Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and millimeterwave frequencies play key roles in supporting 5G wireless communication systems. They expand the field of wireless communication by increasing the data capacities of communication systems and supporting high data rates. However, short wavelengths, owing to the high millimeter-wave frequencies can cause problems, such as signal attenuation and path loss. To address these limitations, research on high directional beamforming technologies continue to garner interest. Furthermore, owing to the mobility of the UAVs, it is essential to track the beam angle accurately to obtain full beamforming gain. This study presents a beam tracking method based on the unscented Kalman filter using hybrid beamforming. The simulation results reveal that the proposed beam tracking scheme improves the overall performance in terms of the mean-squared error and spectral efficiency. In addition, by expanding analog beamforming to hybrid beamforming, the proposed algorithm can be used even in multi-user and multi-stream environments to increase data capacity, thereby increasing utilization in new-radio multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems.


The ability of various econometric and univariate time-series models to generate accurate forecasts of international tourism demand is evaluated. Accuracy is assessed in terms of error magnitude and also directional change error. Statistical testing for both forecasting bias and directional change forecasting performance is introduced. The empirical results show that for 1-year-ahead forecasting, the time-varying parameter model performs consistently well. However, for 2- and 3-years-ahead forecasting, the best model varies according to the forecasting error criterion under consideration. This highlights the importance (for longer term forecasts) of selecting a forecasting method that is appropriate for the particular objective of the forecast user.


AN undamped current (Josephson current) can flow in a system consisting of two superconductors separated by a thin dielectric barrier. [ 1J The theory of this phenomenon is usually constructed on the basis of a model tunnel Hamiltonian. [ 2 J It is of interest, however, to consider this effect from a more general point of view, namely by using Gor'kov's equations directly. The influence of a dielectric film on the motion of an electron is equivalent to the presence of a certain potential barrier. The scattering of the electron by the boundaries of the barrier is assumed diffuse, and the thickness of the barrier is much smaller than the dimension of the pair. Under these assumptions, we shall derive a formula which contains all the previously obtained results. [ 2• 3] In addition, we shall find the distribution of the current near the barrier. The equation for the Green's functions is solved by a quasiclassical method that generalizes the method of Shapoval[ 4] and de Gennes. [ SJ The Gor'kov equation [ 6 J is conveniently written in matrix form


A multiresidue method was developed for the trace level determination of sulfonylurea herbicides in aqueous samples. The method employs on-line solid-phase extraction and electrospray and thermospray reversed-phase liquid chromatography mass spectrometry. In combination with time-scheduled selected-ion monitoring, the method permits the detection of the sulfonylureas down to the 50–100 ng/L level with excellent recoveries of > 90% and reproducibilities between 2 and 8.5% for almost all of the investigated compounds. This improved method is superior to existing techniques because no special clean-up step is necessary, and owing to the fast online preconcentration step, the technique can be used as a rapid screening and confirmatory method. The method can be used with either thermospray cr electrospray mass spectrometry, both of which provided mass spectra with at least three structure-signficant ions necessary for an unambiguous identification in environmental samples.


The purpose of liquid-penetrant inspection of metallic structures of historic value is the assessment of their technical state and suitability for further operational use. In this paper, the flaws of metal structures detected by means of penetrant inspection, conditions under which inspection can be made, requirements for inspection personnel, liquid-penetrant sets, measuring and auxiliary equipment and the inspection course are discussed. As an example, the results of inspection of a section of the riveted structure of an antique workshop roof are presented.


Anode material Li4Ti5O12 was prepared by the method of solid-state reaction at high temperature. In the experiment, it was utilized by undoping and a small amount of Mg2+ doping with raw material respectively. The morphology of powder was observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the phase analysis was done by X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), and the charging and discharging tests with constant current were also carried out at room temperature. The results showed that little effect was on the particle size by a small amount of Mg2+ doping, the change of the structure of the powder material was not caused, but the conductivity of Li4Ti5O12 anode material was increased, the capacity and stability of the charging and discharging cycles were raised. It fully proved that Mg2+ doping was relatively effective. Keywords: Li-ion battery;lithium titanate (Li4Ti5O12); doping;charging and discharging.


The catalyst copper aluminum borate were prepared by coprecipitation and modification of B and Cu contents.In a fixed bed reactor indole was synthesized by using the catalyst.The crystal structure of the catalyst was characterized by XRD.The results indicated that the conversion rate was 90% and the yield of indole was 95% over the copper aluminum borate catalyst.B and Cu were two active centers of the catalyst.


Burkitt Lymphoma and Leukemia (BL) are highly aggressive lymphoid malignancies. High cure rates are reported with dose-intense chemotherapy regimens derived from pediatric leukemia regimens. Prognostic Index for Burkitt Lymphoma (BL-IPI) was derived from the real-world and extensively stratify the probability to achieve a complete response to induction treatment but is validated mostly on patients receiving inductions treatment such as R-daEPOCH o R-CODox-M/R-IVAc (T. Intermesoli, Haematol


grievously were those dealing with the years covered by volume IV. For this reason it was considered advisable to search out and publish originals or copies reposing in other depositories in order to provide adequate coverage for the years in question. Thus, some of the documents which appeared in volume IV in fragmentary form appear in full in volume XI. Documents copied prior to the fire and appearing in other publications have been reprinted. The great bulk of the documents, however, appear in print in volume X! for the first time. They have been drawn from such collections as the Indian Records of the Canadian Archives; the Gage Papers in the Clements Library; the Gratz Collection and the Cadwallader Collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and (in smaller numbers) from collections belonging to Dartmouth College, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New York Historical Society, the Oneida County Historical Society, and the New York Public Library. A few of the damaged ocuments at Albany--not hitherto published--have also been included.


By using plasma to modify the surface of starch films,the acrylic-acid grafting ratio(AGR) of the modified starch was measured,and the plasma discharge power,discharge air pressure,discharge time and laying time after discharge for the modified effect of starch films were analyzed. The experimental results showed that: AGR is 2%~ 7%,AGR increases with the increase of the plasma discharge power,while decreases with the increase of the vacuum chamber pressure.With the increase of plasma treatment time,the AGR rises,but then gradually becomes slow.There is a decrease trending with the increase of laying time after plasma treating,and it is greatly attenuated,and goes to zero when the laying time is too long.


The aim of this study was to characterize and identify groups of achiote (Bixa orellana L.) with characteristics related to increased yield and bixin content. A total of 149 achiote accessions were collected from the departments of Loreto, San Martin, Junin, Pasco, Huanuco, Ucayali, and Cusco, in Peru. These were then evaluated using ten quantitative and three qualitative capsule and seed descriptors. Undesirable characteristics such as high spinosity and dehiscence predominated, while none of the quantitative descriptors correlated significantly with bixin content. Principal component analysis indicates that the quantitative descriptors (except for bixin content) are statistically significant, forming four clusters. Notably, one of the clusters included accessions characterized by heavy seeds, and another cluster included accessions with high number of seeds and bixin content.


Due to the serious impact of falls on the quality of life of the elderly and on the economical sustainability of health systems, the study of new monitoring systems capable of automatically alerting about falls has gained much research interest during the last decade. In the field of Human Activity Recognition, Fall Detection Systems (FDSs) can be contemplated as pattern recognition architectures able to discriminate falls from ordinary Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). In this regard, the combined application of cellular communications and wearable devices that integrate inertial sensors offers a cost-efficient solution to track the user mobility almost ubiquitously. Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) typically utilized for these architectures, embed an accelerometer and a gyroscope. This paper investigates if the use of the angular velocity (captured by the gyroscope) as an input feature of the movement classifier introduces any benefit with respect to the most common case in which the classification decision is uniquely based on the accelerometry signals. For this purpose, the work assesses the performance of a deep learning architecture (a convolutional neural network) which is optimized to differentiate falls from ADLs as a function of the raw data measured by the two inertial sensors (gyroscope and accelerometer). The system is evaluated against on a well-known public dataset with a high number of mobility traces (falls and ADL) measured from the movements of a wide group of experimental users.


The elements of tangible costs, which must be included in the tax accounting policy, are defined and studied. Use of the proposed methodology for evaluating recyclable processing waste is substantiated for dairy, butter-, cheese-making, and dairy-canning industry enterprises


PURPOSE: To facilitate work of double floor in which wiring take-out position can be altered for OA floor. CONSTITUTION: Arbitrary number of receptacle units 25 having connector receiving space are fit on an OA floor above a tubular support base supporting a floor panel. When a cord plug of electric appliance or a telephone wire is connected with an arbitrary receptacle 31 or adapter 32, the cord plug or the telephone wire is taken out through a cord take-out port 36 with the cover 27 of the receptacle unit 25 being closed, and thereby connection is sustained without exposing the distribution facility to the floor face. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO&Japio


Background: Elderly face many health problems that need immediate and integrated
treatment. Increasing age of eating more vulnerable to physical complaints both because
of natural factors and disease factors. Physical activity is every body movement
conducted by skeletal muscles that require energy. Achieving the quality of life of the
elderly is the desire of all elderly, positive physical activity will produce a relevant
quality of life. When the physical activity of the elderly is fulfilled, then the quality of his
life will be prosperous.
Objective: To analyze the correlation between physical activities and elderly quality of
life at Posyandu in Selokerto, Sempor, Kebumen.
Method: This research used quantitative method using Cross Sectional approach, using
the questionnaire Pase and Whoqol-breff questionnaire consisting of 8 and 26 questions.
The samples were elderly in amount of 45 respondents taken by random sampling
technique. Data were analyzed using Chi-square test.
Results: There were 19 respondents (42.2%) who had good physical activities and good
quality of life. There were 7 respondents (15.6%) who had good physical activities and
less quality of life. While the respondents who had less physical activities and good
quality of life were 7 respondents (15.6%). Respondents who had less physical activities
and less quality of life were 12 respondents (26.7%).
Conclusion: There was significant correlation between physical activities and elderly
quality of life at Posyandu in Selokerto, Sempor, Kebumen indicated by p-value 0.015
(<0.05).
Recommendations: Future researchers should use more samples within the scope of the
vast area and apply other techniques and test studies to be more optimal results of the
research.


An accurate Non-Quasistatic SPICE model based on relaxation time is proposed for ac and transient simulation of high speed and radio frequency (RF) circuits. A method for extracting the relaxation time is also provided. Its dependence on Vgs and Vds and channel length is based on physics and built in the model. Finally the model is verified with both 2D simulation and measurement.


With the emergence of varieties of audio editing software, disguised voices can be generated easily and are able to spoof the automatic speaker verification system. In this work, we focus on the spoofed voice disguised by pitch shifting which is commonly used by popular audio editing software and design a forensic chain to reveal the processing history of pitch-shifted voice signals blindly based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Because tracing the disguising tool before recognizing the disguising factor from the spoofed speech helps much to recognize the disguising factor, the proposed framework enables the detection of the disguised voice and the utilized tools. To our knowledge, it is the first attempt, focusing on voice transformation without any prior knowledge of the original speech, to recognize the disguising tool and the disguising factor from the spoofed speech, which is more suitable in real-world applications. Experimental results show that the disguising factors can be recognized with accuracy higher than 90%, indicating a high possibility of restoring the original voice from its disguised counterpart.


A novel numerical algorithm based on the radiative transfer equation (RTE) is presented, which allows the calculation of the scattering and penetration of isolated vegetation specimens such as, e.g., single trees, bushes, etc., at mm-wave frequencies. For this purpose, the RTE is stated in a discrete form, and the vegetation structure is discretized in elementary volumes. A step-by-step solution is proposed to solve for the desired attenuation, and indications on the influence of the different parameters on the propagation characteristics are given. A qualitative justification to the approach is presented and finally, a comparison with scattering measurements of ficus trees at 75 GHz is shown.


PEGGY A. O'DAY WOULDN'T CALL herself strictly a chemist, although much of her environmental heavy-element research is rooted in chemistry. During her nine years as a professor at Arizona State University she wore many hats and split academic appointments in geology, as well as chemistry and biochemistry. Now she's a professor of natural sciences at the University of California's newest campus, Merced, and she doesn't have to straddle departments anymore. That's because UC's 10th campus, which opens to its first undergraduate class on Sept. 5, has no departments. Partly because it aims to help lead the interdisciplinary movement and partly because it's simply not big enough for departmental specialization, UC Merced asks its faculty only for allegiance to one of three schools: Social Science, Humanities & Arts; Natural Sciences; or Engineering. This unusual no-department structure—employed by a few universities such as California Institute of Technology and Rockefeller University—has been a ...


Short‐term water demand forecasts support water utility planning efforts. This study applies a linear transfer function (LTF) approach to model and forecast water demand for single‐family residential, multi‐family residential, and nonresidential customer categories in Phoenix, Ariz. Among other things, nonresidential water usage is found to be somewhat more price‐responsive than residential usage. Variations in responses to weather and economic variables are also documented for the various customer categories. Out‐of‐sample demand simulations are generated for periods when actual demand is known. Descriptive accuracy metrics and two formal tests are used to analyze the accuracy of LTF projections against two random‐walk benchmarks. The descriptive accuracy results for per‐customer water usage forecasts in most cases favor the LTF model, but the improvements in accuracy with respect to the benchmarks are statistically insignificant in most cases. Mixed accuracy results are obtained from an analysis of the LTF customer base forecasts.


Abstract A variety of analytical techniques are used to evaluate rates of nitrogen (N) mineralization and nitrification in soils. The diversity of methods takes on added significance in forest ecosystem research where high soil heterogeneity and multiple soil horizons can make comparisons over time and space even more complex than in agricultural Ap horizons. This study compares (a) the three most common incubation periods (7, 14, and 28 day) used in potential net N mineralization and nitrification measurements, and (b) three methods of net nitrification assessment (potential net nitrification, in situ net nitrification, and nitrification potential) in the context of a long-term, paired-watershed N manipulation experiment. Results suggest that the 28-day incubation may be most appropriate in these northeastern U.S. forest soils to allow time for patterns of N dynamics to emerge following the disturbance associated with sampling and incubation. All nitrification measurement methods studied showed similar effects of forest type and watershed treatments. Each method could be an appropriate choice depending on objectives. The nitrification potential method should be studied further to determine its sensitivity to detect alterations in N dynamics in forest soils.


Cervical cancer is a life-threatening disease in women. Moringa oleifera (MO) leaves has cytotoxic, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity. Its cytotoxic activity as an anticancer agent is related to the flavonoids contents. Quercetin, kaempferol and myricetin are flavonoids contained in the leaves of MO. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of cytotoxic and apoptotic induction of MO leaf extract to cervical cancer cells. The MO leaf extract was macerated using ethanol 70%. The cytotoxic activity of the extract was expressed as IC 50 . The extract at concentration 278 ppm showed inhibition of 50%. Furthermore, a striking reduction in cell viability was observed up on treatment with MO extract at concentration 100, 278 and 400 ppm by cell morphology.  DNA fragmentation were performed at 278 μg/mL, yielded at 200-400 bp. This suggests that the anticancer properties of MO could be attributed to the bioactive compounds present in the extract of this plant.


Glass is a fascinating material which has been used for load bearing structures in the past decades. The development of structural glass has been moving towards more transparent structures. The thermal properties of glass can be used to create heat bonds. Heat bonds can be produced in two ways: welding and fusing. With welding, the regions that are to be connected are locally heated. With kiln formed fusing, the elements to be bonded will be globally heated in an oven. This results in the research question: What is the best method, among glass welding and kiln formed glass fusing, to produce heat bonded systems for applications in glass structures? In theory, safety measures consist of three basic strategies: creating secondary load transfer mechanisms, protectioning and overdimensioning. These strategies can be used on the scale of the system and the structure. The heat bonded system could theoretically be laminated, reinforced and tempered. On a structural level, safety can be ensured by a combination of the strategies. To produce glass welds, the glass is preheated in an oven. A small opening in the oven is made and a line burner is used to heat the to be welded area from both sides. One element is pressed down on the other to make the connection. The oven is closed and the specimen is annealed. Finite element models have been used to analyze thermal shock failure during the weld production process. The recommendations for production were to use an additional flame on the bottom of the specimen or to maintain the surroundings at elevated temperature. The latter option is applied in the experiments. The results were three transparent, all-glass, soda lime T-shaped objects. Little residual stress remained in the products. The fused objects were globally heated in an oven. The glass was fused in moulds, made of a gypsum plaster. The products were translucent, all-glass, soda lime, T-shaped objects. The objects deformed significantly during production. Little residual stress remained in the products. Throughout the experiments, factors have changed. An aspect with no direct influence on the product was quenching after maximum temperature. Adapting the mould and polishing the glass edges prior to fusing had an influence on the objects' shape or texture. None of the factors influenced the order of magnitude of the deformation or the seam between the elements. A structural test has been performed to compare the specimens with a glass T-shape bonded with transparent UV-curing adhesive. The connections were loaded in shear. The results of the failure loads and stress at failure are of the same order of magnitude. The largest spread was among the fused specimens, the smallest among the welded. The cause of failure is most probably a combination of elevated stress due to the stiffness and support of the test set-up and peak stress due to irregularities on the glass surface. Other causes could have contributed to failure. The welded glass product requires most time, energy, skill and money. The adhesive product requires least time and energy. The welded and fused objects had neither acceptable dimensional accuracy, nor a smooth fillet in the joint. In the current state of development, glass fusion results in less residual stress, requires less skill and is cheaper to produce. Glass welding results in a transparent glass to glass connection and its structural performance is promising. Further research is encouraged into the heat bonded and adhesive connections to create fully transparent connections for structural glass.


A viable scheme of THz radiation generation by beating of two lasers ( ω1, k→1; ω2, k→2) in a nanotube array, mounted on a dielectric substrate, is proposed and studied. The free electrons of the nanotubes acquire a large oscillatory velocity and experience a beat frequency ponderomotive force that turns nanotubes into oscillating dipole antennae emitting THz radiation. The THz power peaks in directions where a phase difference between fields due to successive nanotubes is integral multiple of 2π. The THz power is large when the beat frequency equals ωp/2 (where ωp is the electron plasma frequency) and surface plasmon resonance occurs. For our set of laser and carbon nanotube parameters, the generated THz is about 0.1 kW for CO2 laser power of 10 GW and pulse length of a few picoseconds.


Considering the Chinese and U.S. bond risk premia jointly, we find that n-year bond excess return can be forecast by n-year forward rate, rather than forward spread, during 03/2006-12/2016 with R^2s up to 51% and 48%, which means that expectations hypothesis fails in these two markets. Based on a seminal one-factor model introduced by Cochrane and Piazzesi (2005), we develop a two-factor model forecasting excess returns with R^2 up to 63%. The two-factor model outperforms the one-factor model, measured by Generalized Method of Moments and Wald tests. An affine model shows that the state variables dynamics and risk attitude structures in the U.S. bond market change radically in last decade.


Managing organizational knowledge in alliances implies establishing the best possible strategic design to create, acquire, maintain, transfer, and apply organizational knowledge developed between the partners (or acquired from partners) in order to achieve competitive goals. In this chapter, the role of knowledge management strategy (KMS) in strategic alliances is analyzed in a technology-intensive company. Focusing on this, the importance of alliances for technological companies and the necessity of designing suitable KMSs in alliances–in terms of establishing objectives, knowledge management tools, and support systems–are explained first of all. This is followed by the analysis of a case study of KMS in the strategic alliances of a company currently developing different businesses in technological settings. Finally, a number of conclusions are discussed, based on how the implementation aspects concerning KMS in strategic alliances have been managed and the way they have contributed to the attainment of the company's objectives and goals.


We report on subpicosecond pulse generation at 346 GHz repetition rate based on InAs/InP quantum dash passively mode locked lasers emitting at 1.55 μm. This is achieved owing to the high optical modal gain of the multilayer InAs/InP quantum dash active region.


Service facilities, such as service areas and parking areas, are important features of toll roads of closed toll collection systems because they are a principal requirement to help drivers perform safe and comfortable use of the road. Furthermore, improved standards of living and increased use of automobiles have changed the pattern of service facility use in Korea. To keep pace with upgrading desire of people and increasing demand, Korea Highway Corporation reviewed its policies on service facilities and established "Long-term Plan for Service Facility Development". This paper presents the status of service facilities, the analysis results of the characteristics of service facility use, and the future plan for development. According to the plan, the average spacing between all types of service facilities will be reduced from current 56 km to 20-30 km. (A)


Abstract The practices and procedures relating to faculty hiring, promotion and tenure are among the most important decisions made by a department and faculty. For a head of department, merit evaluations and salary increases are additional major decisions. This paper examines these issues from the perspective of a former chair of a US doctoral geography programme. Variations and problems occur across departments in spite of major underlying similarities.


By combining principle component analysis and linear programming techniques for multi-dimensional analysis of preference with advertising theory, this paper proposes a forecast model on TV advertising effectiveness based on the impact index of TV advertising effectiveness. Furthermore, basic property and evaluation method of the model are discussed, and empirical analysis is given either.


We study the dynamics of thermalization and the approach to equilibrium in the classical f 4 theory in 1 11 spacetime dimensions. At thermal equilibrium we exploit the equivalence between the classical canonical averages and transfer matrix quantum traces of the anharmonic oscillator to obtain exact results for the temperature dependence of several observables, which provide a set of criteria for thermalization. In this context, comparing to the exact results we find that the Hartree approximation is remarkably accurate in equilibrium. The nonequilibrium dynamics is studied by numerically solving the equations of motion in light-cone coordinates for a broad range of initial conditions and energy densities. The long time evolution is described by several distinct stages, all characterized by a cascade of energy towards the ultraviolet. After an initial transient stage, the spatiotemporal gradient terms become larger than the nonlinear term, and there emerges a stage of universal cascade. This cascade starts at a time scale t 0 independent of the initial conditions ~except for very low energy density!. During this stage the power spectra feature universal scaling behavior and the front of the cascade k ¯ (t) moves to the ultraviolet as a power law k ¯ (t);t a with a&0.25 an exponent weakly dependent on the energy density alone. The wake behind the cascade is described as a state of Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium ~LTE! with all correlations being determined by the equilibrium functional form with an effective time dependent temperature Teff(t), which slowly decreases with time as ;t 2a . Two well separated time scales emerge: while Teff(t) varies slowly, the wave vectors in the wake with k,k ¯ (t) attain LTE on much shorter time scales. This universal scaling stage ends when the front of the ultraviolet cascade reaches the cutoff at a time scale t 1;a 21/a . Virialization starts to set much earlier than LTE. We find that strict thermalization is achieved only for an infinite time scale.


: Islamic religious education can't be defined in narrow sense because it discusses Islamic religion and other sciences. The growing of Islamic boarding school by reforming and having important role in the Islamic education can be seen from the subject material or modern boarding school curriculum such as kuning book, putih book or merah book, which discuss religious science and general knowledge. By using modern management, modern boarding house has implemented labor devision fuctional and professionally. In another side, PAI curriculum of Islamic school has been arranged in some aspects, they are al-Qur'an hadits, faith ('aqidah), morals (akhlaq), Islamic law (fiqih) and Islamic history (tarikh). Meanwhile in in the general school the curriculum of PAI only consists of one subject material (PAI), however, it has included the five above aspects.


The World Controller and John the "Savage" are discussing the concept of the Brave New World society that wants to free people of all unhappiness. The world government wants to achieve this by prohibiting art, history and religion; instead they give the people drugs that keep them in a state of non-thinking overall happiness so that they do not criticize anything. In this passage at the end of the novel John questions this concept.


SUMMARY The important issue of an adaptive scheduling scheme is to maximize throughput while providing fair services to all users, especially under strict quality of service requirements. To achieve this goal, we consider the problem of multiuser scheduling under a given fairness constraint. A novel Adaptive Fairness and Throughput Control (AFTC) approach is proposed to maximize the network throughput while attaining a given min-max fairness index. Simulation results reveal that comparing to straightforward methods, the proposed AFTC approach can achieve the desired fairness while maximizing the throughput with short convergence time, and is stable in dynamic scenarios. The trade-off between fairness and throughput can be accurately controlled by adjusting the scheduler's


1. A world of geography - past, present and future of geography education 2. Learning through enquiry - the pedagogies of learning in geography 3. Learning through experience - the literacies of geography4. Fabulous geography - avoiding dull learning in geography 5. Our school, our world - primary geography through the school grounds 6. Our geographical locality - primary geography through the locality 7. Real geography - topical geography through issues and events 8. Connecting geography - learning about places 9. Go geography - children's agency and action through geography 10. Making geography work - planning for learning in geography


Abstract The busyness of everyday life has received considerable popular and academic attention in recent years. The narrative developed in popular literature is that busyness is the defining temporality of the twenty-first century. While these subjective concerns are repeated in academic scholarship on social temporalities this literature challenges the assumption that social acceleration is uniform and equal. This paper develops accounts of the evenness of social temporalities through a gender analysis of self-help literature on time management and busyness to reveal normative assumptions about the causes of busyness and strategies to alleviate it. The advice in these texts implicitly confirms that men are more likely to be able to consolidate busy lives. This gendered dimension of busyness is revealed in two ways. First, both self-help authors and anecdotes of successful individuals who have transcended busyness are predominately male. Second, the advice offered makes important gendered assumptions about work and care. The message of self-help literature is clear: less is more and fulfilment can be achieved through delegating or deferring distracting tasks. This strategy of prioritisation is essentially patriarchal as it assumes that individuals are in a position of power to make decisions about what tasks should be completed and who does these. Busy working women whose lives transcend work and home cannot defer caring tasks and prioritisation is not always an option. For women the solution to busyness is more likely to be achieved through relational forms of work and care, rather than individual prioritisation.


The insertion of a Helmholtz resonator (HR) in the lateral walls of a tube containing stationary waves in its interior can be used to suppress one or more resonant modes if one chooses the resonator frequency appropriately. The HR can also operates like a filter for traveling waves. In this case, the HR attenuates the waves in a very selective frequency range. In textbooks on Acoustics, only the filtering process of traveling waves is explained. However, it is not simple to carry out experimental arrangement on small length Kundt tubes available in introductory physics laboratories that assures the presence of pure traveling waves inside the tube. Since there is not a theory for stationary waves and the experimental difficulties have produced some confusion in works approaching this topic, we present here a theoretical model to explain the RH behavior when it works like a filter for stationary waves and we point out the differences when it operates like a traveling waves filter.


J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009;16:624–630. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M3191. om jam ia/article-at/16/5/624/803415 by gest on 20 Feruary 2019 Introduction In May 2008, Harvard received a Clinical and Translation Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health to transform patient-oriented research and build an infrastructure that would enable collaboration across the Harvard schools and affiliated hospitals and institutions. Early in the planning stages of designing the structure of Harvard's future Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC), we recognized that sharing patient data would be one of our greatest challenges. Therefore, in January 2008, Harvard Medical School began a 6 month project to develop a working prototype of a query tool that can search the clinical data repositories of its three largest affiliated health centers—Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Children's Hospital Boston (CHB), and Partners HealthCare System (PHS). Each of these is an independent financial Affiliations of the authors: Information Technology (GMW), Center for Biomedical Informatics (AJMcM, DJN, ISK), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; IMBIO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (GMW), Boston, MA; Partners HealthCare System (SNM, ISK), Boston, MA; Children's Hospital Boston (AJMcM, DJN, ISK), Boston, MA. This project was supported by grants 5 U54 LM008748, Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2), and 1 UL1 RR025758-01, Harvard Catalyst, The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, from the National Center for Research Resources. The authors thank Nicholas A. Benik for his assistance with developing the i2b2/SHRINE web client. Correspondence: Griffin M. Weber, Information Technology, Harvard Medical School, 107 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com . Received for review: 02/20/09; accepted for publication: 05/29/09. organization, with its own databases, firewalls, data access policies, and institutional review boards. Each must protect the privacy of their patients, and compete for patient populations, researchers, and grant dollars. As a result, the organizations decided that it would not be desirable to create a combined central data warehouse. Therefore, we chose to use a federated model, where each institution would manage and maintain control over their local databases, but through a standard web service API, distributed queries would still be possible. Admittedly, the system we implemented is truly a prototype, in that it was never designed for widespread use. We plan to replace the system with a scalable peer-to-peer architecture and a streamlined IRB process. However, the technical, regulatory, and political obstacles we faced while creating this prototype will be common themes as institutions across the country increasingly participate in nationwide efforts to share clinical data and participate in other collaborative efforts.


The inverse spin-Hall effect, conversion of spin currents into electric voltage, has been investigated in Ni81Fe19/Pt bilayer films with different length and width. We measured the electric voltage generated by the inverse spin-Hall effect induced by the spin pumping at room temperature. The experimental results indicate that the electric voltage induced by the inverse spin-Hall effect is proportional to the length of Ni81Fe19/Pt bilayer films. In contrast, the electric voltage exhibits almost no variation by changing the width of the Ni81Fe19/Pt films. These results are consistent with the inverse spin-Hall effect model.


In this paper we present a parsimonious model for the analysis of underreported Poisson count data. In contrast to previously developed methods, we are able to derive analytic expressions for the key marginal posterior distributions that are of interest. The usefulness of this model is explored via a re-examination of previously analysed data covering the purchasing of port wine (Ramos, 1999).


This article focuses on the following sections : training of varied levels of medical professionals and joint creative and advanced levels of physician sciemists ; step-by-step building of the Chinese medical professional training system in order to provide efficient health care providers; build and strengthen the family medicine and primary care education system, expand the community health care service and form a stable medical care system which focuses on individuals; and strengthen and reorganize the educational systems for training better quality and suitable countryside and rural area health care providers. The purpose is that through analysis and discussion, we could explore different options as well as provide insightful and helpful tips for Chinese medical education and health care reform, which are currently being conducted in China.

Key words:
Medical education reform;  Curriculum;  Medical professional education;  Family medicine;  Rural health care;  Primary care


Children's Language Improvement Possibilities Development and improvement of children's language generally takes place on three levels: the first level - parents, the influence of language in the family, the second level - the influence of language at school (pre-school and primary school), and the third level - the influence of language in the environment (the yard, the street or the local area). A child exists in a world full of words. It intuitively more or less understands and applies the most frequently heard words and expressions in the everyday speech. A child's language is largely influenced by the family, teachers, as well as friends and other people that are considered by the child to be its authority. All of these sources play a certain role in the processes of language acquisition and development of speech culture. Linguistic communication is also closely associated with learning the accepted norms of behaviour, use of means of language expression in particular communication situations, their appropriate or inappropriate use. It is known that a wide range of linguistic means, a rich vocabulary, knowledge of the meanings and function peculiarities of words are required for the expression of thoughts, feelings and judgements, Enrichment of vocabulary is closely tied with the intellectual growth of a child. There are diverse ways of enriching their lexicon and evoking interest in words. Imperfections in children's vocabulary have various reasons: the inability of parents to cultivate the language of their children in the pre-school age, insufficient performance of teachers in identifying the value of words, lack of unified requirements in the area of speech culture cultivation for teachers of various lessons (kindergarten) and of all subjects (primary school). Childhood is both the fundament of life and language learning. Only by fully acquiring one's native language and by developing speech can a person become part of the cultural life in his or her native country and exist as a creative personality, qualitatively perform tasks at work and successfully engage in communication.


This study examines interferences brought by the placement of advertising elements on a public sphere. Since areas surrounding major road intersections are the most favored venues for advertisers and their advertisements, the study selects such areas exist across Denpasar City (Bali) as case studies. This research is designed to meet three goals. First is to pinpoint as to how intersections have been utilized as venues for advertising purposes. Second is to analyze various predicaments following the employment of a public spheres as a settings for advertisements. This analysis focuses on functional and regulatory concerns. Third is to develop alternative methods for future accommodation of advertisements, thus they will caused the least interruptions to the quality of spaces, the wider functions and roles of the public spheres, as well as having the slightest likelihood to ruin the image of a city as a whole. The study implements qualitative research approaches, supported by 22 sets of thorough photographic documentation recording advertisements surveyed at five different road intersections. The study construes that the consented acts to use intersections for advertising related purposes does not go in line with the formation of culturally friendly city, the image that Denpasar intends to be associated with. This message becomes the main consideration in instigating alternative methods for future accommodation of advertisements in an urban area, such as Denpasar.
Keywords: advertisement, intersection, culture, public space


Historically, it is said that Shan kingdom was the oldest Tai kingdom known as Mawk Khao Mao Luang Kingdom ( ก ก ) dated around 6th century. Later on, there was another center of Shan power called Saenwi Kingdom ( ก ) which covered the land Shan State today. In the 13t h century, a certain group of Shan migrated across Khao Pad Kai (Pad Kai Mountain Range! ก! " # ก ) to settle down on the other side of the mountain establishing Ahom Kingdom in the area of Assam, Ind ia today.


Intravascular lymphoma (IVL) is a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma which involves blood vessels, often affecting patients between the sixth and seventh decade of life, usually with poor prognosis. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


In the middle of Qing Dynasty, the three schools of poetry: style, romantic charm and temperament, attacked one another.In fact, they discussed regularities of poem writing from three different angles: form ,poetic imagery and lyric subject. They enriched theories of ancient poetry. Huang Peifang, the poet ,recognized advantages and disadvantages of the three schools. He established his own theory of poetry ,which was based on Confucian traditional preaches. The theory reconciled the two schools of style and romantic charm, and simaltaneously absorbed the view of true feeling of temperament school. These features are concentratively expressed in the book Xiang Shi Shi Hua .


The near infrared LIF–FTS spectra from the I2 B 0u+ state, excited by an argon ion laser and recorded by a high resolution Fourier‐transform spectrometer, contain information about perturbations between the gerade states converging to the I2→2I(2P3/2) dissociation limit. The observed perturbation interactions are sampled at internuclear distances near 5 A and are interpreted in a separated atom (I2=Ia+Ib; ψI2=φaφb; φa=‖ ja=3/2, ma〉) basis set. Near r=5 A the X 0g+ and a′ 0g+ states are found to have predominant ma=−mb=±1/2 and ma=−mb=±3/2 character, respectively, but with slight ‖m‖=1/2∼‖m‖=3/2 mixing. In this pure ‖m‖ basis, S=sa+sb and Jatomic=ja+jb are not well defined, but in the limit of complete ‖m‖=1/2∼‖m‖= 3/2 mixing, S and Jatomic are well defined. The behavior of three gerade states (X 0g+, a′ 0g+, a 1g) at large internuclear distance has been analyzed using the long range theory of LeRoy and Bernstein. The results are in fair agreement with theoretical predictions, and give a direct and precise...


The cluster [Os6(CO)17{P(OMe)3}4] has been obtained by the reaction of [Os6(CO)20] with P(OMe)3; the six Os atoms are approximately coplanar with the central Os3 triangle having each edge bridged by an Os atom.


Based on the review of relevant theories and practices in river conservation and restoration all(over) the world,the authors proposed that a proper ecological target should be set up to meet the primary need in river conservation and restoration.The target should be quantified for practical direction for river management and restoration.For this purpose,a recently developed method of DRIFT is briefly introduced in the paper,and the classification of ecological conservation level or grade was also analyzed.In consideration of the present situation in China,it is suggested that we should make out the ecological functional division of rivers,plan and set various conservation targets for different rivers,and confirm corresponding conservation levels so as to enforce river conservation and restoration.


ABSTRACT While much is now known about the multiple forms of gender-based violence (GBV) to which people are subjected in (post-)conflict spaces, there remains a relative lack of knowledge about how those experiencing such forms of violence perceive the interconnections between them, as well as about how these perceived interconnections are enmeshed in gendered power relations. This article analyzes group interviews carried out with male and female refugees living in Kampala, Uganda, to scrutinize the complex interweaving between GBV and heteropatriarchal gender norms and power relations in (post-)conflict spaces. Participants repeatedly drew causal connections between sexual violence perpetrated by enemy armed men against women and men, and subsequent intimate partner violence. Our discussion of the logics underpinning these perceived causal connections enables close analysis of the shifting and contingent ways in which various forms of GBV are understood as imbricated in one another and implicated in shifting gender norms. This enables us to examine some of the complex ways in which GBV reverberates through gender norms and power relations in (post-)conflict contexts.


Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is one of the deadliest brain tumors with an unfavorable prognosis and overall survival of approximately 20 months following diagnosis. The current treatment for GBM includes surgical resections and chemo‐ and radiotherapeutic modalities, which are not effective. CAR‐T immunotherapy has been proven effective for CD19‐positive blood malignancies, and the application of CAR‐T cell therapy for solid tumors including GBM offers great hope for this aggressive tumor which has a limited response to current treatments. CAR‐T technology depends on the use of patient‐specific T cells genetically engineered to express specific tumor‐associated antigens (TAAs). Interaction of CAR‐T cells with tumor cells triggers the destruction/elimination of these cells by the induction of cytotoxicity and the release of different cytokines. Despite the great promise of CAR‐T cell‐based therapy several challenges exist. These include the heterogeneity of GBM cancer cells, aberrant various signaling pathways involved in tumor progression, antigen escape, the hostile inhibitory GBM microenvironment, T cell dysfunction, blood‐brain barrier, and defective antigen presentation. All need to be addressed before full application at the clinical level can begin. Herein we provide a focused review of the rationale for the use of different types of CAR‐T cells (including FcγRs), the different GBM‐associated antigens, the challenges still facing CAR‐T‐based therapy, and means to overcome such challenges. Finally, we enumerate currently completed and ongoing clinical trials, highlighting the different ways such trials are designed to overcome specific problems. Exploitation of the full potential of CAR‐T cell therapy for GBM depends on their solution.


Think positively! I recently wrote that magical sentence to you. It is a real mystery. How many times have you uttered that sentence to yourself, but also to your friends when they complain about something, but you weren't seriously aware of what it really means? Well, "Think positively" mostly makes me angry, stubborn, or bitter. After the usual turning over of my papers, which they sometimes read in the surgery, leaving out every second line, or with an expression of extreme boredom on their faces, physicians would see me off with that line: "Think positively!"… They say you can learn to do it. Psychiatrists and scientists who deal with neuroscience describe the important effect of your psychological stability and optimism on the treatment and outcome of illness and I have never doubted their claims, but I just don't know how it is done. HOW does one "THINK POSITIVELY" every day, over all those years, with all those relapses, when you have been undergoing treatment for so many years that you have given up counting? Simply because of that sentence, that stupid, simplistic, brilliant curative, but to me personally and to many others, an incomprehensible sentence, in all its simplicity, I decided that our association "All for Her," alongside all its other programs and goals, should take as its fundamental activity the foundation and launch of a Center for Psychological Support for women suffering from cancer. Classical western medicine deals exclusively with our diseases and our symptoms. Why is the holistic approach completely ignored, when the body and spirit are an indivisible unit? That is the reason for the charity campaign our Association launched recently, so that, finally after a year and a half of work, we could finish setting up the Centre given to us by the Croatian Government, under the motto "Words Heal Too."


A subset of the ITER L-mode and H-mode confinement data is tested against the constraints imposed by various theoretical models for thermal plasma transport. Matrix algebra is used to facilitate such tests. A new result obtained is that the fundamental constraint imposed by the high-β collisional Fokker-Planck equation (Kadomtsev) is satisfied by the data. An additional constraint on the characteristic scale length associated with thermal diffusion can also be satisfied by the data. Dimensionally correct empirical scaling laws embodying theoretical constraints can thus be derived.


In this paper, we will study the Dieck-Temlerley-Lieb algebras of type Bn and Cn. We compute their ranks and describe a basis for them by using some results from corresponding Brauer algebras and Temperley-Lieb algebras.


In this article,through the six provinces in central China tourism data from 2001to 2010,to analysis the central tourism development situation.The conclude that the central tourism development to benefit more than bandits,the rise of the central region strategy promote the middle six province tourism's development,but each province level of development is different,Present absolute difference is wedening and relatively difference is slow decline;six province of domestic tourism development momentum is very good,and international tourism market needs to be strengthened.


Carbon dioxide concentration in subway cabin drastically increases during rush-hour since many passengers are on board at this time. If passengers are exposed to this high concentration of carbon dioxide, they will have following physical difficulties: headache, sleepiness, languor, and lower concentration. Ventilation is one of the easiest ways to reduce carbon dioxide concentration. However, since ventilation in subway may cause the inflow of various air pollutants in subway tunnels, the application of carbon dioxide adsorbent is considered as one of the alternatives for ventilation. In this study, carbon dioxide adsorption performances of adsorbent using potassium carbonate were studied. Carbon dioxide adsorption performance was slightly lower than zeolite, the reproducibility was better with the prepared carbon dioxide adsorbent.


Voter suppression and associated racial disparities in access to voting are long-standing civil rights concerns in the United States. A history of violent explicit discouragement has shifted to more subtle access limitations that can include long lines and wait times, long travel times to reach a polling station, and other logistical barriers to voting. Our focus in this work is on quantifying disparities in voting access pertaining to the overall time-to-vote, and how they could be remedied via a better choice of polling location or provisioning more sites where voters can cast ballots. However, appropriately calibrating access disparities is difficult because of the need to account for factors such as population density and different community expectations for reasonable travel times. In this paper, we perform one of the first large-scale studies of voter access to polling locations, using real-world voter data from Florida and North Carolina in the 2020 general election. We develop a methodology for the calibrated measurement of disparities in polling location "load" and distance to polling locations based on a novel normalized distance metric to model the voter experience of distance. We find that voter turnout is reduced when this normalized distance to polling locations increases, and that non-white voters had to travel further to the polls in Florida (using this normalized distance) than White voters. We also introduce algorithms, with modifications to handle scale, that can reduce these disparities by suggesting new polling locations from a given list of identified public locations (including schools and libraries). The developed voting access measurement methodology and algorithmic remediation technique demonstrates that better polling location placement is possible.


We report on a search for heavy neutrinos in $B$-meson decays. The results are obtained using a data sample that contains $772\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{6}B\overline{B}$ pairs collected at the $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy ${e}^{+}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ collider. No signal is observed and upper limits are set on mixing of heavy neutrinos with left-handed neutrinos of the Standard Model in the mass range $0.5--5.0\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}/{c}^{2}$.


The paper critically deals with the eclectic theory of the multinationalenterprise.It examines,firstly, the theoretical redundancyof the 'ownershipadvantage';secondly,the inseparabilityof the 'ownershipadvantage'fromthe 'locationadvantage'; thirdly, the conceptual ambiguity of the 'location advantage'; and, lastly, possible methodologicaldangers of a multi-factor analysis under the three headings of the eclectic theory.


The article is devoted to the research of lexical-semantic, word-formation and grammar peculiarities of the strengthening constructions in Karachay-Balkarian language, formed on the model of full repetition. The article deals with the use of paired-repeating combinations, expressing certain lexical and grammatical meanings, comprising the concepts of plurality, collective generality, indefinite totality. The article analyses the peculiarities of the morphological homogeneity of reduplicated formations, the belonging of combining bases to the same part of speech, their semantic closeness and syntactic identity. The paper draws attention to the free syntactic constructions of descriptive type and stable phraseological units.


Unlike enrollment in undergraduate computer science degree programs, there are no gender or ethnic imbalances in K‒12 enrollment. This chapter discusses an approach to broadening minority participation in computing through the integration of computer science (CS) into history courses. It presents an alignment between computational thinking and historical thinking that makes history courses an attractive fit for CS integration. It also presents a project-based approach using MIT App Inventor that leverages students' interests in mobile technology to facilitate the creation of historical mobile applications. This chapter outlines key findings from a two-year study on integrating cross-disciplinary curricula into history courses and the impact on minority students as they become knowledge, artifact, and technology producers rather than mere consumers. Christina Gardner-McCune University of Florida, USA Yerika Jimenez University of Florida, USA Historical App Developers


Abstract Two species of the Asian genus Greenidea have been introduced into the United States, Greenidea ficicola Takahashi and Greenidea psidii van der Goot. Synonymy confusion between Greenidea formosana (Maki) and G. psidii is resolved in favor of G. psidii. Both species colonize Ficus spp., and G. psidii colonizes a few other plants, mostly in Myrtaceae. The two species can be distinguished by the ornamentation on the siphunculi on the apterous forms, and usually also by the arrangement of rhinaria on antennal segment III of the alate forms.


This research is justified in the face of scientific evolution in the sphere of human reproduction. Faced with the figure of the human embryo, the first manifestation of life, the Law, as a science, is obliged to present ever faster and more accurate solutions about the most varied theories about the beginning of life. This article, which uses the theoretical survey as a research method, discusses the rights of personality, life and affiliation of embryos. It is necessary to ensure that future generations respect the rights of embryos, without any doubt as to the applicability of such rights. It is the duty of jurists to promote these themes in respect to the commitment of law to guarantee a harmonious life in society, a fact that justifies this research.


Implicit attributions in media coverage of wrestling events are investigated. A special feature of show wrestling is a separation in morally good fighters who win because of their intrinsic goodness and morally bad fighters who win by bending the rules. Thus, show wrestling can be characterized by the attributions it affords. Linguistic abstractness as an index of attributions of dispositionality is measured with the Linguistic Category Model (LCM; Semin & Fiedler, 1988). Analyses of published fight reports in an official wrestling magazine show that goodness and badness is indeed attributed on a stable and global level and that fights with the expected outcome are described in terms of fighters' dispositions in contrast to fights with an unexpected outcome. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


This work focuses on the isolation and characterization of saponins with a very low-bitter intensity originating from sustainable plant materials, in particular the sugar beet pulp by-product stream. Via a concise foam activity screening of saponin-containing materials, which gives indications for their emulsifying ability, sugar beet-root extract was selected and examined for low bitter saponins by means of activity guided fractionation. Individual saponins were isolated from sugar beet pulp, which was identified as the most convenient sugar beet saponin source. LC-MS/MS analysis and 1D- and 2D-NMR spectroscopy led to the unequivocal identification of the major, slight-bitter tasting compounds as a series of eight saponins. The complete assignment of 1H and 13C-NMR signals for several saponins was carried out for the first time. A small-scale foam activity assay was established and applied to a broad spectrum of the isolated and commercially available saponins. Additionally, orosensory recognition thresholds were determined. Not only high recognition thresholds were determined (thresholds >1000 µmol/l), but also fundamental information about foaming behavior of mono- and bidesmosidic saponins was collected. The obtained results are relevant to the utilization of saponins from other plant materials or by-product streams and for the use of sugar beet saponins as food additives.


A full-automatic cleaning oil-coating device comprises a machine base, wherein a machine frame and an electrical appliance control device are arranged on the machine base, a guide rail and a stainless steel conveying net chain are arranged at the upper portion of the machine frame, the stainless steel conveying net is provided with a net belt chain tensioning device and a chain stepless speed-regulating conveying system, a sealing cover is arranged at the upper portion of the stainless steel conveying net chain, a spraying-cleaning device, a first cutting water air knife, an ultrasonic cleaning system, a second cutting water air knife, a spraying-rinsing device, a third cutting water air knife, a compressed air water blowing device, an air blow-drying system, an oil coating device and a deoiling device, and a cleaning liquid filtering system is arranged on the side face of the machine frame. The full-automatic cleaning oil-coating device is provided with a movable overhaul window, an overhaul door is convenient, flexible and safe to open and close and has an interlocking function, and the full-automatic cleaning oil-coating device cannot be started if the door is not closed well. The full-automatic cleaning oil-coating device is provided with a good steam pumping and discharging system and prevents mist from escaping outside. In addition, the circular filtering system provides cleaning liquid having constant cleaning effect for liquid grooves, the cleanliness requirements of parts can be ensured, and re-utilization rate of the liquid can be improved.


The effect of an alternating external magnetic field on spin tunneling is studied for a single axial magnetocrystalline anisotropy model. The model for spin half is solved and the result shows that an alternating field can suppress magnetic tunneling. The probability of tunneling for large spin is obtained with the help of quantum-mechanical perturbation theory.


Review of: Influences of the IEA Civic and Citizenship Education Studies: Practice, Policy, and Research across Countries and Regions, Barbara Malak-Minkiewicz and Judith Torney-Purta (eds) (2021)
 Cham: IEA and Springer, 301 pp.
 ISBN 978-3-03071-101-6, p/bk, USD 59.99


The article defines the current state and socio-economic development of the regions of the North in modern conditions; characterizes the strategy of socio – economic development of the republic; the created socio-economic potential of the North is the basis for increasing economic activity; the fundamental direc- tion is proposed and explains the situation about the self-development of regions of the North as a subject of the Russian Federation for more effective functioning of the economy in the market environment and in the global economy, ensuring decent living conditions of the population by rational use and reproduction of natural resources, economic and intellectual potential; considerable attention is paid to questions of strategy; implementation stages of the Strategy – 2030.; In this connection, the main directions for the socio-economic development of the regions of the North in modern conditions were formulated.


The cytoplasmic domain (CY) of the ligand-binding (cid:2) -chain of the (cid:1) -chain-associated FcRs can modulate receptor function such as phagocytosis, endocytosis, and intracellular trafficking of receptor-Ag complexes. To assess the potential role of the CY domain of human Fc (cid:1) RIa (CD64) (cid:2) -chain in the transcriptional regulation of receptor-induced gene expression, we developed stably transfected murine macrophage cell lines expressing a full-length or a CY deletion mutant (tail-less) of human Fc (cid:1) RIa to analyze gene expression in response to receptor-specific cross-linking. Using the Affymetrix murine genome U74Av2 GeneChip array, we observed > 100 candidate genes having > 2-fold difference expression at 1.5 and 3 h after stimulation. Focusing on several immunologically related genes, we confirmed differential expression of M-CSF, macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1, leukocyte-specific protein 1, MIP-2, and IL-1R antagonist by RT-PCR and RNase protection assays. Analysis of mRNA stability indicated that the differential regulation of gene expression by the CY of the CD64 (cid:2) -chain is at the level of gene transcription. Our results indicate that the CY of the CD64 (cid:2) -chain modulates transcriptional activity induced by receptor-specific engagement in macrophages and provides a framework for understanding distinct expression profiles elicited by different Fc (cid:1) -chain-associated receptors. The Journal of Immunology, 2004, 173: 6211–6219. P3388D1 differences WT TL Fc (cid:1) expression of genes performed by two-tailed test with Bonferroni correction (22).


This research was based on the reality of the use of Indonesian language on social media that was vulgar, destructive, full of blasphemy, scorn, sarcasm, and tended to be provocative. This condition has destructive power because it spreads very quickly and is capable of arousing very strong emotions. This article aimed at presenting the results of research on the analysis model of impolite Indonesian language use. This model was developed from tracing status on social media which included language impoliteness in 2019. The novelty of this analysis model was that it involved a factor of power that allowed the appearance of such impolite speech.  Therefore, this model is composed of several stages. First, presenting text in the form of spoken, written, and visual texts. Second, transcribing texts. Third, interpreting language impoliteness. At the interpreting stage, the impoliteness of the speeches was carried out by: (1) analyzing the contexts, (2) analyzing the power, (3) analyzing the dictions and language styles that contained impoliteness, (4) analyzing ethical speech acts, and (5) manipulating language politeness. From these language manipulation efforts, they were made to habituate language discipline to create a polite language society.


In Knowledge Economy Age,the training of innovative talents has become the most urgent task in our country's higher education.Colleges and universities should adapt to the rising knowledge economy's needs energetically,and take the creative education as the core of a college education's teaching reform.It also needs to change the education concept,optimize the course setting,improving the teaching method and set up a new education strategy to cultivate the true creative talents that can meet the needs of the 21st century.


This research is meant to examine the influence of good corporate governance (include: managerial ownership, institutional ownership, the composition of the independent commissioner, and audit quality), to the firm value. Price Book Value is used as the proxy of the firm value. The samples are ten companies which are listed in the SRI-KEHATI index with a three-year study period. The method of analysis of this study is done by using multiple linear regressions. The result of this research indicates that managerial ownership, the composition of independent commissioner and the audit quality variable do not have any influence to the firm value. Whereas the institutional ownership variable has positive influence to the firm value. Keywords: Managerial Ownership, Institutional Ownership, Independent Commissioner, Audit Quality, and Firm Value


Moyamoya disease is a non-inflammatory, nonatherosclerotic and non-amyloid cerebral vasculopathy more often affecting Japanese and their descendents. It is an uncommon condition characterized by bilateral stenosis or occlusion of the terminal portion of Internal Carotid and or proximal portion of Anterior Cerebral or Median Cerebral Arteries. Diagnosis is confirmed by Brain Angiography, where pathological vessels are presented similar to 'cigarette smoke cloud' hence the origin of the Japanese word 'Moyamoya'. It affects primarily children and young adults, and is more prevalent among females. With the evolution of the disease, IQ may be decreased by up to 60% in a period of 5 to 9 years. In general, the disease is associated to other morbidities, such as asthma, Down syndrome and hypothyroidism. Anaesthetic management of such patients must take into consideration the importance of preserving an adequate balance between brain blood flow and oxygen consumption. Patients are at risk of cerebral ischemia and hemorrhage, Neurological deterioration may occur during pregnancy.


Field notes were contributed by Robert K. Myers, summer 1984, with two other observers. Of eighteen species observed, many Cattle Egrets were seen near Glenwood, and many shorebirds at Sweet Marsh. A singing Clay-colored Sparrow was observed in detail at Volga River R.A., and Kentucky Warbler was also found singing there. A Chuck-will's-widow was heard calling near Waubonsie. A Northern Mockingbird was nesting near Sidney. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1984.


The effects of four extracts of medicinal herbs, Rubus coreanum, Acorus calamus, Morus alba and Rehmannia glutinosa on hair growth activity and acnes control were investigated. In the course of screening natural extracts for hair growth, we found that the extract of dried root of Rubus coreanum has the hair growth promoting effect. After topical application of these extracts to the back of C57BL/6 mice, the earlier conversion of telogen-to-anagen phase was induced. The growth of dermal papilla cells and mouse vibrissae hair follicle cultured in vitro, however, was not affected by treatment of these extracts. Furthermore these extracts do not possesspotent inhibitory effect on I and II activity and anti-bacterial effect on Escherichia coli , Propionibacterium acnes, Pityrosporum ovale, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidemidis, and Candida albicans. RT-PCR analysis showed that these extracts did notinduce mRNA levels of growth factors such as insulin-like growth factor-I, keratinocyte growth factor, hepatocyte growth factor and vascular endothelial growth factor in dermal papilla cells. These results suggest that Rubus coreanum has hair growth promoting effect. However, the effects of these materials on the hair growth promotion are not mediated through inhibition of I and II activity, stimulation of hair follicle cells and expression of growth factors in the dermal papilla cells.


Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) produces co-registered, multi-parametric maps from highly accelerated acquisitions. Low rank methods leveraging temporal information have enabled highly undersampled MRF reconstructions. However, residual aliasing from these reconstructions can potentially propagate through the MRF framework into the parametric maps. Region-Optimized Virtual coils have recently been proposed for undersampled reconstructions in conventional imaging, by suppressing unwanted sources of aliasing signal. Here we combine both methods and investigate its performance in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting.


Objective To investigate the mechanism and outcome of hypothermic cold machine perfusion (CMP) preservation versus simple cold storage (SCS) in liver transplantation. Methods The livers were preserved by SCS in the control group and by CMP in the experiment group. Using an isolated perfused rat liver (IPRL) model, changes in tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α) contents, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) activity and morphology of hepatocytes and sinusoidal endothelial cells (SEC) under light microscopy and electron microscopy were compared between the two storage approaches. Results Higher levels of TNF-α contents and ALT activity in reperfusion efflux were found in both control and experiment groups compared with un-preserved livers (both P0.05). Over time of liver reperfusion, CMP group showed lower values of ALT and TNF-α than did the control group at same time spots (P0.05). Milder changes in histopathology were also milder in the CMP group. Conclusion CMP may result in less SEC injury and reperfusion injury as well as longer preservation time.


Presents a new regularization method for tomography, which combines features from the FBP algorithm and regularization theory. The preliminary results shown here are extremely encouraging, and seem to indicate that a substantial improvement of the stability of the reconstruction and of quality of the image can be expected, especially in situation of sparse angular sampling. One learns from the Fourier Slice theorem that constraints obtained from the measurements can be read off the Fourier domain. The regularization constraints should act beyond the experimental area, so as to avoid conflicts between these two types of constraints. In addition, such regularization constraints can clearly be interpreted in terms of filtering or Point Spread Function, which makes the reconstructed images more legible. In order to account for the full complexity of the physical relationship between the distribution of interest and the data acquired by the camera, the method needs to refined. This is currently under study, and will form the subject of further publications.


The role of arbuscular mycorrhizas in response of plants to soilborne root pathogens is unclear. A time course study was conducted to monitor disease development and expression of mRNA for the defence-related genes phenylalanine ammonia lyase, chalcone synthase, chalcone isomerase, and hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein in bean (Phasoelus vulgaris L.) plants colonized by the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices Schenck & Smith and postinfected with the soilborne pathogen Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn. Precolonization of bean plants by G. intraradices did not significantly reduce the severity of rot symptoms. RNA blot analysis of the defence-related genes revealed a systemic increase in the four defence genes in response to R. solani infections. On the other hand, precolonization of bean plants with G. intraradices elicited no change in phenylalanine ammonia lyase, chalcone synthase, and chalcone isomerase transcripts. A differential and systemic alteration in the expression of all four defence genes was observed in all tissues only during the pathogenic interaction of arbuscular mycorrhizal beans. Depending on the time after infection with R. solani and the tissue examined, varying responses from stimulation to suppression to no change in transcript levels were detected.


In teaching Russian language, corpus-linguistics plays crucial role in text analysis; collocations, concordances, types and tokens, frequency-words occurring in target language. Even single word gives a written context changes or other meaning. In this study, we conducted a research on the issues of constructing words such as; single words, collocations, and frequency-words occur in Russian language context. In the classes of Russian language for specific purposes, we focused on technical context of the geodesy and mapping field to analyze because there are some tokens and types which students of engineering need to acquire in order to use them in spoken context. However, we may see strong tokenization in the context of geodesy and mapping engineering. This paper highlights discussions of scholars on the issues of corpus linguistics, especially, analysis of collocations, tokens and types occurring in written context.


PURPOSE: A backlight unit and a display device including the same are provided to diffuse the light leaking between light guide plates by using a light diffusion member. CONSTITUTION: A light source unit(220) includes a plurality of light source units and at least one printed circuit board. The light source unit is arranged in the space between the light guide plates(210). An optical member(230) is arranged between the light guide plate and the display panel. A light diffusing member(250) diffuses the light leaking between the light guide plates.


Diabetes mellitus, affecting the multisystem in human body, is primarily characterized by chronic hyperglycemia. The impaired glucose level may be due either of insulin resistance or insulin secretion that produces micro vascular as well as macro vascular complications in human beings. Diabetes is characterized by excessive thirst, extreme hunger, frequent urination and weight loss. Pre-screening to assess random blood glucose level, before any minor or major procedure is of utmost important for better functional outcome of patients. The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the level of awareness and screening amongst patient visiting in outdoor and indoor department in a tertiary level hospital. The patients which were sent for random blood sugar testing were included in this study from a period of March 2019 to February 2020. Data of random blood sugar level of 3750 patients were scrutinized and collected from 75000 records and analyzed by Excel software for correlation and association. Keeping statistical significance of P < 0.05, the prevalence of diabetes mellitus was found to be 33.4% in tested random blood sugar levels. This study has shown more prevalence in male (m=2325, 62%) with higher incidence in age group in 41-60 years (48.4%).


The study examined price spread and the determinants of live-catfish marketing income in Anambra State, Nigeria using primary data collected from 101 market participants via interview instruments. Data collected were analysed by means of descriptive statistics, Sherpherd's formular and Shepherd-Futrel method of determining marketing efficiency and by multiple regression. Results indicated that catfish marketing was gender biased in favour of women both at the wholesale (96.8%) and retail (96.7%) levels. Operationally, marketing efficiency was highest in channel I (67.06), than channel II (2.20), III (2.77) and IV (1.98). Again, the retailers were more efficient (82.33%) than the wholesalers (92.05%) in catfish marketing, meaning than the wholesalers expended more of their sales revenue on costs than the retailers. Catfish marketing income was positively and significantly influenced by gender, age and marital status. However, it was negatively and significantly affected by marketing costs. Operational efficiency and thus marketing income could be increased by tailoring policy towards measures that would reduce marketing costs such as the provision of infrastructural facilities (water, good roads, cheap means of transport, etc.), establishment of large commercial catfish farms in the State and the creation of credit lines for marketers through joint liability group action in the form of Cooperative Societies, Non-Governmental Organizations and other microfinance institutions. © 2010 Friends Science Publishers


The study of dielectric breakdown of polyethylene subjected to a highly divergent field has shown that an electroluminescence phenomenon occurs at room temperature within the bulk of the material. The emission is localized in a small region of the sample: some hundreds of μm 3 around the tip of the needle electrode, where the field is at a maximum. The present work reports a study of the characteristics of this light emission. which gives important information concerning the mechanisms responsible for the dielectric breakdown.


Buck was the protagonist of the famous novel call of the wild. His life in the book can be roughly divided into three parts: pet dog time, transformational period, wolf-dog Buck. These three periods respectively symbolize certain aspects of social reality at that time. In this essay, efforts are made to analyze these symbolic social characters through Buck's experience.


Character of vertical temperature and chemical gradients in small eutrophic lakes of forest-steppe region of Volga basin is analyzed using data from more than 30 lakes of Samara region and Tatarstan. It is shown that in small eutrophic lakes of discussed region with area


SoCs implementing security modules should be both testable and secure. Oversights in a design's test structure could expose internal modules creating security vulnerabilities during test. In this paper, for the first time, we propose a novel automated security vulnerability analysis framework to identify violations of confidentiality, integrity, and availability policies caused by test structures and designer oversights during SoC integration. Results demonstrate existing information leakage vulnerabilities in implementations of various encryption algorithms and secure microprocessors. These can be exploited to obtain secret keys, control finite state machines, or gain unauthorized access to memory read/write functions.


Strategies and methods of main and auxiliary logistics control,as well as the concrete mathematical models were also provided from the viewpoint of logistics supply.A feasible Poka-yoke system was developed which integrated database and indication units with the computer central control system based on logistics control strategies and methods to improve the assembly quality.At the same time,an effective application for Mixed-Model Assembly Lines(MMAL) of transmission production was successfully set up.


In this paper, we defend the production of narratives in the context of continuing education as a training tool that enables a reflection about/for/within the pedagogical practice. We aim to identify the teaching knowledge expressed in the narratives in the form of descriptive records and interviews with Science and Mathematics teachers in continuing education who are part of a formative collective, as well as to understand the contributions of the narratives to the formative process of the teacher. To this end, we carried out the Content Analysis of 20 narratives produced by the teachers participating in the training. For the analysis, we established two a priori categories: 1) Continuing Teacher Education: an important element for the teacher education; and 2) Reflections on the teaching practice and the (re)constructed knowledge manifested in the narratives. We evidenced that Continuing Education enabled reflective writing, through which teachers attributed meaning to what was experienced, constituting critical and reflective knowledge, also making it possible to (re)build knowledge in a teacher education movement.


Historical Aspect; concerning the Civil Liberals against Grundtvig By Poul Dam For eleven years, viz. 1826-1837, Grundtvig had to submit all that he wanted to publish in Denmark to the public censor. A prolific and serious writer like Grundtvig must necessarily have felt this as highly embarrassing, and many of his biographers have painted his ordeal in dark colours, in fact much darker than Grundtvig did himself. Certain facts have indeed been misunderstood to such an extent that even very competent writers have believed and repeated distorted and/or simplified renderings of the actual background. In 1826 Grundtvig published a very harsh attack on a book by the theologian H.N. Clausen, who reacted by bringing a civil libel case against Grundtvig. The court found him guilty of using unseemly language, but not of libelling Clausen, and fined him quite leniently. The probably unforeseen consequence of the sentence, which is quoted in full in the article, was, however, to make Grundtvig subject to lifelong censorship. This was not mentioned at all in the court proceedings, however, since it followed without in all cases when the accused was not acquitted completely. Consequently Grundtvig was not actually sentenced to censorship. The law was modified in 1837 in such a way that Grundtvig could ask to be exempted from censorship, and this happened towards the end of that year. His first book after that to be published without the despicable »imprimatur« of the censor contained a rather long poem about the mother tongue, quite literally defined as the tongue of the mother, of women. A short selection of the verses from this poem has been used as a »national« song praising the Danish language, and this may explain why some writers believe the poem to have been written in a joyful mood directly after the lifting of the censorship. That is an unsubstantiated and more than doubtful construction, however, as nothing in the poem points to a connection with Grundtvig's actual experiences in 1837. In addition, the article stresses that Grundtvig and Clausen did not remain enemies for life, as many writers have suggested. Both of them came to regard the bitter fight of 1826 as something to regret.


The purpose of this letter is to estimate the US social discount rate, the appropriate discount rate for public capital budgets. There are two methods. One assumes that public investment displaces private consumption, and the discount rate is labelled the social rate of time preference (SRTP). The other assumes that public investment crowds out private investment, and the underlying social discount rate is market-based. The approach in this letter follows the second method. It relies on wealth maximization with the presence of two assets: one risky and one riskless. The risky security is taken to be a portfolio of common stocks, while the riskless asset is taken to be the T-bill rate. The Euler or first-order condition is independent of initial wealth. Because of that the estimate of the discount rate applies to all unanimously, and can be considered a social rate by essence. The range of the estimated social discount rate is between 5.01% and 6.17%, and the 95% confidence interval for the inferred population mean discount rate is between 5.62% and 5.71%. These results are extremely precise and reasonable, and are at the upper limit of the estimates in the literature that use a completely different approach.


After the FDA bulletin recommending curtailed use of hexachlorophene (HCP), medical epidemiologists performed a retrospective survey of records for recent nursery staphylococcal disease in over 200 randomly selected United States hospitals. A group of nurseries discontinuing prophylactic infant bathing with 0.10 to 3.0% emulsions of HCP was found to have experienced a significant rise in incidence of staphylococcal disease from approximately one case to more than five cases per 1,000 admissions when compared to a group of hospitals continuing infant bathing with HCP. Rates of serious staphylococcal disease also increased approximately five-fold in the group discontinuing HCP bathing, but not in the group continuing it. In a group of hospitals not bathing infants with HCP, the difference between the higher rate of infection noted following the bulletin and the previous rate was not significant. Changes in handwashing policy, in infant bathing procedure per se, or in rates of culturing did not seem to account for the observed increases in disease rate; influences of other specific factors were not evaluated.


Enhancement of entanglement enhancement is necessary for most quantum communication protocols many of which are defined in Hilbert spaces larger than two. In this work we present the experimental realization of entanglement concentration of orbital angular momentum entangled photons produced in the spontaneous parametric down-conversion process which have been shown to provide a source for higher dimensional entanglement. We investigate the specific case of three dimensions and the possibility of generating different entangled states out of an initial state. The results presented here are of importance for pure states as well as for mixed states.


This paper presents a novel successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) with delta sampling for low power sensing applications. By reducing the binary search range, the proposed SAR ADC is able to consume much lower power than the conventional SAR ADC. The proposed SAR ADC is designed using the 0.18-μm CMOS technology. When applied to neural signal acquisition, with a 1-V supply voltage, the proposed ADC consumes merely 212-nW of power while achieving 7.4 effective number of bits (ENOB). When compared against the conventional SAR ADC, the proposed SAR ADC achieved an impressive 83% in power saving.


Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal.Emails: email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com present a model for calculating the quantities and costs of required components in a multilayertransport network. The network comprises the IP/MPLS-over-SDH/OTN-over-WDM layers. From thatwe present a set of approximations in order to allow the estimation of capital expenditures without theknowledge of the network topology. We dimension a survivable network - assuming 100% of restora-bility in case of single link failures - and compare the results from the estimation model with a designsoftware tool.


The solar system was designed to provide 65 percent of the total Domestic Hot Water (DHW) demand. The liquid flat plate (water) collector (1,000 square feet) system automatically drains into the 1,000 gallon steel storage tank located in the mechanical room when the pump is not running. Heat is transferred from the storage tank to DHW tanks through a tube and shell heat exchanger. A circulating pump between the DHW tanks and the heat exchanger enables solar heated water to help make DHW tank standby losses. All pumps are controlled by differential temperature.


Theory: Keyne's theory of wages Hick's trade cycle theory deliberate saving and the consumption function an Australian consumption function Radcliffe monetary theory. Policy: the role of monetary policy overdrafts and monetary policy two kinds of credit rationing the importance of money full employment in historical perspectives. National accounts and external relations: public finance and national income a pioneer of national income statistics the impact of immigration overseas borrowing the new model the financial year. Political economy: political economy Reganomics Keyes and Churchill globalization from state to market.


the same sequence except for one amino-acid may have a different rate of synthesis." They then state that it has been postulated, as an explanation of the varying ratios of hsemoglobin A to hsemoglobin S in heterozygous SUbjects, that normal hremoglobin is controlled by a series of at least three alleles, which produce hsemoglobin at different rates. They propose to extend this hypothesis to include thalasseemta, postulating that the apparently normal hsemoglobin found in thalasssemia homozygotes has a different amino-acid sequence from heemoglobln A, and that this new sequence determines a characteristically low rate of synthesis.


Section headings and selected papers: Preface. Organizing committee. Copper Tankhouse Practice. The Kidd copper refinery, J Laezza et al. Tankhouse modernization at CCR, J Thiriar et al. Mechanization of Inco's copper cliff copper refinery tankhouse, A L Cruthers & E W Hodki . The design and engineering of copper electrowinning tankhouses, J A Wells & W R Snelg ove. New Developments. Influence of the main parameters on zinc powder electrowinning in caustic soda medium, J Frenay et al. Recent improvements in zinc alkaline hydrometallurgy, D L Piron. Pilot plant studies for the production of electrolytic manganese dioxide and manganese metal, P L Sen Gupta. Fluidized-bed electrodeposition of heavy non-ferrous metals, S L Tsapakah & L V Volko . Purification and Electrolysis. Effect of organic additives on the kinetics of cobalt purification, G Houlachi et al. Removal of cobalt and manganese from zinc sulphate solutions, J C Fonseca. The production of particulate manganese dioxide during zinc electrowinning, J M S Rodrigues & M J Dry. perating practice and technical developments in nickel refining and cobalt recovery at Jinchuan non-ferrous metal company, Yang Yuhua & Meng Xian uan. Modernization, Automation, and Monitoring. Advances in copper tankhouse automation, J Bosscher & W Berends New cell house operation at CEZ, M J Agnew & G Monteit . Inco copper refinery addition agent monitoring using cyclic voltammetry, B R Conard et al. Morphology modifier monitoring by polarization measurement, R E Alford. Monitoring of organic additives in electrolyte at Cominco's lead/zinc operations, R C Kerby & W A Janko a. Authors index.


Heterosis over better parent for seed yield and its component traits were studied in 28 crosses derived from a diallel mating involving 8 diverse parents of lentil. For seed yield heterosis ranged from −1.73 to 48.35 (%). Twenty two crosses had positive and significant heterosis for seed yield, out of them 9 crosses viz., DPL 62 × K 75, PL 4 × K 75, B 18 × Lens 830, PL 4 × B 18, B 18 × K 75, PL 4 × DPL 62, DPL 62 × L9–12, DPL 62 × B 18 and K 75 × Lens 830 were the best hybrids having high heterosis for seed yield/plant, plant height and pods/plant. It was revealed that high heterosis was attributed due to luxuriant plant growth coupled with high frequency of pods seed. Considering heterosis, inbreeding depression, sca effect of cross and gca effect of parents involve in crosses indicated that grossly non additive gene action played major role for expression of high heterosis for seed yield.


OBJECTIVE To study the bacteriological features of chronic pharyngitis,and to evaluate the relationship between bacteriological feature and clinical symptom.METHODS A total of 198 patients with chronic pharyngitis were cultivated for bacterial culture and identification.RESULTS A total of 378 strains of bacteria were isolated from 198 cases,of which 53 cases carrled two kinds of bacteria,accounting for 26.8%,32 cases carried three kinds,accounting for 16.2%,and 21 cases with four kinds,accounting for 10.6%.From 378 strains,165 were isolated from chronic simple pharyngitis,accounting for 43.7%,124 from chronic hypertrophic pharyngitis,accounting for 32.8%,and 89 strains from chronic drysiccal pharyngitis,accounting for 23.5%.The three dominant bacterial species were Streptococcus pyogenes,accounting for 16.4%,Moraxella catarrhalis,accounting for 11.6%,and Haemophilus parainfluenzae,accounting for 9.5%.There were no relationship between bacteriological feature and clinical symptom.CONCLUSION Bacteria infection is not the main cause of chronic pharyngitis,but it has some relationship with chronic pharyngitis.So the rational drugs should be chosen according to the bacterial test.


Literacy Circles was a group literacy activity, which revolved around a particular book that we were reading. We had a list of activities, from which we could choose activities that we would like to complete to demonstrate our understanding of the book, and in this case, its historical context. We were assigned a different group role and had to complete one different activity each week, presenting our learning to the other members of our Literacy group.


Prosopagnosia is a visual perceptual disorder defined by the inability to recognize faces in the absence of impairments to lower-level vision or intellect. Prosopagnosia can be so severe that even close friends and family members will not be recognized. Indeed, the failure of recognition often extends to the patient's own face. One such example was related by a prosopagnosic man who said, ''I was at a conference and I saw this other person walking. I thought it was probably someone I knew and so I smiled at (him) and started to greet (him), only to realize then that it was my own face and I was looking at a mirrored wall'' (LH).


The "grafting from" technology to prepare the well-defined microphase-separated structure of polymer using atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) will be introduced in this presentation. Various amphiphilic comb copolymers were synthesized through this approach using poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF), poly (vinylidene fluoride-co-chlorotrifluoroethylene) (P(VDF-co-CTFE) and poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) as a macroinitiator. Hydrophilic side chains such as poly (styrene sulfonic acid) (PSSA) or poly (sulfopropyl methacrylate) (PSPMA) were grafted from the mains chains using direct initiation of the chlorine atoms. The structure of mass transport channels has been controlled and fixed by crosslinking the hydrophobic domains, which also provides the greater mechanical properties of membranes. Successful synthesis and microphase-separated structure of the polymer were confirmed by ¹H NMR, FT-IR spectroscopy and TEM. The grafted/crosslinked membranes exhibited good mechanical properties (400 MPa of Young's modulus) and high thermal stability (up to 300?C), as determined by a universal testing machine (UTM) and TGA, respectively.