boy] (copy + modify)In this paper, I'll call the proposal illustrated by (1a) the copy+replace theorysince the movement is analyzed as first copying the moving phrase followedby replacing the moving phrase with a trace in the base position of movement.Chomsky (1993) and Fox (1999) argue against the copy+replace theory (1a)on the basis of Condition C data that show that moved material can behaveas if it occupied the base position of movement. This behavior would, forexample, be expected on the copy theory of movement illustrated by (1b),which also seems conceptually simpler than the copy+replace theory sinceit involves only copying without replacement. This conceptual advantage,however, is probably only apparent since a theory of the interpretation ofstructures like (1b) would probably be more complicated than for (1a). Stan-dard assumptions about interpretation, at least, don't predict the right mean-ing when applied to (1b). For this reason, Chomsky and Fox propose what I'llcall the copy+modify-theory illustrated in (1c). This proposes that copyingis followed by a trace modification operation that replaces the determiner ofthe moved DP with something else. I assume that this is an indexed definitedeterminer, the interpretation of which is to be clarified below.This paper presents a direct argument for the copy+modify structure (1c).I claim that, in certain cases of sentences containing two occurrences of thesame quantificational DP, one occurrence can be contrasted with the traceof the other in a way predicted only by the copy+modify theory. Namely,I claim that the configuration sketched in (2) can arise. In (2), there shouldbe a contrast between the definite determiner inserted by trace modificationand the universal quantifier, and hence the second universal quantifier can befocussed.(2) [every boy]


The ocean can carry low‐frequency acoustic waves to surprisingly long range, but the ocean is ever changing and acoustic propagation is rarely unaffected by its interaction with the moving sea surface. The clarity of low‐frequency acoustic communications at long range can be corrupted by this interaction. This is unsatisfactory for reliable communication and it is necessary to explain the effects introduced by the nature of the sea‐surface scattering. This paper looks at the relationship between the power spectra of the received surface scattered signal and the sea surface. The surface can be conveniently characterized by its swell and wind‐sea parts that can, in turn, be expressed as a function of their significant wave height and peak frequency. Basic properties of a surface spectral model are reviewed. A new model‐based approach to computing the scattering from a moving sea surface is introduced. This approach is based on ray theory and a simple physical model for the response function of the surface. ...


New Orleans, Oct. 13, 1894. To the Editor: —Please inform me if there is anything in the Code of Ethics to prevent a practitioner: 1, from announcing in the daily newspapers that his practice is limited to the diseases of special organs; 2, ditto in the medical papers ; 3, from announcing in sealed circular letters to the medical profession at large that his practice, etc.; 4, ditto to laymen at large , etc. Yours truly, Answer: —Art. I, Sec. 4: "Duties of physicians to each other and to the profession at large:" "It is derogatory to the dignity of the profession to resort to public advertisements," etc. 2. While in some parts of the country, physicians do publish cards in medical papers, it is not regarded as wanting in the true dignity of a physician, but as a question of taste. 3. Certainly, there can be no objection to a sealed


Purpose: The paper points out a novel approach to e-Government back-office reengineering based on creating a Shared-Services Center at the sectorial level. Design/Methodology/Approach: To prove the Shared-Services Center as a proper solution for e-Government back-office reengineering, the authors used the case study of the Housing Facilities Sector in the Republic of North Macedonia. The research process follows Kettingers et al.'s framework of IT-enabled change with a holistic data-driven approach. Findings: The study indicates a complex information flow between stakeholders, an abundance of the same information and data collected from local stakeholders, and enormous citizen and institutional burden. The e-Government back-office reengineering solution for the specific case study based on creating a Shared-Services Center overcomes the problem of data redundancy, radically simplifies the information flow, and reduces citizen burden in line with the "Once-Only" principle. Practical Implications: The paper shows that by observing the network of all relevant stakeholders at the sectorial level, based on the information flow of core data, back-office problems can be identified, whereby the Shared-Services Center proves itself as a suitable solution. It may be a prerequisite for further studies on back-office process reengineering at the sectorial level. Originality/Value:  Publications concerning back-office research at the sectorial level and, as in our case, within the House Facility Sector are almost non existing in scientific literature. Considering that there is a lack of analyses based on information flow and visualization of the information-flow network at the sectorial level (before and after the reforms), this paper will add original value to scientific literature.


The role of fluid balance in health and disease management is discussed. The option of faster recovery in stroke patients with more attention to fluid therapy has been noticed. This concept was tested with a clinical trial in this paper. The relevant literature has been reviewed. Keywords: Fluid balance, Hydration therapy, Stroke.


Titanium silicide (TiSi x ), used as polycide gate consists of TiSi 1.1 and amorphous silicon (a-Si), was deposited by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition method (PE-CVD). The effect of a-Si layer in PE-CVD Ti polycide gate dielectrics has been studied. In order to evaluate the a-Si layer effect, three types of samples were prepared on gate SiO 2 film with following structures : a) a-Si / TiSi- 1.1 / a-Si / phosphorus (P) doped poly-Si, b) a-Si / TiSi- 1.1 / non-doped poly-Si / P doped poly-Si and c) a-Si / TiSi 1.1 / P doped poly-Si, respectively. Furthermore, in order to avoid the influence of native oxide existence at the interface, the pre-cleaning treatment was performed in-situ on the poly-Si film surface before TiSi 1.1 film deposition. The gate dielectric strengths of these samples indicate that the gate dielectric degradation in PE-CVD Ti polycide gate is greatly dependent on Si under layer crystallization. It is effective using a-Si film as the under layer in decreasing the gate dielectric degradation . This is due to the Ti oxide interlayer, formed at the interface of TiSi 2.0 and poly-Si films, which restrains the TiSi x local penetration.


In a conventional gas-turbine engine, fuel is burned in separate combustors before the heated high-pressure gas expands through the turbine to provide shaft power for the compressor, fan, propellers, helicoptor rotors, or an electric generator in a ground-based powerplant application. It is proposed in this paper that combustion be continued purposely inside the turbine to increase the efficiency and specific thrust/power of the engine. We term such a turbine with combustion a turbine-burner. A thermodynamic cycle analysis is performed to demonstrate the performance gains of turbojet engines with the turbine burner over the conventional turbojets. Ground-based gas-turbine engines for power generation are also analyzed, with the results showing even better performance gains compared without conventional engines. A mixing-layer analysis with combustion in an accelarated flow similar to the conditions in the turbine burner shows that there is also potential reduction of NOr by using the turbineburner compared with conventional combustors, where the burning is at a constant pressure. Challenges and related research issues that must be addressed to use the turbine-burner technology are identified in this paper.


SUMMARY: Hypertrophic lichen planus is a distinct variant of lic hen planus. The lesions are usually localized on the anterior aspect of the legs and present as thickened, hyperkeratotic, intensely pruritic. They may range in color from purple to gray or black. It is a long-term disease. Nail involvement among patients with lichen planus varies considerably from less than 1 percent to 10 percent. This anatomic region is exceptional in hypertrophic lichen planus. We present a 75 year-old women with hypertrophic lichen planus on the legs, foot and first and second right toenail, an unusual site.


A milk drink enriched with various nutrients, designed to optimize the nutritional status of the elderly while eliminating the risk of excessive intake is described.


According to bioecological theory, children ' s experiences in one developmental setting are meaningful for their adjustment in other settings. In the current study, the quality of child- ren ' s relationships with classroom teachers, afterschool program staff, and mothers in 1 st grade (n ¼ 137) were examined in relation to their academic, social-emotional, and behavioral adjustment at school in 2 nd grade. Closeness and conflict varied across these three adult-child relationships. Our hypotheses were partially supported such that higher teacher-child conflict in 1 st grade related to poorer work habits and cooperation in 2 nd grade. More conflict with afterschool staff in 1 st grade was associated with lower social self-control and more externalizing behaviors at school in 2 nd grade. Closeness was not related to children ' s adjustment in 2 nd grade. These findings highlight the potential negative implications of conflictual relationships with teachers and afterschool staff for children ' s school adjustment.


This study aims to estimate the pattern of household demand for energy consumption such as electricity, water and fuel. The data used in this study is the publication of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS). To obtain comprehensive estimation results, this study uses the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) approach which is currently the standard in household demand estimation systems. The unit of observation used in this paper is more than three thousand households representing 13 provinces in Indonesia. The results show that the largest household energy consumption expenditure is electricity consumption followed by fuel and water. However, unlike the case of other commodities, the elasticity of spending on electricity is negative. Thus, an increase in household income will shift spending from electricity to consumption of other goods such as fuel, water and others. Meanwhile, the price elasticity for all energy commodities is inelastic. The increase in energy consumption commodity prices did not change demand much. This means that households are still very dependent on the supply of energy goods produced by the government. Therefore, appropriate policies are needed in determining the basic electricity tariff, fuel prices and clean water supply so that basic household needs can be fulfilled.


Thickness bias between blanket field and dense via arrays is not acceptable for advanced planarization process. Novel UV cross- link materials had great properties such as little thickness bias, high planarization, and void free filling.


Basic studies on the estimation of normals for decade air temperature at unit cell were performed using daily mean air temperature derived from satellite IR data. Analyses were taken with the assumption that "the difference between a daily mean air temperature and normals for decade air temperature is approximate among areas sharing similar climates". Items and procedures for analyses are as follows.(1)Characteristic for mean decade air temperature and frequency for decade air temperature. (2)Classification for AMeDAS observation sites in Hokkaido to make some groups of areas sharing similar climates. (3) Characteristic of difference between a daily mean air temperature and normals for decade air temperature, and proof of the assumption. (4) Estimation of daily mean air temperature derived from satellite IR data. (5) Estimation of quasi-normals for decade air temperature using satellite IR data. The results for analyses are as follows. (1) The assumption that the difference between a daily mean air temperature and normals for decade air temperature is approximate among areas sharing similar climates was proved. Therefore, it is possible to estimate quasi-normals for decade air temperature using daily mean air temperature derived from satellite IR data. (2) There was a significance level of 1% between daily mean air temperature of AMeDAS data and surface temperature for 960m cell derived from Landsat TM data on July 8, 1993 in Ishikari Plain. And quasi-normals for decade air temperature in early July could be estimated to 0.1°C accuracy, except for data from Eniwa-Shimamatsu AMeDAS observation site.


The deliberative politic is a new paradigm of modern democracy.Today we must persist in multilateral party cooperation in the leading of China Communist Party and political consultation system,the core value of political consultation system should be kept and political consultation system should be perfected and innovated in order to transform from political consultation to deliberative politic and form new political development mode.


We determine the steady-state structures that result from liquid-liquid demixing in a free surface film of binary liquid on a solid substrate. The considered model corresponds to the static limit of the diffuse interface theory describing the phase separation process for a binary liquid (model-H), when supplemented by boundary conditions at the free surface and taking the influence of the solid substrate into account. The resulting variational problem is numerically solved employing a Finite Element Method on an adaptive grid. The developed numerical scheme allows us to obtain the coupled steady-state film thickness profile and the concentration profile inside the film. As an example we determine steady state profiles for a reflection-symmetric two- dimensional droplet for various surface tensions of the film and various preferential attraction strength of one component to the substrate. We discuss the relation of the results of the present diffuse interface theory to the sharp interface limit and determine the effective interface tension of the diffuse interface by several means.


The contention that current US policy settings on missile defence, the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM treaty), and strategic nuclear weapons signal the end of the Cold War and lay the foundations for a new strategic framework is premature. Against the background of withdrawal from the ABM treaty, the missile defence programme offers little assurance to Russia and China that it will be limited to the threat from 'rogue' states. More particularly, the US position on nuclear weapons reveals the strength of entrenched Cold War thinking. A clear opportunity to lead the world decisively away from high-salience nuclear postures has been missed. The paper outlines approaches to missile defence and nuclear weapons that offer a better fit with the various objectives of reducing reliance on nuclear weapons, revitalising non-proliferation, and providing defences against limited but undeterrable missile threats. The paper also argues that the new focus of intense concern--the theft of weapons of mass destruction or their component materials by terrorists--could be the trigger to bolder thinking on nuclear weapons than has been displayed to date.


Eight Bacillus strains showing obvious inhibition activity against Verticillium dahliae were obtained from rhizosphere of egg plant utilizing inhibition ring in vitro.Among them strain of F53 excretes chitinase and β-1,3 glucanase and showing strong inhibition against 12 tested pathogens.And the fermentation broth has high stability against heat,acid and base.The efficiency of bacterial preparation with F53 formulation controlling egg plant verticillium wilt(V.dahliae) reached up to 52.4%~75.8% in potted tests.The Bacillus F53 strain was identified as B.circulans according to preliminary study.


Entity Relationship (ER) diagrams are among the most popular formalisms for the support of database design [7, 12, 17, 6]. Their classical use in the (usually computer aided) database design process can roughly be described as follows: after evaluating the requirements of the application, the database designer constructs an ER schema, which represents the conceptual model of the new database. CASE tools can be used to automatically transform the ER schema into a relational database schema, which is then manually fine-tuned. During the last years, the initially rather simple ER formalisms has been extended by various means of expressivity to account for new, more complex application areas such as schema integration for data warehouses [12, 3, 13]. Designing a conceptual model with such enriched ER diagrams is a nontrivial task: there exist complex interactions between the various means of expressivity, which quite often result in unnoticed inconsistencies in the ER schemas and in implicit ramifications of the modeling that have not been intended by the designer. To address this problem, Description Logics (DLs) have been proposed and succesfully used as a tool for reasoning about ER diagrams and thereby detecting the aforementioned anomalies [5, 6, 8].


IT IS generally agreed that the remarkable ability of the thyroid gland to accumulate iodine depends upon two successive, though perhaps related actions of the gland. First, inorganic iodide from the plasma is highly concentrated within the gland and second, thyroidal iodide is oxidized and bound to an organic moiety (1–5). When either of these functions is abolished, the thyroid gland fails to accumulate or to retain iodine (6–8). Since both appear to be rate-limiting factors in the production of thyroid hormone, methods which measure over-all iodine accumulation must reflect their combined activity. It would, therefore, appear useful to measure each of these functions individually, and to assess their importance in the initiation of abnormal, or the maintenance of normal thyroidal function. Methods have been devised for the measurement in vivo of the ability of the gland to concentrate inorganic iodide. Such methods depend on the complete inhibition of protein-binding of iodine, using pharmacologic agen...


The impact of the policies established by the OIE against bovine tuberculosis in humans in the America continent was evaluated. The investigation was done using text mining techniques. The information evaluated was related to the measures promoted by the OIE and the prevalence and incidence of bovine tuberculosis in humans, according to the publication period. Comparative (Kruskal-Wallis test) and correlation analyzes (Kendall and Spearman methods) were carried out in the R environment. The results allow inferring that the measures, prevention and control, promoted by the OIE are able to reduce the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in humans and suggest that measures should be established concomitantly in animals and humans in all countries in order to continue with the reduction registered in the incidence rates. However, the result also suggests that complete eradication of the agent is unlikely if only the measures identified are considered.


Using distributed generation (DG) units is a viable strategy for improving the characteristics of electric distribution systems, in terms of power loss, voltage profile and power congestion. Finding optimal location and setting of DG's is referred to as DG allocation problem and is typically formulated as an optimisation problem which is solved by metaheuristic optimisation algorithms. In this paper, the performance of four metaheuristic optimisation algorithms, including particle swarm optimisation (PSO), grey wolf optimisation (GWO), backtracking search algorithm (BSA) and whale optimisation algorithm (WOA) in solving DG allocation problem and also in solving simultaneous reconfiguration and DG allocation problem have been compared. The simulations have been done for six different scenarios. The results indicate the outperformance of GWO in most of the cases.


The importance of diabetes registries and the current status of registries in Asia are described. Such registries are needed in order to understand the etiology and natural history ofthe disease. Moreover, registries provide important public health information to the community. Guidelines for registry development are presented, and the existing, as well as planned, registries in Asia are reviewed. included registries, registries, the registries


The Altichiero frescoes which conclude the cycle of Saint James are remarkable for the number of portraits of contemporaries in the service of the court — including Petrarch, King Louis the Great of Hungary, the ruling family of the Carrara, and the ambitious patron, Bonifacio Lupi. The main issue of Paduan politics in the 1370's, the war against Venice and the Paduan alliance with Hungary, provides the impetus. The values of the signorial state are reflected and an insight is offered into late trecento views of monarchy, particularly those held by Petrarch.


Trauma Studies and Prison Narratives have emerged over the past few decades as the most significant fields in the humanities. There has been a significant discussion regarding the psychological effects of incarceration; however, literature examining prison as a site of trauma is unusual. Focusing on Iftikhar Gilani's My Days in Prison (2005) and Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe's Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman (1998), the article analyzes how prison narratives represent prison as a violent space that inflicts trauma in its characters. These prison narratives represent Yvonne Johnson, the prisoner in Stolen Life, and Gilani as victims of acute psychological trauma faced due to the sheer viciousness of the prison system. The article also concentrates on how the prison experience is both similar and different in Canada and India.


ABSTRACT The existence of an effective regional human rights system is of fundamental importance to the promotion and protection of human rights, as it provides accessible mechanisms for protection of human rights once national remedies have been exhausted, and it strengthens states' responsibilities to respect and guarantee human rights. States tend to show more inclination to conform to regional initiatives than international ones, and this adds to the advantage of better enforceability to decisions of regional mechanisms over their international counterparts. This article identifies the major regional human rights protection systems, i.e. the African, the Inter-American and the European human rights systems as potential and established models to be considered by the League of Arab States (LAS) in moving forward with the creation of the Arab human rights system. The article examines the achievements and flaws of the current system and makes recommendations about effective change in the modality of LAS's relationship with civil society organisations by setting forth mechanisms and unambiguous criteria based on transparency to ensure a permanent relationship across all its bodies.


The authors have discovered small oval panels of parallel lines in the famous Ligurian cave of Arene Candide, and show that it must be art of the Epigravettian period, c. 11-10000bp (uncalibrated).


Background: Laparoscopic inguinal hernia surgery is becoming a routine surgery in most of the tertiary centers around the globe. The aim of this study was to investigate the intraoperative and postoperative outcome of laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair. Patients and Method: All patients admitted for transabdominal preperitoneal inguinal hernia repair were prospectively documented for two years. Data collected included patient demographics, past medical history, previous surgeries. Intraoperative and postoperative variables were recorded in prestructured proforma. Results: A total of 39 TAPP inguinal hernia repairs were performed in 31 patients, under the inclusion criteria, by a single surgeon during March 2014 to March 2015 A.D. None of the procedure required conversion to open. Port-site bleeding was reported in five patients and peritoneal tear occurred in eight repairs. The mean operative time for unilateral and bilateral TAPP repair was 65.5 ± 9.21 min (range, 55-90 min) and 87.0 ± 9.58 min (range, 75-110 min) respectively. One patient had cord hematoma. Two patients had skin ecchymosis. Five patients had scrotal edema. The average time to return to work or normal physical activity was six days and 10 days for unilateral and bilateral repairs respectively. Eight patients had inguinal discomfort or mild inguinal pain that lasted for two months. Follow-up rate after 18 months was 80.6%. There was no recurrence and chronic groin pain. Conclusion: Laparoscopic hernia repair (TAPP) can be safely and routinely performed by general surgeons with low rates of complications.


Theories such as interactionism, phenomenology, and critical theory can be used to help design a research question, guide the selection of relevant data, interpret the data, and propose explanations of causes or influences


Abstract There is an ergodic, measure preserving, countable Borel equivalence relation E on a standard Borel probability space (X, μ) such that E∣c is not essentially free on any conull C ⊂ X.


We first establish the local existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for the Cauchy problem of a
generalized Camassa-Holm equation in nonhomogeneous Besov spaces by using the Littlewood-Paley theory.
Then, we prove that the solution depends continuously on the initial data in the corresponding Besov space. Finally, we derive a blow-up criterion and present a blow-up result and a blow-up rate of the blow-up solutions to the equation.


The bachelor work is divided to 3 parts - theoretic part, interview survey and SWOT analysis. The theoretical part is mainly focused on technic, economic and social infrastructure of city, employment marker and unemployment. Interview survey investigated with attitude of inhabitants of Nymburk at present situation and potentional development of city. The last part is the SWOT analysis of the health and infrastructure. One of aims was to done whole picture of situation in Nymburk in various districts (traffic, health servise etc.). Second aim was to analyse the districts, which are most problematic for inhabitants of Nymburk.


With voltage levels and transmission capacity increased dramatically in modular multilevel converter(MMC) based high voltage direct current(MMC-HVDC) projects,the number of sub-modules in each arm increase dramatically,making its control system more complicated.The issues of sub-module capacitor voltage balancing and second harmonic circulation current suppression technology will become more prominent.If the traditional nearest level control(NLC) strategy is used,second harmonic circulation current obviously exists in MMC.In order to suppress second harmonic circulation current,assume that circulation current only contains DC component,DC circulation current formula can be derived based on instantaneous power balance between AC and DC side of the converter.And then each sub-module capacitor voltage reference value in upper and lower arms is deduced.The reference value periodically varies around a certain constant value in a power frequency cycle period,reducing the degree of sub-module capacitor voltage unbalance,and the second harmonic circulation current is validly suppressed.Compared with traditional NLC,the proposed algorithm can reduce the sub-module capacitor voltage fluctuations and improve the output voltage and current waveforms of AC side.When differences exist among the capacitor values,compared with traditional NLC,the proposed algorithm can also reduce the running time of low-capacity capacitors,and prolong their useful life.At last,an eleven-level single end MMC converter simulation model is built to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.


When a customer steps into a complete pre-ordered store, he will review the merchandise and consider his demands based on the merchandise price levels and price variability at that point in time. However, after declaring his intention to purchase said merchandise, the store assistant informs him that the merchandise will not be available for a period of time. This is a typical stock-out merchandise scenario in which customers may only place an order for delivery at a later point in time. Therefore, whether or not customer purchases merchandise does not just depend on the price at that moment. It is also influenced by the expected future increase or decrease of the price of the merchandise and the length of time before the store can supply the merchandise. In this study, we will explore how to set price levels at each point in time during the stock-out period in order to maximize the discounted profit after considering the influence of the price level, price variability, and waiting time on customer demand. The main assumption in this study is that customers' potential demand rate function at a given point during the stock-out period is a linear function of the price level and price variability at that point. Also, the ratio function of customers willing to wait for the merchandise is an exponential function of the length of time before the merchandise will be delivered. Constructing a mathematical model that is concrete to discuss the above problem, to derive the optimal price function of the merchandise at each point in time, and to discuss the characteristics of this function are the main parts of this study.


At present, it is of particular importance to further increase the yield and quality of grain crops under experimental conditions in Western Siberia. Of special meaning is finding new effective growth regulators and bio-fertilizers that promote ecological plasticity, resistance to environmental stressors and pests. The work aims to study the influence of the new biofertilizer Huminatrin on growth and development features, yield and quality of grain crops under conditions of increasing crop productivity in the northern forest-steppe of the Novosibirsk Priobye region. Experimental field was on the fields of JSC "Irmen" livestock breeding farm in Ordynsky district of Novosibirsk region. The authors determined that Huminatrin (a mixture of micronutrients and bacteria) provides an increase in leaf surface parameters in two varieties of wheat by 23% and in spring barley by 34%. The authors treated soil with Huminatrin before sowing in a dose of 2 l/t at operating-liquid flow rate of 10 l/t and during the growing season in the phases of tillering and earing in a dose of 1.5 l/ha (300 l/ha). It was shown that both wheat varieties and spring barley variety "Biom" significantly increased the yield on the background of Huminatrin. On average, the yield increased by 22%. When using Huminatrin, the authors observed an increase in the number of productive stems (up to 408 mg/m2), the number of grains in the ear (up to 32 pcs), weight of 1000 grains (up to 40.86 g). There was also an increase in gluten content - up to 34%; gluten deformation index was about 96. In addition, the authors note the reduction of plant infestation by brown rust to 28% against 47% in the control (water). Indicators such as weight of 1000 grains, weight of grains per plant, the number of grains in the ear form the quality of the crop. Application of Huminatrin allows to achieve high yield quality of two varieties: spring soft wheat and spring barley


INTRODUCTION: Polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) films are promising bioactive materials for the development of biomimetic films to be used in vitro or in vivo to control cellular behaviours. The formation of focal adhesion complexes, and the consecutive cytoskeletal reorganisation, influence important functions such as proliferation, differentiation, and migration. The initial cellECM/surface interaction is mediated by a pericellular matrix (PCM). PCM is a thick coat, constituted mainly by hyaluronan, lying between the cell membrane and the extracellular matrix, which recognizes the substrate and holds the cells close to the surface until stable contacts are established. In this study we explore how PCM mediates the cell interaction with positive (PEI) and negative (PSS) charged polyelectrolytes.


The nature of the binding site(s) involved in the insulin secretory activity of imidazoline compo- unds remains unclear. An imidazoline I2 binding site (I2BS) has been neglected since the classic I2 ligand, idazoxan, does not release insulin. Using the rabbit as an appropriate model for the study of this type of binding sites, we have tried to re-evaluate the effects of idazoxan, the selective I2 compound BU 224, and efaroxan on insulin secretion. Mimicking efaroxan, idazoxan and BU 224 potentiated insulin release from perifused islets in the presence of 8 mM glucose. In static incubation, insulin secretion induced by idazoxan and BU 224 exhibited both dose and glucose dependencies. ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP) channel blockade, though at a different site from the SUR1 receptor, with subsequent Ca2+ entry, mediates the insulin releasing effect of the three ligands. However, additional MAO independent intracellular steps in stimulus- secretion coupling linked to PKA and PKC activation are only involved in the effect of BU 224. Therefore, both an I2 related binding site at the channel level shared by the three ligands and a putative I3-intracellularly located binding site stimulated by BU 224 would be mediating insulin release by these compounds. In vivo experiments reassess the abilities of idazoxan and BU 224 to enhance glucose-induced insulin secretion and to elicit a modest blood glucose lowering response.


According to the contemporary political and economic conditions, there is still an existing possibility for Greece to exit the Euro zone. If this scenario comes true, it will further decrease FYROM imports from Greece, as this will most probably result in the return of the Drachma with an assumed 50% devaluation to the Euro. On the other hand, FYROM exports Greece will become equally more expensive. The economic crisis which currently trembles our neighbour Greece has emerged as a new variable in the prediction and planning of economic activity along with main economic variables in the Macedonian economy. Analysis of the economic and trade relations between Greece and FYROM shows a steady decline during the last five years. FYROM exports to Greece in the first quarter of 2012 are at the lowest level in the history of trade relations between the two countries, at €39m. Even worse is that the coverage of imports from Greece with exports from FYROM is only 25.2 basis points, which is also at the lowest historical level. This is a clear indication that FYROM is losing Greece, neighbouring country and EU member, as a significant business partner. This paper is trying to determine the potential effects on Macedonia economy due to the contemporary Greek crisis, taking into consideration that our neighbour is one of the largest investors and trading partners of FYROM.


An investigation of the performance of two hole Y–Ba–Cu–O rf-SQUID operating at liquid nitrogen temperatures are reported. The magnetic flux white noise level ~ 10−4Φ0 (Φ0 = 2.07 × 10−15Wb) is determined by amplifier noise since it is equal to the white noise level of a low-temperature SQUID with the same amplifier. Overall 1/f fluctuations develop at frequencies below 20 Hz. The measurement methods and the values of the main parameters are given.


396 a background in mathematical theory and philosophy before approaching it. This is important not only for conceptual reasons, but also for understanding some key terms, including "elementalization," "combinatorial," "combinatorics," etc. The prose is also, at times, needlessly jargon-laden, with terms such as "diagrammatic hybridizations,""poetological," and "syntagmata" peppering the text. The book would have also benefited frommore thorough discussions of the political, cultural, and social contexts in which ideas emerged. For example, Christoph Weickhmann's war game is unsatisfyingly attributed to a dream (pp. 19–27). This is less a problem in the third and fourth chapters, which are the most traditionally historical. Still, scholars interested in the intellectual history of war games and willing to put in the time to engage what is a very dense read, will discover much that is of interest. In particular, historians of technology will find the final chapter's discussion of the relationship between game theory and Alan Turing's Universal Machine fascinating (pp. 133–44). In sum, War Games serves as a significant contribution to a captivating topic and opens up important areas of future research. A logical next step for those interested in the history of war games would be to examine their transatlantic history while analyzing their development in the context of the cold war.


FIELD: engines and pumps. SUBSTANCE: device incorporates a protector made of a material allowing expansion and compression of internal fluid medium and making a barrier between fluid media outside the protector casing and internal fluid medium. The said casing has the first and second ends, with, at least, one of which coupling the protector with the pumping system other components. The said protector incorporates an assembly made up of, at least, two parts interconnected by a coupling appliance allowing a selective connection/disconnection of, at least, two parts. EFFECT: higher reliability and longer life of the pumping system protection device attained by ease of purification and reuse of the said device. 12 cl, 4 dwg


A novel family of amorphous molecular materials that function as hole blockers in organic electroluminescent (EL) devices, tris(2,3,5,6‐tetramethylphenyl)borane (TPhB), tris(2,3,5,6‐tetramethylbiphenyl‐4‐yl)borane (TBPhB), tris(2,3,5,6‐tetramethyl‐1,1′;4′,1″‐terphenyl‐4‐yl)borane (TTPhB), and tris[4‐(1,1′;3′,1″‐terphenyl‐5′‐yl)‐2,3,5,6‐tetramethylphenyl]borane (TTPhPhB), have been designed and synthesized. They readily form stable amorphous glasses with high glass‐transition temperatures, and are characterized by reversible cathodic reduction and relatively large HOMO–LUMO energy gaps. High‐performance blue‐ and blue–violet‐emitting organic EL devices have been developed using TBPhB, TTPhB, and TTPhPhB as hole blockers and N,N′‐di(1‐naphthyl)‐N,N′‐diphenyl[1,1′‐biphenyl]‐4,4′‐diamine, tri(p‐terphenyl‐4‐yl)amine, and N,N′‐bis(3‐methylphenyl)‐N,N′‐diphenyl‐[1,1′‐biphenyl]‐4,4′‐diamine as emitters.


Introduction This year's ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'94) took place in Boston, USA from April 24 to April 28. The conference program featured tutorials, papers, panels, live demonstrations, interactive experiences and a doctoral consortium on key topics of Human-Computer Interaction. This report is an overview of current trends and developments related to hypertext and hypermedia technology. I will not summarize the complete conference, nor will I describe any particular system.


The chemical structures of aged dicumyl peroxide(DCP)-crosslinked EPDMs were investigated with FT-IR and 13C high-resolution solid state NMR. The mechanism of degradation induced by residual DCP was studied in DCP-crosslinked EPDMs.The thermal degradation of DCP-crosslinked EPDMs occurred with the disappearance of C=C bond of ethylidene norbornene and generation of carbonyl, carboxy and hydroxy groups and the scission of polymer chains. It can be considered that the residual DCP in DCP-crosslinked EPDMs accelerated the production of peroxide and hydroperoxide. The peroxide and hydroperoxide are extremely unstable, thereby causing various degradation reactions such as production of radicals, chain scission, and oxidation reactions of EPDM polymer.


This article examines the varying levels of certainty associated with verbal rhetoric and miracles, for both are means through which the York'Entry into Jerusalem' transmits and affirms the Christian faith. Emphasizing the importance of the characters' rhetorical interactions and investment, the play depicts the relationship between rhetoric and miracles in a manner different from other biblical plays, which appear to subordinate the role of human speech in exploring or conveying religious truths. In contrast, the York 'Entry' privileges rhetoric as the primary catalyst for the characters' encounter with Jesus, and affirms humanity's efforts to engage rhetorically with the tenets of its faith. Rhetorical interaction eventually leads the faithful, like the fictional townspeople of Jerusalem, to a literal and figurative encounter with the divine.


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The EPCglobal has defined the standard for sharing the tagged product information among the enterprises, which are mainly the product level information rather than event level information. Now the EPCglobal aims at provide visibility in supply chains by enabling interested parties to query item-level data. Item level data are distributed to several EPCIS (EPC Information Service) in the supply chain. The ONS (Object Name Service) and EPCDS (EPC Discovery Service) are used to trace the product movement through the supply chain. The ONS lookup service can only provide the manufacturer level information. So EPCDS is introduced to the EPCglobal Network. But there is no standard to trace the product using EPCDS. In the supply chain a lots of products need to handle. So there need a huge processing of data for tracing the products. That's why any kind of centralized server cannot afford to give a good performance in tracing the billions of products in the supply chain. In this paper we have designed different distributed architecture and proposed an appropriate one to enable tracing of huge amount of products in the EPCglobal network. Keywords-Distributed; EPCglobal Network; ONS; Discovery Service; Product Tracing; EPCDS


This study aims to find the significance of the convention-related public organizations workers" cognition about the importance of public marketing activities. As well as to analysize the outcome of convention organization of public marketing activities holding positive, negative effects and the host brands value relationship. In order to strategically maintain the importance of conventions" differentiation marketing and the brands value of exhibition organization, this research is necessary to explore the importance of public marketing activities held by the public value and brand image link here. In this research, On the convention field public marketing activities" arguments were marketing strategy. In order to construct the convention destination"s competitiveness and the differentiation of public marketing strategy, it is necessary to investigate the relation of convention organizations" public marketing activities" importance recognization and destination effections, destination brand value. As the results we can propose the implication of public marketing activities can enhance the competitive.


The role of myeloperoxidase (MPO) for vasculitis formation accompanied with the production of MPO-specific anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (MPO-ANCA) was analyzed using wild and MPO-deficient mice. MPO-ANCA levels in sera of wild type C57BL/6 mice with vasculitis particularly in the coronary arteries induced by injection of (Candida albicans-derived substances (CADS) increased. The MPO-ANCA titers in sera were significantly higher in vasculitis-positive mice than in vasculitis-negative mice, indicating that MPO-ANCA was closely associated with vasculitis formation. However, the increase of MPO-ANCA titers observed in sera of wild C57BL/6 mice were strongly suppressed in MPO-deficient C57BL/6 mice, accompanied with prevention of vasculitis formation. These results show that MPO acted as an antigen for MPO-ANCA production by CADS injection and was followed by the vasculitis formation. Vasculitis did develop in a few MPO-deficient mice, though the incidence of vasculitis was much lower in MPO-deficient mice than in C57BL/6 mice. This result suggests that other antigens structurally similar to MPO may also exist.


A novel compact ultra-wideband (UWB) printed monopole loaded with a dielectric resonator (DR) antenna is proposed. The antenna consists of a microstrip fed monopole printed on a substrate with a truncated ground plane loaded with a DR. The bandwidth is enhanced by making an inner groove inside the DR and controlling the slot width of the truncated ground.


Optical surface temperature measurements can be accomplished using thermographic phosphors (TP). These TPs can be deposited using CVD or sol-gel techniques, both techniques not being used often for this purpose. In this work dysprosium doped alumina films α-Al2O3:Dy and alumina films co-doped with dysprosium and chromium α-Al2O3:M (M:=Dy3+, Cr3+) were prepared by both techniques for TP applications and the results were compared. Diketonates of Dy, Cr and Al were used for film preparation. The phosphorescence decay lifetime of the Dy3+-transitions show strong temperature dependency in a temperature range from 1100 to 1500 K while the phosphorescence lifetime of Cr3+:Al2O3 (ruby) varies sufficiently in the temperature range from 298 up to 800 K. Thus, Cr3+-doped Al2O3 films are useful as thermographic phosphor coating for lower temperatures than Dy3+-doped films, while, co-doped films are temperature sensitive in the full temperature range from 298 up to 1500 K.


One new species of Jacobsonina Hebard from China is described and illustrated: Jacobsonina erebis sp. nov.. A key to all known species in this genus, except for J. lugubris (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893), based on males, is provided.


This paper describes a potentiometric method for the determination of Cu2+ in 0.1 mol/L HAc-NaAc-0.05 mol/L NaCl buffer(pH 5.00)using a carbon paste electrode(without ionophore,mixing paraffin liquid and spectroscopic graphite powder at a ratio of 1.5:1W/ W).The linear range is 2.5 ×1006~1.0×10-3 mol/L with 49 mV/decade of calibration slope. It exhibits a high selectivity and a desired reproducibility. The potential response behavior is caused by carbon paste extraction(or adsorption) of the matter being measured and the redox potential mechanism.


Nowadays the traditional natural resources and tangible labors are being substituted by knowledge and creativity,which are the primary sources of urban economy growth,and the creative people are critical power of urban sustainable development.Creative class,which is a new social class different from labor class and service class,is a new urban dynamic in fostering a new urban economy based on learning,innovation,and the cultivation of modish lifestyles.From the point of geography,creative class always choose those places with diversity,there is a positive correlation between intensity of creative class and regional diversity.As to urban development,there is a significant positive correlation exists between the incidence of the creative class in different cities and local economic growth,between openness to emigration,artist,gay,bohemia and economic quality,there is also a special correlation between creative class density and regional innovation and high-tech industry growth,cities centralized with creative class are always creative centers with developed innovation and high-tech industries.


Abstract In describing the position of the narrator, research in literary studies generally follows Gérard Genette's pioneering theory of narrative in distinguishing between the homo- and heterodiegetic type of narrator. This categorization is not sufficient to allow the position of the narrator to be described properly. The different ways in which the terms are used in literary studies reveal a shortcoming in the distinction behind them. Even in Genette's work, there is a contradiction between the definition and the names of the two categories: Genette defines homo- and heterodiegesis with reference to the narrator's presence in the narrated story, whereas he elsewhere states that the diegesis (in the sense of French diégèse) is »a universe rather than a train of events (a story)«: it »is therefore not the story but the universe in which the story takes place« (Genette 1988, 17; italics in original). The definition and the names do not match up in Genette's theory of narrative; the expressions ›homo-‹ and ›heterodiegesis‹ would appear to rest on an understanding that is different from what Genette sets out explicitly. Once Genette has described ›diegesis‹ in terms of the universe of the story, the only possible interpretation of the terms ›homo-‹ and ›heterodiegetic‹ is that they are to be understood in relation to the narrated world. This in turn means that a homodiegetic narrator does not, as in Genette's original definition, have to be part of the story: what is now essential is belonging to »the universe in which the story takes place«. Distinguishing between diegesis as universe and as story is significant because it reveals two different criteria for describing the position of the narrator: (i) the ontological status of the narratorial instance, which depends on whether it is part of the spatio-temporal universe of the narrative (the narrated world), and (ii) the degree to which the narratorial instance is involved in the story. The former criterion is clearly a question of ontology; the latter alternates between ontological and thematic criteria. As these two possible definitions of homo- and heterodiegesis are often not distinguished, the various writers who use the terms do so to refer to aspects of narrative that are not necessarily the same. Analytic practice in narrative theory would benefit considerably from keeping them apart. There is therefore a case to be made for using both possible aspects in the analysis of narrative texts while also keeping them separate by definition. The present article aims to do just that, starting from a theoretical standpoint. Thus, the different types of narrator that are possible are sketched in outline, and then explained with the help of examples. I begin by exposing the problems that result from using the terms in Genette's manner (1), in order then to develop a list of possible narratorial standpoints based on the one hand on the involvement of the narratorial instance in the narrated world and on the other on its involvement in the story. By establishing separation of the two aspects as a ground rule in this way, a number of misunderstandings that are due to the varied ways in which the terminology has been used to date can be overcome. There follows a description of those cases that are unambiguously hetero- and homodiegetic (2), after which the problematic cases are considered (3), yielding the different types of homodiegetic narration that are possible. This latter set of distinctions will, like the others, shed light on the contours of the different narratorial positions and thus be capable of being put profitably into practice in textual interpretation. Accordingly, what is suggested is a way of using the terms that is first unambiguous and second beneficial to the interpretation of works, thus doing justice to the heuristic importance of narratology (see Kindt/Müller 2003; Stanzel 2002, 19). Thus, whereas the concept of diegesis provides the foundation for a distinction based on an ontological criterion that divides homo- and heterodiegesis from each other, the relationship between story and narrator is used to describe various types of homodiegetic narration. In the process, there come to light two types that are distinguished from each other by involvement in events (›homodiegetic, in the story‹ and ›homodiegetic, not in the story‹ narrators). If the narrator is not involved in events, the question arises of whether it would in principle have been possible for him to be involved in events, which is the norm with ›homodiegetic, not in the story‹ narrators, or whether a physical impossibility is the reason for his lack of involvement in the story. A special case of the ›homodiegetic, not in the story‹ narrator can be derived from this: peridiegetic narration: whereas narratorial instances of the ›homodiegetic, in the story‹ and ›homodiegetic, not in the story‹ types could in principle have been involved in the action and those of the ›homodiegetic, in the story‹ type actually were, peridiegetic narrators are marked by the fact that they cannot have been involved in the events. In summary, it will be shown that the concept of homodiegesis – in particular in the form in which it has previously been used, where links with the action and appearance in the story were not kept distinct – is in effect an umbrella term that brings together a number of possible forms. There is a prominent distinction between the ›homodiegetic, in the story‹ and the ›homodiegetic, not in the story‹ types of narrator (these types are represented in the present article by the old lawyer in Leo Perutz's »The Beaming Moon« and the narrator who is a friend of Nathanael in E. T. A. Hoffmann's »Sandman« respectively). The different degrees of homodiegetic narrator, which have often been mentioned in previous research and are defined by the strength of the character's presence in the narrated world (from an uninvolved witness to an autodiegetic protagonist), are also to be situated between these two poles. It will also be shown in the process that the case of the narrator who is, for reasons of physical difference, not involved in events (the peridiegetic narrator) should be treated as a form of homodiegesis (for instance the schoolmaster in Theodor Storm's Rider on the White Horse and the first-person narrator in Uwe Timm's The Discovery of the Currywurst). What results from these assumptions is, in particular, the crucial idea that narrators who belong to the universe of the story, but cannot claim any temporal or spatial simultaneity with its events, are no different from homodiegetic narrators where the logic of fiction is concerned. It is all the more remarkable that narrators of this kind have often been classed as heterodiegetic in the past. Distinguishing between ontological difference and involvement in events provides a foundation for a more refined description of the narrator, one that is particularly significant in the case of narration that is unreliable or concerned with the unreal.


The utility model provides a drum type improved series hand brake for car which is used through being matched with each series of cars. The brake is characterized in that the clearance of shoe plate is adjustable by making use of regulating blocks and eccentric ring after the friction sheet is worn; in this way, the utility model has the advantages that service life is greatly extended and brake performance is greatly improved. The utility model belongs to a comparatively ideal hand brake in current nation.


A distinctive structural feature of P450 is the unusual thiolate coordination to heme. We have succeeded in the preparation of the first synthetic thiolato-iron porphyrin (SR complex) that retains its structure during catalytic oxidation.Experiments using SR complex have revealed that the thiolate ligand greatly accelerates the rate of the O-O bond cleavage and its heterolysis even in highly hydrophobic media.Prostaglandin H2 (PGH2) is catalytically isomerized to prostacyclin or thromboxane A2 by cytochrome P450s. We investigated the isomerization mechanism of PGH2 using SR complex, which is a model of P450 having heme-thiolate structure. Isomerization of endoperoxide proceeded very rapidly with SR, whereas imidazole or chloride-ligated heme had slight or no catalytic activity.The results of kinetic isotope effects in the oxidative demethylation of p-dimethoxybenzene unambiguously showed that the formed active intermediates of heme-thiolates are different from those of hemes coordinated by imidazole or chloride.Novel iron porphyrin-alkanethiolate complexes were prepared in order to examine the influence of the NH-S hydrogen bond on catalytic oxidation. The complexes were characterized by IR, EPR, resonance Raman spectroscopies and crystal structure analysis and their redox potentials were measured.Our work also reports some spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of the first synthetic NO-heme-thiolate complex, prepared by treatment of SR with NO, relevant to NO synthase.


The author believes that defieciency of spleen is the base of causing diabetes and its complication of skin ulcer base,says that "method of regulating spleen" is the routine method for treatment,exploring that the nature of "Regulating Spleen" is recovering,harmonizing,humoring and communicating the function of the spleen.Actually method of regulating spleen is one of "harmonization method",which has three major theoretical basis for prevention and treatment of diabetic skin ulcer: exploring the origin is to seek the primary cause for treatment of disease;regulating spleen based on "communication" is to relieve the key factors of pathogenesis of disease;and harmornization and repletion of spleen is the foundation of therapeutic methods of disease.The article also discusses specific application combining with clinical reports.


This paper deals with the design & analysis of the Automatic Sun Traking Solar Panel based on open loop concept. The main objective of the project is to harnsess the maximum amount of sunlight from sun and coverting it to elctricity so that it can be easily used and transferred. This can be done by aligning the solar panel perpendicular to sun rays so that maximum sunlight can be converted into electrical form. As this system give maximum efficiency. The main feature of this tracker is that it is independent of the intensity of sunrays. It directly takes the coordinate of the sun according to its position and align itself according to that. As well as it gives higher efficiency, high reliability. The advantage of this project is to provide access to an everlasting and pollution free source of energy. This project can be used in form of decentralised generation. And when connected to big battery banks then can independently fullfill the needs of


In order to determine the optimum concentration of Penshibao for Camellia oleifera,treatments with different Penshibao concentrations were designed and tested by spraying on leaves of'Changlin 4'and'Changlin 40'strains during period of flowering and fruit enlargement. The influences of the concentration of Penshibao on fruiting and fruit quality of C.oleifera were analyzed and discussed by measuring fruit set,cracking rate,yield per plant,dry seed rate,dry kernel rate and oil content and other indicators. The results showed that,Penshibao could reduce cracking,increase the probability of fruit and fruit yield per plant,improve fruit quality. The responses of strains to Penshibao concentration were different. The optimal concentration of 'Changlin 4'in the test was the low concentration( 0. 33 mg / kg). By this concentration,the fruit cracking rate was 45. 4% lower than that of the control. The fruit set,yield per plant,dry seed rate,dry kernel rate,oil content of dry kernel,oil content of fresh fruit were respectively 38. 9%,21. 1%,25. 3%,5. 1%,2. 0% and 30. 9% higher than that of the control. The optimal concentration of'Changlin 40'in the test was high concentration( 1. 00 mg / kg). By this concentration,the fruit cracking rate was 63. 6% lower than that of the control. The fruit set,yield per plant,dry seed rate,dry kernel rate and oil content of fresh fruit were respectively 106. 7%,60. 3%,17. 7%,15. 5% and 33. 8% higher than that of the control.


In the article, the author has analyzed the current situation of fintech market development and Vietnam's startup ecosystem in recent years. The research results show that, in the past 3 years, the number of fintech companies in Vietnam has nearly quadrupled, the market value in 2020 is estimated at 9 billion USD. With 72% of adults using smartphones, nearly 64% of the population using the Internet, along with the young generation of technology-savvy, the explosion of e-commerce and the support of the Government, Vietnam is a potential market for implementing tech startup models. Opportunities and challenges for fintech startups in Vietnam have been discussed by the author, from which solutions to develop fintech ecosystems are proposed in the upcoming time.


SBA-15 nanoporous silica was prepared by cooperation assembly of tetraethylorthosilicate  precursor in the presence of poly (ethylene glycol)–block- poly (propylene glycol)–block- poly (ethylene glycol) copolymer surfactant and functionalized with (3-aminopropyl) triethoxysilane (APTES) via sol-gel reaction to obtain APTES-SBA-15. Tetra-(p-chlorophenyl) porphyrin (TClPP) was synthesized using modified Alder- Longo method. Zinc was inserted into the TClPP using zinc acetate as a metal source The existance of zinc in porphyrin was confirmed by the appearance of Soret band and Q band in UV- vis spectra. ZnTClPP was also characterized using FTIR and NMR spectroscopy SBA-15 was modified with APTES to immobilize the metalloporphyrin on SBA-15 surface. The product (NH-SBA-15 ZnP) can be used as a heterogenous catalyst in various reactions. The formation of this material was confirmed by FTIR spectroscopy, XRD and BET adsorption.


We show that non-Markovian open quantum systems can exhibit exact Markovian dynamics up to an arbitrarily long time; the non-Markovianity of such systems is thus perfectly ``hidden,'' i.e., not experimentally detectable by looking at the reduced dynamics alone. This shows that non-Markovianity is physically undecidable and extremely counterintuitive, since its features can change at any time, without precursors. Some interesting examples are discussed.


We present an automated framework for the generation of synthesizable FPGAs with heterogeneous functional blocks and carry chains, as modelled with the open-source Verilog-to-Routing (VTR) FPGA architecture evaluation framework. VTR's modelling of hardened blocks, such as DSPs and BRAMs, is leveraged to generate synthesizeable FPGAs mappable via VTR's Verilog frontend. The generated Verilog source for the FPGA can be synthesized to target any conventional semiconductor process via an industry-standard ASIC toolflows with minimal implementation effort. We model a Stratix IV-style FPGA architecture, complete with carry chains, DSPs and BRAMs, and compare area/performance with the commercial Stratix IV FPGA. The area and performance gap between the fully synthesizable and commercial fabrics for a set of benchmarks using the heterogeneous blocks is 3.2x and 2.3x, respectively. Optimizations to reduce the gap are discussed.


Objective To study the effects of angiotensin converting enzyme and chymase on secretion of angiotensin Ⅱ in the endothelial cells in human umibilical vein. Methods Cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) were incubated with captopril and chymostatin for 24 hours, the concentration of angiotensin Ⅱ in supernatant was measured using radio-immunology method. Results Ang Ⅱ increased about 11.5-fold in the presence of 10 -2 μmol/L Ang Ⅰ compared with control group. 100,1000 μmol/L captopril reduce Ang Ⅱ release by 11.15% and 17.06% respectively. 100,1000 μmol/L chymostatin reduce Ang Ⅱ generation by 60.23% and 68.48% respectively. 1 μmol/L aprotinin reduce Ang Ⅱ generation by 13.96% as compared with 10 -2 μmol/L Ang Ⅰ treated HUVEC. Losartan did not block Ang Ⅰ convert to Ang Ⅱ,on the contrary,the concentration of Ang Ⅱ increased slightly in the HUVEC culture supernatant. The generation of Ang Ⅱ reduced by 85.81% in the presence of captopril+chymostatin as compared with 10 -2 μmol/L Ang Ⅰ treated HUVEC. Captopril+aprotinin blocked 29.57% Ang Ⅱ generation. Captopril+chymostatin+aprotinin blocked Ang Ⅱ generation by 97.71%. Conclusion There are two angiotensin Ⅱ-production pathways in HUVEC: ACE-dependent and non-ACE-dependent pathway. Our data showed the non-ACE-dependent pathway was dominant in HUVEC.


A model in which donor-acceptor electronic transitions under illumination induce impurity redistribution among non-equivalent positions in semiconductor lattice is considered.

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Angiokeratoma corporis diffusum refers to symmetrical clusters of minute red papules in a "bathing trunk" distribution and is considered the cutaneous hallmark of Fabry disease. Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency is an autosomal recessive sphingolipidosis, which presents with massive hepatosplenomegaly, pulmonary infiltrates, and skeletal abnormalities. We present the unusual case of a 12‐year‐old girl with acid sphingomyelinase deficiency who developed characteristic lesions of angiokeratoma corporis diffusum.


Abstract Calcified pseudoneoplasm of the neural axis (CAPNON) is a very rare, non-neoplastic, calcified pathological entity occurring anywhere in the central nervous system (CNS). Overall, less than 100 cases were reported, of which less than 50% were from the spine. We present a case of a 53-year-old lady with a history of L4–L5 radiculopathy, known case of rheumatoid arthritis, and with no previous history of trauma, tumor or infection. MRI showed calcified intradural mass, extending into the right lateral recess, which was isointense on T1- and T2-weighted sequences. Fenestration on right side along with complete resection of the lesion was done. Mass was found adherent around the dura, extending in to right L5 nerve root foramen, and histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of CAPNON. At 6 months follow-up, the patient is pain-free with no radicular symptoms. This entity should be taken in as differential in cases of calcified intraspinal and intracranial lesions. Surgical resection is the treatment of choice.


Objective To screen acute rejection related genes of allogeneic cardiac transplantation by cDNA microarray technique and study the mechanism of acute rejection of allogen eic cardiac transplantation in rats. Methods Cardiac transplantation model was established in rats neck and rats were devided into syngenic cardiac transplantation group and allogeneic cardiac transplantat ion control group. RNA was extracted from the transplanted heart and mRNA was pu rified for reverse transcription probe to analyze difference of gene expression and to screen acute rejection related genes on the 5th day by DNA microarray tec hnique with 4096 target genes. Results 210 acute rejection related genes were different between the groups (96 genes do wnregulated, 114 genes upregulated). 33 genes have been known (13 genes downregu lated, 20 genes upregulated) and 177 genes have not been known (83 genes downreg ulated, 94 genes upregulated), and 15 known genes (2 genes downregulated, 13 gen es upregulated) kept unreported. Conclusion Microarray technique for analyzing allogeneic cardiac transplantation rejection genes is a new method for investigating acute rejection mechanism and its therap y.


It has known that TCR is responsible for accepting stimulating signals and CD3 for transducting the signals in TCR/CD3 complex of human T lymphocytes. TCR or CD3 could mediate cell activation and apoptosis in im-matural, activated and transformed cells. However, the molecular mechanism and signaling pathway of T lymphocytes have not been well understood. To the end that the present paper summarized the research progress in the author's lab in the field mentioned above. It was found that thymocyte development was blocked in fetal transgenic mice and thymocyte apoptosis was facilitated in young transgenic mice with CD3e overexpression. To further elucidate the molecular mechanism of apoptosis induced by CD3e overexpression, a chimera (termed as CD8e) fused the extracellular and transmembrane domain of human CD8α to intracellular domain of human CD3e and its mutants of Tyrl70 and 181 to Phe in the CD3e-ITAM were made. Cell lines with stably expression of the chimera molecule and its mutant were obtained after transfection of CD8- human Jurkat cells. It was found that the percentage of activation-induced cell death in the transfectant of CD8e induced by anti-CD8 antibody was 23 %, however, no apoptotic cells were occurred in the transfectants with CD8e mutants with one or two Tyr mutations to Phe in CD3e-ITAM. And the immediate-early gene Nur77 and cell death gene fas but not fas ligand were upregulated during the apoptosis process. Further studies showed that PI-3 kinase subunit P85α bound specifically to the two tyrosines in CD3e-ITAM during cell activation process, in which neither Tyr 170 or Tyr 181 mutation to Phe, the binding capacity of P85α to CD3e-ITAM was decreased remarkably. It was proved further by using synthetic CD3e-ITAM peptide and mutated peptide with Tyr to Phe that binding of P85α to Tyr in CD3e-ITAM is specific. These clear-cut results provided for the first time an evidence at single amino acid level that the CD3e peptide could transduce the death signals independent to other CD3 subunits to mediate apoptosis in the human leukemia Jurkat cells, in which two tyrosine residues in CD3e-ITAM are required in apoptotic signaling pathway. More important this is the first time to find that PI 3-kinase binds specifically to CD3e in TCR/CD3 complex during the cell activation process.


This paper describes a novel technique to analyze newly available Vehicle Traveling Data Recorder (VTDR) data from Passenger Transport Company. To help us be more conducive to study, we preprocessed the VTDR data firstly. 1) Algorithm that detects highway range in the VTDR data is proposed. 2) We transformed VTDR data from their original Time based Speed Series (TSS) to Location based Speed Series (LSS), which makes a link between road location and speed. 3) Then, we applied a self-training technique to distinguish two route directions of the VTDR data. After preprocessing, we extracted general speed pattern from the VTDR data. This information greatly improves our understanding on the road traffic influence to speed. In addiction, based on this, novel driver behavior analysis and outlier analysis are given.The technique introduced in this paper utilizes the huge amount of VTDR data to extract useful information, so that enhances transportation safety management.


In this paper, innovative teaching andlearning (ITL) schemes for engineering students is beingimplemented on the root of curiosity, observation,intellectual and decide-focus-act strategy. The scheme isdivided into three parts. In first part evaluation schemeare implemented on personality and behaviour,conceptual motivation, process of selfevaluation, beforeyou assess yourself, assessment skill, plan-act-improveaudit,get engaged in value addition drive. In secondpart the students are evaluated by 30%-70% schemeand it is implemented on empirical approach,observations, questions, hypotheses, experiments,analyses, conclusions, replications. The third scheme isskill enhancement i.e. assessment scheme and it depend on part first and part second. The above strategy and schemes areimplemented on 50 engineering students and its resultsare tabulated. It is ascertained that, this scheme andstrategy is working excellently.


Objective: Latent tuberculosis (LTBI) case‐finding and treatment are a focus of TB elimination in Australia. We sought the perspectives of migrants from two high‐burden countries likely to be targeted by this strategy.


The enzyme response to injury of the brain was well localized and limited. Some enzymes, even in 12 day old brain, increased rapidly, mainly in neocortical glial cells. In the corpus callosum enzymes were not significantly hyperactive before the light myelination stage. Some hyperactivity declined after 21 days. Oxidative processes and phosphate metabolism were most disturbed.


The purpose of this study was to determine the rate of complications in the immediate postoperative period following primary tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP) after salvage laryngectomy.


Poetry by Ten Fujian Poets compiled by Yuan Biao and Ma Ying in the 16th century,was a collection of poems composed by ten poets from Fujian during the reigns of Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.These ten poets were the forerunners of the Fujian school of poetry: Lin Hong,Gao Bing,Chen Liang,Wang Gong,Tang Tai,Zheng Ding,Wang Cheng,Wang Bao,Zhou Xuan and Huang Xuan.With this collection,the style and excellence of the art of Fujian poetry survived.In the 4th year of Emperor Wanli ' s reign,Ming Dynasty,Xu Zhongxing produced for the first time,the edition of these poems,which was entitled A Collection of Poems by Ten Fujian Poets,but this collection offered only a glimpse of the elegant style of these poems rather than a whole picture.Poetry by Ten Fujian Poets collected in the Complete Collection in Four Treasuries were very much expurgated although its compilers claimed to have retained the essence of the poems.What is more,this edition is incomplete owing to the repeated revision in the history.In the 12th year of Emperor Guangxu ' s reign,Qing Dynasty,Guo Baicang produced his edition of these poems which was entitled Poetry by Ten Genius Poets from Fujian.What is most striking about this edition is that Guo Baicang,at a very senior age,endeavored to restore the original beauty of these poems and retain this rare treasure in Chinese literary history.


The rates of reaction with nitrous acid of four methylsubstituted piperidines to form the corresponding Nnitrosopiperidines were compared with that of piperidine. The relative rates for piperidine, 2-methyl-, 2,6-dimethyl-, and 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-piperidine were approximately 100:20:10:1, showing considerable steric hindrance tp nitrosation by the «methyl groups. The rate of formation of nitrosopiperidine from the tertiary amine /V-methylpiperidine was about 10,000 times slower than that from piperi dine.


Della Devika Putri, 2017. Analysis of Economic Value Added (EVA) Differences before and after the company conducted an initial public offering (IPO). Supervised by Mr. YunusTete Konde and Mrs.LedySetiawati This study was conducted to measure the comparative performance of companies before and after IPO, with EVA as an analytical tool. EVA itself is a measure of accurate and more precise periodic performance, because it takes into account the cost of capital by subtracting net profit after tax (NOPAT) with capital costs, as well as testing the hypothesis using non parametric statistical test. This study used 30 companies, with the IPO period from 2010 to 2014. The data obtained were secondary data covering financial statements from the official website of Indonesia stock exchange library. The results show that there are significant differences, regarding the EVA before and after the company offering on public (IPO). Although EVA from year to year is fluctuating, but the difference is very significant. During the 1 year before and after the IPO, there were companies that experienced EVA improvement positively, and negatively, and some experienced a decrease in EVA. EVA is negative to suggest that the company has not been able to generate an economic profit, nor because some managerial effectiveness during the IPO has not been effective. Keyword : Economic Value Added, Initial Public Offering.


We study degenerations of non-simple principally polarized abelian surfaces to the boundary in the toroidal compactification of $\mathcal{A}_2$, and describe the degenerate abelian surfaces as well as the degenerate elliptic curves that live inside them.


Research progresses of road spectra in the field of automobile engineering and transportation engineering in recent years were reviewed.And the necessity and feasibility of the research of Chinese typical vehicle road spectra were discussed.The research processes of Chinese typical vehicle road spectra were presented from those aspects such as the integration of instruments,data acquisition,the construction of databases,signal analyzing and processing,the programming of software and the building of national standards,and so on.In addition,the applications of Chinese typical vehicle road spectra in automobile design and research were introduced.Finally,the prospect of road spectra in the field of automobile engineering and transportation engineering was investigated.


This paper proposes a new method for improving the consistency of the fuzzy judgement matrix. Firstly, the definition about the satisfying consistency of fuzzy judgement matrix and its judgement approach are given. Then, by constructing and analyzing the deviation matrix which can reflect the relation between the completely consistent matrix and the judgement matrix given by the decision maker, a calculation procedure of modifying the fuzzy judgement matrix into the satisfying consistency is presented. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the use of the proposed method.


A Sagnac interferometer based on a short section of PANDA fiber for high sensitivity temperature measurement has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The principle of this Sagnac interferometer is theoretically analyzed by Jones Matrix. Extremely high temperature sensitivity up to -1.46 nm/°C has been achieved, together with compact size, and capability of remote temperature monitoring, makes it a good candidate for various in-field sensing applications.


Examination of the type material of the Oriental representatives of the genus Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Onthophagini) deposited at the Natural History Museum in London, National Museum of Natural History in Paris, Museum of Natural History in Basel and National Museum in Prague revealed seven new synonyms. The names synonymized herein were described as separate species mainly for two reasons. The first reason owes to the insufficient knowledge of entire Onthophagus diversity from Oriental Region and the fact that authors describing new species did not check the type material or even original descriptions for already described taxa. The following synonymized species were likely described due to this oversight: O. anamalaiensis Balthasar, 1974; O. chulapornus Masumoto, Ochi & Hanboonong, 2008; O. demaak Masumoto, 1989; O. jucundus Arrow, 1931; O. laosensis Frey, 1971; and O. parvidens Frey, 1971. The second reason is the great range of intraspecific variation of such allometric characters as shape of head, horns and pronotum in Onthophagus. Therefore, detailed examination of the external characters for the large series of specimens, and careful study of male genitalia are required for reliable species identification. Unfortunately, this was not the case for many new species descriptions. In particular, O. perroti Paulian, 1978, was described as a species but actually only represents the minor form of O. orientalis Harold, 1868. The lectotype of O. gracilipes is designated in order to preserve the stability of zoological nomenclature.


This work presents the results of a validation and reliability process of a conceptual test on reflection and refraction phenomena of sound waves, a process that was carried out online using Knowledge Applied Technologies (TAC). The development of this process was done by using the Classical Test Theory as a theoretical framework and the use of a website for remote implementation. The use of TAC allowed the validation process to be more agile and extended to a larger sample, allowing application in several universities in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile. The obtaining and analysis of data to achieve the validation and reliability of the instrument was given by means of a system designed specifically for this work, which allowed the realization of the necessary statistics to obtain indicators such as difficulty, discrimination and reliability. Obtaining a test that can be applied and resolve online is a novelty in grounds of the Educational Physics.


Due to increasing cost of hospitalization, there has been a trend towards more out patient surgery. In order to safely perform outpatient surgery, it is important to avoid potential adverse reactions of systemic analgesics. The administration of analgesics in the recovery room, by the oral or intramuscular route has its own problems. Oral medication is not possible in the peri-operative period, as the patient is often advised against oral intake. Further, intramuscular absorption is unpredictable in the patient who often has peripheral vasoconstriction from a hypothermic operating room environment. Intravenous narcotics have the potential to cause respiratory depression, bradycardia, sedation, nausea and vomiting.


Author manuscripts have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication but have not yet been edited. Translational Relevance: Several VEGF pathway inhibitors have been approved for treatment of advanced cancer. Despite the overall clinical success of bevacizumab and other VEGF pathway inhibitors, clinical efficacy is variable and some individual patients and tumor types seem to be refractory or to acquire resistance to these therapies. Thus, pharmacodynamic and predictive biomarkers are urgently required to improve patient selection for VEGF targeted agents. The data provided here identify a conserved collective group of in vivo VEGF signaling downstream markers (VEGF Dependent Vasculature genes or VDV) and indicate a link between preexistent VEGF pathway activity in human tumor vessels and the subsequent clinical efficacy of bevacizumab (anti-VEGF) containing therapy. These findings identify VDV genes as candidate biomarkers and support prospective validation of the VDV gene profile as a possible strategy for the selection of indications and/or patients more likely to benefit from anti-VEGF therapy. Abstract Purpose. The aim of this study was to identify conserved pharmacodynamic and potential predictive biomarkers of response to anti-VEGF therapy using gene expression profiling in preclinical tumor models and in patients. Experimental Design. Surrogate markers of VEGF inhibition (VEGF dependent genes or VDV) were identified by profiling gene expression changes induced in response to VEGF blockade in preclinical tumor models and in human biopsies Research. Author manuscripts have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication but have not yet been edited. 3 from patients treated with anti-VEGF monoclonal antibodies. The potential value of VDV genes as candidate predictive biomarkers was tested by correlating high or low VDV gene expression levels in pre-treatment clinical samples with the subsequent clinical efficacy of bevacizumab (anti-VEGF) containing therapy. Results. We show that VEGF-dependent vasculature (VDV) genes, including direct and more distal VEGF downstream endothelial targets, enable detection of VEGF signaling inhibition in mouse tumor models and human tumor biopsies. Retrospective analyses of clinical trial data indicates that patients with higher VDV expression in pre-treatment tumor samples exhibited improved clinical outcome when treated with bevacizumab containing therapies. Conclusions. In this work we identified surrogate markers (VDV genes) for in vivo VEGF signaling in tumors and showed clinical data supporting a correlation between pre-treatment VEGF bioactivity and the subsequent efficacy of anti-VEGF therapy. We propose that VDV genes are candidate biomarkers with the potential to aid the selection of novel indications as well as patients …


Nowadays, in any application specific domain security plays a vital role in the service access environment. Because customers needs to make use of distinct services and resources in an attacks free surface. In cloud computing environment, the security services and portal systems have been highly progressed based on the user requirements. However, cloud offers plenty of resources through the service vendor globally; still the multi clouds problems are not resolved completely. So, it is very essential to protect the data and other resources from the intruders are a most primary factor. The proposed work will establish a security layer on the multiple cloud environments by introducing the concept of "Serverless Computing". The serverless computing is a kind of cloud computing execution model through which the cloud service provider (CSP) can manage the allocation of system resources in a dynamic manner. This mechanism will follow the property of utility computing. This approach can be used to hide the operations on entire cloud server management end and capacity planning decisions and also uses no provisioned services. Any type of vulnerabilities is taken care of by the cloud service provider. In this process, attacks rate are compared with the traditional security architectures and each component is an entry point to the serverless application. With this approach, customers can control and monitor the workloads by using IDS / IPS technique.


Adding a plain photodiode to a commercial green laser pointer, we obtain a high resolution self-mixing interferometer, capable of detecting minute vibrations down to ≈4.4-nm (rms) resolution, or measuring displacements with half-wavelength (λ/2=266 nm) increments.


In modern power system the dependency on the large centralized generation network has been reduced by installing local Distributed Generation (DG), integrated at medium or high voltage level with power distribution system. In many researches the permanent integration of these DGs with different capacities is discussed. It is investigated that these DGs may create technical problems under the high load variations. An intelligent operational management system is required to operate the DGs in the conditions of highly load variation. In this paper an operating mechanism of Photovoltaic (PV) and Energy from the Municipal Solid Waste based distributed generation at optimal sites is proposed. Partial or conditional integration of these DGs have been carried out under scheduled load variation. The performance analysis of the distribution system is carried out here under different load scenarios and effectiveness of proposed technique is presented. It is depicted from the findings of the proposed technique that DGs not only reduce the power demand on utility grid but also reduce energy loss and enhance the end user voltage profile.In modern power system the dependency on the large centralized generation network has been reduced by installing local Distributed Generation (DG), integrated at medium or high voltage level with power distribution system. In many researches the permanent integration of these DGs with different capacities is discussed. It is investigated that these DGs may create technical problems under the high load variations. An intelligent operational management system is required to operate the DGs in the conditions of highly load variation. In this paper an operating mechanism of Photovoltaic (PV) and Energy from the Municipal Solid Waste based distributed generation at optimal sites is proposed. Partial or conditional integration of these DGs have been carried out under scheduled load variation. The performance analysis of the distribution system is carried out here under different load scenarios and effectiveness of proposed technique is presented. It is depicted from the findings of the proposed technique that D...


A preliminary study was conducted to document spider diversity in Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Idukki District, Kerala State in southern India.  The study was conducted from October to November 2012.  A total of 101 species of spiders belonging to 65 genera from 29 families were identified from the sanctuary.  This accounted for 6.98% of Indian spider species, 17.81% of Indian spider genera and 48.33% of the spider families of India.  The dominant families were Lycosidae (11 species) and Araneidae (10).  Two endemic genera of Indian spiders such as Annandaliella and Neoheterophrictus were found at Chinnar, each representing one species each, and belonging to the family Theraphosidae.  A guild structure analysis of the spiders revealed seven feeding guilds such as orb weavers, stalkers, ground runners, foliage runners, sheet web builders, space web builders and ambushers.


Photovoltaic (PV) powered DC motors driving dedicated loads (e.g. water pumps) are increasingly used in the remote rural areas of many developing countries. The key to their success is simplicity (direct coupling, no DC-AC conversion, no storage batteries, etc.). Because of the relatively high cost of the PV array, the system designer is interested in maximizing its utilization efficiency. A PV powered DC motor can also be used to drive a three-phase self-excited induction generator (SEIG). This arrangement is useful as part of an integrated renewable energy system (IRES), which takes advantage of the inherent diversity of wind and solar energy in most developing countries to improve power quality. The SEIG is driven by a wind-turbine, DC motor, or both. Another advantage of this arrangement is its versatile control characteristics through the DC motor control. This paper describes a technique to maximize the utilization efficiency of the PV array by controlling the field current of the DC motor through a DC chopper.


Before I dive into the details of this short reportage, there is certainly one thing that cannot be denied: Peter Carravetta, by publishing The Elusive Hermes: Method, Discourse, Interpreting, shows an uncommon and rare amount of ambition. This book is indeed the first element of a tetralogy that presents itself as an interpretation of what the author calls⎯rightly or not⎯'postmodern culture'. The project will also touch upon multiple themes and questions including contemporary Italian culture, "the meaning of humanism, the emergence of European hegemony, and the idea of a perfect society from Dante to Marx" (xvii). A heavy and ambitious program indeed. A program that will need, to find its proper expression, to rely on a vertiginous erudition⎯an erudition definitely possessed by the author. This ambition and this erudition commands the admiration of the reader, and his/her attention.


In this paper, we present techniques for mining top-k ranked association rules from datasets. Association rule mining greatly helps to identify trends and patterns from huge datasets (1). In this paper we have seen different technique to mine top-k ranked association rules and closed frequent item sets. In this we study the mining of top-K frequent closed iemsets, where the support threshold is chosen as the maximum value sufficient to guarantee that the itemsets returned in output is at least K (2). Another algorithm is to mine the top-k association rules, where k is the number of association rules to be found and is set by the user (3). Rule expansion method is used for mining top-k association rules. Index Term — Association rule mining, top-k rules, support, and frequent closed itemsets.


The invention relates to a detection method and a detection system for foreign matters in an infusion bottle. The detection method comprises the following steps of: rotating a to-be-detected infusion bottle; photographing the bottle by utilizing a camera so as to obtain a multi-frame image; processing the image to obtain feature information of blocks in the bottle; removing the blocks formed by interferences of bubbles and lights; and comparing the feature information of the residual blocks with a detection standard, and judging whether the foreign matters exist, so as to judge whether the infusion bottle is qualified. The detection system comprises an intermittent rotating device and the camera, wherein upper compression devices and lower compression devices for fixing the relative positions of the to-be-detected infusion bottle and the intermittent rotating device are arranged on the intermittent rotating device, and friction wheels for driving the upper compression devices and the lower compression devices to rotate are arranged at the outer side of the intermittent rotating device. By utilizing the detection method and the detection system, the automatic detection on the foreign matters in the infusion bottle can be realized, and the problems of low efficiency, high labor intensity, easiness in generation of quality fluctuation and the like in the conventional detection method are solved; a reliable detection result can be obtained, and the export quality of products is effectively guaranteed.


SUMMARY The assumption of a symmetric underlying distribution is used to calculate the probability that the most extreme offspring is inferior to the midparental breeding value, with suitable adjustment being made for possible sex differences. Under the assumption of a normal underlying distribution, the maximum conceptual selection progress for within-family selection is calculated, with the truncation points on the distribution of the offspring order statistics determining the geometric distribution that describes the speed of replacement of parents by offspring. The realizable selection progress is calculated by the use of the distribution of the deviation of the nth order statistic from the sample mean.


The speed with which microbes in a simplified ecosystem absorb the nanomaterials is raising concerns about the effect on organisms higher in the food chain. The speed with which microbes in a simplified ecosystem absorb the nanomaterials is raising concerns about the effect on organisms higher in the food chain.


Critical infrastructure defined as that part of the national infrastructure, the destruction or malfunctioning of which due to the action of a risk factor will cause a threat or disruption of the political and economic functioning of the state or a threat to the life and health of the population. As an element of critical infrastructure, the airport is obliged to maintain its security at a sufficient level even in changing security, economic and social conditions. The protection of the airport as an element of critical infrastructure brings the requirements for securing the perimeter of the airport with a high standard security. The aim of the article, to focus on different technologies and try to approach the decision-making process when designing a solution for an airport.


The impact of photoperiod on the rate and magnitude of N remobilization relative to uptake of inorganic N during the recovery of shoot growth after a severe defoliation was compared over 18 days in two temperate grass species, timothy (Phleum pratense L. cv. Bodin) and meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis Huds. cv. Salten). Plants were grown in flowing solution culture with N supplied as 20 mM NH 4 NO 3 and pre-treated by extending the 11 h photosynthetically significant light period either by I h (short-day or SD plants) or 7 h (long-day or LD plants) of very low light intensity, during the 10 days prior to defoliation. Following a single severe defoliation, 15 N-labelled NH 4 + or NH 4 + + NO 3 - was supplied over a 20-day recovery period under the same SD and LD conditions. Changes in the relative contributions of remobilized N and newly acquired mineral N to shoot regrowth were assessed by sequential harvests. Both absolute and relative rates of N remobilization from root and stubble fractions were higher in LD than SD plants of both species, with the enhancement more acute but of shorter duration in timothy than fescue. Remobilized N was the predominant source of N for shoot regrowth in all treatments between days 0 and 8 after cutting; on average more so for fescue than timothy, because the presence of NO 3 - reduced the proportional contribution of remobilized N to the regrowth of timothy but not of fescue. Net uptake of mineral N began to recover between days 4 and 6 after cutting, with NO 3 - uptake restarting 1 or 2 days earlier than NH 4 + uptake, even when NH 4 + was the only form of N supply. LD timothy plants supplied solely with NH 4 + were slowest to resume uptake of mineral N. Supplying NO 3 - in addition to NH 4 + after defoliation promoted shoot regrowth rate but not remobilization of N. Rates of regrowth (shoot dry weight production per plant) were not correlated with rates of N remobilization from stubble either over the short-term (days 0-8) or. longer term (days 0-18), interpreted as evidence against a causal dependence of regrowth rate on N remobilization under these conditions. The results are discussed in relation to hypotheses for source/sink-driven rates of N remobilization and their interactions with mineral N uptake following defoliation.


This text is about an introduction to the theoretical discussion regarding environmental knowledge as a technological instrument for the production of health. Through the reading of Enrique Leff's ideas, we are presented with the environmental concept in order to elucidate the necessary connections to argue the concept of production and reproduction of health.