The scientist A. Leontyev assures that the language competence is the result of development of continuous use of each language. Only through active communication and active speech activity an understanding about language emerges for the child (Leontyev, 1977). The scientist Glukhov (2005) outlines the skill to improve the language abilities by performing the speech activity in the process of communication. Whereas, one of the most significant factors in the process of mastering the language is a positive emotional background, where the child is encouraged to perceive visible, apparent things, living beings, natural phenomena, to listen and pronounce words which designate them. This also inspires to investigate the pedagogical potential of a picture to enhance speech for children with language disorders.The picture is a significant visual aid for a child not only to be taught but also to have fun for improving the language skills. Therefore, it is worked out a set of pictures as a help for the parents to work with a child at home. In a such way a speech therapist is involving the parents in a teaching process to prolong an educational process with a child. As a result, the parents get a pedagogic experience and the efficient development for a child language.


Tiktok is an application that is able to change the way of using social media before with their uniqueness, namely videos that are 15-60 seconds long. The Tiktok application is not only a video, but also contains music, filters, and other interesting features. The Tiktok application was launched globally by a Chinese company with a parent company called ByteDance. It is estimated that Indonesia accounts for about 11% of total downloads globally and makes Indonesia one of the countries with the largest Tiktok application users in the world. Then with such a large number of Tiktok downloaders, it can provide opportunities for users such as smartphone brands to make this Tiktok platform or application their social media marketing platform. There are 5 smartphone brands in Indonesia that use Tiktok as their marketing platform, including: Xiaomi Indonesia, Vivo Indonesia, Oppo Indonesia, Samsung Indonesia and Realme Indonesia. This research was made using an exploratory exploratory method, with the aim of knowing how the credibility or performance of the Tiktok account of the 5 best-selling smartphone brands in Indonesia. Then the results of this study show that the Oppo Indonesia brand has better performance credibility compared to other smartphone brands.


Abstract : A differential-equation formulation is presented for the equations governing the small-deflection elastic behavior of thick plates laminated of anisotropic bimodulus materials (which have different elastic stiffnesses depending upon the sign of the fiber-direction strains). This study is concerned with the problems of bending due to pressure loading, free vibrations, and thermal expansion of thick plates having finite transverse shear moduli. Large static deflections of thin plates are also analyzed by an approximate technique. A simple scheme is used for determining explicitly the location of the neutral surface which is defined on the basis of fiber-direction strain. This provides a basis for rational design of such plates. Exact closed-form solutions are presented for freely supported rectangular plates subjected to a sinusoidally distributed normal pressure. Based on experimentally measured bimodulus properties, some numerical computations are carried out. Good agreement is obtained when compared with numerical results existing in the literature for special cases. The results presented here can be used to validate finite-element codes being developed for analysis of thick plates laminated of bimodulus material. (Author)


The effects of light, concentration of the solution and the presence of atmospheric oxygen on anomalies in the spectrum of vitamin-A acetate described previously, are discussed below.


Increasing numbers of students are taking online courses. Therefore, it is imperative to investigate ways to improve teaching effectiveness in an online environment. This article describes the development of a peer review process and instrument to help professors improve their online teaching. To initiate the study, the authors designed and piloted a peer review instrument while reviewing the literature for best practices in online instruction. After revising their instrument, the authors assembled ten online instructors in focus groups to test the instrument's validity and usefulness. Based on input from the focus groups, the authors developed a new process and instrument. This new peer review worksheet was then evaluated for usefulness and validity by three instructional designers. The findings of this study suggest that the peer review process is helpful for experienced online instructors but not for instructors who are new to online teaching. The findings further suggest that the online peer review process should include a face-to-face orientation for peer dyads and a worksheet that contains open-ended questions and is adaptable to changing technology and a variety of disciplines. In the end, the authors recommend a 360-degree review process that incorporates self-review, peer review, and student evaluations. The peer review materials the authors created are included.


Objective To explore the predictive values of creatinine-modified CTP(CrCTP)in assessment of prognosis of hospitalized cirrhosis patients,and compare with Child-Turcotte-Pugh(CTP) scores and serum creatinine(SCr)values. Methods A total of 2 660 hospitalized cirrhosis patients were divided into groups survival and death.SCr levels,CTP score,CrCTP score were compared,and receiver operating characteristic curve(ROC) and area under the curve(AUC) was used to assess their ability of prognosis prediction. Results Death group were significantly different from survival group in SCr,CTP score,CrCTP score(P0.01).Survival analysis showed that ROC curve AUC of SCr,CTP score and CrCTP score were 0.708,0.818,0.850,respectively,in evaluation of prognosis of cirrhosis patients.AUC of CrCTP score was higher than that of CTP score and SCr,that of CTP higher than that of SCr,the difference was significant(P0.01). Conclusion SCr,CTP score and CrCTP score can all predict the prognoses of cirrhosis patients,but CrCTP score superior to SCr and CTP score.


In recent years , tritium (the radioactive isotope of hydrogen) has been increasingly used as a r e search tool in chemistry, physics, biology, meteorology and hydrology. In a variety of investigations, such as the study of biological and metabolic processes, tritium or a chemical compound with tritium as one of the constituents can be used as a tracer. It is also useful in studying the effects of radiation on plants and animals or the nature of biochemical regulators such as vitamins and hormones. In hydrology a major practical use of tritium is in the study of ground-water, which is of obvious importance to irrigation plans in arid or semi-arid areas.


A ten‐year record (1999–2009) of annual mean ground surface temperatures (MGSTs) and mean ground temperatures (MGTs) was analysed for 16 monitoring sites in Jotunheimen and on Dovrefjell, southern Norway. Warming has occurred at sites with cold permafrost, marginal permafrost and deep seasonal frost. Ongoing permafrost degradation is suggested both by direct temperature monitoring and indirect geophysical surveys. An increase in MGT at 6.6–9.0‐m depth was observed for most sites, ranging from ~0.015 to ~ 0.095°C a‐1. The greatest rate of temperature increase was for sites having MGTs slightly above 0°C. The lowest rate of increase was for marginal permafrost sites that are affected by latent heat exchange close to 0°C. Increased snow depths and an increase in winter air temperatures appear to be the most important factors controlling warming observed over the ten‐year period. Geophysical surveys performed in 1999 to delineate the altitudinal limit of mountain permafrost were repeated in 2009 and 2010 and indicated the degradation of some permafrost over the intervening decade. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


It is a must for the newly-organized local university to construct characteristic culture.In face of the conflicts between isomorphism and diversity,frangibility and plasticity,humanism and utility,a newly-organized local university has to establish the school features on the basis of serving the local place,in order to survive and develop better.It should give priority to cultivating talents and creating features in its majors.Besides,it should try to construct typical campus culture under the guidance of school motto.


This article presents the comparative characteristics of modern methods of HR motivation at Hotel Business. The stages of effective HR Policy at Hotel Business were proposed.  One of the major problems which occur hospitality - a lack of qualified staff and not only top management but also line managers and employees. As the hospitality industry experts, even well trained staff often not sufficiently motivated, threatening the loss of valuable employees. So urgent questions remain as to keep workers on training which the company has already spent enough money, resources and time. There is need for scientifically grounded approach to the problem of quality control services businesses hotel industry, need to deepen research issues regarding the formation of scientific views, including the view of methodological approaches to quality management personnel, in view of the objectives and criteria of quality control hotel services. The quality of the staff certainly depends on his motivation and interest in the work.Thus, the study determined that for Ukrainian hotel market characteristic is the combination of a mixed model of incentives that has a number of problems related to insufficient staff motivation, which can be overcome only by the effective combination of material and non-material incentives-based development and training. The practical significance of the results is the proposed phased formation of effective personnel policies


Presents a "programmed solution" of the NMR spectrum of two strongly coupled protons that allows students to work out this problem with a minimum of coaching.


Peer assessment is a collaborative learning method that assists students to have a control of their learning and involve them in reflective process. This study focuses on exploring the perceptions of prospective teachers about use of peer assessment as a reflective tool in classrooms of teacher education programs. This study was quantitative in nature and used descriptive research design. All prospective teachers enrolled in the bachelor programs of teacher education programs (i.e., BS and B.Ed. Hon. Elementary) of public sector universities of Pakistan served as population of the study. Using multistage purposive sampling technique, a sample of 1374 prospective teachers was selected. For seeking prospective teachers' opinion, a questionnaire comprising 17 items on a five-point Likert scale, was developed. Questionnaire was validated by experts. Reliability of questionnaire was ensured with Cronbach alpha value of 0.79. For data analysis, both descriptive and inferential statistics were used. From analysis of data, it was found that prospective teachers perceive that they are sometimes equipped with necessary skills for involving in peer assessment and occasionally their teachers provide them necessary tools to carry out peer assessment for the reflective learning. It was also found that majority of students agree that peer assessment helps them in identifying their weaknesses and strengths more effectively. While prospective teachers reported that peer assessment is an activity that takes a lot of time and it carries biasness with its procedure. It is, however, recommended that peer assessment might be an important component of classroom teaching and learning practices. It is further recommended that promotion of peer assessment in classrooms may be used as a tool for creation of reflective teaching and learning environment.


Several exemplary examples include transmission power control device for wireless communication, systems, and / or methods. For example, the device may include a control device for controlling a plurality of transmission power of a plurality of directional beams formed by the antenna array to transmit wireless communications. Controller, at least you can control a plurality of transmission power based on the first power limit and the second power limit, the first power limit, the directivity of the plurality of directional beams includes a power density limit value corresponding to the power density of the beam, the second power limit comprises total transmit power limit value corresponding to the sum of the transmission power.


Dry eye is highly prevalent worldwide and its incidence is known to increase with age. Several clinical studies have demonstrated reduced tear secretion in older people, indicating that lacrimal gland function decreases gradually with age.1

It has been reported that Excess caloric intake accelerates the aging process, and increases the risks for age-related diseases.2 Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a complex disorder defined by a cluster of interconnected factors that increase the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. Unfortunately, dry eye is often overlooked in this context and no study has investigated whether tear secretion decreases in MetS.

A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2011 among all employees of a company in Osaka, Japan (N=672; age range 26–64 years). Tear volume was measured using the Schirmer 1 method. Participants aged ≥40 years were also examined for MetS.3 MetS was diagnosed using the Japanese criteria defined in 2008. Briefly, the …


BACKGROUND: High-speed exercise is an essential training component to prepare athletes for competition. To date correlations between anthropometry and high-speed exercise performance are mixed. OBJECTIVE: To assess anthropometry as a correlate to performance from workouts comprised exclusively of tonic or phasic repetitions done on a high-speed resistive exercise device (Impulse Training Systems; Newnan, GA). METHODS: Male athletes (n = 31) did two workouts that involved performance of a standing unilateral rowing motion with their left arm for two 60-second sets. Each workout was comprised solely of tonic or phasic repetitions. Anthropometric measurements included: height, mass, body fat percentage, shoulder width, upper and lower arm lengths as well as torso length. Mean force and total work values from each type of workout served as criterion variables. RESULTS:Anthropometry predicted significant amounts of variance for both mean force and total work values (r 2 ∼ 0.21) from tonic workouts. However anthropometry failed to predict a significant amount of performance variance from phasic workouts. CONCLUSIONS: Anthropometry acts as a better correlate to high-speed resistive exercise performance for repetitions that do not terminate with impact forces and are inherently less ballistic, as the latter likely utilizes less momentum.


Music teaching educate one抯 beauty sense consciously, freely, and cultivate one抯 beauty taste abilities alternatively between consciousness and unconsciousness. While music education is a long but potential course. To probe into the embodiment of beauty education in music education in teachers colleges is helpful to improve the quality of music teaching and to cultivate students?beauty taste abilities.


The article discusses investigations of the fields of residual stresses in thin-walled tubes made of stainless steel after drawing. The results of simulation of the finish short mandrel drawing and hand drawing on the conical mandrel of cold-rolled EI847 steel pipes for fuel cladding of nuclear reactors are presented. A comparative analysis of the dimensional accuracy of pipe obtained in the production and during simulation was made. Differences in sizes of diameters and wall thicknesses are obtained within the TU 14-159-293-2005 standard and show the correctness of the mathematical model. Distributions of residual stresses on pipe walls in case of drawing on short mandrel and in case of hand drawing were obtained. The importance of using hand drawing on the final stage of production of pipes from corrosion-resistant stainless steel is shown. One of the technological features of hand drawing is considered: in the process of pulling the mandrel through the tube the stresses in the deformation area together with the dragging increase providing small plastic stretching of the tube after leaving the mandrel. This fact guarantees the straightness of the pipe manufactured by this method. It is shown that hand drawing on the conical mandrel in the last passage provides favorable distribution of residual stresses on the pipe wall and can be recommended for the improvement of the corrosion resistance of pipes used in the nuclear industry. The technology prospects are shown which can avoid the final cold straightening of tubes leading to the low surface quality as well as to the distortion of fields of residual stresses in the pipe wall.


In the 30 years after WWII, a number of countries reformed state-funded legal aid. Most chose models of legal aid delivery that involved the private legal professions. Countries such as the United Kingdom and New Zealand and many provinces in Canada adopted Judicare models, in which private practitioners represented people approved legal aid. Other countries including Australia and The Netherlands and the Canadian province of Quebec adopted mixed models, in which both private and publicly employed legal practitioners provided legal aid services. Conflicting attitudes towards expenditure meant that relationships between governments and legal aid agencies and the private legal professions were often fraught. By the end of the 1980s, governments were concerned at the increasing cost of legal aid, particularly when the cost of service delivery appeared to exceed inflation, and was not matched by corresponding increases in productivity. Private legal professions began to complain about inadequate remuneration, and the increasing bureaucracy associated with legal aid work. These tensions were compounded in the 1990s when governments restricted eligibility for legal aid and sought to reduce expenditure on legal services provided by the private legal professions. These actions were motivated by a desire to achieve greater control over expenditure and, at least in the English-speaking societies, changed attitudes to social welfare and other public sector expenditure. Private legal professions were generally unhappywith these changes that typically included greater controls over payments to private practitioners and reductions in real remuneration for legal aid work. Over the past ten years, a body of anecdotal and other evidence has accumulated INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION, VOL. 14, NO. 1, MARCH 2007


Two new isostructural copper(II)–zinc(II) complexes, [CuZnLBr2] (1) and [CuZnLCl2] (2) (H2L = N,N′-bis(4-methoxysalicylidene)cyclohexane-1,2-diamine), have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses, infrared spectroscopy, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Both complexes crystallize in the P-1 space group. The Cu in each complex is four-coordinate square planar with two imines and two phenolates of L. The Zn in each complex is four-coordinate tetrahedral with two phenolates of L and two halides (Br for 1 and Cl for 2). The superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity of the complexes indicates that both complexes are rudimentary models for SOD.


The effect of mechanism environmental temperature on the sensitivity of micromachined airflow omnibearing level posture sensor was explained.With the method of FEA(finite element analysis),the temperature fields with tilt angle of 10 ° were obtained in different environmental temperatures,by building the three-dimensional model of the sense organ of the sensor.The results showed that when temperature of the heat source and tilt angle were constant,the temperature field changed with environmental temperature;The temperature difference of two detection hot resistances,which were parallel face to face,decreased(increased) with the increase(decrease) of environmental temperature.This lead to decrease(increase) of output voltage of the electric-bridge or reduce(rise) of sensitivity,and provided theoretical and experimental basises for taking further temperature compensation and reducing the temperature drift of sensitivity.


This paper considers the control model identification and H"" controller design for a tandem cold mill (TCM). In order to improve the performance of the existing automatic gauge control (AGe) system based on the Taylor linearized model of the TCM, a new mathematical model that can complement the Taylor linearized model is constructed by using the N4SID algorithm based on subspace method and the least squares algorithm based on ARX model. It is shown that the identified model has dynamic characteristics of the TCM than the existing Taylor linearized model. The H; controller is designed to have robust stability to the system parameters variation, disturbance attenuation and robust tracking capability to the set-up value of strip thickness. The Hs; servo problem is formulated and it is solved by using LMI (linear matrix inequality) techniques. Simulation results demonstrate the usefulness and applicability of the proposed H"" controller.


Introduction: Services in the field of health, but also services in other fields in general, have a special set of characteristics, such as being intangible, which makes their quality evaluation challenging. Although healthcare is described as a service, it is significantly different from other industries at services sector. Objective: The objective of this review is to investigate the quality of health services provided in nuclear medicine departments during the performance of diagnostic tests on patients. Methodology: The study material is consisted of recent articles on the research question found mainly in the Medline electronic database and the Hellenic Academic Libraries Association (HEAL-Link). Results: Initiatives and activities for quality improvement at the nuclear medicine laboratory, should emphasize the accuracy and effectiveness of patient care, patient and staff safety, and build on patient experience during healthcare service provision. Improving quality in nuclear medicine laboratories can potentially reduce the number of imaging tests that need to be repeated due to poor quality, increase diagnostic accuracy, reduce radiation exposure, increase patient satisfaction, and save resources. Conclusions: Adopting a quality management system should be a strategic decision in a nuclear medicine department. The department should implement, document, and maintain a quality management system.


Broadband audio devices appear to give a deeper sense of realism as an air field by making one feel the vibration of the air through the entire body. The application of the new media of information transfer and content of sense presentation is expected to reproduce this air field. The purpose of this study was to create a completely new sense with the air‐flow stimulus, termed 'air‐sensation'. In this study, we measured psychophysical quantities to clarify the sense properties of air‐sensation. Consequently, it was revealed that sense properties vary with the properties of signal waveform, stimulus‐presentation site, and stimulus‐presentation order. © 2017 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


Abstract Although public injecting has been studied in large urban centres, little is known about the factors that drive public injecting in remote communities. This study sought to explore public and semi-public injection in Thunder Bay, a remote and mid-sized city in Northwestern Ontario. Peer researchers completed surveys with people who inject drugs. Multivariable logistic regression was used to examine sociodemographic characteristics and behavioural patterns associated with injecting in public or semi-public settings. Among 200 people who inject drugs, 128 (64%) individuals reported engaging in public injection. In multivariable analyses, public injecting was positively associated with age (Adjusted Odds Ratio [AOR], 0.97, 95% Confidence Interval [CI]: 0.97–1.00; p = 0.05), homelessness (AOR 2.34, 95% CI: 1.10–5.02; p = 0.02), sex work (AOR 4.62, 95% CI: 1.37–21.61; p = 0.02), injecting alone (AOR 2.66, 95% CI: 1.19–6.02; p = 0.01), opioid injecting (AOR 3.64, 95% CI: 1.48–9.41; p = 0.05) and cocaine injecting (AOR 4.35, 95% CI: 2.11–9.44). The most frequent reasons for public injecting were proximity to where people buy drugs (59.4%), being too far from home (27.3%), and being homeless (25.8%). Our findings suggest that the scale-up of additional harm reduction programming in Thunder Bay, including supervised injection services, may address public injecting and reduce associated harms in this setting.


We provide details on the performance characteristics of the Discontinuous Galerkin Time‐Domain (DGTD) method when applied to solving the linear Maxwell equations. It is shown that even for very simple, grid‐aligned structures, the DGTD easily outperforms the well‐established Finite‐Difference Time‐Domain (FDTD) method.


Most starter cultures belong to the lactic acid bacteria recognized as safe by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Food safety Authority. However, LAB may act as intrinsic reservoirs for antibiotic resistance (AR) genes. This fact may not constitute a safety concern itself, as the resistance gene transfer is vertical. Nevertheless, external genetic elements may induce changes that favour the horizontal transfer transmission of resistance from pathogens as well as from the human intestinal microbiota, which represents a severe safety issue. Some genus of AR LAB includes Enterococcus, Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Leuconostoc, Pediococcus, and Streptococcus isolated from fermented meat and milk products. Currently, the WHO recommends that LAB used in the food industry should be free of resistance.


The status of privately licensed shortwave broadcast stations in the US is reviewed. The stations are identified, and their reasons for broadcasting are examined. The laws, rules, and regulations which permit these stations to operate in a world of government-funded stations are discussed, along with the technical standards that they are required to meet, and the particular technical problems that they face. >


Aim:To study the functional effect to the Mitogen Stimulanted Immunocyte in Mice.Methods: To design four concentration gradients in vitro including 0.5,5,50,500 g mL-1 in vitro.To evolve the functional effect of Tau to mitogen stimulanted peritoneal macrophage and splenic lymphocyte in mice.Results: Tau showed the immunologic enhancement to the peritoneal macrophage on the excreting IL-1β after LPS stimulanted but no obvious effect on the proliferative response.Tau had no obvious effect to the splenic lymphocyte after LPS stimulanted within some concentration,but showed inhibitory action when the concentration was higher.Tau showed the most noticeable enhancement and regulation effect to the splenic lymphocyte on the excreting IL-2 after ConA stimulanted and had the most promotion on the excreting IgG after LPS stimulanted when the concentration was higher.Conclusion: Tau had the enhancement and adjustment effect to the immunologic function of the peritoneal macrophage and splenic lymphocyte after mitogen stimulanted in mice.


Background: In this study, methods for the in vitro microculture of Histomonas meleagridis were defined to lay the foundation for further study of its diagnosis, life cycle, and pathogenic mechanism. Methods: After serial dilutions of H. meleagridis, a single parasite was taken and cultured at 40°C. Its proliferation was checked by microscopy, and an 18S rRNA gene fragment of H. meleagridis was amplified using specific primers (Hmf/Hmr) and sequenced. The sequences were assembled manually and aligned using the Clustal X 1.81 program. Results: Two tubes showed proliferation of parasites and, after infection with parasites from these tubes, acute histomoniasis was rapidly induced in turkeys. 18S rRNA gene fragments of the two strains were 492 and 495 base pairs in length, respectively, and the sequence homologies with known H. meleagridis sequences were both 99.4%. Sequence homology between these two strains was 99.6%, and the variation between the two sequences and Trichomonas was more than 20%. Conclusion: We conclude that microculture can produce high-purity and highly pathogenic


Advances in IT technology and modernization of AtoN(Aids to Navigation) facility has increased the unmanned operation of AtoN. However, in AtoN facilities, accessibility is low and it is not able to perform maintenance on the bad weather at the time. In connection with this, in this paper, by applying the protocol of the enhanced dual LED marine lantern, we implemented the short-range monitoring system for a mobile terminal. System implemented in this paper can be carried out confirm the operation status, inspection or control of the dual LED marine lantern at a short distance. Also, it is possible to reduce maintenance costs and prevent accidents during inspection of AtoN. At the same time, it enables the operation test easily without disassembling the product, effective AtoN operation is possible. We tested the system that has been implemented using prototype of the LED marine lantern and confirmed state informations and controlled the behavior of the system in real time.


Abstract Harold Hazen made a significant contribution to the development of control systems during the 1920s and 1930s. He developed a high-performance electromechanical servomechanism, and clarified and extended the available analysis and design techniques for servomechanisms, including methods for relay systems The paper examines in detail the background to Hazen's work, in particular his involvement with Vannevar Bush and Norbert Wiener in the development of computing machines. It also discusses the influence of the work on subsequent developments, and Hazen's personal influence on both teaching and research through his involvement with the work of the National Defense Research Committee and as head of the Electrical Engineering Department at MIT.


Abstract Across the third world, transnational corporations (TNCs) and subnational governments (SNGs) are coming into new forms of contact as a result of liberalization and decentralization. Despite scholarly expectations that subnational governments will respond by seeking out foreign direct investment, in much of Latin America these governments are confronting rather than courting transnational corporations. Conceptualizing this phenomenon as 'subnational economic nationalism', the article explores both how subnational governments are challenging neoliberalism and why these challenges often fail to subvert neoliberal outcomes. By examining two struggles against transnational capital that had different outcomes but that took place within a single subnational jurisdiction (Arequipa, Peru), the article argues that decentralization can work at cross purposes. While voters are increasingly demanding that elected subnational officials adopt nationalist positions vis-à-vis TNCs, these same officials often seek financial support from TNCs so that they can compete successfully in the subnational elections that have been introduced by political decentralization.


ABF Bio+ malt extract is a kind of nature nutrients,which is extracted from barely.Add different ratio ABF Bio+ malt extract during making yogurt,0%,1%,3%,5%,7% respectively.Enumeration the viable bacteria number of Bulgaria lactobacillus(B.L.) and streptococcus thermophilus(S.T.) after various storage time.The results showed that the viable bacteria numbers were highest at 3% ABF Bio+malt extract and 4% sugar concentration with the comparation of high-purity fructo-oligosaccharide.It is demonstrated that 3%ABF Bio+ malt extract also can promote the growth of bifidobacterium.The appearance,flavor,texture and taste of yogurt with various ABF Bio+malt extract addition was the optimum,compared to high-purity fructo-oligosaccharide.


After the formation of the Czechoslovak Republic, legal dualism in criminal law existed in our territory. It was based on the provisions of the so-called Reception Act, and therefore Austrian laws applied in the Czech part of the republic and Hungarian laws applied in Slovakia and Subcarpathian Russia. The dualism of criminal law was unsustainable in the long run. The main aim of the then ongoing processes was to unify criminal law, which was to reflect the unitary nature of the Czechoslovak Republic. The unification was to be implemented by passing criminal laws applicable in the entire territory of the newly formed republic. In the Czechoslovak Republic, the Ministry for the Unification of Laws and the Organisation of Administration was established, whose main role was to unify the laws and administration in the entire territory of the republic. In this paper, the author seeks to point out efforts to unify criminal law, with an emphasis on the activities of the Unification Ministry.


Background:
Dental implant is an artificial root inserted in the jawbone, which restores a lost tooth so
that it looks, feels, and is fit
like a natural tooth. It is considered to be the best treatment option for
single or multiple missing teeth. The aim of this study was to assess the
awareness of patients about dental implants as an alternative treatment in
Congolese patients. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was
conducted in two institutions namely, CBCO Bandal and Ngaliema Clinic, from
August to December 2017. A total of 450 respondents have participated in the
survey. A printed questionnaire comprised of 20 questions in order to evaluate
patients dental awareness was used. Gender, level of education, awareness of
dental implant and dental implants therapy, sources of information and the
expectation about the sources of information were assessed. The collected
data were entered in Microsoft Excel 2010 and analyzed by SPSS (IBM SPSS 20.0,
Chicago, IL, USA) software. Results: Out of 450 participants, 14.4% were
aware of dental implants. The main disadvantage of dental implant was the high
cost. When asked about the anchorage, 86% didn't know where the dental implant
was anchored. Ninety-two percent didn't know for how long an implant last, 6%
thought that dental implant last for a lifetime. When patients were asked about
the sources of information, the dentist (5%) and media (5.5%) were the main
sources of information. The majority of patients (88.4%) would like to get
information about dental implants from their dentist. Conclusion:
Dentists should be more involved in the promotion of information about dental
implants as a treatment modality to replace missing teeth.


This lot has pond view and is a nice gentle rolling lot. Cross Creek is a waterfront Development with paved roads, tennis court, swimming pool and clubhouse.. Lot #18 which is Also on the market - MLS# 121285. Community water.


Functionalization of starch with oxidative cleavage reaction to yield the corresponding dialdehyde derivatives has been employed as an approach for gel formation via Schiff's base reaction. However, this reaction is known as reversible and hydrolysable in aqueous solutions. In this study, the potential of hydrazone chemistry to be used in the synthesis of stimuli‐free and stable hydrogels is investigated. Soluble starch is selectively oxidized to give aldehydic‐starch with different aldehyde contents 39.9, 34.6, and 22.6 aldehyde group/100 anhydroglucose unit (AGU). Adipic dihydrazide was used as an α‐effect nucleophile to react with the dialdehyde starch and obtain stable hydrazone‐based and stimuli‐free hydrogels. Hydrazone chemistry of aldehydic‐starch and adipic dihydrazide (AD) is demonstrated by spectral analysis. As well, the biocompatibility with human skin fibroblasts cells is investigated using a cytotoxicity assay. SEM images show the pore sizes vary from 575 to 4752 nm related to AD concentrations. The swelling degree recorded an increase of 900%, 500%, and 600% at pH 4, pH 7, and pH 9, respectively. Hydrogels showed varied mechanical behavior as a function of AD concentrations.


The market for credit derivatives is growing rapidly. The credit derivative market's global size was estimated to be $100 billion to $200 billion in 1996. The British Bankers Association estimated that the size was $1.6 trillion in 2001. Now the size is about $62 trillion [10]. The demand is strong because credit derivatives provide varieties that can fit different clients. The fundamental credit derivative is the defaultable bond. When pricing defaultable bonds, we need to consider not only the face value and the coupon of the bonds but also the default risk. Bonds with high default risk should be cheaper than bonds with low default risk. In this paper, we derive PDE models to price credit derivatives. In Chapter 2, we will discuss the reduced form approach, which is the popular method used in pricing a credit derivative. The reduced form approach models the default probability without considering the value of the firm [1]. The main idea is the yield spread, i.e. the difference between the yield of a defaultable bond and the yield of a default-free bond. Under the approach Li [13] concludes that the yield spread is attributed to two components, the default probability and the recovery rate, i.e. the fraction of the bond's face value paid in case of default. The reduced form approach is easy to calibrate because we can obtain the data of the yield spread from the market easily. However the yield spread is not only caused by these two components in the real world. Longstaff [15] mentions that the yield spread also may be caused by the liquidity. In Chapter 3 we introduce the structural approach to price of defaultable bonds. The structural approach models default risk by modeling the value of a firm directly [1]. Under the structural approach, the pricing PDE is a 1-D PDE with a moving boundary. We assume that the interest rate is a constant in Chapter 3. But interest rates are an important factor when pricing bonds, so we introduce stochastic interest rate models in Chapter 4. In Chapter 5, we review the papers that price defaultable bonds with a stochastic interest rate. One derives the fundamental PDE. There are analytic solutions for the PDEs, if the model of the interest rate is simple enough. If the model of the interest rate is complicated, however one has to use numerical methods in solving the PDEs. We introduce …


The Mobile Libraries in Portugal, have influenced the promotion of books, reading, and knowledge. They always promote something more… Its history, its reappearance, the difficulties and its potential to take the library out of its walls.


Richard Lynn's book is the (preliminary) conclusion of a decades-long effort at mapping the geography of human intelligence on a worldwide scale. In more than 50 tables it provides an exhaustive review of IQ test results from hundreds of populations, from the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert (average IQ 54) to the Hong Kong Chinese (average IQ 108). Test score differences between countries and between racial groups within countries have been known for a long time. People in the less developed countries, in particular, tend to score poorly on mental tests. Thus the facts are not controversial. What makes this book controversial is the 'biosocial' theory that the author offers as his explanation, and especially his claim that most of the differences are genetic in origin. Even Lynn concedes that genes are not the whole story. For example, the average IQ in Sub-Saharan Africa is 67, but the average IQ of African Americans is 85. Lynn believes that nutrition is the most important environmental factor for population-level differences in intelligence, mentioning formal education only in passing. Thus he offers not a biosocial but a biobiological theory. His main evidence in favor of the nutrition hypothesis is that the secular IQ gains that have become known as the Flynn effect (Flynn 1987) are fully present in preschool children. But aren't preschoolers exposed to toys, picture books and TV in addition to food? The Flynn effect took place precisely at a time when educational systems expanded explosively worldwide (Schofer and Meyer 2005). It would be surprising if these two trends were unrelated. Lynn proposes that most of the genetic differences that he postulates evolved because people in northern latitudes had to adapt to frigid winters. He assigns special importance to big-game hunting, which was essential for survival in these environments since plant food was unavailable for most of the year. He does not cite the 'food-for-thought' hypothesis (Milton 1993), which states that primate brain evolution is driven by the cognitive demands of foraging. This hypothesis is supported with data showing that fruit-eating species tend to have larger brains than leaf-eating species. Lynn merely extends this hypothesis by claiming that hunting requires even more brains than locating fruit trees. To explain cases such as the Inuit, whose somewhat disappointing IQ of 91 does not fit the model of climate-driven selection, Lynn proposes that the evolution of intelligence was limited by a dearth of IQ-boosting new mutations in small and isolated populations. The mechanism had originally been proposed by E. M. Miller as an explanation for the modest IQs of Australian Aborigines and Amerindians (Miller 1996). This hypothesis is plausible. Useful mutations are indeed rare. For example, Southeast Asians had to fight malaria without the benefit of the protective sickle-cell and hemoglobin C mutations because these mutations never happened to occur in their lands. All present-day sickle-cell alleles can be traced to only five original mutations; and the hemoglobin C mutation occurred only once in West Africa (Trabuchet et al. 1991). Thus there are examples of populations that failed to be reached by useful mutations that had occurred elsewhere in the world.


The cultural and community processes occurring in the environment of provincial merchant class are investigated. As conditions subjects in houses of prosperous merchants the various house furniture, utensils that allows to confirm are mentioned: for merchants the interior represented certain value to the considered period. Advancing village on level of social and economic development, a city, and first of all имущее the estate, the first developed and perceived the cultural forms corresponding to more progressive public way, and all it was accepted subsequently weights.


The successful construction of medium and large software systems requires the management of the complexity inherent in the problem being programmed. A well-disciplined approach to software development involves the production of a complete specification, a complete problem solution, and program design prior to the inception of actual coding. In practice, this requires the production of some form of program design representation [1] from the original specification, with the action of each module specified with a program design language [2]. Furthermore, data structures are specified and refined, in some cases to physical data structures, but more commonly to logical data structures.


This paper describes the system developed by the Language Technologies Lab of INAOE for the Spanish Question Answering task at CLEF 2007. The presented system is centered in a full datadriven architecture that uses information retrieval and machine learning techniques to identify the most probable answers to definition and factoid questions respectively. The major quality of our system is that it mainly relies on the use of lexical information and avoids applying any complex language processing resource such as POS taggers, named entity classifiers, parsers or ontologies. Experimental results indicate that our approach is very effective for answering definition questions from Wikipedia. In contrast, they also reveal that it is very difficult to respond factual questions from this resource solely based on the use of lexical overlaps and redundancy.


Objective To investigate the relationship between phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase catalytic subunit α (PIK3CA) expression and the incidence and different pathological grade of gastric cancer, and the mechanism thereof.Meth odsThe expressions of PIK3CA, serine/threonine protein kinase (pAkt) and cell proliferation associated nuclear antigen (ki-67) in gastric carcinoma and adjacent tissues and normal gastric mucosa were detected by immunohistochemical method.The relationship between expressions of PIK3CA, pAkt and ki-67 and tumorigenesis was analyzed. The expressions of PIK3CA, pAkt and ki-67 in different pathological conditions of gastric tissues were analyzed. The relationship between tu mor pathologic classification and differentiation were analyzed too.Results There were significantly higher expressions of PIK3CA, pAkt and ki-67 in gastric cancer (P0.05), which were the highest in the poorly differentiated gastric adenocarci noma (P0.05). There were a positive correlation between expressions of PIK3CA, pAkt and ki-67 and different pathologi cal levels of gastric carcinoma and adjacent tissues and normal gastric tissues (P0.05).Conclusion PIK3CA may be the initiating factor of PI3K/Akt signaling pathway, which induced phosphorylation of Akt and activation PI3K/Akt signaling pathway, promoting the proliferation, invasion and metastasis of gastric adenocarcinoma.


The article provides an overview of current regulatory acts of the Russian Federation on various aspects of the legal regulation of the use of additive technologies in domestic medicine. The authors draw attention to the question of the legal nature of bioprint organs. In the study, such methods of scientific knowledge were used as: general scientific dialectic, formal legal and comparative legal methods. At the same time, the author proceeds from the subjective-objective backside of processes and phenomena, as well as their relationship. This means that all people can use the technology of a new generation, which can cause a therapeutic or preventive effect. This condition is the need for the formation of new legal issues in this area through modernization.


International Scientific Conference "SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TERMS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA STRATEGIC GOALS REALIZATION WITHIN THE DANUBE REGION -achieving regional competitiveness", which was held in period 5-7th December 2013 in Topola, the Republic of Serbia, through number of presented papers mainly provides an overview of results of scientific research on the integrated and interdisciplinary project no. III 46006 "SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TERMS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA STRATEGIC GOALS REALIZATION WITHIN THE DANUBE REGION". International Scientific Conference "SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TERMS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA STRATEGIC GOALS REALIZATION WITHIN THE DANUBE REGION - achieving regional competitiveness", gathered number of scientific workers and experts from many countries. Besides the authors from Serbia in Thematic Proceedings are also presented the papers of authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Moldova, Slovakia, Ukraine, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan and Austria. After all 92 papers were positively reviewed by the reviewers and presented on the International Scientific Conference, they were published in the Thematic Proceedings. Proceedings publisher was Institute of Agricultural Economics Belgrade, together with 34 eminent scientific-educational institutions from Serbia and abroad. In the Plenary Section were presented 3 papers which gave significant contributions to International Scientific Conference. Rest of the papers are systematized in 3 thematic sections: IKNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE FUNCTION OF IMPROVING REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS (45 papers); II BIOREGIONALISM AND PERMACULTURE AS A CONCEPTS OF CONSERVATION OF ECOLOGICAL SPECIFICITIES OF RURAL AREAS (27 papers); III THE CONSTRUCTION OF AGRO-REGIONAL IDENTITY THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL REFORM (17 papers).


This paper brings a material ecocritical perspective to the phenomenon of wildfire, with specific reference to the
potentially catastrophic firestorms of southeastern Australia, which are set to become more frequent and intense as the planet warms and droughts lengthen and deepen in this part of the world. The discussion will focus on Colin Thiele's February Dragon, first published in 1965 with thesupport of the Bushfire Research Council of South
Australia. As a work of children's literature (8+), this story by one of Australia's best-known authors of children's literature, affords consideration of the educational potential of narratives of eco-catastrophe for young readers. In particular, the paper will address the ways in which this text discloses the complex inter- and intra-action of human and nonhuman actors and factors in the aetiology, unfolding and aftermath of bushfire disasters, as well as raising ethical questions about human relations with (other) animals in contexts of shared vulnerability.


Objective:To investigate the outcome of pregnancy after uterine arterial embolization(UAE) for the treatment of endometriosis,and to explore the impact of such treatment on women's fertility.Methods:252 women with endometriosis undergoing UAE in our hospital were retrospectively analysed,their gestational activities and outcomes were recorded.Results: ① There were 16 times of pregnancies in 13 women of the total 252 patients,all of whom conceived spontaneously.② Among 208 women who had no intention of conception,there were 4 times of unexpected pregnancies in 4 patients,among whom 2 cases underwent induced abortion by medication and the other 2 underwent surgical curettage.The villus tissue from one of these 4 induced abortions were taken for chromosome examine,in which no abnormality was found.③ Among the 44 cases who had the desire of pregnancy,there were 12 times of pregnancies in 9 patients,the pregnancy rate was 27.3 %(12/44).Three pregnancies ended by term vaginal birth;1 patient demanded cesarean section after preterm premature rupture of membranes.Another patient asked for cesarean section in term pregnancy and underwent hysterectomy in the operation.No postpartum hemorrhage occurred in these 5 cases of term and preterm pregnancy.No abnormality was observed by routine physical examination of the 5 neonates.4 cases underwent spontaneous abortion within the first 4 month of pregnancy.Right now,1 pregnancy is still going on with normal fetal growth observed by ultrasound,the risk of Down's syndrome obtained by screening test is 1/780.Conclusions:Women suffering from adenomyosis could have normal conception and delivery after UAE,but there might be high risks of spontaneous abortion and preterm delivery.


varies, but is of the order of 0.010 cm 03 per km. This is far in excess of the amount predicted by the chemical equilibrium. The "equilibrium" concentration depends on a photochemical equilibrium—the rate of formation of ozone and of its decomposition, both by photochemical processes. It should be emphasized that the writer is not judging the validity of the interpretations of Kiess, Karrer, and Kiess, which have been questioned by Huang and, on other grounds, by Sinton. Rather, he is showing that the particular objection of Huang based on thermodynamic principles is not tenable if the formation of the nitrogen oxides by photochemical or similar processes is possible under planetary conditions.


Objective To explore proteins which reflect syndrome-effect relationship from the aspects of formula corresponding to symptoms and illuminate the essence of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) patients with Yinxu Dongfeng syndrome(YXDFS) in recovery stage by comparing the different proteins in peripheralblood mononuclear cells(PBMCs) from healthy people and ICH patients with YXDFS treated by Dading Fengzhu decoction(DDFZD) or by Zhengan Xifeng decoction(ZGXFD).Methods ICH patients with YXDFS were randomly divided into DDFZD-treated group and ZGXFD-treated group.PBMCs were isolated from aforesaid groups and healthy subjects using lymphocytes separation medium.The total proteins were extracted,and separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis(2-DE) and analyzed by PDQuest software.The peptide mass fingerprint(PMF) was determined using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry.The differentially expressed protein spots were identified using a Mascot software system.Results Gel-image analysis revealed that there were 24 protein dots expressed differentially in the ICH patients with YXDFS as compared with healthy control,of which 12 were identified.Compare with healthy subjects,there were 5 proteins up-regulated,4 proteins down-regulated and 1 protein lost in ICH patients with YXDFS.Compare with healthy subjects,7 proteins were not differences,2 proteins were down-regulated,2 proteins were up-regulated after treated by DDFZD;6 proteins were down-regulated,3 proteins were up-regulated and 1 proteins were lost after treated by ZGXFD.Conclusion The proteins on the syndrome-effect relationship of treatment for ICH patients with LYFWS by DDFZD is identified,these proteins are related to stress response,cell metabolism,cell migration,signal transduction,cytoskeleton and so forth.DDFZD can adjust several abnormally expressed proteins of ICH patients with LYFWS.On the contrary,ZGXFD couldn't adjust such abnormally expressed proteins.It is provided the experimental basis for the principle of treatment according to differentiation of symptoms and signs.


Background and Objectives: It is necessary that various aspects of health information and statistics are identified and measured since health problems are getting more complex day by day. This study was aimed to investigate the distribution of outpatient services in East Azerbaijan province. Material and Methods : This research was a descriptive, cross-sectional study. In this study, the data from all functional health sectors, including hospitals, health centers, and all clinics and private offices (public, private, charitable, military, social security and NGOs sectors) in 2014 were studied. The relevant performance data were collected according to pre-determined format (researcher-made check list) approved by five professionals and experts in health services management (content validity). The study was conducted in different sites including Deputy of Treatment, health section of University of Medical Sciences, Social Security Organization, Iran Health Insurance, Imam Khomeini Relief Committee, Welfare Organization and healthcare organizations of the oil industry. In order to analyze the data, SPSS 18 software was used. Results: The information and data were collected according to pre-determined format (researcher-made check list) approved by five professionals and experts in health services management (content validity and reliability). In general, the highest and the lowest outpatient services, have been provided in the private sector (53.6%) and the charitable sector (0.6%), respectively. Social security with 27.7% and public sector with 13.4% are the largest providers of outpatient services after private sector in this province. Conclusion: The results showed that the private sector in comparison with public sector is at the forefront of outpatient services. So, policies and decisions should be aimed to protecting and reinforcing these sectors.


The widespread of mobile devices bring a huge potential to e-leaning in terms of pervasiveness, ubiquity, personalization, and flexibility. In this study, a total of 70 university ESP learners were involved. Telegram, as the treatment in this study was compared to a conventional method; face-to-face in the cooperative writing activities. First of all a pre-test was administered to all students and based on the preliminary results; students were divided into Telegram and face-to-face Cooperative writing groups. After using both approaches, a post-test was given to participants. Then, a questionnaire was given to the students in order to investigate the effect of Telegram on the attitudes of ESP vocabularies and expressions by the ESP learners. The data were then analysed using independent t-test and paired sample t-test. From the findings, it was found that participants in Telegram Cooperative writing groups displayed slightly higher scores compared to face-toface Cooperative writing groups. However, the differences between Telegram and face-to-face Cooperative writing groups were not significant in the post-test writing scores. When comparison was made within each group, this study found that there were significant differences for overall writing performance, content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanics. The results also indicated that the students had positive attitudes toward using telegram Cooperative learning.


The present application is an optical film, is for a method of manufacturing the same, the illumination device and display device. The present application, has excellent color purity and efficiency, it is possible to provide an optical film capable of providing a color characteristic is excellent illumination device. The optical film of the present application has the superior properties as described above can be maintained stably for a long period of time. Optical films, a variety of lighting devices of the present application, as well as photovoltaic applications, optical filter


The behaviour of high-inertia aerosol particles' concentration fields in stationary gas suspension flows around a cylinder is investigated using a numerical solution to the Navier-Stokes equations and the fully Lagrangian approach for four Stokes numbers (Stk = 0.1, 1, 4, 10) and three Reynolds numbers (Re = 1, 10, 100). It has been shown that the points of maximum particle concentration along each trajectory shift downstream both when Stk and/or Re increase.


Through the analysis of the existing problem and deficiency in the optimization of the current highway construction network, this paper puts forward the mathematic model which considers three elements: the schedule, resource and cost from the view of "the biggest benefit" in the highway construction, and therefore the optimization method is improved. At last, it gives the calculation flowchart and the feasible mathematic solution of the model.


This paper proposes an elementary pattern detection approach for viruses propagated through e-mail and address books using the non-uniform pheromone deposition mechanism of ant colony. The local temporary tabu memory has been used to learn the pattern and it can combine known information from past viruses with a type of prediction for future viruses. This is achieved through certain generated test signature of viruses associated with e-mail over landscape. A non-uniform and non-decreasing time function for pheromone deposition and evaporation ensures that subsequent ants who are close enough to a previously selected trial solution will follow the trajectory or test landscape. They are capable to examine gradually thicker deposition of pheromone over the trajectory. It is empirically shown that the proposed modified pheromone learning mechanism can be an alternative approach to detect virus pattern for e-mail messages.


This paper proposes the impact of the Dynamic model in Input-Output State Feedback Linearization (IO-SFL) technique for trajectory tracking of differential drive mobile robots, which has been restricted to using just the kinematics in most of the previous approaches. To simplify the control problem, this paper develops a novel control approach based on the velocity and position control strategy. To improve the results, the dynamics are taken into account. The objective of this paper is to illustrate the flaws unseen when adopting the kinematics-only controllers because the nonlinear kinematic model will suffice for control design only when the inner velocity (dynamic) loop is faster than the slower outer control loop. This is a big concern when using kinematic controllers to robots that don't have a low-level controller, Arduino robots for example. The control approach is verified using the Lyapunov stability analysis. MATLAB/SIMULINK is carried out to determine the impact of the proposed controller for the trajectory tracking problem, from the simulation, it was discovered that the proposed controller has an excellent dynamic characteristic, simple, rapid response, stable capability for trajectory-tracking, and ignorable tracking error. A comparison between the presence and absence of the dynamic model shows the error in tracking due to dynamic system that must be taken into account if our system doesn't come with a built-in one, thus, confirming the superiority of the proposed approach in terms of precision, with a neglectable difference in computations.


In the divorce case involved the right of dwelling and rent of public housing, there is another case of affirmance of the right of dwelling and rent of public housing. Based on the legislation and the legal principle, the two cases can be tried together. While the engagement is renounced, the leasehold relation should be changed.


A major realm of security breach for today's users is unprivileged access, modification or sometimes forgery of critical business, or user information. Existing computer locking/unoking methods serve as an intermediate barrier against unethical deeds. The proposed solution BlueKey is a software-based solution installed on Personal Computers (PC) that safely unlocks the PC by securing the Bluetooth communication channel between the user's mobile device and his/her PC. BlueKey helps end-users in not typing their passwords every time they need to access their PCs. At the same level, this solution includes a mobile application that allows the owner to fully control his/her PC via Bluetooth, and runs a breach detector module with safety measures to protect the PC when it is locked. At the technical level, BlueKey is a platform free application written using Java programming language, fulfilling the Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA) concept. This system is built using Java Development Kit (JDK) and compiled using Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and runs with Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Alongside, the mobile application is developed using Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), which is compatible with Android, Symbian, and BlackBerry operating systems.


Conclusions: Infections (especially ventilator-associated pneumonia) during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy are common and frequently involve multidrug-resistant organisms. In addition, they have a negative impact on patients' outcomes. ( Crit Care Med 2017; 45:1726–1733)


By applying quadratic and linear phase modulations (QPM and LPM), the propagation properties of the partially coherent dual and quad Airy beams which maintain acceleration in free space are studied. They are generated by superimposing two and four partially coherent Airy beams whose phase is modulated in the source field. It is demonstrated that the trajectories of the partially coherent light beams and the location and number of focal points, along with maximum altitude and range of the trajectories can be easily dominated by adjusting the appropriate values of QPM p and LPM l. Furthermore, for the quad case, the transverse spectral density distribution of lacking side lobes exhibits the structure of the optical frame which may be flipped under certain conditions. Both the peak intensity of the beams and the divergence speed of the optical frame can be managed by choosing the different characteristic transverse width of the beams. These results show an energizing new idea in the manipulation of partially coherent multiple fields of accelerating beams.


The problem of failure model construction was studied to optimize the evaluation method of IP network survivability.The evaluation frame of network survivability was introduced,the characteristics of IP network failures were analyzed,analyzed the traits of failures,the influence of failures to IP network survivability and the classification of failures,on the basis of understanding the characteristics of IP network failures,the mathematical expressions of failure state aggregations were provided,the failure state were single link failure,router related failure and fiber related failure,and the constructing methods of two failure models were also provided,respectively at the situation of foreknowing the percent of every failure to all failures and foreknowing the statistical distributions of the failure′s arriving intervals.The simulation results show that two kinds of failure models could accurately simulate the real failure states.


The variance analysis and multiple comparisons on the related indexes of fruit economic characters, seed oil content, fatty acid composition, flesh nutritional components and rattan medicinal components of nine different geographical provenances in Stauntonia obovatifoliolasp. Urophylla, were carried out in order to breed fine varieties with high edible value, oil-used value and medicinal value. The results show that(1) Except for single pericarp weight, there were significant differences of fruit economic characters among the nine different geographical provenances in Stauntonia obovatifoliolasp. Urophylla. The single fruit weight and flesh weight of Sanhe Village and Cheao Village, Wudoujiang Township, Suichuan County all ranked in the front, whose single fruit weight were all greater than 230 g, flesh weight were all greater than 70 g, and the edible rate were all greater than 30%, so their edible value were hi gh. the fruits from Yuankou forest farm, Wuning County had the highest edible rate and thinnest peel, which were 40.80% and 0.25 cm respectively, the two indexes of Yuankou fruits had significant differences with those of other geographical provenance's, so its also has high edible va lue.(2) Th ere were significant differences of seed oil content, linoleic acid and oleic acid content among the nine different geographical provenances in S.obovatifoliolasp.Urophylla. the species from Sanhe Village had the highest linoleic acid and the highest unsaturate d fatty acid content, and high seed oil content, above 40%; The seed oil content, linoleic acid, oleic acid and unsaturated fatty acid content of Huangqiudong Village, Chatan Township, Chongyi County and Hongxing Village, Doushui Township, Shangyou County wer e all relatively high; so the oil-used value of the three species were higher.(3) Except for total acid content, there were significant differences of vitamin-C, total sugar, reducing sugar and protein content among the nine different geographical provenances in S. obovatifoliolasp.Urophylla. Cheao Village, Wudoujiang Township, Suichuan County's total sugar content was the highest, 40.26 g/100 g, and its vitamin-C, reducing sugar and protein content all ranked in the front, so its fruit nutrient value was above average.(4) There were significant differences of medicinal components among the nine different geographical provenance in S.obovatifoliolasp.Urophylla. Of them, Djiang Village, Wujiang Township, Jishui County's rattan had the highest phenylethanoid glycoside-B and total saponins content, were 0.80% and 0.73% respectively, and its oleanolic acid con tent was also high, was 0.11%, so its medicinal value was high. The testing results provide a the oretical basis for different objective of S. obovatifoliolasp. Urophylla variety bre eding.


Hydrodromidae (V i e t s 1936) is a cosmopolitan monotypic family of water mites. So far, only three species of the genus Hydrodroma Koch, 1837, are known to occur in Iran: Hydrodroma despiciens (MUller, 1776), H. torrenticola (Walter, 1908) and H. rheophila Cook, 1967. During a survey of the freshwater fauna of Iran, several species of the water mite genus Hydrodroma Koch were collected, including two new species for the fauna of Iran. All species have been deposited in the collection of the first author. In the section "Locality records" collecting site abbreviations derive from the geographical database Pesic, The composition of the material is given as: (males/females/deutonymphs). List of established species of the water mite family Hydrodromidae in Iran: Hydrodroma rheophila Cook, 1967 Material examined: IR16 Southeastern Iran, Kerman Province, stream in Sirch village (50 km E from Kerman), 24.07.2003, leg. Pesic (0/4/0). Record from the study area: Far s -S c h woe r bel and S epa s g 0 s a ria n (1978). Distribution: India, Iran. Remarks: A combination of further diagnostic characters is a single, short swimming hair on segments four and five of the third and fourth legs and the palpal segments are much stockier, especially P-4 (C 0 0 k 1967). The specimens from Kerman are in a general agreement with the orginal description. Hydrodroma reinhardi Pesic, 2002 Material examined: IR49 Tehran Province, Elbrus Mt., Shahrestanak stream (on Karaj-Chalus road), 18.08.2003, leg. Pesic, Asadi & Saboori (2/5/0). Distribution: Mediterranean (France-Corsica, Italy, Serbia and Montenegro). New for the water mite fauna of Iran. Remarks: The number of swimming setae on legs in two specimens from the Shahrestanak stream is in the range of variability recorded by Pes i c (2002) for the Mediterranean samples (in square brackets see Table 1). Hydrodroma torrenticola (Walter, 1908) Material examined: IR8 Mazandaran Province, Abshar stream near Ramsar (on lavaher deh road), 36°55'N 50 T=240, 19.07.2003, leg. Pesic, Asadi, Saboori (0/1/0). Record from the study area: Mazandaran (Lahidjan) S c h woe r bel and S epa s g 0 s a ria n (1978). Distribution: Europe, Iran. Remarks: The number of swimming setae on legs in the specimen from the Mazandaran Province is in the range of variability recorded by G ere c k e (1991) for the Sicilian specimens (in square brackets; Table 1).


Massive stars are strong sources of far-ultraviolet radiation that can be hostile to the evolution of protoplanetary disks, driving mass loss by external photoevaporation and shortening disk-dissipation timescales. Their effect may also reduce the timescale of angular momentum exchanges between the disk and host star during the early pre-main-sequence phase. To improve our understanding of the environmental influence on the rotational history of stars, we developed a model that considers the influence of the local far-ultraviolet radiation on the spin evolution of low mass stars. Our model includes an assumption of disk-locking, which fixes the rotation rate during the star-disk-interaction phase, with the duration of this phase parametrised as a function of the local far-ultraviolet radiation and stellar mass (in the range 0.1–1.3 M⊙). In this way, we demonstrate how the feedback from massive stars can significantly influence the spin evolution of stars and explain the mass-dependency observed in period-mass distributions of young regions like Upper Sco and NGC 2264. The high far-ultraviolet environments of high-mass stars can skew the period distribution of surrounding stars towards fast-rotation, explaining the excess of fast-rotating stars in the open cluster h Per. The proposed link between rotation and the pre-main-sequence environment opens new avenues for interpreting the rotational distributions of young stars. For example, we suggest that stellar rotation may be used as a tracer for the primordial ultraviolet irradiation for stars up to ∼1 Gyr, which offers a potential method to connect mature planetary systems to their birth environment.


There has been considerable amount of research to improve performance for a dense wireless local area network (WLAN) environment. While some studies focus on aggressive channel access, others highlight frequent channel state information (CSI) corruption by excessive transmissions. We pay attention to midamble, adopted in the IEEE 802.11ax standard specification, to overcome CSI corruption. If the transmitter inserts midamble symbols, the receiver can acquire new CSI periodically during a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) frame. In this paper, we propose a precise receiver performance model to describe the impact of CSI, and design a standard-compliant algorithm called REMEDY that works with conventional channel access schemes by handling CSI corruption and time-varying channels in high-density WLAN networks. REMEDY determines whether to use midamble considering overhead, estimates on-frame signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR) to notice channel environments, and cancels the effects of scrambling and incorrect descrambling. We evaluate the performance of the conventional schemes with and without REMEDY in 11ax task group (TGax) indoor simulation scenarios using the ns-3 simulator, considering time-varying channels and CSI corruption. REMEDY helps the existing channel access schemes to achieve up to $2.20\times $ higher throughput while improving the throughput of the lowest performing group, compared to the existing schemes without REMEDY.


A method is operable in a non-volatile memory device of a type having a plurality of blocks formed of a plurality of memory strings in which a plurality of memory cells are connected in series in which a programming operation is conducted after erasing memory cells. The method essentially including the steps of: erasing data held in the memory cells in a unit of the block; and applying a soft program voltage to word lines coupled with the erased memory cells in the unit of the block. The method improves a threshold voltage profile after an erasing cycle, whereby program stress can be minimized in a follow-up program operation.


Shape matching is one of the fundamental problems in content-based 3D shape retrieval. Since there are typically a large number of possible matches in a shape database, there is a crucial need to perform shape matching efficiently. As a result, shapes must be reduced into a simpler shape representation, and computational complexity is one of the most important criteria for evaluating 3D shape representations. To meet the need, the investigators have implemented a new effective and efficient approach for 3D shape matching, which uses a simplified octree representation of 3D mesh models. The simplified octree representation was developed to improve time and space efficiency over prior representations. In addition, octree representations are rapidly becoming the standard file format for delivering 3D content across the Internet. The proposed approach stores octree information in XML files, rather than using a new data file type, to facilitate comparing models over the Internet. New methods for normalizing models, generating octrees, and comparing models were developed. The proposed approach allows users to efficiently exchange shape information and compare models over the Internet, in standardized data and data file formats, without transferring exact model files. The proposed approach is the first step in a project which will build a complete 3D model database and data retrieval system, which can be incorporated with other data mining techniques.Copyright © 2006 by ASME


Contents: Part I:Introduction. Introduction. Brief Historical Review of Dream Interpretation. Dreams of the Mind-Disordered. Part II:Perceptanalytic Dream Systems (PDS). The Process of Dreaming. Two Dream Interpretation Axioms. PDS Rules of Interpretation. Part III:Freud and PDS. Dissimilarity Between Perceptanalytic and Freudian Dream Systems. The "Irma Injection" Dream: Perceptanalytic and Freudian Interpretations. Part IV:Application of the PDS. Blind Analysis of Sample Dream With Follow-Up. Principles and Problems in Clinical Use of PDS for Manifest Dreams (written by Albert M. Biele). References.


The utility model discloses a solar charger circuit, which comprises a solar battery group, first energy storing elements, a second energy storing element, an inductive element, a switch element, a current back flow protection element and a controller, wherein the solar battery group consists of solar batteries which are mutually connected in parallel, the first energy storing elements are connected in parallel at both ends of the solar battery group, one end of the inductive element is connected with positive electrodes of the first energy storing elements, the other end of the inductive element is connected with the first terminal of the switch element, one end of the back flow protection element is connected with the connecting end of the inductive element and the switch element, the other end of the back flow protection element is connected with a positive electrode of the second energy storing element, a negative electrode of the second energy storing element and the second terminal of the switch element are connected with a negative electrode of the solar battery group, the potential detection end of the controller is connected with a positive electrode of the solar battery group, and the first output end is connected with the third terminal of the switch element, and is used for sending control signals for controlling the switching-on and the switching-off to the switch element.


I. Every Wednesday evening, in the small Southwestern state college where I once taught, I would spend a few minutes at intervals roaming the halls, peering in at classrooms, listening to the drone of professorial voices, trying to get a sense of the process operating in those rooms. My senior students had been set to work in small groups for a half hour or so, sharing the learning of techniques for business policy analysis. It was during those periods that I would wander. After a number of these interludes I began to formulate several observation-based principles, which in time tended toward a generalized hypothesis. My observations were these:


The objective of this study is to find the correlation between self-control and social media addiction (Instagram) of teenagers. This research uses a quantitative approach, and samples a total of 62 teenagers in the XI class in SMA Harapan 1 Medan, with purposive sampling. Data retrieval is done using two scales, namely self-control and social media addiction (Instagram). Data analysis using product moment correlation techniques with rxy = -0.419; p = 0.000 < 0.05, meaning that there is a negative correlation between self-control and social media addiction, which indicates that the higher the self-control then the lower the social media addiction. Instead, the lower the self control then the higher the social media addiction. Thus the hypothesis proposed is accepted. Based on the research result, the contribution self-control in social media addiction is 17.6% and the rest is 82.4% affected by other factors


We address several extremal problems concerning the spreading property of point sets of Steiner triple systems. This property is closely related to the structure of subsystems, as a set is spreading if and only if there is no proper subsystem which contains it. We give sharp upper bounds on the size of a minimal spreading set in a Steiner triple system and show that if all the minimal spreading sets are large then the examined triple system must be a projective space. We also show that the size of a minimal spreading set is not an invariant of a Steiner triple system.


The effects of C-substitution for part of the N content, on the pitting corrosion resistance and repassivation tendencies of duplex stainless steels (DSSs) were investigated. For this investigation, normal UNS S32205 containing N only (DSS-N) and the C-substituted DSS (DSS-NC) were fabricated. Microstructural analyses confirmed that the two DSSs had dual-phase microstructures without precipitates, and they possessed similar initial microstructure, including their grain sizes and phase fractions. Polarization and immersion tests performed in concentrated chloride solutions revealed that the DSS-NC was more resistant against stable pitting corrosion and possessed a higher repassivation tendency than the DSS-N. Furthermore, the corrosion pits initiated and propagated to a less corrosion resistant α phase. Polarization tests and corrosion depth measurements conducted in an HCl solution indicated that the DSS-NC exhibited lower galvanic corrosion rate between the α and γ phases than the DSS-N. Therefore, the growth rate of pit embryo was lowered in the DSS-NC, which shifted the potentials for the stable pit initiation and the pit extinction to the higher values.


Abstract Elizabethkingia meningoseptica is a recognised cause of meningitis in premature neonates and severe infections in immunocompromised adults; multi-drug resistance is a major issue. A premature infant developed sepsis, meningitis and hydrocephalus owing to E. meningoseptica and was treated successfully with trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole (TMP–SMZ) for 3 weeks. A ventriculoperitoneal shunt was required for hydrocephalus. This is the youngest patient with meningitis caused by E. meningoseptica to have responded to TMP–SMZ.


By establishing a regional green innovation system, realizing the integrated development of industries across administrative divisions, and developing emerging industries, continuation industries, and resource reuse industries are effective ways to realize the transformation of economic development mode. In the process of shifting from the industrial economy of the industrial society to the industrial economy of the information society, green industry informatization is an inevitable requirement for realizing industrial restructuring and industrial upgrading, improving the core competitiveness of green enterprises, and a necessary condition for realizing regional national economic informatization. Data mining technology can discover and extract hidden, novel, meaningful and understandable information and patterns from a large amount of data, and realize the transformation from simple data to information to knowledge. According to the general requirements of data mining technology and the characteristics of the green industry field, this research constructed a system framework for green industry data mining, discussed key issues such as data preparation and data selection in data mining of green industry. Meanwhile, using data mining software SAS and Malmquist index as implementation tools, the basic theories and methods of green industry data mining were applied to the innovation evaluation of my country's green industry. The results showed that data mining technology had its unique advantages in dealing with the massive data of the green industry. It can not only quickly realize the diversified statistical analysis of the massive data in the green industry, but also display it to users with rich graphics, which is conducive to the interpretation and understanding of the analysis results.


The relationship between the radon and tectonic activity of the faults for two geodynamically active regions of Central Mongolia is shown. Radon fault activity grew with increased seismic activity and with an increase in the contribution of extension in the dynamic framework of their formation. It is higher in concentrated faults of late stages of development compared with wide zones of fractures in the early stages of the formation. The established patterns will help increase the effectiveness of the use of radon surveys in studies of the seismic hazard of faults of the Earth's crust.


ABSTRACT The role of moral disengagement in evaluating narrative character behaviors has been a source of scholarly investigation for some time. Despite a theoretical interest in the process, little work has experimentally manipulated content features related to the mechanisms proposed by Bandura in his selective moral disengagement model. This paper presents the results of an experiment that manipulates the presence/absence of a victim of an immoral protagonist's actions in an audio-visual narrative. We measure various narrative engagement variables including perspective-taking, approbation of behavior, and character liking. Thus, our study design tests content cues corresponding to Bandura's selective moral disengagement hypotheses and links them to variables specified in Zillmann's affective disposition theory. Findings indicate that perspective-taking with the immoral protagonist is enhanced when the victim is absent. Perspective-taking then has downstream effects on other narrative processing variables, such as character judgments, desires for specific story outcomes, and punitiveness toward similar real-world behaviors. The design of the current study thus provides a roadmap for future research, and we discuss the value of carefully manipulating narrative cues in order to encourage or discourage moral disengagement in viewers.


In this paper we shall examine certain recent developments in two interrelated aspects of comparative education: methodology and intellectual perspectives.' Specifically we shall argue: that some well-publicized recent efforts to make comparative education "scientific" are limited in scope and are often based on questionable views and assumptions about "science" and the "scientific method"; and that partly because of the influence of other social studies, notably economics, sociology and political science, education has been largely treated "instrumentally," namely, as a means to analyze other spheres of social activity, and thus it has subserved the concerns and interests of economists, sociologists, and political scientists. As such, the educational phenomena examined of necessity have been restricted to those bearing upon the economy, the polity, and the social system.


The aim of this paper is detailed description of synthesis geocement composite material based on K2O-Al2O3-SiO2 system and characterization its thermal properties. The series of analytic tools were used (XRF, XRD, SEM, BET, particle-size distribution) for accurate identification of chemical and physical properties of raw material. Optimum technological prescription was determined and geocement specimens were tested for identification of mechanical and thermal properties. Three series of specimens were heated up to 1000, 1100 and 1230°C and flexural strength was determined. The thermal analysis TMA and DMA were used for characterization of heat-resistant properties. The maximum shrinkage in the range 30-1000°C was for the first run in temperature rate 20°C/min. only 3%. The heating exposure at slower rate (3°C/min.) caused reduction of shrinkage up to 1.5% at 1000°C. Geocement represents attractive thermal properties.


Potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystals are essential components used in the high power laser applications. Its properties will affect the output power and quality of laser beam directly. To improve the laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) of KDP crystal, this paper investigated the influence of ion beam figuring(IBF) technology on the laser damage properties of KDP crystal machined by single point diamond turning(SPDT). Firstly, the surface quality and photo-thermal absorption performance of samples were measured after turning and ion beam figuring. Then, the LIDT of crystal of different processing conditions were measured by R-on-1 test method. Finally, the mechanisms that ion beam figuring could improve the LIDT were analyzed and discussed.The experiment results show that ion beam figuring can reduce surface roughness,improve the surface quality as well as lower the absorption of KDP crystal elements, which contribute to increase the laser damage resistance of KDP crystals obviously.


Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation and tissue damage mediated by the immune system. Respiratory manifestations are common in SLE, appearing in up to 50% of patients throughout their lives. Furthermore, it is associated with higher mortality. Objectives: To describe the prevalence and characteristics of pulmonary involvement in patients with SLE Methods: Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, retrospective study performed in patients with SLE in follow-up by the Rheumatology Department of Valme Hospital. The following information is collected from medical records; age, sex, mean age at diagnosis, characteristics of pleuropulmonary involvement and ANA and antiDNA positivity. Results: We studied 165 patients with SLE, with mean age of 37.01 +/- 14.65 years, predominance of the female patients 153 (92.72%). Thirty eight of them had pulmonary involvement (23.03%), with a total of 47 episodes related to lung manifestations. Mean age at diagnosis was 39.70 +/- 15.50 years. Below is shown information about lung involvement: Variable Prevalence ANA + antiDNA + Hospitalization required Pleuritis 19 18 5 17 Lupus pneumonitis 1 1 0 1 ILD 2 2 0 1 Shrinking lung 4 4 1 2 Pulmonary embolism 5 4 1 3 Other 16 15 9 10 Eleven patients (28.94%) presented pulmonary involvement at the time of diagnosis; pleuritis (10.63%) and only one case of interstitial lung disease, varicella pneumonia, shrinking lung syndrome, pulmonary embolism (PE) and bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia. Two patients (4.24%) died due to severe respiratory failure secondary to bilateral pneumonia. Three of the 5 patients with PE were diagnosed with antiphospholipid syndrome secondary to SLE. Regarding treatment, most of patients who required hospitalization were in basic treatment with synthetic DMARDs (78.57% in monotherapy and 21.43% with double therapy) and only 2 patients with biologic DMARDs (Rituximab and etanercept). Six patients had no treatment because the pulmonary event was at time of diagnosis, 2 patients were with antiaggregating therapy and there was no information registered in two patients (episode before 1997). 91.10% of the patients presented positive for ANA, of which 37.14% (13 patients) also presented positive antiDNA. No information was collected about autoimmunity in one patient (2.12%). Conclusion: Pulmonary involvement in SLE is prevalent, although a significant proportion may remain asymptomatic. The little prevalence of pulmonary manifestations in our series might be due to low mean age, according to the result of a recent systematic review where analysed more than 10000 patients and concluded pulmonary manifestations are more frequent in late-onset SLE. The differential diagnosis is broad and the infectious cause, the main cause of mortality in patients with SLE, must always be ruled out. References: [1] 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2018.01.010 [2] 10.1016/j.reuma.2018.03.012 [3] 10.1186/s13075-018-1776-8 [4] 10.1097/BOR.0000000000000531 Acknowledgement: None Disclosure of Interests: NAHIA PLAZA: None declared, MARÍA JOSÉ PÉREZ: None declared, Sergio Rodríguez Montero: None declared, CARMEN TRAPERO: None declared, Jose Luis Marenco Speakers bureau: abbie, pfizer, novartis, janmsen


Several new infrared absorptions were found in carbon dioxide. All are normally forbidden, and were collision-induced in an absorbing cell whose combination of pressure and path length has a unique sensitivity for induced absorptions. The new absorptions in the 2.3 micron region are attributed to transitions from ground to the 3(1)1 Fermi pair at 4248 and 4391/cm. Other absorptions are attributed to simultaneous CO2-N2 transitions and to the 00(0)0-00(0)2 transition in CO2 polarizability derivatives and regular progressions in strength versus increasing quantum number. The spectra were used to predict the radiative transfer in a dry CO2 model of the lower Venus atmosphere. The results indicate that the radiation balance in the lower atmosphere is adequately explained by a dry massive atmosphere of CO2 with a layer of infrared-opaque clouds. The absorptions in the 2.3 micron region are significant in accounting for the opacity to sustain Venus' 768 K surface temperature.


The study examined the impact of government expenditure on manufacturing sector output in Nigeria from 1986 to 2016, a period of 30 years using the Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS) multiple regression analysis. The unit root test using Augmented Dickey Fuller revealed that all the series were stationary at first difference. The findings obtained from the long run Dynamic OLS showed that government capital expenditure (GCEXP) was positive and significant and therefore impacted significantly on manufacturing output (MO) in Nigeria. The government recurrent expenditures (GEEXP) was positive but not significant on manufacturing output during the period under study. The empirical findings further indicated that the ECM was negative and statistically significant at 5%. The speed of adjustment was 24.9. The Pairwise Granger Causality Tests result shows that there is unidirectional causality among the variables. GCEXP cause change in MO, but MO does not cause change in GCEXP. GREXP cause change in MO, but MO does not cause change in GREXP. The study recommended that there is need for government to reduce its budgetary allocation to recurrent expenditure and place more emphasis on the capital expenditures such as power, roads since capital expenditure has the greatest impact on the long-run with manufacturing sector output in Nigeria. Government should increase its funding of anti-graft or anti-corruption agencies like the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) in order to arrest and penalize those who divert and embezzle public funds.


When era big data has reached to Malaysia, our government realized that all data are streaming all over the Internet from various data sources like sensors, social media data, excel spreadsheets, reviews, customer data, and etc. There are a lot data from our government need to be analysis which is can help decision making in the future. This Malaysia Open data can be analysis to help the government to predict what the next planning to do. In this paper, we use the Malaysia Open Data Government Portal about Malaysian Dengue Hotspot from 2010 until 2015. In the days, machine learning algorithms and technologies were mostly used by scientists, tech geeks or domain experts. However, several organizations are now using machine learning online and offline tool to make these technologies available to the masses to people outside. Online and offline tool make it easy for developers to apply machine learning to a dataset so as to add predictive features to their applications. In this paper, we used BigML which it provide online platform to integrate machine learning in real world applications and to predict the most popular place for Dengue to get an early warning and awareness to the people. BigML use the decision tree algorithms to do data analytics and prediction the popular place. In this case, we are using BigML to predict the place which always dengue occur in Malaysia which is also called as hotspot.


Patients with Cushing's syndrome can rarely present with systolic heart failure as the mainstay feature. In these patients, heart failure is usually secondary to left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and not to dilated cardiopathy. We herewith report a patient with Cushing's syndrome, who presented with systolic ventricular failure secondary to dilated myocardiopathy and signs of proximal myopathy as predominant features. All symptoms regressed after successful treatment.  2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.


The present invention, (a) a cathode for the outer negative bias lead; and (c) embedded charge injection electrode between the above-mentioned cathode and anode (ECIE);; (b) an anode for the outer positive bias leads ( providing consists organic light emitting device (OLED); d) the active region and emitting light between the cathode and the anode. ECIE is, Ca, Mg, Al, Ag, Au, Ni, Fe, Ni, and the low work function elements including Co, fluoride / Al, Mg / Ag, bilayer containing Ca / Al, and fluoride / Al / fluoride, the fluoride / Al / (Ca, Mg) is selected from the three layers of. Emitting layer is selected from-coupled small organic molecules and polymers. The Cathode, ITO, Al, Cr, Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Fe, Ni, W, is selected from one or more layers of highly electrically conductive metals and alloys such as Mo, and Co. As optical interference layer embedded charge injection electrode, and depending on the position of the ICIE, may be used electron-transporting layer, a hole transport, or light emitting layer as a spacer. The destructive optical interference by embedded charge injection electrode and the reflective cathode or anode, reduces the reflection of ambient light.


Five small-scaled yellow fish (large Burbus spp.) from southern Africa are shown to have modal 148 or 150 chromosomes. Themajority ofcyprinid species have 2N = 50 chromosomes, indicating that the yellow fish karyotype is hexaploid in origin. However, as there is no indication that the species are unisexual or that normal reproduction occurs by any means other than bisexual fertilization, the yellowfish karyotype is considered to have reverted to a diploid condition.


The use of a wire rope safety fence along the central reservation of the M62 is discussed. Chosen originally in 1969 for its minimal effect on wind-driven snow, the fencing has proved particularly successful and cost efficient. The original design is described. By 1987 the West Yorkshire Police considered that the wire rope safety fence had a 'proven safety record unequalled by other types of safety barrier'. In 1986 the Department of Transport approved a 4-rope design suitable for hard or soft medians. Details are given of the 4-rope system which has also been found to be extremely effective. The types of repairs required and costs involved are indicated.


While the longitudinal integrated clerkship (LIC) continues to grow as an approach to clinical education, questions persist about its value and assessment. In 2011, our rural clinical school introduced a voluntary yearlong LIC in small district hospitals for finalyear medical students. Students are supervised by family physicians and learning is facilitated through patient encounters with portfoliointerview assessments, providing opportunities for students to demonstrate a comprehensive approach to patient care.1 Despite these opportunities, students are still required by programme stipulations to complete formal yearend disciplinebased examinations. This highlights a disconnect between the principles underpinning the integrated approach to clinical training and the traditional silobased approach that characterises medical training in many contexts.