The use of cluster analysis in processing the results of polls carried out in regions of the Russian Federation in order to determine the basic characteristics of the regions is considered. Linear correlation was used as a measure of the association between the parameters. The initial parti- tioning of the parameters into groups (clusters) was constructed in a random manner. Then, the maximiza- tion of a functional that is the sum of moduli of the cor- relations of each parameter with the factor of its group was carried out by the transfer of the parameters between the groups. For each group, the factors were chosen in such a manner as to maximize the sum of moduli of the correlations of parameters of the group with its own factor. These factors were used as the desired aggregated characteristics. The selected func- tional is appealing due to the fact that "good" partition- ing of the parameters of regions into groups, from the point of view of an analyst, usually corresponds to the extremal (or close to extremal) value of the functional. The use of this method yields the following difficul- ties: (i) the obtained clusters (and aggregated character- istics) are not always interpretable; (ii) the choice of the number of clusters into which the parameters should be partitioned is relatively laborious; and (iii) the method is very sensitive to the initial partition. In this paper, we propose a solution to these problems. Some modifica- tion of the model of the poll is carried out in order to join the informatively equivalent alternatives of the answers and to eliminate informatively uninteresting alternatives. The choice of the number of clusters and preparation of the initial partition are carried out in the following manner. The clusterization of the initial parameters into two clusters is carried out several times. According to the results of experiments, the large groups of parameters that always belong to a single cluster are separated. The parameters that "jump" from cluster to cluster are also separated. The required num- ber of clusters is chosen according to the number of large groups. These large groups form the basis of the initial partition for the subsequent optimization of the functional. The remaining parameters are put in the clusters with factors with which they correlate most strongly. In most cases, this heuristic allows one to obtain a larger value of a functional than that corre- sponding to random initial partition. As a result, one


Frenchy Lunning is deeply implicated in the rise of cosplay research and scholarship. She is the founding editor in chief of Mechademia, a journal which practically introduced the specialized study of Japanese popular culture into culture studies, as the title's amalgam of the giant-robot genre of mecha with academia suggests. Its 2006 inaugural issue, Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga, contained a seminal article, Therèsa Winge's "Costuming the Imagination: Origins of Manga and Anime," which offered one of the first theoretical accounts of cosplay.1 Cosplayers' nomination and performance of their chosen character was based not simply on fannish infatuation but on research and study into a source text, leading to an "interpretation that takes place by reading and watching."2 Valorization of the fan as what we might now call a cultural prosumer (cough) was in the air, with Henry Jenkins famously arguing that same year in Convergence Culture (2006) that fans were critical readers and (re)writers of cultural texts.3 Mechademia is also the banner under which conferences have been staged annually from 2001 in Minneapolis—and now biennially across Asia—just as the journal has concomitantly expanded its remit, in a "Second Arc," from focusing on Japanese popular culture to that of East Asia more generally since 2018.4 Commentators have noted the resemblances between popular sci-fi, comics, and fan conventions (most of which include cosplay) and academic conferences. This crossover is perhaps nowhere Review


Microvias with various diameters formed by laser ablation on a printed circuit board (PCB) were used to investigate the filling mechanism of the microvia in copper electroplating. The plating solution consisted of acid copper sulfate, polyethylene glycol (PEG), 3-mercapto-1-propanesulfonate (MPS), and chloride ions. Superfill was obtained using a specific concentration ratio of MPS to chloride ions. According to the examinations of the vias by an optical microscope (OM) for cross-sectional views, a scanning electron microscope (SEM) for top views, and by an energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) for surface element analyses, chloride ions were verified to be a key factor in determining the superfilling behavior. They play three roles, namely, the electron bridge of Cu 2 + reduction, the anchor of suppressor (i.e., PEG + Cl - ), and the promoter of accelerator (MPS + Cl - ) in copper electroplating. The distribution of the surface coverage of the suppressor and the accelerator adsorbed along the via profile was revealed by tracing the distribution of CuCl crystals generated by synergistic interactions among MPS, Cl - , metallic copper, and Cu 2 + . Plating results indicate that the adsorptive abilities of the suppressor and the accelerator, and whether a suppressor can displace the accelerator adsorbed on the cathode are convection-dependent.


Introduction: patients with hematologic malignancies (HM) admitted in intensive care units (ICU) have been traditionally seen as patients with very poor prognostic. Recently reports have informed that mortality has dropped and nowadays is in the order of 40-60 %, this is still high but closer to mortality in non-malignant patients admitted in an ICU. In an attempt to change this view we perform a study in order to evaluate the results and prognostic factors that contribute to mortality in HM patients who need critical care assistance.

Methods: a retrospective study in 62 patients with HM who were admitted in ICU in the University Hospital, Hospital de Clinicas from Uruguay from 2003 to 2012. These 62 patients had 82 admissions, which are the population of our trial. Statistical analysis: Values are expressed as mean +/- standard deviation (SD), median and percentages. Comparison variable most used: discharge of ICU: dead or alive. Both groups were compared using Student's t test and Chi square. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed. Overall survival with Kaplan Meier. Significance p<0.05.

Results: 50% of the episodes were in men. The median age was 56 years old (17-80). The distribution according to HM was: Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 40.2%, Acute Myeloid Leukemia 23.2%, Multiple Myeloma 13.4%, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia 7.3%, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia 4.9%, Hodgkin Lymphoma 3.7%, other 3.7%, Myeloproliferative Neoplasm 2.4% and aplasia 1.2%. The mortality during ICU's treatment was 47.6%. The causes of death in ICU were: septic shock: 74.4%; disease progression: 10.3%; Other: 7.7%; refractory respiratory failure: 5,1%; severe hemorrhage: 2.6%. Median days of overall survival in ICU were 11 days (CI 1.9 to 20.06). In table 1 we show the univariate analysis of prognostic factors. The parameters that showed a significant difference were; underlying diagnosis of ALL, presence of central catheter line prior to entering ICU; need for mechanical ventilation, diagnosis of septic shock, use and hours of vasopressors and the value of APACHE II. Of the 47 patients who required mechanical ventilation 33 died (70.2%), this is a risk factor for death, with an OR of 1.83 (CI: 1.1 to 3.02). The diagnosis on admission to ICU septic shock is a significant risk factor for death with an OR of 0.449 (CI: 0.351 to 0.574). In the multivariable analysis, admission to ICU for mechanical ventilation, use of mechanical ventilation at some point and use of vasopressors were statistically significant.

| | Alive | Death | P value |
| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| Diagnostic ALL | Yes: 0 No: 43 | Yes: 4 No: 35 | 0,03 |
| Type of Chemotherapy | Standard: 19 High dose: 11 Allogeneic SCT: 1 Purine analogs: 1 No Chemotherapy: 11 | Standard: 19 High dose: 11 Allogeneic SCT: 0 Purine analogs: 1 No Chemotherapy: 8 | 0,92 0,43 0,34 0,94 0,58 |
| Neutropenic No data: 8 | Yes: 14 No: 29 | Yes: 17 No: 14 | 0,304 |
| Catheter No data: 2 | Yes: 16 No: 26 | Yes: 24 No: 14 | 0,025 |
| Cretinine, mean (SD) | 1,53 ±(1,55) | 1,75 ±(1,17) | 0,66 |
| Urea, mean (SD) | 68,2 ±(53,41) | 89,27 ±(61,24) | 0,09 |
| Prothrombin time, mean (SD) | 68,36 ±(21,37) | 59,65 ±(20,67) | 0,87 |
| PAFI, mean (SD) | 301,63 ±(110,41) | 290,24 ±(123,25) | 0,22 |
| Bilirubin, mean (SD) | 1,2 ±(1,78) | 1,5 ±(2,49) | 0,701 |
| Use of mechanical Ventilatory | Yes: 14 No: 29 | Yes: 33 No: 6 | <0,001 |
| Septic Shock at admission | Yes: 0 No: 43 | Yes: 4 No: 35 | 0,032 |
| Use of vasopressor | Yes: 7 No: 36 | Yes: 31 No: 8 | < 0,001 |
| Hours of vasopressors | 46,29 | 86,63 | 0,023 |
| Renal replacement Therapy | Yes: 3 No: 40 | Yes: 8 No: 31 | 0,074 |
| APACHE II | 17,05 ± (8,24) | 20,66 ± (6,00) | 0,042 |
| SOFA at admission | 4,99 ± (3,84) | 7,32 ± (3,24) | 0,35 |
| SOFA at 48 hours | 3,89 ± (3,83) | 9,20 ± (4,43) | 0,13 |

TABLE 1.
Univariate analysis of prognostic factors:

Conclusions: this is the first report on the impact of prognostic factors in the outcome of HM patients admitted to ICU in Hospital de Clinicas. HM patient's acute complications are strong factors that contribute to prognostic in critically ill patients and not only the hematologic disease per se or presence of neutropenia or type of chemotherapy. The mortality rate in this series is similar to international reports and also in patients without HM admitted in ICU. Therefore, we support the idea that survival in critically ill HM patient is related with the intercurrent complication in a significant part, and we have to make more efforts to improve results in this area by working together with intensive care medicine physicians.

Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Several studies have stablished the innate immune response mechanisms against Chlamydophila abortus infection, but little is known about the role of the cellular immunity in C. abortus primary infection. The purpose of this work was to study the histopathological changes caused by C. abortus infection in the spleen in a murine intraperitoneal infection model in mice depleted of CD4+ T and/or CD8+ T cells. CD8+ T depleted mice showed 100% mortality rates at day 12 post infection (p.i.). In contrast, CD4+ T and CD4+ T /CD8+ T depleted mice showed no mortality rates at day 12 p.i. and morbidity was lower than that in non depleted control group. CD8+ T depleted mice and non depleted control mice showed a splenic parenchimal disorganization at day 6 p.i., and immunohistochemical C. abortus antigen detection revealed that all groups showed similar antigen
distribution. CD8+ T depleted mice showed significant high rates of apoptosis. This results suggest that CD8+ T cells are essential for resolution of clamidial infection. The lack of this subpopulation leads to an exacerbate Th1 immune response caused by CD4+ T cells. CD8+ T cells could act as an immune regulatory subpopulation against C. abortus primary infection.


The invention pertains to video coding technique, in particular relates to a transformation and quantization method. The technical problem to be solved by the invention is providing a transformation and quantization method which reduces the video coding complexity. The invention can detect the situation in which a residual block system is zero after transformation and quantization in advanced through prediction before the transformation and quantization, thus saving the transformation and quantization process of an all-zero block. The proposal has an outstanding meaning for video coding with alow bit rate, as the proportion of the all-zero block is lager in the situation of low bit rate. Detecting most parts of the all-zero block in advance can greatly reduce the calculating complexity oftransformation and quantization, further increase the coding efficiency. Furthermore, the invention can real-timely adjust the judging conditions for the all-zero block, further enhance the coding speed and quality and avoid occurrence of missed judgment.


Using a cw tunable PbS0.6Se0.4 semiconductor diode laser operating near 5.3 μm we have fully resolved the gain (loss) line shape of several vibration‐rotation lines of a CO gas laser amplifier.


The current page is shown with a dark border so that you can easily identify it in a zoomed out view. Clicking again on a page once it is at its preferred size advances to the next page. Pages in this structure have an absolute location in the workspace. Since zooms and pans are animated, moving from one page to the next implicitly shows the position within the document. For instance, a zoom with a pan to the left occurs near the start of the document. Towards the end of the document, Pad++ zooms out and pans to the right. In addition, hyperlinks can be annotated with arrows pointing to the destination page, giving the user a sense of where the link will take them. If the user wishes to skip a few pages, it is easy to zoom out until the required page is visible, then click on the page to view it. A zoomed out view of the entire document makes an automatic index. This type of thumbnail index can be turned on and off at a fixed position at the bottom of the screen. One difficulty with the elliptical view is that it is only practical for a relatively small numbers of pages (less than about 30). Also, for the current implementation, achieving pleasing layouts for documents of different lengths requires manual change of parameters. In this document structuring technique, each line of text is shown a little smaller than the line before (Figure 2). In our implementation, the text halves in size every twelve lines. The advantage of this layout is that you can fit any amount of text in a fixed-size frame. In addition, the first lines of the document are clearly visible within this space even when the view is zoomed out. To view text in the document, the user positions the pointer at the apex of the document and zooms in. Panning is not necessary. Another characteristic of an inverted triangle view is that there is always blank space on either side of the document apex. This space can be used for indices, annotations, and other navigational aids, or for other triangular documents to create a fractal-like view. These can be loaded by clicking on hyperlinks within the original document. We implemented a zoomable directory browser [2] that represents each file as a constant size square whose contents become visible upon zooming. The …


The use of natural and synthetic polymers as scaffolding material for regenerative medicine is far from clinical translation for most tissue applications. This is due primarily to lack of manufacturing control over mechanical properties and 3D architecture which promote cell attachment and proliferation. Cellulose, a natural polymer produced by the majority of plants, can be assembled into nanofibrils by bacteria. The advantage of bacterial cellulose is that it has unique biocompatibility, mechanical integrity, hydroexpansivity, and is stable under a wide range of conditions [1]. It is thus ideal as a scaffolding material on which to seed cells for regenerative medicine applications. The bacteria Acetobacter Xylinum produces nanoscale cellulose ribbons at an average rate of 2μm/min [2].Copyright © 2009 by ASME


(retraction) Based on the decision of the Editorial Board of the journal 'Serbian Archives of Medicine' made at the meeting of the members of the Editorial Board October 12, 2010, the following articles are retracted from 'Serbian Archives of Medicine' because they were published in other journals in almost identical form ('duplicate publications'): Sveti Luka i njegov kult kao svetog vraca u srpskom narodu Zorica Mitrovic, Ljiljana Markovic, Maja Nenadovic Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo, 2004, vol. 132, br. 9-10, str. 364-368 DOI: 10.2298/SARH0410364M, Previously published in: Arhiv za farmaciju, 2003, vol. 53, br. 6, str. 507-521 Sveti Luka i njegov kult kao svetog vraca u srpskom narodu Zorica Mitrovic. Link to the retracted article 10.2298/SARH0410364M


High penetration of PVs within the grid system has initiated policies and regulations to enable and encourage self-consumption PVs as a viable solution for mitigating adverse effects of high pv-penetration on grid as also for reducing energy cost to the prosumer. This solution comes with an additional cost of energy storage such as battery. This paper presents an economic assessment of grid-connected PV systems for self-consumption. Assuming values for performance ratio of PV system, insolation level, inflation, interest rates and incentive grants, the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is evaluated for the case study in Malta. The influence for incentives proposed by the Maltese Government is analysed.


In this paper the author has described on the external morphology of deformed chum salmon parr (Oncorhynchus keta) with aberrant body coloration. Moreover, the histology of some endocrine glands and melanization of skin were observed. 1. The author thought that this monstrosity belongs to "Synophthalmia bilentica" in WERBER'S classification, because it was under the condition of the approachment of both eyes, poor development of upper jaw, protruding of lower jaw, and uniting of nostrils which lie in the apex of head. The atrophy of each fins and the delaying of differentiation of visceral organs were rec ognized. 2. Although the parr marks (lateral bars) and other dark spots were not founded, while the body coloration of this synophthalmic chum salmon parr shows pallor like as in the meta morphosing smolt stage salmon. The epidermis of synophthalmic fish is thicker and also the melanization is denser than those of normal parr stage fish. As the melanin granules not exist in the melanophores, so that these granules do not controlled by adrenergic nerves. Furthermore, there are no scales in body sides. Thus the origin of body color between synophthalmic parr and metamorphosing smolt salmon differs with each other. 3. The deformation and retardation of development of forebrain, chiefly hypothalamus,


Abstract The development of corporate leadership skills is seen as a crucial ingredient of management education programmes in higher education. Moreover, with the increasing globalisation of business activity, the education of those who will ultimately occupy positions of authority within organizations must take into account cross-cultural differences in the interpretation and conceptualisation of leadership. A key task for educators in this respect is to design and deliver programmes that facilitate an understanding and enhanced competence in the exercise of relevant skills that are sensitive to the complexity of the notion of leadership in a cross-cultural environment. The manner in which such objectives have been pursued on the full-time MSc in International Business and Management course, jointly run by Sheffield Business School, United Kingdom, and the International Business School at Groningen in the Netherlands, is the theme of this article. Working within an action research paradigm, the tutor responsible for the International Management Competencies module has sought, through three cycles, to plan and hone an approach designed to help students develop a cross-cultural perspective on corporate leadership. The nature of the challenge is analysed – specifically the generic nature of the treatment of leadership skills in much of the literature and the difficulties students face in relating what they learn to their own experiences. The three cycles are described. Consideration is also given to the lessons learnt both in terms of the treatment of leadership as a concept and as an international management competence and of further potential refinements in the learning and teaching process.


Objective:To probe in to the effects of indicidual education on prevention the eye disease in diabetes.Methods:120 patients in eye disease in diabetes by imager-free fundus in my hospital,we gave each patient indiviual education of the knowledge preventing eye disease in Diabetes,before and after education ,we both let our patients do the test paper.Conclusion,From the individual education,diabetic not only can deepen the understanding of diabetic syndrome effectively,but also can strengthen the knowledge of Eye Disease in Diabetes and the ability of self-control and health care.Individual education can improve Sugar Metabolism,prevent or leave the syndrome,and improve the patients' life-quality.


Mutations in the cardiac myosin binding protein-C gene (cMyBP-C) are among the most prevalent causes of inherited hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Although most cMyBP-C mutations cause reading frameshifts that are predicted to encode truncated peptides, it is not known if or how expression of these peptides causes disease. One possibility is that because the N-terminus contains a unique binding site for the S2 subfragment of myosin, shortened cMyBP-C peptides could directly affect myosin contraction by binding to S2. To test this hypothesis, we compared the effects of a C1C2 protein containing the myosin S2 binding site on contractile properties in permeablized myocytes from wild-type and cMyBP-C knockout mice. In wild-type myocytes, the C1C2 protein reversibly increased myofilament Ca 2+ sensitivity of tension, but had no effect on resting tension. Identical results were observed in cMyBP-C knockout myocytes where C1C2 increased Ca 2+ sensitivity of tension with the half-maximal response elicited at ≈5 &mgr;mol/L C1C2. Maximum force was not affected by C1C2. However, phosphorylation of C1C2 by cAMP-dependent protein kinase reduced its ability to increase Ca 2+ sensitivity. These results demonstrate that binding of the C1C2 peptide to S2 alone is sufficient to affect myosin contractile function and suggest that regulated binding of cMyBP-C to myosin S2 by phosphorylation directly influences myofilament Ca 2+ sensitivity.


What does a political commitment to gender equality mean in the context of fatherhood? In what ways should the state support or compel fathers so as to affect greater gender equality? If there is any consensus on these questions in the gender literature, then it is that existing family leave policy—even the most progressive—has fallen short of a satisfactory answer. Typically, this failure is understood either in economic terms—that policy provision is simply inadequate in scale—or in terms of individual preferences that should be encouraged to change. Indeed, both of these approaches intend to incentivize men to take up more caring duties, a theme that has become central to the politics of gender equality (Gornick and Meyers 2008; Haas and Rostgaard 2011; Hobson 2002; Kamerman and Moss 2009).


Abstract This paper suggests the use of a simple square root approximation to the dispersion relation of axially-symmetric electron surface waves on cylindrical plasmas. The point is not merely to substitute the exact expression for the dispersion relation which involves a number of Bessel functions with a more tractable analytical approximant, but to cast the dispersion relation in a form useful in the comparison with other waves, such as water surface gravity waves and the associated tide-rip effect. The square root form of the dispersion relation is also of help in the analysis of surfactron plasmas, as it directly predicts a linear roll-off of electron density in the discharge.


The first 25 years of records management – an archive guide on AIDS/HIV in the National Archives' collections 1981 – 2006. In the Danish National Archives, different kinds of records give insight to the history of AIDS/HIV. Our aim with this article is to present some of the most relevant records about the disease from the public administration and private organizations. The article will reflect the tran- sition in the public administration from storing the information on paper to using digital media for archiving. We will pay attention to how the records about the disease were created as well as how to find them in the archive.


COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the whole world rapidly. Due to serious preventive measures, many people had to change their everyday routines which may have an influence on their behavioral and emotional states. Hence, the pandemic has been a threat not only to physical health but also to mental health. During the pandemic people who had seen or experienced the adverse effects of the pandemic might have been suffering from coronavirus anxiety. Emotion regulation skills can function as a protective factor against anxiety while difficulties in emotion regulation may be related to elevated coronavirus anxiety. Preventive measures of the pandemic also reduced social contact, which may, in turn, reduce perceived social support. Due to close links with both emotion regulation and anxiety, perceived social support may be a mechanism moderating the relationship between emotion regulation and coronavirus anxiety. The current study sought to assess this moderation model. To this aim, we recruited 282 adult volunteers to fill in self-report questionnaires in emotion regulation, perceived social support and coronavirus anxiety. Results revealed a positive correlation between difficulties in emotion regulation and coronavirus anxiety. Furthermore, perceived social support was significantly moderating this relationship. However, the relationship between the difficulties in emotion regulation and coronavirus anxiety was stronger as the level of perceived social support increased. The findings are discussed in light of the current literature.


Abstract As carrot seeds are notoriously slow to germinate and are often irregular in breaking dormancy, new methods of stimulation are still sought. This study examines for the first time the effect of an algal extract and static magnetic field (SMF) and their synergistic effect on carrot seeds germination. The algal extract, produced from freshwater macroalgae - Cladophora glomerata, was used directly to the paper substrate at a dose of 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 %. The exposure of seeds to the magnetic field (500 mT and 1 T) was applied for 3, 6 and 12 min. The highest germination ability of carrot seedlings was observed for 20 and 80 % algal extract. The weakest germination was observed for the highest concentration of algal extract causing the highest amount of abnormal and dead seedlings. Parallel use of seeds stimulated with magnetic field and algal extract did not increase the number of germinated seeds significantly. Carrot's seeds treated with algal extract showed increased content of elements - macro- Ca, K, Mg, S and microelements Cu, Fe, Mn and Zn. Future experiments are required to confirm the stimulation effect of algal extract (optimal concentration) and magnetic field (various induction values) on seeds germination.


In this "Imaginary Conversation" many phrases attributed to Dr. Carey or to Mr. Judson have been borrowed from their journals and letters. The denominational controversy to which allusion is made is now happily a thing of the past, but the differences between Congregationalists and Baptists must have been much in Mr. Judson's mind a hundred years ago, and were a source, no doubt, of keen distress. It will be remembered, however, that on his visit to America in 1845 he received a most cordial welcome from the churches with which he had been formerly in communion.


In this paper, four pairs spectral problems, relative evolutive equation family of preserving spectra and equivalence of LAX representation will be discussed, and by utilizing the relation of equivalence, LAX representations of some equations will be deduced.


Introduction. The article presents the results of a study of the problem of the emotional intelligence and empathy of university students. An analysis of theoretical approaches to this problem in domestic and foreign psychology is carried out. The results of an empirical study conducted among students of the Faculty of Law of the Synergy University are described, during which the features of the relationship between their intellectual and leadership qualities are revealed. Statistically significant differences in the level of development of intellectual and leadership qualities were revealed. We have set the following tasks: 1) on the basis of a theoretical analysis of scientific literature, to reveal the essence of the concepts of "leadership" and "intelligence"; 2) to explore the intellectual and leadership qualities of students in their relationship.

Materials and Methods: analysis of scientific literature; observation; psychodiagnostic methods (tests, conversation); experimental methods; mathematical and statistical methods (Spearman's rank correlation method).

Results. The results of the study related to the identification of the relationship between intellectual and leadership qualities among students are presented.

Discussion and Conclusion. The relationship between the intellectual and leadership qualities of students was revealed.


According to the telescoping tube failure problems, and the drainage vehicle displacement is 3000 m3/h, T-shaped inflatable sealing ring parameters were analyzed. Using the finite element software ANSYS to build numerical simulation models. Sealing performance under different inflatable pressures, different assembly spaces and different initial compression ratios is analyzed. The maximum stress, maximum contact stress and maximum shear stress of the sealing ring are the failure criteria. The results showed that different inflation pressure, different assembly clearance and different initial compression ratio have a great influence on the maximum contact stress of the sealing ring. The maximum stress increased with the increasing of inflation pressure and the peak zone of the stress changed when keeping the compression ratio and assembly clearance as a constant. The optimal inflation pressure of the telescoping tube is 0.4~0.6mpa.


The truffle-like basidiomycete genus Trappea is reported as a new record from Turkey and western Asia, based on a collection of T. darkeri from Niğde province. This is also the first record of the family Trappeaceae for the country. A brief description and
 photographs of the collection is provided.


ABSTRACT Hybrid-doped BaTiO3 ferroelectric polycrystalline ceramic samples were synthesized by solid state reaction. The concentration of La3+ was fixed 1 mol% while that of Sm3+ varied from 1 to 4 mol%. The effect of the replacement, which can be either lanthanum or samarium, in a cationic site on structural and physical properties of BaTiO3 was investigated. The dielectric permittivity changed significantly with temperature in a wide temperature rang. It was found that the dielectric behavior can be ascribed to the change in defect concentrations in different lattice locations in BaTiO3 structure.


This paper describes a new multivariable adaptive decoupling controller combining a decoupling compensator with a generalized minimum variance technique. The controller can completely decouple closed-loop systems both dynamically and in the steady state. It can control an unstable and/or non-minimum phase system and it can control the process with an arbitrary time delay structure. The proof of global convergence for the algorithm is also given. Successful experimental results of the adaptive decoupling control for a pilot-scale binary distillation column demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive decoupling algorithm.


The study stands on the standpoint that there exist close and essential relationships between real-world structures and their information provided to human beings in reality. Because the natural language plays a specifically vital role in daily human activities, e.g., in capturing, conveying, and communicating information and accumulating knowledge containing useful high-level information, consequently, it must contain certain semantics structures, including linguistic (L-) variables' semantic structures, which are fundamental, similar to the math variables' structures. In this context, the fact that the (L-) variables' word domains can be formalized as algebraic semantics-based structures in an axiomatic manner, called hedge algebras (HAs,) is still a novel event and essential for developing computational methods to simulate the human capabilities in problem-solving based on the so-called natural language-based formalism. Hedge algebras were founded in 1990. Since then, HA-formalism has been significantly developed and applied to solve several application problems in many distinct fields, such as fuzzy control, data classification and regression, robotics, L-time series forecasting, and L-data summarization. The study gives a survey to summarize specific distinguishing fundamental features of HA-formalism, its applicability in problem-solving, and its performance and


"Confession" has become one of the important themes in western autobiography since Confessions of St. Augustine. In this book, Augustine shows the profound ideas of Christianity. Through his Confessions, Augustine explores his interior experience and reveals to us his private secrets including acts and motives, and this represents the development of the self-knowledge of the western man. After Augustine, both the quest of the truth of the self and the confession of one's private secrets gradually become the major contents of most of the western autobiographies, and this makes some of them have the intense confessional consciousness. Furthermore, as the first paradigm of western historical autobiography and philosophical autobiography, Confessions of St. Augustine also influences the forms of the western autobiography, and his deep influence both on religion and on secular autobiography lasts until today.


Forecasting the evolution of security co-movements is critical for asset pricing and portfolio allocation. Hence, we investigate patterns and trends in correlations over time using weekly returns for developed markets (DMs) and emerging markets (EMs) during the period 1973-2012. We show that it is possible to model co-movements for many countries simultaneously using BEKK, DCC, and DECO models. Empirically, we ?find that correlations have significantly trended upward for both DMs and EMs. Based on a time-varying measure of diversification benefit, we ?find that it is not possible in a long-only portfolio to circumvent the increasing correlations by adjusting the portfolio weights over time. However, we do find some evidence that adding EMs to a DM-only portfolio increases diversification benefits.


1,3,4,5 Post graduate, Department of Anaesthesiology GEMS 2 Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology GEMS *Corresponding Author Dr Konduru Sindhura Abstract Background: In the present day practice of Anesthesiology, bupivacaine is the most commonly used drug for spinal anesthesia. To improve the quality of analgesia and prolong the duration of its action, many adjuvants have been tried. Intrathecal clonidine an α2 adrenoceptor agonist has potent central antinociceptive properties with analgesic effect at spinal level mediated by post synaptically situated adrenoreceptor in dorsal horn of spinal cord .Low doses of clonidine have shown effectiveness in intensifying spinal anesthesia. This study was done to evaluate the efficacy of spinal anesthesia with clonidine added to hyperbaric bupivacaine in lower abdominal surgeries. Aim: This study compared 0.5% Bupivacaine and 0.5% Bupivacaine with Clonidine for surgeries below the level of umbilicus under spinal anaesthesia. Materials and Methods: A randomized prospective observational study includes 60 patients of ASA I and ASA II aged 18-60 years, scheduled for elective lower abdominal surgery under spinal anaesthesia. Patients were randomly allocated into two groups. Group B received hyperbaric bupivacaine hydrochloride 12.5mg (2.5mL) + 0.5ml of normal saline. Group BC received bupivacaine hydrochloride 12.5 mg (2.5mL) + 0.5ml (25 μg) of preservative free clonidine .The volumes of both the groups are same (i.e 3.5 ml ). Heart rate, NIBP, SpO2 were monitored. The onset and duration of sensory block and motor block, the highest dermatomal level of sensory block, time to complete motor block recovery and duration of spinal anaesthesia, duration of analgesia and side effects were recorded. Results: The onset of sensory and motor blockade was faster in the BC group compared to group B. The duration of sensory and motor block were prolonged in group BC compared to group B. Decrease in the systolic blood pressure was noted in group BC. No significant hemodynamic changes were observed in both the groups. Conclusion: Clonidine potentiates bupivacaine spinal anesthesia by increasing the duration and improving the quality of analgesia without significant hemodynamic side effects.


The objectives of this study were to study 1) the influence of individual characteristics and relationship affecting work effectiveness of private company employees 2) the influence of working process affecting work effectiveness of private company employees and 3) the influence of psychological at work affecting work effectiveness of private company employees. The instrument was a close-ended questionnaire that refers to individual characteristics and relationship, working process and psychological in work. The statistical analysis was percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Moreover, Simple Regression Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis were used for data analysis. This study found that the influence of the factor of individual characteristics and relationship had affected about 49.8 % on work effectiveness of private company employees in Pathumwan District, Bangkok Metropolitan Area in all aspects. The influence of factor of working process had affected about 59.2 % on work effectiveness of private company employees in Pathumwan District, Bangkok Metropolitan Area as well as the factor of psychological at work had affected about 57.5 % on work effectiveness of private company employees in Pathumwan District, Bangkok Metropolitan Area with the statistical significance of 0.05.


The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has brought to light the need for expedient diagnostic testing. Cost and availability of large-scale testing capacity has led to a lag in turnaround time and hindered contact tracing efforts, resulting in a further spread of SARS-CoV-2. To increase the speed and frequency of testing, we developed a cost-effective single-tube approach for collection, denaturation, and analysis of clinical samples. The approach utilizes 1 L microbiological inoculation loops to collect saliva, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) to inactivate and release viral genomic RNA, and a diagnostic reaction mix containing polysorbate 80 (Tween 80). In the same tube, the SDS-denatured clinical samples are introduced to the mixtures containing all components for nucleic acids detection and Tween 80 micelles to absorb the SDS and allow enzymatic reactions to proceed, obviating the need for further handling of the samples. The samples can be collected by the tested individuals, further decreasing the need for trained personnel to administer the test. We validated this single-tube sample-to-assay method with RT-qPCR and RT-LAMP and discovered little-to-no difference between Tween- and SDS-containing reaction mixtures, compared to CDC-approved reagents. This approach significantly reduces the logistical burden of traditional large-scale testing and provides a method of deployable point-of-care diagnostics to increase testing frequency.


This research entitled "Application of ModelBased Learning (STEM) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Improve the Quality of Learning of Accounting in SMA Negeri Jakarta Timur (Case Studies in Three SMA Negeri Jakarta Timur)". Education is an attempt to help students actively develop the potential, abilities and talents through the learning process. The purpose of education is to improve the quality of the resources who have the skills, mastery of technology, as well as having extensive knowledge and professional expertise. The process of teaching and learning is a process which gives the ability of cognitive, affective and psychomotor. The results of the one obtained through the process of innovative learning by using Learning Model STEM. Learning Model for STEM is a model learning approach that refers to the four components of science, namely science, technology, engineering and mathematic. The choice of model STEM is made as a solution to problems experienced by students with an understanding of science that is relatively low and the mastery of technology that has not been according to expectations. The purpose of this research is to understand in depth how the application of the model STEM in improving the quality of learning of accounting students at SMAN 54, 61, and 71 in East Jakarta. The research approach is qualitative using the case study method. The collection of data obtained through interview, observation, and documentation based on the focus of the research, namely: the planning stages of the learning Model STEM, a strategy Model of the STEM, the implementation of the learning Model STEM, the evaluation of the Model STEM, excess and deficiencies of the Model STEM. As for the subject of the research are teachers, students, and the leadership of the school. Once the data is collected, then analyzed using Analysis of a Case Study which was adapted according to the stages of Richard, namely: collect data, Think the relation, categorize the data, reflect on the data, organize the data, connect the emerging issues and themes, collect more data. Test the validity of the data is done by using the test of credibility, transferability, dependabilitas, konfirmabilitas. The results of the research obtained data that the Model STEM implemented in three high schools in east Jakarta managed to improve the learning outcomes of accounting students. The success of the Model of learning with STEM supported with the innovation of the teacher in using the integrate Model of the STEM with the learning strategies of the other into several stages that are innovative and creative. In addition, the factor of integration of learning components combined with a Model of the STEM is very influential to the success of student learning outcomes. The recommendations of the research are the need for the integration of the Model STEM with the strategies in accordance with learning


In the last years, strong changes of power network architectures and operation have led to make use of huge quantities of instrumentation, spread around the grid. In fact, there is a strong need to perform measurements (very often accurate measurements) of electrical quantities in many nodes of the network, mainly due to the strong penetration of distributed generation. In Medium Voltage networks, the challenging requirement of having accurate measurement systems and with affordable costs has grown rapidly. Recently, the main Italian utility has asked for such kind of instrumentation. Its main feature must be to perform accurate measurements in all actual conditions. In this paper, a low-cost acquisition system, designed to achieve the aforementioned characteristics is presented. It makes use of a PLL technology. This way, critical acquisition issues, and in particular spectral leakage, are overcome, as shown from the presented results.


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Long-term resistance of CO2+-doped fibre attenuators exposed to gamma-ray irradiation was investigated. The attenuation increase during 25 years is predicted to be 0.004dB for a 20dB attenuator, which consists of a 1.5dBim attenuation fibre, in the worst case encountered in undersea conditions.


A new algorithm for signal subspace tracking is presented. It is based on an approximated singular value decomposition using interlaced QR-updating and Jacobi plane rotations. By forcing the noise subspace to be spherical, the computational complexity of the algorithm is brought down to O(nr), where n is the problem dimension and r is the desired number of signal components. The algorithm lends itself for a very efficient systolic array implementation, resulting in a throughput of O(n/sup 0/). Simulations show that the frequency tracking capabilities of the new method are at least as good as those of the computationally much more expensive exact singular value decomposition.<<ETX>>


We will present a Knuth-like method for balancing q-ary codewords, which is characterized by the absence of a prefix that carries the information on the balancing index. Lookup tables for coding and decoding the prefix are avoided. Index Terms Constrained code, balanced code, running digital sum, Knuth code, error correction.


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Abstract In late Meiji Japan, political thought coalesced around an elemental vision in which the geography of the Japanese archipelago offered thinkers evidence of a cultural bond between the Japanese people and the sea that extended backwards into primordial times and forward into an inscrutable future. Public intellectuals looking to establish the roots of Japanese oceanic being turned to the depths of prelapsarian times. The writer Kōda Rohan traced Japanese maritime identity to the earliest extant poetry and recorded myths of the nation. Kimura Takatarō, a translator and critic, centered Japanese oceanic spirit in the depths of ancient myth, tales, and prayer. Both envisioned myth as a medium that offered access to a horizon of experience in which Japanese oceanic identity was grounded. In the waters of the mythical sea, they discovered a space of cultural difference from which the forces of history threatened to estrange them.


ABSTRACT The mobilization for the Russian army ordered in July 1914 in the Kingdom of Poland and the "Manifesto to the Poles" proclaimed almost simultaneously by the Commander-in-Chief evoked several diverse (opposing) reactions. However, these divisions did not run, as one might expect for historical reasons, between different ethnic groups or social strata. Significant differences in the approach to the Commander-in-Chief's "Manifesto" and the mobilization conducted in the Kingdom of Poland at the turn of 1914/1915 were revealed within each social stratum. Opposing attitudes were observed not only among the Polish political and social elite or military circles, but even among the general public. These divisions among the Poles were comparable to the reactions to the "Manifesto" and mobilization observed among the representatives of Russia's political, military, and social elite. Mobilization in the neighboring partitions (for example, the Prussian partition) did not generate such divisions within each social stratum on the Polish and German sides. What took place at the turn of 1914/1915 within the framework of military activation of the Kingdom of Poland's society was incomparable either in the case of other nations of the Russian Empire or elsewhere in Europe (apart from autonomous Galicia). This situation also came as a great surprise to Russia's Western allies and caused great concern in Berlin and Vienna.


Often a localization functor (in the category of groups) sends a finite simple group to another finite simple group. We study when such a localization also induces a localization between the automorphism groups and between the universal central extensions. As a consequence we exhibit many examples of localizations of finite simple groups which are not simple.


The development and progress of fractures is accompanied by the radiation of acoustic waves due to microcracking. In the transient waveforms of acoustic emissions a huge number of information about fracture processes and the state of the material is inherent. Signal-based analysis of acoustic emissions allows, amongst other studies, for a fracture mechanics based investigation of failure. From the spatial distribution of seismic energy, an inversion on a system of equivalent forces – the so-called seismic moment tensor – is performed. The inversion is simplified by the assumption of a point source and the neglection of near field effects, which means that the source volume is small compared to the distance between source and receiver. With the help of the moment tensor, arbitrary and complex source mechanisms can be described. For an interpretation of the results, the moment tensor is decomposed into simple fracture modes on the basis of an eigenvalue analysis. Furthermore, the appropriate radiation pattern of particle motion of the moment tensor is plotted on a sphere enclosing the source, revealing a 3Dvisualization of the stress field. These results and additional data from further investigations can be combined in a comprehensive representation of the failure. Basic principles of moment tensor inversion and some examples of experimental data and their analysis will be presented. The results will be discussed with regard to the influence of near field effects.


The common idea of video analysis in physics education so far is that students record the motion of an object using a video camera, transfer the video on a computer and analyze it with a suitable software. In our approach students perform video analysis time-efficiently using only tablet computers. We present the results of a study which examines learning effects of tablet PC-supported video analysis in high school physics courses in a pre-post-test design with treatment and control groups for two essential topics of mechanics, the uniform motion (N = 109 matched samples) and the accelerated motion (N = 70 matched samples). The results show that the treatment leads to significantly higher learning gain regarding conceptual knowledge in comparison to traditional teaching without video-based motion analysis, especially for the cognitively more demanding topic. We discuss the results in the context of learning theories and reveal implications for future research.


s for the Second United Nations Symposium on the Development and Use of Geothermal Resources. San Francisco, May 20-29, 1975. Berkeley: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, 1975. Abt Associates, Inc. Energy Fuel Mineral Resources of the Public Lands, Vol.I. Springfield, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, 1970. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Significant Features of Fiscal Federalism. Washington, D.C.: ACIR, 1974. Allen, Donald. "Legal and Policy Aspects of Geothermal Resource Development." Water Resources Bulletin, Vol.8, No.2, April 1972. Allen, Gordon W. and H. K. McCluer, "Hydrogen Sulfide Emissions Abatement for The Geysers Power Plant." In Abstracts for the Second United Nations Symposium on the Development and Use of Geothermal Resources, IV-I. Berkeley: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, 1975. Armstead, H. Christopher H. "Geothermal Economics." In Geothermal Energy edited by H. Christopher H. 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Drought is a severe natural risk that increases drying-rewetting frequencies of soils. Yet, it remains largely unknown how forest ecosystems respond to dry-wet cycles, hampering our ability to evaluate the overall sink and source functionality for this large carbon pool. Recent investigations suggest that the release of soluble carbon via root exudation increases under drought, influencing soil carbon stabilization and mineralization. However, an integration of root exudation into the carbon allocation dynamics of drought stressed trees is missing. We hypothesized that roots in dry soil layers have a higher exudation rate than roots in more moist layers across different soil depths. Further, we tested if higher exudation rates under drought are attenuated by reduced root abundance in dry soils and if the fraction of root exudation from total carbon allocation increases with decreasing photosynthesis rates under drought. At the KROOF experimental site in southern Germany, where mature beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) trees were exposed to artificial drought stress for five consecutive growing seasons, we show that at the root level root exudation rate increases in drier soils. Especially roots in the upper soil profile and roots of spruce trees increased root exudation under drought. When scaled to whole tree level, we did not find differences in total exudation between drought stressed and control trees, indicating sustained root exudation at the tree level under drought. As photosynthesis rates and therefore total carbon assimilation was substantially reduced under drought (by 50 % in beech and almost 70 % in spruce), the fraction of root exudation from total assimilation slightly increased for drought stressed trees. Our results demonstrate that stimulation of root exudation rates with drought exists in natural temperate forest ecosystems but might be mitigated by reduced fine root abundance under drought. Nevertheless, increased exudation per root surface area will have localized impacts on rhizosphere microbial composition and activity especially in the topsoil exposed to more extreme dry-wet cycles. Finally, also the exudate composition can help to determine how priming of soil organic matter relates to belowground carbon allocation dynamics and to disclose processes of complementary species interaction and should be emphasised in future studies.


Objective: To analyze the obturated reason of AVF.Methods: 83 cases of perpetual AVF were made on stable hemodialysis patients ,a retrospective analysis was performed to study the causes of AVF obturation .Results: There were 25 patients whose AVF had been obturated; 11 patients'AVF were abandoned because of kidney transplantation;6 patients'AVF were oppressed for too long ;4 patients had previous Diabetes ;3 patients were lower blood pressure;1 patient abandoned AVF for unknowed reasons. Conclusion: The reasons of AVF obturation connected with the patients, previous illness?the use of AVF?unsuitable protection and the situation of the whole body closely.


OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Our Goal is to enroll 500 students over 10 years into the CTSI 500 Stars Initiative. Student family members and community members are essential to career achievement and success; as such, the program also engages student families, along with key community members, as part of an Advisory Group, throughout the entire student experience. Besides programmatic and planning activities, students, family, and community members participate in our CTSI Community Engagement Science Café monthly series, where students may also present on a number of research and health-related topics of interest. The Advisory Group meets every 3–4 months in ensuring continuous engagement and overall program success. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Our Initiative takes both direct and supportive roles in offering 2 educational and training pathways; namely, our Summer Internship Program (6–8 wk duration) and our Students Modeling a Research Topic (SMART) Year-round Education Program (usually offered in Fall and Spring academic semesters) for high school students only. In the SMART Teams program, we work with regional public and private school districts to train science teachers, and assist them in developing and/or enhancing their science curriculum, thus creating pathways towards careers in translational science settings. Our aim is that students who participate in the year-round program (along with additional students) subsequently participate in our summer program. Therefore, overall program engagement is continuous throughout the year. In Summer, 2017 we engaged with well-established regional partners and collaborators (CTSI affiliated numerous public school districts, and community-based organizations) to move the translational workforce along existing regional diversity education and training pipelines. A Kick-off event was held on June 15, 2107 and attended by students and family members. We offered 6–8 weeks of hands-on experiences working with faculty researcher mentors and their research teams conducting real-life studies, in addition to professional experiences in research "support" settings, as well as in the community. We also developed established a "Summer" SMART (Students Modeling a Research Topic) Teams Program and a Summer "Advanced" SMART Teams Program, where a number of students were placed at 2 CTSI partner and collaborator institutions. The primary goal of the SMART Teams experience is to introduce students to translational science by building upon laboratory research to better understand clinical and community impact of disease within a patient population. Overall, internship sites included research labs, protein modeling labs, numerous research support settings, clinical care settings, and community sites for those students who were interested in population health sciences. In addition, students were offered career enrichment and professional development lunch and learn sessions, career panel sessions presented by long term, expert professionals in various fields translational science, and confidence building and networking sessions. Students also participated in a community volunteer day activity, a trip to the Chicago Science Museum, and numerous CTSI engagement activities (Science Cafés, simulation lab tours, etc.). RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The 2018 year-round program will initiate in the Fall. Our 2017 Summer Internship Program received 192 students/trainees applications of whom 133 were underrepresented minorities (URMs). We enrolled 109 participants, including 83 URMs (84 high school students and 25 college students). A total of 53 Wisconsin high schools and 19 colleges and universities (local and out of state) participated. Students engaged in all activities as outlined in the Methods section. At the end of the summer program, students created and presented posters as part of the closing ceremony. Certificates of completion were given to the students by program leadership and the Al Hurvis/ADAMM leadership (program funding agency). Students wore white lab coats to create an atmosphere of cohesion and accomplishment. Parents and other family members attended the closing ceremony, demonstrating strong support for students and the program. Our anticipated results for CTSI 500 Stars Initiative is to increase diversity in the Translational Science Workforce via education and training of 500 high school and college students over 10 years. We will also remain engaged and track student's various venues for at least 10 years to determine the outcome of their experiences towards careers in Translational Science settings. We will continue to engage community members and community-based organizations as collaborators and advisors to participate in every stage of our activities. Moreover, we plan to broaden our reach by establishing additional relationships with additional high schools and middle schools to further enhance the 500 Stars Initiative. In addition, we will develop metrics by which to measure the validity and success of our program. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: The aim of the CTSI 500 Stars Initiative is to provide real-life, practical experiences in translational science settings as a part of our efforts to train and cultivate the translational science workforce, while also engaging patients, families and community members in every phase of the translational process. Targeting under-represented minority students contributes towards increasing diversity in the workforce. It is also our hope that by increasing URMs in the workforce, there will be positive impact on communities of color, with respect to increasing participation in their health care decision making and in clinical/translational research; thus, ultimately leading to better health outcomes in the communities we live and serve. Our overall framework is to engage, educate, enrich, empower, elevate, enable students towards careers in clinical and translational settings.


Glioblastoma (GBM) is characterized by aggressive local invasiveness, making complete surgical resection of the cancer nearly impossible. To identify mechanisms of GBM invasion, we isolated a subpopulation of highly invasive cells and evaluated the expression of invasion-related factors, including matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP2), fascin, integrin subunits, Akt, and Erk. We selected the first 10% of invading cells (U87-Inv) from the U87MG GBM cell line using laminin-2 (merosin)-coated Transwell filters. To characterize the highly invasive cells, we chose a wound-healing assay; gelatin zymography; a proliferation assay; real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) for integrin subunits; western blot for fascin, Akt, and Erk; and immunofluorescence for fascin and actin. The migration rate of U87-Inv cells increased approximately 20% compared with that of the relatively less invasive cells (U87-Non). U87-Inv cells demonstrated faster wound healing, but lower proliferative activity. U87-Inv cells also showed extensive lamellipodia with the expression of fascin and actin, an increase in the activity of MMP-2, but a decrease in the expression of Erk. The expression of integrins α1 and α7 in U87-Inv cells increased approximately 1.5-fold, whereas that of integrins α6 and β4 was reduced by approximately 0.4and 0.6-fold, respectively. Using a merosin substrate, we successfully isolated a subpopulation of highly invasive GBM cells. Activation of integrins α1 and α7 was correlated with the invasiveness of GBM cells. The highly invasive GBM cell line likely showed a decrease in proliferation because of Erk activation via integrins α6 and β4.


Abstract : The objective of the research was to develop hypotheses concerning the personal characteristics and job behaviors associated with recruiter success. Based on the self-description data, few characteristics were significantly related to production records. Among the significant findings were the following: (1) High producers were less likely than low producers to cite 'independence' as a source of job satisfaction. (2) High producers were more likely than low producers to complain about their long hours of work. (3) High producers more often than low producers mentioned the use of Pre-Induction Physical(PIP) cards and mail-outs as prospecting techniques that they had found successful. (4) High producers less often admitted communication problems. (5) High producers were less likely to describe themselves in terms that were coded as 'not irritable,' and 'empathetic'. The responses made by the subjects in describing a successful and an unsuccessful recruiter they had known appeared to reflect sterotypical notions of what constitutes a good and a poor recruiter. The usefulness of these opinions for recruiter selection is considered to be marginal. A number of idiosyncratic prospecting and selling techniques were mentioned that might be worthy of more widespread utilization (e.g., cultivating drivers' license examiners or bowling alley managers as centers of influence). A number of complaints regarding recruiter management practices were noted, some of which might merit command attention.


By comparing the present situation,scale and structure of Henan Province with the concerning targets home and abroad and using AHP as well as the method of comparative analysis,this paper has carried out the systematic evaluation on the modern agricultural technology system and put forward a new structure along with policy suggestions about support measure related to modern agricultural technology system construction.


A system to detect vehicles (cars, trucks etc) in electro-optic (EO) and infrared (IR) imagery is presented. We present the use of the minimum noise and correlation (MINACE) distortion invariant filter (DIF) for this problem. The selection of the MINACE filter parameter c is automated using a training and validation set. A new set of correlation plane post processing methods that improve detection accuracies and reduce false alarms are presented. The system is tested on real life imagery of traffic in parking lots and roads obtained using a multi-sensor EO/IR platform.


Over the past years, new memory technologies such as RRAM, STT-MRAM, and PCM have emerged. These technologies employ devices located within the metal layers of the chip, which are relatively fast, dense, and power efficient and can be considered as 'memristors'. To date, research in these devices has primarily focused on memristors as flash, DRAM, and SRAM replacement. In this presentation, we present these emerging memory technologies as enablers to the era of memoryintensive computing, which brings interesting opportunities for novel architectural applications. As an example, we present the multistate pipeline register (MPR), a structure that stores the microarchitectural state of multiple threads. We show that MPR can eliminate the need to flush the pipeline upon a thread switch in Switch-on-Event (SoE) multi-threading machines. We call the new microarchitectural scheme, Continuous Flow MultiThreading (CFMT), and compare the performance and power consumption against traditional SoE machines. Memristor-based CFMT exhibits an average performance improvement of 40%, while reducing power consumption by 6.5%, significantly increasing the performance to energy ratio.


[Problem] To mask the powder smell of either a powdery processed food or a food containing the same without exerting an influence on the taste of the food. It is preferable that the additive to be used for this purpose is a general food having high safety. [Solution] It has been found that the powder smell of a powdery processed food can be masked by adding, to the food, a proper amount of yeast extract which has a peptide content of 5wt% or more, an RNA content of 5wt% or more and a free amino acid content of 4wt% or less.


The present invention relates to a tower tilting angle setting acquisition method cordon: were collected boom swing angle of inclination of the inner plurality of positions corresponding to one week when the tower crane tower crane load and the amount of load data. When setting a tower crane tipping cordon methods described above using the acquired tilt tower crane, according to the prior art drawing the envelope coordinate point, the packet is the normal operation of the crane tower envelope inclined safe area, that is, the envelope of the tower crane tipping cordon. Cordon tilting tower crane according to the present invention have the safe operating area in the working state embraces the tower, the tower will not normally exceed the warning level; if there is an abnormality, the boom may not occur a timing when changing over to a main limb back out of the tower crane tipping the warning level, the alarm condition include but are not limited to tilt-range in a main limb or inclination in four main limbs surpassed range.


Recently, Baumgartner (2002), Courtenay et al. (2000) and Courtenay at al. (1998) have described instances of transformational learning in HIV-positive individuals. Working from the premise that "the prospect of death at an early age challenges assumptions and values about the meaning of life" (Courtenay et al., 2000, p. 103), these researchers observe that HIV/AIDS appears to be a powerful stimulus for stable, long-term transformational learning in afflicted individuals. Despite Baumgartner's (2002) contention that social interactions play a key role in the transformational learning process in HIV/AIDS individuals, these researchers still follow Jack Mezirow and posit transformational learning as a process that occurs "in the head" of individuals. In the following paper, we draw on research that we have conducted into the indigenous learning processes of people impacted and affected by HIV/AIDS in Nova Scotia to criticize the individualistic tendencies of Jack Mezirow's transformational learning theory. We contend that a "cultural theory of learning" that depicts human learning as an intersubjective process that transpires in communities of practice provides a far better basis for understanding the learning of people impacted and affected by HIV/AIDS than transformational learning theory.


The association between Business Research and Data Mining Techniques (DM) has grown considerably, providing opportunities for systematic and bibliometric evaluations. Despite this, no bibliometric study has yet been conducted on this subject. To address this gap, we used bibliometric analysis to statistically evaluate published studies and measure their impact within the scientific community. Our analysis involved 1937 Scopus indexed articles from Data Mining related Business research (DMBR) fields authored by 4560 researchers between 1997 and 2022. We utilized the R data analysis package, bibliometrix, to conduct an extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis. Our findings included insights on the most influential authors and journals, theoretical foundations, themes, and current research trends within DM and its impact on business issues. Furthermore, we examined the evolution of research streams and trends in DMBR areas and identified several potential avenues for future research.


The article presents the results of treatment of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), who, due to resistance to traditional regimens, for the first time in the Russian Federation were included in the early access program of the type I interferon inhibitor – anifrolumab. Clinical data and results of instrumental examinations of a patient with SLE on the background of 6-month therapy are presented.


The change in mission of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from nuclear weapons production to dismantlement and the ultimate disposal of excess nuclear materials has lead to a renewed perspective on nuclear criticality safety. Nuclear criticality safety experts are required to perform criticality evaluations with more rigor and formality to meet the new DOE orders and standards. This paper concentrates on the technical aspects of nuclear criticality evaluations from the point of view of a DOE regulator.


In recent years,the primary and secondary schools' school-based curriculum development of Sunan Yugur autonomous county in Gansu province mainly takes the form of implementing school-based national curriculum.There exist such problems as teachers' insufficient awareness and low level capabilities,inefficient school management,and the lack of information and modern teaching facilities.Transforming the ideas,making full use of the favourable polices,striving for external assistance,strengthen the administrative efficiency,developing curriculum resources,enhancing teacher's abilities and providing more modern educational facilities are major measures to be taken for school-based curriculum development in primary and secondary schools in ethnic minority areas.


Introduction Australia is usually regarded as one of the most democratic of countries. One of the signs of this is said to be the permanent, seemingly entrenched scepticism of Australians about politics in general and especially about the politicians they elect to lead them. Polls regularly show a curious disjunction between approval ratings for the political system itself, which are always high, and those for the politicians who inhabit it, which are invariably much lower. More than sceptical, Australians are often downright cynical about the motives and actions of their political leaders, even when they support the leader's party. If hope is occasionally vested in new leadership it is always subject to the lingering fear, or even expectation, that hope will inevitably be betrayed, sooner rather than later.


We present a trend analysis of surface water chemistry in in acid-sensitive lakes and rivers in Europe and North
America, for the period 2000 to 2011, combined with a prognosis for water chemistry in Europe in 2020. Also, trends in freshwater biology in acidified surface waters in Europe are presented. Declining emissions and deposition of sulphur between 2000 and 2011 have lowered sulphate concentrations in surface waters. The clearest indication that water chemistry is getting less hostile to acid sensitive organisms is increased pH. Several examples of partial biological recovery are presented, but also examples where communities of aquatic invertebrates show few signs of recovery. We expect that climate variability will confound effects of reduced sulphur emissions on chemical and biological recovery in the next decades.


D.L., aged i year, was admitted to the Radcliffe Infirmary with stridor on 12 April 1971. He had been unwell for three months and more recently had developed a cough with mucopurulent sputum. Various antibiotics and cough medicines had not relieved his symptoms, but feeding at all times had been satisfactory. On admission his temperature was 37 °C. The pulse and respiration rates were within normal limits. He had a good colour and was not distressed, but there was an obvious inspiratory and expiratory stridor with signs of consolidation at the right base. The clinical diagnosis of an inhaled foreign body was made although unconfirmed by plain X-rays. An examination under general anaesthesia on 13 April 1971 showed a normal larynx. The posterior wall of the trachea was red and granular and there was mucopus in both main bronchi. No foreign body was found. In the next few days he was given physiotherapy and ampicillin, but there was little improvement in his symptoms. The stridor and the signs of consolidation at the base of the right lung remained. At this time the nursing staff noticed that, although he could swallow fluids easily, he became distressed with semisolid foods which were often regurgitated. Further plain and cine radiographs were taken of the airways, with the following findings:


Abstract: In recent years, membrane systems have found industrial level application in a large variety of advanced separation and purification processes, including biofuel production and purification. The numerous advantages over conventional techniques can be summarized as: minimization of capital cost, flexibility, compactness of the plants, and optimal ratio between productivity and efficiency alongside energy-saving. This chapter gives a general overview of the concept of membranes and membrane technology, followed by information on membrane classification and techniques of fabrication. The remaining sections then discuss gas separation, pervaporation and inorganic membrane reactor-based transport mechanisms and the use of these membrane processes for biofuel production and purification (including hydrogen production).


p < 0.0001). Both AI and Human C-Index similarly predicted oncologic outcomes, with lower levels of either score associated with increased risk of ma-lignant histology (H-score p [ 0.018, AI score p [ 0.014) HG disease (both p < 0.0001), and HS disease (both p < 0.0001). Lower levels of either score also predicted a radical nephrectomy rather than partial nephrectomy (both p < 0.0001). AUC measurements (Figure 1) were similar but consistently superior for AI C-index. CONCLUSIONS: Automated AI C-index scores are comparable to Human C-index scores and predict a wide variety of meaningful patient-centered outcomes. Our results suggest that our AI C-index could be delivered automatically from a preoperative CT scan to a clinician and patient at the point of care to aid in decision making.


Residential or boarding schools can be traced to the early history of the United States. Initially developed to serve indigenous peoples, the residential school of the 21st century attracts and serves students from diverse ethnic, racial, socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. This paper uses the population of graduates from a large high school with both residential and commuter students serving specifically students with Native Hawaiian ancestry. Using a sample of both residential and commuting students from the graduating classes of 1993, 1994 and 1995, the study compares outcomes such as high school graduation, college attendance, college graduation, occupational status and overall life happiness to determine the effects of residential status. Rossier School of Education University of Southern California Waite Philips Hall, 500-B Los Angeles, CA 90089-0031 Kamehameha Schools Policy Analysis and System Evaluation 567 South King Street, Suite 121 Honolulu, HI 96813 Linda Serra Hagedorn, Ph.D. Project Director for Rossier School of Education Associate Professor Associate Director – Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni, PhD. Director Policy Analysis and System Evaluation This manuscript was produced as part of the College Persistence, Transfer, and Success of Kamehameha Students (CP-TASKS ) Project. CP-TASKS is a joint project of the Kamehameha Schools and the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the Rossier School of Education of the University of Southern California. Presented at the April 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. Submitted for publication to the Pacific Education Research Journal.


We seek S-brane solutions in D = 11 supergravity which can be characterized by a harmonic function H on the flat transverse space. It turns out that the Einstein's equations force H to be a linear function of the transverse coordinates. The codimension one H = 0 hyperplane can be spacelike, timelike or null and the spacelike case reduces to the previously obtained SM2 or SM5 brane solutions. We then consider static S-brane configurations having smeared timelike directions where the transverse Lorentzian symmetry group is broken down to its maximal orthogonal subgroup. Assuming that the metric functions depend on a radial spatial coordinate, we construct explicit solutions in D = 11 supergravity which are non-supersymmetric and asymptotically flat. Finally, we obtain spacelike fluxbrane backgrounds which have timelike electric or magnetic fluxlines extending from past to future infinity.


Abstract : An evaluation of four tracer rounds at subsonic Mach numbers has been conducted. This evaluation indicated that three of the four subsonic tracer rounds possessed large dispersion characteristics. The fourth round, the 7.62 mm NATO round, has acceptable dispersion characteristics; however, even this round demonstrated a dynamic instability at the subsonic Mach numbers. It was found that this instability can be characterized by a growing precessional vector and it is present with or without the tracer ignited. Data indicated that the instability is tolerable when the tracer is ignited because of its small effect on the dispersion of the round. (Author)


Abstract Our previous thermodynamical approach was reexamined to study phase transition of anion radical salts, [(C6H5)3PCH3]+ 1 − x[(C6H5)3AsCH3]+ x(TCNQ)− 2,(0≤x≤1). The mechanism of the phase transition of the solid solution at 1 atm pressure was confirmed to be αy [(C6H5)3PCH3]+ 1 − x[(C6H5)3AsCH3]+ x(TCNQ)− 2,(0≤x≤1) βy, and the volume change assoiated with the phase transition was estimated to be ΔV =-1.3 (1-x) cm3/mol.


The neutron capture cross section and fission cross section for 233U have been measured simultaneously in the neutron energy range 0.4 to 2000 eV. A pulsed and collimated neutron beam was passed th...


Recommended Citation Boham, Mikaela and Hilker, Jerry (2020) "Recurrent Patellar Fracture in a Healthy Collegiate Basketball Player: An Exploration Clinical Case Report," Journal of Sports Medicine and Allied Health Sciences: Official Journal of the Ohio Athletic Trainers Association: Vol. 6 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. DOI: 10.25035/jsmahs.06.02.01 Available at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/jsmahs/vol6/iss2/1


As the emergence of digital newspaper,as well as the emergence of electronic newspaper and newspaper subscribed by cellphone,this paper will compare the historical material value between newspaper and journal to fully utilize the major competitive advantage of traditional medium.This comparision is mainly done in three perspectives:First,analyzing the bibliographies of every thesis in Library Information Works(form January to December,2003);Secondly,analyzing the flow of readers between Newspaper Reading Room and Publication Reading Room in Central China Normal University in 2006;Thirdly,carrying out questionnaires on readers between the two rooms and analyzing the results.


The present invention relates to a poly-α- olefin two step process wherein the first step in the presence of a single site catalyst the oligomerization of low molecular weight linear α- olefin and the second step comprises at least a portion of the product from the first step of the oligomerization low polymerization in the presence of a catalyst. Wherein the oligomerization dimer from the first product in that tri-substituted vinylidene olefin content of at least 25wt%. Wherein the poly α- olefins produced in the second polymerization step characterized by a very low viscosity and excellent low Noack volatility.


The author analises pedagogical aspects of preparation of pupils to the procedure of Russian state examination, the results are generalized, the directions of improvement in organizing and conducting Russian state examination prove in Orenburzhye


Mountain reservoirs are hydraulic structures in ski resorts in the mountains, used to store water in general for snowmaking. There are more than one hundred of them in France, most of them less than 10 years of age. Despite their modest volumes (5,000 to 400,000 m3) and dam heights of between 5 and 20m, these structures do induce potentially high risks for people and property situated downstream from them. They are located at altitudes between 1,200 and 2,700m, and often face difficult topographical, geological and geotechnical conditions, mountain-specific hazards, a very limited period for construction in the year, considerable pressure from ice and intense cold, the difficulty of surveillance in winter, etc. A survey conducted on about 70 of these mountain reservoirs provided considerable information, particularly on the behaviour and pathologies of these small dams at high altitudes. These reservoirs are generally entirely sealed by geomembranes (85% of cases). This feedback on experience served as a basis for writing a set of guidelines on studying, designing, constructing, monitoring and rehabilitating these mountain reservoirs [4]. This guideline has been supported by the French ministry of environment and it has been prepared by a working group lead by the Cemagref and with the contribution of EDF and ISL. The article presents, through the guideline "Mountain reservoirs", a summary of the feedback on the behaviour and pathology of mountain reservoirs. It gives a general description of the guideline [4], and emphasis on the main key themes: environmental impacts, risks specific to the mountain, design of embankments and drainage system, monitoring and operation, and those aspects of the underlying layer, drainage and cover layer of the GSS that appear to be essential for the system to behave correctly.


The VUV emission of a μ-APPJ operated at 13.56 MHz in He with small O2 additions (<0.7%) is analysed between 115 nm and 230 nm. Two atomic emission lines at 115 nm (1D 1Do) and 130 nm (3P 3So) dominate the spectra. Absolutely calibrated measurements of the VUV radiance provide line integrated radiances of 15 and 27 μW mm-2sr-1 respectively for an oxygen admixture of 0.1 vol-% and at 4 mm distance from the nozzle. The axial dependence of the singlet line 115 nm can be described with a decay based on the absorption by atomic and molecular oxygen and ozone. The measurements demonstrate that VUV radiation with photons of 10 eV is transported through the afterglow of the plasma jet over the distance of > 1 cm.


Collocation can contribute to economic and systematic processing of sig nificant linguistic topics, i.e., metaphor, metonymy and anomaly. Genera lizing the application as well as the concept of collocation, this paper shows an efficient computational theory of collocation is feasible. An over-all picture of collocation can be captured through a view of col location as continuum, e.g., a frozenness eline. Frozenness entails two kinds of expectation: rule-based and use-based expectation. The frozen ness continuum is partitioned in terms of a 'collocational space' and partial functions which enable even the composition of meanings of frozen expres sions. Derailment from collocational expectation results in anomaly or figura tive extension of meanings. Metaphor, a paradigmatic extension of mean ing, was treated basically in terms of rule-based approaches. But, dead or frozen metaphors can be efficiently processed in terms of collocational ex pectation, in which novel metaphors and anomalies can be distinguished better than in former approaches which were entirely dependant on rules. Metonymy, a syntagmatic extension of meaning, was relatively more ne glected than metaphor in linguistic studies. We show an example of calculat ing metonymy by the collaboration between default and compositional pro cessing, or the cooperation between use-based and rule-based inferences.


Abstract The occurrence of heterotrophy and photoheterotrophy in eight dinoflagellate strains was investigated. Peridinium foliaceum (isolate 129) was tested for heterotrophic growth on fifty-four organic substrates while three other organisms: Cachonina niei, a free-living isolate of Zooxanthella microadriatica and Amphidinium carterae were tested on a more limited range of compounds. In addition, the capability for photoheterotrophic growth among the above organisms and Fragilidium heterolobum, Peridinium balticum, a second isolate of P. foliaceum and a symbiotic Z. microadriatica was investigated using the conditions of dim light and DCMU inhibited photosynthesis. No examples of heterotrophic growth were found, but the growth of six strains was stimulated by glycerol in both dim light and the presence of DCMU. In the presence of DCMU, soil extract stimulated growth in several strains. Soil extract did not support photoheterotrophic growth in any organism tested under dim light. Nitrogen limited culture...


In production process, there were many recurrent problems reaching production time loss or downtime. The cause of these problems was unsustainable solutions due to lack of problem-solving skills and standard of operation in workforce groups related to that process. To reduce downtime in the process, this paper proposed a practical learning model or 4MAT model to develop the problem-solving abilities of technicians through experimental learning process based on 21st century skills requirements. Therefore, a technician was able to diagnose the cause of the problem, work together to find a solution, design a method to prevent problems along with establishing standards and set operating procedures. After applying standard operating procedures, fewer problems in the labeling process of bottled beverages were found due to more precise problem analysis and solving. Consisted of setting standards and setting and adjusting the glue thickness appropriately. Consequently, loss reduction in the production process and machine downtime reduction were met company goals.


In order to explore the efficiency volatility and influence factors of Chinese modern transportation industry based on the data from 1978 to 2012, the Cross-efficiency DEA and VAR model are adopted. The result proves that, one-way Granger casualty relationship exists, respectively, between the input variables and output variables; the efficiency volatility of modern transportation can be divided into three stages: efficiency improvement, high efficiency operation and efficiency loss, which shows the trend of "rising first, then falling"in general; the response of transportation industry to the shock of per capita consumption, government spending, energy consumption and fixed-asset investment are positive, while to the shock of labor factor is negative, what's more,"lag effect"exists in the response of transportation industry to the shock of information element.


Cooperative diversity is a transmission technique, where multiple users pool their resources to form a virtual antenna array that obtain spatial diversity. We evaluate the performance of coded cooperation with multiple relays in Reyleigh fading channels. The closed-form expressions with multiple relays are derived in this work. Our numerical results show that the new coded cooperation method can achieve a noticeable gain over non-cooperative networks. Moreover, the analytical upper bounds are validated with simulation results.