The objectives of this course are to equip pastors, chaplains, counselors and other helping professionals to deal effectively with the crises surrounding the experiences of death and dying. The course aims to present these concepts from an integrated psycho-social and spiritual framework and to help students to integrate the various theoretical perspectives into a personal strategy of intervention.


The determination of gold in ores by both flame and graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry a.t different analytical wavelengths are compared. Vanadyl chloride was shown to be effective as a chemical modifier for determining gold in the presence of heavy metals. A sensitivity of 1 pg I-' and a detection limit of 1 pg 1-l (or 0.1 pg 6 -1 in the original sample) were obtained. The best linear range was between 1 and 120 pg 1-l and a characteristic mass of 1 pg u:as obtained.


Problem of automated detecting forest fire using web-cameras is considered. Problems, solutions, image data processing are discussed. Architecture of software and hardware complex is proposed as well as principle of its operation.


Deep level transient spectroscopy is used to study one of the deep electron traps commonly seen in AlxGa1−xAs grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). This trap, having the largest capture cross section of the commonly observed levels in MBE material, is measured in samples with Al composition varying from 8 to 40%. It is shown that the activation energy remains fixed with respect to the valence band, over the composition range studied. The trap is tentatively identified as a group III related vacancy. The effects of varying MBE growth parameters are discussed.


A real-time vibration compensation control system based on fast-steering-mirrors(FSM) is demonstrated. The system compensates the dominant frequency of vibration spectrum. Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is mainly used as the control method. The simulative experiment on vibration compensation of satellite platform is proceeded. The results show that the highest effective compensational frequency can be improved to 80 Hz. Furthermore, this method has the superiority on bandwidth, tolerance and stability.


1071 Background: Longer disease-free interval (DFI) between primary (1°) tumor treatment and relapse correlates with better outcomes. Breast cancer relapses are divided into true local recurrences (LR) and new 1° tumors (NP). Arbitrary cutoff times to relapse are sometimes used to distinguish LR vs NP, but like LR vs NP distinction, this is poorly defined. This study assessed whether histologic phenotypes shifted significantly at any particular DFI help distinguish a LR from a NP.

METHODS
An IRB-approved, prospective database of >4,300 breast cancer patients (pts) was reviewed. Demographics, histologic and treatment-related characteristics were correlated between initial disease and 1st recurrence for 235 (5.4%) Stage I-III pts who relapsed in the ipsilateral breast between 11/1976 - 9/2008.

RESULTS
Pt median age was 51 y. Median time to relapse was 60.5 mos. A shift between 1° tumor and relapse phenotypes was noted in histology (p<.0001), ER expression (p<.0001), PR expression (p<.0001), EIC (p=.0003), and method of presentation (p<.0001, McNemar's). Time to relapse was not predictive of any of these. HER2/neu (p=.20) and lymphovascular invasion (p=.22) did not vary between 1° tumor and relapse. Sixty % of relapses differed from their 1° tumor by ≥2 characteristics. Among 25 tumors without any phenotypic change, 56% were all T1/T2, N0, receiving only local therapy with surgery and radiotherapy. Factors correlating with a phenotypic shift between 1° tumor and relapse included: T stage (p=.006) on histology shift; chemotherapy (p=.04) on shift in grade; BMI (ER, p=.02; PR, p=.40) and hormonal therapy (ER, p=.02; PR, p=.05) on shift in receptor status; hormonal therapy (p=.01) on shift in EIC; and chemotherapy (p=.001) on shift in method of relapse presentation (logistic regression).

CONCLUSIONS
Time to relapse is not predictive of change in relapse characteristics, suggesting that DFI should not be considered when defining a relapse as a NP or LR. Frequent change in relapse characteristics makes LR vs NP distinction difficult. As genetic analysis plays a greater role in characterization of tumor behavior, NP vs. LR clinical distinctions will likely become less significant.


Since the mid 1990's, education through the medium of Welsh has increased significantly. A brief outline of Welsh medium education is given, followed by an introduction of its effect on the results pertaining to the Welsh language of the 2001 UK population census. This census shows an increase in Welsh speakers in Wales, particularly in the younger age groups. A shift in the linguistic geography of Wales, and an alarming decline in those areas traditionally considered to be the strongholds of the language is also revealed by the census results. This shift is largely due to immigration, a phenomenon which has become particularly significant in Wales over the last twenty years. This article ends with the conclusion that the progress made in the arrest of language decline through Welsh medium education is being counterbalanced by the effects of immigration.


Recent advancements in programmable network hardware such as smartNICs (e.g., NPU, DPU, FPGA)1 and programmable switches (e.g., Intel Tofino) have created opportunities to save precious CPU cycles and achieve low latencies by offloading applications to these devices [1] –[3].


As it is difficult to detect small moving targets in wide field of view and long distance environment, this study uses the fluctuation of optical field intensity to enhance the characteristic signal of moving targets, and then combines the local Gaussian mixture model to segment the foreground of the image enhancement area. The detection of small moving targets in different long-distance and complex backgrounds is realized. The result indicates that: The detection algorithm in this study can effectively improve the detection rate of small motion with long distance, wide field of view and low signal-to-noise ratio. The detection rate of drones photographed at 200 meters, 400 meters and 700 meters was 82%.


Propagation models are mainly based on data obtained from propagation measurements. In propagation measurements accuracy of the obtained data is often overlooked, as these measurements are very complex to perform. This paper considers the accuracy of propagation measurements in practice. Methods are summarized to improve accuracy and a method is presented to keep track of the accuracy during propagation measurements.


Governments arguably exist in part to cope with such weaknesses of their citizens as those arising from infirmity, ignorance, and irrationality. At the same time, however, governments themselves partly subsist on the strength of such other popular 'weaknesses' as smoking, drinking, gambling, and polluting. In many countries, alcoholic beverages have long played a critical role on both sides of this equation. Over-indulgence in drink is a factor in crime, injury, and illness. In recent decades, although the level of alcohol consumption worldwide has been relatively stable, in some developing countries, including a number in Africa, such consumption has increased (WHO 2004). At the same time in many of the same countries alcohol has also proved to be a lucrative source of public financing.


The University of Michigan Supermileage (UMSM) team is an engineering design team with the goal of building a vehicle that achieves 3,300 mi/gal using a gas-powered lawn mower engine.


This research is proposed to find out the impact of independent variable that consists of debt ratio (X 1 ), book to market ratio (X 2 ) and return on equity (X 3 ) partially and simultaneously on dependent variables, investment rate (Y 1 ) and investment opportunities (Y 2 ). Type of research used in this research is explanatory research. The population consists about food and beverages subsector companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange 2012-2015 period around 10 companies that being samples based on certain criteria. Method used in this research is multiple linear regressions. The results of this study prove that: 1) on Investment Rate: a) Debt Ratio, Book to Market Ratio, and Return On Equity simultaneously have significant impact on investment rate; b) Return On Equity partially have significant impact on investment rate; c) Debt Ratio and Book to Market Ratio partially have no significant impact on investment rate. 2) on Investment Opportunities a) Debt Ratio, Book to Market Ratio, and Return On Equity simultaneously have significant impact on investment opportunities; b) Debt Ratio and Book to Market Ratio partially have significant impact on investment opportunities; c) Return On Equity partially have no significant impact on investment opportunities. Kеywords: Investment rate , Investment Opportunities , Debt Ratio , Book to Market Ratio , Return On Equity , Future Investment АBSTRАK Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh variabel bebas yang terdiri dari debt ratio (X 1 ), book to market ratio (X 2 ) dan return on equity (X 3 ) secara simultan dan parsial tehadap variabel terikat yaitu investment rate (Y 1 ) dan investment opportunities (Y 2 ). Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian penjelasan( Explanatory Research ). Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah perusahaan makanan dan minuman yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia Periode 2012-2015 dan didapat  10 perusahaan sampel yang terpilih berdasarkan kriteria tertentu yang disesuaikan dengan tujuan penelitian. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis regresi linear berganda. Hasil penelitian ini mebuktikan bahwa : 1) pada Investment Rate : a) Debt Ratio, Book to Market Ratio, dan Return On Equity secara simultan berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Investment Rate ; b) Return On Equity secara parsial berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Investment Rate ; c) Debt Ratio dan Book to Market Ratio secara parsial tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Investment Rate . 2) pada Investment Opportunities : a) Debt Ratio, Book to Market Ratio, dan Return On Equity secara simultan berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Investment Opportunities ; b) Debt Ratio dan Book to Market Ratio secara parsial berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Investment Opportunities ; c) Return On Equity secara parsial tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Investment Opportunities Kаtа Kunci: Investment rate , Investment Opportunities , Debt Ratio , Book to Market Ratio , Return On Equity , Future Investment


Although urban heat islands (UHIs) have been widely studied, a recent climate-based classification of urban and rural landscapes provides a new framework for UHI researchers. Based on the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) system, we studied heat islands in a tropical city, analysing the effects of urban morphology and surface cover on UHI intensity. Mobile measurements were taken in Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, Brazil, on five winter evenings (June and July 2014). Observed temperatures across the city show compact built zones with higher temperatures, followed by open midsize, lightweight low-rise, and low plants zones. A maximum nocturnal temperature difference of more than 5°C was detected between areas with significant differences in physical characteristics (ΔT LCZ 24–D), whereas average inter-zone thermal differences reached 3.8ºC (ΔT LCZ 3–D).


Education is so large that it is difficult to delimit its field of activity. Generally we consider as education that associated with the school, and that is recognized as formal space of knowledge. However, over the years other spaces are also being seen and recognized as places of education. This article presents the museums and science centers of the state of Rio de Janeiro cataloged by the Brazilian Association of Science Centers and Museums. Two proposals of mathematical activities are suggested that can be developed from visits to one of the spaces listed. Finally, a third proposal is suggested as a way to promote a reflection of the subject on the importance of the visit to the exhibition.


Bis [3,3'-(2,2'-dihydroxybiphenyl)] methane (BBPM) was synthesized. It was studied by osmometry and by 1 H NMR and FTIR spectroscopies. Furthermore, the monotetrachloroaurate of BBPM was also investigated. BBPM is a monomer in acetonitrile solution. Within this molecule the four OH groups form a cyclic hydrogen-bonded structure in which a collective proton fluctuation occurs. In the case of the monotetrachloroaurate the cyclic structure is more stable, the additional OH group is also hydrogen-bonded, and its proton is involved in the collective proton fluctuation, as in the case of crown ethers


Primarily copies of poetry and prose; also a list of books in the Flaxbourne Library in 1853; some entries by descendants of Frederick Trolove
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Finding tiny persons under the drone vision was, is, and remains to be an integral and challenging task. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with high-speed, low-altitude, and multi-perspective flight bring about violently various scales of objects, which burdens the optimization of models. Moreover, the detection performance of densely and faintly discernible person characteristics is far less than that of large objects in high-resolution aerial images. In this article, we introduce the image cropping strategy and attention mechanism based on YOLOv5 to address small person detection in the optimized VisDrone2019 dataset. Specifically, we propose a Densely Cropped and Local Attention of object detector Network (DCLANet), which is inspired by the observation that less area occupied by small objects should be fully focused and relatively magnified in the original image. DCLANet-assembled Density Map-Guided Object Detection (DMNet) in aerial images and You Only Look Twice (YOLT): Rapid Multiscale Object Detection In Satellite Imagery to crop images upon training and testing stage, meanwhile, added bottleneck attention mechanism to YOLOv5 baseline framework, which more focus on person objects other than irrelevant categories. To achieve further improvement of DCLANet, we also provide bags of useful strategies: data augmentation, label fusion, category filtering, and hyperparameter evolution. Extensive experiments on the VisDrone2019 show that DCLANet achieves state-of-the-art performanc; the detection result of person category <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$A P^{\text{val }}$</tex-math></inline-formula>@0.5 is 50.04% with test-dev subset, which is substantially better than the previous SOTA method (DPNetV3) by 12.01%. In addition, on our optimized VisDrone2019 dataset, <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$A P^{\text{val }}$</tex-math></inline-formula>@0.5 and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$A P^{\text{test }}$</tex-math></inline-formula>@0.5 obtained 74.95% and 62.18%, respectively. Compared to YOLOv5, DCLANet improves 3.8% or so, which is encouraging and competitive.


In general, it is difficult to access the thermal conductivity of thin insulating films experimentally by electrical means. Here, we present a new approach utilizing the tunnel magneto-Seebeck effect (TMS) in combination with finite-element modeling (FEM). We detect the laser-induced TMS and the absolute thermovoltage of laser-heated magnetic tunnel junctions with 2.6 nm thin barriers of MgAl2O4 (MAO) and MgO, respectively. A second measurement of the absolute thermovoltage after a dielectric breakdown of the barrier grants insight into the remaining thermovoltage of the stack. Thus, the pure TMS without any parasitic Nernst contributions from the leads can be identified. In combination with FEM via COMSOL, we are able to extract values for the thermal conductivity of MAO (0.7 W (K · m)−1) and MgO (5.8 W (K · m)−1), which are in very good agreement with theoretical predictions. Our method provides a new promising way to extract the experimentally challenging parameter of the thermal conductivity of thin insulating films.


An experiment was designed to determine the effects of varying dietary protein levels in feed on bioeconomic aspect of tank raised Tilapia rendalli production in Malawi. T. rendalli of average body weights (23 g) were randomly stocked into 5 m 3 experimental tanks at stocking density of 5 fish/m 3 . The experimental diets containing 25, 30 and 35% CP were formulated. Higher significant (P < 0.05) average weight gain, feed conversion ratio, break-even price, break even yield, net return were recorded in fish fed on the diet containing 35% CP. However, gross margin profit ratio was the lowest in the diet containing 35% CP. The significance of the study findings is that higher inclusion of protein in feed produce better growth and high overall net return, hence need to use high dietary protein level in this case, 35%.


Triclosan and Triclocarban are antimicrobial compounds that are present in several disinfectant hand-soaps currently on the market. The compounds have recently been found in surface waters, possibly due to soil runoff or ineffective waste water treatment. The motivation for this study stems from the lack of peer-reviewed published information on aquatic toxicity of these compounds, a rise in the use of these chemicals and that equally effective alternatives exist in the prevention of hand-washing related illnesses. This study investigates the algal toxicity of these compounds over a wide range of concentrations. The target organisms are green freshwater algae that were enriched from a local agricultural drain. Growth inhibition of the alga is measured using in-vivo chlorophyll a fluorescence. Results show that the IC50 of Triclosan is 1.1mg/L, 10 orders of magnitude higher than previous studies. This decrease in toxicity is likely due to a difference in the species of algae studied and suggests that local algae species are more resistant than originally thought.


These authors contribute to the growing literature of accommodating handicapped students in a science laboratory course by contributing their experience with a cerebral-palsied student in a chemistry laboratory course.


In recent years, with the continuous development of new energy vehicles and automotive electronics, some parts of the GB 21670-2008 standard are no longer applicable to new brake systems. Therefore, there is an urgent need to revise the relevant content of the standard. This article provides a brief introduction to standard dynamics and trends, and proposes specific testing plans for the electromagnetic immunity of passenger car anti lock braking systems, including two testing methods for braking conditions: 1. The vehicle is in active mode and drives the drum to run; 2. The vehicle is in passive mode and is driven by rolls. Verification experiments were conducted on vehicles under two different braking conditions, and the advantages and disadvantages of the two testing methods were analyzed in detail.


BACKGROUND
Peripheral lymphadenopathy can be caused by benign and malignant diseases. In this logistic regression model, we attempted to identify the clinical findings predicting high probability of nodal malignancy.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Two hundred and twenty cases diagnosed by peripheral lymph node biopsy were studied. Of these, 164 had benign lymph node pathology, while the other 56 were malignant. The patientsâ medical charts were reviewed and a logistic regression model used to identify physical signs and simple investigations that will predict nodal malignancy.

RESULTS
Hard lymph node consistency, negative Mantoux test and positive abdominal ultrasound (showing hepatosplenomegaly with or without lymphadenopathy) were found to correlate with a higher probability of nodal malignancy.

CONCLUSION
A logistic regression model is proposed to calculate the probability of lymph node malignancy at different ages and both sexes in relation to lymph node consistency, Mantoux test and abdominal ultrasound results.


It is important for thematic maps functionality to achieve the appropriate choice of the map notation method.Combinding with 〈the population map of Ningxiathe〉 of leaderships' maps of Ningxia,this paper has discussed the correct choice,the combination of the representation method of thematic Maps Symbols and the correct choice of relevant parameters in order to enhance thematic maps of the expression.


The distribution of cobalt in the structure of ferromanganese nodules (FMN) was studied using beta-autoradiography. In some cases, the content of element increased in the outer part of the nodules, or in thin layers within the nodules. Layered type of cobalt distribution in FMN indicates changing conditions in deposition during their formation, in particular also the living conditions of microorganisms known to inhabit oceanic ferromanganese nodules. Experimental studies suggested that colonies of micromycetes living at the surface of the nodules can have an important impact on the selective accumulation of platinum and other elements in FMN.


The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for dissolving and mobilizing of particles is applied to the sand in wells and drainage with sediment environment. The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus and a method for dissolving and mobilizing of particles, which ensures a low energy and maintenance costs as well as a high level of stability when operating in water-sand suspensions in desanding of wells and drainage. According to the invention the object is achieved in that a sealing surface (7) is arranged between the pressure segment (3) and the piston guide segment (13) with a seal (8) to a piston (9) and an associated piston rod (11) is sealed , wherein the piston rod (11) through an opening (14) in a closure cover (15) is led out and outside the cylinder (1) via an end of the piston rod (11) existing sleeve (16) with a tool, preferably a valve piston system (17) is connected, and the cylinder (1) positioned under the water, the piston guide segment (13) via the four Ruckspuloffnungen (24) filled with water and supplying an inert gas through the high pressure hose (4) and high-pressure connection (2) from the pressure vessel (5) is built up a pressure in the pressure segment (3), wherein on exceeding the pressure in the piston spring element system (12), the pressure segment (3) by the movement of the piston (9) in directional ung the bottom of the cylinder (1) is opened and the gas through the pressure relief openings (10) and water from the Ruckspuloffnungen (24) is taken out and the piston rod (11) with a tool, preferably a valve piston system (17) is moved downwards in the longitudinal direction ,


Polyampholytes (PAs) are polymers carrying electrical charges of both signs along their backbone. We consider synthetic PAs with a quenched random charge sequence. At low to moderate salt concentra...


The rapid and uncontrolled haphazard urbanization is a serious threat to the manmade and natural environment and the socio-economic balance of our time. There is a global concern that urbanization must be oriented into responsible, sustainable, and livable urban forms. High quality of sustainable urban design plays a key role in creating these sustainable living environments. In this regard learning from culture and history, and searching together for new ways of designing is a must. In this paper the evolution of the settlements with respect to sustainable urban design in past, present & future is analyzed. The study indicates that we had sustainable urban design in pre- industrial period in an organic way; but, we alter their existing ecosystems by welcoming incompatible technological elements; elements that cause a kind of ill growth similar to cancer. In this relation a case study of urban environmental design for Darabad River valley in Tehran as a sustainable urban design project is presented in brief. Finally it is concluded that we should know that designing is a kind of altering the systems. A comprehensive wise and conscious approach similar to what we have used in Darabad River valley project is suggested for similar situations.


The present invention discloses a reference voltage buffer circuit, comprising a reference voltage generating circuit which generates and outputs a first primary voltage and a second primary voltage, and further comprising a driving buffer circuit and a deviation detecting circuit. The reference voltage buffer circuit provided by the embodiment of the present invention administers voltage adjustment to the given nodes of the driving buffer circuit through the deviation detecting circuit, realizing the adjustment and correction of the abnormal working state of a circuit, reliably solving the problem of reference voltage buffer circuit failing to work normally caused by production technique errors or other unpredictable factors, improving the production rate of standard quality of a circuit, providing reference voltage of great driving capacity, and achieving lower cost and circuit power dissipation.


The crisis of the religious painting in the 19th century experienced a change of direction at the end of this century with the fin-de-siecle poetics reform. At that moment the explicit and strict naming was extended to the wide spiritual field, based in the sincere, direct and individual relationship between the human being and the divinity, who in certain moments was materialized in artistic communities. The mystic, mental, salvation, even aesthetics aspects were promoted at the end of the century providing the religious subject matter with new faces. In this context the contemporary action of San Francisco de Asís, the favourite religious iconography in the complex fin-de-siecle spirit, was related to the assimilation of his figure with the worries of the modem humankind. The painting from Málaga has interesting examples which meet these premises.


This text examines Taiwan's security concerns, the structure and composition of its armed forces and its defensive strategy. In addition, there is an exploration of the opportunities and challenges for Taipei generated by the recent transformation in the international system.


The detection of coal and gangue is an essential part of intelligent sorting. A lightweight coal and gangue detection algorithm based on You Only Look Once version 5s (Yolov5s) is proposed for the current coal and gangue target detection algorithm with the low accuracy of small target detection, high model complexity, and sizeable computational memory consumption. Firstly, we build a new convolutional block based on the Funnel Rectified Linear Unit (FReLU) activation function and apply it to the original Yolov5s network so that the model adaptively captures local contextual information of the image. Secondly, the neck of the original network is redesigned to improve the detection accuracy of small samples by adding a small target detection head to achieve multi-scale feature fusion. Next, some of the standard convolution modules in the original network are replaced with Depthwise Convolution (DWC) and Ghost Shuffle Convolution (GSC) modules to build a lightweight feature extraction network while ensuring the model detection accuracy. Finally, an efficient channel attention (ECA) module is embedded in the backbone of the lightweight network to facilitate accurate localization of the prediction region by improving the information interaction of the model with the channel features. In addition, the importance of each component is fully demonstrated by ablation experiments and visualization analysis comparison experiments. The experimental results show that the mean average precision (mAP) and the model size of our proposed model reach 0.985 and 4.9 M, respectively. The mAP is improved by 0.6%, and the number of parameters is reduced by 72.76% compared with the original Yolov5s network. The improved algorithm has higher localization and recognition accuracy while significantly reducing the number of floating-point calculations and of parameters, reducing the dependence on hardware, and providing a specific reference basis for deploying automated underground gangue sorting.


Experiments in pots were conducted in order to establish appropriate technical route for regeneration of Afzelia africana, which becomes rare because of overexploitation in the Northern Cameroon. Study was conducted within campus of the University of Ngaoundere (Cameroon) from December 2017 to September 2018. A randomised experimental design with 04 treatments (control: unfertilized plant (T), compost derived from 100% cattle manure (CBV), compost derived from 100% poultry litter (CFP) and mixture 50% compost derived cattle manure with compost derived 50% poultry litter (MCBVFP)) was used. There were 45 plants per treatment. Seedling emergence rate and growth parameters (plant height, number of leaves per plant, diameter of stem at collar and total dry biomass of plant) were assessed, and 30 plants were sampled. Seedling Original Research Article Tchuenteu et al.; APRJ, 4(3): 9-16, 2020; Article no.APRJ.57134 10 emergence rates from treated pots by CBV, CFP and MCBVFP were 2.19, 1.81 and 1.31 respectively fold higher than that from unfertilized pots. There was a significant (p˂0.05) difference between compost qualities used relative to the growth parameters. CBV, CFP and MCBVFP encreased the total dry biomass of plants at 62.40%, 47.81%, 29.93% respectively compared to T. These results suggest that the origin and the quality of composting substrate was important not only for seedling emergence, but also for the growth of A. africana. We recommend the compost derived from 100% cattle manure for the regeneration of A. africana in the Nortern Cameroon.


Identifying disease clusters (areas with an unusually high incidence of a particular disease) is a common problem in epidemiology and public health. We describe a Bayesian nonparametric mixture model for disease clustering that con- strains clusters to be made of contiguous areal units. This is achieved by modifying the exchangeable partition probability function associated with the Ewen's sampling distribution. The model is illustrated using data on US lung cancer rates.


Results from the ATLAS experiment at LHC on the total cross section (σtot), the inelastic cross section (σinel), and the elastic cross section (σel) at √s=7 TeV are summarized . All the results are based upon measurements of the differential elastic cross section using the Roman Pot technique which allow to approach the detectors close to the beam. The results will be compared to other experiments and will also be discussed in relation to previous ATLAS measurements based upon "minimum bias" data .


By Garbor wavelet,extracting human facial expression characteristics,in order to incorporate semi-supervised learning and manually selected feature points to reduce the vector dimension and extract effective identification features,a new semi-supervised manifold learning for facial expression recognition is proposed.This method relied on the distance matrix formed by labeled samples,and then the local linear embedding(LLE) method is used to extract discriminative manifold features according to the modified distance matrix.The proposed method produces better classification performance which captures the intrinsic manifold structure collectively revealed by labeled samples.Experimental results on public facial expression databases show that the proposed method can improve facial expression classification performance effectively.Recognition rate is superior to the traditional PCA algorithm.Finally experiments analyze the relationship between neighbor K and the embedding dimension of algorithms SLLE to the recognition rate.


The mass of the lowest energy dihyperon state is calculated in the colour-dielectric model. Contributions from mesons, one-gluon exchange and centre-of-mass motion are included. The resulting mass is 100 MeV below the Lambda Lambda threshold in the same model.


Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation to promote cutting edge research as well as the advancement of young researchers and women, technology transfer, outreach and education, the NCCR (Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research) Chemical Biology is co-led by Howard Riezman, University of Geneva and Kai Johnsson, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).


An electronic apparatus housing-plate fixing device of the utility model comprises a base and a plate installed on the upper part of the base. The plate comprises a body and a pair of folding edges extending along two opposite sides of the body. The body is provided with a plurality of holding columns. The base comprises a front wall and a pair of opposite side walls. Holding grooves for holding the holding columns are arranged on the front wall of the base corresponding to the holding columns of the body. Each holding column comprises a holding part and a neck. The diameter of the holding part is longer than the diameter of the neck. Each holding groove is provided with a pair of first walls and a second wall connecting the first walls. The first walls communicate with the outside. A plurality of convex bolts are arranged on the folding edges of the plate. A plurality of holding holes are arranged on the side walls of the base corresponding to the bolts. The holding columns and the bolts of the plate respectively match with the holding grooves and the holding holes of the base. Therefore, the plate can be installed on the base.


Abstract The MiMeS project demonstrated that a small fraction of massive stars (around 7%) presents large-scale, stable, generally dipolar magnetic fields at their surface. These fields that do not present any evident correlations with stellar mass or rotation are supposed to be fossil remnants of the initial phases of stellar evolution. They result from the relaxation to MHD equilibrium states, during the formation of stable radiation zones, of initial fields resulting from a previous convective phase. In this work, we present new theoretical results, where we generalize previous studies by taking rotation into account. The properties of relaxed fossil fields are compared to those obtained when rotation is ignored. Consequences for magnetic fields in the radiative envelope of rotating early-type stars and their stability are finally discussed.


Abstract : Differential display of mRNA was used to identify concordant changes in gene expression induced by two mood‐stabilizing agents, lithium and valproate (VPA). Both treatments, on chronic administration, increased mRNA levels of the transcription factor polyomavirus enhancer‐binding protein (PEBP) 2β in frontal cortex (FCx). Both treatments also increased the DNA binding activity of PEBP2αβ and robustly increased the levels of bcl‐2 (known to be transcriptionally regulated by PEBP2) in FCx. Immunohistochemical studies revealed a marked increase in the number of bcl‐2‐immunoreactive cells in layers 2 and 3 of FCx. These novel findings represent the first report of medication‐induced increases in CNS bcl‐2 levels and may have implications not only for mood disorders, but also for long‐term treatment of various neurodegenerative disorders.


Infrastructure and compensation: considerations from the Lombard context evidence The infrastructure planning is a controversial subject and difficult to deal with, in terms of institutional responsibilities and technical choices. The development of evaluation procedures and the recruitment of environmental compensation measures show an increase in attention around the contextualization of local infrastructure. This contribution, through the experience of Lombardy in place, puts to the fore the search for forms of integration of planning with the planning of infrastructural area, assuming the infrastructure project which array of geographies of voluntary co-planning.


The objective of the control technique is to detect changes in traffic intensity  of a queueing system as quickly as possible, then take appropriate corrective actions, and determine how much of a sample size is needed in the applications. Thus, the sequential probability ratio test provides a saving of up to fifty per cent in the sample size according to traditional methods. Furthermore, the use of SPRT is easy for observing only the number of customers in the system at successive departure periods, which are embedded Markov points. This paper gives a method on the control of traffic intensity of Hypoexponential and Coxian queueing systems. This method uses The Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT) based on the number of arrivals  during the  service period. Two theorems are given on the subject and these theorems are proved. Numerical illustrations for each model are graphically given by using Matlab software.


The observed spectra and X-ray luminosities of millisecond pulsars in 47 Tuc can be interpreted in the context of theoretical models based on strong, small-scale, multipole fields on the neutron star surface. For multipole fields that are relatively strong compared to the large-scale dipole field, the emitted X-rays are thermal and likely result from polar cap heating associated with the return current from the polar gap. On the other hand, for weak multipole fields, the emission is nonthermal and results from synchrotron radiation of e (cid:1) pairs created by curvature radiation. The X-ray luminosity L X is related to the spin-down power L sd , expressed in the form L X / L (cid:1) sd with (cid:1) (cid:2) 0 : 5 and (cid:2) 1 for strong and weak multipole fields, respectively. If the polar cap size is of the order of the length scale of the multipole field s , the polar cap temperature is (cid:2) 3 (cid:3) 10 6 K ð L sd = 10 34 ergs s (cid:4) 1 Þ 1 = 8 ð s = 3 (cid:3) 10 4 cm Þ (cid:4) 1 = 2 . A comparison of the X-ray properties of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters and in the Galactic field suggests that the emergence of relatively strong small-scale multipole fields from the neutron star interior may be correlated with the age and evolutionary history of the underlying neutron star.


................................................................................................................................................. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................................................................................... iii LIST OF TABLES ....................................................................................................................................... ix LIST OF FIGURES ...................................................................................................................................... x CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ................................................ 1 Statement of Objectives ............................................................................................................................ 3 Theoretical Framework ............................................................................................................................. 3 Site Overviews .......................................................................................................................................... 5 History of Investigation at Killdeer Canyon (5LR289) ............................................................................ 7 History of Investigation at T-W Diamond (5LR200) ............................................................................. 12 Thesis Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 16 CHAPTER 2: CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE AND RING CONTEMPORANEITY ........................ 19 Theoretical Framework ........................................................................................................................... 19 Relative Dating Discussion ..................................................................................................................... 20 Absolute Dating Discussion .................................................................................................................... 24 Methods – Radiocarbon and Thermoluminescence Dates ...................................................................... 25 Killdeer Canyon Results – Radiocarbon and Thermoluminescence Dates ............................................. 27 T-W Diamond Results – Radiocarbon and Thermoluminescence Dates ................................................ 34 Discussion and Conclusion ..................................................................................................................... 40 CHAPTER 3: DEBITAGE ACCUMULATION AS A MEASURE OF OCCUPATION SPAN .............. 42 Theoretical Justification for Debitage Analysis ...................................................................................... 42 Methods .................................................................................................................................................. 45 Killdeer Canyon Debitage Results .......................................................................................................... 45 T-W Diamond Debitage Results ............................................................................................................. 54 Discussion and Conclusion ..................................................................................................................... 60 CHAPTER 4: FORMAL TOOL ANALYSIS AND OCCUPATION SPAN ............................................. 62 Theoretical Justification for Tool Analysis ............................................................................................. 62 Methods .................................................................................................................................................. 63 Killdeer Canyon Formal Tool Descriptions ............................................................................................ 63 Killdeer Canyon Formal Tool Analysis .................................................................................................. 66


Purpose: The major purpose of the study relates to assessing the impact of different demographic factors on the saving determinants and saving behaviour of the individuals of Ludhiana. Therefore, in this study saving determinants and behaviour were considered as dependent variable and the demographic variables as independent variable.
Design, Methodology & Approach: The data was collected from 100 respondents which comprised of individuals representing different heterogeneities of Ludhiana. The tools of Factor Analysis, Independent T-test and One Way ANOVA were applied to study the impact of five demographic variables on the saving determinants and behaviour on the individuals of Ludhiana.
Findings: The studies revealed that certain factors of saving behaviour had an insignificant relationship with the demographic factors while virtuous considerations and financial considerations resonated a significant impact with certain demographic factors.
Research Limitations: The major limitation of the study was that the sample was relatively of a smaller size. Had it been of a larger size, the results would have been an accurate one.
Originality/Value: This paper was a first in its kind to study the saving behaviour of the Individuals of Ludhiana on the basis of their demographic factors.


The behavior of multiple discrete fires is often different from that of a single fire. Because of the interaction among these fires, their burning rates and flame lengths can increase. Also, the increasing radiative heat transfer from multiple flames is partially responsible for the remote ignition and accelerated flame spread in large-scale urban and wildland fires. To understand the distribution of radiant heat fluxes from multiple discrete fires, experiments have been performed with an array of individual pool fires of variable spacing and size. Results show that a point-source radiation model can be extended from a single pool fire to the array of discrete pool fires. The analysis shows that the radiative heat flux from the fire array was proportional to the fuel–area ratio (or the fuel surface density) and was inversely proportional to the square of the distance to fire array. This work quantifies the role of radiative heat transfer from large-scale discrete fires, thus helps understand the extreme fire behaviors in large-scale urban and wildland fires.


A material was fabricated based on the Schiff base reaction to achieve covalent attachment of NH2-MIL-53(Al) and 3-formylsalicylic acid for fluorimetric detection of Zn2+ ions based on inhibition and destruction of CN isomerization and ESIPT.


This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction, Color-X, Wordnet Supports Conceptual Modeling, Wordnet and A Reusable Knowledge Library, Wordnet Evaluated from A Conceptual Modeling Viewpoint, Conclusions and Further Research, Notes, References


Tourism culture is changing in many ways. Entertainment-centered tourism is now giving its way to theme, experiential and green tourism featuring natural and culturallegacy. It is also expected that the five-day workweek will help encourage more people to hit the road for their extra holidays. Leaving behind entertainment tourism, which has been criticizedfor being too decadent, a more productive and advanced tourism culture is currently emerging, which features the inherited nature and culture. Advanced tourism culture takes high-qualify tourismitems. However, little effort has been done to train professional tourism workers who can play a leading role in those items. In 1999, the state-run exam to select tourismstaff was scrapped. Only once did the Ministry of Culture and Tourism train cultural legacy commentators before Visit Korea 2001 and the World Cup finals held in Korea and Japan in 2002. When cultural legacy commentators serve as a tourism guide in local sites, we need "through guiders" to take care of every other need of tourists. "Through guiders" are those who accompany tourists everywhere they go, providing well-informed tourism tips for the duration of tour. We also need mangers who accompany tourists and professional culture tourism commentators who provide information regarding natural and cultural legacy. Culture tourism commentators include tour guiders, tour managers, tour consultants, tour marketers, tour curators. Laws and systems should be in place for selecting qualified tourism workers. Also, government's active role will enhance efficiency in nurturing professional tourism workers. To raise the overall quality of workforce, the government needs to limit qualifications for the test only to those who havecompleted related curriculum in college. If it is to further the development of the culture industry, the government should not waste no time in training professional culture tourism workforce who can be deployed in fields right away.


In 1959, Alan Abel began sending out a series of press releases to American media outlets credited to a new organization, The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals. Using the language of conservative moralists opposed to the changes in postwar society, he argued that 'naked' animals were scandalous and needed to be clothed. Pets, farm animals, and wildlife were all included, as the organization hued to slogans like 'a nude horse is a rude horse' and 'decency today means morality tomorrow'. Abel employed comedian Buck Henry to play the organization's president, G. Clifford Prout, who gave interviews and speeches covered widely by the mainstream press. Over the next four years, Prout and the group were featured on every major American newscast. The hoax was exposed in late 1962 after he gave an interview to Walter Cronkite. The following year, Time magazine officially debunked the existence of the group. It was an elaborate hoax, but it was also a satire, using animals to critique moralists attempting to ban books and music for indecency. In so doing, the group also unintentionally laid bare American contradictory thinking about animals, as clothing nonhuman animals and worrying about their 'indecency' assumed that they had some level of agency. The United States, for example, had always classified the killing of those wearing clothes as murder. Thus it was that while the satire of The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals was directed toward human moralists, the content of its crusade focused exclusively on nonhumans, raising clear questions about their role in human society.


The outbreak and subsequent spread of COVID-19 to the West African sub-region have brought significant changes to the different aspects of our lives and grounded educational and socio-political and economic activities of ECOWAS member states. The pandemic has exposed the poor state of the health systems and shortage in medical supplies and protective gears to cope with the health emergency. In response, strict restrictions were put in place to curb the spread of the virus and these have drastically affected peoples" lifestyles. However, there has been huge increase in the use of technology in business, education, religion and other activities as people adapt to the changing times in the sub-region. It is the argument of this paper that things cannot return to the way they were before the pandemic, but West African states must strategically plan for the Post COVID-19 era to survive the massive wave of unemployment, socio-economic meltdown and changes in lifestyle. The paper concluded that while the fight against the virus in the sub-region was not collective, post-pandemic recovery must be coordinated, strategically plannedamong member states. It was recommended that the governments should be flexible enough to retain the use of ICT and technology alongside the conventional ways of doing things in the post-pandemic era.


Not very long ago the treatment of faecal incontinence, now also referred to as ABL or accidental bowel leakage (1,2) was limited to sphincter repair, post anal repair, non-stimulated muscle transfers, stoma creation, antidiarrheal agents, bowel training with enemas, and antidiarrheal and bulking agents. During the last few decades we have witnessed the development of numerous new options. I think that it is easiest to categorize these options into repair, replacement, augmentation, stimulation, and diversion; the repair methods have not significantly changed including direct and overlapping anterior sphincter repair. The augmentation methods are new and include a variety of injectable agents the most widely used of which is NASHA-Dx (Salix Pharmaceuticals, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA) – a non animal stabilized hyaluronic acid dextranomer [3]. However, other newer methods are quite promising including Professor Carlo Ratto's Gatekeeper – an implantable thin solid polyacrylonitrile cylinder [4] and Exantia (Promedon, Cordoba, Argentina) an injectable polyacrylate polyalcohol copolymer [5], as championed by Dr. Guillermo Rosato, both of which have shown significant promise in initial pilot trials. The recommendation of all these augmentation methods is that they create a passive barrier akin to a modern day encirclement procedure. The only different option for augmentation is radiofrequency energy [6] delivery, which induces tissue remodeling as demonstrated in a prior publication in this journal by Professors Roman Herman and Mariana Berho [7]. The mechanism of action of radiofrequency appears to be sensory improvement rather than bulking and creating a type of outlet obstruction as is seen with the injectables. In the category of stimulation, sacral neuromodulation, like radiofrequency energy, also allows significant sensory changes. The team of Professor Ronan O'Connell and others have demonstrated afferent pathways causing cerebral pontine changes, as well as local milieu environmental differences in substance P and other agents which may well be responsible for the dramatic improvements seen consistently in numerous studies of sacral neuromodulation [8]. Since the afferent pathways may be more important than the efferent pathways in neuromodulation, much recent attention has been turned towards both transcutaneous and percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation. Professor Knowles et al. [9] recently published the CONFiDENT study in The Lancet unfortunately showing very little efficacy as compared to placebo blinded stimulation of the posterior tibial nerve. However, work still continues in this area. The replacement methods have morphed from nonstimulated muscle transfers to stimulated graciloplasty to the artificial bowel sphincter and most recently to the magnetic anal sphincter and slings [10–13]. Although Williams, Cavina, and Baeten all published very promising results of stimulated graciloplasty, due to a very high morbidity the technique has been largely abandoned and in fact for many years has been unavailable in the United States [14]. Sadly, the artificial bowel sphincter seems to have followed the same route and is also no longer available in the United States. However, Professor Lehur et al. [12] have shown that the new magnetic anal sphincter may be the the most effective substitute for the artificial bowel sphincter in replacement therapies. The TOPAS (American Medical Systems, Minnetonka, Minnesota, USA) polypropylene implantable mesh sling has had a much shorter history but initial results seem reasonable [13]. Changes have even occurred in terms of diversion in that in addition to the traditional colostomy, the MACE (Malone Antegrade Continence Enema) procedure championed by Professor Williams is another viable option by which the patient need not wear an appliance but instead can irrigate to evacuate in an antegrade fashion. Even the colostomy itself has been improved upon by now being performed laparoscopically rather than through a laparotomy or a trephine. The well-known high incidence of parastomal hernia may potentially be reduced by routine mesh reinforcement at the time of stoma construction. Clearly given the perhaps surprisingly high incidence of faecal incontinence of almost 20% in females [1,2], I am confident that much more work will continue to be performed in improving the efficacy and range of treatments for this very distressing and disabling disorder. In the past there has been a succession of initially promising treatments, often adopted without a good evidence base, and later abandoned. Trials in this complex area are difficult and many patients are desperate. Several recent publications have attempted to improve our understanding, and direct our therapeutic alternatives in an individual tailored by patient basis [1,16].


Introduction:
The high local control rates observed in patients with breast cancer who had been treated by modified radical mastectomy, chemotherapy and chest-wall irradiation using 120 kV X-rays (50 Gy in 25 fractions) motivated us to investigate their observed tumor control probability (TCP) and test a well-established radiobiological TCP model against our data.
Materials and Methods:
To evaluate and compare the two TCPs (predicted vs. observed), we used the Royal Marsden TCP model and compared its results with our observed TCP, which was derived from the clinical data of 126 patients treated during a period of 10 years. To obtain typical dose distributions, we selected a representative sample of 10 patients' CT images with different thicknesses and anatomies of the chest wall and computed the dose distributions by the MCNP Monte Carlo code using a validated model of the 120 kV x-ray tube. Then, the dose volume histogram for each patient's chest wall target volume was computed and entered into the TCP model in the Biosuite software. Various breast cancer model parameters were then adjusted and the corresponding TCPs were recorded. Clonogenic cell density in the chest wall after mastectomy has not been reported and, therefore, we tested a wide range of values (1, 106 or 109 cells in the whole chest wall).
Results:
The observed TCP in patients was 80.7%. However, the dose distributions in the target volumes were inhomogeneous and large volumes of the targets received lower doses. The mean dose received by 50% of the target volume was 72% of the prescription. Assuming just one cell on the total volume of the chest wall, TCP was in the range 85.9%-99.7%, while for 106 or 109 cells, TCP was always zero irrespective of other model parameters.
Conclusion:
The high local control rate observed despite the highly inhomogeneous dose distributions obtained with this radiotherapy technique is similar to the rate for modern methods, which deliver a homogeneous dose to the whole target volume. This questions the hypothesis that the whole chest wall must receive 50 Gy. Our results add support to the suggested suitability of smaller target volumes for such patients. The model predicted TCPs comparable to the observed rate only when extremely low clonogenic cell densitiy values were used, which requires further investigation.


National geological survey information system is very important in running geological survey information process.It can store,process and transport huge geological datas,provide all kinds of geological information for continuous economic and social developement,fasten public geological information sharing,improve scientific technologies exchange,and promote serving level for the society.Information net in Shandong province is established by Shandong Geological Survey Institute,and have been checked and accepted by China Geological Survy Bureau.It realizes the connection with national information net,and meet the demand of information transportation,storage and geological survey work sharing.


Photograph of Peter Garth Mander (1928-1998) shaking hands with Jack Cropp (1927-), taken 1956 by an unknown photographer.
Peter Mander and Jack Cropp become New Zealand's first yachting Olympic gold medallists at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.
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The Global Typhoid Genomics Consortium was established to bring together the typhoid research community to aggregate and analyse Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (Typhi) genomic data to inform public health action. This analysis, which marks twenty-one years since the publication of the first Typhi genome, represents the largest Typhi genome sequence collection to date (n=13,000), and provides a detailed overview of global genotype and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) distribution and temporal trends, generated using open analysis platforms (GenoTyphi and Pathogenwatch). Compared with previous global snapshots, the data highlight that genotype 4.3.1 (H58) has not spread beyond Asia and Eastern/Southern Africa; in other regions, distinct genotypes dominate and have independently evolved AMR. Data gaps remain in many parts of the world, and we show potential of travel-associated data to provide informal ''sentinel'' surveillance for such locations. The data indicate ciprofloxacin non-susceptibility (> 1 resistance determinant) is widespread across geographies and genotypes, with high-level resistance ([≥]3 determinants) reaching 20% prevalence in South Asia. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid has become dominant in Pakistan (70% in 2020), but has not yet become established elsewhere. Ceftriaxone resistance has emerged in eight non-XDR genotypes, including a ciprofloxacin-resistant lineage (18.104.22.168.1) in India. Azithromycin resistance mutations were detected at low prevalence in South Asia, including in two common ciprofloxacin-resistant genotypes. The Consortium's aim is to encourage continued data sharing and collaboration to monitor the emergence and global spread of AMR Typhi, and to inform decision-making around the introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) and other prevention and control strategies.


Analysis of dielectric resonator probe (DRP) arrays operating in an oversized hard waveguide with sectoral hard horn excitation is presented. A single DRP excited by a coaxial probe is first investigated inside a hollow rectangular waveguide and a waveguide loaded with hard walls, respectively. Simulation results are compared with measurement results and show a good agreement. Then, a one-dimensional DRP array is analysed inside a dielectric-loaded, oversized waveguide with sectoral hard horn excitation. A full-wave analysis based on the region-by-region finite-difference time-domain technique is applied for the optimisation of array parameters such as inter-element coupling, active reflection coefficients and uniform excitation. Numerical results are compared with those generated by using commercial software and exhibit a very good agreement.


A challenging issue in the commercialization of fuel cells is to improve the kinetics of the sluggish oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and durability of the cathode electrocatalyst under corrosive ORR conditions. In this paper, we report a promising approach to address these two major issues by Cr doping of TiO2 supports in Pt‐based electrocatalysts. It was clearly revealed that Cr doping led to a marked enhancement of ORR kinetics, which was attributed to the compressive strain in the Pt lattice as well as the increased electronic conductivity of the Cr–TiO2 supports. Furthermore, Pt/Cr–TiO2 demonstrated a far superior durability to that of conventional Pt/C, which was assessed by accelerated durability tests (ADT) and in situ X‐ray absorption near‐edge structure studies. The specific activity of Pt/C decreased by 43 % after the ADT (141 μA cm−2 and 82 μA cm−2 before and after ADT, respectively), whereas that of Pt/Cr–TiO2 was merely reduced by 13 % (472 μA cm−2 and 409 μA cm−2).


A systematic analytical procedure for dichlorvos (DDVP) and trichlorfon (DEP), organophosphorus pesticides, and furthermore for desmethyl dichlorvos (DM-DDVP), desmethyl trichlorfon (DM-DEP), dimethyl phosphate (DMP) and monomethyl phosphate (MMP), their metabolites and degradation products, was investigated. From the environmental water, drinks and human urine, after salting-out, only DDVP was first extracted with n-hexane and then the others were extracted with acetonitrile-diethylether (1 : 1, v/v) at about 1N by HCl. TLC was performed on silica-gel plate using acetonitrile-water (85 : 15, v/v) and isopropanol-water-28% ammonium hydroxide (75 : 24 : 1, v/v) as development systems. By colorations with 4-(p-nitrobenzyl) pyridine (NBP) and o-tolidine, they were relatively well detected. It was possible to determine DEP, DM-DDVP, DM-DEP, DMP and MMP by FID-GC and GC-MS after trimethylsilyl derivatization of them with N, O-bis (trimethylsilyl) trifluoroacetamide (BSTFA). The detection limits of their aqueous solution were 0.1-3 μg/ml by FID-GC and 0.2-10 μg/ml by scanning mode GC-MS. The coefficients of variation for their spiked urine sample by GC analysis in this way were 2.7-7.6% at 50μg/ml, respectively.


This paper reviews the drift and lifetime performance of 275??C hybrid microcircuits that were recently developed by Teledyne Philbrick and Sandia National Laboratories. This hybrid technology is based on temperature tolerant thick films and discrete silicon JFETs. The results of high temperature circuit testing are reviewed; component and circuit degradation and fail ure modes are described and compared to predictions; and finally, design rules are given to maximize lifetimes and to minimize performance drift for up to 10,000 hours of operation at 275??C. Although these circuits were developed for instrumenting geothermal bqreholes, many other applications for this technology exist in such areas as fossil fuel exploration and production systems, jet engine monitors, and nuclear reactor monitors.


INTRODUCTION
Thyroid cancer is increasing in incidence globally due either to early detection (overestimation) or true increment. A recent debate concerns multinodular goitre (MNG) or toxic goitres which have classically been considered at a lower risk for cancer.

METHODS
In this study, we enrolled retrospectively all patients with nodular goitre treated at our tertiary hospital and analysed their data with the aim of detecting the rate of cancer among different types of nodular goitre. We also studied predictors of incidental malignancy among thyroidectomies.

RESULTS
A predilection for solitary thyroid nodules (STNs) was found in women of younger age, with STNs tending to be larger in comparison with MNG in the same age group. However, both types of nodules were at equal risk of harbouring malignancy. Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS) and Bethesda scores were the only dependent predictors of malignancy within thyroid nodules.

CONCLUSION
The authors recommend management of both STNs and MNG using the same algorithm.


The root-lesion nematode (Pratylenchus spp.) is the most common nematode pest on soybean in Wisconsin. More than 100 root-lesion nematodes per 100 cm3 soil were detected from a sample received for nematode diagnostics from a soybean field in Outagamie County WI in October of 2013. Corn was planted in the previous year. Monoaxenic in vitro cultures were established from single females grown on "IOChief" sweet corn explants on Gamborg's B5 medium without auxins or cytokinin. Reproduction of the nematode was observed, and after three months there were many adult females and males. Nematodes were extracted from the culture by incubating roots for 48 hours on a Baermann funnel. Morphometrics were determined for 25 females and 25 males: measurements are presented as means (range). The body length of females was 529 m (438 to 615 m), with a maximum body width of 20.1 m (15.3 to 23.6 m). The a, b, and c ratios were 26.4 (24.1 to 30.1), 5.4 (4.3 to 7.5), and 21.6 (16.3 to 28.3), respectively. The head region was 3.0 m high (2.1 to 3.9), with two to three lip annules that were obscure in most specimens. The stylet had rounded knobs with a length of 15.0 m (13.8 to 16.4 m). The excretory pore was at or posterior to the nerve ring. There were four lateral lines at mid-body. The vulva opening was located at 79 % (77 to 81 %) of the body length from thanterior end. The post-uterine sac was smaller than the body width at the vulva with a length of 15.0 m (10.6 to 20.0 m). The female tail shape was conical or slightly irregular with a round or striated tail tip and the tail length was 29 m (23.5 to 36.7 m) with 23 annules (20 to 30). The body length of males was 454 m (381 to 543 m) and the stylet length was 13.4 m (11.8 to 14.8 m). The length and range of the spicule and gubernaculum, respectively, were 16.6 m (14.0 to 19.7 m) and 4.2 m (3.2 to 6.2 m). The isolate was morphologically identified as P. fallax based on species keys (Castillo and Vovlas 2007; Handoo and Golden 1989). Molecular characterization based on 18S rDNA (Chizhov et al. 2006), the D2-D3 expansion region of 28S rDNA (Subbotin et al. 2008), and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) (Derycke et al. 2010) were conducted for five individual nematodes collected from the monoaxenic cultures. DNA was extracted using the DNeasy Blood & Tissue Kit (Qiagen, Inc). The 18S sequence (GenBank Accession No. MK217948) was 98% identical to P. fallax and 97% identical to P. penetrans, P. convallariae, and P. pinguicaudatus according to the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST). The COI sequence (GenBank Accession No. MK041095) was 99% identical to P. fallax (87% identical to P. pinguicaudatus; 86% identical to P. penetrans and P. convallariae). The 28S sequence (GenBank Accession No. MK217949) was 99% identical to P. fallax (97% identical to P. penetrans and P. pinguicadatus; 95% identical to P. convallariae). The species specific primer Ppen for P. penetrans based on the D3 region of 28S rDNA (Al-banna et al.2004) was negative for our P. fallax isolate. This species was reported beneath oak in North Dakota (Donald and Hosford 1980) but this is the first molecular information for a U.S. isolate of P. fallax. Specimens were sent to the Mycology & Nematology Generic Diversity & Biology Laboratory, USDA, ARS, Northeast Area (Beltsville, MD) for species confirmation, and validated as P. fallax. Three soybean plants cv. Corsoy were inoculated with 1000 mixed stages of the isolate and grown at 24C in pasteurized loamy sand soil. The reproductive factor 3 months after inoculation was 2.94 (0.185 SD), thus confirming soybean as a host of P. fallax. Lesions were noted only on plants that were inoculated. To our knowledge, this is the first report of soybean as a host of P. fallax as well as the first report of this species in Wisconsin. As P. fallax is recognized as an economically important Pratylenchus species in Europe, further study of its distribution and economic impact on soybean is warranted.


Summary.  Background: The plasma kallikrein–kinin system (PKKS) has been implicated in cardiovascular disease, but activation of the PKKS has not been directly probed in individuals at risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) or stroke. Objective: To determine the involvement of the PKKS, including factor XI, in cardiovascular disease occurring in a nested case–control study from the Second Northwick Park Heart Study (NPHS‐II). Methods and results: After a median follow‐up of 10.7 years, 287 cases of CHD and stroke had been recorded and 542 age‐matched controls were selected. When FXIIa–C1 esterase inhibitor (C1‐inhibitor) concentrations were divided into tertiles (lowest tertile as reference), the odds ratios (ORs) at 95% CIs for CHD were 0.52 (0.34–0.80) in the middle tertile and 0.73 (0.49–1.09) in the highest tertile (P = 0.01 for the overall difference; P = 0.01 for CHD and stroke combined). For kallikrein–C1‐inhibitor complexes, the ORs for stroke were 0.29 (0.12–0.72) and 0.67 (0.30–1.52) in the middle and high tertiles, respectively (P = 0.02). FXIIa–C1‐inhibitor and kallikrein–C1‐inhibitor complexes were negatively related to smoking and fibrinogen (P < 0.005). FXIa–inhibitor complexes correlated strongly with FXIIa–inhibitor complexes. Conclusions: Lower levels of inhibitory complexes of the PKKS enzymes and particularly of FXIIa contribute to the risk of CHD and stroke in middle‐aged men. This observation supports the involvement of the PKKS in atherothrombosis.


Acute appendicitis is one of the common causes of acute abdomen in emergency department of our country. It has the characteristics of acute onset, rapid progress and various conditions. The location of appendicitis in the abdominal cavity varies, and the manifestations of different types of appendicitis are different, so it is not very reliable to diagnose appendicitis only according to clinical symptoms and experience of doctors. With the continuous progress of modern clinical auxiliary diagnosis methods, auxiliary examination is more and more convenient and reliable for the clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis, and becomes an important diagnostic basis for clinicians before operation. This article reviews the research progress of common clinical auxiliary examination of acute appendicitis.


The paper presents the studies carried out on a big storage gas tank for the seismic vulnerability assessment and the retrofit through isolation system. This Gasometer, constructed in the early eighties, consists in a steel cylinder of 70 m height and 44 m diameter. The tank bearing structure is composed by a classical steel frame closed with curved steel plates. Inside the tank, a piston-fender and rubber sealing system allow the variation of the container volume and control the gas pressure. The latter represents half of the seismic mass and its position can vary along the tank height. The seismic vulnerability of the steel structure of the Gasometer on its as-it-is state is assessed through the execution of Incremental Dynamic Analyses, placing particular attention on the definition of possible limit states. Subsequently, the seismic retrofit through base isolation system, adopting Double Curved Surface Sliders, is proposed and numerically assessed. The results and comparison between the as-it-is state and the retrofitted state supplies important information about the effectiveness of base isolation for the risk mitigation of gas tanks.


INTRODUCTION Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a subset of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is becoming an increasing health concern, with current data showing the prevalence in the United States to range between 5.7%–16.5% (1,2). Patients with NASH lack a history of significant alcohol consumption, but liver biopsy findings are almost identical to biopsy findings in patients with alcoholic steatohepatitis (3,4). NASH is characterized by macrovesicular steatosis and hepatocyte injury with or without fibrosis (5,6). While NAFLD is generally considered to have a benign clinical course, NASH progresses to cirrhosis in 15%–25% of patients (2). Once cirrhosis develops, hepatocellular carcinoma may result. Furthermore, A SPECIAL ARTICLE


Objective: Identify the frequency of headache after spinal anesthesia treated with epidural blood buffering factors associated with demographic and clinical partners at a hospital in southwestern Parana. Methodology: Descriptive study cohort retrospective cross through document analysis for the investigation of epidural blood buffering, performed from secondary headache in patients who underwent spinal anesthesia in the period from 06 November 2009 to May 7, 2014. Results: Identified 85 tamponade with an overall prevalence rate of 11.30% 000 0.56% in males and 1.6% in males (p = <0.05). The annual incidence is presented and with increasing prevalence in females. Regarding Autracan and Quincke needles used no statistical difference was observed. The predominant age groups were subgroups 15-30 years (34.11%) and between 30 and 45 years (38.82%). Conclusion: The prevalence and incidence of epidural blood tamponade for treatment of headache secondary to spinal anesthesia is still common and no definitive resolutions. Evident prophylactic care should be employed, since the return of the patient to the operating room denotes unknown feelings and socioeconomic impacts.


Summary 1 Environmental risk assessment of contaminants is conventionally based on toxic effects assessed in organism‐level test systems. We suggest that, for the prediction of toxicant effects, population‐ and community‐level effects should be considered. The aim of this study was to investigate how predation could alter a prey population's response to a toxicant to reveal effects at population and community levels.2 Populations of the brine shrimp Artemia sp. were maintained in the laboratory with and without simulated predation. Individuals were exposed for 1 h to the pyrethroid insecticide esfenvalerate (0, 0·01, 0·04 and 0·08 µg L−1) and subsequently observed for 6 weeks.3 Unpredated exposed populations showed a reduced population density compared with the control. However, even at the highest concentration of insecticide, populations were sustained until the end of the experiment. The lower density in the exposed populations led to reduced competition and subsequently to enhanced development of surviving individuals and an increased proportion of young individuals. In contrast, the combination of predation and short‐term toxicant exposure at concentrations of 0·04 and 0·08 µg L−1 produced extinction of the populations after 39 and 32 days of exposure, respectively.4 Synthesis and applications. The response of populations of brine shrimp to toxicants at the community level may be stronger when predation is present than the response of populations without predation pressure, as the regulation capacity of the population (measured as an increased production of offspring at reduced population densities) is exhausted when predation is present. Future ecotoxicological risk assessment schemes should consider relevant community characteristics such as predation as part of an environmental risk assessment.


An academic question is one which is supposed to be of little consequence. An academic lecture may or may not meet this requirement. While this is often an occasion to survey our field and to scold one another for our deficiencies and while I, too, have a number of things to exhort about in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, I have chosen another alternative, as indicated by the title of this address. I would like to talk about something today which may be of little consequence but which is really too new to have its consequences decisively evaluated. One purpose of scientific and professional meetings such as this is, to quote Scripture, "to hear or tell of some new thing." The computer simulation of psychotherapy is indeed new and I am honored to be granted the distinction of this opportunity to discuss it with you. As a technical term, the word "simulation"


Autonomous planning technology for the deep space exploration mission has achieved wide attention recently. Traditional mission planning for deep space explorer uses activity with fixed duration. But during the actual mission operating of deep space explorer, activity's execution time varies from the goal of mission based on current situation and capacity. Specifically, the mission for the approach phase of small body raised demand for faster and higher ability of operation because of its own characteristics, such as coupling among missions, numerous subsystems, complicated constraints, high requirements of real time, etc. In order to design reasonable and feasible sequences in limited time to realize the system goals, this paper analyzes the constraints and requirements of autonomous planning system during the approach phase of small body based on Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL). And a method of mission planning modeling is proposed to solve the variable time duration problem of activity during the approach phase of small body explorer. In the simulation results, the duration of charging and communication can be determined by actual time based on the requirements of resource constraints. This method can roundly and flexibly represent the variable durative actions and meet the demand of autonomous planning for the approach phase of small body for deep space explorer.


This paper specifies the classification and characters of new energy vehicles and electric vehicles,analyzes the significance and superiority of developing electric vehicles inland,introduces the latest progress in this area.Finally,considering technology maturity,ease of use and economy,the prospect of all kinds of electric vehicles is proposed.


We prove that each polyhedral triangular face free map G on a compact 2-dimensional manifold M with Euler characteristic ?(M) contains a k-path, i.e., a path on k vertices, such that each vertex of this path has, in G, degree at most (5/2)k if M is a sphere S0 and at most (k/2)?(5+49?24?(M))/2? if M?S0 or does not contain any k-path. We show that for even k this bound is best possible. Moreover, we show that for any graph other than a path no similar estimation exists.


Earnings management is an action taken by managers by engineering company profits to be higher, lower, or always the same for several periods. Earnings management actions have caused several scandalous cases, including Enron, Merck, World Com, PT Kimia Farma Tbk and PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero).Therefore, the way to overcome this is by implementing the Good Corporate Governance mechanism and auditing financial statements by using the services of a quality accountant such as the big four.. The type of research used is causal research. The population in this study were all oil palm plantation companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange during 2017-2021, totaling 24 using purposive sampling technique, the research sample was 14 companies for 5 years from 2017-2021, so the total observations in this study became 70 companies. Statistical test using descriptive statistics and Partial Least Square (PLS). The results of the study partially show that the proportion of independent commissioners has a negative effect on earnings management and audit quality is able to moderate the effect of managerial ownership, institutional ownership and firm size on earnings management while audit quality is not able to moderate the effect of the proportion of independent commissioners and audit committees on earnings management. It can be concluded that the existence of a good corporate governance mechanism in this case the proportion of independent commissioners and audit quality can pressure companies not to carry out earnings management.


Forecasting dust storms for large geographical areas with high resolution poses great challenges for scientific and computational research. Limitations of computing power and the scalability of parallel systems preclude an immediate solution to such challenges. This article reports our research on using adaptively coupled models to resolve the computational challenges and enable the computability of dust storm forecasting by dividing the large geographical domain into multiple subdomains based on spatiotemporal distributions of the dust storm. A dust storm model (Eta-8bin) performs a quick forecasting with low resolution (22 km) to identify potential hotspots with high dust concentration. A finer model, non-hydrostatic mesoscale model (NMM-dust) performs high-resolution (3 km) forecasting over the much smaller hotspots in parallel to reduce computational requirements and computing time. We also adopted spatiotemporal principles among computing resources and subdomains to optimize parallel systems and improve the performance of high-resolution NMM-dust model. This research enabled the computability of high-resolution, large-area dust storm forecasting using the adaptively coupled execution of the two models Eta-8bin and NMM-dust.


Polymeric smart materials exhibit viscoelastic behavior and their dynamic characteristics are dependent on both frequency and temperature. This allows the tuning of material properties (stiffness and loss factor) to manipulate the vibration behavior for a wide range of engineering applications. In this research, the effects of viscoelastic supports on the vibration of continuous structures such as axially vibrating rods and transversely vibrating beams are investigated. The governing equations of motion for harmonically excited rods with end supports, and the free vibration of beams with intermediate viscoelastic support are developed. The analytical response equation for a harmonically excited rod with viscoelastic ends is obtained. The resulting frequency response equations are then used to design the modification of the stiffness and loss factor of the viscoelastic materials in order to achieve the desired vibration response of the rod. By solving the resulting transcendental eigenvalue problems, the natural frequencies and damping ratios as a function of viscoelastic support parameters are computed for beams. The performance of structures with viscoelastic support is demonstrated with various numerical examples. The formulation and results can be utilized for estimating the optimal material tuning parameters as well as support locations for controlling and manipulating the vibration response of the structures.Copyright © 2015 by ASME


The result of pathologic test is an important basis for medical diagnosis and treatment.Aimed at the problems in previous working,the following measures were carried out,such as establishing related management regulations,enhancing the management of pathologic samples,establishing strict rules,designing a recording book for the delivery of pathologic specimen,and so on,which ensured the pathologic specimen to be sent to the pathology(department safely.)


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Background: After primary debulking and postoperative chemotherapy, advanced ovarian cancer often recurs. In the majority of patients, recurrence is treated with second or third-line chemotherapy. The value of palliative cytoreduction is still controversially discussed, especially in patients with bowel obstruction. Case history: We report on a patient with recurrent ovarian cancer after third-line chemotherapy who presented with bowel obstruction and underwent palliative cytoreduction with extensive bowel surgery following a modified approach to the abdominal cavity. In this modified approach, the conglomerate tumor was left in the midline without opening the peritoneal space. The entire peritoneal cavity was mobilized and was then entered between the ascending or descending colon and the small bowel conglomerate. All parts of the bowel involved in the conglomerate tumor and all large tumors were resected. The patient was discharged in an improved general condition with normal defecation and on a normal diet. Conclusion: In selected patients with recurrent ovarian cancer and chronic bowel obstruction, extensive palliative cytoreduction via an atypical abdominal approach may restore bowel passage and improve the quality of life significantly.


How about another daytime soap opera called "As the World Turns"?

U.S. Vice President Al Gore has taken a fair share of ribbing for his challenge issued on March 13 for NASA scientists and engineers to design, build, and operate a satellite that will make available a live image of Earth 24 hours a day on the Internet by the year 2000.


From a base of active trade union involvement, the authors in this piece take an historical look at Job Creation, YOP, the rise of the MSC and the culmination of these in YTS (the new Youth Training Scheme launched in September). They describe and critically appraise YTS and look at the difficulties and contradictions of trade union involvement. They try to meet head-on the controversial issue of whether or not YTS should be rejected outright by the unions or if there is a case for its acceptance in the hope of changing it from within. Their conclusions provide food for thought for many people currently working on the left.


In this paper, we define a group structure over strings and note briefly that by applying this computation to words, we obtain major steps towards a method for identifying allomorphy and learning morphophonemics. First order differences among a set of words forming a paradigm identifies morphs, while second order differences identifies allomorphy. When this allomorphy appears at morpheme boundary, this can in a wide range of cases be identified as morphophonology. 1 A group structure for strings 1.1 Defining string difference It is common to define a semi-group structure for concatenation of symbols in an alphabet A. This simply assumes a finite set of symbols, which we may indicate mnemonically as a..z or A and which we call letters, plus a binary concatenation operator represented by • when explicit, and simply by juxtaposition when we do not need to be explicit. Concatenation is associative and not commutative. The set of all finite concatenations of elements of A is A, which includes a null string, the concatenation of no letters. We add to this structure a null element for the concatation operator, indicated ∅;{A∪∅} forms a monoid with the concatenation operator. In addition, we augment the alphabet by adding for each letter in A an inverse: the inverse of a will be indicated a, that of b as b and so on: a•a = aa = aa = ∅. The set of all inverses of the letters in A is noted as A. We will use the capital script A to indicate the original alphabet A augmented with both the null symbol ∅ and the set of all inverses A. A with the concatenation operator • is thus homomorphic to the free group over the original alphabet A. We remind the reader that (ab) = ba; thus (cats) = s(cat) = stac. It follows that(cat)cats = s and (cats)cat = s. Similarly, (walked)walking = (ed)ing. The relation a • a = ∅ imposes a group structure on the set of all strings from A, one in which the two strings abbc and ac are identified with the same element. In general, we will refer to an element of a string group with the shortest string associated with it (i.e., with ac rather than with abbc), but not always; this point will arise in connection with the definition of a regular paradigm, just below. Generalized concatenation operator. It will become convenient below to generalize the binary concatenation operator • to a ternary operator σ, whose first argument is the string we will modify, the second argument is the position in which modification begins, and the third argument is the string that will be added. We define σ(s; 0, t) as s•t and σ(t;−1, s) as t•s. This should be interpreted as follows: in σ(s; 0, t), s is taken as a string to which we will do something: we add the string t at the position in s specified by the second parameter of σ. The string-initial position of a string is position 0, while the string-final position (following traditional computer science notation) is position -1. Thanks to Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Jason Riggle for helpful comments on this paper. More generally, if −|s| − 1 ≤ n ≤ |s|, then σ(s;n, t) is defined as the insertion of t into s at the n position in s, and if 0 ≤ n ≤ |s|, then σ(s;n, t) = σ(s;n− |s| − 1, t). We will not use negative positions other than -1 very much.


Marilyn Dyrud has been an active member of ASEE since 1986. She has served as Pacific Northwest section chair, newsletter editor, Zone IV chair, and is currently the immediate past chair of the Engineering Ethics Division. She was her campus's ASEE representative for 17 years and organized a conference there for 10 years. She is a regular annual conference presenter, moderator, and reviewer and serves as communications editor for the Journal of Engineering Technology, as well as a manuscript reviewer for several other technical journals.


Markets are reputed to be more flexible than other economic arrangements, although the meaning of flexibility remains vague. For orthodox economists, it has a narrow interpretation based on relative price movements within equilibrating markets, leading to allocative efficiency. For heterodox economists and other social scientists, it goes beyond market-clearing equilibrium to take in price setting, non-price adjustments and the institutional background. This paper examines the meaning of flexibility as applied to markets and evaluates the main alternative views. The orthodox approach, which informs most economic commentary, offers a deceptive story of a complete market system with rapid price changes. Actual economies are flexible, not through prices alone, but through various adjustment methods.


In safety detection of industrial X-Ray image, the defect is considered as crest edge in certain scale. From multiscale edges detection,the conclusion is drawn that in certain scale, circular defect is considered as crest edge in two directions, and bar defect in one direction. Two parameters from wavelet multiscale are used to confirm whether crest edge in two directions exist or not, then the circular defects and bar defects can be distinguished. Different operators are used to inspect the two types defect, LOG operator for the circular defect, and steerable filter operator for bar defects, then it can classify the defects based on detected shape parameters of defects. Experiments show this algorithm is efficient.


A 70-year-old woman with Sjögren's syndrome (SS) complained of generalized edema. Computed tomography showed thoracoabdominal fluid, suggesting serositis with SS. 35 mg/day of prednisolone as a monotherapy was ineffective. Moreover, hemoconcentration with hypoalbuminemia without inflammatory signs lead us to consider the systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS). Additional treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and prednisolone dramatically decreased the thoracoabdominal fluid. However, when reducing the prednisolone dose, the thoracoabdominal fluid reincreased. Retreatment with IVIG without increasing the prednisolone dose was ineffective. However, additional prednisolone of 35 mg/day was effective, suggesting SCLS with SS might require combination therapy with IVIG and glucocorticoid.


Annual vines with single bud of the grapevine cv Wuhebajixin were grafted onto the new cane of grapevine cv Fujiminori in April or May After surviving of the vines and bud germination of the grapevine cv Wuhebajixin their newly developed vines were layered at regular intervals at different time Results of the layering indicated that under conditions of Ningbo Municipality the new vines layered during the period of lst\|11th July rooting was well and developed vigor roots,from which 5\|6 vigorous new lateral vines emerged with 2 to 3 mr length and more than 0 6\|0 8 cm diameter in the very year Observation with dissecting microscope revealed that flower buds on the new lateral vines emerged from the layered vines differentiated well Each marcotte yielded about 14 8\|14 9 kg and the berries had good flavor in the next year


This paper describes the impact on the training of air refueling boom operators by a very unique and a very realistic visual system. This system was conceived and developed by the Farrand Optical Co., Inc. for the Boom Operator Part Task Trainer which was fabricated by the Aeronautical Systems Division of the Air Force Systems Command. The visual system is truly three-dimensional, reproducing all real world angles accurately. Two years of training experience with this simulator has proven the value of realism in simulation when the proper cues are provided.


Sustainability in five rural settlements in the region of Andradina SP Brazil is analyzed. Settlements received the benefits of agricultural reform at the federal and state levels in the state of Sao Paulo. The sustainability of rural settlements
is highly important since the government, mainly the federal government, has provided resources in several projects to improve the life quality of the farmers. Field research involved settled populations in five federal settlements (INCRA) in the
municipalities of Andradina, Castilho and Murutinga do Sul. Data were collected by interviews featuring a list of variables on social, economical, environmental aspects and social capital for measuring sustainability. Data showed that as a rule the level of
development improved within the five settlements.


A method and apparatus for using a fingerprint presented to the user for a more efficient user interface is provided. A method of controlling a mobile terminal apparatus, comprising the steps of: registering a plurality of fingerprint signature (signatures fingerprint) in the fingerprint database. Mobile phase using a fingerprint identification module with a terminal unit for generating a fingerprint image data, determining a fingerprint signature corresponding to the fingerprint image data of the plurality of fingerprint signature and the step of executing a process corresponding to the determined fingerprint signature It includes.


Title of thesis: PARTIAL FACE DETECTION AND ILLUMINATION ESTIMATION Sayantan Sarkar Master of Science, 2018 Thesis directed by: Professor Rama Chellappa Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Face Analysis has long been a crucial component of many security applications. In this work, we shall propose and explore some face analysis algorithms which are applicable to two different security problems, namely Active Authentication and Image Tampering Detection. In the first section, we propose two algorithms, "Deep Feature based Face Detection for Mobile Devices" and "DeepSegFace" that are useful in detecting partial faces such as those seem in typical Active Authentication scenarios. In the second section, we propose an algorithm to detect discrepancies in illumination conditions given two face images, and use that as an indication to decide if an image has been tampered by transplanting faces. We also extend the illumination detection algorithm by proposing an adversarial data augmentation scheme. We show the efficacy of the proposed algorithms by evaluating them on multiple datasets. PARTIAL FACE DETECTION AND ILLUMINATION ESTIMATION


The study investigates the gender difference in 20 sports ads selected from 63 sports ads obtained from the Internet. The present study focuses mainly on interpersonal meaning of the selected sports advertisements and the findings have been used to develop teaching materials in this area. The data analysis shows that men and women ads are different in a few areas, such as men are more likely portrayed as powerful, heroic, moving, and even religious images, while women are depicted as fashionable, sexy, charming and still images. Gender difference also exists in terms of the color, gaze, distance, angle, the size of frame, etc. Male and female images interact differently with verbiage found in the ads, for instance, metaphorical meaning is created by the interaction of text and image. In addition, the report concludes by considering the implications for teachers when using multisemiotic materials in order to scaffold students' learning. The study also proposed that a joint effort should be made to help teachers teach multisemioitics.