Twenty-three durum wheat (Triticum durum L.) inbred lines and two bread wheat (T. aestivum L.) cultivars were evaluated in sixteen trials carried out under sprinkler irrigation and in upland conditions, taking into account the grain yield, yield components and disease resistance. The durum wheat lines L3 (Gallareta"S"), L4 (Yavaros "S"), L12 [CI 14955 x (Yavaros "S" x Gediz "S")] x Tropic Bird and L19 {{[61150 x Leeds) x Gallo "S"}x Garza "S"} x Mexicali "S"} x S15 presented resistance to stem and leaf rusts, susceptibility to powdery mildew and leaf spot, short stature (with exception of line L12), earliness, and good grain yield not differing from the bread wheat cultivars IAC-60 and IAC-24, that are today the most cultivated in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The line L22 (Sacaba-81) showed at the same time immunity to the causal agents of stem and leaf rusts and moderate resistance to the causal agent of powdery mildew. All genotypes were susceptible to the causal agents of leaf spoting diseases. The line L3, showed to be a good genetic source to increase the number of grains per spike and per spikelet; the cultivars IAC-60 and IAC-24 revealed long heads and large number of spikelets per spike; and the lines L14 (Gediz"S" x Cocorit-71) and L19 were considered good for heavy grains.


A year-long departmental evaluation at one college English department revealed that most sections of both pre-college English and regular English 101 emphasized form over content, structure over ideas, surface features over global, and this, at the expense of meaningful intellectual growth. When freshmen are plied with basic grammar books and with a series of disconnected readings, they are being deprived of the kind of learning that allows for abstraction and analytical thinking. Whether upper level literature courses or pre-college courses for developmental writers, the questions remains the same: How does an instructor provide a relevant context for composition with readings that serve as more than models of rhetorical modes, that have substance and coherence? The "role of social pressure and self-awareness" is the unifying theme that drove the selection of the reading in one thematically oriented course. It allowed for treatment of many "isms," such as racism, sexism, ageism, and challenged reductive thinking about them. Since most incoming freshmen are highly concerned with peer pressure and self-discovery, this thematic approach seemed to hold the most promise. At first readings served as a vehicle for subjective responses in journals; excerpts from these journals shows a level of personal engagement. Later such responses were fashioned into essays. (Contains list of course thematic readings, other course materials and 19 references.) (TB) *************A********************************************************* Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** 00 NCTE Conference oo November 19, 1994 ce) Paper Presented Presenter: Mary Segall Session: G-18 2:00-3:15 Title: Celebrating Diversity: Providing Cultural Contexts for Freshman Composition Over twenty years ago, George Stade of Columbia University bemoaned: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OtkootFo,..apo,ailqesewcha,,,n,,,cer,e,! EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) lc This document has been reproduced as content of the Freshman composition course is the main eceived from the person or organization originating it O Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality source of the schizophrenia that is everywhere the badge The split between the content of the essays and the Points of view oropmonsstatedm this and stigma of Freshman English ... because the essays docurnerAcionotnecem olk,alonorpacy themselves are about a variety of subjects by a variety "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC! of writers, the half of the course they comprise is fragmented. The course does not reveal itself in stages. It boils down to this: the course we think of as having form for its content has no content at all


In June 2016, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision warned that capital relief transactions "can be complex, artificial and opaque" and reduce capital requirements. In this article, we analyse the structure of synthetic 'balance sheet' securitisations, which have, inter alia, the objective of reducing capital requirements, and we critically discuss their impact on systemically important global Banks in Switzerland.


Beyond questions posed in the economics literature about the implications for development of exporting countries' rich underground resources, this paper looks at a possible rebalancing and restructuring of the Chinese economy and its impact on the economies of minerals-exporting countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Although China is the largest importer of sub-Saharan minerals, a rebalancing of the Chinese economy and a lowering of the share of investment in China's GDP is on the agenda; the new Chinese leaders having stated that they aim to lessen that share from 48% today to 42% by 2022, a 1% decrease in investment could lead to a 1.3% fall in the price of minerals. Exporting countries in Africa with the least diversified economies would feel the impact of such a decrease especially strongly.


Background: The vasculature of the nasal mucosa in the human fetus so far has not been investigated morphologically by modern techniques.


In this stimulating paper, the authors have successfully exploited Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to explore the space of graphs for CART-like trees in which the terminal nodes represent generalized linear models (GLMs). Integration over the parameters of the terminal GLMs, in order to compute the marginal likelihood (probability of data given the model) for the MCMC search, is accomplished using the Laplace approximation. Hyper-parameters (such as those governing the GLM parameters) are either set by hand or fixed after a brief empirical search. The underlying CART model on which this approach is based, however, suffers from some significant limitations, namely (i) the splits are axis-aligned, i.e. dependent on only one of the input variables at a time (this limitation is removed in some other variants of CART), (ii) the splits are binary, (iii) the splits are hard, so that each region of input space is associated with one, and only one, leaf node. An alternative tree-based model, which avoids these limitations, is the Hierarchical Mixtures of Experts (HME) proposed by Jordan and Jacobs (1994). Each non-terminal node in the tree, called a gating node, corresponds to a multi-way indicator variable Z = {Z1, . . . , ZM}, where Zi ∈ {0, 1} and ∑


The most commonly used variants of neurotization on the upper extremity in various injuries of peripheral nerves or brachial plexus and results of their application are presented. Pledge of successful neurotization is thorough knowledge of topographic anatomy of peripheral nerve branches, skills in precision surgical technique and adequate postoperative rehabilitation.


Induced Seismicity
Enhanced geothermal systems (EGSs) provide a potentially clean and abundant energy source. However, two magnitude-5 earthquakes recently occurred in South Korea during EGS site development. Grigoli et al. and Kim et al. present seismic and geophysical evidence that may implicate the second of these earthquakes, which occurred in Pohang, as an induced event. The combination of data from a local seismometer network, well logs, satellite observations, teleseismic waveform analysis, and stress modeling leads to the assessment that the earthquake was probably or almost certainly anthropogenically induced. The possibility remains that the earthquake occurred coincidentally at the EGS site location, but the aftershock distribution and other lines of evidence are concerning for future development of this geothermal resource.

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An essential part of many Systems Analysis and Design capstone courses is the development of operational, meaningful and real-world information systems. The development of such systems typically takes place in a small group setting to realistically simulate the future work environment of Management Information System (MIS) students. We investigated how previous work experience, time spent on the project, project complexity, and the relationships among project team members and between team members and project stakeholders affected the outcome of the system development projects. Our findings indicate that three factors: prior work experience in information technology; experience with project management; the ability to select relatively simple projects positively affected the project outcome. While difficulties among team members showed a negative impact on the outcome of the projects, difficulties in the relationships with the stakeholders and total time spent on the project did not have significant effects.


Storage of radiochemicals is a significant practical problem. Storage as a solution in various solvents was compared to the storage as a neat oil or solid over an extended period of time. Dichloromethane, a solvent previously not recommended for storage, was found to be a good choice in certain solvent mixtures. Addition of methylsulfide or 2-methyl-2-butene was shown to reduce the radiochemical decomposition by a factor of 1.7–3.2 in ethanol-free solvents. General points to consider for storage of radiochemicals are discussed. Radiochemical purity was determined by HPLC. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


This paper presents an EXOR decomposition with fixed variable sets, which is an attempt to decompose an n-variable logic function f into two (n-1)-variable subfunctions g/sub 0/ and g/sub 1/ by using exclusive-or (EXOR) operation. We present the conditions and formulas for the decomposition. We also consider the subfunction-sharing method for multiple-output networks as an application of the EXOR decomposition. Experimental results show that the area of networks is often reduced effectively by sharing the subfunctions obtained by the decomposition.


Process for decontamination of a solid product polluted by a contaminant vaporizable by heating in vacuo and devices embodying such a process wherein the product is introduced in an enclosure (3, 37, 72) of heating and evacuation, we substantially heated in grounding said product in a determined temperature range, achieving a sufficient vacuum in said chamber to reduce the pressure of the enclosure below the vaporization threshold of the contaminant in said temperature range, said conditions are maintained temperature and pressure in the chamber during a time sufficient to vaporize substantially all the contaminant contained in the said product, vaporized contaminant is extracted by sucking the atmosphere in the chamber, and condensing said contaminant aspirated.


The invention relates to molding material mixtures containing an oxide of aluminum and an oxide of zirconium as a particulate mixed metal oxide, in combination with refractory mold base materials and a water glass-based binder system. The molding compounds are used to make molds and cores for the foundry industry.


" preclinical multiple sclerosis l " RRMS l " interferon b Abstract ! Due to the broad use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) incidental radiological findings are becoming more frequent. The present case describes a female patient with dissemination of inflammation in time and space confirmed by MRI without evidence of a clinical correlate (re- ferred to as preclinical multiple sclerosis (MS)) which we decided to manage with early treat- ment with Interferon b-1b. The case history and the current literature form the basis for the dis- cussion of the specific problems associated with this concept regarding diagnosis, patient infor- mation and initiation of therapy.


The intermittent compression of the popliteal artery by the medial of the gastrocnemius muscle is one of the causes of intermittent claudication in young athletes. In this report we present two such cases which emphasize the importance of the clinical aspects of this pathologic entity. Early diagnosis of the entrapped ar teries eventually leads to diagnosis of thrombosis and peripheral ischemia. The popliteal entrapment syn drome should not be confused with chronic posterior compartment syndrome during exercise.


Interference fitted assemblies find wide engineering applications such as bearing bushes, liners in cylinder blocks and small end bush in connecting rods. The strength of any such assemblies depends on various geometric features, amount of interference and other physical conditions of the mating surfaces. This paper presents the details of analysis carried out to study the effect of different pin and bush materials, low temperature (cryogenic) treatment and geometric parameters on stress distribution at the mating surface of interference fitted assemblies. This work covers, analysis based on Lame's approach and finite element method - to evaluate the principal stresses and Von Mises stresses on the performance of interference fitted assemblies. For the finite element fitted assemblies appropriate finite low temperature was developed to analyse the pattern of contact stresses in interference fitted assemblies with and without low temperature effect and under varying geometric parameters such as contact length, mating diameter and amount of interference. A comparative study of both the methods has been carried out.


This paper puts forward a wireless location algorithm based on data fusion of nearal network,which combines TOA,TDOA,AOA,and takes the measure qualrty of these three measurement values into account,and effectively solves the problem of location precision decrease when linear LSM is used in regular location algorithm to solve non-linear equations.Simulation results show that this algorithm has higher precision,and can satisfy the request of FCC.


Since the mid nineties, awareness that data on cultural goods are themselves a heritage worth collecting and preserving has led to a general rethinking of the cataloguing process -how to define data structures, how to collect data, how to check data quality, and so on. Taking account of the experience gained by Italy's Central Catalogue and Documentation Institute (ICCD), and of the state of the art of cataloguing in the western countries, ENEA has developed an original approach to the problem of data structure, collection and quality. The new methodology was proved effective in a trial scan of more than 100,000 catalogue cards with a prototype parser developed through a finite-state automa. The excellent results achieved in collaboration with ICCD justify continuing along the route taken by the grammatical appoach to Quality Assurance.


This article aims to explore the relationship between the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) and the Ministry of Villages (Kemendes) from theconstitutional law and state administrative law point of view.The second concerns of this research is the disharmony and problem between the two ministries.From the constitutional law point of view, it turns out that what the Ministry of Home Affairs is doing, is closer to the object of its discussion. The method used in this research is normative legal research bycomparingthe constitutional law and state administrative law to obtain clarity regarding the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Village. The result shows that the Ministry of Village approached the science of state administrative law, namely to revive or give spirits to the village. Disharmonization began to exist since the inception of the Ministry of Village. The root of disharmony itself was the improper application of constitutional foundations in the formation of the Village Law. It would be better if the government reassess the constitutional foundation for the village.


Epoxy resin-based BMC was prepared by mixing glass fiber,fillers,bisphenol A and bisphenol F blends. The curing process and mechanical properties were studied. The influence of different mass ratio of bisphenol A / bisphenol F resin and fillers types on tensile properties were discussed. The results show that when the mass ratio of bisphenol A / bisphenol F is 1∶ 1,and SiO2 filler,epoxy resin-based BMC had the best properties.


Seasonal dynamic of the nitrogen and phosphorus concentration and accumulation of Phragmites australis and Spartina alterniflora was investigated over one year in the wetlands of Min River estuary.The results showed that the concentration of nitrogen and phosphorus in aboveground fractions were highest in leaves,then was flower,the lowest was in stem,and concentration of nitrogen in the leaves of Phragmites australis was significantly higher than that in Spartina alterniflora(n=3,p0.05).Concentration of nitrogen and phosphorus in living plant was higher than that of dead one,and concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus in spring and winter were higher than those in autumn and summer.Accumulation of nitrogen and phosphorus in aboveground fractions were highest in leaves,then was stem,the lowest was in flower,and accumulation of nitrogen and phosphorus in living leaves and stem of Spartina alterniflora were significantly higher than those in Phragmites australis(n=3,p0.05).Concentration of nitrogen and phosphorus in belowground part of Phragmites australis was highest in 0~15 cm,then in 15~30 cm,the lowest was in 30~60 cm,which was directly opposite in Spartina alterniflora.Accumulation of nitrogen and phosphorus in belowground part of two plants was highest in 0~15 cm,then in 15~30 cm,the lowest was in 30~60 cm.Accumulation of nitrogen and phosphorus in belowground of Phragmites australis was always higher than those in aboveground,which was directly opposite in Spartina alterniflora.From the N/P,it's concluded that primary productivity was nitrogen-limited.


By intercepting on a selenium cell part of the light beam from the galvanometer in the bridge circuit of the resistance thermometer used to measure bath temperature, a signal is obtained which is used to trigger a photo‐relay via a secondary galvanometer. The photo‐relay controls the heating current in the thermostat. Design of the selenium cell mounting and accompanying circuits are described. The device holds a 50‐gal thermostat to 25° within a hunting amplitude of 0.002°C.


Based on the principle of pre-stress cutting,a thermo-mechanical coupling finite element model with regard to pre-stress cutting on material AISI 4140(HRC 56) is established,chip separation is made by applying shear damage failure criteria and element deletion and adaptive mesh technique which based on arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian(ALE) method.Several critical technologies,such as the material constitutive relation of work-piece,chip separation criterion and contact surface friction model and heat conduction equation are considered respectively and pre-stress cutting simulation is implemented.Numerical simulation results such as residual stress distributions in machined surface under various pre-stress conditions are discussed and compared with experimental data,which show good sameness.


Private sector operators of response services such as ambulance, fire or police etc. are often regulated with
targets on the distribution of response times, which may result in inefficient over staffing to ensure those targets
are met. In this paper, we use a network chain of M=M=K queues to model the arrival and completion of jobs
on the system so that quantities such as the expected total time waiting for all jobs can be calculated. The
Markov nature enables us to evoke the Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equation (HJB) principle to optimize the
required number of staff whilst still meeting targets.


According to the present invention, an oil body carrier is assembled through genetic engineering, and can be used in specificity detection of the oil body carrier and targeted therapy; oleosin or caleosin is combined to form an oil body vector system to carry out purification so as to rapidly and economically obtain target protein. With the present invention, an antigen oil body carrier of the oleosin or the caleosin is adopted to carry out an animal immune reaction so as to obtain a vaccine.


There is some contradiction between the creative principle and scientific principle in selecting scientific research topics. The author tries to solve the problem by applying Kuhn's theory of scientific development and puts forward some suggestions for selecting scientific research topics and making the science-technology development strategies in the future.


Hidden orders are offered by many lit trading venues for participants to hide the true size of their orders. To help a risk-neutral trader executing a target volume to minimize the execution cost by benefitting from the setting of a limit order market allowing hidden orders, we propose a multi-stage dynamic programming model to determine the optimal placement of limit and hidden orders. We obtain the analytical solution to this model under certain assumptions and discuss economic implications of our results. We use order-message data from NASDAQ to estimate the model parameters and demonstrate the generality of our assumptions. Our analytical solutions together with numerical experiments suggest an optimal execution pattern that the trader should submit hidden orders at early stages, possibly turn to a mixture of limit and hidden orders later, and use limit orders only when the execution deadline is approaching.


The effect of wheat starch,corn starch,potato starch,sweet potato starch and mung bean starch on the viscosity and batter pick-up of batters were studied. Simultaneously,the influences of these starches on the color,moisture and fat content,tender of the meat and sensory evaluation of deep -fried battered pork slices were explored. Results showed that,the viscosity of batter made with potato starch was the highest (8.7Pa·s),and its batter pick-up was the highest (57%). While,the viscosity of batter consisted with wheat starch was the lowest (only 7.5Pa·s),and its batter pick-up was the lowest (42% ). After being fried,the moisture content of batter crust consisted with potato starch was as high as 31.02%,and its fat content was the lowest (16.03% ),and the sensory evaluation value was the highest (88.89). On the contrary,the moisture content of batter crust treated with corn starch was as low as 24.82%. The fat content of batter crust treated with sweet potato starch was the highest (20.32%) and its sensory evaluation value was the lowest (58.88). Additionally ,the b* value of the batter crust obtained with mung bean starch was the highest (10.99). By comprehensive consideration , potato starch was much suitable for the processing of deep -fried battered pork slices.


Some new codes are presented which have good performance on Rician fading channel with small decoding complexities. A new M-way partition chain is proposed for the L x MPSK (L less than or equal to M) signal set which maximizes the intra-set distance of each subset at each partition level. Based on this partition chain, a class of asymptotical optimum codes was found. For M = 4, these codes have both large symbol distances and product distances. Multi-level coding scheme allows to construct a code by hand such that the code meets some desired parameters, e.g., symbol distance, product distance, etc. In design of a multi-level code, all factors were considered which affect the performance and complexity of the code, such as, the decoding scheme, decoding complexity, and performance under the decoding scheme, e.g., if the multi-stage decoding scheme is used, the performance degradation due to the suboptimum decoding is taken into consideration. The performance for most of the presented codes was simulated on Rayleigh fading channel, and the results show that these codes have good performance with small decoding complexities.


In the paper the experience of investigation of polystyrene content in soil and its distribution from industrial enterprise, where expanded polystyrene foam insulation is produced more than 40 years, is presented. Polystyrene belongs to the one of the most widely produced and used polymer. Once being in the environment, this type of plastic breaks easily and crumbles, and is dispersed by wind and water. Moreover, the danger of environmental pollution by polystyrene may be very serious because of hexabromocyclododecane that can be present in polystyrene as flame retardant additive.  Unfortunately, the level of study of environmental pollution with polystyrene and his behavior in soil and water is very poor.

Methodological approaches of sampling and polystyrene identification are shown. Since the enterprise is located on the elevated area close (500-700 m) to a small river with temporary stream, the direct flow of pollutants into the floodplain is possible. Therefore, soil and technogenic deposits at industrial site as well as soil and groundwater within floodplain were collected for study.

In order to identify plastic in solid samples, multiple stages were applied including visual detection, drying, sieving (using mesh widths from 1 to 5 mm), flotation (with heating for the fractions with the size of 1-2 mm and less than 1 mm), and natural organic matter removal. Method of water filtration was used.

Polystyrene was revealed in all solid (12) and liquid (4) samples. High amounts of polystyrene particles with a size less than 5 mm were recorded in technogenic deposits (up to 16700 units/kg) and in soils (up to 1700 units/kg). Particles of microplastic (less than 1 mm) were detected not only in surface layer of soil (0-5 cm) but at the depth of 10-15 cm. Discharges of small granules (less than 1 mm) of raw materials (expanded polystyrene) into environment and its distribution with runoff away from its sources were revealed.

Necessity of further investigation of plastic and microplastic pollution in terrestrial ecosystems in impact zones, including estimates of plastic volume discharges from industrial area with waste, surface runoff and via runoff collector, in order to prevent aquatic ecosystem pollution is discussed.


Research in automation and control has had a profound impact on the process industries through the development of process automation systems and advanced control solutions. This presentation will discuss selected highlights of past achievements and today's state of the art in both these areas. Specific topics covered include the first distributed control systems (DCSs), recent developments in industrial wireless and cybersecurity for control systems, mega-scale automation enterprises, and advances in nonlinear model predictive control. Clean energy, especially clean coal technology and energy efficiency for industrial processes, will be highlighted as an application domain that the controls research community can contribute to and have an impact on. Examples of relevant developments in Honeywell will be reviewed.


Emerging from the machinery of epitaxial science and chemical synthesis, is a growing emphasis on development of self-organized systems of complex molecular species. The nature of self-organization in these systems spans the continuum from simple crystallization of large molecules such as dendrimers and proteins, to assembly into large organized networks of nanometer-scale structures such as quantum dots or nanoparticles. In truth, self-organization in complex molecular systems has always been a central feature of many scientific disciplines including fields as diverse as structural biology, polymer science and geochemistry. But over the past decade, changes in those fields have often been marked by the degree to which researchers are using molecular-scale approaches to understand the hierarchy of structures and processes driven by this ordered assembly. At the same time, physical scientists have begun to use their knowledge of simple atomic and molecular systems to fabricate synthetic self-organized systems. This increasing activity in the field of self-organization is testament to the success of the physical and chemical sciences in building a detailed understanding of crystallization and epitaxy in simple atomic and molecular systems, one that is soundly rooted in thermodynamics and chemical kinetics. One of the fundamental challenges of chemistry and materials science more » in the coming decades is to develop a similarly well-founded physical understanding of assembly processes in complex molecular systems. Over the past five years, we have successfully used in situ atomic force microscopy (AFM) to investigate the physical controls on single crystal epitaxy from solutions for a wide range of molecular species. More recently, we have combined this method with grazing incidence X-ray diffraction and kinetic Monte Carlo modeling in order to relate morphology to surface atomic structure and processes. The purpose of this proposal was to extend this approach to assemblies of three classes of ''super molecular'' nanostructured materials. These included (1) dendrimers, (2) DNA bonded nano-particles, and (3) colloids, all of which form solution-based self-organizing systems. To this end, our goals were, first, to learn how to modify models of epitaxy in small molecule systems so that they are useful, efficient, and applicable to assembly of super-molecular species; and, second, to learn how systematic variations in the structure and bonding of the building blocks affect the surface kinetics and energetics that control the assembly process and the subsequent dynamic behavior of the assembled structures. AFM imaging provided experimental data on morphology and kinetics, while kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations related these data to molecular-scale processes and features. « less


Skin is the external part of body which protects internal organs from external interference, such as bacteria, viruses, cold air, hot sun, exposure to UV radiation, pressure, etc. Maintain clean skin is an important thing to do to prevent skin diseases. The way to keep our skin clean is use a mild soap which is good for the skin. Soap is one of the preparations commonly used in daily life. The ingredients of liquid soap are made up of surfactants, thickeners, preservatives and pH regulators. The presence of surface-active agents in soap is important for cleansing the dirt from the skin. Thickeners are important in the soap to obtain the required viscosity of the formulation.
The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of aloe vera (Aloe Vera L.) liquid soap. This type of research is an experimental study with a completely randomized design. The formula will be tested for physical and chemical properties which include organoleptic tests, viscosity tests, specific gravity tests, foam stability tests, and pH tests. Aloe vera liquid soap in all formulas has physical and chemical characteristics that meet the standards where the viscosity values obtained are 2616-4188 cP, specific gravity 1.067-1.082, foam resistance 61-70%, and pH 6.1-7


The food sample was treated by microwave assisted digestion with a mixed solution of HNO3 and H2O2,and the content of cadmium in the sample solution was determined by ICP-MS.The MS interference was eliminated by collision/reaction cell technique.Linear relationship between values of emission intensity and mass concentration of cadmium was kept in the range within 40 μg·L-1,with detection limit(3s) of 0.05 μg·kg-1.The proposed method was used in the analysis of 3 CRM′s,including wheat(GBW 08503),rice(GBW 10010) and tea(GBW 10016);the results obtained were in conformity with certified values.


Ontology design and querying the data set to obtain accurate results has been a topic of research. The aim of the paper is to represent ontological knowledge in the field of Medical Information Systems to store the knowledge about Swine flu disease and thereby querying the data and formalize the knowledge base development. The developed knowledge from RDF is converted to rules and then querying is done through different methods and performance analysis has been done on the retrieved query. The results predicted determine the suitability of the method where querying gives the accurate result for swine flu disease ontology.


Achromobacter protease I (API, E.C. 184.108.40.206) is one of the serine proteases produced by Achromobacter lyticus M497-1. API is distinct from the other tripsin type protease in its lysine specificity. The neutron structure analysis of catalytic triad with Trp169 and His210 was presented. His57 was double protonated and formed hydrogen bonds to Ser194Oγ and Asp113Oδ1, Oδ2.


The day I leave Ampara on Sri Lanka's east coast, a wild elephant kills a woman and severely injures two others on the road near my house. This is the second fatal attack in town this year and, as before, the animal is rounded up and bundled back to the jungle in a truck. The incident seems to


A good assessment covers three aspects: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. Many teachers tend to assess only the cognitive aspect. This problem requires treatment in the form of appropriate assessment so that the development of student learning outcomes not only covers the knowledge aspect only. This research aims to find out the result of students learning outcomes in a group of mathematic learners after being given treatment in the form of performance assessment and self-assessment and find out which treatment gives better results amongst students who are treated in the form of performance assessment and self-assessment. This research is an experimental study. The population taken is all students in grade X of MA Ash-Siddiqiyyah. The sample was taken based on purpose, namely purposive sampling. The class used as the experimental class I is class X IPA 1, which amounted to 30 students, and class X IPS 2, which amounted to 30 students, is experimental class II. Based on the results obtained, the average student learning outcomes in experimental class I is in the high category with an average number gain value of 0.71. The average student learning outcomes in experimental class II are in the medium category and are shown by the average number of gain values of 0.64. Based on the hypothesis test results, the decision is to reject Ho and accept Ha. Then it can be concluded that the results of student learning in the learning group treated by performance assessment are better than student learning outcomes in the learning group treated with self-assessment.


We surveyed elderly patients over 65 years of age who were treated for vertigo or dizziness in our Clinic between 1984 and 1993. There was a significant increase from 17.2% in the earlier 5-year period to 21.7% in the later period. This increase exceeded the growth in the elderly population in Nagasaki. Female patients showed a greater increase than male patients, especially among patients in their 70's. There were various causes in these aged patients, but BPPV and Cerebro-vascular disorders were common. From these results, vertigo or dizziness in aged patients might be prevented by suitable treatment of factors causing Cerebro-vascular disorders, such as hypertension.


NetFPGA is a hardware board that it is becoming increasingly popular in various research areas. It is a hardware customizable router and it can be used to study, implement and test new protocols and techniques directly in hardware. It allows researchers to experience a more real experiment environment. In this paper we present a work about the design and development of four new modules built on top of the NetFPGA Reference Router design. In particular, they compute the input and output bit rate run time and provide an estimation of the input bit rate based on an EWMA lter. Moreover we extended the rate limiter module which is embedded within the output queues in order to test our improved Reference Router. Along the paper we explain in detail each module as far as the architecture and the implementation are concerned. Furthermore, we created a testing environment which show the eectiveness and eciency of our modules.


These introductory comments to the Symposium on Diversity and Library and Information Science Education at the University of Maryland are designed to frame the crucial role that library systems, structures, and personnel play in providing information access to marginalized communities, particularly as our society continues to be increasingly dependent on electronic forms of information for basic functioning. These remarks highlight the role that libraries play in cutting through the noise of "infotainment" as well as the spaces they provide for communities to name and describe their lived experience. It is intended for audiences interested in the connection between information systems, their stewards, and the practice of building an inclusive society.


The empirical claim of this paper is that contrary to Chomsky (1986) there is no asymmetry between extraction out of subjects, objects and adjuncts. Instead, extraction out of subjects, objects and adjuncts is allowed or disallowed depending on the position the subject, object or adjunct occurs in. My proposal makes three empirical predictions that diverge from Chomsky (1986): 1. There are objects that do not allow subextraction. That-clauses cooccurring with object expletives, the complements of manner of speech verbs and the complements of nouns are examples of this kind. 2. There are subjects that allow subextraction. Subjects in SpecCP (Torrego 1985) are an example. 3. My proposal also predicts that adjuncts in SpecCP allow subextraction. I propose that maximal extended projections such as DP, CP and AgrOP are potential barriers Ñ AgrOP is sandwiched between two VP-shells. Extraction out of DPs and CPs is possible if they move into the specifier of a maximal extended projection. Hence extraction out of objects in SpecAgrOP is possible but extraction out of objects in SpecVP or SpecNP is not possible. Also, extraction out of subjects in SpecCP is possible but extraction out of subjects in SpecVP or SpecIP is not possible. Finally, adjuncts are basegenerated in the specifier of a non-maximal extended projection. Hence extraction out of adjuncts in base position is not possible but extraction out of adjuncts in SpecCP is possible. The difference between local and non-local movement (otherwise known as Aand A′-movement) is also defined in terms of maximal extended projections: Movement within maximal extended projections is local movement. Movement out of a maximal extended projection is non-local movement. This definition predicts contrary to Chomsky (1981) that CPinternal subject movement to SpecCP has the properties of A-movement (see also Déprez 1989). This accounts for the at-trace effect and the distribution of weak pronouns in German (Travis 1984, Déprez 1991). My proposal also predicts that DP-internal movement to SpecDP has the properties of Amovement. This accounts for quantifier scope in Italian (Longobardi 1991).


The present essay analyses and approaches the proverbs in Uygur language from two aspects:structure and meaning.It will be helpful for us to have a detailed understanding of the rules of constitution and application of proverbs in Uygur language.


We present results of symmetry classification of the nonlinear Dirac equations with respect to the conformal group C(1, 3) and its principal subgroups. Next we briefly consider the problem of classical and non-classical symmetry reduction and construction of exact solutions for the nonlinear Poincaré-invariant Dirac equations. In particular, a class of exact solutions is constructed which can not be in principle obtained within the framework of the classical Lie approach.


A new 2D modeling method for E-core transformers adds an extended flux return path to the model of the section perpendicular to the core. Averaged with a section parallel to the core modified to have the same reluctance as the 3D model, the finite-element simulation results for total magnetic energy and magnetic energy in the windings are within 0.2-5.6% error relative to the 3D model in fifteen of sixteen cases, a large improvement over existing methods. A refinement of fringing-flux calculations for gapped core legs is also presented.


The purpose of this study was investigating experimentally the possible Antibacterial Activity of Water Extract and Active constituents were Isolated of Butanol from a Triumfetta rhomboidea and Analytical Study by HPLC Method. The Antibacterial activity of the Water Extract of Triumfetta rhomboidea was evaluated at two different concentrations by the diffusion method. The water Extract of the Triumfetta rhomboidea shows antibacterial activity at varies levels in The E. coli, S. aureus, B. cereus Bacteria. The Bacteria B. cereus was found to be more active and E. coli, S. aureus was found to be less active in inhibition zone. .Antibacterial activity of water extract of the plant was performed. Results exhibited that Triumfetta rhomboidea contain good Antibacterial action and Active constituents were Isolated of Butanol


Here,we adopted microbiological cylinder plate method to detectβ-lactamase in milk. Since penicillin inhibits the growth of Micrococcus luteus,producing a zone of inhibition,the difference between the diameters of inhibition zone produced by penicillin alone and together with sulbactam,which specifically inhibits the activity ofβ-lactamase,will indirectly suggest whether or not a sample contains the enzyme. The optimum working concentration of penicillin G determined in this study was 0.5μg/mL. The influence ofβ-lactamase products from different manufacturers with different given units on the antimicrobial activity of penicillin G in liquid skim milk was evaluated,and the results showed that the limits of detection of the developed method for them were different. Addition of sulbactam at 50μg/mL provided optimum detection ofβ-lactamase. Based on the above investigations,the optimum protocol for detectingβ-lactamase by cylinder plate method in milk was that the presence or not ofβ-lactamase was identified based on differences in the diameter of inhibition zone among additions of penicillin G alone or in combination with sulbactam or/andβ-lactamase to one sample together with the results from constructed positive and negative controls.


1. DEMO DESCRIPTION This demonstration presents a mini-scale surveillance system developed at the University of Virginia that is currently undergoing a technology transition. The ultimate goal of this project is to develop a clandestinely deployable, environmentally rugged, robust, self-organizing, wireless sensor network for longterm, persistent surveillance, involving detection, tracking, classification, and identification of vehicle and personnel targets over various types of terrain.


Green concrete is defined as concrete that uses waste material as at least one of its components, or has a production process that does not lead to environmental destruction, or has a high performance and life cycle sustainability [...]


The inheritance of multiple flowers and leaf pubescence resulting from the crosses between accessions from pepper species Capsicum annuum L. and C. chinense Jacq. was examined. Hand cross- and self-pollinations were made in a glass greenhouse. Only eight normal F1 plants were obtained from crosses between the two species when C. annuum L. was the female parent. F2 and backcross generations obtained from the F, and the two parents were grown in the field. Two field studies indicated that multiple flowers and leaf pubescence were controlled by dominant genes. A three-gene model leading to an F2 segregation ratio of 45:9:10 and a two-gene model leading to an F 2 segregation ratio of 13:3 were suggested for the inheritance of multiple flowers and leaf pubescence, respectively. Epistasis was evoked in the interpretation of the data. No linkage was found between the two characters. The inconsistencies between F2 and backcross data might be due to selective elimination of genes from one or the other parent in an Interspecific hybridization. Segregation ratios from intraspecific crosses for leaf pubescence supported a two-gene model and gave an F 2 ratio of 13 pubescent leaf : 3 glabrous leaf progeny. Although pepper plants have often been studied for their ag- ricultural value, the inheritance of certain morphological traits has not been we&established (Lippert et al., 1966). Because of the interest in transferring useful genes from wild-type peppers into widely grown cultivars, it is desirable to have genetic in- formation on important morphological traits. C. annum L., the most widely grown pepper species on a world basis, sets a single flower at each node, whereas C. chi-


Experiences from recent conflicts show the strong need for providing timely a precise situation picture in order to improve the situational awareness of commanders. Situational Awareness requires comprehensive information delivered at the right time and at the right place, which must be adapted to the user, his role and current task; it must be conforming to the communication and visualisation devices currently in use. Therefore, a lot of sensor data and corresponding information have to be considered, exploited and combined in a flexible way. Smart sensor suites comprising different multi-spectral imaging sensors as core elements as well as additional non-imaging sensors may contribute decisively to the needed complete situation picture. The smart sensor suites should be part of a smart sensor network – a network of sensors, databases, evaluation stations and user terminals. Its goal is to optimize the use of various information sources for military operations like situation assessment, intelligence, reconnaissance, target recognition and tracking. Such a smart sensor network will enable commanders to achieve higher levels of situational awareness. Such a smart sensor network will enable commanders to achieve higher levels of situational awareness based on increased flexibility in using combined smart sensors. This paper presents a prototype of an Open System Architecture based on a system-of-systems approach. The open system architecture enables combining different sensors in multiple physical configurations, like distributed sensors, co-located sensors combined in a single package, sensors mounted on a tower, sensors integrated in a mobile platform, and use of trigger sensors. The mode of operation is adaptable to a series of scenarios with respect to relevant objects of interest, activities to be observed, available transmission bandwidth, etc.


In this work we investigate aperiodicities that occur in the sustained portion of a sound due to phase synchronous versus unsynchronous deviations of the partials. By using an additive sinusoidal model, correlation statistics and phase coupling e ects are considered for various instruments. The phase coupling is shown to be an important characteristic of musical instrument. These analyses are compared to results from Higher Order Statistical analysis and are shown to be equivalent. General applications for sound synthesis are discussed and a simulation of phase uctuations in string instrument is presented.


Objective To investigate the sensitivities of Sysmex UF-1000i urine sediment analyzer(UF-1000i) in detecting urine red blood cells(RBC),white blood cells(WBC) and casts(CAST).Methods Urine specimens of 1 054 patients were collected,and each sample was examined by UF-1000i,URISys-2400 automatic dry chemistry analyzer and Diasys R/S2005 microscopy.The sensitivities of the 3 urine analysis methods were compared.Results The positive rates of urine RBC,WBC and CAST were 20.6%,20.3% and 6.7% respectively by UF-1000i.The positive rates of RBC and WBC were 24.5% and 17.9% by dry chemistry analyzer respectively.The positive rates of RBC,WBC and CAST were 16.9%,20.5% and 2.2% respectively by urine sediment microscopy.The results were statistically analyzed by χ2 test.The detection rates of RBC and CAST were significantly different(P0.01),but the detection rate of WBC did not differ significantly(P 0.05).Conclusions Urine sediment microscopy can not be completely replaced by UF-1000i in urinalysis.The combination of these 3 methods would be optimal to improve the accuracy and precision in urinalysis.


In the conditions of narrow departmental management, the administrative practice integrity in socio-technical construction is being destroyed by a lack of completeness and authenticity of administrative offense proceedings within a reasonable time. The timely application of the geoinformation system in order to prompt prevention, reliable revealing and proper proving of offenses ensures a preventively guaranteed efficiency and security of socio-technical construction. This paper proposed a synthesis of the administrative practice management model in construction, based on the natural-scientific approach to the adoption of managerial decisions. The condition for the existence of guaranteed management, which relates the characteristics of processes and performance indicators, is concretized by the Kolmogorov-Chapman equations system. Network models of interacting processes of the revealing and proving of offenses, the origin and identification of violations, their neutralization through the managerial impact on the limited resources of administrative practice in construction and of geoinformation system are built. Based on the simulation results, the requirements for the geoinformation system that ensure guaranteed management and maximum security to the socio-technical construction within a reasonable time are determined.


The interior structure and evolution of the terrestrial planets are closely related to convective activity in their interior. These endogenic processes are responsible for many geological and tectonic structures on the surface and for the production of the magnetic field by a dynamo process. Thermal evolution models try to understand the different evolution of the planets, especially in contrast to the Earth, and the related processes in the interior. This thesis presents mantle convection models for the thermal evolution of Mars and Mercury.On Mars, young volcanism is concentrated in only two regions: in the Elysium region and, much more prominently, in the Tharsis region. Strong anomalies in the gravity field in the volcanic regions support the assumption that thermal convection in the martian mantle differs from that in the Earth's mantle and that the convection pattern is dominated by two strong plumes. A possible reason for this strong reduction to a few plumes could be the endothermic phase transition in the mineral structure from γ -spinel to perovskite and magnesiowustite. In the Earth this transition is located at a depth of 660 km but in Mars it may occur close to the core-mantle boundary (CMB). The magnetic field of Mars also differs from that of the Earth and is today dominated by a strong crust magnetization. The crust magnetization - especially in the old southern hemisphere - suggests that Mars had an active dynamo in the first 0.5 Ga of its evolution but which subsequently died out.In extended three -dimensional models, which take the cooling of the planet and possible phase transitions into account, it is possible to reach a convection pattern with only two upwellings, which could explain the concentrated volcanism on Mars. In addition, the models show that only in the early stages of evolution is the heat flux at the CMB sufficiently high as to allow a thermally driven dynamo. A chemically driven dynamo is not possible because the martian core stays completely liquid during the evolution and does not freeze out a solid inner core. This can explain the lack of a global martian magnetic field today.In the second part of the thesis, evolution models for Mercury are shown. The internal structure of Mercury is not well-known at present. The extremely high density of the planet suggests a big iron core. The available data does not provide insight as to whether this big iron core is completely liquid or solid or at least partially solid. Mercury has a weak global magnetic field and the mechanism which can produce this field is not yet well constrained. Thermal evolution models for Mercury which can simulate the effects of freezing out a solid inner core can provide important information about the interior structure and give some hints for the magnetic field.Axisymmetric and first fully 3-D results show that mantle convection in the mercurian mantle is restricted to a thin layer and that the mantle is dominated by a very thick lithosphere. The size of the solid inner core strongly depends on the exact melting conditions of iron with a small sulfur content, which are not yet well known. The assumed convection strength and the initial temperature conditions additionally influence the evolution and size of the inner core. Freezing out of an inner core allows for chemical convection, which could explain the present-day magnetic field. A thermally driven dynamo can be ruled out in all simulations because the heat flux out of the core which is transported by the mantle is too low to allow for thermal convection in the core.


This research deals with finite length, perfect reconstruction two-channel orthonormal wavelet filters. For these filters, the coefficients of the filter of maximum order of regularity are unique and are known. Previous research has also developed a parameterizaiton to generate the coefficients of all filters of order of regularity one. The current research presents a parameterization for the generation of the coefficients of these filters with order of regularity between one and the maximum possible.


Febrile convulsions (FC) usually have a favorable prognosis. On the other hand, there are some cases of nonfebrile seizures (epilepsy in part) after repeated febrile convulsions (FCC). The incidence of this development has been variously reported as 1% [15], 11% [17], 17% [19], 26% [20], and 57% [8]. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the characteristic feature of FCC and to obtain basic knowledge on mechanism of this development from febrile convulsions into nonfebrile seizures.


Subtitle: US ports are squeezed by the need to increase capacity and the demand to comply with stricter environmental demands.


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An improved version of the PRIDE (PRobaility of IDEntity) fold prediction algorithm has been developed, based on more solid statistical basis, fast search capabilities and efficient input structure processing. The new algorithm is effective in identifying protein structures at the 'H' level of the CATH hierarchy.

AVAILABILITY
The new algorithm is integrated into the PRIDE2 web servers at http://pride.szbk.u-szeged.hu and http://www.icgeb.org/pride.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
Detailed documentation and performance evaluation is available in the description section of the PRIDE2 web server.


Contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) is a new breast imaging technique. CEM provides morphologic (mammography) and functional information obtained after the injection of iodinated contrast material. We review the basics and state-of-the-art CEM, highlighting the potential challenges to implement CEM in a breast imaging department. We also provide an update in CEM technique and interpretation; the performance of this modality versus conventional breast imaging modalities (mammography, ultrasound, and MRI); existing clinical applications; potential challenges; and pitfalls.


There is no denying that the capital has penetrated too deep and far away in body and soul of the people, in their intelligence, psyche and imagination, in their core of 'vitality'; and while such 'vitality' has become the primary source of value in capitalism. In addition to this, the dramatic centralization of political and economic power that characterizes our way of organizing society leads, ultimately, a deep divorce between the citizen's requirements and the content of economic and social development. The local empowerment emerges as a new way to aggregate, create meaning, invent devices for appreciation and self-respect; and also an important tool that can facilitate the organized expression of community needs and assist in setting democratic priorities of local development. There is no doubt that something new is emerging in various parts of the territory in Sao Paulo – the biggest city of Brazil, with over eleven billion people. It is remarkable that there is a growing desire and political will of the inhabitants to relinquish their passive attitudes and assume, collectively, the changes in favor of the creation of improved living conditions of the neighborhood. In an area comprising four neighborhoods of the west Sao Paulo it was identified three social experiences that follows singular paths, but have the same goal: promoting the improvement of the square nearby their homes and, thereby, encourage the use of public space. The aim of this report is to analyze these three social experiences and compare them with the concept of local development. To support this essay, it was made a literature review on the concept of Development and Local Development based, fundamentally, on the ideas of Amartya Sen, Ladislau Dowbor, Ignacy Sachs, Celso Furtado and Alain Lipietz. The author of this essay participated actively in the three social experiments from February to December 2010 producing 'thick descriptions' (GEERTZ, 1989) about the meetings, the dynamics of neighborhoods and squares and informal conversations with participants. This essay concludes that the square in the urban territory can symbolize the epicenter of local development. Key words: social experiences; square; local empowerment; local development.


Trade liberalization changes the volatility of returns by reducing the negative correlation between local prices and productivity shocks. In this paper, we explore these second‐moment effects of trade. Using forty years of agricultural micro‐data from India, we show that falling trade costs due to expansions of the Indian highway network reduced the responsiveness of local prices to local yields but increased the responsiveness of local prices to yields elsewhere. In response, farmers shifted their production toward crops with less volatile yields, especially so for those with poor access to risk mitigating technologies such as banks. We then characterize how volatility affects farmers' crop allocation using a portfolio choice framework where returns are determined in general equilibrium by a many‐location, many‐good Ricardian trade model with flexible trade costs. Finally, we structurally estimate the model—recovering farmers' risk‐return preferences from the gradient of the mean‐variance frontier at their observed crop choices—to quantify the second‐moment effects of trade. The simultaneous expansion of both the highway and rural bank networks increased the mean and the variance of farmer real income, with the first‐moment effect dominating such that expected welfare rose 4.4%. But had rural bank access remained unchanged, welfare gains would have been only half as great, as risk mitigating technologies allowed farmers to take advantage of higher‐risk higher‐return allocations.


Berlin-Marzahn, the largest peripheral city of Berlin, is the focus of this thesis. Initiated in the 1970's it is an urban landscape of monolithic apartment blocks of precast concrete construction. This landscape lacks any ground definition and defies meaningful inhabitation by human beings. The present urban conditions facilitate unhealthy social conditions. With the fall of the East German state new needs in educational, commercial, and social facilites have developed that must be addressed. In order to creatively infill the left-over spaces lying between the mass housing blocks, and improve the quality of life of the inhabitants, it is the task of urban planners and architects to retroactively devise urban strategies and develop architectural projects that address not only the physical conditions, but also the physchological conditions of this place beset with such difficult circumstances. This thesis sets out to address both the physical and psychological problems through the design of a campus.The physical structure of a campus and the mental and psychological aspects of education can establish community coherence and identity in the presently incoherent and dysfunctional urban environment. The premise of this thesis is that by laying out a campus within the existing undefined city the functions and the sense of community found in a small town will be created within the urbanity of the masses of people who are already in Marzahn. THESIS SUPERVISOR TITLE : DIMITRIS ANTONAKAKIS : VISITING PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE


Most of the existing literature on international marriage in Asia focuses on Southeast Asian brides marrying into East Asian families, particularly those in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. Our study examines a "reverse" case, that is, Japanese women marrying Southeast Asian males and settling with their husband's families in Southeast Asia. Primarily based on qualitative data from in-depth interviews in Bali (Indonesia) in 2010, this article explains why and how reverse marriage migration takes place from the Japanese wives' point of view. Unlike the "usual" marriage migration that is often purposely and even commercially brokered, reverse marriage migration typically resulted from the Japanese women's self-discovery journeys, which were in turn driven by various structural conditions in Japanese society. After marriage, the women desired to be integrated in the local community and were committed to the extended family norm. The article concludes that reverse marriage migration is a unique aspect of the grassroots transnational relationship between Japan and Southeast Asian societies.


The present study, aims to evaluate the antidiabetic potential of aqueous extract of Achyranthes aspera Linn. against alloxan induced diabetic rats. Wistar strain of albino rats of either sex were divided into five groups comprising of six rats each. Group I served as normal control, group II served as disease control (alloxan induced), group III & IV animals, received aqueous extract of A.aspera Linn at a dosage of 250mg/kg body weight and 500mg/kg body weight for 45 days, groupV served as standard drug control (glibenclamide1mg/Kg body weight). After the experimental period the blood and tissue samples were collected and subjected to various biochemical and enzymic parameters. There were profound alteration in fasting blood glucose, serum insulin, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA 1C) and liver glycogen levels in alloxanized rats. Glucose-6-phosphatase, glucokinase, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity were also altered in diabetic rats. The alterations were observed to resume (P<0.05) back to normal on treatment with plant drug. The effect of plant extract was found to be dose dependent. The present investigation reveals the antidiabetic potential of aqueous extract of whole plant of A.aspera L


Preventive Measures Faculty Can Take • Utilize your syllabus to include specific expectations for, and consequences of student behavior (e.g., no cell phones, no tardiness, etc.) during first day introduction and in your course format. • Use the first class meeting to review what is and isn't appropriate. • Confer with your colleagues on ways they prevent or respond to disruptive behavior. • Model the behavior you expect of students. • Become familiar with the Faculty and Staff Guide and consult the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards.


This study aims to examine and analyze the effect of competence and interpersonal communication on the performance of PKB employees of the Maluku Province BKKBN Representatives. This type of research is a quantitative research, using a questionnaire as a research instrument. The sample selection technique used simple random sampling. The population of this research is the PKB representative of the Maluku Province BKKBN, totaling 100 employees with a total sample of 50 employees. The results of the study stated that competence and interpersonal communication partially or simultaneously had a positive and significant influence on the performance of PKB employees of the Maluku Province BKKBN Representatives. The variable of competence and interpersonal communication explains the variable of employee performance by 78.2%, this means that competence and interpersonal communication are two factors that must be considered


Thesis funded by the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT - Mexico); as well as partially supported by the Text-Enterprise 2.0 project (TIN2009-13391-C04-03).


AbstractThe results of the kinetic measurements of Bi(III) electroreduction on a mercury electrode in 1–8 mol dm−3 chlorate (VII) solutions and in the presence of cystine demonstrate a dependence of the process on the temperature. The applied electrochemical techniques (DC polarography, cyclic and SWV voltammetry) allowed for the determination of the kinetic and thermodynamic parameters and their correlation with water activity. The catalytic activity of cystine was confirmed by the decrease in overall enthalpies of activation. The changes in the values of ΔH≠ and ΔS0 for Bi(III) electroreduction in the presence of cystine with the increase of chlorate (VII) concentration showed that the mechanism is different in solutions with low water activity as compared to those with high water activity. Probably it is connected with a different structure of the activated complexes (Bi-Hg(SR)2), mediating electron transfer.


To solve insurmountable manpower shortages in its concentration camp guard forces, the Nazi ss turned in early 1943 to an untapped, highly experienced and brutal source. Former Soviet prisoners of war recruited in 1941 and 1942 and trained at the Trawniki training camp in Poland, had effectuated the mass murder of over one million Jews in the three Operation "Reinhard" killing centers in about 9 months. By early 1943, however, some of those guards had come to doubt the wisdom of their collaboration with the Nazis, and deserted to the partisans. ss authorities decided to solve manning shortages in concentration camps by transferring 150 Trawniki guards to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in March 1943. By failing to accommodate the foreign auxiliaries' discontent, Auschwitz's commandant faced his own mass desertion three months later. Berlin's response to events at Auschwitz fundamentally reconfigured the relationship between the ss and its eastern guards in the Reich's entire concentration camp system. About 1,500 Trawniki-trained guards eventually entered the camp system and served loyally until the Reich's end. In coming to know their Slavic clients, the "new Soviet men," the Nazis abandoned collaboration and turned to hierarchical discipline and integration with their own German guards.


Cautery disbudding causes pain, but is commonly performed without pain mitigation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the cortisol response associated with (1) lidocaine compared with saline injections and (2) lidocaine injections, a topical mixture of lidocaine and prilocaine (EMLA) cream and meloxicam before cautery disbudding of dairy goat kids. Sixty doe kids were randomly allocated to 1 of 6 treatments: (1) a ring block using 1% lidocaine (DBLA) 20 min before disbudding, (2) saline injected (DBSA) 20 min before disbudding, (3) EMLA cream rubbed into the buds 1 h before disbudding (DBEM), (4) oral meloxicam 1 h before disbudding (DBMEL), (5) disbudding without pain relief (DB) and (6) handled but not disbudded (HAND). Blood was sampled to assess plasma cortisol concentrations at 20 and 5 min prior to disbudding to evaluate the cortisol response associated with handling and injections for DBSA and DBLA kids and at 5 min prior to disbudding for DBEM, DBMEL and DB kids. All kids were blood sampled 15 and 30 min post-treatment. There was no change in cortisol over time for HAND kids (P > 0.05). Cortisol of DBLA and DBSA kids was elevated above baseline 5 min pre-disbudding (after injections) (P ≤ 0.05), which was no different to cortisol 15 min post-disbudding (P > 0.05). DB kids had elevated cortisol above baseline 15 min post-disbudding (P ≤ 0.05). Cortisol was elevated from baseline for 30 min post-disbudding for DBEM and DBMEL kids (P ≤ 0.05). In conclusion, it appears that injections of lidocaine or saline initially caused as much pain as cautery disbudding, while not reducing the pain associated with disbudding. EMLA cream and meloxicam were not effective at reducing acute pain associated with disbudding. Further research on efficacious pain relief for cautery disbudding of goat kids is required.


Inductive learning is, traditionally, categorized as supervised and unsupervised. In supervised learning, the learning method is given a labeled data set (classes of data are known). Those data sets are adequate for problems of classification and regression. In unsupervised learning, unlabeled data are analyzed in order to identify structures embedded in data sets. Typically, clustering methods do not make use of previous knowledge, such as classes labels, to execute their job. The characteristics of recently acquired data sets, great volume and mixed attribute structures, contribute to research on better solutions for machine learning jobs. The proposed research fits into this context. It is about semi-supervised fuzzy clustering applied to the generation of sets of fuzzy rules. Semi-supervised clustering does its job by embodying some previous knowledge about the data set. The clustering results are, then, useful for labeling the remaining unlabeled data in the set. Following that, come to action the supervised learning algorithms aimed at generating fuzzy rules. This document contains theoretic concepts, that will help in understanding the research proposal, and a discussion about the context wherein is the proposal. Some experiments were set up to show that this may be an interesting solution for machine learning jobs that have encountered difficulties due to lack of available information about data.


Image restoration in poor weather conditions can assist military combatants to efficiently and accurately perform object detection, object recognition and object tracking. Moreover, in security systems, traffic navigation, etc. it also has high application value. Aiming at the problem of image distortion caused by different poor weather conditions like dust, rain, snow, fog, haze, etc. this paper proposes a new deep neural network based image restoration technology, a residual aggregation module is constructed for extracting the detailed features. Furthermore, dense connection is applied to combine low-dimensional features and generate high-dimensional features. The experimental results show that the network achieves superior results in image de-raining(IDR) compared with Deep Detail Network(DDN) and Dual Convolutional Neural Network(DualCNN) while obtaining favorable performances in image de-noising, image de-hazing, image de-blurring, image de-raindrops and other tasks.


Abstract The stratigraphie ranges of key planktonie foraminifera, in Oligo-Miocene sections at Kokoamu Cliff and Earthquakes in North Otago and in the Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 593 in the Tasman Sea, have been correlated with a recently published time-scale. There appear to be two unconformities at Kokoamu Cliff, with durations of c. 2 Ma and c. 5 Ma; two at Earthquakes, with c. 2 Ma and c. 6.4 Ma intervals; and at the DSDP Site 593 a possible unconformity with a duration of c. 7 Ma. An alternative postulate, that there are no time-signifieant unconformities in the North Otago sections, is also considered, and the problem of the Dontroonian Stage discussed.


The subject innovation is not required when the excavation is a non-excavation method relates to non-excavation steel pipe loop structure for a construction structure in the ground. The two flanges vertically attached to the outside of one side of the steel pipe and the other side is to install the fixation hardware that latch plate corresponding connection and the other steel tube flange is attached to the upper and lower, joined to each other adjacent steel pipe on at least one side of the steel pipe through a through hole is formed for a plurality of. End of the flange is formed as a T-shaped end of the latch plate is formed of angled or link type. Fixing a hardware through the through-holes are formed in or connected to the coupler end of the flange, it is provided through a through hole formed in the fixation hardware attached to or welded, or adjacent steel pipe. At this time the concrete is filled in the space formed upon closure connection between the inside and adjacent steel pipe of the steel pipe. Thus, due to the rigid transverse rigidity so without installing a separate lateral support beam hypothesis pole only install possible earthmoving operations within, the size of the loop reduces the hypothesis is also simplified installation process. Loop by carrying out excavations operation during nine minutes digging in the structure to secure the safety of the tunnel during construction, and the earth moving operations on the remainder in the upper load and support after the structure is installed, the structure after region only selective digging into the installation place since not only securing ground displacement inhibition and stability can be achieved a reduction in the air speed and sigongbi construction.


6507Background: Rising cancer costs demand innovative approaches to improve patient satisfaction and outcomes while reducing expenditures. We developed a novel model that integrates lay health work...


Many macroeconomic variables are first available when they have already become part of the past. At the same time, there is a large set of figures that is indeed available without the same delay. This thesis use machine learning models to transform real-time data into forecast of future releases about the current and near future state of the economy, asking if such methods produce more accurate forecasts than conventional econometric models. The results indicate that there are no single superior forecasting device. The closest to a 'free lunch' is an unweighted average of the simple benchmark models.


Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder with involvement of the neurovascular and muscular system. Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is thought to be the principal cause of foot complications in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, foot evaluation using ultrasonography early in the course of diabetes has not gained due importance. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the thickness of intrinsic foot muscles, plantar skin, plantar fascia, and plantar fat pad in T2DM subjects with and without PN using musculoskeletal ultrasonography.


Sibiriulus altaicus Guli…ka, 1972 is redescribed based upon topotype material. The species Megaphyllum sjaelandicum (Meinert, 1868) is recorded in the fauna of Siberia for the first time. Remarks are provided for the two species encountered and Sibiriulus multinicus Mikhaljova, 2001, including notes on the variation of two latter species. All three species of the genus Sibiriulus Guli…ka, 1963 are keyed.


1. Fundamental principles and good practice 2. Professional conduct and practice management 3. Child development and communication issues 4. Safeguarding and services 5. Multi-agency child protection system 6. Emergency powers 7. Secure accommodation orders 8. Assessments 9. Contact in public law proceedings 10. Care plans 11. Looked after and leaving care 12. Adoption under the Adoption and Children Act 2002 13. Education, Special Educational Needs and disability 14. Housing issues 15. Mental health 16. Criminal issues 17. Immigration, asylum and nationality 18. Children in private law proceedings 19. Acting for the child or young person 20. Role of the children's guardian 21. Acting for parents 22. Representing the local authority 23. Effective case management 24. Disclosure and information sharing 25. Expert evidence 26. Outside court and after proceedings.


Management of municipal water supply systems having multiple groundwater sources constrained by water availability is often challenging. Water quantity limitations of the sources cause economic constraints on system operation, requiring more expensive alternative sources. This paper presents a linear cost minimisation model for such a groundwater-based multiple-source water supply system where water demand is relatively high and groundwater availability is limited, while a minimum supply is to be ensured to the local coverage area of each well. The model decides on the optimum production amount from each source with the objective of cost minimisation for a specified set of demand and source constraints. The model would be useful for system analysis, planning and management purposes, such as analysing water production at various levels of system loss or unaccounted-for water (UFW), or determining optimal production schedules under different system operation scenarios. The model is applied to simulate a groundwater-based sub-network of Dhaka city water supply system where seasonal demand from the system is the highest when the groundwater level is relatively low. Model results show that significant cost reduction would be possible under different operational scenarios through optimal production scheduling at various UFW levels.


Ceramic forms known as "tubular potteries" have been found in archaeological sites of hunter-gatherers in the northeast of Buenos Aires Province, practically since the first investigations in the area. They appear in low frequency within the ceramic assemblages. The peculiarity of such ceramics is their morphology with two open ends. After the discovery of fragments of this type in two archaeological sites, San Clemente VI and Las Marias (Magdalena and Punta Indio counties, Buenos Aires Province), we proceeded to its characterization. These fragments are contextualized within the total ceramic sample of each site. We also make a systematic study of this archaeological information and analyze the location and time distribution of these tubular potteries. They have been found near rivers, lakes and sea sides, in at least 30 archaeological sites, located mostly in the northeast of the Province of Buenos Aires. Some fragments were found in Entre Rios and Corrientes Provinces. Tubular potteries time distribution includes part of the Late Holocene, roughly between 1800 and 600 years BP. We propose these tubular potteries were as transfer tools whose functions would be understood by contextualizing the analysis of the complete ceramic record of each archaeological site.


Objective Made a study of much more efficientoperatinm mode ofTo evaluate the operational mode to treat curing chronic subdrual hematoma.Methods To adption drilling drainage to purge staleness blood and unliquefacient blood clot of haematoma cavity,windowcutting at the endomembrane of haematoma as well as arachnoid,cerebrospinal fluid was drainaged into haematoma cavity.Results 55 cases were cured without complications of tension pneumocephalus and haematoma recurrent.Conclusions Drilling drainage and haematoma endomembrane arachnoid window cutting is effective operation mode for treating chronic subdural hematoma.


Forty-one years have passed since the start of the Spanish transition from dictatorship to democracy in 1975. This regime change did not unfold in isolation from external influences. Researchers have mainly investigated the role of major actors, while involvement of smaller players has had less emphasis placed on it. In this article, the foreign policy of the Netherlands regarding Spain and the European Community (EC) is examined during the last phase of the Francoregime (1973-1975) and the first phase of the transition to democracy (1975-1977). This period corresponds with the office term of the most progressive cabinet in Dutch parliamentary history, led by social democrat Joop den Uyl (May 1973 - December 1977). Research in the Dutch archives reveals that the Den Uyl government tried to act as a gatekeeper in Europe, demanding democratization as a condition for Spanish accession to the EC.


Based on intrinsic physical characteristics of devices, Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have high reliability while maintaining sufficient uniqueness. However, in the reality, the PUF extracted bit-string normally exhibits unavoidable small fluctuation and can be used for chip identification but not for the application that strictly required an exact generated number. In this work, we proposed a method that on-chip stabilizes the generated value based on the existing RO-PUF circuit. The stable unique number can be directly used for high-profile hardware security applications. In detail, we design a specialized on-chip key generation circuit that repeatedly samples RO frequency values for statistical analysis and dynamically phases out the unstable bits, resulting in a unique and stable output bit-string. The experiment has been conducted for actual data measured from FPGA devices. The generated key has been proven to be relatively stable and can be readily used for security applications such as section key generation for data encryption, hard-write digital token generation, or trusted computing.


EMIL A. CORNEA: Advanced Biostatistical Methods for Curved and Censored Biomedical Data (Under the direction of Joseph G. Ibrahim and Hongtu T. Zhu) This research was dedicated to analyze two types of biomedical data: curved data lying on a manifold and censored survival data from clinical trials. The main part of the research aims at developing a general regression framework for the analysis of a manifold-valued response in a Riemannian symmetric space (RSS) and its association with Euclidean covariates of interest, such as age. Such data arises frequently in medical imaging, computational biology, and computer vision, among many others. We developed an intrinsic regression model solely based on an intrinsic conditional moment assumption, avoiding specifying any parametric distribution on RSS. We proposed various link functions from the Euclidean space of covariates to the RSS of responses. We constructed parameter estimates and test statistics, and determined their asymptotic distributions and geometric invariant properties. Simulation studies were used to evaluate the finite sample properties of our method. We applied our model to investigate the association between covariates, including gender, age, and diagnosis, and the shape of the Corpus Callosum contours from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative dataset, in both cross-sectional and longitudinal cases. In oncology clinical trials, progression-free survival (PFS) has been a key endpoint to support licensing approval, and it is recommended to have the investigator's tumor assessments verified by an independent review committee blinded to study treatments, especially in open-label studies. Agreement between these evaluations may vary for


For further practical application,the phylogenetic analysis and de-emulsification properties study of strain XH1 with high de-emulsification efficiency isolated from crude oil contaminated soil in Daqing oil field were conducted with a surfactant-stabilized water-kerosene model emulsion. The factors influencing the de-emulsification efficiency and the generation site of de-emulsification active component of the strain were also investigated. The similarity of 16SrDNA sequences between strain XH1 and Bacillus mojavensis(DQ993678)was 99%. According to the physiological biochemical test,strain XH1 was preliminarily identified as Bacillus mojavensis. The logarithmic growth,stable phase and decline phase of strain XH1 were determined as 14,18 and 28 h,respectively. The best de-emulsification activity emerged after cultivating for 18h,and the complete de-emulsification was achieved at 24 h. The most favorable incubation conditions for de-emulsification occurred with pH of 6.0 at 30 ℃. The de-emulsification capability of strain XH1 was mainly resulted from extracellular metabolites. The above results indicate that strain XH1 has high de-emulsification efficiency and is potential as a commercial de-emulsifier.


A specially tailored knowledge management can support the successful fundraising in research and development at universities of applied sciences. In a project that was going on for one semester teams of students developed two web based prototypes of knowledge management environment on the basis of a Wiki-software or a content management system respectively. Along with results of theory-based approaches, results from interviews with future users of the system are part of the concept. The prototypes include functions like shared data depository, calendars, yellow-pages and RSS. They can be downloaded for further development.


This task has relied upon a combination of computer simulation and experimental testing. Computer crash simulation models were developed and validated for use in the study of factors influencing injury risk of wheelchair occupants in a crash. A wheelchair transportation-specific Injury Risk Assessment method was developed and used in the comparison of injury risk associated with various wheelchair transportation scenarios.


Summary
Three months after the initiation of a test project wherein pyrimethaminised salt was distributed among the population in a holoendemic malaria region in Netherlands New Guinea, Plasmodium falciparum appeared to have developed resistance to pyrimethamine. This strain also was found to be cross-resistant to proguanil (Paludrine®).


Oil immersed transformer is an important equipment ofpower system, whose fault is often caused by the aging of insulation. In actualoperation, accurate calculation of the temperature field, especially hot spottemperature of transformer winding, is very important for stabilizing the powergrid operation and extending the transformer life. In order to calculate thetransformer's hot spot temperature accurately, a new method which is based oncomparison of respective advantages of the FEM and FVM is used; we take a31.5MVA transformer as exemple, using the hybrid method of the FEM and the FVM,the three-dimensional temperature field of transformer is calculated. Bycomparing the figures of top oil temperature of transformer monitored by theoperating transformer and the figures calculated by mixed method, the marginerror of the hot spot temperature is only 1.9°C. While the IEEE guidelines formodel calculation results, the calculated results of FEM algorithm and FVMalgorithm results with the monitoring data of standard deviation were as highas 4.6 °C, 3.8 °C and 3.1 °C. The Calculation accuracy is much higher than theaccuracy of the result using IEEE regulatory model, FEM and FVM, proved thatthis mixed method can calculate the internal temperature field of oil immersedtransformer accurately.


OBJECTIVE
To determine if patients perceived a difference in the efficacy, side effects, and value of omeprazole versus lansoprazole for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) maintenance therapy after a formulary conversion, and to evaluate the costs of the conversion.

STUDY DESIGN
An unblinded questionnaire was mailed to patients who were currently receiving GERD maintenance therapy with lansoprazole from the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System.

PATIENTS AND METHODS
Three hundred patients who had been on omeprazole for a minimum of 2 months prior to the formulary conversion and on lansoprazole for a minimum of 2 months after the formulary conversion were surveyed. Patients were asked to rate the severity and frequency of their symptoms (pain, heartburn, and regurgitation) on a scale from 0 to 9 for each medication. Questions regarding side effects, medication preference, and satisfaction with the formulary conversion process were also addressed.

RESULTS
Fifty-two percent of the surveys were returned. There was no statistically significant difference between median total symptom scores for omeprazole and lansoprazole (1.33 vs. 1.34, respectively). More patients reported side effects to lansoprazole (P < 0.001) than to omeprazole. Sixty-four percent of patients preferred omeprazole (P < 0.005). The formulary conversion was estimated to save $29,000 per year.

CONCLUSIONS
Omeprazole was the medication preferred by patients for GERD maintenance therapy. Patients were willing to pay an additional fee for their preferred agent. Fewer adverse events were reported with omeprazole. The potential cost savings of the formulary conversion may have been at the expense of patient satisfaction.


Purpose - to learn the features of clinical condition and state of endothelial function as the marker of the development of cardiovascular pathology in children who suffered from COVID-19. Materials and methods. The research group consisted of 70 children aged 7-14 without chronic pathology who suffered from COVID-19 and had laboratory confirmation of the disease. Assessment of the functioning of the vessels' endothelium was done by studying the dynamics of blood flow in the brachial artery and changes of it diameter at rest and during reactive hyperemia after an occlusion test. Statistical assessment of the obtained data was carried out by the application package «Statistica 10.0 for Windows» using the method of variational statistics. Student's t-test was calculated to assess the reliability of mean values differences. Results. The state of endothelial function show that 85.4% of children after COVID-19 infection had signs of endothelial dysfunction, mainly hypoergic (32.9%) and paradoxical (30%) forms, while normoergic function of the endothelium was found only in 14.6% of children. In the same time in the group of children who did not suffer from COVID-19, was found that the normorergic form registrated in 80.0%, hyperergic endothelial dysfunction was found in 13.3% of children, and hypoergic - in 6.7% of children. Paradoxical endothelial dysfunction was not found in any child from this group. Conclusions. COVID-19 infection has negative consequences on the endothelium function and contributes to the development of endothelial dysfunction regardless of the severity of the disease course. Our results obtained the need of future study to develop an affordable and low-cost algorithm for routine use and identification of children with markers of lesion of cardiovascular system. The research was carried out in accordance with the principles of the Helsinki Declaration. The study protocol was approved by the Local Ethics Committee of the participating institution. The informed consent of the patient was obtained for conducting the studies. No conflict of interests was declared by the authors.


The aim of this study was to develop an environmentally benign catalyst from natural waste material for the transesterification of vegetable oils. An ABO 3 perovskite type metal oxide based robust catalyst was developed using egg shell and evaluated for effective conversion of vegetable oil to biodiesel.


With the development of library science in higher institutions,the academic activities and scientific research fruits have already become the important indexes in assessment for the comprehensive competence of the library.This article makes an analysis of the present situation of the scientific researches in academic libraries,points out the protruding problems,and advances some countermeasures from the four aspects: innovation of concepts,cultivation of scientific research teams,regulation of the management of scientific research work and strengthening the popularization of scientific research fruits.


Since the reform and open,the things from other countries have swarmed into China and have lashed against Chinese traditional culture,which is another challenge following the destroy of the Culture Revolution in China.Faced with the challenge,the traditional culture must seek for a new way which is different from the past oral heredity.Now more chances should be brought about in order to stress,publicize and develop the traditional culture.At present,the commodity is quickly circulating and eliminating and the consistent popularization of a commodity does not only depends on its quality.When designing,the wise application of traditional fork art can not only increase the national features and the added value of a commodity but also improve the value of the traditional fork art.


Book publishing submits to general law as other commodity production, which is guided by three mechanisms — price, supply and demand, competitive, so as to achieve"survival of the fittest, good is superior and bad is inferior". According to the market characters, Issuing office seeks countermeasure such as creating unique quality, exploiting market, acclimating digital pulishing tide, and resisting unhealthy lure of market profit, stands firmly in the ardent mrket competition.


: In her comparative study "Trauma, History, and Terror in the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa and Sinan Antoon," Hessa A . Alghadeer considers the work of the African American poet Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1941) and the (Arab) Iraqi poet Sinan Antoon (b. 1967) through the lens of trauma theory of some notable theorists including; Freud, Cathy Caruth, Jean Laplanche, Roger Luckhurst, and Shoshana Felman — have negotiated in this field. The article explores the literary manifestations of trauma in two distinct historical periods and geographical settings to show the specificities of each prototype and how the historical-cultural significance and textual meanings of trauma have intertwined into a plural space. Drawing upon a cluster of selected poems, the article investigates through textual analysis how Komunyakaa and Antoon bring to light, articulate, and address their historic traumas, and how they elaborate similar discourses of trauma across their distinct cultures. The article thereby underlines the power of the poetic word and image to unveil several complex manifestations of trauma. It asserts that these two poets are situated within a global context that empowers the poetic voice and brings vitality to the predicaments of the traumatized subjects through a broad sense of connectivity and belonging regardless of their distinct histories, cultures, and homelands. way for the melancholic mood of the whole poem, evoking the sights and sounds, and the hostile realities, of war and filling the scene with traumatic manifestations: the battlefield, the trenches, the corpses, and so forth. The poetic text is replete with photographic images, torn between powerful elements of nature and vulnerable women, between the overwhelming agonies of survivors and the dead. The lines uncover a flow of memories of trauma which infuses the linearity of time, from the senseless past to the morbid present. The wind, which indirectly evokes the tyranny of the Western world, governs the poetic text and unfolds the map of Iraq and especially injured Baghd ad. The swift shifts between the "wind," "moon," and "clouds" and thence to the "blind mother," "wailing women," and "graveyard" highlight the shaky physical condition and mortified status of the traumatized. The protagonist reflects too on the condition of the survivors of combat trauma and the brevity of their lives:


Objectives –  Many studies have shown differences in carbonylation and nitration of individual proteins in brain and body fluids of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Therefore, we wanted to examine whether total levels of these oxidative stress markers of proteins were altered in AD.


Ovarian vascular Doppler is a promising screening test for early ovarian cancer detection. However, disagreements on flow indices used, flow signal shapes and ovarian vessel localization cause continuing controversy. We aimed at clarifying some of this confusion by directly measuring the adnexal arterial blood flow during laparotomy. A 10‐MHz continuous Doppler probe was used to examine adnexal vessels in 24 patients undergoing laparotomy for benign gynecological pathology. Resistance (RI) and pulsatility (PI) indices were calculated for each vessel and the shape of the flow signals was noted. The tubal arteries showed a low‐velocity flow pattern with relatively high end‐diastolic flow when compared to the ovarian artery signals obtained from the infundibulopelvic ligament.


The structure and physical properties of the blends of NR,NBR and rubber CPE135B were studied.The results showed that the size of the particles of NR/CPE135B is small,the uniformity of phase is high,the blends have a better compatibility than the blends of NR/CPE135B; The blends of NR/CPE135B produce high hardness,tear strength and good aging properties,the ratio which gives the best comprehensive properties of NR/CPE13B is 40/60.The 200% modulus,resiliency,hardness and heat aging properties are pretty good when the blends ratio is 40/60.The ability of bearing the 3# oil of NBR is improved when 20~40 phr CPE135B added,and better flame resistance can be achieved when blended with CPE135B.


In recent years a dramatic increase has been seen in the number of public sector employees involved in union activities. Local government entities encompass some of the most fertile union ground in the United States. This increase in public sector unionism is proportional to declines in private sector unionism. For traditionally private sector unions to compensate for membership declines, it became necessary for labor organizations to move into areas which had largely been untapped and unorganized. States, like Utah, which do not have statutes permitting the recognition of public sector employee unions, but which do have right-to-work laws, present unique problems for labor unions. This study presents the findings of a survey assessing the status of public employee unions in Utah's municipalities given the absence of a public sector bargaining statute and the presence of a right-to-work law. Key indicators include local administrators' understanding of "right-to-work," the size and type of municipality, the frequency of collective bargaining agreements, the frequency of formal recognition of public employee groups, the relationship between the presence or absence of collective bargaining agreements and the employee dispute resolution process, collective bargaining agreements and the employee dispute resolution process, collective bargaining agreements and the employee dispute resolution process, and the municipalities' reasons for employee group recognition or non-recognition. The findings are followed by specific recommendations for action.