At the present stage it is observed that the students from the educational institutions with pedagogical profile, although during the studies they accumulate a considerable stock of knowledge, nevertheless they encounter difficulties at the stage of their implementation in practical activities. They have great difficulty adapting to rapidly changing circumstances, especially in the field of professional activity, and also face difficulties in applying their knowledge to make decisions independently.


A PREVIOUSLY HEALTHY, 77-year-old man was admitted to the InstitutoNacionaldeNeurologı́ayNeurocirugı́a reporting4monthsofincreasingheadache.Hydrocephalusandvesicularcysticerci inthesubarachnoidspacewere diagnosed.Acerebrospinalfluidshunt wasplaced,andalbendazolepluscorticosteroidswereadministered.Thepatientdidnotattendfollow-upappointments andreturned2years laterwith hydrocephalusandsubarachnoidparasites.Anewcerebrospinal fluidshunt was placed and he received a second cycle of albendazole plus corticosteroids. Clinical improvement was observed;however,6months latermagnetic resonance imagingshowednew parasitesnowlocalizedintheventricular system (Figure, A). A third cycle of albendazole plus corticosteroids wasadministered.Magneticresonance imaging performed 6 months later showedpersistenceofventricularparasites(Figure,B).Neuroendoscopicsurgerywasplannedbutsincethepatient haddifficultiesgettingto thehospital, the surgery was performed 8 months later.Magneticresonanceimagingperformedjustbeforethesurgeryshowed an increase in theventricularparasite burden (Figure, C and D). More than 40 parasites were removed and a new cycle of albendazole plus corticosteroidswasthenadministered.Therewas no clinical improvement and the patient died 1 month later.


For distribution regression problem, where a bag of $x$--observations is mapped to a single $y$ value, a one--step solution is proposed. The problem of random distribution to random value is transformed to random vector to random value by taking distribution moments of $x$ observations in a bag as random vector. Then Radon--Nikodym or least squares theory can be applied, what give $y(x)$ estimator. The probability distribution of $y$ is also obtained, what requires solving generalized eigenvalues problem, matrix spectrum (not depending on $x$) give possible $y$ outcomes and depending on $x$ probabilities of outcomes can be obtained by projecting the distribution with fixed $x$ value (delta--function) to corresponding eigenvector. A library providing numerically stable polynomial basis for these calculations is available, what make the proposed approach practical.


This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction A Few ?>Tips and Tricks ?> Time and Frequency Domain Analysis of sEMG: What Are We Looking For? Application of sEMG to the Study of Exercise Strength and Power Training Muscle Damage Studied by Means of sEMG References


The characteristics of innovation activity of domestic small enterprises, their benefits are examined in the paper, the necessity of state support for innovative entrepreneurship is substantiated.


A multiple baseline across students design was used to investigate the relative effects of illustrations on the acquisition of words in isolation in two settings. Words were taught, using picture cues and no-picture cues, to four elementary school-aged learning disabled students. Results in three of four cases indicated that illustrations wererelated to lower reading performance rates, leading to a conclusion that illustrations interfere with the acquisition of new words in isolation by disabled readers. Results are discussed further in terms of their implications for instruction and research.


The World Health Organization and the European Union highlight human exposure to air pollution, especially particulate matter as a priority environmental problem. Nevertheless, there are several problems related to the modeling of particulate matter in space and time as well as the chemical characterization of the involved particles. Previously used models are not applicable in all situations or particulate matter concentrations are often not detailed enough in respect to time resolution. Usually applied chemical methods to describe particulate matter composition are destructive and no information on surface composition can be obtained. Therefore, the authors' main objective was the assessment of indoor and outdoor particle concentrations in southwestern Luxembourg applying state-of-the-art modeling approaches and measuring actual particulate matter concentrations with a high temporal resolution under various exposure scenarios. The spatial distribution of PM10 was modeled. Additional indoor particle measurements were carried out in a passenger car compartment and in an office building. Furthermore, chemical properties, assessed with a secondary ion mass spectrometer, show a complex mixture of elements on the surface of selected particles with distinct hot spots of potentially dangerous heavy metals.


All buildings which aim to reduce their impact on the environment could be called, at least, 'lower impact' but the term has come to mean those buildings using largely natural or organic materials. 'Low Impact Construction' serves to describe a body of work which takes in most of the more radical attempts to produce 'deep green' buildings with a quite different approach to construction and the creation of comfort. Chris Morgan explains...


More than 40 mill ion people worldwide are thought to be affected by Alzheimer ́s disease (AD). Of these, estimated less than 10% develop symptoms usually well before the age of 65, due to familial (hereditary) AD predisposition (Sierksma et al., 2020). AD is a multifactorial disorder, which includes a multitude of progressive degenerations in the brain parenchyma, but also in the vascular and hemostatic system. Currently, no drug is available or recognizable in the research pipeline for the effective treatment of this terrible disease. Therefore, the search for novel more effective drugs is an urgent task of pharmaceutical research. Already in the 1970s, clinical studies with small groups of senile dementia patients showed a positive effect of anticoagulant treatment on disease development (Grossmann, 2020). Particularly, results of basic research in the last 6 years on a contribution of cerebrovascular dysfunction to AD have brought back to light this idea. This perspective paper summarizes the role of toxic proteins of amyloid-beta (Aβ), thrombin and fibrin as key drivers in triggering vascular dysfunction and derived neurodegenerative changes, which leads to AD, and discuss how they can be treated with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs).


The problem of light scattering by small particles is commonly solved today by the extended boundary condition method (EBCM) that uses expansions of the fields in terms of wave functions. The method is known to have a limited range of applicability. We analytically study the method in the case when spheroidal functions are applied. We find the conditions under which such a version of the EBCM method is mathematically correct and can be used for calculations in the far-field zone.


Three common heat pipe flat-plate solar collectors are introduced in details from the configuration of the collector such as heat transfer efficiency, crafts, merits, and so on, including the flat plate solar collector of honeycomb and heat pipe(HHCHP), flat plate solar collector of vacuum glass-cover board and heat pipe(HVGHP) and a compound parabolic concentrator heat pipe type solar collector(CPC). Compared with common heat pipe flat-plate solar collectors, these three improved programs can reduce heat loss, and effectively improve efficiency of the collector. From the analysis of different heat pipe types, operating temperature, structure parameters, a phenomenon is discovered that whatever which type of heat pipe flat-plate solar collector is, as temperature goes up, the efficiency of the collectors drops and the length of evaporation is longer than the length of condensation.


49 50 Roadway maintenance equipment in cold climates is exposed to high amounts of chloride51 based deicers that are inherently corrosive. As such, various structural, hydraulic, and 52 electrical components on maintenance equipment are vulnerable to the deleterious effects of 53 chloride roadway deicers and their premature deterioration can negatively affect the 54 performance, reliability and service life of the equipment fleet. This work aims to shed more 55 light on this important asset management issue, by providing an overview of the relevant 56 corrosion mechanisms, corrosion-prone parts, and test methods. More importantly, this work 57 presents an overview of current approaches available to manage the risk of deicer corrosion 58 to equipment assets, including design considerations, materials selection, and maintenance 59 strategies. The information aims to enable equipment engineers and managers to gain a better 60 understanding of this technical issue and to make more informed decisions in corrosion risk 61 management. 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 TRB 2014 Annual Meeting Paper revised from original submittal.


At the end of any orthodontic treatment, retention is a necessary phase. Unfortunately, the current retention devices and the lack of proper oral hygiene on the part of patients lead to the accumulation of dental plaque, periodontal inflammation, and gingival retraction. Our retrospective study included 116 adult patients wearing various types of orthodontic retainers. To quantitatively determine the accumulation of dental plaque, we used the Quigley–Hein plaque index modified by Turesky and the Navy plaque index modified by Rustogi. Another studied parameter was related to the gingival recession associated with retention devices. We had investigated the correctness of patients' dental hygiene, their preferences for auxiliary means of oral hygiene, the consistency with which they wear the mobile retainers, and respect the orthodontist's instructions; we also investigated the inconveniences and the accidents that may occur during the retention period. Statistical analysis showed that plaque accumulation is significantly lower in the case of mobile retainer than fixed retainer wearers; the exception was the Hawley plate, where the interdental plaque was more than in all the other studied retainers. Periodontal recessions were more frequent in the case of fixed retainer wearing. Flossing was the most commonly used auxiliary mean for oral hygiene. The compliance of women in wearing vacuum-formed retainers was better than that of men. Patients with a class III history had more plaque accumulation, and class II/1 had the most problems related to detachment/damage of fixed retainers. Mobile retainers proved better results for oral hygiene, but fixed retainers cannot be waved.


Mace (M. fragrans) and the seed fat of wild jack fruit (A. hirsutus) contained 21.6 and 24.4% total lipids, resp., (CHCl3-MeOH 2:1). Corresponding CHCl3-sol. lipids (consisting of 83 and 88%, resp., of total lipids) consisted of neutral lipids 60 and 63, glycolipids 27 and 21, and phospholipids 13 and 16%, resp. Neutral lipids were mostly glycerides, free fatty acids, and hydrocarbons, with free sterols constituting 1.7 and 1.3% and sterol esters 0.9 and 5.6% in M. fragrans and A. hirsutus, resp. Palmitic acid [57-10-3] was predominant, followed by oleic acid [112-80-1] in all classes of mace lipids, and linoleic acid [60-33-3] was more followed by palmitic in A. hirsutus seed lipids. [on SciFinder(R)]


May 2023 166 F Tolkien enthusiasts, the year 2022 was one of great significance. The culmination of years spent digitizing and arranging Marquette University's collection of print manuscripts of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and the development of a digital portal to organize the metadata around the digital artifacts, occurred in perfect timing with an exhibition of manuscripts of Tolkien's work that was greatly enjoyed by scholars and visitors from around the world.


In order to study the genes expression level of active chemical components in Rumex japonicus Houtt. by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR,total RNA with reagent for polysaccharide and polyphenol plant samples was extracted,and partial c DNA sequence of GAPDH gene was amplified through reverse transcription PCR. And then a reliability analysis of this sequence as house keeping gene was done by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR. The results showed that the acquired sequence was 564 bp long and encoded 188 amino acids. The deduced amino acids sequence of GAPDH gene in Rumex japonicus Houtt. was 92%,90% and 89% homologous to that in Polygonum sibiricum,Arabidopsis thaliana and Triticum aestivum,respectively. Melting curve and amplification curve showed that the acquired sequence was suitable as house keeping gene in real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR. This acquired sequence provided a good background on analyzing expression level of genes in Rumex japonicus Houtt. by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR.


Lacrimal apparatus of laboratory rodents and, in particular, rats has been comparatively well studied. The history of its research was presented in works by Levental and Kulchitskyi (1894, 1911.). The structure of human's lacrimal glands has being studied and completed. Much attention was paid to the drainage of tears from the lacrimal sac to nasolacrimal canal in the humans and rats, age-related changes of secretory epithelium in lacrimal glands of rats, detailed study of the major lacrimal glands in humans (palpebral and orbital lobes). Otherwise, tear-producing and tear-secreting parts of human lacrimal apparatus are understudied organ microcomplexes. This research paper descrides the morphological and functional peculiarities of tear secretion ducts under normal functioning of lacrimal glands.Rats have two paired lacrimal glands. One of glands, smaller in size, is intraorbital (infraorbital) and another, larger, is exoorbital one. Exoorbital gland is larger than intraorbital one. Ducts of these glands join before opening through common duct into conjunctival sac in the external corner of the eye. Both lacrimal glands of rats originate from common embryonic germ and perform the same function and thus, are of the similar histological structure. Moreover, they demonstrate similar spectrum of age-related changes in the morphology. Orbits of rats whithin their boundaries form one more glandular formation, Harderian glands. They release the secretion, rich in lipids and porphyrines. Some scientists report that there no glands like those in humans, but others support the idea that they are in their germinal state. Changes in rats' lacrimal glands and in Harderian glands can serve as models for simulating diseases of human lacrimal apparatus. This modeling requires in-depth study of spatial organization of the system of excretory ducts and their terminal excretory ducts in syntopic unity with hemomicrocirculatory bed of lacrimal glands in lab rats and humans. It is also important to carry out comparative morphological and stereomorphological analysis of data received, and to describe the peculiarities of the structure of lacrimal glands in lab rats and person.


Purpose OnabotulinumtoxinA (BoNT-A) is a promising therapy for treating neurogenic detrusor overactivity (NDO) in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to carry out an in-depth review and to make an objective estimation of the efficacy and safety of BoNT-A on NDO after SCI. Methods The PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane databases were searched for all relevant articles published from 2001 to 2016 that referred to NDO, SCI, and BoNT-A or botulinum toxin A. All data were recorded in an Excel spreadsheet by 2 individual reviewers. Review Manager version 5.3 was used to carry out the meta-analysis. Results This analysis included 17 studies involving 1,455 patients. Compared with placebo and baseline, BoNT-A was effective in increasing maximum cystometric capacity, volume at first involuntary detrusor contraction, cystometric bladder capacity (all P<0.00001), compliance (P=0.001), and the number of patients with complete dryness (P=0.0003), and decreasing detrusor pressure, the number of patients with no involuntary detrusor contractions, the maximum flow rate, the incidence of detrusor overactivity (all P<0.00001), and the number of urinary incontinence episodes (P=0.001). There were no statistically significant differences between doses of 200 U and 300 U or between injections into the detrusor and submucosa. There were no life-threatening adverse events. Conclusions BoNT-A is effective and safe in treating NDO after SCI. There were no statistically significant differences between doses of 200 U and 300 U or between injecting into the detrusor and submucosa. However, more high-quality randomized controlled trials are still needed.


Elastic-plastic analysis was carried out for a Mode I interlamellar crack embedded in unidirectionally-fiber-reinforced composites by means of the finite element method. The stress distribution in the vicinity of a crack tip was calculated for various crack lengths and various combinations of elastic constants for fiber and matrix. When both fiber and matrix are elastic, the stress intensified region ahead of the crack tip was divided into three regions. In the region nearest the crack tip (Region I), the distribution of stress, σy, which is the normal stress perpendicular to the crack plane, was given by the stress intensity factor, Kcom. Kcom is obtained assuming that the composite is actually composed of two parts which have different elastic constants. On the other hand, the stress distribution in the farthermost part in the stress intensified region was given by the stress intensity factor, Khomo (Region III). Khomo is obtained regarding the composite as homogeneously orthotropic. Between these regions, the stress distribution was undulated (Region II). As Kcom and Khomo can be evaluated analytically using elastic constants of fiber and matrix and Region II always appears at a distance from the crack tip equal to the thickness of matrix, the stress distribution can be predicted without carrying out numerical analyses such as a finite element analysis. When the matrix is assumed to be elastic-perfectly plastic, the length of yield region and the stress outside the yield region can be estimated from the yield stress of the matrix and the stress distribution predicted for the case where the matrix does not yield.


This being my address on the occasion of receiving the award of the Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal for the year 2000 for myself and other notable physicians and scientists who have been invited from many parts of the world, it is appropriate that I begin with a brief paragraph on who Dr. Albert Schweitzer was and to mention some of his many humanitarian contributions. Albert Schweitzer rightly has been named: "The Greatest Christian and Humanitarian of his time". His personal philosophy was based on "Reverence for Life" and on deep commitment to serve humanity through thought and action. Dr. Schweitzer devoted his early life to science, music and theology, but at the age of 30 he decided to take up Medicine at the University of Strasbourg and soon became a medical missionary. He established a charitable hospital at Lambar'ene, in French Equitorial Africa, where he spent the rest of his life serving thousands of African patients as a physician, a surgeon, a writer and as an administrator. For his exceptional work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1952 and The Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth I1 in 1955. The


This study tested the theories of self-efficacy and cognitive-stage that compare gender and degree of mathematics acceleration to mathematics self-efficacy for math students. The participants for this study were 158 Algebra 2 and Precalculus students enrolled at three different private, metropolitan, secondary schools in the same northwestern state during the 2018-2019 school year. A causal-comparative group comparison design was utilized to determine mathematics self-efficacy differences among math students in relation to gender and degree of mathematics acceleration. Student mathematics self-efficacy scores from the Mathematics SelfEfficacy Scale (MSES) were analyzed using a two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to compare means and possible interaction between the two independent variables. No statistical significance was found between gender and mathematics self-efficacy or between degree of mathematics acceleration and mathematics self-efficacy.


A two‐dimensional, macroscopic, stationary, finite element model is presented for both laser remelting and laser cladding of material surfaces. It considers, in addition to the heat transfer, the important fluid motion in the melt pool and the deformation of the liquid—gas interface. The velocity field in the melt is driven by thermocapillary forces for laser remelting, but also by forces due to powder injection for laser cladding. For a given velocity field within the liquid region, the stationary enthalpy (or Stefan) equation is solved. An efficient scheme allows the LU decomposition of the finite element matrix to be performed only once at the first iteration. Then, the velocity is updated using the Q1—P0 element with penalty methods for treating both the incompressibility condition and the slip boundary conditions. Numerical results for three different processing speeds for both laser remelting and laser cladding demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of the numerical approach. The influence of the...


Advertisements are structured around a story of how product meets consumer. Since internet advertising is interactive it is a more effective story structure between a dispatcher and recipient. The samples of internet advertisements which do not follow the usual advertising method by applying interactive storytelling are classified into 4 different types. This analysis provides new meaning and value since it analyzes advertisement expressions in terms of digital contents of advertisement examples. Stories with an obvious ending are appropriate for products or services that users have a lot of interest in. As there is high interest in the product or service itself, the story should not be indirect or take a detour but be unfolded to show the inevitable ending. On the other hand, stories of coincidence are apt for products or services that users are not that interested in, because a link is needed to stir the interest of users. For the story to not look forced, the story would utilize a channel that seems to have been accidentally accessed to. Furthermore, time-oriented storytelling is fit for on-line game websites, whereas spaceoriented storytelling would be efficient to lure users to particular homepages via Internet banner advertisements. Based on this study, I hope a more efficient interactive storytelling is developed to suit the objective of individual advertisements.


A computer system for a motor vehicle includes: - a graphics server partition (18), - a video client partition (19), - a hypervisor (4) which separates the graphics server partition (18) of the graphics client partition (19), - a display device (15), wherein - having the graphics server partition (18): a display master (12) and a virtual display server (1), wherein - the virtual display server (1) is adapted to provide at least one virtual display device, - the graphics client partition (19) having a virtual display client (6) which is adapted to provide an indication of the virtual display device, - the master display (12) is adapted to an actual display of the virtual display device on the at least one display device (15) to be controlled.


In the context of Epidaurus, she argues, dominant cultural discourses and exclusive policies promoting a traditional approach to the performance of Greek texts come face-to-face with modern theater practices, audiences composed of audibly responsive Greeks as well as tourists, and - in recent decades - productions of Greek drama by non-Greek theater companies. Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora (2007) builds on earlier works such as Kevin J. Wetmore's The Athenian Sun in an African Sky (2002) and Black Dionysus (2003). n Particularly pertinent to the issues raised by several essays in this special issue is the important recent collection Classics and National Cultures (2010); furthermore, current work on the modern reception of ancient Greek historians for example, the forthcoming collection Thucydides and the Modern World.


The Battle of Kokusenya is the best work of the Japanese dramatist Chikamatsumon Zaemon.Some researchers think that the argument is the consciousness of invading China.This dissertation traces the creation process and the writing basis,compares the different creation purposes of popular art,literature and historical works,then analyzes the stage setting and public opinion at that time.Finally,the author concludes that the argument of The Battle of Kokusenya is not only the consciousness of invading China,but also has the implications of "resuming China" and "Chinese identity".


Effect of hydrophilic chain length of a series of homogeneous dodecyl poly (oxyethylene) ethers [nED, n means the number of poly (oxyethylene) chain length] and the blending of two sorts of the corresponding nonions upon emulsion stability was studied by applying "multiple-drop" method. The half-life time of dodecane drops stabilized by nED increased steeply above the apparent cmc of nED and increased with increasing poly (oxyethylene) chain length. The droplets were most stable in the case of 8ED+5ED mixture with a mixed ratio corresponding to the optimum average poly (oxyethylene) chain length (about 7.5) for two kinds of nonions with different poly (oxyethylene) chain length. The results are supported by those of the rate constant of coalescence.


A new phenomenon referred to as transient smartphone blindness (TSB) has emerged. This refers to temporary monocular vision loss associated with smartphone usage while lying down in the dark.1 Digital-related eye strain affects people of all ages. We present a case of a perplex rarity recurrent transient, monocular visual impairment. It is caused by differential bleaching of the retinal pigment. Making the smartphone use sensibly is the only solution.


Emmeline Jean Hanson died suddenly and prematurely on 10 August 1973 at the height of her career. She was known throughout the world for her own contributions to muscle research, for the warmth and generosity of her personality; and for her outstanding encouragement and help to younger colleagues. It is perhaps some small measure of her character that she was affectionately known as 'Jean' to all her colleagues, even the most junior members of the laboratory.


The inferior thermoplastic properties have limited production of melt-spun fibers from lignin. Here we report on the controlled esterification of softwood kraft lignin (SKL) to enable scalable, solvent-free melt spinning...


We present an approach to in-air design drawing based on the two-stage approach common in 2D design drawing practice. The primary challenge to 3D drawing in-air is the accuracy of users' strokes. Beautifying or auto-correcting an arbitrary drawing in 2D or 3D is challenging due to ambiguities stemming from many possible interpretations of a stroke. A similar challenge appears when drawing freehand on paper in the real world. 2D design drawing practice (as taught in industrial design school) addresses this by decomposing the process of creating realistic 2D projections of 3D shapes. Designers first create scaffold or construction lines. When drawing shape or structure curves, designers are guided by the scaffolds. Our key insight is that accurate industrial design drawing in 3D becomes tractable when decomposed into auto-correcting scaffold strokes, which have simple relationships with one another, followed by auto-correcting shape strokes with respect to the scaffold strokes. We demonstrate our approach's effectiveness with an expert study involving industrial designers.


The study is the assessment on socio-economic empowerment policies and social resilience in the level of the families targetted. By the use descriptive-evaluative approach, this study intends to identify the fulfillment level of minimum basic needs in every family as well as to gain a model to empower the family's social resilience. A family structure is the smallest unit in social system with various functions such as: reproduction, affection, security, education, religious, socio-culture, environmental development, economy, recreation and social control. Somehow, in some poor families, those functions can't be run optimally. They lack capability of fulfilling their basic needs consisting of physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs. The worse condition has been experienced by the poorest families. Due to their less income, they can't fulfill their very basic needs, such as: food, clothes and shelter. To enhance their ability, they should be empowered. As an entry point, they should be empowered in terms of social and economy. By social and economic enhancement, they are assured to gain better welfare level so that they are capable to optimizing their family fuctions. By normal social functions of each family, it is possible for them to gain national resilience.


Powder lubrication has been studied using a plane contact tribometer. Four kinds of powders—polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), graphite, MoS2, and ball-like copper—were used during the experiments. The results show that powder can be introduced into frictional clearance without any special treatment. The powder's physical properties significantly influence the tribological characteristics in the powder lubrication. The friction coefficient and wear are obviously decreased when the powders are PTFE, graphite, and MoS2, which are excellent solid lubricants. At lower load capacity, powder lubrication using ball-like copper had certain antifriction effects, but it rapidly became worse with increasing load capacity. Observation with optical microscopy showed that the lubricant film is dynamically formed on the rubbing surfaces in most experiments.


A new spectrum sensing mechanism based on flexible sensing period(FSP) is proposed to control the cost of the sensing in the medium access control(MAC) layer of cognitive radio networks.The cognitive radio(CR) users can make a balance between the unexpected time and the sensing count by utilizing the statistic information of licence users and a "period control factor",that will reduce the cost of sensing.Simulation results show that FSP can give a better performance than the typical fixed sensing period mechanism.


In this project a transient, fully three-dimensional computer simulation code was developed to simulate the effects of realistic g-jitter on a number of combustion systems. The simulation code is capable of simulating flame spread on a solid and nonpremixed or premixed gaseous combustion in nonturbulent flow with simple combustion models. Simple combustion models were used to preserve computational efficiency since this is meant to be an engineering code. Also, the use of sophisticated turbulence models was not pursued (a simple Smagorinsky type model can be implemented if deemed appropriate) because if flow velocities are large enough for turbulence to develop in a reduced gravity combustion scenario it is unlikely that g-jitter disturbances (in NASA's reduced gravity facilities) will play an important role in the flame dynamics. Acceleration disturbances of realistic orientation, magnitude, and time dependence can be easily included in the simulation. The simulation algorithm was based on techniques used in an existing large eddy simulation code which has successfully simulated fire dynamics in complex domains. A series of simulations with measured and predicted acceleration disturbances on the International Space Station (ISS) are presented. The results of this series of simulations suggested a passive isolation system and appropriate scheduling of crew activity would provide a sufficiently "quiet" acceleration environment for spherical diffusion flames.


(57) Abstract: The present invention relates to an axial hub coupling structure particularly fixed gears (4, 6, 8) on the transmission shaft (2). Gear (4,6,8) is Shobamerare on the shaft (2), by being coupled with an auxiliary meshing joints (18,20,22), are protected from the minute displacement on the axis. In particular pin-shaped engagement joint is advantageous. Recesses for the pin-shaped coupling elements (18, 20, 22) (50, 52) is processed by the particular hard drilling through hard ground to the case of the previously hardened structural components (2, 4, 6, 8) that.


This is the story of the Australian destroyer HMAS Vampire from the start of the war in the Pacific until she was sunk by Japanese aircraft off Ceylon on 10 April 1942.


There are five roads in the map of evolution of China's democratic governance since the Reform,i.e.from monistic governance towards pluralist governance;from centralization towards decentralization;from the rule of man towards the rule of law;from regulatory government towards service government;and from the Party democracy towards social democracy.China's governance reform will continue to focus on ecological balance,social justice,public service,social harmony,governmental cleanness,governmental innovations,intra-party democracy and grassroots democracy.The evolution of China's democratic governance will eventually rest on social and economic development,the logic of political development,formation of a new political culture and the impulse of globalization as well.With the consistent efforts in the last three decades,a unique governance model is under formation in China,which will march towards democracy,rule of law,justice,accountability,transparency,cleanness,efficiency and harmony.


Smartphone OS, such as Android, enables us to install third party applications. However, security threats of malicious applications are rapidly increasing due to the nature of the third party applications where only developers can assign required permissions. For this reason, attackers can inject exploits into a normal application with inappropriately acquired permissions. In this paper, we propose a method to distinguish an application by analyzing permissions set and enhanced user interfaces to improve the chance of making right decisions. The proposed methods are intended for users to make better decisions with more information provided by the system.


In the crystal, a combination of N—H⋯O and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds links the molecules of the title compounds into a chain of rings.


The chemical nature of Pt/α-Al2O3 catalysts has been studied using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) during catalyst preparation and after being exposed to different feed compositions during autothermal oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane. In addition, the axial variation in surface chemistry has been probed by studying the front and back sides of the catalyst. Significant surface changes were observed following the addition and removal of chlorine to the feed. Chlorine addition led to large carbon deposits throughout the catalyst, and a significant surface concentration of chlorine on the catalyst surface. Chlorine addition also changed the oxidation state of platinum, leading to more oxidized platinum at the front of the monolith and more reduced platinum at the back of the monolith. Subsequent removal of chlorine led to the disappearance of chlorine from the XPS spectrum and to the removal of a significant amount of carbon from the front and back of the catalytic monolith.


Abstract : This report discusses a technique for studying pressure fluctuations at the ocean bottom and relating this information to surface wave motion. The study will be adapted to cover the wave spectrum from wind waves to long waves with periods in the kilosecond range. Tidal effects, however, will not be included in the study. A treatment of the instrumentation for sensing and recording the bottom pressure fluctuations is given. The sensing element or pressure head is the solion infrasonic pressure hydrophone. The spectral analysis techniques which utilize statistical methods and sampled data procedures is described. The analysis of both single and multiple (simultaneously recorded) data records is discussed. A resume of the study or program, including a discussion of the presentation of the various measured wave parameters is presented. The use of bottom pressure data to determine the relation between the pressure fluctuations at the surface and bottom of the ocean is discussed. A detailed description of the use and calibration of the entire bottom pressure measuring system and a glossary of some of the more common terms used in spectral analysis are also given.


To investigate genotypes of HBV and the viral population in vivo in young women,we collected serum samples from 24 cases HBV carriers of 19~35 years old young women with both HBsAg and HBeAg positive.Twenty-four samples were tested 14 genotype B,9 genotype C and one B/C genotypes co-infection.Nucleic acid extracts from 14 serum samples were used to amplify HBV large S protein genes through specific PCR.The amplification products were cloned and ten positive clones of each sample were selected for sequencing.The results confirmed that the 14 samples' genotype were same.The case of B/C genotypes co-infection was a patient accepted adefovir anti-virus therapy for 35 weeks.Four of the ten sequences were of genotype B with DA 2.8.The other six sequences were of genotype C with DA 0.6.There were three serotypes among the ten sequences through "α"determinant analysis.Population analysis suggested that the main genotypes of HBV infected young women in this region were B and C.HBV in vivo might distribute in a complex mode constructed with genotypes as well as quasispecies.


A clamping mechanism according to the present invention comprises a clamping plate and a movable plate for opening or closing a mold while relatively moving with respect to the fixed plate, wherein the movable plate is moved by hydraulic pressure to open or close the mold. And a mold cylinder for providing an additional pressing force by hydraulic pressure to the mold closed by the mold opening / closing cylinder, and a half nut opening and closing device for fixing the position of the mold cylinder.


Yanti Y, Warnita, Reflin, Nasution CR. 2018. Characterizations of endophytic Bacillus strains from tomato roots as growth promoter and biocontrol of Ralstonia solanacearum. Biodiversitas 19: 906-911. Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is the most damaging vascular pathogens in tomato and many other crops in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate areas of the world limiting its production. Biological agents such as Plant growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) is considered as a potential biological control agent for the suppression of plant diseases such as bacterial wilt. Bacillus spp. are one of the most potential genera of PGPR group used for controlling pathogens and promoting plant growth because of their spore-forming ability which increases their adaptation to the environment. The aims of the research were to isolate Endophytic Bacillus isolates, to characterize its ability as plant growth promoter and pathogen controller, and to identify its molecular genetic using 16S rRNA. Bacillus strains were isolated from healthy tomato roots. All Bacillus spp. strains acquired from isolation were then screened directly on plants in completely randomized design experiments with 3 replications. All potential strains were screened and identified using 16S rRNA with 27F and 1492R primers. Results showed that out of 15 obtained isolates, 6 of them showed a good ability to both promote growth and control R. solanacearum. All isolates were identified as B. Pseudomycoides strain NBRC 101232, B. cereus strain CCM 2010, B. toyonensis strain BCT-7112, B. anthracis strain ATCC 14578, B. cereus strain JCM 2152 and B. cereus ATCC 14579.


Nymphoides indica (Menyanthaceae) is a distylous, aquatic perennial of pantropical distribution. Controlled field pollinations in a Lower Amazon rice field population demonstrated the presence of a strong self- and intramorph-incompatibility system in the 20 individuals tested. The average seed fertility of short-styled individuals was significantly greater than long-styled individuals, although significant variation among individuals within morphs was also evident. Fertility data obtained from experimental crosses are utilized for developing a new method for the estimation of gender in plants. The potential for gender specialization in N. indica populations and its significance to the evolution of dioecy from distyly in the genus Nymphoides is discussed.


Agent system design is a complex task challenging designers to simulate intelligent collaborative behavior. Roles can reduce the complexity of agent system design by categorizing the roles played by agents. The role concepts can also be used in agent systems to describe the collaboration among cooperative agents. In this chapter, we introduce roles as a means to support interaction and collaboration among agents in multi-agent systems. We review the application of roles in current agent systems at first, then describe the fundamental principles of role-based collaboration and propose the basic methodologies of how to apply roles into agent systems (i.e., the revised E-CARGO model). After that, we demonstrate a case study: a soccer robot team designed with role specifications. Finally, we present the potentiality to apply roles into information personalization.


IN THIS monograph I am presenting in a condensed and fairly systematic form the results of my efforts toward an analysis and understanding of the role of false social perception in human relations, which efforts have extended over two decades. Th-e manuscript was originally prepared for Karl Mannheim's "International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction." Unfortunately, Mannheim's premature death brought the plan to a sudden halt. I wish to express my sincere gratitude to all members of the editorial board of the American Journal of Sociology for having offered hospitality to this my sociopsychological mystery story about human relations and particularly to Professors Herbert Blumer and Everett C. Hughes for the many manifestations of their sympathetic understanding of my efforts. I am indebted also to Professor Gordon W. Allport, Department of Social Relations, Harvard University, who read the manuscript at an earlier date and provided me with some very helpful comments and suggestions. I was happy enough to find in Margaret Pahlman-Sering, formerly of the Department of Sociology, the State University of Iowa, an ideal helper in editing the manuscript. She not only performed the job of smoothing out my style but also inserted some additional illustrations of her own into the text, making my abstract meaning more understandable. That not she but I myself appear on the title-page as author of this study confirms my basic thesis that there is always some discrepancy between reality and appearance in human affairs. Finally, my thanks to Helen MacGill Hughes for her helpful advice in putting the finishing touches to the manuscript.


Objective:To evaluate the effects and significance of lipoprotein(a) on the development of coronary arterial disease,cerebral infarction.Methods:detect ion and analysis of the plasma lipid markers of the collected serums were performed with the HITACHI 7600-020 automatic biochemistry analyzer.Results:The result of the plasma lipid markers,Lp(a) etc,by t-test was significant.and this would predict the risk of coronary arterial disease(CAD),cerebral infarction(CI).Conclusion:It is better than the others in terms of prediction of CAD,CI.Lp(a) marker should be preferable adopted in clinical test.


The structural model is basically dependent upon 'Immediate Constituent Analysis' (I.C.). The goal of I.C. analysis is to analyse each utterance and each constituent into maximally independent sequences. This paper aims to develop word formation devices which could be suitable for structural model of Hindi. After the perusal of the paper, it should be obvious that though linguistic structures generally tend to be binary, but at times, at a particular layer more than two constituents could be found. Therefore, to describe and analyse all the derivatives of Hindi the introduction of multiple ICs should be contemplated, envisaged and worked upon.


Small medium developed nations cannot easily select a strategy for economic growth under conditions of international functional integration. Their economic decision making cannot be isolated and independent. Their dimensions of comparative advantage are changed. They become not only price takers but rule takers. If the country is a debtor country, as it is Croatia she must formulate a strategy of economic growth as much in keeping as possible with the rules of the game dictated either by firms or by economic integration country is heading to. Quite cetanly in the transition period leading to full globalization of the world economy it is the economies of the large countries which are the price setters and the rule makers. Contemporary world economic crisis has raised the issue of interdependenc between a national economy and a globalization process. The crisis and its solution support the wiev that the economies of big countries try to preserve interese of their own big businesses. They will follow the suit for some time to come until global capitalism becomes mega capitalism dominated by mega firms and mega banks.


This is the second in a series of two tutorial sessions featuring letures from the 1975-76 SIGSAM Lecture Program. Prof. Lipson's tutorial will discuss the Cooley-Tukey fast Fourier transform, and algorithm which has truly revolutionized large scale time series analysis. Prof. Horowitz presents a taxonomy of algorithms with examples of algorithms in each category.


We formulate face alignment as a model-based parameter estimation problem in this paper. First, we work within a framework that combines two separate subspace models to represent frontal face patterns and pose change independently. The combined unified nonlinear model represents varying pose faces with a complex manifold. Then, we use a feature based similarity measure (FBSM) to evaluate image differences in terms of pose, and match unknown pose faces with the model image using a combined feature-feature similarity measure (FTSM). Noticeable properties of the combined FTSM include (1) its sensitivity to spatial differences between feature points in two images, which is crucial to aligning two initially faraway poses; (2) easy determination of hill-climb directions in parameter space, without computing gradients of error functions. Experimental results demonstrate that, in the absence of significant clutter, a face alignment algorithm using the combined FTSM, can reliably align varying pose faces under different lighting conditions, even when initial poses are far off.


Introduction. The close interrelation between cancer and thromboses is well proven on today. However usual screening tests are not sensitive to hypercoagulation that limits their use to predict tromboembolic complications.
Aim: to study coagulative hemostasis in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) using screening and integral tests in order for their comparison.
Materials and methods. We examined 75 patients with first-identified B-cell NHL (40 with aggressive and 35 with indolent lymphomas). Blood coagulation was examined before specific antitumor therapy and after 4–6 courses of polyсhemotherapy using coagulogram and «Тhrombodynamics» test.
Results. In the diagnosis of disease the significant increasing of initial clot growth rate (Vi), stationary clot growth rate (Vs) and clot size (Cs) were determined. At early stages of disease 26 patients had increased Vs and Cs. 49 patients with generalized stages of NHL had increased Vi, Vs, Cs, prothrombin time by Quick (PT), thrombin time, level of soluble fibrin-monomer com- plexes, shortening of activated partial thrombin time (APTT); in 27 of them (55%) growth of spontaneous clot away from the ac- tivator was observed. Analysis of procoagulant activity in patients with generalized stages of disease revealed a significant in- creasing of Cs, PT and shortening of APTT. In 34 (45%) NHL-patients with remission the tendency to hypercoagulation remained.
Conclusion. The results obtained indicate a high sensitivity of «Тhrombodynamics» test to procoagulant conditions in pa- tients with NHL.

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New Zealand has a thriving computing industry but further growth is hampered by a skills shortage. A lack of women in the industry exacerbates this problem. Women are under-represented in the industry, and those who do take up computing careers experience conditions of discrimination and marginalisation. This paper reports on a qualitative study of the strategies used by women to cope with their marginalisation. Using multi-sited ethnographic methodology, data were collected using semi-structured interviews with twenty-nine computing professionals. Despite some women denying any marginalisation, all were found to employ some form of coping strategy. Seven different strategies were identified. The women interviewed were more inclined to join organisations directly relating to their roles rather than support initiatives which might improve conditions for women.


NUMEROUS former military personnel of World War II (actual figures not available) have served in the southwestern desert area of this country, where coccidioidomycosis is endemic. The presence of these troops in large numbers has stimulated study of the disease. It is now known that about 80 per cent of the long time residents of the endemic area are infected and that about 25 per cent of the military personnel with several months' residence in the endemic area became infected.1From 20 to 25 per cent of infections are clinically recognizable.2 It is not the purpose of this paper to present a detailed discussion of such factors as the etiologic agent (the fungus Coccidioides immitis) and its life cycle, the pathogenesis or racial differences in incidence. These and other fundamental data have already been described amply in the literature. The primary purpose is to present data on a


We construct a non-trivial homomorphism from the Guay's affine Yangian to the universal enveloping algebra of non-rectangular W -algebras of type A . In order to construct the homomorphism, we extend the Guay's affine Yangian and its coproduct.


A new carbon fiber implant that helps reconstruct severely torn ligaments and tendons has been developed by a trio of scientists at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey -orthopedic surgeon Andrew Weiss, mechanical engineer Harold Alexander and materials engineer John Parsons. Over the past 15 months the Newark researchers have used the implant to reconstitute torn ligaments and tendons in 50 patients. It has helped them all. A ligament connects one bone to another. A tendon links muscle to bone. In many instances a torn ligament or tendon can be surgically repaired by simply sewing the torn ends back together. But in many other cases the cleavage is so severe that there isn't enough ligament or tendon left to sew back together. And while researchers have been trying to come up with a suitable prosthesis for severely torn ligaments or tendons, they haven't been very successful. So Weiss and his colleagues thought that they might be able to design a product that would allow Mother Nature to be the ultimate engineer in ligament and tendon reconstruction -something that could be sewn in and around a ripped ligament or tendon to connect and reinforce it and to provide a lattice for scar-like connective tissue. The connective tissue would grow into the rift between the ligament or tendon, resulting in a reconstructed ligament or tendon almost identical to the original. They attempted to find materials that would be suitable for such an implant. They knew from other researchers' efforts that carbon fibers are compatible with the human body. They also knew that other researchers had used carbon fibers in humans with limited success. However, they were also aware from past discoveries that carbon fibers are brittle and tough for a surgeon to handle. The aerospace industry had been combining carbon fibers with other materials for a number of years and had shown that such composites retain the strength of carbon fiber, yet are far more flexible than the fiber. They concluded that the supporting lattice for torn ligaments and tendons should be made of carbon fibers combined with some other material that would make it pliable. Their implant, Weiss points out, is "one of the first significant applications of aerospace composite material technology to orthopedic surgery." The material they decided to combine carbon fibers with, or actually to coat them with, was polylactic acid -a plastic composed of long chains of lactic acid. Polylactic acid does not just give carbon fibers a pliable ribbonlike structure that orthopedic surgeons can attach to needles and sew into torn ligaments and tendons, but since lactic acid is a natural metabolic byproduct of the human body it is also broken down by the body and eventually eliminated from it. The carbon fibers, they reasoned, would then be left as a scaffold for the healing ligaments and tendons. They tested their polylactic acid-coated carbon fiber implant in animals. As they hoped, the innovative coating significantly improved carbon fibers' handling ability during implantation. The polylactic acid coating biodegraded after two weeks in the body, leaving carbon to form a support mesh for the torn ligament or tendon. At the same time, connective tissue grew around the carbon fibers. Nine months to a year later the connective tissue had filled in the gap in the ligament or tendon, and the connective tissue-reconstructed ligament or tendon was almost identical to the original. But most crucial, the reconstructed ligament or tendon greatly improved joint stability and function over what it had been before reconstitution. With the permission of the Food and Drug Administration, they tried the implant on 50 patients with ligament or tendon tears in their knees or ankles that were so drastic that nothing else had helped. Some of the patients have been followed up to 15 months now. All of them have experienced improvement, some even dramatic improvement, in joint strength and/or motion as measured by physical therapy machines and orthopedic evaluation. Meanwhile, the FDA has given the okay for the implant to be tested in a multicenter clinical trial. This trial has now been underway for 11 months, and some 100 patients so far have gotten the implant. Preliminary results look good, orthopedic surgeons participating in the trial agree. For instance, Michael Dillingham, clinical assistant professor of surgery at Stanford University Medical School in Palo Alto, Calif., has used the implant to rebuild knee ligaments in 20 patients and to restore an achilles tendon in one patient. Some of the implant's applications are very encouraging, he attests. Marvin Meyers, an orthopedic surgeon with the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas, has used the implant to re-establish badly torn knee ligaments in three patients. "My preliminary feeling," he says, is that "it is a good technique." Says Roy Rusch, a Portland, Ore., orthopedic surgeon who has tried the implant: "For many years we have struggled to repair torn ligaments in athletes and other individuals who rely on their ligaments for high-performance activities. [It now looks as if] we can induce the body to reconstruct a ligament that approximates the strength of the original." Pending FDA marketing approval, the implant should be ready for general clinical use by late 1983. It could help at least 100,000 Americans annually, Weiss and co-workers estimate. O A human ligament reconstructed along carbon fibers (the cylindrical objects). Magnified at left 700 times and at right 3,500 times.


In this article geometry and its possibility to become a narration, referring to the concept of "the language of geometry" is presented. The changes that have been made in the application of geometry dependent on the early 20 th century, through the 2 nd half of the 20 th century to the present are indicat  ed. The field of research was the author's own way of using geometric motifs in art, to their relationship with universal values and the current social situation. Pointed out is the fact that geometry is not just a set of formal signs, but active linguistic communication possessing the ability to build a narrative. The experience of changes in the abstract art were compared to the work of Tadeusz Różewicz, who in postmodern reality constructed a new literary form.


The article deals with the problems of studying the behavior of consumers in the market. The main factors influencing consumer behavior in retail trade, taking into account the analysis of basic needs. Also highlights some consumer groups and study their characteristics.


A comparison of Kentucky's energy consumption with estimated requirements indicates a continued surplus. In 1972 Kentucky ranked 15th in gross per capita Btu consumption and 27th in net. Increased use of coal to generate electricity results in larger losses of energy during conversion from primary to secondary form, increasing the difference between net and gross consumption. Total growth in energy production increased faster than total gross consumption, thereby releasing a net l,745 trillion Btu's (largely coal) for export. Analyses of principal industrial users of energy and estimates of future needs based on different growth rates and income levels show that supply will continue to exceed demand unless the natural gas supply declines. With utility expansion, the supply gap will increase. Results of a questionnaire to various industries reveal that 40% feel energy shortages (especially fuel oil) restricted expansion plans, and most fuel energy sources, except possibly natural gas, are not switchable. These industries are the ones most heavily involved in programs to lower their consumption. (DCK)


Metonic Cycle is Energy sent from Uranus to the moon Pluto also effects on Metonic Cycle and that explains his data convenience with Earth and Moon Data


Scientists simulate thermal, energetic components of Jovian magnetospheric plasma irradiating Callisto's atmosphere Differential number flux spectra for (a) protons, (b) oxygen ions, (c) sulfur ions, and


The oxytriehide hYPolrieh, PselldollroleplUs ca/ulalllS Hemberger, 1985 was found in sediment samplcs from the Guadarrama river (Central Spain). Its morphology, infracilialure, morphogenesis and reorganization has been slUdied, using observations of living cells and protargol impregnation. The morphology and morphogenesis of the European popolation are very similar to Ihose of lhe type popolalion from Peru. 2% methylcelullose induces l colldalllS tu shed fragmenls or a eapsule shaped like itself. Its morphogenesis is very similar to thal ofHemiamplrisiel/a larieola, espeeially in generating a postoral cirrus. A detailed description on the morphology, infraciliature, morphogenesis, reorganization and ecology are provided.


The discussion on entrepreneurship often treats entrepreneurs as agents of ideas of economic change and growth. Entrepreneurs are considered to serve as potential multipliers delivering individual and social wealth and prosperity. In that context entrepreneurship has been treated as a rather homogenous category, internal differences were not in the focus of academic talk. In public policy discourse entrepreneurship and the labour market category of self-employment are often used interchangeably. Images and interpretation of self-employment are mostly based on comparison of self-employment with other categories of wage or salary dependent labour market groups. This way self-employed people prove to become an averaged one-type figure. The proposed paper wants to highlight the other side of economic and social reality: the heterogeneity of self-employment. Referring to empirical data for the case of Germany the argumentation intends to illuminate different levels of social and economic integration of self-employed people. Working parameters and firm sizes, economic sectors of activity, income patterns, working hours and biographies have diversified and became increasingly heterogeneous so that further discussion is ultimately provoked: Which entrepreneurship are we talking about when talking entrepreneurship? Where are links between different fractions of the category of self-employment compared to each other and to other socio-economic groups? The contribution must be regarded as a theoretical and empirical task to connect entrepreneurship with debate on innovation, culture and finance.


The analysis of so-called Early Warning Signals (EWS) has been proposed as a method to predict sudden transitions that result from a loss in stability of a current climate state. These signals, such as rising variance and autocorrelation, are indicators of an increased relaxation time (slowing down). One particular problem of a prediction based on EWS is the requirement of sufficiently long time series. Spatial EWS may help to ameliorate this problem by combining different observations from the same time. However, the benefit of spatial EWS has only been shown in idealized settings, such as locally coupled grids of a predefined extent. In a more general setup like a complex climate system model, the critical subsystem that exhibits a loss in stability (hotspot) and the critical mode of the transition may be unknown. In our study we analyze the case of a North African and Arabian vegetation collapse during the mid-Holocene with the coupled Planet Simulator - VECODE climate model and a stochastic model of low complexity. We show that EWS at individual grid cells are not detectable if the local feedback is weak. But such grid cells can still be part of a bistable area, if several of them are strongly coupled via the atmosphere. EWS would then only be detectable if the critical mode of the transition were known beforehand. Hence, a prediction will not work in such a general setting. However, we suggest that EWS can be applied as a diagnostic tool to find the hotspot of a sudden transition and to distinguish the hotspot from regions that rather experience an externally induced tipping as a mere response. For this purpose we have developed a scheme based on a degenerate fingerprinting analysis which can be applied to a set of time slice simulations. The scheme identifies a hotspot as a certain combination of grid cells which maximizes the EWS signal. When we apply this method to Planet Simulator - VECODE time series we find a hotspot of only one to two grid cells near the Red Sea. We then prove that the detected hotspot is indeed a particularly susceptible region in Planet Simulator - VECODE by simulations with a locally perturbed vegetation cover. The method can thus provide information on the causality of sudden transitions and may help to improve the knowledge on the vulnerability of certain subsystems in climate models.


Low treedepth decompositions are central to the structural characterizations of bounded expansion classes and nowhere dense classes, and the core of main algorithmic properties of these classes, including fixed-parameter (quasi) linear-time algorithms checking whether a fixed graph $F$ is an induced subgraph of the input graph $G$. These decompositions have been extended to structurally bounded expansion classes and structurally nowhere dense classes, where low treedepth decompositions are replaced by low shrubdepth decompositions. In the emerging framework of a structural graph theory for hereditary classes of structures based on tools from model theory, it is natural to ask how these decompositions behave with the fundamental model theoretical notions of dependence (alias NIP) and stability. In this work, we prove that the model theoretical notions of NIP and stable classes are transported by decompositions. Precisely: Let $\mathscr C$ be a hereditary class of graphs. Assume that for every $p$ there is a hereditary {\rm NIP} class $\mathscr D_p$ with the property that the vertex set of every graph $G\in\mathscr C$ can be partitioned into $N_p=N_p(G)$ parts in such a way that the union of any $p$ parts induce a subgraph in $\mathscr D_p$ and $\log N_p(G)\in o(\log G)$. We prove that then $\mathscr C$ is (monadically) {\rm NIP}. Similarly, if every $\mathscr D_p$ is stable, then $\mathscr C$ is (monadically) stable. Results of this type lead to the definition of decomposition horizons as closure operators. We establish some of their basic properties and provide several further examples of decomposition horizons.


Poster: "2014 CSM / R-0140 / The clinical and dosimetric outcomes of 120 patients with early breast cancer treated in the prone position" by: "G. Lamoury, S. Cruikshank, M. Morgia, T. Doria, K. Richardson, L. Guo; SYDNEY/AU"


The input seismic load is an important factor when performing an analysis on the earthquake response of a structure. Ground motion observed during an earthquake is affected by the source effect, the propagation effect from the hypocenter, and the site effect. Therefore, when determining the input ground motion, it is necessary to consider these characteristics and determine the appropriate data. Although the location is relatively close, ground motion observed within the same site causes a difference in phase and amplitude in the time history depending on the observation location, which is called a spatial variation of ground motion [1]. In general, in the dynamic analysis of structures for earthquakes, it is assumed that the foundation of the structure is subjected to the same ground motion uniformly [2]. However, spatial variation has a significant impact on the response to earthquakes of large structures such as bridges and pipelines that extend parallel to the ground surface [3]. Therefore, for the assessment of seismic safety, it is necessary to consider the spatial variation of ground motion according to location. In this study, the spatial variation of ground motion was investigated using the earthquake records at the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.


Since statistical circuit analysis are vital for robust circuit designs, different techniques like Monte-Carlo or response surface models have been developed. These tools are adapted with passive and active devices with process variations in order to statistically analyse ICs. In this paper, a similar idea has been applied for statistical analysis at device level, instead of circuits, for some RF components. By using the physical variations of the fabrication environment, process and device simulations can be realized; thus the electrical variations of the devices can be obtained. This technique is expected to shorten time-to-market in different ways. To illustrate the idea, analysis of a 0.25um SiGe transistor and 1nH spiral inductor have been realized.


Volatile extracts obtained from traditional Chinese-type soy sauces prepared with soybean (SSSB) and defatted soy meal (SSDSM) by solid phase microextraction (SPME) and direct solvent extraction (DSE) were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The volatile flavor compounds and relative contents of different chemical classes detected in SSSB and SSDSM were compared for their differences. Results showed that significant differences in both constituents of volatile flavor compounds and relative contents of different chemical classes were observed for both kinds of soy sauces. A total of 152 and 131 compounds were identified in SSSB and SSDSM, respectively, and 102 volatile flavor compounds were common in both kinds of soy sauces. Moreover, relative contents of acids, aldehydes, esters, furan(one)s, miscellaneous compounds, phenols, pyrazines, pyrrol(idinon)es, and sulfur-containing compounds in both kinds of soy sauces were all significantly different.


© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. No commercial reuse. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. A 23yearold woman presented with gradualonset left chest and back pain. She had at medical history of asthma. She was a never smoker with no significant family history. Her observations and examination were normal. Blood tests performed revealed a raised C reactive protein of 119 mg/L and high white cell count of 12.81×10/L. A chest radiograph showed left hilar consolidation (figure 1A). She was treated with oral clarithromycin and followup radiograph showed resolution of the consolidation (figure 1B). One year later, she represented with a 10day history of dry cough and pleuritic chest pain. A chest radiograph demonstrated a leftsided pleural effusion and blood tests were in keeping with infection. Pleural fluid examination showed an exudative effusion by Light's criteria (pleural fluid protein 55.8g/L, Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) 1798U/L, glucose 3.74 mmol/L, serum protein 77 g/L, serum LDH and pleural fluid pH not available) and mixed inflammatory cells on cytology and negative culture. CT thorax postdrainage demonstrated a persistent large, complex loculated effusion with pleural thickening, consolidation and a suspected intraparenchymal collection in the left upper lobe (figure 1C). A large bore chest drain was inserted and her condition improved with a prolonged course of antibiotics. One month later, she had a recurrence of her symptoms and underwent a videoassisted thoracoscopy for surgical debridement and washout of her pleural cavity. No focal collection was identified intraoperatively. A 6 cm 'abscess' was noted at the lingula, it was not suitable for anatomic resection so was punctured and biopsies sent for microbiology and pathology. No pus or colloid material was found. Bronchoscopy performed at the same time revealed extrinsic compression of the left upper lobe bronchus. She was discharged again on a prolonged course of antibiotics. After cessation of oral antibiotics her symptoms returned and repeat ultrasound demonstrated a 4.9 cm posterior collection. Repeat CT thorax showed resolution of the pleural effusion but a persistent presumed 'lung abscess' (figure 1D). She underwent a left thoracotomy upper trisegmentectomy and histology confirmed a 50 mm left upper lobe mature cystic teratoma (figure 2). Three months after the operation, the patient was symptom free and a chest radiograph showed a raised left hemidiaphragm and resolution of the consolidation and effusion (figure 1E), with no further requirements for antibiotics.


Background  Itch and pain are common symptoms in skin disease. It has been suggested that negative emotions may play a role in itch and pain. To date, however, the role of emotions has only been studied for pain in experimental studies, not yet for itch.


Two of the factors that determine the onion crop are the cultivar and denseness.
The researches were done on two forms within the period 2005-007. The forms are: SC Oferta Bob SRL situated in the south of the country and SC Petrosu SA – Braila situated in the south-east of the country.
A number of 12 cultivars and three densenesses have been experimental. The best Durch and Romanian cultivars were used: Exacta F1, Columbia F1, Vachera F1, Daytona F1, Manas F1, Talon F1, Helenas F1, Briliant, Ariana, Delicioasa, Leone and Diamant. Three densenesses were used: 450.000 plants/ha, 650.000 plants/ha and 850.000 plants/ha based on six row scheme on the bad. The irrigation was made by aspersion at SC Petrosu SA and the dripping at SC Oferta Bob.
 The crops were influenced both by cultivar and by the number of the plants/ha.
The biggest crop has been obtained at the dripping irrigated variants with the biggest denseness (850.000 plants/ha) at hybrids Daytona F1, Vachera F1 and Columbia F1 (over 80 t/ha) at the Romanian cultivar Delicioasa (over 70 t/ha). Differences between these crops and those obtained at the 450.000 plants/ha denseness (54-58 t/ha) are very significant.
The crops are lower with about 10 t/ha at the aspersion irrigated variants. And in this case both the cultivars and the denseness have a decisive influence on the crops as well. At the same time Daytona F1, Vachera F1 and Columbia F1 hybrids behaved the best by using the aspersion irrigation.
Making a comparison between the crops obtained 15 years ago by using the same denseness but less performant cultivars and the crops obtained in the recent experiments, there have been observed that in the old experiments the crops didn't increase over 40 t/ha. Whereas in the recent experiments the crops increased over 80 t/ha.
As a result of the experiments that have been done we can conclude that, in order to obtain big and of good quality onion crops. It is compulsory that a part the other technological stages necessary to be used in this culture (soil selection, precursory cultures, soil preparation, setting up optimum period, culture maintenance, optimum harvesting moment) to be used cultivars especially performent hybrids and also densiness of over 850.000 plants/ha.


Whereas Visual Human Factor studies provide abundant literature to characterize display modules, building a specification for touch sensitive systems — and more specifically for multi‐touch capable ones — remains substantially empirical. Existing metrology gives useful data with regards to the mechanical and optical performances of touch panels. However, it fails to measure what matters most to the user: tactile performance. with fast‐growing market demand for multi‐touch panels, the need arises for a user‐centric metrology to objectively evaluate the usability of available solutions.


Background: Pertussis continues to be an important health issue in Vietnam despite infant vaccination programs. In Vietnam, the incidence rates of pertussis per 100,000 population rose from 0.09 in 2014 to 0.33 in 2015 and to 0.58 in 2017. Macrolides, especially erythromycin, are the treatment of choice. However, erythromycin-resistant cases, caused by transition at A2047G position in 23S rRNA, have been reported in the region. Few data are available on antimicrobial resistance in Bordetella pertussis to guide treatment in Vietnam. We report antimicrobial susceptibility of the circulating strains in southern Vietnam during 2015–2017. Methods: Tracheal aspirates from 263 suspected pertussis cases were subject to multiplex real-time PCR to identify B. pertussis and Bordetella spp. Samples were cultured on Regan Lowe agar with 10% sheep blood containing cephalexin (40 µg/mL) and incubated at 37°C for 10 days. The antimicrobial susceptibilities to erythromycin, azithromycin, clarithromycin, and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole were determined using the disc diffusion method (CLSI-2017) on Regan Lowe and Mueller Hinton agar. Erythromycin minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) were determined using an E-test. The results were recorded after days 3 and 7 of incubation. Sequencing of the 23S rRNA gene was performed to detect mutations conferring macrolide resistance. Results: Of 263 cases, 119 were positive for B. pertussis (45.2%) by real-time PCR, and 15 of 263 strains (5.7%) were successfully cultured. All 15 isolates were susceptible to macrolides and no heterogeneous phenotype was recorded after 7 days; erythromycin MICs were ≤0.094 µg/mL (Fig. 1). We observed no difference in results generated on Regan Lowe and Mueller Hinton media. However, for testing trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, results on were superior, as those on Regan Lowe media were unclear. Sequencing of 23S rRNA identified no mutations known to confer macrolide resistance. Conclusions: None of 15 B. pertussis isolates tested were nonsusceptible to erythromycin and macrolides. Similarly, no mutation at the erythromycin-binding site in the 23S rRNA gene was identified. The low isolation rate of B. pertussis by culture means that few positive specimens were tested for antimicrobial susceptibility. To overcome this limitation, detection of resistance directly from clinical specimens needs to be investigated. Ongoing screening for B. pertussis and antimicrobial susceptibility is recommended to support efforts to control the spread of this respiratory tract infection agent. Funding: None Disclosures: None


Considered kinematics and elements of synthesis of rotary-piston engine based on the planetary gear and rocker linkage. The proposed construction allows to create rotary-piston engine with four working chambers. The formulas for kinematic characteristics of machine elements.


We introduce Leaplist, a concurrent data-structure that is tailored to provide linearizable range queries. A lookup in Leaplist takes O (log n) and is comparable to a balanced binary search tree or to a Skiplist. However, in Leaplist, each node holds up-to K immutable key-value pairs, so collecting a linearizable range is K times faster than the same operation performed non-linearizably on a Skiplist.
 We show how software transactional memory support in a commercial compiler helped us create an efficient lock-based implementation of Leaplist. We used this STM to implement short transactions which we call Locking Transactions (LT), to acquire locks, while verifying that the state of the data-structure is legal, and combine them with a transactional Consistency Oblivious Programming (COP) [2] mechanism to enhance data structure traversals.
 We compare Leaplist to prior implementations of Skiplists, and show that while updates in the Leaplist are slower, lookups are somewhat faster, and for range-queries the Leaplist outperforms the Skiplist's non-linearizable range query operations by an order of magnitude. We believe that this data structure and its performance would have been impossible to obtain without the STM support.


The rotor of IPM (Interior Permanent Magnet) brushless motor is characterized with a high-strength structure so that the magnet is protected from centrifugal separation when running at a high speed; also, as designed a non-concentrically circular rotor to increase the motor torque output, there is a reluctance torque produced by the salient poles effect in addition to the electromagnetic torque generated by the interactive reaction between the magnet and the coil; however, such a consequence will lead to an increase of the cogging torque. Thus, this research explored the salient-pole interior permanent magnet by going through the modifications of appearance dimensions of motor rotor, application of equivalent magnetic-circuit analysis and finite element method to analyze the cogging torque in a bid to make the objective toward the cogging torque reduction in interior permanent magnet brushless motor achievable.


Relations between the weak form factors of mesons are derived by employing the following methods of current algebras: (a) the Oehme approximation without Hamiltonian, (b) saturation of commutators by allowed single-particle and disconnected pair states, (c) the Ward-Takahashi method, and (d) the generalized Ward-Takahashi method with the hypothesis of partially conserved axial-vector current (PCAC). These relations of meson form factors in various limits and their pole-model solutions are then discussed and compared. The information about meson form factors thus extracted indicates that the renormalization effects are small and the suppression of the $|\ensuremath{\Delta}S|=1$ semileptonic decays cannot be due to the symmetry-breaking effects. It is shown that the generalized Ward-Takahashi method with the PCAC hypothesis and the Ward-Takahashi method alone give equivalent results, as far as the meson vertex functions of the conserved vector currents are concerned. However, in the case of nonconserved currents, there are important differences involving contributions from possible scalar mesons. Within the framework of pole models, it is found that the methods (a) and (d), and the methods (b) and (c), give equivalent results.


with second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech BNT16B2b2 COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2021; 35: e632–e634. 7 Damiani G, Allocco F, Malagoli P. COVID-19 vaccination and patients with psoriasis under biologics: real-life evidence on safety and effectiveness from Italian vaccinated healthcare workers. Clin Exp Dermatol 2021; 46: 1106–1108. 8 Phan K, Goyal S, Murrell DF. Association between bullous pemphigoid and psoriasis: systematic review and meta-analysis of case-control studies. Australas J Dermatol 2019; 60: 23–28. 9 Lee CH, Huang YH, Chu CY. Taiwan dermatological association recommendations for coronavirus disease of 2019 vaccination in patients treated with immunotherapeutics. Dermatologica Sinica 2021; 39: 169–174. 10 Chao JP, Tsai TF. Psoriasis flare following ChAdOx1-S/nCoV-19 vaccination in patients with psoriasis under biologic treatment. Dermatologica Sinica 2021; 39: 208–209.


8.2. Compliance with Qualitative Derivative Accounting Guidelines Out of the thirty four derivative accounting information items, fourteen items are of qualitative derivative accounting information items. Qualitative information is important to better understand the quantitative information. While quantitative information provides a point-in-time view of a bank's derivative activities, qualitative information provides in-depth information of the overall aspects of a bank's derivative activities. The average compliance scores of fourteen qualitative derivative accounting items for five years are presented in the Table 8.1.


Unconventional legumes are promising in terms of nutrition, providing food security, agricultural development and in crop rotation in developing countries. The wild legumes are in great demand as food; livestock feed and pharmaceutically valued products. The anti-nutritive factors (ANFs) may be defined as those substances generated in natural feed stuffs by the normal metabolism of species and by different mechanisms e.g inactivation of some nutrients, interference with the digestive process or metabolic utilization of feed which exert effects contrary to optimum nutrition. Being an ANF is not an intrinsic characteristic of a compound but depends upon the digestive process of the ingesting animal. Some of the phytochemiclas such as phytic acid, isoflavenoids, total


Fishes of the genus Arius(Sea catfish)are the basis of an important world fishery.Sea catfishes with one patch of palate teeth each side have been recognized as A.sinensis(Lacepede,1803)in China for a long time.But after checking the original description of Tachysurus sinensis Lacepede,1803,we know that T.sinensis should be invalid because it was denominated by Lacepede based on a Chinese painting over 200 years ago.Valenciennes(1840)described a new sea-catfish A.sinensis.On the basis of the original description,this species lacks the spine of dorsal fin and its anal fin ray is 13,which suggests that it should be different from the species called A.sinensis distributed in China at present.After examining the specimens named A.sinensis in the Fish Collection of the Institute of Zoology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,we find each specimen has a spine of dorsal fin with an elongated thread on its tip and the number of the anal fin rays is 16-19.All these characters are shared by A.arius(Hamilton,1822).Comparisons of morphology and Principal Component Analysis(PCA)among 67 individuals show that sexual differences exist in male and female specimens.Females can be distinguished from males by having larger palate teeth patches,shorter distances between two patches of palate teeth(0.2% vs 0.4% in standard length),longer pelvic fin length(17.7% vs 14.4% in standard length)and longer postorbital length(12.3% vs 14.7% in standard length).


HISTORY RECORDS THAT at the end of the last century those two giants of the drama-Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw-met on one occasion. Shaw complained to Ibsen that though he admired his (Ibsen's) plays they were too compressed and full of symbols for the ordinary man. "What I have said, I have said ", said Ibsen. "Quite ", agreed Shaw. " But what you haven't said, you haven't said." I hope that you, my audience, won't feel tempted to echo Shaw at the end of this afternoon. I could, it is true, conduct you on a guided tour of the past 60 years in anaesthetics -certainly my title, if nothing else, gives me the opening for that. But conducted tours, though they have some merits, are not for the informed. They are tiresome things, which exhaust the conductor as well as the conducted-an hour in Oxford before the courier rushes you into the coach for Stratford-on-Avon. Because they try to be all-embracing, too, they offend-for in fact they have to be selective: " if pressed for time, omit Cambridge ", as the instructions for seeing England in four days have it.


Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) segregation analysis for asthma was performed on the whole 1,544‐member Hutterite pedigree. Heterogeneous and epistatic two‐locus models and complex one‐locus models were investigated, with trait loci postulated to be linked to markers in regions previously found to be possibly linked to asthma or atopy. The epistatic two‐locus dominant‐dominant model provided the best estimates, among the models investigated, in terms of prediction of population prevalence and relative risk for sibs of the affecteds. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Models of asteroid formation and evolution suggest a variety of internal structures, ranging from gravitationally bound accumulations of debris to fully rigid monolithic bodies. The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft has provided detailed imaging and gravity data relevant to the characteristics of structural features and global mass properties. A long ridge, coplanar with a degraded trough/ridge system, and an approximately parallel surface facet suggest exploitation of a nearly global fabric by both compressive and extensional failure at significantly different times.


With the development of contemporary super scale power system, the method of traditional power flow computing can not meet the requirement in real-time process. This paper uses triangular decomposition parallel algorithms based on the characteristics of power flow calculation, introduces the concept of open systems into parallel computing and avoids deadlock which resulted from the order of matrix that can not be divisible by the number of processors, designs and achieves parallel algorithm combined with the features of P-Q decomposition method based on MPI(message passing interface), verifies the validity of the algorithm on pc-cluster system self-built, analyzing the performance of the algorithm taking IEEE30, IEEE118 and IEEE300 nodes system as examples and gets good results.


We extend our module-theoretic approach to Zavadskĭı's differentiation techniques in representation theory. Let R be a complete discrete valuation domain with quotient field K, and Λ an R-order in a finite-dimensional K-algebra. For a hereditary monomorphism u : P →֒ I of Λ-lattices we have an equivalence of quotient categories ∂̃u : Λ-lat/[H] ∼ → δuΛ-lat/[B] which generalizes Zavadskĭı's algorithms for posets and tiled orders, and Simson's reduction algorithm for vector space categories. In this article we replace u by a more general type of monomorphism, and the derived order δuΛ by some over-order ∂uΛ ⊃ δuΛ. Then ∂̃u remains an equivalence if δuΛ-lat is replaced by a certain subcategory of ∂uΛ-lat. The extended differentiation comprises a splitting theorem that implies Simson's splitting theorem for vector space categories. Introduction. In a previous article [19] we generalized Zavadskĭı's differentiation algorithm [26–28] for representations of posets to lattices over orders Λ in a finite-dimensional algebra A over a field K with a complete discrete valuation. Instead of a pair of points in a poset, our differentiation depends on a hereditary monomorphism u : P →֒ I of Λ-lattices, that is, I/P is of finite length and satisfies HomΛ(P, I/P ) = ExtΛ(I/P, I) = ExtΛ(H,L) = 0 for Λ-lattices H,L between P and I, and (P) P and I are projective. Then the isomorphism classes of Λ-lattices between P and I can be represented by a finite set Hu. With each (left) Λ-lattice E, we associate a pair ∂uE = ( E E− ) of Λ-lattices with E− ⊆ E ⊆ E . Dually, the hereditary monomorphism u : I →֒ P ∗ yields a pair ( F F+ ) of right Λ-lattices with F+ ⊆ F ⊆ F − for any given right Λ-lattice F . Then we can form the derived order δuΛ := ( Λ ΛΛ Λ− Λ − ) ⊆ M2(A) 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 16G30.


Executive Summary There are complex trade-offs between system designs that are either centralized or distributed in one of several ways. A centralized system has all of the functional software components on a single computer or server while a distributed system has components distributed over multiple computers or servers. Distributed systems require a communication topology for connecting the different components. A distributed system will be subdivided in the report into either a hierarchical or a networked architecture. A hierarchical distributed architecture employs a client-server-like topology with communication restricted to 'top-down' querying from the server to the clients and, conversely, 'bottom-up' query answering, as well as a single point of contact. A networked distributed architecture employs a peer-to-peer-like topology with query-answer communication allowed to flow between all peers, and does not have a central point of contact. This report will present an evaluation of centralized, hierarchical, and networked ar-chitectures when used in rule-based systems with a focus on the communication topology. Our rule-based systems will be purely declarative, with communication restricted to query-answering (rather than, say, the execution of actions). Since a centralized system can be regarded as an extreme case of a distributed system, the three architectures can actually be considered as constituting one spectrum. OO jDREW, an engine operating on knowledge bases stored in RuleML, will be employed as an implemented use case for centralized systems. Rule Responder, connecting OO jDREW, Prova, and other engines, will be used to exemplify distributed systems, with the current implementation being hierarchical. Rule Responder's development into a networked architecture will be explored to guide future implementations. The architectures will be compared with respect to evaluation criteria that were suggested by earlier work. 2 The evaluation of the three architectures based on our use cases will involve criteria such as knowledge maintenance issues in centralized vs. distributed systems, general performance issues, the fault tolerance of the distributed systems, the communication overhead coming into the distributed topologies, and the bottleneck issue in hierarchical systems. Our evaluation will employ empirical evidence obtained through practical benchmarking (centralized, hierarchical) and theoretical extrapolation (networked). The testing will be done on an application created with Rule Responder and OO jDREW that realizes query-answering in a symposium planner. This testing will explore suitable topologies for knowledge-based multi-agent systems.


This paper illustrates a feasible health informatics domain knowledge management process which helps gather useful technology information and reduce many knowledge misunderstandings among engineers who have participated in the IBM mainframe rightsizing project at National Taiwan University (NTU) Hospital. We design an asynchronously sharing mechanism to facilitate the knowledge transfer and our health informatics domain knowledge management process can be used to publish and retrieve documents dynamically. It effectively creates an acceptable discussion environment and even lessens the traditional meeting burden among development engineers. An overall description on the current software development status is presented. Then, the knowledge management implementation of health information systems is proposed.


From symposium on nuclear science and engineering; Bombay, India (13 Mar 1973). The physics design analysis employed for the choice of an optimum core for the 100 MW thermal research reactor is presented. The design lays emphasis to achieve as maximum a neutron flux in the core as feasible for minimum heavy water and uranium inventories in the reactor vessel, while meeting the excess reactivity requirements for operational and other loads at rated reactor power. A computer program FLOEST incorporating the coupled aspects of heat transfer-core size and reactivity is developed for such optimization studies. The reactor is to be controlled by 16 to 18 stainless steel control rods. Calculational methods for the in-sequence reactivity-worths of these control/ shut-off rods and their effect on the power distribution of a fully loaded core configuration are presented. Shut-down margin aspects of the control system are discussed. Measures for emergency shutdown of the reactor are studied. (auth)


In this paper, we report the results of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics computations on s-cis butadiene. Our objective was to understand the complex mechanism of the photolysis of this hydrocarbon through the analysis of an ensemble of trajectories computed with the hybrid MMVB method. Within the limitations of our computational strategy (the initial conditions and the limitations of the MMVB potential), our results suggest that some of the experimentally observed photoproducts such as s-trans butadiene, bicyclobutane, and Z,Z-butadienes (obtained by irradiating substituted E,E-butadienes) are exclusively formed through "dynamic paths" defined by certain subsets of trajectories that lie far from conventional minimum energy paths. In particular, concurrent double bond isomerization (e.g., Z,Z→E,E isomerization) seems to be achieved by decay of a "dynamically locked intermediate", a metastable excited-state species.