Objective To enhance the understanding of the systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction.Methods Clinical manifestations,laboratory and serologic abnormalities,treatment and prognosis of SLE patients with chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction were analyzed.Results The average age at the onset of disease was 36 years (range from 21~56).The average course from initiation of clinical symptoms to diagnosis was 31 months.Five patients died.Nine patients had renal involvement,8 had cardiovascular system,and 6 had hematological system involvement.Involvement of joints,skin,central nervous system and respiratory system also existed in various frequencies.Two patients with intestinal obstruction as the first presentation were misdiagnosed as ulcerative colitis and enteritis.Two patients were performed surgical intervention,and pathological examination demonstrated mesenteric vasculitis.Conclusion Intestinal obstruction is a life-threatening complication of SLE,usually associated with multisystem activity and high mortality.Mesenteric vasculitis is the major pathogenic basis in patients with intestinal obstruction in SLE.Early diagnosis and treatment with corticosteroid can improve the prognosis.


The SPARCL trial (Stroke Prevention through Aggressive Reduction of Cholesterol Levels) was a landmark study in the field of stroke prevention (N Engl


The new style of Hungrian folksongs emerged in the second half of the 19th century. The new-style tunes differ most obviously from the old-style tunes through their structure, which is rounded, architectural. That was a revolutionary change. At the beginning, the new style was the collective style of the youth. As regards the geography, the new style came into being in the central area of the language territory and spread to the surrounding parts and even to some northern neighbouring peoples. It arrived at a delay in Transylvania. The Transylvanian performing style varies by subregion. These features are describing on the basis of the degree of melody ornamentation. Four degrees of embellishment are defined. In Szilagysag, the new-style songs are sung almost like in geographically nearby Great Plain. In the Szekely land, musical ornamentation has even less significant role. In Mezőseg and Kalotaszeg the new style arrived in a traditional musical context in which ornamentation plays an important role in t...


Alcide® is a germicidal compound which is currently being used as a liquid sterilizer. This agent has the ability to kill a wide range of bacteria, viruses and fungi in vitro within 1 min. The active ingredients in this sterilizer are sodium chlorite and lactic acid. The kinetics of 36Cl‐labelled liquid Alcide® were studied in rats. After oral administration, the peak plasma level was obtained in 8 h. The half life for 36Cl absorption from plasma was 8.03 h, corresponding to a rate constant of 0.086 h−1, while the half life for 36Cl elimination from plasma was 48.02 h, corresponding to a rate constant of 0.014 h−1. At 144 h, radioactivity was highest in plasma followed by lung, kidney, skin, bone marrow, stomach, ovary, duodenum, ileum, spleen, fat, brain, liver and carcass. The greatest amount of activity in whole blood was present in plasma. Subcellular distribution revealed that 85% of the activity in the liver homogenate resided in the cytosol. Seventy per cent of total activity in plasma was located in the trichloroacetic acid (TCA) supernant, with 30% bound to the precipitated protein fraction. Urinary excretion accounted for most of the 36CI eliminated. Radioactivity was excreted as chloride and chlorite in urine.


Objective To evaluate the treatment of dural tears after posterior spinal operation and the efficacy of early removal of the drainage tube. Methods A retrospective analysis was performed on 21 patients undergoing posterior spinal surgery complicated with dural tears and cerebrospinal fluid( CSF) leakage. During the operation we tried to find and repair the damage of dura,close fibrin glue,place drainage and tightly suture as well as the postoperative treatment of bed resting,preventing infection,nutritional supporting therapy and removing the drainage 3-5 days after the operation. The healing of dural tears was observed. Results Nineteen patients recovered after conservative treatments. One case seemed to be subcutaneous fluctuation,another case had a small amount of cerebrospinal fluid leakage through the wound and both were healed after pressure dressing. Conclusions Intraoperative active treatment and postoperative comprehensive conservative therapy are effective for dural tears. Early removal of the drainage tube and suture can reduce the CSF loss and the risk of infection. It is worthy of application and popularization.


In music auto-tagging, people develop models to automatically label a music clip with attributes such as instruments, styles or acoustic properties. Many of these tags are actually descriptors of local events in a music clip, rather than a holistic description of the whole clip. Localizing such tags in time can potentially innovate the way people retrieve and interact with music, but little work has been done to date due to the scarcity of labeled data with granularity specific enough to the frame level. Most labeled data for training a learning-based model for music auto-tagging are in the clip level, providing no cues when and how long these attributes appear in a music clip. To bridge this gap, we propose in this paper a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that is able to make accurate frame-level predictions of tags in unseen music clips by using only clip-level annotations in the training phase. Our approach is motivated by recent advances in computer vision for localizing visual objects, but we propose new designs of the CNN architecture to account for the temporal information of music and the variable duration of such local tags in time. We report extensive experiments to gain insights into the problem of event localization in music, and validate through experiments the effectiveness of the proposed approach. In addition to quantitative evaluations, we also present qualitative analyses showing the model can indeed learn certain characteristics of music tags.


Today, the world is going to be digitized anyway. Each business unit, each government and private sector, each research unit uses the digital image as a transfer mode for all critical data. These images on the internet will not be secure. Therefore, there is a need for image security. Due to the rapid growth of digital communication and multimedia application, security becomes important issue of communication and storage of images. Encryption is one of the ways to ensure high security. The images are used in many fields, such as medical, military science. Modern cryptography provides techniques to protect information and protect multimedia data. In recent years, encryption technology has it developed rapidly and many image encryption methods were used to protect the confidential image data Unauthorized access. In this paper, different image encryption techniques have been discussed from which researchers can get an idea for efficient techniques to be used and also discusses the basic image security techniques or image encryption technique. The survey of the recent research in the field of image securities like Genetic Algorithm Based Approach, RSA Algorithm Based Approach, Arnold Transformation Based Approach, DCT, DFT, SVD, cryptography based approach. Keywords—Cryptography, Decryption, Encryption, Image Encryption, RSA, Arnold Transformation


Tanzanian Anglophone fiction is extant and bustling. The invisibility of Tanzanian fiction in English is not due to the country's inability to produce good- quality Anglophone novels but is related to the challenge in accessing the texts both within and outside Tanzania. Studies about East African fiction tend to ignore the contribution of Tanzanian Anglophone writers in the region. In Tanzania people know more about other canonical African novelists than their very own Anglophone writers. This article explores the emergence and development of Tanzanian Anglophone fiction, paying particular attention to the emergence of Tanzanian Anglophone literary canons and how these canons have inspired and continue to inspire the production of Tanzanian fiction. Starting with the novels produced by the inaugural Tanzanian Anglophone writers in the sixties, and continuing with the most recent works, the paper examines the interface between Swahili and English, translation and self-translation, diasporic writers, universities' and researchers' contributions to the definition of the canon and to the visibility of the fiction in general. Key words : bilingual writers, literary canon, Diasporan African writers, hyper-canonization, selective canons, Swahili literature, Tanzanian Anglophone fiction


By doping the semiconductor with transition group metals such as Fe, Co, or Au, localized states well into the forbidden band may be introduced and, if the carriers are derived from these levels, their number can be maintained reasonably small at temperatures as high as 90 deg K. Using this technique, cyclotron resonance from hole carriers in Ge at temperatures above 90 deg K with microwave radiation of 8.8 mm wavelength were observed. Results obtained from Ge doped with Au are reported over a temperature range from about 4 to 90 deg K. (M.H.R.)


Table detection is an essential part of a document analysis because tables are among the most efficient methods for systematically summarizing information. Therefore, numerous studies on detecting tables not only from documents but also from websites have been conducted. Although, the number of websites has been growing explosively recently, most of these studies suffer from detecting tables which are image types rather than tagging due to the variability of size, contents, color, and shapes. In this paper, we propose an efficient yet robust method for detecting tables in image formats, which can apply to both documents and websites. Instead of employing recently developed deep learning methods, which require extensive training for diversity, we apply a rule-based detection method by using key features of many tables, namely, the grid format of the text provided in the tables. The proposed method consists of two stages: a feature extraction stage and a grid pattern recognition stage. In the first stage, we extract the features of the contents in the tables. We then remove the features of non-text objects and texts not included in tables. In the second stage, we build tree structures from the features and apply a novel algorithm for determining the grid pattern. When we applied our method to a website dataset, the experimental results showed a precision, recall, and F1-measure of 84.5%, 72%, and 0.778, which are improvements of 3.6%, 24.16%, and 0.276 over a previous method, respectively, while also achieving the fastest processing time. In addition, the proposed rule-based method allows the structure of the contents in the table to be easily restored.


Very‐long‐chain acyl‐CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (VLCADD) is a disorder of fatty acid oxidation. Symptoms are managed by dietary supplementation with medium‐chain fatty acids that bypass the metabolic block. However, patients remain vulnerable to hospitalisations because of rhabdomyolysis, suggesting pathologic processes other than energy deficit. Since rhabdomyolysis is a self‐destructive process that can signal inflammatory/immune cascades, we tested the hypothesis that inflammation is a physiologic dimension of VLCADD.


Moirð¥ interferometry technique was adopted to analyze thermal deformations of four kinds of flip-chip devices mounted on FR-4 substrate and multi-layer substrate, with and without underfill. A thermal loading was applied by heating the devices from room temperature 25•Ž to an elevated temperature 100•Ž. The experimental results showed that the underfill gave similar curvatures of silicon chip and the substrate. In the flip-chip devices mounted on the multi-layer substrate, thermal expansion coefficient mismatch between the chip and substrate was reduced, and bending deformations were decreased. The deformation of solder balls in the underfilled flip-chip device mounted on the multi-layer substrate was the least in the four kinds of flip-chip devices.


This paper presents some of the results of a ten-year survey of cooling tower data and some observations of the compiled data relative to application considerations. Of course there are many other factors besides historical data to be considered in the application of cooling towers to central stations not included in the scope of this paper. For instance, such considerations as environmental impacts and heat dispersion from the cooling towers are broad subjects which in themselves could be topics for other papers.


A game method is put forward for multiple-objective design.The game description for multi-objective problems is also presented.Based on calculation of the impact factors and the fuzzy clustering,the design variable assembly was divided into strategic sets possessed by all the game players.The Nash equilibrium model,Stackelberg oligarch model and conspiring cooperative model were employed to solve the multi-objective design problem,and the corresponding technical procedures.The multi-objective design was performed for a numerical case and a compensative sheave block structure.The results show that the present game method is feasible and effective in solving multi-objective problems.


The research target is the health club,which is a special type of the recreation space in a city. Based on GIS and geostatistical software,using point pattern identification and ESDA(exploratory spatial data analysis) methods,the paper analyzes the spatial pattern characteristics of health clubs in Beijing. The nearest neighbor indicator (NNI) and quadrat analysis results indicate that the health clubs cluster together evidently at a whole region scale. But if we observe the pattern in the units separated by the roads or district,it presents different spatial patterns,varying from clustering to random,even dispersing. The analyzing results of health clubs based on the 5 scale cell units from 1 km to 5 km grids make further explanation that its spatial pattern are influenced evidently by the units' scale. At any scales the density and NNI of health club samples have evident spatial diversification. From the Moran's I statistics and Moran Scatterplot Map we also find the evident spatial autocor-relation of the units. The 2 km and 3 km unit scales are the best scales for finding the microscopic spatial pat-tern and diversification. So the whole region scale is not the only or the best scale for spatial pattern research of recreation spaces especially for the health clubs. In some microscopic units the spatial pattern will be more evident and the research results will even be opposite to that at the whole region scale. The pattern description based on more statistical units at various scales may discover the points' distributional characteristics and the patterns more easily. The spatial pattern research of health club points in units at various scales provides a new way of describing spatial patterns of recreation space points. And the effects of such a way are also demonstrated in this paper.


The article investigates the impact of the quality of life on the processes of population reproduction in municipalities of Sverdlovsk oblast. The authors consider the demographic situation in the region by examining birth and death rates, natural increase and decline of population and calculate the relative indicators of population reproduction. They propose to classify the key complex indicators of the quality of life according to the type data used for their calculation. The paper compares the statistical indicators of quality of life of the population living in the center of the oblast (Yekaterinburg) with the population in medium-sized cities (Nizny Tagil) and small towns and/or distant municipalities. Finally, directions for improving demographic policy in the oblast's municipalities are outlined.


In this paper, an attempt is made to evaluate the return and risk profile of banks in Europe. 2016 wide stress test performed by the European Banking Authority (EBA) was focused on the banks from an accounting point of view. This paper examines the return and risk framework of European banks based on a stock market perspective. Stock return variance and beta factor from Markowitz portfolio theory were chosen as measures of risk. Rolling beta factors and simulated efficient frontiers, introduced by Markowitz, document in each period the evolution of risk and return position. Special attention is paid to defining the relation between risk and return using regression models. The consequences for returns of the business cycle stage and the region, where the banks are based, are examined by the linear regressions. The models investigate the impacts of unconventional monetary policy of the European Central Bank (ECB) represented by the asset purchase program (APP) on the stock return and risk of the selected banks.


The temperature‐dependent behavior emerging in the vicinity of the superfluid (SF) to Mott‐insulator (MI) transition of interacting bosons in a 2D optical lattice, described by the Bose–Hubbard model is investigated. The equilibrium phase diagram at finite‐temperature is computed using the cluster mean‐field (CMF) theory including a finite‐cluster‐size‐scaling. The SF, MI, and normal fluid (NF) phases are characterized as well as the transition or crossover temperatures between them are estimated by computing physical quantities such as the superfluid fraction, compressibility and sound velocity using the CMF method. It is found that the nonlocal correlations included in a finite cluster, when extrapolated to infinite size, leads to quantitative agreement of the phase boundaries with quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) results as well as with experiments. Moreover, it is shown that the von Neumann entanglement entropy within a cluster corresponds to the system's entropy density and that it is enhanced near the SF–MI quantum critical point (QCP) and at the SF–NF boundary. The behavior of the transition lines near this QCP, at and away from the particle‐hole (p–h) symmetric point located at the Mott‐tip, is also discussed. The results obtained by using the CMF theory can be tested experimentally using the quantum gas microscopy method.


AIM:Studies had verified that endothelial progenitor cells from bone marrow could repair the injured vascular endothelium and inhibit the intimal hyperplasia.Thus,whether the endothelial progenitor cells from bone marrow can repair the venous vascular endothelium and inhibit the intimal hyperplasia after autologous vein transplantation? This article investigates the effects of autologous bone marrow derived endothelial progenitor cell transplantation on reendothelialization and intimal hyperplasia of vein grafts after autologous vein transplantation. METHODS:Experiments were performed at the Laboratory of Department of Internal Medicine of Hospital Affiliated to Beihua University from January to August 2007.The laboratory was in grade P2.①Clean male New Zealand rabbits aged 6-8 months weighting(2.5±0.5)kg were provided by Experimental Animal Center of Second Military Medical University of Chinese PLA.Animal intervention met the animal ethical standard.②Bone marrow was collected from adult rabbits to harvest mononuclear cells.Endothelial progenitor cells from bone marrow were incubated by in vitro amplification method.The ingestion of Ac-DiI-LDL and FITC-BS-1 was evaluated;The expression of cell marker CD133, CD34,FLK-1 was assessed using flow cytometry.Endothelial progenitor cells were stained with DAPI.Twenty-three adult rabbits were divided into a transplantation group(n=13)and a control group(n=10).These rabbits received autologous left external jugular vein and common carotid artery transplantation.Three days later,rabbits in the cell transplantation group were transplanted with autologous endothelial progenitor cells via auricular veins.Rabbits in the control group were treated with the same volume of PBS.③Four weeks after the transplantation,the grafted veins and the thickness of vein grafts were measured. RESULTS:Twenty-three rabbits were involved in the result analysis.①Endothelial progenitor cells from bone marrow were positive for AC-DiI-LDI and FITC-BS-1 as well as CD34,CD133 and FIK-17 days after the transplantation.②Uneven blue fluorescence(nuclei labeled by DAPI)partially appeared in endothelium showing green fluorescence.③DAPI labeled cells appeared in the rabbit vein in the cell transplantation group,and the endometrium was thinner than the control group(P0.05). CONCLUSION:Autologous endothelial progenitor cell transplantation may repair the injured vascular endothelium and inhibit the intimal hyperplasia.


This study aims to reveal the use of taboo words in the modernized communication application named TikTok. A total of 67 samples were found, classified into 9 types of taboo words proposed by Jay (2009). The dominant type of taboo word found in TikTok is psychological, physical, social deviation insults, with a quantity of 31,3%. This major category was followed by the second largest type, sexual references by 18%, and at the third level, ethnic-racial-gender slur, which counted as much as 16,4%. Hereinafter, the researchers found offensive slang as much as 14.9%, profane and blasphemy as much as 8.9%, scatological reference & disgusting objects as much as 6%, and animal names as much as 4.5%. During the analysis regarding taboo words in TikTok, the categories of ancestral allusion and substandard vulgar terms have not been found. These types of taboo words are then classified based on the motive for their use, namely to signify various emotions, to obtain certain outcomes, and to express the speaker's anger and frustration.


Anyone familiar with the field of thyroid disease will realize upon seeing the names of the editors that this is the newest, most authoritative, and highestquality text available on the subject, as well as the most complete reference book dealing with the thyroid. The third edition is a substantial improvement over the second edition, including many contributing editors and much new subject matter. The eight foreign authors make the book less provincial than many texts from the United States. Part I is divided into two sections covering the normal thyroid. The first section discusses the structural, physiological, and chemical aspects of the thyroid and includes seven essays by different authors. The second section, comprising six essays by different authors, discusses the regulation of thyroid function. Part II deals with laboratory assessment of thyroid function and is divided further into sections on direct tests of thyroid function, tests of hormones in the blood, and peripheral hormone action. Part III, divided into five sections, covers diseases of the thyroid. Radiologists will be especially interested in the section dealing with direct tests of thyroid function, in which radioisotopic methods such as radiation physics, radiation biology, quantitative tests of thyroid function, and thyroid and wholebody scanning are discussed. The text is unusually clear and readable, since both editors are excellent teachers, have published extensively, and have chosen contributors wisely. In addition to interacting considerably with the contributors in their editorial capacity, Doctors Werner and Ingbar have also written introductions to the various parts and sections of the text, thus providing additional perspective. Section II, on tests of hormones in the blood, will be disappointing to doctors currently setting up in vitro laboratory techniques for nuclear medicine. In view of the fact that the 1311 T3 resin uptake, used in conjunction with the Murphy-Pattee T4 determination, is rapidly supplanting the serum proteinbound iodine test and radioiodine uptake as tests of thyroid function, a disproportionately small amount of space has been devoted to the application of T3 resins and Murphy-Pattee T4 tests. The basal metabolic rate and serum cholesterol level, which are seldom used in the average thyroid clinic today, occupy far more space. Werner is authoritative in his personal coverage of the radioiodine treatment of hyperthyroidism, while Pochin is one of the most experienced researchers of the use of 1311 in thyroid cancer. Although I do not agree with all of these authors' viewpoints, I have great respect for their knowledge, experience, and opinions. This book is an important reference text on the thyroid gland for workers in a wide variety of disciplines. WILLIAM H. BEIERWALTES, M.D.


Travel & Tourism is a developing sector in Bangladesh and it is very imperative to ensure sustainable development goal of Bangladesh and uphold GDP @ 7 %, where Total Travel & Tourism's contribution share near about 4.7 % of total GDP. It will be a challenging task for Bangladesh to maintain GDP growth more than 7% in the near future but the tourism sector has the potentiality to support GDP growth besides the RMG sector. Bangladesh is a land of river & beauty which has world longest sea beach with UNESCO world heritage Sundarbans. Through the paper, we observe the causality between Travel & Tourism's contribution to GDP growth & employment in Bangladesh by formulating an econometric model. All analyses have been conducted by vector error correction model and Engle & Ganger test of causality with the yearly data on employment in the tourism sector, visitor export, and capital investment in the tourism sector over the period of 1990 to 2015. Through the analyses, we detect that travel and tourism's variables together have a long-run significant relationship with GDP growth and employment creation. Our forecast that in future Bangladesh GDP growth and employment growth in tourism will be strengthened through capital investment and visitor export and in coming years Bangladesh GDP growth will be near to 7% whereas in 2016 Bangladesh GDP growth rate was 6.9 % and employment generation growth in tourism sector is also forecasted to be near to 10%.


This article explores how Francois Guizot's critique of democracy was part of a serious contribution to discussions about moral theory that dominated French political thought in the first decades of the nineteenth century. It analyses how Guizot's reflections on selfhood and moral psychology were central to that critique, and shows how Guizot and other doctrinaires, including Pierre-Paul Royer Collard and Philibert Damiron, believed that the political and social instability that marked France from the time of the Revolution stemmed logically from the materialist doctrines and ideas on political sovereignty of the philosophes and their nineteenthcentury successors the ideologues. The article charts the evolution of Guizot's and the doctrinaires' philosophical reflections and pays special attention to the dialogue that developed between them and the philosopher Maine de Biran on Thomas Reid's philosophy of Common Sense and its political implications. It shows how Guizot and the doctrinaires were drawn to Reid's philosophy because it offered the ideal foundation to the moderate liberalism they sought to establish.


Cadiz is a city in the southernmost region of Andalucia (Spain) famous for its annual carnival in February—a time when Cadiz' historical center undergoes a radical transformation. Each year various groups of friends, neighbors, and colleagues create costumes, lyrics, and music independently from officially programmed acts. These "illegal" street performers—or carnavalescas callejera —create original comical acts based on recurrent themes and rhythms that come to life as they directly interact with thousands of people throughout all hours of the day and night. We use ethnographic data to examine the aesthetic, socio-political, economic, and symbolic dimensions of these massive street performances. Carnavalescas callejeras orally transmit social satires and ingenious political transgression based on sociocultural references that are very much anchored in local memory and identity. In this respect, we also reflect upon the significance of this massive performance as citizens autonomously transform urban spaces through their words and actions. As we argue, performers and carnival-goers partake in a singular ritual that contests social order, ridicules what is "politically correct," and resists homogenizing cultural trends by affirming their identity.


The Tualatin Holiday Bazaar will be held on November 19, 2019. There will be an array of vendors displaying and selling unique handcrafted crafts and… Find OR craft shows, art shows, fairs and festivals


Objective To investigate the nursing intervention to promote recovery of neurological function in patients with depressive after cerebral embolism. Methods 80 patients with cerebral embolism depression were randomly divided into observation group and the control group(n=40). The control group used conventional care, and observation group used nursing intervention. Results The FMA score after treatment was significantly higher, NFA score and HAMD scores were significantly lower than the control group,P 0.05. Conclusion The implementation of specific nursing interventions depression after cerebral embolism can help reduce the degree of depression and improve nerve function and motor function.


The utility model provides a temperature sensing plate -making device, this temperature sensing plate -making device can get rid of adhesion to the part melting residue on every side of perforating from the plate -making side of temperature sensing yarn automatically to can improve productivity ratio. In temperature sensing plate -making device, through pasting heat sensitive material on the temperature sensing yarn that makes in the plate -making of yarn for screen printing side and right the temperature sensing yarn carries out fenestrate heating perforator relative movement each other to it is right according to image information heat sensitive material adds the hot piercing. Temperature sensing plate -making device includes the residue remover, and it is got rid of and is passing through the heating perforator makes produce around the part of perforating during the heat sensitive material melting the melting residue of the plate -making side of temperature sensing yarn. The residue remover is in the temperature sensing yarn with the heating perforator is got rid of relative movement the time each other the melting residue.


We investigate the recently discovered, highly unstable strange modes in models of massive main-sequence stars calculated with new opacities. We calculate these non adiabatic radial modes by locating resonant features in the calculated responses to forcing potentials with complex frequencies. The modes are found to be confined to the surface layers around and above a convection zone in which a density inversion occurs and radiation pressure dominates. In order to gain an understanding of these modes, we develop a plane approximation and make the approximation of zero thermal time-scale. We then have a third-order, non-self-adjoint eigenvalue problem. The normal modes may be calculated analytically in simple cases, and a more general analytic asymptotic treatment is possible. We show that instability nearly always occurs when radiation pressure dominates, and that this is a result of the coupling of two almost isothermal wave-like modes with a non-oscillatory secular mode which dominates the asymptotic behaviour when radiation pressure is important. The interaction causes neighbouring neutral wave-like modes to coalesce and become unstable. The importance of the secular mode is brought about because the radiation pressure perturbation depends only on the temperature perturbation, and this is a non-local function of the displacement because the zero thermal time scale allows instantaneous communication of thermal information.


Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to show managers can effectively utilize a job description throughout an employee's tenure. Typically, a job description is used in the hiring process. However, a job description can be utilized in recruiting and selection, compensation, evaluation, training and development, health and safety, and succession planning.

Design/methodology/approach

The author approached the use of a job description from a manager's perspective. Using both existing literature and conceptual usage of a job description, the author provides a potential use of a job description to improve the human resource competitiveness of an organization.

Findings

If utilized throughout the life of employment, a job description is a powerful tool that can aid managers. Managers have a road map that can help them with their duties of planning, leading, organizing, controlling and staffing. With a road map, the complexities of management become easier.

Research Limitations/implications

The limitations involve actual data that prove the effectiveness of the job description. Most of the information provided in the article is theoretical but potentially provides practical information for practitioners.

Practical implications

The article provides a practical application of the use of a job description. The information provided can be utilized immediately by practitioners. Specifically, inexperienced managers can use the job description as a road map for supervising an employee through the employment relationship.

Social implications

Unfortunately, there are very little social implications. However, whenever organizations can improve their relationships with their employees, society will surely benefit.

Originality/value

The article presented involves pieces of previous works, but to date, the author could not find another example of the total use of the job description through the employment relationship. Therefore, it appears to be very original in application.


Presents an editorial on the developing concept in artificial intelligence referred to as "muliplicity." The term "Singularity" is used to describe a hypothetical punctuation point sometime in the future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) will surpass human intelligence. The concept has been popularized by science fiction author Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil. "Superintelligence," a 2014 book by Nick Bostrom, explores a similar theme. Recently, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates publicly expressed fears about the dangers of post-Singularity AI and robotics. Here, it is suggested that "Singularity" is distracting attention from a far more realistic and important development that we might call "Multiplicity." Multiplicity characterizes an emerging category of systems where diverse groups of humans work together with diverse groups of machines to solve difficult problems. Multiplicity combines the wisdom of crowds with the power of cloud computing.


The invention provides a process for comprehensively treating oily sludge of an oil field, which comprises processes for separating oil, water and sludge from the oily sludge. The process is characterized in that the processes for separating oil, water and sludge comprise a first process of fluidizing and pre-treating sludge, a second process of hardening and tempering the sludge, and a third process of mechanically separating the oily sludge; water separated through the processes can be used as process water to a circulating water recycling process; the separated cleaned oil enters an oil chamber of an oil-water separation device; and solid particles, namely the centrifuged sludge, are discharged through a screw conveyer. The process has the recovery ratio reaching 95 percent for recovering effluent oil to the utmost extent; and the treated sludge has water content less than 60 percent and oil content less than 2 percent, and can be used for underlaying a road of a well site or carrying out subsequent depth treatment. The process cyclically utilizes wastewater, prevents secondary pollution of sewage and slurry, and has large treatment capacity, wide treatment range, advanced technical proposal, high automatic degree, low operation cost, simple operation and clean production.


The technique developed by Husek and modified by this laboratory for the derivatization of amino acids in aqueous solution using ethylchloroformate/trifluoroethanol/pyridine prior to gas chromatography positive- and negative-ion chemical ionization mass spectrometry was extended to the analysis of a broad range of dipeptides with diverse amino acid side chains. Twelve dipeptides and one tripeptide in aqueous solution were successfully analyzed with this technique. After isolation of a peptide mixture, the derivatization and analysis time is approximately 10 min. The detection limits of the dipeptide derivatives were generally in the picomole range. The method was also applied to the analysis of a commercial sugar substitute which contains a dipeptide and free amino acids. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Due to the complexities including its model and algorithm, weapon target allocation is a problem of multi-constraint program not settled yet, which has been proved to be a NP complete problem. After analyzing the previous model of weapon target allocation, the constrain of time and resource to construct a new model is introduced and a hybrid particle swarm algorithm to study this problem is put forward based on the objective function for aerial defense survival maximization. This algorithm combines particle swarm algorithm and genetic algorithm. Firstly, find a set of solutions which are not constrained by time and resource by using particle swarm algorithm; then find a best solution which meets the constrains of time and resource among the set of solutions by using genetic algorithm. The simulation result indicates that this algorithm' convergence speed is quick and the precision is high.


The article describes the process of developing a wireless software arrapat complex for measuring and logging various aspects of sports shooting training. The purpose of the development is to optimize and personalize the training process. This paper proposes an approach that allows synchronization up to 1 ms over a wireless network. As well as a method of writing a large amount of this on a microSD flash drive with minimal latency.


In this paper, we study a priori derivative estimates (up to the second order) of solutions for the Monge-Ampere equation \begin{document}$ \det D^{2}u = f(x) $\end{document} with the Neumann boundary value condition, which are independent of \begin{document}$ \inf f $\end{document} . Based on these uniform estimates, the existence and uniqueness of the global \begin{document}$ C^{1,1} $\end{document} solution to the Neumann problem of the degenerate Monge-Ampere equation are established under the assumption \begin{document}$ f^{\frac{1}{n-1}}\in C^{1,1}(\bar{\Omega}) $\end{document} .


An 1 KWp photovoltaic AC water pump system controlled by a single chip microprocessor is presented. A submersible screw electric pump is drived by a PWM MOSFET inverter. The PWM control pulse for the inverter is generated by an IC HEF4752. Since the screw pump has constant torque property, a simpler maximum power tracking method without the need of a DC-DC converter, which is called Maximum Frequency Point Tracking(MFPT), is presented, which simplifies the control complexity.


Natural disasters are a big problem because of serious material, environmental and human
losses. P
ublic policies must be developed seeking prevention of extreme events. This need is
ratified by frequent adverse events as experienced by the population of Rio de Janeiro. By
considering it, information is fundamental for the development of policies that build
awareness about natural disasters risks. Access to information on adverse events corresponds
to a key point for prevention. Thus, every citizen has the right to access information easily,
especially if they can save their lives. This research brings a
survey of knowledge on the topic
of disasters, in order to identify what is available, while checking the participation of the
academic community on the issue of natural disasters. The availability of information on the
subject in the official websites of
 the state of Rio de Janeiro and its 92 municipalities was also
part of the research. After this stage, the pages containing data were analyzed in order to
assess whether access to information is clear, the e-
GOV is applied and the interfaces were
develope
d in order to facilitate the acquisition of information. The work also sought to divide
the information found in order to indicate the official bodies to which citizens can use to
check the validity of this information. The results indicated that the participation of the
scientific community is increasing, however the use of knowledge produced in teaching and
research institutions by governments is not satisfactory. That's because there was a low
number of information about disaster conveyed by the governme
nt on the Internet. Research
has indicated the need for a coordinated work between the spheres of government and the
transdisciplinary approach both for access to effective information as to the issue of disasters.


According to (PMI 2016), $220 million was lost in 2016 due to poor project performance, a 12% increase over 2015. This is strongly related to the profile of the project pilot. The purpose of this article is to study and analyse the different styles of project management and its evolution over time, according to the vision of MIDLER 1996, which groups them into four models: Entrepreneur, Engineering, Taylorian and concurrent.Our article also gives a historical view of the project management by trying to name and characterize the major stages and to understand the main levers of development and diffusion.To do this, our research is based on a survey aimed at managers of Moroccan organizations of different sizes, this work enabled us to implement the project management style most adopted by project managers and to define the criteria for choosing the most appointed project managers. Finally, our article investigated the impact of the health crisis on the economic activity of these organizations and on how to manage projects during the pandemic period.


The spatial mode evolution of spectral Raman components generated in and propagated through a tapered hollow-core PCF reveals adiabatic transition from core modes to surface modes. Its effect on the Raman converter is discussed.


Language is a means of communication among people, and language fluency is influenced by how this language is acquired. The speed of articulation is affected not only by one's ability of retention but also by the amount of prefabricated chunks stored in the long-memory and retrieved when needed. Learning collocation, therefore, offers this advantage to know how to combine words in ready-made expressions, whereas the identification of collocational constraints can guarantee the straightforwardness of language used by non-native speakers. This paper, making use of an authentic text, aims to illustrate how constraints on word-combinations should be taught.

Key Words: Collocation, colligation, constraints, fixity and opacity, alliteration, rhetoric, fixed expressions, metaphor, lexico-syntactic cohesion, semantic, syntactic, immutability, idiomaticity


Internal solitary waves (ISWs) are large amplitude stable waves propagating in regions of high density gradients such as the ocean pycnocline. Their dynamics has often been investigated in two-dimensional approaches, however, their three-dimensional evolution is still poorly known. Experiments have been conducted in the large stratified water tank of CNRM-GAME to study the generation of ISWs in two academic configurations inspired by oceanic regimes. First, ultrasonic probes are used to measure the interfacial displacement in the two configurations. In the primary generation case for which the two layers are of constant density, the generation of ISWs is investigated in two series of experiments with varying amplitude and forcing frequency. In the secondary generation case for which the lower layer is stratified, the generation of ISWs from the impact of an internal wave beam on the pycnocline and their subsequent dynamics is studied. The dynamics of ISWs in these two regimes accords well with analytical approaches and numerical simulations performed in analogous configurations. Then, recent developments of a stereo correlation technique are used to describe the three-dimensional structure of propagating ISWs. In the primary generation configuration, small transverse effects are observed in the course of the ISW propagation. In the secondary generation configuration, larger transverse structures are observed in the interfacial waves dynamics. The interaction between interfacial troughs and internal waves propagating in the lower stratified layer are a possible cause for the generation of these structures. The magnitude of these transverse structures is quantified with a nondimensional parameter in the two configurations. They are twice as large in the secondary generation case as in the primary generation case.


The mechanisms of variation of intraocular pressure (IOP) during abdominal surgical interventions it is not completely clear and its result on the recovering patient may vary from benign alterations to disabilities. This review aims to identify the most important triggers and its impact of IOP along with individual risk factors during the perioperative period of abdominal surgeries. International literature is providing limited data on this topic. We reviewed 9 studies using PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science as database. From the multitude of effects and implications that abdominal surgery has onto the physiology of eyeball, the highest impact was linked to the positioning of the patient, induction of anesthesia, perianesthetic events such as intubation and extubation, type of anesthesia and anesthetic used, pneumoperitoneum induced in laparoscopic surgeries and its contribution to the alterations of ocular parameters which are increasing the risk of ocular events. In addition to this, the association of individual risk factors as well as the pre-existing of ophthalmologic diseases may have severe consequences onto the visual function.


In everyday life, different biometric applications such as iris recognition and fingerprint recognition are used to identify individuals. The face is an important identifier for humans that can be used for surveillance, security purposes, access control, automated attendance, and so on. In this paper, a fully functional end-to-end facial recognition system is presented that can be applied in the real world. A simple face frontalness measure is proposed to filter out non-frontal faces that may result in false recognitions. To further reduce false positives, aggregation of prediction results across multiple frames is applied to form a single decision. Our model achieved a False Acceptance Rate (FAR) of 4.13% and False Rejection Rate (FRR) of 9.3% at the confidence threshold of 0.8 on the test dataset. Finally, the recognition result is displayed by a Web application. The system also records daily punch-in/punch-out times of employees and presents their monthly timesheet reports in the Web application. Our method achieves considerably lower false positive rates and runs at 18- 20 FPS in our testbed machine for a single camera.


A vision system based on the service robot is involved.In the system,picture signal is acquired by the picture sensor OV7635.Frame memory AL422B is used as data buffer memory,while CPLD controlled the time order DSP performed.In the software system of image processing,to accomplish color image segmentation and recognition,the threshold vector judgment and improved seed-fill algorithm is introduced,and the image geometric moment is(calculated) during the segmenting.In order to achieve a vision servo system which composed of image-based feedback and(adaptive) compensation,the deduced matrix-based Jacobian from the image moment is taken as image feature.Adopted the TFT LCD is adopted to straightly display the result of vision recognition and vision tracing.


The present study is Quantitative Description type - correlational cross-sectional, was conducted in order to determine the relationship between the level of family functioning and project definition of life. The sampling universe consisted of 30 adolescents Hogar San Jose, comprising aged between 12-18 years, of both sexes. In this study, two instruments were used: The Rating Scale Family level functionality and Olso Scale Rating Definition Project Life Moreno, both modified by the authors (Validity, according to Pearson correlation: 0.678 and Reliability, according to family functioning Cronbach Alpha: 0.79; Life Project: 0.70). The research found that: 53.3% have no life project defined at the level of family functioning 50% have low family functioning. No statistically significant relationship between the two variables was found however, the trend shows that if there were greater level of family functioning would also be more likely to find teenagers with defined project life. KEYWORDS: Family Functioning, and Adolescent Life Project


It is a measure of the present moment in literary studies that the political character of Transcendentalism, an important but somewhat secondary interpretive question from the beginnings of the movement, has now moved front and center as today's readers try to discern how the Transcendentalists thought and acted as political agents, and how they speak politically to us now. Margaret Fuller continues to mirror contemporary political concerns, with her activities in New York and Italy ever more prominent. A selected volume of Robert Hudspeth's invaluable edition of Fuller's letters will bring her a wider readership, and 20 new papers from a conference in Rome extend our knowledge of her Italian experience. In a new intellectual biography, Je√rey Steele sheds light on Fuller's development in the earlier 1840s. The political Emerson, a central and controversial figure for more than a decade now, is given further elaboration in a new collection ed. T. Gregory Garvey and in a number of other new essays. Insofar as the political Emerson is also in many respects the later Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson's new edition of his Later Lectures will add significantly to the ongoing critical recovery of Emerson's later career. Thoreau studies have also been shaped by the political orientation of recent criticism, but the major critical events this year are Alan D. Hodder's reinterpretation of Thoreau's religious sensibility and Elizabeth Hall Witherell's edition of his essays and poems for the Library of America.


The functions of adjusting small climate and optimizing environment of Guanzhou urban forests were analyzed.The findings show that urban forests decreased temperature of urban heat-island effects by 2.37 ℃ in fine days and 2.0 ℃ in rain days,and raised air humidity by 11%;the structure of urban forests showing belt shape,web shape,piece shape and point shape made the heat island effect to have the small and narrow spiccato distribution,but not the big,centralized continuous distribution;the mean ultraviolet radiation index decreased by 2.23,and the mean radiating heat value decreased by 6.10 MJ·m-2;the comforable days increased by 36.36%,and the more comfortable increased by 28.57%,so making the more uncomfortable days and the frowziness days decreased by 8.38% and 67%;the urban forests could improve microclimate,the functinal values of the decreasing of heat island effects was 1 254 125.52×104 yuan·a-1,that of the air humidity value increased by 932 479.2×104 yuan·a-1,the total values was 2 186 604.72×104 yuan·a-1.


The losses and risks caused by meteorological disasters are determined by the potential hazard of the meteorological events,vulnerability of the hazard-affected body,as well as natural and man-made resilience in the disaster-pregnant environment. Among these factors,two of them related to hazard-affected body or disaster-pregnant environment are comparatively stable for a certain place and period,and meteorological hazards are however changeable.The spatial and temporal distribution patterns of meteorological hazards largely determine the place and evolution of disasters.Accurate diagnosis of the hazard degree is the base for assessing the loss and risk of meteorological disasters.In this paper,the definition of meteorological hazard and its diagnostic model for both local and regional areas are put forward,and the relationship between the value of the random variables and its probability is applied to describe the distribution of weather event hazards and build up the risk threshold field that is composed of hazard threshold values at each risk probability level.The meteorological hazard degree is defined as the integration of the similarity and approach degree of the observational values for an event to the threshold value at various probability risk levels in the risk field.Using the random variable probability distribution model,the meteorological hazard threshold values under the specific risk probability levels in any given place and their threshold field are determined,and the quantitative hazard degree diagnostic model is established by combining the spatial similarity with the distance parameters.As a demonstration, the gale(strong wind) hazard diagnostic model is set up and then the hazard degrees about TC0509,TC0515 and the other gale events in the thirty cases in Shanghai are estimated.The results are as follows:the largest gale hazard degree is from TC 7708,its overall hazard degree level is mostly close to the threshold of maximum wind speed of 8-year return period.The gale hazard degrees of TC 8615 and the case of other weather process in 3 June,1983 are secondary,with the value close to that of 7-year return period,and the maximum wind speed hazard degrees of TC 9711 and TC 8114 are close to that of 4-year return period.The gale hazard degrees of TC7413,TC7503,TC7909 and TC8506 are close to the 3-year return period,and the TC0509"Matsa"and the TC0515"Kanu"are close to 2-year return period.The results also show the main distribution characteristic of annual maximum wind speed with return periods from 1 to several hundreds years in Shanghai.The coastal regions in Shanghai such as Nanhui,Chongming,Jinshan are the areas of high wind speed and also the high-value areas of the maximum wind speed under a certain risk probability level,and,at the same time,the high-frequency and high-risk areas of strong winds more than eight grade are located here as well.In contrast,the inland regions in Shanghai are the low wind speed areas and the low-value areas of maximum wind speed under the certain risk levels where strong winds more than eight grade are rare ob- served.Application results show that the diagnostic approach is objective and quantitative in assessing the hazard degree of weather events,which provides a reference for the meteorological disaster evaluation.


Despite a vast application of temporal point processes in infectious disease
 diffusion forecasting, ecommerce, traffic prediction, preventive
 maintenance, etc, there is no significant development in improving the
 simulation and prediction of temporal point processes in real-world
 environments. With this problem at hand, we propose a novel methodology for
 learning temporal point processes based on one-dimensional numerical
 integration techniques. These techniques are used for linearising the
 negative maximum likelihood (neML) function and enabling backpropagation of
 the neML derivatives. Our approach is tested on two real-life datasets.
 Firstly, on high frequency point process data, (prediction of highway
 traffic) and secondly, on a very low frequency point processes dataset,
 (prediction of ski injuries in ski resorts). Four different point process
 baseline models were compared: second-order Polynomial inhomogeneous
 process, Hawkes process with exponential kernel, Gaussian process, and
 Poisson process. The results show the ability of the proposed methodology to
 generalize on different datasets and illustrate how different numerical
 integration techniques and mathematical models influence the quality of the
 obtained models. The presented methodology is not limited to these datasets
 and can be further used to optimize and predict other processes that are
 based on temporal point processes


It provides a novel method for double patterning a photosensitive resin composition that is, these methods include the step of solidifying the heat cross-linking step and a composition for coating the photosensitive composition on the substrate. Crosslinked layer can be used to provide a reflection control. Would upon exposure to light, the crosslinked polymer in the composition (or an oligomer or a monomer) is crosslinked ride, thereby dissolving a portion exposed to light in typical photoresist developer solution (e.g., alkaline developer solution). The crosslinked portion of the glass, the composition may remain insoluble in the solvent used to form the photosensitive composition. As a result, at least one of coating, lithographic (lithographic), and the developing step are initially formed (earlier-formed) without destroying the pattern while changing the order in accordance with the particular process may be repeated several times.


The transport accessibility of the Arctic zone is of strategic interest for Russia from the point of view of the possibility of mineral exploration and ensuring further systemic development of this part of the national territory. The objective of the study is to carry out a spatial analysis of the transport system of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), to identify its topological properties and restrictions that impede providing sufficient logistics services. Based on the method of spatial analysis, the conducted study of the state of the transport system of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) allowed to assess transport provision within its territory for three types of transportation: transport provision of internal regional (local) transportation, transport provision of accessibility (entry and exit) of the territory of the region, and transport provision of transit transportation across the region. The study showed that air transport is the main mode for passenger transportation, while seasonal water and winter road transportation are the main modes of freight haulage. The regions of Yakutia with access to traffic arteries and isolated from them have been identified. Calculations based on the Engel's coefficient allowed to proceed with a mathematical assessment of the transport system of the region, which indicates its insufficient development due to the lack of year-round transportation routes in the areas of the Far North and the Arctic zone. The transport infrastructure of this part of the region are represented by seasonal winter roads and waterways, which prevents from assessing their general year-round potential. For its assessment, it is necessary to consider seasonal availability of each individual section of the network.


(57) Abstract: The present invention is an amorphous torasemide modification, to a process for their preparation, pharmaceutical formulations containing use and this amorphous torasemide modification as the raw material for production of pharmaceutically acceptable salts of torasemide as well as their use as diuretic.


ELM resolved edge current density profiles are reconstructed using the CLISTE equilibrium code. As input, highly spatially and temporally resolved edge electron temperature and density profiles are used in addition to data from the extensive set of external poloidal field measurements available at ASDEX Upgrade, flux loop difference measurements, and current measurements in the scrape-off layer. Both the local and flux surface averaged current density profiles are analysed for several ELM mitigation regimes. The focus throughout is on the impact of altered temperature and density profiles on the current density. In particular, many ELM mitigation regimes rely on operation at high density. Two reference plasmas with type-I ELMs are analysed, one with a deuterium gas puff and one without, in order to provide a reference for the behaviour in type-II ELMy regimes and high density ELM mitigation with external magnetic perturbations at ASDEX Upgrade. For type-II ELMs it is found that while a similar pedestal top pressure is sustained at the higher density, the temperature gradient decreases in the pedestal. This results in lower local and flux surface averaged current densities in these phases, which reduces the drive for the peeling mode. No significant differences between the current density measured in the type-I phase and ELM mitigated phase is seen when external perturbations are applied, though the pedestal top density was increased. Finally, ELMs during the nitrogen seeded phase of a high performance discharge are analysed and compared to ELMs in the reference phase. An increased pedestal pressure gradient, which is the source of confinement improvement in impurity seeded discharges, causes a local current density increase. However, the increased Zeff in the pedestal acts to reduce the flux surface averaged current density. This dichotomy, which is not observed in other mitigation regimes, could act to stabilize both the ballooning mode and the peeling mode at the same time.


We describe an implementation of a pointfree proof of the Alaoglu and the Hahn-Banach theorems in Type Theory. The proofs described here are formalisations of the proofs presented in \The Hahn-Banach Theorem in Type Theory" 4]. The implementation was partially developed simultaneously with 4] and it was a help in the development of the informal proofs.


Introduction: The main lines of meteorite classification rest upon chemical criteria. Primitive meteorites or chondrites derive their composition directly from the solar nebula without differentiation processes in their parent body (e.g. no core extraction). Chondrites are distinguished from differentiated meteorites (achondrites and siderites). More detailed studies of chondrites showed they could be separated into a number of classes, the most effective criterion for that being the oxidation state of iron, which can be either combined as a metal alloy (with Ni) or with sulfur or oxygen. In this latter case it enters the constitution of Fe-Mg silicates, like olivine. The following major groups are distinguished: carbonaceous chondrites wherein Fe is completely oxidized or nearly so, ordinary chondrites which are intermediate and enstatite chondrites in which Fe is not combined to oxygen. These wide groups are further divided into classes using more subtle criteria, specific to each group. The most abundant meteorites by far, are the ordinary chondrites. Enstatite chondrites are least frequent but statistical considerations lead to conflicting views: If one class is poorly populated, one may argue that it is a curiosity, not an important one. Conversely one can say that this results from their great success in forming larger parent bodies and their study is therefore of utmost importance to the understanding of planetary bodies. According to this view, ordinary chondrites are expected to stem from the main asteroid belts. Accretion in this region has been highly perturbated by the vicinity of Jupiter so that no massive planet could emerge. Chondrites from this region can therefore be viewed as leftover from the planetary formation. This discussion is supported by prejudices on the way the solar system evolved and planets formed; it is established on chemical and mineralogical criteria. For a few decades, oxygen isotopes have been used and confirmed the rationality of this classification since a new criterion independent from the chemical composition permitted to separate the same classes but the rationale behind it is not well understood. Facts: After a rapid review of relevant isotopic data [1-4], especially the new data on achondrites [1,2], a strong correlation of 17O with distance from the sun appears. Zoning of the present day solar system is established and discussed. Oxygen isotopic compositions are fundamental data which permit to establish that the primitive solar system was isotopically zoned as a result of binary mixing. This is still visible in the present day planetary compositions from Mercury to Mars and the asteroid belt. This observation leads to the


An image processing method is provided, including the operations of collecting a first motion picture, extracting spatial information about at least a part of frames forming the first motion picture, and reflecting the extracted spatial information to generation of a 3D view corresponding to the first motion picture.


We develop a minimalist compartmental model to analyze the impact of mobility restrictions in Italy during the Covid-19 outbreak. Our findings show that early lockdowns shifts the epidemic in time while, beyond a critical value of the lockdown strength, the epidemic restarts after lifting the restrictions. We investigate the effects of different lockdown scenarios and exit mechanisms by accounting for two fundamental sources of heterogeneity within the model: geography and demography. We consider Italian Regions as separate administrative entities, in which social interactions between age cohorts occur. Due to the sparsity of the mobility matrix, epidemics tend to develop independently in different regions. Finally, we show how disregarding the specific structure of social contacts could lead to severe underestimation of post-lockdown effects, while specific age cohort based measures can sustain the mitigation of rebound effects. Our model is general, and it highlights the effects of key parameters on non-pharmaceutical mitigation mechanisms for epidemics.


The characteristics, factors, process, parameters and principles of electroless Ni-P plating are introduced simply. The results show that electroless Ni-P deposits have good anti-CO_2 and stress corrosion performance.


This item is incorrectly numbered 99/58b in the Catalog of Broadsides.
This item has been renumbered from Portfolio 99, Folder 58b.
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The selection of tinted ophthalmic lenses is discussed in terms of some of the factors which may not always be considered when deciding upon a particular tinted lens. The factors considered for the various tinted lenses available include the transmittance properties in the non-visible regions of the spectrum and the effects of tinted lenses on the performance of drivers of motor vehicles. Language: en


The implementation of the credit system is an important step for the higher education teaching reform,which has its unique advantage and is more and more pursued by colleges and universities.In order to achieve the training objectives of practical-oriented talents,Shanghai Sanda College implements the reform of the credit system.This paper takes Shanghai Sanda College as an example,and then introduces the implement of the credit system which can be served as reference for the other college.


In this study, the interaction between NO2 + cation and Hen (n = 1-7) clusters is investigated by means of ab initio calculations at MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ and QCISD/aug-cc-pVTZ computational levels. The first and second solvation shells were obtained while N atom of NO2 + interacts with five and two He atoms, respectively. Stabilization energies of the studied complexes including basis set superposition errors (BSSE) and zero-point energy (ZPE) corrections at MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ level are in the range of 1.5-7.6 kJ mol -1 . Energy decomposition analysis (EDA) shows that polarization effects are the main source of the attraction energy in these complexes. The second


The process for drug development is extremely limiting right now, being both prohibitively expensive, and very slow to take from start to finish. Promising compounds that might be effective for a certain disease are identified in the laboratory through various different techniques – either identified through the specific shape of the molecule required by the biology, or testing many compounds from a library of compounds in the lab to screen for desirable chemical properties. All these methods tend to be time consuming, with a fairly small hit rate. Drugs then undergo laboratory and animal testing to answer basic questions about safety. If this is promising, the drugs are then tested on people to make sure they are safe and effective. At this point, companies apply for approval for the drug, which in itself is usual a very long and expensive process.


Resonant Raman scattering spectra of glass-embedded CdS1−xSex nanocrystals are measured and complemented with TEM and optical absorption as well as photoluminescence data. The selectivity of the resonant Raman process not only for the size, but also for the composition of nanocrystals within the ensemble, is directly observed in the dependence of phonon band frequency, linewidth and shape on the excitation wavelength.


Present results of model system experiments to determine whether or not the fish lipid interacts with myosin and which groups of lipids are responsible for this interaction. Studies of the effects of aging, heating and air denaturation (foam formation) on the formation of these lipoprotein complexes are also reported.


Tumor adaptation or selection is thought to underlie therapy resistance of gliomas. To investigate the longitudinal epigenetic evolution of gliomas in response to therapeutic pressure, we performed an epigenomic analysis of 143 matched initial and recurrent patients with IDH-wildtype (IDHwt) and IDH-mutant (IDHmut) gliomas. IDHwt gliomas showed a longitudinally stable epigenome with relatively low levels of global methylation, whereas the epigenome of IDHmut gliomas showed initial high levels genome-wide of DNA methylation that was progressively reduced to levels similar to those of IDHwt tumors. By integrating DNA methylation and gene expression data, adaptive changes of putative master regulators of the cell cycle and of differentiation were seen in IDHmut recurrent tumors. Furthermore, relapses of IDHmut tumors were accompanied by histological progression which in turn influenced survival, as validated in an independent cohort. Finally, the initial cell composition of the tumor microenvironment differed between IDHwt and IDHmut tumors and changed differentially following treatment, suggesting increased neo-angiogenesis and T-cell infiltration upon treatment for IDHmut gliomas. Our study provides one of the largest cohorts of paired glioma samples profiled with epigenomics, transcriptomics and genomics; and our results demonstrate that the treatment of IDHmut gliomas reshapes the epigenome towards an IDHwt-like phenotype. Accordingly, the prevalent practice of early genotoxic treatment in this patient population may need to be revisited.


Although data on use for 1961 and 1966 are not always comparable, a bare-minimum estimate of the increase in number of visitors between those years in 19 percent. The greatest increase was in number of canoeists and boaters, which rose on the average 9 or 10 percent a year.


The change of physical and mechanical properties of active layer of rolling mill is observed. The profilograms of wear, hardness, microhardness, thermo electromotive force and other characteristics were measured till destruction of active layer. It was established, that change of physical and mechanical properties has wave character. On the base of the obtained results new regulational method of exploitation of shaft of rolling mill was developed.


This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of papaya seed in feed on Raja duck's performance. Experimental animals were 72 birds of 7 days old Raja ducks. Variables observed were feed intake, body weight gain, and feed conversion ratio. Experiment was assigned in one way of Completely Randomized Design with four treatments and three replication (six birds each). The treatments diets were T0 = basal diets without papaya seed, T1=0.3%, T2=0.6%, and T3=1.2% papaya seed. Dietary treatment were provided until 45 days of age. Data were subjected to analysis of variance using SPSS 16.0 and continued with Duncan's Multiple Range Test for all significant results at 5% level of probability. Result showed that feeding diets with 1.2% papaya seed supplementation reduced feed intake but increased body weight gain, resulted in better feed conversion ratio (P<0.05). It might indicate that papaya seed has potency to improve performance of Raja ducks. (Key words: Duck, Feed conversion ratio, Papaya seed, Performance)


The nearby late M star Gliese 569B was recently found by adaptive optics imaging to be a double with separation ~1 AU. To explore the orbital motion and masses, we have undertaken a high-resolution (~0.″05) astrometric study. Images were obtained over 1.5 yr with bispectrum speckle interferometry at the 6.5 m Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) and 6 m Special Astrophysical Observatory telescope. Our data show motion corresponding to more than half the orbital period and constrain the total mass to be greater than 0.115 M☉, with a most probable value of 0.145 M☉. Higher masses cannot be excluded without more extended observations, but from statistical analysis we find an 80% probability that the total mass is less than 0.21 M☉. An infrared spectrum of the blended B double obtained with the MMT has been modeled as a blend of two different spectral types, chosen to be consistent with the measured J- and K-band brightness difference of a factor of ~2. The blended fit is not nearly as good as that to a pure M8.5+ template. Therefore, we hypothesize that the brighter component likely has two unresolved components with near equal masses, each the same as the fainter component. If Gl 569B is a triple, our dynamical limits suggest each component has a mass of 50 MJup. We infer an age for the system of 300 Myr from its kinematic motion, which places it as a member of the Ursa Major moving group. All the above parameters are consistent with the latest DUSTY evolution models for brown dwarfs.


Comment Adjunctive or first-line therapy for partial and generalized seizures (including myoclonus). Ineffective in absences. Phenobarbital is also used for status epilepticus and neonatal seizures. Highly effective antiepileptic drug, used as first-line therapy in many parts of the world because of broad-spectrum efficacy against many seizure types, feasibility of once-daily dosing and low cost. Because of its inferior tolerability to other drugs, particularly in children, it is rarely used as first line when cost is not the primary consideration. Potent enzyme inducers.


Public interest litigation is a type of lawsuit initiated for the protection of public interest.A public interest litigation case should be initiated by civil society for the protection of public interest which can be pursued through the individual lawsuit.Public interest litigation aims to promote public interest through individual lawsuit,making the lawsuit an effective tool to facilitate public interest.Under the guidance of instrumentalism of lawsuit,public interest litigation differs dramatically with ordinary lawsuits either in terms of aims and means or in terms of contents and formalities.Chinese courts are not active in admitting and adjudicating public interest litigation cases at present.In order to change this situation completely,it is necessary to loose the restraint on legal standing in legislation in the long run.However,even under current law,there is a wide range of space for the development of public interest litigation as long as such activities can be supported politically by the central government and the Supreme Court.


This paper should not be entitled "liver abscesses." There is no way I could possibly discuss liver abscesses briefly and I very much doubt if you would want me to try. Instead, I will be talking about liver sepsis, using mainly our experience with liver transplantation as a model with which we think we have learned a lot about infections of the liver that can and should be applied to the understanding and treatment of abscesses, cholangitis and other conditions. In addition, the problems I will relate will have to be solved before the procedure of liver transplantation can become widely practical. The most widely used method of bile duct reconstruction is the cholecystoduodenostomy that is 'shown in Figure lAo With this operation, the distal common duct is ligated or sewn shut so that the bile passes through the cystic duct and gallbladder, to be delivered into the duodenum. The other biliary reconstruction we used early in our experience was a standard choledochocholedochostomy placing the T ·tube through a stab wound in the recipient common duct (Fig. 2) . With liver transplantation and cholecystoduodenostomy, a series of terrible complications were encountered in several of our early cases in which prolonged survival was obtained. We called this complication "septic hepatic infarction" and its consequences were characteristic and resulted in three distinctive clinical and laboratory findings, of which two are shown in Figure 3. The components of the triad were gram negative septicemia and evidence from transaminase determinations of massive liver necrosis. The bacteremia and transaminasemia were relatively isolated


As Germaine Greer recently has said, "This is a terrible time to die. Death has never been so mysterious, so obscene or shameful an occupation as it is in our time." Few would disagree with her opinion—at least on this point. The volume under review, a symposium by many authors writing from many angles on the ethical implications of dying, is of unquestionable relevance to our confused society. Psychosocial Aspects of Terminal Care should be required reading in all medical and nursing schools. That it has been written at all, and sponsored by an organization called The Foundation of Thanetology , is a sign that we are becoming aware of the ignorance, prejudice, and futility of contemporary attitudes to death. The brief but unmistakable feeling of resistance I experienced in tackling this book was, at least to me, evidence of our tendency to shy away from the subject. The book succeeds


Purpose: Blue rubber bleb syndrome (BRBNS) is a rare disorder characterized by multiple, distinctive cavernous hemangiomas of the skin, and gastrointestinal tract. We investigated the surgical treatment and clinical findings for multiple hemangiomas in the orbit of a patient who had BRBNS on the skin and liver. Methods: A 33-year-old white woman visited our clinic with the chief complaint of continuous exophthalmos of one year duration. She did not complain of ocular pain or decreased visual acuity. Nine years previously, her medical history showed the removal of a mass from her left arm, the result of histopathologic examination was multiple hemangiomas. Check-up for gastrointestinal lesions by colonoscopy was negative and all hematological parameters were normal. The orbital mass was surgically removed. Histopathological finding showed it to be the same as hemangioma. Results: Multiple bluish nodules on the skin, visceral hemangioma, multiple hemangiomas in orbit led to the diagnosis of BRBNS. Conclusions: Multiple hemangiomas in orbit should be suspected as BRBNS, and therefore systemic evaluation is required to consider the association with BRBNS.


Structural evolution of collisional orogens depends closely on how major shear zones develop and evolve. these shear zones, in turn, control aspects of the geometry and thermal structure of the orogenic wedge. consequently, analysis of the thermal structure along major shear zones can discriminate among large‐scale thermal–mechanical models. the himalayan orogen provides one example where two competing orogenic models – channel flow vs. critical taper – predict vastly different thermal gradients along the underlying master decollement. himalayan thrusts are not generally exposed for long distances across strike, however, so accurate determination of down‐dip thermal gradients is difficult. Within this context, the caledonian orogen in norway and Sweden, which is often compared with the himalaya, provides an unparalleled opportunity to investigate down‐dip temperatures. due to the unusual and consistent exposure of thrust surfaces for ~140 km across strike, thermometry along the deeply eroded remains of this late Silurian‐early devonian orogen (Gee and Sturt 1985) provides a unique opportunity to test competing models of the thermal and kinematic evolution of shear zones and orogens. here, we report temperatures of deformation in ductilely sheared rocks (mylonites) from a northern transect across the Scandinavian caledonides using the titanium‐in‐quartz thermobarometer (titaniQ; Wark and Watson 2006; thomas et al. 2010) to investigate the dynamics of quartz recrystallization during shear and to discriminate among competing thermal models for orogenic evolution. titaniQ offers several advantages over other thermobarometers. first, it can be applied over a wide range of rocks because quartz, the only phase that requires a nalysis, is stable over a large range of temperatures and pressures. Second, domains with different ti‐content can be readily identified and targeted for analysis because cathodoluminescence (cl) intensity correlates with trace element c ontent (rusk et al. 2008; Spear and Wark 2009; Kohn and northrup 2009). last, titaniQ is unusually precise (±3°c at a specified pressure; Wark and Watson 2006). We evaluated titaniQ temperatures in mylonites (Tm) from the well‐exposed basal thrust zone (Btz) of the northern Scandinavian caledonides (fig. 7.1) and compared them with (1) titaniQ thermometry in cross‐ cutting quartz veins (Tqv), (2) cation exchange thermometry, (3) metamorphic phase equilibria, (4) broad constraints from geochronology and conditions of the brittle‐ductile transition, and (5) matrix quartz microstructures as calibrated experimentally and empirically. in principle, recrystallized quartz from granite might record temperatures attained prior to, during, or after the peak of metamorphism, or even relict temperatures inherited from the protolith. however, mylonites texturally postdate the peak of metamorphism, so quartz grains that recrystallized during mylonitization should record lower temperature than either the metamorphic peak or igneous cooling. Similarly, if temperatures were decreasing during deformation, then quartz veins that postdate deformation (fig. 7.2) should yield Tqv ≤ Tm. Because quartz veins precipitate directly from a fluid, they should not contain relict grains inherited from the protolith or reflective of earlier conditions, and instead provide a minimum bound on deformation temperatures. past work in caledonian regional geology (hodges 1982; crowley 1985; tilke 1986; page 1990; northrup 1996a, b) and quartz microstructures led to the following expectations. first, deformation was syn‐ to post‐ metamorphic, so we expected phase equilibrium and garnet‐biotite fe‐Mg temperatures to exceed titaniQ temperatures. conversely, as temperatures evidently were waning during the latest stages of deformation, cross‐cutting quartz veins should provide a minimum bound on deformation temperatures


BEST and his co-workers in Toronto have shown that deposits of fat in animal livers caused by feeding of either fat or cholesterol may be made to disappear by the administration of choline. These workers have also shown that choline is not only curative but can prevent this deposition of fat. In the interpretation of such experiments, however, consideration must be given to a variety of modifying factors. Composition of diet, for example, is a factor. Casein was found to exert a lipotropic action; with diets of constant protein content the degree of fatty infiltration was found to vary with the fat content of the diets; and with diets of constant fat content the degree of fatty infiltration was found, in general, to vary inversely with the casein intake. (Different proteins have different lipotropic values. Gelatine, for example, has none). Pure sucrose caused an increase of fat, whereas the addition of protein prevented this excess deposition. Dried yeast and certain yeast preparations used for their contents of vitamin B1 were found to be lipotropic, and on analysis were found to contain choline; "marmite" contained as much as 3 mg. per gram. Initial height of the glyceride content of the liver is to some extent another variable. A brief summary of the experiences of these authors will be found in a recent communication by Best and Channon.' A study of any large group of diabetics shows that people suffering from this condition are no less liable to diseases of the liver (cirrhosis, malignancy, infection, etc.) than non-diabetics. Disease of the liver, secondary to disease of the gall bladder, is perhaps more common in the diabetic than in the nondiabetic. This is suggested from the finding, both in Joslin's clinic and in our own, that about one adult in every four had some disease of the gallbladder. Haemochromatosis is definitely more common amongst diabetics than non-diabetics. Here, as is well known, the


The Three Seas Initiative (TSI) constitutes a project involving the
cooperation of twelve European countries. Poland and Croatia, the founders of the TSI, are especially active in this respect. Even though Hungary seems the closest political ally of Poland, the country rarely participates in TSI actions. In addition, when pursuing its politics, Hungary remains in contradiction to the principles of the TSI- chiefly regarding energy policies. The paper aims to offer answers to questions concerning the significance of the TSI in Hungary's foreign affairs policies and the country's perception of such a form of cooperation in Europe.


WT5BZ]:The result shows that the regeneration ability of Janbos is better than of Delft blue.The best medium for Delft blue is MS+BA 2.5 mg/L+IAA 0.5 mg/L+NAA 2.0 mg/L.The best medium for Janbos is MS+BA 2.5 mg/L+IAA 1.0 mg/L+NAA 1.5 mg/L. [WT5FZ]


1. The audiences for Irish modernism 2. Audience allegory: the premiere of Synge's The Playboy of the Western World 3. Sub-national sentiment: Dublin Suffrage Week and the uses of Ibsen 4. Modernist martyrdom: scripting the death of Terence MacSwiney 5. Fictions in the Free State: the 1924 Tailteann Games 6. The irreducible audience: Irish modernism and The Plough and the Stars riots Bibliography.


With great interest, we read the article "Tumor Stromal Architecture Can Define the Intrinsic Tumor Response to VEGF-Targeted Therapy" by Smith and colleagues ([1][1]) in which the response to VEGF-targeted therapy was linked to the vascular/stromal architecture of primary tumors.

We previously


The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the antimicrobial activity
 of four essential oils that belong to Lamiaceae family (sage, oregano, thyme)
 and eucalyptus oil. Gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS)
 revealed that the highest percent of essential oils 98.93% include three
 classes of compounds - monoterpene hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons and
 oxidized monoterpenes. The main components are oxidized monoterpenes:
 carvacrol (59.03%); thymol (36.12%), eucalyptol (20.66%), hydrocarbon
 monoterpenes: limonene (30.96%) and α-pinene (12.21%) and aromatic
 monoterpene, p-cymene (22.25%) All essential oils showed great potential of
 antimicrobial activity against several bacteria and yeast C. albicans, using
 the agar diffusion method with wells. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)
 for the essential oils has been determined by the broth dilution method and
 valued in the range from 1 to 5 μL/m, depending on the essential oil and
 bacteria tested, and up to 100 μL/ml for C. albicans. The essential oils of
 Lamiaceae family exhibited a strong antibacterial activity for tested
 microorganisms, while the essential oils of thyme were especially recognized.


Q Does the use of stimuli with contextual backgrounds promote better generalization of tact behavior in comparison to stimuli without backgrounds? Design. An adapted alternating treatments design w...


Gall Bladder Cancer (GBC) is common in northeastern Indian states. Industrial pollutants, lifestyles, dietary habits, gallstones, socio-economic status etc. have been proposed, but, none of them explain the incidents of GBC. With an objective to study the dietary pattern, nutritional status, lifestyle and non dietary habits a closed ended questionnaire was used to interview GBC patients taking treatment in Tata Memorial Hospital, India. More women than men had GBC with an male to female ratio of 1:3.6. One third, patients were from low socio economic group. 33.32% patients were overweight. Dietary habits revealed a high risk associated with less consumption of vegetables and fruits. 68.9% patients were using mustard oil as cooking medium. 76.5% patients had past history of gallstones. Malnutrition, Low socio-economic status, decreased Micronutrients in the diet, use of adulterated mustard oil and consumption of fishes from contaminated water sources may be influencing the incidents of GBC. Keywords: Gall Bladder Cancer, Nutrition, Lifestyle


This text focuses on the specific structure of metaphors in terms of movement processes. The processing of symbolic movement material through structures derived from dance as an art form is investigated. Metaphors that support nonverbal attunement between patient and therapist, and how the use of metaphors and creative processes help establish the inter-subjective relation in dance movement therapy are described.


Returning and recurring cultural forms, ancestral incarnations, theatrical imaginations, and racial memories in African plays construct a specific kind of historicity - the conjuring of the dead and the revitalization of cosmic energy or spiritual power. These formations perpetuate the construction of Africa and African-ness through reinvocations of the principle of sacrifice. This article sets up a genealogy of 'sacrifice' and 'figures of sacrifice' that manifests in plays that represent and reinvent Africa. The main argument is that invocations of rites of sacrifice form a significant part of these theatrical imaginations of Africa. Four African plays, Death and the King's Horseman (Soyinka, 1975), Woza Albert! (Mtwa, Ngema, & Simon, 1983), Sizwe Bansi is Dead (Fugard, Ntshona, & Kani, 1972), and The Strong Breed (Soyinka, 1973) stage ritualized acts of conjuring the dead and the retraditionalization of the principle of sacrifice as part of African acts of self-determination. The article uses the critical analytic tools of theatre and performance theory, with a focus on the processes of surrogation and conjuring. Keywords: ritual theatre, sacrifice, ancestral memory.


This paper describes the instrumentation system used to monitor analog voltage signals in the IUS vehicle during IUS electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) system qualification testing. Features of the system are: 1. Complete electrical isolation between the IUS and the instrumentation. 2. Automatic internal test point switching in seconds. 3. No pickup on instrumentation cables. 4. The system can be used in electrical fields of any intensity. 5. No commercial voltage probes used in the IUS. The instrumentation achieves its special properties through the use of two techniques: 1) Voltage signals are brought out of the IUS on a fiber optic data trans mission system; 2) Test point switching is accomplished by sending compressed air to an air operated electrical switch through pl'astic tubing.


Irradiation of a benzene solution containing methyl 2-(2,3-dimethylbut-2-enyloxymethyl)naphthalene-1-carboxylate 1 gave an eight-membered keto ether 2 as the main product via a novel 1,9-hydrogen abstraction of the ester carbonyl group.


Developing horticultural in the peat land needs geographical information system to gain data about its potential. The study was conducted at Meranti District, Riau Province at 2008. The result of study indicated that fruit crops (mango, durian, rambutan, soursop, avocado, mangos teen, citrus, jackfruit, banana, star fruit, papaya, and pineapple had the S2 land suitability for shallow-middle peat (50-200 cm). Based on this result, Meranti district has potential as a central of tropical fruits. The distribution of tropical peat land in Meranti district is about 263.647 ha or 64% tropical peat land.


We synthesized stilbenoid (E)-(P,P)- and (E)-(M,M)-[6]helicene dimers in enantiomerically pure form as part of a program aimed at the exploration of new strategies for the synthesis of large helicenes. The [2+2+2] cyclotrimerization of suitable triynes, reported by Starý and co-workers, was applied for the preparation of a racemic 2-hydroxymethylated [6]helicene precursor, which was conveniently resolved by HPLC on a chiral stationary phase. Two optically active helicenes were subsequently connected to the stilbenoid dimer by olefin metathesis. Electronic circular dichroism (ECD) studies of the stilbenoid ethen-1,2-diyl-linked dimer revealed bathochromically shifted ECD bands with exceptionally large Cotton effects relative to those of the monomeric [6]helicenes or to that of a dimeric [6]helicene with a saturated ethan-1,2-diyl linker. These comparative studies, complemented by computational investigations, show that the pronounced chiroptical properties of the stilbenoid dimer originate from π-conjugation between the two [6]helicene moieties and from the rigidity that results from conjugation. All attempts to form (P)-[13]helicene by photocyclodehydrogenation of the stilbenoid (P,P)-dimer were unsuccessful.


In the present paper we discuss the fundamental properties of modified Fourier hyperfunctions. It is about a quarter of a century ago that Professor Sato introduced and developed the theory of hyperfunctions in [42], [43] and [44]. In [42], among many important discussions, he introduced Fourier hyperfunctions to define the Fourier transformation of hyperfunctions in the case of one variable. Roughly speaking, a Fourier hyperfunction is presented as a difference of boundary values of holomorphic functions with infra-exponential growth from a complex domain to a real domain. (These holomorphic functions which present a Fourier hyperfunction are called the defining functions of the Fourier hyperfunction.) Indicated by Sato [42], Kawai [16], [17] treated the theory of Fourier hyperfunctions of several variables. Kawai [16], [17] also discussed its applications to linear partial differential equations with constant coefficients. Modified Fourier hyperfunctions were proposed by Professors Sato and Kawai for the purpose of their applications to the so called division problem in the theory of linear partial differential equations. Kawai [17] referred the matter, and announced the publishment of the paper on the theory of modified Fourier hyperfunctions. (See pp-468, 469 in Kawai [17].) But it has not been published. On the other hand, the theory of vector valued Fourier hyperfunctions was developed by Ito-Nagamachi [10], Nagamachi-Mugibayashi [31] and Junker [11], [12]. Nagamachi-Mugibayashi [31] also introduced (axiomatic) hyperfunction fields. Further, Nagamachi-Mugibayashi [32], [33] introduced (vector valued) Fourier hyperfunctions of the second type and mixed type to show the equivalence of the relativistic and Euclidean field theory. Afterward, Nagamachi [29], [30] treated the theory of (vector


The paper presents a radiation data measured in the atmosphere during the flight of a stratospheric balloon. The balloon carries the third version of the gondola with custom-developed electronic device integrating GPS, IoT, data storage and gamma radiation sensors. The radiation is measured by a miniature low-power silicon detector equipped with the plastic scintillator. The gondola enables to track the balloon during the whole stratospheric flight. The IoT network simplifies reception of the telemetry data on the ground.


This research marked (globalization and its impact on identity) is one of the important researches that dealt with the causes of the spread of globalization affecting the generations in our present time, and the extent to which this effect is transgressed in the future, in which the researcher dealt with the concept of globalization and defining it in language and convention, and the most correct statement of definitions, then he stopped to mention the date of its inception, and how it spread after the end of the Cold War, Then the researcher explained the political, economic and cultural dimensions of globalization, and explained its impact on the Arab identity, and what is the role of the media in influencing the Arab identity.


Measurements of ion transport and water flux across ultrathin multilayered membranes of polyelectrolytes were carried out under nanofiltration and reverse osmosis conditions. The polyelectrolyte membranes were prepared upon alternating electrostatic layer-by-layer adsorption of polyvinylamine (PVA) and polyvinyl sulfate (PVS) on porous supports. The pressure-driven transport of aqueous electrolyte solutions containing NaCl, Na2SO4, MgCl2, and MgSO4 in 1 and 10 mM concentration was investigated. For MgCl2 and MgSO4, a complete rejection was observed independently from the concentration of the feed solution and the pressure applied. For NaCl and Na2SO4, the rejections were 84 and 96% at 5 bar, and 93.5 and 98.5% at 40 bar, respectively. The hydraulic permeability of the composite membrane was 113.7 mL/(m2 h bar). It was only little affected by the presence of salt. At low and moderate pressure the membranes are suitable for water softening applications, while at pressures of 40 bar or higher they can be use...


Weak sensory stimuli can fully escape conscious perception and yet evoke minute electroencephalography (EEG) responses ([1][1]), indicating at least partial cortical processing of such "subliminal" input. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during imperceptible electrical finger