Introduction: The hypersaline Great Salt Lake (GSL) of northern Utah, USA is a critical regional ecosystem that has not been examined in detail from a geobiological perspective. There are presently only a handful of studies on the biota of this shallow water closed-lake system [1]. Despite interest from industries mining the salt and harvesting the brine shrimp, relatively little is known about the lake's geochemistry, microbial diversity, metabolic activity, and mineralogy, and how these relate together with processes of biosedimentation and fossil preservation. Objectives: We study the composition, architecture, and preservation of modern GSL microbial communities present using genomic (DNA sequencing) and microscopic techniques (SEM, EDAX). Initial Results: Our examination of various sedimentary facies sampled in the modern GSL (figure 1) indicates that microbial communities occur in many of its environments. Microbial communities in the GSL are found in microbial mats, crusts, tufas, oolites, carbonate hardgrounds, stromatolites, open water, and benthos. Traditional cultivation and isolation approaches on samples from the lake and surrounding features have yielded some Archaea, Bacteria, microalgae and cyanobacteria. Our ongoing phylogenetic studies of microbially-influenced sedimentary structures (MISS, after [2]) including biostromes, microbial mats, as well as benthic and pelagic regions of the lake, are yielding a tremendous amount of information through the application of high-throughput DNA sequencing techniques, including small sub-unit 16S ribosomal RNA (16S ssu rRNA) methods. Conclusions and Implications: Our findings refute the idea that the GSL is "dead" – on the contrary, microbial diversity is a function of the prevailing conditions. Recent work on other microbial mats show that constituent cyanobacteria and other microorganisms secrete extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), which enhance the stability of the sediment [3], and contribute to sedimentation [4]. With this in mind, we endeavour to identify potential biomarkers present in GSL carbonate and siliclastic facies, and to examine their preservation and temporal persistence. Studying the GSL is especially valuable because it is an accessible extreme environment for testing hypotheses regarding biosedimentation, energy pathways, nutrient cycling and eukaryotic evolution on early Earth and Mars. References: [1] Eardley, A.J., (1938) Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 22 1305-1411; Carozzi, A.V. (1962) Journal of Geology, 70, 246252. [2] Noffke, N. (2008) GSA Today, 18, 4-9. [3] Gerdes, G. et al. (2000) Sedimentology, 47, 279-308. [4] Stolz, J.F. (2000) in Microbial Sediments. Springer-Verlag 1–8; Dupraz et al. (2008) Earth Science Reviews 10.1016/j.earscirev.2008.10.005


This study aimed to examine situation and patterns of desire for children in the future and test association between characteristic factors and desire for children among married women in Thailand. Data were drawn from the 2012 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS4) which was conducted by the National Statistical Office of Thailand. The total sample size is 15,661 participants and confined to married women in reproductive-age (age 15-49). This data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and analysis technique in Cross-tabulation and Chi-square test. The overall situation showed that only 18.8 percent of married women expressed desire for children in the future, with increased desire among teenage women aged 15–19 (44.1 percent). Chi-square analysis result revealed that factors had statistically significant associated with desire for children in the future included age, age at first marriage, current pregnancy, loss of child experience, number of children still living, region, wealth status of household, and education. In addition, the results of patterns of desire for children in the future indicated that married women aged 25–29 had the highest proportion of desire for first child and second child (74.9 percent and 50.5 percent respectively), and married women aged 20–24 had the highest proportion of desire for third child and fourth (or more) child (16.8 percent and 9.8 percent respectively).


Development of children's early reading skill is still very low. This case could be caused by an unattractive learning, monotonous process and lack of learning variation methods used by teachers. The aims of this study were to increase children's early reading skill through language games at TK Kristen Penabur Kota Wisata (kindergarten). This study was a classroom action research and the subjects of this study were 20 children of Group A of TK Kristen Penabur Kota Wisata (kindergarten), for school year 2016/2017. According to the result of action, it could be concluded that language games were able to improve the early reading skill of children of Group A at TK Kristen Penabur Kota Wisata (kindergarten).


In today'seconomicsituationitisnecessary to payattention to natural environment. In practice of sustainability the system approachisoftenused. Thereareusedenvironmental management systemswhichapplyCleanerProduction, the systemsbased on ISO 14001 and thosebased on the Decree of the Europe Council EMAS. The basis of thesesystemsaresignificantenvironmentalaspectsdetermined by the evaluation of allaspects of environmentalproblems in the organization. Both the ISO 14000 series as well as the EMAS Regulation do not providemethodology to evaluate the environmentalaspects. In the articleithasbeenproposed to create the concept of methodology to evaluateenvironmentalaspects .


In most Russian and international studies, including African ones, their authors portray African women that reside in areas affected by civil wars and conflicts as victims of violence, robbery, forced labor, etc. At the same time, it is rarely taken into account that in most national liberation movements and rebel groups the number of women fighters constituted and still constitutes 10-30% of their rank and file. Moreover, many women became field commanders, chiefs of intelligence, or were responsible for the supply of weapons and ammunition. The present authors provide a new interpretation of the participation and role of women in the confrontation between armed anti-government factions and the central government. It is noted that in recent decades, not only in Africa, but also in other parts of the world, the trend towards "feminization of the militarization process" has become extremely noticeable. Many women, along with men, participate in acts of violence, including against the civilian population, and thus contribute to the destabilization of the internal political situation. Women most actively participated in hostilities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Eritrea and Ethiopia. The present paper looks into reasons and consequences of women's involvement in insurgencies. It is pointed out that while during the years of the national liberation struggle women were motivated by the overarching goal of achieving independence, in later conflicts many of them fought to expand their political and economic rights and opportunities, i.e., to achieve gender equality. In addition to joining "armed groups" for ideological reasons, women tried to prove that they were "no worse than men"; others joined the ranks of the insurgents to protect themselves and other women from violence or death, i.e., they followed a kind of "survival strategy". Particular attention is paid to suicide bombers, who have been increasingly used by the Islamist organization Boko Haram in recent years. The authors also consider the conditions in which demobilized women-combatants find themselves. The authors conclude that as the level of women's involvement in African conflicts is constantly growing, it ceases to be an anomaly and to some extent reflects the "successes" achieved by the "fair sex" in the struggle for equality, although the negative consequences of this participation prevail over the positive ones.


The bachelor thesis is focused on the analysis of the company process management in the division Escalators of OTIS a.s. which deals with research, development, production, installation and service of escalators and moving walkways. In the theoretical part of thesis the problems of process management is described including methods and tools for process improvement. In the analytical part of thesis the root cause analysis of late witness inspections in production line MPE is performed. Based on the results of analysis the corrective actions for current state improvement are defined including recommendations for corrective actions implementation.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present a modified form of trigonometric cubic B-spline (TCB) collocation method to solve nonlinear Fisher's type equations. Taylor series expansion is used to linearize the nonlinear part of the problem. Five examples are taken for analysis. The obtained results are better than those obtained by some numerical methods as well as exact solutions. It is noted that the modified form of TCB collocation method is an economical and efficient technique to approximate the solution PDEs. The authors also carried out the stability analysis which proves that the method is unconditionally stable.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors present a modified form of TCB collocation method to solve nonlinear Fisher's type equations. Taylor series expansion is used to linearize the nonlinear part of the problem. The authors also carried out the stability analysis.

Findings
The authors found that the proposed method results are better than those obtained by some numerical methods as well as exact solutions. It is noted that the modified form of TCB collocation method is an economical and efficient technique to approximate the solution PDEs.

Originality/value
The authors propose a new method, namely, modified form of TCB collocation method. In the authors' best knowledge, aforesaid method is not proposed by any other author. The authors used this method to solve nonlinear Fisher's type equations and obtained more accurate results than the results obtained by other methods.


Pityriasis rubra pilaris (PRP) is a rare disease. The lack of pathognomonic features and specific clinical or diagnostic features often make identification of PRP very difficult. PRP type 4 (circumscribed juvenile type) is characterized by scaly plaques on elbows, knees and palmoplantar keratoderma. Sometimes these lesions may become extremely difficult to differentiate from those of psoriasis. We report 3 cases of PRP type 4, noted in just 5 months. We feel PRP, specially the type 4, is not so rare in Indian subcontinent. A good clinical knowledge and high index of suspicion may help to identify more cases.


Background: Mandatory nutritional labelling is designed to encourage healthier dietary choices. However, the current label is frequently misunderstood, leading individuals to choose less healthy options. This research examined whether hybrid labels, which combine text values and traffic light colours, could improve attention paid to the nutritional information and the correct selection of healthier dietary choices compared to the current mandatory label.

Methods: A paired stimuli, forced choice, eye-tracking study investigated nutrition label formats with 48 participants. Health literacy, BMI, age and dietary choice motivations were measured and controlled for within the analyses.

Findings: There was a significant main effect of 'format' on healthier dietary choices (p=.046); post hoc analyses reported significantly lower correct selections of healthier dietary choices for colour-only vs. hybrid (p=.021) label formats. There was a significant main effect of 'format' on fixation count and fixation dwell time (p< .001). Post hoc analyses reported increased fixation counts and fixation dwell times for text-only vs. colour-only (p<.001), text-only vs. hybrid (p<.001) and hybrid vs. colour-only (p<.001) label formats. There was a significant main effect of 'nutrient content' on percentage fixation dwell times (p<.001), post hoc analyses reported increased attention to fat and sugar information across all trials.

Discussion: The findings reported suggest that hybrid label formats are more effective than text-only label formats at increasing appropriately healthy dietary choices. This suggests that the mandatory nutrition labelling policy should be revisited to create a mandatory nutrition label that is optimal at improving and encouraging healthier dietary choices at population-level.


A method and an apparatus for coding/decoding a voice signal based on morphology are provided to apply a morphological technique to voice signals and select a feature frequency by extracting harmonic and non-harmonic components as features to extract correct voice feature information easily. A method for coding/decoding a voice signal based on morphology includes a step of receiving a voice signal and transforming the voice signal into a frequency domain(400,410), a step of performing a morphological operation on the transformed voice signal in a predetermined window size(430), a step of extracting a feature frequency from the morphological operation result(440), and a step of applying the feature frequency to a sinusoidal codec(450).


Previous studies of pattern recognition have shown that classifiers ensemble approaches can lead to better recognition results. In this paper, we apply the voting technique for the CoNLL-2010 shared task on detecting hedge cues and their scope in biomedical texts. Six machine learning-based systems are combined through three different voting schemes. We demonstrate the effectiveness of classifiers ensemble approaches and compare the performance of three different voting schemes for hedge cue and their scope detection. Experiments on the CoNLL-2010 evaluation data show that our best system achieves an F-score of 87.49% on hedge detection task and 60.87% on scope finding task respectively, which are significantly better than those of the previous systems.


Abstract The theoretical basis for extending the true metabolizable energy (TME) methodology to the measurement of bioavailable minerals is described. The basic assay procedure is outlined together with the method of calculation. The major difference between the mineral assays and that for TME arises because excess minerals are voided with the excreta whereas excess energy is deposited as fat and has no effect on the excreta energy.


We address some of the problems of accessing database images which do not contain any indexing information and investigate methods of automating search strategies which currently rely on human operators to match the target against a number of images in the database. Such problems might include the extraction of facial photographs from a library given a suspect or the registration of new trademarks whose uniqueness must be assured. The object of the retrieval mechanism is to narrow down the search space for final perusal by the human operator. We present a neural network based coding scheme to retrieve images from a database according to the degree of similarity with a target image. The code represents each image with respect to a set of feature archetypes learned by the neural network during a training phase. We introduce a novel neural network learning law which performs an extremely efficient implementation of principal component analysis and maximizes the amount of information conveyed by the code. We present results using a database of machine printed fonts and discuss how the image size, the database diversity, and code length affect the efficacy of the retrieval mechanism.


We apply a recently developed method, the multicanonical algorithm, to the problem of tertiary structure prediction of peptides and proteins. As a simple example to test the effectiveness of the algorithm, metenkephalin is studied and the ergodicity problem, or multiple‐minima problem, is shown to be overcome by this algorithm. The lowest‐energy conformation obtained agrees with that determined by other efficient methods such as Monte Carlo simulated annealing. The superiority of the present method to simulated annealing lies in the fact that the relationship to the canonical ensemble remains exactly controlled. Once the multicanonical parameters are determined, only one simulation run is necessary to obtain the lowest‐energy conformation and further the results of this one run can be used to calculate various thermodynamic quantities at any temperature. The latter point is demonstrated by the calculation of the average potential energy and specific heat as functions of temperature. © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


Lipid oxidation and low final product quality observed during processing and storage of a Ghanaian fermented fish product were investigated with respect to the quality of salts used in the curing procedures, namely crude solar salt and refined salt. On analysis of differences in composition, refined salt had a lower moisture and microbial load than crude salt. Differences after fermentation and storage of both refined-salted and crude-salted fish were as follows: decreases in water activity of fish during processing was slower with crude salt than with refined salt; volatile basic nitrogen and total microbiological counts were higher in crude-salted fish; the polyamine of highest concentration in crude-salted samples was histamine, whilst cadaverine concentration dominated in fish fermented with refined salt. TBARS and peroxide values of the extracted total lipids increased during processing. Free fatty acid and diglyceride concentrations were higher in the crude-salted fish than in the samples with refined salt. Poly-enoic fatty acid levels were higher in the samples fermented with refined salt, whilst the levels of total cholesterol oxides were higher in the crude-salted samples.


Memristor is considered as one of the promising solutions to the fundamental limitations of the VLSI systems. Logic implementation with memristor device by considering its compatibility with CMOS fabric provides a new vision for digital logic circuits. This work presents a 2 by 2 multiplier cell design using a hybrid CMOS-memristor universal gate. The universal gate based implementation approach is the extension for memristor ratioed logic (MRL) with lower implementation cost. Simulation results confirm functionality of the proposed circuit. This circuit requires 16 memristors, 8 transistors and only one computational time step for multiplication. Compared with previous works, this approach presents considerably lower implementation cost.


Although the original ideas of nested arrays go back over ten years, it has been only within the past few years that these ideas have matured. During the same period, several new operators and functions have been proposed. This paper describes an experimental research implementation of these proposals. Details of some of the proposals are also described.


These three remarkable books represent a new direction for a long-standing historiographical tradition that began with Frank Tannenbaum's 1946 Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas. Tannenbaum's study touched off debates that have spanned decades. Why? He showed that much could be revealed in cross-cultural comparisons of slave systems. His foci were the USA and Latin America, and his conclusion was that slavery in Anglo-Saxon Protestant North America was more demoralizing to people of African descent than was slavery in Spanish and Portuguese Catholic Latin America. Decades of scholarship supporting, refuting and building on this thesis followed. And in most of it the concern has been with how slavery in USA was different from slavery elsewhere. We have learned a great deal from of cross-cultural comparisons centered on the USA. Most important, scholars have revealed the lasting legacy of unique manifestations of racism in the USA, which weigh heavily to this day. But our obsession with comparing the slavery in the USA to slavery elsewhere has blurred distinctions among slave systems in other parts of the Americas. And so the studies under consideration are a breath of fresh air. These are three books published over two years, and each is focused on slavery in Cuba and Brazil. And why not look beyond the mainland North America to examine together Cuban and Brazilian slave societies? Consider the volume of the slave trade to different parts of the Americas. Of the 10.7 million Africans disembarked from slave ships that crossed the ocean, fewer than 400,000 stepped onto mainland North America. About twice as many were disembarked in Cuba and about 12 times as many were landed in Brazil. Moreover, the slave trade into mainland North America decreased dramatically after legislation outlawed it in the early nineteenth century. But the same


Noise rejection is the key technique for partial discharge online monitoring of cable joint,in order to detect partial discharge of power cable joint in heavy noise environment,an improved Rogowski-winding wideband differential sensor has been developed,and the noise-reject character of wavelet analysis was investigated.The study show that the improved Rogowski-winding wideband differential sensor has the Signal-to-Noise2 and has a sensitivity better than 10 pC.And an online monitoring system was developed,the experimental results compared with the conventional PD detector of type TE 571 show that the test system adopted advanced Rogowski wideband differential sensor and noise-reject technique can acquire the PD signal in a heavy noise environment,the test system also can recognize the cable defects inducing the discharge.


The degradation of PET under different temperature and time were discussed and the effect of different chromatogram columns on detecting of diethylene glycol content were investigated.The results of experiment shows that the DEG content in PET chip can be determined quickly and conveniently by the combination of using hydrazine hydrates to degradate PET chip,using chromosorb 101 as chromatogram columns and the 1,6 hexanediol as internal standard. The relative standard deviation is 2.24 %, the recovery ratio is (101.8±3 1) % and the minimum detecting concentration is 0.064 g/L.


Background: Various types of pathologies from inflammation to carcinoma are known to affect breast tissue in females. Some lesions are common in young females while others are more common in elderly age group. Accurate diagnosis is essential to relieve anxiety of patients. In case of carcinoma, early and accurate diagnosis can save the patient from metastases, thus reducing mortality and morbidity. Aims and objectives: This study is aimed to analyse the histopathological spectrum of various breast lesions and to study the distribution of breast diseases in different age groups and gender in our institute. Materials and Methods: It is a prospective study performed in the Department of pathology at Government Medical College/Government General Hospital Anantapuramu over a period of four years from January 2015 to December 2018. During this period a total of 310 breast specimens were received in the Department of pathology. Histopathological examination of specimens was done to know the spectrum of breast lesions. Results: Out of 310cases, 290cases were female and 20 cases were male. 185 cases were benign breast neoplasms, 123 cases were malignant neoplasms and 02 cases were inflammatory lesions. Among the 185 cases of benign breast neoplasms, 141 cases were fibroadenoma which was the most common benign breast lesion. Out of 123 malignant breast lesions, 2 cases were Duct cell carcinoma in situ and 121 cases were invasive malignant breast lesions. Out of which 97 cases were Invasive ductal carcinoma –NOS subtype which was the most common lesion. Conclusion: 59.68% of breast lesions were benign breast lesions proving to be the majority in incidence. 39.68 % of lesions were malignant breast lesions and 0.64% were inflammatory lesions. Benign lesions were common in second to fourth decade and malignancy in fifth and sixth decades.


What is ASIS? The Ada Semantic Interface Specification (ASIS) is an interface between an Ada environment as defined by ISOKEC 8652 (the Ada 95 Reference Manual) and any tool requiring information from this environment. An Ada environment includes valuable semantic and syntactic information. ASIS is an open and published callable interface which gives C A S E tool and application developers access to this information. ASIS has been designed to be independent o f underlying Ada environment implementations, thus supporting portability of software engineering tools while relieving tool developers f rom having to understand the complexit ies of an Ada environment's proprietary internal representation.


The emerging transactional or protean employment contract appears to have precipitated the development of a careerist orientation on the part of employees. This study examined the generalizability of the construct in a collectivist culture and the potential moderating influence of career growth opportunities on the careerist orientation–work attitude relationships. The results tend to support the generalizability of careerist orientation across cultures and, importantly, showed an absence of a moderating influence for career growth opportunities, suggesting that organizations cannot effectively counter the negative effects of careerist orientation on work attitudes. Limitations of the study, directions for future research, and implication of the findings for organizational dependence on employees as a competitive resource are discussed. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In honor of the retirement of Professor Ta-You Wu from the presidency of the Academia Sinica, I would like to report the recent progress of a new way of formulating quantum field theory. The fields of quantization are group-valued local fields, rather than the conventional Lie-algebra-valued local fields. This new quantum field theory in terms of the group-valued local fields not only contains the conventional quantum field theory in terms of Lie-algebra-valued local fields but also, more importantly, brings out new features of the theory: new symmetries, new quantum bi-module fields, and new quanta the bi-modulons. These are non-perturbative results that are difficult to obtain in the Lie-algebra-valued quantum field theory. Professor Wu has always been an inspiring model for me as a physicist and as a scientist statesman, and has been a warm and encouraging friend. I wish him many, many more years of good health and happiness.


In this paper, a prototype PEM fuel cell vehicle integrated with a 1 kW air-blowing proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) stack as a main power sources has been developed for a lightweight cruising vehicle. The test vehicle is equipped with a PEM fuel cell system that provides electric power to a brushed DC motor. This vehicle was designed to compete with industrial lightweight vehicle with the target of consuming least amount of energy and high performance. Individual variations in driving style have a significant impact on vehicle energy efficiency and it is well established from the literature. The primary aim of this study was to assesses the power and fuel consumption of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle operating at three difference driving technique (i.e. 25 km/h constant speed, 22-28 km/h speed range, 20-30 km/h speed range). The goal is to develop the best driving strategy to maximize performance and minimize fuel consumption for the vehicle system. The relationship between power demand and hydrogen consumption has also been discussed. All the techniques can be evaluated and compared on broadly similar terms. Automatic intelligent controller for driving prototype fuel cell vehicle on different obstacle while maintaining all systems at maximum efficiency was used. The result showed that 25 km/h constant speed was identified for optimal driving with less fuel consumption. Keywords—Prototype fuel cell electric vehicles, energy efficient, control/driving technique, fuel economy.


Objective To analyse and summarize the clinical effect of knee osteoarthritis treated by total knee resurface arthropcasty.Methods 21 patients(29 knees) with osteoarthritis were treated by total knee resurface arthroplasty.13 cases were treated by unilateral total knee arthroplasty,and 8 cases were treated by bilateral total knee arthroplasty.All cases were treated by posterior stabilize prosthesis.Results All patients were followed up for 6~47 months,averaged 22.6 months,and the data were analyzed by the HSS Score system.The results were excellent in 15 cases,good in 5 and fair in 1.The patients′ pain and function were improved effectively after operation.Conclusions Total knee resurface arthroplasty can provide satisfactory result for serious osteoarthritis of knee.The keys of operation are accurate osteotomy,proper release of soft tissue and postoperative exercise of rehabilitation.


This study introduces an adaptive street light system based on sensor units that makes the system cost efficient and reduces the power consumption across highways on the basis of traffic conditions and intensity. The main goal of the system is to develop a power saving and efficient street light system and take a initiative towards generating street light poles smart and intelligent using IoT. Enormous use of street lights is consuming large amount of electricity due to their uninterrupted operation all over the night to manage traffic on daily basis. To minimize the large consumption of electricity across highways there must be a technological system that works smart and modify the street light poles based on traffic conditions. This paper is concerned with evolution and implementation of IoT based smart street lights.


The article focuses on the topical problems related to the analysis of modern Russian and foreign methods of teaching foreign languages in higher education system. The author analyzes the communicative-oriented methods and their role in training a student`s creative personality in modern conditions, in particular, the project method, which is characterized by high communication and implies active involvement of students in practical activities. Some strategic situations associated with teaching of English language communication are taken into account, for example: communicative trend of teaching of all kinds of oral activities and means of language, stimulation of verbal and cogitative activity of students, individualization of learning, contextual organization of teaching process, originality and informative value of teaching materials, formation of communicative competence; interaction and collaboration of students. The aim of the experiment was to provide students with some pedagogical means, enabling them to display their creative activity in different spheres. In the course of the experiment students actualized their creative abilities to understand problems and to work-out the ways of solving them in the process of cognitive search. The author comes to the conclusion that the use of the project methods is effective in providing accessible and communicative-oriented teaching, the main goal of which is not reproduction of the gained knowledge, but the formation of language consciousness, creative thinking and capability to selfactualization.


Based on the corelationship between Military Science of Sun Tzu and business strategies,this article depicts the history and result achieved when Military Science of Sun Tzu is used in business competition,indicates how the two are so closely bound up with each other and expounds with details four significant concepts in Military Science of Sun Tzu:knowledge,estimate,maneuvering and posture.This paper develops new way of thinking on how to combine the core concept in Chinese military science successfully with the practice of modern business management.


ABSTRACT Conventionalists hold that the sorts of events that one survives—such as teletransportation, or a brain transplant—is at least partly determined by our attitudes. But, if Conventionalism is true, whose attitudes directly determine whether one survives? Do the individual's attitudes do all of the work, as Private Conventionalists hold, or do the community's attitudes also contribute, as Public Conventionalists hold? There has recently been a greater push towards Private Conventionalism, while explicit arguments for Public Conventionalism are difficult to find. In this paper, I attempt to rectify the situation by presenting my case for Public Conventionalism.


In the process of reviewing and approving electricity and heat tariffs, a power supply organization goes through several stages, one of which is the approval of the calculation method. In this regard, the article presents the results of the comparative assessment of application of several methods of regulating electricity and heat tariffs: a method of economically feasible costs (expenses); a method of indexing established tariffs; a return on invested capital method; a method of comparing analogues; a simplified calculation method. The results of calculations are analyzed and clearly reflected.


A technique for determining the layer structure and content of clay minerals was developed based on the relationship between temperature, and moisture characteristics of clay minerals. Moisture content in standard specimens, prepared by mixing montmorillonite, kaolinite and quartz in various proportions, was determined by measuring weight loss after heating. Based on the results from differential thermal analysis tests, the ignition loss method was found to be widely applicable to clays with montmorillonite and kaolinite as the main components. Dehydration of constituent water occurred at 530℃ and 800℃ in two- and three-layered clay minerals, respectively.


A variety of traditional and nontraditional selection indices were used to predict the outcome of a graduate-level course in counseling which was specifically designed to improve the students' human relations skills. Multiple correlations of .75 to .80 were found between a measure of training outcome and various combinations of predictors. A series of multiple linear regression analyses indicated that the traditional selection indices (GPA, GRE-Verbal, GRE-Quantitative, Miller Analogies Test) accounted for a very minor amount of the variance in ratings of the final taped interview. In contrast, a newly developed selection measure (trainability index) accounted for almost all of the predictable variance. The need for a new and more efficient predictive model for graduate-level counselor training is discussed.


The Saudi film Roll'em (director Abd al-Illah al-Qurashi, Jeddah, 2019) tells the story of a young would-be film director and his dream to make a film about his native Jeddah. Shot just before the official opening of cinemas in the country, Roll'em was filmed at the beginning of an enormous boost to the Saudi entertainment industry. The film engages the history of filmmaking and cinema in Saudi Arabia, as well as the search by a young generation for historical identity and social participation. Filmmaking and cinema emerge as an important way to make sense of the present. This article positions Roll'em within the current socio-cultural transformation of Saudi Arabia.


Abstract The present study has investigated the effect of mixtures on the nucleate boiling contribution to flow boiling inside vertical tubes at low vapor qualities, operating conditions typical of vertical thermosyphon reboilers. The mass diffusion process created by the composition difference between the vapor and liquid phases was found to impede the boiling process and substantially reduce the nucleate boiling heat transfer contribution to flow boiling in mixtures. Two widely quoted flow boiling mixture correction factors were tested against a published set of experimental data for ethanol/cyclohexane mixtures and were determined to be only partially reliable. Instead, several theoretically based nucleate pool boiling mixture correlations were shown to be accurate for flow boiling conditions and are recommended for design use.


Over 40% of older people admitted to acute care experience physical and/or cognitive hospital-associated decline (HAD). People with cognitive vulnerabilities (dementia, delirium) are at particular risk of HAD due to longer hospital stays, use of psychotic medication, boredom, and separation from family. We aimed to implement and evaluate a new 'Health and Wellbeing Health Care Assistant (HWB-HCA) role as part of a multidisciplinary older adult ward team to provide positive stimulation for cognitively vulnerable patients.

 The HWB-HCA role was funded by the South/South-West Hospital Group. It combines elements of the standard HCA role (personal care, nutrition, mobilisation etc.) with protected time (four hours per day) for cognitive distraction activities tailored to the individual patient. Interactions start with the HWB-HCA, family and patient completing the Sunflower tool to identify personal interests, dislikes, and triggers for distressed behaviour. Individual activities at the bedside are planned and driven by the patient's interest. The multiple methods evaluation includes audit of psychotic prescribing, observation, patient and family feedback, and staff interviews.

 To date, the HWB-HCA has delivered 130 structured sessions (72 hours) to 14 patients (median hospital stay 22 days). Activities include chatting, reading, prayers, painting, creative writing, exercise, hand massage. Patients' reactions are overwhelmingly positive (smiling, laughing, engaged, more relaxed). The role is positively viewed by families, one testimony- 'she is amazing, so patient, I don't know how she does it'. Monthly point prevalence audit of PRN psychotic indicates a reduction (mean 5.5% vs 9% in the previous six-month). Lack of social space and staff shortages remain the biggest challenge to operationalising the role.

 The HWB-HCA has been a positive innovation enabling a wider range of non-pharmacological activities to reduce incidents of distressed behaviour managed by psychotic prescribing.


Identifying effective, evidence-based practices is essential for ensuring students' amelioration in all aspects of learning. Since the first call of inclusively educational settings, many students with different disabilities have been gaining knowledge through the core instruction of general education classroom. Accordingly, these individuals have the right to access this type of instruction, and build their knowledge with the strategic techniques presented by the teacher to scaffold information for students, especially those with autism. The purpose of the current investigation is to review the literature that identifies pedagogical practices and empirically based strategies to ensure success of students with autism by developing their learning skills such as writing. The lack of adequate writing skill is a significant predictor of students who are at risk of failure. This is due to the fact that writing is a representative of students' learning. This review of literature presents the effectiveness of using electronic writing journals for students with autism to improve their writing skill for more successful literal learning in inclusive environments.


Due to the great utility showed by the invariant latitude as an ordering parameter for trapped radiation, it is generally consider that this parameter can always substitute the three coordinates of a point in order to have its magnetic classification which allow us to infer the characteristics of the behavior of the charged particles observed at that point. The purpose of this work is to show that in many cases (mainly the study of particles of low and mean energies coming from the interplanetary  medium into the magnetosphere) the knowledge of the invariant latitude ot a point in not sufficient to deduce the propagation characteristics of the particles observed at a given point.  The precise position of the point on the earth or its height over the surface determine differences between the directions of viewing and point of entry of the particles observed at   there and those for particles observed at another point with the same invariant latitude but in different  location.


Voltage sags are short duration reductions in rms voltage caused by short circuits, overloads and starting of large motors. Voltage sag is much more of a global problem. For proper analysis and mitigation of voltage sag, their characterization is important. The magnitude and durations are main characteristics of voltage sag. In this paper voltage sag and their characteristics have been presented in a comprehensive way. How voltage sags occur, what are their characteristics and impact on equipments behavior for different conditions.


The report evaluates the operation of freeway high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes in Texas through calendar year 1993. As of the end of 1993, HOV lanes were in operation of the five following Houston freeways: (1) Katy Freeway (I-10W); (2) North Freeway (I-45N); (3) Northwest Freeway (U.S. 290); (4) Gulf Freeway (I-45S); and (5) Southwest Freeway (U.S. 59S). The only HOV facility in operation in Dallas as of the end of 1993 was on the East R. L. Thornton Freeway (I-30E). The research report provides an analysis of data related to the: (1) operation of the HOV lanes; (2) operation of the freeway mainlanes; (3) combined HOV lane and freeway data; and (4) data relating to transit usage and operations. Both a `before` and `after` trend line analysis (where applicable) and a comparison to control freeways are used as a means of assessing the impacts of the HOV facilities.


An experimental analysis of the focusing of a continuous electron beam, induced by the mutual interaction with charges produced by electron impact, is presented. The phenomenon has been observed by measuring the beam current on two different detector active areas as a function of the gas pressure in H[sub 2] and D[sub 2]. The stationary solutions of a three-fluid model, already developed, allow us to measure the maximum beam density. Moreover, we carry out information about the main processes responsible for ionization and their cross sections in the case of a three-component quasiequilibrium plasma.


Abstract : In this grant electronic structure and transport properties of several magnetic rare earth compounds such as Er and Gd pnictides were investigated by means of several first-principle and model techniques. Several other potentially important magnetic compounds such as MnAl, MnGa, and GaMnAs were also considered. All these materials can be grown epitaxially on GaAs or other conventional semiconductors thus forming magnetic heterostructures or nanocomposites. Our work provided solid theoretical background for a number of new experiments and significantly improved understanding of some recently discovered phenomena such as: - Shubnikov-DeHaas oscillations in bulk ErAs - Spin-dependent resonant tunneling in GaAs/ErAs double-barrier heterostructures - Colossal magnetoresistance in GaAs/ErAs nanocomposites. We have also resolved several materials science issues such as: - Schottky barrier formation at GaAs/ErAs interfaces - Magnetic anisotropy of MnAl and MnGa - Growth of self-assembled MnAl quantum dots on GaAs Our work identifies several important applications related to spin-dependent transport in semiconductor-based magnetic heterostructures and nanocomposites.


The data from a range of large trials (LEADER, EMPA-REG, CANVAS) show evidently the practical use of the modern glucose lowering drugs usage for successful management of cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes (DM2) patients. The article is focused on analysis and review of possible mechanisms and benefits of cardiovascular risk reduction in DM2 with prescription of the antagonist of glucagonlike peptide 1 — liraglutide (Victoza®).


An equality of particle and antiparticle gravitational interactions holds in general relativity and is supported by indirect observations. Here I develop a method based on high energy Compton scattering to measure the gravitational interaction of accelerated charged particles. Within that formalism the Compton spectra measured at HERA rule out the positron's anti-gravity and hint for a positron's 1.3(0.2)\% weaker coupling to the gravitational field relative to an electron.


Pyrolytic dissociation of trimethylgallium (TMGa) on Si, Au, and Al substrates was studied at various temperatures from 80 to 670 K by x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy of Ga (3d) and C (1s). The intensity and band profile of carbon and gallium signals from TMGa adsorbed on the substrates were measured. The results indicate that TMGa on Si (111) dissociates into Ga and CH3 on the substrate even at 200 K and CH3 further dissociates into C, CH, and CH2 at higher temperatures. Most carbon and gallium species remain on the Si substrate. Carbon species leave the Au and Al substrate but Ga remains on the surface. The pyrolysis of TMGa on GaAs (100), Si (111), and Si (100) substrates is compared and the mechanism of carbon incorporation in photolysis and pyrolysis is discussed. Photodissociation of a monolayer of TMGa on Si and Au is observed with an incident wavelength of 266 nm; direct absorption by the adsorbed molecules occurs at this wavelength. At 355 nm, photodissociation does not occur.


Abstract The global campaign by the World Health Organization in the context of the World No Tobacco Day 2022 bears the theme "Tobacco: A threat to environment". It raises concerns on environmental issues related to tobacco use which is also a public health problem. This is a call to tobacco control advocates to work together with environment protection activists to federate multi-stakeholder collaborative advocacy work for stringent tobacco control strategies worldwide.


In this paper,the provisions of the lawyer's prior intervention in the Criminal Procedure Law were introduced.The importance of the lawyer's prior intervention was analyzed and its essentials were illustrated.The author summarized the present situation of the lawyer's prior intervention in the judicial practices,pointed out some problems and its primary reasons.At the end of this paper,some practical methods to improve the implementation of the lawyer's prior intervention were proposed accordingly.


The cytokeratin (CK)7−/CK20+ immunoprofile is characteristic of colorectal carcinoma (CRC), although CK7+ or CK20− phenotypes are occasionally encountered, particularly in histologically variant CRCs. We analyzed CK7/CK20 profiles in variant CRCs in association with clinicopathologic parameters and prognosis.


Abstract This paper considers four simultaneous recurrent conditions. They are imposed on a family of Markov chains with a countable state space. Several relationships among them will be obtained. These facts mean that they are sufficient for the existence and the continuity of the deviation matrices of the Markov chains.


Growing other metals on decahedral nanoparticles (NPs) is an important approach to synthesize segmental multimetallic nanorods (NRs) with a penta-fold twinned (PFT) structure. So far, only limited such structures, e.g., Ag–Au–Ag and Pd–Ag or Pd–Cu PFT NRs, can be realized by this approach. To explore more multimetallic structures is important for both synthesizing more multimetallic NRs with a PFT structure for various potential applications and understanding their formation mechanism. Herein, we report the synthesis of Pd–Au–Pd segmental NRs with controlled sizes by growing Pd atoms on Au decahedra using hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and I– as growth modifiers. The growth mechanism of Pd–Au–Pd PFT NRs was investigated systematically. It was figured out that the growth of Pd–Au–Pd NRs was determined by two competitions (CTAB competes with I– in complexing with H2PdCl4 and in adsorbing on Au decahedra). It is also demonstrated that Au–Pd–Au NRs had higher activity than commercial Pd/C catalyst ...


The invention relates to the technical field of simulation, in particular to a real-time semi-physical simulation system and a data acquisition method thereof. The invention adopts the technical scheme that the simulation system also comprises a DAQ device which acquires data of a hardware real object and is connected with the hardware real object; and after acquiring the data of the hardware real object, the DAQ device transmits the data to a host of a simulation platform. The data of the hardware real object are acquired by the DAQ device and then transmitted to the host of the simulation platform to carry out on-line adjustment. The method effectively solves the real-time problem of the complex simulation system, and can be widely applied to the semi-physical simulation system.


The philosophy of Linnaeus;s classification, Systema Naturae, is briefly reviewed, as well as those of post-Linnaean systems of plant classification. Texts of current codes of nomenclature pertaining to hierarchy, including associated rank terminations, are compared.


2014 We present classifications and examples of measures with possible infinite values defined on a quantum logic of all closed subspaces of an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. Moreover, it is shown that any singular bilinear form generates no Gleason measure. The necessary and sufficient conditions in order that a positive symmetric bilinear form generates a Gleason measure are given. For a separable Hilbert space these results are due to Lugovaja [1 ], [2 ]. RESUME.2014 Nous presentons une classification et des exemples de mesures avec valeurs possibles infinies qui sont definies sur une logique quantique d'un Hilbert espace de dimension infinie. On montre qu'une forme sesquilinéaire singuliere ne genere aucune mesure de Gleason. On presente les conditions necessaires et suffisantes pour qu'une forme positive symetrique sesquilineaire genere une mesure de Gleason. Pour Fespacede Hilbert separable ces conditions sont dues a Lugovaja [1 ], [2 ].


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Adolescents continue to present a dilemma for the human service system. Although the youth population has declined in recent years, the severity and frequency of need within the existing population continues to increase. Physical abuse, substance abuse, early pregnancy, suicide, poor school performance—all are growing adolescent concerns. However, tradi tional treatment techniques and settings often are inappropriate for the needs of adolescents. Although community rec reation centers are frequented by adolescents, particularly early adoles cents, traditionally structured treatment systems have difficulty reaching needy or at-risk teenagers. The gist of the problem with abused and neglected teens is a lack of trust (MacKinnon & Michels, 1971; Saund ers, 1984). Given their developmental history, it is reasonable for these teens to mistrust parental figures, to discount the ability of a parental figure to be there to help, and to dismiss the value of emotional expression in meeting per sonal needs. Outdoor adventure pro grams can help these troubled youths to gain some needed development in fun damental areas because of the natural settings where important interactions can take place.


In this paper, we investigate the existence and asymptotic behavior of least energy sign-changing solutions for the following Schrodinger-Poisson system \begin{document}$ \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u+V(x)u+\lambda\phi(x)u = |u|^4u+ f(u),\ \ \ &\ x \in \mathbb{R}^{3},\\ -\Delta \phi = u^2, \ \ \ &\ x \in \mathbb{R}^{3}, \end{cases} \end{equation*} $\end{document} where \begin{document}$ \lambda>0 $\end{document} is a parameter. Under some suitable conditions on \begin{document}$ f $\end{document} and \begin{document}$ V $\end{document} , we get a least energy sign-changing solution \begin{document}$ u_\lambda $\end{document} via variational method and its energy is strictly larger than twice that of least energy solutions. Moreover, the asymptotic behavior of \begin{document}$ u_\lambda $\end{document} as \begin{document}$ \lambda\rightarrow 0^+ $\end{document} is also analyzed.


Simple Summary The contact point between the Hippo pathway, which serves as a central hub for various external environments, and O-GlcNAcylation, which is a non-canonical glycosylation process acting as a dynamic regulator in various signal transduction pathways, has recently been identified. This review aims to summarize the function of O-GlcNAcylation as an intrinsic and extrinsic regulator of the Hippo pathway. Abstract The balance between cellular proliferation and apoptosis and the regulation of cell differentiation must be established to maintain tissue homeostasis. These cellular responses involve the kinase cascade-mediated Hippo pathway as a crucial regulator. Hence, Hippo pathway dysregulation is implicated in diverse diseases, including cancer. O-GlcNAcylation is a non-canonical glycosylation that affects multiple signaling pathways through its interplay with phosphorylation in the nucleus and cytoplasm. An abnormal increase in the O-GlcNAcylation levels in various cancer cells is a potent factor in Hippo pathway dysregulation. Intriguingly, Hippo pathway dysregulation also disrupts O-GlcNAc homeostasis, leading to a persistent elevation of O-GlcNAcylation levels, which is potentially pathogenic in several diseases. Therefore, O-GlcNAcylation is gaining attention as a protein modification that regulates the Hippo pathway. This review presents a framework on how O-GlcNAcylation regulates the Hippo pathway and forms a self-perpetuating cycle with it. The pathological significance of this self-perpetuating cycle and clinical strategies for targeting O-GlcNAcylation that causes Hippo pathway dysregulation are also discussed.


Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae strains isolated from pigs during the period from 1974 to 1982 were serotyped and examined for their susceptibility to 21 antimicrobial drugs. Of 109 field isolates in Japan and surrounding countries (Japan; 105, Korea; 2, Taiwan; 2), 105 strains were of serovar 2, two were of serovar 3, and the remaining two were of serovar 5. The great majority of the field isolates, 107 strains, were highly susceptible to penicillins, chloramphenicol, tetracyclines, rifampicin, trimethoprim and furazolidon. These strains were also susceptible to cephalexin and colistin. However, susceptibilities to aminoglycosides, macrolides, sulfamonomethoxine and nalidixic acid were not so high. The ramaining two strains were found to be drug-resistant; strain Hp1 was resistant to penicillin, tetracycline, streptomycin and sulfonamide, and strain 966 was resistant to streptomycin and sulfonamide. The former was identified as serovar 3 and the latter was serovar 5. All the 105 strains of serovar 2 were durg-sensitive, and no increase in the resistance of this organism had been observed during the period from 1974 to 1982.


Inverse heat conduction method is a technique to determine heat flux and surface temperature on an inaccessible surface of wall by measuring the temperature on an accessible boundary. The objective of this paper is to develop a method by which stable prediction of heat transfer on an inaccessible boundary could be obtained without altering the thermal boundary condition that would have existed were sensor not present. In this work, three points backward finite difference applied to the 1-D heat equation for large slab and long cylinder with constant thermophysical properties and uniform initial temperature. The numerical solutions of the heat equations are performed with symbolic Maple software. It is demonstrated that approximate temperature distributions for the three bodies are equivalent to analytical solution using first term series solution. It is also shown that the series solution converge rapidly for long times, and for Fo > 0.2, ony the first term of the series nned to be retained for 2% accuracy.Copyright © 2013 by ASME


UV-C laser diodes (LDs) have not been realized for many years owing to the problems of crystal quality and p-type conductivity control. In our group, AlGaN-based LD structures with low dislocation density were fabricated using AlN single-crystal substrates, and a p-type cladding layer with sufficient hole concentration was realized without impurities doped by distributed polarization doping (DPD). As a result, we have demonstrated pulsed current injection UV-C LDs at room temperature. We have also developed an on-wafer process technology to solve the problems of LDs manufactured by the conventional cleavage method. The key points of this method are the flatness of mirror facets, their angle to the cavity, and the coating of distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) on the mirror facets formed perpendicular to the wafer. The method is a combination of dry etching and TMAH wet etching to selectively expose the m-plane, and the DBR fabrication by atomic layer deposition (ALD) which provides good coverage. The LDs fabricated by the on-wafer method were observed to lase in the UV-C region when a pulsed current was injected similarly to the LDs fabricated by the cleavage method. These results indicate the potential of not only the realization of UV-C LDs but also for the fabrication of devices using high-Al-composition AlGaN with p-type conductivity and optical integrated circuits.


Objective:To explore the effects of prophylaxis of Omeprasole(O) and ranitidine(R) on stress bleeding following operations of head injury. Method:90cases with mild and severe head injury scoring from 12 to 4(GCS) were randomizedly divided into the contrast group(n=30) and two drug treated groups(n=30),which were treated respectively with L (40mg·d 1 ,iv.drip), R (150mg/12h,iv.drip). The clinical hemorrhage degree was observated. Results:The effects of prophylaxis on stress bleeding in L group and R group were respectively 96.7%, 93.3%.The difference between the drug treated groups with the contras group(76.7%) were significant(P0.05). After exerting extra dose, bleeding can stop in all the 5 bleeding cases of the L group, but can't stop in 4/7 of the R group. Conclusion:Both omeprasole and ranitidine have effect of prophylaxis on stress bleeding following operations in head injury patients. Their prophylaxis effects are nearly eguivalent,but the effect of stopping bleeding of O is higher than R.


This paper describes a method for the determination of the four grasping points that are necessary to get a force closure grasp for a planar object considering frictionless contacts. The geometric model of the object is assumed to be unknown. The proposed approach starts from the object boundary obtained from the binary digitalization of an object image, and then uses the dual representation of forces and the dual-force space span for the determination of the grasping points.


In order to reduce the dependence on fuel imports as well as CO2-emissions, islands are switching from diesel to renewable generation. Energy storage systems are used to avoid curtailment of the renewable generation as well as to reduce cycling of the diesel generator. This paper evaluates the operation of a modular, low temperature adiabatic compressed air system (KompEx LTA-CAES ®) on El Hierro using mixedinteger linear programming. Optimal dimensions for charging power and storage capacity are determined and a sensitivity analysis concerning fuel prices and storage efficiency is presented. The economic situation is assessed for the KompEx LTA-CAES as well as for the existing pumped hydro storage.


Percoll-purified rat Leydig cells' (Fraction 111, p = 1.072 glml) were cultured for 0-3 days in either 0.7 cm ( 1 x 104 cells/O. 1 ml medium) or I .6 cm (0.5 x 10s cells/ 0.5 ml medium) wells containing the following media. (a) Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) containing NaHC03 (3.7 gA), BSA (0. I%) and kanamycin (0.1 mg/rnl), incubated at 32°C in 10% C02:90% air. (b) Ham's-FI2 medium 1: 1 with DMEM containing 4.5 g gIucoseA together with NaHC03 (4.88 gA), HEPES (15 mM), kanamycin (0. I mglml), and a cocktail composed of transfemn (5 pg/ ml), insulin (5 pg/ml), and EGF (10 ng/ml). (c) DMEM (medium a) 1 : I with spent medium (charcoal treated 4°C 10 min; filter sterilized) removed from purified rat Leydig tumor cells maintained in culture. (d) medium as in (b) but containing 5% FCS in place of cocktail. Cells maintained in media (b)-(d) were incubated at 32°C in 5%:95% air. Cells were stimulated for 2 hr with sheep lutropin (NIH, S20 1.9 of NIH-Sl/mg) (100 ng/ml final concentration) and the media assayed for testosterone production by RIA.* Parallel cultures were incubated for 3 hr at 37°C with [6-3H]thymidine (2 pCi/ml), trypsinized, and counted in a hemocytometer. Media (a) and (b) maintained a comparable cellular steroidogenic potential up to day 3 when the response in (a) was between 17-20% that on days 1 and 2, whereas in medium (b) the reduction was 50%. Most of the cells were rcunded on day 0 with a small proportion elongating by day I , whilst the majority had elongated by day 2. A number of the cells displayed broad cytoplasmic extensions. On days 0 and 1, cells in media (c) and (d) responded similarly to those above but were significantly inhibited by day 2 (3% of day I in (c) and 2% of day 1 in (d)). Stimulated values were similar for medium (c) whether or not the spent medium was charcoal treated, but basal levels were markedly reduced after treatment. In the presence of spent medium (c) a number of the cells were seen to elongate as soon as four hours after initial plating in contrast to those in FCS supplemented medium, where elongation was first observed on day 1. However by day 2 cells maintained in both media had formed complex lattices, the cells displaying long broad cytoplasmic extensions. A greater proportion of rounded cells remained in medium (d). Preliminary results indicated that when compared to values obtained for medium (a) thymidine uptake was potentiated in cells maintained in medium containing growth factors, as well as serum-supplemented media. [6-3HlThymidine up-


Bio-diesel has been developed rapidly as it is a recycle energy, and it is has good environmental and combustion benefits. The application of bio-diesel on a 4102QBZ turbo-charge diesel engine is studied in this paper, The test results shows that bio-diesel is an ideal substitutive fuel on diesel engine, it could reduce particle, smoke, HC and CO emission.


The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is applied to the embossed release liner layer, an adhesive resin to be used in the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is applied to the embossed release liner, in the pressure-sensitive adhesive resin polymerization of an acrylic monomer and a solvent, wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive resin has a molecular weight to 1,000,000 or more, 23 ℃, 3000cps solution based on the solid matter content of 22% or less, the adhesive resin by using, according to the present invention to minimize the appearance defect phenomenon resulting from a non-uniform surface of the release liner layer appearance quality is excellent pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet the pressure sensitive adhesive resin composition for It can provide. Pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, the release liner, the embossing, and the molecular weight, solid content, appearance


To the Editors: Q uetiapine is an atypical antipsychotic indicated for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, both manic and depressive episodes. Quetiapine is also widely used off label for treatment of various psychiatric disorders. Angioedema is characterized by swelling of deep dermis and subcutaneous tissues without itching, often seen around the eyes, lips, and genitals where subcutaneous tissue is loose. Histamine and bradykinin release by stimulation of mast cells via foods, drugs, infections, and physical stimuli lead to vascular permeability and dilatation. Drug-related angioedema is most commonly seen with ACE inhibitors and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs. Here, we report a male patient with angioedema associated with quetiapine.


This report describes the realisation and implementation of working procedures in compliance with Good Laboratory Practice, as performed by the Central Animal Facility of Division II Pharmacology and Toxicology. This report froms a basis for a quality system with the pivot aim to meet Sterlab requirements.


Fish play a crucial role in the Bangladeshi diet, providing more than 60% of animal source food, representing a crucial source of micro-nutrients and possessing an extremely strong cultural attachment. In this study isolation and identification of Aeromionas hydrophila was done by studying cultural properties, Gram's staining and biochemical properties of isolates of diseased indigenous Koi fish ( Anabas testudineus ) of different upazillas of Mymensingh district. Antibiogram profile of the isolated bacteria was studied by using wide range of commercially available antibiotics. Quantitative study of bacteria isolated from diseased indigenous Koi fish showed variation of number in different organ. Total bacterial load was found to be 1.90 × 105, 1.19 × 105, 3.21 × 105, 2.18 × 106 and 3.14 × 105 cfu/g in lesions; 2.52 × 107, 2.34 × 108, 5.41 × 108, 2.54 × 109 and 5.21 × 109 cfu/g in liver; 2.54 × 108, 2.41 × 108, 1.90 × 107, 3.65 × 107 and 3.45 × 108 cfu/g in spleen; 3.51 × 107, 5.28 × 107, 3.14 × 106, 1.85 × 107 and 4.52× 107 cfu/g in kidney in diseased Koi of Mymensingh sadar, Muktagacha, Tarakanda, Gouripur and Fulpur upazillas, respectively under Mymensingh districts. Aeromonas hydrophila was initially identified by their specific morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics. Then molecular detection of A. hydrophila was done by PCR. PCR products of desired 760 bp were obtained for A. hydrophila . The results of the antibiotic sensitivity test is exhibited that most of the bacterial samples were sensitive against ciprofloxacin (92%) and levofloxacin (84%), intermediate resistant against gentamicin (40%) and resistant against novobiocin (84%), ampicillin (100%) and penicillin (92%). Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. June 2016, 2(2): 332-340


The molecular mechanism of dielectrically controlled resolution (DCR) observed in the resolution of (RS)-2-methylpyrrolidine (1) by (R,R)-tartaric acid (2) was studied. (R)-1 and (S)-1 were preferentially resolved from water/ethanol mixed solvents of different compositions with ∈ = 24.4 and 30, respectively. The X-ray analysis of two resolved salts, i.e., (R)-1:(R,R)-2 and (S)-1:(R,R)-2:H 2 O, was undertaken, and their crystal structures were compared in detail. The carboxyl groups of (R,R)-2 are engaged in strong negative-charge-assisted intermolecular hydrogen bonds, and (R,R)-2 forms similar layers in both crystal structures. The space between the layers in (S)-1:(R,R)-2:H 2 O is larger than that in (R)-1:(R,R)-2. (R)-1 and (S)-1 are recognized in the chiral spaces formed between the layers of (R,R)-2. Molecular mechanics calculations showed that the chiral spaces formed in the crystals (S)-1:(R,R)-2 and (R)-1:(R,R)-2 are more suitable to accommodate (S)-1 and (R)-1 than (R)-1 and (S)-1, respectively. The present study has strongly suggested that DCR is a common phenomenon.


Objectives: Shared decision making (SDM) is recommended as one method to assist men in making an informed decision about prostate cancer screening (PCS). SDM preferences for PCS have not been evaluated among African‐American (AA) men. Given AA men's increased risk and the uncertainty surrounding screening, it is critical to determine how to assist AA men in making an informed decision. We assessed the extent to which a sample of AA men wished to engage in SDM regarding PCS and the demographic and psychological characteristics associated with SDM preferences.


The transparent hydrophobic FAS-SiO2 film was prepared on the glass surface by sol-gel processing. The effects of SiO2 films and its raised speed, FAS films on the hydrophobic property of the film were studied, whose surface morphology was investigated by atom force microscope (AFM). The experimental results showed that the influential factors were as following: SiO2 filmsraised speedFAS films. When SiO2 film increased, the glass improved its hydrophobic property; the glass coated with FAS-SiO2 film had 122°contact angle, with better hydrophobic property compared with the glass coated with SiO2. The glass was 80% higher photic rate of visible light; while the average grainsize of SiO2 coated on the surface of the glass was in the range of nano scale.


Apollo Vredestein manufactures and sells high quality tyres. To be able to compete, it is crucial for Apollo Vredestein to improve their efficiency and with that lower the costs per tyre. To achieve both lower costs per tyre and a higher throughput, we decided to improve performance by following the concept called Theory of Constraints. We executed the first three steps of the process of ongoing improvement. We set up a bottleneck identification process and identified the current bottleneck. We performed a root cause analysis and defined a focus of improvement for the bottleneck machine. We also present options to improve the accuracy of the inventory and we discussed inventory control policies, so that Apollo Vredestein can ensure that the machine has the right materials at the right time.


The main purpose of the health care system is to maintain and improve the health of the population. Staffing is the main resource of the health care system, which allows to achieve the set goals and objectives. In this regard, it is of interest to identify the links between the human and resource capacity of health care and the level of population health, which can indicate the rationality of implementation of health-preserving technologies.Aim: To establish a link between the levels of resource and staff potential of the health care system and population health in the Arkhangelsk region over the period 2010–2020.Material and Methods. Population health indicators (incidence, life expectancy at birth, total fertility rate, infant mortality, maternal mortality) and health system indicators (availability of doctors, beds, capacity of outpatient clinics, number of nurses) were used as the material. Autocorrelation functions, cross-correlation functions, autoregressive integrated moving average were used to identify relationships.Results. Resource and staffing indicators have no significant correlation with population health levels in the Arkhangelsk region over the period 2010-2020.Conclusion. Our study found no significant links between indicators of the resource and staff capacity of the health care system and population health in the Arkhangelsk Region over the period 2010–2020, which may be due to the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the data used.


DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A WIND TUNNEL by Chang Ge The wind tunnel is the most fundamental test equipment for aircraft testing and studying aerodynamics. Because of the complexity of the test-subject's geometry, it is difficult to study the aerodynamic pattern simply based on theoretical calculations. Most of the aerodynamics experiments still use wind tunnels. The progress of the wind tunnel is highly related to the advancements in air crafts. Aircraft manufacturing has pushed the wind tunnel technology forward. Wind tunnels can be categorized by the wind speed limit differences, which are controlled by the mechanism of the driving methods, structure applications, etc. In this case, we built a small scale wood based wind tunnel for future testing of "Magnetic Augmented Rotational System (MARS)". This thesis discusses the low speed wind tunnel, subsonic wind tunnel, transonic wind tunnel, supersonic wind tunnel, hypersonic wind tunnel, high enthalpy hypersonic wind tunnel, and puts the focus on low speed wind tunnel. The characteristics of the low speed wind tunnel and the related data will be presented along with its advantages and shortcomings. DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A WIND TUNNEL


The research dealt with the topic  representations of the ruling icon in modern European painting  which concerned the issue of ruling icons through their employment and uses in European painting, and included four chapters: the first of which concerned the methodological framework of the research, and contained the research problem in which light was highlighted on (the ruling icons in Modern European painting), and the research problem was identified by answering the following question: What are the ruling icons in modern European painting? As for the second chapter, it included the theoretical framework, which contained two sections, the first included the concept of the ruling icon, while the second chapter included the ruling icon in modern European painting, while the third chapter was concerned with the research procedures, and the fourth chapter contained results and conclusions, including:

The icon in European painting relied on the emotional impact of colors and shapes, and the artist used a way to communicate their inner feelings such as fear and sadness, and their works became .
Contemporary painters added the religious figure in their works, and this employment came to bear key characteristics .

  The icon took its place in the contemporary arts, which were able to develop forms that carry iconographic connotations with religious dimensions, in principle, to serve the secrets of the faith or to simplify its concepts and consolidate them in the minds of the societies that we see to this day as a system immortalized by legends.


Abstract The world is facing the worst health crisis in modern history. In addition to general concerns about the effects of COVID-19 on health, hospital personnel are developing numerous mental health conditions. This cross-sectional survey study evaluated the prevalence and severity of anxiety caused by the COVID-19 pandemic using the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) in 2136 hospital employees. For the employees who presented scores ranging from 1–20 (n = 1090, 51%), the CAS mean score was 4.22 (SD = 3.95). The mean score was higher in women than men. By work category, non-clinical hospital personnel presented the highest CAS scores.


Syntactic and semantic interoperability is a fundamental requirement for the success of the Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Smart Water Networks (SWNs). Still, whilst consuming publicly accessible IoT data, the syntactic and semantic representation of the collected data poses challenges for the success of pervasive and ubiquitous sensing in the water domain. Challenges include the heterogeneity of data representation formats, semantic models, and the adoption of domain-specific standards and ontologies. These challenges emphasise the requirement for enhanced interoperability in SWNs. To address this, we propose a Data and Information Interoperability Model (DIIM) by combining the Semantic Web technologies, widely known for overcoming interoperability issues, and Model-driven architecture (MDA) approach. DIIM facilitates syntactic inter-operability by serialization conversion and adoption of domain-specific standards as well as semantic interoperability of metadata by aligning the semantic models of IoT and Smart Water Network (SWN) applications. Furthermore, it automatically creates an ontology as a semantic model if it is missing and adds references to existing domain-specific ontologies as annotation in their models. We evaluate DIIM methodology by applying it to a real-world use case of IoT-enabled applications for water quality monitoring.


Metal-insulator-semiconductor solar cells have been studied on silicon. The emphasis in this report is on M-I-S cells fabricated on n-type silicon. Results for M-S cells on this material have been poor to-date with efficiencies of only about 2% having been achieved at open circuit voltages of 0.250 volts. Using M-I-S cells on n-type silicon efficiencies of almost 9% have been obtained at open circuit voltages of better than 0.4 volts. Increase in the short circuit current has also been seen.


Summary ultrasonic welding device and method of producing the disposable diaper using the same is provided an ultrasonic welding device which enables to simplify the configuration and control to an ultrasonic horn and anvil approach each other and depart from each other. the shift mechanism includes: a mechanism for urging urging an anvil roller (10) toward an ultrasonic horn (6) such that the output surface (6e) and a welding surface (10d) closer toward normal thereof; and pressing member (18) having guide surfaces (21a, 23a) against which the outer surface of the roller anvil (10) positioned within the areas of non solder (e2, e4) are pressed by a force of urging mechanism urging the pressing member (18) being fixed to a sheet holding roller (5) in a state in which a pressed surface (21a) is arranged in the direction of gap width of a slit (6d) . in response to movement of the anvil roller (10) from a welding area (e3) to the areas of non solder (e2, e4), the guide surfaces (21a, 23a) of the pressing member (18) guide anvil roll (10) in a direction in which the exit surface (6e) and the weld surface (10d) away from each other.


From the age of 4 a boy repeatedly feigned epileptic fits. He later admitted that his mother had taught him that he was epileptic and had trained him to behave like that.


It is very important to determine the key strata and its fracture of roof rocks to control.Taking Baijiao mine as an example,it is used three methods which are analog simulation experiment,key strata theory and numerical simulation to calculate the key strata and its fracture of hard and soft composite roofs.The results show that the first hard strata to the third hard strata break one after another,which are inferior strata in the roof.The fourth hard strata to the sixth hard strata are the combined key strata;and the average interval of roofing breaking is 114 m.Breakage of the key strata over this working face leads to strata behavior when it is progressed at 108.2 m.Meanwhile,it can determine the key strata and interval of roofing breaking of hard and soft combined roofs accurately with the three methods;and it can provide references to working face support and ground pressure control.


Lawyers and Legal Education in Hungary during the Period of 1919–1944
 The essay recalls the professional activities of Hungarian lawyers between 1919


Kinetic, equilibrium, and transport experiments were performed to quantify pentachlorophenol (PCP) adsorption and mobility in water-saturated soil columns. The effect of natural dissolved organic matter (NDOM, <0.1 mg/L or 15 mg/L) found in groundwater was investigated. While the pH was found to greatly affect the adsorption of PCP, the adsorption rate was not affected by NDOM at either pH 5.4 or pH 6.3. For a low concentration range (PCP <0,4 nmol/mL), the effect of NDOM on PCP adsorption isotherms was negligeable at pH 5.2, 5.4, and 6.1. The breakthrough curves (BTCs) obtained from displacement studies were fitted to the analytical solution of a one-dimensional transport model that assumes a linear isotherm


Real estate purchases can be made on an individual basis or in a diversified form through partnerships or real estate investment trusts.


Background
To analyze oncologic outcomes and reconstruction quality in locally advanced stage breast cancer after performing immediate autologous breast reconstruction (IABR).

Methods
From 2007 to 2014, data of patients aged ≤70 years old with stage II-III breast cancer who received total mastectomy (TM) were extracted from medical records. Exclusion criteria were: previous contralateral breast cancer, follow-up loss before adjuvant therapy completion, and artificial reconstruction. Patients were divided into two groups: (I) TM alone, and (II) TM + IABR. Overall survival (OS) and loco-regional recurrence free survival (LRRFS) were calculated. Times of minor revision, abnormal image findings in breast, and change of breast height were observed.

Results
Sixty-one of 188 patients received IABR after TM. Stage IIIB-C was the most important prognostic factor for OS (P<0.001) and LRRFS (P<0.001). For stage II, five-year TM and TM + IABR OS rates were 96.8% and 100% (P=0.324), respectively. For stage IIIB-C, five-year TM and TM + IABR OS rates were 57.6% and 62.5% (P=0.544), respectively. For stage II, five-year TM and TM + IABR LRRFS were 98.1% and 95.7% (P=0.998), respectively. For stage IIIB-C, five-year TM and TM + IABR LRRFS were 70.8% and 62.5% (P=0.378), respectively. Two major complications were observed after IABR. Minor revisions, abnormal image findings, and change of breast height were common without showing significant relation with adjuvant radiotherapy or tumor stage.

Conclusions
IABR showed feasible oncologic outcomes in 5-year follow-up. Adjuvant radiotherapy had little effect on quality of reconstruction. However, IABR in advanced stage should be cautiously applied considering expected survival and minor problems after IABR.


The authors question the current role of student affairs in higher education, offering a new vision and a new challenge for the profession.


A watershed is an area encompassing rivers and tributaries, which functions as a container, a reservoir, a water drainage system, and a home for human activities and other living things, either living on the banks of the river or living in a watershed. This research is a qualitative descriptive study that used interviews and questionnaires to collect the data. This study examined four main factors in Deli Watershed Management: stakeholders' capacity level, knowledge levels, attitudes, and the gap in watershed management. The t-test result showed the correlation's capacity level as an insignificant variable (p> 0.05). The regression model that describes the correlation between stakeholders' knowledge level, stakeholders' attitudes, simultaneously, and the gap in the management of the Deli Watershed Management amounting to y = 1.164 - 0.173 x1 - 0.470x2 where x1 = level of knowledge and x2 = attitudes. The value of r = 0.704 indicates that the correlations between these variables are strong. Meanwhile, the adjusted R square value is 0.460. The F-test suggests that 46% of the variation in the gap in the Deli Watershed Management was due to stakeholders' knowledge levels and attitudes in implementing the management. Thus, social inequality in watershed management correlates with stakeholders' knowledge and perspectives. Still, it does not have an accurate correlation with stakeholders' attitudes.Keywords: Watershed, Deli, Management, Gap Analysis, Correlation


Unlike indirect methods that usually require time-consuming post-processing, recent deep learning-based direct methods for 6D pose estimation try to predict the 3D rotation and 3D translation from RGB-D data directly. However, direct methods, regressing the absolute translation of the pose, suffer from diverse object translation distribution between training and test data, which is usually caused by expensive data col- lection and annotation in practice. To this end, we propose a 5D anchor mechanism by defining the anchor with 3D coor- dinates in the physical space and 2D coordinates in the image plane. Inspired by anchor-based object detection meth- ods, 5D anchor regresses the offset between the target and anchor, which eliminates the distribution gap and transforms the regression target to a small range. But regressing offset leads to the mismatch between the absolute input and relative output. We build an anchor-based projection model by re-placing the absolute input with the relative one, which further improves the performance. By plugging 5D anchor into the latest direct methods, Uni6Dv2 and ES6D obtain 38.7% and 3.5% improvement, respectively. Specifically, Uni6Dv2+5D anchor, dubbed Uni6Dv3 , achieves state-of-the-art overall results on datasets including Occlusion LineMOD (79.3%), LineMOD (99.5%), and YCB-Video datasets (91.5%), and requires only 10% of training data to reach comparable performance as full data.


Air-sintered SrCoO3 is strongly reduced at 1020°C in PO2 = 1.6 © 1019MPa and then post-annealed at various temperatures in air. The conductive and structural characteristics are examined, comparing them with those of air-sintered. Although annealing in a reducing atmosphere breaks down SrCoO3 to several compounds, SrCoO3 is re-synthesized by post-annealing above 800°C. When post-annealed at 1000°C, the oxidation state of SrCoO3 is believed to be the same higher level as that of sintered in air. The result shows that, enhancement of p-type carriers in SrCoO3 at grain boundaries leads to nonlinearity improvement of SrCoO3doped ZnO varistors sintered in reducing atmospheres.


Disclosed are a mobile terminal, and a method therefor for realizing automatic answering. The method comprises: when a mobile terminal receives a call, detecting whether a screen side of the mobile terminal acquires an auricle image; if the auricle image is acquired, comparing the auricle image with an image template pre-stored in an auricle standard library; judging whether there is a matched image template exists; and if it is judged that there is a matched image template, controlling the mobile terminal to answer the call. Compared with the prior art of carrying out man-made manual operations such as key pressing by one hand or two hands or screen swiping and the like, by matching an acquired auricle image with a preset image template, the mobile terminal can automatically answer a call when there is a matched image template, thereby realizing simple, convenient and quick call answering without manual operation, and improving the user experience.


The utility model is suitable for the field of televisions, and provides a rotating base used for a liquid crystal display television, which includes three parts, namely a base, a support rod and a rotating mechanism; the rotating mechanism comprises a motor and a metal bottom plate; and the support rod and the rotating mechanism are connected together through a bolt and are mounted on the base. The utility model provides the rotating television base, which includes the three parts, namely the base, the support rod and the rotating mechanism. When the direction of the television is required to be adjusted, the liquid crystal display television can be rotated to change direction, thereby facilitating the use and improving the safety during television use.


The most important consideration is not whether donor and recipient belong to the same blood group, but whether the serum of the recipient agglutinates or hemolyzes the red corpuscles of the donor. In the ordinary transfusion an amount equal to only about one-filth to one-twelfth of the total blood volume of the recipient is added from the donor. The donor's serum is therefore diluted and rendered harmless; furthermore, the patient's cells are protected by his own serum. Any transfusion is conse quently permissible provided the patient's serum doesnot agglutin ate and hemolyze the donor's red corpuscles, although the donor's serum may agglutinate and hemolyze the patient's red corpuscles.


By using the approach in (8) to Hall algebras arising in homologi- cally finite triangulated categories, we find an 'almost' associative multiplica- tion structure for indecomposable objects in a 2-periodic triangulated category. As an application, we give a new proof of the theorem of Peng and Xiao in (5) which provides a way of realizing symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras and elliptic Lie algebras via 2-periodic triangulated categories.


Combining the concrete situation in the production area adjacent to Tianjin port,the paper gives detailed introduction on the purposes,methods,and theories of semi-circle breakwater in the production area adjacent to the port,the installment of the monitoring sections and device instrument,so as to improve the theoretical calculation and to provide data for the design and the reserved subsidence value.


The need for a new approach to asset installation and management has been identified over many years of close collaboration with numerous utility authorities. When establishing new sub-surface pipeline networks unexpected obstacles are often encountered. These may be naturally occuring (reef rock, boulders or collapsing soils), or buried artifacts (services, footings or filled land). The difficulty of inspecting underground systems means they are often ignored until a line failure occurs. Expensive repairs are then required, resulting in surface traffic disruption and costly compensation claims. Timely identification of anomalies can be achieved with small scale geophysical techniques offered by Rock Solid. Available technologies, correctly used, can enhance sub-surface information and enable appropriate budgets for construction or maintenance works to be allocated.


Prediction of the movement of stock market is a long-time attractive topic to researchers from different fields. The Hang Seng Index (abbreviated: HSI) is a free float-adjusted market capitalization-weighted stock market index in Hong Kong. We believe the HSI is influenced by other major financial indexes across the world and try different machine learning method to get a prediction based on the history data. The higher accuracy rate we can get, the more confidence we will develop a profitable trading strategy. After several trials of optimization in features and models, we get a 64.96% accuracy rate of the future market trend of HSI.


The important clinical value in bone health diagnosis and treatment has been documented of the standardized dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) on bone mineral density diagnostic report. Based on the official position of the international society for clinical densitometry (ISCD) combined with China national conditions, China Health Promotion Foundation Expert Committee on Bone Density Measurement and Osteoporosis Diagnosis has formed a standardized opinion about the diagnosis report of DXA bone mineral density measurement. The intention is to make the DXA diagnostic report accurately reflect the important clinical value of DXA and better apply it in clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Key words:
Bone density; Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry; Osteoporosisi; Diagnostic report; International society for clinical densitometry


The flat plate collector is one of the most widely used device for harnessing the solar energy. The measurement of the flat plate collector performance is the collector efficiency. The collector efficiency is the ratio of the useful energy gain to the incident solar energy over a particular period of time. The useful energy gain in turn depends on the energy loss from the top surface of the collector both due to convective & radiative heat transfer processes. The losses from the bottom and from the edges of the collector do exist but their contribution is not as significant as the losses from the top. Hence investigations are carried out to study the losses by changing the collector tilt to determine the top loss coefficient.


This paper looks into the reasons why the Food and Drug Administration did not declare themselves as having regulatory power over human organs that would be used for medical purposes such as organ transplants and discusses why the FDA should take over this regulatory power and the various arguments that could be used towards taking over this power and the various possible benefits of having organs under the same regulatory control as all the other human material/parts being regulated for medical purposes.


The red alga Galdieria phlegrea was used as an experimental organism to test bioaccumulation of rare earth elements (REEs) from luminophores. Algal cells were cultured mixotrophically in a liquid medium with addition of glycerol as a source of carbon. Luminophores from two different sources (fluorescence lamps and energy saving light bulbs) were added into the medium in the form of a powder. The cell number was monitored to follow the growth of the algal culture. The content of single REEs in the luminophores and the biomass were determined using ICP-MS. The most abundant element in both luminophores was yttrium representing about 90%. The growth of cultures grown in the presence of both luminophores was comparable with control. Total amount of accumulated REEs in biomass differed with type and concentration of the luminophore used for treatment. The most abundant element accumulated in the biomass was lanthanum. To conclude, Galdieria phlegrea can grow in the presence of luminophores and accumulate REEs. The enriched biomass is a promising template for biotechnological applications.
Project was supported by the program Interreg V-A ATCZ172, the National Programme of Sustainability I, ID: LO1416 and by Institutional Research Concept no. AV0Z61388971.


This study was designed to evaluate the possible recurrence rate and complication following pterygium surgery following the short application time of intraoperative mitomycin-C in patients undergoing surgery for primary pterygium. Fifty eyes of fifty patients with primary pterygium were operated upon using ''bare sclera technique''. Intra operatively all the patients were applied freshly prepared mitomycin-C 0.02% (0.2 mg/ml) on the bare sclera for a period of 1 minute, after which the eyes were thoroughly washed with a sterile balanced salt solution. Postoperatively, patients were kept on steroid antibiotic combination eye drops. None of the patients received mitomycin-C eye drops. After a mean postoperative follow up of 12 months, recurrence was seen in 2 eyes (4%) only. One eye (2%) developed granuloma at the site of the wound. The study shows that short application time (for 1 minute) of intraoperative mitomycin-C (0.02%) reduces the recurrence of pterygium and it does not leads to serious, cosmetically unacceptable and even sight-threatening complications.


The grant supported my research and that of my student (Ben Lane) and post-doctoral fellow (Zapatero Osorio). We were productive as can be seen from the list of publications below. In particular, we note three firsts. Using the exquisite angular resolution provided by the AO system at Keck we were able to directly determine the masses of two objects and show that one was a brown dwarf -- the first direct determination of the mass of a brown dwarf. Next, Mr. Lane reported the first direct demonstration of pulsations of a Cepheid star (this report received attention in the popular press). Finally, Dr. Zapatero Osorio continued her work on the search for young brown dwarfs and planets in young clusters with considerable success -- namely the detection of objects with mass below 10 M_J (these can be plausibly argued to be freely floating planets). Mr. Lane graduated and is now a Pappalardo Fellow at MIT and Dr. Zapatero Osorio obtained a position back in her home country.


Intrusion-detection systems aim at detecting attacks against computer systems and networks or, in general, against information systems. Indeed, it is difficult to provide provably secure information systems and to maintain them in such a secure state during their lifetime and utilization. Sometimes legacy or operational constraints do not even allow the definition of a fully secure information system. Therefore, intrusion-detection systems have the task of monitoring the usage of such systems to detect any apparition of insecure states. They detect attempts and active misuse either by legitimate users of the information systems or by external parties to abuse their privileges or exploit security vulnerabilities. This paper is the second in a two-part series; it presents the current state of intrusion-detection products, and the trends we are observing.


The utility model provides a pourable screw for pedicle of vertebral arch. The pourable screw comprises a screw body with external threads, and a horizontal rod fixing structure integrated with the tail end of the screw body. The screw body has a hollow structure, and seepage outlets communicated with the hollow structure are formed on the screw body and distributed in the area accounting for one third of the front end of the screw body; and the seepage outlets are all formed in thread grooves of external threads of the screw body; two opposite seepage outlets are formed in each thread groove; and the included angle between a connecting line for the two seepage outlets in each thread groove and a connecting line for the two seepage outlets in the adjacent thread groove ranges from 80 to 100 degrees. The utility model greatly enhances the fixed strength and the stability of the screw for pedicle of vertebral arch; and furthermore, the self strength of the screw is relatively good, so that the fillings can not diffuse to the nervous tissues of pedicle of vertebral arch, and the purposes of safety and reliability are realized.


Professional boxers and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters regularly sustain blunt force trauma to the head leading to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and concussion; therefore, fighters are at high risk for chronic traumatic encephalopathy and neurodegenerative disease. Family history of dementia (fhD) may significantly modulate fighter response to TBI. Genetic polymorphisms associated with dementia have been reported to modulate an individual's response to brain injury and to influence emotionality, risk‐taking, and cognition. A recent study in male college athletes found that fhD predisposed athletes to poorer recovery after concussion and to decrements in impulse control following injury. Furthermore, in a population‐based cohort study from the Netherlands, researchers found that parental history of dementia led to increased rates of depression in mid‐life. The present study aims to investigate how fhD in fighters may relate to history of symptomatic concussions, depression, and impulsivity.