Based on the experiences of international and national matches of direction detection cross country,the au- thor summarized some methods and laws for the ability training of direction detection cross country so as to provide reference for the military training.


As the main secondary energy of more/all electric aircraft (MEA/AEA), power supply has unique advantages in weight, volume, reliability and maintainability compared with other secondary energy such as hydraulic energy and pneumatic energy, which makes it more and more widely used in warships and rapidly developing aircraft. At the same time, in order to make the aircraft power supply system meet the requirements of special high-power loads in the future, improve the carrying capacity and power distribution adaptability of the aircraft power supply system, the grid-connected control strategy of multiple power generation systems will be one of the key research directions. In this paper, based on the mathematical model of three-stage power generation system, a collaborative power regulation strategy based on adaptive power distribution method is proposed, which realizes the adaptive power distribution through voltage compensation and sagging coefficient dynamic matching strategy. The mathematical model of the collaborative power regulation system based on Simulink and the hardware-in-the-loop simulation platform based on RT-BOX are built, which verifies that this collaborative power regulation strategy has certain adaptability in the grid-connected system of two three-stage generators, and can effectively improve the power distribution accuracy and output power quality of the aircraft power system. It provides theoretical support for the collaborative power distribution control of multi-generator grid-connection in aircraft power supply system.


Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) is regulated by nutrition and plays an important role in growth and development. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of Early Aggressive Nutrition (EAN) in very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants on growth and the serum IGF-I levels in the first two weeks of life. The study included 25 VLBW infants admitted to our NICU between August 2008 and May 2010. The plasma IGF-I concentrations were measured at birth and two weeks after birth, and the correlation between these values and nutritional intake and growth was analyzed. Standard de-viation scores (SDS) for body weights were calculated based on a birth weight criterion classified ac-cording to gestational age. SDS degree (⊿SDS) was defined as the difference between SDS at birth and two weeks after birth. SDS values for the body weight calculated at two weeks after birth decreased compared to those calculated at birth; on the other hand, IGF-I levels did not differ significantly. At two weeks after birth, IGF-I levels were associated with birth weight ( β = 0.672, p = 0.008) and body weight gain ( β = 0.366, p = 0.036), although there was no association with gestational age, sex, total protein, or energy intake. These results indicate that EAN maintains IGF-I level at birth and two weeks after birth based on the birth weight and body weight gain.


Low bandgap tin-lead perovskite solar cells (Sn-Pb PSCs) are expected to achieve higher efficiencies than Pb-PSCs and regarded as key components of tandem PSCs. However, the realization of high efficiency is challenged by the instability of Sn2+ and the imperfections at the charge transfer interfaces. Here, we demonstrate an efficient ideal bandgap formamidinium (FA)-based Sn-Pb (FAPb0.5Sn0.5I3) PSC, by manipulating the buried NiOx/perovskite interface with 4-hydroxyphenethyl ammonium halide (OH-PEAX, X = Cl-, Br-, or I-) interlayer, which exhibits fascinating functions of reducing the surface defects of the NiOx hole transport layer (HTL), enhancing the perovskite film quality, and improving both the energy level matching and physical contact at the interface. The effects of different halide anions have been elaborated and a 20.53% efficiency is obtained with OH-PEABr, which is the highest one for FA-based Sn-Pb PSCs using NiOx HTLs. Moreover, the device stability is also boosted.


This paper investigates durability of no fine concrete containing demolished concrete as coarse aggregate after crushing to different sizes. Different no fine concrete mixes were considered using Portland cement type I with two types of coarse aggregates, crushed demolished concrete and crushed natural gravel were used with two ratios by weight (1:5 and 1:7) C/Agg. Graded aggregate and single size were used with a maximum size of 20 mm. W /C ratio was kept as 0.4 for all mixes and super-plasticizer was required to keep the same flow and compaction factor value for all mixes. Cube specimens with 150mm were cured and divided to two parts, the first part was exposed to 60 cycles of freezing- thawing; the second part of the sample was immersed in Nitric Acids solution with pH of 3.5 for (7, 28, 90 and 180 days) and then tested for compressive strength. The results indicated that it is possible to produce homogenous and workable mixes by using demolished crushed concrete as coarse aggregate. The compressive strength after cycles of freezing- thawing and immersing in Nitric acid (HNO3) at (7, 28, 90 and 180) days was decreased for samples made with crushed demolished concrete. Also it is found that the performance of concrete mixes containing graded coarse aggregate and 1:5 cement/aggregate ratios was better than other mixes.


The IRF5 (interferon regulatory factor 5) gene encoding a transcription factor is involved in the regulation of interferon synthesis and other proinflammatory cytokines. It is assumed that the IRF5 gene is associated with juvenileonset systemic lupus erythematosus (jSLE), a chronic autoimmune disease that develops in childhood and differs from the adult subtype of SLE in a number of its manifestations. The aim of the presented work was to conduct a pilot study of IRF5 rs2004640 polymorphism in the population of children in Belarus and its association with the development of jSLE. Genotyping of DNA samples was performed using real-time PCR in a group of patients diagnosed with
jSLE (38 people) and in the clinical control group without autoimmune and inflammatory diseases (378 people). The frequency of the IRF5 rs2004640 minor T allele was determined in the Belarusian population of children (under the age of 17). It was found that the rs2004640 TT genotype is associated with the risk of the jSLE development (OR = 2.27; 95% CI 1.08–4.76; p = 0.035) that after further investigations may improve an early diagnosis of jSLE.


Microstrip patch antennas are versatile in terms of their geometrical shapes and implementation, microstrip patch antennas have extensive application in communication system due to their light weight, low volume, simple and inexpensive, easy to design and fabrication technology, mechanically robust when mounted rigid surface, conformal nature and the capability of ready integration with the communication system. This report is to present a microstrip patch antenna for (ADS-B) System application at 1090MHz is designed and implemented. A microstrip antenna line feed double T- slots are proposed, the proposed antenna is fed through 50 ohm microstrip line with T-slot at the back to achieve some high degree of miniaturization. The overall size of the antenna is 82mm x 65 mm with the electrical length of 0.298? x 0.236? at frequency of 1090MHz. From the experimental results obtained ,the antenna resonates at 1090MHz which is make a suitable for the (ADS-B) application with omnidirectional radiation pattern and return loss, The design is validated by measurement and simulated result are compared and the antenna meets the requirement of the application


Interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) and its soluble receptor (sIL‐6R) are major factors for maintenance and expansion of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Sensitivity of HSCs to IL‐6 has been previously studied, in part by measuring the expression of IL‐6R on the membrane (mIL‐6R). Several studies have described the regulation of cell surface expression of IL‐6R by several cytokines, but the role of glycoprotein 130 activation has not yet been investigated. In this study, CD133+ cells were purified from adult peripheral blood and were precultured in the absence or presence of 5‐fluorouracil (5‐FU) for selection of quiescent HSCs. Cells were cultured with continuous or pulsed stimulations of an IL‐6 –sIL‐6R fusion protein (hyperinterleukin‐6 [HIL‐6]) to 1) detect mIL‐6R by flow cytometry, 2) assess mIL‐6R and sIL‐6R RNAs by reverse transcription‐polymerase chain reaction, 3) measure sIL‐6R in supernatants by enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay, 4) analyze cell‐cycle status, and 5) perform long‐term culture‐initiating cell assays. The level of mIL‐6R− cells was preserved by 5‐FU incubation. HIL‐6 increased steady‐state mIL‐6R RNA and expression rate on HSCs, independently of treatment with 5‐FU. Enhanced production of sIL‐6R was observed with short pulses of HIL‐6 on CD133+ 5‐FU‐pretreated cells. This overproduction of sIL‐6R was abrogated by tumor necrosis factor‐α protease inhibitor‐1, an inhibitor of a disintegrin and metalloprotease proteases, suggesting the shedding of mIL‐6R. This phenomenon was mediated through the phosphatidylinositol‐3′‐kinase pathway and was involved in the maintenance of primitive HSCs. In conclusion, expression and production of IL‐6R are tightly regulated and stage specific. We assume that sIL‐6R produced by shedding should be involved in autocrine and paracrine loops in the HSC microenvironment.


Abstract Soils have been studied near Barrow, Alaska for nearly 50 years. Since 1995 we have described, sampled, and characterized 26 pedons in the Barrow region, primarily within the Barrow Experimental Observatory, as part of a legacy soils database. The soils occur on land cover types that range from dry to wet acidic tundra. Cryoturba‐tion is the dominant process that affects most of the soils, but other processes include paludization, gleization, melanization, base‐cation leaching, and anthrosolization. In general, the soils have high levels of total organic carbon, total N, and silt. The cation‐exchange capacity is high but is dominated by exchangeable acidity. Twelve soil subgroups were recognized in the region, of which four were classified as Turbels, four as Orthels, and four as Histels. There is considerable spatial variability in the soils due to the presence of low‐, flat‐, and high‐centered frost polygons. The thaw‐lake cycle is of special importance in the Barrow region.


Copeptin, the C-terminal fragment of antidiuretic hormone (ADH), is a biomarker which has been reported to be increased in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, thus playing a role in predicting their prognosis. Patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) have been demonstrated to have a high risk for developing these vascular diseases. However, there have been no authentic reports concerning the effect of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on serum copeptin levels in OSA patients.

 We hypothesis that CPAP treatment substantially modifies copeptin levels in OSA patients.

 A total of 60 OSA patients confirmed by polysomnographic examinations was divided into two groups: a mild-moderate OSA (apnea-hypopnea index: AHI <30/h) group and a severe OSA (AHI ≥30/h) group. Blood samples were collected early in the morning after overnight fasting, and serum copeptin and ADH levels were measured with an enzyme immunoassay method. In patients initiated with CPAP, hormone levels were measured before and after CPAP treatment.

 Twenty-one patients (age: 54.7±12.4 y, male: 17, NT-proBNP: 45.3±44.2 pg/mL) were diagnosed as having mild-moderate OSA (AHI: 16.5±8.4/h), while 39 patients (age: 57.8±11.4y, male: 29, NT-proBNP: 73.7±87.3 pg/mL) were diagnosed as severe OSA (AHI: 49.5±21.1/h). As a whole, there were no significant differences in copeptin and ADH levels between mild-moderate OSA and severe OSA groups (copeptin: 2.1±1.4 pmol/L vs. 1.9±1.4, ADH: 2.3±2.6 pg/dL vs. 2.0±0.7). In 26 severe OSA patients (age: 55.9±12.9y, male: 23, NT-proBNP: 63.3±85.2 pg/mL), these hormones were again evaluated after CPAP initiation. AHI was significantly improved after CPAP treatment (45.5±20.8/h vs. 5.0±5.0, P<0.01). Although the ADH level was changed from 1.85±0.77 pg/dL to 1.68±0.99, the difference did not reach the statistical significance. The copeptin level was certainly decreased after CPAP by 26% (2.29±2.63 pmol/L vs. 1.69±1.68, P<0.01) (Figure 1).

 Serum copeptin levels decreased after CPAP treatment in patients with severe OSA. Copeptin, but not ADH, can be considered as a new biomarker for predicting cardio/cerebrovascular events in severe OSA patients.
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Abstract A group for counselors, who are ofen reluctant to seek personal counseling, is one format for practicing counselors to enhance their own emotional health.


Intestinal tract normal flora to human body not only not pathogenesis,and can have many kinds of beneficial functions,like the repel pathogenic microorganism invasion,the help digestion,manufacture many kinds of nutrients,enhance the human body immunologic function and so on.When diarrhea the intestinal tract bacteria colony disorder,the intestinal tract micro ecological equilibrium is destructed,the prominent performance for the intestinal tract pair of qi bacillus quantity obvious drop,in the intestines loses the anaerobe the barrier and oppresses the anti-function,thus outside favors raids the cause of disease the attack,urges the diarrhea the occurrence.Regarding this uses a pair of qi bacillus,the bacillus lacticus and the streptococcus faecalis and so on micro ecology conditioner therapy,but enhances the intestinal tract anaerobe quantity rapidly,promotion diarrhea cure.


Proper determination of the shear strength of the backfill body used to fill the subsidence is the basis for subsidence restoration and the stability analysis of materials. This study developed a shear strength calculation model for the backfill body by introducing adhesive friction theory into the shear strength analysis. A direct shear test was performed in the laboratory to verify the proposed method. Test results suggested that the shear strength calculation method based on adhesive friction theory can calculate the variation in the actual contact area between grains in the tested samples undergoing shearing and estimate the peak shear strength. The actual contact area was divided into two components, namely, adhesive contact area Arm and contact area reduction caused by shear displacement, which exhibited a maximum at Armax. The shear strength values calculated by this method were smaller than laboratory values, and their differences increased with the rock proportion in the backfill body. The differences between the theoretical and experimental values of shear strength increased with the rock grain size. The results of theoretical calculation, combined with the results of laboratory experiments, can provide support for the proper determination of shear strength of the backfill body.


This paper investigates the magnetic field immunity and near magnetic field reduction for different inductor-winding structures. A double-twisted winding structure, which includes two magnetic cores, is proposed for common mode (CM) inductors. The proposed CM inductor can achieve much lower near magnetic field emission, much better magnetic field immunity against the external magnetic field, and much bigger differential mode (DM) impedance than conventional winding structures. The proposed inductor structures are good for high power-density applications. Theoretical analysis, magnetic three-dimensional simulations and experiments were conducted to validate the developed theory and technique.


The bullwhip effect becomes a problem for the factory to manage the inventory policy in the warehouse. This study proposes to reduce the bullwhip effect through signal demand forecast from hybrid artificial neural network (ANN) models. The original ANN is combined with analytical hierarchy process (AHP), Monte Carlo simulation (MC), and geometric random distribution at the parts of the input weight and input bias from the ANN. The variation of forecast signal demands from the hybrid models are used to reduce the variance from the signal customer demands. The results from this study, AHP iw ANN b has the smallest mean square error (MSE) from signal demands, it implys that the variance signal demands should reduce the bullwhip effect (BWE) in the supply chain. It can be concluded that the small variance signal demand should reduce the bullwhip effect in the supply chain.


The study of high-altitude adaptation is pioneering and exemplary work in the field of adaptive evolution in amphibians and reptiles. High-altitude areas often have extreme environmental characteristics, such as low temperature, hypoxia, and strong ultraviolet (UV) radiation, in addition to a complex geological history and unique topography. Therefore, these areas provide a natural laboratory for examining the adaptive evolution of organisms. As representative groups of poikilotherms, amphibians and reptiles are important members of high-altitude fauna; some of them are found as high as 5300 m above sea level. Previous studies have reported that representative species of high-altitude amphibians and reptiles have evolved a series of phenotypic characteristics in physiology, morphology, and life history to adapt to extreme environments. With the development of next-generation sequencing technology, breakthroughs have recently been made in exploring the molecular mechanisms of high-altitude adaptation at the genomic level. In particular, complete genomes of representative amphibians and reptiles in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have been elucidated, leading to a better understanding of poikilotherm adaptive evolution. In this study, we investigated and summarized results of phenotypic studies on high-altitude adaptation in amphibians and reptiles, focusing on the analysis and discussion of molecular mechanisms. We believe that several study fields should, therefore, focus on the (i) establishment of phenomics, (ii) association analysis of phenomics and genomics, (iii) functional analysis of genetic variation, and (iv) establishment of experimental systems.


Introduction Understanding the degree to which parents may influence healthy behaviors may provide opportunities to intervene among populations at increased risk of diseases, such as breast cancer. In this study, we examined the association between daughters' healthy eating habits and family lifestyle behaviors among girls and their families by using baseline data from the LEGACY (Lessons in Epidemiology and Genetics of Adult Cancer from Youth) Girls Study. Our objective was to examine the relationship between daughters' healthy eating and family lifestyle behaviors and to compare these associations between families with and without a history of breast cancer. Methods We examined demographic and lifestyle data from a cohort of 1,040 girls aged 6 to 13 years from year 1 (2011) of the LEGACY study. Half had a family history of breast cancer (BCFH). We used mixed-effects linear regression to assess the influence of the mother and father's physical activity, family relationship scores, the mother's diet, the family's income, and the daughter's sports participation, age, body mass index (BMI), and race/ethnicity on the daughter's Healthy Eating Index (HEI) score. Results Daughters' healthy eating was significantly correlated with the mother's diet (r[668] = 0.25, P = .003) and physical activity (r[970] = 0.12, P = .002), the father's physical activity (r[970] = 0.08, P = .01), and the family income (r[854] = 0.13, P = .006). Additionally, the mother's diet (β coefficient = 0.71, 95% CI, 0.46–0.88, P = .005) and family income (β coefficient = 3.28, 95% CI, 0.79–5.78, P = .002) significantly predicted a daughter's healthy eating. Analyses separated by family history status revealed differences in these associations. In families without a history of breast cancer, only the mother's diet (β coefficient = 0.62; 95% CI, 0.29–0.95; P = .001) significantly predicted the daughter's healthy eating. In families with a history of breast cancer, the mother's diet (β coefficient = 0.73, 95% CI, 0.42-1.03, P = .006) and family income (β coefficient = 6.24; 95% CI, 2.68–9.80; P = .004) significantly predicted a daughter's healthy eating. Conclusion A mother's diet and family income are related to the daughter's healthy eating habits, although differences exist among families by family history of breast cancer.


The effects of prehistory has been studied by the measurements of rheological properties of polypropylene melts and of physical properties of as spun filaments obtained from two samples having different prehistory. One (sample A) is prepared by quenching the melt screw extrudated. The other (sample B) is prepared by the solution crystallizing from the dilute solution in xylene. These samples are well characterized by means of x-ray diffraction and dilatometry. The results of the melt viscosity, die swell and spinnability of the melt show differences according to the differences in the prehistory: the melt properties are affected by the difference in entanglement between sample A and sample B. It is found from the measurements of thermal shrinkage and tensile testing that as spun filament A having certain prehistory has a larger fraction of tie chain and that as spun filament B free from the prehistory is rich in the fold type crystal fraction.


Disclosed are a precursor composition for forming a zirconium-containing thin film and a method for forming a zirconium thin film using the same in manufacturing a semiconductor element. The precursor composition for forming a zirconium thin film comprises: a zirconium precursor compound expressed by chemical formula 1 below; and an organic compound uniformly mixed with the zirconium precursor compound. [Chemical formula 1] In chemical formula 1, R_1 is a linear or a branching alkyl group having a carbon number of 1 to 4, and each of R_2 and R_3 is a linear or a branching alkyl group having a carbon number of 1 to 6.


Mass density spatial distributions of selected gas-puff targets have been determined by radiography, using quasi-monochromatic radiation at a wavelength of 13 nm. Results of spatial distributions of mass densities at various initial reservoir pressures for Nitrogen, Argon and Krypton targets are presented. Changes in the mass density spatial distribution due to a nozzle wear are reported.


The solvent extraction of phosphoric, hydrochloric, sulphuric, hydrofluosilicic and hydrofluoric acids with long-chain aliphatic amins is modelled. Pure acid equilibria are based on existing isotherms or calculated extraction constants when only experimental data are available. For binary mixtures binary combinations of acid complexes are added. In the aqueous phase Bromley's model for electrolytes is used for calculation of ionic activity coefficients and the appropriate association/dissociation equilibria taken into account for calculation of ionic strength. For the organic phase an empirical model for the non-ideal behaviour of phosphoric acid is used. For multicomponent mixtures at low acid concentrations the model calculates the extraction of phosphoric, hydrochloric and sulphuric acid almost quantitatively. For hydrofluosilicic and hydrofluoric acid the calculations are less precise and further information is needed about the different fluoride exchange equilibria involved.


Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) irradiated with laser were investigated by Raman spectroscopy. The intensity of D band related to defects increased with the laser irradiation. It should be noticed that the corresponding change was observed for G− peak associated with metallic SWNTs that is related to the electron-phonon coupling with Kohn anomaly. The upshift and narrowing of the G− peak occur due to the laser irradiation. The G− peak can recover the original one due to the thermal annealing. On the other hand, G band associated with semiconducting SWNTs remained unchanged even after the laser irradiation. This means that the laser-induced defects significantly affect phonons in metallic SWNTs, compared with semiconducting ones, and can control the electron-phonon coupling.


Concentrations of NO/sub 2/ in excess of the frequently quoted exposure limit of 190-320 ..mu..g of NO/sub 2//m/sup 3/ (95-160 ppb) as hourly mean have repeatedly been recorded in a street in Oslo during the winter. In Jan 1981, the hourly mean concentrations exceeded 200 ppb on 7 days; the maximum was 270 ppb. Summertime concentrations were much lower. with a simple model of the combined effects ofchemistry and dilution of the exhaust gas plume, it was shown that NO/sub 2/ generation through the reaction NO + NO + 0/sub 2/ ..-->.. NO/sub 2/ + NO/sub 2/ may explain a small fraction of the NO/sub 2/ formation. The study indicated that typically 5-10% of street level NO/sub x/ can be taken as NO/sub 2/ formed through this reaction. To account for the NO/sub 2/ measured, it is suggested that the NO/sub 2/ fraction of NO/sub x/ in car exhaust may be higher in the driving conditions found in Oslo during the winter than what is recorded in the standard cycles for car exhaust emissions testing.


the SCDAP/RELAP5/MOD3 computer code is designed to describe the overall reactor coolant system thermal-hydraulic response, core damage progression, and in combination with VICTORIA, fission product release and transport during severe accidents. Improvements for existing debris bed and molten pool models in the SCDAP/RELAP5/MOD3.1 code are described in this report. Model improvements to address (a) debris bed formation, heating, and melting; (b) molten pool formation and growth; and (c) molten pool crust failure are discussed. Relevant data, existing models, proposed modeling changes, and the anticipated impact of the changes are discussed. Recommendations for the assessment of improved models are provided.


The 27-year response of understory vegetation in a 51-year-old Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) forest to thinning and N fertilization treatments was examined in a silviculture ex...


A permanent magnet synchronous machine has been optimized for an industrial robot application. The optimization was made with respect to material cost, considering the demands of the application. In the optimization, drive cycle information was utilised, and the effect of the inertia of the machine was considered. A simple magnetic equivalent circuit was used to calculate the no load flux, and the finite element method was used for the calculation of torque ripple and induced voltage. Root mean square values for the speed and the torque profiles of the drive cycle was used for the calculation of the iron and copper losses. The optimization yielded a smaller and less expensive machine, compared to the machine presently used in the application. The active length was reduced by 35 %, the inertia of the active part of the machine was reduced by 56 %, and the material cost of the active part of the machine was reduced by 30 %. The new machine has a novel design of the rotor and a simple magnet geometry. FEM calculations indicate that the machine has a high torque ripple, and it is assumed that this can be compensated for by current profiling. A prototype has been built and measurements show a very good agreement with finite element calculation results. The prototype has, due to an error in the manufacturing of the magnets, slightly inferior thermal properties to fulfil the demands of the drive cycle.


Recent work has shown that p53 gene mutations are frequently found in Epstein‐Barr virus (EBV)‐positive and EBV‐negative cases of Burkitt's lymphoma but not in EBV‐associated undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinomas (NPCs). Similar viral gene expression patterns are observed in undifferentiated NPCs and in EBV‐positive cases of Hodgkin's disease (HD), suggesting that the contribution of the virus to the pathogenesis of these malignancies may also be similar. We have analysed 116 cases of HD for EBV association and for immunohistologically detectable overexpression of p53. p53 overexpression was detected in the tumour cell population of 37 (32 per cent) of the cases. Fifteen cases showed p53‐specific labelling of more than 40 per cent of tumour cells; in six of these, virtually all tumour cells were stained. In eight cases, between 5 and 40 per cent of tumour cells were labelled, and in another 14 cases, less than 5 per cent of tumour cells expressed detectable amounts of p53. EBV‐positive HD cases were found in all groups with different levels of p53 overexpression as well as amongst p53‐negative cases. While a more detailed analysis of the p53 gene in HD is required, these data show that overexpression of p53 in HD is heterogeneous and that there is no simple correlation between EBV infection and p53 overexpression.


This paper proposes an isolated multi-input multi-output power electronics converter for interfacing with multiple renewable energy sources. The converter provides the capability of multi-level output based upon the secondary side series-parallel configuration. The modular architecture of the converter enable plug and play operation. In Control algorithm proposed for the converter ensures equal load sharing between the inputs during continuous and discontinuous operating modes while maintaining the output voltage during load perturbations. The system is modeled and simulated under MATLAB Simulink environment with the presented results verifying the performance of the proposed converter.


The personalized marketing-service strategy for logistics enterprises refers to the business program adjusted constantly according to enterprises' needs and clients' particular requirements.For a service-oriented logistics enterprise,it is critical to satisfy its client's needs and bring an original idea into marketing service,therefore,formulating personalized marketing-service strategy becomes a necessary thing in order to gain an edge over its competitors.The following measures can achieve this objective:make a correct market position,develop a personalized service area,concentrate on one advantageous area and expand to other areas,formulate proper service standards,implement effective supervision,highlight service features and so on.


The aim of conducting this research is to examine the influence of social media engagement on information-seeking behavior. There is lack of concern about generalizability and implementation towards emphasizing the effects of social media engagement on information-seeking behavior in Malaysia. A close-ended questionnaire was distributed to the students to conduct the data collection for this research. The data was collected from students and was analyzed using SPSS version 26. Findings show that two hypotheses were accepted; Novelty and Perceived Usability have a positive and significant relationship between information-seeking behavior, while Focus Attention and aesthetics were found insignificant for information-seeking behavior.
Keywords: Social media, information-seeking behavior, Social media engagement,  aesthetic, education
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RESULTS: As expected, participants squeezed the handgrip during a shorter time (5.36 min) after the Stroop task than after watching an emotionally neutral movie (5.82 min). In addition, there was a significant difference between the performance of the second session (5.80 min) and the performance after the Stroop task. CONCLUSION: This study clearly shows that a long task overloading execution functions leads to an early disengagement of mental effort in a subsequent effortful physical task. The cause of this earlier dropout is explained in different ways: (1) a quicker depletion of brain resources, (2) energetic and computational costs higher than the benefits associated with the achievement of the task goal, or (3) a reorientation of attention and intention to more pleasant tasks. Further studies are needed to confront these different explanations and manipulate the difficulty of the first task (duration and effortful control load) to determine the conditions of occurrence necessary to induce mental fatigue.


In this study the test-retest reliability of isometric muscle strength measurement of the hip adductors and abductors with a hand-held dynamometer in healthy women is determined. 20 women are measured 4 times (sessions) with a 2-week interval; 3 positions for the hip adduction (A, B, C) and 1 for the abduction (D). In each session 3 repetitions for each position are done. An ANOVA is used for statistical analysis. The differences in mean muscle strength of the positions are statistically significant (p < 0.0001). Range of mean muscle strength of the subjects is 74 to 330 N. The mean muscle strength of the group increases during the sessions, except for position B (i.e. supine with hips and knees in flexion, the dynamometer between the knees). The most reliable method is to measure muscle strength of the hip adductors in this position. Further research is needed to establish whether the method is also reliable in patients.


The influence of both ethylene content and the degree of crystallinity on the thermal and dynamic mechanical properties of certain commercial EPDM rubbers were investigated using the TMA, DSC, and Rheovibron techniques. The six materials chosen for this study were Nordel 1560, Intolan 260, Royalene 1812, Vistolan 3708, Intolan 255, and Keltan 778.


The use of scalable templates representing the basal ganglia, as an aid in electrophysiological mapping, is a common practice among stereotactic functional neurosurgeons. The authors describe the procedure to create vectorial templates, based on the Atlas For Stereotaxy of the Human Brain by Schaltenbrand and Wahren, using inexpensive commercially available vectorial software.


The authors report the prevalence of respiratory function changes in two groups of workers employed in bichromate and chromic acid production. In the first group (82 subjects) examined at the Institute of Occupational Medicine, the following tests were performed: filling out of a questionnaire for cronic bronchitis; chest x-ray; spirometry; pulmonary diffusing capacity (DLco) measurement; blood gas analysis on arteriolized capillary; He and CO2 rapid expiratory curves determination. No environmental pollution data were available. In the second group (180 subjects) examined at the working site, the following tests were performed: filling out of a questionnaire -or chronic bronchitis; spirometric determination. Environmental pollution data were available. A causal connection is hypothesized by the authors between either roentgenologic or respiratory functional changes and chromium exposure, and an increased proportion between lung function changes and exposure length is stressed.


Drinking milk is generally considered to fit in a healthy diet. In this case report however, it is demonstrated that drinking an excessive amount of milk in a relatively short period of time can form a serious health risk, mainly due to the extremely elevated level of triglycerides. To our knowledge, the levels of triglycerides that were measured in this patient are one of the highest ever reported. Moreover in this case report, etiology, diagnostic challenges and therapeutic options for such increased levels of triglycerides are discussed.


[table of contents] Contents List of Tables" xx Preface"... xx Chapter 1: Rights, Resentment, and Social Change" xx Chapter 2: Mobilizing Nationhood: The Treaty-Rights Movement and the Roots of Resentment" xx Chapter 3: The Countersubversive Persuasion: Special-Rights Talk and the Anti-Treaty-Rights Movement" xx Chapter 4: "This Is Not Equal Rights": U.S. v. Washington and the Origins of the Anti-Treaty-Rights Movement" xx Chapter 5: We Don't Believe in the Promised Land: Exploring the Anti-Tribal-Casino Movement". xx Chapter 6: The Cultivation of Resentment: Rights in the Theater of Culture War". xx Notes"." xx References" xx Index". xx


Specific activities of hemicellulose-degrading polysaccharide depolymerase and glycoside hydrolase enzymes were measured in batch and continuous cultures of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens NCDO 2249 grown on cellobiose or a hemicellulosic carbohydrate. Enzyme activities were influenced by the growth substrate and by the rate and stage of growth of the micro-organism. In cellobiose batch cultures specific activities were maximal as the growth rate declined and in the initial stages of the stationary phase


This paper analyzes the effects on the market price of an asset when subsidized loan money is made available for its purchase. Under specific consideration is a State of Alaska program to provide loans at below-market rates of interest for up to 90% of the appraised price for the purchase of a limited entry permit. These permits are state-granted, privately owned assets which convey the "privilege" to fish commercially for salmon. This particular program is conducive to analysis because the number of permits is determined by a state regulatory commission and has remained nearly constant for most salmon fisheries over recent years. This eliminates the need to consider a changing supply elasticity over time. Also, data on permit prices and gross fishing revenues are available. The hypothesis advanced and tested is an extension of supply and demand analysis: that loan subsidies increase the demand for the affected asset by an amount equal to the present value of the subsidy. The price of the affected asset will increase by an amount that is positively related to this demanded shift and inversely related to the elasticity of the supplyflow curve. To the extent that supply-flow is price inelastic, current owners of the asset are beneficiaries of loan subsidy programs. This paper has four parts. Part I describes the limited entry program in the Alaska salmon fisheries and the accompanying permit loan program. Part II employs supply and demand tools to predict the effects of the loan subsidy program on the market price and quantity. Included is an algebraic derivation of a loan's subsidy's anticipated effect on the


During dynamic similitude model experiments,it is generally difficult to assure the same damping ratio of the scaled model with its original structure.As a result,the measured dynamic response of the scaled model with damping errors cannot be used directly to predict the response of the structural prototype.An updating method of the time history response for dynamic similitude models with dissimilar damping ratios is proposed to solve the problem.It is assumed that the damping of the actual and ideal scaled models can be expressed as a classical damping model,and then based on the linear superposition principle and modal superposition method,the updating equations to solve the updating value are deduced from the forced vibration equations of the practical and ideal scaled models.These updating equations show that the calculation of the updating value can be transformed into a dynamic response solution of the ideal scaled model forced by an equivalent additional exciting force.Considering that response measurement points in a practical experiment are usually limited,a reduced order modal method is proposed to reconstruct the responses of those non-measured points.For the proposed updating method,just modal damping ratios,mass and stiffness matrices of the structural prototype and the actual scaled model are needed,and these required conditions are easy to satisfy.Finally,this updating method is used to update the dynamic response of a scaled model of a fighter wing beam structure.The updating results show that the updated displacement power spectrum density(PSD) and root mean square(RMS) values are consistent with real measured responses,which verifies the feasibility and validity of the proposed updating method.


The crystal structures of the compounds LiReO/sub 3/ and Li/sub 2/ReO/sub 3/ have been refined with the Rietveld method. Neutron powder diffraction data collected at room temperature were used in these calculations. Since the shapes of the diffraction lines for both materials could not be approximated by Gaussians with sufficient accuracy, the Pearson type VII function was used in all refinements. The value of m was assumed to be 20-independent in these calculations. The best fits to the experimental observations were obtained with m = 1.5 for LiReO/sub 3/ and m = 3 for Li/sub 2/ReO/sub 3/. These values indicate that the lines of the first compound are almost Lorentzians, while those of the second are close to the so-called modified Lorentzians. The final R-factors are R/sub I/ = 5.66, R/sub p/ = 5.55, R/sub W/ = 7.04, and chi = 1.41 for LeReO/sub 3/ and R/sub I/ = 8.05, R/sub p/ = 7.58, R/sub W/ = 9.77, and chi = 1.27 for Li/sub 2/ReO/sub 3/. The non-Gaussian peak shape cannot be attributed to instrumental factors since the instrumental function of the diffractometer used to collect the data is Gaussian to a very good approximation. atCrystallite size effects could explainmore » the observed intensity distributions, but other factors could also be present. Both compounds crystallize with the symmetry of space group R3c, and the lattice parameters (hexagonal axes) are a = 5.0918(3), c = 13,403(1) A for LiReO/sub 3/ and a = 4.9711(4), c = 14,788(1) A for Le/sub 2/ReO/sub 3/.« less


In spite of the many alleged differences in sensibility between those on either side of the New South Wales/Victorian border, the desire, in this line, to be seen, expressed by Ian Metcalfe, the hero of Alan Wearne's verse novel, The Nightmarkets, is common to a generation of Australian poets. There are, of course, those poets whose aim is to see, and this is no doubt a vital part of being seen, but the desire to be seen sets apart and typifies much of the explosion of poetry that littered the late 'sixties and early 'seventies with screams and sonnets of impossible longing. The degeneration of this desire into the status of me is a significant moral retreat equalled only by the comparable retreat of other generations into the status of you or us or them or the existential I.


Summary.  Background: The interaction of collagen‐von Willebrand factor (VWF)‐GPIb is essential for platelet adhesion, especially under high shear conditions. VWF, which acts as a bridge between platelets and exposed subendothelium, interacts with collagen through its A3 domain, which is a new target for the antithrombotic agent. Objective: To develop functional blockers that specifically inhibit VWF‐dependent adhesion of platelets to collagen under high shear stress. Methods: To develop murine antihuman VWF A3 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) by standard hybridoma technology, and characterize their abilities to block interactions between VWF A3 and collagen as well as platelet function. Results: Thirty anti‐VWF‐A3 mAbs were obtained. Among them, two mAbs, designated as SZ‐123 and SZ‐125, were found to inhibit VWF‐collagen type III interaction. SZ‐123 and SZ‐125 inhibited the binding of purified human VWF (1.5 or 3 μg mL−1) to human placenta collagen type III (IC50 = 0.07 ± 0.02 and 0.15 ± 0.03 μg mL−1, respectively) or to calf skin collagen type III (IC50 = 0.48 ± 0.06 and 0.51 ± 0.07 μg mL−1, respectively) coated on plates. Under flow shear condition (1000 s−1), SZ‐123 and SZ‐125 inhibited platelet adhesion on human placenta collagen‐ or calf skin collagen‐coated surfaces. Both mAbs also inhibited platelet aggregation induced by ristocetin, botrocetin or bovine plasma. Conclusions: SZ‐123 and SZ‐125 inhibited VWF‐collagen and VWF‐platelet interactions.


This article deals with measurement of the thermal gradient on material during abrasive water jet cutting. The temperature was measured by thermo camera before the technological process started, during the AWJ cutting process technology, and just after the cutting process. We performed measurements on several types of materials. We calculated the approximate amount of energy during the AWJ cutting process technology that changes into thermo energy, which is the current water pressure drained in a catcher tank.


social: "everyday" problems, such as housing and health, which are widely perceived to be prior to "abstract" ideas like political or civic rights. Bindman focuses her discussion on socially-oriented NGOs (SONGOS)–the organizations focusing on "everyday" problems, such as housing and health, that are most directly concerned with social rights, social welfare, and their provision. Less controversial than their "rights defense" peers, these organizations have thrived in recent years, benefitting from the new infrastructure of state support. Sidestepping the negative assessments that tend to prevail about them (as "apolitical" or state coopted, somehow lesser than rights-defense NGOs), Bindman shows us something different. Her interview data reveal them to be a realm of contention, where some NGO workers are committed to their independence, wary of the state and its motives and deeply resistant to further formalizing their relationship with it. Indeed, empowered under a "hybrid" field of welfare policy, the staffs of SONGOS experience a surprisingly high degree of agency and some independence also. Furthermore, the pragmatic approach they embrace enables them to make effective interventions in policy discussions. Bindman's study affords an interesting perspective on the topic of state-societal relations in the post-2012 period. Her conclusion is that the relationship between the Russian state and these socially-oriented NGOS is more "complex, nuanced and mutually constitutive" than most studies suggest (124). Indeed, overturning our notions, she suggests the state may need SONGOs more than SONGOs need the state. There's a whisper of a suggestion that this reliance, combined with the Putin administration's emphasis on social rights might have the unintended effect of stimulating the grassroots movements it most fears. While I might have wished for more texture from the interview data she collected, Bindman offers plenty that is good to think. This well-conceptualized and neatly organized book makes valuable contributions to comparative scholarship on welfare regimes and social rights. It will be of interest to students of NGOs and civil society, as well as to those interested in exploring the intricacies of neoliberal logics in postsocialist and authoritarian contexts.


In this paper, we study in‐depth certain properties of interval‐valued fuzzy sets and Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy sets (A‐IFSs). In particular, we study the manner in which to construct different interval‐valued fuzzy connectives (or Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy connectives) starting from an operator. We further study the law of contradiction and the law of excluded middle for these sets. Furthermore, we analyze the following properties: idempotency, absorption, and distributiveness. We conclude relating idempotency with the capacity that some of the connectives studied have for maintaining, in certain conditions, the amplitude (or Atanassov's intuitionistic index) of the intervals on which they act. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


SNM's Clinical Trials Network has expanded to include relationships with European PET radiopharmaceutical manufacturing sites to support molecular and nuclear imaging facilities on the continent that are gearing up to perform scientific studies for the program.


The 10 Organochlorine Pesticides in Milk can be extracted and separated by gel permeation chromatography.The fat and pesticide of milk can be seperated by gel permeation chromatography.The interfering matters can be well eliminated in this condition,and analysis is rapid.The residues of 10 organochlorine pesticides at same time can be identified and quantified simultaneously by GC-ECD.This method is simple,rapid,and the average recovery ratios were 85.57%~108.86%.Good repeatability was obtained in all the cases with coefficients of variation lower 10.88%,and limit of detection was 0.042~0.199 μg/kg?


Background: Lupus nephritis (LN) is a common and serious manifestation of SLE, occurring in more than half of patients with SLE during their course of illness, in 10–25% of such patients, kidney disorder progresses to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Objective: To determine the predictors of remission in patients with biopsy-proven lupus nephritis, and to assess the long-term renal remission rate in our lupus nephritis patients. Patients and Methods: This is a retrospective observational study carried out at the Rheumatology and Nephrology Units, Internal Medicine Department, Menoufia and Mansoura Universities Hospitals, Egypt for a 1-year duration between 1 June 2019 and 1 June 2020. A total of 60 patients with biopsy-proven LN were studied. Results: In the current study, after six months of follow-up, about two-thirds of patients achieved remission. The urinary protein creatinine ratio (UPCR) of 4.9 g/g, systemic lupus erythematosus disease activity index (SLEDAI) of 20 and Hb of 8.8 g/dl at the third month are valuable for predicting remission at the sixth month in active lupus nephritis. On multivariate analysis, serum creatinine (SCr) at the time of diagnosis is the only independent predictor of remission (complete or partial) at 6 months. According to the receiver operating characteristic curve, the cut-off value of SCr ≤ 2.9 mg/dL with 100% specificity and 98 % sensitivity was a predictor for renal remission. Conclusion: The UPCR of 4.9 g/g, SLEDAI of 20 and Hb of 8.8 g/dl at the third month are valuable for predicting remission at the sixth month in active lupus nephritis. Serum creatinine level ≤2.9 mg/dL at the time of diagnosis was the only independent predictor of complete remission at 6 months.


With the rapid development of computer information technology, the virtual simulation technology is coming as the times require. In recent years, due to its good interactivity, versatility and openness, virtual laboratories have received increasing widely attention in the field of instrumental analysis experiment teaching. The current teaching demonstration is limited by the laboratory equipment, resulting in a lot of students fell behind the class. Combined with the advantages and experimental teaching characteristics of virtual simulation technology, a set of virtual experiment teaching system was designed. The system includes experimental purposes, experimental content, experimental principles, teaching animations, virtual operation training, precautions, and experimental virtual tests. The virtual experiment teaching system can be used as an important supplement to the experimental teaching, and improve teaching effects.


Biomimetic restorative dentistry strives to replace lost tooth tissue by biomaterials with similar physical properties. In order to do so, mechanical testing of dental restorative materials on their own and later in dental cavities is highly important. During this process dentists and engineers are collaborating aiming to set the indications of certain restorative materials and application techniques. In vitro fracture resistance testing of a restored tooth is one of the most important tests to be carried out during the indication setting process. However, for this specific test and received results to be valid for clinicians, the group conducting the tests must pay attention to mimic intraoral conditions as much as possible. The article aims at identifying the key elements of fracture resistance tests in dentistry. Adequately conducting this test is a prerequisite for later testing in in vivo conditions the restorative techniques that produced the best results among the in vitro tests.


Satyam Computers were once the crown jewel of Indian IT industry, however, the debacle of Satyam raised a debate about the role of CEO in driving a company to the heights of success and its relation with the board members and core committees. The scam brought to the light the role of corporate governance (CG) in shaping the protocols related to the working of audit committees and duties of board members. The Satyam scam was a jolt to the market, especially to Satyam stockholders. This paper attempts an in-depth analysis of India's Enron, Satyam Computer's "creative-accounting†scandal. In public companies, this type of 'creative' accounting leading to fraud and investigations are, therefore, launched by the various governmental oversight agencies. The accounting fraud committed by the founders of Satyam in 2009 is a testament to the fact that "the science of conduct is swayed in large by human greed, ambition, and hunger for power, money, fame and glory.†Scandals have proved that "there is an urgent need for good conduct based on strong corporate governance, ethics and accounting & auditing standards.†The Satyam scandal highlights the importance of securities laws and CG in emerging markets. Indeed, Satyam fraud "spurred the government of India to tighten the CG norms to prevent recurrence of similar frauds in future.†Thus, major financial reporting frauds need to be studied for 'lessons-learned' and 'strategies-to-follow' to reduce the incidents of such frauds in the future. The increasing rate of white-collar crimes "demands stiff penalties, exemplary punishments, and effective enforcement of law with the right spirit.â€


Antinuclear antibody (ANA) testing is used to screen for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and other autoimmune disorders. It is a very sensitive test for SLE but not very specific. Up to 13% of the general population will have a "false"   positive ANA result without clinical significance. Current guidelines state screening should start at a dilution of 1:80, however, …


Part A: Australian Fiscal Federalism and Australian Local Government Australian Fiscal Federalism Introduction The Australian federal system of government Public finance Vertical fiscal imbalance Horizontal fiscal equalisation Concluding remarks Australian Local Government Finance Introduction Local government expenditure Local government revenue Financial Assistance Grants Concluding remarks Part B: Financial Sustainability and Australian Local Government Public Perspectives on Financial Sustainability Introduction Financial reform and financial sustainability Policy and practice implications for financial sustainability Holistic Sustainability in Australian Local Government Introduction Meaning of sustainability Tensions between local government democracy and local government efficiency Academic approaches to sustainability in local government Local government failure Holistic sustainability in local government Concluding remarks Part C: Financing Australian Local Government Infrastructure Australian Local Government Finance Introduction Commonwealth infrastructure funding of local government Concluding remarks Commonwealth Government Infrastructure Fund Introduction Roads to Recovery and the nation building economic stimulus plan The case for a Commonwealth asset fund Evaluation Concluding remarks Municipal Bond Markets Introduction Local infrastructure renewal in New South Wales US municipal infrastructure finance Rationale for asset-backed securities Asset-backed securities by local water utilities Concluding remarks An Australian Local Government Bond Bank Introduction Municipal banking Municipal bond banks Case studies Concluding remarks


It is put forward in this article that the cross section deformation index Q can be used to evaluate the inhomogeneity of deformation in tube drawing. The experiments include testing the surface residual stress on deormed brass tube by the use of resistance strain gauge, and calculating the distribution of deformation in radial and circumferential directions. Finally, the relationship between index Q and cross section deformation distribution and residual stress is established.The experiment results show that the inhomogeneity of cross section deformation of tube can be well described by index Q , it is also needed that to keeping index Q within 0 8~0 9 when selecting tube drawing parameters helps for achieveing homogeneous deformation and lower residual stress;when there is a high radius reducing deformation,the Q value will be high,the inner layer metal aggregates under the high circumferential compression, along with increased radial deformation.In this case, a circumferential residual stress can also be generated because the inner layer metal is being compressed and outer layer metal stretched.When there is a high wall reducing deformation, the Q value will be low,and it will produce a circumferential residual stress because of the compressed outer layer metal and the stretched inner layer metal.


The paper reviews the goal of controlling mobile robot movement along the planned path. It proposes an adaptive robot movement control algorithm, allowing to increase the precision of holding the robot within the prescribed path under the conditions of unstable navigation field. The adaptation of the algorithm to jamming environment is in redistributing weights of the weighted sum of estimates given by the ultrasound navigation system (USNS) and wheel pulse transducers (WPT). When precision of the USNS reduces affect of the WPT on the final estimate increases while affect of the USNS decreases. Such a redistribution is carried out when the system is operating due to changing elements of a measurement noise matrix in Kalman filter [1] with use of which a mobile robot heading angle is estimated. Corresponding elements of the measurement noise matrix increase along with increase of deviation of the mobile robot trajectory from a straight line. The extent of deviation calculated as the standard error of a regression is defined by means of the statistical analyses involving the last n measurements contained in buffer store of the USNS. The obtained results demonstrate significant benefit of the developed mobile robot heading estimation algorithm in comparison with the conventional filtering algorithm basing on using the classical Kalman filter with the measurement noise matrix whose elements are fixed.


Perforated duodenal ulcer is often repaired by suture over an omental patch, a procedure that normally requires laparotomy. Mouret and colleagues' described laparoscopic investigation of perforated peptic ulcer and in three patients reported sealing the perforation with an omental patch held in position by fibrin glue. This paper reports the development of a laparoscopic technique for sutured patch repair of perforated peptic ulcer


The need for contractor risk management practices in the construction industry cannot be overemphasized. There exist a strong correlation between ineffective risk management practices and underlying causes of accidents. This scoping study was conducted to quantitatively assess the risk management practices of contractors and subcontractors operating in Nigeria. A literature review was first conducted to identify and categorise different risk management practices on and off a construction site. The population for the study was determined using stratified random method of sampling. A total of 150 questionnaires were administered over a twelve month period. Emerging findings suggest that clients and contractors are risk averse even though they claimed to have formal written procedures for risk management. Consequently, their awareness of the importance of risk management in construction business is more of lip services.


High-resolution calorimetry has been used to determine the heat capacity and latent heat associated with phase transitions in the homologous series of chiral liquid crystals nF2BTFOIM7 (3-fluoro-4(1-methylheptyloxy)4'-(4"-alkoxy-2",3"-difluorobenzoyloxy)tolane). These compounds exhibit smectic-C* (SmC*), twist-grain-boundary (TGBA for n = 10, TGBC for n = ii, 12) and cholesteric (N*) phases. All the phase transitions are first order with small to moderate latent heats. There is a large rounded excess heat capacity peak in the N* phase that is consistent with the predicted appearance of short-range TGB order (chiral line liquid character). This is analogous to the development of an Abrikosov flux vortex liquid in type-II superconductors. Both the n = 11 and 12 homologs exhibit two closely spaced transitions in the region where a single TGBC N* transition was expected. This suggests the existence of two thermodynamically distinct TGBC phases.


Elizabeth Rowe and Hugh Potter, Serck Controls Ltd, UK, recount the challenging installation of a SCADA system on the Indian Mangalore-Bangalore pipeline, before the onset of the summer monsoon.


Markets underlie all business and management activity. Yet, it is a peculiar omission that large parts of the business and management literature contain so little discussion of the central institution of business and management – the market. Where research examines the corporate strategies of firms, it has almost always researched markets that exist, particularly from a 'market entry' perspective. In this article, we argue that when markets do not exist, a different set of theoretical questions to the traditional studies is required. The article is structured in three parts. The first part of the article stresses the importance of the social collaborating role in market creation, illustrating that this is a phenomenon that demands more academic attention. The second part examines material level of the interorganizational social tasks that partially help construct markets and the cognitive level task-associated tension and conflict arising from market making practice. The final part outlines several considerations and challenges in researching the market-making behaviour and interorganizational collaborations and maps out a research design that could advance our understanding of this important topic.
Key words: Strategic collaboration, interorganizational tasks, tension and conflict


Classification of medical data is an important task in the prediction of any disease. It even helps doctors in their diagnosis decisions. Ensemble classifier is to generate a set of classifiers instead of one classifier for the classification of a new object, hoping that the combination of answers of multiple classification results in better performance. Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It usually spreads through the air & attacks low immune bodies. HIV patients are more likely to be attacked with TB. It is an important health problem in India also. Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis has always been a problem. The main task carried out in this paper is the comparison of classification techniques for TB based on two categories namely pulmonary tuberculosis(PTB) and retroviral PTB using ensemble classifiers such as Bagging, AdaBoost and Random forest trees.


This paper describes the development of a finite element model and a closed-form model for studying viscoelastic damping in woven fabric-reinforced polymer matrix composites. The finite element model was based on the actual geometric configuration of a plain weave fabric-reinforced composite unit cell, and the damping loss factors were determined from a strain energy formulation. The closed-form model was developed by first deriving an approximate elastic solution based on the mechanics of materials theory, then applying the Elastic-Viscoelastic Correspondence Principle to the elastic solution. The damping loss factors were then determined from the viscoelastic solution. Experiments were conducted using an impulse-frequency response technique to measure damping in beam samples made of plain weave E-glass fabric-reinforced vinyl ester resin matrix composite. The predictions from both analytical models show reasonably good agreement with experimental data.


The issue on transnational companies and their impact on the enjoyment of human rights is gaining more and more importance all over the world. As a result, during recent years, various initiatives have been launched with the aim of providing private actors with certain juridical guidelines and principles as regards human rights. The efforts made are still taking their first steps and the latest events are not good news for the future advancement of the rule project developed in 2003 by the United Nations Sub-comission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights; on the contrary, such events seem to forestall the worst. Therefore, it is utterly necessary to establish some binding juridical standards in the field of human rights for one the most influential actors in the present global economy.


Data grid provided a way to solve the problems of large-scale data management. Data-intensive applications such as high-energy physics and Bioinformatics required both computational and data grid features. Replication is a process to achieved efficient and fault-tolerant access in the data grid. Usually, data replication schemes maintain an entire replica in every site where a file is replicated. It provided an important role in this involving world of the   distributed database system. Replication technology should be efficient, thereby facilitates the maintenance costing. Most traditional replication technique is cost effective and also not considers the heterogeneous system. This paper presented a new model of persistence layer for synchronous replication and implemented based on multi-threading in heterogeneous environment. The main objective of this model is to make the persistence layer adaptive and make the replication process reliable and faster than other existing replication processes concerning cost minimization. In the proposed replication technique, the replication servers are operating system independent and the entire replication process is not inter dependent nevertheless on the main server.  Adding a new replication server is easier than other processes. The technique also introduces the modification of replication servers without making impairment to the entire process. The performance of the proposed technique has been compared with SQL Server in terms of transactional inserts and synchronization time. The result shows that PLSR performs outstandingly than SQL server for transactional insert and synchronization in compare to time (seconds).

 Key word: Data replication, data grid environment, synchronous, heterogeneous replication, multi-threading technique, persistence layer


Collaboration in the information seeking and retrieval environment is common, particularly when the search task is complex and exploratory. Multiple factors such as contextual features and task type can affect users' query behavior. This paper presents a study investigating the effects of collaboration and task types on users' query behavior. The study involves two conditions: collaborative search and individual search, and the two search tasks: the recall-oriented information-gathering and the utility-based decision-making. We analyze users' query behavior in three dimensions: basic query features (e.g. the number of queries), query reformulation patterns (e.g. New, Specification, Generalization and Reconstruction) and query performance. The findings of this study reveal that queries are more diverse in collaborative search and recall-oriented tasks. Users employed New and Specialization more often as query reformulation types in collaborative search while people in individual search use Reconstruction more often. Besides, the successful query rate is higher in individual search and recall-oriented tasks.


The literature has reached the consensus that pro-cyclical R&D is inconsistent with the Schumpeterian view that predicts innovation to be concentrated during downturns. However, authors disagree on whether liquidity constraint is the explanation. Based on an industry panel of R&D, output, and finance, we document vast differences in industry R&D's cyclicality and find liquidity constraint serves as a useful but not the only explanation. Our results suggest the Schumpeterian view does capture important aspect of innovation's cyclical behavior, but its potential consistency with data is masked by many factors including liquidity constraint.


"The Paris civil service has a long history that still permeates its structures and mentalities and sometimes even limits its competences. Deeply rooted in the culture of the State and the service of the common good, it has gradually come to accept the fact that it could be subject to the general code applied to the other territorial authorities, with some specificity due to its status as the capital city. Currently the Paris civil service is seeking new ways to adapt itself to the increasing role played by elected representatives, the deputies of the mayor and the district mayors, in order to fulfill the contract upon which Bertrand Delanoa"" and his team were elected and will be judged and, beyond that, to create a solid public service for the capital."


In reaction to the decades of research that tended to assume that social influence is synonymous with conformity, recent work has concentrated on the ability of a minority, by having a system of answers of its own, to influence the majority in the direction of their judgments. A study by Moscovici, Lage and Naffrechoux (1969) demonstrated this phenomenon but found that consistency of response, in the sense of repetition, was necessary for minority influence to be effected. They assumed that repetition was necessary to give the minority judgment the same value as that of the majority and to intensify the conflict that was engendered by the differences in opinion. Our position is that the lack of repetition in that study was construed to mean that the minority did not really have a position in which they were confident. As such, they were discounted. Thus, it is the attribution of consistency and confidence that leads to minority influence, not intensification of the conflict. The present study found that non-repetitious behavior by a minority could be seen as reflecting consistency and confidence and could lead to minority influence provided the inconsistency was patterned with some property of the stimulus. Such 'inconsistency' was perceived as favorable and as effective as any other condition and even more effective than one of the repetitious conditions.


The utility model relates to the technical field of bag making, in particular to an internal patching device of a packing bag making machine. The internal patching device comprises a feeding mechanism, a cut-off mechanism, a membrane pressing and sealing mechanism, a rotating disk mechanism and a rack. The rotating disk mechanism comprises a rotating disk, a rotating disk shaft column, a rotating disk pushing cylinder, a limiting assembly and a braking assembly. The membrane pressing and sealing mechanism comprises a membrane pressing plate, a membrane sealing plate and a membrane pressing and sealing cylinder which drives the membrane sealing plate to move upward and downward. The membrane pressing plate is in linkage connection with the membrane sealing plate through a connecting rod. The feeding mechanism conveys membrane materials to the rotating disk, the membrane pressing plate presses the membrane materials, the cut-off mechanism cuts the membrane materials to obtain a patching membrane, the rotating disk rotates to enable the patching membrane to be aligned with the membrane sealing plate, and then the patching membrane is in thermocompression bonding with a plastic membrane on the bag making machine. The membrane pressing plate and the membrane sealing plate are connected into a whole body, so that the cutting procedure and the pressing sealing procedure can be conducted at the same time. The internal patching device can internally patch a bag making membrane so as to improve the overall strength and prevent a packing bag from deforming or being torn in the process of utilization or transportation. Moreover, products in the packing bag can be effectively protected.


Anomalous cross-field electron transport in a specified magnetic field with weakly-destroyed flux surfaces is discussed. Following the approach developed previously in the present paper the regimes of effective transverse plasma transport are studied systematically, both in the collisional and collisionless limits. The present analysis incorporates the nonstationary of magnetic perturbations, which was not included in the previous works. Part I of this study deals with the quasi-linear approximation, which may be written as b0L0/ delta > chi perpendicular to ) for time-independent magnetic perturbations. However, these regimes can exist in the presence a finite-frequency magnetic flutter. A unified classification of quasi-linear regimes of anomalous transport is introduced in order to further extend the analysis to the strong magnetic turbulence limit b0L0/ delta >>1 (see Part II), which is considered as a companion paper. (Isichenko, ibid., vol.33, no.7, p.809-26 (1991)).


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Abstract : Ion scattering and direct recoil spectrometries were used to investigate electronic excitation and charge transfer processes occurring during rare gas ion bombardment of CuLi alloy. Excitations in the close encounter appear to be governed by the degree of inner shell mixing between the colliding pair. Excitations in the outgoing trajectory are governed by the probabilities of Auger and resonant charge exchange between the scattered or recoiled particle and the surface. Measurements of the vacuum ultraviolet photon emission of the scattered and recoiled particles proved to be unsuccessful due to low photon yields. The ion induced surface damage to transition metal fluoroanions was investigated by XPS and UPS. Ion bombardment reduces the transition metal atom to lower oxidation states, in some cases all the way to the metal. These results are consistent with the thermal spike model of ion damage. Keywords: Ion surface collisions; Emission; Scattering, Recoiling.


Thinking as Communicating This book is an attempt to change our thinking about thinking. Anna Sfard undertakes this task convinced that many long-standing, seemingly irresolvable quandaries regarding human development originate in ambiguities of the existing discourses on thinking. The term commognition, a combination of communication and cognition, stresses that interpersonal communication and individual thinking are two facets of the same phenomenon. Emi, who grew up to favor images over numbers, made yet another contribution to this volume by preparing its cover illustration. Leon Sfard, my constant interlocutor and my most helpful critic, should probably be regarded as a cocreator of this text. Anna Sfard undertakes this Home > TME > Vol. 6 > No. 3 (2009)


Taking Ningbo city as the case,combining with its geological characteristics,the data of regional standard penetration test and dull load experiment were analyzed comparatively in this paper,and the reasonable conversion between the results of the standard penetration test and the mechanical parameters of the foundation soil can be realized.So the standard penetration test can be applied more effectively and accurately in the regional geotechnical engineering investigation.


We investigated critical belief-based targets for promoting the introduction of solid foods to infants at 6 months. First-time mothers (N = 375) completed a Theory of Planned Behaviour belief-based questionnaire and follow-up questionnaire assessing the age the infant was first introduced to solids. Normative beliefs about partner/spouse ( β = 0.16) and doctor ( β = 0.22), and control beliefs about commercial baby foods available for infants before 6 months ( β = -0.20), predicted introduction of solids at 6 months. Intervention programs should target these critical beliefs to promote mothers' adherence to current infant feeding guidelines to introduce solids at around 6 months.


Biolo~ical invasions by non-native species are a global phenomenon that have the capactty to dramatically alter native communities and ecosystems. Despite the alarming rate and scale of these Invasions, surprisingly few studies have explored the effects of exotic plant species on the communities they invade. This shortage is particularly _ troubling because land managers require such infonnation to prioritize control activities and address future challenges. In thIS study, I investigated the influence of cape-ivy (Delairea odorata; Asteraceae), a non-native vine from South Africa, on the species richness, diversity and composition of three coastal plant communities in nortfiem California. Using both experimental and non-experimental methods. this research demonstrated that plots invaded by cape-ivy contained significantly fewer plant species and exhibited lower species diversity than plots lacking cape-iv~. These effects were consistent across three different habitat types coastal scrub, Willow riparian and alder riparian. Invasion by cape-ivy also signifIcantly reduced the abundance and richness of seedlings in all three habitat types. These results indicate that cape-ivy has had si~nificant negative impacts on three divergent plant communities, and that control of thiS invasive plant should be a major priority for land managers.


Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore healthcare provider-perceived challenges to HBPC patient referral and elicited providers' feedback for overcoming these challenges. Methods: We conducted a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with 25 Medicaid managed care providers (primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and care managers) working in the greater Los Angeles area. Our interview protocol elicited providers' knowledge and awareness of palliative care; perceived barriers to HBPC referral; and suggestions for overcoming these barriers. We analyzed verbatim transcripts using a grounded theory approach. Results: Themes related to referral barriers included providers' lack of palliative care knowledge and clarity regarding referral processes, provider reluctance to refer to HBPC, and provider culture. Providers also identified patient-level barriers, including financial barriers, reluctance to have home visits, health literacy, cultural barriers, and challenges related to living situations. Themes related to methods for overcoming challenges included increased HBPC education and outreach to providers, specifically by HBPC agency staff. Conclusions: Findings from this study underscore the need for additional palliative care education for Medicaid healthcare providers. They point to the need for novel strategies and approaches to address the myriad barriers to patient identification and referral to HBPC.


The force between two inert, planar surfaces in a liquid is discussed, focusing on the effect of the reduction in the fluid density between the surfaces. We use a density functional treatment of the fluid, the results of which are verified by comparison with grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. Our calculations reveal the existence of an attractive force between the surfaces, which at short and intermediate separations is substantially stronger than that expected from the conventional Hamaker or Lifshitz theories. The source of the extra attraction is the interstitial density depression that results from the requirement of chemical equilibrium between the bulk and the confined fluid at all separations. Given inverse sixth power attractions between fluid molecules, the force between the inert surfaces asymptotically decays as the inverse third power of the separation. However, at short separations it displays a qualitatively different behavior. We also find that the attraction increases with temperatur...


Based on studies of the agronomic and yield characteristics of the progeny regenerated plants from single cell culture in vitro in wheat,the chromosomal behavior of pollen mother cells and fertility of pollen from the progeny regenerated plants were studied and analyzed.The results showed that the chromosomal behavior of pollen mother cells was abnormal.The lagged and cycle chromosome,the chromosomal bridge and fragment and sticking,as well as the only nucleus division of pollen mother cell and four polar spindles were observed.Of them,the ratio of pollen mother cell with the lagged chromosome was the highest,form 8 03% to 51 11% in the earlier generations.The ratio in the advanced generation was decreased with development of the generations.The ratio in SCC 6 generation was only from 0 50% to 9 80% .The analysis on the fertility of pollen showed that the percentage of fertile pollen from the different regenerated plant lines was all over 60%,although the ratio of the abnormal pollen mother cell in the earlier generations was higher.The plant lines were fertile.With development of generations,the fertility of the plant line was improved gradually.The percentage of the fertile pollen from the most plant lines was over 98%.The fertilty of pollen from the regeneration plant was closely related to the chromosomal change of pollen cell.


In this paper, the omnidirectional receiver (Rx) of wireless power transfer (WPT) system is proposed, making any transmitter (Tx) into omnidirectional Tx. The omnidirectional Rx is composed of the quadrature double‐D (DD) coils and circular coil in series (C2DD). The C2DD Rx can utilize the toroidal magnetic field (TMF) and the linear magnetic field (LMF). The paper presents the circuit diagram model of WPT system. Based on the analysis of circuit model, the smooth mutual inductance of system is responsible for stable transmission performance during C2DD Rx movement. The result of numerical calculation and magnetic field simulation verifies the omnidirectional capability of the C2DD Rx with circular Tx as an example. Experiment shows that the C2DD Rx receives power in any direction. The C2DD Rx can receive maximum transmission power of 7.1 W with maximum transmission efficiency of 59%.


In this paper, we obtained Liouville theorem for $ \phi $-$F$-symphonic map , $ \phi $-$F$-harmonic map and $ \phi $-$\Phi_{S, p, \varepsilon}$ harmonic map with free boundary on metric measure space.


Sensorineural hearing loss affects not just the ability to perceive sound, but to distinguish speech in the presence of background noise. Multi-microphone directional technologies have been shown to improve signal-to-noise ratio, and thus the ability of hearing aid wearers to perceive speech in noise. The application of these technologies varies depending on the degree and configuration of the hearing loss. This article offers an overview of the effectiveness of directional systems and offers suggestions for the application of directional systems on a variety of hearing loss configurations.


The critical current density J c of the (YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 ) 3 /(PrBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 ) 8 (YBCO) 3, /(PrBCO) 8 ] superlattice as a function of the angle 0 between the direction of the magnetic field and the c-axis is measured in several magnetic fields at T = 55.8 K. Experimental results show that the angular dependence of J c can be well scaled by a 2D model, i.e., only the perpendicular field component is relevant. The pinning mcchanism in this film is discussed.


The potential benefits of remote SEASAT-A satellite sensing of wind directional wave spectra by active microwave systems are elaborated. It is shown that a combined effort which uses supplemental satellite information in numerical forecasting and hindcasting schemes upgrades the accuracy of existing forecasting methods of an order of magnitude.


System Entity Structure (SES) is a high-level ontology which was introduced for knowledge representation of decomposition, taxonomy and coupling of systems. It has its roots from the systems theory-based approaches to modeling and simulation. SES has been applied for various purposes by modeling and simulation community, however, there still exists a lack of standardized computational representation. This hinders the shareability of SES artifacts and interoperability of SES tools. In search for wider acceptance and eventual standardization, this paper proposes a computational representation and supporting application agnostic tool suite: SESEditor and PESEditor.


As rain can be the most important potential source of moisture in wall assemblies, an experimental investigation compares the wetting and drying patterns of 15 walls subjected to simulated rain penetration in the stud cavity. A 2-story test hut was built within a large Environmental Chamber to receive 31 wall specimens of 2'-4" x 8' (0.9 m x 2.4 m). The 15 specimens discussed in this paper consider three different types of sheathing – oriented strand board (OSB), plywood and fiberboard, two exterior claddings – wood cladding on furring and cement stucco on metallic lath (no air space), and two different interior finish permeances – paint with/without polyethylene sheet. The walls were built with 2" x 6" (38 mm x 140 mm) studs and insulated with glass fiber insulation. The moisture content of the bottom plate and sheathing in each wall was monitored using moisture content probes and gravimetric measurements. The exterior conditions were controlled to reproduce August through November weather conditions for Montreal. The interior conditions were maintained at 21oC and 40% RH. To simulate rain penetration conditions, the wall specimens received a wetted insert, i.e. a wetted bottom plate, at the beginning of each climatic period. Gravimetry results obtained for the different wall specimens are presented and discussed. The moisture content distribution and levels in the bottom plates and sheathing through the four climatic sets of conditions show an increase in spread as conditions are cooler. The potential influence of the sheathing material, of the cladding with and without air space, and of the level of permeance of the interior finish is discussed. Overall, the walls with stucco cladding retained greater moisture content than those with a furred wood cladding.


A total of 274 men (aged: 26 ± 4.9 years) with normozoospermia were enrolled into this study. Their body mass index (BMI: kg/m2) varied between 17 and 39. According to BMI, the patients were divided into four groups: Group 1: 17–20, Group 2: 20.1–25, Group 3: 25.1–30 and Group 4: 30.1–39. Twenty-nine subjects were found in the first, 96 in the second, 91 in the third and 58 men in the fourth group. Sperm concentration was significantly lower in the obese group (29 × 106/ml, p < 0.05) than in the group of BMI 17–20, 20–25 and 25–30. In advance, in the obese group, sperm count continuously decreased with aging. We conclude that obesity is associated with a lower sperm count in case of normozoospermia.


The objective of the present work was to evaluate the development of the citrus rootstock Poncirus trifoliata, severity of citrus canker, caused by Xanthomonas citri pv. citri and the control of this disease with copper sprays, in conventional and organic management systems, at the Centro de Formacao da EMATER, located in Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul. Plants were artificially inoculated with the bacteria. To control citrus canker, different sources of copper as well as concentrations and number of sprays were tested. In the organic system the bordeaux mixture was applied while in the conventional system copper oxichloride was sprayed. Plants trunk diameter, dry matter of the rootstocks and number of canker lesions on leaves and branches were evaluated in both systems. Citrus canker incidence on the rootstocks was equally intense, and the seedlings development was similar in both systems, but the budded plants grew better at the conventional system. Copper treatments were not effective in controlling citrus canker at the rootstocks due the high inoculum concentration. On the budded plants, with low inoculum concentration, both the Bordeaux mixture and the copper oxichloride controlled the disease, and the better treatments were when 0.3% metallic copper was applied with interval of 14 days. To improve citrus canker control by Bordeaux mixture on organic systems, there is a need of efficient control strategies of the citrus leaf miner.


Taguchi design was adopted to optimize the column chromatography separation of mono- and di-TPGS. Minitab15was used to design the orthogonal test and to research the S / N ratios of different factors in different levels. It indicated that the optimum separation technology for recovery of mono- and di-TPGS were 1. 5 g of loading amount,0. 4 g / mL of feeding concentration,4 mL / min of flow rate,30 ℃ of column temperature and 1. 5 g of loading amount,0. 3 g / mL of feeding concentration,3 mL / min of flow rate,30 ℃ of column temperature,respectively. The optimum recovery of mono- and diTPGS based on the optimum conditions predicted by Taguchi design were 95. 19% and 96. 12%,respectively. The recovery of verification experiment were 94. 89 ± 0. 56% and 95. 08 ±0. 31%,respectively. The result showed that the optimum solution achieved the designed effect and provided good reference for the separation of industrial scale.


The aim of this paper is to study homological properties of tropical fans and to propose a notion of smoothness in tropical geometry, which goes beyond matroids and their Bergman fans and which leads to an enrichment of the category of smooth tropical varieties. Among the resulting applications, we prove the Hodge isomorphism theorem which asserts that the Chow rings of smooth unimodular tropical fans are isomorphic to the tropical cohomology rings of their corresponding canonical compactifications, and prove a slightly weaker statement for any unimodular fan. We furthermore introduce a notion of shellability for tropical fans and show that shellable tropical fans are smooth and thus enjoy all the nice homological properties of smooth tropical fans. Several other interesting properties for tropical fans are shown to be shellable. Finally, we obtain a generalization, both in the tropical and in the classical setting, of the pioneering work of Feichtner-Yuzvinsky and De Concini-Procesi on the cohomology ring of wonderful compactifications of complements of hyperplane arrangements. The results in this paper form the basis for our subsequent works on Hodge theory for tropical and non-Archimedean varieties.


This paper describes the Neural Machine Translation systems used by IIIT Hyderabad (CVIT-MT) for the translation tasks part of WAT-2019. We participated in tasks pertaining to Indian languages and submitted results for English-Hindi, Hindi-English, English-Tamil and Tamil-English language pairs. We employ Transformer architecture experimenting with multilingual models and methods for low-resource languages.


Objectives: To evaluate the influences of coronary artery by-pass surgery(CABS) on sexual function(SF) and the comorbidities on the impact of CABS on SF. Methods: The data of 112 patients who underwent CABS and interviewed by full form of IIEF questionnaire before and 6 months after CABS were retrospectively evaluated. We specifically analyzed and compared the preoperative and postoperative(PAP) IIEF questionnaire(IQ)  results to determine the influences of CABS on SF. Furthermore, we separately analyzed the same PAP data in diabetic, hypertensive and both diabetic and hypertensive subgroups and compared the data in each group to find possible influences of the comorbidities on the impact of CABS on SF. Results: The mean age was 61,7±9,1. The number of patients without erectile dysfunction(ED) increased from 3(%2.6) to 7(%6.2), with severe and moderate ED decreased from 85(%75.9) to 33(%29.4), with mild ED increased from 24(%21.4) to 72(%64.2) after CABS, which revealed the severity of ED declined in overall and ED completely improved in some patients after CABS.  The total IIEF, erectile function(EF), intercourse satisfaction, orgasmic function and sexual desire scores significantly increased after CABS(P=0,000). Although OS(Overall Satisfaction) had an increase, no statistically significant alteration was found(P= 0,04). The SF most improved in both diabetic and hypertensive group, it was least affected in diabetic group. Conclusions: CABS had positive impacts on EF and almost all domains of SF. While the lonely presence of diabetes did not significantly affect the impact of CABS on SF, the SF most improved in both diabetic and hypertensive cases after CABS.


Along with the fast development of aluminum industry the electrolytic aluminum industry demands urgently the modernization technical equipment.But the traditional cleaning up aluminum-clad was done by hands,the working condition was bad,the workload was big,the labor intensity was high,the working efficiency was low,the cleaning up cycle was long.To reduce the worker labor intensity,to improve working conditions and to enhance production efficiency,specially according to the actual situation of the electrolysis aluminum plants in China,our company has applied the vanguard technology designing and manufacturing a first Aluminum-clad cleaning machine.The aluminum-clad cleaning machine has been installed in the aluminum ingot casting workshop,used to clean up aluminum dregs and deposits left in the aluminum-clad,which realized aluminum-clad cleaning up in mechanization;At present the first prototype of aluminum-clad cleaning machine has already been made and now placed in industrial testing stage.


A 52-year-old woman underwent an electrophysiologic prtKedure because of a 30-year history of recurrent episodes of paroxysmal tachycardia. The baseline sinus cycle length wa.s 600 msec and the QRS complexes had a left bundle branch block configuration, with a QRS duration of 120 msec. The atrial-His (AH) and His-ventricular (HV) intervals were 90 and 20 msec, respectively. Programmed atrial stimulation with a sitigle extrastimulus demonstrated progressively greater degrees of ventricular preexcitation. with the HV interval shortening to -15 msec as the AV interval increased from 110 to 200 msec. Programmed atrial stimulation with two extrastimuH resulted in the induction of a tachycartha that had a cycle length of 310 msec and a left bundle branch block conflguratit^n (Fig. I), identical to the QRS complexes generated in response to


This article analyzes the fundamental issues of the evolution of approaches to the legal category of state power. The authors consider the phenomenon of power as one of the most important types of social interaction. The authors show that during this evolution, along with the preservation of universal (essential) characteristics due to the nature and social purpose of the state, there is a modification of those properties and characteristics of state power that have a specific historical character and depend on many factors affecting ways of implementing state power. The article reveals the main types of state power and methods of its implementation. According to the authors, the power is not the result of only violence, the suppression of one person by another, but comes from the very nature of man. The authors reveal the category of "state power" by examining its content, characteristics, elements, subjects, and objects. They examine the ways of expressing political power as a type of domination of the corresponding social group depending on a particular historical type of society.


Background:  The β‐ d‐endoglycosidase, heparanase, is emerging as an important contributor to the pathogenesis of proteinuria. The purpose of the present study therefore was to examine the role of heparanase in a model of accelerated anti‐glomerular basement disease (anti‐GBM).


Subcutaneous sarcoid appears to be rare, particularly in Caucasians. When it does occur, it usually heralds systemic involvement. A case of subcutaneous sarcoid is reported, which is unusual both in its extent, and by its lack of demonstrable extra‐cutaneous disease.


We provide a "soft" proof for non-trivial bounds on spherical, hyperbolic and unipotent Fourier coefficients of a fixed Maass form for a general co-finite lattice $\Gamma$ in $PGL(2,R)$. We use the amplification method based on the Airy type phenomenon for corresponding matrix coefficients and an effective Selberg type pointwise asymptotic for the lattice points counting in various homogeneous spaces for $PGL(2,R)$.