Within academic circles "theory" has become a magic word, an advertisement for advanced ideas, insights into the constitution of culture, even designs for the reformation of the human psyche. Ironically, among the thinkers most invoked there is one so critical of the infatuation with theory that he coined a name for it - "theoretism." I refer to Mikhail Bakhtin, to whom the deterministic character of a sweeping theory such as Marxism was especially offensive. Bakhtin's emphasis on the human capacity for choice, and therefore responsibility, has recently been brought out with powerful effect by Gary Saul Morson, who has recovered a Bakhtin little imagined, perhaps, in the 1960s by readers of Rabelais and his World, the English translation of his study of the late-medieval culture of carnival. That the work which first brought Bakhtin to prominence in Western eyes seemed to be in keeping with the apocalyptic mood of the moment was in fact accidental. Bakhtin's writings, of which his study of carnival is not very typical, constitute not so much a consistent theory as an extended and various meditation on the significance of "the other." Human plurality - the fact that we are different - is something no theory can explain away, which is not to say that it is a conceptual dead end. The otherness of the hero with respect to the author, the inclusion of another's voice or another's note in the narrator's own - issues like these bring forth Bakhtin's best work. But if recognition of others, even in disagreement, is a morally significant act, so, by the same token, is the denial of others or the projection of blame onto them. Such acts of denial and projection, in all cases distorting the other beyond recognition, are the concern of this essay. Among the worst distortions of the other we must place the practice of blaming others as though they were the authors of one's own deeds, even the makers of one's self. Also distorting, however, is the view that others are really unformed stuff waiting to be made into something. One of the most infamous figures of the 1960s, Charles Manson, took the first line; respected thinkers have taken the second. In the reflections that follow I trace some of the more influential phrasings, both inside and outside the world of literature, of each of these approaches; and in the spirit of the freethinkers of literary criticism, I wish to consider the implications of the fabrication metaphor - a metaphor that hovers behind theories of human reformation. What does it mean to assert, as Manson did to his judges, "I am what you made me"? On 19 November, 1970, four months into his trial on multiple charges of murder, Manson harangued the court: These children that come at you with knives [i.e., the members of the Manson "family"], they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them....I know this: that in your hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam war as I am for killing these people....I can't judge any of you....But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in...you can project it back at me...but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you. My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system....I am only what you made me. (169)(1) At once taunting his audience and negating himself entirely, Manson seems to be saying, "Why are you so afraid of me? Could it be you can't bear the sight of the animal deep inside you? You call yourself civilized, but look at your own hands, covered with blood. You are the ones on trial here. It's just like your kind to load your guilt on me." Manson claims, in effect, that the worse he is, the worse everyone else is, and according to this logic no genuine relation between self and other can possibly be constructed. According to Michael Andre Bernstein, writing as someone critical of the 1960s and the academic fascination with carnival, Manson's rant takes its place in a tradition of Saturnalian dialogues where slaves mock their masters, a tradition imprinted so deeply in Western culture that Manson is able to enact it unawares. …


Object oriented software development environments are an important aspect of object oriented technology. This paper presents the distributed object programming environment, DOPE. DOPE is physically distributed but forms a logical whole. Our aim is for developers to cooperate with each other to develop a whole system (or subsystem) in a network environment such as the Internet or an intranet. This paper discusses the structure of DOPE, its functions and features, and the relationship it has to other environments. The paper indicates some theoretical and technical implementation problems for further research.


•  Motor units (MUs) are the fundamental element of force generation. Here we document the MU activities of the airway dilator muscle genioglossus (GG) during breathing at rest and in heavy exercise. •  Based on our observations we suggest that tonic MU activity, albeit with varying degrees of respiratory modulation, is the preponderant activity in the GG motoneuron pool of healthy young adults at rest in the upright position. •  Second, we show that exercise‐driven increases in respiratory drive are associated with increased GG electromyographic activity principally due to recruitment of previously silent MUs and to a shift in the firing behaviour of already active MUs to inspiratory phase‐dependent bursting. •  Such expiration‐related inhibition may arise secondary to an exercise‐related central enhancement of motoneuron excitability that amplifies the response to afferent input.


Xiamen is not only a central city of southeast coastal economic zone,but also an important city in trade and transportation.The development of logistics will promote regional cooperation,resource harmony and pool competitive power.The paper analyzes Xiamen modern logistics with SWOT method,points the strengths,weaknesses,opportunities and threats,then puts forward some development strategies,promotes logistics development in Xiamen and becomes a inter-regional and international logistics base.


There are many key parts in the field of aerospace with aluminum alloy thin-walled parts, the problem of breaking the low efficiency in production that's also followed. There will be a lot of deformation in processing because of its poor rigidity, poor process, which will lead to low processing efficiency. It is of great significance to improve the machining efficiency of the aluminum alloy thin-walled parts, and a series of analysis of the surface quality of aluminum alloy thin-walled parts there are carried out clamping, cutting tools, take the knife route so on, and the problems of low machining efficiency and poor surface quality are solved.


(54) PRODUCED WATER TREATMENT IN OIL Publication Classification RECOVERY (51) Int. Cl. (71) Applicant: E I DUPONT DE NEMOURS AND CO2F I/52 (2006.01) COMPANY, Wilmington, DE (US) (52) U.S. Cl. CPC ........................................ C02F I/52 (2013.01) (72) Inventors: SIMON FRISK, Newark, DE (US); USPC ...................................... 210/702; 210/170.07 Hyun Sung Lim, Midlothian, VA (US); Lisa C Bates, Chester, VA (US); Peter (57) ABSTRACT Andrin, Bath (CA); Basil El-Borno, Calgary Alberta (CA) An oil recovery process that utilizes one or more filtration media having an efficiency of 30% or greater for particles of (73) Assignee: E I DUPONT DE NEMOURS AND 1 micrometer size or greater and a flow rate of 2 milliliters per COMPANY, Wilmington, DE (US) minute per centimeter squared of media per unit pressure of the liquid (ml/min/cm2/kPa) to remove silica and/or oil and/ (21) Appl. No.: 13/848,783 or dissolved organics and/or dissolved solids from produced water which includes separating oil from the produced water (22) Filed: Mar. 22, 2013 and precipitating silica rail Fict and E. the pro


Background. The capacity of the ICU is very limited. Many patients can not be treated in the ICU thus it may indirectly cause high mortality. A priority criteria is necessary to screen patients before they are admitted to ICU. Ministry of Health defines four priority criteria for ICU admission. Objective. To determine the number of patients' death in Intensive Care Unit Dr. Kariadi Hospital from July to December 2014 based on priority criteria admission. Methods. This study was a descriptive study. The samples used were patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit Dr. Kariadi Hospital from July to December 2014. Data was obtained from patients' medical records at Dr. Kariadi Hospital Medical Record Installation. Results. From July to December 2014, the number of patients' death was 81 from a total of 493 patients seeking for health care in the ICU. The number of patients' death based on the criteria of first priority was 14, second priority was 26, third priority was 26, and fourth priority was 15. Conclusion. Based on the patients' medical records at the Dr. Kariadi Hospital from July to December 2014, the number of patients' death was 81 (17%) from a total of 493 patients.


Patients with penetrating cardiac injury usually present with cardiac tamponade and shock upon hospital arrival. However, absence of hemodynamic depression does not exclude a potentially fatal injury of the heart. This article reports on a patient who developed neither hemodynamic depression nor ECG changes for several hours, despite two left ventricular lacerations with puncture of the LAD. Echocardiography is advocated as the diagnostic tool of choice, and it is emphasized that no penetrating objects should be removed from the wound before surgical access to the heart is established, as this may result in the sudden development of cardiac tamponade.


A continuous-time dynamic portfolio selection problem is studied in an incomplete market. Explicit form solutions of optimal portfolios are derived in a complete market for exponential utility maximization. According to the relations of the optimal strategy obtained by Zhang in 2007 between in the completed market and in the original incomplete one, we get directly the optimal strategy in the original incomplete market and compare with the one in the sense of power-type utility function.


The search of suitable local systems to improve fertility rates in beef cattle have been made through studies on postpartum physiology and the development of...


Background Synovial biopsies are increasingly performed in both clinical setting and translational research.1 An unmet need in the field is the standardisation of synovial biopsies handling and analysis procedures. Objectives The aim of this collaborative work was to create a consensual set of points to consider for handling and analysis of synovial biopsies in clinical practice and translational research through EULAR Synovitis Study Group (ESSG). Methods The items were identified and formulated based on a comprehensive literature review.1 A task force (TF) of EULAR Synovitis Study Group (ESSG) members were constituted and TF members were consulted through a 2-stage eDelphi process. the 2 sequential rounds occurred in 9 months. The first written round occurred in June 2016. Members were sent a written questionnaire containing items divided in 2 parts. The items were identified and formulated based on a comprehensive literature review. The first part of the questionnaire referred to clinical practice containing 5 subsections: biopsy sampling, biopsy handling, histological analysis, staining and immunohistochemistry (IHC), biopsy analysis and pathologist's report. The second part referred to translational research and contained 6 subsections (same 5 plus RNA analysis). Every participant was asked to score each item with a 5 points Likert (0: strongly disagree, 5: strongly agree), comments were allowed for each item. Items with a median score above 3.5 on 5 and a percentage of agreement above 70% were for the next round. Items with lower score were either suppressed of modified according to participants' comments. Anonymized detailed results were circulating through participants between each round. The face to face meeting occurred at ESSG meeting in June 2017. Results 27 ESSG members from 19 centres were contacted by email. 20 participants from 17 centres answered (response rate of 74%). Response rates for next rounds were 100%. First questionnaire contained 44 items for Part 1 Clinical practice. 52.3% (23items/44) were selected for the second round based on their score and agreement percentage. 83% (19items/23) were selected for the third round. First questionnaire contained 43 items for the second part about translational research. 44% (19 items/43) were selected for second round based on their score and agreement percentage. 95% (18 items/19) were selected for third round (figure 1). Third oral round allowed to obtain a final set of items unanimously (table 1). Conclusions We hereby propose a set of consensual points to consider on analysis of synovial biopsies in clinical practice and translational research. This standardisation initiative was conducted through ESSG members using a validated consensus method. Reference [1] Orr C, Sousa E, Boyle DL, Buch MH, Buckley CD, Cañete JD, et al. Synovial tissue research: a state-of-the-art review. Nat Rev Rheumatol2017;13(8):463–75. Disclosure of Interest None declared


Helianthus annuus seeds belonging to the family Asteraceae have been investigated for the presence of various chemical components and evaluation of biological activities of the crude extracts of methanol with special emphasis to the phenolic component with anti-oxidant activity. The methanolic extract of Helianthus annuus seeds demonstrates a remarkable amount of phenolic content (54 μg/ml of GAE/100g of extract) by using Folin-Ciocalteau reagent. In vitro antioxidant activity of methanolic seed extract of H. annuus was determined by DPPH free radical scavenging assay, which showed significant antioxidant activity compared to standard antioxidant (ascorbic acid). A direct correlation between total phenol and antioxidant activity indicates polyphenols are the main antioxidants. The present study shows that Helianthus annuus seeds have radical scavenging activity and can be considered as good sources of natural antioxidants for medicinal and commercial uses.


We read the case report of Malouf and Kamm (Gut 2001;48:728–9) with interest. However, we disagree with some of the science and suggest an alternative explanation for their findings. Firstly, there is much data to suggest that sympathetic innervation of the internal anal sphincter is in fact excitatory. The paper that they cite (from their own institution) showed that noradrenaline, the principal postganglionic neurotransmitter of the sympathetic nervous system, caused contraction of this tissue in vitro. Operative in vivo studies of presacral nerve stimulation have indeed been contradictory, showing both an increase and decrease in internal anal sphincter tone; this probably reflects little more than differences in stimulation parameters. However, sympathetic blockade effected either by infusion of the α adrenoceptor antagonist phentolamine or by high spinal anaesthesia produces a significant fall in internal anal sphincter tone. This is evidence of tonic, excitatory, sympathetic innervation of the internal anal sphincter, not of "extrinsic sympathetic drive which relaxes the sphincter", as described by Malouf and Kamm. Secondly, acetylcholine relaxes internal anal sphincter in vitro, an action blocked both by atropine and nitric oxide synthase inhibitors. This implies that acetylcholine, the principal postganglionic neurotransmitter of the parasympathetic nervous system, is inhibitory and acts via muscarinic receptors and its effects are mediated by nitric oxide. Low spinal anaesthesia has little effect on anal canal resting pressure, suggesting that there is negligible tonic parasympathetic discharge to the internal anal sphincter. We are not aware of any convincing data that enable Malouf and Kamm to make the unreferenced statement that there is "normal extrinsic parasympathetic excitatory [sic] drive to the internal anal sphincter". Finally, the anal canal normally remains closed at rest because of the tone of the internal anal sphincter, which contributes around 80% of resting anal pressure. Most of this contraction is attributable to intrinsic myogenic tone although there is some tonic sympathetic discharge, as outlined above. Malouf and Kamm describe the anus of a spinal cord injured patient as having "gaped after digital examination for several minutes" and state that this might reflect loss of "normal extrinsic parasympathetic excitatory [sic] drive to the internal anal sphincter". A much simpler, and pharmacologically correct, explanation would be that digital examination of this patient evoked the rectoanal inhibitory reflex and induced internal sphincter relaxation. Indeed, we would dispute that normally "the anal canal remains closed before, during, and after examination". When the fingertip passes into the rectum of a non-spinal injury patient, a definite relaxation of the internal anal sphincter is often felt. This is not normally sustained for minutes, and it is this abnormality that is interesting in the case they report. High resting pressures are often seen in spinally injured patients and many of them use digital rectal stimulation to aid defecation.


A genetic algorithm has been used for null steering in phased and adaptive arrays. It is shown that it is possible to steer the array nulls precisely to the required interference directions and to achieve any prescribed null depths. The use of genetic algorithm removes the restrictions on the array element displacements, required in the case of linear analytic method. Results are obtained for axial, elevational and arbitrary directional element positional perturbations through genetic algorithm for imposing nulls in the desired directions in the radiation pattern.


Which papers focusing on Alzheimer's disease (AD) include MRI scans of human brains? These images play an important role in clinical detection of AD, but finding them currently requires manual inspection of papers after a keyword search. In order to provide AD researchers with a more efficient way of finding relevant papers, here we focus on three preliminary problems involving automatically identifying figures containing brain images, and solve them as automatic image classification tasks. This is a first step towards efficiently allowing AD researchers to retrieve papers containing a particular type of brain image (e.g. of a patient). We report preliminary results from a larger project, in collaboration with AD researchers.


Pteris multifida Poir is a tradition of medicinal plant,which has primely medicinal value and a widely using in the future.The summary of research of pteris multifida Poir identification、 clinic、 pharmacological activity and chemical composition was review in order that the exploiture of resource and reasonable use of pteris multifida Poir provide thereunder.


Existing mobile user interfaces are mostly stationary currently. In this paper, we propose an efficient dynamic customized UX provision methodology through mobile cloud to delivery next-generation dynamic mobile interface. The proposed customized interfaces could be utilized in those smart devices. The improvement is focused on existing soft keyboard application. Through a simple sign-in process, the customized keyboard interfaced defined by user own can by synced, stored on the cloud and ready to be apply on other compatible devices of the same user in anytime. With cloud based interface, through specific username and password, various smart mobile devices are able to receive their custom interface.


Zesty, flavorful, and easy to prepare, Caribbean-style barbecue dishes are fast becoming an American favorite. From Rum Barbecue Sauce to Jerked Baby Back Ribs, "Island Barbecue "offers a sizzling collection of over 60 recipes for delicious sauces and marinades; breads, salads, and side dishes; fish, poultry, meat, and vegetable entrees; and tropical beverages and desserts to revitalize the standard barbecue repertoire. Complete with vibrant, full-color illustrations, invaluable information on grilling techniques, and a source list of Caribbean ingredients, " Island Barbecue" will spice up any table with the rich culinary heritage of the Caribbean.


Short pulse 3 µm laser is promising for medical applications, remote sensing techniques, and as the pump source for OPO operating in 5 µm spectral range. Unfortunately, low gain on the working transition of the most common diode pumped Er: YLF laser makes it difficult to obtain short pulses using Q-modulation techniques.


The crankshaft is one of the main components that converts the potential energy of the fuel into rotating power for the piston engine. Because in the process of working the crankshaft changes the piston's back and forth motion into a rotating motion of the shaft. To minimize the effects of damage that occurs due to various types of dynamic loads acting on the crankshaft components, the design process should first know the working stress distribution. Meanwhile, as a tool in analyzing it, Solidworks software is used. From the results of this analysis, the location or position of the damage due to too high a loading can be identified early. This the authors in this study want to raise a title, namely "Analysis of Stress in the Crankshaft Yamaha Rx-King Year 2005 Using Solidwork Software". Based on the results of the theoretical calculation with the radial force loading of 1.4 N, the bending moment is 10388.1 N / mm, the normal stress is 33.76 N / mm2 , the shear stress is 10.328 N / mm2, the maximum stress is 33.21 N / mm2, and the minimum stress is 3.55N / mm2. Based on the simulation results with solidwork software, the maximum stress is 4,83511e-007 N / m2. FOS (factor of safety) based on analysis using software obtained by 4.339e + 004 N / m2.


TVET at the beginning of its implementation is more focused on the formation of skilled workers in technical fields that focus on the skills of the hands (hands-on skills). However, the passage of time and technological developments demand change for change needs to be done in the TVET to form a generation that has a variety of skills, not only in technical skills and knowledge, but in producing future leaders of integrity. Therefore, this article is planned to discuss some aspects of management perspectives in upgrading the employability of TVET graduates from TVET. From reviews articles, TVET management seems to be more successful by considering the criteria of relevance to the labour market (one that meets employeri¯s needs and expectations), access for trainees, quality of delivery, standardization, inclusion of soft skills, and funding for the system is secure and uninterrupted. In conclusion, the key to this success is that the TVET system be adapted to a specific country.


Essay 1: Expectation-Driven House Prices, Debt Default and Inflation DynamicsWe contribute to the literature on dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models with housing collateral by inclu ...


In a brilliant 1972 cartoon, the creator of Snoopy, Charles M. Schulz, depicts the contemplative beagle going through a crisis of rage. Snoopy discovers that a six-storey parking garage has been built on the site of the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, a place in which, we are led to understand, he had spent some of his happiest childhood moments. Snoopy cannot contain himself. 'You stupid people', he shouts; 'You're parking on my memories'.


The observed ground movements of excavations in layered ground are examined with emphasis on the relationship to the construction process and the ground condition. A finite element analysis is performed based on field measurements to predict and examine overall ground movements. For excavations in layered ground conditions, it is necessary to consider a drastic variation in the pattern and magnitude of lateral displacements due to the large stiffness difference between geolayers.


Thus far, the study of atmospheric pollutants is of exquisite interest. assessment, tracking, and calculation of concentrations of harmful impurities inside the environment with their suppliers are based totally on theoretical studies, and it is possible to make short-term forecasts used to manipulate emissions from industrial firms. Disposal of waste by way of industrial establishments, often consisting not best of light impurities but also of heavy elements, does not continually control what constitutes a chance to residing creatures and flowers within the affected vicinity. Computational model is built for the dedication of harmful impurities expansion within the ecosystem, that is the most serious environmental issues in lots of industrial towns within the international. Numerical calculations are received via program complicated ANSYS. There are given analysis and consequences of calculations figuring out the distribution of harmful impurities concentrations in a distinct temperature gradient. Calculations are carried out for special pollutant-emission fee from a factor supply. there may be studied the impact of temperature in a floor layer on the dynamics of dangerous impurities concentration from the point source. obtained outcomes permit predicting of distribution contour of impurities and its extent. Keywords— Atmospheric boundary layer, numerical modeling, ANSYS software program machine, the unfold of polluting substances.


Qualitative and quantitative changes in rhizosphere mycoflora of D. sissoo due to soil amendements was studied. In all 28 species of fungi were isolated from the soil. Highest reduction in frequency and population of fungi was observed in soil amended with mustard cake followed by castor cake.


Magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles and amorphous-silica-coated magnetite-nanoparticle (Fe3O4/a-SiO2) composites have successfully been synthesised using co-precipitation and modified Stöber methods, respectively. Instead of using a commercial product, the Fe3O4 powder was synthesised via co-precipitation method from local ironstone in Indonesia, while the a-SiO2 was obtained from a tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) precursor. The modified Stöber method was utilised to form the Fe3O4/a-SiO2 core/shells. The samples were characterised using x-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) techniques. XRD and FTIR data confirmed the formation of single phase Fe3O4 nanoparticles and the Fe3O4/a-SiO2 composites. HRTEM images showed that silica coated the Fe3O4 surface with an increased thickness with the addition of the TEOS. Magnetite-silica multi-core/shells were observed in the HRTEM data examination. EXAFS spectra analysis confirmed that the presence of a-SiO2 shells does not change the crystal and local structures of the magnetite nanoparticles. Room-temperature VSM measurements showed a ferrimagnetic behaviour in both the Fe3O4 nanoparticle and the Fe3O4/a-SiO2 core–shell, with decreased magnetisation appearing with an increased thickness of the a-SiO2 coating.


Artificial neural network prediction of wear rate and friction coefficient of brake pads developed from palm kernel fibres (PKF) was carried out in this study. Major input parameters including materials formulation, manufacturing conditions, and operating conditions were introduced into the neural model while wear rate and friction coefficient were the outputs. The network architecture of LM12 [4-3]2 2 was selected for predicting the wear rate and coefficient of friction. The predicted wear rate and friction coefficient using ANN models were compared with the measured values using some statistical indicators. Results showed that the ANN predicted accurately the wear rate and friction coefficient of the developed automotive brake pads.


According to a side slope engineering field practical situation,the supporting design planning of upper anchor with lattice beam and under anti-slide pile with anchor was adopted on the side slope comprehensive considering several factors.The composite supporting structure design process and construction matters need attention were detail introduced,which had some guide effect on the similar engineering.


Submitted for the MAR05 Meeting of The American Physical Society Quantum phase fluctuations in a correlated lattice d-wave superconductor and Cooper pair density-wave in the underdoped cuprates ASHOT MELIKYAN, University of Florida, ZLATKO TESANOVIC, Johns Hopkins University — We introduce and study an XY-type model of thermal and quantum phase fluctuations in a two-dimensional correlated lattice d-wave superconductor. We investigate the origin of the charge density-wave of Cooper pairs (CPCDW), which we argue is the state behind the periodic modulation of LDOS discovered in recent STM experiments. We illustrate how Mott-Hubbard correlations near halffilling suppress superfluid density and favor an incompressible state which breaks translational symmetry of the underlying atomic lattice. The formation of CPCDW in such a strongly quantum fluctuating superconductor can naturally be understood as an Abrikosov-Hofstadter problem in a type-II dual superconductor, with the role of the dual magnetic field played by the electron density. The resulting Abrikosov lattice of dual vortices translates into the periodic modulation of the BdG gap function and the electronic density. A 4 × 4 checkerboard modulation pattern naturally arises as an energetically favored ground state at and near the x = 1/8 doping and produces LDOS in good agreement with experimental observations. Z. Tešanović, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 217004 (2004), A. Melikyan and Z. Tešanović, cond-mat/0408344. Supported in part by the NSF grant DMR00-94981. Ashot Melikyan University of Florida Date submitted: 20 Nov 2004 Electronic form version 1.4


The stocking, age, and growth rates of tanoak (Lithocarpusdensiflorus [Hook and Arn.] Rehd.) were studied in the understory of 13 Douglas-fir (Pseudotsugamenziesii [Mirb] Franco) and mixed conifer stands, 53–240 years old, on a range of sites in Oregon and California. The understory was uneven in both age and size in all stands. Tanoak 2.0 cm dbh ranged from 18 to 98 years old and from 2 to 25 m tall. A negative exponential function describing diameter distributions generally explained more than 80% of the within-stand variation in numbers of tree stems (by 5-cm diameter classes). Seedlings have a single stem for about 5–12 years, then form a burl with dormant buds below ground, lose the original stem, and produce new stems. Because of frequent stem mortality and sprouting, tanoak age cannot be determined from stems above ground but can be estimated from xylem rings in the stem below the b...


Fuzzy gain scheduling of proportional-integral (PI) controller are proposed for the area load-frequency control problem. Comparison study of conventional PI controller with proposed controller show that proposed controller can yield the best dynamic responses following a step load change.


This paper relates different approaches to the asymptotic geometry of the Hitchin moduli space of SL(2,C) Higgs bundles on a closed Riemann surface and, via the nonabelian Hodge theorem, the character variety of SL(2,C) representations of a surface group. Specifically, we find an asymptotic correspondence between the analytically defined limiting configuration of a sequence of solutions to the self-duality equations constructed by Mazzeo-Swoboda-Weiss-Witt, and the geometric topological shear-bend parameters of equivariant pleated surfaces due to Bonahon and Thurston. The geometric link comes from a study of high energy harmonic maps. As a consequence we prove: (1) the local invariance of the partial compactification of the moduli space by limiting configurations; (2) a refinement of the harmonic maps characterization of the Morgan-Shalen compactification of the character variety; and (3) a comparison between the family of complex projective structures defined by a quadratic differential and the realizations of the corresponding flat connections as Higgs bundles, as well as a determination of the asymptotic shear-bend cocycle of Thurston's pleated surface.


©2014 Turkish League Against Rheumatism. All rights reserved. Synovial osteochondromatosis (SOC) is a rare and benign monoarticular arthropathy characterized by multi-nodular cartilaginous proliferation in the synovium of the joint, tendon sheath or bursa.1 All major joints including the knee particularly can be affected, followed by the hip, elbow, wrist, ankle, and shoulder joints. Patients usually present in the second to fifth decades of life. Typical symptoms include pain, antalgic gait, locking, and a restricted range of motion. This condition is often considered a metaplastic process, and is usually self-limiting.


It is shown that a construction of Z. Zhang and Y. Xiao on open subsets of Ptolemaic spaces yields, when the subset has boundary containing at least two points, metrics that are Gromov hyperbolic with parameter $\log 2$ and strongly hyperbolic with parameter $1$ with no further conditions on the open set. A class of examples is constructed on Hadamard manifolds showing these estimates of the parameters are sharp.


We study the critical parameter $u^*$ of random interlacements on a Galton-Watson tree conditioned on the non-extinction event. We show that, for a given law of a Galton-Watson tree, the value of this parameter is a.s. constant and non-trivial. We also characterize this value as the solution of a certain equation.


This consultancy report was prepared for: Matthias Goldmann, 'Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing: The View from Domestic Jurisdictions' (A Comparative Survey Written for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) (UNCTAD) (February 2012), concerning the proposed UNCTAD Draft Principles on Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing.


This paper is devoted to modeling the interface between two media with different dielectric properties. Special attention is paid to the Earth's surface modeling in the tropo-spheric radio-wave propagation problem. The finite-difference approximations of the one-way Helmholtz equation are used. Instead of the local Leontovich boundary condition, a discrete nonlocal boundary condition is used. In contrast to the Leon-tovich boundary condition, the proposed approach does not impose restrictions on the propagation angle and the dielectric permittivity of the underlying surface. The proposed numerical scheme allows using an arbitrary Padé approximation order for the longitudinal propagation operator and a fourth-order approximation for the transverse operator. The results of the numerical modeling demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


The size and morphology of sweet potato (Ipomoea. batatas L.) starch were characterized by using the optic and scanning electronic microscopes (SEM). Also, the effect of heating on the same structure was evaluated with SEM. The results indicated that the granular population varied with an ample diameter range (4.84-25.81μm) and with an average value of 12.53 μm. The granules had small round, polyhedrical and large bell-like forms. The granules showed a smooth texture with some excoriations in their surface. The main transformations involved during the heating could be summarized as follow: first, the maximum granular swelling was reached, followed by the fusion of most of the granules due to the solubilization and complete leaching of the amylose; second, the complete gelatinization of granules, and third, the transformation of the granular organization into planar reticular structure. In this structure, the rest of the amylose-free swollen granules that did not lose the external structure was imbibed. Structures or microfibrills that were considered as


Background

Short-rib thoracic dysplasia 3 with or without polydactyly (SRTD3) is an autosomal recessive disorder. SRTD3 presents clinically with the narrow thorax, short ribs, shortened tubular bones, and acetabular roof abnormalities. Clinical signs of SRTD3 vary among individuals. Mutations of DYNC2H1 were reported to cause SRTD3.
Methods

We performed a detailed clinical prenatal sonographic characterization of the fetus with SRTD3. Whole-exome sequencing was used to identify causative variants in the trio family. The identified variants were validated by Sanger sequencing and mass spectrometry in the families. Multiple computational tools were used to predict the harmfulness of the two variants.
Results

We presented with the prenatal sonographic image of the fetus with SRTD3, including abnormal rib curvature, narrow thorax, bilateral hypoplastic lungs, bilateral polydactyly, syndactyly and fetal visceral situs inversus with mirror-image dextrocardia. We revealed novel compound variants of DYNC2H1 (NM_001080463.1: c.11504T > G (p.Ile3835Arg) and c.2106 + 3A > T). Various statistical methods predicted that the variants would cause harmful effects on genes or gene products.
Conclusion

It is the first time that fetal SRTD3 with situs inversus totalis in a Chinese family. Our study not only revealed two novel compound heterozygous Dynein Cytoplasmic 2 Heavy Chain 1 (DYNC2H1) variants, expanding the genetic spectrum of SRTD3 but also raising the new phenotype. Our study helps add experience to further our expertise in prenatal counseling for SRTD3.


The fiber spacing theory and composite theory of steel-reinforced cement-based composite material(SFRC)are discussed.Crack arrest and composite reinforcement of fiber are considered for two different kinds of actions.So the composite theory of SFRC accompanied with action of crack arrest is put forward.Not only the strength at first crack and ultimate strength can be calculated,but the stress-strain curve of composite material can be established.


THE past two years have witnessed a gradual reassertion of conservative policies, practices and attitudes in many phases of Japanese life. In urban areas evidence of this trend in industry and government is easy to document; the press alone reports a convincing number of cases. In rural areas, however, it is difficult to measure the change, even when intensive field investigations have been made.1 At the time of the author's arrival in


For the retirement age is emerging, retirement migration issue of baby boom generation who is raised transcendentallyㆍstatistically and relation researches are inspected. In addition, the cause-and-effect relation between residential migration factors and intention is set and analyzed as structural equation modeling(SEM). Through the analysis, whether the retirement migration is leaded by economically weak class as precedent study and policy implication for residential stability of baby boom generation is concluded as foundation of relation between residential migration factors and intention of retirement migration. The retirement migration of baby boom generation is analyzed to be leaded by middle or rich class rather than economically weak class. Satisfaction with the present living should be improved by expending safety facilities and supplementing community for residential stability. Housing markets need to recognize different sub-markets targeting baby boom generation and to be established the housing policy.


We often talk about improving or redesigning hospital processes or process chains without having a description of their characteristics in terms of, for example, the volume of patients that they cover and the types and amounts of resources that they consume. This chapter describes an approach and a tool for describing and analysing hospital processes that enables hospital managers and professionals to visualise the process chains followed by patients within a specialty and the interactions of patients with resources such as outpatient facilities, diagnostic facilities, beds, IC beds, operating theatres, nursing staff and specialists. A case study undertaken within a project setting is used to illustrate the approach.


Web based services or E-services are being deployed by different enterprises. These E-services in turn use other Eservices. This makes them collaborate across management domains. To conduct a business task, an e-service undertakes a conversation that often spans across multiple e-services, and is often asynchronous and asymmetric. Within a conversation, the unit of business at each e-service is called a component transaction. The component transactions within a conversation form a conversational transaction. Each component transaction is autonomous and independent while it is relative to each other only in the context of a specific conversation. A conversational transaction is committed if each component is committed, or recommitted after compensation. If one or more component transactions abort, the conversational transaction, depending on the business logic, may need to be canceled the committed component transactions need to be canceled though not every transaction is cancellable after a certain point. In this paper, we argue that the traditional transaction semantics and mechanisms do not apply well in the e-service world, and propose an optimistic commit protocol to provide transaction support, i.e., all-or-nothing semantics, for conversational transactions.


Abstract Grain sorghum, Sorghum bicolor (1.) Moench has not been fully evaluated for its variability in nitrogen efficiency. A 2‐year study using 12 hybrids was conducted and nitrogen efficiency was calculated as: 1. total dry matter (DM) per unit N uptake (NE1), 2. total grain yield per unit N uptake (NE2), and 3. the product of NE2 and the grain N:stover N ratio (NE3). NE1 values increased with plant age and were significantly different among hybrids at all stages of growth. A 20% difference in NE1 was found between the least and most efficient hybrids at maturity. A significant hybrid x year interaction showed that the environment strongly influenced hybrid ranking. Hybrids which ranked high in one year often did poorly the other year and visa versa for NE1, NE2, or NE3. Each N efficiency criterion ranked the hybrids differently, although NE1 and NE2 appeared to be the most closely related. Hybrids generally maintained satisfactory values for NE3 if one parent (either male or female) had a high NE3 val...


Article history: Received: 19 September, 2020 Accepted: 10 November, 2020 Online: 27 November, 2020 In industrial engineering education the possibility links are not easy between renewal and sustainability processes, particularly when renewal is encouraged irrespective of sustainability. This paper aims to explore sustainability frameworks to better understand and improve the effectiveness of industrial engineering education change processes towards sustainability in universities .This work describes a sustainable process developed for the continuous improvement of a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (BSIE) program. The objective is to apply the results of the student outcome assessment and their evaluation to improve the program. The methodology taken in this work is implementation of a roadmap for sustainable development built around existing findings in literature, higher education case studies, and chosen sustainable development practices. Satisfaction of the various stakeholders was achieved and year-on-year improvement in the achievement of the student outcomes was observed by following the sustainable development roadmap. This study focuses on the sustainability of undergraduate industrial engineering programs only. The recommendations suggested at the end of each academic year are feasible and practical for implementation in the next year by all faculty and staff members in order to close the loop for a sustainable development cycle. The results of this study can be useful for transition from traditional IE education to applied IE Education. This work also describes how the concept of sustainability can be part of an IE department, adapting the philosophy of sustainable development.


In this paper we present a novel approach for refining segmentation using saliency map. To achieve this, we first develop a new saliency detection method based on cues at various levels. Initially preprocessing step is done using non-linear anisotropic diffusion filtering in order to preserve the edge information in the foreground salient objects and smoothen the background. Then we apply grab cut segmentation using saliency map as the input to get improved segmentation. Repeated application of the scheme is used for multi-object segmentation. The experimental results for the saliency technique show high precision and recall rates against the state-of-the-art methods.


This Action Plan proposes the implementation of best practice's tools for Incident and Change Management, by using ITIL. The aim of this project is to optimize IT resources in a controlled manner, allowing for the execution of strategies that permit the continuous improvement of the organization's processes, to achieve an organizational culture that leads to quality services for both employees and customers. Manuals regarding the processes for Incident and Change Management are included. To this end are designed to international standards of best practices for better utilization of computing resources, in order to obtain a complete management development and support of IT services. An example of this is the ITIL framework (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), which provides organizations with strategies for continuous process monitoring.

 This work seeks to highlight the importance in using the ITIL framework, having now clear that different organizations are increasingly dependent on IT to achieve their plans and objectives, promoting the quality of services provided by the organization, thus satisfying their needs and user requirements.

 By implementing ITIL are looking to provide better customer service by ensuring that the company generates a good image for them and that they in turn perceive their importance for the company, where all requests will be handled according to the levels of services set, optimizing the quality of service and the company looking to speak a common language and understanding and improve relations between all parties involved.


Abstract During pulmonary rehabilitation healthcare professionals may encounter exercise-induced hypoxemia and/or clients using ambulatory oxygen. This clinical respiratory review provides information relating to the evaluation and administration of supplemental oxygen to support exercise training in the pulmonary rehabilitation setting.


Military academies have two distinctive characteristics on talent training: Firstly, we must teach facing actual combat and connecting with academic frontier. Secondly, the bachelor's degree education and the military education should be balanced. The teaching mode of basic curriculum in military academies must be reformed and optimized on the basis of the traditional teaching mode, so as to ensure the high quality of teaching and provide enough guidance and help for students to support their academic burden. In this paper, our main work on "Applied Optics" teaching mode reform is introduced: First of all, we research extensively and learn fully from advanced teaching modes of the well-known universities at home and abroad, a whole design is made for the teaching mode of the core curriculum of optical engineering in our school "Applied Optics", building a new teaching mode which takes the methods of teaching basic parts as details, teaching application parts as emphases, teaching frontier parts as topics and teaching actual combat parts on site. Then combining with the questionnaire survey of students and opinions proposed by relevant experts in the teaching seminar, teaching effect and generalizability of the new teaching mode are analyzed and evaluated.


Pressbook documenting art events in Abilene, Texas, from 1941 to 1942 with emphasis on those of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Sixth District. This year the theme of study was "Art and the Business World." Miss A. M. Carpenter is listed as chairperson for art for the 6th District Federation and chairperson for American Art Week for Abilene. Included in the book are two journals: Federation News (July 1942) and College Art Journal (Vol. 1, No. 2, January 1942). In addition there is a listing of the art programs of the General Federation.


In this work, an analytical solution of the thermal stresses for a fiber embedded in a matrix is presented based on the idea of the boundary layer and under some simplifying assumptions. These assumptions include: the properties of both materials, fiber and matrix, remain constant; both materials remain in the elastic range so no plastic-deformation are considered; there exists a perfect bonding between the fiber and matrix so the condition of no-opening holds over the entire interface; and the composite is subjected to an uniform change of temperature. The analytical solution to the problem is found for the case when the length of the embedded bar (fiber) is much greater than its radius, and the Young's modulus of the matrix is much less than that of the fiber. The problem is also solved numerically by means of finite element analysis using a commercial package. Both results are compared and it is shown that both approaches coincide very close qualitatively and quantitatively although significant discrepancies may appear at specific points for specific cases.


1. Changes in the cellular composition of the seminiferous tubules induced by exposure to 2560 r of x-rays have been analyzed by a quantitative histological procedure. These data have been compared with the results obtained following exposure to a much lower dose (320 r) in an attempt to gain further insight with respect to the manner in which the observed changes are brought about.2. Ėxposure to 320 r results in a temporary maturation depletion of the seminiferous epithelium. This is brought about mainly by the inhibition of spermatogonial mitosis with irradiation-induced spermatogonial necrosis playing only a minor role. In contrast, exposure to 2560 r produces a permanent depletion due to the fact that surviving spermatogonia are incapable of sustained regenerative efforts.3. The frequency of necrotic spermatogonia, following 2560 r, was found to be double the peak value attained in the 320 r material, or four times that of the corresponding controls.4. Taken together, the data for the 320 r and 2560 r...


As an important entrepot in the Far East, entrepot trade has been one of the main forms of trade between Hong Kong and mainland China. In Hong Kong's 170- year history, especially in its 17-year return to the motherland, it is of special importance for researchers in Hong Kong and mainland China to research the interests of entrepot trade.The main conclusion of the paper is that: Hong Kong's entrepot trade is the main form of foreign trade; from 1990 to 2012, Hong Kong earns profits of HK $ 6,218,632,000,000 from the entrepot trade with the mainland; mainland China is the major factor for the development of Hong Kong's entrepot trade.


Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence have been used to study the gelation of sodium deoxycholate at pH values close to neutrality. Pyrene was used as a probe. The results suggest the formation of pyrene excimer as a result of the aggregation process:  when two clusters carrying probes form a larger one, pyrene molecules can interact in both the ground and excited states. Fluorescence lifetimes for monomer and excimer pyrene are given and favorably compared to similar systems. A structure for the aggregates is also suggested.


On the nature of apartheid education agreed! The curriculum is racist, Eurocentric, elitist, sexist. Control is central and undemocratic. Students are systematically disempowered and discriminated against. Examinations are culturally biased and racially selective. Classrooms are overcrowded and school buildings are dilapidated. Textbooks are absent, out-of-date, or in need of replacement. Teachers are overburdened, underqualified, and under strict state control. Administrators at "head office" are corrupt, uninterested, and highly authoritarian.


An important history of early photography in Singapore and Malaya documented in an album of rare re-discovered black and white prints. The plates are complemented by detailed notes and an illustrated introductory essay which tells the story of the firm in the context of nineteenth century photography in Singapore and Malaya. An invaluable reference tool is provided in the index of photographers in Singapore and Malaya which presents biographical and professional information on photographers operating in the region up to 1914.


Between 1 MHz and 40 GHz the complex (electric) permittivity of aqueous solutions of purine and 6-methylpurine has been measured as a function of frequency for various solute concentrations. Different relaxation spectral functions are fitted to the measured spectra to yield the solvent contribution to the static permittivity, the dipole moment of solute, the principal dielectric relaxation time of the solvent water, the number of hydration water molecules per molecule of solute, the hydration water relaxation time, and the relaxation time of solute. Unexspectedly, no effect of self-association of the purine bases is found in these parameters.


) The occurrence of various toxins in the turban shell Turbo argyrostoma, led us to in vestigate the distribution of these toxins in other species of molluscs associated with coral reefs. In the present study, the uiscera of four species of gastropods, Turbo argyrostoma, Turbo marmorata, Tectus pyramis and Tectus nilotica maxima and 3 species of bivalves , Trdacna crocea, Tridacna squamosa and Tridacna maxima, were surveyed for the presence of toxins. The results showed that T. marmorara contained an appreciable amount of a water soluble toxin which differed from the one found in the turban shell. A remarkable toxicity was also recognized in the acetone soluble fraction of the hepatopancreas of T. maxima. The toxin seemed to differ from the quaternary amines previously found in T. argyrostoma. No significant toxicity was observed in the specimens of T. pyramis, T. nilo tica maxima, T. crocea, and T. squamosa.


The role and relevance of tax or social health insurance based intervention has come to occupy central stage in recent years in several countries that are undertaking measures to reform health systems. One or a mix of these health-financing models is considered desirable to achieve universal coverage to its population. Most of the low and middle income econo- mies till recently have relied heavily on Out-Of-Pocket (OOP) payments of households, which are regarded as both inefficient and iniquitous. As a consequence, OOP causes financial catastrophe and impoverishment of vulnerable households. The underlying reasons are that the OOP payments preclude the conditions of prepayment, risk-pooling and cross-subsidization. A tax-based health financing mechanism, as in UK, Cuba and Sri Lanka or a broad based social health insurance programs as in Germany, France, Mexico, etc. is being prescribed as a key instrument of health financing strategy for many low income countries like India, if it were to achieve universal health coverage.


Based on the active phase theory for transition metal sulfide catalysts,it was concluded that the performance of hydrotreating catalyst can be improved by increasing the dispersion of active species and by modifying the metal-support interaction in the preparation of hydrotreating catalyst.The improved technologies in the impregnation method,such as addition of organic additives,equilibrium deposition filtration,and slurry impregnation,and the novel preparation technologies,such as hydrothermal deposition method,in situ crystallization,and chemical vapor deposition,were reviewed.And the related research progresses were introduced.Organic additives could interact with support and metal,and then cause the morphology of metal change in the support surface.Therefore,more active type Ⅱ CoMoS phases can be formed.Hydrothermal deposition method and in situ crystallization method could employed to produce catalyst with better dispersion and higher stacking degree of active metal species.


The aim of this paper is to show that every scattered subset of a dense-in-itself semi-$T_D$-space is nowhere dense. We are thus able to answer a recent question of Coleman in the affirmative. In terms of Digital Topology, we prove that in semi-$T_D$-spaces with no open screen, trace spaces have no consolidations.


Online profile measuring systems becomes more and more increased importance in many different industrial fields. Especially new laser technologies allows the construction of a measuring equipment for the difficult environment conditions of the extrusion line, to control the tread production in the tyre industry. This system enables the user to increase and stabilise the product quality. The realisation of a laser profile measuring system for the tread line and the appropriate display of the measurement results will be discussed in this article.


With the fast development of micro-controllers and micro-processors,the micro-controller are more and more integral,smaller and cheaper such that they can be widely used in the design and exploitation of small intellective electrical products.The object of the instant design is an intellective speed tester with a single-chip.In theory,the range of the speed testing is 0~360 km/h,so it can be used for real-time inspecting and recording the traffic,which has high precision and reliability and is suitable for outdoor work.


In order to select varieties of S. stolonifera Curt.,the photosynthetic characteristics was measured by using Li- 6400,and content of active ingredients was determined by HPLC. The results showed that,population of Xianrengu Zhongfang had the highest net photosynthetic rate,that was 6. 71 μmol·m- 2·s- 1,meanwhile it had the highest content of bergenin,that was 3. 94 mg · g- 1. Correlation analysis showed that, content of bergenin was significantly positively correlated with net photosynthetic rate,which also significantly positively correlated with content of total chlorophyll. But correlation coefficients of content of gallic acid and light parameters did not reach significant levels.


ABSTRACT It is difficult to acquire sufficient labeled samples to classify remote sensing images. Supervised classification of hyperspectral remote sensing images does not perform well in the absence of an adequate amount of labeled samples of good quality. Self-training is a popular semi-supervised approach to train a classifier using fewer labeled samples and a pool of large unlabeled samples in an iterative manner. However, the traditional self-training approach is designed to use only confident samples. This criteria need not improve the accuracy of the classifier. In this work, the use of informative and confident samples for self-training has been proposed. The technique to selects informative and confident samples using pseudo validation set is a novel attempt to improve the scope of self-training. The pseudo validation set has been extracted from a freshly classified pool of pixels based on neighborhood information. The experimental results with popular benchmark hyperspectral images show that the proposed method has the potential to perform well.


Objective To explore the adjustment key points and current problems in Two-way referral of community health services.Methods Data were collected and restrospectively analyzed by utilizlng the transition records and questionnaire survey.Results During the 2011,855 cases were transferred from community health services to hospitals,and 205 cases were transferred from hospitals to community health services.Conclusion The development of Two-way referral is necessary to strengthen policy support and coordination,and improve the quality of community health services.


Review question/objective
This review aims to critically appraise, synthesise and present the best available evidence with regards to the effectiveness of compliance therapy on improving attitude towards medication taking among schizophrenic patients. More specifically, the review question is: What is the effectiveness of compliance therapy in improving drug attitudes measured by the Drug Attitude Inventory?

Types of participants
People with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizophrenia-form disorder, delusion disorder, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia with substance abuse or personality disorders, aged equal to or greater than 18 years old in either an acute or chronic ward will be included. Participants diagnosed with brief psychotic disorder, shared psychotic disorder and psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition will be excluded.

Types of intervention(s)/phenomena of interest
All studies evaluating the following interventions will be considered for inclusion in the review:
1. Compliance therapy: an intervention which is based on MI 24 and cognitive approaches aims to
modify negative beliefs towards medication to improve drug attitudes towards medication-taking. It covers three phases in four to six sessions. Firstly, the patient's stance towards medication has to be elicited by inviting the patients to review their illness histories and identifying their attitudes towards treatment. This is followed by exploring their ambivalence toward medication, where patients are encouraged to comment on their misgivings about medication which are proposed by therapists and then to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of their treatments. The conception of treatment maintenance is finally introduced to people with schizophrenia to prevent the occurrence of a natural tendency to stop taking their medication when they feel good as well as developing recognition of early warning signs of relapse.
2. As comparator: the standard care defined as a normal level of psychiatric routine care, which includes medication treatment, occupational therapy, individual or group counseling and recreational therapy will be viewed as a comparator.

Types of outcomes
This review will focus on studies that measured drug attitude with the use of the Drug Attitude Inventory (DAI).


Pscudalectrias tarasovi was' reported only from the coast of the Sea of Japan and southern Kurile Islands, and its early life history was not known up to the present. In the present study, numerous specimens and a natural egg mass of P. tarasom were collected from Minamikayabe-cho, southern Hokkaido, Japan. The egg mass was incubated in the aquarium and produced broods of larvae which were reared to benthonic juveniles. This paper describes wild adult specimens and reared larvae and juveniles of P. tarasovi, and discusses following points: distinguishing characters from the related species; intraspecific variation of characters used in the past works; the feature of the distribution and habitat.


We describe a general approach to the representation and recognition of 3-D objects as it applies to automatic target recognition
(ATR) tasks. The method is based on locally adaptive target segmentation, neural network classifier design, and a novel view selection mechanism
that develops ''visual filters'' responsive to specific target classes that encode the complete viewing sphere with a small number of prototypical
examples. The optimal set of visual filters is found via a crossvalidation-like data reduction algorithm used to train banks of backpropagation
(BP) neural networks. To improve recognition accuracy under noisy or occluded conditions, as well as to eliminate false alarms, the
proposed recognition system employs a temporal evidence integration technique that enables tracking and lock-on even when both targets and
camera move. Experimental results on synthetic and real-world imagery demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.


Objective
To investigate the diagnosis, therapeutic monitoring and prognosis value of the total procollagen type 1 amino-terminal propeptide (tP1NP), beta-C-terminal telopeptide (β-CTx) and bone alkaline phosphatase (BAP) in the bone metastasis of lung cancer.

Methods
With the case-control study method, the serum levels of tP1NP, β-CTx and BAP in 196 lung cancer patients, including 109 patients with bone metastases, 87 patients without bone metastases, and 106 healthy controls at the Shanghai Sixth People′s East Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University between 2014 and 2015 were quantitatively detected by chemiluminescent immunoassay. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was calculated to assess the diagnostic value. Survival curve was performed by Kaplan-Meier method.

Results
The concentration of tP1NP, β-CTx and BAP in the lung cancer patients with bone metastasis were significantly higher than that in the lung cancer patients without bone metastasis (Z=-5.642, P<0.001; Z=-3.783, P<0.01; Z=-8.923, P<0.01). ROC curve analysis showed that the AUC of tP1NP, β-CTx and BAP were 0.874, 0.776 and 0.678 respectively(P<0.05). The AUC of the combined three markers was 0.925(95% CI 0.867-0.963), with sensitivity of 77.11% and specificity of 98.11%. The levels of tP1NP and β-CTx were associated with the clinical response. The concentration of tP1NP, β-CTx were significantly decreased in patients achieved remission(t=4.607, P<0.05; t=5.355, P<0.05). Survival analysis showed that higher concentration of tP1NP was correlated with poor prognosis[OR=3.287, 95% CI (1.118-9.661), P<0.05].

Conclusions
The levels of tP1NP, β-CTx and BAP cloud be used for the differential diagnosis of bone metastasis of lung cancer, and the combined usage was more effective. tP1NP and β-CTx cloud be used in therapeutic monitoring of lung cancer patients with bone metastasis. Moreover, tP1NP could be used as prognostic biomarker in lung cancer patients.(Chin J Lab Med, 2017, 40: 860-864)

Key words:
Lung neoplasms; Bone neoplasms; Neoplasm metastasis; Peptide fragments; Procollagen; Alkaline phosphatase


Under s501 of the Australian Migration Act 1958, being imprisoned for a criminal offence can constitute grounds for visa cancellation, even for people who have spent most of their lives in Australia. 'Non-citizens' who have had their visas cancelled in this way are liable to detention on completion of their prison sentence; form a distinct cohort within the immigration detainee population; and are routinely deported. This article examines a number of recent cases and draws on a series of informal discussions with s501 detainees during 2009 and a series of formal interviews, as part of a pilot study, with a sample of six current and former s501 detainees in 2010. The punitive implications of s501 are examined, including: its impact on risk assessment and the parole process; the institutionalization of double punishment; and the multiple mechanisms of disempowerment operating through the detention regime. While this remains work in progress, it is argued that criminal convictions do not justify detention and removal; that the administrative transformation of lawful into unlawful subjects rests on various forms of illegitimate penality; and that this phenomenon ought to provide a greater focus for criminological discourses on exclusion and risk.


Preliminaries Introduction Assumed background Scientific inference: An overview Prediction and inference Outline of the book Prior-Free Probabilistic Inference Introduction Probabilistic inference Existing approaches On the role of probability in statistical inference Our contribution in this book Two Fundamental Principles Introduction Validity principle Efficiency principle Recap On conditioning for improved efficiency Inferential Models Introduction Basic overview Inferential models Theoretical validity of IMs Theoretical optimality of IMs Two more examples Concluding remarks Predictive Random Sets Introduction Random sets Predictive random sets for constrained problems Theoretical results on elastic predictive random sets Two examples of the elastic belief method Concluding remarks Conditional Inferential Models Introduction Conditional IMs Finding conditional associations Three detailed examples Local conditional IMs Concluding remarks Marginal Inferential Models Introduction Marginal inferential models Examples Marginal IMs for non-regular models Concluding remarks Normal Linear Models Introduction Linear regression Linear mixed effect models Concluding remarks Prediction of Future Observations Introduction Inferential models for prediction Examples and applications Some further technical details Concluding remarks Simultaneous Inference on Multiple Assertions Introduction Preliminaries Classification of assertions Optimality for a collection of assertions Optimal IMs for variable selection Concluding remarks Generalized Inferential Models Introduction Generalized associations A generalized IM A generalized marginal IM Remarks on generalized IMs Application: Large-scale multinomial inference Future Research Topics Introduction New directions to explore Our "top ten list" of open problems Final remarks Bibliography Index Exercises appear at the end of each chapter.


ABSTRACT An investigation was carried out to evaluate the potential role of Lactobacillus Plantarum KCC-10 and KCC-19 on the quality and fermentation characterization of Italian ryegrass (IRG) silages. The physiochemical properties of IRG silage such as crude protein content, neutral detergent fiber, acid detergent fiber, total digestible nutrient and in vitro dry matter digestibility were not affected by KCC-10 and KCC-19. The pH of IRG silage in KCC-10 and KCC-19 treatments decreased compared to the control (p<0.05), while the lactic acid content in KCC-10 and KCC-19 treatments increased compared to the control (p<0.05). In addition, the number of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in the KCC-10 treatment increased compared to the control (p<0.05). The number of lactic acid bacteria in KCC-19 increased, but there was no significant difference in all treatments. Therefore, we recommend L. plantarum KCC-10 and KCC-19 as potential additive candidates in IRG silage with lots of advantages.(


In this study, a filter which uses the Gaussian function and selects its variance according to local properties of image without user intervention has been designed in order to eliminate the noise. Consequently, a gradient adaptive image filter that estimates variance and creates different kernel for each pixel in image has been obtained.


In this research we tried to answer the question: How to optimize the total production of economy. For finding the answer we used two postulates: First, a worker is incentivated to work if it pays off. When in the income ranking the neighbor below earns less and the one above earns more the worker will work harder and produce more. The productivity of the worker is proportional to this 'derivative' in the income curve. (Note: a worker's salary is not assumed necessarily proportional to his productivity). The second postulate depends on who is in control of the production process. In highly-simplified naming: In capitalism, the capital takes the decisions, in a democracy the people do, by vote. We also simulated a dictatorial system in which decisions can be imposedby a (benevolent) dictator.
We used these ingredients in evolutionary computation. Starting with an arbitrary initial distribution, we make random small changes to it and if the total production increases, a decision will be made whether to implement these changes. This procedure is repeated until the distribution is stable. Remarkably, the outcomes for 'democracy' and 'capitalism' are similar. Capitalism and democracy go hand-in-hand together: One person getting all income, two people working, and most not working and not receiving. These results are also analytically found.
In 'communism', nobody works and everybody perishes. In a 'dictatorial' system we can optimize production for the benefit of the people, and come to the conclusion that the introduction of minimum wages is beneficial, and these should be 50% of the average income.


This study aimed to quantify the mechanical characteristics of two landing techniques performed by artistic gymnasts. Seven senior female artistic gymnasts performed 20 drop landings with different foot positions: feet together (women's technique) or hip width apart (men's technique). Synchronised 3D kinematic (250 Hz) and kinetic data (1000 Hz) were collected for each trial and biomechanical variables associated with lower extremity injury during landing were analysed. Significant differences (α < 0.05) in ankle dorsiflexion and inversion at peak vertical ground reaction force (FPeakZ) were identified between techniques. The findings suggest the female landing style to be associated with increased FPeakZ, loading rate and reduced knee flexion. Whereas the male landing style was reported to exhibit significantly increased ankle inversion angles and reduced ankle dorsiflexion angles at FPeakZ. Results suggest that both strategies present characteristics associated with increased risk of differing injuries


In this work a decentralized control structure for the reactive dividing wall column (RDWC) is proposed. Based on sensitivity analyses with a steady state model the optimal pairing of controlled and manipulated variables is shown. For the first time an experimental study about a RDWC control structure is conducted. Therefore, an enzymatic catalysed reactive dividing wall column in pilot scale is employed. Several experiments are carried out systematically in order to examine the dynamic performance under the influence of disturbances. In this paper the results of disturbances in heat duty and set point changes are shown and discussed.


During periods of delayed burn treatment, cells within the eschar leach toxic and immunomodulatory metabolites that can profoundly impact neighboring tissue. Therefore, to reduce the burn-related morbidities and mortalities that are the result of delayed surgical interventions, electrospinning was utilized to generate a novel cerium (III) nitrate (Ce(III)N) dressing. Previously published work has demonstrated that topical Ce(III)N application changes the eschar morphology, and that tissue beneath the treated eschar was generally healthy and had a high rate of graft acceptance.

 Ce(III)N was dissolved with polyethylene oxide and spun onto a grounded rotating mandrel. The uni-axially spun mesh was compared to a co-axially electrospun dressing that contained a Ce(III)N core. Dressings were evaluated for topography/morphology, porosity and oxygen permeation using scanning electron microscopy, helium pycnometry, and a gas exchange chamber, respectively. Ce(III)N release rates were evaluated, as well as 60-day storage stability.

 All electrospun dressings contained functional Ce(III)N, with the co-axially spun dressing containing three times the amount of Ce(III)N as the traditionally spun dressing. Uni-axially and co-axially spun nanofibers had diameters of 1487±560 nm and 1071±147 nm, and porosities of 83.9% and 74.1%, respectively. Scaffolds released the majority of Ce(III)N within the first hour of wetting.

 All dressings were capable of a burst of Ce(III)N release and maintained stability when stored at room temperature for 60 days.

 Despite advancement in protective equipment worn by military personnel, the incidence of thermal injury is expected to rise in future conflicts. There are no burn wound dressings that can mitigate the pathophysiological processes associated with delayed burn wound treatment.


Efficient fixation of aerial carbon dioxide as carbonate by a simple tripodal urea receptor is demonstrated by crystallizing the carbonate encapsulated molecular capsule in almost quantitative yield, followed by regeneration of free receptor from the capsule under mild conditions.


This paper produced for the distortion caused by the edge bluring in the image inpainted, proposing a novel no-reference quality assessment based on the human visual property. Using visual sensitivity function CFS which descripes the properties for human visual to weight noise image detected, acquiring the value for the no-reference assessment that is consistent with the subjective evaluation, the experiment has proved no reference, flexibility and consistent with the human appraisal.


The 1935 General Plan for reconstruction of Moscow can be conceived as a consolidation of the highly controversial debates and visions in urban planning in the period before 1931 and the rising political centralisation and concentration of power. This Essay calls for a connection in the reading of the transition from avant-garde concepts in urban design towards the new planning attitudes, 'Socialist Realism' as a continuation of the avant-garde period. The idea of the role of architecture as a generative device for societal changes shifted gradually from the beginning of the revolutionary years. While the avant-garde's conception charted out a definite interest and faith in technological achievements to influence (and subsequently lead to) a transformation of the societal condition, the beginning of the thirties delved in the belief in the human spirit and its ability to create a projection of a proletarian future through architecture. Although the fact of political indoctrination of ideological constrains cannot be denied, the new spirit must have certainly had an influence on architects and planners in this particular period. The political imposition for a new direction in urbanism, resulting in rearrangements of planning institutions, was not only homogenising the different architectural positions but also leading to the possibility of unification of the extremely fragmented associations into a concentration of one collective project the project for a new socialist city, represented through the Plan for reconstruction of Moscow. Looking at the political and economical condition today, the so-called 'Capitalist realism', manifests itself in the new Master Plan for Moscow 2020. A condition of undetermined propositions, represented through a field of points and connecting lines, constantly adapt and adjust to the requirements of a neo-liberal democratic system. A terrain-vague of juxtaposed zones, centres, sub-centres and street networks, abandoned from any political will and intention, randomly surrendered to the mechanisms of a free market. As against the General Plan for Reconstruction of 1935 is antagonistically powerful because of its holistic appearance to underline a strong common ideology about the socialist city of the future. This omnipresent ideology allowed the heterogeneity and diversity of this plan (due to the involvement of various personalities of planning and architecture) to perform as a ' homogenous collage' of very powerful and delicate urban planning principles. This essay calls for a reinterpretation and reapplication of these principles in the contemporary situation, which would have the power to provide Moscow with alternatives to redefine and concurrently strengthen the lost representation. IntroductionPolitical and economical precondition of the paradigm-shift in the urban planning debate in Moscow The general plan for reconstruction of 1935 is generally considered purely as an attempt to concentrate and centralize the political power to Moscow, the form of centrality applied as a mean of political representation. Thus the political emphasis on the capital city would weaken other cities and strengthen Moscow, in order to demonstrate the political power in the hand of the totalitarian regime, but also as a reaction to control the increasing bureaucratization of the political establishment of Stalin. The Ring-Radial Structure of the city as a very literal representation of centrality as well as the monumental radial streets, the so-called magistraly's, where the exaggeration of scale would repress and relativise any form of individuality, are often red and criticised as means of representation of the authoritarian regime. However, this judgments, often based on cliché-like observations are justifiable, nevertheless one has to understand the context, which led the political power heavily be involved in planning decisions and directives resulting in the famous Masterplan of 1935. In fact the economical situation in the cities in the period of the end of the first Five Year plan was in a desolate situation. The precipitation of the first years of the 1.Five year plan, emphasizing on heavy Industry and collectivization of agriculture, led on one side to economical and thus social crisis on the countryside, but the massive increase in the industry created in the same time a dramatic demand for workers in the urban areas. This resulted in a demographic condition of migration to the cities of not foreseen dimensions. The Living conditions, most of all in Moscow, were in dramatic situation. This forced the political power finally to take action, leading in a series of institutional changes and rearrangements that would strengthen the municipal economy i.e. the urban economy which was almost totally neglected at the beginning of the 1.Five year plan. Therefore the 'birth' of urbanism in Stalin's era could be considered as a side product of the accomplishment of the problems of the municipal economy, the model of this accomplishment was Moscow, its promoter Lazar M. Kaganovich, who was a very close collaborator of Stalin being a very influencing member of the politburo. In 1930, when Kaganovich became also General Secretary of the communist party in Moscow, he began to use his powerful positions in a very intelligent way, engaging himself actively in elaborating proposals for the enhancement of the municipal economy und thus for urban planning. This engagement culminated finally in Kaganovich's famous speech at 16 party Congress of the Central Committee of the VKP (b) in June 1931, persuading the party to decreed a resolution for new directives in the municipal economy which would lead to the law on the urban economy of Moscow and the law of urban economy in USSR. Through his critical arguments towards the 'unrealistic' desurbanist concepts and the strong emphasise on reconstruction of the old city and its clear limitation and compactness, thus an urbanistical approach, he established a new debate in urban planning in Russia. With this very important shift, where politics was taking over the responsibility in planning, the 'unrealistic' (avant-garde) visions in urban design were at firs sight a passed, the party wanted to see the 'transformation in to the real'. fig. 1 The consequences of this shift culminated in dissolutions and dismantling of the different very heterogeneous architectural associations and -organisations and in the establishment of a series of strong governmental directed institutional bodies. Lazar Kaganovich's speech at 16 party Congress of the Central Committee of the VKP (b) 1931 The speech of Kaganovich can be considered not only as a very important document in urbanism but also in politics. The manner how politics and urbanism was intermingled within this speech makes it highly crucial for the whole further development of the debates in the field in architecture and urbanism in the sovietunion. Suddenly architecture became an enormously relevant tool to establish ideological directives through pure physicality. Through built space. In comparison to present (capitalist) conditions where politics (involvement) and urban planning are highly controversial fields of never ending negotiating processes of multiple (democratic) interests, the 'subjectivity' of this political involvement can not purely be regarded in negative terms. The enormous broad content of Kaganovichs speech of three hours addressed very pragmatic issues as well as ideological comments. In that sense the holistic form of the vision for the socialist city of the future sketched by Kaganovich can almost be conceived as a 'gesamtkunstwerk', a large scale structure for the city that would create the perception of its wholeness and this clearly expressed in the General Plan for reconstruction of Moscow. By describing the existing conditions in Moscow, Kaganovich claimed the indispensable need for a general plan for development, since until the beginning of the thirties there were still no planning regulations except the stop for further developments of industrial areas within the city territory. Kaganovich stated that the Municipal economy was discriminated during the beginning of the 1. Five Year plan in favour of the massive industrialisation thus the social needs of the working class would not be corresponded. In that sense the historically important assignment of a socialist reconstruction of the City and its economy would have to be embedded and applied in the next years, i.e. in the 2 Five-year plan. As a short term goal the reconstruction of the old cities and the construction of new buildings was mentioned, but in fact Kaganovich emphasized purely on the reconstruction of the existing cities, whereas the issue of building new cities was only touched shortly and comments about reconstruction of old cities were almost purely about concerns regarding the capital city. The capital city of the world's only proletarian state. Moscow as an urbanistical model, a 'laboratory' for the realisation of a vision. To solve the urgent problems, Kaganovich at first recommended the construction of new housing, and apartment buildings. He claimed that the main assignment would be 'the apartment for the worker', and thus the investigation in the standardisation of houses in order to solve efficiently the housing shortage. He further called for the adaptation to the new socialist way of living and the need for collective kitchens, day care centres, kindergartens and laundries. Other important issues to react in short term were the emphasis on reconstruction and transformations of existing buildings, the amelioration of the water supply system, the expansion and redevelopment of the green areas, but also the construction of a transportation (underground) system which should urgently solve the need for rapid and cheap transportations. the wholeness and depth of his (political) speech is in this chapter clearly expressed trough


In this paper, the objective is to derive the variational formulation of the electrochemical machining problem (ECM for short) and to evaluate the numerical solution using the direction Ritz method. This problem is of degenerate problem which has so many difficulties to be solved using other approach. 1. Introducation As an alternative to definition to mechanical machining problem, a piece of metal can sometimes be shaped by using it as an anode in electrolytic cell with an appropriately shaped cathode. This represent a moving boundary value problem, because the anode surface is moved toward the cathode at constant velocity, and products of the erosion of the anode are swept away by the electrolytes, which is pumped through the space between the electrodes, [12]. 2. The mathematical model of the problem The two dimensional ECM problem will be considered for two electrodes shown in Fig. (1). the space between the electrodes is filled by an appropriate electrolyte. A voltage is placed across the electrodes and these causes are removal of material from the anode, [5]. We will solve equation ECM of an anode surrounded by circular cathode, the conductivity in the gap between the electrodes is considered constant [5]. This problem is formally identical to one-phase Stefan problem with zero heat capacity [13].


We report on the use of tapered linearly chirped fiber gratings to equalize dispersion-induced distortion in long distance/broad-band subcarrier multiplexed (SCM) systems. Different apodization functions for the coupling factor of the fiber grating have been considered and their equalizing capability of fiber-induced distortion in a subcarrier system have been compared. The results of the theoretical analysis show that both harmonic and intermodulation distortions are significantly reduced when the equalizer parameters have been properly designed. Higher reduction of the nonlinear distortion is obtained when the length of the filter increases, even though a saturation effect on this reduction figure appears when the equalizer length is about four or five times its minimum value to achieve equalization, which is derived theoretically based on the SCM optical system parameters. The performance of a Tanh-type tapered linearly chirped grating equalizer on a realistic broadband SCM system is also considered. The results reveal that the dispersion-induced distortion can be neglected when the equalizer is employed.


I would like to begin with a list of some of the things that are happening today in the arena of engineering design and how it is to be taught.


Background: Migraine is defined as a condition accompanied with head ache, nausea, visual and sound sensitivity. Objective: To determine the effect of migraine on maternal and neonatal health. Study Design: Case control study Place and Duration of Study: Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Sandeman Provincial Hospital, Quetta from 1st August 2018 to 31st August 2021. Methodology: One hundred pregnant women divided into migraine and non-migraine groups were enrolled. Both groups were assessed for their sociodemographic, clinical and biochemical status. Their information was documented. Results: Group I females were above 36 years of age and were in their first trimester. There were 56% women who did not presented visual aura. More irritability, pre-term labour and preeclampsia, risk of C section and hypertension was noticed in group I than Group II. Conclusion: Migraine is linked with higher risk of hypertension, preeclampsia, C section and low birth weight new born. Key words: Migraine, Pregnancy, Low birth weight


Abstract. Archernis humilis (Swinhoe) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) has previously been recorded only from India, and nothing has been reported about its biology or immatures. It was recently discovered during surveys for biological control agents against Paederia foetida L. (Rubiaceae) or skunk vine, and this represents the first report of the food plant. Archernis humilis was not sufficiently host specific to be considered as a biological control agent of P. foetida because it showed strong preference for other Paederia species and oviposited on P. ciliata, a Mexican endemic. With considerable new material available from a laboratory colony, we describe the adult morphology in greater detail, including internal genitalic structures of both sexes for the first time. We also provide an image of the egg and describe the larvae and pupae. We discuss the currently known distribution and expansion to China and Thailand. We designate as a lectotype a specimen from Khasia Hills, India. A phylogenetic analysis shows that Archernis is closely related to Trichaea Herrich-Schäffer and Prophantis Warren (Crambidae).


Pottery is one of the characteristics possessed by Cirebon Regency besides batik, mask dance and glass painting. Currently, the number of pottery producers in Sitiwinangun Village is only 121 craftsmen with 142 workers. Whereas based on data from the Industry and Trade Office of Cirebon Regency, in 1996 - 1998, the production of craftsmen increased by about 30% with 239 craftsmen and 576 workers. The number of craftsmen who folded, on average due to capital difficulties, lack of creativity in determining the type of carving, and the lack of marketing is done. Based on that, the researcher tries to make a clustering model by using fuzzy c-means algorithm to classify the pottery based on the characteristics of its own. Of the 30 artisans of pottery, there are 23 craftsmen who enter into cluster 1, 6 pottery vessels that enter into cluster 2, and only 1 craftsman pottery into the cluster 3. Where Cluster 1 is the craftsmen who produce in dozens, the initial capital below Rp. 1,000,000. Members of cluster 2 are craftsmen who produce pottery for artwork, initial capital above Rp.2.000.000. and Members of cluster 3 are craftsmen who produce pottery for artwork but with initial capital around Rp.1.500.000


ABSTRACT. A female neonate with severe varicella is reported. She was treated with THF and a leukocyte transfusion from her reconvalescent mother. This procedure seems to have been a turning point, after which she recovered fully. There were no untoward effects from this treatment.


Telehealth consists of the use of information and communication technologies for health services at a distance. This research aimed to describe the costs of Telehealth developed by the State Nucleus and to verify if there were any costs saved in relation to face-to-face actions. A study was carried out to describe the costs of the actions developed by the State Center for Telehealth within the scope of the State Health Secretariat of Pernambuco, from the perspective of the public manager in the years 2016 to 2018. The cost per type of annual activity of the Telehealth and compared with the estimated costs of face-to-face activities, excluding Teleassistance services, whose actions were not carried out by the Center. Telehealth benefited 36,740 professionals in the years analyzed, of which 14,802 by Telemanagement in 537 sessions and 21,938 by Tele-education in 275 sessions. Telehealth costs in 2017 were the lowest in the period (R$2,127,426.00), with an estimated R$2,403,434.87, if face-to-face, in the same year, accounting only for fuel and per diem, not including costs of depreciation, maintenance/repairs and vehicle taxes/fees. The analyzed service cost R $ 2,490,937.00 and avoided the displacement of 13,150 managers and technicians from GERES to Recife and/or municipal departments in 2018. We concluded that there was a reduction in costs in Telehealth in 2017. However, other aspects stand out economic, such as time reduction, number of beneficiaries reached, especially in Teleducation; and, reducing the risk of road accidents. Within the scope of SES-PE it was the first approximation of the costs of the Telehealth service, so it has limitations and needs improvements for further studies.


In aluminum strip production, profile formed in hot rolling is critical to flatness control in the subsequent cold rolling, and selective work roll cooling is marked by the flexible control of complex high-order shape defects. Therefore, a setup system of selective cooling is developed to achieve the whole cross-section profile control in hot rolling. It includes a real-time work roll thermal model based on finite deference method and a strip profile predictive model based on RBF network. A spray pattern is obtained using an iteration method, as the "basic pattern" for the setup, for the situation when roll thermal contour need to be maintained. Based on the predicted profile error, adjustment of the basic pattern is made by fuzzy inference to get the final setup spray pattern, under which the profile error can be reduced during the threading.


Field screening of 87 and 82 INRC germplasm during kharif 1999 and 2000 was carried out at Experimental Farm of IARI under natural infestation conditions. Four lines viz., INRC 15703, 15708, 15725 and 15732 showed a consistent damage rating of 1 during both the years. Among plant morphological characters studied leaf width was significantly correlated with leaffolder infestation, while plant height had no effect on leaffolder infestation. Except a few, majority of the lines which had damage rating of 1 and 3 had rough texture.


Robeck has ably defended the presumed predecessors of modern Pentecostals. He reminds us that very orthodox churchmen can share in the world of dreams and visions (Ignatius of Antioch shows the same thing, without benefit of Montanism). The only item I can add to the extensive bibliography is Frederick C. Klawiter's unpublished 1975 Chicago dissertation, "The New Prophecy in Early Christianity: The Origin, Nature and Development of Montanism, A.D. 165—220," which deserves mention because it is not limited to evidence from Carthage.


The palm plant, Livistona speciosa Kurz, belongs to the Arecaceae family. The slow germination of the seeds is just one of the issues this plant faces throughout its growth. This research aims to identify seeds' morphological traits and the breakdown of seed dormancy. Observations made were testing viability, moisture content, characteristics of fruit and seeds, the effect of pretreatment on seed germination. The dry heat treatment at 50°C, the hot water soak at 50°C, the soak with GA and IAA solution for 1 hour, and the seed scarification treatment are the methods used to treat seeds that are breaking their dormancy. The results revealed the fruit was rounded, average length: 26,755 ± 1,253 mm; Diameter: 21.33 ± 1,356 mm and weight: 7,786 ± 0.906 grams. Ovoid-shaped seeds; average length: 20,772 ± 1.182 mm; diameter: 16.561 ± 1,160 mm and weight: 3.756 ± 0.648 gr. The highest germination capacity (pre-treatment of oven-dry 50°C and immersion with GA and IAA treatments) and the highest germination coefficient and simultaneously (hot water treatment at 50°C).


THIS PAPER PRESENTS A NEW AND RAPID METHOD FOR ESTIMATING MAXIMUM CONBINED BENDING STRESSES IN SIMPLE-SPAN BEAM BRIDGES PRODUCED BY DEAD LOAD, LIVE LOAD AND IMPACT. THE MAXIMUM LIVE LOAD AND IMPACT STRESSES ARE THOSE RESULTING FROM ANY HEAVY VEHICLE TYPE OR LOADING FOUND ON THE HIGHWAY. THE PROCEDURE FOR ESTIMATING THE TOTAL MAXIMUM STRESS IN SIMPLE-SPAN BRIDGES- OF GIVEN CONSTRUCTION TYPE AND DESIGN DESIGNATION-IS ACCOMPLISHED IN TWO SIMPLE STEPS: (1) CONVERT ANY PARTICULAR VEHICLE UNDER CONSIDERATION INTO ITS EQUIVALENT H TRUCK LOADING ON ANY SPAN, AS MAY BE DESIRED, BY USE OF THE CONVERSION COEFFICIENTS, AND (2) ONCE THE H- EQUIVALENCY OF A GIVEN VEHICLE HAS BEEN DETERMINED FOR A GIVEN SPAN THEN ITS STRESS-PRODUCING EFFECTS MAY BE DETERMINED FROM CHARTS. /AUTHOR/


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