People can describe spatial scenes with language and, vice versa, create images based on linguistic descriptions. However, current systems do not even come close to matching the complexity of humans when it comes to reconstructing a scene from a given text. Even the ever-advancing development of better and better Transformer-based models has not been able to achieve this so far. This task, the automatic generation of a 3D scene based on an input text, is called text-to-3D scene generation. The key challenge, and focus of this dissertation, now relate to the following topics: (a) Analyses of how well current language models understand spatial information, how static embeddings compare, and whether they can be improved by anaphora resolution. (b) Automated resource generation for context expansion and grounding that can help in the creation of realistic scenes. (c) Creation of a VR-based text-to-3D scene system that can be used as an annotation and active-learning environment, but can also be easily extended in a modular way with additional features to solve more contexts in the future. (d) Analyze existing practices and tools for digital and virtual teaching, learning, and collaboration, as well as the conditions and strategies in the context of VR. In the first part of this work, we could show that static word embeddings do not benefit significantly from pronoun substitution. We explain this result by the loss of contextual information, the reduction in the relative occurrence of rare words, and the absence of pronouns to be substituted. But we were able to we have shown that both static and contextualizing language models appear to encode object knowledge, but require a sophisticated apparatus to retrieve it. The models themselves in combination with the measures differ greatly in terms of the amount of knowledge they allow to extract. Classifier-based variants perform significantly better than the unsupervised methods from bias research, but this is also due to overfitting. The resources generated for this evaluation are later also an important component of point three. In the second part, we present AffordanceUPT, a modularization of UPT trained on the HICO-DET dataset, which we have extended with Gibsonien/telic annotations. We then show that AffordanceUPT can effectively make the Gibsonian/telic distinction and that the model learns other correlations in the data to make such distinctions (e.g., the presence of hands in the image) that have important implications for grounding images to language. The third part first presents a VR project to support spatial annotation respectively IsoSpace. The direct spatial visualization and the immediate interaction with the 3D objects should make the labeling more intuitive and thus easier. The project will later be incorporated as part of the Semantic Scene Builder (SeSB). The project itself in turn relies on the Text2SceneVR presented here for generating spatial hypertext, which in turn is based on the VAnnotatoR. Finally, we introduce Semantic Scene Builder (SeSB), a VR-based text-to-3D scene framework using Semantic Annotation Framework (SemAF) as a scheme for annotating semantic relations. It integrates a wide range of tools and resources by utilizing SemAF and UIMA as a unified data structure to generate 3D scenes from textual descriptions and also supports annotations. When evaluating SeSB against another state-of-the-art tool, it was found that our approach not only performed better, but also allowed us to model a wider variety of scenes. The final part reviews existing practices and tools for digital and virtual teaching, learning, and collaboration, as well as the conditions and strategies needed to make the most of technological opportunities in the future.


We have successfully demonstrated the opening of diffuse discharge in a mixture of C2HF3/He (1.5 Torr of He with 0.5% C2HF3) by KrF laser irradiation. After the laser irradiation, a current peak appeared and then the discharge current decreased with a time constant of 200 µs, resulting in the interruption of the current. We have also observed the discharge initiation by KrF laser irradiation of the same fluence.


The calculation methods of heat losses and temperature were adapted to the air tuyeres for blast furnaces. The influence of gas-thermal coatings and insulating paste on the thermal condition of the air tuyeres was investigated with the help of a linear program in EXCEL. It is shown that the presence of the inserts has a greater impact on reducing heat loss through the blow channel than the application of aluminum coatings. The creation of the air gap between the insert and the inner glass leads to a further reduction of heat loss. Thus, the greater thickness of the insert installed without a gap in the blow channel leads to the less heat loss through the blow channel. If the insert is installed with a gap, its thickness almost does not effect on the heat loss through the blow channel.


Wireless sensor and actuator networks are comprised of embedded systems with sensing, actuation, computation, and wireless communication capabilities. Their untethered character provides installation flexibility and has in consequence led to their application in a large range of domains, e.g. environmental and habitat monitoring, or industrial process surveillance and control. Besides these traditional application areas, the vision of smart spaces foresees the transparent integration of sensing and actuation components into everyday environments. Smart services that rely on information about the current situation and the possibility of physical interaction are envisioned to emerge in versatile ways, such as context-aware building automation or support for ambient assisted living.


Radioactive waste is stored in 149 3,785 m{sup 3} (million gal) single-shell tanks on the US Department of Energy`s Hanford Reservation in eastern Washington. To minimize leakage as the tanks age, the free liquid has been pumped out, leaving concentrated solidified salt cake and sludge deposits. Now methods to dislodge and remove this waste are being developed so that the waste can be retrieved and processed for permanent storage. This paper presents research and development on ultrahigh-pressure water-jet technology to fracture and dislodge the wastes in these tanks. A water-based prototype scarifier with an integral conveyance system is being developed, and its performance demonstrated in a coupled analytical and experimental investigation. This paper describes experimental objectives and approach and results of the single jet experiments. Previous testing indicates that the method can be readily applied to salt cake waste forms; retrieval and conveyance of sludge and viscous fluid waste forms may present additional challenges.


Dental professionals are subject to suffering needlestick injuries during their work, with the risk of being contaminated and contract infecto-contagious diseases due to the fact that they are in constant contact with possibly contaminated blood, other fluids and human tissues. The objective of this study was to analyze the knowledge held by professors and students from the Dentistry course given at Unimontes University (Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil) on the recommended conducts in case of accidents with the risk of contamination during dental care procedures. Data were collected using a questionnaire elaborated by the researchers. A total of 23 professors and 88 students working in clinical disciplines participated in this research. Hepatitis was reported as the disease with the highest probability of contamination during dental attendance by 100% of professors and 97.73% of students. When questioned about the correct conduct in case of accident with risk of contamination, 21.74% of the professors and none of the students answered completely correctly. Answers considered partially correct were given by 52.17% of professors and 52.27% of students. Answers considered completely wrong were given by 47.73% of students and 26.09% of professors. It was concluded that most of the participants are aware of the risks of contamination during their work, but that they are unaware of the correct protocol to be followed in case of needlestick injuries. A training program and follow-up are thus required during all clinical activities.


Nail fungal infection can lead to significant disability and predisposing diabetic patients to limb loose. Up to date, there is no method of diagnosising nail unit fungus quickly, accurately and non-invasively. In this study, imaging and diagnosing the nail unit fungus with OCT has been investigated. Preliminary in vivo studies demonstrate that OCT has a great potential to resolve a small amount of fungi which is extremly valuable for early detection and diagnosis of fungal infections.


The RFID industry is growing rapidly, especially in the UHF frequency band that is being used extensively in supply chain management. Traditionally, inlays have been constructed from etched copper or aluminum. Etching is a subtractive process that uses chemicals and can creates waste. Recently, inlays are manufactured using silver-based inks. Printing is an additive process, so it has a number of advantages. However, silver inks suffer from two important drawbacks: relatively poor conductivity and environmental concerns. Those concerns have spurred developments in other additive technologies, such as vapor-deposited aluminum, electroplated, and electro-less deposited copper. This paper quantizes by measurement the performance of antennas with three materials, four line widths, and various thicknesses, which may serve as guidelines about how to design antennas with the various materials.


Introduction Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an established indication for liver transplantation (LT), but the selection criteria and priority are still debated. Aims To ascertain the number and features of patients with HCC who undergo transplantation in a Western country, the number of patients eligible for LT according to the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) guidelines, the number of patients who actually undergo transplantation and whether adherence affects survival. Methods This is a retrospective analysis from a multicentre Italian database of 2042 cases of HCC, recruited prospectively and consecutively. Kaplan–Meier (log rank) and Cox multivariate analysis estimated survival. Results Patients who had undergone transplantation (50, 2.5%, with no change over time) had a median survival of 133 months, significantly influenced by the number of lesions and alpha-fetoprotein levels, which were found to be independent predictors of survival on multivariate analysis. Milan criteria were fulfilled in 68%, impacting on survival, whereas 48% fulfilled AASLD guidelines, without such an impact. Two hundred and twenty-eight (11%) patients were eligible for LT according to AASLD; in this group, alpha-fetoprotein levels and Child–Pugh class were independent predictors of survival. Conclusion Among patients with HCC, those undergoing LT represent a small minority; even fewer (1%) are those who undergo transplantation according to AASLD guidelines, adherence to which only marginally affects survival. Overall, LT impact on HCC patients' treatment is very limited.


1. Two developments testify to the growing importance of eivilizational perspectives in the social sciences. On the one hand, the comparative analysis of civilizations is increasingly recognized as a central rather? than 3 marginal theme; in particula.r, Weber's pioneering attempt to link the comparison of Orient and Occident to other concerns of social theory now appears as the most important part of his legacy. In this regard, Benjamin Nelson~s work paved the way for a new understanding of Weber. On the other hand, more attention is paid to the dimensions


Abstract : In this study, a realistic fire & maneuver action was performed to assess the overall effect of ballistic protection, mobility (weight, protection, surface) and risk perception on behaviour and physical performance of the individual combat soldier. Twenty-eight combat soldiers, divided in 14 buddy pairs, participated in this study. The combat soldiers were unfamiliar with Simunition and performed a Fire & maneuver action. The significantly higher threat score before the action wearing the unprotected conditions indicated that the combat soldiers were aware of the situation and the amount of protection they weared. During the action an equal fight was observed between subjects and enemies, with both options to fire and to hide. Despite the awareness of the situation and the amount of protection, the subjects did not behave differently wearing the unprotected conditions compared with protected condition. It is expected that more alternatives during the Fire & Maneuver action (more Options to hide over a longer Fire & Maneuver distance) may yield a difference in behaviour and physical performance for the different protection conditions


The adequacy of inversion transduction grammars (ITGs) has been widely debated, and the discussion's crux seems to be whether the search space is inclusive enough (Zens and Ney, 2003; Wellington et al., 2006; Søgaard and Wu, 2009). Parse failure rate when parses are constrained by word alignments is one metric that has been used, but no one has studied parse failure rates of the full class of ITGs on representative hand aligned corpora. It has also been noted that ITGs in Chomsky normal form induce strictly less alignments than ITGs (Søgaard and Wu, 2009). This study is the first study that directly compares parse failure rates for this subclass and the full class of ITGs.


Strict system equivalence describes the connection between least order realizations of a transfer function in terms of a general linear constant system (Rosenbrock, 1970). It can also be characterized through certain isomorphisms between the solution sets of the system equations (Pernebo, 1977). The paper generalizes this and related results to the case of multidimensional systems, i.e., systems of linear partial difference or differential equations with constant coefficients.


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Fernandez/MacmillanIn a homage to reductionism, Hongbin Li, Julio Fernandez (Columbia University, New York, NY), and colleagues show that the properties of individual domains of


Objective To evaluate the local production of frozen sections of intraoperative frozen tissues of gynecological pathology in different sections of the relevant factors the best.Methods We reviewed the red flag of Mudanjiang Medical College Hospital,2008-2009,168 cases of gynecological pathology intraoperative frozen production methods,Frozen sections of different organizations use different machine temperatures,different embedding medium,frozen at different times and so on.Results 168 patients with gynecological intraoperative frozen biopsy,biopsy smooth,wrinkle-free,Microscope:the nucleus and cytoplasm staining contrast clear,translucent.No ice crystals form.Conclusion The optimum temperature for frozen section machine,the choice of embedding medium,frozen time is the key to producing high-quality frozen sections.


The article reveals the content of motivation of learning and professional work of students with service specialties. The analysis of motivational structure of receiving the higher and average vocational training has been carried out. The student's degree of awareness of interest in education is defined.


The size of wind turbines has been growing fast in recent years with the largest now exceeding 7MW. Furthermore, this trend is expected to continue for the offshore sector. However, this increase in size is accompanied by an increase in the dynamic loading on the structure, in particular, unbalanced loads on the blade and hub. Apart from making wind turbine components more load tolerant, e.g. through advances in materials, this issue could be addressed by active reduction of the loads. The latter approach has great potential to enable the optimisation of turbine design and reduce the cost of energy (CoE).


This study aimed to know the role of tutelary counselors in cases of voluntary surrender for adoption. Seven tutelary counselors from a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul responded to an individual interview. Among the results, it was found that the women donors experienced a situation of social vulnerability, such as economic difficulties, absence of family support and child's father. The role of counselors in the face of surrender cases consisted of listening and guiding women. They also sought to ensure the psychological and social support of women and children based on the articulation of resources available in the municipality. At this point, the woman's search for anonymity translated into her refusal by psychological counseling was verified, which could lead to her isolation and the experience of 1 Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brasil. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. 2 Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brasil. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. 3 Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brasil. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Atuação dos conselheiros tutelares Página 2 de 24 ▲Gerais: Revista Interinstitucional de Psicologia, 14(2), 2021. e16181 suffering without support. This research also raised the discussion about the need for a specialized service linked to maternity hospitals.


The article describes how ordinary copper-pair cabling can be turned into a fibre-quality broadband transport system. Many challenges are involved in making copper pairs transmit like fibre. While fibre may be an ideal media for the backbone, it may not always be the most economical way to address many sectors of the network. The 'last mile' to the carrier backbone is a cost-prohibitive area for fibre deployment, and has, until now, been considered as being beyond the reach of quality broadband services. A new approach, known as multipair bonding, has been developed to address the problem. The technique depends on several copper pairs being available for connection (the actual number varying according to the specific installation) and involves a number of separate technologies. The result is a fully symmetrical communication link with a bit error rate of better than 10-12, at least 10,000 times better than the previous best copper technology. The link is immune to noise and interference, and its low delay of below 3 ms makes it suitable for any type of service. (2 pages)


Formal wine quality ranking has largely been a European phenomenon. While various publications and critics within new world wine industries conduct regular ranking exercises for wine taste or winery processes, these exercises usually target specific quality or taste elements, are often not particularly transparent, and are not comprehensive.

In Australia, the lack of a comprehensive ranking system is not simply an oversight. Wine associations have directed the industry along very different pathways from those laid out by their more traditional European peers. There has been a much greater emphasis on the role of the winemaker and technological experimentation, and a more egalitarian, generic branding regime. Until very recently, little value has been placed on factors such as terroir, heritage, regional characteristics, or appropriate and specialised vineyard management.

The author believes that the lack of a formalised and comprehensive quality ranking system for Australian wine is a deficiency that is now undermining the industry's reputation both at home and abroad. The following paper provides the context for, and justification of, what is proposed as a dynamic, transparent, and multi-category wine ranking matrix.


We describe how the SV technique of solving linear operator equations can be applied to the problem of density estimation and how this method makes use of a special type of problem-speciic regularization. We present a new optimization procedure and set of kernels that guarantee the estimate to be a density (be non-negative everywhere and have an integral of 1). We introduce a dictionary of kernel functions to nd approximations using kernels of diierent widths adaptively. A method of SV regression using square loss is introduced and it is shown how this technique is useful for density estimation. Finally, a way of compressing density estimates from classical kernel based methods is described, and all these algorithms are compared to classical kernel density estimates (Parzen's windows). 1.1 The density estimation problem We wish to approximate the density function p(x) from data where the corresponding distribution function is F(x) = P(X x) = Z x ?1 p(t)dt: (If not speciied otherwise our densities are with respect to the usual Lebesgue measure.) Finding the required density means solving the linear operator equation 1 Z 1 ?1 (x ? t)p(t)dt = F(x); (1.1) 1.


The PISCES-A linear plasma device (n ≤ 2x10 cm, Te ≤ 20 eV) is used to study the plasma edge of a fusion device. In our gas target divertor simulation experiments, we have demonstrated the ability to quench plasmas in the new open divertor simulation configuration, characterized by a greater than two orders of magnitude reduction in total ion saturation flux to the target plate as the neutral pressure is increased. Minimum electron temperatures of ~ 3 eV are reached during detachment. We have implemented a combination axial Langmuir probe/calorimeter, yielding profiles of ion saturation flux, Jsat, electron density, ne, electron temperature, Te, and transmitted heat flux, Q . (Although, Q measurements will not be presented in this paper.) These measurements along with neutral pressure and spectroscopic measurements have been used to extensively characterize plasma conditions ranging from attached to fully detached.


NOLAN, SUSAN K., Ph.D., June 2007, Reading and Language Arts A SPELLING ERROR ANALYSIS OF WORDS WITH CLOSED SYLLABLES FOR AT-RISK READERS (136 pp.) Director of Dissertation: Dorothy J. Leal Many at-risk readers lack phonemic awareness skills and require explicit systematic instruction to develop these skills (Armbruster, Lehr, & Osborn, 2001; National Reading Panel, 2000). The purpose of this study was to address three questions regarding the spelling error patterns of at-risk readers related to phonemic awareness: 1) Do younger at-risk readers make significantly more phonetically accurate and inaccurate errors than older at-risk readers? 2) Is the proportion of phonetically inaccurate errors greater than proportion of phonetically accurate errors for at-risk readers? and 3) Is the proportion of phonetically inaccurate vowel errors greater than the proportion of phonetically inaccurate consonant errors for at-risk readers? Of particular interest was whether at-risk readers experience significant difficulties processing short vowel information. To address these questions, data was collected on the spelling error patterns of atrisk readers that occurred during a pretest comprised of words with closed syllable patterns. Sixty-nine at-risk readers in grades one through four participated in the study. All of the subjects were enrolled in a Midwestern city school district summer intervention program for at-risk readers. Participants were administered a spelling pretest consisting of 15 words that contained a limited number of beginning level concepts: 1) initial and final consonants, 2) short vowels, 3) blending of two and three speech sounds, 4) consonant digraphs, 5) double consonants ff, ll, and ss plus one irregular orthographic pattern (all), and 6) adding the suffix s. For statistical analyses, grade levels were divided into two groups, younger (grades 1 and 2) and older (grades 3 and 4) at-risk readers. Spelling errors were classified into four main categories: phonetically accurate errors, phonetically inaccurate errors, phonetically inaccurate consonant errors, and phonetically inaccurate vowel errors. Results showed significant differences between means for younger and older atrisk readers on phonetically accurate errors but not for phonetically inaccurate errors. Atrisk readers made a significantly greater proportion of phonetically inaccurate errors compared to phonetically accurate errors. In addition, at-risk readers made a significantly greater proportion of phonetically inaccurate vowel errors compared to phonetically inaccurate consonant errors. Implications of these findings and recommendations are discussed. Approved: _____________________________________________________________ Dorothy J. Leal Professor of Literacy Education Acknowledgments This manuscript was made possible through the grace and faithfulness of my loving heavenly Father who in His infinite love and wisdom surrounded me with a supportive network of people to assist me in this endeavor. A debt of gratitude is owed to many people who provided support and encouragement from the beginning to the completion of this dissertation First, I with to thank my advisor, Dr. Dorothy Leal, for all the hours she spent proofreading drafts and her encouragement throughout my graduate program. I also wish to express my gratitude to the other members of my dissertation committee, Dr. Zinny Bond, Dr. George Johanson, and Dr. Joan Safran. The contributions of my entire committee were invaluable throughout each stage of this process. I especially appreciate their careful reading of this manuscript and explicit feedback. Second, I am grateful for the knowledge and support of my colleagues within the International Dyslexia Association. This professional community has provided keen insight for working with at-risk readers which served as an impetus for this study. I wish to thank Dr. Leonore Ganschow for providing inspiration and direction for my research; her tenacity and vision are greatly appreciated. In addition, I would like to thank Martha Chiodi and Pat Yates for their willingness to score my data set. I am extremely grateful for their sacrifice of time and energy to provide inter-rater reliability for the study. Last, but not least, I want to express my sincere appreciation for my husband who encouraged me to persevere in difficult times. Without his love and support, this goal would not have been realized. This work is dedicated to countless at-risk readers who have inspired me to seek more effective strategies to help children become successful readers. viii Table of


Understanding the physical properties of magma reservoirs and their fluid/mechanical behaviour is crucial for improving geophysical models. New evidence suggests that large bodies of magma are difficult to maintain for an extended time period and that melts may instead reside within crystal-mush reservoirs which consist of variably packed frameworks of crystals and interstitial melt. Most existing volcano deformation models assume a pressurized cavity embedded in a homogeneous or heterogenous elastic half-space and therefore ignore the presence of crystals and the possible poroelastic mechanical response to melt intrusion or withdrawal. Here, we consider the magma reservoir to be entirely porous, comprising melt distributed between solid crystals. We investigate the influence of poroelastic mechanical behaviour on reservoir pressure development and resultant spatio-temporal surface deformation. We examine the post-intrusion and post-eruption time-dependent pressure evolution in the magma reservoir due to melt diffusion in the porous domain. Unlike the classic (cavity) models for volcanic surface deformation, an observable post-eruptive or post-intrusion time-dependent inflation can occur without an additional mass change if the reservoir is sufficiently permeable. Post-intrusion and post-eruption timescales vary depending on the porosity of the mush (melt fraction), permeability and magma viscosity. Our study confirms that reservoir inflation and surface deformation can occur without an intrusion or withdrawal of melt but are instead controlled by the mush's poroelastic behaviour.


The rapid, global growth of the private international school sector has raised demand for qualified school administrators to lead schools in that sector. Many administrators hired into that sector face particular challenges when coming from public systems in other countries. The question is in what ways do gaps between the training and experience of recruits and the demands of the sector compromise the sustainability of effective leadership in private international schools. There are implications for policy development around training and support for leaders in this sector as, unlike many national public systems, it lacks a supply of specifically trained leaders. This article presents a qualitative study of semi-structured interviews with 17 international school leaders who moved from national public systems abroad to private international schools in Kuwait. The major themes that emerged in those interviews were the challenges faced by leaders in adjusting to differing governance structures, the business and marketing aspects of private international schools, and managing the transience of staff. A number of similar themes have been cited in research on international schools in other world regions, although some expressions of those themes are particular to Kuwait. This article concludes with a discussion of the need to provide sustainable norms for leadership across the international school sector, with training and support to help school leaders transition and work more effectively in the sector.


Using renewable energy resources in buildings has been increasing for saving energy. Among widely used methods, solar chimneys absorb solar radiation and induce an airflow for ventilation, heating, or cooling buildings. The performance of a solar chimney depends on the heat transfer in its air channel, which can be modified by changing the shape of the heat exchange surface. In this study, we examine the effects of a rectangular obstacle placed on the heated surface of the air channel of a solar chimney. A numerical model was built with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technique. By changing the geometries of the chimney and of the obstacle, and location of the obstacle, it was found that the obstacle had strong effects on the local flow and heat transfer properties close to the object, particularly the Nusselt number and the temperature field. However, average quantities of the whole air channel flow, such as the averaged Nusselt number and the induced flow rate, were modified insignificantly, except for the temperature rise through the chimney and the thermal efficiency. The change of the flow rate and the average Nusselt number was 5.0% while the temperature rises and the thermal efficiency was up to 13.0%. The height of the obstacle had more influence than the length. This study suggests more investigations to achieve the objective of enhancing the induced flow rate for ventilation of buildings with an obstacle in the air channel of a solar chimney.


The results of a joint effort to monitor photometrically the remarkable variable star UU Her from four observatories in Europe and North America are presented. UU Her is known to exhibit two distinct pulsational modes. During 1984 - 85 the amplitude of the pulsations increased and there seemed to be a change in the V, (B-V) phase shift from negative in 1984 to positive in 1985. Meanwhile, there was no discernible change in the pulsational period or the shape of the light curve. High-dispersion spectra of UU Her from 3500 Å to 6900 Å were also obtained. There are no obvious traces of mass loss or shell phenomena in its optical spectrum. The status of UU Her remains unclear.


There are many issues pertaining to the correlation of finite element models with data from an experimental modal test. Topics such as model reduction, model expansion, testing techniques employed and correlation tools utilized are all important issues to the success of the correlation process. This particular paper addresses some of the pertinent issues of experimental testing techniques and the development of the experimental modal model from measured data. While all possible conditions to study is impossible, the more common problems which produce the greatest source of errors is addressed.


For n sufficiently large the order of a smallest balanced extension of a graph of order n is, in the worst case, ⌊(n + 3)2/8⌋. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


More concerns have been attached to the phenomenon of linguistic gender inequality recently.The address term between Japanese spouses reflects not only the difference between languages,but also the unequal status of Japanese women in family and even in society,the existence of which shows profound historical and cultural background.The analysis and research of this phenomenon can help us better understand Japanese language and culture.


Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems are often used to collect high-resolution imagery. Data obtained from UAVs are now widely used for both military and civilian purposes. This article discusses the issues related to the use of UAVs for the imaging of restricted areas. Two methods of developing single-strip blocks with the optimal number of ground control points are presented. The proposed methodology is based on a modified linear regression model and an empirically modified Levenberg–Marquardt–Powell algorithm. The effectiveness of the proposed methods of adjusting a single-strip block were verified based on several test sets. For method I, the mean square errors (RMSE) values for the X, Y, Z coordinates of the control points were within the range of 0.03–0.13 m/0.08–0.09 m, and for the second method, 0.03–0.04 m/0.06–0.07 m. For independent control points, the RMSE values were 0.07–0.12 m/0.06–0.07 m for the first method and 0.07–0.12 m/0.07–0.09 m for the second method. The results of the single-strip block adjustment showed that the use of the modified Levenberg–Marquardt–Powell method improved the adjustment accuracy by 13% and 16%, respectively.


A. ANALYSIS OF NASALIZED VOWELS In a previous report (1), a theoretical explanation of the spectral structure of nasal-ized vowels was given, and rules that govern the locations of formants and antiformants were described. An experimental study has been performed on vowels of this type, with the use of a computer program and speech materials reported on previously (2). The speech samples in this study consisted of the vowel portions of nonmeaningful words of the forms [ha'mVm] and [ha'nVn], in which the vowel V was one of [i], [1], [E], [ae], [a], [A] and [u]. For each combination of the two consonants and seven vowels, uttered by a phonetically trained talker of American English (JM), the central portions of the vowels have been matched sample by sample (8. 3 msec apart), in a manner similar to that described in a previous report (2) on nasal murmurs. Also, several analogous utterances by two other talkers have been studied by the same methods. The complete results of the study are being prepared for publication and will not be presented here. In general, the results compare very well with the theory previously advanced. In some cases, the vowel in the central portion of the utterance does not seem to be nasalized at all, and in such cases synthesized spectra specified by conjugate-pole pairs only give satisfactory matches with the vowel spectra. In many cases, on the other hand, it is necessary to introduce an additional pole-zero pair in order to obtain reasonable matches. (Later portions of the vowels are always nasalized; this indicates a strong anticipation of the final consonant.) The locations of the poles are, in general, well explained by the theory. The theoretical predictions are based on the observed location of the antiformant and the formant locations of the non-nasalized vowels. The latter were estimated from previous measurements of the pertinent vowel uttered by the same speaker in a similar word containing a voiced-stop consonant [b] or [d] in place of the nasal [m] or [n], respectively. The degree of nasalization, which is indicated by the location of the antiformant, seems to vary from utterance to utterance. Some typical examples taken from the central portions of vowels are illustrated in


Background: Oprozomib (OPZ) is an oral proteasome inhibitor. This phase 1b/2 study (NCT01416428) is evaluating single-agent OPZ in patients with relapsed hematologic malignancies, including those with multiple myeloma (MM) and Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (WM). In the phase 1b portion of the study, the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of single-agent OPZ was 300 mg/day when administered on days 1, 2, 8, and 9 of a 14-day cycle (2/7 schedule) or 240 mg/day when administered on days 1-5 of a 14-day cycle (5/14 schedule) (Vij et al. Blood.2014;124:abstr 34). Here, we present final results from the phase 2 portion of the study. Methods: Adults with relapsed MM or WM (≥1 prior therapy) were eligible for the phase 2 portion of the study. The primary objective of the phase 2 portion was to determine the overall response rate (ORR). During phase 2, patients on the 5/14 schedule received OPZ at the MTD of 240 mg/day, or in a step-up dosing scheme where patients received 150 mg/day in cycle 1, and stepped-up to a target dose of 180 mg/day thereafter (ie, 150/180 mg/day). Patients on the 2/7 schedule received OPZ in a step-up dosing scheme of 240/300 mg/day. All patients received premedication with a 5-hydroxytryptamine-3 inhibitor and dexamethasone 4 mg. Results: During phase 2, patients were initially treated on the 5/14 schedule at the MTD of 240 mg/day (MM, n=27; WM, n=17). Three patients with MM died on study: 2 due to treatment-related gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage and 1 due to progressive disease. The study protocol was then amended to test alternative regimens and lower doses, and patients were subsequently enrolled on the 2/7 and 5/14 step-up dosing schedules (240/300 mg/day and 150/180 mg/day, respectively). The phase 2 portion enrolled 56 patients on the 2/7 step-up dosing schedule (MM, n=41; WM, n=15) and 34 patients on the 5/14 step-up dosing schedule (all MM). Median ages in MM patients were 65 years (2/7, 240/300 mg/day), 64.5 years (5/14, 150/180 mg/day), and 63 years (5/14, 240 mg/day); median ages in WM patients were 65 years (2/7, 240/300 mg/day) and 62 years (5/14, 240 mg/day). Median numbers of prior regimens were 4, 3.5, 5, 2, and 3 in these cohorts, respectively. Among MM patients, 68% were bortezomib (BTZ)-refractory, 37% were carfilzomib (CFZ)-refractory, 75% were lenalidomide-refractory, 45% were pomalidomide-refractory, and 71% had received prior transplant. Median treatment durations were 11.4 weeks (MM, 2/7 schedule, 240/300 mg/day), 10.1 weeks (MM, 5/14 schedule, 150/180 mg/day), 5.4 weeks (MM, 5/14 schedule, 240 mg/day), 34.6 weeks (WM, 2/7 schedule, 240/300 mg/day), and 8.1 weeks (WM, 5/14 schedule, 240 mg/day). Across all cohorts, the most common grade ≥3 adverse events (AEs) included diarrhea, anemia, thrombocytopenia, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting (Table 1). Among patients with MM, the proportions of patients who discontinued treatment due to AEs were 44%, 12%, and 48% in the 2/7, 240/300 mg/day; 5/14, 150/180 mg/day; and 5/14, 240 mg/day cohorts, respectively. Among patients with WM, the proportions of patients who discontinued treatment due to AEs were 20% and 47% in the 2/7 and 5/14 schedules, respectively. No on-study deaths occurred in the 2/7 schedule nor in the 5/14 step-up dosing cohorts. Efficacy outcomes are shown in Table 2. Among response-eligible patients with MM, ORRs were 34%, 22%, and 25% in the 2/7, 240/300 mg/day (n=38); 5/14, 150/180 mg/day (n=32); and 5/14, 240 mg/day (n=24) cohorts, respectively. Among BTZ-refractory patients with MM, ORRs were 28% and 17% on the 2/7 (n=29) and 5/14 (n=24) schedules, respectively; among CFZ-refractory patients, ORRs were 8% and 10% on the 2/7 (n=13) and 5/14 (n=21) schedules. For response-eligible patients with WM, ORRs were 71% and 47% on the 2/7 (n=14) and 5/14 (n=17) schedules. Conclusions: Single-agent OPZ appears to have promising activity in patients with relapsed MM or WM, with durable responses overall and responses observed in those refractory to BTZ or CFZ. GI events (primarily diarrhea) were among the most common grade ≥3 AEs with single-agent OPZ. Further exploration of OPZ therapeutic effect is planned with modified formulations and optimized schedule and dosing administration. Disclosures Ghobrial:Noxxon: Honoraria; Novartis: Honoraria; BMS: Honoraria, Research Funding; Celgene: Honoraria, Research Funding; Amgen: Honoraria; Takeda: Honoraria. Savona:Amgen Inc.: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Celgene: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Ariad: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Incyte: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Gilead: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Sunesis: Research Funding; Takeda: Research Funding; TG Therapeutics: Research Funding. Vij:Amgen: Honoraria, Research Funding; Celgene: Consultancy; Bristol-Myers Squibb: Honoraria; Janssen: Honoraria; Karyopharm: Honoraria; Novartis: Honoraria; Takeda: Honoraria, Research Funding. Siegel:Celgene: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Takeda: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Amgen: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Novartis: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; BMS: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau. Kaufman:Incyte: Consultancy; Celgene: Consultancy, Research Funding; Pharmacyclics: Consultancy; Novartis: Consultancy, Research Funding. Raje:Amgen: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Celgene: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Takeda: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Merck: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Novartis: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Roche: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; BMS: Consultancy, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; AstraZeneca: Research Funding; Eli Lilly: Research Funding. Jakubowiak:BMS: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Amgen Inc.: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Karyopharm: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Sanofi: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Takeda: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; SkylineDx: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees. Obreja:Amgen: Employment. Berdeja:Abbvie, Acetylon, Amgen, Bluebird, BMS, Calithera, Celgene, Constellation, Curis, Epizyme, Janssen, Karyopharm, Kesios, Novartis, Onyx, Takeda, Tragara: Research Funding.


This paper presents a detailed account of the Pioneer 10 encounter with Jupiter as viewed by the Goddard/Univ. of New Hampshire Cosmic Ray Experiment. Flux time histories of electrons and protons are given over a wide energy band. These show a marked variation with magnetic latitude. Significant removal of low energy protons by Io is apparent in the inner magnetosphere (,6 R ). Proton and electron energy spectra are given at various Jovicentric distances. The electron spectra are remarkably hard and constant in slope in the .12-8.0 MeV interval, the electron spectral index having a value of 1.5-2.0 in the region outside 25 R . Proton spectra are shown to transform from a power law with indices in the 3-4.2 range to more nearly exponential forms in the inner regions ( 40 R). Extensive data are presented on the angular distributions of protons and electrons at various locations in the Jovicentric nmagnetosphere. In addition, a harmonic analysis of 1-2 MeV proton angular distributions has been performed. Simple co-rotation is shown to exist out to .23 Rj. Beyond this point other effects are contributing significantly to the particle anisotropies. Alpha/proton ratios are given as a function of Jovian radius and are compared to the earth and solar wind values.


Abstract Background This study (NCT03132922) evaluates safety, tolerability, and antitumor activity of ADP-A2M4, genetically engineered autologous specific peptide enhanced affinity receptor (SPEAR) T-cells directed towards a MAGE-A4 peptide expressed in the context of HLA-A*02. Here, we report on a subset of patients (pts) with synovial sarcoma (SS). Methods In this first-in-human T-cell dose-escalation study, pts who are HLA-A*02+ (excluding *02:05, *02:07), have inoperable or metastatic MAGE-A4+ disease, and meet entry criteria are eligible for treatment. Following apheresis, T-cells are isolated, transduced with MAGE-A4c1032TCR, and expanded. The lymphodepletion chemotherapy increased in intensity as the study progressed, with max dose of 30mg/m2/d fludarabine x 4 d and 1800mg/m2/d cyclophosphamide x 2 d. During dose escalation, 3 pts with various tumor types received 0.1x109 (±20%), 1x109 (range: 0.5 – 1.2 × 109), or 5x109 (range: 1.2 – 6 × 109) transduced cells and were monitored for dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs). During expansion, 30 pts (not only SS) will be treated with 1.2 – 10x109 transduced cells. Disease is assessed per RECIST by CT/MRI at wk 6, 12, 18, and 24, and every 3mo for 2yr, then every 6mo or until progression. Correlative studies will investigate transduced cell persistence, phenotype, and function, and serum and tumor microenvironment factors. Results No DLTs were reported. ADP-A2M4 was well tolerated, with adverse events consistent with chemotherapy or other immunotherapies. 10 pts with SS have been treated in cohort 3 and the expansion phase (30Apr19). Median T-cell dose was 9.7x109 (4.49 - 9.98x109). 8 pts have post-baseline tumor assessments. There are 3 confirmed partial responses (PR) (-86%, -44%, -54), and 1 unconfirmed PR (-31%) at wk 6. Best response was stable disease in 3 pts (-27% and -15%, ongoing, and +12%, progressed) and progressive disease in 1. 2 pts have yet to be assessed. Ex vivo analysis of transduced cells from peripheral blood and tumor showed cells were cytolytic and activated in an antigen-specific manner. Conclusions ADP-A2M4 induced clinical responses in pts with SS. Transduced T-cells expand upon exposure to antigen and are functional. Updated data from this ongoing study will be presented. Clinical trial identification NCT03132922, First posted on April 28, 2017. Editorial acknowledgement Debra Brocksmith, MB ChB, PhD, of Envision Pharma Group; contracted by Adaptimmune. Legal entity responsible for the study Adaptimmune. Funding Adaptimmune. Disclosure B.A. Van Tine: Research grant / Funding (self): Pfizer; Research grant / Funding (self): Tracon; Research grant / Funding (self): Merck; Advisory / Consultancy: Epizyme; Advisory / Consultancy, Speaker Bureau / Expert testimony, Travel / Accommodation / Expenses: Lilly; Advisory / Consultancy: CytRX; Advisory / Consultancy, Speaker Bureau / Expert testimony: Janssen; Advisory / Consultancy: Immune Design; Advisory / Consultancy: Daiichi Sankyo; Advisory / Consultancy: Plexxicon; Advisory / Consultancy: Adaptimmune; Speaker Bureau / Expert testimony: Caris. M.O. Butler: Honoraria (self), Advisory / Consultancy: Bristol-Myers Squibb; Honoraria (self), Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (self): Merck; Honoraria (self), Advisory / Consultancy: Novartis; Honoraria (self): Roche; Advisory / Consultancy: Adaptimmune; Advisory / Consultancy: EMD Serono; Advisory / Consultancy: GSK; Advisory / Consultancy: Immunocore; Advisory / Consultancy: Immunovaccine; Research grant / Funding (institution): Takara Bio. M.L. Johnson: Research grant / Funding (institution): BerGenBio; Research grant / Funding (institution): Lilly; Research grant / Funding (institution), Travel / Accommodation / Expenses: EMD Serono; Research grant / Funding (institution): Janssen; Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (institution): Mirati Therapeutics; Research grant / Funding (institution): Genmab; Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (institution), Travel / Accommodation / Expenses: Pfizer; Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (institution): AstraZeneca; Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (institution), Travel / Accommodation / Expenses, Additional travel from: Astellas, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Clovis, Daiichi Sankyo, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Exelixis, Incyte, Merck, Sysmex Inostics, Vapotherm: Genentech; Research grant / Funding (institution): Stemcentrix; Research grant / Funding (institution): Novartis; Research grant / Funding (institution): Checkpoint Therapeutics; Research grant / Funding (institution): Array Biopharma; Research grant / Funding (institution): Regeneron; Research grant / Funding (institution): Apexigen; Research grant / Funding (institution), Travel / Accommodation / Expenses: AbbVie; Research grant / Funding (institution): Tarveda; Research grant / Funding (institution): Adaptimmune; Research grant / Funding (institution), Additional advisory for: Gelgene, Boehringer Ingelheim, Sanofi, LOXO, Calithera, Merck, Araxes Pharma, Mersana Therapeutics, BeiGene, Incyte, Guardant Health, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ribon Therapeutics: Syndax; Research grant / Funding (institution), Additional grant funding from: Boehringer Ingelheim, Sanofi, Hengrui Therapuetics INC, Merck, Daiichi-Sankyo, Lycera, G1 Therapeutics, Dynavax, LOXO, Cytomx, BeiGene, Birdie, Corvus, Incyte, Genocea, Gritstone, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Kadmon, Clovis, Acerta, OncoMed, Guardant Health, Takeda, Shattuck Labs, GSK: Neovia. J. Clarke: Research grant / Funding (self): MedPacto; Research grant / Funding (self): Bristol-Myers Squibb; Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (self): Eli Lilly; Research grant / Funding (self): Genentech; Research grant / Funding (self): Spectrum; Research grant / Funding (self): Adaptimmune; Research grant / Funding (self): Bayer; Research grant / Funding (self): AbbVie; Research grant / Funding (self): Moderna; Advisory / Consultancy, Speaker Bureau / Expert testimony: Merck; Advisory / Consultancy, Speaker Bureau / Expert testimony: Guardant; Advisory / Consultancy: AstraZeneca. D. Liebner: Advisory / Consultancy: Foundation Medicine; Advisory / Consultancy: Blueprint Medicines. K. Odunsi: Research grant / Funding (self): ITeos Therapeutics. A.J. Olszanski: Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (self): Bristol-Myers Squibb; Advisory / Consultancy: Merck; Advisory / Consultancy: Pfizer; Advisory / Consultancy: Array; Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (self): EMD Serono; Advisory / Consultancy: Iovance; Advisory / Consultancy: Novartis; Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (self): Alkermes; Research grant / Funding (self): Adaptimmune; Research grant / Funding (self): Astellas; Research grant / Funding (self): Boston Biomedical; Research grant / Funding (self): Checkmate Pharmaceutics; Research grant / Funding (self): GSK; Research grant / Funding (self): Immunocore; Research grant / Funding (self): Intensity Therapeutics; Research grant / Funding (self): Kartos; Research grant / Funding (self): Kura; Research grant / Funding (self): Oncoceutics; Research grant / Funding (self): Targovax. S. Basu: Shareholder / Stockholder / Stock options, Full / Part-time employment: Adaptimmune. F. Brophy: Shareholder / Stockholder / Stock options, Full / Part-time employment: Adaptimmune. T. Holdich: Shareholder / Stockholder / Stock options, Full / Part-time employment: Adaptimmune. T. Trivedi: Shareholder / Stockholder / Stock options, Full / Part-time employment: Adaptimmune. R.G. Amado: Leadership role, Shareholder / Stockholder / Stock options, Full / Part-time employment: Adaptimmune. D.S. Hong: Research grant / Funding (self): AbbVie; Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (self): Adaptimmune; Research grant / Funding (self): Amgen; Research grant / Funding (self): AstraZeneca; Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (self): Bayer; Research grant / Funding (self): Bristol-Myers Squibb; Research grant / Funding (self): Daiichi-Sankyo; Research grant / Funding (self): Eisai; Research grant / Funding (self): Fate Therapeutics; Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (self): Genentech; Research grant / Funding (self), Travel / Accommodation / Expenses: Genmab; Research grant / Funding (self): Ignyta; Advisory / Consultancy, Research grant / Funding (self): Infinity; Research grant / Funding (self): Kite; Research grant / Funding (self): Kyowa; Research grant / Funding (self): Lilly; Research grant / Funding (self), Travel / Accommodation / Expenses: LOXO; Research grant / Funding (self): MedImmune; Research grant / Funding (self): Merck; Research grant / Funding (self), Additional grant funding from: miRNA, Molecular Templates, Mologen, NCI-CTEP, Novartics, Pfizer, Seattle Genetics, Takeda. Additional advisory consulting for: Alpha Insights, Axiom, Baxter, GLG, Group H, Guidepoint Global, Merrimack, Medscape, Numab, Pfizer, Seattle Genetics, Takeda, Trieza Therapeutics, WebMD; Travel support from MiRNA, AACR, ASCO, SITC; ownership interests in Molecular Match, OncoResponse, Presagia Inc: Mirati. All other authors have declared no conflicts of interest.


The influence of information load on ethanol and water intake of altered magnetic background was studied in initially ethanol-aversive Wistar rats. A paradigm of free choice between 10% of ethanol solution and water was applied. Daily exposure to weak disturbances of ambient magnetic field (MF, up to 210 μT) caused by various ferromagnetic objects under conditions of free behavior (zero level of information load) did not alter rats' ethanol/water intake over 2 months. Cognitive activity on the background of natural MF (38 μT) caused an increase of ethanol intake in 34.8% of rats, which were mainly poor learners. This activity on the background of altered MF (up to 280 μT) modulated by magnets provoked an increase of stable ethanol addiction in all rats, independent of individual peculiarities and learning success. A possible role of the endogenous opioid system in mediating MF-induced development of alcohol addiction is discussed.


A printing press forme (1; 1 *) comprising a cylinder (8) plate carrying one or more printing plates gravure cylinder (8) plate that receives ink from an inking system (9, 20, 23; 20 *, 23 *) having a multitude of cylinder (23; 23 *) of chablon transferring directly or indirectly ink on the cylinder (8) of plates, the press gravure printing (1; 1 * ) comprising an adjustment system acting on the cylinders (23; 23 *) of chablon order to compensate the elongation of one or more of the plates gravure printing, wherein the adjustment system comprises, for each cylinder (23; 23 *) of chablon, a unit (25) adjustable drive, characterized in that said unit (25) adjustable drive is interposed between the cylinder (23; 23 *) of chablon which acts as a body rotary drive output (25) adjustable drive and a gear (100) drive serving as a body rotary input unit (25) adjustable drive, in which the unit (25) adjustable drive is designed to permit selective adjustment of a rotational speed of the cylinder (23; 23 *) of chablon with respect to a rotational speed of gear (100) driving, wherein, in a state adjusting unit (25) adjustable drive, the drive the rotation of the cylinder (23; 23 * ) the chablon is adjusted at each turn of the cylinder (23; 23 *) of the chablon by a servomotor (300) of the unit (25) adjustable drive for changing a length inking cylinder (23; 23 * ) the chablon when transferred onto the cylinder (8) of plates, and wherein, in a state of not setting unit (25) adjustable drive, the servomotor (300) is inoperative and the drive to turning cylinder (23; 23 *) of the chablon is exclusively mechanically through the unit (25) adjustable drive, rotating the cylinder (23; 23 *) of the chablon at the same speed the gear ( 100) drive.


Organ donation faces today many difficulties. Why is it the object of so many resistances? Criticizing the modern utilitarianist utilitarian? pleas for organ transplants, this papers aims to demonstrate how the gift paradigm can offer some answers to this question and underlines some of its main issues: debt, identity and recognition.


Gamma-ray halos around pulsars are an effective probe of particle propagation in the interstellar medium. Two halos named Geminga and Monogem are observed by the KM2A, one of the sub arrays of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). The significance of Geminga(Monogem) is 11 f (7 f) at the energy range from 25 TeV to 63 TeV. In the future, more statistics will allow us to investigate the energy-dependent morphologies.


The results of an extensive questionnaire answered by 3,433 seniors and graduate students in electrical engineering of 129 colleges in March 1956 are analyzed. A whole series of challenges are posed for the engineering profession. Failure to act now can have major effects on the profession of electrical engineering in the next 10 to 20 years.


Objective:To evaluate the Effects of Shengfu Injection on CK, CK MB after intercardiac operation.Methods: 71 cases of patients with congenital heart disease were randomly divided into two groups: group Ⅰ (Shengfu Injection, n =39) and group Ⅱ(control group, n =32). Blood samples were taken from central venous for measurement of plasma myocardial enzymes of CK and CK MB prior to operation, 1h, 1d, 2d, 3d and 7d after surgery, respectively. Results: The levels of CK and CK MB were normal before operation, reached the peak in ld after operation and decreased progressively in two groups. The level of CK was significantly lower in group Ⅰ than that in group Ⅱ in 2d after operation, and also the CK MB of the group Ⅰ was lower than group Ⅱ in 3d and 7d after operation. Conclusions: The perioperating rehabilation of CK and CK MB for congental heart disease can be recoveried by Shengfu Injection.


Obesity was initially regarded as a psychosocial disorder, but, after years of study, has come to be understood as a chronic disease for which there is no cure, like hypertension and diabetes6 , 7. Surgical intervention is safe and effective in the long term and aims to control the disease and its comorbidities. Even so, it is hoped that the proportion of patients who experience long-term recidivism can be reduced1 , 3.

In the past 20 years, surgical treatment of obesity has evolved significantly and is regarded as more than an isolated modification of the digestive tract. This operation, in combination with changes in lifestyle, is fundamental for controlling the disease in the long and medium term. These changes can be achieved with appropriate guidance and follow-up from a multi-professional team5.

Comorbidities, such as diabetes, arterial hypertension, sleep apnea and others, reduce quality of life and increase mortality. Weight loss and control of these disease save lives and bring down the cost to the healthcare system2, 4 , 8.

There is no consensus in the literature as to the definition of successful bariatric and metabolic surgery. The same outcome can be considered favorable by one author and unfavorable by another. There is also no unanimity as which treatment option is most appropriate for turning round a failed bariatric surgery.

With a view to drawing up norms as to what constitutes successful bariatric surgery, the Brazilian Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery-SBCBM-held a discussion forum involving surgeons, endocrinologists, cardiologists, nutritionists, psychiatrists, and physical exercise professionals. After critical analysis of the available literature in the light of the prior experience of participants, objective classification criteria were drawn up.

The following is a list of the final decisions reached by the panel of experts:

1. A patient who does not manage adequately to control obesity is different from one who experiences a relapse after various years of adequate control.

2. A small long-term weight gain is normal and to be expected after bariatric and metabolic surgery.

3. The control of metabolic diseases and the consequent improvement in quality of life are the desired outcomes.

4. It is appropriate for the criteria for successful or unsuccessful surgery to employ the following terms:

Controlled obesity: patients who achieve a Total Weight Loss of > 20% in 6 months;

Partially controlled obesity: Total Weight Loss of between 10 and 20% in 6 months;

Uncontrolled obesity: Total Weight Loss of < 10% in 6 months.

5. Along with the definition of Obesity Control, the following factors should also be taken into consideration:

Patient satisfaction with the outcome;

Improvement of associated diseases, irrespective of weight loss;

Any weight also occurring prior to surgery.

6. For those patients who gain weight after a long period of control or those in whom an associated disease has reappeared the correct term is obesity recidivism, classified as follows:

Recidivism: 50% of weight lost regained in long term or 20% of weight regained in association with reappearance of comorbidities.

Controlled Recidivism: Between 20 and 50% of weight loss regained in long term.

NB. Expected weight gain: < 20% of weight loss regained in long term.

7. The causes of post-operative recidivism are related to factors relating to the patient (behavioral and biological) and surgical techniques.

8. The causes related to recidivism, especially behavioral ones, should first be evaluated by a multidisciplinary team and then the technical causes should be solved surgically.

9. We consider the ideal multidisciplinary team to comprise:

an endocrinologist

a surgeon

a nutritional doctor

a psychiatrist

a nutritionist

a psychologist

a physical trainer

a physiotherapist

and other professionals if necessary.

Always leading the way, the SBCBM has established guidelines to help orient the outcomes of bariatric and metabolic surgery. Standardized terms and criteria will lead to standardized practices and provide better treatment for our patients.

It is important to note that this document should not be used for legal purposes, as it does not deal with legislation on the subject, aiming only to provide instrutions for members of the society.


The process of liberalization of the land market derived from the reorganization of global economic capital, relocalises industry and orders a neoliberal city around financial, services and real estate activities. Medellin tries to project a global image of "development" through city marketing and one of its strategies is the urban renewal that generates high profitability for the real estate sector. The Naranjal Urban Renewal Partial Plan is deployed under the public-private governance model, and through Urban Action Units it operates as a mechanism of exclusion, erasing the existing territorialities in the neighborhood, and inserting a new urban and architectural morphological configuration, lifestyle and "user". Its implementation has been a process of negotiation of the territory that through breaches, pressures, protests and popular actions has fragmented social relations and atomized the community potential of its inhabitants.


The invention relates to a construction waste sintering brick and a production method thereof. The construction waste sintering brick comprises sintering raw materials of 24-30 percent of sludge and 35-45 percent of construction waste, 25.5-33 percent of one or two of coal ash or coal refuses and 1-3 percent of binding agent. The construction waste sintering brick has wide raw material sources, enables the construction waste to be recycled, saves the land resource, protects the tiled land, and fully utilizes construction waste with wide and large sources to change the waste into valuable. Theproduced sintering brick has temperature preservation and heat insulation, shock and compression resistance, no distortion and high yield, is suitable to industrial large-scale production.


The work presented in this thesis explores new multi-disciplinary applications of optical tweezers in the physical and biological sciences. Firstly, the three dimensional trapping of partially silvered sphere in a standard TEM00 optical trap was characterised. These spheres were then coated with an azo dye such that surface-enhanced resonance Raman (SERRS) measurements could be made on a single bead whilst it was simultaneously trapped in 532 nm optical tweezers. The length of time over which the SERRS signal could be recorded was increased, from milli-seconds to minutes, by using 1064 nm optical tweezers and introducing second harmonic light, generated via a frequency doubling crystal, for the excitation of the SERRS signal. In addition to trapping single particles, a spatial light modulator (SLM) was introduced into the optical tweezers to produce holographic optical tweezers. The SLM allowed the creation and manipulation of several optical beams both simultaneously and independently of each other. Three dimensional trapping and manipulation of multiple micron-sized spheres were achieved using the SLM in the Fourier plane of the traps. This ability to trap and manipulate objects, such as fluorescent spheres and E. coli, in 3D was extended to create permanent 3D structures that were set within a polymer matrix. These objects could be created, permanently set and imaged ex-situ. A summary of conclusions and ideas for future work are included.


Author(s): Maccannell, Juliet | Abstract: Reviews the three way conversation among Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Zizek, and Judith Butler on leftist political theories of hegemony and universality and social change. My essay introduces the concept of a "Negative Universal" for there first time.


Microservice-based applications consist of multiple services that can evolve independently. When services are modified, they are typically tested before being deployed. However, the test suites that are executed are usually designed without the exact knowledge about how the services will be accessed and used in the field, therefore they may easily miss relevant test scenarios, failing to prevent the deployment of faulty services.To address this problem, we introduce ExVivoMicroTest, an approach that analyzes the execution of deployed services at runtime in the field, in order to generate test cases for future versions of the same services. ExVivoMicroTest exploits cloud technologies, containers in particular, to generate a mocked environment that fully isolates the service under test from the rest of the system. It then reproduces service interactions as previously analyzed, thus testing the new version of the service against usage scenarios that capture the field usages of its earlier versions.We evaluate our approach on an open sourced microservices application and show that ExVivoMicroTest can effectively reveal faults based on automatically collected data.


The present work had as objective to determine, in laboratory, efficient methods to surpass the dormancy of seeds of 'sabia' ( Mimosa caesalpiniifolia Benth), as well as the most adequate substratum, influence of the light and the osmotic potential in the germination of the seeds. To evaluate the effect of different pre germinative procedures in seeds of 'sabia' with wraps and without wrap, various treatments to break dormancy were applied, After that, using the treatment that provided best result, the influences of the substratum, the light and the osmotico potential in the germination of seeds of 'sabia' was evaluated. The statistical design used was complety randomized, and the data were submitted to the test of Tukey. At the end of the experiment the best results had been the immersion of the seeds without wrap in concentrated sulfuric acid for four and six minutes. The percentage of germination was not influenced by the substrata sand, paper and cotton, however the substratum cotton promoted a larger germination speed. With regard to the osmotic potential, the measure that increased the water restriction in the substratum there was reduction of germination.


A new spatial light modulator using an organic photoconductor and a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal film is developed which has sensitivity to both infrared and visible light. The photoconductor contains organic pigment of titanylphthalocyanine microcrystal particles in binder polymer and generates photocarriers under light irradiation. The device is applicable to infrared image viewers and optically addressed projection displays using various write light sources including a compact infrared laser diode. Its display application is especially significant because the liquid crystal film has the attractive feature of high transmittance for bright-image projection. The device exhibited a good contrast ratio of 40:1 and high limiting resolution of 40 lp/mm. Optical conversion from a faint near- infrared image of a candle flame to a visible image was demonstrated in real time.


The performance of GNSS receivers can be highly affected by structural interference signals such as spoofing and meaconing. The structure and power level of these signals are very similar to those of the authentic GNSS signals and as such they cannot be easily detected in the received signal set. This paper proposes a low complexity authenticity verification technique that takes advantage of the GPS signal structure in order to detect the presence of undesired structural interferences in the received signal samples. The proposed technique operates on the raw signal samples and can detect the overpowered GPS spectrum prior to signal de-spreading. This method does not need any information regarding the AGC gain and operates on digitized signal samples only. The simulation results and real data processing verify the desired performance of the proposed method even when the received signal strength (RSS) of the spoofing and authentic signals are very close to each other. Copyright © 2014 Institute of Navigation.


In intensively cultivated landscapes, the effects of land use ‐ changing habitat quality and habitat availability - on wildlife populations are of major importance for wildlife management. Populations of some species reach high densities, grow rapidly, and can therefore cause damage to tree regeneration in forests; chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) is an example. Other species, like capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), suffer from substantial habitat loss resulting in a population decline. Consequently, the number of individuals and the quality of habitat are of crucial relevance for the development of wildlife management concepts. It is critical to know, which areas provide suitable habitat conditions for a species, and what quantity and quality of habitat is required to achieve a certain population size. In order to evaluate habitat quality and to link wildlife research to practical habitat management, an integrated habitat management model has been designed. The model is based on a multi-dimensional habitat analysis which employs different methodological levels, which were defined according to different spatial scales. On a country scale (level 1), the wildlife ecological landscape type (WELT) is introduced. For this study the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg is divided into units which represent distinct regions with similar landscape ecological habitat conditions for wildlife species. On an eco-regional scale (level 2), the landscape ecological habitat potential (LEHP) was developed. It is based on the evaluation of species-related landscape parameters within an exemplary eco-region and provides information about the potential habitat available to a population. On two local scales (level 3: forest district, level 4: forest stand), a habitat structure analysis was conducted, which serves as a foundation for habitat improvement and the monitoring of habitat conditions. The three methodological elements WELT, LEHP and habitat structure analysis were integrated into a habitat management model. The model uses chamois and capercaillie as examples, but can be equally applied to other species and wildlife management regimes.


Strombolian activity produces gas-rich, magma-poor eruptions suggesting the separation and concentration of volcanic gases within the plumbing system. These gases are assumed to rise as relatively large bubble rafts or individual 'slug' bubbles that can cause detectable seismic activity on interaction with conduit geometry. Rising within the magma column, a gas bubble must expand appreciably in order to maintain magma-static pressure, for instance volume would increase by a factor of c. 200 for a 1 km rise to the magma-atmosphere interface. For a near-conduit-filling gas slug this expansion is one-dimensional (i.e. length-wise) and increases in rate non-linearly on approach to the surface. As they ascend, small gas slugs can expand sufficiently rapidly to maintain approximate magma-static pressure, but large gas slugs become dynamically overpressured.


Golf clubs and golf club heads, putter heads, for example, (1700), and a putter body may comprise an insert (1707), the insert is formed and engaged with the ball striking surface of the putter body. Insert portion may be formed of a metal material, a polymer material may be partially formed insert. The insert may include a base portion having a groove formed therein. The base portion may be coupled with other materials to form the insert. In some configurations, the insert may be both sides of the structure may be inverted and may have different performance characteristics on each side of the associated insert. Also described are methods of manufacturing such pusher means.


Theory of Non equilibrium thermodynamics on the current is applied to the continuous signal decting systems.Entropy production formulas about two kind of decting systems based contact are given in the process of signal transmission with electronic circuit.Therefor,the information of delivery and transformation within one unit time is derived from the negtive entropy theory on the information.The significant transformation parameter and it's optimum combination relationship about the real decting system are achived respectively on the basis of the theory.


Some ways of innovation in students' management have been proposed according to new characters appeared in students' management,which will lead to a harmonious,stable and positive campus environment.


'Green Pak' cabbage was transplanted to the field on May 22 in 2 row plots with 10 inch spacing in sandy soil using a mechanical transplanter. Each treatment was replicated 4 times in a complete randomized block design. Dust treatments were applied with a hand duster while sprays were applied with a 2 gallon backpack sprayer operated at 35 psi to obtain thorough coverage. Treatments were applied weekly beginning Jun 14 and ending Jul 26. Effectiveness of materials was determined by counting cabbage loopers on 5 plants per replicate weekly. A damage evaluation was taken at each counting data by assigning numerical designations from 0-5 with 0 indicating no damage and 5 heavy damage. The experiment was designed for orthogonal comparison between untreated and treated plots and for within treated plots.


Current biological markers of bone turnover have proven useful in improving fracture risk assessment and monitoring treatment efficacy in postmenopausal osteoporosis. Progress in the characterization of important biological pathways regulating bone cell activity and the organic components of bone matrix has led to the development of new biochemical markers. These include the non-collagenous protein periostin, resorption-mediated osteocalcin fragments, the osteoclastic enzymes tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase and cathepsin K, the regulators of osteoclastic (OPG, RANKL) and osteoblastic (Wnt signaling molecules) activity and the post-translational modifications of matrix molecules. One of the most interesting developments has been the demonstration that the non-enzymatic modifications of bone collagen, including glycation-mediated crosslinks and the isomerization of aspartic acid, contribute to fracture resistance independent of bone mineral density (BMD). Preliminary clinical studies have shown that increased systemic levels of the glycated crosslink pentosidine and the urinary ratio between native (α CTX) and isomerized (β CTX) type I collagen C telopeptide are associated with fracture risk in postmenopausal women independent of BMD and may respond differently to the various anti-resorptive therapies. The identification of bonespecific post-translational modifications of bone matrix proteins that influence bone fracture resistance should lead to the development of new biological markers that will be useful in assessing the contribution of changes in bone matrix properties to fracture risk during aging, disease and treatment. IBMS BoneKEy. 2008 March;5(3):84-102. ©2008 International Bone & Mineral Society


Introduction: Corona has affected everyone's lives. Most companies and services have found new ways to approach their work while at the same time preventing the further spread of the virus. The mode of travel has also significantly changed. Governments are trying their best to maintain all possible safety norms at airports and railway stations. The idea is to ensure that people are maintaining social distancing and wearing a mask. Objectives: The main aim of the proposed work (AI-CAPM) is to reduce the contact between staff and the passengers. To ensure the genuineness of the Aadhar card and other IDs, the system uses face detection algorithms that will detect the faces and only allow those faces who have their tickets booked for that particular day. Methods: The proposed work uses Local Binary Patterns Histograms (LBPH) Face Recognizer for face recognition, Social Distancing Monitor Using DNN and Mask Detection with CNN. Results: This research work builds a social distancing monitor model using Single Shot Detector (SSD). SSD takes one single shot to detect multiple objects within the image. SSD covers all computation in a single network by eliminating subsequent pixel or feature resampling stages and object proposal generation. This makes SSD easy to train and simple to integrate into systems that require detection component. SSD is faster and has much better accuracy compared to other algorithms. Conclusion: The software developed in this work proposes an autonomous verification of a passenger as it displays the passenger's train/flight details and boarding area by recognizing them from the passenger's database. This removes the need for manual checking of the passenger before boarding. Overall, the software developed automates tasks and reduces human involvement as it is the need in this pandemic struck world to contain the spread of the virus.


The noise temperature of GaAs ${\mathit{n}}^{+}$${\mathit{nn}}^{+}$ two-terminal structures of micrometer and submicrometer lengths is theoretically analyzed as a function of frequency and applied voltage. Calculations are performed at a kinetic level, and are based on a mixed Monte Carlo hydrodynamic scheme. Different operation modes of the structure are considered, namely, when operating as a nonlinear resistor (passive device) as well as when operating as a Gunn amplifier or generator (active device). Under generating conditions the noise temperature at low frequency is found to go to infinity for voltages above the threshold value for the Gunn effect, as expected in bulk material. Under amplifying conditions the noise temperature at low frequency is found to remain finite even at applied voltages well above the threshold value for the Gunn effect. At high frequencies the noise-temperature spectrum shows structures associated with transit-time effects, carrier energy, and plasma-time effects. In particular, we calculate the noise figure of merit covering both amplifying and passive conditions. Very good agreement is found between theory and available experiments. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.


The increasing use of protein hydrolysates in clinical medicine has aroused renewed interest in the utilization and fate of parenterally administered amino acids and amino acid mixtures in the body. The levels of the amino acids of the tissues are from 3 to 9 times greater than in the blood plasma. How the tissues maintain their concentration differential is not understood. The concentrations of the amino acids of the blood plasma and tissues are extremely constant normally and are but little affected by physiological changes or most pathological conditions. The present investigation was undertaken to determine whether all amino acids are concentrated to the same degree in representative tissues of the body when introduced into the animal in relatively large amounts by intravenous injection. The tests were carried out with solutions containing equivalent amounts of amino nitrogen of a protein hydrolysate (parenamine, Stearns), and the amino acids glycine, I-alanine, I-glutamic acid, l-histidine, and l-lysine.


ABSTRACT Natural enemies known as biological organisms affecting the regulation of pest populations or other organism. In a habitat or ecosystem tropical agriculture are usually found in many types of biological agents that naturally regulate the balance of nature. Insect parasitoids is small or as large as the host in deadly parasites and their hosts. Parasitoid requires only one host to perpetuate the cycle of life. This research was conducted in the District Kauditan and Dimembe, North Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi province in July to September 2012. The aim of the study is to determine the type of parasitoid pests of corn crops in the district and sub-district Kauditan Dimembe North Minahasa Regency. The results of this study are expected to be the basic data that are important in developing biological control, in order to increase production of corn in North Sulawesi. Retrieval of data using a survey method in two districts, and each district selected two villages, namely Kauditan and Dimembe. Parasitoids on corn crop in the region is no different with Kauditan Tatelu. Almost all kinds of parasitoids were found on corn plants were also found in maize nutmeg in Kauditan. Parasitoids were found on the ecosystem corn plants totaling 16 individuals. Keywords: Corn, Parasitoid


ABSTRACT Introduction: Quality exercise training of young people is a fundamental basic requirement for developing physical fitness in college basketball teaching. Objective: Enhance exercise training in young basketball players. Methods: A random selection of 50 student volunteers was made for this research. The strength and quality of basketball players of different ages were analyzed. The experimental group was subjected to specific strength training, while the control group was subjected to routine physical exercises. The experiment period was 12 weeks, and the specific technical indicators of the athletes were collected before and after the end of the experiment. The collected data were statistically treated and discussed in light of the scientific literature. Results: No significant difference was found between the two groups in the initial test score (P>0.05). The experimental group's performance in exercise was better than the control group after 12 weeks (P<0.01). The experimental group demonstrated better performance than the control group in the standing jump, 15-meter reentry, and forward jump, corroborating the significantly different data between the two groups (P<0.01). Conclusion: This study aimed to study the unique role of strength training in the physical training of young basketball players. Special strength training positively affects upper limb muscle training in young basketball players. The lower extremities of basketball players showed expressive functional gains with special strength training. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigation of treatment outcomes.


There is increasing awareness among manufacturers and users of industrial laser equipment of the need for a set of parameters that characterize laser beams in a way that will "remove the present confusions that exist for system designers and end users, and provide a basis for obtaining more repeatable and consistent (material) processing data". A second need, tightly connected with the first, is the need for accepted methods and equipment with which to measure these parameters. About a year ago, Dr. David Whitehouse proposed that the Industrial Laser Subcommittee (ILS) of the LIA Materials Processing Committee take on the task of creating a "guide" that would provide such information. Toward the goal of making the task quickly achievable, he proposed that the scope of the work be limited to high power CO2 lasers. The objective stated in his November 1989 invitation to participate in the task was to;There is increasing awareness among manufacturers and users of industrial laser equipment of the need for a set of parameters that characterize laser beams in a way that will "remove the present confusions that exist for system designers and end users, and provide a basis for obtaining more repeatable and consistent (material) processing data". A second need, tightly connected with the first, is the need for accepted methods and equipment with which to measure these parameters. About a year ago, Dr. David Whitehouse proposed that the Industrial Laser Subcommittee (ILS) of the LIA Materials Processing Committee take on the task of creating a "guide" that would provide such information. Toward the goal of making the task quickly achievable, he proposed that the scope of the work be limited to high power CO2 lasers. The objective stated in his November 1989 invitation to participate in the task was to;


In the past few decades, the software requirement gathering phase as part of the software development life cycle has become of great interest to software project managers, developers, and clients. It has become a critical factor in project success and defining its quality. The requirement gathering phase is how developers gather the software projects' functional and non-functional requirements. Therefore, developers need to go through intensive testing activities to ensure that these requirements are correct and sufficient. In addition, project managers employ software tools for requirements verification and validation. However, there is a lack of research studies for identifying criteria affecting the selection of software tools used for requirements verification and validation. In this work, we focus on identifying some criteria to choose software tools for requirement verification and validation to serve the requirements gathering phases. The criteria can be utilized as a selection guide for IT employees and managers to select appropriate verification and validation tools.


LED is a new generation of solid cold light source, LED packaging technology is the decision key to enter the field of general lighting one of the key technologies. With LED brightness and luminous efficiency continues to improve, it will also be more and more challenging. On the one hand, the package must have the largest LED light extraction rate, so that light losses to a minimum. On the other hand, the package must have the best thermal performance LED, if the cooling efficiency, LED brightness will decrease, and also shorten the LED life, solve the heat problem has become a power type LED applications Prerequisite. Through thermal simulation software Solidworks, this article did a simulation on some typical LED package materials, and then considered a various factors based on the simulation results, the right requirements of high-power light-emitting materials were founded, so that high-power LED lighting devices get popularity.


The present invention discloses a flooding and other mobility profile integration technology, to solve the oil reservoir and the injection profile control process operation, respectively, just plugging effect profile control agent, there is no flooding effect, only implants flooding oil effect, no effect of blocking problem. This technology uses multiple rounds of chemical agent injection plug from the end of the three sections of the stream of the wells and the like, the plug profile control agent from multiple rounds of the three sections of the well stream is injected into the corresponding end of the other well-channel high water permeability. High two injection agents, water miscible hypertonic water in the intermediate and low concentrations of slug injection with the two agents, i.e. binding agents into the third oil displacement efficiency intrude into the low permeability zone, displacing the hypotonic with low water content of crude oil, and to improve the oil displacement efficiency of the swept volume; reduced permeability technique better control of water flow passage, while increasing production capacity was low permeability layer, to improve the effective use of injection agent, and oil displacement efficiency, reduced injection and the total cost of the injection time and injection agents, the overall system to achieve the purpose of increasing oil production, festival funding.


This dataset includes the information from thirty-six samples collected in August 2014 from 12 stations along a transect crossing the Gulf of Lions, from the coast off Gruissan to the eastern side of the Gulf of Fos (French coast, NW Mediterranean). It includes the density and biomass of all microbenthic organisms collected (identified to the lowest taxonomic level). It also includes the information on the main variables describing the environmental characteristics of the samples stations: Latitude, Longitude, Distance, Depth, Escherichia coli, Enterococci, Silt, Clay, Very fine sands, Fines sands, Medium sands, Pore water, Organic Matter, Organic Carbon, Hydrocarbons C10-C40, Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Aluminium total, Arsenium total, Cadmium total, Chrome total, Copper total, Iron total, Mercury total, Nickel total, Lead total, Zinc total, HAPs, total PCBs, Acenaphtylene, Fluoranthene , Benzo (b) fluoranthene , Benzo (k) fluoranthene, Benzo (a) pyrene , Benzo (ghi) perylene, Indeno (1,2,3 cd) pyrene, Anthracene, Acenaphtene, Chrysene, Dibenzo (a,h) anthracene, Fluorene, Naphtalene, Pyrene, Phenanthrene, Benzo (a) anthracene, PCB 28, PCB 52, PCB 101, PCB 118, PCB 138, PCB 153, PCB 180, PCB totaux calcules, Monobutyletain, Dibutyletain, Tributyletain, Triphenyletain.


Whether and to what extent African states and societies have been able to break away from colonial impact is a still contentious issue. Harald Barre considers newspapers and academic activism in Tanzania as forums in which the project of an independent African nation was shaped through heated debates. Examining the changing discourses on race and gender in the 1960s and 1970s, he reveals that equating difference with inequality in the national narrative was fiercely contested. Pervasive images rooted in colonialism were thus challenged and in some cases fundamentally transformed by journalists, students, (inter)national scholars, (inter)national events and the promise of an egalitarian socialist state.


The State Islamic High-School of Gajah Tutih a higher education institution that has been established since 1984 and continues to exist until now. The study, entitled "The Development of State Islamic High-School of Gajah Putih Takengon, Regency of Middle Aceh, 1984 to 2017" "aims to (1) know The Development of State Islamic High-School of Gajah Putih, 1984 to 2017 seen in terms of infrastructure, number of students, number of teachers, employees and others,  (2 ) knowing the factors that influenceThe Development of State Islamic High-School of Gajah Putih, 1984 to 2017, and (3) know the impact of the existence of The Development of State Islamic High-School of Gajah Putih for the surrounding community, 1984 to 2017. The study uses a qualitative approach with historical methods. The source of this research data consists of primary sources (archive data, interviews, observations) and secondary sources (reading literature). Data collection techniques are documentation, interviews and observation. Based on the results of the study it can be seen that (1) The White Elephant STAIN from 1984 to 2017 continued to develop in aspects of leadership, student affairs, lecturers of study programs, facilities and infrastructure and including the number of alumni (2) Factors that affecting The Development of State Islamic High-School of Gajah Putih Takengon is a professional teaching staff and support of the Middle Aceh Regency government, and (3) The impact of the existence of the state Islamic high-school of Gajah Tutih for the community is mainly seen in the economy marked by the opening of employment opportunities such as trading businesses, attracting good workers as permanent employees, contract and emolument.the state Islamic high-school in social field has an impact with the increasing motivation of the local community to send their family members to a higher level, in the social and cultural fields, giving birth to new scholars who contribute a lot to the lives of local people. Keywords: the state Islamic high-school of Gajah Tutih, of Middle Aceh.


Silicon carbide (SiC) is a high-performance ceramic made of high quality, non-oxide powders which can be manufactured to the requirements of a wide range of applications. Ceramics made of silicon carbide play a key role as materials for high temperature applications due to their resistance against corrosion, heat, and wear. Furthermore, due to its wider band gap and resistance to radiation damage and electrical breakdown it is also an attractive material for the fabrication of microelectronic and optoelectronic devices. The properties of such ceramics strongly depend on the microstructure and grain growth of the polytypes of silicon carbide. In this contribution we studied recrystallized silicon carbide (RSiC), a pure silicon carbide material with 11-15% open porosity. This material is sintered at very high temperatures from 2,300 to 2,500° C, at which a mixture of extremely fine 4µm diameter grains (10%) and 90% coarse grains with a diameter of 100 µm is converted to a compact SiC matrix without shrinkage [1]. An overview SEM image of RSiC, acquired under high vacuum conditions at 1 kV acceleration voltage, is shown in Fig. 1. The pores appear as dark features in the SEM image and cover 20% of the analyzed surface. Large areas between the pores appear featureless, indicating a uniform composition of SiC. Fig. 2a shows the SEM image of an area between pores, where a very light contrast of grains become visible. This gives rise to study the same area also using high resolution confocal Raman imaging integrated in the vacuum chamber of the SEM [2,3]. Four different polytypes of SiC were detected on


The synthesis of macrocyclic complexes derived from the condensation of 2,6-diacetyl-4- methylphenol and 1,n-alkanediamines in the presence of non-transition-metal templating agents is discussed. The crystal structure of a mononuclear barium perchlorate complex of the macrocycle derived from 1,3-diamino-2-propanol and the phenol is reported. The ligand is folded such that the aromatic rings are parallel to each other and the barium sits on top of the donor-atom ring. The crystals are orthorhombic, space group Fdd2 (C192v, no. 43), with a= 37.252(28), b= 7.643(4), c= 22.631(22)A, and Z= 8; 1 134 independent reflections with I/σ(I) > 3.0 gave R= 0.0350.


The complex interrelationship between figurative art and dramatic art is one of the major questions of historiographie analysis not the scenography and the theatrical stagecraft in a narrow context but figurative art not directly connected with theater production. I propose some general methodological considerations in an attempt to trace the motives which lie behind the need to bring together the study of theatrical phenomena and of iconographie evidence. Present historiography emphasizes the notion of theater as "ephemeral." When the theatrical event has passed, the historian is left with little else but fragmentary evidence (text, sketches, musical arrangements, or, nowadays, films or recordings) unable to revive the totality and the emotionality of the event. The farther we delve back into past centuries, the more arduous the task since sources become increasingly rare and fragmentary. Faced with the evanescence of their subject matter, theater scholars have chosen to study specific aspects of theatrical production (the text, the scenery, the theater's site or building, the actor) l or to revive or reconstruct a single play (as Elie Konigson in La Representation d'un Mystere de la Passion a Valenciennes en 1547) .2 In both cases one must refer to figurative art sources, very often indirect ones, believed to reflect the theatrical phenomena in a visual rather than verbal manner.


This study investigates the discrepancy between what should have happened during the development of the omnibus law on the work of the work and the policies relating to the Covid-19 epidemic in Indonesia and what really occurred. When the Omnibus Law and policies in the Pandemic Covid-19 are supposed to be a powerful solution to the problem, reality transforms into a field of new issues that generate a flood of negative comments from diverse individuals, resulting in a loss of faith in the government. The Omnibus Law and Covid-19 policies, which the Government and Parliament interpret as a progressive breakthrough for resolving multisectoral problems during the presidency of President Joko Widodo, are interpreted differently by some community circles and academics as laws and disabled policies, both formal and material. As a result, the aim of this study is to investigate the essence of Omnibus Law and Covid-19 policies, which have created a challenge for the Indonesian country by eroding community faith in the government.