The Monte Carlo simulation method was used to simulate the adsorption of random copolymers on the solid/liquid interface.The microstructure information of adsorbed layer, such as adsorbed segment profile and distribution of sizes of various adsorption configurations, and the macrostructure information, such as total segment and segment density profiles, bound fraction, surface coverage, adsorption amount and adsorption layer thickness were obtained.In this work, the effect of attractive segment content f and its energy was investigated.It was shown that there were mostly smaller trains and smaller loops near the interface, but the distribution of loops configuration was wider.Small loops increased rapidly with increasing attractive segment content, and the distribution of train configuration became wider.As f and adsorption energy increased,bound fraction, surface coverage and adsorption amount also increased, but the thickness of adsorbed layer decreased.


The instability which occurs in the end section of a tandem mirror because of an anisotropy of the distribution function of the ions entering the end section from the central section is studied. The growth rate for this instability is found to be on the order of ..omega../sub p/i. This instability fills the end section with ''central'' ions, with possibly important consequences for the plasma confinement time. This instability also imposes certain restrictions on the possible use of ''thermal barriers,'' since it leads to a rapid filling of the barrier mirror with plasma.


The Practice Center and Extreme Sports Training is a place that opens doors to the thrill seekers, young and eager to discover innovative practice sports such as parkour, climbing and roller skating. Covered will be the only center that cover three extreme sports that over time have been well received in the city of Quito, but the lack of infrastructure has not extended its practice. Outdoor training is based on recreating real-life situations through simulations and activities where young people from the life experience to take up all his skills, maybe a real experience fear or impact had not been discovered. The interior proposal takes place in the sheds of Parmalat, the av. Eloy Alfaro and Gaspar de Villarroel north of the city of Quito, in which it is to preserve most of the structure of the sheds, has been concerned with allocating space for each sport, so you have an area of climbing walls, one skatopista, parkour obstacle course, administrative area and public places such as the cafeteria, bathrooms, locker rooms, first aid, equipment rental and parking. The project is notable for having the highest skateboard ramp with 5 levels of difficulty, landing a walk-in pool of sponges, also has an indoor mountain with different paths, two fields for practice bouldering, climbing walls with different angles tilt and exit to the deck height 9 meters where a 360 degrees city is appreciated. The design of the proposal has used the four elements of nature: water, air, earth and fire as a concept, leveraging it in shape and color as it stands out in this document.


Normal children whose parents have different native languages tend to develop an accent which is closer to their peers than to either parent. It was predicted that children with autism, because of their social deficits, might not acquire the accent of their peers, perhaps because of the lack of the normal drive to identify with peers. Bilingualism was used as a window into such social factors in language acquisition. Using audiotaped speech samples, the study found that in a sample of children with autism who were brought up in England and whose mothers were not English, 83.3% acquired their mother's (non-English) accent. In contrast, among normally- developing siblings of children with autism who were brought up in England and whose mothers were not English, only 12.5% acquired their mother's (non-English) accent. We suggest that such studies of unusual populations are of value in furthering our understanding of the larger population of children with autism, and the influences on normal social development.


This article examines the nature and impact of the most extensive propaganda campaign mounted in a British West African colony during the Second World War. An avalanche of war information and appeals to the people of the Gold Coast was channelled through a new communications network which included radio broadcasting, information bureaux, and mobile cinema presentations. The innovative wartime publicity scheme was not enough to produce a completely voluntary war effort; however, the campaign was responsible for irreversibly changing mass communications techniques in the territory. The propaganda drive used in the war mobilization provided a pool of experienced propagandists and a successful structural model which proved valuable both to post-war governments charged with pre-independence political education, community development and public services, and, somewhat ironically, to anti-colonialist post-war party politics.


After the Reform Movement of 1898,Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao,the leading spirits of the Movement,sent out a murdering group led by Liang Tiejun to murder Empress Cixi in 1904. Two years later,Liang Tiejun was arrested and killed secretly by Qing Government on the day when the Emperor declared his decision for a constitutional government.Kang and Liang,without feeling angry over the death of Liang Tiejun,gave up their plot of murder and hoped to realize their political ideal by legal activities of political party.


An implicit Lagrangean model is presented for the closed-chamber test (CCT). Pressure drops from 5,000 to 50 psi are not uncommon during a CCT. High fluid velocities near the wellbore under high pressure gradients may lead to non-Darcy flow in the reservoir. The wellbore and the reservoir are modeled by the scalar-conservation laws of momentum and continuity that describe the physical processes―variable celerity, physical dissipation, and momentum. Rate and pressure are obtained simultaneously for the entire reservoir/wellbore system. The Lagrangean formulation permits use of the appropriate equation of state (EOS) in a given well-bore cell. Solution is by a versatile implicit numerical scheme that allows control of numerical dissipation


A new type of scale inhibitor was synthesized by maleic anhydride and itaconic acid.A series of scale inhibitor were synthesized by radical polymerization.Factors such as the proportion of maleic anhydride/itaconic acid,reaction temperature and reaction time,which affect the efficiency of scale inhibitor,were discussed by evaluating the percentage of scale.The experimental results showed that when the temperature was 60 ℃,reaction time was 5 h,the concentration ratio was 1 ∶1,the inhibition rate was the best.


We study excitation energy transfer in a simple model of a photosynthetic complex. The model, described by the Lindblad equation, consists of pigments interacting via dipole–dipole interaction. The overlapping of pigments induces an on-site energy disorder, providing a mechanism for blocking the excitation transfer. Based on the average efficiency as well as the robustness of random configurations of pigments, we calculate the optimal number of pigments that should be enclosed in a pigment–protein complex of a given size. The results suggest that a large fraction of pigment configurations are efficient as well as robust if the number of pigments is properly chosen. We compare the optimal results of the model to the structure of pigment–protein complexes as found in nature, finding good agreement.


OF THESIS ELECTRON BEAM INDUCED DEPOSITION OF HIGHLY CONDUCTIVE COPPER NANOWIRES FROM BULK LIQUIDS Electron-beam induced deposition (EBID) is a position-controlled technique that can directly fabricate nanometer-sized structures in functional materials. In the standard process, a gaseous precursor delivers the desired substance to the substrate for deposition. However, the material purity from these precursors is typically poor, which often negatively affects the functional properties of the deposit. Recently, bulk liquid precursors have been investigated as promising reactants for high purity deposition without the need for post-processing. In this work, EBID from bulk liquids is shown to yield highly conductive nanowire deposits. Aqueous solutions containing copper sulfate (CuSO4) and sulfuric acid (H2SO4) are used as precursors to deposit copper nanowires on oxidized silicon substrates in an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM). Using four point I-V measurement, our results show a copper resistivity as low as 67 μΩ⦁cm, which is 6-8 orders of magnitude lower than that of as-deposited copper from gas phase reactants, 4-5 orders of magnitude lower than that of annealed materials, and within 1 order of magnitude of bulk copper. The low resistivity of these deposits without post-processing highlights the importance of further research to overcome challenges associated with deposition via liquid precursors, such as collateral deposition; local delivery of the reactant; and control of liquid thickness.


Objective: Care needs of the elderly are an important issue affecting the well-being of caregivers and the elderly in Turkey due to the burden placed on family members. This study aimed to determine the care burden of caregivers caring for elderly with chronic diseases and affecting factors. Material-Method: This cross-sectional study comprised 342 primary caregivers. Data were collected with the Personal Information Form, Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living, Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale and Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale. To analyze the data, the t-test, MannWhitney U Test, ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis test and Pearson correlation analysis were used. Posthoc comparisons were performed with Tukey's b test. Results: The mean score obtained from the Caregiver Burden Scale was 60.70±14.19. Of the caregivers, those who were married, were second-degree relatives, provided care for the elderly for 37 months or more, provided care to the elderly who were dependent according to Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living, uninsured, in the 85 and over age group, literate or not literate, diagnosed with stroke obtained higher mean scores from the Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale (p<0.05). There was a strong negative correlation between the perceived social support levels and burden of care (p <0.001). Conclusion: The study determined that primary caregivers bore a heavy burden of care. Therefore, caregivers' burden of care levels and difficulties should be determined, and they should be given professional support including counseling services.


Disclosed are a rhodiola root capsule and a production method thereof, wherein the raw materials of the active constituents include rhodiola root 55-65, pine mushroom 15-25, seabuckthorn fruit 10-20, gymnadenia cono-psea 5-15, and the preparing process consists of disintegrating pine mushroom into mesh fines, grilling rhodiola root, seabuckthorn fruit and gymnadenia cono-psea with water, filtrating, drying, disintegrating, charging pine mushroom fines, mixing homogenously and loading into capsules. The capsule of the invention can effectively improve the disease resistance and epidemic prevention capability of human body.


Asteraceae, the most successful flowering plant family, is adapted to the vast range of ecological niches. Their adaptability is partially based on their strong ability of reproduction. The initial, yet challenging, step for plant reproduction is to transport pollen to flower-visiting pollinators. Using quantitative experiments and numerical simulations, here we show that the common floral feature of Asteraceae, a pollen-bearing style, serves as a ballistic lever for catapulting pollen grains to pollinators. This is likely to be a pollination strategy to propel pollen to blind spots of pollinators' bodies, which are beyond the physical reach of the styles. Our results suggest that the specific morphology and length of the floret, as well as the pollen adhesion, avoid pollen waste by catapulting pollen within a certain range equal to the size of a flowerhead. The insights into the functional floral oscillation may shed light on the superficially unremarkable, but ubiquitous functional floral design of Asteraceae.


Based on clinical research in psychodynamics initiated after the deadly accident of a first-aid worker in a ski resort, this article questions the links between collective defences structured by virility and a woman's battle to defend her identity. According to the authors, these links can only be understood if the mental processes at stake are highlighted when one is confronted with work constraints. In order to do so, they discuss the case of Alexandra, the only woman to hold this risky job in a male group.


To improve the oxygen-deficient water mass (ODW), the spatial and temporal variation in the water quality and characteristic of ODW occurrence were analyzed using yearly water quality data from 1989 to 2006 in Jinhae Bay, Korea. In addition, we estimated and for Jinhae Bay. The overall water quality improved during the 2000s, based the annual variation in dissolved oxygen, chemical oxygen demand, etc. A cluster analysis classified Jinhae Bay into the southwestern, central, northern, and eastern regions. ODW occurred throughout the southwestern region in 1993 and 2002-2004, and the estimated was about . ODW did not occur in the eastern region because circulating seawater was exchanged in that part of Jinhae Bay. As ODW was generated every year in the southwestern region, this is the most polluted area in Jinhae Bay. The ODWR decreased in the northern region, showing that the water quality there has improved since a wastewater treatment plant began operating in 1994.


As a force that leads the era of rapid technology advances, integrating global economy and changing customer needs, enterprise agility has attracted extensive attention from academia. The purpose of this study is to take Haier information system (IS) development from China as a case study to systematically research the process, reasons and characteristics of IS-enabled enterprise agility based on the perspectives of modularity of resource and capability. This paper reveals that the key factor of IS-enabled enterprise agility is the modularity of resource and capability. It has opened the "black box" of ISenabled enterprise agility. The co-evolutionary process model and the three innovation phases provide important reference value for enterprises to develop IS, improve enterprise agility and build sustainable competitive advantage.


We present a qualitative and quantitative solution to select collaborating partners when establishing agile virtual enterprises.An optimization model is proposed,in which the information of all criteria' weights is incomplete and the criteria' values are uncertain.Through evidential reasoning algorithms,the criteria' values are aggregated.After aggregating the utility,a nonlinear programming model is developed combining with the incomplete information on weights.Then using genetic algorithms to solve the nonlinear model, the satisfactory partner is selected.Finally,an example is given to illustrate the model's validity.


Wine, especially good wine, is something special. It has always been so. But why is good wine so much more than the sum of its parts? Researchers in both the traditional and social sciences have been attempting to answer that question since the first glasses of wine were poured centuries ago. Wine may be history's most puzzling and most tested beverage. This work employs artistic inquiry in the form of a fictional short story to suggest attempts to define wine are doomed to failure, and that wine's mystical powers emerge in conversation about it.


Media framing of complex diseases is important because the way these are presented may affect individuals' choices regarding health. The authors analyzed 127 articles on breast cancer from three news magazines and four women's magazines to examine whether they focused on social or economic issues. Two content analysis methods were used to determine the issues, sources, and frames. Issues in news and women's magazines were significantly different, with women's magazines offering more personal stories and comprehensive information. Although both presented information on prevention and treatment, news magazines framed breast cancer from an economic angle, focusing on insurance and research funding.


Continuous exposure of monkeys to 7.5 ppM NO/sub 2/ for 104 weeks produced a significant deterioration in the distribution of ventilation and alterations in blood O/sub 2/ tension. These were accompanied by histopathologic changes. Similar exposure to 0.5 ppM NO/sub 2/ had an unstated effect.


Phonoconduction spectroscopy of shallow states in semiconductors by help of superconduction Al-junctions as phonon sources with high spectral resolution is a sensitive new technique with phonon frequencies well up in the Debye range. The large k-vector of the phonons involved opens new possibilities for the investigation of electron dynamics and states in semiconductors.


Over the past four years, great strides have been made in the areas of data management and display of 4-D meteorological data sets. A survey was conducted of available and planned 4-D meteorological data sources. The data types were evaluated for their impact on the data management and display system. The requirements were analyzed for data base management generated by the 4-D data display system. The suitability of the existing data base management procedures and file structure were evaluated in light of the new requirements. Where needed, new data base management tools and file procedures were designed and implemented. The quality of the basic 4-D data sets was assured. The interpolation and extrapolation techniques of the 4-D data were investigated. The 4-D data from various sources were combined to make a uniform and consistent data set for display purposes. Data display software was designed to create abstract line graphic 3-D displays. Realistic shaded 3-D displays were created. Animation routines for these displays were developed in order to produce a dynamic 4-D presentation. A prototype dynamic color stereo workstation was implemented. A computer functional design specification was produced based on interactive studies and user feedback.


1. Introduction The analysis of crystals by means of X-rays is familiar to most physicists and chemists. The analysis of crystals is effected principally by measuring the angular positions of an X-ray spectrum line of given wave length reflected in different orders by various planes of atoms in the crystal. By means of the powdered crystal method a single exposure enables us to measure the angular positions of all such reflections of a single wave length on a photographic film. The angular positions of the lines on the photograph must be measured accurately but the intensities of the various lines need be known only qualitatively. From the photograph, the arrangement and position of each atom in the crystal is determined. However, if the intensities of the lines on a powdered crystal photograph are measured quantitatively, it is possible to obtain information as to the arrangement of the electrons in each of the atoms of which the crystal is composed, and thus the atom may be analyzed. Before proceeding w...


From the post-Renaissance period to the twentieth century, the traditional Western corset has played an important role in the transformation of Western clothing and has played an integral part in its development. The unique form and structure of the Western corset affected women's bodies and endangered their health. The article selects the 18th century corset in the VampersandA Museum's collection as the object of study and constructs a virtual model of it through CLO 3D software, which is capable of completing the digital conversion of the relationship between clothing and the human body, and explores the impact of the corset on the human body through more concrete experiments and more intuitive data. The effect of the corset on the human body is explored through more concrete experiments.


An object of the present invention is a process for the preparation of microparticles M comprising the active compound, A) enzyme, the active compounds and the crude suspension of microparticles A by enzymatic polyester synthesis by reverse-phase mini-emulsion comprising a polyester monomer formation of liquid; including and B) in the rough suspension of microparticles a, ethylenically unsaturated monomer, polymerization of wall monomers belonging to the group consisting of polyisocyanates and / or polyepoxides, and the method. The present invention also microparticles M obtained by the method of the present invention, and to agrochemical formulations comprising microparticles M. The present invention also relates to the microparticles M prepared according to the present invention, colorants, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, biocides, plant protection agents, fertilizers, food or feed additives, or polymers, for paper, textiles , leather, their use as components of aid for detergent or cleaning agent. Finally, the invention also are processing method, a method for controlling a process and / or plant pathogen controlling the growth of undesired insects or mites on plants, as well as by the agricultural chemical formulation for controlling the growth of undesired plants It was related to seed. .BACKGROUND


For years, practitioners have been complaining that planning graduates are not equipped for the problems they en counter in a typical planning office. In Ann Arbor, we've tried to do something about it. Our solution is Urban Planning 505, "Planning Techniques," a four-credit course offered to second-semester graduate stu dents in the University of Michigan's Col lege of Architecture and Urban Planning. The course is part of the required core curriculum; it helps prepare students for the six-credit workshop required of all students in the fourth and final semester of the two-year graduate program. In that workshop, students prepare plans for real clients in Detroit's inner-city neighborhoods. UP 505 has a different aim. Although assignments require problem solving and the development of an effective planning strategy; producing immediately imple mentable, detailed plans is not the primary objective. Rather, our goal is to teach our students how to define a problem, gather information, apply analytic skills, and, finally, communicate their findings. We want to introduce students to the "big picture" of planning practice. In some ways, our course resembles traditional workshop courses in planning. But in addition to introducing students to the world of practice, it is also designed to encourage them to think about the tech niques of delivering information and of communicating effectively. For that rea son, the course structure is a hybrid of lectures and field work. The students work either individually or in groups act ing as planning firms. Students in the class, now in its 11th year, have worked on a range of long term projects, including commercial area revitalization and evaluating sites for a downtown conference center. In the early 1980s, one class studied reuse options for a downtown parking lot. More recent classes have focused on solid waste disposal in the greater Ann Arbor area and the proposed expansion of the municipal airport. Both the airport manager and the chairman of the citizens airport advisory committee cited the class report as a valuable source of alterna tives. Recommendations for a regional greenbelt, prepared in 1988, won an award from the state AP A chapter. Last year's class took on the topic of implementing a travel demand manage ment program for the greater Ann Arbor area. Next semester, the topic is likely to be state-levelland-use planning. Our hope is that the class will serve as a forum for airing common concerns of local, county, and regional planners on such issues as urban sprawl and rural economic preservation.


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The essay is written in the light of Lord Keynes' unfamiliar view that Montesquieu is the greatest French economist. The argument emphasizes the turbulent period in European history which inspired the economic philosophy of Montesquieu. Chronologically, the great eighteenth-century philosopher is seen as the link between seventeenth-century mercantilism and the physiocratic doctrines which emerged in France immediately following his death in 1755. Logically, however, Montesquieu is found to belong to a class of his own. It is suggested that his thought, neither essentially mercantilist nor in any sense geocratic, prepared the ground for the sanest liberal developments which later characterized the European scene. The author is sensitive to the tendency of some to interpret Montesquieu's comprehensive thought as reflecting certain contradictions. It is accordingly suggested that any inconsistencies flowing from Montesquieu's preoccupation with the study of political, social and economic phenomena as a whole could reasonably be associated with a society, not a mind, in a state of flux. The paper is concluded with a critical analysis of Montesquieu's historical method, leading its author to confirm the validity of Lord Keynes' view.


The concept of an integrated strengthening and damping retrofit system was proposed to design reinforced concrete (RC) columns for their optimal performance under multi-level earthquake hazards. As illustrated in Figure 1, the system consisted of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) sheets wrapping around a column and viscoelastic (VE) layers on the FRP sheets. The motion of the outer surface of the VE layers was constrained to the footing by applying another FRP sheet outside the VE layers and properly anchoring it into the footing. As such, two critical issues that will affect the performance of the proposed system are bonding between FRP sheets and VE layers, and anchorage of the outer FRP sheets into concrete. Both bond and anchorage mechanisms were investigated with laboratory tests. The FRP-VE interface failed in tearing of the VE materials and the FRP anchorage failed in concrete rupture. Design equation for anchorage has been developed as a result of this study.


Generating question papers is a tedious and time-consuming operation. This study uses Python to construct a fuzzy logic-based model for autonomous paper creation. With the aid of a huge number of questions saved in the database, college officials may create a fully personalised question paper. The programme may be used to produce question papers based on the examination level, which may include unit tests. It enables the authorities to pick and choose from the syllabus's chapters. The programme makes use of a database to use the question paper, which might include hundreds of questions. The programme generates a collection of random questions on which the question does not appear. The programme is a great tool for quickly generating question papers and so saving time and effort.


Suppliers are important members of the agricultural product supply chain, and their behavior decisions may have a certain impact on the sustainable development of the agricultural product supply chain. From the perspective of agricultural product supplier trust, this paper studies the direct impact of agricultural product supplier trust on relationship quality and the indirect impact of supplier fairness perception on relationship quality. Based on the survey data of agricultural product suppliers, this paper uses the structural equation model method for empirical analysis. The analysis results show that fairness perception and trust perception have a significant positive impact on the quality of agricultural supply chain relationships, among which trust perception has a positive direct impact on the quality of agricultural supply chain relationships, while fairness perception has indirect influence on the quality of agricultural supply chain relationships through trust. In addition, information sharing, price satisfaction, income level and environmental certainty have a significant positive impact on suppliers' fairness perception. Therefore, sellers comprehensively consider the fairness perception and trust perception of suppliers, which will help improve the relationship quality of the supply chain.


Background: To evaluate the presence of C. pneumoniae DNA in the tissues and C. pneumoniae DNA antibodies in the blood samples of patients who underwent CABG surgery. Material and Methods: Fifty-one patients aorta. C. pneumoniae DNA was evaluated in the tissues collected from the atrium, left internal thoracic artery and ascending aorta of patients. Results: Although, C. pneumoniae DNA was negative in the atrial and left internal thoracic artery tissues of all patients, it was positive in the tissues obtained from the ascending aortas of twelve patients. C. pneumoniae DNA positivity was significantly higher in patients with increased aortic intimal thickness compared to those without increased aortic thickness. Conclusion: The question whether C. pneumoniae is triggering atherosclerosis or is involved as a super-infection could not be clarified.


This chapter is devoted to two objectives. The first one is to answer the request expressed by attendees of the first Astrostatistics School (Annecy, October 2013) to be provided with an elementary vademecum of statistics that would facilitate understanding of the given courses. In this spirit we recall very basic notions, that is definitions and properties that we think sufficient to benefit from courses given in the Astrostatistical School. Thus we give briefly definitions and elementary properties on random variables and vectors, distributions, estimation and tests, maximum likelihood methodology. We intend to present basic ideas in a hopefully comprehensible way. We do not try to give a rigorous presentation, and due to the place devoted to this chapter, can cover only a rather limited field of statistics. The second aim is to focus on some statistical tools that are useful in classification: basic introduction to Bayesian statistics, maximum likelihood methodology, Gaussian vectors and Gaussian mixture models.


A novel, hemodynamically guided exercise protocol with two different left ventricular assist device settings in two long-term recipients is presented. This protocol allows for quantitation of the contribution of the native left ventricle to total cardiac output. It facilitates estimation of the risk associated with device dysfunction, as well as prediction of left ventricular recovery and the potential for weaning.


Abstract One of the most difficult components to measure in the energy budgets of natural fish populations is the energy released in metabolism. Telemetry of physiological correlates of metabolism, such as heart rate, can (with calibration) enable direct measurements of metabolism and simultaneous observations of behavior in the natural environment. Heart rate is a good indicator of metabolic rate for northern pike Esox lucius and was used to obtain information on metabolism, activity, and food intake in the natural environment. Mean field metabolic rates were 1.5 times standard metabolic rate. Activity metabolism accounted for 5–10% of total metabolism and was approximately an order of magnitude greater than estimates based on mean swimming speed derived from location tracking. Feeding metabolism was 15–25% of total metabolism. Even when the full metabolic rate calibration is not considered. physiological telemetry can provide useful information on patterns of energy expenditure ofdirect relevance to bio...


This paper studies the differential practices of change management in organizations of western origin and compares it with the best practices prevalent in Indian organizations, with special emphasis on social and cultural challenges faced in these countries. Since Enterprise Resource Planning ERP, as part of an information and communication technology ICT initiative, is frequently associated with organization change and transformation in relation to its adaptation, it has been used as the context in this study. The impact of social factors and cultural challenges on change management processes and elements are compared and contrasted using multiple case studies from USA, Canada, European Western/Eastern and Indian organizations who have adopted ERP technologies. The conceptual framework highlights cultural and social factors that affect ERP implementation, and offers suggestions to researchers to empirically test these influences using sophisticated analytical methods and develop change strategies and practices in response to these challenges. Further, it also draws attention to the need for a contemporary, result-oriented, quantitatively measurable framework of change management at the individual and enterprise levels. It is expected that such an approach would result in better buy-in from all stakeholders in terms of increased accountability.


Unconventional food plants (UFP) are those with limited distribution, restricted to certain locations, with great participation in the nutrition and culture of traditional populations. UFP are among the sources of food that develop in natural environments without the need for inputs and deforestation of new areas, but although available at low cost, they are still unknown and underutilized by a significant portion of the population. The present study aimed to analyze the dynamics of eating habits and survey UFP in agrarian reform settlements in the municipality of Maragogi, state of Alagoas. To collect information on the use of UFP, questionnaires were applied and data were tabulated in electronic spreadsheet and transformed into tables. In settlements evaluated, between twelve and fourteen different UFP were identified in the social context of these communities. There are several UFP options that could be marketed by the population, thus contributing to increase family income.


Online video games are getting more popular, attracting a continuously growing number of players. The main performance metrics of this application on the network level are packet ordering, communication throughput, and transmission latency. Nowadays, there is an interest in cyclic logical network topologies for online gaming, due to the easiness to preserve the packet order over cycles. Unfortunately, this approach increases the end-to-end transmission delays. In this letter, two main contributions are therefore presented. First, it is shown that one can improve the latency of a gaming protocol over a single-cycle topology by the network coding (NC) approach. The corresponding NC-based routing protocol has been designed and analyzed; it outperforms the best routing protocol without NC. Second, from the NC viewpoint, the example of online gaming is not a trivial one, given that the corresponding communication protocol is not multicast. Therefore, it is shown that there exists a NC gain (namely, up to 14% in transmission latency) even in case of a mixed communication protocol with broadcast and unicast transmission flows.


Organizational research started including neurosciences exploring pivotal phenomena and promoting organizational well-being. Leadership was investigated by assessing psychophysiological responses during performance review characterized by narrative or quantitative assessments and their effects on employees' well-being. As is known, rating could be perceived as threatening for employees' ranking and status perception, leading to avoidant behaviors. Design and Methodology: Here, manager-employee dyads were assigned to 2 conditions: in the nonrate scenario, managers were asked to describe the employee's performance; in the rate one, they had to provide a quantitative rating. Skin conductance level and response and heart rate indices were continuously recorded. Findings: Dyads in nonrate condition showed higher arousal-related responses (skin conductance level and skin conductance response), perhaps highlighting an increased engagement triggered by a rewarding exchange. Conversely, in rate condition, employees showed higher heart rate, usually related to negative and stressful conditions, and avoidant behaviors. Originality/value: Results are discussed for their possible applications to employees' well-being.


Background and objectives Contrary to press reports, there are no relevant indicators in France to measure the quality of care in cancer surgery. The objectives of our programme were: (i) to estimate in-hospital mortality, which is the first quality indicator that can be derived from the national database, (ii) to develop a predictive model. Thoracic surgery teams will be able to use the model to estimate their adjusted mortality for lung resection. Programme The database of the French Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery—EPITHOR—was set up in 2003. Participation is voluntary. Currently, the thoracic surgery teams of 70 private and public institutions send their data to this national database via internet. Patients are anonymous. Each surgeon can regularly check the quality of his/her data in a comparison with national data using a quality score ranging from 0 to 100%. Between January 2003 and December 2008, 18 049 lung resections for cancer were performed (limited resection, lobectomy, or pneumonectomy). Among database input variables were patient age, gender, American Society of Anaesthesia (ASA) score, performance status, body mass index (BMI), Forced Expiratory Volume (FEV), comorbidities, and tumour TNM classification. In-hospital mortality was calculated on the basis of all patients who died either within 30 days of surgery or during their hospital stay. A logistic regression model was constructed and internally validated by bootstrapping techniques. Results The overall in-hospital mortality rate for the period January 03 to December 08 was 3.8% (95% CI 3.5% to 4.1%). Mortality rate by type of lung resection was 2.4% for limited resection, 3% for lobectomy, and 7.7% for pneumonectomy. The independent predictors of in-hospital mortality used in the logistic model were age, gender, ASA score, performance status, FEV, BMI, side of resection, lobectomy, pneumonectomy, extended resection, stage III, stage IV, and the number of comorbidities per patient. The model was valid as the calibration slope was 0.96, that is, close to 1.The area under the ROC curve for the model was 0.78 (95% CI 0.76 to 0.797). Besides the predictive model, we are making available a 'funnel plot' which is a visual comparison of the deviation from the national average. It involves the construction of 99% CI limits of the national death rate for each type of procedure. A team's adjusted mortality rate is significantly different from the national average if it is outside the 99% confidence limits. Discussion and conclusion Currently, about 70% of thoracic surgery units in France are participating actively in the national database. Each team can compare the number of observed deaths to the number of expected deaths as given by applying the predictive model to each patient. The funnel plot method will enable them to engage in a quality improvement process relating to their surgical practice. To improve database quality, in particular with regard to missing data, an on-site audit will be carried out. There are plans to develop other quality indicators from the EPITHOR database (completeness of surgery, quality of lymphadenectomy, occurrence of bronchopleural fistula, atelectasis requiring bronchoscopy, and pneumonia). En France, l'absence d'indicateurs pertinents contrairement à ce qui est rapporté par la presse, ne permet pas de mesurer la qualité des soins en matière de chirurgie des cancers. L'objectif de ce programme est d'une part d'estimer la mortalité hospitalière qui est le premier indicateur de qualité élaboré à partir de la base de données nationale et d'autre part d'élaborer un modèle prédictif. Ce modèle est destiné aux équipes afin de comparer leur mortalité ajustée à la référence nationale. La base de données nationale EPITHOR a été créée le 1er janvier 2003 sous l'égide de la société Française de chirurgie thoracique et cardio-vasculaire. Soixante dix établissements privés et publics participent activement à la base de données. Chaque unité de chirurgie thoracique transmet les données anonymisées des patients par internet. Chaque chirurgien peut vérifier régulièrement la qualité de ses données comparativement à celles de la bases de données nationale grâce à un score de qualité allant de 0 à 100%. Entre janvier 2003 et décembre 2008, 18 049 résections pulmonaires pour cancer ont été pratiquées. Les caractéristiques des patients étaient décrits par l'âge, le sexe, le score de l'American Society of Anaesthesia (ASA), le score OMS, l'indice de masse corporelle (IMC), le Volume Maximum Expiratoire Second (VEMS) et les comorbidités. Le type d'intervention chirurgicale comprenait les résections limitées, les lobectomies et les pneumonectomies. Le cancer bronchique était classée selon la classification TNM. La mortalité hospitalière comprenait tous les patients qui décédaient dans les 30 jours après l'opération et ceux qui décédaient au cours de la même hospitalisation. Le modèle prédictif de la mortalité hospitalière était construit à partir d'une régression logistique et validé par la méthode du bootstrap. L'ensemble de la mortalité hospitalière était de 3.8% (Intervalle de confiance à 95% de 3.5% à 4.1%). La mortalité hospitalière selon le type de résection pulmonaire était de 2.4% pour les résections limitées, de 3% pour les lobectomies et de 7.7% pour les pneumonectomies. Dans le modèle logistique, les variables retenues étaient l'âge, le sexe, le score ASA, l'OMS, le VEMS, l'IMC, le côté de la résection, la lobectomie, la pneumonectomie, la résection élargie, le stade III, le stade IV et le nombre de comorbidités par patients. La validation du modèle était correcte puisque la pente de calibration était de 0.96 proche de 1. l'aire sous la courbe ROC du modèle était de 0.78 (intervalle de confiance à 95% allant de 0.76 à 0.797). Chaque équipe compare le nombre de décès observés au nombre de décès attendus estimés en appliquant à chaque patient le modèle prédictif. L'autre méthode utilisée est la méthode du « funnel plot » qui est une comparaison visuelle de l'écart à la moyenne nationale. Elle consiste en la construction d'un intervalle de confiance à 99% autour du taux de décès national pour chacune des types d'intervention. Chaque équipe de chirurgie thoracique considerera son taux de décès ajusté comme significativement différent de la moyenne nationale s'il se trouve en dehors de l'intervalle de confiance à 99%. Cette méthode lui permettra de mettre en place les actions d'amélioration afin de corriger son taux de décès. Afin d'améliorer la qualité des données et notamment les données manquantes, un audit sur site va être mis en place. Actuellement environ 70% des centres de chirurgie de thoracique français participent activement à la base nationale Epithor, l'objectif est d'atteindre l'exhaustivité. Enfin d'autres indicateurs de qualité vont être élaborés à partir de la base Epithor, le caractère complet de la chirurgie, la qualité du curage ganglionnaire, la survenue des fistules bronchiques, les atélectasies et les pneumopathies postopératoires.


A device for intragastric nutrition of unsedated and minimally restrained rats under complete alimentary abstinence has been developed. The cannulation system consists of an infusion pump, modified glass syringe as flow swivel, rat-harness and a silicone-tube-gastrostomy. The animals were kept in special cages and coprophagy was prevented by an own model of faecal collection cup. Methionine and Ca-glycerophosphate had to be added to a commercial elementary diet. The rats were allowed to move freely during intragastric infusion, which was applied for 14 to 28 days in 118 Wistar-rats (350-400 g). They maintained weight on an energy supply of 86·4 kcal/day.


Even a limited discussion of the nature of health promotion is beyond the scope of this article.

We should, however, note that there is a divergence of opinion about its major goals and that it is not synonymous with health education. Its philosophy has been discussed in detail elsewhere.1-6

Health promotion may be viewed as a global strategy which incorporates health education.

Health education is defined operationally as:

' .... any intentional activity which is designed to achieve health or illness related learning, ie, some relatively permanent change in an individual's capability or disposition. Effective health education may, thus, produce changes in knowledge and understanding or ways of thinking; it may influence or clarify values; it may bring about some shift in belief or attitude; it may facilitate the acquisition of skills; it may even effect changes in behaviour or lifestyle' (p11) . 2

We are, at present, witnessing a demand for evidence-based medicine within a general climate of cost cutting and a concern to demonstrate ' health gain' and it is not surprising that health education should be subject to the same demands. The principles and practice of evaluating health education cannot be addressed here.2 7 8 It is, however, worth noting the fact that health education interventions are frequently under resourced and often fail to meet acceptable theoretical and professional standards; careful scrutiny of programme design is, therefore, essential before drawing conclusions about effectiveness and efficiency.9 The success of the programmes discussed below are, in no small way, due to their meeting minimum design standards.

Seven specific areas have been selected for review:

• Childhood asthma

• Oral health

• Accident prevention

• Breast feeding

• Nutrition education and children

• Sexual health

• Social and mental health in respect of bullying, child abuse, and preschool education.

These particular topics were selected …


Take conical cylinder spherical swashplate type axial piston pump as research object, the calculation method limitation of slipper shoe mounting hole which located in mounting plate is analyzed. First of all ,the motion characteristics and the trace of slipper shoe is derived, then,based on above results, the sipper shoe mounting hole size current calculation methods in engineering and it's limitations is analyzed,the conclusion is that: current design methods is parameter averaging method and also is an approximate method, in theory is not accurate and in engineering is unreasonable. In order to deign the slipper shoe mounting hole accurately, this paper recommends the most reasonable method is using slipper movement envelope to determine its shape and size.


A general analytical solution for the fluctuation of a water table in a finite aquifer in response to a transient vertical recharge is developed. Laplace transformation is used to solve a linearized Boussinesq equation which represents the unsteady groundwater flow. Characteristic behaviours of the solution are illustrated with the help of a numerical example. The solution may be used to predict the transient water table. Variation de la surface de la nappe phréatique en réponse a une recharge transitoire RESUME On a mis au point une solution analytique générale pour les variations de la surface de la nappe phréatique dans un aquifere fini en réponse à une recharge transitoire verticale. On utilise la transformation de Laplace pour résoudre une équation linéarisée de Boussinesq qui représente l'écoulement non-stationaire de l'eau souterraine. On illustre les comportements caractéristiques de la solution à l'aide d'un exemple numérique. La solution peut être utilisée pour prévoir la surface transitoire de la nappe phréatique. E Kh/S h height of the water table measured from the base of the aquifer h0 initial height of the water table measured from the base of the aquifer h a constant of linearization known as the weighted mean of the depth of saturation and is approximated by 0.5 (h + hQ) h' dimensionless height of the water table, h/£ h' dimensionless initial height of the water table, hQ/i H° h h H' h' h^ IQ initial rate of transient recharge per unit area K hydraulic conductivity % width of the aquifer Q groundwater discharge per unit length of the stream S specific yield t time of observation since the commencement of recharge tQ decay period of recharge T dimensionless time, Kt/£S 287 288 S.N.Rai s R.N.Singh x distance measured in the horizontal direction X dimensionless distance, x/£ y dimensionless weighted mean of the depth of saturation, h/£ a dimensionless rate of recharge, I0/K 3 dimensionless decay reate of recharge, <j> £S/K cf> decay rate of recharge


Iran's nuclear programme was born on 5 March 1957 after the Shah had signed the 'Atoms for Peace' Programme, a US initiative to promote peaceful nuclear development in the world.[1] With support from western countries like the US, France, Germany and South Africa the nuclear programme accelerated fast, and by 1979 Iran had acquired basic nuclear capabilities. [2] The Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed in 1967, and in 1974 Iran completed its Safeguards Agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).[3] Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, however, Western concerns were raised about the intentions behind the programme. US, French and German support was withdrawn.[4] In combination with Ayatollah Khomeini's dislike of nuclear technology and the Iran-Iraq war, this meant a halt to the nuclear development. In the 1990s the programme saw a rebirth and development has continued at a relatively constant pace up until today, supported by material and expertise from China, Pakistan, North Korea, Russia and South Africa.[5]


Preface Linear Variance-Components Models Introduction How reliable are expiratory flow measurements? The variance-components model Modeling the Mini Wright measurements Estimation methods Assigning values to the random intercepts Linear Random-Intercept Models Introduction Are tax preparers useful? The longitudinal data structure Panel data and correlated residuals The random-intercept model Different kinds of effects in panel models Endogeneity and between-taxpayer effects Residual diagnostics Linear Random-Coefficient and Growth-Curve Models Introduction How effective are different schools? Separate linear regressions for each school The random-coefficient model How do children grow? Growth-curve modeling Two-stage model formulation Prediction of trajectories for individual children Complex level-1 variation or heteroskedasticity Dichotomous or Binary Responses Models for dichotomous responses Which treatment is best for toenail infection? The longitudinal data structure Population-averaged or marginal probabilities Random-intercept logistic regression Subject-specific vs. population-averaged relationships Maximum likelihood estimation using adaptive quadrature Empirical Bayes (EB) predictions Other approaches to clustered dichotomous data Ordinal Responses Introduction Cumulative models for ordinal responses Are antipsychotic drugs effective for patients with schizophrenia? Longitudinal data structure and graphs A proportional-odds model A random-intercept proportional-odds model A random-coefficient proportional-odds model Marginal and patient-specific probabilities Do experts differ in their grading of student essays? A random-intercept model with grader bias Including grader-specific measurement error variances Including grader-specific thresholds Counts Introduction Types of counts Poisson model for counts Did the German health-care reform reduce the number of doctor visits? Longitudinal data structure Poisson regression ignoring overdispersion and clustering Poisson regression with overdispersion but ignoring clustering Random-intercept Poisson regression Random-coefficient Poisson regression Other approaches to clustered counts Which Scottish countries have a high risk of lip cancer? Standardized mortality ratios Random-intercept Poisson regression Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation Higher Level Models and Nested Random Effects Introduction Which method is best for measuring expiratory flow? Two-level variance-components models Three-level variance-components models Did the Guatemalan immunization campaign work? A three-level logistic random-intercept model Crossed Random Effects Introduction How does investment depend on expected profit and capital stock? A two-way error-components model How much do primary and secondary schools affect attainment at age 16? An additive crossed random-effects model Including a random interaction A trick requiring fewer random effects Appendix A: Syntax for gllamm, eq, and gllapred Appendix B: Syntax for gllamm Appendix C: Syntax for gllapred Appendix D: Syntax for gllasim References Index A Summary, Further Reading, and Exercises appear at the end of each chapter.


The article aims at explaining the authors' proposal to develop parenting education for caregivers of an Islamic
orphanage in Bandung namely Rumah Belajar (Rumbela) Muthmainnah in improving parenting skills of caregivers.
The preliminary study conducted at Rumbela Muthmainnah indicated that the caregivers had limitations and practiced the parenting based on their nurtured experience or by "trial and error" ways. The observation and interview results showed that lack of nurturing experiences and participation in parenting training or education made the caregivers have limitations in overcoming the children's problems effectively. Care by orphanage caregivers should be able to replace the parental care of biological parents/relatives for orphanage children with the purpose of making them grow
into happy children and satisfied with their lives or have high subjective well-being. Non-biological parenting is not easy, even may cause stress either for caregivers and children. It required a parenting program to improve parenting skills of caregivers at the same time to have an impact in improving subjective well-being of children. The parenting program proposed in the study will be developed from Bogels and Restifo's mindful parenting (2014) which involves awareness, observation, and description of children's behavior in a "not judgmental" way. The practice of mindfulness is assumed to be able to help caregivers cope with stress in parenting and develop acceptance of the problems, at the same time to help children happier and satisfied with their life.


The present invention discloses a multi-stage system for a centripetal turbine back to back, to turbine technology, including the turboexpander system, heating system and a gear train. The multistage turbine with a centripetal system is determined as to how much the size of the even number of inflow turbine, the number of stages is between 2 and 8, the expansion ratio of the series, each stage turbine to the heart by one or more the composition of the centripetal turbine. Each form of two back to back in a centripetal turbine disposed on a shaft, with the same speed, and can balance the axial thrust of the rotor. The multi-stage radial turbine inlet temperature is between 220K ~ 973K, inlet pressure between 3bar ~ 340bar. Two coaxial radial turbine to generate shaft work output to a generator or as a power source for industrial production. Multi-stage centripetal turbine system of the present invention, having an expansion ratio, simple and compact structure, high efficiency, high reliability, low temperature recoverable (heat value) of the waste heat and so on.


In Asia, lepidopterous stem borers, such as the yellow stem borer, Scirpophaga incertulas (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) are economically damaging to rice, Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae). Average annual yield losses are often estimated at 5–10%, and occasionally as much as 60–95% (Pathak & Khan, 1994). Transgenic plants expressing insecticidal toxins offer a completely new approach to stem borer control. Several synthetic cry1Ab or cry1Ac genes from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt) have been transferred into indica and japonica cultivars and proven effective against several lepidopterous species (Fujimoto et al., 1993; Wünn et al., 1996; Ghareyzaie et al., 1997; Cheng et al., 1998). With the availability of transgenic germplasms with insect resistance, simple and effective methods for evaluating insect resistance are urgently needed for large-scale screening to assess incorporation of the transgenic insect resistant traits in breeding programmes. Currently two methods are used, cut stem bioassay and whole plant bioassay. Both two methods have shortcomings, notably: (i) small neonate larvae often disperse from test plant material and are not recoverable (Ghareyzaie et al., 1997); (ii) manpower required to dissect test plant material and score mortality is often limiting; (iii) the seeds from test plant material cannot be collected from partially damaged plants and used in further breeding programmes. A leaf-section bioassay has been reported by Wünn et al. (1996), which required leaf material to be replaced three days after the start of the bioassay. However, this method used larval mortality as the only criterion for evaluating the resistance of transgenic rice to stem borers, and did not directly analyse the correlation between the results from leaf-section and whole plant bioassays. Here we report a novel bioassay using a single piece of plant material which does not need to be changed during the test. Using this method, we were able to bioassay a large number of transgenic rice lines derived from a Chinese japonica cultivar (Xiushui 11), into which the cry1Ab gene had been inserted by the Agrobacterium-infection method (Cheng et al., 1998; Shu et al., 1998).


OBJECTIVE
To assess the effects of desipramine (DMI) on autonomic control of the heart.

METHODS
Blood pressure, RR interval (the time between successive heart beats), and RR interval variability, a noninvasive measure of autonomic control of the heart, were assessed in 13 subjects younger than 30 years old.

RESULTS
DMI treatment was associated with an increase in blood pressure, a decrease in RR interval, and a decline in low and high frequency RR interval variability.

CONCLUSIONS
These preliminary data suggest that, in young people, DMI treatment produces a substantial decrease in parasympathetic input to the heart and an increase in the ratio of sympathetic to parasympathetic input, changes that in certain circumstances have been associated with an increased risk of arrhythmia. In exploring the cardiac effects of the tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) in young people, the impact of TCAs on autonomic input to the heart should be examined.


MCMANUSI in a very large statistical study looked at disadvantaging factors for admission to all UK medical schools. Many aspects such as maturity, A-level grades, number of medical schools applied to, were examined, but being a member of an ethnic minority has been the focus ofattention, leading to an irresponsible sensationalist headline in the Independenr which read "Racism diagnosed at medical schools". In fact, McManus in his paper is careful to indicate that disadvantage not discrimination is the appropriate phrase and that this disadvantage applies to the making of offers by medical schools and not actually admitting students. For example, in Dundee our intake each year includes 12-15% of students from ethnic minorities, well above the 6% ethnic minority population in the UK. However, in the acquisition of these students Dundee Medical School might have knowingly or unknowingly disadvantaged those applying from an ethnic minority background. This is the gist of McManus' argument and he brands Dundee as a pr~judicial school. Before examining this issue further, we should consider some other aspects. If one reads the paper carefully it is clear that McManus includes many "health warnings" to the effect that the data may not be sufficiently robust to enable firm conclusions to be drawn. And yet he "parades" the bad features ofall UK medical schools in a Table which is almost like a consumers guide. Most school careers advisors will probably have a copy by now and be using it to advise intending applicants. In the Table, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen medical schools are "neutral" in respect of ethnic minority selection. Three out offive is not bad, leaving only St Andrews and Dundee to explain themselves. Do they really disadvantage? Perhaps at this stage it is worth getting rid of the niceties and using the term discrimination for that is what other commentators believe it is.' So do St Andrews and Dundee discriminate? Dundee has already been approached by the Commission for Racial Equality and it is very clear that they intend to investigate further. St Andrews made their position clear very quickly after the McManus publication by placing a response on the BMJ website! (Readers may find a sojourn to this web site informative and even entertaining in that it contains some comments from practitioners not constrained by University protocol). The St Andrews response was robus~. The~ indic~t~ that McManus had used the wrong dataset to examine their admissions data, that he had not examined the problem deeply enough to produce a more realistic answer and that their own internal analysis showed a marginal advantage for receiving an offer ifyou were applying from an ethnic minority. In Dundee we support the St Andrews' view and our response is also .on~e BMJ website." We have re-examined all 1,404 applications received m 1997, one of the years for which we were "black-spotted" b~ MC!"1anus. We find that overall the odds ratio(OR) for white:ethnic minority offers is 1.2 (CI 0.73-1.72). For candidates where A-level results were kno~ the same OR is 1.2 (CI 0.35-4.08) and for predicted A-l~vel~ t~e ~R IS0.85 (CI 0.39-1.88). In short, there is no evidence o.fdls~m~matlo~ here. ~ow, when we look at Scottish applicants, the situation I~ very Intere~tm~. Our "cut-off' academic entry requirement for Scots ISAAABB in Highers, For students who achieved this the OR (white~:eth~ic J.11inoriti~s) is 0.47 (CI 0.12-2.06). In other w~rds, Scots ethnic mmority candidates who pass the academic criteria are mo~e than~ as likely to receive an offer from Dundee than their white counterparts. Even more interesting is that a Scot with AAABB woul~ have no chance of an offer from English medical schools or ~ard1fTregardless ofwhether they were white or black! A similar point IS made by McCabe. ~ Why should our analyses differ so much from that of McManus? The St .Andrews responses identifies several possibilities. Notably, t~ey POl~t out.that McManus worked with actual examination grades (i.e, ach~eved m.the SUmmer following application), whereas selectors work With predicted grades for A-level examinees and clearly there could be considerable differences in the two datasets. McManus att~mpts to j.ustitY this by referring to one of his earlier papers" in which he claims that selection on predictions is the same as selection on~~sults. The evidence for this is poor even after careful reading of this earher paper. But St Andrews noted more. They indicated that whereas 70% ofwhites reached their "boundary" in respect ofA-level and Higher qualifications and were therefore considered for offers, ~ess than 50010 ofethnic minority applicants achieved this. The figures m Dundee are virtually identical. Thus, if you reach the required academic level, you arejust as likely to obtain an offer from St Andrews and Dundee, more so in fact, if you are from an ethnic minority background. There are, of course, other factors involved, one of which is the "personal qualities" issue. The ways in which personal qualities are assessed are too numerous to detail here but involve appraisal of reports, references, interviews and on occasion questionnaires. McManus ignored all this and dismissed their relevance with the statement "...suchjudgements would need to be shown to be reliable, free of bias, and predictive of eventual professional behaviour", a comment which could equally apply to his paper. I In work being prepared for publication we have evidence that high achievement in non-academic areas is a good predictor of success on course, particularly in clinical assessments. In our view it is preferable, ifnot essential, to score these personal achievements. In summary, we can argue that McManus did not use predicted exam grades as we did; his analysis using Higher results is unclear; and he does not take into account personal skills and qualities of the applicant. We could adopt the attitude that his study is irrelevant in Scotland because he was looking at the wrong things in a way which was such a statistical jumble that anything could have resulted. We could, but we should not do this. What we should do to put the record straight is to organise a proper study of the admissions process in Scotland. This should be based unlike McManus' study, on the criteria that admissions selectors ac~ally use. It ~ould not be difficult and the vehicle for achieving this already exists, The Northern Admissions Group, who meet regularly, could debate and agree the study format, and the necessary research protocols. Funding will be necessary, and this should be found fro~ the Scottish


Background: Anaesthetists are frontline workers who perform aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) in enclosed environments, which exposes them to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and increases their risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2 infection and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study describes the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the academic department of anaesthesiology of the University of the Witwatersrand prior to vaccination. Method(s): A cross-sectional, contextual, descriptive research design, using an anonymous electronic questionnaire, was followed in the study. Consecutive and convenience sampling methods were used. A p-value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Result(s): A total of 147 participants met the inclusion criteria. There were 90 (61.22%) females and 57 (38.78%) males. The mean age was 35.26 years for the 36 participants who tested positive (26.47%) for SARS-CoV-2. Hospital admission was required by 2.78% of participants with COVID-19. Male participants had a higher prevalence of having SARS-CoV-2 infection (p = 0.045). There were no statistically significant associations between SARS-CoV-2 infection and pregnancy (p = 0.09), asthma (p = 0.11), autoimmune disease (p = 0.77), obesity (p = 0.9), diabetes (p = 0.96), hypertension (p = 0.9) and smoking (p = 0.69). Commonly reported COVID-19-like symptoms included fatigue (68.33%), headaches (61.67%) and myalgia (58.33%). Of the participants with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, 38.46% had reported travelling within 14 days of testing positive (p < 0.001). Community exposure to a person with SARS-CoV-2 was associated with participants contracting SARS-CoV-2 infection (p = 0.001). Conclusion(s): AGPs are not a significant risk factor for anaesthetists in the context of work or community transmission of the virus. There was a statistically significant predisposition for contracting SARS-CoV-2 infection among males, participants who travelled and participants who had community exposure to a SARS-CoV-2 infected person.


The recognition of the critical importance of platelets in acute coronary syndromes and interventional procedure outcomes has resulted in a growing armementarium of antiplatelet therapies. These medications offer the ability to achieve complete inhibition, which may be accompanied by hemorrhagic risks. Measurement of platelet function may improve dosing of these medications by optimization of clinical benefit and limitation of bleeding risks. A number of current assays can be used to assess platelet function.


A STUDY n°FW Tm SnJS;IeA,L NEEDS STATUS ASSIGNED? ELin[(irm nHi?5SI0N making PROCESSES SURROUNDING ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS PLACEMENTS WITHIN THE SALEM PUBLIC SCHOOLS MAY 1990 JAMES D. O'CONNOR, B.A., VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY M.A., VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY Ed.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Directed by: Professor Kenneth A. Parker The purpose of this study was to describe and document those criteria utilized by TEAM members to determine which students receive special education service within the Salem, Massachusetts Public Schools. The central question inherent in this study was "How is special needs status assigned, through the TEAM evaluation process, to children within the Salem Public Schools?" The focus of this study was to describe how members of a special education evaluation TEAM, in one suburban community, went about determining which students were deemed eligible to receive special education services. The process for determining who is eligible for special education services is a source of concern and discussion at all levels of public education. The


Abstract Computer-based fabric segmentation has recently increased significantly in diverse fields of which textiles design and engineering is no exception. Extracting appropriate information from printed fabric manually for further applications has yielded little result due to limitations of the human eye to grasp intricate and complex features. Presented in this study is an unsupervised approach of segmenting printed fabrics using the classical mean shift algorithm by inputting enhanced ranges of parameters based on different number of clusters in the printed fabrics. First and foremost, in order to make printed fabrics more adaptable to the experiment, samples were washed making sure dirt or stains were thoroughly removed, then ironed, scanned and pre-processed eventually with median filter. The filtered samples were then segmented by Mean Shift algorithm. Systematic analysis of experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method is suitable for segmenting printed fabrics with less complexity in clustering.


An effective and faster data retrieval technique is important when dealing among systems with large database. The existing Hostel Management System in Students Affairs Department (HEP) of University College of Engineering and Technology Malaysia (KUKTEM) involves thousands of student data.As a result,the processing time of data retrieval becoming lengthy.This system also restricted the administrator to detect student's location visually.In order to solve these flaws,Student Information Retrieval using Geographical Information System (GIS) is developed.This system focused on discovering student information based on their student identification number and name by applying geographical location/map concept.This new system provide functions zoom in,zoom out,panning,identify and query builder in order to simplify the data manipulation by the administrator.By applying the data visualization technique using GIS the administrator can retrieve data faster and in an interactive way.


We have isolated and sequenced a novel gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae coding for an essential protein of unknown function. The gene called YJU2 was borne on a chromosome X fragments shown by hybridization to intact S. cerevisiae chromosomal DNA fractionated by orthogonal pulsed field electrophoresis. Northern hybridization analysis indicated that the 0.8‐kb transcript of YJU2 is expressed in exponential‐phase cells grown in rich medium (data not shown). Figure 1 shows the nucleotide and deduced amino‐acid sequences of the 834‐bp coding region as well as the nucleotide sequences of the 5′ upstream region and of the 3′ downstream region, together with the flanking neighbouring open reading frames (ORFs), YJU1 and YJU3.


Objective:To give the test in cases of changing the conditions of measurement and reference value,compare the test results,and detect the capacity of QuickCheck,so as to offer reference for the daily morning check of accelerator and the evaluation of test results.Methods:Change the output dose,field size,SSD,angle of collimator and gantry angle of the accelerator,and then evaluate QuickCheck's capacity of monitoring accelerator accordingly.Compare the field parameters measured by QuickCheck with the data from the 3D water tank.Results:When the output dose was 1cGy higher than the reference value or 6cGy lower than it,the field size expanded or contracted more than 2cm simutaneouly,SSD was 2 cm higher or 1 cm lower than reference value,the collimator rotated more than 2°,the gantry angle rotated more than 6°,and then the test results of QuickCheck surpassed threshold.Comparing the measuring results of QuickCheck with 3D water tank,the difference between the flatness of the two was 3.84%,symmetry(G/T) 0.67%,symmetry(L/R) 0.47% and dose rate 1.2 MU/min.Conclusion:QuickCheck is rather accurate in testing the output dose,field size,angle of collimator,flatness,symmetry and dose rate,so it could meet the requirement of accelerator's daily QA.However,its capability is relatively poor on examining SSD and the deviation of gantry angle.


Our objective in this work is to design a printed antenna that has at once a low profile, a wide bandwidth, and a high gain. In order to achieve this objective, we have based our study on the theory of Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) structures where the EBG structure is used as the ground plane of the antenna. The first part of this article describes the geometry and the performances of the printed antenna originally designed on classic ground plane. In the second part, we illustrate the results obtained for this antenna designed on ground plane based on EBG Mushroom-like structure. In the third part, we will give the results obtained for the antenna designed on ground plane based on a new EBG structure that has been proposed to fill the disadvantages of the EBG Mushroom-like structure. Finally, the last session draws a comparison between the results obtained, where the improvements brought by the novel EBG structure are illustrated.


For more than two decades children have experienced an increasing focus on minimum competency test scores at the expense of educators understanding and nurturing their social and emotional developm...


AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
To study the clinico-pathological characteristics of primary ovarian malignant mixed mullerian tumor (OMMMT) and assess the prognostic factors associated with treatment outcome and survival.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
The pathology database was searched for primary ovarian carcinosarcoma diagnosed and/or managed at our institute from period of January 2004 to July 2010. The histological sections were reviewed, with emphasis on type and grade of epithelial and sarcomatous components. The medical records were retrospectively analyzed for clinical details and follow up.

RESULTS
A total of 27 cases of primary ovarian carcinosarcoma were identified. The median age at diagnosis was 51 years. Fourteen patients had advanced stage (stage III and IV) at presentation. Cytoreductive surgery was done in 18 cases, and 7 had received upfront chemotherapy. Histologically, 10 cases had epithelial predominance (> 50% epithelial component) and 11 had sarcoma predominance. The most frequent epithelial component was endometroid type, and most common sarcoma component was rhabdomyosarcomatous. Hyaline droplets within sarcomatous stroma were seen prominently in 15 cases. Three cases showed germ cell /yolk sac-like areas. Eighteen cases had follow up with a median of 15 months (4-40 months). The recurrence-free survival in advanced stage and sarcoma predominant was 10.5 months in comparison to 13 months in early stage and epithelial predominant OMMMT.

CONCLUSION
Primary ovarian carcinosarcoma is a rare biphasic malignancy with variable proportions of epithelial and spindle elements. Presence of hyaline droplets within spindle sarcoma in a biopsy from ovarian mass should alert the pathologists regarding MMMT. Advanced stage, suboptimal cytoreduction, and sarcoma predominant tumors are likely to have a worse outcome in ovarian MMMT.


In terms of the records in the First Historic Archives of China and A Record of the Qing Dynasty,historical facts such as names,native places,imperial civil exams,the times of the official careers which were in the provincial judges list of Shanxi TongZhi in the GuangXu period of the Qing Dynasty were amended.


Much has been written about nanomaterials and US EPA's regulation of them under the Toxic Substances Control Act. Less has been written about the Agency's regulation of nanopesticides under FIFRA, even though the subject is every bit as significant, evolving, and precedent-setting. Earlier this year, the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel released the minutes of its November 3-5, 2009, meeting regarding evaluation of the potential hazard and exposure associated with nanosilver and other nanometal pesticide products. The minutes provide the SAP's in-depth recommendations in response to public comments and testimony received on the questions put to the panel by US EPA and reflect the deliberations of the SAP members in response to those questions. This column offers background on nanosilver pesticides and the issues surrounding them, explains why US EPA decided to convene the FIFRA SAP on nanosilver, summarizes key aspects of the SAP recommendations, and discusses the implications of the SAP's recommendations for future pesticide registration of nanomaterials. The Nanosilver Battleground


Bi3.25La0.75Ti3O12 (BLT) thin films were grown on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si and on LaNiO3 (LNO) buffered Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates using sol-gel processing. Scanning electron micrographs showed the BLT films are composed of peg-like or platelet-like grains depending upon annealing temperature and the substrate type. Large platelet grains were found in BLT films deposited on the LNO/Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates; those thin films showed better polarization–voltage, capacitance–voltage, and current–voltage characteristics. More importantly, they did not show any significant fatigue up to 2×1010 switching cycles at a frequency of 1 MHz and electric field 85 kV/cm.


Transaction costs is one most pivotal concept of new institutional economics, which can be used to study the international relations. transaction costs mostly originates form the uncertainty of international community in which a state exists and opportunism behavior of a state interacting with another state. International regimes can play important roles in reducing information and intendance sanction costs, creating large-scale effect of international cooperation, and therefore show the validity of international regimes in international cooperation.


The second meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was held in Paris on November 27–28, 1962, under the chairmanship of Mr. Donald Fleming (then Canadian Minister of Justice and Attorney General). The Council reviewed the economic prospects of the twenty member countries and the Organization's world-wide responsibilities, and surveyed the progress already made toward the growth target defined in 1961.


Syphilis is a systemic sexually transmitted disease that can be presented with very varied ocular symptoms. We present the case of a 27-year-old patient with ocular inflammation and bilateral papilledema who was finally diagnosed as neurosyphilis. We want to highlight the importance of taking this diagnosis into account in the event of any ocular inflammation of unknown cause.


OBJECTIVE: To evaluate changes in health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) among epilepsy patients who received eslicarbazepine acetate (ESL) monotherapy (1200 mg QD or 1600 mg QD).
BACKGROUND: Patient quality of life is important in treatment decision-making. Information on HRQOL in patients with partial-onset seizures, not being controlled by anti-epileptic drugs, was collected in two randomized, historical-controlled, double-blind clinical trials of ESL monotherapy (093-045/093-046) using the Quality of Life in Epilepsy-31 (QOLIE-31).
DESIGN/METHODS: This analysis examined changes from baseline to week 18 (end of monotherapy period) in QOLIE-31 Total Score and its seven subscales among two groups of patients pooled from the two trials: 1) those who converted to ESL monotherapy over an 8-week taper/conversion period and remained on monotherapy through week 18 (Completers; n=226, 68.1[percnt] of efficacy population), and 2) those who achieved a seizure frequency reduction ≥50[percnt] (Responders; n=134, 40.4[percnt] of efficacy population). Mean changes were tested for being significantly different than zero using paired two-sided t-tests and were also compared to established minimal clinically-important differences (MCIDs).
RESULTS: The QOLIE-31 was completed at both baseline and week 18 by 211 (93.4[percnt]) of 226 Completers and 107 (79.9[percnt]) of 134 Responders. Among Completers and Responders, Total Score significantly improved and exceeded the MCID of 5.19 (mean change=6.72, p p p p <0.05). Lastly, six subscales among Completers and five subscales among Responders showed improvement above their MCIDs.
CONCLUSIONS: In this pooled analysis, patients who converted to ESL monotherapy and/or achieved a seizure frequency reduction ≥50[percnt] experienced significant improvement in HRQOL, with many experiencing clinically-meaningful improvement.

 Disclosure: Dr. Velez has received personal compensation for activities with Sunovion as an employee. Dr. Bond has nothing to disclose. Dr. Anastassopoulos has received personal compensation for activities with Covance as an employee. Dr. Wang has received personal compensation for activities with Covance as an employee. Dr. Cheng has received personal compensation for activities with Sunovian Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Sousa has received personal compensation for activities with BIAL as an employee. Dr. Blum has received personal compensation for activities with Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. as an employee. Dr. Cramer has received personal compensation for activities with Bial, Eisai Inc., Sepracor, UCB Pharma, and Sunovion as a consultant.


Objective : To evaluate sociodemographic inequalities in the diet quality of the urban population of the city of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Methods: A population-based, cross-sectional study was performed using data from a health survey conducted in the city of Campinas in 2008-2009. Diet quality was evaluated using the Brazilian Healthy Eating Index Revised. A total of 3,382 individuals aged 10 years old and older were analyzed. Results : Brazilian Healthy Eating Index Revised scores increased with age and education level. Women consumed more vegetables, fruits, and milk, and less sodium, meat and eggs, oils, saturated and solid fats, alcohol, and added sugars than men. Scores for whole grains, vegetables, and fruits also increased with age and education level. Conclusion: These findings point to sociodemographic segments that are more vulnerable to an inappropriate diet and identify the need of strategies to increase the consumption of whole grains, dark green vegetables, fruits, and milk, and decrease the consumption of sodium, solid fats, alcohol, and added sugar.


Applying modern statistical technology-Partial Least-Squares(PLS) regression,and quantity analyzing the(relationship) of Electricity power consumption on the condition of multi-collinearity between multivariable and small sample,the paper not only put forward the graph of variable importance projection about every factor relative to electricity power consumption,but also found the quantity relation of impact factors relative to power consumption,and set the frame of(reference) for electrical market analysis in Hunan Province.


Identification of the cardiac borders is a basic goal in the analysis of echocardiographic images. For this reason there has been a great deal of interest in automatic border identification methods. Numerous studies have been published, describing a wide variety of proposed methods. In spite of the large number of published studies, however the relative merits of the various methods remain unclear. Furthermore, the optimal configuration of each method is in most cases unknown. One of the reasons for this is the lack of a well-defined rigorous method for evaluating and comparing alternative algorithms and/or configurations. The authors have implemented a systematic, empirical procedure for evaluating border identification algorithms. The method is based on a metrical measure of border error and a set of test images which reflect the heterogeneity of typical clinical images. The methodology can be used to compare alternative analysis methods, or to determine the optimal configuration for any particular analysis method.


The invention relates to a compound fermentation type sun-cured red tobacco extract as well as a preparation method and applications of the compound fermentation type sun-cured red tobacco extract in electronic cigarettes, belonging to the technical field of tobacco perfumes. The invention further relates to the applications of the compound fermentation type sun-cured red tobacco extract in the electronic cigarettes. The compound fermentation type sun-cured red tobacco extract is applied to the electronic cigarettes as electronic cigarette tar, the smoke aroma concentration and richness can be obviously improved through atomization smoking, the brewing aroma and sweet aroma smell generated by fermentation are obtained, the sensory sucking quality is improved, and the compound fermentation type sun-cured red tobacco extract has the broad application prospect in the development of the flavor materials of electronic cigarette tar.


Introduction: Pediatric malignant presacral lesions are most often germ cell tumors notably sacrococcygeal teratoma, however, diagnosing neuroblastoma at this site is an unusual occurrence. Case presentation: We report a 5-month-old infant presented with a presacral mass misinterpreted as Altman type IV sacrococcygeal teratoma. Upon complete surgical resection, histopathological examination and immunohistochemistry for neuronal markers confirmed the diagnosis of poorly differentiated neuroblastoma and excluded the possibility of teratoma or alternate differential diagnoses. Unfavorable category was incited due to high mitosis-karyorrhexis and Ki-67 indices. Conclusions: Neuroblastoma should be considered in the differential diagnosis for infantile presacral masses. Evaluating infantile intra-pelvic masses necessitates a multidisciplinary approach.


ABSTRACT Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is characterised by its inherent brittleness, a detrimental feature for the production of durable bioplastics. PLA has been toughened by a low amount (12 wt-%) of various thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) including poly(ether-b-ester) (PEEs), poly(ether-b-amide) (PEBA) and poly(ether-b-urethane) (PEU). PLA–TPE blends were prepared by using a twin screw extruder. Ductility and impact resistance can be slightly improved with the incorporation of TPEs but but PEBA appears the most efficient. Reactive compatibilisation has been performed with the addition in the melt of a low amount (2 wt-%) of 4,4-methylene diphenyl diisocyanate. All compatibilised blends exhibit high toughness with similar ductility. These blends preserve good stiffness and high tensile strength. Compatibilised PEBA blends can be considered as super tough poly(lactic acid) materials. This work confirms that the flexibility of the elastomer together with the quality of the interfacial adhesion between the rigid (PLA) and the soft (TPE) phases are the primary factors influencing the toughness.


The majority of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are dual‐chamber devices, but studies on the frequency of inappropriate therapy in dual‐ versus single‐chamber devices have shown conflicting results. The aim of this study is to determine whether implantation of dual‐chamber ICD devices decrease the incidence of inappropriate therapy without an unacceptable increase in complications.


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The throne of worship, which is typically a colourful grotesque of theriomorphic theologemes that is to be visualized similarly in both internal and external worship, is a common feature of most surviving tantric literature. We may often read of ritual and doctrine being locked in so close an embrace that the one may not be interpreted without the other2 and it is certainly true that their relationship can very often be demonstrated. Indeed, one article known to me demonstrates it with respect to the throne of worship: Sanderson3 has pointed out that the enthronement of the three deities—Parā, Parāparā and Aparā—on the tips of a trident that rises above the enthroned corpse of Sadāśiva is intended to express that the Trika has transcended, among other systems, the Śaiva Siddhānta. It is noteworthy, however, that we should find not only that the enthronement of the principal deity should be an almost universal feature of tantric cults but also that many elements of the throne are the same or more than coincidentally similar in different systems. The most widespread common feature of thrones is that of a lotus resting upon a pīṭha that has at least four legs in the intermediate directions, these legs being formed by lions as incarnations of entities that have the names of the four positive qualities of the buddhi, namely, dharma, jñāna, vairāgya and aiśvarya. Furthermore, we find both Śaiva and Pāñcarātra accounts in which the mantras of these entities involve the four so-called 'neuter' vowels. Thus, the rituals of these cults may be shown to express or reinforce doctrinal truths, but we cannot in such cases always assume that their original 'sense' is shining through: expression of doctrine must often rather be the result of successful secondary reinterpretation. Plainly, an examination of thrones furnishes evidence of the kind that led to Sanderson's observation that '[t]he ritual systems taught in the Śaiva and Pāñcarātrika Saṃhitās resemble each other so closely in morphology and syntax that they have the appearance of two dialects of a single "Tantric" language.'4 In this article I will attempt an exploration of some textual accounts of thrones and I hope to provide a 'footnote' to Sanderson's observation, which although is itself part of a footnote, deserves a more prominent place and, of course, examination in not a few further 'footnotes'.


This note describes the use of force-field analysis which I first came across during an ODA-commissioned institutional appraisal course. Originally, this technique was intended as a workshop tool for analysing a static situation (to identify the forces which keep an institution in its present state). However, during two recent project visits it was used in a modified form to provide a way of drawing staff and stake-holders into the planning process, defining possible objectives and how to attain them. The fact that the two examples described here are very different (a non-formal education project and an urban environmental improvement project) suggests that the method might be valuable in a variety of contexts including village PRAs, and be useful to those interested in participatory planning generally.


Compositional segregations in shaped alloy nanoparticles can significantly affect their catalytic activity and are largely dependent on their elemental anisotropic growth and diffusion during nanoparticle synthesis. An efficient approach to control the surface segregations while keeping the nanoparticle shape are highly desired for fine-tuning their catalytic properties. Using octahedral Pt–Ni nanoparticles as a typical example, we report a new strategy to modulate the surface composition of shaped bimetallic nanoparticles by microwave-enhanced surface diffusion during solvothermal synthesis. Compared to traditional solvothermal synthesis, the application of microwave significantly promotes atomic diffusion, particularly surface diffusion, within the Pt–Ni octahedrons, leading to Pt segregation on the {111} facets while largely keeping the octahedral shape. The obtained segregated Pt–Ni octahedral nanoparticles performed excellent activity toward oxygen reduction reaction. The revealed microwave-enhanced ...


The volume of information that is nowadays available on the web makes the limits of the current Web clear for its users, in fact finding information and knowledge between billions of Web pages is very difficult, the Semantic web and data mining are two new fasting developing domains that will resolve this problem and the combination of this tow area will transform the web into a semantically information space in order to make sense of already-existing data designed only for human readers and then to extract the knowledge contained within the Web, many experience shows that the ontology engineering is very important to solve the problem of the interoperability between web systems by using the ontology learning from web content in order to develop method of extraction knowledge from web data and the representation of this Knowledge in a form understandable by arbitrary parties (machines, humans ...), This paper will describe the commonalities of the two areas in order to extract useful and shared Knowledge.


In this paper one investigates the merit of partial user annotation for music transcription using a PLCA-based model. The original algorithm, called Blind Harmonic Adaptive Decomposition (BHAD), provides an estimation of the polyphonic pitch content of the input signal in an entirely unsupervised manner. In this paper, one studies how the performance of the BHAD algorithm can be further improved by involving a user by means of a partial annotation. This user input allows for a better model initialisation with adapted or learned spectral envelope models. Furthermore, it is studied how a fine control of the convergence rate of some parameters can better exploit this additional information. It is then shown that this partial annotation can bring an improvement of up to 3% on the transcription of the remaining file.


The influence of a nuclear reaction on atomic positron production in heavy-ion collisions is investigated. Using statistical concepts, we describe the nuclear S matrix for a heavy-ion induced reaction as a statistically fluctuating function of energy. The positron production rate is then dependent on the autocorrelation function of this S matrix, and on the ratio of the ''direct'' versus the ''fluctuating'' part of the nuclear cross section. Numerical calculations show that in this way, current experimental results on positron production in heavy-ion collisions can be reproduced in a semiquantitative fashion.


Prior to interventional neuroradiology procedures, many patients undergo noninvasive studies such as computed tomography angiography (CTA) and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). The ability to use these studies during invasive neuroangiographic procedures reduces additional contrast and radiation exposure, and allows for the integration of extravascular imaging.


The article focuses on the philosophical grounds of the interaction between language and thinking. The author summarizes the ideas of Russian and foreign philosophers and linguists on the problem under consideration. The article is also an attempt to show the succession of their views. Moreover, the author stresses the fundamental character of the problem in cognitive research.


=Abstract= Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate the influencing factors of turnover intention in hospital paramedics. The factors included the job condition, job stress, and turnover intention. Methods: The subjects were 200 paramedics in hospital. Data were analyzed using frequency, t-test or one way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression analysis with SPSS WIN 20.0 program. Results: Job stress was 3.59 points; job condition, 2.96 points; turnover intention 3.64 points. When the job stress was high, the satisfaction with job condition was very low and the turnover intention increased. When the job satisfaction was high, turnover intention decreased. factors affecting the turnover intention were annual income, turnover frequency, workload, and working department, role conflict, and personal relationship. Conclusion: It is necessary to establish the job description of paramedics and improve the working condition in the hospitals.


Now it is very urgent for us to construct modern agriculture and improve agriculture competition ability in the new situation of China's WTO entry and the globalization of the economy. In the recent few years, Wuhu has accelerated to adjust the economy structure of agriculture. Through the building of example areas, adjusting structure of agriculture and actively carrying out agriculture standard, the traditional agriculture yield is stepping up to the way of agriculture industrialization of "high yield, high quality and high efficiency".


Changes in the radiological appearances of the hilar region of the lungs may indicate that the pulmonary blood supply is not normal. In atresia of the pulmonary valve, the pulmonary arteries may be absent, but more often they are small and may be supplied or supplemented by anomalous vessels. Then blood reaches the lungs mainly by the bronchial arteries or by other collaterals and there is little flow through the diminutive pulmonary arteries. We wish to describe certain features of the X-ray films-both with intravenous injection of opaque substances and without this help-features that indicate an abnormal blood supply to the lungs by enlarged bronchial and collateral arteries. After a short account of present knowledge of the subject we shall discuss some teleradiograms with these unusual appearances. We shall then describe the angiocardiograms of some cases which we believe show that these collateral vessels are largely responsible for the abnormal vascular pattern. We shall first consider two patients with anomalous pulmonary blood supply, one with a clinical diagnosis of truncus arteriosus and the other with pulmonary atresia or possibly truncus arteriosus where the diagnosis was supported by direct observation at operation. We shall then describe five other patients in whom the presence of hypertrophied bronchial arteries and pulmonary atresia was confirmed post-mortem.