An Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) setup has been proposed here to create good quality uniform nano-dimensional coating on a large number of concave substrates. Our present objective is to study the wave plasma interaction in a unique ECR plasma enhanced deposition system using COMSOL Multi-Physics Software. The surface electron density and its temperature will be presented in this study by varying the intensity of confining magnetic field. Here two identical deposition chambers are fed by two identical shaped microwave coaxial antennas. In the proposed scheme, high density plasma is generated around the 875 Gauss resonance zone. It is essential for cracking the precursor gas molecules used for the deposition of the film. The study will help us to create nano-dimensional coating of dielectric materials needed for nano devices. This also will facilitate to create a uniform metallic and non-metallic nano films inside the surface of a semi-cylindrical/concave shaped device.


Comparative studies of private and public sector organizations often consider organizations with dissimilar tasks or business purposes: profit-making business firms commonly represent the private s...


The investigation of coastal erosion of Marica County at Rio de Janeiro State indicates the absence of an urban planning that considers appropriately the physical vulnerability and the risks involved. In 1995, 1996 and 2001 strong storms reached the South and Southeast coastline of Brazil causing severe destructions of houses, kiosks and streets at Marica's shoreline. The financial losses due to proprieties destruction and devaluation added to the costs of the defense structures construction was about R$ 3 millions (about U$ 1.2 thousands). The present paper discusses the coastal erosion problem at Marica County through the evaluation of the socioeconomic impacts and the identification of critical and potential risk areas. The mapping of the degree of vulnerability and risk indicated the predominance of endangered segments with high to very high risk as a consequence of the low resistance of the shoreline to storm events, the direct exposition to storms, and inadequate location of the houses and kiosks, which are very close to the active profile. The result together with to the beaches characterization concerning the degree of damages, the types of the adaptations and the financial losses allowed the definition of special areas for urban planning at Marica shoreline contributing to mitigations suggestions, in order to the present situation.


The free cooling process in the inelastic hard sphere system is studied by analysing the data from large scale molecular dynamics simulations on a three dimensional system. The initial energy decay, the velocity distribution function, and the velocity correlation functions are calculated to be compared with theoretical predictions. The energy decay rate in the homogeneous cooling state is slightly but distinctively smaller than that expected from the independent collision assumption. The form of the one particle velocity distribution is found not to be stationary. These contradict to the predictions of the kinetic theory based on the Enskog–Boltzmann equation and suggest that the velocity correlation is already important in the early stage of homogeneous cooling state. The energy decay rate is analysed in terms of the velocity correlation.


Purpose: This study aims to investigate how extrinsic cues such as brand, certification, production method and price affect Muslim soujouk consumers' purchasing decisions in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach: Conjoint analysis was used to identify consumers' preferences and cluster analysis was used to reveal consumer segments for Turkish soujouk, which is a kind of fermented sausage. A total of 270 Muslim consumers from Turkey were selected by using a convenience sampling method. Four extrinsic cues were selected for analysis: brand (unbranded product, private label and national brand), certification (Turkish Standards Institution, geographical indication and halal certificate), production method (heat process and fermentation) and price (TRY11, TRY15 and TRY19). Findings/results: Brand, certification, production method and price were found to be significant for consumer preference. Price was the least important attribute in consumer purchase intention. National brand and halal certification were amongst the most important levels. The research also revealed two basic consumer segments according to cluster analysis. Practical implications: The study has practical significance for manufacturers in Muslim countries to identify the main extrinsic cue that influences consumers' preferences in meat products. This result provides important insights to both local producers and foreign manufacturers that market their meat products to Muslim society. Originality/value: This is the first study on Turkish Muslim consumers' preferences towards meat products analysing extrinsic product attributes. In addition, conjoint analysis and cluster analysis are used to specify Muslim consumers' preferences.


Tbe first imidazole developed for topical antifungal use was cblorimidazole in 1959.*' In tbe late 1980s the tbird-generation imidazoles oxiconazole (Fig. 1) and sulconazole (Fig. 2) became available in tbe United States. Tbese agents along witb otber agents of tbis class of drugs are currently tbe mainstay of topical antifungal tberapy. Tbe fungistatic imidazoles act by inbibiting syntbesis of ergosterol, an essential component of fungal cell membranes. Tbeir activity is cytocbrome p-450 dependent, and most act by inbibiting 14 a-demetbylation of lanosterol (Fig. 3).''"' Clotrimazole and miconazole (Fig. 4) bave been available for more tban two decades. Tbey bave become available over-tbe-counter after development of tbe newer imidazoles. In addition to clotrimazole and miconazole, tbe agents oxiconazole (Fig. 1), sulconazole (Fig. 2), econazole (Fig. 4), and ketoconazole (Fig. 5), are currently approved for use in tbe United States. In Furope additional azoles are eitber available or in development, including bifonazole, fenticonazole, tioconazole, terconazole, and isoconazole.^'^-^'* Is tbere a significant difference among tbese topical imidazole antifungals.' Tbis question is difficult to answer because tbere are too few clinical trials comparing members of tbis class of drugs, and tbe results of publisbed


Traffic processes in High Speed Communication Networks based on the Asynchronous Transfer Mode paradigm are characterized by their highly intermittent and bursty nature. Since fluctuations induce congestion, these rapid fluctuations of network traffic are undesirable as they impose fundamental limitations on the utility of network resources and undermine significant technological advances (such as better routing and switching strategies, better software, more efficient multiplexing schemes, and faster components). Hence, understanding and characterizing traffic fluctuations in order to design better "traffic-shaping" algorithms has become a key issue in High Speed Communications.
In this thesis, the problem of traffic shaping is studied under the mathematical framework of 'smoothing operations on point processes'. A rigorous approach is taken to understand the input-output and smoothing properties of key networking operations--queueing and synchronization. This approach allows one to obtain a mathematical characterization of internal traffic flow patterns in large queueing systems, leading to a better understanding of network-wide dynamics.
The statistics of departure processes from a series of nodes/networks with arbitrary inputs are studied to understand the effect of repeated queueing. It is found that the limit from passing an arbitrary process through certain series of nodes/networks is a Poisson process. Since the Poisson process has maximum entropy, it is argued that the reason an arbitrary process tends to the Poisson process as it passes through a series of such nodes/networks is due to their "entropy increasing" nature. Connections between the entropy content of traffic processes and the delay incurred by them at various nodes in a network are investigated.
Synchronization operations are studied by investigating a basic model--the synchronization of Poisson processes. Synchronization is seen to preserve the Poisson property. We then show how synchronization nodes may be included in networks of./M/1 (./M/k) nodes (Jackson networks). In such networks of service and synchronization nodes, under independent Poisson process inputs, the joint queue-size distribution of the service nodes (the./M/1 or./M/k nodes) is seen to converge to a product-form distribution.


In this paper, we present a novel convergence control method for toed-in stereo camera systems. The proposed method automatically computes a convergence angle for both (i.e., left and right) cameras to locate a target object at image center. Unlike other image based auto-convergence algorithms, the proposed method aims at controlling the angle of yaw of stereo camera, and thus makes a disparity of the target object be zero while capturing stereoscopic images. The proposed algorithm is based on the fact that an object at convergence position has a zero-disparity in stereoscopic images under the toed-in camera configuration. As a result, we can avoid the accommodation-convergence conflict while watching the target object in stereoscopic images. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively estimates convergence angles for target objects at different distances.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain in high yield and extremely in high purity a pyrocarbonic diester useful for e.g. producing soluble pigment precursors, by reaction between an ester carbonate and a sulfochloride by a specific means. SOLUTION: This compound, a carbonic diester, of formula IV (R' 1 is a straight-chain or branched 1-24C alkyl, 3-24C alkenyl, etc.) is obtained by reaction between 100mol% of an ester carbonate of formula I (M + is Na + , K + , etc.; R 1 is the same as R' 1 ) and 40-50mol% of a sulfochloride of formula II (R 6 is H, CH 3 , etc.) (pref. benzenesulfochloride) in a nonpolar insoluble solvent (pref. toluene) in the presence of 0.8-5mol% of a catalyst of formula III (R 2 to R 5 are each H, a 1-18C alkyl, etc.; X - is a non-nucleophilic anion) (pref. benzyltrimethylammonium chloride) and 1-5mol% of a heterocyclic aromatic amine (pref. pyridine) at -10 to 25°C. COPYRIGHT: (C)1997,JPO


Proton exchange membrane (PEM) for H2/O2 fuel cell are made as sandwich assembly of sulfonated poly(ether sulfone) (SPES) with sulfonic acid functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (SMWCNT). The SMWCNT occupies at the middle layer enhances the interfacial interplay and interconnects the nano‐phase separation via hydrogen bond between the sulfonic acid of SPES and SMWCNT. The sandwich structure improves the integration of hydrophilic and hydrophobic layers of SPES and SMWCNT, that obliviously enhance the tensile and mechanical property of the membrane. Thus promotes the continuous proton conducting channels through the sandwiched morphology by using the proton hopping mechanism. The 1.5 wt% of SMWCNT in SPES (G3) offers high proton conductivity, current and power density values at 80°C under 100% RH, which are 72.0 × 10−3 S cm−1, 778.26 mA cm−2 and 173.29 mW cm−2, respectively. Within addition to remarkable durability, the OCV degradation is about 0.02 V after 15 hours of durability test and H2 permeability of 2.14 barrer. The excellent thermal stability of 91.2 wt% at 150°C and the Young's modulus of 2208 ± 110 MPa was attained by the G3, which strongly suggest that the promising nature of PEM.


Inventory management is critical in human space flight operations. Currently, we use the inventory management system (IMS) in keeping track of items on the International Space Station (ISS). One challenge is to discover lost or wrongly placed items when IMS fails to discover them due to human factors. In this paper, we will illustrate a model-based searching strategy called semantic inventory management for ISS (SIMISS), with which possible locations of lost items will be calculated based on contextual features in three dimensions: 1) spatial; 2) temporal; and 3) human. It contains ontologies, databases, machine learning algorithms, and ubiquitous client applications. We have implemented and tested SIMISS with the sample data from IMS, operation data files and onboard short term plan experiments have been carried out in a set of simulation scenarios.


Background
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract, and its pathogenesis involves genetic and environmental factors. Very early-onset IBD (VEO-IBD) is a designation given to disease diagnosed before 6 years of age. This subgroup is often characterized by higher severity, aggressive progression, strong family history of IBD, predilection for colon-only involvement, and poorer response to conventional treatments. Immunodeficiencies are identified in up to 25% of cases, which may impact response, safety, and indication to different therapies.


The drying effectiveness is studied using a cloth. The forced air propane heater with an extended sheet metal duct was used to direct the hot air onto the moving cloth. The cloth was run using a 1 hp motor with an electronic controller. The motor also had a pulley system to reduce the speed. The outlet of the hot air duct was placed just below the moving cloth. The experimental setup is shown in fig1. The extended heater duct held the Pitot tubes and the thermocouples. The Pitot tubes and the thermocouples were hooked up to a computer via a data logger. The main objective of this experiment was to create a uniform drying without loosing the overall drying effectiveness. Adjusting the conveyor velocity drying time and heater intensity produces varying dry qualities. This procedure is repeated until an adequate air quality is achieved. An air quality that does not damage the paper and dries it uniformly was desired for this experiment. In order to capture the velocity profile, five Pitot tubes were mounted on a rack assembly spanning radially from the center to the surface and parallel to the duct's axis. Three of the pitot tubes were placed 20 in from the duct exit and two of the pitot tubes were placed on 5 in from the exit. To accurately capture the velocity profile, three different radial positions were used and the velocities averaged. To accurately capture the temperature profile, 5 Ktype thermocouples were utilized placing at the same locations as the Pitot tubes. Foam pads were used to make the instrument assembly rigid. Fig 2 shows the schematic of the pitot tube locations.


The present invention relates to a broom, a brush body; The brush body and integrally or removably coupling the bag; It discloses a; and forceps are removably coupled to the shaft either side. The present invention provides at least a broom and forefinger with the linkage as a cleaning tool is coupled to separate from each other, as well as to facilitate the storage and possession of reducing the volume of the cleaning efficiency and length adjustable sacks, as well as physical burdens It has the effect of reducing. In addition, the present invention is a bag with a brush body hinged, there is an effect that it is possible to replace the reduced easily and, therefore economic burden and duration of use over a partial replacement for the separation and respectively to each other.


We demonstrate the formation of temporal solitons in a continuously pumped, non-linear optical MgF2 microresonator, resulting in low noise frequency comb spectra and ultra-short pulses of 200 fs duration with a repetition rate of 35.2 GHz. Article not available.


The Montreal and Kyoto Protocol both had framed two different sets of regulations applicable to the developed and developing countries (Annex I and Non Annex I countries as per Kyoto Protocol). Apparently, stringent rules are applied to developed countries as they have been identified as the major polluters. These discriminatory approaches of tackling a common problem have opened all the possible opportunities to convert a potential climate change related crisis into a multi-billion dollar business model.


Objective To investigate the role of ING4 gene in the tumorigenesis and development of glioma. Methods The mRNA expressions of ING4 gene and intra-reference GAPDH gene in 34 specimens of glioma tissue and 24 of normal brain tissue were assessed by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Results The target bands of ING4 gene were present in all of the specimens. The mRNA expression level of ING4 gene was significantly lower in glioma than in the normal brain tissue (P 0.05), and the level in the high-grade malignancy was markedly lower than that in the low-grade malignancy(P 0.05). Conclusion ING4 gene may play a role in the tumorigenesis and development of glioma and be related to the grade of the malignancy.


In this paper, three virtual but dimensioned entities are used to contain knowledge; while it is by itself abstract. Knowledge resides in knowledge-banks of computers and the Internet. More importantly, knowledge resides in all living species. The main emphasis is on the human species that construct their personalized knowledge structures and banks that they deploy to resolve their personal Needs. Such needs drive behavior and adaptive. Both these human characteristics are alive and get influence by human interaction. These dimensions have human (thought), scientific and physical (energy and time) orientations. It becomes feasible to build a hyperspace for knowledge and confine it in the three dimensions of thought (anchored in the personality of an individual), energy, and time (both anchored in both physiological and physical spaces). We present the personality aspects based on the human needs that drive the human being (a noun object, n) to perform actions (one or more verb functions v) in intelligent steps (convolutions (⁎) between n's and v's ) to gratify the needs. Needs are inherent in human personality to maintain life.


This article easy to cause the concretes dehiscence reason to the construction process to carry on the summary,and has carried on the analysis from the theory and the practice angle,and aimed at the question to propose the preventive measure and the measure.This avoids the project quality question and the project quality common failing occurrence to the construction in has certainly certainly profits from the significance.


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A direct, completely quantum mechanical method of calculating transition probabilities involved in multiphoton scattering processes is described. It is applied to the often treated problem of resonance fluorescence of a two-level atom and is used to give a completely general description of the resonance scattering from an atom with two nearly degenerate excited states coupled to a ground state. Other applications of the method are indicated.


The assessment of internal control is a consideration in all financial statement audits, as stressed by the Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 78. According to this statement, "the auditor should obtain an understanding of internal control sufficient to plan the audit" (Accounting Standards Board, 1995, p. 1). Therefore, an accounting student will progress through the auditing course with the responsibility of learning how and why internal controls are assessed. Research in expert systems applied to auditing has shown that there is strong support for the constructive dialogue used in expert systems as a means of encouraging their use in decision making (Eining, Jones, & Loebbecke, 1997). The purpose of this study is to provide the student or novice auditor with a method for developing a more comprehensive understanding of internal controls and the use of internal controls in audit planning. The results of the study reinforce previous findings that novices do better when an expert system applies analogies along with declarative explanations, and clarifies the length of time in which the use of active learning in a training system can provide an improvement to declarative knowledge, but procedural knowledge must be acquired over a longer time frame.


In the era of mass customization, designing optimal products is one of the most critical decision-making for a company to stay competitive. More and more customers like customized products, which will bring challenges to the product line design and the production. If a company adopts consumers' favorite levels, this may lead to lower product reliability, or incompatibility among the components that make up the product. Moreover, it is worth outsourcing certain attribute levels so as to reduce production cost, but customers may dislike these levels because of their delivery delay. If managers consider the compatibility issue, the quality issue, outsource determination, and the delivery due date in the product design and production stages, it will avoid unreasonable product configuration and many unnecessary expenses, thereby bringing benefits to the company. To solve this complicated problem, we establish a nonlinear programming model to maximize a metric about profit, termed as Per-capita-contribution Margin considering Reliability Penalty (PMRP). Since the integrated product line design and production problem is NP-hard, we propose an improved Discrete Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (DICA) that can find a most powerful imperialist (i.e., solution) by the competition among all countries in the world. The proposed DICA is compared with genetic algorithm (GA) and simulated annealing (SA) through extensive numerical experiment, and the results show that DICA has more attractive performance than GA and SA.


AbstractThis work investigates the instability of a two-layer Bickley jet in the context of the rotating shallow water (RSW) model. This provides a general context in which the instability of oceanographic jets with simple stratification can be investigated. The three objectives of this work are as follows: First, the study investigates the morphology of unstable modes that can occur in this two-layer model. This is done by performing a linear stability analysis to investigate different types of flows both with and without vertical shear. Second, the authors study how the growth rates of the unstable modes are affected by changes in the stratification. Third, this study looks at the nonlinear evolution of some of these instabilities to determine how easy it is for nonprimary instabilities to develop. This is motivated by the fact that in the literature there have been many investigations that have found a multitude of unstable modes in this model, and it is not evident as to how easily they can be generat...


SummaryPlasma renin activity has been measured with Boucher's technique. In normal adults, the mean value of renin activity is 29,2 nanogrammes of angiotensin liberated/10 ml of plasma (S.D. ± 6,5). In 81 cases of essential hypertension, renin activity averaged 17,4 ng/10 ml (S.D. ± 4,5). In 16 cases of renal artery stenosis, renin activity averaged 80,2 ng/10 ml (S.D. + 44).However, in 5 of these cases, renin activity was only at the upper limit of the normal ranges. Normal renin plasma activity in causative renal artery stenosis can be explained in three ways :1) Systemic plasma renin activity does not reflect renal secretion in tight stenosis with low renal plasma flow; in 4 cases of renal artery stenosis with paranormal renin activity in systemic blood, renin activity in venous blood was high (304 ng/10 ml); stenotic renal artery blood flow averaged in these cases 45 ml/ minute.2) Renal blood flow and renin plasma activity may be normal in the reclining subjects and abnormally increased in erect posit...


The areas involved in coal and gas outbursts are composed of multi-layer coal and rock mass, in which external dynamic disturbance propagates in the form of stress waves; therefore, reflection, transmission and diffraction occur at the interfaces, resulting in dynamic effects such as reflected tension, convergence and superposition of stress and strain, and sudden changes of reflected and transmitted stress, which are the key factors leading to the outburst. Based on the Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar system, the dynamic time–history changes of stress, strain and strain rate of five-layer combined coal and rock mass were studied under impact loading. The results show that the time–history curves of stress and strain could be divided into five stages and that of strain rate three stages; the dynamic curves of the five stress–strain stages were significantly different between high-velocity and low-velocity impact. It was hypothesized that under high-speed impact loading, the mechanical anisotropy of combined coal and rock mass at the linear elastic stage tends to be isotropic. Based on ANSYS LS-DYNA, the damage evolution and failure process of five-layer combined coal and rock mass were simulated and analyzed under impact loading. It is concluded that the initial positions of damage of each layer were located at the circle center and its vicinity; radial cracks were mainly formed under low-speed impact loading, and circumferential cracks were mainly formed under high-speed impact loading. In the propagation and action of loading and unloading waves, the "weak layer" was damaged first by tensile stress and formed a free surface, and the subsequent loading waves were reflected on the free surface to form unloading waves and tensile stress, resulting in damage and spalling in multi-layer coal and rock mass.


Initial Institutional Review Board Approval Process in Malawi To the Editor The study by Hall et al1 sheds light on a very important step in the research process. The authors found that most initial institutional review board (IRB) approvals take 2 to 4 months, which is longer than the recommended 60 days. They suggest that a detailed analysis of review time, using a procedure similar to their methods, could be a useful quality improvement measure for research implementation.1 Indeed, their analysis revealed that most delays were due to slow response time by investigators and were not a structural IRB problem. We fully support their recommendations and want to highlightpotentialapplicationsofsuchananalysistotheenvironment where we work, Malawi, a low-income country in sub-Sahara Africa. The total initial IRB approval process in our setting typically takes 6 to 9 months. Although detailed analyses such as that by Hall et al1 have not been performed, we found that one of the barriers to research is the need for approvals from both foreign and local institutions, which may have different and conflicting requirements. Navigating these independent, parallel processes can be extremely challenging, particularly when multiple institutions and countries are involved, as in large multinational network clinical trials.2 Malawi, like other lowand middle-income countries that participate in research that is funded by the US federal government, must abide by the rules of the US Office for Human Research Protection.3 In addition, owing to inadequate resources, the only national research ethics committee in Malawi often meets less often than the intended bimonthly schedule, which is already too infrequent for the volume of work that it is tasked with. This makes timely processing of the large numbers of submissions administratively daunting if not impossible. The health care systems of the Department of Veterans Affairs and of lowand middle-income countries are similar in that they provide care to vulnerable populations. Thus, it is critical that ethical research is conducted in these settings with appropriate oversight. As Hall and colleagues1 describe, prolonged IRB review delays research progress, and the reasons for these delays can be systematically analyzed and addressed. Similar approaches, applied to settings like Malawi and undertaken with local research and regulatory partners, can improve the efficiency of IRB approvals without compromising the ethical standards of the research process. We believe these steps should be an urgent priority in global health research, so that the populations in greatest need do not continue to be excluded from modern scientific advances owing to excessive administrative delays in the research approval process.


The rapid spread of media content synthesis technology and the potentially damaging impact of audio and video deepfakes on people's lives have raised the need to implement systems able to detect these forgeries automatically. In this work we present a novel approach for synthetic speech detection, exploiting the combination of two high-level semantic properties of the human voice. On one side, we focus on speaker identity cues and represent them as speaker embeddings extracted using a state-of-the-art method for the automatic speaker verification task. On the other side, voice prosody, intended as variations in rhythm, pitch or accent in speech, is extracted through a specialized encoder. We show that the combination of these two embeddings fed to a supervised binary classifier allows the detection of deepfake speech generated with both Text-to-Speech and Voice Conversion techniques. Our results show improvements over the considered baselines, good generalization properties over multiple datasets and robustness to audio compression.


Improvement of regulatory quality has become one of the most important items on the European Union's (EU) Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs. In this context, the European Commission has sought to influence the regulatory reform policies of the Member States, focusing on the implementation of better regulation principles and tools. This article explores the interactive nature of Europeanization, viewing domestic institutions as 'users' of European policies according to their strategies. The author performs a within-case study based on a bottom–up research design, analysing the impact of EU better regulation on Italy. The results show that the effects of Europeanization relate more to agenda setting than to implementation – the latter is still, prevalently, determined by domestic factors.


: Autonomous flight of drone using Deep Reinforcement Learning is an attractive area of research in recent years that gives excellent results. Autonomous drone flight is defined through a set of complex tasks for understanding the environment and navigating independently through it. Understanding the environment means that the drone knows its location in respect to other objects and that it can easily reach the desired location without collision. Extending the problem with a target search task increases the complexity and the necessity for using new tools and algorithms. In this paper, we present an approach in which a drone, in addition to learning to navigate in an unknown environment, learns how to find and approach an object a priori assigned to it as a target. In our approach, the drone uses RGB and RGB-D cameras as the only source of information about environment. Our proposed solution incorporates, into the framework of deep reinforcement learning, appropriate fast object detection, feature extraction, as well as efficient existing algorithms for avoiding obstacles. The proposed model uses the sensed RGB-D image of the drone as the main factor for estimating the distance to the obstacles, while, on the other hand, our model also requires two RGB images for a Siamese network as feature extractor used to identify the target in the environment, group of these images represents the current general state, based on which drone performs the action for which it can potentially receive the highest reward. We used a 3D simulator (MS AirSim) to validate the performance of our approach. Based on the simulation results, we conclude that the proposed method exhibits promising performance in terms of the rate of successful approach to the required target.


In this article we seek to meditate about the integration of the computer technologies in the university faculty's educational activity and, therefore, in the competitions that this will possess to apply these resources efficiently in the didactic action. In consequence, it is important to analyze the formative necessities and the type of competitions required in the university faculty. On the other hand, we will make special incidence in the use of the ICT like a support element for the educational one in the progressive incorporation to the European Space of Higher Education,likewise, we will show an experience of center innovative of this tendency inside the University of Salamanca.


The object of his study is to define, to mark limits of the developpement of interbanking risk and the elements explicatories. The financial element being to be the result of volatility of the interest rates concerning the balance-sheets of french banks the limits of the practices and financial technics about the study of solvency of the french banks. This developpement can be also explained by the hiatub between the evolution of the financial lawe and the progress of the financial technics. The reflexion is closed by an apprehension of a global pattern of management of the interbanking risk. The model is based over a gait of the conception, the realisation and the operating conception of a new financial technics of study about the banks solvency, the conception of a rational informatic logistic, the efficiency of the management of the contrepart limits and financial relations. At end the model propose the determination of the juridical obligations concerning the relations of the parties who must be accepted by all of them before any kind of financial relations. The conception of the model is closed by the elaboration of the procedures about internal and external control of the department of risk banking.


Heavy metals,which can exist in the environment permanently,can cause serious damage to the ecological environment and to human health. It is important and urgent to establish an efficient,fast and sensitive method for detecting heavy metals. To overcome the shortage of traditional detection techniques which were established on the basis of large instruments,tedious detection process,and poor timeliness,photochemical sensors have been developed and widely used in various fields such as chemistry,environmental science,food and life sciences,due to their high selectivity,sensitivity,quick response,low cost,online and real-time. Herein the development of some commonly used photochemical sensors applied in heavy metal detection was reviewed.


Abstract : This thesis develops a Zilog-80 based realization library for use in the automated design of microprocessor based control systems. The library is designed around Standard Bus boards. This bus is supported by a number of manufacturers for use in breadboard construction, through a number of standard cards. The library of primitives developed implement the constructions used in Computer System Design Language (CSDL) for the Z-80 cpu. CSDL is a high level language that allows the specifications of tasks and procedures, and their time constraints. Use of the design system and this library can enable Z-80 based prototype controllers to be quickly designed and built. (Author)


Software developers, designers and researchers have been looking to technology for solutions to help and educate people with autism for over two decades. There are many examples of seemingly successful technology-based products and prototypes, yet very little is known about how well these solutions are currently integrated into lives of children and adults with autism and their families. This paper reports on results from an anonymous on-line survey intended as a first step to elucidate information about software and technology use. Additionally, data was analyzed to aid creation of future technology-based products for people with autism that are not just effective, but that also meet important user goals and align to their interests and strengths. Major findings included: (1) very few respondents (25\%) had any experience with software or technology designed for people with cognitive disabilities; (2) when asked an open-ended question about what they desire in technology design, respondents reported three major goals (social skills, academic skills, and organization skills), and many suggestions for improvements to software and hardware design; and (3) technology was reported as both a major strength and interest for people with autism.


A new lumped elements model for substrate parasitics in integrated circuits is introduced. The new model depends on frequency, contact's size, separation between contacts, and substrate conductivity. The model consists of four lumped elements that are evaluated using few numbers of simulations and curve fitting steps. A closed form expression has been provided for each lumped element. By evaluating these expressions, the model is used for any spacing distance between the aggressor contact and the victim one for arbitrary contact size. The introduced model shows very good agreement (<; 5% error) when compared against electromagnetic field solver simulations over frequency ranges up to 30GHz.


The invention discloses a preparation method for reducing hardness of dietary fiber chewable tablets. Dietary fiber chewable tablets are prepared by the procedures of utilizing bamboo shoot dietary fiber powder as main material and carrot, oat, plantain herb, jerusalem artichoke, cassia seed, mannitol, xylitol and calcium gluconate as auxiliary materials, smashing, sieving, mixing, pelleting, drying, tabletting, baking sterilizing, packaging, inspecting and the like. The preparation method is characterized in that on one hand, a gas generating substance (ammonium bicarbonate) is added in the formula, the gas generating substance evaporates in baking sterilizing so that micro gas holes are formed on the chewable tablets, and the chewable tablets become soft and crispy; and on the other hand, large-grained dry carrot added in the formula has low density and certain elasticity, so that the hardness of the chewable tablets is reduced. Dietary fiber chewable tablets prepared according to the preparation method taste smooth, properly soft and sweet and sour, are suitable for middle-aged and elderly people who have bad teeth and need to supplement dietary fibers.


PURPOSE: A semiconductor device fabricating method is provided to obtain a high-quality poly silicon semiconductor layer. CONSTITUTION: In a semiconductor device fabricating method, an SiO2 film(2) is deposited on a glass substrate(1) by CVD or PECVD. An amorphous silicon film(3) is formed on the SiO2 film(2) so as to have a thickness of about 25nm. A laser beam is irradiated at a surface of the amorphous silicon film(3) so as to be melted, and then the film(3) is cooled so as to form a polycrystalline silicon layer(3). After etching the surface of the polycrystalline silicon layer(3), a polycrystalline silicon layer(5) is formed on the polycrystalline silicon layer(3) without exposing the surface of the polycrystalline silicon layer(3) at an atmosphere.


The formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of-the picture of trajectory ensemble or of the hydrodynamical picture, developed in a previous article, is further supplemented for some points. Indi vidual trajectories for some typical non-stationary state are explicitly obtained, illustrating that they generally show complicated fluctuations due to the action of quantum potential. Next, emphasis is placed. on the fact that the Schrodinger: field admits a mechanical model. Also the Klein-Gordon field is- represented with a quasi~irrotationa[ flow under some additional scalar field. This representation of Klein-Gordon field suggests its possible generalization to include the vortieal motion. Such treatments of interacting Klein.Gordon and electromagnetic fields involve the formalism of Dirac's recent classical electrodynamics as a limiting case. Some remarks are given on this Dirac's theory.. Finally; the picture of trajectory ensemble is generalized so as to represent wave equations with sources. In an appendix criticism is gi\1en on the attempt to interpret quantum mechanics ,in terms of Markoff" process.


The study examines the role of social networks in social and political processes. Today, social networks are an effective tool for the implementation of "soft power", having a significant impact on the political agenda, international relations and social processes within states. In fact, social networks create new formats of interaction between social groups and institutions, as a rule, unlimited by the territories of individual states. The results of such interaction can be both constructive and destructive in terms of their impact on the existing strategy of social development. With an increase in the proportion of the country's population actively participating in social networks, the risks of social and political threats associated with the massive use of these communication technologies increase. The article examines the main global factors that determine the pace and direction of development of social networks, as well as the features of their operation in Russia. The authors analyze changes in the structure of users of the largest Russian-speaking social networks in 2014-2018, that is, during the period of their stabilization after rapid development in 2011-2013. The article also raises the problem of targeted informational impact on users of social networks and the formation of personal information capsules for them, allowing them to form a significant manipulative potential in the field of socio-political communications. According to the results of the study, it was concluded that the processes of development of Russian-speaking social networks continue, they are gradually being politicized, accompanied by the formation of a manipulative potential. Consequently, the role of social networks in the implementation of "soft power" is growing, but the nature and vector of action of this force will depend on which specific social groups or institutions will have an effective informational impact on users of social networks.


Relaxation is one of the important features to sprint. It will be significant on the improvement of the record of an athlete masters and utilizing the technology of relaxation. The function has effects on improving the contraction strength, maximum spead and endurance of a muscle, the flexibility and pliancy of joints, and the formation of speading-up athletic skills. On the basic of analyzing the influential factors of muscle relaxation ability, this paper also put forward several means for relaxation training.


Abstract The neoliberal penality thesis links recent penal shifts toward punitiveness and managerialism to market liberalisation that has swept western societies since the 1980s. While this paradigm has been largely examined in the western context, less is known about how it may be applicable to the eastern context. This article aims to understand the possible conceptual limitation of the neoliberal penality thesis for understanding modern penal practices in contemporary China ('reform China'), where economic reform has also significantly altered the state's social landscape over the last several decades. Through an examination of the 'Strike Hard' campaigns and administrative detention, it is argued that punishment in reform China has not increased in its severity, as has occurred in many western states. Rather, the growing need to maintain a harmonious society has enabled China's penal practices to be more managerial in orientation, analogous to the development of actuarial justice in western states.


Protection of nonworking area on work piece in brush plating is resolved by using rapid curing, acid and alkali resistant paint to form a peelable off protective film on the area. Formulation of the paint for peelable off brush plating protective film was proposed. The insulation and ability to resist the corrosion of electrolytic cleaning, activation and working solutions of the peelable off brush plating protective film were investigated. Coating technology and fast peeling off property of the protective film are described. The film is also suitable for protection in electroplating.


In this paper, a novel tunable attenuator based on graphene is proposed. The attenuator is composed of a graphene sandwich structure and a coplanar waveguide (CPW). By tuning the surface impedance of graphene, the insertion loss of transmission line can consequently be tuned. This attenuator present favorable attenuation ranges from 3dB to 15dB at a relatively wide frequency band from 10 GHz to 26 GHz.


Submitted for the MAR07 Meeting of The American Physical Society Photon transport in low-dimensional nanostructures TEEMU OJANEN, TERO HEIKKILA, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology — At low temperatures when the phonon modes are effectively frozen, photon transport is the dominating mechanism of thermal relaxation in metallic systems [1]. Starting from a microscopic many-body Hamiltonian using the equation-ofmotion technique for nonequilibrium Green's functions, we study the energy transport by photons in nanostructures. We obtain a formally exact expression for the energy current between a metallic island and a one-dimensional electromagnetic field supported by a parallel strip transmission line. From this expression we derive the quantized thermal conductance as well as show how the electron shot noise affects the photon transport. Frequency-dependent current noise essentially determines the transport process, thus providing a close connection between electron transport and photon transport [2]. [1] M. Meschke, W. Guichart and J. P. Pekola, Nature 444, 187 (2006). [2] T. Ojanen and T. T. Heikkilä, to be published. Teemu Ojanen Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology Date submitted: 20 Dec 2006 Electronic form version 1.4


War — Enemy Character — Belligerent Occupation — English Common Law — The Law of India. Belligerent Occupation — Nature and Effects of — Effect on National Character of Territory Occupied — Effect on Enemy Character of Persons Residing in Occupied Territory — Executory Contracts — Discharge of Debts During Enemy Occupation — Payment Not Made Across Line of War — The Law of India.


Food preservation or agro crop preservation means avoiding the microbial growth due to presence of moisture content in agro product. Food preservation techniques include pickling, sugaring, canning, dehydration, freezing, etc. Dehydration of fruits and vegetables is a promising food processing technology that increases shelf life of products for almost a year. It is a value addition process that can save 1/3rd losses of seasonal agro-products. Solar dryers can be used to carry food dehydration without relying on electricity. India is primarily an agriculture-dependent country. Indian rural economy is also improving at an accelerated rate with each passing day. The pattern of crops is changing fast with the farmers realizing that they cannot survive solely on conventional crops. This awareness is making farmers look towards horticultural crops such as fruits, vegetables spices, etc., which yield high income. This paper proposes a simple and innovative solar tunnel dryer; this technology utilizes the energy of the sun and wind to dry agricultural products, preparing them for proper storage, processing and export.


In this study, the authors applied the learning Polya steps to improve student learning outcomes. This study aimed to describe the planning, execution, and improved learning outcomes. This research was classroom action research. Using qualitative and quantitative approaches. Subjects were teachers and students of class IV Elementary School District 04 Biaro Ampek Angkek. In the first cycle of teachers in designing learning skills 69.5%, 69.5% showed teacher activity and student activity 62.5%. Meanwhile, the second cycle was seen to rise. The ability of teachers in designing learning to 86%. activity to 87.5% of teachers, student activity to 83.5%. In short, action research using Polya steps to improve student learning outcomes. Kata Kunci : hasil belajar, soal cerita penjumlahan pecahan, dan langkah-langkah polya


Breast cancer is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of women every year. The manual identification of breast cancer has more difficulties, and have the possibility of error. Many imaging approaches are being researched for their potential to identify breast cancer (BC). Incorrect identification might sometimes result in unneeded therapy and diagnosis. Because of this, accurate identification of breast cancer may save a great number of patients from needing unneeded surgery and biopsies. Deep learning's (DL) performance in the processing of medical images has substantially increased as a result of recent breakthroughs in the sector. Because of their improved capacity to anticipate outcomes, deep learning algorithms are able to reliably detect BC from ultrasound pictures. Transfer learning is a kind of machine learning that reuses knowledge representations from public models that were built with the use of large-scale datasets. Transfer learning has been shown to often result in overfitting. The primary purpose of this research is to develop and provide suggestions for a deep learning model that is effective and reliable in the detection and classification of breast cancer. A tissue biopsy is obtained from the suspicious region in order to ascertain the nature of a breast tumor and whether or not it is cancerous. Tumors may take any of these forms. When the images have been reconstructed with the help of a variational autoencoder (VAE) and a denoising variational autoencoder (DVAE), a convolutional neural network (CNN) model is used. This will be the case because it opens up a new area of the field to be investigated. The histological subtypes of breast cancer are used in conjunction with the degree of differentiation to execute the task of breast cancer categorization.


The classical set theory was extended by the theory of fuzzy set and its several generalizations, for example, intuitionistic fuzzy set, interval valued fuzzy set, cubic set, hesitant fuzzy set, soft set, neutrosophic set, etc. In this paper, the author has combined the concepts of intuitionistic fuzzy set and hesitant fuzzy set to study the ideal theory of semirings. After the introduction and the priliminary of the paper, in Section 3, the author has defined hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy ideals and studied several properities of it using the basic operations intersection, homomorphism and cartesian product. In Section 4, the author has also defined hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy bi-ideals and hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy quasi-ideals of a semiring and used these to find some characterizations of regular semiring. In that section, the author also has discussed some inter-relations between hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy ideals, hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy bi-ideals and hesitant intuitionistic fuzzy quasi-ideals, and obtained some of their related properties.


Exhibiting evidence of the applicability of scales developed in one society to other societies is a critical issue in establishing the general models of consumer behavior. This study investigates the measurement model of adolescent influence tactics with their parents in family vacation decision making in 19 societies. By conducting a series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, adolescent influence behavior emerges in a refined and validated model of four subscales indicating its construct equivalence across societies. Procrustes rotation assessing the similarity of each society's factor structure reveals a substantial degree of metric equivalence. Moreover, the original measures of influence tactics were relatively free from cross-cultural response bias, achieving the necessary degree of scalar equivalence. Our findings not only furnish future empirical research with cross-societal evidence of the generalized model of measuring adolescent influence behaviors but also highlight the participative role that adolescents play in family vacation decisions.


Abstract Research shows negative consequences for a stream when more than 10 to 15% of the land in its watershed is covered by impervious surfaces. Yet we find that how imperviousness is measured has a major effect on whether such thresholds are exceeded. First we show large differences between estimates of impervious ness obtained with land use and land cover data, and propose adopting a consistent standard for the future. Second, we illustrate very different results when watershed imperviousness is measured at a few discrete points on the drainage system or continuously along all stream segments. Based on these findings we recommend that planners allow a safety margin when regulating land based on imperviousness, steer development towards already urbanized locations and away from relatively undisturbed locations, and take advantage of methods that mitigate the deleterious effects of imperviousness on stream ecology.


The transition from construction to full operations of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) brings the challenge to have not only software subsystems that are functional and stable but also to develop a system that works flawlessly as a single entity from proposal preparation to the delivery of the final data products to ALMA users. This is especially challenging as the different subsystems have to be constantly updated and improved to accommodate new observing modes and increasing capabilities. We present recent progress and future initiatives in the different offline subsystems that are currently being developed and used in ALMA operations: proposal preparation, submission and observation preparation (Observing Tool and submission server), proposal review process (Ph1M), project tracking (Project Tracker, Life Cycle), observation bookkeeping (Shift Log Tool), calibrator database (Source Catalogue), monitor and control of observations (Operations Monitoring and Control tool), dynamic scheduler, data reduction pipeline, quality assurance and trend analysis (AQUA), archive, as well as additional user support systems such as the Science Portal.


One of the challenges in SOA is to identify the services that can be used to build a service process. An SOA infrastructure must provide an efficient and effective way to select compatible web service(s) and compose them into a functional service process that satisfies a user's needs. Moreover, the web services(s) selected may be integrated with structures such as branches and merges to fulfill a task. This paper describes our system architecture and strategies on web services composition based on semantic matching. Our strategies include backward service composition using a breadth-first search tree and heuristic prioritization.


Provides an experimental identification and compensation method for the low-velocity friction of a positioning system. The low-velocity friction is identified by using a novel evolutionary algorithm, called accelerated evolutionary programming (AEP), which improves on evolutionary programming in terms of convergence speed and diversity. Based on the identified friction model, a compensation scheme is designed for the control of an X-Y table positioning system without stick-slip motion at very low velocities. Experimental results on the X-Y table demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme, especially for very low speed tracking.


Based upon summary of calculation formulas of short concrete filled steel tubular column at home and abroad.Taken rectangular short concrete filled steel tubular column as example calculation is made combined with related codes.Comparison is also carried out with experimental results.Results show calculation results of AIJ based upon superposition theory are in good agreement with experimental results.


Mariya S. Kogan and Joseph P. MizgerdMatthew R. Jones, Benjamin T. Simms, Michal M. Lupa,http://www.jimmunol.org/content/175/11/7530J Immunol€2005; 175:7530-7535; ;Referenceshttp://www.jimmunol.org/content/175/11/7530.full#ref-list-1This article cites 45 articles, 25 of which you can access for free at: Subscriptionshttp://jimmunol.org/subscriptionsInformation about subscribing to The Journal of Immunology is online at: Permissionshttp://www.aai.org/ji/copyright.htmlSubmit copyright permission requests at: Email Alertshttp://jimmunol.org/cgi/alerts/etocReceive free email-alerts when new articles cite this article. Sign up at:


Abstract Based on the theorem of reciprocity, which represents the conservation of energy in non-absorbing dielectrical substances, a condition for the propagation matrix in Berreman's 4 × 4-matrix technique and a generalized law of conservation of the intensity are derived.


The potential dangers associated with space-based nuclear power have alarmedmany specialists. There are two principal reasons:.Space-based nuclear energy sources have been declared to be a key part of themilitary Strategic Defense Initiative (8m) program. Even in the absence of cur-rent military interest in space nuclear reactors, the existence in space of a con-siderable number of civilian nuclear sources would always provide a temptationfor ideas of space militarization..Nuclear reactors deployed in near-earth orbits are a potential source of radio-active fallout that would be dangerous for the population of the entire earth.Multi-kilogram plutonium-238 radioisotope thermal generators (RTGs) would alsobe a dangerous source of radioactive contamination on a global scale.Below, we consider these objections in more detail.a. Committee of Soviet Scientists for Peace and Against the Nuclear Threat and InstiMeof Space Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Profsoyuznala 88.117810 Moscow.


The simulation and modeling are significant to design, test and validate the complex systems, especially for the cyber-physical systems (CPS). However, as the systems become more distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous, an intelligent framework is needed to reflect the characteristics of CPS. In this paper, we discuss limitations of several commonly used simulation frameworks when applied to CPS. To simulate CPS comprehensively and intelligently, we propose an agent-based simulation framework for CPS, which can better reflect the autonomy of CPS. Then, the simulation framework is applied to an indoor comfort control system which belongs to the domain of the building and energy saving study. The result shows that the designed system can work efficiently.


Fluctuations for the date of the last spring freeze are examined for the period 1916–1985 for a portion of the southeastern United States including much of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and southern North Carolina. Data from 43 meteorological sites were utilized. For a large portion of the region, mean dates of the last spring freeze were considerably later for the recent 35-year period 1951–1985 compared to the earlier 1916–1950 period. Of the 43 study sites, 19 experienced statistically significant later last spring freezes for the latter half of the study period while none experienced significantly earlier last freeze dates. Of potential agricultural importance is the fact that major peach growing areas in central Georgia and west-central South Carolina are located within the region of statistically significant later spring freezes.


Introduction: HIV/Aids knowledge has been found low among men who have sex with men (MSM). The lack of knowledge proves detrimental to VIH prevention efforts and goes beyond individual characteristics. Objective: To analyse the social, individual and structural factors associated with low HIV/Aids knowledge in MSM sample of adults and residents of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Methods: Cross-sectional study that occurred between 2008 and 2009 with MSM recruited through Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS). HIV/Aids knowledge was ascertained through ten statements by face-to-face interview and scores were obtained using Item Response Theory (IRT).The association between the explanatory variables and low HIV/Aids knowledge was analysed using binomial logistic regression. Results: It was observed that 24.5% of MSM had low knowledge on HIV/Aids and independent associated factors were: Social, not currently working and not being encouraged by friends to use condoms; Individual, not knowing their chance of becoming infected with HIV, irregular condom use in receptive anal sex with any partner in the last six months and not feeling, or little feeling, sadness or depression; Structural, to participate in religious activity and not knowing any Aids related NGO. Conclusion: Our results indicate an important gap in knowledge regarding basic information about the modes of transmission and prevention of HIV among MSM in Belo Horizonte. An adequate level of HIV/Aids knowledge is essential for improving risk perception and the adoption of safe sexual practices among MSM. Actions directed towards social, individual and structural factors among this key population are urgently needed.


Nelson and Auchincloss (10) working with potato tissue showed that sucrose is synthesized from glucose or fructose rather than from starch as has been supposed by some investigators. That such a conversion occurs in plant metabolism has also been shown by Virtanen and Nordlund (14) in red clover and wheat plants, and more recently by Hartt (3) in detached sugar cane leaves. Since sucrose, consisting of a glucose and fructose molecule, can readily be synthesized from either of these monosaccharides, it may be assumed that such synthesis involves a preliminary conversion of each of these hexose sugars into the other. The fructose component of the sucrose molecule exists in the furanose form (unstable ? form with the five-membered ring) and is different from the six-membered fructose (pyranose configuration) from which it can be synthesized. The plant apparently also possesses a mechanism to render this transformation possible. The fact that sucrose is synthesized when plants are artificially supplied with glucose or fructose can serve indirectly in the study of transformation of other hexoses in the plant into these monosaccharides. If, for example, synthesis of sucrose is observed after supplying the plant with mannose, it could be assumed that a preliminary conversion of the latter into glucose and fructose must take place before the synthesis of sucrose occurs. The hexoses that are known to occur naturally in plants are: d-glucose, d-fructose, d-mannose, and dgalactose ; of these the last two have not been detected in the free state and are found in plants only as units in polysaccharides. If, as it is generally assumed, some form of glucose is the first product of photosynthesis, the plant should possess a mechanism whereby this molecule is transformed into mannose or galactose before the synthesis of the corresponding polysaccharide can be possible. In this investigation, using the infiltration method (8), the following compounds were artificially supplied to barley plants : d-glucose, d-fructose, d-mannose, d-galactose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, 1-arabinose, d-xylose, mannitol, sorbitol, gluconic acid, pyruvic acid, and glyceric aldehyde. The increase of sucrose was observed after certain periods of time to determine the ability of the plant to transform these compounds into glucose or fructose and, if possible, to ascertain the mechanism of this transformation.


We tested whether a case based CADe scheme, developed only on negatively interpreted screening mammograms, has predictive value for cancer detection during subsequent screening and how this approach may affect radiologists' performances when alerting them to a small subset (~15%) of exams on which radiologists tend to miss cancers. A series of six parameters case based CADe schemes, using 200 negative mammograms (800 images 100 women with breast cancer at subsequent screening and 100 women who remained negative), carefully matched by age and breast density, were optimized. CADe alone schemes performed at AUC=0.68 (+/- 0.01). Five radiologists and 4 residents interpreted the same cases and performed at AUC =0.71 (experienced radiologists) and AUC= 0.61 (residents). With the "CADe warnings" shown to the interpreters only if they did not recall one of 24 highest CADe scoring cases, assisted performance of radiologists and residents respectively, were 0.71 and 0.63 (p>0.05). However, when the CADe alone performance was raised to an AUC=0.78, by artificially increasing the number of possible warnings from 16 to 24, radiologists' performances significantly improved from an AUC of 0.68 to 0.72 (p<0.05). In conclusion, the use case based information other than breast density could highlight a small fraction of women whose cancers are more likely to be missed by radiologists and later detected during subsequent mammograms, thereby, leading to an assisted approach that improves radiologists' performances. However, to be effective, the performance of the CADe alone should be substantially higher (e.g. ΔAUC ≥0.07) than that of the un-assisted radiologist.


Thispaper reports theresults ofaninvestigation tocreate athermal interface material (TIM)withadhesive functions. Previous tests withelectro-spun nanofibrous polymer materials indicate highthermal conductivity ofthefilms, and evenhigher thermal conductivity andlowerresistivity had subsequently beenobtained byadding thermally conductive nanoparticles. Thethickness oftheTIMsproduced are around 0.1mm whichisideal fora TIM duetoitslow thermal resistance. Inthis investigation, adhesives wereadded tocreate anano-fibrous filmwithhighadhesion. Shear tests wereconducted tomeasure thestrength oftheadhesive film after curing andtheresults arepresented. Thenano-TIM film also exhibited verygoodelastic properties andhadashelf life ofupto24hours.


Under date of February 21, 1936, I received a letter from Dr. G. W. Martin of the State University of Iowa in which he says, "Under separate cover I am mailing you some living material of what I take to be a species of Lambertella. This developed on some debris collected on Ancon Hill, Balboa, Panama, July 20, 1935. It was put in a moist chamber here on October 28th and shortly thereafter this form began to appear, very sparingly, and only one or two discs at a time." About a week later the specimen arrived but the already formed apothecia had all rotted away except for the long hair-like stipes on one or two of which the shrivelled receptacle still hung at their tips. The piece of rotten branch was placed in a moist chamber and during the following 6 weeks five or six apothecia developed from previously ungerminated sclerotia scattered over the surface of the substrate (FIG. 3). From these ascospore cultures were obtained which promptly produced the minute black sclerotia in abundance (FIG. 1), but no apothecia developed from them. Under date of October 15, 1937, I received from Dr. Martin a second collection of what proved to be this same species, this time on pieces of bark taken in the Canal Zone about 2 miles east of Arraijan, August 13, 1937. From apothecia developed from sclerotia on the bark placed in a moist chamber a second isolate of this fungus was obtained. Again from none of the isolates which


IntroductionObesity is among the main health concerns of the world today. Obesity increases the risk of diseases like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart diseases, stroke etc. BMI has been suggested as an ideal measure of adiposity and obesity. The number of diabetic cases is increasing globally from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. Insulin resistance increases risk of developing diabetes. Materials and MethodsAn observational cross-sectional study from the people of the city, Vijayawada, India was done on 80 healthy individuals with no history of smoking, alcoholism, medications and no personal or family history HTN, DM, Endocrine disorders. BMI was calculated using formulaBMI = wt in Kg / ht in m 2 . Fasting insulin levels assessed using enzymatic immunoassay method on chemiluminiscene. Insulin resistance is calculated by using HOMA IR index. ResultsThe mean of fasting insulin of individuals with normal BMI was 5.61 ± 1.41 and in individuals with high BMI was 11.8 ± 1.81 and the difference was statistically significant with p < 0.01.The mean of insulin resistance of individuals with normal BMI was 1.16 ± 0.34 and in individuals with high BMI was 2.33 ± 0.46 and the difference was statistically significant with p < 0.01. ConclusionHealthy individuals with high BMI showed a significant increase in fasting insulin levels and insulin resistance when compared with individuals with normal BMI suggesting high BMI can be a risk for developing insulin resistance even in healthy individuals. KeywordsObesity; Fasting insulin levels; insulin resistance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 20-05-2020 Date of Acceptance: 06-06-2020 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The recent debate over replication in PS raised two empirical questions concerning replication: are there actual replications in existence or would there be if there were an incentive to do them, and, would replications increase our knowledge of political phenomena? The easiest way to answer these questions is for a journal to try it and see. After discussions with board members, interested scholars, and virtually everyone sending me an e-mail message, I would like to announce that the American Journal of Political Science will devote a section of the journal to replications for a two-year experimental period running through December of 1997.


Gas saturation (Sg) is an important parameter for studying the gas-bearing properties of tight sandstone; however, there has been limited research on gas-bearing properties based on sealing coring. This study determines the controlling factors of the gas-bearing properties of tight sandstone in the Permian He8 Member of the Sulige Gas Field, Ordos Basin, Northern China, based on sealing coring, logging, drilling, gas testing, and laboratory analysis. The He8 Member Sg distribution is 17.9–63.8% (main range: 30–45%) and shows a downward trend from bottom to top. The Ro and hydrocarbon generation intensity of the source rock, reservoir porosity, and permeability tend to control the Sg in stages. When these parameters are less than 1.8%, 17 × 108 m3/km2, 10%, and 0.5 × 10–3 μm2, respectively, Sg increases significantly. When each parameter is greater than the aove boundary value, the change in Sg is not obvious. Four types of gas-bearing patterns of tight sandstone can be observed according to the distribution of reservoir and source rock conditions: "upper and lower constant," "upper low–lower high," "upper high–medium low–lower high," and "upper high–lower low"; these patterns are mainly controlled by high maturity source rocks, reservoir physical properties, reservoir physical properties and structure, and structure, respectively. The corresponding gas test results reveal the existence of pure gas, pure gas and gas–water, gas–water, and gas-bearing water and pure water layers, respectively.


This paper made a practical survey on selected commercial banks and customers in Urumqi and Changji and got388 effective questionnaires.Consumer preferences in two regions are analyzed in the following five aspects:banks selection,key factors to choose a bank,major banking transaction,channels of acquiring banking transaction and banking transaction approach.By using AMOS software and SEM model,factors that influence customers' satisfaction in two regions are analyzed.From the perspective of the consumer perception,satisfaction of banking services in Urumqi and Changji are explored and suggestions are put forward to improve the quality of banking services.


Practices need to develop an informed consent policy relating to data practices that tells patients its intentions regarding unencrypted e-mails, faxes, and social media sites.


Using the Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) technique within frozen-phonon, we studied the effects of the half-breathing O(�,0) phonon mode on the ground-state properties of the three-band Peierls-Hubbard model. Our simulations are performed for both ionic and covalent electron-phonon couplings. The effects of lattice displacements on the ground-state energies and charge fluctuations are similar in magnitude for both hole- and electron-doped cases. However, the effects of lattice displacements on the magnetic properties are rather different. In the hole-doped case, the normalized next-nearest-neighbor Cu-Cu spin correlations are dramatically modified by both ionic and covalent electron-phonon couplings. On the other hand, in the electron-doped case, much smaller effects are observed. The distinct spin-phonon couplings, in conjunction with the spin-bag picture of the quasiparticle, could explain a strong mass renormalization effect in the p-type cuprates and a weaker effect in the n-type cuprates. Recently, a large number of experimental observations in the superconducting cuprates suggest that the electron-phonon (el-ph) coupling in these systems is strong and -in conjunction with strong electronic correlations, may play a role for the superconductivity mechanism. In particular, angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) data indicate a mass renormalization ("kink") in the electronic dispersion of the p-type high-Tc cuprates near a characteristic energy scale (≈ 70 meV) 1,2 , which is possibly caused by coupling of quasiparticle to some phonon modes. Moreover, ARPES data 3 also show that this mass renormalization is weak in the n-type Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4, indicating that the el-ph coupling in the p-type materials is much stronger than in the n-type ones. On the other hand, both inelastic neutron scattering 4,5,6 and inelastic x-ray scattering 7 found that the anomalous softening of the Cu-O bond-stretching oxygen mode is present in both p- and n-type materials, suggesting that although there exist some differences, the el-ph coupling is strong in both kinds of materials.


Data Center Networks (DCNs) form the backbone of many Internet applications and services that have become necessary in daily life. Energy consumption causes both economic and environmental issues. It is reported that 10% of global energy consumption is due to ICT and network usage. Computer networking equipment is designed to accommodate network traffic; however, the level of use of the equipment is not necessarily proportional to the power consumed by it. For example, DCNs do not always run at full capacity yet the fact that they are supporting a lighter load is not mirrored by a reduction in energy consumption. DCNs have been shown to unnecessarily over-consume energy when they are not fully loaded. In this paper, we propose a new framework that reduces power consumption in software-defined DCNs. The proposed approach is composed of a new Integer Programming model and a heuristic link utility-based algorithm that strikes a balance between energy consumption and performance. We evaluate the proposed framework using an experimental platform, which consists of an optimization tool called LinGo for solving convex and non-convex optimization problems, the POX controller and the Mininet network emulator. Compared with the state-of-the-art approach, the equal cost multi-path algorithm, the results show that the proposed method reduces the power consumption by up to 10% when the network is experiencing a high traffic load and 63.3% when the traffic load is low. Based on these results, we outline how machine learning approaches could be used to further improve our approach in future work.


In mainstream literature, it is argued that technological specialization patterns of countries should be in accordance with their trade specialization pattern. In empirical applications, a Revealed Technological Advantage (RTA) index is used to measure technological specialization while a Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index is used to measure trade specialization patterns. This chapter provides an extensive analysis of the relation between RTA and RCA of seven developed countries (Germany, France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, the UK, and the USA) for twenty-one manufacturing sectors. RCA indexes are calculated by using worldwide export data whereas RTA indexes are measured by patents granted in Turkey over the period 1990-2006. Although a bird's eye view supports a relation, there has not been a strong statistical validation of the relationship between these two variables; in addition, this chapter investigates whether RTA is related to the sectoral import ratio of Turkey for each country. Empirical findings indicate that the direction of the relationship between the sectoral import ratio and RTA varies according to the technological composition of sectors for each country.


Introduction: Angiostrongylus costaricensis is a roundworm which causes the abdominal angiostrongyliasis. This parasite\2019s life cycle involves an invertebrate host (intermediary) and a vertebrate host (definitive). In nature, the usual definitive host for this parasite is the rodent Sigmodon hispidus. Adult worms install in the upper mesenteric artery of the definitive host, causing in the beginning an eosinophilic polyarteritis and then a thrombus. Histopathologically, a triad of essential finding defines this pathology as: massive eosinophilic infiltrate; eosinophilic vasculitis and the granulomatous reaction. Despite the clinical importance, we know just a few about this pathology. Objectives: To characterize the histopathological lesions of the vascular and intestinal territories; to follow the peripheral and central hematologic dynamics; to evaluate the total cholesterol and the bacteria presence in the lesion on the infected S. hispidus by A. costaricensis. Material and Methods: S. hispidus infected by A. costaricensis were euthanized in 30, 50, 90 and 114 dpi and were colected the intestine and mesentery (including the cecal artery). Tissues were fixed in Carson\2019s Millonig formalin and, histopathologically processed to light microscopy or immunohistochemistry. The blood was also gathered through the cardiac puncture or from the brachial plexus and used to the CBC conduction and analysis of total cholesterol and microbiological analysis. The local lesion was also gathered to microbiological analysis Results and discussion: In early times (30 and 50 dpi), a big quantity of larvae and viable eggs were found at the vasa vasorum of the cecal artery leading to an intense eosinophilic infiltrate at the adventitious vessel, forming granulomas. The parasites associated to the inflammatory infiltrate promote an eosinophilic vasculitis centripetal with the elastic blades destruction. The inner loses the basic cell characteristics, becoming disorganized or even vanishing. With the disease\2019s temporal evolution, there is an increase at the disease severity in later times (90 and 114 dpi), when an atherosclerotic process gets installed. A thrombus composed mainly by fibrin, iron and a xanthomatous substance, positive to Red Congo. At this moment, the eosinophilic infiltration ceases and there is a predominance of macrophage carriers of this xanthomatous substance and iron. The elastic arteries blades with worms are destroyed bringing a big vessel disruption. In the blood, in 90dpi there is an increasing on the total leukocytes number, decreasing on the platelets number and an increasing on their size. At this point, the animal total cholesterol has no change in relation to the controls. At those later moments, it is observed a clear increase on the marrow activity, with predominant eosinophilia and megakaryocytes number increasing. It is possible that those lesions development may be related to the gram positive bacteria present at A. costaricesis. Conclusions: Our data suggest that the model of the S. hispidus l infected by A. costaricensis can be usual by the atherosclerosis study


Abstract The femurs of laying hens fed diets containing .18, .23, or .43% available phosphorus were evaluated. External bone volume (V) and organic matter (OM) content and OM/V were not different. Ash (A), percent bone ash, and A/V were significantly less at the two lowest levels of dietary phosphorus. It was concluded that the femurs of phosphorus deficient laying hens have a reduction in mineral content but not organic matter, Determination of external bone V and expression of A/V may be of value in assessing osteoporotic bone.


The utility model discloses a green and red pepper peel and seed sorting device, which comprises a support frame main body, a rotating shaft, a feeding round tube sieve, a material discharge round tube sieve and the like, wherein the downwards inclined rotating shaft is arranged on the support frame main body, the front end of the rotating shaft is sheathed with a bearing bush, a bearing sleeve is sheathed at the back end of the rotating shaft, the feeding round tube sieve is sheathed at the front end of the rotating shaft through the bearing bush, the material discharge round tube sieve is sheathed at the back end of the rotating shaft through the bearing sleeve, and the feeding round tube sieve and the material discharge round tube sieve are connected through a screw bolt. The green and red pepper peel and seed sorting device has the advantages that the production efficiency is greatly improved, the manpower and material resources are saved, the work environment of workers is improved, the secondary pollution is avoided, the sanitation conditions are ensured, and the product quality is greatly improved.


This paper summarizes multimedia computer-aided technique current applied in geotechnical engineering,introduces different kinds of computer software applied in geotechnical engineering,and forecasts the application tendency of multimedia computer-aided technique in geotechnical engineering,in order to achieve the purposes of informatization,integration,synergy,digitalization and intellectualization of computer software of our geotechnical engineering.


Purpose. Podzolized Chernozems (Greyzemic Phaeozems) permeability and increased erosion on the slopes. The physical degradation of Chernozems of the Sokal ridge has a purely anthropogenic origin. Optimization of the agrophysical conditions of the studied soils consists in reducing the specific pressure on the soil, minimizing the use of heavy machinery, applying organic fertilizers, sowing green manure crops, preserving eroded soils.


The area comprising the Gillespie and Mount Olive quadrangles, which in this folio is called the Gillespie-Mount Olive district, is limited by meridians 89° 30' and 90° and parallels 39° and 39° 15' and includes 463.34 square miles. It is in west-central Illinois (see fig. 1) and comprises considerable parts of Macoupin and Montgomery counties and a small part of Bond County. Carlinville, the county seat of Macoupin County, is 2 miles north of the north boundary of the Gillespie quadrangle, and Hillsboro, the county seat of Montgomery County, is at the east, edge of the Mount Olive quadrangle.


This paper presents some modified estimators using Upadhyaya and Singh (1999) estimators. The bias and mean squared error of the suggested estimators are obtained up to the first degree of approximation.  It has been shown that under certain conditions suggested estimators are more efficient than simple mean estimator , usual ratio estimator  , and  estimators and  given by Upadhyaya and Singh (1999). An empirical study has been carried out to demonstrate the performance of the suggested estimators.


The stylistic figures b ased on antonyms: antithesis, amfiteza, akroteza, oxymoron, anti phrasis, asteizm, pun, diathesis, etc. are described in the article. Provides a literature review the concept of the norm: language, literature and its types: pronunciation, lexical, stylistic and grammatical. The expressive possibilities of antonyms and the cases of improper, unsuccessful, wrong using are analyzed. Ways to prevent these errors are planned: 1) mastering of the literary norms of the national language in a natural way, in the development process, from childhood, when one hears correct it in the family, in everyday life. 2) at the lessons of Russian language and literature with the help of special exercises aimed at: consolidation of theoretical information about antonyms; improving skills to apply the acquired knowledge to the analysis of the facts of the Russian language and speech; the formation and development of culture speech and writing students. 3) with constant self-education of a native speaker,the main way is to work with the different kinds of dictionaries and reference books.


In this paper the covariance and spectra for amplitude and phase fluctuations for a microwave signal propagated over a line-of-sight path through a turbulent medium are calculated. It is shown that the results derived under the assumption that the wavelength is much smaller than the inner scale of turbulence l_{0} are also valid when the wavelength is equal to or greater than l_{0} .


The adult heart has limited ability to repair after injury. Developing strategies that improve post‐infarct repair are needed. Wnt/β‐catenin signaling has been implicated in cardiac regeneration. We demonstrate that selective inhibition of the interaction between coactivator cyclic AMP response element‐binding protein‐binding protein, CBP and β‐catenin by a small molecule inhibitor ICG‐001 (ICG) benefits the infarcted myocardium. Rats undergoing coronary ligation received either ICG or pbs for 10 days. The left ventricular contractile function, infarct size, and remodeling were determined 4 weeks. ICG treatment significantly improved ejection fraction by 20%, compared to pbs. The increase in ejection fraction occurred without beneficial effects on infarct size, ventricular cavity volume, and infarcted wall thickness. To investigate the potential mechanism, proliferation and expressions of regenerative genes were studied at 7 days. BrdU positive cells, including myocytes, were observed in the epicardium of the infarcted wall in both groups. mRNA levels of c‐kit, Sca‐1, GATA‐4, and myosin were similar in both groups. Our data show that selective inhibition of β‐catenin/CBP interaction improves contractile function in the infarcted heart. We speculate that the effect of ICG is not in the proliferative phase; the exact mechanism whereby ICG‐001 has its positive effect remains to be determined.


Palavras-Chave: Morfofogia floral. Fenologia. Vegetacao secundaria. Croton matourensis. Abstract: Information on floral morphology, fruiting and flowering were presented. This work was carried out by using a natural population located in the Benjamin Constant community, municipality of Braganca, northeast of the State of Para. Twenty individuals of natural population were selected and using their phenology from the formation of floral button until fruiting maturation. This description offloral morphology was evoluated by using magnifYing glass ZEISS. Croton matourensis is monoic, terminal racemous inflorescence and pluriflora. pedicelates flower. cydical and unissexual, antesis noturnal; flowering ocurred from march to april and fruiting from march to may during the rainy season.


Assessing and mapping patterns of (semi-)natural vegetation types at a large spatial scale is a difficult task. The challenge increases if the floristic variation within vegetation types (i.e., subtype variation of species composition) is the target. A desirable way to deal with this task may be to address such vegetation patterns with remote-sensing approaches. In particular data from multispectral sensors are easy to obtain, globally accessible, and often provide a high temporal resolution. They hence offer a comprehensive basis for vegetation mapping. The potential of such sensors for vegetation mapping has, however, never been thoroughly investigated. In particular, a systematic test regarding the spectral capabilities of these data for an assessment of detailed floristic variation has not been implemented to date. We thus addressed in this study the question how the ability of optical sensors to map floristic variation is affected by their respective spectral coverage and number of bands. To answer this question, we simulated monotemporal and multiseasonal data of eleven multispectral sensors. These data were used to model gradual transitions in species composition (i.e., floristic gradients) within three types of spontaneous vegetation typical for Central Europe using Partial Least Squares regression. Comparison of the model fits (ranging up to R 2 = 0.76 in cross-validation) illustrated the potential of multispectral data for detailed vegetation mapping. The results show that spectral coverage of the entire solar-reflective domain is the most important sensor characteristic for a successful assessment of floristic variation. Model and sensor performances as well as limitations are thoroughly discussed, and recommendations for sensor development are made based on the final conclusions of this study.


Introduction: Lid laceration is a very common peri-ocular trauma. Regarding the etiology and treatment, it lacks studies in developing nations including Nepal.
Aims: To assess the etiological characteristics and treatment outcomes of eyelid laceration.
Methods: In this study, 47 cases of traumatic eyelid laceration were consecutively studied and its epidemiology, etiology and treatment outcome were evaluated.
Results: The 47 patients were included in the study. The mean age of study population was 26.14 ± 18.02 years. Male: female ratio was 1.6:1. The trauma occurred on road in 34 (72.3%) cases, followed by at home (14.9%), at work place (8.5%) and at entertainment areas (4.2%). The most common mode of injury was road traffic accident (72.3%) followed by fall injury (17%), Physical assault (6.4%) and animal bite (4.3%). The 68.1% of had isolated lid laceration, 12.7% had other adnexal injuries and 10.6% had globe injuries, 8.5% had other facial injuries and only 4.1% had systemic trauma. The partial thickness laceration was observed on 42(89.4%) cases and full thickness laceration on 5 (10.6%) cases. The length of lid laceration ranged from 4- 45 mm (mean ±SD was 14.7±8.3 mm). The 14.9% cases had canalicular laceration. The 85% of the laceration healed without visible scar. Only 4 patients (8.5%) had thick hypertrophic scar. The visual function was intact in 44 patients whereas impaired in 3 patients with accompanying open globe injury. The complications noted were hypertrophic scar (8.6%), wound infection (2.1%), ectropion (2.1%), corneal opacity (2.1%) and phthisis bulbi (2.1%).
Conclusion: This study highlights the high-risk people and work place for eyelid laceration and the safety precautions in dangerous settings, including daily and routine work places. Only accompanying open globe injury can damage visual function.


The university disciplines cannot be considered to be like independent in any university curriculum. The aim of the present work is to recognize the limitations of the approach to monodiscipline traditionally and to propose a new perspective to interdiscipline. One concludes the need to adopt a theoretical and practical approach to interdiscipline not only in the university curriculum, but also in the process of solution of problems.


A design flow using the gm/ID methodology with the adaptive particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed for the modern analog circuit in this paper. For the advanced CMOS process, gm/ID methodology is suitable to the long channel and short channel design in all transistor operation regions. Different from the classical PSO algorithm, the adaptive PSO algorithm features the better search efficiency and faster convergence speed over the global search. Two amplifiers were designed and implemented in a standard 0.11μm CMOS process using MATLAB and HSPICE. Using the thermal noise coefficient γ and the corner frequency fcorner, this paper explored the noise design budget of low-power multistage amplifier in different saturation modes. Detailed optimization of the objective function and constraints are classified into the mono-objective case and the multi-objective case. The total running times of simulations are 5649 s and 6813 s while the errors are less than 9% and 10%, respectively. Compared with CODE, GA+PF and DE+PF algorithms, it can save more running time and improve the accuracy of the design. Moreover, it provides more design freedom for the trade-off among gain, the gain-bandwidth (GBW) product, noise and the phase margin under worst cases without extra tweaking. Not only can the methodology work in the 0.18μm CMOS process, but also be migrated to the 0.11μm CMOS process, even in the nanometer analog circuit.


In
[ A simple notion of orientability for Fredholm maps of
 index zero between Banach manifolds and degree , Ann. Sci. Math. Quebec 22 (1998),
131–148] we introduced a concept of orientation and topological
degree for nonlinear Fredholm maps between real Banach manifolds.
In this paper we study properties of this notion of orientation and we
compare it with related results due to Elworthy-Tromba and
Fitzpatrick-Pejsachowicz-Rabier.


The mutual intensity function is conveniently replaced by the ambiguity function or the Wigner distribution function. This allows us to treat optical systems under partially coherent illumination in a simple fashion. Many optical set-ups can be described on a geometrical basis, as is illustrated with some examples.


Abstract The percentage by area of different kinds of geological deposits has been determined from directional parameters presented in Wickman (1961a). In this paper, three geological maps (scale 1:50 000) of the western side of Lake Vanern were examined. The present results differ considerably from those given in the Atlas of Sweden. In the Atlas exposed bedrocks are greatly overrepresented, whereas clay and moraine are correspondingly under-represented. In the same way, on the basis of Wickman (1961b), the percentage of water by area has been determined for five topographical maps of eastern central Sweden.


This study presents sensitivity analysis in a conjugate heat transfer problem for electronics cooling. An algorithmic differentiation technique shown by Jemkov and Mathur was utilized to obtain the directional derivatives accurately in the sensitivity analysis. For a pin fin heat sink geometry, results of thermophysical property and flow parameter sensitivity analyses were shown and comparisons were made with the single-point simulations. The computed values indicate that the algorithmic differentiation technique used in this study lead to accurate results while accelerating design optimization applications significantly.


Use of welding technology for the repair of steel castings is particularly common in two areas. These include weld surfacing of protrusions that remained incomplete after casting, or filling the surface defects (cavities). These defects are more common for steel casting than for graphite cast iron, due to the lower fluidity of steel. This article describes a suitable technological process of repairing the defects on the casting using the welding technology. A specimen produced for this purpose was prepared by carving a groove into a cast steel plate 20 GL, which was then filled with a weld metal using MAG (135) technology. The following evaluation of the basic characteristics of the repaired site point to the suitability of the selected technological parameters of the repair procedure. Metallographic evaluation was carried out, further evaluation of mechanical properties by tensile test, bend test and Vickers hardness test. The proposed methodology for the evaluation repair of foundry defects in steel castings also meets the requirements for the approval of welding procedures in accordance with the relevant valid legislation.


Hypothesis / aims of study The purpose of this study was to assess current knowledge of prevalence and risk factors concerning faecal incontinence (FI) among elderly people in nursing homes. The occurrence of FI is higher amongst these patients compared to other patient groups (1). We have thus conducted a systematic review of current studies of FI in nursing homes, focusing on prevalence and risk factors. This knowledge is fundamental to identify the problem of FI amongst nursing home patients, but also to implement best practices for nursing; prevention, treatment and care.


Arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) are utilized to connect the circulation of renal disease patients to hemodialysers. AVF creation is hampered by high complication rates [1]. We try to initiate a paradigm shift towards predictive medicine, by developing patient-specific 1D models to simulate the hemodynamic effect of AVF creation. Image Segmentation The vessel centerline was detected by wave front propagation, starting from one user seeding point (most proximal artery, Fig.3 left). Second order image derivatives restricted the segmentation to the lumen. The vessel contour was detected perpendicular to the l l li b F ll 1D Model