What is known and Objective:  Accurate prediction of actual CYP2D6 metabolic activity may prevent some adverse drug reactions and improve therapeutic response in patients receiving CYP2D6 substrates. Dextromethorphan‐to‐dextrorphan metabolic ratio (MRDEM/DOR) is well established as a marker of CYP2D6 metabolizer status. The relationship between urine and plasma or serum MRDEM/DOR is not well established nor is there evidence of antimode for separation of intermediate and especially poor metabolizers (PM) from extensive metabolizers (EM). This study addressed whether CYP2D6 phenotyping using molar metabolic ratio of dextromethorphan to dextrorphan (MRDEM/DOR) in serum is usable and reliable in clinical practice as urinary MRDEM/DOR.


In this paper, we study the all-to-all multicast operation. Strategies for all-to-all multicast need to be different for small and large messages. For small messages, the major issue is the minimization of software overhead, where as for large messages, the issue is network contention. Many modern large parallel computers use the fat-tree interconnection topology. We therefore analyze network contention on fat-tree networks and develop strategies to optimize collective multicast using known contention free communication schedules on fat-tree networks in the design of two strategies. We evaluate performance of these strategies with up to 256 nodes (1024 processors) on an alpha cluster. We present schemes that perform well when a contiguous chunk of nodes is not available. For large messages, many of our strategies have two times better throughput than native MPI. We also demonstrate that the software overhead of a collective operation is a small fraction of the total completion time in the presence of the communication coprocessor. We therefore compare the performance of the studied strategies using both metrics (i) completion time, and (it) computation overhead.


This paper presents a drone-based early forest fire detection system. Using multiple on-board aerial sensors, thermal images, RGB images, and distance between forest fire points and drones can be captured and determined from the air. To take advantage of data from different sources for forest fire detection and confirmation, both deep learning-based and traditional computer vision algorithms are developed and employed. The on-board computer and ground station computer are designed to work collaboratively according to the different complexity and computational demands of sub-modules in this system. By integrating different sensor data with a two-phase strategy for potential early forest fire detection and confirmation, the proposed system achieves a relatively low false alarm rate and has good robustness in the outdoor real-time early forest fire detection experiments with an on-board computer installed on a DJI M300 drone.


Extendable table rescue and transportation of victims decubitus pro consists of three parts, a part with larger surface (4) where two parts are inserted with surface smaller (5) having adhered cushioning material (2) and configure a centered longitudinal and in the upper end (1) opening. The centered and longitudinal opening (1) with the padded surface (2) allow facial support towards position (upside down) while maintaining an open airway and allows oxygenation of the victim by mask, while maintaining the victim in a comfortable and nontraumatic position. The invention consists of the movement of extraction / insertion conducting parts with surface smaller (5) independently of one another about the larger surface (4) giving the characteristic extendable to the whole table, making which can vary its length and can be used in confined spaces and difficult access rescue, also allowing better adaptation to the body size of each victim.


NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SARPY COLTNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS that the Commissioners and the people of Sarpy County extend a hearty congratulations and sincere thanks to Paul Stastny for his distinguished and dedicated 55 years of service in the Public Works providing aid and assistance under adverse conditions of weather, and on behalf of the people of Sarpy County, Nebraska in honor and respect of his remarkable and enduring career service; do hereby declare Friday, September 13'2013 Paul Stastny Day in Sr.py County.


After reformulating $F(\mathrm{Riemann})$ gravity theory as a second derivative theory by introducing two auxiliary fields to the bulk action, we derive the surface term as well as the corner term supplemented to the bulk action for a generic nonsmooth boundary such that the variational principle is well posed. We also introduce the counterterm to make the boundary term invariant under the reparametrization for the null segment. Then as a demonstration of the power of our formalism, not only do we apply our expression for the full action to evaluate the corresponding action growth rate of the Wheeler-DeWitt patch in the Schwarzchild anti--de Sitter black hole for the $F(R)$ gravity and critical gravity, where the corresponding late time behavior recovers the previous one derived by other approaches, but also in the asymptotically anti--de Sitter black hole for the critical Einsteinian cubic gravity, where the late time growth rate vanishes but still saturates the Lloyd bound.


Modular multiplication: R = A · B mod N (where A, B, N, and R are integers) is an essential operation used in public-key cryptosystems such as RSA, El Gamal, and Rabin. Thus, if high-speed modular multiplication circuits can be constructed, these cryptosystems can operate at high speeds. In this paper, we show how to construct, with a high-speed modular multiplication circuit which employs parallel processing methods using systolic arrays, a circuit which performs modular exponentiation by repeated modular multiplication. In particular, we demonstrate its validity by using the RSA scheme as a first concrete example. Since a circuit using the method of this paper as its construction rule has simple and regular structure, it provides an optimal construction of a highspeed RSA chip in VLSI. The method is also applicable for a simple implementation of the RSA scheme with small-sized chips. In this case, the number of chips needed by this method (the circuit size) allows the practical realization of proportionately higher speeds. Flexibility can be achieved for a change in the number of key bits by a corresponding increase or decrease in the number of chips.


The Developmental Eye Movement test (DEM), is standardized and designed for evaluating oculomotor behavior in children, under 14 years of age. In this study we sought to create a version to be used above the age of 14 by using double rather than single digits. This resulted in twice the amount of numbers to be called out during the test. We administered this modified version for adults (A-DEM) to 520 normal Spanish-speaking subjects ranging from 14 to 68 years of age. They were divided into 11 age groups. The subjects were assessed to be cognitively intact with no known neurological or ocular disease. All subjects had corrected visual acuity of 20/20 or better at near and viewed the targets binocularly. The times (in seconds) to call out the numbers in Spanish in for the vertical and horizontal subtests were recorded. Errors were also recorded. A horizontal/vertical (HV) ratio was determined based on these results. The mean (HV) ratio for the sample was 1.04(0.10) with no significant difference due to age . A significant increase in time for vertical performance was found in subjects older than 38 years (p<0.05) and for horizontal performance in subjects older than 43 years (p<0.05). There was no significant difference in the ratio as a function of age. We present the age-based normative values for our sample. We also found changes in horizontal saccade ability with an apparent tendency to take longer as age increased in later decades of life. The potential affect of ageing on visual-verbal and eye movement processing are discussed. Further studies are needed for this adult level oculomotor test in English-speaking populations as well as selected elderly pop-


The application of high power single emitter lasers to coherent optical communication is studied. Measurements of laser properties essential to heterodyne detection systems are presented for high power lasers and compared to standard single mode 30 mW laser diodes. The advantages of the new high power laser structures are demonstrated in a heterodyne frequency-shift-keyed communication system.


An electrocatalyst with Cu nanoparticles embedded in a mesoporous carbon was prepared by the soft-template route using a green process. Its particular structure boosts its performance for CO2RR regarding selectivity and charge/mass transfers.


We developed a one-shot multi-point three-dimensional (3D)-measurement method using a bundle composed of 55 multi-mode fibers based on ultrafast space-time-frequency conversion with a chirped optical frequency comb. We demonstrated measurement of the 3D profile of a reflective object by one-shot imaging using the fiber bundle with micrometer accuracy.


Introduction: Three-dimensional ultrasound as a new method for fetal weight estimation makes it possible to calculate fetal weight by obtaining volumes of different parts of the fetus such as fetal thigh volume (VolTh), which is quickly measured and highly reproducible between different observers. Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the accuracy of calculating the fetal weight based on thigh volume (VolTh) obtained by three-dimensional ultrasound in relation to the actual birth weight. Methods: A cross-sectional study in which 120 pregnant women who gave birth were included. Each patient`s anamnesis with an emphasis on inclusion and exclusion criteria was taken. Then, using a three-dimensional ultrasound, the volume of the fetal thigh (VolTh) was recorded, and after birth the actual birth weight of the neonate was measured. Results: 116 patients met the inclusion criteria. The simple linear regression analysis revealed a regression equation of birth weight as: Estimated fetal weight = 24.233 x fractional volume of the thigh + 1513.8, with a coefficient of determination R2=0.5761. To evaluate the precision of the new linear regression formula in birthweight prediction, a comparison among the new formula and other formulas was conducted, including Lee`s formula, Schild`s formula, Srisantiroj`s formula and the new formula. The mean absolute percentage errors (MAPE) were 8.6%, 42.41%, 8.14% and 7.2%, respectively. Conclusion: The study showed that fetal weight can be estimated using 3D ultrasound techniques including fractional volumetry of the fetal thigh.
Key words: 3-dimensional ultrasound (3DUS); Birth weight (BW); Thigh volume (VolTh)


Abstract The article analyzes the factors associated with the discontinuation of participatory budgeting (PB) in Brazilian municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants between 2000 and 2016. We used econometric models to estimate PB's discontinuation based on political explanatory variables and people's local participation. The results indicate that discontinuation is associated: (i) positively with the election of a different local government, regardless of the winning party's ideology; (ii) positively with the election of a local government with a left-wing ideology'; (iii) negatively with the election of a non-left-wing local government; (iv) positively with the election of a left-wing local government replacing another left-wing government. Changes in local government where other non-left-wing parties replace non-left-wing parties had no significant effect on discontinuation. The results contribute to our knowledge by showing the local and contextual factors that explain the discontinuation of participatory budgeting; this should help guide the design of participatory public policies and allow practitioners to reflect on the mechanisms that could be adopted locally to avoid discontinuation. The article also contributes to the literature by demonstrating the association between discontinuation and changes in left-wing local governments, which may prompt future research, given the unexpected result.


Odentoschisma is one of the genera of Cephaloziaceae. About 30 species of the genus was published in the world. Stephanii first reported O. grosseverrucosum Steph. from China in 1908. In 1934, Horikawa reported O. cavifolium Steph. , O. speciosum Horick. and O. grosseverrucosum Steph. from Taiwan province. Later Hattori (1952), Kamimura(1952), Lai Mingzhou(1976) and In- oue(1981) all reported the same 3 species from Taiwan province. In 1965, Chen and Wu reported O. denudatum (Nees)Dum. from Anhui Province. Li Xingjiang also reported this species from Fujian provincies in 1986. O. speciosum Horick. was referred to Notascyphus lutescens ( Lehm. et Lindb. ) Mitt, by Hattori in 1948, and O. cavifolium Steph. was referred to O. denudatum (Nees)Dum. . So it is actually that there are only two species of the genus Odentoschisma in China on the basis of litera- ture citations. In the present study, we discovered that O. sphagni (Dicks. ) Dum. also distributing in Sichuan provinces. So three species of Odentoschisma are recognized for China. O. sphagni (Dicks. ) Dum. is new for China.


Data on multimode Cepheids from OGLE‐III catalog of the LMC Cepheids are confronted with results from model calculations. Models whose radial mode periods are consistent with observation are not always in agreement with published evolutionary models. Nonradial mode interpretation is considered for the cases of unusual period ratios. The greatest challenge for stellar pulsation theory is explanation of double‐mode pulsators with period ratios near 0.6.


Bacterial diseases are the major threats for the mankind and silkworm. Hence, present study was initiated to evaluate the antibacterial potential of different solvent extracts of Bougainvillea spectabilis leaves. The initial screening of different solvents against mulberry silkworm infecting bacteria, Bacillus thuringenesis revealed that, chloroform extract showed more inhibition of test pathogen. Further, the chloroform extract was evaluated for the antibacterial potential against Salmonella typhi and Shigella flexneri, human pathogens. Chloroform extract of B. spectabilis inhibited the both pathogens, which confirms the antibacterial character of extract on both gram negative and positive bacteria. TLC fingerprinting of chloroform extract revealed presence of five major bands with different retardation factor value (RF value). The screening of individual bands for antibacterial activity revealed that, the band with Rf value of 0.84. The HPLC profiling of showed the reduction in number of compounds in partially purified extract comparison with crude extract. GC-MS analysis of antibacterial band revealed the presence of Nineteen different compounds having different important biological activity viz., antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, antifungal, antioxidant and antiprotozoal characters. The results of the present work confirms that, the chloroform extract of B. spectabilis leaf can be used for the management of bacterial diseases of humans and silkworm.


Rock fill dams are the most common kind of dams at hydro power stations in Sweden. The dams consist of different zones like core, fine filter, coarse filter, rock fill and rip rap. One of the most ...


We have carried out research on simulation of the movement of clinker dust an aspiration hideout. Aerodynamic field inside the hideout is constructed based on discrete vortex where the movement was simulated of polyfractional dust cloud on the basis of integration of the equations of motion for each dust particle. We have been studied the influence on the dispersed composition and concentration of aspirating dust aerosols: the amount of dust particles entering into the cover, geometrical dimensions and velocities in the supply and exhaust ducts.


This paper belongs to a broad line of research leaded by Herrera, which encompasses a good number of numerical methods such as Localized Adjoint Method (LAM), Eulerian-Lagrangian LAM (ELAM) and Trefftz-Herrera Method. The results presented in this paper are required in order to incorporate Herrera's general theory in a Sobolev-space setting. In particular, this article introduces a class of partitions (or domain decompositions) whose internal boundaries belong to a category of manifolds with corners, here also presented. Then a version of Gauss (or divergence) theorem, in a wider sense, is established and an explicit integral formula is associated for any given linear partial differential operator L, its adjoint and concomitant. The structure of the bilinear concomitant induced by L is first determined. Then the required formula is given over that class of domain decompositions. Finally, an integral formula well on the way of the Green-Herrera formula is settled.


Adoption is typically considered a positive transition, yet the reality is usually complex. For adopted children, the effects of adverse and disruptive early life experiences do not end when adoption begins. This article explores the complexities and vulnerabilities of adopted children, the psychological nature of the transition for children and their families and highlights issues of loss, separation, identity and belonging. It describes the evolving role for educational psychologists (EPs) in one local authority (LA) in supporting the transitions of adoptive children and their families. It argues that applied psychologists can support the journey for children and parents prior to and post-adoption, with particular regard to educational considerations. An important aspect of the work described in this article focuses upon the development of the Education Plan for Adopted Children (EPAC), which addresses the relationship between schools and parents, and provides a mechanism to strengthen schools' understanding of the history and needs of the adopted child. Evaluations demonstrate that where parents, Children's Social Care (CSC), education and other services are engaged in solution-focused collaboration, there are positive impacts on stability across home and school. The implications for local authorities of the benefits of EP involvement prior to adoption and post-adoption are discussed.


The studies reported in this paper were made as an effort to establish a method for forecasting ear numder of rice plant per unit area judging from its growing state. Experiments had been carried out in 1951∼52 to trace up the growing process of sterile tillers (which bear ears) and sterile tillers (which fail to head) with various rice-varieties under different culivating conditions, resulting in a fair success. The results obtained are summerized as follows : (1) Dates or the age of plant (as expressed by the number of leaves on the main stem) when tillers had emerged are not useful for distinguishing the fertile tillers. (2) The same is the case with the length or the number of leaves of individual tiller at the stage of floral initiation. (3) Tracing the growing process of fertile and sterile tillers, the authors found out the fact that after the maximum number of tillers had been attained, the velocity of increasing new leaves in an individual tiller is not equal with one another and tillers can be distinguished into two groups - one is normally fast and the other is slower in the velocity of appearance of new leaves and very few tillers took their place between two groups. Furthermore, they made it clear that tillers having the normal velocity of holding leaves became fertile in future and those with the slow velocity became sterile. This nature of tillers is thought to be most valuable in forecasting the future of tillers. (4) By applying this principle to nine varieties - early, medium and late - growing under six different conditions of cultivation, the authors ascertained that the number of ear could be predicted by this method at the time a week or, at the latest, two weeks after the stage of maximum number of tillers. (5) In general, in our investigations tillers having new growing leaf which is capable of elongating during a week over the length of about 60% of the finally attainable full length of the leaf blade of this leaf are promised as fertile tillers, those showing the elongation less than 30 percent became sterile, and those having leaf grown 40 ?? ?? 50 percent were very few and some of them became fertile and the others sterile. (6) In conclusion, this method of knowing the future of tillers, fertile or sterile, seems to be more reliable than any other method hitherto employed for predicting the number of fertile tillers ; because by this method only very few number of tillers are left to be unknown or misspredicted.


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We define the strong π-irreducibility for Markov chains in random environments.A sufficient condition is obtained to ensure no improperly essential state existing.We obtain many properties of states under various irreducibilities.Finally,we study the properties of various character functions for Markov chains in random environments.


In recent years some attempts have been made to provide "Japanese" explanations of the causes of increased Japanese direct foreign investment.' These attempts all begin with the argument that the "monopolistic theory" (or the intangible-capital hypothesis) of international investment fails to explain Japanese direct foreign investment in manufacturing industries.2 In its place are offered macroeconomic theories of direct foreign investment which their proponents argue are uniquely applicable to Japanese direct foreign investment. In the light of this research development, one is inclined to repeat a question raised earlier by Caves: "Would the intangible-capital hypothesis retain its potency if the countries under study were not all in the Anglo-Saxon cultural orbit?"3 Studies of Japanese direct foreign investment in several Asian countries seem to suggest a negative answer to this question, as many characteristics of Japanese direct foreign investment are shown to be inexplicable in terms of the intangible-capital hypothesis.4 Consequently, one may take the position, as Kojima and Ozawa have done, that there must be two separate theories of direct foreign investment-the monopolistic theory for countries in the Anglo-Saxon cultural orbit and a macroeconomic theory for Japan. This position is not, however, a tenable one because, as noted by Johnson, the intangible-capital hypothesis is microeconomic in its approach and complementary to a macroeconomic theory of direct foreign investment.5 The intangible-capital hypothesis is not an alternative to a macroeconomic theory of direct foreign investment. To argue, therefore, that it fails to explain phenomena which are essentially macroeconomic is no more valid a criticism than to say, for example, that the theory of consumer behavior fails to explain the rate of unemployment. Which approach one chooses depends, of course, on the question


The article presents an estimation of profitability level of small and medium-sized entrepreneurship in Russia during 2012–2016. The comparative analysis of the ratio of profitable enterprises belonging to different size categories and types of economic activity in the total number of small and medium enterprises is presented. It is shown that there is no connection between the profitability of enterprises and their size


The compatibility of rhodamine B dye {N-[9-(2-carboxyphenyl)-6-(diethylamino)-3H-xanthen-3-ylidene]-N-ethyl ethanaminium chloride} with picloram (4-amino-3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinecarboxylic acid) or dicamba (3,6-dichloro-2-methoxybenzoic acid) was evaluated in the laboratory and field. Rhodamine B dye formulation (with or without a surfactant) did not affect dry weight of residue precipitated when mixed with dicamba. Formulated dye precipitated 11% more residue than nonformulated dye when mixed with picloram. Common crupina (Crupina vulgaris Cass. # CJNVU) field plant density was higher after applying a picloram spray solution with nonformulated rhodamine B dye compared to picloram alone. Common crupina density and biomass were higher after application with nonformulated dye and dicamba compared to dicamba alone.


Green technology encompasses evolving group of methods and materials for the production of essential nontoxic products by oil and gas operators. Oil and gas are very important drivers for job creation and a pillar of economic growth in many oil and gas producing countries. They play a prominent role in the development of the developing countries in terms of creating employment opportunities. The oil and gas companies also generate waste and pollution from their practices and businesses because of their informal nature, lack of adequate regulation and supervision. The pollution produced by the oil and gas has contributed immensely to the global warming and natural resource depletion leading to many econonmic, environmental and social problems from climate change to local waste. The methodological framework for the study involved the use of literature review and document analysis. The study articulated the contribution of green technologies to sustainable development of oil and gas. Advantages and disadvantages of eco-friendly technology, policy requirement for oil and gas development and eco-friendly small business ideas are discussed extensively. It highlights some of the benefits of green technology such as drastic reduction in waste and pollution, high level job creation, reduction in the effect of global warming and less material requirements. It also outlines the environmental and economic sustainability of green technology. The study advocates for collaborative effort of government, industries, and individual for its implementation.


Nowadays, the world is facing the threat of energy exhaustion. In order to realize the maximum utilization of energy, this paper designs an organic Rankine cycle system for low-temperature waste heat generation. Firstly, the equipment and components in the organic Rankine cycle system are modeled. Secondly, combining specific analysis, designed the low temperature waste heat power generation organic Rankine's circulatory system, and analyses the relevant evaluation index, performance or independent variables is studied the effects of main parameters on the system performance, and finally, in finite time thermodynamic analysis method, analyzed the unit of each independent variable parameters on the heat transfer area of the influence of output power. It provides a powerful basis for the design of the system and the improvement and optimization of its performance. The simulation results show that the system designed in this paper can effectively recover waste heat from waste gas and realize the function of power generation, which has a certain practical value.


It is difficult to sort and collect timely and retrieve quickly the information of various and numerous ship pipe fittings by manual imput. This fact leads the Procurement Department hard to possess real and exact data of purchased pipe fittings. The pipe fitting fixed quantity and shortage management system is based on the fixed quantity generated by the Design Department and the inventory information. The system calculates the shortage of the pipe fittings, provides the shortage data as one of the bases for purchasing, processing and stock requisition. The system puts high priority on using the pipe fittings in stock. That enables to reduce enterprises' over stock and wasteful expenditure greatly.


Nutritional problems are a classic health problem that recurs every year, especially in developed countries and including Indonesia. One of the nutritional problems faced by Indonesia is that there are still stunting cases experienced by toddlers. The problem of stunting is a hotly discussed issue considering that the impact of stunting incidents that are not immediately addressed can have an impact on reducing the quality of life of Indonesian people. The culture of parents to prepare food according to what they consume for stunted toddlers and not to worry about the toddler's short height are two problems that cause stunting in Indonesia. One effort that can be made to overcome the problem of stunting is to ensure that stunted toddlers have a good appetite. When a stunted toddler's appetite increases, the problem of stunting will soon be resolved properly. The aim of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of giving churros made using Moringa leaf flour to increase the height of stunted toddlers. The research design used was pre-experimental. The samples in this study were taken from three working areas of the public health unit in Sooko District, Gondang District and Jatirejo District. The variable studied was the toddler's height. Data analysis tests were carried out using the Mann-Whitney test. From the results of the Mann-Whitney test, a significance value of 0.022 < 0.05 was obtained, so it can be concluded that giving churros made using Moringa leaf flour is effective in increasing height in stunted toddlers


The skin of the palm of the hand has no friction. It is only when in contact with other objects
that frictional forces appear. This friction does not, however, conform to the classic laws of
friction. The thesis shows that static skin friction is lower than dynamic friction, and that
increased velocity increases the coefficient of friction, but increasing load reduces it.
Consequently, references to coefficient of friction where palm skin is one of the friction
partners require velocity, surface pressure and skin conditions to be specified in addition to
contaminants in the friction interface, before reliable conclusions can be drawn.
Eleven textured and one non-textured samples all made from the same material were
investigated using eighteen male subjects. They were exposed to five contaminants, three skin
conditions, three levels ofload and velocities in the range 2-128 mm/so
It was concluded that velocity in the friction interface is the most dominant factor contributing
to palm friction. Only small, non-significant, differences in friction were found between
different types of textures under non-contaminated conditions, but major, and significant
differences were observed under contaminated conditions. Coarse textures increased
discomfort.
For static- and dynamic friction the type of texture, coarse or fine, will affect friction in
different ways depending on the skin conditions being "clean" or "contaminated."
Experiments show that coarse textures generate less friction than fine under the clean
conditions. Under contaminated conditions however coarse textures generate more friction
than fine. The highest coefficient offriction 1-1=2.22 (SO=1.12) was recorded under dynamic
conditions for a clean hand on a non-textured surface when the surface pressure was low - 6.3
kPa (SO 2.1). The lowest coefficient offriction 1-1=0.05 (SO=0.03) was found under static
conditions, with lard present on a non-textured surface when the surface pressure was high -
81.4 kPa (SO=31.0). Two regression models were developed. Regression coefficients are
presented for surface topography variables as well as skin condition and contamination,
velocity surface pressure and discomfort. Two new surface topography representations
explain the generation of friction forces. The uppermost 5% of the volume of texture peaks
provided significant information for transfer offriction forces.


Polarimetric measurements of the bistatic scattered fields from a rough, dry, soil surfaces, were performed recently at 35 GHz over the entire upper hemisphere, at both low and high incidence and scattering angles, and at near forward and backward directions. These measurements are discussed in this paper and the angular dependence of the bistatic scattering coefficients, /spl sigma//sup 0/, and the correlation between various polarization combinations are presented as well.


Samples of Sparus macrocephalus, including larvae, post larvae, juvenile fish and fry, were collected from the culture pool of the Institute of Oceanology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, from March to June, 1995. With slice technology and light and H-700 transmission electronic microscope, the post-embryo development characteristics and cells structure of the digestive system of Sparus macrocephalus were observed. This paper is aimed to provide the basic data for the deep research of morphology, nutrition and diseases of Sparus macrocephalus, and the formation of the technical measures guiding culture. The result shows that the digestive system development of foams macrocephalus includes several obvious stages. The stomach, intestine, liver, pancreatic and pyloric caeca begin to develop during the larva stage, then become mature gradually. The 3-day-old foams macrocephalus larvae are fed with rofifer as the first diet. The 10-day-old Sparus macrocephalus juvenile are fed with rotifer then. The larvae's death rate increased greatly when the diet changed from rotifer to artemia because of the undeveloped digestive system. In addition, the diet of Sparus macrocephalus can affect the development of endoplasmic reticulum system of digestive system cells and cellular metabolism level, even lead to high death rate of Sparus macrocephalus. The development of endoplasmic reticulum system of Sparus macrocephalus post larvae in this experiment did not yield desired results, maybe because it is at a diet adjusted stage.


Abstract : The report provides a summary of the research results obtained. The primary thrust of the work has been the development and application of heat pulse techniques to the study of condensed helium. Extensive work has been done on liquid He4 and on single crystals of He4. In the latter, diffusive, second-sound and ballistic modes of heat propagation have been observed and analyzed in terms of intrinsic properties of the system. This work has led to new information about solid helium, and has also revealed instrumental and interpretational subtleties associated with the heat pulse techniques used. (Author)


Objective To investigate the levels of the cystatin C(Cys-C),serum creatinine(SCr)and glomerular filtration rate(GFR) in patients with chronic heart failure(CHF) and evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of cystatin C in CHF with renal disfunction.Methods 88 patients with CHF in our hospital were enrolled,Cys-C and SCr were determined,GRF was calculated by MRDR formula.According to GRF all the patients were divided into four groups:the normal renal function group(GFR≥90),the mild renal function damage group(60~89),the moderate renal damage group(30~59)、the renal dysfunction group(30)ml/min/1.73m2,compare the difference of Cys-C,SCr in 4 groups and the relationship of Cys,SCr with GFR.Results 4 groups′ Cys-C is 0.93±0.18,1.08±0.22,1.58±0.59,2.7±0.86 mg/L separately,The difference among the groups was significant(P0.01),the Cys-C significant correlation with the GFR(P0.01).Conclusion Cys-C can be used as a marker in valuation of GFR.It is helpful for early diagnosis of CHF with renal disfunction.


This paper proposes an invariant extended Kalman filter (IEKF) to which an adaptive fading scheme is applied as an initial alignment technique for marine vehicles in mooring condition. In the presence of wave disturbance, the coarse alignment accuracy decreases, which affects the initial attitude estimation error of the fine alignment. Accordingly, the IEKF robust to the large initial errors is applied during the fine alignment process. Moreover, the accuracy of zero velocity updates (ZUPT) decreases because they have non-zero translational velocity under the influence of waves. Thus, the performance of the conventional EKF using a fixed measurement covariance is degraded. In this paper, the adaptive fading scheme adjusting Kalman gain is applied to the IEKF to accelerate the convergence rate. The proposed method is verified by numerical simulation.


Objective To analyze the hemodynamic changes of the supratrochlear artery in the patients with diabetes. Methods A total of 46 patients with early diabetes, 50 patients with long-term diabetes and 50 normal controls in our study were divided into three groups. The STCA was detected by color and pulse Doppler ultrasound. Results All STCA were displayed at supraorbital foramen. The frequency spectra of STCA in control groups had such characters: three positive waves including SP1, SP2 and DP; SP1SP2; Vs was 56.01 cm/s. These characteristics were near to that of the ophthalmic artery. In the long-term diabetes group, Vs and Vd were slightly lower than that in control group, without marked difference. But SP2, PI and RI were higher than in control group, with marked difference ( P 0.001). Some values changed in early diabetes patients, however, there were no marked difference compared with control group. Conclusion The hemodynamic characters of STCA in diabetes patients were coincident with the diagnostic standard of cerebral arteriosclerosis on TCD, which indicates that CDFI detection of STCA can provide relevant information for diagnosing cerebral arteriosclerosis. Long-term glycemia may results in or speed up cerebral arteriosclerosis. To reduce cerebral vascular disease, the diabetes should be treated as early as possible.


The stereoselective preparation of 1,4-dihydroquinolines possessing a chiral sulfoxide group at C-3 is reported. These novel biomimetic NADH models (R)-la,b have been shown to be highly enantioselective in the reduction of methyl benzoylformate, producing (R)-methyl mandelate in up to 95% ee. The corresponding quinolinium salts 4a,b have been recovered in good yields. The regenerated models la,b could be reused without any significant erosion of the enantioselectivity.


As a new international description standards,RDA has entered the practical stage after being successfully tested.This article makes an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of RDA in description.The advantages of RDA can be summarized as quantitative information,strong capability,wide range,etc.,while its disadvantages can also be systemized as inadequacy of cases,shortage of references,repetition of information,miscellaneous items of information,too many of alternatives.The author makes a probe into the important factors in the compilation of standards in description from the perspective of descriptors and readers.


When we think about enforcing socio-economic rights, our focus tends, justifiably, to be on the state. After all, according to South Africa's Constitution of 1996 (the Constitution), it is the state that must ""respect, protect, promote and fulfil"" socio-economic rights (section 7(2)) and ""take reasonable legislative and other measures"", within available resources, to achieve their progressive realisation (sections 26(2) and 27(2)).


TMCP(thermo mechanical control process)for pipeline steel,which is based on the schedule with two stages,has been carried out on a MMS-300 simulating machine.The effects of technological parameters,such as finishing rolling temperature and finishing cooling temperature,on the microstructure and hardness of X80 pipeline steel were analyzed in the conditions of controlling the parameters and keeping the cooling rate of 17 ℃/s.The results showed that when the finishing rolling temperature was 810 ℃ and the finishing cooling temperature was 540 ℃,the microstructure was composed of acicular ferrite(AF),polygonal ferrite(PF) and M/A islands.


High performance upper stage engine is necessary for space launch vehicles of geostationary orbit, and staged combustion cycle engine is suitable due to high specific impulse. Technology demonstration model for 9 tonf class staged combustion cycle engine, which is consisted of turbopump, preburner, combustion chamber and supply system, was assembled, and hot-firing test was conducted for three seconds in Upper-stage Engine Test Facility of Naro Space Center. Ignition, combustion and shut down of engine system was performed normally, and its performance parameters were evaluated.


In recent decades, \\7orld-wide generalization of in-situ assembled, precast large-slab buildings highlighted relevant structural problems. A major problem is to determine the displacement of structural units, the developing stresses and ultimate load capacities. Quite a number of design methods are available both for theoretical research and for practical design [1, 2]. Among them, algorithm of the finite elements method relying on princi~ pIes of the displacement method is felt to be the most convenient. In the last years, comprehensive research has been made at the Department of Civil Engineering Mechanics on the application possihilities of the finite elements method, and on the development of effective computer programs invoh-ing these algorithms, in particular, for taking the elastic deformations of junctions into consideration.


The essence of quadruped movements is the move-ment of the center of gravity, which has a pattern in the movement of quadrupeds. However, planning the gait motion of the quadruped robot is time consuming. Animals in nature can provide a large amount of gait information for robots to imitate skills. Common methods learn the posture of animals with a motion capture system or numerous motion data points. In this paper, we propose a video imitation adaptation network that can imitate the action of animals from a few seconds of video and adapt skills to the robot. The deep learning model extracts key points of animal motion from videos. A motion adaptor that eliminates noise and extracts key information of motion is proposed; the information of the extracted movements was used as a motion pattern to help deep reinforcement learning complete the imitation of skills. To ensure similarity between the learning result and the animal motion in the video, we introduce rewards that are based on the consistency of the motion. The results show that our framework can help robots learn periodic and aperiodic skills from several seconds of videos of different types of animals. And we deploy the trained model to the real robot to complete the walking and backflip tasks without fine-tuning.


Cicero suggests in De Divinatione that he thought of his three rhetorical books -- De Oratore, Brutus, and Orator -- as representing one complete and consistent teaching about rhetoric, in spite of a seemingly inconsistent surface presentation. Although Cicero's changing political circumstances undoubtedly influenced the writing of the rhetorical books, this explanation is not decisive, and it may be more fruitful to consider the distinct possibility that the nature of his subject matter demanded an ambiguous or changing dramatic presentation. This paper will take up Cicero's challenge and attempt to explain his three-part presentation of the relationship of oratory and philosophy as different parts of one unified teaching about rhetoric.


In the article by Wright et al, "2011 ACCF/AHA Focused Update of the Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina/Non–ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (Updating the 2007 Guideline): A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/ American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines," which published ahead of print on March 28, 2011, and appeared in the May 10, 2011, issue of the journal (Circulation. 2011;123:2022–2060), several corrections were needed:


Brightness transformation of low-level-light images, which only depends on the characteristics of every pixel, can change the brightness of pixels. In this paper we firstly analyze the low-level-light images, proposing two ways to transform the brightness of pixels: brightness correction and gray-scale transformation. And during the brightness correction is changing the brightness of pixels, it is necessary to consider something such as the brightness it used to have and its position in the image. While gray-scale transformation doesn't need to consider its position in the image during it's modifying the brightness of pixels.


Abstract : A working standard, low-temperature, blackbody has been developed for use in establishing radiometric calibrations that are directly traceable to the National Bureau of Standards. The blackbody will be used in the process of establishing a calibration of the 7V beam irradiance, as required for LWIR sensor testing. The 7V beam irradiance calibration process is reviewed to indicate the manner in which the working standard blackbody fits into the overall calibration scheme. A complete description of the design and calibration of the working standard blackbody is presented. The device is utilized to calibrate a phosphorous-doped, silicon bolometer and the bolometer calibration procedure and results are also presented. In the overall 7V beam irradiance calibration process, the bolometer will be used to calibrate the operational sources that are utilized in 7V sensor test installations.


We give a short analytic proof of large local deviations for i.i.d.\ random variables in the domain of an $\alpha$-stable law, $\alpha\in(0,1)\cup(1,2]$. Our proof applies also to the dynamical setting.


This study tests whether mutual fund shareholders continue to trade in response to fund returns after they make their initial investment in fund shares. It decomposes the relationship between fund returns and shareholder flow in a large, proprietary panel of all shareholder transactions in one midsize no-load mutual fund family. Results show that both new and old shareholders buy shares during periods of good returns; however, shareholder outflow is essentially unrelated to fund returns. This lack of a return-sell relationship is not driven by locked-in pension assets, shareholders' ignorance of ongoing fund returns, or embedded capital gains. However, there is evidence that exchanges between equity funds in the family are related more strongly to returns of the destination fund than to returns of the origination fund. This may indicate that flow between equity mutual funds is driven by shareholders buying new funds rather than selling old funds. Supermarket shareholders are smart insofar as they exchange into funds that subsequently outperform their prior funds during their individual holding periods.


Objective: Through the clinical observation of curative effect of MEBO in postoperative mixed hemorrhoids, thus certain application value of MEBO in treating mixed hemorrhoid surgery in. Methods: 136 cases of mixed hemorrhoid patients were randomly divided into treatment group and control group, 68 cases in each group, the treatment group patients were treated with MEBO, the control group with Musk Hemorrhoids Ointment, pain and wound healing were observed in the 2 groups after operation. Results: The duration of pain treatment group were significantly lower than those in the control group, the healing time was significantly shorter than that in control group. Conclusion: MEBO can relieve pain after operation of mixed hemorrhoids of promoting wound healing treatment effect.


In this paper, a comparative study of JPEG and SPIHT compression algorithms is presented. A set of objective picture quality measures like Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Maximum Difference (MD), Least Mean Square Error (LMSE), Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) and Picture Quality Scale(PQS) are used to measure the picture quality and comparison is done based upon the results of these quality measures. Different kind of standard test images are assessed with different compression ratios. SPIHT based compression achieves better results as compared to JPEG for all compressions.


Seth Shabo has presented a new argument that attempts to codify familiar worries about indeterminism, luck, and control. His 'Assimilation Argument' contends that libertarians cannot distinguish overtly randomized outcomes from exercises of free will. Shabo claims that the argument possesses advantages over the Mind Argument and Rollback Argument, which also purport to establish that indeterminism is incompatible with free will. I argue first that the Assimilation Argument presents no new challenges over and above those presented by the Rollback Argument, and second that the Rollback Argument itself neither presents a deep challenge to, nor raises the cost of, accepting libertarianism.


Commerce carefully and with great circumspection ' (p. 79). ' Send me a list of all the members of the Bengal Council at once. I will try to think of the best way of getting them to our side' (p. 92). ' Consult McGregor about it diplomatically. Also inform him about the conversion of Surindro to our views ' (p. 105). ' For some reason best known to himself he seems most anxious to gain popularity with the Bengalis and their papers. And it would therefore be a great thing if you could get those very papers to write against him . . . . Get them to write a series of articles against him saying that they are throughly disappointed with him' (pp. 106-7). ' Evans is growing more independent. His toadyism, I am told, told upon his practice' (p. 108).


Absorbing and separating of red pigment from Adinandra millettii fruit was studied.The results showed that X-5 resin has the best performance of absorbing on the pigment.The optimum conditions of adsorption were: room temperature(20~23 ℃),for the temperature showed no striking effect on it.All Adinandra red pigment adsorbed by X-5 resin was eluted at room temperature and 95% alcohol.On the basis of the experiment,the optimal combination of conditions for resin absorption is following :with a current velocity of 1 mL/min and a density of 0.7 g/mL under 20 ℃ temperature.


In this thesis the development process of a proof of concept for a web search interface for the blind is described. The need for such an application was confirmed in a survey that was conducted. It was found that blind and sighted users both performed an equal number of searches, but that the blind were often less successful at finding the information they were looking for. The development process consisted of several parts. Based on an extensive review of the literature and requirements, guidelines were formulated. This was followed by the design and implementation of an interface, that has a structure optimized for use with a screen reader. The interface shows clusters with search results that are returned for a user's query. The evaluation of the interface was done through expert reviews. Three experts tested the application using a screen reader and operating system of their own choice. Their findings were overall positive, that is, the interface confirms to the formulated guidelines, is intuitive and shows promise for improving the search process for the blind. This thesis concludes with suggestions for future research.


Modern society has increasingly higher requirements for the reliability of equipment. Many equipment failures present the characteristics of sporadic, sporadic, and weak regularity of time and frequency, which brings difficulties to equipment reliability evaluation. Poisson regression is a generalized linear model, which is especially suitable for analyzing the count data with sporadic and sporadic characteristics of the response variable. It can quantitatively analyze the relationship between multiple influencing factors and the counted response variable. And applying it to equipment reliability evaluation has theoretical and practical significance.


The purpose of this study was to identify which music education (a) scholars, (b) journals, (c) authored monographs (i.e., books, published tests, textbook series), (d) edited books or proceedings, and (e) dissertations are the most eminent, as measured by the frequency of citation in the Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning. Data from the 4596 citations in the 55 chapters of the Handbook were analyzed and rank ordered. The most frequently cited scholars were E. E. Gordon and R. Colwell. The most eminent bibliographic sources were the Journal of Research in Music Education, A Philosophy of Music Education, the Handbook of Research on Teaching, and the dissertation by L. C. DeLorenzo. The rankings illustrate the diversity in the research base and the extent to which sources outside of music education are influential.


Background: Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMSs) are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of disorders caused by mutations that lead to altered neuromuscular junction transmissions. Recently, the solute carrier family 25 member 1 (SLC25A1) gene was described to cause CMS type 23. This gene encodes a mitochondrial citrate carrier, associated mainly with a severe neurometabolic disease like combined D-2- and L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria (D/L-2-HGA).
Case presentation: Here, we report four Emirati patients with a homozygous missense variant in SLC25A1 with a phenotype restricted to relatively mild CMS. We performed whole-exome sequencing (WES) in two relatives who presented with CMS to identify the underlying causative gene.
Conclusion: The WES analysis revealed the presence of a homozygous c.205G>T (p.Asp69Tyr) [(c.226G>T (p.Asp76Tyr)] in the SLC25A1 gene; the same variant was identified in the other members in this family with the same phenotype. This suggests that c.205G>T (p.Asp69Tyr) [(c.226G>T p.(Asp76Tyr)] is associated with a relatively mild CMS phenotype and can be considered as a founder mutation in our region.


Dr. Alex K. Wong explains the "risk" between breast implants and ALCL and offers advice on how to talk to your patients about it.


The field of physician health is receiving increasing atten- tion; however, most research and interventions have concentrated on job stress, mental health, and sub- stance abuse. Much less is known about preventive health and lifestyle behaviors among physicians, and few programs have been established in these areas. This review summa- rizes the literature regarding physi- cian nutrition, exercise, sleep, and self-care. Physicians, like the gen- eral population, need to work on improving their diets and increasing physical activity. They are often sub- ject to prolonged sleep deprivation, and many neglect their own health care and do not take appropriate pre- ventive measures. All of these areas warrant further research and possi- ble intervention, as improved physi- cian health has been linked to more frequent and successful counseling with patients about lifestyle behav- iors. In promoting healthy lifestyles, physicians, patients, and the health care system as a whole stand to benefit.


With the advancement of the digital video and digital image editing tools, this increases the difficulty for humans to identify visually the authentic video from the forged copy. This needs a powerful method that investigates various video from tempering attempts. There are several previous types of research, which propose methods for video forgery detection. These works suffer from consuming the memory and much-comparing power. The consequence is increasing the execution time. This research proposes a lightweight method; this means reduce memory usage and execution time for detecting forgery in video streams. The method based on using mathematical schema structure to explore various forgeries type on streaming videos. Experiments have been conducted on a dataset of 27 videos covering different cases using local IP camera, cases like using compression algorithms and some tempering effects. The result indicated that the system achieved high relevant measures with 97% accuracy on detecting duplication on a case of lossless compression and 95% on the other compression algorithms; on the other hand, on detecting cloning forgeries our system achieved a highly relevant measure with 86% on a case of lossless compression.


"Touchpoints" are the spurts of development, and the trying periods of regression that accompany them, throughout childhood. From pregnancy to first gradxe, all the concerns and questions that parents have about their child's behavior, feelings, and development are anticipated and answered in both chronological and reference form.(Addison-Wesley)


This month LaFrance talks about how to set fair and equitable water and wastewater rates, and advocates for the importance of keeping water and wastewater rates affordable. The importance of and the interrelationships between both continue.


Water pollution from emerging contaminants (ECs) or emerging pollutants is an important environmental problem. Heterogeneous photocatalytic treatment, as advanced oxidation treatment of wastewater effluents, has been proposed to solve this problem. In this paper, a heterogeneous photocatalytic process was studied for emergent contaminants removal using paracetamol as a model contaminant molecule. TiO2 photocatalytic activity was evaluated using two photocatalytic reactor configurations: Photocatalyst solid suspension in wastewater in a stirred photoreactor and TiO2 supported on glass spheres (TGS) configuring a packed bed photoreactor. The surface morphology and texture of the TGS were monitored by scanning electron microscope (SEM). The influence of photocatalyst amount and wastewater pH were evaluated in the stirred photoreactor and the influence of wastewater flowrate was tested in the packed bed photoreactor, in order to obtain the optimal operation conditions. Moreover, results obtained were compared with those obtained from photolysis and adsorption studies, using the optimal operation conditions. Good photocatalytic activities have been observed and leads to the conclusion that the heterogeneous photocatalytic system in a packed bed is an effective method for removal of emerging pollutants.


A Journal article by Dr. Max Maina Muniafu, a lecturer at the school of Science and Technology in USIU - Africa


To study how teleosts have modified their immunoglobulin structures to adapt to the Antarctic environment, we investigated Trematomus bernacchii IgM at protein and gene levels. Serum IgM was purified, characterized and quantified. The nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of IgL and IgH were determined. Upon comparison with other teleosts, T. bernacchii IgH showed a higher hydrophilic character and the presence of two remarkable insertions, probably increasing the flexibility of the molecule. To investigate the amplitude of the antibody repertoire, a VH library was constructed. The analysis of rearranged VH/D/JH transcripts revealed a high occurrence of the RGYW motif and a clear bias in the usage of serine codons. Diversity generated by insertions/deletions occurred more often than in other species. VH sequences fell into only two gene families referred to as Trbe VH I and Trbe VH II. The deduced amino acid sequence of the membrane region was found to be the longest and an F/Y substitution was observed at a highly conserved position. Models of the transmembrane helices of T. bernacchii and other teleost Ig were constructed by molecular dynamics. Finally, the analysis of the antibody specificity revealed the presence of antibodies specific to the proteins of nematode parasites.


The introduction of a wide-ranging emissions trading scheme (ETS) is, as the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, acknowledges, a 'tough ... whole-of-economy' measure. It is an unsettling statement of politics in the 21st century that this dramatic change to the economic structure of the nation is being formulated without any clear appreciation of what it will cost, where the costs will fall and whether the costs will bring any benefits.


A commercial combination preparation, by Wyeth, containing brompheniramine maleate and phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride, with antihistaminergic and vasoconstrictive properties. Brompheniramine maleate, a propylamine antihistamine binds to and blocks H1 receptors thereby preventing the actions of histamine. Phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride is a decongestant that causes constriction of blood vessels mediated through its alpha-adrenergic signaling, thereby reducing blood flow and improving nasal air flow. Dimetapp is used to relieve nasal congestion and to treat rhinitis. Qeios · Definition, February 7, 2020


We have studied Raman resonances in multi-level atoms. The spectrum consists of five, six, or eleven peaks. Using Ramsey interference, we explored decoherence and noise sources in or system.


We propose an inverse cross-bilateral filter for sharpening a target image with the aid of a reference image. The effectiveness of the proposed method is examined for the cases using a flash photography or a near-infrared image as the reference images.


An experiment is described in which two independently developed bridge weigh–in–motion (WIM) systems are tested and compared, both for accuracy and durability. The systems, an Irish prototype still under development, and a commercially available American system, were tested on a bridge in Slovenia. Eleven statically pre–weighed trucks were each driven over the bridge several times at a range of typical highway speeds. Accuracies for axle and gross vehicle weights are presented within the framework of the draft European WIM specification, and the bias which can be introduced by the selection of calibration truck is demonstrated. Performance factors relating to durability are also discussed with particular emphasis on axle detectors.


The effects of treatment of pituitary tumors on serum prolactin levels were compared in a series of 21 young women who presented with amenorrhea and underwent transsphenoidal pituitary surgery between 1973-78 and a series of 26 patients including 9 women and 17 men aged 18-73 who received conventional high voltage radiotherapy to the sella turcica averaging 4500 rads between 1971-77. The surgical group showed normal endocrine function preoperatively aside from hyperprolactinemia with amenorrhea except for 2 patients with acromegaly. All patients were classified as Hardy Group I or II. 11 of the 26 in the radiotherapy group had undergone prior surgery by the transcranial or transsphenoidal route. The tumors were larger ranging from Grades II-IV and serum prolactin levels were considerably higher. The majority had no endocrine replacement therapy. 19 of 21 surgically treated patients had immediate drops in serum prolactin levels at the 1st postoperative sample usually within 1 week of surgery. Subsequent prolactin levels tended to be somewhat higher with little change thereafter during follow-up. In 4 patients the later postoperative prolactin levels either rose or showed no change from the preoperative. Return of serum prolactin to normal occurred in only 9 of 21 patients and was commoner in those with lower preoperative values. Mean postoperative levels ranged from 18-22% of preoperative levels beginning 1 month after surgery. 19 of 21 patients experienced return of menses and in 11 of 13 patients with galactorrhea the symptom disappeared. 10 patients with postoperative serum prolactin above normal levels had return of menses. 7 patients became pregnant postoperatively though not all were seeking pregnancy. The pattern of prolactin decline in the radiotherapy group was quite different. Considerable individual variation was seen but generally there was an initial decline to 40% of the original level at the end of the 1st year with a continuing decline in ensuing years. 10 patients followed for 3 years or longer had mean prolactin of 10.4% of pretreatment values. There was no difference in the pattern or magnitude of prolactin decline in radiotherapy patients with prior surgery and those with radiotherapy alone. 2 of 6 reproductive aged women in the radiotherapy group who had had amenorrhea experienced returen of menses after therapy.


"The national Open University construction plan" was released.This opened the prelude Radio Television University to Open University.On the base of how to build the Open University worth each RTVU worker thinks.Accurately understand and grasp the connotation and concept of running Open University,according to the local actual situation,accurate positioning.Strive to improve the quality of RTVU is the right way of constructing the basic Open University.


Abstract Objective To evaluate the predictive ability of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) for detecting severe wasting (weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ) <−3) among children aged 6–59 months. Design Cross-sectional survey. Setting Rural Uttar Pradesh, India. Subjects Children (n 18 456) for whom both WHZ (n 18 463) and MUAC were available. Results The diagnostic test accuracy of MUAC for severe wasting was excellent (area under receiver-operating characteristic curve = 0·933). Across the lower range of MUAC cut-offs (110–120 mm), specificity was excellent (99·1–99·9 %) but sensitivity was poor (13·4–37·2 %); with higher cut-offs (140–150 mm), sensitivity increased substantially (94·9–98·8 %) but at the expense of specificity (37·6–71·9 %). The optimal MUAC cut-off to detect severe wasting was 135 mm. Although the prevalence of severe wasting was constant at 2·2 %, the burden of severe acute malnutrition, defined as either severe wasting or low MUAC, increased from 2·46 to 17·26 % with cut-offs of <115 and <135 mm, respectively. An MUAC cut-off <115 mm preferentially selected children aged ≤12 months (OR=11·8; 95 % CI 8·4, 16·6) or ≤24 months (OR=23·4; 95 % CI 12·7, 43·4) and girls (OR=2·2; 95 % CI 1·6, 3·2). Conclusions Based on important considerations for screening and case detection in the community, modification of the current WHO definition of severe acute malnutrition may not be warranted, especially in the Indian context.


In the article, the genesis, common features, and peculiarities of theword art of the Turkic peoples, the early research in this field, in particular, the Turkicscholar P.A. Falyov's scientific views are analyzed.There is also information aboutsome genres in the literature of the Turkic peoples.


We completed surveys of 11 permanent subtidal stations, 17 random subtidal stations, 4 permanent intertidal stations, and 29 random intertidal stations during the period. In addition, we conducted studies on the sea otter, Enhydra
lutris, herd located between Diablo Cove and Point Buchon, continued the annual count of the mature bed of the bull
kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana, within Diablo Cove, and interviewed commercial abalone and sea urchin divers for catch-per-unit-of-effort data. During the year, sea otters moved south into the cove east of Lion Rock and then into Diablo Cove. (107pp.)
The commercial abalone fishery showed signs of decline, while the commercial sea urchin fishery continued to expand. Several diving surveys were conducted inside Intake Cove to check on dredging progress; the cove appears to have become a haven for juvenile rockfish (Sebastes). The red abalone temperature tolerance studies were completed at the Department's marine culture laboratory at Granite Canyon.


We thank Dahari and colleagues for our comments on our study on HBV RNA dynamics in CpAM and NA-treated patients (1) and we provide elements of discussion below. Regarding the prediction of week 4 of NA treatment, our model predicts a mean increase of HBV RNA by 0.3 log10 copies/mL (Fig. 3).


A modified wideband and wide-beam Archimedean spiral antenna, with the characteristics of circularly polarization, four arms and mode-2 operation, is presented in this paper. The antenna features a modified cup-shaped cavity and a dielectric substrate with twelve metal patches printed on it. The simulated results show that the voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) is better than 2 over the operating band of 8∼12GHz. The beamwidth of the modified spiral antenna is greatly broadened compared with the conventional antenna. Over the whole operating frequency band, the beamwidth of the modified Archimedean spiral antenna is about ± (15°∼75°).


Blockchain is a technology that is used for recording digital transactions that are interconnected and cannot be changed. Cryptocurrencies use blockchain technology, which has advantages due to a high level of security, low fees, and a high return on investment. One of the most popular cryptocurrencies and one that has a high market cap is Bitcoin. High volatility carries the risk of large losses. So it is necessary to analyze the risk of loss and forecast Bitcoin. Forecasting is carried out using the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model, which is then carried out by risk analysis using Value at Risk (VaR) using the Historical Data method. Based on the research results, ARIMA [4,1,2] was great for predicting Bitcoin, with a Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of 6%. Based on the results of research with Value at Risk (VaR), investors have a maximum loss tolerance of 5.86% and there is a 5% possibility that the losses will exceed 5.85%.


Care is required for multicomponent analysis if misleading results are to be avoided. The problem of ill‐conditioned calibration matrices is of primary concern. This type of numerical instability is represented as spectral overlap of calibration spectra. Depending on the degree of spectral overlap, the sample concentration estimates can be severely affected. A practical statistical procedure is discussed which tests for the presence of spectral overlap among the pure‐component spectra and simultaneously assesses the degree that concentration estimates may be degraded. Guidelines are developed to ascertain how much departure from spectral orthogonality is acceptable.


In order to master the effect of construction condition on stability of surrounding rock of large span open-off cut,we numerically simulated the characteristics of stress distribution and surrounding rock deformation of the open-off cut under the construction condition of once-tunneling,twice tunneling,and three-times tunneling so as to solve the problem of large span open-off cut in deep mine of Xieyi coal mine in Huainan.The result shows that 1) both the once tunneling and twice tunneling have a small floor heave and a great roof convergence,so the stress in the area surrounding open-off cut is highly concentrated,forming a large plastic area in surrounding rocks;and 2) the three-times tunneling has a small roof convergence and a small plastic area in surrounding rocks,so it is favorable for the stability of surrounding rocks. According to this excavation method in large span open-off cut(8.4 m) of 511C(3) working face,the support system of high strength bolt and anchor was used to maintain the stability of open-off cut,making the roadway deformation be controlled within the allowable range and the structure of bolt-net supporting system reliable.


In this work, we study the problem of diffusing a product (idea, opinion, disease etc.) among agents on spatial network. The network is constructed by random addition of nodes on the planar. The probability for a previous node to be connected to the new one is inversely proportional to their spatial distance to the power of α. The diffusion rate between two connected nodes is inversely proportional to their spatial distance to the power of β as well. Inspired from the Fick's first law, we introduce the diffusion coefficient to measure the diffusion ability of the spatial network. Using both theoretical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation, we get the fact that the diffusion coefficient always decreases with the increasing of parameter α and β, and the diffusion sub-coefficient follows the power-law of the spatial distance with exponent equals to -α-β+2. Since both short-range diffusion and long-range diffusion exist, we use anomalous diffusion method in diffusion process. We get the fact that the slope index δ in anomalous diffusion is always smaller that 1. The diffusion process in our model is sub-diffusion.


An active MIMO based sub-millimeter wave imaging system is presented as part of an integrated security scanner developed in the European FP7 project TeraSCREEN. It uses a hybrid approach combining mechanical beam steering in elevation and digital beamforming in azimuth. The system, operating at 360 GHz with 30 GHz bandwidth is supposed to provide high-resolution real-time imaging to enhance throughput and security level.


A highly enantioselective intramolecular aza-Michael addition with enone carbamates catalyzed by chiral Bronsted acids was developed. A domino cross metathesis/aza-Michael addition for the preparation of 2-substituted pyrrolidines or benzopyrrolidines was also explored. The reactions described here provide an efficient asymmetric protocol for enantio-enriched heterocycles, especially 2-substituted pyrrolidines.


We present Spitzer Space Telescope early release observations of Fomalhaut, a nearby A-type star with dusty circumstellar debris. The disk is spatially resolved at 24, 70, and 160 μm using the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS). While the disk orientation and outer radius are comparable to values measured in the submillimeter, the disk inner radius cannot be precisely defined: the central hole in the submillimeter ring is at least partially filled with emission from warm dust, seen in Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) 17.5-34 μm spectra and MIPS 24 μm images. The disk surface brightness becomes increasingly asymmetric toward shorter wavelengths, with the south-southeast ansa always brighter than the north-northwest one. This asymmetry may reflect perturbations on the disk by an unseen interior planet.


Several studies have shown that rehabilitation can alleviate post-treatment side effects, maintain quality of life, and improve survival. However, information on the experience of physiotherapy care among patients with cancer is scarce. This study aimed to explore well-being and satisfaction with and perceptions of efficacy of physiotherapy care among patients diagnosed with cancer. The participants were 100 subjects in rehabilitation therapy after surgery for cancer (mean age = 57.1 years, 87.1% women). The study collected quantitative data through a questionnaire on well-being and satisfaction with and efficacy of physiotherapy treatment. The results showed that participants had good levels of well-being, and compared to a control population, these participants showed significant differences in environmental mastery, personal growth and positive relationships with others. Participants in this study had higher levels of satisfaction with and perceptions of the efficacy of their physiotherapy care. Correlation analyses indicated that there is a moderate positive correlation between global satisfaction and the dimensions of treatment efficacy. The results are discussed in relation to the need to give attention to well-being and rehabilitation treatment in cancer patients.


A replacement Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) computer system which monitors and controls two 1,100 kilometer pipelines and eleven associated pump stations is described. The SCADA system was designed to meet two objectives: (1) decentralize the overall control system and provide a distributed control system capable of regulatory control at each pump and pressure reducing station, and (2) provide system wide monitoring and supervisory control function during normal operations at the crude oil terminal. The SCADA computer system hardware (host computers and consoles), software modules, and applications are overviewed. A data flow diagram and a hardware configuration diagram are provided. 3 figs.


Abstract Cancer is a leading cause of mortality, with its incidence only expected to rise with an increasingly aging population. Dietary interventions, primarily caloric restriction (CR), lower cellular energy metabolism and have long been utilized to slow the aging process and protect against age-related diseases, including cancer. However, due to the stringency of CR, dietary alternatives that offer the same beneficial outcomes in cancer prevention and longevity have become increasingly attractive. Periodic cycles (4 days twice a month) of low caloric intake followed by a standard ad libitum (AL) diet was previously shown to promote health-span in mice and humans and protect against primary tumorigenesis and enhanced the effects of chemotherapy. The aim of our study was to compare the tumorigenic potential of 4T1 cells, a murine model of stage IV breast cancer, in young and aged female BALB/c mice fed either periodic cycles of low caloric diets versus chronic 20% CR. Compared to AL controls, we found a significant delay in primary tumor growth in mice regardless of diet composition by the 4:10 cycles of very low caloric intake. However, unlike in CR, CR-alternative diets were not protective against lung metastases in the absence of chemotherapy. Our study sheds light into the underlying differences of calorie-based interventions in the absence of chemotherapy.


In the High Plains-Ogallaia Aquifer area of Oklahoma, an agriculture and petroleum production region, prosperity is highly dependent on depletable resources — water and petroleum. This study forecasted some of the changes in the region based on the depletion of petroleum resources. It was found that decline and depletion of oil and gas production is likely before 2020. This most certainly will occur unless oil or gas is discovered at depths below the level of present technological experience. Of course, even such advances will not stop eventual decline, only delay it.


Local exchange employment and trading systems (LETS) have spread rapidly throughout the United Kingdom during the 1990s. Like all economic geographies, they are socially constructed and are more than a simple response to social exclusion. The economic activity generated by and conducted through LETS is based upon direct forms of social relations and a local currency which facilitate locally defined systems of value formation and distinctive moral economic geographies. Nevertheless, LETS take on some of the class and gender characteristics of the wider economy. Furthermore, the ways in which LETS are represented—not least in the media—may serve to stereotype them as exclusionary and marginal to the needs of those most in need and so to distance them from those excluded from the formal economy.


People turn bland eye to the feasibility of scale operation of agriculture in mountainous areas. This is especially obvious in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area. According to the new concept of scale operation of agriculture, and based on analyzing the objective dilemma facing the independent household management, this paper discusses the feasible conditions for scale operation of agriculture in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, and then puts forth several policy proposals to devote major efforts to developing scale agriculture in this region.


Multiple document summarisation involves the selection of important information in a collection of related documents, and the compilation of this information into one summary. This paper addresses a key problem in multiple document summarisation, that of merging two semantically similar sentences. Unlike the case of single document summarisation, when important sentences are extracted from multiple related documents, one is likely to find repetition of content within these extracted sentences. To avoid the resulting summary being repetitive and hence incoherent, there is a need for a merging process to handle such repetition. We present work in progress on an algorithm that takes annotated lexical dependency trees corresponding to an abstraction of the key semantics of the input sentences and produces a representation of their combined content that can be used to generate a new sentence.


In this study, the adsorption of reactive yellow dye which is one of the most commonly used soluble dyes in textile industries was studied using modified wheat straw, the surface of raw wheat straw was modified with a cationic surfactant CTAB. to understand the adsorption behavior of the reactive yellow, dye the adsorption kinetics and the adsorption isotherm studies have been investigated. Batch experiments was carried out with an initial concentration of 10 mg/L with 0.5 gm of adsorbent to study the contact time of equilibrium and then the adsorption mechanism process using three kinetic models; Pseudo-first, second order and intra-particle model. Isotherm studies was carried out at three different adsorbent amounts (0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 and 1.0) gm to predict the type of adsorption process on the surface (chemical or physical) using three isotherm models; Langmuir, Freundlich and BET models. The results showed that the pseudo-second order is best fitted, intra-particle diffusion kinetic model fitted well to experimental data and is not the only controlling step of adsorption rate, and the adsorption isotherm follows both Langmuir and Freundlich models referring to the chemical adsorption.


Oxygen one kind in nutrient solution, sterilizing apparatus and method using a micro-nano bubble generation technique air or oxygen dissolved in the micro-nano bubble oxygen-rich water to form a nutritional liquid is oxygen nutrient solution; using micro-nano bubble generation technical ozone dissolved micro-nano bubbles of ozone water to form the nutrient solution, and after UV disinfection of nutrient solution joint disinfected. The apparatus and method can effectively improve the nutrient solution dissolved oxygen to reduce the incidence hydroponic plants rot phenomenon, increase production; and can effectively suppress the propagation of nutrient broth a microorganism disease, reduce pesticide use.


A lithographic projection apparatus includes a beam production system to provide a beam of radiation, pattern the beam of radiation, and project the patterned beam onto a target portion of a substrate, a support table including protrusions to support an article, a detector to detect height deviations of the protrusions, a material removing device arranged to modify a height of the protrusion material, a controller coupled between the detector and the material removing device, wherein material removing device includes a removal tool selected from the group consisting of a mechanical polishing device, a magneto rheological finishing tool, and a single or multipoint diamond tool.


Results of geothermal studies carried out at 72 localities have been used in evaluation of temperature gradient and heat flow values of the upper crust in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The investigations included temperature logs in boreholes and wells, calculation of geothermal gradients, measurements of thermal conductivity and determination of heat flow density. In addition, estimates of temperature gradients and heat flow were also made for areas of thermo-mineral springs, based on the so-called geochemical methods. Analysis of these data sets, after incorporation of appropriate corrections (for the perturbing effects of drilling operations, topography and climate changes) has allowed for the first time a better understanding of the regional distribution of thermal gradients and heat flow within the study area. The results obtained indicate that geothermal gradient values are in the ranges of 14 to 26oC/km in Precambrian metamorphic terrain and 19 to 33oC/km in areas of Phanerozoic sedimentary basins. Most of the rock formations are characterized by thermal conductivity values varying from 2.2 to 3.6 Wm-1K-1. Consequently regionally averaged mean heat flow values are found to fall in the interval of 40 to 70 mW/m2. Computer generated contour maps reveal that geothermal gradients and heat flow are systematically high in the western compared to the eastern parts of the state of Rio de Janeiro. There are indications that this geothermal anomaly is probably associated with the belt of Tertiary alkaline intrusives, between Itatiaia and Cabo Frio. Residual heat of large scale magma intrusions in the later part of the Tertiary period may be one of the possible mechanisms responsible for this thermal anomaly.


Kenneth Schaffner has argued that evolutionary theory, strictly understood, cannot support the functional ascriptions used in adaptational functional explanations. Although the causal ascription clause in these ascriptions is supported, the goal-ascription clause cannot be, since it imports anthropocentric features deriving from a vulgar understanding of evolutionary theory. I argue that an etiological interpretation of selectional explanations sanctions both the causal and goal-ascription clauses of functional ascriptions and provides a way to understand teleological explanation within evolutionary biology.


The qualitative study "Maste jag kopa det jag ser?" by Madeleine Ohlson and Akvile Paulaityte is made to investigate the effects of Instagram on fashion- and beautyconsumption and the ego image of ...


In recent years,the research in nuclear receptors has been developed rapidly. Liver X receptors (LXRs) belong to orphan nuclear receptors, which is a super-family of ligand-activated transcription factors. We now show that LXRs signaling not only play an important role in the regulation of lipid metabolism but also inflammatory response and innate immune response. It has been found that LXRs target genes have the ability in regulating the metabolism,transportation,transformation,and biosynthesis of lipids. In addition, LXRs also takes part in the regulation of glucose metabolism. To date,it has been confirmed that LXRs involved in regulation gene expression in development, cell differentiation, physiological and metabolic processes. In this review, we summarize the studies of LXRs, elucidating the signal transduction pathway and target genes related of lipid metabolism and inflammatory response.


ln this qualitative study, an analysis and comparison of the current and previous general secondary education curricula were carried out through document analysis. The methodology of the study was developed in compliance with Demirel's Analytical Curriculum Evaluation Model that constitutes a basis for curriculum evaluation. The model has two components. The first component includes the curriculum itself as well as the written materials relevant to the program. The second component is the opinions of beneficiaries of the curricula. In the first component, the existing and previous curricula on English (Foreign Language), Language and Expression - Turkish Language and Literature (Turkish Proficiency), Mathematica - Geometry, Physics - Chemistry - Biology (Science), History - Geography (Social Sciences) are compared and evaluated based on the Model. Curriculum evaluation criteria developed by Demirel consist of five components as context, objective, content, process, and evaluation. In conclusion, all of previous curricula were insufficient or partially sufficient and newly developed curricula were partially sufficient or sufficient according to curriculum evaluation criteria.


Everyone in Indonesia has the right to a good and healthy environment as a form of human rights. Every generation has obligations and responsibilities in preserving the background to ensure the welfare and quality of life between ages. Sustainable development is an effort to guarantee these rights by managing natural resources wisely and rationally and simultaneously considering economic, social, and environmental aspects. Currently, humans tend to be greedy for existing natural resources to get the maximum benefit. Illegal logging is an activity to place forest resources on a large scale without paying attention to the needs of future generations. Efforts made by the government to enforce sanctions against perpetrators of illegal logging activities are the enactment of Law Number 32 of 2009 concerning Environmental Protection and Management and Law Number 18 of 2013 concerning Prevention and Eradication of Forest Destruction.


Comparative transmission trials were made with 2 strains of potato virus Y (MPVY and RPVY) using the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer). and the aphid, Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas). RPVY inoculated by green peach aphids caused both mild and sever symptoms in 'California Wonder' pepper (CW) whereas inoculation by potato aphids and by sap of RPVY consistently caused severe symptoms in CW pepper. Symptoms of MPVY in CW pepper were always severe regardless of type of inoculation used. The mild syndrome of RPVY could be restored to the severe syndrome by serial sap inoculation in pepper.

Fourteen days after inoculation, titrations by sap inoculation indicated concentrations of mild and severe symptom RPVY to be similar; whereas titrations by green peach aphid transmissions indicated concentration of the mild symptom RPVY to be significantly lower than concentration of the severe symptom type. Thirty-nine days after inoculation, titrations of these same plants by green peach aphid transmissions showed equal concentrations of both mild and severe symptom RPVY. MPVY was transmitted very efficiently by green peach and potato aphids in only 10–12 days after inoculation of virus source plants, irrespective of whether aphid-or sap-inoculated plants were used. Titrations by sap inoculation of MPVY correlated well with titrations by green peach aphid transmissions.

In CW plants infected for 18–40 days, potato aphids transmitted both mild and severe symptom RPVY (both sap-inoculated and aphid-inoculated) with equal efficiency. Green peach aphids initially had difficulty in transmitting mild symptom RPVY where aphid-inoculated (either green peach or potato) virus inoculum source plants were used, but after 40 days these plants were equal as inocula to sap-inoculated plants.

Rates of postacquisition feeding loss of RPVY in green peach aphids and potato aphids were determined for mild and severe symptom types of virus using both sap-inoculated RPVY. MPVY was tested similarly but only with green peach aphids. The half-life life of severe symptom RPVY (for both sap-and aphid-inoculated virus) was about 40 min in green peach and potato aphids. However, the half-life of mild symptom RPVY inoculated by green peach aphids was less (10 minutes) than when inoculated by sap or potao aphids (40–75 minutes). This was true for both green peach and potato aphids. The half-life of MPVY as determined for green peach aphids was (1) similar for both sap- and aphid-inoculated virus, and (2) was much longer than for RPVY (150–180 minutes). When vector efficiency was plotted against the half-life of virus, a linear relationship seemed evident.


We introduce a modified model where h-dependent artificial interface conditions, occurring at the boundary of an interaction region, allow to obtain adiabatic approximations for the relevant resonant states connected to the quantum transport problem. Under positivity assumptions on the potential, we show that this modification produces a small perturbation of the dynamics on any time scale. The result extends to the corresponding non-autonomous case, allowing us to consider the adiabatic evolution problem in the modified setting. In this framework, we give an expansion formula for the small-h asymptotics of the adiabatic variable, where the error introduced on the adiabatic dynamics by the interface conditions is polynomially small w.r.t. h, independently from the adiabatic time scale. This result provides with a rigorous mathematical framework for the interface conditions approach to the analysis of the adiabatic transport problem in the quantum wells regime.


To support full functionality of <type_traits> two compile-time extensions were added that are safe for <type_traits> (only used in metaprogramming) no extra functionality is needed on conformant OpenCL devices [4]. The extensions are required for: Specifying pointers to functions in is_member_function_pointer; Specifying variadic prototypes in result_of, invoke_result, is_invocable, is_nothrow_invocable, is_member_function_pointer. clang -cl-std=clc++ -I<path to libcxx>/include -DN=10 test.cl


The research viewed the implementation of the renewable energy program but applied different approach from previous studies that were based on cooperation and cost, this research has a different approach that is based on local wisdom in the implementation of renewable energy programs in Gorontalo. The research employs a combination of qualitative-quantitative, this study was conducted using the technique of dividing questionnaires to the public in four Indepenent villages Renewable energy in Gorontalo, the primary data of this study were also obtained through interviews with government officials in charge of renewable energy in the province of Gorontalo, public, and local Indigenous leaders. The value of local knowledge that can be adopted from this research is Ethics (sourced from the opposite Nungo) to act on all dimensions of program implementation, Obedience to authority (sourced from the opposite Butola) to act on the dimensions of the structuring, Public Access (Sourced from opposite Batato) play a role in public dissemination dimension, then the value of working Professionalism (sourced from the opposite Hutahutango) play a role in structuring the dimensions of the system and the allocation of program benefits and a fair division (sourced from the opposite Lambango) play a role in the allocation of the benefits of the renewable energy program. Implementation of a program of local knowledge aspects of the dimensions of Ethics, Adherence to the authorities, Public Access, working professionalism, and a fair division of the benefits is the main finding in this study that provides novelty value on the concept of implementation program.


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Indian women novelists writing in English attempt to project women as the central figure and seem to succeed most effectively. The work of woman writers has given a distinct dimension to the image of woman in the family and society. The problems of woman have been raised in works of many Indians writing in English: R.K Narayan, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Kamala Das, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpanda, Namita Gokhale, Shobha Dc and Arundhati Roy-are few of the prominent names in this field. An analysis of the novels by Indian Women novelists with a feminist view reveals that these novelists have written with immense concern and understanding for their female characters. The hidden and suppressed world of Indian women comes to full light in these novels. Indian feminine sensibility can be fully felt by reading these novels.


For two Glycine species (wightiit and tomentella) varying in sensitivity to salt the development of stress over a range of salinities was traced through changes in growth, water content, and chemical composition of tissues of different type and age.


Research in office information systems has been characterized as entailing a considerable variety of important topics. A review of the major OIS publications indicates patterns of topical areas that have gained primary attention. In attempting to draw a composite picture of the current definition and constituency of OIS research, it appears that progress is being made especially toward the design of increasingly complex, integrative, and interdisciplinary systems.


The primary topic of this dissertation paper is specialised education of schoolmasters and career masters in the field of prevention of social pathology. It is focussed on theoretical preparation, implementation and verification of efficiency of the program of specialised education intended for schoolmasters and careers masters in the field of prevention of social pathology. The dissertation paper consists of four chapters of which three ones are theoretical and one empirical.


Good service quality is important for the sustainability of an organization such as governmentbecause it will help the process of achieving goals, but if the quality of existing services is notbalanced with poor work habits it will also affect the quality of service itself. Therefore the qualityof service can also be influenced by work discipline. Motivation that exists in employees willmanifest a behavior that is directed at the goals in achieving the expected goals. So, motivation isnot something that can be observed but is something that can be concluded because of somethingvisible behavior. Motivation is also something that makes a person enthusiastic about doing work.The population in this study were employees of the Pesawaran District Government. The sample inthis study amounted to 135 government employees from eachagency in Pesawaran LampungRegency. The data collection technique used is literature study by reading literature, referencematerials, lecture materials, and other research results that are related to the object under studyand a questionnaire by asking anumber of questions in writing which are given to respondents.Data processing techniques use the computerized SPSS program (statistical package for socialsciences) version 20 for windows. The results of this study indicate that work discipline and workmotivation have an effect on the service quality of the Pesawaran District Government.Keywords: Work Discipline, Work motivation and Quality of Service