We will discuss in our communication the causes of the result of these elections, mainly in the voting for president and deputies to the Legislative Assembly. We propose that the same ones must be analyzed for their understanding and a correct interpretation of predominant the political tendencies, like the third act of triad, composing by the elections of February of 2006, the referendum on the Free Trade Agreement of Central America, Dominican Republic and the EE.UU., of October of 2008, and these elections of February of 2010. In these last ones, the Gordian knot that had tensioned to the sociopolitical forces in the last two governmental periods, with multiple consequences for the Costa Rican society is solved.


Performance analysis and output voltage regulation of a cascaded step-up switched-capacitor converter (SCC) under zero voltage switching (ZVS) condition is analyzed in this paper. The ZVS condition (converter operation above its resonant frequency) provides 1) zero-voltage switching, which leads to a relatively higher efficiency compared to zero current switching (ZCS) under the resonant frequency in MOSFET-based converters and 2) operating in a higher frequency, which reduces the size and increases the power density of the converter. It also provides output voltage regulation compared with previously proposed SCCs in ZCS condition. This paper proposed a cascaded switched-capacitor converter (CSCC) that provides a high voltage gain. For this structure, it proposes a mathematical analysis to calculate the output voltage characteristics of the converter. This study is then employed to design a control loop for the output voltage of the converter. The simulation results for a 110–160 V and 500W SCC converter confirm the proposed analysis and the designed control loop.


A new model based on data from the field can help to predict the effective lifespan of a drug before widespread resistance develops. The model focuses on drug combinations and can be applied to both current and potential treatments. It can be used to forecast the lifespan of a drug before parasites develop resistance in a range of combination treatments. This can be a valuable tool for policy makers and National Malaria Control programmes facing dilemmas in choosing appropriate treatment regimes of drugs known as antifolates.


Handling the large amount of information from aircraft trajectories that are produced daily from air traffic control radar systems requires models for representing trajectories in a compact, easy to calculate, representative and distinctive form. These models should permit to perform clustering and classification operations efficiently and effectively. The Fourier descriptors have these characteristics and this article presents the results obtained on actual aircraft trajectories including approach and takeoff operations over a terminal area. Clustering and classification techniques in the feature space of Fourier descriptors were able to correctly separate the various types of operations. Additionally, based on the results of the clusters obtained, a method is presented for the classification of trajectories in progress based on kernel density estimation. An interesting result from the point of view of air traffic control for the detection of anomalous traffic is demonstrated.


In electrical and electronic engineering, the flow of electromagnetic energy is a fundamental physical quantity that is usually estimated by the Poynting vector. However, there have been several problems with this vector, and various attempts to resolve these problems have been carried out. In this paper, these problems are put forth in order and then the physical meaning of the Poynting vector is elucidated based on the concept clarified in the previous paper. In conclusion, this vector expresses the net electromagnetic energy flow density. If the plane wave expansion of the electromagnetic field and its orthogonality are noted, the paradox on this vector is naturally resolved so that its treatment becomes clear. © 1999 Scripta Technica, Electron Comm Jpn Pt 2, 82(10): 56–69, 1999


This section presents a glossary of religious terms that occur in this book titled Models of Charitable Care: Catholic Nuns and Children in their Care in Amsterdam, 1852-2002. The theme of this study is the historical care practice of women religious. It focuses on a congregation of Catholic nuns, originating in Amsterdam, who took care of neglected children and other vulnerable groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their initial name was Poor Sisters of the Divine Child (Arme Zusters van het Goddelijk Kind), but they were widely known as Sisters of ?The Providence'. In the 1970s this became their official name; it is written with inverted commas.Keywords: Amsterdam; catholic nuns; charitable care; women religious


The petrochemical industry has been highly considered by environmentalists since it can affect the environment through the production of high strength wastewater. This study investigates chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal from petrochemical wastewater by ultra violet (UV)/oxidant systems with varying dosages of oxidants, initial pH values and reaction time. Hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ), persulfate (PS) and percarbonate (PC) were used as oxidants. The results showed that pH = 3.0 was suitable for H 2 O 2 and PC, while PS had the best performance at pH = 7.0. The presence of ferrous ions improved the removal efficiency, especially in the case of UV/PC. However, COD removal efficiencies of UV/PS and UV/H 2 O 2 were more effective than that of the UV/PC system. The biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)/COD ratio achieved >0.4 by UV/PS/Fe 2+ , UV/H 2 O 2 and UV/H 2 O 2 /Fe 2+ systems. Complete decolorization occurred for all the UV/oxidant systems after only 30 min reaction time. Besides the effective performances of PS and H 2 O 2 in COD removal, PC was considered as an inexpensive oxidant. The order of total costs based on kg COD removed was: UV/PS/Fe 2+ > UV/PS > UV/H 2 O 2 /Fe 2+ > UV/H 2 O 2 > UV/PC/Fe 2+ > UV/PC. In conclusion, UV/H 2 O 2 displayed an effective, applicable and clean process for petrochemical wastewater treatment.


This article discuses two very important problems concerning liturgical singing in Ruthenia. The first part of the article contains an analysis of the musical and linguistic phenomenon of razdelnorechie (also known as homonia). The author, presenting the issue from the Old Believers' point of view, tries to prove that elements of homonia in liturgical texts, contained in Old Believers songbooks, have not only been treated as a fillers of melisma (similar to latin tropus). Supporters of 'the old tradition' treated homonia and polyphonic services as sacred signs. The author in the second part of the article tries to find out the reasons of the Old Believers' negative attitude to polyphonic singing.


Cd3P2 and α' '-Cd3As2 microcrystals were hydrothermally synthesized at 180 °C in aqueous ammonia. Their powder X-ray diffraction patterns were indexed to an isostructural tetragonal lattice with a = 8.7360 A, b = 12.2953 A for Cd3P2 and a = 8.9843 A, b = 12.6550 A for Cd3As2 (α' '-, metastable phase) with good reliability (instead of the stable phase α-Cd3As2). Transmission and scanning electron microscopy (TEM, SEM) images showed that Cd3P2 crystallized as octahedral microcrystals of 100−500 nm with {101} cleavage planes, and α' '-Cd3As2 crystallized as fine nanocrystals (20 nm), which assembled into secondary spherical particles of 100 nm. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) showed that the as-prepared hydrothermal products were pure Cd3E2 (E = P, As) without obvious surface oxidation or hydrolysis. Cd3P2 octahedral microcrystals showed three Raman peaks at 250.7, 300.8, and 599.1 cm-1, and α' '-Cd3As2 nanocrystals showed two broad and red-shifted peaks at 189 and 244.5 cm-1, both of which were diffe...


Correspondence to: Nathan Cherny, MBBS, FRACP, FRCP, Norman Levan Chair of Humanistic Medicine, Associate Professor of Medicine (BGU), and Director, Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine Service, Department of Medical Oncology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 91031; telephone: 0508 685780; fax: +972 2 6666731; e-mail: chernyn@ netvision.net.il Taxonomy of Distress: Including Spiritual Suffering and Demoralization


The present paper is a theoretical exposition on the need and importance of entrepreneurship, start-ups development and the challenges ahead. It provides a brief review on entrepreneurship, start-ups, its role and contribution for the economic development. Entrepreneurship has assumed immense importance in the economic development of a developing nation like India as well as that of the developed nations. India's economic progress, as a developing economy, is bound up with entrepreneurs who are enthusiastic and committed to maximize production as well as profitability of their respective organiations. The role of people and their abilities have to play in this stupendous endeavour is supremely important, and any negligence or under estimation of the human factor would only enfeeble the economic prosperity of the country. Tapping the many hither to unused and locally available resource is what is immediately required. All possible support-physical, material, technical have to be extended to the entrepreneurs to enable them to achieve industrial success. Today, it is dire need to encourage and bring the human to the main stream of industrial economy. Index Terms Entrepreneurship, Women Entrepreneurs, Start-up India, Stand-up, Start-up ecosystem.


AIM: To observe the function of transduction of fusion protein CTP-HBcAg18-27-Tapasin in antigen presenting cells.METHODS: Bone marrow derived DCs isolated from BALB/c mice were cultured with recombinant granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and recombinant interleutin-4 for 5 days followed by LPS added to induce DCs maturation.Then,different dosages of CTP-HBcAg18-27-Tapasin and RPMI-1640 were added to cell culture medium.Subsequently,the distribution and localization of intracellular immunofluorescence were observed by confocal microscopy with fluorescence intensity assaying quantitatively.Futhermore,the transduction efficiency of CTP-HBcAg18-27-Tapasin was evaluated by detecting the differences of expression of Tapasin using western blot in different group.RESULTS:DCs were cultured and identified successfully;Immunofluorescence confirmed the CTP-HBcAg18-27-Tapasin could penetrate the membrane into the cytoplasm of DCs but not into the nucleus.Fluorescence intensity of 50 μg/L CTP-HBcAg18-27-Tapasin group were higher than 10 μg/L CTP-HBcAg18-27-Tapasin group and blank groups.Western blot also confirmed that CTP-HBcAg18-27-Tapasin can penetrate the cell membrane into the DCs,and the data showed the difference was statistical.CONCLUSION: CTP-HBcAg18-27-Tapasin has the ability of penetrating and locating in the cytoplasm of DCs.


Background: COVID-19 caused rapid mass infection worldwide. Understanding its transmission characteristics including heterogeneity is of vital importance for prediction and intervention of future epidemics. In addition, transmission heterogeneity usually envokes super spreading events (SSEs) where certain individuals infect large numbers of secondary cases. Till now, studies of transmission heterogeneity of COVID-19 and its underlying reason are far from reaching an agreement. MethodsWe collected information of all infected cases between January 21 and February 26, 2020 from official public sources in Tianjin, a metropolis of China. Utilizing a heterogeneous transmission model based on branching process along with a negative binomial offspring distribution, we estimated the reproductive number R and the dispersion parameter k which characterized the transmission potential and heterogeneity, respectively. Furthermore, we studied the SSE in Tianjin outbreak and evaluated the effect of control measures undertaken by local government based on the heterogeneous model. Results: A total of 135 confirmed cases (including 34 imported cases and 101 local infections) in Tianjin by February 26th 2020 entered the study. We grouped them into 43 transmission chains with the largest chain of 45 cases and the longest chain of 4 generations. The estimated reproduction number R was at 0.67 (95%CI: 0.54[~]0.84), and the dispersion parameter k was at 0.25 (95% CI: 0.13[~]0.88). A super spreader causing six infections in Tianjin, was identified. In addition, our simulation results showed that the outbreak in Tianjin would have caused 165 infections and sustained for 7.56 generations on average if no control measures had been taken by local government since January 28th. Conclusions: Our analysis suggested that the transmission of COVID-19 was subcritical but with significant heterogeneity and may incur SSE. More efforts are needed to verify the transmission heterogeneity of COVID-19 in other populations and its contributing factors, which is important for developing targeted measures to curb the pandemic.


The growth and water use efficiency characteristics of four native grasses in Loess Plateau were studied under different soil water contents.The results showed that water consumption of those species decreased with the increase of soil drought stress,and water consumption of those grasses was different: Bothriochloa ischaemumAgropyron cristatumCleistogenes songoricaStipa bungeana.The highest water consumption in one day,ten-day and one month were different.The highest water consumption day of medium and severe drought stress occurred about 10 days earlier than the adequate soil water content.The time of day when the greatest water consumption occurred arrived early with the decrease of soil water contents.The growth of plant height and single leaf area of the four native grasses were the fastest under adequate soil water contents,and were the lowest under severe drought.Under drought condition,the growth of four grasses was all inhibited,especially for S.bungeana and C.songorica.The leaf water content of different species decreased with the increase of soil water stress.The leaf water content of A.cristatum and B.ischaemum were higher than that of S.bungeana and C.songorica obviously.Water use efficiency of S.bungeana and C.songorica decreased with the decrease of soil water content,they had lower water consumption and low WUE characteristics.A.cristatum and B.ischaemum had the highest WUE under medium drought treatments,respectively.A.cristatum had low water consumption and high WUE characteristic,B.ischaemum had high water consumption and high WUE characteristic.


With the release of the Cabinet Papers for the Lloyd George post-war coahtion government and the opening of the Lloyd George papers in the Beaverbrook Library, the basis for a reinterpretation of the man and his era was made possible. And, indeed, several studies have been published already, most notably, by Americans. The thrust of these new works is to make a more sympathetic character of Lloyd George. Thus, Susan Armitage tells us, had he only not been so busy at peace conferences, Lloyd George would have seen to it that the labor disputes of the post-war years were less disruptive, that the grievances of the trade unions were given due consideration, and that more of the promises of the post-war Reconstruction Committee were realized. In the latter, she follows the lead of Paul Johnson, who was one of the first to plow the murky waters of the Public Records Office's offerings. Pointing a heavily accusing finger at Austen Chamberlain and the Treasury for withholding their blessing on "homes fit for heroes" and other Reconstruction plans, Johnson asks whether "an honest effprt" might have "headed off the militant strike activity" that denied Lloyd George's reconstruction plans the means of success. Thus Lloyd George appears as the victim of circumstances beyond his control – a paragon of pragmatic rationality who is opposed by reactionary Cabinet Ministers and bedevilled by stubborn trade-union leaders who refuse to understand why the promised paradise is not forthcoming.


A hybrid lossy image compression technique using classified vector quantiser and singular value decomposition is presented for the efficient representation of medical magnetic resonance – brain images. The proposed method is called hybrid classified vector quantisation. It involves a simple yet efficient classifier based gradient method in the spatial domain which employs only one threshold to determine the class of the input image block, and uses three AC coefficients of the discrete cosine transform coefficients to determine the orientation of the block without employing any threshold that results in high fidelity medical compressed images. Singular value decomposition was used to generate the classified codebooks. The proposed technique was benchmarked with JPEG-2000 standard. Simulation results indicate that the proposed approach can reconstruct high visual quality images with higher Peak Signal-to Noise-Ratio than the benchmarked technique and also meet the legal requirement of medical images archiving.


Traditional Stick on notes has been widely used due to its advantages. Stick
on notes consists of short notes and a to-do list that can remind the users to complete
their daily task. However, as the notes that are written increase, this could result in
failure in organizing the task systematically. In addition it also could mess up the
user's desk. This will lead to the notes being lost. Hence, there is a need for a
solution. Development of this project is to enable the users to organize the notes or
messages well. Besides that, the system also enables a user to send the notes to the
other registered users. RMI is used as the system development methodology in this
project to perform the communication between LAN users. Therefore, Desktop Stick
On Notes is produced. Communication is performed in the system by sending short
notes to other users in LAN. The system come with a few function like writing notes
as a reminder to the user itself and blocking other users from sending notes to him.


On the basis of the experience in many years, the author in this paper talks about the writing culture of the Old Uighur people in ancient time, for example, the scripts,forms, contents and etc. It is useful for everybody who wants to know the writing culture in the pre-Islamic period of Uighur people.


— Emotional Intelligence (EI) consists of a great many characteristics and abilities, which refer toan as delicate skill or intra-independent capacity and which spread explicit information, general knowledge,and expertise beyond the traditional territory. A lack of the choice of officials may decrease the achievementof the organization without emotional intelligence in general. Emotional intelligence helps people toperceive and perceive their emotions. It maintains a successful relationship at work, operates incommunities, develops social capital, and guides feelings to respond to stress, performs well under conflict,and adapts to change in an organization. This research suggests a point-by-point perception of emotionalintelligence in Bengaluru's tech industry. Descriptive analysis is the essence of the study. In this analysis,the convenient sampling technology was employees from different software companies selected. Onehundred forty respondents are the sample size of the report. The Friedman test was used. EI is the mostcritical predictor of organizational success and the most grounded carrier of authority and individualgrandeur. Besides, we will increase our ability to grow increasingly intense and comfortably see everyone inour business sector as we increase our effective use of emotional intelligence. In summary, the influence ofthe present study on the emotional awareness of working environment software employees and the effectson their behavior and job performance. It is concluded that staff in software companies are more thanaverage and competent in their degrees of keen insight. The software workers' emotional intelligence isgradually having a tremendously positive and positive effect on their results. His tech industry also needs tomake more progress in developing and making the current emotional intelligence situation the best in thebusiness.


The development of art history is closely related to observation methods,indicating its significance in paintings.This paper attempts to distinguish the features of Monet's and Cezanne's observation methods by analyzing and comparing their works.Monet finds the order of hues and light,emphasizing that painting history should be objectively extracted and summarized.Cezanne discovers the geometric construction of modeling,and paints the subjective world using multi-views.


The spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry and the chiral anomalies in low-energy QCD are manifested in their most unambiguous form in the light pseudoscalar mesons sector. Understanding the electromagnetic properties of these mesons are, therefore, crucial for probing QCD at the confinement scale. The study of two-photon decay widths of the π, η, and η are of fundamental importance in determining mixing effects among the mesons and in obtaining the light-quark mass ratios. The PrimEx collaboration at Jefferson Lab has a comprehensive program to perform a high precision measurement of the π → γγ decay width via the Primakoff effect. With the planned 11 GeV upgrade of CEBAF, the current program will be extended to include the η and η mesons.


In previous papers' I have suggested that a solution of a protein may be regarded as a system of polymeric modifications of the amphoteric electrolyte HXOH, the point of equilibrium being shifted by any variation in the conditions, such as the addition of acid, alkali, salts or the application of heat, which influences the concentrations of the protein ions; just as the simplest possible amphoteric electrolyte, namely, water, consists of a mixture of polymeric modifications of the molecule HOH, the point of equilibrium being shifted by alterations in temperature.z From this point of view the process of heat-coagulation would be regarded somewhat as follows; by repeated condensations of the type HXOH + HXOH = HXXOH + H,O


This article introduces a method to predict upward and downward monthly variations of the S&P 500 index by using a pool of macro-economic and financial explicative variables. The method is based on the combination of a denoising step, performed by Kalman filtering, with a variable selection step, performed by a Lasso-type procedure. In particular, we propose an implementation of the Lasso method called LagLasso which includes selection of lags for individual factors. We provide promising backtesting results of the prediction model based on a naive trading rule.


In certain cases the novelty requirement may not be as hard to achieve as the inventiveness requirement. To establish novelty, size considerations may be enough to distinguish the technology from the prior art. However non-obviousness can be more problematic. Nanotechnology patenting needs a thorough examination of such facts, which makes this area of scientific endeavour more complex from legal point of view.


This paper presents the Real-Time Recursive Dynamics (RTRD) model that is developed for driving simulators. The model could be implemented in the Driving Simulator. The RTRD can also be used for off-line high-speed dynamics analysis, compared with commercial multibody dynamics codes, to speed up mechanical design process. An overview of RTRD is presented in the paper. Basic models for specific vehicle subsystems such as tire, steering, brake, power train, aerodynamics, etc., are interfaced with multibody dynamics to create a complete vehicle simulation model. Basic theories of each vehicle subsystem model are introduced and the interfaces with the multibody dynamic model are discussed. Required data for setting a vehicle model listed and an Army's High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) modeling example is illustrated. For operator-in-the-loop simulation, the interface between the RTRD model and the simulator subsystems, i.e., visual, motion, audio, and terrain database, is presented. Finally, the parallel processing algorithm of RTRD model is illustrated. Benchmarks for the baseline RTRD code are analyzed using two vehicle examples, a passenger car and a tractor-semitrailer. D


In recent years, the architecture quality problem has been getting more and more attention. Concrete is a sort of savageness disfigurement material and is abroad in architecture industry. But concrete meso-structure has not been more analyzed. In this paper, we present a pseudo-stochastic variation of the Metropolis dynamics for combinatorial optimization in concrete CT image classification using Markov Random Fields. Experimental results are compared to those obtained by the Metropolis algorithm, the Gibbs sampler and ICM (Iterated Conditional Mode). Classify result indicate that using MMD can reflect the interior spatial distribution of the concrete materials on deformation, and afford an effective method on concrete meso-structure CT image study.


Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify protective factors associated with school adjustment of victims in school bullying. Methods: Data were collected from 114 victims among 825 middle school students. The measurements were the self-report questionnaire on resilience, and the Childrearing Behavior Questionnaire, measurements of relationship with friends, and attitude of teachers toward bullying. Descriptive, Pearson correlation, and multiple regression analyses were used. Results: A significant relationship was observed between school adjustment of victims and resilience (r=.355, p<.01), warmth-acceptance parenting behavior (r=.482, p<.01), rejection-restriction parenting behavior (r=-.213, p<.01), and teacher's attitude toward bullying (r=.381, p<.01). The result of multiple regression analysis showed significant association of school adjustment with resilience (β=0.247, p<.05), warmth-acceptance parenting behavior (β=0.302, p<.001), and teacher's attitude toward bullying (β=0.285, p<.01). Conclusion: Comprehensive interventions designed to enhance the resilience of students, improve warmth-acceptance parenting behaviors and teacher's attitude toward bullying may be helpful in promoting school adjustment of victims.


In August 1965 fossil human bones were found in a pit (from which garden soil is excavated for sale) near Keilor, about 10 m NW. of Melbourne. The pit is on a farm property belonging to Mr H. Dodds on the right bank of the Maribyrnong R. about one mile S. of the township of Keilor. It is immediately downstream from the point where Taylor Ck, which flows down Green Gully, joins the river (Lat. 37= 44'S., long. 144° 50'E. Military Map 1 in. = 1 mile, Sunbury Sheet 871464). The site had been visited previously on several occasions by Mr E. D. Gill, Assistant Director of the National Museum of Victoria, and he had asked the proprietor of the pit, Mr Donald Mahon, to let him know of any fossil bones or stone implements found during excavation. When the bones were first noticed, Mr Mahon, realizing that they were probably of interest and importance, left them undisturbed and notified the Museum of their discovery. The site was immediately visited by Mr T. A. Darragh, Curator of Fossils at the Museum.


OF THESIS MUSIC THERAPY AND MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCE: A SURVEY OF MUSIC THERAPISTS' TRAINING AND PERCEPTIONS The changing demographics of the United States directly impact the populations that music therapists serve. The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) provides a list of competencies related to understanding race, culture, and diversity, but how these competencies are addressed in the classroom is not standardized. The purpose of this study was to examine music therapists' perceptions of their training in multicultural competence. The researcher emailed 7,539 board-certified music therapists, 631 of whom completed the survey. Results indicated that 95.1% of music therapists thought that multicultural competence is important, and 55.6% said that they felt prepared to demonstrate multicultural competence after completion of an undergraduate/equivalency music therapy program. Chi square analyses showed no significant associations between ratings of importance and participants' gender or race/ethnicity. Participants reported that classroom instruction was the most common way the competencies were addressed in undergraduate/equivalency programs. Qualitative analysis of how participants thought they could be better prepared revealed four themes: music skills, curricular integration, experience, and classroom activities.


The antagonistic activity of three bacterial isolates namely Microbacterium terregens, Cellulosimicrobium cellulans and Bacillus amylollquefaciens was evaluated through direct confrontation method and filtrates culture against the growth of Fusarium solani, Fusarium oxysporum, Rhizoctonia solani and Phytophthra cactorum. All bacterial isolates showed the inhibition of the mycelia growth of the isolated fungi as resulting to confrontation methods except R. solani with C. cellulans that showed no inhibitory effect and energized the low activity with B. amylollquefaciens. Culture filtrate of different bacterial isolates after different incubation periods revealed that the highest antifungal activity between 3-10 days.


This article investigates the precipitants of the diffusion of lifelong learning among 88 governmental and nongovernmental international organizations from 1990 to 2013 within an event history framework. Research on the diffusion of educational ideas among and within international organizations usually uses small-n approaches. This work looks at the large-scale interorganizational diffusion of lifelong learning, an important concept that has until now only been analyzed at the national level where worldwide adoption has occurred around the millennium. This study identifies astonishingly rapid and wide contagious diffusion of lifelong learning originating in core large, global, and Northern organizations with a long history before spreading to smaller, regional, more peripheral and younger ones. Recently, established organizations enter a world rife with legitimized educational models ready to be adopted. This article argues that the massive interest in lifelong learning needs to be explained by the highly institutionalized character of education and the hierarchical organization of the field around core and peripheral knowledge producers.


ABSTRACT. This study aims to determine the integration patterns that can be applied by a teacher in the learning process. In this study the authors used the literature research method, with data collection techniques conducting a review of books, literature, notes related to the integration of religious values in shaping student character. Integration of religious values is the inclusion of values into the learning process so that children have character and behave based on good religious values. Through integration, it provides complex goals for learning outcomes, namely cognitive, affective and psychomotor. There are two patterns of integration that can be carried out by teachers in the learning process, namely: (1) inculcating religious values into teaching material, the meaning is when the teacher provides an explanation or the process of transferring knowledge, the teacher does not only provide knowledge, but the teacher instills religious values. inside it. (2) The use of Islamic symbols for learning content means the inculcation of religious values through the content in learning, such as questions or material examples using the Islamic symbols in Islam.Keywords: Integration, religious values, student character


Science and technology project evaluation systems are an important part of e-government systems.Existing science and technology project evaluation systems have many problems such as the delineation of project groups,comparison of similar projects,and the presentation of assessment information.This paper introduces information processing techniques into the evaluation systems to help enhance the evaluation and improve the efficiency and evaluation quality.This paper focuses on information retrieval,text clustering,information visualization techniques,and how these techniques are applied to science and technology project evaluations.Specific proposals are given to successfully integrate information processing techniques into existing science and technology project evaluation systems.Tests show that these techniques enhance the evaluation system usability and improve the evaluation efficiency.


Crystal structures of tantalum hydrides have been reviewed.The Ta-H system is characteristic of an interstitial alloy of hydrogen in bcc tantalum over a wide composition range. Hydrogen atoms in the interstitial sites become ordered at low temperatures and superstructures β1-Ta2H, β2-Ta2H, γ-Ta4H3 and δ-TaH are formed. These super-structures are closely related and transform to one another with hydrogen composition and temperature. The crystal structure of β1-Ta2H is discussed in detail on the basis of the recent neutron and X-ray diffraction work. [J. Cryst. Soc. Jpn. 26, 169 (1984) ] .


Seeds of Parkia platycephala Benth. have a lectin which is best extracted at pH 4,0 and partially purified using a Sephadex G-50 column as an affinity adsorbent. The lectin .agglutinates rabbit erythrocytes but not those of cow, sheep, chicken or human D-glucose, D-mannose, D-fructose and derivatives act as inhibitors of the lectin with o-methyl-glucopyranoside and O-methyl-mannopyranoside being the most potent ones.


A new cutting type crystal temperature sensor,which adopts the width flexural mode,has a high accuracy,long-term stability and excellent resolving power.Tests show that its high resolving power can reach 10~(-3) to 10~(-5)℃,senstive is for hisher than most temperature sensor and thermometer and that the long-term stability can reach 0.001 to 0.01℃ within a year.The greatest advantage is that its output is frequency signals,which can improve the anti-interference ability(interfering signal up to 25db).Connected with the RS485 standard interface,the sensor can be formed onto a far transmitting network conveniently,thus solving the test region problem with high accuracy.Therefore,the sensor has wide application in the field of meterorological and sea-water temperature tests.


Soft x ray projection lithography allows the printing of feature sizes of 1μm and smaller with reasonable depth of focus because the very short wavelength allows a small numerical aperture. Because attainable mirror reflectivities are low in this wavelength region, the number of mirrors has to be kept to a minimum. Here again the low numerical aperture helps. Compared to present deep UV (248nm.) systems, there are a number of clearcut differences that impact the design and the construction of such a system.


In this note, we propose, apparently for the first time, a new type of controlled nuclear fusion called "intermediate" because occurring at energies intermediate between those of the "cold" and "hot" fusions, and propose a specific industrial realization. For this purpose: 1) We show that known limitations of quantum mechanics, quantum chemistry and special relativity cause excessive insuciencies from the conditions occurring for all controlled fusions; 2) We outline the covering hadronic mechanics, hadronic chemistry and isorelativity specifically conceived, constructed and verified during the past two decades for new cleans energies and fuels; 3) We identify seven physical laws predicted by the latter disciplines that have to be verified by all controlled nuclear fusions to occur; 4) We review the industrial research conducted to date in the selection of the most promising engineering realization as well as optimization of said seven laws; and 5) We propose with construction details a specific hadronic reactor, consisting of actual equipment specifically intended for the possible industrial production of the clean energy released by representative cases of controlled intermediate fusions for independent scrutiny by interested colleagues.


Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is associated with increased perinatal morbidity, mortality and long‐term neurodevelopmental sequelae. The objective of this study was to examine whether information about early neurodevelopmental deficits was evident using three‐dimensional head ultrasound and developmental assessments in preterm infants with FGR, compared with appropriate for gestational age (AGA) infants in the early post‐natal period.


The article consists of a Powerpoint presentation on technologies for optical processing. The paper concludes that the nonlinear elements based on SOA, fibers and waveguide structures have capabilities of simple processing at data rates of 100-600 Gb/s. Switching powers comparable to electronics. Photonic bandgap structures and nanowaveguides have potential for more compact photonic circuits. Nanostructures in switching at the very beginning plasmons may be useful for more compact photonic signal processing elements.


Part 1 1. Introduction 2. The Corporate Environment 3. The Development of Financial Reporting 4. Methodology 5. The Data Set References Part 2 Company Cash Flow Statements: Bell Brother Ltd Bolckow Vaughn and Company Ltd Butterley Company Ltd Cannock Chase Colliery Company Ltd Carlton Main Colliery Company Ltd Carron Iron Company Consett Coal and Iron Company Ltd D. David and Son Ltd Dowlais Iron (Partnership) Ebbw Vale Steel and Iron Company Ltd Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd Henry Briggs, Son and Company Ltd John Brown and Company Ltd North's Navigation (1889) Collieries Ltd Pearson Knowles Coal and Iron Company Ltd Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company Ltd The Rhymney Iron Company Ltd Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company Ltd Staveley Coal and Iron Company Ltd Tredegar Iron and Coal Company Ltd Wigan Coal and Iron Company Ltd


Study of microstructure of high Cr-alloyed sintered austenitic stainless steel was performed in few stages XPS analysis of powder surface, theoretical prediction of microstructure by Thermo-Calc and JMatPro software and metallographic observation of sintered material. XPS analysis showed presence of thin iron oxide layer on the surface of powder particles and oxide islands formed by Si, Mn and Cr. Theoretical prediction made by Thermo-Calc and JMatPro calculations showed presence of austenite with chromium carbides and carbonitrides in equilibrium state. Both predictions are in good agreement. Metallographic observation of sintered material showed that microstructure contains small austenitic grains with size of 3-5 μm with fine carbides (1-2 μm) and carbonitrides distributed mostly on grain boundaries. Metallographic study of material confirmed theoretical predictions.


This article aims to analyze the forms of representation of the legal entity in Brazilian labor lawsuits, especially in the case of legal representation and the hearing representative, considering the concepts of corporate forms. Based on this discussion, a study was elaborated focused on the presentation of dialogues between indoctrinators, legislation and jurisprudence about the representation of the company in the Brazilian Labor Court, followed by an analysis of these representations from the different meanings of company. The objective of the research is to promote an analysis on how the perception of corporate forms has influenced business representation in the Brazilian Labor Justice. In the end, despite the necessity of further research, it was found that, although both forms of perception are identified in the current system, the Brazilian labor legislature seemed to recognize corporations as real entities for purposes of representation.


Extraction of information relays heavily on the user. The correct extraction of information is very important especially in an eLearning environment. We can ensure correct distribution of important data (contact information, calendar events, and locations) by encapsulating that information in the correct formats and rely on automated agents for data processing. In this paper, we propose a model of republishing the user contact information from Moodle in hCard and vCard formats, and also QR codes for mobile tagging. This application model can be extended in the future to data regarding calendar events (vcalendar, hcalendard, ical) and locations.


Abstract : This report describes two new methods for computing borehole geometry from discrete measurements of borehole inclination (theta) and azimuth (alpha). In the first method theta and alpha are assumed to vary linearly with arc length. This results in an analytic model of the borehole that is continuous but not smooth. The second model, which takes theta and alpha to vary quadratically with arc length between three measuring points, improves the smoothness of the model but the analysis must be carried out numerically. These models were applied to the borehole inclinometry data collected at DYE-3, Greenland. The methods were found convenient to use and it is claimed that the results represent physically reasonable approximations to the borehole geometry. (Author)


This study aims to illustrate the perspectives on policies and practices for environmentally sound coastal management in Asian countries. We focused on Korea, Singapore and Thailand as our sample regions to investigate. We obtained the following conclusion as a result of our research trip, including hearings from governmental agencies and research institutions.1) All these governments have advanced many of ocean reclamation projects. In Korea, some of the people criticize the large scale reclamation project, which end up with the emission of water pollution and loss of wetland.2) Due to the insufficient treatment of both industrial and household, water pollution is becoming serious environmental problem, especially in built-up area which is not serviced sewerage system.3) The national government has strong initiative for the environmental management in these countries.4) Each of those countries has its own system of environmental management. For instance, in Singapore, the national government steadily and surely carries out the national land development plan. In Korea, the national government is now preparing "The Law of Coastal Management" for comprehensive management of coastal zone.


In this work it was found that reactions between Pb 2+ and (I-+I 3 -) in acidic silica gels are limited to the formation of Pbl 2 from Pb 2+ +2 I- and from Pb 2+ +2I J, the latter occur-ring with the coincident formation of I2 crystals. There was no evidence of pseudomorphic conversion of I2 to Pbl 2 , even by the presence of large excesses of Pb 2+ , in contrast to reactions in acidic gels between excess Hg 2+ , Ag + , or Tl + and I2, in which instances these metal cations convert I2 pseudomorphically to the respective iodides. When a deficiency of Pb 2+ existed, there was no zone separation of Pbl 2 and I 2 , as occurs with Hgl 2 , Agl, or Til and I 2 in metal-ion deficient systems, and the distributions of Pbl 2 and I2 crystals were random.


'Judgmental adjustments' constitute one of the popular and important tools in the arsenal of the forecasting practitioners that facilitate the integration of their judgment into the forecasting process. In the current article, a literature review on this widely used method is provided. The motivation and reasons behind judgmental adjustments are examined followed by the recent concentrations of research on the subject. At the same time, primary research gaps are identified and an agenda for future research is provided.


Vintage tractors were put through their paces at the weekend in the warm up to this year's Tractor Fest – the UK's leading vintage tractor show ...


This article presents an adaptively biased output-capacitor-free low-dropout regulator that achieves high power supply rejection for wearable biomedical system-on-chips (SoCs). Adaptive biasing is implemented to achieve both fast transient responses and high power conversion efficiency, and the common-gate current feedback loop enhances the dc gain of the error amplifier by 10 dB. The proposed supply ripple subtraction reference buffer constitutes a reversed-phase power supply rejection (PSR) path that counteracts the increase in the output voltage due to the in-phase PSR path, and PSR is enhanced significantly in the range of 1 MHz. The proposed pole-tracking-compensation maintains sufficient phase margin over a wide load current range. Designed and fabricated in a 0.18 <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu$</tex-math></inline-formula>m CMOS process, the prototype silicon area is only 0.0113 mm <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^2$</tex-math></inline-formula>. The total quiescent current is 8.6 <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu$</tex-math></inline-formula>A at no load current, and the maximum current efficiency is 98.8<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\%$</tex-math></inline-formula> at full load current of 20 mA.


Temperature control system for a mold comprising: a mold is provided in the circulation pipe; water circulation heating unit, the heating water to the circulation pipe to pre-heat the mold; to circulating cooling water circulation pipe unit to cool the mold, the cooling water is supplied ; and the remaining heating water or cooling water circulating pipe compressed air circulation section to provide compressed air to the circulation pipe to discharge. Compressed air circulation unit for heating water or cooling water to be supplied to the air before the circulation pipe circulating pipe to discharge the liquid remaining in the circulation pipe.


We consider a scheme for quantum nondemoliton (QND) measurements involving a cavity containing a Faraday rotator and a nonlinear crystal for (frequency degenerate) parametric downconversion into orthogonal polarizations. For the case of nondepletion of the pump field we analyze the coupled equations for the quadrature amplitudes of the fields using both semiclassical and quantum mechanical approaches. We show that when the magnitudes of the coupling coefficients κ of the crystal and σ of the Faraday rotator are appropriately chosen, the Hamiltonian of the system is of an ideal QND form for the intracavity field in the absence of dissipation. With the inclusion of cavity damping in the form of a single mirror of finite transmissivity, we demonstrate that information in the quadrature amplitude X1 of one polarization of the incident field can be measured (in a QND sense) by monitoring the quadrature amplitude Y2 of the orthogonal polarization.


Red tourism, which is featured with spiritual culture, resource fusion and historical
socialization, is a remarkable innovation with Chinese characteristics.
It is the shinning point of China's tourism business development. This paper
will show the objective and correct evaluation of red tourism resource. Firstly,
it will create evaluation index system by theoretical analysis method and expert
consultation method. Secondly, it will evaluate each object synthetically
by fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method and analytic hierarchy process.
Finally, through case study of General Zhang Aiping's, Former Residence in
Dazhou, Sichuan Province, conclusion and related suggestion will be achieved.


In this age of technology characterized by capitalist and materialist culture, Christian ministry pertaining to the natural world of creation has been relegated to the background in the teaching and preaching of many churches whereas on the other hand, it has long been held that the environment is among the most pressing concerns of this generation. While most Christians appreciate the beauty of nature, many do not realize that there is a strong biblical basis for creation care, and that, in fact, many ethical values, fundamental to the development of a peaceful society, are particularly relevant to the ecological question. The purpose of this research is twofold, firstly, to establish the basis for the Church's response to the problem of climate change by correlating climate change with the Biblical mandate for creation care and secondly, to provide recommendations on how creation care can be integrated into the local church's administration and ministry. Recent scientific findings on climate change alongside its environmental and social implications provided the framework upon which this research is based. This paper through descriptive phenomenological method of scholarship made an inroad into the role of the church as steward of the entire oikoumene -the entire inhabited earth. The significance of the research is that it has provided a document that spells out clearly why and how Christian Churches should be involved in tackling the issue of climate change and the resultant ecological problems facing the world today. Keywords: Theology. Climatic change, mitigation stewardship, adaptation


The present invention provides a method of transmitting a reference signal by a base station in a wireless communication system comprising a relay station method. The base station with respect to the respective layers of the plurality of layers to generate a plurality of relay - physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) reference signals to demodulate the R-PDCCH, R-PDCCH is a control channel for the relay station, in accordance with a predetermined reference signal pattern mapping a plurality of reference signal to R-PDCCH R-PDCCH region including at least a relay zone in the resource block, and the at least one resource block transmitted through a plurality of antenna ports.


A thermodynamic theory is formulated to describe the phase transition and critical phenomena in pedestrian flow. Based on the extended lattice hydrodynamic pedestrian model taking the interaction of the next—nearest—neighbor persons into account, the time-dependent Ginzburg—Landau (TDGL) equation is derived to describe the pedestrian flow near the critical point through the nonlinear analysis method. The corresponding two solutions, the uniform and the kink solutions, are given. The coexisting curve, spinodal line, and critical point are obtained by the first and second derivatives of the thermodynamic potential.


Implementation of the Discovery Inquiry method in improving students' thinking skills in learning Islamic religious education for students of Tunas Mandiri Private Junior High School Tanjung Pura. This study uses quantitative research methods. The location of the research was carried out at the Tunas Mandiri Private Junior High School, Tanjung Pura District, Langkat Regency. The implementation of this research was carried out from April to June 2021. The purpose of this study was to determine the implementation of Discovery Inquiry in improving students' thinking skills in learning Islamic religious education for students of Tunas Mandiri Private Junior High School Tanjung Pura, Langkat Regency, whether there is a significant relationship significant. To prove this, the author conducted a study on the title. This research was conducted on 30 students of Tunas Mandiri Private Junior High School Tanjung Pura which were used as research samples. Data collection tools are library research, observation, questionnaires and interviews. The results of the questionnaire were processed by tabulating the data to determine the frequency. Based on the discussion of the research results in this thesis, it can be seen that the implementation of the Discovery Inquiry method for students of Tunas Mandiri Private Junior High School Tanjung Pura is very good (70%). Meanwhile, students' thinking ability in learning Islamic religious education for students of Tunas Mandiri Private Junior High School Tanjung Pura is good (73.3%). The results of the tabulation calculation between the implementation of the Discovery Inquiry method on students' thinking abilities in learning Islamic religious education for students of Tunas Mandiri Private Junior High School Tanjung Pura with a moderate or adequate level of significance.


An aggressive carbon cutting scenario that would reduce Australia's emissions by 50-80% by 2050, implies the decarbonising of the stationary energy sector. Paula Wallace considers the scenarios.


We report on the development, the adaptation, the validation, and the utility of the French version of the revised Sport Motivation Scale (SMS-II), namely the EMS-II (Échelle de Motivation dans les Sports), a scale developed originally in English to measure the six motivation subtypes (intrinsic motivation, integrated, identified, introjected, and external regulation of extrinsic motivation, and amotivation) proposed by self-determination theory (SDT). Results from two studies with athletes (N = 506) from different sports indicated that the scale has good psychometric properties. Specifically, the results of the confirmatory factor analysis suggest that the scale holds an adequate structure consistent with the six types of motivation proposed by SDT, and that French and English athletes were invariant with regard to the structure of the six-factor scale. The results also indicated that the scale had sufficient discriminant and convergent validity, and Cronbach's alpha suggests that all subscales have adequate internal consistency. Finally, correlations between the subscales suggest evidence of a simplex pattern, which support the self-determination continuum within the SDT framework. Direction for future research and conceptual implications are discussed.


The article presents the results of studies on the effect of chitosan additives on the biocidal properties of polymer putty for interior decoration.


Background: Ef fective analgesia following total knee arthroplasty may be provided using intrathecal opioids, epidural analgesia or continuous peripheral nerve blockade (1). Local anaesthetic infiltration has proved superior to epidural analgesia and femoral nerve blockade (2, 3). To date, no study comparing this technique with intrathecal morphine has been published. Objective: To evaluate the analgesic ef ficacy of intraand peri-articular plus wound infiltration with levobupivacaine in comparison with intrathecal morphine following total knee arthroplasty. The primary outcome measure was analgesia in the first 48 postoperative hours as assessed by visual analogue scale (VAS) scores for pain. A secondary outcome measure was morphine consumption. Methodology: In this prospective, randomized controlled trial patients were randomized to one of two groups. Patients in the standard group (S) received spinal anaesthesia with intrathecal bupivacaine and morphine 0.3 mg. Patients in the infiltration group (I) received spinal anaesthesia with intrathecal bupivacaine without morphine, and infiltration with levobupivacaine 0.5% 2mg/kg body weight plus 0.5mg epinephrine made up to a volume of 100ml with normal saline. An intra-articular catheter was sited prior to wound closure and a bolus of 15 ml levobupivacaine 0.5% was given on the first postoperative day. Patients' VAS for pain was assessed at 2, 6, 12, 24 and 48 hours both at rest and on movement (passive flexion to 30°). Total analgesic consumption in the form of morphine PCA use was recorded. Results: Out of the planned 36 patients 20 have been recruited to date (10 to group S, 10 to group I). Mean VAS scores for pain show a trend towards being lower in the infiltration group Vs the standard group at both 24 and 48 hours (Table 1).


Introduction Prophylactic thrombocyte transfusion is being used to reduce increased bleeding risk after chemotherapy treatment for leukemia or malignancy. This transfusion is frequently applied when thrombocyte count is below Methods Eighty patients who have been diagnosed as acute leukemia were randomized into 4 groups. Six units random thrombocyte was given to the first group, three units random thrombocyte was given to the second group, one unit apheresis was given to the third group, and ½ unit apheresis was given to the fourth group. Before and 15 minutes after transfusion, peripheral blood was taken and CBC and rotation thromboelastograpy (ROTEM) was performed by standard device (Pentapharm GmbH, Munich, Germany). Clotting time (CT), clot formation time (CFT), and maximum clot firmness (MCF) were evaluated by 2 methods, in-TEM and ex-TEM. Patients were followed up during study by using clinical bleeding signs based on WHO bleeding grade. Patients who used medications that can affect thrombocyte functions within the last 14 days and patients who have systemic disorders (renal, hepatic, endocrinological) or hemostatic disorders were not included in this study. Variance analysis was used in order to find out statistical differences. P Results When platelet counts and ROTEM results were analyzed for each parameter before platelet transfusion, there were no statistically significant differences among groups. We analyzed the differences of platelet counts and thromboelastographic parameters before and after prophylactic platelet transfusion and we didn't see any statistically significant differences between groups. Clinical bleeding signs were not correlated with platelet count in any groups. Conclusion Six units random, three units random, complete apheresis or half apheresis prophylactic platelet transfusion does not cause any significant changes in platelet count, ROTEM parameters and clinical bleeding signs. Therefore, low dose platelet transfusion can be considered because of its lower economic burden. Moreover, further studies are needed to evaluate the potential of ROTEM as an independent factor for transfusion indication. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


This research aims to describe and analyze the implementation of public services and the inhibiting and supporting factors inimplementing the civil servant code of ethics based on Mayor Regulation 8 of 2017 concerning the civil servant code of ethicswithin the Blitar City Regional Secretariat. The location of the research was carried out at This research was carried out at theRegional Secretariat of the City of Blitar, which islocated in the City of Blitar. The results of the research found that the study showed that the application of the civil servant code of ethics could be implemented quite well by the state apparatus in theRegional Secretariat but could have been more optimal. Enforcement of the Code ofEthics for employees who commit violations can be subject to moral sanctions made in writing and stated in a closed or open manner by the Civil Service Development Officer and administrative sanctions such as verbal reprimands. The inhibiting factor in applying this code of ethics is that employees need more discipline and awareness. At the same time, the supporting factors are the Blitar Mayor Regulation number 8 of 2017concerning the Civil Servants Code of Ethics, which can be a reference or guide in implementing it.


In this work we report on a next-to-leading order calculation of $WW+\text{jet}$ production at hadron colliders, with subsequent leptonic decays of the $W$ bosons included. The calculation of the one-loop contributions is performed using generalized unitarity methods in order to derive analytic expressions for the relevant amplitudes. These amplitudes have been implemented in the parton-level Monte Carlo generator mcfm, which we use to provide a complete next-to-leading order calculation. Predictions for total cross sections, as well as differential distributions for several key observables, are computed both for the LHC operating at 14 TeV as well as for a possible future 100 TeV proton-proton collider.


Objective: This study was planned to determine the prevalence of smear positive pulmonary TB among patients receiving care at a tertiary reference Hospital National Hospital Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria. Background: With an estimated 9.4 million new cases globally, tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major public health concern. Eighty percent of all cases worldwide occur in 22 high-burdens, mainly resource-poor settings. This devastating impact of tuberculosis on vulnerable populations is also driven by its deadly synergy with HIV. Therefore, building capacity and enhancing universal access to rapid and accurate laboratory diagnostics are necessary to control TB and HIV-TB co-infections in resource-limited countries. In low income countries (Nigeria inclusive), Ziehl-Neelsen sputum smear microscopy is the only cost-effective tool for diagnosis and monitoring of patients on treatment. There is dearth of data on the prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) among patient attendees from individual Institutions and Health Care Facilities performing sputum smear microscopy in Nigeria. This retrospective study will analyze sputum smear microscopy results among pulmonary TB suspected patients presenting to National Hospital Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria. Sputum smear microscopy for Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB) results of new suspected pulmonary TB (Diagnosis) patients and their demographic data comprising age and sex recorded from January 2010 to December 2014 were retrieved from the TB Laboratory Register of the Medical Microbiology department and analyzed. Methods: This hospital based retrospective study analyzed sputum smear microscopy results among pulmonary TB suspected patients presenting to the National Hospital Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. Sputum smear microscopy for Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB) results of new suspected pulmonary TB (Diagnosis) patients and their demographic data comprising age and sex recorded from January 2010 to December 2013 were retrieved from the TB Laboratory Register of the Medical Microbiology department and analyzed. Data processing and statistical analysis were performed using SPSS software (Windows version 16.0). The results were expressed as percentage, with significance at 5%. Results: The overall prevalence of sputum smear positive cases were 17.3% (63 0f 364) and most of the positive patients were within the age range 15 – 44 years. The highest percentage of TB was seen in the age group of 15 24 years compared with the lowest percentages in the age group below 14 years and above 45 years. A total of 63 (17.3%) suspects were found to have at least one positive. Of these, 56 (88.9% of those with one or more positive smears and 92% of those who fulfilled the case definition) were detected from the first specimen and 7 (11.1%) were positive on the second specimen but not the first. The third specimen did not have any additional diagnostic value for the detection of AFB. Conclusion: The prevalence of sputum smear positive cases of 18.3% increases with age up to the age 44 years. Our result show that examining two sputa smears was sufficient for the detection of AFB in our laboratory. Further research involving different laboratories from all of the six geo-political groups in Nigeria is needed to reassess these findings.


COVID-19 remains a global disaster. Worse, it was a preventable disaster. A World Health Organization official said that it is reclassifying the highly contagious triple-mutant Covid variant spreading in India as a "variant of concern," indicating that it's become a global health threat. Every healthcare system is stretched to the limit and the coming days are going to be a challenge that will test the Indian Healthcare infrastructure and personnel unlike any other time in history as can be understood by Dr Devi Shetty's statement. Amidst all these developments, we have to question the role of Ayurveda in the management of Covid 19 and its varied clinical presentations. Though these efforts have been initiated and widely promoted, the ground reality remains that there is a lot of confusion whether the state governments have allowed Ayurveda practitioners to treat Covid 19 cases officially. However, many vaidyas across India are managing mild, moderate and even severe cases of Covid 19 very effectively with encouraging results. Our concern is that the system of Ayurveda is not qualified to be a front runner in addressing the issues of such magnitude as a professional body of experts. What the Covid -19 pandemic has exposed is the lack of co-ordination in the healthcare system of our country and more so in the field of Ayurveda. There is no platform through which Ayurveda doctors can share their data in real time. There is no doubt that Ayurveda has the answers to many of the diseases plaguing mankind. Decades of work by eminent physicians has proved this. The problem is that of documentation and this is the root cause of all the controversies and questions about its efficacy and validity. Thus the question: Is it time for Ayurveda to Repurpose Itself?


Within the research laboratory of the Physics of advanced Tokamaks, which has been founded in 2011 on the basis of a meGa-Grant, the two groups from the university and the Ioffe Institute cooperate on the three tokamaks, Globus-m, Tuman-3m and fT-2. The research of both partners benefitted from the means of the meGa-Grant. The laboratory has given itself a transparent governing structure and its annual outcome is assessed by an international advisory committee. a graduate school has been founded to ensure proper education. The laboratory could serve as a model for integrated research and education centre in russian thermonuclear program. The urgent need to modernize the russian fusion devices has become obvious. researcH laBoraTorY, THermo-nuclear fusIon, ToKamaK deVIces, Plasma confInemenT, Plasma dIaGnosTIcs, Plasma HeaTInG, THeorY and eXPerImenT, educaTIon WITHIn rlPaT.


[Objective]To understand the epidemic characteristics of H1N1 flu and provide basis for its prevention and control.[Methods]Analysis was made on the epidemic data of H1N1 flu in Donggang district,Rizhao city,2009.[Results]A total of 102 laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 flu were reported in Donggang district,2009,the morbidity rate at 11.02/105,including 3 severe cases,3 critical cases,and 2 deaths.Cases were distributed in 10 of 12 townships(sub-districts),with a morbidity rate of 16.81/105 in urban areas compared with a morbidity rate of 1.78/105 in rural areas.Of these 102 cases,2 cases happened in July,25 in October,37 in November and 38 in December;There were 54 male cases compared with 48 female cases;the age of cases ranged from 2 to 75,with 61 cases within the age of 14 to 25;Of these cases,there were 52 students,12 farmers,and 38 other cases.The results of laboratory examination:all of the 102 cases were confirmed to be positive for H1N1 flu nucleotide.There was an outbreak at a junior middle school in the mid of October,2009,with an incidence rate of 6.06% in the population.[Conclusion]The H1N1 flu epidemic is serious in Donggang district,2009,efficient measures play an important role in curbing the spread of the disease and getting the disease under control.


The mechanical architecture of the Carboniferous seed fern Lyginopteris oldhamia is investigated from development stages including naturally decorticated stems. The growth form shows a relatively long semi‐self‐supporting phase of growth, with prolonged retention of the primary outer "dictyoxylon" cortex contributing significantly during early and mature growth. The outer cortex is retained on the stem despite significant secondary vascular growth via radial and tangential expansion and proliferation of interstitial parenchyma and longitudinal division of the radial bands of fibers. In the final stages of development, the outer "mechanical dictyoxylon" cortex is sloughed from the stem after periderm development in the inner cortex. Loss of the outer cortex results in a decrease in calculated bending stiffness. Calculations of mechanical stem properties based on the overall development indicate for a climber a comparatively stiff mechanical architecture that is comparable with certain types of extant lianas. Mechanisms that allow L. oldhamia to retain and then shed the outer cortex show developmental and mechanical strategies analogous to those of extant climbing plants. The study indicates that relatively sophisticated climbing stem architectures had already evolved by the Late Carboniferous.


Hypertriglyceridemia is a rare cause of pancreatits. However the relationship between acute pancreatits and severe hypertrigyceridemia is well recognized. It can be a life- threatening complication if the degree of hypertrigyceridemia is severe enough. A serum triglyceride level of more than 1,000 to 2,000 mg/dL is the identifiable risk factor. The clinical course and management of hypertriglyceridemia induced acute pancreatitis is not different from other causes. The clinical course and management of hypertriglyceridemia induced acute pancreatitis during pregnancy are similar to the one during nonpregnant state. The prevalence of acute pancreatitis in pregnancy ranges between 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 3,000. Gestational hypertrigyceridemic pancreatits can be fatal, and maternal morbidity rate has an upward trend of 20%. We report a 31-year-old woman with coexistence of hypertrigyceridemia and acute pancreatits at 32 weeks gestation with a brief review of the literatures.


In this paper, a family of secondary-side common-mode (CM) noise suppressers is proposed for off-line switching-mode power supplies (SMPSs) used in fault current limiter (FCL). Not only the operation principle of the proposed secondary-side CM noise suppressers is quite straightforward, but also the circuit configuration is extremely simply. Hence, component size as well as cost of the off-line can reduced significantly. An off-line Flyback-type power converter using the proposed CM noise suppresser is analyzed in detail, finally, along with some experimental results to verify the performance and effectiveness of this power supplies.


Experimental findings are presented which demonstrate the coupled transport, mechanical and morphological changes in porous battery materials when they are cycled electrochemically. These materials, comprised of a mixture of powdered nickel and nickel fiber, act as substrates in nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) cells, and function as porous, conductive containment for positive-plate active material. They can offer substantial weight and cost savings over more traditional sintered or foam materials, provided they can be designed to produce good conductivity over many (>500) electrochemical cycles. This study represents an expansion of previous work by the authors, which had established some key differences in the behavior of substrate materials for a small number of cells. Here, these differences are validated with a greater variety and number of electrochemical/material experiments, along with a parallel study on morphological changes. In the second paper in this series, transport and mechanics models are presented to explain the observed differences, using microstructural models based on observations in this study.


Purpose - This paper aims to contribute the existing finance literature by examining whether the ratings of Morningstar in Australia provide useful information for an investor by way of investigating the efficiency of domestic Australian equity funds that received a rating as at November 2005. Design/methodology/approach - This paper proposes the application of a simulation approach to stochastic data envelopment analysis (SDEA) based on Excel/@RISK, which was first proposed by Premachandra Findings - The introduction to portfolio performance evaluation of a new tool for evaluating fund performance (namely, the efficiency rating) is recommended. From a sample of Australian domestic equity managed funds we find that evidence exists to suggest that efficient funds are likely to receive an upgrade in rating in the medium to long term. Practical implications - The benefit of the present paper for investors and fund managers is the improved efficiency of managed funds in terms of expense and risk. Originality/value - The present paper further contributes to the literature by reinforcing the importance of SDEA as a tool for measuring the efficiency of decision-making units within investment fund markets.


Inflammatory  myofibroblastic  tumor  (IMT)  is  an  uncommon  benign  tumor  of  intermediate  neoplastic  potential,  characterised   by spindle  cell  proliferation  with  characteristic  fibroinflammatory  and  pseudosarcomatous  appearance.  A  subset  of  IMT  with  histologic  atypia  and/or  clinical  aggressiveness  is also  known. IMTs  occur  in  the  mesentery,  omentum,  retroperitoneum,  pelvis, and  abdominal  soft  tissues. However,  the  occurrence  of  IMT  in urinary  bladder  is  unusual. IMT  exhibits  morphologic  and  immunophenotypic  overlap with  malignant  spindle  cell  tumors  of  the  urinary  bladder  and  is diagnostically challenging. In  the  case  presented, ALK-1  and  SMA  immunostains helped  to  identify  IMT. Anaplastic  Lymphoma  Kinase  (ALK)  gene  translocation  or  ALK  gene  expression  can  further  confirm  IMT. Complete  surgical  excision  with  follow-up  is  the  treatment  of  choice  for  IMT.  DOI: 10.21276/APALM.1129


In a printed wiring board having a through hole formed by plating filling in a through hole formed in an insulating resin substrate, defects such as voids or the like are provided by shifting the positions of the central axes of the respective through holes exposed from the front and back surfaces of the insulating resin substrate. Provided is a printed wiring board having a through-hole structure that reduces the occurrence of cracks, reduces connection failure of a substrate, and improves mechanical strength of the substrate.


Actively participating in national defense education and practicing socialist core values is an obligation of contemporary college students. As builders of socialist, college students should pay attention to national construction and national defense security. By establishing the core values firmly, it can guide college students to consciously combine their professional learning with national construction through ideology, and truly training college students to become young talents of the new era who are always ready to contribute to the motherland and actively support national defense construction. Firstly, this paper outlines the important value of national defense education and the existing problems in current work. Subsequently, the relationship between national defense education and the cultivation of core values is dialectically analyzed. Finally, a brief analysis is made on how to cultivate core values in "5331" national defense education. Keywords—Core Values; National Defense Education; Joint Training of Military Academies


The so-called original ecological culture is primitive but the traditional culture blended with modern elements.So the original ecological ethnic culture needs to be innovated and developed which keeps the step of the times.Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties,Han culture had made a profound impact on the development of Miao and Dong farming culture of Southeast Guizhou.Today,in the tide of modernization,the original ecological ethnic culture will positively Absorb the modern elements in order to represent the vigor and vitality of the ethnicculture.


To investigate if polyomavirus infection during pregnancy is linked to development of neuroblastoma in the child, serum samples of 115 index mothers from the pregnancy where the child eventually developed neuroblastoma were identified and matched with serum samples from 8 control mothers per index mother. The samples were tested for specific IgG and IgM antibodies to BK and JC virus using enzyme immunoassays based on purified yeast‐expressed virus‐like particles (VLPs). The serum samples as well as 10 neuroblastoma cell lines were also analyzed using Real Time (TaqMan) PCR for detection and quantification of BK virus DNA. The BK virus IgG seroprevalence was similar among index mothers (80%) and control mothers (83%) [OR 0.8; 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 0.5–1.3]. BK virus IgM was also not associated with neuroblastoma risk (OR was OR = 0.6; 95% with CI, 0.2–1.9). Also JC virus had no association, neither for IgG (OR = 0.9; 95% CI, 0.6–1.4) nor for IgM (OR = 0.9; 95% CI, 0.4–1.9). All serum samples and all neuroblastoma cell lines were negative for BKV DNA. In summary, a comprehensive cohort using both serology and polyomavirus DNA detection found no evidence for association between BKV or JCV polyomaviruses and neuroblastoma.


Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is fundamental to neuroscience, where detailed structural brain scans improve clinical diagnoses and provide accurate neuroanatomical information. Apart from time-consuming scanning protocols, higher image resolution can be obtained with super resolution algorithms. We investigated the generalization abilities of Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (SRGANs) across different populations. T1-weighted scans from three large cohorts were used, spanning older subjects, newborns, and patients with brain tumor- or treatment-induced tissue changes. Upsampling quality was validated using synthetic and anatomical metrics. Models were first trained on each cohort, yielding high image quality and anatomical fidelity. When applied across cohorts, no artifacts were introduced by the SRGANs. SRGANs that were trained on a dataset combining all cohorts also did not induce any population-based artifacts. We showed that SRGANs provide a prime example of robust AI, where application on unseen populations did not introduce artifacts due to training data bias (e.g., insertion or removal of tumor-related signals and contrast inversion). This is an important step in the deployment of SRGANs in real-world settings.


The position of poor countries reflects international relationships governing economic exchange, debt, and markets. No less important are the dominance of ideas from abroad, such as the Washington Consensus, and the role of international organisations in enforcing its principles. Policies have shifted from the self-direction of the Poverty Reduction Strategies towards the top-down priorities represented by the Sustainable Development Goals.


The basic concepts of fractal geometry are relatively simple. Although they are not entirely new, the recognition that these simple notions form a unified language for a variety of disciplines in natural science is due to Mandelbrot.1 Our objective is to assess briefly the role of fractals and multifractal measures in fluid flows broadly, including turbulence and combustion. As applications have yet to mature, the report captures a snap-shot of the changing scene. We focus on activities that are common to both fluid dynamics and fractals and ignore some isolated aspects; we also omit comments on possible fractal structure obtained in chaotic mixing. Finally, we emphasize the question of how fractals enter physical problems, not the classical results. Much of the material to be covered below can be found in refererences cited in the bibliography2–7. Other references cited are not meant to be exhaustive.


Most public health and nutrition experts now accept that the undernutrition that affects children in developing nations results from a combination of complex social and biological factors. These factors may lead to low availability of adequate foods to meet energy and nutrient requirements and/or to poor use of foods consumed because of the overwhelming toll of infections to which most children and other family members are exposed in poor areas of developing countries [1] Adequate amounts of food may be obtained from items available in a community and/or through purchasing power (depending on income and prices). If sufficient demand exists in a community, markets are likely to be able to offer enough commodities through local production and/or imports. Thus, the low availability of foods to families in rural areas of developing nations is generally related to lack of purchasing power rather than to insufficient supply. A comprehensive government strategy to tackle food and nutrition problems should include health and environmental sanitation programmes geared to improving the use of consumed foods. These programmes can include primary health care activities, introduction of potable water, hygienic disposal of excrete and garbage, control of domestic animals, and adequate housing. All of these may substantially reduce the frequency and severity of prevailing infections. Therefore health programmes, by themselves, are likely to produce important improvements in child survival and better growth patterns [2], indicating improved nutritional status. The prevailing low levels of income in rural areas of Central America result from the low cash-generating capacity of labourers (lack of employment and/or low wages) and the insufficient production of foods by subsistence farmers. Such situations preclude these persons from fulfilling their own and their families' energy and nutrient needs. Some of the strategies available to and exercised by governments of developing nations to improve the purchasing power of undernourished persons include generating labour opportunities for deprived areas, providing subsidized low-price shops, periodically revising and improving minimum wages, and providing supplementary feeding and other types of food distribution.


The surface and interface enthalpies of cubic stabilized zirconia solid solutions containing 8, 10, and 12 mol % Y2O3 were determined by a combination of calorimetric, morphological, and structural analyses techniques. Nanocrystalline samples with several surface areas and degrees of agglomeration were synthesized by simultaneous precipitation and annealing at temperatures of 470−900 °C. Samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. Surface areas were measured by N2 adsorption, and interface areas were estimated by comparing surface areas from N2 adsorption to those derived from an analysis of the crystallite sizes refined from X-ray diffraction data. Calorimetric measurements of heat of solution in a sodium molybdate melt, as a function of surface and interface areas, enabled us to experimentally derive trends in the surface and interface enthalpies of hydroxylated surfaces. Accounting for heats of water adsorption measured by microcalorimetry allowed us to obtain the surface en...


The first three papers from this issue are extensions from the proceedings of Motion in Games 2013. This was the sixth year of Motion in Games; the 2013 event was chaired by Rachel McDonnell at Trinity College Dublin, and the program chairs were Victor Zordan from the University of California Riverside and Nathan Sturtevant from the University of Denver. The first paper was by Ben Jones, Jovan Popovic, James McCann, Wilmot Li, and Adam Bargteil. Ben Jones and Adam Bargteil are from the University of Utah, while the remaining authors are from Adobe Systems, Inc. They present an approach for creating "dynamic sprites" that leverages sprite sheets, despite the fact that sprite sheets do not encode information about animation timing, deformation, or transitions. Artists overcome this by creating sprites that change and deform into a number of example poses and by indicating which poses can be interpolated. In this paper, physically based simulation navigates the pose manifold in response to external or user-controlled forces. Artistic control is achieved by allowing the artist to specify both the pose manifold and how it is navigated, while physics is leveraged to provide timing and generality. The final result is a system for creating sprites with a range of dynamic properties. The second paper is by Dan Gerszewski of the University of Utah, Ladislav Kavan of the University of Pennsylvania, Peter-Pike Sloan of Activision, and Adam W. Bargteil of the University of Utah. They present several enhancements to model-reduced fluid simulation that allow improved simulation bases and two-way solid–fluid coupling. A basis enrichment scheme allows the combination of data driven or artistically derived bases with more general analytic bases derived from Laplacian eigenfunctions. Two-way solid–fluid coupling is handled in a time-splitting fashion—with alternate time steps for the fluid and rigid body simulators, while taking into account the effects of the fluid on the rigid bodies and vice versa. A vortex panel method handles solid–fluid coupling and uses dynamic pressure to compute the effect of the fluid on rigid bodies. The third paper is by Kai Ninomiya, Mubbasir Kapadia, and Alexander Shoulson of the University of Pennsylvania; Francisco Garcia from the University of Massachusetts


Wave propagation through plasma crystals provides an interesting experimental approach towards understanding strongly coupled plasmas as well as certain solid state properties of crystals. In order to build up our basic understanding of conditions and processes, oscillation modes of one‐ and two‐particle systems are investigated first, and the damping process is identified by studying the amplitude variations of the oscillations as a function of the excitation frequency. Next, single layer plasma crystals are investigated using the same techniques. An induced spontaneous transition from the solid to the gas phase is observed, and its possible origin is discussed.


The National Football League's (NFL) 2011 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with its players placed a number of contact and quantity limitations on practices and workouts. Some coaches and others have expressed a concern that this has led to poor conditioning and a subsequent increase in injuries. We sought to assess whether the 2011 CBA's practice restrictions affected the number of overall, conditioning-dependent, and/or non-conditioning-dependent injuries in the NFL or the number of games missed due to those injuries. The study population was player-seasons from 2007-2016. We included regular season, non-illness, non-head, game-loss injuries. Injuries were identified using a database from Football Outsiders. The primary outcomes were overall, conditioning-dependent and non-conditioning-dependent injury counts by season. We examined time trends in injury counts before (2007-2010) and after (2011-2016) the CBA using a Poisson interrupted time series model. The number of game-loss regular season, non-head, non-illness injuries grew from 701 in 2007 to 804 in 2016 (15% increase). The number of regular season weeks missed exhibited a similar increase. Conditioning-dependent injuries increased from 197 in 2007 to 271 in 2011 (38% rise), but were lower and remained relatively unchanged at 220-240 injuries per season thereafter. Non-conditioning injuries decreased by 37% in the first three years of the new CBA before returning to historic levels in 2014-2016. Poisson models for all, conditioning-dependent, and non-conditioning-dependent game-loss injury counts did not show statistically significant or meaningful detrimental changes associated with the CBA. We did not observe an increase in injuries following the 2011 CBA. Other concurrent injury-related rule and regulation changes limit specific causal inferences about the practice restrictions, however.


The fraction of b bevents in hadronic Z o decays has been measured from the yield of leptons in the data samples collected by OPAL in 1990 and 1991. A sample enriched in events containing Z~ decays was obtained by requiring the presence of an electron or muon with high momentum and high momentum component transverse to the associated hadronic jet. After accounting for backgrounds and acceptances, a value of r(zObS) = 0.220 _+ 0.002 _+ 0.006 _+ 0.011 / ' ( Z ~ was obtained. The first two errors reflect the data statistics and the systematic uncertainties arising from detector modelling uncertainties, respectively. The third error includes systematic effects from b and c fragmentation and decay uncertainties.


Our grassroots society exists some problems that it is hard to adapt new situation of interest entity diversification, prominent contradiction, governance system and modes, whose reasons lie in insufficient participation of residents and incomplete formation of society multi-governance to some large extent. With the analysis of "Wuzhen housekeeper" modes, we find that the modes of "Wuzhen housekeeper" realize the upgrade from "single rules and regulation" to "participation in the entire process" to ensure that the public can be got full participation. The practice shows that "internet+ social governance" is not only a direct and shortcut platform of participation in supervision, but also an important path to innovate grassroots social governance. In the process of grassroots social governance in future, "internet+ social governance" urgently needs to consummate channel of participation and incentive mechanism, pay more attention to change government ideas to expect to build new modes of grassroots social governance among society, resident and government and improve the levels of grassroots social governance.


Endoscopic ultrasound guided fine-needle aspiration is a safe and accurate diagnostic procedure for abdominal lymphadenopathy. Goal of this study is to evaluate the utility of EUS-FNA in two groups of patients with periportal lymphadenopathy: group 1 with diagnosis of malignancy and group 2 with no known malignant diagnosis.

 This is a retrospective study of 74 patients in our database with enlarged periportal lymph nodes detected on cross sectional imaging of the abdomen. All patients underwent EUS-FNA with 22-gauge needle. Three passes were performed for each lymph node detected. Median size of periportal lymph nodes was 19.8 mm (ranging from 5 to 59 mm). 2 groups were compared: group 1 with known malignancy and group 2 with no known malignancy. All patients were clinically followed 6-12month from the procedure.

 25 of the 74 (34%) patients had malignant diagnosis. The types of neoplasia detected were lymphoma (3), metastatic adenocarcinoma (16), metastatic acinar cell carcinoma (1) and metastatic neuroendocrine tumor (5). 42 of 74 patients (57%) had negative fine-needle aspiration diagnosis: 40 patients had reactive lymph node diagnosis, 2 patients had granulomatous inflammation diagnosis. 2(1%) of 74 cases had atypical diagnosis, 5(7%) cases were unsatisfactory due to inadequate material obtained during procedure. Sensitivity of the procedure is 45.8% and, specificity is 100%. Positive predictive value (PPV) is 100% and negative predictive value (NPV) is 78.7%. EUS-FNA can detect positive lymph nodes as small as 1 cm, however, this method can also miss positive lymph nodes up to size of 3.5 cm which probably due to the uneven involving of the nodes by tumor cells. Lymph nodes 3.5cm and larger are more likely to be malignant, however in differential diagnosis of small lymph nodes (1 cm in length) they were noT statistically significant difference between the pathologic and benign lymph nodes.

 EUS-FNA is effective method for investigating periportal lymphadenopathy with known or unknown malignancy.


The equations,which are used to describe the relationships of adsorption quantity(s),adsorption percent(Pa),aqueous equilibrium concentration(c) of heavy metal on river suspended substrates and the ratio of adsorbent to water(j),are developed when heavy metal adsorption on river suspended substrate satisfies with linear adsorption equation.The results,according to the simulation from heavy metal adsorption on suspended substrates of several main Chinese rivers from a previous research report,indicated that these developed equations could describe the linear adsorption processes in practice very well,meanwhile,the adsorption equilibrium constant of adsorbent for heavy metal was an intensity factor regardless of ratio of suspended substrates to water but strongly depended on media's pH.Furthermore,the suspended substrates of Yellow River gave stronger purification ability for Pb than for Cd and Cu.When Cd was purified by different river suspended substrates,it exhibited that the order of their purification ability for Cd was that of Songhuajiang River>Zhujiang Pearl River>Yellow River, which was consistent with their contents of cation exchange capacity(CEC).In addition,we estimated and compared the purification ability of river suspended substrates for cadmium,and the resulting purification pereent was 37.64%,64.58% and 50.98% for Songhuajiang River,Yangtze River and Zhujiang River,respectively.


In this paper, we report low frequency noise (LFN) data obtained on passivated AlGaN/GaN HEMT's grown by MBE on a silicon substrate. In order to localize the LFN sources, we have measured all the extrinsic gate and drain current noise generators and their coherence versus bias in the linear regime. We have found that the gate noise sources result from leakage phenomena at gate-source and gate-drain regions. Drain noise sources are mostly located in the active channel below the gate and they feature an equivalent Hooge coefficient of about 10-3. Secondly, in order to build a LFN model that fits the requirements of a CAD simulator, we have measured the LFN sources for numerous bias points in the saturation region and therefore we have studied the bias dependence of the different noise sources under normal operating conditions. Results show that the gate terminal noise current impacts heavily the overall LFN of the transistor contrary to others III-V HEMTs, and that specific bias conditions are needed in order to reduce the LFN.


An accelerated aging study of BKC 44306-10 rigid polyurethane foam was carried out. Foam samples were aged in a nitrogen atmosphere at three different temperatures: 50 °C, 65 °C, and 80 °C. Foam samples were periodically removed from the aging canisters at 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15 month intervals when FT-IR spectroscopy, dimensional analysis, and mechanical testing experiments were performed. Micro Computed Tomography imaging was also employed to study the morphology of the foams. Over the course of the aging study the foams the decreased in size by a magnitude of 0.001 inches per inch of foam. Micro CT showed the heterogeneous nature of the foam structure likely resulting from flow effects during the molding process. The effect of aging on the compression and tensile strength of the foam was minor and no cause for concern. FT-IR spectroscopy was used to follow the foam chemistry. However, it was difficult to draw definitive conclusions about the changes in chemical nature of the materials due to large variability throughout the samples.


The behavior of photogenerated charges in the Fe3O4@Fe2O3 core/shell nanoparticles with high photocatalytic activity have been investigated by surface photovoltage (SPV) spectroscopy and transient photovoltage (TPV) measurements. The single-phase Fe3O4 and Fe2O3 particles as references have been investigated simultaneously. The results demonstrate that the junction formation in the Fe3O4@Fe2O3 nanoparticles significantly affects the separation, transport, and recombination of photogenerated charges and even changes the transport direction and recombination velocity. And the mechanisms here have been discussed in detail. These results are helpful in understanding the photoelectric process of nanoscaled materials with the heterojunction structures and further utilizing the photoelectric materials and devices.


A new kind of lateral associated self-assembled InAs quantum dots(QDs) was grown by solid-source molecular beam epitaxy at low substrate temperature of 350℃ with long time interruption in cycling deposition. In photoluminescence(PL) spectra,1.55μm light emission is observed. Atomic force microscopy(AFM) and PL measurements reveal that this growth technique is benefit to forming QDs with long emission wavelength.


ABSTRACTThe organisation and delivery of healthcare in many countries is in various stages of transition. Associated with this transition is a significant shift in patients' expectations of healthcare. As a result there is an increasing need for healthcare providers with a different and specific set


The situation of family for the last 25 years begins to be increasingly of concern for social policies at national and European level, under the conditions in which, this institution is already regarded as endangered since the beginning of the third millennium. The last graphs of the 2011 Census indicate that Romania's population is on a continuing decrease trend, based on birth-rates and higher divorce numbers, while similar phenomena are also encountered in other Western countries of the EU. The challenges and reasons behind these data raise questions about the chances of the youths to set-up their family. Statistical data can highlight part of reasons and answers. The paper intends to make a comparative analysis regarding the development of some socio-economic indicators in the Romanian area against other EU countries. The topic required multidisciplinary research in the effort of understanding the reasons determining the decrease of autochtonous populations by using, mainly, statistical indicators on various areas of interest. Fertility, infant mortality, marital status, divorce rate, evolution of monoparental families, social services, education and the number of households are only part of the key-indicators proposed for determining the reasons representing vulnerabilities and triggering this decline. The approached topic is necessary for identifying and determining some efficient policies to assist family as main institution by which the stability and development of a safe and sound society is ensured for future generations.


The problem of finite-time consensus tracking is investigated for multiagent systems with unknown control gain functions and hysteresis quantized inputs. Existing control methods utilizing command filtered technique have certain limitations for unknown control gains. Motived by this, the study is concerned with establishing a novel control strategy based on a modified command filtered technique with estimation-like terms and key compensation terms. Furthermore, fuzzy logic systems participate in command filter design while processing unknown items. It is theoretically testified that the proposed scheme not only guarantees the finite-time consensus tracking performance but also remains that all the resulting closed-loop signals are bounded. Finally, the simulations on numerical and practical examples prove the validity of the control scheme.