[Objective] To know the training effect among nurses in areas of high prevalence area of AIDS in xinjiang.[Methods] 500 nurses from 5 high prevalence area of AIDS in xinjiang were investigated by convenient sampling methods,using an anonymous end questionnaires;to see projects hospital training record;to question the AIDS knowledge and attitude;to observe and interview nurses AIDS-related behavior.[Results] Nurses'AIDS knowledge and attitude were improved(P﹤0.01),but without a comprehensive knowledge,need to be further strengthened and consolidated,have a higher acceptance rate on AIDS(more than 93%);all hospital Trainings had been completed;there are lack of respects in the implementation of the standard protection and supervision of cleaning staff.[Conclusion] AIDS training enhance the awareness of the protection of nurses and promote their acceptance towards AIDS,but it is necessary to carry on a long-term and sustainable training process for nurses in order to really avoid occupational exposure as well as more humane care towards HIV/AIDS.


The present study focused on evaluating the impact of application of sugar industry treated wastewater effluent on Sugarcane growth comparing at two experimental farms, one irrigated with the effluent and the other with bore well water, over a period of 11 months (March 2010 to January 2011).The result indicated a significant increase in growth pattern, plant height, shoot diameter, number of leaves and nodes, and biomass of the saplings that was irrigated with the effluents compared to that irrigated with bore well water. The growth parameters showed close relationship with the nutrient contents of treated industrial effluent and bore well water, the former being characterized by relatively higher pH, electrical conductivity (μs/cm), total suspended solids (TSS), sulphate, biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, nitrate and phosphate, and heavy metals—Cu, Pb, Cd, Zn and Mn (mg/l) compared to that of bore well water, indicating profound influence of nutrient rich sugar industry effluent on the plant growth. Higher biomass in sugarcane saplings resulted with irrigation of the effluents compared to that irrigated with the bore well water.


We have isolated and sequenc~d the complete murina I-Ea immune response gene of the H-2 haplotype. The I-Ea gene consists of 5300 basepairs and is organized into five or possibly six exons that correspond to different domains of the a chain. The amino acid sequence deduced from the I-Ea gene shows 75% homology to its human counttrpart, the HLA-DR a chain. The absence of I-E antigen in H-2 mice is due to lack of Ea chain synthesis. We show here thet this defect is caused by a deletion in the 5' end of the I-Ea gene. INTRODUCTION Production of antibodies against defined antigens is a complex procedure controled by several sets of genes (1). Thus, immunoglobulin variable genes giving rise to antibodies specific for a certain antigen must be present in the germ-line genome. Moreover, regulatory genes, called immune response (Ir) genes, affect the production of antibodies. One set of Ir genes has been localized to the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC)(2). Several lines of evidence indicate that these MHC gene products are equivalent to the class II transplantation antigens. (3). The class II molecules are present on the surface of macrophages and participate in the presentation of environmental antigens to regulatory T-cells (3, 4). The Class II transplantation antigens are heterodimers consisting of two membrane-integrated chains denoted a and B (5). The linear structures of several human class II antigen chains have been elucidated (6-11). Both a and B chains are composed of two extracellular domains, a membrane-spanning portion and a short cytoplasmic tail. Sequence comparisons have shown that both chains belong to the same protein superfamily © I R L Press Limited, Oxford, England. 5055 Nucleic Acids Research Nucleic Acids Research as the immunoglobulins (6-9, 12, 13). The genetic polymorphism, which is a characteristic trait of all transplantation antigens, resides predominantly in the B chain (14-16). Mouse strains of the haplotypes b, f, q and s do not express I-E antigens due to inability to produce the I-Ea chain (17). We decided to investigate whether the lack of expressed I-Ea chains is due to abberant transcription or translation of the gene, since a specific regulation of the class II antigens may be important for certain aspects of the immune responsiveness. In order to examine this issue, we have determined the complete structure of a functional I-Ea gene, which has then been compared with the I-Eab gene. Partial structures of the human DRa gene (13, 19) and the murine I-Ead gene have been reported (18). Recently Mathis et al. described the sequence of the exons and most of the introns of the I-Eack gene (19). We report here the first complete structure of a class II transplantation antigen gene. Moreover, we demonstrate that the inability of H-2b mice to produce I-Ea chains is due to a b deletion of the 5' end of the I-Ea gene. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES Isolation of cosI -_a-1 A library was constructed with DNA from the Balb/c myeloma cell line X63-5-3-1 (20) using the cosmid vector pOPF (21). Approximately 240,000 colonies were obtained from 3 vg of size fractionated DNA. The cosmid library was screened with a restriction fragment from a human HLA-DR a-chain cDNA clone as the probe (9). Three positive clones were isolated. Hybridizations of several different restriction fragments from these cosmids to restriction enzyme digested Balb/c spleen genomic DNA showed that one of the three cosmids, cosI -_a-1, was colinear with Balb/c spleen genomic DNA. This cosmid was accordingly chosen for further analyses. Nucleotide sequence determinations The major part of the sequence of the I-Ead gene was determined with the chemical degradation method (22) or with the dideoxy chain termination technique (23) with M13 mp7, mp8 and mp9 as cloning vectors (23, 24). Part of the sequence work


Many researches worldwide confirm that art education is undermined. This study focuses on art education and art teaching in two different environments: the school classroom and the art studio. Our concern arises on the assumption that educational settings (formal – non formal) may influence art teaching and differentiate teaching methods.
In this paper we attempt to identify differences within the purview of the two educational institutions, by studying comparatively moods and attitudes regarding both environments. Therefore, we explore the role of the artist and the teacher in visual arts, along with their practices performed in different institutions.
Studio observations and interviews of art teachers showed they utilize the assets offered in the studio and eventually, act more like teachers than artists, since their working environment fulfills necessary prerequisites for art teaching. Art teachers' practices and approach reveal that they organize children's learning process scientifically, but not in terms of evaluation, the final stage of artistic process. The inquiry also highlights the problems that undermine art teaching in schools, even for artists who have a consistent knowledge of art.


One basic function of consumer bankruptcy legislation is to benefit the development of consumer credit.In view of consumer credit,consumer bankruptcy's legislation mode can be divided into open-credit mode and controlled-credit mode.The differences between these two modes include many aspects such as legislative goal,procedure conditions,debtor education system.A country adopted one legislative mode for many factors such as consumer credit,social welfare etc.China's credit system and property registration system is not perfect.Escaping debt is still the society's focus.China's consumer bankruptcy legislation is prone to controlled-credit-market mode.


The state of the art service search engines allow the users to pick the services they need, based on the quality properties, offered by these services. To this end, the users should interact with the search engines based on the quality models that are imposed by the engines. This is a significant restriction towards making the service-oriented paradigm attractive to the general public. In this paper, we propose an approach that allows a user to specify his perception of quality in terms of a simple, user-defined quality model. The proposed approach automatically maps the user-defined quality model to the search engine's quality model. This mapping forms the basis for ordering, grouping and, in general manipulating, the results of the user's service discovery requests.


This paper designed and optimized a bidirectional three-port valve plate structure for solving the matching problem of flow rate and pressure in the aerospace pump-controlled differential hydraulic cylinder. This design aims to make the valve plate work well under the bidirectional high-speed condition. The model was set up using dynamic mesh and sliding mesh, and the simulation is conducted by FLUENT. In addition, the flow field of inlet and outlet flow rate pulsations, pressure pulsation in cylinder, and non-dead-point transition zone of four cases are analyzed to optimize the valve plate in this work. The numerical results show that different angles of non-dead-point transition zones of the valve plate have a big impact on the performance of the piston pump. For example, the flow rate pulsation reaches the minimum when the angle of non-dead point transition zone is greater than or equal to the angle of a cylinder port. However, at this time, the closed compression would occur and the pressure inside the cylinder would rise rapidly as the piston moves to the non-dead point zone, thus resulting in serious pressure overshoot. In addition, if the angle of non-dead point transition zone is reduced within a certain range, the pressure overshoot will be reduced drastically, and the flow pulsation rate will rise a bit. The study suggests that it is necessary to adjust the angle of non-dead point transition zone to balance the pressure overshoot and flow pulsation of the pump to obtain the optimal kidney structure of the valve plate.


The transfer of solute through a membrane separating two aqueous solutions is studied with the time-dependent diffusion equation for composite media. By introducing new independent and dependent variables it is shown that the differential equations and boundary conditions can be transformed into a dimensionless form which does not explicitly depend on the diffusivities of the media. Laplace transforms are used to derive explicit solutions for the solute concentration as a function of position and time. I t is shown that at large time the concentration approaches the equilibrium distribution exponentially. Explicit results are given for the decay time as a function of the parameters of the system. In addition, an accurate and simplified expression is derived for the decay time for the case of small membrane permeability. The accuracy of the analytic solutions for the concentration profiles is tested by comparing them with numerical results obtained by solving the diffusion equations by the method of finite differences. Excellent agreement is found.


The predictive power for country selection of expected returns estimated through the residual income model is examined through analysis of 19 developed-country indices for 1988–2005. Zero-investment strategies based on a ranking or optimization methodology—expected returns and conditional country risk estimates—posted significant positive performance over various holding periods. Risk-adjusted returns remained significant after control for four world risk factors—market, size, the book-to-market ratio, and momentum—constructed through a country stratification methodology based on stock constituents. The results were robust to various long-term growth estimates and to different country-universe subsamples and remained robust after transaction costs were taken into account. Ample evidence exists that country versions of company characteristics have a certain degree of predictive power for future country returns. Although these variables do allow ranking strategies, however, they do not allow optimization strategies. We favor the use of expected returns over the use of these variables for selecting countries in a global equity strategy. We examined the suitability of using expected returns derived from the residual income model (RIM) in global equity country selection. This model has the advantage of relying on analysts' forward-looking information, and it allowed us to translate accounting numbers computed within different country-specific accounting standards into a harmonious measure of expected return. The model provides a reliable and consistent measure of the implicit expected rates of return among countries. According to the RIM, the intrinsic value of the market index is equal to the sum of the book value of the market index plus the present value of abnormal earnings. Abnormal earnings are equal to the difference between forecast earnings and normal earnings, where normal earnings represent the charge for the cost of capital. We inferred the implicit expected return (discount rate) from the equality between the intrinsic value and the market price of the index. Our sample comprised 19 developed countries and spanned the period 1988–2005. We first created zero-investment portfolios by following a ranking strategy in which the long portfolio contained the most attractive countries with respect to expected returns obtained via the RIM and the short portfolio contained the least attractive countries. We then examined an optimization strategy based on conditional risk estimates in addition to the implicit expected return estimates. Both strategies posted significantly positive excess returns over the period. The ranking strategy provided an annual average raw return of 8.3 percent with an annualized standard deviation of 8.6 percent over one-month holding periods. The optimization strategy provided a slightly lower annual average raw return (8.1 percent) but also a lower annualized standard deviation (7.2 percent). Although a one-month horizon produced the best results, three-, six-, and twelve-month holding periods all produced significantly positive returns. The strategies' results held when we controlled for four world risk factors—market, size, the book-to-market ratio, and momentum. The alpha coefficients dropped only slightly from those of the raw returns. In further tests, we assessed the robustness of the strategies to various parameters. First, we tested other proxies for the estimate of the abnormal long-term growth rate in the RIM. In our original calculations, we assumed that abnormal earnings grew at the long-term expected inflation rate as measured by the historical inflation rate observed over the previous year. In the robustness tests, we used short-term interest rates and consensus inflation forecasts as proxies for the long-term growth rate of earnings. Returns from the strategies remained positive and significant for both these proxies. We also showed the robustness of the strategies to various universe subsamples—the developed countries ex the United States, the subsample composed of the MSCI Europe/Australasia/Far East Index ex Japan, and the 12 largest and most liquid markets. Finally, we tested the results' robustness to transaction costs. Conservative transaction costs did not undermine the statistical and economical significance of the results. Considering our results, the use of the residual income model for country allocation seems promising. We documented basic zero-investment strategies for applying the model, but there are many ways of implementing such strategies. For example, an investor could tilt global equity portfolios toward countries with higher expected returns and avoid countries with lower expected returns. All variants of the basic zero-investment strategies would add value over a passive benchmark.


Eighteen Bathyraja richardsoni (Garrick 1961), 95–174 cm in total length were taken by bottom longline from southern Labrador to Georges Bank, 17 at 1810–2360 m, and one at 1370–1500 m. These are t...


Common structure rules(CSR) for bulk carriers entered into force on April 1,2006,which brought new challenges to the ship structure design.This paper discusses in detail several key points of structural analysis for bulk carriers based on CSR rules,such as rule strength analysis consisting of flooding strength,combined buckling,reinforcement for steel coil,etc.and direct rule FEM strength analysis.The experience feedback from the ship design is taken into account as well.


Over eight thousand test administrations across two universities were examined to determine whether students with disabilities were being given the necessary extended testing time accommodations and whether their use of extended time decreased over the course of their programs. Findings revealed that commonly accepted recommendations about appropriate durations of accommodations were not suitable in meeting individual students' needs and that students used more time on these types of accommodations as they moved through their first three years of their postsecondary programs. Recommendations are provided.


The lack of some rich text information such as graphs, tables and expressions for solving the questions in important examinations directly affects the specification of the examination paper. Therefore, this paper uses the method of named entity recognition to get the text description of pictures, tables and expressions from the test text, and gives a warning when the examination paper is examined. The baseline model was the BiLSTM-CRF model, aiming at the problem of rare entities and unclear boundary information in the self-built test question data set, an unsupervised BERT pre-training model was incorporated at the character level to obtain the dynamic character vector representation. Three dictionaries are introduced into the word set, and the multi-head attention mechanism is utilized to modify the weight of words in various word sets. As the input of the basic model, characters and words are finally combined to create more semantic information. According to the experimental data, the model's F1 value on the created test data set may reach 89.6%, which is 1.4% and 0.6% higher than those of BERT-BiLSTM-CRF and Softlexicon, respectively.


In Concrete flat slab opening was provided to provide services or to decrease self-weight of the slab. The flat slab with opening system is commonly used in different types of civil structures such as parking floor, Commercial building. In the Present study, total 15 slabs were casted to check the Adequacy of flat slabs with openings of different sizes and shapes. At the center of slab openings are provided with rectangular and circular shape. For rectangular opening 150x100mm and 200x150mm sizes were provided, and for circular opening 150mm and 110mm diameter the sizes of opening were provided. In this study Finite Element analysis of the flat slabs is proposed. A comparative study is carried out between experimental & analytical design of 750x500x150 mm slab panels. The ANSYS 16.0 finite element software which is used to analysis reinforced concrete (RC) slab models. The load has been applied at slab to calculate the maximum and minimum displacement, strain, stresses at each slab. The average deflections of size 150x100 mm rectangular opening were reduced by 25.52% as compared with size 200x150 mm rectangular opening. Similarly for a circular opening of 110mm diameter lesser by 11.39% as compared with 150mm diameter of opening.


The alternating-phase fed single-layer slotted waveguide array antenna, which dispenses with the electrical contact between the narrow walls and the slotted plates, has been developed for low cost wireless communication systems, radar systems, etc. The center-feed is introduced to increase antenna bandwidth by having the long line effects associated with the end-feed one. However, the large blocking area at the center of the array aperture causes high first side-lobe levels (about -10 dB). In this paper, the authors propose a cascade of "E- to H-plane cross-junctions" as a new single-layer feed waveguide with reduced blockage. It is in single-layer without inductive posts and is mass producible by die-casting techniques. The antenna characteristics and sidelobe reduction are confirmed by simulation and experiment.


The article presents the results of monitoring the spatial and temporal variability of the main diagnostic parameters of the humus state (humus content, soil CO2 fluxes and carbon stock) of Podzoluvisols in conditions of typical for the northern part of Moscow urban forest "Forest Experimental Station" of the Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, formed 160 years ago on the basis of a natural forest area, with the introduction of monocultural plantings of various tree species typical for subzones of southern taiga and mixed forests of the European part of Russia and Western Siberia. As the main unregulated and regulated factors of the spatio-temporal variability of the humus state of the studied soils, the following ones are considered: (a) their position in the mesorelief (the summit of the gentle moraine hill – the middle part of the slope – the lower part (foot) of the slope); (b) the forest composition; (c) the level of recreational load (estimated by the severity of the path network); (d) the state of the herbage (estimated by the index of the projective cover); (e) the topsoil bulk density; (e) the topsoil moisture; (g) the topsoil temperature. Three levels of recreational load are considered: minimal (background), medium and strong. Soil samples were taken during three seasons in 2021: in spring, summer and autumn – from a depth of 0-5, 5-10 and 10-15 cm. The intensity of the soil CO2 flux, temperature and soil moisture were determined 2 times a month. The content of organic carbon in the topsoil and the topsoil bulk density – once a month. A mobile infrared gas analyzer (IRGA) Li-820 was used to analyze the CO2 flux. For statistical data analysis – Excel and SPSS programs. The conducted studies revealed a pronounced seasonal dynamics of soil CO2 fluxes and the content of humus (soil organic matter) in the upper horizons of the studied soils – with a clear differentiation according to the mesorelief forms and the level of recreational load. Summer maxima of CO2 fluxes reach 35-40 g/m2 per day, and by the end of October they fall in 3-5 times. The humus content in the topsoil horizons (A1 – A1A2 – A2) within the total analyzed thickness of 15 cm in most cases after the April maximum significantly decreases (by 0.5–0.7%) to the seasonal minimum in August. With an increase in recreational load, on the contrary, there is a gradual decrease in the humus content by 10-20 relative percent. The average intensity of soil CO2 emissions increases downhill by 5-7 g/m2 per day and decreases with increasing recreational load by 5-10 g/m2 per day. The established regularities significantly clarify the existing ideas about the spatial and temporal variability of the diagnostic parameters of the humus state of Podzoluvisols in an urban forest park with a pronounced recreational load and allow for a more reasonable selection of background environmental monitoring objects with an analysis of greenhouse gases and soil carbon balance. Keywords: ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, SEASONAL DYNAMICS, SOIL CO2 FLUXES, HUMUS CONTENT, PODZOLUVISOLS, SOIL SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY, SOIL CARBON STOCKS, CATENA, FOREST PARK, MOSCOW, RECREATIONAL LOAD


Perspectives and Overview The heart is a rhythmically active syncytium throughout which action potentials propagate more than once each second. Because the passive ion fluxes underlying this electrical activity tend to dissipate the electro chemical potential gradients that drive them, active ion transport systems must continually work to maintain the ideal ionic environment inside the cells. The necessary Na extrusion and K uptake is accomplished in cardiac cells, as in most other cells, primarily by the Na/K pump, a membrane bound Na,K-stimulated ATPase. From studies in red blood cells and nerve and muscle, it is clear that the Na/K pump transports more Na than K; most evidence indicates that about 3 Na ions are pumped out and 2 K ions pumped in for each molecule of ATP that is split. In other words, the Na/K pump continuously generates an outwardly directed, i.e. hyperpolarizing, current across the cell membrane. The net ionic conductance of the membrane determines the size of the resulting pump potential: because the Na/K pump makes this direct contribution to the membrane potential, it is commonly referred to as an electrogenic (electricity-generating) pump and less commonly, though arguably more correctly, as a rheogenic (current generating) pump. Changes in Na/K pump current not only cause important modifications of the electrical activity of excitable cells but also provide a convenient signal for monitoring Na/K pump rate in voltage clamped preparations. A number of thorough reviews of the literature on the Na/K pump and its electrogenic nature, in heart as well as in other tissues have been published (5, 26, 45, 46, 50, 89). The aim of this article is to summarize present knowledge on the Na/K pump of cardiac cells, focussing on recent electrophysiological data, and to identify remaining areas of uncertainty and other pressing topics for future'investigation.


Case description- A two-year-old intact Golden Retriever was affected with the 6-months previous history of blastomycosis and treatment was performed using fluconazole. Clinical findings- Cough, fever, nasal discharge, dry and harsh lung sounds with peripheral lymphadenopathy was observed. Emphysematous change and large pulmonary bulla was reported in computed tomography of the thorax. Treatment and outcome-Under general anesthesia using hydromorphone, combination of ketamine and diazepam and isoflurane the dog was prepared for the surgery. Right lateral thoracotomy thorough 5 th intercostal space was performed. Following releasing of the pleural and pulmonary adhesions, right cranial lobe was resected. Chest tube was placed and Bupivaciane was injected as costal nerve block to control the post-operative pain. Cefazolin and NSAID were also administered for an overnight. In follow up nasal discharge and lymphadenopathy was resolved and the pulmonary pattern appeared normal in radiographs. Clinical Relevance-Blastomycosis is a systemic fungal disease that may affect skin and lungs. Surgical treatment and pulmonary lobectomy is recommended in case of pulmonary bulla formation due to blastomycosis.


We propose a modified 3-D SPIHT algorithm with 3-D resizing, which is especially targeted for low bit rate compression. In the proposed algorithm, we first reduce 3-D images using a 3-D interpolation algorithm and encode the reduced 3-D images using a 3-D SPIHT algorithm. At the decoder, the encoded bit stream is first decoded and the reconstructed 3-D images are enlarged to the original image size. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional 3-D SPIHT algorithm at low bit rates.


Background: Abnormalities of temporomandibular joint, masticatory muscles, and/or related structural abnormalities are known as temporomandibular disorders. The use of cone beam computed tomography for temporomandibular imaging is becoming more prevalent. Aim: This study was carried out to analyse correlation between clinical symptoms and cone beam computed tomography finding in temporomandibular disorders patients. Methods and materials: This study looked at cone beam computed tomography pictures and clinical records of 40 patients with temporomandibular joint issues who sought treatment in Sangli district of Maharashtra between 2016 and 2018. The type of condylar bony change was classified based on the cone beam computed tomography images using both Koyama et al's classification and Ahmad et al's image analysis criteria. An orofacial pain specialist took a complete history and did a clinical assessment on all of the participants. The average pain intensity level self-reported in the previous week was graded on a 0 to 10 verbal rating scale, with "0" indicating no pain and "10" indicating the worst pain possible. Results: The greatest condyle bony change and verbal pain rating had a poor association. There was no statistically significant link between maximum condyle alteration and maximum openness.


Ethanolic extract and brazilein-containing fraction of Caesalpinia sappan L., has been reported to inhibit cell proliferation on T47D (estrogen receptor positive, luminal A subtype model). The luminal A subtype is the most prevalent subtype of breast cancer in Indonesian females. In this study, we explored the activity of the reduced form of brazilein, brazilin, on T47D cells proliferation and the mechanism that involved. The cytotoxicity activity of brazilin was observed using the MTT assay. The cell cycle profile was analyzed by using flow cytometry, and the cells senescent was observed using S-A-β-galactosidase assay. The results showed that brazilin was cytotoxic to T47D with an IC 50 value of 50μM (14.3μg/mL). Cell cycle profile showed that after treated with brazilin, the cells were accumulated at the G2/M phase. Furthermore, cells treated with a combination of brazilin and doxorubicin were accumulated at the G2/M and sub G1 phase. Cells accumulation at sub G1 phase indicates that the cells underwent apoptosis. Our data of S-A-β-galactosidase assay showed that cells treated with ¼IC 50 , ½IC 50, and IC 50 brazilin had lower senescent cells than the untreated cells. The morphology of cells treated with IC 50 (50μM) brazilin was changed. The cells shape became rounded, cells were shrink and detached from the well plate, indicating that cells may undergo apoptosis. These results suggested that brazilin cytotoxic towards T47D cells, decreased cell senescence, and may induce apoptosis. Therefore, we believe that brazilin is potential to be further examined for its mechanism of action in inhibiting the proliferation of T47D cells.


Frrom 2000 to 2006, 49.42 percentage of International Joint Ventures (IJVs) in China suffer losses on average, which is in contrast to foreign direct investment on large scale. Transfer gains abroad by transfer pricing leads to loss according to domestic main argument. However, the authors find that transfer pricing does not result in loss through empirical studying by data of 2765 IJVs in Wuxi city. On the contrary, other factors lead to loss.


You will no doubt read the interview with Dr Deborah Kioy of the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), published in this issue on pages 113–117. In that interview, Dr Kioy talked about the TDR publication on Quality Standards in Basic Biomedical Research. This draft document represents an initial step toward providing scientists working in biomedical research, especially those in the developing world, with some uniform guidelines on how to ensure the acceptability of their data in the scientific community at large.

The document was produced as a draft by a Scientific Working Group set up at the initiative of TDR to discuss the issues related to ensuring that researchers produce "quality data". TDR realises that in order to produce a final document on this important topic, it is essential to obtain input from both a wide cross-section of scientists and from specialists working in the field of quality management. Hence, TDR is inviting comments on the existing document so that the final publication will incorporate truly global input and will reflect a more comprehensive, interdisciplinary consensus. To attain this goal, TDR is attempting to assure that the document is widely circulated.

At The Quality Assurance Journal we are pleased to contribute to the TDR initiative by publishing in extenso the draft document and by calling upon all our readers to carefully consider the text and send comments for consideration to the address below:

TDR would like the final publication to be ready for publication in the year 2003. Consequently, comments and viewpoints for consideration should reach TDR in Geneva by 31 January 2003. Published in 2002 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Toxic metals (cadmium, lead, copper and arsenic) assessment was carried out in water and sediments samples of Nokoue Lake. Except for water, a group of sediment samples was mineralized before the analysis with atomic absorption spectrophotometer. The second group of sediment samples was processed for texture analysis. The results revealed that for the physico-chemical characteristics, the pH is from 6.5 to 8.5. Four kinds of textures were identified: mud, sand, sandy mud and muddy sand. Heavy metals mean concentrations in water rose from 0.01 to 10.1 mg/L for lead and 5.84 to 8.47 for arsenic. In water, copper showed low concentrations in all sites and the values of cadmium were below the detectable limits. The mean concentrations in the sediments were: Cd (0.56 to 22.07 mg/L); Pb (3.2 to 13.94 mg/L); Cu (11.51 to 54.39 mg/L) and As (ND to 436.81 mg/L). Besides, the pattern of trace elements accumulation according to textures revealed that sandy mud and sand sediments recorded high concentrations of arsenic, mud registered high concentrations of cadmium and the sediment combining sand and mud registered high concentrations of copper. Besides, the correlation between heavy metal concentrations and pH except for arsenic. Key words: Nokoue Lake, pollution, heavy metal, texture.


: The subsidized members (PBI) dominated the membership of the National Health Insurance Program (JKN) in Indonesia, including in Bangli Regency. In 2016, the membership of JKN in Bangli Regency was only 42,92% and membership of non wage earners (PBPU) only 4,32%. The low number of PBPU in JKN program because socialization not yet optimal and also because willingness of informal workers to join JKN program still very low. This study aims to explore factors which influence to willingness of informal workers to join JKN program and to find out the reason of postponement to be JKN participant. The study was observational analytic with cross-sectional design. The subject of this study is informal workers at Selat and Pengiangan Village Subdistrict Susut in Bangli Regency who have not join JKN yet, this study was setted up by multi stage random sampling (96 respondents) and they were selected proportionally. The data was collected with questionnaire and analyzed with quantitative method approaches (univariate, bivariate used chi square and multivariate used Poisson Regression). Research found that 66,67% respondents want to participate in JKN program. While based on Poisson Regression, indicate that the main factor which influenced participation on JKN is education (Adjusted PR=5.15, 95%CI=1.57-16.92) and benefit perception (Adjusted PR=2.41, 95%CI=1.20-4.823). Furthermore, and the most reason of respondents tend to postpone membership are busy working and no time to register in BPJS Kesehatan Office. Education and benefits perception altogether influenced the willingness to participate JKN program. Therefore, it is necessary to provide information by emphasizing the benefits perception of JKN programs in various education level, as well as registration and payment of JKN program with "jemput bola system" (BPJS Kesehatan's officer should actively gain the premium from the participants).


In recent decades, the worldwide consecutive catastrophes in the financial markets emphasize the accelerating prominence of investors' sentiment on the financial market. Therefore, within academia, a shift from conventional finance to behavioral finance can be noticed and the most eminent topic of interest is the exploration of herding behavior. Inspired by the ongoing altercation on the magnitude and presence of herding in the stock markets, the present study aspires to explore the Pakistan stock market concerning herding behaviour. Investors' industry-wise market-based herding behavior in the Pakistan stock market has been examined by employing daily data obtained from Bloomberg starting from January 2000 to April 2016. Cross-sectional variabilities in the factor sensitivities (Beta) have been employed to estimate investors' sentimental herding behavior, following the model of Hwang and Salmon (2004). The study found herding to be significant and persistent, independent from market fundamentals, like levels of market returns and volatility of returns. Findings also show that investors do herd considering the industrial classification of financial assets; hence it leads to mispricing of stocks. The study also presents industry differences in herding. Sugar and banking sectors are found to be more prone to herding while textile and manufacturing sectors are found less prone to herding. The results entail cogent implications for the investors pursuing diversification in the Pakistan stock market.


The article explores the tax and legal consequences of partial disposals under Belgian law through an asset deal, a share deal or a "mixed sale"


Poly(vinyl octanal acetal) (PVO) was prepared from poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) in which the main chain had three different tacticities and the stereoregularity was characterized by 1H NMR spectroscopy. a-PVO prepared from atactic-PVA and s-PVO from syndiotactic-PVA had similar fractions of cis- and trans-acetals in the main chain, but i-PVO from isotactic-PVA had different ones. Ultrathin films of these polymers were prepared by the Langmuir−Blodgett (LB) technique, and the thermal relaxation of their multilayer structure was investigated by the energy-transfer method. When the LB films were composed of polymers which had a main chain with a similar stereostructure, the polymers were intermingled with each other by the thermal treatment and the onset of the diffusion of polymer segments was affected by the glass-transition temperature of the bulk. In contrast, the polymers with different stereostructures in each layer were not mixed with each other, but phase-separated, presumably forming droplets in the ul...


Conveyor system is an essential part in a Semiconductor Industry. It is used to transfer leadframes from one work station to another. As leadframe is a very delicate item and care must be taken not to damage them as any scratch marks or dents found on it will lead to it being scraped. Therefore, the design of the conveyor system is important. A good conveyor system will help to save up in the production process, time and most importantly cost. Nowadays, companies with high end products have suddenly swamp into Singapore. This is due to it's attractive location, extensive telecommunications connectivity, superior logistics and supply chain infrastructure. Companies like Matsushita Electric and Chartered Semiconductor has invested hundreds of million dollar into it. These show that the semiconductor market is in the midst of a strong growth in equipment and materials, and all indications are that this trend will continue for a long time. Therefore a good process line is required for the manufacturing of the products in order to keep pace with the ever increasing demand. This is when a good conveyor system comes in handy. The main objectives of this research project are to: - Design and develop a custom made conveyor system to help in transferring the leadframe from the press machine to the stacker, whereby the leadframe will be nicely stack up after being cut, without damage. - Separate the four strands of leadframes that is been cut out from a coil by the press machine, to aid in the stacking process. - Save production process, time and cost.


Social networks are now a key tool for engaging individuals to come together to create a social movement. In some instances, when these movements progress, a social crisis ensues, which is also directly impacted by the use of social networks. In this research, we consider an anonymous and an identifiable traditional social network and how they were used differently during the Concerned Student 1950 social crisis at the University of Missouri in 2015. By evaluating the sentiment and extremity of Yaks and Tweets, we develop an engagement model that highlights the differences between two different platforms. Practically, this research will help communities understand the use of anonymous social networks during a social crisis. Theoretically, future social media research may integrate the proposed model for better understanding of both the positive and negative sides of social network usage behaviors.


Malaysia is currently enjoying an overhang of housing supply. The focus is gradually shifting from providing just a mere shelter to something more socially. Terrace row housing estates in Malaysia is the major prototype of housing in the country. Pedestrian activities are catalyst to social interaction, but have been ignored in this model. During the last century, motor age established the supremacy of car prioritized models over that of pedestrians around the world, Malaysia has not been an exception. The adverse social impact of such models led many countries to come up with new or retrofitted models. Such studies have not been done enough in Malaysian context. This study at first searched for residents' perception on social interaction, and then went on to measure their responses on different context specific urban design elements that have the capacity to generate and sustain pedestrian activity inside these communities. A questionnaire survey containing both structured and open ended questions was conducted online with the sample containing responses from all over Malaysia through stratified conditional sampling. Statistical analysis showed that residents do agree with the need for social interaction, but to achieve that, they support pedestrian activity primarily to ensure security at around individual housing units, not necessarily across the blocks or around the whole neighborhood. Qualitative analysis hinted that a unique multicultural society, and the extreme hot tropical climate might play a role here. However, small scale retrofits can still enhance pedestrian activities in these existing communities that can lead to social sustainability.


The objective of this paper is to show the utility of ostracoda in monitoring the impact of growing industrilal and mining pollution in the lakes situated around Sandur Schist belt Bellary district, Karnataka( Hospet North Eastern region of Karnataka). Bio mapping is a popular technique to monitor pollution level of water bodies which are used for drinking and agricultural purposes. Soil and water samples were collected from four lakes for ostracoda content from the study area. Eighteen ostracode taxa have been identified and recorded. It is interesting to note that the water and bottom sediment samples of lakes analysed, indicate high Fe and Mn content which is due to erosion and flooding during monsoon and transported down streams to lakes from near by mining areas The factors that influence the distribution of ostracode assemblages in the lakes and impact of pollution are discussed briefly along with ecology in the present paper.


A reliable land cover (LC) map is essential for planners, as missing proper land cover maps may deviate a project. This study is focusing on land cover classification and prediction using three well known classifiers and remote sensing data. Maximum Likelihood classifier (MLC), Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM), and Support Vector Machines (SVMs) algorithms are used as the representatives for parametric, non-parametric and subpixel capable methods for change detection and change prediction of Urmia City (Iran) and its suburbs. Landsat images of 2000, 2010, and 2020 have been used to provide land cover information. The results demonstrated 0.93–0.94 overall accuracies for MLC and SVMs' algorithms, but it was around 0.79 for the SAM algorithm. The MLC performed slightly better than SVMs' classifier. Cellular Automata Artificial neural network method was used to predict land cover changes. Overall accuracy of MLC was higher than others at about 0.94 accuracy, although, SVMs were slightly more accurate for large area segments. Land cover maps were predicted for 2030, which demonstrate the city's expansion from 5500 ha in 2000 to more than 9000 ha in 2030.


Summary In cased hole carbonate wells, perforations are utilized to connect the wellbore to the formation, providing a conduit for stimulation fluid injection and reservoir production. Conventional hypotheses predict that when acid is injected in perforated carbonates, wormholes should nucleate at the tip of the perforation tunnel ( Huang et al. 2000 ). This assertion is based on models for the leak-off distribution along uniform-diameter perforation tunnels in which the effects of crushed zone damage are ignored. In contradiction to this hypothesis, recent studies have shown many examples in which dominant wormholes nucleate well behind the tunnel tip in perforated core experiments ( Rabie et al. 2013 ). This is interesting considering the fact that the effects of flow localization at the tunnel tip are believed to be exaggerated in axial core flow experiments owing to the influence of the no-flow boundary.


An important task for speech recognition systems is to handle the mismatch against a target environment introduced by acoustic factors such as variable ambient noise. To address this issue, it is possible to explicitly approximate the continuous trajectory of optimal, well matched model parameters against the varying noise using, for example, using generalized variable parameter HMMs (GVP-HMM). In order to improve the generalization and computational efficiency of conventional GVP-HMMs, this paper investigates a novel model complexity control method for GVP-HMMs. The optimal polynomial degrees of Gaussian mean, variance and model space linear transform trajectories are automatically determined at local level. Significant error rate reductions of 20% and 28% relative were obtained over the multi-style training baseline systems on Aurora 2 and a medium vocabulary Mandarin Chinese speech recognition task respectively. Consistent performance improvements and model size compression of 57% relative were also obtained over the baseline GVP-HMM systems using a uniformly assigned polynomial degree.


This paper highlights an assortment of case studies and explains how arc flash hazards were identified, measured and mitigated at various industry facilities. Case studies will include: Compliance with IEEE 1584-2002 Guide for Performing Arc Flash Hazard Calculations along with regional workplace safety standards for a multi-site global cement manufacturer; Implementation of an Arcflash Reduction Maintenance SystemTM in an airlock section of a main switchroom for a minerals processing plant upgrade; Investigation of an arc flash incident at a chemical processing facility; and a "Safety by Design" upgrade for the iron ore division of a global mining business. The paper will examine the plans and processes reviewed and considered, the strategy deployed to manage/reduce arc flash hazards, and then discuss lessons learned in the implementation of new systems to improve electrical workplace safety. Introduction Over the course of the past several years, industrial manufacturing facilities across the globe have learned to recognize the importance of identifying and understanding, measuring and mitigating the impact of arc flash hazards in their facilities. Although reported injuries are infrequent, the very high costs associated with these injuries make them one of the most important categories of injuries in the industrial workplace. In one U.S.-based utility, electrical injuries represented less than 2% of all accidents, but 28%–52% of injury costs. Immediate direct costs of arc flash incidents may be moderate, but these costs increase significantly over time. Coupling long-term direct costs with staggering indirect costs can bring the total U.S. cost of one incident to over $12 million. The reason: an arc flash event is effectively an explosion, involving molten copper and extreme temperatures. The human impact result is often severe burn injuries and irreparable bodily injury, which drives medical and legal costs to very high levels. The hazards are so great, although certainly persons will always be in the proximity of energized equipment, there are really few if any reasons where energized work can be justified. In considering standards focused on electrical workplace safety, it is important to recognize that current consensus documents are country based. This is due in part to the fact that each country maintains its own installation standards that are linked to the electrical assemblies designed and tested to be applied in-country. For instance, in the U.S., the installation standard for electrical equipment is the National Fire Protection Association NFPA 70 National Electrical Code [1]. Article 110.16 of this standard entitled "Flash Protection" refers to the electrical workplace safety standard NFPA 70E-2012 Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace[2]. Most industries in the U.S. are regulated by the government's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA regulations include language that mirrors the NFPA 70E-2012, so compliance with this consensus standard is effectively regulated. In Canada, The Canadian Standards Association CSA Z462-12[3] Workplace Electrical Safety applies across all Canadian Provinces. This Canadian workplace safety standard is fully harmonized with the U.S. NFPA 70E-2012. Both the NFPA 70E-2012 and CSA Z462-12 Thought leadership White paper mandates required safety practices for personnel working on or near energized electrical equipment. They determine the circumstances in which workers should wear specific personal protective equipment (PPE) clothing to protect them from the dangers posed by electrical arcs. One global standard focused on arc flash is IEEE Standard 1584-2002: Guide for Performing Arc Flash Hazard Calculations[4]. This standard presents methods for the calculation of arc flash incident energy (the heat energy defined in cal/cm2) and arc flash boundaries. Because this is treated as a global standard, IEEE 1584-2002 is being used by several multi-site industrial manufacturing companies that operate facilities in many countries. The IEEE 1584-2002 offers a process to quantify the heat energy exposure at any electrical point in an industrial system, thereby defining the proper PPE necessary before performing energized work. The standard does not however define workplace safety procedures such as lockout-tagout and energized work permits that are traditionally included in workplace safety standards. As mentioned previously, because there is a significant risk to workers in performing energized work, the author's recommendation is to find a way to turn the power off rather than take the chance of initiating an arc flash event. This said, there are some industrial users, particularly in process industries that elect to perform tasks such as troubleshooting and testing while electrical equipment is energized. This paper identifies case studies of select industrial facilities that have implemented site arc flash safety programs, highlighting the experiences of each as they worked to bring their respective sites into compliance with arc flash safety standards. In every case, the author's employer was involved in working with the respective industrial client, with first-hand knowledge of the project experience.


Introduction: Clinical characteristics to differentiate stroke subtype may be helpful to make sound decision in managing blood pressure in clinically stroke patients. This is more important while en route patient to tertiary centre for neuroimaging facility and neurosciences services. The objective of this study is to determine the distinction between ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke based on the clinical characteristics. Time of presentation was also calculated to determine the feasibility of thrombolytic therapy among stroke patients in Malaysia. Methods: A cross-sectional observational study of all stroke patients presented to Hospital Kuala Lumpur from January 2005 to May 2005. All patients were subjected to brain CT. Clinical characteristics – age, gender, loss of consciousness (LOC), headache, vomiting, Glasgow coma scale (GCS), systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure – were assessed. Time of presentation was also determined. Multiple logistic regression analyses with the stroke types as the outcome (ischaemic=1 vs haemorrhagic stroke=0) were performed Results: A total of 143 patients (88 male and 55 female) were included. The mean age for haemorrhagic stroke was 51.1 (± 14.9) years old and mean age for ischaemic stroke was 56.8 (± 9.7) years old. Our logistic model shows five clinical characteristics were associated with types of stroke – age, GCS, sex, headache and LOC. Male (adj. OR 0.18, 95% CI 0.05-0.59), headache (adj.OR 0.16, 95% CI 0.060.47), LOC (adj.OR 0.20, 95% CI 0.06-0.66), age in years (adj OR 1.06, 95% CI 1.01-1.11) and GCS (adj.OR 1.44, 95% CI 1.14-1.82) were all significant (p-value < 0.05) in our model. Only 4.9% patients presented less than 3 hours and most of them (64.3%) presented more than 6 hours. ORIGINAL ARTICLE M-JEM Vol. 1 No.1 (2016) 2 Conclusion: Male patients, having LOC and headache were the clinical characteristics predictive of lower chance of having ischaemic stroke. But, increasing age and higher GCS were more likely to associate with ischaemic stroke. BP in clinically stroke patients that have higher odds for haemorrhagic stroke should be lowered with a target of SBP ≥ 140mmHg. There was significant delayed of presentation for stroke patients. Many factors need to be improved to reduce the time of presentation in the future.


This is a massive book, which I would label a textbook or reference book, rather than a handbook. It is British psychiatry's response to the American Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine, published in 2005. The title, Liaison Psychiatry, would likely be translated to consultation–liaison psychiatry in North America. The consultation model focuses on individual patients, where the liaison model adds the ambitious role of working with and through medical teams. Unfortunately, the lack of resources has resulted in many psychiatric services focusing on consultation and providing only modest liaison.


A study by the Subcommittee on Drugs and Other Toxic Substances of the Scientists' Committee for Public Information (SCPI) found that drug promotion on television tends to encourage favorable attitudes towards drug use through exaggerated cMms and through failure to point out the need to exercise appropriate caution in drug taking. Considering that one out of every eight TV commercials is for a drug remedy, and that Americans believe TV is the most believable of all mass media, the conclusion is drawn that advertisements should be assumed to influence the public towards the heavier use of drugs unless proved otherwise. As such, these issues demand the serious attention of the media, the drug industry, the legislators and the consumers alike. In response to investigations into misleading and deceptive drug-advertising practices, the Code Authority of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) devised a set of guidelines for the voluntary self-regulation of drug advertising by the drug and television industries. Since it was judged that widespread conformity to the NAB guidelines might appreciably reduce the possible tendency of drug commercials to encourage drug misuse, the subcommittee focused its study on these guidelines, using evaluations before (Phase 1), and after (Phase II) the guidelines went into effect. The guidelines became effective on September 1 1973, and in the spring of 1973 the drug subcommittee undertook its study of TV drug advertising as a factor in encouraging the abuse of legitimate and illegitimate drugs. The results show that the current self-regulation by the broadcasting industry appears to have resulted in a reduction in certain serious types of drug advertising abuses — such as the use of children in advertisements for adult drugs and the failure to instruct users to follow package instructions. However, even such an unambiguous guideline as the latter was still being violated by a large number of the advertisements monitored in Phase II. Such clear violation, found by the raters in a significant proportion of advertisements suggests that the broadcasting industry's self-regulation procedures are not effective enough to prevent violations of the guidelines. AH advertisements in general, and vitamin advertisements in particular, still failed to fully and consistently instruct the public in an objective way as to the need for, uses and effects of, the products. As a result, the advertisements were adjudged by the raters as encouraging the general use of OTC drugs. The most notable violations were of the two related requirements that drugs be presented for occasional use only and that advertisements do not suggest the casual use of drugs. If these two guidelines were followed, a significant decrease in the tendency of advertisements to promote indiscriminate drug use might result.


rendered On the Pythagorean Life, or On the Pythagorean Way of Life, not just the Life of Pythagoras (p. 42); finally, it is odd that W. omits the subdivisions introduced by the editors into the texts and translations of Proclus' and Damascius' commentaries, which is very inconvenient for such long passages as In Parm. fr. 5 (pp. 252–61). This is a very useful book, which expands our knowledge of the Platonic tradition and, along with the recent translation of Syrianus' On Aristotle's Metaphysics (Books Β, Γ, Μ and Ν) by J. Dillon and D. O'Meara (2006 and 2008), and the substantial collection of studies edited by A. Lango (Syrianus et la métaphysique de l'antiquité tardive [2009]), should stimulate further research in the field.


As GPs consider a future in which private firms play an increasingly large part and specialist services are incorporated into polyclinics, Megan Mason looks at a model 20 years down the line


The importance of school meal systems on overall healthiness of the diet and learning in a Nordic context - the ProMeal project


A versatile wearable computer for drivers (VWCD) was proposed that can serve as a drowsy driving alerting system, a lane departure warning system (LDWS), a blind spot alerting system, and a u-Health system that monitors the driver's heart rate. In the first development phase, LEDs, mini video displays, earphones, and vibrators functioned as visual, auditory and tactile displays, and these were all integrated on the eyeglass frame. One electrocardiographic electrode was attached to the VWCD to obtain the driver's heart rate signal at the posterior auricular artery, and a gyro sensor was used to track the driver's head position. Finally, a Bluetooth device was included to enable communication between VWCD and its mobile phone platform.


The development of the mass flow rate measurements in the industrial systems using a twin-planes electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) system is presented. The mass flow measurement is based on cross-section decomposition into homogenous regions and virtual channel is then defined as connecting of two homogenous regions of different sensor planes. The decomposition has been obtained by using a stochastic flow model. As a result the set of virtual channels is obtained instead the complex flow inside a single physical channel. The authors present the results of investigation for turbulent flow propagation using the virtual channel concept also.


The invention discloses an offshore wind turbine bearing device, comprising a central pile base, a bearing platform, a central pile and a tower drum, wherein the bearing platform is positioned above the central pile base, is coaxial with the central pile and is provided with a self-leveling function; the central pile passes through the central holes of the bearing platform and the central pile base and fixes the bearing platform; and the tower drum is connected with the bearing platform and positioned on the bearing platform. The bearing platform is provided with four end corners, an end corner with a predetermined included angle exits between every two adjacent end corners, and each end corner is respectively connected with an inside anchor device and an outside anchor device. The parts of the offshore wind turbine bearing device including the central pile base, the bearing platform, the central pile and the tower drum can be manufactured on land, then transported to sea for installation and can be fixed by the inside anchor device and the outside anchor device without the construction of pile foundation structure or pile foundation bearing platform structure, thereby solving the problems of high cost and long construction period of the traditional offshore wind turbine bearing device caused by adoption of the pile foundation structure or pile foundation bearing platform structure.


As part of an archaeology study on the Fort Bliss Military Reservation in west Texas, [Hall et al. (2010)][1] reported optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dates from two backhoe trenches referred to as localities 100 and 200. In both trenches, a sedimentary unit termed "Q3" was designated


This paper presents a design of an extensible and very compact digital multiplier, made in full-custom. It is characterized by regularity and it is particularly adapted to be used as a part of high-speed digital processors. The design has as a particular feature the short time in which it was developed.


Between knowledge and nonsense – the mysterious churches of Bornholm: A critical discussion of two books by Erling Haagensen, where he postulate a sacred geometry on Bornholm and a treasure hidden by the Templars in the round church of Osterlars – or somewhere else.


The mechanical behavior of polyionic complex (PIC)membranes derived from polyvinyl alcohol(PVA) or ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVA) have been investigated. The presence of ethylene block segment in the backbone of polyions can endow PIC membranes with more toughness. Increasing the degree of substitution of the polyions, the formed PIC becomes harder and more brittle. Under the environment of relative humidity (R. H. ) of 40%, the tensile strength, relative elongation and modulus of PICs are at about 300 kg/cm2, 10% and 8×103 kg/cm2, respectively, whereas in the environment of 90% R. H. , these of PICs derived from EVA are at about 90 kg/cm2, 150% and 13 kg/cm2, respectively, better than that of PVA derived polyionic membrane and ordinary PIC such as loplex 101. The permeability of PIC membranes derived from EVA have also been studied.


ABSTRACT Although red wine is often used as a functional food because of its content in tannins, white wine is also an important source of biologically active compounds due to its phenolic compounds. The great variety of white wines available in the market led to the necessity to develop new analytical methods to assess their quality and authenticity. The aim of this study was to develop a method for authentication of white wines on the basis of HPTLC fingerprints. For this purpose three varieties of Romanian white wines (Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, and Feteasca Alba) produced in three different years in different vineyards were chosen. The obtained HPTLC fingerprints are useful for quality control of wines and allowed the differentiation of white wines in terms of their variety, their harvesting year and the vineyard. Also, the developed method has proved to be a useful tool for authentication of closely related white wines.


There is evident now a rich renewal of development in situation theory and of the situational approach within a comprehensive, eclectic framework for practice


Objective: To investigate the root canal therapy in replantation of tooth due to injury.Methods: Retrospective analysis in 28 patients in our hospital with 36 teeth luxation made.36 cases were randomly divided into three groups.In group 1,the pulp was removed before replanted,and calcium hydroxide was filled in root canals and condensated routinely after half a year.In group 2,the pulp was removed one week after being replanted.In group 3,the pulp was removed until pulp disease appeared.Results: The effects between group 1 and group 2 had no significant difference but both were significantly better than that of group 3, P0.05.Conclusion: It is an ideal method to replant luxated tooth with removal of pulp tissue and to have root canal filling with calcium hydroxide one week after the replantation of tooth and routine root canal therapy after half a year.


Two of the most consistently reported evoked potential abnormalities in schizophrenia are a decreased amplitude of the mid-latency evoked responses and decreased sensory gating capability. The cause of these abnormalities is largely unknown. In the present study, we investigate to what degree these abnormalities may be explained in terms of EEG synchronization deficits. The auditory EPs from 20 normal subjects and 19 schizophrenia patients were obtained using a double click paradigm, in which two identical stimuli were delivered with an inter-stimulus interval of 500 ms and an inter-pair interval of 8 s. The Piecewise Prony Method (PPM) was used to decompose single trial auditory evoked potentials into sinusoidal, exponentially decaying/increasing components. Pre-and post-stimulus phase histograms were compared to determine the degree of phase synchronization produced by auditory stimulation in the two populations. It was found that schizophrenia patients have a phase synchronization deficiency, as compared to a normal control group, especially in the 4 Hz through 12 Hz frequency range. This deficiency explains the lower EP amplitudes and reduced sensory gating reported in schizophrenic subjects.


Abstract : High pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS) occurs in humans and animals exposed to high atmospheric pressures such as those experienced during deep diving. The primary symptoms of HPNS, which are tremors and seizures, may result from excessive excitatory or inhibitory neurotransmission in the central nervous system. This project comprised two components. The first was a detailed study of the mechanisms by which excitatory and inhibitory transmitters are released from astroglial cells in vitro and the effects of high pressure on these processes. The second component was the analysis of amino acids (specifically including glutamate, aspartate, taurine, and gamma-aminobutyric acid) of perfusion fluids and tissue extracts received from the Hyperbaric Medicine Program Center, NMRI, Bethesda, MD.


Reduction of linoleic acid in the fatty acid profile of Virginia-type peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) cultivars is desirable because it would improve the stability and shelf-life of in-shell and other peanut products. A low-linoleate/high-oleate trait controlled by two recessive genes, ol 1 and ol 2 , has been identified in Univ. of Florida breeding line F435. Most runner-type cultivars and breeding lines genotyped to date were found to differ from F435 by only one ol allele. Genotypes differing from F435 at two ol loci were Virginia types. The number of genes controlling inheritance of the trait has major implications with respect to the numbers of backcross and F 2 test progeny required in an efficient backcross breeding program. To determine the number of genes differentiating F435 from large-seeded Virginia-type cultivars, F435 was crossed as a male with five common Virginia-type cultivars. F 4 :5 progenies were assayed for fatty acid content by gas chromatography. Progenies were classified as having high or low oleate levels and chi square analysis was applied to the data. Segregation ratios of populations derived from crosses with 'NC 7', 'NC 9', 'NC 10C', and 'VA-C 92R' were consistent with a monogenic model and inconsistent with the digenic model. These cultivars have genotype Ol 1 Ol 1 ol 2 ol 2 or ol 1 ol 1 Ol 2 Ol 2 . Progeny of 'NC-V 11' / F435 followed a ratio consistent with the digenic model and inconsistent with the monogenic model, indicating that NC-V 11 has genotype Ol 1 Ol 1 Ol 2 Ol 2 . Oleate levels were elevated by 220 to 280 g kg -1 , linoleate levels decreased by 190 to 270 g kg -1 , and palmitate levels decreased by 30 to 40 g k -1 in high-oleate subpopulations. Other fatty acids exhibited changes that were statistically significant but probably too small in magnitude to significantly alter processing quality or stability of oil.


We consider portmanteau tests for testing the adequacy of structural vector autoregressive moving average models with uncorrelated errors. Under the assumption that errors are uncorrelated but non‐independent, it is known that the Ljung–Box (or Box–Pierce) portmanteau test statistic is asymptotically distributed as a weighted sum of chi‐squared random variables which can be far from the chi‐square distribution usually employed. We therefore propose a new portmanteau statistic that is asymptotically chi‐squared even in the presence of uncorrelated but non‐independent errors. Monte Carlo experiments illustrate the finite sample performance for the proposed portmanteau test.


The mid-2000s saw a surge in the popularity of musical biopics: films such as Ray (2004) which tell the story of a star musician. While academic studies have addressed biopics treating classical and jazz composers, the popular musical biopic (encompassing blues, folk, pop, country, rap, and rock) is not only the least studied subtype of the musical biopic, but the most profitable and frequently made. Film studies has neglected the popular musical biopic for so long due to the genre's uniquely visible connections to other media: musical biopics are deeply invested in popular music and have often appeared as madefor-TV movies. Additionally, every biopic is, by definition, secondary to extant print or audio-visual materials on its subject. While most film studies scholarship makes a case for the originality and importance of filmmaking in the hierarchy of media studies, musical biopics position film as inextricably tied to other cultural forms. I analyze four different aspects of the musical biopic that illustrate its significance: Chapter One addresses the musical biopic in the context of the post-studio era entertainment industry. I study A Hard Day's Night as a film which reconciles artistry with the commercial imperative of cross-promotion. Chapter Two surveys the increased presence of minority entertainers in poststudio era musical biopics, covering films featuring African American musicians, as well as films which pair a black mentor with a white musician or producer. Chapter Three examines the relationship between storytelling, particularly the portrayal of love relationships, and song performances. I find in that the poststudio era musical biopic often reconciles narrative structures inherited from the


The quality of peer review can be improved by online training.The authors point out that currently there is a lack of training for peer reviewers in China.In this article,the authors introduce the online training method for peer reviewers used by BMJ.


Most new network builds and major upgrades in recent years have been focused on building dynamic reconfigurable optical layers to support the explosive growth in IP traffic. These advanced optical layers include Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) devices allowing network operators to dynamically configure the wavelengths to be added and dropped at each network node, thus increasing network flexibility, improving bandwidth utilization, and reducing operational complexity. Many of the more advanced networks builds also require support for optical mesh layers, utilizing higher degree ROADM based on Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) technology to provide optical cross connections.


In this article deals with the issue of creating an electronic portfolio of teaching staff, and the necessary skills. The author proposes to introduce an electronic portfolio as a web site. Reviews technologies that can simplify the task of creating, placing and filling their own Internet resource.


Radiosensitization Strategies for Enhanced E-beam Irradiation Treatment of Fresh Produce. (May 2010) Carmen Luiza Feitosa de Lima Gomes, B.S., Federal University of Vicosa Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Rosana G. Moreira Fresh produce is increasingly implicated in outbreaks of foodborne illness. Internalization of bacterial pathogens into produce is of particular concern as internalized pathogens are unlikely to be removed by surface sanitizers. It is therefore necessary to develop treatments that will reduce their prevalence and numbers on fresh produce. Irradiation is a penetrating nonthermal treatment that effectively eliminates bacteria. Irradiated baby spinach leaves up to 1.0 kGy showed negligible (P>0.05) changes in color, texture, vitamin C, total carotenoids, and chlorophyll content compared to non-irradiated controls throughout storage (15 days at 4 o C). This research also shows that irradiation effectively reduces viable Escherichia coli cells internalized in lettuce, and that decontamination is not influenced (P>0.05) by lettuce variety. Irradiation effectively reduced the population of internalized pathogens in a dose-dependent manner (3-4 log reduction at 1.0 kGy). Microscopy images suggest that the contamination sites of pathogens in leafy vegetables are mainly localized on


Abstract This study points out a problem that the vehicle rotation area provided in a dead-end parking lot for apartment blocks is misused as unreasonable parking places but accordingly, the edge parking spaces are rarely used for parking. Therefore, this study aims to establish a parking design standard to improve the parking convenience andland-use efficiency by investigating the real parking behaviors and problems identified in the study area, multiple apartment blocks in Haeundae-gu, Busan. This study calculated two simple linear regression models for two mutuallyexclusive factors, such as the parking convenience and land-use efficiency, respectively, and specified a trade-off pointthat optimizes both factors. The study results found that parking convenience and land-use efficiency can be improvedby not only changing the misused vehicle rotation area to normal parking spaces depending on the usage pattern, but also by increasing the width of the edge parking spaces from 2.3m to 2.6m. Finally, this study suggests two parkingdesign cases for more realistic design applications by considering the parking environment in the dead-end parkinglot for apartment blocks.Key Words : Dead-end Parking Lot, Minimum Turning Radius, Parking Section, Regression Model, Vehicle Rotation Area


There is a common understanding amongst academics that information systems (IS) research sometimes has limited relevance for practitioners. This can be explained by the fact that research lags behind the fast moving IS environment, has limited practical applicability and is hard to access. We have focused on the research area of IS backsourcing, and analyzed practitioner literature to increase our understanding of topics of interest for practitioners, to determine a potential gap between academic and practitioner literature, and to identify future research directions in this field. We observed that most publications are either news or background articles, focusing on describing backsourcing cases. Additionally, we identified four recurring themes, namely reasons for backsourcing, presentation of survey results, discussion of industry trends, and backsourcing success stories. The main reasons identified to trigger backsourcing decisions are cost savings, quality improvements, and increasing control and flexibility. By comparing our findings with academic literature on IS backsourcing, we conclude that generally both literature types cover similar topics. However, researchers have a more formulative or interpretive focus than the often descriptive practitioner literature. Academic literature also examines a broader range of topics, while practitioner literature has a narrower focus. Additionally, we observe one difference regarding applied terminology: while researchers employ the term backsourcing, practitioners mostly use back in-house or insourcing. Our paper contributes to facilitating the exchange between academics and practitioners, presents topics to consider when aiming to increase practical relevance and provides researchers with concrete directions for future research within the field of IS backsourcing.


A method has been developed for making americium- beryllium neutron sources by the reduction of americium oxide with beryllium. This method has a certain number of advantages over those using a target-emitter mixture without formation of the definite compound AmBe{sub 13}. An emission of 3. 75 x 10{sup 6} n/sec. is obtained with 1 gram of alloy having a volume of about 0.3 cm{sup 3}. The yield of such a source is 2 x 10{sup 6} n/sec/Ci of emitter. (authors) [French] Nous avons mis au point une methode de fabrication de sources de neutrons americium-beryllium, en reduisant l'oxyde d'americium par le beryllium. Cette methode offre un certain nombre d'avantages par rapport a celles qui utilisent le melange cible-emetteur sans formation du compose defini AmBe{sub 13}. Une emission de 3.75 x 10{sup 6} n/s est realisee avec 1 gramme d'alliage occupant un volume d'environ 0,3 cm{sup 3}. Le rendement de telles sources est 2 x 10{sup 6} n/s/Ci d'emetteur. (auteurs)


This article examines the relation between policies, institutions and time by addressing the case of eastern enlargement policy and the European Commission. Our main question is how the special challenges and requirements of EU eastern enlargement policy impacted on the administrative level of the Commission, i.e. the level in charge of structuring, monitoring and steering the policy's implementation. We provide empirical data on institutional change in the Commission from the mid-1990s until 2004 and examine temporal categories at both the policy level and the institutional level. This analysis shows that – especially the temporal – requirements of enlargement policy drove the Commission to adapt its internal organization and time management; internal structures and procedures changed; actors were bound in a temporal grid. This allowed the mobilization of the actors and the in-time synchronization of their input. On the whole, our results open a new perspective on institutional change and time in the context of European governance.


This research aims to find out the shares of companies listed in the Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) in the Indonesia Stock Exchange selected in the formation of an optimal portfolio period January 2012 - December 2014 and the proportion of each share in the optimal portfolio. This research is quantitative descriptive research. The population of this study is all shares included in the calculation of Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) published six months, amounting to 30 shares. The technique of selecting the sample of this study uses purposive sampling method and obtained 19 shares as sample research. The variables in this research are stock return, market return, stock risk, and market risk. The method of data analysis uses Single Index model. The results of this study indicate that: (1) there are 4 stocks that meet the criteria of optimal portfolio formation ie UNVR shares (Unilever Indonesia Tbk), ICBP (Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur, Tbk) and INTP Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa Tbk). (2) The proportion of funds worth investing in the shares is 28.28% or 0.28277 for the shares of UNVR (Unilever Indonesia Tbk), 29.94% or 0.29944 for PGAS (Perusahaan Gas Negara (Persero) Tbk) , 41.03% or 0.041033 for ICBP shares (Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur Tbk) and 0.75% or 0.00746 for INTP Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa Tbk shares). Keywords: Optimal Portfolio, Single Index Model, Jakarta Islamic Index


The phase diagram of the pseudobinary sytem Bi2Te3/BiBr3 was investigated by DTA, total pressure measurements and X-ray phase analysis. Only BiTeBr exists as a ternary phase in this system. The compound melts congruently at 526 °C. The heat of formation and standard entropy were calculated from vapor pressure data: ΔH(BiTeBr, f, 298) = (-30,4 ± 1,4) kcal/mol; S°(BiTeBr, f, 298) = (36,2 ± 2,9) cal/K·mol.


Abstract : This project is aimed at a combined theoretical and experimental analysis of adhesives. The theoretical part of it is based on usage of macroscopic methods and principles: continuum mechanics and thermodynamics. The full extent of the experimental part will be made more clear in a later report. This part, however, is expected to be as important as the theoretical part. We plan to begin experimenting with the simplest systems; basically, the macrosystems based on velcro tapes and she


Forty five isolates of Proteus mirabilis were identified among 600 samples taken from patients with urinary tract infection from different hospitals in Erbil City. Isolates were identified from urine sample by using cultural, morphological and biochemical characteristics and confirmed confirmed by VITEK 2 systems. Antibiotic sensitivity testing was done for all isolates by using fifteen antibiotic types which included Amikacin (AK), Ampicillin (AMP), Aztreonam (AT), Chloramphenicol (C), Cephalothin (CEP), Ciprofloxacin (CIP), Ceftriaxone (CTR), Cefotaxime (CTX) Fosfomycin (FOX), Gentamicin (GEN), Imipenem (IMP), Nalidixic acid (NA), Norfloxacin (NOR), Piperacilin (PI) and Tobramycin (TOB). IMP was the most effective antibiotic against isolated of P. mirabilis. The resistance rate of the isolates toward these antibiotics were 8.8% for CIP, 11% for AT, 11% for FOX, 15.5% for NOR, 17.7% for TOB, 20% for AK, 22% for PI, 26% for CTR, 28.8% for CTX, 33% for NA, 35.5% for GEN, 44% for C, and 62% for AMP respectively. To control the antibiotic resistance of the tested P. mirabilis isolates, curing of plasmid DNA was conducted using tetracycline and elevated temperature at 46 C, two most resistance isolates were chosen for this purpose P32, and P40, then treated with different concentrations of tetracycline (0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, and 4) μg/ml separately. The MIC for tetracycline was 2.5μg/ml and SMIC 2μg/ml was used as a curing agent. The genes encoded resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, cephalothin, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, gentamicin and tobramycin were cured from P32 and the percentage of curing was (46.6%), while amikacin, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin and gentamicin resistance genes were cured from P40 isolate and the curing percent was (26.6%).The results confirmed by conducting gel electrophoresis and revealed that tetracycline DOI: 10.24086/cuesj.si.2017.n2a5 Cihan University-Erbil Scientific Journal Special Issue No.2, July 2017 47 removed plasmid of P32, while it had no effect on plasmid of P40. On the other hand, elevated temperature used also as curing agent and the results revealed that resistance to amikacin, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, cephalothin, ceftriaxone, gentamicin and tobramycin genes were cured from P32 and the curing percent was (46.6%), while genes encoding amikacin, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, fosfomycin, gentamicin, nalidixic acid, norfloxacin and tobramycin were cured from P40 isolate with the percentages of (73.3%) after incubating the isolates at 46 o C. It is clear that elevated temperature is the most efficient method than tetracycline. The results confirmed by conducting gel electrophoresis and showed that both tested isolates lost their plasmids after incubation at 46 o C.


Librarians: how can you attract patrons to your Web site and keep them coming back for more? This article outlines ways you can lure people to your site-and what features you can easily provide to get them hooked on it.


Efforts to address the critical public health problem of childhood obesity are occurring across the USA; however, little is known about how to characterize the intensity of these efforts.


Most of the deaths in the world happen due to Cancer. It is a disease in which the cells of our body organs or tissues grow in an undisciplined way which in turn can harm our normal cells and tissues in our body. These cells very smartly trick the immune system so that the cancerous cells are kept alive and are not destroyed. In the human body, tumors can be classified into three types: cancerous, non-cancerous, and pre-cancerous. Timely identification of the cancer can be helpful in many ways. As it improves a patient's chances of survival. The most valuable, uncomplicated technique used is MRI scans for predicting tumor is a tough task and have chances of human error. So to be more accurate with our predictions we have moved on to use computerized techniques to ease the work. The focus of this research is the development of an automated brain tumor classification system using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, leveraging a deep learning model. The proposed model employs a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture known as MobileNetV2, which is trained on a pre-processed MRI image dataset to classify brain tumors into one of two categories: tumor tissues and normal brain tissue. To mitigate overfitting and expand the dataset, data augmentation techniques are employed. The trained model achieves high accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity in classifying brain tumors. Proposed CNN model outperformed other deep learning models, including VGG16, Xception, and ResNet50, which were used for comparison.


Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common subtype of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). It is a group of adult lymphomas with a large clinical presentation and prognosis heterogeneity. In order to improve the cure rate of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, it is necessary to find a new DLBCL treatment plan that can control the progression of the disease and explore its unknown potential therapeutic targets. Epigenetic modification has become a new treatment for leukemia in recent years, and histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) is a novel drug for the treatment of DLBCL in recent years. However, in addition to effective clinical efficacy, Pan-HDACis has side effects. In contrast, LMK-235 is well tolerated as a novel inhibitor of HDAC4 and HDAC5. HACE1 is a potential tumor suppressor gene located on chromosome 6q21, which is involved in the regulation of tumor cell growth and apoptosis by mediating autophagy and ubiquitination of Rac1. The potential target of HACE1 as an HDAC inhibitor plays an important role in the occurrence, invasion and metastasis of human malignant tumors, but its underlying mechanism of HDACi-mediated apoptosis is still unclear. In this study, we investigated the potential mechanisms by which HACE1 regulates LMK-235-mediated apoptosis in DLBCL cells. In vitro, LMK-235 mediates apoptosis in DLBCL cells in a dose-dependent manner, and up-regulation of HACE1 by lentiviral transfection promotes LMK-235-induced apoptosis. At the same time, high levels of HACE1 can inhibit the expression of HO-1 at mRNA and protein levels. As a previous study in our laboratory, low expression of HO-1 enhanced the apoptotic rate of DLBCL cells. However, the correlation between HACE1 and HO-1 has not been reported. Therefore, we regulated HACE1 levels and found that HACE1 regulates HO-1, which affects the sensitivity of DLBCL cells to LMK-235. Our data show that HACE1 plays a key role in LMK-235-induced apoptosis in DLBCL cells. This provides new hope for the treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and is a potential new target for the treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

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Two hand weeding or application of thiobencarb 1.5 kg/ha produced same yield in both wet and semi-wet cultures and response to N was signifieant upto 150 kg/ha. In unweeded plots, response to N was significant only in wet cnlture. Under low weed infestation, there was no significant difference in yield due to rice cultures, but response to N was significant up to 100 kg/ha in weeded plots and up to 50 kg/ha in unweeded plots. Under higher inherent weed infestation, profitable dose of N as well as response/kg N was higher than where weed problem was less. Benefit/cost ratio of weed management was about 3 times the N application.


Through the method of grey system reliability design,the grey modeling,gray clustering,the grey correlation analysis,gray information processing methods were established,to generate for internal and external mechanical system and realize the evaluation of mechanical products.


Background
The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) infection among individuals at high risk for sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) at a major urban STD clinic in Athens, in view of the lack of data pertaining to this infection in Greece.

Methods
Urethral and cervical samples from 176 individuals consecutively attending the clinic and agreeing to participate were prospectively collected and tested for MG infection using conventional PCR and TaqMan Real-Time PCR. All individuals were also examined for alternative STD pathogens.

Results
A total of 161 individuals (91.5%) reported symptoms, while 15 individuals (8.5%) were asymptomatic. MG was detected in 5.7% (10/176) of the total population and in 5.6% (9/161) of those with symptoms, corresponding to 5.7% (5/87) of symptomatic men and 5.4% (4/74) of symptomatic women. Among symptomatic males, 3.4% (3/87) displayed MG mono-infection. The median age of MG infected individuals was 25 years (IQR 21.5-29.5 years). Individuals infected with MG were more likely to be coinfected with Ureaplasma spp. [OR=5.12, 95%CI, 1.27-20.57] (p=0.017). MG infection was also more common among individuals who had received antibiotics in the previous 15 days [OR=6.04, 95%CI, 1.37-26.64] (p=0.035).

Conclusion
MG was found to represent an important microbial pathogen among patients presenting with symptoms of urethritis or cervicitis in Greece. Consideration of MG as cause of STD seems crucial in diagnostic algorithms and treatment strategies.


The purpose of this study is to produce a list of professional competencies for the faculty members in educational specializations based on standards of total quality assurance. It also uses female students' perspectives to know about the extent of quality in the teaching performance of the faculty members at the College of Social Sciences at Al Imam University.A total number of 122 female graduate students from the College of Social science majoring in educational administration, curriculum and teaching methods, education principles, and Islamic education, have participated in the study that was conducted in the second semester of the academic year 2011. The study addresses professional competencies associated with personal characteristics and human relations, knowledge in specialization, teaching delivery, motivating and assessment and reinforcement. The most significant results of the study revealed a high level of standards associated with personal characteristics and human relations, knowledge in specialization, and teaching delivery in the performance of the faculty. However, the study revealed a lower level of standards associated with motivating and assessment and reinforcement, most of which represent the standards advocated by recent trends in teaching that call for the use of technology, using questions to trigger thinking, and providing feedback, all of which are considered very important to achieve total quality.


The tradition of drinking herbal medicine is an effort to maintain body and mind health and to cure diseases based on local knowledge of the Madurese community. This study aims to describe efforts to maintain the tradition of drinking herbal medicine through the delivery of interpersonal messages between the maker to the user. The research used qualitative phenomenon-based herbal drinking tradition with data collection through observation and interview to informants and analyzed to get meaning about the form of interpersonal message delivery. The study found the form of interpersonal messages in the form of delivery of herbal products with health issues, disease complaints, prevent and overcome the disease. The profound meaning of cultural messages is the motivation to balance physical and mental health.


Morphology and tensile properties of acrylic fibers with different manufacturing histories have been investigated. Acrylic fibers that have been partially drawn undergo appreciable plastic deformation after passing through a yield point and exhibit "crazing" over the entire surface. On the other hand, acrylic fibers that have been fully drawn and annealed display no yield point or crazing and have a lower modulus and con siderably reduced elongation-to-break. SEM photomicrographs of tensile fractures in dicate that the former acrylic fibers show a straight fracture along a transverse section, while the latter invariably fail by axial splitting. The morphological structure of acrylic fibers develops and is perfected as a consequence of the manufacturing process, which alters the fibers' response to applied tensile stress.


In thousands of routine MRI studies of depressed patients, no associated mood change has ever been reported. These investigators, however,


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Considered hydrogeological structure of the deposit V.P. Griba. Described the main problem associated with the operation of the barrier drainage, removal of suspended solids. Marked reduction techniques concentrations of suspended particles in the drainage water.


Summary. The negative effects of the urban situation on human well-being are well documented, contribute to stress, weaken coping skills, and evoke a negative self-appraisal from resi- dents continually surrounded by bleak settings (Stainbrook, 1973). The following research suggests that urban residents may visit public gardens as a means of coping with the stresses of city life. Results of a survey of urban visitors to two urban public gardens indicate that stress reduction is an important reason for visiting the gardens. The research also indicates a trend of reduced levels of self- perceived stress after a garden visit.


Many utilities do not appreciate the fact that routine breaks of metal water mains often result from deterioration caused by gradual external corrosion. The author outlines the basic terms and conditions of galvanic and electrolytic corrosion, summarizes case studies that illustrate causes of external corrosion of underground metal mains and that describe methods to control external corrosion, and discusses the role of soil in external corrosion


A flexible support structure of space infrared detector is presented so as to reduce the impacts of mechanical vibration, electromagnetic interference and temperature shift from outside environment. According to technical requirements of the infrared detector, the flexible support structure is designed, which mainly consists of two components: one component is planted in the outside of the infrared detector to shield electromagnetic wave called shield cover; the other component is a soft rubber ring, which can connect the shield cover to bracket forming a flexible support. In order to demonstrate its effectiveness on reducing vibration, parameter identification and dynamic analysis of this structure are carried out to calculate the acceleration of detector under sine vibration with different frequency. Then a new type composite material is used to produce the shield cover, which has some advantages such as lighter weight, higher stiffness and function of electromagnetic shielding. Besides, the soft rubber ring is made of a special rubber called XM-31. Not only can this rubber isolate the vibration, but insulate the heat, which will further improve the performance of detector. The flexible support structure has an important application value in the field of infrared detection and imaging.


In particular, for energy management of a photovoltaic system, it is advantageous if the currently available maximum power (Pmax) is known to the system. Therefore, a method for determining a current maximum power (Pmax) is provided a system for generating electrical energy according to the invention, which system is supplied by a power converter. The power converter is controlled such that the system generates in a given time interval a from the current maximum power reduced power (Pred) (S1). In addition, the power converter is controlled so that the plant in a predetermined short time interval that is substantially shorter than the predetermined time interval, the current maximum power generated (S2). The current maximum power (Pmax) is in the predetermined short time interval measured (S3). Finally, the power converter is controlled after measuring such that the plant produces the opposite of the current maximum power reduced power again.


Abstract Additional information is given to supplement an earlier paper dealing with the installation and economic aspects of a 25 rectifier system used to provide solid protection along 350 miles ...