Objective To study the time relationships between apoptosis of neurons and endotheliocytes with the expression of Bcl 2 and Bax after reperfusion of focal cerebral ischemia in rats. Methods Coronal sections of brain were analyzed using an in situ terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase mediated biotinylated deoxyuridine triphosphate nick end labeling(TUNEL)and immunohistochemical staining methods to observe apoptosis of neurons and endotheliocytes,and expression of Bcl 2 and Bax after reperfusion(2,6,12,24hours and 2,3,7,14,21 days)of focal cerebral ischemia. Results 1.In the ischemic penumbra,apoptotic cells were increased at 2h after reperfusion,peaked at 12 24?h,then decreased successfully for 7 14?days.The time of apoptotic endothelial cells was 12?h later than that of apoptotic neurons.2.The expression of Bcl 2 protein began at 2?h after reperfusion,peaked at 12 24?h,and decreased for 7 14?days.3.Bax protein expressed from 6?h after reperfusion;peaked at 24 48?h,and lasted for 14days.4.The time phase of Bcl 2 expression was similar to the Bax is but later than it. Conclusion\ Apoptosis was a pattern of cell death after cerebral ischemia/reperfusion.The time of apoptotic endothelial cells was later than that of apoptotic neurons.Bcl 2 and Bax play a regulatory role in the apoptotic process.\;[


It is well-known that the noise in single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) obeys a Poisson distribution and, therefore, is signal-dependent. Consequently, spatially-adaptive filtering is required for optimal noise removal. Here, the authors extend a multiscale-based modeling and estimation approach previously developed by themselves (see Proc. Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, and Comp., Pacific Grove, CA, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997) for general Poisson processes, and apply it to the SPECT problem. The authors develop practical prior models for the sinogram image, which they use to optimally reduce noise in the raw projection data prior to reconstruction. This sinogram estimate is then used in conjunction with the standard backprojection algorithm to produce the improved image reconstruction. The impact of the new filtering approach on SPECT imaging is illustrated through simulation and with clinical data.


The present titulation project was carried out in order to improve the management of urban solid waste generated by tourist activities in La Plaza "El Quinde" and its influence area, being one of the most visited tourist attraction sites in the city of Quito. During the analysis of the current management of urban solid waste, it was found that in La Plaza "El Quinde" and its influence area, as in the city of Quito, there is no urban solid waste classification system, therefore, it is not performed an adequate treatment for each type of waste generated by tourist activities. On the other hand, it was found that there is no correct application of the existing public policy in terms of solid waste management, there is no control over compliance and there is no sanction for non-compliance. Finally, a strategic proposal was made that includes the actors involved in the management of urban solid waste generated by tourist activities in La Plaza "El Quinde" and its area of influence; in which it is mainly proposed to reduce the amount of urban solid waste of a non-reusable or non-recyclable character that tourist activities generate daily.


Drying behavior and the optimum drying conditions of Phylanthus ambelica (Nelli) and Zingiber officinale (Ginger) were evaluated. Moisture sorption isotherms were determined using the static gravimetric method using saturated salt solutions of water activities range from 0.05% - 0. 92% at two temperatures of 30 ° C and 50 ° C. Modified Henderson, Modified Chung-Pfost and GAB models were used to fit the experimental data and it was best fitted by the Chung-Pfost model. Thus Chung-Pfost model was used for the estimation of the equilibrium moisture content of tested medicinal crops. The process conditions for drying were optimized and 50 ° C was found to be the best suitable drying temperature for Phylanthus ambelica (Nelli) as well 40 ° C was preferred for Zingiber officinale (Ginger) with respect to preservation of its volatile substance significantly (p DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/jas.v9i2.6913 The Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2014, vol.9, no2: p.88-95


This study explains how old age insurance through fewer children can be made compatible with birth control and slow population growth in developing countries. Reduced fertility and continued old age support from surviving children depends on the timing of births. If couples have enough children as soon as possible to provide a high certainty of 1 son surviving until the father is age 65 years then if 1 parent is sterilized they will still have too many children the interval between generations will be too short and natural increase will be too rapid. Except for those countries having very low life expectancies at birth a better parental strategy would be one of "always a son" whereby parents have a son as soon as possible but then practice contraception as long as he survives. All preferred parental strategies make use of reversible contraceptive techniques and preclude sterilization. "Spacin g" not only prevents unwanted births but reduces the number of needed births.(AUTHORS MODIFIED)


In laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, patients may experience some post-operative complications as hemorrhage or leakage.We aim by this study to evaluate the benefit of omental fixation with full thickness stitches in decreasing post-operative hemorrhage and leakage, and the mutual effect on the patient and the surgeon.

 A retrospective analysis of collected data including 200 laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) from September 2016 to September 2018, procedures were divided into two groups, group A of 100 LSG procedures without omental fixation but clipping the whole suture line with titanium clips if any bleeding point present, and group B 100procedures with omental fixation with full thickness stitches till the level of incisura above, and below with titanium clips to control bleeders if present.

 Of group A there were 9 cases of leakage needed intragastric stent and feeding jejunostomy (0.9%), 26 cases of bleeding (2.6%) 15 cases of them needed relaparoscopy and ful lthickness stitches (1.5%) and 11 cases of them managed conservatively with blood transfusion (1.1%), and 3 cases of perigastric localized collection managed by pigtail and antibiotics (0.3%), average operative time was 55 minutes (between 35-75 minutes).Of group B there were 8bleeding cases of drain with less than 300 cc were managed conservatively (0.8%), and 1 case of perigastric localized collection managed conservatively without pigtail (0.1%), No leakage was identified nor hematoma, average operative time 85 minutes (between 50 to 120 minutes).

 The step of omental fixation with full thickness stitches has shown to be effective in decreasing staple line bleeding and leakage although it minimally prolongs the operative time of LSG.


Singapore has not had any domestic terrorist group since resolving the communist insurgency in the 60s and 70s, and it is likely to remain so. It has, however experienced several terrorist attacks by foreign terrorists. This paper, therefore, makes an assessment on the likely foreign terrorist threat to Singapore, by studying five main phenomena in Asia that tends to result in terrorism: communist insurgency, ethnic/religous separatism, religious extremism, international terrorism, and political rivalries. It also highlights some vulnerabilities of Singapore to terrorist attacks. It is the author's assessment that international terrorism, and political rivalries. It also highlights some vulnerabilities of Singapore to terrorist attacks. It is the author's assessment that international terrorist groups, probably religiously motivated and Anti-West, constitute the biggest terrorist threat to Singapore. Subject Terms Report Classification unclassified Classification of this page unclassified Classification of Abstract unclassified Limitation of Abstract UU


AnaPaed adds to the growing list of paediatric applications (apps) for mobile devices that have hit the marketplace recently, with an extensive editable paediatric formulary. Whilst a commendable effort, I am not sure it adds much more than this. Apps are, by their nature, for international use and despite the drug lists' being editable, there are some glaring omissions for a UKbased anaesthetist. On opening the app (the logo is a somewhat scary single eye), the user is invited to enter the patient's weight and age and the accuracy with which drugs and weights are calculated, before reaching the home screen (Fig. 1). Previous patients' weights and ages are held in the memory and it would be a great development to see these linked to a logbook with an editable ASA grade and surgical procedure/specialty list.


Resumen en: In spite of the development of ever more elaborate techniques for the calculation of nuclear properties, the calculation of the most basic property of at...


In Indonesia the distribution of inheritance, there are often disputes between parties who have an interest in each other. This makes some people choose to make a Inher itance Certificate which aims to prove the parties entitled to inheritance from the testator. In practice, heirs are often found that contain incorrect statements and serve as evidence in court proceedings, as found in Supreme Court Decision Number 121/Pid/2017/PT.DKI. This article discusses the power of proof of authentic deeds which contain incorrect statements in terms of the perspective of the Civil Procedure Code and the validity of an agreement based on authentic deeds which contain incorrect statements based on the Civil Code. Normative juridical research methods are used in this study, namely in-depth analysis of the positive regulations concerned and also field research related to the process of making a Certificate of Inheritance in the Religious Courts, Notaries, and Village Offi ce. Based on the results showed the Inheritance Certificate containing incorrect information, still has the power of proof attached as long as no cancellation is submitted to the judge by the parties who feel disadvantaged, and as long as there is no decision from the court stating that the deed is invalid. However, if there has been a decision from a judge stating that a certain authentic deed is invalid, then the deed no longer has the perfect proof of strength as an authentic deed.


The author presents and justifies a construction diagram of a gravity-type pneumatic percussion machine for drain hole drilling with efficient penetration of casing in soil. The working cycle parameters of the machine, efficient design variables, as well as the blow energy, blow frequency and compressed air flow rate depending on the line pressure are determined by the numerical modeling. The weight, size and dynamics of the gravity-type machine are compared with the known analogous facilities.


This case study was led Smart Freight Centre (SFC) in the Netherlands in partnership with the Thammasat Business School, Centre for Logistics Research in Thailand. Funding was provided by the World Bank Multi-Donor Sustainable Logistics Fund. With the intention of developing local capacity as well as communicating with international stakeholders, this report provides a high-level understanding of the state of logistics carbon emissions and their disclosure in Southeast Asia using local case studies as a guide. The focus is on how the emissions assessment was applied and the learnings of the case study companies as a tool for understanding how carbon accounting can be expanded in the region.


. We calculate the bispectrum of primordial curvature perturbations, ζ , generated during "open inflation." Inflation occurs inside a bubble nucleated via quantum tunneling from the background false vacuum state. Our universe lives inside the bubble, which can be described as a Friedmann-Lemaˆıtre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe with negative spatial curvature, undergoing slow-roll inflation. We pay special attention to the issue of an initial state for quantum fluctuations. A "vacuum state" defined by a positive-frequency mode in de Sitter space charted by open coordinates is different from the Euclidean vacuum (which is equivalent to the so-called "Bunch-Davies vacuum" defined by a positive-frequency mode in de Sitter space charted by flat coordinates). Quantum tunneling (bubble nucleation) then modifies the initial state away from the original Euclidean vacuum. While most of the previous study on modifications of the initial quantum state introduces, by hand, an initial time at which the quantum state is modified as well as the form of the modification, an effective initial time naturally emerges and the form is fixed by quantum tunneling in open inflation models. Therefore, open inflation enables a self-consistent computation of the effect of a modified initial state on the bispectrum. We find a term which goes as h ζ k 1 ζ k 2 ζ k 3 i ∝ 1 /k 2 1 k 4 3 in the so-called squeezed configurations, k 3 ≪ k 1 ≈ k 2 , in agreement with the previous study on modifications of the initial state. The bispectrum in the exact folded limit, e.g., k 1 = k 2 + k 3 , is also enhanced and remains finite. However, these terms are exponentially suppressed when the wavelength of ζ is smaller than the curvature radius of the universe. The leading-order bispectrum is equal to the usual one from single-field slow-roll inflation; the terms specific for open inflation arise only in the sub-leading order when the wavelength of ζ is smaller than the curvature radius.


Nanowhiskers of crystalline polysaccharides, including cellulose and chitin, have recently been attracting much attention, especially as rigid filler components of novel nanocomposite materials. Good dispersion of these nanowhiskers in aqueous suspensions, which are usually prepared by appropriate acid hydrolysis of native polysaccharide raw materials, has been examined based on two types of stabilization mechanisms, i.e., electrostatic and steric repulsions between nanowhiskers. In this review, recent results on electrostatic and steric stabilizations of nanowhiskers are introduced, together with brief and basic descriptions of nanowhiskers and these stabilization mechanisms. Some of the remarkable characteristics of nanowhiskers, such as viscosity behaviors, liquid-crystal formation, and nanocomposite formation, which are related to useful applications of these stable nanowhiskers, are also summarized.


The "sharing economy" now enables to us to access all manner of things we might need through connecting with others online. In this season that might have included sourcing turkey from a local farm, a chauffeured car to collect the relatives, a week at a stranger's flat somewhere warm, a few hours with an industrial-strength food mixer and a range of other physical and intellectual goods.


The first tornado climatology for Romania is presented based on datasets attained from three periods between 1822 and 2013. The historical period (1822‐1944) contains 33 tornado reports originating from historical newspaper archives and publications of the Romanian Meteorological Institute. Evidence of tornado observations in Romania before the nineteenth century is found in the representation of tornadoes in the Romania folk mythology. The socialist period (1945‐89) contains only seven tornado reports, likely because during this period it was believed that tornadoes did not occur in Romania. The recent period (1990‐ 2013) contains 89 tornado reports that came from mass-media sources and eyewitness reports. Of the 129 tornadoes from the Romanian tornado database, 98 were reported between May and July with a peak in May (36 reports). Most of the tornadoes (28 reports) occurred during the afternoon hours 1500‐1659 local time. Tornadoesweremore frequentlyreportedovereasternRomaniacomparedwith otherregionsof the country, with a maximum over southeastern Romania [0.37‐0.45 (10 5 km 2 ) 21 yr 21 ].


We report a case of hydromediastinum in a newborn associated with a peripherally inserted central venous catheter. A 9‐day‐old male infant with total parenteral nutrition via a peripherally inserted central venous catheter had acute respiratory distress. A chest radiograph showed a widened mediastinal shadow and left pleural effusion, and sonography revealed fluid collection in the mediastinum and bilateral hydrothorax. Sonography is useful in the diagnosis of hydromediastinum when infants treated with peripherally inserted central venous catheters have acute respiratory distress. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound 34:195–198, 2006


The immunology of pregnancy has been mostly investigated in the mouse, although this animal model is clearly inappropriate for several critical aspects of the studies. The contribution of alternative and less known models such as ovine and bovine species should not be neglected. The uterine morphology and the important resistance to invasive surgery, the synepitheliochorial placentation, the long peri-implantation phase associated to a specific signal of maternal recognition - interferon-tau- and the availability of original experimental models including somatic cloning offer unique opportunities of investigation for answering fundamental and applied biological questions. The low and high-throughput analyses of cell and tissue phenotypes have taken advantages from genome annotation and powerful genomic tools including microarrays and functional exploration of a target gene function. Considering present reports and future directions, ruminants can undoubtedly contribute in a relevant way to a better knowledge of the immunological process taking place in a successful, perturbed or failed pregnancy.


The Itabira Iron Ore District is located in the region called Quadrilátero Ferrífero (Iron Quadrangle), a very rich region with plenty of mineral resources (iron, gold, manganese, bauxite etc.). During the last 50 years, CVRD (Companhia Vale do Rio Doce) has exploited about one billion tons of iron ore in Itabira. In 1985, CVRD started dewatering activities of those mines and till now more than 50 million cubic meters of groundwater has been pumped. The iron ore formation, dated from the Proterozoic inferior, is constituted mainly by hematites and itabirites, represents the main aquifer in the Iron Quadrangle, is called Cauê Aquifer, which contains about 4 billion cubic meters of groundwater. The Itabira Iron Ore District, where CVRD established the mining operations, is formed by the Itabira Syncline, which occupies of 12,4 km2. The city of Itabira has a population of 100 thousands and today its supply of surface water nearly covers the demands. In the near future the city of Itabira will need more water and they are complainig to CVRD that their dewatering activities are causing the water shortage. Because of this CVRD has defined with the county and the environment authorities, a study program to determine qualitatively and quantitatively the environmental impacts caused by dewatering of mines. In 1998, CVRD has started this study and its final product will be the Itabira Syncline regional hydrogeologic model. This study will make a quantification of the available groundwater resources, as well as a prognosis of what will occur with water resources by the year 2020, when the mine activities will be completed.


Architecture disclosed will identify and study the repeat user behavior (habits) are involved in the movement route and points of interest. Once the learning habits of individuals are able to configure the algorithm more efficient, and therefore can be used for the application to the user experience more effective and enjoyable. In order to operate efficiently than the user device resource based on (for example, turn the power off to conserve power or configured to place the standby element) user history is the ability to more accurately infer user behavior using can. The user can be identified haeteum leaving a new path associated with the new point of interest from a common path with the associated point of interest. Once identified, a set of original points of interests for the common path is updated with new points of interest. Departure from the identification of the fixed path, and the static route can be determined dynamically.


The aim of the study is to measure occupational health and occupational safety perceptions of vocational school students. In the theoretical part of the research, concepts related to the subject such as the importance of occupational health and occupational safety, definition, relationship with human resources management, job accidents and occupational diseases are explained. The work scale used by Eraslan (2015), occupational safety and occupational safety training scale. The survey was prepared in 5-point Likert type. The relevant scale consists of 13 items. As a result of the reliability analysis, the Cronbach α coefficient of the scale was found to be 0.826. Kocaeli Vocational School students constitute the universe of the research. The sample consists of 464 students. Simple random sampling method was used in the research. The survey was applied by face-to-face method. SPSS21 program was used in the data analyzes. In the study, demographic variables such as gender, income level of the parents, education level of parents and residence status, and occupational health and occupational safety perceptions of the students were analyzed. As a result of the analyzes made, no significant relationship was found between demographic variables and occupational health and occupational safety perception.


Background: Canine pathology is one of the most difficult anomalies found in orthodontic patients, mostly when we must deal with an impacted canine. This is the reason why we, as general dental practitioners, pedodonts or orthodontists should be able to diagnose any canine pathology as soon as possible, so that the patient could follow interceptive treatment. Methods: This is an observational study based on two retrospectives studies held in a private practice, Orto Office, in Bucharest, Romania. An amount of 400 complete orthodontic records were searched for impacted canine and ectopic canine. Results: We found 54 patients responding to our criteria, 14 with impacted canine and 40 with ectopic canine. Most impacted canines in our study group were vertical 78.5%. The most frequent place for canine ectopy was found to be vestibular in 95% of the cases. In 64.3% of the impacted canine cases another dental anomaly was also diagnosed. For the canine ectopy group no dental anomaly was detected in 90% of the patients. Conclusion: Our present findings are important especially for early diagnosing canine pathologies as the other dental anomalies may be observed earlier: the nanic lateral incisor or its anodontia. Moreover, we can prevent the canine impaction or ectopy by treating patients in their early ages around 8-10 years of age. These dental anomalies should be seen not only as risk indicators for early diagnosis but also as possible means of diagnose.


That the changes of carbohydrates concentration of healthy eggs are found significant to two consecutive days of embryonic development. Gradual decrease from 1st days (34.599±1.11mg/gm) till 8 th day (18.146±1.86mg/gm) and a step rise on 6 th day (33.411 ±1.72 mg/gm) were noticed. The same trend were observed in total protein concentration of healthy eggs fro 1 st day (166.63±1.98 mg/gm) till 8 th day (107.058±1.42 mg/gm). However, it was noticed that infestation of Pebrine diseases influences the carbohydrate and protein as lower concentration have been recorded in both the metabolites from 1 st day to 8 th day. The variation in carbohydrate was found significant, however, only a marginal changes have been recorded in protein concentration. It is indicative that the infestation of Pebrine at embryonic stage is not a fatal agent for embryo. It was observed that although they hatches out as metabolic deficient larvae, lead to death in subsequent larval stages.


Summary Why be mindful and to what should mindfulness be directed? Creating worlds without ground and feeling at home in them! This article investigates what is specific to Buddhist mindfulness practice. It brings the relevant Buddhist teachings, neurobiological constructivism and the general theory of meaning systems together in a cautious and thoughtful dialogue. This reveals the meaning of the Buddhist facts of existence »changeability«, »suffering« and »egolessness« from a perspective that is both fruitful and in keeping with our times. It becomes understandable why Buddhist mindfulness practice is oriented towards evoking crises of the self, since in this way people can be prepared to feel at home in »worlds without ground«.


The brain temperature largely depends on the metabolic activities of brain tissues and blood flow in the brain. However the physiological significance of brain temperature and its regulation remain unclear. To elucidate the relationship among regional brain temperatures (rBT), blood flow and brain activity, we simultaneously recorded brain temperature, blood flow and electrophysiological neuronal activities in the gustatory cortical area (GC) of rats, in response to somatosensory stimuli (electrical stimuli, L-menthol and capsaicin) or taste stimuli to the tongue. The temperature in the GC rose by 0.01 ~ 0.05°C after the neuronal activation by electrical and taste stimuli (0.5 M NaCl, 0.5 M sucrose, or 0.1 M citric acid). The effect was stronger with L-menthol and capsaicin than that with electrical and taste stimuli. The increase of temperature in the GC was correlated with the increase of neuronal activity, but not in other area, such as the visual cortex. Furthermore, the stimulation-induced increases in spike frequency of a small neuronal ensemble in the GC were co-localized with increases in blood flow. The increases in the blood flow were showed soon before or the almost same time as the changes in the rBTs. These results suggest that the changes in the rBTs are directly related to the brain activities including the stimulation-induced neuronal activity and blood flow.


ABSTRACT:  The accounting profession will experience a 50 percent decline in its ranks in the next ten years as accounting professionals from the Baby Boomer generation retire. To replace these professionals, the accounting profession will have to compete with law, medicine, engineering, and other professions that will also be replacing their "boomers." During the period the boomers are retiring, the number of high school graduates is expected to decline, which suggests that the currently high accounting enrollments are unlikely to continue. If the accounting profession is to compete for the best and brightest students in the future, it is in its best interest to address structural impediments that exist in its educational supply chain. One significant structural impediment in the supply chain is the traditional high school accounting course. In 2000 the AICPA's Taylor Report stated high school accounting courses were a "systemic barrier" to entry into the profession for the very high school students the ...


The economic divide between urban and rural sectors coupled with the unbalanced growth within the rural economy, is a major hurdle in the growth of Indian Economy. The existing government-run employment schemes are subsidized credit based schemes, which are good for any feasible project. However, with the kind of educational and economical background of rural population, there is a need to go a step backward and show them a way to mobilize what they have in terms of possible resources. This paper takes an inductive approach to explore and arrive at a conceptual framework for generating income in the rural economy. The framework is based on the analysis of primary data collected through focused group discussions. Unlike government run employment schemes, the proposed framework incorporates the efforts and social intentions of different segments of society and integrates social intent with profitability thereby, ensuring better sustainability and commitment to the cause.


In this study, the issue of two-dimensional direction of arrival estimation in monostatic multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) radar with rectangular arrays is studied and an algorithm based on estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT) is proposed. Through the reduced-dimensional transformation and unitary transformation, the proposed algorithm has very low complexity because of the low-dimension and real-valued computations. Meanwhile, the angle estimation performance of the proposed algorithm is improved compared with conventional ESPRIT and Unitary ESPRIT. The real-valued rotational invariance is utilised to achieve automatically paired estimations of the azimuth and elevation angles in monostatic MIMO radar. Error analysis of the angle estimation and Cramer-Rao bound in MIMO radar are derived. Simulation results verify the improvement and usefulness of our algorithm.


We have made extensive reciprocal space maps in the heavy-fermion superconductor URu2Si2 using high-resolution time-of-flight single-crystal neutron diffraction to search for signs of a hidden order parameter related to the 17.5 K phase transition. Within the present sensitivity of the experiment (0.007 uB/U-ion for sharp peaks), no additional features such as incommensurate structures or short-range order have been found in the (h0l) or (hhl) scattering planes. The only additional low-temperature scattering observed was the well-known tiny antiferromagnetic moment of 0.03 uB/U-ion.


We present and discuss here results concerning the implementation of molecular dynamics simulations with the Green-Kubo formalism to predict transport coefficients in SF 6 /N 2 mixtures under conditions of practical interest. SF 6 was modeled using a flexible molecular force field recently proposed [Olivet, A.; Vega, L. F. J. Chem. Phys. 2007, 126, 144502], while the force field of Galassi and Tildesley was used for N 2 modeling [Galassi, G.; Tildesley, D. J. Mol. Simul. 1994, 13, 11]. The influence of mixture composition on the mutual diffusion coefficients and shear viscosities was investigated by a series of molecular dynamic simulations of SF 6 /N 2 mixtures with different compositions at 300 K and 1 MPa. Temperature and pressure dependencies of the mutual diffusion coefficient were also investigated for a fixed composition of SF 6 /N 2 , covering the temperature range from 260 to 340 K and two pressure values (1 and 2 MPa). Simulations with these anisotropic force fields led to mutual diffusion coefficients that diminish when the SF 6 concentration in the mixture is increased. This behavior differs from the hypothesis of no composition dependence assumed for several estimation methods available in the literature for gaseous binary mixtures at low pressures. Such a composition dependence is explained on the basis of the deviations from ideality of SF 6 /N 2 mixtures. The effect of the molecular flexibility considered in the SF 6 molecular model is analyzed by comparing the transport coefficients estimated with the aforementioned force fields to those estimated with simple Lennard-Jones potentials. Differences between predictions with the anisotropic force fields and the simpler Lennard-Jones potentials were more significant in the case of the shear viscosity; while viscosities estimated with the Lennard-Jones potentials showed no dependence on composition, the estimations based on the anisotropic force fields exhibited a maximum value for the viscosity, which is the same behavior described by an empirical method. Results presented here are pure predictions, thus covering part of the lack of information existing about the transport coefficients of these mixtures, which is of relevance for several industrial processes.


This is the final report on the LDRD SI-funded Sustained Spheromak Physics Project for the years FY1997-FY1999, during which the SSPX spheromak was designed, built, and commissioned for operation at LLNL. The specific LDRD project covered in this report concerns the development, installation, and operation of specialized hardware and diagnostics for use on the SSPX facility in order to study energy confinement in a sustained spheromak plasma configuration. The USDOE Office of Fusion Energy Science funded the construction and routine operation of the SSPX facility. The main distinctive feature of the spheromak is that currents in the plasma itself produce the confining toroidal magnetic field, rather than external coils, which necessarily thread the vacuum vessel. There main objective of the Sustained Spheromak Physics Project was to test whether sufficient energy confinement could be maintained in a spheromak plasma sustained by DC helicity injection. Achieving central electron temperatures of several hundred eV would indicate this. In addition, we set out to determine how the energy confinement scales with T{sub c} and to relate the confinement time to the level of internal magnetic turbulence. Energy confinement and its scaling are the central technical issues for the spheromak as a fusion reactor concept.more » Pending the outcome of energy confinement studies now under way, the spheromak could be the basis for an attractive fusion reactor because of its compact size, simply-connected magnetic geometry, and potential for steady-state current drive.« less


How different performance incidents of an individual are associated with role stress have obtained significant consideration. Role stress has significant impact on creativity of an individual but still it is not clear how exactly role stress is linked with employee's creativity because it has hardly ever been studied empirically. Our study explores the relation of main two factors of role stressors named as role-ambiguity & role-conflict influence on creativity of employees as well as role of mediating factors in their relationship. A survey conducted for data collection through pairs of questionnaires, one from employees and other from their respective managers of local manufacturing industry of Pakistan. We used SPSS. 19 for analysis to test our study hypotheses. Results of step-wise or hierarchal regression show that role ambiguity is negatively whereas role conflict is positively associated with creativity of employees.


Pesticides are indispensable in contemporary agriculture. Extensive demand for food production has increased the use of pesticides/ insecticides. They have, no doubt, increased crop yields by killing different types of pests, which are known to cause substantial or total crop damage. As a result, many other non-target organisms are accidentally poisoned. One of the non-target biological groups mostly affected by these pollutants is fish. Fishes are exposed to pesticides by many ways and the most common route is agricultural runoffs. The pesticides may finally find their way to the natural water bodies and affect the aquatic environment.


An analytical model of electroosmosis-enhanced preloading consolidation via vertical drains is developed for the design of the combined preloading and electroosmotic consolidation of clay soils. Th...


This paper has taken 5139 references in 770 papers published in the Journal of Fujian Forestry Science and Technology from 2000 to 2005 as the statistic objects.The statistics and analysis of reference quantity,language species,variety,types,journals,and annual distribution were performed by bibliographic metrology.The distribution of the demand on bibliographic information was carried out according to the bibliographic utilization in order to provide references for the library resources construction of Fujian Academy of Forestry.


Abstract : This research uses a Bradley-Terry paired comparison model, extending the possible outcomes from a simple binary response to any point along a continuum. An integrated mean squared error approach is used as a basis for parameter estimation based on an underlying logistic model and for estimating a function that maps a response from the real line onto the interval (0,1). Evaluation of the parameter estimates is performed using an underlying logistic sampling distribution with a logistic mapping function. The asymptotic behavior of the estimates involves the use of linear combinations of order statistics, also called L-statistics. Using this approach it is shown that the parameter estimates are consistent but slightly biased. A simulation study with randomly generated values from a standard logistic distribution were used for response values in a paired comparison experiment. Samples for 3, 4, and 5 treatments with 5, 10, 25, and at times 50, replications for each pairing were considered. The values for the parameter estimates for these samples are presented along with the graphs of the estimated inverse mapping function. Density smoothing techniques using a kernel estimator were employed to further explore the shape of the derivative of the inverse mapping function. This continuous model was then reformulated into a Likert scale with five possible responses from any comparison. An ad hoc method and weighed least squares were used to determine the discriminating values for the Likert scale.


This report contains discharge records for 100 stream-gaging stations; stage and contents for 14 lakes and reservoirs; water quality for 34 stream-gaging stations; and water levels for 15 observation wells. Also included are 87 high-flow partial-record stations, and rainfall totals and water quality for one precipitation station.


Those of us who value analytic thinking about public policy and, in particular, about war, can learn a great deal from reading "Cost Benefit Analysis of Discretionary Wars" by Diane Hu and her coauthors.1 The article also raises many questions, and considering them spurs learning too. Their article contributes to the literature by formulating and implementing an approach to the cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of war that is tractable and amenable to empirical use. Notably, the authors add value by operationalizing several dimensions of war's benefits, by introducing certain simplified methods of estimating the costs of war, and by applying their framework of measuring costs and benefits to five case-studies of discretionary war. As the authors note, they build on the work of Nordhaus (2002), Stiglitz and Bilmes (2008), and others regarding the costs to the United States of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, as well as on Hausken's important theoretical framework for conducting a CBA of war (Hausken 2016). By abstracting from many complexities articulated by Hausken, the authors create an empirically oriented framework that can be populated with data from their case-studies of U.S. discretionary war.2 By examining a war's benefits and assigning monetary values to them, the authors are able to juxtapose these monetized benefits to their estimates of these wars' costs, thereby answering the question: Did the costs of these wars outweigh their benefits? The authors' extensive attention to war's benefits is distinctive, especially in estimating these benefits for five wars. (Other studies of a U.S. war's monetized benefits focus on one war.3) Furthermore, they obtain a striking result: costs exceed benefits for all five wars. None, not even the First Gulf War or Korea, escapes the article's grim verdict: negative net benefits should have ruled out these wars.


A microfluidic device enables high-throughput analysis of signaling in individual cells. This is a conversation with Andre Levchenko, author of a Protocol published in the 16 June 2009 issue of Science Signaling. He discusses a method for using a microfluidic device to quantify cell signaling events within individual cells.


Objective:To investigate a potential role of Toll-like receptor 4(TLR4) ,a pathogen pattern recognition receptor, in the early phase of severely burned rats. Methods: Rats burn model(30% of total body surface area[TBSA],Ⅲgrade) were established with vapor at 108 C for 8 seconds. Rats were sacrificed before and 2,5,12,24,48 and 72 h after burning, and the spleen specimens and peripheral blood samples were harvested. TLR4 mRNA and TNF-αmRNA expression in splenocyte was measured by reverse-transcription PCR(RT-PCR); the expression of TLR4 protein were measured by Western bloting; the endothelial toxicity concentration in plasma was detected by limulus lysate test. Results: It was found that the expression of TLR4 mRNA.TNF-αmRNA,TLR4 protein,and the level of ET were significantly increased in burned group compared with normal control group. The expression of TLR4 mRNA and protein peaked at 8 h after burning, the expession of TNF-αmRNA peaked at 12 h.and the level of ET peaked at 8 h after burnings the peak values of them were (3. 66±0. 51),(2. 27±0. 19), (1.65±0. 23),and (11. 68±2. 63) Eu/ml, respectively, all significantly higher than those of the control group(P0. 01 or P 0. 05). The expression of TLR4 mRNA showed a positive correlation with that of ET and TNF-αmRNA(r=0. 811,0. 462 ,P 0. 01). Conclusion: Severe burn can cause endotoxemia and upregulate the expression of TLR4 and TNF-αin splenocytes. The up-regulation of TLR4 might participate in the pathological procedure of excessive inflammation.


If learning is to be understood as a process of enskilment which is multidimensional, social and embodied (Ingold 2002: 37), it also includes the affective dimensions of experience. I would like to argue that becoming enskiled in the kind of learning done in the context of higher education, particularly anthropology, requires a certain familiarization with a sensation of frustration or challenge. In this article I explore how the process of enskilment in discomfort can be taught in a supportive relationship with a 'good enough teacher'. I draw on Donald Winicott's idea of a 'good enough mother' who supports child's development through secure attachment and permitting the child to experience well dosed episodes of frustration, rather than doing everything for them.


– The source code of landmark software developed since the beginning of the computer era is a precious part of our cultural heritage, and needs to be properly rescued, curated, archived and made available to present and future generations. In this article, we present the Software Heritage Acquisition Process, that has been designed to provide detailed guidelines on how to perform this important task, preserving important historical information. This process has been validated extensively on several important pieces of software source code of historical relevance in the University of Pisa, in collaboration with UNESCO, and is open to all for adoption and improve-ment.


Between October and December 2018, 27wounds and burn swab specimens were collected by laboratories at Al-Yarmook hospital, and cultured on Mannitol salt agar. the isolate was subjected to Nd: YAG laser in different power (400mJ, 500mJ, 800mJ and 900mJ). In general the laser showed effect on bacterial growth that reach to complete killing, the statistical analysis showed that there is weak correlation between laser at 400mJ with killed percentage. While in 500mJ its exhibit complete correlation with killing percentage, this correlation was decreased with increasing in power to 800mJ and 900Mj.


In my work with children, an issue that inevitably arises is bullying. So pervasive is this topic that every child I see talks in therapy of being chased, spit on, tripped, or called names. Sadly, one of the popular-albeit not new-words kids toss at those they don't like is guy. I try to work with kids around these incidents, teaching them appropriate and inappropriate ways for dealing with other children who seek to hurt or tease them. Toward this end, I often have the child's parents tell him or her the ways in which they were teased as a child and how they dealt with it. With caution, I tell these children that a time will come when they will no longer be bullied. Increasingly, we are reading more and more about bullying at its worst. Specifically, I'm referring to hate crimes, crimes in which an individual or group of individuals intentionally select a victim because of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation. In short, the offense is com-


The purpose of this study is to increase teachers ' knowledge of the implementation of Project-Based Learning models (PjBL) in thematic learning, to improve teacher skills in designing implementing and evaluating learning That is meaningful, active, innovative, creative, and fun. The method used in this PPM activity is training and mentoring. The instruments used in this PPM activity are observation sheets, interview sheets, and training modules. Data analysis of this activity is descriptively qualitative. The results of this study were carried out training activities and mentoring the implementation of Project-Based Learning Model (PjBL) in thematic learning.


Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is a rare lymphoma that occurs more frequently in immunocompromised adults and has a poor survival. We report a 9‐year‐old female with combined immunodeficiency with an Epstein–Barr virus positive/human herpes virus 8 negative PEL‐like lymphoma. The treatment with systemic chemotherapy for non‐Hodgkin lymphoma, zidovudine, and interferon‐α failed to control disease progression. This is the first reported pediatric case of PEL‐like lymphoma. Increased diagnostic awareness and more effective treatment strategies are needed for this rare lymphoma.


In Pakistan, asphalt pavements are experiencing a high rate of deterioration due to rutting and fatigue cracking. These problems arise in asphalt pavements due to the use of improper binder characterization and mix design. It is believed that polymer modification can be employed to improve binder ductility and durability. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze the behavior of virgin and polymer modified asphalt at a range of temperature and rate of loading. Two virgin and seven polymer modified asphalt (PMA) samples were tested using Dynamic Shear Rheometer. Master curves were developed for complex shear modulus by applying a shift factor to log of time at each temperature to the reference temperature. The major finding is that a decrease in the temperature susceptibility was observed for PMA samples; that is relatively lower stiffness at lower temperature and relatively higher stiffness at higher temperature. These polymer modification results are beneficial in improving the performance of flexible pavements.


Kamara, Willie Kim. M.S., Department of Economics, Program in Social and Applied Economics, Wright State University, 2000. Economic Impact of Wright State University International Students on the Dayton Local Economy for the Academic Year 1997-1998. This study, the Economic Impact of Wright State University International Students on the Dayton Local Economy, examines the financial contributions of international students at both the graduate and undergraduate level to the Dayton area. The study was conducted in the fall of 1998 among 120 students drawn from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The study agrees with similar research findings. International students are a source of economic benefits in the regions where they reside. International students at Wright State University received grants and income from Dayton area residents. Consequently, it recommends that universities should take steps to recruit and retain foreign students. Retention is most likely if universities charge lower tuition, lower fees, expand their academic programs, or partner with businesses to ensure that international students experience the practical effects of the studies they undertake. Page 1. AN OVERVIEW 1 2. BACKGROUND 5 Student Exchange Programs 6 Why Wright State University 8 History 8 Impact on Colleges and Universities Today 11 3. DATA AND RESULTS 21 Methodology and Research Design 22 Source of data 22 The instrument 23 Hypotheses 23 Employment After Graduation 28 Economic Development Impact Multiplier 31 International Student Spending in the Dayton Area 32 Budgetary Allocation 32 Direct Impact-Export-Based Theory 34 Social/ Qualitative Impact of International Students 35 Long Run 35 4. POLICY IMPLICATION 36 How to attract and Retain International Students 40 Link with Businesses 42 5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 43 vi Wright State University 44 Dayton and the State of Ohio 45 Conclusion 46 APPENDIX A 49 A 1 Questionnaire 50 WORKS CITED 53 Figure 1. How Long in the United States 24 2. Tuition and Living Expenses 25 3. Sources of Incom e 26 4. Percentage of Income from Outside the Dayton A rea 27 5. Students Interested in Working in Dayton after Graduation 28 6. Students Interested in Working in Ohio after Graduation 29 7. Students Employed at Wright State University 29 8. Students Employed Off-Campus 30 9. Wages Per M onth 30 Table 1 Ohio Board of Regents: Foreign Student Contribution from Tuition and Fees (1995-1996 17 2 Ohio Board of Regents: Contribution to State Economy by Foreign Students' Dependents 20 3 Ohio Board of Regents: Net Contribution to State Economy by Foreign Students


This paper describes a new validated reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method for the simultaneous estimation of anti-cancer drugs, Carboplatin (CBT) and Docetaxel (DTX) in liposomes formulation. An analytical method was developed by reverse phase HPLC on C18 column (250 × 4.6 mm, 5µ) with mobile phase consists of mixture of acetonitrile: phosphate buffer (55:45, v/v) (pH 6.8) run on isocratic mode at a flow rate of 1.0 ml/min. The chromatographic peaks were detected at 235nm. The calibration curve of CBT and DTX were linear over range with correlation co-efficient of 0.986 and 0.990. In short, this method was rapid and convenient, which could be used for the routine analysis of CBT and DTX in pharmaceutical dosage forms.


The High-voltage post insulators are widely used in power systems. The electrical and mechanical properties of post insulators are closely related to the operation stability of power system. Based on the three-dimensional finite element method (FEM), the mechanical and electrical properties of post insulator are modeled and analyzed. The results show that the maximum electric field strength of the insulator is located on the surface of the voltage-equalizing ring near the high voltage side, and the first principal stress maximum value of 150MPa is mainly concentrated on flange supporting side. The PSO-RBF hybrid algorithm is proposed to optimize nonlinear inversion structural parameters of the post insulator. The results show that the PSO-RBF neural network has good effect on the nonlinear fitting mapping of the original finite element calculation data, and the algorithm has good convergence. The mechanical and electrical properties of the post insulators and the configuration of the post insulator-related voltage sharing ring and shielding ring are obtained, which can provide the theoretical basis for the insulation structure design and fittings configuration of UHV and below post composite insulators.


A qualitative and quantitative deterioration of natural environments occurred recently worldwide. Loss of ecological capacities and agricultural decline are the critical consequences of urbanisation. This paper focuses on the value of assessing the urban sprawl in a southern Italy territory in order to evaluate the significant landscape transformations and provide a document to local administrators for a more balanced management of land use. The importance to calculate the soil consumption dynamics is remarkable in the investigated territory, Rende municipality in the Calabria region, southern Italy, since it is characterized by the same human pressure that occurred in other Mediterranean areas, so it is well representative of wider territories included in the Mediterranean setting. The transition from rural areas to urban settlements has been investigated via landscape analysis, and conducted for spatial and temporal changes over 25 years. The landscape analysis has integrated data from the orthophotos and Esri topographic base map. Quantitatively, the estimation of urban growth, in all its components, and soil consumption are evident by analysis of the number of patches. Qualitatively, the occurred consumption of fertile soil has caused a significant impact on local environmental conditions and on human activities resulting in decreasing of arable land, which decreased significantly over the considered period. This study addresses how knowledge of the change in urban areas is needed to effectively manage urban environmental impacts.


In order to saving building energy, Korean government are continuing to strength the building energy code, claiming to submit the building energy saving plan with energy performance index sheet under certain building size. The building energy rating system have been carried out to estimate energy consumption of buildings about office buildings and apartment houses. In this study, we survey the building energy performance index(EPI) of energy efficiency office buildings with building energy rating certification and analyze the items and score of energy performance index of general office buildings with a permission standard. The 1 class certified building got 86.8 points in Total EPI score and 242.3㎾h/㎥·yr energy use.


A new CMOS current controlled differential voltage current conveyor is presented.A voltage mode multifunction filter was proposed based on the CCDVCCⅡ.The filter performs completely the standard functions such as low pass,high pass,band pass,band reject,all pass.The quality and pole frequency of the filter can be tuned independently by input bias current.The circuit consists of merely two CCDVCCⅡs,one resistor and two capactitors and it need not any macthing components.Futhermore,each function can be selected by suitably selecting input sigals with digital method.A programmable instrumentation amplifier was also designed by using SMIC 0.18 μm CMOS process parameters and Spectre.The simulation results agree well with the theoretical anticipation.


AbstractDrought quantification is a decision-making approach for water resources planners and managers. There are different statistical methods for regional quantification of droughts, depending on the event being regionally discrete or continuous. Calculating a drought index in the measured grid points of a given region is a prerequisite for the regionalization process of drought by these methods. The aim of this study is the regional analysis of the streamflow drought using the multivariate technique of principal components analysis (PCA). To this end, the streamflow drought index (SDI) was calculated in the seven hydrometric stations of the Sefid-Rud basin in Iran for the period of 1984–2013 in seasonal (winter, spring, summer, and autumn), semiannual (October–March and May–September), and annual (October–September) time scales. Regional monitoring of the SDI was carried out using the PCA technique summarizing the SDI series of all stations into a new series, the so-called the multivariate streamflow d...


The example of wastewater pharmaceutical companies consider the possibility of applying the method of bioassays to assess their potential hazard. The conclusion about the possibility of using Escherichia coli as the test object. Defined the criteria for assessing the impact of sewage on the test culture.


The present article studies the issues of evaluating the potential of large urban agglomerations for attracting financial and investment resources into the regional economic system. By the example of the Krasnodar urban agglomeration, the authors study the place and role of agglomerations in modern regional economic development, which is essential under the current economic and financial crisis in Russia and the need for new growth areas and resources for economic development. Keywords—investments; agglomeration; regional economy


To control the process of nanopowders generating in order to ensure the required characteristics, it is necessary to solve the general physical problem of vaporization and condensation of steam in a gas-phase synthesis plant. A model of the physical problem should describe besides the formation of condensed particles, the hydrodynamic features of the flow, as well as heat exchange processes with other objects inside the working chamber. The questions of interaction of particles within an ultradispersed system through coagulation were considered. A mathematical model that describes the process of coagulation of a monodisperse system inside the evaporation-condensation chamber was formulated. A variant of the optimization of a coagulation numerical model in an ultradispersed system by reducing the number of sections corresponding to particle fractions of the mass scale was proposed. The use of an reduced scale made it possible to optimize the information received, and also gave advantages in the speed of calculations, which made it possible to reduce the time spent in problems with coagulation of systems.


From a pathophysiological standpoint, pulmonary hypertension (PHT) can be divided into acute and chronic phases. During the acute phase, mechanical factors such as vasoconstriction, passive pulmonary venous hypertension, and luminal thrombosis are primarily involved. In illnesses such as acute pulmonary embolism or the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), the acute event is recognizable. In primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH), however, both the nature and the duration of the inciting event or events are unknown. During the chronic phase, vascular remodeling occurs and is believed to perpetuate or exacerbate PHT. In the case of PHT secondary to emphysema, vascular remodeling occurs in response to persistent phenomena such as alveolar hypoxia. In the case of toxin ingestion and perhaps PPH, it is likely that vascular remodeling represents a maladaptive response to an isolated acute event. In general, mediators may promote PHT through three mechanisms: (1) vasoconstriction of precapillary or postcapillary pulmonary vascular segments, (2) stimulation of in situ vascular thrombosis, and (3) induction of vascular remodeling. The first 2 may be involved in both acute and chronic PHT. Vascular remodeling is slower in onset and may involve cellular hypertrophy, cellular proliferation, matrix deposition, and inflammation. These processes may affect any of the vascular mural layers: intima, media, and adventitia. Many mediators are theoretically capable of promoting PHT. Table 1 lists mediators that induce vasoconstriction of the pulmonary circulation in various species. Table 2 shows mediators that may act as growth factors for vascular cells, including smooth muscle cells (SMCs), endothelial cells, and fibroblasts. However, the demonstration that a substance can induce pulmonary vasoconstriction or cellular proliferation does not prove that it plays a role in the pathogenesis of PHT. A putative mediator of PHT should satisfy several criteria. First, the mediator should be found in sufficient concentration near the proposed site of action. Second, it should be increased in subjects with PHT compared with subjects without PHT. Third, exogenous administration of the mediator to normal subjects should result in the putative effect (eg, vasoconstriction or cellular proliferation). Finally, specific molecular blockade of the mediator should attenuate this effect. Ideally, these criteria should be satisfied both in vitro and in vivo. Although many potential mediators of experimental PHT satisfy the first two criteria, few meet the first three. Only recently have potent and selective pharmacologic probes become available for in vivo testing. Studies of the role of endogenous autacoids in human PHT have generally been less complete. This review will focus on putative mediators of acute and chronic PHT in the setting of several conditions known to affect man. Protamine-induced vasoconstriction is discussed first as an example of acute PHT with a known stimulus. Next, we discuss experimental endotoxemia, sepsis, and ARDS, representing a spectrum of pulmonary vascular responses that can arise from a common insult. We then discuss the acute and chronic responses to alveolar hypoxia. Finally, we review PPH—a chronic process whose inciting event is unknown. Human data are emphasized when available and supplemented by data from relevant experimental models.


Bangladesh is an agricultural country and its economic condition largely depends on agriculture. The country produces much agricultural merchandise like rice, jute, wheat, onion, chilly, banana, garlic, ginger, pulse and so on. However, rice (Oryza Sativa) is produced most widely all over the country. Moreover, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 2017 estimate that the rice production of Bangladesh is 34.7 million metric tons for the period 2017–2018 and the position of Bangladesh is after China, India, and Indonesia. In addition, Bangladesh produces three types of rice which are Aus, Aman, and Boro. A huge portion of the population in Bangladesh immensely depends on rice as the main food. So, this paper attempts to predict the rice production of Bangladesh with the help of machine learning model like Artificial Neural Network (ANN). This paper considers a secondary data set of yearly rice production in Bangladesh over the period 1971–1972 to 2014–2015. This paper identifies the most suitable neural network model with architecture ANN 3*3*2*1 based on model selection criteria like MSE. Thus, this paper suggests an ANN model for envisaging the rice production of Bangladesh. Keywords: Machine learning, prediction, rice prediction, neural network Cite this Article Shohel Mahmud. Predicting the Rice Production of Bangladesh by Machine Learning Technique . Research & Reviews: Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology . 2018; 7(3): 7–13p.


Computers impact on many aspects of daily life and increasingly are utilized in a wide range of criminal activities. They facilitate actions which might come to be considered criminal but which, as yet, are not illegal and they have affected the nature of victimization. Inevitably police forces are having to come to terms with this new phenomenon. This article presents research undertaken by Sussex Police in identifying the extent of the potential problem (elsewhere previous studies have focused on the nature of the problem) and in formulating a response. The work was undertaken by a Computer Crime Working Group of 15 officers and specialist support staff, including the present authors. The Group's Report was submitted to the Sussex Police Crime Management Sub-Committee in December 1996.


We need to help mold and develop leadership among our incoming freshman entering college. We continue to ask these young men to be leaders but have not invested the time, energy, and resources in helping making these young men leaders. The PAC12 has made great strides in making themselves a premier conference and revenue generator in college athletics, some of the responsibility should fall upon them to help develop the leadership qualities we sometimes assume these young men should or already have. How can we expect these young men to be leaders when some of them have not had anyone leading them? Some of our players may come from single-parent households and have not had a positive role model in their life. They have not been properly taught how to act as men and no longer children. Educating these players will help protect the investment that the PAC12 and the University is fostering by having them participate as student athletes.


To investigate the performance of transcritical CO2 quasi-secondary compression cycle with ejector (TCIEJ) for heat pump water heaters, the thermodynamic model of TCIEJ is established based on the pinch point, and TCEX, TCEJ, and TCI are selected as comparisons. The effects of changing high pressure and ambient temperature on the heating COP and compressor exhaust temperature are analyzed, and the influence of cooling water inlet and outlet temperature and vapor injection pressure on TCIEJ is further analyzed. The results show that there are optimal high pressures that make the heating COP of the four heat pump cycles reach the maximum value, of which TCIEJ has the best performance. At an ambient temperature of −15 °C, the maximum heating COP of TCIEJ increased by about 20.5%, 14.9%, and 7.9% compared with TCEX, TCEJ, and TCI. With the increase in ambient temperature, the optimal high pressure continues to increase, and the corresponding maximum heating COP gradually increases. Selecting the geometric mean of high pressure and evaporation pressure as the optimal vapor injection pressure for TCIEJ, the error is small compared to the actual optimal vapor injection pressure. With the increase in ambient temperature and cooling water outlet temperature, the optimal high pressure of TCIEJ continues to increase, and the correlation formula of optimal high pressure is fitted according to the simulation results.


The utility model provides a novel side sealing device of a trolley type heating furnace. The side sealing device is provided with a sealing groove, wherein a heat-insulation sealing material is distributed in the sealing groove and the sealing groove is adhered to a furnace wall sealing knife fixed on a furnace wall and a trolley sealing knife fixed on the trolley in a sealing manner, an inclined iron is fixedly connected on the lower end surface of the sealing groove, a fixing frame on which the inclined iron can slide up and down is fixed on a furnace body, and an air cylinder pushing-pulling device which is matched with the inclined iron and can push the inclined iron to raise and press or descend and separate from the sealing groove is arranged below the inclined iron. According to the utility model, the air cylinder pushing-pulling device is adopted to provide a power source, the inclined iron is driven to slide relatively by being supported, so that the up-and-down movement of the sealing groove is realized and the sealing groove is ensured to be raised to be tightly close to the furnace wall sealing knife 10 and the trolley sealing knife 11 after a trolley enters the furnace body, and a gap is tightly sealed; when the trolley goes out of the furnace, the sealing groove is descended to be convenient for the trolley to move; and therefore, the heat treatment quality of a workpiece is ensured, the energy utilization rate is improved, and energy loss and environment pollution caused by furnace gas leakage are also prevented.


Real economic benefits may lead to an aggressive tourism development, regardless of the host region's tourist infrastructure and resource loading capabilities, which in the long term, more linked to the negative impact of tourism in the region's economy and competitiveness in the international market failures. Sustainable tourism development meets the needs of present tourists and host regions while protecting and enhancing opportunities for the future. It is envisaged as leading to management of all resources in such a way that economic, social, and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity, and life support systems. The aim of this article – to indetify the influence of a tourism development on regional economic growth and valuation changes. Research methods - based on the theoretical concept of tourism development, tourism development carried out in the current criteria for assessing the impact analysis using systemic. logical and critical analysis techniques, in conjunction theory of international tourism development and policy trends. The main research results – summarizing of indicators of tourism development.The tourism development and the ef-fects of differences in assumptions of tourism development are discussed in the article. JEL code: O100, O110, L890.


An ENDOR study on several nitroxide radicals included in polycrystalline and glassy matrices is reported. A calculation program has been developed to simulate ENDOR spectra of radicals in disordered matrices. The shape of the computed spectra can be changed from crystal-like to powder-like type through the intermediate cases. The principal values of the AH hyperfine tensors have been obtained for tempone, tempol, tempyo and di-t-butyl-nitroxide. The influence of the host matrix on radical conformations is also discussed.


The aim of this work aims to set-up of an intelligent system for monitoring and control of an agricultural greenhouse based on Internet of Things (IoT) in order to increase the crop yield and facilitate the supervision. For this purpose, a Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network (WSAN) is used, a fuzzy logic controller is developed using python language and a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) based on Node-Red server of IBM is realized. The results of obtained tests show the effectiveness and the success of the proposed system.


Any form of relief is characterized by the gravitational potential energy (subsystem X(t)). This leads to the for-mation of a new subsystem within a given gravitational potential energy involving the development of relief-forming processes and their corresponding forms of relief, and the creation of subsystem Y(X,t). Subsystem Y(X,t) acts as negative feedback, inhibiting the development of processes in the subsystem X(t), as a result of this interaction is achieved by balance (dynamic balance) in the substance discharge. In the example of mountain glacier basin of the Aktru River considers the functioning of the binary Geosystems and features of mass exchange between the subsystems X(t) and Y(t). The study confirmed that self-regulation in the geosystems of the stagnant environment, in particular in Aktru geosystem, carried out by feedback of the Geosystem's size for admission of entry matter. In the subsystem Y (t) proceeds the accumulation of a significant part of material. This accumulation will last till saturation of subsystem by incoming material.


In this paper, we report the design and synthesis of isoindigo based low band gap polymer semiconductors, poly{N,N′-(2-octyldodecyl)-isoindigo-alt- naphthalene} (PISD-NAP) and poly{N,N′-(2-octyldodecyl)-isoindigo-alt- anthracene} (PISD-ANT). A series of donor-acceptor (D-A) copolymers can be prepared where donor and acceptor conjugated blocks can be attached alternately using organometallic coupling. In these polymers, an isoindigo dye acceptor moiety has been attached alternately with naphthalene and anthracene donor comonomer blocks by Suzuki coupling. PISD-NAP and PISD-ANT exhibit excellent solution processibility and good film-forming properties. Gel permeation chromatography exhibits a higher molecular mass with lower polydispersity. UV-vis-NIR absorption of these polymers exhibits a wide absorption band ranging from 300 nm to 800 nm, indicating the low band gap nature of the polymers. Optical band gaps calculated from the solid state absorption cutoff value for PISD-NAP and PISD-ANT are around 1.80 eV and 1.75 eV, respectively. Highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) values calculated respectively for PISD-NAP and PISD-ANT thin films on glass substrate by photoelectron spectroscopy in air (PESA) are 5.66 eV and 5.53 eV, indicative of the good stability of these materials in organic electronic device applications. These polymers exhibit p-channel charge transport characteristics when used as the active semiconductor in organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) devices in ambient conditions. The highest hole mobility of 0.013 cm2 V-1 s-1 is achieved in top contact and bottom-gate OTFT devices for PISD-ANT, whereas polymer PISD-NAP exhibited a hole mobility of 0.004 cm2 V -1 s-1. When these polymer semiconductors were used as a donor and PC71BM as an acceptor in OPV devices, the highest power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 1.13% is obtained for the PISD-ANT polymer.


In 1958, Roger Vailland and his wife left for Reunion Island to rest and this is where Vailland draws a disenchanted portrait of the island. Despite its character of lost paradise, the island was treated in a negative way: Vailland therefore falls into the category of the great dysphoric and critical travel tales of the 20th century. Marked no doubt by his communist convictions, the writer constructs an anti-narrative in which he reduces Reunion Island to a mineral and sinister land: his work oscillates between the travel narrative and the historical-political treatise in which he analyses and comments on the island's recent history.


Background/Aim: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic disease characterized by persistent inflammatory synovitis that typically involves peripheral joints in a symmetric distribution. The joint arthritis is due to synovitis, which is the inflammation of the synovial membrane that covers the joint. Synovitis leads to erosion of the joint surface, causing deformity and loss of function. The bacterial load from the intestinal flora as a whole may well be a trigger for autoimmune rheumatoid synovitis. Study Design: Isolation and identification of some bacteria from normal flora was carried out in microbiological laboratory in NODCAR in year 2007. The biochemical markers for rheumatoid arthritis in patients were observed as CRP (33.391 ± 15.189 mg/dl), RF (49.565± 15.805 IU/ml), ANA were positive in 78.3 of patients (30.417± 18.528 IU/ml) and Anti-CCP2 (42.391 ±7.590 U/ml). An aqueous suspension of outer membrane (OM) was isolated from the cell wall fragments (CWF) of bacterial flora isolates were prepared according to Severijnen, et al., 1990. Physical and chemical measurements of outer membrane as determined the molecular weight by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and determination of the outer membrane total proteins. Arthritis was induced in rats with a single intraperitoneal injection of an aqueous suspension of outer membrane (OM) was isolated from the cell walls of isolates are found in the normal flora of arthritic and non-arthritic human intestines. Some of these rats leave for 30 days and others for 60 days after induction of arthritis. Results: Biochemical and histological parameters were made for all groups of rats. CRP, RF, ANA and anti-CCP2 were highly significance increase in positive control of OMinduced arthritic rats for 30-days (32.0 ±8.76 mg/dl, 50.0± 10.95 IU/ml, 50.0±24.49 IU/ml and 33.833 ±5.382 U/ml, p<0.01 respectively), and for 60-days (37.33 ±9.24 mg/dl, 53.33 ± 11.56 IU/ml, 53.34±23.10 IU/ml and 37.833 ±5.345 U/ml, p<0.01 respectively) when compared to the control group. Also, there were significant increase in CRP, RF, ANA and Anti-CCP2 in OM-induced arthritic rats before treatment with Echinacea exract (Immunvita) (24.0 ±6.753 mg/dl, 45.0± 10.00 IU/ml, Correspondence to: Dr. Samuel T. Melek, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com 30.00± 11.55 IU/ml and 35.50 ±4.203 U/ml, p<0.05, respectively) when compared to that after treatment (10.67 ±4.62 mg/dl, 33.34± 11.56 IU/ml, 16.67±5.78 IU/ml and 16.667± 2.517 U/ml, p<0.05 respectively) for 30-days, also to control group (p<0.05). Similar results obtained before Glucosamine (Genuphil) treatment (26.0 ±4.0 mg/dl, 45.0± 10.0 IU/ml, 22.5± 12.59 IU/ml and 35.00±3.367 U/ml, respectively) when compared to that after treatment (10.67 ±4.62 mg/dl, 16.67±5.78 IU/ml, 13.34±5.78 IU/ml and 16.60 ± 1.673 U/ml, p<0.05 respectively) for 30-days, also to control group ( p<0.05). Also, in 60 days OM-induced arthritic rats, CRP, RF, ANA and Anti-CCP2 were significance increase before treatment with Echinacea exract (Immunvita) (26.0 ±4.53 mg/dl, 45.0± 10.00 IU/ml, 23.00± 12.55 IU/ml and 37.20±4.438 U/ml, p<0.05, respectively) when compared to that after treatment (12.00±4.62 mg/dl, 35.00 ± 10.00 IU/ml, 15.00±5.78 IU/ml and 19.80±2.168 U/ml, p<0.05 respectively), also to control group (p<0.05) & with Glucosamine (Genuphil), before treatment (24.0 ±6.0 mg/dl, 45.0± 10.0 IU/ml, 29.5± 11.59 IU/ml and 35.75±4.992 U/ml, respectively) when compared to that after treatment (13.37 ±4.63 mg/dl, 26.67± 11.56 IU/ml, 16.67±5.78 IU/ml and 19.75±2.986 U/ml, p<0.05 respectively), also to control group. Histologically, the arthritis lesions produced by OM in the paw of the inspected animals were of mild degree. Conclusion: The OM prepared from the selected strains from human intestinal flora induced acute and chronic arthritis in rat models. Serum concentrations of antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) seem to be just as sensitive and more specific than rheumatoid factor for diagnosing rheumatoid arthritis and predicting its progression. The two treatments of Echinacea and glucosamine showed reduction in the inflammatory cell influx and joint damage.


Personally, the past is very important because it is always in the present through the continuous memory and reflection. And in the view of society, the arrangement of the reality of the past can be operated as one of the facts which amend the present. So the writers are interested in revealing the relation between the structure of the society of the past and the human acts based on that structure. This method is more valuable when the historical contemplation is the unique way to reach to the origin of present problems. The most important aspect, in this time, is the historical consciousness of the writers because, for the writers, it is required to make efforts to recreate the reality of the past with priority given to the modern evaluation. In the Latin-American literary world, the Colombian dramatist, Enrique Buenaventura is estimated as one of the famous writers which reinvented successfully the reality of the past to reveal the origin of complex problems of the present. He established the "Teatro Experimental de Cali" and pursued the dramas which accuse the social reality of Colombia. He thinks that it is necessary to understand the harms done to the human development and analyze the influence and the consequence of imperialism and consumer economy. So he likes to write ideological, historical and documentary works. His representative work, Los Soldados, is one of them. This work treats the historical reality that is very famous in the history of Colombia, "the Masacre in Banana Zone." This historical event occurred in 1928 in the Province Santa Marta, Colombia. This work contains the process of strike of the workers and the armed suppression of the military. Enrique Buenaventura, in this work, tries to reveal the occult history and restitute the historical reality in the present to represent the origin of violence spread in Colombian society. This effort is to complete the present life of the masses. This article attempts to examine the process of objective reality of the past and show the critical vision represented in Los soldados.


Although the study of the Synoptic Problem has been the focus of scholarly attention for over two hundred years, the social learning theory known as Communities of Practice is a relatively recent phenomenon. This article describes a communities of practice approach to the study of the Synoptic Problem in an upper-division undergraduate course at a private, liberal arts college. Students with little or no prior knowledge of the Synoptic Problem were introduced to the salient issues of the Synoptic Problem as well as a theoretical framework in which to interpret them. Data were collected using a variety of mixed methods, including pre- and post-treatment tests, written survey questions, interviews, field notes, and focus group sessions. The results of this study suggest that a communities of practice approach can enhance students' knowledge of the Synoptic Problem and also foster an awareness of scholarly and personal presuppositions that influence the interpretation of the gospels.


The aim of this paper is to demonstrate several methods on how using modeling of different datasets in 3D can be used for better understanding of the sub-surface of volcanic geothermal systems. The paper shows examples of a variety of datasets and how they can be interpreted. Parameters that are discussed are for example, alteration, tectonic features, feed zones and alteration temperature. Examples will be shown from various utilized geothermal systems in Iceland.


The evaluation method of the dynamic reliability of existing bridge concrete bridge structure was introduced.The influencing factors of load effect probability model,structural resisting force probability model and resisting force were analyzed elementally.It proposed that the dynamic reliability theory can be used as the forecasting method of reliability,which make people can obtain the reliability at arbitrary time,so as to apply in the reliability evaluation of bridge structure.


The financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession left huge scars on household balance sheets, with households approaching retirement seeing the largest decline in wealth. This chapter examines how these households have adjusted to these developments. To date, most evidence on this question has come from surveys of household intentions. Using data on actual household behavior, we find that households nearing retirement are making up for financial losses by increasing saving and deferring retirement. They also appear to have reduced financial risk exposure by taking on less leverage and moving their portfolios in a more conservative direction. Disciplines Economics This working paper is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/prc_papers/171 Changing Retirement Behavior in the Wake of the Financial Crisis Julia Coronado and Karen Dynan September 2011 PRC WP2011-07 Pension Research Council Working Paper Pension Research Council The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 3620 Locust Walk, 3000 SH-DH Philadelphia, PA 19104-6302 Tel: 215.898.7620 Fax: 215.573.3418 Email: email@example.com http://www.pensionresearchcouncil.org The authors thank John Soroushian for excellent research assistance, and David Richardson and participants at the Pension Research Council Spring Symposium for helpful comments. All findings, interpretations, and conclusions of this paper represent the views of the authors and not those of the Wharton School or the Pension Research Council. © 2011 Pension Research Council of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. All rights reserved. Changing Retirement Behavior in the Wake of the Financial Crisis Abstract The financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession left huge scars on household balance sheets, with households approaching retirement seeing the largest decline in wealth. This chapter examines how these households have adjusted to these developments. To date, most evidence on this question has come from surveys of household intentions. Using data on actual household behavior, we find that households nearing retirement are making up for financial losses by increasing saving and deferring retirement. They also appear to have reduced financial risk exposure by taking on less leverage and moving their portfolios in a more conservative direction. Julia Coronado BNP Paribas firstname.lastname@example.com Karen Dynan Brookings Institute email@example.com Changing Retirement Behavior in the Wake of the Financial Crisis Julia Coronado and Karen Dynan The financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession have left huge scars on household balance sheets. Stock prices remain below their peak of the fall of 2007. Home prices fell more than a quarter from their 2006 peak and continue to fall. Households have shed some of their debt (in large part through defaults), but the decline has not been nearly as large as the decline in the value of their assets, leaving the ratio of debt to assets well above its pre-crisis range. Looking across age groups, households approaching retirement have seen the largest decline in wealth. These households were in their peak lifecycle wealth accumulation years when the crisis hit, and they were holding much of this wealth in equities or homes. With fewer years of earnings ahead than their younger counterparts, they have fewer options to make up for this loss in wealth and must make a number of significant economic decisions as a result. This chapter examines how households approaching retirement have adjusted to these balance sheet developments. To date, much of the evidence on this question has come from surveys that ask households how they are adjusting or plan to adjust (c.f. Sass, Monk, and Haverstick, 2010; Hurd and Rohwedder, 2011). Such evidence is useful but remains limited, in that intentions do not always correspond to actions. This chapter complements the survey evidence with a careful look at the available data on what households approaching retirement are actually doing—how households are adjusting their consumption, labor supply, and asset allocation. We begin with a review of macroeconomic and financial developments over the past few years and then explore exactly how these developments have affected the financial conditions of households in different age groups. Next we turn to the different margins on which households may be adjusting. We look at patterns of consumption and labor supply across age groups, using past recessions as a benchmark; we also examine financial decisions including willingness to borrow and asset allocation. Whereas the survey evidence is mixed on whether households are adjusting to their wealth losses by trimming their spending, households do seem to have adjusted on this margin. In particular, households on the cusp of retirement have seen a sharp and broad-based decline in their spending, in contrast to a fairly muted reduction for households in the age categories on either side of this group. Patterns of labor force participation by age are consistent with survey data, indicating a strong inclination toward deferring retirement to make up for the losses. Finally, the financial crisis appears to have left an imprint on financial behavior, with a significant reduction in willingness to take on debt and considerable wealth having been moved out of higher-risk equity funds and into lower-risk bond funds. Boom and bust in the early 2000s To set the stage for our analysis, it is useful to briefly review the events of the last decade and their implications for household finances. Following a brief and mild recession in 2001, the United States saw considerable run-ups in stock prices and home prices paired with solid economic growth and low rates of unemployment. Aggregate household net worth relative to disposable income rose sharply to a high of 6.4 in mid-2007, noticeably above the peak reached during the stock market bubble of the late 1990s (Figure 1). Ultimately, the good times proved transitory, however. Home prices began to decline in 2006, and stock prices turned down in late 2007 (Figure 2). Figures 1 and 2 here Housing played a special role in the recent economic cycle. In retrospect, home values clearly rose above levels that could be justified by economic fundamentals. Housing has historically been the most widely held asset among US households, and it became even more broadly based as homeownership rates rose from the 63-66 percent range observed between 1965 and 1998, to around 69 percent between 2004 and 2007 (Figure 3). The expansion in home ownership was fueled, in part, by a slackening of mortgage underwriting standards, including a sharp rise in the prevalence of so-called 'affordable' mortgages. However, many of these mortgages proved to be unsustainable in the absence of continued home price appreciation. As home prices began to fall, losses mounted at financial institutions and many collapsed or threatened to do so. In turn, credit conditions began to tighten, leading to yet more defaults and credit losses, until the US found itself in the most severe financial crisis and economic downturn since the Great Depression. Figure 3 here Stock ownership has also expanded in recent decades. The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) conducted by the Federal Reserve Board shows an increase in stock ownership (both directly and indirectly held) from 37 percent of households in 1992 to 51 percent in 2007 (Aizcorbe, Kennickell, and Moore, 2003; Bucks et al., 2009). Homeowners tended to have greater exposure to stock than renters, with 63 percent holding equity in 2007 (about 21⁄2 times the corresponding share of renters). Amid the boom in equity and home values, consumers took on unprecedented amounts of debt. The ratio of household debt to disposable income (Figure 4) rose steadily in the 1980s and 1990s as the liberalization of financial markets and improvements in technology for assessing risk increased access to credit and lowered the cost of borrowing. The trend sharply accelerated in 2002, with household debt surging above 100 percent of disposable income and reaching a peak of 130 percent in the third quarter of 2007. Rising debt levels left household vulnerable to shocks that left them with elevated debt obligations relative to their available resources (Dynan, 2009). Figure 4 here By early 2009, aggregate stock market wealth was 50 percent below its peak in October 2007, while the value of aggregate household real estate holdings were down a quarter from their peak two years prior. The ratio of household wealth to disposable income bottomed out at 4.5 in early 2009, its lowest level since the mid-1980s. The combination of elevated debt burdens and depleted balance sheets left households under enormous strain. The ratio of debt to asset values, which had shown fairly subdued growth between 2002 and 2007 because of rising asset values, exploded upward with the collapse in asset values. The recession also had a profound effect on employment conditions. Nearly nine million jobs were lost to the downturn. When employment conditions reached their trough in late 2009, the unemployment rate was over 10 percent and the 'underemployment rate' (which includes part-time workers that would like to be fully employed and workers not actively seeking a job because they are discouraged) was 17.2 percent. Since that time, the economy has remained weak and improved only modestly in terms of broader conditions and household financial conditions. More than one in 12 workers is still without a job. Long-term unemployment trends have been particularly troubling, with the fraction of workers unemployed for 27 weeks or more, at 4 percent, still well above the range seen for decades prior to this recession. The ratio of household wealth to income has recovered a bit, but it remains no higher than it was in the early 1990s. Impact of the Great Recession on the finances of different age groups We use t


MOTIVATION
Scalable clustering algorithms are needed to analyse millions of cells in single cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data.

RESULTS
Here we present an open source python package called FlowGrid that can integrate into the Scanpy workflow to perform clustering on very large scRNA-seq data sets. FlowGrid implements a fast density-based clustering algorithm originally designed for flow cytometry data analysis. We introduce a new automated parameter tuning procedure, and show that FlowGrid can achieve comparable clustering accuracy as state-of-the-art clustering algorithms but at a substantially reduced run time for very large single cell RNA-seq data sets. For example, FlowGrid can complete a 1-hour clustering task for one million cells in about 5 minutes.

AVAILABILITY
https://github.com/holab-hku/FlowGrid.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


Not all loanword adaptations between donor and recipient languages take place freely without undergoing rigorous modifications proved many studies. This includes assimilations, such as phonetics/phonemics, graphemes, semantic changes, connotational changes and so on. Certain words are modified radically while some are modified moderately to allow the loanwords fit within the linguistic framework of host languages. In short, these studies have demonstrated that segmental modifications precede other changes with minimal modifications or changes at the end of the borrowing process. When receiving a newer term the recipient's acceptance without alteration is limited to available phonemic similarities. Foreign elements are substituted with similar phonemes in the inventory of recipient language (Crawford, 2009). Illicit syllable forms of the foreign source also modified in language specific ways. Likewise the prosodic alterations; prosodic patterns of the source language are modified according to prosodic system of the native (Kentowicz, 2006, Silverman, 1992).


Singing voice synthesis and singing voice conversion have significantly advanced, revolutionizing musical experiences. However, the rise of"Deepfake Songs"generated by these technologies raises concerns about authenticity. Unlike Audio DeepFake Detection (ADD), the field of song deepfake detection lacks specialized datasets or methods for song authenticity verification. In this paper, we initially construct a Chinese Fake Song Detection (FSD) dataset to investigate the field of song deepfake detection. The fake songs in the FSD dataset are generated by five state-of-the-art singing voice synthesis and singing voice conversion methods. Our initial experiments on FSD revealed the ineffectiveness of existing speech-trained ADD models for the task of song deepFake detection. Thus, we employ the FSD dataset for the training of ADD models. We subsequently evaluate these models under two scenarios: one with the original songs and another with separated vocal tracks. Experiment results show that song-trained ADD models exhibit a 38.58% reduction in average equal error rate compared to speech-trained ADD models on the FSD test set.


Background  Thrombotic microangiopathies (TMAs) are pathological conditions, characterized by generalized microvascular occlusion by platelet thrombi, thrombocytopenia, and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia. Two typical phenotypes of TMAs are hemolytic‐uremic syndrome (HUS) and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). Severe deficiency of plasma ADAMTS13 activity (ADAMTS13:AC) is more specific for TTP but not for HUS.


HomerJ is a tool to facilitate the Management of the Information contained in documents XML. It uses SQL, the same language that is used by the database servers standard. It combines the flexibility and capacity to store to information of the XML with the power of a simple query language, clear and universal like the SQL. This article present the stages of their development, tools and the subsystems. Collaborators: Broglino, Florencia; Chiara, Laura; Dieguez, Romina; Farias, Martin; Fernandez, Maria Laura; Fionda, Cesar; Gomez, Estela; Ledesma, Maximo.


Abstract A facile route to suppress the capacity fading because of the pulverization and uncontrolled growth of solid electrolyte interphase in silicon anodes is described. In this new approach, a mixture consisting of milled silicon particles and superconducting carbon particles is dispersed with a liquid precursor of carbon (Furfuryl alcohol), which is suddenly gelled to freeze the instantaneous positions of the constituents. The gel is dried and pyrolysed at ∼950 °C to convert carbon precursor to carbon coating on silicon particles. Silicon particles milled for 24 h and coated with carbon using this simple approach showed a reversible capacity of 1050 mAh g−1 after 200 cycles. Impedance spectroscopy is used to identify the roles of different sources of impedance on the overall electrode performance. This anode also displayed a specific capacity of ∼750 mAh g−1 even at a higher current density of 6 A g−1, The same electrode is tested at various higher temperatures up to 60 °C and maintained good performance without any safety issues. Furthermore, this anode is tested in a full cell against a LiNi0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2 cathode and displayed a stable reversible capacity of ∼76 mAh g−1 after 100 cycles. Therefore, in this paper a new approach of preparing silicon-based anodes for next generation Li-ion batteries with superior capacity and performance is presented.


I'm grateful to the NLA, so full of wonders and treasures, for generously awarding me this fellowship. For the last three months, I've been able to read and research, write and reflect, and meet a variety of scholars, staff and friends, with the feeling that how one's life intersects with so many other lives: that, I think, is one's real autobiography. Happy Valley, Patrick White's first published novel in 1939, has that as a theme and its epigraph is from Mahatma Gandhi. But more on these men later.


This research aims to study local capacity through regulating the relationships between social, economic and environmental aspects, as well as measuring the sustainability of tourism management. The study was carried out in Ngadas village, Poncokusumo sub-district, Malang regency. The research approach uses surveys to explore qualitative and quantitative data. The method of analysis used path modeling (partly least square, PLS), and a multidimensional scale (MDS). Local capacity has successfully demonstrated the influence of institutions on environmental and economic variables. At the same time, social variables also affect economic variables, and economic variables affect the development of ecotourism. The relationship shows that economic variables become a bridge, which connects the indirect effect of social influence on the development of ecotourism. Measurement of the sustainability index on institutional variables is 41.30, social 36.57, environmental 43.01, and economic 41.76. All variables are categorized as less sustainable. Indicators to support sustainability include infrastructure, improving the village economy, availability of trash bins, protection from landslides, and communication.


The aim of this article is to describe and analyse the culture of marches and parades in Scotland. Although there is on the one hand a Loyalist Orange culture, and on the other hand a Catholic and/or Republican culture of marches and parades, those two seemingly conflicting cultures are made up of the same historical references. Can their common culture be described as an instance of the "popular culture of bigotry", to quote Scottish historian Callum G. Brown ? The article will start by presenting the main marches and parades in Scotland as well as the groups that arrange them. It will then examine the way that the culture of marches and parades has been perceived and represented by the media, public authorities and by the groups that arrange the marches and parades, and take stock of the new laws and measures that have been adopted by political institutions on the subject.