Abstract We assessed the effectiveness of lyophilised banked human milk (HM) as a fortifier to feed very-low-birth-weight infants (VLBWI). This study aimed to evaluate the safety and tolerability of HM with HM lyophilisate as an additive compared with the standard additive (cows' milk protein). In this phase I double-blind randomised controlled clinical trial, set in the intensive and intermediate care units of a tertiary hospital, forty VLBWI were enrolled and allocated into two groups: HM plus HM lyophilisate (LioNeo) or HM plus commercial additive (HMCA). The inclusion criteria were preterm infants, birth weight 750–1500 g, small or adequate for gestational age, exclusively receiving donor HM, volume ≥ 100 ml/kg per d and haemodynamically stable. Participants were followed up for 21 consecutive days. The primary outcome measures were necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), late-onset sepsis (LOS), death, gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding or perforation, diarrhoea, regurgitation, vomiting and abdominal distension. The LioNeo and HMCA groups had similar weights at baseline. The regression models showed no differences between the groups in terms of the primary outcomes. Diarrhoea, GI perforation, NEC and LOS were absent in the LioNeo group (one LOS and one NEC in the HMCA group). Multiple regression analysis with the total volume of milk as a covariate did not show significant differences. The lyophilisation of donor HM was considered safe and tolerable for use in stable haemodynamically VLBWI.


Laymen and social scientists alike often believe that people are inspired to participate in political or social movements because of certain dislocating or frustrating personal experiences. The political protests of recent years have been interpreted in terms of similar ideas and formalized in five currently popular theories on the origins of political protest: status inconsistency, cumulative deprivation, relative deprivation, rising expectations, and social isolation. I review a large body of empirical evidence concerning each theory and find, at best, only limited support for them. Next I present some general reasons why the theories may be either inadequate or only partially correct. And, finally, I suggest a novel approach to the explanation and prediction of participation in political movements, portrayed in the form of a path-analytic scheme which can be employed in future empirical research.


Address for Correspondence: Kebe E. Obeten, Department of Anatomy and Forensic Science, Cross River University of Technology, Okuku, Nigeria. Phone: +2348035505856 E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com This study was carried out to evaluate the effects of ethanolic leaf extract of Sida acuta on the histology of the testis and reproductive hormones of male adult Wistar rats. Twenty five rats weighing between 180 – 220 g were assigned to five groups (control, olive oil control, low dose, medium dose and high dose) with five animals each. Normal control fed only on rat chow, olive oil control group received 0.5ml of olive oil. The experimental groups, low dose, medium dose and high dose received 500mg/kgBW, 1000mg/kgBW 1500mg/kgBW of the extract orally for 60days respectively. The animals were sacrificed at end of sixty days using chloroform anesthesia. Blood was collected from the left ventricle of the heart through cardiac puncture for hormonal assay. The testes were dissected, sectioned for hematoxylin and eosin (H&E). Hormonal studies showed dose dependent significant (p<0.05) increase in Luteinizing Hormone (LH) across all the treatment groups when compared to the normal and olive oil control groups. Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) was reduced in the low and medium dose animals that received 500mg/kgBw and 1000mg/kgBw of the extract respectively when compared to the control groups, while the high dose group that received 1500mg/kgBw of the extract showed increased FSH level. Testosterone level remained insignificant among all experimental groups when compared to the normal and olive oil control groups. Histological observations of the testes showed dose dependent distortion of the normal cytoarchitecture of the organs, as the high dose (1500mg/kgBw) treated group revealed prominent distortion. Hence the study suggests that consumption of Sida acuta at high dose may cause adverse effect on reproductive parameters and organs.


The VISCACHA (VIsible Soar photometry of star Clusters in tApii and Coxi HuguA) Survey is an ongoing project based on deep photometric observations of Magellanic Cloud star clusters, collected using the SOuthern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope together with the SOAR Adaptive Module Imager. Since 2015 more than 200 hours of telescope time were used to observe about 130 stellar clusters, most of them with low mass (M < 10$^4$ M$_\odot$) and/or located in the outermost regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. With this high quality data set, we homogeneously determine physical properties from statistical analysis of colour-magnitude diagrams, radial density profiles, luminosity functions and mass functions. Ages, metallicities, reddening, distances, present-day masses, mass function slopes and structural parameters for these clusters are derived and used as a proxy to investigate the interplay between the environment in the Magellanic Clouds and the evolution of such systems. In this first paper we present the VISCACHA Survey and its initial results, concerning the SMC clusters AM3, K37, HW20 and NGC796 and the LMC ones KMHK228, OHSC3, SL576, SL61 and SL897, chosen to compose a representative subset of our cluster sample. The project's long term goals and legacy to the community are also addressed.


The paper reports on structural investigation and phase analysis of a newly synthesized potent local anesthetic with chiral molecular structure. Absolute structure and absolute configuration on four chiral centres was determined using microcrystalline single-crystal diffraction with anomalous scattering of X-ray radiation azimuthal scan technique. Phase analysis for new compound (KP23SS) and its epimer (KP23RS) was carried out using classical and synchrotron radiation powder diffraction. Enantiopurity of the bulk material was verified for both isomers by comparison of experimental and simulated high-resolution powder diffraction diagrams. The presence of two new polymorphic phases of KP23RS was documented. Comparative conformational analysis was carried out using differential Fourier synthesis and least-squares molecule overlap technique. A model of epimeric disorder was discussed for the homochiral phase.


Quality of Service (QoS) refers to a capability of a network to provide better service to a particular flow of data and it is a very important feature of modern networks. QoS provision has usually been based on a strict synchronised behaviour of a network where QoS packets traverse the network in prereserved time-slots. This paper investigates the ability of an asynchronous on-chip network to provide QoS. It discusses the problems of self-timed design to provide guaranteed bandwidth and proposes solutions to the problems.


ABSTRACTThis article presents an analysis of interviews done with a woman science teacher, Pat, over a six-year period. The interviews began when Pat was a student in a science and mathematics teacher education program, and continued into her third year of teaching. The writer examines changes in Pat's ideas about learning, about herself as a learner, and about teaching. In addition, the writer examines some of the research and ethical issues involved in doing this research and the changes in her own ideas as the study progressed. As Pat's ideas became more elaborated and instantiated in her own practice, the value of the uncertainty she expressed early in the interview process became clear. What the writer first interpreted as a weakness or lack of clarity slowly appeared as a strength, for Pat's recognition of her lack of certainty seemed to contribute to her later ability not only to tolerate the ambiguities of teaching but to use these as sources for experimentation and growth.


This article examines the determinants of leaving-home of young adults in rural communities characterized by poor subsistence agriculture and increasingly degraded ecological conditions. The data for this analysis come from a household and community survey carried out between October 1994 and March 1995 in the North Shewa Wello and Tigray provinces of Ethiopia. The main objective of the survey was to investigate the demographic responses of farming households to persisting ecological degradation and food insecurity in those areas. The demographic sociocultural and economic factors labeled at the individual household and community levels are applied to investigate the determinants of leaving-home of young adults under conditions of severe ecological stress. Overall the study found that both the individual and household level variables are important determinants of leaving-home of young adults. It is noted that males tend to leave home less often than females but when a control is made for reasons of leaving males tend to move out more for economic reasons than females. Moreover the household and community level indicators of economic status and vulnerability to crisis are important determinants of leaving-home of youngsters under conditions of stress.


The causes of different kinds of meteorological calamities occurred frequently in Shaanxi are analyzed in terms of geographical environment, geological physiognomy, hydrology, weather and climate in Shaanxi The effective countermeasures against these calamities and strategy for reduction of the loss from meteorological calamity are put forward


To the Editor–We thank the authors for their interest in our article. the primary interest of our research was to attempt to reduce the number of major resections by trying to predict the risk of metastatic lymph node spread more accurately. the area of submucosal invasion appeared to be a valuable predictor along with other histopathological variables. a number of specific questions are raised, as described below.


Summary. In the intense geomagnetic disturbances of early August 1972, auroral zone microburst trains were observed at balloon altitude and found to be significantly narrower in burst width and spacing than microbursts found previously at the same site. These observations suggest that the spacing of microburst peaks, as well as their width, is related to variations in the power spectrum of a magnetospheric acceleration process rather than the bounce motions of electrons in the geomagnetic field or the modulation of electron precipitation by drift waves in magnetospheric plasma.


Looking towards first LHC collisions, the ATLAS detector is being commissioned using the physics data available: cosmic rays and data taken during the LHC single beam operations at 450 GeV. During the installation of the ATLAS detector in the cavern, cosmic rays were collected with the different parts of the detector that were available. Combined cosmic runs taken with the full installed detector with and without magnetic field as well as a few single beam events recently recorded are being used to commission the full system prior to the first proton collisions.


We attempted to investigate the long‐term outcomes, prognostic factors, treatment failures, second primary malignancies, and salvage therapies in early (pT1‐2N0) oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma (OTSCC).


Starting with investigating the behavior consciousness of the middle-aged college teachers on Physical exercises,this research makes a deep study of the behavior consciousness of the middle-aged college teachers on having their physical exercises.The research objects are the middle-aged teachers from the colleges and universities in Dalian.Basing on the practical situation of the fitness consciousness of the middle-aged teachers from the colleges and universities in Dalian,this research adopts the researching methods of document-data,questionnaire survey,expert interview,theoretical analysis,and mathematical statistics,etc.After the concrete analysis,the conclusion is discovered.1) The majority of the middle-aged college teachers are experiencing a decline of physical agents,the reason of which is the poor awareness on their health care after they step into their middle-ages.2) Because of the changing of their social roles,their spare time is getting shorter.3) They do not prefer the sports which have intense rivalry and large amount of exercise.Instead,outdoor sports and small ball sports develop better relatively.4) The college teachers do not invest enough money in physical exercise,and hold a negative attitude towards the view of sports consumption.5) In colleges,the body-building equipments,which can only support the basic day-to-day teaching,are small in quantity,bad in quality,unreasonable in structure,simple in supporting facilities.They restrict the college teachers' enthusiasm of taking part in the physical exercise.


Application of software agents to manufacturing scheduling and control can be traced back to the mid-1980s. During the past 10 years, extensive research and development efforts have been reported on the applications of agents to various levels of manufacturing systems, from the control of single machines, to the scheduling of shop floors, and to the management of supply chains. However, industrial applications are still rare compared with other technologies such as Web-based technologies. This is primarily due to the fact that the majority of research and development work in this area is done within the academic community. Agent technology is still considered as 'nice-to-have' by industry and it may be some time before it can be considered as a 'must-have' technology. Based on both academic and industrial experience, Massimo Paolucci and Roberto Sacile have produced an excellent introductory book on the application of intelligent software agents to manufacturing and control systems, in particular to manufacturing planning, scheduling and control. The text is particularly suitable for engineers and managers in the manufacturing sector, who have little background knowledge in agent technology and its potential applications to manufacturing planning, scheduling, and control. For engineering graduate students and practitioners, this text can be taken as a starting point for their research and development on agent-based manufacturing and control systems. Unlike many other academic researchers, the authors of this book provide a realistic view of agent applications in industry. They present their first hand experience in the design and implementation of agent-based manufacturing and control systems through the example of a fictitious manufacturing enterprise (PS-Bikes) that produces made-to-order bicycles. The book is organised in seven chapters. Chapters 1 to 3 present an introduction to the concepts of agents, multi-agent systems, and agent-based manufacturing and control systems. These three chapters also discuss some key issues in designing agentbased manufacturing systems, with special focus on manufacturing planning, scheduling, and control. The techniques developed by the authors, as well as those by other researchers, are introduced and used in the PS-Bikes case study. Chapters 4 and 5 are contributed by other authors. These two chapters have been related to the first three chapters through the same PS-Bikes case study, but they can also be treated separately: chapter 4 on agent-based simulation (in a more general sense) and chapter 5 on agent system implementation (using a well-known agent implementation platform called JADE and an object-oriented design methodology called PASSI).


The spectrum of solar protons with energies between 77.5 and 290 Mev has been measured during the flare event of July 12, 1961, by means of nuclear emulsions flown on a high-altitude balloon from Fort Churchill. The differential spectrums averaged over the period from 0839 to 1819 UT, July 13, are consistent with a power law of kinetic energy with an exponent γ = 5.6 ± 0.3, a power law of total energy over rest energy with γ = 47 ± 3, and an exponential law of rigidity with P0 = 52 ± 3. The intensity of particles with E ≥ 77.5 Mev = 1.69 ± 0.14 p/cm2 ster sec. During the solar particle event of July 18 the intensity of particles with E ≥ 100 Mev was 40 ± 8 p/cm2 ster sec in the time interval from 1305 to 1918 UT, July 18. The similarity between these events and those of April 29 and May 4, 1960, is noted.


In A multidisciplinary clinic for occupational disease Dorothy Linn Holness briefly explores the work of the Occupational Disease Specialty Program (ODSP) at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada.


An investigation was performed to develop a flexible sensor network that can be stretched and expanded to cover structures with an order of magnitude larger than its original unexpanded size. The increasing need to cover large areas with a high number of sensors, networks, and electronic devices for structural health monitoring leads to this study. In this paper a flexible polymer with ultra- high stretching capability (linear expansions larger than 1000% the original length) is designed, fabricated and tested for sensor network applications. The stretchability of the polymer is achieved by engineering thousands of micronodes, which house the sensors and electronics, interconnected by extendable and flexible polymer microwires. The extendable microwires are the key element to perform uniform expansions of the network in all directions, to allow precise location of the nodes, to maximize the polymer expansion per unit area and to allow translation only of the nodes. With the proposed microwire design, a linear elongation wider than 1000% was achieved for a 256 nodes network, avoiding failure of the microwires and micronodes during fabrication and extension. It is believed that the proposed flexible, expandable polymer design is a cost-effective approach to integrate networks of thousands of sensors, actuators and electronic devices into large structures.


LBL-12675 Preprint c Submitted to Marine Chemistry AN INVESTIGATION OF METHODS FOR THE SELECTIVE REMOVAL AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSITION METALS ASSOCIATED WITH SOLIDS IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT Reed Van Valin and John W. Morse February 1981 TWO-WEEK LOAN COPY This is a Library Circulating Copy which may be borrowed for two weeks. For a personal retention copy, call Tech. Info. Dioision, Ext. 6782 Prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract W-7405-ENG-48


The Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Double Moment 5-class (WDM5) mixed ice microphysics scheme predicts the mixing ratio of hydrometeors and their number concentrations for warm rain species including clouds and rain. WDM5 can be computed in parallel in the horizontal domain using multi-core GPUs. In order to obtain a better GPU performance, we manually rewrite the original WDM5 Fortran module into a highly parallel CUDA C program. We explore the usage of coalesced memory access and asynchronous data transfer. Our GPU-based WDM5 module is scalable to run on multiple GPUs. By employing one NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU, our GPU optimization effort on this scheme achieves a speedup of 252x with respect to its CPU counterpart Fortran code running on one CPU core of Intel Xeon E5-2603, whereas the speedup for one CPU socket (4 cores) with respect to one CPU core is only 4.2x. We can even boost the speedup of this scheme to 468x with respect to one CPU core when two NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPUs are applied.


3-(4'-Hydroxy-3'-methoxybenzyl)-2(5H)-furanone (1), a rare benzyl furanone derivate, and two new lignans (2 and 3) were isolated from the heartwood of Nothotsuga longibracteata, together with nineteen known lignans compounds. The structures and absolute configurations of the undescribed compounds were elucidated on the basis of HR-ESI-MS, 1D NMR, 2D NMR, and CD spectroscopies. The cytotoxic effects of the isolated new lignan compounds on three human tumour cell lines (A172, SHSY5Y, and Hela) were evaluated by methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium (MTT) assay. Their showed no cytotoxic activities at the concentration of 50 μmol/L. Gastrointestinal motility test of zebrafish showed that compound 3 has the function of promoting gastrointestinal motility of zebrafish to excrete Nile red at doses 8 and 24 μmol/L by means of acting on the cholinergic nervous system.


Many studies have investigated the effect of alloying elements on the recrystallization behavior of work-hardened austenite. However, the recrystallization behavior of high carbon low alloy steel has not yet been systematically investigated. In this study, the effects of alloying elements, focusing on the carbon content, are examined by means of a double-hit compression test. The following conclusions were obtained: (1) An independent effect of carbon content on the recrystallization behavior is not recognized. (2) The effects of the Nb, Ti, and V additions on inhibiting recrystallization are ampli ed when the carbon content is increased from 0.1% to 0.55%. (3) The carbon content dependency of the effects of the Nb and Ti addition on recrystallization becomes weaker when the deformation and holding temperature becomes lower. (4) C–V complexes or very ne VC clusters are considered to be responsible for an inhibiting recovery and recrystallization of 0.55%C–0.1%V steel, which shows a very strong inhibition effect. [doi:10.2320/matertrans.M2016344]


Any lipid derived from the aliphatic amino alcohol sphingosine, in which a single fatty acid is covalently bound to sphingosine via an amide linkage. Various ester-linked substituents can result in generation of ceramides, sphingomyelins and glycosphingolipids.


The generation of frequency-modulated and amplitude-modulated combs on demand by a multi-section quantum dot laser are presented. The combs are centered at 1265 nm (7900 cm−1). Temporally- and spectrally-resolved intensity and inter-modal phase as well as time and frequency domain analysis identify frequency-modulated and amplitude-modulated comb generation in dependence on the laser gain current and absorber reverse bias voltage. Radio-frequency beat note line widths as low as 200 Hz are reported.


Egyptian authorities have conceded that October's Sinai plane crash was the work of terrorists. Gordon Woo considers how risk assessors might respond to these and other threats to passenger safety


entiation in self-renewing tissues of the body. Functional assays st] for stem cells are available only for hematopoiesis and spermato- st( genesis, and the microenvironment, or niche, for hematopoiesis is ce relatively inaccessible, making it difficult to analyze donor stem cell cc colonization events in recipients. In contrast, the recently devel- Di oped spermatogonial stem cell assay system allows quantitation of ab individual colonization events, facilitating studies of stem cells and in their associated microenvironment. By using this assay system, we be found a 39-fold increase in male germ-line stem cells during er development from birth to adult in the mouse. However, colony ot size or area of spermatogenesis generated by neonate and adult av stem cells, 2-3 months after transplantation into adult tubules, was similar (-0.5 mm2). In contrast, the microenvironment in the re immature pup testis was 9.4 times better than adult testis in ac allowing colonization events, and the area colonized per donor bi stem cell, whether from adult or pup, was about 4.0 times larger pr in recipient pups than adults. These factors facilitated the resto- ni ration of fertility by donor stem cells transplanted to infertile pups. m Thus, our results demonstrate that stem cells and their niches at undergo dramatic changes in the postnatal testis, and the micro- sti environment of the pup testis provides a more hospitable envi- in ronment for transplantation of male germ-line stem cells. te Tl


Particularly great attention has accompanied the inflow of foreign direct investments to Hungary. These enterprises have played an outstanding role in modernising the economy and improving export capabilities and employment. At the end of 1990's 26 000 firms with foreign direct investment have been active in Hungary with a total subscribed foreign capital of 20 billion USD. This work is concerned with spatial distribution of the enterprises with "foreign direct investment" from Romania and Yugoslavia and the economic and social factors that have influenced its appearance and development.


A Case for Diagnosis. Presented by Dr. Stokes. A woman, aged 24, single, had an eruption of three years' duration which had been treated as psoriasis. The elementary lesion was apparently a miliary pustule (follicular?), with peripheral extension to a pansy-shaped lesion, peripherally bullous or vesicopustular, with a hard, dry central crust. Healing usually occurred without but sometimes with slight scarring. The eruption had been limited to the flanks, back and axillae, but recently it had appeared on the abdomen. The patient also had epidermophytosis of the toes, with a questionable involvement of the anal cleft and axillae. The Kolmer reaction on the blood had been repeatedly negative; the results of the Kahn test was O11 on two occasions. Bacteriologically, Staphylococcus citreus was found. The eruption had responded temporarily to roentgenotherapy (10÷5 treatments, the last of ¼ HSD each). It had cleared once under treatment with vaccine of Staphylococcus citreus


We present a generalized linear multistage hybrid multiuser detector for the uplink channel in a CDMA system. We discuss new results that facilitate the analysis of multistage multiuser detectors. We validate our work by extensive simulation showing the convergence behavior of the hybrid multiuser detector for different users' grouping.


Monterio et al. (doi: 10.1094/MPMI-07-11-0201) provided an efficient tool for genetic studies in Ralstonia solanacearum, which ensures direct insertion of foreign gene elements into Ralstonia chromosome downstream of glms, called pRC system. This system is designed for double recombination across glms and downstream region, which considerably simplifies genetic studies of complementation, overexpression, pathogenicity and in vivo promoter activity assays with monocopy in R. solanacearum, one of the most destructive plant pathogenic bacteria worldwide. R. solanacearum is extremely heterogeneous and currently referred as a Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC). The glms gene is greatly conserved, but its downstream regions are mostly different in the RSSC, which limits the application of current pRC plasmid in the RSSC. We compared all existing 132 genome sequences in a precise genomic region of glms downstream region and confirmed that the pRC system is appropriate for application of chromosomal integration in all RSSC strains but need respective reconstruction on current pRC plasmids since glms downstream regions are greatly variable in the RSSC. Most of RSSC strains can be divided into twenty groups due to identical glms downstream regions in each group, indicating that reconstructed pRC plasmids can be shared in respective groups. This grouping provides useful guideline for reconstruction on current pRC plasmid and facilitates universal application of the pRC system among different RSSC strains.


In this paper, we propose a single objective optimization evolutionary algorithm (EA) based on Covariance Matrix Learning and Searching Preference (CMLSP) and design a switching method which is used to combine CMLSP and Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMAES). Then we investigate the performance of the switch method on a set of 30 noiseless optimization problems designed for the special session on real-parameter optimization of CEC 2014. The basic idea of the proposed CMLSP is that it is more likely to find a better individual around a good individual. That is to say, the better an individual is, the more resources should be invested to search the region around the individual. To achieve it, we discard the traditional crossover and mutation and design a novel method based on the covariance matrix leaning to generate high quality solutions. The best individual found so far is used as the mean of a Gaussian distribution and the covariance of the best λ individuals in the population are used as the evaluation of its covariance matrix and we sample the next generation individual from the Gaussian distribution other than using crossover and mutation. In the process of generating new individuals, the best individual is changed if ever a better one is found. This search strategy emphasizes the region around the best individual so that a faster convergence can be achieved. The use of switch method is to make best use of the proposed CMLSP and existing CMAES. At last, we report the results.


Today most of the Attackers target to social media network data's, this happen in malicious Environment. User doesn't know if our sharing data may be misused by attacker. We propose novel concept "OTP" based data view, data owner can ease to identify malicious user, because consumer should be validate for receive any data from data owner. All stored data must be based on Data Lineage concept .Data Lineage means share one copy of data to all users and also maintain all accessed consumer information for that data. In this way we can avoid Duplications and easy to identify data leakage. Effectively manage Database memory. In this paper, we propose a novel server-side deduplication scheme for encrypted data. It allows the cloud server to control access to outsourced data even when the ownership changes dynamically by exploiting randomized convergent encryption and secure ownership group key distribution. This prevents data leakage not only to revoked users even though they previously owned that data, but also to an honest-but-curious cloud storage server. In addition, the proposed scheme guarantees data integrity against any tag inconsistency attack. Thus, security is enhanced in the proposed scheme. The efficiency analysis results demonstrate that the proposed scheme is almost as efficient as the previous schemes, while the additional computational overhead is negligible.


The lowest order chiral Lagrangian successfully applied to study the interaction of the SU(3) octet of pseudo-scalar mesons is generalized to include all mesons from the SU(4) 15-plet of pseudo-scalar mesons. Exchanges of heavy vector mesons, which are indirectly taken into account via this approach, are suppressed. Unitarization in coupled channels leads to dynamical generation of resonances in the open and hidden charm sectors. In particular, for reasonable values of the input, a new narrow scalar resonance in the hidden charm sector appears with a mass of 3.7 GeV.


IgA nephropathy (IgA N) is an immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis defined morphogically by the constant presence of dominant or codominant mesangial deposists of IgA accompanied by a variety of histopathological lesions [1]. It is the most common pattern of primary glomerulonephritis seen in the world [2,3] and represents a significant cause of renal insufficiency in young adults [4]. In the majority of cases the cause remains unknown. There is an increasing literature reporting associations between IgAN and other diseases. Whether these reports represent chance associations or genuine shared pathophysiology is discussed. We report here an association of IgA Nephropathy with β thalassemia minor, psychosis and deafness. We wonder about a genetic explanation to this association.


By the use of group theory the vibrational modes of chlorobenzene molecule were studed.The symmetrical characteristic and Raman activity of every vibration mode were analyzed.The results indicated that chlorobenzene molecule contains 30 different vibrational Raman lines.Raman spectra of chlorobenzene were obtained by using laser Raman spectrometry.The characteristics of the vibration Raman spectra were analyzed,while 16 spectrum lines were assigned.It provided the basis for the recognition of chlorobenzene in organic mixture.


Abstract is not required for Clinical Imagesis not required for Clinical Images (This page in not part of the published article.) International Journal of Case Reports and Images, Vol. 7 No. 1, January 2016. ISSN – [0976-3198] Int J Case Rep Images 2016;7(1):72–74. www.ijcasereportsandimages.com Cochicho et al. 72 CASE REPORT OPEN ACCESS Tuberculosis: When the key is the brain Joana Cochicho, Emília Louro, Armando Carvalho


Matrices that can be factored into a product of two simpler matrices can serve as a useful and often natural model in the analysis of tabulated or high-dimensional data. Models based on matrix factorization (Factor Analysis, PCA) have been extensively used in statistical analysis and machine learning for over a century, with many new formulations and models suggested in recent years (Latent Semantic Indexing, Aspect Models, Probabilistic PCA, Exponential PCA, Non-Negative Matrix Factorization and others). In this thesis we address several issues related to learning with matrix factorizations: we study the asymptotic behavior and generalization ability of existing methods, suggest new optimization methods, and present a novel maximum-margin high-dimensional matrix factorization formulation. (Copies available exclusively from MIT Libraries, Rm. 14-0551, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307. Ph. 617-253-5668; Fax 617-253-1690.)


[Objective]To investigate the epidemiological characteristics of Guillain-Brre Syndrome (GBS) among people aged under 15 in the west region of Hunan.[Methods]To analyze the GBS data of Xiangxi autonomous prefecture from 1994 to 2005.[Results]The incidence rates of GBS fluctuated from 0.15/105 to 1.81/105 among people aged under 15. 54 cases (31 men and 23 women) distributed in 48 townships,53 villages. 37 cases occurred from May to August,which accounted for 68.51% of the total cases.38 cases recovered from palsy after 80 days of the attack of this disease.16 cases remained acute flaccid paralysis,which accounted for 29.63%.[Conclusion]The incidence rate of GBS was in a high level in the district, it was an main reason to cause children disabled.


In the work is posed and solved the parametric optimization problem for second order linear system with delay in control. The control is realised by means of a PI-Controller in the closed loop feedback. It is considered the performance index integral of squared error. The value of the performance index is obtained using of the Lyapunov functional and is equal to the value of the Lyapunov functional at initial function. The Lyapunov functional is determined by means of the Lyapunov matrix. In the paper are presented the optimization results for different time delays and for varies damping factors.


Speech recognition systems generally depend upon pattern matching, thus the pattern matching circuit is indispensable in these systems. Hitachi designed an NL-LSI [1] with an original architecture and useful pattern matching function two years ago. The new LSI enhances the NL-LSI's functions and performance. The vocabulary size of this LSI is 512 words, eight times that of the NL-LSI. This LSI is able to calculate the Chebyshev norm and matching value. And this LSI has been designed to be suitable for both isolated word recognition and connected-speech recognition. In this paper, the authors describe this LSI's specifications, architecture and performance.


In this article, I will present partial results of three experiments that deal with the second language (L2) acquisition of the same phenomenon: Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) in Spanish and Bulgarian by native English speakers. This is the phenomenon where an object that is previously mentioned in the discourse (a Topic) moves to the beginning of the sentence, and is doubled by a clitic agreeing with it in person, number, and gender. Because the acceptability of this word order depends on the previous discourse, this linguistic construction is evaluated at the interface of syntax and discourse. The Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Serratrice, 2009; Sorace, 2011) argues that acquisition of such constructions present possibly insurmountable problems even in very advanced L2 speakers. I will discuss findings from Valenzuela (2005, 2006), Ivanov (2009), and Slabakova, Kempchinsky & Rothman (in revision), which demonstrate successful acquisition of Bulgarian and Spanish topicalization constructions. I will show that all these findings argue against a strong version of the Interface Hypothesis, and I will discuss why acquisition of this type is interesting to study.


Offshore wind farms have started to contribute important supplies of renewable energy. The energy production of a wind farm depends upon the local wind climate and so may be predicted in advance. Usually, the prediction is based on at least one year of accurate wind measurements. Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) wind mapping can be a useful tool in selecting optimal sites and may therefore increase the cost-effectiveness of planning wind farms, e.g., in feasibility studies. In the WEMSAR project1 wind fields from SAR, in situ measurements and model output from three test-sites have been analysed [1]. Subsequently, a WEMSAR tool for effectively retrieving wind data from SAR images and utilising them in the WAsP micrositing model, has been developed. Testing of the WEMSAR tool at Horns Rev offshore wind farm in Denmark is ongoing.


This paper suggests to guideline food safety and economic gains in the restaurant business Industry. First, provide useful tools for easily understanding in the food safety and express warranty Second, manage all documents like sanitation report, claim report in related to the product liability as a precautions. Third, execute fast & proper action for consumer's demage. Fourth, organize positively brand image in the corporate. Fifth, implement useful tools in the product standard and qualification such as ISO9000, HACCP, and PLMS. Sixth. Support co-partner against product liability. Seventh, take a action early for product liability in the foodservice industry.


The interface –log[H+] defined as pH′ of a mimic inner mitochondrial membrane is ∼3.9 at bulk pH ∼ 6.8, which affects cytochrome c activity.


FIELD: physics. SUBSTANCE: light source based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) has at least one layer (3) of light-emitting material between two electrode layers (2, 4), wherein at least one of said electrode layers (2, 4) is made from material which is at least partially transparent in the region of the wavelength of light emitted by the layer (3) of light-emitting material, at least one of the electrode layers (2, 4) is structured to form electrode segments (5), and each inner electrode segment (5) of the pattern is in electrical contact with at least three neighbouring electrode segments (5) through direct electrical connections (6), which are intended to operate as fuses between electrode segments (5), wherein said direct electrical connections (6) are formed from regions of the structured electrode layer (2, 4) which completely surround the inner electrode segments (5) and thinner than these electrode segments (5). EFFECT: invention provides design of a large-area LED-based light source, having uniform light density without the risk of failure of large light-emitting areas. 7 cl, 13 dwg


To explore the structural transformation of cyclopentadienyl ruthenium (CpRu) complexes in response to external stimuli, the reaction of [RuCp(MeCN)3][X] (X = PF6, (FSO2)2N [= FSA]) and tris(alkylthio)benzenes (1,3,5-C6H3(SR)3; L1: R = Pr, L2: R = Me) was investigated, and the crystal structures and thermal properties of the products were examined. The reaction produced the sandwich complexes [RuCpLn][X] or dinuclear complexes [Ru2Cp2(μ-Ln)2(CH3CN)m][X]2 (X = PF6, FSA) depending on the reaction conditions. The sandwich complex [RuCpL1][FSA] was an ionic liquid. The solids of dinuclear complexes transformed into the thermodynamically stable sandwich complexes upon heating accompanied by acetonitrile loss. This change resulted in a transformation from crystal to ionic liquid for complexes with the FSA anion. UV irradiation of the sandwich complex [RuCpL1][PF6] in methanol produced the dinuclear complex [Ru2Cp2(μ-L1)2L12][PF6]2. The complex transformed into the sandwich complex upon heating.


What is the main driving force of evolution? What determines the direction of evolutionary change? What causes novelties to arise? During most of the last century, these questions have been addressed by evolutionary biologists and the answer they have come up with is well known, not only to


The great german historian Eduard Meyer (1855-1930) stated in his monumental History of Antiquity (Geschichte des Altertums. 5 vols. 1884-1902) the coincidence of three distinctive features in monarchical regimes –whatever it be Easterners or Hellenistical–: absolutism, deifying and universality (Universalmonarchie). In his Caesars Monarchie und das Principat des Pompeius (1918), these outlines will be applied to the analysis of Roman Republic's ending phase and to the transition to Principate, setting up significant differencies between Caesar and Augustus. In a clear contro1 UBA – Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas ANDRÉS JIMÉNEZ COLODRERO Stylos. 2012; 21(21) 84 versy against Mommsen's views, Meyer portrayed a "hellenistical" Caesar and a "republican" Augustus with Ciceronian influences. Paradoxically, both the critic and the criticized have developed their interpretations in close contact with their political convictions, even in an unconscious way.


The host suitability of 20 locally available genotypes of Capsicum, 10 of Daucus carota, 7 of Beta vulgaris- and 3 of Spinacea oleracea were assessed in separate greenhouse studies for resistance to Meloidogyne incognita race 2 and M. javanica, respectively. Substantial variation existed amongst the vegetable genotypes in the greenhouse screenings with regard to their host status to the respective root-knot nematode species. None of the genotypes of D. carota, B. vulgaris and S. oleracea showed resistance to the nematode species tested. However, resistance to M. incognita race 2 was identified in Capsicum genotype "Tobasco", which was subsequently verified in a follow-up microplot trial using a range of initial population densities together with a susceptible Capsicum genotype "Paprika". Reproduction factors of the nematodes were used as the main criterion to evaluate resistance. In the microplot trial, genotype "Tobasco" showed resistance at the lower inoculum levels but not at the higher nematode population levels. The need exists for more frequent and extensive screenings of the various vegetable genotypes in order to provide small-scale farmers with better options for improved and sustainable yields.


This study investigate the potential biomedical application of micro/nano-aperture membrane fabricated with Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Experimental work is carried out to examine the membrane's sound transmission/absorption characteristics under the condition of different aperture diameter, thickness and cavity depth of tube. It is discovered that when there is no air layer besides the tested membrane, sound transmission is not affected. When there is sound layer, it is resonant sound absorption. In the frequency range of 100–1500Hz, it is low frequency high rate sound transmission zone. In the frequency range of 1500Hz–6300Hz, it is high frequency resonant sound absorption. It is found that PTFE as a fine sound transmission material as well as a fine sound absorption material. The original test provides a solid evidence for further research and modeling of sound transmission theory.


In this article, group theory is employed to simplify the computation of natural circular frequencies for spring–mass dynamic systems with rectilinear motion. The systems are by themselves not physically symmetric (or they exhibit only very weak symmetry properties), but they can be transformed into graphs that preserve all the connectivities between masses and springs, while featuring the maximum possible symmetry. For physical dynamic systems exhibiting symmetry, a well-known group-theoretic approach involves the computation of the full stiffness matrix of the system first, followed by transformation of this matrix in order to cast it into block-diagonal form. The present approach involves the direct assembly of much smaller stiffness matrices within the decomposed subspaces of the problem, and is therefore computationally more efficient. Of particular focus in this study are transformed configurations belonging to 'triangular' symmetry groups, whose symmetries are difficult to exploit using conventional methods. It is shown how the repeating eigenvalues associated with the degenerate subspaces of such symmetry groups can easily be obtained. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


3D computer modeling is the most important procedure in the reservoir fine description, It can help us to study the reservoir with quantitative and three-dimensional methods. This paper presents an example of the application 3D modeling to the first sand set of the upper ES2 reservoir in the south region of Pucheng Oilfield. Based on the basic data of the strata and structure, faults and structure model are built to display the 3D structure characteristics of the reservoir. The sedimentary microfacies data is imported and analyzed in the software and the variogram is defined to build the microfacies model. And then facies controlled petrophysical modeling technology is used when building the petrophysical model. Finally, In order to examine the precision of the built 3D geological model, according to the fluid model, the geological reserves of each zone is calculated, result manifests that the trueness error is reasonable, and the exported 3D model can be used in the numerical simulation.


The enterprise is a cell of society and core force of economic development. Under increasingly fierce competition salutation, enterprises are faced with complex and changing living environment. For enterprises, cash flow truly reflects enterprise operation conditions. To some extent, cash flow can indicate debt repayment ability and operation situation of an enterprise. This paper briefly summarizes the implication of cash flow and cash flow management importance, points out the problems of cash flow management in collective operation process and then proposes targeted countermeasures, in the hope of providing reference suggestions for enterprises to solve cash flow management problems.


The facultative diapause of Ascogaster quadridentata depends upon the photoperiod experienced by its host. A host exposed to short day lengths (12L:12D) ceases development in its fourth stadium, spins a cocoon, and remains dormant throughout the winter. A first stadium parasitoid larva overwinters in a true diapause, within its dormant host.

Dormancy of both animals is due to a failure of the host's endocrine system. Upon transfer of the host from dormancy-maintaining (OL:24D, 4°C) to dormancy-terminating conditions (DTC = 16L:8D, 25°C) a host cephalic factor is released. The cephalic factor blocked by host ligation within 48 h of transfer to DTC was circumvented by an injection of the host with 20-hydroxyecdysone. Parasitoid larvae that were either isolated within the abdomen of 20-hydroxyecdysone-injected hosts or held in vitro with the molting hormone initiated apolysis.

An increased titer of hemolymph juvenile hormone, which was present 48 h after the host was transferred to DTC, may have had a prothoracicotropic effect upon the host/parasitoid unit. A topical application of 1 ng of methoprene, concurrent to host transfer to DTC, accelerated parasitoid development. No parasitoid development was evident if the host was neck-ligated at the time of its methoprene treatment and transfer to DTC. These data suggest that the prothoracicotropic effect of methoprene was via the host head, rather than directly on the host prothoracic glands, or the parasitoid itself.


Ten lives are lost every day in Canada from opioid-related causes of death [1]. 94% of opioidrelated deaths in 2018 were accidental and preventable [2]. Worldwide, opioid-related deaths account for most drug-related deaths with 27 million people suffering from opioid addiction and dependency (OAD) [3,4]. Of particular concern with OAD is fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and was first detected in the Canadian illicit drug market in 2013 [5]. This Opinion Editorial will suggest that current drug policies criminalize individuals living with addiction and forces Canadians with OAD to turn to illicit sources. By decriminalizing drugs, criminal penalties associated with drug use and possession would be eliminated [6]. From a harm-reduction (HR) lens, decriminalization rejects forceful, punitive, abstinence-based approaches to drug use and rehabilitation [6].


Geodynamic studies of Malaysia have been ventured upon in the South-East Asia region since the first GeodySEA project in 1996. Both East and West Malaysia lies on the Eurasian Plate, and assumed to have no linear distortion between any two joined points relative to one another. However, Malaysia lies at the southern tip of the plate encroached by two frequently ruptured boundaries, the Indian-Australian plate and the Philippines plate, and it is also within the buffer of the Ring of fire. Hence, this paper is essential to determine the relative movement of Malaysia, and with the possibilities to identify the presences of slip-fault formation which might be of threat to the stable platform that we have taken for granted.


Two kinds of diblock copolymers containing glucose and phenylboronic acid moieties, respectively, poly (ethylene glycol)-b-poly (gluconamidoethyl methacrylate) (PEG-b-PGAMA) and poly (ethylene glycol)-b-poly (2-aminoethyl methacrylate-co-3-nitrophenyboronic acid methacrylate) (PEG-b-P(AMA-co-NPBMA)) were synthesized via atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and post polymerization modification (PPM). Well-defined structure and narrow molecular weight distribution of the polymers were confirmed by proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1H NMR) and Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC). Based on the cross-linking between the diol groups of the glycopolymer and phenylboronic acid under physiological pH (7.4), complex micelles composed of PEG outer shell and boronate ester cross-linking core with a hydrodynamic diameter around 20nm were formed. Morphology, size and assembly behavior of the complex micelles were investigated by 1H NMR, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and dynamic light scattering (DLS). The results showed the formation/cleavage of boronate ester linkage is reversible upon the variation of solution pH, the complex micelles displayed pH sentiveties of assembling/disassembling behavior. Above pH 7.4, stable spherical micelles can be formed, whereas pH less than 5.5, the micelles dissociated into unimers. Therefore, such pH-responsive micelles based on dynamic complexation of phenyl boronate bonds are expected to be applied to pH-responsive nanodrug carriers


The Commonwealth Government in November 2002 released the AusLink Green Paper which is a blue print for a long term national land transport plan. The release of this document followed the Review of the National Road Transport Commission Act 1991 which recommended the abolition of the Australian Road Transport Commission and to replace it with a National Transport Commission – the new body which would have the responsibility for a national approach to both road, rail and intermodal development.

AusLink was established in July 2004 and while an excellent government strategy, a national land transport plan demands the inclusion of an integrated rail network. Prior obstacles to the development of a national focus in rail have been overcome – gauge standardisation of the track and the abolition of state government monopolies. Despite deregulation, however, and the removal of the physical and jurisdictional constraints, other impediments are now appearing which are likely to prevent the effective implementation of a national focus. This is a product of the mechanism of deregulation itself and the development of state based and state focused access regimes which are now a barrier to the effective implementation of national network.


Weaning increased forage intake and depressed live weight; differences in intakes and growth rates of lambs born to South Australian and Fine wool Merinos were small. At 21 days, sucking lambs received less than 2% of their digestible organic matter from pasture and half the lambs weaned at this age died but the survivors consumed twice as much forage as unweaned sheep in the 14 days following weaning. At 49 days, unweaned lambs obtained approximately 41% of their digestible organic matter from pasture, and weaning resulted in less mortality and a proportionally smaller increase in forage consumption.


Speech recognition system needs to perform a high complex calculation and short time to complete it. This is a big challenge for the real-time systems. However, using a simple and fast algorithm may do this task for the slow systems. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to design and implement a Real-Time Arabic Speech Recognition system using MATLAB environment. It is capable of accurately identifying some letters while remaining simple and fast. It uses the Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) as a feature extraction and Euclidean distance to compare the test sound and the database. A recognition rate of 89.6% has been reached. General Terms Speech Recognition.


Recently there has been increased concern over the exposures not only in the radiation environment resulting from activities of human beings but also in natural radiation environment. So this paper presents a study on the spatial distributions and variation both for the induced radioactive gases, especially 41Ar and airborne radioactive dust in the Kyoto University Reactor, Research Institute (KURRI).The amount of 41Ar gas released from the KUR has been decreased by about one-tenth within past seven years due mainly to minimize leakage of the gas from the reactor core installations and further efforts have been focused on decreasing the released radioactivity according to the concept of ALARA.The simultaneity of the diurnal variation in the concentration of airborne radioactive dust observed in several buildings at the KURRI indicated that the changes were not induced by the activities of man.The comparison showed that the exposure dose equivalent rate on workers by radon progenies was high as much as ca. five fold than that caused by 41Ar when the ventilation was not operated in the building, and the annual dose equivalent by radon progenies on the public is also greater by the order of about 3 than that by 41Ar released from the KUR.


The invention discloses an aero-engine gas path component health diagnosis method based on particle filtering. The aero-engine gas path component health diagnosis method includes the steps that a nonlinear mathematical model of an engine is established; a particle filtering algorithm is designed based on significance weight value adjustment of a neural network; finally, a gas path component health diagnosis is achieved based on the nonlinear model of the engine by the adoption of the designed algorithm. The nonlinear mode is that on the basis of a physical equation reflecting the aerothermodynamics performance of the engine, a shared working equation set among the components is established, and by the adoption of a Newton Laphson interactive algorithm, the nonlinear equation set is solved to obtain working parameters of the cross section of the engine; the particle filtering algorithm based on the significance weight value adjustment of the neural network is that a BP neural network algorithm and a typical sampling algorithm are combined, on the basis of a standard particle filtering algorithm, two steps of weight value splitting and particle adjustment are added, and therefore the phenomena of particle degradation and sample depletion are effectively avoided. The health diagnosis of gradual performance degradation and sudden faults of the gas path components within the service life of the engine can be achieved.


Paediatric acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by the presence of different collaborating cytogenetic aberrations that are associated with outcome (Pui et al, 2011; Creutzig et al, 2012). New prognostically relevant genetic aberrations have recently been identified, such as mutations in NPM1 and FLT3, which further improve risk-group stratification, but the underlying genetic abnormalities are not fully understood in approximately 20% of paediatric AML cases (Pui et al, 2011; Creutzig et al, 2012). Unravelling the underlying aberrations involved in leukaemogenesis may improve risk-group stratification. PHF6 is an X-linked tumour suppressor gene, with a role in transcriptional regulation, and was identified as germline mutation causing Borjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome (Liu et al, 2014; Meacham et al, 2015). PHF6 mutations are reported in adult T-acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), and somatic mutations in PHF6 were identified in 3% of adult AML, predominantly males, in cases with FrenchAmerican-British (FAB) classifications M0, M1 and M2 (Van Vlierberghe et al, 2010, 2011; Patel et al, 2012). Whole genome sequencing identified PHF6 mutations in 2% of a paediatric AML series strongly enriched for core-binding factor AML (Huether et al, 2014). However, a large paediatric AML cohort has never been examined. In this study, we screened a large paediatric de novo AML cohort including all FAB-types, enriched for FAB-M0, M1 and M2, for PHF6 mutations. Samples were provided by the Dutch Childhood Oncology Group (DCOG, The Hague, The Netherlands), the AML–Berlin-Frankfurt-M€ unster Study Group (Germany and Czech Republic) and the Saint-Louis Hospital (France). Each study group provided centrally reviewed morphological and cytogenetic classification and clinical data, such as age at diagnosis, white blood cell count (WBC) and outcome. Institutional review board approval was obtained from the participating centres. Genomic DNA was amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the purified products were directly sequenced and analysed using CLC Workbench (CLC Bio, Aarhus, Denmark, primers: Table S1). If an aberration was detected, RNA and germline or remission DNA was analysed, if available. Reverse transcription-PCR was performed on known hotspot areas and for the presence of fusion genes as previously described (de Rooij et al, 2013). A total of 318 de novo paediatric AML cases (175 males and 141 females; two patients unknown) were eligible for mutational screening, including 20 FAB-M0, 47 FAB-M1 and 76 FAB-M2 (Table I). Direct sequencing analysis showed PHF6 mutations in 6/318 [2%; 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 0 9–4 1%] AML cases, representing 6/143 (4%; 95% CI: 1 9–8 9%) paediatric FAB M0, M1 and M2 cases. Most mutations were predicted to result in loss of function, with four truncating frameshift mutations and one point mutation in an intron resulting in loss of exon 4 at the RNA level (Fig S1A). In the latter case, germline material derived from fibroblasts did not harbour this aberration. Additionally, one missense variation (p.S145N, Fig S1B) was identified, which was also present in both complete remission and relapse samples, and predicted as damaging in SIFT and PolyPhen analysis. No single nucleotide polymorphisms are known at this position (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbvar, accessed 17 February


This article characterizes the systematic risk exposures of hedge funds using buy-and-hold and option-based strategies. Our results show that a large number of equity-oriented hedge fund strategies exhibit payoffs resembling a short position in a put option on the market index and therefore bear significant left-tail risk, risk that is ignored by the commonly used mean-variance framework. Using a mean-conditional value-at-risk framework, we demonstrate the extent to which the mean-variance framework underestimates the tail risk. Finally, working with the systematic risk exposures of hedge funds, we show that their recent performance appears significantly better than their long-run performance. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.


The d.c. conductivity and the space charge limited conduction in the temperature range (289-394K) have been investigated . The density of localized states found to increase with an increase of cadmium concentrations which has been explained in terms of structural modifications.


In many laboratories, researchers store experimental data on their own workstation using spreadsheets. However, this approach poses a number of problems, ranging from versioning or sharing issues to inefficient data-mining. Standard spreadsheets are also error-prone as data do not undergo any validation process. In this paper, we propose the EnzymeTracker, a web-based laboratory information management system for sample tracking, as a robust and flexible alternative that aims at facilitating entry, mining and sharing of experimental biological data. The EnzymeTracker features online spreadsheets and tools for monitoring numerous experiments conducted by several collaborators to identify and characterize samples, from their basic functional annotations to their complete enzymatic activity. It also provides libraries of shared data such as protocols, and administration tools for data access control using OpenID and user/team management. Our system relies on a database management system for efficient data indexing and management and a user-friendly AJAX interface that can be accessed over the Internet. The EnzymeTracker facilitates data entry by dynamically suggesting entries and providing smart data-mining tools to effectively retrieve data. It also features a number of tools to visualize and annotate experimental data, and export customizable reports. The EnzymeTracker is available online at http://cubique.concordia.ca/enzymedb/index.html under the GNU GPLv3 licence.


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— Today RFID is one of the most advanced Auto-ID Systems available. RFID is one of the most radically emerging technologies. With the recent technological progression at all levels, it is finding its application in various areas and holds a very bright future. RFID definitely still has to evolve into better and robust product but its applications and usage are endless, it gives a window to whole new world of opportunity. In this paper we will discuss about the detectability of RFID system under the tropic conditions of arid and semi arid regions i.e. effect of different type of sands, their grain size and sand layer thickness on RFID tag detectability.


In this paper, we consider Block Differential Modulation (BDM), to tackle the phase slip problem in digital communication systems. When the received signal phase can drift, the synchronizer can suddenly choose a wrong reference phase, e.g. adding multiples of 2π/M in case of M-ary Phase Shift Keying. Phase slips are detrimental for any coherent system since they cause long error bursts, till an opposite phase slip occurs. BDM is a generalization of Differential Modulation (DM). Neither of them relies on the absolute carrier phase. However, BDM differentially encodes information between small blocks of symbols and exploits couples of adjacent blocks to decode. This allows simple and practical demapping, without sacrificing capacity. We show that for low and moderate phase slip probabilities, BDM approaches the constrained capacity of coherent transmission, in particular at high spectral efficiencies. We provide closed-form results for the constrained capacity in absence of phase slips for Phase Shift Keying and Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, and we evaluate numerically the constrained capacity through an efficient Monte Carlo method, when phase slips occur. Besides, we provide simple upper and lower bounds.


Contractible edges and removable edges in connected graphs are a powerful tool to study the structures of connected graphs and to prove some properties of connected graphs by induction.In this paper by ananlyzing the properties of edge-vertex cut end we show that in a 4-connected graph G with minimum degree at least five or girth at least four,there are at least two removable edges in a spanning tree of G;in a 4-connected graph G with minimum degree at least five,there are at least two removable edges outside a spanning tree of G.


The invention discloses a hysteretic start-up circuit of a power supply control chip. The circuit is connected with a voltage feedback pin of the power supply control chip. The hysteretic start-up circuit comprises a high level output loop and a low level output loop which are connected with a DC power supply. The high level output loop is used for outputting voltage which is larger than reference voltage to the voltage feedback pin so as to control the turn-off of the power supply control chip when the voltage of the DC power supply is smaller than starting voltage or the voltage of the DC power supply is smaller than turn-off voltage after the power supply control chip is started. The low level output loop is connected with the high level output loop and outputs voltage which is smaller than the reference voltage to the voltage feedback pin so as to control the turn-on of the power supply control chip when the voltage of the DC power supply is larger than the starting voltage. The starting voltage is larger than the turn-off voltage. Through the implementation of the hysteretic start-up circuit, the turn-on and turn-off of the power supply control chip can be effectively controlled, the hysteretic start-up circuit is suitable for a very wide DC voltage range, and the loss is extremely small.


The luminescence intensity induced by x radiation in quartz dust is dependent on the (previous treatment of the quartz. Singly activated quartz maintains its activity after x irradiation for a long time. The luminescence intensity maximum is atfected by the length of the irradiation. The luminescence emitted by x-irradiated quartz dust consists almost exclusively of short-wave blue and UV light below 400 m mu . Comparisons of silicose-acitvated dust samples gave, with the exception of tridymite samples, a fixed relationship with the luminescence radiation. (tr-auth)


The article discusses how the notion of the Church was understood and explained by authors of sixteenth-century Polish Catholic and Evangelical catechisms. Teaching of the constitution of a church was a basic pastoral duty and part of the rudimentary knowledge provided to the faithful. Six Catholic catechisms of the years 1553 to 1600 and thirteen Evangelical ones, which were published between 1543 and 1609, constitute the main source base, the latter manuals being penned under the influence of Luther, Melanchthon as well as South-German and Swiss theologians. Following the Tridentine programme, the Catholic authors present their Church as unified under the Pope's authority and the only inheritor of the works of the Apostles. The veracity of its teaching is testified to with God's unnatural interventions. The Protestant authors explain the basically coherent, relevant ideas of the Reformation's protagonists. They teach about "the visible and outward Church", which is manifested by all those congregations that are fed by God's pure Word, and where the sacraments are duly administered. There is also "the inward and invisible Church", which the faithful confess in the Credo. It comprises all disciples of Christ, who is the only head of His Church. Thus the teaching on the Church presented in the Evangelical sources that are employed belongs to the mainstream of sixteenth-century Protestantism and aptly illustrates the reception of Evangelical theologies in the Kingdom of Poland and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In the analysed sources, arguments for the veracity of Church are always supplemented with the refutation of contradictory standpoints through reference to the Bible and the Church Fathers, mostly to Augustine. Despite strong polemical tone, the Biblical grounds of the Church could contribute to communication and understanding between Christians of antagonistic denominations, and this could sometimes result in conversion. The explanation of ecclesiological rudiments was easier for Catholic clergy, who referred to tradition and emotions, while Evangelical pastors could not ignore the abstract concepts of the "veracity" and "spiritual connectedness" of Christians, which were more difficult to render to the laity.


Through a year of reform on medical courses examination,the authors analyzed the characteristics of these programs which focused on classroom performance,clinical performance,clinical case analysis and process assessment,summarized the effects and problems of the reform,then made three solutions,which were teacher training,teaching reform simultaneously and long-term institutionalization.


The quality of earnings reported in the financial statement is very vital as it will be the key characteristic to improve capital market efficiency. Prior researchers indicate that the Earnings Quality were affected by several factors such as analysts forecast, leverage requirements, and management opportunities. One of the crucial factors in determining Earnings Quality is Related Party Transactions. It has been used as a medium in committing fraud across the corporate world for the last 20 years. The key problem affiliated to Related Party Transactions is that the transactions are influenced by the relationship between parties involved in the transactions. Among the transactions between related parties are purchase and sale of properties (assets), and sale of goods. Earnings reported in the financial statements is said to be high quality when the reported earnings are free from management prejudice and show the actual results of operations. This paper provides a holistic view of the concept of Related Party Transactions and Earnings Quality. The second purpose is to provide a better understanding of the relationship between Related Party Transactions and Earnings Quality. The discussion of this study will provide suggestions for improvements in corporate culture.


SONIE twelve or thirteen years ago I published several illustrated papers upon the osteology of the Alcze, they having appeared in the Journal of Aatomny of London (Vol. XXIII, N.S.; Vol. III, October, I888, PP. I-39, Pls. I-V; January, iSS9, pp. i65-I 86, Pls. VII-XI; April, 1889, PP. 400-427, Figs. I-1 7 (text); July, 1889, PP. 537, 538, Figs. i-8, and October, I889, pp. 89-io6, Pls. VI-VIII). In the text-figures and plates to these memoirs will be found reproductions of drawings of mine of the bones of a great many species of Alcae, as Alca toirdza, Plautus iZm1ellizis, Uria (two species), Synthliborhamphus, Cepphus, Brachyrhamphus, Lunda, Fratercula, Cyclorrhynchus, Simorhynchus, and others. In some cases several species of each are illustrated, there being upwards of one hundred figures in all. The descriptions are quite in detail, and taken in connection with the cuts and plates present accounts of nearly all the auks and puffins and their immediate allies known to science the world over. In fact, the only genera not thus treated are Pseuduria, Micruria, and Ceratorhyncha, and it is not likely that the osteology of any of these differs very much from that of known forms more or less nearly related to them, and certainly not to an extent to modify the present views of avian taxonomers upon the classification of the Alcae. It will not, therefore, be necessary to reproduce much, if any, of that work in the present connection, and so far as the osteology of the extinct great auk (P/a:utus imppeznis) is concerned it has been very thoroughly described by numerous writers, and particularly by Sir Richard Owen and Mr. F. A. Lucas of the United States National Museum. To illustrate the present paper, however, I will offer a figure of the skeleton of the great auk, in order not


The dynamics of a dual-swirl gas turbine model combustor (GTMC) at atmospheric pressure close to lean low-out (LBO) are studied using laser diagnostic and optical measurements with high spatio-temporal resolution. When operated close to the LBO, the GTMC exhibits an intermittent state, and frequently partial or global extinction of the flame followed by a re-ignition of the flame are observed. In the present study, the GTMC was operated using prevaporized ethanol as fuel. Both air and fuel as well as all supply lines were preheated to 100°C in order to avoid any fuel condensation within the supply lines or inside the fuel plenum. The flow field was measured with stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (S-PIV), the distribution of the OH radical within the combustion chamber was measured using planar laser-induced fluorescence (OH PLIF) and the overall flame shape and flame dynamics was imaged using OH* chemiluminescence (OH* CL). All optical and laser-based measurements performed at a sustained repetition rate of 10 kHz. The time scales of the flame extinction and re-ignition as well as the frequency of the extinction events were deduced from time series of the integrated OH* CL signal. Conditionally averaged flow fields of the reacting and extinguished state were used to derive information about the reignition process, which is discussed using time series of OH PLIF and OH* CL.


We investigate the performance of n-type GaAs plasmon emitters with surface layers grown by low-temperature molecular-beam epitaxy. The emitters have as-grown Be-doped low-temperature-grown GaAs layers on the top surface, which radiate terahertz transients with a power four times greater than reference emitters without low-temperature-grown (LTG) GaAs layers. The power generated by the structures with low-temperature-grown GaAs layers shows much weaker saturation at large excitation densities. The mechanism of the surface field screened by photoexcited holes has been discussed to explain the negative dip in the THz wave form when the emitter is coated by a LTG GaAs layer.


The preparation of frozen‐hydrated samples for scanning electron microscopy to observe symbionts in Azolla is described and compared to the conventional method of chemical fixation followed by critical‐point drying. The frozen‐hydrated specimens preserve the structure of the associating symbionts and the liquid phase in the Azollaleaf cavity. The leaf cavity structure and the endosymbionts in the frozen‐hydrated specimens were intact and unharmed throughout the fixation. The cyanobiont cells were distributed along the envelope of the leaf cavity, and did not aggregate around the hair cells, as reported for chemical fixation specimens. The mucilage layer removed by the chemical fixation could be observed in the cryo‐fixation specimens, especially at the lower part of the cavity.


poetry in the 1830s, for example, as a purely market-determined event and does not flinch at the fact that three of England's greatest poets died within three years of one another in the preceding decade: "Although Byron, Shelley, and Keats died in the 1820s, for example, more poets would have written more poetry in the 1830s had there been a demand and a market for poetry" (10). Yet this demand-side analysis—that poetry was merely a function of market demand—is incomplete even from an economic perspective, in that it ignores the supply-side of the supply/demand equation. Just as supply is a function of demand, so too is demand a function of supply. In the 1820s, for example, the market's demand for poetry may have been due partly to the fact that Byron, Shelley, and Keats were the ones supplying the verse. Talent, skill, and genius (or, to use economese, supply-side factors) drop out of Erickson's self-described "classical free-market economic analysis" (5), just as they dropped out of earlier, intellectually similar but politically distinct, Marxist analyses of literature. Some traces of the old rhetoric are still audible in Erickson, who concludes that the economic pressures of publishing "led many authors to feel alienated both from their work and also from the common reader" ( 189). The Economy of Literary Form remains, however, a valuable addition to the emerging academic "market" in studies of the book trade and the complex relationships between the conventions of print culture and literary form.


The configuration and the principle of a nondestructive evaluation system employing optical heterodyne technique and ultrasonic technique are explained. The key factors including optical path difference, relative position of detector and focal length, which have effects all heterodyne effeciency are analyzed. The heterodyne efficiency of the nondestructive evaluation system designed according to the theoretical calculations can be up to 0. 965. The system is employed for interiorly nondestructive evaluation of work pieces in which ultrasonic is motivated by pulse. A ultrasonic signal reflected by a mini split within a steel pipe at a distance of 1555mm is received with this heterodyne system. The distance between the starting point of ultrasonic signal and reflected ultrasonic signal by a mini gap is obtained in the methods of trigonometric function fitting and least squares technique. The percentage error of the result is 0. 19% so that the nondestructive evaluation of long-distance metal conduit pipe can be realized.


Next generation sequencing requires large amounts of high quality genomic DNA. This constraint requires researchers to customize DNA extraction methods for maximum efficiency. For a genotyping-by-sequencing project, we found that extracting DNA from leaf tissue of the Capsicum species, using a mortar and pestle homogenization step and following manufacturers procedures from the DNeasy Mini Plant Kit (QIAGEN, Germany), produced insufficient amounts of genomic DNA. The protocol was altered to address this extraction limitation. While it was initially suspected that secondary metabolite content may have been complicating the extraction, we found instead that simply switching the homogenization method to a bead mill more dramatically increased the quantity of DNA retrieved, underscoring the importance of thorough tissue homogenization for extracting large concentrations of genomic DNA.


The diploma thesis focuses on the issues concerning falls in paediatrics. It consists of a theoretical and an empirical part. The theoretical part defines and classifies falls; it deals with the prevention of falls in healthcare facilities and with projects discussing this issue. The theoretical part also includes screening of fall risk to children and the issue concerning falls in the context of health care quality in health service. The empirical part is based on a questionnaire survey conducted within the scope of a student grant competition of the Pardubice University. The survey has been aimed at monitoring the risk of falls to children in Czech healthcare facilities. It has been studied which tools (methods, scales) are used when assessing the fall risks and whether the selected healthcare facilities have particular standards.


Morphological description, topographic profiling and grain size analysis of the foredune of Arealong beach show that the evolution of this sedimentary environment is strongly influenced by beach/dune interactions. Four sectors have been defined on the foredune, affected by processes ranging from marine erosion to aeolian accretion of sediments coming from the beach


The present article focuses on the reconstruction of the cosmological models from the school of Kashmir (fourth century), as they are registered in the compendium of sarvāstivāda-vaibhāsika school, attributed to the Buddhist monk Vasubandhu and titled Abhidharmakośabhāsya. The articles identifies the different textual sources of the cosmological models and describes its general structure, based in three realms (sensible, subtle matter and immaterial). It analyzes the relevant characteristics of the concepts of Space and Time, discovering and unusual model in comparison with the contemporaries cosmologies from the Mediterranean.


The hardware emulation of wireless MIMO channel has become important in industries which intend to test their products and equipments in channel under rigorous condition. As the emulator recreates the scenario of wireless channel which makes the testing work simple without bringing the equipments in the open space. The main theme behind this paper is to emulate a hardware model that shows the essential characteristics of the wireless channel. Hence it is going to interface with software, the emulation should start with a simulation, and when the simulation assures the modeling is proper and meet specifications required to the scenario needed, this model can be implemented in hardware.


In the article the questions of optimization of adaptive drilling process method for simulating drilling machines. Set forth a new method of simulating the operation of the hydraulic drilling machine is based on an electro-hydraulic analogy. Provides information about some of the results of studies of adaptive drilling process.


Current realistic works incline to point out solution for some social problems rather than expose them.If so, the criticism and factuality of realistic literature will be weakened ,which would make the realistic literature get into predicament.Therefore,the only task of current realistic literature is to expose realistic problems and discuss them in detail.


In this poster, we present ASGaze, a new gaze tracking system designed using the common RGB camera from mobile phones. In addition to improving the accuracy of existing RGB camera-based gaze tracker methods, a novelty of ASGaze is that it can track gaze points on various surface areas, such as mobile phone screens, computer displays or even non-electronic surfaces like whiteboards or paper - a situation where existing RGB camera-based methods can hardly handle through proposing three key designs.


The results ofexperimental andtheoretical investi¬ gations ofopencircuit toothripple losses inslotted laminated poles ofrotating electrical machines withamortisseur windings are presented. A laboratory machinemodeldeveloped forthisin¬ vestigation isdescribed. BothaPoynting vectormethodbased on theelectronic multiplication ofelectric andmagnetic fields on the airgap surface ofstationary poles andacalorimetric methodusing integrated areasensorsfortherateoftemperature rise havebeen usedtomeasurethelosses. Simplified practical formulas havebeen developed tocalculate theselosses withsufficient accuracy for design purposes.


In this paper,the relevant faulting and rupture-scale parameters of 30 large earthquakes were systematically collected and compiled,including fault length,slip rate,magnitude and their uncertainties.Considering the uncertainties of these parameters,10000 Monte Carlo realizations were generated consistent with the ranges of data,and for each a standard least-squares technique was used to find the coefficients of regressions.A comparative analysis with previous empirical relationships of the same type suggests that the empirical relationships developed in this research,especially the inclusion of fault slip rate in such regressions,are suitable very well for estimates of the seismic hazard on mapped active strike-slip faults in western China.


The article "PetrSU Information Analytical Integrated System (IAIS): approaches, solutions, development trends" is a review of the approaches, software and technology solutions and functionality of IAIS as a university management system. The goal of the article is to systematize the large amount of information about PetrSU IAIS, highlight the advantages and the uniqueness of the original approaches to projecting and of the ready solutions of this system in comparison with the most wide-spread automated systems of management of higher educational institutions. To achieve the goal, the authors justify the topicality of the development of the management information system against the background of the current trends in educational system development and provide the review of the most wide-spread systems available in the market. Based on the brief analysis of the maj or selection criteria, they justify the choice of PetrSU and the reasons, why the university embarked on the independent development of the information analytical system considering the previous experience, started with the ASU VUZ (Automated System of Management of the Higher Educational Institution). The article contains the description of the functions of PetrSU IAIS, interaction of the main components and the whole architecture. The results of the original research that lead to the creation of the unique and special approaches to the data basis development are presented. Besides, the article dwells upon the list of unregulated tasks that are implemented only in PetrSU IAIS. Another advantage of PetrSU IAIS presented in the article is integrability of IAIS and other significant information systems of PetrSU, such as official website, educational portal, e-library and others. The integration has been possible due to the fact, that initially IAIS was developed with the consideration of major requirements to the management information systems, among which the top priority were the following: integrability (both on the level of data bases and on the level of business processes); industry specific approach (with all the variety and expansion of the activity, educational process being the leading one); flexibility and customizability (adaptability) to the peculiarity of the modern university development, its business processes and organizational structure. It's important to emphasize, that on top of input, upgrading and maintenance of a large amount of data by PetrSU administrative divisions, PetrSU IAIS implements the option of the distributed input of extended information by faculty, staff and students within the IAIS portal environment. The article allows Russian universities to learn the results of the long-term research and practical work of Petrozavodsk State University in the area of creation and development of the university management information system on the basis of its unique approaches and solutions while utilizing the options of Oracle products. It is crucial, that the availability of such a system in the university allowed not only to automate the major business processes, increase the quality of information support to administrative decision-making, but also to provide the data topicality, access and reliability. This, in its turn, has eased the solution of the important task of information openness and availability of the topical and regularly updated information to the maj or stakeholders of the educational process and external world.


Groundwater samples collected from a livestock well in southwestern Henderson County, Ky., contained nitrate-N concentrations greater than 20 mg/L, two times the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's maximum contaminant level. The well is located in an abandoned cattle and hog feedlot. The feedlot is located in an upland bedrock setting with Pleistocene loess overlying Pennsylvanian bedrock. One hundred twenty-one soil cores were collected to better define the areal extent of organic-rich soil believed to be the source of the elevated nitrate-N in the groundwater. Cores were collected on 25-ft centers to a depth of 4 ft below the land surface. Soil samples were analyzed for pH, bioavailable phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, organic matter, total nitrogen, and inorganic nitrogen (nitrate-N). Groundwater samples were analyzed for pH, specific conductance, temperature, oxidation-reduction potential, nitrate-N, chloride, herbicides, and nitrogen and oxygen isotopes. The resulting soiland groundwater-quality data are presented in this report. Introduction Analysis of groundwater samples collected from a livestock well on a farm in southwestern Henderson County, Ky., revealed nitrate-N concentrations greater than 20 mg/L, which is above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's maximum contaminant level of 10 mg/L. After notifying the landowner about the elevated nitrate, we were informed that beneath this site was an abandoned cattle and hog feedlot, which was suspected to be the source of the elevated nitrate in the local groundwater. How long the feedlot was in operation and how long it has been abandoned is unknown, but according to the landowner the feedlot was in operation for more than 30 years. Since abandonment, the feedlot has been incorporated into the surrounding pasture and is now hidden and cannot be visually defined. We therefore collected soil cores to better determine the location and areal extent of organic-rich soil typically as-


A photometricanalysisof a sampleof edge-ongalaxiesharboringa peanutshapedstructureis presented.This structureis ideally suitedto studythebardrivenevolution of galaxiessinceit is slightly connectedto thepresenceof verticalbarresonances. For our studywe useK-bandimagingwhich is dominatedby PopulationII starsandminimally affectedby dust. Applying the unsharpmaskingfiltering techniquewe areable to isolatethe periodicorbit familiesattheorigin of theparticularmorphologyof apeanutshapedstructure.The rearrangement of diskmaterialin theverticaldirectionthroughthepresenceof abaris evidenced by our studyof verticalscaleheightsalongthemajoraxisof thegalaxies.Fitting of generalized Gaussians(equivalent to a Sersiclaw) to the vertical surfacebrightnessprofilesshows a radial variationof scaleheightsreachinga maximumat positionswherethe peanutstructureis most prominent.


To explore the impact of interprofessional education (IPE) on undergraduate nursing and medical students' knowledge, competence and targeted competence in diabetes care.


Echolocation calls of 119 bats belonging to 12 species in three families from Antillean islands of Puerto Rico, Dominica, and St. Vincent were recorded by using time-expansion methods. Spectrograms of calls and descriptive statistics of five temporal and frequency variables measured from calls are presented. The echolocation calls of many of these species, particularly those in the family Phyllostomidae, have not been described previously. The wing morphology of each taxon is described and related to the structure of its echolocation calls and its foraging ecology. Of slow aerial-hawking insectivores, the Mormoopidae and Natalidae Mormoops blainvillii, Pteronotus davyi davyi, P. quadridens fuliginosus, and Natalus stramineus stramineus can forage with great manoeuvrability in background-cluttered space (close to vegetation), and are able to hover. Pteronotus parnellii portoricensis is able to fly and echolocate in highly-cluttered space (dense vegetation). Among frugivores, nectarivores and omnivores in the family Phyllostomidae, Brachyphylla cavernarum intermedia is adapted to foraging in the edges of vegetation in background-cluttered space, while Erophylla bombifrons bombifrons, Glossophaga longirostris rostrata, Artibeus jamaicensis jamaicensis, A. jamaicensis schwartzi and Stenoderma rufum darioi are adapted to foraging under canopies in highly-cluttered space and do not have speed or efficiency in commuting flight. In contrast, Monophyllus plethodon luciae, Sturnira lilium angeli and S. lilium paulsoni are adapted to fly in highly-cluttered space, but can also fly fast and efficiently in open areas.


As a high performance adsorption and separation material, ordered macroporous materials were found to exhibit many unique properties. The materials can process adsorption and desorption rapidly, and demonstrate advanced chemical selectivity after a chemical modification on walls. Due to these properties, research has focused on ordered macroporous materials recently, and attention has especially been paid to the materials′ functional applications. In this article, the evolution of ordered porous materials, the preparation techniques, the applications of macro-porous materials, and the developing trends are summarized.


The article substantiates the classification of methods of creative development of primary school pupils during lessons of music.The methods are classified on the basis of the analysis of theoretical and methodological literature on a scientific problem (L. Horiunova, V. Hryhorieva, O. Lobova, L. Masol, H. Padalka, V. Rahozina, etc.), the results of experimental master's studies performed under the author's supervision, as well as generalization of his own pedagogical experience as a teacher of music in secondary comprehensive schools. The groups of methods in the classification correspond to the types of activities mentioned in the Typical Educational Programs 2018 (Primary Education) composed by two teams of authors under the supervision of O. Savchenko and R. Shiyan in order to achieve the goals and objectives of the New Ukrainian School.Classification includes five groups of methods of creative personality development: 1) musical-creative (rhythmic, melodic, form-forming, performing and creative tasks); 2) perceptive-creative (methods of stimulating creative perception of music, emotionally-based and musical-communicative situations, methods of observing music); 3) interpretive-creative (methods of presenting the results of music perception, artistic and creative tasks, methods of thinking about music, associative methods); 4) communicative-creative (language improvisation, interactive, dialogic, and autocommunicative); 5)  scientific and creative methods (problem, heuristic, inventive, research). The article gives accurate examples for each group of methods (for example, inventive methods of focal objects, and various variants of morphological analysis). The author advocates the idea that a creative teacher is able to make any children's activity during the lessons of music creative one.


2Research scientist, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8Z 1M5. ADDITIONAL INDEX WORDS. risk assessments, pest risk analysis, Forest Practices Code of British Columbia, forest management; forest disease, tree breeding and improvement, resistance, epidemiology, spacing, pruning, Pinus monticola, Cronartium ribicola, Ribes


In this paper, a novel compact broadband antenna at UHF frequencies is presented with canonical shapes. Hemispherical, conical and cylindrical shapes have all been considered for antenna configuration. The designed antenna provides an instantaneous frequency range from 370 to 5,000 MHz with omnidirectional characteristics. The antenna was simulated in CST Microwave Studio, fabricated and evaluated; the results are presented. The simulated and measurement results are in good agreement. The antenna has voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) ≤ 1.9:1 in 400–570 MHz, 2,530–3,740 MHz and 4,180–4,620 MHz; it has VSWR ≤ 3:1 over the operating frequency range 370–5,000 MHz and the measured gain varies from -0.6 to 4.5 dBi over the frequency band. The concept of canonical-shaped antenna elements and the incorporation of triple sleeves resulted in a reduction of the length of the antenna by 62% compared to the length of a half-wave dipole antenna designed at the lowest frequency. The antenna can be used for trans-receiving applications in wireless communication.


Employing Foucault's notion ofheterotopias, this paper maps some of the contested interpretations of the ancient universities of Bangladesh (highlighting particularly the interpretation of the university as cosmos) and allows these interpretations to speak back and question not only the assumptions that ground the current political, cultural and material life of Bangladesh, but also the rationalist foundations of our own Western technologized way of being.


In the present study, impact of high frequency ac voltage and harmonics in ac voltages on treeing were studied. When the applied voltage is high, a bush type tree forms irrespective of frequency of the supply voltage. Influence of harmonics on shape of tree formed indicates that a voltage wave with high total harmonic distortion have characteristics much similar to high frequency ac voltage. It is observed that the tree inception time is much lower with 11th harmonic ac voltages with higher THD. Presence of odd harmonics of equal magnitude, irrespective of amount of total harmonic distortion, the shape of the tree formed is almost same as the tree generated with 50 Hz ac voltage. The injected PD current pulses during treeing process have rise time of few nanoseconds. The UHF signals generated during tree growth (at the point of inception and propagation) have signal bandwidth in the range of 1-2 GHz. Measure of UHF signal magnitude during treeing process could help one to classify the shape of tree formed. Weibull distribution studies were carried out to estimate the life of XLPE cable insulation failure due to electrical treeing under different harmonic ac voltages. Independent higher order harmonic ac voltages with increase in total harmonic distortion reduce the life of cable insulation due to electrical treeing.


Two substrates, γ-alumina (γ-Al2O3) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO), have been used to confine the formation of magnesium oxide (MgO) crystals so as to control the crystal growth, reduce the crystal size, and enlarge the surface area and thus increase the CO2 capture capacity at elevated temperatures. Typically, MgO/γ-Al2O3 was synthesized by a facile sol–gel route, and MgO/rGO was obtained by calcining the hydrothermally grown magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)2) on rGO sheets. Distinct morphologies of MgO were observed through the above two synthesis routes: spherical particles were formed when using γ-Al2O3 as the substrate while MgO nanowhiskers appeared when the loading ratio of the precursor was high in rGO-supported samples. The effects of the substrate on the morphology of the confined MgO and the corresponding CO2 uptake are discussed in detail for the first time.