Host-mediated immunopathology is a common feature of respiratory viral pathogens, including influenza and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). For this reason, targeting of immune dysregulation that mediates lung injury is an attractive proposition that could be leveraged to generate therapeutics for broad classes of lung pathogens. In recent years, an increasing focus on structural and immune cell metabolism has revealed interesting findings regarding the balance between glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) as the primary mechanism for ATP generation. Several studies, initially in macrophages, have implicated the transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1a in mediating the shift toward glycolysis during infection (1). This phenomenon, originally described in cancer cells and often referred to as the "Warburg effect," describes the shift to glycolysis as the source of ATP in cells under stress. Recent studies have shown that infection of macrophages or lung epithelial cells with influenza, SARS-CoV-2, or respiratory syncytial virus results in increased glycolysis and stabilization of HIF1a, which forms a reinforcing feedback loop (2–6). Recruited and resident lung macrophages differ with respect to the extent of HIF-1a effects, with infiltrating macrophages exhibiting greater glycolysis and inflammatory cytokine production after influenza infection (7). Interestingly, in lung epithelial cells, inhibiting HIF-1a was shown in vitro to limit viral replication (4, 5, 8). Conversely, lung epithelium–specific deletion of HIF-1a resulted in an increase viral burden, inflammation, and mortality in the influenza model (9). These studies are complemented by work done by Nolan and colleagues (10). They demonstrated that inhibiting glycolysis with 2deoxy-D-glucose in mice infected with influenza worsened hypoxia and inflammation (10). These changes were seen in the absence of an effect on viral load, suggesting that alterations in cellular metabolism significantly impact disease outcome independently of antiviral immunity. Alveolar type II cells are critical to the production of surfactant in the lung and are highly metabolically active. Woods and colleagues showed that influenza infection decreases the production of the major components of lung surfactant, including phosphatidylcholine and its precursor cytidine 59-diphosphocholine (CDP-choline) (11). This finding implicated changes in lipid biosynthesis within alveolar type II cells in the pathogenesis of influenza infection. They later demonstrated that treatment of influenza-infected mice with CDPcholine resulted in decreased airway resistance and inflammation and increased oxygenation (12). A single dose 5 days after influenza infection was shown to have efficacy in mitigating reductions in lung function. These findings revealed the exciting potential for targeting alveolar type II cell metabolism and raised further questions regarding lipid biosynthesis and cell metabolism in the context of influenza infection. In this issue of the Journal, Doolittle and colleagues (pp. 682–693) report on their exploration of the impact of CDP-choline treatment on mitochondrial function within alveolar type II cells using the influenza mouse model (13). Functional mitochondria are required for normal OXPHOS. CDP-choline serves as a precursor for phosphatidylcholine synthesis, a major component of the mitochondrial phospholipid bilayer and an acyl donor for cardiolipin, another mitochondrial phospholipid that is essential for cristae formation and maintenance of normal OXPHOS (14). Doolittle and colleagues show that glucose uptake was significantly increased in the lungs of influenza-infected mice. However, glucose uptake was not affected by CDP-choline treatment, suggesting that CDP-choline does not alter lung-specific increased rates of glycolysis. Next, they determined if OXPHOS is impaired in mitochondria isolated from infected alveolar type II cells. They found that influenza infection decreased basal oxygen consumption rate, which coincided with reduced ATP synthesis. Daily CDP-choline treatment restored basal oxygen consumption rate and ATP synthesis in alveolar type II cells from influenza-infected mice, indicating that CDP-choline treatment corrected impaired OXPHOS. Lactate is an acidic by-product of glycolysis, and its accumulation can be used as a proxy for glycolytic rate. Influenza infection caused an increase in the extracellular acidification rate, which coincided with increased lactate concentrations in the BAL fluid, regardless of CDP-choline treatment. Doolittle and colleagues then looked more closely at the source of ATP production in alveolar type II cells. They found that influenza infection decreased ATP production by OXPHOS and increased ATP production by glycolysis. CDP-choline treatment restored ATP production by OXPHOS to mock-infected control levels, but it also exhibited high degrees of ATP production due to glycolysis, leading to higher total ATP concentrations. Together, these data indicate that CDP-choline treatment was able to restore OXPHOS to preinfection levels but did not block the glycolytic shift in alveolar type II cells. Mitochondria must maintain membrane potential to preserve OXPHOS capacity. Mitochondrial membrane potential was shown to be lower in alveolar type II cells from influenza-infected mice. Daily CDP-choline treatment prevented mitochondrial depolarization, likely contributing to CDP-choline's positive impact on OXPHOS. Electron leakage from complexes 1 and 2 of the electron transport chain can generate mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mtROS), and Doolittle and colleagues found higher amounts of mtROS in alveolar type II cells from influenza-infected mice. CDP-choline treatment did not affect mtROS generation, indicating that increases in ROS are likely not caused by dysfunctional mitochondria. Alveolar type II cells from influenza-infected mice had a high number of structurally abnormal mitochondria with low surface area, which is suggestive of fragmentation. CDP-choline treatment restored


A formulation of a quadrilateral finite element with embedded strong discontinuity, suitable for the material failure numerical analysis of plane stress solids, is presented. The kinematics of standard finite element is enhanced by displacement jumps that vary linearly along the embedded discontinuity line. They are described by four kinematic parameters that are related to four element separation modes. The modes are designed for no stress transfer over the discontinuity line at its fully softened (opened) state. As for the material, the bulk of the element is assumed to be elastic, and the softening plasticity, in terms of discontinuity tractions and displacement jumps, is assumed along the discontinuity line. The bulk stresses are described by the optimal five‐parameter interpolation. The combination of stress interpolation and enhanced kinematics yields simple form of the element stiffness matrix. To achieve efficient implementation, the stiffness matrix is statically condensed for both the enhanced kinematic parameters and the stress parameters. In a set of numerical examples, the performance of the derived element is illustrated. Obtained results are compared with some other representative embedded discontinuity quadrilateral elements (displacement‐based and enhanced assumed strain based). It turns out that the element performs very well. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Arterial gene transfer represents a novel approach for the treatment of a variety of vascular diseases. Lipofectamine (DOSPA/DOPE)-mediated transfer of pCMVβgal (7.2 kbp) to subconfluent bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAEC) resulted in a transfection efficiency of 5.7 ± 2.35% of cells staining positive for β-galactosidase for a 10:1 ratio by weight of lipid/plasmid. Using histones up to 1 histone per 5 bp increased efficiency over 3-fold higher to a level of 18.2 ± 1.8%. In confluent BAEC, which are more difficult to lipofect, the use of histones increased the transfection efficiency over 10-fold to a level of 4.5%. Histones form a tight compact structure with the DNA and also protect DNA from DNase degradation. Using histones as a compacting agent while lowering the amount of lipofectamine resulted in a large drop in transfection efficiency, demonstrating that a critical liposome/plasmid ratio had to be maintained. When histones were not used, posttransfection treatment of endothelial cells with 100 µM...


A typical microcontroller-based system often includes multiple interfaces with an ability to support clock gating and other low power features. For such a complex subsystem, finding issues in block level interaction, low power flows and architecture requires exhaustive random test framework at subsystem level along with unit level randomization. There is no standard approach for developing random verification environment for such subsystems, thus resulting in increased time for development and maintenance. Debugging issues wherein concurrent traffic from different interfaces is active, is challenging and time consuming. In order to support multiple projects with different configurations there is need for scalable and structured approach which would help in achieving quality verification without affecting time to market. A novel dashboard style architecture proposed in this paper, provides fully scalable solution for subsystem level random verification with improved debug ability and execution efficiency, thus contributing to High Velocity Development Model (HVDM). With this scalable approach for random verification, bring up time for a new IP in a Sub system random verification environment is seen reduced by 60% and time required for achieving tape-in quality coverage is seen reduced by 40%, as compared to the traditional approach. The results published are derived from the improvement seen by implementation of this methodology in a Low Power Sensor Subsystem that was delivered to multiple SoCs, in time with quality


In this paper, a broadband antenna based on a loaded metasurface is proposed. First, a metasurface is loaded on the upper radiating substrate using slot-coupled feeding to excite the TM02 mode. A ground plane is loaded in the middle of the upper and lower radiation substrates, and a rectangular slot is loaded on the ground plane to couple the upper and lower dielectric substrates. The rectangular slot mode on the ground plane can enhance the radiation of the TM02 mode, which finally covers the resonant bandwidth range of 4.35 - 5.65 GHz (26%). In-band gain is stable up to 8 dBi. The height of the antenna body is only 0.018λ, which can be used in various miniaturization occasions.


Objective:To investigate the expression of hypoxia inducible factor-1α(HIF-lα) and erythropoietin (EPO) in the rat model of brain ischemic tolerance induced by ischemic preconditioning(IP). Method: Ninety nine healthy wistar rats were randomly assigned into three groups for different preconditioning, the sham surgery group(SS+SS,n=9),the sham and middle cerebral artery occlusion group(SS+MCAO, n=45),and the ischemic preconditioning and MCAO group(IP+MCAO ,n=45). The latter two groups were further divided into five subgroups respectively for different preconditioning-ischemia intervals. For ischemic preconditioning, the rats were given MCAO for 10min. On 1,3,7,14 and 21d after IP, the rats were given the second MCAO(or sham surgery) for 2h followed by 22h reperfusion. The protein of HIF-1α and EPO were detected by method of immunohistochemistry. The expression of HIF-1α mRNA and EPO mRNA were detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. Result: ①Compared with each of the SS+MCAO subgroups,the expression of HIF-1α protein in the 1d, 3d and 7d subgroups of IP+MCAO and the expression of EPO protein in the 3d and 7d subgroups of IP+MCAO were significantly higher (P0.05,P0.01=. ②The expression of EPO mRNA and HIF-1α mRNA in the 3d ,7d subgroups of IP+MCAO group increased distinctly compared with that of the SS+MCAO group(P0.05=.⑶The expression of EPO mRNA were positively correlated with the expression of HIF-1α mRNA(r=0.737, P0.01). Conclusion:Endogenously produced HIF-lα and EPO may be essential mediators of cerebral ischemic tolerance.


We consider towed electrical sensing for detecting and localizing small inhomogeneities in the marine environment. Assuming the domain to be homogeneous apart from a few dispersed inclusions, the low-frequency electrical measurements can be modeled using a single-layer potential formulation for a source function defined at the boundaries of the inclusions. A key component of these measurements is the potential induced by the polarization of the inclusions, which at the far field can be shown to be equivalent to the potential of dipole sources centered at the inclusions. Under this approximation, we formulate an inverse problem for localizing the inclusions and then enforce some regularization in the form of an a priori assumption on the shape of the inclusions. In this context, solving the inverse problem requires tracing some coordinates where the polarization potential at the current injecting electrodes becomes zero since these define a set of lines intersecting at the center of the targeted inclusions. This methodology is implemented by a simple algorithm, whose computational complexity mounts to solving a small number of low-dimensional linear systems. Analysis indicates fair robustness of the algorithm to measurement noise and model inaccuracies, and this is also supported by numerical simulation experiments.


Corrosion Prevention by Protective Coatings presents basic information on coatings and linings for the protection of materials of all types (wood, concrete, steel, cast iron, stainless alloys, aluminum) from disintegration by breakdown processes (atmospheric rusting, chemical solution, oxidation, crystallization and galvanic couple reactions). -- ICCROM


Most igneous rocks in Langgu depression are products of Cenozoic magma action, with diabase intrusion and subwater effusive basalt as major forms. Primary pore was undeveloped. The structural fractures generated in latter period made the igneous rock have reservoir capability. When diabase entering the enclosing rock of almost shale, baked metamorphism might occur under special geological conditions, resulting in slate which has good reservoir property, and forming oil and gas reservoirs through configuration with other reservoir forming conditions.


Foreword - Anthony Pedriana Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors 1. Taking Care of Teacher Business 2. Creating a Positive Classroom Atmosphere 3. Working With Diverse Student and Family Populations 4. With-it-ness 5. Transitioning 6. Taking Care of Classroom Business 7. Organizational Time 8. Rewards 9. Consequences Suggested Readings Index


This Article introduces six state flag of the signs register,Discusses the analysis method in status of the flag,make some suggestions For readers to solve such problems,with teaching experience of the author.


Analysis of changes in intracellular signal transduction will provide clear images of the projected target neurons. We have recently developed a technique which allows second-messenger imaging of changes in intracellular signal transduction which is activated in parallel with phosphoinositide (PI) turnover. Using carbon-11-labeled 1,2-diacylglycerol (DAG), we have recently succeeded in making an image of intracellular signal transduction during the course of synaptic transmission in human brains. When five healthy volunteers were examined by this technique, they had high activity in the associate field, in particular the prefrontal area. In the absence of paradigm loading, the associate field was unilaterally active, and human subjects showed predominant activity in the right prefrontal area. Activation of the ipsilateral supraorbital region and the superior temporal area was also seen at the same time. In conclusion, no previous study has directly demonstrated the unilateral predominance of the activity in the associate fields (projected target area) and the accompanying areas. Unlike the conventional positron-labeled compounds which did not permit visualization of activation of the associate fields, our technique can measure the PI turnover, as a postsynaptic response, and thus provide clear images of the projected target nerve cells in relation to higher cortical function in humanmore » brain.« less


This study was conducted to assess the frequency, factors affecting frequency and severity of PDDIs in hospitalised patients. This was a prospective study carried out in all the Medicine wards for a period of six months. Of the 240 patients reviewed, a total of 77 (32%) patients had PDDIs. The frequency of PDDIs found to be 44%. The number of drugs received by the patients ranged from 3-10 (Mean + SD: 7 + 2). Majority (60%) of the patients were exposed to PDDIs of moderate level of severity, 37.5% of patients were exposed to PDDIs of severe level of severity and only 2.5% patients experienced PDDIs of mild level of severity. It was observed that the frequency of PDDIs increased with an increase in the age of the patient and with the size of the prescription. A positive correlation was found between the age of the patients and PDDIs (r = 0.338, P < 0.01) and the prescription size and PDDIs (r = 0.402, P < 0.01). The more number of PDDIs were due to proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) followed by statins. The most of the PDDIs were between PPIs and paracetamol and PPIs and clopidogrel which are moderate in severity and of risk rating D. The study showed that regular monitoring of PDDIs will definitely help in better patient care.


Received: 11 June 2020 Accepted: 3 August 2020 Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is an evolutionary algorithm widely used in optimization problems. It is characterized by a fast convergence, which can lead the algorithm to stagnate in local optima. In the present paper, a new Multi-PSO algorithm for the design of two-dimensional infinite impulse response (IIR) filters is built. It is based on the standard PSO and uses a new initialization strategy. This strategy is relayed to two types of swarms: a principal and auxiliaries. To improve the performance of the algorithm, the search space is divided into several areas, which allows a best covering and leading to a better exploration in each zone separately. This solved the problem of fast convergence in standard PSO. The results obtained demonstrate the effectiveness of the Multi-PSO algorithm in the filter coefficients optimization.


Infectious disease is a major problem for animal husbandry. One of infectious disease is caused by Ascaridia galli (A. galli). Ascaridiasis occurs in either broiler or layer that caused decrease of meat and egg productions. Garlic (Allium sativum) contain alicin  that have the ability to kill parasites.This research was conducted to determine the effect of garlic on time of death of A. galli. In this research used A. galli with length 7-11 cm regardless the sex. The treatment used local (Indonesian garlic), kating and single garlic with concentration of 39.50%, 62.40% and 98.60%. The negative control used NaCl physiology (0.9 %). The result showed that all the treatment group can shortened the time of death of A. galli compared to control. The time of death of A. galli on local garlic infusion with 39.50 % concentration was 6.24 hours, on 62.40 % concentration was 4.94 hours and on 98.60 % concentration was 3.97 hours, kating garlic infusion on 39.50 % concentration was 5.08 hours on 62.40 % concentration was 3.81 hours, on 98.60 % concentration was 2.96 hours, single garlic infusion on 39.50 % concentration was 5.4 hours, on 62.40 % concentration  was 3.86 hours, on 98.60 % concentration was 3.83 hours. The best treatment was kating garlic on 98.60% concentration because give shortest time of death.


Variability effects in graphene can result from the surrounding environment and the graphene material itself, which form a critical issue in examining the feasibility of graphene devices for large-scale production. From the reliability and yield perspective, these variabilities cause fluctuations in the device performance, which should be minimized via device engineering. From the metrology perspective, however, the variability effects can function as novel probing mechanisms, in which the "signal fluctuations" can be useful for potential sensing applications. This paper presents an overview of the variability effects in graphene, with emphasis on their challenges and opportunities for device engineering and applications. The discussion can extend to other thin-film, nanowire, and nanotube devices with similar variability issues, forming general interest in evaluating the promise of emerging technologies.


In this brief, a novel reconfigurable bandpass filter with adjustable center frequency and wide bandwidth reconfiguration is presented. The proposed bandpass filter is formed by cascading tunable high-pass (HP) and low-pass (LP) filter sections directly. Both the operating frequency and bandwidth of the reconfigurable bandpass filter can be reconfigured independently by tuning the frequencies of the band edges, which are controlled by the cut-off frequency of the HP and LP filter sections. Finally, the proposed filter is designed, fabricated and measured for validation purposes. The measured results demonstrate that the bandwidth can be tuned from 180 MHz to 1390 MHz at the fixed center frequency with tuning ratio up to 7.8:1. Center-frequency agility is also verified with different constant absolute bandwidth of 400 MHz, 600 MHz, and 800 MHz The measured results show that proposed filter possesses the advantages of simple implementation, wide bandwidth tuning range, wide frequency tuning range, and compact size.


E-mail: email@example.com Acute nontraumatic chest pain is a common presenting symptom to the emergency department. The examination must be able to exclude life-threatening conditions, including pulmonary embolism, aortic dissection, and acute coronary syndrome. Several "triple rule-out" protocols have been proposed to provide high-quality images covering the thoracic aorta, coronary, and pulmonary arterial trees. Studies have shown that coronary computed tomography (CT) using a 256-detector row dual-source is a safe and efficient method for triage patients with acute chest pain who have a low to intermediate likelihood of coronary artery disease (CAD), with a high diagnostic efficacy, time efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The protocol included three axial nongated volume acquisitions to cover the chest with triggering at the pulmonary arteries followed by a prospectively ECG-gated cardiac scan for the coronary arteries. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) has rapidly evolved from the 4-detector row systems in 1998 to the 256-slice and 320-detector row CT systems. With a smaller detector element size and higher gantry rotation speed, spatial and temporal resolution of the 256-slice MDCT scanners, has enabled volumetric imaging of the entire heart free of stair-step artifacts at a single time point within one cardiac cycle. Such scanners hold promise in performing a rapid high quality "triple rule-out" test without a high contrast load and with a small radiation dose. These emerging technical advances and novel applications will continue to change the way we study CAD beyond detecting luminal stenosis. We shall focus on three aspects of managing the patients with acute chest pain: 1. Imaging to increase the number of correct diagnoses in the acute situation; 2. Imaging to rule out other coronary causes of chest pain; 3. Use of imaging for risk stratification, once myocardial infraction has been ruled out in the chest pain unit.


Bai' al-sarf widely known as currency exchange is an important sale contract both in classical and contemporary world. This scoping review looks into the objectives behind the rulings set by the Shari'ah for this sale contract. These objectives are sorted out from the commentaries of the hadith and the deliberations of the jurists through textual analysis method. Some of the modern applications such as T+2 and Islamic Foreign Currency Exchange (FX) Swap structures are briefly juxtaposed against the objectives of bai' al-sarf we discovered. Objectives of Shari'ah rulings in spot exchange is to avoid falling into the sale of debt against debt (al-kali bi al-kali), prevention of payment delay by one of the counter parties, prevention of conflict between the counter parties, and last not least to avoid falling into exchange contracts that will induce riba.
Keywords: Bai' al-sarf, currency exchange, spot seizing (al-taqabud fi al-majlis), equal counter-values (al-tamathul), sad bab al-niza' (closing the door of conflict), riba.


The authors present a complete VLSI continuous-time bidirectional associative memory (BAM). The short term memory (STM) section is implemented using small transconductance four quadrant multipliers, and capacitors for the integrators. The long term memory (LTM) is built using an additional multiplier that uses locally available signals to perform Hebbian learning. The value of the learned weight is present at a capacitor for each synapse. After learning has been accomplished the value of the stored weight voltage can be refreshed using a simple analog/digital (AD)-digital/analog (D/A) conversion, which if done fast enough, will maintain the weight value within a discrete interval of the complete weight range. Such a discretization still allows good performance of the STM section after learning is finished.<<ETX>>


—To achieve the expected educational goals, surely a teacher must be an innovator in his role in the class. The selection of teaching materials, methodologies, and evaluations that are in accordance with the development of students and curriculum needs must be a competency of a teacher. In addition, teachers must also be able to develop a climate of teaching and learning that fosters student creativity. The phenomenon that is often faced by teachers in learning activities, teachers often have difficulty in choosing or determining the right dance learning material to help students achieve competencies or devices that are in accordance with competency standards contained in the 2013 Curriculum. So far, teachers have become accustomed to implementing curriculum without having to apply as a curriculum developer. Apparently this has made teachers less creative in finding and even processing the material to be taught in class. Of course this view must be changed. In this millennial era teachers are expected to be a source of strength in a learning process to support student success. This paper will begin with strengthening the creativity of teachers in developing teaching materials, so that this understanding can be used to compile a learning model for teachers in shaping cultural identity for students.


It is often claimed — by analysts right across the political spectrum — that the apartheid economy grew 'exceptionally rapidly' until the early 1970s. Rarely, however, is evidence provided to back up this claim, which forms the focus of this article. Four practical growth criteria are proposed by which to evaluate whether the post‐war South African economy grew as fast as its considerable potential would suggest. It is found that the apartheid economy did not surge forward after 1948, as did other developing economies, its comparative output and productivity growth record is poor according to a range of measures, and its share of world and developing country manufactured exports fell steadily from 1955 to 1985, suggesting that such exports were not used to stimulate economic growth. It thus seems that the apartheid economy grew curiously slowly and can be said to have 'failed' — partly because the apartheid superstructure impeded economic development, and partly because of the constraining effects of a ra...


In order to obtain a reliable displacement field for digital speckle image correlation technique,a new displacement analysis method based on moving least squares analysis is proposed and a reliable strain field is obtained.The authors improve on the original cross search method and the improved search algorithm is more efficient.The validity of the suggested method and the relevant computer code were verified through the analysis of the computer-simulated speckle images.The method was also used to measure strain in the tensile test of a composite laminate plate.The results agree fairly well with those obtained by the conventional measurement.


At present,logistic alliance has become an effective organization form to provide logistic services to the entire supply chain.The internal assignment of logistic task not only has close relationship with the operation efficiency of the alliance,but also the key factor to promote the optimization of supply chain logistic process and the effective linkage between supply chain node enterprise and logistic alliance.Therefore,based on the conditions of capacity constraint and time limitation of the alliance members,and by taking the low cost of logistic service and short time period of the service into consideration,the authors establish a multi-objective programming model to realize the satisfaction optimization of supply chain node enterprises to the whole supply chain logistic service.Besides,some cases are analyzed in detail.


The article discusses the problem of lack of complex researches on personnel loyalty; underlines the importance of loyalty researches in the context of interactions of the personnel with a definite social media.


In this paper,by analyzing power supply and demand in first quarter of 2009,it makes the relevant judgments to the summer power supply of 2009,analyses and forecasts the electricity supply situation in 2009,and gives the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions.


The electronic device and a display method according to various embodiments is provided. And wherein the electronic device comprises a display panel, a distance sensor and a control unit. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels. The distance sensor detects the viewing distance between the display panel and the user. Wherein said control unit and said display panel, if the viewing distance is less than the first threshold distance as compared to the first threshold distance predetermined with the viewing distance, enable all of the plurality of sub-pixels displayed in the default resolution, viewing distance to display in the first low resolution such that the first display panel and the first passivation of some of the threshold distance is greater than the plurality of sub-pixel resolution sub-pixels as the basic controls the display panel.


Advancements in 5G and edge computing infrastructure increase the need to deploy location-based services for mission-critical applications like Vehicle to Everything (V2X) and Intelligent Transport System (ITS). In this demonstration, we showcase the location service capabilities of our 5G Core (5GC), coupled with Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) for delay-sensitive ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (uRLLC) service types like V2X and ITS. We believe that this work will guide Mobile Network Operators in building a location assistance service system for emergencies and delay-critical applications.


Spanish Engineering Schools are evolving by changing their study programs. This has enabled to incorporate new subjects and recognise credits from foreign universities through collaborative programs (Socrates, Erasmus, Alfa, ...) as well as from stays or subjects followed at private or public institutions and industries. The authors show the experiences taken at Escuela Universitaria de Ingenieria Tecnica Industrial EUITI of Valencia (Spain) and the improvements brought down as consequence in strengthening the knowledge of the European Community languages and fulfilling the needs of the graduated students in their profession.


Pneumonia is still a leading cause of illness and death in infants worldwide. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is emerging as an extremely valuable non‐ionizing radiation diagnostic tool in diagnosis and follow up of multiple paediatric pulmonary diseases.


These events have shaken international society as well as IR theory, to the extent that some scholars have pushed for a revolution on several established concepts, proposing approaches that diverge form the "isms". Scholars ascribed to social paradigms such as constructivism and English School have made attempts that worth attention. These developments explore the links between concepts like hegemony, legitimacy and identity. These constructivists-English School new frameworks reveal themselves as capable efforts for explaining the causes and consequences of the current unipolar order, as well as new challenging events involving China's rise. Therefore, the present proposal aims to explore the redefinition of the concept of hegemony by examining the legitimacy practices that took place in international society.


For 90 years, the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) has made science-based challenges to widespread lethal control of native mammals, particularly by the United States federal government targeting carnivores in the western states. A consensus is emerging among ecologists that extirpated, depleted, and destabilized populations of large predators are negatively affecting the biodiversity and resilience of ecosystems. This Special Feature developed from a thematic session on predator control at ASM's 2013 annual meeting, and in it we present data and arguments from the perspectives of ecology, wildlife biology and management, social science, ethics, and law and policy showing that nonlethal methods of preventing depredation of livestock by large carnivores may be more effective, more defensible on ecological, legal, and wildlife-policy grounds, and more tolerated by society than lethal methods, and that total mortality rates for a large carnivore may be driven higher than previously assumed by human causes that are often underestimated.


Evaluating capital investment decisions is an important function of managerial accountants. However, there is anecdotal evidence that managers avoid making decisions or delay decisions, which is costly in terms of time, effort and lost opportunities. Prior research has shown that choice avoidance among non-professionals making personal decisions is associated with having to choose between alternatives with very different features or that require tradeoffs of very important goals (choice difficulty). It is unclear, however, whether experienced managers, utilizing the analytical decision tools at their disposal, would respond in the same way as non-professionals when making accounting decisions. Hence, this study examines whether increased choice difficulty increases negative affect in the capital investment decision-making process and, as a result, the tendency of a manager to avoid choice even when analytical decision tools are used. In an experiment with one hundred twenty executives, participants facing more difficult decisions reported they felt more worried, nervous, uneasy and anxious and had a greater desire to postpone making the decision than participants in a control group. Participants provided with a decision aid designed to help them focus their cognitive effort reported a lower desire to postpone making the decision than participants in the choice difficulty conditions without the decision aid. I conclude by discussing the result's implications for managers and accountants.


Three patients with a pruritic, papulovesicular, and keratotic dermatitis of the hands, feet, and extremities had markedly elevated serum IgE levels up to 100,000 ng/ml. There was no personal or family history of atopic disease. A variety of immunologic, physiologic, and pharmacologic studies of the skin had normal results. Mast cells were observed in large numbers in the dermis and even in the epidermis. The course of this unique dermatitis is chronic, lasting many years, and it is resistant to all treatments except administration of corticosteroid drugs.


Abstract In the course of this investigation it has been shown that l-vinylo-carborane has two phases between the crystalline solid below − 65°C and the isotropic liquid above + 79°C. In phase I between + 11 and + 79°C, this waxy material has been shown to be isotropic with a face-centered cubic structure. In this phase the NMR resonance line width was a function of temperature and found to be of the order of 0.01 gauss, which is consistent with spherical rotation and diffusional motion of the molecular centers of gravity. The evidence presented here together with that previously reported provides convincing evidence of the plastic crystalline nature of phase I. In the range of − 65 to + 11°C, phase 11, I-vinyl-o-carborane has been shown to be birefringent and more crystalline like in nature.


Microstructural characterization of aluminum alloys is typically performed by combining microscopy techniques with measurement of physical properties such as conductivity and hardness. Relatively recently calorimetric techniques have been used to complement the more traditional methodologies. This article will discuss: basic principles, instrumentation and experimental procedures, reaction kinetics, and general rules for interpreting DTA and DSC data. Heat treatable, non-heat treatable alloy and aluminum-based composite characterization are discussed.


Wheat powdery mildew is one of wheat main diseases.We used Haynaldia villosa as antigens,gene resistance to powdery mildew from Haynaldia villosa was introduced to wheat through crossing,radiation and young embryo culture.By disease resistant identification,systematic selection and cell analysis,we have selected high yield varieties and new germplasm with good agronomic characters and resistance to powdery mildew.By DNA analysis,gene resistant to powdery mildew from Haynaldia villosa has been joined to wheat varieties.


Morphology and electrical properties of short carbon fiber-filled high-density polyethylene (HDPE)/poly(methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) polymer blends have been studied. The percolation threshold of HDPE50/PMMA50 blends filled with vapor-grown carbon fiber (VGCF), 1.25 phr VGCF content, is much lower than those of the individual polymers. The SEM micrographs verified that the enhancement of conductivity could be attributed to the selective location of VGCF in the HDPE phase. A double percolation is the basic requirement for the conductivity of the composites, i.e., the percolation of carbon fibers in the HDPE phase and the continuity of this phase in the blends, which hereby are defined as the first percolation and the second percolation, respectively. The SEM micrographs also showed that the short carbon fibers could affect the morphology of the blends. With the increase of VGCF content, the HDPE domains are elongated from spherical into strip shape, finally develop to a continuous structure. As a result, the second percolation threshold of the blends filled with 2.5 phr VGCF, 20 wt % HDPE, is lower than that of the blends filled with 1.5 phr VGCF, 30 wt % HDPE. The influence of molding temperature and time on the second percolation threshold has also been investigated. For the composites molded at a lower temperature, the second percolation threshold is shifted to a higher VGCF content, but there is little influence of molding time on the second percolation threshold. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 69: 1813–1819, 1998


Objective:To explore the self-face recognition abilities and its relationship to self-acceptance,self-efficacy and self-esteem of schizophrenia patients.Method:Sixty-two schizophrenic patients without treatment and fifty-four healthy subjects were assessed using self-face recognition task(SFRT),self-acceptance questionnaire(SAQ),general self-efficacy scale(GSES) and,self-esteem scale(SES).Results:Schizophrenic patients showed increased reaction time[(2189±1138)ms vs(1152±326)ms,Z=-6.86,P0.001] and lower accuracy[(81±16)% vs(88±6)%,Z=-2.82,P0.01] in self-face recognition task compared with normal controls.Compared with healthy subjects,schizophrenic patients showed significantly lower total scores of SAQ [(43.19±5.61) vs(38.37±7.25),Z=-3.42,P0.01],SES[(23.33±4.44) vs(21.21±5.22),Z=-2.13,P0.05] and GSES [(24.41±4.83) vs(22.27±5.98),Z=-2.29,P0.05].Correlation analysis showed a negative correlation between the reaction time of SFRT and the total scores of SES(r=-0.430,P0.01),GSES(r=-0.396,P0.01),while a positive correlation between the accuracy for self-face recognition in SFRT and the total scores of SAQ(r=0.367,P0.01),self-acceptance factor(r=0.298,P0.05),self-evaluation factor(r=0.266,P0.05).Conclusion:Schizophrenic patients had impairments of self-face recognition abilities and lower level of self-acceptance,self-esteem and self-efficacy than normal persons.


A new high-resolution method is presented in this paper. Analysis show that the new method is independent of the correlations between the signals of arrival, so it can be used for high-resolution of coherent signals. The effects of sensor noises are also discussed. Computer simulation results support the theoretical predication.


Most telecommunication systems are dynamic in nature. The state of the network changes constantly as new transmissions appear and depart. In order to capture the behavior of such systems and to realistically evaluate their performance , it is essential to use dynamic models in the analysis. In this thesis, we model and analyze networks carrying elastic data traffic at flow level using stochastic queueing systems. We develop performance analysis methodology, as well as model and analyze example systems. The exact analysis of stochastic models is difficult and usually becomes computationally intractable when the size of the network increases, and hence efficient approximative methods are needed. In this thesis, we use two performance approximation methods. Value extrapolation is a novel approximative method developed during this work and based on the theory of Markov decision processes. It can be used to approximate the performance measures of Markov processes. When applied to queueing systems, value extrapolation makes possible heavy state space truncation while providing accurate results without significant computational penalties. Balanced fairness is a capacity allocation scheme recently introduced by Bonald and Proutì ere that simplifies performance analysis and requires less restrictive assumptions about the traffic than other capacity allocation schemes. We introduce an approximation method based on balanced fairness and the Monte Carlo method for evaluating large sums that can be used to estimate the performance of systems of moderate size with low or medium loads. The performance analysis methods are applied in two settings: load balancing in fixed networks and the analysis of wireless networks. The aim of load balancing is to divide the traffic load efficiently between the network resources in order to improve the performance. On the basis of the insensitivity results of Bonald and Proutì ere, we study both packet-and flow-level balancing in fixed data networks. We also study load balancing between multiple parallel discriminatory processor sharing queues and compare different balancing policies. In the final part of the thesis, we analyze the performance of wireless networks carrying elastic data traffic. Wireless networks are gaining more and more popularity, as their advantages, such as easier deployment and mobility, outweigh their downsides. First, we discuss a simple cellular network with link adaptation consisting of two base stations and customers located on a line between them. We model the system and analyze the performance using different capacity allocation policies. Wireless multihop networks are analyzed using two different MAC schemes. On …


The global financial–economic crisis has led to a rethinking on the relative roles of state and markets. Public investments and industrial policies are no longer seen as interventions that inevitably lead to inefficient, uncompetitive and rent‐extracting forms of industrialisation. The present article looks at the content of ('the what'), the justification for ('the why'), and the adoption and implementation of ('the how') strategic industrial policy in relation to latecomer development. The aim of the article is to come up with some guiding principles on a strategic industrial policy, which supports a long‐term and robust expansion of productive activity through sectoral diversification, industrial deepening and industrial upgrading.


This article examines the opportunities and challenges experienced by postgraduate student leaders for a sustainable learning environment (SuLE) in a democratic setting. The article explores how students and student leaders develop their research skills using a common methodology and theoretical framework. A SuLE serves as a platform for collaboration, support and self-empowerment for academic success. A critical, emancipatory and qualitative research approach was employed which, in turn, was used by these students as a form of support for sustaining academic progress in postgraduate studies. A participatory action research (PAR) process was used in four different clusters of master's and doctoral students. The four clusters were from different sections of KwaZulu-Natal, North-West and Free State provinces of South Africa and international students from Lesotho, adding up to 50 students participating in this project. The Free Attitude Interview (FAI) technique was used so as to ensure in-depth views of the opportunities and challenges experienced by the students. A video-tape was used and proceedings were transcribed and analysed in line with the objectives of the article using critical discourse analysis (CDA) techniques. The main findings were: experience through a clear vision; a sense of success through a shared vision; and experience through the acquisition of diverse skills and leadership abilities.


The set of resolvents generated by a recursive intension in a lirst-order database is treated as a set of concurrent database queries. A strategy for egiciently ev,aluating these concurrent queries in a multi-processor environment is presented. The strategy combines three query processing techniques, namely, query decomposition, intermediate result sharing and data-flow and pipelined query execution to achieve a high degree of parallelism. An analytical study uses the response time for each resolvent and the execution time for a set of resolvents as a performance measure to examine the performance gain due to the data-flow and pipelined approach to query processing.


This paper is a positivistic case study of Chinese social system reformation and the status change of medical profession. Chinese government chose the reformation and open door policy to pursue the socialistic market economy. The change of social system effected on the status change of medical profession. In this paper, the survey has been performed to Chinese medical profession about the status change of medical profession after the reformation and open door policy. The contents of survey were the degree of development in medical areas, the status change of medical profession, the cause of the status rising of medical profession, the evaluation of the professionalization of medical profession, the development strategy of medical profession. The results of the survey showed that medical profession evaluated that the effects of the reformation and open door policy on medical areas were generally positive. But for the effects of the reformation and open door policy on the status of medical profession, the negative answers were more than the positive answers. In Chinese society, the occupational status of Communist party executive and public officials are still higher than that of professionals like professors or medical doctors. This research is significant that it is a positive case study of the relationship between Chinese social system reformation and the status change of medical profession. And this is a sociologically interesting study in the sense that this is a research of the status change of medical profession in the coexisting situation of socialist regime and capitalist system.


Presents a prototyping platform for high-performance communication systems together with a design methodology. Based on a formal design entry and nonfunctional design goals such as execution time and overall system cost, a software/hardware partitioning is generated and its performance is estimated with formal models. Valid partitionings are then implemented on a prototyping platform which is based on a heterogeneous multiprocessor system and a reconfigurable FPGA board. Using model-based optimization and monitoring, each partitioning is evaluated and the results are fed back in the generation and estimation of new partitionings.


There is an urgent need to breed dry direct-seeded adapted rice varieties in order to address the emerging scenario of water–labor shortage. The aim of this study was to develop high-yielding, direct-seeded adapted varieties utilizing biparental to multiparental crosses involving as many as six different parents in conventional breeding programs and 12 parents in genomics-assisted breeding programs. The rigorous single plant selections were followed from the F2 generation onwards utilizing phenotypic selection and quantitative trait locus (QTL)/gene-based/linked markers for tracking the presence of desirable alleles of targeted QTL/genes. In conventional breeding, multiparent lines had significantly higher yields (2,072–6,569 kg ha−1) than the biparental lines (1,493–6,326 kg ha−1). GAB lines derived from multiparent crosses had significantly higher (3,293–6,719 kg ha−1) yields than the multiparent lines from conventional breeding (2,072–6,569 kg ha−1). Eleven promising lines from genomics-assisted breeding carrying 7–11 QTL/genes and eight lines from conventional breeding with grain-yield improvement from 727 to 1,705 kg ha−1 and 68 to 902 kg ha−1, respectively, over the best check were selected. The developed lines may be released as varieties/parental lines to develop better rice varieties for direct-seeded situations or as novel breeding material to study genetic interactions.


The term 'householding' is used to underscore the ways in which creating and sustaining a household is a continuous process of social reproduction that covers all life-cycle stages and extends beyond the family. Householding in Pacific (East and Southeast) Asia is now 'going global' at a very rapid rate as measured by increases in trans-border marriages, international adoption of children, educating children abroad, hiring foreign domestic helpers and retirement migration from higher- to lower-income economies. While global householding is seen as a way of compensating for and improving upon householding solely within territorial boundaries, it meets formidable resistance by governments and societies alike. Trends towards the expansion of the many dimensions of global householding can nonetheless be expected to continue, presenting profound challenges to all societies in the region.


Abstract We prove the global uniqueness in determination of the conductivity, the permeability and the permittivity of the two-dimensional Maxwell equations by the partial Dirichlet-to-Neumann map limited to an arbitrary subboundary.


In recent years, in Korea, recirculating aquaculture technologies for intensive fish culture are increasingly being used to enhance production of a high quality aquacultural products all year around including seawater. In high density aquaculture system, the increase of protein and organic particulates by uneaten feed, feed waste and excreta of fish gives a bad effect in fish growth and environment. Also protein and organic particulates are decomposed to ammonia nitrogen and nitrite nitrogen which are harmful to fish and also these cause consumption of dissolved oxygen. The foam separation has been considered as a process for removal of protein and suspended solids in aquacultural water (Chen et at., 1994; Suh and Lee, 1995).


The use of insulative adhesives for attachment of alumina substrates to metallic headers is gaining considerable interest in the areas of hybrid microcircuit fabrication. However, many unresolved problems concerning long-term reliability of hybrid circuits using organic materials continues to plague the industry. Thus, the purposes of the investigation described herein are: (1) to select and describe tests pertaining to long-term reliability and (2) to evaluate several insulative adhesives specifically formulated for the microelectronic industry, for the purpose of selecting a substrate attach adhesive for use in a high-rate hybrid production facility. Specific properties investigated include: lap shear and tensile strength, effects of temperature aging and cycling, effects of solvent exposure, degradation temperature, adhesive-adherent compatibility, and outgassing amounts and effects. The insulative adhesives selected for evaluation include: Scotchcast 281, a one-component premixed frozen paste; Ablefilm 550, a "B" staged epoxy-impregnated fiberglass film and Epo-Tek H74 and H77 both two-component systems requiring mixing prior to use. Selection of these adhesives for evaluation was partially based on the results of a literature survey, which revealed these adhesives to be representative of those currently in use for hybrid assemblies.


The main purpose of any athlete working out in a gym is to increase the muscular mass. In order to reach this objective there is a must to induce some chemical reactions in skeleton muscles, as a reply to physiological fatigue. The final effect consists in muscular hypertrophy.


Let H be a complex Hilbert space, B(H) be the set of bounded linear operators on H, E(H) be the set of {A ∈ B(H) : 0 ≤ A ≤ I}, 1 ≤ n ≤ ∞. In this paper, we show that if


Objective
To investigate the effect of acupoint catgut embedding combined with Ziwu-Liuzhu theory based acupuncture on the clinical efficacy and sleep quality of depressive patients.

Methods
A total of 64 patients who met the inclusion criteria were randomly divided into two groups, 32 in each group. The control group was treated with routine electro-acupuncture, while the observation group was treated with acupoint catgut embedding combined with Ziwu-Liuzhu theory based acupuncture. Both groups were treated for 8 weeks. Sleep quality was assessed by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and depression was assessed by Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD) to evaluate the clinical efficacy.

Results
After treatment, the HAMD score (11.3 ± 2.4 vs. 14.5 ± 2.6, t=4.986) and PSQI index (9.6 ± 2.3 vs. 11.8 ± 2.5, t=3.307) in the observation group were significantly lower than those in the control group (P<0.01). The quality of life (12.9 ± 2.3 vs. 11.3 ± 2.5, t=2.598) and mental health score (13.5 ± 2.4 vs. 11.3 ± 2.6, t=3.413) of WHOQOL-BREF scale in the observation group were significantly higher than those in the control group (P<0.01). The total effective rate was 93.8% (30/32) in the observation group and 75.0% (24/32) in the control group. There were significant differences between the two groups (χ2=4.246, P=0.038).

Conclusions
Acupoint catgut embedding combined with Ziwu-Liuzhu theory based acupuncture can effectively improve depressive state, sleep quality and quality of life in patients with depression, and the curative effect is better than conventional electro- acupuncture treatment.

Key words:
Catgut embedment in acupoint therapy; Midnightnoon ebbflow acupoint selection; Zi Wu Liu Zhu Na Jia method; Depression; Sleep; Sleep disorders; Quality of life


The potential for boating to disperse the clubbed tunicate Styela clava Herdman, 1881 and green crab Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence was investigated using interviews with recreational and commercial boaters in eastern Prince Edward Island (PEI). Boaters were asked how long their boat had been at the present location; the primary use of the boat; if anchors, sounding equipment or fishing gear were used; whether any organisms were attached to these items when retrieved; and the fate of those organisms. Bilge water and hull scrapings from the vessels contained 31 and 47 taxa, respectively. Recreational boats, nearly half of which were docked outside their home estuary, were a more likely vector of dispersal than commercial fishing boats that tended to return to the same port each night. Northeastern Nova Scotia and the southern coast of PEI were most at risk for the spread of clubbed tunicate, while green crab could be transported to PEI and eastern New Brunswick. The Magdalen Islands, Quebec, were also predicted as a site to which green crabs could spread, and the first green crabs were detected there two years after our study.


HE CLOSURE of the western frontier within the United States at the end of the nineteenth century and the consequent end to internal exT pansion led to the movement within government circles toward the consideration of the question of overseas expansion. The Cuban revolution against Spanish rule in 1895 provided the first occasion for the creation of an empire-North Americans saw Cuba as an underdog fighting a war for liberty and, using the Monroe Doctrine as justification, the United States declared war on Spain and despatched troops to Cuba. The victorious forces, exemplified by Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders in their capture of San Juan Hill, quickly overcame the Spanish both in Cuba and Puerto Rico and with their success in 1898, launched a debate within the United States on her attitude toward colonial possessions. Should the doctrine of Manifest Destiny-a doctrine which reserved a civilizing mission to North Americansbe extended to former Spanish colonies such as the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico? Did the United States have the right to incorporate new territories into the union without the consent of the indigenous inhabitants? According to William McKinley, president of the United States in 1898, it was the duty of the United States to give the new possessions the "benefits of a Christian civilization which has reached its highest development under our republican institutions" yet for Puerto Rico the victory of the North American forces resulted in an ambiguous status: under the terms of the Foraker Act passed by Congress in 1900 Puerto Rico was to be attached to the United States as unincorporated territory with an Executive Council and a governor appointed by the president of the United States.' Puerto Rico possessed an obvious importance for the imperial power: it was crucial for a defense of the canal that was to be constructed across the Central American isthmus and more generally it served as a base for North American influence within the Caribbean. The military importance of the island brought few economic benefits, however; although it was governed by appointees of the United States, Puerto Rico was technically a foreign


Contents: Coming together: an introduction The 'art and mystery of collaboration': authorial economies, queer pleasures Looking strategically: feminist and queer aesthetics in 'beauty and ugliness' and Sight and Song Refusing to perform: performative silences in A Question of Memory and Alan's Wife Collaborating with history: The Tragic Mary and The Real Charlotte Engaging differences Bibliography Index.


The paper presents the influence of oregano extract (Origanum vulgare L.) on
 growth of Aspergillus versicolor, Emericella nidulans, Eurotium herbariorum,
 E. amstelodami, E. chevalieri and E. rubrum - producers of sterigmatocystin
 (STC) isolated from salads. Antifungal tests were performed by agar plates
 method. The composition of the active component of extract was determined by
 GC-MS method and the major components were: carvacrol (34.20%), triacetin
 (22.91%), carvone (18.05%), p-cymene (8.05%) and thymol (3.74%). The examined
 extract showed the ability to reduce mold growth at all applied
 concentrations. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) for E. nidulans, E.
 chevalieri and E. amstelodami were 2.5% (v/v) and over 2.5% (v/v) for A.
 versicolor. At 1.5% (v/v) concentration the extract completely inhibited the
 growth of E. rubrum, whereas higher dose of 2.5% (v/v) was fungicidal against
 E. herbariorum. Besides its sensory role in food products, the examined
 oregano extract also exhibits antifungal activities against producers of STC.


The present study explores how children fiction nuances the socialization of girls and boys in phallogocentric writings and societies. The teen-protagonists in children fiction highlight the prescribed socialization vis-a-vis the gender binary and contest against the overemphasized concept of girlhood and boyhood. The social prescription of how a girl and boy would behave essentializes their role in traditional patriarchal societies. They grow up as cultural beings and not as individuals. Simone de Beauvoir, a French Feminist Existentialist, jargonizes this socialization as 'the eternal feminine' in order to highlight the nature of gender binary in traditional patriarchal societies. Following this notion of de Beauvoir, this study deconstructs the socialization of children vis-a-vis their relationship with the discursive and non-discursive practices of a given culture. In this regard, this study delimited M-E Girard's Girl Mans Up to deconstruct the concept of 'the eternal feminine' by foregrounding the challenges of a teenage girl that she faces in order to subvert the prescribed gender binary of girlhood and boyhood vis-a-vis a prescribed social hierarchy.


Take high-gluten flour and mung bean flour as raw material.The new technology of adding cooked mung bean flour instead of pregeling is applied.The optimum parameter of dried-noodle with mung bean flour is set by orthogonal experiment.The result shows that the ratio of raw mung bean flour to cooked one is 2: 3,35% water,5% wheat gluten,0.3% artemisia glue.With this formula,the quality and flavor of dried-noodle with mung bean flour is good.


Performance management concept is based on approaches trying to overcome shortages in employee appraisal applied so far, i.e. on transformation from evaluation only focused on finding out actual performance to evaluation interrelated with permanent performance advancement. Performance management represents a more strategic and integrated approach based on interrelation of occupational tasks, appraisal, remuneration, education and development of employees. Focus of organizations operating in Slovakia on job performance management should be a matter of course nowadays. Objective of organizations within job performance management should be to lead employees properly, and motivate them effectively. Condition of effective motivation is its direct interconnection with achieved employee performance, which can be ensured only through appropriately set job performance appraisal. This appraisal's objective cannot be only a feedback evaluation interconnected with remuneration of already performed work of an employee, but should be focused also on setting up employee's future objectives. Employee's objectives have to correspond with objectives of organization, and thus support future education and development of employees as well as advancement of whole organization. In our research conducted at School of Economics and Management in Public Administration in Bratislava, we were finding out present approach and focus of organizations operating in Slovakia regarding job performance.


[1] The authors investigate the sampling error of space-time-averaged rain rates due to temporal sampling by satellite, based on 5 years of radar-based rainfall estimates over the Mississippi River Basin, and use the data to estimate the sampling uncertainty. The two approaches used in this estimation consist of a parametric approach that ignores the diurnal cycle in the rain rate statistics and a nonparametric approach that accounts for it. Results show that the parametric approach yields uncertainty estimates that are generally smaller than those obtained by the nonparametric approach. At a sampling interval of 12 hours, the parametric approach typically underestimates the sampling uncertainty for monthly rainfall by about 28%, 25%, and 14% at averaging areas of 512 × 512 km2, 256 × 256 km2, and 32 × 32 km2, respectively. Results verify the power law scaling characteristics of the sampling uncertainty with respect to the space-time scales of measurement and the large-scale precipitation observables suggested by simple models of rain statistics and revealed in previous studies with smaller data sets. With respect to the spatial scale and the mean rain rate, the sampling uncertainty behaves significantly differently from the inverse square-root behavior predicted by many models. The authors compare the resulting scaling exponents to those obtained from previous studies and identify the factors that need to be addressed in sampling uncertainty comparisons. The main new finding is that the power law exponent governing the dependence of the uncertainty estimate on the mean rain rate appears to exhibit seasonal variations.


The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) advanced the national health care reform discussion by extending health care insurance to almost all Americans while simultaneously emphasizing delivery of high-quality, patient-centered health care at lowerthan-current costs [1] . Although the constitutionality of the PPACA was challenged by 26 states in numerous federal courts, in June 2012 the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a vast majority of the legislation, ruling that the 'individual mandate,' which requires nearly all Americans to purchase health care insurance or pay a penalty for declining coverage, was constitutional under Congress's power to tax. The Court invalidated several PPACA provisions that would have compelled states to expand Medicaid programs [2] . Abstract Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, accountable care organizations (ACOs) will be the primary mechanism for achieving the dual goals of high-quality patient care at managed per capita costs. To achieve these goals in the newly emerging health care environment, the nephrology community must plan for and direct integrated delivery and coordination of renal care, focusing on population management. Even though the ESRD patient population is a complex group with comorbid conditions that may confound integration of care, the nephrology community has unique experience providing integrated care through ACO-like programs. Specifically, the recent ESRD Management Demonstration Project sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the current ESRD Prospective Payment System with it Quality Incentive Program have demonstrated that integrated delivery of renal care can be accomplished in a manner that provides improved clinical outcomes with some financial margin of savings. Moving forward, integrated renal care will probably be linked to provider performance and quality outcomes measures, and clinical integration initiatives will share several common elements, namely performance-based payment models, coordination of communication via health care information technology, and development of best practices for care coordination and resource utilization. Integration initiatives must be designed to be measured and evaluated, and, conPublished online: December 20, 2013


MoonBEAM is a SmallSat concept capable of monitoring the entire sky for short gamma-ray transients from a cislunar orbit. A key aspect of its science instrument design is the use of phoswich technology


The present invention relates to a cyclic microbial oil displacement and extraction method. It uses the characteristics of that the microbe reproduced in formation and oil-bearing formation can be discharged from production well, properly improves cyclic process to reinject the microbe into oil-bearing formation from water injection well so as to implement the following results: it can further use discharged microbe, the discharged microbe is newly-reproduced, and can better adapt to formation environment to implement good procreation, and can improve direct injection problem, so that said invented method is low in production cost, easy to implement, and can raise recovery efficiency of crude oil.


Cloud Services remain one of the largest segments in the world because it has experienced very rapid growth published, which makes the service selection and recommendation a difficult task for users and service providers, evenly they are a big growth opportunity for companies. For this reason, how to select the best and optimal services will be a great challenge. In this paper we present a new approach for Cloud service selection. We use a top K query, which returns k services that dominate the largest number of services returned by the Skyline query. This request is based on a method that is among the most important and commonly used to compute scoring functions: The weighted sum method, also called linear. Our application is an important decision support tool, because it provides an efficient decision making tool to help decision makers to meet the most suitable services to their preferences. In addition, it combines the advantages of Top-k and Skyline queries without sharing their disadvantages. On the other hand, our results on real data show the relevance of this designed specific algorithm and fully exploit the characteristics of the problem.


Over the past several years, sibling competition in sport has received ever-increasing attention in the popular press (Haugh, 2004; Lewis, 2004). Since researchers have yet to examine this phenomenon, the purpose of the current study was to examine the psychological factors associated with on-field competition against a sibling. Using semi-structured interviews, a sample of ten elite athletes shared their experiences and perceptions regarding the similarities and/or differences between sibling and non-sibling competition. Eight participants indicated that competition against a sibling was different from competition against unrelated opponents. These differences manifested themselves in three themes (i.e., affective responses to sibling competition, level of emotional involvement, sibling cooperation), and are discussed in relation to the scientific and applied literature in family dynamics and sport psychology. Participant responses offer valuable insight into the unique experiences of sibling competitors, providing beneficial information for parents, coaches, and sport psychology consultants.


A lumped electrical circuit is an approximate representation of the field within a curtain frequency range. The finite element modelling is a synonym of the equivalent circuit. The electric conduction field and electric potential wave field have been modelled by an admittance network and an LC low-pass filter network. Here in the present paper, the equivalent magnetic circuit representation is created for a magnetostatic field by the finite element modelling in two dimension.


Streak cameras are powerful tools for temporal characterization of ultrafast light pulses, even at the single-photon level. However, the low signal-to-noise ratio in the infrared range prevents measurements on weak light sources in the telecom regime. We present an approach to circumvent this problem, utilizing an up-conversion process in periodically poled waveguides in Lithium Niobate. We convert single photons from a parametric down-conversion source in order to reach the point of maximum detection efficiency of commercially available streak cameras. We explore phase-matching configurations to apply the up-conversion scheme in real-world applications.Streak cameras are powerful tools for temporal characterization of ultrafast light pulses, even at the single-photon level. However, the low signal-to-noise ratio in the infrared range prevents measurements on weak light sources in the telecom regime. We present an approach to circumvent this problem, utilizing an up-conversion process in periodically poled waveguides in Lithium Niobate. We convert single photons from a parametric down-conversion source in order to reach the point of maximum detection efficiency of commercially available streak cameras. We explore phase-matching configurations to apply the up-conversion scheme in real-world applications.


Taxes are major source of revenue to the government. Tax evasion and  avoidance are pervasive in all countries and which hampers the economic  development to greater extent. The present research brings out the issue that  integrate avoidance and evasion by the urban unorganised sector of Punjab  state which consist of workers or professionals who neither have registration  number nor monitored by government directly. To meet the objective, the  require data it is collected from primary as well as secondary sources which  are collected from 50 respondent which cover the aspect relevant to income  factor, total revenue, tax payment or non-payment related to prescribed  sector. This review paper focuses on highlighting the cause and ill effect of  tax evasion by unorganised sector which hinders the overall development  of state and country and finding the relevant measure which the tax  administration authorities can strategically and efficiently apply to combat  with the tax evasion in income tax by the unorganised sector.


Based on the analysis of worldwide risk management practices and theoretical study trends, it's concluded that the project-based enterprise integrated risk management (EIRM) is the new trend of enterprise risk management. The six factors of project-based EIRM are pointed out, and also the model of EIRM is proposed with features of integration in strategy, organization, method, information, culture and process. This model not only reflects requirements of enterprises risk management, but also extends theories of risk management and project management.


Objective To study the 5′ CpG islands methylation of the multiple tumor suppressor gene 1(MTS1) gene in human primary gastric cancer. Methods A PCR assay relying on the inability of some restriction enzymes to cut methylated sequences was used to analyze the methylation of the MTS1 gene. Results de novo methylation of the MTS1 gene was observed in 11 of 31(35 5%) primary gastric cancer cases and in 1 of 19(5 3%) normal gastric mucosa, and there is a significant correlation (P0 05) between them. Conclusion Our results suggest that de novo methylation are prodominant inactivation mechanisms of the MTS1 gene and may be associated with pathogenesis of human primary gastric cancinoma.


The Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan Province are very enthusiastic in learning Chinese, but the results of traditional bilingual teaching are not satisfactory. A new teaching pattern, IRI, based on positive corporations between teachers and students by using radios as media to exchange recorded tapes, is suitable for the Yi nationality areas where a vast number of students are scattered and educational resources are scarce.


Regression analysis is one of the major re search tools in the social sciences, but this technique is not often used to its full capacity. In most cases appli cations are restricted to linear additive models even though theoretical considerations may point to non linear and/or interactive models. In this article the sub stantive interpretation of interactive models is clarified and the often heard objections that interactive models are not suitable for interval level data and are vitiated by multicollinearity problems are shown to be unwar ranted.


Corporate airplane based on turbofan is an urgent demand for rapid development of the national economy. Aiming at small and medium sized business jet market demand,this paper described the selection of design point and cycle parameters of a certain type of mixed exhaust twin spool turbofan engine. Based on this,the paper build the aerodynamic thermodynamic model of the turbofan engine,and considering the working part,also using VC + + build the engine model based on components' characteristics. Fully consider the characteristics and conditions of each component,as well as the correlation between each component of aero-thermodynamic parameters,to the extent that the component model can represent the real status of the engine,as well as effectively carry out the calculation of the engine modeling. Simulation results show that the model's dynamic performance fully meet the design requirements,and the modeling method can effectively be used to study of modeling of turbofan engines of small and medium business jet.


PATIENTS ABOUT to undergo surgery are put at unnecessary risk if they are forced to stop taking medicines for heart disease or diabetes, the Consumers' Association has warned.


Studies on crustacean bycatch from Norway lobster (Metanephrops rubellus) fisheries operating between parallels 22° and 26°S (from Rio de Janeiro to Parana States in Brazil), between depths of 60 and 140 meters, based on 73 landings carried out from 2000 to 2007, led to the identification of nine new species in relation to the listing presented in SEVERINO-RODRIGUES et al. (2007). This new list increases in 19.2% the set of crustacean species of bycatch fisheries of M. rubellus, enhancing the knowledge on biodiversity from landings of part of the fleet in Sao Paulo State that captures this lobster, highlighting that landings of commercial fisheries constitute an important source of information. Although the samples obtained from this kind of capture do not present the accuracy of those collected from scientific cruises, they can be more constant, comprehensive and offer relevant data on temporal occurrence, spatial distribution and contribute to the knowledge of the biology and ecology of the species.


Objective: In the present prospective study, we investigated the association between atrial fibrillation (AF) and blood pressure (BP) in an elderly Chinese population. Design and method: Elderly (aged 65 years and over) residents were recruited from 6 communities in Shanghai from 2006 to 2020. 9019 participants who did not have AF at baseline had at least one ECG recording during follow-up. BP status at baseline was defined according to the European hypertension guidelines as optimal, normal, or high-normal BP, and stage 1, 2 or 3 hypertension. Results: During a median of 3.5 years follow-up, the overall incidence rate of AF was 5.6 per 1000 person-years (n = 178, men vs. women: 7.0 vs. 4.5 per 1000 person-years, P = 0.008). The AF incidence increased with both higher systolic and diastolic BP. Statistical significance was achieved for age- and sex-adjusted hazard ratio (HR) relative to optimal BP in stage 2 or 3 systolic hypertension (1.78, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.04–3.05, P = 0.03) and in stage 1 (1.67, 95% CI 1.01–2.77, P = 0.04) and stage 2 or 3 systolic and diastolic hypertension (1.93, 95% CI 1.11–3.33, P = 0.02) and for fully adjusted HR relative to optimal BP in stage 2 or 3 systolic and diastolic hypertension (1.76, 95% CI 1.00–3.08, P = 0.05). The association between AF incidence and BP status tended to be stronger in participants with no than those with a history of cardiovascular disease at baseline (P for interaction = 0.06). Indeed, in participants with no history of cardiovascular disease at baseline, multivariate-adjusted HRs of AF relative to their counterparts with optimal BP were statistically significant in stage 1 (1.76, 95% CI 1.00–3.11 P = 0.05) and stage 2 or 3 systolic hypertension (2.08, 95% CI 1.12–3.85, P = 0.02) and stage 1 (1.93, 95% CI 1.06–3.50, P = 0.03) and stage 2 or 3 systolic and diastolic hypertension (2.34, 95% CI 1.24–4.44, P = 0.01). Conclusions: In the Chinese people aged 65 years and over, AF incidence is higher with high BP, especially systolic hypertension and in the absence of cardiovascular disease.


In order to develop a general computer system with high stability,independent copyright and high price performance ratio,this paper discusses the necessity and feasibility of building a general SCADA platform on Linux/PC for power system and puts forward the scheme of building the platform on the basis of the newest technology of computer.According to the wide demands of SCADA in power system,this paper discusses the limitation of popular platrorms such as Solaris/Sparc and Windows/PC,and gives some important improvement to overcome this limitation.At last,the paper concludes that by using of the Linux/PC platform it is able to reduce the cost,to improve the performance and to satisfy the developing requirement of power system SCADA technology.


Deficiency of firm regulations administering the tenancy process has resulted in recurred disputes over a long span of years. This study analyzed the landlord's perception on the introduction of the Residential Tenancy Act (RTA) by examining landlords' acceptance or refusal. This study applied the descriptive analysis method on 50 questionnaire surveys distributed to landlords in Gombak district. Results showed that 70% of the respondents agreed on the introduction of RTA, while deposit payment is the most preferred principal concept to be consolidated in RTA. These results have recommended strategies to boost the landlord's acceptance of RTA.Keywords: Rental Housing; Landlord; Tenant; Residential Tenancy ActeISSN: 2398-4287 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v4i12.1823


ABSTRACT Structure buckling problems for supercavitating projectiles are often observed in high underwater velocity operating conditions. As a result, it is necessary to perform a structure buckling reliability analysis. It is common that \hboxprobabilistic and nonprobabilistic uncertainty information exist simultaneously. Also, it is reasonable that probability distributions of most random variables in engineering are treated as truncated probability distributions. In this paper, a new hybrid model is proposed, which deals with structure performance function with both truncated probability distribution variables and multi-ellipsoid convex set variables. The model discussed here is adapted for two separate cases in the standard super-sphere space, i.e., limit state surface interferences with a unit super-sphere region or not. The hybrid reliability index is calculated using a modified limit step length iteration algorithm to ensure convergence. Good convergence and validity of the iteration algorithm are verified using numerical examples with highly nonlinear structure performance function. The hybrid model is applied to the structure buckling hybrid reliability analysis of a supercavitating projectile. Results show that structure buckling hybrid reliability index increases with the increase in the ratio of base diameter to cavitator diameter, and decreases with the increase of initial launch velocity. Also, uncertainty degree of cavitator drag coefficient and initial launch velocity should be controlled in demonstration for high structure buckling reliability of supercavitating projectiles.


Abstract This paper studies landscape recognition of the Kamakura historical area by inhabitants. A region is composed of sets of individual events with a broad range of scales. Such embodiments constitute the regional environment that is made up of both nature and man-made structures. In a regional environment, the sharing of these mental spaces is considered to be a necessary precondition for regional coexistence. This study focused on landscape recognition as a shared mental space. A cognitive region map is drawn using the results of a questionnaire, and this map reveals the inhabitants' recognition of the landscape. A visualization model was used to analyze the area's environment and the relationships with the inhabitants' recognition of the landscape. This paper quantifies the urban forms of the regional environment using fractal dimensional analyses of aerial photographs and considers their relationships to the inhabitant's cognizance of the landscape. Therefore, the objective area of the fractal analysis is extended to include the region of "a landscape, which has the identity of Kamakura," and "a place that has changed (recognition)," In this paper, the above analysis was used to quantify complex urban forms. The paper evaluates landscape recognition and the relationships of the urban forms in terms of the continuity of the fractal dimensions.


From birth, each individual has the right to have an identity. The identity of an individual is the assertion of his or her existence in a society. It is also a matter of recognition of their individuality and what differentiates them from their peers1. The traditional western legal view of human development assumes that people possess the active tendency toward psychological changes and integration with the society. This tendency is called the self–determination, which is described as the psychological growth and development in unity to fly in the face of everyday behavioural observation. Self – determination in the science of psychology it is the widely known as the inherent tendency towards psychological growth, a unified self, and autonomous, responsible behaviour. These tendencies have two aspects: theoretical and practical. Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states: All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. This endogenous tendency is across a variety of inner tendencies such as: growth, self-construction and inner coherence. This inner behaviour in some point will influence the external behaviours and tendencies2. Human behaviour is conduct by specific values (personal and socially preferable modes of conduct). These values lead to specific behaviours and experiences that individuals assign to the desirability of special objects or behaviours3.


The paper introduces CDCVRS,and based on the surveys on the use of CDCVRS in the top 50 China's university libraries, summarizes some problems existing in the use of CDCVRS, and advances some corresponding solving methods.


Few species are standardized and have been used as test organisms around the world in
ecotoxicological assays. In the case of sediment assessment, there are only two amphipod species
(Tiburonella viscana and Grandidierella bonnieroides) standardized protocols for toxicity test in South
Atlantic region.In order to evaluate the possibility of using the epibenthic marine amphipod Hyale nigra
in toxicity tests


SATURDAY, 'MAY 10TH, 1930. In the dia,,gnosis of unduilant fever' the simipkcst inietliod is to test the patient's serum for agghitinius to Br. abort us. In order that information mighat I)t UNDULANT FEVER IN GREAT BRITAi-N. obtained of theo truie frequency of the dis-ease, it is. 11EPORTS in our preSent issue of five cases of undulant 11".desirable, thiat all WVidal serums shouldI he tes-tedl fever, occuirringin England, Va.les, Scotland, anid Ireagainst; this, organ111ism1. The e-xtra troubleinvolved landI, -testify to the widespreadl interest in theimeidlenee wiouild be very slight. The coaggluttination lbetwoell of this disease-ani initerest that has unidoubtedl the thiree types ofBrucella ognssiso marked bensimiulated by Dr. W. Dalrymple-Chainpnevs'Is ohihre, is nio necessityov sn oeta n recenit report' issued by the Ministry of Health. Four su,spension1-. Preferably a bovine abortus strainishAouild of the cases' were diagniosed oni the basis of thie agglu.be chlos.en, and a form-olized suspension, killed by heat tin.ation reaction. Fromi the comparatively brief duraait 600 C. for one hiouir, prepared. The serumi shouild tion of the disease-three to seven weeksfrm h be, titrated fullv-,l)cueapoznphom oni mnildness of the sym-tptomis, an-d froml thec absence, niot uncomm.ion wvith organiismts, of this group:, -and. the e"xcefpt in one case, of relapses, iis prio,babi1e that tuibes shiould b)e inculbated at 550 C. for eighteenl hour-s. 11 hese, w,ere due, to inifection wvith the bovinc ty\Pe of A~positive reaction at 1 in 100 or over, in the pr)J-tse'1Ce Br. abortus. The fift-h case, reported by Coloniel W.P' ot suggeqlive clinicial symptomns, mnay be talk-en as, pracMaLcArthur and MaLjor J. B. A. WiA mori presents twialItx di ignostic, of tie, disease. feature-s of considerable, initerest. 'I he petitiut wias ill As has been emtphasized onmi-ore than onle oce-sioni, f'or eight mionithis, and experienced six rclapses. Thie the disease is primtarily)I one of animals. In this countiryr diagnosis was made niot only from a positive aggiluinfec(hon appecars to occur either by the consumiptioni of tination reaction, buit by cul'tivation of the causative heilvily, infected eowv's n-iilk or by direct contact wvith orgranismn from the urine. The fact that it grewv in the, abortinoanimiials. Trhc frequency of abortas inifectioni absencee of CO and that though it -was agolutinated in o is, knowin to be Mig, buit no exact filames of both by a serumi prepared against a porcine strain and it~-, inc idncec arc available.There is, nmor-eover little, by one prepared against a bovine strain of abor-tius or no r'eliaible informnation abouit the incidencec of the formi-er was effective at a highier titre, led the Brucella inifections of goats and swine. The time see-nis, au-thors to concluide that the organismn was probably of to be ipo, for tlie inst itution by the Mlinistry, of Agrii the porcine type. This conclusion miust for thie miomient "Iutu"( ofta commisso fiqir!note(is Iltif be regarded as provisional. Its independence of the ot thle dIisedase in anima;ls, and inito the Value, of thle presencee of CO, excludes for all practic-al puirposes the iiathods thatt mayli be -ue iit.,pohO-s l)ovine, type of abortuis; buit simiple agglutination -does, niot suiffice to distinguish it fromi Br. incliteuisis, for m-iany strainis of t-he porcine type of abor-t us arc, aggluCAUSES 01F NEG-NATAL DEATH. tinated b)y a bovine abor-tus and( by a inclitci.sis serumii TuIE-fil.st quarter of ani hour after birth is th-,e miost to a titre ofteni Iiighier thani that regyistered against the (alanerous per-iodI of life. Its miortality is as g-reat as hiomiologouis orgamasm. The, severity of the inifection, that of anyv subsequent mionith. No sinigle discove7(ry in theo presence, of a pa,pular eruiption, and( the cuiltivatioiinmedicalsicc or imiprovemenit in practice could d(o of thie organiisnm !romn the uirine-a finding, wihich is nlot miore to s,ave, lives than w\ould measures to avoid I lie uniommii-on in Mediterranean fever, butiwhich ,appears to l osse tat niow occuir wvithin a few mainuites after he. rare in abort us fever--suiggest, very strongaly thiat the b)irth.'' With this quotation from Yandell Ilenders-on.s; inifectioiin-may really have been duei to Br. inclitcnisis. paper oni the prevention and treatm--ent of asphvyxia in Unitil furtlier biochemnical anid serologaical tests have thie ne\wborn,'D.J N. 'Cruickshanak opens his report been m-iade, it wiouild be, as well to mi.aintain anl op)en on theo ?a,uses of neio-niat-al death,bsCl on 2 anivsIQm-ind ais to the exact classification of this bacillus. In1 lion ca-rried out on behalf of the Medi-cal Researeh anyli ease, thle finding is of great interest, beca,use, so C1ounc(il at th-e Gla;gow Royal Mvfaternity an-d Womnu-]s f:nr. as wve know, neither Br. melitensis n-or theo porcine Hfospital. tApe of Br-. atbortius has ever been i-solte inhs Fiv-e m-iore or less! distincet -periods of the child's co'try,.xsece-aey thie emabryonic, the foetal or anteTphe clinical sym1lptoDms of the. infection cauised by natal, the intra-niatal1, thenieo-natal, and the in-fanitilethle bovine, tyvpe of abortus, whIich. appears to be, the have to be considered separately. For the purpose, of comminon type in, Northiern Europe, are well1 enough this investiw ition Dr. Cruickshank m-ade a detailed known to excluide the niecessity of recapitulation. It study of oniix theo initra-natal. and neo-natual periodf;, m-ay be remiiarkied, however, that the, fever by nio meanis fand his report incluides a--close discussion of the postaldways ruins an uindulailt couirse, and it is onily the sev-ere, mortem finidinoas in 8-00 inifanlts who died withintwentyeases whiceh mianifest the frequen-t tenidencey to relapse eihraso irthi In 540 cases (67.5 per cent)o that is s characteistic ofMediterranean fever. In this; series dahx srgre sbigdet ci


Presentation of a dynamic bearing tester, offering two programmable duration cycles including a programmed number of torque tests and bearing run-in periods. Summary of some operating bearing torque characteristics as a function of numerous bearing/lubricant factors and their correlation to theoretical equations


The fractional reaction-diffusion differential equation with a fractional oscillator in a finite fractal medium was established.By applying Laplace transformation, the finite Hankel transformation and their inverse transform,the exact solution of the model were obtained.The expression in the form of the generalized Mittag-Leffler function was given.Finally,the solutions of two-dimensional space,three-dimensional space and the integral diffusion equation as some particular cases of this paper were discussed.


Farnesyltranferase inhibitors (FTI) are signal transduction inhibitors that block farnesylation of a number of proteins including Ras that are involved in key cellular functions (proliferation,survival and differentiation).1,2 Tipifarnib is a potent inhibitor of farnesyltransferase that is orally bioavailable. Tipifarnib was initially developed with the goal of targeting Ras in cancers with a high incidence of Ras mutations. However, after failure of large clinical trials in solid tumors (pancreas, colon) further development was mainly focused on hematologic malignancies


The title compound, (C8H20N)[Mn2(C6H5O)3(CO)6], was synthesized from [Mn(CO)3(CH3CN)3]BF4 and (C8H20N)(OC6H5). The binuclear anion exhibits a pseudo-threefold symmetry and contains two six-coordinate Mn atoms. Each metal atom is coordinated by three facially oriented CO ligands and three doubly-bridging phenolate ligands. The average O—Mn—O bond angle is 74.9 (7)° in the Mn2O3 metal–phenolate dimeric core, yielding a distorted octahedron for each metal.


infections among inhabi-tants of malaria-endemic countries [2–5]. Absenceof patent parasites from the peripheral blood isoften associated with sub-patent parasitaemiasthat can last for several months, even when thepossibility of reinfection can be ruled out [5,6].However, it is not known whether such sub-patentlong lasting infections can produce sexual formsand thus be capable of infecting mosquitoes.Some studies have indicated that the minimumdensity of gametocytes capable of infectingmosquitoes can be remarkably low (reviewed byCarter and Gwadz [7]), and it has been demon-strated that sexual forms are infectious tomosquitoes even when they occur at levels notdetectable by microscopy [8]. Here we describe areverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR) for detection of gametocytes of


The common cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) is considered as a hybrid between F. virginiana and F. chilonensis. F. species belongs to rosaceae family with basic chromosome number X=7. Genus Fragaria includes atleast 17 other species (diploid, tetraploid, hexaploid and octoploid). The cultivated strawberry is an octoploid (2n=8x=56). Strawberry is also nutritious and beneficial for anemic patients. Strawberry International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 1 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


A tantalate (or niobate) photocatalyst with high specific surface area is prepared from the TaO5 (or NbO5) through preparing the precursor solution of tantalum (or niob ium) oxalate, adding strontium carbonate, barium carbonate, lithium carbonate, or RE nitrate to it, dissolving chelant EDTA in it, adding citric acid and ethanediol, heating while stirring, polyesterifying, calcining and heat treating at 600-900 deg.C.


The paper analyzes the working principle of a current transformer and the effect on relay protection and a current transformer model has been set up.According to the theoretical analysis and simulation results,compare the current transformer characteristics under different conditions.Analyze primary amplitude size,aperiodic component size,primary side time constand and secondary side load to the effect on current transformer saturation,thus putting forward stopping a method from current transformer saturation.


The target paper had the purpose of drawing attention to something "beyond countertransference"—the impact of the therapist's psychology on the treatment, not in reaction to the patient, but as desires and defenses that operate throughout. The illustrative issue was a speculation that my development and analytic engagement carried elements that led me to interact with women patients in a way that increased the likelihood of their conceiving. The respondents reacted differently to the provocative aspect of this idea, but have in common a recognition of the analyst's desire as an important part of the relationship. A further case vignette is introduced in this reply to examine some of the points raised by the respondents, in particular how the analyst's desire may be expressed in a form that is modulated by the analytic role and at the same time has an impact on the patient's life decisions. In sum, we are players in the drama of analytic work, and the more we think about what and how we are ourselves in treatments, the more informed our inevitable impact will be.