The overwhelming complexity of block matching algorithm using a full search has prompted many companies and academic researchers to propose a myriad of algorithms. The challenge is to decrease the computational complexity of the full search as much as possible without losing too much performance and quality at the output. In this paper, we propose a new and fast algorithm which achieves exactly the same optimal result as the direct full search algorithm. The key idea is to express a robust matching criteria sum square difference (SSD) in terms of cross correlation operations. Speed is obtained from computing the cross correlations in the frequency domain via the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). We also present a comparative performance analysis, which shows that the proposed method greatly outperforms the state-ofthe-art in frequency-domain motion estimation.


The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of using Talking Sticktechniqueto the eight grade students of MTs Al-Muttaqien Nanga Suhaid. This study used classroom action research (CAR) through 3 cycles. The participants in this study were the eighth grade students which is totaling 20 people. In using the Talking Stick technique, students make a small circle in the state sit and sing a short Englishsong and hold the stick Talking Stick and run until the song ends. Students who hold the stickwhen the song was end will be a speaker and stand among other students. Technique of data collection was use observation sheet and will be calculated the average frequency of speaking students. The results using techniques Talking Stick is 40, which is a total 625% of the overall cycle. This results into the moderate category.


This article is based on the author's five decades of experience as a "perpetual fieldworker, engaged ethnographer," and teacher of field methods of social research. After dealing with what she perceives as a false dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative methods of research, she considers some of the cognitive characteristics of ethnographic research and distinctive properties of field data. She pays special attention to the complex role of participant observer within which an ethnographer conducts field research, focusing on the delicate balance between involvement and detachment that it entails and between listening and questioning. The article ends with an acknowledgement of the pivotal part that informants play in this kind of inquiry and with a tribute to the enduring meaning of a researcher's relationship to these "companions in the field" and her indebtedness to them.


For variety of applications of sensor networks like tracking, monitoring, intrusion detection, geographical routing etc, localization plays a critical role. Any information from a remote node without its location is of less use in most of these applications. For small sized nodes with limited resources and densely distributed nodes, accurate and low cost localization is a critical issue. An efficient localization scheme exploits inherent collaborative nature of nodes in a sensor network to identify the location of nodes. More than 50 localization schemes exist as of now. Contribution of this study is to present various localization schemes based on various measurement techniques and algorithms thereof. Based on factors like accuracy, communication cost and feasibility in three dimensional scenarios is discussion. The comparison of these techniques can serve as direction for future research.


The shallow subsurface is subject to various human activities, and the place of occurrence of geohazards, e.g. shallow active faults. The identification of the location and orientation of such faults can be vital for infrastructure development. The aim of this study was to develop a low-cost 3D resistivity survey system, with reasonable survey time for shallow fault investigations. The study area in Songkhla Province, Thailand is located in an old quarry where faults could be identified in outcrops. The study area was designed to cover the expected fault with 100 electrodes arranged in a 10×10 square grid with an electrode spacing of 3 meters in x and y axis. Each electrode in turn was used as a current and potential electrode using a dipole-dipole array. Field data have been processed and interpreted using 3DResINV. Results, presented in horizontal depth slices and vertical xz- and yz-cross sections, revealed through differences in resistivity down to 8 m depths a complex structural setting with two shallow faults and dipping sedimentary rock layers. In conclusion, this study has shown that a 3D resistivity survey can imagine complex tectonic structures, thus providing a far more insight into the shallow subsurface.


Results of materials testing for lead-free brass show that the effect of thermal softening decreases significantly when the strain rate is high. This behavior is referred to as thermal softening damping. In this article, a flow stress model with thermal softening damping based on the Johnson–Cook flow stress model was developed. Finite element simulations with the proposed model are compared to cutting experiments to estimate the effect of damping in metal cutting.


Existence theorem for a variational inequality problem with local intersection property has been obtained in topological space by relaxing the property of open inverse values from the result of Vetrivel and Nanda [7].


This paper presents a study on gas migration behavior in a bentonite specimen with the aid of X-ray computer tomography (CT) scan data. The laboratory experiment was carried out to clarify gas migration behavior through saturated, compacted bentonite. X-ray CT was used to estimate the spatial distribution of gas and water saturation during gas migration test in the bentonite. For the gas migration test, the controlled flow rate of gas injection was adopted for pre-compacted samples of Kunigel V1 bentonite using helium gas, which is safer than hydrogen gas.A specimen was isotropically consolidated and saturated by synthetic seawater, simultaneously, by applying a backpressure. This was followed by injecting the gas using a syringe pump. Inlet and outlet gas fluxes were monitored. This test exhibited a significant threshold pressure for breakthrough, somewhat larger than the sum of the swelling pressure and the backpressure. The procedure of the X-ray CT measurement is as follows; i) measurement of the initial condition (saturated condition) of the compacted bentonite, ii) measurement of the gas injection condition as a function of time. The digital data obtained from the X-ray CT usually includes some noise. The stacking method can reduce the noise in CT values and enables to identify the gas migration area. The results indicate that gas is transported through preferential pathways in compacted bentonite, and is not homogenous.


quem for the date of composition as 1470, based on the well-known letter of remission 2 dated "avant Paques-1469" (i.e., before April 22, 1470, new style). Acceptance of the use of pateliner in 1470 as a terminus ad quem rests on the implicit assumption that the word originated with the name "Pathelin" in the play, whose popularity, it is argued, was great enough to permit the formation of this and similar forms such as


Little research exists on the impact of behaviour change interventions in disadvantaged communities. We conducted a prospective study to explore the effectiveness of motivational interviewing (MI) on physical activity (PA) change within a deprived community and the psychosocial predictors of change in PA including stage of change (SOC), self-efficacy (SE), social support (SS), and variables from self-determination theory (SDT) and the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). Five MI counsellors recruited 207 patients and offered MI sessions to support PA behaviour change. At six-months there were significant improvements in PA, SOC, and SS. A dose-response relationship was evident; those who attended 2 or more MI consultations increased their total PA more than those who attended just one. High attendees also significantly improved SOC, family SS, and external regulation. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that number of sessions, change in SOC, and identified regulation from SDT predicted 31.3% and 23.3% of the change in total PA and walking respectively (with the addition of friend SS for walking). Change in PBC and attitudes from TPB, friend SS, intrinsic motivation from SDT, and number of sessions predicted 21.7% of vigorous PA changes. Change in amotivation was borderline significant in the final step. MI is an effective approach for promoting PA amongst lower SES groups in the short term. The study demonstrates good translational efficacy, and contributes to a limited number of PA interventions targeting low income groups in the UK.


A buy with Long‐standing congenital cutaneous lymphangioma circumscriptum (LC), presented at the 1 age of 6 years with an episode of painless haemturia subsequently attributed to bladder wall involvement of a paravesical cystic retroperitoneal lymphangioma. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated this lymphangioma to be in communication with the cutaneous lesions. Deep lymphatic and visceral involvement is an extremely unusual occurrence in association with LC. This is the first repost of an association between LC and cystic retroperitoneal lymphangioma. LC occasionally heralds a deeper, more clinically significant lymphangioma which may not become apparent until years after the initial dermatological presentation. We report this case to raise awareness of this potential association and to demonstrate the usefulness of magnetic resonance imaging in the assessment of the deep component of cutaneous lymphangiomas.


: We give a systematic procedure to evaluate conformal partial waves involving symmetric tensors for an arbitrary CFT d using geodesic Witten diagrams in AdS d +1 . Using this procedure we discuss how to draw a line between the tensor structures in the CFT and cubic interactions in AdS. We contrast this map to known results using three-point Witten diagrams: the maps obtained via volume versus geodesic integrals di(cid:11)er. Despite these di(cid:11)erences, we show how to decompose four-point exchange Witten diagrams in terms of geodesic diagrams, and we discuss the product expansion of local bulk (cid:12)elds in AdS.


Massive open online courses MOOCs have earned much attention since the beginning in 2011 and students who signed up for at least one course has crossed 35 million in 2015. Yet, there has been a lack of research conducted to study the design of learning materials and tasks of MOOCs. Moreover, there are limited researches that focus on implementing recommendation systems in MOOCs to predict what students want more aiming to increase their profitability. In this paper, the authors present the algorithm they are creating. The main purpose of this algorithm is to create automatic mechanisms as the recommendation system to give such assistance and personalized guidance to students.


In this paper, basing on the statistical features of the image, we propose a modified adaptive median filter (MAMF) for removal of impulse noise, especially for the high-density impulse noises. To avoid the shortcoming of the adaptive median filter (AMF) and the adaptive threshold median filter (ATMF), this method has been designed by combining the AMF with the Decision-Based Algorithm (DBA). From the result, the MAMF method is superior to the conventional methods in the impulse noise, especially for the intermediate-density and high-density noise, providing a quite stable performance over a wide variety of density of noise. Meanwhile, the downward tendency of the PNSR value of MAMF is gentler, with the higher quality than the DBA and the AMF.


Objectives: Overexpression of Myc genes has been observed in many solid tumors and hematological malignancies, and Myc proteins are believed to act as transcription factors. In the past decade, several Myc-related genes have been identified, and the interaction mechanisms between these genes have been clarified. Members of Myc superfamily proteins belong to four different families: the Max family of common dimerization partners (including Max and MLx), the Myc family of proto-oncoproteins (including c-, N-, and L-Myc), the Myc antagonists including Mad family (including Mad1 and Mxi1) and Rox (Mnt). Mad1 gene maps to human chromosome 2p13 and encodes a 221-amino acid protein. Mad1 protein was shown to counteract the effects of Myc proteins and to inhibit the proliferation and tumorigenicity of glioblastoma and astrocytoma cells, and therefore was considered to be a kind of tumor suppressor. All Myc super-family members share a highly conserved structural domain, basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper domain (bHLHZip). This bHLHzip domain is essential for these proteins to function during molecular switching from proliferation to differentiation. To function in vivo, Myc and Mad1 must heterodimerize with Max through the HLHZip motif. Then through the b (basic) motif, the heterodimers bind with CACGTG (E-box) containing DNA to activate or inactivate transcription. The present study is thus designed to examine the expression of Mad1 gene and to search for mutations in bHLHzip encoding domain.

Methods: we screened bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMNC) from 26 patients with AL and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMNC) from 30 healthy volunteers, using reverse transcription- polymerase chain reaction, single strand conformation polymorphism analysis and sequencing.

Results: Mad1 gene was expressed in all samples. Two polymorphisms of Mad1 were found in BMMNC from AL patients and PBMNC from health volunteers. A point mutation was detected at a very important position, a substitution of A397G inducing Lys78Glu in two patients. This might have significant implication for the function of Mad1, as Mad1 will heterodimerize with Max at this very point. Mutation at this point could thus disrupt proper intermolecular alignment between Mad1 and Max. The two patients with Mad1 gene mutation had poor clinical outcomes, patient No.9 never achieved CR and died 2 months after diagnosis, while patient No.11 got CR, after two courses chemotherapy, but relapsed quickly and died 3 months after diagnosis.

Conclusion: Mad1 gene expressed and displayed mutations in acute leukemia patients. It would be interesting to know whether these mutations influence either the heterodimerizing or DNA binding potentials of Mad1 protein, by performing functional analysis of the mutant protein.


Device (1) for thermal treatment of substrates, with a process pipe (4) for receiving a plurality of substrates, a the process tube (4) radially surrounding resistance heating element (6) and a housing (8) surrounding the resistance heating element (6) and isolated from the environment, wherein the resistance heating element is composed of a metal-free material which has a tubular shape with at least one notch (12), wherein the at least one notch (12) is arranged so as to be of a linear current path between contact points for electrical contacting resistance heating element (6) suppresses and thus at least a non-linear current path is formed, wherein the housing (8) surrounding the resistance heating element (6) gas tight and the apparatus (1) further comprises means for generating a vacuum or a protective gas atmosphere in the housing (8) having.


Magneto-hydrodynamic generation of long-lived collective spin states and their impact on crystal morphology is demonstrated for three different, technologically relevant materials: COK-16 metal organic framework, manganese oxide nanotubes, and vanadium oxide nano-scrolls.


We propose a (4+1) dimensional Chern-Simons field theoretical description of the fractional quantum Hall effect. It suggests that composite fermions reside on a momentum manifold with a nonzero Chern number. Based on derivations from microscopic wave functions, we further show that the momentum manifold has a uniformly distributed Berry curvature. As a result, composite fermions do not follow the ordinary Newtonian dynamics as commonly believed, but the more general symplectic one. For a Landau level with the particle-hole symmetry, the theory correctly predicts its Hall conductance at half-filling as well as the symmetry between an electron filling fraction and its hole counterpart.


The established view that salmonellosis is a food-borne infection has scarcely been questioned in recent years. Where man is concerned, the evidence supporting the alimentary route leaves no room for doubt, although experimental work (McCullough & Eisele, 1951) shows that a large dose of salmonellae is in general required to produce food poisoning, and the possibility remains that some sporadic human salmonella infections are not food-borne. In animals such as mice or guinea-pigs, on the other hand, rapidly spreading epizootics of salmonella infection have been described, and a very much smaller minimal infecting dose of salmonellae than that required to cause food poisoning in man must be postulated to explain the spread of the disease in such outbreaks. The literature on salmonella infections of guinea-pigs offers no convincing evidence that in this species natural infection can be ascribed to contaminated food. Petrie & O'Brien (1910) reported two very extensive outbreaks of Salmonella typhi-murium infection in young stock guinea-pigs at the Lister Institute during the winter of 1909. In one, all the animals in a large pen, numbering nearly 200, died within 3 weeks; in the second outbreak, some 90 % of a herd of 300 guineapigs died within 5 weeks. Despite the unusual virulence of the causative strain, experimental infection of healthy guinea-pigs by feeding broth cultures of the organism proved extraordinarily difficult. A subcutaneous dose of 0-001 ml. of broth culture, for instance, was invariably lethal in about 5 days, but even with a massive oral dose of 60 ml., eleven out of twenty test guinea-pigs survived, the remainder dying after 5-15 days. From this difficulty in initiating infection by feeding and on the results of some experiments with spleen nitrates from infected animals, Petrie & O'Brien suggested that a virus was primarily responsible for the two epizootics they described and that Salm. typhi-murium was merely a secondary invader; they made the point, however, that a virus aetiology could not reasonably be invoked unless it could be shown that salmonellae alone were incapable of penetrating the outer body defences of healthy guinea-pigs. Bainbridge & O'Brien (1911), who described two outbreaks of Salm. enteritidis infection with high mortality in guinea-pigs, also showed that very large doses of the infecting strain were required to infect healthy guinea-pigs by mouth. A similar difficulty in producing infection by feeding was reported by Howell & Schultz (1922), Raebiger (1923), Okamoto (1926) and Maternowska (1930). The last-named author suggested that infection of guinea-pigs with salmonellae might


Organometallic compounds can be defined as any member of a class of substance containing at least one metal to carbon bond in which carbon is a part of organic group. In these compounds metal act as main group compound or transitional metal compound. The main group metals of organometallic compounds are typically considered to be those of S-block (gp 1 and 2) and heavier elements of p block (gp 13, 14, 15) respectively of the periodic table. The properties of organometallic compounds depends upon the type of carbon-metal bonds involved. Some are ordinary covalent bond (in which pairs of electrons is shared between atoms). Some are ionic bond (in which pair of bonded electron is donated by only one atom) making the bond polarized where one bond is more negative than the other. Thus in organometallic compounds the metal atom is less electro negative than the carbon atom [1]. The polarity of M-C bond makes the organometallic compound a good substrate for studying electrophillic substitution at the metal atom. Due to this polarity. Organometallic compounds are susptible to be attached by a wide variety of reagents, which opens a vast area for the synthesis of various type of new organometallic compounds.


Three-dimensional helical photonic crystals are attractive for chiral metamaterial devices that mix electrical and magnetic responses. In chiral metamaterials, the refractive index for propagation of light along the axis of the helix is different as the handedness of the circular polarization is parallel or antiparallel to the chiral axis. The refractive index is increased for one circular polarization and reduced for the other, if the chirality is strong enough, negative refraction may occur. A novel interferometric lithography (IL) technique utilizing six separate two-beam exposures for fabricating three-dimensional helical photonic crystals is presented. In contrast to most previous demonstrations, which used a two-photon direct-write process, IL is a large-area process readily adaptable to realistic manufacturing constraints. This novel interferometric lithography uses only TE polarized light for maximum contrast and allows for independent dimensional control of the helix period along each lattice axis. Both mathematical models and experimentally realized three-dimensional helical photonic crystals (over a mm in area and up to 5 lm tall, with a helix spacing of 1.1 lm and a helix pitch of 1.9 lm on a hexagonal grid) are presented. The helical photonic crystals are formed as thick photoresist structures that can be subsequently used as mandrels for a sol-gel or metal electroforming processes, enabling a high index contrast chiral metamaterial. Optical transmission measurements of these helical photonic crystals are reported at the 1550 nm telecom wavelength. VC 2011 American Vacuum Society. [DOI: 10.1116/1.3640756]


Purpose
In response to the poor reliability of live maintenance robots in semi-structured environments and the difficulty of monitoring their operation status, this paper aims to propose an online method for evaluating the operation status of high-voltage live maintenance robots based on fuzzy control.

Design/methodology/approach
The robot bolt tightening operation is taken as an example. During the whole operation process, the key technologies of bolt tightening are analyzed theoretically, a two-dimensional fuzzy control model of bolt tightening process control is established and the control parameters, which characterize the operation status, are obtained. Through dynamic adjustment of the fuzzy controller, real-time online monitoring of the robot operation status can be achieved.

Findings
The results of simulation experiments and 220 kV live operation experiments show that the reliability of robot bolt tightening is greatly enhanced by the proposed control method.

Originality/value
The results not only verify the engineering practicability of the fuzzy control-based method but also indicate that it can improve efficiency, safety and operability.


Covered bridges can be vulnerable to damage from fungal decay and insect attack. This paper describes procedures for selecting and applying in-place treatments to prevent or arrest biodegradation, and summarizes recent research evaluating some of these treatments. Wood moisture is the key to decay and termite attack, and the first line of defense against biodeterioration is to minimize moisture intrusion through prompt maintenance and repair. Biodeterioration will tend to be more prevalent wherever members contact abutments, are near the ends of bridges subject to wetting from splashing, or are below windows or other openings that allow entry of wind-blown precipitation. In-place preservative applications can help limit deterioration when moisture cannot be eliminated. The goal of in-place treatment is to distribute preservative into areas of a structure that are vulnerable to moisture accumulation. In-place treatments include surface coatings, pastes, rods, gels and fumigants. Some preservative treatments may cause a color change in the treated wood and/or present safety and handling concerns. One limitation of all these treatments is that they cannot be forced deeply into the wood as is done in pressure-treatment processes. However, some can be applied into the center of large members via treatment holes and can move through the wood by vaporization or diffusion. Laboratory research compared the movement of 7 water diffusible treatments and 3 fumigant treatments as a function of moisture content, wood species and dosage. Field research evaluated the mobility of two water diffusible treatments and two fumigants placed into timbers in 5 covered bridges. The wood in many covered bridge timbers was too dry to promote diffusion. Water diffusible treatments must be applied in locations where moisture accumulation is suspected. Fumigants have greater potential for movement in dry bridge timbers and refractory wood species. Research presented in this paper was funded by the National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation Program, administered by the Federal Highway Administration


A semiconductor package is provided. The semiconductor package includes a processing chip in which a first pin outputting a first signal is disposed on a first side and a second pin outputting a second signal different from the first signal is disposed on a second side opposite to the first side; and a substrate which includes a first bump ball electrically connected to the first pin and a second bump ball electrically connected to the second pin and in which the processing chip is disposed on the upper part thereof. The first bump ball and the second bump ball are adjacent to either the first side or the second side of the substrate.


The invention discloses an electric control system for a concrete agitator truck. The electric control system comprises a hydraulic pump station, a singlechip, touch screens, a speed measuring sensor, a first power source, a second power source and a hydraumatic actuating member, wherein the singlechip is respectively connected with the touch screens, an electromagnetic valve and the speed measuring sensor; the hydraulic pump station comprises a direct current motor, the electromagnetic valve and a hydraulic pump, the direct-current motor and the electromagnetic valve are respectively connected with the hydraulic pump, and the hydraulic pump is connected with the hydraumatic actuating member; and the first power source provides operating voltage for the singlechip and the touch screens, and the second power source provides operating voltage for the direct-current motor. The electric control system provided by the invention is capable of setting mixing time according to the read actual rotating speed value, the mixing amount of concrete is well controlled, the front and rear parts of the truck are provided with the two touch screens, and the operation convenience can be greatly enhanced due to the double screens; and meanwhile, the uncovering and the covering of a feed hopper sealing cover and the lifting of a discharge chute are controlled through the electromagnetic valve and an oil cylinder, so that the operating efficiency is improved.


The problem of analysis and reduction of the magnetic near-field coupling on the PCB-level is investigated by exploiting the reciprocity principle. The magnetic near-field coupling is described by the mutual inductance between victim and aggressor circuit. Based on the reciprocal magnetic field of the victim circuit, two methods are introduced, which can reduce this mutual inductance by magnetic flux compensation through a novel guard trace design or optimal placement of critical components. The proposed reduction methods are demonstrated by an example of a real hearing aid's PCB and validated by 3D fullwave-simulation.


Objective To investigate the correlation between social support and psychological health status of paid blood donors infected with HIV to implement psychological intervention in these people.Methods Sixty individuals responded to questionnaires using self-designed questionnaire,SCL-90 and questionnaires on quantity social support.Results Compared with the national norm,the scores of somatization,obsessive compulsion,interpersonal sensitivity,depression,anxiety,hostility,phobic anxiety and psychoticism of the paid blood donors infected with HIV were significantly higher(P0.001).There was negative correlation between psychological health status and social support.Conclusions Paid blood donors infected with HIV have relatively more mental problems.Great attention should be paid to them and more support be provided to them from society.Social support system should therefore not be ignored in the mental nursing.


Aim To understand population densities,seasonal fluctuations of An.drius and An.mimimus and malaria incidence in Wangxia Township in Changjiang County. Methods Malria vectors were cought by half nights outdoor human bait trap and blood samples from suspected and fever malria cases were collected and microscopically exmianed. Malaria cases were calculated based on the detection of malaria parasites. Results An.dirus and An.minimus were the main malaria vectors in local areas. The peak density of An.dirus was in June,July,September and October. While that for An,minimus were April,May,Ausust,September and Octorber. Malaria incidence in areas with An.dirus and An.minimus vectors were 3.57% and 4.14% ,that were closely associated with the density of malaria vector. Conclusion An.dirus and An.minimus are the main malaria vectors in Wangxia Township where falciparum malaria and vivax malaria co-exists requiring surveying of high risk factors and control of malaria infections.


Large hepatocellular carcinoma (LHCC) is prone to short‐term recurrence and poor long‐term survival after hepatectomy, and there is still a lack of effective neoadjuvant treatments to improve recurrence‐free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS). We retrospectively analyzed the efficacy of preoperative transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) in solitary LHCC (≥5 cm).


Microwave O-mode reflectometry is a diagnostic technique that will play an important supplementary role for plasma position control for ITER and forseeably for DEMO. Density profiles from reflectometry will provide, at high temporal resolutions, estimates of the gap between the plasma magnetic separatrix and the tokamak vessel walls. These estimates will be used to detect and correct drifts in the magnetic gap measurements, the primary measurements used for plasma position and shape control. The feasibility of this alternative feedback control approach was demonstrated in 2011 on ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) , where the reflectometry gap estimate actually replaced the corresponding magnetic measurement in the position control loop. Presently, the AUG's real-time (RT) reflectometry diagnostic is being upgraded to improve not only its density range coverage but also its acquisition and RT data processing performance. The diagnostic is now capable of acquiring a total of 16 channels (previously 8) from which 8, corresponding to microwave bands K, Ka, Q and V from both the high (HFS) and low field side (LFS) reflectometers, are used in the RT density profile and separatrix gap calculations. The modern NUMA hardware architecture of the updated data processing server allows for an efficient and separate handling of the data-flows produced by the hosted acquisition systems. The higher RAM and CPU interconnection bandwidths allow the implementation of new operation modes that exploit the very high data throughput ( > 1.2 GB/s) of each of the two used acquisition boards. RT reconstruction of the density profiles is a complex algorithm, whose performance will also be improved by the additional processing power (16 cores instead of 8). The system was specified to acquire and store HFS and LFS density profile data every whilst simultaneously producing profile measurements for RT control every 1 ms. In this new operation mode, identical to the one planned for the ITER plasma position reflectometer (PPR), the diagnostic can reach an inbound data throughput (ADCs to RT processing host) and a computational load that are closer to the ones expected to be generated by each of the planned 4 ITER PPRs ( ≈ 3 GB/s maximum inbound and outbound data stream bandwidth per PPR). Herein we discuss the enhancements introduced in the AUG's RT reflectometry diagnostic to implement the new operation mode and perform the aimed control experiments. Preliminary RT experimental data obtained in both the HFS and LFS is shown to illustrate the system's plasma position and shape control capabilities to be demonstrated during AUG's 2014 experimental campaign.


We study the effect of strong magnetic fields, of the order of $10^{15}-10^{17}$ G, on the extension of the crust of magnetized neutron stars. The dynamical instability region of neutron-proton-electron ($npe$) matter at subsaturation densities and the mode with the largest growth rate are determined within a relativistic mean field model. It is shown that a strong magnetic field has a large effect on the instability region, defining the crust-core transition as a wide density range.


Passive fire protection protection can be understood as a series of rational construction measures that are taken in order to lessen the possibility of a fire starting, prevent its spreading, and ensure the stability of a facility until the fire is controlled and extinguished. A construction element is fire resistant during the time, expressed in minutes, that the said element maintains the following qualities when subjected to a standard fire resistance test (which is supposed to try to reproduce the changes in temperature in time during a real fire): it remains stable, does not spread, does not emit flammable gases and is thermally insulated.


The utility model relates to a telecommunication terminal apparatus for conducting household financial transaction, and comprises an information telephone and a power supply adaptor. The utility model is characterized in that the utility model also comprises read-write peripheral equipment for a financial IC card, and a PS2 serial connection cable. The information telephone is connected with the read-write peripheral equipment for a financial IC card by means of the PS2 cable through respective PS2 interfaces. The read-write peripheral equipment for a financial card comprises a casing and a financial IC card circuit, two SIM card circuits, a card read-write controlling circuit, and a PS2 card end interface circuit which are positioned in the casing. The SIM card circuit adopts an enciphered mechanism of a POS machine in a bank. A built-in SIM card is used for data encryption which comprises the encryption of two parts of the user's transaction password and the transaction data. Before every transaction is performed, a terminal carries out communication with a server firstly and acquires a current dynamic cipher key. The dynamic cipher key uses a master cipher key to carry out encryption in a transmitting process. The terminal uses the dynamic cipher key to transact data, and the dynamic cipher key is totally unique every time.


Objectives: The present study tries to describe the activities related to the rescue of injured, their management, and the rehabilitation activities conducted in relation to the incident and to understand the implications for disaster management preparedness in the future. Materials and Methods: Details about the incident were sourced through semistructured with health department officials, eyewitnesses, and local residents. Secondary data were collected from the data available from official records. Results: Ninety-four percent of the injured and 83.2% of the deceased were males. Seventy-six percent of the injuries constituted of fractures and soft tissue injuries and 9.2% constituted of burns. Nearly 67.5% of the injured were managed through private health care providers and 32.5% were managed at government hospitals. Conclusion: It is important to develop district level disaster preparedness and management plan involving private hospitals too for effective management of mass emergencies


A theoretical method is developed for examining the intermolecular vibrational motions that are responsible for modulating the external electric field at the position of the solute in solution. The derivation is done in the context of the instantaneous normal mode theory by using an algebraic property of the interaction formula, in the same way as in the intensity-carrying mode theory of intramolecular vibrations developed in our previous studies. The vibrational motions derived by the present method are called field-modulating modes (FMMs). These modes play an essential role in electrostatic intermolecular vibrational interactions in solution. As an example of application of the present method, the case of an acetonitrile solution of the nitrate ion (NO 3 - ) is studied. Various characteristics of the FMMs, which are important for vibrational polarization of the solute, are examined in detail. The relation of the present picture to vibrational relaxation theories is also discussed.


dynamics "on the fly" with the semiclassical Wigner distribution approach 2 . We first demonstrate our strategy for the optimal control of the ground state dynamics based on the MD "on the fly" with explicit treatment of the interaction with the laser field which is optimized using a genetic algorithm 3 . This approach will be illustrated on two prototype systems representing rigid symmetrical molecules and floppy biomolecules with low frequency modes. Our results show that the ground state isomerization process can be selectively driven by ultrashort laser pulses with different shapes which are characteristic for the prototype systems. Furthermore, for the optimal pump-dump control involving ground and excited electronic states we have developed a new "field induced surface hopping" method in which the nuclear dynamics is treated classically while the laser induced electronic transitions are treated fully quantum mechanically. We illustrate our approach on the optimal control of cis-trans isomerization in prototype Schiff base molecular switches. Our theoretical approach allows us to explore the controllability of dynamics in complex systems and to unravel the mechanisms underlying the control of molecular processes. Furthermore, the outlook for laser selective photochemistry of nanoparticles and nanoparticle-biomolecule hybrid systems will be given.


The main problems of basic chemistry experiments rhigh vocation of agricultural colleges an andyzed, some measures including innovation of course system, teaching contents and methods, and scientific system of quality evaluation are presented in the paper. It is proved that this mentioned reform has achieved remarkable result by experiments.


IN the spring of 1939 a joint Greek and American archaeological expedition was organized to undertake researches in Western Messenia, Dr. K. Kourouniotis, Director of the National Museum in Athens, representing the Greek Archaeological Service, Professor Carl W. Blegen the University of Cincinnati. The first season's work was preliminary and exploratory. In a search for prehistoric settlements and tombs a large part of the region about and to the north of the Bay of Navarino was superficially investigated and a half dozen sites marked by the presence of Mycenaean potsherds were noted. A few trial trenches, which were dug on the largest and most imposing site at a place called Epano Englianos, at once exposed the walls of a palatial Mycenaean building which had obviously been destroyed in a catastrophic fire.* It appeared to be of considerable size, measuring some 60 to 70 m. on a side, and invited comparison with the contemporary structures at Mycenae and Tiryns. One small chamber, which was cleared in its entirety, proved to be an Archives Room; it yielded some six hundred clay tablets and fragments of tablets inscribed with writing in the script first discovered by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos and named by him Minoan Linear B. The outbreak of the war in 1939 compelled a deferment of the systematic excavations which were planned to uncover the entire palace. Indeed it was only after thirteen years that it became possible to return to the site to carry the project into execution. Meanwhile Dr. Kourouniotis died in 1945 and Spyridon Marinatos, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in the University of Athens, was appointed to succeed him as representative of the Greek Archaeological Service. The work of the expedition in the field was divided into two sections. Professor Marinatos took charge of the investigation of an extensive Mycenaean cemetery of chamber tombs which was known to exist in the upper outskirts of the village formerly called Lygoudista, but some years ago renamed Chora; while the present writer assumed responsibility for excavating the palace at Englianos. The expedition established its headquarters at Chora, where it was comfortably lodged; and it benefited much from the hospitality and kindness of the inhabitants, who offered all facilities within their power. In presenting this preliminary account of progress in the excavation of the palace I wish to record my deep indebtedness to my colleagues whose help was invaluable to me: Professor George E. Mylonas of Washington University, St. Louis, Professor Eugene Vanderpool of the American School of Classical Studies at


In this paper, a kind of core-shell structured ceramsite was proposed to reuse the soda residue and to control the chloride ion release, wherein the ceramsite has a core having a high content of soda residue and a vitrified shell. Experimental results showed that the amount of free chloride ions in the mixture containing 58%(by weight) of fly ash, 2%(by weight) of glass powder and 40%(by weight) of soda residue, after being mixed with water at the water/powder ratio of 0.5 and cured at 90% RH, 25°C for 7 days, was found to decrease from 5.92% to 2.84%. That is, the chloride ion was immobilized by the alkali activated fly ash in the mixture and the immobilization rate was as high as 52%. The core-shell structured ceramsite was prepared successfully with the above mixture as the core and the mixture of waste glass powder and shale as the shell and fired at 1120°C for 8 min. No chloride ion was detected in the eluent after the as-prepared ceramsite was soaked in deionized water at 25°C for 24h.


Objective: To develop compound preservatives for western-style ham-sausages.Methods: A total of 10 kinds of compound preservatives were screened by bacteriostasis tests on three major spoilage bacteria in western-style ham-sausages based on pH,total volatile basic nitrogen(TVB-N) and total bacteria number.Results: The formula of compound preservative with the best fresh-keeping capacity was 0.225% Nisin,0.225% citric acid and 0.195% lysozyme,followed by 0.375% Nisin + 0.375% citric acid and 0.375% Nisin + 1.125% potassium sorbate or 0.375% Nisin + 0.075% EDTA.Conclusion: The optimal compound preservative formula was 0.225% Nisin,0.225% citric acid and 0.195% lysozyme.


Clinical observation of a patient with an orphan disease (mucinous peritoneal carcinomatosis) after 2 courses of intraoperative photodynamic therapy with photogem photosensitizer is presented. During the first course of photodynamic therapy, photogem was administered at a dose of 2.5 mg/kg, the energy density of the laser radiation was 10 J/cm2. The duration of stabilization after the first course of treatment was 2 years, after which the progression of the disease was registered. The second course of photodynamic therapy was carried out in the same way. The duration of stabilization after the first course of treatment was 2.5 years. The patient died as a result of an accident unrelated to the disease.


Robert Shiller's analysis misses the fact that house prices depend on urban density, not just price of agricultural land, according to John Bossons of the University of Toronto.


This study explores the perspectives of student teachers from Can Tho University, Vietnam, on the benefits and challenges of engaging in student exchange programs. Utilizing a quantitative research approach, data was collected through a survey instrument consisting of multiple-choice and Likert-scale questions. The survey examined student teachers' perceptions of various advantages, including access to new knowledge, enhanced teaching skills, and valuable support from foreign partners and mentors. Additionally, it investigated challenges related to language differences, cultural norms, and time management. The findings shed light on the experiences of student teachers in exchange programs and reveal that one of the most significant reasons for their participation was the desire to expand their international networks and foster meaningful connections with students from other countries. These insights provide valuable guidance for educational institutions in developing effective strategies and support systems to optimize the participation and satisfaction of student teachers in these programs.


The method of producing TiN nanopowders in the plasma of low pressure arc discharge in nitrogen atmosphere is discussed. The influence of gas pressure on nanopowder dispersion is studied. It is shown that the particles have nanometer size and a narrow particle size distribution.


Objective: The purpose of this study is to consider the possibility of quantitative evaluation of coronary arterial stenosis by using 16-slice multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT). Methods: Simulated coronary arteries were prepared, which consist of 5-mm-diameter acryl tubes with contrast media (270 HU). Simulated stenoses of known density (−33 HU) were created in each coronary artery (25%, 50%, and 75%). Cardiac pulsating with 0, 50, 65, 85, and 105 beats per minute (bpm) was performed. Multiplanar reformation images for each coronary artery were created. Percent stenosis was calculated using the width middle value of boundary part of the arteries. Results: The stenoses were depicted in all heart rates. Average percent stenosis ± standard deviation was 27.4 ± 3.6%, 45.8 ± 2.6%, and 69.4 ± 2.7%, respectively. For each percent stenosis, there was a significant difference (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Sixteen-slice MDCT has a potential for noninvasive quantitative evaluation of stenosis in coronary arteries.


In 1967 the neurologist Henry Miller provocatively stated that "psychiatry was neurology without physical signs."1 It was unclear then whether Miller was half a century behind or ahead of his time. In their call for diagnostic fusion between psychiatry and neurology, White and colleagues clearly think he was ahead.2 In their view, psychiatric …


Understanding the generalisability (or applicability) of the results of randomised controlled trials in typical clinical practice remains one of the key methodological challenges to achieving a more scientific basis for health care.1 Little effort is made to use a scientific approach to assess generalisability, document the use of a new intervention systematically, or determine whether the trials' results are replicated in real life, either in the original patient groups studied or in other patients who receive the intervention.

To explore these issues, we use a case study to describe the practical difficulties that exist for policymakers and clinicians in interpreting the results of a randomised controlled trial evaluating recombinant human activated protein C, a new drug for treating severe sepsis in intensive care patients. We suggest how an existing, high quality, clinical database could provide information on the generalisability of the trial results and on the likely financial consequences of the drug's introduction, and how it could be used to monitor the diffusion and effectiveness of the drug in typical clinical practice.

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Randomised controlled trials may be performed in atypical settings with atypical patients, making it difficult to assess the generalisability of the results

High quality clinical databases could be used to facilitate this assessment and to provide evidence of clinical effectiveness in typical clinical practice

The case for using a high quality clinical database in the assessment of recombinant human activated protein C, a new drug for treating severe sepsis in intensive care patients, provides an important topical example

Evidence based medicine has focused on understanding the factors affecting the internal validity of randomised controlled trials but has paid far less attention to their generalisability. This is reflected in the many instruments for assessing the quality of trials, which concentrate predominantly on identifying factors that may challenge internal …


A study on livestock environment improving agents was conducted; top two brands (A and B) in the market, bottom two brands (E and F) based on market shares and two newly developed agents (C and D) were measured for viable count and tested for resistance towards antibiotics prohibited against livestock feeds. Test results revealed that the measured viable count of agents A and B matched those on the labels were identical; however agent E lacked information on viable counts nor the intended usage, while the measured viable count of agent F was less than the label-stated count. No correlation was found between the antibiotic-resistance test and market share, and most of the agents excluding B were found to display resistance case of Lincosimides such as Lincomycine and Clindmycin, resistant bacteria were found, with the except of agent B. Amoxicillin, Ampicillin and Penillin (type-Penecillins) and Erythromycin (type-Macrolide) were shown to contain resistant bacteria, with the except of agents Band E; the same for Norploxacin (type-Quinoline) and Neomycin antibiotics. Aminoglycosides such as Gentamycin and Streptomycin contained resistant bacteria, excluding agent B. Oxytetracyclin (type-Tetracycline), which is banned for use as resistant bacteria showed the highest sensitivity among the 12 antibiotics, revealed positive results in the test for resistant bacteria; again excluding of agents Band E. These results reveal that many agents contained resistant bacteria despite the fact that they were prohibited; this calls for a more accurate display of the facts and specifications, systematic distributions and strict verification processes of environment improving agents.


The camera calibration is a key step for converting a projective reconstruction into a metric one, which is equivalent to recovering the unknown intrinsic parameters with each image. A circle is a common geometric primitive for the camera self-calibration. To avoid the limit of circle center to the camera self-calibration in a planar template, a method how to solve out the vanishing line is proposed. Then using the property of vanishing line, the camera intrinsic parameters are figured out and the camera self-calibration is achieved. The template contains a quartered circle in the study. Firstly, the camera is used to take photographs of the template from three or more direction. Secondly, using the ellipse and two mutually perpendicular diameters which are extracted from the image, according to the polarity principle and making use of the invariant property of cross-ratio of four lines which are intersected in one same point, the vanishing line can be solved out. In the end, the circular points can be figured out by the intersection between vanishing line and the circle. And using the property of the circular points, the self- calibration is realized.


The chapter provides a survey of routing protocols in vehicular ad hoc networks. The routing protocols fall into two major categories of topology-based and position-based routing. The chapter discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these routing protocols, explores the motivation behind their design and trace the evolution of these routing protocols. Finally, it concludes the chapter by pointing out some open issues and possible direction of future research related to VANET routing. INTRODUCTION With the sharp increase of vehicles on roads in the recent years, driving has not stopped from being more challenging and dangerous. Roads are saturated, safety distance and reasonable speeds are hardly respected, and drivers often lack enough attention. Without a clear signal of improvement in the near future, leading car manufacturers decided to jointly work with national government agencies to develop solutions aimed at helping drivers on the roads by anticipating hazardous events or avoiding bad traffic areas. One of the outcomes has been a novel type of wireless access called Wireless Access for Vehicular Environment (WAVE) dedicated to vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside communications. While the major objective has clearly been to improve the overall safety of vehicular traffic, promising traffic management solutions and on-board entertainment applications are also expected by the different bodies (C2CCC, VII, CALM) and projects (VICS (Yamada, 1996), CarTALK 2000 (Reichardt D, 2002), NOW, CarNet (Morris R, 2000), FleetNet (Franz, 2001)) involved in this field. When equipped with WAVE communication devices, cars and roadside units form a highly dynamic network called a Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET), a special kind of Mobile AdHoc Networks (MANETs). While safety applications mostly need local broadcast connectivity, it is expected that some emerging scenarios (Lee, 2009) developed for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) would benefit from unicast communication over a multi-hop connectivity. Moreover, it is conceivable that applications that deliver contents and disseminate useful information can flourish with the support of multi-hop connectivity in VANETs. Although countless numbers of routing protocols (Mauve, 2001; Mehran, 2004) have been developed in MANETs, many do not apply well to VANETs. VANETs represent a particularly challenging class of MANETs. They are distributed, self-organizing communication networks formed by moving vehicles, and are thus characterized by very high node mobility and limited degrees of freedom in mobility patterns. As shown in Figure 1, there are two categories of routing protocols: topology-based and geographic routing. Topology-based routing uses the information about links that exist in the network to perform packet forwarding. Geographic routing uses neighboring location information to perform packet forwarding. Since link information changes in a regular basis, topology-based routing suffers from routing route breaks. Car 2 Car Communication Consortium, http://www.car‐to‐car.org The Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) Initiative, http://www.vehicle‐infrastructure.org Continuous Air Interface for Long and Medium Interface (CALM), http://www.calm.hu Vehicle Information and Communication System Network On Wheels, www.network‐on‐wheels.de Figure 1: Taxonomy of Various Routing Protocols in VANET Despite many surveys already published on routing protocols in MANETs (Mauve, 2001; Mehran, 2004Giordano, 2003; Stojemnovic, 2004), a survey of newly developed routing protocols specific to VANETs has long been overdue. Li et al. (2007) have made an effort to introduce VANET routing protocols, yet there is still deficiency in a thorough and comprehensive treatment on this subject. A discussion of VANET topics and applications is incomplete without detailed coverage of relevant routing protocols and their impact on overall VANET architecture. In this book chapter, we seek to provide the missing building blocks by detailing the advances in VANET routing protocols. Section III describes the VANET architecture and its characteristics. Section IV presents a survey of these protocols experimented on or tailored to VANET and their advantages and disadvantages. It will explore the motivation behind their design and trace the evolution of these routing protocols. Finally, Section V will point out some open issues and possible direction of future research, and then conclude the book chapter.


The purpose of this work is to evaluate thermodynamic properties of some actinide ions in aqueous solution, particularly plutonium, taking into account their real characteristics, such as their covalent character and effective charge. The aquo ions are characterized by the charge q, crystallographic radius Rc with coordination number N, radius of the water molecule Rw and number H of molecules in the second hydration sphere. For the understanding of lanthanide and actinide aquo ion properties, we have performed EXAFS experiments on different trivalent and tetravalent ions (with concentration 7.10-3 to 0.2 M) in acidic solutions (HCl 1 M) at LURE. Based on our data and different published investigations, we have defined the coordination number N and the interatomic distances d between the cation and the oxygen atoms of the primary hydration sphere for the complete series of trivalent lanthanides, for some trivalent actinides (U, Np, Pu, Am and Cf) and for the tetravalent plutonium ion.


(57) Abstract: providing a valve to be mounted on the laminating apparatus flowing a microfluidic. A first partition sheet 20 to form a channel microfluidic flows are separated by a second partition sheet 22, a first layer composed of a flexible material, a valve comprising a second layer, and a third layer , comprising an actuator intended for selectively independently a channel through which the microfluidic. The apparatus can also be used as a recycle pump.


Abstract It is well known that neuronal death, clinically manifested as paresis or plegia, is the end result of many pathological events affecting the central nervous system. However, several aspects of pathophysiological mechanisms involved in the development of tetra- or paraplegia caused by spinal cord traumatic or ischemic damage are only insufficiently understood and their histopathological manifestations remain poorly documented. That is why the authors decided to report on light-microscopic changes observed in 30 μm thick spinal cord sections cut from L3-S1 segments processed by the Nauta staining method in a group of 6 dogs with ischemic paraplegia induced by 30 min of a high thoracic aorta occlusion, and in a different group of 6 dogs with traumatic paraplegia induced by 5 min spinal cord compression with 200 g metallic rod. Both experimental groups (ischemic and compression) of spinal cord injuries (SCI) comprised the same number of mongrel dogs of both sexes, weighing 18-25 kg. In addition, each of the experimental groups had 3 normal dogs that served as controls. All experimental procedures were accomplished under general anaesthesia induced by pentobarbital and maintained by a mixture of halothane and oxygen. Following the 72 hour survival period, all 18 animals were euthanized by transcardial perfusion with 3,000 ml of saline and fixed by 3,000 ml of 10 % neutral formaldehyde during deep pentobarbital anaesthesia. The histopathological manifestation of neural tissue damage caused by ischemia or compression was similar. The light-microscopic images in both groups were characterised by argyrophilia and the swelling of grey matter neurons. However, in the dogs with traumatic SCIs, the changes only reached about 750 μm cranially and caudally from the necrotic epicentre. These findings indicated that the events taking part in secondary spinal cord injury mechanisms are similar in both, ischemic as well as in traumatic SCI.


Background In a 10-year follow-up of a survey from Oslo, 503 persons were reinterviewed using the same questionnaire. Method The questionnaire includes information about social support, 'locus of control' and mental health as well as negative life events and long-lasting mental strain during the year prior to the follow-up. Results The study confirms the "buffer hypothesis", that social support protects against the development of mental disorder only when the individual is exposed to stressors, like negative life events. This buffering effect was especially strong for depression. Conclusions The buffering effect only applies to the 'externals' –those who have personality-related feelings of powerlessness and lack of control over their own lives. The 'internals' do not have the same need for social support to cope with life stressors, and have low symptom scores even when negative life events are combined with relative weak social support.


The rotation of Sn grains in Pb-free flip chip solder joints hasn't been reported in literature so far although it has been observed in Sn strips. In this letter, we report the detailed study of the grain orientation evolution induced by electromigration by synchrotron based white beam X-ray microdiffraction. It is found that the grains in solder joint rotate more slowly than in Sn strip even under higher current density. On the other hand, based on our estimation, the reorientation of the grains in solder joints also results in the reduction of electric resistivity, similar to the case of Sn strip. We will also discuss the reason why the electric resistance decreases much more in strips than in the Sn-based solders, and the different driving force for the grain growth in solder joint and in thin film interconnect lines.


painstaking care was taken to collect the data, including a wealth of unpublished materials. Finally the book is permeated by a sympathetic understanding of the moral dilemmas a small nation may face and the painful decisions its leaders may make, caught by events in situations they are helpless to manipulate. The book is undoubtedly an important contribution to the knowledge of the time and the area.


In order to stimulate students' interest in orthodontics and develop their competency in self-directed learning, innovation and practice, we introduced "maker education" into the orthodontics course for undergraduate. In the early stage, the teaching materials were organized based on fragmentation of learning, and the "maker group" is the basic unit. In class, the topics were discussed in the form of flipped classroom. Finally, a series of orthodontic experiments were carried out. This article can provide new ways to improve the quality of orthodontics education.

Key words:
Maker education; Orthodontics; Fragmentation of learning; Flipped classroom


Modeling the P availability in a soilscape requires knowledge about the three-dimensional variability of the phosphate adsorption-desorption (AD) curves. The high variabilities of soil parent material and of agricultural P input in a 1.5-km 2 study area were taken into account by taking 2555 samples at the intersections of a 50-m grid. To reduce the necessary laboratory work, pedotransfer functions (PTFs) were developed that could predict the AD curves from more easily obtainable soil characteristics. Therefore, AD curves were measured for only 40 representative samples. The AD curves were fitted with an extended and rearranged Freundlich equation with a constant adsorption energy parameter k = 0.29. The adsorption capacity parameter A of this equation was predicted from clay, dithionite-extractable Fe (Fe d ), and pH using a nonlinear regression method. With increasing pH, A decreased for 4 < pH < 6.5 but increased for 6.5 < pH < 7.5. The Fe d could be replaced by the soil color yellowness component b * , which was easily determined with a chroma meter. The equilibrium P concentration of the soil solution, c eq , was closely related to a one-point measurement of the AD curves, c 1.2 (the final concentration after adding 1.2 mg L -1 P). Thus, only the four soil properties clay, Fe d (or b * ), pH, and c 1.2 were necessary to predict complete AD curves using the developed equations. The equations proved to be reliable when tested by an independently selected subset of the 2555 samples and by a functional validation. The developed equations can therefore be used as PTFs.


The alkaline igneous rocks in the Nogal-Bonito mining district were formed as multiple intrusions and dikes emplaced between 33 and 26 Ma. Four types of mineral deposits found in the Nogal-Bonito district include gold placers, Ag-Pb-Zn (±Au, Mo) and Ag-Au fissure veins, gold-bearing breccia pipes, and porphyry molybdenum-copper deposits. Although local high concentrations of gold do occur in some of the vein deposits, most appear to have low gold grades overall. However, companies will continue to re-examine the breccia pipe deposits in the Nogal-Bonito district as the price of gold rises, and the rare earth elements (REE) potential of the area is attractive. Undiscovered breccia pipe deposits that could potentially contain gold may be at depth beneath some of the vein deposits, but require drilling to locate them. Porphyry molybdenumcopper deposits in the Nogal-Bonito district are small and low grade and are not of economic interest at this time. Although REE or tellurium deposits have not been found in the Nogal-Bonito district, the alkaline rocks in the district are similar in composition to alkaline rocks that host known REE and tellurium deposits elsewhere in the world. Any additional exploration activities would be prudent to analyze for these elements as well as gold and other metals.


The equivalent between Bose and Fermi ideal gases is usually taken in high temperature limit only. Recently, there has been considerable interest in surprising thermodynamic "equivalences" between certain ideal Bose and spineless Fermi gas systems in lower temperature. In this work, we follow that idea to investigate the quasi onedimensional system of metallic carbon nanotubes. Due to the linear dispersion law, the non-interacting Bose and Fermi gases in metallic carbon nanotubes are equivalent. This equivalence could be applied to the gas systems of exciton photon (Bose particles) and electron hole (Fermi particles) in metallic carbon nanotubes.


Non‐profits have to make money—lots of it, in fact. And there's lots to learn from the creative strategy, planning, and marketing these concerns employ.


ing ammonium bicarbonate (3%), sodium bicarbonate (5%), di-sodium salt of ethylene-diamino-tetracetic acid, idranal III riedel-de haen, (2.5%), carboxymethyl-cellulose (6%), desogen, 10% solution (1%) -- the cast addition is a quaternary ammonium salt with surface and fungicidal activity. On mural paintings the idranal III is removed from the formulation to avoid solution of calcium carbonate from the paint layer. The formula may be varied to adapt it to special circumstances. Favorable results are reported. See AATA 10-607. -- AATA


Yue Ning case related with organized crime gangs not only has the basic characteristics of mafia-style criminal gang,but also has its own ones.The general characteristics make the case identified as the mafia-style criminal gang,but the mafia-style criminal gang has the individual characteristics,such as diversity of the staff composition;specificity of organizational control;intermediate forms of mafia-style criminal gang.The causes about the case are mainly derived from these factors: the impact of society transformation;shelter and indulgence by several corrupt officials;the widely spread of society subculture and society anomie and the socializition of indivedual members and so on,which result in defect of personality.The causes mentioned above shall be takedn into consideration when countermeasures are taken to guard against the crimes.


Silicon-oxide-backboned hybrid thin films with thicknesses around 600 nm were fabricated through plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition from tetraethyl orthosilicate mixed with hexamethyldisiloxane as precursors, and their subnano-scaled holes, generated by annealing at 560 °C, were investigated by means of the positron lifetime technique with a pulsed, low-energy positron beam. The hole dimension was quantified from the ortho-positronium lifetime for the as-prepared and annealed films with different compositions. The effect of the heat treatment and the precursor composition on the subnano holes was discussed.


Throughout this paper X denotes a compact and zero-dimensional Hausdorr space. We shall be concerned with Theorem 0.1 The following assertions are equivalent. (A) X is the continuous image of a compact ordered space. (B) X is the continuous image of a zero-dimensional compact ordered space. (C) X has a T 0-separating cross-free family of clopen sets. (D) X has a T 0-separating non-Archimedian family of clopen subsets. (E) X can be embedded as a strong T-set into a dendron. (F) X can be embedded into a dendron. (G) X has a cross-free closed subbase. Although probably never arranged in single le, the above equivalences are more or less known. The implication G) F is due to van Mill and Wattel (cf. 7, theorem 6.6]) and does not depend on X being zero-dimensional (but the general case it is much harder to prove). F) A follows from the fact that every dendron is a continuous image of a compact ordered space (a result due independently to J. L. Cornette 3] and A. E. Brouwer 2] see also 7, theorem 3.3]). The implication A) E is due to J. Nikiel 9]. S. Purisch recently observed E) D, which he combined with Nikiel's result to obtain A) D (cf. 12]), thus solving a problem posed by van Douwen in 4] and in Boolean algebraic form also by Koppelberg and Monk in 6]. The equivalence of F and H does not come out of the blue either. But it is not clear how to get it directly from L. E. Ward's result in 11]. In this note we ooer new proofs of most of the implications according to the following schema. E t =) F =) G 3 =) C 2 =) D 5 =) H 2 =) D 5 =) E k _ B t =) A 2 =) B 4 =) C; where trivial implications are marked by t =) and i =) means that the implication is proved in section i. The two unmarked implications will not be proved here, because we have no simpliications to ooer. In 7] the very rst thing van Mill and Wattel prove about dendrons is the fact that 1


The invention discloses a power demand side monitoring system and method. A cloud computing technology is used, power consumption information forms a large power information resource pool, the power load is accurately predicted, the energy-saving potential is accurately mined, and a powerful guarantee is provided for reasonable, ordered, high-efficiency and safe power utilization, so that the aim of continuously utilizing the power is fulfilled. The system comprises a user layer, a data layer, a service layer and a monitoring layer, wherein the user layer is used for dividing the energy-saving method of the whole distribution system according to the industry difference; the data layer is used for acquiring power user data of the user layer by employing an intelligent load control terminal; the service layer is used for processing the data acquired from the data layer by employing the cloud computing and big data technology; and the monitoring layer is connected to the cloud of the service layer and is used for monitoring a power load in real time, counting the power consumption, checking and managing the power service condition and checking the energy-saving potential, so that the service type of the energy-saving equipment is determined.


The author suggests that a closer integration of analytical jurisprudence with legal anthropology can result in a theoretically coherent, more uniform methodological approach to the study of preliterate or customary law.


A short review of both theoretical and experimental aspects of the radiative return method is presented. It is emphasised that the method gives not only possibility of the independent from the scan method measurement of the hadronic cross section, but also can provide information concerning details of the hadronic interactions. New developments in the PHOKHARA event generator are also reviewed. The 3 pion and kaon pair production is implemented within the version 5.0 of the program, together with contributions of the radiative phi decays to the 2 pion final states.
Missing NLO radiative corrections to the e+e- -> mu+ mu- gamma process will be implemented in the forthcoming version of the generator.


n the basis of the study of the pointarea relationship of the fluctuating pressure on cylindrical surface, further research have been made on the pointarea exchange of the fluctuating pressure amplitude on spherical surface with the correlation analysis method,and the analytic formula was developped of the fluctuating pressure amplitude on the spherical surface.


[Chapters from practicing academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS faculty in the United States to share practical how-to chapters on managing stress as working librarians. Creative methods of diffusing stress were selected that were adaptive to various types of libraries and job descriptions: twenty-seven chapters written by one or two authors: one chapter of 2,500-3500 words or two shorter chapters equaling 2,500-3,500 were compiled from thirty-two contributors.


Abstract Objectives To describe nationally representative prevalence estimates of any fruit or vegetable consumption among US infants and toddlers during specific eating occasions. Methods Day one dietary recall data from NHANES 2011–2018 were used to determine the prevalence of any fruit or vegetable consumption in infants and toddlers aged 6–23 months (N = 1,544). Intake was assessed for five eating occasions: breakfast, lunch, dinner, AM snack, and PM snack. To assess differences in intake by age, sex, race/ethnicity, head of household education level, and WIC eligibility, t-tests were used in SAS 9.4, accounting for complex survey design. Results On a given day, 81.3% of infants and toddlers consumed any fruits or vegetables. Fewer 6–11-month-old (62.3%) infants ate any fruits or vegetables on a given day compared with 12–17-month (90.1%) and 18–23-month-old (93.6%) toddlers. Snack times had the lowest prevalence of any fruit or vegetable consumption (AM snack: 18.8%; PM snack: 40.5%). For all age groups, any consumption of fruits or vegetables increased throughout the day by main mealtime (breakfast: 46.4%; lunch: 59.6%; dinner: 66.6%). For main mealtimes, prevalence of any fruit or vegetable intake was lower in infants aged 6–11 months compared with toddlers aged 12–17 and 18–23 months (breakfast: 6–11 months, 33.0%, 12–17 months, 55.5%, 18–23 months, 52.0%; lunch: 6–11 months, 42.7%, 12–17 months, 68.5%, 18–23 months, 69.5%; dinner: 6–11 months, 47.5%, 12–18 months, 74.3%, 18–23 months, 80.2%). At breakfast, lunch, and dinner, the percentage of infants and toddlers who consumed any fruits or vegetables was higher among families in which the head of household had a college degree or above compared with less than a high school degree. Prevalence of fruit or vegetable intake was significantly lower for those who were eligible for WIC (breakfast: 42.5%; lunch: 54.8%; dinner: 63.1%) compared with those who were ineligible for WIC (breakfast: 51.6%; lunch: 65.3%; dinner: 71.0%). Conclusions Four out of 5 infants and toddlers consumed any fruits or vegetables on a given day. This analysis identified breakfast and AM snack as eating occasions with the lowest prevalence of any fruit or vegetable consumption. These eating occasions could be a target for introduction or increasing fruit or vegetable consumption among infants and toddlers. Funding Sources None.


This research aims to analyze the level of the importance and the performance of the implementation of factors that determine the successful inventory of assets in Rote Ndao Regency. Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) is used as an analysis tool to process research data. The results showed that asset inventory has not been fully optimal. This can be seen from the results of data analysis that is unbalancing between interest and performance levels. There are 4 inventory factors that are priority to improve performance, namely: regional asset logging activities in Rote Ndao District Government, improvement of updated data base, implementation of regional asset census to get correct and accurate asset data, and information technology capabilities and completeness of infrastructure facilities in the office supported by HR capabilities

Keywords: inventory of regional assets , local government, Importance Performance Analysis (IPA)


The utility model discloses a dust removal device for a solar cell panel. The dust removal device comprises an air spray pipe installed at the inclined rear of the high end of the cell panel. The middle of the air spray pipe is connected with a high-pressure air storage tank through a control valve and a pressure regulating valve, air outlet spray holes are drilled in the air spray pipe along the pipe length at equal intervals, each air outlet spray hole is provided with a nozzle, and cylindrical small holes are formed in the periphery of each nozzle. The dust removal device can effectively remove sundries and dust on the surface of the cell panel, thereby improving absorption efficiency and conversion efficiency of the cell panel to luminous energy and prolonging the service life of the solar cell panel.


Children acquire complex relational repre- sentations of the world. Explaining the acquisition of these representations has been a significant challenge for theo- ries of cognitive development. Recent work suggests that two processes, theory revision and redescription, operate in an iterative, complementary fashion to produce new representations. Given a novel situation, children use theory revision to generate a candidate relational struc- ture and can modify that structure in response to error. Redescription detects regularities created through suc- cessful use of that structure in interaction with the envi- ronment; these regularities are consolidated into new representations, which are then available to the theory- revision process. The complementary nature of these processes is illustrated by recent work on representational change in a gear-system task and in arithmetic concepts. Theory revision and redescription occupy different, but mutually supportive, niches in knowledge acquisition. KEYWORDS—knowledge acquisition;relations; representa- tion; cognitive development


We report the construction and application of a new fusion‐protein expression plasmid (TNFHis) for Escherichia coli . The plasmid contains both PR and PL promoters and is optimized to allow a higher level of expression of mature coding sequences. It also contains a six‐histidine tag for convenient purification as well as thrombin and hydroxylamine recognition sites for cleaving heterologous protein. The potential use of this expression vector is demonstrated by comparing the expression levels of human tumour necrosis factor (TNF), interferon, interleukin 11, colony‐forming factor, osteoprotegrin and interleukin 2 in E. coli . Furthermore, all expressed TNF fusion proteins can be detected by anti‐TNFα antibody or by specific antibodies and purified by Ni2+‐nitrilotriacetate beads. The expressed TNF fusion proteins can be cleaved by hydroxylamine.


Thursday, 17 March 2016 marked the 10th anniversary of the Close the Gap Campaign. The Independent Education Union of Australia through 'IEU Speaks' took the opportunity to highlight the poor progress in closing the gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and urged IEU members to join the campaign to effectively address these shameful inequities.


The purpose of this synthesis was to review the literature on factors that increase physical activity for youth who are visually impaired. The selected studies for this synthesis describe barriers and facilitators that influence physical activity levels in youth ages 7-19. As Kozub and Hyun-Kyoung Oh, (2004) noted, individuals with visual impairment have reported lower levels of physical activity in relation to their same age sighted peers. It is important to understand where this population loses its ground in being regularly and adequately physically active. Research indicates several factors that have been shown to increase physical activity in young people with visual impairments that include the use of external motivators as well as through parental influence.


Treatment of ketones with trimethylsilyl cyanide in benzene in the presence of a Lewis acid (ZnI2) as a catalyst and subsequent heating after addition of pyridine and phosphoryl chloride have given α,β,-unsaturated nitriles in good yields, providing a general one-pot preparation of α,β,-unsaturated nitriles from ketones.


In this work, video segmentation is viewed as an efficient intra-frame grouping temporally reinforced by a strong inter-frame coherence. Traditional approaches simply regard pixel motions as another prior in the MRF-MAP framework. Since pixel pre-grouping is inefficiently performed on every frame, the strong correlation between inter-frame groupings is largely underutilized. We exploit the inter-frame correlation to propagate trustworthy groupings from the previous frame. A preceding graph is constructed and labeled for the previous frame. It is temporally propagated to the current frame and validated by similarity measures. All unlabeled subgraphs are spatially aggregated for the final grouping. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is highly efficient for spatio-temporal segmentation. It makes good use of temporal correlation and produces satisfactory grouping results.


W are describing the long-term follow up of a 6 and half-year old patient from Saudi Arabia with Biotin-Resistant 3-Methylcrotonyl-coenzyme-A carboxylase (MCC) deficiency. She presented with acidosis, lower respiratory tract infection, vomiting, diarrhea and failure to thrive at 3 months of age. The diagnosis initially reached by tandem metabolic stroke (MS) and then confirmed by enzyme analysis. She was placed on appropriate therapy. During the next 6 years, she had no recurrence of the disease except she had a thrombocytopenic episode at 18 months. This case illustrates that isolated MCC deficiency of early onset shows a severe clinical course. However, the clinical symptoms and signs can be reversed with suitable therapy. The patient at present is a 6 and half-year-old girl who came to the service at the age of 2.5 months from a peripheral hospital. She was the product of full term spontaneous vaginal delivery and was discharged home at 2 days. She came back to the hospital with a chest infection at 8 days of age. The mother attributed tachypnea at 35 days of age, which was attributed to bronchiolitis. She was found to have gastro-esophageal reflux, diarrhea and acidosis. At that time, a blood sample sent for tandem MS revealed the MCC deficiency. Parents are first-degree cousins. The mother had 2 miscarriages and 3 normal children (one boy, and 2 girls). Physical examination at the time of first encounter at 2 months of age was unremarkable. There were no organomegaly and no neurological findings. She had a nappy rash with satellite lesions. She was placed on maple syrup urine disease formula with additional isoleucine and valine. She was prescribed Polycose, Polycitra 1 ml/kg/ tid, Carnitine 200 mg/kg/day and Glycine 500 mg/kg/day. Nystatin ointment was given for the nappy rash. When seen again at 3 months, the mother gave a history of loose motions. She was otherwise, unremarkable. She was normal at 4, 6, 8, 12 and 14 months of age. At 17 months: following a severe respiratory tract infection, she developed a repeat episode of mild acidosis and was found to have thrombocytopenia, 13.000/ml. A bone marrow examination showed increased megakaryopoiesis, but normal erythropoiesis and normal granulocyte


The selection ofx-variables One of the commonest problems of multiple regression, and one of the most difficult, is that of selecting a few useful covariates out of a large selection of potential candidates. Ifwe fit a multiple regression equation and find that one ofthe regression coefficients is little greater than its standard error, this means that the goodness of prediction as measured by the residual standard deviation has not been reduced to any great extent by including the corresponding x-variable in the regression model. It is then natural to try omitting this x-variable and fitting the data without it. This kind of approach has been formalised in the various types of stepwise regression which are widely available in computer packages. The idea is quite simple. With forward stepwise regression the first step is to fit all the candidates covariates one at a time and to pick the most significant (the one, that is, that produces the greatest reduction in the residual standard deviation). This is then accepted as part of the eventual equation. The remaining covariates are added to the equation one at a time and again the most significant is selected and accepted. The process continues until none of the remaining candidates reaches some predetermined level of significance. Backwards stepwise regression starts by fitting all the candidate covariates simultaneously. The least significant is discarded and the fitting repeated with the remainder. This procedure continues until all the remaining covariates surpass a preset significance level. More generally, the two procedures can be adopted in alternation, adding 'significant' covariates to the equation and discarding those which become 'nonsignificant'. Stepwise regression is an appealing method as it appears to offer a means of obtaining an optimal regression equation by a thought-free automatic technique. It has several major drawbacks that are not apparent on the surface. To begin with, different stepwise methods are capable of producing different selections of covariates from the same set of data. None of the methods in fact guarantee the selection of an optimal set, in the sense of one which minimises the residual standard deviation. Most importantly, they inevitably focus on a single selection of covariates, when it is usually the case that several different selections are practically equivalent in terms of goodness of prediction. The stopping rules ('F to remove' and so on) are almost entirely arbitrary, and the ostensible significance levels are so untrustworthy as to be positively misleading. A strong case can be made for preferring a model with fewer covariates, even if the residual mean square is slightly higher than that for a competitor with more covariates. This is rarely if ever taken into account by stepwise regression programs. Unless the number of potential covariates is extremely large, it is entirely practical to explore all the possible selections. With 20 covariates, there are 1 048 576 possibilities to be compared, but ingenious methodology means that they do not all have to be considered. With care it is possible to examine (say) the best five selections for each total number of covariates, and this gives a much better picture of the overall situation. Software for these calculations is now available is some of the larger packages. There is, however, one aspect of covariate selection, whatever mechanism is used, which is little appreciated, even by statisticians. Consider confronting a set of 20 potential predictors whose true regression coefficients, unknown to you, are all actually zero. If you calculate all the 1 048 576 possible regressions with their residual standard deviations, the average of these latter will be close to the original standard deviation of they-variate. But some ofthem by chance will be larger and some will be smaller, and with this range of possibilities some are likely to be considerably smaller. There will thus be some, perhaps many selections of the covariates which appear to give excellent predictions, and the residual standard deviation reached as a result of the selection procedure will be a gross underestimate of the true value. A regression equation obtained in this way is likely to give extremely disappointing results when applied to a future sample taken from the same population. In much the same way, the estimated regression coefficients of the selected covariates following a stepwise procedure are likely to be larger, maybe considerably larger, than their true values. This is especially important when one of the x's is a measure of exposure and the others are merely possible confounding factors, so that the size of one of the coefficients is especially important.' A regression equation with a small number of covariates selected from a larger set must be interpreted with the greatest caution. If at all possible, its implications should be checked using a separate sample of data from the one used in the calculations. 23 Coleridge Court, Milton Road, Harpenden, Herts ALS SLD


This work overcomes the limitation of strong acidic conditions for the polymer grafting modification of CNCs initiated by cerium ammonium nitrate and is conducive to the industrial production of polymer-grafted CNCs under environmentally friendly conditions.


The current RAH-66 Comanche Scout/Attack Helicopter in development for the U.S. Army uses an advanced Controls and Displays architecture coupled to an all glass cockpit. Advanced Mission Computers (MCs) drive state of the art crew station displays. This combination provides unmatched targeting capability while reducing the pilot's and copilot's workload.


AIM:To evaluate the effect of early different-dose simvastatin therapy on the serum C-reactive protein(CRP),fibrin degradation product(FDP)and D-dimer in the patients with acute coronary syndrome(ACS),except the change of the blood-lipid.METHODS:Ninety patients with ACS were divided into 3 groups.The patients in group 1(n=30)received simvastatin(20 mg/d).The patients in group 2(n=30)received simvastatin(10 mg/d)and the group 3 was the control group(n=30).The patients in group 1 and in group 2 were treated with simvastatin within 24-48 h after hospitalization.The levels of the high sensitivity CRP(hs-CRP),FDP,D-dimer and the blood-lipid were measured at baseline and after 8 weeks of therapy.RESULTS:After 8 weeks of therapy,early different-dose simvastatin treatmemt can not only decrease the serum level of blood-lipid,but also decrease the serum level of hs-CRP,FDP and D-dimer.The higher dose,the more effect.CONCLUSION:Early simvastatin treatmemt can inhibit inflammtion and blood coagulative reation obviously.As the dose is higher,the effect is more obvious.


MFOI/PC01 Plus Postage. *Active Learning; Conventional Instruction; *Creative Teaching; Instruction; Secondary Education; *Social Studies; Teacher Behavior; Teacher Effectiveness; *Teaching Methods; *Teaching Styles This paper reports on one secondary social studies teacher's efforts to engage students in learning about self, others, and the world. Modes of presentation and learning activities are the specific focus. Observations occurred during 160 class periods in four different social studies classrooms, tenth-grade world geography, eleventh-grade U.S. history, twelfth-grade international relations, and a 9-12 grade ancient civilizations. Over 20 interviews were conducted, along with observations of the school's collaborative decision-making meetings, the social studies department's meetings, a union meeting, a student club meeting, and a professional gathering at a nearby university. School documents were analyzed, including organizational publications and teachers' syllabi, supplemental readings, and handouts. The study attempts to link student engagement in social studies classrooms with teachers' willingness to interrupt students' expectations of what class structure should be, to assume a wide range of teaching roles, and to provide s'udents with opportunities to meaningfully interact with one another. Contains 26 references. (EH) *******************************************************************)%-.. * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***************, .*****************************************************


The fishermen who lost sea are the vulnerable groups embedded in social relations. They demand not only economic and material things,but also interpersonal reconstruction,identity transformation and self-fulfillment..After they lost sea,the multiple social networks this group once embedded in are broken.So reconstruction is needed.For fishermen who lost sea,multiple channels, such as market,cooperation,public service should be taken.Therefore,the group needs social support content,social support subjects,and social support medium to build a multiple social support system to achieve transformation.


The utility model relates to a grain tank for a combine harvester. The grain tank comprises a front side wall, a rear side wall and a grain tank base plate which is formed between the front side wall and the rear side wall. The grain tank base plate of the grain tank comprises an arc-shaped bottom and horizontal bottom faces arranged on one side or the two sides of the arc-shaped bottom. The grain tank base plate is arranged to be in the mode combined by the arc-shaped bottom and the horizontal bottom faces, the grain tank can be arranged on a grain tank base in a sitting mode more quickly and precisely in the process that the grain tank is placed on the grain tank base, hence, the production efficiency of the combine harvester is greatly improved, and the manufacturing cost of the combine harvester is lowered.


In this paper, the effect of shading on solar Photovoltaic (PV) modules is evaluated by using a simulation model, which is able to simulate both the I-V and P-V characteristics curves for PV panels with different sizes. Three percentages of shading states (25%, 50%, 75%) and without shading were used as efficiency limitations. The results are extracted and simulated using the Matlab software. One-diode equivalent circuit is applied in order to investigate electrical characteristics of a typical Kyocera 54W and Solara 130W solar modules. The results show that the performance of both models is widely decreased and the models can't charge the batteries if the shading near 75% or more for single panel. The systems with small sizes panels have better performance than these with large panels; the drop voltage due to shading was increased with a bigger size.


The case in this study was a 34-year-old woman with a history of cesarean delivery. She was subjected to the surgery for the pregnancy determination at her 34 weeks of gestation with placenta percreta. Due to placenta percreta, there were two peripheral venous catheters inserted into the intravenous lines patient's right hand; a green one and a gray one linked to Ringer's solution. Moreover, a gray catheter was inserted into the intravenous line in left hand to administer normal saline. After the delivery, the surgeon reported the severity of the operation and the possibility of massive hemorrhage. The urology and surgical modalities were immediately available due to incomplete placental separation from the uterine wall. Afterwards, two units of packed red blood cells were transfused slowly. Suddenly, there was massive bleeding for about 10 min with the estimated blood loss of 3 L. The blood bank was immediately asked for the blood with no cross-matching. Blood products were repeatedly injected through the three intravenous lines. At the end of the operation, the patient was sent to the intensive care unit with spontaneous breath and intubation; therefore, 3 h later, the patient was extubed.


The invention discloses an electric conduction silver paste for a filer. The silver paste consists of the following raw materials in parts by weight: 81-90 parts of cladding silver powder, 10-14 parts of lead-free glass powder, 1-2 parts of salatrim, 0.1-0.2 part of hexamethylcyclotrisiloxane, 1-2 parts of aluminum nitride, 2-3 parts of dioctyl sebacate, 0.2-0.4 part of sodium potassium silicate, 0.3-1 part of carbomer resin, 2-3 parts of glycerine, 10-13 parts of vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate, 20-21 parts of cyclohexanone, 3-5 parts of dimethyl formamide, 0.1-0.2 part of micro gelating capsule red phosphorus, and 0.2-0.3 part of aluminum ammonium sulfate. The cladding silver powder is obtained by enabling nanometer silver powder to be uniformly and compactly cladded to the surfaces of macromolecular microspheres, so that not only the consumption of noble metal silver powder can be reduced, the production cost is reduced, but also the dispersibility and the stability of the nanometer silver powder are greatly improved.


To reduce the complexity of scheduling while exploiting the advantages of TDMA-based data collection, we propose TKN-TWN, a token-scheduled multi-channel data collection protocol. The TKN-TWN uses two tokens to arbitrate data-packet transmissions and associates the ownership of tokens with transmission slot assignment. For the reduction of scheduling burden, the TKN-TWN provides topology adaptability while maintaining high throughput in burst data transfer. In this paper, we present the system design of TKN-TWN with enhancement toward topology adaptability based on a previous work. We evaluate TKN-TWN on a local test bed using 31 TelosB sensor nodes. Evaluation results show that the TKN-TWN achieves throughput of 6.4 KByte/s with more than 99% delivery ratio even with occasional node failures.


FIELD: electricity. SUBSTANCE: diagram transmits the amplified resonant power generated in winding of common transformer, when subsequent or parallel resonance of common electric power supply has been formed, to the load through common transformer. Diagram includes the following: electric power supply to generate and supply voltage or current; power amplifier to generate amplified resonant power by using voltage or current; and power transmission module to transmit the amplified resonant power to load by using the transformer. EFFECT: improving the quantity of electric power supplied to the load. 4 cl, 15 dwg, 3 tbl


Karo tribe in North Sumatra as one of the ethnic variety in the archipelago has its own art and cultural heritage, one of which is a unique jewelry called padung-padung. This jewelry was used by Karo women in the past as jewelry as well as status symbol. Currently, padung-padung completely no longer used, even many Karo people, especially younger generation, do not know it. The strong influence of foreign culture due to the advancement of technology has become one of the reasons for the increasingly displaced padung-padung. This article is a summary of the result of previous research that aims to re-examine the existence of padung-padung in the past, identify the meaning and role and cause of the loss of padung-padung from the life of Karo tribe. In addition, this study also aims to explore the potential of padung-padung as an alternative aesthetic elements in the development of contemporary product design in order to preserve the diversity of art and culture of Indonesia. Keywords: padung-padung, nine elements of artifact forming, aesthetic element, contemporary product design