypotheses. This study has permitted to identify teachers-researchers strategies in online information search, and get an idea about their information use in their various scientific activities. Keywords: Scientific and technical information, internet, information retrieval strategies, teacherresearcher, scientific research, survey, university Mentouri-constantine


Anticipating the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2012 (PPACA), healthcare providers around the country were preparing for a dramatically new health care environment, one with increased responsibilities for a broad range of health care services, including broad-based community health. This case presents a scenario associated with the evolution of one administrator's career path beginning with his limited perspective of marketing planning focused primarily on profit maximization and culminating with his facing several issues associated with implementing a patient-centric, marketing focus throughout his healthcare system.


This study was conducted during the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 seasons to evaluate the effect of spraying "Le-Conte" pear (budded on Pyrus communis rootstock) trees with defoliation treatments (urea, 7% or zinc sulfate, 3.5%) at 1 Nov. or 15 Nov. and dormancy-breaking agents (hydrogen cyanamide, 49%; potassium sulfate or ammonium nitrate) sprayed at 1 Jan., 15 Jan. or 1 Feb. Measurements included vegetative growth (shoot length, number of leaves per shoot and percentage of vegetative spurs), floral growth (percentage of floral spurs and fruit set), fruit yield and its components (number of fruits/tree, fruit yield/tree and yield monetary value/tree) and fruit quality attributes (fruit weight and size as well as juice TSS and acidity). Statistical analysis confirmed that, better results can be obtained as the follows combination of treatments. At 15 Nov. leaf shedding should spray using ZnSO4 (3.5%). At the next 15 Jan., hydrogen cyanamide (49%) should spray on "LeConte" pear trees.


IN a democracy, one of the most common recourses of the demagogue is to the "after the thing, because of it" argument. It is the day of "outlines"; calm, deep thinking, undisturbed by the urge of immediate necessity, is rare. During ten years of boundless prosperity, the prohibitionist was tempted to appeal to the man who reads as he runs by means of scintillating comparisons between things as they were before 1920 and the more abundant satisfactions of the post-prohibition decade. At the present moment, the shoe is on the other foot and is being used to plant thumping kicks in the direction of the prohibition policy. "See the mess into which the Drys have gotten us," say the Wets. "If we only had beer and wine again, the Federal deficit would disappear, the unemployed would van'ish from our streets, and prosperity would smile upon a contented people." "Comparisons are odorous," said Dogberry, and no comparison is more "odorous" than that which is based upon a single factor, which makes no requirement of like places, like conditions, or like times. It is nothing whatever to be said for prohibition that times were prosperous from 1920 to 1999. It is still less an argument against it to say that times are now distressing. The prohibition factor must be pushed into its proper place in a long line-up of factors which are responsible for this, or were responsible for that.


Computer modeling of data obtained from agonist competition with [3H]dihydroergocryptine for binding to a-adrenergic receptors in human platelet, rabbit uterine, and rat liver membranes has been performed in an attempt to gain greater insight into the a-adrenergic receptor subtypes and their regulation by guanine nucleotides. In platelet membranes, which appear to contain only a2 adrenergic receptors, two distinct binding affinity states for agonists were apparent. One had higher affinity ( a 2 H ) and the other lower affmity (a%,.) for agonists. Guanine nucleotides appear to mediate a transition between the two affinity states such that at high nucleotide concentrations, all receptors appear to be in the low affinity form. Rabbit uterine membranes have previously been demonstrated o contain both a1 and a2 receptors. In these membranes the a2 receptors appear to be regulated by guanine nucleotides in a fashion analogous to that observed in the platelet membranes. Thus, whereas both a z H and a21. binding states are apparent in the absence of nucleotides, only the a z l . form of the a2 receptor is observed in the presence of nucleotides. By contrast, binding affinities of agonists for the al receptors in the uterine membranes were unaffected by guanine nucleotides. In rat liver membranes, which contain a predominance of a1 receptors, guanine nucleotides had a small although significant effect on agonist competition curves suggesting that this effect was mediated through the small number of a2 receptors in liver membranes, in analogy with the situation in platelet and uterus. On the basis of these observations, a general schema is proposed to explain radioligand binding data to a receptors in terms of three distinct forms of the a receptor, namely, a z H , ax[, and al.


The teachings of Saint Basil of Poiana Mărului (1692-1767) represent a unique synthesis, of that time, on the benefit of practicing the Jesus prayer, also known as the prayer of the mind, of the heart, of the one thought or of all the available time. In this synthesis, Saint Basil, on the basis of his own living of the Jesus prayer, highlights the sanctifying work of this prayer for all believer, be they a monastic or a lay person, this teaching being valid all the way throughout the centuries to this day. He recalls the so-called 'psycho-somatic methods' and 'techniques' and shows his preference for the hesychastic tradition of Mount Sinai, expressing reserve regarding the hesychastic tradition of Mount Athos, the latter tradition being focused on the respective methods. Saint Basil distinguishes between two stages in the practice of the Jesus prayer: 1) 'the practical stage', of which each Christian is responsible, which corresponds to the 'active' or 'working Jesus prayer'; 2) 'the contemplative stage', reserved to the perfect ones, which is a gift from God and corresponds to the 'contemplative' or 'seeing Jesus prayer'. But of this contemplative prayer are made worthy also those who cultivate the first stage of the Jesus prayer, sometimes before the moment of their passage into the life beyond the grave, and sometimes after this moment as a reward and mercy from God. Actually, the teachings of Saint Basil of Poiana Mărului concern mainly the first stage of the spiritual perfection, namely the fight against the sinful passions and the cleansing from them, because most believers are at this stage.


1635. Correspondence © 2015 Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology 74 INTRAVASCULAR DEPOSITION IN SYSTEMIC PRIMARY AMYLOIDOSIS WITHOUT PROTEINURIA Martin Plaisance, Jean Christian Boileau and Marouane Zakani, Nephrology, Hematology and Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada A 75 year-old Caucasian man was referred for progressive kidney disease with asthenia and a recent 9 kg weight loss. He had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 5 years earlier. His blood pressure was around 115/60 without medication. He had recently been diagnosed with CAD and lacunar infarcts. His serum creatinine was 117 in February 2011. Perindopril was introduced in May 2011, and his creatinine increased to 180 in July 2011. Perindopril was discontinued, but his creatinine increased further to 230 in April 2012. Serum protein electrophoresis and immunofixation were negative. Urine protein electrophoresis was normal. Urine protein immunofixation was not performed. Microalbuminuria was absent. Urine protein was normal on seven different occasions. Renal Doppler ultrasound was normal. Renal biopsy displayed amyloid deposition in the blood vessel walls (Fig. 1) but nowhere else. A bone marrow biopsy confirmed the presence of amyloidosis on Congo red stain, with 5–10% of plasmocytes and a monoclonal kappa chain. The patient refused treatment and died of a myocardial infarct 18 months later. The absence of proteinuria usually excludes the diagnostic of renal amyloidosis, except in the rare case of vascularlimited renal amyloidosis (V-RA). V-RA was historically associated with AA amyloidosis. The clinical description of 13 cases of V-RA in AL amyloidosis was only presented recently. V-RA represents about 5.1% of AL amyloidosis resis and immunofixation. Our patient presented an uncommon V-RA and AL amyloidosis without proteinuria and with negative protein electrophoresis. The elements that could have suggested a V-RA were the sudden increase in creatinine with the introduction of an ACE inhibitor in a patient with systemic symptoms and a tendency for low blood pressure. Our patient had recent vascular events that might possibly have been manifestations of extra-renal vascular amyloid deposit. Fig. 1 Renal blood vessel walls thickening by amyloid deposits. with renal involvement. Although some patients have no significant proteinuria, most of them have mild proteinuria. The majority of such cases presented positive serum protein electrophoresis or immunofixation, except for one of the 12 cases presented in Eirin et al. and one case reported in Murakami et al. The same results apply for urine electropho-


Background and Objectives The purpose of this study was to develop the differential diagnosis scale containing items from adductor spasmodic dysphonia (ADSD) to muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) and the determine clinical utility of newly developed items. Materials and Method The four parts of pitch, redirected phonation, automatic speech and voiced sound were selected for analyzing the characteristics of ADSD in the literature. One part of tense voiceless sound was developed according to the Korean manner of articulation. The content validity was evaluated based on 5 scales (1–5 point) analysis from 30 experts. One hundred patients (50 ADSD and 50 MTD) were recorded in reading a sentence and sustained phonation. The two speech language pathologist evaluated recorded voices through a blind test using 4 scales (0–3 point) for newly developed items. Results As a result of verifying the content validity of items with experts, it was identified that the differentiated items were valid with 4.2 out of 5. Through the differential diagnosis between two groups according to the items, the correlation between sub-domains and total scores was shown as higher than 0.710. The result of analyzing the reliability on each diagnosis domain was 0.840–0.893, which showed the internal consistency of items was great. Newly developed five parts of ADSD were significantly higher than those of MTD with strong correlation (p<0.01). The reliability among the evaluators was analyzed as high with 0.892. Conclusion In this study, the differential diagnosis scale of ADSD was revealed as having validity and reliability. It is considered that it will be useful for differentiating ADSD and MTD in the clinical field.


Within a project supported by the Common Fund for Commodities, studies involving different countries in the Americas, have been carried out on lethal yellowing (LY), a phytoplasma disease that has killed millions of coconut palms (Cocos nucifera L.) in Latin America and the Caribbean region. They have included screening of coconut for LY resistance with the identification of cultivars and hybrids that are withstanding the disease; development of novel methods for the detection and quantification of phytoplasma DNA in host tissues based on real time-PCR and TaqMan assay techniques that target various phytoplasma genes; analysis of phytoplasma diversity with the identification of 16SrIV subgroup A and D phytoplasmas in different geographic locations and palm species; a reassessment of the geographic distribution of LY in project participating countries and neighboring regions; analysis of potential alternative host plants of LY with the finding of several palm and non palm species harboring group 16SrIV phytoplasmas with or without symptom development; vector transmission studies that have provided a description of Mexican homopteran entomofauna, while revealing evidence of several planthopper species containing LY phytoplasmas; transmission of LY phytoplasmas by Haplaxius crudus to coconut plantlets propagated under in vitro conditions, although so far transmission trials of LY disease with this insect to older coconuts in the field have failed; and seed transmission studies that have provided evidence that some embryos rescued and germinated from fruit of diseased palms contain detectable phytoplasma concentrations at both the shoot and plantlet stage, even though transmission of the disease itself has not been proved. Collectively, these results in conjunction with previous findings have provided new insights for an integrated management program to control LY disease that is currently being implemented at the farm level in Jamaica. (Resume d'auteur)


Some of the most interesting research in travel behavior in recent years has made use of qualitative methods. The goal of this chapter is to demonstrate the power of qualitative methods in travel behavior research and explore the challenges researchers face in employing them. Qualitative techniques are frequently used by transport planners to gauge public opinion on problems and potential solutions. Qualitative studies of travel behavior have produced important insights and challenged standard assumptions in the following areas: The sets of choices considered in decision making about travel and activity participation; factors beyond the basic demographic variables that significantly influence choices about travel, including attitudes, preferences, habits; connections between different choices about travel, including short-term choices about activity participation, destination, mode, timing and long-term choices about residential location choice and vehicle ownership; the unigue travel needs and constraints of specific population segments, including low income households and the elderly; the interaction between household members, including the interdependence of their choices and the organization and coordination that takes place within the household; and the implications of transport choices for quality of life, including the costs and benefits that households accrue and the compromises and sacrifices they make.


Academic enabling behaviors play a significant role in the development of academically competent students. Academic enablers represent a collection of skills and behaviors, such as interpersonal skills, motivation, study skills, and engagement that can be taught to all students, which in turn can influence the development and use of academic skills such as reading, mathematics, and critical thinking. Researchers have theorized and demonstrated moderate to strong relationships between academic enabling behaviors and academic skills (e.g., Caprara, Barbaranelli, Pastorelli, Bandura, & Zimbardo, 2000; DiPerna & Elliott, 1999; Malecki & Elliott, 2002; Wentzel, 1993). Also, researchers testing models of academic achievement have indicated that academic enabling behaviors play a significant role in students' development and learning (Walberg & Weinstein, 1983; Mroch, 2002). In this paper, I (a) examine the theoretical and empirical basis of academic enablers, (b) discuss the measurement of academic competence, of which academic enablers are part of, (c) describe the prevalence of academic enablers for a nationally representative sample of 2,060 K-12 students in the United States, and (d) conclude with an overview of evidenced-based intervention strategies designed to improve students' academic enablers and, in turn, their overall academic competence. Much of the new information about academic enablers is the result of a teacher and student rating scale called the Academic Competence Evaluation Scales (DiPerna & Elliott, 2000). This instrument offers researchers and practitioners alike a means of assessing and monitoring change in academic enablers and related academic skills and can efficiently be used to supplement direct measures of these same constructs. It is concluded that educators should more systematically assess their students' academic enablers and then plan instruction to directly teach students to use the academic enablers they control to enhance their learning.


PURPOSE
Temozolomide (TEM), an oral alkylating agent, has shown promising activity in the last 10 years in the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Our goal was to show the benefit of concomitant therapy involving 3D conformal radiotherapy and temozolomide in clinical practice.

METHODS
This was a retrospective/prospective study and included a total of 113 patients with GBM diagnosis. Forty- seven patients received postoperative radiotherapy and 66 received concomitant temozolomide plus 3D conformal radiotherapy.

RESULTS
The mean overall survival of patients who received postoperative radiotherapy alone was 9.93±6.475 months, compared to statistically longer overall survival in the group of patients who received radiotherapy plus temozolomide (13.89±8.049 months) (p=0.006). The latter group was divided into two subgroups, one consisting of patients who received 6 complete cycles of temozolomide, and a second with patients who received incomplete treatment. Statistically significant longer overall survival was registered in the first subgroup compared to the second (p=0.006).

CONCLUSION
The concomitant usage of temozolomide and radiotherapy was beneficial, and statistically significant difference among groups and subgroups was observed regarding overall survival.


INTRODUCTION: Acute macroglossia has been seen in cases of bradykinin mediated angioedema, trauma, or in cases of depositional diseases such as amyloidosis We report three cases of patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) disease who developed macroglossia after admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) for mechanical ventilation All three patients received remdesivir, pronation therapy, inhaled nitric oxide, cisatracurium, and chlorhexidine gluconate oral rinses METHODS: The first patient was a 49-year-old male with no significant past medical history who was mechanically ventilated on hospital day 1 and received dexamethasone as well as convalescent plasma He developed macroglossia with labial swelling on day 9 following ceftriaxone administration Improvement was noted after administration of diphenhydramine, montelukast, famotidine, and an increase in his dexamethasone dose The second patient was a 57-year-old female with a history of morbid obesity and asthma who was mechanically ventilated on hospital day 2 and received dexamethasone Macroglossia developed on day 11 following micafungin administration, with improvement after dexamethasone and diphenhydramine administration The third patient was a 46-year-old female with a history of obesity, diabetes, and asthma who was placed on mechanical ventilation hospital day 1 and received tocilizumab Macroglossia developed between day 4 and day 8, with improvement over several weeks without directed intervention RESULTS: Macroglossia is a relatively rare finding in the ICU Although therapies such as pronation and endotracheal intubation are possible etiologies, these are often done in ICU with the incidence of macroglossia remaining relatively low Each of these patients received Remdesivir within 24 hours prior to the onset of macroglossia Given this is a newer medication that is being widely used, we propose this as a potential side effect Alternatively, COVID-19 itself could be a cause The presence of microthrombi and inflammation have been well described in other organ capillaries, and ACE2 receptors have been identified on tongue epithelium Clinically, macroglossia can impact the safety of extubation for patients on mechanical ventilation and is an important finding when treating critically ill patients with COVID


Since the discovery of the parasite Kala Azar by Lt.-Col. Leishman, R.A.M.C., a number of investigators have endeavoured to reproduce the disease in the lower animals but without success. The recent discovery of Nicolle that dogs are susceptible to an allied human parasite (Herpetomonas infantum) has added a fresh stimulus to work along these lines, and in order to see whether the dog can be infected with H. donovani I carried out some inovulation experiments, which I propose recording in this paper.


among other things to be predicated on the claim that at the moment of the writing of Hamlet, there was a peculiarly heightened political awareness in England which the play both reflects and inflects. It never becomes clear whether this claim applies to playgoers, London playgoers, the nation's elite or just people in general round about 1601. The plausibility or implausibility of such a claim is indeed hard to calibrate. Are we to think that people experienced a heightened political consciousness around the turn of the century, and read (or more usually saw) Hamlet through that prism, as distinct from Elizabethans at, say, the time of the Bond of Association? Or Jacobeans at, say, the time of the Spanish Match, especially those who, to the Spanish ambassador's intense irritation, flocked to see A Game at Chesse? How would any historian of culture demonstrate this? In the final analysis, and as is often the case, one is stimulated by discrete points made shrewdly here and there, in sentences, paragraphs, sometimes successive pages throughout Hamlet's Moment, without ever having one's conviction carried by the bold claims made in Kiséry's introduction. Hamlet's Moment is far more text-oriented than performance-oriented, but the textual source base is decidedly narrow to support such an overarching theoretical superstructure. A provocative monograph from which one learns much, then – one which, for all the strenuousness of its exposition, does not enlist this reader's assent as to its larger ambitions.


Objective To explore the possible influence of the hyperhomocysteinemia(Hhcy)on the occurence of recurrent ischemic stroke(IS),death,coronary and peripheral artery ischemic events in hope for finding some valuable information for the synthetically therapy of ischemic vascular diseases.Methods We determined the free plasma homocysteine(Hcy)of 245 patients with IS and divided them into Hhcy group and non-hyperhomocysteinemia(Nhhcy)group according the plasma Hcy level of 52 homeochronous healthy controls.We follow-up the recurrence of IS and the occurrence of death,coronary and peripheral artery ischemic events in the 2 groups.Results The incidence of recurrent IS of Hhcy group was statistically higher than that of Nhhcy group(52.63% versus 24.67,P0.01).The mortality of Hhcy group was also statistically higher than that of Nhhcy group(12.63% versus 3.33%,P0.01),so was the incidence of the coronary ischemic events(18.95% versus 10.00%,P0.05).The incidence of the peripheral artery ischemic events of Hhcy group was higher than that of Nhhcy group,but the diference was not statistically significant(5.26% versus 2.67%,P0.05).The proportion of the patients with more than 2 kinds of ischemic events in Hhcy group was statistically higher than that in Nhhcy group(17.89% versus 5.33%,P0.01).The diference of incidence of all ischemic events between the 2 group was statistically significant(Hhcy :57.89%;Nhhcy:32.00%;P0.01).By forward stepwise logistic analysis,we found that the increased Hcy was an independent risk factor of the recurrent ischemic vascular events(OR was 1.174,95%CI was 1.119~1.233;P0.05).Conclusion Hhcy is correlated with the recurrent ischemic vascular events and death prognosis of ischemic stroke patients.


509 Behavior of R.C.C. Beam with Rectangular Opening at Shear Zone and Bending Zone Strengthened by Three Types of GFRP Sheets Mufassil Hijas R. P*1, Priyanka Dilip*2 M.Tech Scholar, Structural Engineering, Civil Department at AWH Engineering college, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Calicut, Kerala, India email@example.com *2 Assistant professor, Civil Department at AWH Engineering college, Calicut, Kerala, India email@example.com ABSTRACT


Biofouling is a challenge for finfish farming as it can impact cage stability and fish health. Amongst others, current strategies against biofouling rely heavily on removal of biofouling using in-situ pressure cleaning of nets. The cleaning waste is released into the water where it can impact the health of the cultured fish. Grooming, the regular cleaning of nets to prevent biofouling communities from establishing, is one novel strategy that is currently explored using tethered underwater robots. In addition, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are used for inspection of the net to ensure its integrity and prevent fish escapes, while stationary sensors at the farm barge are employed to extrapolate on environmental conditions in the net pens. In this paper, the requirements for a permanently resident, autonomous and tetherless subsea robot for cleaning and inspection are proposed. As such, the robot aims to combine several application areas and offer a solution to the biofouling challenge while at the same time improving safeguarding of net integrity and monitoring of environmental conditions directly in the pen. Using the SEATONOMY method from an operational viewpoint, the robot's individual operations are analysed. This included i) Environmental condition monitoring, ii) Net and biofouling inspection, iii) Growth prevention and iv) Docking. As a result, the specifications and requirements for the development of a novel robotic system that is able to simultaneously and autonomously perform inspection, growth prevention and monitoring in fish cages were derived. The paper proposes the development of a new technology and biofouling management strategy that will contribute to increase the efficiency and production demands in the aquaculture industry.


ABSTRACT People generally care about their future. However, how vividly they imagine it, and how much they like and value it, may vary across socioeconomic status (SES). If lower-SES individuals believe their future to resemble their present, including the greater uncertainties and stressors of a lower-SES environment, then they may focus less on their future self, coming to view it less vividly, as less likable, and less valuable, amongst other qualities. We found support for these hypotheses across pilot data, two observational studies (one pre-registered), and a pre-registered experimental manipulation of SES. These results add to the growing literature on SES's psychological consequences by suggesting that SES affects people's conceptions of not only their present self, but also their future self.


Tourist guide is the worker who faced the customer directly, his service quality is critical; it not only affects the travel agency's reputation, but also relates to the tourist image of an area even a country. However, for a time, the phenomena that a tourist guide guides shopping is very projecting, it has caused a series of undesirable social consequence and has serious effect on tourism's healthy development. The author wanted to make a further exploration on this issue to put forward a solution on the basis of its appearance and essence, cause and harm.


This paper describes a project designed to facilitate and evaluate child and family mental health in the community, inside and outside of Head Start programs. Also detailed is a study of the effects of "Community Impact" programs and 6-week, focused, group interventions for children and families in programs predicted to increase children's emotional security and readiness for learning while enhancing the family interactions among Head Start-aged preschoolers, their parents, and caretakers. The study evaluated two initiatives: the effectiveness of existing community programs for families and of an innovative competence building program for culturally diverse groups coping with developmental stressors of parent/child interaction or more extreme stress and trauma. This Community Impact program provides such children's services as tutoring, early Head Start and enrichment activities; preschool, adolescent, and adult literacy programs; ESL instruction; drug rehabilitation; AIDS support; and food kitchens. Preliminary data suggest lasting benefits from these interventions. The 6-week differentiation focus group interventions, based on the Lapidus Active Mastery Model, involve training in normative development and goal setting, spatial relations, emotional intelligence, cognitive enrichment, and guided discussion of tasks' applications. Preliminary study results indicate that these group interventions improved coping skills; competencies; family interactions; education readiness in young children; achievement in older siblings, parents and caretakers; and self-sufficiency in all participants. (JPB) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Yqhis document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. 1:1 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent vI official OERI position or policy.


Recent photoemission experiments \cite{dessau} reveal that the excitations along the nodal region in the strange metal of the cuprates, rather than corresponding to poles in the single-particle Green function, exhibit power-law scaling as a function of frequency and temperature. Because such power-law scaling is indicative of a scale-invariant sector, as a first step, we perturbatively evaluate the electron self-energy due to interactions with scale-invariant unparticles. We focus on a $G_0W$ type diagram with an interaction $W$ mediated by a bosonic scalar unparticle. We find that, in the high-temperature limit, the imaginary part of the self-energy $\mathrm{Im}\Sigma$ is linear in temperature. In the low-temperature limit, $\mathrm{Im}\Sigma$ exhibits the same power law in both temperature and frequency, with an exponent that depends on the scaling dimension of an unparticle operator. Such behavior is qualitatively consistent with the experimental observations. We then expand the unparticle propagator into coherent and incoherent contributions, and study how the incoherent part violates the density of states (DOS) and density-density correlation function sum rules (f-sum rule). Such violations can, in principle, be observed experimentally. Our work indicates that the physical mechanism for the origin of the power-law scaling is the incoherent background, which is generated from the Mott-scale physics.


A correlation exists between observed spread of COVID 19, (SARS-CoV-2), and climatological temperatures and latitude. Along an observed area of 25-55 degrees North latitude and within a climatological band of 4-12 degrees centigrade, enhanced spread of the disease has been observed between December and February 2019-2020. Additionally, a comparison of the seasonality of other viruses, like seasonal Influenza, shows that the cool season in the northern hemisphere (Boreal Winter) favors spread of the diseases more than the warm season in the northern hemisphere (Boreal Summer). Further, examining locations where spread would be expected for COVID-19 based on a travel and population density model does not account for the observed trends with some high population and high travel areas seeing little if any community spread of the virus if that location falls outside of the climatologically favored zones. Mapping was created using these principles beginning in mid-February and has shown skill in predicting where the virus would be most likely to spread. While correlation exists between temperature profiles and the spread of the disease, a causative element associated with viral kinetics of Covid-19 may be related in parallel. Given research data confirming that the virus did not become quickly deactivated in temperatures ranges outside of the observed preferred environmental thermal profile (4-12 C), it is possible that the atmospheric radiation that is the primary differentiator between seasonal temperature variation is also the primary cause of apparent seasonal variation in COVID-19. Additional laboratory research is required to establish environmental Ultra-Violet (UV) radiation within the UVA and UVB spectrums as effective germicides. Given that UV (and in general all insolation) is modulated heavily by weather like humidity and cloud cover, by utilizing deterministic atmospheric weather modeling and an understood seasonality of COVID-19, it may therefore be possible to create a forecast that has skill and can be used by governing bodies at varying levels as well as health care coordinators to better utilize resources to prepare for, mitigate against, respond to, and recover from a potential viral pandemic. Additionally, it is possible that the viral kinetics studied may be generalized to predict outbreaks of varying viral origins in the future.


A substrate support position of the substrate support member provided on the base portion without changing the positional relationship between the mirror portion and the base portion by a variable scanning angle and resonance frequency of the mirror section and allows fine adjustment providing an optical scanning device. And A substrate 1, a substrate support member 6 for supporting one side of the longitudinal direction of the substrate 1 in a cantilever, and the base portion 7 for movably supporting the substrate support member 6, the provided individually, substrate support member 6 is assembled by changing the substrate support position on the base portion 7 without changing the position with respect to the base portion 7 of the mirror portion 4. .The


Abstract: Forest fires pose a significant threat to both human life and the environment, resulting in devastating losses of forests, properties, and homes. These recurring disasters are a global concern, prompting extensive research and the development of various solutions to address the issue. Detecting and combating forest fires have been particularly challenging, especially when dealing with vast forested areas. In this study, we propose a novel approach that leverages modern technologies, specifically Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computer vision methods. By utilizing convolutional neural networks, our platform aims to accurately recognize and detect smoke and fire from still images or video input obtained through cameras. The success of the method relies on the choice of the algorithm and the quality of the datasets used, which will be split into training and testing sets for evaluation. Through this innovative approach, we hope to contribute to the effective prevention and early detection of forest fires, safeguarding ecologically healthy forests and the environment.


Vilazodone HCl (VLN) is chemically 5-(4-[4-(5-cyano-1Hindol-3-yl) butyl] piperazin-1-yl) benzofuran-2-carboxamide hydrochloride [1] (Figure 1). It contains an indole piperazine that utilizes its function as an SSRI and 5-HT1a receptor partial agonist [2]. It belongs to the category of serotonergic antidepressant approved by FDA (Food and Drug Administration) for treatment of depressive disorder [3]. It is a serotonin reuptake inhibitor and serotonin 1A receptor partial agonist having strong affinity for D2 dopaminergic receptors [4]. It has actions at several 5-HT (serotonin) receptor subtypes. The extensive literature Abstract


Sunflower-like all other plants have several growth stages such as vegetative, flowering, and achene formation. Water stress mainly results in a reduction in seed yield during the flowering more than the achene formation stage. A randomized complete block design was applied with irrigation as main plots (skipping irrigation at stages of vegetation, flowering, achene formation, and full irrigation), and sunflower genotypes (Barolo RO, Velko, and Local) as sub-plots. Each treatment replicated three times. This study was conducted at two different locations (Kanipanka and Qlyasan) under the semiarid region of Sulaimani province, Iraq. Velko genotype had the highest seed yield of 4,993.705, and 6,247.265 kg ha respectively at both locations, under full irrigation. Under skipping irrigation, at both stages of flowering and achene formation, irrigation water use efficiency value was lower than the value of water use efficiency. Crop response factor was less than one for all genotypes. At the flowering stage and under skipping irrigation, the crop response factor was higher at both locations. The result of this study concluded that Barolo RO genotype has the highest performance under deficit irrigation. Also, under skipped irrigation, the flowering stage was more effective in seed yield increase than stages of vegetation and achene formation in sunflower. The objective of this study was to determine the sensitivity of sunflower growth stages under deficit irrigation.


We present a method to generate automatically both an assembly sequence and a xture to hold all the intermediate subassemblies, given only a geometric description of the product. The main contribution here is that the sequence and xture are generated concurrently rather than sequentially, unlike in previous assembly-planning work. Also, the representation of possible xturing locations is more complete. This method has been implemented for the planar case, and we present experimental results below. We also discuss some of the key issues involved in the concurrent design of assembly sequences and xtures. The long-term vision for this work is a CAD tool which can provide immediate feedback to a product designer about the ease of assembling the proposed product.


At the beginning of November 1937 a 15-year old girl, Sonja J. (journal no. 1252/1937) was admitted to the medical department at Maria Hospital for right-sided ischias. From the anamnesis it appears that the patient is the third of a family of five healthy children. Since the spring of 1937 she had occasionally had pains in the gluteal region, principally on the right side in sulcus gluteus. She had had the greatest discomfort in connection with certain movements at gymnastics, such as the forward-downward bend and similar movements. She rides a bicycle without inconvenience, and for the rest can take part in sports to the same extent as her schoolfellows. General status exhibits nothing noteworthy, and the local status shows some tenderness above nervus ischiadicus bilaterally, Lasegue neg. bilaterally, no restriction of movement in the hip-joints, no palpatory tenderness above lumbar vertebrae or pelvis. Suspension stability was 5 mm/]. hr. At the roentgen examination, made on 5th November 1937, the lumbar lordosis showed a clear straightening out, and there was a slight subluxation forwards of os coccygis. Further, on the left side of the place for spina iliaca ant. info there was a 3 em. long and 2-4 mm. wide welldefined bone shadow, separated from the hip-bone by a narrow interspace (picture 1). On the right side there was no similar bone shadow (picture 2). The patient did not notice any tenderness on control palpation above the free bone shadow, which showed an unchanged roentgen picture at a post examination 21 / 2 months later (picture 3). From anatomical quarters (WALDEYER, TESTUT, etc.) an independent ossification centre in the spina iliaca ant. info region has been described.


Intestinal fibrosis is a serious complication of Crohn's disease (CD) and is caused by the excess deposition of extracellular matrix protein. There are no therapies to prevent or treat this and surgical intervention remains the only treatment option. Numerous cell types, including intestinal epithelial and mesenchymal cells, are implicated in this but research efforts are impaired by a lack of in vitro models. Human intestinal organoids (HIOs), derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), are comprised of both of these cell types; therefore iPSC-derived HIOs represent an approach in which an unlimited number of patient specific cells could be generated for such models. Our goal was to confirm the feasibility of using iPSC-derived epithelial and mesenchymal cells from CD patients to model intestinal fibrosis

 iPSCs from CD patients with and without fibrotic complications were directed to form HIOs. As iPSC-derived HIOs contain epithelial and mesenchymal cells, the organoids were dissociated to generate purified cultures of epithelial-only HIOs (eHIOs) and mesenchymal cells. Both cell types were cultured with TNFα and TGFβ, and responses were assayed after 8, 24 and 48 hrs. Further assessment on the transcriptomic profile of the cultures was conducted using the Nanostring nCounter Fibrosis Panel.

 Mesenchymal cells treated with TNFα for 48 hrs showed a significant increase in MMP9 expression, whereas TGFβ elicited an upregulation in COL1A1 and COL5A1. Further analysis via Nanostring identified the upregulation of numerous other fibrosis-related genes in response to TNFα stimulation, mainly: CCL2, IL6, MMP7, and MMP9. In eHIO cultures, after 24 hrs of cytokine exposure, we detected a significant upregulation in EMT (NCAD, VIM, and SNAI2) and fibrosis genes (COL1A1, COL5A1, and MMP9), mainly in response to TGFβ and the combination TNFα/TGFβ. Nanostring further identified a total of 121 differentially expressed genes, mostly in response to these treatments, particularly: CCL2, IL11, MMP9, MMP10. Overall, Nanostring analysis found an upregulation in pathways associated with ECM production and remodeling, immunomodulation, and ligands associated with EMT and cell migration.

 We have successfully generated a system to assay intestinal fibrosis in a patient-specific manner using iPSC-derived epithelial and mesenchymal cells from CD patients. Our model elicited a reliable and reproducible response to inflammatory and fibrogenic stimuli, measured by the differential expression of key fibrosis-associated genes. Future studies will focus on a broader analysis of these data via RNA-seq to investigate a potential fibrogenic phenotype and to identify novel genes/pathways that may play in role in the pathophysiology of intestinal fibrosis in CD.


The crypto winter, Ramaa Vasudevan writes, is here. Cryptocurrency, far from being a democratizing force in finance, has led to only further concentrations of wealth and power and increased precarity within the financial sector. The recent fall of Sam Bankman-Fried is only the beginning.


Abstract:The Alfred Dreyfus affair is the central political event of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, just as the history of Charles Stewart Parnell, including the Special Commission hearings of 1888, haunts the pages of Joyce's work. For both writers, the respective cases serve as a kind of ironic measure by which different persons are defined according to their prises de position.Given the role of forgery in both cases, another consequence for the literary works in question has to do with the ambiguous nature of the letter and its unforeseeable consequences. Both Proust and Joyce produce fictional letters in their works that serve as analogies to the doubtful documents produced in court. Moreover, in these works, the function of the author as an implicit presence retreats progressively in the face of the enigmatic autonomy of the text, as if to acknowledge that the text has taken on a life of its own.


We present Fleet, a framework that offers a massively parallel streaming model for FPGAs and is effective in a number of domains well-suited for FPGA acceleration, including parsing, compression, and machine learning. Fleet requires the user to specify RTL for a processing unit that serially processes every input token in a stream, a far simpler task than writing a parallel processing unit. It then takes the user's processing unit and generates a hardware design with many copies of the unit as well as memory controllers to feed the units with separate streams and drain their outputs. Fleet includes a Chisel-based processing unit language. The language maintains Chisel's low-level performance control while adding a few productivity features, including automatic handling of ready-valid signaling and a native and automatically pipelined BRAM type. We evaluate Fleet on six different applications, including JSON parsing and integer compression, fitting hundreds of Fleet processing units on the Amazon F1 FPGA and outperforming CPU implementations by over 400x and GPU implementations by over 9x in performance per watt while requiring a similar number of lines of code.


Firm value is a market-based value that can be observed in accounting through stock prices. One of the factors that influence firm value is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure. This study aimed to obtain empirical evidence regarding CSR disclosure on firm value by using the moderating variables of profitability and firm size to overcome the inconsistencies of previous studies. The theory used in this research is legitimacy theory and stakeholder theory. This research was conducted at SRI-KEHATI indexed companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2017-2019 financial reporting year. The sampling technique used was the purposive sampling method; the number obtained was 75 observations. The analysis technique used is pure moderator regression analysis. The results showed that the higher the CSR disclosure, the higher the firm value, especially in companies with high profitability and large company sizes.


Research concerning the automated design of network diagrams is reported. A formulation of syntax and semantics for network diagrams that is used in the Automated Network Diagram Designer (ANDD) system is presented. The syntactic formulation differs from previous work in two significant ways: perceptual-organization phenomena are explicitly represented, and syntax is described in terms of constraints rather than as a grammar of term-rewriting rules. The semantic formulation is based on an application-independent model of network systems that can be used to model many applications. Examples that show how these concepts are used by ANDD to automatically design network diagrams are included.<<ETX>>


Ionic liquids can be considered as green solvents due to their very low vapor pressure and wide range of applications with unique physical and chemical properties. The potential of ionic liquids have been recognized worldwide. Scientists and engineers have been working in the advancement of preparation and applications of ionic liquid so that it can provide a range of options to industrialists looking to minimize the environmental impact of their chemical processes and processing cost. In petroleum and hydrocarbon industries, various solvents have been used such as ethers, amines, alcohols and other volatile organic compounds for the options like extraction, absorption, azeotropic distillation etc. These solvents have their own limitations as environmental issue, recycle ability etc. These limitations can be overcome by the use of ionic liquids. To minimize the negative health and environmental effects from automobile exhaust, many countries recently have mandated a drastic reduction in the sulfur content in transportation fuel. In petroleum industry, low-sulfur fuels are often obtained from hydrocracking processes or hydrotreating processes. Although hydrotreating processes have been highly effective for the reduction of sulfur levels, further improvement of the hydrodesulfurization efficiency is limited to increasing severe operational conditions at escalated cost with high energy and hydrogen consumption and other undesired side reactions. In present paper, the attempts are made to write a critical review on various aspects of ionic liquids with the aim of their applications in petroleum and hydrocarbon industries and the various factors affecting their activity in removal of sulfur from transportation fuels.


This executive order by Governor David M. Beasley appoints Mr. L. Hunter Limbaugh as a member of the Governor's Juvenile Justice Task Force and orders that William R. Byars shall be the Chairman.


Moral reasoning is very important for Indonesian teenagers to have. Adolescents who understand morals will have an impact on correct behavior and avoid deviant behavior. This is supported by the ability of adolescents to think logically in determining right or wrong decisions before taking action or speaking because it is the result of considering the basic values of the norms they have. The research entitled "Exploring the Dimensionality of Adolescence's Moral in Indonesia" aims to find out how the morals of Indonesian youth today are. Exploration of a phenomenon or study in this research is carried out using the grounded theory method. The object of this research is the morals of teenagers in Indonesia. Data collection was carried out in two stages, namely Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and interviews. The FGD was carried out in four stages, two of which were conducted in Magelang City and the other two stages were conducted in Pekalongan City. The first FGD was conducted with 9 participants from counseling guidance (BK) teachers at the Junior High School Magelang City. The second stage was a FGD with 11 participants from religion teachers at the Junior High School Magelang City. The third stage of the FGD was conducted with six students from SMP as participants. And the last FGD was carried out with 9 participants from BK teachers in Junior High School in Pekalongan City. The following is. question guide used in the FGD. The results showed that morals have 4 dimensions, namely individual differences, belief, social, and value.


A time-dependent numerical model, which treats fully evolved wind-driven canopy flow as a coupled two-layer system, is developed. The interfacial stress is formulated in terms of a coupling coefficient and the flow differential. The resistance afforded by a vegetative canopy is parameterized in terms of a drag coefficient and dimensional properties of the canopy elements. With flow confined strictly to the canopy, the calming effect of the canopy is introduced through a sheltering coefficient. The canopy is modeled as a set of rigid uniform structures orientated normal to the flow and evenly distributed with specified density over the bottom. The algorithm is tested by simulating the steady-state water-surface profiles observed in a laboratory channel containing wire screen obstructions. The model is applied next to a wind-driven rectangular basin with simulated vegetation specified over half the bottom.


A series of mesoporous zeolites, MCM-22 was prepared by changing the reaction time and using seeds to control crystal size. the crystal appears to grow in thickness and width according to their respective manners. The catalytic activity of the proton-type zeolite was measured in the cracking of C 6 -C 16 paraffins and cycloparaffins by comparing that of a ZSM-5 with a similar Si/Al 2 ratio to clatify the influences of pore and crystal size on the catalytic performances.


Brassica vegetables, particularly turnip, are a rich source of natural antioxidants. This review focuses on antioxidant components and the effect of processing and storage conditions on antioxidant activities of some Brassica vegetables including turnip. Long storage times had an adverse effect on antioxidant value of turnip. Also during cooking, the antioxidant activity of Brassica vegetables might be influenced by qualitative changes, antioxidant breakdown and leaching into surrounding water. Heat treatment influences the antioxidant activity of Brassica vegetables and it has been observed lower antioxidant capacity in processed samples versus raw vegetables. Industrial processing such as blanching, canning, sterilizing and freezing, as well as cooking methods probably affect the yield, chemical composition and bioavailability of antioxidants in Brassica vegetables. Cooking methods such as steaming and microwaving are proper methods for a short time. Consumption of raw or slightly blanched turnip is an appropriate way to maximize its health benefits.


Vehicle re-identification (re-id) is an important issue in the transportation and vehicle tracking area. The existing FastReID framework has made significant improvements in data preprocessing, model structure and parameter configuration of re-id. However, the FastReID did not consider the directional differences between vehicle images, which makes it difficult to balance the image pairs with different directional differences during calculating the similarity between vehicles. To make a further improvement based on the FastReID, this paper proposes an Orientation Estimation and Regional Feature Fusion method, named OERFF. In OERFF, the orientation estimation model is trained to judge the orientation and the main region of a vehicle in an image. Then the dedicated region feature model is utilized to extract the regional feature of a vehicle according to its proper orientation. Finally, a feature fusion strategy is applied with weighted distance according to the orientation difference of vehicles to further improve the identification accuracy. Extensive experiments are conducted based on three workbench datasets and results show that the proposed method can improve the mAP by 2.5% on the VeRi-766 dataset and 3.2% on the VERI-Wild dataset. The accuracy of rank-1 is improved by 2.4% on the VehicleID dataset.


KIDNEY transplantation now offers a hope for patients dying in chronic uremia. The use of cadavers avoids many of the ethical problems encountered with living donors. The production of urine within several minutes after a renal transplantation from a cadaver donor is the rule rather than the exception. Occasionally, the diuretic phase persists, and the patient recovers without the need for further dialysis. In most cases, however, oliguria develops and may last for as long as three or four weeks. It is during this initial period of oliguria that the need for an accurate diagnosis arises. Is the kidney dead, . . .


Gold nanorods were electrochemically prepared in aqueous micellar solutions consisting of a supporting electrolyte surfactant and a hydrophobic cosurfactant. With the selection of cosurfactant, the nanorods grew to be submicrometers in length with very high aspect ratios. The growth axial direction of the rod was revealed to be [110], the direction normal to high-energy surfaces, by electron diffraction measurements.


Purpose: It is essential for the steel industry to produce steel products without unexpected downtime to reduce costs and produce high quality products. A hot strip rolling mill consists of many mechanical and electrical units. In condition monitoring and diagnosis, various units could fail for unknown reasons. Methods: In this study, we propose an effective method to detect units with abnormal status early to minimize system downtime. The early warning problem with various units was first defined. An autoencoder was modeled to detect abnormal states. An application of the proposed method was also implemented in a simulated field-data analysis. Results: We can compare images of original data and reconstructed images, as well as visually identify differences between original and reconstruction images. We confirmed that normal and abnormal states can be distinguished by reconstruction error of autoencoder. Experimental results show the possibility of prediction due to the increase of reconstruction error from just before equipment failure. Conclusion: In this paper, hot strip roughing mill monitoring method using autoencoder is proposed and experiments are performed to study the benefit of the autoencoder.


The study was conducted to know conception rate and service per conception of Limousin Cross breed and Ongole Cross Breed in Pilangkenceng, Madiun. Data were collected for the periode of Oktober 2016 to February 2017 from inseminators in Pilangkenceng district. The data were taken by primary and secondary. Primary data retrieval were done by direct observation, which includes several variables, where the variables include the identity of the breeder, feeding and drinking. The secondary data were obtained by recording the farmer's artificial insemination card. All data was analyzed to find a percentage of conception rate (CR) and find number of service per conception (S/C). Then S/C were analyzed with T-test adn CR were analyzed with chi-square test. The results of this research showed that the service per conception's average of limousin cross breed and ongole cross breed is 1,61 and 1,72. The average of conception rate limousin cross breed and ongole cross breed is 53% % and 59 %. The result showed no significant difference (p>0,05) on CR and S/C between limousin cross breed and ongole cross breed. The conclusion of this research showed that service per conception and conception rate of ongole cross breed in Pilengkenceng Madiun is better than limousin cross breed but there's no significant difference (p>0,05)..


Litterfall has a large influence on carbon and nutrient cycling of ecosystems, particularly in light-limited forested streams, as most nutrients return in the form of litter. Although recent evidence points to the prevalence of seasonal litterfall in species-rich and evergreen tropical riparian forests, there is a limited understanding of how riparian plant diversity intersects with stream and riparian ecosystem functions. To explore this question, we investigate litterfall chemistry across wet and dry seasons and the congruence between litter traits and plant species composition of litterfall in the wet-dry tropics. Using generalized additive models, we observed consistent seasonal patterns of litterfall chemistry over 2 years, mostly influenced by dominant species in litterfall. While drier seasons showed litter lower in nutrients and structural compounds and higher in polyphenols, litter from wetter seasons were nutrient rich but lower in polyphenols. We also found contrasting seasonal patterns in litterfall chemistry, one showing that litterfall nutrient, structural compounds, and secondary metabolite concentrations declined in drier seasons while the other showed that mass-based litterfall inputs increased markedly in drier seasons. Our findings suggest that litterfall chemistry may be altered by shifts in the identity of dominant plant species and seasonality, possibly leading to changes in carbon and nutrient fluxes in tropical riparian ecosystems.


The retrosection theorem asserts that every closed Riemann surface of genus g ≥ 1 can be uniformized by a Schottky group of rank g. Here we define and topologically classify Klein-Schottky groups; these are the freely acting extended Kleinian groups whose orientation-preserving subgroup is a Schottky group. These groups yield uniformizations of all nonorientable closed Klein surfaces.


Georgian literature, if it must yield the palm to the Armenian for extent and variety of content, is in at least one respect distinctly superior to its neighbor. A large body of extremely ancient manuscripts have survived, which have preserved to us a highly diversified series of texts. And in general the oldest Georgian manuscripts usually contain the most valuable material. This is true of the Old Testament; the most complete, and on the whole the best, surviving manuscript of that is likewise the oldest. About this manuscript much has been written, but hardly anything has been published from it, and, strangely enough, no detailed description of it has ever appeared. The account herewith presented rests on a careful personal study of the entire codex in the original and in photographs.


This research analyzes linguistic heterogeneity in Toni Morrison`s A Mercy(2008) and explores how to deliver it in translation into Korean. As she has a keen self-consciousness as an African American novelist and tries to represent her racial identity through her poetic and experimental style and language, translating her works requires particular consideration of cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. She has continuously searched for ways to restore black cultural tradition, and to represent the experiences and histories of racial minorities in American society in her literature Therefore, it is necessary to consider how the cultural and historical contexts I her works influence her unique style and language, and attempt to reflect these elements in the target text. In A Mercy, Morrison`s experimental style and non-standard language use in the main narrative of Florens, a slave girl is noteworthy not only to show the historical and social context surrounding her, but also to source text with heterogeneity, the concept of foreginizing translation suggested by Lawrece Venuti could be helpful for it. The purpose of her peculiar language use can be said as an attempt to mark the trace of black struggle and resistance against the assimilation into the dominant culture by force. Venuti`s minoritizing translation could be an effectual method to reveal the existence of remainders which do not conform to the standard language, as Morrison intended. The black culture is still a subgenre which is not yet well-known or familiar, and is sometimes even disregarded in Korea. The introduction of heterogeneity in Morrison`s works in the process of translation could lead readers to be more conscious and understanding of differences.


Multitime evolution PDEs for Rayleigh waves are considered, using geometrical ingredients capable to build an ultra-parabolic-hyperbolic differential operator. Their soliton solutions are found based on appropriate hypotheses and specific ODEs. These multitime solitons develop complex behavior of deformation phenomena. The original results include: the form of multitime Rayleigh PDEs, the construction of multitime Rayleigh solitons via some significant amounts of analysis and the stability of multitime Rayleigh solitons, which are stable enough to persist indefinitely. In this context we survey some of the highlights of multitime PDEs theory, from the more classical single-time case, to the more recent multitime case, as well as current developments in using this theory to rigorously prove the sense for several evolution variables and PDEs.


As for the stress sensitivity of tight oil reservoir,the unsteady method to measure permeability change is adopted under the condition of constant confining pressure and decreasing flow pressure. The result indicates that as the flowing pressure decreases,the permeability damage can achieve as high as 90%,showing that tight rock exists tense stress sensitivity. For the same sample,the unsteady permeability is smaller than steady permeability. When the effective confining pressure is less than 20 MPa,the permeability decreases sharply,while the decreasing rate slows down as the effective pressure exceeds 20 MPa.


The invention relates to a thermosetting resin composition comprising: a binder containing a thermosetting resin having a storage elastic modulus of 1,000 MPa or less at 20 DEG C and an elongation of 10% or more at 20 DEG C; and an inorganic filler in an amount of 100 to 2,000 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the binder. According to the invention, it provides a thermosetting resin composition and resin film which have a low thermal expansion coefficient and able to possess a low elastic modulus, a high extensibility, and a low thermal expansion coefficient.


The acoustical quality of dwellings in Spain was guaranteed up to now with the compliance of the building regulation NBE-CA88. This regulation established laboratory requirements for each construction element depending on its use (for example 45 dBA in the case of separating or partition walls). However, the new Spanish Building Regulation (CTE DB-HR, last draft version [1]) will consider the whole building as a product itself (performance-based-regulation). In situ measurements could be performed to verify that the building complies with the acoustic quality requirements; the acoustic requirements are stronger: 50 dBA for in-situ separating or partition walls. With the goal of meeting the new sound insulation requirements, LABEIN in collaboration with CSTB is working on the optimization of ceramic brick double walls with peripheral resilient layers, to be used to separate dwellings. Different alternatives of materials to use as resilient layers are being studied. In addition, the effects of other characteristics directly related to brick double walls (such as the type of brick, the brick thickness, the cavity thickness, the type of absorbent material placed in the cavity, etc.) on the acoustic performance are also investigated. INTRODUCTION As a result of the mentionned regulation changes, analyses from databases of the acoustic behaviour of the materials were performed, and the following conclusion was reached: it is necessary to work on the improvement of the acoustic performance of products of construction for the fulfilment of the CTE requirements. The improvement is necessary for a large number of building elements; masonry walls being among them. Following these observations, the Spanish Association of bricks manufacturers HISPALYT started a line of investigation in 2003 with the object of developping constructive solutions with high acoustic performance. The solutions to be developped should not be associated to an increase of costs, nor an overload to the structures of the buildings, and should conserve other inherent qualities of ceramic brick constructions, such as the security against invaders, the thermal inertia of the walls, or the absence of acoustic problems associated to piping systems for different equipmements [2].The result has been the development of a new constructive systems in Spain named SILENSIS [3], with high sound insulation performance. Among the elements developped in SILENSIS, the ceramic double walls built with an absorbing material in their cavity and resilient layers along their periphery (figure 1) are included. These ceramic double walls have been analyzed in laboratory and satisfactory results have been obtained in terms of acoustic performance: global index RA between 54 and 63 dBA [3] has been reached (the differences with respect to the regular double walls in Spain, without resilient layers, is about 10 15 dBA). In view of the good results, this double brick wall system was implemented in real buildings, and in situ sound insulations between 50 and 56 dBA were measured [3]. These values fulfil the established CTE requirements.


The risks of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (pine wood nematode) transfer in relation to wood material were assessed. Combinations of infested and non-infested adjacent boards, long-blocks and blocks of Pinus pinaster, simulating assembled pallets, were assessed. For the recipient wood, pieces with natural moisture content (MC), heat-treatment (56°C for 30 min in the core) and kiln-drying to 30%). Nematode reproduction was rapid and sustained, gradually declining to zero at 40 weeks. Bursaphelenchus xylophilus did not transfer to kiln-dried or to in-service wood with an MC below fibre-saturation point, or to wood at 10°C. The key factors determining nematode transfer were the ambient temperature, the nematode load of the donor wood and the MC of the recipient wood, with a 'barrier' of 20% MC below which it becomes unsuitable for nematode transfer. This finding indicates that there is a limited risk of spread of B. xylophilus in treated and untreated solid wood packaging materials.


Background: Diagnosing mania in children is difficult, due to the high comorbidity and symptom overlap with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The detection of manic symptoms in ADHD has important implications for prognosis and choice of treatment. Our objective was to study the utility of the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) for discriminating mania in Spanish children with ADHD. Method: One hundred children and adolescents with ADHD between 8 and 17 years of age were evaluated with a structured diagnostic interview (Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents-IV), the YMRS, the Parent-Young Mania Rating Scale (P-YMRS), the Child Mania Rating Scale-Parent Version (CMRS-P) and the Children's Global Assessment Scale. Results: The YMRS showed a 1-dimensional structure with good internal consistency and test-retest reliability. The YMRS was associated with the P-YMRS and the CMRS-P. The scores obtained with the YMRS differentiated between ADHD with and without mania. The receiver operating charReceived: October 15, 2009 Accepted after revision: September 2, 2010 Published online: January 12, 2011 Eduardo Serrano Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Passeig Sant Joan de Déu, 2 ES–08950 Esplugues del Llobregat, Barcelona (Spain) Tel. +34 93 280 40 00, ext. 4350, Fax +34 93 280 63 49, E-Mail eserrano @ hsjdbcn.org © 2011 S. Karger AG, Basel 0254–4962/11/0442–0125$38.00/0 Accessible online at: www.karger.com/psp Evaluación, Comorbilidad y Fenomenología del TB en el TDAH


This paper makes a comprehensive analysis on how to solve the problems existing in the bunge prickly ash industry nowadays:only by altering the patterns of thinking,planning the development of regional ascendant agro-industry,depending on new technology and etc can the problems be solved.


Based on benalaxyl pesticide metabolite structure framework, fourteen novel diamide derivatives were synthesized by the reaction of amine and N-carboxyacetyl-N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)alanine methyl ester. Their structures were identified by H NMR, C NMR spectra and HRMS. The results of bioassay indicated that some compounds possess potential fungicidal activities against 8 kinds of bacteria, and the antibacterial activity of some compounds was better than that of benalaxyl. At a dosage of 5.0×10 g/mL, compound 7d displayed 94.2% antifungal activities against Rhizoctonia solani. Compound 8f displayed 87.1% and 88.9% antifungal activities against Phytophthora capsici and Rhizoctonia solani.


&NA; The analgesic efficacy and safety of liposomal bupivacaine (LB) in third molar extraction was evaluated in this phase 3, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled study of subjects undergoing bilateral third molar extraction. Subjects were randomized 2 : 1 to infiltration with LB (133 mg/10 mL) or placebo, and received opioid rescue medication as needed. Primary efficacy measure was cumulative area under the curve (AUC) of numeric rating scale (NRS) pain severity scores through 48 hours (AUC of NRS0–48) postsurgery. Other measures included AUC of NRS0–24, AUC of NRS0–72, and AUC of NRS0–96, and incidence of adverse events. There were 150 subjects in the primary efficacy population (n = 99 LB, n = 51 placebo) and 89 in the per‐protocol population (n = 59 LB, n = 30 placebo). Least‐squares mean for AUC of NRS0–48 was 172.3 LB versus 194.7 placebo (P=.227) in the primary efficacy population and 120.8 LB versus 183.3 placebo (P = .023) in the per‐protocol population. At all time points, between‐group differences in AUC of NRS scores were significant in the per‐protocol population (LB lower than placebo, P < .05) but not in the primary efficacy population. The adverse event profile was similar between groups. LB produced significantly lower cumulative pain scores versus placebo at all time points in the per‐protocol analysis but not in the primary efficacy analysis because of protocol violations. This study indicates significant improvement in pain scores in the third molar model, but because of extensive protocol violations additional studies are warranted to demonstrate effectiveness.


One case of cutaneous B-cell lymphoma is reported.The patient presented with erythematous pretibial plaques of right leg for three months,and tumour on left leg for two months,swelling of gum for twenty days.Enlarged lymph nodes were found on the two sides of groins.The result of histopathological examination was consistent with cutaneous B-cell lymphoma.After chemotherapy and local radiotherapy for two months,the patient's condition got improved.


human opens for one of the great questions in the human of Grodnitsky offers a comprehensive overview of the functional morphology of insect wings from the viewpoint of general biology and uses these data to help further explain animal morphology. He evaluates functional issues relating to insect diversi-fication and discusses recent data on wing kinematics and structure from the point of view of modern insect flight aerodynamics and general evolutionary morphology. and molecular evolution of


The20,500-dalton y8resolvase monomer canbecleaved bychymotrypsin into a5000-dalton COOH- terminal fragment anda 15,500-dalton NH2-terminal frag- mentthat havebeenpurified. Twocrystal formsofthelarge fragment havebeenobtained, oneofwhichisisomorphous withcrystals ofthenative protein, showing that thelarge frag- mentmakestheprotein-protein contacts inthecrystal and thatthesmall fragment issegmentally disordered relative to thelarge fragment. Nuclease protection demonstrates that the small fragment bindsspecifically toallthree DNA binding sites protected byresolvase. However, unlike native resolvase, which binds toall three complete sites withequal affinity, the small fragment binds toeachofthesixhalf sites withadiffer- entaffinity. Ithasnotbeenpossible todemonstrate specific DNA binding ofthelarger fragment. Thus, resolvase hasa modular construction analogous tothat found forsomerepres- sorsandactivators; itsCOOH-terminal domainrecognizes specific sequences intheDNA anditsNH2-terminal domain mediates protein-protein interactions andprobably hasthe enzymatic activity.


To explore a way to characterize fatigue damage degree of ferromagnetic materials by metal magnetic memory testing (MMMT), tension-compression fatigue test of specimens with different stress concentration factors made of 45% C steel were carried out. Both normal and tangential component of magnetic memory signals, Hp(y) and Hp(x), of specimens under different fatigue cycles were measured by EMS-2003 and RM-1 magnetic memory testing apparatus respectively. The results show that, the gradient variation of Hp(y) signals during the fatigue test is similar to each other, but the gradient value is different due to the different stress concentration factors. And so is the relative peak value of Hp(x) signals. Both gradient of Hp(y) and relative peak value of Hp(x) can be used to distinguish the stress concentration degree of specimens.


Tests of English translation can have a strong backwash effect on the teaching and learning of the English language.Proper application of translation tests can effectively evaluate the quality and results of the teaching efforts, identify and pinpoint the test takers' mistakes,ascertain the learners' level of mastery,and thereby improve their English proficiency.Through analyzing problems existing in current translation tests,the author comes up with the suggestions that teachers shall design translation tests scientifically,diversify the test modes as much as possible and in the meanwhile,set up corresponding score standard that is reasonable and objective.


The utility model discloses a microwave vehicle locking mechanism which comprises a base, a microwave source body, a locking component and a control component. The microwave source body and the locking component are fixed to the base, and the control component is used for controlling the locking component. The locking component comprises front locking components and rear locking components, the front locking components are arranged on the left side and the right side of the front end of the microwave source body, and the rear locking components are arranged on the left side and the right side of the rear end of the microwave source body. Limit clamping tables are arranged on the left side and the right side of the front end of the microwave source body and correspond to the front locking components. Locking lugs are arranged on the left side and the right side of the rear end of the microwave source body and correspond to the rear locking components. The microwave vehicle locking mechanism can effectively limit and control the microwave source, and prevents the risk generated due to the fact that the microwave source is not firmly installed under special conditions.


Nanowires of metal borates Al18B9O33 and MgB4O7 were synthesized by thermal evaporation of mixed powders containing metal oxide (Al2O3 or MgO) and boron oxide. Typical widths of these nanowires are in the range of 10 to ∼100 nm and lengths are in the range of several to several tens of micrometers. The nanowires were studied using a high-resolution transmission electron microscope equipped with electron energy loss spectrometer and energy dispersive x-ray spectrometer. The metal borate nanowires fabricated in this way are single crystals. It is proposed that these metal borate nanowires are grown in a vapor–solid process, in which both the metal oxide and boron oxide vapors were simultaneously involved.


Anti-rollover is an important performance for automated heavy trucks, which has been seldomly considered in the motion planning. This paper proposes an anti-rollover motion planning based on model predictive control (MPC) for automated heavy trucks. Taking the coupling of roll motion of sprung mass of the front axle with that of the drive axle into consideration, a seven degrees of freedom rollover dynamics model is established, and an evaluation index that can accurately describe the rollover motion is derived for heavy trucks. Then, a model predictive control strategy is designed for motion planning that combines the rollover dynamics, the artificial potential field for obstacle avoidance, and the trajectory tracking. In addition, the optimal path is calculated that considers collision avoidance, anti-rollover and vehicle dynamic constraints. Furthermore, three typical scenarios are applied to validate the performance of the proposed motion planning algorithm. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed anti-rollover motion planning can effectively avoid collisions and reduce the rollover risk simultaneously when confronting edge scenarios.


Caloric materials are systems that exhibit significant thermal effects at phase transitions induced by external fields. They can be used for the solid-state refrigeration through a designated cooling cycle. Current caloric materials are characteristic of small isothermal entropy changes of about 50 J kg -1 K -1 , which is one of serious obstacles to the real applications. Recently, we have discovered that plastic crystals exhibit excellent barocaloric effects with typical entropy changes higher than 400 J kg -1 K -1 induced by a small pressure. While these findings imply the solid-state refrigeration technologies based on caloric materials would be on the horizon, the underlying microscopic scenario on such colossal barocaloric effects has be established by employing in-situ pressure dependent neutron scattering measurements, which also serves as a confirmation of the new finding from the very fundamental origin. The present study might inspire to promote the application of neutron scattering techniques in the future caloric materials research.


combinations against diseases that have an international public health impact. These papers, which are concerned primarily with the use of vaccines in large-scale immunization programmes, mmarize essential background information on the respective diseases and vaccines, and nclude with the current WHO position concerning their use in the global context. The papers ve been reviewed by a number of experts within and outside WHO and since April 2006 they e reviewed and endorsed by WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on vaccines d immunization. The position papers are designed for use mainly by national public health ficials and immunization programme managers. However, they may also be of interest to ternational funding agencies, the vaccine manufacturing industry, the medical community, ientific media, and the public.


Evolution of the south-east Gippsland Basin since ca. 96 Ma has been governed by the interaction of three distinct processes: re-organisation of regional plate boundaries at 96, 80 and 50 Ma, registered as major angular unconformities or megasequence boundaries; intra-basin response of cover to basement-controlled deformational phases, registered as the sequence boundaries within these megasequences; and the more subtle balance between regressive sedimentation associated with these phases and the transgressive deposition associated with longer-term eustatic sea level rises. The Golden Beach Megasequence (seismic sequences UK1 and UK2) accumulated syntectonically in an extensional setting characterised by an orthogonal array of north-northeast trending transfer faults and associated normal faults. Major compressional tectonism at ca. 80 Ma terminated this regime, initiating a modified mosaic of stratotectonic domains which controlled deposition of the Latrobe Megasequence. The seismic sequences within this megasequence display two types of cyclicity distinguishing intra-Campanian to Top Maastrichtian sequences (UK3-UK5) from early Tertiary sequences (PL1, PL2 and EO1). The sequence boundaries are considered to be the expression of recurrent compressive deformational phases. They are demonstrable as angular unconformities in transpressional and pull-apart structures in domains within which deformation was focused over the older extensional grain. The ca. 50 Ma Top Latrobe megasequence boundary appears to mark the transition from a basement-coupled deformational style characteristic of the Latrobe Megasequence, to a basement-decoupled inversion style of deformation during deposition of the Seaspray Megasequence (post-50 Ma). Seismic sequence boundaries, at least within basins such as the Gippsland, are therefore the stratigraphic expression of deformational phases rather than signatures of global sea-level changes. Eustacy is not invariably a shorter-term process than basin tectonism, nor is it the sole or main determinant of depositional style.


Plans for a Lutheran "eco-reformation" are complicated by the polarization of views related to environmental issues. I argue that there is a special reason to take the agenda of eco-reformation seriously: a widespread and often unconscious environmental anxiety, which posits a pastoral and existential challenge that must be addressed by the churches. I contextualize the challenge of eco-reformation in the historical context of Lutheran eco-theology. Finally, I briefly discuss two key themes for Lutheran eco-theology: God's presence in nature and the theology of the cross.


Outbreaks of mass mortality occurred since 1993 in penaeid shrimp (Penaeus stylirostris) reared in New-Caledonia. Since then, the disease, called syndrome 93 (S93) has inflicted serious losses (60 to 100%) during the cold period and thus must be considered as an economically significant disease.


Pairwise NQD sequence is a class of random variable sequence,which is very widespread,many of the negative dependence sequences are derived from it later.In this paper,the author discusses the Lr convergence for the weighted sums of pairwise NQD random arrays under r-th h-integrability,that is:limn→∞E|k-1/rnSnkn|r=0,it is the same as that in the independent case.Thus,the results in the previous paper [5] are extended and fully improved.


China is located in the northwest Pacific region where typhoons occur frequently, and every year typhoons make landfall and cause large or small economic losses or even casualties. Therefore, how to predict typhoon paths more accurately has undoubtedly become an important research topic nowadays. Therefore, this paper predicts the path of typhoons formed in the South China Sea based on deep learning. This paper combines the CNN network and the LSTM network to build a C-LSTM typhoon path prediction model, using the typhoon paths and related meteorological variables formed in the South China Sea from 1949 to 2021 as the data set, and using the Granger causality test to select multiple features for the data set to achieve data dimensionality reduction. Finally, by comparing the experiments with the LSTM typhoon path prediction model, it is proved that the prediction results of the model have smaller errors.


A Dissertation Submitted to University of Gezira in Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Master of Science in
Hematology and Immunohematology
Faculty Of Medical Laboratories Science
University Of Gezira
(2017)


A middle-aged white man who had had an irretractable skin disease for 15 years attracted our attention because the extent and the gross features of the lesions were unlike anything we had ever observed. A survey of the literature convinced us that the cinical manifestations of the ailment indicated a new disease. Unique papular lesions with a sma crater of necrosis capping each, which yielded a few drops of sticky pus, covered the entire skin. The lesions were heavily set on a much thickened, wrinkled and scaly skin, which had a tendency to become ulcerated. The ulcers were deep and crusted and progresed slowly. The regional lymph nodes were increased markedly in size. The features enumerated led us to believe that a moderately strong injurious agent was the cause of the disease. The extension of the lesions over the entire surface of the body, followed by enlargement of the regional lymph nodes, led us to suspect an infectious form of microbiological life, possibly a fungus, as the etiological agent of the disease. Sections of the pathological skin and lymph nodes revealed the presence of minute yeastlike bodies chiefly within endothelial phagocytes. The organism was isolated on artificial culture mediums. Mycological and animal pathogenicity studies of the pure culture were made. According to the taxonomy of Saccardo, the organism belonged to the genus Sepedonium. Our species did not belong to any of the described members of the genus. No pathogenic member of the Sepedonium has been described.