This final project is entitled Simple Input to Non Native Speaker in Effortless English Club by A.J. Hoge. The aims of this thesis are to analyze simple input and their reason produced by the native speaker and types of simple input performed in the native speaker's speech. The design to compose this research is qualitative descriptive that is intended to describe simple input in native speaker's speech. The procedure of research will produce descriptive data in the form of written words or oral words about the object that is observed. The data were native speaker speech in Effortless English Club which were taken by downloading in video and audio form. Then, the data were analyzed using some steps, they are identifying every word in the utterances which are included in simple input, classifying types of the simple input, interpreting the data, and drawing conclusion. The result of the analysis shows that there were six types of simple inputs used by A.J Hoge, they are high frequency vocabulary, fewer contraction, use of nouns rather than pronouns, shorter sentences with simple grammar, use of tag question (yes/no answer), and repetition. A.J Hoge made some speech in videos and audios learning as lesson for learners. The lesson seem easy, he used types of simple inputs in order to know the words very well to go deep into learners' brain, relax and focus understanding. The most important thing is speed. The learners are expected to answer quickly and alot of response to speech which is made by him.


Mechanically, piano playing consists in giving to the hammer a certain escapement velocity at a certain time ‐ te, ve ‐ by means of a traditional keyboard and piano action. Numerous replacement systems for the keyboard, action or even for the pianist's finger have been proposed. They implicitly raise the question of the accuracy with which the (te, ve) information must be coded or reconstructed. The precision with which pianists are able to reproduce their playing sheds some light on this question. At this end we have asked several concert pianists to play the same passage several times with the highest reproducibility level they could achieve. The experiment was done on a traditional grand piano equipped with the Yamaha Disklavier system, used as a measurement tool for the escapement velocity of the hammers. The beginnings of a fugue by Bach and a study by Debussy were recorded. Results show that the reproducibility varies highly from note to note and can be as good as approximately 1%. Additional tests ...


In the grinding process of a thread standoff gauge,one or two tooth-face flaws may appear now and then,such as burn,cracks,ripple,etc.The presence of these flaws will not only lessen the gauge's measurement precision and stability but reduce its wearability and life-span directly as well.This paper analysed the formation mechanism of flaws and advanced some preventive countermeasures in terms of raw materials,heat treatment technics and grinding parameters.It is instructive to eliminate the thread standoff gauge's flaws and enhance its life-span gauge.


The authors' studies evaluated the discriminative ability of the youth and parent forms of the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale—Second Edition (BERS-2; Epstein, 2004). The BERS-2 is a standardized rating scale system that assesses the emotional and behavioral strengths of children and youth. Separate studies compared the perceptions of youth and parents of youth with emotional disturbance (ED) to youth and parents of youth without ED. Participants in Study 1 included 71 children verified with ED according to state special education guidelines and 386 children without ED. Participants in Study 2 included 82 parents of children with ED and 411 parents of children without ED. Results of Study 1 indicated statistically significant differences in the scores of youth with and without ED on four of five BERS-2 Youth Rating Scale subscales and the overall strength index. Results of Study 2 indicated statistically significant differences in the scores of parents of youth with and without ED on all five of BERS-2 Parent Rating Scale subscales and the strength index.The limitations, future research, and implications of the studies are discussed.


Load resistibility to static pressure and the permissible limit of heaping height were examined on the fruits of tomato for processing in order to rationalize a method for the handling of the fruits after harvest.1. The behavior of fruits of static pressure resembled closely creep of fourelement model in the visco-elastic body.2. The hardness and elastic behavior of the fruits were high in the cultivars of 'AT 70/24' 'TE-30' and 'ES-58'.A high correlation was observed between the creep characten and the color tone (Hunter a/b ratio) of the fruits with the significant level of 0.1%, and the hardness and elastic behavior decreased with maturity.3. The observed relations of the degree of fruit deformation to the magnitude of load and to the loading time showed that the extent of occurrence of lacerated wounds in the fruits was low in 'ES-58' 'TE-30' and 'AT70/24' and high in 'H-1409' 'KG-127' and 'Kurikoma'. The limiting deformation rate beyond which the fruits were lacerated was highest (36.8%) for 'AT-70/24' and lowest (7.5%) for 'H-1409'.4. The extent of fruit injury increased with an increase in heaping height of the fruits. Among the cultivars examined, 'H-1409' was injured most markedly, while 'TE-30' most slightly. The permissible limit of heaping height was very large for 'AT70/24' 'ES-58' and 'TE-30' and low for 'H-1409' and 'KG-127'.These observations indicate that the cultivars with high hardness and elastic behavior are also have the high load resistibility to static pressure. Among the cultivars examined, load resistibility to static pressure was very high for 'AT70/24' 'TE-30' and 'ES-58'.


We introduce COALESCE, the first data-driven framework for component-based shape assembly which employs deep learning to synthesize part connections. To handle geometric and topological mismatches between parts, we remove the mismatched portions via erosion, and rely on a joint synthesis step, which is learned from data, to fill the gap and arrive at a natural and plausible part joint. Given a set of input parts extracted from different objects, COALESCE automatically aligns them and synthesizes plausible joints to connect the parts into a coherent 3D object represented by a mesh. The joint synthesis network, designed to focus on joint regions, reconstructs the surface between the parts by predicting an implicit shape representation that agrees with existing parts, while generating a smooth and topologically meaningful connection. We demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms prior approaches including baseline deep models for 3D shape synthesis, as well as state-of-the-art methods for shape completion.


This paper discusses potential environmental assessment and market access tools necessary to foster the utilization of organic agriculture techniques within Brazilian traditional small farms. The basic idea of this approach is to improve regional development by promoting local market systems that not only accommodate differences in land resources, scale and agro-ecological conditions, but also addresses important issues like decreasing number of farms, employment, rural poverty and food insecurity. The main objective of this study is based on the potential that organic products market represents for small holding agriculture viability, introducing the belief that social well being and food security needs to be considered in the organic market economy. On this regard, a two-step approach will be carried out. First, Life Cycle Assessment methodology will be customized for assessing all relevant impacts on a typical traditional small farm complex. The second step will analyze the framework for implementation of a certification program to characterize the organic agriculture production method.


The ion and electron temperature variations in an idealized controlled thermonuclear reactor burning various ratios of deuterium and tritium are calculated. The variation in the fraction of energy deposited to the nuclear and electron gases with temperature is specifically included. One qualitative result is that it would be unsafe to assume nuclear temperature always equal to or greater than electron temperature for a nuclearly reacting plasma with tritium concentration greater than ten per cent. (auth)


Convergence to local optima rather than the global optimum is a common shortcoming of deterministic (gradient based) optimisation techniques. Successive convergence on better local optima is an efficient way of finding the global optimum. This is achieved by the proposed hybrid global optimisation strategy, which combines the improving hit-and-run (IHR) and the tunnelling global optimisation methods. The searching technique of IHR is adapted to find suitable starting points to converge on other (better) local optima. The suitability of candidate starting points is confirmed by the concept of the tunnelling method. The strategy presented has unique features due to the underlying theory being exact, in the sense of differential equations being solved for the member (or element) stiffnesses so that they are transcendental functions of the load factor. Hence the buckling eigenproblem for the entire structure is a transcendental one, instead of the linear one associated with the more usual finite element method formulations. Constrained minimum mass aerospace panel stability design problems are used to demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of the hybrid global optimisation strategy.


The making of the marriage agreement and the amendment to the marriage agreement are determined and made with the mutual agreement of both parties, in this case, the intention is that the agreement on the making of the marriage agreement is a free agreement and there is no coercion from any party. The purpose of this journal is to find out the share of division between husband and wife 's assets based on the provisions of the applicable laws and regulations, to find out the rules governing the position of husband and wife's assets before and after the occurrence. The research method used by author in this study is the normative method based on data sources, which requires secondary data. Inherited property is assets obtained from each prospective of husband and wife, the property is fully controlled by the owner of the property and cannot be mixed by other parties. The position of husband and wife's assets after the marriage is actually joint property, if there is no agreement to separate the assets, then after the issuance of the letter of determination of assets, the assets obtained after the issuance of the determination letter will become personal or individual property.


Classical Timoshenko beam theory includes a shear correction factor K which is often used to match natural vibrational frequencies of the beam. In this note, a number of static and dynamic examples are considered which provide a theoretical basis for specifying κ=1. Within the context of Cosserat theory, natural frequencies of the beam can be matched by appropriate specification of the director inertia coefficients with κ=1.


Humans are the ultimate bioassay for low-level or sporadic contamination of our food supply. Epidemiologic methods of foodborne disease surveillance are powerful tools because they take advantage of events that are occurring throughout the population. This population-based lens, focused by advances in molecular subtyping and information technology available to public health laboratories, is particularly well suited to dealing with foodborne diseases associated with mass-produced and widely distributed food products. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is becoming the standard for public health surveillance. It offers greater sensitivity for outbreak detection and greater specificity for outbreak investigation than previous methods of analysis. WGS links between cases and foods or environmental samples will require exposure assessment. Public health officials will be challenged to provide the epidemiologic resources to investigate and solve the anticipated growth in small outbreaks. Better outbreak investigation methods, including environmental assessments, will provide more useful data to evaluate the effectiveness of food safety policies and improve food attribution models. Improving the science base for policy development should lead to more effective food control activities. Since national food supplies are rapidly becoming global in origin, the need for an international system for foodborne disease surveillance exists as well. Because foodborne disease problems imported into one country may represent disease problems endemic to the food-producing country, growing awareness of these problems could stimulate investment in interventions that improve public health in both countries.


The concept of adjusting work load to staffing is the reverse of most currently accepted practices. However, that is precisely how this management and measurement system works. Patient care units (PCU'S) are estimated for all incoming admissions, and patients are assigned to the units that have the lowest PCU count, the goal being an even distribution of work load among nursing units.


PURPOSE: A semiconductor memory device including a pre-sensing and an isolation circuit is provided to perform a normal reading operation in low equalizing voltage level by electrically connecting a bit line pair and a sensing bit line pair. CONSTITUTION: In a semiconductor memory device including a pre-sensing and an isolation circuit, a first bit line pair is equalized to a first voltage level by a first equalization circuit. A second bit line pair is equalized to a second voltage level by a second equalization circuit. The pre-sensing and the isolation circuit(130) are arranged in the first and second bit lien pairs. The pre-sensing and the isolation circuit electrically connect or intercept the first and second bit line pair. A sense amplifier(140) senses the voltage difference of the second bit line pair and amplifies it.


This study aims to reveal the role, the role changes in the future, and the causative factors of these changes in the sector and each subsector of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery in Malinau District. The basic method of this study was descriptive method. The analytical tool used were Location Quotient (LQ), Dynamic Location Quotient (DLQ) and Shift Share. This study was located in Malinau District, North Kalimantan Province. The types of data used were secondary data in the form of Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) on the basis of constant prices in 2010 of Malinau and North Kalimantanin 2012-2016. The results shows that the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery sector in Malinau District isa non-basis sector with an average LQ <1 of 0.76. The basis subsector in Malinau District is the Forestry and Logging subsector with an LQ> 1 value of 136, 269.17. Based on a combined analysis of LQ and DLQ, the sectors of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery have not undergone a role change where the sector remains a non-basis sector at present and in the future. While the subsectors of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Agricultural Services and Hunting and the Fisherybecome the basis subsector and the Forestry and Loggingsubsector becomes the non-basis subsector in the future.


In this note, we discuss a Galois theoretic topic where the two subjects of the title intersect. Three co-related sections will be arranged as follows. In Part I, we review basic notion of tangential base points for etale fundamental groups of schemes of characteristic zero. Then, in Part II, we introduce 'Eisenstein power series' as a main factor of the Galois representation "of Gassner-Magnus type" arising from an affine elliptic curve with 'Weierstrass tangential base point'. Part III is devoted to examining the Eisenstein power series in the case of the Tate elliptic curve over the formal power series ring Q[[q]] (introduced in Roquette [R], Deligne-Rapoport [DR]). We deduce then a certain explicit relation (Th.3.5) between such Eisenstein power series and Ihara's Jacobi-sum power series [I1].


[1] The aim of this study is to better understand the mechanics of fracture development and propagation during hydraulic fracturing. This paper presents some development and applications of discrete particle modeling of this problem. A discontinuum modeling approach idealizes the material as separate particles bonded together at their contact points and utilizes the breakage of individual structural units or bonds to represent damage. The numerical models are correlated with existing hydrofracture laboratory experiments, which are presented in other publications. A simulation of a laboratory-scale hydrofracture experiment and the acoustic emission (AE) data from the experiment is used to validate the synthetic AEs produced in the hydrofracture model. This technique has been used to examine the mechanics of fracture initiation and time and spatial distributions of AE. The modeling results demonstrate that the mechanism of hydraulically induced fracture in the Lac du Bonnet (LdB) granite core sample is predominantly tensile failure and that the shear cracks recorded in the hydrofracture experiment were due to slip on preexisting fractures. Numerical modeling of hydrofracture on homogeneous and heterogeneous synthetic samples seems to capture much of the behavior observed in the laboratory hydrofracture experiments.


Changes form social community influence the idealogy education on the youth.A survey was made on the ideal and study behavior of the youth of 3 268 objects ranging from the high school students,university students to graduates in 31 provinces of China,including autonomous regions,direct jurisdiction cities.The result shows:(1) the ideal condition of contemporary students is relatively optimistic,but the ideal imperfection problem of different degree still exist.(2) there is magnificant difference in study behavior in different layers of students.(3) the students' ideal and studies behavior are closely related with high consistency.


the scholarship sound, so that it is not unlikely that the book will at least find a place as a reference for many courses. If Employment with a Human Face were to be used as a main text for a course, that course would have to aim at drawing students into critical appraisal of industrial relations systems and arrangements. That support for critical appraisal of current arrangements also means that the book has the potential to affect practical deliberations about workplace governance. Budd has given his book the best possible chance to affect practical policy-making. His analysis is balanced, comprehensive and contemporary, and the ideas are put clearly enough to hope that they may figure in policy debates. In many ways Budd takes an unfashionable direction by aiming to articulate explicit ethical points as the foundation for detailed analysis of industrial relations arrangements, but he does so deliberately and carefully in an attempt to show that popular economic models are not the only systematic basis that can be set out as a foundation for critical appraisal of work arrangements. It is difficult to imagine how he might have done better.


The present application discloses an image having a print log management function of the apparatus and method. The image forming apparatus allows connection to an external memory device such as, for example, a removable memory card, and print an image based on image data file stored in the external storage device. In many files stored in the external memory device, an image forming apparatus and the memory storing at least one printed information or special file selected by the user. Accordingly, the user can print copies of printed image or a specific image, without cumbersome processes such as the effort to find or to select a desired image data file or the like. As a result, the printing can be done more quickly and efficiently.


Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Retelling Bible Stories for Children: Changing and Reframing the Story of Noah 2.The Bible as the Revelation of God: The Story of Noah and the Character of God. 3. The Bible as a Sourcebook of Salvation: The Story of Noah as a Story about Salvation in Jesus Christ 4. The Bible as a Book of Virtues: Noah as a Model of Virtues and Vices 5. The Bible and American Children's Literature: The Story of Noah as History and Amusement 6. Conclusions Bibliography Indexes


FIELD: in-flight refuelling. SUBSTANCE: device includes light source and its control unit mounted on receiver aeroplane. Light source is made in form of one central and two lateral laser optical modules mounted for angular displacement relative to central module. Laser beams are adjusted with axis of fuel receiving device. Light source control unit includes brightness modulators of central laser beam and one lateral laser beam, monitoring unit, control unit, device for programmed separation of lateral laser optical modules and power supply unit. Outputs of modules are connected to monitoring unit and inputs of central and one lateral modules are connected to respective modulator; each of them is connected to monitoring unit and power supply unit connected with monitoring unit which is connected in its turn with control unit and lateral module programmed separation device whose actuator is kinematically linked with housings of lateral modules. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency. 5 cl, 11 dwg


sought to develop a standpoint that avoided the pitfalls of both relativism and reductionism. The Invention of Modern Science touched on various themes that over the past decades have become increasingly popular among historians of science. The latter have shown, for instance, a growing concern for the intricacies of science in nonlaboratory contexts and for the role nonhuman actors can play in historical narratives. Historians are reassessing the notion of "whiggishness," and there has also been considerable soul-searching about the relation historians of science shouldmaintainwith practicing scientists. Yet, unlike her intellectual fellow traveler Latour, Stengers has not proven to be a major influence on these new historical directions. Whereas Latour provided historians of science with metaphors for understanding historical reality (ranging from "immutable mobiles" to "black boxes"), The Invention of Modern Science particularly invested in a concept that could influence their attitude and self-understanding ("humor"). Amongmost historians, the former seemed more appealing than the latter. Although The Invention of Modern Science originated in the intellectual climate of the 1990s, its key concerns are still relevant twenty-five years later. The rise of "post-truth politics" and the neopositivist backlash it engenders in some circles threaten a "humorous" approach to science once again. In such a context, it can be fruitful to reread The Invention of Modern Science. Historians of science might struggle to understand all of Stengers's philosophical subtleties (I readily admit that I was lost on more than one occasion), but they will also find a lot worth reflecting on. Or, as Latour argued: "You grind your teeth on her argument and you feel much better afterward."


Objective
To explore the value of virtual touch tissue quantification (VTQ) in the diagnosis of pancreas early damage of patients with hyperuricemia(HUA).

Methods
Sixty-five cases of patients with normal glucose tolerance and HUA (HUA group) and 42 cases of patients with HUA and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT group) were included in the study, and other 150 health subjects were taken as control group. After routine ultrasound examination, the pancreas shear wave velocity values (Vs) of different groups were measured by VTQ technology, and the results were analyzed.

Results
Compared with the control group, the rate of the abnormai ultrasonogram of pancreas in IGT group showed obvious increasing trend but there was no significantly difference between the other groups(both P>0.05). The Vs of the normal control group, HUA group, and IGT group were (1.21±0.15)m/s, (1.41±0.13)m/s and (1.59±0.15)m/s, respectively. The Vs of HUA group and IGT group were higher than that of the control group (both P<0.05), and the Vs of IGT group was significantly higher than that of HUA group (P<0.05).

Conclusions
Hyperuricemia may cause pancreas damage, and with the disease progress, the pancreas damage became more serious, and VTQ technology may play an important role on the diagnosis of pancreas early damage in HUA patients.

Key words:
Ultrasonography; Hyperuricemia; Diabetes mellitus; Pancreas damage; Virtual touch tissue quantification


Objectives: To compare Alcian-Blue (AB) binding of erythrocytes in African women with preeclampsia and normotensive controls matched for age, race, and gestational age, and to correlate it with serum creatinine, serum albumin, and 24-h urinary protein excretion.Design: Prospective descriptive study.Setting: Obstetric wards, King Edward VIII Hospital (KEH), Durban, South Africa. Tertiary referral center serving an underprivileged community.Subjects: Eleven patients with early onset preeclampsia–i.e., between 24 and 34 weeks of gestation–and 11 pregnancy-matched controls.Main Outcome Measures: Alteration in AB binding in preeclampsia compared to matched controlsResults: AB binding was significantly decreased in the preeclamptic group [31.05 ng/106 cells compared to controls 65.12 ng/106 cells (P 0.7) between AB binding and serum creatinine but not with serum albumin and level of proteinuria.Conclusion: As altered erythrocyte charge may infer alterations in glome...


Sliding mode control (SMC) has the attractiveness of robustness to the system model uncertainties and disturbance, which has wide applications in power system, power electronics, and vehicle suspension system. However, it also has a drawback of chattering. To decrease the chattering phenomenon, this study develops a novel adaptive high-order sliding mode control (HOSMC), which has the benefit of parameterizable unmodeled dynamics compared with the HOSMC method. The proposed method can be employed for load frequency control with nonlinearities. The simulations are based on two and three areas of the power system with load frequency control. From the simulation results, it is apparent that the frequency deviation and ACE (area control error) converge to zero when using the proposed method. In addition, the simulation results validate the robustness of the proposed method in the case of parameters change. The oscillation and chattering can be attenuated more by the raised adaptive HOSMC compared to the super-twisting (ST) algorithm, which verifies the advantages of the proposed adaptive HOSMC scheme.


This paper explores the possibilities offered by basic photon scattering phenomenology in the study of a new collimator devised to enhance the collection of photons undergoing a single scattering in a volume of interest. In order to maximize the spatial resolution, a 90° scattering geometry was considered. The collimator was composed of two parallel plates perpendicular to both the detector surface and the plane of first scattering defined by the trajectories of the incident and scattered photons. In this way, photons whose azimuthal angle ranges over a wide interval but with the same scattering angle could reach the detector. Experimental comparison between this collimation and the usual narrow one was performed at a photon energy of 59.54 keV under the same sample and irradiation geometry. The first results showed that an enhancement of about 10-fold could be reached with regard to the main Compton and coherent peaks. On the other hand, the multiple scattering fraction only rose to a maximum of 20% in the worst case, as compared with that observed in classical highly collimated geometry. The usual analytical capacity offered by the scattering techniques was demonstrated to be still valid in this situation.


The decomposition mechanism of a nitrocellulose film induced by irradiation of an electron beam and He+ ion beam was investigated by monitoring the changes of the infrared spectra. With irradiation of the electron beam, it was found that the electronic stopping power caused the decomposition of the nitrocellulose resist by breaking the R-O-NO2 bond. In addition, it was found that oxidation due to oxygen supplied from NO2 enhanced the decomposition, and finally, a residue was formed. This is almost the same result as obtained by heat treatment. In the case of He+ ion irradiation, the electronic stopping power caused the same decomposition process as did irradiation of the electron beam. However, the residue formed was sputtered off due to the nuclear stopping power.


The capacity limit of a thermally controlled fiber Bragg grating-based chromatic dispersion compensator, which was initially designed for 10 Gb/s operation, was investigated in a 40 Gb/s system. A CS-RZ DQPSK polarization division multiplex (PolDM) system was used as a testbed. An equivalent quasi error-free 5.94 Tb/s capacity was demonstrated when dispersion of up to 73.8 km of SSMF was compensated. The dispersion slope compensation was satisfactory for C-band operation. Additionally, it was found that the compensator introduced band-pass filtering behaviour, which reduced the compensator bandwidth as the dispersion setting was increased. It was also found that even after 41.5 km, there was around 2 dB penalty introduced to DQPSK system while 5 dB penalty to DQPDK-PolDM, referring to BER of 10-5.


There are remarkable genetic differences between animal major histocompatibility complex (MHC) systems and the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system. HLA transgenic humanized mouse model systems offer a much better method to study the HLA‐A‐related principal mechanisms for vaccine development and HLA‐A‐restricted responses against infection in human.


SUMMARY INTRODUCTION: The majority of children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome respond to steroid therapy; however, approximately 15% of cases are steroid...


Edge Vortices—Some Observations and Discussion of the Phenomenon," ARC R & M 3282, April 1961, Aeronautical Research Council, England. 13 Finlayson, B. A., The Method of Weighted Residuals and Variational Principles, Academic Press, New York, 1972. 14 Morton, B. R., "Geophysical Vortices," Progress in Aeronautical Sciences, edited by D. Kuchemann, Vol. 7, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1966, p. 145. 15 Lowson, M. V., "Some Experiments with Vortex Breakdown," Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. 68, 1964, pp. 343-346. 16 Hall, M. G., "A New Approach to Vortex Breakdown," Proceedings of the 1967 Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics Institute, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, Calif., 1967, pp. 319-340. 17 Bossel, H. H., "Vortex Computation by the Method of Weighted Residuals Using Exponentials," AIAA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 10, Oct. 1971, pp. 2027-2034. 18 Bossel, H. H., "Vortex Equations: Singularities, Numerical Solution, and Axisymmetric Vortex Breakdown," CR-2090, 1972, NASA.


a full range of health care services from neonatology to geriatric long-term care. Proponents of managed care describe seamless systems offering a coordinated continuum of health care services that is more econòmical and of higher quality than boutique-style medicine that was prevalent under the traditional indemnity insurance system. Some industry observers predicted the ernergence of "super meds," a halfdozen or so prominent health care corpQrations that would dominate the industry


Umbilical cord as a vital part supports the foetus in the womb in supply of oxygen and other nutrients. Majority i.e., 135millions of live births are occurring in less developed countries in a year. Omphalitis is the major cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in these countries. As per many researchers, breast milk is found to be an effective tropical agent in reducing timings of cord separation and thereby reducing the risk of omphalitis. The study conducted BLDEA's hospital, Bijapur. 60newborns delivered by C.S and normally were selected out of which 30 in experimental group and 30 in control group using purposive sampling technique. An observational checklist was used to note the timing of cord separation. Result of the post test score revealed that the breast milk application had great impact in reducing the timing of cord separation. The post test mean score in Experimental group(8.8) is found to be higher than the post test mean score in Control group (5.1). The t-test value was 25.9 which is statistically significant at p<0.05. This proves the effectiveness of breast milk application on the umbilical cord. Key Terms: Breast milk, normal newborn, timing of cord separation.


Simple Summary Radical gastrectomy is pivotal for gastric cancer treatment with guidelines advocating for the dissection of at least 16 lymph nodes. However, the optimal number is debated, with some suggesting over 30 nodes. This research assessed the efficacy of ICG-guided robotic gastrectomy (an MIS technique) in ensuring thorough lymph node dissection. Analyzing data from 393 stage II or III gastric cancer patients, the study found that ICG-guided robotic surgery significantly increased the chances of achieving proper lymphadenectomy. This suggests its potential as a promising surgical approach for selected gastric cancer cases. Abstract Radical gastrectomy is essential for gastric cancer treatment. While guidelines advise dissecting at least 16 lymph nodes, some research suggests over 30 nodes might be beneficial. This study assessed ICG-guided robotic gastrectomy's effectiveness in thorough lymph node dissection. We analyzed data from 393 stage II or III gastric cancer patients treated at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital from 2016–2022. Patients were categorized into conventional laparoscopy (G1, n = 288), ICG-guided laparoscopy (G2, n = 61), and ICG-guided robotic surgery (G3, n = 44). Among 391 patients, 308 (78.4%) achieved proper lymphadenectomy. The ICG-robotic group (G3) showed the highest success rate at 90.9%. ICG-guided robotic surgery was a significant predictor for achieving proper lymphadenectomy, with an odds ratio of 3.151. In conclusion, ICG-robotic gastrectomy improves lymphadenectomy outcomes in selected gastric cancer cases, indicating a promising surgical approach for the future.


Luzula purpurea, a plant with holokinetic chromosomes, has a colchicine response different from that of most plants, typified by Allium cepa. Following short treatments with colchicine concentrations of 10−4 to 10−3M, dividing cells of Luzula continue to higher ploidy levels and do not return to normal mitosis even after 72 hr recovery. This repeated arrest and reversion to interphase with subsequent doubling of chromosome number is opposed to the situation in most plants, which return to normal mitosis, with some tetraploid figures, after several hours in water. Luzula, labeled for short periods with 1.25 × 10−3M 3H-colchicine and placed in water to recover, shows autoradiographically detectable label retained within the cells up to 72 hr after treatment. The silver grains are found over cytoplasm and developing xylem elements. These are areas containing microtubules, the subunit protein of which, in animal systems, has been shown to bind colchicine. Allium treated with 3H-colchicine does not retain labe...


Propagationof light throughdisorderedmediaexhibitsinterestinginterferencephenomena. If a monochromaticplanewave is incident on a disorderedsamplelargeintensityfluctuations,so-calledspecklescanbe seen in thetransmittedbeam.Thisis dueto interference.Herewe areinterestedin thecorrelationbetweenspeckle patternsof two differentbeams.The beamsmay havedifferent incomingangles,different frequenciesor differentpositions.Despitethe randomness of the sample,thereare short, longandinfinite rangecontributions to the correlationfunction [1]. Correlationfunctionsin disorderedmediawere first studiedin electronsystems,wherea diagrammaticapproachis commonlyused.StephenandCwilich applieda similartechniqueto calculatecorrelationsof multiply scatteredlight [2]. Zyuzin andSpivakintroduceda Langevinapproachto simplify the calculationof correlationfunctions [3]. Pnini andShapiroappliedthis methodto calculatethe correlationfunctionsof light transmittedthroughandreflectedfrom disorderedsamples[41. Shortandlongrangecorrelationfunctionshavebeenmeasuredin variousexperiments,seefor instancerefs. [5—71. Effects of absorption[8] andboundaryeffects [9] havebeenconsidered.Since varioustheoretical predictions (seefor instancerefs. [10, 11 ,4]) disagreein numericalprefactors,it wasnot clearwhetherthe Langevinapproachis principally correct.Thisprefactoris importantasit hasbeenprobedexperimentally[7]. Herewe try to settle this questionby calculatingthe correlationsin their mostgeneralform includingabsorption,skin layereffectsandresonanceof the scatterers. We considerthe propagationof a wave througha slab with randomlyplacedidenticalpoint scatterers. The slabhasa thicknessL andthe transversal length scalesaretakenmuchlargerthanL. Thebeamimpingingon theslab is a planewavewith anareaA (A>> L2). We will work in the low densitylimit, wherean independent scatterer approximationcanbemade.Thesystemis in theweaklocalizationregime,i.e. k 01>> 1, with 1 denoting the meanfree pathandk0 the wave numberinsidethe slab.The meanfree path is definedby 1=— 4it/nti in which t is the t-matrix describingthe scatteringfrom onescatterer[12]. If the scatterersarenearresonance the diagrammaticanalysishasto be takenbeyondthe secondorderBorn approximation.Elsewherewe show this only results in a different definition of the meanfree path in the quantitiesstudiedhere [13]. Let a, a' label the anglesandfrequenciesof the incomingbeams,andlet b, b' label the outgoingbeams.The relative correlationfunction is definedas


The inclusion of in-vehicle sensors and increased intention and state recognition capabilities enable implicit in-vehicle interaction. Starting from a systematic literature review (SLR) on implicit in-vehicle interaction, which resulted in 82 publications, we investigated state and intention recognition methods based on (1) their used modalities, (2) their underlying level of automation, and (3) their considered interaction focus. Our SLR revealed a research gap addressing implicit interaction in highly automated vehicles (HAVs). Therefore, we discussed how the requirements for implicit state and intention recognition methods and interaction based on them are changing in HAVs. With this, open questions and opportunities for further research in this area were identified.


The invention discloses a kind of methods for the image for correcting and being obtained by image capture device, and the method includes obtaining the continuous measurement result (G of the equipment moving during the often capable exposure of image n ).With the often capable time for exposure (t of described image e ) proportionally select limit of integration (idx).To the measurement result (C of the often capable equipment moving of image accumulated in the entire limit of integration n ) be averaged, to provide the continuous filtered measurement result of the equipment moving during the often capable exposure of image Use the filtered measurement result Described image is corrected for equipment moving.


Dynamical forecast systems have low to moderate skill in continental winter predictions in the extratropics. Here we assess the multimodel predictive skill over Northern Hemisphere high latitudes and midlatitudes using four state‐of‐the‐art forecast systems. Our main goal was to quantify the impact of the Arctic sea ice state during November on the sea level pressure (SLP), surface temperature, and precipitation skill during the following winter. Interannual variability of the November Barents and Kara Sea ice is associated with an important fraction of December to February (DJF) prediction skill in regions of Eurasia. We further show that skill related to sea ice in these regions is accompanied with enhanced skill of DJF SLP in western Russia, established by a sea ice‐atmosphere teleconnection mechanism. The teleconnection is strongest when atmospheric blocking conditions in Scandinavia/western Russia in November reduce a systematic SLP bias that is present in all systems.


This thesis is a political interpretivist ethnographic study of everyday actors' understanding of the term 'the economy'. Political scholars have neglected this subject despite its central relevance; often treating the economy as if it is an uncontested concept. I conducted fieldwork with sixty residents from two contrasting districts in a city on the south coast of England between 2016 and 2017. When people are asked to define 'the economy', answers are often thin, along the lines of 'to do with money', but using methods like participant observation, semi-structured interviews and focus groups reveals fuller and more nuanced understanding. The thesis suggests that the dominant pattern in how everyday actors' understandings of the economy vary is based on their economic circumstances. High income participants, regardless of their political beliefs, understand the economy to be an umbrella for potentially benign forces. Their distrust of economic expertise is growing but not deep-rooted. In contrast, low income participants, regardless of their political beliefs and despite expressing deep economic concerns, contest the official discourse on the economy. Most low income participants understand 'the economy' to be a rigged system in which wealthy elites, including politicians and economic experts, 'write the rules'. They are three times less likely to use the term 'the economy' than higher income participants and less likely to label their own political behaviour in relation to recent political events as 'economic', even when their wider reasoning has been about issues that would usually be interpreted as economic in analyses of political behaviour. The thesis reveals that both high and low income participants entwine their moral and economic beliefs, which raises questions for how we as political scientists categorise what is economic and non-economic and interpret trends in current political behaviour.


Most dosages for pediatric medications are based on patient weight. In urgent and emergency cases, weight is often estimated, and incorrect estimates may result in dosing errors. Three recent papers address this issue.

Selbst et al. retrospectively reviewed incident reports documenting medication errors in their ED over 5 years. There were 33 incidents. Incorrect patient …


There is evidence to suggest that many university schools of music struggle with student retention. In many music programs, a significant factor in students being able to matriculate in their area of study is based on quality of performance in high-pressure settings in the form of jury performances. The importance placed on these jury performances makes the ability to predict a student's success in this area highly valuable to students and music educators. Using the Big Five Model of personality and a measure of narrow personality traits, this study used a stepwise multiple regression analysis to examine the relationship between performance outcomes (jury scores), personality, musical performance anxiety, and dispositional flow in a sample of students enrolled in an applied college music program (N= 109). The overall prediction model was not found to be significant. The narrow personality trait of Work Drive (β = .27), and performance anxiety in a solo context (β = .31) were shown to be significant and unique predictors of jury scores. Results also revealed multiple significant inter-correlations among variables, finding significant correlations between flow and jury scores, solo specific performance anxiety and flow, neuroticism and performance anxiety, neuroticism and flow, and performance anxiety, in ensemble and practice settings. Compared to general performance anxiety results of this study lend support to a model of context specific musical performance anxiety where participants rated anxiety to be higher during solo performances compared to group or practice performances. The findings of this study serve to lay a foundation for possible future paths of research by narrowing the scope of possible predictors of musical performance for further investigation.


Abstract Triphenylmethane dyes are aromatic xenobiotic compounds that are widely considered to be one of the most recalcitrant pollutants discharged into the environment. A fungus Penicillium sp. having decolorization capacities for Malachite Green was isolated from contaminated soil, given name YW 01. Plackett-Burman and Box-Behnken designs were used to screen the effects of decolorization factors and obtain the optimum conditions for decolorization of Malachite Green, respectively. Sucrose concentration had a significantly negative effect on the decolorization of Malachite Green, whereas the effects of initial pH and inoculum size were significantly positive (p<0.05). Optimum conditions by Box-Behnken design for the decolorization process were sucrose concentration 9.02 g/L, initial pH 6.0, and inoculum size 3.5 g (wet weight). 98.23% decolorization was observed for 25 mg/L dye concentration after 6 days under optimum conditions, which was close to the predicted value 98.93%. Induction in the activities...


Digital information and communication technologies are embedded in many social practices, always permeated by language, have contributed greatly to the performance of different school activities. Thus, it is essential to promote a reflection on these language practices, in regard to the school learning process. In this context, the objective of this article is to present a didactic proposal for the teaching of the Portuguese language, inserted in the journalistic-media sphere in dialogue with the production and communication of information and with the use of digital technologies in the classroom in a critical way . This is the A Midia Somos Nos project, from which 9th grade students of the state public network of Sao Paulo participated in media production workshops, linked to the study of reportage and news genres and carried out the journalistic coverage of an official event hosted by in school. The theoretical foundation of the project contemplates the perspective of work projects, by Hernandez (1998); the work with the discursive genres, according to Bakhtin (2016), and the proposal of media production in the perspective of Educommunication. The methodological approach to the study of genres was organized from the dialogic analysis of the discourse (Brait, 2018), as well as from communication workshops, considering the multiple languages ??involved in the journalistic-media sphere. Likewise, it was guided by the principles of work projects, regarding the organization and carrying out of activities. The experience turned to a real situation of communication and, with that, made possible the learning of different languages ??associated with the journalistic-media sphere, and, therefore, the resignification of pedagogical practices in the face of the use of digital technologies.


Though this paper we represent the different method of face detection to recognize or detect the faces in the images as well as real time. Actually the Face detection is a computer technology which is now a days used in many application to identify the object as well as face. Human face detection has always been an important problem for face, expression and gesture recognition. If the proper lights is not been provided then sometimes the error is also been defined.to erase these kinds of error some of the algorithm has been introduced.Many techniques is been used to detect the faces and the purpose of this paper is to provide the better knowledge about the method such than no error should be caused.Also the research has been done in many fields like Image recognition, object detection and


Transmitting video over wireless with good quality is a challenging problem since video may get distorted by bit errors caused by fading and thermal noise. To address this problem, one can use adaptive transmission strategies, e.g., adapt the transmission power or the transmission data rate according to the channel condition. To achieve this adaptive control, we need to have the closed-form relationship between the video layer performance (the control objective) and the parameters in each layer (the control parameters). This paper is to analyze video distortion caused by fading and thermal noise, which we call "transmission distortion". The major contribution of this paper is that for the first time, we provide a method to predict how the transmission distortion process evolves over time, i.e., we obtain the analytical form of instantaneous transmission distortion as a function of system parameters in real-time video transmission over fading channels. We also obtain the analytical form of instantaneous transmission distortion under various conditions, e.g., data partitioning and the condition that one frame consists of multiple packets transmitted over the wireless channel; these results do not exist in the literature. A nice property of our prediction method is that it is not required for a receiver to acknowledge whether a packet is correctly received. Experimental results show that the transmission distortion predicted by our formula agrees well with the true distortion. The prediction formulae derived in this paper are crucial for real-time control in wireless video transmission.


Variety assessment could be supported by the use of dynamic crop modelling. The SUNFLO model was developed to simulate the achene yield and oil concentration of sunflower crop with a special attention paid to the description of varietal diversity. For that purpose, a variety was characterized in the model by 12 parameters of phenology, leaf area development, allocation and response to water stress. These parameters were measured either in field conditions (dense stands) or in greenhouse pot experiments. The originality of the model is that it SUNFLO [7,11], can account for differences between genotypes on different criteria (penology, their architecture, their behavior in response to water stress and how they fulfill their seeds) and the fact that these features are available because they are measurable only in trials evaluating varieties in the field or greenhouse. SUNFLO model allows predicting the performance of the oil content of sunflower on the scale of a plot and calculates indicators of stress experienced by the culture. The yield of a given variety in a given environment was simulated with a mean error of 5 q.ha-1 (relative error = 16 %). When averaging a variety over all the environments or an environment over all the varieties, the error was of 3.5 q.ha-1 (relative error = 11 %). The model could be used to rank environments (through sunflower crop response) in a variety assessment network and to separate varieties with sufficient phenotypic differences.


Objective:To investigate the effects of the aerobic sports and supplement L-carntine,the soybean petide to fat mouse among six weeks,analyze the influence about Lee's index and apoprotein.Methods:SD fat model mouse were taken as the reasearch object,they were taken a traning through 6 weeks and filled with the 10% nourishing everyday[600 mg/(kg·d)L-C and 15 mg/(kg·d)SP].The control group were only fill with the distilled water 2 ml/d.The obesity rat's body weight,the body long were observed, Lee's the index were calculated.Results:The obesity intervention group,nutrition intervention group and aerobic+nutrition intervention group's Lee's index obviously were lowerthan the obese comparison group,and have obvious difference(P0.05),but There was nodifference among the three experimental groups(P0.05);The nutrition intervention,the aerobic intervention group,the aerobic+nutrition intervention are obviously reduced the apoB level(P0.05);The aerobic intervention and the nutrition intervene to the obesity rat's apoA influence did not have the obvious change(P0.05),but the aerobic+nutrition intervenes to the obesity rat's apoA influence had obvious chang(P0.05).Conclusion:Through the nutrition feed 8 weeks,the obesity rat model were established sucessfully.The movement and the nutrition intervention can improve the lipin metabolism,remarkably reduce the obesity rat's apoB density,and elevates the apoA density.


Thermal and nuclear power plants have many T-tubes where a hot fluid and a cold fluid flow into each other and mix. An optimally designed T-tube can be used to shorten mixing time which can lead to more compact plants. We have experimentally investigated the mixing characteristics of hot and cold fluid flows into a T-tube. This paper shows the mixing distance, an analogy between thermal and mass diffusion, and the optimum condition for rapid mixing. We propose a T-junction arrangement using a downstream bent tube as a mixing promoter. The experiments so far clarify that the bent tube can best enhance mixing when the branch tube in the T comes from the opposite direction to the bend. For example, at the velocity ratio u/U=1. the bent tube can reduce the mixing distance from 35D to 8D and still achieve sufficient mixing.


We study superfluid dissipation due to phase slips for a Bose-Einstein condensate flowing through a repulsive barrier inside a torus. The barrier is adiabatically raised across the annulus, while the condensate flows with a finite quantized angular momentum. At a critical height, a vortex moves from the inner region and reaches the barrier to eventually circulate around the annulus. At a higher critical height, an antivortex also enters into the torus from the outer region. Both vortex and antivortex decrease the total angular momentum by leaving behind a $2\ensuremath{\pi}$ phase slip. When they collide and annihilate or orbit along the same loop, the condensate suffers a global $2\ensuremath{\pi}$ phase slip, and the total angular momentum decreases by one quantum. In hydrodynamic regime, the instability sets in when the local superfluid velocity equals the sound speed inside the barrier region.


Cultural resources is a capital,even is a powerful capital in the era of knowledge economy.Jianshui located in southern Yunnan is the state-level historical and cultural city,Which is known as"state of the literature","Zou Lu southern Yunnan"and has rich cultural resources.But how to protect and esplore these resources has become an urgent problem.


Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can cause significant disease in immu-nocompromised patients, and treatment options are limited by toxicities. CSJ148 is a combination of two anti-HCMV human monoclonal antibodies (LJP538 days prior to enrollment, or use of any medications with anti-HCMV activity within 30 days prior to enrollment. Patients were also excluded if they had a history of hypersensitivity to monoclonal antibodies, impaired renal function requiring dialysis, severe liver disease, or any surgical or medical condition that might increase the risk for thrombotic events (including cryoglobulinemia, monoclonal gammopathies, and severe hypertriglyceridemia). Trial assessments. Efficacy was assessed through monitoring of both HCMV loads and clinical outcomes, including the development of HCMV disease and the use of rescue medication to treat HCMV (based on the need for preemptive therapy or therapy for HCMV disease). The primary efficacy endpoint was the proportion of patients who required preemptive anti-HCMV therapy based on a plasma HCMV DNA of (cid:4) 1,000 copies/ml (based on central-laboratory results) or who developed HCMV disease within 99 days after the start of dosing. HCMV loads were monitored weekly during the treatment period. Secondary endpoints included the time to start and duration of preemptive therapy, the number of preemptive therapy courses required, and the proportion of patients developing HCMV disease, as defined in published criteria (29) and detailed in the supplemental material. Safety assessments consisted this study, posterior distributions for pT and pC were computed. These posterior distributions were summarized by the posterior medians and standard deviations. Ninety percent credible intervals were also provided. The posterior distribution for pT/pC (the risk ratio) was computed and summarized in a similar fashion. Additionally, posterior probabilities (confidence levels) that the risk ratio was (cid:4) 1 and (cid:4) 0.5 were computed. Exploratory post hoc subgroup analyses to assess the effects of potential confounding factors based on baseline and postenrollment factors on patients requiring preemptive HCMV therapy were performed as needed. Tests of associations between potential confounding factors and primary outcomes adjusting for treatment were performed using a CMH test, while Fisher's exact test was used to test for associations between potential confounding factors and treatment. Since the small sample size limited the power to identify associations, we considered P values of (cid:4) 0.30 as potential signals of association, with the caveat of a high false-positive rate (3 in 10 chances of falsely rejecting the null hypothesis of no association). Safety endpoints were summarized using descriptive statistics. Secondary and exploratory analyses included time to start and duration of preemptive therapy, number of preemptive therapy courses required, HCMV load at the start of preemptive therapy, and the proportion of patients developing HCMV disease.


Cardiovascular infections (CVDs) are the number 1 reason for death around the world, taking an expected 17.9 million lives every year. CVDs are a gathering of issues of the heart, veins which incorporate coronary illness, cerebrovascular infection, rheumatic coronary illness, and different conditions. In this work, we used a multi-criteria-based Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to permit compromises between rules, where a weak outcome on one basis can be invalidated by a decent outcome in another rule. This gives a more practical type of display than non-compensatory strategies, which incorporate or reject elective arrangements dependent on hard cutoffs. This results in a weighted approach from different sources of the correct value and measures the ideal distance from our subject's heart condition. For the different sources, we have used feature weights computed using PCA, LDA, and Permutation Feature importance over the Cleveland Heart dataset and used those for generating the TOPSIS model.


Narratives exist within the African cultural ethos then and now in a variety of contexts. For African Americans, one function of the narrative has been the therapeutic effect of ameliorating oppresion. Current literature on narrative therapy provides a foundation for discussing the healing power of narratives in the African American community. Narrative interventions such as the Story Circle exercise are considered culture-centered because of its intentional use of African-based mores (e.g., emphasis on community, intergenerational focus, and circularity) . Counselors considering culture-centered narratives for work with African American clients need to consider the effective forms of resilience within the African American community. This will allow them to replicate and generalize these forms of resilience within the counseling session. (Author) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.


The multiple ionization and fragmentation of small molecules, e.g. H2, D2, H2O, and CF4, by fast H+, He+, and highly charged Oq+‐ions was studied utilizing a position‐ and time‐sensitive multi‐particle detector. The coincident measurement of the momenta of correlated fragment‐ions yields a kinematically complete image of the molecular break‐up process. Thereby, apart from relative cross‐sections for specific reaction channels, the fragmentation energy as well as angular correlations can be derived for each individual event. Of special interest are ''Coulomb‐explosion'' processes like H2→H++H+ or H2O→H++H++On+. Whereas the H2 and D2 data are in good agreement with a pure Coulomb‐explosion model, this model is insufficient to explain the detailed behaviour of more complex systems. In case of H2O better agreement is achieved with ab initio MCSCF‐calculations of the intermediate H2O(n+2)+ parent‐ion.


Deformation bands are the basic microstructural elements in metal single crystals and polycrystals where the dominating deformation mechanism is a dislocation glide. The deformation bands are detected in a form of elongated misoriented domains separated by roughly parallel families of geometrically necessary boundaries. From the continuum mechanics point of view the deformation bands are spontaneous deformation instabilities, Biot (1965). The deformation bands are a consequence of anisotropy of hardening. The anisotropy causes that it is energetically less costly to flow the material through the crystal lattice buckled by the deformation bands with a decreased number of the active slip systems than to flow it through a lattice deformed homogeneously by multislip. In our approach a symmetric double slip model of a plane strain compression, a spontaneous formation of the deformation bands is presented in a variational form suitable for an energetic consideration. We adopt the rigid-plastic, rate-independent approximation, which turns out to be the optimal viewpoint pointing to the essential features of the formation of the deformation bands. A simple version of the model based on the standard hardening rule reveals the conditions for the formation of the deformation bands. It is shown that in the simplified case the predicted bands have extreme properties: the band orientation is perpendicular to the direction of the compression and their width tends to zero. Except for a modification of the hardening rule of the advanced model, which incorporates additionally the higher plastic strain gradients, we follow the classical crystal plasticity framework. The gradients represent hardening caused by the incremental work needed to build-up the boundaries and to overcome the dislocation bowing (Orowan) stress. The proposed model provides a unified interpretation of the band orientation, their width, the misorientation across the band boundaries, their dislocation composition, and the band reorientation occurring at large strains in agreement with observations.


A 68-year-old man presented to our emergency department, with an inferior ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). He had previously undergone coronary bypass surgery with a saphenous vein graft (SVG) to the first obtuse marginal (OM1) and with a left internal thoracic mammary artery to the left anterior descending artery, in 2003. The right coronary artery was small and dominated.

Coronary angiography revealed an acute thrombotic occlusion of the SVG. After manual aspiration thrombectomy with an Export catheter (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA), a forceful contrast injection pushed abundant residual thrombus into the native OM1 branch, occluding retrograde blood flow to the distal circumflex circulation (PING…) (figure 1 and video 1). A distal protection device was not used because of a too short landing zone. A 4.5×28 mm bare metal …


• At the Anniversary Meeting on 26 November 2010 the Officers of the Society were re-elected. • The Vice-Presidents retiring under By-law XVII were Mr R Fisher and Professor D M Palliser. Dr R Baldock, BA, PhD and Professor C Kidd, BA, DPhil were elected to replace them. • The Officers retiring under By-law XV were Professor J P Parry, Honorary Treasurer and Professor M Cragoe, Honorary Director of Communications. Professor M J Hughes, BA, MSc, PhD and Dr E Griffin, BA, MA, PhD were elected, respectively, to replace them. • A new Office was created under By-law XV of Honorary Academic Editor (BBIH). Professor S J C Taylor, MA, PhD was elected to this Office. • The Members of Council retiring under By-law XX were Professor S Connolly, Professor T Hitchcock, and Professor N Miller. Professor D Feldman, MA, PhD, Professor A Musson, MA, MusB, LLM, PhD and Dr A Thacker, MA, DPhil, FSA were elected in their place. • The Society's administrative staff consists of Sue Carr, Executive Secretary and Melanie Ransom, Administrative Secretary. • Kingston Smith LLP were re-appointed auditors for the year 2010–2011 under By-law XXXIX. • Brewin Dolphin Securities were re-appointed to manage the Society's investment funds.


Abstract Since the seminal paper of Granger & Joyeux (1980), the concept of a long memory has focused the attention of many statisticians and econometricians trying to model and measure the persistence of stationary processes. Many methods for estimating d, the long-range dependence parameter, have been suggested since the work of Hurst (1951). They can be summarized in three classes: the heuristic methods, the semi-parametric methods and the maximum likelihood methods. In this paper, we try by simulation, to verify the two main properties of [dcirc]: the consistency and the asymptotic normality. Hence, it is very important for practitioners to compare the performance of the various classes of estimators. The results indicate that only the semi-parametric and the maximum likelihood methods can give good estimators. They also suggest that the AR component of the ARFIMA (1, d, 0) process has an important impact on the properties of the different estimators and that the Whittle method is the best one, since it has the small mean squared error. We finally carry out an empirical application using the monthly seasonally adjusted US Inflation series, in order to illustrate the usefulness of the different estimation methods in the context of using real data.


This paper presents a technique for on-the-fly rejection of GPS pseudorange data outliers. It is developed for applications in whom high accuracy navigation is needed in real time, as for the relative positioning of satellites in Low Earth Orbit. The proposed technique relies on two metrics screening the residual ranging errors in the Zero-Difference and Single-Difference pseudorange measurements with respect to an a-priori threshold. Preliminary tests carried out on flight data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment mission demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


A judicial on-site examination is essential for the correct analysis of a forensic case, particularly when there has been a fatal fire, as heat-related changes to bodies make identification by the forensic pathologist and other specialists difficult along with estimating the post-mortem interval and determining the precise cause and manner of death. We systematically reviewed all relevant articles dating from 2003 to 2022 in the PubMed database with a view to updating recommendations on how best to proceed. Our recommendations highlight the importance of a multidisciplinary team approach involving various forensic specialists.


As technology scaling becomes more difficult, continuing advances in electronic products and their underlying ICs increasingly rely on innovative design solutions. This article outlines some of the complexity, reliability, and productivity challenges and how the Gigascale Systems Research Center is addressing them.


ABSTRACT This paper argues that in conflict zones like Jammu and Kashmir, the embodied stories of Kashmiris punctuate the past, often silenced by dominant Indian narratives. Narratives about certain key political events in the region's past co-exist with other forms of memory. Kashmiris weave these stories to make sense of the present, build connections to the past, and stake claims for the future. They build and nourish an archive based on lived experience, keeping a record of past wrongs. Novels, anecdotes and underground literature form part of this embodied archive, and provide a resource for recovering stories that remain silent in institutional archives which serve the interests of power. These interests are visible through restrictions on access to institutional archives, and demonstrate the effects of power and the overall politics of archives.


Video abstraction is a process to pick up some important shots on a video, while the important shots might vary on the persons subjectivity. Previous works on video abstraction use only one low level feature to choose an important shot. This thesis proposes an abstraction scheme that selects a set of shots which simultaneously satisfies the desired features(or objective functions) of a good abstraction. Since the complexity of the computation to find a set of shots which maximizes the sum of object function values is 0(2ⁿ), the proposed .scheme uses a simulated annealing based searching method to find the suboptimal value within a short period of time. Upon the experimental results on various videos, we could argue that the proposed abstraction scheme could produce a reasonable video abstraction. The proposed abstraction scheme used to build a digital video library.


In several real-world contexts ranging from text categorization [1] to protein function prediction [2], the notion of "negative" example is not well defined, and the selection of appropriate sets of negative patterns may sensibly improve the predictive capabilities of supervised and semisupervised methodologies for inductive inference. This area of machine learning has been named Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning, and there has been a surge of interest lately in this particular subset of semi-supervised learning problems [2, 3]. Indeed, in different contexts there is no "gold standard" for negative items and only positives are the results of accurate studies (negatives usually are simply "non positives"). Several approaches have been proposed for selecting negatives, such as randomly sampling items and assuming the probability of getting a false negative is low [5], sampling according to positive-negative similarity measures [8], selecting the items positive for the sibling and/or ancestral categories of the category of interest as negative examples [6]. Nevertheless, hierarchical methods cannot be applied in context where the categories are not structured as a hierarchy (for instance the churn prediction for service providers [7] and the action video detection [8]). Furthermore, even when parent-child relationships are available for the classes being predicted, strategies based on sibling/ancestral categories may often break down, as some items are annotated to more than one sibling category, and many items have few siblings to use [4].


Following the Second World War, various socioeconomic changes occurred throughout agricultural Greece that resulted in the abandonment of many aspects of the traditional ways of life. Some of these, however, resisted change and survived, transformed and adapted into the new conditions which developed on the models of those in urban centers.' For example, many of the customs and habits concerning folk dance were altered and the dances no longer followed the strict ritualistic procedures of the past or were not performed at all. Thus, in the public dances of the paneghyreis, the great religious festivals in honor of a patron saint-where goods are sold, business deals made, marriages settled, athletic events staged, and so forth, including, of course dancing-today we no longer see the absolute and inviolable order of the dancers in the circle separated by sex, by age, and, in some villages, by social class. To take a particular example, the inhabitants of Epeiros (also known in English as Epiros, the northwesternmost region on the Greek mainland bordering Albania2), who because of the mountainous terrain


We introduce a novel cartoon-style hybrid emotion embodiment model for live storytelling in virtual reality (VR). It contains an avatar with six basic emotions and an auxiliary multimodal display to enhance the expression of emotions. We further design and implement a system to teleoperate the embodiment model in VR for live storytelling. Specifically, 1) we design a novel visual programming tool that allows users to customize emotional effects based on the emotion embodiment model; 2) we design a novel face tracking module to map presenters' emotional states to the avatar in VR. Our web-based implementation makes the application easy to use. This is an accompanying paper extracted from [1] for the demo session in IEEE AIVR 2019.


Abstract Cerebral hyperperfusion (CHS) syndrome is a relatively rare but potentially devastating event that can complicate carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting. It is associated with increased cerebral perfusion usually more than 100% from the baseline along with ipsilateral headache, seizures, focal neurological deficits, encephalopathy, intracranial hemorrhage, or subarachnoid hemorrhage. Various risk factors have been identified but most important risk factor is preprocedure evidence of reduced cerebral vasoreactivity with or without contralateral severe carotid stenosis or occlusion. Although diagnosis is suspected in patients with clinical suspicion, it can be radiologically demonstrated with computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and by dynamic imaging of cerebral perfusion such as transcranial Doppler (TCD), CT, and MR perfusion, and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Management is usually centered around prompt recognition and active regulation of blood pressure in perioperative and postoperative periods to limit the rise of cerebral blood flow. Prognosis depends on the early detection and prompt management of CHS. If detected early, coupled with intensive blood pressure management, almost all patients will recover over a period of time. For those patients who are diagnosed late and those progressing to intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), the prognosis is not nearly as good.


Altered evaporative demand is a global phenomenon observed over recent decades, however, such change has not been attributed explicitly to specific meteorological drivers, hampering consensus on what has caused such change. Here we investigate exactly how much individual drivers have contributed to long‐term grass‐reference evapotranspiration (ETo) change within conterminous United States (CONUS), with an emphasis on agricultural croplands. Using scenarios that constrain individual drivers i.e., air temperatures (T), relative humidity (RH), solar radiation (Rs), and wind speeds (U2) to their climatologies, we determined their relative contribution toward ETo change at monthly and annual scales. Annual ETo increased by 111 mm, or >2 standard deviations (SD) relative to the 1981–2000 baseline, accompanied by strong increase in Rs (2.7 SD), U2 (2.5 SD), T (1.1 SD), and decreased RH (2.3 SD) in regions that account for one‐third of calories produced in the U.S. Annual ETo increase was attributed primarily to T (relative contribution of 36%), followed by Rs (29%), U2 (18%), and RH (17%) with significant spatial and seasonal variability. During agriculturally critical summer months, Rs was the dominant driver with a 40%–50% relative contribution, and other three drivers were roughly equally important. These findings address demand‐side of agricultural water use and imply long‐term change in crop functions and performance, water security, and planning across aridity gradients.


Video boundary detection belongs to a basis subject in computer vision. It is more important to video analysis and video understanding. The existing video boundary detection methods always are effective to certain types of video data. These methods have relatively low generalization ability. We present a novel shot boundary detection algorithm based on video dynamic texture. Firstly, the two adjacent frames are read from a given video. We normalize the two frames to get the same size frame. Secondly, we divide these frames into some sub-domain on the same standard. The following thing is to calculate the average gradient direction of subdomain and form dynamic texture. Finally, the dynamic texture of adjacent frames is compared. We have done some experiments in different types of video data. These experimental results show that our method has high generalization ability. To different type of videos, our algorithm can achieve higher average precision and average recall relative to some algorithms. Copyright © 2014. IFSA Publishing, S. L.


Nef is one of the accessory proteins of human immunodeficiency viruses. Here, we noted that the relative expression level of NefNL4‐3 is much lower than that of NefJR‐CSF in HEK293 cells. By evaluating the expression level using a Nef mutant, it was indicated that amino acids 129‐206 of NefNL4‐3, that is, the C‐terminal region named NLAA129‐206, could contain the region responsible for the induction of the low protein expression level. In addition, the expression levels of the enhanced green fluorescent protein and Renilla luciferase became extremely low with the fusion of NLAA129‐206. Interestingly, the NLAA129‐206‐corresponding sequences of other Nef variants with relatively high expression levels also induced the extremely low protein expression level by fusion. These results suggest that the C‐terminal region of Nef can generally induce an extremely low protein expression level. Here, we propose that the C‐terminal region of Nef could become an excellent tool for the induction of an extremely low expression level of arbitrary proteins by attachment as fusion proteins.


A new investigation about one of the most important preprocessing steps so-called histogram equalization is proposed in this paper. We are about to probe effect of histogram equalization on operation of some useful edge detection filters. First for this reason, we applied specific edge detection filter on sample image, solely. For the next time before applying edge detector, we used histogram equalization to expand the gray level range of sample image and then applied edge detector. We have compared the consequences by means of standard deviation to mean ratio. It is demonstrated that minimum values for this ratio exhibit better gray level expansion and smoother edges. Finally, we have made a practical guide for researchers by our experimental results to choose proper edge detection filter for their special feature extraction work in presence of histogram equalization.


The invention concerns a method, a device and a system for applying a detectable temporary mark of predefined life time of minutes to hours onto an object (0). The invention also concerns a coating composition comprising a short-lived radioactive isotope and the use of a short-lived radioactive isotope as a temporary marking. The temporary mark is applied to the object (O) by the means of a coating composition (3) comprising a low level of a short- lived radionuclide, generated in situ from a longer-lived precursor nucleus. The marking device comprises a radionuclide generator (1), a reservoir (2) for the in situ preparing the radioactively marked printing ink, and an ink-jet or alike printing or spraying head (8), preferably of the dropon-demand type. The marking is preferably detected and identified by a gamma-radiation counter. The invention claims also a system for the temporary marking of an object (O) with a radioactive isotope of predefined life time of minutes to hours, in view of performing an operation on the marked object (O) at a later point in time.


It is universally recognized that income growth of a country is closely related to its rate of capital formation and foreign loans and assistance. This note attempts an empirical verification of this accepted fact based on a simple econometric study of the relationship between the rate of growth of per capita income of 58 developing countries and the per capita gross fixed capital formation and the per capita development assistance from developed countries. The results show that the effect of capital formation is not as great as is generally believed. Marginal output capital ratio is about 16 percent. The more surprising result is that forcing assistance has very small effect on per capita income. The paper lists several plausible explanation for this negligible effect of foreign assistance.


2 ABSTRACT: The anti-corrosive property of the Ethanolic extract of Parthenium hysterophorus leaves (EEPhL) was evaluated for Mild Steel (MS) in 0.5 M HCl using chemical method. The experimentation was carried out at room temperature over a variety of inhibitor-concentrations and at various immersion period and the data thus obtained were analyzed to evaluate various corrosion, adsorption and kinetic parameters. The maximum inhibition efficiency was observed 69.45% at 0.13 g/L of EEPhL. This is attributed to the adsorption of active chemical constituents of Parthenium hysterophorus leaves, mainly Parthenin, and Chlorogenic acid, over the MS surface, thus forming a protective film. The adsorptive propensity of the active constituents of EEPhL was assessed by FT-IR spectroscopy and quantum chemical analysis (QCA). The protective tendency was further elucidated by carrying out surface morphological studies, viz UV-Visible spectroscopy, SEM-EDX and Optical micrography. Thus, EEPhL is a potential anti-corrosive which can be used to slow down the dissolution of MS in 0.5 M HCl to a significant extent.


This study attempts to evaluate the credit delivery system of Supervised Agricultural Credit Scheme (SACS) in Anambra State of Nigeria with emphasis on loan repayment rate and technical assistance among small-holder maize farmer beneficiaries. The results show that high repayment farmers had larger loan size, larger farm size, higher income, higher age, higher number of years of farming experience, shorter distance between home and source of loan, higher level of formal education, larger household size, higher level of adoption of innovations, and lower credit needs than low repayment farmers. The regression analysis result shows that size of loan, farm size, income, age, number of yeard of farming experience, level of formal education, and adoption of innovations are significantly related to repayment rate, but distance between home and source of loan, household size, and credit needs account for less. The result of multiple correlation analysis reveals that number of farmers supervised had an inverse relationship with the farmers' income while length of service as super visors, level of formal training in agriculture, and number of farm visits show direct rela tionship. The improvement on level of income of the farmers by way of increased production and improved marketing system for their products is recommended among others.


Coconut tree termed "Tree of Life" is the only palm that produces coconut and is known for its therapeutic, traditional, spiritual, nutritional, cosmetic and industrial values. In addition, coconut oil has been shown to have pharmacological benefits and nutritional values. Coconut oil is a good source of physiologically active natural compounds such as lauric acid (monolaurin), medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) and polyphenols. Among the refined and unrefined coconut oil, virgin coconut oil is considered the best coconut oil because it is refined naturally and has the highest polyphenol content, and should be considered as part of a healthy balanced diet. It is pharmacologically active and has been reported to possess antibacterial, antiviral, anti-hypertensive, antihyperglycemic, anti-obese, anti-oxidative and antiinflammatory and other properties. This review x-rayed some of the pharmacological and therapeutic benefits of coconut oil.


The Norwegian Computing Center and the Institute of Marine Research have over years developed a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate the catch-at-age of fish. The model is implemented in C with an R interface. This note gives a thorough description of the model and the simulation algorithm corresponding to version 2.0 of the program.


A process for the sequential processing of opaque and transparent biological fluids such as whole blood, apheresis blood, bone marrow blood, umbilical cord blood, buffy coat or cultured cells by processing steps in a hollow cylindrical centrifugal processing chamber (300) which is part of a disposable set. At least three different procedures selected from washing, incubation, transduction, separation, density gradient separation, dilution and volume adjustment are each carried out once or repeated a number of times according to a given processing profile in the processing chamber. Each procedure involves an input into the processing chamber, an operation in the processing chamber and an output from the processing chamber by displacement of a piston (310). The at least three different procedures are sequentially chained one after the other to constitute an overall sequential operation in the processing chamber and its disposable set. A first application is incubation for binding magnetic beads with human blood cells or stem cells. A second application is transduction by which foreign genetic material is inserted into human blood cells or stem cells by a virus. A third application is reconditioning biological fluids to achieve reproducible concentration and volumes of blood cells or stem cells.


The aim of this study is to describe and examine Iranian's undergraduate students' integrative and instrumental motivation toward learning English as a foreign language. In the study, 79 non-English major students from the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) were selected to complete a questionnaire reflecting their motivation for learning English. In order to determine the students' tendency towards the two kind of motivation a modified 25-item survey was administered to undergraduate students in a university located in east of Iran. The results have shown that Iranian students had very high motivation and positive attitudes towards learning English and they were more instrumentally motivated. Finally, based on the findings some suggestions and recommendations for teachers have been highlighted.


TTM cryptosystems proposed by T.Moh are very fast due to the properties of tame automorphisms and small finite fields. The success of the first implementation of this system relies on the construction of Q8-module. Unfortunately, Jintai Ding and Timonthy Hodges have defeated it by decomposing function Q8 into terms S, T1, T2. Later Chunyen Chou, D. J. Guan and Jiunming Chen gave a systematic way to construct Q2 k -module. In this paper, we describe an implementation of TTM cryptosystems based on this Q2 k -module, then with method similar to Ding-Hodges, we break this implementation. For any given ciphertext, we can derive the corresponding plaintext within O((n+r) 6 ) F2 m -operations, where n+r


Labor Dispute has become the main part of the social contradictions,but it is not a simple legal problem.Behind the phenomenon of labor dispute,a desire is expressed,which is to resolve the others appeals beyond the labor dispute through resolving the labor dispute.Of course,those disputes can not be resolved easily by the court and labor arbitration committee by legal means.The way to resolve this dispute can be found by combining the different problems such as the well-being of people,government system,department coordination,serious law enforcement,social psychology and so on.


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Nowadays, security is a critical need of finding accurate in different field such as access to secure facilities or other resources, and even criminal/terrorist identification in the Global War on Terror.


High resistivity is one of the most harmful factors that may deteriorate the quality of electrical aluminum rod.Based on the in-situ statistic,it is concluded that high concentrations of vanadium,titanium,manganese and chromium are the main reason contributing to the high resistivity of the Al rod.Rare earth dopants exhibit no obvious effect on the quality of the Al rod except they may reduce the resistivity.Based on the theoretical analysis and research,new boron doping treatment was adopted to manufacturing the Al rod.The resistivity of the as treated Al rod was reduced.The electrical properties of the Al rod were also optimized.This research may lay out a sound basis for the future manufacturing of electrical aluminum rod.


Granular sucrose, malic acid and cornstarch were colored with FD&C Yellow No. 5 and Blue No. 1. The pure and colored powders, each species having a different particle size, were mixed together in combinations where the colored ingredients in the mixture carried a different colorant and were subsequently sieved to retrieve the original carrier particles. The color of the retrieved powders indicated that the colorant particles were redistributed between the carrier's particles through migration and reabsorbtion.


A metallic can is manufactured by using a metallic can blank, which has such a shape as is enclosed by circumscribing lines of an n-number, partial arcs or partial lines of an n-number and linear or arcuate connecting lines of a 2n-number. The circumscribing line is the line, which has a middle point at the contact with the circle in the n-sides of the regular n-polygon circumscribing a circle and which is shorter than one side of the regular n-polygon. The partial arc is a portion of the arc of the circle, which is positioned in the circumferential direction of that circle between one circumscribing line and its adjacent circumscribing line. The partial line is a line joining the two end portions of the partial arc. The connecting line is a line joining the end portion of the circumscribing line and the end portion of the partial arc or partial line positioned at the most proximity. As a result, the metallic can is remarkably improved in its material yield and productivity, thereby to have a high quality.


To consolidate the achievements in the elimination of absolute poverty in China and prevent rural populations from returning to poverty as a result of meteorological disasters, this study analyzed the spatiotemporal characteristics of rainstorms and droughts and their socioeconomic impacts on China's contiguous poverty-stricken areas (CPSAs) from 1984 to 2019. The annual number of rainstorms and drought days in CPSAs of China reached approximately 1.9 days/year and 44.6 days/year, respectively. It gradually decreased from southeast to northwest. Rainstorms showed a significant increasing trend of 0.075 days/decade, while there is no significant trend in drought days. Due to rainstorms and droughts, the average annual number of people affected and direct economic losses in CPSAs reached 34 million people/year and 29 billion Chinese yuan/year, accounting for 22.9% and 12.6% of China's total amounts, respectively. The average annual loss rate due to disasters in this region reached 1.6%, which is 0.6% higher than the national level. Furthermore, the distinct features and socioeconomic impacts of rainstorms and droughts were identified on the southeastern and northwestern sides of the population density line (PDL) along Tengchong-Aihui in China. Droughts have often impacted the regions located along the PDL, while rainstorms and droughts have occurred more frequently in the regions to the southeast of the PDL than in the regions to the northwest of the PDL. As a result, the affected population and direct economic losses due to rainstorms and droughts in the regions to the southeast of the PDL were 8.8 and 9.2 times and 3.3 and 7.4 times higher, respectively, than those in the regions on the other side of the PDL. Although the losses were greater, the disaster resistance capabilities were significantly improved in these regions. In contrast, the regions to the northwest side of the PDL exhibited a significant increasing trend in losses with a relatively low disaster resistance capabilities. This study revealed that it is necessary to improve the capability of meteorological disaster prevention and reduction in China's CPSAs, especially in the regions to the west of the PDL, which could further contribute to the realization of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.


EDM (Electrodischarge Machining) is one which processes nonconventional machining processes workmanship utilizing an electric spark discharge quickly from the electrode (-) towards the work piece (+) through the dielectric fluid, in which electric sparks generated by a capacitor, which was previously occupied by the DC current source.In the process of EDM, it is necessary to study the effect of electrode diameter of MRR, the effect of tapering and overcut that product quality is more precise. In this study, the work piece used was SKD 11 steel, while the material is a copper electrode with two different EDM machines EDM relaxation and the prototype of modern EDM machine type Jiann Sheng 60.This research was done by punching holes in workpieces using several variations of the diameter of the electrode by setting the parameters constant.Data from the experiment results and then processed using the existing equations to obtain the relation between variation in diameter with the characteristics of EDM electrodes. From this research we can know the greater the diameter of the electrode, the MRR, and overcut tapering effect on the two EDM machines (Relaxation and JS EDM) where the circulation flow smoothly growled.If it does not happen smoothly so infuriated that can enlarge the accumulation of time so that the MRR decreases workmanship as well as the tapering effect is decreased due to spark on the radial side of the electrode is reduced and fewer particles passing through the radial side growled electrodes. keywords: Spark, elektrode, tapering, overcut, EDM, MRR.


In the planning process, wireless network has a considerable influence on the sharing of information through open space or Wi-Fi. In this article, we'll describe wireless technology, but we'll also try to focus on a few of the most recent research discoveries. A cable connection seems to be more reliable than a wireless one, according to the results of a comparison of the two. Wireless connections, on the other hand, are easy to obtain and set up. Also included was an in-depth overview of wireless communication advancements. By raising the generation, it has been found that the technology's speed is also improved, which is a beneficial thing. As the amount of data on a device increases, so does the amount of power it uses. They also looked at a number of recent technical developments that will benefit wireless technology.


HIV/AIDS has been a major public health focus for more than 40 years. By using the rhesus macaque/SIV model, we are able to learn more about immune response and host genetics than through human study alone.
There is a complex interplay between host and viral factors that determine the course of an HIV/SIV infection. The overall goal of this retrospective study is to analyze the dual evolution of both the immunodominant CD8+ GAG-CM9 epitope and the binding sites for restriction by the host protein TRIM5α that are located on the highly conserved GAG region of the SIV genome. Early and late time points in an SIV infection will be analyzed to determine the favored drivers for viral escape.
In Specific Aim 1, a cohort of 15 Mamu A*01 rhesus macaques was characterized by viral load profile and TRIM5 haplotype. Six animals were "Controllers," 5 animals maintained and "Intermediate Viral Load," 3 animals maintained a "High Viral Load," and 2 animals "Crashed and Burned." Six animals had the TRIM5TFP/TFP haplotype, 7 animals were classified as TRIM5TFP/Q, and 2 animals were classified as TRIM5Q/Q. No TRIM5CypA allele was found in
the cohort. No statistical significance could be shown between TFP/TFP animals and TFP/Q animals, but there was significance when comparing TFP/TFP and Q/Q.
In Specific Aim 2, the sequence of both early and late time points from an immunotherapeutic trial were compared to the original inoculum. Early time points from the trial showed near complete homology with the inoculum at the residues of interest. Late time points showed that the R98S mutation was important for an animal's ability to control virus.
No significant mutation occurred at the GAG-CM9 epitope. Mutations at anchor residues did not contribute to an animal's ability to control virus and showed no correlation with TRIM5 haplotype. However, the polymorphisms in TRIM5 may be contributing to the variation in overall immune response as the avidity with which TRIM5α binds to the viral capsid shows correlation with the strength of innate immune signaling.


The current torque calibration range up to 1.1 MN·m is not any longer sufficient. The fast growing wind energy sector raised the demand for traceability of torque in the MN·m range over the last few years. To this end, a 5 MN·m torque transducer was acquired to extend the torque calibration range. Since the measuring device cannot be calibrated over its full measurement range, mathematical methods to forecast the behaviour of the torque transducer above 1.1 MN·m and their further development are presented.


A FOURTEEN-year-old schoolboy was referred to the Venereal Disease Clinic because of a "positive" routine serologic test for syphilis. Physical examination had been negative, and a tentative diagno...