Largely because they have written for the most part about people no longer living, historians have not confronted certain basic ethical issues of data use, which have attracted the attention of social scientists during the last decade. This essay will review some of the problems that are emerging now that historians are writing more often about living persons and will argue that they are increasingly like other social scientists in having to face certain sensitive issues in the use of personal information, especially those pertaining to the protection of the privacy and confidentiality of individuals. Although it may not yet be necessary for the historical community to go to the length of preparing detailed ethical codes on the use of personal information, a considerable degree of consciousness-raising and some formalization of standards must occur in the profession before serious problems arise. If demonstrable standards of concern for privacy and confidentiality are created, they will have a direct effect on such issues of pressing concern to historians as refusals of access to records, avoidance of interviews, restrictions on data collection, the removal of personal identifiers after a period of time, and even destruction of records. Allan G. Bogue's identification of at least certain aspects of the problem in his presidential address to the Social Science History Association is an informed one: None can question that confidentiality pledges should on occasion be made, or controls imposed on some categories of data; but we must prevent restrictions in mindless ways or the result will be the destruction of data of historical consequence or restricted access for ridiculously long period of time. The position that we should close records to protect individuals is much less in the interests of the historical researcher and the public than is the principle that there should be appropriate penalties for the misuse of information derived from personal records. We should work for the latter principle and its amplification in law, rather than meedly acceding to the creation of a society dominated by the paper shredder and the incinerator.1


Abstract This study describes an economical and simple apparatus and methodology for preparing plant material for δ13C analysis by the combustion of material in sealed Pyrex tubes at 550°C. The largest difference in δ13C for samples combusted at 550°C in Pyrex tubes compared with those combusted at 800°C in the more expensive Vycor tubes was 0.65 δ units. Pyrex combustion tubes are approximately 7% of the cost of Vycor tubes and are easier to handle. Excellent reproducibility was observed with an average standard deviation for samples combusted at 550°C and 800°C of 0.12 and 0.13 units of δ13C, respectively. During the cryogenic distillation of CO2 from the other gasses generated during the combustion, equilibration and evacuation times were varied between 10 s and 120 s. Sample size was varied between 0.4 mg and 2.2 mg. Variations in evacuation time, equilibrium time, and sample size did not significantly affect the value for δ13C. The total duration for the cryogenic distillation of one sample was appro...


This manuscript presents a probabilistic approach, dubbed ProbSI, for computing the basal shear stress arising due to interaction between sea ice pressure ridges and the seafloor for the purposes of improving the simulation of landfast sea ice in coupled ice-ocean models. The technique described is based upon that of Lemieux et al (2015), but with a more sophisticated approach that utilizes probability density functions of both the ice thickness and bathymetry in a grid cell rather than simply relying on the mean values. One result of this approach is that two grid cells with the same mean ice thickness might have different maximum keel depths, depending on the shape of the ice thickness distribution (ITD). Additionally, by relating the maximum keel depth to a fixed percentile of the ITD, the authors introduce a non-linear relationship between mean ice thickness and keel depth that better matches observations. Although the initial results from the ProbSI model do not appear to be a drastic improvement over the those derived using Lemieux et al's (2015) linear keel depth parameterization, the authors demonstrate the sensitivity of the results to the variability of bathymetry within a grid cell and, hence, the importance of retaining the sub-grid bathymetric distribution.


The stratigraphic terminology of the Pennsylvanian of southwestern Illinois is reviewed. The Boskydell sandstone lies above the Pounds sandstone ( = lower massive Makanda) but not above the Grindstaff sandstone, and therefore below the Willis coal. The Boskydell contains conspicuous amounts of small quartz pebbles and large quartz granules, a characteristic normally associated with the Caseyville group rather than with the Tradewater group. The Boskydell sandstone contains poorly preserved marine fossils which were deposited more or less in situ. The entire Boskydell sandstone probably exceeds 30 ft. in thickness; the actual geographic extent of the Boskydell is not known.


Two hundred and thirty-nine beef calves were used to determine the occurrence of injection site lesions at slaughter (16 to 17 mo of age) following the use of 3 different 8-way clostridial bacterins, a 4-way viral respiratory vaccine, various long-acting oxytetracycline preparations, florfenicol, ceftiofur, and trimethoprim-sulfa when injected in the top hip (top butt), thigh (round), or neck (blade) of calves at 2 to 3 or 5 to 7 mo of age. The occurrence of lesions varied by product, route of administration, and location of injection. The number of steaks affected with lesions, the trim weight of lesions, the histological class of lesions, and the economic losses from trim are described.


Background: Laparoscopic surgeries are minimally invasive surgery which needs creation of pneumoperitoneum and specific positions to facilitate surgery. It leads to hemodynamic changes intraoperatively and mandates pharmacological intervention to manage that. Dexmedetomidine is selective alpha agonist which helps in blunting hemodynamic stress response and have supplemental analgesic effect. Aims: The current randomized control trial used infusion of lower doses of Dexmedetomidine intraoperatively to evaluate its effect on the blunting of stress response of intubation and creation of pneumo-peritoneum. The additional analgesic role of Dexmedetomidine was also assessed. Methodology: Total 80 patients were recruited in the study, which were randomly allocated in two groups. Forty patients were included in the group D, who received Dexmedetomidine in dose of 1 μ/kg/min over 10 min followed by 0.2 μ/kg/hr till the end of the surgery. In placebo group (group P), volume adjusted infusion of sterile saline continued with same time limits. The hemodynamic effects at intubation, pneumoperitoneum creation and analgesic requirement in postoperative time were noted. Results: The vitals were more stable in Dexmedetomidine group, compared to placebo group, after intubation, pneumoperitoneum creation and postoperatively with p < 0.05. The need of induction agent was 32% lower in group D and to maintain hemodynamics during pneumoperitoneum 44% higher MAC was required in placebo group. There was a highly significant difference between the two groups in sedation score at the initial 10 min bolus infusion, immediate post op 10 min and pain score in the immediate post op 10 min (P < 0.001). Conclusion: The infusion of Dexmedetomidine effectively blunts the hemodynamic stress response of intubation and pneumoperitoneum with additional advantage of reduced postoperative requirement of analgesics.


The influence of LIFAC desulfurization to thermodynamic performance test method of boilers and data processing thereof has been studied, a correction method for data processing of efficiency test under condition of putting LIFAC system into operation has been proposed. When the said system was under operation, the dust flow, flue gas flow and the composition of flue gas were affected by the injection of limestone into the furnace. A part of heat was carried off by the hot air being extracted for heating the flue gas, and the sampling method of fly ash in test was different from normal test due to ash-recirlculation.


Recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is a significant problem in pediatric patients, and there has been much recent interest in the role that Helicobacter pylori (Hp) might play in this disorder. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalance of Hp infection in children with RAP, and to determine whether there was an association between Hp and RAP. The study was conducted on 50 children with RAP and 20 asymptomatic children admitted for inguinal surgery as a control group. Serum samples from the 70 children were tested for anti-Hp Ig G and anti-Hp Ig A by ELISA. Of the 50 children with RAP, 32 were seropositive (64%) for Hp Ig G, and 14 were seropositive (28%) for Hp Ig A. In the control group, a of the 20 children without RAP were seropositive (45%) for Hp Ig G, and 4 were seropositive (20%) for Hp Ig A. The high prevalence of Hp seropositivity (64% by Ig G) in this study was in variance with other reported pediatric data from the developing world. The prevalence of Hp infection in patients with RAP was not significantly different from that in asymptomatic children (p=0.14). Thus, no association between Hp infection and RAP was found.


One of the silliest things about our education system — and one which is the source of many of its disparities — is the rigid dichotomy of the schools into 'Primary' and 'Secondary'.


In the stability analysis of slopes, environmental conditions and soil properties play an important role aimed at the interpretation of the mechanisms of movement. Slope behaviour is very complex and depends on the mechanical processes implying shear deformation and rupture. To assess the stability of slopes shear strength parameters of soils are needed, especially cohesion and friction angle for both drained and undrained conditions.


To obtain a post-fault smooth motor torque and guarantee safe drive operation after fault occurrence,the novel fault-tolerant current control strategies for five-phase permanent magnetic synchronous motor under single phase open-circuit fault condition was presented.By adopting post-fault extended transformation matrixes,torque and copper loss equations at fundamental and third harmonic synchronous rotating coordinates were deduced respectively.According to the two cases of back-EMF with and without third harmonic component,analytical methods to eliminate the torque pulsation by applying fundamental current only and with third harmonic current injection were proposed.Also,from the perspectives of maximum torque per ampere and maximum total torque,the corresponding analytical optimization methods were proposed further.A universal online generation technique of fault-tolerant current applicable to different types of air gap magnetic field and optimization objectives was designed.A good match between analytical predictions and results of both simulations and experiments validates the proposed current control strategies.


The propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a time stationary turbulent and nonlinear plasma is studied with a view to ascertaining the statistical moments of the wavefield. The authors find that the functional method which was used by Hopf in his study of ordinary turbulence is a powerful one also for turbulent and nonlinear media. A functional differential equation is derived for the moments of electromagnetic waves propagating in an isotropic plasma in which the dielectric constant undergoes statistical fluctuations. Using the Markov and small-angle forward-scattering approximations, they find a hierarchy of coupled partial differential equations for the moments containing different wave numbers. An approximate perturbation method is devised for decoupling and solving the hierarchy to any desired order. They draw attention to the similarity of the closure problem of the moment equations to that in turbulence generally and in statistical mechanics. Possible applications are discussed.


The crisis situation caused by the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the world and in Ukraine raises the issue of building national stability, forming an appropriate legal framework and organizational system, development of its individual components, including crisis management. The article presents a comprehensive model of introduction of a multilevel threat assessment system in Ukraine. It aims to implement in our country the best world practices, taking into account the peculiarities of the organization of the national security system of Ukraine, regulatory and legal support, existing experience, as well as the goals of state and society. To perform these tasks, the best world practices of functioning of such systems and current legislative documents of Ukraine are analyzed. This system should become an effective decision-making tool in the field of national security and civil protection, an important element of strategic planning, will help increase the level of readiness of the state and society to respond to a wide range of threats. The functioning of such a system is especially relevant at the initial stage of building national stability, when the relevant culture and political and managerial processes are just being formed. The article presents a methodology that can be used to assess threats to Ukraine's national security and improve strategic planning. This takes into account the recommendations for risk assessment set out in DSTU IEC / ISO 31010: 2013. Based on the legislation of Ukraine, a model of organizational support of the system of assessment of threats to national security has been developed, the implementation of which involves several stages. It is investigated that the implementation of the proposed comprehensive measures will significantly increase the level of readiness of the state and society to respond to a wide range of threats of various origins. In addition, it will ensure the continuity of critical processes in the country, and will be a significant step towards improving strategic planning in Ukraine.


Several polls reveal that a strong majority wants the law withdrawn, with French youth especially opposed. A poll conducted March 21-22 by the French polling organization CSA found that 66 percent wanted the law withdrawn, while 25 percent opposed withdrawing it. Among those aged 18-29, three-fourths (74%) want the law withdrawn. The highest support for withdrawing the law was among 25-to-29-year-olds--78 percent; among 18-to-24-yearolds it was 72 percent.


The invention discloses multi-component easy-care fabric. The multi-component easy-care fabric is formed by interweaving warp yarn and weft yarn, wherein the warp yarn is formed by blending 80 counts of australasian wool, 1.5D polyester fiber and silk, the specification is 92 counts/2, and the degree of Z-twist is 900 twists/m; the weft yarn is formed by 80 counts of australasian wool, 1.5D polyester fiber, silk and Lycra, firstly, 54 counts/1 of single yarn is prepared by the 80 counts australasian wool, the 1.5D polyester fiber and the silk, then 30D Lycra is added to prepare Lycra core spun yarn, the specification of the weft yarn is 48 counts/1, and the degree of Z-twist is 1,050 twists/m. The multi-component easy-care fabric has bright color, cool hand feeling, sufficient elasticity, high stereoscopic effect, good breathability and superior performance, has the characteristics of fashion and practicality simultaneously, and is comfortable, aesthetic and suitable for manufacture of men's casual clothing.


In electronic band structures, nodal lines may arise when two (or more) bands contact and form a one-dimensional manifold of degeneracy in the Brillouin zone. Around a nodal line, the dispersion for the energy difference between the bands is typically linear in any plane transverse to the line. Here, we perform an exhaustive search over all 230 space groups for nodal lines with higher-order dispersions that can be stabilized by crystalline symmetry in solid state systems with spin-orbit coupling and time reversal symmetry. We find that besides conventional linear nodal lines, only lines with quadratic or cubic dispersions are possible, for which the allowed degeneracy cannot be larger than two. We derive effective Hamiltonians to characterize the novel low-energy fermionic excitations for the quadratic and cubic nodal lines, and explicitly construct minimal lattice models to further demonstrate their existence. Their signatures can manifest in a variety of physical properties such as the (joint) density of states, magneto-response, transport behavior, and topological surface states. Using ab-initio calculations, we also identify possible material candidates that realize these exotic nodal lines.


UNSTRUCTURED
 A Digital Twin (DT), which is defined originally as a virtual representation of a physical asset,
system or process, is a new concept in healthcare. DT in healthcare cannot be a single technology,
but a domain adapted multi-modal modelling approach, which incorporates the acquisition,
management, analysis, prediction, and interpretation of the data, aiming to improve medical decision
making. However, there are many challenges and barriers that has to be overcome before a DT can
be used in healthcare. In this viewpoint paper, we address these challenges, and envision a dynamic
DT in healthcare for optimizing individual patient health care journeys. We describe how we can
commit multiple domains to developing this DT. With our cross-domain definition of the DT, we aim
to define future goals, trade-offs, and methods, which guide the development of the dynamic DT and
the implementation strategies in healthcare.


Taking Tunchang County of Hainan Province as test area,using present situation map of land use of 2005 and corrected SPOT image of 2008 as data,and using supervised classification in ENVI4.5 to extract cultivated land,garden and forest land information,and the extracted accuracy was compared and analyzed.The results showed that the extracted accuracy of parallel six surface method in cultivated land information was highest,and reached 85.60%,and the extracted accuracy of the minimum distance method in garden information reached 82%,the forest land information accuracy extracted by maximum likelihood classifier amounted to 80.38%.The phenomenon of "different objects same image" and "same object different images" are the main influencing factors of classification accuracy.


A technique is proposed that makes it possible to predict delamination in laminated composites. The technique is based on taking into consideration binder softening both under uniaxial transverse tension and in a plane stress state formed during longitudinal and transverse tension. The stratification moment is determined by the methods of the mathematical catastrophe theory.


Dr. Hulusi Behcet (1889-1948) is a famous Turkish dermatologist. He was born in Istanbul on February 20, 1889. His father was Ahmet Behcet and his mother was Ayse Behcet who was also Ahmet's cousin. After the Turkish Republic was established and the "Family Name Law" was accept, his father Ahmet Behcet, who was among the friends of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Turkish Republic, received private permission to use his father's name Behcet. Dr. Hulusi Behcet pursued his education at Gulhane Military Medical Academy. After he had become a medical doctor, he specialized in dermatology and venereal disease at Gulhane Military Hospital and he completed his specialization in 1914. His first observations on Behcet's Disease started with a patient he met between 1924-1925. Dr. Behcet with the symptoms of these three patients whom he had followed for years, then decided that they were the symptoms of a new disease (1936). He published these cases in the Archives of Dermatology and Veneral Disease. He died from a sudden heart attack on March 8, 1948. Today, this disease is universally called Behcet's Disease in medical literature. Key words: Dr. Hulusi Behcet, Behcet's Disease


With the development of scientific research, we demand a leader who has both ability and moral integrity The scientific research ability and management ability are considered to select the leader of scientific research group It is order to accelerate scientific research to open up


Einstein Probe is a Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) mission due for launch at the end of 2022 with its primary goals to discover high-energy transients and monitor variable objects. The mission consists of two instruments, the Wide field X-ray Telescope (WXT), a lobster eye X-ray telescope consisting of twelve identical modules; and the Follow-up X-ray Telescope (FXT), which is a traditional Wolter X-ray telescope, which is jointly developed by CAS, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE). Each of the WXT modules comprise of 36 micro pore optics (MPOs), with a 375 mm focal length, a field of view of more than 3600 square degrees, a goal of 5 arcmin resolution and working in the energy range of 0.5-4 keV. As part of the collaboration between CAS and ESA, the University of Leicester (UoL) is acting as a testing facility and repeatability check for several elements of the WXT optic development. This includes calibration of individual MPOs, temperature measurements on a prototype module, calibration of a qualification module and full calibration of one of the flight module optics. The majority of these tests will be performed in the two X-ray facilities at the University of Leicester, the Tunnel Test Facility (TTF) and the Vertical Test Facility (VTF). Presented here are details of the tests carried out and the results obtained from the first batch of individual MPOs and the plan for the thermal tests of the prototype in the TTF.


The output of high power lasers used for material processing present extreme radiation hazards. In normal operation this hazard is removed by the use of local shielding to prevent accidental exposure and system design to ensure efficient coupling of radiation into the workpiece. Faults in laser beam delivery or utilisation can give rise to hazardous levels of laser radiation. Two methods for controlling hazards are possible: i) A passive hazard control strategy requiring the laser system to be enclosed such that the full laser power cannot burn through the housing under fault conditions. Usually this approach is too restrictive, ii) Active control strategies in which a fault condition is detected and the laser beam terminated This reduces the requirements for protective housing. Active controls can be thought of as reactive or pro-active. Reactive strategies rely upon detecting the effects of an errant laser beam whereas pro-active strategies can anticipate and detect fault conditions. This prevents hazardous situations arising. A pro-active strategy in which the laser beam is sampled at the final turning mirror is described in this work. Two control systems have been demonstrated; the first checks that beam power is within preset limits, the second monitors incoming beam power and position, and radiation reflected back from the cutting head. In addition to their safety functions the accurate monitoring of power provides an additional benefit to the laser user.The output of high power lasers used for material processing present extreme radiation hazards. In normal operation this hazard is removed by the use of local shielding to prevent accidental exposure and system design to ensure efficient coupling of radiation into the workpiece. Faults in laser beam delivery or utilisation can give rise to hazardous levels of laser radiation. Two methods for controlling hazards are possible: i) A passive hazard control strategy requiring the laser system to be enclosed such that the full laser power cannot burn through the housing under fault conditions. Usually this approach is too restrictive, ii) Active control strategies in which a fault condition is detected and the laser beam terminated This reduces the requirements for protective housing. Active controls can be thought of as reactive or pro-active. Reactive strategies rely upon detecting the effects of an errant laser beam whereas pro-active strategies can anticipate and detect fault conditions. This prevents hazar...


We introduce using maximum entropy reinforcement learning (MERL) for training Sequence Generative Adversarial Networks as a technique for obtaining more diverse samples and alleviate mode drop (MD) and mode collapse (MC) problems. We implemented generators using the ordinary REINFORCE algorithm, REINFORCE with reward baseline and MERL REINFORCE. We trained the models to learn to generate music using the Nottingham data set. We observed that, without pre-training, the algorithms fail to produce high reward trajectories. We showed that the pre-trained REINFORCE models mainly explore trajectories of their initial policies and we argue that the method might be more suitable for fine-tuning models than learning generative distributions from scratch.


A highly fluorescent conjugated microporous polymer with amidoxime is reported for concurrent adsorption and detection of uranium under acidic conditions.


Multisensor data fusion is an emerging technology applied in various engineering applications. It provides significant advantages over single-source data. The use of multiple types of sensors plays an important role in achieving reasonable accuracy and precision. A novel integrated heterogeneous multisensor data fusion approach in structural health monitoring is proposed. The study concerns to find a simple and affordable monitoring strategy for alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR), which is one of the root causes for structural deterioration in concrete. A standard method to accelerate AAR expansion is employed on four samples, which are prepared with different levels of alkali concentrations. Different sensor systems are used at surface and internal levels. Acoustic sensor system, electromechanical system, and optical systems are employed to obtain surface level damage. The internal level of damage is obtained by embedded sensors within the structure. Features extracted from heterogeneous sensors are fed to decentralised Kalman filter. The fused global estimates and individual source estimates are fed to artificial neural network (ANN), which characterise and quantify the level of damage. The research is focused on establishing correlation among surface damage level, internal damage level, and the amount of gel concentration in the structure. To emphasise the expected improved accuracy using data fusion, evaluations are done on efficiency and accuracy of single-source data system comparing with the fused heterogeneous data.


BY STEPHEN M. RYAN, MATTHEW MARTEL, AND BEN EDELMAN B ankruptcy trustees, debtors-in-possession, and receivers are seeing an increase in efforts to sell Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, also referred to ''IP Numbers.'' IP Numbers are the unique numeric identifiers associated with computers connected to the Internet. While sales of IP Numbers can deliver value to the estate, IP Numbers are unusual in that their value, use and transfer are enhanced by applicable contract and policy. Ignoring the contracts and policies can delay the sale process and reduce or negate the value of IP Numbers. This article seeks to provide an overview of issues associated with IP Number sales, as well as suggesting an approach for permissible and straightforward sales to obtain the highest value.


Galaxy clusters will distort the pattern of temperature anisotropies in the microwave background via gravitational lensing. We create lensed microwave background maps using clusters drawn from numerical cosmological simulations. A distinctive dipole-like temperature fluctuation pattern is formed aligned with the underlying microwave temperature gradient. For a massive cluster, the characteristic angular size of the temperature distortion is a few arcminutes, and the characteristic amplitude a few microkelvins. We demonstrate a simple technique for estimating the lensing deflection induced by the cluster; microwave background lensing measurements have the potential to determine the mass distribution for some clusters with good accuracy on angular scales up to a few arcminutes. Future high-resolution, high-sensitivity microwave background maps will have the capability of detecting lensing by clusters; we discuss various systematic limitations on probing cluster masses using this technique.


The construction of the Jaro Floodway in 2012 resulted to a rapid progradation of the shoreline in 8 years. This study examined the long- and short-term changes in area covered by mangroves at the river mouth area of this flood canal by utilizing historical maps (1947 and 1988), and Landsat images. A total of 44 Landsat images were used that covered the time periods 1998, 2000-2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010-2011, 2013-2014, 2016, and 2018. Five images were used for each time period and the mangrove cover for each image was determined by using a supervised classification scheme. The set of rasters for each time period was then averaged to generate the final classification map. From 1947 to 1988, mangrove cover increased from 7.01 to 43.83 ha as a result of channel avulsion of the Jaro River due to fishpond construction at the former river mouth. However, it started to decrease until 2008 (3.42 ha) due to widespread fishpond conversion. Then, it rapidly increased to 40.05 ha in 2018. This increase is primarily attributed to the rapid expansion of the intertidal zone in the discharge area of the Jaro Floodway which is due to high sedimentation and low accommodation space.


This paper describes the design of a 4-lane serial-link interface offering a high data rate video transmission for digital display devices such as LCDs. The implemented link layer of the system achieves the maximum link rate up to 10.8 Gbps and transmits a packed data stream for a scalable data rate. The interface does not require a dedicated clock channel because a clock is embedded in a data stream to reduce EMI. An auxiliary channel provides services for device management and link configuration. The system can be applied to a system with video resolution exceeding 1920×1200 (WUXGA) and color depths up to 48 bpp.


In this paper, we consider the existence of multiple solutions to the Kirchhoff problems with critical potential, critical exponent and a concave term. Our main tools are the Nehari manifold and mountain pass theorem.


A magnetic epitaxial layer containing the rare earths yttrium and samarium is grown on a gadolinium-gallium substrate which moves vertically in the melt during the growth process. The substrate remains immersed in a melt containing oxides of iron and the rare earths and while moving vertically in its own plane the substrate effectuates a translation movement with each point of the substrate describing a canted 8-shaped loop.


Objective:To investigate the classification of diseases and the effect of severe victims in Wenchuan earthquake. Method: 21 patients in intensive care unit were chosen. General state of health, hematologic datas, the acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE)Ⅱscore and curative effect were detected, and the APACHEⅡscore were evaluated continously for some patients. Result:The serum potassium of patients with crush injury was significantly higher than that of fracture accompanying complications(P 0.05), while the serum calcium level was significantly lower than that of simple fracture (P0.05).Compared with other groups, serum creatinine and aspartate aminotransferase were higher in patients with crush injury, but there is no statistically significant (P 0.05). Compared with patients discharged ICU after two weeks, the APACHEⅡscore was significantly higher than those being continuous treated in ICU. However the serum sodium and calcium were significantly lower (P0.05). The serum potassium and creatinine were higher in patients being continuous treated in ICU, but there is no statistically significant(P0.05). Conclusion:Fracture and crush injury take the most percent in the severe lesions in earthquake. The potassium and serum creatinine level could evaluate the severity of diseases initially. Amputated extremity could prevent crush syndrome. Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) was the powerful treatment. Continous APACHEⅡscore could reflect patient's condition in a degree.


Hyperspectral remote sensing image data has been widely used in a variety of applications due to its continuous spectrum and high spectral resolution. However, reducing huge dimensions with high data relevance is time-consuming, and parallel processing is required to accelerate this process. In this paper, we studied the KPCA (Kernel Principal Component Analysis), a nonlinear dimensionality reduction method, and proposed a parallel KPCA algorithm (KPCA_G) based on the CPU/GPU heterogeneous system. The experimental results prove that our KPCA_G algorithm achieves up to 173x speedup over the original serial KPCA. Moreover, to tackle the limitation of insufficient memory caused by the reduction of large-scale hyperspectral data dimension, we exploit the intra-node parallelization using multi-core CPUs and many-core GPUs to improve the parallel hierarchy of distributed-storage KPCA. Finally, we designed and implemented a multilevel hybrid parallel KPCA algorithm that achieves 2.56 ~ 9.03 times speedup compared to the traditional coarse-grained parallel KPCA method on MPI.


Detecting records that are approximate duplicates, but not exact duplicates, is one of the key tasks in information integration. Although various algorithms have been presented for detecting duplicated records, strings matching is essential to those algorithms. In self- adaptive information integration algorithm presented by this paper, the hybrid similarity, a comprehensive edit distance and token metric, was used to measure the similar degree between strings. In order to avoid mismatching because of different expressions, the strings in records were partitioned into vocabularies, then were sorted according to their first character. In the process of vocabularies matching, misspellings and abbreviations can be tolerated. The experimental results demonstrate that the self-adaptive approach for information integration achieves higher accuracy than that using Smith-Waterman edit distance and Jaro distance.


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Watermarking is an effective approach to the copyright protection of digital media such as audio,image,and video.By inspriation from cryptography and considering the immensity of the set of all possible wvaelets,it is presented that in wavelet domain watermarking,the associated wavelet can be considered as the private key for encrypting the wavtermark so as to enhance the security of the embedded mark.This idea is partly supported by the fact that from computational complexity viewpoint.It is very time-consuming to search over the immense set of all candidate wavelets for the right one if no a priori knowledge is known about it .To verify our proposal,the standard image"Lena"is first watermarked in a specific wavelet domain,the watermark recovery experiments are then conducted in the wavelet domain for a set of wavelets with the one used for mark embedded in it ,separately.It follows from the experimetal results that the mark can be recovered only in the right wavelet domain,which jusstifies the suggestion.


Cross-linking of degraded lignin components present to bio-oil increases the density and causes instability during storage. Bio-oil quality and quantity from wheat straw was improved by alkaline and enzymatic treatment before pyrolysis. Alkaline pretreatment reduced the lignin content from 18 per cent to 10 per cent. Enzymatic pretreatment using -glucosidase and cellulase in ratio 5:10, 10:10, 15:10 U for 24, 48, 72 h was optimized by using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and eliminated 3.1 per cent lignin. The maximum reducing sugar and glucose content was found 24.2 g/L and 15.488 g/L, respectively. Bio-oil yield by fast pyrolysis of treated and untreated wheat straw was 30 per cent and 27 per cent, respectively. Bio-oil of the treated wheat straw exhibited increased in pH, higher density and decreased in viscosity. The flash point of bio-oil from treated wheat straw was very close to commercial diesel. Bio-oil was characterized by FTIR and GC-MS analysis.


Fereidouni H. G., Al-Mulali U., Lee J. Y. M. and Mohammed A. H. Dynamic relationship between house prices in Malaysia's major economic regions and Singapore house prices, Regional Studies. The purpose of this study is to examine house price diffusion among Malaysia's major economic regions (Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Pulau Pinang and Johor) and between each of these regions and neighbouring Singapore by using the quarterly data from 2000:Q1 to 2011:Q1. By applying multivariate co-integration approach, the results show the existence of ripple effects among Malaysia's major economic regions. Moreover, it is found that house price diffusion observed within a country can be extended across the border. Implications are offered along with the findings of this research.


The reactions between bilayered Ni/Pt films and Si (100) substrates induced by thermal annealing and ion mixing were investigated. Thermal annealing of Si/Pt/Ni and Si/Ni/Pt samples led to layer reversal at low temperatures (∼ 300°to 400°C) and the formation of a ternary phase at high temperatures (∼ 700°C). These results are consistent with those reported in the literature. Ion mixing of both types of samples led to silicide formation without layer reversal. This effect is interpreted in terms of a change of moving species from metal (in thermal annealing) to Si (in ion mixing). The mixing efficiency between Pt and Ni is observed to be enhanced when Si is mixed together with these two metals.


A new method for nonlinear regression is proposed based on one-classification in this paper,which can uncover the relation among one-class classification,binary classification and regression.The method first obtains two sets based on the training data with the response variable shifted up and down by e,and then,computes respectively a sphere shaped decision boundary with minimal volume around every set of objects,finally gets the regression function by computing the max-margin which separates the plane and bisects the two centers.The results of two simulation experiments show that the proposed method is feasible and valid.


The continuous dropout of students has been a problem within the academic sector for a long time. The reason behind these dropouts has been attributed to different factors. The main factors have always been pre-bachelor grades and pre-bachelor education level. This study examines data to find correlations between students' academic and/or personal factors and the success in the first year of the International Business study bachelor. By academic factors, we mean prebachelor English grades, math grades and pre-bachelor education level. While personal factors are limited to gender and parents' education level. The methodology of this study is based on correlation analysis with the goal to explore whether different factors influence a student's success in the first year of the International Business bachelor. Findings indicate that students from international business studies with a higher pre-bachelor math grade in their pre-bachelor phase have a higher chance of success compared to their counterparts that have a lower grade. However, pre-bachelor English grade does not seem to have an impact on a students' success. A logistical regression test on the variables for pre-bachelor math grades and completion of the first-year results in a prediction rate of 61.5%. This means that with the pre-bachelor math grade a confident prediction can be made. Although literature review shows that the parents' education levels have an impact on students' success in the first year, our findings indicate a low correlation. Meanwhile, gender shows a weak correlation, but it is low and favors females.


This study examined how Lorestansdecorative stone exporters can play an international role in the world market. The study is a field study and the population consists of all of the Lorestans stone firms. Lorestan is one of the biggest stone exporter provinces of Iran. For this reason, a simple random sampling technique was used to select the respondents surveyed for this study, a total of 101 questionnaires were administered to respondents chosen from about all 130 of the province stone firm managers and their vice presidents; statistical tools were used to test the hypothesis such as: T student (to determine whether there was a significant difference between the average of the population and that of the sample) and Chi square (to review the lack of significant differences between the observed frequency and expected frequency of tests). To gather information, library resources, questionnaires and interviews were used. To test research questions, six hypotheses with a conceptual model were designed to examine the relationship between the key success factors and the exports of the stone firms. Assumptions in the study, all with 95% confidence were accepted. The findings indicated that there was a significant positive relationship between KSFs and successful market entry. The study also showed that services and distribution channels had respectively the most and the least effects on successful market entry for Lorestans firms producing decorative stones.


This thesis focuses on the theme of providence in works of the Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni, emphasizing on his most important writing, the historical novel The Betrothed. The thesis examines author's attitude to history and God, and explains the intention on which the author wrote this novel.


Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is a chronic inflammatory rheumatic disorder, with few effective treatments such as TNF blockers which can temporarily suppress inflammation, but none has yet proven to affect long-term disease outcome. There is a deep need to better understand pathological mechanisms controlling both initiation and progression of SpA. During the last 10 years multiple large scale studies including genome-wide genetic and gene expression analysis. These approaches are highly powerful to identify new genetic determinants and molecular mechanisms potentially involved in the disease but they also demonstrated some limits showing that there is a need to rethink these approaches in a more integrated view. In this presentation we will discuss the potential utility of such approach, and present data illustrating the comparison between molecular signatures obtained in human cells as well as in animal model of SpA and how to link genetic studies to gene expression studies. Disclosure of Interest None declared


. We present an efficient block preconditioner for the two-dimensional biharmonic Dirichlet problem discretized by C 1 bicubic Hermite finite elements. In this formulation each node in the mesh has four different degrees of freedom (DOFs). Grouping DOFs of the same type together leads to a natural blocking of the Galerkin coefficient matrix. Based on this block structure, we develop two preconditioners: a 2 × 2 block diagonal (BD) preconditioner and a block bordered diagonal (BBD) preconditioner. We prove mesh-independent bounds for the spectra of the BD-preconditioned Galerkin matrix under certain conditions. The eigenvalue analysis is based on the fact that the proposed preconditioner, like the coefficient matrix itself, is symmetric positive definite (SPD) and assembled from element matrices. We demonstrate the effectiveness of an inexact version of the BBD preconditioner, which exhibits near-optimal scaling in terms of computational cost with respect to the discrete problem size. Finally, we study robustness of this preconditioner with respect to element stretching, domain distortion, and nonconvex domains.


Chiral or achiral (arene)(COD)Ru complexes can be made by replacing the η6-ligands of (η4-1,5-COD)(η6-1,3,5-cyclooctatriene)Ru (1) or (η4-1,5-COD)(η6-naphthalene)Ru (2) by a suitable arene. This well known reaction has been extended to mono- and dibromoarenes and we report a novel route to substituted (arene)(COD)Ru species, utilizing (bromoarene)-(COD)Ru as starting materials. These facilitate a rapid bromine-lithium exchange reaction with nBuLi at low temperatures and the lithiated species react readily with alkyl chloroformates as electrophiles. By using chiral electrophiles [alkyl = (-)-menthyl] enantiomerically pure or diastereomeric complexes containing CO2R* groups are formed, depending on the symmetry of the original complex. A diastereomeric 1:1 mixture was separated by recrystallization. All (arene)-(COD)Ru complexes tested so far are useful as catalysts for the hydrogenation of simple alkenes at room temperature.


Abstract. I agree with comments suggesting that humans must make an unremitting effort to expand a circle of sympathy for others. However, I disagree with the idea, expressed by everyone except Sarah Hrdy, that evolution is in some sense consistently good.


Limit-cycle or self-oscillating power amplifiers (SOPAs) are seen as an effective and simple option to achieve linear yet efficient power amplification. Unfortunately, they suffer from unfiltered switching noise, also known as ripple, whose amplitude increases for progressively lower self-oscillating frequency. Moreover, such self-oscillating frequency changes with the input signal and its dependency curve, as well as its maximum, are determined by the overall loop delay and by the open-loop filter. To remedy this SOPAs' pitfall, this paper presents a method to increase the self-oscillation frequency and reduce frequency modulation for a fixed propagation delay and loop filter. This is achieved using a relay that exhibits a novel kind of hysteresis. For that, the theory of its working principle will be discussed in detail, its transfer characteristic will be defined, and an implementation suitable for VLSI will be proposed. To validate the concept, simulations and an experimental prototype were carried out to compare the behavior of existing types of SOPA with the proposed one.


Abstract : Two experiments investigated preferred listening rates. Preferred listening rates were found to be initially low--approximately at the normal rate of speech -- at the beginning of exposure to time-compressed speech. The rates were lower for speeded speech than for compressed speech. After exposure to time-compressed speech of approximately an hour, equally divided between the two types of time-compressed speech, the rates rose. The gain was relatively greater for compressed speech than for speeded speech, and post-exposure compressed speech rates were comparable to other preferred listening rate values reported in the literature. The gain in rates was discussed in terms of learning, habituation, and type of information processing.


examine further the canonization trials of aspiring Tuscan saints and beati as well as the Florentine papal nunzio's correspondence, both of which provided useful insights into people's private devotional practices, the literature and images that were circulating at the time, and issues surrounding household sanctity. This complimented the work that I had done in Florence using different types of sources (in particular ricordi, inventories, personal letters, account books, and the local Inquisitional records) in order to evaluate the role that religion played within everyday life from the opposite perspective. Although the thesis is still in the process of being written, the research undertaken through the Rome Award has enabled a more nuanced understanding of the interstices existing between religion, faith and superstition, as well as the ways in which Catholicism post-Trent both reconfigured and was reconfigured itself by a variety of means, including the household.


To explore the value of lncRNA MALAT1 in Parkinson's disease (PD) and its effects on PD model cells through miR-181a. A total of 64 PD patients admitted to The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, from August 2017 to August 2019 were enrolled as a research group (res group), and 70 healthy individuals during the same period were enrolled as a control group (con group). The expression of MALAT1 in the peripheral blood of participants in the two groups was determined. In addition, human neuroblastoma cells (SH-SY5Y) and normal human brain glial cells (HEB) were purchased, and MPP+ was used to construct PD model cells. The biological behavior of SH-SY5Y cells transfected with MALAT1 or miR-181a was detected, and the relationship between MALAT1 and miR-181a was verified by a dual luciferase reporter (DLR) assay. MALAT1 was overexpressed in the peripheral blood of the PD patients and in Parkinson's model cells, and miR181a had lower expression in PD model cells (all P<0.05). After being transfected with MALAT1 inhibition sequence and miR-181a mimic sequence, the PD model cells showed weakened proliferation and invasion abilities and an increased apoptosis rate (all P<0.05). Additionally, the DLR assay revealed that the luciferase activity of MALAT1WT was inhibited by miR-181a-mimics (P<0.05), and the co-transfection experiment of si-MALAT1 and miR-181amimics revealed that the influence of miR-181a-mimics on cell viability was reversed by si-MALAT1. MALTA1 was highly expressed in PD, and it promotes the proliferation and invasion of PD model cells and inhibits their apoptosis by targeting the inhibition of miR-181a, which may be the key to the diagnosis and treatment of PD in the future.


This research was conducted to determine whether the mechanism of good corporate governance and profitability affected the audit report lag of banking companies registered with Bank Indonesia (BI), especially in 2012-2017. The sampling method used was purposive sampling with a total sample of 44 banking companies. The data used in this study is financial statements originating from the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Data processing is done by descriptive statistical analysis, classic assumption test, and multiple linear regression analysis. The software used in this study is SPSS Version 24.
The results of the study show that the independent variable can explain the dependent variable by 5.4%, and for the other 94.6% explained by other factors. Partially, good corporate governance affects audit report lag. Meanwhile, profitability does not affect audit report lag.
Keywords : audit report lag, good corporoate governance and profitability.


Objective To assess the efficacy of attenuation corrected (AC) myocardial tomography in detecting coronary artery disease (CAD) and viable myocardium Methods 16 normal subjects and 25 patients with angiographic coronary disease underwent myocardial tomography with 99 Tc m MIBI Both AC and non attenuation corrected (NC) images were generated Of 25 patients with CAD, 9 underwent PTCA within 1 week after myocardial tomography Left ventricular (LV) myocardium was divided into 9 segments and segmental activity was expressed by the percentage(%) of LV peak activity Results In normal group, NC showed a significant inhomogeneity of left ventricular myocardial activity The difference in activity distribution between anterior and inferior basal segment was 26 9% in NC and only 5 6% in AC In patients with CAD, the sensitivity in detecting LAD/LX disease increased from 77%/58% (NC) to 91%/89% (AC) (P0 05) The specificity in detecting RCA disease increased from 67% (NC) to 88% (AC) (P0 05) In detecting viable segments from infarcted myocardium, the results of AC and NC was similar while the segmental distribution of MIBI activity was less than 30% of peak value However, the diagnostic accuracy of AC imaging for detecting viable myocardium was higher than that of NC (P0 05) while the segmental activity was in the range of 30%~75% according to the results of wall motion improvement after PTCA The difference between AC and NC in detecting viable myocardium occurred mainly in inferior, inferior basal and septal segments Conclusions 99 Tc m MIBI myocardial tomography with AC significantly improved the quality of images and it is of important value in early diagnosing CAD and detecting viable myocardium


The study included 486 patients (451 women and 35 men) aged from 16 to 79 years with benign thyroid diseases. We used new methods of surgery: intraoperative diatermoablation nodes; autotransplantation of thyroid tissue, prevention of development of the autoimmune process in thyroid tissue preserved. Thyroidectomy was performed of 112 patients, subtotal resection of the thyroid gland with preservation of less than 2 cm3 of the thyroid remnant 85 (8 of them performed autotransplantation of thyroid tissue), subtotal resection of the thyroid gland with preservation of more than 2 cm3 of the thyroid tissue 289 patients. Complications after operation occurred in 15 patients (3%). Postoperative hypothyroidism developed in 192 (97.5%) patients after radical operation and 75 patients (25,9%) patients with preservation of more than 2 cm3 of the thyroid tissue. The average level of quality of life of patients after operation with preservation of functioning thyroid tissue was higher than in patients after thyroidectomy.


Out of 92 medical students, five success‐motivated and five failure‐motivated subjects were selected for a study of the central effects of nifedipine. In a cross‐over design and under double‐blind conditions, the subjects were administered 10 mg nifedipine or placebo twice daily over a five‐day period. A general evaluation of the results did not reveal any influence of nifedipine on vigilance (CFF), detail discrimination capacity (d2‐test), responsiveness (tracking test), and subjective feelings. However, success‐motivated and emotionally stable subjects were markedly impaired by nifedipine (CFF and d2‐test, quantitative performance), whereas failure‐motivated, emotionally unstable and introverted subjects under nifedipine exhibited less errors in the tests (d2‐test, qualitative performance) compared to those who were given placebo.


The main task of machinery diagnostics consists of inferring the actual state of a given machine based upon observed symptoms and operating conditions. Diagnostic knowledge is commonly presented in a declarative form. Precise predictions require functional dependencies. Such knowledge can be elicited from data collected during operation of the machine or generated using simulation software, the latter case being discussed in this case study. Several independent attributes representing the operating conditions and technical state of a rotating machine were varied systematically, causing the response--vibrations at several points of the machine. To acquire knowledge from data we used several machine learning techniques and 49er, a system that can discover various forms of knowledge. First we focused the search on detection of groups of attributes that approximate functional relations between control and dependent variables. Then Equation Finder was applied recursively to each group, finding multidimensional equations that capture fine functional relationships. Since diagnostic inference takes place in the direction opposite to causal relationships, the discovered equations had to be inverted, so that the observed vibrations of the machine enabled us to calculate values describing the internal state of the object. The knowledge discovered using this approach was implemented in a diagnostic expert system.


The application of hierarchy theory to ecological systems presents those who seek a radical change in human perspectives toward nature with a unique window of opportunity. Because hierarchy theory has enabled scientific ecologists to discover that the window through which one chooses to observe a system influences its reality, they may now be more amenable to including the perspectives of deep and feminist ecologists into their self-definition. A synergy between deep, feminist, and scientific ecology could improve environmental policy by encouraging more ecofeminists to encompass the marginalisation of nonhuman life-forms within the ethic of care, more deep ecologists to encompass the issues of overconsumption and militarisation within the anthropocentric-biocentric polarity, and more scientific ecologists to scrutinise the politics behind their investigations.


In this paper, we propose a novel dual-channel optical chaos system with a time-delay (TD) feature simultaneously suppressed in all observables, i.e., in both intensity and phase. A hybrid optical and electro-optic feedback for a single vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is verified to induce simultaneous TD suppression for the polarization-resolved components of the chaotic output. A comprehensive mathematical model is developed to incorporate the optical and electro-optic time delays into the rate equations of the VCSEL. The suppression of TD signature is then examined by means of autocorrelation function and delayed mutual information. The results show that the output chaotic signal has the TD feature well eliminated in both the intensity and phase over certain regions of parameter space identified using the peak signal to mean ratio technique. The independent evolution of the two orthogonal VCSEL modes renders the polarization-resolved output modes appropriate for the enhanced dual-channel chaos applications. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that a dual-channel chaos communication system is reported with simultaneous suppression of the TD feature in all the transmitted observables.


Objective To analyze the MRI features of cerebral ganglioglioma. Methods MR imaging features of ganglioglioma in 20 cases(13 male and 7 female) confirmed by operation and histopathologic examination were analyzed retrospectively. Precontrast and contrast MR scan were performed in 20 patients. T1WI, T2WI, fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and contrast enhancement images were obtained. Results All cases were solitary,16 lesions were supratentorial, 4 lesions subtentorial. Among them, 3 lesions were in frontal lobe,10 lesions in temporal lobe, and 1 lesions in the parietal lobe, 1 lesions in the occipital-parietal lobe, 1 lesions in the frontal-temporal lobe cerebella . MRI demonstrated cystic mass in 5 patients, cystic-solid mass in 8 and solid mass in 7 cases (obviously gyrus-like thickening in 4 cases). The MRI imaging appearance of gangliogliomas was variable. Cystic components were all showed as hypointensity, and solid components as hypointensity (n=12), isointensity (n=2) and hyperintensity (n=1) on T1WI, the cystic component were displayed as hyperintensity, and the solid component isointensity(n=3), hyperintensity(n=12) on T2WI. No or mild perilesional edema were seen for most lesions. After intravenous administration of GD-DTPA, the solid components and the nodules on the capsule wall were showed as no enhancement(n=4) or slightly enhancement(n=5) or intense enhancement(n=6) , and the wall of cyst was enhanced (n=2) or non-enhanced(n=3). Conclusion The ganglioglioma has some characteristic imaging features on MRI. Correct diagnosis in some cases of cerebral ganglioglioma can be made according to MRI findings and clinical manifestation.


A compact diode pumped laser was built using a noncollinear geometry to Raman shift a 1338 nm Nd:YAG laser to 1522 nm. Innovative opto-mechanical design allows the entire laser head to be 0.28 ft3 volume.


The present invention relates to a printed circuit board of the light emitting diode, including a light-emitting diode, and a printed circuit board. The light-emitting diode includes a heat radiationbody, a luminous body and two pins including clip sections. The printed circuit board is provided with a first concave for placing the heat radiation body and increasing the heat radiation area of theheat radiation body and a second concave for placing the clip section and increasing the heat radiation area of the pins. The present invention quickens the diffusion of welding heat during LED installation, and simultaneity effectively dissipates heat during operation if the LED and can provide corresponding LED installation standard, so as to allow the making the mechanized installation to be probable.


H2-receptor antagonists (H2-blockers) block the H2-receptors on gastric parietal cells and strongly inhibit acid secretion, resulting in an augmented gastrin secretion by gastrin (G) cells. The histamine-producing enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells contain histidine decarboxylase (HDC), a histamine-forming enzyme, which is controlled mainly by gastrin. HDC has a short biological half-life and sensitive responses and, therefore, is a good marker for ECL cell function. To investigate the mechanisms of action of the H2-receptor antagonists on ECL cells, we examined the changes of gastric mucosal histamine metabolism and gastrointestinal hormones after administration of five H2-blockers. Cimetidine, ranitidine and nizatidine increased both the serum gastrin levels and mucosal HDC activity in a dose-manner. At high doses of famotidine and roxatidine, the gastric pH and serum gastrin levels were increased, but HDC activity was decreased. In addition, famotidine administration lowered the mucosal somatostatin levels and increased serum secretin levels. Famotidine and roxatidine may have acted directly on the ECL cells to lower the sensitivity to gastrin and suppressed HDC activity. The two H2-receptor antagonists, apart from their pharmacological inhibitory effect on ECL cells, may also affect cellular function of gastrin of gastric mucosa by regulating secretion of somatostatin and secretin.


"Mr. Fusion" is a data fusion middleware framework [AMB02]. It is used to collect data from multiple client replicas, and categorize these data as correct or incorrect according to a set of well-defined rules. The incorrect data are then stored as erroneous values in a multidimensional hierarchical database, a data warehouse. Data fusion is performed by aggregating the collected data. Queries on the data can be answered by the data warehouse. Mr. Fusion consists of two basic components, the Fusion Core, and the Fusion Status Service [AMB02]. While the former component is responsible for collecting data from the replicas and categorizing them, the latter is the data warehouse that aggregates the collected values and answers the queries. In this project, Mr. Fusion will be used to detect slowdown failures of subscribers to an atomic multicast. In [BHO+99] it has been shown that the multicast throughput dramatically decreases if even one client suffers from a slowdown failure. This is due to the fact that ACKs are sent late by the slow receiver, and the multicast system as a whole slows down because of that. In order to be able to detect slowdown failures, the Fusion Core needs information about the response times of the clients. This can be infered from ACKs that are sent by the clients or by ballots of one data fusion session. Then the Fusion Status Service can be used to query for slow clients by some appropriate query.


We have done simulations of aggregation of magnetic colloids at relatively high solids fraction, using new high-efficiency algorithms to deal with the long-range magnetic forces. We have included the effects of viscous damping on both translational and rotational motions. We have calculated bond-angle statistics that give information about the short-range structure of flocculated dispersions which will influence the rheological and magnetic properties.


Khateeb, Kholoud Husain, PhD, Northeastern University, December 2014, Economic Analysis of Remote Patient Monitoring: The Case of Heart Failure, Dr. Peter O'Reilly, Dr. Sagar Kamarthi, Dr. Kamal Jethwani, Dr. Emanuel Melachrinoudis, Dr. Steven Kursh. This research evaluated the economic impact of integrating a Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) system into the conventional heart failure disease care process. The first part of the work used a Markov chain model to represent patients' discrete health states in the disease management process and the transition probabilities between the states over time. The model presented 8 health states of a heart failure patient in the disease management process. These states are home/Post-Acute Care (PAC), doctor visit, Urgent Care (UC) visit, transfer from other health facility, Emergency Room (ER) visit, hospitalization, 30day readmission, and death. Using the Markov model, Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA) was conducted to estimate the change in monetary benefit and the cost of the RPM practice compared to those in a conventional healthcare system. The cost of PAC states was estimated using a parametric analysis. In order to compare BCA for control and RPM patients, it was necessary for analytical tractability to assume that the proportion of patients in each of the Home/PAC


A middle-aged woman developed extrapyramidal motor symptoms, personality and behavioral changes, and rapidly progressive dementia. Apolipoprotein E genotyping revealed that she was homozygous for the epsilon 4 allele. At autopsy, there were numerous cortical and subcortical Lewy bodies but no neuritic plaques (NPs) or neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs). This case, the first explicitly reported patient homozygous for the epsilon 4 allele having dementia of the Lewy body type (DLBT) without NPs and NFTs, reinforces the distinction between DLBT and dementia of the Alzheimer type. It calls into question the pivotal role of the epsilon 4 allele in the pathogenesis of NPs and NFTT but raises the possibility of its being an independent risk factor for the development of DLBT.


The paper compares with and analyzes the two versions of Tess of the D'Urbervilles from three aspects---faithfulness of meaning,smoothness of language,reproduction of style on the basis of "faithfulness,smoothness,properness",and then points out the advantages and disadvantages of the versions.


The design system consists of a nonlinear modified add/drop Microring Resonators (MRR) to build up optical tweezers in the form of potential wells is presented. The optical tweezers can be used for sub-nanometer objects trapping to form an optical stretcher used to deform the biological cells. The fabricated material used is InGaAsP/InP, which provide the required output signals. The optical tweezers can be formed by the dark soliton pulses and can be tuned and amplified using the Gaussian laser beam input. The optical dark soliton pulses with the central wavelengths range 1.4 to 1.55-m are fed into the system, collide with the input Gaussian laser beam at the add port and finally the optical tweezers with bandwidth of 4, 12 and 18 nm could be generated and used to trap sub-nanometer objects using a molecular buffer system. Interacting the tweezers holding the subnanometer objects with human tissue, influence the cellular surface of the cells by the generated forces. Therefore an optical stretcher can be formed to deform the biological cells of human tissue using optical tweezers.


Studies on crop productivity for major irrigated crops in the Great Plains were reviewed for different types of modern pressurized irrigation systems. Crops included corn, cotton, grain sorghum, winter wheat, and preliminary data on soybean and sunflower. Irrigation systems consisted of spray and LEPA devices commonly found on center pivots, and drip irrigation (usually SDI). Spray, LEPA, and SDI were compared at Halfway and Bushland, TX, and simulated LEPA and SDI were compared at Colby, KS. Nearly all studies involved varying the irrigation capacity (fixed application per unit time) or irrigation rate (percentage of soil water replenishment). Yield response in terms of irrigation method could usually be described as SDI ≥ LEPA ≥ SPRAY for low irrigation capacities (or rates), and SPRAY ≥ LEPA ≥ SDI for full (or nearly full) capacities or rates. In some cases, yield response was more consistent across irrigation rates. Although additional data are lacking that would explain these differences, it appears that LEPA, and to a greater extent SDI, result in greater partitioning of


Dynamic analysis of a mechanism with clearance joints and flexible links is a research focus in the field of multibody dynamics. In this study, a general modular dynamic modeling approach based on Lagrange multiplier method for planar closed-loop mechanisms is proposed in order to improve the modeling efficiency and reusability of a structure having same topology. With this approach, dynamic analysis considering clearance joints and flexible links can be performed conveniently. A novel mathematical model to determine the relative motion modes between the two components of a clearance joint is developed based on the previous contact detection method. A complete dynamic effect evaluation system, which measures the influence of clearance joints and flexible links on the dynamic performances more conveniently and intuitively, is established. A planar 3-RRR parallel mechanism that is a closed-loop system including imperfect joints and flexible links is studied as an example. The dynamic model of this mechanism is established and its dynamic characteristics are investigated. The couple effects of clearance joints and flexible links for a parallel mechanism are investigated first. The contact forces existing in the clearance joints can cause system vibration and thus reduces the dynamic stability of the whole mechanical system. Meanwhile, the simulation results indicate that the flexible links can damp the vibration of the moving platform caused by clearance joints is certain.


We report a case of khat-associated hepatitis in a 32-year-old Somali man living in Australia. This is the first case of hepatoxicity related to khat ingestion reported in Australia.


Abstract Objectives This study compared the carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) among well suppressed adult participants living with HIV and adults without HIV, aged >45 years. Methods A cross-sectional, age and sex-matched study was conducted at two sites in Thailand: King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital (KCMH) and HIV-NAT. All participants had no evidence of coronary artery disease (CAD). Ultrasonography of the carotid artery was measured by one well-trained neurologist who was blinded to the participants' care. The primary endpoint was the difference in cIMT between participants with HIV and controls without HIV. Prevalence and predictive risk of cIMT≥0.9 mm were determined. Results Of 90 individuals, 60 were living with HIV. The overall median (IQR) age was 54.1 (52–60) years and 53.3% were male. For the group with HIV, the median duration of ART was 15 years and 33% were on boosted PIs. Compared to controls without HIV, the group with HIV had a higher proportion of hypertriglyceridaemia (48.3% vs 26.7%, P=0.049) but the median overall cIMT of the common carotid arteries (0.665 mm vs 0.649 mm, P=0.277) and serum high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) (1.59 mg/dL vs 1.46 mg/dL, P=0.325) were not different. Hs-CRP was not correlated with cIMT ≥0.9 mm. However, carotid plaques (n=6) were found only among the group with HIV. From the multivariate analysis, only male sex and hypertension were significantly associated with cIMT ≥0.9 mm. Conclusions Well-controlled and long-term treated participants living with HIV had comparable cIMT to Thai adults without HIV. Monitoring for progression of cIMT, carotid plaques and cardiovascular disease in this population is warranted to guide continued management.


The objective of this study is to determine the link, precedence, and interplay between contemporary politics and the laws of war. A particular focus is attached to the political pressure exerted by great powers as well. This study has adopted a qualitative approach and has concluded, in light of scholarly literature, case studies, and media reports, the grim reality that all such bodies are influenced in one way or the other by international politics—largely succumbing to the pressure exerted by great powers—but structural and budgetary restraints also contribute to the malfunctioning of some of them. Another factor undermining the effectiveness of these mechanisms is the ambiguity of some provisions of international law, as well as their absurdity and silence, which are cleverly manipulated by some states in their maneuvers to secure their political interests. The paper re-examines how politics plays a role in molding the Law of War to suit the needs and interests of great powers.


"[T]he different elements in your book must not be detached things, but thread held together, as a weaving pattern" (44) : this quote by Susan Glaspell is taken to heart by Emeline Jouve, who offers a tightly woven "comprehensive analysis of the dramatist's work, from the perspective of rebellion" (12). The choice to devote an entire monograph to Glaspell, a long neglected dramatist, "relegated to the margins of literary history" and "marginaliz[ed] from the canon" (10), constitutes in itself...


Low Noise Amplifier is considered as one of the most important component at the receiver end. The basic characteristics and features that a device should possess in the field of Wireless Sensor Network is high gain with low power consumption and size as miniaturize as possible. The Carbon Nano Tube Field Effect Transistors (CNTFETs) are being widely studied as possible successors to silicon based CMOSFETs that have a size much smaller than that of the conventional transistors. This paper presents the behavioral modeling and comparative performance interpretations of a Low Noise Amplifier based on CMOSFETs and CNTFETs using Verilog-A hardware description Language.


Most previous split anode calorimetry research has applied high weld currents which exhibit pseudo Gaussian distributions of arc current and power density. In this paper we investigate low current arcs and show that both the current and power distributions have minima in the centre – varying significantly from the expected Gaussian profile. This was postulated due to the formation of the arc with the copper anode and the tungsten cathode. Furthermore, a number of parameters were varied including the step size between measurements, anode thickness and anode surface condition as well as cathode type and tip geometry. The step size between measurements significantly influenced the distribution profile and the anode thickness needed to be above 7 mm to obtain consistent results.


This paper, discussed at the Asia Pacific Regional Symposium on National Action Plans for Women, Peace and Security, presents the findings of a critical review of the nine Asia-Pacific WPS NAPs: Afghanistan, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Nepal, New Zealand, the Philippines and Timor-Leste. The review assesses the degree to which the needs, rights and well-being of women and girls in the region are central to these NAPs, as intended under resolution 1325


: A design of four-stage adsorption system was proposed to utilize very low temperature waste heat or solar heat. A simulation model for the proposed cycle was developed to analyse the influence of cycle time and driving heat source temperature on the performance of system identifying the specific cooling power (SCP) and coefficient of performance (COP). It was found that the proposed cycle could be driven by waste heat temperature as low as 35 o C with the coolant at 30 o C. Both SCP and COP of the proposed system is very low at lower heat source temperature, which can be improved through optimization of cycle time with other design parameters.


A meticulous study of nearly 300 fusion-evaporation cross section data reveals that, when properly scaled, fusion excitation function complies with a universal homographic law which is, within experimental errors, reaction system independent. From a such complete and summed complete and incomplete fusion excitation functions extracted are the limiting energy for the complete fusion and the main characteristics (onset, maximum and vanishing) of the incomplete fusion. The DYWAN microscopic transport model correctly predicts the incomplete fusion cross section for incident energies 15A MeV and suggests that the nuclear transparency is at the origin of fusion disappearance. Introduction. – Since mid-seventies of the last century it is consensual that heavy-ion fusion reaction as a function of the center-of-mass energy passes through three distinct regions, that of rising (I), stagnating (II), and falling (III) cross sections, respectively. At low energies, the regions I and II have been systematically studied by confronting models with a myriad of experimental data [1–10]. In the region III, the incomplete fusion (IF) reaction mechanism opens and increasingly competes with the complete fusion (CF). To this region of fusion only two systematic analyses have been devoted by studying reactions leading to a rather light compound nucleus for which the formation of an evaporation residue is by far the main decay mode [11,12]. In the first study, Morgenstern et al. [11] have extracted the ratio of CF to CF + IF fusion cross sections showing that the energy of vanishing CF and that of the IF threshold strongly depend on the mass asymmetry of the system. In the second systematics, Lautesse et al. [12] have presented a fusion-evaporation excitation function relative to 7 light and quite symmetric systems including their own measurements around the Fermi energy of the Ar +Ni and Ni +Ni reactions. Thereby, IF process vanishes at incident energy of about 50A MeV. In line with previous studies, the goal of this letter is fourfold: 1The reported single-source cross sections of these two reactions are in the ensemble of collected fusion data the only ones which include both evaporation and multi-fragment channel contributions. (i) Establish the first exhaustive systematics of CF as well as of CF + IF fusion-evaporation cross sections in region III. (ii) Assess the global characteristics of fusion excitation function and reveal to which extent one may render it independent of reaction system. (iii) Extract the main characteristics of both CF and IF components of fusion. (iv) Testify that the fusion excitation function can be an interesting observable to constrain microscopic transport codes. Being focused on the region III of fusion we restrict our search of fusion data at incident energy higher than about 3A – 4A MeV. From the published reports we collected 238 total fusion-evaporation cross sections belonging to 48 reaction systems and additional 60 CF data points belonging to 14 of the above systems with explicitely extracted both CF and IF cross sections. Data span over system mass Asys = Atrg +Aprj = 26 – 164 nucleons (Atrg (Aprj) denotes target (projectile) mass number), mass asymmetry α= |Atrg−Aprj|/(Atrg+Aprj) =0 – 0.512, and neutronto-proton content Nsys/Zsys =1 – 1.429. Despite a broad coverage in the α and Nsys/Zsys variables many of data are for the mass symmetric systems and, in particular, for the systems with the equal number of neutrons Nsys and protons Zsys. About 100 additional data points from those measurements which have reported existence of a non-negligible fusion-fission component will be presented p-1 in 2p 300 92 75 30 , v er si on 1 13 J an 2 01 4 Author manuscript, published in "Europhysics Letters 104 (2013) 22001" DOI : 10.1209/0295-5075/104/22001 P. Eudes1 Z. Basrak2 F. Sébille1 V. de la Mota1 G. Royer1


In many biomedical imaging applications Flat Panel Imager s (FPIs) are currently the most common option. However, FPIs possess several key drawb acks such as large pixels, high noise, low frame rates, and excessive image artefacts. Rece ntly Active Pixel Sensors (APS) have gained popularity overcoming such issues and are now scalab le up to wafer size by appropriate reticule stitching. Detectors for biomedical imaging appl ications require high spatial resolution, low noise and high dynamic range. These figures of merit are re lated to pixel size and as the pixel size is fixed at the time of the design, spatial resolution, no ise and dynamic range cannot be further optimized. The authors report on a new rad-hard monolithic A PS, named DynAMITe (Dynamic range Adjustable for Medical Imaging Technology), develop d by the UK MI-3 Plus consortium. This large area detector (12.8 cm ×12.8 cm) is based on the use of two different diode geometries within the same pixel array with different size pixels (50 μm and 100μm). Hence the resulting device can possess two inherently different resolutions ea ch with different noise and saturation performance. The small and the large pixel cameras can be res et at different voltages, resulting in different depletion widths. The larger depletion width f or the small pixels allows the initial 1Corresponding author. c © 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA doi:10.1088/1748-0221/6/12/C12064 2 0 1 1 J I N S T 6 C 1 2 0 6 4 generated photo-charge to be promptly collected, which ens ur s an intrinsically lower noise and higher spatial resolution. After these pixels reach near sa turation, the larger pixels start collecting so offering a higher dynamic range whereas the higher noise fl oor is not important as at higher signal levels performance is governed by the Poisson noise o f the incident radiation beam. The overall architecture and detailed characterization of Dyn AMITe will be presented in this paper.


The paper presents ancient dipinti, both hieroglyphic and hieratic, traced in the relieving chamber above the Bark Hall of the Hatshepsut temple in Deir el-Bahari. The material is linked mainly to a group of builders, most probably draftsmen, engaged in the building operations at the site of the temple.


Objective: Eosinophil recruitment to the nasal mucosa involves a number of chemokines. The aim of this study was to evaluate nasal secretion levels of macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha (MIP-1α) and MIP-1β and to correlate these levels with clinical characteristics and degree of eosinophilia in nonallergic and allergic patients with nasal polyposis (NP). Methods: Fourteen nonatopic and 14 atopic patients with NP were recruited for this cross-sectional study. Fourteen healthy subjects were included as controls. The concentrations of MIP-1α and MIP-1β in nasal secretions were measured by flow cytometry. Eosinophil counts were performed by cytological examination of the scraped nasal mucosa. We scored each of the 28 patients according to the nasal symptom score, endoscopic score, and computed tomography (CT) score. Results: We found significantly higher concentrations of MIP-1α in nasal fluid of nonallergic and allergic NP patients compared to control subjects. In nonallergic patients, we found positive correlations between MIP-1α levels and endoscopic score, CT score, and the percentage of eosinophils. Conclusion: MIP-1α may play a role in eosinophil recruitment in NP. Our results suggest that the measurement of MIP-1α in nasal secretions could be useful in evaluating the degree of eosinophil inflammation and severity of disease in nonallergic patients.


Inspired by the problem of sensory coding in neuroscience, we study the maximum entropy distribution on weighted graphs with a given expected degree sequence. This distribution on graphs is characterized by independent edge weights parameterized by vertex potentials at each node. Using the general theory of exponential family distributions, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of the vertex parameters. We also prove the consistency of the MLE from a single graph sample, extending the results of Chatterjee, Diaconis, and Sly for unweighted (binary) graphs. Interestingly, our extensions require an intricate study of the inverses of diagonally dominant positive matrices. Along the way, we derive analogues of the Erd}os-Gallai criterion of graphical sequences for weighted graphs.


ABSTRACT M4 and NGC 6397 are two very similar galactic globular clusters, which differ mainly intheir surface brightness profile. M4 has a classic King-like profile, whereas NGC 6397 has amore concentrated profile, which is often interpreted as tha t of a post-core collapse cluster.Heggie & Giersz (2008), however, found that M4 is also a post-core collapse cluster, andGiersz & Heggie (2009) concluded that the main reason for the difference between the twosurface brightness profiles is fluctuations. This conclusio n was reached on the basis of MonteCarlo models, however, and in the present Letter we verify that similar fluctuations occur inN-body models. The models were initialised by generating initial conditions from the MonteCarlo model of NGC6397 at the simulated age of 12Gyr, and one was followed for 1Gyr.The new models help to clarify the nature of the fluctuations, which have the nature of semi-regular oscillations with a time scale of order 10 8 yr. They are influenced by the dynamicalrole which is played by primordial binaries in the evolution of the core.Key words: stellar dynamics – methods: numerical – globular clusters: individual: NGC6397


Pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta is a rare but life- threatening complication after aortic cannulation and cardiovascular surgery, and it has the potential to rupture. We experienced a rare case of recurrence of aneurysm of the ascending aorta 7 years after patch repair of a small aneurysm at an aortic cannulation site. The repaired aorta had been wrapped with a Teflon felt strip during the previous surgery, and the wrapped aorta had become thin with deterioration of the normal structure of the aortic wall.


....................................................................................................................................... ii Dedication ................................................................................................................................... iii Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................... iv Chapter 1: Introduction .................................................................................................................1 Background of the Study ..................................................................................................1 Statement of the Problem ..................................................................................................2 Purpose of the Study .........................................................................................................3 Research Questions ...........................................................................................................3 Conceptual Framework .....................................................................................................4 Research Method and Design ...........................................................................................6 Definition of Key Terms ...................................................................................................7 Assumptions, Limitations, and Delimitations ...................................................................8 Significance of the Study ................................................................................................10 Chapter 2: Literature Review ......................................................................................................12 Conceptual Framework ...................................................................................................14 Review of Research Literature and Methodological Literature ......................................20 Synthesis of the Literature ..............................................................................................38 Critique of the Literature ................................................................................................40 Methodical Literature......................................................................................................41 Methodological Issues ....................................................................................................41 Summary .........................................................................................................................42 Chapter 3: Methodology .............................................................................................................46


The present invention discloses a mobile air pollution gas distribution area telemetry system, comprising a two-dimensional table rotating, tilting, an azimuth sensor, GPS positioning systems, optical systems, spectroscopy, computer. The light guide is mounted in a two-dimensional system of the rotary table, the sun through the optical fiber introducing scattered light from the light guide system spectrometer, the spectrometer collected spectral information into the computer, the computer analyzing the acquired spectral acquisition polluted gas column density. GPS system obtains latitude and longitude information on each measurement point, the azimuth sensor of the measurement mode can be set according to the actual azimuth angle measurement needs. A pitch angle sensor acquiring two-dimensional information of the pitch angle of the turntable. The present invention may be applied to study the non-uniformity in the horizontal direction of pollutants, contaminants and conveying satellite data products, the results of the model checking.


Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is one of most important and largest vegetable crop in the world. In India contribute about nine percent share in world production and most important vegetables grown in Tamil Nadu. Major production area in Tamil Nadu growing tomato is Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Salem and Krishnagiri districts. Root-knot nematodes (RKN) have more than 3000 species a potential wide host range (Abad et al., 2003). The majority of crop damage is caused by M. incognita, both in tropical and temperate climates. The damage to the root system caused by the nematodes International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 4 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com

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Abstract This paper reviews twelve experimentally-designed longitudinal studies of infant education. Without such early intervention, the disadvantaged infants who participated in these programs were predicted to become developmentally delayed. The interventions varied in their form, duration, and content, The major distinctions were between home or center-based programs and parent-oriented or child-oriented curricula. The magnitude of intellectual outcome scores seemed to relate to the intensity of the programs. Interventions that had more hours of contact with children and parents had more positive intellectual effects on the children, parents, and family life circumstances. Modest changes have been found in mother-child interaction patterns and quality of the home environment, although consistent measures have not been used across projects.


It is sometimes said, «money is at the root of all evil.»1 This essay examines whether there are any forms of money (and monetary systems) that are potentially morally good. To do so requires us to look at God's ethics regarding material resources, and then to see what part, if any, God intends money to serve in the human econ- omy. I conclude that there exists at least one form of money, namely silver, that if used in accord with God's material resource ethics, is morally good money.
God intends the global human economy to be dynamically undergirded by two core principles: sharing resources morally and sustaining the Earth's environment for future generations and their economic activities. The two principles interrelate and affect the extent and character of each other. They are also intensely ethical concepts, but simultaneously factual. As such, I refer to them throughout this article as «factual-ethical princi- ples.» Both derive directly from the Bible — both the Hebrew and New Testaments. While, as I shall later show, many people are able to disregard one or the other, or both, of these principles in the short run, the principles' economic gravitas and implications cannot be ignored over the long run. In order to balance the basic sustainment of all human life and to afford wealth and comfort to maximally many members of society, a healthy tension between the two poles must remain in place.
From the outset, it is important to describe with some detail aspects of the two principles, and the factual and normative rela- tionship between them. Once these principles are well-de- scribed, it is possible to understand what moral money and monetary systems should look like. Thus, Section 2 describes the first godly factual-ethical principle: moral sharing of resources. Section 3 describes the second godly factual-ethical principle: sustaining the earth. Section 4 combines these principles with a review of the historical monetary system that God  instructed the ancient Israelites to create, as well as Jesus's reflections on that system, to reach conclusions about whether any form of moral money exists, in spite of oft-heard sentiments that all money is an evil.
What must also be said is that this article starts out from the position that the Judeo-Christian portrayal of reality is correct. Apart from beliefs, sentiments, fashions, or faiths that argue to the contrary, ethical values as descended from the teachings and tradi- tions of Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples, and the Holy Scrip- tures, are True. Individual or collective departures from those values and teachings have actual economic implications in the mortal world, the grace and mercy of God notwithstanding (North 1992). I therefore assume for present purposes and this readership that I may refer to Scriptures or Church teachings as incontrovert- ible Truth for what might be considered by non-adherents to be either circular logic or teleological bias.


This paper surveys some effective factors on long-term and short-term returns of initial public offerings (IPO) of private companies in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) market. We use panel data approach to compare determinant factors of returns of IPO in private firms. The results show that P/E ratio, volume of transactions and size of companies are the main factors of determinant of abnormal long-run returns of IPO in private companies. In the short-run, the IPO's returns of private enterprises related to size, and volume of transaction.. Results of research pointed to conclusion that the corporate ownership has no significant impact on returns of IPO in short-run and long-run. And private enterprises might retain the profit and release the loss by set share retention/offering rate and over/under pricing of IPO companies.


The invention provides a method for identifying an event of a website. The method includes the following steps: whether an IP address of the website is in an IP management sector is judged; when the IP address of the website is not in the IP management sector, the event is identified as an illegal event outside the section; if the IP address of the website is in the IP management sector, whether a media access control address of the website is in a permission list tabulation is judged; when the media access control address of the website is not in the permission list tabulation, the event is identified as an illegal event; when the media access control address of the website is in the permission list tabulation, a permission list corresponding to the media access control address is taken out; and permission lists are taken out one by one from the permission list tabulation to be compared with the management attribute of the website, thereby identifying the event of the website.


Disaster loss assessment has not yet met the scientific requirements in China,due to its lack of comprehensive method of disaster loss assessment,bad acquisition channels of statistical data of disaster,repeated computation or information distortion,exaggeration of the loss on disaster report,waste of relief resources,and assessment of more economic factors than social factors. This makes it difficult to accurately reflect disaster situation and to analyze disaster prevention,reduction and emergency measures. A comprehensive and accurate mechanism of loss assessment should be built to give full play to the role of disaster loss assessment in the emergency,disaster relief,recovery and reconstruction,realizing optimization of emergency management.


. This paper presents the feedback of the Impressed Current Cathodic Protection (ICCP) system implemented on a road bridge, the Viaduct of Saint-Cloud, constructed in the 1970s in France. After a test trial in 2012, the full-scale ICCP system was energized in 2018. It consisted of 44359 discrete titanium anodes implemented on the lateral segment webs on both sides of the Viaduct, distributed in 212 anodic zones on one side and 153 anodic zones on the other side. The four years monitoring data include the variations of the applied current and tension on anodic zones, their polarization, etc. This paper focus on the global resistance of the circuit for the different anodic zones. The circuit resistance shows first the influence of the temperature. The differences between anodic zones and their evolution over time also bring more information about the environment of the anodes and the reinforcements. The analysis of the response of the circuit reveals the heterogeneity of an actual and large-scale ICCP system and provides important feedback to an appropriate ICCP design for durable cathodic protection