In the past years, the mechanism of equipment interoperability and information sharing between medical devices and application hosting devices was insufficient. Based on the number of elderly people in the population is rising, together with the rise of Health2.0 concept, there is a necessary need for intercommunication and exchange measurement data among the various medical devices and application hosting devices. The study proposes a design of the x73-PHD adaptor which as an agent of medical device, enabling the x73-PHD adaptor to collect the measured data and transmit them compliant with the international standard 11073 data format via a USB Personal Health Device Class (PHDC) interface. The design for the x73-PHD adaptor proposed in this paper is based on the MSP430F5529 and ISO/IEEE 11073 standards, which functions as a bridge between the application hosting device and the medical device. It converts vital sign data from the connecting medical device, and then transmits these data to the application hosting device in compliance with ISO/IEEE 11073 personal health device data format and protocol standards via the USB PHDC interface. Based on the testing results, the x73-PHD adaptor converts the measured data from the connecting medical device, TD-3250 blood pressure and blood glucose meter, and connect to Continua application hosting device to exchange healthcare information over the USB PHDC interface successfully.


Created for Rebecca Battersby. Investigating background to the true story and insane efforts to wipe out one ethnic group over another. Film Study - Library/English Task


Many natural products with bioactive properties can be used to develop new antiparasitic drugs. To date, studies about anticrithidial activity of Thai medicinal plants have not been investigated extensively. Crithidia fasciculata belonging to the family Trypanosomatidae has been used as model organisms for studying biochemical, cellular and genetic processes. This paper determined the biological activity against the growth of C.fasciculata, concentrating on twenty five methanolic crude extracts from eight plant families compared with a reference drug. The objectives of this study were to examine fundamental biological data prior to development of new drug and to understand the bioactive potential of higher plant materials. Activities of the methanolic crude extracts were assessed by Growth inhibition test and  classified  into  active,  moderately  active and inactive. The empirical findings showed that the crude extracts from root and stem bark of Micromelum sp., leaf and stem bark of Connaraceous plant, leaf of Aglaia spectabilis, and stem barks of Chisocheton sp., Dipterocarpus sp. and Zanthoxylum sp. with 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) less than 5000 ng/ml were strongly active against the Crithidia growth. Most of the extracts with IC50 between 5000-10000 ng/ml were moderately active against the Crithidia growth. The active extracts found in this study will need to be further examined using phytochemical investigations in future studies  to  identify  their  major  components.


Ecological migration in ethnic minority areas not only moves people from one place to another,out also causes changes in social capital. By analyzing the restructuring of social capital in Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County after the earthquake,this essay gives suggestions to ecological migrants in ethnic minority areas on how to protection and inherit conce their ethnic culture and restructure of social capital.


We review some salient points in the derivation of density functional theory (DFT) and of the local density approximation (LDA) of it. We then articulate an understanding of DFT and LDA that seems to be ignored in the literature. We note the well-established failures of many DFT and LDA calculations to reproduce the measured energy gaps of finite systems and band gaps of semiconductors and insulators. We then illustrate significant differences between the results from self consistent calculations using single trial basis sets and those from computations following the Bagayoko, Zhao, and Williams (BZW) method, as enhanced by Ekuma and Franklin (BZW-EF). Unlike the former, the latter calculations verifiably attain the absolute minima of the occupied energies, as required by DFT. These minima are one of the reasons for the agreement between their results and corresponding, experimental ones for the band gap and a host of other properties. Further, we note predictions of DFT BZW-EF calculations that have been...


Aerodynamic characteristics in pitch of scale model of two and three stage rocket configuration at Mach numbers of 0.4 to 4.63


An inspection of an already developed QSAR model is necessary to verify the reproducibility of the model itself, and its present applicability to new chemicals, if a version of calculation software for theoretical molecular descriptors is updated. A QSAR model for bioconcentration in fish, published by the authors and based on 5 molecular descriptors of different typology calculated by an old version of DRAGON software, now needs updating and redevelopment owing to changes in some of the descriptor values in the new version of the same package. Here we propose a new OLS model, mechanistically interpretable, based on structural descriptors of the same typology as the previously published QSAR, highlighting the ability of the Genetic Algorithm to select structural information really related to BCF (Bioconcentration Factor). Model predictivity is still guaranteed by statistical internal and external validations; the chemical domain of applicability, verified by the leverage approach, is very similar to that of our previous model.


Purpose - The purpose of this study is to conceptualise Human Resource Management Principles in the context of Palestine by investigating the current and standard practices of Islamic HRM principles in the West Bank in Palestine. The primary focus is more on the implementation and awareness about Islamic HRM principles in the large institutions and organisations including governmental and non-governmental influential bodies like banks, universities, ministries and other key organisations.
Approach – The paper takes the form of a qualitative approach based on an extensive review of relevant literature. It examines the different available research works and studies done in the field of HRM and Islamic Human resources in the West Bank in Palestine. It aims to summarise the current trends and possible future implications of the present behaviours and practices in the Palestinian organisations and their awareness about the importance of Islamic HRM.
Findings – The reviewed literature reveals a considerable misunderstanding of the critical concepts of the Islamic HRM and a lack of awareness about their nature and importance to the organisations. Although most organisations claim that their practices are in line with the principles of Islam and they care a lot about fair treatment and honesty, nevertheless the reality is that the literature reveals a minimal implementation of these principles. Furthermore, the Israeli occupation has created many limitations on Palestinian organisations.
Research limitations – The limitations that this study faced are the lack of data from primary resources and official data. Furthermore, there is a lack of research papers on Islamic HRM in the Palestinian context because of the limited resources and empirical studies in this area.
Value –The study has an excellent value for decision-makers and policymakers in Palestine and shows them the importance of implementing Islamic HRM for their organisations


A modular liquid argon (LAr) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with pixelated charge readout is considered as a part of the near-detector for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) [1]. Such a TPC is being developed by the ArgonCube collaboration [2]. To provide a trigger for the data acquisition (DAQ) of a neutrino event the LAr scintillation light detection is proposed. The light is a vacuum ultraviolet (UV) with 128 nm wavelength, thus, it is a challenge to register it. The main requirements imposed on the light detection system are a good performance at cryogenic temperatures, non-conductive materials, compact dimensions, and a detection efficiency at a level of percent. A Light Collection Module (LCM) as a candidate for the system has been developed at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. The LCM is based on the wavelength-shifting (WLS) fibers that are coated with Tetraphenyl Butadiene (TPB) and read out by silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). Also at JINR, a full readout chain for the light detection system has been developed, consisting of the front-end electronics, power-supply for the SiPMs, and the DAQ. A cryogenic test setup has been built at JINR to study the performance of the LCM in LAr. A similar study was carried out in the laboratory for high energy physics of Bern University with highly purified LAr. These studies have shown that the photon detection efficiency (PDE) of the LCM for the LAr scintillation light is about 1–2%. Further tests in the ArgonCube prototype TPC will provide the real performance of the LCM system with a full readout chain.


Objective:To conducts some research on the relationship between microelements of hair and changes of immune function in paediatrics repeated respiratory infection (RRI) patients.Methods:We have tested the levels of copper,iron,zinc and calcium of hair and peripheral-blood T cell subpopulation in 80 RRI patients.To make result clear,we choose 50 normal infants as control group.Results:The levels of iron and zinc in the hair of RRI patients,their peripheral blood CD + 4 cell percentage,and their CD + 4/CD + 8 cell proportionality are obviously lower than those in normal patients.Conclusion:RRI infants lack some microelements and their cell immune function is reduced.


A revised neutral molecule ablation model is derived to describe the evaporation of a solid hydrogen pellet in a tokamak plasma. The approach taken is based on the theory of Parks, Turnbull, and Foster who postulate that a cloud of molecular hydrogen surrounding the pellet shields the surface from incoming energetic electrons and, in so doing, regulates the evaporation rate. This treatment differs from an earlier model in that the hydrodynamic behavior of the molecular cloud is treated in a self-consistent manner. Numerical solutions of the fluid dynamic equations, which include the effects of strong electron heating locally in the gas, reveal that the flow of material away from the pellet is initially retarded by the heating and then rapidly accelerated and rarefied. This behavior is more pronounced for higher temperature plasmas and the net effect is that pellet lifetimes are prolonged slightly by including the heating effects. A comparison is made with the results of the recent pellet injection experiments on ORMAK and a simple injection depth scaling law is derived.


Ferromagnetic Heusler alloy Ni_2MnGa has been developed as an advanced magnetic field control actuator material and used as magnetic field-controlled shape memory effect and magnetic-field-induced strain (MFIS). However the martensitic transformation temperature of Ni_2MnGa is quite lower than room temperature. The martensitic transformation and magnetic properties of a polycrystalline alloy Ni_(52.5)Mn_(23.5)Ga_(24) was investigated by adding different amount of Tb. The results show that martensitic transformation temperature was increased remarkably,while magnetic-field-induced strain was reduced.


The piper, it is said, calls the tune, but in Ireland he is often expected in addi tion to explain it. The great piper and folklore collector Seamus Ennis was no exception, and he frequently prefaced his tunes with an account of their origin. One such tune was "Cornphipopa na Siog," or the "Fairies Hornpipe" and Enniss story went as follows. A man returning home from a wedding loses his way and is told "if that happens to any of you, you have but to take off your coat and turn it inside-out and put it on again and youTl find your way home alright."1 The wedding reveler does this and he finds himself three fields away from his own house. At the bottom of the long field in which he finds himself there is a fairy host dancing to music played by a piper. Listening to the music, he falls asleep and when he awakes next morning and goes home to tell people what he saw, no one believes him. Only when they hear him play the tune he picked up from the fairies on the pipes do they decide he was not making it up. Thus, ever afterward the tune is known as the "Fairies Hornpipe." In a twinkling, the wedding guest is transported to the vicinity of his house. The vignette from Irish folklore anticipates the phenomenon of space-time compression in modernity where successive generations find getting people and information from one point to another takes progressively less time. In Enniss story, losing your way also is about finding your way, but finding your way involves change, transformation, and inversion?"you have but to take off your coat and turn it inside-out." The coordinates in the musical parable are space and time. What happens when trying to find out where you are might involve turning your world upside down before the sceptical welcome of home coming? In contemporary, late-modern Ireland, changes in perceptions and experiences of place and time are having real-world consequences. The Czech novelist Milan Kundera, in his first French-language novel La Lenteur (1995), published in English as Slowness (1996), notes that when people try to remember, they slow down; when they want to forget, they accelerate. He describes a man walking down the street:


This paper looks at coexistence in Islam and Sufi sm, and takes Indonesia as a case study. It is divided in three parts. The fi rst part explains the basic idea of cultural coexistence in the Islamic creed and history — the former includes an explanation on the two faces of Allah, anger and love, and the teachings of the Quran on coexistence with non-Muslims; the latter explains the "Protection (Dhimma) system" and "Millet system" as concrete examples of coexistence. The second part is dedicated to inquiry into coexistence in Sufism — it elucidates the theories of "oneness of being (waḥda al-wujūd)" and "oneness of religions (waḥda al-adyān)," and the practice of saint veneration as examples. The third part is on inquiry into coexistence in contemporary Indonesia. It introduces the policy for religious equality based on Pancasila, the notion of "religious moderation (Moderasi Beragama)," that of "Indonesian Islam (Islam Nusantara)," and the "Convey Indonesia Program" conducted by Syarif Hidayatullah State University Jakarta; it concludes with the active role of Sufi sm in this inquiry. Introduction There is a popular perception, of very recent origin, that views the practice of Islam as being marked by a general image of violence and exclusiveness. That is why we easily imagine that we do not have anything to learn from Islam about coexistence. Islamic society, however, has undergone majority-minority problems and sectarian contradiction, and therefore has learned many lessons from its history. This paper is divided into three sections. In the fi rst section, we provide a rough overview of the Islamic creed and look at the wisdom of coexistence in Islamic history. The second section deals with the wisdom of coexistence in Sufi sm. In the third section, we will discuss the trial of coexistence based on Islam and Sufi sm in contemporary Indonesia. I believe the case of Indonesia will give us a good example of the quest for coexistence through "Asian * Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University. 1 This article is a part of the academic achievements of the Asian History Research Project by JFE 21st Century Foundation "The Idea of Coexistence and its Practices in the Asian Islam Based on Sufi sm" (2019– 2020) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) [JP16H01904] "Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Explication of Sufi sm-Tariqa-Saint Veneration Complex" (2016–2021). I would like to express my deepest gratitude to these programs. イスラーム世界研究 第 14 巻(2021 年 3 月)107‒114 頁 Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies, 14 (March 2021), pp. 107–114 02英特2_01_tonaga_ver8.indd 107 2021/03/23 13:00:29 108 Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies 14 (March 2021) Islam," which is mainly based on the Indonesian tradition of Sufi sm and saint veneration. 1. The Bases of Coexistence in Islam 1-1. Two Faces of God in the Islamic Creed While the God of Judaism is often depicted as the god of anger and jealousy, that of Christianity is ideated as the god of love. The God of Islam, Allah, however, is often said to possess both anger and love. First, we will look at the face of anger. In the notion of Allah, justice ('adl ) is considered as being as important as unity (tawḥīd ). Allah is himself just and commands mankind to be just. When humankind is against this justice, Allah shows his anger (ghaḍab), with which mankind is destined to go to hell. Muslims are requested to pay attention to this fact and to live a just life every day. Common Muslims can be said to follow the commandment neither to meet this anger nor to enter hell. The guideline for this justice is a commandment and forms the so-called "six creeds and fi ve pillars." This commandment is gathered and compiled as Islamic jurisprudence (sharī'a). There were people who meditated on the anger of Allah. They were ascetics (zāhid, pl. zuhhād ), who appeared in the 8th century. They were fearful of Allah. Fear is called taqwā. They fear Allah to contemplate the existence of themselves rather than to avoid punishment in hell in the hereafter. Here, we fi nd the notion of sin, which can be considered to be near to the idea of original sin in Christianity. Allah has another face of love and salvation. His attribute of raḥma (mercy or compassion) symbolizes this face of Allah. All the chapters except one of the Quran begin with the passage of "In the name of Allah, the Merciful and the Compassionate (bism Allāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm)." Ascetics and the fi rst generation of Sufi s meditated the raḥma more deeply. They believe that the existence of Allah Himself is full of mercy and compassion, and they are happy if they are given mercy and compassion. Here appears the notion of thankfulness (shukr). Its antonym is infi delity (kufr), whose original meaning is ungratefulness. A couple of notions of loftiness ( jalāl ) and beauty ( jamāl ) fully shows these two faces of Allah. The two attributes are contrary to each other but are combined in Allah. That is why Allah has both names of the Lofty (al-Jalīl ) and the Beautiful (al-Jamīl ). If we adopt the notions of the love of anger and that of love, the Lofty represents the former and the Beautiful represents the latter. While Allah has both sides, the face of love and beauty has been emphasized more. The expression of ḥadīth: "Allah said 'My mercy precedes My anger' " is a good example. This notion of mercy is the basis of the ideal of coexistence among various people in the Islamic world. 1-2. The Teachings of the Quran Although the word ta'āyush, which is often used with the Arabic equivalent meaning 02英特2_01_tonaga_ver8.indd 108 2021/03/23 13:00:32 109 Islam of Mercy and Compassion "coexistence" these days, does not appear in the Quran, we can fi nd some phrases from which we can draw some ideas about the coexistence with the believers of the other religions. As for those who have not fought against you for your religion, nor expelled you from your homes, God does not prohibit you from dealing with them kindly and equitably. God loves the equitable. (Q60: 8) shows that the Quran recommends peace if people are not in the fi ghting situation. Had your Lord willed, everyone on earth would have believed. Will you compel people to become believers? (Q10: 99) And say, "The truth is from your Lord. Whoever wills — let him believe. And whoever wills — let him disbelieve." (Q18: 29) shows that Islam does not compel the heathen to convert. Do not insult those they call upon besides God, lest they insult God out of hostility and ignorance. We made attractive to every community their deeds. Then to their Lord is their return, and He will inform them of what they used to do. (Q6: 108) shows the prohibition to the Muslims to insult the heathens. Today, all good things are made lawful for you. And the food of those given the Scripture is lawful for you, and your food is lawful for them. So are chaste believing women, and chaste women from the people who were given the Scripture before you, provided you give them their dowries, and take them in marriage, not in adultery, nor as mistresses. (Q5: 5) shows the legality of food that the people of Scriptures cook and that of marriage with them. 1-3. Wisdom of Coexistence in Islamic History Based on the basic Islamic creed mentioned in the last section, we will look at how Muslims have lived together with other religious groups in Islamic history. The Islamic world has a history of coexistence with other groups, albeit perhaps not the ideal equalitybased coexistence of today. "Protection (Dhimma) system" is a good example. This system guarantees the life, property, and belief of non-Muslims with the conditions that they do not inhibit Islamic beliefs and that they pay tribute to Islamic dynasties. We can estimate that this system was very tolerant at the beginning of the Islamic regime (7th–9th century CE), especially when we compare it with the Christian treatment of the Jews in the same period. Each religious community was admitted with autonomy because it is believed to have its own jurisprudence based on a received prophecy from God. Therefore, the Islamic legal system 02英特2_01_tonaga_ver8.indd 109 2021/03/23 13:00:32 110 Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies 14 (March 2021) does not intervene its autonomy. We can find another example of coexistence in the "Millet system" in the Ottoman Empire. Millet (Turkish loan word from the Arabic word milla) means a religious community. This system worked very well as a principle of coexistence among religious communities when the power of the Ottoman Empire was predominant. Only after its decline (caused by the imperial invasion of the European countries that claimed the protection of the Catholics and Protestants) did the system become incompetent. The notion millet, which originally meant a religious community, came to have a connotation of nationalism. This change led to the independence of Greece and Balkan countries from the Ottoman Empire. 2. Coexistence in Sufi sm As I mentioned in the fi rst chapter, it is Islamic jurisprudence (sharī'a) that is administrated based on Allah's face of anger and loftiness. Here, Allah is considered to divide between good and evil and to give the rules and order to Muslims. On the contrary, Sufi sm is based on Allah's face of love and mercy. Although Sufi sm is generally translated as "Islamic mysticism," it also includes an ethical element. Sufi sm shares this characteristic with sharī'a, as both are based on the division between good and evil. Sufi sm, however, has a diff erent characteristic from sharī'a. This is a mystical element that tends to overcome the dichotomy between good and evil. In the case of Sufism, this mystical element is based on the notion of love, which is called maḥabba, ḥubb, or 'ishq in Arabic, which is on the same line as Allah's face of mercy and aff ection. Mankind loves Allah, and at the same time, is loved by Allah. Here, mankind departs from his own eg


By using elastic mechanics and percolation theory,the expression of effective stress coefficient for permeability is deduced based on sphere model.The permeability of low-permeability tight sandstone core is tested using steady-state method,nitrogen as medium.And binary linear regression is applied to calculation of the effective stress coefficient for permeability.The result is approximate to the theoretical value,indicating the theoretical model is reliable and applicable.


This paper has two messages. First, we demonstrate that neural networks that process noisy data can learn to exploit, when available, access to auxiliary noise that is correlated with the noise on the data. In effect, the network learns to use the correlated auxiliary noise as an approximate key to decipher its noisy input data. Second, we show that, for this task, the scaling behavior with increasing noise is such that future quantum machines could possess an advantage. In particular, decoherence generates correlated auxiliary noise in the environment. The new approach could, therefore, help enable future quantum machines by providing machine-learned quantum error correction.


The meat trade of nineteenth-century Britain has long awaited its historian. Thanks to the scattered and disparate nature of the sources the problems of piecing together a complex and wide-ranging topic have previously been considered too daunting. Now a solution is to hand. In this research monograph the author presents a myriad of useful information focusing on the supply factors, especially the exploitation of overseas resources to supplement home production. Other subjects of concern include government regulations aimed both at safety in terms of livestock disease and its eradication and at economic development or protection, technological innovations including refrigeration, and the problems of meat distribution. Ample statistical evidence in the form of tables and graphs document the changing shape of the trade. Little attention is given to the demand side of the equation, but then that would involve a rather different historical treatise.


By utilizing both modern organic petrological and organic geochemical analytical methods,a comparative study was carried out on the maceral ingredients of the Lower Paleozoic organic-rich marine black shale in Sichuan Basin and the Paleogene lacustrine oil shale in Bohai Gulf Basin,and on their relationship with thermal evolution,hydrocarbon generation and expulsion. Our observation and the analytical results demonstrate that the black shale are characterized by high degree of thermal evolution and currently very low concentration of hydrocarbons derived from pyrolysis,and are favorablesource rocks in terms of primary hydrocarbon generation capacity,since they generally contain a relic organic carbon content up to 1%-3%.However,the black shale retainsa great amount of particulate organicmaterials originated from amorphous organics and relict bitumen derived from oil that has not been expelled completely at the earlier stage of oil generation in pre-Caledonian.Based on the contents of microsomers and relict bitumen in black shale,the amount of hydrocarbon generation and expulsion in the marine black shale can be calculated,and the contribution of gas regeneration in the reservoir bitumen,particulate organics and relict bitumen in old petroleum deposits toward the formation of the Paleozoic carbonate gas reservoirs in the study area can thus be inferred. The organic-rich Paleogene lacustrine oil shale don't show high degree of thermal evolution,since they are characterized by very high contents in bothS_1(free hydrocarbon) and S_2(pyrolyzed hydrocarbon),which are 2.04-(8.06) mg.g~(-1)and 8.4-44.65 mg.g~(-1),respectively,from pyrolytic analyses.The algae and amorphous organics in oil shale generally show strong yellow fluorescence.Also,extensive fluorescence can be observed among a great amount of laminae and mineral crystallites.These results illustrate that the oil shale are important source rocks at the stage of hydrocarbon generation and expulsion in the study area.


Recent changes in the composition of families and households in the Netherlands are examined with emphasis on the developments concerning the one-parent family. The author estimates that minors currently have a one in five chance of living at some time in a one-parent family. Most of the study is concerned with differences in quality of life between children in two-parent and one-parent families. (summary in ENG) (ANNOTATION)


Russia has its vast area which sits across Asian-Europe Continents. Due to its unique geo-location and long history, its culture has both the East magic and the West character. All these are reflected in its state political system and reform, its people and nature, families and nationalities and etc. Russia locates at the crossroad of the cultures of Asia-European continents, so its culture shares the typical dualism.


The Li2 molecule is treated both with the method of moments and with the method of energy variation for the following distances of the nuclei R = 2aH, 4aH, 6aH, 8aH and 10aH. The calculations have been performed with the Hartree–Fock method (HF) and with the method of pseudo-potentials (PSP). The results show that the HF method and PSP method lead practically to the same result. This may be important in the treatment of more complicated molecules.


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF FIGURES AND MAPS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf and Sienna R. Craig PART I: HISTORIES OF TIBETAN MEDICAL MODERNITIES Chapter 2. Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity Alex McKay Chapter 3. Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities Martin Saxer PART II: PRODUCING SCIENCE, TRUTH AND MEDICAL MORALITIES Chapter 4. Navigating 'Modern Science' and 'Traditional Culture': The Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India Stefan Kloos Chapter 5. A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice Vincanne Adams, Renchen Dhondup, Phuoc Le Chapter 6. Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Concepts in Amchi Medical Practice Barbara Gerke PART III: THERAPEUTIC RITUALS AND SITUATED CHOICES Chapter 7. Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo Mona Schrempf Chapter 8. The Extension of Obstetrics In Ladakh Kim Gutschow Chapter 9. From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value, and Method Sienna R. Craig PART IV: RESEARCH IN TRANSLATION Chapter 10. Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: History, Background, and Development of Research in Sowa Rigpa Mingji Cuomu Chapter 11. The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Dra ('bras) versus Cancer Olaf Czaja Chapter 12. Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a Tibetan Yoga Intervention (tsalung trukhor) for People with Cancer M. Alejandro Chaoul EPILOGUE Chapter 13. Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility Geoffrey Samuel INDEX


This article from the value chain, the value class, core ability , enterprise boundary theory and enterprise management science basic theory and so on, has analyzed the hypothesized management pattern theoretically rationality. Elaborated under the hypothesized management, enterprise's boundary is limited and infinite, in collects with the expansion unification, as well as hypothesized management enterprise boundary not determinism and mobility.


506 Background: Targeted therapy has revolutionized the treatment of mRCC. However, cost has lead to variable regional approval and funding. Can such variation in funding of established drugs impede approval of newer agents? Methods: Regulatory agency decisions regarding axitinib, the most recently approved mRCC therapy in the U.S., were reviewed. Reports from the US Food and Drug administration (FDA), the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review (pCODR), UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of Australia were included. Data abstracted included the date of report publication, basis for determination of clinical efficacy, determination of cost-effectiveness, theme of stakeholder submissions prior to and after the regulatory decision, final decision, and rational for approval/rejection. Results: At the time of analysis, all agency decisions had been finalized. All of the agencies based their assessment of c...


Summary A tumor affecting trunks, branches, and roots of trees of the White Spruce, Picea glauca, has been studied. A survey of distribution has shown this tumor to be restricted, with a few possible and unverified exceptions, to trees growing within a few feet of the ocean, on exposed shores and headlands. The exceptions are trees reported from the Canadian Rockies and from the upper Lake Superior region. The tumors themselves are initiated within the first year9s growth of any affected branch. Considering all the evidence, a hypothesis has been formulated to explain these growths and on which to base future investigations. This hypothesis visualizes three consecutive causal factors: an insect lesion, a sensitizing agent such as the crowngall bacterium, and an evoking agent such as salt spray. This hypothesis is consonant with all the observed facts except for the reported occasional occurrence of such tumors at two widely separated locations in the interior of Canada. It is suggested that these exceptions may represent a similar appearing tumor but of different origin from the one investigated here.


Mountain ecosystems are isolated patches of biodiversity within a larger territory, generating areas whose concentration of biodiversity along an altitudinal gradient varies according to climatic conditions. Generally, hosts species that can only be developed in the summit zones, frequently enclaves of hight rate of endemicity due to the adaptation of these species to the specific conditions of these enclaves or by the geographic isolation in summits refuges product of climatic times more unfavorable. This work shows how richness varies among plant communities in the Sierra of Guadarrama in two different habitats (scrub and grass). Their nesting pattern is also studied (where the species of the poorest places are a subset of those that appear in the rich ones) along the altitudinal gradient. For this study we have performed statistical analysis with SPSS and analysis of nesting through free software.


The design of a reinforced concrete structure involves a number of random variables that can be difficult to measure. Among these variables, it can be highlighted the great variability inherent to material mechanical properties, especially the compressive strength of concrete. The uncertainties resulting from the concrete production process and quality control tend to influence critically the decision-making about the probability of failure and consequent reliability of structures. This work presents a computational model to simulate the behavior of reinforced concrete columns using the Finite Element Method to determine the column resistance. The model was validated by comparison with experimental results available in the literature. For the assessment of structural safety it was used the reliability index (b); obtained through Monte Carlo and FORM methods. The results show that the model is able to reproduce correctly the behavior of the structure allowing us to make inferences about the level of reliability of these elements.


Objective: To investigate the effects of valproic acid on the proliferation of oral squamous cell carcinoma(Tca-8113) and promoting apoptosis.Methods: 0,0.1,2.5,5,10,12.5,25,50,100 mmol/L valproic acid were intervented on oral squamous cell carcinoma.The morphologic changes of Tca-8113 cells were observed by the inverted phase contrastmicroscope.The cell proliferative activity was measured by CCK-8 assay,the cell apoptotic rates were detected by flow cytometry through Annexin-V-FITC/PI staining and ELISA.Results: Under the inverted phase contrast microscope,no changes of cell morphology could be observed in the control,cells grow polygonal,adherent and actively.But the changes could be observed in groups treated with valproic acid at 10,25mmol/L for 24h.The cells became smaller and rounder,and shrank cells increased.A time and dose-dependent inhibition was detected in Tca-8113 cells that were treated with different concentration of valproic acid for 12,24,48 and 72h.And there was difference of proliferative inhibition between the control and the treated groups(P0.05).Treated by 2.5,10mmol/L valproic acid for 24h,cell apoptosis rate was 9.2% and 26.7%.The difference was statistically significant.Conclusion: Valproic acid inhibits the growth of oral squamous cell carcinoma,which was time-dose dependent,and can promote apoptosis.


Cognitive therapy for personality disorders (CBTpd) has been developed and assessed in borderline and antisocial personality disorders (ASPD) using a variety of research methodologies from single cases to randomized controlled trials. An exploratory randomized controlled trial of CBTpd compared with the usual treatment for men with ASPD in the community allowed insights into how to carry out therapy with this group of patients who are traditionally thought of as being difficult to manage. CBTpd for ASPD is time-limited, is problem-focused and aims to develop new ways of thinking and behaving that would reduce anger and acts of violence and improve interpersonal relationships. Men with ASPD often held beliefs that could interfere with the development of a therapeutic relationship. The beliefs were hypothesized to have arisen from experiences of being humiliated in childhood and adolescence as well as having experienced neglect and abuse. Equally, therapists needed to be aware that in developing a compassionate formulation of the patient's problems, they should not minimize the potential for violence. Supervision of both process and content had a greater importance than in other CBT models, and supervision required recordings of clinical sessions to enable this to happen. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The goal of this study is to find out how effective teachers use Context Clues Strategy to improve reading skills for students at a high school in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province, Vietnam. The eleventhgrade students at Vo Thi Sau high school were the participants. The research method was classroom action research. The quantitative data was gathered during the tests. According to the results, 11 students (14.6%) passed the Mastery Minimum Criteria on the pre-test, whereas 53 students (70.6%) passed the post-test. The findings showed that student's performance on the post-test had significantly improved. The comparison between the pre-test score (4.86) and the post-test score (7.41) demonstrated this improvement. As a result, Context Clues Strategy was a useful tool for teaching students reading comprehension. Lastly, some limitations and recommendations for further research are also mentioned.


Armillaria root rot, one of the most dangerous diseases in our forests, is caused in Poland mainly by Armillaria ostoyae , especially severe in young Scots pine stands, established after broadleaved stands or with participation of broadleaved species. In Forest District Zielonka young stands are severly affected by Armillaria root rot. Only one species, A. ostoyae , was found in the young (8–14 yrs) Scots pine stands, despite the presence of other Armillaria species in the district. The pathogen's frequent occurrence may be due, inter alia , to favouring environmental factors.


The paper points to small number of university graduates in technical areas. It suggests to use interactive educational tools that are very popular among young people to attract more students for this very interesting direction. The attention is dedicated mainly to Control Engineering area. In spite of the fact that the number of online applications is step by step growing this field is not sufficiently covered, yet. The paper presents a set of online tools that are available for students of Control Engineering. They include web interface to some free computational environments such as Octave, Maxima or SciLab; web services to Octave, Maxima, OpenModelica software environments and set of developed online applications that use the introduced web services.


The documentary involves interviewees (artists, educators, children, parents, mentors) from 5x5x5 who share their understanding of creative processes, explore the principles at the centre of the work, and the wider impact on the invidiuals and settings involved, intercut with footage shot regularly throughout the project.


Determination of Audit fees factor in the present world is one of the most challenging activity due to the fact that users are notably considering the financial statement of audit fees as a criterion for the acceptance of financial statements. Hence, addressing the affecting factors on audit fees is one of the important issues. Within Iran, few studies have been carried out in this field. The purpose of this study is analyzing the investor's protection factors and the securities regulationas as independent variables on the audit fees determination as a dependent variable. For this purpose with reviewing of theoretical and research literature related to the mentioned factors, their effectiveness on audit fees was determined. The statistical population in this study are included all companies and institutions which are presented in Tehran Stock Exchange. By adopting the taken samples in the Cochran method, 73 companies were selected, amongst. The necessary data concerning the independent variables were obtained from the questionnaire through a field study and direct face to face interviews in the companies'premises. The method used for testing hypotheses is the multiple regression method. The obtained results have indicated that between the protections of investors and the audit fees there is a significant and positive relationship but there is no significant relation between the security rules and theaudit fees.


A general approach to bispyrroloindolines via a key thiourea-catalyzed addition of malonates to 3-sulfonyl-3'-indolyl-2-oxindoles is reported. The enantioselelective process is found to be highly effective (up to 94% ee), where a C-C bond formation leads to the synthesis of a number of 2-oxindoles with an all-carbon quaternary stereocenter.


1 HE medical curriculum has recently been subjected to much cnticism and we are probably on the eve of radical alteration this very busy course of study extending now to more than five years. New subjects have been added to the course until the burden is extremely heavy and, wisely, there is a call to reconsider the whole curriculum. One aspect of the subject, the education of the senses, seems, I feel, in danger of being neglected and that with far-reaching results. In scientific investigation and experimentation, this is preeminently an age of instruments. In medical science, the diagnosis of disease is becoming more and more a matter of the evaluation of the results of numerous technical procedures, and in this the role of the instrument becomes daily more and more important. If this be true, and surely few would gainsay !t, four points are worthy of note.


The author discusses the selection of woods for various industrial uses as based upon the physical properties of the woods and requirements which the wood product must meet. He classifies a number of woods according to their warping, end-splitting, turning, planing, and bending qualities, and also rates them in the order of their tendency to transmit odor and taste. Charts are presented which show the distribution of the quantity of wood used in the manufacture of such products as furniture, agricultural implements, automobiles, railroad cars, refrigerators, cabinets, handles, and ladders. The adoption of a wood for the manufacture of a given product and the substitution of one wood for another, based on controlling the physical properties of the wood by treating it, are also discussed.


The process of transformation of the economy with the objective of wealth creation has been evolving more and morefast in the time, changes in the industrial structures and the global competition in the last decades have taken step that, of one agricultural era of decreasing economy, in where the competitiveness of a country was explained throughthe classic theory of comparative advantages, the agricultural product storage and transport constitute the mainactivity in local markets, we happen to an industrial era, focused in optimizing the financial managements, reaching anera of the knowledge of increasing economy, where the knowledge becomes the main factor of production and theoptimization of its use is the objective of the enterprise management for an effective participation in the markets. The economy of the knowledge exposes to the intellectual capital as the performance of the intangible assets and isreflected in the intense, vertiginous and aggressive hypercompetition in the world-wide scope, with an increasing entrance and innovation of products and services thus to have a greater participation, the continuous globalproliferation of the technology, the administration of know how, the reorganization of the economic borders, have given rise to force the evolution of the organizations with the generation of successful operations of marketing,promotion and sales that innovate and maintain their advantages competitive, demanding therefore a meticulousinvestigation of markets and methodical management of the knowledge. In this intentionality the principle of the present thesis tries to establish the origin of a unique model of investigation,trim in the standardization and adaptation of the management, tactics and strategies of marketing, result of the application of technical analytical logics and of the theories and concepts of marketing, through a process ofmethodical design of investigation that allows to determine a system of intelligence of markets that obt


Please cite this paper as: Persson P, Brynhildsen J, Kjølhede P on behalf of the Hysterectomy Multicentre Study Group in South‐East Sweden. Short‐term recovery after subtotal and total abdominal hysterectomy—a randomised clinical trial. BJOG 2010;117:469–478.


Lead-free epitaxial (K0.47Na0.53)NbO3 (KNN) thin films were fabricated on (001)SrRuO3/Pt/ZrO2/Si substrates by RF magnetron sputtering at 650 °C and were post-annealed at the same 650 °C by a rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process. The crystal structure of epitaxial KNN thin films were changed by RTA, i.e. the lattice parameter c in the out-of-plane direction decreased instead of an increase of the parameter a in the in-plane direction. The displacement–electric field curve of the RTA-annealed KNN thin films was symmetrical and the shift of the polarization reversal field was smaller than in the KNN thin films annealed by a conventional furnace. This means that RTA is effective in compensating for oxygen vacancies as well as suppressing the generation of A-site vacancies at the interface between the thin film and the substrate. The converse piezoelectric coefficient ∣e 31,f ∣ of the epitaxial KNN/Si unimorph cantilever was found to improve by up to 7.7 C m−2 due to the decrease in defect density resulting from RTA.


A robust Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach for controlling front steering of an autonomous vehicle is presented in this paper. We present various approaches to increase the robustness of model predictive control by using weight tuning, a successive on-line linearization of a nonlinear vehicle model to track position error and successive on-line linearization to track velocity error. Results of the effectiveness of each method in terms of accuracy and computational load are discussed.


Noel Malcolm's  Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World  brilliantly excavates and reconstructs the lives of the members of the Bruni and the Bruti, two prominent Albanian families, whose members played significant roles in the political and military history of the Ottoman and Venetian Empires. This review essay attempts to place this important work in the broader context of Malcolm's  oeuvre  and, in particular, to assess the book's contributions to our understanding of agency, religion, and empire in the early modern period.


ABSTRACT This study explores slavery and emancipation through the work of the painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). Sometimes called the "Father of Impressionism," Pissarro, a Caribbean native of Sephardic Jewish descent, came of age during a cycle of slave rebellions and abolitions during the 1830s and 1840s. His earliest work focused on formerly enslaved people in the first phase of liberation. Pissarro's West Indian studies anticipated his emergence as an influential avant-garde artist and left a rich visual archive of freed people. This study uses Pissarro's art as a window onto the possibilities of, and restrictions on, post-emancipation life. It also argues that Pissarro's aesthetic vision and stylistic innovations, influenced by his exposure to West Indian culture, connect the Black Atlantic and the Impressionist movement.