The paper assesses the durability of one-part alkali-activated slag-based mortars (AAS) in different aggressive environments, such as calcium chloride- and magnesium sulphate-rich solutions, in comparison with traditional cementitious mortars at equal water to binder ratio. Moreover, the freezing and thawing resistance was evaluated on mortars manufactured with and without air entraining admixture (AEA). Experimental results indicate that the alkali content is a key parameter for durability of AAS: the higher the alkali content, the higher the resistance in severe conditions. In particular, high-alkali content AAS mortars are characterized by freeze–thaw resistances similar to that of blast furnace cement-based mixtures, but lower than that of Portland cement-mortars while AAS with low activators dosages evidence a very limited resistance in cold environment. The effectiveness of AEA in enhancement of freeze–thaw resistance is confirmed also for AAS mortars. Moreover, AAS mixtures are quasi-immune to expansive calcium oxychloride formation in presence of CaCl2-based deicing salts, but they are very vulnerable to magnesium sulphate attack due to decalcification of C-S-H gel and gypsum formation.


with serum adalimumab trough levels, and they were required above 7.90 μg/mL (area under the curve [AUC], 0.786; 95% CI, 0.657– 0.925; p < 0.001). Eleven patients (78.6%) of MH group got ADA trough levels above 7.90 μg/mL, in contrast 8 patients (30.8%) of non-MH group had below 7.90 μg/mL. In this study, the significant difference of laboratory markers between MH and non-MH group was found in CRP (p < 0.05). The cut-off values of CRP for MH was below 0.09 mg/dL (area under the curve [AUC], 0.709; odds ratio, 5.87; 95% CI, 0.542–0.876; p < 0.05). Previous anti-TNF drugs use is one of predictable markers to prevent from achieving endoscopic MH. Conclusions: Serum adalimumab trough levels above 7.90 μg/mL were required for endoscopic mucosal healing. This is 1.42 times higher than the concentration required to achieve normalisation of laboratory markers. Monitoring serum adalimumab trough levels is useful for achieving endoscopic mucosal healing in patients with CD.


A design review, or even better, design "confirmation" is an important stage within the process of life cycle management of electrical equipment. For large power transformers, international standards provide users with guidance for evaluation of design and process of the manufacturer. However, guidelines for checking of adequacy of the product conceptual design to the intended application are not extensively covered. In this work, the experience of a transformer manufacturer is presented and discussed, as a base for more efficient and productive reviews. Especial consideration should be given to the interface of design review with QA systems of manufacturers and construction contractors.


The basic income must ensure conditions favorable to health, the right of choice and full exercise of a validated cultural professional work and ethically; an environmental dimension, ethics, co-participatory and joining all these basic elements, the issue of sustainability. However, these goals become challenging for the small landowner in the semiarid usual scenario: poor soils, little rain, too little water, too much sun, low humidity, evaporation in the highest and negative water balance. Aggravated further by physical geography and human geography of poverty. In this sense, this study reflects on a conceptual model of agropastoral holdings in small properties of the semiarid northeast. The purposeful description is hypothetical and is a representation of idealized concepts and proposals, while fully possible for expository logic and its validation by empirical observations.


Our identification research for the past several years has focused on the problem of correctly discriminating small-magnitude explosions from a background of earthquakes, mining tremors, and other events. Small magnitudes lead to an emphasis on regional waveforms. It has been shown that at each test site where earthquake and explosions are in close proximity and recorded at the same station, clear differences in the regional body waves such as the relative high frequency amplitudes of P and S waves can be used to discriminate between event types. However path and source effects can also induce such differences, therefore these must be quantified and accounted for. We have been using a specific technique called Magnitude and Distance Amplitude Correction (MDAC), with some success to account for some of these effects.


Abstract. Maize is a host plant for a large number of pathogens, over 50, that invade all of the plant organs from the moment of germination to the moment of harvesting, and cobs and seeds infections continue most of the times during crops storage. Pathogen agents contributes to deterioration and decrease quantity and quality of yield contributes to productions decreasing, both quantitative and qualitatively, with an average percentage of 20 - 25% in our country. The most damaging in quantitative and qualitative point of view are diseases caused by genus Fusarium spp.. The objectives of this paper are determining the productivity and the quality of corn hybrids created at ARDS Turda, in natural and artificial infection with Fusarium spp, and identification of resistant hybrids to Fusarium spp attack. In 2011-2012 the hybrids were tested in natural and artificial infection conditions. The inoculation was made on each cob using 4 ml of suspension. Following research we can assert the following conclusions: in terms of natural infections in both 2011 and 2012 the most productive hybrids were Turda Favorit (10.74 t / ha, 9.87 t / ha) and Turda Star (10.72 t / ha 8.78 t / ha). Yields hybrids in the study decreased by 0.3 t / ha - 1.4 t / ha under artificial infection. Artificial infections produce changes in biochemical composition of the grain. Hybrids analyzed starch content and oil are lower and protein percentage increased after artificial inoculation.


It is well known that any W-operator can be represented as the supremum (respectively, infimum) of sup-generating and (respectively, inf-generating) operators, that is, the families of sup-generating and inf-generating operators constitute the building blocks for representing W-operators. Here, we present two new families of building blocks to represent W-operators: compositions of sup-generating operators with dilations and compositions of inf-generating operators with erosions. The representations based on these new families of operators are called, respectively, sup-compact and inf-compact representations, since they may use less building blocks than the classical sup-generating and inf-generating representations. Considering the W-operators that are both anti-extensive and idempotent -in a strict sense-, we have also gotten a simplification of the sup-compact representation. We have also shown how the inf-compact representation can be simplified for any W-operator such that it is extensive and its dual operator is idempotent -in a strict sense-. Furthermore, if the W-operators are openings (respectively, closings), we have shown that this simplified sup-compact (respectively, inf-compact) representation reduces to a minimal realization of the classical Matheron's representations for translation invariant openings (respectively, closings).


Emancipation of women is the importent content of the Chinese revolution. In this artical, the author inquires deeply the women's liberation thoughts of the CCP in the different Period of New Democracy.


Background. Technological innovations are boosting in the field of finance, and this tendency is similar at fundraising as well. By introducing new ways of payment and digital currencies, all organisations have to follow the trends to be able to accept payments for their goods and services. The third sector must also follow the newest trends that could make donations easier for philanthropic people, but they should be aware of the necessary devices and the costs of the different methods of payment. Research aims. This article is comparing the different possibilities to achieve money, and with the results of a survey, it reveals the rentable possibilities by identifying the most popular communication platforms. Methodology. Comparative and descriptive statistical methods are used to analyse data gained from an online survey to reveal the viability of new technologies at the field of philanthropy. Key findings. The characteristics of donors are analysed, and the most preferred forms of giving are also highlighted to help the actors of the civil sector to establish a competitive fundraising strategy by the help of new technologies.


Mozart and the Gray Steward, an early one-act play by Thornton Wilder, facilitates creative study of theater direction in the college classroom. Rife with potential, this obscure, very short play stimulates imagination and learning in the areas of dramaturgy, character analysis, style, casting, design, staging, and pacing. The exploration of links between Mozart and the Gray Steward and Wilder's early letters and life experiences and reflections of both in his mature work promotes understanding of the interconnection between an artist's life and his creativity for undergraduate students close to Wilder's age when he wrote the play. Such dramaturgical research fosters discussion about character analysis as well as casting, leading to meaningful practice in staging and character development as students workshop scenes. Exploring a director's relationship with a design team, informed by the aesthetic of the playwright, is another of the benefits of this sort of research. Because the plot seesaws between realism and nonrealism, this hitherto uncelebrated Wilder one-act provides a valuable opportunity for classroom discussion of pacing, staging, and other stylistic issues in an undergraduate directing curriculum.


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 The vertical distribution of introduced Siberian weasels Mustela sibirica and endemic Japanese weasels M. itatsi in the Seburi Mountains in Kyushu, Japan, was examined from October 1996 to February 1998. Siberian weasels occurred near villages with paddy and cultivated fields, whereas Japanese weasels occurred in grasslands and plantations. The dispersion of yearlings destabilized the distributions of both weasel species. The horizontal distribution of both species throughout Japan was examined by means of collection of dead specimens and by trapping from March 1998 to March 2002. The eastern boundary of the distribution of the Siberian weasel was Fukui, Nagano, and Aichi prefectures; however, the distribution is expanding slowly eastward. The Siberian weasel cannot invade new habitats that lack nearby villages in Seburi, and cannot expand its range in the eastern area of Aichi, where Japanese weasels are dominant. The presence of the Japanese weasel likely prevents expansion of the distribution of the Siberian weasel.


Abstract An Einstein-like approximation for phonons is presented and used to estimate the free energy of ionic crystals at finite temperatures. The long-range Coulomb forces in these materials correlate the motion of the ions so that the local modes correspond to the vibrations of embedded layers. The thermal expansion of bulk oxides can be efficiently calculated using these modes and is found to be in good agreement with lengthier calculations that use the full phonon spectrum. The model can also be applied to defect structures with two-dimensional symmetry which are normally inaccessible to the harmonic approximation due to computational limitations. Results of calculations on a (100) rocksalt surface are presented. The local modes reflect the symmetry of the surface and are sensitive to variations of the ionic locations in the surface region. This model provides a reasonably accurate and efficient method of studying surface relaxation with temperature.


This essay is about mathematics as a written or literate language. Through historical and anthropological observations drawn from the history of Greek mathematics and the oral tradition preceding the rise of literacy in Greece, as well as considerations on the nature of alphabetic writing, it is argued that three essential linguistic features of mathematical discourse are jointly possible only through written, alphabetic language. The essay concludes with a discussion of how both alphabetic principles and issues related to literacy faced by the Greeks in the axiomatization of geometry play a central role in some specific metamathematical theories. Drawing extensively on the work of ArpSd Szatx5, Eric Havelock, and Albert Lord, the implications developed between Szab6's history of Greek mathematics and Havelock and Lord's theories of writing and oral traditions (Homer's in particular) are the author's own, as are the applications to modern logic.


In this paper, a graph is assigned to any probability measure on the -algebra of Borel sets of a topological space. Using this construction, it is proved that given any number (finite or infinite) there exists a nonregular graph such that its clique, chromatic, and dominating number equals .


Only the Olympians and Egyptian royalty enjoyed such fluidity along a sibling-spouse continuum; Lygdamus means by ' wife' a woman with whom he has sexual relations, by 'sister' one with whom he does not, and it is tempting to connect his use of coniugium to designate a possibily illicit liaison with the Augustan marriage laws. The Panegyric is declared a late creation (2nd century), again largely on the basis of similarities with poetry written after its ostensible date of 31 B.C. Fairly typical is T.'s attitude to certain agreements with Statius: 'Es ist kaum denkbar, dass zwei Dichter unabhangig voneinander auf die nur bei ihnen belegten Hexameterschlusse confinia mortis und grauis impetus hastae sowie auf den Gebrauch des sehr seltenen Verbums inerrare von einem tonlosen Sprechen verfallen sind' (180), to which he adds the likeness of 3.7.36 quique canent uincto pede quique soluto to Sil. 2.7.21f. qui uos geminas tulit per artes et uinctae pede uocis et solutae. But these last two passages simply share perfectly conventional terms for 'poetry' and 'prose,' while inerrare is not so unusual that it could not have occurred to two different poets independently, and the first two phrases are conceivably borrowed from a common source such as Ennius. Other reasons for denying authenticity are no more persuasive. If, for example, the poet gives few details of Messalla's previous activity, that is probably because most of it was in civil wars, always a touchy subject for panegyric; and I simply do not see why the fact that Horace will later predict a British conquest by Augustus should preclude the panegyrist forecasting one for Messalla four years before the establishment of the principate.


In this paper, we consider timed automata for piecewise constant signals. In the model presented here, time elapses only during transitions; any constraint on clocks should be satisfied during all the duration of the transition. Signal automata are very different from un-timed and time-event automata because piecewise constant signals may be split (and spliced) in an infinite number of ways. We show that there exist signal regular expressions with renaming describing exactly the languages accepted by signal automata. The constructions show the similarities and differences from the time-event model. Abstract In this paper, we consider timed automata for piecewise constant signals. In the model presented here, time elapses only during transitions; any constraint on clocks should be satisfied during all the duration of the transition. Signal automata are very different from un-timed and time-event automata because piecewise constant signals may be split (and spliced) in an infinite number of ways. We show that there exist signal regular expressions with renaming describing exactly the languages accepted by signal automata. The constructions show the similarities and differences from the time-event model.


The unicellular marine diatom, Chaetoceros gracilis Schutt, has been commonly used as an important live food for crustacean larvae in Thailand. In this study, the effects of sodium bicarbonate concentrations (0.05, 0.50 and 5.00 g L -1 ) on growth and biochemical composition of C. gracilis were investigated. C. gracilis was cultured with modified f/2 medium at 25±1°C and continuous illumination (5,000 Lux). C. gracilis cells were harvested only once after the culture period at 60 h to analyze carbohydrates, protein and total lipid contents. The results showed that the accumulation of carbohydrates and total lipid in C. gracilis was highest in 0.05 g L -1 sodium bicarbonate while cell density was unaffected as it was not different (P>0.05) from that of the control group (no sodium bicarbonate added). These results can be applied for nutritional improvement of this diatom used as live feed for marine animal larviculture.


Background: Achilles tendon (AT) defects often occur in traumatic and chronic injuries. Currently, no graft can satisfactorily regenerate parallel tendinous tissue at the defect site to completely restore AT function. Purpose: To develop a cell-free functional graft by tethering bone morphogenetic protein 12 (BMP-12) on a book-shaped decellularized tendon matrix (BDTM) and to determine whether this graft is more beneficial for AT defect healing than an autograft. Study Design: Controlled laboratory study. Methods: Canine patellar tendon was sectioned into a book shape and decellularized to fabricate a BDTM. The collagen-binding domain (CBD) was fused into the N-terminus of BMP-12 to synthesize a recombinant BMP-12 (CBD-BMP-12), which was tethered to the BDTM to prepare a cell-free functional graft (CBD-BMP-12/BDTM). After its tensile resistance, tenogenic inducibility, and BMP-12 release dynamics were evaluated, the efficacy of the graft for tendon regeneration was determined in a rat model. A total of 140 mature male Sprague-Dawley rats underwent AT tenotomy. The defect was reconstructed with reversed AT (autograft group), native BMP-12 tethered to an intact decellularized tendon matrix (IDTM; NAT-BMP-12/IDTM group), native BMP-12 tethered to a BDTM (NAT-BMP-12/BDTM group), CBD-BMP-12 tethered on an IDTM (CBD-BMP-12/IDTM group), and CBD-BMP-12 tethered on a BDTM (CBD-BMP-12/BDTM group). The rats were sacrificed 4 or 8 weeks after surgery to harvest AT specimens. Six specimens from each group at each time point were used for histological evaluation; the remaining 8 specimens were used for biomechanical testing. Results: In vitro CBD-BMP-12/BDTM was noncytotoxic, showed high biomimetics with native tendons, was suitable for cell adhesion and growth, and had superior tenogenic inducibility. In vivo the defective AT in the CBD-BMP-12/BDTM group regenerated more naturally than in the other groups, as indicated by more spindle-shaped fibroblasts embedded in a matrix of parallel fibers. The biomechanical properties of the regenerated AT in the CBD-BMP-12/BDTM group also increased more significantly than in the other groups. Conclusion: CBD-BMP-12/BDTM is more beneficial than autograft for healing AT defects in a rat model. Clinical Relevance: The findings of this study demonstrate that CBD-BMP-12/BDTM can serve as a practical graft for reconstructing AT defects.


The Danube Delta is a wetland of global importance, providing several ecosystem services. The sustainable development (i.e., economic, social and environmental) in the area depends on the health, quality and quantity of the natural resources. Water is one of the most important resources. Largely, the Danube Delta, which receives the input of water and sediment flux from the Danube River, gathered form its entire basin, may experiences lower water quality due to natural and anthropogenic factors, from basin to local level. The physical-chemical parameters are a subsequent part of the environmental metrics (i.e., greenhouse gas emissions, energy-generation mix, water use, water pollution and waste generation). To understand water quality patterns, several physical-chemical parameters as depth (m), transparency(m), water temperature (oC), dissolved oxygen content (mg/L and saturation), pH (units), electrical conductivity (?S/cm), total dissolved solids (mg/L), turbidity (mg/L) and total suspended solids (mg/L) were surveyed at 77 sites along different shallow lakes belonging to the Lopatna-Matita-Merhei interdistributary depression, Danube Delta, Romania. The water samples were collected during May 2023, a period characterized by high water level of the Danube River. The obtained results within this study will contribute to baseline information necessary for short, -medium and long-term database for environmental studies, to ensure conservation of the unique Danube Delta's aquatic ecosystems.


Ubiquinone was isolated from aerobically, semi-aerobically, and photosynthetically grown cells of the green mutan t of Rhodopseudomonas spheroides (strain 2.4.z Ga). The ubiquinone in each case was characterized by its oxidized and reduced absorption spectra and the specific homologue was identified chromatographically. Under all growth conditions ubiquinone-Io was the only homologue found to be present.


This master thesis deals with Ascii Art and methods of its creation. This document involves the principles of computer graphics and object-oriented programming with support for graphical user interface. The practical part presents the method of transfer from image to text with showcase examples and compares them with each other. The most important part of this work consists of author created software for generating Ascii Art.


Objective: To explore the flow velocity estimation in ultrasonic medical Color flow mapping system. Methods: The theory of autocorrelation and crosscorrelation algorithms for color flow mapping was analyzed, and the two algorithms were simulated in Field II software enviroment. Respectively when the central speed of flow is 0.5m/s (low speed) and 0.5m/s (high speed) carries on the blood stream speed simulation. Then we get the flow velocity curve for each algorithm in different core flow velocity, and compare them. Results: Phase domain auto-correlation method for low blood flow velocity estimation are stronger than time-domain cross-correlation method in accuracy and stability; For high-speed blood flow phase-domain method resulted in aliasing, but the time-domain method can increase the value of the scope of the search will still be able to obtain accurate estimates. Conclusion: The two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages,and complement each other. In practice, we can consider a combination of two methods to fully utilize the advantages of both.


Venerando et al reported an increased quantity of sialic acid at the surface of erythrocytes in diabetic patients and associated the increase with decreased activity of neutral sialidase, an enzyme for which they had previously demonstrated a role in physiologic desialylation of red cells.[1][1] In


We present two user interfaces: one multimodal dialogue system and one task-based calendar which assist people with mild cognitive disabilities affecting their concentration and memory. A new middleware based upon a new open industrial standard—ISO/IEC 24752 Universal Remote Console (URC)—allows access to any network services or appliances as well as devices for home entertainment and household via abstract user interfaces. This architecture promotes the concept of pluggable user interfaces, that is, the abstract user interface being rendered on a controller.


Tea is one of three drinks such as tea, coca and coffer.China,India,Sri Lanka,Kenya and Indonesia are the main five tea export countries in the world since the 1980s.On the basis of "National Diamond Model",the governmental supporting tea industry is based on using new production factors and on adjusting the shortage of factors structure of tea management bodies.Self innovation and industrialization of tea enterprises are the key to promoting international competence of China tea.


Storing digital images is a common task in a variety of domains, ranging from family photo albums to medical imaging. Where many images need to be saved, efficient coding is essential. JPEG, as a wellestablished codec for still-image compression, is used in a variety of use cases. This thesis analyzes improvements on compression performance by introducing a prediction step through regression tree fields. RTFs are used to predict coefficients of JPEG's discrete cosine transform, which allows to encode only differences of small magnitude instead of the original coefficients. The adapted compression scheme's degrees of freedom (e.g. prediction order, RTF loss function, and encoding procedure) are analyzed with respect to their influence on compression performance. This thesis' results show that the general idea of predicting coefficient images can improve the compression performance significantly. Especially loss-specific optimization poses a great gain, which induced the development of an entropybased loss function. Furthermore, the results are evident that RTF models are not suited for predictions in the frequency domain with respect to compression, which suggests further work with different models and image representations based on the developed scheme.


By default, all STIS CCD exposures are split into a minimum of two subexposures to allow for cosmic ray removal. An underlying assumption of the cosmic ray removal algorithm is that the subexposures are well-registered. This assumption breaks down if the target wanders too much in the spectroscopic slit during the observation due to telescope jitter, particularly if the jitter occurs predominantly in one subexposure. In such cases, the algorithm may reject large fractions of valid data, leading to systematically underestimated flux, even for wide slit widths where slit losses from the jitter are negligible. Such datasets may or may not present with unusual line profiles. In this work, we present a technique for using the cosmic ray data quality flags to identify potentially problematic spectra and demonstrate its effectiveness in flagging observations of standard stars with apparent 5-15% flux losses.


The scene is set or, rather, contextualised in the paper by Patrick Brézillon and Pascale Zaraté on "group decision making: a context-oriented view" which presents the analysis of a case study concerning the introduction of Information Technology in a newspaper firm, in the light of context. This analysis shows how complexity of information streams inside and outside of the firm gives a complex aspect to the change introduced in this firm. The authors identify several types of contexts at different granularities with relationships based on the transformation from the contextual knowledge into the proceduralised context. This case study shows how making context explicit can improve the interaction among the actors of the firm in a consequential way.


In September 2005, at the end of the World Summit held in New York for the 60th anniversary of the United Nations, the attending Heads of States (...)


The aim of the present work is to investigate, by mean of numerical techniques, the dynamics of turbulent two-phase flows in practical aeronautical applications. A Large Eddy Simulation EulerianLagrangian particle methodology is applied to the study of a twophase flow in an experimental burner. A Lagrangian description of the dispersed phase is adopted and combined with an Eulerian description of the continuous phase with two-way couphng between the gas and the liquid phase. A probabihstic description of the hquid phase is incorporated and stochastic models for the filtered Lagrangian rates of change of droplet position, mass and temperature are presented. A stochastic formulation for the droplet diameters is devised and incorporated into the equation describing the evolution of the spray pdf in order to simulate the atomisation of sprays in the framework of uncorrelated breakup events. Several non-reacting and reacting test cases are simulated. In the non-reacting cases the performances of the numerical methodology are investigated through comparison of the predicted values of the gas-phase, as well as data for the hquid phase with experimental findings. In the reacting cases the same numerical methodology is applied to the study of the ignition in an aeronautical-type swirl-stabilized spray burner.


Contrary to the opinions of certain sociologists, the issue of the extent to which the concepts of learning theory will be useful to social psychologists will be settled on the basis of empirical data and not on the basis of questionable philosophical commitments. Learning theory has already been shown to have some applicability to human data, but there is a great need for further experimentation. Learning theory does not violate Morgan's canon, as has been charged, nor is there any mischievous distortion of data as the result of emphasis on the experimental method.


We argue that investors could have wrong initial beliefs about the information content of stock dividends. They gradually update their beliefs after learning from firm performance following stock dividend distributions. In support of the learning hypothesis, we document several new findings. We show that operating performance significantly declines after stock dividend distributions. Investors overreact to a firm's early stock dividend announcements and drastically lower the announcement return as the firm announces more and more follow-on stock dividends. Investor learning also reduces demands for stock dividends. The fraction of stock dividend payers sharply decreases from 14.0% in 1950s to merely 0.2% in 2010s. Institutional investor ownership is able to explain 92.5% of the temporal variation in the fraction of stock dividend payers.


This article analyzes the problem of referentiality in the historical novel, based on a comparison between its classic and contemporary forms. The first section addresses the "mixture of history and invention" that, following Alessandro Manzoni, was the foremost characteristic of the realist historical novel. The next section discusses how the meta-historical novel of the second half of the 20th century - for example, Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee) and El entenado (Juan José Saer)-eclipsed the problem of referentiality by assuming that the historical novel should operate by its own procedures, and not those of history. The following sections discuss the referential turn in 21st century literary narratives, focusing on three novels: El material humano, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa; K. Relato de uma busca, by Bernardo Kucinski, and Jan Karski, by Yannick Haenel. The article concludes that the inversion of these two poles—from non-referentiality to the predominance of referentiality—is an unexpected facet of the elasticity of the concept (and practice) of fiction, which by denying itself ultimately enriches itself.


Demand of today's globalized business world is to join different kind of data & communication sources and cross-border collaborations have led to work with distributed environments across multiple organizational and geographical boundaries. The new requirements of portability, configurability and interoperability of distributed device networks put forward new challenges and security risks to the system's design and implementation. There are critical demands on highly secured collaborative control environments and security enhancing mechanisms for distributed device control, configuration, monitoring, and interoperation. This paper addresses the collaborative control issues of distributed device networks with entity authentication. The security challenges of authenticity, integrity, confidentiality, and execution safety are considered as primary design constraints. By adopting policy-based network security technologies, a technique of passing secret key is designed in this paper to provide high authenticity in distributed network, more over modules of Secure Device Control Gateway and Security Agent are modified into regular distributed device control networks to provide security and safety enhancing mechanisms. The main architectures, applied mechanisms, and implementation considerations are presented in detail in this paper.


Jiang Zeming's Theory of Nationality Problem answered a series of questions systematically and scientifically that how to understand the meanings, the orientation, the causes, the characteristics, the quality, the principles, the system, the outlet, the key point, the conjunction question, etc correctly, which are the basic questions of the socialism nationality problem, which come into being the scientific system of Jiang Zeming's theory of nationality problem.


This study was a preliminary observation for a potential use of the bovine bone-based hydroxyapatite (b-HA)/poly(lactic acid) (PLA) composite as a biomaterial. SEM micrographs, XRD pattern, and FTIR spectrum of calcined bovine bone revealed that the obtained powder was in a form of crystalline carbonated HA, and highly agglomerated. The surface of HA powder was modified with either 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APES) or 3-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (MPTS) in order to enhance the compatibility between b-HA and PLA matrix. TGA and GPC results revealed that the incorporation of silane-treated HA into the PLA matrix significantly increased thermal stability of the composites and decreased the thermal degradation of PLA chains. SEM micrographs revealed that modification of HA with APES or MPTS eased dispersion of HA in PLA matrix and enhanced interfacial adhesion between both phases. Therefore, the mechanical properties of silane treated HA/PLA composites were improved as compared with those of b-HA/PLA composites. In addition, in vitro cytotoxicity tests indicated that the extracts from all HA/PLA composites had no toxicity to human osteoblast cell.


Recently, unobservable physiological signals have received widespread attention from researchers as unique identifiers of users in biometrics. However, due to the lack of data sets, existing methods are limited in evaluating cross-session scenarios. Cross-session means that signals are collected at different sessions (times). In real scenarios, authentication is almost always cross-session. Currently, the datasets commonly used for Photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal authentication span around one month, which is insufficient for authentication. On the other hand, different demographic groups have different hemodynamic characteristics, but existing methods lack an assessment of these aspects. This paper introduces a dataset to provide insights into PPG signal-based authentication across different time spans and user groups (age, gender). As physiological signals offer unique advantages for user authentication, the potential of PPG signals is gradually explored. Furthermore, our comparative analysis of recent publications on data-driven user authentication using PPG can further identify the similarities and differences among the performance of the proposed authentication models. Our findings may help future research towards a consensus on an appropriate set of performance metrics.


This multicenter, double‐blind, parallel‐group study compared the effects of three dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers (lercanidipine, felodipine, and nifedipine gastrointestinal therapeutic system) on blood pressure and heart rate in 250 patients with mild to moderate hypertension (diastolic blood pressure 95 and 109 mm Hg). Patients were randomized to 4 weeks of treatment with once‐daily doses of lercanidipine 10 mg, felodipine 10 mg, or nifedipine gastrointestinal therapeutic system 30 mg. After 4 weeks of treatment, the dose was doubled in nonresponding patients. At 8 weeks, no significant differences in blood pressure were observed among the three groups. Increases in heart rate in all three groups induced by stressful conditions before and after treatment were not exacerbated during active treatment. The incidence of adverse drug reactions was lower in the lercanidipine and nifedipine groups than in the felodipine group (p<0.05); in particular, the incidence of edema for lercanidipine was 5.5% vs. 13% for felodipine and 6.6% for nifedipine.


Abstract A study of organisms around an ocean sewage outfall showed that bacteria of faecal origin could be detected in the sediment up to 8 km from the outfall. The direction of the currents and wind affected distribution, and even when bacteria were not detected in the water column they were detected in the sediments. The implications of these results for recreational areas and shellfish beds are discussed.


The chemical structure of product oils and recycle solvents derived from the solvent-recycle liquefaction experiment of Taiheiyo coal was studied by means of "molecular-ion-spectrum method" utilizing FI mass spectrometry. Hydrogenated anthracene oil, used as a starting solvent, is mainly composed of aromatic hydrocarbons of two to four rings. Hydrogen donating compounds contained in the hydrogenated anthracene oil, such as dihydrophenanthrene, tetrahydropyrene, hydrogenated acridines etc., were quickly dehydrogenated in the early stage of recycling. Acidic oil, saturate oil and polar oil were integrated in the recycle solvent by each recycle run, but their compositions did not show a marked change with recycling.


Trimethylsilyl ketene acetals reacted with benzoyl cyanide in the absence of a catalyst to give N-trimethylsilyl-β-benzoyl-β-iminopropionates. In the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst they gave the corresponding α-benzoylcarboxylates in moderate yields. Several new malates have been synthesized by condensing the acetals with α-keto esters in the presence of the same catalyst.


This study examines the effect of fertility levels on household welfare in Nigeria during the period from 1980 to 2020. Using data from the World Development Indicators for 2021, the estimation process began with a unit root test for the stationarity of the variables. A bounds cointegration test showed the presence of a long-run relationship between household consumption expenditure and fertility, but the result was inconclusive when real GDP per capita was used as a welfare proxy. The ARDL model was employed and the results showed that fertility had a negative, significant effect on household consumption per capita only in the short run. The effect was from previous years thereby showing a lagged effect. However, when welfare is measured using real GDP per capita, there were both short-run and long-run effects, such that Kuznets' hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped relationship was obtained in the short run. In the long run, however, the relationship becomes U-shaped, implying that there is the possibility of a demographic dividend in the long run. Fertility policies must endeavor to control for the immediate or short-run negative effects of rising fertility rates and make deliberate plans to engage the future large working population in order to reap the possible demographic dividend.


AbstractThe study dealt with rigorous finite-element analysis of wood-frame houses to study the influence of the roof, side and partition walls, and base connection (of wall to lower structure, suc...


Influencer marketing on social media is one of the fastest-growing trends in marketing and advertising campaigns. Advertisers are investing more and more funds in that type of marketing because influencers have big and loyal fan bases that they influence, especially when it comes to buying the products that they advertise. Social media platform Instagram is one of the most popular platforms for influencer marketing, given that it is a social media for posting photos and videos, and the captions are usually short (few words and hashtags), so they correspond to what the target audience of most of the advertisers (generation Z) wants. The research presented in this paper was conducted in the winter semester of 2022/2023 at VERN University and Algebra University College, on a sample of 106 students. The purpose of this research was to examine students' perception of influencer marketing, and whether they think that this method of marketing is something that encourages them to purchase a product that is advertised.


Ti films of 66.8 nm were deposited, using resistive heat method and post-annealed at different temperatures with flow of oxygen. The nano-structures of the films were obtained using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The results showed an initial reduction of the grain size at 373 K annealing temperature and increase of the grain size at higher temperatures. The cause of this was due to the reaction of oxygen with Ti atoms which breaks up the Ti grains and hence needle–like features form. The increase of annealing temperature to 473 and 573 K enhances the activation processes, hence diffusion effect and results in larger grains. The resistivity of the film increased with annealing temperature, which is due to competition between increased diffusion rate and the increased reaction rate of oxygen with Ti atoms. The latter increases the resistivity of the thin film while the former decreases its the resistivity.


Van Dalem et al. did not find significant differences in risk of first acute myocardial infarction and mortality between gliclazide and use of other sulphonylureas (SU)[1]. The authors concluded that gliclazide was not safer than other SUs and they question whether gliclazide should be the preferred SU as it currently is in some countries as in the Netherlands. We have several concerns with the interpretation of the results.


This study aims to produce a model of introduction to the basis of sepak takraw basic techniques through a play approach for elementary school children of upper class. This research was carried out by adapting the 8 steps of the Borg & Gall research, these steps include: (1) gathering field information, (2) analyzing the information that has been collected, (3) developing initial products, (4) expert validation and revisions, (5) small-scale field trials and revisions, (6) large-scale field trials and revisions, (7) manufacturing of final products, (8) product effectiveness tests. A small-scale trial was carried out on 22 upper-grade elementary school children (SDN Sukorejo 01). A large-scale trial was conducted on 82 high school elementary school children (SDN Bendogerit 02, SDN Gedog 02, and SDN Sentul 01). The instruments used for data collection were observation guidelines, interviews, field notes, value scales, effectiveness test assessment sheets, and assessment of learning outcomes. The results of this Jurnal SPORTIF: Jurnal Penelitian Pembelajaran, 6 (1) 2020 | 226-241 ISSN : 2477-3379 (Online) ISSN : 2548-7833 (Print) 227 https://doi.org/10.29407/js_unpgri.v6i1.13652 6 (1) 2020 | 226-241 study are in the form of an introduction to the basic techniques of sepak takraw through a play approach, which contains 5 game models based on the sepak takraw basic techniques and arranged in the form of a game manual. From the results of the assessment of material experts and practitioners, it can be concluded that the introduction of the sepak takraw basic techniques through the play approach for elementary school children is categorized as good and effective, so that the game model is feasible to use.


Dielectric and proton magnetic relaxation of thermotropic linear polyesters with fumaroyl benzoate fragments was studied in semidilute solutions and in the gel state. Specific features of the chain dynamics were established and the influence of molecular aggregation on this dynamics was studied as a function of the polymer concentration in solution. It was shown that cooperative motions of associated mesogenic fragments takes place along with the local motions of short fragments of monomer units. The cooperative motion is characterized by large values of the relaxation time (10 -6 s) and the activation energy (100 kJ/mol). All the relaxation processes observed in solutions proceed in the gel state as well.


: Background: There is little evidence on the incidence and characteristics of local allergic rhinitis (LAR) in children. Most studies have included subjects with perennial rhinitis only and results are based on the investigation of no more than three allergens per study. Our aim was to determine the proportion of children with LAR amongst children with chronic, difficult to treat, perennial or seasonal, rhinitis but no evidence of sensitization to aeroallergens, or other alternative diagnosis. Methods: We performed multiple nasal provocation tests (M-NPT) with four locally relevant aeroallergens (P. pratense, O. europea, A. alternata, D. pteronyssinus) in children with absence of aeroallergen-sensitization, seen during a calendar year in a specialized rhinitis clinic. We additionally performed single NPT to children with allergic rhinitis (AR; positive control group). The result of the NPT was based on symptoms and acoustic rhinometry. Identification of nasal hyper-reactivity (NHR) triggers was through a questionnaire. Results: LAR was confirmed in 29.2% (7/24) of the negative SPT/blood testing population. All but one of the children reacted to one allergen and one to two. All AR-children had positive single NPT with results similar to the LAR. There were no differences in age at examination and rhinitis onset, gender distribution, family atopy, and past or current environment of residency while the prevalence of reported NHR-triggers was comparable amongst the three groups. Conclusion


"Scaffolding" is a contemporary pedagogical approach introduced by Wood et al. (1976) in their attempt to establish the most important components of teaching, based on pedagogical views of L.S. Vygotsky. Changes in the Modern Age affect the demographic profile of early childhood, which changes rapidly in the classroom, and therefore it is necessary to change our theories, ideas, and educational practice as well. A biggest debate in the field of early childhood is to define a role of an oriented teacher in the approach which places a child in the center of the educational process. Considering the essence of "scaffolding", which is based on interaction, co-construction, inter-subjectivity, and a significance of the role of an adult in maximizing the child's potentials, and the development of meta-cognition in different aspects of development (cognitive, social, emotional, physical and the language domain), we emphasize its pedagogical value and valency. Numerous contradictions of the postmodern conception of childhood point to the need for the pedagogical approach based on the wide range of intersubjectivity, which exactly implies the application of "scaffolding". By analyzing the available scientific-research material, we complete the most frequent concept of "scaffolding" in the literature, as a process in which a child has provided challenging tasks and activities in a supportive environment, which stimulate his/her ability to independently solve the problem. Accordingly, we raise the question of the possibility to integrate "scaffolding" in our educational practice, and the possibility to appropriately translate the term in Serbian language in order to facilitate its acceptance, comprehension, and the use both in educational theory and practice.


Characteristics in the distribution of available cadmium in soil in kunshan City of Jiangsu Province was investigated in the present study.The content of available Cd in soil is relatively high,with the average being at 0.092 mg/kg and the maximum 0.354 mg/kg,and the available rate of soil Cd up to 53%.It is indicated that Cd is one of the main pollutants among heavy metals in soil in this area.The content of available Cd is significantly positively correlated with the content of total Cd in the upper layer soil,with the equation being at y=0.748 9x-0.029 8(r=0.886r_0.01=0.463,n=30).It is shown that the content of available Cd in soil is mainly affected by the total Cd in soil in this area.The available Cd and available rate of Cd are reltively high in areas with chemical factories,although the function of these areas may differ in economy,and these two parameters are high in the middle plain areas of different physiognomy in this city.The available rate of Cd is significantly higher in the middle plain area than in the north low area.Overall,in soil the available content and available rate of Cd is higher in the upper layer,indicating that the environmental risk of Cd exists mainly in the upper 20 cm layer of soil.


The time evolution of a kinetic growth model, which is referred to as the one-seed binary Eden model, is studied. This model is a mixture of growing sites which have two different growth rates and a suitable model for realistic propagation phenomena such as epidemic spreading. We perform numerical analysis of this model. By varying the ratio of mixture, the growing pattern changes from that of the simple Eden model to that of the inversion percolation model.


Biological diversity (or in short: Biodiversity) as defined in Article 2 of the CBD "...means the variability among living organisms ... and the ecological complexes of which they are part." This includes the diversity of ecosystems, the diversity among species, and genetic diversity and relates to wild species as well as to domestic species. There are numerous ways of measuring certain aspects of biological diversity. For example to identify a representative selection of all major habitat types (like the WWF's Global200-Programme, OLSON & DINERSTEIN, 1998), or to identify the areas of the world hosting the highest number of plant species per given unit area (MUTKE & BARTHLOTT, 2005), or to point out areas with the highest number of endemic bird species (STATTERSFIELD ET AL., 1998), or to show where the centres of genetic diversity for major food crops are located (PRIMACK, 1993), to name but a few.


Recreational importance of the national park "de Hoge Veluwe". R's nationality, residence / distance from ( temporary ) residence / frequency of visiting "de Hoge Veluwe" and in which season / duration of stay / visited areas and facilities, recreational activities / means of transport / reason for not visiting the museum "Kroeller-Mueller" / attractiveness and quality of the various facilities / characteristics of nature and landscape / entry-price / whether r saw wild animals / use of "white" bicycles / visiting the "visiter's centre" / satisfaction about museum "Kroeller-Mueller" / frequency of visiting other museums. Background variables: organizational membership


According to the daily-life theory, processes of humanization happen in the daily and non-daily levels of objectivation, with a difference between them: the non-daily level of humanization requires an intentional relationship with the human objectivations. In the historical-critical perspective, the specific aim of school education is (and must be) to produce non-daily needs, that is, needs related to science, arts, philosophy, moral (ethics) and politics. Would the non-daily need development be possible in pre-school age? What are the requests to non-daily activities? The historical-cultural theory shows the slight borders between daily and non-daily activities, as well as some of the greatest possibilities of children development, critically focusing on the need to fight for the children's rights and change the child-adult- relationship.


In this paper,the vector be consider as a tool to resolve the plane geometry in the calculation and certification problems.At the same time.From two aspects to illustrate the issue of vector method to thinking methods and specific problem-solving steps of proving geometric problems.


The ecological industrial parks produce as well as domestic and international progress was systematically narrated. The crucial content and the program principle of ecological industrial parks was discussed. The important effect of circular economic and ecological industrial concept in developing national economy was explained.


Progressive economic growth as well as prodigious consumption of energy are expected among Asian countries. Nuclear power has myriad advantages, among them particularly being its status as a low carbon technology and therefore nuclear power would make a significant contribution to curtailing CO2 emissions. However, the prospects for nuclear power are hindered by some unresolved problems: perceived adverse safety, environmental, and health effects; potential security risks stemming from proliferation; and unresolved challenges in long-term management of nuclear wastes. Thorium utilization as a nuclear fuel will serve as a cornerstone of circumventing such problems, because thorium produces less radioactive waste (i.e. less plutonium) and thus safety, which is of paramount concern, will be enhanced. The deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) as an alternative to supplant gasoline engine cars in the transportation network, will significantly contribute in the reduction of global CO2 emissions. Rare-earth materials such as neodymium and dysprosium will be essential as a new material for electric automobiles. Thorium is often obtained as a by-product of rare-earth metals, but it is still not utilized as a nuclear fuel currently due to the lack of its own fissionable isotopes and as such, it cannot be employed in the production of nuclear weapons. Recent trends of nuclear disarmament and accumulation of plutonium from uranium fuel cycle can propel the deployment of thorium. The implementation capacity of thorium nuclear power is estimated to be about 392 GWe at 2050. The utilization of thorium will both help to provide clean energy and to supply rare-earth materials for clean automobiles. In order for us to effect the commercial deployment of thorium resources, establishment of an international framework to supply resources from developing countries as well as to supply technology from developed countries is indeed imperative. Herein, the author propose "The Bank (Thorium energy Bank)" as such a framework. Keyword: thorium; electricity; transportation; rare-earth; climate change


By introducing two kinds of controlling methods of electronic counting filling for granule packaging by their process, structure, hardware and software system, and also analyzing the shortage of the old method and application value of the new one, a controlling method which can remarkably speed up the electronic counting filling for granule packaging is put forward in this paper, and finally its application will obviously increase the packaging output in production.


Anaerobic digestion is a widely used technology that can process various kinds of organic wastes for biogas production by decomposing organic matter under oxygen-free conditions. Anaerobic digestion of organic matter has been considered as a suitable technology for organic wastes treatment and energy production in the form of biogas. The main aim of the paper is to present the results of different experiments carried out in order to provide data about biogas production from different substrates with and without glucose addition. The experimental data showed that the glucose addition was stimulatory for biochemical reactions and benefic for biogas production. We concluded that the biogas production resulted from anaerobic digestion of animal manure is substantially affected by the composition of feedstocks.


BACKGROUND: Obesity is a risk factor happening liver fibrosis because it makes presence of oxidative stress and inflammation that has role on pathogenesis and hepatic fibrosis progression. Until this moment, liver disease management still focused for treat disease primary, the most rational management of liver fibrosis is liver transplant, however number success transplant liver lower from on transplant kidneys, only 70-80% of recipients survived for at least 1 year, so that sleeve gastrectomy and liver omentoplasty procedure could become a choice for treating liver fibrosis on obese patients.
AIM: This study aims to investigate correlation between sleeve gastrectomy and omentoplasty on TGF-β and IL-10 in obese rats with liver fibrosis
METHOD: This study used a true experiment in-vivo design on male Wistar rat (Spargue Dawley) 4-6 weeks of age. Samples were divided into groups that includes normal control group, positive control group, group with sleeve gastrectomy, and group with both liver liver omentoplasty and sleeve gastrectomy. The level of TGF-β and IL-10 will be measured for descriptive and hypothesis analysis.
RESULT: There is an increased level of IL-10 and TGF-β. Statistical analysis result shows a significant increase of IL-10 and TGF-β expression between normal group and control group with group given treatment sleeve gastrectomy and liver liver omentoplasty (p<0.05).
CONCLUSION: liver Liver omentoplasty and sleeve gastrectomy procedure on obese mice with liver fibrosis could increases IL-10 expression but could not reduce (TGF-β expression).


A simple model of condensation growth and collapse in a turbulent dense core yields a distribution of stellar masses that matches the main features of the stellar initial mass function (IMF). In this model, stars in the "flat" and "power-law" parts of the IMF come from condensations with negligible and substantial growth, respectively. The mass accretion rate of a condensation is proportional to its mass, and the probability of stopping accretion is equal in every time interval, so the growth is exponential and its duration follows a Poisson distribution. For mass growth e-folding time τgrow and mean duration τstop, the stellar mass m has a probability density per logarithmic mass interval of ~m-x, where x ≡ τgrow/τstop. This power-law relation matches the IMF when τgrow ≈ τstop, as is expected if each of these times is set by the same properties of the surrounding core gas. We specify exponential growth arising from Bondi accretion onto a stationary Bonnor-Ebert sphere, in a core heated and stirred by associated stars. This growth is exponential, unlike the Bondi accretion onto a star, but "slow," with τgrow greater than the free-fall time of the condensation by a factor of ~4. We specify random stopping as due to sudden turbulent compression, which causes the condensation to collapse and stop accreting. For these mechanisms, a core with a density of 104 cm-3 grows a cluster of ~100 IMF-following stars with a mass range of 1-25 M☉ in 1.4 Myr, in accord with the masses and ages of embedded clusters.


Since the examination process is sometimes 'enshrouded in mystery', this article adds to the postgraduate (PG) examination culture by reporting the results of an exploratory study conducted in two phases in the Faculty of Management Studies at a large research university in South Africa. Following an in-depth review of the examiners' reports for a three-year period (2009-2011), an electronic survey was conducted among the examiners of a business faculty at a large research university, who were appointed during the aforementioned period. It became evident from this study that there are variations in terms of the range of requirements. Yet, universally, examiners of doctoral (PhD) theses and master's dissertations strive to achieve the same objectives, namely that the candidate should undertake a substantial and coherent original piece of research worthy of publication. When developing their reports of theses and dissertations, the following themes emerged: literature, technical presentation, content, methodology, which themes are also more or less similar to other international findings. Furthermore, the examiners' perception of a good/poor/passable thesis/dissertation stems from or is linked to 'unpacking' the abovementioned themes. There is also much congruence between the comments in the examiners' reports and what they reported in the survey. The findings, albeit exploratory, can be useful to research supervisors, examiners, and PG research students.


Surface activated surface alloy electrodes and a process for preparing them high in corrosion resistance and activity, comprising a corrosion-resistant metal selected from, or a corrosion-resistant alloy composed of two or more metals selected from titanium, zirconium, niobium and tantalum, or a corrosion-resistant metal selected from, or a corrosion-resistant alloy composed of two or more metals selected from titanium, zirconium, niobium and tantalum clad with a corrosion-resistant metal se lected from, or a corrosion-resistant alloy composed of two or more metals selected from titanium, zirconium, niobium and tantalum, or with any other metal or alloy, rolled or non-rolled, being used as a substrate metal or Sep. 22, 1986 JP Japan ................................ 61-222028 alloy; an alloy consisting of 20 to 67 atomic 9% of one or 511 Int. Cl. ....................... C25B 11/06; C25B 11/08 more metals selected from titanium, zirconium, niobium 52 U.S. C. .................................... 204/292; 204/293; and tantalum, 0.01 to 10 atomic % of oine or more 428/687; 427/53.1 platinum group metals of ruthenium, rhodium, palla 58 Field of Search ................ 204/292, 293; 428/687; dium, iridium and platinum, and substantially the re 427/53.1 maining amount of nickel and/or cobalt, existing on said substrate metal or alloy as a rapidly solidified surface (56) References Cited alloy of 150 um or less thickness containing amorphous U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS phase at least partially; and said surface alloy, being 4,253,933 3/1981 Sato ..................................... 204293 treated to be activated on the surface. 4,339,270 7/1982 Hashimoto .......................... 204/293 4,544,473 10/1985 Ovshinsky ........................... 204/293 3 Claims, 8 Drawing Sheets


Abstract : Our long-term goal is to understand the interactions between microorganisms and copper in estuaries that are heavily utilized by naval operations. We are particularly interested in the production of high-affinity, copper-complexing ligands by microbial populations in response to elevated copper concentrations.


Attacks on host computers by malicious peripherals are a growing problem; the inexorable advance of powerful, small, cheap peripherals, which attach to plug-and-play buses, has made such attacks easy to mount. At the same time, commodity operating systems lack systematic defenses.
We present Cinch, a pragmatic response to this threat. Cinch transforms USB peripherals to untrusted network endpoints, thereby allowing users and administrators to deploy a rich, existing toolbox from network security (firewalls, VPNs, DPIs, etc.) to defend the computer in a systematic way. Cinch uses virtualization technology to place the hardware in a logically separate and untrusted machine, and includes an interposition layer between the untrusted machine and the protected one. This layer accepts or rejects interaction with devices and enforces strict standards-compliant behavior, presenting to the protected machine the abstraction of "well-behaved" peripherals. We show that Cinch can be easily implemented on existing operating systems, concisely expresses policies that thwart many real-world attacks, and has low overhead.


Nurses' knowledge about patient safety is very important because nurses must show a positive attitude in supporting patient safety programs so that they carry out nursing practices safely. Patient Safety is a top priority in health services and is the first step to improve service quality and is related to hospital quality and image. In Indonesia alone, new incident reports were recorded at the Hospital Patient Safety Committee (KKPRS) of incidents from September 2013 to August 2014 as many as 145 incidents due to medical error cases. RSUD Haji Makassar has one of the programs in infection prevention and control related to health services but it has not been fully realized. This study aims to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge of nurses in the class 3 treatment room at the Haji Makassar Hospital with efforts to implement patient safety. The type of research used is cross sectional using a descriptive approach. Based on the results of the analysis, there is a relationship between the level of knowledge and the application of patient safety with a p-value of 0.006 <0.05. It is recommended to the hospital to organize education, training, and socialization to all health workers regarding efforts to implement patient safety, especially to nurses in order to increase nurses' knowledge regarding the application of patient safety


The present Research Article, "A Study on Arrivals and Prices of Major Agricultural Commodities at Largest APMC in Vidarbha Region" therefore, is a small attempt in reviewing the performance of the Regulated market by Analysing the trends in Arrivals and Prices and Marketing Channel of Major Commodities at the micro-level. This study, thus by way of evaluates the performance of market regulation through various dimensions. Chhatrapati Shivaji Market Yard, Hinganghat is on the forefront in business activities and on developmental aspects. The Hinganghat APMC has been ideally outlined on an area of 10.03 ha. The market provides all essential amenities to farmers and trader's viz., auction platform, shopcum-godown, weighbridge, city bus service terminus. The market has spacious auction platforms, sale halls, parking space. It has built commercial shops. The Hinganghat APMC has 2 sub-markets with all amenities. The APMC is famous for Cotton and Soybean marketing. The main sources of income were market and license fees and the expenditure items were salary and miscellaneous. Market committee follows sale of produce by open auction method only which is prescribed in the Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1963. The declining trend was observed in number of market functionaries over the study period. It is noticed that although trend of arrivals of some commodities viz., Cotton, Soybean and Gram was increasing but the prices of all the selected commodities showed the significant increasing trend during the period of 10 years i.e., 2012-13 to 2021-22. Further, it is observed that prices were more dependable upon lagged year prices in case of all commodities.


Draw beads are commonly used in deep drawing processes to control the flow of the blank into the die cavity during the forming operation. It works with the application of a restraining force and a frictional force. A complicated deformation process takes place as the sheet flows through the bead. Those cycles of deformation (bending/unbending) are accompanied by traction stress and bending moment of the sheet, effects who can be used to avoid different defects like wrinkles and sprigback. This paper presents a finite element study in order to identify the effects of the draw beads during deep drawing of complex parts and to establish a numerical instrument for: i). identification of the material behaviour; ii). optimisation of the effects of draw bead in order to assure the high quality of deep drawed pieces. The draw bead efficiency and effects depends on several elements: the bead penetration, the clearances between the bead and the shoulder, the shape of the bead, the radius of the bead and shoulder, the groove width, and the location of the draw bead. The presented numerical study is performed with finite element code MARC and takes account of all this parameters.


This paper has proposed a 0.22THz Denisov launcher of the quasi-optical mode converter (QOMC) for TE32,9-mode. By adjusting the disturbance parameters of the waveguide wall, the TE32,9 mode and its coupled mode can form Gaussian-like beam (or RF beam) in proper relative power. The simulation results show that the scalar correlation coefficient is 95.1% and the vector correlation coefficient is 90.5% at the launcher aperture.


Abstract Analyzing well production data is one of the important methods for estimating reservoir parameters such as hydrocarbon in place. Recent techniques rely on the use of material balance time to account for variable operating conditions. Many dual porosity reservoirs can be modeled by a composite reservoir. So production data analysis of composite dual porosity single permeability reservoirs is of great interest. Apparently, modern methods have not been applied to complex reservoir models such as composite dual porosity single permeability reservoirs. So the purpose of this article is to analyze production data of such reservoirs with the use of material balance time function. In the first step, a material balance time function is defined in the same way as the single porosity reservoirs and its applicability is confirmed by converting a constant well pressure solution to a constant well rate solution with the use of this time function. It should be noted that the available type curve matching methods cannot be applied to such reservoirs and in this article data analysis is based on the type curveless method. Furthermore, based on the time when each flow regime is observed, a discussion on the analysis of production data with the use of material balance time function for each case is conducted. Finally, applicability and accuracy of the material balance time method for estimation of oil in place of such reservoirs are demonstrated using synthetic reservoir examples.


The present invention is provided with rectangular-shaped plate-like fins (2) stacked at intervals, and flat tubes (3) inserted at right angles into the stacked plate-like fins (2) and disposed in a plurality of stages along the longitudinal direction of the plate-like fins (2). The plate-like fins (2) have, provided to regions between adjacent flat tubes (3), a heat transfer enhancement section (6) in which mountains (4) and valleys (5) are formed alternately, a ridge line thereof extending in the longitudinal direction of the plate-like fins (2). Cuts (7) forming communication between the fronts and backs of the plate-like fins (2) are formed in the heat transfer enhancement section (6), on the leeward side of the mountains (4).


Crystallization of salts is a common cause of damage in porous building materials. Understanding of the crystallization mechanism of salts is important in order to prevent or avoid the problem. Subflorescence of salts (i.e., crystallization within the pores of the body) can induce scaling and cracking, while efflorescence (i.e., crystallization in a film of solution on the exterior surface of the body) does not generally affect the coherence and endurance of the building materials. In this paper, we deal with the crystallization behavior of two salts, sodium sulfate and sodium chloride, in two bricks with different capillary porosity. The results reveal quite different crystallization behavior depending on salt and substrate. The supersaturation of the solution is induced in our experiments by evaporation. Indeed, the main reason for the different behavior of these salts is the different ability for supersaturation. Thus, the sodium sulfate solution is prone to be much more supersaturated than sodium chloride. Furthermore, the solution transport, which depends on salt properties, material porosity, pore-clogging and climatic conditions, affects the position of the drying front and, with it, the crystallization front leading to the formation either of efflorescence or of subflorescence. A simulation of the experiments helps us to understand the effect of the influencing factors on the crystallization pattern. Therefore, considering both factors, supersaturation ratio and solution transport, it is possible to predict the different crystallization behavior observed in the experiments.


Data continue to show stubbornly high rates of undernutrition in children in India. Almost two in five (38.4%) children under 3 years old are stunted, 19.1% wasted, and 45.9% underweight.1 Every third malnourished child in the world is from India, says the current Unicef website on India.2 India has one of the highest levels of child malnutrition in the world, more than in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa.3

The multiple causes of child undernutrition are well documented—poverty, sex inequality, poor cultural practices, and poor governance. But another important cause not articulated strongly enough is market related. At present the Indian market completely lacks affordable complementary foods for infants from poor families or for poor children during or recovering from illness. Just over half (55.8%) of children aged 6-9 months in India receive complementary foods.1 This is one of the main causes of acute undernutrition among …


OBJECTIVE
To determine whether oral zinc sulfate is an effective treatment for promoting healing of venous or arterial leg ulcers.

DATA SOURCES
The search strategy of the Cochrane Wounds Group was used. This includes searches of electronic databases, conference proceedings, relevant bibliographies, and hand searching of journals.

STUDY SELECTION
Studies were included if they were randomized controlled trials of oral zinc sulfate in the treatment of chronic venous or arterial ulcers with objective measures of healing. Six of the 10 studies initially identified were included in the review.

DATA EXTRACTION
The trial method, participants, interventions, outcomes, baseline comparability, adequate reporting of withdrawals, and blinding of assessment were extracted by 2 reviewers independently.

DATA SYNTHESIS
No trial showed a statistically significant benefit of zinc sulfate for healing leg ulcers. There is limited evidence to suggest that zinc might increase healing in individuals with a low serum zinc level, but more evidence is needed.

CONCLUSIONS
There is no evidence of benefit from the general use of zinc sulfate in patients with chronic leg ulcers. There is a need for further research to see if oral zinc sulfate is beneficial in the treatment of patients with leg ulcers who have a low serum zinc level. If it is demonstrated to be beneficial, further trials are required to establish dose and duration of treatment.


The invention discloses an inner rotor radial spherical pure electromagnetic bearing which comprises a stator system and a rotor system, wherein the stator system comprises a left V-shaped spherical stator core, a right V-shaped spherical stator core, a front V-shaped spherical stator core, a rear V-shaped spherical stator core, exciting coils, an upper pressing ring, a lower pressing ring, an upper stator lock nut, a lower stator lock nut and a stator sleeve; the rotor system comprises a spherical rotor pack, a rotor sleeve and a rotor lock nut; the left V-shaped spherical stator core, the right V-shaped spherical stator core, the front V-shaped spherical stator core and the rear V-shaped spherical stator core form eight magnetic poles in the left, right, front and rear directions of a magnetic bearing body so as to form the magnetic poles in the positive and negative directions of the X and Y axes; and an exciting coil is wound on each magnetic pole. The magnetic bearing is convenient to assemble, twisting negative moment is avoided, two-degree-of-freedom radial four channels are completely decoupled, and the magnetic bearing can serve as a contact-free support of a rotor part in spacecraft inertia actuating mechanisms such as magnetically suspended flywheels.


By the year 2000 it has been predicted that 10 million more children will become infected with HIV and another 10 million children will become AIDS orphans in Africa. The deaths of children and their parents from AIDS may lead to a negative population growth for sub-Saharan Africa by the turn of the century. Preventive programs can limit these numbers but such programs will require support from outside of Africa. Attempts to halt the HIV epidemic in Africa as in other areas of the world requires a coordinated approach. Education in epidemiology and epidemic control as well as in the care of those already infected and ill needs to be given to local health officials who can then educate the public. Moreover the economic support required to carry out educational programs to ensure a safe blood supply to ensure decent and humane care of those who are ill and to support economies overburdened by this epidemic will require a commitment from the world community. Poverty and warfare will interfere with all efforts to control the epidemic. Peace and political stability are necessary and there is a need for both governmental and personal commitment to the needs of the less developed world in the global battle against AIDS.


-In this paper, we establish the equivalence between the generalized nonlinear variational inequalities and the generalized Wiener-Hopf equations. This equivalence is used to suggest and analyze a number of iterative algorithms for solving generalized variational inequalities. We also discuss the convergence analysis of the proposed algorithms. As a special case, we obtain various known results from our results. Keywords--variational inequalities, Wiener-Hopf equations, Iterative algorithms, Fixed points, Convergence. 1. I N T R O D U C T I O N In recent years, variational inequality theory has emerged as an interesting branch of applicable mathematics. Variational inequality techniques are being used to study a wide class of linear and nonlinear problems arising in pure and applied sciences in a general and unified framework. For applications, motivation, physical formulation, and numerical methods, see [1-24] and the references therein. This theory has been generalized and extended in many directions using novel and innovative techniques. In recent years, considerable interest has been shown in developing various classes of variational inequalities both for its own sake and for its applications. There are significant recent developments in this theory related to multivalued operators, nonconvex optimization, iterative methods, Wiener-Hopf equations, and structural analysis. Motivated and inspired by the recent research going on in this field, Verma [24] introduced a class of variational inequalities, which is called the generalized nonlinear variational inequality. This class is the most general and includes many classes of variational inequalities and complementarity problems as special cases. Panagiotopoulos and Stavroulakis [17] have shown that if the nonsmooth and nonconvex super potential of the structure is quasidifferentiable, then these problems can be characterized by certain multivalued variational inequalities, which can be considered as special cases of generalized nonlinear variational inequalities. Equally important is the study of the equations known as the Wiener-Hopf equations or normal maps, which were introduced and studied by Shi [21] in 1991, and Robinson [19] in 1992, independently in different areas. Using different techniques, Shi [21] and Robinson [19] established the equivalence between the variational inequalities and the Wiener-Hopf equations. This equivalence The authors would like to thank the referees for their valuable suggestions and comments. Typeset by ¢4jV~q-TEX 2 M. ASLAM NOOR AND E. A. AL-SAID plays an important part in developing efficient numerical methods including iterative methods and homotopy methods for solving variational inequalities and complementarity problems. This technique has been refined and developed by Noor [6-14] to suggest some iterative methods for solving different classes of variational inequalities and complementarity problems. The WienerHopf equations techniques are simpler and easy to implement for developing efficient numerical techniques. In this paper, we introduce and study a new class of the Wiener-Hopf equations, which is called the generalized Wiener-Hopf equations. This class is the most general and unifying one. Using the projection techniques, we establish the equivalence between the generalized nonlinear variational inequalities and the generalized Wiener-Hopf equations. This equivalence allows us to suggest a number of iterative algorithms for solving variational inequalities. We also discuss the convergence analysis of the proposed algorithms. The results obtained in this paper are very general and include many known results as special cases. In Section 2, we formulate the generalized nonlinear variational inequalities and the generalized Wiener-Hopf equations and review some basic facts. The equivalence between these problems is established in Section 3. A number of iterative algorithms are suggested by using this equivalence. In Section 4, convergence criteria is considered. 2. P R E L I M I N A R I E S Let H be a real Hilbert space whose inner product and norm are denoted by (., .) and [[.tl, respectively. Let K be a closed convex set in H. Let C(H) be the family of nonempty compact subset of H. For given multivalued operators T, A : H ~ C(H) and a single-valued operator g : H --* H, we consider the problem of finding u 6 H, w E T(u) , y 6 A(u) such that g(u) 6 K and (g(u) (g(y) w) ,v g(u)) > 0, for all v 6 K. (2.1) The problem (2.1) is called the generalized nonlinear variational inequality problem, which is a variant form of the problem proposed by Verma [24]. EXAMPLE 2. I. To illustrate the applications and importance of the multivalued variational inequality (2.1), we consider a elastoplasticity problem, which is mainly due to Panagiotopoulos and Stavroulakis [17]. For simplicity, it is assumed that a general hyperelastic material law holds for the elastic behaviour of the elastoplastic material under consideration. Moreover, a nonconvex yield function a --* F(a) is introduced for the plasticity. For the basic definitions and concepts, see [17]. Let us assume the decomposition E = E e + E p, (2.2) where E" denotes the elastic, and E p the plastic deformation of the three-dimensional elastoplastic body. We write the complementary virtual work expression for the body in the form (E e, r a) + (E p, r a) = (f, r a ) , for all r 6 Z. (2.3) Here, we have assumed that the body on a part Fu of its boundary has given displacements, that is, #i = U~ on Fu, and that on the rest of its boundary FF = F F u , the boundary tractions are given, that is, Si = Fi on FF, where f (E, a) =/~ e~a~j dn, (2.4) (f, a) = [ U~S~ dF, (2.5) Jr u Z= {r:%,~ +f~=O onn, i,j=l,2,S,T~=F, onr;,i=l,2,3}, (2.6) is the set of statically admissible stresses and f/is the structure of the body.


The aim of the article is to highlight the blurred religious situation in contemporary Sweden on an individual level by studying religious needs and practices among patients in the Swedish health care system. Focus is on how religious issues are handled by the health care givers and how patients wish it would be handled. The empirical material for the article is twenty-seven in-depth interviews with former patients and representatives from the health care chaplaincy. The results of the study show that there can be a need for religion when one is hospitalized, that these patients wish that their religious needs and practices would be respected and facilitated, and that the blurred religious situation in Sweden is prevalent at the hospitals, but the hospitals—being foremost affected by the processes of secularization—have a tendency not to take this into consideration.


Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the most frequent malignant neoplasm affecting structures of the oral mucosa, which accounts for more than 90% of all malignant lesions in the mouth. Carcinomas of the gingiva are a unique subset of oral SCC (OSCC), constituting approximately 10% of OSCCs and tend to present as having benign features, and of all the intraoral carcinomas, gingival OSCC is least associated with tobacco abuse and has the greatest predilection for females. They can mimic a multitude of oral lesions, especially those of inflammatory origin with benign features, often leading to delay in the diagnosis, and hence delayed treatment. We are reporting a case of gingival SCC in a 35-year-old female patient who presented with a peripheral growth in the left mandibular gingiva.


coli. The same may be said in regard to subcutaneous inoculation, though some of the animals experimented upon survived for a more prolonged period. It is interesting to note that after a subcutaneous inoculation the cardiac blood contained as numerous bacteria as after intravenous injection, a fact which proves that the bacteria in question can easily penetrate into the systemic circulation, even from a local focus, and probably multiply in the blood. Rabbits were found to be somewhat less sensitive toward3 the pathogenic action of the bacillus. While admitting that his case is of a relatively rare kind, Dr. Tavel still recommends that the possibility of such a complication of surgical wounds should be borne in mind. This involves the necessity of a most careful attention to the state of the patient's gastro-intestinal tracts both before and after any operation. Sulphonal appears to be, after all, not so free from all unpleasant accessory effects as it has been said to be. Some months ago Drs. Bornemann' and Fischer,2 pointed out that large doses of the remedy are apt to cause rather severe motor disturbances and drowsiness. Their observations are fully supported by Dr. 0. Ullmann,3 of Kuranstelt, Mammern, who recently met with three cases in which the administration of sulphonal in four or five gramme doses invariably give rise to motor (ataxic) affection of the tongue and limbs, the patient's speech becoming thick and stammering, the gait staggering, all movements jerky and uncertain, etc. In short, the drug caused all the ordinary symptoms of extreme drunkenness without, however, any disorder of the intelligence. The symptoms came on on waking the patients, and subsided in two or three days after discontinuing the drug. Alcoholic stimulants made the symptoms worse. The cardiac action remained normal. Dr. Ullmann adds, however, that he never yet saw any disagreeable effects of the sort when he used the remedy in doses varying from one to three grammes. In such " physiological " doses sulphonal is said to be an excellent hypnotic for nervous insomnia. Dr. Roux, of Lausanne, warmly recommends restoring ruptured perineum by means of Tait's perineoplastic operation, on the ground of its " astonishing simplicity." He has used it successfully in a dozen cases of partial or total rupture, in every one of which the wouind healed by first intention. The operation has already found ardent advocates in Russia. Thus, Dr. I. F. Balandin, of St. Petersburg, recently communicated twenty cases of old perineal rupture (five of them complete) operated on by this method. The wound invariably healed by first intention, the new perineum leaving nothing to be desired. The method proved equally successful in four cases reported by Dr. Voskresensky, of Kiev. Quite recently, Dr. Boleslaw Rodzewicz, of Professor K. F. Slaviansky's clinic, published a short monograph,4 based on thirty-six consecutive cases, in which he argues that " Lawson Tait's perineoplastic operation undoubtedly constitutes a new era in the history of analogous (flap) methods," and should be " most decidedly preferred to all old perineoplastic procedures." In every one of his patients " the restored perineum fully satisfied all physiological and cosmetic demands."


In Lukács' early work, the concept of form is very concretely linked to modern man's aesthetic experience of loss around 1900 and any attempt to update it hinges on the question whether Lukács' method can be applied to the present at all. This article undertakes such an application of his method by relating two core concepts from "Soul and Form" – bourgeoisie and sentimentality – to three ›neighbourhood novels‹: R. Schamoni's "Große Freiheit", H. Strunk's "Der goldene Handschuh" and H. Fichte's "Die Palette" all deal with extremely marginalized groups in society, and the question arises whether Lukács' categories are helpful in describing the form chosen in each case.


By contacting the aminopyridine or aminobenzene and oleic Titanium and nitric diamino di-nitropyridine (reaction sequence reference) or at least approximately on the basis of aminopyridine or aminobenzene with stirring for at least two hours as a method for preparing a diamino die nitrobenzene was added to 1% molar excess of nitric acid, first form an intermediate sulfonate, followed by a diamino die nitropyridine or diamino use of a die-nitro forming a benzene and a light load that the product of the preparation of the polymer It is disclosed.


The present study estimated the impact of wood loggings on the phytomass production and carbon sequestration in the guinea savanna of Ngaoundéré, Adamaoua Region, Cameroon. The results showed that the phytomass of arborescent savanna is more important (169.91 t.ha -1 .year -1 ) than that of the shrubby savanna (49.18 t.ha -1. year -1 ). The sequestration of carbons correlated positively with phytomass (r= 0.98, P = 0.05). The very strong wood loggings (T3) are at the origin of the decline of phytomass production (36.53 tc.ha -1 .year -1 ) and of the sequestration of carbons (17.17 tc.ha -1 .year -1 ) in these savannas. These values are indicators of degradation of the outer-urban savannas in Ngaoundéré. The State government and the local population should jointly embark on the management for the protection of savannas in the Region.


Molecular diagnostic sensors can rapidly identify the responsible pathogens of the infection and thus are critical to prescribe the most effective treatment. DNA/RNA microarrays comprise a miniaturized technology that enable us to simultaneously identify a large number of potentially infecting species to the level of an individual strain. They have been used extensively in molecular diagnosis because of the high automation and throughput. Many microarrays use fluorescence-based signaling technique. However, the arrays usually need to be viewed by sophisticated, high numerical aperture fluorescent microscope objective lenses, which are hard to integrate into portable point-of-care diagnostic devices. Instead of a high numerical aperture (NA) lens, a high-quality optical system can also be achieved by combining a microlens and a low NA lens to collect more light entering the optical microscope [1]. In another word, microlenses can be used to enhance the fluorescent signal of a microarray. Molecular beacons (MBs) are fluorescent self-reporting oligonucleotide probes, which have worked exceptionally well in a liquid assay. But when MBs are adapted to a microarray format, the proximity to an underlying hard surface can place conformational constraints on the MBs as well as raise the background signal via nonspecific interactions. Our previous work [2-4] has showed that tethering MB probes to highly swollen microgels patterned on solid substrates overcomes many of the conformational constraints imposed by a solid surface, because the diffuse interface between the aqueous medium and a hydrogel creates as water-like an environment as possible with maximal degrees of conformational freedom while still preserving the surface-location specificity associated with a microarray format.


The title compound, C30H18Cl6O3·0.82CH2Cl2, consists of a slightly cup-shaped seven-ring truxene nucleus with hydroxy and dichloromethyl substituents at stereocenters 5R/S, 10R/S and 15R/S. C—Cl distances are in the range 1.759 (4)–1.783 (3) Å. Solvent channels parallel to the b axis appear to be partially occupied by highly disordered dichloromethane solvent molecules, the contribution of which were removed from the refinement with the SQUEEZE procedure in PLATON [Spek (2009 ▶). Acta Cryst. D65, 148–155]. Only one of the OH groups forms a hydrogen bond, which is intermolecular to another OH group, forming centrosymmetric dimers in the crystal.


The invention discloses a method for updating network security table, a network device and a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server. When a virtual machine moves in a management domain of a network device, the network device analyses a first received request message from the virtual machine, an internet protocol (IP) address and a medium access control (MAC) address of the virtual machine are obtained, when a security table item including the IP address and the MAC address doesn't exist in a network security table of the network device, the network device sends a second request message generated according to the IP address and the MAC address to the DHCP server, so that the DHCP server is enabled to launch mandatory communication between the DHCP server and the virtual machine, the network device monitors an interactive message between the DHCP server and the virtual machine to obtain the security table item of the virtual machine, the network security table is updated according to the security table item. Through the above mode, the method for updating network security table, the network device and the DHCP server ensure that the virtual machine can access the network normally when the virtual machine moves in the management domain of the network device, reliability of the network security table is also ensured, and therefore network security is ensured.


This communication deals with mainly to examine the prevalence of ciliated protozoa associated with fresh water cladocerans from ponds of rural areas of Lucknow city. The observation of Daphnia infested with Gymnostomatida led us to hypothesize that predation by ciliates could be an important mechanism regulating cladocerans population dynamics. The results are discussed in terms of ecological aspects involved in this association.


In this study, German and Turkish societies I. and II. The events that he lived during the World War II were examined. These events were examined in the light of Reşat Nuri Güntekin's Çalıkuşu and Heinrich Böll's Fatherless Houses and period criticisms were made. Descriptive analysis was used in the research. Data were collected through literature review. The analysis of the data was synthesized by categorizing them according to the topics after the collected sources were read. The works describe the hardships of life for survivors of the wars of the Germans and Turks in the 20th century. It is observed that there is a difference of approximately 35 years between the works, and it is possible to evaluate the period and period difference together with this difference. While examining post-war Germany and Turkey, after World War I, II. While entering the World War II, the problems of both countries were mentioned. Germany participated in the Second World War, but Türkiye did not. Considering the post-World War II period; While discussing the problems of post-war Germany, Turkey's recovery process, political maneuvers to avoid participating in the war and the measures taken for this reason were also mentioned. Thus, first the importance of language was explained, the connection between language and culture was emphasized, then information was given about intercultural and intercultural literature, then these two societies were compared with other important aspects of these wars and thus the world. Research findings: The importance of culture in protecting people's self-identity has emerged. It has been stated that maintaining this identity requires cultural transfer. It has been seen that language has a direct relationship with culture because language is important in the transmission of culture. In this context; It has been determined that the bridge between the past and the future of a society is about preserving its own culture and language. At the same time, the problems of Turkish and German society in situations such as war had been compared. It has been revealed that these problems and patriotism overlap in both societies. In general, it has been concluded that human emotions are universal. It has been revealed that these problems and patriotism overlap in both societies. In general, it has been concluded that human emotions are universal in extraordinary situations such as war and cause similar reactions even in different countries.


The article reviews a problem of Hippocrates' fundamental principles adaptation in current medical practice. The humanistic principles are supposed to be reflected in physicians' consciousness. Difficult period of the social and political paradigm change that the Russian society had to come through in the end of the XX century made the medical community revise the necessity of altruistic dimension of physician's personal specific. The image of physician offered by the soviet ideology turns to be ineffective in new political and economic context. The author asserts the category of effectiveness/ineffectiveness with a concept of social class determined by the economic dimension and by the affordability or miss of the power resources. Today the problem in the system "physician-society" and "physician-patient" is in antagonism of personal and social interests. In the conclusion the author stresses the correlation between physician's social status and the social progress in total.


This article is derived from the results of research which focus on the functioning of the management team, the organ which constitutes the primary mechanism to ensure the participation and commitment to goals and institutional objectives. Among the key findings we highlight the small amount of existing referential research on the topic and insufficient procedural proposals and indicators that would enable an evaluative analysis oriented towards improving the functioning of boards of directors. It was also possible to systematize the functional regularities of the councils which were studied. Based on the above, it is considered that the proposed methodology can support the process of organizational change that is effected at institutional level. The aim of this work is to design a methodology for a performance analysis for the boards in the management system of the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG). It shows the conceptual basis for the analysis, an overview of the operation in the organizations studied and provides the methodology for analysis, it is also possible to integrate the monitoring and control of institutions, specifically in the area related to Methods and Management Style Management System and Business Management.