A free association test was used in the present study to examine the availability and accessibility of positive vs negative smoking-related information in the long-term memories of smokers. Participants were asked to generate smoking-related associations across a 4-minute interval. Although smokers generated more positive smoking-associations than non-smokers, both groups produced a greater number of negative than positive associations per se. Of particular interest was the finding that whilst the ratio of positive/negative associations generated was constant across time in non-smokers, this ratio varied in smokers. Specifically, smokers generated proportionately more of their available positive associations and proportionately less of their negative associations in the early time interval. It is suggested that these results not only indicate a greater availability of positive smoking-associations in smokers compared to non-smokers, but also a greater accessibility too. It is proposed that positive smokin...


The article is devoted to such perspective form of political participation as crowdsourcing, implemented on a virtual Internet platform. The author considers crowdsourcing as an institution of e-democracy, through which the government receives information about the most important problems of society. The article is focused on functioning of the Russian and foreign Internet resources that provide accumulation of civic initiatives. By comparing «Russian public initiative» system with its Western prototypes the author proposes some methods for intensification of constructive political participation in the Internet.


For the sake for the psychological counseling for the college students,there is a must for the psychological counselor to carry on the value interference to the present students not only on the premise and basis of the existing psychological counseling,but also according to the typical characteristics,the criterion of the Party and the nation upon the task of psychological counseling in the colleges,the developing features of the college students,the tendency of China's present society advance,and the demands of following the principles of psychological counseling.


General remarks and recommendations: Improve description of experimental setup: What is the source of methane in the reservoir? AC: As a methane source we have used commercially available methane:CO2-mixture, (90:10) kept in the reservoir headspace at 1.5 atmospheres. The details are now given in the materials and methods section (line 171 ff).and in table 1 The authors should analyze the composition with respect CO and higher hydrocarbons instead of speculating about an additional electron donor for sulfate reduction (p. 3076,


Complex gain calibration is a process which solves and corrects for the composite effects of the unknown electronic and antenna gains from the uncalibrated cross-correlation products ("visibilities") in radio interferometry. The resulting calibrated visibilities form the basis for astronomical post-processing such as imaging and telescope sensitivity measurements. Clearly, complex gain calibration is an essential prerequisite step.


Introduction: Quality of service is one aspect that can affect the level of patient satisfaction. Service quality that is not good will result in a low level of patient satisfaction.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between the quality of licensing services and the satisfaction level of inpatients at Level III Hospital Baladhika Husada Jember.
Method: This research is a quantitative study with a cross-sectional approach. The sample of this study was 96 respondents who were inpatients with an accidental sampling technique. Statistical test using Fisher Exact.
Results: The results showed that the quality of service was good for 81 respondents (84.4%), and the level of satisfaction was satisfied by 86 respondents (89.6%). There is a relationship between the quality of service and the level of patient satisfaction (ρ value = 0.47 < a = 0.05) means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected with a low strength relationship with a correlation coefficient value of 0.229.
Conclusion: There is a relationship between the quality of community service and the level of inpatient satisfaction at Level III Hospital Baladhika Husada Jember.


Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is an integrative approach that intends to involve all stakeholders in the planning and management of water resources. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of IWRM in water conservation with the clear focus of identifying various methods employed to IWRM strategy in conserving water resource, to investigate the effectiveness of integrated water resource management strategy on different water user groups, to examine the challenges facing the effectiveness of IWRM strategy and to investigate measures taken to address IWRM challenges. Results from interview, questionnaire survey, observation, and documented report show that IWRM allow the involvement and participation of stakeholders in decision making, water management and payment for water services. Subsequently, the approach manages conflict and it serves as a platform for climate change adaptation and mitigation. However, some people have inadequate education and awareness on water conservation, lack of financial support, water use inefficiency and inadequate effective coordination. As solution some measures have been employed to address some of these problems through creating awareness on the significance of sustainable utilization of basin water and some fines have been posed to polluters. In conclusion IWRM helps to conserve water in the basin and make it more sustainable. The government and other stakeholders should ensure water conservation in a sustainable way.


Bottom-up management in a catchment scale is deemed the optimal way to avoid conflicts among water users through the participation of stakeholders, strategy co-shaping, and solutions co-creation. Water management cannot be one-dimensional; it demands cross sectoral cooperation. Usually, the difficulty lies in proper stakeholder training and inclusion of their opinions, which should be used in a quantifiable manner in water management. The Laspias River watershed occupies an area of 221.8 km2 that includes the River Basin District of Thrace; it is characterized by intense agricultural and industrial activity. To comply with the augmented water needs and pollution loads this research aims to utilize a hybrid intuitionistic fuzzy multi-criteria-based methodology to address respectfully stakeholders' opinion, this research aims to utilize a hybrid intuitionistic fuzzy multi-criteria-based methodology. It is often difficult to manage planning water management measures as the problems include multiple (conflicting) criteria that are based on stakeholder's opinions, which are usually imprecise and in a rather qualitative form. This study provides the mathematical tools to reach comprehensive decisions with the public involvement offering a practical solution in an existing problem, that is the proper inclusion of stakeholders' opinion. The weights are produced based on a stakeholder's opinion. The alternatives' ranking is achieved based on the fuzzified intuitionistic version of the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), and a hierarchy of mitigation problems is achieved via this novel approach.


Average handpiece speed and load values with nine commonly used instruments were compiled for polishing of silver amalgams. In vitro thermal effect of these instruments was recorded with and without air coolant. Temperature rise in dental pulps was less when air coolant was used.


Military and diplomatic necessity had made the vice-royalty of New Granada, the captaincy-general of Venezuela and the audiencia of Quito form one republic, the Republic of Gran Colombia, at independence. The three successor republics had certain characteristics in common. The population in all three was overwhelmingly rural, no city in the region had forty thousand inhabitants, and in the nineteenth century both their total populations and their cities were to grow only slowly. At the time of independence the economy of New Granada, the most populous of the three republics, was the least dynamic. In comparison with New Granada, Venezuela had a stronger and more diversified export-sector. For all three republics the nineteenth century was an era of government either seen to be unstable, or at best seen optimistically to be recently emerged from instability. All three suffered frequent civil wars and ended the century in war.


Receiving video streams on mobile devices has become a norm rather than an exception on today's Internet --- the year 2013 witnessed a global mobile traffic growth of 70%, in which video traffic accounts for over 50%. There is however a big gap between the download bandwidth of mobile devices and the rapidly increasing bitrate of online videos. To address this problem from a system perspective, we design a social-aware cooperative streaming framework called DECOMOD, in which local friends serve as peers such that an aggregated bandwidth can be achieved to ensure a high streaming quality. Our contributions in designing and implementing this system are summarized as follows: (1) We propose a social-aware cooperative DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) streaming framework that aggregates bandwidths from local friends, over a hybrid mobile network (i.e., WIFI and Bluetooth); (2) We design a local bitrate selection strategy that jointly considers the download speed and battery level; (3) We implement the system and experimentally evaluate its performance --- high streaming quality and low freezing buffer time are provided in double to viewers.


A Power system is a dynamic system, and constantly being subjected to disturbances. This disturbance must create the unstable condition such as the small-signal instability also affect system stability. For this to add the sufficient damping torque for electromechanical modes of oscillation. The Heffron-Phillips model in the single bus infinite bus system considers for it. Power system stabilizer and automatic voltage regulator produce sufficient damping torque in the synchronous generator. The mathematical solution of the Heffron-Phillips model at different operating condition and analysis in MATLAB software with time domain. A comparison between different condition such as a constant field, excitation system and Power system stabilizer controller. To add the fuzzy logic in the single machine infinite bus system reduce the oscillation and gain the stable condition. Keyword; Small-signal stability, Generator excitation system, Automatic voltage regulator (AVR), Power system stabilizer (PSS).


Family business as a topic has grown to constitute a major segment of the U.S. and global economies. In many regions of the world, family companies dominate the economy. Running a family business can be especially challenging when considering the complexity of working with and managing family members. This field-based case offers a disguised situation between first- and third-generation family members around an investment opportunity. A supplemental spreadsheet allows students an opportunity to do some simple forecast calculations and figure out the demand the opportunity would put on the family portfolio.This case was successfully used in a second-year elective course on global family enterprises in a class focusing on asset management.

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BERNSTEIN GLOBAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT:

FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT

As the time approached midnight on a Thursday in late February 2014, the workday was not yet over for Cam Jones, an adviser at Bernstein Global Wealth Management. A new client, Magnus Karlsson, had recently hired the firm to develop a new long-term investment strategy for his family office. Although Karlsson had built a successful retail chain in Europe, he was finding the transition from a single-revenue-source business to a more diversified family office much more difficult than expected. After two meetings with the client, Jones and his colleague Stuart Smith, managing director at Bernstein, had begun to understand their client's objectives, needs, and attitude toward risk.

Two days earlier, Jones had received a potentially game-changing phone call: Karlsson had found a new investment opportunity. If his family invested in this business, it would tie up a lot of capital and require radical changes to the family's wealth management plan. A day later, Karlsson called to let Jones know he would be in New York the next afternoon; he wanted to have a meeting at the Bernstein office to hear his advisers' views on this investment opportunity. Although it was common for Bernstein clients to schedule meetings on short notice, this one would be especially challenging because it could involve a significant transformation of the client's liquid-asset portfolio composition. There was additional pressure because Karlsson had been referred to Bernstein by his lawyer, who mentioned that, if things went well, he could set up introductions with more of his clients.

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The Munich Knowledge Management Model is based on learning goals as well as a conception of knowledge as a variable state between information and acting. Know-ledge management in the Munich model paraphrases the attempt to organize movements of knowledge between information and acting, so that specific problems and situations can be solved purposefully. It embodies a new position towards know-ledge and its carriers as well as a new culture of how to deal with knowledge. It offers the possibility to integrate technical oriented infor-mation management and human resource orientated competence manage-ment. Based on results of meta-cognitive research the Munich Management Model wants to combine theoretically psycholo-gical, organisational and technical tasks of knowledge management. Communities are the germ-cells of knowledge ma-nagement and enforce the inclusive function of the model.


The objectives of this article are to apply Puck's failure criteria to predict the failure of 12 test problems, proposed in Part A of the second World-Wide Failure Exercise. These problems include a polymer material, various unidirectional laminae and three multi-directional laminates under a variety of 3D stress loadings. The implementation was carried out through a commercial finite element code where material nonlinearities, due to material behaviour under shear and transverse and through-thickness loadings and due to post failure damage, were taken into account. This is the first time where the critertion has been stretched to its limits. Some of the challenges found include the need to determine the fracture angle of action plane under 3D stresses and the treatment of the strengthening effects on the nonlinear stress strain curves when a lamina is subjected to combined compressive stresses in both the transverse and through-thickness directions. The successful methodology developed here will be used to analyse the effects of boundary conditions in Part B of the second World-Wide Failure Exercise to improve correlation with experimental results for the test problems.


With the development and application of wide bandgap semiconductors, the dynamic performance of motor drives has been further improved. However, as the switching frequency increases exponentially, the influence of parasitic capacitance and inductance between motor windings cannot be ignored. In this paper, low, medium, and high-frequency motor models based on the impedance characteristics of permanent magnet synchronous motors are established. Subsequently, using the high-frequency motor model, our group explore the coupling mechanism between high-frequency common-mode oscillating current within the switching period and the rotor position saliency. Finally, the relationship curve between rotor position and common-mode current amplitude is obtained, which fully validates the hypothesis that motor position information is embedded in the common-mode current.


Abstract:The financial success of Android software stores like Google Play, as well as the incentive scheme they provide for popular apps, make them attractive targets for fraud and malicious behavior. Some fraudulent developers deceptively boost the search rank and popularity of their apps while malicious developers use app markets as a launch pad for their malware. In this project, introduce FairPlay, a novel system that discovers and leverages traces left behind by fraudsters, to detect both malware and apps subjected to search rank fraud. FairPlay correlates review activities and uniquely combines detected review relations with linguistic and behavioral signals gleaned from Google Play app data in order to identify suspicious apps. Adversaries can have chances to launch attacks by gathering victim's information continuously. This project shows that an adversary can successfully infer a victim's vertex identity and community identity by the knowledge of degrees within a time period. The project also includes a new supervised clustering algorithm to find groups of data (coarse and finer cluster). It directly incorporates the information of sample categories into the fraud clustering process. Keywords: -Android market, search rank fraud, malware detection.


Purpose - Owing to economic development and rapid globalization, the number of people traveling abroad has increased dramatically in recent years. For...


Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the lower airway that is commonly encountered by the otolaryngologist. This article provides information on how to recognize patients with asthma and discuss issues related to diagnosis, treatment, and continued management within the context of current guidelines.


A pot experiment was conducted, during wet season using three types soils, namely typic haplusters-clay loam, aridic haplustepts-sandy loam and typic haplustalfs-sandy loam with rice as test crop. Four neem (Azadirechta indica) products as neem cake (NC) @ 20% of urea, neem oil (NO) @ 1% volume by weight of urea, Nimco (NI) @ 2% and Neemagold (NG) @ 1% by weight, blended with prilled urea alone were tested in a factorial randomized block design with 3 replication. The nitrifying capacity of soil was significantly decreased due to the application of neem products coated urea than prilled (control) in typic haplusterts, aridic haplustepts and typic haplustalfs at tillering, booting and harvesting stages of paddy. Among the neem products, neem oil coated urea treatment significantly proved superior to reduce the activity followed by neemgold nimco and neem cake also. All soils were found to have significantly reduced the nitrification among the neem products. Irrespective soil types the mineralizable N in soils was higher in control at tillering stage than the later stages. The coating of urea with neem oil @ 1.0 per cent would be promising to reduces the nitrifying capacity of soil and control the mineralization of N in typic haplusterts, aridic haplustepts and typic haplustalfs as compared to neemgold, nimco and neem cake, respectively.


Preeclampsia and eclampsia account for a significant proportion of maternal deaths in Ecuador. Eclampsia is defined as generalized tonic clonic seizures that present in a patient previously diagnosed with preeclampsia. Although a physician should be able to recognize this condition, it should also be noted that there are other diseases that present with seizures during pregnancy and puerperium. The case described in this article is that of a 33-year-old woman in late puerperium after a cesarean delivery complicated by preeclampsia who presented an episode of seizures. These began as focal motor seizures that then progressed to generalized tonic-clonic crises. Even though the physician may be biased towards a particular diagnosis, a complete differential diagnosis must be made in order to rule out conditions that can threaten the patient"s life. Furthermore, the decisions on management should be multidisciplinary and holistic to obtain the patient"s health in the long run.


Xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes, which activate procarcinogen in to ultimate carcinogen are known to play a major role in the carcinogenic effect of Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbons .Influence on Hepatic Xenobiotic enzymes and Chemopreventive effect of ethanolic extract of Indigofera aspalathoides(EIA) was tested on DMBA induced hamster buccal pouch carcinoma model. It has been observed that hamster treated with EIA showed a significantly low level of hepatic phase I enzyme and high level of Phase II enzymes, which might be the reason for its chemopreventive effect


This paper researches the situation and development of marine data mining application,and it provides the application model of marine data mining technology which is related to the marine data characteristics and applying requirement.It introduces the main function and structure of the marine data mining application system based on the computer,database and GIS technology.At last,the data mining application of the red tide forecast is analyzed,and it proves that the system application is scientific and reasonable.


Previous research has shown that existing Category N3 vehicle designs exhibit considerable direct vision blind spots in front of and to the near (passenger) side of the vehicle. This research explores the potential to reduce these blind spots through changes to vehicle geometry made possible by the proposed increase to vehicle length. Using a concept vehicle designed in a project performed by FKA this research evaluates the direct vision afforded to the driver against a baseline DAF XF 105 and a range of iterations of the FKA concept to explore improvements to vision. The analyses are performed using a 3D projection technique in the SAMMIE digital human modelling system. This allows the vehicle concepts to be populated with representative drivers and visual targets including vulnerable road users in the form of pedestrians and cyclists and a typical Category M1 vehicle (a passenger car). The analysis has shown that these blind spots can be improved for the specific tests that have been performed in this research by the FKA concept and the iterations of the concept that have been produced by the LDS team.


The aim of the study was to assess the biological and cost-effectiveness of pre-sowing treatment of seeds of spring wheat of biological products Phytop 8.67 based on strains of bacteria: B. subtilis VKPM B-10641, B. amyloliquefaciens VKPM B-10642 and B. amyloliquefaciens VKPM B-10643. The test preparation was held in Novosibirsk in 2007-2010 in the state sector to test grades «Novosibirsk», in education and the experimental farm of the Novosibirsk Agricultural University «Tulinskoe» and on production crops in the farms of the Novosibirsk region. Found that seed treatment agent Phytop 8.67 per dose of 2.0 om 3/t of 25.0 % increased the germination of seeds, to 80.0 % a lot of seedlings by 75.0 % a lot of roots and by 49.8% the length roots. Plants grown from treated seeds Phytop 1.8 less affected root rot pathogens fungi Bipolaris sp. and Fusarium sp. In experiments in the area of testing varieties seed dressing Phytop caused an increase in wheat yields from 3.5 to 5.3 kg / ha or 19,7-32,9 %, and an average of 4 years of yield increase of the drug was 4, 1 kg/ha, or 23. 7%. Sowing the seeds treated in industrial experiments Phytop total area of about 1,000 hectares in three years to be an additional gain of 2.7 to 6.4 kg / ha of grain or 10,5-23,2 %. The number of gluten increased by 2-4 % and for 12 days quickly pass his maturation. Thus, the bacterial preparation Phytop 8.67 is recommended for pre-treatment of wheat seeds with high efficiency.


Vicariance and dispersal associated with plate tectonics helped shape diversification and distribution patterns of biodiversity across the planet (Chamberland et al., 2018; JuradoRivera et al., 2017; Toussaint, Hendrich, et al., 2017). Gradual breakup of ancient supercontinents contributed to cladogenetic events, dividing lineages by vicariance (see Kim & Farrell, 2015; Sanmartín & Ronquist, 2004; Toussaint et al., 2017) and dispersal through corridors that connected land fragments (see Reguero et al., 2014; Seton et al., 2012). Thus, vicariant events associated with the Gondwana breakup are commonly invoked to explain the disjunct distribution of ancient lineages across continents in the southern hemisphere (McCulloch et al., 2016; Sanmartín & Ronquist, 2004), while transoceanic dispersal would be responsible for this pattern of distribution in more recent lineages (Condamine et al., 2013; MartínBravo & Daniel, 2016). Gondwana breakup occurred gradually and can be divided into two phases. The first began in the Early Jurassic (~180 mya), resulting in the separation of West Gondwana (South America/Africa) from East Gondwana (Madagascar, India, Antarctica, and Australia), ca. 140 mya (Mueller & Jokat, 2019; Seton et al., 2012; Thompson et al., 2019). However, it is important to note that southern South America was connected to the Antarctic Peninsula through the Weddellian Isthmus until the opening of Drake Passage at ca. 35 mya (Elsworth et al., 2017). The second phase began in the Early Cretaceous (~135 mya), and resulted in the separation between Madagascar/ Received: 1 November 2020 | Revised: 26 March 2021 | Accepted: 28 March 2021 DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12477


Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by a polyglutamine expansion in the deubiquitinating enzyme, Ataxin-3. Currently, there are no effective treatments for this fatal disorder but studies support the hypothesis that reducing mutant Ataxin-3 protein levels might reverse or halt the progression of disease in SCA3. Here, we sought to modulate ATXN3 expression in vivo using RNA interference. We developed artificial microRNA mimics targeting the 3′-untranslated region (3′UTR) of human ATXN3 and then used recombinant adeno-associated virus to deliver them to the cerebellum of transgenic mice expressing the full human disease gene (SCA3/MJD84.2 mice). AntiATXN3 microRNA mimics effectively suppressed human ATXN3 expression in SCA3/MJD84.2 mice. Short-term treatment cleared the abnormal nuclear accumulation of mutant Ataxin-3 throughout the transduced SCA3/ MJD84.2 cerebellum. Analysis also revealed changes in the steady-state levels of specific microRNAs in the cerebellum of SCA3/MJD84.2 mice, a previously uncharacterized molecular phenotype of SCA3 that appears to be dependent on mutant Ataxin-3 expression. Our findings support the preclinical development of molecular therapies aimed at halting the expression of ATXN3 as a viable approach to SCA3 and point to microRNA deregulation as a potential surrogate marker of SCA3 pathogenesis.


This paper presents the finite element analysis of the dynamic crack propagation in brittle material namely, Gray cast iron. The analysis is done by using remeshing technique. Dynamic fracture deals with fracture under conditions where inertia forces must be included in the problem formulation. This occurs either under dynamic loading or in the case of static loading as a rapidly propagating crack runs through a structure. In present paper fracture analysis of the RDCB (rectangular double cantilever beam) specimen and the unknown crack tip position and unknown crack velocity is computed during the analysis by the dynamic fracture criterion. According to the new crack tip position, a remeshing technique has been used to simulate the dynamic crack propagation and compared with the experimental result.


We suggest: *changeable demand on information and training services; *use in the remote training, besides information and financial system near to the real time REUFERS-1000 of special programs, forming packets of tasks for students on the creation of the training information system in Russia technological, territorial and economical accessible to the pubic at large, with the ability of quick reaction on the basis of the receiving in the system real data. When solving tasks, caring out receiving of data from information systems, both Russian and foreign, and exchanging of data between terminals of students. On the central server of local net teacher evaluate productivity of work of each student, and on the basis of the data, received from all terminals, calculate model situation; *application of suggest modem training technologies to the educational process by creation of the set of training complexes in educational institution of Moscow and Russia.


lsodense subdural hematomas, particularly bilateral ones, may bedifficult to diagnose with CT. Forty-three cases of subdural hematomas were studied byCT, 7of which were isodense collections. Obliteration ordisplacement ofthe cortical sulci inthe zone ofthe extracerebral collection was present inall7 cases. Infusion scans demonstrated displacement ofa cortical vein away from the inner table of the skull in3 of the 7 cases. This finding is helpful inac curately predicting the size of the extracerebral collection. INDEX TERMS: Brain, hemorrhage. Computed tomography, cranial, 1 [0].1211 • Head, trauma. Meninges, hemorrhage. (Skull, intracranial effects of trauma, 1 [0].430)


Purpose. To study experience of attraction and forms of citizens' participation in local community management in conditions of state facilitation and consideration of the subsidiarity principle by the example of Germany. Methodology and methods: retrospective analysis of historic prerequisites for development of the policy of citizens' involvement in local government in Germany, analysis of international documents regarding issues of realization of the state policy concerning contribution to citizens' involvement in local government, analysis of statistical data of participation of public organizations and citizens' communities in self-government. Results. Based on a systematic approach using principles of concernment and subsidiarity, the author researched the trends contributing to the problem solving connected with citizens' participation in local self-government on a federal level. The author substantiated the need of coordination of this issue on the executive level of power on the part of the federal government and executive power bodies of the federal lands of Germany; identifi ed various forms of citizens' involvement in local government. In the article, the author reveals directions of the state policy directions for support and development of the system of citizens' involvement in local government. Scientifi c novelty: the author researches the role of the state as an institute contributing the activity of public organizations, reveals the necessity of problem solving concerning citizens' involvement in public matters on the federal level, characterizes experience and specifi city of citizens' involvement in local society management in Germany.


This article describes the development and implementation of a secure Instant Messenger service using the pre-existing Microsoft Networks Instant Messenger program. Our solution involves creating a software plug-in for Trillian Pro which intercepts and encrypts messages before they are sent, and then allows the receiver to decrypt and view the original message. Also included in this article is an analysis of pre-existing solutions and an explanation of how our plug-in improves upon them.


A topic of interest is the development of compact microstrip antennas, or the equivalent problem of reducing the resonance frequency for a given size. A possible technique consists of increasing the electrical length by optimizing the shape of the patch. Previous work on compact antennas proposed and studied shape changes to the standard patch antenna. One such antenna is the square-ring shaped patch that has been recently analyzed by P. Bafrooei and L. Shafai (see IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol.47, p.1633-9, 1999). Its resonance frequency decreases with an increase of the inner side of the slot. However, at the same time the input impedance grows rapidly and it becomes difficult to feed the antenna with a 50 ohm coaxial line. A square microstrip antenna with an eccentric slot is introduced and studied. This antenna is a generalization of that of Bafrooei and Shafai, when considering the latter as a square patch with a centered slot. The simulations show that the resonance frequency of the proposed antenna is lower than the conventional square patch antenna. In addition, a 50 ohm feed point is found by properly placing the slot.


W hen Jo s é D av id S a ld iv ar en tered the D ep artm en t o f E n glish a t Yale U niversity as an u n d ergradu ate in the late seventies, he becam e aw are o f the fact th at the d iscip lin e labeled a s "A m erican L itera tu re" was barely re lated to the cu ltu ral experience he knew a s p ar t o f a C h ican o family, grow ing up close to the U .S .-M ex ico border. A fte r a lm o st three decad es reflecting on the n ation al an d continental lim its an d lim itatio n s o f the n otion o f A m erica, Sa ld iv ar h as com e to be con sid ered one o f the m o st prolific sch o lars in the qu estion in g , bridgin g, an d rem app in g o f the d isc ip lin ary app roach es to the cu ltu res, po litics, an d literatures developed in the A m ericas . H e h as created a un ique crosscu ltu ral an d tran sd isc ip lin ary fram e o f an alysis by m erging " L a tin A m erican" critical te rm s, theory, an d literature , including the notion o f tran scu ltu ratio n , C alib an a s the defiant O u ram erican intellectual, a s conceived by R o b erto F ern andez R etam ar, and the story te llin gs o f Cien anos de soledad, with the w orks o f C h ic a n o /a w riters an d th inkers like G lo r ia A n zald iia an d U .S . an d A frican -A m erican au th o rs such a s W illiam Lau lk n er an d Toni M o rriso n . T h e conversation s cover all the coord in ates o f the continental m ap , a con text which has allow ed Sald ivar to say ab o u t C h ican o an d C h ican a w riters th at they, as bord erlan ders o f "G rea te r M exico" an d "colonial su b jects o f the U .S . E m p ire—belon g equally to the d ialectics o f the A m ericas, both w ithin the G lo b a l N o r th an d the G lob al Sou th ."


Objective To determine the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for cervix cancer on cell proliferation and apoptosis. Methods A total of 24 patients with squamous carcinoma of the cervix (SCC) were treated with one cycle of cisplatin combined with hydroxycamptothecine, bleomycin regimen. The expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and apoptosis index (AI) were detected before and after NAC with flow cytometry and TUNEL. Results Clinical response was 58.3% (14/24). Before and after NAC, the expression of PCNA were (0.386±0.078) and (0.125±0.040) respectively and AI were (0.052±0.027) and (0.248±0.078). Significant difference of PCNA and AI could be observed before and after NAC (t=22.859, t=16.06, P0.01). The mean AI after NAC was significantly higher in effective cases (t=2.398, P=0.029). Conclusion NAC with cisplatin, hydroxycamptothecine, bleomycin regimen could inhibit proliferation and increase apoptosis of tumor cell in cervical squamous carcinoma tissue. The change of PCNA expression and AI may be one of molecule mechanisms leading to anti-tumor function of NAC.


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A method of repairing an erosion coating coupled to a substrate, wherein the coating comprises an anodization layer on the substrate, a bond primer layer on the anodization layer, a corrosion-resistant primer on the bond primer, and an erosion coating on the corrosion-resistant primer. The method comprises abrading an erosion coating; abrading a corrosion-resistant primer; creating an abraded surface comprising a bond primer over an anodization layer coupled to the substrate, applying a sol-gel adhesion promoter layer to said abraded surface; applying a corrosion-resistant layer over the sol-gel adhesion promoter layer; and applying an erosion coating layer over the corrosion-resistant layer.


While attempting to synthesize a cyclopentadienyl iridium complex by the reaction between IrCl3·xH2O in methanol, several well-shaped crystals formed from the reaction mixture. Surprisingly, the crystals were of di-μ-chlorido-bis[dichloridobis(methanol-κO)iridium(III)] dihydrate, [Ir2Cl6(CH3OH)4]·2H2O. This is a surprising result in that, while many reactions of iridium chloride hydrate are carried out in alcoholic solvents, especially methanol and ethanol, this is the first structure of a chlorido-iridium compound with only methanol ligands.


The present invention relates to an apparatus for checking the tire (6, 9), especially by using the interference measurement. The apparatus comprises at least one first measurement probe (2) and the second measurement probe (3), can provide measurement results by scanning the tire (6, 9) with them. The apparatus further comprises a positioning means (4, 5, 7, 8), the outer waiting position of the first measurement probe with them and (2) a second measuring probe (3) and the tire (6, 9) and it can be moved between an inner viewing position of the tire (6,9). According to the present invention, can be arranged in the waiting area or the viewing position the first measurement probe (2) and a second measuring probe (3) independently by utilizing positioning means (4, 5, 7, 8) using them, the rim diameter (d .Field


For years, fire scientists have been aware that diffusion flames from identical fuel packages will burn with different flame lengths depending upon their location in a compartment. If a fuel package burns against a wall or in a corner, then the flame lengths tend to elongate due to limited and altered entrainment flows. Efforts at teaching the fire investigation community about these and other scientificand engineering-related principles began in earnest in the early 1990s. Since then, this and other types of fire behavior reported by prominent fire scientists have been included in documents regularly used by fire investigators. While investigators often consider such "x-y" placements (in terms of Cartesian coordinates) and their effects, little attention is given to similar variations in a fire's base height, the "z-factor". What happens to a fire's growth rate or the rate of smoke production when the fire starts well above the compartment floor level? How does the fire response to this condition compare with that of a fire burning near floor level? Answers to such questions are not readily available. Even so, many of the effects can be estimated using general fire dynamics principles. As an example, flames from a fire located well above the floor might impact the ceiling while flames from the same-sized fire at the floor would not. Similarly, the rate of upper layer heating for elevated fires would be expected to be different than for floor level fires. Further, any descent of a vitiated upper layer to or below the burning fuel level would likely cause changes in the heat release rate as well as the rate of carbon monoxide production. Each of these factors could be important to investigators. This paper will describe the use of full scale and computer fire models to examine various hypotheses of burning behavior caused by variations in the "z" factor. A particular case study will be presented as will a recap of the subsequent analyses related specifically to effects on fire behavior from an elevated fire.


Explaining that no definitive pedagogy flows from the developmental theory of Jean Piaget, the author explores ways that classroom teachers can nevertheless make powerful use of that theory. For her, the essence of the child's intellectual development lies not in the progressive accomplishment of Piagetian tasks, but in the child's testing out the ideas that she or he finds significant. This process of testing out ideas, she argues, is critical for the child's cognitive growth. Teachers can assist this growth primarily by accepting the child's perpective as the legitimate framework for generating ideas—allowing the child to work out her or his own questions and answers. This approach—and the importance of providing varied settings and materials which suggest ideas to children—is discussed with particular reference to the author's classroom experience and her evaluation of an elementary science program.


This paper analyzes the categories of construction accidents, their causes, and the relationship among construction accidents, natural phenomenon and human factors. It is demonstrated that not only can accidents caused by human factors in building enterprises be prevented ,but also those environmental construction accidents caused by natural factors such as earthquake could be prevented by the methods of forecast, prediction, fore-warning, prevention, emergency plan, especially by properly planning and selecting site, keeping construction project away from seismic area, etc. Construction accidents are suitable to be studied by factor analysis and topology no matter from the angle of the cause for accidents or the feature of accidents. Combining with theory of index analysis and topology, the conclusion that all the construction accidents can be prevented can be drawn out by factor analysis.


Excerpt The study of blood dyscrasias has led to their division into a large number of groups, diseases and syndromes with a baffling nomenclature. The etiology of very few of these various subdivi...


4 Twenty four Pongamia pinnata genotypes were screened out at the Department of 5 Seed Science and Technology, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural 6 University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad during 2014 and 2015 to elucidate the relationship 7 between seed physical and physiological traits on seed storability and to select best genotype 8 with long storage life.Genotype TOIL 2 recorded maximum values for two traits viz., seed 9 thickness (8.99 mm) and 3D seed volume (3057 mm 3 ), TOIL 12 for seed storability (85 % 10 germination) and test weight (151.37 g) and TOIL 5 for initial seed germination (100 %). 11 Coefficientsofvariations observed were high for seed germination, moderate forseed width, 12 thickness and 100 seed weight but seed length recorded with low variation. Broad sense 13 heritability estimates ranged from 55.4% (for seed length) to 99.9% (100 seed weight), 14 genetic advance as per cent of mean ranged between 8.91 (for seed length) to 126.42 (for 15 seed germination after storage). Seed storability exhibited positive significant correlation 16 with initial seed germination and 100 seed weight at both phenotypic and genotypic levels 17 whereas, seed thickness exhibited positive significant correlation only at genotypic level. 18 Path analysis revealed that initial seed germination (g=0.695; p=0.667) is contributing 19 directly to seed storability followed by 100 seed weight (g=0.440; p=0.266) and seed length 20 (g=0.048; p=0.044). Whereas, seed thickness showed directly negative effect (g= -0.304; p= 21 -0.143) on seed storability.Out of five clusters, cluster-I and cluster-II showed more 22 genotypes, 15 and 5, respectively. 100 seed weight contributed more towards genetic 23 diversity of pongamia followed by seed germination after storage. The cluster V recorded 24 maximum cluster mean for four seed physical parameters, while cluster III for seed 25 germination and crosses among them may result in substantial segregates and further 26 selection for overall improvement of species and its seed storability. 27 28


CCAAT/enhancer binding protein alpha (C/EBP a ) causes growth arrest via direct interaction with the cyclin-dependent kinases cdk2 and cdk4. In this paper, we present evidence showing that C/EBP a enhances a proteasome-dependent degradation of cdk4 during growth arrest in liver of newborn mice and in cultured cells. Overexpression of C/EBP a in several biological systems leads to a reduction of cdk4 protein levels, but not mRNA levels. Experiments with several tissue culture models reveal that C/EBP a enhances the formation of cdk4–ubiquitin conjugates and induces degradation of cdk4 through a protea-some-dependent pathway. As a result, the half-life of cdk4 is shorter and protein levels of cdk4 are reduced in cells expressing C/EBP a . Gel filtration analysis of cdk4 complexes shows that a chaperone complex cdk4–cdc37–Hsp90, which protects cdk4 from degradation, is abundant in proliferating livers that lack C/EBP a , but this complex is weak or undetectable in livers expressing C/EBP a . Our studies show that C/EBP a disrupts the cdk4–cdc37–Hsp90 complex via direct interaction with cdk4 and reduces protein levels of cdk4 by increasing proteasome-dependent degradation of cdk4. for the epithelial-specific markers E-cadherin and zonula occludens, and by analysis of the hepatocyte-specific markers C/EBP a , hepatocyte nuclear factors -1, -3 and -4, and albumin.


In the Ecuadorian history, social movements have always played a decisive role in the political and social life of the country, however, their struggle and contribution have been made invisible in the agendas of the commercial media, thus violating the constitutional right of the indigenous peoples to a legitimately inclusive communication. Hence, this study aims to highlight the current state of communication articulated by the Confederation of Kichwa Nationality Peoples from Ecuador-ECUARUNARI, as a fundamental pillar of the Ecuadorian indigenous movement, in order to strengthen its own initiatives, processes of intercultural communication. The results of the study have as an important source a diagnosis that deepened in the way that institutional communication is configured and internal and external audiences intervene, as a constitutive part of a strategy that sustains the right that Ecuador's social movements have to perform communication in conditions of equality and horizontality.


Abstract The effectiveness of the preparations PB 500 (extracted from cow dung) and PB 501 (silica fume – 92.8% SiO2) in protection of cucumber against downy mildew was tested during the two-years experiment. PB 500 was used at 2% concentration and PB 501 at 1% concentration. The alternative fungicides recommended by the standard protection program were used as the reference agents. The effectiveness of the preparations PB 501 and PB 500 was lower than the conventional fungicides. It was observed that the infestation of protected plants is lower than the control plants, although not statistically significant. The results indicate a limited possibility of application of the tested formulations for cucumber protection against downy mildew in comparison to the chemical protection.


With a decline in use of Braille, very few attractive technological options can be offered to young learners. Various research data confirm that teachers of the visually impaired do not have sufficient skills to introduce their students to modern devices. The Mountbatten Brailler can be considered as a tool that combines Braille technology with mainstream tools commonly used by students and teachers. This combination of devices opens new possibilities for the teachers and their students to reverse the trend in the use of Braille. Thanks to features offered by the Brailler and iOS devices, sighted and blind users receive a tool for unimpaired written communication.


As the use of illegal drugs has reached epidemic proportions in schools, educational leaders in the United States have turned to drug testing in attempting to maintain learner discipline. To this end, the United States Supreme Court has addressed the issue twice in the past eight years. In 1995, the Court permitted drug testing in Acton v. Vernonia School District 47J. More recently, in Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie v. Earls (2002), the Court upheld suspicionless drug testing of learners who wished to participate in extracurricular activities. Even though drug testing has yet to emerge as an issue in South Africa, Earls is significant for educational leaders and policy makers in South Africa since it involves concerns under the National Policy on Privacy. More specifically, under Items 20 and 21 of the South African National Policy on the Management of Drug Abuse (SA, 1996b) searches and drug testing should only be used where there is reasonable suspicion, the same standard applied by American courts. However, unlike the United States, the South African policy prohibits random searches and/or drug testing. Thus, due to constitutional and educational issues that drug testing raises, a timely discussion of this matter should be of interest to educational leaders and policy makers in South Africa.


We formulate a variational principle for a collection of projectors in an indefinite inner product space. The existence of minimizers is proved under general assumptions. In a recent book it was proposed to formulate physics with a new variational principle in space-time [2]. In the present paper we construct minimizers of this variational principle. In order to make the presentation self-contained and easily accessible, we introduce the mathematical framework from the basics (see Sections 1 and 2). Thus this paper can be used as an introduction to the mathematical setting of the principle of the fermionic projector. However, the reader who wants to get a physical understanding is referred to [2]. Our variational principle is set up in finite dimension, and thus the continuity of the action is not an issue. The difficulties are the lack of compactness and the fact that there is no notion of convexity. Therefore, we need to derive suitable estimates (Sections 4 and 6) before we can use the direct method of the calculus of variations (Sections 7 and 8). Our main results can be understood already after reading Sections 1 and 2 and are stated in Section 5 (see Theorem 5.2, Theorem 5.3 and Corollary 5.5). 1 Discrete Space-Time and the Fermionic Projector Let H be a finite-dimensional complex vector space, endowed with a sesquilinear form <.|.> : H × H → C, i.e. for all u, v,w ∈ H and α, β ∈ C, <u | αv + βw> = α <u | v> + β <u | w> <αu + βv | w> = α <u | w> + β <v | w> . We assume that <.|.> is symmetric, <u | v> = <v | u> , and non-degenerate, <u | v> = 0 ∀ v ∈ H =⇒ u = 0 . Note that <.|.> is in general not positive, and it is therefore not a scalar product. We also refer to (H,<.|.>) as an indefinite inner product space. To a non-degenerate subspace of H we can associate its signature (p, q), where p and q are the maximal dimensions of


Evaluating uncertainty and sensitivity can be a difficult task, even for low-order, singlemedium environmental models driven by a unique set of site-specific data. Quantitative assessment of integrated, multimedia models that simulate hundreds of sites spanning multiple geographical and ecological regions will ultimately require a comparative approach using several model evaluation techniques, coupled with sufficient computational power. Efforts to address computational needs for 3MRA model evaluation are outlined here.


An abstract is a concise summary of scholarly work and is the first impression for the editor, peer reviewer, or journal audience. When presenting or writing up scholarly activity, an abstract is required for submission and guidelines vary depending on the conference, journal, and grant application. Many early career researchers and pharmacists feel unequipped to summarize research activity and need guidance to get started with abstract writing. A stepwise approach can be a valuable tool for all types of learners. From start to finish, this paper provides guidance and specific examples to write a high‐quality abstract effectively for conferences, journals, and grant application submissions. By following the eight sequential steps of abstract writing provided, pharmacists can potentially develop a skillset to advance scholarly work and showcase it to the scientific community.


Objective To discuss the change of cognitive function in the aged patients with primary hypertension. Method Four hundred and fifty ages from 60 to 89 were divided into three groups: normal group, primary hypertension group and hypertension group with history of Transient Ischemia Attack (TIA). Congitive function was examined in all ages. Results Among the three groups, the scores of the normal group were higher than that of hypertension group. The scores of the latter group were higher than that of hypertension with TIA group. Conclusion Aged patients with hypertension have significant change in their cognitive function. It is important to strengthen the measures of prevention and treatment of their primary hypertension in order to improve their cognitive function.


In late November 2008, terrorists besieged two luxury hotels in a posh section of India's commercial capital, Mumbai, during a three-day assault that resulted in the deaths of more than 170 people. The attack marked India's 9/11 moment; indeed, the episode was quickly dubbed "26/11." The fact that a Pakistani-based terrorist organization had conducted the complex assault triggered an immediate interstate crisis between India and Pakistan. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the terrorist group quickly attributed with responsibility for the attack, had close ties to the Pakistan military and intelligence services, raising suspicions that the attack was state-sponsored. Tensions ran high as the Indian government convened national security meetings and considered military response options, including air strikes on LeT's headquarters in the middle of the densely populated Punjab province and air strikes on suspected terrorist staging areas in Pakistan-controlled areas of the disputed Kashmir region. Ultimately the Indian government opted not to conduct a military response – a decision attributed to Indian dysfunctional decision-making, weak-willed leadership, limited military capabilities, a robust Pakistani deterrence posture, and U.S. crisis intervention efforts.1


We acknowledge the Editor and Reviewers for the time spent to evaluate our work and for their valuable comments. We made the proposed changes in the revised manuscript. Please note that answers are in blue and after each Reviewer's remark, and sentences added/adjusted in the manuscript are quoted in [italic font between brackets] . All comments were addressed and are detailed in this letter. Summarizing our answers:


During the First World War (WWI), children's literature often served as war propaganda. Because of these overt attempts to encourage support for the war effort, much of the complexity within English-language children's literature from the period has been overlooked. If we want to understand literature's potential to influence children's attitudes towards armed conflict, it is important to examine some of the complicated depictions of war in writing for the young. This essay takes a step in this direction by considering one particular element of children's literature from WWI—the figure of the boy soldier. As historian Tim Cook points out in his study of underage soldiers in the Canadian forces during WWI, these young soldiers existed in fairly substantial numbers, with "as many as 20,000" serving overseas in the Canadian forces alone at time when the nation's population was less than eight million.


Gloria Tsoi and I have established a recent tradition during our weeks at Bridge Nationals for the last day of the tournament. Because we usually leave for home during the day on Sunday, we refrain from entering the two day national Swiss events and instead play in the " Daylight " pair game that ends by 7 PM (start times at 10 and 3) so we can then later enjoy a nice meal and a glass of red wine at one of the city's finer dining establishments. Three years ago, this daily event at Nationals was restricted to " seniors " (in the ACBL that means 55 and over which is somewhat ironic to say the least) but at some point they dropped that designation and made the game open. Despite the new designation, there is an unwritten rule that the game is really intended for a more casual bridge atmosphere than the open pairs that take place at 1 and 7:30. For two relatively young players looking to make hay in national events during the week, it's really not an appropriate game to enter. Gloria suggested that we skip the event earlier in the morning as she had understandably had enough after 8 straight days of two sessions. Unfortunately for her, I spent the night writhing about my opening lead on the penultimate board of the Red Ribbon pairs that felt reasonable but nevertheless cost Dana Berkowitz and I our chance to finish as the winners. Gloria acquiesced to my need to get back in the saddle and off we went to what she endearingly calls " The Daydream Pairs. " The level of play was up to its usual tepid standard despite the presence of Bridge Bulletin star and consummate gentleman Jerry Helms, whom we got to play in the second round. My mind started to wander a bit and I then completely butchered two out of three hands as declarer at the other seeded table (For some reason, the ACBL likes to put its pairs with the highest total of masterpoints at tables 3 and 9. I have no idea why they do this but it is always a good plan to keep on your toes when pairs 3 and 9 are your competition). All of a sudden, this remarkable deal popped up on the next hand that had all sorts of wonderful stuff going on.


The inclusion of the coupling of the antisymmetric state to the driving field, if the atoms are in inequivalent positions, can change the steady-state total scattering intensity as a function of field strength from one monotonically approaching the saturation intensity 2 n to one which at first runs through a maximum above 2 n at intermediate field strengths. Moreover, under suitable conditions the scattering spectrum can exhibit three distinct peaks, and depending on the detuning, photon bunching and antibunching can occur in the scattered radiation.


The Huangmei Opera XU Xi-lin has contributed its unique exploration to the development of the art of Huangmei Opera with its three unique characteristics—its theme of a local historic event reflecting a revolutionary's brevity,its male protagonist as against the traditional female-as the leading role model,and its borrowing from other genres of operas for better presentation.


Political violence and armed conflict are a worldwide problem that exposes families to extreme acts of violence, disrupts community and family economic conditions, compromises family functioning and parenting behaviors, and has deleterious effects on children's development. In this chapter, we describe two overarching, complementary theoretical frameworks that can explain how exposure to political violence affects family functioning: Bronfenbrenner's model of hierarchically nested ecological ecosystems and a related model within developmental psychology, the family stress model. Using data from our Palestinian-Israeli exposure to violence study, a prospective study of 1,501 Palestinian and Israeli families, we examine a mediational model showing that the family's exposure to ethnic-political violence predicts negative family functioning (parental depressive symptoms and marital aggression), which in turn predicts subsequent harsh physical punishment toward one's children.


Ahslract: Thc elfect of soil inoisture on diapause terminalion in ibieiopoiipneurnoto rogeniioJeri iLi6schler pupae was observed ii i arens hcavily iniested with sicklepod, Senno obi~isijolia (L.) H.S. Invin & Barneby, a prcferred host for this species, in tlic foothills and on lhe coastal plain of southem Honduras. Imgated soil and soil with no im'gation were trealnients establislied in 2000 in scrcen cnges placed over sites where sicklcpod was heavily infestcd with M. rogenhoferi in 1999. Meir~ponpnetintala rogei?iiofee>'i and Aci olopl~zis spp. accounted for 34 and 64%, respectively, of the moths collected in the foothills, whereas A{. rogenlioferi, Tripridia iiinbor~is Ednfards. and Oiiiniaiospiio narcoei~salis Walker accountcd for 1.4, 12.6 and 81.1%, rcspeclively, of :he inoths collecled on the coastal plain. Soil moisture was the stimulus for eclosion of M. rogeiiiio/eri nioths, but it appeared to have acted only as a secondary faclor in diapause temiination. Time spenl in the diapause slate may bc oiie factor lliat is associated with lermination of the dormant period in Iliis species. Soil samplcs lrom irrigated plols imniediatcly outside the screen cages resulted in collection of hvo pupae at each location, which could suggest higli larval and pupal inorlality in this species. Land preparation for crop planting on ihe coastal plain using tractors appeared to negatively influcncc densities of ' M. 1-ogenhoferi ivhen comparcd with low dismption land preparation pnctices used by farmers in lhe foolhills. Tliis iiifoniiation contributes to our understanding of why hI. rogeniioferi can be a significant defoliator of sorghiiin and niaize in somc ycars, bu1 no1 in other years in southem Honduras.


This paper shows the effect of the change in the transmission line length on the various power system parameters during islanding in a grid-tied DG system for different load scenarios. The parameters that have been taken into account are the RMS voltage, RMS current, active power, reactive power, apparent power, line impedance and frequency at the point of common coupling (PCC). In each of the cases discussed here, a comparison has been made for each parameter by changing the length of transmission line (short, medium and long lines). The steady-state active power after islanding has been plotted for each of the load scenarios against the length of the transmission line. The simulations have been done using MATLAB — Simulink software.


Purpose: The aim of this study to identify the microbial profile in bile and gallstone of patients undergoing cholecystectomy and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of the isolates. Introduction: Cholelithiasis is one of the most common disease affecting gastrointestinal tract and common indication for abdominal surgeries. Materials and Methods: The retrospective study was conducted at Department of Microbiology, Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi from November 2015 to October 2016. Cholelithiasis diagnosed patients admitted to Department of surgery; RIMS, Ranchi for open and laparoscopic cholecystectomy were taken for study. The total numbers of patients were 257. Bile aspirated from gallbladder and gall stones in sterile container containing normal saline was brought to the Department of Microbiology for culture and sensitivity test. Results: On culture of bile and gall stone, the most common bacteria was E. coli followed by Klebsiella. Both organisms isolated from culture showed maximum sensitivity to Amoxicillin/Clavulinic acid, Pipracillin / Tazobactum. E. coli showed maximum resistance to Trimethoprim – Sulphamethoxazole while Klebsiella showed maximum resistance to Ciprofloxacin. Conclusion: Culture of bacteria from bile need to be necessary to prevent complication after cholecystectomy.


Both palm oil fuel industry and cement industry are causing native impact to the enviroment.The amount of land needed for the disposal of the waste can become increasing. Palm oil fuel ash are the waste products from the local palm oil industry that cause environmental pollution when they are discarded at the same time, cement are costly and production cause negative impact to the enviroment. Issue on the depletion of natural cement has lead towards the utilization of Palm Oil Fuel Ash (POFA) as cement replacement in the cement replacement production. Furthermore, the incorporation of POFA as partial cement replacement material in concrete production also helps us to reduce the cost of concrete production and able to curb environmental pollution problem. The objective of the study are to determine the effect of palm oil fuel ash (POFA) as partial cement replacement content on the compressive strength and moisture absorption of (POFA) cement brick. The impact of compressive test and water absorption test of cement brick containing palm oil fuel ash as partial cement replacement material has been investigated Concrete specimens with various percentage of palm oil fuel ash (POFA) as partial cement replacement material were water cured for 28 days before subjected towards compressive strength test and water absorption test. Findings shows that cement brick containing 20% of POFA demonstrate highest compressive strength compared to the other specimens. Inclusion of 20% POFA has lead to densification of cement brick internal structure making the concrete denser and exhibit lowest water absorption of all mixes.


The utility model relates to the technical field of the paper pulp, in particular to a spiral eccentric paper pulp pump, essentially consisting of a stirring head(1), a pulp intake pipe(2), a pump(4), a back pump cover(5), a sealing system(6) and a rotor part, which is characterized in that the rotor part includes an impeller(3) and a suspension component(7), and the rotor part adopts a suspension frame type support and is arranged in the pump(4). When in maintenance, without disassembling the pump and the inlet and outlet pipe line or removing the motor, the components inside such as the impeller can be pulled out; besides, the impeller adopts the spiral eccentric impeller, which still has a perfect performance in using for transporting the air pulp with comparatively large solid grains in the pump making, the paper making and the chemical fiber industries.


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 Echinacea laevigata, or smooth coneflower, is a federally listed endangered species found in open woods and human maintained clearings, including roadsides and utility rights of way. The species is disjunctly distributed in the eastern United States, with populations in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, where they are associated with calcium and magnesium rich soils. This research was designed to determine if there is a nonrandom relationship between soil chemistry and the occurrence of E. laevigata along roadsides in northeast Georgia. Soil samples were collected from sites along roadsides with known populations and from arbitrarily selected sites without E. laevigata along the same roadsides. Multiple response permutation procedure (MRPP) found a nonrandom relationship between soil chemistry and occurrence. Sites with E. laevigata had a wider range of pH values but had lower iron values than the set of arbitrarily selected sites, suggesting that the species may be excluded from locations with high levels of iron in the soil.


Nitrogen and phosphorus adsorbents are widely used to mitigate agricultural non-point source pollution. However, research on adsorbents mainly involves studying chemical adsorption properties, and analyzes of the effects of adsorbent on pollutant removal has not considered the surface morphology of the adsorbent or the surface distribution of pollutants. In this study, we focus on the surface morphology of the adsorbent and the surface distribution of contaminants while examining chemical adsorption properties. The crystal composition of the adsorbent was evaluated by x-ray diffraction (XRD) characterization. Kinetic adsorption data and adsorption isotherms demonstrated that thermally modified zeolite exhibits better nitrogen adsorption. The optimal removal of nitrogen and phosphorus by thermally modified zeolite and diatomite occurred at a 3:2 ratio, reaching a removal rate of 92.07% and 84.61%, respectively. The potential adsorption mechanism of a composite adsorbent for nitrogen and phosphorus capture was investigated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Scanning electron microscopy mapping, grey image recognition, and gradient recognition confirmed a relationship between the surface morphology of the adsorbent and the distribution of surface pollutants. The larger the surface of the gradient, the more uneven it is, the more nitrogen and phosphorus sites are adsorbed on the surface, and the more nitrogen and phosphorus are adsorbed. These results suggest that thermally modified zeolite/diatomite can serve as a promising adsorbent for nitrogen and phosphorus removal in practical applications.


The non-scleractinian Anthozoa of the Marianas are reviewed based on literature records and new surveys. Six zoanthids, 8 corallimorpharians, 26 actiniarians, 3 ceriantharians, 10 antipatharians, and 79 octocorals are recorded. The zoanthid, corallimorpharian, and shallow water gorgonian faunas of Guam are relatively well character- ized, although many locally recognized forms remain to be identified to species. Soft corals are relatively well surveyed taxonomically, although information about many species remains limited, due to difficulty of field identification. While large-bodied actiniarians are well known, small species remain little studied. Ceriantharians remain poorly known, while antipatharian records are based on a single deep-water survey in the southern Marianas. A rich deep-water octocoral fauna has been collected, but remains to be studied.


Objective: To evaluate the association between maternal first trimester metabolic profile and transposition of the great arteries (TGA) in the offspring. Design: A matched case-control study using national register data and maternal first trimester blood samples. Settings: Finland Patients: A total of 100 mothers with TGA in their offspring and 200 controls matched by the year of birth and sex of the child, and the age and the body mass index (BMI) of the mother. Interventions: None. Main outcome measures: To identify the impact of 73 metabolic measure concentrations on the likelihood that a child would be born with TGA. Results: A higher concentration of four subtypes in extremely large very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) particles and one in large VLDL particles were observed in mothers with TGA in their offspring. This finding did not reach statistical significance after multiple testing correction. In the analysis of the subgroups of maternal BMI over 25 and 30 only, the odds ratios (OR) of the metabolic variables were higher compared to the original population. In the group with a BMI over 25 the mean OR was 1.3 (N= 111, total) and in the group with a BMI over 30 was 2.1 (N= 42, total). Conclusions: We found no statistically significant difference between the metabolic profiles of mothers with TGA in their offspring, and their controls. However, the trend in our BMI-matched study potentially indicates that the likelihood of TGA development associates with maternal early-pregnancy metabolic profile, and the association is more pronounced in the subgroups of BMI over 25 and 30. Further studies are needed especially in the higher BMI groups.


The purpose of this paper is to present the latest accomplishments at the Regional Division Brasov regarding the modernisation of stock depot for passengers but also future programs that will continue this process. The rolling stock used in passenger transport was followed: passenger wagons, sleeping wagons, diesel engines, electric engines. Passenger transport organization should aim the accomplishment of the following requirements: ensuring passengers' security on the route and in stations; reducing travel time (by increasing trains' speed, choosing the best routes, reducing stops at stations, ensuring certain fast links at railway junctions); intensive usage of rolling stock, of fixed installations; the appropriate combination of freight with passenger transport, passengers' good serving at stations and trains, especially by ensuring a timetable which would provide convenient hours and reliable connections at railway junctions.


Any Donquixotism is tragicomic in two respects. First, it worships that which does not at all correspond to its ideals. Second, it struggles against that which does not at all have the traits it hates so much. In both cases what is tragicomic in Donquixotism is the discrepancy between the thought and the fact, the desire and the action. Donquixotism is a life of inner contradiction with reality and with oneself.


The viscous and the external forces effect on thermal DNA denaturation of Peyrard-Bishop model are investigated. The calculation of the partition function to determine the stretching of hydrogen bonds has been performed by path integral Monte-Carlo. The result shows that the interaction between the viscous potential and external forces prevent DNA to unzip perfectly but allows DNA to split at a certain distance from its original position. The increase of the viscosity coefficient will reduce the melting temperature. The result obtained also showed how at certain temperature external potential give dominant contribution in denaturation, higher even than the viscosity effect.


We show that one can interpret physical reality using the Q-function, the expectation of a coherent state projection operator, giving a probabilistic interpretation of quantum dynamical evolution. This implies that a physical universe exists in space-time without observers, with a probability equal to its Q-function. By including the meter dynamics, we show that phase-space trajectories have measurement properties without explicit wave-function collapse. We treat continuous and discrete variable measurements, and prove that Bell inequality violations can occur for correlated spins.


Understanding the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of female multiple mating is an important topic of current research. Insects have been used as model systems in this area due to their great variation in number of copulations and mates per female. Experiments with the true bug, Stenomacra marginella, indicate that, the day following their first copulation, most females will remate either with their first mate or with a different male, whether he is virgin or had mated the previous day. Field data show that a substantial proportion of females mate multiple times. These results suggest that post-copulatory sexual selection may be important in S. marginella; this idea provides testable hypotheses to explain different aspects of the mating behavior of this species.


This discussion that follows in this paper is a critical review of the case study titled ' The New East End' carried out by the suthors, Geoff Dench, Kate Gaveron and Michael Young and published in 2006


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How do transnational social movements organize? Specifically, this paper asks how an organized community can lead a nationalist movement from outside the nation. Applying the analytic perspective of Strategic Action Fields, this study identifies multiple attributes of transnational organizing through which expatriate communities may go beyond extra-national supporting roles to actually create and direct a national campaign. Reexamining the rise and fall of the Fenian Brotherhood in the mid-nineteenth century, which attempted to organize a transnational revolutionary movement for Ireland's independence from Great Britain, reveals the strengths and limitations of nationalist organizing through the construction of a Transnational Strategic Action Field (TSAF). Deterritorialized organizing allows challenger organizations to propagate an activist agenda and to dominate the nationalist discourse among co-nationals while raising new challenges concerning coordination, control, and relative position among multiple centers of action across national borders. Within the challenger field, "incumbent challengers" vie for dominance in agenda setting with other "challenger" challengers.


Experiments show that an expanding metal wire core that results from a nanosecond electrical explosion in vacuum consists primarily of three different states: solid, microdrop, and gas-plasma. The state of the wire core depends both on the amount of energy deposited before the voltage breakdown and on the heating conditions. For small amounts of deposited energy (on the order of solid-stage enthalpy), the wire core remains in a solid state or is partially disintegrated. For a high level of deposited energy (more than vaporization energy) the wire core is in a gas-plasma state. For an intermediate level of deposited energy (more than melting but less than vaporization), the wire disintegrates into hot liquid microdrops or clusters of submicron size. For a wire core in the cluster state, interferometry demonstrates weak (or even absent) phaseshift. Light emission shows a "firework effect"—the long late-time radiation related to the emission by the expanding cylinder of hot microparticles. For the wire core ...


Release competition and development of eco-friendly vehicles have been conducted violently also automaker, it will be a high growth industry of the charger and battery, which is the driving source of the motor of an electric vehicle. Reduces the on-resistance power elements DC - DC converter for battery charger for electric vehicles, must minimize switching losses. Should have a low on-resistance power than existing products. Compare the Super Junction MOSFET and Planar MOSFET, As a result, super junction MOSFET improve on about 87.4% on-state voltage drop performance than planar MOSFET.


This book contains a number of background papers commissioned by the International Labour Office to examine the relationship between womens roles and demographic change in developing countries. The 10 papers are grouped under the following headings: overview conceptualizing and measuring womens roles social and cultural dimensions influencing womens roles womens roles and their relationship to fertility and mortality and economic dimensions influencing womens roles. (ANNOTATION)


In field studies, 15N-enriched and 15N-natural abundance methods may yield similar mean estimates for N2-fixation, but with no correlation of the individual estimates. This study was designed as a glasshouse-based microcosm and aimed to remove the landform and weather variables found in previous field studies, while retaining other sources of variability such as mineralisation of organic N and whatever slight variations of environment may exist in the glasshouse. The results showed little or no correspondence among the estimates of N2-fixation at the three 15N-enrichment levels; however, estimates were consistent within each 15N-enrichment level. There was also no correlation between the results of acetylene reduction and those of any of the isotopic enrichment treatments. If the isotopic 15N-enrichment levels measured the same processes with varying accuracies, then the general patterns of the replicated results from each enrichment level should resemble each other against a generally uniform background. They did not. Hence, we conclude that the observed differences are due to unknown factors in addition to the varying noise-to-signal ratio at different enrichment levels.


Objective To evaluate the applicative value of 16-row spiral CT multiplanar reconstructions(MPR)in locating and assessing the extension of upper abdominal tumors.Methods A retrospective study was undertaken in 58 patients with upper abdominal tumors,who had been 16-row spiral CT scanning.Results Among 58 cases of upper abdominal tumors,42(72.41%)were accurately located on axial CT images,and 53(91.38%)were accurately located after MPR.There exists a significant distinction(P 0.01).Among the 118 cases with organs or tissues extended,66(55.93%)and 87(73.73%)showed correctly on axial CT images and on MPR respectively.There was also a significant distinction(P 0.05).Conclusion 16-row spiral CT MPR is superior to simple axial CT images in locating and determining the extension of upper abdominal tumors.


This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bioelectrics Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact email@example.com. Repository Citation Rossi, Alessandra; Pakhomova, Olga N.; Pakhomov, Andrei G.; Weygandt, Samantha; Bulysheva, Anna A.; Murray, Len E.; Mollica, Peter A.; and Muratori, Claudia, "Mechanisms and Immunogenicity of nsPEF-Induced Cell Death in B16F10 Melanoma Tumors" (2019). Bioelectrics Publications. 238. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/bioelectrics_pubs/238


Today, using the most appropriate financial combination for preventing manipulation of influence and pressure on the structure of the country is one of the most important concerns of every country's cultural-financial policy so that social, political, and financial segments are greatly impressed in all aspects. In this regard, there are many destructive factors which destroy the balance. Money laundering, according to global statistics and facts, could be one of the most destructive one. Money laundering is done through many different ways which leads to the corruption of authorities and financial instability and banking volatility and also reduction of productivity and government's control over economic policies. Step-by-step control and assessment of financial institutions and enterprises and all organizations which somehow affect the flow of money laundering is really difficult and to achieve predetermined goals, highly secure solutions and also development of appropriate culture in society for preventing the flow of money laundering are necessary.


An inorganic additive to be added to foods, food for livestock and drug and comprising a magnesium source is characterized in that it comprises 1) of magnesium lactate; 2) magnesium citrate essentially dibasic acid and soluble in water; and if desired 3) of the magnesium hydroxide; and further, if desired 4) a carbohydrate additive. The amount of magnesium citrate consitutes preferably from 5 to 15% by weight calculated as magnesium form.


Abstract Acylsilanes, RC(O)SiMe3 (R = C6H5, p-MeOC6H4 and C5H11), can be converted into their corresponding carboxylic acids, when water is used as solvent, and esters when alcohol is used as solvent. This oxidation is mediated by iron (III) ions in 20-24 h or nitric acid diluted in alcohol in 2-10 h at room temperature.


The second quarter in the U.S. chemical industry had so many conflicting performance trends, the results looked different for practically every product line. Overall, there is room for some argument about the state of the industry—but not much. To be sure, as many company chiefs point out, the spring brought real progress to some desperately ailing major products such as synthetic fibers and some plastics. On the strength of these pickups and the normal seasonal boost in the second quarter, a number of companies could report sales and profits up from the winter quarter. But by the acid test, comparison with last year's second quarter, this year's second quarter looks bad. In cold numbers, sales for a group of 40 companies surveyed by C&EN slipped 1% from second-quarter 1974, despite the fat chemical price increases of the past year. After-tax earnings dropped 29%. These companies' combined after-tax profit margin on sales sank more than ...


A North Carolina company is building a commercial biodiesel facility that will make and market about a million gallons per year - showing what can be done in many communities.


The core polarization effects for the electric quadrupole moments of the neutron-rich $^{31}\mathrm{Al}$, $^{33}\mathrm{Al}$, and $^{35}\mathrm{Al}$ isotopes in the vicinity of the island of inversion are investigated by means of the microscopic particle-vibration coupling model in which the Skyrme Hartee-Fock-Bogoliubov and quasiparticle random-phase approximations are used to calculate the single-quasiparticle wave functions and the excitation modes. It is found that the polarization charge for the proton $1{d}_{5/2}$ hole state in $^{33}\mathrm{Al}$ is quite sensitive to coupling to the neutrons in the $\mathit{pf}$-shell associated with the pairing correlations and that the polarization charge in $^{35}\mathrm{Al}$ becomes larger due to the stronger collectivity of the low-lying quadrupole vibrational mode in the neighboring $^{36}\mathrm{Si}$ nucleus.


Provides essays and reports on undergraduate preparation of teachers and on professional development for teachers already in the field, with practical advice for examining programs and initiating reforms.


This paper focusing on the harmonic minimization of 11-level cascaded H-multilevel inverter using PV systems with a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) control scheme. The photo-voltaic arrays are connected to eleven level multilevel inverter through DC-DC boost converter. By implementing maximum power point tracking (P&O) algorithm are producing power from PV array. The DC power from the PV array is boosted by using the DC-DC boost converter. Which is controlled by PI controller. This methodology of simulation has been carried out and verified through the MAT LAB/SIMULINK to achieve a mitigated Total Harmonic Distortion (THD). Keywords— Cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter, Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), Photo voltaic (PV) ,Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)


The adsorption behavior of graphene aerogel in the 4-(Methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pryidyl)-1-butanone (NNK) aqueous solution was studied. The adsorption kinetics fitted pseudo-second-order model with the rate constant (k2) of 0.154 g/mg·h. The adsorption isotherm was investigated and fitted Langmuir and Freundlich models well, and the maximum adsorption capacity (qm) was 59.66 mg/g estimated from Langmuir isotherm. Thermodynamic result indicated that the process of adsorption of NNK onto graphene aerogel was spontaneous and exothermic. Higher pH solution was favorable for NNK adsorption on graphene aerogel. The adsorption for NNK on graphene aerogel arose from the π-π interaction between them, and the high adsorption efficiency was resulted from the -NO2 functional groups. The capability of graphene aerogel was maintained after repeated absorption-desorption cycles, which was benefit for convenient separating and recycling of graphene aerogel.


Many of the applications developed for companies and institutions demand high investment costs and an excessively long planning lead time. To provide a solution, streamlining and reducing costs deliverables, concepts of current technologies such as Cloud Computing and Agile Methodologies joined. The objective to demonstrate that applications can be developed in a much smaller traditional and approximately half of the estimated cost time. For which conducted an investigation of the applications that are being developed today in the Cloud Computing type PaaS (Platform as a Service) , the theoretical and practical concept of Agile Methodologies and explosive bonding of both to provide efficient deliverables without leave the quality required by the current market in the development of applications . The result is to demonstrate the efficiency of application development linking the concepts of Cloud Computing and Agile Methodologies (Scrum).


Abstract : The elevated deformation behavior of Zn-22% Al alloy was investigated, with special emphasis on the micromechanisms of deformation. Constant strain rate data on flow stress vs strain rate at different temperature and with specimens with different grain sizes were analyzed. From this analysis the constitutive equations for superplastic creep, dislocation-climb creep, coble creep and Nabarro creep processes were established. Finally the results were depicted in the form of a three-dimensional deformation mechanism map with normalized parameters of grain size, temperature and stress as the coordinates. (Author)


I make a comparative research between the animal allegories of Korea and China in this paper. I specifically examined several allegories, such as Liu Zong-yuan(柳宗元, 773~819)'s A deer of Yimgang(臨江之?) and Gi-Joon(奇遵, 1492~1521)'s Breeding a deer(畜獐說), Song-gi(宋祁, 998~1061)'s A wild goose guard(雁奴) and Choi-Yeon(崔演, 1503~1549)'s A story of a wild goose guard(雁奴說), and A hedgehog and A tiger(刺?與橡斗) in Gye-an-rok(啓顔錄) and A tiger that bows to a chestnut tree(밤나무에 절하는 호랑이) in Korean oral tradition, etc.. They have similarities in the background of creation, the superficial figuration, or the hidden meaning each other. But there is no evidence that proves the influence of Chinese allegories on Korean allegories. Besides the allegories that I introduced above, there are many works that have similarities in figuration between the allegories of Korea and China. I pose a problem how to explain the similarities between the allegories of Korea and China without the theory of influence. China and Korea participate the creation and enjoyment of medieval civilization as a member of same cultural area, together. Literary men of Korea were accustomed to Chinese poetry and prose, and created literary works by adapting them. Because the prose and poetry prior to China(先秦時代), or those of Tang(唐) and Sung(宋) were the common property of the Chinese cultural area, it is meaningless to dispute the nationality of literary works in this area. It is the way to participate cultural creation of civilization for Koreans to receive and remake the allegories of China. So, I think, it does not important whether the evidence, that proves the Chinese allegory's influence on Korean allegory, exist or not.


The XV Genetics Congress Trust is a not-for-profit organization established to promote the science of genetics with emphasis on genetics education for public good. As a part of its activity, the Trust organized a one-day meeting on genome editing technologies.


—Electromagnetic radiation from a corrugated waveguide with a flange is considered with the eigenvector expansion approach. The continuous and discrete eigenvectors are used to match the boundary conditions and a system of simultaneous equations for the discrete modal coefficients is formulated. A rigorous solution is presented in convergent series and its behavior is illustrated in terms of radiation pattern, beam axial symmetry, and return loss. The corrugation cut on the inner wall is found to focus an input beam into the central region of the waveguide, yielding desirable characteristics such as axial beam symmetry, low sidelobe level, and low cross-polarization level.


Magnesium is essencial, being envolved in many biochemical processes. Although its homeostasis is strictly regulated by a combined action between intestinal absortion, bone exchange and renal excretion, changes can occur in its levels – hypomagnesemia and hypermagnesemia – which can cause disorders in almost every organ system and lead to death. These are, however, two of the most underdiagnosed electrolitic changes. In this article, I will address hypomagnesemia in particular – serum concentration of Magnesium lower than 1,8mg/dL (<0.70 mmol/L). Hypomagnesemia is usually associated with other electrolitic changes, specially hypokalemia and hypocalcemia (although sodium and phosphate changes have also been described), which are responsible for the clinical manifestations presented by the patient – seizures, lethargy, tremors and arrythmias, for example. This dissertation aims to relate hypomagnesemia with two very important classes of drugs which are currently used worldwide in several therapeutic plans and can cause this electrolitic change: thiazide diuretics and proton pump inhibitors. This paper includes the presentation and discussion of a clinical case of a 62 years-old male who was taking both of the previous mentioned drugs and who presented himself with acute onset of vertigo and vomiting, ataxia with gait abnormalities, vertical nystagmus associated with diplopia and decreased osteo-tendinous reflexes. He was later diagnosed with severe hypomagnesemia, associated with hyponatremia, hypokalemia and worsening of renal function. Key-words: magnesium; hypomagnesemia; thiazidic diuretis; proton bomb inhibitors


The existing study indicates that the internal control and the independent audit restrain earnings management.However,what kind of relationship is in the process of inhibition of earnings management? What's more,is this relationship influenced by institutional background? We study this relationship of the internal control and the independent audit on an accrualbased and real activities earning management by using A-share listed companies of China from 2007 to 2010,and by adjusting self selection bias.In addition,we find the evidence of institutional background influences this relationship.Our study not only enriches the theory of corporate governance patterns,but also has an enlightening significance in this field.


The history of psychiatric research on genotypes, phenotypes, and the brain reveals much about the role of these concepts in our past and current understanding of schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses. Although interest in each topic is old by the standards of our young science, all have waxed and waned in their influence during our brief history. By 'genotype' I mean the hereditary constitution consisting of the genetic code, and by 'phenotype' I mean the physical expression of those genes throughout the life cycle of the individual. The relevance of the genotype to our field was recognised during the time of Charles Darwin, and reflected in the views of Henry Maudsley. Early optimism about the role that genetics would play in our understanding of mental disorder was tempered by the failure to find patterns of inheritance that corresponded to those described by Mendel. Enthusiasm about the study of genetic influences on human attributes was further attenuated when pseudo-genetics was embraced as a rationale for the horror of genocide. There has been a long and honourable history of genetic research in psychiatry, sustained by individuals such as Dr Eliot Slater (the 35th Maudsley lecturer and then Director of the Medical Research Council Psychiatric Genetics Research Unit at the Maudsley Hospital), but a renewal of the early excitement about genetic research has been engendered largely by recent developments in molecular biology.


Aghassian Michel. Ita, Nduntuei O. - Bibliography of Nigeria : a Survey of Anthropological and Linguistic Writings from the Earliest Times to 1966.. In: Cahiers d'etudes africaines, vol. 13, n°49, 1973. pp. 165-166.


Background: Severe thrombocytopenia (TCP) can be a serious complication of chemotherapy (CT) in lymphoma patients (pts), however the exact incidence with the current regimens and risk factors for TCP are not well known.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted to determine the incidence of TCP, and logistic regression analysis were performed to identify the clinical and laboratory features correlated with severe TCP in lymphoma. Medical records of 538 consecutive pts out of the 1050 lymphoma pts, who were newly referred to MDACC in 2003, were reviewed.

Results: 202 pts who received > 1 cycle of treatment were included in the analysis. The total number of CT cycles (with PLT counts) for the 202 pts was 985 (median 6, range, 1–20). Grade (gr) 4 TCP (PLT nadir 150x103/μL: OR=4.610, 95% CI, 1.366 to 15.560, p=0.0138), prior therapy (yes vs. no: OR=2.575, 95% CI, 1.337 to 4.961, p=0.0047), Beta2 Microglobulin (B2M) (≥2 vs 60 vs. ≤60 yrs: OR=0.479, 95% CI, 0.241 to 0.952, p=0.0356) were the most important risk factors for grade 3 or 4 TCP.

Conclusions: The incidence of severe TCP in this population is high. Baseline pt characteristics including histological gr, PLT counts, prior therapy, age and serum B2M were found to be significant risk factors predictive for chemotherapy-induced TCP (CIT). These findings could be useful to identify high risk pts for consideration of treatment approaches for prevention and treatment of CIT.


The aim of the PCCN project, a digital protection and control system, is to bring a new technological generation into use for the HV/MV substation protection and control systems. The project arose from the need to replace the current systems of EDF's substations with fully digital facilities, mainly in order to improve their reliability, reduce their maintenance costs and to compensate equipment obsolescence. Thus, in 1992, the difficulty involved in replacing the existing systems, coupled with the incoming of industrial-grade digital products and the advantages of digital technology, EDF to led embark on the PCCN project for a new technological generation. This project consists of three phases: design; manufacturing; and deployment. After reiterating the major industrial issues at stake, this paper concentrates on the the design phase in large-scale international industrial concerns, Siemens and Schneider Electric. It then describes the action which resulted from these design studies and which is currently being carried out in the context of the manufacturing phase. (5 pages)


In the present research, human errors existed in tasks of operators working in two control rooms (Northern and Southern control rooms) in the Tehran oil refinery are identified and evaluated. Then, corrective strategies and actions are advised to decrease errors. At first, using hierarchical task analysis (HTA) method, four positions including shift controller, head operators, control room's operators, and outside operators are analyzed. Afterwards, human errors in the considered positions are identified and assessed using technique for retrospective and predictive analysis of cognitive errors (TRACEr). Results present 670 internal errors and 738 external errors in the Northern sector while 661 internal errors and 744 external errors in the Southern sector. In two sectors, this number of errors was identified for 27 major tasks and 108 minor tasks. Action errors are the most repeated errors among the internal errors while violation errors are the least. In addition, most of external errors are related to communication errors while the least errors are related to time and sequence errors. According to results of applying psychological error mechanism (PEM) in the considered positions, people's distraction is the main factor causing errors. Performance shaping factors (PFS) identifies lack of training as the major factor for errors. Using TRACEr, all external and internal errors, psychological error mechanism, and primary factors of errors in the control room can be detected.