One Patient, a 38-year-old male, who had an abnormal shadow on the routine chest X-ray examination, was discovered. He was clinically asymptomatic and no abnormalities were obtained on the laboratory studies. Under the diagnosis of probable neurogenic tumor, a thoractomy was performed. Finally, a histologic diagnosis of Castleman's lymphoma (hyaline-vascular type) was made.One hundred and twenty-two cases from the Japan literature were reviewed. The age of the patient ranged from 6 to 62 years, and there appear to be no paticular sex preference. The 70 of 123cases (57%) of the lesion was located in the thorax, but only 4 cases arising from posterior mediastinum is reported, including our case.The charactaristics of medical imagings were as follows : They were revealed 1) well-circumstanced and homogeneous shadow, at Chest radiograph, 2) positive accumulation at Scintigraph of 67 Ga-citrate, 3) regular distribution of densities with clear out-line and diffuse enhancement after contrast materials at CT, and 4) hypervascularity at Angiograph.


We thank Lomax et al. for their letter [1] and are hopeful that this will be a step towards healthcare and human factors professionals working together more closely. We agree that safety cannot be reduced to education, checklists, technologies and recipes, and we expand on this in the human factors narrative review paper that accompanies our guidelines [2, 3]. Feedback from human factors professionals from around the world has been positive and supportive, and we are particularly pleased that the guidelines are supported by the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF), the professional body for human factors scientists in the UK. However, we strongly disagree with what they describe as 'insufficient representation of human factors professionals' within our guideline group. Our group includes the Chair of the Healthcare Sector of the CIEHF; an industrial psychologist; expertise in high-risk industries, implementation science and patient safety; the chair of the Clinical Human Factors Group; and extensive clinical human factors experience. Lomax et al. question the use of the hierarchy of controls model, suggesting the Systems Engineering Initiative in Patient Safety (SEIPS) model instead. We agree that SEIPS is excellent; it is used by many members of the guideline group and indeed forms the basis of the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework [4]. However, we believe that the hierarchy of controls model is useful in shifting mindsets away from the behavioural aspects of human factors. Part of our goal was to support understanding away from safety through non-technical skills and towards safety through design, and we believe that the hierarchy of controls model has a good contribution to make here. We did indeed use a three-stage Delphi process to formulate our 12 main recommendations. The Delphi process is not a pure 'one group member = one vote' process, but instead involves structured review and discussion at each stage, with opportunities for group members to suggest additional recommendations to be considered in the next round [3]. The clinicians within the group listened to the human factors experts and vice versa. Lomax et al. also question why we did not recommend employing professionally qualified human factors experts in each hospital. This was, in fact, one of our 47 initial recommendations that unfortunately did not make it through the Delphi process, and we fully agree with the advantages of such a strategy – indeed, Dr Lang works as an human factors specialist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. The Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford is very fortunate to have qualified human factors specialists within its team. However, we believe that relying solely on human factors experts to implement human factors will be problematic and inevitably result in slow progress: there are inadequate NHS financial resources to employ human factors experts in every hospital; there are insufficient qualified human factors professionals to fill the need, with a recent advert receiving no applicants (S. Deakin, personal communication); and a human factors professional would be unable to bring about change unless clinicians, managers and their colleagues appreciate the importance of human factors and the reasons to implement their suggested actions. One alternative approach is the use of 'train the trainer' models: when applied well, these can help address the need and cascade the use of human factors methods within healthcare settings. Our guidelines were primarily designed for anaesthetists and their teams, with a focus on how they can draw on accessible aspects of human factors science to enhance patient safety and efficiency. We have created guidelines that clinicians can relate to and are relevant to their everyday work. We were not attempting to produce fully comprehensive guidelines for human factors practitioners working in clinical settings. A complete review of 'many years of clinical human factors research' and anything more than 'scratching the surface of human factors' would not have resulted in two relatively short and palatable articles that anaesthetists would have the time to read. Guidelines are only as effective as their uptake and implementation. We are thrilled that our guidelines have kickstarted a conversation about the importance, requisite investment in and scaled implementation of human factors within healthcare organisations, and hope that they will prompt much more work in this area. To deliver the dramatic shift in culture and knowledge necessary will require great effort and strong collaborative partnerships between human factors professionals and clinicians. We stand by our guidelines and hope that readers will be able to see them in that context and that they 'herald the start of the specialty's transition to a more comprehensive understanding of performance based on features beyond the performance of clinicians' [5].


John Hus was born of Czech (Bohemian) parents relatively close to Prague around 1371. In 1400 he was ordained as a priest, and in 1401 he became dean of the philosophy faculty. In 1409, he became rector of the University of Prague. He also held an appointment as preacher at the "Bethlehem Chapel" in Prague, where he preached in the Czech language, a language into which he also wanted the Bible translated.

Keywords:

hus, john (c.1371–1415);
preacher at the "bethlehem chapel" in prague;
questioning existence of papal office;
hus, executed as a heretic, as defense of the papacy


DR dynamics over 2006-2011 was studied in a Specialized Urban TB Hospital. Sputum from 1962 was tested for MBT DR. During the years 2006-2009, both primary (from 36.3% to 68.0%) and secondary DR (82.1% to 90.8%) was found to be increasing. But in 2011 primary DR decreased to 54.8% (a 13.2% drop). Secondary DR keeps growing: 88.7% in 2010 and 91.5% (the absolute peak over the entire study period) in 2011. Similar tendencies have been found for monoresistance. Over 2006-2009, MDR in primary DR doubled – from 16.8% to 34.2% (p By specific drugs: primary DR to H decreased in 2009-2011 to 32.3% (-16.4%), to R to 29.0% (-7.8%), to E to 19.4% (-8.2%), to S to 28.7% (-19.2%). Regretfully, a similar tendency was not observed for seconday DR. Dynamics analysis of MBT resistance to various H concentrations during treatment of 44 patients showed that 11.4%% of them were and remained DR to H (10 mkg/ml) 59.1% of them remained non-DR to H (10 mkg/ml) 11.4% developed DR to this concentration during treatment, in 18.2% strains sensitive to H10 developed.At the start of treatment, 70.5% were H10 non-resistant; later on non-resistance was found in 77.3%. Non-resistance to low H concentrarion (1 mkg/ml) was 20.5% at the onset and 15.9% at follow-up test. CONCLUSION: A certain primary DR improvement has been observed. Issues of DR amplification require further study.


This study aims to describe and analyze the implementation of management policies and control controls in reducing traffic accidents in the Tulangan area of Sidoarjo Regency. Data collection techniques through observation, interviews and documentation. In the data analysis technique using data reduction, data presentation and conclusions. The results of this study indicate that the safety standard in traffic management and engineering policies, namely the Bureaucratic Structure in organizational planning, has been well controlled. Resources in preparing policy formulation materials are divided into two parts, namely the Management Section and the Traffic Engineering Section with several personnel who have the competence to implement a policy plan for regulating the use of road networks and traffic movements. Disposition in the policy forms the attitude of the implementer, namely providing program support and commitment in carrying out traffic management and engineering policies. Communication is carried out by coordinating between implementers in traffic safety standards by carrying out safety for schools and the community. . So that there are several influencing factors in traffic management and engineering policies, such as several complaints from the public because the service has not been fully satisfactory, so a survey is needed by looking at traffic conditions and the need for improvement.


Buddhist Scripture translation is regarded as a commentary on classics and literary activity, it has built up a long-term interaction with mid-history of literature and art. Debate between speech and meaning exists in Buddhist Sripture translation and the lirerary trend of thought. They were both affected by a philosophical sect in the Wei(220-265) and Jin( 265-420)dynasties. Therefore a kind of deep principal and subsidiary causes have been formed. It played a vital role in the prosperity and independence of literature in Wei and Jin dynasties.


Broncoconstriction in the guinea-pig due to leukotrienes C4 and D4 in vivo and in vitro was suppressed by aspirin. Since contracting effects of putative mediators of bronchial asthma should be refractory to inhibition of cyclooxygenase, our results indicate that release of leukotrienes in the guinea-pig does not alone account for anaphylactic bronchoconstriction. Introduction Prostaglandins (PGs), particularly E2, were held in the early 70's to be the main cause of acute inflammation f 1 l. Years before, plasma kinins had the same privilege, and not so long ago, thromboxane A2 (TxA2) was considered by some investigators as the final mediator of platelet aggregation, even though it had been clearly established in the late 60's that aspirin only inhibits aggregation due to low amounts of collagen 12]. 'Slow-reacting substance of anaphylaxis' (SRS-A), now identified as one of the leukotrienes (LTs), is released from shocked guinea pig lungs [3], and may be involved in asthma. The arguments put forward are as follows; (1) SRS-A is released from shocked rat, human and guinea-pig lungs and different cell populations; (2) SRS-A contracts smooth muscle in vitro, and a selective inhibitor of its effects does not interfere with contractions due to other spasmogens, such as histamine; (3) LTs are potent pharmacological agents particularly in relation to the pulmonary mechanics of the guinea-pig 141; (4)aspirin and indomethacin, when inhibiting the cyclooxygenasedependent metabolism of arachidonic acid (AA), stimulate the formation of SRS-A. There is, nevertheless, experimental evidence against an independent role for SRS-A/LTs in asthma. Thus, it has been shown I5] that bronchoconstriction induced by crude SRS-A in the guinea-pig is inhibited by aspirin, at doses similar to those which block bronchoconstriction due to other agonists (see refs. [6[ and [7]). Nevertheless, bronchial asthma in humans, as well as anaphylactic bronchoconstriction in the guinea-pig and passive cutaneous anaphylaxis in the rat (two models used for asthma), are refractory to inhibition by aspirin, raising the problem of the significance of SRS-A/LTs in the aetiology of asthma. This has now led us to investigate the Agents and Actions, vol. 11, 6/7 (1981) 575 interaction of aspirin with the LTs in the guinea-pig, and to bring evidence that their bronchoconstrictor activity in the guinea-pig is suppressed when cyclooxygenase is inhibited. Materials and methods Variations in the pulmonary resistance to inflation, arterial blood pressure, and platelet counts in arterial blood of anaesthetized guinea-pigs were recorded as described [8]. In a few experiments, such as that illustrated in Figure 1, an open tip catheter was introduced cephalad into the trachea, for recording the variations of the intratracheal pressure. After responses to LTC4 or LTD4 had been obtained, aspirin or salicylic acid were injected i.v. at 20 mg/kg, followed within 10 minutes by new injections of the LTs. Previous experiments demonstrated that there was no desensitization to repeated injections of the LTs at hourly intervals. Aerosol sprays were administered with a Marion nebulizer, connected to the output of the respiratory pump. Consistent responses to single 2 rain aerosol sprays were obtained with 0 .5 -1 / tg /ml of the LTs in the chamber. As a comparison, bronchoconstriction was induced by P G F 2 a at similar concentrations. Lung parenchyma strips were prepared according to [9], in 16 ml of Krebs ' solution containing antagonists of histamine, serotonin and catecholamines, Aspirin or salicylic acid were added to the organ bath for 10 minutes, after standard contractions of the tissue to 0.1-0.3 nM of the LTs had been obtained. Once these contractions had been inhibited, more LT was added, without removal of the solution, in order to see whether inhibition was surmountable.


Abstract We report breeding success of Wilson's Plovers (Charadrius wilsonia) on St. Martin in the Lesser Antilles during 2004. We located 35 nests among six wetlands and apparent nest success was 37.1%. Nest initiation on St. Martin was earlier than in the United States and breeding success was higher earlier in the season than later in the season. There were two distinct peaks in nest initiation; the second peak coincided with peak fledging of chicks from the first nest initiation. Nests on St. Martin were associated with bare ground and were much closer together than in previous studies reported elsewhere. Ten nests were predated by feral dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and three nests were crushed by vehicles.


Let K be an imaginary quadratic field such that 2 splits into two primes p and p. Let K∞ be the unique Z2-extension of K unramified outside p. Let f be an ideal coprime to p and L be an arbitrary extension of K contained in the ray class field K(pf). Let L∞ = K∞L and let M be the maximal p-abelian, p-ramified extension of L∞. We set X = Gal(M/L∞). In this paper we prove the Iwasawa main conjecture for the module X . Mathematics subject classification: 11R23,11G05. key words: p-adic L-functions, elliptic units, Iwasawa Main conjecture.


First results of the AMIL2DA project show that various processors available for the retrieval of special constituents from MIPAS data deliver comparable results. Remaing differences are mainly due to implementation details and physical modelling approaches.


It is a pleasure to introduce Josh Dunaief, the recipient of this year's Cogan Award. Like many senior colleagues who have been accorded the honor of introducing the Cogan Lecturer, I had the good fortune of knowing Dr. Cogan and of being enlightened by several of his published manuscripts as well as by his classic treatises, Neurology of the Ocular Muscles and Neurology of the Visual System, textbooks that helped to crystallize my own interest in ophthalmology as an intellectual discipline. I also had the pleasure of attending a symposium at the Washington Hospital Center in celebration of Dr. Cogan's 70th birthday, where I witnessed his generosity of spirit and his unfailing good humor. I know that he would be delighted that this year's Cogan Lecturer is a physician-scientist of great intellect, commitment, curiosity, and integrity—in other words, an ophthalmologist and humanitarian cast in the mold of David Cogan. Dr. Dunaief's first exposure to ophthalmology was a look through his father's slit lamp when he was approximately 10 years old. He is not sure whether he was hooked by the slit lamp or the motorized examination chair, but he was determined to pursue a career in ophthalmology at that point. At Harvard College, Josh's Lowell House pre-med advisor was Daniel Albert, who, with Ted Dryja and Robert Weinberg, had recently discovered the retinoblastoma gene. Josh worked with Dan on Rb, then completed his PhD on the molecular biology of retinoblastoma with Dr. Stephen Goff at Columbia. Some of this work was published in Cell, and subsequently has been cited on hundreds of occasions. At his graduation from Columbia's MD/PhD program, he received the "most outstanding PhD award." Josh completed his residency at Johns Hopkins, where he continued his work on retinoblastoma with Donald Zack. While at Hopkins, he received both the Arnall Patz Research Award and the Association of University Professors in Ophthalmology Prize for Best Presentation during the annual AUPO/ RPB Resident and Fellow Research Forum. During his third year of residency, Josh wrote a K08 application focused on the mechanisms of cell death in photoreceptors. The grant was funded by the NEI on the same day that Josh joined us at the Scheie Eye Institute at Penn. The initial work, with mentors Craig Thompson and Jean Bennett, showed that Bax and Bak are essential for developmental and pathologic photoreceptor death. One of the publications was featured on the covers of both IOVS and last year's ARVO abstract book. Seeking upstream, potentially modifiable factors leading to AMD, Josh's laboratory began to focus on oxidative stress. Microarray studies pointed to a protective antioxidant role for the ferroxidase ceruloplasmin. Continuing investigations showed that in a ceruloplasmin knockout mouse retinal iron overload developed along with age-dependent degeneration resembling AMD. Studying The Foundation Fighting Blindness's collection of postmortem AMD retinas with Ann Milam and Paul Hahn, an MD/PhD student in Josh' laboratory and soon to be a Scheie ophthalmology resident, Josh found elevated iron levels in AMD retinas. This work is the topic of Josh's first NEI R01 and was recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). I have enjoyed mentoring Josh during his medical retina fellowship at Scheie. As a clinician-scientist trained in the intricacies of both AMD and molecular biology, Josh is poised to improve the understanding of AMD and to develop new treatments and prevention strategies. His talk is entitled, "IronInduced Oxidative Damage as a Potential Factor in AMD."


The relationship between the Clan of Feng and Murong Xian Bei could be dated from a very long time ago.It was one of the Clans of Han who made cooperation with Murong Xian Bei as early as possible.The Clan of Feng had made a lot of contributions to the Many-Yan Kingdoms for it taken a very important position in the authorities of the Many-Yan Kingdoms.Naturally the Clan of Feng was benefited from the cooperation with Murong Xian Bei.The flourishing of the Clan of Feng during the period of the Sixteen-Kingdoms and the Northern Dynasties was founded on the cooperation with Murong Xian Bei.


ABSTRACT: This work proposes a reflection on the teaching of reading and writing in the school.
Understanding the practice of reading at school as a social practice, he argues in favor of
working with textual genres as a means of giving meaning to the teaching of reading in school
and defends the point of view that, in order for the school to effectively contribute to the
formation of student readers must produce, within them, reasons and conditions to read.
Having as theoretical reference the authors: Castanheira (2009), Kramer (2001), Sole (1998)
among others. Understanding written language as a form of language, argues in favor of
working with reading in the school aiming at the training of students beginner readers. Data
were collected through interviews with a teacher of the public network that works in the 1-
year room of elementary school. Observations were also made of the routine of this
classroom, with the aim of interweaving the teachers' say with their daily practice. Finally,
taking into account the studies and interviews made, activities are proposed that aim to foster
the development of students' reading competence.


Objective
To investigate the impacts of emotion intelligence and sex difference on the process of emotion regulation.

Methods
The reaction time and the strength of emotion regulation were recorded in the emotion perception and emotion regulation task.

Results
The males with higher EI scores reacted more quickly in emotion perception and were more efficient in positive emotion regulation than those with lower EI scores (reaction time: (1 821±120)ms 0.81±0.23; F(1, 87)=17.31, P (1 939±115)ms, F(1, 87)=6.73, P=0.011; strength of emotion regulation: 1.60±0.18 > 0.7±0.18; F(1, 87)=12.12, P=0.001).

Conclusion
The results showed that for men, the EI was associated with efficiency in processing emotion and regulating positive emotions, while for women, the EI was associated with efficiency in regulating negative emotions.

Key words:
Emotion intelligence; Gender difference; Emotion regulation


With regard to the relationship between literary works and geographical studies, Massimo Quaini's interest consolidated into a heuristic imprint whose originality has not yet been adequately enlightened. Through the analysis of his essays, the paper identifies some clues of his thought: methodologically, the need for a critical approach of 'archeology of knowledge and sources' to the writer's profile; teleologically, the identification of the geographical factors inside the works as a tool for territorial enhancement; epistemologically, the use of literary topoi and metaphors as an interpretive key – together with the geographical-historical analysis – of the historical and current territorial dynamics.


Under ammonothermal conditions, cyclotrigallazane, [H2GaNH2]3, was converted to nanocrystalline GaN. The coherent length of the GaN product could be controlled by manipulating reaction time and temperature. Nanocrystalline GaN powders with average crystallite sizes of 3−17 nm were produced in the temperature range of 150−450 °C. Analysis of the powders by XRD and TEM indicated that the nanocrystals possessed a structure composed of a random arrangement of cubic and hexagonal close packed planes. The addition of NH4I to the reaction mixture resulted in the isolation of bulk samples of phase pure, cubic GaN at temperatures as low as 200 °C. The synthesis of the cubic phase was found to be temperature dependent, with mixtures of cubic and hexagonal GaN being produced at temperatures greater than 350 °C.


Gangliocytic paraganglioma is a rare neoplasm that may occur in the gastrointestinal tract, especially in the second portion of the duodenum. It is characterized histologically by the presence of spindle cells, ganglion cells and epithelioid cells. Diagnosis is often defined only with the histological analysis of the resected organ, being necessary immunohistochemical study for confirmation. We report the case of a 53-year-old patient diagnosed with gangliocytic paraganglioma after completion of gastroduodenopancreatectomy for a duodenal tumor.


Cognition and executive functions are involved in almost every activity of a man. Mental dysfunctions, though not always apparent during the first contact with a patient, can reduce quality of life as much as physical disability. What is more, they often directly affect the motivation of a patient and the effects of rehabilitation. Ischemic diseases, such as stroke or microvascular diseases, cause a variety of symptoms. They interfere with patient's physical and psychological well-being in terms of motor function, senses, emotions and cognition. It is important to know the specifics of neuropsychological disorders and rehabilitation in the nursing practice. To improve lost skills, the patient needs systematic neuropsychological therapy. Because of a high percentage of disability after stroke, we are still searching for therapies that will enable the best solution to the problem of this group. The aim of this paper is to review the therapeutic interventions improving cognitive functions. As a complement to standard therapy, the new forms of rehabilitation have been described, such as computer programs and exercises with feedback. Neurofeedback is a novelty in the treatment of stroke. The results of trainings are: changes in the cognition and executive functions, even at the level of brain. These changes can be seen both in patients trained with traditional methods and with the use of computer programs. This suggests an important role of brain neuroplasticity in improving cognition after training (Piel. Zdr. Publ. 2016, 6, 1, 45–49).


Derivatives of 2,6-bis(4-azidobenzylidene) cyclohexanone are frequently used as photosensitizers in photoresists. These compounds are generally considered to be quite thermally stable. However, there have been reports of thermal degradation occurring at temperatures as low as 60'C. Experiments done here suggest that the thermal stability of the azide is adversely affected by the presence of unsaturated material in the formulation. Data from IR spectroscopy show that, by itself, 2,6-bis(4-azidobenzylidene) 4-methylcyclohexanone is thermally stable in a polyamic acid film at 75–80° C. However, addition of a monomeric aminoacrylate to the formulation results in a significant decay in the absorption of the azide moiety in just a few hours at these same temperatures. This decay is attributed to reaction of the sensitizer with the acrylate double bonds. In a thick film, which might require a 1–2 hour prebake, this thermal addition could result in a significant degree of crosslinking and thus to decreased contrast in the final pattern.


The introduction of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) as a new disorder in the ICD-11 was greatly debated. Several researchers thought that it might pathologize a normal human response to loss (Wakefield, 2012), while others asserted the importance of correctly diagnosing and treating a group of people who were in great distress (Prigerson & Maciejewski, 2017; Shear, Muldberg, & Periyakoil, 2017). Ultimately, this new diagnosis was included in the ICD-11 with the aim to improve clinical practice and guide treatment planning but also to ignite high quality research into the nature of the disorder, the validity of diagnostic guidelines and the development of evidence based treatment options (Maercker et al., 2013). We are pleased to see that this important research is already underway. In their letter, Eisma and Lenferink (2018) describe two main concerns with our recent paper 'Prolonged grief disorder for ICD-11: the primacy of clinical utility and international applicability.' They disagree that the ICD-11 PGD definition (a) offers valid diagnostic guidelines for the inclusion of PGD in the ICD-11 and (b) provides the same valid symptom structure as precursor definitions. We would like to respond with two main points. Firstly, we acknowledge and agree that these above concerns are important empirical research questions. At the time of the publication of the paper there were no direct empirical examinations of the new ICD-11 PGD guidelines, only post-hoc studies from previous or even reconstructed datasets. Throughout the paper we consistently encourage further examination and additional research to validate the new ICD-11 PGD guidelines, for example we outline that further research is needed to directly compare the PGD2009 criteria with the ICD-11 criteria using network analysis. Additionally, we would argue that the precursor criteria PGD-2009 have previously been validated and, although different, most closely represent the ICD-11 PGD guidelines. For evidence of the comparable structure of ICD-11 PGD and PGD2009 please we refer to the formative work from Maciejewski, Maercker, Boelen and Prigerson (2016). Admittedly, the diagnostic approach chosen in this 2016 study is just one option amongst other potential algorithms. The spirit of the WHOdeveloped diagnostic definitions is not to provide exact diagnostic algorithms but rather to leave the search for operational criteria for subsequent research around the world (such as new research from Mauro et al. (2018) and Boelen, Lenferink, Nickerson, and Smid (2018) which directly assess the validity of the ICD-11 definition and brings into question the specificity of the new ICD-11 PGD criteria). Secondly, we re-assert the main aim of our paper. There is a fundamental shift in the remit of the ICD11. Instead of further validation, specification and itemization of diagnostic criteria, the focus is on developing clinically useful diagnostic guidelines (First, Reed, Hyman, & Saxena, 2015). A potentially overlooked prerequisite to clinical utility is brevity of diagnostic features. The current form of the PGD definition in ICD-11 is an example of a brief definition that supports clinical utility. As noted by Lenferink and Eisma (2018), a higher symptom count in the diagnostic criteria is not always helpful; persistent complex bereavement disorder, as a disorder requiring further study in the DSM-5, can be diagnosed 37,650 ways whereas PGD only 48. The development of the briefer ICD-11 PGD guidelines may truly improve the specificity of the diagnosis by providing less complex disorder descriptions and by relying on clinical judgement instead of diagnostic algorithms. This raises an important epistemological question: should one type of research be prioritized when considering the new ICD-11 PGD criteria? Research that follows the traditional methods of psychometric validation has an important place in the further development and refinement of the diagnostic items, however research that reflects the voices of the patients and clinicians should also be highlighted (i.e. the request for few disorder categories with flexible diagnostic guidance to allow for clinical judgement) (Evans et al., 2013; Reed, Mendonça Correia, Esparza, Saxena, & Maj, 2011). We hope that future


Abstract The assertion that the phosphate content of ceramic is an established marker for the presence of residues of organic substances such as fats and blood (Bollong et al. , Direct dating and identity of fibre temper in pre-Contact Bushman (Basarwa) pottery, Journal of Archaeological Science 20, 41-55, 1993) is refuted. Phosphate is a common contaminant of buried pottery and may not be considered an indicator of function.


Researches on the Structure of the Cortical Layer of the Convolutions of the Brain. By M. Baillarger. (Abstract of the Report of MM. Ribes and Blandin.) The author, whose examinations have been chiefly made on the brains of maniacs under the care of M. Esquirol, considers the gray substance of the convolutions as formed of six superposed layers, differing in structure and in colour: the first passing from without inwards is white; the second gray; the third white ; the fourth gray; the fifth white; and the sixth gray. This stratification may sometimes be distinguished by the naked eye on a section of the brain; but M. Baillarger has for the most part made his observations by examining by light transmitted from a lamp a thin slice of brain placed between two glasses. In this way, the gray layers easily allow the light to traverse them, while the white reflect it and remain opaque, a fact which the commissioners of the report fully confirm. The circumstances which, according to the author, have led previous observers away from the truth are that sometimes the two deep gray layers are atrophied,


Abstract Examples of two- and three-phase structures in BaTiO3-based ferroelectric solid solutions are first analyzed within the framework of the united model. The role of domain orientations and heterophases containing the tetragonal phase are discussed in the context of the stress relief at interfaces that separate the ferroelectric phases and two-phase regions. Relations between the domain (twin) structures and phase contents are studied for three-phase states in (1 − x)BaTiO3 − xCaHfO3, (1 − x)BaTiO3 − xCaSnO3, and (1 − x − y)BaTiO3 − xCaTiO3 − yBaZrO3 with compositions near the morphotropic phase boundary. In these materials, volume fractions of the tetragonal, orthorhombic and rhombohedral phases are interpreted in terms of the united model by taking into account analogies between domain orientations in the adjacent phases and minimum numbers of domain types (mechanical twins) therein. Calculated results on the phase content are consistent with experimental room-temperature data on the three aforementioned solid solutions.


Fragmentation constitutes a classic phenomenon for Christian education in various contexts, one that is not easily addressed despite the many attempts leaders and thinkers in Christian education have explored. The ongoing fragmentation indicates lack of a comprehensive vision that might unify the direction of Christian education in various contexts. In this article, the author proposes that a vision for Christian education be based on the concept of calling as understood from the framework of a biblical metanarrative, to provide a unifying trajectory for Christian education within various contexts (family, school, church, parachurch, and seminaries) by which such efforts can be seen as complementary and synergistic. The need for collaboration and synergy among various and widely differing educational contexts is illustrated by a certain qualitative study that traces the process of formation as experienced by a number of Christian professionals in ways that enable them to live out their vocational work as the Lord's call (vocation) as well as to dedicate their lives according to the interest of others. This need for collaboration and synergy also finds confirmation in the theory of human development ecology as proposed by developmental psychology expert, Urie Bronfenbrenner.


In 1945, which is beginning to seem a long time ago, Dom Gregory Dix published The Shape of the Liturgy. In the last two chapters of the book he expressed a view about the devotional and liturgical practice of the late Middle Ages which will provide a convenient starting-point for my subject. He said that the trouble about the medieval Mass was its separation of the 'corporate offering' assumed to have occurred in the primitive liturgy from the 'priesthood of the priest'; the notion of worship it expressed, like the doctrine of the eucharist it exemplified, was 'inorganic'. The effect of this was to let in, especially during the fifteenth century, non-liturgical, individualist forms of devotion which were unparticipatory and obsessed with historical facts about the life of Christ, notably with the facts of his Passion. 'The quiet of low mass afforded the devout an excellent opportunity for using mentally the vernacular prayers which they substituted for the Latin text of the liturgy as their personal worship … The old corporate worship of the Eucharist is declining into a mere focus for the subjective devotion of each separate worshipper in the isolation of his own mind.' Liturgical doing had subsided into inactive seeing and hearing, on the way to being engulfed in a miasma of private thinking and feeling. The Protestant reform of the liturgy amounted to pickling this pre-Reformation devotional tradition while dropping the ritual performance to which it had been loosely attached.


The productivity of any service depends on the technology it incorporates in its operations. The impact of technology adoption is always seen as great extent in the positive direction in any field. A great result can also be seen in the banking sector also. The information technology was adopted by all the banking sector in India in the Start of 21st century. Prior to adoption of information technology the whole work was done manually and the procedure was time consuming. With the help of computerization in banking sector the productivity of all the operational activities was enhanced. All the banking sectors i.e public, foreign and private sector banks got benefitted for the technology incorporation. In this study the productivity of private banking sector is discussed with respect to input in the form e-delivery channels which were initiated in the IT era. E-delivery channels kept on providing new facilities to increase the productivity which leads to fasten the operational activities, online transactions, data maintenance etc. various results of the productivity of banks under study are discussed in this study.


Introduction: Pterygium is ocular surface lesion thought to origi nate from damage to limbal stem cells by chronic ul tra violet light exposure. It has high recurrence rates following resection. Both amniotic membrane and co njunctival autograft are source of stem cells. We compare recu rr nce after pterygium excision with conjunctival a utografting and amniotic membrane grafting. Methods: Prospective case study of seventy patients after pt ygium excision with Amniotic membrane transplantation or Conjunctival a utografting. Thirty five patients divided in each g roup and fibrin glue used for both Amniotic membrane transplantatio n and Conjunctival autografting. Results: Six follow up from first postoperative day to one year were done in each gro up. Group A (Amniotic membrane transplantation) had less Post operative complaints. In group A, all patients hav e well placed graft while in group B (conjunctival autografting) nine patients have graft displacement on first post oper ative day. It was statistically significant (p valu e 0.001). The recurrence occurring four patients in group A (11.42%) while i n 7 patients in group B (20%). The recurrence was m ore in group B although it was statistically insignificant (p valu e <0.511). Amniotic membrane transplantation with fibrin glue having less postoperative complaints, better graft stabili ty and less recurrence as compare to conjunctival a utografting. Conclusion: Our study shows good outcome with Amniotic membrane transplantation. Probably this is because of antiinflammatory property of amniotic membrane, minimum surgical trauma and uniform thickness of graft.


Active interferometers are designed to enhance phase sensitivity beyond the standard quantum limit by generating entanglement inside the interferometer. An atomic version of such a device can be constructed by means of a spinor Bose–Einstein condensate with an F = 1 groundstate manifold in which spin-changing collisions (SCCs) create entangled pairs of m = ±1 atoms. We use Bethe Ansatz techniques to find exact eigenstates and eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian that models such SCCs. Using these results, we express the interferometer's phase sensitivity, Fisher information, and Hellinger distance in terms of the Bethe rapidities. By evaluating these expressions we study scaling properties and the interferometer's performance under the full Hamiltonian that models the SCCs, i.e., without the idealising approximations of earlier works that force the model into the framework of SU(1,1) interferometry.


Neonatal chronic lung disease (nCLD) in preterm infants, also known as bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is one of the major complications arising in the premature infant. Preand postnatal stressors, such as mechanical ventilation (MV) and hyperoxia (O2) are known to contribute to disease development. In our study we observed that moderate prenatal cigarette smoke (pCS), enhances the vulnerability of the developing lung to postnatal injury resulting in impaired septation and vessel growth along with disturbed platelet drive growth factor (PDGF) signaling and extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling. We hypothesized that pCS increases the development of adverse effects in response to postnatal injury (oxygen or mechanical ventilation) thereby impairing lung development in neonatal mice. The study specifically focused on histologic endpoints, i.e. the formation of alveoli and vessels in the face of altered growth factor signaling. Methods Female C57BL/6 (WT) and transgenig mice (8–10-weeks old) were exposed to CS from day 7 to day 18 of pregnancy. Smoke was generated from 3R4F Research Cigarettes (Tobacco Research Institute, University of Kentucky,Lexington, KY, U.S.A.). The chamber atmosphere was monitored to maintain 500 mg/m CS and mice were exposed to CS for 50 min twice per day. Control mice were kept in a filtered air (FA) environment. 5-8 days C57B6 (WT) mice from both groups (FA and pCS) either received mechanical ventilation (MV-O2), hyperoxia (O2; fiO2=0.4) or room air (RA; fiO2=0.21) for 8 hours. Lungs collected from these neonatal mice were subjected to histologic analysis including alveolar and micro-vessel number (20-100 μm), assessment of apoptosis (TUNEL and cleaved-caspase-3 staining) and immunoblot analysis for growth factors and vessel markers. PDGF-Rα haploinsufficient neonatal mice (Charles River) were subjected to the RA and hyperoxia model described above to unravel the potential role of the growth factor in this context.


This article investigates the secure consensus problem of general linear multiagent systems with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Owning to the existence of DoS attacks, it is challenging to investigate the event-triggered control of multiagent systems in a fully distributed manner. This article presents a novel dynamic event-triggered mechanism to alleviate the limited communication resources. Moreover, the designed mechanism is fully distributed and scalable owing to the introduction of some adaptive coupling weights. Since the DoS attacks have been considered in the event-triggered rule design, a novel adaptive parameter with an additional exponential term is adopted to deal with DoS attacks. The Lyapunov design also introduces such a term for the subsequent stability analysis. Sufficient conditions guaranteeing the asymptotic consensus of the studied system are developed in light of the controller's parameters, duration, and frequency of the DoS attacks. Strict proof is provided to demonstrate that a secure consensus can be reached effectively under the proposed control mechanism. Furthermore, it is shown that the Zeno behavior can be excluded from the designed triggering mechanism. Finally, simulations on a multiagent system consisting of interconnected unmanned intelligent vehicles are conducted to verify the results.


3D improve the depth resolution of the image capture device and the driving method of the three-dimensional image pickup apparatus capable of reducing consumption jeonryeokreul is disclosed. Three-dimensional image pickup device image sensor for generating a depth image by photographing the modulated illumination light by the optical shutter, the optical shutter for modulating the illumination light reflected from the light source, the object which projects the illumination light toward the subject by a predetermined gain waveform, wherein and a video signal processor, and a control unit for controlling operation of the light source and the optical shutter using the depth image generated by the image sensor to calculate the distance to the subject. According to the driving method of the three-dimensional image obtaining device, while the image sensor records a depth image of one frame, the optical shutter can be controlled to repeat the non-driving period it is not transmitted through the driving section and the light modulating the illumination light.


These days, families are nuclear families. Likewise, sense of individualism stands out notably, and nuclear families that are relatively independent focus on individuals' happiness and self-realization. As such, interest in the external appearance, occupation, school life, hobby and lifestyle in general among the family members is increasing. External appearance determines the overall everyday life in the modern society. Accordingly, this study seeks to analyze the difference in the perception of spouse and child, who are family members, towards external appearance and to study the preference for and satisfaction level towards beauty treatment service. When the difference in the spouse and child's preference for beauty treatment service was examined, both the two groups manifested high preference. The two groups produced low scores when it comes to the satisfaction level regarding use, oral tradition and overall satisfaction level when the difference in the satisfaction level of spouse and child towards beauty treatment service was examined. In case of re-use, two groups produced low scores. As such, use of beauty treatment service does not merely affect oneself, but also even the spouse and child. As such, it is necessary to develop increasingly structured strategy to increase customer satisfaction level and to create profit by identifying individual customers' diverse needs.


Xu Yunuo,a highly productive contemporary poet,has published his works in the first professional journal-Poetry,a monthly journal.This paper summarizes his three kinds of poems published in Poetry by looking at the writing styles and contents.Poetry has made him a pioneer in the creation of poetry.The combination of Xu Yunuo and Poetry has pushed forward the modernization process of contemporary Chinese poetry.


【Aim】The aim of the study is to test the validity of the Vsp I-,Sty I- or Stu I-based cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence( CAPS) markers of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I gene( mt COI)for identification of Bemisia tabaci cryptic species Q and B. 【Methods 】 In this study,the mt COI fragments from B. tabaci from China and abroad were sequenced and used to identify cryptic species.Based on the analyses of mt COI sequences of 464 and 98 individuals from cryptic species Q and B,respectively,the restriction endonuclease enzyme Vsp I-,Sty I-,or Stu I-based CAPS markers was used to differentiate cryptic species Q and B for assessing its utility. The mt COI sequences of B. tabaci cryptic species Q and B in Gen Bank were downloaded and the distribution of the recognition sites of Vsp I,Sty I,and Stu I was analyzed. 【Results】The results showed that the individuals from China and abroad could be differentiated by using Vsp I-based CAPS markers effectively,but not by Sty I- or Stu I-based CAPS markers. The mt COI sequence analysis showed that Vsp I-,Sty I- or Stu I-based CAPS markers could not differentiate cryptic species Q and B. 【Conclusion 】 Vsp I-,Sty I- or Stu I-based CAPS markers has limitations in identifying cryptic species Q from B.


- The modular vehicle seat arrangement comprises at least one row of at least two seat rings (10, 20, 30). Each seat comprises two lateral anchoring elements for fixing said seat on two anchoring means of a plurality of anchoring means (1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8) of the floor (P) of the vehicle and includes a seat communication element (10a, 20a, 30a) for communicating wirelessly with a floor communication element (P1, P2), secured to the floor (P) .- It is provided a single piece of seat communication (10a, 20a, 30a) for each seat (10, 20, 30) mounted on a seat anchorage element, and two floor communication elements (P1, P2) per row, each communication element floor (P1, P2) capable of communicating with two communication elements siege.- motor vehicle safety systems.


There is no doubt that there are numerous studies in the international literature, which deal with the general presentation of the universal history of private law. There are also several general introductions to the comparative law (droit comparé) such as the works of René David (2) and Franz Wieacker (3). Taking into consideration these books, one has to underline the specific methodological basic-principle of professor Hamza's study.


Organic fertilizers derived from the rest of plant and animal organisms contain macro and micro nutrients needed by plants. The purpose of the study to know the effect of organic fertilizer on the harvest, (length, circumference, fruit weight) and storage capacity as a source of learning. This research used Completely Randomized Design (RAL), with 3 treatments and 1 control, each experimental unit there are 3 plants so total 12 plants, sampling technique using random sampling that is random sampling because in observed population is homogeneous. The result of the analysis is obtained as follows: there is influence of organic fertilizer on the length of dragon fruit Sig 0.008 α = 0.05, the shelf power of Sig 0.017> α = 0.05


As the largest interface with the external environment, the mature intestinal epithelium has remarkable physiologic responsibilities. The intestine must function first as an organ of absorption and digestion while simultaneously protecting itself from the vast bacterial flora, array of food antigens, and physiochemical stresses caused by digestive and microbial products. Thus, the intestinal epithelium must be permeable to nutrients and fluids, yet remain impermeable to potentially injurious chemicals and pathogens. The intestine also must differentiate between commensal organisms whose growth is encouraged and enteric pathogens that need to be suppressed or eliminated. The single layer of cells comprising the intestinal epithelium is critical for maintenance of this dynamic barrier. The developing neonatal gut faces an additional daunting challenge of successfully negotiating the transition from a sterile lumen devoid of digestive and microbial metabolic products to the fully realized "bioreactor" of the adult gut. This review describes the unique structural features and elements of innate host defense elaborated by this dynamic tissue.


Wind power ramps (WPRs) are significantly impacting the power balance of the system operations. Better understanding the statistical characteristics of ramping features would help power system operators better manage these extreme events. Toward this end, this paper develops an analytical truncated Gaussian mixture model (TGMM) to fit the probability distributions of different ramping features. The non-linear least square method with the Trust-Region algorithm is adopted to optimize the tunable parameters of mixture components; the optimal number of mixture components is adaptively solved by minimizing the Euclidean distance to the actual probability distribution. A sign function is utilized to truncate the original GMM distribution and obtain the final TGMM. The cumulative distribution function (CDF) of TGMM is analytically derived. Numerical simulations on publically available wind power data show that the parametric TGMM can accurately characterize the irregular and multimodal distributions of each ramping feature.


Nowadays, most of the population gives a lot of importance to environment conservation, which is a new challenge for the firms. On the other hand, in a world with increasing globalization, the export firms are important to the economic growth of the countries. With this starting point, the objective of this work is to evaluate the perceptions of the Galician export firm about the advantages and disadvantages of the implantation of an environmental strategy.


TO THE EDITOR: We read with interest the recent article by Robins et al. ( 1) in which they reported biokinetic data of leukocytes labeled with stabilized 99mTc-HMPAO (exametazime) by a method that had earlier been described by their group in this journal (2) and elsewhere ( 3), with minor differences in methodology and results. Labeling white cells with technetium rather than indium has obvious advantages in terms of availability, image quality, and radiation absorbed dose. It became a clinical reality with the introduction of HMPAO, first described for white cell labeling by Peters et al. ( 4) in 1986, and has since proved useful in imaging acute inflammation and inflammatory bowel disease. Hung et al. (2) have aimed to take this further by using HMPAO stabilized with methylene blue. This, however, requires a change in cell isolation procedure, because the dark blue color makes it impossible to distinguish the leukocyte sediment from the supernatant. Hung et al. have suggested using a double-dilution technique. Their protocol requires the addition of a total of 17 mL of a 12.6% acid citrate dextrose (ACD) solution in normal saline. The biokinetics described by Robins et al. ( 1) can be summarized as follows. Recovery at 30 min an d 1 h was 18% and 16%, respectively. The ratio of activity in liver to that in spleen changed from 1.3 at 1 h to 1.6 at 24 hafter injection. Residence time in the lung was 0.55 h, and the mean half-clearance time was 16 min. We are concerned that these biokinetics may represent a mildto-moderate form of white cell activation during labeling. Robins et al. (1) already pointed out that the half-clearance time in the lung in their study was longer than the previously reported times of 7.7 min for Becker et al. ( 5) and 9.8 min for Brown et al. ( 6). We do not agree with the observation of Robins et al. that there was no visual evidence of prolonged lung retention. In Figure 2 in their paper, considerable lung uptake can still be see n 8 h after injection, which one would expect to observe only in a 1-h image. A slight progressive sequestration in the liver (rather than physiologic pooling in the spleen) and the surprisingly low recovery (which is normally in the 30%–40% range, again with no differences between technetiumand indium-labeled leukocytes), are also indicative of cell activation. Indeed, higher than normal lung uptake with a prolonged intrapulmonary transit time, followed by a progressive accumulation in the liver rather than the spleen, are clear signs of white cell activation during labeling ( 5). There is still no better method for evaluating the viability of radiolabeled white cells than studying their kinetics in vivo. Apart from general manipulation during the cell isolation and labeling process, there are two possible causes for leukocyte activation in this study: the labeling in saline rather than plasma and the methylene blue buffer solution. The former has been extensively investigated in connection with the question of whether white cell labeling with indium should be performed with oxine (in saline) or tropolone (in plasma). There is a general consensus that labeling leukocytes in plasma rather than saline is advantageous because the cells are maintained in their normal physiologic environment. Labeling white cells in saline has long been recognized as a possible cause of cell activation, although clinical studies on the preference of oxine or tropolone gave conflicting results. The influence of the latter factor, methylene blue, on leukocyte activation is not known. It can, however, indirectly be determined by changing the cell isolation protocol such that the ACD–saline solution is replaced with plasma, which can easily be achieved by moderately increasing the amount of blood drawn. However, labeling in plasma is known to lead to a decrease in labeling efficiency (7). Because stabilized HMPAO provides a remarkably high labeling efficiency in saline ( 1), it might be expected to give an acceptably high labeling efficiency in plasma as well. If the biokinetics of the white cells labeled with stabilized HMPAO in plasma do not correspond to what has previously been described, the methylene blue buffer solution is likely to have a detrimental effect. If it does, the use of stabilized HMPAO will be a welcome contribution to the daily work of any nuclear medicine department performing white cell labeling in vitro.


We consider strings living in AdS3 × S3 × S3 × S1 with nonzero B-field. By using specific ansatz for the string embedding, we obtain a class of solutions corresponding to strings moving in the whole ten-dimensional space–time. For the AdS3 subspace, these solutions are given in terms of incomplete elliptic integrals. For the two three-spheres, they are expressed in terms of Lauricella hypergeometric functions of many variables. The conserved charges, i.e. the string energy, spin and angular momenta, are also found.


Tender coconut is commercially underutilized tree nut for beverage production. This research was conducted to find out the best formulation for preparation of RTS tender coconut beverage and to evaluate its composition and the shelf life.Differentformulations of beverage were prepared using varying proportion of7-month maturity coconut kernel and coconut water with pectin and sugar as main ingredients. Best kernel: water ratio and sugar level were selected by using sensory evaluation. Suitable pectin level was selected by visual observation of the sediment height. Microbial stability of the product was evaluated for a range of selected pasteurization temperatures and time. Best formula for the tender coconut RTS beverage was 1:7 kernels to coconut water, 10% total soluble solids and 0.3% pectin and the best selected processing conditions were 13000rpm for 2 minutes homogenization pressure and pasteurization for 5minutes at 100C temperature. Proximate analysis and sensory evaluation were carried out for the selection of best treatment that was identified by above preliminary trials. Sensory evaluation for the final product was conducted using 50 untrained panelistswith 7-point hedonic scale. Result was analyzed according to Freidman test at 95% significant level. In proximate analysis of the final product, total solid, protein, fat, sugar, crude fiber and total ash contents were found to be 10.35%,0.3%, 0.45%,8.67%, 0.31% and0.49% respectively. Moreover, results show that the beverage contains 364.52 mg K, 28.31 mg Na, 23.49 mg Mg and 44.21 mg Ca per 100 mL. In accordance with the shelf life studies, it was found that the formulated product can be kept for minimum of 8 weeks and it was sterile throughout the storage period. Results revealed that an organolepticallyaccepted tender coconut based RTS beverage with its kernel can be formulated.


Within Switzerland, Dr med. Hansruedi Isler has been known as 'the pope of headache', which was true for both, patients and fellow physicians. He was founder (1984) and longtime president of the Swiss Headache Society, and established 'Headache Neurology' as a subspecialty in Switzerland, with a significant number of neurologists following suit. Internationally, Hansruedi Isler has also been well known – for his passion for headache disorders and patient care, but also for publications in his second field of interest, the history of medicine throughout his life. His monography and thesis about Thomas Willis who introduced the terms 'neurologia' and 'psychologia' and developed a 17th-century neuropsychiatric concept was seminal. However, for Hansruedi Isler, the dichotomy of body and soul embodied in neurology on the one side and psychiatry on the other side was not a sustainable scientific concept then and now. He extensively published on the history of neurology and discussed the evolving pathophysiological concepts of migraine and other primary headache disorders as well as their therapies. As the founder of the headache clinic ('Kopfwehsprechstunde') at the Neurological University Hospital in Zurich 1966, he systematically developed and studied interdisciplinary patient care within and outside the tertiary care headache center. Together with Colette Andrée he founded and developed the national patient's organization, 'Migraine Action', which has been well received and is active until today. Some of his concepts reaching outside headache neurology are of importance for current neurological thinking, such as his work on 'hemicrania epileptica' together with Heinz Gregor Wieser. Among others, he published on the emergence of iatrogenic complications of migraine treatment, including medication overuse headache (MOH), recognizing ergots as important substances in this context and laid the clinical foundations for stratified MOH inpatient programs which are state-of-the-art today for the treatment of the most severely affected patients. Of great importance for the understanding of primary headache disorders was his work on the so-called Swiss cohort study, describing the longitudinal evolution of migraine and non-migrainous headaches over a period of 30 years. The study provided deep insights into the epidemiology and comorbidities of headaches in a 'normal' population. Furthermore, the longitudinal evolution showed that intraindividually a number of different nosologic entities were fulfilled, partly in sequence, when studied over time, suggesting that primary headaches which are separately classified following International Headache Society criteria might indeed be pathophysiologically related. Hansruedi Isler was also an exceptional person with multiple interests outside Neurology, a true humanist – with quasi-encyclopedic knowledge, and also multilingual. Nobody really found out the true number of languages he Dr med. Hansruedi Isler (1934–2019)


Our aim in this Note is to present some results concerning the interaction of small and large eddies in turbulent flows. We show that the amplitude of small structures decays exponentially to a small value and we infer from this a simplified interaction law of small and large eddies. Beside their intrinsic interest for the understanding of the physics of turbulence, these results lead to new numerical schemes which will be studied in a separate work On montre que l'amplitude des petites structures decroit exponentiellement vers une valeur petite et on en deduit une loi d'interaction simplifiee des petites et grandes structures


This paper explores the relationship and change law between process parameters, structural variables and product performance, and through seeking the optimal combination of process parameters, the filtration efficiency of the product is as high as possible and the filtration resistance is as small as possible. Firstly, the correlation between structural variables and product performance is analyzed by Spearman correlation coefficient method after the relevant data are processed by factor analysis method. Secondly, linear regression, random forest regression and lightGMB regression models are used to judge the relationship between process parameters and structural variables. Finally, the relationship between structural variables and product performance can be obtained by using multidimensional scaling transform (MDS). The results showed that the product filtration efficiency was the highest when the acceptance efficiency distance was 20m and the hot air velocity was 800km/h.


The application and development of correlation and spec- tral analysis methods to photoacoustic and photothermal wave detec- tion are examined. The purposes of this review are to 1) describe the two most prominent techniques available for photothermal correlation and spectral processing, namely the pseudorandom noise and the fre- quency-modulation (FM) time-delay (or frequency sweep) optical ex- citation; 2) compare the technical features of these techniques, such as measurement dynamic range properties, amount of measurement time required and instrumentation requirements; and 3) present advantages of the techniques over the widely used conventional frequency domain and pulsed laser excitation, as well as a detailed comparison between themselves. Attention is focused on the conceptual and mathematical details of signal generation, processing, and interpretation. Subtle but significant differences in the signal dynamic range, impulse response, and transfer function are shown to determine the limits of each of the two major techniques and are corroborated by the available experi- mental evidence to date. A review of the steadily increasing literature on spectroscopic and thermal imaging applications of these techniques is a powerful indicator of the promise they hold for conducting fun- damental and applied studies, primarily due to 1) the superior wealth of information obtained through pseudorandom photothermal exci- tation, as compared to the conventional frequency dispersive tech- niques and 2) the less destructive nature of the pseudorandom im- pulse response, compared to pulsed laser excitation.


A novel image sensor for high-resolution polarization imaging is presented. The image sensor combines polymer polarization filters with CMOS imaging technology in order to extract the first three Stokes parameters at the focal plane.


Ultra High pressure( UHP) technology is a physical process which can inactivate microbes and change food quality by high pressure. It can help reduce the loss of nutrients compared with conventional sterilization technology at high temperature. This review focuses on the current research situation of UHP on microbes,nutrients,sensory properties,texture,and enzymes of fruits and vegetables and its development trend.


Making use of the inter-temporal budget constraint for the government and taking into account the specific characteristic of China's local government debt accounting,this paper studies how to estimate its size and points out the distinction between book value and net value.Taking Zhejiang,Henan and Xinjiang as examples,this paper estimates the size of China's local government debt ever since 1994.It finds out that although the debt paths of three provinces are much different,three provinces have experienced similar cycle,which can be divided into the periods of 1994—1998,1998—2007,2007—2008and post 2009.This paper's further study is about their fiscal sustainability,and the debts of Zhejiang,Henan and Xinjiang are sustainable to some extent.


Graphite powder-supported cupric hexacyanoferrate (CuHCF) nanoparticles were dispersed into methyltrimethoxysilane based gels to produce a conducting carbon ceramic Composite, which was used as electrode material to fabricate surface- renewable CuHCF-modified electrodes. Electrochemical behavior of the CuHCF-modifled carbon ceramic composite electrodes was characterized using cyclic and square-wave voltammetry. Cyclic voltammograms at various scan rates indicated that peak currents were surface-confined at low scan rates. In the presence of glutathione, a clear electrocatalytic response was observed at the CuHCF-modified composite electrodes. In addition, the electrodes exhibited a distinct advantage of reproducible surface-renewal by simple mechanical polishing on emery paper, as well as ease of preparation, and good chemical and mechanical stability in a flowing stream.


With latest technologies most of the smart devices are expected to work in all types of environments including indoor scenarios. But, conventional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers when used in indoor environments face difficulty in dealing with the propagating signals, hence channel modeling of signals in indoor is necessary. In this paper, experiments are carried out using IRNSS S1 and L5 signals at three indoor locations to compare their performance with the corresponding outdoor locations only differed by altitude. The experimental environment and effect of signal obstructions are explained using C/No and system specifications. The results would be useful in designing indoor applications of IRNSS.


Recent claims that Maxwell's fish-eye is a perfect lens, capable of providing images with deep subwavelength resolution, are examined. We show that the imaging properties of a dispersionless fish-eye are very similar to those of an ideal spherical cavity. Using this correspondence, we prove that the correct solution to Maxwell equations in the fish-eye gives image sizes that are consistent with the standard diffraction limit. Perfect focusing is an optical illusion that results from placing a time-reversed source at the position of the geometrical image which, when combined with the field due to the primary (object) source, mimics the behavior of a perfect drain. Issues of causality are briefly discussed. We also demonstrate that passive outlets are not a good alternative to time-reversed sources for broadband drain-like behavior and that, even if they were, they could not do a better job than conventional optical systems at providing high resolution.


The present invention relates to differentiated cells, comprising introducing an initialization peptides containing nuclear localization signal, a manufacturing method of pluripotent spheroids cells; comprising a the initialization peptide, pluripotent spheroids cells from differentiated cells to provide such as an induction formulation. According to the present invention, reprogramming factor including transcription factors such as Oct3 / 4 and Sox2, without the use of low-molecular compounds that promote the initialization of such HDAC inhibitors enables reprogramming of somatic cells, the body can be from the cells get the induced pluripotent stem cell-like cells and reprogramming cells or transdifferentiation cells.


Due to multidisciplinary characteristic of the Interior Design field, it has developed into complex interdisciplinary field. Therefore Interior Design field has grown and established its major trends dependent upon other related field of study. With this perspective in mind, esthetics on Interior Design has to be treated in similar manner. In modern architects or artists have defined the terminology `object` theoretical principle where by unable to distinguish between `object's type` and `objects`, Presently, the term `object` became a trend word. In order to confront misconception of the idea of `Objectification`, some people definition as reflection of this complex society. In this paper, it will establish a solid groundwork for a discussion on Objectification. The initial approach will deal with Le Corbusier and esthetics, which is the center of argument. By reviewing theoretical background of the related modern art, the paper discusses about the relationship between Le Corbusier and esthetics. Subsequently, the discussion about the criterions necessary to define object is provided. This paper only suggests a methodology of analyzing a trend in Interior Design. The condition to define Objectification in Interior Design, which is a result of the reviewing process on esthetics, can be concluded as `modeling form(transformation of morphological meaning with change wrought by causing a visual reaction)`, "mixtures and modification of materials(transformation and spontaneity through mixing materials)` and `elements greatly influence space` of the Interior Design.


Preface Acknowledgments About the Author Part I Philosophy CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2: PATTERNS WITHIN DATA CHAPTER 3: ADAPTING BIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES FOR DEPLOYMENT IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE CHAPTER 4: ISSUES IN PREDICTIVE EMPIRICAL MODELING Part II Technology CHAPTER 5: SUPERVISED LEARNINGCORRELATIVE NEURAL NETS CHAPTER 6: UNSUPERVISED LEARNING: AUTO-CLUSTERING AND SELF-ORGANIZING DATA CHAPTER 7: CUSTOMIZING FOR INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH APPLICATIONS CHAPTER 8: CHARACTERIZING AND CLASSIFYING TEXTUAL MATERIAL CHAPTER 9: PATTERN RECOGNITION IN TIME SERIES ANALYSIS CHAPTER 10: GENETIC ALGORITHMS Part III Case Studies CHAPTER 11: HARNESSING THE TECHNOLOGY FOR PROFITABILITY CHAPTER 12: REACTOR MODELING THROUGH IN SITU ADAPTIVE LEARNING CHAPTER 13: PREDICTING PLANT STACK EMISSIONS TO MEET ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS CHAPTER 14: PREDICTING FOULING/COKING IN FIRED HEATERS CHAPTER 15: PREDICTING OPERATIONAL CREDITS CHAPTER 16: PILOT PLANT SCALE-UP BY INTERPRETING TRACER DIAGNOSTICS CHAPTER 17: PREDICTING DISTILLATION TOWER TEMPERATURES: MINING DATA FOR CAPTURING DISTINCT OPERATIONAL VARIABILITY CHAPTER 18: ENABLING NEW PROCESS DESIGN BASED ON LABORATORY DATA CHAPTER 19: FORECASTING PRICE CHANGES OF A COMPOSITE BASKET OF COMMODITIES CHAPTER 20: CORPORATE DEMOGRAPHIC TREND ANALYSIS EPILOGUE Appendices APPENDIX A1: THERMODYNAMICS AND INFORMATION THEORY APPENDIX A2: MODELING


In this paper, an image fusion technique about PCNN is studied. Within the multiscale decomposition for the origin images, PCNN is applied. The experimental results show that the processing time is reduced and the better image quality is obtained.


8.1 Introduction 8.2 Text complexity as measured in SFL 8.2.1 Grammatical intricacy 8.2.2 Lexical density 8.3 Methodology 8.4 Analysis and discussion: how does Huineng speak? 8.4.1 Analysis of grammatical intricacy 8.4.2 Analysis of lexical density 8.5 Interpretation: why does Huineng speak in this way? 8.6 Conclusion


New urban development undoubtedly has contributed to national economic and social progress. However, new town development has also brought some negative impacts vis-a-vis marginalization of original settlers. This paper discusses the social implication of the development of new town Putrajaya on the original settlers with reference to the community,Taman Permata, Dengkil. The households who was previously plantation workers have been resettled in Taman Permata for more than 10 years. This study classified as a qualitative research where primary information collected through participation observations and in-depth interviews with the households. In addition, secondary data such literature review, report from various department were analysed. The study found that these poor people of the resettlement scheme have undergone numerous and complex socioeconomic problems as a result of the forced migration. The households have to cope with various problems including inaccessibility to suitable employment opportunities, social services particularly education and public transportation. Above all, the community have lost the peaceful and serenity of estate life that they have lived for generations. Adapting to the new urban environment has been a serious challenge to the mostly poor and elderly households. They seriously felt that they have been neglected by the authorities concerned. Experience of people in Taman Permata, Dengkil can be a clear example of how urban development have resulted in the marginalisation of poor and less capable group of people. This research can contribute to the future research where the future researchers can further evaluate on Putrajaya development and similar project in Malaysia and at the same time can propose an effective way to prevent this from happening again.


of Misfits, comprising a selection of short stories translated by Nicolas J. Perella, is a remarkable contribution to a wider exposure of this writer's important works. Palazzeschi started his career as a poet in 1908 by financing the publication of a verse vol ume which attracted the attention of critics and provided him with the sympathy and support of Marinetti, the founder of futurism. InPoesia, the journal edited by Marinetti, Palazzeschi published another collection of poems, LIncendiario (The Arsonist, 1910 and 1913) as well as the novel that made him respected by Italian intellectuals, // c?dice di Perel? (Man of Smoke, 1911), and his own literary manifesto, which he titled Controdolore (An Antidote to Pain, 1914). The collaboration with Marinetti was terminated by Palazzeschi on account of the futurists' pro-war stance. Palazzeschi, a pacifist, could not endorse Marinetti's enthusi astic position in favor of an Italian intervention in the Great War. Nevertheless, he was drafted by the Italian Army and, while spending very lit tle time on the frontline, he was stationed for most of the duration of the war in Florence. On the basis of this experience he published an autobiographical book titled Due imperi... mancati in 1920. In 1934 he wrote Le sorelle Materassi, a novel that established him as one of the most influential voices of Italian culture. He continued to write short stories, novels, and verses throughout his life and died in 1974 when, in preparation for his ninetieth birthday, the influential literary journal // Verri was on the verge of publishing a monographic issue on his work. Throughout his whole literary production, Palazzeschi challenged Italy's social and literary myths by employing an original style that


ABSTRACT Most research on evaluations of women candidates considers single elections in isolation. Using two Dynamic Process Tracing experiments, this article examines whether voters alter their evaluations of women candidates, as well as their willingness to learn about and vote for them, based on the presence of other women running simultaneously in concurrent contests. We find a consistent pattern in which female candidates are not adversely affected when they are the only woman on a voter's ballot, but they are disadvantaged when other women appear on the same party's ballot in other races. This effect is more prominent for women in lower offices: women running for the House of Representatives are more disadvantaged than women running for higher offices are.


High temperature steam oxidation has been occurred inside the boiler tubes of the superheater and reheater in fossil fuel-fired power plants. Exfoliation of the scale formed by the steam oxidation sometimes makes troubles such as the blockage of the boiler tubes and the erosion of the turbine components. Recently, operating temperature and pressure has been improved due to achieve high efficiency. In Japan, steam conditions have been reached at the ultra super critical steam condition (883K/31.6MPa). These boiler tubes have been mainly made of iron-c h r o m i u m ferritic and austenitic steels. Recently, Fe-Cr ferritic steels have been widely chosen from the advantages of low costs and low thermal expansion coefficients that close to the oxide scale formed on the alloy surface. But, steam oxidation behavior of the high Cr ferritic steels is not clarified. From 1990's, many researchers have started f u n d a mental researches of the steam oxidation of high Cr ferritic steel, because it needed to clarify the scale for m a t i o n and control the scale exf o l i a t i o n . In this paper, high temperature steam oxidation of high chromium ferritic steels are mentioned in the v i e w p o i n t of the microstructure evolution of the scale, the effect of Si addition, void formation and hydrogen permeation in the oxide scale.


Polypropylene was degraded in supercritical water by a batch tubular reactor.The degradation products of polypropylene were analyzed and identified systematically by GC-MS.The degradation mechanism and products of polypropylene in supercritical water were investigated.The results showed that the polypropylene can be degraded to oily products and combustible gas effectively in supercritical water.The aromatic and methane were the main components in oily products and combustible gas,respectively.The kinds of mellow and hydroxybenzene were found in water.The free radical reaction was the character of supercritical water processes for polypropylene degradation and free radicals ·OH began the reactions.


Galunggung is an active volcano with an altitude of 2168 meter above sea level. Galunggung Volcano has a diversity of vegetation and habitat for various fauna. Previous research explained that Galunggung Volcano has at least 43 species of typical plants, which are divided into categories of mature trees, poles, saplings, and seedlings / undergrowth. However, the spectral characteristics of these plant types are still unknown. On the other hand, remote sensing with infrared channels is the right technology to analyze the spectral characteristics of vegetation in Galunggung Volcano. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the specific characteristics of vegetation on Galunggung Volcano based on height zones. This research uses Landsat 8 imagery, Aster GDEM imagery, and Hyperion imagery. It is expected that the results of image processing can show how the altitude affects the different spectral characteristics and types of vegetation in the study area.


TO THE EDITOR—In their letter, Trück et al reiterate the principal concern expressed in my brief article [1] about the use of 13-valent protein-conjugate pneumococcal vaccine (PCV13) in adults, namely, that these 13 strains will largely disappear from the population with widespread use of this vaccine in children. Dagan and his colleagues [2] have already shown such a decline in colonization in children. It is reasonable to anticipate that the decline in disease caused by these serotypes will parallel that seen with 7 commonly infecting strains after introduction of the 7-valent protein-conjugate penumococcal vaccine (PCV7) [3]. Since the publication of my article, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended the use of PCV13 preceding administration of 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23) in immunocompromised adults who have never been vaccinated, or PCV13 as a single dose at least 1 year after PPV23 in immunocompromised adults who have already received PPV23 (CDC, unpublished data). Even though PCVmay stimulate, while PPV might depress, long-lived memory B cells [4], and vaccination with PCV13 may prime for better antibody responses to PPV23, what Trück et al call "the disappearance" of these serotypes from the population renders a program to vaccinate immunocompromised adults with PCV13 largely irrelevant. The recently completed Netherlands Study of PCV13 is likely to show very good success of this vaccine in the adult population. This study, however, was begun soon after PCV7 was officially recommended for use and before use of PCV13 had begun. As a result it will not be possible to extrapolate the results to the United States and other countries in which PCV13 vaccine programs are already in effect in infants and toddlers. Trück et al also make further suggestions regarding polysaccharide-based vaccines. My plea remains that, instead, our priorities be directed toward vaccines that are based on conserved pneumococcal protein antigens.


S>Tracks of PS protons Mean enengy of 21 Rev) in nuclear emulsions were followed, and 491 reactions with nuclei were found. A mean free path of 37.8 plus or minus 2.7 cm for the star products was determined. The frequency distribution of the stars as a function of the number of the grey and black tracks emitted was compared with the frequency distribution obtained at 6.2 Bev. The comparison indicated that the number of evaporation tracks is practically independent of the primary energy between 6 and 24 Bev. Of all interactions 12.4% appear as so-called white stars, which are stars with only rare secondary tracks. The frequency distribution of white stars was determined as a function of the number of their charged secondary tracks. The angular distribution of the secondary track in the L system was measured against the primary direction. (J.S.R.)


The computation of Lyapunov functions to determine the basins of attraction of equilibria in dynamical systems can be achieved using linear programming. In particular, we consider a CPA (continuous piecewise affine) Lyapunov function, which can be fully described by its values at the vertices of a given triangulation. The method is guaranteed to find a CPA Lyapunov function, if a sequence of finer and finer triangulations with a bound on their degeneracy is considered. Hence, the notion of (h,d)-bounded triangulations was introduced, where h is a bound on the diameter of each simplex and d a bound on the degeneracy, expressed by the so-called shape-matrices of the simplices. However, the shape-matrix, and thus the degeneracy, depends on the ordering of the vertices in each simplex. In this paper, we first remove the rather unnatural dependency of the degeneracy on the ordering of the vertices and show that an (h,d)-bounded triangulation, of which the ordering of the vertices is changed, is still (h,d∗)-bounded, where d∗ is a function of d, h, and the dimension of the system. Furthermore, we express the degeneracy in terms of the condition number, which is a well-studied quantity.


The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and/or treating a pediatric epilepsy or epilepsy-related syndrome comprising the phenyl carbamate compound as an active ingredient, and a use of the phenyl carbamate compound for preventing and/or treating pediatric epilepsy or pediatric epilepsy-related syndromes.


Social networking (SN) provides people with multiple ways to connect, share experiences and insights, and engage with one another. It can also be an ideal platform for online learning community with great potential to facilitate students' learning. Thus, more and more higher education institutes are integrating e-learning into their standard pedagogy. In this paper, we will present findings from a small scale study exploring the post-secondary students' experiences on social networking usage and their perception on using it for e-learning. The preliminary findings indicate that students prefer to utilise social networking for performing many tasks including learning activities.


Continuous frequency tuning by control of the magnetic field of a transformer - capacitor tank, in a selective oscillator, is explored in this work. A quadrature generator is built connecting two identical transformer - capacitor oscillator cells in a feedback loop. The topology itself assures the currents in the transformer windings are aligned in phase, while their relative amplitude determines, via magnetic coupling, oscillators' tank reactance, i.e., oscillation frequency. This paper introduces the idea, analyzes oscillation amplitude, frequency tuning band, phase noise, and phase accuracy, and discusses design and experiments. Prototypes, realized in 65 nm CMOS, employing MOS varactors to further extend operation bandwidth, show the following performances: 3.2 GHz and 7.3 GHz minimum and maximum oscillation frequency, respectively. Phase noise figure of merit of 176.5 dB at 3.2 GHz and 170.5 dB at 6.4 GHz is observed, with 24 mW maximum power consumption and 1.5 maximum deviation from quadrature.


Currently, a lot of attention of scientists all over the world is paid to the perioperative management strategy, taking into account the volume of surgical intervention, the presence of comorbidities and their possible complications. This makes it possible to reduce mortality, decrease the number of adverse events in the intra- and postoperative period, effectively cope with pain, advance recovery and rehabilitation, and also increase patients' satisfaction with the quality of medical care. We studied indices of 58 adult patients who underwent septoplasty. Patients were divided into 2 groups. In group "D", dexmedetomidine was infused, which began 10 minutes before the induction of anesthesia at a dose of 0.7 μg/kg/h and ended 10 minutes before the end of the surgical intervention. The clinical blood test (hemoglobin level, erythrocytes, leukocytes, rods count), body temperature of patients, coagulogram (INR, fibrinogen level, Dyuk bleeding time) were studied. When comparing the indicators of clinical analysis in the postoperative period in the control group leukocytosis and stab left shift (p <0.001) was observed. For patients undergoing dexmedetomidine infusion, leukocyte and bacillus levels were normal. In both postoperative follow-up groups, low-grade fever was detected (p <0.001). In the control group, 12 hours after surgery, body temperature rose to febrile values. During the operative intervention, the "D" group was characterized by the better indices of blood coagulation. In the group "K" on the second day of the postoperative period, there was a slight increase in coagulation. The level of intraoperative blood loss in the "D" group was significantly lower than in the control group (p<0.001). In the "D" group in the postoperative period, the minimum decrease in hemoglobin was determined in contrast to the control group (p<0.001). The use of dexmedetomidine infusion leads to a decrease in the manifestations of a systemic inflammatory response in surgical interventions for the curvature of the nasal septum. The introduction of dexmedetomidine provides better blood coagulation during septoplasty. Infusion of dexmedetomidine causes a decrease in blood loss and consequently the maintenance of hemoglobin concentration at the proper level.


Two kinds of high nitrogen-containing Ni-free austenitic stainless steels for medical applications were used for evaluation of fatigue behavior. One was a Fe-23%Cr-2%Mo-1%N stainless steel heat-treated in a N2 gas atmosphere (NA) and the other was a Fe 23%Cr-1%Mo-1%N stainless steel fabricated with an electro-slag remelting method in a pressurized N2 gas atmosphere (P-ESR). Fatigue tests were carried out both in air and in the phosphate-buffered saline solution, PBS (−). Cyclic stress with a sine waveform was applied to the specimen in a tension-to-tension mode with a stress ratio of 0.1 at a frequency of 20 Hz in air and 2 Hz in PBS (−). During testing, the saline solution was kept at 310 K and at the pH of 7.5. A nitrogen-4% oxygen gas mixture was bubbled into the PBS (−). The results obtained are as follows. There was no difference between S-N (stress-number of cycles to failure) curves in air and in PBS (−) for each stainless steel. The fatigue strength at 107 cycles for NA was 245 MPa. No difference was found in the fatigue strength between the NA specimens heat- treated for 259.2 ks and 129.6 ks. The fatigue strength at 107 cycles for P-ESR was 320 MPa. The fatigue life at various stress amplitudes depended on preparation of the test specimens for P-ESR. The fatigue life was decreased by the plastic deformation layer and/or cracks on the specimen surface caused by machining and increased by elimination of the deformation layer and/or cracks. The fracture surface exhibited a cleavage-like appearance at the fatigue crack initiation site for both the stainless steels.


show a typical Zweigle hairiness tester representation of the degree of hairiness and the hair length distribution for the yarns used in the study. Dr. Barella's historical recounting of the research conducted in hair length distribution is noteworthy, but irrelevant to the main purposes of the paper. We acknowledge that it would have been useful to have cited Dr. Barella's 1983 paper [ 2 as being an excellent review of the literature on the topic of yarn hairiness. That reference serves as a complete compilation of research conducted on the topic through 1982.


Fear appeals have an extensive history in social scientific research. One of the earliest theories, the drive model, predicts that the fear-persuasion relationship is characterized by an inverted Ucurve. Meta-analyses have firmly established that a between-persons curvilinear relationship between fear and persuasion is empirically unsupported. But, these studies cannot assess the within-person curvilinear predictions advanced by the drive model. Instead, the distinction between between-persons and within-person is often conflated in the literature. To assess this relationship, a methodology that can adequately test the within-person curvilinear prediction is outlined, and the results of a study which utilizes this methodology are presented. The current analysis finds empirical support for a within-person curvilinear relationship between dynamic fear arousal and persuasion, and experimental manipulation of fear response across different groups indicates that different fear curves differentially predict persuasion. The implications of these findings and potential future research are discussed.


The EGRET experiment on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory observed energetic gamma rays from the impulsive solar flares on June 30 and July 2, 1991. The June 20 and July 2 spectra were measured by the large NaI spectrometer in EGRET and extended up to nearly ∼50 MeV and ∼10 MeV respecetively before appearing to cut off. These spectra can be fit by a power law model or an isothermal plasma model.


The value of the radio allergosorbent test (RAST) in the detection of specific IgE antibody has been investigated by many researches.However, the clinical usefullness of the CAP-fluoro enzyme immuno assay (CAP-FEIA) method recently introduced for the same purpose as the RAST method is still not clear. The authors used both the RAST and the CAP-FEIA methods to test the same patients with nasal allergy and compared the results.It was found that the CAP-FEIA method was more sensitive than the RAST method in the detection of specific IgE antibodies to single or multiple antigens in patients with nasal allergy, except for house dust antigens. Further investigation showed that the lower sensitivity to house dust antigen was due to the impurities in the house dust extract.Reexamination with a new standard house dust extract showed as high sensitivity as to the other antigens. The CAP-FEIA method showed a better correlation with the results of skin tests than did the RAST method.It is concluded that CAP-FEIA is an excellent method for the diagnosis of nasal allergy.


I give a brief review of the status of research on the nature of initial conditions required to obtain a period of cosmological inflation. It is shown that there is good evidence that in the case of large field models, the inflationary slow-roll trajectory is a local attractor in initial condition space, whereas it is not in the case of small field models.


We derive and factorize the fourth-order q-dierence equations satised by orthogonal polynomials obtained from some perturbations of the recurrence coecients of q-classical orthogonal polynomials. These perturbations include the rth associated, the anti-associated, the general co-recursive, co-recursive associated, co-dilated and the general co-modied q-classical orthogonal polynomials. Moreover we nd a basis of four linearly independent solutions of these fourth-order q-dierence equations and express the modied families in terms of the starting ones.


Among important motivations for firms to go public is to create an exit strategy for the insiders. Theory suggests that going public can be an optimal first step in the process of selling a company. I document evidence in support of this 'double-exit' strategy. My finding is two folds. First, newly listed firms are more likely to be acquired within five years after being listed than are seasoned firms. In my sample of U.S. IPOs conducted during 1980-2007, 27 percent of the new issues are acquired within five years after the IPO, which is compared with the seasoned firm counterpart of 17 percent. Second, as acquisition targets, IPO firms receive higher takeover premiums than do comparable privately held targets and seasoned target firms. Consistent with the double-exit strategy predicted by theory, my findings suggest that IPOs facilitate subsequent sales of the companies and that the strategy is economically justified.


A quasiclassical trajectory calculation is carried out to investigate the effect of reagent vibrational excitation on product rotational polarization in the reactions Li + DF (v=0-3, j=0) ---> LiF(v', j') + D. It is found that the reagent vibational excitation highly enhanced the product rotational alignment, however, the enhancement is not monotonically increasing with the gradual increase of the vibrational quantum number from v=0 to v=3. The product rotational orientation varies from the negative to positive direction of y axis with the increasing vibrational quantum number from v=0 to v=3.


revolutionizing therapy for a myriad of diseases. Researchers can utilize stem cells for elucidating disease models through differentiation of both normal and diseased cells into biologically relevant and homogenous cellular lineages. Transfection of nucleic acids such as plasmid DNA, mRNA and siRNA serves as a vital tool in stem cell reprogramming and differentiation processes. TransIT Transfection Reagents and Ingenio Electroporation Solution will be highlighted for high efficiency delivery of plasmid DNA and siRNA to iCell Cardiomyocytes and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. High Efficiency Transfection of iCell Cardiomyocytes and Stem Cell Relevant Cell Sources Miguel Dominguez1, Chuenchanok Khodthong1, Anthony Lauer1, Elizabeth Dominguez2, Michael McLachlan2, Laura Juckem1 1 Mirus Bio, Madison, WI 2 Cellular Dynamics International, Madison, WI


The development of electronic THz wave rotational absorption spectroscopy for quantitative gas sensing and its experimental validation is reported. The implementation of a THz wave spectrometer operating in the 220 to 330 GHz frequency band using state-of-the-art electronic THz wave radiation sources and detectors is described. The novel system technology for THz wave gas phase spectroscopy is validated by the detection of a broad range of relevant volatile organic compounds, nitrogen compounds, halogenated hydrocarbons, and commercial refrigerants. The sensitivity of the spectrometer meets gas species detection limits set by, e.g. occupational health and safety standards. The large bandwidth (220 to 330 GHz), high frequency resolution (0.5 MHz), and rapid frequency scanning (160 GHz/s) of the spectrometer enables the important analysis of gas mixtures.


By using the observation data of 72 weather stations from 1981 to 1999 in Qinghai and Xizang, the variation of winter\|spring(from last October to this May) snow and frozen soil day and their relations to climatic change over Qinghai\|Xizang Plateau are analyzed. The results show that the the day number of winter\|spring snow is increasing in 1980′s, but it is decreasing in 1990′s. The day number of frozen soil is decreasing (from 1981 to 1999). The distribution of the mean number of winter\|spring snow day and frozen soil day are different. The mean number of winter\|spring snow day from 1981 to 1999 is decreasing from south to north; The mean number of frozen soil days from 1981 to 1999 is decreasing from center to around. The winter\|spring snow and frozen soil days show the significant variations in 2~6\|yr period, the temperature has the oscillation periods of quasi 3\|yr, the precipitation of Xizang has the oscillations periods of quasi 8\|yr and quasi 3\|yr, the precipitation of Qinghai has the oscillation periods of 3~5\|yr, the oscillation periods of the winter\|spring snow day, frozen soil day and winter\|spring temperature of Plateau have the quickening trend. The winter\|spring snow day is negative correlation to the temperature and positive correlation to the precipitation. The correlations between the frozen soil day and the winter\|spring temperature and the correlations between the frozen soil day and the precipitation are both negetive.